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by Greg Marsten Special to the Register SIREN – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker spent the bulk of the day in Northwest Wisconsin on Friday, Aug. 19, touring the extensive havoc created by a trio of storms. He had close-up views by air and by ground of damage in Burnett, Douglas and Washburn counties, assessing damage that has occurred

over the past 50 days.

“It’s a much more complex issue than just moving a few logs,” Walker acknowledged during a later meeting with dozens of regional timber and wood pulp industry producers. “I appreciate you all coming here with the mindset that not only are we going to do this [clean up the mess] but that we’re going to do it the right way.”

The governor’s assessment confirmed what thousands on the ground have known for over a month, that the twisted, precarious twine of over 130,000 acres of former forest is now either so dangerously wound up and deadly that if it might go to waste or

Gov Scott Walker spent much of his time in Burnett County flanked by

See Governor, page 4 Brig. Gen. Donald Dunbar of the Guard (right). - Photo by Greg Marsten

Stuart Bearheart new tribal chair

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New council sworn in PAGE 3

Hwy. 8 corridor work rolls on An insider’s look at the high-tech concrete work PAGE 21

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Deaths

Beverly J. Mothes Wayne Bernard Fox Samuel “Sam” Williamson Jr. Orville D. Knutson Jerome R. Larson

Obituaries on page 19B Some vehicles look better suited for steep ovals or vintage racing movies. - Photo by Greg Marsten

Gravity’s weird uncle

The complexity of serving at-risk citizens - balancing the needs and costs PAGE 6

Cushing’s Adult Soap Box Derby becomes the strangest hit in the region

Survey on public protection launched

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer CUSHING – It literally started as a sort of “napkin idea,” and evolved from Matt Larson’s long-ago memories of his father carrying a full keg of beer up the steep Cushing Main Street hill as part of the Fun Days events, decades ago.

“I started thinking, how can we use the hill and get people into town?” Larson said, adding that the progression of ideas was partially fueled by the wares of one of Cushing’s taverns.

The quandary went from the question stage to idea stage to napkin stage to research to implementation about three years ago, and turned into one of the quirkiest, most popular and genuinely wholesome public activities short of meat raffles, dodgeball and caroling.

Cushing’s Adult Soap Box Derby hereafter referred to simply as “The Derby” - combines a bizarre, engine-free “vehicle” getting pushed for just a few steps down the very steep 240th Street in

Frederic village residents have input on future of police department PAGE 3

Man survives being shot at party Spooner man in custody PAGE 5

Cushing. It’s about 500 feet of pavement with about a 25-foot elevation change (maybe 12 to 15-degrees of slope).

That Main Street steepness, combined with those couple of quick pushes - usually by two burly fellas - makes the weirdest marriage of gravity, muscles, shoe traction, inertia, mass, engineering, lubrication, aerodynamics and blood alcohol content to create one of the most entertaining afternoons of racing without any fuel, engines, oil products or southern accents.

The Derby took place on Saturday, Aug. 20, as part of the latest Cushing Fun Days celebration, and one mustachioed, tanned Osceola visitor described it as “crazy cool,” and later even used the words “green” and “NASCAR” in the same reference. Just don’t tell Ricky Bobby.

(Steep) Hillbillies

The Derby is indeed a little bit of charming “hillbilly” - with emphasis on the “hill” part. The crowd is a conglomeration of locals who heard through word of mouth about this strange race thing that has really weird cars that go down a

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Wild Rice Festival this weekend HERTEL – The St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin will host their 38th-annual Wild Rice Festival at the St. Croix Tribal Center Grounds in Hertel, Friday – Sunday, Aug. 26-28. The St. Croix tribe’s history is intimately connected to the harvest of wild rice.

Nearly 600 years ago, the St. Croix Chippewa Indians arrived in the northwestern Wisconsin area after being directed to move southward from Lake Superior to the “place where there is food upon the water.” So it was that unlike other tribes whose main crop was corn, the St. Croix’s main crop was wild rice, which grew in the lakes of Wisconsin and surrounding areas. It’s this age-old connection to wild rice that the tribe commemorates with this annual festival. The centerpiece of the Wild Rice Festival is a three-day traditional powwow. Powwow grand entries will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, at 1 and 7 p.m.; on Saturday, Aug. 27; and at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 28.

Drummers, singers, and dancers from tribes all around the country travel to attend the powwow, which typically attracts up to 2,000 visitors. Along with the traditional powwow, the Wild Rice Festival features craft vendors booths, native foods and prize drawings. For more information on the Wild Rice Festival, call Aimee Juan at 715986-4777. - Photo and info submitted

Mayfly hatches unusual this summer LA CROSSE - An annual natural event on the Mississippi River is getting a late start this year. While mayflies in the La Crosse area have emerged, they’re doing so later than usual. The winged, harmless bugs only live for a day or two, but hatch from the Mississippi River and its tributaries in swarms, swarms so large that sometimes the National Weather Service’s radars detect them. Although mayfly hatchings are an annual event in the La Crosse area, this year has been different. Mark Steinbraeger of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the mayflies are hatching about two months later than last year. He says low water temperatures are most likely causing the late mayflies. He says oxygen and pollution levels in the water also play a role. “The presence of the mayflies, when we see them in the Mississippi River, is an indicator of overall good environmental health,” says Steinbraeger, “because we know mayflies can’t persist unless the dissolved oxygen concentration is about five parts per million or greater.” Steinbraeger is studying how to predict the exact day of massive mayfly emergences. - Maureen McCollum, Wisconsin Public Radio

Fire danger from downed timber

The fire risk posed by downed timber from the July storms is shown in this map created by the Department of Natural Resources and presented at a briefing with Gov. Walker at Siren on Friday. See story, page 1.

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Katie Brumberg was chosen as Little Miss Lewis during the Charles E. Lewis Days celebration Sunday, Aug. 14. Katie rode in the parade limousine along with Grand Marshal Juanita Berg, Little Mr. Lewis Brett Strenke and Mayor and Vice Mayor Ken and Bonnie Chell.

Apologies to Katie and her family for not including this photo with the rest of the Lewis Days coverage in the Aug. 17 Leader.

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FREDERIC -A high-voltage lightening arrestor at Northwestern Electric Company’s Frederic substation failed at approximately 9 p.m. Monday evening, Aug. 22, causing an outage to approximately 2,500 of NWE customers in the Lewis, Siren and Frederic areas. By approximately 9:30 p.m., Northwestern’s crews cleared the fault and reenergized the 34,500 volt transmission line, restoring power to customers, according to company spokesperson John Richards.

••• FREDERIC – Do you have an abundance of items from your garden, and would like to share with others? Please bring your abundance to the appliance store in downtown Frederic, next to the public library, Affordable Quality Appliances, 715-327-4271. Owner, Carol Thompson will put the items out in front of her store, free for the taking. Store hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. “Only in Small Town, USA are we able to do something like this,” Thompson notes.

••• CORRECTIONS: In last week’s Leader a story titled, “Village splits sidewalk repairs,” it was incorrectly stated that Robert Clifton has been assessor for the Town of Laketown. Rodney Skoug is assessor for that municipality, and Clifton has never held the position.

••• The Leader ran a photo of the 1948 hockey team last week, Aug. 17, noting that there was just one surviving member of the team Eldon Arneson. Kenny Nordin, who was listed as a member, is very much still alive, contrary to our report, according to his brother, Glen. We’re not sure who else from the team may still be on this side of the blue line, but we apologize to Mr. Nordin for the error.

Minnesota man drowns in Washburn County WASHBURN COUNTY - A 42year-old Minnesota man lost his life Saturday, Aug. 20, when he drowned after the boat he was in capsized.

Timothy F. Anderson stood up in a small boat, slipped and fell overboard, causing a female party in the boat to fall out and the boat to capsize. Apparently life jackets were present, but neither was used. Both Anderson and the woman attempted to swim to shore, but Anderson was unable to make it. Both were pulled from the water by a husband and wife in their pontoon boat and were taken to a landing.

CPR was administered to Anderson on the landing, and he was transported to the Spooner hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The incident occurred at approximately 8 p.m. Itt has been turned over to the DNR for further investigation, according to Washburn County Sheriff Terry Dryden. - with information from Washburn County Sheriff’s Dept.

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Stuart Bearheart new tribal chair New council sworn in

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer HERTEL – The newly elected St. Croix Tribal Council was sworn in Friday, Aug. 19th, and immediately elected its officers.

Stuart Bearheart is the new tribal chair, Nancy Matrious is vice chair, and Phyllis Lowe is secretary/treasurer. Elmer “Jay” Emery Jr., and Lewis Taylor are the other council members and are the only incumbents re-elected. The new council was elected Aug. 13 after the June 11 election was voided by a tribal judge.

The new council addressed a large gathering at the tribal center in Hertel.

Bearheart’s comment was short and to the point. We have a long road ahead of us, he said.

“As we start a new direction, we must be positive and peaceful with each other,” Matrious said. “I will work for openness and to be fair.”

Lowe talked about “taking back our tribe” and said the tribal members must stay unified. She said she will work hard to achieve financial growth for the tribe.

Taylor and Emery, the returning council members, spoke in more detail about the challenges ahead. Taylor said the tribe is not immune to the economic meltdown. He said the recession will continue to have an effect on the tribe. Taylor said “we must work together” and called on the members to have faith in their leadership.

“It will be a hard two years in this economy,” Emery said. “We have a lot of work to do. The council will try to make the right decisions for all of us. We will work together as a team. We will make some tough decisions that may affect you. The challenges are enormous. This is for real.”

Issues The June and August elections pitted a slate of candidates, backed by a group calling itself Take Back Our Tribe 2011, who were challenging four of the five incumbents, Lewis Taylor, Beverly (Songetay) Benjamin, Jeanne Awonohopay and David “Maabin” Merrill. The slate was calling for more openness in council government, more accountability to the tribal members and a new constitution for the tribe. This was the latest round in a change movement that dates back to before 2005.

In 2005, a group calling itself the Elder Coalition for Constitutional Change staged an election to adopt a proposed constitution.

The new chair of the St. Croix Tribal Council, Stuart Bearheart, at the swearing in of the new council. - Photos by Gregg Westigard That election was ruled out of order. Some of the same people backed a slate of candidates who won the council election in 2007. In that election, Elmer “Jay” Emery, Michael Decorah and Jerald Lowe joined incumbents Hazel Hindsley and Gloria Benjamin in what was called, at the time, a new start, celebrated with a victory feast at the Maple Plain community center. Defeated in that election were Lewis Taylor, David “Maabin” Merrill and Leo Butler.

Two years later, the 2009 election returned some of the prior group to the council, with Taylor, Merrill, Beverly Benjamin and Jeanne Awonohopay forming a council majority. It was those four that were challenged in this election.

Economics are a big part of the tribal election. The St. Croix Tribal Council is in charge of the tribe’s three gaming centers In Turtle Lake, Danbury and Hertel. The St. Croix Tribe is one of the largest employers in the area and the council is in charge of the largest businesses in Polk and Burnett counties.

Taylor and some of his fellow incumbents,

in their bids for re-election, stated that the 2007-2009 council made decisions that caused economic problems for the tribe that the 2009-11 council has spent two years correcting. Taylor, in his election statement in the tribal newspaper, The Vision, called the 2007-2009 period “the disastrous years” and said that council provided “incompetent, inexperienced and questionable leadership.”

Awonohopay and Benjamin pledged to continue the economic changes they had worked on over the past two years.

The newly elected council includes members from both groups in the past election.

Emery served on the 2007-2009 council that was first elected as a change body and on the 2009-2011 council that tried to undo some of the previous council’s decisions. Taylor, a 20year incumbent on the council and the outgoing chair, will sit with four council members who ran against him, and three of his colleagues and three new members who say they want to continue the changes started in 2007.

The new St. Croix Tribal Council is sworn in by Tribal Judge Crystal LaPointe. Left to right are Stuart Bearheart, Phyllis Lowe, Elmer “Jay” Emery Jr., Lewis Taylor and Nancy Matrious.

Frederic Village survey on public protection will launch Aug. 30 FREDERIC - The recent resignation of the police chief in Frederic has given the village board an opportunity to seek input from Frederic area residents on what they think the future of public protection in Frederic should look like.

Area residents are invited by the Frederic Village Board to an informal public meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 30, at 7 p.m.

at the Frederic Village Office building at 107 Hope Rd. A survey has been created by the board,with the help of UW-Extension, that offers the opportunity for the public to weigh in on how they feel public protection in Frederic has been working and how they feel the village should continue providing that service.

A brief meeting will be held to update the community on what has been happening historically with the police department in Frederic, how the survey came about and the time line forward.

The survey will first be available as a paper copy that night and then will be available at the Frederic Village Office and at the Frederic Public Library through Sep-

tember.

An online version will be available at www.fredericwi.com starting on Thursday, Sept. 1.

The board is asking that they be returned by Oct. 1 to the village office.

For more information call 715-327-4294.

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A Blackhawk helicopter (photo below right) was used to transport Gov. Walker and local dignitaries over storm-damaged areas of Burnett County last Friday morning, Aug. 19. Above, Walker (second from right) and a half-dozen local officials, including Ed Peterson and Jerry Anderson from Burnett County (far left), received a safety briefing from National Guard members prior to boarding the helicopter. - Photos by Gary King

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Three events to view

The governor arrived early in the day at Siren, using a National Guard helicopter to fly over and get a low-altitude tour of the damage that primarily occurred during a July 1 wind shear event, but also included a July 19 storm and a torrential downpour on Aug. 1, which has left a number of roads still closed, unusable or inaccessible in towns that were already crippled by the previous storm damage and blowdowns.

Calling the frequency and intensity of the storms “extraordinary events,” Walker later acknowledged in an interview what he called “some expected criticism” that he is reviewing damage that occurred more than 50 days prior, in some cases. He said much of the reason for the delay had to do with a Wisconsin Emergency Management analysis, which led to that unusual suggestion to utilize National Guard resources to assist in the cleanup.

An overview of the Guard plan

Walker later held an extensive, closed door, over two-hour-long roundtable discussion with local and state elected officials, agency heads, utility presidents and others as he discussed a proposal to use the National Guard’s renowned 724th Engineering Battalion to assist with the extensive task of clearing some of the downed timber.

“We’ve seen a fair amount of rights of way that still need clearing,” Walker said, flanked for much of the day by Brig. Gen. Donald Dunbar of the Wisconsin Guard.

“We’re fortunate to have a number of talented engineers [in the 724th Battalion].”

Dunbar revealed a rough engineering assessment to use the 724th Engineering Battalion equipment and manpower to safely clear rights of way, take down precarious “widow maker” trees - some of which are

wound up with thousands of pounds of pressure. The plan would also make sure that the more than 130,000 acres of blowndown timber is accessible for logging, pulping or energy needs and does not go to waste or become a fire potential.

“The reality is that this [downed timber] is about three-quarters of the wood stock we’d have in a given year,” Walker said.

“So we want to both respond to this, to make sure we’re helping, but also to do so in a way that doesn’t jeopardize one of our state’s most important industries.”

The concern that the huge volume of wood placed into the market may have the effect of devaluing all other local timber stocks is an unusual problem. That sudden flood of cheap wood of all flavors may vastly devalue existing timber stocks, making them worth a fraction of their prestorm values.

Added to the wood quandary is that the extent of the damage made property lines, easements and other traditional demarcation lines buried, which is another way the Guard may assist.

New concerns

Walker and staff also addressed monumental utility line damage, private residence damage and growing concerns from numerous local municipalities that have, in several cases, used their entire annual road budgets for cleanup, repairs and responses.

He also noted that the unusual incidents damage may mean the state makes a special exceptions to normal state disaster aid reimbursements formulas, which are typically a 70-30 split, due to the extent and broad brush of damage, which has led to a draining of local coffers. Municipalities must almost always pay in advance for the services, then wait for reimbursement, which is not always a sure thing.

Other discussions included possible lifting of certain road weight limits, tax incentives, coordination with local industries for

utilizing the timber and also to possibly appoint an incident commander of sorts to be the point person on the efforts, an idea brought forth by Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, RRiver Falls.

“People have told me that they need a point person, someone who can make things happen,” Harsdorf said in the local meeting. “It’s heavily impacting the region in a number of ways.”

Other local officials raised concerns over the future impact of things like tourism, property values and tax assessments, as well as issues over how to prevent the kind of damage in the future.

Walker said he had not heard about trail concerns prior, that numerous hiking, snowmobile and ATV trails may be unusable without major clearing efforts, greatly impacting future tourism.

Utilities and costs

“I think he is leaning toward recognizing a declaration of this storm as a natural disaster,” stated Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, “So

that local governments can have some additional flexibility beyond the 30 percent [local match for disaster aid]. Many of these towns have expended all the money they have.”

That story was common in parts of Burnett County, where road crews have forgone all planned road maintenance projects to concentrate instead on timber clearing for access, with some residents only recently being able to get into their homes or cabins.

Northwest Wisconsin Electric President Mark Dahlberg outlined how they had customers not only without power for over a month, but they were unable to get into their cabins to know they didn’t have power.

“They’re just calling us now, saying, ‘OK, I can get in now, can you hook us back up?’” he said, also noting concerns on temporary generators, which can back feed

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Gov. Scott Walker (second from right) met with local and regional officials in Siren on Friday, Aug. 19, to review ideas to utilize existing timber and logging company resources to assist with recent storm damage in the region. - Photo by Greg Marsten

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Gov. Scott Walker arrived in Burnett County on Friday morning, Aug. 19, with local law enforcement present for security. Above, Sheriff Dean Roland (right) and members of his department await the arrival of the governor’s plane at the Burnett County Airport north of Siren. Also on hand, but not shown, were a few officers from the Wisconsin State Patrol. - Photo by Gary King

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The July 1 storm event timing was noteworthy, as well. While Burnett County may only have 16,000 year-round residents, the Fourth of July weekend meant that number was possibly tripled, compounding the impact.

Polk-Burnett Electric also noted that they had over 12,000 customers without power, half of them for over a week, with seven substations destroyed, 200 power poles snapped, 45 transformers damaged and more, which led them to go underground with the line replacement, totaling over six miles.

“We felt we responded well, without any injuries,” stated PBEC General Manager Bill Schmidt, who also said the damage may cost their customers about $1.5 million. “Our challenge is what access do we have for assistance for our members, either through federal or state?”

Reality kicks in

The swath of damage has also led to a broad brush of potential problems down the road, which were highlighted by Burnett County Board Supervisor Gary Lundberg of District 16: “Reality’s starting to kick in. Between the money issues, where to put everything [timber] and the fire danger, there are still lots of questions.”

Paul DeLong of the DNR nodded in agreement, saying that while the fallen timber is an issue of losses now, “It is a major

fire danger in the spring.” He also mentioned concentrating on planning for fires as an attack plan, through general mitigation and the creation of firebreaks, in case the worst-case scenario occurs. “We really need to do prevention work.”

Dunbar agreed, and said the Guard’s ROW clearing plans may be “A good marriage of training for engineers ... and doing good for our residents ... But I do have real concerns on the safety of the soldiers.”

There were several questions on why the events did not qualify for a presidential disaster declaration, with Wisconsin Emergency Management Administrator Brian Satula stating that while the events and damage “may have been dramatic ... they did not meet the federal threshold.”

He said that part of the problem was that the storms were too far apart and to qualify must be within 72-hour windows of each other. “This happened in over a month’s period of time,” he said with a shrug, stating that because the events did not qualify, “WEM recommended using state resources.”

That plan may include Wisconsin DOT lifting of road weight limits on certain roadways to clear timber faster, “And then providing funding to repair those routes when the cleanup is done,” said WisDOT District 8 Director Jerry Mentzel.

But Walker also raised concerns over “setting an unusual precedent” when it came to town road damages, reimbursements or repairs. “We’ve really got to be careful there.”

“An extraordinary event”

The closed-door meeting also led to discussion on issues like Tribal land impacts, incentives to citizens to do private cleanup, even ways to harness the fallen timber in innovative ways.

“Nothing defines the importance of local government more than a natural disaster,” Jauch said. “This one is an unprecedented, extraordinary event. Local citizens need the maximum state participation so that they are not economically harmed and that the forestry resource is enhanced in the future.”

Walker stressed the timber industry impacts, and the Guard’s involvement, which he later called “A perfect synergy General Dunbar and his crew have come up with ... because the 724th [Battalion] has to do ongoing training ... and it can help the local communities.”

He is hoping to receive special clearance from the U.S. Department of Defense to utilize federal funds usually used for Guard training to help offset the right-ofway clearing and said he may have an answer from the Pentagon this week.

“One way or another, we’re going to help you out,” he assured the officials, noting that there was a “good group of bipartisan lawmakers ... assisting with the plans.”

In later discussion with the governor, he mentioned ways to get other agencies involved, such as the Public Service Commission to help in utility damage prevention,

Can highway deaths keep declining if transportation budgets are shrinking?

by Chuck Quirmbach Wisconsin Public Radio MADISON - Federal and state officials say they’re pushing ahead with a goal of zero deaths on highways, despite budget crunches in Madison and Washington.

Highway deaths are declining in Wisconsin, and in many other states. Highway safety leaders are in the middle of a campaign that has a goal of lowering the death toll to zero. Deputy U.S. Transportation Secretary John Porcari told a motor vehicle

administrators conference in Milwaukee on Tuesday, Aug. 23 that building a safer driving culture is a relatively inexpensive way to go during tight budget times.

He says the U.S. DOT is doing some spending, on things like putting more cable barriers in highway medians and during repaving projects, tilting pavement edges so vehicles are more likely to stay on the road. Lynn Judd heads the division of motor vehicles for the Wisconsin DOT. She says the state is trying to funnel more staff

and money into highway safety, in part by cutting back on dealing with drivers in person.

Judd also says the state DOT is trying to make sure it has people in place to watch over ignition interlock programs for drunk drivers and medical programs that evaluate whether people are still fit to get behind the wheel. Upcoming data will show if budget cuts stall the effort to get to zero highway deaths.

Wisconsin farmers to ship hay to drought-stricken Oklahoma

by Teresa Shipley Wisconsin Public Radio STATEWIDE - Wisconsin only got a taste of the hot weather that’s been plaguing Oklahoma for almost the entire summer.

The prolonged drought there means farm animals don’t have enough hay to eat, and Wisconsin farmers are stepping in to help.

Oklahoma has had a record-breaking 52 days, as of Tuesday, Aug. 23, of temperatures over 100 degrees this summer. Sixtyseven of the 77 counties have been declared disaster areas due to the severe drought.

Randy Jasper is a grain farmer from Muscoda and a member of the Wisconsinbased group Family Farm Defenders. He was at a Farm Aid concert in Kansas City just over a week ago.

“And a farmer from Oklahoma was there just all but on his knees pleading for hay,” he said.

Willard Tillman was that man. He runs a farmer’s cooperative in Oklahoma that focuses on small and minority-owned farms.

Tillman says, “There’s no hay, and then the hay that’s here is not good hay and then it’s overpriced, so these guys are really suffering.”

Tillman says about 50 family farms are in danger of going out of business. The lack of hay is forcing them to sell off their herds, though Tillman says auction houses are so full because of the drought that they aren’t accepting more animals.

“It’s really in the survival stages right now,” he says. “And hopefully with this shipment, we can actually make an impact.”

Meanwhile, farmer Randy Jasper says they’ve got two semi-loads of hay bales ready to ship and are just waiting on the trucks to arrive. A representative from Farm Aid says the first shipment should

arrive in Oklahoma this week.

Tillman estimates that each farm will need at least one large round bale of hay a day to survive.

More information about the aid effort is at family farmers.org.

VPCT annual meeting set VOYAGER VILLAGE - The Village Players Community Theatre annual meeting will be held on Thursday, Sept.

15, at 4:30 p.m. at the Voyager Village Community Center (Stables).

Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Business meeting with election of board members followed by entertainment and presentations of donations to schools. All are welcome. with submitted information

through possible undergrounding utility incentives, and even was open to discussions of possible incentives for “Californiastyle” tree setbacks from homes - used to lessen forest-fire impact and spreading.

“I do think this is unique,“ Walker said.

“We’ve been collecting info today ... trying to piece together things we can do now and also later.”

Shell Lake man shot at bonfire party

by Jessica Beecroft Register staff writer TREGO – What started as a drinking party at a bonfire on Wednesday, Aug. 17, in Trego, ended with an altercation that led to the shooting of a 20-year-old Shell Lake man.

Mark J. Neta, 18, Spooner, told authorities he shot Calvin D. Riley in the chest during an altercation between the two men in the early-morning hours of Thursday, Aug. 18. Riley was Mark J. Neta airlifted to a Duluth hospital but was listed as being in stable and good condition the day after the shooting.

At approximately 3:04 a.m., Washburn County deputies and a Spooner Police officer responded to a shots-fired complaint at the Trego Travel Center in the Town of Trego. As further information came into the Washburn County dispatch center, information revealed that a male subject was the victim of a gunshot wound to the chest and that the victim was being transported from the parking lot of the Trego Travel Center to the Spooner hospital by private carrier.

Neta made the 911 call, saying he had shot Riley in the chest. Deputies took Neta into custody without incident and booked him into the Washburn County Jail on charges of injury by negligent use of a dangerous weapon.

Riley was treated at the Spooner hospital emergency room and then airlifted

by Life Link to St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth in critical condition.

Through the investigation into the shooting, it was determined that the shooting incident took place on the Section 19 fire lane in the Town of Trego.

Deputies were able to locate the crime scene and collect evidence regarding the shooting, at what appeared to be a bonfire location and alcohol party.

After speaking with numerous witnesses and the suspect in the shooting, investigators believe a physical altercation took place near the bonfire, and during the altercation, a .22-caliber firearm discharged, striking Riley in the chest.

The investigation into the shooting incident is continuing as additional information is received. - with information from Washburn County Sheriff’s Dept.

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The complexity of serving at risk citizens

Human services looks at balance of needs and costs

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE – “It’s a very complex task,” George Stroebel, Polk County Human Services chair said.

“It gets worse,” county Administrator Dana Frey responded.

The Human Services committee was looking at how the Human Services Department can meet the needs of Polk County’s at-risk residents in a time of growing requests for services and of declining state and federal funds to provide those services.

Human services, the county’s largest department, works with child protection, juvenile justice, chemical dependency, mental heath, economic support and adult protection. It serves county residents from the youngest to the oldest in need of help, who have nowhere else to go. Some of that needed help can be long term, required immediately and very expensive.

The department is looking at how to establish staff performance indicators as a measure of the effectiveness of the many programs when the client’s needs are so varied, how to compare staff hours and dollars serving a mental health client and an abused child, as an example.

The question is how to allocate limited funds to cover the demand for services.

“What indicators will we use,” Kay Confer, juvenile justice director, asked. “Do we look at quality or quantity? Do we look at response time for new cases? How do we measure the time spent substantiating neglect or abuse?”

Questions discussed included what a quality measure looks like and how to balance numbers served and in needs of services. Committee member Tim Strobusch wondered if the programs that serve five or 10 might need to be cut in order to serve those that serve 100. And Confer wondered if the department might need to set limits on services based on the average need. How much support does a client with mental-health issues need and for how long? And how soon can the department start delivering help?

The county is the arm of the state government required (mandated) to serve the needs of at- risk residents. Outside funds, mostly state and federal dollars, paid 60 percent of the Human Service Department’s $10 million

budget for 2010, with $4 million paid by levy dollars. But the county’s share has steadily increased over the years.

Polk County funds paid 29 percent of the 2008 human services expenses and 32 percent of the expenses for 2009.

Frey said the challenge for the county in 2012 is delivering maximum services at the least cost and how to maintain services when federal and state funds are reduced. He said it is a balancing issue of meeting the most need and delivering the most service with the funds available.

The Human Services Department has some 70 employees and contracts for additional services with other agencies. It is overseen by the nine-member human services board. In recent months, three management positions, including that of the department director and two of the four division heads, became suddenly vacant due to unplanned resignations and retirements. The Human Services Department is now headed by Frey, serving as interim director and working with management teams in the divisions.

“I am impressed with the staff,” committee member Marvin Caspersen said at the end of the meeting. “There has been a real turnaround from the past. Many things have come to the surface.”

Part II: Analysis

Human services questions Which humans? What services?

BALSAM LAKE – This is part of the clientele served by the Polk County Human Services Department in July: 245 therapy clients, 315 medication management clients, 55 AODA and mental-health management cases, 60 ongoing juvenile justice management cases, 23 children in foster care, three children in child-caring institutions, 49 families and 77 children getting child protection services, 1,846 FoodShare households, 225 people getting institutional medical assistance, 1,989 people getting BadgerCare, 51 adults getting protection and more. The monthly statistical report lists almost 70 categories of services.

“So what?” asked Frey at the last meeting of the human services committee. “What do the numbers mean? What is important? What is the goal? Are we reaching the goal?”

The committee had been discussing performance indicators for the divisions and the human services staff. One measure of staff performance is billable hours and services, time spent that can be billed to the state for state and

federal reimbursement. The county is the local arm of the state for serving at-risk people. That brought up one immediate question, how do you account for time spent on services like initial investigations, time that is not reimbursable? And do you measure quantity or quality, the number of clients served or the degree of success and client satisfaction? This brings up more questions. How is at-risk defined, what are problems and what is need?

Which humans in the community should be served by the county (the state, government)? What services should be provided? How? And why?

Polk County may have a changing population, with more older residents and more lower-income residents affected by the economic downturn. Those factors may be leading to an increase in potential human services needs. Better public awareness of services may also lead to more request for services.

If not addressed, some human problems can reach a crisis point and lead to public intervention. And those interventions, such as emergency detention or placement of a child, can be expensive. Committee member Tim Strohbusch, the Clear Lake police chief, said spending $10,000 a month on community intervention crisis teams can save $50,000 a month on commitments. And persons involved in the drug court say that helping a person control their addiction and return to society is less expensive than locking them up. That raises the issue of funding prevention programs like Kinship that may reduce future program costs.

“The brochures for the Amery clinic say how they serve the community,” Strohbusch said. “The brochures don’t add ‘if you can pay.’” He pointed out that some in the community have no place to turn to except the county.

As the Human Services Department and committee prepare the 2012 budget request, other questions remain.

One is why the county’s appropriation remained at $4 million for 2008, 2009 and 2010 while some programs were transferred to outside agencies and outside revenues dropped from $10 million in 2008 to $6 million in 2010. That raised the county’s share of the human services budget from 29 percent to 39 percent. A second question is how the human service issues at the local level relate to the national debate on entitlement costs.

The human services discussions will go on at the county level and the national level.

Committee Chair George Stroebel said “It is a very complex task” and county Administrator Dana Frey added “It gets worse.”

Local artist in three exhibitions in three states Textile artist Jean M. Judd of Cushing has been juried into three prestigious fine art exhibitions that are being held during the months of August, September and October. “It is thrilling for me as an artist to have my work accepted by major art centers into these exhibitions that usually only feature traditional art, Judd noted. “I have been breaking new ground by having my art quilts recog-

nized as fine art alongside paintings, sculpture,and photography. These opportunities bring my work to a much wider, national audience and it lets people get up close to really see the fine workmanship and details that don’t show very well in photos or on the Internet,” noted Judd.

She was first selected for inclusion in the 19th- Annual Juried Art Exhibition at the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids, Minn. The Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery in Tallahassee, Fla., has also selected Judd for inclusion in the Pinnacle 2011 National Juried Art Competition. And the Wichita Center for the Arts in Wichita, Kan.,has selected Judd for inclusion in the Wichita National All Media Craft Exhibition 2011. These latest three exhibits are just a third of the exhibits she has been included into so far for 2011. She has several more exhibition opportunities for which she is waiting to hear jury results yet for the rest of 2011 and early part of 2012. Judd will be doing a presentation on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Grantsburg Senior Center discussing her quilts. Attendees will also be bringing quilts to share as well. Contact Patsy Wenthe at 715-463-2677 for more details. - Photo submitted

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Occupancy down at Golden Age Manor Questions on nursing home trends

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer AMERY – A recent downturn in occupancy at Golden Age Manor, the Polk County owned nursing home in Amery, led to discussions about the effect of the economic downturn and about where seniors will live in the future. Future repair needs of the 50-year-old GAM building were also reviewed during the monthly meeting of the GAM board Thursday, Aug. 18.

Golden Age Manor, with 114 beds, has had an occupancy rate of 94 percent over the years. The home has a mix of long-stay permanent residents and short stay, Medicare, residents after hospitalization.

Medicare occupancy at GAM has been at least 7 percent for the past three years.

GAM has had an occupancy rate of 88 percent or less for May, June and July, re-

sulting in a loss of $173,000 in revenue for the three months.

Board member Dave Ollman started the discussion by asking if occupancy is down for all homes or whether GAM is losing market share. He also wondered if GAM monitors occupancy of its competition, the other homes in the area.

The answers that followed suggest that there may be a short-term decline in nursing home stays due to the economy and a long-term trend to alternate living options.

Board member Gerianne Christensen said she has heard that the economy is having an effect as people who might be entering nursing homes are receiving care from their families. That family care can provide some income for unemployed families. This short-term effect is hard to measure.

Across the industry, people are delaying going into nursing homes, Trent Fast told the board. Fast, a nursing home specialist

with the audit firm of LarsonAllen, said alternatives to nursing homes are the future. This long-term transition to assisted living facilities and home care would mean that persons go to nursing homes only when they require more intensive, and more expensive, care.

Facility needs and 2012 budget Golden Age Manor was built for the 1960s environment, Dana Frey told the board. Frey, the Polk County administrator, is the interim director of GAM while a search is under way for a new director.

(Frey is also the interim director of the Human Services Department). He said there has been no long-term maintenance schedule for the building, but a capital improvement plan is being prepared by county properties director Deb Peterson.

Frey said the preliminary list of projects includes a new parking lot repair ($15,000 to $18,000) next year. He said a new roof is probably needed at a possible cost of

Round two of tribal election consolidates votes Many candidates withdraw to back “primary” winners

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer HERTEL – Round two of the St. Croix Tribal Council election resulted in more clear victories for the new council members. Before the Aug. 13 votes, most of the June 11 candidates who finished in third place or lower withdrew from the race and backed candidates who finished higher on the ballot. As a result, candidates calling for change were elected by larger margins and one more incumbent was defeated.

Elected to the council were new members Stuart Bearheart, Nancy Matrious and Phyllis Lowe and incumbents Elmer “Jay” Emery Jr., and Lewis Taylor. All but Taylor were backed by a coalition advocating change in tribal government which used the name “Take Back Our Tribe 2011” in its campaign information. Incumbents Beverly (Songetay) Benjamin, Jeanne Awonohopay and David “Maabin” Merrill were defeated. Merrill had won re-election in the June vote but lost to Lowe in August after several candidates withdrew and gave her their support.

Three candidates were elected with majorities of over 50 percent in the second round instead of the pluralities they received in June. Bearheart’s vote went from 35 percent to 60 percent, Emery’s from 40 percent to 56 percent, and Matrious’ from 36 percent to 52 percent. Lowe now won with 41 percent instead of the 27 percent she received when she lost in June. Taylor had 43 percent of the vote in August, up from 39 percent in June, and defeated his opposition-backed opponent, Francis Songetay, by 18 votes.

Eugene Hart was one of the candidates who withdrew and gave his support to the person at the head of his ticket. Hart had finished second to Bearheart in June, receiving 163 votes and finishing ahead of incumbent Awonohopay who had 152 votes. At a gathering on Aug. 8, Hart asked that his supporters vote for Bearheart.

“For the good of the tribe, I am putting my full support behind Stuart Bearheart,” Hart said. “I am confident that Stuart supports my principles and that Stuart will be a strong representative for the Maple Plain community.”

With the backing of Hart, Bearheart’s vote went from 183 in June to 307 in August.

In the St. Croix elections, all candidates nominated from each community are on the ballot and the person with the most votes wins, even if they receive less than half the total. Some tribal members are calling for a two-step election with a primary to reduce the field to two candidates for each seat and a runoff to elect a winner. Many of the candidates who withdrew said they considered the June election as the primary this time.

Each of the five candidates calling for change received at least 65 more votes in round two, with Bearheart increasing his margin by 124 votes. On the other hand, the four incumbents facing opposition from the change group received, at most, 27 more votes. Merrill’s vote actually went down.

The votes The St. Croix Tribe has four communities, Big Sand Lake (Hertel) including Bashaw, Gaslyn, and Clam Lake; Big Round Lake (east of Luck) including Balsam Lake; Danbury; and Maple Plain (west of Cumberland). Big Sand Lake has two seats on the council. Candidates are nominated and elected from each community but all tribal voters vote for all the communities.

The candidates are listed in the order they finished in August. The first number is their June vote total. The percentage is their portion of the votes cast for that seat in August.

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Big Round Lake *Phyllis Lowe 144 209 40.6 David “Maabin” Merrill (I) 189 188 36.5 Georgia Cobenais 97 78 15.2 Travis Lowe 49 18 3.5 Pat Fowler, Sr. 46 14 2.7 Sanford Mosay 7 5 1.0 Kelly Lowe Sr. 3 3 0.6 Maple Plain *Stuart Bearheart Jeanne Awonohopay (I) Eugene Hart LeAnn Hogner Valerie Hogner

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Land and right of way purchased for trail

by Tammi Milberg Leader staff writer TAYLORS FALLS, Minn. – The Taylors Falls City Council met Monday, Aug. 22, and approved the purchase of property and an easement for the Valley View Trail project. Valley View Trail is a name being used to identify the trail currently, but the official name of the trail has not been declared at this time. The trail is a recreational-use trail that also connects trails within the city.

One of the parcels the trail goes through is Jack Liljenberg’s property and Arlo and Victoria Sanvick’s property. The trail follows the abandoned Northern Pacific Railway roadbed. The trail’s continuation requires the city to acquire 500 feet of railway raodbed. Liljenberg’s property purchase would cost $3,000, and the easment for the right of way from the Sanvick’s will cost $1,500, which will be paid upon receipt of a signed easement agreement. Grant money is being applied for to help with acquisition of property for the trail. For now, the money will be paid for from the city’s trail fund. The motion to approve both purchases was carried with all in favor except Councilman Larry Julik-Heine, who was absent.

The council approved the purchase of five streetlight fixtures for Bench Street from Pine to Chisago Street. This will complete the lighting on Bench Street. The city received three bids. The high bid was $33,557, and the low bid was $22,058. The council approved the lighting bid from Andrie Electric in the amount of $22,058.

In other business, the council approved the training request for Larry Phillips for a grant- writing class, with the condition that upon review by the personnel committee, that the class is not a duplicate class. The cost is $425 plus mileage and will be paid out of the training budget upon approval.

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$100,000 to $150,000. That project would be in 2013 or beyond. Overall, Frey is looking at costs versus the life expectancy of the building.

The 2012 budget for GAM may include a slight loss, Frey told the board. He said that revenues may be down, with no increase in Medicaid but more money from supplemental payments, at federal/state program to cover the financial losses of government-owned nursing homes. Expenses may be flat with saving from reduced employee benefit costs offsetting operating expense increases. Long term, Frey expects less Medicaid payments over the next 10 years, which could affect eligibility for nursing home care.

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Six indicted in marijuana grow ASHLAND - Six men have been charged in a four-count indictment Friday, Aug. 19, in Western District of Wisconsin federal courts in connection with a marijuana grow operation in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Jose Esqueda-Garcia, 19, Cesar Omar Tinoco, 21, Moises Lopez-Ontiveros, 21, Jorge Lopez-Ontiveros, 24, and Abraham, Ramirez, 29, all of Mexico; and Norberto Burcigo, 40, of St. Paul, Minn., face charges of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and the manufacture of 1,000 or more marijuana plants with intent to distribute. They are accused of cultivating marijuana over several acres near Clam Lake. The indictment accuses Burciago of transporting supplies, groceries and other necessary items for the grow operation to the other five defendants who were camped at the remote site within the forest. The other men are accused of tending to and protecting with the goals of harvesting the more than 9,000 marijuana plants secretly planted on the U.S. Forest Service land. EsquedaGarcia, Tinoco, Ramirez and the Lopez-Ontiveros brothers also face charges of possessing firearms during and in relation to drug-trafficking crimes. They are accused of possessing three rifles and three handguns on Aug. 10, discovered at a campsite when officers seized the marijuana. The charges are the result of an investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation, Ashland County Sheriff’s Department, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Forest Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Northwest Area Crime Unit that includes the sheriff’s departments in Sawyer, Douglas and Washburn counties and the Superior Police Department, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Commission. - Superior Telegram Eight-year sentence on espionage charges PINE CITY, MINN. - Iran’s state TV is reporting that two American men already held for two years in Tehran have been sentenced to eight years in jail each on charges of espionage and illegal entry. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been held since July 2009 after being taken into custody on the Iran-Iraq border. A third American who was taken with them, Sarah Shourd, was released in September on $500,000 bail and returned to the United States. The station’s Web site says Bauer and Fattal, who are both 28, have been sentenced to three years each for illegal entry into Iran and five years each for spying for the United States. It’s not clear if that includes time served. They have 20 days to appeal the sentence. Bauer’s mother, Cindy Hickey, is a Pine City resident. - redrockonair.com Man pleads to seventh-offense OWI BARRON COUNTY - James P. Frisinger, 44, Cameron, pleaded guilty Wednesday, Aug. 17, to seventh-offense drunken driving. He is scheduled to appear in Barron County Circuit Court for sentencing Wednesday, Nov. 16. The felony conviction carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Frisinger was convicted of drunken driving in the village of Cameron, July 16, 2010, after he tested 2-1/2 times the legal limit. Judge Timothy Doyle revoked Frisinger’s $1,000 cash bail. Rice Lake Chronotype

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House explodes, man hospitalized PINE CITY, Minn. - On Saturday, Aug. 13, at approximately 5:11 p.m. a house explosion was reported at 57197 Nature Ave. in Pine City. Pine County deputies, the Pine City Fire Department and ambulance responded to the scene. Upon arrival, a male party reported that he had attached a 30-pound portable LP tank to a water heater in the morning hours. The man said he had lit the pilot flame and left to work in the fields. When he returned home around 5 p.m., he went in and turned on the lights and the house exploded. Fire personnel confirmed that the tank, which was located in the debris field, showed signs of leaking. The male party was transported to Burnett County medical center and was airlifted shortly after for his injuries. - redrockonair.com Birkie goes green with Virtual Race Bags HAYWARD - The American Birkebeiner has selected Virtual Race Bags to provide each of its 9,400 ski marathon participants with an online race bag for the Feb. 25, 2012, cross-country ski events. Virtual Race Bags is an online system that replaces the plastic or even reusable bags traditionally used by the Birkie and most other races to provide product samples, coupons, gifts and trial offers from its event sponsors. Eliminating both the bags and the paper coupons is one of the single greatest ways to “green” an event, especially one of this magnitude, organizers said. - Sawyer County Record

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• Letters to the editor • You have time to make a change!

Dear Mr. Bradley E. Ayers, My name is Michelle Schmidt and I own the Clam Falls Bar. A few months ago a woman came in and started up a conversation with me. She is a local and asked me if I knew you. I stated that I never had the pleasure of meeting you in person, but I knew of you by your writings in the paper.

She said she met you in town and that her heart was so heavy for you. She went on by telling me that during her conversation with you, you had tears in your eyes and told her “No one likes me in this town - I just do not understand.”

You also shared with her that you felt no one was your friend. This woman was truly upset and her heart went out to you.

Later on that day, as I was driving home to my wonderful son and husband, I thought back to you and how lonely it must be for you.

Then I opened the paper up from last week. I read your writing on the ATV use and common sense. Writing about how you felt about an issue is called free speech and that’s a wonderful thing

everyone can do. But you could not just state your feelings about the ATV use, you had to continue by hurting and insulting the town board and 75 percent of the people who live around you.

If you feel alone in your area, I suggest you put down your pen. If you need a friend to care for you, please come and meet me, I can never have too many friends.

By the way, Mr. Bradley E. Ayers, I am a snowmobile, ATV and lawn mower rider and I am not obese or a chewer.

One does not have to be alone or lonely in this town, one just has to be kind and considerate.

Michelle Schmidt Town of Clam Falls

Five best sentences These are possibly the five best sentences you’ll ever read (author unknown): 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to any-

body anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Mark Pettis Hertel

Political unrest My question is, “Why didn’t Shelly Moore run against Sheila Harsforf in the last election? Are the Democrats not acting like spoiled children? Are we now trying to close a door after something we don’t like has already happened?”

There are more people on Social Security and unemployment than state employees and teachers. I’m not in favor of anyone losing benefits but I’m going to say the poor and unemployed have already had to make cutbacks in their spending.

Social Security has not given a cost-ofliving raise in two years. Tell that to the people on fixed incomes. The cost of goods, utilities, insurance premiums and health care continue to rise. Tell it to the people who have lost their jobs, that are struggling to pay insurance premiums that are higher than their house or rent payments and can’t afford food for their table or gas in their cars.

People have been adjusting their spending for years. The state workers and the teachers are doing it now. They have not lost their bargaining rights on their wages.

Instead they are expected to pay for their own pension and insurance premiums.

Harsdorf has done the state of Wisconsin a lot of good. Since she voted with Gov. Walker, the job rate has increased 7 percent. Do we want an increase in gas tax? Do we need an increase in property taxes?

Do we want to go forward with Sheila Harsdorf or backward with Shelly Moore?

Lonnie Stowell St. Croix Falls

Harsdorf: “It is my hope the state can provide some sort of relief” Burnett County officials and state legislators meet with Gov. Walker to discuss storm damage SIREN - Gov. Scott Walker and area legislators met with state and local officials last Friday, Aug. 19, to discuss the damage caused by a severe storm in Burnett County in early July. Joining the governor were state Sens. Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, and Robert Jauch, D-Poplar, along with Reps. Eric Severson, R-Star Prairie,

Nick Milroy, D-South Range, and Roger Rivard, R-Rice Lake. The storm damage was extensive, and many residents lost power and experienced property damage.

“The storms in July were devastating to Burnett County residents and local businesses,” said Harsdorf. “By meeting with local officials and stakeholders, we can move forward and begin to provide state assistance to help address the damage caused by the storm.”

Meetings were held with business and property owners, other interested parties, as well as state and local officials to review an assessment of the area, identify chal-

lenges the county is facing and outline what the next steps will be. The meeting was held at the Burnett County Government Center in Siren, where the governor was joined by state legislators and representatives from the Wisconsin National Guard, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, the Department of Transportation, the Wisconsin Emergency Management and the Department of Natural Resources.

“A number of concerns were raised at the meeting including public safety, the extent of the damaged timber, infestation and fire risks as well as the cost and chal-

lenge to local governments to clear the rights of way,” said Harsdorf. “It is my hope that the state can provide some form of relief to the citizens and businesses in the area and help to address issues related to the storm damage.”

Since the meeting, the governor’s office issued a statement saying that they plan to work with the Department of Natural Resources and with other state agencies and local governments to orchestrate an effective cleanup and removal effort in the wake of the July 1 storm damage. - from the office of Sen. Harsdorf

County testing reopens swimming beach

by Brian Hobbs Environmental Health Specialist LUCK – The Polk County Health Department has reopened Big Butternut beach in Luck. Two consecutive samples have indicated an acceptable level of fecal coliform bacteria.

The testing consists of sampling for fecal coliform bacteria, an indicator of human and animal waste contamination.

Current test methods cannot detect all pathogens or give instantaneous results.

Testing requires 24 to 48 hours of incubation before problems can be detected, leaving ample time for exposure to occur.

Current analytical methods do not distinguish between human and animal waste contamination Swimming in unsafe water may result in minor illnesses such as ear, eye, nose and throat infections, the most common being gastroenteritis which is upset stomach. Children, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems are at a greater risk of getting sick when they

come in contact with contaminated water.

The Polk County Health Department recommends swimmers take caution when swimming at any beach, especially after heavy rains. Bacteria counts usually rise after a rainstorm at all beaches. The most frequent sources of disease-causing microorganisms are waterfowl fecal contamination, sewage overflows, polluted city or agricultural storm-water runoff, sewage treatment plant malfunctions, boating wastes and malfunctioning septic systems.

If you are concerned about swimmer’s itch, a type of dermatitis causing a rash and itching, swimmers should rub off with a rough towel before the water film dries on the skin surface. An immediate fresh shower after leaving the water is also effective.

For more information about swimming beach monitoring and safety, you can call the Polk County Health Department at 715-485-8532 or try the beach watch Web site at http://www.epa.gov /waterscience/beaches/.

Federal loan will help develop high-speed Internet in Southwest Wisconsin

by Rich Kremer Wisconsin Public Radio STATEWIDE – A $24 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will bring state-of-the-art, high-speed Internet to rural Vernon County. The Vernon Telephone Cooperative in Westby says it will use the money to provide fiber-to-thepremise service. That means fiber-optic cable will be trenched directly to users,

and Internet speeds could hit one gigabyte per second. Stan Gruszynski is state director of USDA Rural Development. He says without this help from the federal government, small, rural telecom companies can’t afford these kinds of improvements.

“There’s a lot of cost associated with the infrastructure for fiber optics,” he says. ”And to expect a small community where

Community electronics recycling this Saturday at Unity schools BALSAM LAKE - The Unity School District is teaming up with 5R Processors, Ltd. of Ladysmith to help Balsam Lake and the surrounding communities properly dispose of their household electronics equipment. 5R will be set up in the Unity Middle School parking lot on Saturday, Aug. 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., where they will be accepting any old or obsolete electronics equipment. The event is open to the public and 5R is accepting residential equipment only.

Items being accepted at no cost include: computers, monitors, printers, keyboards, TVs, cell phones, microwaves and more.

Large household appliances such as stoves, washers, dryers and dishwashers

will be accepted for a fee of $10. Freoncontaining units such as refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and dehumidifiers will be accepted for a fee of $35. Additionally, Department of Defense approved hard drive cleansing will be available for just $10. For more information and a complete list of acceptable items, visit the 5R events page at www.5rprocessors.com or call 715-3225115.

Businesses in need of asset recovery, end-of-life processing or disposal of electronics equipment should call 715-3224347 for a complete list of business-related services. - with submitted information

there’s limited population to take on that cost would be pretty difficult.”

The money offered to Vernon Telephone Cooperative is part of $108 million in grants and loans for 23 projects across the country for broadband development.

Jonathan Adelstein is administrator of the Rural Utility Service at USDA. He says the entire economy is moving to highspeed Internet, and communities without are at distinct disadvantages.

“They won’t have the educational opportunities, they won’t have the health care you can get through telemedicine, and they won’t have the jobs and the economic opportunities that come with broadband,” he says.

Adelstein says the type of Internet service Vernon Telephone can provide with these federal dollars will rival any in the country.

“This project is providing state-of-theart technology,” he says. “This is the best possible broadband. It’s fiber to the premise, right to the barn, right to the home, right to the business that will be as good of a quality of broadband that you can get in downtown Washington or downtown New York City right there in rural Wisconsin.”

Since 2003, The USDA reports spending more than $451 million to improve telecom services in rural Wisconsin communities.

Two injured in motorcycle crash LEWIS - Two Frederic residents were injured in a motorcycle accident Tuesday afternoon when the motorcycle they were both riding hit unidentified “wet debris” in the roadway, causing it to crash.

Christopher O. Smith, 44, was the driver of the motorcycle and his passen-

ger was Jodie L. Smith, 50.

According to Polk County Sheriff Peter Johnson, both were transported by ambulance following the crash, which occurred at approximately 2 p.m. as they were turning onto Pine Avenue from Hwy. 35. The motorcycle slid approximately 30 feet.

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BC supervisors move roundabout project ahead

by Carl Heidel Leader staff writer SIREN - By a unanimous vote at their Aug. 18 board meeting, Burnett County supervisors took action to continue the development of the Hwy. 35/70 intersection roundabout north of Siren. They approved plans that will place the roundabout farther to the east and slightly farther north than an alternative location, and they approved participation in an agreement to cover the development costs.

Jane Olson, from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, explained what she termed “Alternative 2A No Bypass,” the plan for the interchange’s location preferred by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation board and the Burnett County airport. The supervisors approved that plan because it will improve both the highway and the airport at the same time.

Mark Arnold, also from WisDOT, said that the approved location will place the center of the interchange farther out into

Mark Arnold of WisDOT talked about airport and ground safety. - Photos by Carl Heidel unless otherwise noted the airport’s, runway protection zone. He explained that the RPZ functions to enhance the protection of people and property on the ground by keeping areas clear of objects and activities that are “incompatible” to airport functions. Simply put, the move creates greater safety for both airport

A computer-generated PowerPoint display created by WisDOT gives an idea of what the proposed Hwy. 35/70 roundabout will look like. The view here is from north to south with Hwy. 70 running to the east (left) out of the intersection. - Special photo

Jane Olson from WisDOT explained the various alternatives for the roundabout location.

and highway traffic.

Estimates of the total cost of the improvement project are $3.4 million. Of that amount, $2.5 million would come from federal and state funds, and county funds would cover the balance, $946,872.

Arnold explained that the cost factor is not as grim for Burnett as it might appear.

With FAA entitlements and apportionments together with state funds, the net cost for the county by the time of the completion of the project in 2014 will be only

$23,672. Supervisors agreed that that amount looked like a bargain, and they agreed to participate in covering the costs.

In another matter, the supervisors took necessary action to apply for a community development block grant - emergency assistance program grant. The grant is intended to provide financial assistance for qualified property owners whose dwelling structures were damaged in the July 1 windstorm.

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Burnett County Fair

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Stephen Weller Rick Dinkel Christopher Dinkel Peter from Appleton Margie Beyl Leann Sylvester Chris Clark Sarah Adams Kevein Fehlen Tricia Caniff Jeff Maxwell Rhett Neuman Julie Neuman Niko Neuman Madi Neuman Lucia Neuman Mara Graham Jess Sampe Jenn Ramatuar Rhonda Lundeen Megan Edstrom Eileen Jordahl Kris Schmid Anna Luepke Evan Snyder Tony Berning River Market F and A Dairy Fine Acres Carrie Clausen Grecco’s on the St. Croix Yoga Barn Balsam Lake Pottery Eileen Jordahl The Vegetarian The Villlage Pizzeria Coffee Time Clayton’s Hardware & Radio Shack Tires Plus Falls Photo Terry Peer Joel Yunker Chiropractic Center on Hwy. 8

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Board talks budget

Annual budget hearing Sept. 12

by Tammi Milberg Leader staff writer ST. CROIX FALLS – The school board for St. Croix Falls met Tuesday, Aug. 23 and talked about the audit and proposed budget for 2011-2012. While not much is known at this time including student count, state aid and equalized value of property in the district, the board was updated that after the audit was done there was about $218,000 left over put into fund 10 or fund balance.

Superintendent Glenn Martin stated to the board that he would like to see that money assigned to specific projects for the 2011-2012 school year including technology, an additional bus, payoff of the Dresser work and high school HVAC work next summer. The board asked if the money had to be assigned to those projects. It was noted that it helps to as-

sign the money to the projects to make it easier when they come up for approval.

No action was taken on the matter at this time.

“The budget is substantially smaller,” said Martin. He stated that WRS (retirement) and what’s happening in Madison had a lot to do with that. He said that the budget is based on an approximate 2percent increase in salaries, or roughly what the consumer price index dictates.

Martin did say the district should see an increase in state aid this year.

The board will be seeing a clearer budget picture at the Sept. 12 budget hearing and annual meeting. The regular board meeting is at 6:30 p.m., followed by the budget hearing at 7:30 p.m., and finally concluding with the annual meeting of the district stakeholders at 8 p.m.

In other business, the board approved a Promethean Board for the high school social studies classroom at a cost of $4,033 which will come out of the tech-

nology fund.

The board approved the resignation of Jim Scherzer as the technology director for the district. Because the resignation came late, Scherzer will have to pay the penalty for breaking a contract. His letter indicated that with the opportunity that came up for him to work closer to home, he had to accept another position.

The board approved the resignation with thanks and noted the penalty will be paid as per contract.

The board also approved the retirement of LaVonne Lumsden after 20 years with the district. She worked in food service primarily at the Dresser School.

A survey about walking to school drew some controversial board discussion when board President Mona Schmidt questioned a proposal from Martin to extend the survey from the one-mile distance to the two-mile distance. Apparently comments from the one-mile from school surveys were not very positive. Schmidt stated, “Why are

we doing this? I just don’t think it’s beneficial. If we see negative responses from those closer to school, I don’t think we can get a better response going further out.”

Martin stated, “I think it’s just to gather more information.” He added that the survey is not just about bussing or walking to school, but it is about encouraging healthy lifestyles such as walking. “We’ve done a lot here to encourage health including offering salads at lunch for the middle and high school students. I think that people tend to go for the easy way to do things, when walking could be a healthy alternative for them.”

Some of the negative comments in the survey were concerns about traffic, crossing roadways, inclement weather, walking up the hill (Louisiana Street) and routes. This discussion took place during superintendent comments and no board action was taken.

Siren school board prepares for the start of the 2011-2012 academic year Siren School Board prepares for the start of the 2011-2012 academic year

by Nancy Jappe Leader staff writer SIREN - The Siren School Board held its regular monthly meeting Monday, Aug. 22, only a week before the start of the 2011-2012 school year. According to the calendar, the first day of school for students is Thursday, Sept. 1, with teachers back in the building by next Monday.

During the meeting, two people mentioned Siren homecoming, which is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 16, with a football game that evening against Birchwood.

New Principal Peggy Ryan talked about how quickly that date is approaching, and parent Michelle Bailey asked about the possibility of the football support group organizing a tailgate dinner before the game. Bailey was told to contact home ec. teacher/concession coordinator Heather O’Brien.

Lil Pinero and Webster police officer Bridget Getts put in a special appearance to talk briefly about the Burnett County AODA Adolescent Prevention Coalition, a group that is working on prevention of drunken driving through education of parents and teens.

For parents, the word is: “Purchase, provide or pour alcohol for underage drinkers and the people they injure can sue you.” For youth in our community, it involves these statistics: 23.5 percent of ninth -12th graders reported taking pain killers - 27.9 percent reported using marijuana - 12.2 percent reported sniffing glue, breathing the contents of aerosol-spray cans or inhaling paints or sprays to get high - 32.2 percent reported having five or

LEFT: Lil Pinero, left, and Bridget Getts from the Burnett County Adolescent AODA Prevention Coalition spoke briefly about the program they represent during the Monday, Aug. 22, Siren School Board meeting. The group, which meets monthly, is working specifically with a strategic prevention framework state incentive grant to reduce motor-vehicle accidents that occur while county youth ages 16-34 are intoxicated. RIGHT: Siren junior varsity volleyball coach Kristin Kosloski, left, presented Siren School Board President Jeff Howe with a check for $650 from the PolkBurnett Electric Company’s Operation Round-up during the Aug. 22 school board meeting. The money will be used for new uniforms for youth in junior high and older. The board also accepted a donation for the track program in lieu of salary from Howe, who is the junior high track coach. more drinks in a row within a couple of hours during the past month.

Another statistic that came out at the meeting is that Wisconsin has more bars than grocery stores, that there are 94-96 bars in Burnett County and 100 liquor licenses issued every year. The biggest problems for youth center around underage drinking and prescription-drug abuse.

The four-school-district Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Coalition meets the fourth Monday of each month at noon in Room 165 at the Burnett County Government Center. They are organizing compliance checks at county bars (with an 84-percent failure rate during the first check) and saturation patrols of officers in certain areas to check for vehicle-equipment violations as well as inebriated driv-

ers.

The group is sponsoring a middle school Leadership Day (grades 6-8) Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Siren. They recently recognized the Central Burnett County Fair Board for the efforts they made this year to control use and sale of beer at the fair.

As far as business conducted at the meeting, the school board: accepted donations for the track and volleyball programs, approved two new student-activity accounts, authorized consultant Phil Stromberg to put together a proposal for timber thinning in the two school forests, approved clarifications that have been made in the employee handbook, and approved readings of policies on lunch accounts, grievance procedure

and Indian policies and procedures.

School Board President Jeff Howe had asked Stromberg about the advisability of thinning in the school forest in light of all the trees that went down during recent storms. Stromberg told him that there is different wood in the school forests (red pine) that would benefit from thinning.

The last time this was done was in 2004, the time before that in 1991.

Upcoming committee meetings are as follows: Budget and finance, Monday, Sept. 19, 5 p.m., followed by building and grounds at 6 p.m. Policy, planning and curriculum, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 5 p.m., followed by personnel and negotiations at 6 p.m.

Some concealed carry supporters say the law is too restrictive

by Rich Kremer Wisconsin Public Radio STATEWIDE - Passage of the concealed carry bill this summer is hailed as a major victory for gun rights supporters, but some wish it had gone further.

On a sunny, Sunday (8/21) afternoon at the St. Croix County Fairgrounds in Glenwood City about 150 people gathered for the third annual Open Carry Picnic, many of them wearing holstered pistols. This

year’s picnic celebrated the passage of the Personal Protection Act in Wisconsin. The act will allow citizens to carry concealed firearms with proper training and a permit. Annette Olson helped organize the event and says she’s glad concealed carry was. But, she said, the legislature should have passed constitutional carry, which would allow anyone to carry a concealed gun without a permit.

“Our constitution of the United States as well as our state constitution tells us

that we are able to protect ourselves and carry a firearm in doing so,” she said. “So it is a disappointment but this is a huge leap for us.”

Fred Yulga of Marathon was also disappointed that constitutional carry did not pass but said the concealed carry law can be tweaked in the future.

“It should have been done sooner but the fact that it is here now and we have it,” he said. “It’s something we should work with and fine tune it, it’s going to take a

little bit but it’s a start.”

Yulga is also concerned about what he calls attacks on the new concealed carry law. He says cities, towns and villages are already banning guns in government owned public buildings.

Yulga says, “There’s no reason for that to happen, they’re supposed to be supporting our constitution not infringing on our rights.”

Wisconsin’s concealed carry law will take effect November 1.

UW to offer online wellness degree Shamane Mills STATEWIDE – Four UW campuses have a new online degree for those interested in managing corporate wellness programs. Worksite wellness programs used to be considered a perk when they cropped up in the 70’s. Now many employers look at them as a way to reduce

increasing health costs. As more businesses offer the programs, they need someone who can oversee them. An online degree, starting next spring, trains people for that job. George Kroeninger (cray-ning-gur) is an assistant dean of continuing education at UW Extension. He says the Health and Wellness program is

for those who already have 60 credits toward a Bachelors degree or have an associate degree.

“We’re trying to reach out to those people who may have stopped out of their university experience after 2 years or 3 years,” he said. “The majority of people who come to us will likely be working

adults so the online piece is so attractive to them. Or those individuals who find themselves time or place bound.”

Faculty for the online wellness management program will come from four UW campuses in La Crosse, River Falls, Stevens Point and Superior.

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Showdeo

Grantsburg

FAR LEFT: Spooner Rodeo Queen Kayla Rinkel rode around the Grantsburg fair showdeo visiting with contestants and the large crowd attending the annual and popular event held on Thursday, Aug. 18. MIDDLE LEFT: A true showman, 87-year-old Rod Hopkins of Webster heads for the finish after completing the barrel competition at the Grantsburg fair showdeo. Hopkins, who has been competing in showdeos for 20 years, rides in three or four events a year. MIDDLE RIGHT: Kaylyn Gravelle, 8, of Eureka and her horse round the course during the barrel competition of Thursday evening’s showdeo. FAR RIGHT: Anna Erickson, 13, of Grantsburg rode for the finish after completing the barrel course at the Grantsburg showdeo. – Photos by Priscilla Bauer

Fair Talent Show

Grantsburg

ABOVE: The Grantsburg High School jazz band, under the direction of Andy Schulz, performed several numbers at the Grantsburg fair talent show Saturday afternoon, Aug. 20. MIDDLE: Olivia Kopecky of Webster won first place in the 4-H teen category for her performance of “I’m in Love With a Wonderful Guy” from the musical “South Pacific.” FAR RIGHT: Emily Stiemann and Allie Webster, members of the Wood Creek 4-H Club, sang and played keyboard for their talent show performance of the song “Mean.” – Photos by Priscilla Bauer

Parade

LEFT: Boy Scout Tenderfoot and Assistant Patrol Leader Teddy Vitale proudly carried the American flag as he led his fellow Scouts of Grantsburg Troop 560 in Saturday’s fair parade. ABOVE: Mom and daughter Carissa and Terri Skifstad took to their cycles to promote the upcoming Fall Festival and Pig Roast on Sept. 10 at the Trade River Evangelical Free Church. UPPER RIGHT: Don and Marlys Chell had fun taking a romantic ride on their Farmall tractor built for two in Saturday’s fair parade. RIGHT: Members of the Grantsburg High School band broke formation during their march in the fair parade Sunday afternoon to greet parade watchers.

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Donkey Baseball

CUSHING - The Unity FFA alumni sponsored the annual donkey baseball event at the Cushing ballpark on Sunday, Aug. 21, as part of the annual Cushing Fun Days celebration.

The Dairyland Donkey Baseball contest pitted the sponsoring Unity FFA alumni team against the formidable Luck FFA alumni, with a later contest between the Centuria Fire Department and 10’ers Tavern, who ended up winning the whole contest.

Unity and Luck tied in the opening contest and had to settle the match with a ground-level arm- wrestling

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match, which went the way of the Unity bruiser, Brittany Kruse, who outlasted Luck FFA alum Kelly Johnson.

The 10’ers Tavern squad slipped past the veteran Centuria fire team in the second game, and then took tourney honors after pinning the Unity FFA champ in a leg-wrestling match.

The fundraiser was a big hit and a chance to have some wholesome fun on a beautiful summer day, with a little bit of donkey scat to bring everyone back to reality. - Greg Marsten

After tying on the diamond, Unity FFA’s Brittany Kruse arm-wrestled with Luck FFA alum Kelly Johnson (right) for bragging rights.

ABOVE: It doesn’t take a lip reader to know It wasn’t a typical play at second base when players from Unity and Luck tried she is saying “whoa!” to occupy the same base.

RIGHT: It was hard to tell who was in charge at times, as this fire-fighter proved.

LEFT: Even between the donkey baseball games, the kids found a way to pass the time.

RIGHT: Luck’s Isaiah Tretsven tried to coax his donkey to let him retrieve the ball.

Fun Days Kiddie Parade

ABOVE: The Cushing Globetrotters were a parade highlight.

RIGHT: The wings fit pretty well.

ABOVE: These “dwarfs” were pretty realistic.

RIGHT: Who says Cushing doesn’t have a police department?

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ABOVE: The adult soapbox derby has some future drivers and pushers in training.

BELOW: There were plenty of pretty flowers lining the parade route.

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FALL SPORTS

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Vikings get by the Greens in key conference test Frederic 21, Northwood/Solon Springs 12

Extra Points

Frederic’s Waylon Buck avoids a tackle by a Northwood/Solon Springs defender in Frederic on Friday, Aug. 19. – Photos by Becky Amundson

Frederic freshman, Peter Chenal (center) plows his way through a mass of Northwood/Solon Springs defenders and Viking blockers. the Evergreens, who had a time of possession of 28:16, compared to the Vikings 19:44.

Neither team used their passing game as the Vikings completed one for eight yards, and the Greens were one for just four yards.

Leading the Vikings in tackles was Bryce Williamson with four solo tackles.

Buck had three, and Adam Chenal, Peter Chenal, Dayton Rivera, Brad Peterson, Erik Stoner and Chris Schorn each had two solo tackles.

The Vikings are headed to Winter this Friday, Aug. 26, with game time beginning at 5 p.m. Winter lost last week in

their home opener 53-6 to New Auburn.

Luck 73, Birchwood 22 LUCK – The Cardinals football team wasn’t tested much in a crushing win over Birchwood. Luck played their varsity halfway through the second quarter, averaging just over 10 yards each play. They scored touchdowns via kick return, punt return and on an interception, and led 490 midway through the second quarter. – Marty Seeger

••• COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Hockey announced the members of the U.S. Women's National Team that will compete in the 2011 International Ice Hockey Federation Twelve Nations Invitational Tournament Series Aug. 2431 in Vierumäki, Finland. Highlighting the 22-player roster are 15 members of U.S. Women's National Team that captured the gold medal at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship this past April, including goaltenders Molly Molly Engstrom Schaus (Natick, Mass.) and Jessie Vetter (Cottage Grove); defensemen Kacey Bellamy (Westfield, Mass.), Molly Engstrom (Siren) and Josephine Pucci (Pearl River, N.Y.); and forwards Julie Chu (Fairfield, Conn.), Kendall Coyne (Palos Heights, Ill.), Brianna Decker (Dousman), Meghan Duggan (Danvers, Mass.), Hilary Knight (Sun Valley, Idaho.), Jocelyne Lamoureux (Grand Forks, N.D.), Monique LamoureuxKolls (Grand Forks, N.D.), Jenny Potter (Edina, Minn.), Jen Schoullis (Erie, Pa.) and Kelli Stack (Brooklyn Heights, Ohio). Lisa Chesson (Plainsfield, Ill.), along with Bellamy, Chu, Duggan, Engstrom, Knight, J. Lamoureux, M. Lamoureux-Kolls, Potter, Schaus, Stack and Vetter, played for the U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team that took home the silver medal in Vancouver in 2010. The U.S. opened play against Russia on Wednesday, Aug. 24, at 10 a.m. EDT at Vierumäki Arena. – from usahockey.com ••• ROCHESTER, Minn., – As former Luck athlete Albie McKinney continues to train for his upcoming MMA fight against Chad Voudrin of Clear Lake on Friday, Sept. 23, at the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis, Minn., so too, will McKinney’s good friend Tony Belvedere, formerly of Barron.

Belvedere has recently signed on to fight during the Extreme Challenge in Rochester, Minn., on Saturday, Sept. 10.

That fight begins at 7 p.m., according to McKinney.

••• Correction: In the the Aug 6 issue of the InterCounty Leader, we wrote that the Osceola Braves baseball team was headed to state for the first time in the ball club’s history. In fact, the Braves were state champions in 2003. We apologize for the error.

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by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer FREDERIC – The Vikings football team opened the season with no easy task when they took on Northwood/Solon Springs Friday, Aug. 19. Coach Ken Belanger wasn’t overlooking the importance of this particular game even last week, when speaking to the Leader for the upcoming sports preview.

“This one’s for the marbles. “They’re a very tough football team,” Belanger said about Northwood.

And it seems that every game this season will be for all the marbles, but Belanger understood how much better Northwood has become over the past two seasons, and he was right on Friday night.

The Vikings had a bit of a hiccup about midway through first quarter, when they squandered a would-be touchdown with a fumble on the 3-yard line. It wasn’t until the end of the first quarter when Frederic put together a successful drive with Adam Chenal carrying much of the load behind the Vikings offensive line. With 8:38 remaining in the first half, Waylon Buck punched the ball in the end zone on a 1yard run to give the Vikes a 7-0 lead.

Frederic managed to force the Evergreens to punt in their next possession, and it wasn’t long before the Vikings were back in scoring mode. After a 6-yard and 15-yard pickup by Buck, Peter Chenal took it to the 7-yard line before Buck took it the rest of the way for a touchdown with just three minutes remaining in the second quarter. But Northwood responded in those three minutes, taking the ball from their own 31-yard line for the eventual score.

On the Evergreens touchdown drive, the Vikings gave up two big plays, including a 29-yard run by Phillip Larson and a 29-yard touchdown run by Brian Fleming, but the Vikings held onto their eight-point lead until late in the third quarter, when the Evergreens scored again.

Starting with nine minutes remaining in the third quarter, the Evergreens ate up much of the clock before finally putting the ball in the end zone on a 4-yard run by Larson with 1:15 to go. After a failed extrapoint attempt, the Evergreens trailed by two points heading into the fourth quarter, when they found themselves backed near their own end zone after a well placed punt by Vikings Adam Chenal.

The Evergreens were inside their own 20-yard line when the Vikings forced a loss of 11-yards on fourth down and four to go. Just two plays later, with 7:07 left in the game, the Vikings capitalized on the field position and Buck took it to the end zone on a 5-yard carry.

It was the last time anyone would score, as the Vikings managed to take any hopes away from the Evergreens when Adam Chenal intercepted a pass with 1:37 remaining in the game. It was a big victory for the Vikings, as they totaled 180 yards rushing on 43 attempts. Defensively they allowed just 86 yards on 21 attempts by

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Saints thump Osceola in opener St. Croix Falls 28, Osceola 6

by Garth Olson The Valley Wire ST. CROIX FALLS – St. Croix Falls started the new football season in rousing fashion at home, pounding local rival Osceola, 28-6.

The Saints controlled the game from the start and built a 20-0 lead at the half.

The Saints offense and defense were equally impressive as St. Croix Falls rolled up a 28-0 lead in the fourth quarter before Osceola scored its lone touchdown of the night on a 19-yard TD pass from junior Michael Gaglio to senior Tyler Doucette with six minutes left in regulation.

For first-year senior Saints quarterback Ben Clausen the outcome was worth the wait.

“This was my first start,” Clausen smiled after the game. “We wanted to run a lot tonight and we played well tonight.”

Clausen managed the offense like a pro and had a nearly perfect night passing – connecting on four of five passes for 123 yards including a 19-yard TD strike to Jake Sommer. Clausen also rushed for a touchdown.

Running backs, seniors Jake Rademacher and Alex Bertram, carried the offensive load for the Saints, picking up large gains, running behind linemen Eric Swenson and Nolan O’Brien.

Rademacher rushed for 127 yards on 27 carries while Bertram added 95 yards on 11 totes.

“Rademacher and Bertram work as hard as anyone and they block really well too,” Clausen added.

St. Croix Falls started its scoring in the first quarter on a short rushing TD by Rademacher with Bertram converting the

Saints rushing attack of Alex Bertram (pictured above) and Jake Rademacher combined for over 200 rushing yards in the win over Osceola.

– Photo by Garth Olson two-point conversion on the ground as push the Saints lead to 14-0. fight,” Saints coach Rod Sempf said after well. The Saints first scoring drive was set The Chieftains Bryce Byl led Osceola’s the win. “We need to show up and be up by a third-and-long pass reception offensive attack with 86 yards on 16 car- ready to play every Friday night.” from Clausen to Sommer. Bertram added ries. a 6-yard TD run in the second quarter to “Our conference is going to be a dog-

Eagles drop opener against Amery at Gridiron Classic Amery 17, Unity 6

game.”

The Eagles had three turnovers inside the Amery 20-yard line, which may have changed the complexion of the game considerably, but the Eagles have a lot to build on from their first game of the season.

Reed Sorensen led the Eagles with 50 yards rushing on 18 carries and a touchdown. Xavier Foeller had 36 yards on nine carries, and Kyle Sorensen had 70 yards on seven carries. Justin Runberg caught the only Eagles pass from Reed Sorensen for a 22-yard gain, but Sorensen threw two interceptions.

Unity hosts its first home game of the season against Chetek/Weyerhaeuser this Friday, Aug. 26, beginning at 7 p.m.

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer MENOMONIE – The Eagles football team let a few miscues keep them from gaining an edge against Amery during the Gridiron Classic, which was held at Don and Nona Williams Stadium at UW-Stout in Menomonie on Friday, Aug. 19. This is the Eagles third appearance in school history.

According to coach Dave Anderson, Unity played a successful first half of football. They were held scoreless by the Warriors in the first half, but the Eagles defense stepped up as well, allowing just three points that came on a field goal in the second quarter.

“We played a very tough first half, we moved the ball well with our new offense. The defense held them,” said Anderson, but added, that “Mistakes took their toll in the second half, but it was the first game with a new offense and defense so we expect to improve with every

The Eagles played a solid game against Amery during the Gridiron Classic, but came up short of a victory. – Photo by John Reed

Luck/Unity golfers compete in two matches Golfers rained out in Superior on Tuesday, Aug. 23 TURTLE LAKE – On Friday, Aug. 19, Luck/Unity and St. Croix Falls golfers traveled to Hayward for a match, which hosted schools such as Barron, Chetek, Cumberland, Spooner, Superior, Ladysmith, Eau Claire North, Hayward, Northwestern and Regis.

Avery Steen had a great day, staying steady throughout the 18 holes and finished as medalist with a score of 75, her lowest score ever. Hayward Golf and Ten-

nis is a tough course and the Luck/Unity girls have never played the course before. Tina Lennartson improved from last year and continues to lower her score. Megan Bartylla is a first-year golfer and improving daily. All three girls have great attitudes, work hard and want to

Avery Steen

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continue to improve at practice and matches. Finishing second individually was Emilee McCusker from Hayward with a score of 78 and third was Katie Pokrandt from Regis with a score of 79. Hayward won the team overall with a score of 332, Eau Claire North was second with a score of 394 and Spooner with a score of 407.

On Monday, Aug. 22, Luck hosted their first home meet against Barron and Chetek. Steen was medalist with a score of 41. She had a couple of bad holes but came back and finished strong. Second individual was Ashley Elledge from Barron with a score of 48. Tina Lennartson shot a 64, Megan Bartylla a 84 and Gena Alling a 77 for the Luck/Unity team. All the girls

know what they have to work on and just continue to get out there and play. They are a super bunch of girls to work with. Their next match in Friday, Aug. 26, at Luck. – Marty Seeger with submitted information

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Tigers wreak havoc on the Castleguards Host Clayton this Friday, Aug. 26 Webster 34, Washburn 6

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer WEBSTER – The Tigers football team took control early against the Washburn Castleguards during their first game of the season on Friday, Aug. 19, and never looked back. Along with solid defense and several big plays on offense, the Tigers managed to get off to a great start.

“We are excited about the outcome Friday night. It is always nice to start the year with a victory,” said coach Jeromie Voeltz.

It took nearly the entire first quarter before the Tigers caught their first spark, but with 2:30 left in the first quarter, Garrett Eichman escaped defenders en route to a 43-yard touchdown run. Then in the second quarter, The Tigers forced Washburn to give up the ball early with several defensive stops at the line of scrimmage, but a fumbled punt by Webster and a recovery by the Castleguards put them in Tigers territory. The Webster defense stepped up again, however, and the Tigers ended up taking the ball over on downs.

With about eight minutes to go in the first half, the Tigers seemed poised to put another six on the board, but a fumble on the Washburn 15-yard line ended the

Aaron Dietmeier used several key blocks – one in particular by his brother Anthony – to score on a 60-yard punt return and put the Tigers up 14-0 in the first half. – Photo by Marty Seeger drive. It was a tough first half for the On the ensuing punt, Aaron Dietmeier Tigers in fumbles and in a couple of penal- used several key blocks – one in particular ties, but the defense did the job again, as by his brother Anthony – to score on a 60they forced Washburn to punt again – this yard punt return and put the Tigers up 14time with about 2:30 remaining in the half. 0 in the first half. Despite the few hiccups

in the first half, Voeltz was pleased with the performance as his team continues to try and improve further.

“There are always concepts to work on; we are working hard on the concept of pursuing excellence and what it takes to get there,” he said.

At the start of the second half, the Tigers opened up their lead with another big run from Aaron Dietmeier, who took it 28 yards for the score. Austin Bork scored about six minutes later in the third quarter on a 62-yard run. The Tigers carried their momentum into the fourth quarter and scored one final time with a 62-yard dash

by Aaron Dietmeier, who had just six carries, but a total of 122 yards and two touchdowns. Eichman had the most carries with 14, and 112 yards. Bork’s two carries earned him 71 yards, and Aaron Dietmeier completed one of three passes for 33 yards to Aaron Dietmeier. Nathan Puttbrese caught the team’s only pass on the night.

Defensively, Anthony Dietmeier led the team with 13 tackles, followed by Eichman and Lance Preston with 11.5, Aaron Dietmeier, 9.5, Cliff Benjamin, 7.5, Josh Baer, seven, and Dillon Reeder with five.

Bork and Devin Rondou recorded 4.5 tackles, and Ryan Curtis had 2.5.

“We are focused now on the Clayton Bears, and doing what it takes to get the job done,” Voeltz said.

The Bears got off to a great start to the season as well, with a 34-14 win over Clear Lake.

Dragon heartbreaker in home opener Siren beats Lakers in every way except final score Turtle Lake 18, Siren 14

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer SIREN – The Siren Dragons came close to beating the Turtle Lake Lakers in their gridiron opener on Friday, Aug. 19, but fell short on two long Laker breakaways, and fell 18-14.

The Small Lakeland Conference matchup was an unknown for many, as the Lakers graduated plenty of talent from last year, while the Dragons seem to be going the other way: poised to pop out and be a power, with a bevy of offensive weapons. The Dragons were also hoping to exact a touch of revenge from last season’s 56-0 thumping at the hands of the Turtle Lake squad.

In almost every way, the Dragons held the upper hand this time around.

The Lakers had a hard time hanging onto the ball early, fumbling three times in the first few minutes, but the Dragons could not turn those opportunities into points or possessions.

Siren also had problems with penalties, having a beautiful Eli Hinze to Murdock Smith 56-yard score nullified with an infraction.

But they earned redemption, marching slowly downfield, 61 yards in total, over the next few minutes, culminating with a 1-yard score on a fourth and goal to get the crowd riled up, just as the rain began to fall. The extra point was no good, but

The Dragons have lots of weapons this season, and hopefully can get them all sighted in for a solid run in the Small Lakeland. – Photo by Greg Marsten the Dragons had that scoring monkey off their backs and were ready to play.

The Lakers were held scoreless - and essentially stifled - until they broke a 73yard off-tackle burst on a fourth down midway through the second quarter, with only Reuben Mixsooke’s marathon, fingertip tackle saving the touchdown. The Lakers were almost stiffed again, but

broke through just enough after a strong goal-line stand to score six at 6:46 in the second quarter. Their PAT was also no good, meaning it was tied, 6-6.

Siren got back up on their horse at 4:55 with a Hinze to Smith touchdown pass, combined with a two-point conversion to make it 14-6, Siren.

The Dragon lead faded slightly as the

half wore down, when the Lakers again got a big break and turned a midfield slant pass into a 75-yard scamper for a score.

The failed extra point meant the Dragons were still up at the half, 14-12.

Whatever Laker head coach Doug Kahl told his squad at the half worked. They were able to shut down the Siren weaponry and receivers pretty well, in spite of several sparkling runs by Dragon senior Isaac Wegner, who can turn any sweep - with a couple good outside blocks - into a Siren highlight this season.

Sadly for the now drenched Siren fans, the Lakers struck pay dirt again midway through the third frame, working against numerous penalties, dropped balls and double-digit yardage on third downs to somehow score off-tackle at 6:08 from 3 yards out. The failed PAT made it 18-14 Lakers, which would stand until the final minutes.

Siren made several valiant attempts to overtake the struggling Lakers, even up to the final minutes, but they just couldn’t go over the top in the red zone, and the score ending up standing, for a tough, fourpoint season opening loss.

The good news was that Siren earned the Lakers respect for sure in the contest, and are a vastly improved, truly exciting squad to watch this season. They began to turn that corner late last year under then rookie head coach Bill Hoefler, and that turnaround continues. It seems likely they will be a contender in 2011 and a Small Lakeland force.

The bad news was that even though they outplayed the formerly mighty Lakers in every dimension, they couldn’t overcome their evil nemesis, the scoreboard.

Pirates lose a tough defensive battle at Spooner Spooner 7, Grantsburg 6

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer GRANTSBURG – The Pirates football team lost a tough defensive battle on Friday, Aug. 19, at Spooner. It was a scoreless first half for both teams but it was Grantsburg who crossed the goal line first in the

third quarter on a 12-yard run by Connor Myers. Unfortunately, the Rails scored last and kicked the extra point, which turned out to be the deciding factor in the game.

Offensively, the Pirates mixed it up, rushing five different backs who carried the ball a total of 34 times. Joseph Gaffney led the team with 65 yards on 11 carries.

Myers rushed for 42 yards on 10 carries,

and quarterback Daniel Larsen had 18 yards on three carries. Lucas Willis had 19 yards on eight carries and Nolan Hanson rushed twice for 29 yards. Larsen also completed two of 13 passes for 29 yards, and threw two interceptions.

The Pirates had three interceptions in the game by Jake Wald, Hanson and Myers, and Damien Rasmussen led the

team with two tackles and six assists.

Grantsburg had eight first downs compared to Spooner’s 21, and the Pirates had eight penalties for a total loss of 65 yards.

The Pirates will play their next game at Cumberland on Friday, Aug. 26, beginning at 7 p.m., and their first three games of the season are nonconference.

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Future Fours see third new winner in three weeks Bazey dethrones Olson in Modifieds

by Terry Lehnertz and Greg Parent ST. CROIX FALLS – Clay “The Wildman” Gallagher found his way to St. Croix Valley Raceway on Friday night, Aug. 19.

In addition to competing in the Future Four division, during the intermission, The Wildman completed a pair of rollovers in a Chevy S-10 pickup truck to the delight of fans young and old in the crowd. Gallagher’s stunts were just the beginning of an action-packed night of racing at the raceway’s third event of the summer.

In the three weeks since the raceway reopened back on July 29, the Future Fours have seen three different winners. The Aug. 5 winner, Ben Kaphing, started on the pole and led the opening lap, but fourth starting Steve Sutton grabbed the top spot on lap two. Kaphing had extra drive for the evening – his father, Mike, was involved in a serious accident several weeks ago, and Friday marked Kaphing’s first visit to the racetrack since the accident. With that added extra incentive, the younger Kaphing dogged Sutton the entire distance, but it just wasn’t meant to be on this night. The SCVR red-and-white checkers went to Sutton and his No. 93 Dodge Neon. Kaphing had to settle for second place in front of his cousin Kris Kaphing, with Chris Rick and Dylan Roberts rounding out the top five.

Rick, of Maplewood, Minn., and heat race winner Brandon Davis made up the front row for the Pure Stock feature, with Rick leading the way for the open circuits.

But on lap three, the No. 03 of Krysta Swearingen shot past Rick and into the lead. Rick gave chase the rest of the way to no avail as the preschool teacher from Little Canada, Minn., picked up her second consecutive feature win in front of Rick,

The evening’s final race was full of excitement as “Flyin” Ryan Olson was finally bested at St. Croix Valley Raceway by Josh Bazey, pictured above with the checkered flag. – Photo by Vince Peterson Steve Baker, Rob Lowe and Mike Olson. the very end. Heintz ran runner-up until After nearly two years away from the about halfway before yielding to Davis, facility, the Pro Stock division at the Val- and Davis immediately went to work on ley is growing in both quantity and qual- Kammerud. Trying myriad lines and a vaity. Ten cars were on hand for their debut riety of corner-entry strategies, Davis was on Aug. 5, and that number swelled to 12 thwarted on his every attempt for the for the sleek racing machines on Friday. lead. On the last lap, Davis finally got the More important than the numbers run he needed down the back stretch and growth, the level of competition was oth- dove to the bottom through turn three. erworldly, as the Pro Stocks put on a good Flattening out the turn, Davis drifted up old-fashioned barn burner for their fea- in front of Kammerud in turn four a few ture race. First-heat race winner Jeff hundred feet in front of the finish line to Heintz and Aug. 5 winner Shawn Kam- pick up the dramatic win. Kammerud had merud led the field to the opening green to settle for second ahead of Heintz, Johnwith Kammerud setting the pace out son and Frank Fabio. front. Behind Kammerud’s No. 99, Heintz, In the first nine races for the upstart second-heat race winner Cory Davis, 2010 UMSS Traditional Sprint Car Series in Street Stock track champion Marcus Si- 2011, Johnny Parsons III from Owatonna, monson, Cody Campeau and Willie John- Minn., is showing nonwinged sprint car son juked and jived and sliced and diced fans why he is the driver to beat in TSCS their way around the quarter-mile right to action during the inaugural season. Parsons raced to his fourth win on Friday night Aug. 19, at the St. Croix Valley Raceway in the TSCS 12-lap nonstop feature race. For the Reactor Racing Team, it was the fifth time the No. 22 sprinter has sat in victory lane this season. Joseph Kouba also drove the car to victory at the Cedar Lake Speedway on July 30. Parsons teammate, Tommy Kamrath, has one win as well.

Coming from his third starting spot, Parsons used the bottom groove to propel his Reactor Racing nonwinged sprint car into the lead on the opening lap. Parsons never looked back and was never seriously challenged in the green-whitecheckered 12-lap run. Jack Clark ran second for a good share of the race, but with a right rear tire slowly deflating, Clark was under heavy pressure in the closing laps. Kevin Bradwell shot by a slowing Clark on the final lap. Clark and Rob Caho Jr. had a virtual tie for third at the finish line with official scoring awarding third to Clark by maybe an inch or two over Caho. Aug. 5 feature winner Tom Kamrath completed the top five out of the seven-car field. All cars finished the entire distance in the feature race. Earlier in the evening, Kamrath topped the heat race.

The evening’s final race was full of excitement also, as “Flyin” Ryan Olson was

Pitch, Putt and Drive championship held at Frederic Golf Course

Participants from the Frederic and Cumberland golf courses got together for the first annual, Pitch, Putt and Drive championship at the Frederic Golf Course recently. The championship round had 15 different youth golfers competing in their age group. Each competitor tested their skill at putting, pitching and driving. A cumulative score of their finishing rank in each area was tabulated to determine the champion. In the boys age 8 group, they had an exciting play-off between Grayden Hershfield and Logan Lillehaug. Each had to play hole 9 and the lowest score won. Championship winners in their age group are shown front row, (L to R): Eathan Alexander, 10, Linnea Vesely, 8 and champion Logan Lillehaug, 8. Back row: Issac Bucher, 12, Cole Hanson, 14, Kaitlyn Peichel, 16, Jake Shaffer, 16 and Julia Nargis, 10. – Photo submitted

finally bested at SCVR. After winning the first two events at the reopened speedway, Olson has his work cut out for him starting on the fourth row. Kevin Marlett started on the outside of the front row and led the Pro Modifieds through the first lap. Coming out of turn two on lap two, Dan Wheeler slid up in front of Marlett for the lead. But as soon as Wheeler got his red No. 1 Modified to the point, he momentarily and dramatically slowed, forcing Marlett to back off the throttle. That little hiccup was the only opening Olson needed as he jumped on the opportunity to pass both Wheeler and Marlett for the lead, bringing his fourth-row starting mate, Josh Bazey with him. From there, it was the Bazey and Olson show as the duo tangoed tooth and nail for the lead. Bazey took 1-1/2 laps before getting around Olson, and then took to fending off the only Modified winner at the track this season. On lap nine, Olson raced around Bazey and restaked his claim on the top prize, but Bazey clamored right back and re-swiped top honors on lap 10. Coming up on lapped traffic, Bazey passed low while Olson elected to take the high groove. Contact between Olson and Mike Halvorsen sent Olson’s No. 21 Modified careening toward the turn one wall. While Olson muscled and willed his hot rod away from the concrete, the damage done to his racer was too severe to continue, handing the runner-up spot to Tony Schill.

For the two-lap green-white-checkered dash to the end, Bazey remained strong up front and picked up his first feature win in nearly a year ahead of Schill, Mike Mueller, Marlett, and Ryan Johnson.

Next Friday night, the thunder returns to the valley as the UMSS winged sprint cars invade St. Croix Valley Raceway for their second Thunder in the Valley special event. Joining the winged sprints will be Future Fours, Pure Stocks, Pro Modifieds and UMSS Traditional Sprints. The Pro Stocks will have the weekend off. As is customary with Thunder in the Valley specials, it’s also Kids’ Night at the Valley; anyone under age 16 is admitted free of charge. Racing is slated to get under way at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26.

Race summary (unofficial): Future Fours, Feature: Steve Sutton, Ben Kaphing, Kris Kaphing, Chris Rick, Dylan Roberts, Hope Tucker, Clay Gallagher, Kyle Dahlheimer, Damon Roberts and Stephanie Lebeis. Pure Stocks, Feature: Krysta Swearingen, Justin Rick, Steve Baker, Rob Lowe, Mike Olson, Brandon Davis and Tony DuBois. UMSS Traditional Sprints, Feature: Johnny Parsons, Kevin Bradwell, Jack Clark, Rob Caho, Tommy Kamrath, Jeff Pellersels and Aaron Wisch Pro Stocks, Feature: Cory Davis, Shawn Kammerud, Jeff Heintz, Willie Johnson, Frank Fabio, Cody Campeau, Marcus Simonson, Marcus Berget, Dan Preston, Denny Stordahl, Ben Hanke and Miles Meidlinger. Pro Modifieds, Feature: Josh Bazey, Tony Schill, Mike Mueller, Kevin Marlett, Ryan Johnson, Doug Toepper, Mitch Weiss, Corey Fogleson, Ryan Olson, Dan Wheeler, Mike Halvorsen, Shawn Carlson, Greg Arnt, Vince Corbin, Dave Siercks, Tim Siercks and Doug Merrill.

Unity/Luck tennis hosts first conference match

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE – The Unity/Luck tennis team has been very busy over the past week in a number of invites, including one in Marshfield on Saturday, Aug. 20, where they took fourth place as a team.

Elizabeth Thuerkoff won all three of her matches, Anna Ebensperger won two of her three matches, and the Eagle dou-

bles teams showed improvement.

“It was great to see combinations grow as doubles teams, players learning from their opponents, and seeing that we have a lot of potential for our future conference matches,” said coach Beth Fogarty.

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“O the joy!”

Last Friday night an intrepid motorist on Hwy. 53 experienced a taste of the euphoria explorer Meriwether Lewis must’ve felt when he penned John the above phrase into his expediRyan tion journal back in 1805. Lewis, of THE SPORTS course, was referencing the long-awaited sighting of the Pacific Ocean after two long years with his buddy William Clark and the Corps of Discovery.

Our motorist friend felt the same joyful rush when his radio’s scan button abuptly stopped on FM 104.9 just in time to hear the legendary local broadcasters Kurt Mayer and Downtown Dennis Anderson describe the opening kickoff of the Osceola-St. Croix Falls game. “Ahh ... autumn is on the way and I’m home at last!” thought the driver. Buoyed by the shot of adrenaline and the soothing sounds of the veteran sportscasting duo describing a dominating Saints performance, the

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motorist floored the accelerator and pushed his aging Ford to a heretofore unseen performance level, reportedly once even tickling 80 mph as he descended a steep hill between Cumberland and Rice Lake. His heroic deer-dodging efforts paid off when he arrived in time to see the second half of Frederic’s opening night victory over Northwood-Solon Springs. Oh, what a night it was! Incidentally, this coming Friday Mayer and Anderson will bring us the important early-season clash between Shell Lake and Luck.

Aug. 19 grid opener earliest ever?

It sure seemed strange to be playing high school football 12 days before the first public school bell rings in Wisconsin. And contrary to popular myth, the early start had nothing to do with Gov. Scott Walker or Wisconsin Act 10 (aka the Budget Repair Bill). What the early start does mean is that kids who play in the 2011 state finals at Camp Randall stadium in Madison will again be able to make it to the shack on time on the eve of the November deer-hunting opener.

Gritty performance Frederic Viking fans were impressed with the gutsy, never-say-die performance of quarterback Waylon Buck who fought off some obvious aches and

LEADER SPORTS SCOREBOARD FOOTBALL

Small Lakeland Standings Team Conf. Overall Frederic Vikings 1-0 1-0 Shell Lake Lakers 1-0 1-0 Turtle Lake Lakers 1-0 1-0 Luck Cardinals 1-0 1-0 Bruce Red Raiders 0-1 0-1 Northwood/Solon Springs 0-1 0-1 Siren Dragons 0-1 0-1 Bircwood Bobcats 0-1 0-1 Winter Warriors 0-0 0-1 Scores Friday, Aug. 19 Frederic 21, Northwood/Solon Springs 12 Shell Lake 35, Bruce 0 Turtle Lake 18, Siren 14 Luck 73, Birchwood 22 New Auburn 53, Birchwood 6 Upcoming Friday, Aug. 26 5 p.m.

Frederic at Winter 7 p.m.

Shell Lake at Luck Birchwood at Turtle Lake Northwood/Solon Springs at Bruce Siren at Washburn/Bayfield

FOOTBALL

Large Lakeland Standings Team Conf. Overall St. Croix Falls 0-0 1-0 Flambeau 0-0 1-0 Webster 0-0 1-0 Grantsburg 0-0 0-1 Unity 0-0 0-1 Cameron 0-0 0-1 Clear Lake 0-0 0-1 Scores Friday, Aug. 19 St. Croix Falls 28, Osceola 8 Flambeau 47, Prairie Farm 7 Webster 34, Washburn/Bayfield 6 Spooner 7, Grantsburg 6 Amery 17, Unity 6 Boyceville 18, Cameron 0 Clayton 34, Clear Lake 14 Upcoming

Friday, Aug. 26 7 p.m.

St. Croix Falls at Ladysmith Cornell at Flambeau Clayton at Webster Grantsburg at Cumberland Chetek/Weyerhaeuser at Unity Cameron at Augusta Prairie Farm at Clear Lake

GIRLS GOLF

Upcoming Friday, Aug. 26 9 a.m.

St. Croix Falls and Luck/Unity at Barron Monday, Aug. 29 12 p.m.

St. Croix Falls and Luck/Unity at Hayward Wednesday, Aug. 31 9 a.m.

St. Croix Falls and Luck/Unity at St. Croix Falls

CROSS COUNTRY

Upcoming Thursday, August 25 4:30 p.m. Grantsburg Invitational (St. Croix Falls, Unity/Luck, Webster)

TENNIS

Upcoming

Thursday, Aug. 25 4:15 p.m. Unity/Luck at Amery Tuesday, Aug. 30 9 a.m.

Unity/Luck at Barron

VOLLEYBALL

Upcoming Thursday, Aug. 25 7:30 p.m. Webster at Cumberland Unity at Siren Grantsburg at Frederic Friday-Saturday, Aug. 26-27 TBD Luck at UW-Stout TBD St. Croix Falls at UW-Stout Tuesday, Aug. 30 7:30 p.m. St. Croix Falls at Unity Siren at Frederic Grantsburg at Luck Women’s Slow-Pitch Monday League Team Record Beehive 11-1 Coyland Creek 9-3 Smith Family Eye Care 9-3 Kris’ Pheasant Inn 7-5 Maurer Construction 3-9 The Rumors 3-9 Big Butz BBQ 0-12 Upcoming Monday, Aug. 29 Playoffs (rescheduled) 6:30 p.m. Big Butz BBQ vs. Kris’ Pheasant Inn (East) The Rumors vs. Maurer Construction (West) 7:30 p.m. Winner of East 6:30 game vs. Coyland Creek Winner of West 6:30 game vs. Smith Family Eye Care 8:30 p.m. Winner of East vs. Winner of West 7:30 games 9:30 p.m. Winner of 8:30 game vs. Beehive Men’s Slow-Pitch Wednesday League Team Record Bon Ton 10-1 Pour House 9-2 Century 21 8-3 Chell Well 7-4 Sundowners 7-4 Wayne’s 6-5 Kris’ Pheasant Inn 5-6 True Quality Auto Body 2-9 Lake Lena 1-10 JCS 0-11 Scores Wednesday, Aug. 17 Century 21 14, Pour House 10 Bon Ton 18, JCS 2 Kris’ Pheasant Inn 16, True Quality Auto Body 15 Chell Well 20, Lake Lena 5 Sundowners 15, Wayne’s 12

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pains to help lead the hometown 11 to victory over a persistent NorthwoodSolon Springs squad last Friday. Expect Ken Belanger’s blue and gold gridders to make yet another run at the elusive Small Lakeland Conference crown this year.

A little trick with Nick The next time you’re at Target Field in Minneapolis, you just might see exLuck Cardinal multisport great Nick Hetfeld working in the Minnesota Twins ticket office. Hetfeld, of course, is best remembered by Leader readers for his incredible 14 home-run performance during his junior year at LHS when he helped the Cards secure a conference title under then-coach the late Bob Pilz.

Speaking of baseball Graybeards, shut-ins and the rockingchair-bound fans who vaguely recall the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers season are having a hard time believing that the Brew Crew is on the verge of winning their first divisional title after 29 long and mostly miserable seasons.

And with the best one-two offensive punch in baseball in Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun and a couple of starting pitchers who look like playoff anchors, who knows what the Brewers’ postseason might bring? Of course, Minnesota Twins fans are quick to

Tennis continued The following Monday, Aug. 22, the Eagles traveled to the Rice Lake quad event, where Ebensperger won all three of her matches. Then on Tuesday, Aug, 23, Unity hosted their first conference match of the season against Baldwin-Woodville, but lost a tough one, 4-3.

“Julie Franzel lost a tough match, but Fogarty said she improved her strategy and play from the day before.

Ebensperger, Thuerkoff and Sierra Thomfohrda each won their singles matches, and the doubles team continues to improve.

Envious armchair prognosticators were quickly put in their respective places last week when The Prediction King opened with a stellar 6-1 performance in week one. “As I said last week, a quick start is important and I defiThe nitely rose to the occasion,” the Swami Swami said late Tuesday night THE SWAMI while sorting shotgun shells in preparation for the Sept.

1 mourning dove opener. “Doves make a great kabob especially when marinated, then skewered with zucchini, fresh tomatoes, wild mushrooms, and green peppers,” he added.

PREDICTS

This week’s predictions:

point out that simply making it to the playoffs is not much of an accomplishment since eight teams earn that annual distinction. The important thing is to win a World Championship as the Twins did in 1987 and 1991.

Osceola park still rules the town ball scene Hats off to local ink-stained wretch Garth Olson, Braves manager Mike Tetzlaff and the rest of Osceola community dignitaries whose dedication and indefatigable spirit has kept venerable Oakey Park at the top of the heap when it comes to upper-Midwest amateur baseball venues. Even when their favorite team loses 12-0 as the Grantsburg Honkers did in the Aug. 13 tournament finale versus River Falls, fans still leave Oakey Park with smiles on their faces. To a ball fan, there’s just no better place to spend a summer afternoon or evening. And now that a new medical clinic will apparently be built on the old feed mill site in Frederic, the dream of a milliondollar ballpark in Vikingville is dead on the vine. Benefactors were intending to utilize Powerball lottery winnings to construct the proposed state-of-the-art facility.

John Ryan may be reached at jmr202@yahoo.com.

The Eagles next conference match will be played at Amery on Thursday, Aug. 25, beginning at 4:30 p.m. They’ll also be playing on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at Barron beginning at 4:15 p.m.

Anna Ebensperger

Julie Franzel

Webster 20, Clayton 19 –The Tigers rein in the high-powered Bears offense.

St. Croix Falls 21, Ladysmith 19 – After two long seasons as “The Ain’ts”, SCF will return to saintly status in 2011.

Luck 22, Shell Lake 20 – Cagey coach Kendzior’s confident Cardinal combatants concoct a crucial win.

Unity 19, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser 17 – The Eagles treat their home crowd to an exciting victory.

Siren 28, Washburn-Bayfield 14 – The playoff-bound Dragons earn a satisfying road win.

Frederic 52, Winter 6 – Thanks to a running clock, the Vikes and their fans will be back home in time for Letterman’s Top 10 list.

The Swami answers all e-mails and can be reached at predictionking@yahoo.com.

Cumberland 22, Grantsburg 12 – Another hard-luck loss for the Pirates who’ve faced two difficult nonconference challenges.

AREA BOWLING RESULTS McKenzie Lanes Summer League 2011 Standings: Don’s Boys 82, Cutting Edge Pro 69, Denny’s Downtown Lanes 61.5, Ta-Da 61, MMCO 55, McKenzie Lanes 55,

Lane Brains 51, Pee Wee’s Gals 41.5.

Women’s games: Kelly Oryan 218 & 201, Toni Sloper 196.

Women’s series: Kelly Oryan 588, Brenda Lehmann 542, Toni Sloper 498.

Men’s games: Ed Bitler 276, Jim McKenzie 265, Ed Bitler 255.

Men’s series: Ed Bitler 765, Jim McKenzie 695, Chris Olson 644.

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O UTDOOR S I N T E R! C O U N T Y L E A D E R

ATVs • BIRDING • BOATING • CAMPING • FISHING • HIKING • HUNTING • RECREATIONAL VEHICLES

Huntin’ time

With the exception of a few venison scraps set aside for jerky, there’s little to brag about in my late-summer freezer.

It’s a little odd actually, because by this time of year I’m searching for Marty ways to get rid of it – inventing new recipes Seeger along the way and taking as many venison steaks to friendly getThe togethers as possible to Bottom make room for more venison come fall.

Line Problem is, some friends have caught onto the community grilling events, and usually say no to anyone bringing more vennie to a party.

“I’ve got plenty of venison. You bring the salad or chips,” they’ll say.

Yeah right, like I want to be caught making a salad.

Last fall, I managed to take a lone doe for the freezer with a rifle but failed in my attempts at a decent buck during the bow season. I had big plans to bag another doe during the late season and then, bang. A baby daughter arrives and suddenly hunting is no longer on the brain. Or at least, only remnants of hunts gone by seemed to exist for a little while. And as it

turns out, one deer just doesn’t do it in my family.

Don’t get me wrong though – there’s plenty of beef to go around and even some wild turkey buried down deep somewhere, and we won’t starve anytime soon, but venison is actually a treat compared to my everyday meals that almost always include meat.

In our family, meat is as important to the meal as water or milk or any other beverage. The people who invented those handy shakers filled with tiny morsels of bacon to sprinkle on your salad had people like me in mind when they came up with the idea. Meat is not only the perfect side dish, but a wonderful seasoning as well.

Thankfully there’s another hunting season on the horizon, and it really couldn’t come soon enough. For starters, you have the early September Canada goose season that is opening in designated areas starting Sept. 1 through Sept. 15.

Then there’s the mourning dove hunting season that also begins on Sept. 1 through Nov. 9. That season alone is enough to get any wing shooter excited, yet, after hunting doves over the past few years, my interest has waned. It’s not that I wouldn’t love to have experiences like the ones you see on TV in the southern parts of the state, or Argentina, but the doves just aren’t that plentiful where I hunt.

Sporting goods stores in the area seem to dictate the interest as well. Walk up to

A doe watches cautiously while out for an evening feeding. – Photo by Marty Seeger any counter and you’ll likely get a funny look when you ask them if they have any dove decoys. I’ve even seen funny looks from clerks at even the largest of sporting goods stores when I tell them I’m going after doves. What they obviously don’t know is that it can be a lot of fun, and if you haven’t given it a try I’d suggest doing so. But if there aren’t any birds, you’re better off waiting until the upcoming archery deer season, which seems like a long time from now, but begins Sept. 17.

The dove might be one of the tastiest morsels of winged meat out there, but let’s face it, you’d need a 1,000 or more just to fill your freezer, and having that many in your freezer is illegal anyway.

Even the 15-bag daily limit seems frugal enough, but if you’re planning a little get-

together with friends, they’d better bring some venison steaks along with them.

Many of you out there have been busy baiting or training for the upcoming black bear season, which begins on Sept.

7. The hound hunters go first this year, in areas where hounds are permitted, and that season runs from Sept. 7 through Sept. 13. Starting Sept. 14, in areas where dogs are permitted, the hound hunters and bait sitters will be able to hunt at the same time. For those in Zone C, where dogs are not permitted, the season begins on Sept. 7 and runs through Oct. 11. This information is likely old news for those who have successfully drawn a bear permit for this fall, as they were notified back in February.

For me, a bear rug or shoulder mount would look nice on my wall, and there’s plenty of room in the freezer for the meat, but I’ll need to wait until the next deadline to apply for a bear permit, which is Dec. 10 this year. With already five preference points under my belt, there’s at least a chance of drawing a permit in zones where hounds are allowed north of Hwy. 8, and an even greater chance of being awarded a tag in Zone C, which is where I do most of my hunting anyway. The hardest part will be deciding where to go next fall. For now, I’ll think about dove hunting, or maybe even goose hunting, but Sept. 17 is what I’ll be shooting for.

Hook and line sturgeon season opens Sept. 3

“Excellent” fishing forecast for some waters

MADISON – Anglers looking for a unique fishing opportunity don’t have to look far. The 2011 hook and line season for sturgeon opens Saturday, Sept. 3, on about a dozen waters statewide and gives anglers the chance to reel in one of Wisconsin’s largest and oldest fish.

The opening date is wrong in the Guide to Wisconsin Hook and Line Fishing Regulations 2011-2012, anglers should note, and Sept. 3 is the correct opening day.

Lake sturgeon can grow to more than 200 pounds and live more than 100 years.

The 2011 season marks the fifth year that the minimum length for harvesting sturgeon is set at 60 inches, with a one-fish limit per season. The season runs through Sept. 30, 2011.

There is a catch-and-release season only on a stretch of the Menominee River downstream from the Hattie Street dam to Green Bay from Sept. 3-30.

And anglers will find an extra catchand-release opportunity on the lower St. Croix River from St. Croix Falls Dam downstream to the Mississippi River from Oct. 1 through Oct. 15. This catch-and-release season allows Wisconsin and Minnesota to have the same regulations for the same species.

There are signs that the 60-inch length limit Wisconsin put in place is working to increase fish size and protect the vulnerable female population on some waters, fisheries biologists say.

“Sturgeon fishing on the Chippewa

River in Chippewa and Eau Claire counties should be good to excellent,” says Heath Benike, fisheries biologist for those counties.

“Sturgeon surveys conducted this field season on the Chippewa River in Eau Claire and Chippewa counties showed that 10 percent of the lake sturgeon captured were over 60 inches in length.”

The largest lake sturgeon was just over 67 inches and weighed almost 60 pounds.

There also are a good number of mid- to upper-50-inch fish that will be available for anglers who prefer catch-and-release angling, Benike says.

The length limit is also helping boost the sturgeon population in the upper Menominee River, according to Mike Donofrio, fisheries supervisor in Peshtigo.

“Our assessment indicates likely very few sturgeon over 60 inches in the upper Menominee River but for those anglers interested in catch and release, the population estimate of sturgeon over 50 inches from the White Rapids Dam to the Upper Scott dam is more than 1,000.”

Sturgeon fishing on Lake Superior’s Chequamegon Bay should be good this fall and into the ice-fishing season consistent with previous years, according to Peter Stevens, Lake Superior fisheries team supervisor. Stevens says 30 percent of sturgeon captured in spring surveys were larger than 50 inches with the largest fish coming in at a little over 64 inches and about 68 pounds. Surveys continue to show good recruitment with the bulk of the fish in the 30- to 40 inch range.

“Catch per hours of effort continues to show a steady upward trend, indicating that the best days of fishing may still be in front of us,” Stevens said.

Great Northern Outdoors Bass Fishing League Standings Week 15 Co-sponsored by BLC Well Drilling in Milltown Standings

1. Luck Sport and Marine, 124 lbs., 5 oz.

2. Long, 119 lbs., 5 oz.

3. Bistram Boys, 107 lbs.,11 oz.

4. Bon Ton, 102 lbs., 11 oz.

5. 46 Store, 101 lbs. 13 oz.

6. Main Dish, 77 lbs., 9 oz.

7. Laqua/Allee, 74 lbs. 3 oz.

8. Jim Duncan, 72 lbs., 2 oz.

9. Grumpy Grandpas, 70 lbs., 3 oz.

10. Harry/Dave 69 lbs., 8 oz.

11. BLC Well Drilling, 69 lbs., 1 oz.

12. Cory/Jamie, 67 lbs., 11 oz.

13. Mossey’s, 60 lbs., 11 oz.

14. Struck/Lonetti, 52 lbs., 2 oz.

15. GNO, 48 lbs. 13 oz.

16. Milltown Dock, 47 lbs., 14 oz.

17. Dockmasters, 42 lbs., 6 oz.

18. Ones/Roberts, 41 lbs., 0 oz.

19. Bill Hallenger 20 lbs., 9 oz Big bass/Big bag weekly winner: Big Bass: Bistram Boys, 4 lbs., 9 oz.

Big Bag: Luck Sport and Marine, 11 lbs., 14 oz.

The Lower Wisconsin River and Lake Wisconsin both support healthy populations of lake sturgeon. Previous to the implementation of the 60-inch size limit the harvest would often exceed 30 percent of the estimated adult population, according to David Rowe, DNR fisheries biologist at Poynette.

“With the higher size limit harvest has been maintained below the 5-percent safe harvest limit except for 2010 when harvest was estimated at 6 percent,” Rowe said.

“There appear to be many fish between 50 and 60 inches as observed in spring and fall gillnet surveys and fishing should continue to be good for these big river wanderers. There are several radio-tagged lake sturgeon in the Lower Wisconsin River and we continue to follow their movements from the Mississippi River and deep-water habitat where they spend the summer, through their long swim back up the river this fall and begin to stage for spawning next spring.”

The 60-inch limit was enacted because harvest rates on some waters were significantly above 5 percent, the level of harvest DNR considers safe. Lake sturgeon are slow-growing, late maturing fish, with females spawning for the first time when they are 20 to 25 years old and then only every four to five years thereafter. Because females are larger than males, they are often targeted by anglers, and their overharvest can cause population declines that may take years to recover.

Remember to buy a harvest tag If anglers do plan to harvest a sturgeon this season, they must purchase a harvest tag before they fish. The sturgeon harvest tag was implemented for the first time in the 2006 hook and line season. All revenues from the harvest tag sales go directly to projects dedicated to the improvement of sturgeon populations and habitats and therefore, better fishing opportunities. No tag is needed if anglers are catch-and-release fishing only.

The harvest tag is available throughout the season and costs $20 for residents and $50 for nonresidents. It can be can be purchased: over the Internet through the Online Licensing Center; by calling toll-free 1-877-945-4236; at license sales locations; or DNR service centers during their regular business hours.

Anglers who harvest a legal-size fish must immediately attach the harvest tag to the fish and take it to a registration station by 6 p.m. the next day for registration.

All anglers must have a Wisconsin general inland fishing license unless they are under 16 years old, or were born before Jan. 1, 1927. Military personnel who are Wisconsin residents and in active service but on furlough or leave are eligible to receive a free annual fishing license. They still need to purchase the $20 lake sturgeon harvest tag if they plan to keep a lake sturgeon.

Youth in the Outdoors at Coyland Creek this weekend

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer SIREN – Coyland Creek is once again hosting its Youth in the Outdoors event this weekend, Saturday, Aug. 27, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The admission is free and drawings for door prizes will be held as well for ages 3 and up.

Activities include outdoor crafts and painting, outdoor demonstrations such as beekeeping, taxidermy, outdoor cook-

ing, pack mules and other outdoor demonstrations. There’s also an archery shoot, orienteering course, .22 and BBgun shoot, wood-duck house building, canoeing and the Safari Club International will be on hand.

Coyland Creek is located eight miles from Siren on CTH B, or eight miles from Lewis on CTH E. For more information call 715-653-4273.

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Hwy. 8 corridor work rolls on An insider’s look at the high-tech concrete work

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer ST. CROIX FALLS – The Hwy. 8 corridor improvement project through St. Croix Falls, which includes the infamous roundabout at 208th Street, was very backed up of late, after several months of hot and wet conditions set the whole project behind almost three weeks, especially on their mainline reconstruction and the roundabout project.

“We’re starting to catch back up,” stated project manager Bob Nelson of Cooper Engineering, one of the contracted firms involved in bringing the project to fruition.

“We’re running pretty much from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on most days, and a few Saturdays.”

Nelson gave an inside look at the elaborate concrete paving operation, which uses several dozen cubic yards of raw concrete at one time, all dropped in piles by dump trucks, delivered from a plant near Amery.

The crawling machine then slowly inhales, spreads, forms, shapes, vibrates and then compresses the sticky mixture into the shape of a roadway over steel rod “baskets,” while 15-17 workers rotate around the giant machine, which crawls along at a steady 300 feet/minute.

“We shoot for about 4,300 feet per day, which is a good day,” Nelson said of the massive Gomaco machine, which likely costs several hundred thousand dollars.

That Hwy. 8 concrete monster is owned and operated by Chippewa Concrete,and is run by workers standing atop a platform, as it follows a spindly string line along the route, setting height, depth, width, direction and setback in relation to previous lanes and elevations, all the while vibrating the air out of the final form and leaving it to workers to float a trowel over the finished top for smoothing or texturing.

“Yeah, just don’t touch that string!” Nelson exclaimed over the roar of traffic and machinery.

In total, about 25-30 workers are working some task of the Hwy. 8 project at any one time, from setting elevations to culvert placing to quality control to earthwork machinery to excavation, surveying or concrete work.

Nelson said the project was among the most complicated and extensive projects the firms are working this summer, in part because of the volume of material in both lanes that needed to be torn up.

“It was over 9 inches of concrete and pavement,” he said. “And all of it is recycled back into the project as a base.”

The concrete work is all but complete on the westbound lanes and is soon to be wrapped up for the eastbound laneage from Glacier Drive to about one-quarter mile past the north junction of Hwy. 35, where they have installed a temporary traffic signal.

They also have quite a bit of storm sewer and curb and gutter work, as well as access lanes, to complete before the concrete paver can be torn down and moved to a new project.

However, that concrete work will not include the roundabout at 208th Street, be-

side the Polk County Recycling Center and Menards, which will be made of a highstrength asphalt with added binders to withstand the constant turning and slowing of vehicle traffic.

According to Nelson, the center lane, affectionally called the “twiddle” by the engineers, will be a less expensive, typical asphalt.

Concrete work on the mainline is expected to be completed shortly after this writing, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

Traffic has been rerouted for several months now, and while the new roadway is bidirectional on the westbound lanes, there are still several closures and reroutes for business access and at 208th Street, which is partially closed to the south and entirely closed to the north.

There have been some unusual detours along the way, and while the work has been admittedly disruptive and messy, Nelson said they have tried to make it work for everyone involved and have held biweekly project meetings for merchants, locals and contractors.

“All the locals have been great to work with and very cooperative, they really have,” he said.

Earthwork moved to a new phase last week for the roundabout work at 208th.

The radii of the roundabout can be seen with the stakes and island near the center of the roadway, which according to Nelson, should be wrapped up almost entirely by mid-October, weather permitting.

Cooper Engineering project manager Bob Nelson (left) watches over the final concrete road bed with a critical eye.

"Just don't touch the line!" is the one mantra all the project workers must abide by. That tiny string line sets the height, width, direction and final dimensions of the roadway, as the giant concrete paver follows it precisely.

Much of the old roadway removal has finally been completed, but the cycle of trucks seems to be a constant feature of the project.

Photos by Greg Marsten

The Gomaco concrete paver turns giant piles of wet concrete into a solid base of roadway, at the rate of 300 feet per hour.

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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.

Ideal candidates will possess a high school diploma or equivalent, have six months of retail sales and/or cash handling experience, and possess the ability to cross-sell bank products on a daily basis.

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(Aug. 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14, 21) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P,. AS SERVICER FOR THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS CWALT, INC. ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-OC7, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006OC7 Plaintiff vs.

SAREE L. REINDAHL, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 11 CV 74 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on June 30, 2011, in the amount of $101,189.04, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 6, 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: Part of GovernMent Lot 3, Section 31, Township 34 North, Range 15 West described as follows: Commencing at a Point on the West Line of said Section 31, Township 34 North, Range 15 West, 641.25 feet South of Northwest Corner of said Section 31, Township 34 North, Range 15 West, thence South 69 feet, thence East 175 feet, thence North 69 feet, thence West 175 feet to the place of beginning.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1286 60th Street, Amery, WI 54001.

TAX KEY NO.: 008-00818-0000 Dated this 22nd day of July, 2011 Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Annie M Schumacher State Bar # 1074726 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. 274724

Julie A. Ramberg, Town of Alden, and David R. Fimstahl, Town of Alden, issued Aug. 15, 2011.

Aaron J. Loberg, Osceola, and John H. Johnson, Osceola, issued Aug. 16, 2011.

Erica H. Flettre, Town of Beaver, and Dylan C. HubinBarrow, Shell Lake, issued Aug. 16, 2011.

Marissa L. Loch, Bloomington, Minn., and Edmund J. Belland, Blaine, Minn., issued Aug. 17, 2011.

Kristen R. Livingston, Centuria, and Keith M. Velaski, Town of Shafer, Minn., issued Aug. 17, 2011.

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Ann M. Record, Town of Eureka, and Derrick D. Bergren, Town of Lincoln, issued Aug. 17, 2011.

Elizabeth A. Wayne, Eagan, Minn., and Brent D. Ericksen, Eagan, Minn., issued Aug. 18, 2011.

Erin N. Lundgren, Town of Farmington, and Derek A. Martinson, Town of Farmington, issued Aug. 18, 2011.

Jessica M. Adam, Town of Balsam Lake, and Alexander R. Huttner, Town of Eureka, issued Aug. 19, 2011.

(Aug. 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB Plaintiff vs.

CAROL J. JACKSON, et al.

Defendant(s) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case Number: 10 CV 924

(Aug. 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14, 21) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB Plaintiff vs.

ROGER D. BIBEAU, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 10 CV 789 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on March 31, 2011, in the amount of $154,678.75, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 5, 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: A parcel of land located in the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 10, Township 34 North, Range 18 West, Town of St. Croix Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin, described as follows: Commencing at the East OneQuarter corner of said Section 10; thence West, along the North line of said Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4, 1,632.00 feet to the point of beginning; thence continue West, 208.00 feet; thence South parallel with the East line of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section 10, 195.00 feet; thence East, parallel with the North line of said Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4, 208.00 feet; thence North, parallel with the East line of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section 10, 195.00 feet to the point of beginning, all in Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2044 165th Avenue, Centuria, WI 54824.

TAX KEY NO.: 044-00262-0000.

Dated this 22nd day of July, 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. 274728

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on April 4, 2011, in the amount of $99,549.18, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 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: Lot 4 of Certified Survey Map No. 2717, recorded in Volume 12 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 204, Document No. 582928, located in part of the Southeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4, and part of the Southwest 1/4 of Southeast 1/4, Section 27, Township 34 North, Range 17 West, Town of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin. Together with and subject to a 66’ wide ingress-egress and utility easement, the center of which is described as follows: Commencing at the Southeast corner of said Section 27; thence South 88 degrees 19’ 35” West 1,128.76’ along the South line of said Section; thence North 03 degrees 33’ 00” East 76.53’ to the North right-of-way line of U.S. Highway 8 and the point of beginning; thence continuing North 03 degrees 33’ 00” East 118.91’; thence North 83 degrees 29’ 31” West 497.68’; thence Northwesterly 424.40’ on the arc of a circle concave to the Northeast and having a radius of 700.00’, the chord of said arc being North 66 degrees 07’ 22” West 417.93’; thence North 48 degrees 45’ 14” West 234.18’; thence Westerly 644.95’ on the arc of a circle concave to the South and having a radius of 700.00’, the chord of said arc bearing North 75 degrees 08’ 56” West 622.38’.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1435 C U.S. Highway 8, Amery, WI 54001.

TAX KEY NO.: 006-00759-0400.

Dated this 22nd day of July, 2011 Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Shannon K. Cummings State Bar #1033710 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. 274817

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Marjorie I. Kallevang, 93, Amery, died Aug. 5, 2011 Florence M. Karczynksi, 93, St. Croix Falls, died Aug. 5, 2011 Donald M. Rickhoff, 83, Lindstrom, Minn., died Aug. 5, 2011

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Brian P. Christopherson, 32, Amery, died Aug. 10, 2011 Elsie P. Jeska, 86, Turtle Lake, died Aug. 15, 2011

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Alyce G. Lampe, 97, Grantsburg, died Aug. 6, 2011.

Marian E. Doolittle, 70, Grantsburg, died Aug. 6, 2011.

Virgil W. Vance, 81, Town of Lincoln, died Aug. 5, 2011 Patrick J. Haughian, 56, Amery, died Aug. 7, 2011 Pamela J. Puttbrese, 57, Milltown, died Aug. 7, 2011

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*Be sure to submit your resume, cover letter and compen544129 1L 43a,d,e sation history/requirements.

E.O.E./Equal Access/Affirmative Action Employer

(Aug. 10, 17, 24) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL DIVISION POLK COUNTY State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company One State Farm Plaza Bloomington, IL 61701 Plaintiff, vs.

Charles D. Bloom 1882 220th St. Centuria, WI 54824 Donald A. Carlson 800 8th St. Centuria, WI 54824, Defendants.

Case No.: 11-CV-376 Case Code: 30201 Publication Summons THE STATE OF WISCONSIN TO: Each person named above as a defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the above named plaintiff has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you.

Within forty-five (45) days after August 11, 2011, you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Complaint.

The demand must be sent or delivered to the court, whose address is Polk County Courthouse, 1005 W. Main St., Ste. 300, PO Box 549, Balsam Lake, WI 54810, and to Deutch & Weiss, LLC., attorneys for plaintiff, whose address is: 7670 North Port Washington Road, Suite 200, Glendale, Wisconsin 53217. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy of the Complaint within forty five (45) days, the Court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the Complaint. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you now own or may own in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

Dated this 3rd day of August, 2011.

Deutch & Weiss, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Monte E. Weiss State Bar No. 1003816 Charles W. Kramer State Bar No.: 1021504

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff, vs.

ROBERT BRIGGS, and ANCHORBANK, fsb., Defendants Case No. 10 CV 974 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on March 14, 2011, in the amount of $125,899.16, 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, September 15, 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 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 Two (2) of Certified Survey Map No. 5264 recorded in Volume 23 of Certified Survey Maps, page 171 as Document No. 721566, located in part of Government Lot Seven (7) and part of Government Lot Eight (8), Section Thirty-five (35), Township Thirty-five (35) North, Range Seventeen (17) West, Town of Milltown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

A perpetual nonexclusive easement for the purposes of ingress and egress over the existing roadway that lies between the Northerly boundary of the property being conveyed as Parcel 1b and 1c, and the pond, and runs in a Westerly and Northerly direction, between two ponds, and on across the roadway as described in Certified Survey Map No. 486 recorded in Volume 2 of Certified Survey Maps, page 215.

PIN: 040-01289-0000.

Property Address: 1385 Kemah Drive, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, this 18th day of July, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin

P.O. Address: Deutch & Weiss, LLC 7670 N. Port Washington Road Suite 200 Milwaukee, WI 53217 (414) 247-9958 - Telephone (414) 247-9959 - Facsimile

Steven J. Swanson No. 1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

(July 27, Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB Plaintiff vs.

DANIEL R. JOHNSON, et al Defendant(s) Case Number: 10 CV 403 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on July 21, 2010, in the amount of $99,977.47, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: September 13, 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: Part of the Southeast 1/4 of Southwest 1/4, Section 28, Township 35 North, Range 18 West, described as follows: Commencing at the Southeast corner of the Southeast 1/4 of Southwest 1/4, Section 28-3518, thence North along the forty line 300 feet; thence West parallel to the South line of said forty 500 feet; thence South parallel to the East line of said forty to the South line of said forty; thence East to the point of beginning, in the Town of Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2155 190th Avenue, Centuria, WI 54824.

TAX KEY NO.: 020-00721-0000.

Dated this 10th day of May, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Marie M. Flannery State Bar #1045309 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. 270718

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(Aug. 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, vs.

JOEL H. HUNTER and JANE DOE , unknown spouse of Joel H. Hunter Defendants.

Case No.: 11-CV-119 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 April 11, 2011, in the amount of $91,343.18, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 12, 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 Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin DESCRIPTION: Lots 2 & 3, Block 2, First Addition to the Village of Frederic, Polk County, Wisconsin. (Parcel No. 126-131).

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 209 1st Ave. North, Village of Frederic.

TAX KEY NO.: 126-00131-0000.

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.

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(Aug. 10, 17, 24) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE NAME CHANGE OF ELIZABETH BRETT COLLINS By: (Petitioner) Elizabeth Brett Collins Notice and Order for Name Change Hearing NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: Elizabeth Brett Collins To: Elizabeth Brett CollinsHansen Birth Certificate: Elizabeth Brett Collins IT IS ORDERED THAT: This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Polk County, State of Wisconsin, Judge Molly E. GaleWyrick, Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, WI 54810, September 7, 2011, 4 p.m.

BY THE COURT: Molly E. GaleWyrick Circuit Court Judge August 2, 2011

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Human Resources 112 1st Ave., W. Luck, WI 54853 or weirlinatexjobs@yahoo.com

(July 20, 27, Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the action of Jackson County Bank v. Tracy L. Songetay et al, Polk County Case No. 10CV511, I will sell at public auction in the foyer area Polk Co. Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, September 7, 2011, at 10 a.m. the following described premises, located in Polk County, Wisconsin: Lot 6, Block 2, Bretl Addition, City of St. Croix Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Property Address: 406 North Day Road, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024.

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. /s/ 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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IMMEDIATE OPENING

Weir Minerals-Linatex is seeking a full-time Environmental, Safety, Health and Continuous Improvement Coordinator.

Employees must be at least 18 years old. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in safety and industrial hygiene or equivalent work experience. Minimum of five years’ related experience and/or training in a manufacturing environment.

Familiarity with lean principles and ISO requirements.

The ES&H and Continuous Improvement Coordinator is responsible for development, implementation and administration of environmental, safety and health programs for the Weir Minerals-Linatex Luck, St. Croix Falls and Milltown operations in accordance with company policies and procedures. The coordinator also evaluates work processes to determine strategies and programs which provide greater productivity and efficiency of company functions.

Competitive benefit package. Only current applications will be considered, apply immediately.

Apply to:

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(July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY AnchorBank, fsb, Plaintiff, vs.

Kipp A. Peckman, Victoria J. Peckman, Wesley Duane Hendrickson, Capital One Bank USA, Duane Gurtner, Marilyn Gurtner and Unknown Tenants, Defendants, The RiverBank, Added Defendant.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No: 10 CV 729 Case Code: 30404 Judge: R.H. Rasmussen PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a Judgment of Foreclosure entered March 1, 2011, in the amount of $403,230.62, the Polk County Sheriff will sell the described property at public auction as follows: TIME: Sept. 8, 2011, at 10 a.m.

PLACE: Foyer Area, Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main St., Suite 900, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

TERMS: 10% of successful bid must be paid to the Sheriff at sale in cash or by certified check. Balance due within 10 days of court approval.

Purchaser is responsible for payment of all transfer taxes and recording fees. Sale is AS IS in all respects and subject to all liens and encumbrances.

DESCRIPTIONS: Lot 7, Plat of Oak Hills Estates, Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wis. Lot 8, Plat of Oak Hills Estates, Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wis. Lot 15, Plat of Oak Hills Estates, Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wis. PROPERTY ADDRESSES: 107 Vadnais Lane, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

111 Vadnais Lane, Balsam Lake, WI 54810 120 Vadnais Lane, Balsam Lake, WI 54810. /s/ Peter M. Johnson Polk County Sheriff Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1692), we are required to state that we are attempting to collect a debt on our client’s behalf and any information we obtain will be used for that purpose. If you are currently in bankruptcy or have been discharged in bankruptcy, this letter is not an attempt to collect the debt from you personally.

This letter serves only as notice of the commencement of a legal proceeding as required by the loan documents, state law and/ or federal law.

ECKBERG, LAMMERS, BRIGGS, WOLFF & VIERLING, P.L.L.P. Nicholas J. Vivian (#1047165) 430 Second Street Hudson, WI 54016 (715) 386-3733 Attorneys for Plaintiff

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Notices/Employment Opportunities (Aug. 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY AnchorBank, fsb f/k/a S&C Bank f/k/a Polk County Bank, Plaintiff, vs.

Michael V. Chaney a.k.a Michael Vernon Chaney, and Unknown Spouse Of Michael Vernon Chaney, Defendants.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No: 11 CV 9 Case Code: 30404 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on June 24, 2011, in the amount of $16,514.44, the Polk County Sheriff will sell the following described real property at public auction as follows: DATE/TIME: October 13, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS:10% of successful bid must be paid to the Sheriff at sale in cash or by certified check. The balance is due within 10 days of court approval of the sale. The purchaser is responsible for payment of all transfer taxes and recording fees. Sale is AS IS in all respects and subject to all liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Foyer Area Polk County Justice Center 1005 West Main St., Suite 900 Balsam Lake, WI 54810 DESCRIPTION: The South 323 feet of the West 479 feet of the SE1/4 of the NE1/4 and the North 300 feet of the West 479 feet of the NE1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 1, Township 35 North, Range 18 West, Town of Eureka, Polk County, Wis. TOGETHER WITH an easement along the existing driveway as now laid out and travelled in the S1/2 of the SE1/4 of the NE1/4 of said section.

AND, all that part of the SE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 1, Township 35 North, Range 18 West, lying South of the existing driveway as now laid out and lying East of the abovedescribed parcel being more specifically described as the South 265 feet of said SE1/4 of the NE1/4, Town of Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2353 180th Street, Luck, Wisconsin 54853.

Peter M. Johnson Polk County Sheriff ECKBERG, LAMMERS, BRIGGS, WOLFF & VIERLING, P.L.L.P. Amanda E. Prutzman: #1060975 Attorney for Plaintiff 430 Second Street Hudson, WI 54016 715-386-3733 Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1692), we are required to state that we are attempting to collect a debt on our client’s behalf and any information we obtain will be used for that purpose.

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HELP WANTED Cushing Now Hiring Part-Time Sales Associate

This position includes afternoons, evenings and weekends. Must 543082 51Ltfc 41atfc be 18, apply in person at the store. EOE

NOTICE OF HEARING

The Polk County Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 13, 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 12:00 p.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 12:00 P.M. WHEN THE BOARD RECONVENES AT THE GOVERNMENT CENTER.) MARK & DEBORAH STOJEVICH request a Special Exception from Article 15B1-3 of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to excavate on 0-20% slopes and slopes greater than 20%. Property affected is: Lot 6, CSM #3050, Vol. 14/Pg. 72, loc. in Gov’t. Lot 4, Sec. 34/T36N/R18W, Town of Laketown, Sandhill Lake (class 2).

THOMAS & JANE BEAN request a variance from Article H2d1i)i. of the Polk County Lower St. Croix Riverway Ordinance to expand and replace a portion of a nonconforming principal structure that is less than 40’ from the bluffline. Property affected is: 1039 County Rd. S., NE1/4 of SW1/4 exc. V348/122 & exc. S 300’ and 388/102 desc. 494/Pg. 343, Sec. 11/T33N/R19W, Town of Osceola, St. Croix River (class 2).

MAX BAY requests a variance from Article 11C, Table 1 & 8C3(b) of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to build a new home and two retaining walls closer than 75’ from the ordinary high-water mark and construct a fourth accessory building. Property affected is: 1952 S. Baker Rd., Lot 15, Plat of Maplewood on Blake’s Lake, Sec. 27/T35N/R16W, Town of Georgetown, Big Blake Lake (class 1).

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TOWN OF LORAIN BOARD MEETING

Thurs., Sept. 8, 2011 At 7:30 p.m.

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; motion to approve assessor contact for 201214; additional meeting items for future agendas Susan E. Hughes, Clerk 544138 1L 43a

BID NOTICE - TOWN OF APPLE RIVER POLK COUNTY The Town of Apple River is requesting bids to: Fine grade and pave with warm mix: Belisle Court - 1,592’ x 20’ (approx. 3,538 sy) and 162nd Ave. - 1,950’ x 20’ (approx.

4,333 sy.). For specific details, contact either Dave Waterman at 715-268-5371 or Rick Scoglio at 715-2688108. Sealed bids are to be submitted by Sept. 9, 2011, 5 p.m. to the Town Clerk at 612 U.S. Highway 8, Amery, WI 54001. Bids will be opened at the Sept. 12, 2011, regular monthly meeting.

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NOTICE FOR BIDS TOWN OF BONE LAKE The Town of Bone Lake is seeking bids for the wedging of one half mile of blacktop for 95th Street from 250th Avenue North.

For more information, contact Marsha Karpinen at 715-554-1067.

(Aug. 10, 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY HSBC MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff, vs.

DOUGLAS A. NEIDERMIRE and LORI A. NEIDERMIRE, husband and wife and THE RIVERBANK Defendants.

Case No. 10-CV-445 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 August 20, 2010, in the amount of $297,109.97, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: September 28, 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: A Parcel of Land in the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE1/4 of SW1/4), Section Thirteen (13), Township ThirtyThree (33) North, Range Nineteen (19) West, in Polk County, Wisconsin, described as follows: Commencing at the Northwest Corner of said Southeast Quarter; thence South along the West Line of said Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE1/4 OF SW1/4), 345.0 feet to the Point of Beginning; thence due East 264.0 feet; thence

Darrell Frandsen, Clerk due South 165.0 feet; thence due West 264.0 feet to the said West Line of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE1/4 OF SW1/4); thence North along said West Line 165.0 feet to the Point of Beginning, Excepting the right of way of the Town Road Extending along the said West Line of said Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE1/4 of SW1/4); AND A Parcel of Land in the SouthEast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE1/4 of SW1/4), Section Thirteen (13), TownShip Thirty-Three (33) North, Range Nineteen (19) West described as follows: Commencing at the Northwest Corner of said Southeast Quarter thence South along West Line of said Southeast Quarter 510 feet to the Point of Beginning; thence due East 264.0 feet; thence due South approximately 30 feet to the Border of Private Road as it is presently travelled; thence West along North Border of said Road 264.0 feet to the West Line of Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE1/4 of SW1/4); thence North along said West Line to the Point of Beginning; Excepting the right of way of the Town Road Extending along said West Line of said SouthEast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE1/4 of SW1/4); being approximately 0.18 acres.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 916 248th St., Town of Osceola.

TAX KEY NO.: 042-01029-0000 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.

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Agenda: Call meeting to order; motion to approve additional funds for roadwork; motion to adjourn.

544136 Susan E. Hughes, Clerk 1L 43a (Aug. 10, 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BRANCH 1 BREMER BANK N.A. 855 Eagle Point Blvd.

P.O. Box 1000 Lake Elmo, MN 55042, Plaintiff, vs.

Patrick T. Rose 313 10th Avenue Clear Lake, WI 54005, and Rebecca C. Tyler-Rose 313 10th Avenue Clear Lake, WI 54005, Defendants.

Case No. 09 CV 999 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Code: 30404 By virtue of an pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on March 4, 2010, I will sell at public auction at the Polk County Justice Center in the Village of Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, in said Polk County, on September 29, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., all of the following described mortgaged premises, to-wit: That part of the South Half (S1/2) of the Southeast Quarter (SE1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (SE1/4) of Section Twenty-eight (28), Township Thirty-two (32), North, Range Fifteen (15) West, described as follows: Lot 2 of Certified Survey Map No. 3522 recorded in Volume 16, of CSM, page 35, Town of Clear Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin.

The above property is located at 313 10th Avenue, Clear Lake, WI 54005.

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, Wis., this 24th day of July, 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 Menomonie, WI 54751 715-235-3939

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Lorain Town Hall, 252 345th Ave. Cty. Rd. E

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 CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-OC10, MORTGAGE PASS-THOUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006OC10 Plaintiff Vs CHRISTOPHER HEINN, et al Defendant(s) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case Number: 09 CV 442 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on August 25, 2009, in the amount of $438,473.58, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: September 7, 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: Lot Four (4) of certified survey map No. 2677 recorded in Volume Twelve (12), of certified survey maps, Page One Hundred Sixty-Four (164), Document No. 581439, located in the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW 1/4 SW 1/4), Section Twenty-Seven (27), Township Thirty-Two (32) North, Range Seventeen (17) West together with easements located in the South Half of the Northwest Quarter (S 1/2 NW 1/4), Section TwentySeven (27), Township ThirtyTwo (32) North, Range Seventeen (17) West, as described in Volume 518 of records, Page 211, Document No. 459339, Polk County, Wisconsin, the above property is situated in Polk County, State of Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 152 147th Street, Deer Park, WI 54007.

TAX KEY NO.: 002-007050400.

Dated this 14th day of July, 2011.

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 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. 274388

UNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

1908 150th Street/Hwy. 46 North Balsam Lake, WI 54810-7267 Phone: 715-825-3515 Fax: 715-825-3517 www.unity.k12.wi.us

BUS DRIVERS WANTED Unity School District is taking applications for bus driver.

Commercial driver’s license (CDL) with school bus endorsement required.

Materials to obtain permit and assistance to obtain license are available. The process of obtaining a CDL is obtaining permit, bus training & scheduling road test. Qualified applicants will be given first consideration. Multiple positions available. Applications may be obtained from the District Office, 715825-3515 or on the District Web site, www.unity.k12.wi.us.

Interested, qualified person may apply by submitting letter of application, District application and letters of recommendation to: Brandon W. Robinson, District Administrator Unity School District 1908 150th Street/Hwy. 46 North Balsam Lake, WI 54810-7267 Taking applications until positions are filled. E.O.E. 543373 41-42a,d 52-1L

(July 20, 27, Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff Vs JUDITH AAMOLD, et al Defendant(s) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case Number: 09 CV 256 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on July 1, 2009, in the amount of $135,172.36, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: Sept. 8, 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 following described real property situate in the County of Polk, and State of Wisconsin, to wit: Part of the Southwest One-Quarter of the Northwest One-Quarter (SW 1/4 NW 1/4), Section Thirty (30), Township Thirty Five (35) North, Range Eighteen (18) West, described as follows: Commencing at the West One-Quarter corner of said Section 30, thence East along the South line of said SW 1/4 of NW 1/4 115.40 feet; thence leaving said South line North 01 Degrees 41’ 22” West along the Southerly extension of the Easterly right of way of State Highway No. 87 and along said Easterly right of way a distance of 898.89 feet to the point of beginning, thence leaving said right of way South 89 degrees 32’ 41” east 425.41 feet, thence North 00 degree 38’ 07” East, 401.9 feet, more or less, to the North line of said SW 1/4 of NW 1/4, thence Westerly along said North line 441.73 feet, more or less to said Easterly right of way of STATE Highway No. 87, thence South 01 degree 41’ 22” East along said Easterly right of way 402.2 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, containing four acres, more or less, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1976 State Road 87, Saint Croix Falls, WI 54024.

TAX KEY NO.: 020-007570001.

Dated this 14th day of July, 2011.

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 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. 274397

FREDERIC SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL EDUCATION SCREENING

The Frederic Public School has an ongoing, in-school, screening program to identify pupils who may have an exceptional need. A yearly preschool screening program, open to children ages birth-4 years, is also conducted. Parents/guardians who may wish to have their child screened at any time during the school year should contact the School Psychologist for the Frederic Public Schools. The Frederic Public Schools provides educational opportunities for students ages 3-21, or high school graduation, with the following exceptional educational needs: cognitive disabilities, learning disabilities, emotional disturbance, speech or language disabilities, orthopedic impaired, visually impaired, hearing impaired, other health impaired, autism, traumatic brain injury.

When the Department of Public Instruction conducts special education on-site reviews in districts, one of the areas that is reviewed is the determination of whether the district has, in some form, published the 544197 1L above notices and thus notified parents of these rights.

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(July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24)

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NOTICE OF THE TOWN OF LORAIN SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ELECTORS

(Aug. 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY FIRST NATIONAL BANK & TRUST, P.O. BOX 32 Rice Lake, WI 54868, Plaintiff, vs.

BRIAN L. LODERMEIER 1062 50th Ave. Amery, WI 54001, and CARRIE J. LODERMEIER 1062 50th Ave. Amery, WI 54001, and HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORPORATION 1737 Beam Ave., Suite C Maplewood, MN 55109, and AMERY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, 265 Griffin Street E. Amery, WI 54001, Defendants.

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE Case No. 10 CV 1009 Classification No.: 30404 Under and by virtue of Judgment for Foreclosure in the above-entitled action issued by the Court aforesaid on the 11th day of April, 2011, I am commanded to sell the following described property: Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 2989, Volume 14, Page 11, being located in the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 5, Township 32 North, Range 16 West and in the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 8, Township 32 North, Range 16 West (in the Town of Black Brook), Polk County, Wisconsin.

TAX KEY NO.: 010-00195-0100.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1063 50th Ave., Amery, WI 54001.

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on October 19, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., on that day at the front entrance of the Polk County Courthouse located in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, I will sell the abovedescribed real estate to satisfy said judgment with interest and with costs to the highest bidder for cash.

TERMS OF SALE: 1. This is a cash sale. A certified check or bank check in the amount of 10% of the amount bid must accompany the bid, with the balance due upon confirmation of the sale by the 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. The property is being sold in an “as is” basis without warranties or representations of any kind.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wis., this 17th day of August, 2011.

Peter Johnson, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Drafted by: Andrew S. Lawton Attorney at Law P.O. Box 119 Spooner, WI 54801 Phone: 715-635-7525 State Bar No.: 1000824

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TOWN OF SWISS - REQUEST FOR BIDS LICENSED PLUMBERS

The Town of Swiss requests bids for the hook-up of water and sewer to the town shop in Danbury, Wisconsin.

Call 715-656-3030 for written specifications and/or arrangements for a project walk-through.

Sealed bids will be received up to the bid opening on September 13, 2011, at 7:05 p.m. during the Town Board Meeting at the Swiss Town Hall, 7551 Main Street, Danbury.

The Town of Swiss reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

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NOTICE OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Grantsburg School District August 12, 2011

Job Title:

Head High School Custodian with District Duties. 100% FTE Qualifications: High School Diploma or equivalent (Preference given to those with school maintenance and supervisory skills).

Requirements: Knowledge of building maintenance and operations, HVAC and boiler experience and general maintenance ability is preferred. The candidate should have the ability to negotiate best prices for district purchasing of supplies and equipment. Willing to work as a team and having social skills with students/staff is a required attribute. Having proof of a stable work history will be essential.

Responsibilities include daily cleaning and maintenance of the interior and exterior of the building and grounds. Position requires experience with utilizing custodial equipment to perform duties, such as: Stripping and resurfacing floors, dry mopping, vacuuming, dusting, cleaning rest rooms, snow removal and ability to stand for extended periods of time and safely lift 65 lbs. Ability to follow written and verbal instructions and work independently is critical.

We desire a candidate who will develop job skills as needed to adapt to change.

How to apply: Send letter of application, resume, credentials (three current letters of recommendation and transcripts) and a copy of license by August 31, 2011.

Contact: Stan Marczak, Principal Grantsburg High School 480 East James Ave. Grantsburg, WI 54840 715-463-2531 The School District of Grantsburg is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, 543622 52-1L color, national origin, sex, religion or handicap.

POLK COUNTY POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Golden Age Manor

LUCK SCHOOL DISTRICT 4K ENROLLMENT REGISTRATION

Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) - Limited part-time 6:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. $12.92/hr.

2:30 p.m. - 9/10:30 p.m. $13.32/hr Deadline To Apply: Sept. 1, 2011 YOU MUST COMPLETE OUR POLK COUNTY EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION TO BE ELIGIBLE. For applications, complete job description & qualifications please visit our Web site at www.co.polk.wi.us, Employee Opportunities, or in person at 100 Polk County Plaza, #229, Balsam Lake, WI, 715-485-9176 or GAM, 220 Scholl Ct., Amery, WI, 715544174 1L 268-7107. AA/EEOC

All Luck School District children that turn four (4) by September 1st are eligible for the 4-year-old kindergarten program at the Polk County Early Learning Center in Balsam Lake. Please call 715-485-3413 to register for the 2011 - 2012 program year. Also accepting registrations for our 3-year-old class543862 1L rooms at this time.

WANTED

NOTICE OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Manager of Finance and Accounting Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative, a progressive diversified electric utility in northwest Wisconsin, is seeking a Manager of Finance and Accounting. This position will be responsible for the overall financial and accounting functions of the cooperative and subsidiaries including financial reporting, budgeting, audits, internal controls, cash and debt management and taxes.

The successful candidate must have a Bachelor’s degree with a major in business administration, finance, accounting or related field. Additional training pursuant to CPA designation will be considered highly desirable. A minimum of five years’ experience in a financial and accounting position is required, preferably with a consumer-owned utility system. A thorough working knowledge of financial and cash management, capital planning and placement, budgeting and forecasting, insurance and risk management, plant accounting and consumer billing and data processing systems is required. A working knowledge of the Uniform System of Accounts of the RUS is highly desirable. Other preferred areas of knowledge include cost of service and retail rate design. Must possess advanced proficiency in computer knowledge. Established proficiency in financial analysis required. The ability to interact effectively with employees, members and the public, as well as the ability to supervise and lead effectively in a team environment required.

Polk-Burnett offers a competitive wage and an excellent benefit package. Please submit a cover letter and resume on or before September 9, 2011, to: Executive Assistant/HR Administrator, Polk-Burnett, 1001 State Road 35, Centuria, WI 54824-9020 or sbergmann@polkburnett.com.

No phone calls please. Polk-Burnett is an equal opportunity employer.

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(July 27, Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB Plaintiff vs.

NANCY JOHNSON, et al Defendant(s) Case Number: 10 CV 936 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on March 10, 2011, in the amount of $105,175.37, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: September 13, 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 South 54 feet of Lot 6, Block 15, Third Addition to Lawson City in the Village of Luck, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 311 S. Main St., Luck, WI 54853.

TAX KEY NO.: 146-00181-0000.

Dated this 19th day of July, 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. 274735

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(Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB Plaintiff vs.

DEBORAH JOHNSON, et al Defendant(s) Case Number: 11 CV 137 CORRECTED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on June 16, 2011, in the amount of $142,136.23, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: September 21, 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 11, Plat of Hasta La Vista, Village of Milltown, Polk County, Wis. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 106 Ranger Court, Milltown, WI 54858.

TAX KEY NO.: 151-00367-1100.

Dated this 21st day of July, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Benjamin J. Pliskie State Bar #1037985 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. 274646

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(Aug. 10, 17, 24) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GWENDOLYN ALDEN Notice Setting Time to Hear Application and Deadline for Filing Claims (Informal Administration) Case No. 11 PR 56 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for informal administration was filed.

2. The decedent, with date of birth July 24, 1923, and date of death October 29, 2010, was domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 509 Benson Road, Frederic, WI 54837.

3. The application will be heard at the Polk County Courthouse, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, Room 500, before Jenell L. Anderson, Register in Probate, on September 7, 2011, at 9 a.m.

You do not need to appear unless you object. The application may be granted if there is no objection.

4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is November 10, 2011.

5. A claim may be filed at the Polk County Courthouse, Balsam Lake, Wis., Room 500.

6. This publication is notice to any persons whose names or addresses are unknown.

If you require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to participate in the court process, please call 715-4859238 at least 10 working days prior to the scheduled court date. Please note that the court does not provide transportation.

Please check with person named below for exact time and date.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar August 2, 2011 Adam C. Benson Attorney at Law BENSON LAW OFFICE LLC P.O. Box 370 Siren, WI 54872 715-349-5215 Bar No.: 1032855

(Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY CITIZENS COMMUNITY FEDERAL, Plaintiff, vs.

TRACY L. BRABEC, JASON A. BRABEC, ANCHORBANK, f/k/a S&C Bank Defendants.

Case No. 11CV336 Case Code: 30404 Foreclosure of Mortgage NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure and sale rendered in the above-entitled action on July 22, 2011, in the amount of $165,099.65, the undersigned Sheriff of Polk County, Wisconsin, will sell at public auction at the front entrance of the Polk County Courthouse in the City of Balsam Lake, in said County, on the 29th day of September, 2011, at 10:00 a.m., the real estate and mortgaged premises directed by the judgment to be sold, therein described as follows: Lot 2 of CSM 14-15, Map No. 2993, a part of the SE 1/4 SW 1/4 of Section 36, Township 33 North, Range 16 West (in the Township of Lincoln).

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 613 65th Street, Clear Lake, Wisconsin.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash.

DOWN PAYMENT: A deposit of 10% of sale price to be deposited in cash or by certified check with the Sheriff at the time of sale, balance to be paid by cash or certified check upon confirmation of sale.

Dated this 1st day of August, 2011. /s/Peter M. Johnson Polk County Sheriff Attorney Christine A. Gimber WELD, RILEY, PRENN & RICCI, S.C. 3624 Oakwood Hills Parkway Eau Claire, WI 54702-1030 715-839-7786 Attorneys for Plaintiff This is an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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(Aug. 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14, 21) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff vs.

ALLEANA CABLE, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 10 CV 983 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on June 30, 2011, in the amount of $98,371.37, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 5, 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 Ten (10), except the South 25 feet and all of Lot Eleven (11), Block Nine (9), Original Plat of the Village of Centuria, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 504 Superior Ave., Centuria, WI 54824.

TAX KEY NO.: 111-00301-0000.

Dated this 28th day of July, 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. 275179

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(Aug. 24) 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 AMENDED 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: September 1, 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 17th day of August, 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. 276123

Grantsburg School District August 15, 2011

Job Title: Reading Specialist/Math Teacher Job Description: Full-time, Long-term Substitute Qualifications: Appropriate Wisconsin Certification: Elementary Education with Reading Specialist 316 license.

Requirements: Elementary experience preferred. This individual will work in an RtI capacity with students that need intervention strategies in reading and math. The individual must be aware of the RtI process as well as reading and math intervention strategies. The individual will work collaboratively with classroom teachers on developing strategies and systems to help with the success of those students needing interventions in reading and/or math.

How to apply: Send letter of application, resume, credentials (Three current letters of recommendation and transcripts) and a copy of license by August 29, 2011.

Contact: Brad Jones, Principal Grantsburg Middle School 500 East James Ave. Grantsburg, WI 54840 715-463-2455 The School District of Grantsburg is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, 543621 52-1L color, national origin, six, religion or handicap.

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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: September 21, 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: 1382 and 1382-A State Rd. 48, Luck, WI 54853.

TAX KEY NO.: 036-00614-0100 & 036-00614-0200 Dated this 21st day of July, 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. 274840

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS, UNIONS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC

Notice is hereby given that the roadways and rights of way in the Townships of Jackson, Webb Lake, Union, Swiss, Oakland, Scott, Blaine, Lincoln, Meenon and Siren in the County of Burnett will be cleared of the fallen trees and other debris. The assistance requested is manpower and equipment to aid public safety and facilitate transportation and commerce in the affected area.

Due to the unavailability of funds to perform this project under statutory public contracting methods, the Wisconsin National Guard has been requested to assist in the development and execution of this project. In order that the interested parties or persons may offer their comments on this proposal, the County of Burnett has appointed Ms. Roberta Sichta as coordinator for this matter and she may be contacted at: 7410 County Rd. K #127, Siren, WI 54872 or by phone at 715-349-2171.

All trees not otherwise clearly marked with spray paint to be retained by the landowner(s), will be removed from rights of way. Any marked trees will be moved from the rights of way and placed on the landowner’s land at his or her direction. Persons not contacting the coordinator or not filing written comments with the requestor prior to ten (10) days from the date of this publication will be considered to have waived their right to 544215 1L voice objections or support for the project.

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NOW HIRING We are growing!!

Join a dynamic team that is focused on person-centered health care.

Environmental Services Housekeeper - Tier I

• Previous training or experience in healthcare institution.

• Ability to follow established policies and procedures to ensure safe and healthy work environment for self, co-workers and patients.

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(Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

LEON E. MEWHORTER, et al.

Defendant(s)

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(Aug. 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14, 21) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB Plaintiff vs.

DAVID M. SWENSON, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 10 CV 388 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on August 13, 2010, in the amount of $66,923.11, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 4, 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: Parcel 1: The Southeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4, Section 20, Township 36 North, Range 16 West, Town of Bone Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin. Parcel II: The Southwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4, Section 20, Township 36 North, Range 16 West, Town of Bone Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin; EXCEPT Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 2163, recorded in Volume 10 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 87, as Document No. 553225 and EXCEPT Lots 1, 2, 3, and the Access Road of Certified Survey Map No. 526, recorded in Volume 3, of Certified Survey Maps, Page 18, as Document No. 386179.

Also EXCEPTING parcel described in Volume 408, Page 645, as Document No. 386378.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1043 St. Rd. 48, Luck, WI 54853.

TAX KEY NO.: 012-00417-0000 and 012-00420-0000.

Dated this 22nd day of July, 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. 274731

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(Aug. 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7, 14, 21) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

RICK BOGAN, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 11 CV 35 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on June 30, 2011, in the amount of $300,002.89, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 6, 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: Parcel 1: Lot 3 of Certified Survey Map No. 505, recorded in Volume 2 of Certified Survey Maps, on Page 234, as Document No. 385464, being located in the West 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 1, Township 32 North, Range 18 West; also, a nonexclusive easement for ingress and egress in common with grantors, their heirs, personal representatives and assigns over and across that part of the East 33 feet of the East 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 1, Township 32 North, Range 18, bounded on the North by the South line of the Plat of Round Lake Beach; bounded on the South by a line parallel with and 511.53 feet South of said North line.

(It is intended that the East end of said North line shall be the Northwest corner of Lot 2 of Certified Survey Map No. 505, as recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Polk County, Wisconsin, in Volume 2 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 234, as Document No. 385464. It is further intended that the East end of said South line shall be the Southwest corner of Lot 4 of said Certified Survey Map, Town of Alden, Polk County, Wisconsin. Parcel 2: Lot 5 of Certified Survey Map No. 3660 recorded in Volume 16 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 173, as Document No. 630537, located in the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 1, Township 32 North, Range 18 West, in the Town of Alden, Polk County, Wisconsin. Together with an access easement as shown in Certified Survey Map No. 3660 recorded in Volume 16 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 173, as Document No. 630537.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 534 Round Lake Court, Osceola, WI 54020.

TAX KEY NO.: 002-01017-0000 & 002-00999-0000.

Dated this 28th day of July, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Annie M. Schumacher State Bar # 1074726 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. 275164

Eligible applicants should be culturally competent and respectful of Native American beliefs and val ues.

Full job description available upon request. Native American Preference Employer. Please mail or fax your resume to the St. Croix Tribal Health Clinic, attention Health Director.

SCHOOL DISTRICT OF FREDERIC NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH & BREAKFAST PROGRAMS, SPECIAL MILK PROGRAM The Frederic School District today announced its policy for children unable to pay the full price of meals served under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program or milk for split-session students served under the Special Milk Program. Each school office and the central office has a copy of the policy, which may be reviewed by any interested party.

The following household size and income criteria will be used for determining eligibility. Children from families whose annual income is at or below the levels shown are eligible for free and reduced price meals, or free milk if a split-session student does not have access to the school lunch or breakfast service.

FAMILY SIZE INCOME SCALE For Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals or Milk ANNUAL INCOME LEVEL MONTHLY INCOME LEVEL Free Reduced Price Free Reduced Price Must be at or below Must be at or between Must be at or below Must be at or between Family (Household) Size

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1 $14,157 2 19,123 3 24,089 4 29,055 5 34,021 6 38,987 7 43,953 8 48,919 For each additional household member, add +4,966

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$20,147 27,214 34,281 41,348 48,415 55,482 62,549 69,616

$1,180 1,594 2,008 2,422 2,836 3,249 3,663 4,077

$1,180.01 & 1,594.01 & 2,008.01 & 2,422.01 & 2,836.01 & 3,249.01 & 3,663.01 & 4,077.01 &

$1,679 2,268 2,857 3,446 4,035 4,624 5,213 5,802

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Application forms are being sent to all homes with a notice to parents or guardians. To apply for free or reduced price meals or free milk, households must fill out the application and return it to the school (unless notified at the start of the school year that children are eligible through direct certification). Additional copies are available at the office in each school. The information provided on the application will be used for the purpose of determining eligibility and may be verified at any time during the school year by agency or other program officials. Applications may be submitted at any time during the year.

To obtain free or reduced price meals or free milk for children in a household where one or more household members receive FoodShare, FDPIR or Wisconsin Works (W-2) cash benefits, list the household member and the FoodShare, FDPIR or W-2 case number, list the names of all schoolchildren, sign the application and return it to the school office.

For the school officials to determine eligibility for free or reduced price meals or free milk of households not receiving FoodShare, FDPIR or W-2 cash benefits, the household must provide the following information requested on the application: names of all household members and the Social Security number of the adult household member who signs the application. In lieu of a Social Security number, the household may indicate that the signer does not possess a Social Security number. Also, the income received by each household member must be provided by amount and source (wages, welfare, child support, etc.).

Under the provisions of the free and reduced price meal and free milk policy, Judy Shafer will review applications and determine eligibility. If a parent or guardian is dissatisfied with the ruling of the official, he/she may wish to discuss the decision with the determining official on an informal basis. If the parent/guardian wishes to make a formal appeal, he/she may make a request either orally or in writing to: Gerald Tischer, Superintendent, 1437 Clam Falls Dr., Frederic, WI 54837, 715327-5630.

If a hearing is needed to appeal the decision, the policy contains an outline of the hearing procedure.

If a household member becomes unemployed or if the household size changes, the family should contact the school. Such changes may make the household eligible for reduced price meals or free meals or free milk if the household income falls at or below the levels shown above, and they may reapply at that time.

Children formally placed in foster care are also eligible for free meal benefits. Foster children may be certified as eligible without a household application. Households with foster children and nonfoster children may choose to include the foster child as a household member, as well as any personal income available to the foster child, on the same application that includes their nonfoster children.

The information provided by the household on the application is confidential. Public Law 103-448 limits the release of student free and reduced price school meal eligibility status to persons directly connected with the administration and enforcement of federal or state educational programs.

Consent of the parent/guardian is needed for other purposes such as waiver of textbook fees.

In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability. To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call toll-free 866-632-9992 (Voice). Individuals who are hearing impaired or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339; or 800-845-6136 (Spanish). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

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Soap Box Derby/from page 1 hill and they’re sort of fast and it’s a big party and oh yeah, it’s really pretty unpredictable and exciting.

Except for the winning team’s infamous lube secret, there is no petroleum product involved, except on the ATVs that pull the cars back up to the staging area in the longago-closed Cushing Creamery Cooperative parking lot.

The Derby included a record 25 cars this year, up five from 2010 and nine more than in the inaugural event in 2009.

“We were hoping, praying to get 10 cars that first time,” Matt Larson said. “We got 16 cars and it took off.”

He affectionately credited the word of mouth of some of the early participants as one the main reasons The Derby took off, but also admitted to strange unpredictability of the event, that it sort of defies logic. It does seem worthy of a university physics study to understand the formula, as to why it works out to be so unpredictable.

“You know, that’s part of it,” Larson admitted, shrugging with a smile after the race, as the crowd on the street spools up for a street dance. “We just don‘t know why some cars are so fast and others aren’t!”

Later in Suzy Q’s Tavern, a debate rages between several participants about the secrets: One claims it’s about bearings and lubrication, while the other man holds to his belief that it’s the pushers and the weight.

The debate is part of the mystery and the excitement.

“Some people have wondered why we don’t just have a gate to drop the cars at the same time,” Larson said. “But I think the pushing makes it more interesting.”

And the cars must have names and be sort of weird, at least that’s what the “crazy cool” fan said.

“No Fred Flintstone brakes”

Wet side meets Dry side

The rules are pretty basic: Vehicles can be made of any material but must fit inside a 5-by-8-foot painted box below the announcer’s stand. They can have three or four wheels, of any style. They need to be able to steer and be safe, and need a pushbar in the back. They must have brakes No “Fred Flintstone” foot stopping, although one vehicle did use a rudimentary shoe on a lever to spite the rule - and add some character.

Other than that, your pushers must not cross a certain line, you have to stay in your lane, and you can’t go past a set of pylons further down the ending. (That rule played into the race this year, as one car just kept going with hands raised in victory.)

Drivers must be at least 18 years old, pushers must wear helmets, body English is encouraged and pyrotechnics and fireworks are not allowed. Neither are sails.

(That one is a joke.)

wheels, a sleek windshield and Wildwood disc brakes worthy of a sprint car.

That such elaborate machines can go against others that look cobbled together from hospital beds, lawn mowers, wheelchairs and My Little Pony kids bikes is what makes it unique, affordable and as unpredictable as a Charlie Sheen commencement speech.

“You never know what’s going to win!”

Larson said, watching as the radar speed board at the bottom of the course registers over 25 mph for several machines. He also noted that the track was stretched a few feet this year at the end, and that it made a difference, adding more flat surface before the finish line.

“Some of them got faster at the end,” Larson said near the finish line, shaking his head again. “It just plain works!”

Building a winner

It takes plenty of volunteers to make The Derby fly, and these are lots of them (not in order): Troy Davidsavor, Rick Davidsavor, Roy Clark, Sam Owen Jr., Kent Christensen, Tara Christensen, Anne Danielson, Many Gudmunsen, Gary Gudmunsen, Shawn Gudmunsen, Steve Tretsven, Colton Tretsven, Jared Gross, Scott Strese, Josh Hiedel, Mark Anderson (Sparky), Kevin Jensen, Shane Anderson, Jessica Theroux, Adrian Haaf, Merle Larson, Katie Larson and Matt Larson. - Photo by Greg Marsten

As mentioned, the course is steep and just under a tenth of a mile long. (Larson hadn’t even thought to measure the length until he was asked for this article.) The surface is municipal-grade pavement, with a white dotted line in the middle, signifying not only the lane marks - but also the literal town divider.

Yes, this race takes place in two Polk County municipalities. You see, unincorporated Cushing - with its three exits off Hwy. 87 - has Derby lanes created by town lines.

The west side, Lane 1, is in the Town of Sterling and is the “wet side” of town, with all the taverns.

The east side - Lane 2 - is the Town of Laketown, and is technically the “dry side” of town.

“But you can have a beer on either side of the street,” noted announcer Gary Gudmunsen, as the sounds of the theme from “Green Acres” winds down behind him, segueing into “Some Kind of Wonderful”

Derby results CUSHING - The Third Annual Cushing Adult Soapbox Derby results: First place - Shake n’ Bake team. Second place - Small Town Southerners.

Third place - The Shocker. Fourth place - Suzy Q’s. Officials’ Favorite - Eureka Lightning (The Bullet). Thanks for Coming Award went to the Laketown Dead Enders. and Southern rock.

People dance and sway to DJ Cary Jensen’s tune selections, sipping in the suds, drinks and a glorious evening as the racers spool up and event rolls ahead in a sort of infectious summer party.

My Little Pony meets a Sprint car The Derby is not only growing, it gets more entertaining and slick, while the cars get even more unique. This year featured a Brian Doolittle-built car that resembled a Winchester mag bullet. They also have a sleek-looking dragster unit with huge mag

That unpredictability struck home again this year, as the 2010 returning champs - affectionally called the “Shake ‘n Bake” team - came back to win it by a yard in the final, double elimination race as the evening wound down.

The Shake ‘n Bake “car” is made of two welded oil drums, bike wheels and apparently some sort of space-age titanium obtained through NASA. “Naw, it’s all about the pushers,” stated John Wallner, while another teammate claims it’s “all about the lube!” They hold up a can of Liquid Wrench spray lube like a hockey player holds the Stanley Cup. Larson shakes his head with a grin behind them, turning to other volunteers and mumbling: “Why is that thing so fast?”

The secret, as the Shake ‘n Bake team of Jeff Hermansen, Wallner and Nick Bengston reveal later, may be in their elaborate assembly schedule and process. They outline how three years ago, when they first heard about the race, they decided in a beer-fueled moment of clarity that they should build a car.

“We built it on a whim, the day before the race,” Wallner admitted proudly. When asked whether they are professional builders, they don’t hesitate to answer: “Naw. We’re drinkers and farmers ...

Drinkers first!”

The team has reason to be proud, not only of their winning car, but that the magical last-minute formula seems to be effective. They built two other cars for this race - “The Red Rocket” and the “El Diablo” and while both of those cars did well, they couldn’t match the original.

“We had to try and repeat and we did it!”

See Soap Box Derby, back page

The walls come tumbling down

From DULUTH to EAU CLAIRE And Thousands Of Destinations!

This blighted property at 805 East Park Ave. in Luck was taken down on Wednesday, Aug. 24, to make way for a home that will be built by volunteers with Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity and the Thrivent Builds program. The home was on a lot that was purchased by Dennis Frandsen and donated to Habitat, and the lot adjacent was donated by Chris Moore. Steve Nielsen, former Luck president, with Phil and Lori Warhol, current village trustees, contributed the tear-down cost. Kristina Handt at the village of Luck was extremely helpful in coordinating. The Habitat build will kick off this Saturday, Aug. 25. Volunteers are needed - please contact Habitat at 715-483-2700 if you would like be part of this community which is helping to build a home with a family who needs it. See more photos of the house being torn down on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wild-RiversHabitat-for-Humanity-Inc/321168762723 - Photos by Mary Stirrat

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Pushers have just a couple of quick steps of influence, but can make a big difference over the 500-foot course down 240th Street. - Photos by Greg Marsten Wallner exclaims, holding up a “number one” as the trophies come out, and the banners are waved behind them. They also get $150 first-place prize, and of course, bragging rights.

“It sure gets people to town,” said volunteer and long-time Cushing resident Shawn Gudmunsen, who filled out the brackets for the 25 cars and several dozen races. “It’s just a great time! I’m so glad it helps everyone out. It’s a win-win.”

A driver admission

Volunteers spend most of an hour clearing the track after the races, preparing for a street dance and eventual auto traffic on Sunday. Larson is behind the wheel of Jim Wilson’s borrowed Deere tractor, putting

away the hay before any rains, never missing a beat. He eventually slows down and enjoys the evening again as night falls on downtown Cushing.

Other team members party together, share stories and tips and even a few admissions.

“I didn’t want to drive. I’d never done it.

I was so scared to do it!“ admits secondplace winner Denise Chouinard of Osceola.

She was a last-minute replacement driver for the Small Town Southerners racing team, in a car built by her husband, Dion.

“I was sure I was going to crash!”

The Small Town ... team also had to recruit Todd Johnson as a pusher just a few hours before. He was standing beside the frog jumping contest when asked. It took

Body English and added weights are encouraged, but may not help all that much.

him about 10 seconds to say yes.

“But next time, I want my own helmet!”

Johnson said afterward with a laugh, noting how it “folded his ears up” and he couldn’t hear his fellow pusher, Scott Malmgren.

Expansion and circuits?

As the town partied away the Saturday night behind him, Larson dwells on the event, which he called “By far the best ever.

Huge turnout.” Loose estimates run as high as 600 people at peak on the streets alone, with hundreds more in the taverns and local homes.

But Larson isn’t satisfied with just making The Derby bigger. He has visions of expansion, and has already been approached

The sleek So-Cal Speed Shop entry used wheelchair wheels, which the jury is still out on.

The winning Shake 'n Bake team of Jeff Hermansen, Nick Bengston and John Wallner hold up the magic can of Liquid Wrench lube they say is the difference.

about bringing a similar event to Milltown, and maybe even to Balsam Lake, which gets those wheels turning in his head again. He mentions “maybe doing a circuit,” with different courses, maybe going for distance instead of speed on less steep roadways, and possibly including Grantsburg as part of their Big Gust Days.

He is already seeking input, comments, sponsors and more for next year on the event’s Facebook page, “Cushing Adult Soapbox Derby.”

“And it would all come down to the finals in Cushing,” he said, goatee rising as his smile swells. “The sky’s the limit. As long as it brings people to town.”

Somebody get this guy another napkin.

Some drivers can't wait for the race to end for the celebratory suds.

Second-place finishers the Small Town Southerners, Scott Malmgren, Denise Chouinard and Todd Johnson, also had a secret: a driver who was scared to death of crashing.

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Frederic youth experience Mexico

Christian camp has a soccer field, thanks to Crosswalk Community Church

MORELOS, Mexico — While most kids were preparing for an evening fireworks display on July Fourth, several area youth youths were heading to the airport to catch a plane to Mexico.

The youth from Frederic’s Crosswalk Community Church have been planning this trip for a long time. They put together several creative fundraisers, including pie auctions, a taco dinner and taking tickets for the inflatable bounce houses at Frederic Family Days. Finally, everything added up for a smooth takeoff.

The group of 12 youth and four adults flew to Dallas and then on to Mexico City, where they rode a bus to Cuernavaca, Morelos. From there, they were taken to the Christian camp, El Monte, located in the mountains 90 miles from Mexico City.

Just looking out the windows was a crosscultural experience for these youth. "Mexico City goes on for miles and miles," said Amanda Richey from Luck.

The main service project the youth came to do was to lay sod for a large soccer field.

As the workers piled on the sunscreen, the trucks loaded with sod arrived. In their work project, the team laid more than 2,000 square meters of sod on the new soccer field and in a cabin area.

"The teamwork was amazing to see as the grass quickly covered the field like carpet being unrolled,” claimed Jill Lund, one the team leaders. "We are so happy to prepare this soccer field for the people in Mexico to use to reach out to area youth. They

At Xochicalco, a pre-Columbian ruin near Mexico City, the mission group from Crosswalk Community Church in Frederic poses at the edge of one of the pyramids. - Photos submitted

sure love to play soccer!"

At the camp, Wisconsin kids met missionaries and summer staff from around the world. The countries represented there were New Zealand, Belize, Argentina, Germany, France, Canada and, of course, Mexico and the United States. It is a beautiful intersection of many people who are united by their love for Christ.

The time there was not only spent in work projects. The youth also ministered in a church by singing a song in Spanish and performing a song choreographed with dowel rods and sign language during the Sunday morning service. In addition, they did several songs with puppets and props for the children's Bible school opening program. Pastor Greg Lund brought greetings from Crosswalk Community Church to the church there, "Monte de Olivos" using a passage from Romans, "that we may be mutually encouraged in our faith."

One of the favorite experiences was eating in local restaurants. "The food was the best," said Timothy Lund. “It will be hard to eat American food again."

The group was also able to visit Hacienda Ruins, the pyramids of Xochicalco and the open air market in Cuernavaca.

Many of them brought original paintings home that they watched being painted in the Plaza of Cuernavaca. These will be keepsakes that will remind them of the happy memories of serving at El Monte in the summer of 2011.

Service and outreach was the focus and the kids had the time of their lives doing it.

“In heaven some day we may meet someone who came to faith in Christ after playing soccer on that field where we laid sod,” said Lund. “It truly makes it worthwhile to think that we might play a part in that.”

"It was an amazing trip! I will never forget it, " said J.P. Richey from Luck. — submitted by Crosswalk Community Church More photos, page 2

Although the group from Crosswalk Community Church did several service projects while at El Monte Christian Camp in Mexico, they were also able to do some sightseeing. Here they are shown at Xochicalco, an archaeological site dating to about 650 AD. Shown (L to R) in back are Joelle Wilson of El Monte, Peter Lund, Anna Potvin, Amanda Richey, Mikhaila Lampert, Eli Marek, and Jared Lund. In front are Pastor Greg and Jill Lund, Peter Wilson of El Monte, Josiah Lund, Alex Richey, Ryan Strenke, J.P. Richey, Timothy Lund, Nels Potvin, Jodie and Don McClure, and Paul and Roxanne Wilson, staff missionaries at El Monte.

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Youth from Crosswalk Community Church in Frederic helped with the children’s Bible school at El Monte Christian Camp in Morelos, Mexico, doing puppets, singing and sign language.

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Sport plane fl fly y-in breakfast at Taylors Falls Airport well-attended TAYLORS FALLS, Minn. - A free, egg-bake breakfast was provided by maitre d’, Richard Giefer and wife, Renee, July 3, to participants in the first-annual Taylors Falls Airport Fly-in.

Visiting aircraft included a Coyote Model S-s4, Euro-Fox, Australian Trike, Van Grunsen RV-4 and a Kit Fox in the sports category, and a Bellanca, Citabria in the light plane, aerobatic category. The Bellanca was manufactured at the Bellanca Aircraft Corp. in Osceola. (Citabria spelled backward is Airbatic).

Entertainment consisted of demonstrations of short-field takeoffs and landings by fly-in participants. - submitted

Kirsten Anderson and Beau Rivard in an Australian Trike. - Photos submitted Beauregard Rivard congratulates a short-field takeoff and landing demonstrator.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vehe and a Coyote S-4.

Laird Mork, Beau Rivard, Mike (Donuts) Wegner and John Glynn at the Taylors Falls Airport sport plane fly-in breakfast, July 3.

Frederic youth experience Mexico/cont’d LEFT: Visiting the city of Cuernavaca, with its open-air markets and colorful atmosphere, was one of the highlights of the trip to Mexico. Cuernavaca is the capital of the state of Morelos, boasting nearly 1 million people.

BELOW: Led by Pastor and Mrs. Greg Lund along with Don and Jodie McClure, 12 young people from the Frederic area spent more than a week at a Bible camp in Mexico. One of the main projects the youth accomplished on their mission trip was the laying of more than 2,000 square meters of sod for a soccer field.

RIGHT: This massive organ pipe cactus was just one of the many unusual sights the group from Crosswalk Community Church in Frederic was able to enjoy while in Mexico. From left are Peter Lund, J.P. Richey, Alex Richey, Jared Lund and Josiah Lund.

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My neighbor Carol just found me on Facebook.

This wouldn’t be noteworthy except that Carol was my neighbor when I was very young. Our backyards adjoined; my Carrie Classon mother’s vegetable garden was just out of reach of the shade produced by her family’s willow tree. We rode our bikes with all the neighborhood kids, we swam in the lake across the street, we put on carnivals in the summer and, occasionally, I would get her to be in one of the plays I produced in my basement— but only for a price.

Carol was a shrewd negotiator and a reluctant actor and she knew how badly I needed able-bodied performers to be in my extravaganza production of “Little Red Riding Hood” or “Jill and the Beanstalk.”

I was not surprised to learn she later went on to get an MBA after my experiences negotiating her performing contract as a 7-year-old.

Her stipulation was always the same: we had to play Barbies and we had to play Barbies first.

I don’t know why, but I never liked Barbie. She seemed kind of fussy to me with all her matching pink clothes and pointy shoes. I didn’t like the “crack, crack, crack” sound her knees made when I bent them and, unlike my teddy bear and stuffed rabbit, no matter how hard or long I looked at her face, her expression never seemed to change from that pouty fake smile she always wore.

But Carol liked to play Barbies and so, whenever I got a new inspiration for a play, before I could do anything to bring my magnificent vision to life, we’d haul out boring old Ken and Barbie’s pink truck and bend her crackly knees to get her in the driver‘s seat and Carol and I would play Barbies all day long.

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I don’t believe I ever resisted or tried to talk her out of it.

Once Carol had decided a thing, it stayed decided. I learned that, in order to do the thing I really wanted to do, I had to play Barbies first. And I never forgot it.

A lot is written and said about deferred gratification. I’m sure it builds character and has made me better at achieving goals. But more and more I’m wondering if there isn’t a slippery slope between doing things in order to get what I really want, and doing things in order to avoid actually doing— and enjoying— what I want most.

Stepping fully into my life means living in a way that makes this moment, this day, the one that matters most. I don’t give up my dreams for tomorrow, but I remember they are called “dreams” for a reason; they are only one possible consequence of my actions today. In Carol’s case, it was a simple quid pro quo but, later in life, I erected far more demanding requirements in order to earn the right to do what I wanted to do, feel what I wanted to feel, be who I felt I could be, and no one negotiated those contracts but me. Unlike Carol, I never fully let myself off the hook. I was never really through playing Barbies with myself.

I’m glad to have reconnected with Carol. I plan to drop her a note and ask if she remembers playing Barbies or being in “Jill and the Beanstalk.” Then maybe I’ll use the occasion of our reunion as a chance to renegotiate a few contracts I might still have with myself. I might just take some tips from Carol.

Till next time, — Carrie

Doran School Reunion

Approximately 40 people were on hand at Crooked Lake Park, Siren, Saturday, Aug. 20, for a reunion of students who attended Burnett County’s Doran School. Inez Pearson claimed the honor of being the oldest student at the reunion.

She was in first grade there in 1935. A time was spent during the reunion with attendees introducing themselves and relating memories of teachers and times they had at the school. – Photos by Nancy Jappe

Dog Days of Summer What is it about dogs? One

Cold Turkey

minute they are eating holes in your walls and your couch and peeing on the carpet while you John W. Ingalls threaten serious bodily harm and then the next minute they are breaking your heart. They just have a knack at nosing their way into our lives.

If you have read “Marley and Me,” or have seen the movie, then you know what I am talking about. Marley was a yellow Lab that was obnoxious in every possible way but he always loved unconditionally. No matter how much he got into trouble, he was full of love and life and lived it until the end. That’s the way it is with dogs. As much as you can rationalize that your life is better off or certainly easier without a dog, they still have a place on the rug and in your heart.

This summer has been a difficult year for dogs in our family. Reggie White, our 14-year-old dog, is now resting out by the big pine tree at the edge of our yard.

For the last five years he received insulin injections every morning as we tried to watch his diet so he wouldn’t eat something he wasn’t supposed to eat.

Tom, Dick and Harry went to a party. After the party they returned to the hotel. The hotel was 600 stoJoe Roberts ries high.

Unfortunately for them, the elevator was not working. They made a plan. For the first 200 stories, Tom would crack jokes.

The second 200 stories, Dick would tell a happy story and lastly, Harry would tell a sad story. They started up the steps.

After two hours it was Harry’s turn. He turned to the other two and said “OK guys, here’s my sad story. I forgot the keys downstairs.”

••• There were three men on a hill with their watches.

The first man threw his watch down the hill and it broke.

The second man threw his watch down the hill and it broke.

The third man threw his watch down the hill, walked all the way to the bottom, and caught it.

The other two men were puzzled and asked the third man how he did it.

The third man said, “Easy. My watch is five minutes slow!”

••• A little girl asked her mother, “How did the human race appear?” The mother answered, “God made Adam and Eve and they had children and so was all mankind made.”

Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, “Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved.”

The confused girl returned to her mother and said, “Mom, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?”

The mother answered, “Well, dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family and your father told you about his.”

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ABOVE RIGHT: Paul Sexton, Siren, a student at Doran School in Burnett County from 1941-1949, led a session of remembrance during the school reunion Saturday, Aug. 20, at Crooked Lake Park, Siren.

Sexton put together a book about the school, which ran from 1898 to 1954, which was available for purchase.

FAR LEFT: Inez Pearson (L), who found herself as the oldest student at the Doran School reunion Saturday, Aug. 20, at Crooked Lake Park, Siren, sat for a long time talking with her first-grade teacher, Ann Nordin Smith. Their memories of school go back to that year together in 1935. Nora Searles, the oldest living student at the school, was unable to attend the reunion this year. The Doran School was completed in late Dec. 1897 and closed at the end of the 1953-1954 school year.

LEFT: Don Grunnes showed some of his latest artwork, a drawing of Lakeview United Methodist Church, during the Doran School reunion in Siren this past Saturday. Grunnes broke both his ankles and used art to keep him occupied while he was laid up. “It keeps my mind off all the problems I think I have got,” he said during the Doran School reunion Saturday, Aug. 20, in Siren. Grunnes’ father was one of the Doran School teachers, the second school in which the elder Grunnes taught.

The last five years was a long trip downhill. He lost his hearing, his vision and finally he started losing his mind. He was deaf and slept so soundly that in the mornings you had to poke MD him to see if he was still breathing. Because of his diabetes he wasn’t allowed to eat popcorn because his blood sugar would go sky high. For his last meal he ate the whole pot full with plenty of added butter and salt. Even though we all knew it was time to say goodbye it was still tough. Even now in the mornings I go to the door to let him out and realize he isn’t there.

How many thousands of people experience the same thing. Everyday there is a Penny or Molly or Buster or Wally ready to share your day and love you unconditionally, no matter how the world treated you, whether or not you deserved it.

Benny was the latest addition to our extended family to brighten our lives, even if only for a brief time.

He was named after the famous Elton John song, “Benny and the Jets,” but he was no jet. He was anything but a jet. He was more like a four-legged dust

mop with a cold black nose. Even as a puppy you could see his lazy streak. He would lie down to eat as if it was just too much work to chew. His fuzzy blond hair stuck up in every direction as if he had electricity running through his body.

He could sit and lie down but he never really grasped the concept of rolling over. He would only go halfway and then he had to rest. What he was good at doing he did well for his short life. He loved children and people. You could pull his ears, poke his nose and little children used him for a floor pillow and he never complained.

Benny the Jet decided to romp along the seldomtraveled road that ran in front of his house. Frightened by a truck he jumped into the roadway. Benny never had a sad day in his life. Every lazy bone and every electric hair on his body was happy every day and he gave us all something to laugh about.

Maybe there is a good lesson in this for all of us.

Live happy and love people even when you have lazy bones and hair that sticks up all the time. Life is hard enough; don’t make it worse than it really is. Some of the best days of the whole year are the dog days of summer. Enjoy those days like Benny the Jet did. He made us all happy.

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On the road again

River Road

Thursday afternoon, I am sitting in

Cousin Sally’s sunroom, overlooking her lush flower garden, in downtown Queen Anne, Wash., atop one of the large hills overlooking downtown Seattle. Each of the 100-year-old Victorian homes nearby have flowers, shrubs, and fruit trees in abundance in their small, tightly spaced yards. Sally doesn’t waste a single inch for grass—just a riot of perennial flowers, shrubs and trees.

It is the dry season here so Sally and Margo are out watering everything. August has been quite dry after a wet, cool spring and summer that has just gotten its first 80 degree day last week. Everything out here is two weeks behind schedule including the wild blackberries that fill the ditches and every untended or vacant lot around. We browsed a few of them, but mostly still bitingly sour even though the tip berries are somewhat black.

The trip out was trouble free, the ‘91 Olds acting 15 years younger. The roads were great; the traffic on Hwy. 14 and then 12, sparse, and the camping wonderfully bug and rain free. We have been doing a few of the tourist things and visiting other cousins, but nothing exciting enough to write about, so it seems like a good time to catch up on reader questions and comments. People comment about stories and ask questions about them and sometimes ask personal questions too.

First question: You write letters to the editor and sometimes your columns express opinions that indicate you are a liberal. Are you? Answer: Having grown up as a religious fundamentalist and having learned to be proudly intolerant of anyone and everyone who believed anything different, I started out pretty darn conservative. Over the years, I have mellowed. Now I accept that people could have opinions and beliefs different from mine and not be bound straight for eternal torment. My fundamentalist friends consider that makes me a liberal.

Q: Are you always trying to make a joke when you express opinions? It sometimes seems that way.

A: First of all, as an entertainment columnist, I try not to express opinions that would offend my readers. Some of you are hard right wing nuts; others are far left liberal socialist commies. I like to steer a line in the middle so I can offend both equally. Those of us in the middle, the 20 percent who swing left then right – those of us too wishy-washy to have strong opinions; who see things in shades of gray; who see value or foolishness in the arguments of both sides - we are the important people! You can thank us for all the political phone calls you get and the bombardment of advertisements that brighten your days during the political season.

You owe us a lot for the entertainment on TV as the right and left try to sway us to their side!

Q: You used to write local history in almost all of your columns. Why have you strayed to baloney most of the time? A: I still do 51.73 percent local history in my columns. Local history takes work. You have to do research, find information and then turn it into something at least slightly interesting to readers—some-

Ramblings Collected by Russ Hanson

Margo polishes a rock in Medford, Ore., at the local rock shop. Most of the employees there are prisoners who work on the rock pile outside mining good samples. She got a job working inside where it is air-conditioned to make enough money to pay for the Rambler’s speeding ticket. - Photo by the Rambler thing pretty darn hard to do on a regular basis. When I don’t have anything researched and ready, I end up aiming for entertainment. Thus, I write about what is happening with an attempt to make it just a shade humorous and interesting.

The kind of writing where one is not tied too tightly to the facts is often easier to think up.

Q: How long have you been writing this column? Are you going to continue?

A: Back in 1999, I wrote my first letter to the editor in the Leader. It was published and the tremendous fame, acclaim and accolades I received from my neighbors was so rewarding I realized I needed this kind of recognition to make life worthwhile. So, I began negotiating with Gary King, editor of the Leader. I offered to do a column if he would pay me $100 a week. After five hard years of negotiating, we came to an agreement where I paid him $100 a week to accept my columns. So I began a weekly column. As I continued writing and became famous, each year we renegotiated until in 2011, I pay only $20 per week for the column. In 2012, I am hopeful of getting them in for free – the sign of a truly accomplished author.

Q: Why do you think your trips south in the winter and your trips west in August are fodder for the Leader gristmill?

A: This question obviously comes from an old farmer – fodder and gristmill are terms my grandfather might have used.

Well, I don’t have any idea why they might be of interest to readers. I pretty much read whatever is in the Leader, whether I am interested or not. I am pleasantly surprised when something is interesting, when I learn something new, or I find something controversial (like the letters to the editor or a fight in local governmental bodies). Henry David Thoreau said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” I think he meant that we are born after a struggle, struggle through getting an education,

struggle through working endlessly at jobs that too often are meaningless and boring, and then struggle through our decline. Along the way, we try to find things to take our mind off our own struggles. Newspapers provide some of that where we read about sports, travel and scandal of others, especially about those people who live in a fairy-tale world of elegance, high society and indoor plumbing.

Q: What do you think of the current political situation?

A: Well, it is mighty discouraging to see people who believe so strongly they are absolutely right they can’t find any room to compromise and solve problems. However, our government was set up by the Founding Fathers to work this way, and it does work. In the end (usually the next election) things do balance out; things do get done; problems do get solved. The real problem is that there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who believe what we do and those who don’t. The others, of course are wrong, but too foolish to realize it.

Q: What are you working on for a future column that actually might be interesting? A: An 1860 bank robbery in southern Wisconsin where the gold was buried on the north shore of Bass Lake with the last of the loot dug up 100 years later in the 1960s by my neighbor. An 1859 $20 gold piece is the evidence. Just need more details and background research to pull the ends together. We stopped in Newport, Ore., to visit Nina Borup Malmen who told us about the robbery. Coming soon!

Q: How is your leg coming along? A: Nearly two years ago I fell when the tsunami came up the St. Croix, through Wolf Creek to Orr Creek and toppled me from the ladder where I was working, breaking my leg severely. The leg is healed, but the damaged knee is acting up. When I start walking, the knee joint slips backward, delaying that leg from

coming along for a few seconds, and when I stop, it continues to walk a few seconds longer. I expect I will have to have a new knee bearing put in to replace the worn-out one. It has made walking turn from a pleasure to a nuisance. Luckily, Margo can fetch for me.

Q: How is Margo doing? A: Forty years ago, I asked her out on our first date. We had worked together for a year and knew each other quite well. I knew her to be a hardworking, patient, kind and nice person as well as impressively stacked. I figured that with some extensive training and encouragement, she would make a good wife. I was right— although the amount of training needed has seemed to be almost endless, she has mostly come around. On her last annual evaluation, I moved her from “adequate” in most categories to “above average” and “improvement shown” in several. It might be that I am just getting to be mellow in my old age, but I do think she is coming along quite well. March 4 I plan to give her a nice framed achievement award for 40 years of reasonable and faithful service.

Q: What is coming up that we should know about? A: The sixth annual River Road Ramble, a Hwy. 87-River Road loop tour of the oldest road in Northwest Wisconsin is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 24. While we are away, our apples, pumpkins, squash and melons are hard at work producing the fruit that will make our winter trip south possible.

Tonight (Thursday, Aug. 25, 7 p.m. at the Luck Museum) the Danish Boatlift exhibit will be on display and a movie telling what happened will be shown.

When Hitler was after the Jews in Denmark, the Danes mounted a remarkable effort to take them by boat to safety in Sweden. Free!

Q: What is the purpose of this column? A: Beyond the obvious (fame and fortune for the author), the primary purpose is to entertain readers. We spare no expense, effort and challenge to go to the ends of the county and find exactly what will thrill, educate and stimulate you on a weekly basis. We take the raw hard news, prechew it like a mother vulture lovingly feeding her babies, and regurgitate it into the pages of the Leader. Like Fox News’ famous owner, Rupert Murdoch, whose staff hacked into the personal phones of the rich and famous to bring you the latest fair and balanced news, we too will do what it takes to bring you our own personally slanted view of the world around us.

If you have questions or comments, email us at riverroadrambler @ gmail.com where our contracted staff in India will answer any and all of your questions. If you have noticed the quality of this column having diminished in the past year, that may be due to me having contracted the writing of it out to the lowest bidder, a freelance writer who lives along the Ganges River Road in India and writes about his experiences there. I take his stories and change the name of the river, and do a few minor other changes (i.e.,

Writers to hold meeting and contest SPOONER – The Indianhead Writers fall writers meeting and contest is set for Saturday, Oct. 15. It is open to all area writers club members, as well, individual writers can attend and meet with other writers to discuss writing and marketing problems and report on the activities o their clubs.

This event is not only a meeting, but a contest offering three cash prizes: first prize $100, second prize $75 and third prize $50.

The contest rules are simple. The entrant must write a fiction or nonfiction prose

piece on any subject with a limit of 100 words minimum to about 1,500 words maximum. Only one entry per person. The entry is to be brought to the fall meeting where the writer or designated person will read it. Everyone attending the meeting will vote to determine the winning entries.

A writer who wishes to enter a story, article or essay can preregister before the meeting, but they may register and enter at the meeting. The entries will be read in the order of their registration. Late entries may

not be read due to time constraints.

Prizes are to be awarded at the meeting.

It is not necessary to enter the contest to attend.

It is hoped there will be as many writers participating as the fall contest last year.

Prepare your entry, mark you calendar and attend the fall writers meeting and contest from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Spooner Agriculture Station (Experimental Farm) on Hwy. 70, east of Spooner.

Lunch will be served free of charge.

However, they need to know how many plan to be there for lunch. Please register for lunch before Saturday, Oct. 15. There will be door prizes and other surprises.

There is no charge for admission or to enter the contest. It will be a chance to bring your books, photographs and other work to show, sell and tell about. To preregister or to register for lunch write to Indianhead Writers, Mary B. Olsen, 314 6th Ave., Shell Lake, WI 54871 or call 715-468-2604 for more information. – from Mary B. Olsen

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The Big Five Gallon Jar Of course you all know Kreiner

He is a gentleman of fame, He has made considerable money And likewise made a name.

He keeps tobacco, pipe and snuff And also keeps a bar And under the counter he keeps That stuff in a big five gallon jar.

As I was going down that way I was feeling warm and dry I felt like liquoring up a bit So here is the place, says I I went in and called for a drink or two The best they had at the bar And they drew me a couple gills or so From that big five gallon jar.

I felt my spirits begin to rise And I thought that I was some I thought I was Ryan and Sullivan All condensed in one.

I struck a bunt at Kreiner’s nose And tumbled over the bar And as I fell I overset The big five gallon jar.

A crowd began to gather around When I kicked up the din Kreiner grabbed me by the neck Then a policeman he stepped in.

He clamped the bracelets on my wrists And says he I think you are A man that takes a drink or two From the big five gallon jar.

Next morning before the break of day They drew me from my bunk Before Judge Dalberg I was tried For being indecently drunk Ten dollars and costs was what I paid For drinking at the bar And an extra five for tipping Over the big five gallon jar.

I paid my fine and left the place And thought my head would split And when upon the road I got You ought to see me git.

I got so mighty tired, boys Before I had gone far That I wished old Kreiner was in hell With his big five gallon jar.

Now if ever this country gets in war We will not use shot or shell We will whip the enemy with the taste And kill them with the smell.

We will pile them up in deadly heaps Without a scratch or scar By sending Kreiner to the front With his big five gallon jar.

The above song/poem was given to me years ago

by Malcohm Trott of Danbury, who was a frequent visitor at the Inter-County Leader. He enjoyed nothing more than telling stories of the past.

At one time, the Trott family lived one-fourth mile west of Kreiner’s Lake and about 1-3/4 miles south of Kreinersville, a settlement now only a memory in the minds of old-timers.

There was even a song written about Emil Kreiner.

No one is credited with writing it. It simply evolved out of the past, and to our knowledge, has never before been recorded. Yet, it is the kind of folklore and historical tidbit that university professors and researchers love to discover.

Malcolm Trott first heard it around 1906, and he knows it by heart. Many peole have asked for a copy, and he can’t possibly fill all requests, so we are printing it here, hoping it will reach all those who are in-

Behind the

Do you remember?

Signpost

Compiled by Bernice Abrahamzon

Bernice Abrahamzon

50 Years Ago

Work started at Marnold Co. Industry at Frederic, making and assembling Marn-O-Stats, with four employees until machinery installation was completed.There were 100 pints of blood collected at Luck on Aug. 1.-The Rev. Harlan Larsen accepted a call to a Milltown church.-The Tamburitzans were coming to Frederic Sept. 12.-Remaining crops were suffering from severe drought.-Specials at the Clover Farm Store, Frederic, included chuck roast at 39¢ lb., biscuit mix at 40 oz. for 39¢, pork and beans at four cans for 89¢ and 25 pounds King Midas flour at $1.69.-The Dairy Queen, Frederic, had a sundae sale Aug. 10-11 with one at regular price, but the second one at 10¢.Specials at Route’s, Frederic, included Skippy peanut butter at 12-oz. jar for 33¢, four rolls of toilet tissue for 27¢, kidney beans at three cans for 29¢, and 2 lbs. coffee at 98¢.-Co-op specials in Frederic, included roasting chickens at 33¢ lb., Co-op cake mix at 4 for $1, potatoes at 10 lbs. for 39¢, cucumbers at 2 for 9¢.-Employed at the new Schauls Shoe Store, Frederic, were Gary, Babe and Sylvester.-Frederic Community Motors Inc. proclaimed an epidemic of Plymouth fever in Frederic.-The film “Parent Trap” was playing at the theater in SCF.-The movie “State Fair” was making the rounds.

terested in local history. Although the tune is different, Trott says it can be sung to the tune of “The Wearing of the Green.”

I first wrote the above in 1972, and I still enjoy the rollicking song. Where was Kreinersville? Some brave souls hunted for the little lost town and discovered a few old building foundations in Burnett County. Nature has a way of taking back its own.

Local history is being lost on a daily basis. I have always enjoyed poetry and local history. Put the two together and you have the following: Remembering the Old Woodbox It was stationed in our kitchen Just behind the outside door; To keep it filled for mother Always was my chore.

When winter was the coldest It surely was no joke To keep our kitchen nice and warm I piled it high with oak.

I imagined it a monster With appetite so great It swallowed up just every log I put into its plate.

40 Years Ago

Obituaries included John Foltz, Henry Blood, Emma Peckham, Alice Gravesen, William Vogt, Louise Johnson and Anna Zillmar.-Entries were open for horse races at SCF fair.-The bonding proposal for the new Unity School was turned down.-Route’s specials in Frederic included 2-lb. package of bacon at $1.29, green grapes at 49¢ lb., catsup at two bottles for 69¢ and pork roast at 43¢ lb.-Frederic Co-op store specials included country fryers at 35¢ lb., Co-op jelly at four jars for $1, precooked fish sticks at 48¢, potatoes at 10 lbs. for 68¢, and pork and beans at four cans for $1.Blacktopping was $8.50 yard at Burnett County Highway Commission.-When customers at the Farmers State Bank got a loan, they received 50 gallons of free gas for their vehicle.-Thieves were active in the local area.-A teenage dance was held at the Frederic Recreation.-The Atlas Methodist Church sponsored a pie and ice-cream social on Aug. 12 at the church.-The Siren Chamber of Congress planned a barbecue.-The Bill Bosak herd was sold to an Antigo farmer.-The Skol Haus of West Sweden had a dance Aug. 5.-The Coat Store, Frederic, had a grand opening planned. The store opened Aug. 16.-The August special at Carlson Hardware, Frederic, was for a set of plastic tumblers for 88¢.-Avis’ Beauty Salon had open house Aug. 7, north end of Wood Lake, Grantsburg.

It never was particular For I can here relate It ate brother’s broken snowshoes And a worn-out barnyard gate.

Through the long Wisconsin winter Oh, the wood I used to tote; Many giants of the forest Went down its hungry throat.

Yet I loved that farmhouse kitchen And the smell of burning wood, The memory soothes my spirits As no other memory could.

Mother there in clean print apron, Father shaving at the sink, Sister washing up the dishes, Cheeks all flushed and rosy pink.

Just the home that God intended With the family gathered there, Kept with love and well protected By the parents earnest prayer.

Years have come and gone in numbers Since my boyhood days were spent In that happy farmhouse kitchen, And my mind on fun was bent

20 Years Ago

The Polk County Veterans Memorial was dedicated at the Polk County Courthouse, Balsam Lake, July 7, 1991.-The Interstate Park ran a photo contest.-The Centuria Village approved additional stop signs.-Obituaries included Anker Larsen, Vic Corbin, Dorothy Garbow, Isabella Groskopp and Roger Nelson.-Heritage Days were celebrated at Cameron, July 13-14.Pastor Scott Carlson of the Lewis and Siren United Methodist churches accepted a call to a church in Janesville.-A signboard read “Discover Frederic. The opportunity awaits.”-Certified lifeguards were wanted at Rainbow Park, rural Siren.-Schools weighed possible consolidation study. It was an everoccurring possibility.-Land sale of tax delinquent property netted close to a half million dollars in Burnett County.-Open house was held for the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Viggo Miller at the Nelson Elementary School at Alpha on July 14.-A memorial service was held for Kathryn Stower, mother of Harvey Stower, at the Carlson-Rowe Funeral Home, Frederic.-A health forum was held at Frederic.Candace Coleman was crowned Miss Balsam Lake.Additional obituaries included Corice Hughes, Robert Paulson, Lillian Martinson and Marie McKee.-A committee OK’ed Round Lake asphalt plant.

Still when head and heart are troubled With the world and its hard knocks Memory takes me to that kitchen And the hungry old woodbox.

- by Mrs. Fred Hunter, a very talented local Frederic resident.

Until next week, Bernice

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Hi everyone, here’s to another week of nice weather to enjoy with your four-legged friends! It’s really nice to have the windows open and get that fresh air, especially at night when I’m trying to sleep. All those wonderful smells that come in make my nose twitch in overtime! Sure has been some dairy air around lately, but I don’t mind. It’s nice to be living out in the country with all the smells, wildlife and property to explore.

My baby sister Maya is really growing, legs are getting long and gangly. She’s an interesting-looking little girl and she sure likes to create mischief at times. Now when she doesn’t want to come inside, she plays tag with Mom. It’s sure funny to watch as Maya runs around in circles, Mom doesn’t stand a chance!

I think I’ve told you before, but we have some wonderful volunteers at the shelter that like to help out and spend time with all my friends. I would like to give a shout-out to Northwest Passage, both boys and girls, as we appreciate all that they do for us. I’d especially like to mention Brett who will be leaving us at the end of the month and moving to Seattle. We are all going to miss him very much as he does so much above and beyond our expectations. We all love Brett and wish him well as he embarks on new adventures, but hoping he won’t forget us.

We had some great adoptions this last week; Shadow the beautiful gray kitty has been adopted.

She was our longest term resident and we couldn’t be happier for her. Matter of fact, I think I’m a little jealous as I hear she’ll be spending her winters in Arizona. Also adopted were the little black and white kitty Missy and hopefully her brother Zach will be adopted soon as I know he’ll be lonely without her.

Happy Tails

Await

Arnell Humane Society of Polk County Bridget is a 10-week-old female tortoiseshell/tabby kitten with very distinct orange tabby stripes. Her mother came to the shelter as a stray with a litter of four kittens. Bridget and her three brothers grew up in a loving foster home and have now returned to the shelter to be adopted. Bridget is a cuddly kitten with a motor. She can rough and tumble with her male siblings, but Bridget is a lover.

There are billboards, full-page magazine ads and sad television commercials with pictures of helpless pets, all reporting the staggering number of unwanted pets euthanized each year in the United States. People shake their heads and say how sad that is, they can’t watch it anymore. Turn the page, change the channel, think about something else. The number is too large to really register. It doesn’t register until it happens in your backyard, to an animal you know, or the stray in your local humane society. It is there that those numbers compile, all across the nation.

The numbers are overwhelming; approximately 5 million to 7 million companion animals enter animal shelters each year, 3 million to 4 million dogs and cats are euthanized each year because there is no one to adopt them. A single female cat can have three litters a year with an average of five kittens

Engagement

Shelter

YAPpenings Sadie With my canine friends, Penny was adopted and went home on Friday. Polly is now officially our longest term resident; hopefully someone will see what a great dog she is. Polly is a 1-year old brindle-colored hound and she has a very happy personality. Jessica goes home on Tuesday and we have a good application on Thor so hopefully that will go through.

Bertha the Border collie is now ready for adoption. This little sweetie is about 3 years old and loves her tummy rubbed. She approaches low and then rolls over and shows her belly. It’s the cutest thing. Bertha loves to be close to her human friends and gives wet kisses!

Two cats were left in a crate at the gate of the shelter. They are two young males, one tabby and the other gray and white. Any guess what their names are? Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin!!

What’s next, Abbot and Costello or maybe Moe, Larry and Curly? How about Stan and Ollie, or maybe Phyllis Diller. If a third cat had been with Jerry and Dean we could have called him Sammy Davis Jr. and had our very own Rat Pack.

My friend Jenny tells me we need some Purina Puppy Chow. We have hungry puppies in our midst.

Can you help?

All of us at the shelter, both four-legged and

per litter. In only seven years, she and her offspring could potentially produce 420,000 cats. In just six years, one female dog and her brood can produce as many as 67,000 puppies. Each year 25 million puppies and kittens are born in the U.S., far exceeding the number of available homes.

Humane societies like to concentrate on the happy tales, the successful adoptions, the returned from the ravages of neglect stories. And who can blame them. We all like a good story with a happy ending. The subject of euthanasia is too painful and it is more productive to put our efforts into ending the need for it.

It is the goal of all humane societies and animal welfare organizations to put an end to the pain of animal abuse, neglect and euthanasia of healthy adoptable animals. If euthanasia is the after-thefact, when-it’s-too-late answer to a nation filled with too many pets, then prevention is the key to the solution.

When your local humane society requires that each animal adopted from their shelter is spayed or neutered, they are asking for your help in preventing another unwanted litter of puppies or kittens; an unwanted litter that will add to the existing pet overpopulation in your community and keep the humane society from reaching their goal of zero euthanasia.

When we ask that you consider adopting a pet from our shelter, we are asking the community to offer a second chance to one of the pets that were not prevented and lower the number of animals that might face euthanasia.

When we urge pet owners to spay or neuter their own pets, we are asking them to join in the fight

Bertha

human, really recognize the generosity and support of all our friends and volunteers. Without you we wouldn’t be able to keep providing the muchneeded love and care for our animals that come to us for safekeeping.

Jerry Lewis Recently we have had some rather large and unexpected expenses such as replacing the outside doors on the dog runs. We also have an expense coming to repair the air- conditioning in our pet ambulance, which we need for the comfort of those we transport, as well as being required by state licensing.

Any monetary gift to help offset these costs would be welcomed and much appreciated. Donations are also tax deductible. Thank you from the bottoms of our hearts and four paws.

“Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.” - Mary Bly Have a great week. Licks and tailwags!

The Humane Society of Burnett County is saving lives, one at a time. www.hsburnettcty.org. 715866-4096. License No. 267335-DS We’re on Facebook too. against pet overpopulation and euthanasia in the United States.

Every time an animal welfare organization urges pet owners to provide ID tags and microchips Bridget for their animals, they are asking owners to be responsible by providing a means for lost and stray animals be returned to their loving home and saving them from the possibility of euthanasia.

In each case they are asking the same thing help us fight against euthanasia in America. The animal welfare community has taken up the cause, but they don’t own the problem. It is the responsibility of everyone in a community to do their part; provide collars and ID tags for your pets, keep them secure in your home or yard, adopt from your local shelter, keep only as many as you can responsibly care for and spay or neuter your pets.

We tell the happy stories to show people that it can be done. We tell the Happy Tales to help you realize that if we all work together we can make zero euthanasia a reality. We can’t do it without you. Mary Bruckner, Arnell Memorial Humane Society, Amery, 715-268-7387 (PETS) or online: arnellhumane.org.

Borderline news On her way to Danbury for groceries Monday, Deloris Schirmer saw a crew working along CTH T and the Rutabaga Road laying fiber-optic cable. It will run all the way from Duluth to the Twin Cities. Along Hwy. 35 it was one lane where crews were clearing fallen trees. At the rest area by the St. Croix River, lots of people were clearing all the downed trees.

Dave Baker attended a section of his 50th high school reunion last Saturday. He graduated from De La Salle High School in Minneapolis in 1961. Dave and Fran hosted a picnic at their home on Sunday for several of Fran’s former friends from her teaching years and many of Dave’s art friends. Marlene and Don Mishler and Patty Koehler and Bob Brewster also joined in the fun.

Kesia Carlson, who lives a few miles from Washington, D.C., arrived late Saturday night at her parents house, Don and Annette Carlson of the Town of Blaine. On Monday they went to St. Croix Falls

and spent many hours biking the trails of Interstate Park. Later that afternoon, Don’s brother Mert and his wife, Peggy, joined them for a late lunch. Kesia returned to D.C. on Wednesday. Don reports how special it was to have one-on-one time with their daughter. On Saturday night, Mert and Peggy Carlson celebrated the class reunion of 1951 and 1952 from Sandstone High School. They had a dinner provided at Jan and Gary’s restaurant. About half of each class attended.

An open house/retirement party will be held for Alan Gustafson at the Dairyland Town Hall on Saturday, Sept. 17, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Alan was the town clerk of Dairyland for 48 years, and retired this year.

The public is welcome to attend; we hope to see you there. The Dairyland Homemakers will serve a potluck lunch. On Tuesday, Aug. 16, 14 ladies attended the Woodland Church Ladies Day Out at the Log Cabin Store in Danbury. A good time was had

Bob Brewster by all. Webster’s first football game of the season was held Friday night at Webster. They played Washburn/Bayfield, and won 34 to 6. Josh Baer, Lance Preston and Matt Freymiller play on the Webster team. Good going, guys!

The annual Markville community get-together held on Saturday, Aug. 20, was a good time for all.

The weather was great and around 100 people attended the potluck. There were people from as far away as St. Louis, Mo., Minot, N.D., Jordan, Minn., and some from Wisconsin. Clara Lilly and Maynard Monson won the prizes for being the oldest to attend. Rose and Jim Yaekel won the prize for coming the farthest distance. A reminder that the cemetery cleanup will be on Saturday, Aug. 27, starting at 8 a.m. Lunch will be provided at the town hall.

Have a great week .

Frederic Senior Center

Another week and that should mean we are all a dollar richer, but I don’t think that saying is true anymore. I think it’s more like a dollar a day richer, but also another day poorer.

We had some winners on 500 that were at least $1 ahead, as follows: First place, Candace Doriott; second place, Tim Abramson; third place, Micky

Kilmer; and fourth place, Dorie Peterson. I didn’t get a list for Spades, so I will just declare all this week’s players winners.

Remember everyone, the meal site is now at the senior center and everyone is welcome. Barb would appreciate a phone call telling her who and how many people would like to come. She can be

Dean Martin

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reached at 715-327-8623 or 715-327-4112. Hope everyone has a really great week.

Our weekly schedule is: Spades, Monday afternoon at 1 p.m., Pokeno is played every Wednesday and Friday afternoons at 1 p.m. and 500 is played every Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. Also, a reminder, our center is now closed on Saturdays.

Tonnancour/Hackett Katie Tonnancour and Jordan Hackett, both of Eau Claire, are pleased to announce their engagement and upcoming marriage.

Katie is the daughter of Dan and Jeanne Tonnancour of Holcombe. She is a 2005 graduate of Lake Holcombe High School and obtained nursing degrees from CVTC in Eau Claire and Viterbo College, La Crosse. Katie is employed at Mayo Clinic Health System-Eau Claire.

Jordan is the son of Kenny and Kris Hackett of Frederic. He is a 2003 graduate of Frederic High School and holds a geography degree from UW-La Crosse. Jordan is employed at Finley Engineering of Altoona.

The wedding will take place on Sept. 24, in Jim Falls, with a reception and dance held at 29 Pines in Eau Claire. – Photo submitted

Lewis Bernice Abrahamzon Perfect weather over the weekend - warm, pleasant days and cool nights. The green grass keeps growing and homeowners keep mowing, mowing, mowing. Four pages of prizewinners are posted around Lewis, at business places and also on the church door. Prizes may be picked up at Sundown on Hwy. 35. Bring buttons with you to verify numbers and possible winners. Good luck. Charles E. Lewis Days buttons sell for $1 apiece, and this is an entire community project. I’ve already heard of several lucky winners.

A bridal shower was given Sunday afternoon at the church for Amanda, future bride of Troy Lenz.

The shower was sponsored by the Lenz twins and Robin Peterson. The wedding will be held outside, weather permitting.

The silent auction, held during the tent revival and Charles E. Lewis Days, has really caught on, with 37 items donated for written bids. Donors names were not itemized, but winners were written on each slip.

A major donation was a load of gravel and was won

by Mary Jane (Mrs. Boone) Johnson. It is already delivered and scattered on her driveway. Bob Nelson made his usual wishing well for the annual event and took orders for beautifully crafted gliders.

Items donated for the silent auction included a number of framed pictures, grocery baskets, Dairy Queen jacket, shirt and cake, maple syrup, etc. People were very generous both donating and bidding.

Winners who were not present for the 3 p.m. closing of bids on Sunday have been notified. Sometimes they bid, but during the course of the celebration, they were outbid.

Local women are making jelly and jam, despite the high cost of sugar. An article ran in an older issue of the Readers Digest, telling of the restrictions on growing sugar beets and sugar cane. The market is closely controlled and monitored. Yes, days are getting shorter and fall is already in the air.

Timothy Patton, Sheila Staples and Lynn and Patti Anderson were audience members of the KSTP “Twin Cities Live” television show on Friday. They were the recipients of several gift cards to various businesses in the Twin Cities area.

Ranae Peterson, Rick Abrahamzon, Sheila Staples and Darrell, Suzanne, Nolan and Sarah Imhoff were among the many guests a week ago, at a birthday party for Shannon Webster, given by husband Brian and children Allie, Jordan and Nicholas.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Birth announcements Born in Park Falls

A boy, Benett Michael Bukachek, born Aug. 3, 2011, to Sara and Michael Bukachek, Park Falls.

Benett weighed 7 lbs., 15 oz. and was 20 inches long. Benett’s siblings are Fehlen, Kale, Kennedi and Brady. Grandparents are Jon and Linda Bukachek of Park Falls and Bob and Sue Houston, Frederic.

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Born at St. Croix Regional Medical Center:

A girl, Stella Ann Peltier-Lundgren, born Aug. 9, 2011, to Sarah Peltier and Tyler Lundgren, Taylors

St. Croix Senior Center Marian Edler Tuesday started out with exercise, followed by our potluck lunch. Then we held our monthly meeting. We are going to try to have one fundraiser each month.

On Sunday, Aug. 28, at 12:30 p.m., we will have a hot dog lunch for the dog days of summer, followed by games.

In the afternoon, games were played. Winners in 500 cards were Pete Schlosser, Bren Nel Ward, David Thelin, Ray Nelson and Laurice Lambert. Winners in Dominos were Jean McIntyre, Don Anderson and George Meixner. Rita Boyle and Bill McGrorty were the winning team in Hand and Foot.

Thursday morning, we held our exercise session followed by Skip Bo. In the evening, 500 cards were played. The winners were Chuck Magnusson, Bill McGrorty, Elroy Petzel and Bob Norlander.

Friday morning, Bridge was played.

Join us for lunch and an afternoon of fun on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 12:30 p.m.

Falls, Minn. Stella weighed 8 lbs., 4 oz.

••• A girl, Evangeline Judy Jacobs, born Aug. 11, 2011, to John and Leah Jacobs, Webster. Evangeline weighed 7 lbs., 8 oz.

••• A girl, Mylie Ann Holte, born Aug. 12, 2011, to Chris and Courtney Holt, Amery. Mylie weighed 6 lbs., 1 oz.

••• A boy, Curtis Lee Jones, born Aug. 12, 2011, to Curtis Jones and Alicia Olson, Centuria. Curtis

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weighed 6 lbs., 8 oz.

••• A girl, Camdyn Pearl Foss, born Aug. 13, 2011, to Bruce Jr. and Melissa Foss, Osceola. Camdyn weighed 7 lbs., 15 oz.

••• A girl, Elena Violet Pardun, born Aug. 15, 2011, to Ann Elizabeth and Brent Donald Pardun, Danbury.

Elena weighed 7 lbs., 8 oz.

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Born at Osceola Medical Center:

A boy, Jagger George Dowd, born Aug. 16, 2011,

Siren

Have you ever had a gut feeling that something is going to happen, but you can’t put your finger on what or when? I’ve had that feeling for almost two weeks in Bear Country, as it was nothing but peace and quiet; too peaceful. Well, it all came to an end last Wednesday morning. I had just finished my morning coffee and decided to hit the shower. I put my cup in the sink and looked out the window; all was well. Everything changed in the 15 minutes I was in the shower. I looked out the window after my shower and tree rat hollow was in shambles. Bird feeders on the ground, the birdbath tipped over, as was the deer waterer. Plus, the culprits were still out there. Those terrible twin 2 year olds, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb. I gave a shout out the patio door and off they went as before, only this time, the bigger one of them turned and glared at me, then just sauntered off. I’m guessing that one is a young boar just learning how to be boss. I have never had any trouble with the sows, even with their young. A shout at them and they are usually gone.

Bev Beckmark

The August Food and Friends Community Dinner is coming up on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Webster. The dinner is at 5 p.m.

Come early, as the food goes fast. Freewill offering.

Sympathy is extended to the family of Myrtle L. Snow, who passed away Aug. 17.

Have you ever wanted to be a hospice volunteer? A hospice volunteer training session will be starting on Monday, Sept. 12 at the Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Chapel in Siren. For more information, call the hospice office at 715-635-9077.

It’s coming; the yard sale to end all yard sales.

The Siren Lions/Lioness annual huge yard sale at the Crooked Lake Park. This sale will almost fill the park, so if you ever needed or wanted something you couldn’t find, chances are it will be here. Come early and stay late, plus come each day as new stuff is put out each day, as we have lots to sell. There will also be refreshments and food on-site. For more information, call 715-349-2400.

The Siren Methodist Church youth group hosted a salad luncheon after their 30-hour famine and the Sunday service last Sunday.

Academic News MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The following Augsburg College student made the dean’s list during spring 2011. The dean’s list lists undergraduate students whose grade-point average for a trimester is 3.50 or better. Students must be full time.

Holly Stoner, Frederic, is pursuing studies in elementary education. She is the daughter of Terri and Steve Stoner, Frederic.

Set in a vibrant neighborhood in the heart of Minneapolis, Augsburg College offers more than 50 undergraduate majors and seven graduate degrees to more than 4,000 students of diverse backgrounds.

The trademark of an Augsburg College education is its emphasis upon direct, personal experience.

Guided by the faith and values of the Lutheran church, Augsburg College educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers and responsible leaders. - submitted

Third Saturday open stages set

FREDERIC - The Frederic Arts Center, 310 South Lake Ave., will host two open stages on Saturday, Sept.

17, and Saturday, Oct. 15, with signup times beginning at 7:30 p.m., and the stage will be set at 8 p.m.

Come get your 10 minutes of fame and fortune, take a chance and perform your poetry, prose, music, debate, juggling, theater, comedy, whatever you can come up with. The center is an old, one-room schoolhouse without the need for microphones and amplifiers, but it does contain a small stage you can jump up on.

Frederic Arts seeks to promote artistic endeavors in Polk County and beyond. Everyone is invited to take part as performer or audience member in these special evenings and find out more about their organization and its future events.

For more information call 715-3278181. There is plenty of parking available and these events are free. - from fredericarts.org

••• MINNEAPOLIS - The following area students have made the dean’s list for the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus 2011 spring semester.

Students on the list all achieved a grade-point average of 3.66 or higher while taking 12 or more credits.

Amery: Amber R. Egofske, College of Design; Kashia L. Hill, College of Liberal Arts; Amber L. Hogen, College of Liberal Arts; Adam M. Morris, College of Continuing Education; Kelly R. O’Brien, College of Liberal Arts; Clear Lake: Mary Newville, College of Liberal Arts; Gina K. Somsen, College of Education and Human Development; Osceola: Brett D. Bartley, College of Education and Human Development; Daniel P. Bilderback, College of Education and Human Development. submitted

••• MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Nicholas Krenz, St. Croix Falls, has been named to the dean’s list at Dunwoody College. Krenz is a 2010 graduate of St. Croix Falls High School and the son of Kathy and Mike Krenz of St. Croix Falls. He is in the electrical construction, design and management program at Dunwoody and will graduate June 2012.

Students named to the dean’s list are recognized for outstanding academic achievement by earning a 3.5 grade-point average or higher in 12 or more credits for the quarter.

Dunwoody College has built a national and international reputation as a leader in technical education for nearly a century.– submitted

Dewey - LaFollette Sympathy is extended to Helen and Tom Vanselus and other family members on the death of Frieda Kenosha, Helen’s mother. She was 91.

Diane and Jerry Stieb visited Ronda and Maynard Mangelsen Aug. 14 and 15.

Brenda, Tim, Bryce and Jessica Sweet returned home to Vadnais Heights, Minn., Tuesday, after visiting Donna and Gerry Hines for several days.

Verna Lindstrom and Karen Mangelsen visited Elnora and Scott Hotchkiss at Elnora’s home Tuesday afternoon.

Randy, Tara and Henry Mangelsen were Friday afternoon visitors of Hank and Karen Mangelsen.

to Courtney and Dana Dowd, Osceola. Jagger weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz.

••• A boy, Kasen Anthony Stephan, born Aug. 18, 2011, to Michael and Kristin Stephan, Shafer, Minn.

Kasen weighed 8 lbs., 9 oz.

••• A girl, Laura Barbara Nickelson, born Aug. 18, 2011, to Trent and Catherine Nickelson, Scandia, Minn. Laura weighed 6 lbs., 7 oz.

Randy and family stayed for the weekend at the home of Jake and Holly Mangelsen. Karen, Hank and other family members visited them there on Saturday.

About 45 people attended the Doran reunion at the Siren Park on Saturday.

Hank and Karen Mangelsen went to Superior Saturday and attended the wedding of Sara (McCusker) and Miles Ursin. Miles is Hank and Karen’s greatnephew.

Jeff and Jackie Peterson were weekend guests of Maynard and Ronda Mangelsen. Ethan and Dylan Longhenry visited there Sunday night.

Engagement

Weisner/Vilstrup Heather Wiesner and Bryan Vilstrup are pleased to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding on Oct. 8 at the Luck Lutheran Church.

Heather is the daughter of Sally and Charles Wiesner of Shell Lake, and Bryan is the son of Lori and Tom Vilstrup of Luck.

Heather is a graduate of UW-Stout and is currently employed by the Grantsburg School District as a kindergarten teacher.

Bryan is a graduate of UW-Stout and is currently employed by Community Bank in Grantsburg as a loan officer. – Photo submitted

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Connect to your community Karen Mangelsen Overnight visitors, Saturday, of Karen and Hank Mangelsen were Larry, Celie and Baxter Mangelsen.

Jan Schott hosted a bridal shower for Angie Stanke Sunday afternoon at the home of Lida Nordquist. Angie will be marrying Lida’s grandson, Rick Funk, on Oct. 8.

Congratulations to Mary and John Dunn on their 69th wedding anniversary, which was Aug. 21.

Lawrence, Nina, Gerry and Donna Hines, Marlene Swearingen and Hank and Karen Mangelsen, visited Don and Lida Nordquist Sunday evening. They helped Don celebrate his birthday.

Polk 4-H horse project members place in Top 10 On Saturday, Aug. 20, seven 4-H horse project members represented Polk County at the District 4-H Gymkhana competition hosted by Jackson County in Black River Falls. The Gymkhana events are based on doing a pattern faster than the other contestants. The classes at district were pole bending, barrel racing, keyhole, speed and action, plug, flag and light special. All the members consistently placed in the top 10 with many grand champions and reserve.

Terra Mitzel, Shannon Krueger, and Madison Tornio-Belisle will be representing Polk County at the state competition in West Allis in September. Representing Polk County from (L to R) are Ashley Mork, Mitzel, Krueger, Tornio-Belisle, Madeline Heilman, Allison Mork and Kylie Krueger. Photo submitted

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Interstate Park news Friday, Aug. 26

Hike to the Summit, 3 p.m. at the Summit Rock Trail sign. Meet naturalist Barb Walker for a beautiful hike to the summit. Learn interesting facts about the history and geology of the area and see spectacular views of the St. Croix River.

Saturday, Aug. 27

The Secrets of Eagle Peak, 1:30 p.m. at the Eagle Peak Trail sign in the Pines Group Camp. Join the naturalist for a hike up the trail and learn the secrets of the peak and see a beautiful view of the river valley.

Family Fun: Snakes! 4 p.m. at the Ice Age Center. Drop by and visit with Walker and meet Copper, the fox snake, and Bintu, the ball python. Learn some fascinating facts about snakes, and kids can bring home a crafted make-and-take snake of their own.

Ancient Abandoned Riverbeds, 7 p.m. at the Meadow Valley Trail sign near the beach parking area. Meet Walker for a hike up the valley to Horizon Rock and learn about some of the ancient geology that makes the area look like it does today.

Sunday, Aug. 28

Recipe for a Pothole, 10 a.m. at the Pothole Trail sign. Join the naturalist for a guided hike around the Pothole Trail to learn the makings of Interstate Park’s natural wonders.

Watchable Wildlife Around Lake O’ the Dalles, 1:30 p.m. at the lake side of the Beach House. Join Walker for a one-mile hike around Lake O’the Dalles.

Discover what makes the lake unique and watch for signs of wildlife that live there.

Monday, Aug. 29

Extinct Riverbeds, 9 a.m. at the Summit Rock Trail sign. Join naturalist Julie Fox for a longer hike that begins on the Summit Rock Trail and continues into Echo Canyon. Learn the fickle history of the meandering St. Croix River.

Wednesday, Aug. 31

A Billion Years on the Pothole Trail, 2 p.m. at the Pothole Trail sign. Join the naturalist and hike back in time to see the geological wonders formed over the last billion years.

Thursday, Sept. 1

Family Fun: Nature Scavenger Hunt, 10 a.m. at the Skyline Shelter near the Ice Age Center.

Interstate Park is located in St. Croix Falls on Hwy. 35 just one-half mile south of Hwy. 8. Call Fox or Walker at 715-483-3747, or visit their Web site at www.friendsofinterstatepark.org and “Like” us on Facebook for more information and upcoming events.

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HCE Happenings T

he annual potluck luncheon at the government center was the place to be last Monday afternoon, Aug. 15. Special guests were the club presidents and secretaries. We had an informative meeting first, with Lisa Thanig from Polk County Kinship telling us about the Kinship mentoring program in the county. On Tuesday, Aug. 30, from 3–6 p.m., there will be an informal open house at the government center. If you are interested in learning about this program, the public is invited or check out their Web site: www.polkkinship.org.

Nicole Rutz with the Polk County Foster Program came to tell us about a possible community outreach project for HCE to consider for the coming year.

Central clubs will be hosting the fall meeting on Monday, Sept. 19; the details will be in our next newsletter. It is election time and several offices are open, so come prepared to volunteer to serve for one or two years. Plans for the pro-

grams for the coming year will be announced and discussed at the meeting.

There will be great food and a wonderful program planned! It’s a good time to meet up with friends and neighbors.

Bookworm readers are getting ready for the fall session to begin. Eight clubs have volunteered to help by each taking a month to read to the 4-year-old students. The books have arrived and are delightful to read and look at. Pat Willits will bring the books to the fall meeting for each club to pick up and take to the school when they read. Each child gets a copy of the book read.

Vice President Carol will be attending the state convention on Monday, Sept.

12, along with several others. They will be taking our cultural arts winning entries with them to the State cultural arts show. Good Luck to everyone.

The Christmas Fair at Unity School is Saturday, Nov. 5. Crafters, food vendors and the usual activities are planned.

There is still time for reservations for a booth: call Carol at 715-948-2323 if any questions. Tickets for the raffle will be available at the fall meeting also.

Fall is nearly here and it promises to be an exciting one for HCE members!

See you at the fall meeting. – submitted

by Pat Willits/publicity chair.

St. Croix Falls Boy Scouts complete 50-mile bike trek

Eight Boy Scouts from St. Croix Falls recently completed a ride from Chisholm to Grand Rapids, Minn. The Great River Energy-Mesabi Trail Tour ’11 was an event that included about 700 riders and was very organized, with rest stops providing music, snacks and beverages. “The staff was very friendly,” noted a Scout leader. “The beautifully paved and scenic bike trail challenged the Scouts with a lot of up-and-down terrain.” Four of the younger Scouts, Jack Wilmar, Josh Skallet, Wyatt Kuenkel and Caleb Gearhart, earned their biking merit badge. Mark Wampfler, Brett Kuenkel, and Treven and Brendon Gearhart came along and very much enjoyed the ride as well. Five adults participated including Scoutmaster Rick Gearhart, Assistant Scoutmaster Al Wampfler, Mike Wilmar, Shawna Gearhart, Kristie Kuenkel and Tiger Cub Grant Kuenkel. Thanks to the older Scouts, Grant was able to enjoy the ride in his bike trailer. The finish line was at the Itasca County Fairgrounds where the Scouts had camped for the weekend. It took the Scouts 4 to 4-1/2 hours of riding time to complete this event. It was a very fun and rewarding experience for all of them. - Photo submitted

LIBRARY NEWS Balsam Lake Public Library Story time

School will be starting soon, so bring the little ones to the library for story time every Wednesday at 11 a.m. We will have stories, crafts and snacks. All ages are welcome to join our lively group.

Computer classes

Open lab from 2 to 3:30 p.m., instructor available to answer questions and give one-to-one instructions, next class will be Tuesday, Aug 30. at 2 p.m.

New books in August

“Northwest Angle” by Wm Kent Krueger, “Buddha in the Attic” by Julie Otsuka, ”Back of Beyond” by C.J. Box, “Betrayal of Trust” by J.A. Nance, “Cold Vengeance” by Douglas and Lincoln Preston, ”Flash and Bones“ by Kathy Reichs, “Tavern League: Portraits of Wisconsin Bars” by Carl Corey and “10 Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd” by Connie Podesta.

Book club

“Still Alice” by Lisa Genova. When Dr. Alice Howland first starts forgetting things like words when giving a speech, she thinks it might be because of menopause. But when she gets lost jogging near her house, on a route she has taken many times, she

knows something is seriously wrong and seeks medical help. Not quite 50, she is totally unprepared for the diagnosis – early onset Alzheimer’s. “Still Alice” is a beautifully written, heartbreaking novel about the devastating effect Alzheimer’s has on its victims and their families. Author Lisa Genova’s choice of Alice – young, in shape and intelligent (she’s a psychiatry professor at Harvard) – shows that Alzheimer’s can strike anyone, not just the elderly. The book is written from Alice’s viewpoint, but Genova does a good job of showing the effect of Alzheimer’s not only on Alice, but how her family (John, and their children – Anna, Tom and Lydia) struggle with the changes in Alice. Book club meets Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. Everyone welcome.

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., 715-485-3215.

St. Croix Falls Public Library End of summer reading One World, Many Stories

Remember to bring in your reading logs and find out what’s happening at the library, now that school will be starting. Participate in great programs, all for free! (ages birth – 18 yrs.). Find out what’s happening at the SCFPL and in your community. Check out our Web site for more information. www.stcroixfallslibrary.org.

Saturday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m.

Join us for a free screening of “Green Fire,” the first full-length, high-definition documentary ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold.

“Green Fire” shares highlights from his extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped conservation and the modern environmental movement. It also illustrates how Leopold’s vision of a community that cares about both people and land continues to inform and inspire current projects across the country and around the world. Learn more about the film at: www.GreenFireMovie.com.

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 at 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. 715483-1777. E-mail: scflibrary@stcroixfallslibrary.org Online: www.stcroixfallslibrary.org.

Frederic Public Library Around the world ends in Frederic

The children’s summer reading program officially ended Aug. 20 and gratitude is extended to everyone who shared their talents, display materials, and energy as we traveled the world and visited the seven continents. All reading slips must be turned in by Wednesday, Aug. 31, to qualify for tickets to be put into the drawings for prizes, which will take place Thursday, Sept. 1.

Spend an evening with Mark Twain

The Frederic Library is excited to sponsor an evening with Mark Twain in a free performance on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m., at St. Luke Methodist Church. Dave Ehlert has appeared as Mark Twain since 2004 in a program that has toured 38 states.

Everyone is invited to attend this very special

evening with one of America’s most beloved writers.

Book groups to meet in September

The Thursday morning book group will meet Sept.

15 at 10 a.m., to discuss “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” by Robyn Scott. When the author was six, her family moved from New Zealand to Botswana, and their lives were changed forever. The evening book group will also meet Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m., to talk about “Enrique’s Journey” by Sonia Nazario.

This is the account of a boy’s harrowing journey from Honduras to the United States to find his mother who had emigrated 11 years earlier to find work. Copies can be borrowed from the library and new members are always welcome at the book discussions.

All will be answered

Your computer questions and concerns are re-

solved Tuesdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m., in comfortable, drop-in sessions. If you have questions about terminology, the 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.

Totes and tees at the library

The Friends of the Frederic Library are offering sturdy canvas library totes and comfy cotton T-shirts with the new library design celebrating the 75th anniversary. Totes and shirts are available at the library, so stop in soon for the best choice of colors. Your purchases support the programs of the library.

Share the Bounty

If you picked up Share the Bounty seeds at the library this spring, or if you planted your own seeds

and your garden is now overflowing with a bumper crop, please remember to bring some of your harvest to the library for the local food shelf.

Free wireless access available

The library offers free wireless Internet access for patrons who bring in their laptops installed with wireless cards - no need to wait to use the public-access computers.

Learn more about library events

Frederic Public Library, 127 Oak St. West. 715327-4979, 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.

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Summer barbecues bring fall feasts The windstorms of July altered much

territory around here, Forts Folle Avoine included. Although the park’s buildings survived fairly intact, the same was not true for a vast amount of trees and other associated damage, which necessitated the park’s closing for a two-week period. In order for the site—a nonprofit educational offering– to recoup some of its financial hit, and to honor the efforts of the many who volunteered in the cleanup, Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park will be hosting a special chicken barbecue on Saturday, Aug. 27, from 11 a.m. ‘til 4 p.m.

According to park director Steve Wierschem, “The two-week interruption put a crimp not just on our programs, but landed a money crunch right in the midst of our peak visitation period. By the same token, the efforts of the volunteer crew during that time was tremendous, and we somehow got the downed and leaning trees cleared, and we’re ready to roll again. So how to make up the lost time and revenue? Celebrate! And that means throwing the grounds open for a grand summer barbecue.”

Chicken highlights the culinary offerings available, along with coleslaw, baked beans and potato salad. Beverages will include beer and pop. And, last but hardly least—ice-cream floats— almost makes even this gnome want to risk a look-see, to take in the delights, hum along with the live music, and perhaps take in a tour of the fur post and Indian village, which will be available at half price during the barbecue. Alas, however, we gnomes are fast asleep most afternoons.

Folle Avoine Chronicles Woodswhimsy the gnome

There‘s hope, for me at least, coming along in October when nightfall, the time for gnomes to awaken from their slumbers, arrives earlier. On the evening of Saturday, Oct. 8, the site will host its Two feasts are in the offing at Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park. The first, a chicken barbeannual gala Beaver Club banquet. The Beaver Club is sort of a combined din- cue, will be held Saturday, Aug. 27, from 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. Later, the site puts on its popular ner theater/celebration, and offers a Beaver Club banquet (pictured here), on Saturday, Oct. 8. In addition, the final wild rice pancake rousing rebuttal to those who call his- breakfast will be served Sept. 4.- Special photo tory “boring.”

From 1785 ‘til the 1820s, mostly re- fur trade times, while fiddle and bag- haggis will be of the highest quality, tired fur traders who were living back pipe tunes of the times will echo well worth its inclusion as a side dish at in the Montreal area of Canada would throughout the evening. Each Beaver this year’s regale.

Information about the chicken barbeget together to recall their explorations Club dinner required five toasts, and in the wilds of North America. At each that tradition will be in evidence as well. cue and/or reservations for the Beaver Then of course there’s the food itself, Club banquet can be obtained by calling Beaver Club, as the gatherings were called, the “Lords of the Lakes and and this year Beaver Club chef Etienne 715-866-8890 or checking out the park’s Forests” celebrated their days of yore Weir is working hard to concoct a mem- Web site found at www.theforts.org.

Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park is with music, speeches, toasts, revelry orable menu worthy of the club’s culiand feasting. Tales were told and retold, nary reputation. Three main courses located on CTH U, three miles west of and vast quantities of food and spirits will include servings focused on fish the Hwy. 35/CTH U intersection, in (probably trout), fowl (partridge), and Burnett County’s Yellow Lake area. were consumed in the process.

Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park’s game (boar). In addition, special scones Tours of a fur trading/Indian area, ca.

Beaver Club Dinner recreates the sights, are in the offing as well as a dish featur- 1803, are offered Wednesday through sounds, food and celebratory nature of ing that traditional Scottish favorite, Sunday, and on weekends after Labor the original banquets. On Oct. 8, from haggis! Haggis is a “delicacy” derived Day. 5:30-9 p.m., the great hall of the park’s from sheep’s innards and, while a chalSigned, Woodswhimsy visitors center - candlelit and lavishly lenge to prepare, when done up right redecorated with flags, furs, and wall sembles a pudding in a sausagelike hangings apropros to the era, will revert casing - different to modern eaters but to the year 1799. Visitors will be greeted savory and well-known in fur trade by various gentlemen/”bourgeois” of times. And, based on Weir’s grin, his

The Leader is a cooperative-owned newspaper Bone Lake Government News

A dam history lesson The ongoing controversy over the old logging dam, or unauthorized structure, began in 2007, and when it will end is anybody’s guess. In 2007, the town board received a notice from the DNR about a complaint from an as-yet-unnamed source, that the water level of the Straight River at 250th Avenue was higher than normal and some logs had been placed in the dam. The dam has been in its current place since 1887. The cement culvert was constructed in 1924.

The town board brought up the situation to the public at the annual meeting in April of 2008. At that time a motion was made and unanimously passed in favor of maintaining the current water level. In May of 2008, the town board and concerned citizens met with the DNR at the dam site. The town was told that the unauthorized obstruction either had to be replaced with a properly permitted dam or the obstruction had to be removed and the water drained away.

A voluntary dam advisory committee was formed by the town board to work with the DNR to assure that the proper procedures were followed and for the feasibility of constructing a new dam.

The committee met monthly and reported to the town board the progress they had made and what type of dam would be required if the town should decide to further pursue new construction.

The first step for the committee was to gather general information concerning what the DNR wanted the town to do.

All landowners who were believed to have land adjacent to the river would be contacted to see if they would consider signing a future easement allowing the town to leave the water at its current state.

At the Oct. 8, 2008, town board meeting, the board was presented with a petition signed by 155 residents in opposition

tothe town joining county zoning. The Bone Lake Planning Commission survey had been recently completed with the results being to keep the town as it is. The petitioners showed their desire for the town to remain as unchanged as possible.

In all this time the voluntary dam advisory committee continued their investigation in seeking to find the most cost-effective solution for the town and its citizens. Another special town meeting was held Feb. 28, 2010, to explain to the public the information that had been gathered together by the town board, planning commission and advisory committee. An advisory vote to give the town board an idea of what direction to take with the project, to go ahead with a new dam or to remove the old structure, was asked for. That suggestion by the town board was challenged because there was no prenotice of a possible advisory vote. Therefore, another meeting had to be called establishing an agenda with a straw vote for or against a new dam a month later. But again, it was clearly stated that a straw vote would have only been advisory because the town board has the obligation to make any decision they see fit to make.

At the March 28 special town meeting, a larger crowd of concerned citizens attended the meeting. There was much discussion about the historical significance of the water held back by the dam. If removed, it was noted that wetlands would be at risk, wildlife and all-season fishing would disappear, as would the possibility of restricting canoeing and boating on the river. The Luck Rural Fire Department had installed a dry hydrant in September of 1990 near the bridge on Hwy. 48. This was done as an aid in obtaining additional water for fighting fires in this area. Removal of the dam may have an adverse effect on this as well. Also brought up at the meeting was the fact that the town has not spent any money on the dam in the last 50 years.

A nonbinding straw vote was taken. The vote was 42 advising the board to go ahead with securing estimates for a new structure and 12 votes supporting re-

moval of the dam.

As previously stated, letters were composed and sent to all 18 adjacent landowners along the river from 250th Avenue to CTH I. All of these landowners agreed to sign a future easement granting the town to maintain the current water level on their properties.

In April of 2011, bids were composed asking engineering firms for costs related in preparation for a properly permitted DNR-type dam. Bids were received from four different firms. References for each of the firms had been contacted to aid in selection by the town board. The firm selected was North Star Engineering of Osceola, for $43,800 for engineering and planning of the dam.

The town board has been very open to the public with any decisions they have made and any information they have received. There have been three public hearings. Everyone had the right to attend these meetings and they have all been advertised. The town board had contacted the Wisconsin Towns Association for advice on properly dealing with all the issues concerning the dam. Their advice has been it is a town board decision and that is the obligation of their office.

The June 17 special town meeting was attended by 52 registered voters. Again, options were discussed for approval to go forward or to do nothing and remove the current structure. Total costs for the project, including engineering and construction, were estimated to be under $200,000. In discussing the possibility of a five- to six-year loan with the local Frandsen Bank, the board was informed of a projected interest rate of approximately 5 percent. The town board informed the citizens that there would not be any unauthorized increase in the tax levy. Another advisory vote was taken with the results being 27 to go ahead with constructing a properly permitted dam and 23 to remove the current obstruction.

With this advisory vote, and with discussion of the threat of potential lawsuits brought against the town if they proceeded with a new dam, the town board

decided at the July 14 meeting to hold a binding referendum to settle the dispute, which in all reality is a town board decision that they were elected to do in their best judgment. This election would cost the town approximately $1,100, thus adding to the expense of all the informational meetings.

At the Aug. 11 town board meeting the town chair noted that the sheriff’s department was investigating a complaint filed with the district attorney’s office regarding a possible ethics violation by the town board. The complaint referred to two of the board members that reside on land adjacent to the river and the belief that they may more significantly benefit from a properly permitted structure than the other affected landowners and residents.

Prior to the complaint being filed, the board had researched this possibility and was advised by the Wisconsin Towns Association that this was not a conflict of interest. However, the town board voted to hire an attorney to represent the town and its elected officials in this matter and also regarding the planned referendum on the dam.

The public might well be advised that the issue of total citizen involvement has been advanced by the results of the planning commission survey in 2008 and the petition presented to the town board in October of 2008. By law, town board officials are elected to represent the people and make decisions to the best of their ability. For example, in 2008-09, the town board undertook the project of widening and blacktopping 1.25 miles of 80th Street. With all proper notices and open meetings, there was no opposition, petitions or special town meetings necessary regarding the spending $118,996.55 of the 80th Street project. The board has thus met its obligations on maintaining our community’s roads, rivers, lakes and environment, as requested by the public in the planning commission survey and the petition of 2008 to maintain our rural character. – submitted by Darrell Frandsen, clerk, and Dan Beal, planning commission

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Lund-Brown American Legion Post 132 Auxillary holds meeting

Siren High School student Christina Luna (L), shown here with auxiliary member Diane Lund, reported on her week at Badger Girls State during the Thursday, Aug. 18, meeting of the LundBrown American Legion Post 132 Auxiliary meeting. Badger Girls State was held on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh campus June 19-24. Luna thoroughly enjoyed her week there and was successful in running for the mock school board. She was one of two Siren students who attended Girls State this year. The other student, Rachel Gloodt, will report to the auxiliary at their Sept. 15 meeting.

Joan Daniels (R), Siren, was given her 50-year pin for continuous membership in the American Legion Auxiliary by membership Chair Marge Lee during the Aug. 18 meeting of the LundBrown Post 132 Auxiliary. – Photos by Nancy Jappe

Wisconsin state workers face higher health costs

by Shamane Mills Wisconsin Public Radio STATEWIDE - Beginning this month, Wisconsin state workers start paying higher premiums for health coverage. Beginning in January, they’ll pay more to see a doctor.

In 2012, state workers who visit a doctor will pay 10 percent of the bill. The amount is capped with an out-of-pocket maximum, says Shawn Smith, a spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds.

“And that is up to a maximum per year for a single person which will be $500 per year or for a family $1,000 per year.”

There are exceptions to the coinsurance: it won’t apply to dental benefits, preventative care like routine physicals or pharmacy benefits.

The upcoming changes are prompting a lot of calls to the Department of Employee Trust Funds. Smith says they’re trying to get the word out.

“We unveiled two new videos on our Web site, and we’re really encouraging our members to do two things,” she says.

“One: pay special attention to materials coming in next couple of weeks.

And second thing, we do offer medical reimbursement accounts where people can set aside pretax dollars for what they would anticipate their costs would be with the new 10-percent coinsurance requirement.”

Smith says the state employee insurance changes will affect 183,000 people: current workers, their dependents and those retired but not yet on Medicare.

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Arts & Crafts Fair

Frederic

LEFT: Ardys Noreen was delighted to find jewelry in the perfect color to match the dress she was wearing. Actually it was her husband, Paul, who first pointed out the similarity of colors. Noreen bought the earrings but passed on the necklace as being too much of a good thing.

The jewelry was created by artist Tiffany Aurelia, River Falls.

RIGHT: Chris Brylski, Star Prairie, and his family, wife Jane, 12-year-old daughter Samara, and 9-year-old son Isaiah, were on hand for the Frederic Fine Arts and Crafts Show. This was their first time in Frederic and their second show this year.

Brylski is a laser-service technician. The family combines Brylski’s technology background as well as his wife and family’s artistic ability to create the items they offer.

- Photos by Nancy Jappe

Joan Funne (R), Frederic, shows the art-medley box that was in the bag she purchased, sight unseen, as part of an art fundraiser.

The 6-inch box was created by Mackenzie Swenson, Siren. Purchasers paid $25 to sign up for a number that corresponded to a bag containing an art box. Funne signed up for No.17, the bag that contained Swenson’s box. Funne is shown here with fundraiser representative Diana Edling. Four people purchased a collage of four framed boxes in the Frederic Fine Arts show Art Medley fundraiser.

In addition, individuals paid $25 to take home one of the boxes created by area artists.

Becca Snell, Milltown, was another first-timer at the Frederic Fine Arts and Crafts Show this past weekend.

Snell produces a wide variety of silhouettes on tiles using vinyl that is cut and applied by machine.

Win Herberg from Winterboo Pottery brought a wide selection of ceramic buttons, along with other items, to sell at the Frederic Fine Arts and Crafts Show. Winterboo Pottery specializes in lake-contour platters for any lake that has a map as well as functional and decorative high-fire stoneware.

Author/photographer Katy King from Spooner was on hand for the fine arts and crafts show in Frederic Saturday, Aug. 20, bringing along copies of the books she has written and the nature photography in which she specializes.

Jackie Flaten, Cadot, was a first-time participant in the Frederic Fine Arts and Crafts Show Saturday, Aug. 20. While there, Flaten worked on her original painting of a wolf, which sold for $68. Other nature prints were going for less money. Flaten commented on the gorgeous weather for the show.

More arts fair on page 14

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Moving day

New Burnett Community Library

by Carl Heidel Leader staff writer WEBSTER – Thursday, Aug. 18, the Burnett Community Library ceased its operations in its “old building” in Webster, and began the move into the new Larsen Family Public Library facility just down the street. The moving days, the 18th through the 20th, ran as smoothly as any move could possibly go, aided by scores of volunteers of all ages from throughout the community.

The sign on the old building said it all.

Photos by Carl Heidel Danielle Formanek and Gabby and Kally Schiller (L to R) shelved books in the main section of stacks.

Kaitlyn Keller was kept busy unloading at the new facility.

Wayne Watral helped get the computers moved into their new locations.

Denise Peyton (left) and Charlotte Heidel (right) carefully shelved the books in the children’s room of the new library.

LEFT: Marie Bremer packed items from the children’s room in the old building.

RIGHT: Boxes of books wait by the front door of the Burnett Community Library to be loaded for the move.

Opening day

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New Burnett Community Library

by Carl Heidel Leader staff writer WEBSTER - Opening day of the new Larsen Family Public Library in Webster, Aug. 22, was a day of “ooohs,” “aaahs,” “wows” and wide-open eyes as library patrons flocked into the new facility. One of the comments overheard was, “Now this is a REAL library.”

The library was supposed to open at 10 a.m., but by 9:30 there were already people wandering through the building taking in the sights and checking out the books, working at the computers or playing in the children’s room.

Although the library opened its doors on Monday after the move and settling in, the official grand opening will not be until Friday, Sept. 9. In addition to the usual festivities of a formal opening, at that time there will be special events sponsored by the fire department, tours of the building, special speakers and much more.

LEFT: It was a happy librarian, Patti Meyer, who opened the door of the new Larsen Family Public Library Monday morning, Aug. 22.

ABOVE: A trailer load of shrubs and flowers from Austin Lake Greenhouse in Webster waits to be unloaded and planted.

– Photos by Carl Heidel

Young Adam King was one of the first to want to check out a book, but first he had to get a library card. His mother, Tamara, watches as he fills out the application form for the card.

The circulation desk was a busy place from the moment the library opened its doors. Former Burnett Community Library librarian Maxine Peterson (left) helped out by working with the patrons.

The first person to check out a book from the new library was Jim Flanigan (right). Flanigan has a way with new libraries. He was the first to check out a book when the original library opened in Siren 20 years ago. Helping him are librarian Patti Meyer (left) and Toni Derouin (center).

It took the kids about 60 seconds to discover the puppet theater in the library’s children’s room.

RIGHT: Old Bear patiently waits for the children to come and visit.

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Arts & Crafts Fair & EMS fundraiser

Frederic

Members of the Frederic Historical Society, shown (L to R): Betty Fenton, Eileen Wicklund and Barbara and Ralph Pelle, provided a wide selection of pie for purchase at the Depot Museum in Frederic Saturday, Aug. 20.

Karen Persito (L), a fairly new resident to Frederic, and Eunice Early provided music by the Depot Museum during the Frederic Fine Arts and Crafts Show and historical society pie social Saturday, Aug. 20.

PHOTO AT LEFT: North Land Ambulance driver Rick Penberthy, Clam Falls, worked at the chickenand-corn fundraiser in the shelter by the depot museum in Frederic this past Saturday. PHOTO AT RIGHT: Will Bartlett, Frederic, had the job of getting the butter on ears of corn for takers at the North Land Ambulance chicken-and-corn feed in Frederic Saturday, Aug. 20.

Sandra King, Grand Idea committee member, and Greg Heine, Frederic art and music teacher, manned a table to raise funds for a new grand piano for Frederic High School. Not pictured were Grand Idea advocates Myrna Beckman, Marvel Beckman and Alison Martin.

The group has raised more than $1,100 in raffle ticket sales to date, bringing the total raised for the project - being coordinated by Corey Arnold’s State Farm Insurance in Frederic - to more than $6,000, including public donations - two-thirds of the goal of $9,000. The deadline for raffle ticket sales is Aug. 31. Tickets are available at the State Farm office on Wisconsin Avenue. (Hwy. 35).

Photos by Nancy Jappe

“It is good,” Arne Ardell commented when asked about the taste of the apple pie he was eating at the depot in Frederic this past Saturday. Ardell‘s wife, Harriet, was one of the artists whose work was on display at the fine arts and crafts show. Ardell, who is a telegrapher, was dismayed to find that the telegraphy display was no longer at the depot museum, something he always enjoyed looking for.

Ray Burgess (R), Bloomer, and his two sons, Ty (L) and Tory, watched over the chicken fryer for the North Land Ambulance chicken-and-rib dinner in Frederic. Burgess is no newcomer to the chicken-frying business - he’s been doing it for close to 40 years.

RIGHT: Retired North Land Ambulance No. 975 worker Cherrise Miller, Frederic, was on hand to serve for the chicken and corn fundraiser.

“We all come back to help them out,” Miller commented.

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Siren Class of 1971

The Siren High School Class of 1971 held its 40th reunion on July 23 in downtown Siren. Pictured front row (L to R): Willa (Woods) Cole, Jane (Stoner) Winkler, Deb Mayhew, Nancy (Lamphere) Anderson, Gail (Skold) Smiley and Roy Facklam. Middle row: Garver Brown, Coni (Johnson) Virchow, Jill (Anderson) Gloodt, Gail (Nelson) O’Shell, Ginger (Clay) Baker, Linda (Goodman) Armstrong and Joe Hunter. Back row: David Lunceford, Dan Olson, Bruce Fosmo, Bob Maurer, Mike DeBrock and Julie (Aronson) Kainu. – Photo submitted

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Bremer food shelf donation

Teeing off on diabetes Turtle Cup raises $5,000 for ADA TURTLE LAKE – The St. Croix Casino Turtle Lake’s annual Turtle Cup charitable golf outing is a long, straight drive down the fairway in the fight against diabetes. This year’s Turtle Cup, the 17th-annual, was held at the Amery Golf Club on Friday, Aug. 12.

Eighteen teams enjoyed a perfect day of golf. When all of the pars, birdies and bogeys were tallied, AmeriPride and WJMC Radio were the top two finishers. As winners, they received trophies and cash prizes. But the Turtle Cup’s real winners were diabetes patients. The 17th-annual Turtle Cup raised $5,000 for the American Diabetes Association.

During the post-Turtle Cup dinner, held at the St. Croix Casino Turtle Lake, casino director of marketing Aimee Juan thanked Turtle Cup participants for coming out for

the event. “Many tribal members suffer from diabetes and its effects,” she said.

“That’s one of the reasons the St. Croix tribe lends its ongoing support to the efforts of the ADA. We’re committed to helping fund research on diabetes prevention and cure.”

Juan presented the $5,000 Turtle Cup donation to Susan Klimek of the American Diabetes Association’s Minnesota affiliate. “I’m honored to be here to accept this generous donation,” Ms. Klimek said.

“According to the Centers for Disease Control, 26 million Americans have diabetes and 79 million have prediabetes.

Thank you for helping us fight diabetes.”

The Turtle Cup is an invitation-only event: St. Croix Casinos vendors are invited to golf, sponsor a hole, donate prizes for the golf outing’s fundraising raffle or underwrite costs for the dinner. Over its 17-year history, the Turtle Cup has raised $85,000 for the ADA. - submitted

The Burnett County food shelf received a $604.06 donation Thursday, Aug. 8, from staff at Bremer Bank, Siren. Shown here (L to R) during that presentation are LeAnn Mulroy, community services specialist for Indianhead Community Action Agency Connection, and Bremer Bank employees Renee Zmuda, Elaine Wilson, Kelly Hibbs and Tammy Twedt-Close. Bremer Bank raised money and food donations for the food shelf during the month of June. Those donations were matched by the bank itself. According to Mulroy, the food shelf gave out 3,116 food boxes (containing 112,256 pounds of food) to 7,525 people. Twenty-five percent of the food-shelf donations go to Siren residents, 35 percent to Webster residents, 20 percent to those from Danbury and 10 percent to Grantsburg-area residents. The remaining 10 percent goes to residents from Hertel, Shell Lake and Spooner who reside in Burnett County. – Photo by Nancy Jappe

Grantsburg Music Festival GRANTSBURG – The Grantsburg Music Festival Society invites everyone to the last Music In The Park event of the summer, Saturday, Aug. 27, at Memory Lake Park.

Come and enjoy music and entertainment by the Grantsburg High School jazz band. Grantsburg music and theater students will also be presenting dance and vocal performances. The band begins playing at 6 p.m.

Members of the band will also be serving food and refreshments beginning at 5:30 p.m. so come early.

The rain location for this event is Faith Lutheran Church in Grantsburg. For rain location updates call 715-222-2195.

The music society appreciates the great community support for Music In The Park events and invites everyone to bring their lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy music by the lake. - submitted

St. Croix Casino Turtle Lake director of marketing Aimee Juan, left, presents the $5,000 Turtle Cup award check to Susan Klimek of ADA. - submitted

Village players donation

Village Players Community Theatre board members Kitty Holmquist, Nancy Rogers and Bunny Day presented Jud Mosher with a scholarship to further his education and Jessica Mosher with a donation toward her upcoming mission trip to Fiji. The brother and sister were both cast members in the VPCT summer production of “Don’t Mention My Name” which wrapped up performances on Aug. 14. - Photo by Priscilla Bauer

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Daylily soup or beet sandwiches?

by Colleen Draxler Special to the Leader NORTHWEST WISCONSIN – Sweet corn, tomatoes and peppers made a grand entrance at the farmers markets last weekend. Plenty of luscious tomatoes to go around as only the early shoppers were able to go home with tomatoes for their BLTs for the past few weeks. The Nuthouse Deli and Coffee Shop sells out of their yummy cranberry walnut bread and Swedish rye early each Saturday at the Siren market. Come early to the market.

The farmers have plenty of other produce for the rest of us: potatoes, beets, broccoli, kohlrabi, radishes, turnips, cukes, dill, carrots, onions, garlic, zucchini, green and yellow beans and more. Summer eating is here! It is time to be a “locavore,” a person interested in eating locally produced food.

Eat fresh – eat local. The markets offer the freshest summer produce and more.

Looking for honey or maple syrup for your cooking and baking needs? Several vendors offer locally produced sweeteners at each of the markets. Area artisans enliven the markets. Log Cabin Soaps by Mary Griesbach of Grantsburg and wood utensils and decorative items from a variety of trees/branches crafted by Dave and Kim Grossman’s Dagro Woodland Treasures in Balsam Lake are a few of the creations you may discover at your market.

Fun at the market: The $25 certificate was given to Dee Yourchuck at the Burnett County Farmers Market raffle in July.

Congratulations!

Meet the farmer Janet Byers of Janet’s Perennials is passionate about daylilies and other perennials. She has been growing and sharing her plants and her expertise for the past 25 years. Byers began dividing and sharing her favorite plants from her home near Grantsburg to family and friends. She earned her master gardener certification after taking many classes and seminars sponsored by the UW-Extension and then by paying back her expertise through volunteering with garden lectures, exhibits and other projects. She harvests her own seeds and begins her plants from seed, cuttings and bulbs. Her plants are homegrown and home tested. Now she sells at the Burnett County and Frederic farmers markets and at many other area special events. Byers thoroughly enjoys talking with her customers – answering questions and offering advice. She tries out new plants in a variety of soils and shade and sun combinations for two to three years to make sure the plants are hardy for this part of Wisconsin. All of Byers plants are

Looking for advice on what flowers to plant in your now sunny yard after the storms knocked down your trees?

Seek out Janet Byers, on the far right, of Janet’s Perennials for the best flower choices for Polk and Burnett counties. – Photos submitted

grown outside – no greenhouse at her place. She sells plants that thrive in her backyard and will assist you in choosing the right beauties for your backyard.

Byers offers a variety of daylilies, aromatic Asiatic and Oriental lilies, balloon flowers in shades of blue, pink and white, bleeding heart, hollyhocks, sedum, coreopsis and more. Favorite flower? Eye-Yi-Yi daylily. Striking orange blossoms with a deep-red center. Current trend in landscaping? Theme gardens. For instance all flowers of one color. All white gardens have been popular for the past couple of years. Byers suggests pairing Casa Blanca and Muscadet Oriental lilies for their big showy flowers. These aromatic lilies almost glow in the dark. Most commonly asked question? What plants are deer resistant? Byers advises coneflowers, balloon flowers and over 15 other varieties of perennials that deer are not interested in nibbling. Share your flower photos, concerns and inquiries to Byers at the next market.

The flowers of some daylilies are edible and are used in Chinese cuisine. But never fear, we are not featuring daylily soup this week. How about a beet sandwich instead? People either love or hate beets it seems. Beets and goat cheese are a classic pairing. Boiled or roasted, fresh beets are spectacular in this sandwich and add a surprising taste to summer salads also.

Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Sandwiches Makes 4 sandwiches.

Ingredients: 3-4 medium beets, roasted* or boiled, peeled and sliced into 1/2-inch-thick rounds 8 bread slices of a hearty bread, lightly toasted, or pumpernickel

6 ounces soft mild goat cheese or chevre or Gouda Salt and pepper to taste 2 cups mixed greens 4 tablespoons mayonnaise

Directions: Spread four slices of bread with goat cheese. Top with cooled roasted beet slices, salt and pepper and greens. Spread mayo on remaining slices of toasted bread and place on top. Tasty. *To prepare roasted beets: Remove stems and greens from beets, wash and pat dry. Wrap beets in foil. Roast at 400 degrees until beets are soft (40-60 minutes) depending on the size of beets. Beets are done when you can slip a knife into the packet and meet no resistance. When cool enough to handle, gently rub the skins off the beets. Slice into rounds. Use disposable gloves if you don’t like pink fingers.

Roast them ahead of time and store them in the fridge until ready for lunch.

Local farmers markets Alpha (Thursdays 3 - 5 p.m., parking lot of the Burnett Dairy Cooperative) Grantsburg (Mondays noon - 2 p.m., parking lot of the Grantsburg Village Offices and Library) Siren (Saturdays 1 - 3 p.m., parking lot of the Siren Senior Center) Frederic (Saturdays 8 a.m. - noon, parking lot of the Inter-County Leader)

Tong Moua and her family from Vue Family Farm offer a wonderful variety of veggies at the Frederic market.

Arts group publishes guide to Northwest Wisconsin arts, growers, heritage

by Harriet Rice Special to the Leader SPOONER – In the small towns, villages and along the rustic roads of northwestern Wisconsin are some of the state’s most valuable assets: creative human beings who nurture beauty, value nature and share their heritage through places, objects and edibles that are handmade and homegrown.

On Saturday, Aug. 27, at 11 a.m., Wisconsin’s Northwest Heritage Passage will launch its paperback guidebook - 208 pages that shine a light on these places and people who live and work along and around the Hwy. 63 corridor in 13 Northwest Wisconsin counties, including Burnett, Polk and St. Croix.

It’s called “The Wisconsin Passage: an Adventure in the Handmade, Homegrown and Historical Offerings of Wisconsin from the Mississippi River to the Lake Superior,” or simply, “The Wisconsin Passage.” The book is the culmination of a dream that began 12 years ago when a group of Northwest Wisconsin people, like Spooner weaver Alene Peterson, realized that the cottage industries of working crafters, artists and growers were key to a sustainable creative economy in this region.

Peterson and a committee of five – all volunteers – began by establishing a set of

criteria. “We were looking for locally made or grown items, quality products, interesting destinations, environmental responsibility, openness to the public, and safety,” said Peterson.

Each of the 200 listees in the book submitted written descriptions of their studios, galleries, farms, museums, and other arts, agricultures or culture-related businesses. Committee members visited each site, providing feedback about their experiences. Others collected and worked with submitted images or took photographs themselves. There is no commercial advertising in the book.

Janet Krokson of Spooner was the book committee’s muse who gathered the descriptions, historical facts, anecdotes and other materials, weaving them into a narrative that makes the book an entertaining read as much as a travel guide.

Editor of the Spooner Advocate and lifelong resident of the area, Krokson said, “It was a labor of love. I’ve lived in Hwy. 63 communities for the past 31 years,” she said. “I love Wisconsin, and I particularly love this part of the state.”

She continued, “I think of “The Wisconsin Passage” as a passage to more passages – to bygone days, to an adventure that anyone can take part in. It’s about artists, artisans, performers, nature lovers, natural growers, pioneer settlers and sto-

rytellers of many genres who forged a life and culture along the heritage roads and trails.”

Peterson added, “We want this book to bring the public together with artists and growers where they live and work and showcase those hometowns, villages and farms as well as the natural beauty of Northwest Wisconsin destinations for travelers of all ages,” The WNHP was founded in 1999 as an arts advocacy group to support and showcase the talents and creativity of Northwest Wisconsin’s communities to the public. In 2001, 2004 and 2009, WNHP published and distributed more than 100,000 maps listing handmade, homegrown and heritage sites. “The Wisconsin Passage” replaces those maps as a more permanent testament to the thriving creative economy in Northwest Wisconsin.

Book launches are planned in each of the 13 counties in the coming months.

“The Wisconsin Passage” is available for sale at Northwind Book & Fiber, 205 Walnut St., Spooner, and online at www.heritagepassage.com, where there will be a list of other retail outlets selling the book. The WNHP is supported in part by the Wisconsin Arts Board. For additional information, call 715-635-9303, or email winhp@centurytel.net.

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Local Habitat launches A Brush With Kindness program

Goal to help 100 families next summer

by Jackie Thorwick ST. CROIX FALLS - Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity started a new program this summer which helps low-income homeowners with external home-maintenance projects, including painting, minor repairs or landscaping. Habitat manages the projects, and the work is done by volunteers, just as in the home-building part of its mission.

“It’s really community members helping each other,” said Eric Kube, executive director of Habitat for Humanity. “Habitat just facilitates the process, bringing people who want to help together with those who could use a little help with their home.”

Through a collaboration with Valspar paint, who has donated over 1 million gallons of paint to Habitat for Humanity, and other local donors and volunteers, WRHFH plans to help over 100 families in Polk and Burnett counties in the next year.

“We are so happy to be able to bring this program to neighborhoods in Polk and Burnett counties. Many people on a fixed income have a lot of month left when the money is gone, and maintaining their home just doesn’t get to the top of the list,” Kube said.

Homeowners in Atlas, Frederic, Amery, Osceola and Siren have received help through the program this year. Volunteers doing the work included groups from Luther Point Servant Camp and Camp Wapogasset, as well as others. Osceola United Methodist Church is set to work on a project soon.

TeenServe is designed for youth who want to help those in need during a oneweek mission trip. Trips involve 200 to 400 teens and adult leaders who perform home improvements, often painting, for families who need help.

“We are also looking for help from donors in the community to make this happen. We need to raise at least $25,000 over the next year to be able to touch these 100-plus families,” Kube stated. “Together we can stretch these donations to make a huge difference in our community.

If you can help in any way, either volunteering or donating, please call our office or stop in to the ReStore.”

Donations in support of Habitat’s work or this project may be sent to WRHFH, P.O. Box 736, St. Croix Falls, WI 54020.

Bob Carter, volunteer with A Brush With Kindness, helped build this ramp for a homeowner in Osceola, whose home was also painted by a group of volunteers from Ox Lake Lutheran Bible Camp. – Photo by Bob Babel ABWK is intended to help those whose income is half or less than half of the median income for our area, or about $20,000 per year for a family of two. For more information or an application, call the Habitat office at 715-483-2700, or e-mail office@wildrivershabitat.org.

“We’ve really just started the program this year,” said Kube. “It is awesome to see how a day or two of help can change a family’s outlook on life and increase their pride in their home. Recently an elderly woman who we helped told me that she was no longer ashamed of her home.”

Habitat has recently agreed to host TeenServe next summer which will allow them to serve about 100 families through the ABWK program during the one week they will be in town.

This group of volunteers from Lake Wapogasset Bible Camp painted the home of an elderly Frederic woman through the A Brush With Kindness program. – Photo by Bob Babel

Bob Babel, construction manager with Habitat, said, “It’s been fun to work with the volunteer groups. When you get a group of 10 people working on a home, they’re like ants on a muffin.

You can get a lot done quickly.” – Photo by Bob Babel

Before-and-after views of the home in Frederic that was painted through Habitat’s A Brush With Kindness program. – Photos by Jackie Thorwick

The Salvation Army sponsors Shop with a Cop POLK COUNTY - The Salvation Army with the help of the Polk County law enforcement hosted a back-to-school Shop with a Cop® program for the children in the Polk County community. Many of the children we work with relate to police with negative experiences and the hope is that the program would build positive relationships between the police officers and the children in the community.

Each child is allotted money to shop based on the child’s age, to purchase back-

to-school clothes and a pair of school shoes. The program has a budget to offer 35 children this opportunity. Officers nominated children in their communities that they knew could benefit from this program. Officers volunteered their time to assist the children in selecting their back-to-school items. Funds were provided by a grant from KARE 11.

The officers met the children at WalMart in St. Croix Falls. The child had a list of wish items and clothing sizes. The Sal-

About 35 children from Polk County recently had the opportunity to Shop with a Cop for school clothes and supplies at the St. Croix Falls WalMart. They were assisted by officers from the Polk County Sheriff’s Department and Clayton, Frederic, Balsam Lake, Milltown and St. Croix Falls police departments.

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vation Army staff members were on hand to assist with any questions. The Polk County Sheriff’s Department and officers from Clayton, Frederic, Balsam Lake, Milltown and St. Croix Falls participated in the program.

“This was a very positive experience not only for the kids but also for the officers,” noted Duana Bremer of the Salvation Army. “One child shared with an officer that this was the first pair of new shoes he had ever had; he was in fourth grade. A little girl looked up at me and stated that she thought all policemen were mean, but they are really nice.”

The kids also were able to check out the squad cars and turn on the lights. - submitted

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Bake sale raises money for charity

The Acorn Pantry, gourmet kitchenware store, located at the Shops at the Lodge in Siren, hosted “Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale” on Saturday, Aug. 20. The store joined forces with Chicago Metallic Bakeware, Food Network, Family Circle, SOLO, Duncan Hines, Domino and C&H to help the fight against childhood hunger. All of the proceeds were donated to the charity. Holly Mangelsen, owner, was very grateful to all the people who chipped in and helped bake for the sale. Volunteers included employees of the Acorn Pantry and the Shops and her mother-in-law. There was everything from chocolate chip cookies to banana bread to french apple cake, made by Kim Jewell, manager of the Acorn Pantry. Jewell loves to bake and isn’t afraid to try fancy new recipes. “Our original goal was to raise $500 but we exceeded that by $415 with donations and sales totalling $915!” noted Mangelsen.

Visit www.greatamericanbakesale.org to find out how you can host a Great American Bake Sale. – Photo submitted

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THANK YOU!

The Passage Foundation Golf Tournament was a huge success again this year! Thank you for helping us raise over $12,000 for the Foundation!

A Special Thanks To Our Monetary Sponsors: Parkinson Dermatology Pour House RBC Wealth Management Rumors Bar & Grill / Northwoods Crossing Schaffer Manufacturing Spooner Outlet Inc. State Farm InsuranceCorey Arnold Sterling Bank Sweeny’s Bar Syren General Store The Lodge at Crooked Lake The Shop Upper Lakes Foods Wayne’s Foods Plus Webster Ace Hardware Weld, Riley, Prenn & Ricci White Birch Yellow River Pharmacy

SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THE VOLUNTEERS, RAFFLE PRIZE DONORS & GOLFERS WHO MADE THIS EVENT A SUCCESS! VISIT US ONLINE: www.nwpltd.org/foundation.htm

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Acorn Pantry Adventures A & H County Market Amery Regional Medical Center Benson Law Office Best Western Northwoods Lodge Blue Collar Sales and Service Bremer Bank Bush & Gilles Furniture CenturyLink Chattering Squirrel Coffee Café Dan and Marty Schneider Indianhead Medical Center Kris’ Pheasant Inn Luck Pharmacy The Medicine Shoppe Northern Capital Insurance

The Burnett Agricultural Society Fair Association recently received a $2,500 check from the AgStar Fund for Rural America. Presenting the check during this year’s fair in Grantsburg on Friday, Aug. 19, was AgStar Rep. Rich Poppe. The grant will help pay for the construction of new walls in the fair pavilion. Fair board members pictured with Poppe (center) are (L to R): Scott Doornink, Deb Goepfert, Dean Selander, Jerry Kozak, Lauri Nelson and Dan Byers.– Photo by Priscilla Bauer

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A dog’s domain is his doghouse or kennel, his yard or his farm. A wolf and its pack claim a specific territory for their own, and heaven help anything that invades that space. We humans tend to be territorial, too.

We jealously guard our homes, property and accumulated goods against intruders. We count ourselves owners of our jobs, our families and our hard-earned leisure time. In other words, we consider ourselves, whether consciously or subconsciously, kings of our castles.

Our “kingdom” is where we spend most of our time, our thoughts and our indulgences. Some of us acquired our property through family inheritance. Others of us earned our way to the top, becoming “king” through hard work and expense. Still others consider themselves king of the very little they possess. Any way you look at it, we strive to be king of our domain.

There is a kingdom, however, that goes beyond the natural - the kingdom of God. When Jesus lived on earth, the Jews looked for a king who would bring them freedom from the oppressive rule of the Roman Empire. What Jesus brought, instead, was the divine power of God in action—salvation from sin, spiritual power over Satan’s rule and dominion, healing and deliverance, and “a life of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 14:17) The Bible tells us we are to seek God’s kingdom daily by resisting sin, the devil, and the world’s enticements. His kingdom is not for those who take lightly the discipline of prayer nor neglect the reading and meditation of the Word. Nor is it for those who have little spiritual hunger or desire to know God better.

His kingdom is more like that of Jacob, from the Old Testament, who wrestled with God all night in order to obtain his blessing. His kingdom is like that of Elijah who challenged the Baal worshippers to a powerduel because he knew that his God, the one true God, would prevail over Baal, their manmade god. His kingdom is like that of Daniel’s three friends who were supernaturally rescued from a burning furnace because they insisted on worshipping and believing only in the one true God. For those who believe, the kingdom of God offers salvation, safety, peace, joy and “unspeakable riches.”

No other kingdom can offer that. It’s ours for the mere asking and believing.

Lord, we thank you that your kingdom of power and glory can be ours. We ask that only you—not any other “god”— will rule in our hearts, minds and souls. In Jesus’ name, amen.

(Mrs. Bair may be reached at sallybair@gmail.com)

FREDERIC – At a typical Sunday morning worship, it is not unusual to see three or four generations of a family all in one pew. What a testament that is of generations worshipping together and passing on the legacy. Members pictured are (L to R): Tammy Chell, her daughter Amanda Shafer, holding her new son, Skyler, who was born on July 22, and a mother to all of them, Lavonne Engelhart.

This past Sunday was the 10th Sunday after Pentecost. According to Wikipedia, Pentecost is a prominent feast in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ after the resurrection of Jesus. The music was led by the contemporary worship team which consists of Steve Stoner, his wife Terri, daughter Holly and Kendra Mossey. Many members gathered Sunday afternoon to prepare and freeze 20 dozen ears of corn for the Oct. 8 harvest dinner.

The call committee will be meeting this week with Pastor Todd Iverson who is the assistant to the bishop. The congregation continues to move forward in the call process of calling another pastor to Pilgrim. Pastor Andrew Hinwood is the interim pastor and the congregation invites you to join them for worship on Sunday at 9 a.m. to hear Pastor Andrew’s message.

Beginning in September, the round-robin 500 card club will again be up and running. The people who signed up for this event will be going from house to house to play cards and have a good time of fellowship, coffee and maybe a dessert. This session will be done at the beginning of December and they will resume play after the first of the year. If you love to play 500 and would like to join them in January, call Joan at 715-327-8393 for more information.

Pilgrim invites everyone to join them for Sunday morning worship at 9 a.m. On Sept. 11, the time of worship will change to 10 a.m. For more information about the church or coming events, please call the church office at 715-327-8012 and leave a message and someone will call you back. You can also go to their Web site at www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.org or check out other activities on Facebook. – submitted

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OBITUARIES Wayne Bernard Fox

Beverly J. Mothes

Doris V. Hanson

Wayne Bernard Fox, 83, was born on Feb. 3, 1928, in Amery, one of two sons born to Richard and Lillian (Bance) Fox. He grew up in rural Amery and graduated from Amery High School in 1947. In his younger years, besides farming, he worked at the feed mill in town and also hauled milk. After the death of his father, his mother remained on the farm with him. Part of life on the farm was having dogs, and Wayne always had dogs with him. He liked feeding and watching birds and fishing in his spare time. Wayne didn’t have children of his own, but he enjoyed all his nieces and nephews and time spent together with family. Even after selling his milk herd, he continued to milk at least a couple of cows until a few years ago. When fall rolled around each year, he made his trek out to the back 40 to hunt deer. During his last years, Wayne was fortunate to have the help of his niece, Bev Fox, to see that things he needed were taken care of.

Wayne died at his home in rural Amery on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, at the age of 83 years.

His parents, brother Vernon and nephews Kenneth Fox and Ricky Fox preceded him in death. Left to mourn are his nieces and nephews and their families as well as other relatives and friends.

Wayne was buried next to his parents in the Fox Family Cemetery in rural Amery on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011.

Memorial services were held at the Williamson-White Funeral Home in Amery on Wednesday, Aug. 24, with Pastor Matt Saarem officiating.

The Williamson-White Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Amery, were entrusted with arrangements. You may sign a register book, view a video tribute and leave condolences at www.williamsonwhite.com

Beverly J. Mothes, 84, a resident of Grantsburg, died Aug. 19, 2011, at Burnett Medical Center Continuing Care Center.

Beverly was born Nov. 22, 1926, in Kansas City, Mo., to Mary Helen and Casmir Zemborski. Their family moved to Chicago and later to Glen Ellyn, Ill. As a young girl, Bev began piano lessons that continued through high school. She later enjoyed playing classical music for pleasure. Her favorite classes in high school were choir, art, French, drama, typing and shorthand. After graduating from Glanbard High School in 1943, she worked in Chicago and St. Louis.

On March 22, 1947, Beverly married her high school classmate, Wolfgang Mothes, after he returned from his tour of duty with the Navy in the Pacific during WWII. They began their married life in St. Louis, Mo., later moving to Wheaton, Ill., and finally in 1956, they bought a dairy farm in the Freya area north of Grantsburg. As a young married woman, Bev was an accomplished knitter and seamstress who made many clothes for her children.

As a “Farmer’s wife,” she had a large garden, was a 4-H leader, volunteered at the school as an eye tester and accompanied many Christmas programs on the piano. She also worked for several years at the Sentinel as a proofreader and sold Avon products around her neighborhood. She enjoyed reading, bowling, doing crossword puzzles, keeping up on world events by watching CNN, writing and typing letters to her friends and relatives relating stories of the activities on the farm and about her four children. She and her husband “Wolf” enjoyed many retirement years traveling around the USA in their motor home.

In 2008, Wolf became a resident of the Continuing Care Center due to complications from Parkinson’s disease.

Beverly later moved into Courtyard Square Apartments in Grantsburg due to her failing health. In June 2011 she moved to CCC in Grantsburg where she was able to be near Wolf and the medical attention she needed. The family is eternally grateful for the wonderful staff and the loving and devoted care given to Bev and Wolf during their stay at the Continuing Care Center at Burnett Medical Center.

Her parents, Mary Helen and Casmir Zemborski, preceded Beverly in death. She is survived by her sisters, Mary Helen Boehmer and Linda Sue Baier (James) both of Fort Madison, Iowa; daughters, Christine L. Erickson (Don) of Siren, Linda Halacy of Grantsburg, Carol Soderbeck (Randy) of Grantsburg, and a son, Rick, of Lakeville, Minn. Bev (Mima) was especially proud of her seven grandchildren, Tina, Amy, Sara, Megan, Christina, Patrick and Caitlin, and her nine great-grandchildren, Keaton, Lauren, Cameron, Brandi, Bryce, Lena, Myra, Brady and Carly. She is also survived by brothers-in-law Rudy Mothes (Ruth), Guenther Mothes (Peggy), sisters-in-law, Dorothy Lahners (Kenneth) and Aida (Gordon Mothes) Grover and many nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life in memory of Beverly Mothes will be held Friday, Aug. 26, 2 to 4 p.m. (an informal program and sharing time will begin at 2:30) at the Edling Funeral Home in Grantsburg, who has been entrusted with arrangements.

Doris V. Hanson, 82, Town of Trade Lake, passed away at her home in the Town of Trade Lake on Aug. 11, 2011. This is the same house where she was born 82 years ago on Nov. 26, 1928.

She loved the country and especially the Trade Lake area. She was very proud of her Swedish heritage, and she spoke Swedish fluently.

Doris attended Trade Lake No. 5 Elementary School and graduated from the Grantsburg High School in 1946. On Sept. 20, 1947, she married George E. Hanson of the Town of Wood River. To this union four sons were born. Doris worked as a mother, a farm wife and, later, a hospital cook at Burnett Regional Medical Center. She loved painting, playing piano, writing and visiting with family and friends. She and her musical group, The Get Togethers, spent many hours providing musical programs for area nursing homes and seniors groups. She always had time to help those less fortunate.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Victor and Elsie Swanson; her husband, George; and brothers, Gunnard and Einar Swanson.

She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Bruce and Mary Ann of New Richmond, Allen and Cindy of Centuria, Glenn and Susan of Clear Lake and Thomas and Patti Jo of Grantsburg. “Grandma Doris” as she was affectionately known, was especially proud of her nine grandchildren, Kathy, Laura, Erik, Jillian, Ryan, Jenni, Shari, Danny and Pierce; and her 12 great-grandchildren.

Services were held Aug. 16 at Zion Lutheran Church in Trade Lake, where Doris was a lifelong member. Interment was in the church cemetery.

The Edling Funeral Home, Grantsburg, was entrusted with arrangements.

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Samuel “Sam” Williamson Jr., age 79, Siren, died Aug. 21, 2011, at Burnett Medical Center Continuing Care Center. Visitation will be Thursday, Aug. 25, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Siren Chapel.

A funeral service will be held Friday, Aug. 26, at 11 a.m. (visitation 10-11 a.m.) at Bethany Lutheran Church. A full obituary will follow in a future edition. Arrangements were entrusted to Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Siren. Online condolences can be made at www.swedberg-taylor.com.

Orville D. Knutson Orville D. Knutson, age 83, Webster, died Aug. 15, 2011.

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If you are interested in becoming a volunteer for Regional Hospice, there will be a training session starting on Monday, September 12, at SwedbergTaylor Funeral Chapel on Highway 35 in Siren. The training will be one day a week for six weeks and will cover such topics as philosophy of hospice, admission criteria, hospice medical issues, pschological and social concerns, listening and communication skills and bereavement and spiritual care.

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Jerome Robert Larson, 83, Palm Springs, Calif., and formerly of Luck, died peacefully at his home on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Memorial service arrangements are pending.

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CHURCH NEWS

Parents shouldn’t be afraid to talk to kids about death Q: My uncle passed away recently and our family attended the funeral.

This was my kids, ages 2 and 4, first real experience with death, and I wasn’t sure how to explain it to them. What’s the best way to handle this subject with young children?

Jim: Whether it’s the loss of a family member or news about another terrorist attack, our kids are going to be confronted with death. Author Candy Arrington has developed some great tips to help kids navigate the grieving process: 1) Teach your kids that death is a part of life. We often avoid this subject to protect our children. But we can use everyday occurrences – wilting flowers, changing seasons, even the death of a pet – to help them understand the reality.

2) Be honest and don’t delay sharing the news. Say, “Uncle Tommy died last night,” not “He’s gone away” or “He went to sleep.” These phrases lead to confusion and might even cause a child to wonder if he’ll die when he goes to sleep.

3) Be ready to answer questions. Some

GRANTSBURG - This year is the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The Global Sing for Peace was created so that musicians from around the world may commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy.

A concert is scheduled at Lincoln Center in New York City, featuring music composed by Karl Jenkins and René Clausen.

Choirs in other parts of the world have been invited to also perform on that day, and will be listed in the official Lincoln

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kids are satisfied with the facts, but others will want to know more. Answer to the best of your ability.

4) Recognize your children’s fears.

Death can be a scary concept. We need to comfort and reassure our children at every opportunity.

5) Don’t be afraid to let your kids see you grieve. It’s OK to cry in front of them.

They need to know that emotional pain is part of losing a loved one.

6) Finally, cherish the memories. Look through photo albums and tell fun stories from the past about your departed loved one.

When death occurs, kids will take their cues from their parents and model their reactions accordingly. It’s much better for their emotional and spiritual health to talk about it openly than to sweep it under the rug.

••• Q: Our daughter is an only child. Due to medical reasons we cannot have any

other children. Is there anything we can do to promote social skills, since she will not have siblings to interact with?

Juli: As frustrating as it can be to grow up with siblings (I have five!), they also provide a natural way to learn the basics of human interaction, including sharing, conflict resolution and communication.

As an only child, your daughter does not have this automatically built into her home environment. However, there are a few things you can do to intentionally create opportunities for her to build peer relationships.

If you live near extended family, take advantage of that. Cousins can become almost as close as siblings. If there are no children in your family living locally, work hard to develop strong relationships with a few other families who have kids around your daughter’s age. Choose families who have a similar philosophy of parenting and morality. Even in the midst of a handful of siblings, I also grew up with a best friend who was like a sister to me. We were constantly over at each other’s house. Your daughter will also get exposure to other kids through school, playgroups and extracurricular activities.

The most important thing to remember in raising an only child is to maintain the generational boundary. It is easy to slide

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Center Program as participants in the commemoration. Singers from the Grantsburg community will be gathering at the GHS auditorium to be part of this event. The Grantsburg chorale and the Grantsburg High School choir will be performing, as well as some smaller ensembles. The performance will start at 2:30 p.m., and will be included in the program of the Lincoln Center concert, as well as being listed on

the Web site. Other singers are invited to consider participation. It will not be a highpressure performance, but rather a time to share music and reflection.

Clausen writes, “The Global Sing for Peace provides choral musicians with an opportunity to advocate for the hope of peace, toleration and understanding of the human condition. Music is more than sentimental balm - it is healing strength. The

into treating an only child as a mini adult.

With just three of you at home, the temptation is to become “the three musketeers” in making decisions and doing everything together. As much as you love her, she is not part of your marital unit.

You are adults and she is a child. Be intentional about keeping it that way.

••• 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, cohost of Focus on the Family, author of several books, and a wife and mother of three. Submit your questions to: FocusOnTheFamily.com.

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D & L FINANCIAL SERVICES 10022 Elbow Lake Road Siren, Wis. 54872 715-689-2539

Any area business wishing to help sponsor the church listings should contact the Leader at 715-327-4236.

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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.

ALLIANCE

ALLIANCE

ALLIANCE CHURCH OF THE VALLEY

Senior Pastor Bob Morton 1259 Hwy. 35 S., St. Croix Falls Sunday Worship: 9 & 11 a.m.

BIBLE FELLOWSHIP

BIBLE FELLOWSHIP

WORD OF LIFE CHURCH

Meeting in homes. Elders: Cliff Bjork, Jon Zens, 715-483-1357 and 715-755-3048 Sun. Fellowship - 10 a.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

LUTHERAN

LUTHERAN

BALSAM LUTHERAN CHURCH

1115 Mains Crossing, 1/2 Mile South Hwy. 8 On 110th St.; Sun. Worship 9 a.m.; Sun. School 10:15 a.m.

Wed. Bible Study 8:30 a.m.; Wed. LOGOS 3:20 p.m.

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.

BETHANY LUTHERAN - SIREN

Hwy. 35, 1/2 blk. N. Main St. Interim Pastor Keith Radiske Pastoral Serv. 715-349-5280 Sun. School 8:15 a.m.; Sun. Worship - 9:30 a.m.

BETHESDA LUTHERAN - DRESSER (LCMC) www.bethesdalutheran.ws

Pastor Peter Rimmereid, 715-755-2562 1947 110th Ave., Dresser Sun. Contemporary Serv. 8:30 a.m.; Sunday Traditional Service 10 a.m.; July 31 & Aug. 28: One Service, 10 a.m. Only

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.

Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays CHRIST LUTHERAN (LCMS)

Pipe Lake CTH G & T, 715-822-3096 Pastor Steve Miller Sun. Serv. 10:45 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9:15 a.m. during schl. yr.; Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sun. www.christlutheranpipelake.com

CLAM FALLS LUTHERAN (AALC)

Pastor Gary Rokenbrodt - 715-653-2630 www.clamfalls-zion-aalcparish.net Communion 1st Sun.; Wor. 9 a.m.; Sun. School 9 a.m.

FAITH LUTHERAN - BALSAM LAKE

faithlutheran@lakeland.ws Pastor Diane Norstad 715-485-3800; CTH I & Mill Street Worship 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 10:40 a.m.; Holy Communion 1st & last Sundays

FAITH LUTHERAN - GRANTSBURG

Pastor Victor St. George, 715-463-5388 Worship 9:30 a.m.; Sun. School 10:45 a.m.

FIRST EVAN. LUTHERAN

561 Chestnut St., Taylors Falls, MN 651-465-5265 June - Aug. Sun. Worship: Traditional 8:30 a.m.; Comtemporary 10:30 a.m.

Sun., Aug. 21: One Worship Serv. 10 a.m. followed by annual meeting

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 Pastor Theresa Riewestahl 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

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

OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN, (LCMS) WEBSTER

Pastor Gerald Heinecke Church Phone 715-866-7191 Sun. Schl. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Wor. - 10:30 a.m.

Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

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.

PILGRIM LUTHERAN - FREDERIC (ELCA)

Interim Pastor Andrew Hinwood 507 Wisconsin Ave. N., 715-327-8012 Sun. Worship - 9 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 2nd Sundays www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.org

REDEEMER EV. LUTHERAN

(Wisconsin Synod) Pastor Gene DeVries 200 N. Adams St., St. Croix Falls Sun. Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 8:30 a.m.

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

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sunday Worship - 9 a.m.

GRACE UNITED - WEBSTER

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.

HOLY TRINITY UNITED METHODIST Holytrinity@wisconsinumc.org 1606 165th Ave., CTH I, Centuria Pastor Freddie Kirk, 715-485-3363 Pastor Tammy Clausen Sunday Worship - 8:30 a.m.

LAKEVIEW UNITED - HERTEL

Pastor Jack Starr Wor. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - during worship hour

LEWIS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST Tom Cook, Pastor Worship 8:45 a.m.; Sunday Schl. 10 a.m.

McKINLEY UNITED METHODIST

Pastor Annie Tricker Sun. Worship 11 a.m.; Sun. School 11 a.m.

Potluck dinner 1st Sunday

OSCEOLA UNITED METHODIST

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

ST. JOHN’S EV. LUTHERAN (Wis. Synod)

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER

Pastor Father Frank Wampach, 651-465-7345 25293 Redwing Ave., Shafer, MN Sunday 9 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

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 ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY

CENTURIA ASSEMBLY OF GOD Pastor Don Wiltshire, 715-640-6400 Centuria - Phone 715-646-2172 Sunday Service: 10 a.m.

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.

EVANGELICAL

EVANGELICAL

APPLE RIVER COMMUNITY (EFCA)

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.

SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN

ST. LUKE UNITED - FREDERIC

Pastor Arveda “Freddie” Kirk, 715-327-4436 Pastor Tammy Clausen Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

CROSSWALK COMMUNITY CHURCH

(Missouri Synod) 140 Madison St. South, St. Croix Falls Pastor Mark K. Schoen Sun. Service - 9 a.m.; Sun.School - 10:30 a.m.

TRINITY LUTHERAN - ELCA

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

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

ZION LUTHERAN - BONE LAKE (AALC)

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

ZION LUTHERAN - EAST FARMINGTON (WELS ) Pastor Martin Weigand - 715-294-3489 Thursday Worship 7:30 p.m.; Sunday Worship 8 & 10 a.m.

ZION LUTHERAN - MARKVILLE

Pastor Tim Faust Worship - 11 a.m.; Sun. School - 10 a.m.

Holy Communion - 1st & 3rd Sunday

ZION LUTHERAN - TRADE LAKE

Pastor Theresa Riewestahl 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

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

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

Pastor - Father Frank Wampach 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.

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP

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

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.

LIVING HOPE CHURCH

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.

TRADE LAKE BAPTIST

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

CHURCH OF CHRIST

CHURCH OF CHRIST

CHURCH OF CHRIST - WEBSTER

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.

WESLEYAN

WESLEYAN

WOODLAND WESLEYAN

Dairyland - Rev. Andrea Wittwer 715-244-3649 Sunday School - 10 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

FULL GOSPEL

FULL GOSPEL

WOOD RIVER CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

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

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.

FIRST BAPTIST - MILLTOWN

Pastor Marlon Mielke, 715-825-3186 Sunday Schl. 9:45 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m., 7 p.m.

Interim Pastor Craig Jorgenson Sunday Worship 10 a.m.; Children’s Church: K to 6th Grade

OUR LADY OF THE LAKES

FIRST BAPTIST - TAYLORS FALLS, MN

NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

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.

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.

SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS & MARY

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.

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.

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” 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.

GRACE BAPTIST - GRANTSBURG

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.

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

RIVER VALLEY CHRISTIAN

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.

ST. PETER’S COMMUNITY CHURCH “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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Danbury

The Oktoberfest tent was filled with a crowd having a good time last Saturday, Aug. 20, in Danbury.

Photos by Carl Heidel

The cooks were kept going full time to prepare brats and sauerkraut for the crowd.

Dancers in costume entertained the crowd.

This little one wasn’t at all interested in the dancing in the tent. She spent her time collecting all the orange cones.

LEFT: There’s always time for a bit of flirtation while dancing.

Traditional costumes filled the tent.

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Happenings in the Upper St. Croix Valley communities

Coming events AUGUST

FRI.-MON./2-5

Amery

• Unity Area Girl Scouts Corn on the Curb Days behind Angler’s Inn. Fri. 8 p.m.-close, Sat. 11 a.m.-close, Sun. 11 a.m.-close, Mon. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 715-553-0247.

Balsam Lake

THURSDAY/25 • Lyme disease education and support at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 7 p.m., 715-268-2856, 715-268-2035.

SAT. & SUN./3 & 4

Danbury

Voyager Village

• Garden Tea at the Fort, 1-3 p.m., reservations, 715-8668890.

• Arts & crafts fair at the community center. Sat. 9 a.m.4 p.m., Sun. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 715-259-3714.

Grantsburg

SATURDAY/3

• GHS Class of 1953 reunion at Dreamers, noon.

Luck

Grantsburg

• Danish/Jewish boat lift features at the historical society meeting at the museum, 7 p.m., 715-472-2030.

• Feed My Sheep at Grace Church in Grantsburg. Doors open 8 a.m., 715-463-5699.

Siren

St. Croix Falls

• Ruby’s Pantry at 24534 Hwy. 35/70. Open 1:30 p.m. Distribution 2 p.m.

• Sonny Winberg/The Power of Twang at the band shell, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

• Fundraising garage sale at 207 North Day Road, for United Hearts School in Ghana, Africa, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., 715-557-0996.

FRI. & SAT./26 & 27

• Fall bazaar at Lakeside Lutheran Church, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

Webster

Webb Lake

• Community club rummage sale at their building, 8 a.m.-?.

FRI.-SUN./26-28 Danbury

• Wild Rice Powwow at the casino, grand entries Fri. 7 p.m., Sat. 1 & 7 p.m., Sun. 1 p.m., 800-238-8946.

FRIDAY/26 Balsam Lake

• Fristad Lutheran Church bake sale at farmers market, 3 p.m.

Milltown

• Outdoor movie at the community center, dusk.

Siren

• Fish fry at Burnett County Moose Lodge, 5:30-7:30 p.m., 715-349-5923.

St. Croix Falls

• Music on the Overlook, Rock n’ Swing Night, 6:30 p.m.

SAT. & SUN./27 & 28 Amery

• “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare at The Northern Lakes Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m., 715-268-6811,

SATURDAY/27 Balsam Lake

• Salvation Army-sponsored training, Spiritual Care During a Disaster Response, at the Justice Center, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 715-472-8906.

• Fox Creek Gun Club’s turkey shoot, behind the Blacksmith Shop, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

• Community electronics recycling event at the Unity School, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 715-322-5115.

Coon Lake in Frederic offered a blue background to the bright colors of this water plant. Photo by Gary King

Danbury

• Support the Fort chicken barbecue at Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 715-866-8890.

Grantsburg

• High school jazz band at Memory Park, 6 p.m.

Luck

• Polk County Special Olympics Fundraising Auction and bake sale at Luck DBS Hall, starts at 11 a.m.

Milltown

• Retirement celebration open house for Pastor Danny Wheeler at Milltown Lutheran Church, 3-7 p.m.

Range

• Apple River Fire & Rescue Department breakfast, 611 a.m.

Siren

• Youth in the Outdoors at Coyland Creek, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., 715-653-4273.

St. Croix Falls

• Showing of “Green Fire,” Aldo Leopold documentary, at the library, 7 p.m., 715-483-1777.

SUNDAY/28

TUESDAY/30 Balsam Lake

• Polk County Alzheimer’s support group at social services building, 715-483-3133.

• Kinship open house at the government center, 3-6 p.m., www.polkkinship.org.

St. Croix Falls

• Alzheimer’s support group at the medical center, 1-3 p.m., 715-483-0431.

WEDNESDAY/31

Divorce care support group at Apple River Community Church, 715-268-8360, 715-268-2176.

Every Monday

SEPTEMBER

Every Tuesday

THURSDAY/1 Balsam Lake

• Year One: Bringing Up Baby class at the medical center, 6-7 p.m., 715-483-0431.

• Service of Appreciation and Blessing for emergency response workers, at the fairgrounds, potluck after, 3 p.m., 715-656-7217 or 715-866-7321.

ONGOING

Every Day, AA &/or AlAnon, Polk & Burnett counties, 715-931-8262 for time/location. Amery, 715-268-8431.

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.

Milltown Webster

Danbury

• Wild rice pancake breakfast at the Fort, 8 a.m.12:30 p.m., 715-866-8890.

• Change For Sept. Only! Ruby’s Pantry at the town maintenance shop, $15 donation. Doors open 2 p.m., distribution 3-4:30 p.m.

• HCE-sponsored class on jams and jellies, at the government center, 6:30 p.m., 715-327-8484.

• Celebration brunch after 9:15 a.m. service in honor of Pastor Danny Wheeler’s retirement.

Centuria

• Holy Trinity United Methodist Church pig & turkey roast, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 715-485-3363.

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.

Danbury

Cushing

• Skonewood Christian Retreat Center - Glory Train, 6:30 p.m.

SUNDAY/4

St. Croix Falls

FRI.-SUN./2-4 Siren

• Lion/Lioness yard sale at Crooked Lake Park. Starts 8 a.m., 715-349-2400.

Every Thursday

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.

Every Friday

Moms In Touch International, First Baptist, Amery, 8:15 a.m., 715-268-5408.

Every Sunday through Labor Day

Breakfast, at East Balsam Baptist Church, 7:30 a.m., 715857-5411.

Prolifi ficc pumpkin patch

The Maslow family of rural Siren has found a unique way to grow pumpkins - with the help of trees. Some of the pumpkins are actually hanging from the tree, several feet off the ground.

Cassandra and McCoy Maslow, children of Jodi and Virgil Maslow, who live on Old 35, are anxious to see if the pumpkins in the trees make it to harvest. “We've never had the plant grow up or so far out into the trees,” noted Jodi. - Photos submitted