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Hearing finally set to decide Wayne Rouillard’s mental state at time of murder

Requests from Dollar General and Caring Bridge to come before Siren village committees PAGE 5 Cutting tax levy difficult as supervisors rank least important county programs

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A team of workhorses named Snowball, Mary, Dan, Pete and Bud (not necessarily in order) were among those pulling a plow at the Wisconsin Draft Horse and Mule Association’s demonstration last Saturday, May 7, at Luck, as part of a special event coordinated by the Luck Future Farmers of America. More photos inside. - Photo by Becky Amundson

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New Hope can stay “forever” PAGE 6

Our own eagle project

A female bald eagle with her three eggs. - Photo by Jim McKeown

SPORTS

• Robert John Larsen • Violet Lucille Waldenstrom • Brenda (Gaspord) Johnson • Gerald Stypula Sr • Patricia “Pat” Denver • John (Jack) M. Peterson • Bonnie M. Johnson • Edith Cunliffe • Clara C. Johnson • Arden Johnny Martinson • Darlene Mable Brenizer Welsh • Rae O. Hummel • Sandra M. Broker • Geraldine F. Connel • Roland “Rollie” Canfield • Ruby Anna (Wedin) Wicklund • Dolores Mae Rickford • Serena Lorraine Loock • Johanna V. Quint (p. 3) Obituaries on page 21-23B

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Northwestern Wisconsin Electric assists with eagle study project

BURNETT COUNTY - The world has been fascinated with the live videos on the Web from a bald eagle nest camera at the Decorah, Iowa, fish hatchery.

A similar study of bald eagles is happening in our own backyard. Local wildlife

photographer Jim McKeown has been documenting the lives of various eagle families in Burnett County for over 10 years. The result will be a documentary film for public television.

In January 2011, Grantsburg-based utility Northwestern Wisconsin Electric Company assisted with the placement of a nest camera to expand the study and record the details of nesting and raising young.

The tiny camera, camouflaged in an im-

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Scottie Miller to headline at Honky Tonk Cafe

ST. CROIX FALLS – Scottie Miller, pianist, singer, songwriter and blues musician, will be performing at St. Croix Festival Theatre on Saturday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. Miller is one in a series of unique singersongwriter showcases of Fizz Kizer’s Honky Tonk Café. “Long a staple of life in River Falls, Fizz Kizer’s format provides audiences with a chance to get up close and personal with the creativity that goes into songwriting,” said Danette Olsen, artistic director of St. Croix Festival Theatre.

“What’s really great about this show is that it will take place in The Elbow Room, our street-level performance space, so it’s completely a club atmosphere with tables, wine and beer, and wonderful intimacy to the stage.” Miller plays Southern soul, blues-soul with a feel for gospel music, and Latin/Caribbean jazz.

According to John Ziegler of the Duluth News Tribune, “Scottie Miller has a soulful way of writing and delivering a song that will improve your mood and lighten your load. “ The Honky Tonk Café experience continues throughout the year with shows on July 14 with Alison Scott and Kevin Bowe and Nov. 25 with Molly Dean. Tickets are $15 and are Flex Pass eligible. Additional concerts coming up at Festival Theatre include: Green Tea, Alice Peacock and Sirens of the 60s.

Check the Web site at www.festivaltheatre.org where tickets are available to order online. Festival Theatre is located in downtown St. Croix Falls, at 210 North Washington St. To reach Festival Theatre by phone, call 715-483-3387 or 888-887-6002. - from Festival Theatre

Congressman to show winning artworks

U.S. Congressman Sean Duffy this week congratulated the winning entries from Wisconsin’s 7th District in the 30th-Annual Congressional Art Competition. “We received some outstanding and truly impressive pieces of art throughout the course of this competition and I want to congratulate all the students on a job well done,” Duffy said. “The parents and teachers of all these young people should be proud. Now our winners’ artwork will grace the walls of Congress, as well as my congressional offices. Over the course of the year, tens of thousands of tourists and staff at the Capitol will be able to see the kind of artistic talent we have and must continue to nurture right here in Central and Northern Wisconsin.” There were 32 entries from local high school students that were judged by a committee comprised of local art experts. Shown is “Racing Through Life,” a chalk pastel drawing by 10th-grader Jennah Kaier of Stratford High School. - with submitted information

Earth Arts Spring Tour

The artwork of Ann Fawver (above) and her daughter, Hannah Wren Fawver (right), were on display during the annual Earth Arts Tour held this past weekend at various locations throughout the area. Approximately 30 artists hosted visitors and showcased their work. Earth Arts unites artists and artisans in the Upper St. Croix Valley to promote creativity, mutual support and awareness of the arts. Their Web site, earthartswi.org, offers links to Web sites of each of the artists taking part in the tour. - Photos by Rob Harrison

10 years after

The eight-page special section that the Leader published following the June 18, 2001, tornado that struck southern Burnett County has been republished on our Web site at www.the-leader.net in e-edition form. The section was part of the Leader’s coverage of the F-3 tornado that claimed three lives and caused millions of dollars in damage. The Leader plans to publish another special section in June, commemorating the 10-year anniversary, in conjunction with the Burnett County event “A day of change, a day of thanksgiving” now being planned by the Siren Area Chamber of Commerce. The logo for the special event is shown below. Watch the Leader over the next month for information on the special day.

Fair marks 150th year

POLK COUNTY - The Polk County Fair is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2011. The board of directors would like the public’s help in creating a historical display for this year’s fair, to be held July 28-31. If you have memorabilia to loan the committee for the display or would be willing to volunteer to help with this project, please call one of the following directors: Judy Bainbridge (Luck) 715-553-0801; Geri Christensen (Clear Lake) 715-491-0152; Dale Wood (Clear Lake) 715-263-2784; Janis Larson (Milltown) 715-553-0118; or Karrie Melin Swenson (St. Croix Falls) 715-483-9797. - submitted

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MADISON – May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Lyme disease cases increased 35 percent in 2010, and state health officials are urging people to take precautions against tick bites as warm spring weather triggers more “blacklegged” or deer tick activity. Infected blacklegged ticks can carry Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases including anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and babesiosis. Lyme disease cases totaled 3,495 in 2010 compared with 2,587 cases in 2009, according to Dr. Henry Anderson, state health officer. In some people, the EM rash may not occur. The disease can be easily treated with antibiotics when detected early.

However, if left untreated, Lyme disease can result in debilitating arthritis, and serious heart and nervous system complications. People can take steps to avoid tick bites and reduce the chance of getting Lyme disease. Avoid wooded and bushy areas with high grass and leaf litter since ticks prefer these areas. Stay to the center of a trail to avoid contact with grass and brush.

Use effective tick repellants and apply according to the label instructions. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that adults use repellants with 20-30 percent DEET on exposed skin and clothing to prevent tick bites. Repellants that contain permethrin can also be applied to clothing. Wear clothes that will help shield you from ticks.

Long-sleeved shirts and long pants are best. submitted information ••• RICE LAKE - Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College is offering motorcycle safety training classes at the Rice Lake, New Richmond, Ashland and Superior campuses. This 16-hour course is approved by the Department of Transportation. It is designed to teach the beginner or experienced rider the safe techniques of riding a motorcycle. It consists of six hours of classroom and 10 hours of on-cycle instruction. Students completing and passing this course will be issued a waiver that will waive the road test at the DMV. A student will still be required to take a written test at the DMV to obtain their class M license. Motorcycles are provided by WITC. Students must provide their own safety gear. Classes are offered weekends starting in April. Visit the Web site at www.witc.edu or call 800-243-9482, Ext. 5409 or 5410 for Rice Lake, New Richmond Ext. 4221, Superior Ext. 6212, and Ashland Ext 3112. - from WITC ••• ST. CROIX FALLS - As part of its centennial celebration in 2011, the St. Croix River Association will sponsor a new photo contest. The contest is open to amateur photographers. Entrants may enter up to a total of five photos.

Photos must be taken within the St. Croix River watershed, which includes many rivers and streams in eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Photo categories include wildlife, landscapes, close-ups or people. Age divisions will be adults, ages 19 and over, and youth that are 18 or younger. One winner will be selected for each category and age division with one grand prize being awarded. Grand prize wins a 16x20 print from Gary Alan Nelson and a $200 cash prize. First place wins an 8x10 Gary Alan Nelson print and a $100 cash prize. Second- and third-place winners will also be selected for each category. All 25 winning photos will be displayed throughout the watershed. The deadline to enter the 2011 photo contest is Wednesday, June 15. For further information contact Gary Noren at 715-483-9566, or e-mail garynoren@gmail.com Photos will be judged

by Gary Alan Nelson, and an SCRA board member. For an entry form, go to stcroixriverassociation.org/photo-contest. - submitted

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Johanna Vick Quint dies at 100

SIREN - Johanna Vick Quint of Siren died May 9, 2011, at the age of 100.

She was born April 1, 1911, to Peder and Ingeborg Vick in Rice Lake. She married Warren Quint in 1942, and while her husband was involved in WWII, she worked in the shipyards in Marin, Calif. Later, she and her husband owned and operated the Siren Telephone Company, one of the few independent telephone companies in the United States.

A private family memorial service will be held at a later date.People are invited to sign the guestbook and leave a condolence for the family at www.vesseyfuneralservice.com.

A complete obituary will appear in upcoming edition of the Leader.

Governor appoints local woman to state board

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Pamela Garvey to serve on state DATCP Board

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer CENTURIA – Gov. Scott Walker announced that local farmer Pamela Garvey of Centuria is one of four nominated appointees to the Board of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. Garvey joins Mark Schleitwiler, Miranda Leis and Andrew Diercks as board nominees, which meets once a month in MadiGarvey son and provides guidance on DATCP actions.

“I am confident these appointments to the Board of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection will carry out their duties with the good of the state in mind,” said Walker. “A strong agricultural sector and fair business environment are critical to moving Wisconsin’s economy forward.”

Garvey is quite excited about the appointment and said she was encouraged to apply by a local friend, who heard of a board vacancy, and noted her previous involvement in a number of related industries would make her an ideal candidate. She did some research and found it to be very applicable to her background and interests.

“It sounded really cool and interesting,” she said of the position. “They have lots of involvement and input on different areas.”

Garvey has a bachelor’s degree in food science and technology, with a minor in business. She owns and oper-

ates a 750-acre farm with her husband, Mike, outside Centuria. She is a member of the Polk County Farm Bureau and the Wisconsin Farm Bureau and has held numerous leadership positions within the bureau, including as a board member. She also served on the bureau’s State Policy Development Committee from 2006 to 2008. Additionally, she participates in Ag Day at the Capitol, has co-chaired the Youth Agriculture Essay Contest and is active in local 4-H leadership.

While board appointments technically run six years, Garvey said she will likely fill the remainder of a vacant seat, meaning she will serve about 2-1/2 years. Her appointment must be approved by the Wisconsin Senate, but she has an orientation meeting this week, in preparation for board duties.

Garvey has a long history of involvement in the swine and beef industries, and now raises turkeys, as well, so she has real-world input into the needs and issues relevant to the industry.

“Now with raising turkeys, we’ve got a good knowledge of nutrient management and other aspects,” she said, noting that while the position involves a broad range of consumer protection, industrial inputs, regulations and industry involvement, the agricultural end is where she shines.

“Agriculture is my passion,” she said, admitting that she was “a little shocked” to hear that she actually got the appointment but is quite excited to be included in such an important position. She also admits to a bit of trepidation. “Yeah, maybe a little bit of ‘what did I get myself into?’” she joked.

Garvey is confident that her background, passion and real-world experience make the position right up her alley. “It’s good to show that what we do is important and good for the state,” she said.

Public meeting set for proposed changes to Interstate Bridge

ST. CROIX FALLS - The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Northwest Region in Superior is announcing a public information meeting to discuss the proposed bridge deck overlay and necessary approach work for the Hwy. 8 bridge over the St. Croix River.

The meeting is scheduled from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 24, at the St. Croix Falls Public Library, Community Meeting Room, 210 N. Washington St. The proposed project consists of placing a concrete overlay on the existing bridge deck, replacing both edges of the deck and replacing the sidewalk railing, placing an aesthetic treatment to both abutments, adding riprap on the east slope and necessary approach work. Traffic will be maintained on the structure during construction. Construction for this project is anticipated

to begin next year.

The public is encouraged to attend the meeting, provide input and ask questions concerning this project.

Maps showing the proposed improvement alternatives will be on display.

WisDOT representatives will be available to discuss the project on an individual basis.

If you are unable to attend the meeting, or would like more information, contact Jane Olson at 715-395-3025.

Written comments regarding the project can be mailed to Jane Olson, 1701 N. 4th St., Superior WI 54880. Citizens who are hearing-impaired and who require an interpreter may request one by contacting Olson at least three working days prior to the meeting. from the DOT

Richard P. Paul, 49, St. Paul, Minn., died in a single-vehicle accident Sunday evening, May 8, on Hwy. 46 in Polk County. - Photo from Polk County Sheriff’s Dept.

SCRMC moves closer to groundbreaking for new clinic

by Gary King Leader editor FREDERIC - One of the village’s youngest businesses was granted a beer and wine license at a regular meeting of the village board, Monday, May 9.

Players Billiards, owned by Dan and Maya Thompson, had been denied the license twice before.

According to William Johnson IV, who presided over his first meeting as village president, there was some concern expressed by some trustees about how the business would operate with a beer license, as their clientele includes minors.

“A couple of board members wanted to see a more specific business plan,” Johnson noted. “And they presented a real nice plan.”

Johnson said the license is more along the lines of those granted restaurants.

The board also reapproved a conditional use permit for the business. Initially the permit was approved for one year, giving the board a chance to review the business and any issues of concern that might surface.

Also at Monday’s meeting, Tom “Skip” Sofie, owner of Frederic Liquor, expressed frustration with the board because there was no notice several weeks ago that a liquor license was being considered for the Dollar General Store.

Sofie wrote a letter to the editor that was published in the Leader’s Wednesday, April 20, issue.

It was noted that the proper notice had been published.

New clinic plans St. Croix Regional Medical Center CEO Dave Dobosenski and CFO Jon Tremble made their second appearance before the board to discuss their plans to build a new clinic on the west end of Frederic’s Main Street on the lot where the old feed mill stood.

The duo introduced the project to the village board at a meeting in October of 2010.

SCRMC is undertaking an ambitious building project, planning new clinics at Frederic and Lindstrom, Minn., and renovating their Unity Clinic near Balsam Lake.

Groundbreaking could take place later this year for the Frederic project, although the summer of 2012 has been specified as a target date for completion.

The Leader hopes to present more information on the project in the near future.

Monday’s village board meeting was perhaps the longest and most heavily attended in months, with most staying for the entire two-hour meeting.

Among those in attendance were village President Johnson, Administrator Dave Wondra, Trustees Brad Harlander, Kerry Brendel, Maria Ammend, John Boyer, Phil Knuf and Jamie Worthington, street superintendent Ken Hackett, police Chief RJ Severude, village employees Mike Laqua and Kristy Swanson and librarian Chris Byerly.

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St. Paul man dies in Polk County crash

POLK COUNTY -A 49-year-old Minnesota man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Hwy. 46 in Polk County on Sunday evening, May 8.

The deceased was identified as Richard P. Paul, 49, St. Paul.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Department was notified at 10:23 p.m. of a one-vehicle crash on 46 near the intersection of 46 and CTH CC. A single occupant, who was not seat belted, was discovered under debris in the vehicle

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and was pronounced dead a the scene.

The deputy’s investigation of the crash found that the vehicle, a 2001 Ford F-150 pickup, was traveling south on 46 when the right tires dropped off the right edge of the roadway. When the driver attempted to correct, the vehicle crossed over the northbound lanes and entered the east ditch where the vehicle overturned one full revolution.

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Insanity versus prison?

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Hearing finally set to decide Wayne Rouillard’s mental state at time of murder

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE – Convicted killer Wayne Rouillard’s mental state is the focus of a sentencing hearing that has finally been rescheduled for a June 14 to decide his fate. The hearing had been originally set for March, but ran into various delays.

The June hearing will likely be, in effect, the only trial Rouillard will ever stand.

At issue is Rouillard’s mental state at the time of the his gruesome, admitted murder of best friend Stephen Dahlstrom on Nov. 28, 2009, in Rouillard’s rural Town of Bone Lake garage.

Rouillard, 63, admitted to using as many as six home and yard implements in killing Dahlstrom, who was found with a military knife sticking from his chest, and had been stabbed approximately three dozen times.

But was Rouillard functionally insane at the time of the crime? That task is solely up to Judge Molly GaleWyrick to decide.

And she has given both sides of the aisle a couple of hours to make their cases, either

way.

The difference in final treatment, sentencing and where Rouillard ends up is mildly unclear, regardless of the decision.

He faces up to 60 years in state prison for his Jan. 26 conviction of a reduced charge of second-degree homicide, which came from a plea bargain to avoid a trial.

As noted in earlier coverage of the Rouillard case, a not guilty by reason of insanity plea is reportedly very difficult to prove, but in effect, it attempts to place the blame for the crime squarely on the person’s mental disease or defect at the time of the crime, meaning he would be incarcerated in a mental-health facility, instead of in a state prison, likely for the rest of his life.

When pursuing an NGI, the defendant must have at least one such court-appointed review, which according to state statute: “ ... must contain the examiners opinions as to both the ability of the defendant to appreciate the wrongfulness of his or her conduct and the ability of the defendant to conform his or her conduct to the requirements of the law at the time of the commission of the crime(s) charged.”

That reviewer must then determine if “... sufficient information is available to reach an opinion,” and then must include the examiners opinions as to whether the

defendant needs medication or treatment.

That evaluation must also include an opinion as to whether the person has the mental capacity to refuse treatment or medication.

It will rest solely on GaleWyrick to decide his functional mental acuity at the time of the killing.

There was never any indication what started the altercation, although it was rumored to have been around money owed to Rouillard, and the two had been described as best friends numerous times during previous hearings.

But the reality of the crime scene was chilling, with blood everywhere, including on Rouillard. Later autopsy results revealed that Dahlstrom had not only been stabbed repeatedly, but also had numerous other blunt-force injuries. It was later revealed that Rouillard said he may have used a hammer, a splitting maul, a Phillips screwdriver and even a carpet knife, on top of the military knife.

Rouillard also admitted to using a rope to bind Dahlstrom’s feet to a bench vise in the garage, reportedly to keep him from striking back after he was stabbed, beaten and bludgeoned yet obviously deceased.

The district attorney’s admission that there “might have been some question on the self-defense end” of the crime was admittedly part of why the state accepted

Siren Lions build their longest ramp

the plea agreement, as Rouillard did have several small, possible defensive wounds on his chest.

He underwent a court-ordered psychiatric examination last fall by Dr. Frederick Fosdal, a renowned Madison-based forensic psychiatrist. The evaluation was conducted upon the mutual consent of both District Attorney Steffen and Rouillard’s attorney, Mark Biller. While the final results of that evaluation were never revealed to the public, Steffen had implied that the results seemingly favored the prosecution, prior to the plea agreement this winter.

In previous hearings, it was implied that Rouillard had suffered from either post-traumatic stress disorder from military combat duty in Vietnam and/or from many years of addiction to various medications and alcohol. He was described as a “quart-a-day fella” during one hearing.

The June 14 hearing will also reportedly include the results of another mental evaluation, with that doctor also appearing for testimony that GaleWyrick will use to weigh and interpret the different takes and thus, his fate.

Rouillard has been in jail since the night of the murder and will turn 64 years old next Tuesday.

Members of the Siren Lions Club built their longest home ramp to date, out of the 30 they have built over the years. This ramp, built for a person who uses a walker and could not navigate the home’s steps, is 114 feet long. The Webster Lions Club and the Siren Lioness Club helped the Siren Lions fund the project. - Photos submitted

Round-Trade Lake Improvement Association battle continues

BURNETT COUNTY - The RoundTrade Lake Improvement Association, which includes Long Trade Lake in Polk County, along with Round, Spirit, Little and Big Trade lakes in Burnett County, is still continuing its battle with aquatic invasive species. Eurasian water milfoil has been the focus of the attack since it has been discovered in Long Trade, Round and Little Trade lakes, with Little Trade being the most recent one infested. Unfortunately for Little Trade Lake, since it was discovered in the fall of 2009, the area of infestation has spread.

Since last year, the RTLIA has taken several steps to strengthen its position in this

battle. The most recent is the completion of an Aquatic Plant Management Plan for Long Trade, Round, Little and Big Trade lakes. Jeremy Williamson, the aquatic invasive species coordinator of the Polk County Land and Water Resources Department, along with help from resources in Burnett County and the WDNR, participated in the APM Plan development. It is anticipated that the final document will be done by July 1. An APM Plan is the basis for making decisions on how to manage the health of the lakes in the near-term and on a long-term basis. Larry Ghimenti, the president, of the RTLIA says, “The APM Plan is our road map to cleaner lakes

with our Eurasian water milfoil problem anticipated to be under better control.

We’ve been fighting the battle for over six years, and we are finally about to go on the offensive.”

The APM Plan is a living document and allows for changes as knowledge and resources change. When it is finished, it will be available for the public to review on their Web site www.tradelakeassoc.org, and there will be copies in the respective county libraries. Ghimenti states, “We’re very excited to get this project completed.

It is a very important step that will allow the RTLIA to get further assistance from both county and state resources.”

At the upcoming association meetings on Saturday, May 21, and Saturday, June 18, the RTLIA will have special speakers attending from the WDNR, counties, and Dave Blumer of S.E.H. Inc. The RTLIA has asked these specialists to attend the meetings in order to discuss the steps described in the APM Plan and answer any questions the members and public may have. They are encouraging anyone interested in this topic to attend these meetings so they can get their questions answered by the experts. The meetings will be held at the Trade Lake Town Hall at 9 a.m. on these dates. - from RTLIA

itation tree branch, was installed above an active nest on private land in Burnett County. This nest has been occupied by the same mated pair of bald eagles and monitored by McKeown since the year 2000. Since the installation of the nest camera in January, all activities at the nest have been recorded in high definition.

The pair began spending more and more time at the nest in February, building it up with sticks and grass. Three eggs were laid on March 12, 15 and 18, about two weeks later than the eggs at the Decorah, Iowa, nest. The time delay is due to the climate difference between northern Iowa and northern Wisconsin. With an incubation period of approximately 35 days, the expected hatching dates for the Burnett County nest would have been April 17-23.

Nature is sometimes predictable, but often surprising. The Iowa nest had three successful hatchings and the parents took turns feeding the young. The Burnett County nest provided drama of a different sort. At first the male and female took turns incubating the eggs, which is typical. One day the male rolled one of the three eggs away from the center of the nest and left the broken pieces near the outer edge of the nest. From that day on, the female did all of the incubating and did not allow the male to sit on the eggs.

A few days before the first egg was due to hatch, both adults were nervously looking skyward as migrating eagles circled overhead. They frequently left the nest to give chase and defend their territory. One day the female, sitting alone on the nest,

was attacked by another eagle from above. After several more days of chasing and fighting, the eggs had been exposed too long to the cold weather and were no longer viable. Eventually the older pair was unable to defend the nest and the younger pair moved in. The two abandoned eggs remain in the nest.

McKeown remarked, “The outcome for this nest was certainly not what we expected to film. It was very sad to witness the loss of three eggs. I had hoped to record the successful rearing of three eagle chicks and follow them for the rest of the summer as they learned to fly and catch fish. Instead, we witnessed and recorded the rare occurrence of a hostile takeover of a nest by a younger pair of eagles.”

“We are still waiting to see what eventu-

ally happens to the abandoned eggs and the older eagle pair. We will also be tracking the behaviors of other local eagles to document any changes in territorial lines.

And next year at nesting time, we expect the hidden camera to reveal the next chapter in this evolving story.”

Northwestern Wisconsin Electric Company has assisted with other nature projects in the area. These projects include the placement of osprey nesting platforms in the Towns of Swiss and Trade Lake in Burnett County as well as preventative measures to minimize the potential of contact with overhead electric equipment. - submitted

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A tale of two Milltowns

MAY 11, 2011 - INTER-COUNTY LEADER - NEWS SECTION - A - PAGE 5

FFA ambassador team makes a splash in Indiana

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer MILLTOWN – The Milltown Village Board commended the group of four local Unity High School students who made the sojourn south to “Sister City” Milltown, Ind., recently, during what proved to be a flood in that part of the Midwest.

Unity advisor Jeannie Alling escorted the four girls south on the trip, and while they had intentions to help plant a community garden with the Hoosier locals, the entire region was slowly getting mired in flooding, which wowed the group and also inspired the hosting city’s people who faced water levels they hadn’t seen in years.

“It means so much and brought so

much hope to the area,” Alling said.

She gave the board a slide show view of the trip at the board’s regular monthly meeting on Monday, May 9, where she also had news about the other Milltown’s intention of sending a group up this summer for Wisconsin festivities.

“They had never heard of cheese curds,” Alling joked, telling the board that one of the Indiana hosts actually thought they needed to microwave the product to make them “squeaky.”

But Alling said that the Unity ambassadors proved to be fascinated by much about the area, especially the pending flooding.

“Really, so many things are similar [to our region],” she said.

The Indiana group also has several gifts to bring up this summer, including a custom bench and piece of historic bridge stone from a previous floode-out bridge that is no more.

Alling called the flooding “devastating to see,” and said the group also was able to see the previously planted garden from the Unity FFA trip in 2008.

“They said that garden changed the dynamics of beautification in the town,” she said. “They were truly ambassadors of hope.”

Village President LuAnn White commended and thanked the group for the representing the village so well and was excited about the Hoosier tour this summer, offering to help find lodging and activities for the future guests. “We’ll make sure they have a good time!” White exclaimed.

She said the hosting group was truly inspired by the goodwill of the local girls, and that the visit “truly gave them hope,” in spite of the rising water, which also led the Unity girls to forgo an Indianapolis side trip.

In other board action: • The board debated for some time whether to hire out or have the village crew do the bulk of road line painting this summer, which might save as much as $3,000.

Trustee Larry Kuske thought it was a good use of crew time and could be an easy way to save some money.

“Even if it costs us $500 in paint,” he speculated.

• The board approved crack sealing and seal coating for the village tennis courts, which will also include line painting.

• Approved village treasurer Amy Albrecht to fill a vacancy on the village Community Development Block Grant Housing Committee.

• The board decided to adjust the liquor license publication fee, but will make the final numbers when they realize actual costs, so the village doesn’t incur the cost, which previously had been $10.

Dollar General and Caring Bridge requests to come before committees

by Nancy Jappe Leader staff writer SIREN - Two potential business entities will come before the Siren Village Board of Appeals and Plan Commission at their meeting Thursday, May 26. The public hearing begins at 1 p.m. that day at the Siren Village Hall.

According to Village Administrator Martin Shutt, the request from Dollar General Corporation will involve a variance on the size and height of their sign and the number of required off-street parking spaces. Dollar General has plans for putting up a building on part of the lot that was once the location of the Timberland Gifts and Goods business on the west side of Hwy. 35/70 in the village. A certified survey map will be presented that shows the planned division of that lot.

Dollar General representatives are also expected to attend the personnel and finance committee meeting earlier that day, starting at 10 a.m. at the village hall to discuss a request for incentive money.

Caring Bridge ALC, owns the property on Fourth Avenue that once housed elderly and infirm residents in the facility known as Capeside Cove Good Samaritan Center. Caring Bridge put in a request to the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Association for permission to put housing into that property. The question now is whether this housing is for affordable (moderate)-level housing or low-rent housing, as stated in the

the 26th.

Public notice of the hearings before the Board of Appeals and the Plan Commission is included in this week’s edition of the Inter-County Leader, official publication for the village of Siren.

For the past eight years, Burnett County Sheriff Dean Roland has been working on getting a speed board for the north end of Siren. That goal was finally achieved, with the help of members of the Burnett County Moose Lodge. The board has arrived and, with assistance from Siren Telephone Company (donation for the digging of the trench and the required wiring), the village of Siren and Maurer Power for hook-up, the Dynamic Speed Sign will be placed on the west side of Hwy. 35/70 north of the village. “I think this will help prevent accidents and problems,” Roland said, adding, “(The speed board) was more expensive than I thought it would be.

We couldn’t have done it without the help of the Moose.” Roland (left) is shown in the photo with Siren Village President Janet Hunter and Kevin Swanson, governor of Burnett County Moose Lodge 1194, during presentation of the board to the village Thursday, May 5. - Photo by Nancy Jappe

WHEDA application.

According to the minutes of the April 26 personnel and finance committee meeting, John Cashman, executive director of Caring Bridge, indicated that the WHEDA

application is pending approval of a letter of support from the village for the project.

Cashman has indicated that he will be bringing a conditional-use permit application to the Plan Commission meeting on

maintains highways, roads and streets. It educates people in local school systems and state colleges and universities. Government records who owns property and decides how that property can be used (zoning laws) and what that property is worth (the property tax base). Government protects and cares for some residents who are at risk or lack resources (child protection, human service programs) and operates programs (Social Security, Medicare) to help people cover their economic needs as they age. It regulates workplaces for employee safety. It inspects restaurants and food processors to protect the eating public. Government registers the births, marriages and deaths of people.

Government sets social policies, many of which have economic costs. Some of those policies relate to the use of tobacco, alcohol and other substances. Enforcement of these policies is a major part of the expense of the police and court systems.

Government decides who can marry. Marriage and divorce laws help decide who owns property and is responsible for the care of children and debts.

many local programs: schools, highways, social services. And many of these shared funds are tied to requirements that local governments meet (the mandates).

Local governments are now preparing their budgets for the coming year. For school districts, the coming year starts July 1. County and municipal budgets have a later deadline, but all these budgets must be adopted by November so the revenues can be included in the December property tax bills.

Actions taken/meeting schedules set at May 5 village board meeting During the village board meeting Thursday, May 5, board members accepted the Dynamic Speed Sign presented

by Burnett County Sheriff Dean Roland and Kevin Swanson, governor of Burnett County Moose Lodge 1194. They approved a personnel and finance committee recommendation to renew Anthem health insurance for village employees, to purchase a second voting machine at a cost of $2,205 and to send out requests for proposal for harvesting village-owned timber in the industrial park and along First Avenue behind the village lift station.

No date was set for the next meetings of the building, grounds and parks committee and the public safety committee. The personnel and finance committee will meet Thursday, May 26, at 10 a.m. The streets and utilities committee will meet Tuesday, May 24, at 10 a.m. The Plan Commission and Board of Appeals will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday, May 26, and the Board of Review is set for 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 31.

What government does and what it costs

Many layers of government setting budgets, making policies

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer FREDERIC – Spending caps. Debt ceilings. Budget repairs. Benefit reductions.

Layoffs.

Government revenues, spending and budgets are a major item in the daily news. From Washington to our smallest local units, lawmakers are making decisions on what government should do and who should pay the cost. The discussion includes calls for less government and how to fund existing programs.

The levels of government Government ranges from the federal level to the states, the counties and the municipalities (towns, villages and cities in Wisconsin). School districts are an overlapping local level of government. All these levels elect officials who set priorities, adopt budgets and collect the revenues to cover those budgets. Besides that, there are special purpose government units that raise and spend money: fire and ambulance services, the technical college system, sanitary and lake districts.

What government does Much of government is related to providing services and setting regulations.

Government protects people and enforces laws (the military, the state patrol, sheriffs, local police). Government builds and

Where the money comes from Government raises the money to cover its expenses from a variety of taxes, income, sales, property, from service fees and user taxes (gasoline taxes). It borrows money, but that debt eventually needs to be paid by one of the previous sources.

Government money raised at one level is often spent at another level. State and federal funds are the revenue source for

Tax debates are going on in Madison and Washington that will have an effect on the budgets of area governments. Some area school districts have reacted to expected cuts in aids by cutting programs and staff. Polk and other counties are taking the first steps in preparing their 2012 budgets in a period of uncertainty. Polk County Administrator Dana Frey, in a report just issued, says that any presumption of what will appear in the state and federal budgets is “foolhardy.”

Law enforcement takes third of levy

95 percent of Polk levy in six categories

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE – Polk County supervisors have just finished evaluating 88 county programs spread out over 30 departments and agencies. They came up with a list of programs ranked by importance to the citizens. The board members came up with a list of programs that might be eliminated, resulting in some cost reductions.

But 95 percent of the property tax levy portion of the 2011 budget goes to just five departments and to debt service. The largest part of the levy, 32.7 percent, goes to the law enforcement budget. The proposed levy, $21 million, is 38 percent of the total county budget.

While the sheriff’s budget gets the biggest share of the levy, it has only the third largest total budget. Human services and Golden Age Manor each have larger budgets but get funds from other sources.

Human services gets 55 percent of its funding from nonlevy sources including state and federal dollars. Golden Age Manor is now entirely free of levy dollars after a number of years of deficits.

Total department budgets for the county range from $8.5 million for human services down to budgets under $200,000 for veterans service, the medical examiner and the forester. And while most departments need levy dollars to operate, several besides the nursing home are off the levy and actually pay their own way. That includes the register of deeds office, the county forests, the lime quarry and the recycling center.

New Hope can stay “forever”

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Members of New Hope Lutheran celebrate in playfulness in the village town hall after hearing they can stay in the Harmon building “forever.” Ron Wilhelm, church member and Burnett County deputy sheriff/detective, surrenders to member Gary Nelson, as other members look on in delight. – Photo by Wayne Anderson

New Hope Lutheran Church in Grantsburg has been granted a conditional use permit for its building on Hwy. 70. The congregation can use the entire building as its place of worship for an indefinite period. But it has a permanent home only if Mark Harmon, owner of the property where the church is located, completes a long-delayed storm water management system by July 15. Harmon has been developing commercial property along the highway just west of the Holiday station. But that development caused a change in the storm water runoff in the area. The village has been working on completion of a long-term storm water maintenance agreement with Harmon since 2007. Harmon and the village have now agreed on the details of the latest engineering plan and Harmon has agreed to a July 15 completion. “We have been fighting with Harmon since 2007,” council member Dale Dresel said. “The church has been the lever to get the project done.” The public hearing on the church conditional use permit drew the largest crowd that a council meeting has seen since the golf course issue was resolved. - Photo by Gregg Westigard

sought a more lasting permit and use of the building. So they brought their concern before the village board.

“Our current permit will expire in one year,” read a church statement given to the board by member Terry Swenson. “So we are asking the village board to remove the time limit … and to allow use of the entire building, if necessary, for church expansion.”

Board members unanimously agreed with the request, with one condition: The building owner, Mark Harmon, fix a water-drainage situation in the back of the building.

Harmon has until this July 15 to install a state-approved plan for the problem. If he fails to implement the corrections, the board will revoke the use permit and the church is out.

The board said Harmon has already signed an agreement to do the corrections.

Harmon was not present at the meeting and could not be reached for comment.

But from all the personal time and money Harmon donated transforming his carpet warehouse into a beautiful church home, no one doubted he would again fulfill his end of the deal.

“Praise the Lord,” said Dr. Emory Johnson, pastor of New Hope at the board’s decision. “What a blessing for our church and community.”

The pastor’s sentiment was felt among many members who filled the boardroom.

“It’s fantastic,” said Ron Wilhelm, a member and evangelism leader at New Hope. “There was strength in numbers tonight.”

That strength was also declared from several community businesses. The board received letters of support from businesses, like Dreamer’s restaurant, asking the board to approve the use permit.

Dreamer’s graciously allows the 186 members and guests to park their cars in their lot on Sundays.

There are no immediate plans for the church to stay in the Harmon building forever. But for now their immediate fate and mission has a more lasting address.

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by Wayne Anderson Special to the Leader GRANTSBURG – The long-awaited judgment on the future of New Hope Lutheran was announced to a packed audience at the Grantsburg Village Board meeting Monday night, May 9.

At 6:20 p.m., the verdict was read at the anxious public meeting.

“It’s approved!” declared Roger Panek, village trustee.

And with that the audience clapped, cheered and sighed their relief.

“They can stay there forever,” added Dale Dressel, village trustee.

What was at issue was the fate and conditional use of the Harmon building along Hwy. 70, where the new Lutheran church gathers.

In April 2010 the village board granted New Hope a two-year conditional usage permit. But as the church has been growing in membership and activities, leaders

Unity budget plan targets $1.15 million in reductions

Partnership with St. Croix Regional Medical Center expands

Clinic partnership With St. Croix Regional Medical Center awaiting state approval for a new facility by the school, the board reviewed a partnership proposal that the district and medical center have been working to develop.

The proposal is a blueprint, said Robinson, outlining how the two entities can collaborate to the benefit of the students and the community.

Already SCRMC provides a certified athletic trainer for the health and safety of Unity students, according to Robinson, and this will be expanded to include a work study program for high school seniors to gain work experience.

According to the proposal, this summer the medical center will begin providing athletic physicals at the school for reduced cost, along with new employee and department of transportation physicals as

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Unity’s administrative assistant Pat Kastens submitted her retirement resignation effective June 30. Kastens has been with the school district for 36 years. – Photo by Mary Stirrat required.

Cooperative staff development training, nutrition services, crisis intervention, a wellness program and water rehabilitation services will begin this fall at the school.

Future plans include more effective sharing of space, a joint fitness center, community play groups for young children, and a human growth and develop curriculum.

Another exciting opportunity, said Robinson, is a plan for a high school certified nursing assistant program, enabling high school students to graduate from high school already certified as a CNA. This program is expected to start this fall.

Other business • The board voted to retain the same officers, committees and representatives as in the previous year. Debbie Peterson was re-elected as board president, Jim Beistle as vice president, Kelly Bakke as clerk and Dave Moore as treasurer.

• The date of the June board meeting was changed from June 14 to June 21.

• With thanks for her 36 years of service to the school, the board accepted the retirement resignation of administrative assistant Pat Kastens. Also accepted were resignations from middle school baseball coach Cory Nelson and educational assistant Amanda Metcalf.

• The board voted to adopt a comprehensive long-range plan that will serve as a framework for the district’s improvement efforts. Components in the plan include a facilities plan, campus maintenance plan, vehicle replacement plan, teaching and learning pathway, curriculum development and evaluation plan and a community partnership outline. The priorities include academic goals, student preparation for post-high school opportunities, fiscal stewardship, community partnerships and pursuing alternate funding sources.

• The board heard the results of a peer review of the early learning and literacy program conducted in early February.

Julie Betchkal, early learning consultant with CESA 11 and Jane Maki, curriculum coordinator at Osceola School District, presented the results.

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by Mary Stirrat Leader staff reporter BALSAM LAKE — Faced with an estimated $950,000 decrease in revenue for the upcoming school year, the Unity School Board of Education Tuesday evening, May 10, looked at a plan to meet the reductions with as little impact as possible on programming.

Final touches were put on the plan the previous evening by the budget and finance committee, but the numbers are still subject to change, said district Administrator Brandon Robinson.

The anticipated $950,000 reduction in revenue consists of an 8.4-percent reduction in state aid for the 2011-12 school year, plus a 5.5-percent reduction in the per-pupil revenue limit.

Along with the revenue reduction, the district is also preparing for increased fixed costs. For this reason, the budget and finance committee came up with a plan for $1.34 million in total budget adjustments.

About $567,000 comes in the form of revenue, including $240,000 from stimulus funds designated for education jobs that was not used last year. Employee contributions for insurance and retirement will generate a total of $183,500.

The plan identifies about $222,000 in savings, including $28,285 in salary reductions for certified staff, proposed by the certified staff themselves. Another $30,000 was cut from the bus replacement budget, $20,000 from the technology budget, $53,500 from the retirement savings and $25,000 from athletic positions and the athletic budget.

Other areas cut include district travel budgets, the custodial and building supply budgets field trip budgets, reading supply budgets, and extra-day contracts.

The final $351,000 in reductions is anticipated to come in the form of staffing reductions, some of it through attrition by not filling some of the vacancies created by recent retirement resignations.

Six full-time equivalent positions are eliminated in the plan as it currently stands.

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State Music Festival participants

Three Webster High School students participated in the Wisconsin State Music Festival in Eau Claire on Saturday, May 7. Juniors Miranda Burger and Olivia Kopecky performed vocal solos. Senior Elise Windbiel performed a clarinet solo. Between Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, 6,687 performances took place in the state. – Photo submitted

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• Joe Heller •

Raising a beer ... tax

Reports of repeat drunken drivers in Burnett and Polk counties show up in our pages each week.

Oftentimes in headlines and not just a court listing.

Do we feel any remorse for putting a spotlight on their crime? Not really.

Operating while intoxicated is the same as waving a loaded gun at people.

There are the first-time offenders who may have misjudged their intake, albeit still broke the law, and there are the repeat offenders who ignore the law - and who end up posing the biggest threat to public safety.

Two lawmakers - Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and Rep. Jim Ott, RMequon - are proposing to make third- and fourth-offense OWI convictions a felony. Currently, OWI is not a felony until it reaches a fifth offense. There are other factors involved in the OWI penalty formula - Darling and Ott want to tweak those, also, including stiffer penalties for second-offense OWI. Proverbial fist bumps to those legislators for wanting to turn up the heat on a serious problem - even though there seems to be a lack of proposals as to how the state will pay for the increase in costs that would come with increasing the scope of felony prosecution.

Some editorials across the state are calling for raising the state's beer tax. Right now Wisconsin has a beer tax equivalent to about a half a cent per beer. That's one of the lowest nationwide and it hasn't been raised in decades.

Raising the tax to a couple of pennies per bottle would raise tens of millions of dollars to pay for more aggressive prosecution, incarceration and treatment for abusers.

It’s not a bad option.

Perhaps some of the money that could be raised by such a tax increase should be funneled into some preventive efforts - more education for our young people regarding their responsibilities in driving sober and keeping their friends and loved ones from taking to the road under the influence of alcohol.

Obviously, our local law enforcement is doing their part with enforcement, given the number of arrest records that are filed each week. Still, the number of people who get caught likely represent a fraction of the number of people who drive intoxicated each day who aren't caught for various reasons.

But any help in the way of stiffer penalties, prosecution and sentencing, along with more consideration of preventive measures, will send the message that drinking and driving isn't something we shrug off as a byproduct of our society.

And it certainly has the potential of saving lives.

What’s a domestic product? Sounds gross

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• Where to write • President Barack Obama 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C. 20500 www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Gov. Scott Walker Wisconsin State Capitol Madison, WI 53707 transition@wisconsin.gov

Congressman Sean Duffy (7th District) 1208 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 202-225-3365

U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl 330 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 715-832-8492 senator_kohl@kohl.senate.gov

Rep. Erik Severson (28th District) Room 6 North State Capitol Madison, WI 53708 608-267-2365 • 888-529-0028 FAX: 608-282-3628 rep.Severson@legis.state.wi.us Rep. Roger RIvard (75th District) State Capitol Room 307 North P.O. Box 8952, Madison, WI 608-266-2519 • 888-534-0075 rep.rivard@legis.wi.gov U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson 2 Russell Courtyard Washington, D.C. 20510 202-224-5323

Sen. Robert Jauch (25th District) Room 415 South, State Capitol P.O. Box 7882, Madison, WI 53707 Sen.Jauch@legis.state.wi.us Sen. Sheila Harsdorf (10th District) State Capitol, P.O. Box 7882 Madison, WI 53707 608-266-7745 • 715-232-1390 Toll-free - 800-862-1092 sen.harsdorf@legis.state.wi.us

Rep. Nick Milroy (73rd District) Room 8 North, State Capitol P.O. Box 8953, Madison 53708 rep.milroy@legis.state.wi.us

The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has released a report saying our state is failing its students by not requiring them to take courses in economics and personal finance.

Results of a recent pop quiz involving 500 high school students showed that most didn't know the meaning of "gross domestic product" or "inflation" and didn't have the slightest idea of what supply and demand or entrepreneur means.

Of course, there are plenty of millionaires who never learned how to pronounce entreprenuer let alone explain its definition. And that was an irresponsible thing to write.

It’s plain to see that today’s world requires sophisticated financial knowledge, especially if you wish to become one of the growing number of Wisconsin millionaires. According to a story from Wisconsin Public Radio this week, the number of millionaires in Wisconsin is expected to more than double in the next 10 years - with more than 360,000 households gaining that status by 2020.

Even if you don’t reach that status, the most basic of economic knowledge is becoming more valuable. Some finanical experts are saying students should have to take an economics and personal finance class before they can graduate.

There are some examples of this locally. Grantsburg's Mad City Money simulation sponsored by Indianhead Community Credit Union is a great example of valuable, real-life tutoring. About 30 local businesspeople take part in the oneday class wherein students pick an occupation and get paid a salary and are sent out with their checkbooks into Mad City to make and keep a one-month budget.

It's education that could actually start earlier than high school - and plays into the life skills already taught in family living courses and perhaps, what today’s children learn about finances from their parents and caregivers.

Nobody expects a generation of E-Trade babies - but a little more guidance for our young people in the way of real-world finances can’t be a bad thing.

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• Letters to the editor • Don’t apply hype to simple facts

Richard Hartung responded to my letter supporting Sheila Harsdorf’s recall. I understand he is a former chairman of the Polk County Republican Party. He says no one suggests that teachers are overpaid, but then goes on to describe an instance of high pay. Hartung decries a top level of $50,000/year salary with benefits as excessive. I’m only sorry it’s not more. An engineer can expect that wage within a few years of graduation.

In Grantsburg we have a wonderful school district, and talented, dedicated teachers. This system and these teachers have remained excellent even through budget cuts of the previous administration. In Grantsburg we also have a high technology industrial park, of which my company is proud to be a part. I don’t think it is a stretch to suggest that great schools attract great industry, and Northwest Wisconsin needs jobs. Unemployment and poverty levels in this area are among the highest in the state. The single best tool to break that terrible cycle of poverty is education, and that is in place and working to its best effect right here, right now. He would have us disrupt the foundation of a system that is working for our community. That makes no sense.

I understand that Hartung’s allegiance encourages him to support without question his party’s policies, but in this instance he is wrong. This action is bad for business and bad for the citizens of Northwest Wisconsin. Finally, his use of inflammatory rhetoric, such as “teachers are paid well for 180 days work” is specious.

The school year is nine months. We all have weekends. We all have holidays.

Don’t apply hype to simple facts.

Rod Kleiss, president Kleiss Gears Grantsburg

Well-trained poll workers

We were selected as observers for the Polk County recount of votes for the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice.

With over 9,000 ballots to be verified, Judge Prosser lost one vote and JoAnne Kloppenburg gained one vote.

We, as Polk County citizens, can attest to the fact that our poll workers are very well-trained, the system is very positive and our votes are indeed safeguarded.

Our only concern is that without the loser conceding, this entire time-consuming process is costing the state taxpayers over $1 million. Costly lawsuits are yet to come.

Glen and Bobbi Clausen Amery

Recalls legitimate

Sen. Harsdorf’s Friends recently bemoaned the outside special interest groups involved in the recall effort against her. The best they could do was compare the number of circulators from big cities such as Eau Claire to the much smaller cities in District 10 such as Hudson. They also imply that incorrectly completed petition forms and signatures from outside the district are illegal and part of this special interest influence. They are not illegal, just incorrect, and why would anybody intentionally collect signatures that wouldn’t count? Her Friends also forgot to bemoan the outside special interest groups working the other side. For example, the Republican Party of Wisconsin paid a Colorado firm with a questionable past $92,000 to assist with recall efforts of Democratic senators. These paid circulators came from at least eight other states, including one from Florida that collected almost 3,000 signatures. The father of a sitting state senator signed one of the petitions, even though he passed away 20 years ago. Hmmmm.

By her Friends own admission, the vast majority of the people circulating petitions to recall Harsdorf are her constituents, and they gathered well over the minimum number of the signatures required to force the election. Many were like me, volunteering weekends to sit at a table or knock on doors when they could have been

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If Rep. Severson cared so much about the employees at Polaris, his working class neighbors in Osceola and the rest of his constituency, he wouldn’t have voted to eliminate collective bargaining in Wisconsin.

My family is struggling financially and I am a union worker. I wrote to Severson and in reply he said he voted against collective bargaining in order to repair the state budget. The budget already was repaired and the bill he voted upon had no money in it. Does working poor (formerly middle class) mean stupid?

to jail. Of course, they promise they will get a job and start paying. They are released and nothing gets done for another year or two and the same thing repeats itself. Finally after five years or more, they may put them in jail for a few days or a week and then they are told again they must pay child support or the consequences are six months in jail, loss of a driver’s license, etc. They are released again to supposedly find work and pay child support. It doesn’t happen and there are no consequences to them either. The deadbeat dads have this figured out.

Jauch makes it sound like every mother raising her children without child support is living off the county and costing taxpayers’ money. The fact of the matter is that a lot of those mothers have jobs and are working to support their children on their own and with help from family and friends. This usually puts them at an income level that disqualifies them from any help from the state. It is difficult raising a family with only one parent, but it can be done as many people will tell you.

They will also tell you that there is never enough money to go around.

What a help it would be if even a little bit of child support would come their way because the laws in Wisconsin worked.

Save your political rhetoric for someone who will believe you, Mr. Jauch. I know better!

Seniors beware

Vanished into thin air

doing other things. Many had never been politically active until the governor introduced his infamous Budget Repair Bill, which was anything but budget repair.

Had Harsdorf been the moderate she claims to be and voted against this bill, the recall effort against her would never have gotten off the ground. It certainly wouldn’t have included me. Recall elections are part of the Wisconsin Constitution and therefore a legitimate exercise in democracy. Harsdorf has yet to even acknowledge this.

Bob Wright Dresser

Not stupid

Kimberly Anez Somerset

Recent articles in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about Gov. Walker’s proposed state budget for the next two years should be of concern to senior citizens, those with physical or developmental disabilities, and their families.

First, the low-income seniors, many of whom are widows on small fixed incomes, will be required to purchase Medicare Part D drug plan in order to stay on the Wisconsin Senior Care drug plan they have now. This will be an increased cost to the seniors of $180 to $500 per year.

Another budget item is the cutting of the Family Care Program. The Family Care Program provides in-home services to the elderly and those with disabilities, so they do not have to be in nursing homes or other care facilities.

According to the Milwaukee JournalSentinel, home care on average across the state of Wisconsin costs $34,000 per year, per patient, whereas nursing home care costs $60,000 to $70,000 per year. This budget cut is especially distressing because there is already a waiting list to receive home care. In the event that patients cannot get home care, these folks may end up in the more expensive nursing home or other facilities.

Nursing homes and other institutional placements also take people out of their home and away from family support. The Republican Legislature (both the Assembly and Senate) has approved every item Walker has asked for. It is time for Severson and Sen. Harsdorf to stand up for the most frail and vulnerable people among us and tell Walker no.

Jim North Osceola

Deadbeat Fathers Club

I read with amusement Sen. Bob Jauch’s attempt to blame Gov. Scott Walker and the Republicans for deadbeat fathers not paying child support.

I have seen these deadbeats up close and personal over the years through both Democratic and Republican administrations, and I will tell you, the Deadbeat Fathers Club wins every time.

He claims that Wisconsin is third in the nation for collecting child support. If that is true then the rest of country must collect next to nothing.

I wonder what the counties in Wisconsin do with all those millions of taxpayer dollars that are supposed to bring these deadbeat dads to justice and get them to support their children. From what I have seen, the laws in Wisconsin are useless.

They can’t find them most of the time, and when they do, they might bring them into a court session and tell them they have to start paying child support or they will go

Rose Swanson Danbury

As is customary for me, when driving by the Lakeview Cemetery in the Town of Daniels, I stopped in to see my loved ones that reside there and immediately noticed that the front fence had been removed.

Not thinking much about it, I proceeded to go to the grave sites and saw that the wooden flower boxes that have graced the burial site since my son Ben’s death in 1982 were all gone. My first and only thought was that we had been vandalized and maybe it was not a good idea to take down the fence, because access was so easy.

As I was backing out I noticed a new sign by the driveway that I missed on the way in, and here is what it says. “Flowers or decorations that are unsightly or hinder grounds care will be removed without further notice,” and below it listed the town ordinance that is germane to the cemetery. Now our flower boxes were made of cedar and dug into the ground, there was nothing unsightly about them, unless you count the dead flowers after the winter.

I called the town clerk and she was gracious enough to fax me a copy of the ordinance, and it does indeed give the town, or its sexton, the right to remove our flower boxes. I will not quote the entire Section XI, subsection C which is the appropriate portion of the whole ordinance, but will quote the ending of the subsection: “objects may not be placed on lots without written approval of the town board or the sexton, and if so placed may be removed by the town board or the sexton without written or oral notice.”

There you have it! Flower boxes which we have had on our burial sites since 1982 can vanish into thin air, so that it is easier to mow the grass. What is the world coming to?

Rick Anderson Siren

Harsdorf recall facts

I read with interest the news story submitted by Friends of Harsdorf. Since I was deeply involved in the recall effort, I can comment on the statements which are on point – and those that are not.

In the third paragraph it mentions about incomplete and unsigned petitions. Petitions are legal documents which must be completed accurately, legibly, signed and dated by each elector. The circulator must complete and sign the signature block at the bottom. If the Government Accountability Board cannot read the name, address of residence and date of signing, that name is crossed out. If the circulator signature block is not correct, the whole sheet is discarded.

Do you think people will go canvassing

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in freezing weather only to have the sheets tossed out for careless mistakes?

No they won’t. Each sheet is closely examined for completeness and neatness before it is turned in.

The comment about circulators being from New York, Michigan and Minnesota is, simply, untrue.

GAB rules states,”Petition circulators must be eligible to vote in Wisconsin, but do not need to reside within Sen. Harsdorf’s district.”

Also, petition signers must be residents of the Tenth Senate District. Why would we allow people from outstate to work when we had an excess of Wisconsin residents willing to do the work?

The main gist of the news story was to point out that many of the circulators were from outside Sen. Harsdorf’s district. That is probably true. I know that people from northern Burnett (outside Senate District 10), Douglas, Washburn, Sawyer and Barron counties came and worked as circulators here in Burnett County. These were ordinary working people with families, not union thugs as is sometimes implied. They were working legally for what they felt was a worthy cause, removal of a renegade senator.

When the governor’s Budget Repair Bill was introduced the whole state was in an uproar. It was clear this bill was a powergrab effort to destroy collective bargaining, move power to the governor and little to do with the fiscal problem. At this point in time, Harsdorf turned her back on her constituents; and moved forward in lockstep with Walker. Everyone could see Harsdorf’s behavior was unacceptable – she no longer served her constituents!

Harsdorf had served her district as state senator well for many years. She has every reason to be proud of her past service. However, now is the time for her to leave, and everyone statewide knows it!

Paul Sexton, Burnett County coordinator Recall Harsdorf Committee Siren

Support Harsdorf

The midterm election was about fiscal responsibility. People wanted spending to stop and a balanced budget. Being in the top 10 financially troubled states, Wisconsin was in serious trouble, and public employee pension and benefits packages are a major factor.

When Indiana repealed collective bargaining six years ago efficiency improved, average pay for state employees increased and high-performing employees are now rewarded with pay increases or bonuses when they do something exceptional.

Mayor Bloomberg’s New York City approach – don’t change anything and lay off over a thousand teachers. Is it better to lose jobs than pay more into benefits packages and give up some collective bargaining power?

Gov. Walker’s budget bill in no way infringes on Americans right to associate and lobby government. It does allow Wisconsin employees to choose not to join a union and keep their job at the same time.

It also forces the government unions to collect their own union dues instead of using the state to withhold them from employee paychecks.

When legislators chose to pass that bill to reduce the state’s contribution to benefits and limit collective bargaining, they were acting in the best interest of the state and the taxpayers. To take action against the people who were brave enough to vote on our behalf is just plain wrong.

The candidate opposing Sheila Harsdorf in the recall election is Shelly Moore, a WEAC union member, activist and leader. Moore consistently supported tax increases and creative financing that transferred money from other departments to cover the pension and benefits shortfalls that were draining the budget.

Harsdorf wants to fix Wisconsin’s financial problems. We can’t let unions and people from out of state dictate how to spend our money. We owe Harsdorf support in the recall election.

Karen Johnson Webb Lake

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No easy way to cut Polk County levy

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Supervisors rank least important county programs

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE – Cutting the Polk County 2012 budget may not be an easy job.

The 23 Polk County Board members were recently asked to evaluate 88 levy-supported programs involving 30 departments and agencies. Supervisors were asked two questions about each program: Is it important? and Is it effective? The results of that evaluation have just been released by county Administrator Dana Frey in his report on county board priorities.

The 33-page report lists the programs ranked most and least important. It also lists all the programs in ranked order and shows the cumulative savings if the programs were eliminated. On that list, the county would need to eliminate 27 programs to save $1 million, 54 programs to save $2 million and 75 of the 88 programs to cut $3 million in costs.

The evaluation was the result of a county board resolution adopted in December that directed the county administrator to develop budget outlines that would reduce total expenditures by $1, $2 and $3 million. The resolution, approved by a vote of 10 to 9, required that the results were to be presented by May 1.

Frey started the report by stating that his job does not give him the authority to carry out the directive. He says that only elected officials can set policies and create budgets. Frey says that adoption of a budget is considered to be the most important action a legislative body like a county board takes on a regular basis. He says an administrator’s job is to facilitate that body’s decision, not make the decision.

“The results themselves are somewhat sobering, both

in terms of the number of programs that need to be eliminated to result in any substantial savings and the relative paucity of nonmandated programs,” Frey says. He goes on to say that not only are most programs mandated, but those programs that the county is required to perform are “far more expensive” than the optional programs.

The lowest-ranked program in importance on the survey was gopher bounties. The list of 15 lowest ranked programs included all three programs conducted by the county library, three aging department programs and five outside agencies that receive county funds. If the county eliminated or reduced the 15 programs with the adjusted lowest rankings, the total savings would be only $406,000.

The 15 programs ranked highest in importance include some basic public services such as highway maintenance and plowing, election administration, vital records, emergency communications (911), lake protection and shoreland compliance, criminal prosecution, child protection and tax collection. Four county administrative functions are also on the top 15 list.

To reach the $1 million savings level, the county would need to eliminate or reduce spending on 27 programs including four that are mandated (the mandated programs are cut 10 percent). Those are the public health department’s birth to 3 and preventive services programs, the county surveyor and the GIS Web site development for geographic information. The individual costs of the programs range from $2,000 to $70,300.

The county board members based their priority setting survey on a 180-page collection of supporting material.

That document describing each program within each department, says if the program is mandated, who is served, how many employees are involved, and where the funding comes from. For the survey, a program can be as large as law enforcement – field services at a levy cost

of $2,865,571 or as small as $1,703 in levy dollars for an immunization program.

Frey says that past years budgets have reduced expenditures on programs not deemed essential and limited the growth of other programs. He says that the low-hanging fruit has been harvested some time ago and what remains are difficult decisions.

“Although there are potential savings from service reductions and from elimination of programs, they are slight in the context of the overall budget,” Frey says in his conclusion.

The 23 Polk County supervisors rated 88 county programs by importance to the citizens - they are as follows:

The seven programs rated least important Gopher bounties – county clerk - $16,000 Books to the jail – library - $67,500 West Central Regional Planning – outside agency $32,473 County museum – outside agency - $17,533 Technical support for local libraries – library - $28,830 Housing authority – county clerk - $2,100 Books by Mail – library - $67,500

The seven programs rated most important Financial management – administration - $290,968 Elections administration – county clerk - zero County highway maintenance and plowing – highway - $1,226,886 Communications division – law enforcement $1,027,482 Select and supervise department heads – administration - $38,174 Lake protection – land and water - $93,694 Tax calculation and collection – treasurer - $120,211

New bed and breakfast planned at Grantsburg

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer GRANTSBURG - Grantsburg may soon have a new bed and breakfast.

Patti Glockzin intends to convert the large house at 235 West Broadway into a B&B serving visitors to the village.

Her plan would have two guest rooms available.

She was granted permission by the village to add a second driveway on the property. Glockzin said during a regular monthly meeting of village trustees, Monday, May 9, that she will restore and continue the fence along the property line and plant more shrubs.

Other business Dr. Steven Bont will be adding an addition to the Grantsburg Fitness Center, and the farmers market will start its fifth season June 20 in the village hall lot. The market will be every Monday from noon until 2 p.m.

The Blue Box, the collapsing building on Oak Street across from the park, is still standing.

In April, the council ordered the building owner, Melvin Plemel, to raze the empty structure by May 13.

Village clerk Jennifer Zeiler said she has not heard from Plemel since the meeting. After urging county board member Brent Blomberg to have Burnett County take the

building for unpaid taxes, the council authorized Zeiler to start court actions to have the building removed if Plemel does not act.

Newly re-elected Grantsburg Village Council members took their oaths and started their new terms Monday, May 9. Pictured (L to R) are council President Roger Panek and Trustees Mark Dahlberg, Glenn Rolloff and Dean Josephson. - Photo by Gregg Westigard

St. Croix Falls students visit state Capitol

The St. Croix Falls eighth-grade class trip to the state Capitl in Madison was held April 28 and 29.

The class started out their trip by meeting Secretary of State Doug La Follette, then went on tour of the Capitol and State Street. On Friday, they got to visit the Veterans Museum, the Historical Museum and the House on the Rock. – Photo by Jeanine Moody

Taylors Falls explores business park financing

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by Tammi Milberg Leader staff writer TAYLORS FALLS, Minn. – The council for Taylors Falls discussed financing for infrastructure to a city business park at the Monday, May 9, council meeting. At a previous council meeting, the council discussed the business park on Co. Rd. 37.

The city purchased the land from Xcel Energy, for the future expansion of the wastewater treatment facility, and a 10acre site for a new business park that will be located adjacent to the wastewater treatment facility and adjacent to the new Xcel Energy substation on Co. Rd. 37 approximately one mile west of Taylors Falls City Hall.

The city’s proposal includes issuing approximately $519,000 in revenue bonds to finance infrastructure improvements (water, sewer, streets, and storm water) to develop the business park and finding financing options for these costs. Mayor Michael Buchite explained three available options; 1) do nothing, and there is no business park, 2) finance the project using city dollars in the form of property tax money, 3) or partner with Chisago County to finance the project using tax abatement, for which property taxes are forgiven for a period of time to allow the project to cash flow. The future companies locating in the park will not receive abatement or a refund of the taxes they pay and the abated funds will only be used for infrastructure improvements in the business park.

On a side note, Chisago County voted to support Taylors Falls’ proposal, and is scheduled to conduct a public hearing as required by the abatement process. The city will also need to hold this same public hearing. Chisago County’s portion of the abatement is not to exceed $30,000 annually for a period not to exceed 10 years.

The city’s portion will be approximately $45,000 to $60,000 annually for a period not to exceed 10 years. The council noted that it is important for the public to under-

stand that this money is new tax revenue that will be captured, it is not existing tax money, nor will the project use existing property taxes to finance the project, other than the abated tax revenue. A motion to hold a public hearing for tax abatement consideration of the property on Co. Rd. 37, scheduled for June 20, 7 p.m., was made and carried. In other business, the council considered authorization to submit a Rural Fire Department Volunteer Fire Assistance Grant. The grant is for the purchase of pagers for the FCC’s 800-MHz upgrade requirement by 2013. The city has received two other grants for radio equipment ($52,604 total) but those grant dollars cannot be used to buy pagers. This is a 50/50 local match grant with a $5,000 maximum request. The department needs 25 pagers at a cost of $500 each for a total of $12,500. If this grant is received the 50percent match must come from the fire department New Equipment Fund. The council authorized by consent agenda the submission of the grant with the stipulation that the 50-percent match would come from the fire department New Equipment Fund.

Public works The council approved a training request for public works Superintendent Mike Kriz to attend a tree inspector training workshop in St. Paul. The cost of the training is $85 and will come from the public works Training Budget Account.

The council also considered lift station pump repairs. Kriz reported that he had discovered water on the floor at the No. 1 lift station. The assumption is that the seal between the pump and valute had let loose. Since it is time for a five-year maintenance check on the pump and impellers, Kriz indicated that Dakota Pump could replace the seal at the same time. The cost for this work is unknown at this time. The council approved the inspection without the cost estimate, with any additional

work that is needed to be done to be authorized by the public works liaisons in the field.

The public works department submitted four proposals to line approximately 1,200 lineal feet of clay sewer lines, and seven manholes to be lined and rebuilt. A motion to accept a bid from Visu-Sewer Inc. at a cost of $36,000 to line approximately 1,200 lineal feet of sewer lines at Colby Street, Chili Coop-Basil to Government Street, and $12,700 to line seven manholes on Colby and West Street at a cost of $48,700 carried unanimously.

Consider purchase of GIS/AutoCAD files In 2007 the Chisago County Public Works/Surveying Department did a major mapping project of the county. The project included mapping 1-foot contours and clear aerial photography. The electronic files are in the form of both GIS and AutoCAD. At the last council meeting, it was authorized to purchase 25 acres of GIS/AutoCAD files from the county public surveyor’s office at the rate of $20/acre.

The city has the option to purchase maps of the entire city (2,486) acres at the rate of $1.70/acre for a total of $4,226.20.

The GIS/AutoCAD files provide 1. Clear (nonpixilated) aerial photo overlay with one-half-foot accuracy 2. Parcel and road right-of-way lines/plat overlay 3. 1-foot contour line The electronic files can be used with the city’s GIS software and their engineer’s AutoCAD software for multiple applications. A few examples include: 1. Defense of the storm-water utility program (i.e. determining drainage) 2. Storm-water projects 3. Trail planning/design, specifically determining trail grade which is required 4. Measuring setbacks 5. Calculating slopes for zoning admin-

istration 6. Obtaining elevations for public works projects 7. Measuring road right-of-way widths 8. Determining land ownership 9. Historical mapping – example - mapping old railroad bed 10. Park planning/design Larry Philips, zoning administrator-coordinator, reported that the city will be awarded an additional $2,000 from the Statewide Health Improvement Grant Program, and that the files are an eligible expense. After discussion with Kriz, the recommendation by Philips is to pay the majority of the cost from the Storm-water Utility Fund.

Prior to receiving the files, a licensing agreement between the city and Chisago County is required. The data will be the city’s to sell or give away with the county to retain the right to use the data in house.

The council was very supportive of the purchase, particularly after reviewing comparison drawings using the new files versus existing files. The motion to purchase the files carried with all in favor.

Lawn-care services Council member Larry Julik-Heine reported that the Rivards have provided lawn-care services for the city since 2008 on a year-by-year basis. They are familiar with the areas in the city where mowing is needed. The proposal includes a provision for a possible 10-percent gas surcharge per week if gas prices increase to more than $4.50 per gallon. The estimated costs are based on 2010 frequency of services, which is expected to come in under the $3,500 budget for 2011. The motion to accept the proposal from Rivard Lawn Care carried with Vice Mayor Ross Rivard abstaining from the vote.

Centuria Board says no to highway sidewalks

Public weighs in loudly on WisDOT proposal

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer CENTURIA – It wasn’t even close.

By an overwhelming majority, the new Centuria Village Board, thanks in large to plenty of public input, denied the possibility of adding one or two sidewalks along the village’s portion of Hwy. 35 at their regular monthly meeting on Monday, May 9.

It was the first regular meeting for the new Centuria Village Board on Monday, after meeting in special session two weeks earlier. While there were plenty of issues, the roadway project was at the forefront.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is planning an extensive resurfacing project for Hwy. 35 next year, and Centuria had the option of adding sidewalks to one or both sides of the roadway, with state and federal highway money generally picking up 80 percent of the tab, the total tab for the village would have come to just over $104,000, in part due to extensive infrastructure work, such as insulating water mains under the sidewalk, removing and replacing over a dozen streetlights, possible underground oil tank removal and other variables and possible overruns.

Even with the 80-percent WisDOT coverage, the price tag was too steep for most of the board, with Trustee Gene Ludack pointing out possible elevation issues, which might raise safety problems for kids on bikes, and several business owners and residents in the crowd noted the extensive loss of parking, boulevard signage and the reality of an undocumented demand.

“I’m just not sure about building a sidewalk that seems to go from nowhere to, well, nowhere,” stated Trustee Stan Swiontek, who had his sentiments endorsed by the crowd of about two dozen.

The village has several pressing street issues, which were also addressed by board members and the public, noting the need for Main Street resurfacing work, as well as other street projects coming due.

“I’d rather see this money doing a little bit of Main Street,” Ludack opined, and

the board seemed to agree.

There was some discussion on how to address bike traffic, walkers and others, and there may be options other than actual sidewalks, including crosswalks, possible trails and other future possibilities.

But the death knell on the sidewalk issues seemed to be the reality of winter, that the sidewalks would be victim to almost no snowplow attention from the state roadway, and that property owners might need to shovel every day, regardless of snowfall, due to the plows. It is also likely that due to the use of chemical melting agents by the highway department, the concrete would suffer enormous stresses, which might seriously shorten the life of the sidewalk.

“No doubt there would be maintenance issues,” one of the Wis DOT representative admitted.

The resurfacing project is not a complete roadway teardown, and that probably won’t be occurring for another six to eight years, at which time the village might have more demand for such a sidewalk.

As it stood, the board voted unanimously to decline the sidewalks for now, meaning the roadway will stay as it is now, which led to round of applause.

“I’m glad you had a really healthy discussion on this,” stated WisDOT project developer Jane M. Olson with a smile.

In other board action: • After considerable debate and comment, the board moved to add Rod Peterson to the Web committee, after there was question about the actual status of the committee, whether it was a permanent standing committee or purely an ad hoc committee. At the previous special board meeting, no trustees volunteered to replace an outgoing board member, so village employee Karen Edgell volunteered, but there was some issue about whether a third trustee needed to fill the spot.

There was significant debate about the technical definition of the Web committee, that it could be a committee “of up to a thousand people” if it was a purely ad hoc - technically “for this” in its Latin root form - or if it was going to be a true standing committee, whereupon three board trustees are required.

In the end, committee Chair Ryan Davi-

son asked to have it reviewed legally, but it may not be necessary, as village President Dave Markert appointed Peterson as the third trustee.

Davison did say the public and employees were welcomed to offer input, advice and whatever level of support they wanted.

• The board approved allowing T & M Auto on Main Street to use former setback lines as they partially raze a portion of the structure, a move brought about due to roofing issues, and after a recommendation by the village building inspector.

• A board of review and open book was set for Tuesday, May 24, form 4-6 p.m. for open book, and 6-8 p.m. for a review.

• The board entertained presentations from a representative from Allied Waste, as well as the Polk County Recycling Department, on upcoming village refuse and recycling contracts. No action was taken, and the issue will go to committee, with other representatives welcomed to offer

bids for services.

• The board approved Markert’s appointment of Ludack as president pro tempore, in case of his absence.

• Former Trustee Pete Englund offered up a scathing letter on several issues, from the controversial chicken debates last year to efforts he and others made to alleviate ongoing garbage and yard clutter cleanup resistance, and how it gives the village a bad first impression.

“This is the door to the town, people,” Englund said, later adding that his experience on the board “left a very sour taste.”

Markert addressed some of the comments, noting he also “had a sour taste, at times,” but that he wants more public input on village infrastructure maintenance issues, and he also decried legislative efforts to limit village levying powers to address the maintenance backlog, saying they are issues “best decided by [the affected] citizens, voters and taxpayers.”

Donation to food shelf

On behalf of the St. Croix Falls Lions, their president, Ernie Naumann, presents a check to Elouise Anderson of the St. Croix Falls Food Shelf. – Photo submitted

Bizarre drunken stories lead to arrests

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Somerset man and son face likely obstruction charges

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE – A series of apparently drunken-driving accidents led to charges against a Somerset man, who reportedly was falling-down drunk when he crashed at a slow speed.

According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Department, James Nosbish, 45, had returned home from a Star Prairie tavern when his bizarre evening commenced.

Police were first called at just after 4:15 a.m. on Sunday morning, May 8, and when they arrived at the location, someone had claimed that Nosbish had run into their vehicle with his car, and that he was falling-down drunk.

When police arrived at Nosbish’s son’s home in southern Polk County, he had originally denied ever driving, then later said he was only driving in his son’s yard.

Then he claimed that his son had driven his truck into a nearby ditch, and Nosbish was only “driving around the block” to find the truck.

The officer speculated that might have been when Nosbish ran into the initial reporting party’s vehicle on nearby Cedar

Lake Road, to which he agreed.

When the deputy asked Nosbish’s son, Joseph, about the incidents and his truck, he said he didn’t have a truck. Then he said he had a truck, but had left it at the bar. Then he said he loaned it to a woman he didn’t know.

The officer had apparently heard enough and was about to take someone into custody, when he removed his handcuffs to show he was, indeed, serious.

That is reportedly when James Nosbish grabbed the deputy’s hand, pushed him away from his son and threatened the officer.

The deputy threatened to use a Taser if he didn’t comply, to which Nosbish said he’d been tased before, and then said the deputy had “better get help coming … because you’re a long way out.”

The deputy then was able to handcuff the son, Joseph Nosbish, and the father, James Nosbish, but the deputy claimed that in the half hour he was at the home, he had been given several different stories and that there were at least two reportable accidents that had resulted from the night of drinking and subsequent driving.

As of press time, neither Nosbish man had officially been charged and the status of the case remains unclear.

Donation to Humane Society of Burnett County

Dick Sweet (L), co-chair of the community service committee of the Burnett County Moose Lodge 1194, presented a check for $904 plus another check for a $100 donation to Jenny Shely, a volunteer at the Humane Society of Burnett County, Friday, May 6. The money was raised during a spaghetti supper at the Moose Lodge Saturday, April 30, and will go into the humane society’s general fund to help pay bills for medical expenses and general operating costs. “It costs a lot of money to operate each month,” Shely commented. The April 30 fundraiser brought in $2,291 from a silent auction, $1,330 in donations and $1,000 from Thrivent Association for Lutherans in addition to the $1,004 that came from the Moose Lodge for a total of $5,775.

In this photo, Shely is holding the cat known as Shadow who, she said, is available for adoption. - Photo by Nancy Jappe

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RUMMAGE, BAKE & PLANT SALE Sat., May 14 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.

LAKETOWN LUTHERAN

On 220th St. between Atlas & Cushing.

235 Main St. • P.O. Box 357 Luck, WI 54853

Office: 715-472-8252 Fax: 888-880-2165 www.polkcountyrealty.net mail@scottamellon.com

Saturday, May 14, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Coffee & Goodies too!

Plants, bakery, household items, clothes, lunch items, plus much more.

Trinity Lutheran Church

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PLANT, BAKE & GARAGE SALE

Rummage items 25¢ unless marked.

Serving coffee & goodies.

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ST. CROIX SENIOR CENTER

WEBB LAKE COMMUNITY CLUB RUMMAGE SALE Fri. & Sat., May 20 & 21 Corner of Namekagon & Hwy. 77 * 7:30 a.m. - 25¢ Tent and Garage Opens * 7:30 a.m. - Donuts, Cookies and Drinks Sold Outside * 8:30 a.m. - Main Hall Opens * Homemade Pies and BBQs * Saturday - Half Price Sale All Day * Saturday - $3.00 Bags of Clothing All Day

Mission “To Work for the Betterment of the Community” Accepting Rummage All Day on Tuesday and All Day on May 16, 17 & 18.

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Friday, May 13, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Saturday, May 14, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Oak sofa table; Wh. microwave; radio/CD player; wh. glider rocker w/footstool; 4’ flor. ceiling light; car seats; bouncy chair; clothes: girls newborn - 2T, boys 10/12, jrs., misses, men’s; lots of misc. household and shop.

310 Park Ave., Frederic Casey, Doreen, Maryanne, Denise • 715-220-1481

MULTIFAMILY GARAGE SALE Fri., May 13, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sat., May 14, 9 a.m. to Noon 2601 145th Street, Luck Follow signs

Garage Sale & Bake Sale

1984 Kawasaki Voyager, $1,300; 1986 Honda 4-wheeler; 14’ Johnboat w/motor & trailer; old pop machine; lots of teen to adult clothing; misc. household items; Guinea pig & cage; John Deere A and John Deere B.

Dishes; garden ware; Beanie Babies; clothing; craft supplies; handmade items; baked goods; plants; misc.

TOWN OF STERLING MONTHLY TOWN BOARD MEETING

Fri., May 13, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sat., May 14, 9 a.m. - Noon 140 N. Washington, St. Croix Falls

Highway 48 • McKinley 10 miles west of Cumberland

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Notices/Garage Sales/Real Estate

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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians; pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

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

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TOWNS OF OAKLAND, SWISS AND UNION SPRING RECYCLING CLEANUP Oakland Collection Center - “OCC” Saturday, May 21, 2011, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The OCC is accepting at no charge on May 21 only, the following goods: stoves, empty refrigerators and freezers, water heaters, washers, dryers, furnaces, air conditioners, televisions, computers, printers, microwaves, miscellaneous electronics and tires. Normal fees will apply following this one-day event.

NO building materials, brush, leaves or hazardous materials will be accepted.

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CURRENT OCC CARD REQUIRED TO DROP OFF ITEMS RESIDENTIAL ONLY – NO COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES

The Monthly Board Meeting Will Be Held Monday, May 16, 2011, At The Cushing Community Center At 7 p.m.

Agenda: Clerk’s minutes, treasurer financial report, determine action on delinquent PP taxes, update on town leases, update on boardroom ramp gate, citizen concerns, approve operator licenses, sign mowing contract with George Williamson, decision on purchase of a second voting machine, discussion regarding delinquent tax/license nonrenewal ordinance, road maintenance, set June agenda, pay bills.

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NOTICE TOWN OF GEORGETOWN BOARD OF REVIEW Board of Review will be held on Saturday, May 21, 2011, from 8 to 10 a.m., at the Georgetown Town Hall.

In order to appear before the Board of Review, you must file a written objection with the town clerk at least 48 hours before appearing before the board.

Open Book, the assessment roll will be open to public inspection and the assessor will be present to answer questions on Friday, May 20, 2011, from 3 to 7 p.m.

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Eagle golfers take second in two-day event

School records set by Eagles at Siren National

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer HAYWARD – Telemark Resort near Hayward held a two-day golf invitational last week Friday and Saturday, May 6-7.

Among some of the larger schools were Menomonie, Rice Lake, Duluth Central, Eau Claire Memorial, New Richmond and Hudson, who came in first place overall with a two-day total of 617. Not far behind in second place however, was the Unity Eagles boys golf team, who took second with a two-day team score of 633.

The best individual score came by Rob Kraft of Superior, who shot a 145. The Eagles were led by Reed Sorensen and Evan Lunda who both shot 157. Jake Bengtson shot a 160, Brandon Stencil shot 165, and Kyle Sorensen finished with 168.

“This was our best finish in this tournament in quite a while. We were not intimidated by the D-1 schools. This will definitely help once we get to regionals,” said Eagles coach Larry Stencil.

Among the other 24 teams, St. Croix Falls also competed and finished 18th overall with a team score of 766. Taylor Sempf led the charge with a 186, Alex Mikl shot a 192, Kyle Chapman, 191, and Drew Fontainelle finished with a 197.

The Frederic golfers had a decent weekend of golf with a 769 team score. Chris Hopp led with a 177, Dayton Rivera, 187, Daniel Larson, 194, Nick Rognrud, 211 and Charlie Lindberg, 219.

Luck finished with a score of 812, with Brenden Fenning shooting a 178, Roger Steen, 180, Jordan Bazey, 205, and Luke Christensen, 249.

The Pirates ended the two-day tourney with a score of 822. Jake Langevin had a 185 along teammate Lars Thoreson. Sean Handy had a 216 and Chandler Witzany scored 236.

Luck Invitational LUCK – Area golfers took part in a golf meet at Luck on Monday, May 9, with the Eagles coming out on top once again with a score of 161. Reed Sorensen led the entire field with a 38, while Brandon Stencil, Jake Bengtson, Erik Nelson and Ben Bengtson shot 40, 41, 42 and 45 respectivey.

The Grantsburg Pirates took second overall with a score of 181, followed by a tie for third between St. Croix Falls and Siren who shot 190. Luck came in fourth

Golfers from St. Croix Falls and Unity had strong outings.

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Local golfers were able to get in some play on Monday, May 9, at the Luck Golf Course, in spite of a rainy morning. – Photos by Greg Marsten

with a score of 197, and Frederic scored 207.

Kyle Johnson led the Pirates with a 43, Taylor Sempf led the Saints with a 43, Luke Bollant of Siren shot 42, Roger Steen of Luck had a 43, and Chris Hopp of Frederic led his team with a 44.

Siren National results SIREN – The Eagles golf team came out on top once again at the Siren National Golf Course on Tuesday, May 10, with a team score of 154. Grantsburg was second with a 165, Siren came in third with 170, St. Croix Falls, 177, Frederic, 228 and Luck, 264. The Eagles broke a pair of school records in the process as well.

“Brandon Stencil shot 2 under par for 9 holes and team shot 6 over for 9 holes.

Brandon played the par 5s in 5 under,” said coach Larry Stencil. “He made a couple of crucial 6-foot putts to either birdie or save par. Brandon kept his emotions in check when he would get a bogey. Lest I say that I was really proud of his effort.

The team played really strong with Reed Sorensen shooting two over par and Evan

Erik Nelson looks over the terrain before a drive.

Lunda and Kyle Sorensen shooting 3 over.

We are starting to click with conference tournament coming up next week.”

The individual winner on the night was Unity’s Brandon Stencil with a 35. Teammate Reed Sorensen shot a 39, and Siren’s Luke Bollant finished with a 37. Kyle Johnson of Grantsburg also finished with a 37.

Siren’s Bollant earns medal in Colfax COLFAX – For the second straight year Siren had a solid outing in Colfax last Wednesday, May 4, during the Whitetail Classic. Luke Bollant was the medalist for the second year in a row while shooting a score of 80, as the Dragons placed fourth overall among eight others. Justin Decorah shot an 88 and tied for fifth overall, while Jake Swenson came in 20th with a score of 96. Jordan Sargent shot a 109 and Hans Dahlberg, 116.

Jake Bengtson tries to sink this putt at the Luck Golf Course on Monday, May 9.

••• PLATTEVILLE – Former Webster athlete Brian Thill took fourth overall in the WIAC Outdoor Track and Field Decathlon Championships on Friday and Saturday, May 6-7 at UW-Platteville. On Friday, Thill took ninth in the 100-meter dash, but took first in the long jump with a mark of 22-00.25, first in the shot put Brian Thill with 41-05.25, and first in the high jump with a 6-04.75. He took 10th in the 400-meter dash. On Saturday, Thill finished first in the discus with a throw of 115-02. He took 14th in the 110-meter hurdles, 13th in the pole vault and javelin throw and 10th in the 1,500-meter run. – Marty Seeger with submitted information ••• MANKATO, Minn. – The Winona State softball team is entering the NCAA Division 3 regional tournament Friday, May 13, in Mankato, Minn., against Wayne State. The Warriors have an outstanding offensive attack heading into tournament play. Six of its regular starters are batting over .330, including former Pirate Mollie Bjelland, who is batting .388 with 12 home runs.

••• MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., – 2007 St. Croix Falls grad and current member of the University of Minnesota rowing team Molly Kalmoe was honored recently for her academic achievements at the fifth-annual Golden Goldy’s, and 22nd-annual Scholar Athlete Banquet at TCF Bank Stadium.

Among the 750 student-athletes, Kalmoe was recognized as one of the five top female scholar-athletes. To be honored for this achievement, each Molly Kalmoe recipient must have three continuous seasons training as a member of a UM athletic team, trained in the current year of awarding, be an undergraduate student and have one of the top five cumulative GPAs. – Marty Seeger with submitted information ••• LEADER LAND – The St. Croix Falls at Luck baseball game on Thursday, May 12, can be heard at 5 p.m. on 104. FM. The Prairie Farm at Luck baseball game on Monday, May 16, can be heard on 104.9 FM beginning at 5 p.m., and the Northwood at Unity baseball game is also being broadcast on 104.9 FM beginning at 5 p.m. on May 17.

••• LEADER LAND – Local sports tidbits to share? Please contact the Leader by 4:30 p.m. on Mondays to go in Extra Points. – Marty Seeger ••• LEADER LAND – Leader Sports strives to follow the college careers of area athletes. If you know of an athlete who will be playing collegiate sports in 2011 and hasn’t been mentioned, send us an e-mail or call and we’ll take it from there. – Marty Seeger

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Clear Lake sees several track stars at the top

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer CLEAR LAKE – It’s been a difficult year of weather for track athletes, but they’ve managed to get in a few competitions where they can. On Thursday, May 12, several area teams traveled to Clear Lake to compete and did quite well, starting

The Clear Lake Invitational Thursday, May 12, hosted some pretty decent weather for a change. – Photos by John Reed

A Unity Eagles long jumper goes the distance in Clear Lake.

with the St. Croix Falls boys 4x800-meter relay team, who took second overall with a time of 9 minutes, 20.68 seconds.

In the 110-meter hurdles, Unity’s Xavier Foeller took first overall with a time of 16:64, and Alex Livingston of Unity placed second with a time of 17:07.

Reshaud Kelash of St. Croix Falls placed second in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:52.7, and the St. Criox Falls 4x200meter relay team took first overall with a time of 1:37.4, while Unity’s 4x200-meter relay team took second with a 1:38.17. Jace Marek of St. Croix Falls placed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 55.37, and took first in the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.63. He also took second in the long jump by hitting the 20-foot mark, and also came in second in the high jump with a jump of 6 feet.

Livingston took second in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 45.78.

In the triple jump, Austin Elliott of Webster earned second place with a jump of 37 feet, 1/2-inches. Roger Steen of Luck dominated the shot put with a throw of 47-04.50, while Joe Swanson of Unity came in second with a throw of 44-09.50.

Seth Kruger of Unity was the overall winner in the high jump with a leap of 600, and Mason Kriegel of Webster was the

first-place winner in the pole vault with a mark of 13-00. A.J. Walsh-Brenizer was second with a mark of 12-06.

Top girls finishers CLEAR LAKE – Area girls athletes made the top of the list at the Clear Lake track meet last week, including Shaina Pardun of Webster, who took first in the pole vault with a mark of 7 feet. Hayla Bader of Unity also hit a mark of 7-00.

In the 4x200-meter relay, the St. Croix Falls girls took first overall with a time of 1 minute, 59.3 seconds, with performances

by Sam Jorgenson, Sam O’Brien, Hayley Cermin and Lauren Richter. The 4x800meter relay team took third overall with a time of 56.53 with Allie Holmdahl, Bailey Bergmann, Erica Bergmann and Jesse Rademacher. In the 800-meter run, Bergmann also took second overall with a time of 2:39.3, which was just a tenth of a second shy of first place.

The 200-meter dash was won by a runner from Turtle Lake, but Jackie Laduke of

The Webster girls relay teams have been showing improvement.

Luck came in second place with a time of 29.43.

In the long jump, Ashley Johnson of Unity took second overall with a mark of 15 feet nine inches and also took second in the high jump. The discus was won by Sydney Geisness of St. Croix Falls, who threw a 93-00. Emily Gross of Unity took second overall in the shot put with a throw of 34-08.50. The Webster girls 4x400-meter relay team also placed first overall.

Unity boys compete at New Richmond NEW RICHMOND – Members of the Unity boys track team competed at the New Richmond Relays on Friday, May 6.

In the 1,600-meter sprint medley Zach Cardot, Rush Hichethier, Steve Olson and Tyler Christensen placed seventh overall with a time of 4:01.9.

In the 3x110-meter shuttle high hurdle event, Mitch Galle, Alex Livingston and Steven Krueger finished in seventh with a time of 57.7. The 4x100-meter relay throwers took sixth overall with a 49.9. Members of that team included Cardot, Oliver Raboin, Tyler Christensen and Dakota Ward. The 3x140 hurdles team also took sixth, while the 4x200-meter relay team finished seventh with a time of 1:39.1.

Members of that team included Christensen, Zach Johnson, Hickethier and Justin Runberg.

The St. Croix Falls relay teams have been successful this season.

Webster’s Dan Dochniak gets set to land in the triple jump.

A Luck sprinter gives it his all on the track in Clear Lake.

Webster boys track storm Colfax

Conference meet on the horizon

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer COLFAX– Moving directly from winter to spring has greatly shortened the track

season, and as quickly as the season began, area track teams are already eyeing the conference meet at Unity, which is slated for Tuesday, May 17.

Both Webster and Luck teams traveled to Colfax Tuesday, May 10, with the Webster boys track team coming out on top, signaling what could be a very competitive conference meet next Tuesday. Of the

13 other teams competing, the Webster boys scored 121 points to second place Glenwood City.

Highlights from the meet include firstplace finishes from Jack Taylor in the 1,600 and 3,200-meter run, and a first-place performance by the boys 4x800-meter relay team, which included Joey Erickson, Devin Greene, Cody Isaacson and Taylor.

Mason Kriegel also finished first in the pole vault with a mark of 13-feeet. Luck’s A.J. Walsh-Brenizer placed second overall with a 13-foot mark, and Ben Jensen of Webster took third with 12-feet.

Luck’s Roger Steen placed first in both the shot put and discus, with distances of 48 feet, 8.50 inches, and 143 feet, 30 inches.

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Pirates softball team blasts out 23 hits

Cards win over Eagles, Vikings fall to Saints Grantsburg 21, Webster/Siren 0

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer SIREN – The Pirates softball team continued to batter opponents this week, claiming their latest victim on Tuesday, May 10, against a struggling Webster/ Siren team.

Grantsburg moved to 11-0 on the season and 7-0 in the conference, and will face a tougher test this Thursday, May 12, in Frederic, which begins at 3:30 p.m.

The Pirates piled on the runs against Webster/Siren early on, scoring five runs in the first inning and another five in the second. The Tigons did manage to keep the Pirates at bay in the third inning, but the onslaught continued as Grantsburg scattered 23 hits, with Tiffany Meyer going 4 for 4 with an RBI. Stacey McKenzie went 3 for 3, with four other Pirates getting two hits including Nicole Mckenzie, Emily Cole, Macy Hanson and Gabby Witzany. Sam Schweiger, Kassie Lien, Kylie Pewe, Grace Corbin, Harlei Hen-

nessey, Lauren Finch, Brooke Roufs and Wendy Roberts had a hit apiece. Roberts also had three RBIs, and Witzany and Cole each had a pair of RBIs. Hanson pitched to just five batters and allowed one hit before being replaced by Jessica Hoffman, who didn’t allow any hits in three innings, and struck out six.

Schweiger also pitched the final inning and two of the four batters she faced.

Billie Ingalls was the lone Webster/Siren hitter to connect with a single in the leadoff spot in the second inning.

The Tigons are scheduled to host Unity on Thursday, May 12.

St. Croix Falls 6, Frederic 5 FREDERIC – Despite a three-run rally in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Frederic Vikings softball team fell just short of a win against St. Croix Falls on Tuesday, May 10.

St. Croix Falls pitcher Alicia Chelberg pitched a solid game going all seven innings with three walks, five hits and 10 strikeouts.

Vikings pitcher Corissa Schmidt threw all seven innings as well, but all six Saints runs went unearned, as Schmidt allowed seven hits, one walk and had five strikeouts. The Vikings had six errors in the game.

St. Croix Falls had a 6-2 lead heading

Macy Hanson gets set to launch the ball to a Webster/Siren hitter on Tuesday, May 10, in Siren.

Kassie Lien of Grantsburg gets onto second base safely as the throw to second is bobbled

by Billie Ingalls. – Photos by Marty Seeger into the bottom of the seventh inning on a walk by Jessica Kutina and single when a Vikings rally started with a Shauna Jorgenson.

Kendra Mossey single. Lexi Domagala Luck scored two more runs in the sixth drew a walk in the next at bat, and to take the lead with the help of a single Schmidt grounded out to second, but by Otlo, who went 2 for 4 in the game. Demanaged to move the base runners to sec- spite a double by Hayla Bader and single ond and third. from Brittany Thomfohrda in the bottom With two outs, Vanessa Neumann of the sixth, the Cardinals escaped with reached first on an error, which scored the win by holding the Eagles to one run both runs, and Krysta Laqua singled, scor- in the bottom of the sixth. The Eagles had ing Neumann. Unfortunately for the a pair of singles in the bottom of the sevVikings, a strikeout ended the game. enth but couldn’t get any runs across for a possible tie, or outright win.

Luck 6, Unity 5 FREDERIC – The Unity Eagles took a loss against Luck on Tuesday, May 10, which opened up a possible race for second place in the West Lakeland Conference. The Eagles have just two conference losses, but other teams like Frederic and St. Croix Falls aren’t far behind.

The Cardinals scored three runs in the opening inning with a leadoff walk by Avery Steen and a single by Morgyn McGinnity. Maia Lehmann also walked and with two outs, Abbie Otlo singled.

Jade Schrock was also hit by a pitch in the inning, and Jaimee Buck singled to help score a run.

The Cardinals three-run lead shrunk a bit in the second inning as the Eagles scored one run in the first inning and another two runs in the second. Luck did tack on one more run in the second inning Grantsburg’s Wendy Roberts gets a piece as well, and maintained a 4-3 lead before the Eagles tied it in the bottom of the fifth of the ball against Webster/Siren.

Vikes use big inning over Luck girls

Frederic 8, Luck 2

That would prove to be enough for the victory, as Frederic hurler Cori Schmidt was able to keep the Cardinal bats in check for the rest of the contest, while getting a pair of insurance runs the next inning for the victory.

Both squads played much better defense than in their previous contest last month at Frederic, and without the very productive fourth inning for the Vikings, it was a very even contest, and shows how both squads have improved dramatically as the season rolls.

Frederic's Maria Miller (No. 2) slides in hard but is tagged out on a steal attempt by Luck shortstop Camille Marsten at second.

Luck outfielder Jade Schrock hustles the ball in on a fly and a tag up. – Photos by Greg Marsten

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer LUCK – The Frederic Vikings softball team used a sparkling inning to come from behind and defeat the Luck Cardinals on Thursday, May 5, at Luck, winning 8-2 in the conference match that was otherwise quite close.

Luck drew first blood, scoring both of their runs early on strong baserunning and capitalizing on errors, while Frederic was without a player crossing the plate until the fourth inning, when they exploded for six runs on five hits off starter Maia Lehmann.

Webster/Siren girls fall in Minnesota tourney

Ogilvie 10, Webster/Siren 1 Hinckley-Finlayson 17, Webster/Siren 1 Moose Lake 7, Webster/Siren 0

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer PINE CITY, Minn. – The Webster/Siren girls tried hard but had a rough couple of outings on Saturday, May 8, at the Pine City softball tournament over the river,

losing their first game to Ogilvie, 10-1, in spite do the Tigons scoring first, starting hurler Siiri Larsen gave up several big runs in the middle innings, earning the victory for the Ogilvie crew.

The second game was against a strong

Hinckley-Finlayson squad that managed 11 runs in the first three innings, which proved too much to overcome.

The final contest was much closer, with Moose Lake shutting out the Tigons for a 7-0 victory.

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Pirates baseball swipes another “V” from Siren/Webster Lucas Willis tosses no-hitter Tuesday Grantsburg 11 Siren/Webster 1

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer GRANTSBURG – The Pirates baseball team took another win over Siren/Webster on Tuesday, May 10, behind a no-hitter by Lucas Willis. The Pirates played the Tigons just a day earlier and won 15-1, and like the day before, were able to keep them from gaining any ground.

Grantsburg had eight hits in the game and scored four runs in the first inning, with all four coming with two outs. Russ Thoreen singled and sophomores Bryce Ryan, Lucas Willis and junior Kyle Roberts were credited with driving in

runs. Siren/Webster had a pair of errors in the inning, and a total of five for the game.

Grantsburg tacked on two more runs in the third inning and had a five-run fourth inning to give them the runs they needed to end the game in five innings of play.

Thoreen went 2 for 3 with a pair of RBIs in the game and Roberts was also 2 for 3 with three RBIs. Ryan also had three RBIs and a hit. Lucas Willis was credited for the win, pitching all five innings with seven strikeouts, with one unearned run and two walks.

St. Croix Falls 13, Frederic 0 FREDERIC – Despite getting four hits on Tuesday, May 10, the Vikings couldn’t plate a run in a loss to St. Croix Falls.

Nick Johnson pitched all five innings and had eight strikeouts, allowing four walks. The Saints held a 4-0 lead heading into the fourth inning before tacking on another four runs, and five more in the

A Saints runner makes it safely to first on a bunt against Frederic. – Photos by Marty Seeger

Luck 10, Frederic 4

The Pirates baseball team earned a season sweep over Siren/Webster with a win on Tuesday, May 10. – Photos by Priscilla Bauer fifth to help end the game in five innings. Spencer Walters was 1 for 3.

“The first couple of innings we had difThe Vikings hits came from Joe Draxler, ficulty putting the ball in play for hits. Michael Tesch, Jarad Braden and Ray They did give up some walks, and we Kurkowski. transitioned the manufacturing runs via Rice Lake 5 Unity 1 the running game, and small ball,” said RICE LAKE – The Eagles baseball team Saints coach Paul Randolph. dropped a nonconference game against The Saints too, issued three straight Rice Lake on Tuesday, May 10. Unity had walks in the bottom of the first inning to four hits with Brady Flaherty going 2 for 3 load the bases, but the Vikings were un- with an RBI, and Brady Turner and Luke able to capitalize.

Nelson each recording hits.

Ben Clausen went 2 for 4 for the Saints, Nelson pitched just over five innings, alwhile Johnson was 2 for 3. Marcus Camp- lowing nine hits, four earned runs with bell was 1 for 2 and Blake Klopfer was 1 three strikeouts and four walks. for 2 with three RBIs. Joe Thayer had two Rice Lake picked up two runs in the first RBIs and was 1 for 3, and Nathan inning, another run in the third and two Gravesen had three RBIs and was 2 for 3. more in the sixth.

Luck boys fend off Vikes

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer LUCK – The Luck Cardinals held off a vastly improved Frederic Viking squad on Thursday, May 5 at Luck, winning by a 104 final after several strong innings by the Cardinals at the plate to seal the victory.

Cardinal Brodie Kunze earned the win, in spite of the Cards using four pitchers in the contest: Kunze, Logan Hacker, Ben Kuffalk and Connery Johnson.

Frederic had a good outing from Joe Draxler, who gave up a few key hits but threw well, as did Raif Poirier in relief.

Luck scored a pair of runs in the second

Luck third baseman Tony Aguado leaps for a throw from the outfield to try and get Viking base runner Trae Gehl, who tagged on a fly ball. – Photos by Greg Marsten

Frederic senior Joe Draxler fires a pitch home against the Luck Cardinals.

inning, and three more the next inning, but the Vikes got in a groove and returned much of the favor, scoring once in the third inning, and two more in the fourth, as well as another run in the fifth inning off good baserunning and steady hitting.

Luck blew it open in the fifth inning with four runs and added another in the sixth for insurance and the 10-4 victory.

Cardinal Logan Hacker hit a home run in the victory, and Conn Johnson tallied three hits to help the cause, as well as scoring twice.

Notables go to Luck’s Jesse Rennicke, who went 3-3 with a double and an im-

pressive five RBIs in the victory. He also stole a base and added a sacrifice fly to his stats of the day. Cole Mortel went 2-2 with three runs scored, but was hit by pitched twice in the contest.

Shell Lake 5, Luck 2 (8 innings) LUCK – The Luck Cardinals and Shell Lake Lakers played a solid contest on Tuesday, May 3, needing extra innings to decide a winner, which proved to be the Lakers, 5-2, after a four-run explosion of runs in the extra frame, which Luck tried to overcome but didn’t have the mustard.

It was as even a match as you will find,

Luck's Brodie Kunze fires a pitch home against Frederic.

with Luck senior Brady Klatt scoring a run in the fourth inning, and the Lakers countering with one of their own in the fifth inning. That would prove to be all the scoring until much later, as the game was still tied in the bottom of the seventh.

Shell Lake exploded for four runs in the extra frame, and Luck came close, but only managed one run to counter the sudden offense, leading to a Shell Lake victory, 5-2.

Luck’s Logan Hacker threw 11 strikeouts in the loss, but gave up seven hits, including three to Sam Livingston, and got the loss in eight innings. Shell Lake’s Brandon Anderson earned the victory, giving up six hits and striking out eight.

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Eagles silence Siren/Webster

Lucas Willis sparks Pirates with grand slam over Pine City, Minn.

Unity 13, Siren/Webster 2

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer SIREN – The Unity Eagles baseball team moved to 5-1 in the conference with a win over Siren/Webster on Friday, May 6.

Brady Flaherty and Luke Nelson went 2 for 4 with an RBI as the Eagles produced seven hits and Nelson pitched five innings, striking out seven, walking two and allowing just four hits.

The Eagles got things going early in the top of the first with four runs, two hits, while capitalizing on three Siren/Webster errors. Unity’s Zac Baxter led the inning off with a single and Jason Vlasnik reached on an error. Baxter scored the first run of the game on a passed ball and Flaherty reached base on a missed tag, before

Luke Nelson winds up for the pitch against Siren/Webster Friday, May 6. – Photos by Marty Seeger

Pirate sophomore Lucas Willis gets a welcomed greeting from teammates after a grand slam against Pine City, Minn. – Photo by Deb Allaman-Johnson

Pirates cruise easy over Siren/Webster

Zac Baxter scores a run against Siren/Webster as Lincoln Spafford eyes a throw from the catcher after a passed ball.

Derek Campbell hit a sacrifice fly to score Grantsburg 13, Pine City 1 the second run of the game. With only one PINE CITY, Minn. – The Pirates baseball out, Brady Turner hit an RBI single, and team continued its reign of dominance Nelson doubled. Nelson ended up steal- against opponents this week, which began ing third and scored the fourth run in the with a big win over Pine City, Minn., on inning on an overthrown ball in an at- Friday, May 6, in nonconference play. tempt to tag him out.

Pirate sophomore Lucas Willis had one Siren/Webster managed to pick up a hit during the game but it was a big one, run in the first inning as well when with as he drove the ball over the fence for a two outs, Evan Oachs hit a long fly ball to grand slam during the Pirates eight-run the gap in right center and the Eagles fourth inning. Grantsburg had 10 hits in couldn’t make the play. Mycal Larson the game and grabbed an early 2-0 lead in then hit an RBI single to score Oachs, but the first inning with the help of two errors the inning soon came to an end on a on the Dragons. Joe Engelhart had an RBI groundout. Siren/Webster was relatively double in the inning and Russ Thoreen silent after the first inning and would drove in a run with groundout to second. score one more run and threaten to extend The Pirates scored two more times in the the game by loading the bases in the fifth, second inning on a two-RBI single by Enbut the Eagles pitched through the threat, gelhart. Brent Myers also had a single in and had a commanding lead with help of the inning, and the Pirates maintained a 4some key baserunning. Flaherty and Nel- 0 lead until their huge fourth-inning rally. son stole two bases apiece in the third inThe Dragons were held in check by four ning which helped lead to a pair of runs. solid innings of pitching from Jim Nelson, In the fourth inning, Unity tacked on five who retired the side in the first three inmore runs as Vlasnik, Nelson and Nate nings with one walk and two strikeouts.

Despiegelaere each hit RBI singles. Fla- A pair of errors on the Pirates in the fourth herty also hit an RBI double in the fifth inning led to Pine City’s only run of the and Turner hit an RBI single in the fifth to game. help keep the Eagles on top and in the Both Myers and Engelhart went 2 for 3 hunt for the top spot in the conference. on the night, with Engelhart getting three The Grantsburg Pirates have yet to be RBIs. Thoreen had a pair of RBIs and Carl beaten, and Unity’s only conference loss Palmquist, Nolan Hanson, Trevor Thompcame by the Pirates back in April. The son and Devan Christensen each drove in teams won’t meet again until the final a run. game of the regular season.

Eagle boys slip past Cards

Unity 4, Luck 3

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer LUCK – The Unity Eagles engineered a come from behind, 4-3, last inning victory over the hosting Luck Cardinals on Monday, May 9, in a closely contested West Lakeland Conference game.

Unity only managed three hits off Cardinal starter Logan Hacker, but they made those rare hits count, including a towering third-inning solo home run from Unity’s Nate Despiegelaere over the right-field fence that would be their first run of the day, after trailing 2-0.

Unity used solid baserunning, smart batting for sacrifices and Luck fielding issues to get two more runs in the fourth inning to take the lead, which they later relinquished and regained on a bottom of the seventh inning game-winning run for the win.

Luck had only five hits off Unity starter Brady Flaherty, and Unity committed four errors, but still managed to keep the hardhitting Cards at bay for the win.

No players on either side had more than

Unity's Brady Turner lays down a bunt against the Luck Cardinals. one hit, and other than the solo home run from Unity’s Despiegelaere, Luck’s Brodie Kunze had the only other extra base hit, which was an RBI double.

Flaherty had nine strikeouts and earned the win for the Eagles, while Hacker lost in spite of throwing the three hitter, and striking out five batters.

Grantsburg 15, Siren/Webster 1 GRANTSBURG – An eight-run first inning helped silence the Siren/Webster

Luck senior Brady Klatt waits for the ball and the tag on a Unity player at second base on Monday, May 9. – Photos by Greg Marsten baseball team as the Pirates baseball team 17 Pirate hits. Meyer had three RBIs on the rolled easily to another win on Monday, night, which included a two-RBI triple in the first inning.

May 9.

Other Pirates getting in on the hitting Grantsburg’s big inning started with a Daniel Biorn leadoff single, and with a were Joe Engelhart, Seth Odegard, Devan stolen base Biorn was able to score easily Christensen, Carl Palmquist, Seth Coy on a one-out RBI single by Nolan Hanson, and Cole White with one hit apiece.

Siren/Webster produced five hits on the who had a big night with four RBIs. Gavin Meyer and Trevor Thompson and Biorn night, with Shay Johnson going 3 for 3. had big night’s offensively as they all Tadd Oachs and Lincoln Spafford each went 3 for 4 during a game that featured had one hit. – Marty Seeger

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Frederic girls dominate home meet

Saints boys come out on top despite injury-riddled start

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer FREDERIC – It was another dominating performance by the Frederic girls track team on Monday, May 9, in Frederic, as they finished 154.50 points compared to the 136.50 points compiled by the St. Croix Falls girls track team.

The Vikings had nine individuals or relay teams finish in first place, starting with Sage Karl who came out on top in the 100-meter dash and 200-meter dash with times of 12.80 seconds and 27.10 respectively. Calla Karl took first in the 800meter run with a time of 2 minutes, 36.30 seconds. Sam Nelson finished first in the 3,200-meter run with a 12:49.80, and the 4x100-meter relay team placed first with a time of 53.60. Team members on the 4x100 included Allison Anderson, Amanda Blok, Tanesha Carlson and Sage Karl.

The 4x800-meter relay team also took first place with a time of 10:54.70. Team members included Nelson, Sarah Knauber, Leah Engebretson and Calla Karl. In the girls high jump, Blok had a great finish with a mark of 5 feet, 3 inches.

Nelson took first overall in the triple jump, going 31 feet, 5 inches. Anderson took first in the shot put with a throw of 30 feet, 7.25 inches.

The Vikings also placed second in at least three other events including Calla Frederic Invitational (5/9/11) Girls Team Results Place Team Points Frederic 154.50 1st St. Croix Falls 136.50 2nd Clear Lake 129.00 3rd Webster 69.00 4th 5th Shell Lake 59.50 6th Turtle Lake/Clayton 41.00 7th Grantsburg 34.00 Luck 14.50 8th Individual Finishers 100-meter dash – 1. Sage Karl, Frederic, 12.80; 3. Tanesha Carlson, Frederic, 13.80; 4. Jackie Laduke, Luck, 13.90.

200-meter dash – 1. Sage Karl, Frederic, 27.10; 4. Rachael Poirier, Frederic, 29.90; 5. Samantha Jorgenson, SCF, 30.

400-meter dash – 2. Calla Karl, Frederic, 1:03.70; 4. Saisha Goepfert, Grantsburg, 1:07.80.

800-meter run – 1. Calla Karl, Frederic, 2:36.30; 3. Erica Bergmann, SCF, 2:37.50; 4. Jessica Rademacher, SCF, 2:46.20; 5. Angela Gaffney, Grantsburg, 2:55.70.

1,600-meter run – 2. Sarah Knauber, Frederic, 6:01.00; 3. Angela Gaffney, Grantsburg, 6:11.30; 4. Allie Holmdahl, SCF, 6:20.40; 5. Bailey Bergmann, SCF, 6:21.70.

3,200-meter run – 1. Samantha Nelson, Frederic, 12:49.80; 2. Angela Gaffney, Grantsburg, 13:24.20; 3. Savannah Stone, SCF, 14:43.30.

100-meter hurdles – 2. Kelsey Sheffler, Webster, 20; 3. Kierstyn Campbell, SCF, 20.30; 4 Jill Holmstrom, Webster, 20.90; 5. Kourtni Douglas, Frederic, 22.50.

300-meter hurdles – 1. Autumn Erickson, SCF, 54.80; 3. Kierstyn Campbell, SCF, 58.90; 4.

Marissa Elliott, Webster, 1:01.20; 5. Jill Holmstrom, Webster, 1:02.10.

4x100-meter relay – 1. Allison Anderson, Tanesha Carlson, Amanda Blok, Sage Karl, Frederic, 53.60; 4. Queen Jacobs, Hayley Cermin, Samantha Jorgenson, Raquel McCloud, SCF, 57.70.

4x200-meter relay – 2. Allison Anderson, Tanesha Carlson, Rachael Poirier, Amanda Blok, Frederic 1:58.20; 3. Samantha Jorgenson, Raquel McCloud, Lauren Richter, Ally Mahler, SCF, 1:58.50.

4x400-meter relay – 2. Erica Bergmann, Jessica Rademacher, Briana Wenell, Autumn Erickson, SCF, 4:36.80.

4x800-meter relay – 1. Samantha Nelson, Leah Engebretson, Sarah Knauber, Calla Karl, Frederic, 10:54.70; 3. Bailey Bergmann, Autumn Erickson, Allie Holmdahl, Savannah Stone, SCF, 11:25.90.

High jump – 1. Amanda Blok, Frederic, 5-03.00; 2. Saisha Goepfert, Grantsburg, 4-10.00; 3. Kierstyn Campbell, SCF, 4-06.00; 3. Autumn Erickson, SCF, 4-06.00; 5. Hayley Cermin, SCF, 4-06.00.

Pole vault – l. Shaina Pardun, Webster, 8-06.00; 3. Mackenzie Koelz, Webster, 6-06.00; 5. Kourtni Douglas, Frederic, 6-00.00.

Long jump – 2. Hayley Cermin, SCF, 14-03.00; 5.

Rachael Poirier, Frederic, 13-08.00.

Triple jump – 1. Samantha Nelson, Frederic, 3105.50; 3. Sydney Geisness, SCF, 27-05.75; 4.

Paige Burton, Frederic, 27-05.50.

Shot put – 1. Allison Anderson, Frederic, 3007.25; Tanya Johnson, Webster, 27-09.00.

Discus throw – 1. Shauna Rein, Webster, 76-01; 2.

Bella Nelson, Luck, 75-03; 3. Audrey Mulliner, Webster, 74-00; 4. Allison Anderson, Frederic, 73-08.

On monday, May 9, the Frederic High School track field was full of activity as they hosted their first invite of a shortened season due to the weather. – Photos by Marty Seeger

Karl in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:03.70. Knauber took second in the 1,600meter run with a time of 12:49.80, and the 4x200-meter relay team took second with a time of 1:58.20. Clear Lake took first with a time of 1:58.00. The Vikings team consisted of Anderson, Rachael Poirier, Blok and Carlson.

Saints boys take first place Despite getting off to a great start to the season the Saints were hit with the injury bug in some key areas. Alex Bertram and Auney Siefert, who are a huge part of the Saints successful relay teams, both suffered injuries and could be out for the season.

Saints boys track coach Jacob Meyer commented during the Frederic Invite on Monday that it was a definite blow to the relay team and other events, but they have a lot of depth this season and it showed on Monday, as several Saints finished at or near the top.

Saints sophomore Marshall Dillman took first place in the 200-meter dash, with a time of 24 seconds. Rashaud Kelash took first in the 1,600-meter run, and teammate Alex Frey took second. They finished with times of 4 minutes, 48.60 seconds and 5:05.80 respectively. Kelash also took first in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 10:27.30.

Two of the Saints relay teams placed first overall as well, with the 4x100-meter relay finishing first with a time of 45.30 seconds. Teammates included Dillman, Jace Marek, Shane Swanson and Garrett Radinzel. The 4x800-meter relay team took first with a time of 9:05.10 with help from Frey, Chris Eisin, Kelash and Rob Foss.

Marek also took first in the high jump with a height of 5 feet, 10 inches.

Cody Zelinski placed second in the 400meter dash with a time of 55.80.

Frederic boys place second Frederic senior Tony Peterson had a great day on the track for the Vikings, taking first in the 110 and 300-meter hurdles, as well as leading the 4x400-meter relay team to a first-place spot. Peterson had a time of 16 seconds flat in the 110-meter hurdles, and 42.30 in the 300-meter hurdles.

Peterson, along with Robert Kirk, Ben Ackerley and Josiah Lund, took first in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3 minutes, 49 seconds. Peterson was also second place in the triple jump with a mark of 37 feet, 6-1/2 inches.

Lund took second overall in the 800meter run with a time of 2:07.70. Adam Chenal was second in the high jump with 5 feet, 10 inches.

Luck boys finish strong Senior Landen Strilzuk of Luck took firsts in at least two events in Frederic including the 400-meter dash with a time of 53.30 seconds. He also took first in the 800meter run with a time of 2 minutes, 7.60 seconds.

A.J. Walsh-Brenizer took first place in the pole vault with a mark of 13 feet, 1inch. He also took second place in the shot put with a throw of 40 feet, 6.75 inches.

The Cardinals also took third overall in the 4x200-meter relay, with a time of 1:41.60, with help from Brett Bartylla, Joe Christensen, Jacob Laduke and Kyle James.

Other track highlights Grantsburg sophomore Colton Tretsven took first place in the boys discus with a throw of 122 feet. He also took third in the shot put with a throw of 40-06. John Chelmo of Frederic took third in the discus with a 118-03.

Webster’s Ben Jensen and Cody Dreier

Saisha Goepfert was the second-place finisher in the high jump, as she hit a mark of 5 feet, 3 inches.

finished second and third respectively in the boys pole vault. Jensen hit a mark of 11 feet, 6 inches and Dreier finished with a 9-6.

On the girls side, Grantsburg’s Angela Gaffney took second place in the 3,200meter run with a time of 13 minutes, 24.20 seconds. Webster freshman Kelsey Sheffler took second in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 20 seconds, followed by Kierstyn Campbell with a time of 20.30.

Autumn Erickson placed first overall in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 54.80 seconds and teammate Campbell came in third with a 58.90.

The Saints girls relay teams did a nice job including a third-place finish in the 4x200 and a second-place finish in the 4x400-meter relays. That team included Erica Bergmann, Jessica Rademacher, Briana Wenell and Erickson.

In the girls high jump, Saisha Goepfert came in second overall with a jump of 4 feet, 10 inches. Shaina Pardun of Webster was dominant again in the pole vault with her first-place finish, and jump of 8-06.

Webster’s Mackenzie Koelz took third with a mark of 6-06. Sydney Geisness of St. Croix Falls landed a third-place spot in the triple jump, and Paige Burton took fourth. Burton landed a 27-foot, 5.50-inch mark, while Geisness made 27-05.75.

Shauna Rein of Webster was the No. 1 thrower in the discus. She had a 76-foot, 1-inch throw in the finals, followed by Bella Nelson of Luck, who threw a 75-03.

Audrey Mulliner of Webster took third, and Allison Anderson of Frederic took fourth.

Frederic Invitational (5/9/11) Boys Team Results Team Points Place St. Croix Falls 157.50 1st Frederic 108.50 2nd 3rd Clear Lake 90.50 4th Turtle Lake/Clayton 83.00 5th Luck 79.50 6th Webster 45.50 Shell Lake 44.50 7th Grantsburg 32.00 8th Individual Finishers 100-meter dash – 3. Garret Radinzel, SCF, 11.61; 4. Jace Marek, SCF, 11.70; 5. Robert Buehler, Webster, 12.0.

200-meter dash – 1. Marshall Dillman, 24.0; 3.

Shane Swanson, SCF, 24.50; 4. Jacob Laduke, Luck, 24.90.

400-meter dash – 1. Landen Strilzuk, Luck, 53.30; Cody Zelinski, SCF, 55.80; 3. Ben Ackerley, Frederic, 56.70; 4. Mason Kriegel, Webster, 56.90.

800-meter run – 1. Landen Strilzuk, Luck, 2:07.60; 2. Josiah Lund, Frederic, 2:07.70; 3.

Ryan Nussbaum, SCF, 2:11.10.

1,600-meter run – 1. Rashaud Kelash, SCF, 4:48:60; 2. Alex Frey, SCF, 5:05.80; 4. Jacob Ohnstad, Grantsburg, 5:12.90; 5. Chris Eisin, SCF, 5:25.30.

3,200-meter run – 1. Rashaud Kelash, SCF, 10:27.30; 2. Erland Olson, Grantsburg, 12:01.30; 3. Matt Smith, Webster, 12:17.80.

110-meter hurdles – 1. Tony Peterson, Frederic, 16.00; 3. Garret Kerkow, SCF, 18.60; 4. Kodi Drinken, SCF, 18.70.

300-meter hurdles – 1. Tony Peterson, Frederic, 42.30; 3. Kodi Drinken, SCF, 45.90; 4. Cullan Hopkins, Webster, 49.40.

4x100-meter relay – 1. Marshall Dillman, Shane Swanson, Jace Marek, Garret Radinzel, SCF, 45.30; 4. Jacob Laduke, Joe Christensen, Brett Bartylla, AJ Walsh-Brenizer, Luck, 48.20; 5.

Robert Kirk, Erik Stoner, Bradley Peterson, Adam Chenal, Frederic, 48.30.

4x200-meter relay – 1. Shane Swanson, Marshall Dillman, Garret Radinzel, Jace Marek, 1:35.30; 3.

Brett Bartylla, Jacob Laduke, Joe Christensen, Kyle James, 1:41.60; Bradley Peterson, John Chelmo, Tony Evans, Aane Nakashima, Frederic, 1:50.90.

4x400-meter relay – 1. Tony Peterson, Ben Ackerley, Robert Kirk, Josiah Lund, Frederic, 3:49.00.

4x800-meter relay – 1. Alex Frey, Rashaud Kelash, Chris Eisin, Rob Foss, SCF, 9:05.20; Ben Ackerley, Tim Lund, Ian Lexen, Josiah Lund, Frederic, 9:19.50.

High jump – 1. Jace Marek, SCF, 5-10.00; Adam Chenal, Frederic, 5-10.00; 4. Bradley Peterson, Frederic, 5-04.00; 4. Ian Lexen, Frederic, 5-04.00.

Pole vault – 1. AJ Walsh-Brenizer, Luck, 1301.00; 2. Ben Jensen, Webster, 11-06.00; Cody Dreier, Webster, 9-06.00; 5. Cody Isaacson, Webster, 9-00.00. 5. Alex Jorgensen, SCF, 9-00.00.

Long jump – 4. Jacob Laduke, Luck, 17-07.25; 5.

Adam Chenal, Frederic, 17-06.00.

Triple jump – 2. Tony Peterson, Frederic, 3706.50; 3. Cody Zelinski, SCF, 37-03.25; 5. Kyle James, Luck, 36-00.50.

Shot put – 2. AJ Walsh-Brenizer, Luck, 40-06.75; 3. Colton Tretsven, Grantsburg, 40-06.00; 4. John Chelmo, Frederic, 38-11.50; 5. Austin Foeller, SCF, 37-03.00.

Discus throw – 1. Colton Tretsven, Grantsburg, 122-00; 3. John Chelmo, Frederic, 118-03; 4. Kyle James, Luck, 114-09.

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Frederic USBC bowling banquet at Hacker’s Lanes

FREDERIC – The 2010-2011 bowling season has come to a close at Hacker’s Lanes with the Frederic USBC Bowling Association holding its annual spring banquet Thursday, May 5. Bowlers were recognized for high games, series, averages and for winning the end of the year tournaments. Several leagues handed out trophies for their league winners as well.

Merit award certificates from USBC headquarters will be issued to the following bowlers for the highest games, series and averages for men and women members of the Frederic USBC. Don McKinney, high average (209) and Ed Bitler, high series (737). There is no men merit award for high game this year. Dave Romanowski and Tom Coen rolled a 300 game this year and received a “300” ring instead of a merit award. For women, Kelsey Bazey had high average (186), high series (675) and high game (257). Youth high games

The 600 tournament winner was Dale Johnson with a handicap score of 700. – Photos submitted L E F T: T h u r s d a y Early league champions Mark Bohn, Don McKinney, Tim Pederson and Danny Carlson. RIGHT: Thursday Late and Tournament of Champions winners Gene Wynn Sr., Heather Wynn, Oliver Baillargeon, Gene Wynn Jr., Judy Baingridge and Tom Bainbridge.

LEADER SPORTS SCOREBOARD BASEBALL

West Lakeland Standings Conf. Overall Team Grantsburg Pirates 7-0 11-0 6-1 7-5 Unity Eagles St. Croix Falls Saints 3-3 5-4 4-5 4-7 Luck Cardinals Siren/Webster 1-6 1-9 Frederic Vikings 1-7 2-8 Scores Thursday, May 5 Luck 10, Frederic 4 Friday, May 6 Grantsburg 13, Pine City, Minn., 1 Unity 13, Siren/Webster 2 Monday, May 9 Unity 4, Luck 3 Grantsburg 15, Siren/Webster 1 Tuesday, May 10 Rice Lake 5, Unity 1 St. Croix Falls 13, Frederic 0 Upcoming - (Subject to change) Thursday, May 12 3:30 p.m. Grantsburg at Frederic 5 p.m.

St. Croix Falls at Luck Siren/Webster at Unity Friday, May 13 4:30 p.m. Grantsburg at Pine City, Minn.

5 p.m.

Shell Lake at Luck Siren/Webster at Unity Saturday, May 14 9:30 a.m. Frederic at Shell Lake Tournament 10 a.m.

Grantsburg Tournament St. Croix Falls at Prescott Turtle Lake/Clayton at Unity Monday, May 16 5 p.m.

Siren/Webster at Clear Lake Turtle Lake/Clayton at Luck Northwood at Unity Tuesday, May 17 5 p.m.

Braham, Minn., at Grantsburg Prairie Farm at Luck Thursday, May 19 5 p.m.

Grantsburg at Bruce Frederic at Clear Lake St. Croix Falls at Unity

GOLF

Upcoming - (Subject to change) Thursday, May 12 9 a.m.

Frederic at Rice Lake Luck at Rice Lake Monday, May 16 4 p.m.

Meet at Frederic (Grantsburg, Luck, St. Croix Falls, Siren, Unity, Webster) Tuesday, May 17 4 p.m.

Meet at Luck (Frederic, Grantsburg, St. Croix Falls, Siren, Unity, Webster) Thursday, May 18 9:30 a.m. Conference Tournament at Rice Lake (Luck, Frederic, St. Croix Falls, Siren, Unity, Webster, Grantsburg)

Check www.lakelandconference.org for schedule updates

SOFTBALL

West Lakeland Standings Conf. Overall Team Grantsburg Pirates 6-0 9-0 4-1 4-1 Unity Eagles Frederic Vikings 4-3 5-3 2-4 2-4 St. Croix Falls Saints Luck Cardinals 2-5 2-8 Webster/Siren 0-5 0-6 Scores Thursday, May 5 Frederic 8, Luck 2 Saturday, May 7 Hinckley-Finlayson, Minn., 17, Webster/Siren 1 Ogilvie, Minn., 10, Webster/Siren 1 Moose Lake, Minn., 7, Webster/Siren 0 Monday, May 9 Grantsburg 14, Barron 0 Tuesday, May 10 Luck 6, Unity 5 Grantsburg 21, Webster/Siren 0 St. Croix Falls 6, Frederic 5 Upcoming - (Subject to change) Thursday, May 12 3:30 p.m. Grantsburg at Frederic 5 p.m.

St. Croix Falls at Luck Unity at Siren Saturday, May 14 9 a.m.

Luck Tournament 10 a.m.

Grantsburg Tournament 10:30 a.m. Frederic at Shell Lake Tournament Monday, May 16 5 p.m.

Northwood at Frederic Webster/Siren at Unity Tuesday, May 17 1 p.m.

Unity at Grantsburg 4:30 p.m. Grantsburg at Amery 5 p.m.

Bruce at Luck Frederic at Osceola Cameron at St. Croix Falls Webster/Siren at Shell Lake Turtle Lake at Unity Thursday, May 19 5 p.m.

Frederic at Clear Lake Unity at Somerset

Association Tournament Doubles Champions Daryl Bazey and Dale Frandsen, handicap score 1,447.

were Logan Hacker (276) and Corissa Schmidt (222), high series Logan Hacker (684) and Corissa Schmidt (568), and high average Logan Hacker (194) and Corissa Schmidt (163). National awards of 11 strikes in a row this year were given to Gene Wynn Jr. (299 game) and Ed Bitler (278 game).

On the tournament side, Frederic USBC annual championship winners were Team Events: Pioneer Bar (Wally Nelson, Gary Edling, Dave Romanowski, Buck Hanson

Don McKinney, Kelsey Bazey and Ed Bitler. and Chris Rowell), G.L.O (Dave Grindell, Simon Nelson and Blake Douglas) and Skowl (Ron and Heidi Skow and Terry and Deb Ingram), Daryl Bazey and Dale Frandsen (doubles), Anthony Wilson (singles) and Larry Stotz (all events). Women City Tournament winners were The Leader (team event), Kathy Underwood and Paula Maslow (doubles), Paula Maslow (singles) and Cindy Denn (all events).

Champions of the annual 600 series and women 500 series tournaments were Dale Johnson and Rachelle Peterson with Mark Bohn winning the 700 series tournament.

The champions of the annual team tournament of champions was Hansen Farms (Tom Bainbridge, Judy Bainbridge, Oliver Baillargeon, Heather Wynn, Gene Wynn Jr. and Gene Wynn Sr.).

Scholarship winners from the youth scholarship tournament were Chris Hopp (Frederic), A.J. Walsh-Brenizer (Luck), Josh Underwood (Frederic), Logan Hacker (Luck) and Corissa Schmidt (Frederic). There were two team sponsors scholarships given from the Frederic USBC Bowling Association and they were awarded to Walsh-Brenizer and Roger Steen, both from Luck. - submitted

AREA BOWLING RESULTS McKenzie Lanes

Saturday Night Mixed Standings: Pin Busters 80.5, Roller Coasters 77.5, Happy Campers 73.5, Eureka Bombers 73.5, Melonbergers 71, Fisk Trucking 57, Ten Pin Titans 57, The In-Laws 54.

Women’s games: Patti Katzmark

187, Jan Lehmann 174, Jean Judd 163.

Women’s series: Jan Lehmann 469, Brenda Lehmann 466, Justine Melin 457.

Men’s games: Gene Braund 256, Roger Fisk 226, Erv Lehmann 217.

Men’s series: Gene Braund 644,

Roger Fisk 636, Gary Warner 601.

Team games (Handicap): Melonbergers 899, The In-Laws 863, Roller Coasters 858.

Team series (Handicap): Melonbergers 2591, Eureka Bombers 2521, Pin Busters 2478.

Crex volleyball 18-1’s take third in Duluth, Minn.

TRACK & FIELD

Upcoming - (Subject to change) Thursday, May 12 4 p.m.

Meet at Grantsburg (Luck, St. Croix Falls, Siren, Unity) Friday, May 13 4 p.m.

Siren/Webster at St. Croix Falls Bruce at Luck Tuesday, May 17 3:15 p.m. Conference Meet at Unity (Frederic, Grantsburg, Luck, St. Croix Falls, Siren, Webster)

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Crex Meadow’s 18-1’s placed third in the Gold Division at the North Country Region Area Championship Tournament held in Duluth, Minn. Pictured front row (L to R): Corissa Schmidt, Sam Schwieger, Jen Schwieger and Lisa Rydeen. Second row: Becky Mclane, Trisha Hanson, Nicole Steinmetz, Paige Garriga, Alexis Boissy and Cory Boissy. – Photo by Kelly Schmidt

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Boone and Crockett bucks found two days apart Polk and Barron County trophies among best ever

by Marty Seeger Leader staff writer POLK/BARRON COUNTY – The deer season is long over, but for many bow and gun hunters, chasing the white-tailed deer is a year-round pursuit. Whether it’s shed hunting in the spring or planting food plots, refreshing mineral sites and checking trail cameras throughout the summer months, deer hunting has become a 365day a year job for some, and Dr. Joe Marek of Frederic is no exception. Marek has taken several nice bucks over the years, including a 179-inch nontypical he shot in 2003 on public land.

On a recent shed hunt near Frederic, Marek stumbled on a huge buck that he’d seen only once while shining the previous fall. He and his son had gained permission to hunt an area where they believed the deer had been living, but they hadn’t seen

This buck is the new No. 1 typical in Polk County. Duane Arvold shot the buck during the 2010 rifle season. – Photo by Marty Seeger

A trail cam photo of the buck found by Michael Furseth was given to him by a neighboring landowner.

Joe Marek of Frederic, (right) and Michael Furseth show off a pair of bucks they found just two days apart in April. The buck on the left was found near the Cumberland Golf Course in Barron County, and the one on the right was found by Marek while shed hunting near Frederic. – Photos submitted the buck while bow hunting and were cu- which scored 184-1/8 inches is the No. 1 rious if the buck had survived the winter. buck found in Polk County. Had someone Marek isn’t exactly sure how the buck taken the buck by bow, it would have died and can only speculate, but thinks ranked No. 1 in Polk County and by rifle, someone out there may be able to shed the buck would have ranked in the top some light on the animal, which was aged three behind a buck harvested by Peter at 5-1/2 years old.

Kelly, which scored 174-3/8, and the new “I haven’t got a hold of anybody, but I No. 1 Polk County typical, which was harwas just hoping someone would have trail vested in 2010 by Duane Arvold, and cameras of him or something.” scored 176-1/8.

After obtaining a permit to keep the deer Just a short time after Marek found his from the DNR, and the landowner, the buck he also found a matching shed from buck was scored by Craig Cousins, an offi- the same buck that had been dropped a cial measurer for the Boone and Crockett couple of years earlier. It was just 30 yards Club. According to records on the Wiscon- from where he found the dead buck, and sin Buck and Bear Club Web site, Marek’s Marek said the landowner had also found buck is the second largest ever to have been one of the shed antlers from the same buck found and recorded in Polk County. the previous year.

Marek’s buck grossed 186-3/8 inches, and In an interesting twist to Marek’s find on netted a typical score of 174-1/8 inches. A April 19, a turkey hunter in Barron County buck found in 1950 by Duane Erickson, found a similarly huge buck near the Cum-

berland Golf Club, just two days earlier on April 17. Michael Furseth obtained a permit from the DNR to keep his buck as well, which grossed a whopping 224 inches with a net score of 219-4/8 inches as a nontypical. Neither Marek, nor Furseth knew each other prior to finding the deer, but were connected through Cousins, who scored both bucks at the same time at Marek’s home.

“The odds of two people finding two bucks of this caliber in this area of the state only a couple of days apart is quite remote,” noted Marek. “It was incredible having over 410 inches of antler on the same table the evening they were measured.”

Furseth’s buck is the second largest typical ever to be found or harvested in Barron County but, unfortunately, how the two bucks met their fate will likely remain a mystery.

“Usually when bucks die with the antlers still attached to the skull, they were hit by a car, hit by a hunter and not recovered, or died of some other natural cause.

The cause in either case was unable to be determined,” Marek said.

Feds announce renewed proposal to remove wolves from endangered list

MADISON – Citizens will have an opportunity to testify on the federal government’s most recent proposal to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list in the western Great Lakes including Wisconsin.

The U.S. Department of Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on May 4, the publication of a new proposed rule for delisting wolves. The Fish and

Wildlife Service will hold a 60-day public comment period on the new from May 5 and goes through July 5.

A public hearing will also be held on the proposed delisting rule on May 18, at the Great Lakes Visitor Center in Ashland. An informational meeting will be held from 6 to 7:15 p.m. and a public hearing will be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Wolves continue to be protected as a fed-

Free fly-fishing workshop at Osceola Landing

OSCEOLA – The National Park Service at the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway will host a free fly-fishing workshop at Osceola Landing on Saturday, May 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced angler, this is a unique opportunity to learn about basic and advanced casting techniques, as well as watershed ecology and conservation. Participants will become familiar with equipment used in freshwater fly-fishing and will observe demonstrations of tying imitations of native aquatic insects, including nymphs, dry flies and streamers. Park rangers and volunteers from the Federation of Fly Fishers will also provide information on how stream conservation, watershed health and a fly-fishing ethic can affect the water quality of the St. Croix River.

Equipment will be available for use by workshop participants. This is a free pro-

gram and no registration is required. Participants are encouraged to bring lunches and snacks. The workshop is designed for ages 13 and older. It will be canceled if there is severe weather.

Osceola Landing is located on the Minnesota side of the St. Croix River, off of Hwy. 243, a quarter mile west of Osceola.

For additional information on the workshop, contact Dale Cox at 715-4832272.

The St. Croix National Scenic Riverway was established by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in 1968. It is one of a group of eight rivers in the country which first received this recognition. For 255 miles, the St. Croix River and its tributary, the Namekagon, flow through some of the most scenic and least developed country in the Upper Midwest.

For additional information on the riverway visit www.nps.gov/sacn or call 715-483-2274. – submitted

erally endangered species until the rule process is played out and that is expected to be sometime in fall or early winter 2011.

Once removed from the federal endangered species list, also referred to as delisting, wolves will be managed as a state protected wild animal in Wisconsin, which means they may not be killed unless specially authorized by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

“We thank Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar for responding to our petition for delisting and for recognizing that the state of Wisconsin is ready to assume management of gray wolf populations in the state,” said DNR secretary Cathy Stepp.

“We strongly believe it is time to return

management authority to the Great Lakes states and tribes. Gray wolves have made a terrific recovery within our region, and now need to join the list of species successfully managed by the state. The Wisconsin DNR and our tribal partners are committed to use sound science for managing the state’s wolf population.”

More information on the proposed wolf delisting rule and submitting comments on the rule is available on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wolf recovery Web site, www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf. More information about wolves in Wisconsin can be found on the DNR Web site www.dnr.state.wi.us/. – from the DNR

Grand slam, family style

Logan Yira, 10, harvested his first Wisconsin turkey on April 10 during the youth hunt. It weighed 24 pounds and was shot north of St. Croix Falls. His grandpa, Robert Yira, was successful on May 4 with an 18-pound tom, and Logan’s dad, Mike Yira, who was with him during his mentored hunt, was able to harvest a 24-pound tom on May 6, to complete the family grand slam turkey hunt. – Photo submitted

Notices/Employment Opportunities

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PUBLIC NOTICE WELL DRILLING AT DERONDA AND NYE REST AREAS POLK COUNTY PARKS, FORESTRY, BUILDINGS AND SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT Polk County will be performing the following work: well drilling at rest areas along the Stower Seven Lakes State Trail - Deronda and Nye sites. For information, contact Dean Reed, Polk County Parks, Forestry, Buildings and Solid Waste Department at 715-554-1211.

Polk County will receive quotes for this work at the Polk County Parks, Forestry, Buildings and Solid Waste office located at 100 Polk County Plaza Suite 10, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin 54810, until 3 p.m. on Monday, May 16, 2011. Quotes will be reviewed and contracts will be awarded to the vendors whose quotes are most responsive to the solicitation and are most advantageous to Polk County, considering price, quality and other factors.

Owner reserves the right to reject any and all quotes.

Debbie Peterson, Director 535988 38L May 9, 2011

ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING INSTRUCTOR WITC ASHLAND CAMPUS ADJUNCT FACULTY Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College is seeking a learning-focused, creative and dynamic individual for part-time Associate Degree Nursing Instructor position at the WITC Ashland Campus. The ideal candidates will demonstrate interest in and potential for excellence in facilitating student learning and development.

Qualifications include: Master’s degree with a major in nursing or significant progress toward Master’s degree, two years’ occupational nursing experience and direct care experience as a practicing nurse within the past five years.

Deadline to apply: May 27, 2011

WISCONSIN INDIANHEAD TECHNICAL COLLEGE

For a complete list of qualifications and to apply visit our Web site at www.witc.edu/employ.

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WITC is an equal opportunity/access/employer and educator.

MEDICAL ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR/ PROGRAM DIRECTOR WITC SUPERIOR CAMPUS

Applications from applicants are currently being accepted from qualified candidates for the position of Medical Assistant Instructor/Program Director at the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College Superior Campus. Responsibilities include serving as an advisor, role model and mentor to students; developing curriculum and instructional materials; and participating on college teams and committees.

Qualifications include: Minimum of an associate’s degree from an accredited educational institution. Bachelor’s degree preferred*, evidence of instruction in educational theory and techniques, Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) or Registered Medical Assistant (RMA), minimum of 3 years’ experience in health care, at least 40 hours of experience in an ambulatory health-care setting, previous teaching experience preferred. *Occupational experience combined with education and training preparing a person for the occupation totaling 7 years or 14,000 hours shall be equivalent to a bachelor’s degree. Each academic credit or equivalent credit shall be equal to 110 hours of occupational experience.

Deadline to apply: June 1, 2011

WISCONSIN INDIANHEAD TECHNICAL COLLEGE

For a complete list of qualifications and to apply visit our Web site at www.witc.edu/employ.

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(April 27, May 4, 11) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC Assignee of MBNA Bank of P.O. Box 12914 NORFOLK, VA 23541 Plaintiff, vs.

LOIS E. JOHANSEN 2449 150th St. Luck, WI 54853-3911 Defendant(s).

Case No. 11CV115 AMENDED SUMMONS Money Judgment: 30301 Our File: 748470 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, to each person named above as Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you. The complaint, which is also served upon you, states the nature and basis of the legal action.

Within 40 days after 04/27/ 2011 you must respond with a written answer, as that term is used in chapter 802 of the Wisconsin Statutes, to the complaint. The court may reject or disregard an answer that does not follow the requirements of the statutes. The answer must be sent or delivered to the court whose address is 1005 W. MAIN STREET, SUITE 300, BALSAM LAKE, WI 54810-4410 and to RAUSCH, STURM, ISRAEL, ENERSON & HORNICK, LLC, Plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is shown below. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not provide a proper answer to the complaint or provide a written demand for said complaint within the 40-day period, 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 alien against any real estate you own now or in the future and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

Dated: April 6, 2011. /s/ Ryan M. Peterson RAUSCH, STURM, ISRAEL, ENERSON & HORNIK LLC ATTORNEYS IN THE PRACTICE OF DEBT COLLECTION 250 N. Sunnyslope Rd., Suite 300 Brookfield, WI 53005 Toll-free: 877-667-8010 Attorney for the Plaintiff

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Patsy Gustafson Town Clerk

(April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY Community Bank of Cameron d/b/a Community Bank of Cameron-Grantsburg Plaintiff, vs.

Craig A. Jones and Kevin L. Jones, Defendants.

Case No. 10-CV-202 Code Nos. 30301 and 30404 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on June 1, 2010, in favor of Plaintiff, Community Bank of Cameron, in the amount of $102,234.66, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: June 14, 2011, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: Pursuant to said judgment, 10% of the successful bid must be paid to the sheriff at the sale in cash, cashier’s check or certified funds, payable to the clerk of courts (personal checks cannot and will not be accepted). The balance of the successful bid must be paid to the clerk of court in cash, cashier’s check or certified funds no later than ten days after the court’s confirmation of the sale or else the 10% down payment is forfeited to the plaintiff. The property is sold “as is” and subject to all real estate taxes, specials assessments, liens and encumbrances PLACE: At the front entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

DESCRIPTION: A parcel of Land in the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (NW1/4 NW1/4) of Section 31, Township 36 North, Range 18 West, Town of Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin, described as follows: Commencing at a point that is 545 feet South of the Northwest Corner of Section 31, Township 36 North, Range 18 West, Thence running due East 178 Feet; Thence due South 131 Feet; Thence West 178 Feet; Thence due North 131 Feet to the Place of Beginning.

Together with a 1/3 interest in the Well Agreement Recorded as Document No. 503224, Volume 596 of Records, Page 153, Polk County Register of Deeds.

TAX KEY NO.: 030-00761-0000 PROPERTY ADDRESS: For informational purposes, it is believed that the property in question is located at 2488 240th Street, Cushing, Wis. Dated this 5th day of April, 2011. /s/ Peter Johnson Polk County Sheriff Benson Law Office LLC Attorneys for Community Bank of Cameron P.O. Box 370 Siren, WI 54872 715-349-5215

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Sat., May 21, 2011, 10 a.m.

Agenda: Board to meet at town hall; proceed to drive the roads, return to town hall to evaluate the roads, adjourn the road review.

Susan E. Hughes, Clerk

Hertel Lakeview Cemetery Association

ANNUAL MEETING Sat., May 14, 2011, at 7 p.m. at Lakeview United Methodist Church 535402 27a,b 38rL

(May 11) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY NOTICE IN REPLEVIN Case Code 31003 Case No. 11-SC-256 To: Mylan & Christine Simonson You are hereby notified that a summons and complaint has been issued to recover possession of the following described goods and chattels, to wit: 2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser, ID #3C3HY75S36T225950 of which I, the plaintiff am entitled to the possession, and which you have unjustly taken and unlawfully detain from me.

NOW THEREFORE, unless you shall appear in the Circuit Court of Polk County, located in the Polk County Courthouse in the City of Balsam Lake, State of Wisconsin, on May 31, 2011, at 1:30 p.m., before the calendar judge or any other judge of said court to whom the said action may be assigned for trial, judgment will be rendered against you for the delivery of said property to the plaintiff and for damages for the detention thereof and for costs.

Dated at Milwaukee, WI, this 4th day of May, 2011.

Americredit Financial Services, Inc. Plaintiff By: Jerome C. Johnson, Attorney State Bar #1016307 839 N. Jefferson St., #200 Milwaukee, WI 53202 Tel. 414-271-5400 P.O. No.: 1535.11

Lakeside Community Lutheran Church

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Cty. Road A & H Webster Music selection, weekly rehearsals and Sunday worship.

Call 715-635-8327

(May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. AS SERVICER FOR THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS CWMBS, 2004-12 Plaintiff vs.

INPONG LUANGRATH, et al.

Defendant(s) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case Number: 10 CV 237 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on May 7, 2010, in the amount of $256,916.08, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: June 22, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

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

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

PLACE: Polk County Justice Center at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: Lot One (1) of Certified Survey Mall No. 1753 recorded in Volume 8 of Certified Survey Maps on Page 101 as Document No. 523410, being a part of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest (SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4) of Section Twenty-Two (22), Township Thirty-Two (32) North of Range Nineteen (19) West, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 272 270th St., Osceola, WI 54020.

TAX KEY NO.: 022-00533-0100 Dated this 13th day of April, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson Sheriff of Polk County Chaz M. Rodriguez State Bar #1063071 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 269072

FULL-TIME ASSISTANT MANAGER

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Marty Shutt, Administrator

No burning is allowed from midnight until 6 p.m. from April 1 through June 1, 2011.

BURNING RESTRICTION

TOWN OF WEST SWEDEN

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All persons interested are invited to attend said hearing and be heard. Information on the proposal is available at the Village Office at 24049 First Avenue.

Notice is hereby given that the regular monthly Town Board meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 17, at 6:30 p.m. at the Town Hall.

Agenda: 1. Call meeting to order 2. Clerk and Treas. Reports 3. Any corrections on the printed agenda in the newspaper.

4. Public input 5. Old business A. Possible TRIP project B. Discussion on Young property tax issue from 2009 6. Employee report 7. Correspondence 8. New business - A. Young survey map town checklist 9. Review bills/vouchers 10. Set next meeting date 11. Move to adjourn Andrea Lundquist, Clerk

NOTICE

TOWN OF LORAIN ANNUAL ROAD REVIEW

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23926 Fourth Avenue; PID 07-181-2-38-16-17-2 01-000042000 (the former Capeside Cove Building), to use the property as a multifamily dwelling in an R-2 zoned area. The request is filed by property owners Caring Bridge ALC and will also include a request that the Conditional Use Permit remain valid for two years from date of approval without construction beginning, due to the WHEDA grant cycle.

TOWN OF LAKETOWN

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Public notice is hereby given to all persons in the Village of Siren, Wisconsin, that a public hearing will be held by the Plan Commission on Thursday May 26, 2011, at 1 p.m., at Village Hall, 24049 First Avenue, Village of Siren, Wisconsin, on an application for a Conditional Use Permit:

NOTICE OF MEETING

Mickie J. Miller, city of Amery, and Jeffrey A. Hallquist, city of Amery, issued May 4, 2011.

Janan F. Awad, city of White Bear Lake, Minn., and Nicholas M. John E. MacDonald, 82, St. Putz, Town of Somerset, issued May 5, 2011.

Croix Falls, died April 8, 2011.

Arthur J. Cardinal, 84, Amery, died April 17, 2011.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT VILLAGE OF SIREN

Polk County marriage licenses

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Bert F. Barnes, Town of Meenon, and Bobbi Jo Reese, Town of Meenon, issued April 19, 2011.

Ryan M. Decorah, Town of Sand Lake, and Danielle S. Asper, Town of Meenon, issued April 25, 2011.

George Perry, Town of Blaine, and Sharon McDonald, Town of Blaine, issued April 27, 2011.

Matthew Teigen, Kalispell, Mont., and Jessica Chute, Kalispell, Mont., issued April 27, 2011.

Jeremy Breiwick, Maple Grove, Minn., and Sara Bakke, Town of Meenon, issued May 2, 2011.

Kevin J. Clark, Town of Lincoln, and Melinda J. Lake, Town of Lincoln, issued May 9, 2011.

Polk County deaths

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Burnett County marriage licenses

CHOIR DIRECTOR

The ReStore in St. Croix Falls is seeking a fulltime Assistant Manager to start as soon as possible. This position requires a self-starter, knowledge of construction, organizational skills, business management, ability to work with volunteers and ability to lift up to 100 pounds.

Customer service experience is important with excellent people skills. Reliable transportation is required. A commercial driver’s license a plus.

The ReStore is a retail and recycling program to support the mission of Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity serving Polk and Burnett Counties.

Application only accepted by mail at Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity, P.O. Box 736, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024, Attn: ReStore position or e-mail to eric@wildrivershabitat.org (put ReStore position in subject line). Accepting applications until Friday, May 20, 2011. No phone calls or drop535768 27-28a, d 38-39L ins, please.

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343 McKinny St. St. Croix Falls, Wis.

SIREN LAKEVIEW CEMETERY

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(April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY KAREN E. MINUTELLO, as Assignee of M & I Marshall & Ilsley Bank, Successor by merger with Century Bank, Plaintiff, vs.

DAVID J. DEHAVEN and JANE DOE, alias, his wife, if any, and ARDEN P. WILLIAMS and John Doe, alias, her husband, if any, Defendants.

Case No. 04 CV 75 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action, I will sell the described premises at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wis., on Thursday, June 9, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m.

TERMS OF SALE: 1. 10% down in cash or certified funds at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in 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: East Half of the Southwest Quarter (E1/2 SW1/4), Section 22-32-17, Town of Alden, Polk County, Except 1 square acre in NW corner of NE SW, Section 22; the North line thereof is the south line of CTH C and West line thereof is the West line of said NE1/4 SW1/4, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN: 002-00574-0000, 00200578-0000, 002-00579-0000 The real estate shall be sold in parcels, as follows: Parcel 1: Northeast one-quarter of Southwest one-quarter (NE1/4 of SW1/4) Section 22-32-17, Town of Alden, Polk County, Except 1 square acres in NW corner of NE SW, Section 22; the North line thereof is the Southline of CTH C and West line thereof is the West line of said NE1/4 SW1/4, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN: 002-00574-0000 Parcel 2: Southeast one-quarter of Southwest one-quarter (SE1/4 of SW1/4) Section 22-32-17, Town of Alden, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN: 002-00578-0000 & 00200579-0000 Parcel 3: All real estate shall be sold as a single parcel.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wis., this 12th day of April, 2011. /s/Peter M. Johnson, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson No. 1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

Annual Meeting Wed., May 18, 4:30 p.m. at Siren Senior Center

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(April 6, 13, 20, 27, May 4, 11) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BRANCH 2 ST. CROIX COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB Assignee of S & C BANK

Plaintiff vs.

DAVID H. RAILSBACK II ARLA J. RAILSBACK LAMPERT YARDS, INC. ANTCZAK CONSTRUCTION, INC. STATE OF WISCONSINDEPARTMENT OF REVENUE JOHN DOE #1 AND JOHN DOE #2 the unknown tenants of the premises located at W8389 Carlton Road Spooner, WI 54801, JOHN DOE #3 AND JOHN DOE #4 the unknown tenants of the premises located at N5126 Greenfield Road Spooner, WI 54801, Defendants Case No.: 10CV822 Case Code: 30404 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE By virtue of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above-entitled action on November 4, 2010, the undersigned Sheriff of Polk County, Wisconsin, will sell at public auction at the front entrance of the Polk County Justice Center in the City of Balsam Lake, in said county, on the 25th day of May, 2011, at 10 a.m., the real estate and mortgaged premises directed by the Judgment to be sold, therein described as follows: Lot 6, Plat of Big Island, except the NW 1/2 thereof, located in Government Lot 2, Section 2-34-17, Polk County, Wisconsin. Said property is also described as the SE 1/2 of Lot 6, of Government Lot 2 of Big Island, Balsam Lake, Section 2-34-17, Polk County, Wisconsin.

TERM 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 within ten days after confirmation of sale.

Dated this 1st day of April, 2011. /s/ Peter M. Johnson Polk County Sheriff Donald R. Marjala, Lawyer Spangler, Nodolf, Bruder & Klinkhammer, LLC P.O. Box 1165 Eau Claire, WI 54702-1165 (715) 830-9771 Attorneys for Plaintiff 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 obtained will be used for that purpose.

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Case Number: 10 CV 630 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on March 18, 2011, in the amount of $143,406.12, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: June 22, 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 4, Block 3, Baker’s Riverside Addition to the City of Amery, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 232 Central Avenue, Amery, WI 54001 TAX KEY NO.: 201-00138-0000 Dated this 11th day of April, 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. 268949

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No burning is allowed until after 6 p.m. on the east side of River Road, per the Town of Sterling fire ordinance. This ordinance is in effect from April 1 through June 1, 2011.

West of River Road a DNR burning permit is required.

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Apply In Person

(May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff vs.

DAVID L. BOOS, et al.

Defendant(s) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE

POLK COUNTY POSITIONS ANNOUNCEMENT RN - Part Time (.6) $24.82/hr.

Golden Age Manor 3rd Shift 10:30 p.m. to 6:45 am.

Deadline to apply: May 16, 2011 Dietary Aide - Part Time $11.31/hr.

2 shifts of 4:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. & 7 shifts of 4 to 8 p.m. per pay period. Must also be available for replacement days & fill-in p.m. cook.

Deadline to apply: May 16, 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, 715-268-7107. AA/EEOC

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2nd-Shift Caregiver

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Northwest Passage Residential Treatment Program of Webster and Spooner, Wisconsin, provides comprehensive therapeutic services for adolescent boys experiencing emotional and behavioral disturbance.

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Full-Time Security Overnight:

Must be responsible, dependable and previous experience a plus.

Responsible for providing supervision of residents in program between 11 p.m. - 7 a.m. (awake position), will also have cleaning responsibilities and other tasks.

Rotating schedule between weekdays and weekends.

Check our Web site (www.nwpltd.org) for more details of the program and job descriptions. We offer full benefits and competitive salaries.

Interested applicants, please apply by sending a resume to:

Northwest Passage

Deb Watson, Staff Development Coordinator 7818 Moline Rd., Webster, WI 54893 or Debw@nwpltd.org

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TOWN OF STERLING BURNING BAN NOTICE

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NOW HIRING

(May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY FINANCIAL FREEDOM ACQUISITION, LLC Plaintiff vs.

ESTATE OF ARLENE E. PETERSON, et al.

Defendant(s) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case No.: 10 CV 928 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on March 18, 2011, in the amount of $63,484.19, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: June 22, 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: The South 295.160973 feet of the West 295.160973 feet of the Southeast 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4, Section 16, Township 34 North, Range 18 West, Town of St. Croix Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2121 150th Avenue, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024.

TAX KEY NO.: 044-00393-0000.

Dated this 14th day of April, 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. 269135

REQUEST FOR BIDS ROOFING PROJECT SIREN SCHOOL DISTRICT The School District of Siren is now taking bids for the replacement of 14,679 sq. ft. of flat roof membrane.

This reroofing project must be completed by June 30, 2011.

To obtain further specifications and view job site, please contact the Director of Buildings & Grounds at 715-349-7392, ext. 403 to make an appointment.

All bids must be submitted no later than 4 p.m. on May 13, 2011, in a sealed envelope marked ROOF MEMBRANE REPLACEMENT. All mailed bids should be sent to Don Fleischhacker, Director of Buildings & Grounds, School District of Siren, 24022 4th Avenue, Siren, WI 54872.

The School District of Siren reserves the right to 534977 26-27a 37-38L accept or reject any and all bids.

VILLAGE OF SIREN - NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Public notice is hereby given to all persons in the Village of Siren, Wis., that a public hearing will be held on Thursday May 26, at 1 p.m., at the Village Hall, 24049 First Avenue, Village of Siren, Wisconsin, relative to an application for Variances to the Village of Siren Land Use Ordinance as follows: A variance of the Sign Ordinance (595-74) to allow square footage of the sign to be 96.5 square feet; up from the maximum of 60 square feet and to have the maximum height be 21 feet; up from the maximum of 20 feet.

A variance to the Sign Ordinance (595-74) to allow the surface area of the wall sign to equal 150 square feet; up from the maximum of no more than 100 square feet.

A variance to the Off-Street Parking Ordinance (595-56) to allow for 32 off-street parking stalls; down from the 48 parking stalls required.

The lot is located at 24217 St. Rd. 35/70. (PID: 07-181-238-16-08-2 03-000-023000). Application is made by Point of Beginning in reference to the proposed Dollar General Store.

All persons interested are invited to attend said hearing and be heard. Information on the proposal is available at the Village Office at 24049 First Avenue.

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NOTICE

Polk County will be suspending the Spring Road Restriction Postings as of Monday, May 16, 2011, at 12:01 a.m. Effective May 16, 2011, the following Polk County roads will no longer be restricted to six (6) tons for any single-axle weight: • County Trunk Highway W from County Trunk Highway E to 80th Street.

• County Trunk Highway GG from State Highway 48 to County Trunk Highway G. • County Trunk Highway D from County Trunk Highway JJ to State Highway 63.

This removal of restrictions does not include Town Roads. Townships will need to be contacted directly for the status of their weight restriction removal. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the highway office.

Please also note, it is unlawful to deposit anything in the road rights of way, including the planting of crops. Generally, the road right of way is 33 feet from the centerline. Contact the Polk County Highway office with concerns about specific rights of ways.

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NOTICE OF POSITION OPENING MIDDLE SCHOOL BASEBALL COACH

Qualifications Necessary: General knowledge of baseball required, interest in working with middle school students; morning practices and games. Some Saturday tournaments may be included as well as occasional field prep and maintenance.

Qualified, interested persons should submit a District application (available at www.unity.k12.wi.us), cover letter, resume, letters of recommendation and any other supporting documents to: BRANDON ROBINSON, DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR UNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT 1908 150th ST./HWY. 46 NORTH BALSAM LAKE, WI 54810 Deadline for application: Open until filled.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING - POLK COUNTY FLOODPLAIN ORDINANCE

PUBLIC NOTICE is given to all persons in the County of Polk that a public hearing will be held on June 1, 2011, at 8:45 a.m., at the Government Center in Balsam Lake, WI, to solicit comments on proposed floodplain zoning ordinance and map revisions for the unincorporated areas of Polk County that are required by state and federal law. These revisions govern development in mapped floodplain areas. The proposed ordinance/map revisions are on file in the Polk County Land Information Department.

The proposed regulations are intended to protect life, health and property in floodplain areas and will govern uses permitted in mapped floodplains.

Activities such as dredging, filling, excavating and construction of buildings are generally allowed, but may be restricted according to which flood zone the property is in. A copy of the proposed ordinance will be on file and open for public inspection in the Land Information Department for a period of two weeks prior to this public hearing. You may also visit the following Web site: http://www.co.polk.wi.us/landinfo/ordinances.asp All persons interested are invited to attend this hearing and be heard.

Written comments may be submitted to: Polk County Land Information Committee, Kim O’Connell, Chair; 100 Polk County Plaza, Suite 130; 536029 38-39L 28a,d Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

Notices/Employment GOPHER BOUNTY

Thursday, May 19, 2011, at 9 a.m.

Shoreview Apartments, Balsam Lake

Agenda: I. Call to Order. II. Minutes. III. Financial Reports.

IV. Operations Report. V. Unfinished Business: A. CDBG. VI. New Business. VII. Closed Session 19.85(1)(c). VIII. 535623 38L Adjourn.

Effective immediately, the Town of Meenon will no longer be accepting/paying Gopher Bounty.

Suzanna M. Eytcheson Meenon Town Clerk 536002 38L 28a

(May 11, 18, 25)

JOB VACANCY

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY

School District of Siren Part-time Summer Maintenance

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Kathleen Lois Trakel Glunz

The School District of Siren has opened a search for a Part-time Summer Maintenance position. This is a temporary position from June 9 thru August 26, 2011, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and will be paid at the rate of $10.00 per hour.

Qualifications: • Must have a high school diploma • Must be 18 years of age • Must be able to lift 50 lbs.

• Must be able to perform general maintenance and custodial duties • Must be able to move classroom furniture • Must be punctual & reliable • Must pass a criminal background check Interested applicants may apply by submitting an application to: Scott Johnson, District Administrator, School District of Siren, 24022 4th Avenue, Siren, WI 54872. Applications are available in the Siren School District Office or on the School Board page of our Web site: www.siren.k12.wi.us.

Application deadline: May 20, 2011, 4 p.m.

535965 38-39L Please do not e-mail applications.

Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for informal administration was filed.

2. The decedent, with date of birth Jan. 19, 1951, and date of death April 9, 2011, was domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of P.O. Box 38, Centuria, WI 54824.

3. All interested persons waived notice.

4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is August 15, 2011.

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

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar May 2, 2011 Sherrie Smith-Toland Personal Representative P.O. Box 385 Centuria, WI 54824 715-646-2552

535550 WNAXLP

(May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY CitiMortgage, Inc. Plaintiff vs.

KEVIN R. GUMM, et al Defendant(s) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case Number: 10 CV 990 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on March 21, 2011, in the amount of $228,348.24, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: June 23, 2011, at 10 a.m.

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

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

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

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

TAX KEY NO.: 004-00678-0600.

Dated this 28th day of April, 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. 269979

535240 WNAXLP

(Apr. 13, 20, 27, May 4, 11, 18) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff vs.

JOSEPH E. BARG, and DAN JASPERSON and SUSAN A. JASPERSON, Defendants.

Case No. 10 CV 692 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on November 22, 2010, in the amount of $110,488.13, 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, May 26, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m.

TERMS OF SALE: 1. 10% down in cash or certified funds at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in 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 One Hundred Four (104) of the Assessor’s Plat of the Village of Dresser, according to the Official Plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the Register of Deeds in Polk County, Wisconsin, being a part of the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NE 1/4 of NE1/4), of Section Eighteen (18), Township Thirtythree (33) North of Range Eighteen (18) West, Village of Dresser, Polk County, Wis. PIN: 116-00417-0000.

STREET ADDRESS: 138 State Street, Dresser, WI 54009.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wis., this 28th day of March, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson / #1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787 533982 WNAXLP

Case No. 11 PR 29

NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD OF REVIEW FOR THE TOWN OF EUREKA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Review for the Town of Eureka of Polk County, shall hold its first meeting on the 26th day of May, 2011, from 6 to 8 p.m., at Eureka Town Hall.

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

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

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

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

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

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or subject or object to a valuation if that valuation was made by the Assessor or the Objector using the income method; unless the person supplies the Assessor all of the information about income and expenses, as specified in the manual under Sec. 73.03(2a), that the Assessor requests.

The Town of Eureka has an ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expenses that is provided to the Assessor under this paragraph which provides exemptions for persons using information to the discharge of duties imposed by law or of the duties of their office or by order of a court. The information that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determined that it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying under Section 19.35(1) of Wis. Statutes.

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

Respectfully submitted, Town of Eureka Michelle Tonnar, Clerk 535355 37-38L 27-28a,d

NOTICE - VILLAGE OF SIREN RESIDENTS NOXIOUS WEED NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, to each and every person who owns, occupies or controls land in the Village of Siren, County of Burnett, State of Wisconsin, to destroy all noxious weeds: Canada Thistle, Leafy Spurge and Field Bindweed (Creeping Jenny). The term destroy means the complete killing of weed plants above the surface of the ground by the use of chemicals, cutting, tillage, cropping system, pasturing livestock or any or all of these in effective, combination, at a time and in a manner as will effectually prevent the weed plants from maturing to the bloom or flower stage as required by Wisconsin §66.0407.

Ann L. Peterson, Clerk/Treasurer 534994 37-38L WNAXLP

ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING INSTRUCTOR WITC RICE LAKE Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College is seeking a learning-focused, creative and dynamic individual for full-time Associate Degree Nursing Instructor position at the WITC Rice Lake Campus beginning fall semester. The ideal candidates will demonstrate interest in and potential for excellence in facilitating student learning and development.

Qualifications include: Master’s degree with a major in nursing or significant progress toward Master’s degree, two years’ occupational nursing experience and direct care experience as a practicing nurse within the past five years.

Deadline to apply: May 15, 2011

WISCONSIN INDIANHEAD TECHNICAL COLLEGE

For a complete list of qualifications and to apply visit our Web site at www.witc.edu/employ.

TTY 711 535758 38r,L

WITC is an equal opportunity/access/employer and educator.

(April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY CIVIL DIVISION BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP, F/K/A COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP Plaintiff, vs.

DAVID FOUKS; SHELLY FOUKS A/K/A SHELLY L. SWANSON; Defendants.

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case No. 10 CV 312 Case Code No. 30404 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on September 29, 2010, in the amount of $194,069.18, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: June 15, 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.

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax from the proceeds of the sale.

PLACE: Lobby of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: Lot 3 of Certified Survey Map No. 5460 filed July 23, 2007, in Vol. 24 C.S.M., Pg. 145, as Doc. No. 734549, being Lots 3 and 4 of Certified Survey Map No. 5336 filed December 28, 2006, in Vol. 24 of C.S.M., Pg. 21, as Doc. No. 726610, located in the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 24, Township 32 North, Range 19 West, Town of Farmington, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Together with and subject to a driveway agreement/easement recorded in Vol. 1007 of Rec., Pg. 649, as Doc. No. 735962.

TAX KEY NO.: 022-00576-0300 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2464 30th Avenue, Osceola, Wisconsin 54020.

Gunar J. Blumberg State Bar No. 1028987 Attorney for Plaintiff 230 W. Monroe, Ste. 1125 Chicago, IL 60606 Phone: 312-541-9710 Johnson, Blumberg & Associates, LLC, is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

(April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB, Successor to S & C Band, Plaintiff, vs.

DENNIS LARSEN a/k/a DENNIS R. LARSEN and AMY LARSEN a/k/a/ AMY K. LARSEN, husband and wife, ANCHORBANK, FSB, Defendants.

Case No. 10-CV-708 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 December 10, 2010, in the amount of $146,235.11, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: June 14, 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: Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 2404 Recorded in Volume 11 of Certified Survey Maps on Page 111, as Document No. 565148, located in the Southwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 9, Township 33 North, Range 17 West. Said land being in the Town of Garfield, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1599 105th Ave., Town of Garfield.

TAX KEY NO.: 024-00145-0000 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.

534650 WNAXLP

TOWN OF MEENON

(Apr. 13, 20, 27, May 4, 11, 18) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff vs.

DAN JASPERSON and SUSAN A. JASPERSON, and STATE of WISCONSIN, Defendants.

Case No. 10 CV 693 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on November 22, 2010, in the amount of $143,610.82, 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, May 26, 2011, at 10:00 o’clock a.m.

TERMS OF SALE: 1. 10% down in cash or certified funds at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in 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 4, Plat of Trollview Estates, Township of Osceola, Polk County, Wis. PIN: 042-01314-0400.

STREET ADDRESS: 982 South View Lane, Dresser, WI 54009.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wis., this 28th day of March, 2011.

Peter M. Johnson, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson / #1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787 533980 WNAXLP

534357 WNAXLP

POLK COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

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NOTICE OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW FOR THE VILLAGE OF SIREN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Review for the Village of Siren, Burnett County, shall hold its first meeting on the 31st day of May 2011, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Siren Village Hall.

Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedural requirements if appearing before the Board: No person shall be allowed to appear before the Board of Review, to testify to the Board by telephone or to contest the amount of any assessment of real or personal property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the assessor to view such property.

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

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or contest the amount of any assessment unless, at least 48 hours before the first meeting of the Board or at least 48 hours before the objection is heard if the objection is allowed under sub. (3) (a), that person provides to the clerk of the Board of Review notice as to whether the person will ask for removal under sub. (6m) and if so which member will be removed and the person’s reasonable estimate of the length of time that the hearing will take.

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

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or object to a valuation; if that valuation was made by the assessor or the objector using the income method; unless the person supplies to the assessor all of the information about income and expenses, as specified in the manual under §73.03(2a), that the assessor requests. The municipality or county shall provide by ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expenses that is provided to the assessor under this paragraph and shall provide exceptions for persons using the information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or of the duties of their office or by order of a court. The information that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determines that it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying under §19.35(1).

The Board shall hear upon oath, by telephone, all ill or disabled persons who present to the Board a letter from a physician, surgeon or osteopath that confirms their illness or disability.

Respectfully Submitted, Village of Siren 535544 38L WNAXLP Ann L. Peterson, Clerk

TOWN of ST. CROIX FALLS Polk County, Wisconsin www.townofstcroixfalls.org NOTICE OF OPEN BOOK

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Pursuant to Wis. Stats.

70.45, the assessment roll for the 2011 assessment year will be open for examination on Thursday, May 26, 2011, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the Town Hall. This session gives the property owner an opportunity to meet with the assessor, ask questions of the assessor and look over their property assessments.

NOTICE OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Review for the Town of St. Croix Falls of Polk County shall hold its first meeting on the 26th day of May, 2011, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Town Hall located at 1305 200th Street.

Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedural requirements if appearing before the Board: No person shall be allowed to appear before the Board of Review, to testify to the Board by telephone or to contest the amount of any assessment of real or personal property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the assessor to view such property. After the first meeting of the Board of Review and before the Board’s final adjournment, no person who is scheduled to appear before the Board of Review may contact, or provide information to a member of the Board about the person’s objection except at a session of the Board.

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

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

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

Respectfully submitted, 536028 38-39L WNAXLP Janet Krueger, Clerk, The Town of St. Croix Falls

Notices AMENDED REQUEST FOR BIDS – 2011 ROADWORK

Notice is hereby given that the Town of St. Croix Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin, is accepting bids for roadwork for the 2011 road maintenance season as follows: 1. Chip seal approximately 2 miles in various locations.

2. Wedge approximately 550 feet in two locations.

3. Thermal patch approximately 1,725 square feet in five locations.

4. Pulverize pavement and replace approximately 2.25 miles in four locations, work to include removal of any visible clay deposits.

5. Crack seal approximately 20 miles in various locations and Town Hall parking lot.

The bidder’s attention is called to the fact that Item #4 is subject to the prevailing wage rate determination which has been issued by the State of Wisconsin and that the prevailing wage rates and hours of labor set forth in this determination shall be applicable to this project.

For specific details of the above projects, contact Steve Jacobs, Public Works, at 715-338-6433 or Town Hall, at 715483-1851.

Bids to be considered must be sealed and received by the Town at 1305 200th Street prior to noon on Monday, May 23, 2011. Bids will be opened on Monday, May 23, 2011, at noon and awarded at Special Town Board meeting, date to be determined on May 18, 2011. The Town Board reserves the right to accept or reject any, any part of, and/or all bids and to waive irregularities and information therein and further reserves the right to award the contract in the best interest of the Town of St. Croix Falls.

Janet Krueger, Town Clerk 535865 38-39L WNAXLP www.townofstcroixfalls.org

NOTICE TOWN OF TRADE LAKE BOARD OF REVIEW Notice is hereby given that the Board of Review for the Town of Trade Lake will convene on Saturday, May 21, 2011, in the Town Hall, Trade Lake, Wisconsin, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedural requirements if appearing before the Board: No person shall be allowed to appear before the Board of Review, to testify to the Board by telephone or to contest the amount of any assessment of real property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the assessor to view such property.

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

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

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

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

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

Submitted by, Town of Trade Lake Deborah L. Christian, Clerk

NOTICE TOWN OF TRADE LAKE OPEN BOOK Pursuant to Sec. 70.45. WI Statutes, the Town of Trade Lake assessment roll for the year 2010 assessment will be open for examination on the 20th day of May, 2011, at the town hall, 11810 Town Hall Rd., Frederic, WI, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Instructional material about the assessment, on how to file an objection, and about board of review procedures under Wis. Law will be available at that time.

Notice is hereby given this 9th day of May, 2011.

Deborah L. Christian, Clerk 535728 27-28a 38-39L Town of Trade Lake

NOTICE OF FREDERIC SCHOOL BOARD REGULAR MEETING Frederic 7 - 12 School, Room 107 Monday, May 16, 2011, 6:30 p.m.

1. Call to order 2. Opening ceremonies A. Approve agenda B. Welcoming remarks C. Audience to visitors and delegations 3. Reports of officers A. Minutes from previous meetings B. Invoices and receipts C. 2010 - 11 Budget D. Board member reports/Governance 1. Reorganization 2. State Budget/Repair Update 4. Reports of the administration A. Superintendent B. High School Principal C. Elementary Principal D. Building and Grounds E. Food Service F. Athletics 5. New business A. Personnel B. Contracts C. 2011 - 12 Budget D. Annual meeting date E. Meal prices F. Board Policy 1. Fund 60 - Activity Account 2. Youth Options 3. GASB 34 4. Technology Policy G. Facility repair 6. Closed session: Wisconsin statutes 19.85 (1)(c)(f)(i): Negotiations, Community Education Negotiations, Staffing 7. Business as a result of closed session 536006 38L 8. Adjourn

CORRECTION NOTICE NOTICE OF OPEN BOOK - VILLAGE OF FREDERIC

Notice is given that the Open Book session for the Village of Frederic will be held Monday, June 6, 2011, from 4-6 p.m., at the Frederic Village Hall. This session gives the property owner an opportunity to meet with the assessor, ask questions of the assessor and look over the property assessments.

NOTICE OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW VILLAGE OF FREDERIC

Notice is given that the Board of Review for the Village of Frederic of Polk County, shall hold its first meeting on the 6th day of June, 2011, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Frederic Village Hall, 107 Hope Road W. Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedural requirements if appearing before the Board: No person shall be allowed to appear before the Board of Review, to testify to the Board by telephone or to contest the amount of any assessment of real or personal property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the assessor to view such property.

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

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

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

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or object to a valuation; if that valuation was made by the assessor or the objector using the income method; unless the person supplies to the assessor all of the information about income and expenses, as specified in the manual under Sec. 73.03(2a) Wis. Statutes, that the assessor requests. The Village of Frederic has an ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expenses that is provided to the assessor under this paragraph which provides exceptions for persons using the information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or of the duties of their office or by order of a court. The information that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determines that it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying under s.19.35(1) of Wis. Statutes.

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

Respectfully submitted 535921 38L WNAXLP Kristi Swanson, Clerk

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NOTICE OF OPEN BOOK

TOWN OF BALSAM LAKE, WI

POLK COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Open Book for the Town of Balsam Lake will be held on Monday, May 23, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Town Shop.

NOTICE OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW TOWN OF BALSAM LAKE, WI

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Review for the Town of Balsam Lake, Polk County, shall hold its first meeting on the 23rd day of May, 2011, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Town Shop.

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

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

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

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

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or subject or object to a valuation; if that valuation was made by the Assessor or the Objector using the income method; unless the person supplies the Assessor all of the information about income and expenses, as specified in the manual under Sec. 73.03(2a), that the Assessor requests.

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

Respectfully submitted, Town of Balsam Lake 536042 38-39L 29d Brian R. Masters, Clerk Notice: The monthly meeting for the Town of Balsam Lake will be held on Monday, May 23, 2011, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Town Shop. Agenda will be printed closer to the meeting.

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Polk County Government Center 100 Polk County Plaza Balsam Lake, WI County Boardroom Tuesday, May 17, 2011 6:30 p.m. Regular Business Meeting

Call to Order Evidence of Proper Notice Roll Call Prayer: Supervisor Sample Pledge of Allegiance Consideration of Corrections to the Noticed Agenda Consideration of Corrections to the Published Minutes of the April 19, 2011, County Board Meeting 8. Public comments - 3 minutes per person - not to exceed 30 minutes total 9. Presentations: Dianna Manning, Executive Director of Endeavors Adult Development Center - Update on the Center and New Opportunities Jay Tappen, Executive Director of West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission - Update on Activities with Polk County 10. Chairman’s Report 11. County Administrator’s Report 12. Finance Director’s Report 13. Committee/Board Reports • Highway - Supvr. Caspersen • Finance - Supvr. Bergstrom • Personnel - Supvr. Arcand • Property, Forestry & Recreation - Supvr. Jepsen • Extension, Land & Water, Lime - Supvr. D. Johansen • Public Protection - Supvr. Luke • Land Info - Supvr. O’Connell • Human Services Board - Supvr. Stoneking • Boards of Health & Aging - Supvr. Schmidt • GAM Board, Renewable Energy/Energy Independence Team - Supvr. Kienholz • Organizational Comm. - Supvr. Brown 14. Presentation and Discussion on Tentative County Supervisory District Plan 15. Resolutions/Ordinances A. To Propose Tentative Supervisory District Plan and to Call a Public Hearing B. To Amend 2011 Budget Authorization of Designation and Carry Over of Specified Funds from 2010 to 2011 C. To Approve 2010 Transfers Between Funds Authorization of Transfer of Specified Funds to General Fund at Year End D. To Create the Polk County COP/Family Support Advisory Committee E. To Create a Community Programs Board and Merge said Board with the Human Services Board 16. Confirmation of Administrator’s Appointment of: Timm Johnson to the Renewable Energy Committee Bob Blake to Golden Age Manor Board 17. Supervisors Reports 18. Adjourn This meeting is open to the public according to Wisconsin State Statute 19.83. Persons with disabilities wishing to attend and/or participate are asked to notify the County Clerk’s office (715-485-9226) at least 24 hours in advance of the scheduled meeting time so all reasonable accommoda535867 38L 28a,d tions can be made.

NOTICE OF THE OPEN BOOK FOR THE VILLAGE OF WEBSTER

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Open Book Session for the Village of Webster, Burnett County, Wisconsin, will be held on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, at the village office, 7505 Main Street West, Webster, Wisconsin, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. This Session gives the property owner an opportunity to meet with the assessor, ask questions of the assessor and look over their property assessments.

NOTICE OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW FOR THE VILLAGE OF WEBSTER

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Review for the Village of Webster, Burnett County, Wisconsin, will be held on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, at the village office, 7505 Main Street West, Webster, Wisconsin, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Respectfully submitted, Patrice Bjorklund Clerk/Treasurer 534995 37-38L WNAXLP

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Sod-bustin’ of yesteryear

LUCK - The Wisconsin Draft Horse and Mule Association held a demonstration featuring the sod-busting techniques of yesteryear at the Luck School field last Saturday morning, May 7.

The free event was in coordination with the Luck Future Farmers of America chapter.

Robert Hendricks of Osceola and Dennis O’Donnell of Frederic, along with Bruce Coen and Ron Nyren of Luck, Tom Sparish of Cumberland and Russ Coen of Alpha, were among the local demonstrators who brought their Belgian, Percheron and Morgan workhorses, along with mules, to be part of the event.

Other demonstrators came from Hammond, Baldwin, Spring Valley, Elmwood, Glenwood and New Richmond.

The demonstration included the plowing, discing and planting of potatoes.

Photos by Becky Amundson

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Board to approve proposed lines

by Gregg Westigard Leader staff writer BALSAM LAKE – The proposed Polk County Board redistricting plan will go to the county board at its Tuesday, May 17, meeting for a first review, the initial step in adopting new supervisor district lines for the April 2012 election.

The new plan was approved by the county’s organizational committee on May 3. The proposed plan redraws the 23 district lines to adjust the districts to the population changes recorded in the 2010 census.

After a tentative plan is approved by the county board next week, the county will hold a public hearing on the plan in June before the June board meeting. The plan is then sent to the municipalities in the county for review. After receiving comments from the local governments, the county board will adopt a new district plan, probably at its September meeting. Filing for the 2012 county board election starts in December and candidates will have until Jan. 3, 2012, to file for office.

Details on the proposed plan / option B The plan was drawn for county clerk Carole Wondra by Brad Runeberg, GIS coordinator in the Land Information Department. Runeberg created two options (A and B) for the organizational committee and committee Chair Herschel Brown presented an option C. Under the new plan, eight districts would have fairly major changes to their lines, 12 districts would have slight changes and three districts no changes.

The most changes are in the southwest and southern parts of the county where the greatest population changes occurred. But Frederic and West Sweden in the north of the county both lost population, and a change in lines for District 2 resulted in a series of changes for the neighboring districts.

Under the new lines, incumbents are placed in the same district in two places. Harry Johansen and Kathryn Kienholz both live in the new District 5.

Russ Arcand and Larry Voelker live in the new District 22. New Districts 6 and 15 will not have incumbents.

Population size The new Polk County population is 44,205. The ideal size for each of the 23 districts is 1,922 people.

The statute (59.10) says that districts must be “substantially equal in population.” That has been interpreted to allow a variance of up to 10 percent or 192 residents over or under the ideal. Under option B, three districts would be 8 or 9 percent over the ideal, and two districts would be 8 percent under.

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Divided municipalities The statute also states that whenever possible, municipalities shall not be divided. Wondra and committee members both said that option B was the cleanest plan and divided towns and villages the least. Six places in the county, the cities of Amery and St. Croix Falls, the village of Osceola, and the towns of Alden, Lincoln and Osceola, all have population over 1,922 and must be divided. Six other towns, Balsam Lake, Black Brook, Garfield, Luck, Milltown and St. Croix Falls, are also divided to help create equal populations. That leaves 24 towns and villages undivided.

Aebelskiver!

Duffy: “We need more domestic energy”

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Congressman Sean Duffy, 7th District, a member of the House Committee on Financial Services and the Joint Economic Committee, issued the following statement regarding the passage of H.R. 1230 – Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act. “President Obama’s energy policy seems to be ‘drill in Brazil’ and increase taxes on American energy companies.

Frankly, I’m disappointed that the president has not offered more leadership on an issue that affects just about every Wisconsinite, especially when gas prices in Wisconsin are over $4 a gallon.

“Inaction is not an option, but simply increasing the cost of American oil and gas exploration, as the president has proposed, won’t lower the price at the pump. In fact, it may cause prices to rise. And on top of that, it could actually increase our dependence on foreign oil.

“What we need is an ‘all-of-the-above’ energy plan that will increase domestic energy production, create jobs and put America on the path to energy independence. The bill the House passed today is a good start. House Republicans are going to continue to push for commonsense energy policies that include, not ignore, our nation’s energy resources.” - from the office of Congressman Duffy

LUCK - One of the great local food traditions of spring blossomed on Saturday, May 7, at West Denmark Lutheran Church outside Luck, where the traditional aebelskiver dinner fed over 350 people.

The event has been a rite of spring for over 40 years and includes traditional Danish aebelskiver, a tennis-ball sized type of pancake, along with Danish sausage, fruit soup and desserts. The dinner drew people from several states and included drawings for prizes, some of which were locally produced art, furniture and crafts.

Burnett County Sheriff Dean Roland (third from left) and crew enjoyed the traditional Danish dinner.

Photos by Greg Marsten

Sara Olson of Milltown took lessons on making the round pancakelike goodies - under closely watched supervision. She passed with flying colors.

Rich Benny and Randy Petersen sold tickets for basket raffles and door prizes.

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SCF Clayton’s Hardware goes modern - by going old school

by Greg Marsten Leader staff writer ST. CROIX FALLS – There is nothing quite like the creaking, staccato popcorn percussion that the tongue-and-groove hardwood floors emit as you swagger across the floor of Clayton's Hardware in downtown St. Croix Falls. Closing your eyes, the historic sound is pure Americana and hard to duplicate.

It is the delicious timbre of a lost era, when people used butter churns, nails were square, electricity was rare, lard was a sandwich spread and craftsmanship was the rule, not something unique.

It has sounded of another era for many years, but now it's beginning to look a lot like 1899 on the corner of Washington Street and Kentucky Street, as Clayton's revives a legacy of the city's past with a historic mural and art treatment that goes much deeper than the Valspar paint on the walls. That revival is also on the floors, ceiling and in the attitude of owner Mark Sabel, whose enthusiasm for the past is unbridled, sincere and infectious - like a smile on a Monday morning.

The Kentucky Street sidewall of the store now carries a 12-by-8-foot painting depicting a scene from inside the store in 1899, with the rest of the building to match, and a blazing "Since 1899" sign near the entry.

Artist Gloria Adrian of Cushing spent several months working on the commissioned painting, which is based on a vintage photo from inside the store over a century ago.

"I've thought about this for years," Sabel said, "but money issues always seemed to get in the way."

Sabel is dedicated to reviving that nostalgic feel of the historic downtown river city, and is walking the walk, restoring the original hardwood floors inside, installing copper ceiling in the dedicated paint room toward the river, and with the 19th century mural by Adrian, the project is nearly complete, and has been done using entirely local specialists, artists and craftsmen.

"That's been important from the very start, using local contractors," he said.

"They are the engines of the area."

Sabel has long been one of the most vocal advocates of the popular "buy local" campaign and the hardware store is a true anchor of the city's downtown. He is adamant in his belief that people want to spend money in their own areas, want to recycle that cash into local pockets, but that they often need a slight incentive, and that incentive might be as simple as nostalgia.

The vintage revival project has a huge boost with the Adrian mural, which stopped traffic - in a good way - last Wednesday morning, with Sam Adrian perched up above in his hydraulic boom trailer, hanging the heavy mural as Sabel and assistant Bill Perron lined it up and attached it at street level.

Car horns honk a Mercury minivan pulls over and the window goes down.

The passenger leans out and gives a big

Sam Adrian disconnects the mural from the hydraulic boom lift he used to lift it up into the air.

The installation crew finally got a chance to relax. Pictured (L to R are): Store owner Mark Sabel, artist Gloria Adrian, install assistant Bill Perron and artist/technician Sam Adrian. Photos by Greg Marsten

Taken prior to installation, this is a picture of the 12-by-8-foot mural

by Gloria Adrian. The man in the photo is the late Benjamin Clayton, who started the hardware store of his own name in downtown St. Croix Falls in 1899.

thumbs-up.

"Looks great!" She chortles as the van briefly slows as it passes on Washington.

Others stop and lend their opinions, which were all positive and sometimes came with an unsolicited opinion on everything from the weather to the state of retail today to a support of more of the same type of revival.

"Looking good!" stated Eric Barstow of Dresser, who used the mural hanging as a sort of social event, chatting with several others witnessing the delicate operation.

Gloria Adrian watched stoically from across Kentucky Street as the hanging progressed, making sure it looked just right, and outlining the long-term plans for the mural, which includes a series of smaller murals matching the large store interior piece. She quietly points to areas where a dormer window will be recreated, as will the former stairway that led up to the dormer.

"In the past, that was the only way to the upstairs," Sabel said later.

Adrian said she worked on the project in stages, beginning last fall with the extensive multilayered painting on the slanted street side wall, giving it that vintage "barn-wood feel." She continued the theme onto an adjacent utility pole - with the city's blessing - and along the whole wall, which was a vast expanse of formerly bland tan siding with a large Radio Shack sign and other Clayton's Hardware

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signage prior, but little else.

Adrian said the mural is solid, constructed by her and Sam at their Adriana Studios outside Cushing using three, heavy-duty, marine grade laminate 4-by-8 sheets of plywood made to withstand the elements and constant temperature fluctuations on the south wall.

"I started in a charcoal drawing," she said, adding that she slowly added layers of brown tones "for that old-time photo look."

The basic schematic uses yellow and blue exterior paint, highlighted with red oxide - similar to barn paint - which was an issue with the sun fade.

"You can't use [basic] red, it fades too fast," she said, noting that she used a glaze on top of it all, and will add another layer for UV light protection, as well as the sad reality of "graffiti protection."

Gloria was still figuring the hours they had into the mural creation, and said it was the largest project she has worked on, "so far."

She worked on the mural using a ladder and has had to assemble and disassemble it several times, for creation, transport and then hanging, and said it was admittedly a precarious piece, which Sam illustrates later, trying to get it level and squeezing it into the notched lumber frames he created to hold the monster down and look properly framed.

The boom trailer creaked in protest a few times as Sam made minute adjustments in height, keeping the bucket holding him from scraping the mural as they hung it. He was centimeters away a few times, and the relief was obvious when it was finally set in place.

"Got pretty close a few times," Sam admits, with Gloria nodding in agreement, showing a hint of smile as the project neared completion.

By last weekend, Sam had created a unique scalloped wooden "roof" for up above the mural, which will do triple duty, housing the lighting and protecting the mural from the mineral deposits from the rain falling from the roof, as well as from the inevitable icicles that will hang above.

They hope the mural lasts a long time, and the depth makes it seem sort of threedimensional, which is part of the desired effect.

"It kind of plays with your mind a bit," Sabel said with a smile. "But I think it's in a really good spot. You can see it from all over."

Sabel said the photo actually has a true connection to the store - which he said started out in the 1880s as a store room for the Thompson Brothers retail operations across the street.

"It's got a neat history," he said. "It really does."

The painting depicts a mustachioed, smartly dressed 19th century gentleman in a derby hat of the era, leaning on a counter of the store, beside a pair of new woodstoves, Round Oak parlor furnaces, hurricane lamp glass, wooden barrels and a variety of tools on the wall across from him.

Gloria took a trip to the Polk County Museum in Balsam Lake to get a better look at the tools, stoves and even some of the glassware of the era in the original photo, and she began the painting process in February.

Third essay on living self-reliantly

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But the realism is in the face of the merchant, who is actually original store owner Benjamin Clayton, Laurie Sabel's greatgrandfather - Mark's great-grandfather-inlaw.

"There's a real connection to us," Mark Sabel said with a nod, as he revives the Clayton names of the store's past, and works his way down the genealogical lineage from Benjamin to Howard to John, ultimately ending with his wife, Laurie.

"Like I said, it's got a neat history," he said.

Sabel is a realist, and he knows it's hard to compete with the so-called big box stores so common in the region now, but he also knows that their store has lots to offer, from service to convenience to variety, and with the help of Valspar Paints of Minneapolis, Clayton's has become a sort of "paint destination" store, offering a variety of paint flavors and accessories unmatched in the area.

They have also adjusted the interior dramatically, moving the former Radio Shack location from the upstairs to the main entry, and turning that 1,200-squarefoot upstairs into a unique experiment he's calling "Old Ben's Attic," which is part discontinued items and part ultramarked-down garage sale one-of goodies, from holiday decorations to seasonal and discontinued items.

"It's an attic sale all the time!" he joked.

"We never had space for stuff like that before."

Sabel used a Small Business Administration loan and locally administered Revolving Loan Fund cash to bring the revival to fruition, and he hopes other businesses follow suit, as he thinks the draw and the interest in the past and the historic river city's character is worth highlighting. He is hoping the city brings more artists like Adrian in, and hopes that other buildings with similar vast expanses of bland, windowless siding and stucco follow suit.

"We're trying to inspire people to come to downtown St. Croix Falls," he said. "So far, the reaction has been very positive."

He also revealed that the mural hanging forced a slight, temporary change along the sidewalk, and many folks have noticed something was missing, specifically the [popular vintage fiberglass lion near the corner.

"Don't worry, the lion's coming back!"

Sabel said with a laugh. "People have been asking about him. At least they're paying attention!"

As Sabel talks about the missing lion, a loud brown northbound Chevy pickup slows to a crawl as the driver adjusts his sun visor and peers out the window. His expression shows he is pleasantly stunned at the mural, to which he also offers a thumb-up, and then gets back on the gas as the big V-8 truck’s clattering exhaust echoes off the tin walls.

Sabel's right, people are paying attention.

Mark Sabel shows the original 110-plus-year-old photo the mural is based on. It shows the actual interior of the hardware store in the 1800s.

RIGHT: This painted stairway will also be a part of the mural, and shows how customers would actually reach the second story of the hardware store a century ago.

Living

Simply

Ed Emerson moved into a 20- by 24-squarefoot shack where I live without television, internet, cell phone, hot water or flush toilet – for I have come to realize that neither I, nor the world, can long afford my having them.

As I sat upon my back porch, with views outward toward Trade River, and with the earth finally warming and buds on the trees emerging, listening intently to birdsong and chirping, I began to contemplate our dilemna.

We live in a society where wanting things has become a virtue. The great capitalists have made wonderful profit by their ingenius ability to get us to purchase their products. And now, as markets dry up or become more intense, these companies expand markets overseas. But we know intrinsically that not everyone in China and India, Africa and South America, can own a television, refrigerator, and cell phone,

without, at some point in time, depleting the resources mined in our having them.

It is The Art of Simple Living to do without – to create a lifestyle so devoid of commitments and obligations, and so absent gadgets and distractions, that spending an afternoon on the backporch doing nothing, is far from a source of guilt, but rather an acceptable and prudent practice.

The more I consider the plight of the Modern, the more fixed becomes my opinion that instead of gaining, we have lost much in our dependency. For each new thing we acquire, another monthly expense accumulates. And it is our appetite for nonessential things that not only keeps us enslaved to a world of work, but will ultimately lead to our doom.

Simplicity of living offers deeper meaning and a way out from high-stress overconsumption – hence the term “dropping out.” It is not a new idea. Its roots extend deep into the great wisdom traditions.

The old Chinese Taoists have a saying known as WuWei. Translated, it means “nothing doing.” It is more

than a philosophy. It is a way of life. For it is how we fill our time when there is “nothing doing” that determines our existence. Instead of doing something, why not do nothing? For it is our want to always be doing something that drives us to alter our environment and consume limited resources.

Having to make choices on how best to utilize limited resources is the fine art of simple living. The shift from doing something to doing nothing is the hardest part. Learning to sit in stillness, without worry or want, and absent a desire to go somewhere, creates an inner resolve that is both enlightening and transformative.

Inaction requires self-contentment. Self-contentment requires minimizing our desire for things. The one who is self-reliant is absolutely comfortable sitting on the back porch doing nothing.

But living self-reliantly takes faith. Faith that you are living well and righteously, and that in this all will be provided for. Methinks this must be what is meant in Jesus’ instruction to sell all of our possessions and learn to live by watching the wildflowers grow in the field.

Festival's volunteer open house and annual meeting Tuesday

ST. CROIX FALLS - The annual meeting and open house for new and returning Festival Theatre volunteers will take place at the theater on Tuesday, May 17, with two meetingtime choices: 1 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.

A broad range of opportunities exists for adults of all ages, as well as teenagers, who are interested in supporting the efforts of the only professional theater in the Upper St. Croix River Valley.

“A volunteer task force has reviewed and updated all volunteer job descriptions,” says Danette Olsen, executive director of Festival Theatre. “Whether a supporter wishes to work behind the scenes with sets, props and costumes or out in the public sector providing public-relations support, ushering, or working in the café, we have many areas of service available for adults and teenagers. Volunteering at Festival Theatre is a great way to learn new skills, make use of your talents and broaden your social life. Plus, we need help from community members to grow and thrive as a nonprofit professional theater.”

The annual meeting is just one hour in length, beginning promptly at 1 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. Following a brief welcome by some of the patron services members, there will be a review of all areas of volunteerism, questions and comments.

Following the annual meeting, the open house includes an opportunity to register for specific duties, including usher sign-up.

To learn more about Festival Theatre, check out their Web site at www.festivaltheatre.org. Registration is not necessary for the annual meeting and open house, but it is appreciated. Call 715-483-3387 or 888-887-6002 for additional information or send an e-mail to boxoffice@festivaltheatre.org. - from Festival Theatre

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ble time finding a card that even remotely reflected the relationship I have with my mother.

Let me make clear, my mom and I have a very good relationCarrie Classon ship. We have a relationship free of drama and trauma and my mother has always been a wonderful role model. But the cards available all had paragraphs of rather gluey text that in no way resembled the way I would ever talk to my mother.

I wanted a card that said she has good habits.

Now, I know this sounds rather dull. My mother is not at all dull. She is a woman with lots of varied interests. She is an enthusiastic biker, hiker, camper and reader. She is a wonderful baker, a great entertainer, a funny and interesting conversationalist on virtually any topic, and a spiritual woman. To say that “good habits” is the thing I am most grateful for, sounds like damning with faint praise. But more and more, I realize how important these habits are.

My mother puts things in small containers.

Whether it is a box of precisely the right size to store leftovers for a future meal, a small satchel for a weekend’s worth of clothes, a tiny vase for a single flower, or a small tin for a few (small) homemade cookies, everything is contained in a small, practical container. I learned not to waste. I learned that quality was a lot more important than quantity. I learned small amounts of things are usually as good as large amounts— and often better.

I have not a single recollection of my mother saying any of these things, but I have more memories than I can count of instances where she stored what was needed on a very small scale.

My mother does things NOW. She does not talk about walks she is going to take

Shown back row (L to R) are some of Grantsburg’s participants at the Superior math meet: Coach Mark Johnson, Brent Myers, Daniel Larsen, Ben Davis and Gavin Meyer. Front row: Kyle Roberts, Daniel Biorn, Steven LaFond and Dylan Roberts. – Photo submitted

Just for

Laughs

Conspiracy theories

The American mind is fertile

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ground for conspiracy theories.

Start with a basic distrust of government and add in a couple of John W. Ingalls cloak-and-dagger organizations such as the CIA or KGB and you have the basic foundations for conspiracies. When high profile individuals become suddenly and mysteriously missing or reported dead you have the groundwork for a lifetime of accusations and ideas.

UFOs are common sources of erroneous reports and cause for distrust. Area 51 in Nevada has unfortunately been maligned over the years. Aliens don’t come from outer space; they have always been with us. I have watched my own children morph from loving children into alien life forms in front of my very eyes, beginning about the age of 14. Thankfully they usually morph back into human life-forms as they progress from 17 to 20. I have believed in UFOs for years, in fact I have an appointment with a UFO this weekend. It is an Unavoidable Family Obligation.

How many of you, when confronted with a family reunion at Cousin Kate’s, find your mind drifting off into space somewhere? See what I mean? We all are confronted with UFOs every year. In order to explain our absence at the family reunion we made up stories

Till next time, —Carrie

Grantsburg students second at Superior math meet

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Go to www.the-leader.net Ever wonder how blondes remember their online passwords?

During a recent password audit, it Joe Roberts was found that a blonde was using the following password: MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofy When asked why such a big password, she said, “It had to be at least eight characters long.”

••• A man placed some carnations on the grave of his departed mother and headed back to his car. His attention was diverted to a man kneeling at a grave headstone who was praying with profound intensity and repeating “Why did you have to die?” “Why did you have to die?” The first man approached and said, “Sir, I don’t wish to interfere with your moment of grief, but this demonstration of pain is more than I have ever seen before. Whom do you mourn so deeply? A child? A caring parent? A close sibling? The mourner took a moment to collect his thoughts, then replied, “My wife’s first husband.”

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later, she puts on her shoes. She does not talk about how the house needs cleaning, she cleans. She does not delay or procrastinate. She just starts to do whatever she thinks should be done and, usually before I am aware of it, she is doing the thing that I would likely still be contemplating.

I don’t remember any lectures about the evils of procrastination, I only remember her looking at the clock and saying, “I have 30 minutes before I start dinner, I’m going out for a ski!”

My mother has nice rituals.

Every day she reads a devotional in the morning, she writes in her diary, she exercises. Every day she has one glass of wine with cheese and crackers and keeps current on the news. She sets a table, even if there are only two people eating. She sends cards, even though she has a mobile phone and e-mail. She volunteers, keeps up with friends, calls her daughters (at least one of whom has been known to go off for long periods of time with very little communication) just to say “hello.”

My mother never said anything to me about creating ritual in life, but I learned from her how comforting it is to have things done repeatedly and with care.

I learned how valued people feel when an effort is made to treat every meal, every gathering, as if it is worthy of fresh flowers.

I never found the card I wanted. I never found that card that said, “Thanks for good habits and fresh flowers and keeping things in small containers.”

Maybe that’s OK. I’ll tell her next time I see her.

GRANTSBURG – Grantsburg High School continued its tradition of strong finishes at the University of Wisconsin-Superior Math Meet on Wednesday, April 20, by returning home with a second-place team trophy in the small school division. In addition to the team event, the students competed in individual events in plane geometry, algebra II and analytic geometry, trigonometry and elementary functions, probability and statistics and calculus. Teams attending this year were Ashland, Rice Lake, Superior, Hayward, Cloquet, Osceola, Northwestern, Barnum, Ladysmith, Drummond and Grantsburg.

In the individual events, Gavin Meyer was a top finisher and was able to bring home a T-shirt in the probability and statistics event for his efforts. In another fun event called the Candy Bar Competition, Daniel Larsen about space aliens and conspiracy theories.

Presidents are common sources of conspiracy theories: Obama’s birth certificate; the sudden suicide of Clinton aides or business associates; Bush’s MD membership in “Skull and Bones”; the movie “Dave,” about presidential doubles in highly exposed areas; and did Washington really chop down the cherry tree?

Since Kennedy’s assassination more than 70 percent of Americans still believe that Oswald did not act alone but believe there were one or more accomplices.

Movie directors such as Oliver Stone remain popular because of the general willingness to disbelieve official reports about any high-profile event or person.

There are literally hundreds of conspiracy theories about secret organizations. If you have watched a relatively recent series of movies named “National Treasure,” with Nicolas Cage, you realize how popular theories about government cover-ups have become.

When you can tie current powerful individuals with organizations such as “Skull and Bones,” the Trilateral Commission, Freemasonry, the FBI, KGB, CIA and the Illuminati, you will be forever wondering what is really going on in the world. Are gas prices really going up because of our little spat with Libya or are prices being manipulated by Wall Street traders under the

and Connor Myers were able to add to Grantsburg’s winnings with each being able to enjoy a candy bar that they won.

The first team this year consisted of seniors Steven LaFond, Gavin Meyer, Brent Myers and Dylan Roberts; and juniors Daniel Biorn, Ben Davis, Daniel Larsen and Kyle Roberts. Grantsburg also had a second team of underclassmen in a junior varsity role that took the varsity level tests to give them experience for the future. The second team this year consisted of sophomores Connor Myers, Kylie Pewe, Jennifer Schwieger and Brad Taylor; and freshmen Wendy Roberts, Brooke Roufs and Keith Vollendorf. Grantsburg High School math instructors are Jay Gilhoi, Mark Johnson and Russ Hammer. - submitted influence of the Trilateral Commission? Hmmm, I wonder.

Does anyone think that Pakistan didn’t know about the living arrangements of their famous resident Osama bin Laden? Maybe it’s true. I’ve had things lost in the back of my closet for 20 years that I don’t remember so it could be true. Recent events have spawned a profusion of conspiracy theories. Photo or no photo of the body of bin Laden will never convince much of the world to accept his death. We will continue to believe what we want to believe regardless of the facts. Is he still alive or isn’t he? With computer manipulation you can’t trust a picture anyway.

Such distrust has an unfortunate effect on the general population. You can’t even trust your neighbors anymore. Recently a bearded fellow from up near International Falls, Minn., was stopped by the Minnesota Highway Patrol while returning home from work. With flashing lights they motioned for him to park his pickup on the side of the road and get out of the vehicle. After inspecting the vehicle they noted that he had a chain saw in the back of the truck.

“Who are you, eh? And whatcha been doin’?” the patrolman inquired.

“Ole. Been loggin’,” he replied.

I heard his family is still looking for him. You can’t be too careful now can you?

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River Road

Gas pains

Ramblings

It has been a busy couple of weeks at

the cabin on Orr Lake. We finished the maple syrup season by bottling the syrup, ready to sell starting this Friday at the farmers market in downtown Eureka (Hwy. 87 midway between St. Croix Falls and Cushing). Cleaning and putting away all the pails, spiles and equipment is a lot of work! Luckily, Margo and Scott were both here and did most of the work while I spent the day volunteering at the museum in Luck. We had an average year for quantity and an excellent year for quality. People with pipelines and vacuum did very well in quantity; most people with buckets were lower than average (a quart of syrup per tap hole).

Margo is away for a few weeks helping at her parents in West Bend and visiting all of her cousins down there. Her mom, Myrtle, who is far into Alzheimer’s, was one of 11 children. Margo has something like 30 first cousins on that side of the family. Most of them live nearby. Margo’s dad lives in a condo in West Bend and just turned 86 years old. He spends several days a week at funerals as a military honor guard as the World War II veterans rapidly dying off. She took our little car that gets the best gas mileage.

I made a vow not to buy gas over $4 a gallon this year. Two weeks back I spent a few days back in Pine Island getting the mower, tiller, tractor ready for summer and helping get the lawn cleaned up of all the winter brush that comes down from the many trees in the yard. I filled the Buick with $3.85 gas (price there was $3.89 and I had a 5-cent-off coupon). I have been driving on that tank ever since.

As the gas price broke $4 up here last week, I drove as little as I could, poking along at 40 mph on the back roads. My plan for over $4 gas is to modify an electric golf cart by adding a road gear, bigger tires and a trailer to haul 10 extra batteries. I figure if I can make it go 45 mph, I can drive the 15 miles to Luck, Grantsburg or St. Croix Falls in 20 minutes—perfectly fine for the two of us. I can throw a hay bale in with the batteries and haul it around so it won’t have to be licensed, like the farmers and their four-wheelers that masquerade as “tractors.” My neighbor has a horse and thinks that might be an option too.

Back in the 1960s when Evergreen Avenue neighbor Bert Brenizer got into his late 80s, he was in a car accident and lost his driver’s license. He decided to try horseback riding. Having been born in the 1870s, he had ridden a horse much of his early days. “Matt Dillon ain’t no spring chicken, and he rides around all the time,” Bert told us.

Bert and his brother-in-law Leonard Noyes were sure that the episodes were real. Hollywood’s Old West looked just like the towns they remembered when they were young. “I don’t know if “Gunsmoke” will be on next week,” I overheard Bert telling Leonard, “Matt got shot and might not be out of the hospital by then.”

Bert bought a pony and saddle. He wanted to ride around his farms and check on things. He had several pieces of land all within a mile of each other. He rented them out on shares and liked to give advice to his renters about when to cultivate or cut hay or pick the corn. His old John Deere tractor started by hand and was too much for him to get going.

He saddled the horse and as his wife Hattie told it, “He got up on a chair next to the horse and tried to get his leg over the horse’s back—but couldn’t get it to bend high enough. I heard him yelling. When I got out there, the old coot was stuck with

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Hattie and Bert Brenizer of Sterling with their 1935 Ford in about 1950. Next year they sold it to the Rambler’s grandfather, Eugene Hanson. He drove it for a while and sold it to Chuck Blair. Chuck used it to learn how to drive. I wonder if it was the first car he sold that began his Wolf Creek business, Riverside Auto? Note the front doors open from the front outward. They were called “suicide doors” because if you were hanging onto the inside handle and bumped it a little, the door would open and drag the passenger out as the wind caught the door. Bert bought a new 1951 Ford that he later totaled in an accident pulling onto Hwy. 87 at the Bass Lake School corner. He quit driving after that. – Photo submitted one leg on the saddle and the other on the chair and the horse dancing around. I had to pry his leg off. That was the end of riding a horse!”

Back when we were kids, we begged Dad and Mom for a horse to ride around.

“I’ll get you a motorcycle, or go-cart” said Dad, “but no horses on my farm anymore.

Too much work taking care of horses!” He hadn’t been able to afford a tractor on the farm until the late ‘40s when he bought a brand new Farmall B at Nicky Jensen’s in Cushing. “I always worried about working my horses too much—too much sympathy for them I guess. With my tractor and its lights, I can work in the fields all day and all night and just worry about me getting tired.”

When the Farmall B got too small, he bought a Farmall Super C, an old F-14 (for us boys to haul hay), a Jubilee Ford for a loader tractor, a Farmall M for plowing, later a Farmall 350 and Farmall 450, and finally a little Allis B, his “horse” to look over the property in his older years. My brothers and I have most of those along with a few extras of our own. My horse is a Ford 9N. Anyway, the gas price dropped suddenly back below $4 by week’s end. I think the speculators realized that the only reason the price went up was because of other speculators, not real shortages, so they all jumped back out again at once and the price dropped $20 a barrel (as of Sunday when I am writing this). I suppose a bunch of big banks and Wall Street firms are part of the speculator group and we will need to bail them out or they will go broke and take everyone down with them. I think they are all moving to pork bellies next week.

I was talking to one of my Cushing neighbors who is a sort of liberal contrarian (he believes the government should help rich folks learn how the middle-class and poorer folks live by letting them experience it for themselves). “Contrary to what rich folks would like you to believe, they don’t use all or even most of their money to create jobs—much of it goes into speculation and driving up the prices of the things the rest of us need to live like gas and food. I pay almost 30 percent of my wages in income taxes for working hard and punching a clock all year long.

If you are rich enough to speculate and make a bundle driving the price of corn or oil high, you only pay 15-percent taxes on the capital gains. I think it should be the opposite,” he told me.

Of course, I don’t express my own per-

sonal opinions in this column for fear that some nut on the right or left might get offended, or those in the middle would be forced to think, but I can say that I am not opposed to higher taxes on anyone who makes more money and spends it less wisely than I do.

I had barely accepted that President Obama was a real American after the release of his long-form Hawaiian birth certificate, when my son started asking me about his birth certificate. Although Margo and I have only ever lived in Wisconsin and Minnesota, his birth certificate states he was born in the state of Michigan. So., on Mother’s Day, I explained it to him as best as I remember.

“It’s a long story,” I told him, “I was teaching on Washington Island, out on the tip of the Door County Peninsula and we lived there at that time. There wasn’t a hospital on the island, so we had planned to take Margo to her parents on the mainland when it was closer to her due date.

Well, first-time mothers are notoriously unreliable about having babies, and several weeks before she was due, Margo started to go into labor.”

“It was late in the evening and the ferry was finished running for the day. I called the island nurse who came over and decided there might be complications and we had better get her to a hospital quickly.

She called a local fisherman, who had a fast boat, at Jackson Harbor. We loaded up and he headed out full throttle across the bay to Escanaba, Mich., where the nearest hospital was located. Margo, the nurse, the captain and a crew member and I were skipping large waves as the boat sped across the windswept waters of Lake Michigan when, Margo, not thinking at all about the rest of us, started to deliver.”

“Well, you came easily and quickly, and in just a few minutes I had tied the cord off with No. 8 braided fish line and cut it with a fillet knife and you were squalling worse than Lake Michigan. The boat captain baptized you with a quick dunk in the lake using his captain’s powers to marry, bury, etc., which at the same time cleaned you up nicely. We wrapped you in a black slick oilskin raincoat as we saw the lighthouse ahead on Escanaba Bay. “We pulled into the dock where an ambulance was waiting to take us to the hospital. You and Mom stayed overnight in the hospital while the rest of us rode back to the island. I took the morning ferry, drove all the way down to Green Bay and back up to Escanaba and picked you both up at noon, rushing back to catch

the 8 p.m. last ferry.

“The hospital presented me with a bill for a full birth as if you were born there. I managed to argue them down to an overnight stay and doctor’s visit—the school where I taught didn’t have health insurance for us in those days. It cost $145, heck of a deal! Before we left, the doctor stopped by with some paperwork.”

“Where was he born?” he asked as he filled in the forms.

“Somewhere between here and Washington Island,” I replied. He got out a map and found the state boundaries and made a judgment that if the birth was only 15 minutes before coming ashore, it must be in Michigan state waters.

“So,” I told Scott, “that is how you happened to be born in Michigan.”

“Mom, is that true?” asked Scott, knowing of my preference for a good story over boring facts.

“Mom can’t remember anything from the time labor pains started until she was in the hospital, thank goodness,” I replied, “so you are just gonna have to believe me!”

My memory has been fading for the past few years, but I am kind of sure that it could have happened the way I told him, but when I wrote it down and re read it, I think it sounds a lot like what happened to Great-Great-Aunt Hannah in Norway in the Vikna Fjord in 1853 when she delivered in the rowboat on the way from their island home to the mainland.

Luckily, having a poor memory doesn’t get in the way of writing a newspaper column.

Stop in at the Eureka Farmers Market Friday afternoons from 2:30 to 6:30 and buy some of our brand-new 2011 maple syrup. We have light and dark syrup (mild and robust flavors). I think the flavor this year is probably the best we have had in many years. We haven’t raised our prices and they beat even the big chain stores with their Canadian syrup.

Our syrup is made the old-fashioned way where the trees lovingly drip, at their leisure, into buckets which are hand carried to the traditional maple cooking pan and gently brought to a low boil with a fire using local wood and finished in separate batches, each with a unique flavor, before being hand bottled, not a minute before its time, by fourth-generation Scandivavian artisans.

The big producers use pipelines crisscrossing the woods, impeding the natural migration of animals and ruining its beauty. These tubes are pounded into the trees where an outrageous amount of vacuum is applied to the poor tree to suck out its life’s blood. A “reverse” osmosis filter then strains the sap into concentrated sugar water (yes, sad to say, it is true, the factory producers aren’t satisfied to just use regular osmosis, but in their greed for more production use the dangerous reverse mode). The sap is flash boiled in an immense impersonal evaporator for a few minutes before being pressure filtered to remove most of the highly nutritional trace mineral elements and then bottled in a vast assembly line with anonymous Socialist Canadians checking for the occasional mouse that might fall in the bottle of nearly black syrup.

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The Jelly Bean Prayer

Red is for the blood he gave.

Green is for the groan he made.

Yellow is for the sun so brigiht.

Orange is for the moon of night.

Blue is for the sins we made.

Behind the

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White is for the grace he gave.

Purple is for his hour of sorrow.

Pink is for our new tomorrow.

A bag full of jelly beans, Colorful and sweet, Is a prayer, is a promise, Is a special treat.

Internet research Research indicates a sweet flavorful food mixture was eaten in Biblical and ancient Roman times. The mixture was eaten in many forms throughout history.

The sweet mixture eventually was given a hard coat covering and called a jelly bean.

Early reports state some of the first jelly beans in the U.S. were eaten during the Civil War. William Schrafft of Boston, Mass., sent them to soldiers in the Union Army.

It was not until 1930 or so that the jelly beans were used as Easter candy.

Personal comments Most of us remember that one of our past U.S. presidents really liked jelly beans. (Answer is his initials were R.R.) Jelly beans come in eight different colors, but the ones given away on Sunday to all the ladies in church included no blue ones. (I am assured there are blue jelly beans in some stores.) Black jelly beans replace the blue ones and are appropriate for the sins we commit.

Jelly beans are oval or egg shaped and stand for new life. We have hatched out many ducklings and chicks this spring. Perhaps you have noticed our ads in the local shoppers.

If I had to choose my favorite color for jelly beans, I’d probably reach for a red one. When I was in grade school, we girls would wet the end of a jelly bean and use it as a pretend lipstick. We were so anxious to grow up, not realizing perhaps that we are longtime grownups if we’re lucky, and childhood passes much too fast.

Hope you had a happy Mother’s Day! Mayflowers My youngest son surprised me by going out in our woods to pick mayflowers. They are actually hepaticas, with heart-shaped leaves and hairy stems. They smell heavenly, and I wish there were ways to bottle it and be able to spray it on.

I put them in a small vase on the kitchen table. They are more than mayflowers. They are memories.

My best school chum was Marjorie Pearl Iverson, who also had a January birthday, only on Jan. 2, instead of my Jan. 21. We were inseparable. We always picked mayflowers together. She died in 1984, and her grave is at Nashotah House Mission Cemetery. I stood at her

grave, and I wept for her and I wept for myself. She was a big part of my childhood. She was also an only child in her family, and I loved her parents, Margaret and Irving Iverson.

Good memories and sad ones, too.

We were confirmed together in a Danish Lutheran Church in Hartland, and graduated together from the same Oconomowoc High School, and from the same Milwaukee – Downer College.

Margorie was also a gardener’s daughter. She went to the Philippines to marry an Episcopal priest who had studied at Nashotah House Mission. They eventually lived in a rectory in Milwaukee, then moved to California.

She had four children, Mathew, Mark, Elisabeth and Judith. Her daughter, Judy, lives in California, but she and her husband, Lance, go to England every summer to visit his mother. Their little daughter, Sarah, is having an international life, as they often go over to France, etc.

My childhood chum, Marjorie, would have adored Sarah, and I try to be her adopted grandmother. We have connections.

Wild animals We live too close to the woods! Yesterday a fox got hold of one of our ducks, but let her go when we shouted at him.

The duck has a couple of puncture wounds on her back and is now in isolation as we hope she will recover.

Our ducks and geese love to roam free. The fox loves it, too.

Good thoughts Character is not made in a crisis, it is then revealed.

And another Careful grooming may take 20 years off a woman’s age, but it won’t fool a flight of stairs.

And finally You can get a heap of worthwhile work done for others in a day if you don’t care who gets the credit for it.

Until next week, Bernice

2011Jane Wisse Wellness Walk set for May 28

SIREN - Every once in awhile a person comes along who embodies the character and spirit we all wish to attain in our lives.

Jane Wisse was exactly this person.

She was a physical education teacher for over 32 years who impacted the lives of untold numbers of students and colleagues with her commitment to lifelong wellness. She joyfully taught and lived her values of good nutrition and exercise. She loved walking, skiing, swimming, water skiing, dancing, kayaking, gymnastics, golf and all life sports. She happily included her friends in any of these activities when they were willing.

Six years ago she lost her battle with cancer, leaving a big hole where there had once been a vibrant, active woman. Her husband, Duane, and several friends felt that her memory should not die. They established a scholarship in her honor to be given to a student from Siren who embraced the values that Jane taught and

lived. To date, five graduates from Siren High School have received this scholarship: Wes Wegner, Lauren Howe, Adam Daniels, Janey Emery and Sarah Howe.

One of Jane’s favorite activities was a 2-1/2 mile walk with a group of her friends each day after school. This route has become the Annual Jane Wisse Wellness Walk, held each spring to support the scholarship.

This year’s wellness walk will be held on Saturday, May 28. Registration is at Crooked Lake Park, starting at 9 a.m., with the walk starting at 10 a.m. The cost is $20 for adults and $10 for young people, 12 to 17 years old.

Anyone wishing to donate to the scholarship fund but unable to join the walk may send donations to Siren School, attention: Pam Daniels. Checks should be made out to Jane Wisse Wellness Scholarship. All proceeds go directly to the scholarship fund. - with submitted information

TAYLORS FALLS, Minn. – Pioneer School, sponsored by the Taylors Falls Historical Society, announces the theme Immigrants - Where Did We Come From? for its 2011 sessions. The curriculum and crafts will all enhance the theme.

Children about to enter kindergarten through eighth grade are invited to experience a three-day one-roomschool adventure. Three three-day sessions will be held in the 1852 Town House School located in Taylors Falls across the street from the Memorial Community Center (Depot). The schedule is as follows: Session 1, June 28, 29 and 30; Session 2, July 12, 13 and 14; Session 3, July 19, 20 and 21. Each session is held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. School begins promptly at 10 a.m. and ends at 2:30 p.m. Parents must provide transporta-

tion.

Sessions are limited to 24 students, with registration on a first-come, first-served basis. The fee is $30 per student per session. A limited number of scholarships are available. Children are encouraged to dress as early pioneers. They should bring crayons, scissors and a pencil. Each child should also bring his/her own beverage and lunch.

For more information and registration forms, call Jean at 715-483-3012. Feel free to leave a message and your call will be returned. Parents are invited to assist one or more days of the session and should let organizers know if they will be interested in volunteering. The public is invited to observe the daily sessions. - submitted

Register now for Pioneer School in Taylors Falls

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50 Years Ago

Minneapolis-Moline proudly presented a new Moline dealer, Jorgensen Implement, Milltown.-The special of the month at Carlson Hardware, Frederic, was a cake-roll pan at 63¢.-A dance was held at the Luck DBS Hall with music by the Merrymakers.-A dance was held at the West Sweden Dance Hall with music by Dana Yelle.-Real estate and personal property taxes in Polk County came to $2,598, 739.-Interstate Park of SCF was one of three proposed youth conservation areas.-Ready-mixed concrete was available at the Yellow River Supply Corp.-The Siren junior prom was set for April 22 at the Siren High School auditorium.-Specials at Route’s Super Market, Frederic, included sliced bacon at 33¢ lb., pork roast at 43¢ lb., bananas at 2 lbs. for 25¢, oranges at 79¢ lb., and cucumbers at 5¢ each.-Abbie’s Bakery Shop advertised their spring special of a permanent wave at $6 including shampoo, hairstyling, cut and crème rinse.-Specials at the Frederic Co-op Super Market included two large heads of lettuce at 29¢, oranges at 3 dozen for 89¢, and 100 lbs. of potatoes at $1.49.-Anderson’s Clover Farm Store, Frederic, advertised 10 lbs. sugar for 98¢, muffin mix at 35¢, free coffee and cookies.-State’s count shows more milk cows in Wisconsin.

40 Years Ago

A retirement party was held at Siren for Miss Thelma Van Guilder in May. She taught school for 48 years, most of it in Burnett County.-Specials at Route’s Super Market, Frederic, included fryers at 33¢ lb. cut up, ready-to-serve hams at 53¢ lb., Swans Down cake mix at 29¢, Hi-Lo peas at six cans for $1 and bananas at 10¢ lb.-Specials at Frederic Co-op Store included spareribs at 58¢ lb., Colby cheese at 88¢ lb., 3-lb. box of pancake mix at 58¢, bacon at 43¢ lb. and picnic hams at 43¢ lb.-A dance was set for May 21, 22 and 23 at the Oasis with music by Bud and His Rounders.-Many notices posted to control noxious weeds.-Production records were broken by Polk County dairy farmers. Farmers listed were Robert Behling, Gordon Larsen, Carl Peper and sons, John Peterson, Irvin Petersen, William Bosak, Melvin Johnson, Harris Steffen, James Glover Jr., Walter Lee, Paul Paulson, Kermit Green, LeRoy and Russell Johnson and Charles Peper.-Lakeland Furniture Mart, Siren, advertised Lane cedar chests, Lane record cabinets, clock radios and wristwatches for that special graduate.-New gas air conditioning for total home comfort was advertised.-The Coast to Coast Store and Stewart’s Sporting Goods advertised “Come up to Lawn Boy while the prices are down.”-Twins were born to the Gordon Hibbses.

20 Years Ago

The jury list was drawn for Polk circuit court with all the listed appearing in this newspaper.-Also, the 1990 tax take in Wisconsin was $28.8 billion.-Land O’Lakes commended Kasten, Kohl, Obey for support on dairy legislation.- Tuxedo rental was available at Oeffler’s Flower Shop.-Robert’s Shoe Store advertised Nike shoes for $35.98 and the slogan “Get ready for track.”-Spring: A Time of Rebirth was the subject of Bob Becker’s column Boot Prints.-Help was wanted at Furniture and Flooring, Siren.-Open house was held for Burnett-Polk Youth Ministry and Regeneration Center on April 7 on Hwy. 35.-Harvey Stower was named the VFW Legislator of the Year.The 35-E Lewis men’s league meetings was held April 3 at E.C. Hideout.-The Lewis women’s softball league meeting was held April 11 at E.C. Hideout.-A countywide parade honoring veterans would begin at Frederic.-The county may seek $410,000 for the Frederic Care Center.-More local dairy farms lost as milk prices spill.-Unity students won trophies in “Odyssey of the Mind.”- A totally new board was elected in the Town of Sterling.

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Engagement

Happy Tails

Tilda is a 3-year-old spayed female Border collie mix. She has a thick, short steel-gray coat with a brown undertone. She is a medium-sized dog with smarts. Tilda has the distinction of being the only dog that won’t bark at you when you go out to our adoption kennel. She doesn’t stoop to such antics.

She is hoping someone will see what a good girl she is and choose her. She sits patiently, waiting her turn. Once she is out, she is excited to be able to show her stuff. She listens to and takes obedience commands to heart. Tilda adores people and wants to please. She would be an excellent companion dog for a family or on a farm. Tilda has been at the shelter since April 4, and is anxious to go home. Come see our special girl. She will steal your heart.

Have you ever wanted to become a dog trainer?

You watch those celebrity dog trainers on TV and wonder how they know what the dog is thinking?

It’s not voodoo or guesswork, those dog trainers know how to read a dog’s body language and signals. They use these observations and positive training to shape the dog’s behavior. When it is done correctly, with intent cooperation from the dog, it is something to behold.

If you have a desire to learn these skills, we have a shelter dog training course at Arnell Humane Society for you. The Homeward Bound Academy shelter dog training course teaches persons 12 years and up the science of training shelter dogs in the basic obedience behaviors that adopters are

looking for. By training a number of dogs, students will gain training skills as well as gaining enormous satisfaction from helping shelter dogs become more adoptable.

Dogs that sit, walk nicely on leash, wait at Tilda doors and take treats gently impress potential adopters and helps them find new homes. You can’t take them all home yourself, but you can help them become more adoptable and find homes on their own.

The one-hour classes are small, usually one or two students, and are tailored to each student’s style of learning. Our very own dog whisperer, Claire Scriba, schedules and teaches the Homeward Bound Academy course. Classes are $10 per lesson. For further information or to schedule a lesson, call Claire at 715-554-1490.

It was a successful week for dog adoptions; Roman found a home with a companion black Lab girlfriend, A.J., Everett and Minnie were scooped up almost as soon as they hit the newsstands. Our resident crazy cat Finn went home with a family that

I am not sure how to even start this article this week as due to my very poor memory, I misplaced the list of card winners this week. So I declare all card players were winners this past week.

So I have decided I have two choices. Either I give up writing this article or I find a new, safe place for

the winning lists. Or maybe I can talk Dave Peterson into making the lists in double copies so he always keeps a spare copy for me.

Also, again I have more bad news this week. We lost another member. Bob Larson passed away, so that now makes three members, Shirley Sandquist,

Vi Luke and Bob Larson. All three will be greatly missed and please everyone, stay healthy, happy and be good to your neighbors. None of us know when we might need a helping hand.

Donna and Gerry Hines went to Vadnais Heights, Minn., Friday, and stayed with daughter Brenda Sweet and family. On Saturday, Donna attended Nicole Sweet’s bridal shower. Saturday night, Gerry and Donna were guests of Brian and Jane Hines and family. On Sunday, Donna and Gerry had lunch with Brenda and family before returning home.

Lida and Don Nordquist visited Doris and Les Brackin in Roseville, Minn., Saturday. On the way home, they attended their granddaughter Hannah Schott’s dance recital in Frederic.

Hank and Karen Mangelsen went to River Falls Saturday morning to watch their granddaughter, Celie Mangelsen, play volleyball. They enjoyed lunch at the home of Larry and Heidi Mangelsen before re-

turning home.

Don and Lida Nordquist went out to eat Sunday evening with their daughters, Joleen Funk and Jan Schott, and their families to celebrate Mother’s Day. The annual meeting of the Hertel Lakeview Cemetery Association will be held Saturday, May 14, 7 p.m., at the Lakeview United Methodist Church.

Tahnee Clausen and Brad Rudolph are pleased to announce their engagement.

Tahnee is the daughter of Diana (Paul) Martinson, St. Croix Falls, and Ben (Michelle) Clausen, Dresser. She is a 2000 graduate of St. Croix Falls High School and attended St. Cloud State and Rasmussen Business College in Minnesota earning a degree in business administration. She is currently employed with the Allergy/Asthma and Pulmonary Associates Clinic of St. Cloud, Minn., as office manager.

Brad is the son of Joe and Marie Rudolph of Sartell, Minn. He is a 2000 graduate of Sartell High School. He enlisted in the Army Reserves and was attending college in 2001. He was deployed to Iraq in 2003.

He is currently employed with Design Tile and Flooring in St. Cloud.

An Aug. 6 wedding is planned to take place at the Wapicada Golf Club in St. Cloud. The couple will make their home in St. Cloud. - submitted

Tuesday started out with exercise followed by Skip-Bo. In the afternoon, games were played. Dottie Adams and Donna Schlosser were the winners in Hand and Foot. Ione and George Meixner and Martha Lundstrom were the winners in Dominos.

Peter Schlosser, Marlyce and Arne Borchert, Harold Richardson and David Thelin were the winners in 500. We had a good crowd with refreshments served.

Thursday morning we did not exercise so I went

out and cleaned up the old growth outside. More cleanup is needed. In the evening 500 cards were played. The winners were Bren Nel Ward, Elroy Petzel and Pat Willis.

This week we will be busy setting up for our bake and garage sale. It will be held on May 13 and 14.

We have four sewing machines, all in working condition, on the sale. Stop in for some shopping and a cup of coffee. It’s a good time to give our center a visit.

Arnell Humane Society of Polk County

was head-over-heels in love with him. Once Dad said it was OK, the whole family came to seal the deal after four visits in one day.

Taking their places in the adoption lineup are: Clover, a 6-month-old female yellow Lab, Cooper, a 1-year-old black-and-tan pet coonhound male, Lewis, a gentleman-with-manners neutered male yellow Lab, Daisy and Butch, 7- and 6-year-old basset hounds on a diet, Bruno, a deep liver and white, loving German shorthair-pit bull terrier mix and J.P., a smooth-coat, tricolor Jack Russell terrier mix neutered male pup of 6 months.

We have a number of adult cats available. They cover all of the major cat colors and hair lengths.

Bianca is all black, Maxine, diluted tortie; Naomi, classic calico; Vida, tortie with mittens; Tess, tortie Persian; Abby, tabby Persian and Daphne, a brown tabby. Neutered males are: Drake, brown tabby; Vincent, shorthair black and white and Toby, of the big bones variety, orange tabby. Arnell Memorial Humane Society, 715 268-7387 or online: arnellhumane.org

Frederic Senior Center

Hazel Hoffman

Dewey - LaFollette

Karen Mangelsen

Clam River Tuesday Club met May 4, at the home of Trudy DeLawyer. Special guest was Trudy’s mother-in-law, Bonnie DeLawyer. The next meeting will be June 1, 1:30 p.m., at the home of Kris Fjelstad.

Gerry and Donna Hines visited John Mangelsen Wednesday.

Karen and Hank Mangelsen went to Siren Thursday afternoon to attend the fifth- and sixth-grade spring concert. Their granddaughters, Patty and Mandy Close, were part of the band and choir.

Nina and Lawrence Hines went to Eden Prairie, Minn., Friday and had supper with Nancy and Steve Hagen. They stayed overnight there and returned home Saturday.

Webster Senior Center

Bernie Boelter

Kudos once again to Gladys Beers and Theresa Gloege for the spring decorations. It is so bright and cheery.

Our appreciation goes out to the 27 folks who came to play Dime Bingo on Wednesday. We all enjoyed the treats furnished by Joanne Miehle. We also want to welcome back the Thursday night card players. You have been missed.

Stop in and pick up a menu and sign up for your favorite lunches. Nikki’s meals are delicious and it is great fun to get together with old friends and new.

Remember the senior meeting on Tuesday, May 17, at 1 p.m. Nominations for officers can be accepted then as well as at the June meeting when the elections will take place. Any member can nominate officers, but only those members who have paid the $1 dues are eligible to vote. Please plan to attend the meetings. The center needs participation from all

members to survive. It is always good to have fresh ideas and opinions.

Plan to attend the pancake breakfast/silent auction/yard sale on Saturday, May 21. The breakfast is from 7:30 a.m. to noon. The silent auction will also end at noon. The yard sale will go until 3 p.m. or until everything is gone, whichever is first. Lily Gleason and Sandy Wohletz have worked very hard in obtaining silent auction items and also things for the yard sale. We certainly appreciate their efforts. The items for the silent auction will be on display starting Tuesday, May 10. Stop in, take a look and bid on your favorite items. There is an oil change, a night stay at the casino including two meals and everything in between, so I think there is something for everyone.

Smile at everyone you meet, it will make you feel good, and they will wonder what you are up to.

See you at the center.

Last Tuesday, as I stood at the kitchen sink doing the dishes, I looked out into three-rat hollow to see a rather unusual sight. I got out my spyglasses to make sure I was seeing right. A rather large tree rat was hanging on the underside of a maple branch, one about the size of a small egg. He would chew away like crazy for a while then lick up the sap like he couldn’t get enough. Guess it isn’t just us humans and those black critters that enjoy a little something sweet once in awhile.

The summer birds are returning to the area in droves. Robins, bluebirds, red-winged blackbirds, grackles and this week the beautiful rose-breasted grosbeaks have been seen in bear country. Some have seen the Baltimore orioles are back but as I write this column, none have been seen here. Those special little jewels, the tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds should appear shortly. Seems, even though the trees are slow to waken this year, the area is still getting ready for the birth of summer.

Don’t forget Senior Awards Night is this Friday night, May 13, at the Siren school at 7 p.m. Also mark your calendars for Friday, May 20, as this is Siren Schools graduation starting at 7 p.m. in the

high school gym. Graduates, as you start on your next phase of your life, follow those dreams you have, they just may take you to a life full of happiness and success.

Sympathy to the family of Lauri O. Mustonen who passed away Dec. 10. A memorial service will be held for him on May 14 at the Crosswalk Community Church in Frederic.

Friday evening the Siren Methodist Church held their third German dinner. The dinner was once again a big hit as only 125 tickets were available and most, if not all, had been sold. The church fellowship hall was full. The dinner was delicious gals, you did a great job as usual.

Congratulations to elementary student Jeramiah Liljenberg for being chosen Siren Schools student of the week. Great job Jeramiah.

Watch next week’s column for lots of activities coming up for the annual Syren Lilacfest.

I hope every mother enjoyed a great Mother’s Day with their families.

Last Sunday the Siren Methodist Church Sunday schoolers learned who their secret pals were over a pancake breakfast served for them.

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Borderline news

Parents of Gary Ament celebrated 74 years of marriage on April 12. Rose and Tony Ament were recognized as the couple with the longest marriage in Minnesota, according to Worldwide Marriage Encounter. Tony will turn 100 in July, and Rose is 98.

They were married during the Depression in 1937, a time when Tony made 40 cents an hour. Their advice for young people is to work hard and pay your own way. Saving and spending wisely was a big part of how they kept things together. Their home is now in an assisted living center at Talahi Care Center in St. Cloud, Minn.

Don and Annette Carlson of Blaine attended the ELCA Northeast Minnesota Synod Assembly, held at Cragun’s Conference Center on Gull Lake in Brainerd, Minn., April 29 to May 1, as delegates for the Zion Lutheran Church in Markville. They found the weekend very exhilarating. The Rev. John Nunes, president of World Hunger, was a guest speaker and they thought he was very dynamic. The total amount collected from quilts donated for a silent auction, quarters collected during the previous year from all churches in the synod, and crafts donated to the Marketplace@TheAssembly was $28,223.50.

Saturday, April 30, was a big day for Dave and Sandi Drake. Their granddaughter, Elizabeth Drake, was confirmed in Anoka, Minn. Their grandson, Josh Erickson, graduated from Oral Roberts University with honors, including The President Cup for Athletes and also the Eli Award with a 4.0 average in biology/premed with a business minor. They are very proud of both of them. Congratulations to all!

Mary and Frank Schaaf went to Pine City, Minn., and stopped in Hinckley to visit with Clara Lilly and May-

Marian Edler

Bob Brewster

nard Monson. Both of them seem well and happy.

Markville’s Cemetery cleanup day will be on Saturday, May 14, at 9 a.m. However, if you cannot make it that day and you wish to help clean, just come any day this week. We really appreciate all the help we can get.

Once again, Dave Baker thoroughly enjoyed his stint as a judge/demonstrator at the Annual East Central High School Art Invitational. Not only did he judge some outstanding student work, but he also had the opportunity to show students some art techniques. Former Cloverton resident Clint Elliott was also on hand to demonstrate his pottery-making expertise. Deloris Schirmer has her lawn mower running, so she is ready for green grass. She got some lovely cards and a beautiful potted plant for Mother’s Day. Elsie Michaelson, Marion Dyson and Irma Arendt were just a few that attended a birthday party for Sophie Slipher in Spooner on Friday. Wednesday, Irvin Slipher moved to an assisted living place in Spooner.

He will be having a sale on Saturday, May 21. On Saturday, Karl, Tammy and Josh Baer, along with Mary Picton, traveled to Eau Claire to celebrate an early Mother’s Day. Casandra and Beth Baer met them there.

Ladies day for the Woodland Church is Tuesday, May 17. They will be meeting at the Homestead Cafe in Danbury at 12:30 p.m. Any ladies that would like to join them are welcome to do so. The Dairyland Homemakers will be meeting on Wednesday, May 11, at noon. They meet at the Dairyland Town Hall.

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Bernice Abrahamzon

Saturday night’s jam session brought out a good crowd at the Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church, with around 130 present. This will be the last jam session until fall as musical individuals and groups have their own summer schedules.

Those who helped Pastor Tom with Sunday’s church service were Scott Nelson and Robin Peterson. Bernice Abrahamzon was authorized to distribute Mother’s Day gifts from the church, using the “Jelly Bean Prayer” as provided years ago by Boys and Girls Town. More about it in Behind the Signpost column.

The candy treat was purchased with donations from anonymous donors.

Glorious leftover bars and coffee were served after Sunday’s service, with goodies from the church freezer top. LaVonne and John Boyer made the coffee and served behind the counter. Nice to have church members and friends linger.

The United Methodist Women will meet at 7 p.m.,

Wednesday night at church. Perhaps the ladies can provide something for Pastor Tom to take to annual conference at Wisconsin Dells, as requested.

Good healing to Phil Scheitzel who is having cataract surgery on May 10.

Welcome back to Bob and Marie Nelson, who spent the winter in Florida. Good to have them back with us in our community and church.

Gloria and Ronald Chell were also back from an early vacation. They didn’t run into too much flooding.

Alice and Charles Ford brought their Mother’s Day guests to church with them on Sunday, a daughter and family.

The NW Regional Writers will meet at 1 p.m., this Friday in the community room, Sunrise Apts., Frederic. The assignment is to write about something you did for which you never received credit.

Mayflowers are in bloom in the woods. Welcome spring!

Born at Hudson Hospital:

••• A boy, Xzavier Allen Hane, born May 3, 2011, to Kevin and Anniebeth Hane, Osceola. Xzavier weighed 8 lbs., 9 oz. and was 21-1/2 inches long. He has one sibling named Zhalick. Grandparents are Laura Hane, Grantsburg, and Loreno and Andrea Abibuag, Phillipines. Great-grandparents are Judy and Bob Jackson, Minn., and Bunny Hane, Minn.

••• A girl, Willow Page Thomas, born May 8, 2011, to Jeremy and Alison Thomas, Grantsburg. Willow weighed 7 lbs., 6 oz. and was 20 inches long. Grandparents are Steve and Casey Thomas, Wisconsin Rapids, and Tom and Sandy Cordie, Sartell, Minn.

Great-grandparents are Shirley Griffing, Neilsville, Lucille Severson, Center City, Minn., and Pearl Cordie, St. Cloud, Minn.

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Births

A son, Calvin Howard Langeness, born May 5, 2011, to Jessica and Chance Langeness, New Richmond. Calvin weighed 8 lbs., 15 oz. and was 21-1/2 inches long. He has four siblings, Caden 8, Makayla 6, Cole 5 and Connor 2.

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Born at Osceola Medical Center:

A girl, Scarlet June Lutz, born May 6, 2011, to Brittanie Rivard and Jeremiah Lutz, Osceola. Scarlet weighed 8 lbs., 1.3 oz.

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Born at Burnett Medical Center:

A boy, Maison Knight, born April 21, 2011, to Brittanie Berg and Damion Knight, Pine City, Minn. Maison weighed 9 lbs., 5 oz. and was 21-1/2 inches long. His grandparents are Dennice Berg, April Hurst and Cheryl Palmer. Great-grandparents are Marilyn Hurst, Donald Nibblit and Richard Palmer.

Burnett Community Library

Friends of the Library

Pick up your copy of “Nature’s Gifts: Wild Rice and Berries from the Folle Avoine” – a cookbook fundraising project of the Friends. The cost is $12, and the book is full of delicious recipes for appetizers, breads, breakfasts and brunches, soups, salads, main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Stay tuned for more information on the Michael Perry event, which will be part of the grand opening of the new library facility on Lakeland Avenue and Main Street in Webster later this fall.

Webster after-school program

On Tuesday, May 3, we were lucky to have the kindergarten and first-grade students from the Webster after-school program visit our library for a story and a chance to look through some of our children’s books. Next week, they will return with their library cards to check out books after another springtime story.

Preschool story time

Join us every Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m., for good stories, treats and fun.

Summer reading program

We will begin our summer reading program for grade-school students (first through sixth grade) on Wednesday, June 15, at 12:30 p.m. Registration forms are available at the library, but we will also make them available at the elementary schools. Our theme this year is One World, Many Stories. One study indicated that just reading four to six books over the summer will help maintain your children’s reading skills and reading 10-20 books will improve their skills. This year, children participating in the summer reading programs at their local libraries will be eligible to receive a free pass to any of the 11 Wisconsin Historical sites or museums.

Adult book club

At 10 a.m., on Tuesday, May 24, we will discuss “Rock Island Line” by David Rhodes. We meet on the lower level of the library and everyone is welcome.

Contact the library to get a copy of this month’s book, herein described: – “Raised in an idyllic Iowa town, young July Montgomery is rocked by the tragic death of his parents. Fleeing to Philadelphia, Pa., he fashions a ghostly existence in an underground train station. When a young woman appears to free him from his malaise, they return together to the Iowa heartland, where the novel swoars to its heartrending climax.

First published to enormous acclaim in 1975, ‘Rock Island Line’ brings Rhodes’ striking characterizations and unparalleled eye-for-the-telling detail to this tale of paradise lost – and possibly regained.” – distributed

by Syndetic Solutions, LLC

Mystery book club

June mysteries will focus on “Father’s Day Mysteries.” A list of available mysteries where Dad is centered will be available at the library for anyone interested in joining us, at the June meeting, for a fun discussion of the book or books we have read. Monday, May 9, we discussed the crime stories that we

found centered on Mom. Join the invitation to our new book club which meets at 10 a.m. on the second Monday of each month on the lower level of the library.

Each month we will have a different holiday theme.

Please call the library for more details.

New adult fiction books

• “Quicksilver” by Amanda Quick • “Eve” by Iris Johansen • “Bel-Air Dead” by Stuart Woods • “Abandon” by Meg Cabot • “A Turn in the Road” by Debbie Macomber • “The Fifth Witness” by Michael Connelly • “Drawing Conclusions” by Donna Leon • “Hiss of Death” by Rita Mae Brown.

• “Lesson in Secrets” by Jacqueline Winspear • “Lies That Bind” by Kate Carlisle • “Love of My Youth” by Mary Gordon • “Mourning Gloria” by Susan Wittig Albert • “Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss • “Once Upon a Time There Was You” by Elizabeth Berg • “Peach Keeper” by Sarah Addison Allen • “The Priest’s Graveyard” by Ted Dekker • “Wise Man’s Fear” by Patrick Rothfuss • “A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness • “The Troubled Man” by Henning Mankell

New adult nonfiction books

• “The Official Study Guide for All SAT Subject Tests” by College Board • “Coop: A Family, a Farm and the Pursuit of the One Good Egg” by Michael Perry • “End of Energy: The Unmaking of America” by Michael J. Graetz • “Unlimited” by Jillian Michaels • “1861: The Civil War Awakening” by Adam Goodheart

DVDs

• “The King’s Speech” • “Rugged Gold” • “Seven Alone” • “Against a Crooked Sky”

Children’s books

• “Sign of the Moon: Warrior’s Omen of the Stars” by Erin Hunter • “Me … Jane” by Patrick McDonnell • “The Emerald Atlas: Books of the Beginning” by John Stephens • “The Bear Who Shared” by Catherine Rayner • “Ladder to the Moon” by Maya Soetoro-Ng • “First Garden: The White House Garden” by Robbin Gourley

Adult audio books

• “Toys” by James Patterson

Hours and information

Monday-Thursday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m.

– 5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. For more information, contact the library at 715-866-7697, Web site: webster.wislib.org.

Online catalog: merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/search.

Wow - what a wonderfully warm weekend it was, can we really say spring is finally here? It’s been great lying out in the sun working on my tan!

Mom’s all excited because the Baltimore orioles have arrived as well as the rose-breasted grosbeak and finally a hummingbird. Keep your paws crossed that we’re done with the snow.

Well I know that Mother’s Day was Sunday. Eli and I wanted to thank all those wonderful mothers out there for all they do. We hope you enjoyed your special day and made some new memories.

Now dads, don’t feel left out as your special day is coming in June, although I’m told that every day is Father’s Day! Eli and I have been having a wonderful time outside playing and chasing each other and I have to say, Eli is hard to catch so I try to cut him off at the pass. It’s lots of fun to be outside in the fresh air with all those great smells.

It’s been a busy time at the shelter with more stray dogs and cats arriving. On Friday, two very nice ladies brought in a kitten that was maybe 6 weeks old. They had picked the poor little guy up in the middle of Hwy. 35 just south of Siren so that he wouldn’t be run over. Mom was quite upset as the kitten we named Elton was in very bad shape including a broken leg and sadly didn’t make it.

Makes you wonder what happened to his littermates. There is also one or two of my canine friends at the shelter that seem to have had a rough start to life. I don’t understand how some people can be so mean, we have feelings too and can be easily hurt. All we want is to be your companion and be loved so please, my human friends, be kind. No animals or humans deserve to be bullied or cruelly abused and if you see or suspect animal abuse, please contact the sheriff’s office.

Now back at the shelter, there are some of my wonderful friends looking for that special person or family to adopt them. Pretty Polly is a brindlecolored hound that is about 9 months old. She loves to play tag and chase with you, actually she just loves to be with you. Jessica is a pretty shepherd mix of about 5 years of age. She is a very friendly girl and would be a wonderful companion! Check

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out their pictures.

Also waiting for you is Sweet Sue, Handsome Sully and Silly Penny.

Our newest arrivals are Shiloh, Rocky, Isak and Bad Boy - please check out our Web site for more information and of course we’d love to have you visit!

Three new cats arrived together, two all black, named Dudley and Jose, and I’m told they’re about 1 year of age. Then there is little Stella, she is black and white and is still a young kitten.

By the way, Jenny says we’re running low on canned dog and canned cat food!

Before I sign off for another week, I want to leave you with this poem by Patricia Walter called “Shelter Dogs”:

Shelter Dogs

You see everything in their eyes joy, hope - sadness and despair.

Some are bewildered some just afraid some plain happy for a meal.

A few miss home while most forget chains neglect and solitude.

Lucky are the dogs that find new homes but it’s not up to them they have no voice.

It’s up to you to be kind and caring.

See you next week and until then I’m sending you plenty of licks and tailwags!

The Humane Society of Burnett County is saving lives, one at a time. www.hsburnettcty.org.

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Siren Senior Center

Barb Munger

Another busy week at the center with the decorating crew coming in on Wednesday morning and putting the new face on for May. A person doesn’t realize how stark everything looks without decorations. Everything was stripped down for our card party last week and after a few days of bareness we are now back in a sunshine mood with our May decorations. Our gratitude to Marge Nyberg, Cora deJong, Anke Olesen and CeCe for decorating, and also our benefactor from Texas who furnished us with the beautiful flower streamers for the tables.

Twenty-seven players turned up to play Dime Bingo on Tuesday, 35 for 500 on Wednesday and 26 for Spades on Friday. We are gradually getting all of our folks out of the house to come out and enjoy themselves. Still have a lot of room for anyone who wants to join us in these activities. We are also playing Wii bowling on Monday morning so you can see we have something for everyone.

On Thursday, the center hosted the monthly Dining at Five dinner in conjunction with the annual volunteer dinner. A dinner of roast pork, twice-baked potatoes, creamed corn and apple and cherry pie for dessert which 58 people came out to enjoy.

The latest word on Millie Hartshorn is that she has been transferred from the Grantsburg Hospital to the continuing care unit. We have a container out if anyone would like to drop a card to her and we will see that it gets delivered when we visit as we know she

would appreciate a visit from all her friends.

I do believe our angels have been at work again.

We wrote about the need for used kids cards as we have a lot of requests for them and up to now have not had any donated. Denise Noe, from Blaine, Minn., is a subscriber of the paper and came to our rescue with a large bag of them. Hopefully we will have a good supply soon for our future customers.

Our monthly senior meeting will be held next Tuesday, May 17. We consider anyone who wants to join us as a member. No dues, only rule is that you must attend at least five meetings a year to vote for officers. This month we will be celebrating the birthdays of Don Brand and Judy Johnson with birthday cake after the meeting.

The 500 card group had nine tables of players, the largest attendance for a long time. The winners were Dean Elkin, Bea Gorven, Dave Peterson, Anke Olesen and Dorothy Cronquist.

Friday Spade winners were Duane Lockhart, Dwaine Bentley, Gerry Vogel, Larry Anderson and Shirley Doriott. Mary and Dale Sicard, Sue Newberger and Barb Munger furnished treats for the two groups of players.

Wii bowling is played on Monday mornings, Dime Bingo on Tuesday afternoon, 500 on Wednesday and Spades on Friday. All of the afternoon activities begin at 1 p.m. and everyone is welcome to come and join us.

Karen Hintz left for Madison on Tuesday and then home to Sturgeon Bay after visiting her mother Fran Krause. Friday Nancy Krause and daughter Leslie had lunch at Marge and Tom Ammends in Spooner.

Leslie spent the week with Kent and Nancy.

Fran Krause received a new chair for Mother’s Day. Bryan Krause finishes his first year of college this week.

Brad Krause played a soccer game on Saturday.

John and Reeny Neinstadt had breakfast at Bud and Natalie Flagstad’s and supper at Ron and Sharon Proffit’s.

Congratulations to Amy Childers, granddaughter of Jack and LaVonne O’Brien, who received one of the HCE scholarships for next year.

Bob, Mike and Tylyn and Tom and Becky O’Brien visited at Jack and LaVonne O’Brien’s on Sunday.

Jack and Jeri Witzany spent Sunday in Grantsburg at the Chris Witzany’s to celebrate Mother’s Day and attend the confirmation of Chandler.

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Harmony HCE held their meeting last Tuesday at Adeline Ingall’s. Seven members attended and Marvil Anderson was a guest from the Odds and Ends club.

Sympathy to the family of Dee Krause on the passing of her brother Daryl Glover. His funeral was last week.

Karen Hintz is visiting a few days with her mother Fran Krause.

Brad Krause was a lucky hunter getting a turkey on Sunday. Mark and Dee, Allyson and Brad Krause, Karen Hintz, Nancy Krause and her daughter Leslie, who is visiting for the weekend, had turkey dinner at Fran Krause’s.

I think if anyone had a May basket hanging on their door Sunday, it must have gotten frostbitten.

Where is spring?

Fran Krause and Karen had coffee with Helen Gravesen on Monday to help her celebrate her 91st birthday.

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Centuria Public Library

Make it, Take it – A card-making workshop on Saturday, May 21

Things are happening at the Centuria Public Library. On Saturday, May 21, the Centuria Public Library is holding a Make It, Take It workshop on using the Provo Cricut die-cutting machine. Join enthusiastic library staff to learn the basics of using the Cricut machine and make beautiful, one-of-a-kind greeting cards to share with family and friends. Participants will leave the workshop feeling successful and proud of their creations. The location of the workshop is the Centuria Public Library. The workshop begins at 1 p.m., and will end at 3:30 p.m. The cost is a donation towards the supplies that each participant uses.

Coming events – Free computer classes

The Centuria Public Library will soon be hosting computer classes for those who are just beginning their adventure with learning how to use a computer. Watch the paper for the forthcoming announcements on the days and times of the classes.

Morning bird walk

ST. CROIX FALLS – Migrant songbirds are returning to northern Wisconsin and Interstate Park. Many species of birds will remain here while others are passing through on their way farther north.

Don’t miss the opportunity to view and listen to these messengers of Computers and Wi-Fi spring. Join Robin Maercklein of the National Park Service for a two-hour The Centuria Public Library is the place to go for the use of a com- morning bird walk on Silverbrook Trail from 7 to 9 a.m. Saturday, May 21. puter. The library has four computers for use by the public and offers Meet at the Pines Group Camp at Wisconsin Interstate Park. Bring binocfree Wi-Fi for those who wish to use their laptops. Stop in at the Cen- ulars and a bird field guide if you have them. turia Public Library for your computer-use needs.

Interstate Park is located in St. Croix Falls, on Hwy. 35 just one-half mile south of Hwy. 8. For more information call Julie at 715-483-3747.

New books for young and old and everyone in between

The Centuria Public Library continues to add to the collection new best-sellers and books of interest for all ages. New DVDs have been added along with exciting picture storybooks for the young. New grade-level readers have been added for those young students who want to practice their ever-growing reading skills. Stop in at the library and the library staff will be happy to assist anyone who needs help in finding just the right book.

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Frederic music and art departments present spring shows and concerts

FREDERIC – The Frederic High School music students Monday: noon - 5 p.m.; Tuesday: noon - 7 p.m.; Wednesday: noon present their fine arts concert at the Frederic Area 7-12 School - 5 p.m.; Thursday: noon - 7 p.m.; Friday: noon to 5 p.m.; and Satur- Performance Center on Thursday, May 12, at 7 p.m. Perday: 10 a.m. – noon. forming groups will include the two high school bell choirs, the high school show choir, the high school concert choir and the high school concert band. Works will include highlights from WSMA large group festival, selections from “The Music Man” and “West Side Story” as well as pop and classical repertoire. Art students of Greg Heine and technical education students of Duane Krueger will also have works on display. mushrooms for the last 10 years. She has eaten close The Frederic Middle School music students will present to 80 different kinds of mushrooms – many which are their spring concert on Monday, May 16, in the performance easily identifiable. center at 7 p.m. The middle school concert choir and bell Learn about where and when to go foraging for choir will perform highlights from WSMA large group festimushrooms and what to bring along. Learn to idenval as well as gospel and popular music selections. The contify what you’ve found and how to prepare and precert band will perform highlights from “Grease,” “Thriller,” serve your harvest. Put your fears aside, separate fact music from the Pixar movie “The Incredibles” and “March from fiction, and join Meyerhoff as she demystifies Esprit.” those curious culinary collectibles.

All concerts are free of charge and open to the public. - subInterstate Park is located in St. Croix Falls on Hwy. mitted 35 just one-half mile south of Hwy. 8. A Wisconsin state park sticker is required to enter the park; daily passes are $7 for residents or $10 for nonresidents. For more information about the workshop call 715-4833747. - from Interstate Park

Incredible edible mushrooms

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Bloodmobile is coming to Webster

WEBSTER - The American Red Cross Bloodmobile will be coming to the Webster Community Center Tuesday, May 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The previous day, Monday, May 16, the bloodmobile will be at the Grantsburg Community Center from 12:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The American Red Cross encourages eligible Americans to observe Memorial Day by donating blood in the local area as a way of honoring all those who died serving our country.

“The Red Cross partners with many hospitals and medical centers across the United States, providing lifesaving blood products to patients,” said Katie Hedlund, coordinator for the local Red Cross Blood Services. “Your blood donation can help make a difference in the lives of patients in need.”

For more than 50 years, the Red Cross has been an innovator and a leader in transfusion medicine and research.

Started as a relief effort to provide lifesaving plasma and blood for soldiers during World War II, the Red Cross Blood Services has grown, collecting and distributing nearly half of the nation’s blood supply.

All types of blood are needed.

A blood-donor card or driver’s license, or two other forms of identification, are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 (16 with parental permission in some states), weigh at least 110 pounds and are generally in good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 or younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements. - information submitted

Luck Post Prom 2011

We would like to thank everyone who helped make the 6th-Annual Luck Post-Prom Party a Great Success. The kids enjoyed a safe evening following prom, which included bowling, food, games and prizes. We are excited to start planning for next year!

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ST. CROIX FALLS – If you are interested in wild mushrooms, then this is for you – a workshop all about identifying edible wild mushrooms presented by an experienced, self-educated mushroom hunter.

Join Leslie Jo Meyerhoff from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 14, at the Ice Age Center at Wisconsin Interstate Park to learn all about local wild mushrooms.

The workshop will focus on identification and habitats, the variety of edibles as well as health benefits, cultivation, preparation and preserving your harvest.

The fee for the workshop is $3 for Friends of Interstate Park and $5 for nonmembers. Preregistration is required. Call 715-483-3747 for registration and more information. Please bring pen and paper and a mushroom guidebook if you have one.

Meyerhoff has lived in Polk County nearly 20 years and has been successfully harvesting wild edible

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Role reversal

Women are natural caregivers. So what happens when we become the recipient of care? This role reversal can put our men to a test.

Such was the case for me recently when I hobbled out of the hospital following a total knee replacement to rehabilitate under the care of my handyman hubby.

Also known as “Igor the Ingenious Inventor,” my spouse is never happier than when puttering around in his garage/shop. It all started the year he spent an entire summer converting an old washing machine motor into a boat winch. You might also think of my husband as the “Red Green” of northwestern Wisconsin.

Once home from the hospital, we looked forward to the delivery of an amazing machine that attaches to the bed and keeps the stiff new knee moving. It wasn’t until after the driver left that we realized there were no instructions for its installation and use. Not to worry! The amazing, unflappable Igor would be able to figure it out.

Hooking it up was no problem. But the machine soon began creeping down and almost off the end of the bed as it worked its flexing motion on my knee.

Igor retreated to his shop. Several hours later he returned, hauling a monstrous structure resembling a road barricade that he wedged in between the bed and a dresser in order to secure the thing.

It not only worked, it added a bit of a thrill to my confinement as night after night I got to witness Igor challenging that barricade. He would back off, then take a flying leap over the thing to get to his side of the bed.

My first outing was the day we went to the clinic to have the staples removed. As the bandages came off and Igor got his first look at the railroad track running up and down my leg he turned to the doc and exclaimed, “Those things look just like hog rings!“ The doctor, also a country boy, agreed. Then, as he painstakingly pulled about two dozen of them out of my leg, the doc and Igor … totally ig-

Potpourri

by Pat

Pat Solomonson noring me now … were absorbed in a lengthy discussion about how hog rings are used on the farm.

One day our good neighbors, Alice and Steve, dropped by to visit and bring some good cheer. Someone mentioned an upcoming event at the senior center with home economists teaching a hands-on seminar on the subject of potatoes. “Let’s go!” said I, eager now to try another outing. “Let’s all go.”

Both husbands agreed. Alice said she would sign us up. But when the day arrived I had to renege. It suddenly seemed too ambitious an undertaking. Then Steve realized he had another commitment. So that left Igor and Alice. Sensing that my mate could use a change of scenery and a break from his caregiving, I insisted, “You go anyway … and take Alice.”

Shortly after he and Alice arrived, Igor called me to “complain” that he was the only man there among 15 women and that they were giving him a hard time for showing up with his neighbor’s wife while his own disabled wife was “suffering alone” at home.

With all the laughter I heard in the background, he failed to evoke any sympathy from me.

Physical therapy requires persistence and a willingness to endure pain. It also helps if your therapist has a drillinstructor side to him. Sometimes I persuade my DI to distract me by singing one of his silly songs as he holds my stretched-out leg down to a painful count.

I regret that I was unable to take Igor along with me into that surgical “la-la land,” to hear those machine-shop sounds ... the pounding, drilling and grinding ... that I heard while under a spinal bloc during the two-hour knee replacement.

On the other hand, that image of Igor … assisting my surgeon in his plaid shirt and tool belt … remains my worst nightmare.

Grantsburg choir pop concert

GRANTSBURG – Choirs from grades seven through 12, as well as the CLC after-school choir, will join on Friday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m., in the Grantsburg High School auditorium for the final concert of the year, “This Is Why We Sing.” The concert will be followed by an ice-cream social in the commons.

The music being performed is popular and features show tunes from many different eras, featuring composers from Irving Berlin to Billy Joel. There will be something for everyone.

Performing are the fourth- through sixth-grade CLC choir, seventh- and

eighth-grade choir, Swingin’ Sisters, ladies swing choir, Travelers, vocal jazz ensemble and, of course, the high school choir.

Audience members are invited to join the choirs in the commons after the concert for root-beer floats or ice-cream sundaes. The high school choir will be asking for a donation as a fundraiser for a future choir tour.

The GHS senior quilt display and art show will be available in the high school gym before the concert. - submitted

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Two Polk County 4-H youth selected top 12 in state photography display

STATEWIDE – The state 4-H Photo Advisory Committee has named the following entries from Polk County as part of the top-12 photos in the 2011 state 4-H photo display. This year’s display features almost 150 photos from 54 counties, so to be picked one of the best is truly an honor.

Pick for the No. 3 spot was a photo taken

by Kaitlin Lutsey, Beaver Brook Badgers 4H, Amery. The photo was titled “Interrupted Red leaf on a wooden rail.” In the 11th spot was a photo taken by Kolton Kjeseth-Zinn, Deronda Diplomats, Amery, titled “My Favorite Things” (fishing reel, bait and oar).

The top-12 photos are highlighted on

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the 2011 display appearing at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center. Youth received a letter telling them of their selection along with a medal from Kodak.

The display, which features nearly 150 photos taken by 4-H members from 54 counties, is on exhibit at the 2011 Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center, Aug. 414. Thousands of visitors will view the display during the fair. In addition, all of these young photographers will have the opportunity to have their photos shown for a year in Youth Center of Wisconsin State Fair Park. The prints will be mounted in presentation plaques to hang starting around Jan. 1, 2012. - submitted

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Local Modern Woodmen members plant trees at fairgrounds Shown planting trees at the Polk County Fairgrounds are Kevin Van Sloun, Modern Woodmen member; Kirsten Bloom, Modern Woodmen coordinator; and Ashley Bloom, Modern Woodmen youth representative. - Photo submitted

Students and staff at the Frederic Elementary were enjoying the sweet success of cookie sales for the past several weeks. The teachers and support staff baked and donated over 1,300 cookies. The cookies were sold on four Wednesdays this spring. They were sold for 50 cents each. This project raised $692. The proceeds from the sale were donated to the Frederic Food Shelf. The Climate Committee at Frederic Elementary has held a food drive for several years in order to support the Frederic community. Thank you to the cookie bakers and those who purchased cookies. - Photo submitted

Taylor presented plaque

Pat Taylor (center), owner of SwedbergTaylor Family Funeral Homes, was presented with a plaque recognizing his role in founding the Siren/Webster Rotary Club in 2003. Taylor set up the club, which meets every Thursday at noon at the Pour House, Siren, and served as its first president. Making the presentation at the club meeting Thursday, May 5, were Tammy TwedtClose (L), presidentelect, and Gail Potvin, club secretary. - Photo

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ST. CROIX FALLS - On May 7, local Modern Woodmen of America members gave a lasting gift to the community.

Members of the Forest Lake and Somerset area chapters and youth groups gathered at Polk County Fairgrounds to plant trees.

The project was part of the Plant a Tree program, a nationwide program introduced by Modern Woodmen for its members in 2004. “This program ties Modern Woodmen members to the roots of our organization,” says Kirsten Bloom, leader of the Modern Woodmen youth group. “The name Modern Woodmen honors the pioneer woodmen who cleared the forests to build homes and secure futures for their families. Modern Woodmen offers financial services to help clear away members’ financial burdens. And today planting trees is an important way to create a secure future for families, communities and

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Burnett County Drug and Alcohol Court celebrates National Drug Court Month 36 participants since 2006

BURNETT COUNTY - National Drug Court Month is coordinated on a national level by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.

This year, drug courts throughout the nation are celebrating National Drug Court Month with the theme: Drug Courts: A Proven Budget Solution. What started in a Florida courtroom 20 years ago has become the nation’s most successful strategy for dealing with substanceabusing offenders. Drug courts are a proven budget solution that saves lives and money and have a tremendous impact on our community.

Like the other 2,500 operational drug courts in the United States, the Burnett County Drug Court is a judicially supervised court docket that reduces correc-

tional costs, protects community safety, and improves public welfare. In drug courts, seriously drug-addicted individuals remain in treatment for long periods of time while under close supervision. Drug court participants must meet their obligation to themselves, their families and society. To ensure accountability, they are regularly and randomly tested for drug use, required to appear frequently in court for the judge to review their progress, rewarded for doing well and sanctioned for not living up to their obligations. Research continues to show that drug courts work better than jail or prison, better than probation and better than treatment alone.

Drug courts are this nation’s most effective strategy at reducing recidivism among seriously drug-addicted, nonviolent offenders with long criminal histories.

Nationally 75 percent of individuals who

ST. CROIX FALLS - A Wenonah Spirit II canoe was presented to the St. Croix River Association for use in a fundraising raffle to support Be Moved by the River, a 180-mile paddle of the St. Croix River coming up in July. The craft has a retail value of nearly $2,000 and joins the lineup of exceptional raffle items, including elite paddles donated by Bending Branches.

Tickets for the raffle will go on sale soon through the St. Croix River Association with headquarters in St. Croix Falls. The event is also supported by corporate sponsors such as the Andersen Corporation, 45 Degrees and U.S. Bank. Nonprofit and foundation partnership support comes from the St. Croix Valley Foundation, the National Park Service, the Xcel Energy Foundation and the Katharine B. Andersen Fund.

The July celebration of the St. Croix River includes 17 days of experiencing the river on water and land. The event, called Be Moved by the River, is the signature piece of the St. Croix River Association’s 100th-anniversary events.

Be Moved by the River is a 180-mile paddle of the entire St. Croix River. On the bigger water, especially on the lower St. Croix, paddlers will be joined by sailboats, pontoons, other motorized watercraft and excursion paddleboats. At lunch

and overnight stops along the way, communities will celebrate and participate with music, performance, educational programs and food events.

An SCRA steering committee of about 30 people have guided the planning process led by Dan McGuiness, a paddler who has experienced thousands of miles of river travel in his lifetime.

“The St. Croix is such an enjoyable river,” said McGuiness. “For most sections of the river, anyone with minimal skill can paddle it. It is small enough that you are never far from shore and yet fast enough to carry a canoe along at a nice pace. Be Moved by the River is a chance to paddle this beautiful river with others who love it and are always willing to share their own stories along the way.”

The St. Croix River Association mission is to protect, restore and celebrate the St. Croix River and its watershed. It is the only organization with a watershedwide scope that is able to focus on both sides of the river and both the upper and lower portions of the river basin. With such a large regional focus (7,800 square miles), it’s only natural that the centennial observation called for a signature event that would celebrate the entire river. So, a progressive party has been designed, one that begins in Solon Springs with a kickoff cel-

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Drug courts save up to $13,000 for every individual they serve and return as much as $27 for every $1 invested. “Drug courts are a proven budget solution and must be expanded,” said NADCP CEO West Huddleston. “This May, all across the nation, thousands of people are graduating drug court with a renewed sense of purpose and commitment to serving their community. This is changing the face of our justice system, not only saving lives but saving critical resources.” Huddleston acknowledged the progress of the last 21 years but stated more can be done. “Drug courts save money, cut crime and serve veterans. In order to truly end the cycle of substance abuse and crime, we must put a drug court within reach of every eligible American.”

Since its inception in 2006, Burnett

County Drug Court has had 36 participants, out of the 36 participants 22 have graduated, seven are currently participating, and seven have been terminated from the program. For the participant to remain successful after graduation as well as successful in the program they need to apply the tools they were given in the program. AODA recovery does not end on graduation day, it is an ongoing process where the life skills and self-esteem that were developed in treatment are necessary for long-term sobriety.

Burnett County Drug Court is held the first and third Thursday of the month at 8:30 a.m. If you have any questions please contact Tessa Anderson, drug court coordinator at 715-349-7600 extension 1256 or at tanderson@burnettcounty.org - from Burnett County Drug Court

Wenonah canoe is grand prize for St. Croix River Association raffle

Be Moved by the River Chairman Dan McGuiness receives a canoe for raffle from Jake Greseth of Wenonah Canoe. - Photo submitted

ebration on Tuesday evening, July 5, launches on the river the next morning, and works its way downstream with events all along the way, ending in Prescott on July 22. The great news is there are two ways to celebrate – by land and by water.

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Luck and trouble in Ireland told at New Hope

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by Wayne Anderson Special to the Leader GRANTSBURG – The luck and troubles of the Irish came to New Hope Lutheran last Sunday, May 8.

Dr. Robert Ballard, a missionary based in Northern Ireland, told of what God is doing among Christians of all denominations in this politically troubled land.

Surprising to those living outside of Ireland, the vast majority of Catholic and Protestant Christians there don’t want to fight anymore. Rather they want to pray, said Ballard.

Since 2009, his ministry was with Youth With A Mission. But now as a pastor of a Presbyterian church, he busies himself setting up networks of prayer with all area churches, while incorporating Bible learning programs.

“The vast majority of them want peace,” he said.

The island of Ireland is politically divided into two countries: Northern Ireland (Nationalists) who are pre-

Dr. Emory Johnson, pastor of New Hope Lutheran, (R), rejoices with Dr. Robert Ballard, guest missionary, over what God is doing in Ireland. – Photo by Wayne Anderson

dominantly Catholic, and the Republic of Ireland (Unionists) who are predominantly Protestant.

People often picture Ireland as a happy-go-lucky land.

But for many years it was a war-torn place of violence and political conflict called the “Troubles.”

But in the unifying power of the Holy Spirit, these troubled peoples are finding a new hope in the love of Christ, said Ballard.

For some 30 years, Ballard said he was pounding on God’s door to open for him to go into the mission fields.

And after three decades he said, “God sent me to Ireland.”

Presently he is on vacation in the U.S. And he is available to speak about all that God is doing in Ireland to folks in Wisconsin. For more information on Ballard and New Hope Lutheran call 715-463-5700 or e-mail him directly at robertkbjr@yahoo.com.

Night at the Movies hair show

More than 140 people attended the semiannual barber/cosmetology dinner and hair show at WITC-Rice Lake. This year’s theme was Night at the Movies and students had a chance to show off their newly mastered skills in cutting, coloring and styling hair. Beginning with dinner in the WITC Conference Center, it was followed by a runway parade of 70 models of all ages that had been coiffed and costumed by the students in their interpretations of characters from selected movies of their choice. Barber/cosmetology is a three-semester program at WITC-Rice Lake, preparing graduates to pass the Wisconsin barber/cosmetologist practitioner license examination. The first-place winners in the five categories at the WITC-Rice Lake Night at the Movies dinner and hair show: Esthetician Scott Russell of Barron, his model Leanne Halling as Avatar; stylist Jessica Perold of Rice Lake and model Brandon Milton as Edward Scissorhands; stylist Katie Zimmerman of Baldwin and her model Tami Zimmerman as Cruella de Vil; model Katie Langman as a character from “Pan’s Labyrinth” and stylist Kristine Gotch of Cameron; stylist Mindi Larson of Chetek and model Olivia Larson as Marie Antoinette. - Photo submitted

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Civil War presentation May 26

LUCK - The Polk County Genealogy Society membership, the Luck Area Historical Society and the Luck Public Library are jointly sponsoring “The Civil War - 150 Years Ago,” a presentation by Michael J. Martin, lecturer/author - at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 26, at the Luck Library and Museum on Main Street. Refreshments will

follow.

Members of the PCGS will staff the museum on Mondays - May 23, June 13 and 20, from 1 to 4 p.m. (note time change).

Laptops will be available, along with research assistance for visiting guests. - with submitted information

Thank You

Luck Medical Clinic would like to thank the following people and businesses for their generous support in our Sundown Saloon Cancer Walk Fundraiser that raised $5,693.50.

Luck Bottle Shop Lundquist Farm Kaelble Brothers Subway Bella Salon Jerry & Julie Roy Jeff Java Jonathon Fredericks Luck Party Rental “Pete” The Rose Garden Frederic Fuel Ackley Novelty Rustic Reflections Skol Haus Bean’s Country Griddle Great Northern Outdoors Luck Fitness Center Darwyn & Pam Brown’s Carriage Peper’s Tire and Alignment Service DJ Wilson & the Spinning Disks Amy Fossum - Polaris Ind. Village Floral, Grantsburg Main Street Cafe Teresa Drost - Silpada Scott Mellon - Polk Cty. Realty Beth Cunningham - Mary Kay Tammy Hellstern - Close To My Heart Patti Crane & Missy Hernandez Skol Bar Cheese & More Cassie McKenzie Burnett Dairy Betty & Mike Soine Kinetico Water Systems Frederic Area Sanitation Val Cox - Tastefully Simple Daggett’s IGA, Hinckley Bremer Bank Trade Lake Mutual Van Meter’s Meats Tim Baxter Pioneer Bar Ogilvie Auto Bernick’s Pepsi Stoker Services Daeffler Quality Meats Robin Peterson Thank you to Sundown Saloon for hosting our event and for all who came and supported it.

Together We Will Find A Cure!

There are many, many other individuals that helped make this event a huge success. We thank you all!

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Rural Development helps area families and communities

SIREN – Burnett County is the area of choice to live for almost 6,620 households.

Many of the homes are owned by elderly or lower-income families and are in desperate need of repair and modernization.

Young families who want to stay in the area are looking to buy or build a home.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development assists with all levels of homeownership and community development for rural residents. From basic infrastructure needs, water and waste disposal improvements, community facilities, business assistance, to financing the purchase and repair of homes for individuals and families.

USDA Rural Development provides a variety of loan and grant programs to meet the needs of area families. Some families want to build new, while others

want to repair their current homes. Program assistance is provided through direct or guaranteed loans and grants, technical assistance, research and educational materials. To accomplish its mission, USDA Rural Development often works in partnership with state, local and tribal governments, as well as rural businesses, cooperatives and nonprofit agencies.

A representative from USDA Rural Development will be available on Tuesday, May 17, at Burnett County Governmment Center, 7410 CTH K, Siren, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. To schedule an appointment please contact your local USDA Rural Development Office at 715-635-8228, Ext. 4.

Further information on USDA Rural Development programs is available by visiting their Web site at www.rurdev.usda.gov/wi. USDA Rural Development is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. - from USDA

Preparing for the worst

Local health-care facility participates in national disaster emergency plan

POLK COUNTY - On May 18, an earthquake will strike Arkansas. However, Wisconsin will feel the effects of the catastrophe too. The Mississippi River will rise above its banks, causing flooding and minor infrastructure damage in the state.

This earthquake of course is not real.

But it could be. This scenario will be part of a multistate exercise linked to a national drill. Jefferson and Racine counties will have hazmat exercises in conjunction with this regional event.

In addition, the Wisconsin Hospital Emergency Preparedness Program will test the Wisconsin Trac system for interhospital communications in support of four hospitals in the flood zones of southwestern Wisconsin.

The National Disaster Medical System will be activated to transport earthquake victims to the NDMS receiving center at General Mitchell Field in Milwaukee as

part of this drill. Hospitals in Region 7 in Southeast Wisconsin and Region 5 in Southcentral Wisconsin can elect to “receive” federal patients.

Amery Regional Medical Center will participate in this statewide exercise on May 18. WI Trac is an electronic resource and bed reporting system that was implemented by the Wisconsin Hospital Emergency Preparedness Program. Amery Regional Medical Center will also test its ability to accept a surge of medical patients as well as assess their hospital emergency operations center.

“Exercises like these give us a chance to pull all the emergency response pieces together for a large incident,” said Russ Grimsby, registered nurse, Emergency Preparedness at Amery Regional Medical Center. “Our main goal is to improve our ability to work with other hospitals in an integrated fashion and to evaluate our interhospital communication. We hope a disaster of this magnitude never happens, but if it does, we will be prepared,” added Grimsby. - from ARMC

2011 Prom Court

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St. Croix Falls

St. Croix Falls will hold their junior prom this Saturday, May 14. Prom court was announced Monday morning, May 9. Pictured are king candidates (back row L to R): Alex Bertram, Ben Clausen, Alex Mikl, Nick Siltberg and Jake Rademaker. Queen candidates (front row L to R) are: Alicia Gravesen, Emily Johnson, Carlee Libbenga, Ally Mahler and Caitlyn Olson. The coronation takes place at the high school at 5:30 p.m. Saturday with prom itself taking place at Paradise Landing in Balsam Lake at 7 p.m.

– Photo by Tammi Milberg

St. Croix Falls kindergarten concert The St. Croix Falls kindergarten concert took place Friday, May 6. Pictured are two students acting out the cat and mouse while students sing in the background about the cat taking mice away. – Photos by Tammi Milberg

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The song “Naughty Pussycat” tells about all the things the cat gets caught in its whiskers. This girl holds up one of the items, Cheetos®, while the kindergarteners sing their song.

The kindergarteners act out their song about elephants playing on a spider’s web.

Photographed are students at the end of the song when too many elephants landed on the web to play and the web was done.

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ACS Walk/Run raises over $34,000

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LUCK – The 16th-annual Luck Area American Cancer Society Walk/Run, Saturday, May 7, raised over $34,000. Donna Erickson, ACS representative Michelle Moore Gullickson, Jaime Anderson and honorary Chair, Debbie Wickstrom, spoke at the opening ceremony. Patti Mattson was presented with a gift in recognition of her 16 years as chairperson of the event. Wickstrom cut the ribbon, followed by 200 people (13 teams and individual participants) walking or running the 1-, 3or 5-mile journey to fight cancer.

John Flemming and Tony Carter drove the fire truck and directed participants in the right direction. Bob Kreutzian was available to give to any weary walkers assistance if needed. Jason McKenzie, from Kinetico, provided water to those wanting it.

The top individual money raisers are: Sheila Berklund – $4,060; Marlys Hedberg – $2,788; Sandy Lundquist – $2,600;

Just before Saturday’s walk began LeRoy Olson of Somerset had his hair cut to donate to Locks of Love. Carol Giller is shown with one of the two locks she cut from his hair. — Photo submitted

Luck

Nearly 200 people gathered at Luck School Saturday for the annual American Cancer Society Walk/Run, raising $34,500 for cancer. — Photos

by Mary Stirrat unless otherwise noted Margie Nelson - $2,597; Marie Bazey $1,200; Beth Cunningham - $759; Jean Anderson, $640; Hilda Trudeau - $585; and Laurie Von Deylen – $506. Prizes for these winners include two $50 gift certificates from Stop-A-Sec Holiday Store, two $25 gifts from Van Meters and four 18 rounds of golf from Frederic Golf Course.

The top team fundraisers are: Sandy and the Gang - $5,732; Frandsen Bank & Trust - $5,475; Laketown Lutheran $3,653; Luck Lutheran - $3,414; House of Wood - $1,720; Bone Lake Lutheran $1,281; Ackerly Team - $1,127; Snociables and Cliff Trudeau - $1,022; Lakeland Communications - $915; and Erickson Family $905.

The autographed Packer Super Bowl football was awarded to the highest bidder for $300 and the winning bid for the wooden chest was $150. Footprints and Circles for Cancer brought in $422, tribute flags $150.

LeRoy Olson had his hair cut by Carol Giller and donated it to Locks of Love.

Debbie Wickstrom, honorary chair for the 2011 walk, spoke to the crowd gathered to take part in Saturday’s walk for cancer. “As a cancer survivor,” she told the group of about 200 in attendance, “I will tell you this. The power to fight cancer comes from the heart and from the soul and from the support from family and friends.” She spoke of the day when no one will die of cancer and when children will be unfamiliar with chemotherapy and radiation. Holding the megaphone is Donna Erickson, a longtime member of the walk/run committee.

Sue Messer gave out T-shirts while Hilda Trudeau and Marcy Plomski took team pictures. Donna Erickson and Tobie Erickson greeted those at the survivors table. Jaime Anderson and Jean Tucker tabulated statistics and counted money.

Marie Bazey arranged food and beverages that were available before and after the walk which were donated by Wayne’s Foods Plus, Wal-Mart, Ruby’s Pantry, Bernick’s Pepsi, Bone Lake Lutheran and Kinetico.

Volunteers at the registration table were Hannah Karl, Luck royalty; Jaimee Buck, Luck royalty; Jillian Peterson, Luck royalty; Katie Tolan, Ami Cran, Jean Giller, Lynn Stoklasa, Kim Harvey and Denise Nelson.

This year’s sponsors were Amery Regional Medical Center, St. Croix Valley Hardwoods, Wayne’s Foods Plus, Luck Country Inn and Frandsen Bank & Trust.

Gratutide is extended to all who made this event so successful.

Patti Mattson has chaired the Luck Area Walk/Run for the 16 years it has been held.

LeRoy Olson, Somerset, after having his hair cut to donate to Locks of Love. Carol Giller cut his “locks” just before Saturday’s walk.

Debbie Wickstrom, honorary chair for the Luck Area Walk/Run, cuts the ribbon to begin Saturday’s event. In her comments to the participants, Wickstrom said, “I am so looking forward to the day that this walk is no longer needed and I can put my walking shoes away knowing that I did what I could to help find a cure.”

A great cause brought out about 150 walkers to raise money for cancer research Saturday.

This year marked the 16th-annual American Cancer Society Luck Area Walk/Run. More than $34,500 was raised by 13 teams.

ACS Walk/Run raises over $22,500

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FREDERIC – The Frederic Area American Cancer Society Walk/Run on Saturday, May 7, had 190 registered participants and 17 teams. The total amount raised was over $22,500.

A very special thank-you to Honorary Chair Hope Healy and all the cancer survivors who attended the walk.

The following businesses and individuals gave their help and support to the walk.

Walk/Run sponsors Larsen Auto Centers, Amery Regional Medical Center and St. Croix Regional Medical Center.

American Cancer Society representative from the Wausau office, Chris Timme, and local ACS representative Michele Gullickson Moore.

Provided corsages for cancer survivors: The Rose Garden.

Food: Apples, Frederic Grocery; string cheese, Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board and Polk and Burnett County Dairy Promotion; cookies, Sylvia Hansen and Rhoda Jensen.

Water: Travis McKenzie, Kinetico Water Systems.

Advertising and publicity: Doug Panek and Gary King, Mary Stirrat and the InterCounty Leader.

The 2011 team totals were: Luck Medical Clinic/ Sundown Saloon; $3,387; Hacker’s Lanes $2,253; Hansen Family and Friend $1,360, Ash Street Gals $1,328; Georgetown Lutheran $1,015; Schmidt Family and Friends $910; Dot Buecksler Family and Friends; $870; Frederic Schools $676; Walk for Karli $550; Good Cheer Club $485; St. Luke’s Saints $390; Ackerley Drywall $321; Frederic Lioness $255; Frederic Dental Office $195; Beaudry Company $180; Pilgrim Lutheran Church $110; and Gene Johnson Construction $105. Individual walkers raised $425.

The top individual fundraisers were: Jim Prodger $1,405; Rochelle Zacco $1,145; Patti Fredericks $1,061; Linda Clausen $1,049; Nancy Hardenbergh $1,060; Sylvia Hansen $665; Elvira Schmidt $395; JoAnn Gibbs $370; Ron Hansen $360; Dolf Schmidt $325; and Sandy Hacker $304.

Signs of Hope raised $,1,610, athletic shoes raised $457, the quilt raffle raised $617, tribute flags raised $190, and the autographed Packer football silent auction raised $160.

Many volunteers helped with the walk.

Helped register participants: Kay Graf, Chris Timme ACS Representative.

Took team pictures: Bob MacKean.

Assisted with pictures, Frederic Princesses Frankie Knuf and Vanessa Neumann.

Served coffee, apples, cheese, water and cookies: Rhoda Jensen.

Sold and lettered tribute flags: Cora Dversdall.

Displayed tribute flags: Aane Nakashima.

Sold quilt tickets: Mary Ellen Ruhn and Betty MacKean.

Did the final count of money: Mary Lou Daeffler, Linda Owens, and Chris Timme.

Provided registration site and PA system: Frederic Schools.

Set up PA system: Pat Anderson.

Set up registration area in school: Jim Schommer.

Hosted kickoff meeting, Hacker’s Lanes, set up for kickoff breakfast, Linda Richter.

Provided breakfast sandwiches for kick-

Frederic

2011 Frederic ACS Walk/Run Chairman and cancer survivor Hope Healy cut the ribbon to begin the event, Saturday morning, May 7, as other cancer survivors and event participants looked on. - Special photos

off breakfast: Holiday Station.

Provided meeting room for committee: Pilgrim Lutheran Church.

Put walk/run information on Frederic Village sign: Rebecca Harlander.

Created and put up walk banner at school: Terry Siebenthal.

Provided buy one, get one half price, golf vouchers for each participant: Joan Spencer and the Frederic Golf Course.

Put up and took down Signs of Hope and route signs: Phyllis and Scott Wilder.

Donated the raffle quilt, Betty and Bob MacKean. Sylvia Hansen was the quilt raffle winner.

Donated Green Bay Packer autographed football for silent auction: Green Bay Packers.

Dale Johnson had the winning bid on the autographed Packer football.

Ambulance staff: Lonna Coddington, Jordan Coddington and Vernon Knauber.

Provided intersection patrol and escorted money to bank: Officer RJ Severude.

The Frederic Area Walk/Run committee members are Sylvia Hansen, Kay Thorsbakken, Phyllis Wilder, Nancy Hardenbergh, Colleen Draxler, Cora Dversdall, Amy Free, JoAnn Gibbs and Elvira Schmidt. - submitted

The Luck Medical Clinic/Sundown Saloon team raised the most money at Saturday’s ACS Walk/Run event in Frederic.

The Hacker’s Lanes team raised the second highest amount in Saturday’s event.

The Hansen Family and Friends team (left) and the Ash Street Gals team (right) raised the third and fourth highest amounts in the Frederic ACS Walk/Run event on Saturday.

Post-Prom activities

Frederic/Grantsburg/Siren/Webster

Jake Hunter and Mark Packard of Webster race on the giant trikes.

Students were instructed on what was available for the evenings post-prom activities.

Photos submitted by the schools

Students take a break from the movies and activities to enjoy a sub.

Siren chaperones Breanna Barr (left) and Beth Proctor (right) take each other on in Sumo Wrestling

L to R: Tyler Sanvig, Stephanie Miklya, Chelsea Hane and Paul Lewis await the next movie at the Timbers Theatre.

David St. John (left) and Jordan Buffalo (right) of Siren on the giant trikes.

Nate Alhness of Frederic competes on the Equalizer inflatable.

Colton Tretsven and Liz Gaffney wait in line for their sub sandwich at Subway.

4-H Cloverbud Camp

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Burnett County

BURNETT COUNTY – On May 7, Burnett County 4-H sponsored Cloverbud Camp. Cloverbuds are the youngest members of 4-H, in grades K-2. Some 4-H members also brought friends who aren’t members of 4-H. The theme for this year’s Cloverbud Camp was Superheroes, and members went through their Superhero training.

The activities of the day included a sci-

Madison Thiex poses in her newly created superhero costume.

Abby Hayman plays with her ooze that she made during the science lesson.

ence lesson where Cloverbuds learned about doing experiments, making hypotheses and performed a chemical reaction by making ooze. Everyone enjoyed playing games and singing camp songs.

During arts and crafts the 4-H’ers made Group Photo from Cloverbud Camp. Back row (L to R): Jillian Schinzing, Will Ganje, Richard their own superhero costumes, complete Schneider, Max Lindquist and Mat Wampfler. Second row: Dani Miller, Madison Thiex, Jalynn with mask and cape! A highlight of the Nelson, Owen Washburn, Abby Hayman and Derek Thiex. Third row: Aidan Johnson, AJ Flatten, day was going on a villain hunt, where the Nicholas Webster and Hailie Balluff. Front row: Dominic St. John, Hannah Balluff, Rylee Nelson, heroes had to search for their villains Vanessa Wickstrom and Ayla Meyer. throughout the building after being given a set of clues.

Everyone involved, including older youth volunteers and staff, had a great time and are looking forward to next year’s camp. - submitted

Owen Washburn strikes his best Youth volunteer Jillian Schinzing helps Cloverbud superhero pose. – Photos submitted Rylee Nelson create her cape.

The girls had slimy hands after making their ooze.

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Polk County HCE Spring Fling

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AMERY – Polk County HCE held their annual Spring Fling Dinner and Awards Night on Monday, May 2, the at the Amery Senior Center. A meatball dinner was served by the southeast clubs, Joel and Neighborly Nites.

HCE’s Citizen of the Year Irene Stindle was presented with her award by Bonnie Timm.

President Rae Lynn Neumann presented HCE scholarships to Summer Wilson and Carl White Jr.

Polk County HCE Outstanding Citizen of the Year Irene Stindle is shown here with Bonnie Timm and Rae Lynn Neumann, members of the Polk County HCE.

Carl White Jr. is shown receiving a scholarship from Rae Lynn Neumann, Polk County HCE president. Also shown is Rick Penberthy and Josie Penberthy, White’s parents.

Scholarship recipient Summer Wilson is shown with Polk County HCE President Rae Lynn Neumann (R), and her grandmother, Betty Wilson, and (L) mother, Barb Wilson. – Photos submitted

The Lee Elmer Band entertained everyone with stories of the “Pioneers” of southeast Polk County in the late 1800s and played old-time music that most could sing along with.

The cultural arts winners and longtime members will be announced in the next edition of HCE Happenings, watch for the column. – Pat Willits, HCE publicity chair

Volunteer recognition awards

Lois Taylor (R), director of the Burnett County Aging Unit, presented volunteer-recognition awards to Siren unit volunteers during the monthly dinner at the Siren Senior Center Thursday, May 5. Barb Munger, pictured with Taylor, was commended for putting in 74-plus hours at the Siren Senior Dining Site during 2010. Dining-site volunteers included Don Brand, Lou Jappe, Marjorie Nyberg, Corrine Root, Nona and Ralph Severson, Gerry Vogel and several unnamed other people.

Gerry Vogel, a home-delivered-meals driver working out of the Siren Senior Center site, was recognized for the 7,161 miles he drove during 2010, putting in a total of 256 hours. Other home-delivered-meal drivers honored Thursday, May 5, included Carol Berglind, Bart Barr, Roy Clark, Lou Jappe, Deborah Korhonen and Nora Livingston. – Photos by Nancy Jappe

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Connect to your community

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Frederic Girl Scouts Court of A wards

FREDERIC - The Frederic Girl Scouts held their annual Court of Awards on Monday, May 9. Besides receiving their awards for this year’s activities, the Girl Scouts also put on fashion show. They modeled vintage Girl Scout uniforms as well as some fashions of their own personal design. - submitted

Second- and third-grade Brownies model vintage Girl Scout uniforms which were on loan from the River Valley Girl Scout Council. Photos submitted

Elaine Lahti and Haley Ennis show off Junior Girl Scout uniforms worn between 1963 - 1973.

The first Cadette Girl Scout uniform is modeled by Katie Peterson.

This uniform was worn by Cadettes between 1963 - 1973 and was also accompanied by a dark green badge sash.

Kaitlin Bartlett models a wartime Intermediate Girl Scout uniform. This uniform was worn by girls in the 1940s. The uniform was redesigned to have a button-down front, rather than a zipper, due to the shortage of metals during World War II.

WHAT’S FOR LUNCH???

Menu LOCATION

MAY 16 - MAY 20

MONDAY

TUESDAY

BREAKFAST

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

LUNCH Chili-cheese wrap, asst. toppings, corn OR turkey salad.

BREAKFAST Waffle snacks.

LUNCH Sub sandwich, chips, raw veggies, dip OR ham salad.

BREAKFAST Apple frudel.

LUNCH Grilled cheese, tomato soup, peas and carrots OR beef-taco salad.

BREAKFAST

FREDERIC

LUNCH Spaghetti, bread stick, broccoli OR chicken-strip salad.

BREAKFAST Uncrustable.

LUNCH Chicken a la king, rice or biscuit, green beans OR chicken-taco salad.

GRANTSBURG Each building will have their own breakfast menu.

LUNCH Mini corn dogs, french fries, baked beans, orange slices, apples, oranges, bread basket.

LUNCH Spaghetti, meat sauce, garlic toast, green beans, sliced peaches, apples, oranges, bread basket.

LUNCH Hot dog or brat, potato chips, fresh veggies/dip, fresh pear, apples, oranges, bread basket.

LUNCH Taco salad with fixings, baked rice, peas, refried beans, apples, oranges, bread basket.

LUNCH Pizza dippers, marinara sauce, baked rice, sliced carrots, mandarin oranges, apples, oranges, bread basket.

LUCK

BREAKFAST Cereal/breakfast pizza.

LUNCH Chef’s choice.

BREAKFAST Cereal/pancakes.

LUNCH Chicken and gravy, mashed potatoes, peas, fruit sauce. Alt.: Hot dog, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Cereal/omelet/sausage.

LUNCH Build your own sub, chips, corn, fruit sauce. Alt.: Mini corn dogs, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Cereal/donut.

LUNCH Baked potato bar, ham/cheese, broccoli w/cheese, fruit sauce. Alt.: Chicken nuggets, ALL.

BREAKFAST Cereal/cinnamon rolls.

LUNCH Mozzarella pizza dippers, dipping sauce, green beans, fresh fruit. Alt.: Hamburger, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Assorted cereal and toast, juice and milk.

LUNCH Shaved ham and cheese, tiny pretzels, veggies, corn, fruit cocktail.

Alt.: Cook’s choice.

BREAKFAST Mini pancakes, juice and milk.

LUNCH Nuggets, buttered noodles, green beans, veggies, kiwi and oranges.

Alt.: Cook’s choice.

BREAKFAST Assorted cereal and toast, juice and milk.

LUNCH Taco salad, shredded lettuce, beans, corn, applesauce. Alt.: Cook’s choice.

BREAKFAST Pancake and sausage on a stick, juice and milk.

LUNCH Spaghetti hotdish, bread, peaches, peas, lettuce salad. Alt.: Cook’s choice.

BREAKFAST Assorted cereal and toast, juice and milk.

LUNCH Pizza dippers, rice, white corn, rice, carrots, cookie, whole-kernel corn, pineapple & mancelery, pineapple tidbits, banana. darin oranges.

Alt.: Cook’s choice.

Alt.: Cook’s choice.

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BREAKFAST Scrambled eggs w/ham and cheese, 1 slice of toast.

LUNCH Chicken patty, potato wedge, carrots, mixed fruit. Alt.: Hamburger.

BREAKFAST Cheese omelet, potatoes and toast.

LUNCH Hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, peaches.

Alt.: Ham & cheese, potato soup.

BREAKFAST Pancake and sausage.

LUNCH Baked potato bar, ham, cheese sauce, broccoli, applesauce. Alt.: Beef stroganoff.

BREAKFAST Blueberry muffins and yogurt.

LUNCH Cheeseburger, spicy fries, green beans, pears. Alt.: Spicy chicken patty.

BREAKFAST Breakfast pizza.

LUNCH Sloppy joe, french fries, corn, mandarin oranges. Alt.: Hot dog.

BREAKFAST

UNITY

BREAKFAST Cook’s choice.

LUNCH Barbecues and hash browns.

LUNCH Pizza dippers w/sauce and green beans.

BREAKFAST Eggs and sausage.

LUNCH Sub sandwich, cottage cheese and chips.

WEBSTER

LUNCH Chicken nuggets, scalloped potatoes, carrots, pineapple.

LUNCH Baked chicken, au gratin potatoes, green beans, pears.

LUNCH Bacon cheeseburger, bun, fresh veggies, fresh fruit.

SIREN

Muffin.

Omelets.

BREAKFAST

Cook’s buffet.

LUNCH

LUNCH Cook’s choice OR hamburger gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, peaches.

Donut.

BREAKFAST Yogurt parfait.

LUNCH French dip and baked potato.

LUNCH Baked potato bar with toppings OR beef barley soup with veggies, PBJ, applesauce.

Pancakes.

Area chamber bowling fundraiser

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by Priscilla Bauer Leader staff writer

GRANTSBURG – Fun was the name of the game for the teams participating in the first-annual Grantsburg Area Chamber of Commerce bowling tournament at Denny’s Downtown Lanes on Saturday, May 7.

The six teams taking to the lanes in a good-natured competition to raise funds for the chamber were U.S. Bank, Burnett Dairy Cooperative, Community Bank, KWood Truss, the Wood River Pharmacy Packer Pillers and the Rombach Family Twinkies.

Winning top team honors and receiving cash prizes were first-place team K-Wood Truss and second-place team Burnett Dairy Cooperative. Top individuals Alan Melin, Jason Johnson, aka Bubba, and Bert Meyer were given first choice of door prizes.

The U.S. Bank-Grantsburg Branch team won best team uniform honors and received gift certificates to Pizza Place donated by Crosstown Creative Solutions.

All the tournament bowlers received door prizes donated by Red Rock Radio, Bont Chiropractic, Community Bank, U.S. Bank, AgStar, Crosstown Creative Solutions and Shady Knoll Home.

The money raised at the fundraiser will help fund upcoming chamber events.

The U.S. Bank-Grantsburg Branch team, dressed and accessorized in their red, white and blue U.S. Bank colors, won best team uniform honors at the Grantsburg Area Chamber bowling tournament held last weekend. Team members (L to R): Carla Goetz, Carrie Byers, Pam Van Deusen, Chris Erickson and Jennifer Michel. – Photos by Priscilla Bauer

Grantsburg

“I got it!” Mike Chell, a member of the KWood Truss team, showed his excitement after getting a strike during the bowling tourney held on May 7 as a fundraiser for the Grantsburg Area Chamber.

“No Dad, I want this one.” Zach Romach pointed to the bowling ball he wanted to use while his dad, Bob, showed the young bowler the one he thought was best. The Rombach’s family team, the Twinkies, bowled in the Grantsburg Area Chamber bowling tourney held last weekend at Denny’s Downtown Lanes.

Caleb Rombach raised his hands in an effort to make that strike happen after his mom, Renae, helped him send his bowling ball off down the lane. The Romach family was one of the teams bowling in the Grantsburg Area Chamber’s bowling tourney held Saturday at Denny’s Downtown Lanes.

Wood River Pharmacy Packer Pillers teammates John Addison and Chris Witzany gave each other the congratulatory knuckle knock after the pair got high scores while bowling Saturday evening in the Grantsburg Area Chamber bowling tournament.

Mike Chell (background) and Pam Van Deusen hit the lanes for their teams at the May 7 bowling tournament sponsored by the Grantsburg Area Chamber.

CHURCH NEWS

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Eternal

Perspectives Sally Bair

Never give up

In the early 1800s William Carey, known as the father of modern missions, spent hours translating and printing the Bible into as many East Indian languages as possible. Then, while away from home, his print shop went up in flames. He lost his printing press, his complete library, typeset for 14 languages, hundreds of reams of paper, thousands of printed sheets, and much more. “The work of years, gone in a moment,” he whispered.

But Carey did not mourn long. “We are not discouraged,” he wrote. “We are cast down but not in despair.” His words mirror those of Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:8-9. “We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed …”

Life happens. Fires destroy, diseases strike, losses occur. But Paul reminds us that in any time of trouble, God is with us. He would want us to get up again when we’re knocked down. Self-pity, despair and hopelessness should not be in our vocabulary.

When we’re willing to go forward and try again, God will surely bless us.

In the case of William Carey, God used his loss to catapult his mission to greater success. People began to donate their money and volunteer their services to help rebuild and enlarge his Godly industry. By 1832 complete Bibles, New Testaments, and separate books of the Bible had been printed in 44 languages and dialects.

When we are resilient, able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions, and trust God to take us through, there is no end of the blessings he will bestow on us. The key is to focus on him through his Word. There are countless verses of encouragement we can use to bring about resiliency and hope.

For instance: “Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:12-13) And: “(We) sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith, that no one should be shaken by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.” (1 Thessalonians 3:2-3) Lord, we thank you for being with us through thick and thin, like a good friend but much more. We look to you as the one who encourages and strengthens us, and restores our losses with so much more. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Mrs. Bair may be reached at sallybair@gmail.com

Summer fun offered at Peace Lutheran Church

DRESSER – Peace Lutheran Church in Dresser is offering three different opportunities this summer for children and youth entering kindergarten through ninth grade.

Children entering kindergarten through third grade are invited to REVitUP! Full Throttle for God vacation Bible school on Wednesday afternoons from noon until 4:30 p.m., on June 8 - 29. Cost is $20 and includes lunch, fun with Luther Point staff and all activities.

Children entering fourth through sixth grade are invited to Summer Splash, an afternoon program filled with Bible learning, fun projects and an opportunity to learn a lifetime skill (woodworking, geocacheing, photography, arts, cooking or creative writing). Summer Splash will meet on Wednesday afternoons from noon until 4:30 p.m., on June 8 - 29. Cost is $32 and includes lunch, fun with Luther Point staff and all activities.

Youth entering seventh through ninth grade are invited to Summer Stretch, an all-day event with community service projects in the morning and fun, fellowship activities in the afternoon. Summer Stretch will meet Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., beginning July 7 – Aug. 4.

Cost is $110 and includes all events, Valley Fair tickets, lunches, snacks, transportation and T-shirts.

To register for vacation Bible school, Summer Splash or Summer Stretch please call the church office at 715-7552515. Registrations and deposits are due May 15. - submitted

OBITUARIES

Dolores Mae Rickford

Dolores Mae Rickford, 88, died Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at Calais Regional Hospital, while visiting out in Maine.

Dolores was born in Cooperstown, N.D., on March 13, 1923, the daughter of Iver and Thelma (Johnson) Dahl. After graduating high school, she attended college and worked as a teacher for K-8 grade.

When she married Francis Rickford, she left the school to raise her family and help on the family dairy farm.

After retiring, Dolores worked local jobs including at the local deli and decorating cakes. Dolores was active and enjoyed doing church work. Dolores loved helping people by being a member of the Extension Homemakers of St. Croix County. She enjoyed baking, crafts, crocheting and reading. She always enjoyed spending time with her children and grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, Dolores was preceded in death by her husband, Francis; and a grandson, Brian McDonald.

She is survived by her three children, Francine McDonald of Maine, Thora Fae Schulte (Wayne) of Wisconsin and Jeffrey Rickford (Brenda) of Wisconsin; grandchildren, Amy Holmes (Floyd Jr.), Daniel McDonald, Clayton McDonald and his fiancé, Jessica Drake, April Alton (Gary), Jessica Heilman, Chelsea Heilman and Alan Rickford. She is further survived by seven great-grandchildren; brother, David Dahl (Doris) of Minnesota; and two sisters, Vilma Sanders and Myrna Leininger (Larry), both of North Dakota.

A memorial celebration of life will take place on Saturday, May 21, at 11 a.m., at Cross Lutheran Church in Roberts. Pastor Dean Simpson will officiate. Burial will follow at the Warren Cemetery in Roberts. A visitation will be held for one hour prior to services at the church.

The O’Connell Family Funeral Home of Baldwin, www.oconnellfuneralhomes.com, was entrusted with arrangements.

Serena Lorraine Loock

Serena Lorraine Loock died May 2, 2011, at Golden Age Manor in Amery. She was 97 years old.

She was born on Sept. 26, 1913, in Farmington, the daughter of Albert and Anna Kobs. She was baptized and confirmed in the Christian faith at Zion Lutheran Church in East Farmington. She was active in the Young Peoples Society and taught Sunday school at her church.

On June 4, 1933, she was united in marriage to Irvin Loock. He being a cheesemaker, they lived above the Wagon Landing Cheese Factory. They were blessed with two children, daughter, Jean, in 1935 and son, Irvin, in 1938. In 1939 they moved to Amery and became members of Redeemer Lutheran Church. For many years, Serena worked as a cook at the Lake Wapogasset Bible Camp. In 1964 they became members of Grace Lutheran Church in Clear Lake. She and Irvin always had a wellmanicured yard and wonderful flower beds.

Serena was preceded in death by her parents, husband Irvin, daughter Jean, great-grandson Julius, and brothers Otto, Leslie, Russell, James and Paul Kobs.

She is survived by her son, Irvin and his wife, Valerie, son-in-law, Gary Brown, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Serena’s funeral was Wednesday, May 11, at Grace Lutheran Church in Clear Lake with Pastor Ellery Groth officiating. Organist was Judy Weber and vocalists were: Ellery Groth and Donel Kolba. Casket bearers were Todd Beaver, Gary Dukerschein, Dewain Kevin, Tom and Dave Kobs. Interment was at the Wayside Cemetery in Barron.

Arrangements were handled by Williamson-White Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Amery. You may leave condolences and sign a guest book at www.williamsonwhite.com

Ruby Anna (Wedin) Wicklund

Ruby Anna (Wedin) Wicklund, 88, Cambridge, Minn., died May 5, 2011.

Ruby was born Oct. 8, 1922, in Frederic, to Reuben and Ruth Wedin of the Round Lake/Trade Lake community, the fourth of nine children, eight of whom grew to adulthood. When the family farm, Pinehurst, was lost in the Great Depression in 1938, the family moved for a time to the Luck school district, so Ruby was confirmed at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, and graduated from high school in Luck, the only one of the eight children to not be a Frederic High graduate.

Ruby married Roger Wicklund of Cambridge, Minn., on Aug. 23, 1947, and their family was blessed with four children, Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Wicklund-Walz, now of Tucson, Ariz., Sandy (Bob) Overturf of Blaine, Minn., Linda (Louis) Carson of Mora, Minn., and Jim (Terri) Wicklund of Cambridge, Minn. Roger died in 1991.

When her three oldest children were preschoolers, in the early 1950s, Ruby contracted polio, and was hospitalized for a time at the Sister Kenney Institute in Minneapolis. From that time onward, through her last five years at GracePointe Crossing in Cambridge, Minn., she braved increasing disability with incredible cheer and giving of herself, fitting the definition of her name, Ruby: a durable, beautiful gem. To the delight of her family and friends, she also took up writing with the assistance of caring staff at GracePointe.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one grandson; three sisters, Florence (Swanson), Vivian (Swenson) and Elly (Erdman); and one brother, Kenneth Wedin.

She is survived by her children; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Carolyn Wedin (Tony Rolloff) and Harriet Hulsether (Charles); and one brother, Walt (Carol) Wedin.

Services were held for Ruby at Stanchfield Baptist Church in Minnesota, where she was a faithful member, on May 9. She will be buried on May 16, at graveside services at Fort Snelling, Minn., beside her husband, Roger. Testimonies to Ruby’s giving, people-loving nature abounded at her services, from her ambitious and famous rye bread and almond rusks, to her doll-making and plate-painting, to her teaching her siblings to milk cows and find four-leaf clovers and little yellow violets.

Ruby’s poem, “These Hands,” written three years ago, expresses her spirit and the gift of her life to everyone she knew. In 2008, the Wedin family was honored by the Frederic Chamber of Commerce as the Pioneer Family of the Year.

These Hands

by Ruby Wedin Wicklund These hands are bent and stiff But once they were soft and loving.

They dried a baby’s tears.

They caressed a child’s brow, And were strong enough to play ball.

They could hold a needle and sew seams and make dolls.

They kneaded many loaves of bread And shaped scores of caramel rolls. They milked cows, pitched hay and picked beans, But still could fold in prayer in Thanks to Him who created them.

These hands have been shaken by both notable and Regular people and survived it all.

When I look at my hands, My life unfolds before my eyes.

Roland "Rollie" Canfield

Roland “Rollie” Canfield, 85, a resident of Siren, died Nov. 30, 2010, in Wickenburg, Ariz.

A memorial service will be Saturday, May 21, at 1 p.m. with visitation noon to 1 p.m., at Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, with Pastor Steve Ward officiating.

Webster/Siren Area Christian Women to meet

WEBSTER - Ladies are invited to Webster/Siren Area Christian Women’s Club meeting on Monday, May 16, at First Baptist Church fellowship hall in Webster, at 6:30 p.m. for a dinner meeting. Tickets are $10 inclusive.

Their theme will be Fashion Forecast with Peggy Strabel of Siren’s Peggy’s Fashion Rack as the featured business.

LeAnne Hardy, Danbury, will be the singer.

Helen Ratledge of Waconia, Minn., will share experi-

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Reservations are needed, but tickets will be available at the door. Please call Jane Jeffers at 715-556-0081. Please, no Monday cancellations. Walk-ins are welcome. Invite a friend. The program is affiliated with Stonecroft Ministries. - submitted

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Robert John Larsen

Robert John (Bob) Larsen, 93, resident of Frederic, died Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at the Cumberland Memorial Hospital.

Bob was born Jan. 5, 1918, to Nels Peter and Karen Marie Larsen on a farm in the northern part of the Town of Luck. Bob attended Luck Schools, graduating from high school in 1935.

After graduation, he worked on the family farm. Because his older brother Walter was drafted and entered action in World War II, Bob received a farm deferment to help out on the family farm. Subsequent to the end of WWII, he worked in the Twin Cities area for several years, living in the Anoka area near his brother Walter. After his father fell ill, Bob returned to the Luck area to help out on the farm, and then took a job with a propane gas company in Frederic, where he remained employed for over 30 years until he retired in 1983.

Bob married Abbie Fredrickson in 1961, and to this marriage a son, Dwight Robert, was born in 1962.

Hunting and fishing were Bob’s passions.

Bob was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Walter; infant sister, Harriet; and sister, Norma.

He is survived by his wife, Abbie; son, Dwight and his wife Nan; stepchildren, Pam Krill and Randy Fredrickson; and granddaughters, Rachel and Annika Larsen.

Memorial services were held at Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Frederic on Monday, May 9, with the Rev. Andrew Hinwood officiating. Music was provided by soloist Jim Kerr and organist Mary Lou Daeffler. Interment will be scheduled at St. Peter’s Cemetery at a later date.

Rowe Funeral Home of Frederic has been entrusted with arrangements.

Violet Lucille Waldenstrom

Violet Lucille (Wassberg) Waldenstrom, 86, died Dec. 23, 2010.

She was born in Luck on Aug. 3, 1924, to Enoch Wassberg and Olive (Lomo). She spent her childhood years in Balsam Lake, graduating from high school there in 1941.

She left for Chicago in 1944. She married Carl A. Waldenstrom in Chicago on April 11, 1950. She later lived in St. Croix Falls in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Milo (St. Croix Falls) and Russell, Milwaukee; and sisters, Ardyce McGinnes, Harrisburg, Pa., and Gladys Schworer, St. Croix Falls.

She is survived by son, Steven; and two nieces, Mary Lippert, Pewaukee and Carol Ellis, Waukesha. A memorial service is scheduled for Saturday, May 14, at the Alliance Church of the Valley in St. Croix Falls at 2 p.m.

THANK YOU

The family of Joyce E. Olson would like to acknowledge the following: hospice services, Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home (Denny), Pastor Carolyn Saunders, Kati Pownell and Dianne Gravesen for music, casket bearers: Gary Hult, Brad Dorwin, Marvin Booth, Jeremy Pownell, Larry Elj and Neil Miller, Danbury United Methodist Church (ladies in the kitchen), and all the wonderful spiritual and sympathy support from friends and family of Joyce and Emmons. We thank all of you very much for helping us get through these difficult times.

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Gerald Stypula Sr.

Gerald “Jerry” Stypula, 73, Almena, and a lifelong resident of Hertel, died on Monday, April 4, 2011, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire.

Gerald Paul Stypula was born Sept. 13, 1937, at Gary, Ind., to Frank and Bernice Stypula. He worked for the Fort Stamping Plant in Chicago Heights, Ill., and was a mechanic and carpenter for Grier Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning in Chicago, Ill. He enjoyed his children/grandchildren, cooking, airplane building, carpentry, helping others with building projects and fishing with Esther in Canada. He recently rebuilt an “old” tractor for his son, Jerry.

He is survived by his children, Gerald P. (Kim) Stypula, Patricia M. Stypula, Daniel E. (Debbie) Stypula and Cynthia J. (Gus) Petsalis of Crown Point, Ind.; sister, Ilene Jakich; grandchildren, Danielle Stypula, Curtis Stypula, Jermyah Karpowicz, Mathew Cleveland, Zoe Petsalis and Phoebe Petsalis; great-grandchildren, Aubri Hanson and Chloe Hanson; and longtime companion, Esther Windbiel.

He was preceded in death by Edwin Stypula.

A gathering of family and friends for Gerald “Jerry” Stypula Sr., will be held from 4 – 7 p.m., on Saturday, May 21, at the Dahl Funeral Home with a memorial service at 6:30 p.m. Pastor Carolyn Mowchan will officiate. Online condolences may be offered at www.dahlfh.com.

The Dahl Funeral Home, Spooner, was entrusted with arrangements.

Brenda (Gaspord) Johnson

Patricia “Pat” Denver

Patricia “Pat” Denver, 68, Centuria, died May 7, 2011.

Funeral services will be Thursday, May 12, at 2 p.m., (visitation 1 – 2 p.m.) at Edling Funeral Home, St. Croix Falls. A full obituary will be published at a later date.

The Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

John (Jack) M. Peterson

John M. Peterson (Jack), 83, Deer Park, died May 7, 2011, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Jack proudly served his country and community in the Army National Guard from 1949 to 1958 earning the rank of sergeant first class.

Jack was a dairy farmer on the Deer Park family farm and a 20-plus year bus driver for the Amery School District. He was a lifelong member of East Immanuel Lutheran Church where he held many council positions, including president.

He was on the Amery Equity Board for six years; held offices on the FHA, PCA, and Deer Park Senior Center boards; and volunteered to deliver Meals on Wheels for the Deer Park Senior Center.

In 2005, Jack married Gloria Miller, and they settled in Taylors Falls, Minn. In addition to his family and many, many friends, Jack loved playing baseball with the Deers baseball team; traveling throughout the 50 states; collecting John Deere memorabilia, carpentry, fishing for sunnies; and attending his family’s school events, athletic, artistic and musical activities.

Jack was preceded in death by his parents, John and Mabel (Amundsen); beloved wife of 48 years, Mary Lou (Setter); brother, Wayne; and brother-in-law, George Sinclear.

He is survived by five children, Jacki (Wayne) Schupp, Kerry (Marti), Chuck (Lorie), David and Roger; wife, Gloria; sisters, Mabel (Neil) Mattson and Marian Sinclear; and sister-in-law, Joyce Peterson; stepchildren, Skip (Gloria), Randy (Mary) Pearson and Dixie Lee (Brad) Christensen; grandchildren; step-grandchildren and great– grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, May 11, at East Immanuel Church, Amery. Interment was at the East Immanuel Church Cemetery. Friends and family may leave condolences, sign an online guest book, and view a video tribute by visiting www.williamsonwhite.com.

Brenda (Gaspord) Johnson, 56, Dresser, died Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at her home.

Brenda was born March 28, 1955, in New Richmond to Harry and Leona Gaspord. In her free time, Brenda enjoyed reading, creative writing, crafting, painting, flower gardening, traveling, shopping, rescuing animals, watching the History Channel, spending time with her children and grandchildren.

Brenda was preceded in death by her parents, Harry and Leona; brother, Bert Gaspord; and nephew, Jamie Smith.

She is survived by her daughter, Ronni Christensen; son, Jeremy Christensen; grandchildren, McKenzi and Marcus; sister, Mona Smith; brother, Troy Gaspord; nieces, Shannon Tretsven, Jessica Smith and Rebecca Gaspord.

Memorials services will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, May 13, at West Immanuel Lutheran Church with the Rev. RexBonnie M. Johnson, 84, Taylors Falls, Minn., died peaceford Brandt, officiating. The family will greet friends one fully on May 5, 2011, at GracePointe Crossing, Camhour prior to the service at church. Condolences may be bridge, Minn., after a lengthy illness. left at www.grandstrandfh.com.

Bonnie was born in St. Paul, Minn., on May 28, 1926, to The Grandstrand Funeral Home, Osceola, was enAmil and Blanche Baker. On Nov. 22, 1946, she was trusted with arrangements. united in marriage to Stanley Johnson in Forest Lake, Minn. They lived in several places before settling in Taylors Falls in 1959 to raise their family.

She was an active member of the community and church. She and her husband enjoyed many trips toThe family of Kenneth Stoner would like to gratefully gether, most of them while thank everyone for their strong support of prayers, riding their motorcycle and expressions of love, comforting words, cards, memorials, camping throughout the flowers and food in remembrance of Ken’s passing. A specountry. Bonnie liked to sew, cial thank-you to Pastor Walter for the beautiful homage bake, take pictures for her he paid to Ken and our family at the funeral service. many photo albums, play Thank you to the pallbearers for their kind efforts. Thanks cards and listen to music. also to Julie, the organist, and to the dear family members Bonnie loved to entertain for their singing of the beautiful hymns. Ken loved to sing and would have loved your gifts. A big thank-you to the family and friends and espekind ladies of Immanuel Church for their efforts and cially enjoyed her time work providing a delicious lunch, and a very appreciative spent with her grandchilthank-you to the wonderful people of the Swedberg/ dren and great-grandchilTaylor Funeral Home for their help with all the arrangedren.

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Special thanks to Father Dennis Mullen, Brent Blomberg, grandchildren; two sisters; Gordy Lewis and family and Regional Hospice, for all the three brothers; as well as moral support, visits and prayers during Mom’s illness. other relatives and friends.

Thanks also to the members of the Immaculate Conception Services were held MonCatholic Church for hosting the Memorial Service and proday, May 9, at First Evangelviding and serving the wonderful meal afterward. Thanks also to our friends at Big Gust Apts. and to Dave and Kay ical Lutheran Church in Edling for your kindness to our family during this difficult Taylors Falls, Minn. Memotime as well as to all of our employers and co-workers for rials preferred to the Nafilling in hours so our family could spend time together. tional Alzheimer’s “Words” alone simply can’t express our appreciation to all Association. of you. There certainly is nothing to compare to “small-town The Edling Funeral kindness” during the ups and downs of our lives.

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Edith Cunliffe

Edith Cunliffe, 79, a resident of Danbury, died on Saturday, May 7, 2011, at the Spooner Nursing Home.

Edith M. Petty was born Jan. 4, 1932, in Chicago, Ill., to parents R. Hamlin and Edith (Blount) Petty.

After graduating high school, she received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, in biology and history in 1954, and received a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University in Chicago in physical therapy in 1956. After taking time to raise her children, she re-entered the physical therapy field specializing in geriatrics and worked for several nursing homes until her retirement in 1995.

On Dec. 8, 1956, she was united in marriage to Paul Cunliffe in Chicago, Ill. The couple lived in the Chicago/ Champaign area until 1965, when they moved to the Twin Cities, then to Duluth, and lastly to Webb Lake in 1995.

Edith was an active member at the Danbury United Methodist Church, a member of the Webb Lake Community Club, worked at the Forts Folle Avoine in Danbury and also Therapy Dogs International. In her spare time, she enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, camping and partaking in era costume for events at the Fort.

Edith is survived by her husband Paul; children, David (Terri) Cunliffe of Coral Springs, Fla., Bruce (Julie) Cunliffe of Leopolis, Wayne (Laura) Cunliffe of La Crosse and Philip Cunliffe of Shoreview, Minn.; four grandchildren, Andrew, Ben, Joel and Daniel; brother, Ham Petty Jr. of Midlothian, Ill.; nephews and nieces, Richard, Michael and Emily Ann Petty, all of Illinois; and many other family and friends.

Edith was preceded in death by her parents.

A memorial service will be held on Friday, May 13, at 11 a.m., at the Danbury United Methodist Church with Pastors Cindy Glocke and Arnie Enslin officiating. Music will be provided by organist Diane Gravesen. Visitation will be held at the church on Friday from 10- 11 a.m. Online condolences may be left at www.dahlfh.com.

Memorials may be made in Edith’s name to either the Danbury United Methodist Church at P.O. Box 312 Webster, WI 54893, or Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park at 8500 CTH U, Danbury, WI 54830.

The Dahl Funeral Home, Spooner, was entrusted with arrangements.

Arden Johnny Martinson

Arden Johnny Martinson, 91, Wanderoos, died peacefully May 3, 2011, at Willow Ridge in Amery.

He was born Nov. 21, 1919, in Wanderoos. He was the grandson of Anton and Bertha (Hagen) Martinson and Thomas Jorgen and Mina Bergina (Arneson) Walby. He was the son of Arthur Bernard and Olga Mitilda (Walby) Martinson. As a young boy he worked on farms, helped his dad haul milk and worked at the cheese factory in Wanderoos. He was united in marriage on March 14, 1946, to Evelyn (Johnson) in Stillwater, Minn. They lived and worked on the family farm. They had one daughter, Bev. He worked at Maple Island in Stillwater, Minn. In July 1956, they moved to Wanderoos, his hometown, where he worked at lumberyards in Wanderoos, New Richmond and Osceola. For years he was a carpenter around the area.

He was a big part of starting the Wanderoos Ballpark, Lions Club and Garfield Fire Department. He was the town board supervisor for the Town of Garfield for many years. He was a bowler, horseshoe player, ball player, 4-H project leader, and softball manager for 4-H and women’s softball. He loved fishing and being outdoors.

He loved to work at the ballpark and ran many softball tournaments.

Arden was preceded in death by his parents; and brothers, Virgil and Eugene “Red” Martinson.

He is survived by his wife, Evelyn; daughter, Bev (Al) Olson; grandsons, Brandon (Michelle) Olson and Brock (Sara) Olson; great-grandchildren, Connor and Kennedi Olson; brothers, Don (Ida) Martinson, Chuck (Doris) Martinson and Jim Martinson; sisters, Marlene (Bill) Libby, Marcella (Wendell) Viebrock and Donna (Harry) Andersen. He also leaves many nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held Saturday, May 7, at Bethesda Lutheran Church in rural Dresser. Burial was at the Bethesda Cemetery. You may sign a guest book, view a video tribute and leave condolences at www.williamsonwhite.com .

The Williamson-White Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Amery, was entrusted with arrangements.

Clara C. Johnson

Clara C. Johnson, 94, Clayton, died on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at the Havenwood Assisted Living in Glenwood City.

Clara was born on June 25, 1916, in Baker, Minn., the daughter of John and Charlotte (Harder) Kaehler. In 1928, she moved with her family to Clayton. Clara grew up in the Clayton area, was confirmed at the Immanuel Lutheran Church and graduated from Clayton High School in 1934. After graduation, she went to California for a short time before returning to the Clayton area where she worked various jobs. On May 18, 1943, Clara was married to Lorne Johnson at Stillwater, Minn. They made their home in Clayton and together raised five children, Linda, Lorne, Loretta, Lucinda and Larry.

Clara enjoyed embroidery, reading mysteries, jigsaw puzzles and playing Yahtzee. She especially loved being a grandma and loved spending time with her family and grandchildren. Clara was an active member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Clayton. She had been a resident of Havenwood, Glenwood City, for the past three years.

Clara is preceded in death by her parents, John and Charlotte Kaehler; brothers, Hank, Johnny and Ernie Kaehler; sisters, Elizabeth Kaehler, Sophie Place, Delores Timm and Charlotte Schaffer.

She is survived by children, Linda (Ronald) Beer, Eagan, Minn., Lorne (Jacalyn) Johnson, Hudson, Loretta (Larry) Hardina, Turtle Lake, Lucinda (Richard) Frank, Clayton and Larry (Tracy) Johnson, Clayton; grandchildren Michael (Robin) Beer, Atlanta, Ga., Mark (Tiffany) Beer, Hastings, Minn., Lori (Darin) Mewes, Turtle Lake, Larry (Jenny) Hardina, Rice Lake, Lisa (Marc) Strenke, Turtle Lake, Rebecca (Mike) Draxler, Glenwood City, Brandon Frank, Bossier City, La., Mike (Brenda) Shelby, DeKalb, Ill., Darrell (Grace) Johnson, St. Louis Park, Minn., Liza (Doug) Howard, St. Charles, Iowa; 20 greatgrandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; brother, Edward (Charlotte) Kaehler, Eau Claire; Sisters, Mary Alice (Robert) Dickson, El Paso, Calif. And Dorothy (Wesley) Podany, Milwaukee; and many other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held at Immanuel Lutheran Church on Saturday, May 7, with the Rev. David Emmons officiating and music provided by Joan Meyer. Interment was at Clayton Cemetery. Casket bearers were Mark Beer, Larry Hardina, Brandon Frank, Mike Shelby, Darrell Johnson and Mike Draxler.

The Scheuermann-Hammer Funeral Home of Clear Lake was entrusted with arrangements.

Darlene Mable Brenizer Welsh

Darlene Mable Brenizer Welsh, 82, also known as Wo Wo, died Friday, May 6, 2011.

She was born Sept. 28, 1928, in Wisconsin to Earl and Mable Brenizer. At the age of 20, she moved to Indiana, where she began her family and career. Darlene worked for Hooks Drugs and Carefree Catering/Martz & Associates for most of her career. She was an active member of American Business Women’s Association for 30 years and Indianapolis Senior Center where she participated in the Garden Club. She attended Northview Church in Carmel and volunteered her time at Hemophilia of Indiana. She was a breast cancer survivor of 22 years and an ovarian cancer survivor. Darlene enjoyed traveling, cooking, fishing, entertaining, gardening, sewing and bowling.

Darlene is survived by her daughters, Debbie Ford (Tom) and Donna Baird (Jim Meyer); daughter-in-law, Sue Welsh; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren, and 11 siblings.

She was preceded in death by son, Daniel Welsh; parents, Earl and Mable; and siblings, LuVerne, Robert Earl and Earl Brenizer Jr. A celebration of Darlene’s life will take place Tuesday, May 10, at Feeney-Hornak Shadeland Mortuary located at 1307 North Shadeland Avenue in Indianapolis. Friends are invited to pay respects between the hours of 3-8 p.m., with a memorial service at 7 p.m.

Darlene wished that contributions be made to Indianapolis Senior Center, Young Survival Coalition or Hemophilia of Indiana in her memory.

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Sandra M. Broker

Sandra M. Broker, 52, Turtle Lake, died May 4, 2011, at Rochester Methodist Hospital.

She was born Dec. 22, 1958, in New Richmond, to David and Marilyn (Borchert) Olson. Sandy graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1977, and moved Stuartville, Minn., where she worked at a deli. She moved to Amery and worked at Golden Age Manor. During this time, she met Stretch Broker.

Sandy was married in Amery on May 5, 1984, to Stretch Broker, and the couple raised three children at their home overlooking Horseshoe Lake.

Sandy never lived a dull moment and always kept a smile on her face. She made it a point to keep herself busy whether it was working in her 15 flower beds, baking cookies for Stretch, watching Al race on Saturday nights, going to the movies with Chad, being an American mom to Sara, spending time with her family and friends, bowling or volunteering at the American Legion Auxiliary.

Sandy was an organizer and planner, even if she had her own system that no one else could figure out. In recent months she loved planning her daughter’s wedding and even set up a print shop in her room to make sure things were printed in time.

Sandy was preceded in death by her godson, Darin Brantner; and her grandparents.

She is survived by her husband, Ervin “Stretch” Broker, Turtle Lake; children Chad Broker, Turtle Lake, Alan (Laura Mallet) Broker, Turtle Lake, LeAnn Broker (Nathan Warner), River Falls; and foreign exchange daughter, Sara Spaeter, Rathenow, Germany; her parents; siblings Deb (Larry Olson) Brantner, Deer Park, Kathy Langness, Hudson, James Olson, Clear Lake, Michael (Donna) Olson, Amery, and Kenneth (Cathy) Olson, Elk River, Minn.; many nieces and nephews and great-nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held May 9 at Christ Lutheran Church, Pipe Lake, with the Rev. Steve Miller officiating.

Burial was in Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Spooner. Honorary pallbearers were her nieces and nephews.

Skinner Funeral Home, Turtle Lake, was entrusted with arrangements.

Rae O. Hummel

Rae O. Hummel, Spooner, 94, died Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at the Spooner Health System after a brief illness.

Rae Olive Taylor was born May 12, 1916, in rural Burnett County to Earl and Olga (Johnson) Taylor. She attended elementary school in the Webster area and graduated from Spooner High School in 1934. She went on to earn her teaching credentials from Burnett County Normal School, Superior State Teachers College and from summer sessions at the University of Minnesota. Rae married Carl F. Hummel on Aug. 10, 1941, and lived in the Spooner area since that time. He preceded her in death on Jan. 5, 1975.

Rae taught in rural schools in Burnett and Washburn counties. She also did substitute teaching in the Spooner School District and later worked for the Wards Catalog Store and Auto Glass Specialists. Later in life, Rae became a huge fan of garage sales, attending them and staging them at her home. She also enjoyed watching “The Price Is Right” on television and supported the Minnesota Twins.

She is survived by two sons, Steve Hummel of Bloomington, Minn. and Gary (Mary) Hummel of Fall Creek; daughter, Julie (Jim) McMerty of Edina, Minn.; grandsons, Alex (Brenda Haines) Hummel of Oshkosh and Adam Hummel of Minneapolis, Minn.; granddaughters, Maria Bartholdi of Austin, Minn., and Brigitte Bartholdi of Los Angeles, Calif.; sister, Averyl Nelson of Minneapolis; brother-in-law, Herman Hummel of Orangeville, Ill.; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by sisters, Delores Shramek, Virginia Grushus and Mavis Nelson; a sister in infancy; brother, Dwight Taylor; and close companion, Nick Danyo.

Funeral services were held Monday, May 9, at the United Methodist Church in Spooner with Pastor Jack Starr officiating. Special music by Jo Henrikson, organist and Dale Jacobson, soloist. Memorials are preferred to the United Methodist Church at 312 Elm St., and donations to the Washburn County Area Humane Society at 1400 Cottonwood St., Spooner. Online condolences may be offered at www.dahlfh.com.

The Dahl Funeral Home, Spooner, was entrusted with arrangements.

Geraldine F. Connel

Geraldine F. Connel, 92, a resident of Frederic, died May 4, 2011, at Comforts of Home. A private family service will be held. Online condolences can be made at www.swedberg-taylor.com.

The Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

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Letting son make mistakes teaches him responsibility

Q: Our son is barely going to complete the eighth grade this month. He refuses to get serious about schoolwork.

I doubt he’ll be able to pass ninth grade next year with this lax attitude. We want to help him succeed, but is it better to let him reap what he sows?

Jim: All parents want their kids to succeed. But sometimes, it’s better to let them fail in the short-term.

Author Chip Ingram wrote about the shock he experienced when his son told him he was dropping out of college to join a band. Even though he desperately wanted to convince his son to stay in school, Chip held his tongue. He believed experience is the best teacher.

After six months, Chip’s son realized how hard it was to make a living as a musician. He didn’t abandon his dream altogether, but he did re-enroll in college.

Now, I’m not suggesting you stand idly by while your son fails ninth grade.

That will have a much steeper downside for someone his age than it does for someone in college. But he does need to learn to accept the consequences of his decisions. You may need to allow him to be late to school when he doesn’t get out of bed on time. If his homework doesn’t

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get done, you shouldn’t bail him out or make up excuses for his teacher. He won’t learn to apply himself if he’s rescued every time he chooses to act irresponsibly.

Chip Ingram puts it well: “A parent’s job is not to make sure a child has a smooth or comfortable life. Our role is to put safeguards around them when they’re young to keep them from ultimate harm; to gradually widen those safeguards as they mature; and to help them to grow into the person God wants them to be.”

••• Q: How can parents teach their children how to behave on Facebook without falling into the trap of doing what everyone else is doing? Are there rules and boundaries we should give our kids when working on social media sites?

Juli: Most people don’t know that Facebook has established 13 as the required age for an account. So, right out of the gate, remember that Facebook is not for

children. It’s designed for teens and adults. This is a good opportunity to teach your children integrity by making them wait until they’re legitimately old enough to be on Facebook.

When your kids reach the teen years, if you choose to allow them to be part of Facebook, here are a few principles to keep in mind: Make it very clear that you will be their first friend on Facebook and will monitor their activity. For young teens, you can set up the account so that all messages, wall posts and friend requests go through your email account. This is a good form of accountability and a reminder that what happens on Facebook is not private.

Second, you should know all of their Facebook friends and limit the personal information they share. Help them set up their privacy settings and make sure that not just anyone can see their profile. It’s probably best not to have cell phone or address information listed.

You also need to have a conversation with your teen about how Facebook can be used for both positive and negative purposes. Just as you would never tolerate bullying or inappropriate language in person, those standards also apply online.

Finally, establish time limits.

Unchecked, many teens (and adults) will

spend hours and hours on Facebook every day, neglecting responsibilities and important aspects of teen development, like face-to-face communication. Facebook is a privilege, not a right. Remind your teen that you may take the privilege of Facebook away if they don’t learn to use it responsibly.

••• 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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Broadway comes back to North Valley

CENTURIA – Broadway is scheduled to make a comeback in Centuria, Saturday, May 14, 7 p.m., at the North Valley Lutheran Church. Talented local musicians will present a program of music from musicals like “Carousel,” “Camelot,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Wiz-

ard of Oz,” “Sound of Music” and more.

Two hours of Broadway tunes, climaxed by an amazing chorus medley from “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” This will be an evening music lovers won’t want to miss.

A freewill offering will be taken and re-

freshments will be available during intermission. Those coming to the show are asked to bring an item to donate to the local food shelf.

This show has earlier been presented before packed houses at Grace Lutheran Church of West Sweden and United

Webster Area Catholic Churches Webster

Methodist Church of Siren. Other upcoming appearances are at Balsam Lutheran, Amery on Saturday, Aug. 20, and Crooked Lake Park band shell on Thursday, Aug. 11.

Come join in the fun and fellowship. submitted

Church listings sponsored by the following area businesses: BREMER BANK, N.A. Full-Service Banking Member FDIC Frederic - Danbury - Siren

DAEFFLER’S QUALITY MEATS, INC. Wholesale & Retail Meats Custom Butchering & Processing Phone 715-327-4456

INTER-COUNTY CO-OP PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION

NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN ELECTRIC CO. “Your Electric Servant” Serving Polk & Burnett Counties “Use Energy Wisely”

CARLSON-ROWE FUNERAL HOME Frederic, Wis. 715-327-4475 Duane Lindh

HAULING • Gravel • Sand • Rock • Top Soil • Trackhoe 715-472-2717 Mobile 715-491-1861 1065 290th Ave. Frederic, Wis.

Printers & Publishers Office Supplies

LUCK

Frederic, Wis. - 715-327-4236 Shell Lake, Wis. - 715-468-2314 Siren, Wis. - 715-349-2560 St. Croix Falls, Wis. - 715-483-9008

VAN METER’S MEATS

STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANIES Corey T. Arnold, Agent Frederic, Wis. Phone 715-327-8076

BEAN’S COUNTRY GRIDDLE Hwys. 35 & 48 Downtown Frederic Phone 715-327-5513

Government Inspected Slaughtering and Processing, Sausage making • Ham & Bacon Cured & Smoked Sides and Quarters of Beef and Pork Available Old-fashioned Fresh Meat Counter Tim Van Meter and Ross Anderson, Owners Luck, WI 54853 Plant 715-472-2141

WEBSTER

ALPHA

CASHCO BUILDING SUPPLIES

BASS LAKE LUMBER

OLSEN & SON

• Complete Line of Building Supplies & Lumber • Cabot’s Stains Grantsburg, Wis. 715-488-2471 or 715-327-8766

Your Full-Service Drugstore Siren, Wis. Phone 715-349-2221

BURNETT DAIRY CO-OP

10022 Elbow Lake Road Siren, Wis. 54872 715-689-2539

Complete Lumber & Building Supplies Phone 715-866-4238 Hwy. 35 N. Webster, Wis. Tom & Becky O’Brien, Owners

HOPKINS SAND & GRAVEL, INC. Sand, Gravel, Ready-Mix, Concrete, Black Dirt, Dozer Work, Landscaping & Septic Tanks Installed Hwy. 35 North Webster, Wis. Phone 715-866-4157 M.P.R.S. #03059

1988 World Champion Cheesemaker Earl Wilson, Cheese Plant Mgr. Clif Gipp, Ag. Supply Mgr. for Feed, Propane & Fertilizer Alpha, Wis. 715-689-2468 • 715-689-2467

SIREN D & L FINANCIAL SERVICES

CUSHING CUSHING COOPERATIVE SOCIETY Feed Mill - Grain Dept.

Cushing, Wis. 715-648-5215

SWEDBERG-TAYLOR FUNERAL HOME Webster, Wis. Phone 715-866-7131

BRUCE’S AUTO REPAIR & TOWING Wrecker - Flatbed Air Conditioning & Computerized Car Service - Cold Weather Starts Webster, Wis. 715-866-4100 Days 715-866-8364 Eves.

Any area business wishing to help sponsor the church listings should contact the Leader at 715-327-4236.

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ADVENTIST

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 Roger Kastelle, 715-755-2562 1947 110th Ave., Dresser Contemporary Serv. 8:30 a.m.; Adult Ed & Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Sunday Traditional Service 10:45 a.m.;

BONE LAKE LUTHERAN bllc@lakeland.ws Pastor Mary Ann Bowman, 5 mi. E. of Luck on Hwy. 48, 1/2 mi. S. on I; Office - 715-472-2535 Pastor - 715-472-8153, Exploring Prayer 8:45 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 3 - adult 9 a.m.; Wor. 10:30 a.m.; Fellowship 11:30 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 Traditional Worship 8:30 a.m.; Education Hour 9:45 a.m.; Contemp. Wor. 11 a.m.

Sun., May 29: One Worship Serv. 9 a.m.

FIRST LUTHERAN - CUSHING Pastor Dorothy Sandahl, 715-648-5323 or 715-648-5324 Sun. Wor. 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9 a.m.

FRISTAD LUTHERAN - CENTURIA ELCA - 501 Hwy. 35, 715-646-2357, Mel Rau, Pastor Sun. Wor. & Holy Communion - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10:40 a.m.

GEORGETOWN LUTHERAN - ELCA Rt. 1, Balsam Lake, WI (Fox Creek) Pastor Neal Weltzen; GT Office - 715-857-5580, Parsonage - 715-822-3001, TR Office - 715-822-3001 Wors. Serv. 10:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9:15 a.m.; Holy Communion - 1st Sun. of each month

GRACE LUTHERAN - WEST SWEDEN Phone 715-327-4340, 715-327-8384, 715-327-8090 Interim Pastor Julie Brenden Worship 9:15 a.m.; Sun. School 10:30 a.m.

Communion - 1st & 2nd Sundays

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN - FREDERIC (Missouri Synod) Pastor Jody R. Walter, 715-327-8608 Sun. Schl. - 8:45 a.m.; Service - 10:30 a.m.

Communion - 1st, 3rd & 5th Sun.

LAKESIDE COMMUNITY LUTH. - ELCA CTH H, 1/2 mi. N. of CTH A & H on H Church Off. 715-635-7791 Roger Pittman, Pastor Worship Serv. 10 a.m.; Sun. School. 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. Office 715-472-2605; Home 715-472-8424 Sun. Wor. Serv. 10:30 a.m.; Mon. Wor. Serv. 6:30 p.m.

MILLTOWN LUTHERAN

113 W. Main St.. W., Phone 715-825-2453 Pastor Danny G. Wheeler 9:15 a.m. Worship ; 10 a.m. Sunday School

NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH Pastor Emory Johnson, 715-463-5700 685 W. State Road 70, Grantsburg Sun. Wor. Serv. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

NORTH VALLEY LUTHERAN

METHODIST

METHODIST

ATLAS UNITED METHODIST

Pastor Carolyn Saunders, 715-463-2624 Sunday School - 11 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER

LIVING HOPE CHURCH

Pastor Father Daniel Bodin, 651-465-7345 25293 Redwing Ave., Shafer, MN Sunday 9 a.m.

Pastor Doug McConnell Youth Pastor Chris Radtke At Grantsburg High School, 715-463-5794 Sun. Serv. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST

Pastor Carolyn Saunders, 715-463-2624 Worship - 9 a.m.; Sunday School - 10:30 a.m.

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)

DANBURY UNITED METHODIST

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC

CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST GRANTSBURG

Pastor Maggie Isaacson, 715-825-3559 3 mi. W. of Milltown on “G” Sunday Worship - 9:15 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sunday Worship - 9 a.m.

OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN, (LCMS) WEBSTER

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.

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.

Pastor Gerald Heinecke Church Phone 715-866-7191 Sun. Schl. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Wor. - 10:30 a.m.

Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

HOLY TRINITY UNITED METHODIST

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC

Holytrinity@wisconsinumc.org 1606 165th Ave., CTH I, Centuria Pastor Freddie Kirk, 715-485-3363 Pastor Tammy Clausen Sunday Worship - 8:30 a.m.

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

PEACE LUTHERAN - DRESSER (ELCA) 2355 Clark Road, Dresser, WI, 715-755-2515 Web site: plcdresser.org Pastor Wayne Deloach, Intern Courtney Young Sun. Wor. 8:30 & 11 a.m., Sun. Schl. 9:35 a.m.

GRACE UNITED - WEBSTER

LAKEVIEW UNITED - HERTEL

ASSEMBLY

Pastor Jack Starr Wor. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - during worship hour

ASSEMBLY

PILGRIM LUTHERAN - FREDERIC (ELCA)

LEWIS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST

Interim Pastor Andrew Hinwood 507 Wisconsin Ave. N., 715-327-8012 Sun. Parents & Toddlers 9:15 a.m.; Sun. Worship - 10 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 2nd Sundays www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.org

Tom Cook, Pastor Worship 8:45 a.m.; Sunday Schl. 10 a.m.

Pastor Don Wiltshire, 715-640-6400 Centuria - Phone 715-646-2172 Sunday Service: 10 a.m.

REDEEMER EV. LUTHERAN

OSCEOLA UNITED METHODIST

(Wisconsin Synod) Pastor Gene DeVries 200 N. Adams St., St. Croix Falls Sun. Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 8:30 a.m.

McKINLEY UNITED METHODIST Pastor Annie Tricker Sun. Worship 11 a.m.; Sun. School 11 a.m.

Potluck dinner 1st Sunday

CENTURIA ASSEMBLY OF GOD

SIREN ASSEMBLY OF GOD

ST. CROIX FALLS UNITED METHODIST

EVANGELICAL

Rev. Mike Weaver Sunday Worship Service - 10 a.m.

Sunday School is at 9 a.m., Nursery available

APPLE RIVER COMMUNITY (EFCA)

SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN

Pastor Arveda “Freddie” Kirk, 715-327-4436 Pastor Tammy Clausen Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

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

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

WOLF CREEK UNITED METHODIST Rev. Mike Weaver Sunday Worship - 8:15 a.m.

COVENANT

COVENANT

CALVARY COVENANT - ALPHA

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 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

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.

ZION LUTHERAN - EAST FARMINGTON (WELS ) Pastor Martin Weigand - 715-294-3489 Sun. Schl. 9 a.m.; Adult Bible Class 9:30 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m.

Balsam Lake - Rev. John A. Drummy, Pastor - 405-2253 Mass: Sat. eves. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8:30 a.m.; Tues. 5:30 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m.Sacrament of Reconciliation 7:30 a.m. Sun. or by appt.

ZION LUTHERAN - MARKVILLE

SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS & MARY

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

231 Bluff Drive, 715-247-2435 Services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

CHRISTIAN CENTER

EVANGELICAL

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.

CROSSWALK COMMUNITY CHURCH

HOPE FELLOWSHIP OF SOMERSET

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

523 1st St., Clayton, 715-948-2493 Fr. Christopher Wojcik, Pastor Saturday Vespers - 5 p.m.; Sunday Liturgy - 9:30 a.m.

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP

PRESBYTERIAN

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.

Pastor Dale VanDeusen, 715-488-2296 or 715-488-2653 20296 Hwy. 87, Grantsburg Morning Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10:45 a.m.; Nursery provided for all services

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.

ZION LUTHERAN - BONE LAKE (AALC)

Interim Pastor Julie Brenden 715-327-8384, 715-327-8090 Fellowship - 10:30 a.m., Sun. Schl. 9:45 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m., Communion - 1st & 2nd Sundays

Pastor Dan Slaikeu 4 mi. SE of Grantsburg on Williams Rd. Worship 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School 10:30 a.m.

TAYLORS FALLS UNITED METHODIST

Pastor - Father Daniel Bodin 490 Bench St., Taylors Falls, 651-465-7345 Sat. Vigil 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7:30 & 10:30 a.m.

Tues. - Thurs. 7:30 a.m.

ZION LUTHERAN - TRADE LAKE

FULL GOSPEL

HOLY TRINITY ORTHODOX

1/2 mi. W. of Hwy. 35 on U, 715-866-8281, Pastors Douglas Olson, Roger Kampstra and Myron Carlson Services begin at 9:30 a.m.; Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday

Pastor Tim Faust Worship - 11 a.m.; Sun. School - 10 a.m.

Holy Communion - 1st & 3rd Sunday

Dairyland - Rev. Andrea Wittwer 715-244-3649 Sunday School - 10 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX

SIREN COVENANT

WEST IMMANUEL LUTHERAN - ELCA

WOODLAND WESLEYAN

TRADE RIVER EVAN. FREE

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN OSCEOLA

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.

WESLEYAN

Tom Cook, Pastor Sunday School 9 a.m.

Worship - 10:15 a.m. (Nursery available)

Pastor Scott Sagle, 715-689-2541 Sun. School 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Worship 10:30 p.m.; Elevator provided, welcome

WEST DENMARK LUTHERAN

WESLEYAN

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

SIREN UNITED METHODIST

Hwy. 70 East, 715-689-2271, Pastor: Carl Heidel Worship 9 a.m.; Sunday School 10:15 a.m.

Communion -Every Sunday

300 Seminole Ave. (CTH M) Mark Kock, Pastor, 715-294-2828 Sunday Worship 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.; Summer, 9 a.m.

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.

WOOD RIVER CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

1614 CTH B, North Luck, Pastor Rob Lubben Sunday Worship - 9 a.m.

Contact Leslie Valentine, 715-646-2390; E-mail: leslie56@centurytel.net

TRINITY LUTHERAN - ELCA

CHURCH OF CHRIST - WEBSTER

FULL GOSPEL

ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN - LCMC

(Missouri Synod) 140 Madison St. South, St. Croix Falls Pastor Mark K. Schoen Sun. Service - 9 a.m.; Sun.School - 10:30 a.m.

CHURCH OF CHRIST

CHURCH OF CHRIST

Pastor Larry Mederich, 715-294-4332 www.occconnect.org Mtg. @ St. Croix Art Barn; Sun. Serv. - 9 a.m.

Nursery and children church

350 Michigan Ave., Centuria Sun. Worship - 10:45 a.m.; Sun. School - 10 a.m.

ST. LUKE UNITED - FREDERIC

Pastor Andy McDaniel, 715-327-8402 Sun. Schl. - 9:15 a.m.; Wor. Serv. - 10:15 a.m.; Nursery provided.; www.tradelakebaptistchurch.org

OSCEOLA COMMUNITY CHURCH

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. JOHN’S EV. LUTHERAN (Wis. Synod)

TRADE LAKE BAPTIST

OUR LADY OF THE LAKES

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.

BAPTIST

BAPTIST

EAST BALSAM BAPTIST - BALSAM LK. 715-857-5411 Worship Service - 9 a.m.; Sunday School-10:15 a.m.

EUREKA BAPTIST 2393 210th Ave., St. Croix Falls Pastor Willis Christenson, 715-483-9464 Sunday School - 10 a.m.; Worship 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 Pastor Charlie Butt, Lead Pastor; Nick Buda, Assoc. Pastor of Family Ministries Sunday Service: 9 a.m.; All ages Sunday School 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Nursery available

FIRST BAPTIST - FALUN Pastor Kevin Miller Associate Pastor Steve Ward Sunday School - (all ages) - 9:30 a.m.

Church Serv. - 10:45 a.m.

FIRST BAPTIST - MILLTOWN Pastor Marlon Mielke, 715-825-3186 Sunday Schl. 9:45 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m., 7 p.m.

FIRST BAPTIST - TAYLORS FALLS, MN 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.

FIRST BAPTIST - WEBSTER Church Phone 715-866-4111; Interim Pastor Ken Hyatt; Youth Pastor Jerry Scheumann Sun. School - 9:30 a.m.; Wor. - 10:45 a.m (Nursery Provided)

GRACE CHURCH OF OSCEOLA “The Cure for the Common Church”

ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN

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.

NEW LIFE COMMUNITY - AMERY Interim Pastor Craig Jorgenson Sunday Worship 10 a.m.; Children’s Church: K to 6th Grade

NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY Meets at Dresser Elem. School, Dresser Pastor Tony Minell 715-417-1982 Sunday Worship 9:45 a.m.; Sunday School 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 WORSHIP GROUP 715-733-0481 or 715-733-0480 for time of meeting.

INTERDENOMINATIONAL

INTERDENOMINATIONAL

RIVER VALLEY CHRISTIAN

722 Seminole Ave., Osceola Pastor Dr. Kent Haralson; 715-294-4222 or 715-755-3454; info@gracechurchosceola.com Sun.: Praise & Worship Serv. 9 am., Adult Bible Study 10:45 a.m., Children’s Sun. School 10:45 a.m.

1289 160th St. (Hwy. 65), St. Croix Falls, 715-483-5378 Senior Pastors Paul and Sonja Hanson Sunday Adult Bible Class 9 a.m.

(No child care available) Worship and Children’s Sunday Schl. 10 a.m.

GRACE BAPTIST - GRANTSBURG

ST. PETER’S COMMUNITY CHURCH

716 S. Robert St., Grantsburg, 715-463-5699 Sr. Pastor Brad Moore David Ahlquist, Assoc. Pastor Sun. Worship 9:30 a.m.; Sun. School 11 a.m.

“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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• Gam-Anon, 715-268-6829, Joan.

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Hours: Tues., Thurs., Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Phone (715) 472-2121 Eye health exams, glaucoma checks, foreign body removal, full line of street wear, safety and sport wear, contact lenses

Dr. T.L. Christopherson OPTOMETRIST 119 Arlington Drive Amery, Wis.

Phone 715-268-2004 Daily: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home Webster, Wisconsin

“Distinctive Funeral Service”

Box 313 Luck, Wis. 54853 Phone

715-472-2502

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Thursday - Saturday, July 7 - 9, 2011 July 8 - Truck & Tractor Pull Contact Charlie, 715-246-7826, deerekrazy@hotmail.com

July 9 - Demo Derby Contact Justin, 715-338-2324, micki_anderson23@yahoo.com More information & all rules & regulations available at: www.centralburnettcountyfair.org Free fairbooks available online & at Burnett County businesses.

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SPRING FLING/ GOLD PARTY

LUCK COUNTRY CLUB Saturday, May 14, 4 - 8 p.m.

Come out and enjoy a round of golf and stop to see the newly improved country club, get reacquainted with old friends and meet new ones. Snacks will be provided.

A sales rep will be on hand to pay you cash for any unwanted gold items.

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The Humane Society of Burnett County would like to thank everyone who generously supported our spaghetti dinner fundraiser and helped to make it such a great success.

Special thanks to the following who made the dinner possible: Cozy Corner Bar and Restaurant in Dairyland, Moose Lodge in Siren, Wayne’s in Webster, Four Winds Grocery and Adventures Restaurant in Siren, Barb and Dick Sweet, all the volunteers who helped at the dinner and the bakers who brought desserts.

A very special acknowledgment and thank-you to the Polk-Burnett Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.

Thank you to the following businesses and folks for their donations to the silent auction: Wild River Outfitters, AnimaLodge Boarding Kennel, Bean’s Country Griddle, Making Memories and More, The Granary, Brian Hegge and Lakeview Landworks, Larsen Auto Center in Frederic, Turf and Tundra ATV Club of Burnett County, Holiday Gas Station in Siren, The Green Bay Packers, Becky Dickinson, Darlene and Dick Eggert, Jan and Dave Olson, May and Ken Schultz, Maryanne and Warren Hable, Nancy Lewis, Diane Johnson, Pat Denn, Mark and Judy Foote, Michael Foley, Brad Jandrt, Delores McDowell, Beth Lauber, Ken Petrashek, Darryl Mork, Lucas and Kendra Avery, Jerry Gardner, Marie Rodenkirch, Joanne and Jim Manning, Pam Cunningham, Allison Branstad, the Traun family, Barb Lemire, Dean Montour, Nancy Merle, Fran Martin, Annette Mosley and those who made anonymous donations or whose names we did not get.

Lastly, HSBC would like to thank Jenny Shely for all her hard work, in organizing this fantastic event.

Congratulations to the following raffle prizewinners: Grand-prize winner of 2 American Airlines gift cards (anonymously donated) is Connie Hunt 1st-place winner of a handmade quilt by Bev Hayes is Jan Aspholm 2nd-place winner of a stay at and donated by, St. Croix Casino in Danbury is Janice (no last name given) 535673 27a 38L

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Students of the Week GRANTSBURG

FREDERIC

Jacob Olson has been chosen Frederic Elementary School’s student of the week. He is in kindergarten and the son of Joanne Klink and Dan Burton and Mike Olson. Jake is very hardworking, a great friend and is always happy.

He is a great reader and writer.

Jake has a great attitude that helps him succeed and challenge himself. He loves being a big brother and teaching things to his little brother. Jake wants to be a wrestler when he grows up.

Austin Ennis has been chosen Frederic Middle School’s student of the week. He is in seventh grade and the son of Matt and Jaime Ennis. Austin is hardworking and responsible. He is an excellent school citizen and enjoyable to have in class. Austin is involved in band, basketball, football, soccer, track and baseball. He enjoys being outside, four-wheeling, hunting, fishing and hanging out with friends. Austin wants to go to college and play professional basketball.

Kaelynn Garrett has been chosen Frederic High School’s student of the week. She is a freshman and the daughter of Robin Sventek. Kay has a great sense of humor, a pleasant personality, always has a smile and is a good school citizen. She is involved in choir. Kay enjoys watching the newest movies and hanging out with friends. In the future she wants to be a massage therapist or a dentist.

Hannah Smestad has been chosen Grantsburg Elementary School’s student of the week.

She is in third grade and the daughter of Corey and Janelle Smestad. Hannah is a very positive and helpful student. She likes to read, ride horses and doing things with her family. She especially enjoys going out to eat at the Kozy Kitchen. Hannah is looking forward to going to the middle school.

LUCK

Shannon Lane has been chosen Luck Elementary School’s student of the week. She is the daughter of Clarion and Shirley Lane. Shannon clearly demonstrates fairness and treats others as she wishes to be treated. She is a great example to her peers and siblings. Shannon works well with her peers and makes an effort to be friendly and kind to others.

Aimee Lerud has been chosen Grantsburg High School’s student of the week. She is a sophomore and the daughter of Lara and Guy Lerud. Aimee has a positive attitude, is extremely hardworking, competitive, helpful, outgoing and respectful. She is involved in gymnastics and coaches for a job.

Aimee enjoys listening to music, running, drawing, riding horses and gymnastics. She plans on going to college and getting a degree in the medical field.

ST. CROIX FALLS

Sam Nelson has been chosen Luck Middle School’s student of the week. He is in eighth grade and the son of Al and Jen Nelson.

Sam is a good leader, great musician and fun to have in class.

He is involved in state solo/ensemble, basketball and football. Sam enjoys swimming, tubing, singing and spending time with family.

Tony Aguado has been chosen Luck High School’s student of the week. He is a junior and the son of Amy and Al Aguado. Tony is very polite, well-liked and does well academically. His is involved in the CIA program, NHS, FCCLA, Boy Scouts and baseball. Tony enjoys hunting, fishing, golfing and fast-pitch softball. His future plans are to attend college.

The person he admires most is his dad.

Brady Barr has been chosen St. Croix Falls Elementary School’s student of the week. He is in second grade and has an older brother and younger sister.

Brady likes to play outside with his family. He especially likes to ride his bike. At school Brady likes math and social studies.

When he grows up he would like to be a doctor because he likes to help people.

Nia Glynn has been chosen St. Croix Falls Middle School’s student of the week. She is in sixth grade and the daughter of Brian and Heidi Glynn. Nia is a sweet girl who is kind to everyone around her. She takes great pride in her work and works extremely hard in school. It is a privilege to have her in class. Her favorite pastime is gymnastics, and her favorite subjects are Spanish and math.

Sally Sutton has been chosen St. Croix Falls High School’s student of the week. She is a freshman and the daughter of David and Michelle Sutton. Sally’s hobbies are reading, being with friends and writing. She is involved in drama and forensics.

WEBSTER

SIREN

Eric Bruss has been chosen Siren Elementary School’s student of the week. He has been working hard on his behavior and class work. Eric has raised his grades and earned a hard-to-get A in math this past quarter. Eric is gaining confidence in himself and his abilities. If he keeps this up, he will be successful in school and in life.

Katie Zeiler has been chosen Grantsburg Middle School’s student of the week. She is the daughter of Derek and Jennifer Zeiler. Katie is an extremely reliable and thoughtful student who puts forth her very best effort every day without fail. She always has a smile and is always ready for class. Her willingness to volunteer her help is greatly appreciated.

Congratulations students for a good well done!

Cash Johnson has been chosen Webster Elementary School’s student of the week. He is in kindergarten and the son of Burl and Brooke Johnson. Cash is becoming a great writer and reader. He is very kind and caring to all his friends and always does his best work. Cash enjoys recess and lunch. At home he enjoys playing games with his dad. Cash is involved in soccer and karate. He wants to be in the Army when he grows up.

Justin Woodman has been chosen Webster Middle School’s student of the week. He is in seventh grade and the son of Dave and Tracy Woodman. Justin has been a great student. He can be a little quiet in class, but is not afraid to speak. He loves to tell stories about his outdoor excursions, and he recently shot a turkey. Justin maintains good grades and is a positive role model for his classmates. He enjoys fishing and hunting.

Cavan Hol has been chosen Unity Elementary School’s student of the week. He is in second grade and the son of Amanda and Jon Hol. Cavan excels in reading and math. He is always willing to help and has a positive attitude. Cavan is on student council and enjoys baseball and softball.

Destinie Kobs has been chosen Unity Middle School’s student of the week. She is in eighth grade and the daughter of Tammy Seul.

Destinie is kind and a hard worker. She has a positive attitude and is a great worker.

Saronah Clark has been chosen Webster High School’s student of the week. She is a junior and the daughter of Brenda Seifert.

Saronah is a personable, kind person who is working hard this year to succeed in class. She completes assignments in a timely manner, asks inquisitive questions and makes the entire classroom a fun learning environment. Saronah enjoys drawing and reading.

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Valerie Schultz has been chosen Unity High School’s student of the week. She is a freshman and the daughter of Dale and Penny Schultz. Valerie is a member of the track team, active in the drama program and plays the clarinet in the band. In her free time, she enjoys shopping for shoes. Her favorite subject is algebra, and she aspires to be a nurse. She resides in Balsam Lake.

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events

Happenings in the Upper St. Croix Valley communities

MAY

Balsam Lake

THURS. & FRI./12 & 13

• HCE meeting at the government center, 715-648-5817.

• Balsam Lake American Legion meeting, 7 p.m., 715268-8267.

Range

Frederic

THURS.-SAT./12-14

• Neighborhood garage sales just north of Range.

• Middle school spring concert at 7-12 school performance center, 7 p.m.

Webster

Centuria

• Webster/Siren Area Christian women meet at First Baptist Church, 6:30 p.m., 715-556-0081.

TUESDAY/17

• Churchwide rummage sale at Fristad Lutheran Church.

Thurs. 7 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Siren

Amery

• Huge sale at 6402 Midtown Rd. w/proceeds to American Cancer Society. Thurs. 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; Fri. 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.-?.

• Sjoland Lodge 5-635, Sons of Norway will meet at First Lutheran Church, 7 p.m.

THURS.-WED./12-18

Clam Falls • Coffee hour at Clam Falls Lutheran Church, 9 a.m.

Luck

THURSDAY/12

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• Luck school’s Advanced Art Exhibit at the library.

• TotTime at Peace Lutheran Church, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Call to register at 715-755-2515.

Milltown

Balsam Lake

• 1st-grade program at Unity School, 2:30 p.m.

• High school band/chorus concert at Unity School, 7 p.m.

Frederic • Screening & discussion of “Ana’s Playground” at the library, 7 p.m., 715-327-4979.

• High school fine arts concert at 7-12 school performance center, 7 p.m.

Red fox kits have been seen in the Frederic area this spring. - Photo by Richard Keller

Spooner • 8th-annual ham dinner at First United Pentecostal Church, 4:30-7 p.m., 715-635-9123 or 715-736-0485.

St. Croix Falls

Grantsburg • Pasture sale at the fairgrounds. Sponsored by the Ag Society Fair, 6:30 p.m.-?.

• Legion fish fry at the Legion hall, 5-7:30 p.m., 715-4839386.

Webster

Luck • NARFE Chapter 1581 dinner meeting at Hog Wild, noon. Reservations by noon, Monday, May 9, 715-6892252.

Milltown • Author Joy Mielke talks on “An Ordinary Man - A Great God.” 6 p.m., at the library, 715-825-2313.

Webster

FRI. & SAT./13 & 14

• Plant sale at the elementary school, 4-6 p.m.

Balsam Lake

• Garage and bake sale at Georgetown Lutheran Church (Fox Creek). Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.-noon.

Centuria • Thrift sale at the Holy Trinity United Methodist Church.

Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.-noon.

St. Croix Falls • Garage and bake sale at the senior center. Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-noon.

FRIDAY/13

Grantsburg

• Wildlife Experience Weekend at Crex Meadows. Sat.: Wildflower tour 10 a.m., canoe/kayak tour 1-4 p.m., program 5 p.m., Sun.: Marsh bird search 4-7 a.m., wildlife area tour 7-10 a.m., www.crexmeadows.org, 715-4632739.

SATURDAY/14 Amery

• Ruby’s Pantry at Congregational Church. Doors open 8:30 a.m. Distribution 9 a.m., 715-268-7390.

Balsam Lake • Fire department’s BBQ chicken feed, 3-8 p.m.

Frederic

Danbury • Building a clay oven class at Forts Folle Avoine, 8 a.m., 715-866-8890 to sign up.

• Cozy Corner Trails, Inc. meat raffle at Cozy Corner Inn, 3-5 p.m.

• Burnett County Tavern League fishing contest at Ike Walton Lodge, Big Yellow Lake, 7 a.m., 715-866-7107.

Dresser

• Citizens/Volunteer of the Year Banquet at Hacker’s Lanes. Purchase tickets by May 9, 6 p.m., 715-327-4836.

• NW Regional Writers meet at Sunrise Apts., 1 p.m.

• Yard and garden sale at Bethesda Lutheran Church, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Luck

Grantsburg

• “We’ve Got Better Things To Do” community talent show at the high school, 6-8 p.m., 715-472-2152.

• Northwestern Wisconsin Car Club’s spring cruise to Baroun, Minn. Meet at St. Croix Grill/Dreamers. Eat 10:30 a.m., ride noon.

MORP

Unity’s MORP, hosted by the Unity Leos Club, had its biggest turnout ever! Homemade pizza and subs that were made in the FCE room, were offered all night long and door prizes were presented. Donations were received from a grant from the Polk-Burnett Operation Roundup, the Unity Lions Club, Great Mats and individual donations. – Photos submitted

WEDNESDAY/18

Luck

• Return of Broadway at North Valley Lutheran Church, 7 p.m., 715-825-3559.

Amery

Balsam Lake

St. Croix Falls • Annual meeting and open house at Festival Theatre, 1 p.m. or 6:30 p.m., 715-483-3387 or 888-887-6002.

• Bon Ton Wood Bat tourney at Coon Lake Park, 715-5660243.

• Breast cancer fundraiser at McKenzie Lanes, 6 p.m.-?.

• Poco Penners will meet at the library, 2 p.m., 715-4839738.

Laketown • Rummage, bake and plant sale at Laketown Lutheran Church, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

SAT. & SUN./14 & 15 Frederic

Siren • Burnett County Democratic meeting at the Pour House. Eat at 6 p.m., meeting 7 p.m.

• USDA Rural Development rep. at the goverment center.

Call for appt., 715-635-8228 Ext. 4, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

• Pancake breakfast, 8-11 a.m. and break in the lake fundraiser, 11 a.m., at Luther Point Bible Camp, 715-6892347.

• Spring Fling/Gold Party at Luck Country Club, 4-8 p.m.

• AARP safe driver class at the high school, 4:30-8:30 p.m. Register at 715-463-5207.

Centuria

• 13-hour rummage sale at Balsam Lutheran Church, 7 a.m.-8 p.m.

• The Compassionate Friends Chapter of the Northwoods meet at Milltown Lutheran Church, 7 p.m., 715663-1152, www.compassionatefriends.org.

Balsam Lake

McKinley

• Friends group meets at the library, 1:30 p.m., 715-4853215.

• Plant, bake and garage sale at Trinity Lutheran Church, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

Webb Lake

Milltown

• Zach Holmes American Legion Post 403 meeting at Cabaret, 7 p.m.

St. Croix Falls

ONGOING

• Hingepoint meeting for men battling sexual addiction at River Valley Christian Church, 9 a.m.-noon, 715-4835378.

• Spring flora hike, Lions Park, 9 a.m., 715-472-2248.

• Edible wild mushroms workshop at Interstate Park.

Must preregister. 1:30-3 p.m., 715-483-3747.

Every Day, AA &/or AlAnon, Polk & Burnett counties, 715-931-8262 for time/location. Amery, 715-268-8431.

Divorce care support group at Apple River Community Church, 715-268-8360, 715-268-2176.

Webster

Every Monday

• Benefit for Jo Brown at Crow Bar, 2 p.m.-?, 715-8668869.

SUNDAY/15

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.

• LC Riders ATV Club meeting and meat raffle at Clam Falls Bar, 1 p.m.

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.

Clam Falls

Every Tuesday

Grantsburg • Family Fun Night Bingo at Crex, 5-7:30 p.m.

St. Croix Falls

Every Thursday

• Legion breakfast at the Legion hall, 8 a.m.-noon, 715483-9386.

• Pancake breakfast at the Lone Maple Community Club, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

MONDAY/16

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.

Amery

Moms In Touch International, First Baptist, Amery, 8:15 a.m., 715-268-5408.

• Red Cross Neighbors Helping Neighbors golf scramble at the golf club. 9:30 a.m. registration, 11 a.m. shotgun start, 4 p.m. dinner and awards. 715-485-3025.

The Balsam Lake American Legion Auxiliary and Post 278 members will be distributing The Memorial Poppy.

Every Friday Every Friday and Saturday

Unity

The Unity Leos Club hosted their annual MORP (that is prom spelled backwards) after-prom party lock-in at the Unity School Saturday night. Members of the Leos that helped with the fundraising efforts and volunteering included: Joe Larsen, Keith Arnett, Jena Alling, Justin from Kid Again inflatable games, Jenelle Larsen, Eric Kuske, Brittany Vasey and Ethan from Kid Again.

Chris Lopez balances during a game on the wrecking ball while Nick Murphy waits to catch or be caught off guard by the large wrecking ball.