WED., JUNE 25, 2014 • VOLUME 81 • NO. 45 • 2 SECTIONS
Milltown celebration set
Museum event this Saturday
Leader Currents, page 28
Hanna Daeffler crowned Miss Frederic 2014
Dairy Days fun
Currents, page 17
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Proposed telecommunications tower near Deer Lake draws opposition from neighbors Page 3
Luck village president to ask taxpayers to take on golf course debt Page 9
Working together for Frederic Community group organizes Page 4
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One step closer to reality Ground breaking held for new SCRMC clinic in downtown Frederic Gary King | Editor FREDERIC - The long anticipated breaking of ground for the new St. Croix Regional Medical Center clinic in downtown Frederic happened during one of the community’s busiest - and happiest - times ... Family Days. Sunday morning, June 22, dignitaries from SCRMC and the village gathered at the site on Main Street to mark the beginning of construction on a new state-of-the-art, 14,800-square-foot clinic that will continue not only SCRMC’s commitment to health care in Frederic but also a tradition of local health care that began a century ago. The new facility will be a “tremendous asset� to the community and area, said Dave Dobosenski, SCRMC CEO. “With it, we will be able to serve more patients more quickly here in the Frederic area,� he said. “We believe this is what our patients expect from us: Superb care, close to home.�
• Music On The Overlook @ St. Croix Falls • Softball tourney @ Danbury • Book sale @ Milltown • Play @ Festival Theatre • Ski show @ Balsam Lake • Folk music festival @ Danbury • Pancake breakfast @ Clam Falls • Pie and ice-cream social @ Falun • Arts Alive @ Siren • Humane society fundraiser @ Shell Lake and Siren • Car show @ Webster • Walk for library @ Milltown • Pie and ice-cream social @ Luck • Chicken BBQ @ Webster See coming events
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See New clinic, page 6
Gerald A. Soderbeck Clara Lundtveit Carl G. Erickson Jacqueline “Jackie� Mae Sylte Shirley E. Olson David “Big Dave� Kevin Peterson Michael R. LaPointe Emma Riley Mary Ann (Wethern) Schmidt Stanley C. Gillquist See Currents, pages 22-23
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