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TIGER TECH: Receives funds from Webb Lake Men’s Club to support Webster Tech Ed Dept. P28

Wood Lake camp permit withdrawn JONATHAN RICHIE EDITOR@BURNETTCOUNTYSENTINEL.COM

BURNETT COUNTY–– The conditional use permit for the proposed Wood Lake Camp/ Resort has been pulled, according to Land Services Director Jason Towne. The Wood Lake Camp/Resort has been the topic of many discussions at the local level in the Town of Wood River and at the County level with the Land Use and Information committee. Over 150 people filled the Government Center earlier this month during a public hearing on the conditional use permit. Officials of the

Town of Wood River voted unanimously to send a letter to the Land Use and Information committee asking for more details on the proposed camp. Monday morning Samantha Langenbach, office manager for the property owners, Patrick and Judi Kinsella, told Towne to withdraw the conditional use permit. The Kinsellas purchased 234 acres of what used to be the Wood Lake Bible Camp. They did not attend the public hearing held March 5. At the public hearing, the committee asked the permit SEE WOOD LAKE CAMP, PAGE 2

Siren Chamber gets approval for Google maps update JONATHAN RICHIE EDITOR@BURNETTCOUNTYSENTINEL.COM

BURNETT COUNTY–– Andrea Yezek, Siren Chamber of Commerce executive director, made a pitch at the Government Center last week in hopes of receiving grant funds that will give Siren, and hopefully the County,

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King of Webb Lake St. Patick’s Day Parade Webb Lake was full of green on Saturday for their annual Irish celebration. The parade attracts visitors from all over the area. More photos on page 14.

Max goes to Virginia – HSBC helps a local dog ﬁnd a new home LINDA LUHMAN

NORFOLK, Va.—What does a humble Wisconsin dog think when he first smells the ocean? Perhaps we will never know, but we know who to ask. Recently, one local dog went from stray to beloved pet in an extraordinary way. Max’s journey began in

September 2018, when he arrived at the Humane Society of Burnett County (HSBC). Found as a stray, the 2-year-old black and tan coonhound was an energetic fellow who seemed to have limited experiences. His high energy and wariness of the world made shelter life daunting for the young dog, and it was clear house life

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would suit him better. After some routine medical care, HSBC placed him in a foster home with Katie Grey. A 2016 Webster High School alumnus, Tyler Grey serves in the U.S. Navy as an Aviation Boatswain. He is stationed at Norfolk Naval Base, working with catapults and arresting gear on aircraft carriers. Tyler

first met Max when home on leave in December. But the connection was instantaneous. “When Max and Ty first met, their hearts chose each other,” said Katie. “When Ty left, Max found something that smelled like Ty and slept on it. SEE MAX, PAGE 2

more of a presence on the world wide web. The Natural Resources Committee voted unanimously to approve the 50/50 grant proposal for $3,000. The project will be to hire a photographer to come to Siren and get panoramic photos of the SEE SIREN CHAMBER, PAGE 2

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Max was reunited with Tyler Grey on Sunday, March 10. Grey, a 2016 Webster alumnus who serves the US Navy, fell in love with Max while visiting over his Christmas leave.

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MAX: Webster alum reunited with foster and former stray dog after cross country trip CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Ty was almost back to his ship when he called and said he needed to adopt Max. I had already known.” As Tyler went about securing dog-friendly accommodations, a bigger question of transport loomed. Tyler would not be able to take leave for several months to retrieve Max, and everyone involved thought that was just too long. HSBC President, Alexia Gannon, took to Facebook to begin raising funds to reunite the two. Generous donors contributed a total of $1,065 toward adoption and travel expenses. When arrangements with a professional dog transport company fell through, HSBC enlisted the help of a local driver for the cross-country journey. Dean Luhman has clocked in thousands of hours of windshield time; first as a Wisconsin State Trooper and recently, as a transport delivery driver for Spirit-Miller Driveaway Services of St. Joseph, Missouri. Once introductions were made, Linda Luhman was brought on board to serve as Max’s personal assistant – handling his daily needs and updating his HSBC Facebook posts. The trio headed out before dawn on Saturday, March 9 to beat forecast snow. In the two-day, 1300-mile journey, Max was exposed to many different sights, smells, and experiences. Max

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Max posted Facebook updates on his progress across the country. One of his favorite stops was a rest area in West Virginia, where he met a few fellow Sunday morning travelers.

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“Are we there yet?” Max helps his driver, retired State Patrol Trooper Dean Luhman, keep an eye on the road during the 1300-mile trip.

found he enjoyed “cop food” (donuts and bacon cheeseburgers), Jack Reacher audiobooks, and meeting new friends during rest stops. Max was not impressed with noisy hotels, torrential rain, or Ohio potholes. But the long hours in the car were all worth it at the end, where Tyler was waiting on the front lawn for his new friend. Max is settling into his new home, complete with another dog and a cat to

hang out with. His media star days are not behind him. Max has his own Instagram account, and he is out exploring his new territory with Tyler by his side. Max, Tyler, and HSBC want to thank everyone for their help in bringing these two back together. “He’s my dream dog and we just really connected,” said Tyler. “Thanks to all the people who supported us. My life is basically going to be around him

now.” Katie echoes this sentiment. “Thank you to everyone who donated to make this happen. If you hadn’t donated, these two probably wouldn’t be together. A hound is a breed Ty has wanted his whole life. Be watching for more posts from Tyler and Max. See the connection these two have, and why your donations were so important.” “Finding a shelter dog’s forever home sometimes requires extraordinary measures,” said Peggy Tolbert, Treasurer of HSBC. “Thanks to HSBC’s Facebook community, we were able to make this happen for Max and Tyler. They are two special souls who found each other.”

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businesses and it will all be featured prominently on Google and Google maps. Those photos will then be put together to create a virtual tour of businesses in Siren. Yezek added that the project could be extended throughout the entire county. “Google is the number one Internet search engine in the world and it could make Siren a hub for tourists,” she said. “If Siren gets this the entire County could get a discount.” The project will cost a total of $6,000 and cost each business $200-$240. “If all businesses in the county sign on and take part in this, we would be the first county in the state to do this,” Yezek said. “Which would be pretty cool for Burnett County.” After she explained the project to the committee, Supervisor Gene Olson said this could have adverse effects for businesses. “This sounds like a cheap way for burglars to know what’s inside a business,” Olson said. Yezek responded saying they can blur out businesses’ inventory and would work with public safety officials to avoid it being a blueprint for potential thieves. “It would be a way for visitors and tourists to the county to scope out what Siren has to offer and all accessible on Google,” Yezek said. Supervisor Steve Austin said, “this is a no-brainer to me. It makes all the sense in the world to promote Siren businesses with Google.”

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New owners of Wayne’s Food Plus The three Wayne’s Food locations have been sold to Jason and Teresa Nilssen (left) and their partners Rick and Terri Estridge (right). The Estridges said, “We have a lot of fantastic loyal employees we call friends and neighbors. Be assured, we will continue to work hard to earn the conﬁdence and trust of our customers and employees alike. Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to feed your family and be a positive part of the communities we serve and call home.”

WOOD LAKE CAMP: owners may release statement CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

applicant, Jeff Sventek, to find a consultant and have an environmental assessment done for the proposed campsite and its potential impact on the lake. Langenbach told the Sentinel she was told by the Kinsellas to withdraw the conditional use permit and she did not provide any details about why the permit was withdrawn. She added they may be putting out a statement about the permit after she has more information.

Towne said he had not heard anything about the environmental assessment other than Langenbach and Sventek were contacting a consultant for it. Patrick Hansen has been leading the group in opposition to the campground. He owns property on the lake and organized an online petition to stop the proposed campground that received over 700 signatures. “At that Land Use committee meeting I had asked if the owners would pull their conditional use permit and have

a dialogue with their new neighbors on the lake and other property owners,” he said. Hansen stated he would like the Kinsellas to be upfront about their plans for their property on the lake, “not just the 23 acres linked to this permit, but their entire 234-acre lot.” He hopes this permit being pulled leads to a conversation between the Kinsellas and the other property owners on Big Wood Lake. The Sentinel was not able to get any comment from Patrick or Judi Kinsella.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 21

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27

SATURDAY, APRIL 6

Food Distribution

Skywarn Spotter Training

WEBSTER—10 a.m. –3 p.m. There will be a food distribution at Connections, next to the Minitmart gas station in Webster. This distribution takes place the third Thursday of each month. Sponsored by the Yellow Lake Food Distribution and God’s People serving.

DANBURY—6:30 p.m.– 8:30 p.m. Burnett County Emergency Management will be hosting a free Skywarn Spotter Training at the Swiss Town Hall in Danbury. This event is open to the public.

17th Annual Pine County Master Gardener Horticulture Day

THIRD WEDNESDAY

PINE CITY–– 8 a.m.– 2 p.m. University of Minnesota Extension will be holding their 17th Annual Pine County Master Gardener Horticulture Day at Pine City High School. The keynote speaker will be Stan Tekiela, wildlife and plant photographer and author. There will also be several breakout sessions throughout the day. Tickets can be purchased in advance for this event. For more information call 800-657-3813 Ext. #4.

5 p.m. (Dec-Mar meetings at Webster Fire Hall)

FRIDAY, MARCH 29 Fundraising Concert for Frederic Arts

FRIDAY, MARCH 22 Wigwam Dedication Ceremony DANBURY—3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Forts Folle Avoine will be holding a wigwam dedication ceremony at their Indian Village site to celebrate their Winter Wigwam project.

FREDERIC–– 7:30 p.m. Allen Parson & Friends will be putting on a free Raising the Roof fundraising concert at the Frederic Arts Center. Freewill donations taken at the concert go to the Building Projects Fund. For more information contact Chris Byerly at 715-327-8954.

SATURDAY, MARCH 23

International Cooking Class

Rainbow of Fun Carnival

GRANTSBURG––5:30 p.m.– 8:30 p.m. Grantsburg High School will be holding an international cooking class in their FACE room.

SIREN—11 a.m.–1 p.m. Siren School will be hosting the 29th Annual Rainbow of Fun Carnival in their big gym. There will be games to play and prizes to win. Tickets can be purchased in advance at all Siren area banks starting March 8, or at the door. For more information or to volunteer email momsforkidswi@gmail.com.

MONDAY, MARCH 25 AND TUESDAY, MARCH 26 Babysitting Clinic GRANTSBURG—5 p.m.– 6:30 p.m. The Grantsburg High School will be holding a babysitting clinic in the library.

Wisconsin Singers Concert SIREN––7 p.m. The Wisconsin Singers, a group from UW- Madison will be performing their new show, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now! at the Siren High School auditorium. Tickets are available for purchase now. Please contact Wayne Koball at 715-349-2277 ext. 214 or email him at wkoball@siren. k12.wi.us to reserve your tickets. For more information, visit www.wisconsingers.com.

7-12 Grade Spring Concert WEBSTER–– 7 p.m.– 9 p.m. Webster Middle/High School will be having their 7-12 grade Spring Concert.

TUESDAY, MARCH 26 Large Group Music Contest SIREN—4 p.m.– 9 p.m. Siren High School will be hosting a large group music contest in their auditorium.

Town of Union

Webb Lake American Legion 7 p.m.

THIRD THURSDAY Lund-Brown American Legion Post 132 Auxiliary

Painting Class FREDERIC—9 a.m.– 4 p.m. Frederic Arts will be hosting a painting class with Jim Springett. Participants will paint a pair of Hooded Mergansers on a 9”x12”x 5/8” wood frame. After the class participants will get to keep their materials including paints, brushes, and a wooden easel. There is a class fee due to Frederic Arts by March 25 and a materials fee due the day of the class. Participants who have taken Jim’s other classes may bring their own materials and pay a reduced materials fee. Registration can be done online at fredericarts.org/ classes or contact Frederic Arts at info@ fredericarts.org or call Nancy Buley at 715327-4743.

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Burnett County Democrats 5:30 p.m. No meetings December, January, July.

Lund-Brown American Legion Post 132 7 p.m.

FOURTH MONDAY Grantsburg School Board 5 p.m.

Siren School Board 5 p.m.

Fundraising Dinner

SATURDAY, MARCH 30 Maple Syrup Tour

MONDAY, MARCH 25

MEETINGS

SHELL LAKE–– 1 p.m. Hunt Hill will be holding a maple syrup tour at Acer Acres. Participants will learn how to make maple syrup, harvest sap, and enjoy a maple syrup treat. Dress for the weather and be prepared for muddy conditions. There is a fee for this event and participants must register by March 22. To learn more or register call 715-635-6543.

MONDAY, APRIL 1

Cemetery Meeting

Donate Life Flag Raising Ceremony

GRANTSBURG—7 p.m. Dale and Annette Hanson will host the annual meeting of the Ansgarius Cemetery Association at their home at 22790 Hanson Pt Rd. in Grantsburg.

SPOONER–– 10:08 a.m. Spooner Health will be holding a flag raising ceremony and moment of silence to promote organ, tissue, and eye donation and honor donors and their families. Immediately following the ceremony refreshments will be served in the Spooner Health dining room.

GRANTSBURG––4 p.m.– 7 p.m. The Upper St. Croix Parish will be holding a spaghetti dinner and silent auction to raise funds for their youth group. The dinner will be held at the Central United Methodist Church in Grantsburg. There is a fee for this event.

FOURTH TUESDAY Burnett County Repub. Party 7p.m.

FIRST MONDAY Town of Webb Lake 6 p.m.

TUESDAY, APRIL 9 History Presentation WEBSTER—2 p.m. Carole Fure, local author and artist will be giving a presentation, The Power of Sand: Burnett County and the Civilian Conservation Corps at the Larson Family Public Library.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10

FIRST TUESDAY Otis Taylor American Legion Post 96 7 p.m.

FIRST THURSDAY Webb Lake Men’s Club 3:30 p.m.

Gardening Presentation WEBSTER—4 p.m. Kathryn Schiedermayer, Master Gardener, will be giving a presentation, Herbs: Now and in the Past at the Larson Family Public Library.

ONGOING

Village of Siren first Thursday after the first Monday, 2 p.m.

WEATHER Last Week Temps:

EVERY SUNDAY

EVERY TUESDAY

EVERY THURSDAY

AA Meetings

Adult Day Care

• 9 a.m. New Beginnings Club, Siren. 715-349-2588 • 1 p.m. Lakeview Methodist Church, Hertel. 715-468-7228 • 1 p.m. Dewey Town Hall, Hertel

9 a.m. –3 p.m., Birchwood Manor, Siren Grantsburg Rotary Meeting 12 p.m., T-Dawgs, Grantsburg

Adult Day Care 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Birchwood Manor, Siren Grantsburg Area Food Shelf To qualifying residents of Grantsburg School District 9:30–1:30 a.m., 320 S. Brad St., Grantsburg Siren/Webster Rotary Meeting 12 p.m. The Pour House, Siren

Alanon Meeting

EVERY MONDAY

7 p.m. Lakeside Community Lutheran Church, A & H Grief Support Group 6:30 p.m., St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Frederic Contact Margaret McAbee 715-653-4270

Adult Day Care

Celebrate Recovery

9 a.m.–3 p.m., Crexway Court, Grantsburg. Burnett Cty. Family Resource Ctr. Playgroup 10–11:30 a.m. at 24062 St. Rd. 35/70, Siren

6 p.m., Adventure Church, Siren Contact Pastor Carolyn, 715-349-5750

Wellbriety Meeting 6 p.m. at St. Croix Tribal Hall, Danbury Contact Shara’lanee’ Skinaway, 715-645-9515

Ruby’s Siren Food Shelf

EVERY WEDNESDAY

10 a.m.–2 p.m. 24534 St. Rd. 35/70, Siren AA Meetings • 7 p.m. Senior Citizens Center, Webster • 7 p.m. Pilgrim Lutheran Church, Frederic Divorce Care Recovery and Support Group 7 p.m. First Baptist Church, Osceola 715-294-4222 or 651-214-5251 (after 5 p.m.)

Forts Folle Avoine History Library 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Other days by appointment

Overeaters Anonymous

• 1 p.m. Dewey Town Hall, Hertel • 7 p.m. New Beginnings Club, Siren. 715-349-2588

7 p.m., New Beginnings Club, Siren. 715-349-2588 Lions Bingo 7 p.m. Webster Community Center

Ruby’s Siren Food Shelf 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 24534 St. Rd. 35/70, Siren Pre-School Story Hour 10:30 a.m., Grantsburg Public Library

AA Meetings

‘Lost Voice Club’ meeting 7 p.m. Moose Lodge Meeting Room, Siren. 715-866-7585

Celebrate Recovery (12 step Bible-based AA group) 6 p.m. Faith Community Church, Danbury. Contact Crystal 715-919-1811.

Narcotics Anonymous 7 p.m. New Beginnings Club, Siren. 715-349-2588 New Life Recovery Program 7 p.m. Wood River Christian Fellowship, Grantsburg 715-463-3941 AA Meetings • 12 p.m. United Methodist Church, Danbury • 7 p.m. Crossroads Church, Webster

EVERY FRIDAY Free Bread Friday 9 a.m. until gone, Trinity Lutheran Church, Falun. 715-689-2271

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The luck of the photographer

There is one aspect of this job I have no confidence in, or maybe very little confidence is a better way to put it. I am talking about photography. I took one class in college that involved photography and I was able to pick up the basics pretty easily; the rule of thirds, color contrast, and don’t just get the backs of people’s heads. The main aspect I know to be true of photography is it takes practice and I believe my photos from this year’s St. Patrick’s Day events are much better than last year’s. I was in Webb Lake Saturday with a couple thousand of my closest friends for their annual festivities. The event is much easier to cover and less terrifying the second time around, like most, if not all things in life. I knew when Sentinel to be there, how to get there, and even more importantly – how to Editor get out. Jonathan Richie Don’t get me wrong, if I was involved in all the intoxicants of the day it would probably be a much different experience. I was wearing a green shirt, but that is about as Irish as it gets for me. I am no stranger to being around drunk people while being sober. I worked at Summerfest, a music festival my boss once called “an 11-day kegger”, for three years. Trust me I am very good at dealing with people under the influence of many things. Remind me sometime to tell you the story of the teenagers sitting in the front row at a concert asking the security guards if they could smoke marijuana in front of us. Good times. It was also a lot of fun to see a couple of sheriff’s deputies interacting with all the citizens openly carrying their drinks. I overheard one gentleman ask a deputy what his nick-name was. Then he was shocked to find out the officer didn’t have a nickname. Another paradegoer tried pulling the classic, “Hey officer you dropped your pocket.” I remember that joke from when I was in the third grade, so I’m glad people are still using it. There was one phrase I heard that I was pretty sure what it meant but had never heard it before. A friend of mine came up to the parade with a bunch of her friends and she told me she sober cabbing for the day. That is a term I had never heard before. I thought it was some sort of rural ride share thing like Uber or Lyft. My whole life I had just heard them called designated drivers. So, she laughed at me for a bit about my particular blind spot in the lingo. I did appreciate all of the people attempting to give me jello shots Saturday, and trust me there were a lot. “Sorry I can’t, I’m working,” is my go-to line but that gets stale so eventually it just turns into – “No thanks. No, no, no I can’t. I do appreciate it but not today.” I did eventually stuff one or maybe four in my jacket pocket for later that evening. Chalk it up to peer pressure.

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MARCH 20, 2019

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

What’s Going On Take 2 Bible Camp has brought us together as Concerned Citizens of Big Wood Lake. We’ve collected 1,000 plus signatures of support on a petition to protect our waters, neighboring lands, and quality of life. It was sheer luck that the Conditional Use Permit to convert the former Wood Lake Bible Camp to a 180- lot RV park didn’t get on the February 5 agenda for the county Land Use Committee (the application was submitted a day late.) And when Jeff Sventeck came to the

Dear Editor, I read with interest last week’s commentary, “What’s Going On?” One point that jumped out at me is the emphasis is always about the land. When is the lake’s water quality considered? The latest project proposed on Big Wood Lake is all about profit and supposedly, tax revenue. But when is the quality of life on our lakes also a priority? The lack of scrutiny and transparency by the new owner of the former Wood Lake

Wood River Township monthly meeting in January with this plan, the topic of an RV park was not even on the public agenda. Jeff spoke during the ‘Citizens’ Input” session. There would be no way anyone would have known this project was going on unless they were at the meeting! In a short time, our concerned citizens group has raised many concerns about this project such as: • Fish and fisher impact • Invasive species and lake

My Wood River Township roots Dear Editor, I grew up raiding candy from my grandparents’ Ben Franklin in Grantsburg. My grandmother, Pat Carey, welcomed me with a hug, and then I’d wait anxiously for my grandpa, Bill, to finish work so we could go fishing on Little Wood Lake. Throughout my life, I returned to Wood River Township for family visits. My wife and I bought a cabin in 2012 and built our home on Big Wood Lake a few years later. I spent most of my adult life building my accounting firm where I worked with hundreds of business owners, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. I managed two dozen employees at the firm’s peak size. I am skilled in taxes, budgeting, forecasting, organizational planning, formation, and procedure. I sold my company, and now I want to use my skills to give back to the community that helped raise me. We need to improve our township’s communication and keep our residents informed. Some old but important ordinances have been forgotten; I want to make them readily available in an online library. I hope to help make sure the Town of Wood River is financially stable by keeping residents informed about how pending township decisions would impact their taxes. We should consider adopting zoning ordinances acceptable to residents. Current-

biology • Shoreline impact • Septic and sewage systems • Wetland impact Do you see who is doing their homework here? It’s not the new owners, not the Township, and not the County. When we did speak to some of these questions and facts, especially with our local board, we were not well received by some. We did succeed in getting a delay at the March County Land Use Committee meeting. And last week we finally got the Wood

River Township Supervisors to write a letter opposing the project. I will continue to be part of this group of concerned citizens to gather facts, reach out to experts, and educate our elected officials. We are determined to protect our waters and neighboring lands. Our future generations depend on it. Cindy Jensen Town of Wood River

Climate change is real, and we should be concerned ly, we are at the mercy of the State and a 7-member committee of the County Board. Zoning should protect farms and forestry lands from unwise development. We need to preserve those lands to protect our major industry, Burnett Dairy Cooperative. Zoning should also protect our lakes and wetlands. These issues should be discussed with Wood River Township residents so we can protect our quality of life. My opposition to the current plan for an RV park at the former Wood Lake Bible Camp is based on fear of the consequences. It would be wonderful to keep the Baptist camp without polluting it with 52 to 150 RV sites that would destroy the lake with phosphorous runoff. If this RV park is built, it would make Big Wood Lake too busy for Wood River residents, who would find themselves being driven away from favorite fishing spots by camp customers unaccustomed to our quiet, neighborly manner. Fishing and boating won’t be the same with a marina full of pontoons and boats for rent. Communication is key. We need an open, welcoming chairperson. We need a person to represent all of us. I would love that chance. When you go to vote April 2, please write-in my name, Ron Burg, for Township Chairperson. Ron Burg Town of Wood River

Dear Editor, If huge snow and ice storms and severe cold weather occur, does it mean there is no global warming? There is no human caused climate change; Mother Nature cannot be manipulated, right? It certainly feels that way this winter. But, just because some of us have suffered through a particularly cold and snowy period doesn’t negate the fact that our globe is warming as we continue to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1997. The National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Administration (NOAA) reports that the warming we’ve seen since the late 19th century is unprecedented over the last 1,000 years. Perhaps even more important is that ocean temperatures are increasing at a rate of 0.12 degrees centigrade per decade. While this doesn’t seem like much, this increase has a tremendous effect on climate because oceans cover approximately 2/3 of the earth’s surface.

As a result of this climate change, more severe weather in the form of torrential rains, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, and snow is occurring. Crops and livestock are being lost and ocean levels are rising. Can we stop global warming? Yes, we need to reduce our increasing use of fossil fuels that are pumping greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. To this end, a bill in congress, HR 763 Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, has been introduced on a bipartisan basis. Republicans and Democrats are working together. The bill calls for a fee on carbon with the resulting money being paid back to the citizens in the form of a dividend. When enacted, this bill will be beneficial for the economy and revenue neutral. A complete summary of the bill can be found at www. citizenclimatelobby.org/energy-inovation-act/. It is time to act. Call your Representative Sean Duffy at 202-225-3365 or our Senators Baldwin at 202-2245653 and Johnson at 202-224-5323 and urge them to support this legislation. Patricia Pesko Rice Lake, WI

Siren Referenda Dear Editor, I’ve taken an interest in local school referenda on the April ballot and have three items I want to provide some commentary on: 1. I did some research on how much each district levies upon each $100,000 of assessed value of real property in their districts. In order from highest to lowest Siren tops the list at a whopping $941 per $100,000 of property, followed by Luck at $861, Shell Lake at $847, St. Croix Falls at $824, Cumber-

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loan will cost less, but is this the right way to try to sell the plan? In sales and marketing, this is a common psychological strategy to get consumers interested in buying a product who otherwise wouldn’t be interested by focusing on how much it will save them instead of what it will cost. I just don’t think this type of sales tactic is appropriate to employ in this case. 3. Siren officials have made no compelling arguments to prove the need for a new athlet-

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What should be done instead is to have an engineering firm conduct a feasibility study on the different design alternatives with an emphasis on the capital cost to construct and the lifecycle costs to operate and maintain. I support the building upgrades, especially added security measures, but cannot vote in favor of either question due to all of the above. Michael R. Hoefs Daniels Township

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GRANTSBURG–– Engineers laid out their plans for the downtown Grantsburg construction project slated to start this summer on Monday night. The preliminary plan is to start work on the east side of Madison Avenue from Pine Street to Robert Street in late May or early June. Then they would do construction on the west side from Pine Street to Olson Drive after July 22, to keep that end of the street open for Watercross. At the preliminary planning meeting for construction, Bryan Cunningham and Dan Penzkover of SEH Design explained their plans to over 15 business owners at Grantsburg Village Hall. They explained they have to complete the east side of the project be-

fore they can move on to the west side. Everything is scheduled to be done by October. The Village was awarded a Community Development Block Grant for Public Facilities (CDBG-PF.) The 50/50 grant will be used to fund several projects to re-invigorate downtown Grantsburg and Madison Avenue. It is estimated to cost $760,000, with $380,000 coming from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the other half being covered by the village. There was a lot of focus on the bumpouts or curb extensions that will be added to Madison Avenue. There was much concern over why the bumpouts were needed and how they will affect snow removal in the winter. “How do we get rid of the bumpouts?” Jerry Boyd

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asked Cunningham. There are bumpouts in the plans at the intersections on Madison Avenue. They are proposed on all four corners of Oak Street, two on the west side of the Pine Street intersection and two at the cross walk where the handicapped parking space is in front of the Jensen-Sundquist Insurance Agency office. Cunningham responded saying it was something the village board had approved and was part of the grant application to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). “The focal points that we have to address with the grant money are ADA compliance and replacing the L-shaped water main on Pine Street,” Cunningham said. He added the bumpouts won’t be like a standard six-inch tall sidewalk and would be easier to plow during the winter. Cunningham began the meeting giving an overview of the main projects the grant covers. He said that all sidewalks along Madison Avenue, and most of the road, will be replaced. “There is potential to keep some of the asphalt and simply do a mill and overlay,” Cunningham said. “The cost of asphalt has gone up this year and we’re trying to keep costs down.” This means that for up to three weeks the road will be closed. For part of that time, the sidewalk will also be closed. Chris Carney of the Pink Squirrel, which is only open five days a month, wanted to know specific dates when the street will be closed. “I’m really screwed if it’s during those five days,” she said. Cunningham replied, “We will have a better understanding of the dates after we bid the project out.” Which, according to their plans would be in late April. He added they will be able to put wooden boards above the sidewalk for access, although limited, to businesses on Madison Avenue. Patzy Wenthe of the Senior Center wondered about the possibility of the sidewalk being closed and having no access to Madison Avenue. The response was the wooden boards are the best option for keeping the sidewalks open for a majority of the project. There was also discussion about tunnels and old coal chutes being located underneath the streets. “If anyone knows anything about where those tunnels may be, we would like to know about them,” Cunningham said. Village President Larry Ebersold adjourned the meeting but first asked village clerk/deputy treasurer Sheila Meyer to add a few items to the full board’s next discussion on April 8. Penzkover was taking notes on the public concerns along with written comments and questions and said they would be taking them all into account as they move forward with the project and especially as they begin bidding it out to contractors. Ebersold indicated those would be addressed in the future.

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Gene Soderbeck of the Big Wood Lake Association was one of many concerned citizens that voiced their opinion at the Town of Wood River Meeting last week. He said any environmental assessment on the property needs to cover all of the owner’s acreage.

One of the changes made was rewriting “We would like to see the property run as a camp” as “Many Wood River residents would like to see the property run as a camp.” It also states that residents, “are concerned about the potential impact on the lake due to the density of the proposed project, specifically the impact on water quality and fisheries. And they are also concerned about the impact of the proposed project on the health, general welfare, safety, and economic prosperity of the area residents.” The Land Use and Information committee agreed that an environmental assessment needs to be done on the property to know what effect a new campground would have on the lake. Vitale and other concerned citizens also wanted to make sure the proposed environmental assessment did not just deal with the 23 acres in the conditional use permit but wanted it to cover all 234 acres the Kinsellas own.

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at the meeting and had their office manager, Samantha Langenbach, withdrew the conditional use permit for the proposed camp/resort. At their March meeting, the town board sent a letter to the County staying neutral on the topic. Town Chairman Joel Johnson said they were neutral because the town does not have jurisdiction over land 1,000 feet from the lake. The Burnett County Code of Ordinances states parcels located within 1,000 feet of any lake are subject to the regulation of the Shoreland Protection Ordinance. Suzanne Vitale brought a letter to the board outlining concerns of some of Wood River residents and asked the board to sign it and send it to the County Land Use and Information meeting. “The proposed conditional use permit is vague,” the letter states. “We would like to see the property run as a camp, not as a campground or resort. And so we ask you to deny the conditional use permit as currently written.” The letter was edited during the meeting by Vitale and Johnson.

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the line. He went to the boiler room and walked in on “gallons of water pouring out from the boiler.” He called it a “catastrophic failure of the pump seal on the main boiler pump.” It turned out it was good he had come in that Sunday. “It seemed the seal was just waiting for me to come here for it to explode,” Faught said. “The good news is that it’s not a sewer issue.”

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Maintenance report Maintenance Supervisor Gary Faught stopped by the Government Center on Sunday, Feb. 17. He was hoping to stop by for a short period of time and change the settings on the automatic lights on President’s Day when the building was closed. Faught heard a noise in the Sheriff’s Department’s evidence room and knew it meant there was air in

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BURNETT COUNTY––Highway department director Mike Hoefs reported that the department is focusing on de-icing the roads this month as the seasons slowly change. Hoefs told the Infrastructure committee their winter budget is $425,000 and from Oct. 1 through the end of February they have spent $520,000 with most of that being spent in February because of a number of costly snow storms. “Now we’re about $100,000 over and that doesn’t include these first two weeks of March that have been pretty costly as well,” Hoefs said. “So, watch out for that line item.” He added it is nowhere near the winter the county endured in 2014 which cost almost $800,000. Hoefs also spoke briefly about the frost depth in the county and surrounding areas. “Our frost tubes have bottomed out,” Hoefs commented. He added their frost tubes only go down 72 inches in most spots, meaning across the county the frost is over six feet deep. “I have spoken with surrounding counties and they are reporting their frost is 84 inches deep – that’s seven feet and it’s almost eight feet in other places.” The National Weather Service released a report,

which Hoefs commented on, about the snow pack and the level of moisture in it. “They said for our area the snow pack is about four to six inches of water,” Hoefs said. “It will only be a big deal if all of the snow melts next week. But we’re not at huge risk for major flooding.” He concluded the conversation by stating his crews are digging out and clearing storm drains so the water has somewhere to go as the snow continues to melt. Hoefs was asked about potholes across the county by the committee and he said his department is getting a lot of calls about them. “Trust me, we are getting calls about all of them,” Hoefs said. “We know about them and are making notes on where they are and their size. The issue is we have to wait until things dry up before we can go in and take care of any of them. If we try and patch them up now when everything is still very wet, they are just going to blow out again.”

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Bad Weather was brewing in Grantsburg Brickfield Brewing, located in downtown Grantsburg recently released a special collaboration beer they created with Bad Weather Brewing Company located in St. Paul, Minn. WeatherField Pale Lager is the creation of head brewers Aaron Herman (Brickfield) and Andy Ruhland (Bad Weather). “Andy and I worked on the recipe together, deciding what grains, hops, and yeast strain to use. We hadn’t brewed a lager yet at Brickfield and Bad Weather serves up some tasty ones, so we decided to do a twist on a traditional lager by giving it a punch of hops that you’d typically find in a Pale Ale,” stated Aaron Herman, head brewer at Brickfield. After brewing the recipe in Grantsburg on Brickfield’s 5 barrel system, Herman and Ruhland harvested the yeast and headed to Bad Weather to brew the same recipe on Bad Weather’s 20 barrel system. WeatherField was available to the public at a double release party where both breweries tapped it on the same day, with brewers and owners on hand to meet customers and hand out coupons encouraging them to try out both breweries, sampling two versions of the same beer. “We had a great time working together on this beer and we’re proud of how it turned out,” added Ruhland. Stop by both of these breweries and try them out. Find their hours and locations online at www.brickfieldbrewing.com and www.badweatherbrewery.com.

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Tracker, the Burnett County Sheriff Office’s K-9, was able to find a firearm Friday afternoon. It was reported stolen from an alleged burglary. Two days earlier Sheriff’s Deputies were involved in a pursuit, which is when authorities believe the gun was thrown out of a car. Tracker found the gun approximately 44 hours after the initial pursuit. Burnett County Sheriff Tracy Finch confirmed Tuesday morning the gun Tracker found was taken from a Burnett County burglary. “It was truly amazing our K-9 was able to locate the gun,” she said. Finch added they recovered drugs and a second gun from the pursuit.

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ARCADIA — Emergency officials say flooding has forced the evacuation of homes in western Wisconsin. The State Emergency Operations Center says about 12 homes were evacuated in the town of Dodge in Trempealeau County on Saturday. An ice jam has caused flooding on the Trempealeau River. The center says a shelter was reopened in Arcadia to help flood victims. Other shelters remain open in Green Bay and

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League of Women Voters invites public to learn how to evaluate news items Susan LoRusso, assistant professor at Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, will be the guest presenter on “Fake News and Media Literacy.” The educational forum will be held Saturday, March 30, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. at Unity School District’s Performing Arts Center. The League of Women Voters—Upper St. Croix Valley is sponsoring this free public event. Dr. LoRusso, alumna of Luck High School, teaches undergraduate courses on media literacy, health communication, media effects, and mass media and popular culture. Her research examines the effects of the public’s routine exposure to information in media, with a particular focus on misinfor-

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Frederic Arts welcomes back wildlife artist Jim Springett for an oil painting workshop Saturday, April 6, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Jim spends many hours photographing and painting wildlife at Crex Meadows Wildlife Area. In this workshop students will paint a pair of Hooded Mergansers on a 9”x12”x 5/8” wood frame using Windsor & Newton Artisan Oils (water base), with no harsh or harmful solvents and alkyd mediums. To create color harmony students will paint using a limited palette and mix all colors with red, blue, yellow, and titanium white. All materials are furnished, and upon finishing this workshop students will keep their materials including paints, brushes, and a wooden easel. Jim has a unique method of teaching both experienced and beginner painters. Students who learn with him have remarkable results.

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Preschool storytime Preschoolers and their caregivers are invited to join Youth Librarian Sara Christopherson for a fun and educational story time at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 20. Local author and historian book signing 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Saturday, March 23, join Sue Segelstrom for a book signing event. She’ll be signing her new book “Wild Blueberries: From Meadow to Market,” which explores the blueberry industry in the Grantsburg area, and the legendary locomotive, the Blueberry Special. This event is free and everyone is welcome to attend. Teen program Introducing a new program with time and space dedicated just for teens. 4:30-5:15 p.m., March 26, we will be making candy sushi and voting on activities for April and May programs. Ages 12-17. Kids’ book club Beginning after school, Tuesday, April 2nd. Kids, join us for a book club especially for you. We will talk about a selected book and do activities on a special theme. This book club is for ages 7-9. Books are available for checkout at the library. Registration is limited on a first come basis; Register at grantsburglibrary.org New materials coming soon Books Redemption by David Baldacci Trouble Brewing by Suzanne Baltsar, The Brave Learner by Julie Bogart, The Last

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COVER TO COVER - Larsen Family Public Library FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY Upcoming Events: • Second Saturday Used Book Sale: Our next sale is Saturday, April 13, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. • “Wild Rice and Berries” cookbook is now for sale at $6. NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK is April 8-13. The theme this year is “Libraries = Strong Communitties.” We have a bookmark design contest for the children, a trivia game for adults and young adults, presentations by Carole Fure (author of “The Power of Sand”) on Tuesday, April 9, and Kathryn Schiedermayer, Master Gardener, on Wednesday, April 10. LeAnne Hardy is going to do a special Children’s Story Time on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. We will replace lost library cards for free this week and a fine amnesty runs all week. For more information, please call us at 715-866-7697 or visit our webpage at https://websterlib.org. BIG LIBRARY READ Visit www.biglibraryread.com to download your free copy of “Homes: A Refugee Story” from April 1 through 15. All you need is your library card to get started. The title will automatically expire at the end of the lending period, and there are no late fees.

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AARP TAXES AARP tax preparation appointments are now filled up. FEDERAL AND STATE TAX FORMS We have Wisconsin and federal tax forms available. There is a new format you may not be familiar with – there is now only one standard tax form for all people – no longer the long form, short form, and easy form. BOOK CLUB Our March 26 book club selection is “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles. “In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.” (from Amazon.com) We meet at 10 a.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Books are available at the circulation desk. PRE-SCHOOL STORY TIME Please visit our story time on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. with your infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. We have talented volunteers reading stories followed by

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Note: Breakfast available at all schools Choice of milk available at all schools.

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Apples and oranges always available Monday: Quesadilla, tortilla chips, salsa, corn, mini carrots, mixed fruit. Tuesday: Pork chop, scalloped potatoes, dinner roll, steamed broccoli, warm apple slices. Wednesday: Hamburger with ﬁxings, french fries, baked beans, applesauce. Thursday: Creamed chicken and gravy, biscuit, cranberries, peas, salad, sliced pears. Friday: Omelet, French toast, hashbrowns, juice, mini carrots, sliced peaches.

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Fresh fruit always available Monday: French toast, syrup, tri taters, vegetable juice, Mandarin oranges, fresh fruit. Tuesday: California burger, sour cream fries, carrots, pineapple, fresh fruit. Wednesday: Lasagna roll up, garlic toast, salad, pears, fresh fruit. Thursday: BBQ pulled pork, Sunchips, baked beans, peaches, fresh fruit. Friday: French bread cheese pizza, marinara sauce, salad, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables.

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Cassie Maslow is the Siren High School student of the week. She is a senior and is the daughter of Virgil and Jodi Maslow. She succeeds in all her classes, enjoying Sign Language and her Literary Studies college course the most. She is very active in school events including the National Honor Society, volleyball, basketball, and track. In her spare time she enjoys reading, being creative with various art forms, and taking care of nine chickens. Her plan for the future is to attend UW-Platteville for a degree in Criminal Justice.

From Webster Schools the student of the week is Katelyn Tegarden. She is the junior daughter of Rob and Dawn Tegarden.Katelyn always comes to class prepared and works hard. She treats others with respect and is fun to have in class. When not is class Katelyn is active as a member of N. H. S. Her hobbies include reading, baking, and traveling with her family. After high school Katelyn plans to attend college for a business degree and travel.

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GRANTSBURG SENIORS by Patzy Wenthe

Caregivers can do anything, but not everything CARRIE MYERS RESOURCE SPECIALIST ADRC OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN

Support. A support beam is necessary to make a house strong. We support our favorite sports teams and athletes accept this support and use it to compete with greater enthusiasm. Teamwork and collaboration in our workplaces are essential to achieve big goals. So, why is reaching out for support when we are on a difficult journey, like caring for an ill or aging loved one, so intimidating when it is just as essential as the support beam in a home? Feeling supported can be the difference between thriving and just barely surviving during your caregiving journey. Talking with people who understand the challenges you face and the emotions you feel (such as guilt, resentment, fear, and exhaustion) can make it all just a little easier to bear. Dailycaring.com shares eight key benefits of caregiver support groups: 1. Feeling less lonely, isolated or judged. 2. Gaining a sense of empowerment and control. 3. Improving coping skills. 4. Reducing distress, depression, or anxiety. 5. Developing a clearer understanding of what to expect with your situation. 6. Getting practical advice or information about treatment options. 7. Improving your caregiving ability and giving better quality of life for the person you are caring for. 8. Helping keep loved ones at home longer. The Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) of Northwest Wisconsin is pleased to announce the formation of the Burnett County Caregiver Support Group beginning Thursday, March 28. The group will meet the fourth Thursday of every month from 10:30 a.m– Noon at the Grantsburg Public Library. This is a new and very necessary resource in Burnett County. Remember, a house is not expected to have strength without support, and neither are we. There are many different kinds of caregiver support groups. If you need help finding a group that is right for you call the ADRC of Northwest Wisconsin at 877-485-2372. “Healthy Minute” is brought to you by healthyburnett.org

Benefit for Gary House Sat., March 23 • 5pm Grantsburg American Legion Hall

It’s here! Spring! Believe it or not the snow is melting. Especially now that I’ve retired my big furry winter coat, according to my friends. I hope you got your fill of everything green over the weekend. There were many opportunities to get your fix of many Irish goodies. I guess you never knew there were so many people who are Irish, but I saw a whole lot of people wearing green. Well, after this extremely long winter, or so it has seemed, the weather was a bit foggy and rainy for our Blood Drive. This didn’t stop many of our local donating regulars from coming out to donate. Congratulations to the following donors on their gallon pins: 1-gallon pins to: Debra Anderson and Craig Lundeen 2 gallons: Melissa Woods 5 gallons: Marvin Holmes 7 gallons: Teresa Nordrum 9 gallons: Michael Peterson

16 gallons: Duane Lien 17 gallons: Judy Marek Thanks to all our donors who helped us reach our goal to collect 40 units, helping 120 individuals. Again, “thank you, donors.” We extend a big thanks to T-Dawgs Convention Center and to Central United Methodist Church for their assistance at the Canteen, great goodies and a wonderful meal. An extra special thank you to Corey and Shelley Arnold and Frederic’s State Farm Insurance for their support of March being Red Cross Month with extra treats. We also want to say thanks to our sponsor the American Legion & Auxiliary and, as always to the fantastic team from the Red Cross. Spring will be here when we gather again, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. So, we hope to see many more of our life-giving friends. Thanks for helping to save a life. Remember every pint given means three lives are saved.

Coming Events: · Business meeting the third Tuesday at 1 pm. Everyone is welcome. . Sr. Center Rummage Sale April 6th. 8:30 a.m. to Noon · Fun with Friends, every day.

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The Good Friday breakfast April 19 is a community breakfast. There is no charge to the public. The breakfast will be served from 7:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. The breakfast menu will be scrambled eggs, sausage links, fruit cup, and cinnamon roll. Beverages will be orange juice, milk, tea, or coffee. No donations will be taken on the day of the breakfast. Speaking of the Silent Auction, if you are in Siren, stop in at the center and check it out. You can place bids anytime. We have a big selection of items to bid on. Grace Haines was the big bingo winner. She won $21.00. She also won a couple of regular games. Come and join us for Dime Bingo – plenty of room for more players.

Are you ready for spring? I sure am looking forward to warmer weather. We were glad to see Phyllis Peterson stop in at cards. She has not been playing cards due to illness, so it was nice to see her starting to come back and check out cards. Phyllis borrowed some puzzles to help time go by. We hope Phyllis will be able to join us in cards again. Our center has a program for borrowing books and puzzles. No check out and no due date – just take and use and return when you are done. Our 500 winners were Roger Greely, Nona Severson, Neil Olson, and Pat Bresina. There were no 9 bids. Spade winners were Steve Wenthe, Gerry Vogel, Jim Anderson, and Sue Newberger. DATES TO REMEMBER March 20 – First Day of spring (Yeah) March 21 – Full Moon April 19 – Good Friday breakfast April 27- 500 card party

Sat., March 23 • 9am - 2:30pm Grantsburg Senior Center Geiger-Wenthe Families The Crex Conference Center presents...

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Sloppy Joe Dinner for $5.00, raffles, 50/50, Plinko, Wood Carving raffle Gary House lost all his possessions in a house fire recently. Gary has lived in Grantsburg for many years but pretty much kept to himself so he does not have a lot of acquaintances in our community. His family, from out of town, is holding a benefit on his behalf at the Legion. They would appreciate support from the community.

Here are some interesting Fun facts to think about: March 20, 1854 Former members of the Whig Party found the Republican Party in Ripon, Wisconsin. March 21st, 1963 Alcatraz Prison, known as “The Rock,” closes its doors. Wisconsin’s State Constitution is the oldest of any state west of the Allegheny Mountains, it was adopted in 1848. And Bloomer, Wisconsin is the Jump Rope Capital of the World. We offer Wi-Fi, coffee, and goodies, and check out the book nook. Questions on meal reservations, hall rentals, or other requests, call the center at 715-463-2940 or email us at gburg118@gmail.com.

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Friday, March 29 • 7pm Crex Conference Center at T-DAwgs $10 At the Door Advance tickets available from Bill Norine or T-Dawgs All proceeds to be donated to support breast cancer research.

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Thank you to everyone who came to Bill’s memorial service. When the lights blinked for just a moment (during the lunch) perhaps Bill was thanking you, too. After all he did work for the electric company so what better a way of showing us all everything was good. Thank you everyone for the prayers, cards, memorials, plants, and Ŵowers given in memory of Bill. Thank you to the staff of Burnett Medical Center for their caring and kindness during Bill’s time in the emergency room. Thank you to the North Memorial Ambulance EMTs for the medical attention they gave Bill and to Jim Tolbert for his support and assistance at the time of Bill’s death. Thank you to the Rowe Funeral home for the care taken with arrangements for Bill’s service. Thank you to Pastor Jay Ticknor for his steadfast support and the Ɠne message he gave at the memorial service, so Ɠtting to Bill. Thank you to the Trinity Lutheran Church women for providing and serving the wonderful lunch. And thank you to Cilla’s and Bill’s friends and cousins for making the delicious hot dishes and salads. Thank you to Linda Dahl for the special music, Erin Spohn for her beautiful rendition of “Amazing Grace” and Bill’s brother Vernon (Sonny) Bistram and Bill’s great niece, McKenna Hammons, for the special old time country hymns, so lovingly performed in Bill’s memory. We are so grateful for the love and support of our friends and community during this sad and difƓcult time. God bless you all. Cilla Bauer and the family of William (Bill) Johnson

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Tigers of Alaska - swallowtail butterﬂies EMILY STONE NATURALIST/EDUCATION DIRECTOR AT THE CABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

It’s doesn’t take much to entertain me. Last summer in Alaska, I had a few hours to fill before my Insects of Denali field course with Alaska Geographic would begin. Carrying just my camera, I sauntered off down a trail near the Denali National Park visitor center. The vibrant yellow flowers of shrubby cinquefoil caught my eye first. Several blossoms had a single small fly basking near their center or walking stiltlike over the bristle of anthers. Three willow leaves were sewn together in a small chamber. Tiny brown dots of frass (caterpillar scat) spilled out one end and identified it as a feeding hideout rather than a cocoon. And then I came upon a hillside patch of bluebells. With tall, leafy stems and many clusters of delicate pink and purple bell-shaped flowers, it caught my eye right away. These were tall bluebells, or Mertensia paniculata. While they can be found as far east as Michigan, I think we typically see Virginia bluebells, or M. virginica in the Midwest. An easy way to tell

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Tiger swallowtail butterﬂies bring sunshine to the north, but they must have a suite of adaptations to survive the cold winters—and cold summers—of Alaska.

the difference is flower shape: Virginia bluebells have a wide flower that constricts abruptly to a narrow nectar tube. The nectar tubes of tall bluebells are just a little smaller than the rest of the flower. What also caught my eye about this patch of beauties is that they were being visited by a large tiger swallowtail butterfly. I’ve always loved these lovely yellow butterflies with black stripes, bits of orange and blue, and whimsical tails. Like the bluebells, they are close cousins to my friends back home. My camera and I had a lovely time observing the butterfly dangle delicately from the flowers, nuzzle its head up into a bell, and then float airily on to the next plant. While this tiger must have been finding nectar to sip, it isn’t useful for transferring pollen. Part of the reason is that only the younger, tightly closed pink flowers contain the pollen, while the older, purple flow-

ers provide nectar. Bees, who have the strength to pry open the pink flowers, are the only known pollinators. They are attracted by the sweet blue flowers, but then visit both shades of flower on the plant. Both the tall bush of bluebells with its broad, floppy leaves, and the wide, sunny wings of the butterfly struck me as being out of place in Alaska. When I think of northern plants, my mind jumps to the low, tough, waxy leaves of blueberry, lingonberry, and most other tundra plants. When I think of northern insects, I think of mosquitoes, black flies, and warmfurred bumble bees. Not surprisingly, Canadian tiger swallowtails have an interesting suite of adaptations to help them survive in their namesake country and in Alaska. It begins when they are eggs. Female tiger swallowtails lay their eggs on leaves on the south side of trees. This provides more warming sun exposure for the developing larvae. Temperature is important. As the temperature increases from 54 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit (due to normal changes in weather, or just a great location) the larvae can increase their growth rate by up to 500 percent. There is a catch, though. Larvae on birch trees won’t grow faster, even if it’s warm. Only the more nutritious leaves of aspen trees allow for such rapid growth. The butterflies must choose their host plants carefully, and hope aspens are available. Another counterintuitive adaptation is that if a caterpillar survives a summer cold spell, it will then begin to grow faster. The longer and colder the cold spell was, the faster the caterpillar will subsequently grow. This is a tricky business. Summer is the most vulnerable time for these insects. When fall comes, the larvae store up cryoprotectants to help them avoid freezing, and then transform into pupae. Once properly hardened off and hidden away, the chrysalis can survive at least seven consecutive days at -2 degrees. During the summer, though, caterpillars aren’t well-prepared for cold. One risk factor? Larvae with food in their guts freeze at warmer temperatures. Overall, tiger swallowtails are in a hurry to complete their life cycle in a brief northern summer. The faster a caterpillar can get to the safety of a cold-hardened chrysalis, the better. Those increased growth rates help, as well as the fact that females lay larger eggs, and the caterpillars pupate at a smaller size than their southern cousins. This does mean the adults are smaller, too, but that’s just the price they pay for making sure their offspring don’t freeze to death. I was entertained by this pretty yellow butterfly on a warm day in Alaska, and I’m entertained now, too, as its memory helps me escape the gray days of mud season. May its bright wings bring some sunshine your way, too. Emily’s second book, Natural Connections: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, is now available to purchase at www.cablemuseum.org/books and will soon be available at your local independent bookstore, too. For 50 years, the Cable Natural History Museum has served to connect you to the Northwoods. Come visit us in Cable. Our new exhibit: “Bee Amazed” is now open.

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WEEKLY WAG News and Updates from the Humane Society of Burnett County

The days are warmer, but the nights are still cool. HSBC introduces you to two girls who would like to help keep your laps (and hearts) warm. Giblet is a pretty, 1-year-old girl who weighs in around 6 pounds. Her bright amber eyes are full of c curiosity and offset her sshort black and white ttuxedo coat. Giblet is a b beautiful girl; she came tto the shelter with a bald sspot on her tail, but that sseems to be filling in n nicely. She is easygoing, p playful and enjoys a good b belly rub. Giblet likes peop ple of all sizes and would m make a wonderful family Giblet member Fawna is almost ready for new adventures. This 1-year-old female came to the shelter as a stray and is nearly done with her prep to become someone’s treasured pet. Fawna is about 8 pounds and has short brown-tabby and white fur and amber eyes. She is a cuddly, affectionate kitty who has a relaxed outlook on life and is good with kids as well as adults. Fawna would make a great snuggle buddy. It will soon be time to start taking your jogs off the treadmill and into the streets. If you run, jog, walk, or even skip, consider joining the 14th Carlyle Sherstad 5K June 1. Burnett Medical Center has chosen HSBC to receive this year’s profits. It is still a couple of months away, but that gives you Fawna ample time to train and register. More information is available at the Burnett Medical Center website. In contrast, the 13th Bark & Wine Fundraiser is six weeks away. Save the date for attending this fundraising feast Saturday, April 27, 7 p.m., at the Webster Community Center. On the menu is sumptuous lasagna (with a vegetarian option), salad, bread, and dessert. After feasting, stay and play our raffles and games or participate in the silent and live auction bidding. Help HSBC plan and staff this exciting event; volunteers are needed for a variety of tasks. Contact Kristi at coordinatorHSBC@gmail.com to learn more. HSBC information—7347 Midtown Road, Siren, WI 54872. Telephone: 715-866-4096. Email hsbc@ centurytel.net. Website: www.hsburnettcty.org. Facebook: www.facebook.com/humanesocietyburnettcounty. Public hours: Tuesday - Friday, 12 -5 p.m. and Saturday, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Peggy Schilling Animal Adoption & Education Center—Facebook: www.facebook.com/peggy schillingadoptioncenter.

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Crowds started gathering around 10 a.m. in Webb Lake in front of The Caberat and The Main Store for the parade that starts at 1 p.m. sharp every year. Sometimes you get a little too close to the action which results in silly string to the face.

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All-County Boys Basketball team selected GLEN SKIFSTAD SENTINEL SPORTS

This season’s Sentinel All-County Boys Basketball team has a rarity, which is defined in the dictionary as “something rare, unusual or uncommon.” All five members of the Webster boys starting lineup are on the First Team to go along with one starter from Siren and one from Grantsburg. Both Trevor Gustafson and Jack Washburn are fouryear varsity players. Trevor is a third year All-Conference choice and “is our workhorse,” said his coach. “He is solid defensively and a beast inside.” Trevor averaged 18.2 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. He also had 1.7 assists and 2.3 steals per game. Jack is a third year First Team All-Conference player. “Jack has been a dynamic player for the past four years,” said his coach. “He has the ability to take over a game. In 18 years, he is the most athletic player I have ever coached.” Washburn had a 17.2 points per game average with 5.3 rebounds, 1.5 assists, one block and 1.0 steals a game. Hunter Rosenbaum is a three-year varsity player and a First Team All-Conference selection this year. “He is a lock down defender, excellent rebounder, and a potent offensive weapon.” Rosenbaum averaged 13.4 points per game, 7.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 2.5 steals in his games this year. Coleton Peterson is a three-year varsity player and an Honorable Mention All-Conference performer. “Coleton doesn’t get the recognition he deserves because of the talent on his team,” relates his coach. “He finished in double figures and will be instrumental in a conference championship run next year. He will have a chance at 1,000 points (in a career) next year with a little work in the offseason.” Peterson had an 11.5 points per game output with 5.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists, and 1.0 steals. Carsen Stenberg “was the glue to the team,” said his coach. “His stat line isn’t all that impressive and that is because his role was to get the ball to our shooters and to push the tempo. He did both of those things and finished at the top of the conference in assists per game.” Stenberg tallied 4.2 points per game, 3.4 rebounds, 5.1 assists, and 1.5 steals. From Siren, the Sentinel Sports Team selected Riley Churchill. “Riley scored about 10 points per game for us, and really came on at the end of the season,” said his coach. And from the Pirates, the team chose Austin Wedin. Austin played in every game for the Pirates. He had an average of 9.3 points per game, 2.1 rebounds, 2 assists, and 52 steals for the season. The All-County Honorable Mention squad consists of Tanner Pardun (Webster), Kanaan Christianson, and Jordan Webster (Siren), with Carson Knutson and Jared Van Watermeulen from Grantsburg. Pardun scored 4.4 points per game, had 2 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and 1.5 steals. He provided some valuable minutes for the Tigers when called upon. Kanaan “led us in three pointers with 49,” said his coach, “he shot 83 percent from the free throw line.” “Jordan Webster works hard and plays bigger than his size defensively,” added his coach. Carson Knutson was a starting point guard for the Pirates with 8.2 points per game, 2.9 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 42 steals (for the season,) and a free throw percentage of 82 percent. Jared was Second Team All-Conference with 12.4 points per game, 5.4 rebounds, and 28 blocks (for the season). For our Players to Watch list, we chose Owen Washburn (Webster), Zayden Anderson and Brady Kosloski (Siren,) and Gus Bergman (Grantsburg). All of these individuals had valuable minutes in games this season and, we feel, will be instrumental in their respective teams’ successes in the future. Thank you, All-County Team for your efforts this year. They didn’t go unnoticed. Thanks go to the remainder of the players who gave of themselves and to the coaches who guided these players. Many thanks go to the parents and families who supported their sons during the good times and the not-so-good times. And thanks, are given to the fans who cheered so proudly for their teams. The players, coaches, and parents really appreciate you. Two quotes, authors unknown, stand out as this basketball season ends. “Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.” “Basketball doesn’t build character; it reveals it.” Until then ...

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Blizzard PeeWees take fourth at State The Blizzard Peewee team headed to Sparta to play the best teams in the state in their division. The ﬁrst game against Sparta was a dramatic come from behind victory after Grayson Hendricks Baxter was injured. The Blizzard won 5-4 with goals from Landyn Randt, Ryder Anderson and Reid Tollander with assists from Levi Anderson, Clayton Shutt, and Landyn Randt. In the next game they faced the Milwaukee Blaze and lost 9-0. On Sunday the Blizzard vied for third place, with the score at 1-0 most of the game with equal shots, but the puck just would not go in for the Blizzard. Pictured are (front row, left to right): Joel McDonald and Garrett Logan. Middle: Brady Ulmaniec, Kelsey Douglas, Reid Tollander, Blake Wedin, Clayton Shutt, Josh Smith, and Landon Smestad. Back: Levi Anderson, Elena Lester, Landyn Randt, Ryder Anderson, Lane Hopkins, James Pederson, Bradon Nutter, Grayson Hendricks-Baxter, Tyler Trittlewitz, Dallis Strehlo, and Jenna Lester.

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Webster Automotive 27.5 20.5 Black & Orange 25 23 10th Hole 24 24 Gandy Dancer Saloon 19.5 28.5 High Team Single Games: Black & Orange 747; Webster Automotive 744; 10th Hole 730. High Single Games: Judy Olson 209; Pam Dildine 189; Mary Reese 168. High Team Three Games: Black & Orange 2183; Webster Automotive 2175; Gandy Dancer Saloon 2083. High Three Games: Judy Olson 529; Pam Dildine.478; Mary Reese 471. High Individual Averages: Pam Dildine/Judy Olson 146; Mary Reese/Claudia Peterson 145; Donna Crain/Joan Java-Hahr/Krystal Gorman 129; Millie Hansen 126. Splits: Claudia Peterson, 2-5-7; Donna Crain, 2-7; Millie Hansen/Mary Reese, 3-10. TNT Ladies W

Northwoods Lumber 68 24 Josh’s Mini Donuts 64 28 Flower Power 47 45 Vacant 5 87 High Team Single Games: Flower Power 688; Josh’s Mini Donuts 661; Northwoods Lumber 637. High Single Games: Jennifer Kern 188; Mary Reese 173; Sue Eytcheson 169.

High Team Three Games: Flower Power 1961; Josh’s Mini Donuts 960; Northwoods Lumber 1892. High Three Games: Jennifer Kern 543; Mary Reese 460; Sue Eytcheson 440. High Individual Averages: Jennifer Kern 168; Sue Eytcheson 150; Cheryl Scallon 145; Sandy Buhil 143; Mary Reese 140. Splits: Becky Reynolds, 3-10; Jennifer Kern, 4-7-10. Early Birds W

Sweeny’s 38.5 9.5 Gandy Dancer Saloon 29 23 The Tap 19 29 Black & Orange 13.5 34.5 High Team Single Games: Sweeny’s 923; Black & Orange 859; The Tap 846. High Single Games: Michelle Lysdahl 173; Pam Dildine/Claudia Peterson 159; Lynn Toivola 158. High Team Three Games: Sweeny’s 2652; Black & Orange 2488; The Tap 2486. High Three Games: Michelle Lysdahl 517; P;am Dildine 449; Judy Olson 433.. High Individual Averages: Pam Dildine 146; Michelle Lysdahl 144; Judy Olson 142; Claudia Peterson /Sally Olson/140; Joan H9ava-Hahr 135. Monday Night W

944; Black & Orange 938; Bruce’s Auto 799. High Single Games: Art Bliven 248; Tony Wilson 235; Chris Johnson 226. High Team Three Games: Josh’s Mini Donuts 2770; Black & Orange 2671; Bruce’s Auto 2352. High Three Games: Art Bliven 666; Tim Vasatka 631; Tony Wilson 628. High Individual Averages: Tony Wilson 205; Josh Johnson 191; Chris Johnson 190; Curt Phelps 176; Dave Hall 168.

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Northwoods Lumber 23 13 Bullwinkle and Friends 21 15 Black & Orange 14 22 Lily Lake Tavern 14 22 High Team Single Games: Black & Orange/ Bullwinkle & Friends 1102; Northwoods Lumber 1087; Lily Lake Tavern 986. High Single Games: Tony Wilson 267; Monte Rinnman 245; Josh Johnson 226. High Team Three Games: Northwoods Lumber 3204; Bullwinkle & Friends 3164; Black & Orange 3089. High Three Games: Tony Wilson 751; Monte Rinnman 624; Josh Johnson 591. High Indivdual Averages: Tony Wilson 201; Josh Johnson 195; Mike Zajac 192; Monte Rinnman 188; Neil Huppert 187. Denny’s Downtown Lanes Tuesday Nite Ladies W

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Kelli’s Kitchen 51 37 Rod’s Broads 45 43 Denny’s Divas 43 45 McNally’s 40 48 Country Store 32 56 High Team Single Games: Kelli’s Kitchen 637; Hway 70 Storage 630; Denny’s Divas 626. High Single Games: Darla Harper 212; Amy Bertelsen 204; DeDe Bosak 184. High Team Three Games: Kelli’s Kitchen 1866; Hwy 70 Storage 1782; Denny’s Divas 1753. High Three Games:Amy Bertelsen 537; Darla Harper 497; Deb DeMarre 496. High Individual Averages: Amy Bertelsen 158; Patty Meyer 150; Casey Schuur/Molly Byers 148; DeDe Bosak 146; Kim Koster 145; Darla Harper/Carol Soderbeck 144; Deb DeMarre 142; Judy Lien 140. Wednesday Night Men’s Pts

Fiedler Ford 46 Grantsburg Sanitary 37 Erickson Auction 33 Denny’s 33 Darrell’s Hardware 31 High Team Single Games: Fiedler Ford 728; Erickson Auction 715; Grantsburg Sanitary 698. High Single Games: Brian Erickson 268; Bruce Teigen 232; Edard Schmeckel 196. High Team Three Games: Grantsburg Sanitary 2022; Fiedler Ford 1997; Erickson Auction 1867. High Three Games: Brian Erickson 619; Bruce Teigen 597; Ronald Pitts 536.

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artZ Gallery proudly features ﬁve area artists for their March Hammer Madness Wood and Metal Show Joyce Halvorson Joyce is the blacksmith at Johnson Creek Forge near Barron. Her love for blacksmithing began thirty-plus years ago at a farriers class. Now, instead of forging horseshoes, she makes decorative hooks, bottle openers, candle holders, and many other items for the home, along with unique sculptural pieces. Wendy Frank Wendy has always been driven by color and has pursued that fascination through many mediums, most recently beaded jewelry, and now hand-raised copper. She started with very simple forms and continues to challenge herself with forming more advanced shapes and sawn patterns. “I’m endlessly fascinated with copper. I love the way it moves. I love the color and oxidation when it is heated. I love the smell of the metal as it heats, the sound of it and the feel of it.” Her next progression was to enameling where she could achieve vivid colors. All pieces start with flat sheet metal; multiple applications of heat and hammer create forms and fascinating patinas and enameled finishes. See Wendy’s work at www.wendyfrank designs.com.

Tin Cat Studio Randy and Lisa Lee live among the corn and hayfields outside Luck. Together they enjoy photographing the countryside, searching for vintage finds, creating art, and keeping an eye out for Sasquatch. Randy loves photographing old barns, rusty cars, windmills, trees, and birds. Randy states, “It is my passion to capture these memorable monuments of history before they vanish completely.” He is also the mastermind behind the custom frames that currently make up most of their body of work. They are always on the lookout for materials that can be used to make these pieces of art unique. Lisa loves Macro photography the most. “Finding the tiny, little details in the world around us is fascinating and a source of joy. Tiny flowers poking out of the grass, raindrops hanging from pine needles, hoar frost hanging tightly to a thistle; all great beauty found within a tiny little space.” She also does the encaustic wax work that can be seen in the majority of their framed artwork. www.tincatstudio.com. Brian Hall Brian uses predominately reclaimed

material to build furniture. Much of it is recovered from his construction business projects, combined with hardwood slabs and branches from the woods surrounding his rural Amery home and shop. Timber framing appeals to him in the same way furniture does; the process is challenging and fulfilling. The end product is functional as well as beautiful. “I think it is probably a Midwestern mindset to always focus on the practical; this doesn’t necessarily discount aesthetics. Furniture and timber framing can embody both of these philosophies.” See Brian’s work at www.oakleafbuildingwi.com.

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THE CAPITOL REPORT

Despite shared goals, Evers and GOP remain apart on key policy areas Assembly Republicans laid out a marker two months ago for Gov. Tony Evers on policy areas where compromise could be found. But, a WisPolitics.com review found fundamental differences remain between the two factions on a number of items. While there seems to be consensus on some issues highlighted in the Jan. 10 letter, including expansion of high-speed internet access and prevention of homelessness, Evers and Assembly Republicans disagree on several major items, based on a comparison of the governor’s executive budget proposal to the GOP letter. Overall, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said he was disappointed by Evers’ budget. While he noted there appeared to be several areas where the two sides could find compromise, he called the document “divisive.” Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said he would “rather work from a clean slate.” Kit Beyer knocked Evers for proposing a budget with specifics on a number of topics in the letter without feedback from Republicans. She said the goal of the letter was to collaborate with the governor by highlighting broad topics where consensus could be found, but no collaboration occurred. But, an Evers spokeswoman said it’s time to “stop playing politics and get to work on the issues that matter most to Wisconsin families.” “It’s unfortunate that Republicans are now backpedaling and threatening to craft their own budget instead of working with the governor on these priorities,” said spokeswoman Britt Cudaback. Here are some of the top areas of difference: INCOME TAX REDUCTIONS Evers recommends creating a family and individual reinvestment credit, which would cut into the leftover tax balance of single filers making up to $100,000 and married joint filers making up to $150,000 by up to 10 percent. The budget also calls for paying for the tax break by limiting the manufacturing and agriculture credit to only the first $300,000 of income per tax year for manufacturers. Limiting that tax credit would only cover roughly 60 percent of the estimated cost of the middle-class tax cut over the course of the biennium. The proposal comes after Evers previously vetoed a GOP-backed measure that would provide a similar tax cut but fund it with the budget surplus. ENHANCING HIGH-SPEED INTERNET ACCESS The budget contains a nearly $75 million boost to the Public Service Commission to expand access to broadband internet. Evers also recommended that the commission partner with the Department of Administration to provide a report on internet access in the state, complete with recommendations on how to incentivize

telecommunications companies to provide access to underserved communities. Additionally, Evers, in his budget, targeted reaching 25 megabits per second download and 3 megabits per second upload speeds statewide by 2025. According to the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature hasn’t addressed broadband access so far this session. PRE-EXISTING COVERAGE GUARANTEE Evers includes an item in his budget recommending “that the insurance marketplace guarantee health insurance for individuals with pre-existing conditions.”

‘While there seems to be consensus on some issues highlighted in the Jan. 10 letter, including expansion of high-speed internet access and prevention of homelessness, Evers and Assembly Republicans disagree on several major items, based on a comparison of the governor’s executive budget proposal to the GOP letter.’ An Evers spokeswoman referred WisPolitics.com to a document highlighting differences between Senate Bill 37 — a pre-existing conditions coverage bill from Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton — and Aseembly Bill 1, the effort by the Assembly GOP to cover pre-existing conditions. According to the document, Erpenbach’s bill encompasses many of the same principles as the GOP plan. But it also requires coverage of preventive services and a number of essential health benefits, sets a floor instead of a cap on the length of the open enrollment period, and applies to short-term plans. SB 37 has not been voted on in the Senate. AB 1, meanwhile, remains hung up in committee in the Senate. Spokesmen for Fitzgerald and Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point — who chairs the Senate Health and Human Service committee — did not provide comment on when the bill will be taken up. SUPPORT FOR K-12 EDUCATION Vos and Assembly Republicans called for a return to funding two-thirds of K-12 education in their letter.

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Evers’ proposal meets the two-thirds mark in the first year of the biennium and exceeds it in the second year. His budget also includes an item restoring the requirement for the state to provide at least twothirds of partial school revenues, which was repealed as part of the 2003 state budget. CLEAN WATER Evers includes several proposals to address water quality in his budget, most notably authorizing nearly $70 million in bonding to address water contamination and to replace lead pipes. But Vos said he doesn’t believe there is a need for $70 million in bonding, because the Legislature created a program last session that allowed municipalities to replace lead pipes by partnering with local governments and property owners. “I understand why he wants to look like he’s doing something, but the lucky thing is the Republican Legislature already has,” he said in a press conference after the budget address. INVESTMENTS IN INFRASTRUCTURE Assembly Republicans called for a thorough review of state-owned buildings to examine possible cost-saving measures and ensure proper maintenance and management. The Department of Administration lists increasing the efficiency of buildings as a goal and targets a vacancy rate of less than 5 percent in department-owned buildings. The governor’s budget also allocates an additional $2.3 million for operating costs and maintenance staffing but does not address a top-to-bottom review. The Capitol Report is written by editorial staff at WisPolitics.com, a nonpartisan, Madison-based news service that specializes in coverage of government and politics, and is distributed for publication by members of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Copyright © WisPolitics.com

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Butterball LLC recalls ground turkey products linked to Salmonella infections The Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection, and local health departments are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella infections. To date, the investigation has identified four Wisconsin residents who are infected with the same strain (DNA fingerprint) of Salmonella. The four Wisconsin patients are linked to Butterball raw ground turkey products. Additionally, a Minnesota resident with the same strain of Salmonella also reported eating ground turkey, but the brand is unknown. Testing of leftover raw ground turkey received by the Wisconsin patients was

also positive for the outbreak strain of Salmonella. As a result of this outbreak, Butterball is voluntarily recalling 78,164 pounds of raw ground turkey products. A complete list of products included in the recall can be found in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Recall notice. The products subject to recall bear establishment number “EST. P-7345” inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to institutional and retail locations nationwide. Persons and establishments who may have Butterball ground turkey products in their freezer should check to see if their product is included in the recall, and if so, are ad-

vised to discard any remaining product. Food pantries, food banks, and patrons of those establishments are especially encouraged to check any ground turkey they have received because this product was also distributed through these routes. Raw turkey and other poultry products can be contaminated with Salmonella or other pathogens. When handling raw poultry products, it is important to take the following steps to protect against exposure to pathogens: • Wash hands and surfaces often when handling raw poultry. • Separate raw meats and poultry from other foods in the refrigerator.

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Refrigerate or freeze raw poultry promptly after purchasing. • Cook all raw poultry to an internal temperature of 165ºF. • Always follow manufacturer’s instructions provided on product packaging. • Place cooked poultry only on a clean dish before serving. • Report suspected food poisoning to the local health department. Salmonellosis is caused by Salmonella bacteria that are spread by eating or drinking contaminated food or water, or by direct or indirect contact with fecal matter from infected people or animals. Symptoms

include diarrhea, abdominal pains, fever, and vomiting that lasts for several days. Bloodstream infections can occur, but are rare, and can be quite serious in young children and older adults. Most people recover from salmonellosis on their own, but may require extra fluids to prevent dehydration. Anyone who has consumed any of the recalled Butterball raw ground turkey products and is experiencing symptoms of salmonellosis, is encouraged to contact their health care provider. Consumers experiencing symptoms should also contact their local health department.

Spooner Health to participate in 2019 Statewide Donate Life Wisconsin Flag-Raising Ceremony and Moment of Silence Spooner Health is among the more than 80 Donate Life Wisconsin member and partner organizations that will simultaneously host a statewide Donate Life Flag-raising ceremony and moment of silence to promote the mission of organ, tissue, and eye donation, and honor donors and their families April 1 at 10:08 a.m., to highlight the fact that one donor can save eight lives, followed by a moment of silence for 1 minute and 14 seconds to recognize the nearly 114,000 patients waiting for a life-saving transplant. Of those patients, nearly 2,000 are right here in Wisconsin. Immediately following the ceremony, please enjoy cookies and refreshments in the Spooner Health Dining Room. Donate Life Wisconsin created the inaugural Pause to Give Life event in 2018 as a statewide observance to occur annually on the first Monday morning of April marking the start of National Donate Life Month.

About the Donate Life Flag: The Donate Life flag was first introduced in 2006. Since then it has become a national symbol of unity, remembrance, and hope, while honoring those touched by donation and transplantation. During the past 13 years, 50,000 Donate Life Flags have flown across America. About Donate Life Wisconsin: Donate Life Wisconsin (DLW) is a nonprofit alliance of organizations and caring individuals dedicated to increasing donated organs, eyes, and tissues to save and heal lives. Through education and advocacy, DLW inspires people to register as donors and works together to create a culture where donation is embraced as a fundamental human responsibility. Wisconsin Organ, Tissue and Eye Donation Facts: • Anyone age 15 and half or older can register as a donor regardless of

St. Croix River Association seeking nominations for annual award The St. Croix Watershed Stewardship Award is an honor given annually to those who have made a significant contribution to stewardship of the St. Croix River and/or its tributaries. The St. Croix River Association is currently accepting nominations for the 2019 Award. The St. Croix River Association is committed to recognizing the contributions of those who are committed to protecting and preserving our precious natural resources. Past individual honorees have improved water quality, raised public awareness about an issue or threat to the watershed, successfully promoted good public policy, or protected a resource via a land trust or a wetland restoration. Cities receiving the award have enacted zoning ordinances that preserved community character or have fostered development that expresses good river stewardship. Nominations can be made on behalf of any individual, business, organization, or community. Award recipients will receive an inscribed plaque which is presented at the Association’s Spring Gathering May 17, 2019 at Terra Nue Farm, Shafer, Minn. For complete information visit stcroixriverassociation.org/whatwedo/stewardship-award/, email info@scramail.com or call 715-483-3300. Deadline for nominations is April 1.

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Leonard “Buck” Carlstrom Leonard “Buck” Carlsstrom of Siren, died peaceffully on March 11, 2019, a at the age of 87 following a challenging battle with A Alzheimer’s. Born June 11, 11931, to a Swedish couple, E Esther and Andrew Carlsstrom, he was the fourth of 6 children. Buck lived his e entire childhood in Superrior where he developed a llifetime interest in school, sports, and the outdoors. After graduating from Superior Central High School, he earned a double major from Superior State in biology and education. Buck served in the U.S. Army Laboratory Center, Maryland, where he was also on the baseball team. After discharge, Buck worked as a pharmaceutical rep in the Northern California mountain region, where he pursued his love of skiing and fishing. He married Norma Quam from Superior while teaching in Carmichael, California and completed a master’s degree from the University of Oregon. The family moved back to their roots in Wisconsin in 1967. For many years Buck taught and coached in Grantsburg. Summers found the family in the Barnes, Wisconsin, Upper Eau Claire Lake area where Buck was active in environmental groups and outdoor pursuits. He passed his love of canoeing, trips to the Boundary Waters, and the Quetico to his family. In Grantsburg, he was one of the original members of the Grantsburg Ridge Runners and ran in local races and Grandma’s Marathon. Buck is survived by his loving wife of 57 years, Norma; children: Karen Sherstad (Sid), Jane Wagner (Mark), Linda McCormick (Kevin), Julie Sabin, and Len Carlstrom (Jennie); grandchildren: Darrin, Kimberly, Jack, Kristina, Rachel, Jennifer, Tara, and Satchel; great-grandchildren: Naomi, Haddie, Dallas, Augustine, and Henry. Buck is also survived by two sisters, Leona Lindberg (Gordon) and Leola Gappa; brother- in- law, Peter Quam (Karen Lee). Buck is preceded in death by his parents; brother, Leo Carlstrom; sisters, Lenora Clarke and Leota Swanson; father-in-law, Andrew Ben Quam; motherin-law, Margaret Quam; brothers-in-law; John Quam and James Quam. A Celebration of Buck’s life is planned for Saturday, March 23, 2019, at 1 p.m. (visitation from 12:00 – 1 p.m.) at Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home in Webster. Memorials may be sent to Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, c/o Carlstrom Family, P.O. Box 6, Webster, WI 54893. Arrangements have been entrusted to SwedbergTaylor Funeral Home, Webster. Online condolences may be expressed at www.swedberg-taylor.com

Smart offers advice to Wisconsin town on teen’s kidnapping BARRON — Kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart says it’s OK for residents of a northwestern Wisconsin town to “smile, but don’t stare” if they bump into a 13-year-old local girl recovering from the killings of her parents and her own abduction. Smart spoke to about 1,300 people Friday night at Barron High School. Residents are trying to understand how they can support Jayme Closs, who authorities say escaped from captivity in January, nearly three months after her parents were fatally shot at the family’s home outside Barron. Authorities have charged 21-year-old Jake Patterson with killing Jayme’s parents and abducting her. The Star Tribune reports Smart said that if people want to talk to Jayme, they should “write her a letter, and she can choose to read it whenever she’s ready.” Smart was 14 when she was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home in 2002.

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Thomas “Tom” V. Erdos, 887, of Texas City, Texas, p passed away Thursday, M March 7, 2019, in Houston. T Tom was born March 25, 11931, in Brooklyn, to Louis a and Anna Erdos. He grew u up in Rockaway Beach then T Tucson, where he became a busboy at the Old Pueblo C Club until he joined the U United States Navy in 1950. T Tom served as a radioman with service in the Korean War and, for NATO, in Italy. After his honorable discharge in 1955, members from the Old Pueblo Club helped him gain admission to the University of Arizona, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in business administration in less than three years. Tom became a public accountant, licensed in New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas. In 1965, he began employment with American National Insurance Company in Galveston, Texas, where he became Vice President and General Auditor. From the early 1980s until his retirement in 1993, Tom was a highly regarded national lecturer on fraud detection, investigation, and prosecution for the Institute of Internal Auditors. Tom met Joanne Aronson, of Grantsburg, Wisconsin, when they rented adjacent duplexes in Albuquerque in the late 1950s. They were married in 1960 and raised two children, Thomas, Jr., (spouse Peggy) and Alanna McCall (spouse Warren). Tom was an avid fisherman, a ham radio operator, an accomplished woodworker, and a lover of big band music. He took up computerized embroidery in his retirement. Tom was preceded in death by his parents and is survived by his wife and children and five grandchildren, Thomas Erdos III, Christopher Erdos, Candice Erdos, Elizabeth McCall, and Alice McCall. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the charity of your choice.

Murley W. Wichern, 86, o of Webb Lake, passed away p peacefully with his sweetie, S Sharon Knowler, by his side a at St. Mary’s Hospital in Dulluth, Minnisota on March 110, 2019. Sharon Knowler (Webb L Lake Charity) will be h having a Celebration of Life S Service Saturday, April 27, 22019. Visitation will start at 110 a.m. and the service will start at 11 a.m. at Lakeside Lutheran Church 28626 Co Rd H Webster, WI.

RECENT DEATHS March 5, 2019, James W. Barrett, 79, Town of Brooklyn. March 6, 2019, Virginia A. Chute, 76, Village of Grantsburg. March 12, 2019, Donald R. Mastro, 69, Town of Wood River.

RECENT BIRTH Raine Anne Benjamin Ashley Roper and Del Benjamin Jr. of Webster announce the birth of their daughter, Raine Anne Benjamin, 7 pounds, 5 ounces, born March 11, 2019 at St. Croix Regional Medical Center in St. Croix Falls.

Court: Farmers don’t need to sell crops to get tax break TODD RICHMOND

MADISON — Wisconsin farmers don’t need to sell their crops to qualify for property tax breaks, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The ruling stems from a dispute over whether the Town of Delafield Board of Review properly reclassified two parcels Peter and Therese Ogden own from agricultural to residential in 2016. The change resulted in the Ogdens’ property taxes increasing from $17,000 to $886,000, according to court documents. The board reclassified the land because an assessor felt the parcels weren’t being used to sell crops commercially. The Ogdens countered that they grow apples, hay, and Christmas trees, all agricultural uses as defined by the state Department of Revenue. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a business purpose isn’t needed for an agricultural classification. The court noted

that state law and administrative rules refer to growing the specific crops the Ogdens were raising, not marketing, selling, or profiting from them. “So long as land is devoted primarily to ‘agricultural use’ as defined by our statutes and rules, that use need not be carried out for a business purpose in order for the land to qualify as ‘agricultural land’ for property tax purposes,” Justice Shirley Abrahamson wrote. The Ogdens’ attorney, Paul Zimmer of the O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong, and Laing law firm, said he’s not sure how many other farmers may be in similar situations as the Ogdens around the state. But he said the decision ensures uniformity in how agricultural land is taxed. “Hopefully after today assessors won’t come to these off-hand conclusions about what’s not really in the law,” Zimmer said. “The whole purpose of the law is to help preserve Wisconsin’s farm

land. This decision will help stop assessors from coming up with some other reason to change the classification. It’s good for small farmers around the state.” The Board of Review’s attorney, R. Valjon Anderson, didn’t immediately return a voicemail. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation filed a brief in support of the Ogdens. Federation attorney John Laubmeier said he didn’t have any data on whether assessors might be trying to reclassify other agricultural land around the state based on the Town of Delafield’s stance but the Supreme Court ruling ensures they can’t drive up property taxes on farmers. “If every farmer across the state had to prove they ... made money on the particular tract or not, that’s not what the law requires,” Laubmeier said. “If this had gone the other way, it really would have had a significant impact on farmers at a time when they really don’t need that.”

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Incidents • March 11, Trevor DeMarre, 34, Webster, was arrested for disorderly conduct/domestic abuse and battery, and was issued an arrest warrant for failure to appear. • March 11, Jessica Hammond, 30, Fridley, Minn., was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of THC, and operating while intoxicated. • March 11, David Goepfert, 20, Coweta, Oklahoma, was issued arrest warrants for contempt of court and probation violation. • March 11, John Johnson, 41, Stacy, Minn., was arrested for operating while intoxicated. • March 13, Jeffrey Pavelka, 58, Webster, was issued an arrest warrant for failure to appear. • March 13, Jeremy Paul-

son, 36, Grantsburg, was arrested for felony bail jumping, possession of drug paraphernalia, vehicle operator fleeing or eluding an officer, possession of narcotic drugs, possession of an illegally obtained prescription, and possession of THC. • March 13, Jamie Erichsen, 32, Webster, was arrested for felony bail jumping, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of methamphetamine. • March 13, Edwin Akana, 35, Siren, was arrested for probation violation, possession of drug paraphernalia, and resisting or obstructing an officer. • March 14, Chelsey Staples, 29, Sandstone, Minn., was issued a probation warrant for probation violation. • March 14, Phyllis Belille, 24, Hayward, was arrested for probation violation.

• March 14, Steven Halvorsen, 47, Grantsburg, was arrested for probation violation. • March 15, Matthew Daniels, 19, Siren, was issued a probation warrant for probation violation. • March 15, Bree Hollan, 26, Pine City, Minn., was arrested for 2nd degree recklessly endangering safety, operating while intoxicated, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of THC, and disorderly conduct. • March 15, Bradley Smith, 64, Siren, was arrested for disorderly conduct and misdemeanor bail jumping. • March 15, Andrew Otten, 32, Spooner, was issued a probation warrant for probation violation, and arrested for possession of phencyclidine with intent possession of THC, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

• March 16, John Wies, 51, North Branch, was arrested for operating while intoxicated. • March 16, Nicholas Rivet, 31, Kinney, Minn., was arrested for operating while intoxicated, operating without a valid license, possession of THC, and possession of drug paraphernalia. • March 17, John Peterson, 40, River Falls, was arrested for disorderly conduct. • March 17, Joseph Rogers, 32, Webster, was arrested for operating while revoked.

Reports from police and sheriff agencies are simply arrest reports. At press time, no charges have been ﬁled.

Week of March 3 Total number of incidents handled: 56 1 911 Hang Up 1 Accident 2 Background check 1 Domestic 1 Found Property 10 Junk Ordinance 4 Juvenile 5 Medical 1 Suspicious Activity 9 Traffic 13 Truancy 8 Underage Tobacco

Week of March 10 Total number of incidents handled: 18 3 Traffic 2 Disabled Vehicle 2 Medical 2 Courtesy Ride 2 Truancy 1 Background Check 1 Suspicious Vehicle 1 Arrest THC 1 Animal Complaint 2 Found property 1 Welfare Check

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Evers plans new juvenile facilities in Milwaukee, Hortonia TODD RICHMOND

MADISON — Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections will build two new juvenile detention facilities in Milwaukee and Outagamie counties to house serious juvenile offenders after the state’s troubled youth prison closes, Gov. Tony Evers said last Tuesday. The facilities will be located on the northern edge of the city of Milwaukee and in Hortonia, a town of about 1,000 people between New London and Hortonville. They will house serious offenders from Lincoln Hills/Copper Lake, the state’s troubled youth prison north of Wausau near Irma. A study committee picked the Milwaukee location to make it easier for families to visit youth inmates, Evers’ office said in a statement. Hortonia was chosen for its proximity to families with children in DOC custody. “We are committed to getting kids out of Lincoln Hills and closer to home as

soon as we safely and responsibly can,” Evers said in a statement. “Today’s announcements show significant action towards our shared goal of ensuring kids get the education, programming, and mental health treatment they need in supportive settings that are closer to their families and communities.” Federal investigators are probing allegations of widespread abuse at the youth prison. It’s also been the subject of multiple lawsuits, including one that resulted in a federal judge ordering sweeping reductions in the use of pepper spray, solitary confinement, and shackles on juveniles. Last year the Legislature unanimously approved a bill shuttering the troubled prison by 2021 and replacing it with smaller state- and county-run facilities. The law allowed for up to $80 million in borrowing to pay for those new prisons. But Evers said the timeline was too aggressive and it would take more mon-

ey to build the new facilities. He wants to postpone closure of Lincoln Hills indefinitely until the replacements are built, an approach Republicans have spoken out against. Evers is seeking $90 million in additional borrowing to build three new state facilities to house the most serious offenders. That includes the two prisons in Milwaukee and Outagamie counties he announced last Tuesday. Each one would house up to 36 inmates and include classrooms, computer labs, and on-site food preparation. He’s also seeking an additional $60 million in borrowing to help fund grants for counties to build facilities for less-serious offenders as well as another $59 million to expand the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center in Madison so it could house up to 50 juveniles with mental illness. State Rep. Michael Schraa, an Oshkosh Republican who leads the Assembly Committee on Corrections

and co-authored the prison closure bill, questioned locating one of the prisons outside of southeastern Wisconsin since most of the inmates come from that region. “I know there will be a lot of pushback,” Schraa said. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize the second facility probably should be built in the southern part of the state.” Evers also announced last Tuesday that Democratic state Rep. David Crowley of Milwaukee will lead a committee that will divvy up the counties’ grants. The deadline for counties to submit applications is March 31. The committee must submit recommended grant approvals to the Legislature’s budget-writing committee by July 1. Van Wanggaard, a Racine Republican who serves as chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, said in a statement that he’s glad Evers finally recognizes the urgent need to replace the youth prison.

Spring snow melt and rain can contaminate wells MADISON – Warming temperatures, snow melt, rain, and lingering frozen ground can create conditions that may affect private wells and drinking water. “Our recent rain, mixed precipitation, and local flooding throughout the state is a reminder that changing spring weather can lead to well contamination,” said Liesa Lehmann, DNR private water section chief. “At this time of year we encourage well owners to watch for signs of flooding and note any change in the color, smell, or taste of their drinking water.” Owners who see floodwaters very near or over their wells should assume their drinking water could be contaminated. Take the following steps: • Stop drinking the water and find another safe source. • Once the waters recede, make sure the well is properly disinfected. • Before drinking the water again, sample the well to ensure the water is safe. Floodwaters and rain runoff may contain bacteria and other contaminants that can affect water supplies and cause illness.

Wells located in pits, basements, and low-lying areas are especially susceptible to contamination. “Disinfection and sampling is best done by a licensed well driller or pump installer,” says Lehmann. Any water supply system that has been submerged by floodwaters should be pumped out once the floodwater recedes, then thoroughly disinfected and tested to determine that the water is safe, she adds. To ensure safe drinking water, well owners are encouraged to learn whether they have a properly constructed well and test it annually for bacteria. More information on bacterial contamination of drinking water wells, along with lists of licensed well drillers, pump installers, and labs certified to analyze water samples can be found on the DNR’s website. For individuals who receive drinking water from a public water supply, these systems are designed and operated to keep out contaminants. If anyone has concerns about the safety of their community’s drinking water, they should contact their public water supplier.

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MARCH 20, 2019

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BURNETT COUNTY

GLORIA NAYLOR W8149 DUNN LAKE RD SPOONER, WI 54801 Plaintiff VS. CRAIG NAYLOR 25105 COUNTY LINE RD SPOONER, WI 54801 Defendant NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No: 17 CV 084 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure dated April 13, 2018, the Sheriff will sell the described premise at public auction: TIME: March 26, 2018 at 10:00 AM TERMS: Payment of the full amount of the bid at time of sale PLACE: Burnett County Courthouse, 7410 County Road K, Siren, WI 54872 DESCRIPTION: The NE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 36, Township 39 North, Range 14 West, Burnett County, Wisconsin PROPERTY ADDRESS: 25105 County Line Road, Town of Rusk, Spooner, WI 54801 TAX PARCEL NUMBER: 07024-2-39-14-36-1 01-000011000 Tracy Finch Sheriff of Burnett County, WI Kathryn zumBrunnen Attorney for Plaintiff PO Box 96 Spooner, WI 54810 (715) 635-3174 WNAXLP (March 6, 13, 20)

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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Cheryl L. Carson Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 19 PR 10 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for informal administration was filed. 2. The decedent, with date of birth June 18, 2949 and date of death January 21, 2019, was domiciled in Burnett County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 23499 State Road 35, Siren, WI 54872. 3. All interested persons waived notice. 4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is May 29, 2019. 5. A claim may be filed at the Burnett County Courthouse, 7410 County Road K, Siren, WI 54872. Jennifer Faber Register in Probate/ Juvenile Clerk Anthony K. Berg Attorney at Law LLC 1344 Second Avenue PO Box 877 Cumberland, WI 54829 715-822-3455 Bar Number 1077438 WNAXLP (March 6, 13, 20)

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IN THE MATTER OF THE NAME CHANGE OF: Skylar Rose-Lynn Rechtzi-

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gel NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 19CV31 NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: Skylar Rose-Lynn Rechtzigel To: Skylar Rose-Lynn Dixon Birth Certificate: IT IS ORDERED: This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Burnett County, State of Wisconsin: HON. MELISSIA R MOGEN Burnett County Circuit Courts 7410 County Road K #115 Siren, WI 54872 Date April 4, 2019 Time 8:45 am If you require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to participate in the court process please call 715-349-2147 at least ten (10) working days prior to the scheduled court date. Please note that the court does not provide transportation. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the BURNETT COUNTY SENTINEL a newspaper published in BURNETT COUNTY, STATE OF WISCONSIN. BY THE COURT: /s/ Circuit Court Judge Hon. Melissia R Mogen WNAXLP (March 6, 13, 20)

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice of Public Hearing, State of Wisconsin, County of Burnett, Monday, April 1, 2019 at 7:00 p.m., at the Burnett County Government Center in Room 165, Town of Meenon, Siren, Wisconsin. 1. VARIANCE #VAR-19-01: HANSEN Public notice is hereby given to all persons in the Town of Rusk, Burnett County, Wisconsin, that Mark and MaryBeth Hansen have made application relative to a proposal to vary the terms of the Burnett County Land Use Code of Ordinances and Shoreland Protection Code of Ordinances as follows: To laterally expand a structure which is less than 35 feet from the Ordinary High Water Mark (OHWM) of Lipsett Lake, located at 26234 W Lipsett Lake Rd, in the RR-1 zoning district, on Lot 4 of CSM Vol 1, Pg. 277, in Government Lot 5, Section 13, T39N R14W. 2. VARIANCE #VAR-19-02: KRENGEL Public notice is hereby given to all persons in the Town of Webb Lake, Burnett County, Wisconsin, that Lawrence (Jack) and Deidre Krengel have made application relative to a proposal to vary the terms of the Burnett County Land Use Code of Ordinances and Shoreland Protection Code of Ordinances as follows: To allow a deck and shed to remain within the 75 foot setback from the Ordinary High Water Mark

(OHWM) of Webb Lake and within the 66 foot setback of State Rd 77, located at 3182 State Rd 77, in the RR-1 zoning district, on Lot 3 of CSM Vol 3, Pg. 228 in Government Lot 6, Section 17, T41N R14W. Board of Adjustment Siren, WI Dated this 6th day of March, 2019 WNAXLP (March 13, 20)

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice of Public Hearing, State of Wisconsin, County of Burnett, Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 9:00 a.m., at the Burnett County Government Center in Room 165, Town of Meenon, Siren, Wisconsin, regarding the following: BURNETT COUNTY LAND USE/SHORELAND PROTECTION ORDINANCES 1. CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT #CUP-19-05 – BURNETT COUNTY FOREST Public notice is hereby given to all persons in the Town of Roosevelt, Burnett County, Wisconsin, that Susan Tollander on behalf of Burnett County Forest has made application for a conditional use permit per the terms of the Burnett County Land Use Code of Ordinances to allow a campground with one camping cabin, located at 1751 Boyd Ln, in the F-1 zoning district, N 1/2 of Section 35, T37N R14W. 2. TEXT AMENDMENT #TXT-19-01 – BURNETT COUNTY LAND USE ORDINANCE CHAPTER 30 Public notice is hereby given to all persons in Burnett County, Wisconsin, that the Burnett County Land Use and Information Committee is proposing to amend Burnett County Code of Ordinances – Chapter 30, various changes have been made throughout Chapter 30 which deals with Land Use. Details of the proposed revisions are available at the Burnett County Land Use/ Zoning Office, the Burnett County Clerk’s Office, and on the Burnett County website at http://www.burnettcounty.com/idex.aspx?nid=1108. Burnett County Land Use and Information Committee Siren, WI Dated this 6th day of March, 2019 WNAXLP (March 13, 20)

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BURNETT COUNTY The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as Trustee (CWALT 2006-30T1) c/o Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC 4425 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, 5th Floor Coral Gables, FL 33146 Plaintiff vs. Daniel J. Fitzpatrick 2560 11th Ave NW Rochester, MN 55901-7721 Karen K. Fitzpatrick a/k/a Karen Kay Ernst

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2510 Long Valley Dr Newcastle, CA 95658-9743 Whitney National Bank n/k/a New Orleans Main Branch 228 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 701302601 United States of America c/o US Attorney 222 West Washington Avenue, Suite 700 Madison, WI 53703 & c/o US Attorney General 950 Pennsylvania Ave NW Rm B-103 Washington, DC 20530-0009 Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC 130 Corporate Blvd Norfolk, VA 23502-4952 Defendants PUBLICATION SUMMONS Case No: 19-CV-000019 Case Code: 30404 (Foreclosure of Mortgage) The amount claimed exceeds $10.000.00 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN TO THE PERSON(S) NAMED ABOVE AS DEFENDANT(S): You are hereby notified that the plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you.

Within 40 days after March 13, 2019 you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the complaint. The demand must be sent or delivered to the court, whose address is 7410 County Road K #115, Siren, WI 54872-9067 and to Gray & Associates, L.L.P., plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is 16345 West Glendale Drive, New Berlin, WI 53151-2841. You may have an attorney help or represent you. If you do not demand a copy of the complaint within 40 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the complaint. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property. Gray & Associates, L.L.P. Attorneys for Plaintiff William N. Foshag State Bar No. 1020417 16345 West Glendale Drive New Berlin, WI 53151-2841

(414) 224-1987 Gray & Associates, L.L.P. is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. If you have previously received a discharge in a chapter 7 bankruptcy case, this communication should not be construed as an attempt to hold you personally liable for the debt. WNAXLP (March 13, 20, 27)

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE To the Village Board, Village of Grantsburg, Burnett County, Wisconsin the undersigned: Fired Up Bistro, LLC Marivel Harmon 675 State Road 70 W. Grantsburg, WI 54840 Hereby applies for a Class “B” Beer License and a “Class C” Wine License to be used from April 9, 2019 to June 30, 2019. The Village Board will consider this application on April 8, 2019 at their regular meeting. Dated: March 21, 2019 Sheila Meyer, Clerk/Treasurer Village of Grantsburg WNAXLP (March 20)

PUBLIC NOTICE Electronic Ballot Tabulation Under Wisconsin State Statute 5.84(1), public tests of the electronic ballot tabulation system will be held to ascertain that the equipment will correctly count the April 2, 2019, Spring Election, votes cast for all of¿ces and on all measures. All tests are open to the public. Town of Anderson, March 25, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. - Town Hall - 13808 Anderson Road, Carmen Bouchie, Clerk, 715-488-2911 Town of Blaine, March 26, 2019, at 12:00 p.m. - Northland Community Center 1232 East School Road, Charla Zaccardi, Clerk, 715-718-6213 Town of Daniels, March 27, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. - Town Hall - 9697 Daniels 70 Road, Liz Simonsen, Clerk, 715-349-2291 Town of Dewey, March 26, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. - Town Hall - 24433 Town Hall Road, Pamela Brown, Clerk, 715-416-0047 Town of Grantsburg, March 25, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. - Town Of¿ce and Hall – 216 South Oak Street, Lynn Harmon, Clerk/Treasurer, 715-463-5600 Town of Jackson, March 26, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. - Town Hall - 4599 County Road A, Lorraine Radke, Clerk, 715-866-8412 Town of LaFollette, March 25, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. - Town Hall - 24184 Malone Road, Linda Terrian, Clerk, 715-349-2531 Town of Lincoln, March 25, 2019, at 4:30 p.m. - Clerk’s Home - 25603 Ice House Bridge Road, Wanda Washkuhn, Clerk, 715-866-4201 Town of Meenon, March 25, 2019, at 5:30 p.m. - Town Hall - 7396 Krueger Road, Suzanna M. Eytcheson, Clerk, 715-866-4893 Town of Oakland, March 26, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. - Town Of¿ce - 7426 West Main Street, Sherril Anderson, Clerk, 715-866-8213 Town of Roosevelt, March 23, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. - Clerk’s Home - 2997 County Road EE, Patricia Hayden, Clerk, 715-468-2468 Town of Rusk, March 26, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. - Clerk’s Home - 26985 East Benoit Lake Road, Bonnie Harder, Clerk, 715-520-0560 Town of Sand Lake, March 25, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. - Town Hall - 5364 County Road X, Peggy Tolbert, Clerk, 715-222-9375 Town of Scott, March 25, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. - Town Hall - 28390 County Road H, Ken Busby, Clerk, 715-635-2308 Town of Siren, March 23, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. - Town Hall - 7240 S. Long Lake Road, Mary Hunter, Clerk, 715-349-5119 Town of Swiss, March 25, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. - Town Hall - 7551 Main Street, Judy Dykstra, Clerk, 715-656-3030 Town of Trade Lake, March 25, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. - Clerk’s Home - 13021 Bass Lake Road, Melissa McQuay, Clerk, 715-220-9399 Town of Union, March 23, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. - Town Hall - 9015 County Road F, Kim Johnson, Clerk, 715-866-7311 Town of Webb Lake, March 26, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. - Town Hall - 31000 Namekagon Trail, Gail Keup, Clerk, Ken Busby, Administrative Assistant, 715-635-2308 Town of West Marshland, March 23, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. - Town Hall - 12259 County Road F, Kerri Harter, Clerk, 715-463-2461 Town of Wood River, March 25, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. - Town Hall - 11610 State Road 70, Raylene Swanson, Clerk, 715-689-2318 Village of Grantsburg, March 27, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. - Village Hall - 316 South Brad Street, Sheila Meyer, Treasurer/Clerk, 715-463-2405 Village of Siren, March 25, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. - Village Hall - 24049 First Avenue North, Ann Peterson, Clerk/Treasurer, 715-349-2273 Village of Webster, March 26, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. - Village Hall - 7505 Main Street West, Debra Doriott-Kuhnly, Clerk/Treasurer, 715-866-4211 WNAXLP

PUBLIC NOTICES

BURNETT COUNTY SENTINEL

MARCH 20, 2019

www.burnettcountysentinel.com

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BURNETT COUNTY

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, not in its individual capacity but solely int its capacity as owner Trustee of Matawin Ventures Trust Series 2018-1 Plaintiff VS. THE ESTATE OF HARLAN F. PYGMAN a/k/a Harlan F. Pygman, Sr., Deceased and United States of America Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Defendant NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No: 18-CV-000156 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on January 14, 2019 in the amount of $227,864.64 the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: April 23, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. TERMS: Pursuant to said judgment, 10% of the successful bid must be paid to the sheriff at the sale in cash, cashier’s check or certified funds, payable to the clerk of courts (personal checks cannot and will not be accepted). The balance of the successful bid must be paid to the clerk of courts in cash, cashier’s check or certified funds no later than ten days after the court’s confirmation of the sale or else the 10% down payment is forfeited to the plaintiff. The property is sold ‘as is’ and subject to all liens and encumbrances. PLACE: Burnett County Government Center DESCRIPTION: Lot 20 of Mound Beach Assessor’s Plat No. 2, Town of Meenon, Burnett County, Wisconsin. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 24868 Narrows Dr., Siren, WI 54872-9029 DATED: March 1, 2019 Gray & Associates, L.L.P. Attorneys for Plaintiff 16345 West Glendale Drive New Berlin, WI 53151-2841 (414) 224-8404 Please go to www.gray-law. com to obtain the bid for this sale. Gray & Associates, L.L.P. is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. If you have previously received a discharge in a chapter 7 bankruptcy case, this communication should not be construed as an attempt to hold you personally liable for the debt. WNAXLP (March 6, 13, 20)

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BURNETT COUNTY

IN THE INTEREST OF M.J.S. Date of Birth: 04/18/2011 and A.M. Date of Birth 08/03/2005 Notice of Hearing on Petition for Protection of Services Case No. 19-JC-08 & -05 Notice to Michelle Engebretson and any alleged mothers, you are hereby notified that a Protection of Services Hearing on Petition has been scheduled for March 22, 2019, at 1:30 PM, at the Burnett County Government Center located at 7401

County Road K, #115, Siren, WI 54872 in the Burnett County Courthouse Room with Court Commissioner James Krupa presiding. Filed in Burnett County Circuit Court on February 28, 2019. WNAXLP (March 13, 20)

GRANTSBURG VILLAGE BOARD MEETING FEBRUARY 11, 2019 The Village of Grantsburg Board of Trustees met on Monday, February 11, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at the Grantsburg Public Library’s Learning Center – 415 S. Robert Street, Grantsburg, WI. Present: Village President Larry Ebersold, Village Trustees Diane Barton, Gary “Goob” Coy, Caylin Muehlberg, Greg Peer, Russell Stone. Absent: Village Trustee Mike Longhenry. Others present: Police Chief Jeff Schinzing, DPW Chris Bartlett (arrived at 6:35 p.m.), Kristina Kelley-Johnson Library Director, Jonathan Richie Burnett County Sentinel, Becky Strabel Inter-County Leader, as well as other members of the public. President Ebersold called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. and led everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance. Motion by Trustee Barton, seconded by Trustee Coy to approve the minutes as presented. Motion carried. Police Chief Schinzing presented the January 2019 Police Report. Clerk/Treasurer Meyer was instructed to write the owner of the property at 343 W. Wisconsin Avenue a letter imposing a 90-day deadline, to May 15, 2019, to have the house taken down. Chief Schinzing informed the board of computer problems with the Police Department’s computer. Motion by Trustee Muehlberg, seconded by Trustee Peer to purchase a new computer from Professional Tutor, for the police department, at a maximum price of $1,770 including labor and monitoring. Motion carried. The Clerk/Treasurer report, cash report and actual to expected budget reports were presented. Library Director, Kelley-Johnson gave her library report. North Ambulance’s 4th quarter, 2018 report and the 2018 yearly report were presented. Trustee Stone presented his report after attending the Ambulance Committee meeting on January 16, 2019 The December 2018 Profit & Loss Statement and the 2018 yearly Profit & Loss Statement for the Grantsburg Golf Course were included in the Trustee packets for their review. Motion by Trustee Coy, seconded by Trustee, Barton to approve removing the reference to “two inches or more” from Ordinance § 511-15. Motion carried. Motion by Trustee Barton, seconded by Trustee Peer to allow Burnett Medical Center to place signage on the street route to be used for the Carlyle Sherstad 5K/10K Run/Walk on June 1st, 2019. Motion carried. Motion by Trustee Muehl-

berg, seconded by Trustee Barton to approve Resolution #19-02 IRC Section 125 Flexible Benefits Plan. Motion carried. Director of Public Works Bartlett gave his report. Motion by Trustee Barton, seconded by Trustee Peer to approve payment of the bills in the amount of $431,489.14. Motion carried. Motion by Trustee Stone, seconded by Trustee Muehlberg to adjourn the Regular Board Meeting at 7:10 p.m. Motion carried. Sheila Meyer Clerk/Treasurer WNAXLP (March 20)

GRANTSBURG SPECIAL VILLAGE BOARD MEETING FEBRUARY 13, 2019 The Village of Grantsburg Board of Trustees met on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 @ 5:30 p.m. at 316 S. Brad Street, Grantsburg, WI. Present: Village President Larry Ebersold, Village Trustees Russ Stone, Diane Barton and Caylin Muehlberg. Absent: Village Trustees Gary “Goob” Coy, Mike Longhenry and Greg Peer. Others present: Police Chief Jeff Schinzing and DPW Chris Bartlett. Village President, Larry Ebersold called the meeting to order @ 5:35 p.m. Motion by Trustee Stone, seconded by Trustee Muehlberg to convene into Closed Session for the purpose of interviewing candidates for the position of Deputy Clerk/ Treasurer. Motion carried. Motion by Trustee Stone, seconded by Trustee Barton to reconvene into Open Session. Motion carried The board discussed the 6 candidates who interviewed for the position of Deputy Clerk/Treasurer (Jayne Schwartz withdrew her application on February 9th). Motion by Muehlberg, seconded by President Ebersold to offer the Deputy Clerk/Treasurer position to Allison Longhenry at a starting wage of $18.00 per hour. Motion carried 3 to 1, Trustee Stone opposed. Meeting was adjourned at 8:10 p.m. Sheila Meyer Clerk/Treasurer WNAXLP (March 20)

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BURNETT COUNTY MORRIS HALL, PLLC 7600 North 16th Street, Suite 105 Phoenix, AZ 85020 Phone: (602) 249-1328 Email: courtrulings@morristrust.com Theron M. Hall, Jr., SBN 003358 Benjamin West Hunsaker, SBN 028826 Attorneys for Trustee In the Matter of the: EUGENE E. SCHARENBROICH TRUST, dated February 10, 2003, EUGENE EDWARD SCHARENBROICH, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS PURSUANT TO A.R.S. §14-6103 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that EUGENE EDWARD SCHARENBROICH,

Trustor of the EUGENE E. SCHARENBROICH TRUST, dated February 10, 2003, passed away on May 31, 2018. SHEILA ANN MAUN SCHARENBROICH is the acting Trustee of the Trust. All persons having claims against the Trust Estate that arose prior to the Trustor’s death, are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of the notice, as prescribed in A.R.S. § 14-3801(A), or claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented by delivering or mailing a written statement of the claim to the Trustee, whose address is P.O. Box 1465, Carefree, Arizona 85377. DATED this 17th day of December, 2018. West Hunsaker MORRIS HALL, PLLC 7600 North 16th Street, Suite 105 Phoenix, AZ 85020 WNAXLP (March 20, 27, April 3)

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BURNETT COUNTY CIT Bank, N.A. Plaintiff, v. The Estate of Doris L. Whitcomb Defendant NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case No. 2018CV000030 By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure made in the above-entitled action on 06/25/2018 in the amount of $101,554.17 I will sell at public auction in the main lobby of the Burnett County Government Center, located at 7410 County Road K, Siren, WI 54872, on April 23, 2019 At 10:00 AM, all of the following described premises, to wit: LOT 3 OF CERTIFIED SURVEY MAY NO. 946, RECORDED IN VOLUME 4 ON PAGE 276, AS DOCUMENT NO. 198011, IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR BURNETT COUNTY, WISCONSIN, SAID CERTIFIED SURVEY MAP BEING LOCATED IN GOVERNMENT LOT 1, SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 38 NORTH, RANGE 16 WEST, TOWN OF SIREN, BURNETT COUNTY, WISCONSIN. Street Address: 24761 Lind Road, Siren, WI 54872 Tax Key No. 07-030-2-3816-05-5 05-001-015000 THE PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD AS IS AND SUBJECT TO ANY AND ALL REAL ESTATE TAXES, SUPERIOR LIENS OR OTHER LEGAL ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK or CERTIFIED FUNDS, payable to the Clerk of Courts (10% down payment at sale, balance due within ten (10) days of Court approval; down payment to be forfeited if payment not received timely). Buyer must comply with minimum bidder qualifications as set forth in Wis. Stat. § 846.155. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax in addition to the purchase price. Tracy Finch Sheriff of Burnett County,

Wisconsin Codilis, Moody & Circelli, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 50-19-00240 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector. WNAXLP (March 20, 27, April 3)

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BURNETT COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Richard J. Lau Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 2019PR000011 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for informal administration was filed. 2. The decedent, with date of birth September 9, 1940 and date of death January 5, 2019, was domiciled in Burnett County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 1581 County Road J, Barronett, WI 54813. 3. All interested persons waived notice. 4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is June 10, 2019. 5. A claim may be filed at the Burnett County Courthouse, 7410 County Road K, #110, Siren, WI 54872. Jennifer Faber Register in Probate/Juvenile Clerk March 12, 2019 Anthony K. Berg Attorney at Law LLC 1344 Second Ave. PO Box 877 Cumberland, WI 54829 715-822-3455 Bar Number 1077438 WNAXLP (March 20, 27, April 3)

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BURNETT COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Arline Marie Soderbeck Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 2018PR000052 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for informal administration was filed. 2. The decedent, with date of birth May 9, 1940 and date of death August 16, 2018,

was domiciled in Burnett County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 24130 Tennessee Road, Grantsburg, WI 54840. 3. All interested persons waived notice. 4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is July 1, 2019. 5. A claim may be filed at the Burnett County Courthouse, 7410 County Road K, #110, Siren, WI 54872. Jennifer Faber Register in Probate/Juvenile Clerk March 13, 2019 Allen Soderbeck 3145 210th Street East Prior Lake, MN 55372 612-750-4033 WNAXLP (March 20, 27, April 3)

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PUBLIC NOTICE Electronic Ballot Tabulation Under Wisconsin State Statute 5.84(1), public tests of the electronic ballot tabulation system (Edge II voting machine) will be held to ascertain that the equipment will correctly count the April 2nd, 2019, Spring Election votes cast for all of¿ces and on all measures. All tests are open to the public. Town of Grantsburg Burnett County, Wisconsin Testing done at this location on Monday, March 25th, at 9:00A.M. By Lynne Harmon, Clerk

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MARCH 20, 2019

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LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY FINANCIAL SERVICES

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Stotz & Company Certified Public Accountants 715-463-5483 Grantsburg

HEALTH EYE ASSOCIATES

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Timothy L. Meister, E.A. enrolled to practice before the I.R.S.

RETAIL

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TOURISM

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OAKLAND STORE

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Siren Tourism Commission

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FURNISHINGS

SCHOOLS

SIREN SCHOOL DISTRICT Web: www.siren.k12.wi.us Facebook: School District of Siren Twitter: @SirenHigh

Hours: Mon. - Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Sat. 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

(715) 349-7392 • 24022 4th Ave, Siren, WI 54872

TAVERNS/BAR & GRILLS

BUILDING PRODUCTS

Full Off-Sale Sports Bar On- & Off-Site Catering Open 7 Days a Week Family Dining

CONSTRUCTION LAKE CONSTRUCTION New Homes - Remodeling Siding - Excavating - Cement Work

715-463-2848 Grantsburg, WI

PLUMBING/SEPTIC

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12469 State Rd. 48 Grantsburg, WI 54840 715-488-2471 Toll Free 1-877-488-2271 www.basslakelumber.com

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715-349-2954

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MARCH 20, 2019

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Who we are in Christ

Pastor Danny Wheeler Yellow Lake Lutheran

Faith lives from one generation to the next. It keeps us connected to the truth that God, the Creator, loves us and has given us his word in Jesus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure lives in you. For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and self-discipline.â&#x20AC;? 2 Tim. 1:5-7 The story, which is now forming your life,

began before you were born and all the really important parts of the story have either already occurred or will occur long after you are gone. God claimed you for his very own a long time ago. In the waters of your baptism you were born a child of God. In that moment you became a part of the unfolding story of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s word working in us and in the world. The story, in fact, already has an ending and there is nothing we can do to make the ending any better than what God has already determined it will be. So, what we have in the meantime is this

FIRST LUTHERAN

A&H

Pastor Marilyn Crossfield Worship: 9 am | Sun. School: 9 am (Sept. - May) Wheelchair Accessible

CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN CHURCH Pastor Tryg Wistad | 715-635-4816 28509 County Road H 1/8 mile north of A&H intersection crossroadschurch@gmail.com Sun. Worship: 10 am Thurs. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible Study: 1:30 pm Sat. Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible Study: 8 am

DAIRYLAND (A Wesleyan Church) | Pastor Earl Leach 715-244-3649 | 33921 State Rd 35 Sunday Worship: 10:30 am Bible Study: 6:30 pm, Wed. with potluck

SACRED HEART OF JESUS & MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH

ALPHA CALVARY COVENANT Scott Sagle, Pastor | 715-689-2541 11530 St. Rd. 70, Grantsburg Sun. Worship: 10:30 am | Sun. School: 9:30 am Bible Study: Wed. 7:30 pm

ASKOV CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Just west of Askov on Hwy. 23 Auxiliary Meetings start at 9:30 am Sacrament Meeting: 11:20 am

FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 715-656-4010 | 7535 Peet St. fccndanbury@gmail.com www.facebook.com/groups/275805302451108/ Sunday Services: Bible Study 9 am Morning Service 10 am | Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church 10:30 am

UNITED METHODIST

Rev. Randall Knauf, Pastor | 715-866-7321 Junction of Cty. Rds A & H Crescent Lake Voyager Village Area Mass: Thurs. 9:30 am | Sun. 8:00 am Reconciliation as per bulletin & by appointment

Rev. Eddie Crise, Sr. Pastor Rev. Thomas Cook, Assoc. Pastor 715-866-8646 | 7520 Water St. www.umc4pt.com | Sunday Worship: 8:45 am

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev. Randall Knauf, Pastor 715-866-7321 | 7586 St. Rd. 77 Mass: Fri. 9 am & Sat. 4 pm Reconciliation as per bulletin & by appointment

YELLOW LAKE LUTHERAN

Pastor Kookho Kim & Pastor Ran Yoo 2110 295th Ave. Cty. Rd. B Worship: 11:00 am | Sunday School: 11:15 am

CUSHING LAKETOWN LUTHERAN Pastor Marilyn Crossfield 2738 220th St. | Worship: 10:45 am Sun. School: 10:45 am (Sept. - May) Wheelchair Accessible

Pastor Kookho Kim & Pastor Ran Yoo 715-463-2624 | Worship 9 am | Fellowship 10 am Christian Ed. Class (all ages) 10:30 am Nursery Available

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH Fr. Joseph Madanu Mass: Sunday 8:30 am Saturday 6:30 pm (Memorial Day - Labor Day)

LIVING HOPE CHURCH

CHURCH OF CHRIST Minister: Guy McCarty, Gene Olson, Robert Rutherford 107 Elm St. | 715-327-8387 Sunday 9 am - 12 pm Worship & Study

Doug McConnell, Senior Pastor Chris Radtke, Youth Pastor 715-463-5794 Worship: Sunday 9:30 am | Sun. School 11:30 am Held at Grantsburg HS Auditorium

CROSSWALK COMMUNITY CHURCH (EFCA)

FAITH LUTHERAN

Pastor Greg Lund | 715-327-8767 505 Old County Road W www.crosswalkcommunity.org Sunday School 9 am | Worship 10:15 am Look for us on Facebook

Interim Pastor Michael Peterson 715-463-5388 | www.myfaithlutheran.org Worship 9:30 am Service on WCMP Radio (100.9 FM) Communion celebrated every Sunday Christian Education - Wed. afternoon & evening

ST. LUKEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S UNITED METHODIST

GRACE BAPTIST

Pastor Arveda â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freddieâ&#x20AC;? Kirk Church: 715-327-4436 | Parsonage: 715-327-8383 Sunday Worship: 10:30 am | Fellowship following Wed. Service: 5:15 pm | Church Sch: Wed. 3:45 - 5 pm Wheelchair accessible | Childcare available

Rev. Brad Moore, Sr. Pastor George Selbher, Assoc. Pastor 715-463-5699 Sunday Worship 9 am | Wed. 5:30 pm Supper for all 6 pm All Stars, Youth Connection Grace Nursery Sch: Tues. & Thurs. 9 am

BETHANY LUTHERAN Pastor Jay Ticknor | 715-463-5746 Worship 11:00 am | Sunday School 9:30 am Nursery is available

Pastor John Peterson 1638 345th Ave. | 715-327-4340 Worship 9:15 am | Sunday School 10:30 am Communion 1st & 2nd Sunday

WOOD RIVER CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

ZION LUTHERAN - BONE LAKE

FIRST BAPTIST

ATLAS UNITED METHODIST UPPER ST. CROIX PARISH

CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST UPPER ST. CROIX PARISH

Pastor Curtis Denney | 715-327-4956 Benson Rd. | Saturday Service Sabbath Sch. 9:30 am | Worship 11 am

WEST SWEDEN GRACE LUTHERAN

Pastors Douglas Olson, Myron Carlson. Danny Wheeler & Ralph Thompson 7615 County Rd. U | 715-866-8281 www.yellowlakelutheranchurch.org Sunday Worship Services: 9:30 am Communion: 1st & 3rd Sunday

FALUN

ATLAS

GRANTSBURG

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST

Pastor Paul Peterson | 715-327-8012 507 Wisconsin Ave. N. www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.org Sunday Worship: 8:30 am Communion 1st & 2nd Sundays LWF3: 5-7 pm - 1st & 3rd Wed of month

DANBURY

Pastor Bill Schroeder | 715-635-7791 Cty Rd. H, 1/2 mile N. of Cty. A on H www.lakesidelutheranwi.com Sunday Worship: 9 am (June-Aug), 10 am (Sept-May) Sunday School: 9 am | All welcome Wednesday Outdoor Worship: 7 pm (June-Aug)

FREDERIC

PILGRAM LUTHERAN FREDERIC (ELCA)

THE WOODLAND CHURCH

LAKESIDE COMMUNITY LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA

â&#x20AC;&#x153;in-betweenâ&#x20AC;? time, and this spiritual community called the church, which can help us remember how to live as Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sons and daughters today. We are on a journey, a holy pilgrimage, joined by others along the way as we witness for our Lord and Savior to the world around us. We walk by faith knowing God has called us to new places yet to be discovered. We remember where we have come from and look to the future in faith knowing that God is calling us to live our faith wherever he leads us.

Pastor Mike Fisk | 715-472-8660 5 mi. E. of Frederic on W | 2 mi. S. on I Sun. School 9:15 am | Sun. Worship 10:30 am Communion 1st Sunday Contemporary Service 3rd Sunday

Mike Kleven, Pastor Sunday School for all ages: 9:30 am Church Service: 10:45 am Youth Ministries: 6:30 pm, Wed. Adult Bible Study: 2 pm, Thurs.

Dan Slaikeu, Pastor | 715-488-2456 Worship 10 am | Sun. School 10:30 am Mid-Week Bible Study | Call for info

EKDALL COMMUNITY CHURCH

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TRINITY LUTHERAN Jay Ticknor, Pastor | 715-689-2271 Worship 9:00 am (Nursery prov.) 10 - 11 am coffee & fellowship 10:15 - 11 am Sunday School (Sept. - May) A class for all ages | Everyone welcome Communion Every Sunday | Everyone welcome

Fr. Joseph Madanu | 715-327-8119 Mass: Sat. 4:30 pm | Sun. 10:30 am

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NEW HOPE LUTHERAN Emory Johnson, Pastor 685 W. State Rd. 70 | 715-463-5700 www.newhopelutheranchurch.org Sunday Worship Service: 9:30 am Sun. School & Adult Bible Study: 11:15 am Watch live and recorded sermons on our website. Mid Week Lenten Services for New Hope Lutheran in Grantsburg will be every Wednesday at 6:30 pm beginning on Ash Wednesday March 6. April 17 there will be no Wednesday night service as we will hold a Maundy Thursday Service on April 18 and we will have Good Friday Service April 19 at 2 pm.

HERTEL LAKEVIEW UNITED METHODIST Ferdinand B. Serra, Pastor S. of Hertel | Worship & Sunday School: 9 am

LEWIS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST Rev. Eddie Crise, Sr. Pastor Rev. Thomas Cook, Assoc. Pastor 3482 115th St. | 715-866-8646 www.umc4pt.com Worship 8:45 am | UMM/UMW 6:30 pm, 3rd Wed.

LUCK LUCK LUTHERAN Gregory Ofsdahl, Pastor 5th St., 510 Foster Ave. East | 715-472-2605 Sunday Worship Service: 10:30 am (Sept-May) Sunday School: 9 am (Sept-May) Sunday Worship Service: 9 am (June-Aug) Mon. Evening Cont. Worship: 6:30 pm (June-Aug)

ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN Roger Kastelle, Pastor Hwy. 35 & Cty. Rd. B | 715-472-8190 Sun. Worship Service: 9 am | Sun. School: 10 am

WEST DENMARK LUTHERAN Linda Rozumalski, Pastor | 715-472-2383 1 mi. west of Luck off Cty Rd N on 170th Worship: 10:00 am | Fellowship following Holy Communion: 1st & 3rd Sunday Bring for food shelf.

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Carl Heidel, Pastor 715-222-6712 | Council Chair: 715-244-3301 Worship: 11 am | Sunday School: 10 am

SIREN ADVENTURE CHURCH Lead Pastors: CJ and Cheryl Johnson Assoc. Pastors: Jeremiah and Bek Stavne Care Pastor: Carolyn Marquardt Teens Pastors: Josh and Abby Larsen Kids Pastor: Crystal McDonald 23811 State Rd. 35/PO Box 21 | 715-349-5750 adventurechurchsiren.com Sunday Worship: 9 & 10:30 am

Gene E. Jahnke, Pastor Juct. Hwy 53 & 70 | 715-635-7672 Worship: 9:30 am Sunday/Bible Class: 10:45 am Sun. 7:40 am “Voice of Salvation” broadcast WJMC 96.1 FM

ST. ALBAN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Father David Bauer Corner of Elm & Summit Streets | 715-635-8475 Holy Eucharist: Sunday 10:30 am Holy Days as announced

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BETHANY LUTHERAN Interim Pastor Roger Pittman Worship: 10:30 am | Sunday School: 9:30 am Coffee Hour: 9:30 am | Nursery available

John Peterson, Pastor 11841 Cty. Rd. Z | 715-327-8384 Sun. School: 9:45 am | Sun. Worship: 11 am Communion: 1st & 2nd Sunday

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Rev. Eddie Crise, Sr. Pastor Rev. Thomas Cook, Assoc. Pastor 24025 1st Ave. S. | 715-866-8646 www.umc4pt.com Worship: 10:15 am | Sunday School: 9 am Nursery available | Youth Ministries: Wed., 6 pm UMW: 1st Wed., 12 pm | Bible Study: Wed., 9 am

SIREN COVENANT Brian Pardun, Pastor 7686 Lofty Pines Dr. | 715-349-5601 www.sirencovenantchurch.org Sunday School: 9 am | Worship: 10 am Fellowship follows | Wheelchair Accessible

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Sun. Public Talk: 10 am | Watch Tower: 10:40 am Cong. Bible Study: Tues. 7:00 pm Ministry School: 7:35 pm | Service Mtg.: 8:05 pm

David Prince, Pastor | 715-327-8402 20750 Cty. Rd. Z (Just South on Cty. Rd. Z off Hwy. 48) www.tradelakebaptistchurch.org Sunday Mornings – Something For Everyone Sunday School: 9:15 am | Worship: 10:15 am Wed. Eve.: 6:30 pm AWANA & Adult Bible study Everyone is Welcome! | Nursery is provided!

TRADE RIVER EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH Rev. Dale Van Deusen, Pastor 715-488-2296 9 miles So. of Grantsburg on Hwy. 87 www.traderiverefc.org Worship: 9:30 am | Sunday School: 10:45 am Wednesday Nights: 6:30 pm Adult Bible Study 6:30 pm Jr. & Sr. High Youth Group

Rev. Eddie Crise, Sr. Pastor Rev. Thomas Cook, Assoc. Pastor 26503 Muskey Ave. So. | 715-866-8646 www.umc4pt.com Sun. Worship: 10:30 am | Sun. School: 9:15 am Bible Study: 1 pm, Tues. | UMW 2:15 pm, 2nd Tues.

OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN LCMS Jody Walter, Pastor Office: 715-866-7191 | Home: 715-866-4622 www.ourredeemerwebster.com www.facebook.com/OurRedeemerWebster Church Service: 9:30 am Communion: 1st & 3rd Sunday Sun. School & Choir Practice: 10:45 am Lenten Services (March 6 - April 10) at 7:00pm. Soup Supper at 6:00pm.

CHURCH OF CHRIST 7425 W. Birch | 715-866-7157 Sunday Bible Class: 9:30 am (all ages) Worship: 10:30 am | Bible Study: 7 pm, Wed. (all ages)

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF WEBSTER Jeff Jowers, Pastor Cell: 864-607-5605 | pastorjowers@gmail.com 7422 Kola Street | 715-866-4111 Sun. School: 9:30 am | Sun. Worship: 10:45 am Wed. 6:30 pm AWANA (Ages 3-6th Grade) & SIGN (Grades 7-12 Youth Group)

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev. Randall Knauf Cedar and Muskey Ave. | 715-866-7321 Fri. Mass: 9 am | Sun. Mass: 10 am Reconciliation as per bulletin & by appointment

DWELLING POINT CHURCH OF GOD Bryan Davis, Pastor 7697 Johnson St www.dwellingpointchurch.cc Worship: Sundays at 10 am | Nursery Available

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Tiger Tech receives local donation JONATHAN RICHIE SENTINEL EDITOR

The Webb Lake Men’s Club presented a check for $1,000 to Tiger Tech Monday morning at Webster High School. Tiger Tech is part of the Technical Education department at Webster High School. It includes many opportunities for Webster students, including Tiger Manufacturing, Webster Welders, and Tiger Construction. Webster Technical Education instructor Roy Ward explained that Tiger Construction has built three houses since its founding in 2006. Last September their third house was delivered to a couple in Sands Greens golf course in Danbury. “We are exploding right now and really expanding beyond our walls here,” Ward told members of the Webb Lake Men’s Club. “There are plenty of great, high paying jobs out there for students that want to work in the trades. Our mission is to expose them

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(from left) Eric Lillehaugen, Dave Cloutier, Gary Kramer, Steve Austin from the Webb Lake Men’s Club presented a check to Tiger Tech students Dylan Lippert, Sam Smith, Brock Mackyol on Monday at Webster high School.

to all of those possibilities.” Tiger Tech is involved with the SkillsUSA program, which is a partnership of students,

teachers, and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. Tiger Tech has many opportunities for stu-

dents including; • Materials and processing • Small engines • Automotive • Fine woodworking

• Pre engineering (SolidWorks certification) • Engineering robotics • 3-D Printing / machining • Manual and CNC machining • Aviation The idea of the Webb Lake Men’s Club donating to Tiger Tech came from member Dave Cloutier. After looking into the school’s program they voted to make the donation of $1,000. The Webb Lake Men’s Club raises money for local charities and projects to help the community and promote area businesses. They have 80 members made up of men from the towns of Webb Lake,

Jackson, Scott, Blaine, Swiss, and Danbury. They welcome membership from the entire Webb Lake Area. Last year they donated over $20,000 to area charities. They also helped to build a 13 mile Fat Tire and Hiking Trail for a new club they founded and sponsored, The Back Country Bike Club. Charities the Webb Lake Men’s Club donated to last year. • Local hospice • Webb Lake Area First Responders • Burnett County Humane Society • Together For The Cure Foundation • Cresent Lake Food Shelf • Yellow Lake Food Shelf • Local Salvation Army • Webb Lake Fire Department • Funding trail development for Back Country Bike Club Ward showed off a few pieces of equipment to the Webb Lake Men’s Club, like their pair of 3-D printers and vinyl cutter before taking them on a tour of the Webster Tech Ed department facilities. He describes himself as the of leader of Tiger Tech, but admits he is only a small piece in the entire puzzle. Tiger Tech held an open house earlier this year, Ward said over 400 people attended the event and most were surprised. “It was a great event. People were amazed by what we’re doing in their little town of Webster,” Ward commented.

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Rockcrusher brings art of gunsmithing to Siren

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Chad Splittstoesser pays close attention to the minute details while measuring and working on guns in his shop.

s an avid hunter and experienced gunsmith, Chad Splittstoesser understands firsthand the importance of having the right tools to get the job done. Rockcrusher Outdoors, located off Highway 35 in Siren, opened their doors for business last year after receiving a $40,000 smallbusiness loan from Ken Pearson of the Northwest Regional Planning Commission. Splittstoesser grew up in Grand Rapids, Minnesota while his wife Krissa grew up in St. Croix Falls. The two were both Northwoods natives looking to stay in the area. The couple were living in the Twin Cities and knew they didn’t want to stay there long-term. Krissa was adamant about raising a family close to her hometown, so the two began looking for a new place to call home after finishing school. “After my wife graduated from nursing school, we packed our bags and moved to Siren. I had been coming

to the Siren area for fishing, hunting, and four-wheeling for years and had always thought the area felt like the Grand Rapids area I loved so much,” said Splittstoesser. Having worked in sales for years, Splittstoesser knew he ultimately wanted to become self-sufficient and live on his own terms; or better yet, he joked that he would be happy to enjoy an early retirement once his wife started working as a nurse. “It had always been an ongoing joke that once Krissa started her career as a nurse I would retire to fish, hunt, trap, and maybe do some construction on the side. During her last semester at school she convinced me that I should go to college and learn to do something I loved so I would stay out of trouble,” Splittstoesser said as he laughed. Realizing he did not need school to become a successful hunter or fisherman, Splittstoesser decided gunsmithing would be the perfect fit for his skills

and talents. He had been interested in guns from his childhood. His dad was a cop and his grandparents were self-sustainable and believed in living off the land. After graduating from gunsmithing school at Pine Technical & Community College in 2015, Splittstoesser teamed up with two of his classmates and best friends to make their dream of owning a blacksmithing shop a reality. Jim Berntson, Mark Meisel, and Splittstoesser had the skills it took to be successful, all they needed was a plan. “At school there were a few of us that were definitely leading the pack with our skill and hunger for challenges. Mark Meisel, the quiet guy who sat across the bench from me, is a guy that has an incredibly mechanical mind. He can look at a pile of parts and see a whole working mechanism without ever actually seeing the finished product. Jim Berntson and I were both on the board of the Pine Technical & Community College Shooters Association and his ability to just get things done impressed me as well as his incredible mathematical ability and machining skill. It wasn’t long before I realized that I had a dream team at my fingertips, so I set about crafting a business plan and shaping that dream into something tangible,” Splittstoesser said. After searching for months and still not having any luck, longtime friend and business owner Mike Cedarberg suggested that Splittstoesser talk with Chad Lessard, owner of Fur, Fins, and Feathers in Siren. A few months later the Lessards were in and Splittstoesser’s plans were beginning to unfold. “I had the mechanical ability, the team, the knowledge, the location, and not a single clue how to put it all together to get financed. I had a great childhood friend with a master’s degree in business who helped me put together my business plan. My wife’s uncle introduced us to David

Kochendorfer who set up all my financials. David sent me to Ken Pearson of the Northwest Regional Planning Commission to get financing advice. Ken did an amazing job of getting me financed, making it probably one of the easiest loans I’ve ever taken out,” said Splittstoesser. Since opening, Splitstoesser says business has been great. He finds it an honor to be able to take a firearm that has served its purpose for many years, and then turn around and make it into something new that can be used, enjoyed, and passed down to the next generation of sportsmen. “Every gun we take in has a story to come with it, expressed in detail at our counter,” he said. “As gunsmiths we are not just mechanics or craftsmen, we are also the custodians of

past and what it should always be. Our handshake is our word, we will do everything within our means to uphold our commitments.” One day, the trio would like to be able to craft custom rifles to enter into competitions around the world. One of the coolest projects Splittstoesser has had the opportunity to work on was an assignment in one of his gunsmithing classes. “It started with pieces of a gun that didn’t fit together and by the end of the course, we had a competition grade 1911 pistol. Seeing everything fall into place after so much time was invested was the most rewarding feeling,” said Splittstoesser. Another project he truly enjoyed was making his father a custom grade 6.5x55mm Swedish Mauser with a $1,000 bluing job and customization

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Splittstoesser and Jim Berntson pose for a quick photo.

those stories and traditions.” The gun shop provides customers the opportunity to shop for Browning, Remington, and other major brands. The gunsmith portion of the business offers customers full-service support for their firearms, including cleaning, repairs, restorations, bluing, and custom work. “At Rockcrusher Outdoors we want to become something of value to the community, not just through our services, but as a beacon of what business was in the

in every detail. “I’ve always wanted a gun shop to call home which is something I think we’ve created in this community. All our new products are protected with a two-year warranty and our used items are protected with a oneyear warranty. If there is any problem, bring it directly back to us and we will take care of you. With three gunsmiths and all the necessary equipment on-site we can fix just about everything.”

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Healthy competition for broad band Internet providers throughout Burnett County Jonathan Richie Editor@burnettcountysentinel.com

s the internet becomes more embedded in all of our lives, access to and reliability of broadband internet services have become more important to everyone. Two of the internet providers in Burnett County are Siren Telephone Company and Starwire Technologies. Both are based in Siren. They are just a small part of the healthy competition seen in the community. Siren Telephone Company, commonly known as Sirentel, was started in 1910 and current CEO Sid Sherstad said, “the business has completely changed in the last 20 years.” They have nine full-time employees and have about 1,700 broadband customers. “It’s a lot of streaming these days,” Sherstad said. “It used to be all landlines and pay phones. We have gone from 32 pay phones in the county to zero.” He explains they used to see the most usage during business hours, but that has completely changed. “It used to be 8 in the morning to 5 in the evening,” he said. “But now the most usage is from 6 to 10 at night, because that’s when people are streaming. We saw a big spike in usage when we had that three-day cold stretch in January.” He explained that he saw the usage go way up as soon as schools announced they were going to be closed the evening of Jan. 28 and it stayed at a high rate for the next three days while schools were closed. “Kids were at home and they were streaming Netflix, Amazon Video and playing video games the whole time,” he explained. Sirentel covers central Burnett County and parts of northern Polk

County. Sherstad said he attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas five years ago and that was when he knew the internet was changing and the future was in streaming video. “I came back from that knowing broadband is the future, and where we need to continue investing,” Sherstad said. “Stuff like Netflix and other streaming services were just starting.” Sirentel still offers home phone and cable services. But, just around the corner is Starwire Technologies. They specialize in internet services and that’s all. “Do one thing and do it well,” Sara McLain of Starwire says. She agrees there is healthy competition in Burnett County. Starwire does wireless broadband that includes satellites to distribute internet services. “We have been around for 12 years and we have four full-time employees working here,” she adds. They have approximately 400 customers. Last fall Starwire moved from their location on Main Street to their current location on Highway 35/70. One of their neighbors is Pro Tutor. “We cover most of Burnett County, especially the southern half, from Grantsburg to Hertel and then up to Danbury is the end of our coverage area,” McLain states. Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was devoted to getting better internet options to rural parts of Wisconsin, mostly with grants for broadband expansion. “Because of the truly transformative power of broadband we are awarding more than $7 million to extend high-speed internet in

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Starwire relocated from Main Street to Highway 35-70 last fall. They serve about 400 broadband customers in the region.

Wisconsin,” Walker said. “With these grants, we are continuing to build on our investments into broadband throughout the state to ensure that Wisconsin families and businesses have access to technology and information they need to excel. Broadband access is revolutionizing education, health care, and business just like electrical revolutionized farming for my grandparents.” Starwire was awarded a grant for $159,800 last year that will go to an unserved area in the Town of Clam

Falls. It will be a 16-mile fiber optic route going from Frederic to Clam Falls and will go past 15 businesses and 105 homes. Joe Cremin of Starwire explained the project is going to cost about $400,000. “That grant money is really going to help us serve those unserved areas,” he said. “It’s a big step for us to land a project like this.” Starwire is focused on serving the SEE BROADBAND EXPANSION, PAGE 3

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A place for Tae Kwon-Do in the heart of Webster

Jonathan Richie Editor@burnettcountysentinel.com

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Daniel Pelletier has been teaching Tae Kwon-Do for over 25 years. He leads by example and the students understand if they screw around in class, “they will be doing pushups.”

n September Kicks Tae Kwon-Do opened their doors in Webster for prospective martial arts students. Master Daniel Pelletier is the owner and operator of Kicks, but the students know him as Mr. P. “I’ve been teaching for 26 years and learned early on, especially with the

little kids, that Pelletier is really difficult to say, So I go by Mr. P.” When asked why he decided to move to Webster and open a tae kwon-do school the answer was simple. “We moved here to be closer to our daughter and grandkids,” Pelletier

explained. “I came here in July looking for a place and by Sept. 1 we were open.” Kicks has classes for all age groups, with all classes being an hour long. Pee Wee classes, ages four to seven, are Mondays and Wednesdays at 3:45 p.m., and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 p.m. Youth classes, ages 8 to 12, meet Mondays and Wednesdays at 5 p.m., and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:45 p.m. Juniors classes, ages 12-16, meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 p.m. Adult classes are for ages 16 and up and those classes meet Mondays and Wednesdays at 6 p.m. “People pay for the classes they take, most pay for the whole month. I don’t ask anyone to sign up for long term contracts,” Pelletier said. “If you want to come to class, great, if not I’m not going to force anyone to sign up for six months of classes.” He advises prospective students to attend the class that best matches their age group and then come for a free trial lesson that will last an hour.

“I can teach students of all ages and skill sets,” Pelletier said. “My youngest student is four years old and my oldest is a lady in her 70s.” He has chairs inside the studio for parents to watch during classes. “They told me it used to be a Curves and that closed a while ago, so the building has just been sitting vacant,” Pelletier said. “So I started asking around about the building and ended up leaving a note on the door for the owner to call me.” He got a call from the building’s owner and after all the paperwork was taken care of he became the new renter of the property at 26456 Highway 35 in Webster across the street from the St. Croix Regional Medical Center Clinic. “It has been great so far, everyone in the community has been really welcoming,” Pelletier said. “The school has been great, they even have the bus drop off the kids right here in front of SEE KICKS, PAGE 4

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customers and the service area they have. However, Sirentel is always looking to expand. “We just laid fiber optics around Devil’s Lake,” Sherstad said. “We have lists of people we are looking to hook up. One of the areas we have a lot of interest in expanding to is the Voyager Village area. We are planning to expand more in that area this year and into 2020.” Sherstad says a portion of their customers that don’t live in the county year-round are using smart home technology to monitor their homes. “What we’re seeing with smart homes is incredible and is the future,” he said. “People can access their thermostats right from their phones. They can put a camera by their front door and monitor it from their homes in Florida.”

Cremin, McLain, and Sherstad all agree that Burnett County residents have better access to the internet than most rural internet users in the surrounding region. “We’re offering competitive speeds that are on par with what bigger companies can offer,” Cremin said. “We’ll continue to be able to compete with them.” People often tell Sherstad a similar line, “ they say ‘we didn’t expect to ‘We’re offering get such good competitive service up here in the sticks.” speeds that They tell him they often have better are on par with service at their what bigger cabin than at their home in the Twin companies Cities. And that makes us feel can offer.’ good.” Joe Cremin

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the building for classes.” Pelletier has worked with kids for many years. He has a fantastic story about being put in charge of an afterschool detention program. In Connecticut, he was running an after-school kickboxing program that blossomed into about 45 kids in the class. But after three weeks they were down to about 20 and that is when he was informed most of his students were in detention. “I show up at detention and there are 70 kids in there and I ask the principal to put me in charge,” Pelletier’s smile is growing as he describes what happens next. “Monday I had about 40 kids show up for detention. We do this thing called Mr. P. exercises.” This is a workout that includes rapid-fire excercises where Pelletier changes his mind often and tells the students to go from running in place, to jumping jacks, situps, pushups, hay bailers, and leg huggers – mostly exercises he learned in the Army. “20 minutes of that and these kids are dragging. Then they take the bus home with no energy,” Pelletier also told the kids if they were in detention the next day the work out would last an hour. “I started on Monday and by Friday I was out of a job, there were no more kids in detention.” In 1978 when he was a senior in high school he earned his first black belt. Since then he has become a sixth-degree black belt. Pelletier enlisted in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. He rose up to Sergeant and during his threeyear tour of duty, he ran a Martial Arts School on Fort Bragg in North Carolina from 1980-83. After his tour ended he continued teaching before reopening Kicks Tae Kwon-Do in Coventry, Connecticut. 11 years later he opened another Kicks when he moved to Pawleys Island, South Carolina Pelletier started tae kwon-do at the age of 12 in Manchester Connecticut. He notes this was in 1974, 10 years before martial arts started to spread in the country, “In the 1980s the Karate Kid movie came out and then sometime later Power Rangers came out and all of that stuff is martial arts,” Pelletier recalled. “Yeah,

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Pelletier’s studio is full of photos from teams he has coached in the past. Here is pictured with Chuck Norris from his championship team in 2001.

I’ve been doing this since well before it was popular.” Over 40 years later he is proud that during his career he has never suffered any major injuries. He is a five-time National Fighting Champion. He was on the Mohegan Sun National Karate team in 2004 and 2005, and was named the 2004 World Fighting Champion. He said if he was a younger man he would definitely

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One-stop-shop for everything technology-related

Kassie Mullins Sentinel Staff

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Sara Reimann’s favorite spot in her shop is the place where she feels most at home, her classroom.

tarting out as an administrative assistant for a relatively small company, Sara Reimann was constantly being pulled aside to help with computer-related issues. It just came naturally to her: the problem-solving, the “techy” stuff, everything related to computers. When the business she was working for dissolved, Reimann decided to go back to school to pursue her computer degrees. Reimann grew up in Shell Lake and has two separate degrees from WITC-Rice Lake in computer networking and micro-computer software. After her own education, she began working for larger

companies in the IT field and teaching local community education classes. She has also taught several customized training classes for local businesses contracted with WITCRice Lake. Her dream of being selfemployed began when her children were young. “I wanted to find a way to stay home and raise my kids while still being able to provide an income for my family. I was looking to find a happy balance between the two,” said Reimann. That’s when Reimann started making frequent house-calls because, at that point, she was working out of her home. She would travel to a client’s house and

work with them for an hour or two, then move on to the next house. Ultimately, she felt as though she was limiting her work because she realized she could only make so many house-calls in a single day. After three or four years searching for a place to call home, Reimann found a “For Rent” sign right in the heart of Siren in the same building that housed Trader Bills. “When I first opened the shop, I had envisioned it becoming a place for my current clients to come to me so that I could help more people throughout the day rather than driving from house to house. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that it was going to blow up the way that it did. People started asking about computers for sale which is when we started carrying tons of inventory,” said Reimann. It wasn’t until late November that Reimann and her crew at Professional Tutor made the move from their original location to the new one right next door to Trader Bill’s in Siren. “We needed more space, so we could finally expand our classes, staff, and reach. This move was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. Our classroom doubled in size, and our clientele has tripled from the early days of Pro Tutor,” said Reimann. The business currently offers four main areas of focus: computer

sales, service, training, and repair. They carry laptops and desktops brand new in the store with great prices that are comparable to major competitors. Their prices also include the transfer all of your old files to your new computer, as well as training on how to use the programs on your computer. “We want to take the scare aspect out of new, shiny technology. Our goal is to be your one-stop-shop when it comes to anything and everything technology-related. Our primary focus is to help bridge the gap between technology and the everyday consumer,” said Reimann. Pro Tutor has created something that is desperately needed in the Burnett County area. Reimann is also an on-staff professor at WITC so she teaches credited classes on both Excel and Word at the college while also offering classes in-store to the community. Teaching is her absolute favorite thing to do and where she feels at home. “In all my classes, I never begin with a syllabus. I ask the person or group what they already know, take a few steps back, and start from there,” she said. They currently offer classes in Microsoft Office, Microsoft 10, computer basics, Mac operating systems, social media, Google Suite, SEE PRO TUTOR, PAGE 7

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community education courses, photo organization, and even classes on your smart phones and tablets! To find more information about the classes they are currently teaching visit their website at www.protutorapps. com/classes.html. Reimann says, “My goal for the store is to continue to see growth in the classes and services. Since last fall we’ve implemented a computer

monitoring agent so we can see what you see from virtually anywhere and we’ve recently added an internet café.” The internet café is available when classes aren’t in session. There you can work on resumes, answer emails, and get all the work done you need to as long as you call and reserve a spot. They also offer printing services for a small fee! This isn’t meant to be a one-on-one training session, but it is a great place to go for those in need of tech support here in Siren.

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“It has been a fun adventure. No two days are the same which is something I really enjoy. We’re not really built to be a huge business, but I think that is why we are perfect for this community. We’ve tried to be as creative as possible with our marketing which is why we’ve come up with the almost-famous Terabit T-Rex (found in videos on their Facebook page),” said Reimann. She wants to provide her clients with local technology services

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Artisan meats available at Siren shop

Jonathan Richie Editor@burnettcountysentinel.com

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Block & Cleaver owner Adrian Dykstra with one of the store’s best-sellers, their delicious snack sticks and jerky, behind the counter at their Siren shop.

lock & Cleaver Artisan Meats is nestled off Highway 70 in Siren at 7991 1st Street. The retail store opened in November 2017 with owner Adrian Dykstra at the helm. All their specialty meat products are processed at this facility, including their most popular products, snack sticks and jerky. Dykstra, originally from Omaha, Nebraska, found his way to Siren after he saw the potential there and knew it would be a good place to open up the shop, located in Siren’s Industrial Park. “My background is in finance,” he explained. “I think this is a promising location with a long-term opportunity

to grow.” He describes himself as a ‘jack of all trades’ and oversees operations at the shop. They have 15 full-time employees who handle butchering, processing the cuts of meat, and making the jerky, bacon, sausages, and a plethora of other specialty meat products. Dykstra works up front, with help from the retail sales manager, Brooke Dreckman. She is the one who works with customers a majority of the time. “She’s the one that will answer all of your questions when you come in,” Dykstra said. “She is great at answering customers’ questions and

helps them decide what they should get or what cut of meat or produce they should try next.” Along with customer favorites, snack sticks and jerky, Block & Cleaver has a full fresh meat case with t-bone steaks, New York strips, and beef tenderloin to name a few. They also sell processed meat products like bratwurst, ring bologna, hot dogs, and summer sausage. There is also a selection of herbs and spices along with other selected cooking accessories available for purchase at the shop. Block & Cleaver also sells king crab legs and a few other seafood options. And they don’t overlook the pets either, with a number of pig ears and smoke bones for the furry ones in the family. In the fall Block & Cleaver handles a lot of wild game processing. Dysktra stated it’s mostly venison but they do get a few bears to process every season. “People bring in their deer, or even bear and we process them here.” They offer whole carcass skinning/ cutting services and can turn your wild game into links, summer sausage, bratwurst, or a variety of other smoked products. Dykstra is also eyeing potential expansion in their retail shop and venturing into online sales. “We don’t have a specific time table for online shopping,” he said. “The hope is to have it set up within the

next year with selling our snack sticks and jerky online. We also plan on expanding our retail space here.” Until May, they will continue to be open during their winter hours Thursday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. - 7 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Dykstra, like most Burnett County residents, is ready for summer and with the seasons changing come summer hours for Block & Cleaver. Starting May 1 the retail shop will be open seven days a week. Dykstra concludes, “stop on by and we’ll set you up with something you’re really going to enjoy.” Their products are available at their retail location in Siren and these other stores: • Fur, Fin and Feathers • Wild Bill’s • Main Store in Webb Lake • Ben Franklin • Marathon gas station–Siren • Back Wood Bear and Bait • Burnett Dairy • A&H County Store • Oakland Store • Log Cabin • Jennemans Hardware Hank’s in Siren • Big Mike’s • Yourchhuck’s True Value • Little Hertel gas station

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