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Climbing Kilimanjaro is a leap of faith for local woman

by Mary Stirrat Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE — Life is full of challenges. Some we choose, and some we do not.

Suz Byerly Thomson of Balsam Lake has chosen a challenge that no doubt will prove to be a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.

Monday, July 18, after five days of climbing, she and 29 other people will be at the

summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to watch the sun rise over East Africa.

Half of the people in the group are making the 19,340-foot climb to the summit with another challenge — one they did not choose. Twelve have multiple sclerosis and three have Parkinson’s disease.

The climb is being organized by Lori Schneider, a friend of Thomson’s from Bayfield. Schneider has climbed all Seven Summits, the highest peak on each of the seven continents, and six of these climbs

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Jazz comes to the Overlook this Friday

ST. CROIX FALLS - Music On The Overlook is thrilled to present its annual Jazz Night Friday, July 1. St. Croix Falls MOTO continues to define itself as one of the best venues in the Midwest to enjoy top-class concerts and entertainment, following in the shadow of the award-winning historic Festival Theatre, also in St. Croix Falls. JazzNight at the Overlook has become one of the most celebrated dates for adults and youth in the St. Croix Falls area each summer. “We love jazz in the St. Croix valley,” says organizer Woody McBride. “The Overlook is the perfect venue for it as well. St. Croix Falls is no longer just a Twin Cities commuter community - people with gourmet music and Brandon Colossus food tastes live here and support the arts up and down the river - Festival Theatre, MOTO, Wannigan Days, AutumnFest, Hudson, Osceola, Stillwater ... art and contemporary culture is local here and transcends any notion that we are small town and boring - we are both small town and big town and Jazz Night at the Overlook is a celebration of that.” This event is held Friday, July 1, at 6:30 p.m. Food and opening acts start at 5:30 p.m. After the stunning performance of The Atlantis Quartet last summer at MOTO, they have been rescheduled for this Friday for a much-anticipated encore show. By popular demand, they will be returning with award-winning vocalist Katie Gearty. More information: atlantisquartet.com and www.myspace.com/katiegeart and www.festivaltheatre.org and www.musicontheoverlook.com - with information from Festival Theatre

Louie Anderson to perform at Wannigan Days

ST. CROIX FALLS - Fans from all around the region will come to St. Croix Falls on Saturday, July 16 to experience the comedy of Louie Anderson. This event will headline the Saturday night Wannigan Days celebration lineup with proceeds to benefit Festival Theatre.

“We had a sudden opportunity to add Louie Anderson to the Wannigan Days roster of events,” said Doc Bont, the tireless promoter of the summer celebration. “We saw this as a great way to bring a tremendously well-loved comedian to town and to support the work of Festival Theatre.” The comedy show starts at 8 p.m. on Thompson Parkway, though a meet and greet reception is available prior to the show at Festival Theatre for those who purchase special tickets. Sponsored by Bont Chiropractic, Indian Creek Winery & Grill, and Joe Roberts Entertainment.

For more information go to festivaltheatre.org or call Festival Theatre at 715-483-3387 or 888-887-6002. Leader reporter Greg Marsten interviewed Anderson this week and the story is scheduled to appear in next week’s Leader. - with submitted information

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Polk County Sheriff Pete Johnson recently released a video, photos and more information on the June 18 robbery of the U.S. Bank in Cushing in which a lone gunman made off with an undetermined amount of cash. The photos, taken from a bank surveillance camera, show a person wearing a camouflage top, gloves, sunglasses, a camouflage mesh-type scarf and a tan baseball cap with what appears to be a Miller Lite logo on it. He is also carrying a black bag. The video (available for viewing at www.the-leader.net) shows the suspect entering the bank, pulling his gun and taking money from a teller station. It has been edited to only show the suspect. The truck is a mid to late ‘90s model red GMC or Chevrolet pickup truck. It is two-toned, with red on the majority of the truck and gray or silver on the bottom, on the rocker panels. The tailgate has a large silver stripe. It would say either GMC or Chevrolet in that stripe. The suspect vehicle does not have a tonneau cover. If anyone recognizes anything from either the pictures or the video, they are asked to contact the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at 715-485-8300. - Photos from Polk County Sheriff’s Dept.

Jeff Anderson sworn in as Judge

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE – Jeff Anderson took his oath of office Friday, June 24, as Polk County Circuit Judge after Gov. Scott Walker appointed him to the vacant seat Thursday. Anderson was elected to replace Judge Robert Rasmussen in April for a term starting Aug. 1. Rasmussen retired from the bench in November, and the appointment is for the remainder of Rasmussen’s term until August.

The ceremony, with one day’s notice, was brief.

The courtroom was mainly filled with courthouse employees. Circuit Judge Molly GaleWyrick delivered the oath, Judge Anderson posed for pictures, and those gathered went back to work. A more festive celebration is planned for August.

Three candidates, Jeff Anderson, James Rennicke and Daniel Steffen, filed for the office when Rasmussen retired. Anderson and Steffen won the February primary and faced each other in April.

Anderson won that race with 4,616 votes (51 percent) while Steffen received 4,399 votes (49 percent).

In recent years, Polk County has elected a new judge once each decade. James Erickson was first elected in 1984. Rasmussen won a new judicial seat in 1991 when the county gained a second circuit

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Man threatens employee with a gun for a giant TV and laptops

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer ST. CROIX FALLS – A bizarre armed robbery at the St. Croix Falls Wal-Mart store led to the arrest of two local men several hours later, who now face several felon charges for the incident.

According to police, Jeffrey Ringstad, 30, Amery is accused of entering the Wal-Mart store on Glacier Drive in St. Croix Falls at approximately 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 21, where he proceeded to the electronics department. He then asked an employee where the laptop computers were kept, and when the man brought one out, Ringstad said he needed two of them.

After placing them behind the counter, Ringstad asked the employee for the “biggest TV you have,” to which the employee found a 55-inch LED unit, which he brought out on a cart. As he went through the checkout aisle, Ringstad allegedly snuck behind the counter and placed a gun at the man’s back and told them man he “knew what to do.”

Ringstad told the man to assist him with taking out and loading the large items into their vehicle.

However, the sales associate said he had a security tag that would trigger an alarm if he left the

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SIREN - There will be a spot in the Siren Fourth of July parade set aside for anyone who dressed like a sunflower and came to Siren School June 18 to help set a world record. The parade starts at 11:30 a.m. on the west end of Main Street. This year’s theme is Rising Above the Storm - 10 Years Later. The sunflower was a part of nature’s recovery after the June 18, 2001, tornado passed by, and the human sunflowers marching in the parade will fit in with that theme. - submitted ••• LUCK - The Polk County Genealogy Society will join with the Luck Library and the Luck Area Historical Society at the Luck Museum on Thursday, June 30, at 5 p.m. in co-sponsoring a Civil War program by author and Civil War historian Lance Herdegen who will speak on Wisconsin’s “Iron Brigade.” Herdegen is the former director of the Civil War studies at Carroll University in Waukesha and an author of numerous articles and books on Civil War history. The men of the Iron Brigade indeed stood like iron in the Gettysburg Campaign of the Civil War and made their unit so unusual and their battlefield actions so fearsome. Join them for this interesting program as they gather to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War 1861-1865. submitted ••• BALSAM LAKE - Poco Penners will meet for its annual gettogether picnic on Friday, July 8, at the Balsam Lake Library (under the red water tower) at noon.

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Jeffrey A. Ringstad

store, to which Ringstad allegedly replied that, “You don’t want to be shot in the face, do you?”

He instructed the man to leave his security tag on the counter and carry the items out to his car, which was allegedly waiting outside and being driven by Michael Clarkson, 19, Amery.

A second Wal-Mart employee saw the large TV being carried out and assisted the loading - unaware of the crime - as they placed it in the vehicle trunk.

Ringstad then instructed the two to get some string in the store to help tie the trunk lid down. As both employees went inside, they did not return. They alerted the police instead.

Wal-Mart released photos and video of the suspects and their vehicle “within 20 minutes of the incident” to authorities, and also had flyers ready a short time after

Michael E. Clarkson

that for police to use for canvassing, according to Polk County Sheriff Pete Johnson.

“Once they had the video, a deputy recognized the vehicle from the Wal-Mart video from a recent (traffic) stop and made a positive connection,” Johnson said.

One of the victims also got the license plate of the getaway vehicle, which confirmed it belonged to Michael Clarkson. Police flooded the area of his last known address in Amery and saw the vehicle as it was leaving the area, but only Clarkson was in the car at the time. Police stopped the car without incident and noticed a Dell computer box in the back seat, matching a description of one of those stolen.

Clarkson opened up on the incident, stating that he went to the store “with a guy named Jeff,”

and that when he returned to the car, he was with an employee “who looked really scared.”

Clarkson said he thought Ringstad “had robbed the store,” but that he wasn’t sure. He said Ringstad later removed a gun from his pants, and threw one of the computer boxes out alongside the roadway as they traveled south on CTH Y, near Menards.

He said Ringstad was dropped off at an apartment in Amery, which led to a search warrant for that location, later expanded to include a neighboring apartment, where they found clothing from the incident, the giant TV, computer packaging material as well as other evidence.

Ringstad was also found and taken into custody, and at first, allegedly told police that he “did something dumb tonight” and that he “didn’t mean to scare anyone.”

He also told police the gun was fake and that he threw it out along the way, but that they would never find it. Police later discovered the weapon, with Johnson stating that it did not matter if it was just a BB gun or not.

“If he’d been confronted by police, he’d have been just as shot,” Johnson quipped.

But according to the incident report, Ringstad later seemed to deny ever being at the Wal-Mart, in spite of the detailed testimony of his alleged accomplice and the video evidence police showed him.

“He denied it was him in the

photograph,” Johnson said.

“They weren’t rocket scientists, that’s for sure.”

Ringstad and Clarkson have both been charged with felony armed robbery with use of force and felony false imprisonment charges for taking hostages, with Ringstad also facing additional bail jumping charges. They have both made several court appearances in the past week, and Ringstad remains in jail on a $50,000 cash bond, while Clarkson’s bond was modified from $25,000 cash to a similar amount on a signature bond. He is free at the moment, living essentially under house arrest, with numerous restrictions on that bond.

Both men have preliminary hearings set for Thursday, June 30, before Judge Robert Rasmussen, where he will decide if the case has enough evidence to go to trial.

While Clarkson has no real history of legal issues, Ringstad has a lengthy history of legal run-ins, charges, convictions and outstanding cases in at least two states, going back over a decade.

His rap sheet includes several stolen car convictions in both Minnesota and Wisconsin, various drug, DUI and traffic charges, as well as a 2005 conviction for receiving stolen property in Minnesota, where he did jail time in Wright County.

His bail violations related to outstanding drug possession charges from a pair of cases in 2010 in St. Croix County.

another source. In Danbury, election board members are said to include the brother and son of a candidate. The board members in Maple Plain are said to include a candidate’s sister, brother and cousin plus the son of that cousin.

The election board members in

Sand Lake are said to include the daughter and granddaughter of a candidate’s sister.

The Leader has not yet had responses to requests from the tribal council and staff for official information on the election issues and challenges.

St. Croix Tribal council not sworn in

Challenges and possible new election

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer HERTEL – The new St. Croix Chippewa Tribal Council, elected Saturday, June 11, has not taken its oath yet. The tribal election board has heard a series of challenges and appeals but has not officially released the votes or announced the winners of the election. Meetings are going on this week and there is a possibility that a new election will be called. A tribal official has told the Leader that some decision should be released Thursday night, June 30, or Friday morning, July 1.

The Leader has obtained a report of the vote totals from someone present for the recount of the votes. Those figures show the election of incumbents Lewis Taylor and Elmer “Jay” Emery Jr. from Big Sand Lake, incumbent David “Maabin” Merrill from Big Round Lake, and two new council members, Stuart Bearheart, Maple Plain, and Nancy Matrious, Danbury. The two defeated Jeanne Awonohopay and Beverly

(Songetay) Benjamin. The tribe does not have a primary and runoff election so the winning candidates won with pluralities but not majorities. No candidate received more than 40 percent of the vote.

Details on the challenges and appeals have not been released but several sources told the Leader that a tribal judge from Red Cliff will decide on the issues soon and will determine when and whether the new council will take office.

However, the Leader has been told of some concerns. There is a charge that electioneering e-mails were sent from the tribal office during working hours and that two of the e-mails had election judges on the list of receivers. One of those e-mails was apparently from council chair Lewis Taylor.

The two messages provided to the Leader were critical of the council members who served from 2007-2009, Hazel Hindsley, Gloria Benjamin, Jerry Lowe, Michael Decorah and Jay Emery.

There are 16 election judges, four from each community. Decorah told the Leader that many of the 16 are closely related to some of the candidates and thus not impartial. His list was confirmed by

St. Croix Tribal election – 2011: unofficial results

HERTEL - Following are the results of the St. Croix Tribal Council election Saturday, June 11, as recorded by someone at the recount. The council has not released the official figures as of press time.

Gary Bearhart Jr. Delores Staples Tracy Taylor Big Round Lake

Candidate Votes Big Sand Lake / two seats *“Jay” Emery Jr. (I), 205 *Lewis Taylor (I) 199 Francis Songetay 119 Leo Butler 114 Mary Jane Frog 106 Neil Oustigoff 81 Bennie Rogers 79 Laura Moose 76 Michael LaPointe 34 Christine Morrison 18

Maple Plain *Stuart Bearheart Eugene Hart Jeanne Awonohopay (I) LeAnn Hognet Valerie Hognet

* elected (pending challenges) (I) incumbent Percent of votes cast

Danbury *Nancy Matrious Bev Benjamin (I)

190 186

Percent 39.7 38.6 23.1 22.1 20.5 15.7 15.3 14.7 6.6 3.5 36.0 35.3

61 48 42

*“Maabin” Merrill (I) 189

Phyllis Lowe Georgia Cobenais Travis Lowe Pat Fowler Sr. Sanford Mosay Kelly Lowe Sr.

11.6 9.1 8.0

144 97 49 46 7 3

35.3 26.9 18.1 9.2 8.6 1.3 0.6

183 163

35.1 31.3

152 15 8

Votes cast in each community Big Sand Lake 239 Danbury 113 Big Round Lake 135 Maple Plain 63

29.2 2.9 1.5

Construction continues

Construction is progressing solidly on Hwy. 8 through St. Croix Falls.

Crews have completely torn up the westbound lanes for the affected stretch, and have begun to prepare the roadbed, and are well along on the task of laying new concrete. This is the fresh concrete as it was just poured last week, east of the stoplight at Glacier Drive. Traffic will remain on just one lane for much of the summer as the roadwork progresses. - Photo by Greg Marsten

Polk deputy awarded $260,000 in damages

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Notes on a trial

Arling Olson case goes back to 2006 election

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE / MADISON – Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Arling “Ole” Olson was awarded $260,000 in damages by a federal court jury Friday, June 24.

Olson had filed a case against former Polk County Sheriff Timothy Moore in April 2010, claiming that Moore had violated Olson’s rights over a period of time going back to 2006.

The jury awarded Olson $10,000 as fair and reasonable compensation for injuries he sustained as a result of actions taken by Moore and $250,000 in punitive damages for Moore’s willful or reckless disregard for the law.

“I feel vindicated,” Olson told the Leader in a phone interview. “I have had a sock stuck in my mouth for four years. A huge weight has been lifted from me. I will continue to work for the county. This takes a cloud off me.”

The award was based on the question to the jury: “Was plaintiff Olson’s participation in the criminal investigations against defendant Moore one of the reasons that the defendant took either or both of the following actions: conducted a baseless internal investigation against plaintiff and recommended plaintiff for criminal prosecution?” The jury answered “Yes” to both questions.

The case has its roots back in 2005 with the appointment and later election of a new Polk County sheriff. In November 2005, Sheriff Ann Hraychuck announced that she would resign her position in January. Olson and Moore were finalists for Gov. Jim Doyle’s appointment as the new sheriff. Moore was appointed to complete the term until January 2007. Both Olson and Moore were Democratic Party candi-

Olson v. Moore 14 months and running

Arling Olson

dates for sheriff in the fall 2006 election.

After that election, a complaint was sent to the Wisconsin Department of Justice about possible misconduct during that election. The DOJ started an investigation in January 2007. That investigation, which branched off from election questions into other issues, was partially closed in February 2008. Ken Kutz, Burnett County district attorney at the time, was appointed special prosecutor for the investigation.

He wrote in his review, “I do not find any charges to be warranted against Sheriff Moore.”

Olson was one of the persons interviewed by the DOJ during the investigation. In October 2008, Olson was charged with perjury and obstructing an officer after a criminal complaint. Olson was placed on paid leave until the case came to trial. That issue ended May 1, 2009, when Circuit Judge Eric Lundell, in a preliminary hearing, dismissed the case. He stated that “no felony had been committed, at least not one by Olson. There is no plausible theory associated with his commission of any crime.” Olson returned to work. Polk County paid $18,000 of Olson’s legal expenses in June 2009.

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE / MADISON – Federal court cases take a very long time to be resolved. The history of Arling Olson v. Timothy Moore, as outlined in the docket for the case available on the Federal Court Web site (the PACER service) shows that Olson filed his complaint on April 19, 2010, and Moore made his response or answer two months later on June 18, 2010. For the next year, the record shows a long paper trail of motions, briefs and depositions. Along the way, Olson’s lawyer presents a list of 53 planned exhibits.

The trial, in the courtroom of Barbara Crabb, U. S. district judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, started on Monday, June 20, 2011, one year after Moore made his initial response. From that point, things moved rapidly for a week. The jury heard the case and reached its verdict finding for Olson on one of two complaints on Thursday. The following day, Friday, the jury issued an award of $260,000. At that point the docket showed 140 entries summarized

over 14 pages.

One item of interest: There may not have been many people around the justice center last week. The potential witness lists presented by Olson and Moore name Kenneth Kutz, Daniel Steffen, Peter Johnson, Ray Joy, Jan Kelton, Steven Moe, Steven Smith, Jared Cockroft, Timothy O’Hare, Lisa Ditlefsen, Eric Swan, Dale Hall, Mark Biller, Karen Olson and Anthony Puetz. All are connected with Polk County except Kutz.

Kutz, Steffen, Biller and Olson have all been or are district attorneys (Kutz is now a judge). Kelton was the victim/witness coordinator. Johnson is the current sheriff. All the rest were or are part of the Polk County Sheriff’s Department. And the list goes on, including an FBI special agent and the Osceola police chief.

More notes: The Leader has been following this story since 2005. The documents, including the Department of Justice investigation, are a stack of papers 3 inches high. The Leader did a full page, four-part story on the issues May 6, 2009. And two incidents in the case go back even further than 2005. That includes the arrest of Brady Tulgren in 2003 and a taped 90-minute interview with Tryn Johnson in 2002.

Olson filed his case against Moore in April 2010, charging damages against him

by Moore based on Olson’s participation in the investigation and on his campaign against Moore in the 2006 election. The jury ruled that there was not negative action from the last charge. This case is the one that has just been ruled on in federal court in Madison.

The jury’s finding in favor of Olson and

its award of $260,000 to Olson does not close the case. Briefs for and against the verdict and award must be filed by Aug. 29, and there will be more court action in the fall.

“I will probably never see any money,” Olson said. “I did it for the vindication. I wanted to show people what happened.”

Kathleen Willow at the end of the 20102011 school year.

Connors begins his duties at St. Croix Falls Monday, July 11. The board scheduled a meet and greet for Monday, July 18, from 2 to 4 p.m., in the media center for other staff and members of the public to meet the new principal.

In other business, Superintendent Glenn Martin indicated the HVAC work at the Dresser school is coming along fine.

He stated there will be two bids to consider for the finalization of that project at the next regular board meeting, Tuesday, July 12.

Martin also indicated to the board that since Gov. Scott Walker’s Budget Repair Bill has held up, the school board needs to develop a grievance policy to have on the books, and work will begin on developing that in the near future.

The strategic planning dinner and meet-

ing will take place in the high school commons Tuesday, July 26, beginning at 6 p.m.

The board adjourned into closed session to discuss the possible hiring of a kindergarten teacher and athletic director, possible action concerning Wisconsin State Retirement and insurance contribution for nonunion staff and evaluation of the superintendent.

by Jessica Beecroft Register staff writer WASHBURN & BURNETT COUNTIES – The state is cutting funding for waste management and recycling services. Effective the end of this year, counties will lose a total of nearly $90,000 in funding from the state. This means towns may have to start dealing with the waste removal and recycling themselves.

The local Recycling Control Commission, which has contracted with Burnett and Washburn counties for recycling services for over 20 years, is now at a standstill. Their new contract is ready for

signatures for renewal, but no one is signing.

In 1990, the Solid Waste Reduction, Recovery and Recycling Law was enacted to create new ways to manage waste and encourage reduction, reuse and recycling of Wisconsin’s solid waste.

The Recycling Control Commission is a two-county intergovernmental unit which was created to provide recycling and waste management services. The programs serve the residents of Washburn and Burnett counties.

“At this time we have no money. We can’t sign another contract if we have no

way to pay for those services,” explained Tom Ricci of the Washburn County Board.

“The state budget is cutting funding for the program by almost $90,000.”

Some of the services provided by the RCC are: • Curbside and drop-off recycling of state-required materials.

• Recycling of special materials such as appliances, tires, computers, fluorescent bulbs, used oil, oil filters and various battery types.

• Planning and coordinating hazardous waste collections for the two-county area.

• Development and dissemination of

educational and promotional materials.

• Ensuring the marketing of all collected materials.

• The writing of grants and reports for applicable programs.

The Northwest Regional Planning Commission provides an executive director and staff to undertake the daily functions and activities of the Recycling Control Commission. The counties may be looking for solutions to the recycling items that Allied Waste and other trash providers will not take, and they also have concerns as the amount of “dumping” rises.

by Brian Bull Wisconsin Public Radio NATIONWIDE - The Ho Chunk Nation says a sacred plant is being wrongly confiscated from its members serving in the military.

For many Native Americans, ceremonial tobacco is for prayer, meditation, and in the case of soldiers, protection. Conroy Greendeer Sr. says deployed Ho Chunk soldiers take tobacco with them, but often commanding officers take it away. He says that’s what happened to his son in Afghanistan.

“They took it away from him, and made him spill it on the ground. He was dismayed by that.”

Ho Chunk leaders say non-Indians often mistake ceremonial tobacco for marijuana. Robert Mann, the tribe’s veterans service officer, says the Ho Chunk plans to work with the National Congress of American Indians to get legislation introduced through the House of Representatives that would better enforce the American Indian Religious Freedom Act for native soldiers well-being.

“When we put this tobacco on the

ground, we’re praying,” explains Mann.

“We’re asking the Creator for his guidance, should we have to face an enemy, that we could become victorious.

“You could be very lonely and very frightened too, if you have to face an enemy, and this gives you that strength to do your duty.”

Greendeer hopes that more officers learn the value of sacred tobacco and allow more soldiers to use it. He says the tradition goes back generations and recalls how his father did ceremonies during World War II.

“Tobacco was used back then,” says Greendeeer. “And it was for protection, not only for himself, but as he went and prayed and poured the tobacco, he also protected those people that also served with him.”

A public affairs officer with the U.S. Army wouldn’t comment specifically on ceremonial tobacco, but said he’s not surprised that officers might seize something they mistook for an illegal substance.

by Tammi Milberg Leader staff writer ST. CROIX FALLS – The St. Croix Falls School Board held a short meeting Tuesday, June 28, in which they scheduled a public meet and greet with the new middle school principal.

The district hired Joe Connors as the new middle school principal for the 20112012 school year. Connors was hired after the retirement of middle school Principal

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Roundabout plan scheduled for 2012 in Burnett County

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by Nancy Jappe Leader staff writer SIREN - Jane Olson from WisDOT Northwest Region, Robert Anderson from the DOT in Eau Claire and engineer Kevin Kuhlow from Ourston Roundabout Engineering Inc., Madison, were in Siren Thursday, June 23, to talk about the roundabout designed to alleviate traffic problems at the north junction of Hwys.

35 and 70. They presented a diagram titled Alternative 2A-No Bypass, the currently favored diagram for this intersection. According to Kuhlow, five alternatives were considered before this alternative was chosen as the DOT-preferred option.

As the diagram shows, the roundabout would be on the east side of the intersection. Access to and from Airport Road on the west side of the intersection would be affected, and the corner of the property on the southwest corner would be cut off.

The state would purchase the property on this corner. DuWayne Wiberg, chairman of the Town of Siren, expressed concern for the Siren Sanitary System equipment located on this corner. Ways were discussed on handling that.

Ourston Roundabout Engineering did an operational analysis that showed that, with this plan, operational performance is expected to be excellent for weekday,

weekend and holiday-weekend peak hours. Their report stated: “The roundabout should be able to accommodate changes in traffic patterns that may occur and should be able to adequately handle the traffic beyond 2033.”

The roundabout has been designed to accommodate oversize, overweight trucks, as both Hwy. 70 and Hwy. 35 are designated as OSOW truck routes. A bigger center area has been included to allow for oversize-truck movement.

“Our goal is to walk away from (this) meeting and start the final design,” Kuhlow said. Construction had originally been planned for 2013, but has been extended out another year.

“People will be coming in and walking around the area (in the next while) to see how some things would line up,” Olson commented.

As it stands now, the DOT plans to hold a meeting later this year or during the early part of 2012 to put the plan out for public comment. The date for completion of the final plan is set for August 2013, with construction to begin in 2014.

This diagram, titled Alternative 2A-No Bypass, is the currently favored plan for a roundabout at the north junction of Hwys. 35 and 70 in Burnett County. The view shows Hwy. 35 going north from the roundabout and Hwy. 70 going to the east. It also shows the change in access onto and off Airport Road to the west of the intersection. - Submitted diagram

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by Tammi Milberg Leader staff writer TAYLORS FALLS, Minn. – The city of Taylors Falls Council met Monday, June 27, for a relatively low-key meeting. The council approved street paving for Pine Street, Linden Street, Oak Street, Maple Street and the north end of River Street.

The low bidder for the project was Knife River with a bid of $49,572. The council approved the bid with the money to be paid from the Street Improvement Fund.

In related business, the council approved hydrant installation for two of the city’s hydrants. The bids received were for taking out the existing two hydrants and

Cutting activity buses saves $10,000

by Mary Stirrat Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE — Two activity buses that have taken Unity students home or to common drop-off areas after athletics or other activities have been dropped for the upcoming school year following action of the Unity School Board Tuesday evening, June 21.

Use of the buses has dwindled in recent years, said district Administrator Brandon Robinson, with more parents picking up their students and more high schoolers driving.

“There have been instances that a handful of riders have used the route on any given day,” he said.

The decision to eliminate the two buses will result in a savings of approximately $10,000 for the 2011-12 school year.

replacing the hydrants. The hydrants are located at the corner of Folsom and Pine streets and the corner of First and Chestnut streets. The low bid was from Wausau Asphalt at a cost of $3,750.

The council approved two Wannigan Days requests. Wannnigan Days is the annual city celebration with sister city St. Croix Falls, across the river. It takes place July 15-18. The request was for the Lions to hold the Tug Across the St. Croix. This relatively new event has been an annual addition to Wannigan Days. It involves a long rope that is strung across the St. Croix River, and each end is in one of the Lions Parks. The Taylors Falls Lions Park

is located across the river from the St. Croix Falls Lions Park. The Tug Across the River is a border battle where teams from both sides of the river compete in their respective parks by holding several tugs of war with different groups participating in each tug. The request was for the Lions Club to sell alcohol in the park during the tug by having a temporary permit. The council approved the event with the same language as in past years.

Another request for Wannigan Days was to close the street behind Romayne’s on Main for a street dance. The council approved the request with the same language as last year. There was a bit of

discussion because Romayne’s inquired why the city had provided port-a-johns in the past, but did not last year. The council indicated that in the approval of the street dance last year, the city established public bathrooms at the Memorial Community Center and recommended Romayne’s to provide their own port-a-john. Prior to that there were no public rest rooms available, so the city did pay for port-a-johns.

The council indicated that they would use the same language this year to grant the request with the same recommendation that Romayne’s provide a port-a-john, as the city provides public rest rooms at the community center.

municate with parents about the proposed policy.

The fees proposed are $25 per sport, including dance line and cheerleading, up to a maximum of $100 per family.

“There is a waiver process included that would be available to those with an inability to pay,” Robinson said, “to ensure that students may still participate regardless of financial need.”

According to Robinson, most schools in the conference have already implemented some sort of fees, most of which are higher than Unity’s proposed amounts.

If the policy implementing the fees is approved by the board, it will be posted on the district’s Web site and shared with parents at the upcoming fall sports meetings.

with the district’s curriculum and that challenge students at their level of understanding.

“The primary focus is the effort to maintain and increase student achievement during a time that is typical of regression,” said Robinson in his report to the board.

“Over the summer, students may forget content and skills which leads to more time spent reviewing in the fall.”

The district has used Compass Learning for the past two years. It is accessible from home computers, but having it available at the public libraries provides another learning opportunity, said Robinson.

assistant girls track coach Shaun Fisher.

Activity fees considered at Unity

Activity fees Discussion on implementing activity fees for the upcoming school year will continue at the July meeting of the board, giving school administration time to com-

Sharing computers Unity School is making five wireless computers available for the summer at each of the three libraries in the school district, giving students another opportunity for online learning.

The school computers at Centuria, Milltown and Balsam Lake libraries all are equipped with Compass Learning, which are learning activities that are aligned

Personnel The second open high school English teaching position was filled as the board gave approval to hire Stefany Getty, a graduate of Hudson High School and UW-River Falls. She is also certified to teach chemistry. Getty’s was the only hiring on the June 21 meeting agenda, along with several resignations.

Resignations accepted were those of assistant basketball coach Robert Blabolil, assistant football coach Mike Bielmeier, custodians Lois Glenna and Jerry Wood, educational assistant Maxine Kreuz and

TOWN OF WOOD RIVER - A Burnett Dairy Cooperative seven-axle truck carrying a load of raw milk overturned along the rain-soaked shoulder of CTH Y at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday, June 21.

According to the report filed with the Burnett County Sheriff’s Department, the

milk truck was going north on CTH Y near Crosstown Road. Because a southbound vehicle was straddling the centerline, the truck driver moved to the right to avoid a collision. The shoulder of the roadway gave way due to the more than 3 inches of rain that had fallen, causing the

truck to overturn. The driver, Gregory Bader of Amery, stated that the southbound car didn’t stop. Bader was not injured.

The report indicated that less than two gallons of raw milk was spilled when the milk was loaded off the truck, and that the

Other business • At a special board meeting held May 25 the board approved hiring Kayla Klitzke as high school English/language arts teacher, Amanda Peltier as payroll/human resources clerk, and Debra Paulsen as administrative assistant. Resignations from bus driver David Michaelson and grounds/bus driver Stu Hallberg were accepted.

• Robinson gave a last notice of the new school mailing address, which no longer includes a post office box. The new address is Unity School District, 1908 150th Street/Hwy. 46N, Balsam Lake, WI 54810-7267.

• This is the second year Unity has been awarded a grant to provide free meals to children in the community. Dates the meals are available are July 5-8, July 18-21, July 25-28, Aug. 8-12 and Aug.t 15-19.

Breakfast is served from 8 to 8:30 a.m., and lunch from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Children cannot be dropped off at the door to eat without supervision. Adult meals are $1.50 for breakfast and $3 for lunch.

Milk truck overturns on rain-soaked road shoulder

vehicle lost less than one quart of fuel.

There was no noticeable loss of engine oil or antifreeze.

The vehicle was removed from the roadway by Ken’s Towing, La Crosse. - Information from the Burnett County Sheriff’s Department

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The Methodist Church trial of the Rev. Amy DeLong

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Former Grantsburg pastor receives 20-day suspension for conducting same-sex wedding

Reporter’s behind-the-scenes observations

by Jon Shafer Special to the Leader KAUKAUNA - Five TV news vans with their microwave booms extended parked in front of the Peace United Methodist Church on a residential street in Kaukauna, near Appleton. That and the full parking lot on a midweek afternoon were evidence that something unusual was happening inside. On the lawn outside the main church entrance was a canopy sheltering a dozen supporters of Pastor Amy DeLong from the rain. These were the overflow, who couldn’t fit into the 118 seats allotted for observers at this church trial. Of course, church trials are unusual, compared to the legal trials of governments. The last Methodist Church trials for being an active homosexual and minister or officiating at same-sex weddings were in 2005 and 1999, and resulted in the pastors being defrocked.

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wedding. DeLong’s defense on the first charge was that there had been no evidence submitted during the trial to support it. When asked by counsel for the defense if she had engaged in genital activities with her domestic partner, DeLong

help resolve issues around the clergy covenant. The document is to also look at adversarial matters including those that might normally lead to clergy trials.

• Present the collaborative draft to the Wisconsin Conference Board of Ordained Ministry by Jan. 1, 2012.

• Following further review and editing

by DeLong and the committee, the document is to be in final form for distribution to the Wisconsin conference clergy prior to the 2012 annual conference, where it will be considered.

Should DeLong not comply with the above process, she will be suspended from the ministry for one year beginning June 3, 2012. The jury seems to have combined the recommendations of the two sides, focusing on a restorative process, and holding the one-year suspension back to be enforced only if the process is not followed. DeLong and her supporters seemed pleased with the decision. She thanked and hugged each member of the jury (with the bishop’s approval), an affectionate ending to a tense trial. The varying reactions of the jurors to this suggested which of them voted in the negative.

Security Services were in evidence in and around the church, as were Methodist “peacekeepers,“ and a local police K-9 unit for a time. The trial was held in the basement fellowship hall, where tables at the front provided working surfaces for the bishop/convener, counsel for the church, counsel for the defendant and the press. The court reporter had a specialized typing device on a stand as in legal trials.

The jury sat in two rows on the left side.

The concrete block walls were painted a pale yellow, with a suspended ceiling and many flourescent lights. Along the back wall were rest rooms, with a water fountain in between, and the wall around it painted to resemble a desert oasis. An open well, with an earthen jug sitting on it, was painted on the front wall. Some of the side wall sections were painted to resemble a stone wall on the lowest four rows, and Greek or Roman columns at other spots. The right side wall featured the usual kitchen opening which contained food and beverage for the jury, security staff and those working at the trial.

We in the audience had some shared snack foods, and trial lunch breaks al-

lowed time to grab a bite elsewhere.

The wall decorations were supposedly meant to remind one of the Holy Land. Yet we for this church trial didn’t dress in robes, not even the bishop. The array of laptop computers and other personal communication devices in evidence during the trial clearly displayed the 21st century reality of the proceedings. The time contrast seemed to be on exhibit in the church trial itself, with the United Methodist Church struggling to decide which century it was in. While some see timeless truths and teachings, more and more perceive that “time makes ancient good uncouth.” The Institute for Religion and Democracy, set up by right-wing politicos in the ‘70s to initiate cultural wars in denominations, is publicizing this trial. And the LoveOnTrial.org supporters of DeLong provide a positive spin. Attending from Grantsburg UMC were Liz Michaels, Jack Samuelson and the Rev. Carolyn Saunders.

I’d expected a significant show of force by those supporting the trial and desiring significant punishment for DeLong. However, none of those in the audience

showed any sign of that position. The house next door to the church did have a sign in the front yard saying I Timothy: 1:10.

This scriptural passage lists those acting contrary to the sound teaching, as seen by the Apostle Paul, and includes sodomites.

One of those seated on the lawn struck up a conversation with me. She said she was a missionary in Africa, on leave at her sister’s house. We discussed continuing revelation, whether the Bible was without error, and my Quaker stands on such matters. I mentioned that the Bible seems to accept slavery, yet gradually Christians have come to see slavery as immoral. She agreed with that, though disagreed that acceptance of homosexuality might come out of continuing revelation and application of Gospel teachings. When I raised the issue of her teaching violating Paul’s guidance not to let women teach or preach, she seemed to “tap dance” around that prohibition. Which of the Bible’s teachings will guide us into the future?

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This was a church trial held in Peace United Methodist Church in Kaukauna and officiated by retired Bishop Clay Lee of Mississippi. The jury consisted of 13 elders, pastors in the Wisconsin Conference of the United Methodist Church. The two charges were that DeLong was a practicing homosexual while also being a pastor, and that she had officiated at the wedding of a lesbian couple.

By Wednesday noon, June 22, the jury had heard the evidence, deliberated and dismissed the first charge, while finding DeLong guilty of officiating at a same-sex

declined to answer, saying “There is no way I am going to answer that question, given that you wish to do me harm.”

There was essentially a no-contest approach to the second charge, since DeLong had included her officiating at a same-sex wedding in her 2009 annual report. After further evidence was presented, and final arguments given by counsels for the church and the defense, the jury again deliberated, this time on what the consequences should be. The counsel for the United Methodist Church argued for a one-year suspension, while counsel for the defense advocated a restorative justice approach aimed at healing rather than retribution.

Just before 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, after over six hours of deliberations, the jury returned with its decision. By a vote of 9 to 4 the jury agreed that DeLong should spend 20 days in spiritual discernment starting July 1, during which time she would be suspended. The focus of her discernment is to be on a process to restore the clergy-covenant relationship which was broken. The details of the process the jury outlined are: • DeLong will write a document, collaborating with a committee the jury named, outlining the clergy procedures that could

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“She was from the Class of ‘41,” her father clarified.

Others were also excited about the background. Christi, Storm and Thor Jepsen looked over the old yearbooks, in search of old relatives, while others looked over the Red Wing jars as a way to keep the history center on its feet.

“I just love visiting with the people and hearing their stories,” stated Voss.

The history center hours are still to be determined, and there’s plenty of work left to be done. But several volunteers have already stepped up to donate time, talents and items, but they continue to search for more treasures for displays.

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“We had close to 70 people on Saturday alone,” stated Erling Voss, who worked the front desk and answered questions from visitors all weekend.

The building sat vacant for several years and has since been dedicated for the historical group to use “as long as needed,” while some of the old switching equipment remains in the building for now.

The new center has lots of Milltown-specific historical items, from yearbooks to newspaper articles and clippings to photographs and furniture. Some of the premier pieces include signage from former downtown shops, apothecary items, racing trophies and awards from the former Milltown Speedway, which was a featured theme from last year’s Fishermen’s Party, and where some of the discussion really got moving on a permanent location for a Milltown-specific museum of sorts.

Last year, the Milltown historical group had a popular display in the former Kid’s and More building, but the volume of items and need for space sent the local historians looking for a less temporary space, while also trying to garner donations for a permanent exhibit.

That’s just what they now have. And according to volunteers, they also have an “engine” for capital, in effect, as the village has donated any remaining Red Wing centennial beater jars to the cause, with the historical group using proceeds from the sales for further purchases and maintenance.

“We’re also looking at doing photocopies - in black and white or color - for a price, to help raise money,” said Voss, who also thinks the new center is a great addition to Milltown, and will help give people a place for their historical treasures where they know they are safe and available to locals. “This building is great. Lots of room, good location. And it was empty before.”

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Dear providers and participants of the Old Settlers Picnic on Sunday, June 26: Goddag! What a wonderful day it was! My ancestors came from Sweden and landed in Polk and Burnett counties in the late 1800s. You honored them today by your words and presence, and you have been honoring them and many, many others at the annual Old Settlers Picnic for 73 years.

This is the first picnic I have been to. I met a long-lost cousin that I hadn’t seen in way too many years, and through my genealogy journey, have found new friends. While I can only dream about the journey that our ancestors experienced, I realized today that I have become a part of that journey. I felt like I was in the right place, and that I finally connected with many others who have become the lucky recipients of those who came before us.

We visited the Old Settlers Cemetery after the program, and it was beautiful with the new flowers. Gratitude is extended, again, to all who provided an opportunity to honor the past as well as the present and for providing the 74th picnic next year. I look forward to seeing you again. Tack sa mycket.

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Very interesting to discover today that Planned Parenthood is one of the major players behind the recall efforts of the senators in our Legislature. All of the targeted legislators are pro-life and against funding for the planned parenthood abortion machine. All of the candidates are being supported by Planned Parenthood.

So it’s not really about unions and bargaining rights from that source at all, it’s about the money (see smoke and mirrors from last week). Simply tell the people (and especially women) that Planned Parenthood is on their side of freedom of reproductive choices and supplies and don’t really mention the incredible death machine and sacrifice of babies to the original vision of Margaret Sanger and her eugenics. Check it out, don’t take my word for it. Search Sangers’ writings and find what her vision was. Eliminate the misfits of society, sterilize their women and improve the race. “He would have loved her more than Eva Braun,” goes the refrain and eugenics was a driving force behind German social engineering in the ‘30s and ‘40s (nice term for death camps).

Pro life or pro death, make your choice now and you will answer for that choice assuredly some day. This is war, a war we did not start, and there is no neutral stance for anyone. On this one issue our country hinges to revival or destruction.

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Not everyone is in the penthouse suite

I have been an independent voter for most of my life. I have voted Republican, Reform, Democrat, New Labor Coalition, Green and Independent. The recent swing and polarization of the political parties has me greatly concerned. While I have often felt that the Democrats were “too generous and liberal,” I often saw the Republicans as too conservative.

However, since “greed became good” the Republican Party has evidenced a shift that has taken them beyond conser-

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Under Ronald Reagan, the conservative motto was “a hand up and not a hand out.” Having worked all of my life for what I have, I could identify with that thought. However, today, the “conservative” motto (at least among many Republicans) is “Quick, pull up the ladders.” I picture a castle surrounded by stone walls with the poor peasants trying to get in, meanwhile the nobles are pulling up the ladders.

Time magazine recently noted that the Republicans had pulled off a “miracle” by convincing people that the solution to our economic problems was to tax the rich less and to cut spending on education and social programs. This “miracle” is a tribute to the brainwashing that the Republican propaganda machine and their right-wing cronies on AM radio have been able to do to many Americans.

My hope is that we will wash them back out of office, until they are able to remember what conservatism is really about.

With that said, I am voting for Shelly Moore, both for the better candidate and to send every Republican I can back to a real working job. Maybe then they will remember that not everyone has a home in the penthouse suites.

John Persico Jr. Frederic

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Recent events bring to my mind the serious role religion has had and continues to have on the welfare of humanity.

Before we can have universal peace, we must have unity. Attaining unity is impossible as long as we continue to separate ourselves by our various concepts and worship of God. We may be on different paths approaching him, but we must also consider that there must be a convergence of all religions in unity. This means becoming the one fold, foretold by Jesus, before we can have the kind of peace that will give birth to the kingdom of God on Earth.

As long as each religion (and denomination) believes that it alone has all truth, universal peace cannot become a reality.

The belief that when Christ returns we will automatically be unified by his appearance is wishful thinking. We on Earth are the instruments through which unity will be achieved. As long as religions and denominations disagree with each other, we cannot fulfill this destiny for which we were created.

How can we become the instruments of unity? We must recognize that all the teachers of God, including Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, were sent to God to bring us his words for mankind. Each was a lamp bringing God’s light. As lamps (their human personalities), they were distinctly different. However, the spiritual light that shone forth from these lamps is the same.

Mary Gustavson Danbury

Final week for election letters

This is the final issue the Leader will publish letters to the editor pertaining to the candidates in the July 12 Senate recall primary election, Shelly Moore and Isaac Wiex. Next week’s issue (July 6) will allow candidates to respond to letters or articles previously published in the Leader - for clarification purposes, or to clarify stands on issues. Beginning with our July 13 issue, letters pertaining to the final recall election in August will again be accepted for publication.

Views expressed on these pages do not necessarily reflect the views of management or board members.

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• Letters to the editor • Harsdorf versus The Boogeyman

“If I could give three words of advice, they would be ‘tell the truth.’ If I got three more words, I’d add: ‘All the time.’” — Randy Pausch “The Last Lecture.”

Over the past few months, we’ve heard Harsdorf and Walker refer to the “special interests” involved in the recalls, hoping that voters wouldn’t think about who that really is.

It’s a strategy that allows Harsdorf to appear to be protecting taxpayers from something scary — kind of like the boogeyman. It’s a fear Harsdorf wants you to have. She needs there to be a “special interests” boogeyman so she can protect you from it.

But remember when you were young, and you thought the boogeyman was in your closet? Remember how foolish you felt when your mom turned on the light and it was just a lump of dirty clothes?

Unlike our moms, Harsdorf wants to keep us in the dark—and very much afraid. That boogeyman she’s calling “special interests”? Yeah, those “special interests” are the teachers at your school, organizing food drive competitions between classes two weeks before Thanksgiving. It’s the nonprofit broadband provider, WiscNet, bringing affordable Internet access to your libraries, public schools and universities. They’re the police, firefighters, snowplow and ambulance- drivers keeping us safe. It’s the dad across the street, ashamed because his kids’ clothes are too small. You know these people.

While collecting signatures to recall Harsdorf in my hometown earlier this spring, I was often confronted by angry Harsdorf supporters. Repeatedly, I was asked where I came from and how much I was getting paid. They didn’t believe me when I said I was from St. Croix Falls, and was paid nothing. When I told them I was a teacher, many called me a freeloader— or worse.

It shocked me.

Upon reflection, however, it makes perfect sense. These angry Harsdorf supporters believe and trust her. They were afraid. And I was the boogeyman. My hope is that enough people will turn on the light and begin to wonder—if Harsdorf isn’t telling the truth about special interests, what else is she lying about?

Chris Wondra St. Croix Falls

Recall Sheila Harsdorf?

Everyone paying attention knows.

Government spending at all levels has gotten out of control. Many politicians have proven themselves capable of making promises that could not be kept.

Whatever the promise, we should be considering the motivation behind the promise and the cost involved in delivering.

This past election, the electorate of our state recognized Wisconsin’s budget deficit as real and a threat to our economy and the future of our state. The electorate voted in representatives pledging to fix the causes of the deficit and balance our state budget. Sheila Harsdorf voted to support the needed changes. Does she deserve a recall because of her vote?

The changes necessary to fix Wisconsin’s budget deficit are just the first in a long line of changes coming for all of us.

Changes toward less spending are needed at each level of government. These coming changes will affect every citizen of our country and make all of us feel that promises made are being broken. But, budget deficits and the prospect of higher taxes at the state level would send jobs out of Wisconsin. Budget deficits at the federal level, with attendant borrowing and money printing, will result in failure of our dollar and a major downward adjustment in our standard of living. Responsible spending is key to our future. We all want the promise of American opportunity to exist for our children and our grandchildren.

I believe Harsdorf recognized these realities for Wisconsin. I believe she knows, that the future of our state depends on these reforms and fiscal responsibility. I believe she cared enough about the fu-

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tures of her family, and all of us, to vote for responsibility and fairness in Wisconsin.

I think Harsdorf deserves our thanks and our support. Vote for fairness and our common future. Vote for Sheila Harsdorf again!

John Hill Grantsburg

Necessary remedy

The citizens of Senate District 10 have collected enough signatures to force Sen. Harsdorf to face a recall election. The issue now is - does destructive and divisive leadership need to be called to account?

We elect leaders to represent our highest values.

We expect leaders to respect individual rights and the dignity of each person. Gov. Walker and Harsdorf have undermined our civil society and encouraged our worst instincts. They have used a genuine fiscal crisis to scapegoat groups of our fellow citizens, Instead of showing true leadership and calling for a collective effort to work together and sacrifice together, the governor and senator chose to attack public employees and teachers saying we must revoke historic and hard-earned rights of many decades, suggesting their responsibility for our debt crisis.

Any leader who engages in scapegoating in a democratic society dangerously and destructively undermines our democracy.

It attacks their worthiness as human beings and citizens. What Walker and Harsdorf essentially said to public employees and teachers is that you are no longer worthy of recognition and respect. Your individual and collective voice is no longer pertinent or legitimate.

Scapegoating also distracts attention from a constructive solution to a problem.

Most important and most destructive, it unleashes our worst instincts of blame ... envy, resentment and fear. In its more extreme forms, history has shown that it justifies persecution and denial of civil rights.

Harsdorf’s public statements have blamed outside interests. This has been the most authentic grassroots protest in recent history. She tries to pit public workers against taxpayers as if public workers and teachers were not also taxpayers and concerned about our debt. And she continues her war on unions with distorted incidents she claims show union irresponsibility. And most disturbing she has unleashed in some of her supporters vitriolic attacks and resentments against teachers.

The long history of dedication and service of teachers demands our gratitude not our scorn and resentment.

It is indeed ironic that while people from all over the world were cheering the truly historic protest for dignity and respect occurring in the Middle East that Walker and Harsdorf were working to strip dignity and respect from those public servants and teachers who are so crucial to our democratic society.

When fundamental values are under siege and there is such destructive leadership, a recall election is indeed a necessary remedy.

It is time for all citizens, whether independents, Republicans or Democrats, to turn to Shelley Moore, a positive and able voice that will listen to and represent all of the citizens of this district.

Fred Kramer Spooner

She hates us

Women take notice; I think Sheila Harsdorf hates us.

Look at Harsdorf’s voting record. Time and time again Sheila Harsdorf has voted to make it legal to deny health-care coverage that specifically benefits women.

Let’s go back in time. When Sheila voted for 2001 SB128 her vote said that although private health insurance might cover prescription drugs, it would not have to cover prescription contraceptives.

Supposedly Sheila is antiabortion, so what better way to avoid abortions than to make sure all women who have paid private insurance premiums have access to contraceptives? Why wouldn’t insurance

companies be expected to include prescription contraceptives? Because only women are affected! I think Sheila hates women!

2004 AB67, 2005 SB138, and 2006 AB207 are all bills that specifically target women’s health. These bills include legislation that makes it legal to lie to women about specific medical treatment, to deny women specific health-care coverage and to spread misinformation and fear that targets women’s reproductive health.

Sheila did all of this under the guise of being antiabortion. But these bills actually eliminate health screenings for both men and women that 1) save the taxpayers money and 2) make affordable health care available to maintain healthy families.

Sheila voted no to proper information to our youth. In 2006 SB286 SA2 and again in 2010 AB458 she voted against classes that would be accurate, thorough and age appropriate. Does Sheila really think that denying young people information about sex will make them abstain? She should look at the statistics. And who is left with the negative results of misinformation?

That’s right—it’s young women. I think Sheila hates women!

Sheila also voted yes to cut $500 million in Medicaid (2011 SB40). In these hard times Medicaid is more important than ever. It goes back to the old adage (no doubt from a woman) that a stitch in time saves nine. Medicaid money well spent saves us taxpayers from the exponential outcome of delayed health-care costs.

Who does Medicaid affect most often?

Women and children! Need I say it?

More than half the population of the 10th District is female, so ask yourself does Sheila really care about her constituents? Whatever agenda Sheila may have, it is not helping the women of this state.

Kris Surbaugh, woman, daughter, mother and grandmother Clam Falls

Budget perspective

Perspective seems to be lacking among those attempting to overturn an election by throwing Sen. Harsdorf out. To listen to them, one would think she was in favor of torturing puppies. In reality, she has voted to modestly trim the budget. Well, actually they increased the total amount of the budget by around 2 percent over the last budget passed by the Democrats in 2009.

The horror, while the crazies in Madison run around screaming about “draconian” budget cuts, the budget actually increased by 2 percent. In short, in the worst economy since the Great Depression, Harsdorf and her Republican colleagues held the line on spending and balanced the budget for the first time in a decade. They did this by making modest and commonsense cuts to spending and payments under bloated union contracts.

Along with passing a responsible budget and reining in union bosses, Harsdorf and the Republican majority have also passed jobs bills to stop lawsuit abuse, created tax credits for businesses moving to Wisconsin and creating jobs in Wisconsin, and formed a new economic development corporation to focus on attracting businesses to our state. Jobkilling regulations have been scaled back and government agencies have been retasked with creating jobs.

In short, Harsdorf has done exactly what needs to be done. And it is working.

Our business climate ranking has dramatically improved in just a few short months since the Republicans became the majority. Wisconsinites can be proud of our senator, Sheila Harsdorf, and the work she is doing on our behalf.

Glen A. Clausen Amery

The way it was done

Both Wayne Anderson and Mark Pettis have, in communications in the Leader, claimed falsely that recalls were designed to be used solely in cases of personal ethical misbehavior by public officials. History certainly does not support that false claim. In the two most recent cases of recall of Wisconsin legislators, Gary George

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in 2003 and George Petak in 1996, they were in fact each recalled specifically because votes they cast had so outraged their constituents that they were recalled.

There is good and sufficient precedent.

Anderson goes on to claim that opponents of Sheila Harsdorf are damaging or removing her signs. I don’t know what evidence he has of this, but I do know that politicians sometimes fake an attack on their campaign as a means of sullying their opposition. Gov. Walker in his famous phone call said that they had talked of having thugs infiltrate the demonstrators in Madison but had not done so. For that we were fortunate. Certainly tempers are high not just because of what was enacted but because of the way it was done.

We even find members of our highest state court in physical confrontation. Running fake (Democrats) to force a primary, as the Republicans are doing on July 12, and thereby doubling the cost of the recall election in an effort to delay the vote in the hope that voters will forget their outrage, is not likely to cool voters tempers any.

Nor should it.

Eiler Ravnholt Luck

Civic duty

Sen. Harsdorf was heard to wonder why she is being recalled; saying she thought this process was reserved for cases of malfeasance or criminal activity, not because one disagrees with a vote.

Sheila, how disingenuous can you be?

Well, let me disabuse you of any further “wonder.”

I’m voting to recall you because you lied about union busting and its necessity to a budget bill. You supported breaking the law by voting on an illegal bill, passed by breaking the open meeting laws. (You didn’t know how that would turn out at the time you voted.) Never, during all your political career, were any of your campaigns based on your desire to bust unions, decimate the public school system to fund private schools, remove affordableInternet in the schools to advantage AT&T (which you actually authored), end SeniorCare, end the earned income tax credit, defund the homestead tax credit, take away Family Care, suppress voting rights, dismantle clean water regulations, sell Wisconsin assets without the bidding process to your friends the Koch brothers, and finally give $200 million in new tax breaks and credits to the most wealthy.

So yes, I’m voting to recall you for malfeasance and criminal activity. You have proven that you are driven by agendas written by American Legislative Exchange Council and you have been bought by billionaires, whose goals are paying no taxes and ending environmental protections and financial regulations.

Keeping you in office for two more years would be irresponsible and detrimental to the future of Wisconsin. I see it as a civic duty to see you removed.

I support Shelly Moore because she is a fresh choice for District 10, and will work to protect the middle class and promote tax fairness. Her passion for honesty and integrity in government will be a welcome change from the skullduggery now going on. Moore’s career experience as a middleclass wage earner, in the public schools, trusted to teach and nurture children, certainly certifies her intelligence and trustworthiness for the Senate. As a union leader, Moore worked to ensure safe working conditions, fair wages and fair benefits, thereby setting standards for all workers of Wisconsin. She will strive to save those same critically important middle-class values; contrary to Harsdorf who has been racing to remove all middle-class values in a flurry of underhanded legislative actions.

Vote Shelly Moore for Senate on July 12 (primary) and on Aug. 9 (regular election).

Because Sheila Harsdorf allowed her Republican cohorts to promote a fake Democratic Party candidate, doubling the expense of this election by forcing a primary, it’ll be especially nice to vote for Moore twice!

Mad as heck in Balsam Lake Roxanne Moore Balsam Lake

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TeenServe given a home at Luck in 2012

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by Mary Stirrat Leader staff writer LUCK — The Luck School Board Monday night June 27, gave approval for a program of Habitat for Humanity to use the school next summer to host 300 students doing housing improvement projects.

TeenServe will be coming to this area in July 2012 under the auspices of a new Habitat for Humanity program called A Brush With Kindness. It is a weeklong missions trip for junior and senior high students from around the country to come to Polk and Burnett counties to help low-income residents with exterior home repairs.

An estimated 100 projects will be completed.

Students apply to be accepted to a TeenServe work camp, said Eric Kube, executive director for Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity, and those chosen are the “cream of the crop.”

Along with the 300 students will be 60 or more adults.

Kube approached the school last month to ask if TeenServe could use the school during its week stay.

About 30 classrooms would be required for sleeping rooms, the gym would be needed for evening programs, the locker and shower facilities would be used and a shop or garage for storage. In addition, if possible, a kitchen worker and custodian would be utilized.

There would be no cost to the district. Several TeenServe members would arrive a few days early to ready the facility, and things would all be put back together at the end of the week.

TeenServe would pay the salaries for janitorial staff and reimburse the district for supplies. Utility meters will be read before and after the week, and TeenServe will pay those costs.

According to district Administrator Rick Palmer, if custodians needed to work overtime later in the summer to make up for the time they couldn’t get into classrooms, TeenServe will also pay for that.

“After talking with (Kube) today,” said Palmer, “I felt pretty reassured that there would be no cost to us.”

The opportunity to bring that many people into the community, considering the potential ecoJen Nelson was hired as var- nomic impact, should not sity volleyball coach at Luck. be taken lightly, Palmer indicated.

“I think we need to bring that into our community,” he told the board.

Kube also approached the Unity School District regarding the same proposal, said Palmer. Unity will discuss and vote on the proposal in July. If both schools give approval, he said, TeenServe and Habitat for Humanity can decide which facility to use.

Test scores A new testing system for students in kindergarten through sixth grade was implemented this year, and Kristi Fenning gave the board an overview of those results along with results of the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam.

Kristi Fenning presents results of AIMSweb testing in the elementary school.

AIMSweb is an assessment and Web-based data-management program that measures progress in reading, language arts and math, although the district has thus far only used it for reading.

Students are given three one-minute reading tests a year, and both the number of correct and incorrect words are recorded. Improvement, struggling students and students who are excelling can all be identified and monitored. Interventions to help the struggling students will be developed this fall.

Eventually, said Fenning, the school will implement the reading comprehension and the math components of AIMSweb, expanding its use through high school.

WKCE scores were reviewed last month, but Fenning noted to the board that math is the area where students seem to be struggling. These tests are given in grades three through eight as well as 10.

According to Palmer, the AIMSweb program provides much more and more useable information than the WKCE tests. The AIMSweb math assessments will involve an eight-minute test three times a year.

“We have (in AIMSweb) a very comprehensive testing piece to look at how our kids are doing outside the WKCE tests,” said Fenning.

Volleyball coach A contingent of parents attended the meeting to show support for hiring Jen Nelson as varsity volleyball coach.

Several parents had submitted letters to the school board acknowledging Nelson’s work with members of the younger volleyball team.

Two parents spoke to the board, one emphasizing the positive impact Nelson has had in the lives of the girls she coaches, and the other discussing the excellence of Nelson’s program.

Later in the meeting the board voted unanimously to hire Nelson for the position. Athletic director Mark Gobler made the recommendation, stating that Nelson’s was the only application and that her interview was “outstanding.”

This photo shows one of the most deteriorated areas of the asphalt playground at Luck School. Monday evening the school board accepted a bid from Monarch Paving to remove the old asphalt, fix the base and apply new asphalt. Monarch was low bidder on the project at $18,080. — Photos by Mary Stirrat Other business • The board approved payment of $6,022 for the final amount due on the gym renovation project.

• An agreement is being drawn up between the school district and Head Start of Balsam Lake for Luck’s transportation director Rod Hamann to do maintenance on Head Start buses. “We will be selling some of Rod Hamann’s time,” said Palmer.

• A group of Luck School alumni have formed a nonprofit organization and are sending letters to 2,986 alumni seeking contributions for an alumni scholarship foundation.

• Out of 83 applicants, the board approved the hiring of Bethany Wohlk of Almena for an elementary teaching position. The board also voted to offer a 50-percent math teacher position, vacant with the retirement of Sheila Brom, to Jeff Brenizer, who was laid off last year. Ron Steen and Brad Schmidt were approved as junior high baseball coaches.

• Following a closed session the board voted to ratify a contract with support staff and department heads. The contract includes a 3-percent raise for next year, which is roughly half of what staff will be paying in under the governor’s new budget. “The board is trying to split the cost with them,” said Palmer. Administration settled for a 2-percent raise. The board directed Palmer to pursue a high-deductible health insurance policy which would qualify participants for a health savings account.

District curriculum readied for viewing

by Priscilla Bauer Leader staff writer GRANTSBURG – Piles of plans, each one neatly bound with a brightly colored cover, sat before Grantsburg School Board members as they prepared to start their Monday, June 27, meeting.

The board was ready to hear presentations on the revised curricula for counseling, physical education, art, and health education.

Elementary School Principal Katie Coppenbarger was ready too. As the district’s curriculum coordinator, she had prepared an overview of the Eclipse program district teachers use in developing curriculum.

Coppenbarger recognized the hard work the district’s teachers have done in the curricula development.

The district’s curricula will soon be available for public viewing online, which means parents will be able to check up on what their child is doing in any class at any time.

Board member Patty Bonneville remarked she was going to really shock her son using this new way of accessing what he’s been learning at school. “Now when I ask him what he did in school today, and he says nothing, I’ll be able to tell him what he’s been up to.”

High school counselor Cara Casey presented the counseling curriculum, telling board members she developed and taught a high school careers class for sophomores this past school year. Casey said she’s found the individual planning-session component of the curriculum, where she meets with students and their parents very beneficial.

“Now if someone asks you about the counseling curriculum, you have it, said Superintendent Burgin, referring to the plans before them, or you can tell them they can go online and look at it.”

Elementary physical education instructor Jason Hedrix told the board he added a cooperative-games unit to the physical education curriculum, which focuses on social skills, cooperation and teamwork.

“Does the curriculum include anything on ethics, sportsmanship and fair play?” asked board member David Dahlberg. “Yes, we have lessons on diversity and cooperation,” replied Hedrix.

Coppenbarger remarked to the board the physical education curriculum committee had produced an excellent product to guide their instruction.

Coppenbarger then presented the art education curriculum. “Our art instructors, Christine LePage and Jeremy Tomczak, give our students a well-rounded education. They cover all the standards because of their commitment to the students. It’s just they way they teach.”

The final curriculum revision presented to the board was the health education curriculum. Casey reported to the board that every two years students in grades six-12 take the youth risk behavior survey. Casey told the board it is a helpful tool given 50 percent of students engage in risky behavior by the time they are sophomores so courses such as human growth and development need to be taught by eighth grade.

Coppenbarger commented the curriculum is up to state standards while reflecting local values. Board President Dave Ahlquist, a member of the health education curriculum committee, said he found nothing offensive in the coursework.

The board approved each of the revised curricula as they were presented.

Burgin commended Coppenbarger for the work she has done as the coordinator, to which Coppenbarger remarked, “I take it very seriously, it’s very important.”

In other board business The transportation committee reported they are still in contract negotiations with the bus drivers.

Insight Principal Billy Beesley presented Insight School of Wisconsin’s student handbook for board approval.

Beesley said there were not a lot of changes to the handbook from last year except the school has, as Beesley put it, “upped the ante” with regard to the required percentage of coursework a student must pass. “It has been 50 percent needed to be completed, said Beesley, but that wasn’t enough so we have upped it to 60 percent.”

Beesley said the ISWI is also working on verifying documentation for home-school students and clarification on what constitutes plagiarism.

The board reviewed the staff development report, which details which teachers have attended what professional development courses, trainings and workshops.

The report also stated what the district has done to improve the staff’s knowledge.”

Burgin reported $53,000 has spent by the district on staff development.

“The staff has had a good mix of going outside the district for professional development opportunities and inside the district with team and group trainings. Teachers who have gone to a workshop train other teachers,” said Coppenbarger.

The board approved a contract with Stotz and Company for the annual school district audit at the same rate as the 2010 audit for a cost of approximately $9,950.

The board approved the 2010-11 budget transfers and budget amendments, the revised fund balance policy and the authorization of committed and assigned fund balances for 2011-2012.

Making history matter

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Grantsburg Rotary names Allissa Koenen Teacher of the Year

by Priscilla Bauer Leader staff writer GRANTSBURG – What makes junior high and high school students think history matters? The what is really a who, and the who is Allissa Koenen.

Koenen, Grantsburg School District’s gifted and talented teacher, was recently named Teacher of the Year by the Grantsburg Rotary for her efforts in getting students hooked on history.

Three years ago, Koenen and her husband, Matthew, a Grantsburg High School social studies teacher, got students involved in National History Day, a program created in 1972 by history teachers and professors who wanted to create a differentiated research project that would inspire students to think critically.

After accepting her award at the Grantsburg Rotary Club’s June 22 meeting, Koenen extolled the benefits of the NHD program to Rotary members and guests.

“The program, Koenen explained, lets students choose their own topic within a history-based annual theme. Students can create either a paper, performance, documentary, Web site or museum-style exhibit.”

According to Koenen, the NHD project, developed for grades sixth- through12thgraders, meets all state and national standards in history, the majority of the remaining social studies standards, and many of the language arts standards, as well as those found in math, science, art and music.

“The skills gained from participation in the NHD are phenomenal and it gets kids to think critically!” said the enthusiastic Koenen of her students involvement in the project.

Koenen was quick to name off those skills, which include reading, questioning, writing, speaking, research, looking up primary and secondary sources, creative skills, math, science and leadership.

Koenen told the group recent research shows student scores on state tests have significantly risen for those individuals that have participated in the NHD project in the areas of social studies, language arts, math, and science. Koenen said contrastingly, the scores for students that have not participated in NHD have remained stagnant.

“It’s a fierce competition,” said Koenen of the NHD. “It all begins with Grantsburg’s district fair, where close to 300 stu-

izens of the United States, and to change lives.

“Through the academic content and skills that I teach in my classroom, I hope they will apply the knowledge learned to all of their classes, life and beyond. I hope to instill a sense of excellence in all of my students! I want them to impress themselves with what they can do in life!” Koenen added.

Koenen is indeed passionate about her career choice and the unique opportunity of being able to work with her husband on the school’s history curriculum.

“I love teaching and I hope it shows I feel that teaching is the greatest career in the world. I get to come to work every day and teach! The kids in my classroom learn something new every day! I am passionate about teaching kids and I love the content I teach. I currently teach accelerated classes at the middle school and other gifted/talented activities. At the high school I teach social studies courses and work with the RTI program. I am lucky to teach with my best friend and husband, Matthew. Together we have created a unified history curriculum and co-taught many programs. It is wonderful to have a united teaching team.”

Koenen explained how important it was for her to get her students to think critically. “Something I do with all of my teaching and what drives motivates me every day is getting kids to think ... critically think! Getting kids to love learning, getting them to understand learning is cool, learning is hard work and takes practice, is what I do.

“I want to thank the Rotary Club for this award, said Koenen in her closing remarks, “I appreciate the recognition.”

Allissa Koenen spoke passionately of her love of teaching in her acceptance speech after being named Rotary Teacher of the Year. “I love teaching and I hope it shows I feel that teaching is the greatest career in the world. I get to come to work every day and teach! – Photos by Priscilla Bauer dents participate. Winners from the district fair move on to regional, state and possibly national levels of competition.

Each step of the competition gets more selective and fierce. Here at Grantsburg, we have gone to nationals two times in three years! Most schools take five to seven years,” Koenen added, the pride at her students accomplishments resonating in her voice.

Koenen said there were many reasons why she became a teacher. “I’m in teaching to change lives, inspire students, and help them develop the skills necessary for life. My philosophy in education encompasses many different facets. I believe in fostering excellence, pursuing academic rigor, and challenging students to always Allissa Koenen (right) was presented with the Grantsburg Rotary Teacher of the Year Award improve themselves. I want my students at the group’s June 21 meeting. Pictured with Koenen is (L to R): Grantsburg Middle School to excel at something in life! From these facets, I want my students to love learn- Principal Brad Jones, who nominated Koenen for the award; Grantsburg Superintendent Joni ing, to inspire others, to be productive cit- Burgin, Doug Felsenthal, Rotary president-elect; and Michael Langevin, Rotary president.

Presidential candidate John Davis visits Siren

John Davis from Grand Junction, Colo., a grassroots candidate for president of the United States, made a stop at the Siren Senior Center over the noon hour Tuesday, June 28. Davis is a conservative Republican who does not consider himself a politician. He has already been in several states (and 688 counties) and intends to be in every state and as many counties as he can before election in 2012. He has a “Contract to America” that includes: A balanced budget, term limits, upholding the Constitution of the U.S., commonsense leadership, less government and border control/work visas/citizenship for law-abiding aliens. For more about Davis and his “Let’s Fix America” Votercade travel schedule, visit www.johndavisforpresident.org or do an Internet search on John Davis Votercade. - Special Leader photo

Siren ready for implementation of state Budget Repair Bill

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by Nancy Jappe Leader staff reporter SIREN - Siren School District Administrator Scott Johnson commented, during the school board meeting Monday, June 27, on implementation of the state Budget Repair Bill which, if it goes according to schedule, will become law Wednesday, June 29. "It contains big-time cuts to public education," Johnson said.

"We are going to have to work harder than ever to pull together as a board of education and support staff, work really hard and make difficult decisions," he continued, commenting on how the board has worked to prepare a balanced budget. "We will have to roll up our sleeves and get it done. These are difficult times, but I am confident that we will get through. We are part of history in the making."

Duane Emery reported on the actions of the Indian Education Parent Committee, a group that will be meeting monthly to go over issues and to work on rewriting the policy manual to bring it up to the current operational level. "One of the goals is to get a definition of Impact Aid," said Dave McGrane, the board's representative on the committee. The new K-12 principal, Peggy Ryan, is also a member of this committee.

Decision on the bread bid for the district was tabled until next month's meeting.

Dayton Daniels went over goals set by the district for the year just completed, saying that he feels good about the goals that were met this year.

Decisions made in open session following closed-session discussion were as follows: 1) Acceptance of the resignations of Brad Morris as morning open gym supervisor, Jeff Roberts as assistant boys varsity baseball coach and Cindy Yourchuck as cook's helper (with 15 years of service to

“We are part of history in the making” - Scott Johnson

Siren School Board President Jeff Howe (R) received an appreciation plaque from the Tornado 10th-Anniversary Committee during the June 27 school board meeting. Shown here with Howe is District Administrator Scott Johnson. The plaque expresses appreciation to the district for making the school available to the community a number of times during the recovery from the 2001 tornado, starting with the night the tornado hit and the latest being the 10th-anniversary remembrance Saturday, June 18. - Photos by Nancy Jappe the district). 2) Reassigned Jon Ruud from 7:30-8 a.m. open gym supervisor to the 7-8 a.m. assignment for 2011-2012. 3) Hired Heather O'Brien as concessions advisor for 2011-2012 year.

Also during closed-session discussion, the board reviewed spring coaching evaluations and discussed contract negotiations with Siren Bus Service for the 2011-2012 contract.

Meeting schedule for school board committees for July is as follows: Budget and finance - Monday, July 18, 5 p.m. Building and grounds - July 18, 6 p.m. Policy, planning and curriculum - Wednesday, July 20, 5 p.m. Personnel and negotiations - July 20, 6 p.m.

Supreme Court reinstated the bargaining law on Tuesday, June 14, ordering Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette to publish the plan.

After waiting 10 days, La Follette did that in the Tuesday, June 28, Wisconsin State Journal.

"Unfortunately, from my perspective, because I thought it was a mistake to do this, the collective bargaining bill and all the

other pieces of it, including the changes to insurance and pensions, etc, will be in effect," says La Follette.

The state has said it won't begin deducting higher health and pension contributions until August.

The last time La Follette was about to publish this law back in March, a circuit court stepped in and told him not to. A lawsuit filed by several unions in federal

Peggy Ryan, Frederic, the new Siren K-12 principal, attended her first school board meeting Monday, June 27. Ryan officially starts work for the Siren School District Friday, July 1, and has now received a welcome from the school board.

Collective bargaining changes become law

by Shawn Johnson Wisconsin Public Radio MADISON - The proposal that ignited massive protests at the state Capitol and prompted a historic round of recall elections this summer is now law.

The governor signed it back in March, but a court challenge and a judge's temporary restraining order kept it from ever taking effect, until Wednesday, June 29. The

court was seeking the same result.

"I was sort of anticipating that the federal court might do something over the past week. But they have not," says La Follette.

That union lawsuit is still alive and could yet block the state from carrying out the bargaining plan. It claims provisions of the law that make it harder for unions to collect dues and that treat different public workers differently violate the U.S. Consti-

Free electronics recycling at the ReStore

The ReStore in St. Croix Falls filled a big truck from Vintage Tech Recycling with electronics to be recycled on June 15. ReStore manager David Sandmann prepared to load a pallet of electronics that will be hauled away and recycled. “We’re empty,” he said. “Ready for more!” This was the second large load of recyclables that has been hauled away for recycling from the ReStore. The ReStore accepts electronics for recycling free of charge during normal business hours, which are Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The ReStore also accepts donations of building materials, furniture, appliances and other household goods for resale during those hours. The proceeeds go back to Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity to help build and repair homes for low-income families in Polk and Burnett counties. The store is at 2201 Hwy. 8 in St. Croix Falls. Call 715-483-2700 or go to www.wildrivershabitat.org with any questions.- Photos by Jackie Thorwick

Summertime music at Memory Lake

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Sitting in lawn chairs at Memory Lake Park in Grantsburg, music lovers of all ages had near- perfect weather to listen to the mix of bluegrass, old-time music and rock performed by Karl Wicklund, Shotgun Johnson and the Mississippi Seven.

by Priscilla Bauer Leader staff writer GRANTSBURG – Memory Lake Park was just the place for some cool summertime music by Karl Wicklund, Shotgun Johnson and the Mississippi Seven on Saturday, June 25.

Sitting in lawn chairs or sprawled out on blankets, music lovers of all ages had near perfect weather to listen to the group’s mix of bluegrass, old-time music and rock.

Music in the Park performances are sponsored by the Grantsburg Music Festival Society and are made possible through generous donations from individuals and local businesses and organizations.

The next Music in the Park event at Memory Lake Park will be on Saturday, July 23, with a performance by Mike Timmer, the oneman piano band.

Karl Wicklund played a tune on his harmonica at the Grantsburg Music Festival Society’s first Music in Park event featuring Wicklund, Shotgun Johnson and Mississippi Seven.

Stuart Cole, Shotgun Johnson and the Mississippi Seven’s accordion player squeezed out some sweet sounds at Saturday night’s Music in the Park in Grantsburg.

The talent of flutist, Carrie Rivard, aka Scrappy Pucker, was noted by those listening to the tunes of Karl Wicklund, Shotgun Johnson and the Mississippi Seven at Memory Lake Park Saturday evening.

Local musician keeps fi fid ddlin’

Even as Wayne Thompson heads toward 90 years old, he keeps playing

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer MILLTOWN – He is a musical fixture of sorts, and has become one of the little highlights of the local music scene, even as he approaches 90 years old.

After 60 years on the road, local fiddler Wayne Thompson keeps his bow rosined and his timing on for an occasional stint with the local Rex Cactus Band, which has itself become a staple of local town celebrations and outdoor festivals.

Born on the Canadian side of the Red River Valley, Thompson, 88, has a history of music longer than many Canadian villages. As he recalls, he got his start when his father showed him the scales and turned him loose on a fiddle tune, which Thompson still remembers.

“It was ‘Go Tell Aunt Rhody,’” he said. “Oh, I can still play that song.”

Coming from a family loaded with musicians, he got his start at a young age and never looked back, playing on the road with his brothers and family band, who played everything from guitar to bass, fiddle and drums.

“It was 1937, in Fort Frances, Ontario,” he recalled smartly. “Been playing ever since.”

Thompson admitted he’s getting up there in years, and with some prodding, says he should probably practice more. But he also is pretty sure that playing music has kept him sharp, even as his body struggles with gravity, age and illness.

“Oh, yes, I’m sure of it,” he said very seriously.

“Music keeps you young.”

Thompson may also be part of a dying breed of renegade, old-time musicians, who not only set the standard for today’s bands and styles, but also worked hard to bring music to places where it was rare to have a band at all. He also realizes that his stories and experiences are ever more rare.

Wayne Thompson has played with some of country music’s legends, from Ernest Tubb to Dave Dudley, and still makes Milltown his home. He is seen here playing with the local Rex Cactus Band at the Milltown Fishermen’s Party. Photo by Greg Marsten “Half the guys I worked with in Nashville are dead!” he said with a shrug. “What can you do? I just keep on fiddlin’.”

While he started over seven decades ago with his family’s group, The Thompson Family Band, he later played across the Midwest and into California and beyond, with many local, regional and national artists, from Dave Dudley to Ernest Tubb to Stonewall Jackson and Marvin Rainwater. He also played with dozens of

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famous session musicians and big acts, either as a session musician or as an opening act.

“Oh yeah, I knew ‘em all,” he said. “Got a lot of good stories to go along with them.”

With some prodding, Thompson told one story about one of country music’s most famous characters, Ernest Tubb, nicknamed “The Texas Troubadour.” He recalled the time the great Tubb had an abscessed tooth, and how one of Tubb’s sons was frantically calling on any musicians at the gig for ideas, so his father could still play that night.

“I told him about an old remedy I’d used once,” he said, meticulously telling of using shots of whiskey by both the person in pain and the person helping them out. He suggested they each do a shot as a way to both relieve the pain, and “To make it so neither one of us cared about the tooth anymore.”

How it all turned out is fairly predictable. “It was really comical,” he said with a slight grin. “I think it helped us both.”

Several of Tubb’s sons would later go on to be respected musicians in their own right, down the line.

Thompson has hardly lived the high life of a musician, and admits that he needed to find other ways to supplement his income, so he has also worked as both an artist and as an architect over the decades.

“I couldn’t afford ‘em (those big houses),” he joked.

“So I drew ‘em instead!”

On top of his stints with Rex Cactus, Thompson also plays fiddle with the Arnie Chuckle Band in Minnesota on occasion, and admitted that it is a rather unique name, “But yes, that’s really what they’re called.”

He has lived in Milltown for over 70 years now, and is proud to play at local events and functions, even if just for a short spell.

“Best life a man could want,” he said with a slight grin peeking through his mustache. “But yeah, I should practice more!”

He might’ve even winked a little bit.

Tall ships come to Burnett County

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SIREN - When the tall ships dock in Burnett County, they won’t be sailing in on water. They’ll arrive in the form of photographs by Webster’s MJ “Marge” Springett. Her show, “Tall Ships and Other Life Boats,” moves to Siren in July after a successful monthlong run in Spooner.

Arts Burnett County is sponsoring the show, set to open Saturday, July 2, at 10 a.m. in The Gallery Gift and Floral building, 24248 Hwy. 35/70.

Last summer nine tall ships sailed Lake Superior to Duluth harbor. The ships stayed a week and during that time Springett, a professional photographer, virtually lived on Canal Street where the ships were docked.

Her father loved the wind and the water, so much so, that while living in North Dakota, when there was a tornado warning Springett said, “He would send all of the family to the basement, but he would stand on the porch with his hair blowing in the wind. I still sometimes picture him laughing in the face of a galeforce wind!”

She tells how her father sailed aboard PC-491, running the coast between Brazil and the southern United States. He taught his children all things nautical: clouds, wind vanes, meteorology. “When I was in Duluth around the boats, the water and seagulls, I felt a connection to my father,” she said.

The highlight of her tall ships week was sailing on the Pride of Baltimore II, her first time on a large sailing vessel. “The day was perfect for sailing: sunshine, puffy cumulus clouds and brisk wind. We were up close and personal as the crew shouted orders, raised the sails and tightened the rigging.”

The show consists of 20 photographs mounted on special aluminum sheets that increase the brilliance and intensity of the colors and “pop” the smallest details into sharp relief. Springett created note cards and published a glossy 40-page book of the images along with narrative and descriptions of each ship. She will be on hand for book signings and to visit with guests on opening day as well as Satur-

WEBSTER - In the spring, the Webster kindergartners learn all about the helpers in their community. They walk to the bank, post office, local grocery, gas station, library, ambulance, etc. They also learn about another important helper, the Krause Dairy Farm outside of Webster.

Kent Krause has welcomed the classes for several years, usually during June, which is Dairy Month, and has introduced them to his dairy cows, their feed, their home and their offspring. He teaches the 5- to 6-year-olds the high tech farming practices he uses. Krause’s milk all goes to the Burnett Dairy, and students are treated to string cheese, via Kent. – submitted

The USS Niagra helped Commodore Perry secure Lake Erie during the War of 1812. One of 20 tall ships photos by MJ Springett on exhibit at the Gallery Gift and Floral in Siren starting Saturday.

The brig Roald Amundsen, home port: Eckenforde, Germany, is one of 20 tall ships photos by MJ Springett on exhibit at The Gallery Gift and Floral in Siren starting Saturday, July 2. – Photos by MJ SPringett

days, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., in July.

Springett and her husband, Jim, purchased their Webster retirement home in 2000, planning for their 2006 retirement.

Jim remembers the 2001 F3 tornado. “We were in White Bear Lake visiting Marge’s mom and we all watched the reports on television. We didn’t know what to expect.”

The next weekend they drove up to

check on their property, saw the devastation and witnessed how the community came together, “putting their homes and business back in order. There was no lack of cooperation and helping. That told us a lot about home-to-be and the spirit of the community,” recalled Jim. Since moving here, Jim, an artist, and Marge have been active in community arts organizations. Marge belongs to the Northern Lights Camera Club and the Crex Photo Club. They are both members of the Burnett Area Arts Group and ABC. Arts Burnett County, established in November 2010, is a group of local citizens who share a passion for creative expression in all its forms and mediums as well as traditional heritage skills such as quilting, taxidermy and blacksmithing used

daily by settlers, native Americans and tradespeople.

The group meets monthly with the mission of fostering, coordinating, enabling and supporting the creative economy, arts and culture in Burnett County by implementing the arts language in the Burnett County Long Range Plan – Vision 2030.

There are no dues; everyone is welcome.

An official show opening, reception and book-signing event is being planned for later in July. Regular Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. For additional information, call 715-349-2323, or e-mail galleryparkside@sirentel.net. – from ABC

A day at the farm

Webster kindergartner Victoria gets a close-up look at a small calf being held by Kent Krause.

Kent Krause explains how a dairy farm operates in one of his farm buildings outside Webster.

Ian, a Webster kindergartner, enjoys the view from one of the tractors on the Krause Dairy Farm near Webster. – Photos submitted

Kent Krause welcomes Webster kindergartners to his family dairy farm.

SUMMER SPORTS

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Freshman/Sophomore Summer League gives hoops junkies a sneak peek

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer FREDERIC – If you’re a basketball fan and a feeling a little disconnected as summer rolls on, there is some relief available at the Frederic gymnasium this Wednesday, June 29, and next week.

They are in the tail end of hosting a fiveweek-long Freshman/Sophomore Summer League, a series of basketball scrimmage games for girls who happen to be freshmen or sophomores this fall. It is a sort of junior varsity preview, but also a chance to see program development for most local schools.

The scrimmage series culminates in a playoff on Wednesday, July 6, for girls from eight local schools: Frederic, St. Croix Falls, Unity, Luck, Shell Lake, Amery, Grantsburg and Siren, with the hopes to develop their talents even further prior to the upcoming season.

“It gives them a chance to develop against players their own age,” stated

Luck and Grantsburg girls faced off last Wednesday, June 22, with the nod going to Luck this time.

Frederic and Siren girls played a physical contest on Wednesday.

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The large Frederic gymnasium allows two games to be played at once. Pictured here is Luck, Siren, Frederic and Grantsburg. They also use the smaller gym for contests, giving six teams simultaneous court time. – Photos by Greg Marsten

Luck girls varsity head coach Marty Messar, who began the series over a decade ago, and appreciates the importance of that development so much, he utilizes several of his rare “contact days” for the program.

Some of the teams use actual basketball coaches, while others use varsity players or even parents, saving up their coach contact time for more specific training prior to the start of play this fall.

The teams range in size from just a handful to a whole gaggle of players, with constantly rotating teams on the court, of all skill levels, but pretty evenly matched games so far.

“It’s really about just having some fun,

The Grantsburg Pirates worked the perimeter against the Cardinals.

The Unity and St. Croix Falls girls played in the small gymnasium, in a fast-paced contest.

also,” Messar said with a grin, using the series to encourage players to develop their skills in the off-season with real, live contact with players their own age and skill levels, without having to go to camps or be on traveling squads.

For hoops fans, it’s also a chance to do a little friendly scouting, and competing coaches can sometimes be seen discreetly watching on the sidelines, stuffed into the thin row of chairs on the gym walls, magazine in hand for off times.

The games are limited to Wednesday night, and are split into two 20-minute halves, with very few time-outs, and even fewer fouls called. The referees are either recent or current Frederic Viking basketball men and women, and while they take their roles very seriously, they also are new to refereeing, and that gives them a newfound respect for the job, for very little money.

“Hopefully I didn’t blow too many calls!” joked recent graduate Robert Kirk, who, like many of the rookie refs, had to learn how to blow a whistle hard that first week.

The Freshman/Sophomore League runs on the next two Wednesday evenings at the three Frederic gyms, beginning at 6 p.m., ending on July 6 with a sort of playoff series.

The whistles should be a lot louder by then.

The Luck and Grantsburg squads were very evenly matched.

••• BEMIDJI, Minn., – Former Frederic athlete Jake Schmidt was named as one of the team captains of the Bemidji State football team for the 2011 fall football season. Schmidt is a safety for the Beavers and studying political science according to University’s Web site. The team already had an intersquad scrimmage earlier in the spring, where Schmidt recorded five tackles. Bemidji State is returning 30 regular players from last season, where they Jake Schmidt finished with a 7-4 record overall and 6-4 record in the Division 2 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. The Beavers first game of the season will be a home game at Chet Anderson Stadium on Aug. 25 against Minot State for their 13th-annual Beaver Bash beginning at 7 p.m. – with information from www.bsubeavers.com ••• GRANTSBURG – On Friday, July 22, The Grantsburg football team is hosting its first-ever golf tournament fundraiser at the Grantsburg Golf Course to help the team purchase new concussion management helmets. "We have never really done a fundraiser like this before, so I'm excited to see how it goes. It will be fun to hopefully see some of the former players return and help us out," said Pirates head coach Keith Lehne. Registration begins at 2 p.m., with a shotgun start at 3 p.m. The golf event is also incorporating a football-like atmosphere, according to John Addison. “Let’s just say you might want to brush up on your punt, pass and kicking skills. For all you cart-riding golfers you might want to make early reservations and put in a bid for a cart. There will also be a few ‘Super Carts’ loaded with snacks, golf balls and other goodies,” Addison said. Cost is $25 for nine holes and a dinner. This is a four-person best ball scramble tournament. To reserve a spot call 715-463-2300, or call Addison at 715-463-2300. – Marty Seeger with submitted information ••• WEBSTER – Tim Grambo of Apple Valley, Minn., shot a hole-in-one on the Fox Run Golf Course in Webster on Sunday, June 26. Grambo was golfing on the par 3, 110-yard hole No. 8 and was using his 7-iron.

••• OSCEOLA – The St. Croix Falls at Osceola WABA baseball game is being broadcast on 104.9 FM beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 30. The Menomonie at Osceola WABA baseball game can be heard on 104.9 FM on Wednesday, July 6, at 7:30 p.m.

••• LEADER LAND – Leader Sports strives to follow the college careers of area athletes. If you know of an athlete playing collegiate sports in 2011 and hasn’t been mentioned, send us an email or call and we’ll take it from there.

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Nelson siblings’ volleyball camp lights up the SCF gym

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by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer ST. CROIX FALLS – Local St. Croix Falls Saints athletic legends Meredith and Andy Nelson came home last week for their annual Nelson Crunch Volleyball Camp at their alma mater.

Meredith Nelson was a star multisport athlete for the Saints, and later a celeDivision 1 college level players helped direct local volleyball players in basic and specialized skills. – Photos by Greg Marsten

Sophia Davies of Osceola sets up a ball for Nikki Ticknor of Grantsburg.

brated All-American volleyball player for the Minnesota Gophers, graduating in 2006 as one of the best Gopher volleyball players ever. She was one of the premier

middle blockers in the Big Ten, and carried the maroon and gold to great levels over her prominent career.

Her younger brother, Andy Nelson, was also a celebrated Saints multisport superstar, and just finished his senior year for Division I Ball State University as a mid-

Grantsburg's Gab Witzany (No. 6, foreground) worked out with players from across the region.

Incoming Luck freshman Jenni Holdt prepared for high school play this year for the Cardinals.

P O R T S dle attacker. He was recently named to the 2011 American Volleyball Coaches Association All-America Second Team. He was also a runner-up for the inaugural Off the Block Blocker of the Year award, and remains one of the premier Ball State volleyball players, ever.

They also had some help with teammates and friends from their programs to make the camp a reality for quite a few local volleyball girls last week.

Girls from several local school districts and competing programs participated, including St. Croix Falls, Luck, Frederic, Osceola and Grantsburg. The clinics included were part of the three-day camp, which ran in the afternoons and early evenings, allowing the girls to have specialized instruction and play action scrimmages to hone their skills.

The Nelson Crunch Camp has become a solid skills addition to local volleyball programs, and while it also competes with quality summer time for families, with jobs, summer camps and vacations, it is also a well-respected development tool that coaches encourage.

Luck graduate Morgan Denny prepared for college play with a "dribbling" drill.

Highlights from Siren Ballpark’s 12U tourney

Unity’s Austin Donahue, Dylan Stenberg, Nathan Cousins and Hunter Pederson took second place during the around-the-horn contest during the 15th-annual 12U baseball tournament held at the Siren Ballpark on June 1719. They are part of Unity’s A baseball squad.

ABOVE LEFT: Josh Hinkley of St. Croix Falls was one four athletes to hit a home run over the fence during the Siren Ballpark 12U baseball tournament.

ABOVE: The Unity Eagles A 12U baseball team took second place among six other teams during the 15th-annual Siren Ballpark tournament held June 17-19. The Unity team is coached by Chad Stenberg and Marty Ince. Superior came in first place, followed by Unity, Osceola, Grantsburg and Siren/Webster.

FAR LEFT: Unity’s Dylan Stenberg and Landon Hendrickson placed third during the baserunning competition.

LEFT: St. Croix Falls A baseball players Josh Hinkley and Kevin Cross took second place overall during the baserunning competition. – Photos submitted

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Bocci ball invitational

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On Saturday, June 4, Special Olympics held their sixth-annual Bocci Ball Invitational in Milltown at the community center. Thirty Special Olympians participated, four teams from Polk County and two teams from Ellsworth. Homemakers from CTH W served food to 75 people that day.

Pictured (photo at right) are homemakers (L to R): Kate Kellerman, Betty Schandorff, Pam Caple, Patti Goralski and Sarah Brenizer. Gratitude is extended to the homemakers and all the local merchants for their donations year after year to keep supporting these events throughout the year. – Photos submitted

Local athletes win big at state competition

MADISON – Local athletes won big while competing at the Special Olympics Wisconsin 2011 state summer games in Stevens Point, June 9-11. Thursday was a beautiful evening to kick off the opening ceremony for the more than 1,800 athletes, their coaches, and family members who attended the games. Hundreds of law enforcement officers joined in the fun to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Law Enforcement Torch Run by escorting the Flame of Hope™ from all corners of Wisconsin, uniting in Stevens Point.

Spirits stayed sky high during track and field, soccer and aquatics events on Friday despite a cold drizzle. The Wal-Mart Healthy Athletes tents, where athletes received free on-site health-care screenings, welcomed visitors throughout the afternoon, while power lifting, aquatics and athletics competitions took place on Saturday as scheduled.

Congratulations to the following athletes:

Crystalynn R. Fougner, Amery, placed first place in 100-meter dash, fifth place in the 4x100 relay, and first place in the shot put-female 12 and older.

Dawn Hughes, Amery, placed second in the softball throw.

Amy L. Pickard, Amery, placed third in the turbo javelin, 16 and older.

Justin P. Christensen, Balsam Lake, placed first in the 25M backstroke, second place in the 25M freestyle swimming and third place in the 4x25 free relay swimming.

Jarvis Warwas, Frederic, placed seventh in the 100-meter dash, fifth place in the 100-meter dash and second place in the turbo javelin, 16 and older.

Angela L. White, Milltown, placed first in the 50-meter backstroke, fifth place in the 50-meter freestyle swimming and third place in the 4x25 free relay swimming.

Erin Anderson, Milltown, placed sec-

ond in the 50-meter backstroke, second place in the 50-meter freestyle swimming, and third place in the 4x25 free relay swimming.

Nikolaus Schrantz, Osceola, placed first in the 400-meter dash, second in the 800-meter run and fifth place in the 4x100 relay.

Makinzie E. Miller, Osceola, placed fourth in the turbo javelin, 15 and under.

Shelly R. Swanson, St. Croix Falls, placed third in 100-meter freestyle swimming, fifth place in 200-meter freestyle swimming and third place in 4x25 free relay swimming.

Jackson Bean, St. Croix Falls, placed sixth in 100-meter dash and fourth place in softball throw.

Athletes from around the state qualified for the state summer games according to their recent performances at the local, regional or district tournaments.

When not competing, athletes bright-

ened up the rainy day by participating in karaoke and Bingo. The fun continued Friday night at the Packer-themed closing ceremonies complete with a giant, inflatable Packer helmet, the Klement’s Racing Sausages and of course the victory dance.

Gratitude is extended to Kwik Trip and the Law Enforcement Torch Run, the Mission Partners of SOWI, and to State Games Partners Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Fox Sports Wisconsin for enabling the organization to hold nearly 75 competitions and five state tournaments per year. SOWI provides yearround training and competition opportunities through 18 different Olympic-type sports for nearly 10,000 individuals with cognitive disabilities.

Join their online community by following them on Twitter and Facebook. For more information, visit SpecialOlympicsWisconsin.org or call 800-552-1324. – from Special Olympics Wisconsin

Siren and Webster school districts join SCRMC sports medicine program

SIREN/WEBSTER – Last August, St. Croix Regional Medical Center began providing injury prevention and care to many of our area’s young athletes. This fall the school districts of Siren and Webster will begin participating in the SCRMC sports medicine program. Previously, the school districts of St. Croix Falls, Unity and Fred-

eric partnered with this important new service which includes sports medicine physicians, certified athletic trainers, physical therapists, orthopedic surgeons, a podiatrist and a dietician. Each staff member is dedicated to helping area athletes, as well as active (and becoming active) adults, avoid injuries while

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Women’s Slow-Pitch Monday League Team Record Coyland Creek 5-0 Beehive 4-0 Smith Family Eye Care 3-2 Kris’ Pheasant Inn 2-3 Maurer Construction 2-4 The Rumors 2-4 Big Butz BBQ 0-5 Scores Monday, June 27 Coyland Creek 19, Big Butz BBQ 7 Smith Family Eye Care 21, Kris’ Pheasant Inn 3 The Rumors 7, Maurer Construction 4 Beehive 17, The Rumors 2

Men’s Slow-Pitch Wednesday League Team Record Bon Ton 5-0 Chell Well 5-0 Pour House 4-1 Century 21 3-2 Wayne’s 3-2 Kris’ Pheasant Inn 2-3 Sundowners 2-3 True Quality Auto Body 1-4 JCS 0-5 Lake Lena 0-5 Scores Wednesday, June 22 Chell Well 29, JCS 9 Pour House 18, Wayne’s 9 Bon Ton 16, Century 21 3 True Quality Auto Body 14, Lake Lena 13 Sundowners 16, Kris’ Pheasant Inn 12

Falun Church League Team Record Calvary Covenant 5-0 Siren Assembly 4-0 Trade Lake Baptist 4-0 New Hope Lutheran 3-2 Webster Baptist 2-2 Falun Churches 2-3 Faith Lutheran 2-3 Trade River Free 2-3 W.Sweden/Zion Lutheran 1-3 Siren Covenant/Bethany 0-4 Frederic Free 0-5 Scores Thursday, June 23 Trade Lake Baptist 23, New Hope Lutheran 14 Webster Baptist 20, Falun Churches 17 Calvary Covenant 37, W.Sweden/Zion Lutheran 5 Friday, June 24 Faith Lutheran 13, Siren Covenant/Bethany 3 Trade River Free 11, Frederic Free 10 Upcoming Thursday, June 30 7 p.m.

Webster Baptist vs. Calvary Covenant 8 p.m.

Trade Lake Baptist vs. Falun Churches 9 p.m.

Faith Lutheran vs. Trade River Free Friday, July 1 7 p.m.

Siren Assembly vs. Frederic Free 8 p.m.

W.Sweden/Zion Lutheran vs.

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providing an informative and motivational environment for those who do become injured. The program places athletic trainers in the schools and at events.

In November 2010, SCRMC also began providing sports medicine injury prevention and care program, including concussion management, to the W.S.F.L.G. Blizzard boys and girls hockey teams as part of its new St. Croix Regional sports medicine service. The Blizzard is a cooperative team that includes the schools of Siren, Luck, Frederic, Grantsburg,Webster, Unity and St. Croix Falls. Just recently, sports physicals were conducted in the Siren and Webster area by Dr. John Ingalls and physical therapists Stacie Ruud and Robyn Formanek of the Ingalls Clinic in Webster. They were joined by members of the sports medicine team from SCRMC including Dr. Pat McDonough, physical

therapist Frank Johnson and athletic trainers.

The primary goal of this multifaceted program is to help prevent sports-related injuries and, if they do occur, to provide beginning-to-end management of injuries and musculoskeletal problems. “This program will let area youth and active adults meet their sports-related health care needs here in our community. What’s more,” Formanek, at the Ingalls Clinic in Webster pointed out, “staying active serves important health benefits that go well beyond sports!” Areas of focus include sports physicals, appropriate diet and nutrition, concussion evaluation and management, musculoskeletal and ligament injuries, fracture care and management and preventing anterior cruciate ligament injuries, especially in female athletes. – submitted

Grantsburg 14U fast-pitch places high in tourney

The Grantsburg 14U fast-pitch team competed in the Millpond Madness Tournament in Baldwin. The team played three games on Saturday, June 25, to determine seeding for the championship bracket on Sunday. The girls won their first-bracket game on Sunday, 10-6, against Hastings A. The second-bracket game was lost to Centennial 9-5. Pictured back row (L to R): Coach Duke Tucker, manager Tammy Swenson, Harlei Hennessey, Marissa Jensen, Kelsey Fiedler, Katie Miller, Brooke Roufs, Megan Miller and coach Kevin Miller. Front row: Rheanna Johnson, Hope Tucker, Olivia Tucker, Audrey Lauer, Mackenzie Omer, Alyssa Taylor and Taola Swenson. – Photo submitted

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Hunters, volunteers assist DNR to count bears

Study last done in 2006, will take place every five years

by Marty Seeger Special to the Register POLK COUNTY – A study that estimates the population of black bears in Wisconsin is nearing completion in the northern half of the state, including Polk, Burnett and 29 other counties. The spring portion of the study is just the first step in determining the general population estimate in the state as hunters this fall will be expected to provide a rib sample if they harvest a black bear.

The study enlisted several volunteers who helped local wildlife biologists with placing small wooden boxes packed with bait on trees roughly 7 to 8 feet off the ground. The boxes included nine antibiotic pills containing tetracycline, which were packed into a gooey mixture of peanut butter and marshmallows, which can be an irresistible treat to bears, especially in the spring. The boxes are then sprayed with liquid smoke to help increase the chances of luring in a bear.

The DNR hopes a bear will climb up the tree, leaving distinct markings to further asses that a bear visited the bait site, and tear open the bait box, which is securely shut and tacked high into a soft-barked tree. They then hope the bear eats the bait, along with the tetracycline pills. The pills are harmless to the bears, but leave a distinct marking on their bone tissue, which can only be seen through a microscope.

Baits were left in the woods for about three weeks before being removed near the end of May, but some baits were left out a bit longer due to the unseasonably late spring weather.

Each bait box contains nine tetracycline pills packed together with an irresistable coating of peanut butter and marshmallows. If a bear ingests the tetracycline, it leaves a distinct marking on the bear’s bone tissue. – Photo by Marty Seeger

One of several thousand bait boxes hangs high in a tree in the Wisconsin north woods.

The purpose is to attract a bear that will eat the contents inside the box and assist the DNR in its effort to gain an accurate estimate of the state’s black bear population. – Photo submitted “We had a heck of a time with all the rain. It washed liquid smoke off boxes.

Washed away evidence because of rain,”

said Polk County wildlife biologist, Michelle Carlisle, who is still waiting for some of the data sheets from volunteers who helped with the study.

A total of 108 bait boxes were strategically placed in Polk County, which perfectly formed a gridlike pattern when shown on a map. Another 102 boxes were placed in Burnett County, but the number of baits varied in each county based on the size of the area.

“Theoretically, one bear will get one bait

versus one bear getting five baits by using this system, because they’re approximately three miles apart,” Carlisle explained.

Some areas of Polk County had significantly better bear habitat than others, but DNR staff and volunteers were able to make it work.

The first study of its kind, which many refer to as “mark and recapture,” was done in 2006 and will continue to take place every five years according to the DNR’s bear management plan. During the 2006 study, it was found that the bear population was nearly double what was originally thought. As a result, more hunting permits were issued, and the bear harvest increased, but don’t expect the study from this spring to impact upcoming bear hunting seasons immediately. The final results aren’t expected until 2013.

The next step in determining the population estimate will be this fall during the “recapture” portion of the study. Hunters who are fortunate enough to harvest a black bear during the fall of 2011 or during the 2012 season will be asked to submit a rib sample as they did during the 2006 and 2007 fall hunting seasons.

According to bear research scientist Dave MacFarland, the tetracycline “mark” will remain visible in a bear’s bone tissue for up to three or four years, “until the calcium in the bone is replaced,” MacFarland said.

Assisting with the study, along with the many volunteers and landowners, was the Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association, who built and supplied the bait boxes.

The general hunting population also assisted with the efforts even though they may not have been involved directly.

“This study is funded through segregated fees originating from the sale of hunting licenses,” MacFarland noted.

Polk County is getting another game warden

New wardens begin to fill high number of warden vacancies

MADISON – Ten new conservation wardens, including one in Polk County, will go on duty in their permanent field stations this summer, following a year of training designed to make them proficient in a wide range of job responsibilities aimed at enhancing public safety and protecting Wisconsin’s natural resources.

Randy Stark, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources chief warden, says the

arrival of these new wardens is welcome news in the force challenged by high vacancies due to baby-boom retirements.

The wardens will be assigned to the counties of Polk, Rusk, Outagamie, Calumet, Fond du Lac, Jackson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine and Ozaukee.

“The work conservation wardens do is complex, demanding, fulfilling and important to our state’s future vitality.

These new wardens are a welcome addition, hitting the field to give us greater customer service at a time when we have a high number of vacancies,” Stark said.

Based on the current age structure in the warden service, Stark anticipates more

than 30 more retirements by the end of 2013. “We feel very fortunate the new state budget contains authorization to hire additional classes of wardens in each of the next two fiscal years.

“We are proud of our new wardens.

They have worked hard to prepare themselves to begin work in their field stations. We anticipate the people these wardens serve will quickly see they have a highly trained, dedicated and personable professional officer working in their communities,” Stark said.

The new wardens started their DNR career in June 2010. Their first year was spent training. They began in the recruit academy at Fort McCoy, graduating in

September. The rest of the year they attended various specialized training assignments – including several tours with experienced field-training officers.

The new wardens will begin their duties by mid-July.

Shaun Tyznik will be based in Amery and cover Polk County. Tyznik is replacing Rich Thole who transferred to Vilas County. Tyznik grew up in Thorp. He is a University of Wisconsin-River Falls graduate. He majored in biology and minored in chemistry. He also worked as a deputy sheriff in Minnesota for more than four years. The other Polk County warden is Jesse Ashton. – from the DNR

Several law changes coming for Wisconsin bear hunters

Many take effect this weekend

MADISON – Changes are coming this week for Wisconsin bear hunters under legislation signed into law this month by Gov. Scott Walker.

More dog-training opportunities and a license-free weekend are among the changes to take effect Saturday, July 2.

Bear hunters and dog trainers should note the new law is not included in the current bear-hunting rules pamphlet printed in December 2010. However, bear hunters should review the changes on the hunting and trapping regulations page of the DNR

Web site.

The major changes include:

• Dog training: One big change increases the opportunity to train dogs to track or to trail bear. The statewide bear dog training period remains July 1 through Aug. 31. The new law allows trainers to work with their dogs in bearhunting zones A, B and D when the season is open for hunting bear with dogs.

This combined training, hunting period will be from Sept. 7 through Oct. 4.

• License-free weekend: Normally, a Class B bear license has been needed to participate in bear dog training or placing

bait for bear hunting and dog training.

The new law allows individuals to participate in these activities on one weekend each year without the need for a Class B bear license. This free weekend will be the third Saturday and the following Sunday

of August each year. This year the free weekend will be Aug. 20 and 21. All participants must still comply with all other rules that regulate these activities.

See Bear laws/ next page

Great Northern Outdoors Bass Fishing League Standings Week 7 Standings

Co-sponsored by BLC Well Drilling in Milltown

1. Long, 56 lbs., 5 oz.

2. Luck Sport and Marine, 52 lbs., 14 oz.

3. Bistram Boys, 49 lbs.,11 oz.

4. 46 Store, 49 lbs. 9 oz.

5. Main Dish, 49 lbs., 1 oz.

6. Jim Duncan, 47 lbs., 14 oz.

7. Cory/Jamie, 47 lbs., 2 oz.

8. Bon Ton, 43 lbs., 15 oz.

9. Laqua/Allee, 41 lbs. 3 oz.

10. GNO, 35 lbs. 0 oz.

11. Milltown Dock, 33 lbs., 9 oz.

12. Harry/Dave 32 lbs., 8 oz 13. Mossey’s, 30 lbs., 7 oz.

14. Grumpy Grandpas, 30 lbs., 4 oz.

15. Struck/Lonetti, 28 lbs., 13 oz.

16. BLC Well Drilling, 27 lbs., 6 oz.

17. Ones/Roberts, 20 lbs., 13 oz.

18. Dockmasters, 19 lbs., 14 oz.

19. Bill Hallenger 6 lbs., 3 oz

Big bass/Big bag weekly winner: Big Bass: 46 Store, 2 lbs., 11 oz.

Big Bag: Struck/Lonetti, 8 lbs., 2 oz.

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Neil McKenzie Youth Fishing Derby another success

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer POLK COUNTY – Dreary skies didn’t dampen the eighth-annual Neil McKenzie Youth Fishing Derby on Saturday, June 18, for kids as young as 13 months to 17 years old who enjoyed a free event with food, prizes and of course, fishing.

The event held on Deer Lake in Polk County drew 96 participants who loaded up onto 10 different pontoons and numerous other boats with help from many volunteers, local businesses and the Polk County Sportsmen’s Club, which has helped co-sponsor the event.

Joyce McKenzie, wife of the late Neil McKenzie, by whom the derby was inspired, has spent many of the past years working phones and putting on miles to help make the event as successful as possible. Year after year, new fishing stories and memories are made and the event continues to be one of the more popular early June fishing events.

“There were many fish caught and lots of stories. Some, of course, about the one that got away!” McKenzie said.

The private lagoon located on the southeast end of Deer Lake has served as an ideal outpost for the event, to not only feed the many youth participants and volunteers, but to socialize, weigh fish, hand out awards and trophies and take photos. For many, the fishing derby has

Nearly 100 kids fished the Neil McKenzie Youth Fishing Derby on Saturday, June 18, which is a free event co-sponsored by the Polk County Sportsmen’s Club with lots of help from local businesses and willing volunteers. – Photos submitted

served as a growing family tradition as well. Laurel Flatten and four generations of her family were on hand. It was their fifth consecutive year at the event and Flatten is celebrating her 90th birthday this year. Youth anglers signed a card for Flatten, as well as sang “Happy Birthday” to her.

Next year’s Neil McKenzie Youth Fishing Derby is being planned for Saturday, June 16, 2012. Every event is free, but you must preregister to participate. Contact Joyce McKenzie at 715-646-2060 for more information.

“Many heartfelt stories have been shared through the years as a result of this volunteer-driven event. Contributions of time, labor, money, equipment, food and love make this kids day a great experience for all involved. I know Dad would appreciate seeing the efforts expended to keep kids fishin’,” said Kelly Sylte, daughter of Joyce and Neil McKenzie.

Laurel Flatten (left) and four generations of her family participated in the fishing event. Joyce McKenzie, (at right) has played a big role in orchestrating the event each year.

Results from the Neil McKenzie Youth Fishing Derby Ages 1 - 5 Sunfish

First: Kaylee Waalen Second: Izzy Iwaszko

Bass

First: Jacobey Judkins

Perch

First: Connor Eichelt

The late Neil McKenzie provided the inspiration for the annual youth fishing contest, which continues to be a success.

Crappie/Rock Bass

First: Nicholas Silvis Second: Sam Kruger

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2.530

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Ages 7 - 9 Sunfish

First: Mason Vitalis Second: Ben McNamara

Bass

First: Cullen Gatten Second: Max Holden

Perch

First: Ben McNamara

Crappie/Rock Bass

First: Emma Karl Second: Max Holden

July 18, 2011 .675 .640

1.695 1.460

.455

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Ages 10 - 12 Sunfish

.580 First: Jimmy Rosen Second: Jaxon/Caden Edwards .435

Bass

First: Dawson Johnson

Perch

First: Danica Rosen Second; Kiara/Bryn Afdahl

Crappie/Rock Bass

First: Bella Gatten Second: Jacob Hoffman

2.810

.405 .285 .480 .470

Ages 13 - 17 Sunfish

First: Spencer Morrison Second: Torre Judkins

Bass

First: Chase Belisle Second: Tori Ward

Perch

First: Stephanie Chaussee Second: Tori Ward

Crappie/Rock Bass

First: Alex Barthman

.525 .515

2.070 1.675 .335 .315

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Why I fillet my fish on the Inter-County Leader

by Dick Ugland Special to the Leader FREDERIC – This humble fisherman has been holding the news about the InterCounty Leader for too long. Though proud of his insight, he has experienced efforts to stifle or ignore him. Recently, when sharing his filleting tips, the listeners went on and on about their fish-catching prowess. A banker in Luck went on about his fish-catching conquests in northern Wisconsin and Canada, and showed pictures of huge walleyed pike and northern pike. A retired school psychologist had to brag about the big largemouth bass and huge northern pike he recently caught on the lake I live on – Ward Lake – and then smiled in pride and walked off.

A local butcher just grinned and went on about how he fillets with a new aggressive style, probably applying his experience with cows and pigs. He was too busy to hear me out. I will not disclose their full identity except to give their first names as I remember them – Tam, Pete and Milt.

Bear laws continued

• No license for under 16: Previously, youth under age 12 could participate in activities requiring a Class B bear license without the need to purchase or hold a license. This license exemption now includes those under age 16. The activities authorized by a Class B bear license have included allowing the license holder to place bait for bear, train dogs to track or trail bear and assist a Class A bear-license holder locate bear for the Class A bear-license holder to harvest.

• Do more with Class B: The Class B

Author Dick Ugland fillets his fish with a little help from the Inter-County Leader. – Photo submitted bear-license authority has been expanded to allow the holder of the license and anyone age 10-15, who do not need a Class B bear license, to shoot a bear in one specific situation. If a bear has been shot, but not killed, by a Class A bear-license holder and the killing of the bear is necessary to protect human safety, a Class B bear-license holder may shoot to kill the bear.

Both the Class A and B license holders must be a member of the same hunting party and both present at the point of kill.

A bear-license holder must ensure the Class A bear-license holder immediately attach their validated bear-carcass tag to the bear. While youth under age 10 can participate in bear dog training and bear

This writer now reports his experience over the past few years has taught him that by far the best newspaper, delivered widely in this area, to fillet your fish on is the Inter-County Leader, challenged only by the Advertiser. They clearly have stayed firm in their commitment to thick, tough newspaper-paper. Meanwhile, bigcity newspapers have moved rapidly toward the thinness of paper like that normally used for personal care. These newspapers now turn to mush after filleting just a few fish. Here I call the reader’s attention to the photo of this writer filleting a recent catch.

1. Place a Leader on the kitchen table with pages turning away from you (wasn’t necessary to turn even one page of the Leader in this demo, while filleting five fish).

2. Use a traditional fillet knife, which has been sharpened with a hone stone.

3. Wear rubber gloves which reduce pokes and slices to the fingers and hands.

Tops in the class are the blue surgeon’s baiting, and assisting a Class A bear-license holder in locating a bear, they may not possess a firearm for hunting or shoot a bear.

• Mentorship and adult supervision rules apply: Youth ages 10-11 must obey all the Hunting Mentorship Program requirements. All youth ages 12-13 and ages 14-15 who have not completed hunter education must be within visual and voice contact of a parent or adult guardian to possess a firearm for hunting or to shoot a bear.

• Back tag changes: For Class A bear licensees – your back-tag is required to be

gloves from the Mayo Clinic Store, shown on the photo. These are the gloves that are used by some of the best surgeons in the world to avoid cutting themselves while operating on some of the most famous people in the world (and on me three times, I am proud to say).

4. Scan the Leader if you choose, but idle the fillet knife when you do.

5. Have a sensitive little scale and some freezer bags ready.

6. Note that metropolitan newspapers can be used to wrap your fish remains in. Then dig them beneath your roses or zucchinis.

8. Danger – warning. Do not fillet fish if you are pregnant or may become pregnant (my wife has seen this caution often, I guess). This article does not include a description of how to make specific cuts during this process, but that can easily be found online. (Don’t bother asking Tam, Pete or Milt, unless you want to listen to their conquests and see their pictures first.)

attached to the center of your outermost layer of clothing above the waist where it is clearly visible while hunting bear. However, Class A hunters do not need to wear their back tags when not hunting bear or when only placing bait or training dogs to track or trail bear. Class B bear license holders will no longer be required to wear a back tag during any activity authorized by his license. Class B bear licenses sold after July 1 will no longer include a backtag. Class B bear back tags issued before July 2011 will serve as the person’s license and must be kept and carried when participating in any activities requiring the license. – from the DNR

Grand marshals

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Lifelong Clear Lake residents Jim and Harriet Buhr were the grand marshals for Clear Lake Heritage Days parade Saturday, June 25. – Photo by Tammi Milberg

Best in show

Steve Milberg Jr., Milltown, took Best in Show for the truck category at the Milltown Fishermen’s Party Classic Car Show Sunday, June 26. He is pictured by the 1950 Ford pickup he restored to original condition. – Photo by Tammi Milberg

Justices have conflicting reports of office altercation

by Gilman Halsted Wisconsin Public Radio MADISON - Supreme Court Justices Ann Walsh Bradley and David Prosser have both issued conflicting statements about an alleged physical altercation between them earlier this month.

Reports surfaced late last week from knowledgeable sources about an altercation between the two justices in Bradley’s office during the week of June 12. The incident involved Prosser grabbing Bradley around the neck after she told him to leave

her office.

The sources, who spoke with reporters from WPR and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, asked not to be named to protect their professional relationships. State Senate President Scott Fitzgerald says he’s surprised and suspicious about the accuracy of the reports.

“The Supreme Court’s crazier than the Legislature apparently,” says Fitzgerald.

“It’s hard to believe it actually went down the way it was described. And I think with the justices not really making many com-

ments publicly, it’s hard for me to believe that that really happened, but from the way it’s being reported it appears that certainly something happened over there.”

Prosser released a statement Saturday saying that once the facts are reviewed the anonymous claims will be proven false.

Later that night, Bradley told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Prosser did grab her by the neck, and she disputed another source who said she was the aggressor and that Prosser was just defending himself.

Other sources say other justices were present during the incident which happened during an argument about when to release the ruling on the new collective bargaining law.

Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs says he will issue a statement that may shed light on what did or did not happen.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism’s Bill Lueders and Kate Golden contributed to this report.

were made after she was diagnosed with MS in 1999.

Through her company, Empowerment Through Adventure, Schneider is able to help others with MS and Parkinson’s disease experience the thrill of accepting and meeting the challenge of mountain climbing.

Mount Kilimanjaro, the one summit she reached before her diagnosis, is the first of the Leap of Faith Adventures Schneider is planning. It was borne out of her desire to empower others who face unchosen challenges, providing them an opportunity to step outside their comfort zones in a situation that just about guarantees success.

Thomson, 54, is a personal trainer, folk musician and employee at the Polk County Health Department. She met Schneider in Bayfield about 10 years ago, and the two connected through their enjoyment of running.

“We would run together and we’d meet at races,” said Thomson. “But I didn’t know she had MS.” It was in 2009 that Thomson learned that Schneider had the disease. She was in Bayfield at the time, and the city was celebrating Schneider’s successful climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the last of the seven she had yet to climb.

On that day in May 2009, Schneider became the first person in the world with MS to complete the Seven Summits, and was the first to plant the World MS Day flag on the top of Everest. That day was also World MS Day. “The town erupted,” Thomson said of Schneider’s hometown. “It was amazing to be part of that.”

Afterwards, Schneider shared with Thomson her dream of creating Empowerment Through Adventure and organizing a climb for others with MS. Each participant would need a companion.

“I didn’t even think about it,” said Thomson. A “huge surge” in her gut told her she would be among those companions.

“I found out last July that it was actually going to happen,” she said. “I signed on, and I haven’t looked back.”

A native of Frederic, Thomson calls herself a “flatlander” with no experience mountain climbing. She has been an avid runner for years and is a personal trainer, but knows she now has to tap into all the skills and strengths she has encouraged others to use.

The phrase, “I can; I will; I am” is one she has used to encourage her clients and her-

self, and she is using it more than ever right now.

Last December Thomson found out that she is teamed up for the climb with Gina Anderson, a music teacher from Gwinn, Mich.

About eight years ago, at age 33, Anderson found she was losing her eyesight. Exploring ways to live life to its fullest without full eyesight led her to become an Ironman triathlete. Then two years ago she was diagnosed with MS. The two have decided to call themselves the Energy Twins. “We hit the ground running each morning,” said Thomson.

••• The climb to the summit of Kilimanjaro will take six nights and seven days. Empowerment Through Adventure is using Alpine Ascents, one of National Geographic Magazine’s “Best Outfitters on the Planet,” to guide, carry gear and food and prepare meals.

The porters are from the Chagga Tribe indigenous to the slopes of Kilimanjaro, with vast knowledge of Kilimanjaro and able to give Thomson and the others insight into the local culture and society.

Although the porters will transport most of the camp equipment, Thomson will be wearing a 20-pound day pack to carry water, snacks and extra clothes. She is training with a 30-pound pack to help her prepare for the high altitudes, which is of greater concern to her than the other physical demands of the climb. One of the most important things, she has found, is to stay hydrated.

The team will travel through five ecosystems, starting in the jungle. Thomson has been studying the plants and animals she might encounter in order to better understand what she is seeing along the trail.

“I’m hoping we don’t get caught in a blizzard, but we could,” said Thomson. “It is Africa’s winter, but at least it’s the dry part of the winter.”

Although some treks to the summit are shorter, taking seven days will give the climbers more time to acclimate, therefore minimizing altitude sickness.

The first night on the mountain will be spent at 10,000 feet, which will mean a seven-hour hike. Each day, after climbing six to eight hours, the group will back down the mountain a little to camp for the night. This, said Suz, gives the body a chance to get acclimated to the altitude.

The final night, July 17, high camp will be made at 14,650 feet. While the cook staff from Alpine Ascents prepares the evening

meal, the climbers will pack and prepare for an early morning departure.

Waking at midnight and leaving the camp at 2 a.m., climbers will wear headlamps to light their way until dawn, when they will reach the main summit at 19,340 feet.

“As the sun rises over Africa, we are privy to a panorama of incredible views,” Thomson’s itinerary states. To the north is Africa’s second highest mountain, Mount Kenya. To the south are the sprawling plains of Tanzania and East Africa.

The trip back down the mountain takes the rest of that day and the next, going from ice and snow, with temperatures below freezing at night, through glacial ice to moor lands and finally back down to rain forest and jungle, where a celebratory dinner will await the climbers.

Although the climb is over, the adventure is not. The next day, July 20, the group will begin a four-day safari through Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti National Park.

The final day of the trip gives team members the chance to go on a morning game drive through the Serengeti or go on a balloon safari over the Serengeti.

••• The team of 30 has been in contact via the World Wide Web, getting to know each other and building relationships before setting out on the intense climb.

“We’ve built a lot of trust together,” said Thomson. “It’s an amazing group of people, a very diverse, strong, emotionally powerful group.

“I feel we can each ask the other for the help we’ll need.”

Thomson said that her intent is to leave the expedition with Anderson if her partner is unable to complete the climb. If Thomson has to go back down, however, she will expect Anderson to continue. A doctor and two emergency medical technicians are part of the group.

••• There are currently 400,000 people in the United States, and 2.5 million worldwide, who have been diagnosed with MS. An additional 200 people are diagnosed weekly.

It is a chronic, often disabling, disease that attacks the central nervous system.

There is no cure for MS, but great strides have been made in managing the symptoms. These symptoms include abnormal fatigue, slurred speech tremors, numbness, stiffness, paralysis, loss of vision and bladder problems. Some treatments that show

promise include hormonal and vitamin D3 therapy.

Because of her experience and knowledge, Schneider has been asked to speak on MS at medical and other conferences. Last year she was invited to a summit in Switzerland to address issues she believed should have more study.

This year, for World MS Day in May, she climbed the 1,665 stairs of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, then was keynote speaker for members of a pharmaceutical/health-care company.

While Thomson does not suffer from MS, she knows that every life comes with its challenges. Eight years ago she and her husband, Bryce, lost their only son in an accident.

“I truly feel healthy enough now to take this on, physically and emotionally,” she said. “It is time for me to step out of my comfort zone and reach out to someone, as well as to challenge myself.”

The climb, she said, will take her halfway to heaven and to her son.

“I just feel very blessed,” said Thomson.

“Even with the challenges we’re given, I feel a huge gratefulness for what I have.”

••• Thomson and her climbing partner share many things in common, and one of these is music. Anderson is a music teacher and accomplished musician, and Thomson, along with working for the public health department and as a personal trainer, is a folk musician.

To raise the money Anderson needs for the climb, the two got together to collaborate on a CD that was produced at Pipe Dream Center, home of pianist Manfred Schoenauer.

The CD includes two songs. Thomson does the vocals for “More Than a Mountain,” composed by Brandon Nelson, with lyrics adapted from the poem by Josie Baughman, while her husband plays acoustic guitar.

“It is not the mountain we conquer when we reach the summit top,” a line in the song goes, “but ourselves through a leap of faith when we climb the mountaintop.”

The second song, “Fanfare For the Women,” is a trumpet solo composed by Libby Larsen. Anderson is the artist playing the solo.

The CDs can be purchased from Thomson by e-mailing btnsuz@amerytel.net or calling her at 715-268-9707. For more information go to empowermentthroughadventure.com.

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This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-6699777. The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1800-927-9275.

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(June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug. 3) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

SHARI L. HERTEL, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 09 CV 346 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on July 14, 2010, in the amount of $141,933.45, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 17, 2011. at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 77, Assessor’s Plat of the City of St. Croix Falls, Polk County, Wis. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 347 East Louisiana Street, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024.

TAX KEY NO.: 281-01071-0000.

Dated this 14th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Russell J. Karnes State Bar #1054982 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 272648

1966 - 270th AVENUE, LUCK, WI From 35, go west on Cty. Rd. B for 4 miles, left on 200th St., left again on 270th...Follow the red, white & blue signs.

All the usual sale stuff plus more...Canopies are stuffed!

New Buck Hunter Pro and Cabela games for Nintendo Wii; Nintendo Wii remotes and nunchucks; hot tub; raw Llama fleece; 2 black cabinets w/glass doors; red fiberglass cutter sleigh.; New Lia Sophia jewelry at half price as 6 dealers quit; racks of all size clothing for everyone; 100s of books; lots and lots of misc. things. 34d,ep 45Lp 539742

TOWN OF MILLTOWN Plan Committee Meeting

Tues., July 5, 2011, 7 p.m.

Milltown Fire Hall Virgil Hansen, Clerk

(June 8, 15, 22, 29) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB Plaintiff vs.

DAVID M. SWENSON, et al Defendant(s) AMENDED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case Number: 10 CV 128 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on May 5, 2010, in the amount of $54,637.19, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: July 12, 2011, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: The Northeast One-quarter of the Southeast One-quarter, Section 9, Township 35 North, Range 15 West, in the Town of Johnstown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2237 Pipe Lake Road, Comstock, WI 54826.

TAX KEY NO.: 028-00168-0000.

Dated this 31st day of May, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Chaz. M. Rodriguez State Bar #1063071 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 271948

to the 2008 season. Audiences will also remember the delightful performance by Meg who anchored ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ as Abby, one of two elderly sisters intent on rescuing lonely old men.”

“The Lady with all the Answers” is the third play in the 2011 Theatre Series at Festival and it opens July 7.

It will be performed at a 2 p.m. Thursday matinee on July 7 along with two Sunday matinees on July 10 and 24.

Evening performances are at 7:30 p.m. on July 7, 9, 21 and 23. Tickets are $26 for adults and $13.50 for youth. The play has some mature content. You may also send an email to info@festivaltheatre.org or use the theaters Web site www.festivaltheatre.org for tickets or additional information. - submitted

EAST BALSAM SELF STORAGE GARAGE SALE

GARAGE SALE

Fri. & Sat., July 1 & 2 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Lots of stuff, including man things.

24697 Old 35 1-1/2 miles north of Siren.

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Danette Olsen, executive director at Festival Theatre. “In addition to fully producing our own work, each year we present the work of other professional theater companies. We cast Meg Merckens in the role of Annie Nations in our 2007 production of ‘Foxfire’ and when we discovered in 2008 that she and her husband, Tom Johnson, were putting their new comedy ‘Dates With a Nut’ on the road in 2008, we just had to add it

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ST. CROIX FALLS – Meg Merckens will arrive in St. Croix Falls in early July to prepare for opening the Upper Midwest premiere of “The Lady with all the Answers,” running July 7-24 at Festival Theatre. Written by David Rambo in 2006, the play is a funny and moving onewoman show which invites audiences to share an evening with advice columnist Ann Landers. Within the play, Landers readily offers down-to-earth advice and opinions, and shares favorite memories and letters as she struggles to write the toughest column of her life. Merckens, a veteran Eastern Iowa actor, first performed this show at the Iowa Theatre Artists Company in Amana, Iowa, in 2008 in one of the most popular shows of ITAC’s young history.

Tom Johnson, co-producer, is strongly committed to the message of the play. “For over five decades Ann Landers shared insight and wisdom relevant to her society. Now, over 50 years later, her answers are just as relevant today as they were then ... she pioneered anti-censorship, avoided no subject, and fought long battles with her editors when they threatened to cut anything she felt was important to her readers. She was way ahead of her time.”

“We are so pleased to welcome Meg Merckens and the Iowa Theatre Artists Company back to our stage,” says

2-1/2 miles E. of Balsam Lake on Cty. Rd. I

Fri., July 1, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sat., July 2, 8 a.m. - Noon Antiques & carnival glass; dishes; housewares; furniture; tables; chairs; desks; Jenny Lind bedroom set; appliances; light fixtures; portable fish house; Johnson 10 h.p. & 9-1/2 h.p. motors; tools; children’s toys & books; and much more.

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DAVID & SHARON BOATMAN 3740 Rainbow Circle Voyager Village 100s of collectible die-cast cars, Hot Wheels, JL, Matchbox and others. Most still in bubble pack.

1952 Martin 40 OB. Many old china dishes; collectibles; over 80 Stampin-Up stamps & more.

Fri. & Sat., July 1 & 2 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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DOCUMENT 00 11 13 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS WWTP Holding Tank Receiving Station Danbury, Wisconsin Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the Chairman of the Joint Water Quality Commission of Danbury and the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin (JWQC) until 10 a.m., Thursday, July 14, 2011, at the Town Hall, Town of Swiss, 7551 Main Street, Danbury, Wis., at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud, for the furnishing of all labor and material for the construction of the following items: Precast Concrete Tank Submersible Pumps, Piping and Appurtenances Piping Connection to Existing Force Main Cast-in-Place Concrete Structure and Aluminum Bar Screen Pre-engineered Building Bids shall be on the forms provided for that purpose and according to the Contract Documents prepared by Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. dated June 2011.

The Bidding Documents may be seen at the issuing office of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. located at 421 Frenette Drive, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin 54729.

Digital copies of the Bidding Documents are available at http:// www.sehinc.com for a fee of $30. These documents may be downloaded by selecting this project from the BIDDING DOCUMENTS link and by entering eBidDocTM Number 1619291 on the SEARCH PROJECTS page. For assistance and free membership registration, contact QuestCDN at 952.233.1632 or info@questcdn.com .

Paper copies of the Bidding Documents may be obtained from Docunet Corp. located at 2435 Xenium Lane North, Plymouth, MN 55441 (763.475.9600) for a fee of $120.

Bid security in the amount of 5 percent of the bid must accompany each bid in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders.

Bids shall be directed to the JWQC, securely sealed and endorsed upon the outside wrapper, “BID FOR WWTP HOLDING TANK RECEIVING STATION.” Bidders Proof of Responsibility must be submitted to SEH in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders.

Contractors on the Project shall be required to comply with the minimum wages and labor standards as determined by the State of Wisconsin, Department of Workforce Development Wage Rate Determination.

The JWQC encourages MBEs, WBEs, and SBRAs to submit Bid proposals.

The Offerer’s or Bidder’s attention is called to the “Equal Opportunity Clause” and the “Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specification” included in these specifications. The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: Goals for minority participation for each trade = 2.2% Goals for female participation for each trade = 6.9% The JWQC reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive irregularities and informalities therein and to award the Contract in the best interests of the JWQC. Marshall Hill, Commission Chairman Joint Water Quality Commission of Danbury and the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin P.O. Box 127 Danbury, WI 54830 540163 45-46Lp WNAXLP

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speeding, $175.30.

Bryan E. Wilhelm, Zumbro, Minn., possession of illegal-sized fish, $222.90.

Rebekah A. Wilson, Park Falls, speeding, $200.50.

William R. Wuorenma, Clayton, operating while suspended, $200.50.

Jeffrey M. Wylie, Frederic, possess fish in excess/daily bag limit twice, not guilty pleas.

Jordan J. Yeske, Turtle Lake, speeding, $175.30.

Paul B. Zemke, Clear Lake, speeding, $175.30.

Michael G. Renz, Maple

Grove, Minn., speeding, $175.30.

Richard C. Rognrud, St. Croix Falls, speeding, not guilty plea.

Jackson F. Rohde, Hudson, speeding, $175.30.

John A. Rommel, Frederic, improper stop/stop sign, no clear line, $175.30.

Adam M. Salava, Amery, speeding, $175.30.

Terry J. Schaffer, Clayton, operate a motor vehicle w/o insurance, $200.50.

Ryan R. Scheife, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $175.30.

Bryan D. Shipley, Forest

A three-vehicle accident took place at 1:03 p.m. Wednesday, June 15, at the stoplight intersection. Citations for inattentive driving and operating a motor vehicle without insurance were given to one of the drivers, 33year-old Erica Stark, Webster.

According to the report, a vehicle driven by Christy A. Cairns, 34, Frederic, was stopped at the intersection, waiting to turn left onto CTH B. Angela Hagert, 42, Siren, was driving the vehicle immediately behind Cairns.

The third vehicle in line was

driven by Stark. The report indicated that Stark’s vehicle hit the one driven by Hagert, pushing the Hagert vehicle into Cairns’ vehicle.

June 3: Ted A. Hunter, 54, Siren, was cited for operating a motor vehicle without insurance and not wearing a seat belt during a traffic stop on First Avenue and Main Street at 8:15 p.m.

June 4 (4:30 p.m.), June 5 (6:45 p.m.), June 6 (5:35 p.m.): On these dates and times, juveniles were warned about putting picnic tables into the water at Crooked Lake Park. “Many similar complaints in the summer of 2010,” the report stated.

James J. Jolly, 79, Webster, was cited for not wearing a seat belt at 6:37 p.m. on Hwy. 35 by Southside Auto.

June 4: The Siren officer on duty was called to assist a state trooper and deputy in the pursuit of a motorcycle driven by Steven A. Marlow, 58, Siren.

Siren Police report

Notice is hereby given that the Town of Balsam Lake is accepting bids for cold mix overlay at the following locations in the Town of Balsam Lake: (1) 150th Street from Highway 8 south to 120th Avenue, 1-1/2-inch overlay (2) 120th Avenue from Kennedy Mill Road East, 2-inch compacted overlay (3) 120th Street, patch. For information and specifications, please call Brad Mabry at 715-485-3844. All bids to be considered must be received by 5 p.m., July 15, 2011. Please mail or deliver your bid to: Town of Balsam Lake, c/o Brad Mabry, 1493 160th Street, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024.

Bids will be opened at the regular meeting of the Town Board to be held on Monday, July 18, 2011, at 8 p.m. The Town Board reserves the right to accept or reject any, any part of, and/or all bids and further reserves the right to award the bid in the best interest of the Town of Balsam Lake.

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NOTICE OF OPEN BOOK TOWN OF WEST SWEDEN

Notice is hereby given that the Open Book session for the Town of West Sweden will be held Tuesday, July 19, 2011, from 3-5 pm at the West Sweden Town Hall. This session gives the property owner an opportunity to meet with the assessor, ask questions of the assessor and look over their property assessments.

NOTICE OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW TOWN OF WEST SWEDEN

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Review for the Town of West Sweden of Polk County shall hold its first meeting on Tuesday, July 19, from 5-7 pm at the West Sweden Town Hall.

Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedural requirements of appearing before the Board.

No person shall be allowed to appear before the Board of Review, to testify to the Board by telephone or to contest the amount of any assessment of real or personal property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the Assessor to view such property.

After the first meeting of the Board of Review and before the Board’s final adjournment, no person who is scheduled to appear before the Board of Review may contact, or provide info to a member of the Board about the person’s objection except at a session of the Board.

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by phone or contest the amount of assessment unless, at least 48 hours before the first meeting of the Board or at least 48 hours before the objection is heard of the objection is allowed because the person has been granted a waiver of the 48-hour notice of an intent to file a written objection by appearing before the Board during the first two hours of the meeting and showing a good caused for failure to meet the 48hour notice requirement and files a written objection, that the person provides to the Clerk of the Board of Review notice as to whether the person will ask for removal of any Board member and, if so, which member will be removed and the person’s reasonable estimate of the length of time that the hearing will take.

When appearing before the Board, the person shall specify, in writing, the person’s estimate of the value of the land and of the improvements that are the subject of the person’s objection and specify the information that the person used to arrive at the estimate.

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or subject or object to the valuation: if that valuation was made by the Assessor of the Objector using the income specified in the manual under Sec. 73.03 (2a), that the Assessor requests. The Town of West Sweden has an ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expenses that is provided of the Assessor under this paragraph which provides exemptions for persons using information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or for the duties of their office or by order of a court. The information that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determined that it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying under section 19.35 (1) of Wis. Statutes.

The Board shall hear upon oath, by telephone, all ill or disabled persons who present to the Board a letter from a physician or osteopath that confirms their illness or disability. No other person may testify by telephone.

Respectfully submitted, Town of West Sweden Andrea Lundquist, Clerk 540098 45L WNAXLP

Other units arrived and took Marlow into custory without incident.

June 5: A Siren juvenile was cited at 1:03 p.m. for failing to wear a seat belt while driving.

June 7: Jellisa A. Reynolds, 22, Shell Lake, was cited at 5:38 p.m. for misdemeanor battery following an alleged fight between two females at Clear Lake Park.

June 11: Report of the theft of a bottle of vodka from Jack Pine Trading came in at 4:19 p.m.

June 14: Tammy S. Starck, 46, Luck, was arrested at Clear Lake Park at 4:30 p.m. on a warrant from Chippewa County.

June 18: Kyle D. Rufsholm, 23, Siren, was cited for nonregistration of an auto and operating a motor vehicle without insurance during a traffic stop on South Shore Drive and Fourth Avenue at 3 a.m.

VILLAGE OF FREDERIC - NOTICE OF PUBLIC TEST ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT

A public test of the Village of Frederic’s Sequoia Voting System will be held at the Village Hall on Wednesday, July 6, 2011, at 10 a.m.

Kristi Swanson, Village Clerk 540171 45L WNAXLP

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 July 12, 2011, Recall Primary Election votes cast for all offices and on all measures. All tests are open to the public.

Town of Anderson, July 5, 2011, at 10 a.m. Town Hall - 13808 Anderson Road, Jessica King, Clerk, 715-472-4753 Town of Daniels, July 2, 2011, at 9 a.m. Town Hall - 9602 Daniels 70 Road, Ellen Ellis, Clerk, 715-349-5840 Town of Dewey, July 5, 2011, at 6 p.m. Town Hall - 24433 Town Hall Road, Pamela Brown, Clerk, 715-468-7111 Town of Grantsburg, July 6, 2011, at 9 a.m. Clerk/Treas. Office - 118 E. Madison Avenue, Romey Nelson, Clerk/Treasurer, 715-463-5600 Town of LaFollette, July 5, 2011, at 10 a.m. Town Hall - 24184 Malone Road, Linda Terrian, Clerk, 715-349-2531 Town of Lincoln, July 5, 2011, at 6 p.m. Town Hall - 9110 Perida Road, Wanda Washkuhn, Clerk, 715-866-4201 Town of Meenon, July 7, 2011, at 6 p.m. Town Hall - 7396 Kruger Road, Suzanna M. Eytcheson, Clerk, 715-866-4893 Town of Roosevelt, July 6, 2011, at 1 p.m. Clerk’s Home - 2997 County Road EE, Patricia Hayden, Clerk/Treasurer, 715-468-2468 Town of Siren, July 3, 2011, at 10 a.m. Town Hall - 7240 S. Long Lake Road, Mary Hunter, Clerk, 715-349-5119 Town of Trade Lake, July 5, 2011, at 4 p.m. Clerk’s Home - 13361 State Road 48, Deborah Christian, Clerk, 715-488-2600 Town of West Marshland, July 5, 2011, at 5 p.m. – Clerk’s Home – 25161 Spaulding Road, Margaret Hess, Clerk, 715-463-2922 Town of Wood River, July 5, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. – Town Hall – 11610 State Road 70, Dawn Luke, Clerk, 715-689-2296 Village of Grantsburg, July 5, 2011, at 9 a.m. Village Hall - 316 S. Brad Street, Jennifer Zeiler, Clerk, 715-463-2405 Village of Siren, July 5, 2011, at 9 a.m. Village Hall - 24049 First Avenue North, Ann Peterson, Clerk, 715-349-2273 Village of Webster, July 6, 2011, at 1 p.m. Village Office - 7505 Main Street West, Patty Bjorklund, Clerk/Treasurer, 715-866-4211

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REQUEST FOR ROAD OVERLAY BIDS TOWN OF BALSAM LAKE POLK COUNTY, WISCONSIN

Lake, Minn., speeding, $200.50.

Mary P. Simons, Burnsville, Minn., speeding, $175.30.

Dusten A. Smith, Balsam Lake, operate w/o valid license, b/c expiration, $162.70.

Joshua J. Staples, Grantsburg, operating a motor vehicle w/o insurance, $200.50.

Daniel G. Stiglich, Brooklyn Center, Minn., speeding, $295.00.

Cynthia A. Stordahl, Amery, speeding, $175.30.

Jared M. Strohkirch, Balsam Lake, speeding, $175.30.

Thomas R. Thole, Prescott, fish w/o license, $202.70.

Scott D. Troyer, St. Croix Falls, speeding, $175.30.

Dale J. Turner, Webster, automobile following too closely, $200.50.

Cheng Vang, St. Paul, Minn., operate w/o valid license, $200.50.

Joshua D. Verzina, Centuria, operating a motor vehicle w/o insurance, $200.50; nonregistration of auto, etc., $200.50.

Mikayel M. Vietzke, Green Bay, speeding, $175.30.

Polk County marriages

Aushleana R. Branville, city of Eau Claire, and Austin R. Boykin, village of Frederic, issued June 21, 2011.

Sarah J. Lexen, Town of West Sweden, and Thomas P. Sventek, city of Rice Lake, issued June 23, 2011.

Ellen L. Butler, city of Minneapolis, Minn., and Harlen G. Hegdal, Town of Milltown, issued June 23, 2011.

Polk County deaths

Douglas J. Gray, 72, Town of Sterling, died May 27, 2011.

Joyce E. Stairs, 67, Amery, died May 27, 2011.

Bonnie C. Jurisch, 72, Frederic, died May 31, 2011.

Clare W. Melin, 90, Town of Trade Lake, died June 1, 2011.

Edis C. Calder, 96, Luck, died June 11, 2011.

Joseph F. Paquin, 90, Dresser, died June 11, 2011.

Allen H. Kohn, 78, Deer Park, died June 13, 2011.

Zachary S. Lowe, 22, Town of Johnstown, died June 13, 2011.

Howard C. Vezina, 93, St. Croix Falls, died June 16, 2011.

Burnett County deaths

Darrell D. Haverley, 84, Town of Wood River, died June 8, 2011.

Robert E. Olson Jr., 61, village of Webster, died June 10, 2011.

Kenneth M. Johnson, 73, village of Grantsburg, died May 29, 2011.

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Notices

(June 29, July 6, 13) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY CitiMortgage, Inc. Plaintiff vs.

KEVIN R. GUMM, et al Defendant(s) AMENDED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case Number: 10 CV 990 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on March 21, 2011, in the amount of $228,348.24, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: July 26, 2011, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: Lot 6 of Certified Survey Maps No. 2196 recorded in Volume 10 of Certified Survey Maps, page 120 as Document No. 554503, located in part of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 and part of the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4, Section 25, Township 34 North, Range 16 West, Town of Apple River, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1323 64th Street, Turtle Lake, WI 54889.

TAX KEY NO.: 004-00678-0600.

Dated this 23rd day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Russell J. Karnes State Bar #1054982 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 273233

(June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BRANCH 1 Bremer Bank N.A., a domestic banking corporation, 855 Eagle Point Road Lake Elmo, MN 55042 Plaintiff, vs.

Dean V. Munkelwitz and Sherri J. Munkelwitz, husband and wife 938 15th Street Clayton, WI 54004, Defendants.

File #10CV338 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Foreclosure of Mortgage: 30404 By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on July 21, 2010, I will sell at public auction at the Polk County Justice Center in the Village of Balsam Lake, in said Polk County on August 10, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., all of the following described mortgaged premises, to-wit: The Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW 1/4, SE1/4), EXCEPT the South 330 feet; Section Fourteen (14), Township Thirty-three (33) North, Range Fifteen (15) West, Town of Clayton, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN NO.: 16-316-0000 The above property is located at 938 15th Street, Clayton, Wisconsin.

TERMS: 1. 10% cash or certified check down payment at time of sale, balance upon confirmation by Court.

2. Sale is subject to all unpaid real estate taxes and special assessments.

3. Purchaser shall pay any Wisconsin real estate transfer fee.

4. Property is being sold on an “as is” basis without warranties or representations of any kind.

5. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining possession of property.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, this 7th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin SCHOFIELD, HIGLEY & MAYER, S.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Bay View Offices, Suite #100 700 Wolske Bay Road Menonomie, WI 54751 715-235-3939

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Samantha L. Waggoner, Rice Lake, passing in no-passing zone, $213.10; operating motor vehicle w/o proof of insurance, $10.00.

Paige C. Wagner, Somerset, speeding, $175.30.

Nathan R. Walker, Roseville, Minn., speeding, $225.70.

Keith D. Ward, Cushing, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Michael J. Weisman, Osceola, speeding, $175.30.

Patrick J. Werner, St. Paul, Minn., fail/stop at stop sign, $175.30.

Cherish M. White-Hobson, Columbia, Heights, Minn.,

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Case No. 11 PR 37 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for informal administration was filed.

2. The decedent, with date of birth August 24, 1954, and date of death May 24, 2011, was domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 1768 East Highway 8, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024.

3. All interested persons waived notice.

4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is September 12, 2011.

5. A claim may be filed at the Polk County Courthouse, 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, Room 500.

Jenell Anderson Probate Registrar June 7, 2011 Steven J. Swanson P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787 Bar Number: 1003029

(June 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY RURAL AMERICAN BANKLUCK, Plaintiff vs.

ESTATE OF DARYL K. STRUCK, SR. Margaret R. Engebretson, Special Administrator, and STEVEN G. QUIST and JOYCE A. QUIST, Defendants.

Case No. 11 CV 246 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on May 26, 2011, in the amount of $24,227.47, I will sell the described premises at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, on Thursday, August 4, 2011, at 10 o’clock a.m.

TERMS OF SALE: 1. 10% down in cash or certified funds at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeiture of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. DESCRIPTION: Part of the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4, Section 835-17, in the Village of Milltown, described as follows: Beginning at a point that is 180 feet West and 25 feet North of the SE corner of the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4, Section 8-35-17; thence running North parallel to the East forty line 50 feet; thence running East at a right angle 163.50 feet; thence running South parallel to the East forty line 50 feet; thence running West to the point of beginning.

PIN: 151-00207-0000.

STREET ADDRESS: 504 Milltown Avenue North, Milltown, WI 54858.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, this 7th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson No. 1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

Monthly Board Meeting Monday, July 18, at 7 p.m.

Milltown Fire Hall Virgil Hansen, Clerk 539808 45-46L 35-36a,d

TOWN OF STERLING ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT TESTING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public test of electronic equipment to be used at the July 12, 2011, Primary Recall Election, will be held at 2 p.m. on Sat., July 2, 2011, at the Cushing Community Center. This test is open to the general public.

Julie Peterson, 540129 45L WNAXLP Town of Sterling Clerk

(June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug. 3) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

LEON E. MEWHORTER, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 10 CV 354 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on September 30, 2010, in the amount of $191,817.76, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 17, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lots 1 and 2 of Certified Survey Map No. 4468 filed on May 19, 2004, in Volume 20, Page 20, as Document No. 680274, being a part of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 26, Township 36 North, Range 17 West, in the Town of Luck, Polk County, Wisconsin. ALSO DESCRIBED AS: Part of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4, Section 26, Township 36 North, Range 17 West, Town of Luck, Polk County, Wisconsin, described as Lots 1 and 2 of Certified Survey Map No. 4468 filed in Volume 20, Page 20, as Document No. 680274.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1382B State Rd. 48, Luck, WI 54853.

TAX KEY NO.: 036-00614-0100 & 036-00614-0200 Dated this 14th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Russell J. Karnes State Bar #1054982 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 272647

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(June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug. 3) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB Plaintiff vs.

CRAIG H. MEASNER, et al.

Defendant(s) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case Number: 10 CV 949 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on February 11, 2011, in the amount of $222,906.95, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 18, 2011, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: Lots 3 and 4, of Certified Survey Map No. 4419 recorded in Volume 19 of CSM, Page 200, as Document No. 677672, being part of Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 3643 recorded in Volume 16 of CSM, Page 156, as Document No. 629722, located in part of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 9, Township 32 North, Range 19 West, Town of Farmington, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 406 280th Street, Osceola, WI 54020.

TAX KEY NO.: 022-00209-0130 & 022-00209-0140.

Dated this 24th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Russell J. Karnes State Bar #1054982 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 273378

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(June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug. 3) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

MELISSA OGREN, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 09 CV 720 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on January 6, 2010, in the amount of $304,582.93, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 17, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin .

DESCRIPTION: Lot 7 of Certified Survey Map No. 22, recorded on May 27, 1960, in Volume 1 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 23, as Document No. 293873, being located in Government Lot 6, Section 31, Township 36 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Bone Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, together with an easement for ingress and egress as shown on said Certified Survey Map. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1168 243rd Avenue, Luck, WI 54853.

TAX KEY NO.: 012-00813-0000.

Dated this 14th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Chaz M. Rodriguez State Bar #1063071 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 272678

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(June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug. 3) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

LONNY D. HALL, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 10 CV 497 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on August 24, 2010, in the amount of $111,816.48, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 17, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: The Northeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 13, Township 37 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Clam Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin, except 1 square acre in the Southeast corner thereof; except parcel as described in Volume 387 of Records, Page 628, as Document No. 371959; and except parcel as described in Volume 425 of Records, Page 600, as Document No. 398082.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 3395 65th Street, Frederic, WI 54837.

TAX KEY NO.: 014-00280-0000.

Dated this 14th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Russell J. Karnes State Bar #1054982 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 272693

(June 15, 22, 29) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOEL E. HARVEY Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration)

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(June 22, 29, July 6, 13) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. AS SERVICER FOR THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS CWMBS, 2004-12 Plaintiff vs.

INPONG LUANGRATH, et al.

Defendant(s) AMENDED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case Number: 10 CV 237 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on May 7, 2010, in the amount of $256,916.08, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: July 27, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: Lot One (1) of Certified Survey Map No. 1753 recorded in Volume 8 of Certified Survey Maps on Page 101 as Document No. 523410, being a part of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest (SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4) of Section Twenty-Two (22), Township Thirty-Two (32) North of Range Nineteen (19) West, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 272 270th St., Osceola, WI 54020.

TAX KEY NO.: 022-00533-0100 Dated this 16th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Chaz M. Rodriguez State Bar #1063071 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 272802

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(June 29, July 6, 13) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BURNETT COUNTY In the matter of the name change of: Shannon Marie Woodford By (Petitioner): Shannnon Marie Woodford Notice and Order for Name Change Hearing Case No. 11-CV-131 NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: Shannon Marie Woodford To: Shannon Marie Elgin Birth Certificate: Shannon Marie Elgin IT IS ORDERED: This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Burnett County, State of Wisconsin, Hon. Kenneth L. Kutz, Burnett County Gov. Center, 7410 Cty. Road K, Siren, WI 54872, July 14, 2011, 8:45 a.m.

If you require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to participate in the court process, please call 715-3492147 at least ten (10) working days prior to the scheduled court date. Please note that the court does not provide transportation.

BY THE COURT: Hon. Kenneth R. Kutz Circuit Court Judge June 20, 2011

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(June 29, July 6, 13) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY In the matter of the name change of: Mary Lynnea Mitchell By (Petitioner): Mary Lynnea Mitchell Notice and Order for Name Change Hearing Case No. 11 CV 391 NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: Mary Lynnea Mitchell To: Lynnea Elizabeth Mary Mitchell Birth Certificate: Mary Lynnea Peper IT IS ORDERED: This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Polk County, State of Wisconsin: Molly E. GaleWyrick, Polk Co. Justice Center, 1005 W. Main, Balsam Lake, WI 54810, July 20, 2011, 10:30 a.m.

If you require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to participate in the court process, please call 715-4859299 at least ten (10) working days prior to the scheduled court date. Please note that the court does not provide transportation.

BY THE COURT: Molly E. GaleWyrick Circuit Court Judge June 20, 2011

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(June 22, 29, July 6) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RALPH A. JUREK Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 11 PR 40 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for informal administration was filed.

2. The decedent, with date of birth July 17, 1920, and date of death May 27, 2011, was domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 106 Polk Avenue North, Frederic, WI 54837.

3. All interested persons waived notice.

4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is September 27, 2011.

5. A claim may be filed at the Polk County Courthouse, Balsam Lake, Wis., Room 500.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar 715-485-9238 June 17, 2011 Ryan M. Benson Attorney at Law Benson Law Office LLC P.0. Box 370 Siren, WI 54872 715-349-5215 Bar Number: 1036463

(June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the action of Jackson County Bank vs. Timothy Dietmeier, Polk County Case No. 10CV421, I will sell at public auction in the foyer area of the Polk Co. Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, Suite 900, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, August 3, 2011, at 10:00 a.m., for the following described premises, located in Polk County, Wisconsin: Lot 12, Plat of Pixie Acres Mobile Home Subdivision, Village of Milltown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Property Address: 520 Parkins Avenue, Milltown, Wisconsin 54858.

Notice is further given that the successful purchaser will be responsible for the lien of real estate taxes, for the municipal charges, if any, the Wisconsin real estate transfer fee, and is responsible for obtaining possession of the property, which is sold “as is.”

TERMS OF SALE: Cash with 10% to be paid at time of sale.

Sheriff Peter M. Johnson Polk County, Wisconsin James Flory Wiley Law, S.C. P.O. Box 629 Eau Claire, WI 54702-0629 Phone: 715-835-6171

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Notices/Employment Opportunities

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Opportunities for advanced training available.

Must have current State of Wisconsin Licensure for EMT-B, EMT-IV Tech, EMT-I or higher. Current CPR-HealthCare Provider Certification. Valid driver’s license.

Wisconsin CEVO-Training desired.

For additional information, contact:

Linette Erickson Western Wisconsin EMS aka Unity Area Ambulance 715-825-4444 539502 44-45L

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Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Christina E. Demakopoulos State Bar #1066197 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on May 6, 2009, in the amount of $195,237.31, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 17, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin .

DESCRIPTION: The South 228 feet of the West 365 feet of the Southwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 5, Township 33 North, Range 15 West.

Said land being in the Town of Clayton, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 499 115th Avenue, Amery, WI 54001.

TAX KEY NO.: 016-00096-0000.

Dated this 14th day of June, 2011.

Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 272661

(June 8, 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff, vs.

DAVID E. RICHTER and MARY M. RICHTER, Defendants.

Case No. 10 CV 891 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on January 24, 2011, in the amount of $134,465.38, I will sell the described premises at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m.

TERMS OF SALE: 1. 10% down in cash or certified funds at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. DESCRIPTION: That part of Lots Three (3) and Four (4), Block Two (2), Park Addition to the Village of Frederic, lying and being East of State Highway 35 as now located, except the parcel described in Volume 169 of Deeds, page 236, Document No. 247782, Polk County, Wisconsin, said parcel being the North 25 feet of Lot Three (3), Block Two (2), Park Addition to the Village of Frederic, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN: 126-00282-0000.

STREET ADDRESS: 508 State Road 35, Frederic, Wisconsin 54837.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wis., this 26th day of May, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County, WI Steven J. Swanson No. 1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

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Case Number: 09 CV 220 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE

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(May 25, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK Plaintiff, vs.

JULIE M. STEPHENS Defendant.

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case Number: 10 CV 740 By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on January 5, 2011, in the amount of $46,863.42, I will sell the described premises at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wis., on Thurs., July 7, 2011, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or certified funds at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeiture of deposit plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. DESCRIPTION: Lot 42 of Certified Survey Map No. 2181 filed in Volume 10 of Certified Survey Maps, page 105, as Document No. 553888, located in part of NE1/4 of SW1/4 and part of Government Lots 2 and 3, Section 21, Township 33 North, Range 18 West.

PIN: 042-00457-4200 Lot 43 of Certified Survey Map No. 2181 filed in Volume 10 of Certified Survey Maps, page 105, as Document No. 553888, located in part of NE1/4 of SW1/4 and part of Government Lots 2 and 3, Section 21, Township 33 North, Range 18 West.

PIN: 042-00457-4300 STREET ADDRESS: XXX 217th Street, Town of Osceola, WI 54020 Dated at Balsam Lake, Wis., this 11th day of May, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson No. 1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

(June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug. 3)

NOTICE - PUBLIC TEST ON VOTING EQUIPMENT

Notice is hereby given that the Town of St. Croix Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin, will be performing a public test of election voting equipment on Thursday, July 7, 2011, at 9 a.m., in the Town Hall located at 1305 200th Street, St. Croix Falls.

Janet Krueger, Clerk, Town of St. Croix Falls www.townofstcroixfalls.org 540166 45L WNAXLP

BIDS WANTED VILLAGE OF SIREN ASPHALT PAVEMENT The Village of Siren is seeking bids for asphalt paving on one block of 3rd Avenue (County Road B to Bacon Street). Bids will be opened on July 13, 2011, at 2 p.m., at Village Hall.

151 Tons HMA Pavement Type E-1 95 SY Remove, Haul & Dispose Asphalt For more information, contact Martin Shutt, Village Administrator, at 715-349-2273.

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Qualifications: Manufacturing experience, High School diploma or GED, GOOD work history

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215 Main Street Balsam Lake, WI 54810

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY U.S. BANK N.A. Plaintiff vs.

JANICE E. BENSON, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 11 CV 152 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on May 16, 2011, in the amount of $181,942.40, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 18, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin .

DESCRIPTION: Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 4504 recorded in Volume 20 of Certified Survey Maps, page 56 as Document No. 682160, being part of the Northwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4, Section 32, Township 33 North, Range 17 West, Town of Garfield, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 628 170th Street, Osceola, WI 54020 TAX KEY NO.: 024-00672-0110.

Dated this 20th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Russell J. Karnes State Bar #1054982 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719

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COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

KENNETH ROBERT LARSON, et al.

Defendant(s)

NOTICE OF HEARING

The Polk County Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at the Government Center in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. The board will call the public hearing to order at 8:30 a.m., recess at 8:45 a.m. to view each site and will reconvene at 11:00 a.m. at the Government Center in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. At that time each applicant will inform the Board of their request. (THE APPLICANT MUST APPEAR AT 11:00 A.M. WHEN THE BOARD RECONVENES AT THE GOVERNMENT CENTER.) KATHRYN & MICHAEL ROZIN requests a Special Exception from Article 8D1 (a) of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to operate a Tourist Rooming House. Property affected is: 794 200th Ave., Pt. of Gov’t. Lot 10, Sec. 26 & Gov’t. Lot 1, Sec. 27, all in T35N/R16W, Town of Georgetown, Big Blake Lake (class 1).

JOHN & CAROL DOW request a variance from Article 11F2(c)(1) of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to build an addition which will be off to the side of the dwelling. Property affected is: 652 250th Ave., Pt. of SW1/4, SE1/4 & SE1/4, SW1/4, exc. 444/835, desc. V526/854, Sec. 25/T36N/R16W, Town of Bone Lake, Pickerel Lake (class 3).

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Please leave resume at:

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY

This is a full-time, salaried position. CDL and clean driving record is required.

- Preference will be given to the candidate with experience in the maintenance and operation of heavy equipment and roadwork.

- Preference will be given to Georgetown residents but is not mandatory.

- Must have demonstrated ability to work on their own as well as managing part-time employees.

- Must be able to work with the town board as well as dealing with county and state regulations and ordinances.

- The compensation package will be based on experience and ability.

Please submit resumes to: Ron Ogren/Town Chairman, 832 190th Ave., Balsam Lake, WI 54810. Resumes must be re540117 45-46L 35-36d ceived by July 16, 2011, to be considered.

Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 272954

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Western Wisconsin EMS is currently looking for Emergency Medical Technicians to serve as paid on-call responders for Emergent and Nonemergent 911 calls.

(June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug. 3)

A public test of electronic voting equipment will be held Tuesday, July 5, 2011, at the Village of Luck, 401 South Main Street, Luck, WI 54853.

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GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP IS ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR THE POSITION OF TOWN MAINTENANCE/ GRADER OPERATOR

YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS YOUR HELP!

715-483-0016

VILLAGE OF LUCK TESTING ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT FOR THE JULY 12 PRIMARY RECALL ELECTION

OFFICIAL NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS BURNETT COUNTY LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION DEPT. NOTICE is hereby given by the Burnett County Land and Water Conservation Department, Burnett County, Wisconsin, that it will receive bids for the purpose of supplying materials and excavation equipment for closure of a manure waste impoundment located in Burnett County. All bids will be received for the project until noon local time on July 13, 2011, at the Burnett County Land and Water Conservation Department, 7410 County Rd. K, #109, Siren, WI 54872. Bids will be publicly opened and read at the Burnett County Land and Water Conservation Office in Room 21, on July 13, 2011, at 1 p.m. Bids must be date stamped by the soliciting purchasing agent on or before the date that the bid is due. Bids date stamped in another office will be rejected. If bids are mailed, it is very important to indicate on the exterior of the envelope that you are sending a bid.

Estimates of material quantities and installation specifications can be obtained by contacting Eric Wojchik, Project Manager, at 715-485-8644 or 715-349-2186 or at the above-listed address.

The Burnett County Land and Water Conservation Department reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any technicality in any bid 539516 44-45L WNAXLP submitted.

INVITATION TO BID CHIP SEALING PROJECTS TOWN OF JACKSON The Town of Jackson is seeking sealed bids for chip seal resurfacing of approximately 1.4 miles total, average width 18 feet. Whispering Pines from Loon Lake Dam Lane to end (.99 mile), Viking Circle from Shore Road to Shore Road (.32 mile), Bass Lake Circle from Shore Road to Shore Road (.05 mile), and Shore/Viking Circle Nook (.02 mile). Include with the bid, as a separate item, a quote for double chipping approximately 500 feet on Whispering Pines. Aggregate for chip seal to be 3/8 pea rock. Rock to be applied evenly and rolled into emulsified asphalt, with excess rock to be broomed from coated surface. Required crack sealing and surface sweeping to be performed by others prior to application of chip seal coating. Contractor to verify road width and length. Resurfacing work is to be coordinated with town representatives and must be completed by September 16, 2011. Bids are due and will be opened on July 11, 2011, 7 p.m. at the Jackson Town Hall during monthly town meeting.

Valid certificate of insurance must be presented with bids.

The Town of Jackson reserves the right to reject any and all bids or portion thereof. For more information, contact Roger Larson 715-866-7529.

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TOWN OF GEORGETOWN LIQUOR LICENSE APPLICATIONS

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the following have applied for liquor licensing: Class “B” Beer and Liquor, Robert Sherrard, 2049 Sherrard Dr., Luck - Sherrard’s Resort Class “B” Beer and Liquor, Donald Graf, 1091 238th Ave., Luck - Wilkin’s Resort Class “B” Beer and Liquor, California Louie’s Inc., 1082 240th Ave., Luck - Calderwood Lodge Class “B” Beer and Liquor, Ellen Molamphy, 1879 W. Bone Lk. Dr., Balsam Lake - Blacksmith Shop Class “B” Beer and Liquor, Dennis Patrick, 927 190th, Balsam Lake - CD’s Eagle Lounge, Inc. Class “A” Beer and Liquor, Jeffrey Traynor, 2102 70th, Balsam Lake - Jonzy Market Kristine Lindgren, Clerk 540131 45L WNAXLP

TOWN OF LORAIN BOARD MEETING Thurs., July 14, 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Lorain Town Hall, 252 345th Ave. Cty. Rd. E

Agenda: Call meeting to order; Roll call/verification of meeting notice; approve the minutes of the last meeting; approve the treasury report; motion to pay the bills.

Reports: Road review, fire dept., ambulance, cemetery; comprehensive plan commission; additional meeting items for future agendas; motion to adjourn.

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REQUEST FOR BIDS TOWN OF EUREKA

TOWN OF CLAM FALLS

Paving:

Pulverize/Pave 220th St. from Co. Rd. I to Beede Lake Rd. (Approx. 1.5 miles).

Wedge: 180th St., start one mile north of Co. Rd. G, north 1.5 miles.

Areas marked on road.

Chip Seal: 205th St., start Co. Rd. G north 1 mile, skip new pavement area and start again old pavement to 240th Ave. (1.5 miles).

210th Ave. East end (.5 mile).

240th Ave., start 180th St. west to 210th St. (3 miles).

Crack Seal: Start I on 235th St., north to end of road, 230th Ave. end Co. Rd. G (approx. 4 miles).

River Rd., start at St. Croix Falls’ boundary then north to Co. Rd. G (approx. 6 miles).

210th Avenue, start at Hwy. 87 East to 200th St. (approx. 4 miles).

200th St., start Co. Rd. I, north to end at Co. Rd. G (approx. 4 miles).

225th Ave. crack seal.

Bids will be considered at the monthly board meeting on July 14, 2011, at 7 p.m., at Eureka Town Hall. Bidder must supply W9 and Certificate of Insurance to Clerk. Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

The bidder’s attention is called to the fact that some of these projects are subject to a prevailing wage rate determination which has been issued by the State of Wisconsin and that the prevailing wage rates and hours of labor set forth in this determination shall be applicable to said projects.

Please direct all bid notices to Town Chair: Kyle Swanson 2042 230th St. St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3186 Respectfully Submitted 539494 44-46L 34-36a,d WNAXLP Michelle Tonnar, Clerk

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(June 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY RURAL AMERICAN BANKLUCK, Plaintiff vs.

LAWRENCE F. FRENCH, and ROBERT L. FRENCH, and CHRISTOPHER A. FRENCH, Defendants.

Case No. 11 CV 183 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on May 3, 2011, in the amount of $35,896.38, I will sell the described premises at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, on Thursday, August 4, 2011, at 10 o’clock a.m.

TERMS OF SALE: 1. 10% down in cash or certified funds at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeiture of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. DESCRIPTION: The Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, Section Three (3), Township Thirty-three (33) North, Range Fifteen (15) West, Town of Clayton, Polk County, Wisconsin, except the East 12 feet thereof and also except the railroad right of way.

PIN: 016-00067-0000.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wis., this 7th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson No. 1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

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538584 WNAXLP

(June 8, 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

KEVIN C. NIX, et al. NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Defendant(s) Case Number: 10 CV 83 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on April 28, 2010, in the amount of $67,430.05, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: July 27, 2011, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin DESCRIPTION: The East 225 feet of the West 450 feet of the North 234 feet of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4, Section 29, Township 34 North, Range 17 West. Said land being in the Town of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1644 140th Avenue, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024.

TAX KEY NO.: 006-00794-0000.

Dated this 6th day of June, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Chaz M. Rodriguez State Bar #1063071 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 272212

REQUEST FOR SEAL COATING BIDS

NOTICE - OPEN BOOK TOWN OF LORAIN Thursday, July 14, 2011, From 3 - 5 p.m.

At Town Hall At 252 345th Ave.

Susan E. Hughes, Clerk

NOTICE OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW FOR THE TOWN OF LORAIN

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Review for the Town of Lorain, Polk County, Wisconsin, will be held on July 14, 2011, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the town hall, 252 345th Avenue, Cty. Hwy. E. Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedural requirements if appearing before the Board: No person shall be allowed to appear before the Board of Review, to testify to the Board by telephone or to contest the amount of any assessment of real property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the assessor to view such property.

After the first meeting of the Board of Review and before the Board’s final adjournment, no person who is scheduled to appear before the Board of Review may contact or provide information to a member of the board about the person’s objection except at a session of the board.

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the board by telephone or contest the amount of the assessment unless, at least 48 hours before the first meeting of the board or at least 48 hours before the objection is heard if the objection is allowed because the person has been granted a waiver of the 48-hour notice of intent to file a written objection by appearing before the board during the first two hours of the meeting and showing good cause for the failure to meet the 48-hour notice requirement and files a written objection that the person provides to the clerk of the Board of Review notice as to whether the person will ask for removal of any board members and, if so, which member will be removed and the person’s reasonable estimate of the length of time that the hearing will take.

When appearing before the Board, the person shall specify, in writing, the person’s estimate of the value of the land and of the improvements that are subject of the person’s objection and specify the information that the person used to arrive at that estimate.

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the board by telephone or subject or object to a valuation; if that valuation was made by the Assessor or the Objector using the income method; unless the person supplies the Assessor all of the information about income and expenses, as specified in the manual under Sec. 73.03(2a), that the Assessor requests. The Town of Lorain has an ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expense that is provided to the assessor under this paragraph which provides exceptions for persons using information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or of the duties of their office or by order of a court. The information that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determined that it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying under Sec. 19.35 (1), WI Statutes.

The Board shall hear upon oath, by telephone, all ill or disabled persons who present to the Board a letter from a physician, surgeon or osteopath that confirms their illness or disability. No other persons may testify by telephone.

Susan E. Hughes, Clerk 540211 45L Town of Lorain WNAXLP Notice is hereby given this 24th day of June, 2011.

The Town of Clam Falls is accepting bids for seal coating approximately 2.6 miles of road (90th and 110th Streets). The town will provide 5/16inch fractured natural stone (FA 2.5) at the town shop lot. Contractors are to bid application of CRS/2 oil, per gallon, applied at the approximate rate of .36 to .38 gallons per yard. Bid is to include all labor and application of rock.

Bids are to be mailed to Betty Knutson, Clerk, Town of Clam Falls, 3335 90th St., Frederic, WI 54837. Please be certain that the outside of the envelope is clearly marked “SEAL COATING BID.” Bids will be opened at our regular board meeting at the town hall on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Bidders are to provide proof of insurance with the bid. The town reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Questions can be directed to Lee at 715-653-2297 539800 34a-e 45L WNAXLP

NOTICE OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW TOWN OF BONE LAKE Notice is hereby given that the Board of Review for the Town of Bone Lake will meet on Monday, July 18, 2011, at the Bone Lake Lutheran Church, from noon to 2 p.m.

An Open Book session with the Assessor will meet preceding the Board of Review from 10 a.m. to noon.

Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedural requirements if appearing before the Board: No person shall be allowed to appear before the Board of Review, to testify to the Board by telephone or to contest the amount of any assessment of real or personal property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the Assessor to view such property.

After the first meeting of the Board of Review and before the Board’s final adjournment, no person who is scheduled to appear before the Board of Review may contact, or provide information to a member of the Board about the person’s objection except at a session of the Board.

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or contest the amount of assessment unless, at least 48 hours before the first meeting of the Board or at least 48 hours before the objection is heard if the objection is allowed because the person has been granted a waiver of the 48-hour notice of an intent to file a written objection by appearing before the Board during the first two hours of the meeting and showing good cause for failure to meet the 48-hour notice requirement and files a written objection, that the person provides to the Clerk of the Board of Review notice as to whether the person will ask for removal of any Board members and, if so, which member will be removed and the person’s reasonable estimate of the length of time that the hearing will take.

When appearing before the Board, the person shall specify, in writing, the person’s estimate of the value of the land and of the improvements that are the subject of the person’s objection and specify the information that the person used to arrive at that estimate.

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or object to a valuation; if that valuation was made by the Assessor or the Objector using the income method of valuation; unless the person supplies the Assessor all the information about income and expenses, as specified in the assessor’s manual under Sec. 73.03(2a) of Wis. Statutes, that the Assessor requests.

The municipality or county shall provide by ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expenses that is provided to the assessor under this paragraph which provides exceptions for persons using information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or the duties of their office or by order of a court. The information that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determined that it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying under Sec. 19.35(1) of Wis. Statutes.

The Board shall hear upon oath, by telephone, all ill or disabled persons who present to the Board a letter from a physician, surgeon or osteopath that confirms their illness or disability. No other persons may testify by telephone.

Darrell Frandsen, Clerk 954 280th Avenue Frederic, WI 54837 715-472-8212 540002 34a 45L WNAXLP

Notices

NOTICE - SIREN SANITARY DISTRICT TOWN OF SIREN BOARD MEETINGS

2010 Consumer Confidence Report for 64913377

FREDERIC WATERWORKS Water System Information

The Siren Sanitary District will hold their monthly Board Meeting on Thursday, July 14, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Siren Town Hall. Immediately following the Sanitary District Meeting the Town of Siren will hold their monthly Board meeting at approximately 6:45 p.m. The agenda will be posted. If you wish to be on the agenda, please call Mary Hunter, Clerk.

Mary Hunter, Clerk, 715-349-5119 540192 45-46L

If you would like to know more about the information contained in this report, please contact Ken Hackett at 715-327-8062.

Health Information Drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that water poses a health risk. More information about contaminants and potential health effects can be obtained by calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s safe drinking water hotline (800-426-4791).

Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. Immuno-compromised persons such as persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune systems disorders, some elderly and infants can be particularly at risk from infections. These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health-care providers. EPA/CDC guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of infection by cryptosporidium and other microbial contaminants are available from the Envrionmental Protection Agency’s safe drinking hotline (800-426-4791).

Source(s) of Water Source ID 2 3 4 5

Source Groundwater Groundwater Groundwater Groundwater

Depth (ft.)

248 217 298 310

Status Active Active Active Active

To obtain a summary of the source water assessment, please contact Ken Hackett at 715-327-8062.

Educational Information The sources of drinking water, both tap water and bottled water, include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activity.

Contaminants that may be present in source water include: 1. Microbial contaminants, such as viruses and bacteria, which may come from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural livestock operations and wildlife.

2. Inorganic contaminants, such as salts and metals, which can be naturally occuring or result from urban storm-water runoff, industrial or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas production, mining or farming.

3. Pesticides and herbicides, which may come from a variety of sources such as agriculture, urban storm-water runoff and residential uses.

4. Organic chemical contaminants, including synthetic and volatile organic chemicals, which are byproducts of industrial processes and petroleum production, and can also come from gas stations, urban storm-water runoff and septic systems.

5. Radioactive contaminants, which can be naturally occurring or be the result of oil and gas production and mining activities.

In order to ensure that tap water is safe to drink, EPA prescribes regulations that limit the amount of certain contaminants in water provided by public water systems. FDA regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water, which shall provide the same protection for public health.

Number of Contaminants Required to be Tested This table displays the number of contaminants that were required to be tested in the last five years. The CCR may contain up to five years worth of water quality results. If a water system tests annually, or more frequently, the results from the most recent year are shown on the CCR. If testing is done less frequently, the results shown on the CCR are from the past five years.

Contaminant Group Inorganic Contaminants Microbiological Contaminants Radioactive Contaminants Synthetic Organic Contaminants including Pesticides and Herbicides Volatile Organic Contaminants

# Of Contaminants 16 1 3 2 20

INORGANIC CONTAMINANTS MCL

MCLG

Level Found

Range

ARSENIC (ppb)

10

n/a

4

1-4

BARIUM (ppm)

2

2

0.038

.017-.038

100

100

4

1-4

COPPER (ppm)

AL = 1.3

1.3

FLUORIDE (ppm)

4

4

0.1

AL = 15

0

2.5

Contaminant (units)

CHROMIUM (ppb)

LEAD (ppb)

NICKEL (ppb)

100

NITRATE (NO3-N) (ppm)

10

SODIUM (ppm)

n/a

Contaminant (units) RADIUM (226+228)(pCi/1)

MCL

Sample Date Violation Typical Source of Contaminant (if prior to 2009) Erosion of natural deposits; Runoff from orchards; Runoff from glass and 6/25/2008 NO electronics production wastes.

Discharge of drilling wastes; Discharge from metal refineries; Erosion of 6/25/2008 NO natural deposits.

Discharge from steel and pulp mills; NO 6/25/2008 Erosion of natural deposits.

0 of 10 0.2600 10/15/2008 results were above the action level .1-.1

6/25/2008

10/15/2008 0 of 10 results were above the action level

0.58

nd-.5800

10

1.1

nd-1.10

n/a

4.5

3.30-4.5

6/25/2008

NO

Corrosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of natural deposits; Leaching from wood preservatives.

Erosion of natural deposits; Water additive which promotes strong teeth; Discharge from fertilizer and aluminum factories.

NO NO

Corrosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of natural deposits.

Nickel occurs naturally in soils, groundwater and surface waters and is often used in electroplating, stainless steel and alloy products.

Runoff from fertilizer use; Leaching from septic tanks, sewage; Erosion of natural deposits.

NO

NO 6/25/2008

n/a

NO

RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS

Term AL MCL MCLG MFL mrem/year NTU pCi/1 ppm ppb ppt ppq TCR TT

5

MCLG Level Found 0

1.4

Range

1.2-1.4

Sample Date Violation Typical Source of Contaminant (if prior to 2009) 2/5/2009

NO

Erosion of natural deposits.

539977 45L WNAXLP DEFINITION OF TERMS Definition Action Level: The concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements which a water system must follow.

Maximum Contaminant Level: The highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to the MCLGs as feasible using the best available treatment technology.

Maximum Contaminant Level Goal: The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety.

Million fibers per liter.

Millirems per year (a measure of radiation absorbed by the body).

Nephelometric Turbidity Units.

Picocuries per liter (a measure of radioactivity).

Parts per million, or milligrams per liter (mg/l).

Parts per billion, or micrograms per liter (ug/l).

Parts per trillion, or nanograms per liter.

Parts per quadrillion, or picograms per liter.

Total Coliform Rule.

Treatment Technique: A required process intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water.

FREDERIC BOARD OF EDUCATION Regular Meeting - Monday, May 16, 2011

The President, Mr. Nelson, called the regular meeting of the Frederic School District Board of Education to order at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, May 16, 2011, in the 7 - 12 School, Room 107.

Board members present: Mrs. Amundson, Mr. Engen, Mr. Holicky, Mrs. Matz and Mr. Nelson.

Administration present: Mr. Draxler and Mr. Tischer.

Motion Holicky/Engen that this meeting was properly noticed.

Motion carried 5 - 0.

Motion Matz/Holicky to approve the 4-18-11 regular meeting minutes. Motion carried 5 - 0.

Mr. Nelson provided a summary of the 4-18-11 closed session minutes.

Motion Holicky/Matz to approve the 3-21-11 (2 sessions), and 3-30-11 closed session minutes. Motion carried 5 - 0.

The invoices for April 2011 were presented as follows: Regular invoices (#9339-9464 & 38585-38591). . . . . . .$300,597.62 Payroll account..........................................................$196,630.81 Motion Amundson/Matz to authorize and confirm the money payments of the invoices presented. Motion carried 5 - 0.

Mr. Engen presented receipts for April 2011 totaling $119,065.51.

Mr. Tischer reviewed the 2010 - 11 budget.

Mr. Nelson declared that the board would proceed with election of officers.

Motion Matz/Holicky to retain the same Board officers as follows: President Scott Nelson, Vice President Shari Matz, Clerk Rebecca Amundson, Treasurer Troy Engen and Member Chuck Holicky. Motion carried 5 - 0.

Mr. Nelson appointed Chuck Holicky as delegate to the CESA 11 annual meeting and Scott Nelson as alternate.

Mr. Tischer presented the district report. The principals, food service, and buildings and grounds submitted reports.

Mr. Wink was present and discussed the football program.

Motion Holicky/Engen to accept the resignation of Diane Utley, administrative assistant, with thanks for her years of service to the district. Motion carried 5 - 0.

Motion Holicky/Amundson to approve a 66.30 contract with CESA 11 for Early Childhood services. Motion carried.

Motion Amundson/Matz to approve renewal of student accident insurance with Student Assurance Services. Motion carried 5 - 0.

Motion Holicky/Engen to approve the 2011 - 12 budget as presented. Motion carried 5 - 0.

Motion Holicky/Matz to hold the 2011 annual meeting and budget hearing on September 26 at 6:30 p.m. Motion carried 5 0.

Motion Matz/Holicky to approve school lunch prices for 2011 12 as follows: K - 5 breakfast $1.25; 6 - 12 breakfast $1.50; K - 5 lunch $2.00; 6 - 12 lunch $2.30; adult breakfast $1.95; and adult lunch $3.30. Motion carried 5 - 0.

Motion Holicky/Engen to approve the Fund 60/Activity Account policy as presented. Motion carried 5 - 0.

The following policies were reviewed: Youth Options, GASB 54 and Technology Plan.

Mr. Nelson announced to members of the Board that they should consider adjourning to closed session for the purpose of negotiations, personnel matters and staffing. Mr. Nelson informed the board that the closed session would be proper and is authorized by s. 19.85 (1)(c)(f)(i) of the WI Statutes.

Motion Amundson/Holicky to adjourn to closed session. Vote by roll call was unanimous to convene in closed session and the motion carried 5 - 0. Time: 6:09 p.m.

The regular meeting reconvened at 6:40 p.m.

Motion Matz/Holicky to adjourn. Motion carried 5 - 0.

Time: 6:40 p.m.

Rebecca Amundson, Clerk

FREDERIC BOARD OF EDUCATION Special Meeting - Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The President, Mr. Nelson, called a special meeting of the Frederic School District Board of Education to order at 6:29 p.m. on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in the 7 - 12 School, Room 107.

Board members present: Mrs. Amundson, Mr. Engen, Mrs. Matz and Mr. Nelson. Mr. Holicky arrived at 7:03 p.m.

Administration present: Mr. Draxler, Mrs. Steen and Mr. Tischer.

Motion Matz/Engen that this meeting was properly noticed.

GASB 54 was added to the agenda as item #4E. Motion carried 4 - 0.

Motion Matz/Engen to accept the resignation of Ray Draxler, 7 - 12 School Principal, with many thanks for his years of hard work and dedication to the Frederic School District. Motion carried 4 - 0.

Motion Matz/Engen to approve increasing the deductible for health insurance for the administration and teachers. Motion carried 4 - 0.

The GASB 54 policy was presented for board review.

Mr. Nelson announced to members of the board that they should consider adjourning to closed session for the purpose of negotiations and staffing. Mr. Nelson informed the Board that the closed session would be proper and is authorized by s. 19.85 1)(c)(f)(i) of the WI Statutes.

Motion Amundson/Matz to convene to closed session. Vote by roll call was unanimous to convene in closed session and the motion carried 4 - 0. Time: 7:02 p.m.

The regular meeting reconvened at 8:15 p.m.

The following positions will be posted: 1 FTE 6 - 12 Principal, .5 FTE English/Language Arts teacher, and 1 FTE Kindergarten teacher.

Motion Engen/Holicky to adjourn. Motion carried 5 - 0.

Time: 8:15 p.m.

Rebecca Amundson, Clerk 539814 45L

The Leader

Connect to your community ALCOHOL BEVERAGE LICENSE APPLICATION VILLAGE OF LUCK Notice is hereby given that the following application has been received by the undersigned Village Clerk for Alcohol Beverage License for the ensuing year ending June 30, 2012.

Huppert Family LLC by Alfred Huppert for combination Class “B” Beer License and “Class B” Liquor License at the business known as Ben’s Northern Bar, 105 S. Main Street, Luck, WI. Notice is further given that the Village Board, Village of Luck, will meet in session July 13, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. to act on the above application.

Kathy Hanson, CMC, CMTW, Clerk/Treasurer 540215 45L Village of Luck, WI WNAXLP (June 8, 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee for Ameriquest Mortgage Securities Inc., AssetBacked Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-R4, Plaintiff, vs.

REBECCA A. METCALF and CHRISTOPHER J. METCALF husband and wife, Defendants.

Case No. 11-CV-80 Code No. 30404 Foreclosure of Mortgage Dollar Amount Greater Than $5,000.00 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on May 6, 2011, in the amount of $133,176.46, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: July 27, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or certified funds at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. PLACE: Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 West Main St., Balsam Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 2143, Recorded in Volume 10 of Certified Survey Maps on Page 66 as Document No. 551729, being Part of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4 of SE 1/4), Section Nine (9), Township Thirty-four (34), Range Eighteen (18) West, St. Croix Falls Township, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1609 210th Street, Town of St. Croix Falls.

TAX KEY NO.: 044-00244-0100.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County, WI O’DESS AND ASSOCIATES, S.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 1414 Underwood Avenue Suite 403 Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 727-1591 O’Dess and Associates, S.C., is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

If you have previously received a Chapter 7 Discharge in Bankruptcy, this correspondence should not be construed as an attempt to collect a debt.

538381 WNAXLP

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To be spherical

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Editor’s note: The author, from rural Grantsburg, is a retired biology professor from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. “I have been ‘fooling around’ with photography for some time and am currently a member of the North Metro Photo Club in the Twin Cities and a member of the Northern Exposures Photo Club in Mora, Minn.,” noted Walt Fluegel. “At the clubs we learn from each other and compare notes on techniques and equipment. Skills range from professional to advanced amateurs to beginners wanting to understand the process of making photos. Each month we are given an assignment and members try to meet the photo challenge.” In addition, Fluegel also belongs to the Northwest Regional Writers in Burnett County and here, too, members are given a monthly assignment. “For one of my columns I thought I would pretend to be a sphere and challenge photographers to see how they might photograph various spheres,” he said.

by Walt Fluegel Special to the Leader GRANTSBURG - Hmm ... maybe I can take one idea and make two versions of the idea and meet the requirements of both clubs to which I belong. One club is a camera club, the other is a writing club. In both clubs we try to hone our skills and present our efforts to members.

For the camera club I “fool around” with things and with the writers I “play around” with words. Let’s see what I can do about photography first.

Suppose the club’s assigned topic was Something Spherical. My mind speculates: Suppose I were a sphere?

What kind of sphere could I be that is worth photographing and how should I be photographed? There are lots of spheres in this world, including the world we live on ... so let’s explore some possibilities.

Frog and fish eggs and the center of hens eggs are spherical. No way! No photos here because then the yolk would be on me! My muse is egging me on.

Sporting events have lots of spheres so don’t pin me down at this point for a photo on bowling. It doesn’t strike me as very interesting even though I may have

A real photograph. Nothing done with the computer. A simple glass marble was held by the author's wife, Maxine, while the sun shone on the hand and marble. “I snapped the photo with a star filter in front of the lens. It’s the same type of filter used by photographers in the entertainment business that give the bright lights an extra sparkle.”

Here the author was “fooling around” with an object different from a sphere. “I could have used a tennis ball or an orange, or any number of spheres, but I could not find a suitable garment to drape around me and have it go with a sphere,” he noted. - Photos by Walt Fluegel

holes in my head as I roll along and crash into things.

How about if I were a golf ball? It has cute dimples, and sometimes the ball is embossed with a famous name. But golf balls get smacked across the face by the likes of Tiger Woods or just maybe the usual duffer at the local links.

Other balls, as in tennis, polo, cricket or even baseball, get smacked by something.

Ye gads that’s brutal.

In baseball’s case, being clubbed on the seams can be mighty tough on my hide. Maybe I can be photographed in the hands of a famous pitcher contemplating a curve ball. Also, I hope I don’t get fouled in the process.

In croquet I might be photographed with genteel, sophisticated people. I am in the grass gently touching some other ball. But then someone steps on my head and pounds me with a large wooden mallet and before I know it I bump my companion and send him rolling along the lawn. I am pounded again and sent through a wire hoop-de-do. Hmm-mm! Is this exciting photography?

Hoops! That reminds me ... look how a basketball is treated! It’s bounced, dribbled, tossed and slam-dunked by powerful hands. I could also be photographed balancing on the end of a finger. Better as a video than a still photo. It makes my head spin just thinking about it.

Maybe at this point I should make a note for the writers to go into detail on how I see the players face-to-face as they make their free throws or as they pass me from one player to another.

From the other extreme, how dull to be a small cannonball being catapulted into the air by a shot putter and landing with a thud. I think the photographer would concentrate more on the athlete’s facial grimace than to take a shot of the shot.

Maybe I would like being a soccer ball’s geodesic design, but no photos of this sphere. I don’t like being kicked around. And volleyball? With all the ups and downs and sudden spikes only to get sand in my face? ...

I’ll pass. But I can imagine a sports photographer getting a good snap of a player saving a spike while he or she gets sand in the face.

How about if I were a table-tennis ball? Maybe. My

light weight allows me to be a blur at 80 to 90 miles an hour just before I bounce on a table. Then – wham – I get hit by a sandpaper-covered paddle. It makes me spin around, get bounced on a table again and - wham again!

That’s rough on my thin skin because that is all I am!

Why not be something solid like colorful marbles? On a Chinese Checkers board ... maybe – but not in the hands of a sticky-fingered kid. Besides, how would anyone make a sticky-fingered kid’s hand photogenic? And for the writers, how would anyone describe sticky, gooey fingers, ugh!

I like the sound of chimes and clangs and bright flashing lights so maybe I would try being snapped in a pinball machine. As a sphere I would travel quite a bit even though I got bounced and flicked around and land in a hole. It’s better than being a ball bearing where all you do is go around in circles.

Ahhhh!! Let’s look into a crystal ball and pretend in a different direction. Let’s see something more genteel, refined, elegant and very alluring. I know what kind of sphere I would like to be! I can dream every man’s dream and be lucky enough to be photographed as one pearl resting on a beautiful woman’s neck. Click!

Have fun, Walt.

“The photo of Gazania flowers and subsequent computer treatment is a bit involved,” the author notes. “My title, ‘Inspired by Escher,’ comes from an artist of the 1960s who did some interesting artwork. He drew a portrait of himself holding a crystal ball and saw his own reflection in the glass.”

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Simple photography. Two different sized spheres of polymer clay, one paper disc and the proper lighting and we have the beginning of a solar system.

Add a few stars from the computer paintbrush and we have an illusion of something out of this world.

“I found the inside of a car oil pump most interesting to photograph but I could not leave well enough alone. I did a bit of fooling around with the computer and made it appear to be a planet with all the stars and Earth below.”

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Jazz combo and alternative strings coming to SLAC this weekend

SHELL LAKE —The Shell Lake Arts Center is pleased to present the faculty and campers of the Alternative Style String and Classic Jazz Combo camps in a series of concerts during the week of July 3-8.

The week will kick off with a Sunday performance by the Classic Jazz Combo faculty at 7 p.m. in the Shell Lake Arts Center auditorium. The combo and alternative strings faculty will present another concert on Monday, July 4, at 7:30 p.m., at the Lakefront Pavilion. This concert is brought to you by the support of the Northern Lakes Veterinary Clinic.

If you like what you see, join us at the Wednesday, July 6, concert put on by the combo faculty in the Shell Lake Arts Center auditorium. All concerts are free and open to the public.

These concerts are run in conjunction with the Shell Lake Arts Center’s week-

This bald eagle peered down on passing traffic with an electrifying stare from a perch atop a power line – Photo by Gary King

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long combo and alternative string camps. The camps are open to students ages 12-18, and offer instruction in jazz, blues, pop and fiddling for the strings, and improvisation, jazz history and theory for the combo campers. The alternative string students will perform in their final concert on Friday, July 8, at 4 p.m. in the center gymnasium, and the combo students will perform at 6 p.m. These two concerts are sponsored by Johnson Bank of Spooner.

In the event of rain, pavilion concerts will be held in the Shell Lake Arts Center auditorium. Don’t miss the final jazz ensemble and combo week 2 concert Friday, July 1, at 7 p.m. For more information or to register for a camp, please visit the arts center’s Web site at www.shelllakeartscenter.org or call 715468-2414. - from SLAC

The lakefront pavilion will be the site for a jazz concert on Monday, July 4, at 7:30 p.m. - Photo by Larry Samson

Governor signs the budget into law

Wisconsin Public Radio GREEN BAY - Gov. Scott Walker has signed Wisconsin’s two-year state budget, calling it a document that makes hard choices to balance the books for the first time in years.

The budget Walker signed bears a strong resemblance to the one he introduced to lawmakers months ago. It makes historically large cuts throughout state government, chopping more $800 million from public schools.

But Walker said it began to put the state’s fiscal house in order.

“For the first time in a long time, we

have a budget that is better for the people of this state than the one we inherited.”

Walker made 50 vetoes to the budget, eliminating provisions Republican lawmakers tucked in that would have legalized bail bondsmen in Wisconsin and lowered the tax on name-brand chewing tobacco. He used his powerful partial veto to require all public employees to work in their jobs five years before they’re vested in their pensions. He also made it easier for all state agencies to sign no-bid contracts with private firms.

Walker focused on the budget’s tax breaks for manufacturers and limits on property taxes.

“Middle-class property taxes are the beneficiary of this budget,” said Walker. “This budget includes a property tax freeze that will help thousands of Wisconsin families.”

Walker took no questions after the signing. But outside along the street, hundreds of protesters were eager to talk, shouting “shame” at cars as they arrived.

Green Bay teacher Eleanor Redue said this budget disregarded the schools and teachers that had made Wisconsin great.

“If there’s not the room to be the kind of teacher that you aspire to be, you’re not going to enter the profession, you’re going to choose something that will help you support your family.”

Finding out the hard way

Steve Gustafson of rural Centuria found out the hard way the fields are still wet even after three days of dry weather. Gustafson was aided in removing his bottomed-out tractor by neighbors Jerry Larsen, in red tractor, Al Alling, hooking up the chains, and Gustafson’s son. Gustafson said he and his wife, Debbie, had to wash off the tractor themselves. - Photo submitted

Assembly Democratic Minority Leader Peter Barca issued a statement saying the budget meant the middle class would pay more and get less.

Recall primary candidates on WPR

EAU CLAIRE - The Democratic primary in the recall election of 10th District state Sen. Sheila Harsdor, R-River Falls, will be the focus of a candidate forum on “The West Side” Thursday, June 30, at 5 p.m. on 88.3 WHWCMenomonie-Eau Claire and 88.7 WRFWRiver Falls.

Host Rich Kremer will be joined by Democratic candidates Shelly Moore of Ellsworth and Isaac Weix of Menomonie to present their platforms and discuss issues important to the 10th Senate District of western Wisconsin. The winner of the July 12 primary will run against Harsdorf, the Republican incumbent, in the recall election date set for Aug. 9.

The recall efforts, including that of Sen. Harsdorf, have largely stemmed from the introduction and deliberation of Gov. Walker’s Budget Repair Bill which included elimination of collective bargaining rights. The debate triggered protests and signature-collection campaigns to recall state senators. Harsdorf is one of six Republican and three Democratic senators facing recalls this summer. - from Wisconsin Public Radio

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by Nancy Jappe Leader staff reporter SIREN -Two years ago Larry Koch of Siren rode 250 miles on an ATV in two days. This year he’s done a two-day ATV trip again, taking four other retired buddies with him. The goal for the trip: To promote tourism and showcase the great trails and routes in northern Wisconsin.

And one additional goal - to help businesses in Wisconsin who are going through tough times.

Joining Koch on the trip this year were four other outdoor adventurers, Ken Nelson and Harold Beedy from Siren; and Rich Thompson, president of the Turf and Tundra ATV Club, and John Kielkucki from the Webb Lake area.

The riders took legal ATV routes and trails all along the way. The Siren group rode up to Danbury to meet Thompson and Kielkucki. The five then went to the Minnesota border, stopping at the Minnesota border sign to record the official start of the trip early Wednesday, June 22.

The first day’s ride took the five 150 miles east to Clam Lake, stopping in Seely for lunch and arriving at Clam Lake at 6:30 p.m. A light mist was coming down all the way. The riders were totally covered, with big rubber boots on their feet joining regular rain gear over the rest of their bodies.

“We were very comfortable, and there was no dust,” Koch commented.

Along the way the riders saw 18 deer, two bears, four turkeys, 15 geese, two foxes, four swans, two elk and “lots and lots” of squirrels.

The riders got up at 7:30 a.m. on the second morning and rode for four hours, 60 miles, to Ironwood, Mich., the end of the trip. Arrival there was at 11:30 a.m. On the way they passed by Mellen, Upson and Hurley. In Mellen they learned that a group of businesspeople are trying to start a taconite mine that would employ 5,000 people. Ecologists are opposing the mine, and the start-up, and those additional jobs, may not go through.

While on the trail, the riders encountered big puddles of orange-colored, rusty taconite water as well as fallen tree limbs across the trails that had to be moved before they could go on.

The Ironwood Chamber of Commerce office was right along the trail on which they were riding. They stopped there and

A stop was made at the Ironwood Chamber of Commerce in Michigan where this photo was taken of Larry Koch and UP Developer Donna Scorse. The ATV riders took along donated Burnett Dairy cheese as a gift for the chamber. As Koch put it, “It’s the best cheese in Wisconsin.” Then he added, “ She (Scorse) loved the cheese.”

Five outdoor adventurers, (L to R) John Kielkucki from Webb Lake, Rich Thompson, Harold Beedy, Ken Nelson and Larry Koch from Siren, are shown preparing for their two-day trip on ATV trails from the Minnesota border to Michigan June 22 and 23. Thompson is president of the Turf and Tundra ATV Club. The men hope that their trip will pave the way for other ATV riders who can use an opportunity like this to discover all the beauty nature offers in the state. Photo by Nancy Jappe met the executive director, Donna Scorse, a woman who also carries the title of Upper Peninsula developer. She was presented with a round of cheese donated for the trip by Burnett Dairy Cooperative.

“The best cheese in Wisconsin,” Koch said.

Also while in Ironwood, the riders visited the factory where hats with flaps called the Stormy Kromers (formerly the Kromer Blizzards) are made. Stormy Kromer was a semipro baseball player and also a railroad engineer. He lost many a cap to the winds when he would stick his head out the window to check where the train was headed. In 1903, Kromer asked his wife, Ida, an excellent seam-

The three riders from Siren rode ATV trails to Danbury, where they picked up the other two riders, then the five rode to the Minnesota border where their two-day ride across the state of Wisconsin began. Shown here at the Minnesota border are (L to R) John Kielkucki, Rich Thompson, Harold Beedy and Ken Nelson. – Photos submitted unless otherwise noted

stress, to add flaps to his baseball cap so it would fit snugly. Soon other engineers wanted caps like that, and an Upper Peninsula industry began.

Not only are hats made at the factory, but other cold-weather gear as well. The ATV riders were delighted when they were each given a gift - a Stormy Kromer cap worth $35 and guaranteed for life.

The ATVs averaged 24 miles to a gallon of fuel, a better-than-usual mileage. All of

the riders are experienced and very safety conscious. They keep a good distance between the machines. They keep close track of the rider behind them. “When we come to a T,” Koch explained, “the guy in the lead waits until the guy behind sees him (before going on). The next guy does the same thing.”

A support vehicle followed them along the route. At the end of the trip the ATVs were loaded onto the support vehicle for the ride back across the state, with them arriving home late Friday night, June 24.

“We had things to get back to,” Koch said.

When asked about the value of the trip, Koch commented: “I will remember the group of guys. It was a great group of

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The ATV riders encountered obstacles along the trails, like the tree branches that had to be moved out of the way before the ride could continue. They also ran across big puddles of taconite-colored water.

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Four hoping to be crowned Miss Centuria

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CENTURIA – At least four Unity High School students are looking to be crowned Miss Centuria 2011. This year’s Miss Centuria pageant will be held on Thursday, July 7, at 7 p.m., and everyone is welcome to attend. The pageant is part of Centuria’s Memory Days celebration being held July 7-10. This is the first year that the pageant will be held on a Thursday.

Miss Centuria queen candidates include Jena Alling, Anna Katrina Luepke, Renae McKenzie and Savannah Sande.

Anna Katrina Luepke Anna Katrina Luepke is the daughter of Wayne and Barbara Luepke and has a younger sister, Ella. Anna enjoys acting, kayaking, running, reading, playing with her dog, singing and playing guitar.

She participates in cross-country, track, choir, band, vocal jazz, FFA, drama/theater and solo ensemble. She loves to sing and aspires to go to college at Juilliard for performing arts, and is highly involved with Festival Theatre programs.

Luepke sees the opportunity to try new things if crowned Miss Centuria, and represent her hometown and be involved with the local community.

Jena Alling Jena Alling is the daughter of Jeanne and Al Alling and she has an older sister, Johanna. Jena and her family have lived in the Centuria community for five generations and she’s actively involved in the agriculture community. Her hobbies include photography, reading, writing sto-

The Miss Centuria contestants shown (L to R): Anna Luepke, Jena Alling, Savannah Sande and Renae McKenzie. The pageant will be held Thursday evening, July 7. – Photo submitted

ries, and working with her goats, sheep, dogs and cats. Alling volunteers in her spare time around the Unity community.

She lists several community projects with the Polk County 4-H over the past five years, as well as the South Milltown 4-H for 11 years. She has been part of the Leos Club for five years, Girl Scouts for 11 years and Unity FFA Alumni activities for 12 years.

Alling hopes to make a difference in her community and be a positive role model for youth in the community. She’d love to meet more people and let them know how great Centuria can be, but more importantly, be an influence on the royalty team.

Savannah Sande Savannah Sande is the daughter of Sarah Sande, and the granddaughter of Neil and Judy Greninger. She has a younger sister, Echo. Sande enjoys singing, writing songs and headlines and working in Photoshop. Her school activities include FFA, 4-H, Leos Club and student council.

Sande has always wanted to run for Miss Centuria and thinks she will be a good queen, as her nickname is also Queen. She also thinks it would be a lot of fun. While she admits that she comes across as a shy person, she is outgoing at heart, and believes this experience will be a chance to broaden her horizons.

for a larger, better equipped library space was matched with a call for a specific space designed to accommodate meetings, instructional space, a community room with kitchen, performance and artist gallery space, and storage and display areas replete with current media technology.

At this time none of these amenities are available to the public in the village or surrounding area. In addition, while the population of the village has increased 12 percent in the past 10 years, library circulation has increased 340 percent and the physical facility remains the same.

Chairman Steve Schanback was impressed with the fact that through the sur-

Currently children’s programming, like the Artsy Smartsy classes at the Osceola Library, make use of the sole conference room, also used for storage, archives and an overflow of the general book stacks. – Photos submitted

Renae McKenzie Renae McKenzie is the daughter of Laverne and Leisha McKenzie and she has two older brothers, Seth and Trent, and one dog. Her family likes to get together and watch movies, and go on family trips.

McKenzie likes to dance ride bike, bowl, swim and hang out with friends.

Her activities include dance line and FFA, and she is involved with the Girl Scouts and also volunteers at the hospital. She is running for Miss Centuria because she wants to be involved with the Centuria community and meet new people. – Marty Seeger with submitted information

Osceola Library to morph into destination space

OSCEOLA - The Future of Osceola Library work group received its marching orders in May. Following the collection of more than 760 surveys received from village and surrounding area residents, the work group learned residents are ready for more than a library. They are ready for a destination.

Work group members represent the library board, the Friends of the Library and the Osceola library director, Nathan Deprey. Midwinter they developed the survey, promoting it in local businesses, the grocery store, at banks, online and through community organizations.

In analyzing the surveys, the work group found that the community’s need

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guys. I’ll remember the excitement of the businesses, the gas stations, the restaurants, the motels, who thanked us for doing this to make people aware that they can do this, too.”

Anyone who is interested in making a trip like this across the state of Wisconsin can get ahold of Larry Koch at 612-750-

Specific programs like children’s story hour or adult book discussion groups make use of corners within the general library and within hearing of activity at the checkout desk.

vey nearly 60 people offered themselves as volunteers in support of the work group.

Many informational meetings have been held with community organizations to share the results, culminating in a presentation to the village board May 10. The results were met with unanimous support by the board and an agreement to allow the village administrator to meet with the work group.

Currently the work group is organizing task groups, which include many of the volunteers, to begin research on location

acquisition, facility design, technology, financing and affordability.

Schanback envisions The Center at Osceola and Library. “It can be a place so bold and unique that it serves the community and inspires community pride,” he said. The work group agrees and sees it as providing a focus for activity for residents of all ages and for Village development.

More information can be found on the library Web page www.osceolapubliclibrary.org. Click on the link, Future of the Osceola Library. submitted

6766 (his cell phone) or by e-mail to larryjan@sirentel.net. He will give them maps (free) and lay out the trip, adding phone numbers for places along the route.

Now that this trip across the state of Wisconsin is a memory, the five riders are thinking ahead. “We are planning our next adventure,” Koch said.

Larry Koch (L) and Ken Nelson are shown at a stop along one of the approved ATV trails that took their group of five adventurers across Wisconsin from the Minnesota to the Michigan borders.

Stopped at a trail sign along the way across Wisconsin were ATV riders (L to R) Rich Thompson, president of the Turf and Tundra ATV Club, John Kielkucki and Ken Nelson.

Two medical stu-

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dents were walking along the street when they saw an old man walking with his legs spread Joe Roberts apart. He was stifflegged and walking slowly. One student said to his friend, “I’m sure that poor old man has Peltry Syndrome. Those people walk just like that.”

The other student said, “No, I don’t think so. The old man surely has Zovitzki Syndrome. He walks slowly and his legs are apart, just as we learned in class.”

Since they couldn’t agree they decided to ask the old man. They approached him, and one of the students said to him, “We’re medical students and couldn’t help but notice the way you walk, but we couldn’t agree on the syndrome you might have. Could you tell us what it is?”

The old man said, “I’ll tell you, but first you tell me what you two fine medical students think.”

The first student said, “I think it’s Peltry Syndrome.”

The old man said, “You thought, but you are wrong.”

The other student said, “I think you have Zovitzki Syndrome.”

The old man said, “You thought, but you are wrong.”

So they asked him, “Well, old-timer, what do you have?”

The old man said, “I thought it was gas, but I was wrong, too!”

Rides and games added to Siren's Fourth of July festival

SIREN - In addition to the many fun annual activities held in Siren as part of its Fourth of July Festival, this year a carnival is being added for the weekend. From July 1 through July 4, a variety of rides (for toddlers through adults), numerous games and great food will be available at Crooked Lake Park.

The village of Siren and the Siren Chamber of Commerce worked through the details for this weekend’s carnival with the owners, Chippewa Valley Rides of Chippewa Falls.

Hours of operation will be Friday, July 1, 5 to 11 p.m.; Saturday, July 2, noon to 11 p.m.; Sunday, July 3, noon to 11 p.m.; and Monday, July 4, noon to 10 p.m.

Other Siren weekend activities include The Dweebs, July 3 street dance and July 4 Freedom Five 5K Race, bed races, parades, queen’s tea, pie and ice-cream social, Music in the Park, and the Siren Lions fireworks. Details are available on the Siren Web site, www.visitsiren.com, or by calling 715-349-8399/800-788-3164. - submitted

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Summertime makes me think of hot vinyl car seats.

Early July is when my family would leave on our annual summer vacation. We would scramble to pack the car, the camper Carrie Classon would be attached to the hitch of our green American-made car, and we would head out. As my father felt the camper bounce off the end of the sloped driveway and onto the street he would announce loudly, “I’m on vacation!” And we were.

I was allowed to bring my book bag filled with whatever books I wanted to read, some pens and paper. When I was young I didn’t have much of an idea exactly where we were headed, but I knew I would have my book bag along and deciding what would go inside made me feel as if I had some control over whatever happened next.

I always thought I was lucky to have only one sister, as we both got a window and could draw a line down the center of the backseat delineating the LINE OF DEATH which the other could not cross, as the car heated up and the vinyl seats became sticky. But there were actually very few territorial disputes as I recall. Our small dog rode in the front and would only jump into the backseat when my mother opened the thermos of coffee, forever reminding her of the one and only time (long ago but never forgotten) when she had spilled hot coffee.

Because we wanted to cover a lot of miles during the day, we would have lunch in the car, picnics of tuna fish sandwiches and milk that was a little too warm (poured into green plastic cups) that we washed down with homemade cookies. One year we all got the stomach flu while camping in our little tent trailer and I have never been able to look at corn

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BALSAM LAKE - Poco Penners will meet for their annual get-together picnic on Friday, July 8, at the Balsam Lake Library (under the red water tower) at noon. Bring something for potluck and an original writing to share with the group. For more info please call 715-483-9738. - submit-

I am most likely of the last gen-

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eration in America to have taken a bath in a washtub of water heated on the kitchen range. In my parJohn W. Ingalls ents generation it certainly wasn’t unusual and in my grandparent’s generation, running water meant hurrying to the outdoor hand pump with the bucket.

The evolution of the bathroom has been interesting.

In the beginning, the greatest luxury of all was the simple fact of indoor plumbing. Gone was the latenight trip to the outhouse. One could simply satisfy one’s basic needs in the comfort of the indoor bathroom and with a push of the handle it was complete.

For rural men and women getting indoor plumbing was a milestone achievement that would never be surpassed by any subsequent innovations.

Further changes in the indoor bathroom did nothing more than refine the way in which water was delivered, displayed and dispelled from the equipment.

Many bathrooms now are indoor luxury suites with massive bathtubs and swirling water jets, sinks with sensuous handles and faucets and porcelain thrones with anatomically curved seats and golden handles.

Many European facilities also have a bidet, which is nothing more than an upside-down shower for sensitive areas. A push on the handle is like sitting on your lawn sprinkler.

The newest change in bathroom equipment has been to get rid of the handles completely. I haven’t

Till next time, —Carrie

Webster students visit NYC and Washington, D.C.

Webster Middle School students recently traveled to New York City and Washington, D.C. by bus. They left Webster Schools on Monday, June 13, driving straight through to Washington, D.C., arriving Tuesday morning.

They toured the Washington Monument, the Capitol, Arlington National Cemetery, the Holocaust Memorial Museum and many other sites in the nation’s capital, including the White House and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with the changing of the guard ceremony. They finished touring D.C. on Thursday, June 16, about noon and then headed to New York City. They enjoyed a Broadway performance by The Blue Man Group, and dinner at Dallas BBQ after the show. On Friday, they toured the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center site, NBC and ended with an evening at the Top of the Rock Observation Deck. “We did so many things, I can’t name them all,” noted one of the adult chaperones, Laura Main. The group returned back home on Saturday, June 17. Social studies teacher Tony Bell was credited for doing a great job in taking time to supervise all the students. - Photos submitted

Poco Penners to hold annual get-together picnic

Getting a handle on it

chips in quite the same way since.

There was no VCR or CD player but I don’t remember being bored. I remember watching the landscape go by: endless power lines and wheat fields and pasture. I made up stories and acted them out for my sister using my hands and feet as performers; nothing else was required.

I know we went to a lot of wonderful places. There are photos of us climbing in the mountains and visiting the National Parks, and driving all the way to the ocean. We camped and swam and saw lots of beautiful sights.

But the funny thing is, I don’t really remember much about the camping or the hiking, the mountains or the waterfalls. When I think of those vacations now, what I remember is getting there— wherever “there” was. It was getting there that made the trip. I remember Dad’s singing and Mom’s cookies, entertaining my little sister, and watching the landscape fly by with no obligation other than to sit right where I was and be reasonably quiet.

And I remember my book bag, the wonderful feeling of having a supply of adventures waiting for me, ready when I needed them.

I’m going to try to have that kind of July vacation.

I’m going to try to capture the peace I felt watching the landscape go by, the unhurried fun I had with my sister, singing with my dad and eating cookies and milk. When I head out on vacation, I’m going to try to remember that it is the journey that counts.

I’ve got my book bag all packed and ready to go. I may not need to go anywhere at all.

seen this in private homes but it is everywhere in public bathrooms. Public restrooms don’t have any handles and most of them don’t even have doors. The first couple of times I experiMD enced it, I thought it was a bit weird. Arising from the toilet I couldn’t help but think there was a camera focused on my butt transmitting a photo back to the plumbing security office. Some poor minimum wage security guy had to monitor it all and “flush stall number three” when the time was right.

The sink was the most frustrating. I began to feel as if I was the invisible man. There were no handles to turn on the water at the sink. Even the soap dispensers were automatic. I would wave my hands in front of the faucet and nothing would happen so I moved to my right to try the next sink. Just as I would move, the faucet on sink number one would come on. Quick, back to the first sink, but by the time I got there the water would quit again. I waved my hands around long enough trying to get them wet that I looked like a magician trying to conjure a hairball out of the drain.

After finally conquering the automatic soap dispenser and the automatic water faucet at the sink I had to face the automatic paper towel dispenser. I waved my hands so many times in front of the motion sensor that they were almost dry when a sheet of paper finally made its appearance. I continued flapping and eventually had three sheets of paper. I finished drying my hands on my pants.

I clearly understand the reason for the lack of faucet

controls. Efforts to save water and reduce the risk of spreading germs from contaminated faucet handles are a great idea. It also reminds me of the outhouse at my grandparents place. It was well ventilated and there were no faucets or controls. Of course we had indoor plumbing but for a busy boy who was outside every minute of the day, it was much easier and quicker to use the old outhouse. The door was creaky on its hinges from lack of regular use. The door would also swing open on its own so a small piece of wood with a nail through it acted as a handle to keep it shut when occupied. Like many public bathrooms it was a two-holer. It had the same old Montgomery Ward catalog for years. I remember one visit to that fine facility when I was about 5 or 6 years old. Perched in a comfortable position I reviewed the old catalog, looking for something interesting. Many of the pages had been torn out so the reading material was diminished with each visit. The slick, glossy pages were always the last to go.

It wasn’t unusual to feel a draft from below but it was strange to feel a draft and also hear a noise. To satisfy my curiosity I peered into the darkness of the adjacent seat and was startled into action. There, just a couple of feet below my bare anatomy, was a big woodchuck looking up at the moon. It is safe to say that he scared the you-know-what out of me.

Bursting through the door, the feeble handle was broken off never to be replaced. Looking back now I realize how much we were ahead of the times. A bathroom without door handles and nothing to flush; my how times have changed.

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Polk County’s most infamous soldier

The Civil War began 150 years ago when disagreements between northern and southern states came to a head with the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

Within a few months several southern states decided to withdraw from the United States of America. The war began when South Carolina attacked and captured Fort Sumter, a U.S. Army base, in April of 1861. President Lincoln called for volunteers to preserve the Union.

Probably the highest ranking local soldier was Col. Robert Creighton Murphy, who commanded the 8th Wisconsin Infantry. He was working in St. Croix Falls for Caleb Cushing, the man who owned the water power as well as 60,000 acres of land nearby in Wisconsin and Minnesota. When the war broke out, Murphy volunteered and left St. Croix Falls permanently.

Murphy’s name is inextricably linked with one of the major Union military disasters of the war, the Confederate capture of the supply depot at Holly Springs, Miss., on Dec. 20, 1862. Ever since then, his treatment in the literature of the Civil War - from the newspapers of the period up to today - has ranged from brutal to vicious, with no one having a kind word to say about him. The question of who was Robert Murphy, and what happened to him, is one that did not seem worth the trouble to try to answer.

For researcher Eric Politzer, a University of Minnesota graduate, a curiosity about Murphy grew out of his interest in the lives of Americans in 19th century China.

He only later discovered that Murphy’s name was associated with a military fiasco. In this summary of his research on Murphy, he doesn’t have definite answers to what happened at Holly Springs. However, he finds plenty of evidence that Murphy was able, energetic and honest, and is worth a second look.

Robert Creighton Murphy (1827-1888): U.S. Consul at Shanghai, Brigade Commander, National Scapegoat Murphy, born in Chillicothe, Ohio, was the son of William Sumpter Murphy (1798-1844), a lawyer and orator (“the Patrick Henry of the West”) whose campaigning for Harrison and Tyler in 1840 earned him two diplomatic appointments, the second being chargé d’affaires at the Republic of Texas (1843-44).

At 17, Robert Murphy interrupted his college studies to serve as special messenger for the government, carrying a treaty of annexation to his father at Galveston, a few months before the latter’s untimely death of yellow fever in July 1844.

After college (Miami, ‘45), law school, law practice, travel with the Mexican Boundary Commission and a brief period in the Treasury Department, in 1853 Murphy was appointed U.S. consul at Shanghai, China. He was the first government-salaried U.S. consul in China, his predecessors having been merchants who performed consular duties in their spare time. He departed after marrying Lavinia Lyne of Washington, D.C., in August.

He arrived at Shanghai at a critical moment (Feb. 1854), as disorder in China was forcing residents of Shanghai’s foreign settlement to take greater responsibility for governing and defending themselves. Working with able, experienced people, he appears to have played a useful role in creating key institutions of the International Settlement, namely the Municipal Council, the Volunteer Corps and the reformed Maritime Customs.

After the departure in late 1854 of his superior, U.S. Commissioner to China Robert McLane, Murphy’s path became more challenging. He was critical of the intimacy of some U.S. officials with U.S. merchants, and could not avoid making enemies among U.S. merchants who believed that the proper role of the government was to be the pliant tool of commercial interests.

Since a response to a request for instructions from Washington took six months, Murphy had considerable discretion to pursue American interests as he saw fit, and vigorously attacked problems such as currency manipulation at Shanghai (involving collusion between certain Chinese, British and U.S. merchants to rig the exchange rate at 30 percent to 40 percent higher than elsewhere); Chinese inland taxation of U.S. and U.S.-bound goods, in contravention of treaty provisions; and improving the navigation of the lower Whangpoo River, by persuading the U.S. Navy to survey it and prepare a pilot’s guide, which Murphy printed.

Two contributions which may fairly be credited to

Col. Robert C. Murphy enlisted in the military from St. Croix Falls at the beginning of the Civil War. He was dismissed by Gen. Grant as being a coward or disloyal. His story is much more complicated. – Photo courtesy of the New York State Library, Manuscripts and Special Collections

him are 1) the removal of the consulate from the quarters of the leading American firm, Russell & Co.; and 2) by sitting jointly with a Chinese official to hear lawsuits in which Chinese were pitted against foreigners, he anticipated the creation of the Shanghai Mixed Court by a decade.

In January 1856, Murphy took his wife and infant daughter home to recover their health. He was back at his post in August, but in March 1857 took leave for health reasons, and, back in Washington in June, resigned.

He sought another overseas post, in a healthier climate. However, the new U.S. commissioner, William Reed, who arrived in China eight months after Murphy’s departure, reported that he had left the consulate in the charge of a known inebriate, who had become totally incapacitated and departed. Murphy was not given another post.

In 1858, he moved to St. Croix Falls, having been hired by ex-U.S. Attorney General and Commissioner to China Caleb Cushing to manage investments in the St. Croix Valley. When the Civil War started, he volunteered his services, suggesting that he was qualified to serve as a paymaster or commissary. In fact, he was appointed colonel commanding the 8th Wisconsin Infantry.

Murphy’s military career went smoothly at first. In May 1862 he was given command of a brigade, still without significant battle experience. In September 1862, assigned to guard a supply depot at Iuka, Miss., he withdrew in the face of a much larger enemy force.

For leaving behind some supplies, he was arrested and court-martialed. He defended himself without difficulty, and was acquitted of all charges, but the acquittal drew an angry printed dissent from his commanding officer, Maj. Gen. William Starke Rosecrans, who in effect called it a perversion of military justice. (In a private letter, Murphy suggested that Rosecrans had been speculating in supplies.)

After acquittal, Murphy went on leave, returned to duty in mid-December, and was assigned by Grant to guard a much larger supply depot at Holly Springs, Miss. At dawn on Dec. 20, 1862, Holly Springs was attacked by several thousand Confederate cavalry under Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn. Some 1,500 men were reported captured, and supplies worth an estimated $400,000 to $1.5 million were destroyed, setting back Grant’s Vicksburg campaign four months. Murphy was arrested and then summarily dismissed from the Army, without a court martial. He became nationally notorious, with Horace Greeley, for example, calling him a “base miscreant.”

Murphy wrote President Lincoln, seeking a hearing

Copyright Eric Politzer (e4politzer@aol.com). From a longer work in progress.

I (Russ) read about Col. Murphy in the Folsum book “Fifty Years in the Northwest” as part of our local history effort to document Civil War soldiers from the area. Folsum says “... he (Murphy) went to the front, and his military career was cut short by his failure at Iuka and Holly Springs. Gen. Grant dismissed him in brief, terse words ... It is due to him to say that his own version of his military troubles is ingenious and plausible, and would, if sustained, quite exonerate him from the charges that have pressed so heavily upon him.”

Searching the Internet, I found much bad written about him. One author, Eric Politzer, in an article in the Fall 2002 newsletter, Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery, suggested Murphy might have been a scapegoat for a rather complicated military disaster. I contacted him by e-mail in January of this year (while Margo and I were in the South touring Civil War sites). Politzer graciously replied and we have corresponded regularly since, each doing research to find out more about Murphy.

I recently found a newspaper article written 40 years after the war giving an eyewitness account by a soldier reminiscing about the capture of Holly Springs. The soldier was hiding in the telegraph office, peering out the window. He had just helped Murphy send a telegram warning to Grant of a large force ready to overrun Murphy’s post. From the Valley Leader of Grand Rapids Wisconsin, July 31, 1902: “Looking out, we saw Col. Murphy at the head of about one hundred men charging the rebel lines. He would break their line, then charge back, and strike at another point. He kept this up longer than I thought any man could, but at last was surrounded and forced to surrender.”

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or court martial. Lincoln asked the Army’s adjutant general, Joseph Holt, to look into Collected by Russ Hanson the case.

Holt did not conduct an investigation, but examined Murphy’s statement for its consistency, coherence and how it reflected Murphy’s grasp of his duties. Both writer and reader understood that if Murphy were found to be making false statements, the penalty would be stiff. In a 24-page review, Holt concluded that Murphy’s account of his performance was reasonable, and that he deserved reinstatement, with a court martial to be at Grant’s discretion. Lincoln endorsed Holt’s recommendation. Grant stonewalled. Lincoln did not force the issue, and, at war’s end, Murphy’s case was unresolved.

For the next 15 years - before and after the Grant administration - Murphy tried to obtain a hearing, his goal being an honorable discharge. Several times he won the support of key senators and congressmen. Each time the Army stonewalled. A bill “for the relief of Robert C. Murphy” died in the Senate Military Affairs Committee in 1880. At that time, Murphy was assistant disbursing and property clerk in the Department of Agriculture, earning $1,400 per year. He probably owed the job to friends in the Hayes administration, as two years later, he was an ordinary post office clerk, earning $600, less than his daughter, who also worked for the post office.

He died in D.C. in 1888, and was buried in an unmarked grave, in a plot he shares with his wife’s mother, aunt and grandparents.

Twenty years after Holly Springs, Grant was – apparently - still so enraged by Murphy that he wrote in his memoirs, “The surrender of Holly Springs was most reprehensible and showed either the disloyalty of Colonel Murphy to the cause which he professed to serve, or gross cowardice.” If we take this judgment at face value, Grant had not yet made up his mind as to how he accounted for Murphy’s performance. Yet it was Grant and those deferring to his wishes who denied Murphy his hearing.

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What is a father?

A father is forced to endure childbirth without an

anesthetic.

He growls when it feels good, and laughs loudly when scared half to death.

He never feels worthy in a child’s eyes.

He’s never quite the hero his daughter thinks, never quite the man his son believes him to be and this worries him, sometimes.

So he works too hard to try to smooth the rough places in the road for those of his own who will follow him.

A father gets very angry when the first school grades aren’t as good as he thinks they should be.

He scolds his son, though he knows it’s the teacher’s fault.

Fathers give daughters away to other men who aren’t nearly good enough, so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody’s.

– Anonymous (I wish I’d found the above in time for Father’s Day, but it didn’t show up until later. Still, a father is a father is a father …)

A Sunshine Lady in our church found the following piece in time to share it with our Lewis congregation.

Almost everyone likes chocolate, just a bit of a taste and that’s what each father received along with the following piece of writing, author unknown.

Chocolate Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans.

Bean = Vegetable.

Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar beets. Both of them are plants in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.

To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk which is dairy. So, chocolate candy bars are a health food.

Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit. So eat as many as you want.

Remember … “Stressed” spelled backward is “Desserts.” Eat chocolate to relieve stress.

Share this with four people and you will lose two pounds.

Share this with all the people you know and you

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50 Years Ago

Bernice Abrahamzon

Eagle River held a resource development tour for businessmen June 11-14.-A balloon from Iowa landed at the Claude Feedig farm.-Specials at the Clover Farm Store in Frederic included 2 lbs. of Nash’s coffee for $1.19, watermelon at 89¢ lb., bacon at 2 lbs. for 89¢ and cotton candy free for children on Friday and Saturday.-Specials at Route’s Super Market, Frederic, included wieners at 39¢ lb., cucumbers at 5¢ each, bananas at 2 lbs. for 25¢, and lemons at 49¢ dozen.-Specials at the Co-op Super Market included three dozen oranges at 89¢, sliced bacon at 49¢ lb., lemons at 39¢ dozen and watermelon at 98¢ lb.-On Memorial Day there was no sale at the Frederic Livestock Sales, but on May 28 there was a saddle horse and pony sale.-Local news came from Clayton, Hillside, Balsam Lake and Atlas-Laketown.-Ernst Nelson died.-H.G. Stocker had an open house on May 27 at Osceola with free lunch and prizes.-Charlie’s Cleaners, Frederic, had open house and grand opening May 27 with free coffee and donuts and door prizes.-Babe’s Bar (Calloway) was now open in West Sweden.-A Memorial Day dance was held at Joe’s Crossroads, Siren.-A dance was held at the Grantsburg Fairhouse, May 29.

will lose 10 pounds.

If you don’t share this you will gain 10 pounds immediately. That’s why I had to pass this on … I didn’t want to risk it.

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Summertime “When the living is easy Fish are jumping And the cotton is high.”

We have run the gamut from rainy to chilly to overcast to sweltering.

Weather comes as a daily surprise.

Get outside and enjoy each day.

Good thought Middle age is when all one’s energy goes to waist.

And another Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person that you meet reminds you of someone else.

– Ogden Nash And finally Writing things down is the best secret of a good memory.

40 Years Ago

(All three of the above are from Senior Voices, the monthly Polk County newsletter on aging.)

Until next week, Bernice

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Festival Theatre will hold auditions on Saturday, July 16, for community youth roles in the Youth & Family Theatre production of “The Hobbit.” Youth ages 10 to 16 are encouraged to participate and audition registration is required in advance. Adults will be considered for some roles as well.“The cast includes an expected array of characters, most known, and some unexpected,” said Bill Perron who will be directing the production which opens in September. In addition to Perron, Jaclyn Johnson, Danette Olsen and other guest artists will serve as teaching artists for theater workshops which will take place during the rehearsal process. Festival Theatre’s Youth & Family Theatre Series was started in 2008 and provides an opportunity for community participation in the performing arts.

For youth who have never auditioned, Festival Theatre will offer an audition, orientation workshop at no charge. Registration is required to audition and all the details can be received by sending an e-mail request to boxoffice@festivaltheatre.org. The audition workshop will be held on Monday, July 11, to help beginning actors know what to expect during the audition process and to answer questions about participation.

A mandatory parent/guardian orientation will be held for all youth who are invited to call-back auditions. submitted

SIREN – Dan Edaburn Jr. and Dawn Nelson of the financial services firm Edward Jones in Siren recently received the firm’s Client Service Excellence Award for being the No. 1 client service provider in their region.

“We are honored to receive this award,” Edaburn said. “The Client Service Excellence Award is special because it is a direct reflection of the relationships we have with our clients.”

Jim Weddle, Edward Jones’ managing partner, added, “Dan and Dawn are outstanding members of the Edward Jones team. While all of our associates understand the value of client service, it’s obvious that they have been striving to provide the best service for their clients.”

This honor was bestowed upon the team based on the results of a survey in which random clients were asked to rank the service they received from the teams of their local Edward Jones branch offices. – submitted

Voyager Village signs were destroyed and a reward was offered for apprehension.-There were 50 classes joining for a reunion at Luck High School July 10-11.-Summer school classes were drawing special interest at Frederic.-An old-time picnic was set for Coon Lake Park, July 11.-A suit against Burnett Count’s zoning administrator was dismissed.Specials at Anderson’s Store, Siren, included 2 lbs. of lard for 55¢, potato chips at 39¢, rice at 47¢ for 14oz. package and spareribs at 55¢ lb.-Specials at the Frederic Co-op Super Market included tomato soup at 10¢ can, cantaloupe at 3 for 88¢, new potatoes at 10 lbs. for 68¢ and bologna at 88¢ lb.-Many Board of Review box ads published.-Many requests were made to the zoning committee for mobile home permits.There was one drowning and serious injury in Amery area boat collision.-Magnetic signs were available at the Leader office.-At Gustafson’s, assorted flavors of sherbet were available for 89¢ for a half gallon.-The West Sweden Store was once a pioneer business place and post office. It burned down but had once been a flourishing business run by Gust and Charlie Hedwall (set up in 1889). It was located where the home is now located of the late Edith Anderson.

20 Years Ago

A proposed book by Gordon Lehman would list Grantsburg area World War II veterans.-A jury found a Siren bar owner guilty on marijuana charge.-A logo was selected for the Gandy Dancer Trail.-A return to 15-day fishing license was proposed.-Friends and colleagues bid goodbye to home economist Christy Bubolz.-The annual meeting of the Crooked Lake Preservation Association was held May 25 at Stu’s Bar parking lot.-An arts and crafts show and sale was held May 25 at the Siren High School gymnasium.-Project DARE was coming to Siren and Grantsburg.-The ad for Yellow Lake Golf Course said, “School’s out! Golf’s in!”-Creative Jewelers had a diamond remounting event May 24-25.-There were 56 seniors who graduated at Grantsburg, and 49 at Webster.-Dr. Ralph Huset began work at Indianhead Medical Center, Frederic.-Newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Wenthe, left a chapel at Clam Falls for a balloon ride that took them 15 miles to a cornfield in Atlas.

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CeCe is two cats in one. She is a shorthair striped tabby and a calico. Her markings are all in the right place to rank her in the top 10 for a classic calico, a cat of trio colors, but the orange and black also carry the stripes of a tabby. Did you know that all cats have genes for the tabby pattern? It’s true.

Cats receiving at least one agouti or banded hairtype gene from their parents, have a striped, spotted or ticked tabby pattern. Even cats that appear uniform in color, having inherited the recessive solid-colored nonagouti hair genes from both parents, have a tabby gene. The striped pattern is visible in a solid-colored cat at birth or in bright light.

Hi folks, can you believe it’s almost the end of June? Wow, time sure flies when you’re having fun but then that’s what life is supposed to be about.

Eli and I are really enjoying the nice weather and have been outside enjoying it. I personally like lying out on the cement and baking but Eli prefers it under the four-runner where he has made himself a bed in the sand.

Well Saturday was our first-ever wine and cheese tasting event at the Clover Meadow Winery in Shell Lake and my friend Lucas says the tasting went well. Unfortunately Mom was unable to attend but got an update to share with you on how the day went.

A good portion of our regular volunteers/donors showed up for the festivities and some people who didn’t know we were going to be there. Either way, everybody was very appreciative of the food they got to nibble on while tasting wine. The folks at Clover Meadow Winery were as sweet as usual and very accommodating; they work so hard there and it shows! Gratitude is extended to them for being such wonderful hosts and please visit them!

Polly, Penny and Paco went along for the event, however their tasting was kept to a minimum. All three dogs were excited that they got to make friends with the resident free-range horses that showed up to say hi. The weather was beautiful and people said the wine and food were delicious.

I think fun was had by all.

A special thank-you to Kendra Avery who led the

So our CeCe seems to be wearing her genes in all the right places.

CeCe is a playful, loving, spayed female. She and her friends have fun in the adoptable cat room, jumping on the cat trees, chasing balls and each other’s tails. But they would much rather go home and live a normal life with their own family. Kitten season is upon us and our cat room is filled with wonderful spayed and neutered young adult cats.

Until each of our current available cats, 1 year or older have been adopted, they will be $40 for one and $75 for two. That is two for the normal adoption fee of one. It is 10 percent of the cost of their medical care and spay surgery. Some are declawed, some easygoing, some playful and funny; all are spayed or neutered and healthy. If you are looking for a great new feline friend, Arnell Humane Society is the place for you.

Fireworks on the Fourth of July are hard for many dogs. They can send a rational dog running for cover, out of the yard and into the next county.

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YAPpenings Sadie charge in organizing this event, she worked very hard to make it a success and it showed.

Kendra, you’re awesome.

Now for an update at the shelter for my friends still Jacob waiting for that special person to notice them! I would like to tell you about my good friend Isac. He is a wonderful canine – very laid back and enjoys human contact.

Isac is a handsome collie/Alaskan husky mix and has been at our shelter since the beginning of May. I’d certainly date him even though he’s a little shorter than me, not to mention a little older in dog years but then what’s age! Mom says Isac seems a little sad from being at the shelter so long and is hoping that he finds his forever home soon. Check out his pic.

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The Joshua Nelson – Ann Nelson wedding took place on Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church.

Ann grew up in our church and the members of the congregation were invited to attend. The ceremony was well-planned with many nice touches, from the little twin girls in matching white dresses strewing rose petals to the reading of Scripture by Ann’s sister, Jessica Ford, to the lighting of the unity candle.

So good to see many old-time friends, Mike and Candy Ascher, Gail and Steve Ward, other longtime friends. It was a happy day all around. Nice receiving line outside and the weather cooperated too, not too hot, not rainy, and you know that old saying, “Happy the bride the sun shines on.”

So many good details, so pleasant and carefully planned. Guest pianists, including Jessica’s hus-

band Brian Ford, who is well known to us.

Lunch and a dance followed in Siren.

Good selection of hymns, i.e. “They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love …” Such a lovely treat to have a wedding in our church.

Wild roses are already in bloom (or pasture roses) and the Fourth of July is almost upon us. While we’ve been waiting for summer, it is going.

Our ducklings are going too. Ten or 12 here and there. Two female ducks brought off a combined clutch of little yellow ducklings and how they love the mud puddles in the parking lot.

Joy held over in church on Sunday from Saturday’s wedding as we noticed a few soap bubbles drifting in the sanctuary, too.

Church members are involved in helping decide what color shingles to use in the new church roof.

Thanks to Marie and Bob Nelson, the church and

Last Monday, while out in the back of the house weeding flower beds, I thought I heard something. I stood up and sure enough, there he was coming in.

A peanut of a bear, either a small 2-year-old or maybe a big yearling. I gave a shout and then headed for the house. I figure it could be Miss Prissy’s throwaway 2-year-old or maybe a big yearling away from mom and out for some mischief.

Come Thursday morning, I got up and headed for the kitchen for coffee, stopped at the kitchen window checking the bird yard and there he was, back under the feeders eating seeds on the ground. I opened the patio door a crack and gave a shout, figuring we were done. Not so, we returned the process at 5:50, 7:15, 8:30, 10:50, and for the final time, 12:05 p.m., persistent little bugger. He’s not a bad bear as he never bothered to get at the feeders. Actually he is dumber than a box of rocks as with all the rain we have had he could easily have pushed the pole over and then enjoyed the treats inside the feeder.

The Siren Lioness held their installation of officers dinner last Tuesday evening at Rumors in Siren.

Joan Chapman was awarded the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award for all the great work she has done.

Congratulations again Joan, you are a very special lady, one I am proud to know and work with in Li-

oness.

Congratulations to Jim “G.G.” and Joyce Glover of Grantsburg on their 50th wedding anniversary June 24. They celebrated the event on June 24 with a family get-together that evening.

The Bells – Mike, Gidget, Tucker, Abby and Grandma Bell, Sue, spent Friday and Saturday at the Bell’s ranch getting everything ready for the annual Fourth of July tent city. They stopped in Saturday in bear country and visited Art and Bev Beckmark. Tucker and Abby wanted to see a bear, none were around but about 20 minutes after they left Miss Peewee and her wee one strolled through, after several pictures they were chased off.

Don’t forget to stop in at the Central Burnett County Fair on July 7 – 9. Thursday is entry day and most of the judging is done on Friday. There are lots of things to do and see at the fair. Don’t forget to take time and look at all the 4-H projects. There are a great bunch of kids in 4-H, they take a lot of pride in what they accomplish in their project. Hats off to all you 4-H’ers. 4-H builds great adults for our future.

Don’t forget to take in Siren’s Fourth of July parade and after the parade stop in at the Siren Methodist Church for some homemade pies and homemade ice cream from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

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Please keep your dog safe this weekend.

Keep them indoors during the evening hours that fireworks are normally used. Dogs that “never leave the yard” can be traumatized by a neighbor’s fun with miniature explosives and run for their lives, as far as their legs will carry CeCe them. Use responsible pet-owner common sense this Fourth; don’t assume that Rover will be “just fine” during the sparkling events. Keep your pet home and safe.

Arnell Memorial Humane Society, noon – 5 p.m., Monday-Friday; noon – 4 p.m. Saturday; 185 Griffin St. East, Amery, 715-268-7387 or online at arnellhumane.org.

On the kitty side, we have a new arrival that we’re sure someone must be looking for. Jacob is a neutered, gingercolored cat that was found on South Shore Drive and Alden Road in Siren. He is wearIsak ing a blue canvas collar, and Mom says he’s very friendly. So check out his picture and if you own this kitty or know who does, please give us a call so that he can go home. Until then, we have him in safe keeping.

Did you know that June was Adopt a Shelter Cat Month? While it’s great to have a month devoted to the felines, shelter cats and dogs are looking for loving homes throughout the year.

“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.” ~ George Elliot Have a wonderful week and don’t forget to take time to smell the roses and most importantly, love your animals. Licks and tailwags.

The Humane Society of Burnett County is saving lives, one at a time. www.hsburnettcty.org. 715866-4096. We’re on Facebook too.

Engagement

Lyga/Peterson

Betsy Lyga and Ryan Peterson, both of Amery, are pleased to announce their engagement and upcoming marriage on Sept. 10, 3 p.m., at the Balsam Lutheran Church in Amery with the reception at The Orchard of Baldwin.

Betsy is the daughter of Mike and Sue Lyga, Pigeon Falls. She has a bachelor’s from St. Cloud State University and a master’s from UW-River Falls in education and is a pre-K teacher with Unity School District.

Ryan is the son of Gail Peterson and Arlen and Linda Peterson, Amery. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the UM-Duluth and is currently employed at St. Croix Valley Hardwoods as the human resource manager. - submitted

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church grounds were in perfect condition for the Saturday wedding of their granddaughter, Ann Marie Nelson. She married a Nelson so didn’t have to change her name. Wishing the newlyweds a long and happy life together.

Isn’t that a good idea to blow soap bubbles instead of throwing rice? (Pretty and not messy!)

On Sunday morning, Robin Peterson and LaVonne assisted Pastor Tom with the service and Robin also served coffee and goodies afterward.

Back to regular schedule this week with monthly potluck fellowship by the 7 p.m. board meeting.

My goodness, June is almost over and July is upon us.

Slow down summer, we waited all winter for you, so don’t be in such a hurry.

Another special library program this week. Some of those who heard previous authors speak are reading Jerry Apps’ book on canoeing the Boundary Waters or else the mystery books by three writers of crime.

Hank and Karen Mangelsen visited Roger and Sue Mroszak Monday evening.

Lida Nordquist attended the LWML National Convention in Peoria, Ill., from Wednesday through Sunday. She traveled with Marlene Swearingen and three other ladies from Faith Lutheran Church in Spooner.

Nina, Lawrence, Donna, Gerry and Josh Hines and Don Nordquist were guests of Karen and Hank Mangelsen Thursday evening. They helped Donna celebrate her birthday.

Barry Hines visited Gerry and Donna Hines Friday and Saturday. On Saturday he and his son Josh returned home. Josh had spent the week with his grandparents.

Justin Hines and Don Nordquist visited Lawrence and Nina Hines Friday.

Jan Myers from Eagan, Minn., was a guest of Donna and Gerry Hines for the weekend.

Congratulations to Karissa (Jorns) and Matt Lester who were married Saturday at the farm of Matt’s grandparents, Maynard and Ronda Mangelsen. Their reception and dance were held at the Indian Creek hall.

Hank and Karen Mangelsen visited Nina and Lawrence Hines Sunday evening.

Clam River Tuesday Club will meet July 6, at 1:30 p.m., at the home of Diane Hulleman.

Our monthly meeting was held on Tuesday, June 21, with 25 people attending. Our treasurer, Judy Johnson, announced that the Siren Lionesses had donated $200 toward a new TV for the Wii game.

Much to our surprise two members, Barb Geske and Corrine Root came forth and donated the extra $150, which will enable us to purchase the TV. Thank you ladies for your generosity.

It was mentioned that the senior picnic would be held on July 20 at Shelter No. 1 in Crooked Lake Park beginning at noon. A sign up sheet will be available at the various dining sites so, if you are planning on attending, please sign-up beforehand. I assume in case of inclement weather, such as we had last year, it will be held at the Siren Senior Center.

We would like to express our gratitude for Jean Nerad’s donation of books for the library and to Margaret Westlund for items for the gift shop.

Thirty-three players enjoyed 500 at the center on Wednesday and the winners were, Marlyce Borchert, Arnie Borchert, Nona Severson, Karen Steffen and Dale Sicard. Spade winners on Friday were Flo Antiel, Gerry Vogel, Barb Munger, Arvid Pearson and Nona Severson. Marie Bentley, Anke Olesen and Barb Munger furnished treats.

The center is open Monday through Friday (we will be closed July 4) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The nutrition dinner is served Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 11:30 a.m.

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

Bernice Abrahamzon

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Borderline news

Fran Levings’ brother, John Wolden, is visiting at her home these days. John is from Washington state. Fran delivered her daughter Elizabeth’s cats to her in Encinitas, Calif., recently. Fran flew via Delta Airlines and took both of the cats with her as carry-ons. That actually worked out quite well.

While in California for six days, she had a good time with her daughter. While Fran was gone, husband Dave Baker and John delivered some of Dave’s artwork to the Cabin Fever Gallery in Danbury.

Bill and Sue Hanninen of McGraw Lake took their mother Ellen Hanninen up to Red Lobster in Duluth, Minn., on June 16, to celebrate her 102nd birthday.

More celebrations were held back home with family and friends, and a special birthday cake. Ellen moved from her lifetime home in Boston several years ago to live with Bill and Sue. She likes to work on 2,000-piece puzzles and do crossword puzzles to keep her mind sharp. She is a delightful person to visit with.

Lucas Kinblom spent a special week with grandparents Ron and Sue Proffit. Many projects kept him busy while he took a week away from playing baseball. For a job, he stained siding at the Proffit Lumberyard, and learned to run the forklift. He also Stefani O’Brien and Brandon Root, both of Jack- helped repair a lawnmower. Aside from working and sonville, Fla., are pleased to announce their engage- mowing grass, he spent a day at his cousin Natalie Flagstad’s lake property jet skiing and swimming. ment and upcoming marriage in July.

Stefani is the daughter of Bryan and Lori McCann and Bob and Heather O’Brien of Frederic.

Brandon is the son of Terry Root and Gayle Root of Frederic.

The bride to be is currently employed as a MuscuMOORHEAD, Minn. – Dr. Mark Krejci, provost and lar Dystrophy Association fundraising coordinator and dean of the college, has announced the names of is attending Keiser University. students whose superior academic achievement durThe groom to be is enlisted in the United States ing the second semester of the 2010-11 academic Navy and will be attending St. Cloud State University year placed them on the dean’s honor list at Concorfor a Bachelor of Science degree in science. dia College, Moorhead, Minn. “These students have The couple plan to be married at Paradise Landing demonstrated, through their academic accomplishin Balsam Lake. – submitted ments, that they are preparing themselves to impact the affairs of the world,” says Krejci.

To qualify for this designation, students must carry a minimum of 12 semester credits and have a grade point average of at least a 3.7 on a 4.0 scale.

The following student was recognized: Emily Swanson, Amery High School, daughter of Michael and Colleen Swanson.

Marian Edler Concordia College is a four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Tuesday was started off with our exercise session, offering 78 majors, including 18 honors majors and followed by Skip-Bo. In the afternoon, games were 12 preprofessional programs. - submitted played. The winners in Hand and Foot were Dottie ••• Adams and Bill McGrorty. The winners in 500 cards OSHKOSH – University of Wisconsin Oshkosh ofwere Roger Greenly, Arnie Borchert, Pete Schlosser ficials have announced the names of students who and Don Benson. Don Anderson, Donna Schlosser qualified for the University’s dean’s list and honor roll and Martha Lundstrom were the winners in Domi- in the spring semester of the 2010-2011 school year. nos.

To qualify for the honor roll, a student must take at Wednesday afternoon a group took the AARP dri- least 12 credits and earn a grade-point average of at ver’s safety seminar. In the evening they attended least 3.3 (out of a possible 4.0, or “all A’s”). Those the play at the Festival Theatre as their guests. with a GPA of 3.75 or higher qualify for the dean’s Thursday we held our exercise session. In the list. evening, 500 cards were played. The winners were Jeanette Berquam, Pat and Jerry Willits.

Dresser Due to scheduling, Bingo will be canceled for the Benjamin Cleveland, dean’s list; month of July. But they will be back in August playing the first and third Friday at 1 p.m.

Luck July is just around the corner. We will have our Ashley Valentine, honor roll; pork chops on a stick on Saturday, July 16, for Wannigan Days. We’ll see you then.

Osceola Kelsey Hendricks, all A’s;

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He returned home on Sunday, but that left the Proffit home much too quiet now.

Tuesday night, six ladies enjoyed Woodland Church’s ladies night out at Ike Walton’s Lodge.

They had a good time plus good food. Friday through Sunday, the Pictons of Dairyland hosted a family get-together for the Bond Family. Twenty-six people attended. They were from Woodstock and Belvidere, Ill., Colorado Springs, Color., and Hammond, Baldwin, and Dairyland. Sunday, June 26, Casandra Baer left on a mission trip for Campus Crusades. While she is out in Montana, she will be living on a bison ranch, and will be working with the Blackfeet Indians.

Frank and Mary Schaaf measured 5-1/2 inches of rain from Thursday to Sunday this past week. On Tuesday, they went to Duluth for both doctor and dentist appointments. Strawberry season is here and the jam shelf is already refilled. There’s good picking at Bumbleberry Farm (Bob and Patty’s Upick parlor). The Wickhams are very pleased that their son, Ron and wife Jenny are spending some time in Markville. They are from Minot, N.D., where the flooding is very serious right now. Ron and Jen now have two families, one from the flood area stayGordon and Janelle Johnson, Dresser, proudly aning with them at their home on base. Our prayers nounce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah go out to all of those dislocated people. We all hope Johnson, to Patrick Becker, son of Patrick and you enjoy the Fourth of July weekend.

LouAnn Becker of New Richmond.

Sarah is employed at the St. Croix Regional Medical Center as a radiology technologist. Patrick is a carpenter employed with Derrick Construction.

They will be married Aug. 6 at the home of Jay and Rachel Carney in Cushing. The reception and dance ••• ST. CLOUD, Minn. – St. Cloud State University will follow at the home of David and Diane Swiontek, conducted spring 2011 commencement ceremonies also in Cushing. - submitted on Sunday May 8. at Halenbeck Hall for 1,659 students. A total of 1,400 undergraduates and 259 graduate students earned their degrees in commencement and hooding ceremonies.

Among them is . . .

Born at North Memorial Medical Center: Luck A girl, Riley Louise, born June 21, 2011 at North Natalie Gubrud, Bachelor of Arts, communication Memorial Medical Center to Andy and Nicole Tricker studies; of Minneapolis, Minn. Riley weighed 7 lbs., 3 oz. and has a big sister, Lila Rae. Maternal grandparMilltown Eric Larson, Bachelor of Science, land survey- ents are Mary and Steve Soelzer of Piedmont, S.D., and Gary and Sandy King of Frederic, and Al and ing/mapping science. - submitted Ramona Tricker of Atlas.

••• ••• MANKATO, Minn. - The academic high honor and honor lists (dean’s lists) for the past fall semester at Born at Osceola Medical Center: Minnesota State University, Mankato, have been anA boy, Jayden James Mattson, born June 20, nounced by Anne Blackhurst, acting vice president 2011, to Julie Mattson and Troy Halverson, Oscefor academic affairs and student affairs. ola. Jayden weighed 6 lbs., 13 oz.

Among the more than 15,190 students, a total 730 ••• students qualified for the high honor list by achievA boy, Blake Moses Larson-Moore, born June 21, ing a 4.0 straight A average, while 2,231 students 2011, to Tina Larson and Derek Moore, Milltown. earned a 3.5 to 3.99 average to qualify for the honor Blake weighed 8 lbs., 2.8 oz. list. To qualify for academic honors, undergraduate ••• students must be enrolled for at least 12 credit hours A boy, Elijah Mason Palmer, born June 23, 2011, for a grade. to Kevin and Jessica Palmer, St. Paul, Minn. Elijah Frederic weighed 7 lbs., 8 oz.

Lisa Chelmo, honors list and Ashley Overby, ••• honors list;

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There was another item that we all want to extend our gratitude for and that was the Family Days parade, it was the best I have seen. Even the runaway calf added excitement. Winners in 500 were: first place, Mildred Ihrig; second place, Loraine Hansen; third place, Del Hansen; and fourth place, Larry Anderson.

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Frederic Public Library

We’re traveling the world this summer

Registration for the One World, Many Stories summer program is open to all kids from preschool to tweens and teens. We have all kinds of activities planned as we visit the seven continents and you can pick up program brochures as well as weekly reminders at the library or view the calendar on the library Web site. Drop-in programs are available each day at 3 p.m.: Mondays, family movies; Tuesdays, crafts; Wednesdays, free activity; Thursdays, making snacks; Fridays, games.

Join your friends and be part of the fun!

Get your new library tote and T-shirt

The Friends are offering sturdy canvas library totes and comfy cotton T-shirts with the new Frederic Library design that celebrates the 75th anniversary. Totes and shirts are available at the library, so stop

Book sale

The Centuria Public Library will be participating in the Centuria Memory Days Celebration July 8-10. The library will be holding a book sale on Saturday, July 9, from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Stop by and look at all of the great books that we will be having for sale a bargain prices. In addition to the book sale, the library is selling tickets for the chance to win a painting that has been donated to the library as a fundraiser. Stop buy and purchase your tickets. The cost is $1 for one ticket or six tickets for $5. Buy your tickets to help support the fine work of the Centuria Public Library.

in soon for the best choice of colors.

Computer classes Tuesday mornings

Basic computer training is offered Tuesdays, 9 – 10 a.m., all summer.

If you have questions about terminology, Internet, e-mail, Facebook, or anything else computer-related, register at the library for a space.

Laptop users are encouraged to bring in their computers for the classes.

Treat yourself to a summer book group

The Thursday morning book group will meet July 21, at 10 a.m., to discuss “Rock Island Line,” by David Rhodes. The Wisconsin author introduces the unforgettable character of July Montgomery, whose story is continued in another Rhodes title, “Driftless.” The evening book group will also meet July 21, at 6:30 p.m., to talk about “Drawing in the

Centuria Public Library

to library patrons. In addition, the library has added many new DVDs for your viewing fun and books on tape to enjoy if you are traveling on an extended trip and would enjoy listening to a great story or book.

Many new pictures books have just been added that will be guaranteed to bring pleasure to your children’s listening enjoyment.

Computer classes

Within the last month, the library has added many new books for you summer reading enjoyment. All of the latest best-sellers are available

Beginning on Wednesday, July 20, the Centuria Public Library will be hosting a series of computer classes for the beginner or an individual who would like a refresher on the latest computer technology. The classes are as follows: Wednesday, July 20 – The Computer is on – now what? A basic computer knowledge class covering mouse basics, how to scroll, how highlight and much more.

Youth summer reading program

Pajama story time

New books

Local youths (birth - 18 years) are invited to participate in the 2011 Youth Summer Reading Program that started June 1. There are cool incentives, awesome programs, plus the benefit of honing your reading skills. We’re only 24 days into the program, but local youth have read for a combined total of 38 days. Keep up the good work.

Milltown outdoor movie

Bring your own blanket, bug spray, and enjoy a free, family-friendly movie under the night sky. The next film will be shown July 2, at dusk at the Half Moon Lake Landing. Don’t miss the coolest intermission ever – fireworks over the lake. More details at the library or on the library Web site.

Book Sale July 2, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. during Freedom Fest Summer reading

Wednesday, June 29, at 11 a.m., is Artsy-Smartsy with Tiffany Paige Meyer, Tiffany is a teaching artist who combines books and art to foster a lifelong love of reading and creativity the program will be HandsOn Fiber Art of Mexico. We have more free events planned throughout and July and August. Events will be posted in the paper or call library for more information at 715-485-3215.

Computer classes

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Story time has moved to the evenings at Milltown Public Library.

Jump into your pajamas, grab a guardian (you’ll need them for the ride anyway), and join us for a half hour of fun, stories and a small craft every Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. Pack in some fun before your day is done.

Special storyteller

A guest storyteller visits the library on July 19, at 6 p.m. Tracy Chipman will share interactive stories and folktales from all around the world. A fun program for any age.

Computer basics lab

The Milltown Public Library offers computer basic lab time every Wednesday at 1, 2 and 6 p.m. During this time, we help novice users

Balsam Lake Public Library “Burnt Mountain” by Anne Siddons. ”City Homesteader: Self –sufficiency on Any Square Footage” by Scott Meyer, “Instant Bargains: 600 Ways to Shrink Your Grocery Bill” by Kimberly Danger, “Quinn” by Iris Johansen.

Story time

Wednesday at 11 a.m. Stories, crafts and snacks are available. All ages are welcome to join our lively group.

Book club

“Escape” by Barbara Delinsky, “Silent Girl” by Tess Gerritsen, ”Now You See Her” by James Patterson, “Happy Birthday” by Danielle Steele,

Selection for July is “Eat Pray Love.” It is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment. It is also about the adventures that can transpire when a woman stops trying to live in imitation of society’s ideas. This is a story certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change. The book club meets Wednesday, July 20, at 3 p.m. Extra books are available at the library.

Join us Tuesday, July 12, 7 p.m., for Cast Off Those Dock Lines A presentation will be made by Lois Joy Hofmann who graduated from St. Croix Falls High School as Lois Glassel in 1960. Lois Joy Hofmann’s life exemplifies the idea of casting off from shore and facing the unknown. Lois spent 35 years in various entrepreneurial and management roles. She then retired from Genetronics Biomedical in San Diego, Calif., leaving her CEO position to pursue her dream of sailing around the world. Lois will inspire you to pursue your own passion and to live your own dream. As Helen Keller says, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Get ready to leave your content —or maybe not so content—life to head out there where the adventure begins. Lois and Gunter Hofmann achieved their eight-year, 34,000-mile nautical triumph after turning 60 years old. They had set off in search of adventure and those rare moments of bliss, so difficult to find on land. They succeeded – and found so much more! “In Search of Adventure and Moments of Bliss: Maiden Voyage” offers something for everyone. From retirees and those dreaming about retirement, to boat owners, adventurers, travelers and armchair sailors alike, Hofmann gives the reader slice-of-life moments through her compelling stories and captivating photos. Learn more at http://www.pacificbliss.com Summer reading has begun! One World, Many Stories July 13 is Bleach-dyed T-shirt for kids 10-plus (bring

your own dark-colored T-shirt). Great kids and family programs – this summer at the St. Croix Falls Public Library. Sign up for our summer reading program. Earn incentives and participate in great programs, all free for ages birth – 18 years. Find out what’s happening at the SCFPL and in your community this summer. Check out the Web site for more info www.stcroixfallslibrary.org Community meeting room is available for your organization Reserve the meeting room with our online form at www.stcroixfallslibrary.org.

Story hour with Cole Listen to stories, create art and have fun with other kids and parents every Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.

Check out our Web site It has up-to-date information on what’s happening at the library and other useful library tools you can use at home, www.stcroixfallslibrary.org. Look for us on Facebook.

Technology Free wireless and eight public computers are available at the library. Plus, seven laptops are available for use in the library, but you must have a valid MORE library card in good standing.

Hours The library is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 715-4831777.

E-mail: scflibrary@ifls.lib.wi.us.

Online: www.stcroixfallslibrary.org.

Open lab from 2 to 3:30 p.m. There will be an instructor available to answer questions and give one-on-one instructions. The next class will be Tuesday, July 5, at 2 p.m.

New books coming in June

Dust,” by Zoe Klein. This work of fiction is the story of an American archeologist who participates in a dig outside Jerusalem and believes she has uncovered the grave of the prophet Jeremiah buried with the woman he loved, who also has left a manuscript that parallels the book of Jeremiah. Copies can be borrowed from the library and new members are always welcome at the book discussions.

Learn more about library events

Frederic Public Library, 127 Oak St. West. 715-327-4979, e-mail fredericpl@ifls.lib.wi.us. Regular open hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; and Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Story time for preschoolers is held every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Web site: www.fredericlibrary.org. Facebook: Frederic Public Library.

Wednesday, July 27 – Internet Search and Shop. A introduction to the Internet, getting connected using a Web browser, navigating Web pages and how to shop safely.

Wednesday, Aug. 3 – E-mail 101. Learn how to set up a free e-mail account, learn how to send, reply and forward messages, and how to send attachments.

Wednesday, Aug. 10 – Social Networking 101.

Library hours

Monday: noon - 5 p.m.; Tuesday: noon - 7 p.m.; Wednesday: noon - 5 p.m.; Thursday: noon - 7 p.m.; Friday: noon to 5 p.m.; and Saturday: 10 a.m. – noon.

create an e-mail account, draft and edit documents like holiday greeting letters and help with the general comfort and navigation of this sometimes intimidating technology. Space is limited, so call in advance to reserve a spot.

Did you know?

Besides the myriad of books in all genres and reading levels, the library also has oodles of movies, books on audio, and even eBooks and eAudiobooks. Check out our wares anytime at www.more.lib.wi.us or stop in and browse the collections.

Hours and information – www.milltownpubliclibrary.org, 715-8252313. Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. or e-mail milltownpl@milltownpubliclibrary.org. Fresh coffee and fast Wi-Fi are served up every day.

Friends of the Library

Friends group is an organization for all who value the public library as a vital community resource. Join others who are dedicated to promoting the value of books, libraries and literacy. Next meeting will be Wednesday, July 20, at 1:30 p.m.

Hours

Balsam Lake Library, (under the water tower) at 404 Main St., Balsam Lake. Hours are Monday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., Tuesday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. E-mail: balsamlakepl@ifls.lib.wi.us. Web site www.balsamlakepubliclibrary.org. 715485-3215.

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Pancakes July 3 then head for the woods July 10

Folle Avoine Chronicles

The summer season at Forts Folle

Polk County HCE offers opportunities

for learning in a social setting, sharing what we learn, and caring to make a difference in our homes, communities and the world!

Become a member today; there is a club in your neighborhood. Check the Web Site: www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/polk and click family living and HCE comes up to be clicked on.

The June 7 program on street drugs was very informative and eye-opening.

Anthony Lehman told us how prescription drugs become street drugs as well as how spices, inhalants and several other substances are abused and misused!

The next program is in September and will be on food preservation and making

Several events will be held in early July at Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park, including a pancake breakfast Sunday morning, July 3; an outdoor clay oven cooking class on Saturday, July 9, and a program about county forestry on Sunday, July 10. Pictured here is Al Johnson who will be teaching the cooking class. – Photo submitted

Woodswhimsy the gnome

lands.

Stromberg’s duties with the DNR and his emphasis on fire prevention efforts was a major challenge. As he explains, “Our nutrient-poor and moisturestarved sandy soils—influenced by glaciation—have set the stage for what forest species grow here; characterized as short-lived, shade intolerant and dependent on fire to regenerate.” Now that the area is settled and dotted with homes and businesses, the forester’s paradox is how to prevent major fire outbreaks within an environment where fire was a major ecological and historical force, and whose regenerative forest cover attracted a population seeking to preserve them. For, as Stromberg points out, “Fire seclusion is now the focus, different from the way these forests came to be here in the first place. Meanwhile, of course, the soil characteristics have not changed and will not, barring a new period of glaciation. The effect of climate change, especially relative to potential moisture regimes, could have a large effect, as likely happened in past climate change periods.”

Another aspect of modern forestry involves juggling the sometimes contrary interests of industry, recreational and landowner concerns. Stromberg’s philosophy here is guided by principles formulated by Gifford Pinchot, the first head of the U.S. Forest Service, who stressed multiple use—the greatest good for the greatest number. As Stromberg explains, “Industy, recreation

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jams and jellies. The public is invited to take advantage of this program.

A representative from the Polk County Human Services Department attended our June meeting to inform us of different programs we could use for our community outreach projects. She plans on coming to our next meeting with more information for our consideration.

The Polk County Fair is July 28 through the 31st, and we will be giving

and wildlife are not incompatible goals and the meshing of these interests have been well placed and balanced all along.

The competing interests in more recent decades have been the emotive dialogue from those who either do not understand the science or have different opinions on what to prioritize and how much is enough.”

While covering a range of issues related to the trees of our area, Stromberg’s hope is that his audience will emerge with “a better understanding of the science of forest management with a historical perspective so that opinions and decisions can be better formed, less on emotion and more on science and the pragmatics thereof.”

The July 10 program looks to be an indepth overview of not just the area’s wildlands, but will also explore the many-faceted issues related to maintain-

ing them in a compatible manner with human activity. Apparently, however, Stromberg has a rather dim view of gnomes. Asked his opinion on gnomes, he responded this way: “I feel that the daily bag limit on gnomes should be increased.” Yikes! I’m heading back to the woods, out of harm’s way.

away children’s gently used books again, along with a handmade “Bookworm” at our booth. You can bring your books to the fair or bring them to the Extension office at the government center. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the fair!

Our annual potluck meeting is Monday, Aug. 15, 1 p.m., at the government center. Club presidents and secretaries are encouraged to come to this meeting.

Before we know it, fall is here and it’s time for election of officers, with openings on the board, please volunteer by calling the president of the county board or your club president.

The fall council meeting will be from 8:30 a.m. until noon on Monday, Sept. 19, at the Apple River Community Church

at the corner of Hwy. 8 and Hwy. 46 South.

Our 39th-annual Christmas Fair is Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Unity School. Watch for posters made by Kristi Sand that will have all the details! We will be having our usual raffle and will also hand out gently used books for children. There will be crafters and demonstrations, Christmas tea, the food court and other fun things.

Be thinking about volunteering to read for the Bookworm Program this fall, school is just around the corner and readers are needed. Contact Pat at 715-4882729 if you have questions and would like to volunteer. – submitted by Pat Willits, Publicity chair

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Avoine Historical Park features a mix of intriguing events. Sunday, July 3, will see the volunteer kitchen crew offering up another popular wild rice breakfast from 8:30 till 12:30. Wild rice pancakes highlight the menu, rounded off with eggs, sausage and beverages.

The next weekend kicks off with a class hosted by Folle Avoine’s resident bread maker, Al Johnson. Utilizing the two outdoor clay ovens he has constructed on-site, Johnson’s Saturday, July 9, class focuses on baking delectable delicacies, according to Breadmeister Johnson, who adds that “learning about the vagaries of an earth-type oven will help participants realize that just about anything can be baked in a clay oven. Plus, it’s easier to learn in a class than learning the hard way, like I did!”

The bad news? The class is currently full, but check with the site office, 715866-8890, to see if there are any cancellations as sometimes happens.

There should be plenty of room, however, for the special Sunday, July 10, program, which will run from 1-2:30 p.m. The event, called simply “The Trees of Burnett County,” is free, no reservations necessary and will be presented by retired county forester Phil Stromberg.

Now offering his services as a private forestry consultant, Stromberg recalls that, “It was the experience of the April 21, 1980, Ekdall Church fire which set the tone for this forester’s career.” That calamity consumed an area that reached from north of Grantsburg in a nine-mile swath that reached a width of 2.5 miles, scorched thousands of acres and destroyed 73 houses, cabins and outbuildings in the conflagration (over 60 were saved, however). That fire and its aftermath set the tone for Stromberg’s careful balancing of all the interests that have affected Burnett County’s forest-

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Festival’s Featured Artists

ST. CROIX FALLS – As the musical comedy “Once Upon A Mattress,” now playing at Festival Theatre through Sunday, Aug. 21, unfolds, the audience is treated to the beautifully intertwined voices of two young artists, Kimberly Braun and Neil Powell. The play retells the old story of “The Princess and the Pea” in a refreshingly new way even though it made its debut in 1959 and launched the career of Carol Burnett who played the boldly unabashed Princess Winnifred. The play contrasts the traditional and classic love story of Sir Harry, played by Powell, and Lady Larken, played by Braun, with the comically reversed roles of Dauntless, the pampered, mama’s boy prince, and Winnifred, the moat-swimming, loud singing, ironpumping princess. Both stories are set against the dysfunctional relationship of the overbearing Queen Aggravain and the mute playboy king, Sextimus. As the story unfolds, Braun and Powell are a couple who wish to (and, in fact, need to) be married and, in a series of musically superb duets, recount their love for one another.

“I am delighted that Kimberly joined us this summer!” says Jaclyn Johnson, associate artistic director of Festival Theatre. “Lady Larken was one of the final roles to be cast. Although we didn’t audition Kimberly this year, last spring we had called her back for our 2010 season and couldn’t find the right role that would use her multiple talents. I was paging through our headshot files and found Kimberly’s… Without much time and a good distance between us, I had to ask her to sing over the phone, and even through the technological limitations, I could hear an amazingly sweet soprano voice, one that made those notes sound simple.” Braun, too, remembers that conversation. “I was graduating and had no

plans for the summer when Jackie called and asked if I would consider working for Festival.

I was thrilled to say ‘yes’!” She went on, “I have so enjoyed collaborating with this group of Kimberly Braun artists, whom I deeply respect, and I am excited by the scope and variety of work experience offered by Festival Theater this summer.”

Braun is from Mankato, Minn., where she began acting at the age of 5. “I fell in love with performing,” says Braun, “and would go to any audition open to the public at Mankato State University or Merely Players Community Theatre.”

Some of her favorite roles have included Little Sally in “Urinetown,” Marie in “Pains of Youth,” and Philia in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” Most recently, Braun played the role of Horatio in the Gustavus Aldolphus production of “Hamlet.” An accomplished dancer, Braun spent the month of January creating a piece performed in the Gustavus spring dance concert, “Balance Off Center.” She graduated this May with a Bachelor of Arts in theater and minored in theater for social justice as well as political science and was the recipient of the 2011 Elco Award for leadership and service in the department of theater and dance.

When asked if she has had any truly memorable theater experiences, Braun confessed to having fallen asleep … on stage. “When I was very little I was asked to play dead on stage,” Braun said.

“They told me I would be on stage for five minutes, but it was closer to 15 min-

OSCEOLA – Students from Mrs. Petzel’s third-grade class (and some of their parents) took flight out of the Osceola Airport on an evening in May. For many of the children, this was their first flight ever.

Some of the highlights included flying over the Unity School campus, taking flight over Balsam Lake, Milltown and Centuria as well as along the beautiful St.

Croix River. This was a coordinated effort between Mrs. Debbie Petzel (Unity thirdgrade teacher), Woody Minar (Osceola Airport) and several other very generous pilots, including Rob Dybvig, Phil Mattison, Brent Lindstrom, Tim Johnson, Steve Mueller, Jeff Moryn and John Handrahan.

– submitted

utes. One night I just drifted off.”

Besides her obvious talent and passion for the performing arts, Braun is also an aspiring organic gardener.

Says Braun, “I wholeheartedly believe Neil Powell that grassroot initiatives in communities are what will allow us to overcome inequities and hunger. Growing our own vegetables and eating foods locally produced is safer, tastier and subverts the centralized control over food sovereignty.” When asked whether there were any aspects of her theater training she wished to share, Braun said that she is committed to creating meaningful art that transforms actors and audience as it is brought to life.

Powell, who plays opposite Braun as Sir Harry, grew up on Toledo, Ohio, and was hooked on theater in the seventh grade while attending the Toledo School for The Arts. After being cast in a production of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Powell says theater became a regular and essential part of his everyday life. Neil is now attending Bowling Green State University where he studies musical theater and is hoping to embark upon a graduate program of performance studies that feeds his passion for teaching and incorporating aspects of performance into the educational curriculum. In the most recent semester Powell has been working to create a curriculum for elementary school teachers to incorporate into their lesson plans performance and theater games.

Powell has been loving the work that he has been doing with the youth of the Festival Theater Conservatory for Young

Performers as they prepare for and produce the musical, “Seussical.”

Since he began exploring theater art making at a young age, Powell has been in countless productions. Some favorites have included the role of Harold in “Bunnicula” based on a children’s book by James and Deborah Howe, Bobby in “A Chorus Line,” Dean Hyde in “All Shook Up,” and Victor in “Cabaret. This past year, Powell spent time working with the Family Promise homeless shelter in Toledo. He explored and developed a testimonial style of dramatization of the victims of homelessness with the proceeds going to Family Promise of Greater Toledo.

“We are very fortunate to have Neil with us at Festival this summer,” says Danette Olsen, Executive Director of Festival Theater. “His concern for individuals is readily apparent all around the theater with his quiet attention to his fellow actors and the youth he is teaching.

Powell is always upbeat, fun and focused! His strong performance skills as an actor, singer and dancer delight audiences and peers alike. Neil shows a mastery of subtle comedy that is a joy to watch.”

Because “Once Upon A Mattress” is playing in repertory with “Seussical” and “The Lady with all the Answers,” you will be able to see Braun and Powell throughout June, July and early August.

These fine young actors will also be appearing in “Sew Good Improv” at 9 p.m. each Friday evening throughout the summer and in Devised Theater performances later in July. Reserve your tickets for “Once Upon a Mattress” today by calling the Festival box office at 715-4833387. – submitted

Unity students take flight

(L to R): Third-graders from Unity took a field trip to the airport in Osceola in May, where they were taken for actual flights by volunteer pilots. Myah Nelson, Taylor Lehner, MacKenzie Anderson, Alex Bergeron, Nakodah Tschida, Larysa Bakke and Lindsey Bump.

Front row (L to R): Myah Nelson, Lindsey Bump, Alex Bergeron, Nakodah Tschida and Larysa Bakke. Back row: Luke Flaherty, Caleb VosBenkowski, MacKenzie Anderson and Taylor Lehner.

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Unity teacher Debbie Petzel ready to take off.

LEFT: Volunteer pilot Rob Dybvig, Nakodah Tschida and Larysa Bakke.

Luke Flaherty and volunteer pilot Phil Mattison.

Relay for Life

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer ST. CROIX FALLS – “I’m here! Woo hoo!” shouted one cancer survivor, as the survivors lap began in St. Croix Falls on a warm, calm evening Friday, June 24. Several cancer survivors, patients, family members and caregivers gathered together for a full night of fundraising for cancer research, and to help kick off the annual event in Polk County on the St. Croix Falls High School track field.

Following the traditional survivors lap, family members and several others in attendance joined in support of their loved ones who have survived cancer, and also reflect on the ones who had lost their battles.

Along with the national anthem at the start of the opening ceremonies, St. Croix Falls Mayor Darryl Anderson welcomed the crowd, but was also part of the cancer walk. Anderson told the crowd he was walking for Diane Chapman, whose visitation was just one week prior to the Relay for Life event.

“While I’m walking that’s the person that I’ll be walking for tonight. Valiantly fought the fight against cancer, but then it finally got her. Let’s keep Diane in our thoughts tonight, as she was so active in our area too,” Anderson said.

Honorary Chair Hannah Kautz, 15, of Osceola also had a few words to help get things started on Friday. Kautz is a leukemia survivor and has been cancer free for 12 years.

“As I stand here tonight, I look at all the survivors, and on our shirts it says celebrate. It’s what we’re all doing just by walking,” explained Kautz. “The second word is remember, and we must remember those who are no longer here. Finally it says fight back. That’s also what we’re doing.”

It was an emotional but uplifting way to start the event, which had at least eight teams competing with a total of over 50 team members walking to raise money for cancer research. Teams included Bethesda Lutheran, Peace Lutheran, Polaris, Polk County Sheriff’s Department, St. Croix Regional Medical Center Sneakers, Shelley’s Yarns and Fiber Shoppe, Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church and The RiverBank.

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St. Croix Falls

Cancer survivors take the traditional first lap during the opening ceremonies of Relay for Life in Polk County. The survivors, all wearing purple shirts, drew cheers from the crowd as they circled the track. Cancer survivors had reason to cheer too.

Hannah Kautz (center) listens with a smile as the opening ceremonies of the Polk County Relay for Life begin.

Relay for Life T-shirts have a tendency to display powerful messages, filled with thought and meaning. This one explains that supporters, make it possible, scientists make it happen, and survivors make it personal.

Photos by Marty Seeger

A line of balloons promoting the Relay for Life, and the American Cancer Society surrounded the St. Croix Falls High School track field, adding color to the event.

Michele Gullickson-Moore, ACS community relations coordinator for Polk and Burnett counties, welcomed participants and explained the reasons for walking all night during the Relay for Life events.

Cancer survivors received several cheers and rounds of applause during the opening walk Cancer survivors of all ages rounded the around the track in St. Croix Falls Friday, June 24. track in support of finding a cure for cancer.

Hannah Kautz takes the microphone to say a few kind words to those in attendance. Kautz was the honorary chair of the Polk County Relay for Life walk.

Fishermen's Party

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Milltown The music of Rex Cactus kept people swaying all night on Friday, June 24, as they had several special guests and additional players.

Payton, 1 and Alex, 7, played a game of “Make me smile on the swing� at Bering Park on Friday evening. Alex is very good at this game.

Photos by Greg Marsten

Blake, 5, of Texas earned a squirt of fun with his fishing prowess.

Cub Scout Calvan Hol, 8, hands off a shaved-ice treat to Bryan Slaughter (foreground) as parents Amanda and John Hol assist.

The Cub Scouts Pack 563 served food all weekend at Bering Park.

Aiden, 2, Milltown, took a break from the bouncing part of the bouncing house.

The Milltown Public Library book sale was a big success all weekend.

Emily, 8, of Shakopee, Minn., tried her hand at ringtoss.

Clara, 6, of Shakopee, Minn., tried to hone her bowling skills.

Craig Peterson poured the suds at the fish fry at Bering Park.

Fishermen's Party

Little Miss runner-up Hallie Nelson, 6, could not be at the pageant ceremony on Friday, June 24, due to an appearance in a play, but made the rounds the rest of the weekend with the queen’s court.

The new Miss Milltown, Katie Jensen, received her crown from reigning Queen Brandi Larson on Friday.

Photos by Greg Marsten

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Milltown

Pictured front row (L to R) are: Little Princess Anna Gingras and Little Miss Milltown Emily Huelsman.

Back row: Princess Nicole Bailles, Princess Jessica Janusch, Miss Milltown Katie Jensen and First Princess Emily Bethke. Missing: Princess Hallie Nelson, who was performing in a play.

RIGHT: New Little Miss Milltown Emily Huelsman is pleasantly surprised by her crowning on Friday night, June 24.

The Milltown Fire Association had lots of parade helpers.

Grand Marshals Terry and JoAnn Juleen rode with their family in a vintage 1956 Buick Special.

The Harley Riders Club made a fast entrance and a loud exit.

Outgoing Miss Milltown Brandi Larson made one final appearance as queen, on this motorcycle ride with Steve Quist.

These two young ladies threw candy from the back of a Unity Area Ambulance.

This young lady was not so happy with the antics of certain parade units.

She made a full recovery.

Unity 2011 graduate Kayla Johnson gave a rousing performance of the national anthem to kick off the parade Sunday.

Fishermen's Party

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Milltown

The bone-stock lawnmower races gave some racers a chance to reflect their own style.

This “slow race” pitted Daniel Livingston’s John Deere (left) against Mike Larson and son Haze, 2, on a vintage Cockshutt machine.

Photos by Greg Marsten

Ben Schommer of Milltown rode his vintage 1953 8.5 h.p. National mower to victory in the lawn-mower races. Here he is facing off against Milltown Police Chief Andy Anderson.

Don Rovney of Luck took the award for Best Barn Find with his vintage Ford, which used to belong to a U.S. Senator.

Jason Short of Frederic drove this vintage rumble-seat coupe.

LEFT: Former Unity High School Principal Bill Alleva was the celebrity guest caller for the Bingo on Sunday, June 26.

Andy Benes of White Lakes, Minn., returned home to Milltown after two decades and found himself working the grill on Sunday. His grandparents were the Fishermen’s Party grand marshals, which he had to see.

Not all parade floats are the same.

The Unity High School marching band got the crowd moving with their playing.

Milltown Karate gave a live action demonstration during the parade.

New Luck home will be beginning of new life

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Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity has completed the family selection process for a home funded by Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity, a partnership that will change the lives of 164 families this year

LUCK – This year will mark the beginning of a new life for the Christensen family of Dresser. They recently learned they had been selected to build a Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity home in Luck.

Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity is a multiyear, multimillion-dollar partnership between Habitat for Humanity International and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. This initiative will provide 55 percent of the construction costs of the Christensen home. Area Thrivent chapters and Lutheran congregations will raise an additional 10 percent while WRHFH will fund the remaining 35 percent.

Because the need for affordable housing is so great, the desire to partner with Habitat for Humanity to build a home is also great. Families are chosen based on their need for decent housing, their ability to repay a no-profit, zero-interest mortgage and their willingness to help build their home or other Habitat for Humanity homes. Because partnering with Habitat is a life-changing experience, selected families are often joyfully overwhelmed when told the good news.

“We couldn’t believe it when we heard we were selected for a Habitat home,” said Linda Christensen, Dresser. “We hardly even dared to hope we’d be chosen.

This is going to change everything!”

While Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity will build one Thrivent Builds home this year, other Habitat affiliates in 33 states will build hundreds more homes for a cumulative total of up to 164 homes in 2011. These partner families will all experience the pride of homeownership by year’s end and will know that their lives are forever changed.

The new home is a result of a partnership between Habitat for Humanity International and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Called Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity, this partnership has resulted in more than 2,500 decent, affordable homes across the country and around the world since 2005. The total six-year commitment from Thrivent Financial now surpasses $150 million. Thanks to its 2.6 million members who own financial products with the organization, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is able to contribute to the improvement of communities like Luck. The Thrivent Builds partnership also engages volunteers—members of Thrivent Financial, members of area Lutheran churches and members of the community at large—to work alongside the partner families to build these homes.

To learn more visit www.thriventbuilds.com.

About Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity, located in St. Croix Falls, is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International.

WRHFH serves Polk and Burnett counties and this year is building its 21st and 22nd homes since its inception in 1997. Habitat raises funds and donated building materials, organizes volunteers, selects a family, and builds a home. Habitat doesn’t give anything away. The family is required to help build the home, and they buy it from

Habitat with a no- or low-interest mortgage when it is complete. For more information, call 715-483-2700 or visit www.wildrivershabitat.org.

Thrivent Builds is designed to involve Thrivent members and Lutherans in helping provide a “hand up” to people who lack decent shelter, offering them a path to greater economic independence. Excluding government funding, Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity is Habitat’s largest single source of funding. For more information, visit ThriventBuilds.com.

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is a not-for-profit, Fortune 500 financial services membership organization helping approximately 2.6 million members achieve financial security and give back to their communities.

Thrivent Financial and its affiliates offer a broad range of financial products and services including life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, disability-income insurance, bank products and more. As a not-for-profit organization, Thrivent Financial creates and supports national outreach programs and activities that help congregations, schools, charitable organizations and individuals in need. For more information, visit Thrivent.com. Also, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter.

Habitat for Humanity International is an ecumenical Christian ministry that welcomes to its work all people dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing.

Since its founding in 1976, Habitat has built, rehabilitated, repaired or improved more than 350,000 houses worldwide, providing simple, decent and affordable shelter for more than 1.75 million people. For more information, or to donate or volunteer, visit Habitat.org. - submitted

"God's up there looking over us"

ST. CROIX FALLS - Linda Christensen stopped in to the Habitat office in March. She was feeling desperate.

Her daughter, Leah, 31, had been in a terrible car accident in March of 2010. Leah had been in a coma for several months after the accident. Linda had been told if Leah survived, it was likely she’d be a “vegetable.” Linda had been encouraged to take Leah off life support, but she didn’t want to do that. After several months, Leah came out of the coma. Since then, through lots of hard work and rehabilitation, she is now able to walk some, and she is relearning how to speak. And after a long, tough year, she was finally about to be sent home from the care center she was in – but Linda didn’t have a home to take her to. Linda was renting a small, one-bedroom home. “It was really cute,” Linda said, “but it was falling apart. And it was too small.”

Linda, who works as a certified nursing assistant, had never been able to buy a home. It was turning out to be very tough to find a home she could afford to rent that would work for her and Leah and Leah’s 12-year-old son, Tyler. Linda didn’t know what to do.

Her neighbors had stopped in to the ReStore grand opening and learned about the Habitat program. They told Linda to check it out, and Linda came up the same day. She took home an application and completed it quickly. Soon she got the call telling them that they had

Seventh grade Taylor Alseth, Emily Amundson, Julia Buck, Ann Chenal, Andrea Drummer, Austin Ennis, Kendra Erickson, Lenin Guzman, Kyle Knauber, Christopher Kuechenmeister, Kinzie Matz, Nicole Nelson, Samantha Penberthy, Christopher Richter, Brittany Sanford, Hunter Schmidt, Olivia Tuynman and Sarah Wells.

Eighth grade Makayla Arthurs, Isabelle Burton, Eric Chenal, Peter Chenal, Bradley Erickson, Irric Erickson, Anna Hochstetler, David Lindberg, Abeni Lundeen-Brooks, Zane Matz, Mark Olson, Gregory Peterson, Mya Rivera, Kathryn Rokenbrodt, Olivia Schauls, Jami Siebenthal, Zachary Williamson and Kendra Mosay.

Honor roll Freshmen Therese Anderson, Kayla Bramsen, Alex Burton, Riley Carnes, Olivia Coen, Courtney Galle, Rebecca Garvey, Emily Gross, Caleb Hacker, Cash Hickethier, Carly Ince, Zachary Johnson, Alex Juleen, Neil Kline, Mitchell Krueger, Lillian Lenk, Ella Luepke, Danielle Mares, Kennedy Olson, Ashley Ouellette, Sophie Peterson, Oliver Raboin, Madeline Ramich, Jade Rau, Valerie Schultz, Sierra Thomfohrda and Desiree Walton.

Sophomores Alisha Aronson, Sarah Bader, Elaine Butala, Kourtney Collins, Anna Ebensperger, Taylor Heathman, Kasey Heimstead, Morgan Hoehne, Janet Hunter, Kayla Johnson, Kelsy Johnson, Shauna Jorgenson, Aaron Koshatka, Brittany Kruse, Jonathan Larsen, Dawn Michaelson, Shay Nelson, Hailey

been selected.

“I cried like a baby when I heard,” Linda said. “It was beyond anything I expected or even hoped for. God’s up there looking over us. If I was a nonbeliever, I’m not anymore.”

Linda and her family will help to build their home along with Habitat volunteers. When it’s complete, they will buy it from Habitat with a no-interest, affordable mortgage. Before year’s end, they will have a home of their own.

Volunteers are needed to help build the home, which will be located at 803 East Park Ave. in Luck. Please call 715-472-2700 to join in this rewarding work. Volunteers of all skill levels are welcome, as are donations toward the cost of the home. Contact WRHFH, PO Box 736, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024. - submitted

Frederic honor roll

Freshmen Alyssa Backlin, Brandi Bahr, Jaryd Braden, Abigail Brightbill, Claire Coddington, Elise Coddington, Haley Coulter, McKenna DenHoed, Lexi Domagala, Carly Gustafson, Zachary Kuechenmeister, Benjamin Kurkowski, Timothy Lund, Tylyn O’Brien, Abigail Pickard, Rachael Poirier, Rachel Thomas, Sawyer Tietz, Jack Tricker-King and Destiney Wetzel-Peterson.

Sophomores Natashia Bailey, Randy Brunette, Pagie Burton, Adam Chenal, McKenna Cook, Kourtni Douglas, Matthew Elrod, Larissa Houtari, Ian Lexen, Charles Lindberg, Kendra Mossey, Vincent Nelson, Julia Owens, Natalie Phernetton, McKenna Rognrud,

The Christensen family has been selected for the Habitat home that will be built in Luck this summer in the Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity program. They are, from front, Leah and Linda Christensen, and Leah’s son, Tyler Bushweiler, 12. - Special photo

Michael Runnels, Kendra Sheldon, Emily Wells, Garrett Wendelboe and Christa White.

Juniors Megan Amundson, Waylon Buck, Emily Byerly, Nicole Coulter, Jayce DenHoed, Lauren Domagala, Leah Engbretson, Anthony Evan, April Halverson, Christopher Hopp, Brittani Hughes, Breanna Jensen, Michelle Jensen, Ray Kurkowski, Nicole Laboda, Alexandra Lundblade, Seneca Lundeen-Brooks, Kristina Marcyan, Allison Martin, Maria Miller, Shabana Mishler, Kali Otte, Nicholas Rognrud, Autumn Schmidt, Corissa Schmidt, Jordyn Siebenthal, Adina Stackhouse, Erik Stoner, Danielle Swanson, Michael Tesch, Sara Underwood, Ashley Wendelboe and Bryce Williamson.

Unity honor roll

Olson, Jacob Ruck, Colton Sorensen, Ethan St. Amand, Brittney Vasey, Megan Volgren, Benjamin Zahler and Kaina Zygowicz.

Juniors Jade Baerg, Brittney Bublitz, Jenna Christensen, Xavier Foeller, Paige Gurtner, Ashley Johnson, Steven Krueger, Alec Larson, Connor MacKinnon, Kaitlyn MacKinnon, Kristy Mikl, Olga Novikova, Femke Oltrop, Emily Petzel, Brittany Thomfohrda, Elizabeth Thuerkoff, Brady Turner, Jennifer Vlasnik and Amanda Vondrasek.

Seniors Hayla Bader, Douglas Bengtson, Beau Davison, Nathan Dorrace, Katherine Ebensperger, Marisa Hacker, April Johnson, Kayla Johnson, Amber Koethe, Natalia Koronczewska, Jessica Kutina, Joshua Larsen, Dale Michaelson, Mickey Muller,

Lucas Nelson, Bryana Petersin and Lindsey Voss.

Honorable mention Freshmen Ashley Ackerman, Nicole Bystrom, Kaitlyn Collins, Cassandra Hanson, Carly Holin, Bradley Knutson, Samantha Langermann, Angela Larson, Heidi McCurdy, Tucker Olson, Kelly Radke, Eric Smith, Mercedes Swanson, Coleman Thill, Sommer Wakefield and Dakota Ward.

Sophomores Justin Aronson, Emily Bethke, Scott Bever, Megan Jones, Michael Jones, Mercedes Kobs, Anna Luepke, Renae McKenzie, Justin Mooney, Justin Moore and Marissa Paulzine.

Juniors Steven Anderson, Benjamin Bengtson, Kevin By-

Seniors Benjamin Ackerley, Allison Anderson, Ashley Bergeron, Amanda Blok, Tanesha Carlson, John Chelmo, Jesse Chouinard, Joseph Draxler, Trae Gehl, Daniel Halverson, Jade Johnson, Calla Karl, Sage Karl, Sandra Kasper, Sarah Knauber, MaryFrances Knuf, Krysta Laqua, Isabel Lexen, Josiah Lund, Aane’ Nakashima, Kayla Nelson, Samantha Nelson, Vanessa Nuemann, Alixandra Peterson, Anthony Peterson, Ryan Phernetton, Jimmy Richter, Jesse Sanchez, Kyle Simonsen, Zachary Tietz, Yasemin Ulusahin and Carl White.

strom, Zachary Cardot, Aaron Cousins, Nathan Despiegelaere, Jessteena Grillo, Gary Gustafson, Edward Harr, Etta Johnston, Samantha Palmquist, Autumn Peterson, Michelle Rindal and Matthew Schultz.

Seniors Katie Bestland, Elizabeth Bethke, Hunter Bjornson, Tyler Brooks, Tyler Christensen, Crystal Donahue, Brady Flaherty, Jessica Golz, Dylan Hendricks, Rush Hickethier, Nicholas Hoag, Krystal Janusch, Alexis Jones, Jenelle Larsen, Brandi Larson, Brandon Mooney, Alisha Nutter, Steven Olson, Nicole Slate, Emily Stelling, Jason Vlasnik, Freddy Wakefield, Naomi Williamson and Kathryn Zahler.

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Webster summer school attendance up

WEBSTER - Attendance at Webster summer school rose by 50 percent this year, meaning that 100 more students were in attendance this year than last year. Summer school for students in kindergarten through ninth grades began Monday, June 13, and ends Friday, July 1.

At least 20 different class choices were offered, with photography, sports, cooking, the fur trade, Minute to Win It (based on the TV show of the same name) and arts and crafts being the most popular. When asked about the

Students get a feel for working with papier mache during a Webster summer school one-week class. – Photos by Deb Pope

reason for the increase in attendance, summer school director Julie Merle said it was due to word-of-mouth and a lot of good things that were going on with the afterschool program during the school year. “The afterschool program bleeds into summer school. Kids got the word out for (other) kids to come to summer school,” Merle commented. - by Nancy Jappe

A Webster summer school class on crime scene investigation might lead to future employment plans, or at least good problemsolving skills.

Horses part of Siren summer school

Darwyn Brown showed Siren summer school students in grades fifth trhough seven how to trim the hoof of one of his Percheron draft horses. Brown explained that he is “taking the flange down,” which keeps him from having to put new shoes on the horse. He also got an amazed reaction from the students when he said that the shavings from horses’ hoofs used to be used in making gelatin. Approximately 80 students going into grades kindergarten through seven attended this year’s Siren summer school which was built around a Wild West theme.

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“My horses are different,” Darwyn Brown said as he talked about his two Amish-raised Percheron horses, Bella and Abe. “They will never kick or bite. That’s the way they were raised.”

Brown brought the two 7-year-old 2,200-pound horses to Siren School Tuesday, June 28, and, while there, gave summer school students a ride in a carriage pulled by the two horses. – Photos

by Nancy Jappe

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St. Croix Falls Class of 1956

Members of the St. Croix Falls High School Class of 1956 took part in a reunion held at the Pizzeria in Dresser recently. Shown (L to R) back row are: Wayne Shattuck, Jim Wyatt, Romayne Loudenback, Joan (Anderson) Leggitt, Warren Lee, Gordon Jensen, Robert Kamish, Jim Fruehling, Burdette Anderson, Duane Doolittle, Edward Erickson, Carlos Bergeron and Bob Boatman.

Middle row: Donna (Cross) Brown, Arnie Carlson, Lois (Wiesender) Fisk, Katie (Camplin) Nelson, Joyce (Burch) Emerson, Barbara (Larson) Lee, Adelaide (Bishop) Petersen, Lorna (Anderson) Andrewson, Joanne (Fisk) Puffer and Gary Lumsden. Seated: Teachers Fred Christiansen (wife, Marylou) and Gloria-Severson-Norman (husband, Dick). - Photo submitted X

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Eternal

Perspectives Sally Bair

Baptism at St. Luke’s Carter Aksel Balcerek, son of Charles and Erika (Moats) Balcerek, was baptized on Father’s Day Sunday, June 19. Pictured (L to R): Godparents Seth and Katie Holst, Carter and his parents, and godparent Jeff Croes. - Photo submitted

Seeds that multiply

The beautiful wild lupine plants are in full bloom.

One plant spike contains dozens of five-petaled flowers all the way from stem to tip, which can be as long as 12 inches. They’re so abundant that the roadsides and fields are a blue and pink feast to the eyes.

Lupines are not only pleasing to the eye, they offer other benefits as well. They give nectar to the endangered Karna blue butterfly. In fact, the lupine is that caterpillar’s only host plant. The lupine, a legume plant, also restores nitrogen to the soil. Some of the 200-plus species of lupine are referred to as green manure.

Each flower from one lupine plant can produce between 10 and 20 seeds. It’s mind-boggling to imagine how many more lupines can be reproduced from a single plant. If not for insect predators, we would see lupines everywhere. But that’s true of many plants, which exist to reproduce more of their kind.

Jesus told a parable about seeds, recorded in Matthew 13, that reminds me of the life of a lupine plant. Jesus is the one who sows the seed through his word and through the words and deeds of us Christian believers. He uses us to plant good seeds along the roadsides and in the field of the world. But we can sow his seeds of love only if the soil of our own heart produces attractive and beneficial crops like lupine.

Galatians 5:19-20 says: “the fruit of the Holy Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control.” Such fruit is what all Christians should ask for, strive for, and live for, so the seeds we sow in the name of Jesus will reproduce good fruit in others. The more we do that, the more seeds of God’s love and joy and peace we can spread throughout our world.

Every day God gives us the opportunity to sow good seeds that will produce an abundant crop of beautiful and useful soul-food, like the lupine. Every day God gives us the opportunity to keep bad seeds—worry, envy, unbelief, discontent and pride— from getting mixed in with the good. The day will come when he will gather his harvest. As with any crop, the harvest will entail getting rid of the fruit of bad seed. Only the fruit of the Holy Spirit’s seed will last.

Lord, we look toward the day of your harvest, when “the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.” (Matthew 13:43) Thank you for the privilege of planting seeds of love, joy and peace in the world. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Mrs. Bair may be reached at sallybair@gmail.com

OBITUARIES Darold R. Johnson

Darold R. Johnson, 73, St. Croix Falls, died Tuesday June 21, 2011, at St. Croix Regional Medical Center.

Darold was born Sept. 14, 1937, in Minneapolis, Minn., to Clarence and Lillian Johnson. He graduated from St. Croix Falls High School in 1956.

He married Nancy Williamson in Center City, Minn., in 1959. Darold farmed all of his life and retired from Tenere Inc. as a machinist. In his free time, Darold enjoyed his farm, gardening, trapshooting and the outdoors.

Darold was preceded in death by his parents; and his wife, Nancy, in April of this year.

He is survived by his brother, Clarence (Audrey) Johnson of St. Croix Falls; sisters-in-law, Maxine Ross of Grantsburg, Marjorie Bystrom of Cushing and Carol Olson of Coon Rapids, Minn.; brothers-in-law, George Williamson of St. Croix Falls and Maynard Williamson of Grantsburg; special nieces, Terry (Larry) Benson and Vickie (Brad) Swanson; other nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held Friday, June 24, at the Grandstrand Funeral Home in Osceola with Dr. Roland Robinson, officiating. Interment was in the Bethesda Cemetery.

Condolences may be left at www.grandstrandfh.com The Grandstrand Funeral Home, Osceola, was entrusted with arrangements.

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Creative church signs are often visible in the communities of Polk and Burnett counties. This one is from the Calvary Church of the Nazarene in St. Croix Falls. – Photo by Tammi Milberg

OBITUARIES Harry M. Jensen

Harry M. Jensen, 90, resident of Luck, passed away Thursday, June 23, 2011, at St. Croix Regional Medical Center.

Harry was born in the Town of Laketown to August and Henriette Jensen on Feb. 6, 1921. He married Darlene M. Cunningham on June 7, 1952, where they lived on the family farm outside of Luck. As he farmed, he also drove school bus for the Luck School District. Their son, Steve, bought the farm, and Harry retired from driving bus in 1983. He took some time off, but started working for the St. Croix National Park. He worked there for a year and then started working for the Polk County Aging service driving Carea-van and delivering meals on wheels. He was presented with numerous awards for excellent driving and service.

Harry was active in the Danish Brotherhood, volunteered at the United Pioneer Home, Luck’s Senior Center and West Denmark Church. He was a caring and loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather who always helped out friends and neighbors. He really loved and cared about animals. His hobbies were playing horseshoes, gardening, Cribbage or any card game.

He had a great sense of humor.

Harry was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Darlene; brother, Lauritz and his wife, Grayce; and granddaughter, Candice.

He is survived by three children, Steve (Susan), Alan (Loann) and Karen (Mike); eight grandchildren, Jenny, Cody, Brian, Autumn, Kristin, Jared, Jay and Joel (the grandchildren came over every Christmas to make Peppernedder – even some of the great-grandchildren helped); he is also survived by eight great-grandsons and six great-granddaughters; and many nieces and nephews whom he loved deeply.

Funeral services were held at West Denmark Lutheran Church on Tuesday, June 28, with the Rev. Linda Rozumalski officiating. Music was provided by pianist Chris Johansen and vocalist Spike Maiden Mueller. Harry was laid to rest next to his wife, Darlene, at West Denmark Cemetery following the service. Pallbearers assisting were Cody Hetrick, Jason White, Jay Loehr, Brian Jensen and Jared Jensen.

Refer to the Web sites for updated information or call Bruce Rowe at 715-472-2444.

Rowe Funeral Home of Luck, www.rowefh.com and the Northwest Wisconsin Cremation Center in Milltown, www.wicremationcenter.com have been entrusted with funeral arrangements.

Muslims across Iran are hearing the Christian Gospel loud and clear deep underground, Sunday, June 26, the Rev. Dennis Nelson (left) of Spirit Lake and a missionary to Muslims, told the people of New Hope Lutheran how the Holy Spirit is growing Christ’s church in Iran. Evangelism of Muslims is illegal in Iran. Christians caught converting Muslims can suffer imprisonment and death, he said. For this reason, the greater Christian church must hide underground, as it did in its beginning in the Roman Empire. Jackie Maslow, of Grantsburg, was a guest singer and blessed all in attendance. Dr. Emory Johnson (right) is the pastor of New Hope. For more information call 715-463-5700. - Photo by Wayne Anderson

Robert L. Casey

Robert L. Casey, 62, Danbury, died June 27, 2011.

Visitation will be Friday, July 1, from 4-7 p.m., at Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, with service at 7 p.m. A full obituary will be published at a later date.

Online condolences can be made at www.swedberg-taylor.com.

The Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Doyle E. Beyl

Doyle E. Beyl, 88, died June 7, 2011, in Madison.

Doyle was the son of Ernest and Olga Beyl. He grew up in St. Croix Falls.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret Jean; and daughters, Kathleen (Daniel) Martinson and Nancy (Dennis) Berg; five grandchildren; brother, Warren of St. Croix Falls; and sister, Nancy Savre of Cyrus, Minn.

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Grace Gertrude Victoria Anderson Peterson

Mary Lou Bufkin, 57, of Balsam Lake, passed away on Monday, June 27, 2011, at her home with her family at her side.

Services are pending at the time of this week’s edition and a complete obituary will be in a later edition.

For more information, please contact the Kolstad Family Funeral Home or visit www.kolstadfamily funeralhome.com.

The Kolstad Family Funeral Home of Centuria has been entrusted with arrangements.

Mary M. Mattson

Mary M. Mattson, 67, currently of Cottage Grove, Minn., formerly of Luck, died Monday, June 27, 2011, at Woodswinds Hospital in Woodbury, Minn.

Funeral services will be held at the Rowe Funeral Home in Luck on Friday, July 1 – visitation will begin at 10 a.m., followed by the service at 11 a.m.

Refer to the Web site for updated information or call Bruce Rowe at 715-472-2444.

Rowe Funeral Home of Luck, www.rowefh.com, has been entrusted with funeral arrangements.

Harold O. Peterson

Harold O. Peterson, WWII Navy veteran, lifelong Shriner, Mason, American Legion member, beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and uncle, 85, a resident of Webster, died peacefully at his home surrounded by his family, on June 21, 2011.

Harold is survived by his wife, Maxine; son, Tom; daughter, Renee; sister, Bess (Eldon) Arneson; brother, Marvin (Judy); his first wife and mother of Tom and Renee, Wanda Champion; four grandchildren; three great-granddaughters; nieces, nephews and many friends.

Harold was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Peterson; brothers, Bob and Beldon Peterson; and sister, Mary Lou Jotblad.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, July 9, at 11 a.m., with visitation from 10-11 a.m., at the SwedbergTaylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, with Pastor Roger Kampstra officiating. Interment will follow at Oak Grove Cemetery, Webster. Honorary pallbearers will be Bruce Behrens, Pat O’Brien, Dave Wardean, Rod Hopkins, Earl Boelter, Geroge Emerson, Ken Hayes, Robert Gleason, Mike Spafford, Dean Phernetton, Jay Heyer, Gene Johnson and Al Niklason. Online condolences can be made at www.swedberg-taylor.com.

The Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Memorial Service

A memorial service to celebrate the life of Mary Riegel Coyte, who died last August, will be at Mary’s cabin at 1385 Hungerford Point, Deer Lake, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, on Sunday, July 3, at 1:30 p.m. Friends of Mary and her family are invited to attend the memorial service. There will be Mary’s traditional pit-barbeque after the service, and those who want to participate are asked to bring a dish to share. Meat and drinks will be provided.

Parking will be a challenge, so please call 715483-9300 for parking arrangements. Carpooling 539673 44-45Lp is encouraged.

Grace Gertrude Victoria Anderson Peterson passed from this life into the presence of God on June 17, 2011. She struggled through an increasingly debilitating illness for the last few months, but is now set free of those hindrances and is presently walking streets of gold.

Her place in heaven was afforded not by her own merit, but through the righteousness found in Jesus Christ.

That transaction took place when earlier in her life God saw fit that she heard the good news of his redeeming love and she believed in Christ’s substitutionary death on the cross. Her sin was exchanged for his righteousness according to II Corinthians 5:21.

Grace was born Jan. 18, 1920, to Andrew and Anna Anderson in Duluth, Minn. She was the youngest of nine children. She grew to adulthood in Falun attending Wood Lake and Falun Schools. During school picnic games, she would run like the wind, hair flying behind her, outrunning all the boys. It was reported that the boys didn’t stand a chance. She learned a good work ethic during her formative years.

Following her schooling, Grace worked a number of jobs from Burnett County to the Twin Cities area. It was in Falun that she met the man who would become her husband, Carl Peterson. They were married and lived for a time in the Falun area, then moved to Chillicothe, Ill., to follow work opportunities. Five children were born of this union. She was a devoted wife and mother who worked hard to provide a happy, fun-loving and musical home life for her family.

One day a local pastor paid a visit to their home and shared with them the good news of Jesus Christ. This was a major turning point in their lives. As a young family they became active in the ministry of the church. Grace taught every age of Sunday school class and held a neighborhood Bible club in her home so that area children could hear the good news of Jesus Christ. God used this ministry to change the hearts and minds of many young people to follow him in their lives. Future pastors and Christian leaders resulted from her willingness to serve in this capacity. She taught her family to enjoy singing and to joyfully use those musical abilities for the encouragement of others.

After raising their family in Chillicothe, Carl and Grace eventually moved back to Falun to enjoy an active and fulfilling retirement. Many sunfish and northern pike met their match in this couple. Following the loss of her husband, Carl, in 2001, Grace continued living at her Falun home and wintering with her daughters in Missouri for a few years before finally relocating there permanently in 2007.

Grace was predeceased by her husband of 63 years, Carl Peterson, in 2001.

She is survived by five children, Ronald Peterson (Donna) of Fairborn, Ohio, Janet Vaught (Robert) of Phillipsburg, Mo., Karen Everett (Bud) of Springfield, Mo., Carla Rathbun (Dave) of Kansas City, Mo., and Michael Peterson (Rebecca) of Frederic; one brother, Harry Anderson of Frederic; 12 grandchildren, 29 greatgrandchildren, nephews and nieces.

Pauline M. (Clendening) Kingsley

Pauline M. (Clendening) Kingsley, 79, of McGaheysville, Va., died June 23, 2011.

A graveside service will be held Thursday, June 30, at 11 a.m., at Danbury Cemetery. A full obituary will be published at a later date. Online condolences can be made at www.swedberg-taylor.com The Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

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Donald L. Michaelson

Donald L. Michaelson, 76, Milltown, passed away at the St. Croix Regional Medical Center on June 22, 2011.

Don was born in Georgetown, and grew up in the area. He graduated from Milltown High School, and shortly after moved to Silver Bay, Minn., where he worked at Reserve Mining and ran a gas station in Beaver Bay, Minn.

He moved to Minneapolis, Minn., where he drove bus for Greyhound and Jefferson Lines for several years before moving back to Milltown and starting his business, The Tire Experts, in 1980. He also operated a wholesale tire business that serviced dealers in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa.

Don is survived by his wife of 43 years, Sue; and seven children, Tom, Jerry (Beth), Mike (Pat), Jim (Bridget), Michelle (Steve) Sherrard, Tim (Cori) and Ted (Sarah); 16 grandchildren, Paul, Jennifer, Samantha, Michael, Tina Mae, Jacob, Travis, Michaela, Kyle, Kelsey, Katie, Karlie, Taylor, Sullivan, Ethan and Griffin. He is also survived by three great-grandchildren, Hilary, Alex and Peyton.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Eleanor and Paul Michaelson; and one grandson, Michael.

Memorial services were held at Milltown Lutheran Church, Milltown, on Monday, June 27, with the Rev. Danny Wheeler officiating. Music was provided by organist Cheryl Peper with special music by Tim Michaelson.

Refer to the Web sites for updated information or call Bruce Rowe at 715-472-2444.

Rowe Funeral Home of Luck, www.rowefh.com, and the Northwest Wisconsin Cremation Center in Milltown, www.wicremationcenter.com, have been entrusted with funeral arrangements.

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Bernadene Stark was born March 7, 1932, at Shell Lake, to John and Bertha (Rockaway) Graves, and passed away June 17, 2011, in Licking, Mo. Her early years were spent near Shell Lake. In 1939, the family moved to a farm near Grantsburg. Bernadene attended elementary school at Alpha and high school at Grantsburg.

In 1933, she was baptized into the Methodist faith and confirmed in 1946. She married Virgil Brenizer in April 1949. They lived in Wisconsin where they owned and operated a mink ranch. Three sons were born to this union.

Bernadene was a hard worker and enjoyed her family of three sons growing up. Her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren were her pride and joy.

She worked in hospitals, nursing homes and motels from 1970 to 1991 in Wisconsin and Minnesota in the housekeeping department. Her hobbies were making rugs and quilts.

Bernadene moved to Riceville, Iowa, in 1993. In 1994, she moved to Bellevue, Iowa, and on Aug. 7, 1995, was united in marriage to Vincent Stark where they owned and operated Granny B’s Cabin.

In June 2005, she moved to Licking, Mo. Left to mourn her passing are her husband, Vince; sons, Wayne Brenizer and wife Connie, Keith Brenizer and friend Kathleen DeLuca; stepsons, Kenneth and Donald Stark; grandchildren, Lisa, Kevin, Mark, Rebecca, Derek, Bruce, Valerie, Jennifer and Kyle; step-grandchildren, Breanna and Danny; nine great-grandchildren; four step-grandchildren and one great-grandchild; a sister, Adeline Engles; and brother, Wesley Graves.

She was preceded in death by one son, Ricky; two grandchildren; brother, John; and her parents.

Services were held Monday, June 20, at Fox Chapel with Pastor Paul Richardson officiating.

Memorials may be made to Three Rivers Hospice, Licking Office. Online condolences may be made at www.foxjfh.net.

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Parents try balancing needs of sick child with others

Q: We have four children between the ages of 5 and 13. Our youngest son has a serious medical condition that requires the majority of our time. What can we do to make sure we’re not shortchanging our other children while dealing with the burden of our youngest?

Juli: Our hearts go out to you and your son as you travel this difficult road together. Many families have gone through similar circumstances and found the stress to be profound. In fact, most children’s hospitals have support groups for family members of children with prolonged or terminal illness.

In situations like yours, it’s common for the child who is ill to adopt the role of “sick child.” When this happens, the entire family revolves around protecting and providing for the one in the sick role. Be intentional about carving out family space that does not revolve around your youngest being ill. For example, never talk about anything related to the illness at the dinner table. Be sure that family members don’t overly coddle your youngest. If he’s able to do chores or get his own glass of water, let him.

As much as possible, shift doctor and

Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Juli Slattery

hospital visits to allow one parent to be with the other children. They need time with you. Try to schedule a “date” with each child alone, even if it’s just a trip to the grocery store or attending a volleyball game. Extended family members and close friends can be a big help in filling some of the gaps.

Give your other children room to process their feelings with you and/or a counselor. Siblings of a sick child feel the full range of valid emotions, including guilt, anger, jealousy, sadness and fear. Because Mom and Dad are also emotionally overwhelmed, the kids may believe they have to keep these feelings to themselves. If you see behaviors like aggression, withdrawal, extreme immaturity or trying to be a perfect child, you should understand these are indications that a child is not processing these feelings well.

No parent would choose the circumstances you find yourselves in. However, siblings of sick children often develop extraordinary character traits like empathy, unselfishness and respon-

sibility as a result of their unusual family dynamics.

••• Q: My husband has a week’s vacation coming up in July. My parents are in California, his are in Ohio, and we’re in Georgia. Both sets of parents are itching to see the grandkids. How do we handle this no-win situation?

Jim: At some point, most married couples have an argument over where to spend vacation time. A lot of the pressure for this decision comes from extended family members, as you know.

Throw grandchildren into the mix and things can get downright ugly!

As eager as they are to see you, your parents can surely sympathize with your inability to be in two places at once. With that in mind, as you decide where to spend your husband’s vacation time, it’s important to remember two principles: be fair, and be flexible.

When it comes to being fair, try to come up with a solution that works for both extended families. That might mean spending summer vacation in California and Christmas in Ohio, and then switching off next year.

In terms of flexibility, consider what is in the best interests of those around you. Perhaps spending half of your husband’s vacation in airports is not what your budget – or your kids – can handle

right now. Don’t be afraid to tell both sets of grandparents that it’s honestly not a good idea for you to travel this year, so you’ll be taking a “staycation.”

Whatever you decide, make sure that you and your husband are engaged in healthy communication on the subject.

Your final decision should be one that you’re both comfortable with, even if you have to compromise to get there.

••• Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family, host of the Focus on the Family radio program, and a husband and father of two. Dr. Juli Slattery is a licensed psychologist, co-host of Focus on the Family, author of several books, and a wife and mother of three. Submit your questions to: FocusOnTheFamily.com. Copyright 2010 Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, CO 80995.

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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - FREDERIC 609 Benson Road; Pastor Curtis Denney Sat. Worship 11 a.m.; Sabbath Schl. 9:30 a.m.

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BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR LUTHERAN (WELS) Gene E. Jahnke, Pastor, 715-635-7672, Hm. 715-354-7787, Hwy. 70 at 53, Spooner Sun. Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. School & Bible Classes For All - 10:45 a.m.

BETHANY LUTHERAN - BRANSTAD Pastor Jay Ticknor, 715-463-5746 3 miles So. of Grantsburg on Hwy. 87 Sun. Schl. - 9:30 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

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BETHESDA LUTHERAN - DRESSER (LCMC) www.bethesdalutheran.ws Pastor Roger Kastelle, 715-755-2562 1947 110th Ave., Dresser Contemporary Serv. 8:30 a.m.; Adult Ed & Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Traditional Service 10:45 a.m.;

BONE LAKE LUTHERAN bllc@lakeland.ws Pastor Mary Ann Bowman, 5 mi. E. of Luck on Hwy. 48, 1/2 mi. S. on I; Office - 715-472-2535 Pastor - 715-472-8153, Adult Bible Study 8:30; Worship 9:30 a.m.; Fellowship 10:30 a.m.

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Sun., May 29: One Worship Serv. 9 a.m.

FIRST LUTHERAN - CUSHING Pastor Dorothy Sandahl, 715-648-5323 or 715-648-5324 Sun. Wor. 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9 a.m.

FRISTAD LUTHERAN - CENTURIA ELCA - 501 Hwy. 35, 715-646-2357, Mel Rau, Pastor Sun. Wor. & Holy Communion - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10:40 a.m.

GEORGETOWN LUTHERAN - ELCA Rt. 1, Balsam Lake, WI (Fox Creek) Pastor Neal Weltzen; GT Office - 715-857-5580, Parsonage - 715-822-3001, TR Office - 715-822-3001 Wors. Serv. 10:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9:15 a.m.; Holy Communion - 1st Sun. of each month

GRACE LUTHERAN - WEST SWEDEN Phone 715-327-4340, 715-327-8384, 715-327-8090 Interim Pastor Julie Brenden Worship 9:15 a.m.; Sun. School 10:30 a.m.

Communion - 1st & 2nd Sundays

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN - FREDERIC (Missouri Synod) Pastor Jody R. Walter, 715-327-8608 Sun. Schl. - 8:45 a.m.; Service - 10:30 a.m.

Communion - 1st, 3rd & 5th Sun.

LAKESIDE COMMUNITY LUTH. - ELCA CTH H, 1/2 mi. N. of CTH A & H on H Church Off. 715-635-7791 Roger Pittman, Pastor Sat. Serv. 7 p.m.; Sun. Serv. 9 a.m.

LAKETOWN LUTHERAN - CUSHING Pastor Dorothy Sandahl Sun. Wor. 10:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 10:30 a.m.

LUCK LUTHERAN 510 Foster Ave. E. Pastor Ralph Thompson Office 715-472-2605; Home 715-472-8424 Sun. Wor. 10:30 a.m.; Mon. Wor. 6:30 p.m.

MILLTOWN LUTHERAN

113 W. Main St.. W., Phone 715-825-2453 Pastor Danny G. Wheeler 9:15 a.m. Worship ; 10 a.m. Sunday School

NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH Pastor Emory Johnson, 715-463-5700 685 W. State Road 70, Grantsburg Sun. Wor. Serv. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

NORTH VALLEY LUTHERAN

METHODIST

METHODIST

ATLAS UNITED METHODIST

Pastor Carolyn Saunders, 715-463-2624 Sunday School - 11 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST GRANTSBURG Pastor Carolyn Saunders, 715-463-2624 Worship - 9 a.m.; Sunday School - 10:30 a.m.

DANBURY UNITED METHODIST

Pastor Maggie Isaacson, 715-825-3559 3 mi. W. of Milltown on “G” Sun. Wor. - 9:15 a.m.; Wed. Wor. 6:30 p.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sunday Worship - 9 a.m.

OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN, (LCMS) WEBSTER

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.

Pastor Gerald Heinecke Church Phone 715-866-7191 Sun. Schl. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Wor. - 10:30 a.m.

Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

HOLY TRINITY UNITED METHODIST

PEACE LUTHERAN - DRESSER (ELCA) 2355 Clark Road, Dresser, WI, 715-755-2515 Web site: plcdresser.org Pastor Wayne Deloach, Intern Courtney Young Sun. Wor. 8:30 & 11 a.m., Sun. Schl. 9:35 a.m.

GRACE UNITED - WEBSTER

LIVING HOPE CHURCH

Pastor Father Daniel Bodin, 651-465-7345 25293 Redwing Ave., Shafer, MN Sunday 9 a.m.

Pastor Doug McConnell Youth Pastor Chris Radtke At Grantsburg High School, 715-463-5794 Sun. Serv. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST Pastor Father Michael J. Tupa, 715-866-7321 Cedar & Muskey Ave. - Webster Mass Sun 10 a.m., Wed. 5:30 p.m. (Sept-May), Fri. 9 a.m. (Summer)

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC 1050 North Keller Ave., Amery, 715-268-7717 Father John Drummy, Pastor Sat. Mass 4 p.m., Sun. Mass 8 a.m.

Mass Wed. & Thurs. 9 a.m.

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC

ASSEMBLY

WESLEYAN

CENTURIA ASSEMBLY OF GOD

WOODLAND WESLEYAN

Pastor Jack Starr Wor. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - during worship hour

Pastor Don Wiltshire, 715-640-6400 Centuria - Phone 715-646-2172 Sunday Service: 10 a.m.

Dairyland - Rev. Andrea Wittwer 715-244-3649 Sunday School - 10 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

REDEEMER EV. LUTHERAN

OSCEOLA UNITED METHODIST

McKINLEY UNITED METHODIST Pastor Annie Tricker Sun. Worship 11 a.m.; Sun. School 11 a.m.

Potluck dinner 1st Sunday

ASSEMBLY

OSCEOLA COMMUNITY CHURCH Pastor Larry Mederich, 715-294-4332 www.occconnect.org Mtg. @ St. Croix Art Barn; Sun. Serv. - 9 a.m.

Nursery and children church

SIREN ASSEMBLY OF GOD Pastor Andrew Bollant Sun. Schl. - 9:15 a.m.; Morn. Serv. - 10:15 a.m.; Supervised Nursery; Wed. Evening - Worship Serv. 6:30 p.m.

350 Michigan Ave., Centuria Sun. Worship - 10:45 a.m.; Sun. School - 10 a.m.

oumc@centurytel.net 306 River Street, Osceola, 715-755-2275 Pastor Mark Gilbert Adult Class - 8:30 a.m.; Sunday School 10 a.m.

Sunday Worship - 10 a.m.; Holy Communion 1st Sunday

ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN - LCMC

ST. CROIX FALLS UNITED METHODIST

1614 CTH B, North Luck, Pastor Rob Lubben Sunday Worship - 9 a.m.

Contact Leslie Valentine, 715-646-2390; E-mail: leslie56@centurytel.net

Rev. Mike Weaver Sunday Worship Service - 10 a.m.

Sunday School is at 9 a.m., Nursery available

Pastor Bruce Tanner, 715-268-2176 942 U.S. Hwy. 8, Amery Sun. Schl. 9:30 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday Bible study 7 p.m.

ST. LUKE UNITED - FREDERIC

CROSSWALK COMMUNITY CHURCH

SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN

Pastor Arveda “Freddie” Kirk, 715-327-4436 Pastor Tammy Clausen Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

Pastor Greg Lund, 715-327-8767 700 Churchwood Lane; 505 Old CTH W, Frederic Sun. Schl. - 9 a.m.; Morn. Worship - 10:15 a.m.; Nursery provided for all services Sat. Worship - 6 p.m., Luck Senior Center

10 mi. W. of Cumberland on Hwy. 48 (McKinley) - Pastor Neal Weltzin GT Office 715-857-5580, Parsonage 715-822-3001, TR Office - 715-822-3001 Wor. Serv. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10:15 a.m.

Holy Communion - 1st Sunday

TRINITY LUTHERAN LCMS, DANBURY Pastor Gerald Heinecke Home 715-327-8608; Church 715-866-7191 Sunday Worship Service - 8 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

TRINITY LUTHERAN - FALUN

SIREN UNITED METHODIST Tom Cook, Pastor Sunday School 9 a.m.

Worship - 10:15 a.m. (Nursery available)

TAYLORS FALLS UNITED METHODIST 290 W. Government Street, 715-294-4436 Reverend Dr. Rolland Robinson Sunday Service - 10 a.m. with nursery Sunday School - Sept. - May at 10 a.m.

WOLF CREEK UNITED METHODIST Rev. Mike Weaver Sunday Worship - 8:15 a.m.

COVENANT

COVENANT

CALVARY COVENANT - ALPHA

Hwy. 70 East, 715-689-2271, Pastor: Carl Heidel Worship 9 a.m.; Sunday School 10:15 a.m.

Communion -Every Sunday

Pastor Scott Sagle, 715-689-2541 Sun. School 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Worship 10:30 p.m.; Elevator provided, welcome

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN OSCEOLA

SIREN COVENANT

300 Seminole Ave. (CTH M) Mark Kock, Pastor, 715-294-2828 Sunday Worship 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.; Summer, 9 a.m.

WEST DENMARK LUTHERAN Pastors Mike & Linda Rozumalski 1 mi. west of Luck on N, 2478 170th St., Luck Sunday Wor. 10 a.m.; Sunday Schl. 9 a.m.

Fellowship 11 a.m.

WEST IMMANUEL LUTHERAN - ELCA Rev. Rexford D. Brandt 447 180th St., Osceola, 715-294-2936 Sunday Worship 9 a.m.

Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month

YELLOW LAKE LUTHERAN

Pastor Dave Guertin 7686 Lofty Pines Drive, Siren, 715-349-5601 Worship 10 a.m.; Sunday School 9 a.m.

UNITED COVENANT - CLEAR LAKE Pastor Gary Tonn Sunday School 9:00 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m.

CATHOLIC

CATHOLIC

ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Rev. Thomas E. Thompson, 715-247-3310 255 St. Hwy. 35, East Farmington Mass Friday 9 a.m.; Sacrament of Penance Sat. 3:30 p.m.

CHURCH OF ST. JOSEPH

1/2 mi. W. of Hwy. 35 on U, 715-866-8281, Pastors Douglas Olson, Roger Kampstra and Myron Carlson Services begin at 9:30 a.m.; Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday

Pastor - Father Daniel Bodin 490 Bench St., Taylors Falls, 651-465-7345 Sat. Vigil 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7:30 & 10:30 a.m.

Tues. - Thurs. 7:30 a.m.

ZION LUTHERAN - BONE LAKE (AALC)

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EVANGELICAL

EVANGELICAL

APPLE RIVER COMMUNITY (EFCA)

HOPE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH Pastor Dave Williams 933 248th St., Osceola Morning Worship 10 a.m.; Sunday School Sept.-May 8:45 a.m.

Children’s Church & Nursery provided

TRADE RIVER EVAN. FREE Pastor Dale VanDeusen, 715-488-2296 or 715-488-2653 20296 Hwy. 87, Grantsburg Morning Wor. 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Schl. 10:45 a.m.; Nursery provided for all services BAPTIST

BAPTIST

EAST BALSAM BAPTIST - BALSAM LK. 715-857-5411 Wor. Service - 9 a.m.; Sun. School-10:15 a.m.

EUREKA BAPTIST 2393 210th Ave., St. Croix Falls Pastor Willis Christenson, 715-483-9464 Sun. School - 10 a.m.; Wor. Service - 11 a.m.

FAITH FELLOWSHIP Hwy. 35 and CTH N., Luck Bill McEachern Pastor, 715-485-3973 Sun. Bible study - 9 a.m.; Sun. Wor. - 10 a.m.

FIRST BAPTIST - AMERY 131 Broadway St., 715-268-2223; www.fbcamery.org; E-mail: churchoffice@fbcamery.org Reg. office hours: Tues.-Thurs. 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Pastor Charlie Butt, Lead Pastor; Nick Buda, Associate Pastor Sunday Service: 9 a.m.; All ages Sunday School 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Nursery available

FIRST BAPTIST - FALUN Pastor Steve Ward Sunday School - (all ages) - 9:30 a.m.

Church Serv. - 10:45 a.m.

ZION LUTHERAN - EAST FARMINGTON (WELS ) Pastor Martin Weigand - 715-294-3489 Thursday Worship 7:30 p.m.; Sunday Worship 8 & 10 a.m.

Balsam Lake - Rev. John A. Drummy, Pastor - 405-2253 Mass: Sat. eves. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8:30 a.m.; Tues. 5:30 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m.Sacrament of Reconciliation 7:30 a.m. Sun. or by appt.

Located across from elemen. school on West St., Pastor, Dr. Kevin Schumann; 651-465-7171 Sun. Morn. - Sun. School for all ages - 9 a.m.

Morn. Worship - 10:15 a.m.; Nursery provided.

ZION LUTHERAN - MARKVILLE

SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS & MARY

PRESBYTERIAN

PRESBYTERIAN

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN

Rev. Bruce Brooks - 715-483-3550 719 Nevada St. , (between Simonson & Tower Roads) , St. Croix Falls Worship - 10 a.m. (Nursery provided) Sun. Schl. - Child.- 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - Adults 8:45 a.m.; Communion 1st Sunday

ST. DOMINIC - FREDERIC & IMMACULATE CONCEPTION - GRANTSBURG CATHOLIC MASS SCHEDULE Pastor: Rev. Dennis M. Mullen, 715-327-8119 St. Dominic: Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 10:30 a.m.

Immaculate Conception: Sat. 6:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30 a.m. Call the office for daily & holy day Mass times

ST. ANNE PARISH Rev. Thomas E. Thompson, 715-247-3310 139 Church Hill Rd., Somerset Mass Sun. 8:30 a.m.; Wed. 9 a.m.

Sacrament of Penance Sun. 8 a.m.

Pastor Dan Slaikeu 4 mi. SE of Grantsburg on Williams Rd. Worship 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School 10:30 a.m.

HOPE FELLOWSHIP OF SOMERSET 231 Bluff Drive, 715-247-2435 Services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

CHRISTIAN CENTER

CHRISTIAN CENTER

EL SALEM/TWIN FALLS CHRISTIAN CENTER

1751 100th Ave., Dresser Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

Evening Services Sun. 6 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

Call Pastor Darryl Olson at 715-755-3133 for information and directions

ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN

CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX

HOLY TRINITY ORTHODOX 523 1st St., Clayton, 715-948-2493 Fr. Christopher Wojcik, Pastor Saturday Vespers - 5 p.m.; Sunday Liturgy - 9:30 a.m.

HOLY CROSS ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN Meeting at Zion Lutheran Church, 28005 Old Towne Rd., Chisago Lakes, MN, hcomm.org Sunday Worship Service 9:30 a.m.

NAZARENE

NAZARENE

CALVARY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 510 S. Vincent, St. Croix Falls Pastor Tom Reaume, 715-483-3696 Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Worship 10:45 a.m. & Wed. 6:30 p.m.

FAITH COMMUNITY 7535 Peet St., Danbury, 715-656-4010 Adult Bible Service 9 a.m.; Services: Sun. 10 a.m.; Sunday School during church service.

NONDENOMINATIONAL

NONDENOMINATIONAL

CENTERPOINT CHURCH “Come as you are”

Pastor Dick Enerson, www.centerpointstcroix.com, 715-294-1833, Meeting at SCF High Schl. - Main entrance 740 Maple Drive, St. Croix Falls Sunday Worship 10 - 11:15 a.m.

CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN 28313 CTH H, A&H Pastor Tryg Wistad, 715-635-9222 Sunday Worship: 10 a.m.

NEW LIFE COMMUNITY - AMERY

NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

OUR LADY OF THE LAKES

Interim Pastor Julie Brenden 715-327-8384, 715-327-8090 Fellowship - 10:30 a.m., Sun. Schl. 9:45 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m., Communion - 1st & 2nd Sundays

WOOD RIVER CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

FIRST BAPTIST - TAYLORS FALLS, MN

FIRST BAPTIST - MILLTOWN

ZION LUTHERAN - TRADE LAKE

FULL GOSPEL

FULL GOSPEL

Interim Pastor Craig Jorgenson Sunday Worship 10 a.m.; Children’s Church: K to 6th Grade

Danbury - 7586 St. Rd. 77, 715-866-7321 Pastor - Father Michael J. Tupa Mass - Sat. 4 p.m., Fri. 9 a.m. (Sept.-May).

Reconciliation as per bulletin & by appt.

Pastor Father Michael J. Tupa CTHs A & H - 715-866-7321 Crescent Lake Voyager Village area.

Mass Sun. 8 a.m., Thurs. 9:30 a.m.

Reconciliation as per bulletin and by appt.

WESLEYAN

Pastor Marlon Mielke, 715-825-3186 Sunday Schl. 9:45 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m., 7 p.m.

Pastor Gary Rokenbrodt - 715-653-2630 5 mi. E. of Frederic on W, 2 mi. south on I; www.clamfalls-zion-aalcparish.net Sun. School 9:30 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m.

Communion - 1st Sunday

Pastor Tim Faust Worship - 11 a.m.; Sun. School - 10 a.m.

Holy Communion - 1st & 3rd Sunday

CHURCH OF CHRIST - WEBSTER

LAKEVIEW UNITED - HERTEL

Tom Cook, Pastor Worship 8:45 a.m.; Sunday Schl. 10 a.m.

TRINITY LUTHERAN - ELCA

CHURCH OF CHRIST

CHURCH OF CHRIST

Holytrinity@wisconsinumc.org 1606 165th Ave., CTH I, Centuria Pastor Freddie Kirk, 715-485-3363 Pastor Tammy Clausen Sunday Worship - 8:30 a.m.

LEWIS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST

(Missouri Synod) 140 Madison St. South, St. Croix Falls Pastor Mark K. Schoen Sun. Service - 9 a.m.; Sun.School - 10:30 a.m.

Pastor Merrill Olson, Interim Pastor 715-327-8402 Sun. Schl. - 9:15 a.m.; Wor. Serv. - 10:15 a.m.; Nursery provided.; www.tradelakebaptistchurch.org

Minister Garret Derouin, 715-866-7157 Musky & Birch St., Avail. in office 9 a.m. - noon, Tues.-Fri.; Sun. Bible Study 9:30 a.m.

Worship 10:30 a.m.

Interim Pastor Andrew Hinwood 507 Wisconsin Ave. N., 715-327-8012 Sun. Worship - 9 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 2nd Sundays www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.org

ST. JOHN’S EV. LUTHERAN (Wis. Synod)

TRADE LAKE BAPTIST

Rev. Thomas E. Thompson, 715-294-2243 255 E. 10th Ave., Osceola Masses: Sun. 10:30 a.m., Tues. 5 p.m.

Thurs. at 10 a.m. at Osc. Nursing Home

PILGRIM LUTHERAN - FREDERIC (ELCA)

(Wisconsin Synod) Pastor Gene DeVries 200 N. Adams St., St. Croix Falls Sun. Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 8:30 a.m.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER

FIRST BAPTIST - WEBSTER Church Phone 715-866-4111; Interim Pastor Ken Hyatt; Youth Pastor Jerry Scheumann Sun. School 9:30 a.m.; Worship - 10:45 a.m (Nursery Provided)

GRACE CHURCH OF OSCEOLA “The Cure for the Common Church”

Meets at Dresser Elem. School, Dresser Pastor Tony Minell, 715-417-1982 Sun. Wor. 9:45 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9:45 a.m.

NEW WINE CHURCH - CENTURIA 309 5th Street, , 715-338-2751 Pastors Randy and Pam Stone Sunday 10 a.m.; Wednesday 7 p.m.

NORTHERN PINES FRIENDS WOR. GROUP 715-733-0481 or 715-733-0480 for time of meeting.

INTERDENOMINATIONAL

INTERDENOMINATIONAL

722 Seminole Ave., Osceola Pastor Dr. Kent Haralson; 715-294-4222 or 715-755-3454; info@gracechurchosceola.com Sun.: Praise & Worship Serv. 9 am., Adult Bible Study 10:45 a.m., Children’s Sun. School 10:45 a.m.

1289 160th St. (Hwy. 65), St. Croix Falls, 715-483-5378 Senior Pastors Paul and Sonja Hanson Sunday Adult Bible Class 9 a.m.

Worship and Children’s Sunday Schl. 10 a.m.

GRACE BAPTIST - GRANTSBURG

ST. PETER’S COMMUNITY CHURCH

716 S. Robert St., Grantsburg, 715-463-5699 Sr. Pastor Brad Moore David Ahlquist, Assoc. Pastor Sun. Worship 9:30 a.m.; Sun. School 11 a.m.

RIVER VALLEY CHRISTIAN

“Faith on Purpose” (Love God, Love People...period) faithonpurpose.org CTH F, Dresser, 715-483-2911 Pastor’s res./office Sunday Worship 10 a.m.

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St. Croix Falls writing students try their hand at journalism American Girl dolls

ST. CROIX FALLS – Students in a summer school class called Write On got to try their hand at journalism last week. After writing their own hardcover books, as part of the class they also wrote newspaper articles and toured the Inter-County Leader newspaper office in Frederic. The following are the stories students wrote that were submitted for printing.

You Can’t Go Wrong with Write On

by Addie McCurdy Student writer ST. CROIX FALLS – It’s summer and what are we doing? Writing class. At the St. Croix Falls School District, a group of 14 students signed up for Write On for the third week of summer school. The class is taught by Tammi Milberg. Students increase their writing skills by making a hardcover book about anything they want. They also learned how to write newspaper articles and tried their skills by doing a story on another class, such as American Girl and Outdoor Fun in the Sun. The process for the storybooks went something like this: first, pick a topic, make it something that you know you can write about; second, do your rough draft, don’t worry about mistakes until afterwards; third, correct all the mistakes that you can find, then give it to Ms. Milberg to correct, and fix those mistakes; fourth, print out the final copy and separate the pages to glue the words into the books; fifth you can either draw the pictures or print them out after finding images on the computer.

The books themselves were about 5 inches by 7 inches and had 28 pages in them, counting the front and back. They came with designs on the covers and you could color them or leave them black and white. Most of the designs didn’t correspond with the stories, though.

The newspaper articles were a little bit trickier. They had a specific topic to write about and they had to gather actual information, not just make up a bunch of hocus-pocus. You had to take notes, organize them, make a rough draft, proofread it, save and print.

“The book was easier in a way because there were more opportunities for things to write about and you could use your imagination,” says Sam Hoefler, a student in the class.

The class also took a field trip to Frederic to the newspaper company, InterCounty Leader, to see how newspapers are made.

“This has been a great learning experience,” said Gabe Shoop, another student in the class.

American Girls

by Lizzy Godden Student writer ST. CROIX FALLS – At St. Croix Falls Middle School lots of things are going on.

Summer school offers tons of classes, and one of them was American Girls.

“I took this class because I wanted to spend more time with my American Girl Doll, Ivy,” said Alyssa Tran, one of the students in class.

“What we do is make fun crafts such as clay pots, ink, cross-stitching and quill pens,” said Madison Stensven.

“I like to make coil pots,” said Hope Anderson. “This is how I make it: step one is get some clay; step two is roll a piece of clay a little less than a foot and roll it like a hot dog; step three is to make it like a swirl and then make another one and connect them; step four is take a piece of clay and roll it out and put it on the edge of the swirl; step five is you repeat step four until you get to the height you want it.”

“Monday is when we made almond tarts, which are mini-pies. We also made breakfast puffs and apple butter,” said Teagan Harrison. “Tuesday we made clay pots and ink. We also made flan.”

“If you are wondering where our classes have been working it is the life skills room, and the FACE room,” said Caitelyn Carsley. “If you are wondering who my teacher is, it is Mrs. Stemmann,” said Alyiah Lyman proudly.

Students in Write On, a summer school writing class, hold up their own hardcover books they wrote and published during the class. Back row (L to R) are: Brittny Ringler, Abby Paulson, Gabe Shoop, Sam Hoefler, Alaina Driscoll and Addie McCurdy. Front row: Lizzy Godden, Azalea Edwards and Lucy Herman.

by Bethany Oestreich Student writer ST. CROIX FALLS – When you see American Girl dolls, you think that they are just dolls for little girls to be friends with, but you would be wrong. You may not realize it, but American Girl dolls teach children about history. Each American Girl doll came from a different part of history.

In St. Croix Falls summer school, there are many classes. One of them is American Girl taught by Mrs. Stemmann. In this class, the children learn what it was like to live in the time of some of these girl dolls.

They are all so excited to make homemade butter. If you want the homemade butter recipe, look for it in Kristen’s cookbook.

In the class, they make things like coil and thumb pots, which American Girl doll called Josefina made. They also made cross-stitch bookmarks that say “my friend.” Another American Girl doll named Addy gave a bookmark to another American Girl doll, Sarah. The students also make ink. To make the ink, they squished up berries. Some berries you can use are blueberries, blackberries, strawberries or raspberries.

All the kids that take this class absolutely love it. “I took this class because I wanted to learn about American Girl doll history,” said one of the students in the class. Another student said, “I had one American Girl doll, so I wanted to learn about it.”

Mrs. Stemmann says she teaches the class because “It’s fun for the kids to learn about the history of the dolls and I enjoy it.” Most of the girls who take this class have at least one American Girl doll, whether it’s their twin or it’s based on a real American Girl doll. This year there are nine people in the class. They all had different reasons for joining the class whether to learn about the history or their sibling told them it would be fun. The point is that this summer school class is a great class to learn about the history of American girls and have fun.

Dance and Fitness

Pepakura – often referred to as “Pep” – is a program that creates buildable paper-craft models. Using 3-D data, Pepakura allows the model to be unfolded to a flat template to be cut, folded,

by Alaina Driscoll and glued together. This was one of the summer school classes held at St. Croix Falls Middle Student writer School. Students here have glued their paper helmets together and are in the process of ST. CROIX FALLS – Have you ever had strengthening them with putty and epoxy. – Photos by Tammi Milberg fun working out and dancing? Well in the Dance and Fitness summer school class, you do just that. dents instructed by Angie Maternowsky, The Ultimate Class The class is filled with fun warm-up middle school physical education teacher. games such as tag, Zumba, Pilates and I got to interview Hal Edwards. He said making your own dances in small groups

by Alyssa Paulson they have played blob tag, invasion, ABC to perform if you choose.

Student writer tag, kickball, and capture the flag. He also The students love it and have a blast ST. CROIX FALLS – Can you make a mentioned, “This class is awesome.” dancing and working out. Stephanie paper halo helmet turn into a helmet you Then I interviewed Stephanie Hansen. can put on your head? Just go to the She had lots to say about Outdoor Fun in Belisle, the St. Croix Falls elementary phy ed teacher, instructs the class.

Pepakura class. the Sun. “It’s fun in the sun, but challengIn the summer school class Pepakura, ing at times. You get the opportunity to you do five steps to make a printed out make new friends and play lots of tag Gone Green paper helmet turn into a helmet you can games.” wear on your head. First, print out on card As the school day comes to an end, I

by Gabe Shoop stock paper the helmet you want, cut it visit one more class called Pepakura.

Student writer out, and glue the pieces together. Next, Pepakura is making masks or helmets.

ST. CROIX FALLS – In the summer you put fiberglass on it and wait for the There are five steps into making fiberglass to harden. Next you bond and Pepakura. Step one is printing, cutting, school class Gone Green, students make sand it. Finally, you paint it. The class is folding and gluing. Step two is fiberglass art out of magazines, cards and cardtaught by Mrs. Mederich and her son resin. Step three is putty to cover up holes board. The connectors are glue and tape.

Josiah. Mrs. Mederich said she is teaching to make the helmet smoother and sand- They usually go on field trips as part of the class for the students in the middle ing. Step four is hardening. Step five is class. They take this class to help the envischool that wanted to take a Pepakura painting the visor and lights. After learn- ronment. class. Thinking the class would be all ing the steps I got the chance to ask a stuboys, she said she is happy that two girls dent, Jasmine Lee, if she enjoyed the class. are in the class.

She replied, “Yes.”

A Day a SCF Summer School

by Samuel James Hoefler Student writer ST. CROIX FALLS – I took a look at some St. Croix Falls summer school classes that feature fitness and exercise.

First, I went to Dance and Fitness, instructed by Stephanie Belisle and Shanda Henk. I saw lots of hard work, and of course dancing.

I learned that they also do lots of Zumba and Pilates. I heard lots of fast, energetic music. I didn’t get a chance to interview any of the students because they were very focused in their dancing. All I have to say is keep up the good work!

Next, I visited Outdoor Fun in the Sun. I took a look and there were many stu-

Students from Write On toured the InterCounty Leader office in Frederic on Friday, June 24, to see how newspapers are made. Here students listen to employee Connie Magnuson explain how the paper layout is finalized on a computer that transfers the images to a plating machine that will be used in the printing press.

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Coming

JUNE

events

Happenings in the Upper St. Croix Valley communities

THURSDAY/30

• Root beer/sundae booth at Grace United Methodist Church, noon-2:30 p.m.

Luck

TUESDAY/5

• Civil War historian and author Lance Herdegen to speak at Luck Library and Museum, 5 p.m.

• Cardiac support group at the medical center, 1 p.m., 715-268-0291.

Amery

Clam Falls

St. Croix Falls

• Coffee hour at Clam Falls Lutheran Church, 9 a.m.

• Music in the Park at Crooked Lake, Rex Cactus/Clarion & Gregg Lane, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Luck

JULY

• Music in the Park - Jim Armstrong at Triangle Park, 6:30 p.m.

Balsam Lake

• Early-stage Alzheimer’s support group at the senior center, 10 a.m., 715-268-6605.

WEDNESDAY/6

FRI.-MON./1-4

Amery

• Freedom Fest. Thurs. pageant; Sat. arts and craft fair, bull riding; Sun. parade, fireworks.

Frederic

Siren • Carnival by Chippewa Valley Rides at Crooked Lake Park. Fri. 5-11 p.m., Sat. & Sun. noon-11 p.m., Mon. noon10 p.m.

FRIDAY/1 Balsam Lake

• Balsam Lutheran Church will host a bake sale at the farmers market, 3-5 p.m., 715-268-8223.

Cumberland • Tractor pull at Dale’s Twin Pines, 7 p.m., 715-822-2554.

Siren • Fish fry at Burnett County Moose Lodge, 5:30-7:30 p.m., 715-349-5923.

St. Croix Falls • Music on the Overlook, the Atlantis Quartet, 6:30 p.m.

A pair of Canada geese and their two young goslings head off into the sunset in the pond at the Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery. By fall they will be flying south with their parents. – Photo by Larry Samson • White elephant and bake sale at Faith Lutheran Church, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

• Book sale at the library, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 715-485-3215.

Clam Falls • Pancake breakfast and bake, craft & plant sale at the Lutheran church, 8-11 a.m.

Danbury

• Legion Aux. bake sale at the U.S. Bank, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

• Danbury Days pork feed, water fight, parade.

• Ruby’s Pantry at the town maintenance shop, $15 donation. Doors open 9:30 a.m., distribution 10-11:30 a.m.

Balsam Lake

• Feed My Sheep at Grace Church in Grantsburg. Doors open 8 a.m., 715-463-5699.

Webster

SAT. & SUN./2 & 3

• Iris and hosta sale and flea market at museum, noon4 p.m.

Webb Lake

• Fundraiser for food shelf & veterans of Burnett County. Open 9 a.m. daily.

SAT.-MON./2-4 Siren

• Freedom Day celebration, festivals and fun. Saturday street dance, 8 p.m.; Sunday parade, fireworks, www.visitsiren.com.

SATURDAY/2 Balsam Lake

• Pie and ice-cream social at Holy Trinity United Methodist Church, 1-4 p.m.

Fugitives caught in Straight Lake Park; on the loose since May

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer BONE LAKE – Stella, a mama llama, and her year-old son, Chumlie, were caught deep in Straight Lake State Park Thursday, June 23. The llamas belong to Shyla Baker, 11, and had escaped from their pen just north of the park on May 25.

Word was out in the community that two llamas were on the loose, and area people were on the lookout for them.

They were spotted last Wednesday, June 22, in a grassy meadow area west of a pond in the wildlife area of the park, and the call went out for volunteers to help catch Stella and Chumlie.

Thursday afternoon, a posse gathered at Oak Forest Center on the edge of the park.

THURS.-SAT./7-9

• Blood pressure screening at Bremer Bank, 9 a.m.

Grantsburg Indian Creek • Lorain Fire Dept.’s farm tractor/truck pull, noon, 715653-2541, 715-653-2566.

Milltown • Free outdoor movie and fireworks at Half Moon Lake Landing, dusk, 715-825-2313.

Wanderoos

SUNDAY/3

• Fourth of July celebration.

Cushing

• Skonewood Christian Retreat Center - Northern Lights, 6:30 p.m.

Danbury • Wild rice pancake breakfast at the Fort, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 715-866-8890.

Webster • Fireworks at Yellow Lakes Golf Course, dusk, 715-8667107.

Guided by Oak Forest manager Tim Otte, the group hiked a mile through deep

Success. The llamas were caught Wednesday, June 22, and Shyla Baker hugs Chumlie.

ONGOING

Every Day, AA &/or AlAnon, Polk & Burnett counties, 715-931-8262 for time/location. Amery, 715-268-8431.

Divorce care support group at Apple River Community Church, 715-268-8360, 715-268-2176.

Wolf Creek

Every Monday

• Truck/tractor pull at Little Swede’s. Tractor starts 11 a.m., truck starts 4 p.m., 715-483-9255.

Indianhead Barbershop Chorus meets at the Balsam Lake Government Center, 7:30 p.m., 715-483-9202.

Baby and Me class - Amery Medical Center, 1-2 p.m.

Grief Share support group at Centennial Hall, Amery, 715-268-2176 or 715-268-8360.

MONDAY/4 Amery

• Adoptive parents support group at First Lutheran, 6:30 p.m.

Clam Falls • Parade starting at 2 p.m.

Clear Lake • Compassionate Friends, Tri-County Chapter, grief support in death of a child at First Lutheran, 7 p.m., 715263-2739.

Every Tuesday Bingo - Burnett County Moose Lodge, Siren, 6 p.m.

Survivors of domestic violence & sexual assault support group, Polk Co., 800-261-7233, 6-7:30 p.m.

Anger management group at Amery Regional Medical Center, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 715-268-4094.

Every Thursday

Siren

Breastfeeding support group at the St. Croix Regional Medical Center, 2-3:30 p.m., 715-483-0431.

Narcotics Anonymous meets at the Serenity House (old jail), Balsam Lake, 7 p.m., 612-205-2321.

• Siren Community Band at the band shell, 8 p.m.

• Pie and ice-cream social at the Methodist church, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Moms In Touch International, First Baptist, Amery, 8:15 a.m., 715-268-5408.

Webster

Mama llama drama

Deep in the park, the two escaped llamas, Stella and Chumlie, recognize Shyla Baker and start coming to her.

Spooner

• Heart of the North Rodeo, www.spoonerrodeo.com, 800-367-3306.

• Fun Day & parade, www.websterchamber.com, 715-8667774.

Every Friday Every Friday and Saturday The Balsam Lake American Legion Auxiliary and Post 278 members will be distributing The Memorial Poppy.

The posse gathered at Oak Forest Center Wednesday, June 22, to hike into Straight Lake State Park trying to locate two llamas.

grass and woods to reach the meadow site. The llamas were sighted immediately peacefully eating the grasses. Shyla and Ryan Strenke, a friend who is familiar with animals, walked toward Stella and Chumlie while the others in the posse circled around the area.

Stella spotted Shyla and walked toward her. A bit of coaxing with some favorite food and the llamas were back on leashes and being led back to Oak Forest by a smiling Shyla for a ride home. The llamas looked a bit matted but well fed after their month on the loose.

While Shyla Baker and Ryan Strenke try to coax the llamas close enough to leash them, the posse surrounds the two to cut off an escape.