WED., OCTOBER 2, 2013 • VOLUME 81 • NO. 7 • 2 SECTIONS
A hero in someone else’s eyes
From track star to surgeon
Currents feature
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Leader
October is Co-op Month
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Controlled burn at Crex spreads
Big Butternut boating
Luck and Frederic look to the future PAGE 5
Burnett admin committee proposes budget Interviews candidates for administrator PAGE 4
Reader suggest reasons for Burnett tourism decline Public input is welcome PAGE 3
SPORTS Tennis team preparing for subsectionals
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UP FRONT BURNETT/POLK COUNTIES - Marking its 80th year in 2013, the Inter-County Cooperative PubOLVKLQJ $VVRFLDWLRQ ZLWK RIÀFHV LQ )UHGHULF 6LUHQ 6W &URL[ )DOOV DQG 6KHOO /DNH HPSOR\V DUHD UHVLGHQWV DQG KDV VWRFNKROGHUV DQG LV SURXG to be a part of celebrating Cooperative Month through October. See our website (the-leader.net) to read the story of our cooperative. - Editor ••• FREDERIC – 7KH )UHGHULF DUHD KDV VRPH QHZ QHLJKERUV Five Amish families have recently moved to the area and are living on farms east of Frederic and Luck. This Saturday, Oct. 5, there will be a fundraising Haystack supper at Hacker’s Lanes in Frederic to help the families raise the money to set up a school. The supper, from 4-8 p.m., will be a chance to meet the new families and enjoy a harvest meal. Donations will be accepted and all are welcome. - Gregg Westigard ••• NORTHWEST WISCONSIN - $V SDUW RI WKH VKXWGRZQ RI WKH IHGHUDO JRYHUQPHQW the National Park Service’s Volunteers-in-Parks program is currently suspended. The program provides medical and liability coverage for those volunteering on the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. Volunteer activities such as building the trail, leading group hikes and participating in Ice Age Trail outreach events have been suspended. - from National Park Service
Collaborate! Communicate! Cooperate! October is Cooperative Month
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ists. What makes a cooperative? A co-op is an entity created, owned and operated by and for its members. Members may be clients, by The Alliance of Polk Burnett Cooperatives customers, employees or policyholders; in The Cooperative Alliance of Polk and Bur- each case they have a say in what happens nett Counties gathers representatives of food, DQG VKDUH LQ DQ\ SURĂ€WV The International Cooperative Alliance, DJULFXOWXUDO Ă€QDQFLDO LQVXUDQFH XWLOLW\ DQG professional cooperatives in our beautiful re- LFD FRRS IRUPHG LQ GHĂ€QHV D FR RS WKLV way: “An autonomous association of persons gion of Northwest Wisconsin. If you live here, you can “Shop Co-opâ€? to who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual JHW \RXU FKHHVH PLON Ă RXU IUHVK YHJJLHV DQG VRFLDO HFRQRPLF DQG FXOWXUDO EHQHĂ€W Âľ Consumer, worker, housing, purchasing and other groceries. You can “Shop Co-opâ€? for your electricity, your local newspaper, your utility cooperatives worldwide have evolved homeowner’s and car insurance, your bank- seven Cooperative Principles: 1) Membership ing, seed for your birds, and gas for your car, is open and voluntary, without discrimination based on gender, class, race, political positions lawnmower and tractor. Need a lawyer? A or religion; 2) The members control the associaco-op option is available. And come a bright tion democratically; 3) The members particifall weekend, you can venture out to a coop- pate economically, contributing equally to erative art gallery and connect with area art6HH &RRSHUDWLYHV SDJH 3DUW RI Ă€YH SDUW VHULHV
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Burn to restore wildlife habitat at Crex Meadows spreads beyond containment and burns additional 600 acres on state-owned land See the-leader.net for story
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• AutumFest @ SCFalls • Classic movie night @ Luck • Polkafest @ Osceola • Fundraiser for Amish school @ Frederic • Gospel jam @ Lewis • Community festival @ Dresser • See Coming events Back page, Currents section
LIVES LIVED Mary Margaret Bignell Carol Jean Ringquist Rev. Eugene Gerald Wekander Daniel Timothy Holmquist Ervin D. Moser Kathleen G. Bloom Patricia A. Hermansen William B. Starkey Lucy R. Kaiser Robert Eugene Stairs Shirley L. Turek (Oxford) Gerald Hovmand Larsen Willys Carlyle Thomson Richard M. Arndt Charles C. Retzer See obits, page 17-19
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