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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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Modified truck and tractor pulls are part of the festivities at the Newton Firefighters Picnic Friday through Sunday. Submitted

Newton picnic celebrates 63 years

BY CARLOS MUNOZ For Close-Up

Roaring tractors and roasted chicken plates are on tap for the 63rd annual Newton Firefighters Picnic Friday through Sunday at Firemen’s Park.

Jay Boldt, who is organizing the picnic, said this year’s food will be like a “restaurant menu.”

“It’s a fun event and a good community event,” Boldt said.

“It’s the last true firefighter’s picnic around any more. A lot of them have died out or there are multiple organizations involved.”

Proceeds go to the Newton’s

firefighters to buy equipment.

Newton is anticipating large crowds with musical appearances by local favorite Road Trip at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Grand Union at 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

There will be kickball and volleyball tournaments, with teams from across the state. Call Boldt for more information on the tournaments at (920) 323-0987.

Boldt, who organizes the volleyball tournament, said it is a statewide favorite and includes players from as far away as Florida. “(For) some people (the volleyball tournament) is the only time they get together. One team

comes from Ohio and Florida just to get together for the volleyball tournament.”

Tractor and truck pulls will be featured at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, while a consignment auction is slated for 10 a.m. Saturday. Sunday will kick off with a parade at 11:30 a.m. — rain or shine — and a farm tractor pull will be held at 1:30 p.m.

“It’s free admission to all the events,” Boldt said. “There’s no cost for any of the tractor pulls or bands. We literally get thousands of people. It’s a really fun family event and doesn’t cost a lot.”

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said the event will help raise funds to upgrade old equipment and to buy new nozzles for the Friday department’s fire hoses. æ 5 p.m. — Perch plates “It’s a great thing,” Hochkamæ 7 p.m. — Modified truck and tractor mer said. “We’re looking at pur- pulls and wheel-standing semi-tractors chasing a new truck and we’ll do æ 8:30 p.m. — Music by Road Trip some upgrades. We will continue keeping up to date on the new Saturday equipment that’s out there.” æ 10:30 a.m. — Consignment auction Boldt said the picnic will also featuring farm machinery feature the return of roasted æ 7 p.m. — Modified truck and tractor chicken plates as Sunday’s spepulls and wheel-standing semi-tractors cialty. æ 8:30 p.m. — Music by Grand Union “Quite a few years we got away from that, but we’ll return to that for a Sunday special,” Boldt Sunday æ 11:30 a.m. — Parade (rain or shine) said.

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Members of the Mid Lakes Rustic Iron Club demonstrate threshing during one of their previous shows. The group’s 12th annual Tractor Show and Thresheree will be Sept. 11-12 at Newton Firefighters Park. Submitted photo south of Festival Foods in Manitowoc.

Pauwels said the club has members of many ages. All can recall farm machines of the past, he said.

“Machines that we used 50 years ago, it would take 14 of them to do what one can do now,” he said. “The guys all used to get

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“We learn to make our own (parts),” Pauwels said.

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together, work together to get each other’s fields done. It was a fun time. We’re not just collecting equipment in this club, we’re demonstrating a way of working together that’s just not around anymore.”

He added that it is a challenge to find parts for the old equipment because the companies that produced

“people hauler” to provide rides around the show grounds. Displays will open at 9 a.m., and breakfast will be available from 8 to 10 a.m. both days.

Lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday. Cold beer and soda will be available, as well as a dessert stand.

Admission for those 16 and older is $5; children 15 and younger get in free.

The Sheboygan Accordion Club will play from 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 11.

The Northeast Wisconsin Motorsports Truck Pull will be part of the show for the first time this year, from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday. Contact Rick Krueger at (920) 726-1206 for information about the truck pull.

For the kids, there will be free tractor-pulled barrel rides, battery-powered car rides and a new playground.

Newton Firefighters Park is 6 miles south of Manitowoc at 6103 Newton Road, Newton. Visit www .mid-lakesrusticiron.org for more information.

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NEWTON — The Mid Lakes Rustic Iron Club will hold its 12th annual Tractor Show and Thresheree Sept. 11-12 at Newton Firefighters Park.

Club President Bill Pauwels said the club preserves farm machinery of the past. Club members will run the equipment and demonstrate its use during the show.

Funds earned at the event will go toward purchasing more equipment or into club donations. The club has donated to the Savannah Foundation, a cold-water rescue team and to Bikers Against Child Abuse, which will have a presence at the

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Whitelaw Fire Department expanding

In 1926, people living in and near the village of Whitelaw gathered enough money to purchase their first fire truck, thus forming the Whitelaw Volunteer Fire Department.

The current fire station was constructed in 1959. In the 1980s, the department became fully funded by taxes from the village of

Whitelaw, along with sections of the towns of Franklin and Cato.

In 1994, new restrooms and an addition to the building were constructed, and five new fire trucks were purchased. Central air was added to the office and meeting rooms in 2008.

Construction is now under way to enlarge the

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building to gain storage room for the department’s equipment, such as a large generator (which can run the whole station in case it becomes an emergency shelter for the village) and a 30foot portable light tower (which is taken to accident scenes when needed and can light up a very large area).

Planning for this expansion has moved right along.

After needs were identified, the department’s building committee received bids for the construction. Bill Lorrigan of Reedsville won the bid as the main contractor, while Tom Kiel gained the block work. The total cost of the building is $102,000 and came in very close to budget, officials said.

Open house You can check out the new expansion by coming to a picnic scheduled from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at the station. Entertainment will be provided by the Bobby Darren Band. Brats, burgers, firemen’s steaks and homemade cakes will be available. A sawdust pit will be provided for the children. Raffle tickets are being offered by area firefighters. The grand prize this year is $800. Come out and support your local firefighters and thank them for providing such a valuable service to our community.

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Did you know? æ The Whitelaw water tower holds about 57,000 gallons of water. æ The original fire department was funded with a stock purchase and was under stockholder control until the 1980s, when taxes took over funding of the department. æ New equipment is bought on a rotation so that the old equipment is updated and the equipment that is being replaced still has good resale value.

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Workers are cracking away at the baseball field at Memorial Park, tearing up sod in the infield and refreshing the sand.

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It’s easy to see why Gail Fritsch loves St. Augustine Church in Reifs Mills. It is postcard perfect and could be mistaken for a chapel in the mountains of Europe.

It is nestled in a serene setting where the blue of the sky and the green of the fields fills you with peaceful thoughts. It has been a house of worship for neighboring families for five generations.

It is this fact that endears St. Augustine’s to Fritsch.

“I know where my greatgrandparents, my grandparents and my parents are buried,” she says. “My roots are here.”

The church was started Gail Fritsch stands outside St. Augustine Church in Reifs Mills, in 1862 as a mission of St. which began as a mission in 1862. Chris Meulemans/Close Joseph’s Church in KellUp nersville. It is mentioned, though not by name, in a to someone who wanted to share of money and sweat 1904 history written by claim the two front pews equity. In 1910, a fiveRalph Plumb. One-hunon either side of the aisle.” strand barbed-wire fence dred Bohemian families was put around the properFetch a preacher moved to the area around ty to keep the cows out of Reifs Mills in the 1800s. A the cemetery and off the major employer was the Being a mission church, front lawn. It was decided Reif Brothers Saw Mill, St. Augustine never had a that each member of the where coffins and brooms priest-in-residence. Somecongregation should help were made. Some people one always had to go and with fence building. settled in the valley and pick up the priest for serv“Members who failed to surrounding area, but the ices. The 1895 ledger states appear to help were to be four-acre site at the peak of that a person who providfined $1,” the ledger indithe hill was chosen for the ed this “livery service” cates. There is no follow-up church, school and cemewould be paid seventy-five report, though, on how tery. cents on a Sunday and $1 many fines were collected.

The first church ledgers on workdays.

In the 1940s, Swoboda Indate back to 1873 and are In 1902, St. Augustine dustries in Kewaunee written in Bohemian.

School ran for five or six made 22 elm pews for the They detail the names of months per year and church at a total cost of the families and how much charged 50 cents for tu$873. The seven stained pew rent they had to pay. ition. The school was on glass windows, representEasier to decipher are the the east side of the church ing the seven sacraments, ledgers that begin in 1895 building. In 1923, a note in also were installed during and are written in English. the ledger states that a vote that decade.

They show that the first had been taken to sell the Sometime in the 1950s, priest was the Rev. Adelschool building. The world famous crooner and bert Cipin. The church school was never replaced. Arthur Godfrey sidekick, charged $5 per year for Upkeep on the building Julius LaRosa, married a seats anywhere in the was continuous. Everyone local girl, Rosemary Meyer, church, but “$5.75 per year was expected to put in a in Francis Creek at St.

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Still no water Through the years, the usual church activities occurred. Weddings and funerals were held at the church. If anyone thought they would have an especially large turnout, the event would be moved to Kellnersville or Francis Creek. Since they never had water hooked up, there were never any baptisms at the church.

“We still have outhouses,” Fritsch laughs. “We have our services at 8 a.m. every Sunday and very few people ever need them.”

The fact that their little church is still having weekly services is a miracle to Fritsch, who was happy to pick up the church’s history.

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Soukup wins scholarship A dedication to dairy has placed Erika Soukup on the leader board as a winner of the annual Bill Walters Manitowoc Milk Producers Cooperative Scholarship.

The daughter of Barry and Gwen Soukup began showing cattle when she was 4 years old, and has built her personal herd to 11 registered dairy cattle.

She was an active member of the Valders High School FFA chapter, serving as president, vice president and treasurer.

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“We have been blessed by several retired priests who have agreed to say our Sunday Mass for us,” she said. “We were supposed to close our doors in 1993. We wrote letters and petitioned the Bishop to let us stay open. Monsignor Alfred Schneider said he would help us out. He was in his upper 80s, then.

“First he would drive himself, then he asked people to pick him up for services. While he was here, the steeple was struck by lightning and burned. The neighbor lady saw the strike and called the fire department right away. That kept the rest of the church from burning down. For several years, there was no steeple and many of us thought that the church looked like a barn. Finally, in 2003, we got a new steeple. The money was donated by the congregation, and someone even drove down to Iowa to pick it up.”

The weekly services continue because of the generosity of the Rev. Lawrence Gerend, who lives in Kaukauna and gets picked up every Sunday morning by parishioners.

“We don’t know how long we will continue to have services here,” Fritsch said. “Every Sunday is a blessing. For me and my family and all the 50 other people who meet here on Sundays, we don’t really know why our church is still open, while so many others have closed. We just thank God for His gift to all of us.”

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