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Cost cutting catches up with county Vanessa Kleiss is the new Miss Grantsburg following her coronation Saturday evening. She is the daughter of Roderick and Georgianne Kleiss of Grantsburg .

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by Julie Holmquist WEBSTER - After completing the fast-tracked construction of Faith’s Lodge, local contractors were thanked for their work Sunday at a special on-site open house.

I N S I D E SCF Fire Dept. marks 100 years

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Faith’s Lodge thanks contractors Retreat for grieving parents prepares to open doors

Unity third-grader Nathan Heimstead was co-pilot for a day. He and fellow students were treated to airplane rides through the Rice Lake EAA Chapter 631 at the Cumberland Airport as part of a LEAD course in aviation. More photos in Northern Currents section. - Photos courtesy Deb Petzel

The unique nonprofit retreat near Webster is the brainchild of Mark and Susan Lacek who lost their first child, Faith Ann, at birth on June 5, 2000.

The Minneapolis couple used their new foundation to create the retreat for grieving parents and those with a seriously ill child.

“The local contractors have been fantastic,” said Mark Lacek. “Almost every one of them put in extra hours for free, lowered their hourly rates, or have gone to their suppliers to get

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Faith’s Lodge/from page 1 their material donated.”

The Laceks purchased 80 acres and gave a significant amount of their own money to the project. The real “beginning,” Mark said, was the $250,000 raised at a gala last June.

The couple had hoped to complete construction of Faith’s Lodge by Faith Ann’s birthday. That dream came true.

“All we had before the gala was a rough sketch of blueprints,” Mark said.

“Now, almost 12 months to the date, we’ll be ready to put art work up and the furnishings in.”

Ninety-five percent of the contractors live within 45 miles of Faith’s Lodge, said Fred Shepherd, construction project manager. Their competitive bidding and quality were “unbelievable,” he noted.

“A lot of the contractors are used to working together. That’s a distinct

Numerous companies donated to Faith’s Lodge, including Kohler Co., Select Comfort and Anderson Windows.

Photo at right: Susan and Mark Lacek, with their children, Ally and Emmy. - Photos by Julie Holmquist

Fred Shepherd, construction manager, leans on one of the handcrafted twig railings. advantage,” Shepherd said.

The teamwork aided in the speedy completion of the almost $3 million project.

“This is very fast for a project of this size and complexity,” Shepherd said.

“This is not a cookie cutter building.”

The entire project has been “very fast tracked,” Mark said.

“Most places do a capital campaign and raise most of the money before they INTER-COUNTY

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even do the ground breaking,” Susan noted.

There’s still a $1.8 million bill to pay: the Laceks would like that paid in 3 to 5 years so the nonprofit can concentrate solely on operational costs.

While Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Upper Midwest is providing a three-year programming grant, the Lodge still has to pay utilities, taxes, maintenance, insurance and other operating costs.

The couple admitted that they are impatient, “just do it” type of people, intent on providing a tailor-made place for parents who need emotional healing.

“We just felt this place was really needed and we didn’t want to wait,” Susan said.

Couples have already been booked to stay at the Lodge in August, and program director Kristi Luenzmann has moved on site.

“There’s really nothing else in existence like this in the U.S.,” Luenzmann said, “yet there’s a huge need for couples and families who need this type of respite.”

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Guests also have a choice of nonstructured or highly structured weeks.

“Some people will come and just want to sit on the deck and listen to the sound of the wind in the trees,” Luenzmann said. “Others will want camp-like activities.”

Seminars will help guests deal with grieving and other issues, such as supporting a healthy child while caring for an ill child.

Therapeutic activities might simply be a candlelight dinner for parents, a walk in the woods or a canoe ride on the Lodge’s private lake.

Children will be encouraged to share feelings in various ways: perhaps by making an “inside-outside pillow,” and writing feelings not easy to share on the inside of the pillow.

Guests will be welcomed to a great room with a natural stone fireplace, which opens to a large deck outfitted with Adirondack chairs.

There’s a reading library, complete with a fireplace, computer access and a view of the woods, a game room, an arts and crafts area, and a movie room with a large projection theatre.

The sunny “Eagle’s Nest” gathering place on the third floor and handcrafted twig railings throughout the building add to its unique character.

Guests are referred by clergy, mental

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Briefly SIREN – The high school band leaves this week to perform in the Windy City at the famed Navy Pier, the 3,000-foot long dock that extends from Chicago’s downtown into Lake Michigan. The band will be gone from June 7 to June 10. Part carnival, part shopping mall, the pier was built in 1916, mostly to provide docking space for ships but partly to allow citizens to cool off on hot summer in pre-air conditioning days. - with submitted information ••• BURNETT COUNTY – Kinship of Burnett County is hoping to see its most successful “Longest Day of Golf” event ever this summer. The event, to be held June 25 at Voyager Village Golf Course, is expected to raise more than $5,000 for the mentor program. There will be 10 to 12 golfers who have agreed to golf from sunrise to sundown, literally, to raise funds.

Each golfer will be gathering pleges so if anyone would like to pledge they can call 349-2699 or send pledges to Kinship of Burnett County, P.O. Box 53, Siren, WI 54872. Funds have been applied for from Thrivent Financial. - submitted ••• SIREN - The Burnett County Sheriff’s Department will be honoring three deputies this year at the annual Officer of the Year Picnic, to be held Thursday, June 7, at Crooked Lake Park. Segeant Thad Osborne, Corporal Steve Sacharski and jailer/dispatcher Gabe Taggert were elected by their co-workers for this year’s award. In addition to this award, law enforcement from the sheriff’s department and Siren Police Department will also receive commendation awards for service to the community. Social gathering is from 5:30 to 6 p.m., meal is from 6 to 7 p.m. and awards are at 7 p.m. Cost is $5 per person or $10 per family. Bring a dish to pass. Meat and beverage will be provided. Contact Tammy or Stacy at 3492121 if you plan to attend. - with information from Burnett Co. Sheriff’s Dept.

••• BALSAM LAKE - Former Balsam Lake resident and newspaper editor Kirk Gaylord, of Novato, Calif., returned May 20 from a week in China. This was Gaylord’s second trip to China within six months. Accompanying him during the May trip was his son, Greg Gaylord and Greg’s wife, Yao Li. The couple is making their home in Santa Cruz, Calif. While in China the trio visited sites in Shanghai, the Shaolin Temple (home of all martial arts) near the city of Zheng Zhou, the Longmen Grottoes near Luo Yang city, the Terra Cotta warriors near the city of Xian, and historial sites in Xian including a tour of the wall which protects the old city, the hot springs baths and gardens used by past dynasties, as well as an an ancient tomb where a past emporer is buried. submitted

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3-hour manhunt results in arrest

by Julie Holmquist ST. CROIX FALLS - An armed St. Croix Falls man told Polk County deputies that he “was going out in a blaze of glory,” after they responded to a domestic situation last Thursday night.

No one was hurt, even though suspect Sean Knapp fired his gun while officers were present and deputies spent more than three hours tracking him through the woods.

“Everybody came out of it OK,” said Polk County Sheriff Tim Moore.

Officers responded to an area just east of the St. Croix Winery by Big Lake in Eureka Township around 11:45 p.m.

According to authorities, Knapp, 39, had apparently had a verbal argument and was walking around outside with a rifle when the deputies arrived.

“You’re gonna have to kill me or I’m gonna kill you,” Knapp was reported to have yelled at the deputies.

Moore said there appeared to be a laser light on the rifle and one officer saw a laser light pointed in the general

direction of the eight or 10 officers just before he heard a gunshot.

Knapp told investigators later that he shot up in the air.

Knapp fled into the nearby wooded residential area after firing the rifle.

Polk County Knapp Sheriff’s deputies led an extensive search for Knapp, assisted by the Minnesota State Patrol helicopter using FLIR technology. That technology uses infrared light, allowing the helicopter to see the fleeing suspect.

“Ultimately, the helicopter ran low on fuel,” Moore said. “It was up there for an hour. The helicopter left, and he came out within six feet of two officers.”

The officers ordered Knapp to the ground and he was handcuffed with-

out resistance.

Moore said Knapp was heavily intoxicated. Officers later found that Knapp had hidden the firearm near a lounge chair on a neighbor’s deck.

Knapp was charged with endangering safety by use of a deadly weapon, which is a felony. He also faces charges in Polk County Circuit Court of intoxicated use of a firearm, disorderly conduct, and intentionally pointing a laser pointer at an officer.

He made his first court appearance Friday, where a $10,000 cash bond was imposed.

The cash bond was posted June 4 and Knapp was released from Polk County Jail.

His next court appearance is June 25.

Moore said Knapp has no criminal history.

Also assisting in the incident was the St. Croix Falls Police Department, Unity Ambulance, Life Link Service and Cushing Ambulance Rescue Service.

Webster woman sentenced to four years

by Sherill Summer SIREN – Judge Eugene Harrington gave Shonda McFaggen, 24, Webster, a four-year prison sentence followed by two years’ extended supervision at a sentence hearing at the Burnett County courthouse on Wednesday, May 30.

McFaggen was charged with substantial battery with a weapons enhancer which stemmed from the multiple stabbing of a 15-year-old in the village of Siren on March 31, 2006.

Judge Harrington also ordered a three-year prison sentence for a felony battery to a police officer charge that is to be served concurrently to substantial battery sentence. McFaggen is also ordered to undergo inpatient drug treatment for drug addiction and pay $1,518.07 in restitution. She is ineligible for earned release or the Challenge Incarcerated program.

Before sentencing, defense attorney Mark Biller tried to demonstrate that McFaggen was ready to turn her life around with the help of good substance-abuse treatment. He called McFaggen to the stand from where she said that she was sorry and that she didn’t mean to hurt him (the victim). “I could have killed him and that scares me.” She also expressed willingness to change her lifestyle with substanceabuse treatment at one point saying, ”I know there is a better life out there.”

Biller pushed for a treatment option

by pointing out that prison may not do anything to address the problem of substance abuse. He also presented Judge Harrington with a list of good treatment programs that could be an alternative to McFaggen prison, and asked for a stayed prison sentence along with a probation requiring inpatient treatment. A stayed sentence is a sentence that would go into effect if McFaggen broke her conditions of probation.

McFaggen’s mother, Rhonda McFaggen, who once faced a prison sentence of her own made a statement to Judge Harrington on her daughter’s behalf: “I turned my life around. I have hope that Shonda can too.”

During sentencing, Judge Harrington dismissed the defense’s request for probation with treatment by saying flatly, “It isn’t the treatment regiment, it is the person,” meaning that it is up to the person to make treatment work. He simply pointed out that McFaggen has failed probation four times already and has been in three treatment programs.

Although Judge Harrington did agree with defense attorney Biller that a prison sentence may not do anything to

Condemned house destroyed by fire

address the problem, the violence of the charges against McFaggen warrants the protection of the public.

Two other Burnett County charges against McFaggen were dropped.

MPM becomes Lakeland Tool and Engineering Plant 2 FREDERIC - A major employer in Frederic since 1953, MPM, Inc., a supplier of quality custom-molded thermoplastic and thermoset components, has changed its name to Lakeland Tool and Engineering Plant 2.

The change took effect June 4 and coincides with a change in operation that the company hopes will allow it to “gain a competitive edge in a very competitive industry.”

Lakeland, which purchased MPM from the Anderson family in 1995, will be expanding thermoplastic capabilities and scaling back its thermoset operation at the Frederic plant.

The Frederic operation will not be managed directly by the Lakeland facility in Anoka, Minn. Gary Edling, who has managed the Frederic operation since the mid-‘70s, will be retained in a sales/engineering position and have offices at both locations. - with information from Lakeland Tool and Engineering

Felony OWI charge

A house on Clam Falls Drive, approximately a mile east of the village of Frederic, burned to the ground Friday evening. Firefighters were notified of the fire at approximately 10:30 p.m., according to Frederic Fire Chief Brian Daeffler. No one was at the scene when firefighters arrived. The house made headlines in February of 2005 when it was condemned by the Polk County Health Department after it was discovered a 59-year-old man was living the house with 41 dogs which had little or no water or food. The house had no heat and was surrounded by junk vehicles.

Allegedly the site was purchased. A group of persons was at the site during the past week burning debris and cleaning up the property, but the cause of the fire that destroyed the house, according to Fire Chief Daeffler, is unknown, and it is unknown who owns the home at this time. – Photo by Gary King

POLK COUNTY - A Clear Lake man faces felony charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Kevin Reindahl, 42, was arrested June 2 at 4:21 p.m. on 10th Avenue in Clear Lake.

The Clear Lake Police officer recognized Reindahl and knew that his license was suspended. The officer reported smelling a strong odor and tested Reindahl for OWI. Reindahl has prior related convictions in Polk, Barron and Washburn counties, back to 1990 and 1993. – Julie Holmquist

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Jane Wisse Memorial Scholarship Walk Memorial walk raises money for scholarship SIREN - The first-annual Jane Wisse Memorial Scholarship Walk was held Saturday, June 2, starting at Crooked Lake Park.

Wisse, physical education teacher and athletic director at Siren School, died of cancer a year ago.

She was in the habit of walking 2.5 miles every day with a group of teachers.

After her death, a committee was formed, including some of those teachers. The committee decided that a walk was the perfect way to memoralize Wisse because it was something she did every day The scholarship idea came from Wisse and her husband, Duane, in talking with District Administrator Scott Johnson.

The first Jane Wisse Memorial Scholarship was given out in 2006 to senior Wes Wegner. Money for that scholarship came from memorials given at the time of Wisse’s death. The 2007 scholarship went to Lauren Howe.

Ninety walkers showed up and paid a registration fee on June 2. That money goes directly toward the $1,000 scholarship that will be awarded every year. The path they walked was the one that Wisse took every day.

“Hopefully we can keep this going,” commented Pam Daniels, Siren physical education teacher and one of those who walked every day with Wisse. – Information and photos submitted

Faith’s Lodge/from page 2 health practitioners, healthcare providers and various organizations such as The Ronald McDonald House.

“Faith’s Lodge is here for the local community too,” Mark said. “It’s open to any family who’s lost a child or has a child with a serious illness.”

“Even if someone has to travel only 10 minutes to get here, we would encour-

age them to come,” Susan added.

Guests are asked to donate a minimum of $25 a night, but no one will be turned away for financial reasons.

“Every family, no matter the circumstance, deserves a chance to process grief,” Susan said. “Even if it’s a parent with a seriously ill child, they are grieving the way they thought their family

was going to be.”

Grieving families need faith to keep going, to have hope, she said.

“Faith is seeing the light with your heart, when all your eyes see is the darkness ahead,” said Susan.

“We want people to come here and have hope that life will be better, that they will have hope for a better tomor-

row and hope that they will get through this.”

A grand opening is scheduled for July 21. For more information about Faith’s Lodge, see www.faithslodge.org.

Volunteers sought WEBSTER - “We never thought this would happen to us,” Mark Lacek said about losing their firstborn daughter.

Now as they reach out to help other grieving parents through Faith’s Lodge, they’re asking for assistance.

“We’re looking for people who can make this their cause,” he said.

“This one is so real, so local.”

People not able to donate money for a brick or a bench can donate a book to the library (find the list at Amazon.com), maintain gardens or trails, assist with crafts or make a homemade meal.

A volunteer application form can be found at www.faithslodge.org, under “Support Faith’s Lodge.”

LEFT: Contractors and their families tour the great room. - Photo by Julie Holmquist

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Three Siren teachers retire Carol Benson, Sheila Staples and Georgian Borchsenius will all be retiring

by Nancy Jappe Carol Benson SIREN – After 33 years of teaching at Siren School, Carol Benson has made the decision to take early retirement. “It was a last-minute decision which worked so I took it,” she said.

Benson is a Siren native who attended Siren School from first through 12th grade. She substituted in other schools for her first two years of teaching, then came to Siren School in 1974 as an aide and half-time teacher for two years. She started with third grade as a full-time teacher, moved to junior high for 11 years, then came back to third grade for the rest of her time at the school.

“I’m happy. I’m ready (to retire). I have three grandchildren (Sabrina and Emma at 3-1/2 years old, Maggie, 2) and have a fourth one coming in January. I want to spend time with them and do some traveling,” Benson said.

When her grandchildren have asked her to do something, Benson has been telling them that she will do it when she is done with school. “Is school done yet?” they kept asking her.

Benson will miss the staff at the school, staff she said are “a fabulous group of people.” “Everyone works well together. You have your family, and you have your work family, and keep up on their kids (and other things that are going on with them),” she commented.

Putting on the dramatization of “Polar Express” during the second week of December each year is one of Benson’s special memories. “This has always been the big third-grade production. We have had a lot of fun with that,” she explained. She went on to say that something special has happened every year with the students, and that each class has something special to remember them by.

Benson team taught with teachers Joyce Peterson (now retired) and Carrie Miller, and those classes did special things together.

When she started at Siren School, Benson’s classes were on the top floor of the old building, located where the gym is now. Her students would go down to the kitchen to pick up their meal trays, then bring them up to the classroom where the eating took place. After the meal, the students would take the trays back to the kitchen.

Discipline was pretty strict in those years, and students could get a spanking if they did something wrong. “(Now) the teachers are limited on what they can do. There’s a lot of paperwork and state guidelines from when I first started,” Benson said.

She mentioned teaching the basics in those years, with no thought of programs like No Child Left Behind. “It was better in some ways, but both ways

Carol Benson

Sheila Staples

always have pros and cons,” she said. Her attitude has always been “let me teach.”

“You need new blood. You need someone with fresh ideas. Now it is their turn,” commented Carol Benson, whose last day, after 33 years at the same school, is Thursday, June 7. “I’m ready to start the next chapter (in my life). I’ll stay at home. I like where we live, out in the country in the woods.”

Sheila Staples For the first time in 30 years, the library/media center at Siren High School will have a new director.

Thursday, June 7, marks the last day before retirement for Lewis native Sheila Staples. What is Staples going to do after that length of time on the job?

“I would like to go back to school to take classes that the state of Wisconsin doesn’t require,” she said, “something in my interest, like going to Superior to study the history of Lake Superior.

“I’ll be coming to sports events (football, volleyball, basketball), music concerts and things like that,” Staples continued. “I won’t be totally out of the picture.”

When asked about a special memory of her years of teaching, Staples zeroed in on one special instance – receiving the Exemplary Award for Library Service from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction as the only recipient in this entire area. This award was given to Staples the year the state audited all schools because of the services she offered to students.

Staples will miss the friendship of her co-workers on a daily basis; however, she still plans to keep up with those friendships. She will miss being with the students in outside-the-classroom activities such as ballgames, extracurricular parties and things like that.

“I’ve hauled kids everywhere,” Staples commented, specifically mentioning the Festival of Nations and the Renaissance Fair in the Twin Cities. She went on the first student trip to Europe, taking students to Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria. Shelly Hunter Johnson and Joan Richison O’Fallon were on that trip. Staples has gone with students to Disney World and to Washington, D.C., among other travels.

Staples and retired German teacher Linda Herrick have been on several trips to Germany together, and going back there may be one of Staples’ retirement activities.

Qualified with a bachelor of science

Kidnap attempt reported SIREN – A girl walking north on Hwy. 35 on her way home from her job at Little Mexico about 10:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 2, was reportedly approached by a man in a car who told her several times to get into the car. The girl reported that the white vehicle had Illinois license plates with

the letters DLR. The man who was driving was said to be bald, have no teeth and have divots on his face. The girl was able to contact someone to come and help her, and was given a ride to her home. – Information from the Siren Police Report

Georgian Borchsenius

degree from UW-River Falls and a master’s degree from Stout, Staples started her teaching career 351/2 years ago at Hubertus near Milwaukee. She taught grades three, four and five together in a class of 30 students for the first year. She then went to St. Louis School in Superior for the next three years, teaching second grade the first year, third grade the second year and second grade the third year. For the fifth year, Staples was at St. Francis School near Hayward with a class of 36 third- and fourth-graders.

Due to the size of that last classroom, the lack of room (desks filling up all the aisle space) and no availability of student teachers, Staples was on the lookout for a new position. When the job opened at Siren High School, she applied and got the position.

Thirty years ago, school in Siren was held in a three-story building located where the band room and kitchen are now. At first, the library was on the top floor. For safety reasons, because of fear of the weight of the books, the library was moved to the basement. The high school population in some of those years was 225, compared to 170 now.

Staples minored in library science during her years of higher education.

At Siren, she has been teaching high school classes in library reference and research, and 16 classes, each one once a week, for the middle and elementary grades in the beginning use of reference-book applications on a smaller, simpler scale.

For the past 11 years, Staples has been in charge of two distance-learning studios in which students can study French, Spanish I and II, German I and II, AP stats and creative writing. After Herrick’s retirement, no language classes were offered at Siren High School.

After all that she has done for the past 30 years, Staples will need to regroup after June 7. “I will find something to do,” she said. “There are all kinds of hobbies friends have that I have never been able to do. Maybe I will start doing some of those things.”

Georgian Borchsenius Thursday, June 7, will be the last day before retirement for Georgian Borchsenius, Siren Title I Reading and Math teacher for grades 3-6, after 44 years in the teaching profession. “I love it, but I feel it is time for a change,” Borchsenius said. “I don’t know what I am going to do next, but I will stay open to whatever will come my way.”

Her special memories include the children and teachers at Siren School.

“They have become special to me, and a part of my life,” she commented.

Borchsenius has been with the Siren School District for the past 17 years. She was born in a Croatian-Italian neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, and taught in Richfield, Minn., before coming to Siren. Her husband’s family bought a cabin on property near Siren, and it is in that cabin where Borchsenius and her husband still live.

While they lived in Richfield, the two decided they wanted to be in the Siren area all the time. Borchsenius dropped her resume off at Siren School after she had come up one year on a winter vacation. She had two degrees in biology, and was a secondary teacher in the Twin Cities. She did long-term substitute teaching in Title I, then got her reading license and an elementary degree in order to take the Title I position in Siren.

“It is exciting,” Borchsenius said of her job. “You try to help to improve instruction across the board so it is better for everybody. It’s like when you raise the water level, you raise up all the boats (in the water).”

Borchsenius feels that there is a lot of flexibility in looking for solutions for any kind of goals and improvement.

“That is what a resource teacher does to make changes and improve education.

That is exciting. I have done that with things that are simple and easy to do. I love the people I work with for their willingness to train and implement.

Their professionalism and dedication to the students is remarkable,” she said.

In the past, Borchsenius said there used to be more parental support to do the hard things you need to do in raising children and do the best for them. The emphasis seems to be more on the material things now than there used to be.

On Friday, June 8, Borchsenius plans to do absolutely nothing. She will have the house to herself, and is going to read and work in her garden. Following that will be a trip to Chicago to visit relatives. “I want to have more choices,” she said. “Teachers have told me to be as busy as I want to be.”

In parting, Georgian Borchsenius had a word for the people of Siren. “I appreciate the Siren community as a whole for

Mosay ruled competent to stand trial SIREN – Judge Eugene Harrington ruled Monday that Clint S. Mosay, 21, Webster, is ompetent to stand trial.

Mosay faces a charge of reckless homicide stemming from a July 2005 incident when he allegedly stabbed two women.

Mosay has plead not guilty due to mental disease or defect.

A judge must decide in a competency hearing if the defendant understands the charges and the court process, and if the defendant is able to assist the defense attorney.

District Attorney, Ken Kutz, introduced testimony from two psychologists who both stated that while Mosay was certainly methamphetamine-induced psychotic at the time of the alleged stabbings in 2005, he

no longer is suffering from any mental illness and understands the court process and is able to assist the defense attorney.

Defense attorney, Tim O’Brien, also introduced testimony from two psychologists. But both of these psychologist argued that Mosay’s Methamphetamine use and traumatic upbringing rendered him unable to assist the defense attorney even if he did understand court process. Judge Harrington was satisfied that Mosay understood court process and felt that the Mosay does have the capacity to assist the defense attorney. A 12-person jury trial is scheduled for Aug. 9 and 10.

– Sherill Summer

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Village council to look at property bid

Safety of water supply also on agenda

by Gregg Westigard GRANTSBURG – The Grantsburg Village Council will consider accepting a bid for a 12-acre plot on Hwy. 70 when it meets Monday, June 11, for its regular monthly meeting. Also on the agenda will be a recommendation on a plan for inspecting all the residential connections to the village water system. Both items were discussed at a special board meeting Thursday, May 31. The village has been trying to sell a plot of land on the south side of the highway between Dale’s Restaurant and the DNR regional office. The 12 acres were bought for use as an expansion of the golf course across the highway, but that idea did not work out. A $72,000 bid ($6,000 per acre) has now been received from three area businesspeople, Mark Harmon,

Randy Carey and Jeff Finch. They would develop the land for commercial use if their bid is accepted and access issues are resolved.Access is a problem for the wooded property. The frontage along Hwy. 70 drops sharply from the road level. The easiest access point to the land would be at the eastern edge of the property next to Dale’s. However, the state Department of Transportation will not permit two driveways that close together.A possible solution is being discussed. The village would construct a street extending south along the property line to serve new commercial development in the 12 acres and provide a new access for Dale’s. Dale’s would then close its existing entrance.

The proposal has a possible snag that would require an exemption from the state. State regulations require that any turnoffs from a street connecting to a state highway must be 200 feet from the centerline of the highway. This would

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bring traffic for Dale’s into their drive-in area rather than their parking lot.

According to discussion at the meeting, neither the DOT nor Dale’s has agreed to the access ideas.?The selling price for the property was a point of debate at the meeting, with two of the three new council members expressing differing ideas about the bid offer. “They are offering a good price for the property,” Dale Dresel said. Dresel, newly appointed to replace Tim Swenson, added “The village should not own land for speculation. There were no other offers for the land. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” Newly elected council member Dennis Dahl expressed doubts about the offered price. He noted that the land is on the right side of the road to attract traffic and is near a traffic light, both of which are good selling points. Dahl said he had no confidence in the two appraisals done on the property. He said the bid price is too cheap.

The council did come up with a list of conditions that would need to be met before the village sells the land. The main item on the list is that any buyer

would start development of the land immediately. The third new council member, Jeff Finch, is part of the group making the bid, and did not take part in the discussion or council actions.

Water issue The DNR has told the village that a better inspection program is needed for the municipal water system connections to the village residences. The village faces a potential risk that some homes could have a failure that could cause water in the house to flow backwards into the village water supply, contaminating the system. In addition, a few village homes may still be connected to both the village water system and their old private wells. Paul Solie, operator of the municipal water system, will bring recommendations for an ongoing inhouse inspection program to the June 11 meeting. This would include possible changes to the village ordinances relating to water connections and existing private wells within the village.

Twelve acres are wooded and rolling land

Timothy J. Hollis, 52, from Maple Grove, Minn., was transported to Burnett Medical Center after his vehicle hit a tree. The driver lost control when passing another vehicle on the left side, entering the ditch and traveled across a clearing before hitting the tree. —Photo submitted

GRANTSBURG - The 12 acres the village has for sale are heavily wooded. The land extends along Hwy. 70 with Dale’s Restaurant on the eastern edge and the DNR headquarters on the west. The entire highway frontage, across from the golf course, is well below the level of the highway. The land extends south along the property line for Dale’s, where it extends east behind the restaurant. The front section of land is wooded, containing

large old pines and smaller trees and brush. The land slopes to the center of the property along its northern edge. A clearing, running east to west, divides the property. The southern, larger part of the land is flatter and contains a planted pine plantation. South of the village land, beyond the woods, is a meadow and marsh and beyond that farmland. - Gregg Westigard

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Siren plans to expand SAGE program in 2007-08

Becky Strabel from Moms for Kids presented a check for $1,500 to Siren Elementary School principal, Jennifer Vogler, for a piece of equipment called the Dragon Challenge. – Photo by Sherill Summer

by Sherill Summer SIREN – Many parents and teachers waited in the school IMC as the Siren School Board met in closed session on Tuesday, May 29.

The parents and teachers were especially interested in any SAGE teacher developments, and the board did in fact announce several personnel committee decisions when they reconvened back into open session.

Other than the two regular teachers for each grade K through 2, the district hired extra teachers, or SAGE teachers, to keep class sizes small. This year there are two SAGE teachers and both were given nonrenewal notices earlier this school year.

The district plans to hire three SAGE teachers next year, however, the contract that next year’s SAGE teachers work under will automatically expire after one year. If the SAGE teachers want to work in the district for another year, they will have to reapply for any job that is available.

Siren School administrator Scott Johnson said that just because a SAGE teacher is rehired each year, they still might accumulate years in the teachers union since the union watches this sort of arrangement very carefully. What the district is trying to prevent is having SAGE teachers that are not needed due to a drop in enrollment. Up until this change in SAGE teacher contracts, the SAGE contracts renewed automatically each year unless a nonrenewal notice was submitted by a certain deadline.

The district was then obligated to hire the teacher, even if the teacher was not needed.

At-risk program The school board also continues to develop the new at-risk program. Carol Kline was hired to be the at-risk middle school teacher. A teacher will also work with at-risk students during summer school, and two counselor positions will be hired to work with at-risk students next year, focusing on the many factors causing poor performance at school.

Other personnel actions are middle school math teacher, Ryan Karsten, will take on athletic director responsibilities for the district. Emma Kolander will fill the position of English language learner to assist students struggling to learn English.

Earlier the school board approved the early retirement of third-grade teacher Carol Benson. Benson has worked in the district for 31 years. Her third-grade position and a Title I position will be posted. There were no qualified applicants for the library media specialist position so that position will be reposted.

Parent involvement and Wall of Honor policies A couple of policies had their first readings during the meeting. A Parent Involvement Policy had its first reading.

CESA requires that Siren have a Parent Involvement Policy. The Title I program already has such a policy and this Title I was adjusted to meet CESA requirements. There was also a change to the Wall of Honor Policy so that nominees to the wall would be notified that they were nominated. Simply to be nominated is an honor since no more than three are inducted to the wall in any given year. Dave McGrane volunteered to be on the Wall of Honor committee again this year. McGrane also volunteered to be the board’s Communities United in Education, representative.

Other actions Teacher Jodi McLain announced to the board that two eighth-graders, Danielle Keller and Jacob Stiemann won national prizes in Scholastic’s annual Art and Writing Awards.

Becky Strabel from Moms for Kids presented a check for $1,500 to go for a Little Tikes dragon for the school playground. The dragon is appropriate for ages 5 to 12 and will be nearly 30 feet long and 6 feet high. The $1,500 gift to the school will pay for more than half the cost of the dragon.

The district is considering creating a drug policy. A public hearing on the idea was held on Monday, June 4.

The high school will get a new computer lab. Currently there are two small labs in the high school. Next year there will be one large lab instead.

Dates to remember: Siren Summer School Programs will be 8 to 2 p.m. from June 11 to June 29.

The band will travel to Chicago to perform at Navy Pier. They will be gone from June 7 to June 10.

The next school board meeting will be held at the St. Croix Tribal Center on Monday, June 25 at 7:30.

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This week’s question: Do you feel the media in general portrays the Iraq War in a fair manner?

1. Yes 2. No 3. I try not to watch/listen to the news Last week’s question: What did you do over Memorial Day weekend?

1. Traveled to see family/friends 3 votes (8 percent) 2. Attended a graduation 2 votes (5 percent) 3. Attended a Memorial Day program 3 votes (8 percent) 4. Stayed home and worked and/or relaxed 26 votes (70 percent) 5. All of the above 2 votes (8 percent) Total votes: 37

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President George Bush 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C. 20500 president@whitehouse.gov

Governor Jim Doyle 115 East, State Capitol Bldg.

Mailing address: P.O. Box 7863 Madison, WI 53707 wisgov@mail.state.wi.us Congressman David Obey 7th Congressional District 2462 Rayburn Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20515 or Wisconsin office: Federal Building Wausau, WI 54401 (715) 842-5606 Rep. Ann Hraychuck 28th Assembly District State Capitol, P.O. Box 8942 Madison, WI 53708 Phone: 608-267-2365 Toll free: 888-529-0028 In-District 715-485-3362 rep.hraychuck@legis.state.wi.us

Rep. Frank Boyle 73rd Assembly District Room 221 North State Capitol P.O. Box 8952 Madison 53708 E-mail: Rep.Boyle@legis.state.wi.us

Senator Sheila Harsdorf 10th Senate District State Capitol, P.O. Box 7882 Madison, WI 53707 (608) 266-7745 • (715) 232-1390 Toll-free - 1-800-862-1092 sen.harsdorf@legis.state.wi.us

Rep. Mary Hubler 75th Assembly District Room 7 North, State Capitol P.O. Box 8952 Madison, WI 53708 or 1966 21-7/8 St. (Hawthorne Lane), Rice Lake 54868 (715) 234-7421• (608) 266-2519 rep.hubler@legis.state.wi.us

U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold SDB 40, Rm. 1 Washington, D.C. 20510 or 8383 Greenway Blvd.

Middleton, WI 53562 (608) 828-1200 senator@feingold.senate.gov

Senator Robert Jauch 25th Senate District Room 19 South State Capitol P.O. Box 7882 Madison, WI 53707 E-mail: Sen.Jauch@legis.state.wi.us

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

Washington, D.C. 20510 senator_kohl@kohl.senate.gov Congressman Ron Kind 3rd Congressional District 1713 Longwirth Office Bdg. Washington, D.C. 20515 202-225-5506 888-442-8040 (toll-free) ron.kind@mail.house.gov

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Editor’s NOTEBOOK Operation: Good News from Iraq

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e get e-mails – now more than ever – asking why the media in general isn’t presenting more good news about Iraq.

We get photos like the one below. Photos that make the e-mail and blog circuit worldwide, we’re sure. But they just don’t get much attention from big media.

Sig Christensen, war correspondent for the San Antonio Express News, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press this week that there just isn’t that much good news in Iraq. He just returned from his fifth war-time trip there.

“About the only thing that is good in Iraq is the U.S. soldier,” he said.

That has a truthful ring to it.

But Wayne Anderson of rural Frederic – the author of the column we publish, Write from West Sweden, doesn’t agree. He is now engaged in a oneman mission to find the good news in Iraq. He’ll be embedded with U.S. troops – including the 1157th Transportation Company of the Wisconsin National Guard out of Oshkosh – soon. Very soon. In fact, by the time most of you read this he’ll be in Baghdad.

Anderson is going on his own dime with virtually no sponsorship of local media – on what will undoubtedly become the mission of his lifetime.

Although the Pioneer Press reported his lack of sponsorship was because local news outlets “didn’t want to pay the ransom” in case he was captured, in fact it was a bit more involved than that – at least for us. It was a variety of factors, including some language in a proposed contract with the U.S. military that raised the eyebrows of a lawyer with the National Newspaper Association.

And even big media is finding it difficult to warrant sending reporters to cover this war firsthand – embedded or not – according to a recent article in the American Journalism Review (“How danger and high cost limit Iraq coverage”). A summary of the article states “Extreme danger and sky-high security costs have diminished the press corps in Iraq and severely limited access to a deepening morass. The result is a clouded picture of perhaps today’s most important news story.”

All but a handful of media organizations have been driven out by the high cost and risks, states the article. The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the AP and the broadcast and cable news networks are among the stalwarts.

Along with Wayne Anderson of Frederic.

“I realize moment by moment, destination by destination, that I am part of something far more than me just going to Iraq as an embed reporter,” Anderson wrote in an e-mail from Dallas on Monday, awaiting his flights to London, then Kuwait – and then to Baghdad. “A transformation is under way. Now I feel like I’m only a carrier, an ambassador of something very extraordinary that is about to happen.”

He says he comes in contact with folks who hug him and ask from their hearts to tell the troops how much they are loved and supported. “I am honored to carry this important message,” he wrote. “I’m a bit overwhelmed. It’s so humbling to be a part of this all.”

“Flags of Our Fathers” is Hollywood movie based on a Wisconsin man’s story about his father’s role in the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II. It shows, among other things, how hungry the public was for good stories out of war – the humanity and triumph. And, of course, how hungry the government was to feed that story to the public. It might be said the media, with urging from the government, led the charge in the fight for selling war bonds.

Not quite the same with the Vietnam War. Or wars after that.

In a half-hearted defense of media today, it should be noted there is a virtual supermarket of news outlets today, full of choices when it comes to reporting and analyzing both sides of the war issues and views – including blogs from the front lines. There have been mainstream stories on rebuilding and hope in Iraq and stories on how to improve treatment for injured soldiers.

But even Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News and reportedly a staunch supporter of the Iraq War, is taking heat these days for not showing the war in a better light, so to speak.

This is a fascinating issue.

Those who defend the reporting claim the free press wasn’t exactly set up in this country to be a cheerleader for government nor its plans.

Others say they just want both sides out there.

According to the Washington Post, U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.

Interesting. A free press can be expensive.

Especially when Wayne Anderson is willing to pay his own way and set his own goals, with some help from small news outlets, and, perhaps, larger ones. ABC’s “20/20” news program contacted Anderson’s wife, Bonnie, about a possible interview, according to Anderson’s email.

Only in America.

Don’t say one man can’t make a difference. And certainly don’t tell Wayne Anderson that.

Photo at right from operationiraqichildren.org

All editorials on this page by editor Gary King

The views expressed on these pages do not necessarily represent the views of ICPPA board members or employees

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Seize chance to end subsidies

f Wisconsin agriculture is to prosper over the next decade, it is imperative that federal farm policy pursue a new direction.

A bipartisan proposal to be introduced on Capitol Hill, perhaps as soon as this week, offers that direction.

The plan, co-sponsored by Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., would gear U.S. farm policy for a new era shaped by the global economy, growing demand for biofuels, a sense of urgency about conservation, and an overriding need to rein in federal spending.

Called the Farm and Agriculture Risk Management for the 21st Century Act -FARM-21, for short -- the proposal should guide Congress as it prepares the 2007 farm bill, which will govern agriculture for the next five years. At stake is the safety net that protects the nation's farmers from steep declines in the prices for their products. Consumers also depend on the net to ensure a consistent supply of food at reasonable and stable prices.

For the past 70 years the U.S. farm safety net has been dominated by a flawed system of subsidies, supply and price controls and import restrictions.

The subsidies have encouraged too much production, which depresses prices, which requires more subsidies in a cycle now costing taxpayers more than $20 billion a year.

Supply and price controls and import restrictions have distorted markets and limited foreign competition, increasing consumer costs, undermining Third World economies and producing retaliatory barriers against U.S. exports.

FARM-21 proposes a radical departure that benefits farmers, taxpayers, consumers and international trade.

Under the plan, subsidies would be phased out, replaced by a more cost-effective method of protecting farmers.

At the center of the proposal are risk management accounts, which the government would fund. Farmers could tap the accounts when their revenue declined or to buy crop or revenue insurance.

The plan saves $55 billion over 10 years.

The plan would use about $20 billion of savings to reduce the federal deficit. Most of the remainder would finance biofuel development, conservation, rural development and nutrition programs.

Moreover, risk management accounts would help bring U.S. farm policy in compliance with global trade agreements, which are hurt by subsidies. That would help lead the world toward freer trade, benefiting U.S. exports.

The redistribution of federal aid resulting from FARM-21 would require adjustments.

Wisconsin farmers would lose crop and dairy subsidies worth nearly $3.2 billion to the state over the past decade.

But it's time for American farmers to produce for market demands, not to collect a subsidy check.

It's time for Congress to incorporate the principles of FARM-21 in this year's farm bill. - Wisconsin State Journal

Positive Quote of the week “It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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F O R U M Letters t o t h e e d i t o r Portrait of a veteran How many veterans do you know?

How many times have you attended or read about a Memorial Day service?

How many times have you seen a picture of a veteran saluting our flag?

I’m sure the answers to these questions are “many times.”

For me, the real question is “what is a veteran?” I can answer that with one word. Dad. Dad is a veteran of World War II. He served in the United States Navy for four years. He took part in over six major battles in the Pacific Ocean aboard an aircraft carrier. He nearly lost his life at sea, but fortunately he came home and continued his life.

Here’s the strange part. I was unaware of these facts until I was well into my 40s. The reason wasn’t because I didn’t listen to my dad’s stories. The reason was because he didn’t talk about any of the “bad” things he encountered, only the good times, the friends he made, and the various ports he visited. As time goes by, I find this to be a common theme among many veterans.

Many of these people went through “hell” and lived to talk about it. But they don’t. They just figure it was their duty and they did it. When their tour was over they came home, but it never seems to really be over. Once a veteran, always a veteran.

This is the most interesting part for me. My dad is nearly 81 years old. He has been and continues to be a very active member in the American Legion.

I can’t begin to tell you how many times he has been the commander of the post. I know for a fact he has presented over 50 American flags to the spouse or child of a fallen veteran. I have had the privilege of seeing him do this more than once, always with the utmost respect and dignity for the family and the military.

Many times I have asked him, “Who was the service for?” His answer would be “I didn’t know the person, but I had a duty to perform. Regardless of who they are, they deserve a military funeral, and as long as I’m alive they’ll get one.” He hasn’t stopped yet!

Sometimes I see him struggle with his duties, and I ask him; isn’t it time for someone else to step up and let you pass the baton?” He would always have the same answer. “They have, but it’s my turn again and it has to be done.”

He is the sole surviving member of the original firing squad that was organized in the late 1960s at his Legion post and continues to be an active participant. He continues to march in our local parades, and he still goes to the cemeteries to place flags on the graves of all the veterans about a week before Memorial Day. There are at least six cemeteries, and with help from other Legion members, he gets all of them. I recall a time many years ago when he received a telephone call late one evening stating a grave site of a veteran in Jackson cemetery didn’t have a flag.

Without hesitation, he went to the cemetery that same night to make sure the flag was properly placed.

You see, Dad is not only a veteran, he is a patriot. He believes very deeply in what he is doing, and I am very proud of him for all his efforts. I know there are many others out there like him, too.

So, the next time you see a veteran, just say “thanks.” I think they’ll under-

stand.

“Thanks, Dad!!!”

Mark Foote Webster

Who is gouging whom?

Many people against our free enterprise system believe that oil companies are ripping us off.

Let’s look at this notion with a clear mind. First of all, crude oil is a world traded commodity like gold, silver, copper and most other items that keep our country running. The largest “big oil” companies are located out of the United States. Exxon-Mobil is our country’s biggest, and they aren’t even in the top three in regards to production. On the average, gasoline-producing companies receive about 8 cents profit on a gallon of gasoline.

Look up gas taxes on the internet and you will find that Wisconsin is very near the top on gas taxation, when you add the federal tax on to the Wisconsin tax you find that we are being gouged by the two taxation bodies over 50 cents a gallon. Gov. Doyle and his Democrat colleagues in the Legislature are proposing to gouge us even more. If the elected officials were serious about the price per gallon of gasoline, they would cut the tax burden as we did in the previous session.

Oil companies explore, drill, refine, market and distribute gasoline to us and get 8 cents a gallon for it. The government just cashes the checks derived from confiscatory taxation practices. If we cut the profit from oil companies in half we would save 4 cents at the pump but, if we cut the tax imposed on gasoline in half we could save over 25 cents.

“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

-Winston Churchill Mark Pettis Hertel

GAM: more facts In my last letter, I spoke of the similarities between the nursing homes in Polk County. All nursing homes in Polk County receive money from the government. That may come as a surprise to some people, but it is true. The money comes from Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. The level depends on the census of the home. If a nursing home has a high percentage of residents that are being cared for under either Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement, the percentage they receive reflects that percentage. In Polk County the range of income coming to the homes is between 60 and 70 percent, and at times even greater. Where does that money come from? It comes from the allocation the U.S. government gives to Wisconsin and from a match of funds from Wisconsin for care of persons needing nursing home care.

Medicare money comes from persons earning wages or self-employment income where Social Security and Medicare taxes are due, which are most of us. If you are employed by a company, the company pays one half and you

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pay the other half. Your employees’ contribution is 6.2 percent for social security and 1.45 percent for Medicare.

The Medicaid reimbursement the homes receive comes from the federal and state income taxes you pay.

Even though the nursing homes in Polk County have similar sources of revenue, the home with a higher percentage of Medicaid residents is at a disadvantage. The reason is that the federal and state government doesn’t reimburse the homes for the total cost of Medicaid residents.

It is easy to see why Golden Age Manor has a harder time closing the gap between revenue and expenses.

One reason is that GAM takes more Medicaid-eligible residents that have health issues that are higher cost than some homes. Another is that GAM has a higher payroll expense than some homes. The payroll expense is high because of the wage and benefit package given to employees. This expense is determined by the county board, not GAM. Good pay and benefits are something that everyone wants to have.

Those benefits help maintain a staff longevity, which is very beneficial to the residents’ care. Residents that have the same staff care for them long term have a high quality of life. Nursing home surveys have shown over time that staff longevity and resident trust for their care is a real plus for their quality of life. GAM is fortunate to have great staff and they are worth what they earn.

It is unfortunate that GAM gets criticized for a shortfall in revenue and expenses. It is hard to understand why that criticism keeps coming when GAM has no control of the revenue coming from the federal and state government.

It is also hard to understand the criticism when Polk County controls the wage and benefit package GAM employees receive.

I believe we as residents of Polk County appreciate the nursing homes we have. It is my hope that more praise will be coming their way rather than negative criticism. Our seniors and veterans deserve no less.

Eugene Sollman Clear Lake

Other side to GAM

Former Polk County Board Supervisor Eugene Sollman’s letters in support of the county-owned nursing home - Golden Age Manor - offer little information that isn’t known by most.

It is a nice facility that does an excellent job of caring for its residents. It would be unfortunate if were to be closed. It provides jobs —- lots of very good jobs—for a lot of people in the Amery area. He even computes the cost for every man, woman, and child in Polk County to continue to shoulder the burden of losses the home is generating (about $5 per person per year) etc.

There are other things to consider.

First of all, every man, woman and child doesn’t get a real estate tax bill, so the bill for the losses are paid by real estate taxpayers.

Our own County Board chairman pays no real estate tax in Polk County and therefore he and his family will be excused from paying their share of the losses generated at GAM.

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L e a d e r F O R U M Letters t o t h e e d i t o r Secondly, GAM serves the area of Amery and a few surrounding townships.

While they do not exclude patients from the rest of Polk County, the large majority of their patients come from Amery and the immediate surrounding area. So, while it is a countyowned enterprise, it serves a relatively small area of the county.

It is possible that when GAM was created, it provided the only source of sheltered care for our elderly or otherwise incapacitated citizens in the county.

That is certainly no longer the case.

There are at least five very good nursing homes scattered about Polk County, all of whom provide excellent care for their residents. None of them have the operating advantage of being able to spend money in excess of their revenues and send the bill to the Polk County taxpayers.

Government should not be involved in businesses that are in direct competition with private sector enterprises.

Government suffers no direct penalty for operating inefficiently. (Witness finance chairman Newville’s and board chairman Jepson’s recent “furniture fiasco”). They simply dig into the taxpayer’s pocket and cover the losses. It also provides an unfair competitive environment for the competing private sector businesses. These operating deficits create unwanted additional real estate taxes or take away dollars that are needed for other things, such as road improvements, public protection etc.

The losses that GAM is generating will grow, not diminish, over the years.

There is no question that the county will – at some point – get out of the nursing home business. The question is when.

Will we sell to buyers that are committed to continuing to operate the home in an efficient and caring manner for the long term or will we simply close it down because we need the tax dollars those losses eat up to repair and rebuild our roads and maintain our sheriff’s department and provide services that are mandated by law to county government? The longer the county owns GAM, the more divisive the issue will be.

Bob Blake Rural Frederic

Smoking ban Regarding the proposed smoking ban bill 150.

I am writing to urge everyone to contact the Legislature and tell them you oppose the smoking ban bill #150. This bill, if passed, will ban all smoking in all public buildings, and all private business.

First off, I would like to state that I agree with a smoking ban on all taxpayer-funded buildings and residences.

Every single taxpayer in Wisconsin pays for these and the majority should rule in this decision.

The problem I have with the ban is that it also affects every private business owner in Wisconsin. It is telling them how to run their business. I own a tavern in Grantsburg and 80 percent of my customers and employees smoke. This ban will greatly hurt my business.

Supporting the smoking ban is not supporting a healthier lifestyle; it is supporting the removal of more individual rights this country was founded on. If letting people smoke in my tavern hurts my business, isn’t that my problem?

They are not breaking any laws. They are just legally doing something they enjoy. I personally do not like rap music, but it shouldn’t be banned from the radio. I will just tune to another station without rap music. If some businesses want to be smoke free, so be it,

but at least give us the choice.

It is tough these days to make a retail business go. Every customer is worth their weight in gold. I know that if this smoking ban passes, I will lose more customers than I will gain. The people in favor of the ban say it’s legislation to improve the health of the citizens and to slow the high cost of health care the state is stuck with due to smoking. Why is there legislation not written to ban cigarettes themselves? The only reason is the state does not want to lose the tax money generated on every pack of cigarettes.

This legislation is not in the best interest of business or you as a voter. It is “feel-good legislation” that will have little or no impact on getting people to stop smoking. If getting people to quit were the Legislature’s goal, they would raise the tax on every pack of cigarettes to $20. We won’t see this happen though, because of the huge tax dollar loss from the purchase of tobacco.

If we as citizens remain law abiding and respectful, we should all have the right to conduct our private lives and businesses the way we want as long as we remain within the boundaries of the law. Remember tobacco cigarettes are still legal.

The issue of secondhand smoke is also raised. I have never had anyone that was shocked or surprised there were people smoking in my tavern after they entered the building. That would be like someone going to a NASCAR race and being shocked and dismayed because it is loud.

Legal adults already have mothers, they don’t need the government to mother them and tell them they shouldn’t be doing something that the government already has deemed legal and reaps the profits from with tax dollars.

Every right they take is one you will never get back. What is next after cigarettes? Maybe butter because of high cholesterol.

You might think this is extreme, but ask yourself where does it end?

Call your senators and assemblymen and urge them to vote NO to taking your rights away.

Note: I am a nonsmoker and have been one all my life.

Michael Janke Rendezvous Bar Grantsburg

Wonderful program

We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to Mrs. Tjader’s fourth-grade class and their senior center partners.

Our daughter has had the good fortune to be a part of this wonderful program that matches a senior citizen with a fourth-grader. This experience has been a wonderful cross-generational program for all involved. Mrs. Tjader was able to provide monthly snacks, crafts and even a field trip through a Burnett County Safe and Stable Family grant. Thank you as well to the Pizza Place, Joe Goral and Armstrong Carpet Cleaners for donating pizzas at their last meeting.

This program has been blessed by all the volunteers involved!

Kathie and Wayne Koball Siren

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Every reader’s help is needed to save the Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund.

The 1975 Wisconsin Legislature created the Patients Compensation Fund now called the Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund. This money comes from Wisconsin doctors and health care professionals and belongs to the citizens; it’s on reserve to compensate patients hurt by health care errors.

Gov. Doyle wants to take millions out of the fund to balance the state budget.

Twice before, the Wisconsin Legislature stopped him from doing this. The state budget is hard to balance; just like at home. We want more than we can afford, but balancing our budget with money intended for injured patients is bad policy. It’s dishonest. It’s wrong.

Financial consultants report all of the money in the fund is needed for Wisconsin citizens — they found no excess.

The decision will be made soon.

Don’t let it happen! The legislators want to know what you think. They represent you. It is your money. If you encourage them, they will stop this again.

This week, contact your Wisconsin legislators whether Rep. Hraychuck, Boyle or Hubler and Sens. Harsdorf or Jauch. Even a few calls or letters can make a difference. Their addresses and phone numbers are printed every week in the Leader forum.

Norman Jensen M.D. Madison and Siren

Falsehoods It was just a short letter from a woman over in Centuria, but it caught my eye because I realized it portrayed a growing, and seemingly ever-present falsehood about low-income people.

Namely, that they don’t generate revenue or contribute to the community.

Thank you, Ms. Knutson, for speaking up.

Of course low-income people generate revenue. They have to buy things like everybody else, and if they own property, they pay ever-increasing taxes on it, even though their income doesn’t increase.

And you bet we contribute to our communities whether we’re involved involunteer work or not. Everybody who’s ever mowed their own yard, kept up their own buildings, raised their children, grown a garden, and done any of the things it takes to make a home, whether they’re renting or buying, are

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contributing to the overall quality of a community.

Unfortunately, it seems that even lowincome folks themselves have come to discredit all the personal work they do for themselves and their own families because someone has told us it doesn’t really ‘count’ because it doesn’t generate revenue.

But who waits the tables in the little cafes, or stands behind the counters in stores, runs the day care centers, work as aides in nursing homes, does the cleanup work, and many, many other low-wage jobs.

Low-income people are the ones who make everything else possible! They are the core workers of our society. Do you want lunch served to you by a person, or is getting some prepackaged chemical garbage from a vending machine OK with you?

Low-income people rely the most heavily on social services to make up for what their income doesn’t cover, but that helps keep small business able to stay open because they can’t afford to pay higher wages, so tax dollars are indirectly subsidizing local business owners too.

And if you’ve always made enough money that you’ve never had to deal with social services, you probably have no idea how much the social safety net has been eroded since you-know-who took office in Washington.

But many of you are just one job loss away from finding out. And from the sounds of a lot of the nonsense spread around by the neo-cons, you’ll be quite shocked to find out it isn’t the big easy handout that you’ve been indoctrinated to believe it is.

If you think low-income people are “poor” because they’re lazy, irresponsible and ignorant, let me remind you that those traits are certainly not confined to the underpaid. They just can’t hide them as easily as people with more money who can afford to pay others to pick up their slack.

So the next time anyone tells you that low-income people are a liability, realize they are trying to sell you a stereotype and they have an agenda that is probably going to benefit them way more than it will the local people.

And all you low-income folks out there, start nurturing a little more selfrespect so those predatory money-isthe-primary-value types can’t just dump on you like they do.

And those of you who really are lazy, irresponsible and ignorant, you’re giving the rest of us a bad name, and an excuse (a very poor one) for fools to destroy the social safety net that makes the middle class phenomena possible, so get your act together or get help to get it together.

Mary Bingham Grantsburg

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L e a d e r F O R U M A re a n e w s a t a g l a n c e Motorists shot and killed after high-speed chase LADYSMITH - A motorist was shot and killed Monday, May 28, after his vehicle crashed in Chippewa County where he had led two Rusk County patrol deputies on a high-speed chase.

Neither deputy was injured.

The motorist was identified as Valjoe Strong, 41, Ladysmith, by the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department which is lead agency in an investigation into events leading up to the pursuit and use of deadly force by law enforcement. Rusk County Chief Deputy Gary Hahn said the two officers involved in the shooting incident, whose names were not reported, are under administrative leave. He declined to discuss the incident, referring reporters to Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department press release which provided the following information: ”On Monday, May 28, at 9:40 p.m. the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department was asked to assist with a pursuit by the Rusk County Sheriff’s Department The pursuit originated in Rusk County and was nearing the Chippewa-Taylor line in the northeast corner of Chippewa County. Before deputies from Chippewa County got into the area, the Rusk County deputies involved in the pursuit advised they were in Chippewa County and in the parking lot of the Arnold Tavern on CTH M. The suspect vehicle had crashed into some rocks adjacent to the tavern parking lot. The Rusk County deputy advised moments later that shots were fired and requested an ambulance. The Sheldon ambulance and Mayo 1 from Luther Hospital Eau Claire responded to the scene. Sheldon ambulance transported the driver of the suspect vehicle to the landing zone in Holcombe to meet with Mayo 1. Efforts to revive the suspect driver, who had suffered gunshot wounds, were unsuccessful, and the driver was pronounced dead at 10:43 p . m .

An extensive investigation into the events leading up to the pursuit and use of deadly force by law enforcement is being conducted, with the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department as lead agency.” – Ladysmith News Two picnics, two purposes PINE CITY, Minn. - Sunday, June 3, was a day of dueling picnics in Pine City. The third-annual Pride in the Park event, organized to celebrate the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community, was countered this year by a Pro-Family Picnic. The GLBT event was held in Voyageur Park on the Snake River at the same time as the

pro-family gathering in Robinson Park downtown. Paul Wilkens, one of the organizers of the pride picnic, said the event originated as a way to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Men’s Circle and continues as a way to recognize June as Pride Month. The ProFamily Picnic is new, and according to Patrice DeGray, one of the organizers, the idea for it arose “in response to a form letter that was sent to our local area businesses from the organizers of the GLBT picnic.” The letter asked for prizes and financial support. “Because of the tone of the letter, many of the businesses threw it away or left it on their desks,” she said. “Others were willing to share with their real customers the appalling boldness and brazenness of this well-organized, radical fringe of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning community.” DeGray said the letter planted the seed to have a picnic “that allows those who believe in the Godordained, time-tested, healthier alternative lifestyle of marriage between one man and one woman an opportunity to celebrate their uniqueness and unity around old-fashioned, traditional family values.” “Does the Pine City community truly want to be known as the ‘smallest city in the world’ with a gay pride event?” DeGray said, referring to a news release that appeared in area newspapers. She referred to the ad that was run in the Pioneer and other newspapers, promoting the GLBT event. It was provided and paid for by the Men’s Circle. “It is also appalling to see the Pine City Voyageur statue with a pink lei of feathers around his neck and advertisements in the newspapers that say, ‘It’s OK to be gay in Pine City.’“ Don Quaintance, a member of the Men’s Circle and facilitator for the GLBT picnic, said he’s not bothered by the ProFamily Picnic being held at the same time. However, he did question the implication that people in the GLBT community are not pro-family. “We want kids. We want marriage equality.

It’s a different kind of family the churches talk about, the mom, dad and kids nuclear family. That doesn’t happen in many cases today. They are promoting something that doesn’t exist in many cases.” – Pine City Pioneer County approves $2 million in bonds for railroad BARRON - Barron County supervisors approved May 21 a resolution to borrow $2 million for the estimated total project cost to the county for the Barron-Chippewa rail corridor preservation project. In January, the board with an agreement approved Chippewa County spelling out a plan to implement the four phases of the

project, which calls for the Department of Transportation’s purchase and the counties’ upgrade of the rail lines.

Barron County’s borrowing from the state trust fund is contingent upon 80 percent Department of Transportation matching funds. The rehabilitation process will extend over several years.

The state trust fund allows the county to borrow only what is needed at the time.

With January’s agreement, Barron County accepted the grant for Phase I acquisition of the CameronRice Lake and Cameron-Barron segment owned by Canadian National and approved spending up to $120,000 for that phase. Another purpose of the agreement was to authorize the Wisconsin West Rail Transportation Authority to continue to apply for state grant funds for the phases of the project. The total 50-mile project comprises costs of $1.9 million for Barron County and $1.35 million for Chippewa County. The DOT’s cost is $13 million. – Rice Lake Chronotype Is it art or is it vandalism?

HAYWARD - This is the question floating around after the city recently replaced the acid-washed concrete sidewalk in front of Molly Otis’ Pavilion building in downtown Hayward. Otis had painted the sidewalk as an artistic expression; however, the city felt the coloring of a city sidewalk was inappropriate and setting a precedent for others who might also want to consider doing the same.

On April 27 the city replaced the colored sidewalk with a new walkway, despite arguments from Otis, claiming there was no ordinance in place to make the acid-washing illegal. The new sidewalk was constructed at city expense, with Otis being billed for the concrete, and the city putting in time and labor for replacement. “There is no ordinance, and I was acting on permission given by the (former) public works director,” Otis said, commenting that she received permission on three separate occasions from previous city of Hayward public works director John Metcalf. Otis said that this would likely become a “long and ugly deal for both sides” if the city moves forward with a potential charge of vandalism.

“I was just trying to make my building look nice,” she said. “I travel often, and I see whole downtowns with beautiful sidewalks and everything that is industrial-grade cement has been acidwashed.” “Molly was told by my predecessor (Metcalf) that she could stain that sidewalk, but there was never anything written or verbal,” McCue said.

“It was decided by the council that she would pay for the concrete, and we would pay for the labor. She’s decided to fight us on it, so we’ve turned it over

Well-deserved rest

Even snowmen need vacations and the arrival of warmer weather gave this fellow some time to sit and ponder how much time before he’s in his element once again. The display was sighted in the village of Grantsburg. - Photo by Gary King

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University of Minnesota threats to end tuition reciprocity is reckless For nearly 40 Wisconsin years, and Minnesota have had a tuition reciprocity program, which is responsible for expanding opportunities and increasing affordability for over 28,000 students per Sheila year. In general, Harsdorf tuition reciprocity enables students to attend school in their neighboring state for a rate that is comparable to the rate they would have paid had they attended college in their home state. In exchange, the states in the agreement make payments to the other states to compensate for lost tuition revenue.

After years of double-digit tuition increases at Minnesota’s publicly funded colleges, the discrepancy between tuition for Minnesota students as compared to Wisconsin students is significant. Minnesota students are often paying more than their Wisconsin counterparts to attend a Minnesota school.

Now, Minnesota has concluded it is unfair. Their short-sighted solution is to increase tuition on Wisconsin residents participating in reciprocity.

Ending the current tuition agreement is a simplistic and reckless solution to Minnesota’s political problem. Today’s agreement accounts for differences in tuition levels and participation in the program through compensatory payments. Wisconsin makes the choice to keep tuition low for its residents, and pays Minnesota for that choice. If Minnesota wants to make things fair, they should consider lowering tuition on their residents, not increasing them on Wisconsin’s. – from the office of Sen. Harsdorf

Roberts plays comedy club POLK COUNTY - Polk County resident Joe Roberts played Master of Ceremonies at the Minnesota Comedy Club in Maplewood, Minn., June 3 and 4.

Roberts took the lead both performing and presenting the list of well-known comedians including Scott Hansen who has written for Jay Leno. Roberts does his standup routine regularly out of state but continutes to appear in Wisconsin as well.

His Web site comicjoeroberts.iwarp.com is a free site where friends and fans can find out more about him as well as where he will appear next. - submitted

E-mail preferred The Leader welcomes submitted letters, photos and articles each week and encourages everyone to submit them via e-mail, if possible, rather than typed or handwritten copy. Our e-mail address is the-leader@centurytel.net.

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Water rate hike approved

by Tammi Milberg ST. CROIX FALLS– “The city council is reluctant to spend any tax dollars for a new library. We need to explore viable alternatives that do not involve city tax dollars. It is time to get creative,” said city administrator Ed Emerson following the decision by the city council at the May 29 meeting.

The council watched a video and heard the presentation from the library committee about their recommendation for the library to be located in the old Holiday grocery store on Main Street.

This option, with remodeling and purchasing the building, would also involve leasing a portion of the building in order to work. The council, with the exception of council president Lori Erickson who serves on the library committee, were not prepared to go for this option with such a financial backing required as the best solution. The search

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for a library location began over 20 months ago with the option of Holiday, new construction on River Street, and back to Holiday. It was noted that any solution now requires compromise all around the table.

“If we want this to work, we need to coalesce as a community, explore all viable options and come to a compromise consensus that will allow us to move forward in a most cost effective way. It sounds challenging but it is possible,” said Emerson. “There were a great many people that left the meeting very disappointed - having spent some 21 months to get to this point. We know where people stand. Now we need to offer a compromise solution that we can all rally around. The library project should be something that unites us. I think we’ll get there, soon.”

The council approved a water rate increase of 3 percent as recommended by the city auditor. The rate increase is an inflationary cost, and the city’s water rates have been consistent.

In relation to water, the city’s water

Life Link hosts event June 16 ST. CROIX FALLS–St. Croix Falls ambulance service recently moved from EMT-basic to paramedic level. “We received approval in December 2006 from the state of Wisconsin, and a week ago, from the state of Minnesota, to operate at the paramedic level,” said Joe Covelli, director. “We are holding an event called Touch-A-Truck on Saturday, June 16, at the St. Croix Falls Wal-Mart parking lot from 10 a.m. to 1

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search report by Mike Bryant, water and wastewater department manager, indicates good news for more water in the city.

Bryant indicated to the council that all major system improvements, upgrades and maintenance have been undertaken. The well number 8/11 test well shows steady pumping at 95 gallons per minute. Previously, the pumping in that area was reported to be 65 gallons per minute, so this improvement is good news. With good news, however, there is sometimes bad news.

The city aquifers have a limited capacity, and this is not new information since it was previously indicated in numerous studies going back to the 1970s.

What this means is that the city could drill a dozen wells, but there is only so much water to be pulled out of the ground.

Bryant explained the aquifer the city sits atop is one that needs to be recharged annually with each winter snowmelt and spring rain. It is not a deep well and has limited draw capaci-

ty. Well number 8/11 should allow the city to maintain consistent growth, but the city’s ability to expand beyond the 448 residential lots previously approved by past administration is highly questionable. A solution of pulling from the Deer Lake aquifer is plausible, but costly. The DNR and National Park Service have all but ruled out pulling water from the St. Croix River.

The prospect of a cost-affordable well in and around city hall in the alluvial plain is possible and may gain another 100 gallons per minute for the water supply and demand of the city.

“We need to be sober and rational about our future growth potential and face the reality that we have an aquifer of limited capacity. The solution is not simply drilling a bigger or deeper well,” Emerson said adding that it would be the equivalent of throwing money down the drain, or in this case, the well.

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Life Link III are sponsors of the event and hope to have 20 to 30 large earthmovers, ambulances, fire trucks and other big rigs on-site for the kids to see and get in. The event is a fundraiser with brat stand to help one of the EMTs pay book costs. He is attending paramedic school and is from St. Croix Falls.

The public is encouraged to attend.

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SCRMC Auxiliary awards $7,250 in scholarships ST. CROIX FALLS - The St. Croix Falls Regional Medical Center Auxiliary scholarship program began in 1984.

Students who are entering the health care field of study are encouraged and supported by the scholarships given.

The auxiliary administers two memorial annuities. The TeBina Boomgarten fund is for nursing only. This year’s scholarships in nursing went to: Alisa Eckel from Unity School - $1,000; Robert Smith from Siren School - $750; Michael Chelberg from St. Croix Falls Alumni $750; Brenna Martens from St. Croix Falls School - $500.

The Daellenbach Memorial is for nursing and any other health care relat-

ed career. This year’s winners are: Julia Haas - $1,000; Kathleen Jerry - $1,000; Anne Lexen - $750 all from Frederic School; Lindsay Turner from Unity School - $750 and Kayla Hedlund who was home-schooled - $750.

Other scholarship money is raised from the SCRMC Auxiliary’s Love Light Tree event every December.

SCRMC Auxiliary is grateful for the students of today creating better health care for the future. They would like to encourage others to consider the health care field as their careers too. They appreciate all the students hard work and wish them the very best in their endeavors. - from SCRMC Auxiliary

Makin’ a splash at the Polk County Fair POLK COUNTY - It all started out with a conversation about having a little water feature, and soon it grew into a two-tiered boulder waterfall. Located by the Sportsman’s Club Diner, the new pondless waterfall was created to bring fair-goers a little oasis to cool off with a drink or something to eat at the fair.

When it was built, the soil from the excavation of the patio was used to berm up for some height. Then 10 tons of native limestone were brought in and carefully placed to build the waterfall.

Scott Lindahl, owner of St. Croix Valley Landscaping said, “Waterfalls and ponds are really taking off as homeowners want to extend their living space in their own backyards and entertain or relax with family and friends. We’ve

always thought of the fair as a place to go to slow down a bit during a busy summer and see some new things.”

This will give people a chance to experience the waterfall firsthand at the fairgrounds. The sound of running water has been a real attraction already for young and old alike.

The waterfall, paver patio and retaining wall was built courtesy of St. Croix Valley Landscaping, an Osceola landscaping company specializing in nature-inspired design and build services.

Come see this new addition to the Polk County Fair July 26-29 in St. Croix Falls. - submitted

On May 24 Abbigail Thompson of Osceola, age 7, had her hair cut by Jennifer Viebrock of Barb’s Family Hair Care in order to donate it to the Locks of Love foundation which uses the hair to make wigs for people who have lost their hair due to illness. Abbi has being growing her hair for a year to meet the required 10 inches to be able to donate. – Photo submitted

Polk County fair entries due June 15 POLK COUNTY – Friday, June 15, is the deadline for mailing Polk County Fair exhibit entry forms. Premium books contain listings of all divisions, classes, lot numbers and entry forms.

These books can be obtained at banks in Polk County as well as Polk County UW-Extension Office in Balsam Lake.

Any resident of Polk County is eligible to enter in the Open or Senior

Citizens Divisions. Junior Division exhibits are open to members of youth organizations in Polk County.

All mailed entries must be postmarked no later than Friday, June 15.

Gail Peterson is superintendent of entries. She can be contacted at 2686036 regarding entry questions. - submitted

Civil War topic at historical society meeting ST. CROIX FALLS – The Civil War, particularly as it affected people in this area, will be the topic at the St. Croix Falls Historical Society meeting on Thursday, June 21. The speaker will be Ken Martens of Houlton. The new St. Croix Scenic Riverway visitor center

will be the place, at 7 p.m.

Refreshments will be served following the meeting.

Ken Martens is a Civil War re-enactor, who has done extensive study of the Civil War and its impact on this area. submitted

Auditions set for “Good Night Ladies” OSCEOLA - St. Croix ArtBarn will hold auditions for the comedy classic, “Good Night Ladies,” Wednesday, June 6, at 8 p.m.

Male and female adult cast members, college-aged through adults, are needed. Rehearsals will be at 8 p.m., Monday

through Thursday, with performances on weekends July 12-28 at ArtBarn and The SPACE in New Richmond. For more information call 715-294-2787 or visit www.stcroixartbarn.com. - submitted

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City of Trails Day held in St. Croix Falls CITY OF TRAILS 5K RUN/WALK JUNE 2, 2007, RESULTS PLACE

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NAME

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CITY

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JrM JrM JrM JrM JrM

Raymond Rolling Andy Magnuson Josh Magnuson Jes Pedersen Morgan Magnuson

17 11 13 10 14

Osceola Lindstrom, Minn.

Lindstrom, Minn.

Luck Lindstrom, Minn.

20:29 21:45 27:59 28:02 29:08

1 2 3 4 5

M18 M18 M18 M18 M18

John Leaf Dan Brelje Chris Schmid David Hemmesch Nathan Steeber

20 20 27 28 29

Center City, Minn.

Chisago City, Minn.

St. Croix Falls North Branch, Minn.

St. Croix Falls

19:11 19:51 24:57 30:18 30:25

1 2 3 4 5

M30 M30 M30 M30 M30

Mike Braund Craig Broeren Matthew Dallmann Sam Malm Kirk Anderson

30 33 37 32 32

Cushing no town given Osceola Dresser St. Croix Falls

24:41 26:51 27:24 32:01 35:29

1 2 3 4 5

M40 M40 M40 M40 M40

David Quie Phil Bungam Steve Magnuson Paul Pedersen Ralph Anderson

43 47 40 44 51

St. Paul, Minn.

Lindstrom, Minn.

Lindstrom, Minn.

Luck St. Croix Falls

20:27 22:00 23:01 24:48 28:34

1 2

M60 M60

Dave Jendro Ray Hassman

61 62

St. Cloud, Minn.

Hudson

35:36

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JrW JrW JrW JrW JrW

Elle Kaskinen Melinda Beyer Ashley Bollig Anna Hoefler Lauren Koschmeder

17 17 14 13 17

St. Croix Falls Dresser St. Croix Falls St. Croix Falls St. Croix Falls

27:41 29:42 32:11 33:16 33:57

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W18 W18 W18 W18 W18

Tera Bollig Tammi Braund Grace Anderson Diana Jendro Megan Dreckman

23 28 24 25 26

St. Croix Falls Cushing Minneapolis, Minn.

North Branch, Minn.

Shafer, Minn.

21:48 26:00 28:36 29:26 32:30

1 2 3 4 5

W30 W30 W30 W30 W30

Katrina Dallman Sarah Magnuson Barb Enochs Jill Leahy Tara Lindahl

35 38 34 34 31

Osceola Lindstrom, Minn.

St. Croix Falls St. Croix Falls Lindstrom, Minn.

25:17 26:23 28:48 28:56 29:11

1 2 3 4 5

W40 W40 W40 W40 W40

Lisa Wondra Karen Pedersen Jill Johnson Sheri Norgard Deb Kravig

42 41 41 45 59

St. Croix Falls Luck St. Croix Falls St. Croix Falls St. Croix Falls

28:08 29:10 32:05 35:26 36:38

1 2 3

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Marie Jendro Thelma Hassman Sharon Leavengood

61 67 67

St. Cloud, Minn.

Hudson St. Croix Falls

35:35 1:07:52 1:07:56

The first-place finisher of the St. Croix Falls Trails Day 5K race was John Leaf, 20, Center City, Minn., with a finishing time of 19:11. –Photo by Tammi Milberg

Runners for the 5K hike it up the hill toward the finish in St. Croix Falls. The race was a hilly course through the city as part of the Trails Day celebration Saturday, June 2. –Photo by Tammi Milberg

Cost cutting catches up with county

Fairgrounds electrical hazards, museum roof

by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – Past cost cutting and possible lack of inspection is catching up with Polk County. Electrical hazards have been identified at the fairgrounds that may cost up to $10,000 to fix. Removing multiple layers of old shingles may add $16,000 to the cost of reroofing the county museum. Both problems came to light at the property committee meeting Tuesday, June 5.

Fairgrounds There are electrical problems, mostly grounding issues, at the county fairgrounds that must be fixed before the fair opens the end of July. Rick Yunker, owner of Yunker Electric, Dresser, told the committee that he identified the safety issues during an inspection he is just completing. While he had not had time to do a cost estimate, he said it may cost from $7,000 to $10,000 to fix the immediate problems.

While Yunker did not present a detailed list of the problems he found, he did say that some of the most pressing problems are in the five-year-old 4H building, one of the newer buildings

at the fair. Yunker said the building electrical work was never done to code, and the water service in the building is not grounded. He added that no one was looking at the project during its construction.

There are no requirements for electrical inspections of work done on commercial buildings, Yunker told the committee. He said that much electrical work at the fair does not meet code. The work may have been done for free, as a donated service, but it was not done right and creates a liability issue for the county, Yunker stated.

Yunker was called in to do an inspection of the electrical service at the fairgrounds after Marlin Baillargeon of the county fair committee told the property committee in May that the fairgrounds needed $100,000 in electrical repairs.

Yunker said there are many code violations, but most of them are “up in the air” on power poles and not safety issues. He said that the issues are not new and have been brought up before but never acted on. With the inspection, the issues are now on the record.

Neil Johnson, the county board representative on the fair board, said the fair does not have the money for the basic repairs and will need some help from the county. He said that the electrical

problems must be fixed now that they have been identified. Johnson said these are catch-up projects from a number of years.

Jeff Fuge, the county’s legal counsel, pointed out that there is a 45-day window to fix the problems before the fair opens. He said that emergency rules allow the finance committee to act on authorizing the repairs at its meeting Wednesday, June 6.

While the fair society that operates the county fair is an independent body, the county owns the property and the buildings.

County museum In 1988 the county put a new roof on the old courthouse museum in Balsam Lake. Myron Daellenbach of the county historical society told the property committee at that time that he was concerned about putting shingles over the existing shingles, according to an old newspaper article. He said he didn’t think the rafters would hold the new shingles and that the new shingles would double the weight on the roof.

Committee member John Barney was quoted as saying that the roof was strong enough to withstand the weight of a person jumping on it. The committee decided to reroof over the existing

shingles, at a cost of $8,902, rather than rebid the job.

The issue has resurfaced after 19 years. The contractor hired to reroof the museum has discovered that the building has not just two layers of shingles, including the 1988 layer, but four, including the original layer of slate shingles. He said that adding a fifth layer would not only add even more weight to the roof but add to the time it would take to hand nail 1-3/4-inch nails through the layers. In addition, adding a new layer over the existing shingles would shorten the life of the new layer.

The multiple layers of shingles were not mentioned in the bid process, and the situation was not discovered until work on the new roof was started recently. The contractor told the committee that he recommends removing all layers of shingles, at an added cost of $16,000 to the original bid of $45,000.

“We should do it right,” committee member Jeff Peterson said as he made a motion to recommend adding the shingle-removal cost to the bid. He noted that the shingles would need to be removed sometime.

The committee agreed to back the change order which will go to the finance committee for approval.

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Balsam Lake follows suit in extension agreement Board approves agreement with Lakeland Telecom

by Marty Seeger BALSAM LAKE — The Balsam Lake Village Board voted unanimously to extend a contract with Lakeland Telecommunications regarding the cable television franchise ordinance.

A Lakeland Communications representative was at the meeting asking the board to renew the contract in light of new legislation. The state legislature is considering a bill that could be passed as soon as the end of June. If passed, the bill would stop local governments from negotiating service agreements with cable companies.

The extension agreement was presented at the previous board meeting in May, but it was tabled so the board could review the agreement with their attorney and review the new bill before the state before making a decision.

Lakeland Communications explained that surrounding communities have extended their contracts with them as well, including Milltown and Centuria.

The representative also said that the Frederic Village has showed interest in the extension verbally, and Luck Village will decide in their Wednesday night

meeting.

In response to one public comment on the extension being a monopoly, Lakeland Communications explained how the contract is “nonexclusive,” which means that it doesn’t exclude other businesses from competing with Lakeland Communications.

Restructure loan The board met with Sean Lentz of Ehlers and Associates to review Tax Increment Districts and discussed cash flow issues with TID No. 3.

Two motions were unanimously approved by the village board. One being the advancement of funds from the general fund to TID No. 3 for 20072010, and the other was to approve charging five-percent interest on advances from the village’s general fund to TIDs. Update of projects The board listened to a presentation from Jeff Nussbaum of the Cedar Corporation on two different topics Monday night. The first discussion was focused on the Pleasant Avenue Project for sewer and water.

A motion was made to keep the previous assessments for the three parcels on Pleasant Trail as they were a part of the original project. It was also decided that any other hookups will need to pay the

full current hookup price with the same terms as what was originally offered.

Sewer/water outside village The village board addressed three requests for water and sewer hookup outside the village boundaries. The three requests before the board are from Richard Schmidt, 1857 State Hwy. 46 for water and sewer: Nick Walton on the corner of hwy. 46 and 190th for water and sewer and Chris Nelson of the Royal Pines partnership 1288 179th Avenue for water.

Nelson said that he is looking for an agreement of whether or not he can hook up to the system coming from the Unity School District, and said that they are still waiting for an answer. He said they are just looking for an agreement of whether or not they can hook up to the system or not.

Nelson also stated that he bought the property with the hope that someday he would be able to hook up to the system.

Jeff Nussbaum of the Cedar Corporation presented a report that outlined what it would cost for individual sewer and water outside the village to be hooked up to the system. For lateral and a directional bore it was estimated to cost $8,700 to $12,180. Each of the three properties are located on the opposite side of the road from the water/sewer line, so they would need

to use a directional bore approach.

Before any of this can occur president Guy Williams argued that a water/sewer district must be in place before anything can be set up.

Also included in the discussion was Harlem Hegdal, chairman of the Milltown Township, who expressed his thoughts on sharing revenue, and coming up with some sort of border agreement. He felt that it could be a good decision on both sides to consider some agreement.

The topic will be tabled until after the Milltown Township meeting on June 11, and a special board meeting will be held on June 16 at 6 p.m. in the municipal building at Balsam Lake to sort out the matter.

In other business the board • Carried out a motion to contract with Polk County to prepare village parcel maps • Approved liquor licenses, cigarette licenses, mobile home or trailer park licenses, operator’s license applications and applications for building and zoning permits.

• Approved permit for supervised display of fireworks during Freedom Fest as well as Community Club and Freedom Fest street closures.

Scholarships awarded at Frederic FREDERIC – During Frederic graduation the following students were awarded scholarships: Dawn Harlander, Dollars for Scholars, $1,000; Kelli Swenson, Dollars for Scholars, $1,000; Traci Lundeen, Donna Struck LeFurgy Weinzierl Memorial Scholarship, $1,500; Lynnea Chelmo, Donna Struck LeFurgy Memorial Scholarship, $1,500; Jacob Schmidt, Bremer Bank – Frederic branch, $1,000; Benjamin Halverson, Inter-County Leader Scholarship, $750; Bryan Knauber, Lioness Club Scholarship, $500; Kristen Anderson, Bernick’s Pepsi

Cola Scholarship, $800; Julia Haas, C.J. Franseen Merit Award, $750; Ann Nelson, Thelma E. Aaby Scholarship, $1,000; Jennifer Murphy, Landmark Lodge Masonic, $500; Emily Didlo, John and Rose Shull Memorial Scholarship, $800; Elliot Lund, Rowe Funeral Home Scholarship, $500; Kevin Mossey, Community Education Scholarship, $400; Joshua Anderson, Ray and Evelyn Moats Memorial Scholarship, $300; Amanda Jo Lindahl, Karl D. Ludvigson Education Scholarship, $1,000; Joseph McKinney, Janell Memorial Scholarship, $300; Steven Lake, Wadia (Bill) Moses

Scholarship, $800; Kathleen Jerry, Carl Ahlgren Education and Hilda Scholarship, $1,000; Julia Haas, Henry Ahlgren Education Lawrence Scholarship, $1,000; Rachel O’Brien, Marcella (Sally) Surbaugh Memorial Scholarship, $300; Jennifer Murphy, Amery Regional Medical Center Scholarship, $500; Dawn Harlander, Marilyn and Phil Knuf Educational Scholarship, $500; Kristen Anderson, Marilyn and Phil Knuf Educational Scholarship, $500; Anne Lexen, Donna and Roman L. Weinzierl Memorial Scholarship, $1,500; Donald Rogers,

Jean Lang Memorial Scholarship, $200; Jacob Schmidt, Timothy R. Carlson Memorial Scholarship, $450; Corey Laqua, Dan Gabrielson Memorial Scholarship, $500; Kathleen Jerry, River Valley Physician Scholarship, $1,000; Jeffrey Strenke, U.S. Bank Scholarship, $500; Samantha Thompson, Charles E. Lewis Scholarship, $365; Rachel O’Brien, Burnett County Association for Home and Community, $250; and Kelli Swenson, Burnett County Association for Home and Community, $250. – submitted

Frederic High School 2007 scholarship recipients are back row: (L to R): Jenny Murphy, Kristen Anderson, Corey Laqua, Josh Anderson, Steve Lake, Jake Schmidt, Bryan Knauber, Ben Halverson and Don Rogers. Middle row: Julia Haas, Amanda Jo Lindahl, Lynnea Chelmo, Jeff Strenke, Kevin Mossey, Elliot Lund, Emily Didlo, Anne Lexen and Joe McKinney. Front row: Traci Lundeen, Ann Nelson, Kathleen Jerry, Dawn Harlander, Samantha Thompson, Rachael O’Brien and Kelli Swanson. – Photo by Kris Hackett

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Webster’s Walsh wins 3200 at state! jump,” said Ward who thought his best bet for medaling came in high jump.

“After I saw him jump a couple, I knew he could medal.”

Thill also helped the 4x4 relay team run a 3:35, their best time of the season despite not placing high at the meet.

Chaz Heinz, Quinton Johnson and Brian Gibbs also ran the relay.

Overall, the Tigers earned third place through the first day of the meet, but the numbers from other teams caught up with them has they dropped to 13th at the end. Frederic’s boys’ team finished the next highest from the area at 14th.

The Tigers also have the excitement of potentially returning everyone for next season with no seniors on the squad.

“They’ll be hungrier for it next year,” said Ward. “It’s looking good for them with the size group we had to do that well was pretty impressive.”

Websters Peter Walsh comes through on final lap for 3200 title

by Matt Blumkin LA CROSSE – Webster distance runner Peter Walsh said a prayer and believed God answered it.

“I said, ‘God, just carry me on this last lap,’” Walsh recalled from his state-winning 3200-meter run performance on June 1.

Walsh then ran the final lap 13 seconds faster than any of his previous seven laps as he broke ahead of the pack for the Division 3 state title in the 3200.

He had started toward the back outside of the top 10, but he worked his way up to the front pack by the final 2-3 laps.

“Coach (Jim Muus) had a pace I could run to get a 9:36,” said Walsh. “I was under that pace the whole race.”

Yet, his burst on the final lap dropped his time to 9:35.07 as he beat his school record in the event. Walsh set the Webster school record as a freshman at state.

With this being his third trip to state, he knew how to warm-up well, handle nerves, start with a reasonable pace and find good spots in the pack during the 3200. Tigers coach Roy Ward sees him as a tenacious runner and hard worker too.

“An athlete like that doesn’t come around like that every day,” said Ward.

“He’s proof right there if you work hard and got that mentality, you can make things happen.”

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Amazing finish. Webster’s Peter Walsh ran the final lap of the 3200-meter run 13 seconds faster than any of his previous laps. In doing so, he won the Division 3 state title in the 3200 and broke his school record in the event. – Photos by John Reed

Walsh receiving his medal for the 3200 victory.

Walsh also had the experience of Muus’s career to glean from. The Tigers distance coach had been an AllAmerican distance runner in college.

“He’s the brains behind our distance events,” Ward said of Muus.

That led to a strong Tiger presence in distance events at state. Walsh also took sixth in the 1600, and he helped the 4x800-meter relay team go seventh.

Bryan Krause, Asa Olson and Brian Gibbs also ran on the 4x8 team.

“I was really impressed with the 4x8,” said Walsh. “I felt bad for the guys because they didn’t make the podium.”

The Tigers also had Brian Thill picking up a medal in the high jump with a jump of 6 feet, 2 inches for sixth place.

Thill had to miss the finals of the 400, which he also qualified because of conflicting times for the events.

“We were worried if we ran in him the 400, he wouldn’t have the legs for high

Peter Walsh with his first-place medal. He beat out the runners from Brookfield Academy and Fennimore in the final pair of laps.

STATE SOFTBALL SPECIAL ••• CHIPPEWA FALLS – Grantsburg Pirates coach Don Bjelland is happy to have his star catcher Miranda Kammeyer back in the lineup.

Following up a 3-3 performance against Cumberland in the regional finals on May 25, she had two RBIs and a run in their 11-0 win over Thorp in the regional finals. In addition, no Cardinals of the Thorp or Prescott variety stole a base against Grantsburg in sectional play. “When you’ve got a catcher like that, they hardly dare move off the bases much because she’s got a gun for an arm, and she’ll pick them off,” said Bjelland. “A lot of it’s just natural, God-given talent.” – Matt Blumkin ••• GRANTSBURG – Now that’s a tune-up! The Grantsburg Pirates scrimmaged Minnesota Class 2A power Pine City (24-2) and the North St. Paul Sting on Tuesday, June 5. Pine City will be competing in the Minnesota State Softball Tournament on June 7-8. The Sting is a summer league softball team made up of star high school players. The Pirates had played Pine City during the regular season, beating them 2-0. The Dragons, however, were the only team to oust the Pirates in 2006.

Grantsburg has racked up 45 straight wins since. The Pirates open Wisconisn state tournament play on Friday, June 8, against Sevastopol. – Matt Blumkin ••• LEADER LAND – Local sports tidbits to share? Please contact us by noon on Tuesdays to go in extra points! – Matt Blumkin & Marty Seeger ••• LEADER LAND – Sports deadlines are as follows: Wednesday-Monday results must be in by 1 p.m. the following business day. Tuesday results must be in by 10 p.m. Missed deadlines means no coverage that week.

Thank you. – Matt Blumkin & Marty Seeger •••

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Track/from previous page happy that he came back from his injury this season and did as well as he did at the state track meet.”

Kutz had strained a muscle during the 3200, and he couldn’t run in the 1600 the next day. He will be have another season to go with the Pirates.

Karl gets personal best times River Karl, having ran at state in 2006, knew what to expect this time around.

“There’s so many different ways the race can turn out at state,” said the Frederic distance runner. “You’re lucky to at least have it turn out the way you want. I had it going at least that good.”

Karl took second in the 800-meter run and third in the 1600 while posting personal-best times. Despite a personal best of four minutes, 24.4 seconds in the 1600, Karl dropped a place from last year. He took second in 2006.

“It was weird because I ran a faster time in state this year,” said Karl.

Defending champion Peter Bolgert of Sheboygan Area Lutheran won the event in 4:20.38. John Trzebiatowski of Rosholt took second at 4:23.63.

“He ran basically the same race as last year,” said Karl of Bolgert.

Karl didn’t know about Trzebiatowski.

“He came out of no where basically,” said Karl. “He wasn’t on my list of guys I expected to see up there.”

Rozumalski represents Luck Luck’s Peter Rozumalski, the Cardinals’ lone representative at state, took ninth in the 800-meter run for Division 3.

“He ran a good race; he just got a little tight over the last 300 meters,” said Cards coach Jeff Brenizer. “…but he did end the season on a high note. Peter is a great kid and we will miss him greatly next year.”

Rozumalski, a recent Luck graduate, finished his career with a time 2:02.3 in the 800, a personal-best mark.

Siren seniors close careers at state Four Siren seniors finished off their track careers at the state meet.

Derek D’Jock took 13th in the shot put, and three seniors ran the girls’ 4x800-meter relay for 16th. Dragons coach Wayne Koball said the seniors had worked hard throughout their time with the program.

“I am very proud of our athletes,” said Koball.

He also had freshman Sarah Howe running in the 1600-meter run and on the 4x8 relay team. Howe finished 12th in the 1600, and she helped Kim Lindberg, Caitlin Flanigan and Lauren Howe post a 10:38.18 time in the 4x8.

Frederic’s River Karl took second in the 800-meter run and third in the 1600 at state. – Photos by John Reed “I underestimated it going in, so it doesn’t help,” said Anderson. “The competition was great.”

Anderson, a junior, will potentially be among the Vikings crew looking to make a bigger run at state next year.

Frederic’s Peter Carlson earned fifth place in the pole vault.

Kutz in fifth Despite a strained muscle, Grantsburg’s Sean Kutz ran through pain and took fifth in the 3200-meter run for Division 2.

“He was competing against elite athletes and showed a lot of guts to place fifth against some great competition,” said Pirates coach Shaun Fisher. “I am

Carlson takes fifth, fishing for 2008 Having finished his final tests ahead of time, Frederic’s Peter Carlson went north to Canada to do some fishing after the state track meet.

He will also be fishing to move up at state for 2008 after a fifth-place finish in the pole vault this season. Carlson faced stiff competition at state with Daniel Drewek of Athens taking 15-1 and others going in the 14-foot range.

“I think he’s pretty happy with what he did,” said Vikings coach Troy Wink.

“He has another year.”

Carlson plans to work on his pole vaulting at some camps during the summer. He may do the same during the winter with open pole vaulting on Sundays at UW-River Falls.

His height at state, 14 feet, would have been enough to win other years, but not this time around. Wink anticipates Carlson could get his height past 14 feet next season.

Anderson goes 14th Ben R. Anderson, a first-time state qualifier for Frederic, had his work cut out for him in the 100-meter dash.

He finished 14th in the sprint against the best Division 3 competition in the state.

Webster’s Brian Gibbs ran in a pair of relays at state.

Webster’s Brian Thill running in the 400-meter run preliminaries.

Thill gave up a spot in the finals to focus on high jump, which he took sixth in.

Local State Meet Results - Boys (top 10 in each event) Division 2 3200 METER RUN – 1. Szczech, Thomas More, 9:22.12. 2. Zach Wilhlemy, Aquinas, 9:32.09. 3. Andy Lepkowski, Catholic Memorial, 9:33.19. 4. Zach Zellenr, Luxemburg-Casco, 9:34.64. 5. Sean Kutz, Grantsburg, 9:42.89. 6. Matt Pierce, Hayward, 9:44.30.

7. Kevin McCollow, Shorewood, 9:48.47. 8. Connor Boushon, McFarland, 9:51.62. 9. Michael Stumpf, Xavier, 9:54.3. 10. Dale Dydvig, Osceola, 9:55.78.

Divison 3 800 METER RUN – 1. Peter Bolgert, Sheboygan Area Lutheran, 1:58.32. 2. River Karl, Frederic, 1:58.79. 3.

Zach Hasenstein, Sheboygan Area Lutheran, 1:59.42.

4. Andy Lang, Oshkosh Lourdes, 2:00.05. 5. Jake Lincicum, Albany, 2:00.36. 6. Nathan Heppe, Brookfield Academy, 2:00.95. 7. Cody Maves, Elmwood-Plum City, 2:01.31. 8. Ryan Winchel, Hillsboro, 2:02.17. 9.

Peter Rozumalski, Luck, 2:02.33. 10. Trevor Gorman, Columbus Catholic, 2:02.67.

1600 METER RUN – 1. Peter Bolgert, Sheboygan Area Lutheran, 4:20.38. 2. Jon Trzebiatowski, Rosholt, 4:23.63. 3. River Karl, Frederic, 4:24.40. 4. Chris Bowler, Newman, 4:28.63. 5. Nick Nicholson, Fennimore, 4:29.05. 6. Peter Walsh, Webster, 4:30.45.

7. Myles Galloway, Elkhart Lake-Gle., 4:32.27. 8.

Matthew DeVillers, Brookfield Academy, 4:34.87. 9.

Dustin Baldwin, Broowood, 4:38.29. 10. Logan Seipel, Colfax, 4:39.30.

3200 METER RUN – 1. Peter Walsh, Webster, 9:35.07.

2. Nick Nicholson, Fennimore, 9:46.88. 3. Matthew DeVillers, Brookfield Acadmey, 9:49.47. 4. Josh Clark, Gillett, 9:53.94. 5. Sean Hasenstein, Sheboygan Area Lutheran, 9:56.39. 6. Nick Nigh, Auburndale, 9:57.87.

7. Jim Leschke, Oshkosh Lourdes, 10:02.66. 8. Jon Trezbiatowski, Rosholt, 10:05.36. 9. Joel Heroux, Sevastopol, 10:07.58. 10. Curtis Bendorf, Fennimore, 10:18.46.

4x800 METER RELAY – 1. Sheboygan Area Lutheran (Peter Buck, Zach Hasenstein, Sean Hasenstein, Peter Bolgert), 7:57.64. 2. Melrose-Mindoro (Gabe Schmimdt, Ben Rodenberg, Matt Gunderson, Anthony Stelter), 8:14.94. 3. Columbus Catholic (Pat Meyer, Bryan Carey, Neal Zygarlicke, Trevor Gorman), 8:15.2.

4. Colfax (M.J. Osterberg, Wyatt Karl, Logan Seipel, Travis Blomberg), 8:15.22. 5. Brookwood (Dustin Baldwin, Ben Leis, Cody Karper, Jesse Pingel), 8:15.74. 6. Suring (Jared Heimerl, Klint Hischke, Josh Regal, Nate Firgens), 8:16.77. 7. Webster (Bryan Krause, Asa Olson, Brian Gibbs, Peter Walsh), 8:18.83.

8. Cadott (Kyle Rothbauer, Jay Geissler, Derek Foiles, Josiah Yeager), 8:19.14. 9. Sevastopol (Joel Heroux, Clay VanderLesst, Dave Rudolph, T.J. Borkovetz), 8:19.87. 10. Darlington (Jake Boll, Isaiah Goebel, Joe Singer, Jordan Heinberg), 8:21.44.

HIGH JUMP – 1. Jon Griffin, Lutheran, 6-6. 2. Joe Scott, Rosholt, 6-5. 3. Jake Koss, Melrose-Mindoro, 64.0. 4. Brett Kissinger, Algoma, 6-3. 5. David Green, Elk Mound, 6-2. 6. Brian Thill, Webster, 6-2. 7. Clark Lundquist, Gibralter, 6-0. 8. Rylan Bartz, Suring, 6-0. 9.

Nick Perkins, Glenwood City, 6-0. 10. Ryan Mulloy, Cedar Grove-Belg., 6-0. 10. Kyle Lange, Athens, 6-0.

POLE VAULT – 1. Daniel Drewek, Athens, 15-1.0. 2.

Andrew Kolbeck, Trinity Academy, 14-0. 3. Jack Szmanda, Newman 14-0. 4. Jeremiah Burish, Cadott, 14-0. 5. Peter Carlson, Frederic, 14-0. 6. Arlen Fisher, Newman, 13-0. 7. Vinnie Tuminello, McDonell Central, 12-6. 8. Derek Pospical, Riverdale, 12-0. 9. Skyler Frickleton, Deerfield, 11-6. 10. Tyler Jahnke, Marion, 11-6.

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“Pirates III:” A third trip to Madison

The Grantsburg Pirates hoist their second-consecutive Division 3 sectional title after shutouts over Thorp and Prescott on May 31. They will make their third trip to the state tournament as they seek back-to-back state titles. – Photos by Matt Blumkin

Pirates rout Thorp, shut out Prescott in Chippewa for third trip to Madison Grantsburg 4, Prescott 0 Grantsburg 11, Thorp 0

by Matt Blumkin CHIPPEWA FALLS – They brought out the bulldozer and carved the road to Madison again.

“It really got us going,” said Pirates third baseman Sasha Chell about the play that got the Pirates rolling on to state.

Thorp’s center fielder crashed into the outfield’s make-shift fence, as Mollie Bjelland cranked a deep shot in the first inning of the sectional championship game. That shot turned into a home run as the center fielder had to recollect herself and fish for the ball in the tall grass beyond the fence. Bjelland scurried

home for the first run of a game that would be all Grantsburg.

“That was awesome,” said Pirates right fielder Alyssa Ryan. “I think we intimidated them a little bit.”

The Cardinals had no luck against Bjelland’s pitching either. Bjelland had five strikeouts in the first two innings.

She finished off the last couple batters in the first inning with strikeouts, and she struck out next three after allowing a walk to start the second.

Ryan, who had a small hitting slump going before the Thorp game, helped the Pirates mount an 11-0 lead with three RBIs on 1-2 hitting. Her bunt in the second inning got a sparked a four-run inning.

“I haven’t had a solid hit in awhile, and it was nice to have it in this game,” said Ryan who wasn’t expecting a blowout by the purple and black.

“We thought it was going to be a tougher team, so we had to expect that we were playing against a state championship team,” said Ryan. “So even when we were 11 runs ahead, we still got to play as hard as we would if we were tied in the seventh inning.”

While the Pirates rolled and controlled in the championship game, upstart Prescott hung with the Pirates in 1 2 3 4 5 6 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Individual Statistics AB H R Grantsburg Mollie Bjelland 4 2 1 Jamie Lund 4 1 1 Miranda Kammeyer 4 0 0 Lindsey Hedlund 3 2 2 Melissa Burton 2 1 0 0 1 4 Sasha Chell Michelle Lund 2 0 0 Alyssa Ryan 2 1 0 1 0 0 Sarah Wald Jade Johnson 1 0 0 Amanda Durand 1 0 0 0 0 1 Emily Prazak 2 1 0 Ashley Larsen Lauren Amundson 1 0 0 4 9 32 Totals Prescott AB H R Carissa Boleen 3 0 0 0 0 3 Katie Hovel Chelsea Wilfong 3 1 0 Natalie Most 3 1 0 0 0 3 Brittany Hei Cassie Lubich 3 0 0 McKenzie Morris 3 1 0 0 0 2 Chloe Carlson Erica Riley 2 0 0 Totals 25 3 0 Pitching Statistics Grantsburg W/L INN AB K Mollie Bjelland W 5 18 8 2 7 2 x Jamie Lund Team Grantsburg Prescott

Pirates center fielder Michelle Lund making a grab against Prescott.

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a 4-0 semifinal loss. The sixth-seeded Cardinals snuck their way into the sectionals with upsets of second-seeded Elk Mound and fifth-seeded Glenwood City in the regional tournament.

Grantsburg permitted none of the sort with a three-run first inning, as Bjelland led off with a single and scored on Jamie Lund’s double. Lindsey Hedlund then came home for a run following her double in the first inning.

She batted 2-3 on the day with two runs and a RBI. Her second run in the fifth would be the only other run the Pirates would score against the Middle Border Conference Cinderella.

“After the first inning, I don’t know what happened,” said Don Bjelland. “To give them (Prescott) credit, I think the pitcher started changing her speeds a little bit.”

Yet, Mollie Bjelland and Lund held the Cards down combining for 10 strikeouts, two hits allowed and two walks.

The defense also kept the few Cardinal base runners from getting past second.

“I felt we put enough pressure on teams that we had to have have a bad, bad game to not advance.”

All gloves on deck Pirates coach Don Bjelland knows well that his team must be prepared for anything this late in the season.

“Maybe we’ll get a game where it’s 10, and then, we really got to bear down,” said Bjelland whose team has allowed a whopping one earned run all season.

“We have to pride ourselves on not letting anybody score,” he said.

They allowed six runs total during the season, and they had two sets of fourand five-game shutout streaks. The Pirates currently have a five-game streak going with their last run being allowed at home in their home tournament against Osceola in May. Their offense compliments it with 19 of their 23 wins coming by 10 or more runs. They also have a 45-game winning streak going, dating back to their third game of 2006. Yet, the Pirates keep things interesting when it is 10-0.

Bjelland has his squad playing intensely then. For example, they didn’t allow Thorp to score in the bottom of the fifth when they had the bases loaded. He says not keeping up the intensity could cost them.

“It happens with other teams,” said Bjelland. “I’ve talked with coaches that haven’t repeated, and they say that the girls just lost a little bit of enthusiasm during the season.”

He cited Poynette, the 2005 state champion, as an example. The Pirates

Pirates cont. page 19 Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 4 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Individual Statistics Grantsburg AB H R BB RBI 2 2 3 2 2 Mollie Bjelland 0 1 0 4 1 Jamie Lund Miranda Kammeyer 3 1 1 1 2 4 2 1 0 1 Lindsey Hedlund 0 0 1 1 0 Melissa Burton Sasha Chell 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 Michelle Lund 0 3 1 1 Alyssa Ryan 2 Jade Johnson 2 0 0 0 0 Emily Prazak 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Ashley Larsen 0 0 1 1 0 Lauren Amundson Totals 23 7 11 4 8 R BB RBI AB H Thorp 3 0 0 0 0 12 11 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 2 0 10 2 0 0 0 0 42 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 33 2 1 0 0 0 20 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 Totals 18 3 0 2 0 Pitching Statistics Grantsburg W/L INN AB K BB H R Mollie Bjelland W 4 12 8 1 2 0 Jamie Lund x 1 6 0 1 1 0 Team Grantsburg Thorp

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Grantsburg’s Mollie Bjelland making the dive to steal second base against Thorp. She led off the game with a home run, which got the Pirates rolling.

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Pirates/from page 17 downed an unsuspecting Poynette squad in the state semis last year.

“They were just kind of laid back,” said Bjelland. “That was a team we shouldn’t have beat probably.”

The Pirates keep up their energy throughout the game with celebrating between outs on defense, cheering on their batters and various means of team bonding. They wore hunting gear during warm-ups at the start of one game.

“They got enthusiasm, and they support each other,” said Bjelland. “That’s the key I would think.”

That has also come during a season with lineup changes, new faces and an injury to star catcher Miranda Kammeyer.

“We’ve had some rough times, but it’s good to prove that even with those bumps, we could still pull through and have an appearance at state,” said Pirates junior right fielder Alyssa Ryan.

“I’m just excited to be going and whatever happens, happens. It’d be awesome to win another state title.”

Pirates to face tough challenges MADISON – Grantsburg will face the one Division 3 team they didn’t play at state last year when they take on Sevastopol on Friday, June 8.

The Pioneers will enter the tournament on a 15-game tear. They fell to Lancaster in the state semifinals in 2006.

The winner will get the winner of Arcadia-Racine St. Catherine’s. Arcadia (24-0), won the Coulee Conference during the season, and they edged Lancaster 2-1 in nine innings for the their section title game. St. Catherine’s comes in with the weakest record (15-8 overall), but the strongest schedule, lined with Division 2 and 1 teams.

Fastpitch Chronicle has the Angels ranked 10th in Division 3. The Angels had a four-game skid late in the season, but their four victors all had enrollments of 1,000 or more. They’ve allowed only one run in the postseason.

Here’s a further look at the competition:

ing the season. Denmark fell to Southern Door in the Division 2 regional finals.

Grantsburg rallying after their sectional title win. The Pirates will face a vaunted tournament field in Madison next. – Photos by Matt Blumkin

One Pirate comes sliding in to home for one of their 11 runs against Thorp in the sectional title game on May 31.

Sevastopol Pioneers Coach: Heather Spetz 2007 record: 21-3, 10-3, Packerland Conference Champions Scouting Report: The Pioneers hold the sixth ranking in the state as they make a return trip to Madison. Sara Junion leads the Pioneers with .551 hitting and 25 RBIs. They also get plenty of hitting with five starters batting over

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.300 and driving in 12-plus runs.

Pioneers pitcher Carissa Neinas (9-2) has thrown for a 1.27 ERA this season, and she shut out eight opponents.

Courtney Kaye (9-1) has also been dangerous on the mound with a 1.81 ERA and six shutouts.

They split their season series with Division 2 Southern Door, and they beat Division 2 No. 9-ranked Denmark dur-

Arcadia Raiders Coach: Dave Bjorge Record: 24-0, 14-0, Coulee Conference Champions Scouting Report: This team raids pitchers. They have six starters averaging .444 or better, and two average above .550. Larissa Sobotta leads their hitting with a .583 average and 20 RBIs. Sara Baumgartner has a .575 clip and 37 RBIs. Their weakness may be pitching depth as Kayla Finner (21-0) has logged 106 innings of pitching this season. She has struck out 109 batters and has shut out nine opponents. Raiders pitcher Andrea Haines has only seen four innings of action outside of Finner.

The Raiders have one common opponent with the Pirates in beating Thorp 95 during the season.

Racine St. Catherine’s Angels Coach: Mary Kasinski 2007 record: 11-8, 6-6, fourth in Lakeshore Conference Scouting report: This team’s deceptively weak record comes from their stiff competition. They lost to Division 1 state qualifier Racine Case (23-0) in a 60 contest early in the season. They also split a pair of games against Division 2 power No. 4 Union Grove 1-0 in both contests. Union Grove and Westosha Central, both schools with over 700 in enrollment, shared the Lakeshore Conference crown.

Karen Kasinski showed she can hit against tough pitchers with a .424 average and 22 RBI. The Angels also have two batters with a .270-plus average.

Their pitching is their main strength with Kasinski posting a 0.70 ERA in 23 games on the mound. She has shut out nine opponents and struck out a whopping 301 batters.

They beat Horicon 2-1 in eight for the Waterloo Sectional final.

More Pirate action

Luck sophomore Noah Thatcher ends season at state

by Marty Seeger MADISON — Luck sophomore Noah Thatcher returned from his state trip to Madison after becoming the only local golfer to make it this season.

Out of 52 golfers, Thatcher placed 42, but was one of only 12 individual golfers to qualify for the state tournament. The two-day tournament was held June 4-5 at the University Ridge Golf Course in Madison, and on the first day Thatcher shot a 54 and a 48.

On the second day Thatcher improved 17 strokes and shot a 40 and a 45. Thatcher will be back again next year as part of another strong Luck team that just missed qualifying for the state tournament. The Luck team finished the season as conference and regional champions.

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Luck Cardinals golfer Noah Thatcher studies the green at the Frederic Golf Course in an earlier tournament this season. Thatcher golfed a two-day total of 187 at the state tournament in Madison on Monday and Tuesday. — Photo by Marty Seeger

Grantsburg’s Miranda Kammeyer hurrying to second base. Kammeyer had a hit, run and two RBIs in the championship game against Thorp.

Pirates coach Don Bjelland answering questions from a reporter with an Eau Claire TV station following the Thorp game.

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Siren gets comeback over Frederic The Pirates retook the lead in the fifth off a double by Garrett Bennet and a double by Kevin Johnson. A wild pitch in the sixth led to another pair of runs for Grantsburg.

“We can’t give free passes,” said Eagles coach Mike Morris. “Matt Goulet hit well but had two bad errors. We must stay focused and do the fundamental things right.”

Unity scratched two more runs in the seventh inning with a two-out RBI double from Ryan Flaherty. The Eagles loaded the bases in the inning after Aaron Schmidt reached base on an error and Mike Schmidt was hit by a pitch, but the runs ended on a grounder to short.

Battle of unbeatens ends with a win for Siren Siren 11, Frederic 7

by Marty Seeger FREDERIC — The Dragons had a big comeback win over the Vikings on Tuesday night. After being down as much as six runs, the Dragons capitalized on Frederic errors to come back to tie it in the seventh.

The Vikings big inning came in the fourth with RBI singles from Andrew Kurkowski, Ethan Hayes, Ben R. Anderson and an RBI off a walk from Ethan Cook. The Vikings took five runs in the inning, but many of those runs came on Siren errors.

“Really we should have cut off the bleeding at about four runs,” said Siren coach Chad Gibson. “We didn’t help ourselves out in that inning.”

Both teams struggled with errors.

Frederic had six, and Siren had two.

Coach Ben Nelson was still pleased that the team is making progress. Jake Schmidt is still out with an injured arm, but Cook has filled in nicely as a pitcher.

“Overall we’re starting to hit the ball much better, and Ben R. Anderson was a big lift in the third spot after being out a few games with state track,” said Nelson.

For Siren, Adam Daniels and Bobby Smith have been stepping up.

“Bobby came out to relieve Jesse Hinze, and he really stabilized us for 22/3 innings,” said Gibson. Smith had four strikeouts and no walks, and Daniels came in as the closer in the game.

Gibson said that defense will dictate whether or not Siren can stay in games this season, but he likes the group he has to work with.

“We’re going to take our lumps early in the season, and hopefully by the end, we’re playing our best baseball, so we can make a good run come playoff time,” Gibson said.

Grantsburg 6, Unity 4 SIREN — Unity held a 1-0 lead for three innings on Tuesday night over Grantsburg. A two-out Matt Goulet single in the first inning was followed by a walk and an RBI single from Mike Schmidt to give Unity an early 1-0 lead.

The Eagles managed to put another run on the board in the third with another RBI single from Goulet. But Grantsburg came alive in the fourth inning after two walks by Tim Josephson and Trent Bonneville. After a single by Brandon Kaiser and a wild pitch in the inning, Grantsburg was able to tie the game at two apiece.

Team Grantsburg Unity Grantsburg Tim Josephson Kevin Johnson Trent Bonneville Brandon Kaiser Tyler Larson Ben Larson Josh Meyer Garrett Bennet Zach Phillips Totals Unity Chad Strilzuk Ryan Flaherty Matt Goulet Aaron Schmidt Mike Schmidt Cory Tunheim Curtis Nelson Justin Bader Ricky Garbow Totals Grantsburg Brandon Kaiser Unity Matt Goulet Ryan Flaherty

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Adam Daniels threw hard in the Dragons game against Unity on Monday night. - Photo by Matt Blumkin

Baldwin 9, Webster 3 WEBSTER — The Tigers only hit Tuesday night came off a single from shortstop Ben Ries in the third inning.

Webster stuck close to Baldwin with the exception of one bad inning in the third.

“One bad inning did us in,” said coach Greg Sears. “We gave up six runs in the third inning, otherwise we were right there.”

Webster managed to get three runs in the seventh inning on a couple of walks and three wild pitches.

“We only had one hit but found ways on the base paths all night,” said Sears.

“With a young squad its important for us to show improvement each game.

Tonight we did, and hopefully we can build from the good things we’re doing.”

Unity 13, Siren 3 SIREN — Unity rolled through Siren on Monday night totaling 14 hits for 13 runs. Matt Goulet doubled once in the first and hit two triples in the third and fifth innings. Goulet had three RBIs to go with the game, while Aaron Schmidt and Mike Schmidt hit for two RBIs apiece.

The Eagles piled on four hits in the fourth inning to get four runs, while holding Siren to three runs. Dragon first baseman John Anderson was hit by a wild pitch and would later score. Siren scored again in the next inning with the help of a Bobby Smith single. Jordan Potvin singled in the fifth to help Siren

Eagles pitcher Aaron Schmidt gave up only one hit in 2-1/2 innings against Siren on Monday night. - Photo by Matt Blumkin Total Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 Braham Minn., 9 2 1 1 0 0 0 Frederic 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 Individual Statistics Braham Minn., AB H R BB RBI Ehrreich 2 1 3 1 0 20 1 0 0 0 0 Bosman 3 1 2 0 0 15 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 Croldsmith 12 2 0 0 0 0 Karas 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 Ostrom 1 1 2 1 0 Scott 2 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 3 Shax Bosman 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 Schnitz 0 0 1 0 2 Johnson 27 9 13 3 4 Totals BB RBI R H Frederic AB 0 0 0 0 3 Andrew Kurkowski Ethan Hayes 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Jake Schmidt 0 0 0 0 1 Matt Norsten Harlander 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Kris Hicks 0 2 0 2 Kanan Hackett 3 Nolan Neumann 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 Brent Crandell 0 0 0 0 1 Ben G. Anderson Ethan Cook 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 6 21 Totals Pitching Statistics Frederic W/L INN AB K BB H R 6 4 1 0 4 x L Jake Schmidt 1 1 0 3 5 1 x Nolan Neumann Ethan Hayes x 4 17 4 1 5 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total 11 1 0 0 0 3 3 4 1 0 1 5 0 0 0 7 Individual Statistics RBI R BB Siren AB H Marcus Backman 1 0 1 0 0 Blake Hall 3 1 3 0 2 Adam Daniels 5 2 1 0 2 Jordan Potvin 4 0 1 1 0 Bobby Smith 3 1 1 0 1 John Anderson 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 Lance Johnson Christian Hall 4 3 1 1 0 Jesse Hinze 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 Thaad Baasch Totals 33 8 11 3 5 Frederic AB H R BB RBI 2 0 0 0 0 Andrew Kurkowski Matt Norsten 2 1 1 0 1 Ethan Hayes 4 2 2 0 2 Ben R. Anderson 3 2 0 0 3 David Harlander 4 0 0 0 0 Kanan Hackett 4 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 Nolan Neumann Brent Crandell 2 1 0 0 0 Bryan Meyer 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 Ethan Cook Kris Hicks 1 0 0 0 0 Totals 26 8 6 2 7 Pitching Statistics Siren W/L INN AB K BB H R Jesse Hinze x 3 1/3 x 0 4 5 6 x 2 2/3 x 4 0 2 1 Bobby Smith Adam Daniels x 1 x 0 0 0 0 Frederic W/L INN AB K BB H R x 3 14 1 2 2 1 Ethan Cook Ethan Hayes L 4 19 2 5 5 10 Team Siren Frederic

Braham, Minn., 13, Frederic 2 FREDERIC — Frederic faced Braham Minn., in nonconference action on Monday night in Frederic. Jake Schmidt acted as the starting pitcher, but according to coach Ben Nelson, he had to leave with an injury.

Kanan Hackett, Dave Harlander and Ethan Hayes piled on two hits apiece, but Braham took advantage of the Frederic’s four errors in the game. get their third run of the game.

Baseball continued/ page 21 Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 2 1 2 4 4 x x 0 1 1 0 1 x x 3 Individual Statistics Unity AB H R BB RBI 1 0 0 1 3 Tim Lehner Ryan Flaherty 4 2 3 0 1 Eric Goulet 1 0 0 0 0 Matt Goulet 3 3 3 1 3 Aaron Schmidt 4 2 1 0 2 Mike Schmidt 3 2 0 0 2 Chad Strilzuk 4 0 0 0 0 Corey Tunheim 3 2 2 0 0 Justin Bader 2 1 1 1 0 Ricky Garbow 2 1 2 0 1 14 13 2 9 29 Totals Siren AB H R BB RBI Marcus Backman 2 1 0 0 0 Adam Daniels 3 0 1 0 0 Jordan Potvin 3 2 0 0 0 Bobby Smith 3 1 1 0 0 John Anderson 1 0 1 1 0 Christian Hall 2 0 0 0 0 Blake Hall 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Jesse Hinze Lance Johnson 0 0 0 2 0 Totals 18 5 3 3 0 Pitching Statistics Unity W/L INN AB K BB H R Tim Lehner W 2 1/3 14 0 2 4 2 Aaron Schmidt x 2 1/2 9 1 0 1 1 W/L INN AB K BB H R Siren Bobby Smith (0-1) 3 2/3 x 3 1 10 9 x x 1 2 5 4 0 Adam Daniels Team Unity Siren

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Bandits piling on the games pitched seven innings and allowed seven hits and five walks. Jesse Hartel had two hits in the game, and Chad Allram was hit by a pitch for the fifth time in four consecutive games.

The Bandits came close against the Tri-City Sharks in the their last game of the tournament on Sunday. Brian Jacobson led the Bandits with two hits, and the team carried. Six other Bandits reached base on hits. St. Croix held the lead for much of the game but dropped two runs in the sixth for the loss.

The Bandits notched their first win of the season over the Siren Steelers by a score of 12-9 on Tuesday night.

River Bandits get first win of the season over Steelers

by Marty Seeger ST. CROIX FALLS — The St. Croix River Bandits have been piling on the games over the past week, unfortunately they haven’t been able to pile on the wins.

The Bandits started the past week off with a close game against the Siren Steelers on Wednesday, May 30, but lost 8-5. Interestingly enough, it might have been their first win of the season. The Steelers took three of the Bandit players for outfield, because they were short on players. St. Croix also committed six errors in the first inning.

The Bandits began the weekend with a tournament at Oakey Park on Friday and lost 12-0 to the Osceola Braves, and then to the Rosetown A’s 6-0. Jim Rochford pitched a solid five innings in the game against the Bravess allowing only three hits with two strikeouts and four walks.

The Rosetown A’s were the 2006 Minnesota State Champion runners-up, and the Bandits played competitively the entire game. Lefty Adam Lewis Baseball continued/ from page 20 Cumberland 9, Frederic 1 CUMBERLAND — The Vikings took home only one run against Cumberland last Thursday afternoon. Coach Ben Nelson said that freshman Ethan Cook started the game and did a nice job through three innings. Cook faced 11 batters and fanned two, giving up only three hits.

“We scattered six hits, and most guys had improved plate appearances,” Nelson said.

Luck (Legion) 10, Frederic 0 LUCK — Luck Legion ace Harry Severson had a night to remember against Frederic last Friday evening.

Severson pitched a no hitter with seven strikeouts in five innings of play.

Severson was perfect in the batter’s box as well with three hits in three at bats. He doubled in the first, hit a tworun homer in the third and singled in the fifth to pile on four RBIs. All together the Cardinals took home 11 hits in 21 at bats, and scattered at least two runs in every inning.

Unity 3, Baldwin-Woodville 2 BALSAM LAKE — Ryan Flaherty had an outstanding pitching performance against Baldwin-Woodville last Thursday night. Flaherty faced 31 batters and retired 10 batters, allowing only Team B.W. Unity

1 2 3 4 5 6 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Individual Statistics Baldwin-Woodville AB H R Rose 3 0 1 0 0 4 Geurkink Scritchfield 4 0 0 McGee 4 1 1 0 0 3 Dittman Helland 2 0 0 Trickle 3 1 0 0 1 3 Ninneman 0 0 2 Hilgendorf Totals 28 3 2 R H AB Unity 3 1 1 Ryan Flaherty Mike Schmidt 4 2 0 0 1 Matt Goulet 3 4 0 0 Curtis Nelson Chad Strilzuk 2 0 1 0 0 3 Justin Bader 3 1 1 Cory Tunheim Ricky Garbow 3 0 0 0 0 1 Zach Lehmann 2 1 0 A. Schmidt Totals 28 6 3 Pitching Statistics Baldwin-Woodville W/L INN AB K Helland L 7 28 4 W/L INN AB K Grantsburg W 7 28 9 Ryan Flaherty

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3 4 5 6 7 0 0 0 3 x 3 1 2 5 x Individual Statistics AB H Steelers Wes Wagner 3 0 3 0 Kevin Schmidt 3 2 Josh Engstrand Ben Chenal 3 0 3 1 Dan S. 3 0 Nate Lund 2 1 Joe Oustigoff Joe Hoffman 0 0 0 0 Josh Wilson 0 0 Ryan Schmidt Chris Olson 0 0 1 0 Josh Johnson 1 0 Jeremy Littlepipe Totals 22 4 Team Hawks Steelers

River Bandit Chad Allram connects with the ball on a hit to the pitcher in the first inning of their game against the Rosetown A’s last Saturday. On the next at bat, Allram was hit by a wild pitch for the fifth time in four games.Photo by Marty Seeger

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three hits, two walks and one earned run.

Eagles catcher Mike Schmidt singled in the first inning without any runs being scored. It wasn’t until the bottom of the fourth inning that Corey Tunheim drove in Chad Strilzuk for Unity’s first run of the game. A Zach Lehman double in the fifth led to an RBI fielder’s choice

by Schmidt to tie the game 2-2.

Flaherty had a no hitter going through the fourth inning, but Baldwin Woodville’s two hits in the fourth led to their first run, and another unearned run came in the fifth.

The Eagles sealed the victory with singles from Flaherty and Schmidt. An error on the third baseman scored Flaherty to end the game in the seventh.

New Richmond 14, Siren 0 SIREN — The Dragons held New Richmond to only four runs through 5-? innings on last Thursday, May 31, but the runs flowed for New Richmond in a wild sixth inning when they piled on 10 more runs to keep the Tigers in position for victory.

Adam Daniels had Siren’s only hit of the game—a single in the first inning that was followed with a Jordan Potvin walk, but New Richmond pitching proved to be right on target. New Richmond struck out 11 of Siren’s batTeam 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total New Richmond 0 1 3 0 0 10 0 14 Siren 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Individual Statistics AB H R BB RBI New Richmond Evans 4 2 1 0 1 Hanson 4 2 2 0 1 1 2 1 1 3 Stoeklen Johnson 3 1 2 0 1 Torkelsen 4 1 2 0 3 2 0 1 1 1 Tschaoy Mulholland 3 2 2 1 1 Jacobson 4 2 1 0 1 4 1 1 0 2 Haffner Totals 31 12 14 3 12 Siren AB H R BB RBI Christian Hall 3 0 0 0 0 Adam Daniels 2 1 0 1 0 Jordan Potvin 1 0 0 2 0 Bobby Smith 2 0 0 0 0 Lance Johnson 0 0 0 0 0 Kevin Niedenfuer 1 0 0 0 0 Blake Hall 2 0 0 0 0 John Anderson 2 0 0 0 0 Jesse Hinze 2 0 0 0 0 Tom Chosa 1 0 0 1 0 Thad Baasch 2 0 0 0 0 Totals 18 1 0 4 0 Pitching Statistics New Richmond W/L INN AB K BB H R Torkelsen W 6 23 11 4 1 0 Siren W/L INN AB K BB H R Jesse Hinze L 3 14 0 0 4 4 Bobby Smith x 2 9 2 0 2 1 Christian Hall x 1/3 6 0 1 4 5 Jordan Potvin x 1/3 5 0 1 0 4

Frederic’s Kanan Hackett launches one in from centerfield in the Vikings game against Luck Legion last Friday. - Photo by Marty Seeger Team Frederic Cumberland

1 2 3 4 5 6 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Individual Statistics Frederic AB H R Andrew Kurkowski 3 1 1 Ethan Hayes 2 0 0 Jake Schmidt 3 2 0 Kanan Hackett 3 0 0 David Harlander 3 1 0 Brent Crandell 2 1 0 Cody Gruel 2 0 0 Matt Norsten 1 0 0 Claire Erickson 2 0 0 0 1 Ethan Cook 2 0 0 1 Kris Hicks Totals 24 6 1 R H AB Cumberland 0 0 3 Scheis Jerry 0 0 1 3 1 Forster 3 2 2 4 Forster Feidt 3 1 2 1 0 3 Most 0 0 1 x Miller 3 0 0 0 0 1 Blaser 0 1 1 x Severson 3 0 0 9 5 25 Totals Pitching Statistics Frederic W/L INN AB K 11 2 3 L Ethan Cook 2 11 1 x Brent Crandell Jake Schmidt x 1 3 3

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Luck Legion player Harry Severson threw a no-hitter in their game against Frederic. Severson also batted 3 for 3 in the game, homering once with a double and a single.

Team Frederic Luck Legion

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Successful baseball weekend in Grantsburg With the spirit of Big Gust permeating the air, Pete J o h n s o n ’ s Grantsburg Pirates moved to 4-0 with a doubleheader sweep of the Braham Legion last Saturday. Prior to Tuesday’s key matchup with Unity (see game story elsewhere on these pages) Johnson indicated he was somewhat surprised by his nine’s early success, noting he has three seniors who are getting their first taste of varsity baseball and three sophomores with limited varsity experience.

Meanwhile, the eight-team Little League extravaganza (with three Grantsburg teams participating) was also a resounding success. Johnson gave kudos to Goob Coy and his wife Stacy for their yeoman job of managing and operating the Pirate baseball concession stand. In addition, the tireless Goob drags the field, procures supplies and does whatever else is asked. “Goob is a luxury to Grantsburg baseball,” Johnson said (If Mr. Coy is interested in volunteering to do some yard work, painting and other odd jobs prior to an upcoming graduation party in the Frederic area, he should send an e-mail to the e-address at the bottom of this column).

West Lakeland Baseball Conference returns next spring Spies say it is now official. The 2008 West Lakeland Baseball Conference will conFrederic, sist of Siren-Webster, Grantsburg, Luck, Unity and St. Croix Falls. Teams will play a 10-game league schedule with the opportunity to fill the allowed 20-game WIAA slate with 10 nonconference battles versus the likes of Barron, Cumberland, Amery, Spooner, Osceola, New Richmond, BaldwinWoodville and Prescott. Exciting times are on the baseball horizon.

Hands off turtles!

Snapping turtles are being seen with frequency these days as females are emerging from the swamps and ponds to lay their eggs as they have for a few million years (some say only 6,000 years). But remember: The season is closed on the feisty reptiles until July 15 and should you harvest one now a hefty fine will be in the offing.

Badger basketball assistant seen in Balsam Lake Yes, that was UW men’s basketball assis-

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Basketball guru back in town Mike Schmidt, a 2003 St. Croix Falls graduate and former Saints athlete, was home last weekend to attend graduation festivities at his alma mater. Schmidt is a bona fide basketball junkie who analyzes and writes for a Web site called Draft Express. (see www.draftexpress.com) Schmidt recently returned from a predraft camp in Orlando, and last Friday regaled listeners with tales of rubbing shoulders with the likes of householdname basketballers Joachim Noah and Greg Oden (his account of a personal interview with Oden currently appears on the Web site). Until now, Schmidt may have been best known locally as the drummer for the once-popular, but now defunct local rock band called Robert’s Cousin.

Ball-playing DA Informants working the Osceola beat say Polk County District Attorney Dan Steffen was playing for a Woodbury, Minn., team which faced the O-Braves in a recent tilt. Fans expected Steffen to bang out three or four hits that night, but unfortunately the game was rained out after a half inning.

Antietam revisited; North-South grudge match set Garth Olson, Osceola Braves public relations manager and director of offfield operations, has announced that the North-South town ball All-Star game is scheduled for July 3 at Oakey Park. Scott Lindholm, player manager of the St. Croix River Bandits, will skipper the North squad. Players are still needed for the Northerners.

Impressive harvest counts Last week’s column reference to the chipmunk and red squirrel invasion spawned several reports from readers who claim similar success as they protect their homes and gardens from the perky, but pesky rodents. Using the scientific method, an extrapolation based on available data indicates shooters in white-tail deer management areas 10, 15 and 16 have combined to harvest 1,083 chipmunks and 2,269 red squirrels (and yes, you can find recipes for each on the Internet).

Trivia returns next week.

John Ryan may be reached at jmr202@yahoo.com

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Fielder currently leads the National League with 19 homers and Hardy is second with 16.

In the series finale over the Marlins, Franciso Cordero logged his 21st save, which is good enough for the major league lead. Ben Sheets has really turned his season around with seven consecutive quality starts. Over the Marlins he fanned 7 and allowed 7 hits. Other than a shakey few weeks, the Brewers are still as tough as ever, even without Rickie Weeks. Weeks will be out with a wrist injury for the next 15 days.–

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Despite the Monday night humiliation, the Twins have been looking OK as of late winning six of their last 10 games including a sweep over division rival Chicago. Justin Morneau ranks third in home runs for the major leagues with 16, and Torii Hunter has driven in 46 RBIs for fifth in the AL through Monday. Luis Castillo ranks fifth in the league for batting average with a clip of .337.

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AMATEUR BASEBALL

Thursday, June 7 Webster at Luck Legion, 6 p.m.

Baldwin-Woodville at Grantsburg, 6 p.m.

New Richmond at Frederic, 6 p.m.

Friday, June 8 Unity at St. Croix Falls Legion, 5 p.m.

Clara City, Minn., at Grantsburg, 7 p.m.

Monday, June 11 Braham, Minn., Legion at Unity, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, June 12 Unity at New Richmond, 7:30 p.m.

Frederic at Webster, 6 p.m.

Siren at Baldwin-Woodville, 6 p.m.

Scores

Wednesday, May 30 Siren 8, St. Croix River Bandits 5 Friday, June 1 Ken Staples Tournament (at Oakey Park) Osceola 12, St. Croix River Bandits 0 Saturday, June 2 Isanti, Minn., 4, Grantsburg 3 Ken Staples Tournament (at Oakey Park) Rosetown, Minn., A’s 6, St. Croix River Bandits 0 Sunday, June 3 Cumberland 2, Grantsburg 0 Hayward 16, Siren 3 Ken Staples Tournament (at Oakey Park) Tri City 7, St. Croix River Bandits 6 Tuesday, June 5 St. Croix River Bandits 12, Siren Steelers 9

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL Scores

Thursday, May 31 Division 3 Sectionals (#1) Grantsburg 4, (#6) Prescott 0 (#1) Grantsburg 11, (#1) Thorp 0

Coming Up

Saturday, June 9 St. Croix River Bandits at Nowthen, Minn., 2 p.m.

Sunday, June 10 Grantsburg at Siren, 1 p.m.

Webster at Weyerhaeuser, 1 p.m.

Hinckley, Minn., at St. Croix River Bandits, 2 p.m.

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SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL Scores

Thursday, May 31 Unity 3, Baldwin-Woodville 2 Grantsburg 10, Webster 0 New Richmond 14, Siren 0 Cumberland Legion 9, Frederic 1 Friday, June 1 Luck Legion 10, Frederic 0 Saturday, June 2 Grantsburg 6, Braham, Minn., 5 (8 innings) Grantsburg 7, Braham, Minn., 1 Tuesday, June 5 Grantsburg 6, Unity 4 Baldwin-Woodville 9, Webster 3 Siren 11, Frederic 7 New Richmond 10, Luck Legion 0

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SLOWPITCH SOFTBALL Area Scores

Thursday, May 31 Falun Church League West Sweden-Zion Lutheran 14, Faith Lutheran 3 Friday, June 1 Falun Church League Siren Covenant-Bethany 17, Living Hope-Grace 4 Trade River Baptist 14, Calvary Covenant 8 Falun Churches 24, Siren Assembly 8 Monday, June 4 Siren Women’s League Chell Trucking 17, Skol Bar 2 Coyland 12, Hightown Girls 2 Maurer Construction 11, Coyland 9

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NAME: Lindsey Hedlund SCHOOL: Grantsburg YEAR: Senior COMMENTS: The Grantsburg senior first baseman came up big in the sectional semifinals on May 31 with a 2-3 batting performance. She also scored two runs and drove in one for the Pirates’ 4-0 victory. Hedlund followed that up in the finals Lindsey with a run and RBI on 2-4 Hedlund hitting. Hedlund has batted .556 this season for the Pirates along with driving in 24 runs and scoring 23. She has been part of all three Pirate teams that have reached the state tournament. Her experience should be helpful in Madison come Friday, June 8. – Matt Blumkin

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by Marty Seeger SEATTLE – After getting off to a great start, Jarrod Washburn struggled to keep Ranger bats at bay last Friday afternoon.

Washburn was pulled after only 3-2/3 innings after giving up five runs on nine hits and walking four.

The Mariners didn’t have any trouble giving Washburn insurance runs as they totaled 12 hits and eight runs in the game, which hasn’t happened much for Washburn this season.

“You hope you never have nights like DATE

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Friday, June 8 Division 3 State Tournament Grantsburg vs. Sevastopol, 1:30 p.m.* Arcadia vs. Racine St. Catherine’s, 3:30 p.m.* Saturday, June 9 Division 3 State Tournament Championship game, 12:30 p.m.* *approximate times

NAME: Peter Walsh SCHOOL: Webster YEAR: Junior COMMENTS: Webster’s Peter Walsh put together a show-stopping finish on the final lap of the 3200-meter run at the state track meet in La Crosse, and he captured the Division 3 state 3200 title in the process. He came from toward the back early Peter Walsh in the race to work his way up the front pack by the final few laps. Walsh has persevered all year long for Webster athletics. He overcame illness early in the cross country season to finish high at state, and he helped the basketball team’s run to the section finals in March.

Walsh also performed strong for the Tigers in the 1600 and 4x8 relay at state track. – Matt Blumkin

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3.57 4.67 3.57 4.01

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this, but you really don’t like to have them on a night your offense clicks,” Washburn said to mlb.com reporter Patrick Brown.

“You’d rather waste a Jarrod Washburn night like this on a day you get shut out.”

In the same game, Ichiro Suzuki hit a franchise record hitting 25 straight games. The Mariners are still above .500 and have been competitive with the toughest teams this season. – with information from MLB.com

JARROD WASHBURN STATS: L ERA IP H R 0 14 4 75

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

Free kids fishing contest in Siren

This group of boys from Rogers, Minn., had a load of fun catching fish and celebrating Dylan Schoepke’s 11th birthday at the same time. Pictured (L to R): Dustin Schoepke, Dylan Schoepke, John Wuollet, Blake Timm, Jake Good, Kyle Meyer and Blake Miller. – Photos by Marty Seeger

Hailey Jacobsgaard of Brimfield, Ill., caught this stringer of five northern pike while wearing her lucky fishing hat at the Siren kids fishing contest last weekend.

Around 120 kids registered for the Siren kids fishing contest on the Clam narrows Sunday, June 3. The event is sponsored by the Siren Lions Club and the Lake Country Riders Snowmobile Club. Every kid that participated in the event received a fishing prize.

These youngsters from Wisconsin and Minnesota stayed at Nana’s cabin on Clam Lake last weekend. Pictured are (L to R): Tyler Soderlund of Somerset, Sam Koeller of Somerset, Ryan Christiansen of Stacy, Minn., and Keely Sampson of Oakdale, Minn.

Group members of the Siren Lions Club were busy cooking hot dogs for the kids at the Siren fishing contest last weekend. Pictured (L to R) are: Buzz Byrne, Tony Nelson, Roger Kuula, Jerry Awe, John Carlson, Zeke Saugstad (holding the hot dog bun), Les Lindquist, Mike O’Hare and Jerry Fritz.

W a t e r c r o s s Even though it was a wet weekend in Milnor, N.D., the drivers from Coen’s pond did very well at the first points race of the year. A total of nine trophies came back this way along with some really unexpected upsets. Andy Busse, last year’s triple crown winner, was having problems staying in front of the pack in the different classes. Lenny Neis took a first place in the mod drags, and Chad Maki took a first in pro stock ovals.

This left Andy back in second and third place in those classes. Locals Travis Nelson and

Christopher Bowen of Manito, Ill., caught a couple of nice northern pike during the Siren fishing contest on Sunday afternoon. He had been staying at the Shady Oaks Resort with family at the time.

T h o u g h t s

From left to right is Aaron Wallin, Eric Peterson and Kurt Mattila taking off together in a race this last weekend.

Aaron ended up the winner when Eric busted the shock on his suspension. Aaron is the son of Larry & Mary Wallin from Luck.- Photo Submitted Jeremy Carlson did very well third in semi-pro stock ovals. with Nelson taking home a Carlson took a fifth in mod first in stock 600 drags and a drags and a second in semi pro

open ovals. In the pro opens class it was a major turnaround with Dennis Rhyner winning and Matt Ledin from Luck taking second. This year is really going to be fun to watch and see who wins at the different races. I do not think we will have a one- or twoperson run for the season points. The speed that all these sleds are running at this year is wild. Everyone has stepped up the pace this year, which makes it very fun to watch.

Be sure and mark your calendars for June 30 and July 1 to come down to the Coon

Lake Park in Frederic to watch the sixth-annual race put on by the SNOWS Snowmobile club.

For more information about this wild and crazy sport you can go to any of the following three Web sites to see photos, information and a short video about watercross racing. www.snowsclub.com www.kmaracing.org www.iwausa.org.

See you all at the races, Arlen Peterson #449 Retired

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Drug-policy hearing to be rescheduled

by Nancy Jappe SIREN – Due to lack of response, the public-input hearing on a new alcohol/smoking/drug policy for Siren School will be rescheduled to Thursday, June 21, at 6:30 p.m. in the high school library. Anyone who can’t make the meeting but has comments they would like heard can contact the high school office at 715-349-2277.

The hearing had been set for 6:30 p.m.

Monday, June 4, but only Siren High School Principal Joe Zirngible and high

school staff representative Ron Dorn were on hand at that time.

The hearing was set up after a survey of students and teachers was taken. The hearing was designed to get community input on the new policy, which includes the procedure for drug enforcement, something that has not been covered by a school policy. Included with the policy is a check sheet for reasonable suspicion of alcohol/drug use, examples of which are: condition of breath, eyes, speech, skin, balance and

demeanor/attitude. At least two of the indicators must be present to constitute a reasonable suspicion of alcohol/drug use.

Up to now, if alcohol, drug use or smoking is suspected, the school has been calling for a law-enforcement officer. With the new policy, the officer would still be called in, but the school would have the backup information, before the officer arrives, of reasonable suspicion of prohibited use.

The new policy also lists the punish-

ment for smoking/possession of tobacco products, use of drugs or alcohol and refusal to submit to drug or alcohol breath testing. Its adoption is being pushed by members of the high school staff.

Once community input has been obtained, the proposed addition to the student handbook would go to the appropriate school board committee for their approval and then on to the full school board for final approval.

Trails Day runners

Kids who ran the one-mile race Saturday in St. Croix Falls as part of Trails Day pose for a photo at White Pine Park after the race. More photos and results on page 13. –submitted photo

Main Street update

SIREN – Progress on Siren’s Main Street project has slowed down while the concrete crosswalks set up enough to allow final asphalt paving. When that will occur depends on the paving company’s schedule. During the intervening time, the sidewalks will be open, but Main Street from Hanson Avenue to Hwy. 35/70 will be closed to traffic.

Parking will be available on First

Avenue each way up to Main Street, but First Avenue will not be open for through traffic.

Even with the wait until final paving can be done, Main Street should be substantially complete and ready for use by mid-June. Appreciation goes to the people for patience during the project. – Randy Surbaugh, village administrator/ engineer

Driver transported to hospital

Polk County deputies make meth arrests POLK COUNTY - A 47-year-old Chetek man has been charged with two meth-related felonies in Polk County Circuit Court.

Billy Eastham faces charges of possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture, compound, convert, produce or store.

Eastham was arrested by the Polk County Sheriff’s Department on May 31 at 1:50 p.m. after investigators intercepted an alleged drug buy.

Polk County officers made contact with the suspect at the old feed mill on CTH D, south of Hwy. 8.

Investigators found syringes, a spoon and gem bags used for storing meth inside the Eastham’s vehicle.

Eastham also faces charges for driving after suspension.

The man he was allegedly meeting at the site was also arrested. Michael Hess, 37, Haugen, was arrested after deputies made a traffic stop for a broken windshield. Hess was wanted on a felony warrant. He also faces possession of drug paraphernalia charges as a result of the May 31 arrest.

Officers found a glass meth pipe with residue inside his vehicle. – Julie Holmquist

Church honors graduates

Wayne J. Lundgreen, 54, Hinckley, Minn., was transported to Burnett Medical Center after losing control negotiating a curve. It is estimated that the vehicle rolled 63 feet and slid on its roof for 21 feet before coming to a rest. The vehicle was towed due to damage. – Photo submitted

Theme of kiddie parade chosen FREDERIC - The theme of this year’s Frederic Family Days Kiddie Parade will be Summer Fun. All preschoolers and students through grade five are invited to participate. Each will receive a ribbon and a treat from the Lions food

stand.

Lineup will be at 1:10 p.m. on Saturday, June 16, at the Bremer parking lot with judging at 1:15 p.m. - from Marilyn Knuf, Lioness chairperson

A special worship service was conducted by Pastor Catherine Burnette at Pilgrim Lutheran Church on Sunday, May 27, honoring four graduating seniors from Frederic High School. Left to right – Kelli, daughter of Rick and Patty Swenson; Kevin, son of Gary and Carol Mossey and Josh, son of Barry and Laurie Anderson. The other graduate not pictured is Cory, son of Michael and Lori Laqua. Each graduate was given a handmade quilt to take with them on their special journey of life. Pilgrim Lutheran invites all to attend Sunday morning worship services at their summer hours of 9 a.m. For more information, call the church office at 327-8012 or go to their Web site at www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.com. - submitted

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Polk County sheriff’s report Accidents May 24, 4:25 a.m., Sterling Twp., Hwy. 87, 150’ south of CTH B, ASHLEY A. CIHAK, 20, Grantsburg, was northbound on Hwy. 87. Driver struck a cow broadside on the roadway. Cow went over the vehicle and landed on the roadway. Vehicle entered the ditch and came to final rest 600’ from the point of impact. Driver was wearing a safety belt, received minor injuries, transported by EMS. May 25, 3:34 p.m., village of Frederic, Wisconsin Avenue at Maple St.; #1—JOCELYN D. M. STRAKA, 20, Hinckley, Minn.; #2—KIMBERLY A. RUNNELS, 18, Frederic. Unit 1 was southbound on Wisconsin Avenue.

Unit 2 was parked at a stop sign, located at intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Maple Street. Unit 2 continued straight (west), driving in front of unit 1.

Unit 1 struck unit 2 on passen-

ger side. Collision pushed unit 2 southwest in direction. Unit 2 was pushed into a vehicle that was parked at the stop sign.

Unit 1 came to rest in the middle of road. After striking unit 3, unit 2 ran over a stop sign and came to rest in a yard. Unit 3 was pushed backward before coming to rest in the road. Unit 1 driver, Straka, was wearing seat belt, received minor injury/transported by EMS. Unit 2 driver received a citation for failure to yield right of way.

May 25, 9:15 a.m., Osceola Twp. CTH M, .5 mile west of 200th Street, #1—KIPP R. HINZ, 17, Osceola; #2—MARY LOU A. KOHLS, 71, New Richmond. Unit 1 was traveling west on CTH M behind unit 2.

As they were traveling, driver of unit 1 took his attention off the road. Unit 1 then ran into the back of unit 2. Driver of unit 2 advised she was traveling at the

posted speed limit and was not slowing. Both vehicles were pulled to the right upon officer’s arrival. Driver 2, Kohls, received minor injury (wearing seat belt), transported by EMS. May 26, 1 a.m., Alden Twp., 130th Street/CTH C, 150’ south of 45th Avenue, BRYAN C. KUHL, 18, Amery, was traveling northbound on CTH C/130th Street. As the vehicle began to negotiate the right-hand curve, the vehicle began to yaw. The vehicle crossed over the southbound traffic lane and entered the ditch to the left. The vehicle traveled in the ditch and crossed 45th Avenue. After going over 45th Avenue, the vehicle entered the ditch, struck a tree.

The driver was able to drive the vehicle for a short distance then abandoned the vehicle on the side of 45th Avenue. The driver called in nine hours after the crash. Driver cited for failure to

notify police of accident and unreasonable speed.

May 26, 7:05 p.m., Garfield Twp., 60th Avenue/CTH K, .47 mile west of 170th Street, #1— ALEXANDER L. COTTOR, 17, Osceola; #2—DAVID A. ELLINGWORTH, 30, Dresser; Unit 1 was eastbound on 60th Avenue, following unit 2. Unit 2 made a left turn into a driveway at fire #1753. Unit 1 began to pass unit 2 on the left, realized unit 2 was turning, locked up the brakes, and skidded into the north ditch. Front of unit 1 struck the west edge of the driveway at fire #1753.

May 26, 6:35 p.m., Luck Twp., CTH GG, .25 mile south of Hwy. 48, RUSSELL T. HERBST, 52, Blaine, Minn.

Vehicle was southbound on CTH GG about .25 mile south of Hwy. 48.

According to witness, a deer jumped onto the motorcycle as it went by. The driver and passen-

Burnett County sheriff’s report Accidents Town of Meenon, June 2: Lisa D. Smith, 42, Webster, reported hitting a deer while on CTY D. There were no reported injuries.

Town of Meenon, May 3: Jennifer A. Hansen, 21, Frederic, hit a decorative wooden post when pulling away from drive-up window. There were no reported injuries.

Town of Daniels, June 1: Amy C. Belland, 39, Webster, reported hitting a deer while on Hwy. 70. There were no reported injuries.

Town of Meenon, May 27: Jerry L. Frazee, 38, Danbury, lost control after swerving to miss a deer. The vehicle struck a guardrail. There were no reported injuries.

Arrests Town of Siren, June 2: Kevin

D. Hass Jr., 18, Siren, was cited and arrested for disorderly conduct.

Other incidents Town of Siren, June 1: Two stolen gas tanks were found in a dry creek bed. The incident is under investigation.

Town of Siren, June 3: Police reported to an alarm. A garage window was found busted-out, but nothing appeared to be missing. The incident is under investigation.

Town of Sand Lake, June 2: Anderson,, Wayne P. Grantsburg, reported two twoway radios and one 20-gauge firearm were taken from a hunting cabin. The incident is under investigation.

Town of Meenon, May 30: One chain saw and one pole pruner were reported missing from the town hall garage. The

incident is under investigation.

Town of Swiss, May 29: Annette S. Heller, Danbury, reported a cell phone and a chain saw taken from her residence. The incident is under investigation.

Town of Swiss, May 29: Barry L. Dykstra, Danbury, reported an attempted theft of a boat. The incident is under investigation.

Town of Swiss, May 30: William M. Goetzman, Danbury, reported money, jewelry, eyeglasses and prescription drugs taken from his residence. The incident is under investigation.

Town of Trade Lake, May 30: William M. Goepfert, Grantsburg, reported copper wire taken from a house. The incident is under investigation Town of Wood River, May 30: Northwestern Electric reported

the theft of some wire from a substation. The incident is under investigation.

Town of Grantsburg, June 2: Theresa Hansen, Grantsburg, reported fuel tanks from a truck cut from the truck. The incident is under investigation.

Town of Grantsburg, May 30: Larry A. Graf, Grantsburg, reported personal item damaged at a residence.

Town of Daniels, May 29: Denny G. Rose, North Pekin, Ill., reported two trolling motors, a battery charger and ice auger taken from a shed. The incident is under investigation.

Town of Union, May 29: Darlyne D. Gustafson, Danbury, reported a bag of life jackets, a shovel and a marine gas can taken from a pontoon boat. The incident is under investigation.

Siren police report May 22: Danielle Dawn Rodriguez, 18, Danbury, was cited for operating with a detectable amount of restricted substance and possession of THC following a traffic stop in the Holiday parking lot. The officer on duty stopped the vehicle after he noted that the vehicle had its bright headlights on and there was a crack in the windshield near the driver’s head or face.

May 24: Dean L. Boyington, 20, Siren, was cited for disorderly conduct at 6 p.m.

May 25: Lisa May McCoy, 25, Siren, was cited for operating after suspension in a traffic stop on Hwy. 70 and Railroad Street at 2:38 a.m.

May 26: Todd Wayne Jenson, 35, Oak Grove, Minn., was cited for failure to stop at the stop sign on Hwy. 35/70

south at 10:30 a.m.

At 2:29 p.m., Scott A. Mascarenas, 37, Northfield, Minn., was cited for speeding on Hwy. 70 at Hanson Avenue.

At 10:04 p.m., Travis J.L. Wessels, 24, Siren, was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia. The officer on duty found a pipe used for smoking marijuana on the computer desk after the officer stopped at the residence because of a neighbor complaint about vehicle damage the previous night.

May 27: At 6:51 p.m., Marcus A. Taylor, 22, Frederic, was taken to Burnett County Jail on a probation pickup for violation of a no-drink condition.

At 9:42 p.m., Michael J. McCollough, 22, no permanent address, was cited for disorderly conduct and later for disorderly conduct in the jail. Tanya

Burnett County civil court Dakota Bluff Financial, LLC vs. Steve Clemens, Spooner, $1,620.86.

Capital One Bank vs.

Kathryn K. Kelley, Siren, $1,913.63.

Medical Arts Foot Clinic, P.A. vs. Ella M. Schaaf, Danbury, $509.73.

Atlantic Credit and Finance Inc. vs. Carrie M. Lewis,

Webster, $1,134.56.

Mrc Receivables Corp. vs.

Thomas Northwick, Grantsburg, $701.45.

Diagnostic Radiology Assoc. vs. Gloria Hills et al, Grantsburg, $517.75.

Diagnostic Radiology Assoc. vs. Amanda Olson, Webster, $1,004.42.

Burnett County marriages Marriage Licenses Anthony M. Armato, Daniels, and Holly J. Barstow, Daniels, June 1.

Gregory A. Norlander, Oakland, and Joyce L. Frazee, Oakland, June 1.

Burnett County deaths James J. Housley, 57, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., May 18.

Thomas W. Chalberg, 76, Rusk, May 14.

Floyd R. Stauffer, 75, Rush

City, Minn., May 15.

Edward N. Coolidge, 75, Blaine, Minn., May 24.

Richard A. Pfundheller, 56, Lincoln, May 21.

Marie Krause, 21, Shell Lake, was also cited for disorderly conduct in the incident at a Siren residence.

May 28: Richard K. Stensrud, 44, Rice Lake, was cited at 1:59 a.m. for disorderly conduct following an altercation at the Pour House.

At 4:15 p.m., Cory David Kaufenberg, 24, Shakopee, Minn., was cited for nonregistration of a motor vehicle (expired license) on Hwy. 70 at Nyberg Road.

At 9:15 p.m., David John Schuda, 47, Minneapolis, Minn., was cited for disorderly conduct and having an open intoxicant as a passenger in a vehicle following an alleged fight between Schuda and his brother outside the Siren Dairy Queen.

May 29: Jordan S. Lubick, 16, Siren, was cited for operating after suspension at 9:33 p.m. on Hwy. 35/70 and South Shore Drive.

June 1: At 9:15 p.m., Troy Allen Lanning, 39, Siren, was cited for disorderly conduct following a verbal argument.

Tara Lynn Appleton, 18, Hertel, was cited for operating without a valid driver’s license at 10:03 p.m. on Hwy. 35/70 and Lake Street.

June 2: A possible fire call at the Dayton Daniels residence at 2:27 p.m. turned out to be a burned-out blower motor, and there was no fire.

Two young girls were found on Herman Johnson Road at 3:40 p.m. Their mother and home were soon located.

Burnett County criminal court Kenneth P. Madland, 56, Chetek, OWI, alcohol assessment, license revoked six months, $665.50.

Lisa R. McKinney, 40, Luck, criminal damage to property, two-year probation, five months’ jail time, no consumption of alcohol; disorderly conduct, twoyear probation, 30 days’ jail time consecutive to other sentence, $326.00.

Tonia J. Rightman, 35, Siren, possession of THC, $249.00; possess drug paraphernalia, $249.00.

Jordan M. Rogers, 17, Webster, OWI, $894.00, 45 days’ jail time, license revoked 12 months.

Daniel W. Bugg, 43, Luck, OWI, two-year probation, license revoked 33 months, 110 days’ jail time, Huber privileges granted, community service, alcohol assessment, $1,209.00.

Jared M. Schowalter, 19, Webster, cracked or damaged windshild, $160.80.

Karen H. Vanbeck, 55, Trego, speeding, $160.80.

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ger were ejected off the bike.

Both subjects were injured.

Passenger, DIANA L. HERBST, 49, Blaine, Minn., sustained serious injuries and was airlifted from the scene. Driver went to the hospital by private party.

Driver not wearing helmet, passenger wearing a helmet.

May 27, 7:55 p.m., Luck Twp., Hwy. 48, .1 mile west of 260th Avenue, DESIREE M. HICKS, 21, Frederic, was traveling eastbound on Hwy. 48. Unit 1 crossed the centerline and entered the north ditch. Unit 1 continued east until it struck a culvert. Unit 1 flipped end-overend three times before coming to rest in a large group of trees.

The front of the vehicle was facing south and the vehicle came to rest on its roof. Driver stated she fell asleep. Driver not wearing a seat belt, received minor injury (no EMS).

Driver cited for inattentive driving.

May 28, 5:34 p.m., Clayton Twp., Hwy. 63 at 115th Avenue, #1—ZACHARY P PLETZER,

17, Turtle Lake; #2—DAVID J. PEDERSON, 18, Comstock; Unit 1 was traveling southbound on Hwy. 63. Unit 2 was traveling northbound on Hwy. 63. Unit 1 failed to yield while making a left turn onto 115th Avenue. Unit 1 and 2 collided in intersection and both came to rest in the eastbound ditch of Hwy. 63.

Driver of unit 1 cited for failure to yield right of way.

May 30, 9:09 p.m., St. Croix Falls Twp., 200th Street, .2 mile north of 150th Avenue, #1— ASHLEY A. HUTTON, 17, Centuria; #2—TIFFANY L. HALLIN, 17, Centuria. Unit 1 was traveling southbound on 200th Street. Unit 2 was traveling northbound on 200th Street.

Unit 1 went left of center and collided with unit 2 in a sideswiping manner. Both drivers were wearing seat belts, both injured and transported by EMS. Driver of unit 1 cited for operating left of centerline.

Polk County divorces Divorces granted Alistair and Jean Wilson.

Married 1984. One child.

Mark and Candance Morris.

Married 2006. No children.

Mark and Dennise Tretsven.

Married 2001. No children.

Danna and Jennifer Dahl.

Married 2002. Two children.

Divorces filed Valerie and George Brown,

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Frederic. Married 1987. No children.

Jennifer and Jason Johnson, Osceola. Married 1999. Three children.

Angela and Jeffrey Shirts, Amery. Married 2002. Two children.

Melissa and Daniel Johnson, Amery. Married 1992.

One child.

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Real Estate

Polk County criminal court Felony Billy Eastham, 47, Chetek, possession of meth, possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture, compound, convert, produce or store.

Preliminary hearing set for Aug. 7. Signature bond set of $5,000.

Justin Stevens, 28, Spooner, possession of burglary tools, theft, receiving stolen property, possession of marijuana. Bench warrant issued.

Annette Weaver, 30, St. Croix Falls, theft. Preliminary hearing set for June 13.

Steven G. Hart, 44, Luck, pled not guilty to two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child. Court review set for Aug. 3.

Traffic Timothy J. Johnson, 26, Star Prairie, pled not guilty to OWI. Court review set for July 31.

Misdemeanor Jade Miller, 18, St. Croix Falls, pled not guilty to retail theft. Signature bond set of $1,000. Not to be on premises of Wal-Mart. Review set for July 20.

Nichole Cuddihy, 17, St. Croix Falls, pled not guilty to retail theft. Signature bond set of $1,000. Not to be on premises of Wal-Mart.

Michael Lamirande, 17, St. Croix Falls, pled not guilty to retail theft. Signature bond set of $1,000. Not to be on premises of

Wal-Mart.

Jessica Ahles, 17, St. Croix Falls, pled not guilty to retail theft. Signature bond set of $1,000. Not to be on premises of Wal-Mart.

Jacob Hubred, 23, Amery, pled not guilty to retail theft.

Signature bond set of $1,000.

Not to be on premises of WalMart.

Faith Balo, 41, Balsam Lake, pled not guilty to neglecting a child. Review set for Sept. 14.

Ben Balo, 51, Balsam Lake, pled not guilty to neglecting a child. Review set for Sept. 14.

William Rodke, 43, Amery, pled not guilty to receiving stolen property. Review set for July 20.

Mark McKenzie, 49, Dresser, pled not guilty to battery, disorderly conduct. Review set for July 3.

Raymond Heller, 22, Siren, pled not guilty to disorderly conduct, resisting or obstructing an officer. Review set for July 3.

Abdirahman Hassan, 21, Amery, pled not guilty to possession of marijuana. Review set for July 3.

Wesley Rogers, 48, Luck, pled not guilty to disorderly conduct.

Brett Kilmer, 38, St. Croix Falls, pled not guilty to battery.

Review set for July 10.

Michael Ellis, Jr., 18, pled not guilty to possession of drug paraphernalia.

Polk County civil court U.S. Bank, Minneapolis, Minn., plaintiff. William and Tammy McKusick, Balsam Lake, defendants. Plaintiff seeks mortgage foreclosure for payments of $238,554.64.

Wachovia Bank N.A., San Diego, Calif., plaintiff. Joann

Knutson, Balsam Lake, defendant. Plaintiff seeks mortgage foreclosure for payments of $50,689.15.

Residential Funding Co., LLC, Richfield, Minn., plaintiff.

William and Shari Williams, Dresser, defendants. Plaintiff

Real Estate

seeks mortgage foreclosure for payments of $179,792.31.

HSBC Bank, USA, Houston, Texas, plaintiff.

Daryl Schweitzer, St. Croix Falls, defendant. Plaintiff seeks mortgage foreclosure for payments of $101,222.43.

Washington Mutual Bank, Jacksonville, Fla., plaintiff.

Michael and Robin Petzel, defendants. . Plaintiff seeks mortgage foreclosure for payments of $123,587.23.

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Tracy Nordrum

Tiffany Hallin

Kristine Clarke

Sarah Schowalter

Keith Cremin

Paige Gutzmer

Ben Halverson

Alyssa Geary

ICCPA presents scholarships at eight area schools FREDERIC - For the eighth year in a row, the Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association, publisher and printer of the Inter-County Leader and Washburn County Register newspapers and the Advertisers, presented scholarships to graduates of eight area high schools.

Recipients of the $750 scholarships are chosen based on academic excellence, an interest in journalism or photography and on recommendation by scholarship committees.

Receiving the Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association scholarships this year were: Tracy

Frederic Bicycling Classic this Saturday

Nordrum, Grantsburg; Tiffany Hallin, Unity; Kristine Clarke, Luck; Sarah Schowalter, Webster; Keith Cremin, Siren; Paige Gutzmer, St. Croix Falls; Benjamin Halverson, Frederic; and Alyssa Geary, Shell Lake.

Members of the cooperative’s board of directors are Vivian Byl of Luck,

Relay for Life this weekend

CTH W/300th; then east on CTH W/300th to McKenzie Creek, north on CTH O/50th to CTH O and I, then west on CTH I through the village of Clam WEBSTER – The American Falls back to the intersection of Clam Falls Drive and CTH I/90th and west Cancer Society, Relay for Life on Clam Falls Drive to the finish at the of Burnett County, will be held Friday, June 8 and 9, at high school. - submitted the Webster High School track. The public is welcome to come and enjoy!

The survivors reception tent will open at 5:30 p.m. Inside the reception tent is where participants should pick up their T-shirts, and refreshments will also be served.

The luminaria sales will begin at 5:30 p.m. – light a tribute in honor or in memory of a loved one.

A professional caricature artist, live music, quick massages, face painting, games and food will be available all evening.

The opening program, the survivors victory lap, will begin at 7 p.m. The relay Dude contest will be held at 8 p.m., make sure to cast your vote for your favorite.

The luminaria ceremony, which is always a highlight of Dick Ward (L) owner of Hot Liqs, a furniture store in Frederic, the relay, will be held at 10 accepts a photo of himself and his dog “Bob Barker,” a longtime p.m., with the relay raffle friend and companion from local photographer-at-large, Ed Berdal. drawing following at 11 p.m.

Berdal thought it would be nice to frame a photo of Dick and his dog The closing program and that he had taken when the store opened in light of the dog’s recent awards will be handed out at injuries in an accident that left it with a broken neck and at a vet hos7 a.m. on Saturday. - submitted pital. Berdal said he tries to cheer people up with his photographs

FREDERIC - The Frederic Lions Bicycling Classic takes place this Saturday, June 9, offering a 28-mile time trial, beginning at 10 a.m. at the Frederic High School on Clam Falls Drive.

The course will follow Clam Falls Drive to CTH I; then 90th Stret south to the intersection of CTH I/100th and

chair, Charles Johnson of Trade Lake, Janet Oachs of Grantsburg, Harvey Stower of Amery and Merlin Johnson of Grantsburg. The manager of the cooperative is Doug Panek. - Gary King

Eagle update

Wishing “Bob Barker” well

and knew how brokenhearted Ward was in light of the situation. Photo submitted

Heather Elfers of Milltown is following the progress of an eagle and its chicks through the lens of her camera. Her photo of the parent eagles was published earlier this year and this is a followup shot, showing a chick peeking out of a nest. - Photo by Heather Elfers

Teaching Harley history A dad explains some of the finer points of a 1942 Harley-Davidson motorcycle to his kids at the annual Big Gust Days antique, classic car and truck show, sponsored by Fiedler Ford.

Downtown Grantsburg traditionally becomes crowned with classic autos, motorcycles and tractors during the annual celebration, named for the late Anders (Big Gust) Anderson, a village marshal who stood 7’ 6” tall and was known as the “gentle giant.” More photos of Big Gust Days activities in the Northern Currents section. - Photo

by Gary King

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Polk County Special Ed goes to Timbers Theatre

The students from the Polk County Special Education School in Balsam Lake who attended “Shrek III” Monday, May 21, worked before and after the movie, selling pop and popcorn, taking tickets and sweeping the theater afterward. They were allowed to choose whatever seat they wanted in the theater, but agreed to sit in two groups for a photo before the movie started.

LEFT: Jordan Warwas was all smiles as he showed the glass of Pepsi he had just poured from the machine at the Timbers Theatres. Warwas, a student until now at the Polk County Education Special School in Balsam Lake, works at Frederic Bakery, a job that means a great deal to him.

Josh Frenning (L) watched carefully as Brian Randall from Timbers Theatres showed him how to use the pop machine and get the right amount of the soft drink into the glass.

Sarah Stone (L), CD teacher for the Polk County Special Education School in Balsam Lake, talked with Judy Anderson, manager of Timbers Theatres, Siren, Monday, May 21. The theater opened its doors to 15 students from the school and their escorts to see a daytime showing of “Shrek III,” a movie that had just opened at the theater. “We will open whenever we are asked,” Anderson said, adding that this was a special time with the students doing the work of pouring pop, dishing up popcorn and sweeping up after the movie.

Photos by Nancy Jappe

First flag

Gary Quaderer, Vietnam veteran of the Lac Coute Oreilles Am-Vet, carries the first flag of the Indian Nation at the Memorial Day service at the Northwest Wisconsin Cemetery at Spooner. Each eagle feathers represents a fallen member of the tribe. Quaderer was part of the honor guard carrying the flags of the local America Legion, VFW and Am-Vet organizations. — Photo by Larry Samson

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St. Croix Falls Fire celebrates 100 years

by Tammi Milberg ST. CROIX FALLS– This year St. Croix Falls Volunteer Fire Department turns 100 years old. Since it’s early beginnings in 1907, the department has expanded from just fighting fires to include services of first responder, hazmat, high-level rescue and SCUBA. The department has had a strong presence in the community all these years and has had its share of dedicated volunteers that have kept the program growing.

A celebration is planned for this weekend in St. Croix Falls by the department.

Members of the fire department will be in the Holiday parking lot downtown this Saturday, June 9, from 9 a.m. on through the day with Smokey the Bear, Fire Pup, and fire tanks and trucks. Hot dogs, brats and root beer floats will be served, fire safety talks ad fire truck tours will take place and local fire departments will be on hand selling goodies. There will also be 100th-anniversary glasses and T-shirts for sale. On Sunday, June 10, an open house will be held at the new fire station in the industrial park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tours of the

The Livery Mall fire in Taylors Falls in 2002 was a large fire to contain, and St. Croix Falls along with other departments assisted in this fire. - Photos courtesy of SCF Fire

St. Croix Falls Fire also responds to rescue calls such as this firey car crash in 2006.

new station and equipment will be given.

There was no fire department in place in the 1800s and early 1900s. Taylors Falls lost much of its Main Street to fire in the 1902, landmarks like the Cushing House and Fisk House were also destroyed by fire in the 1800s. In January 1907, J.O. Tim’s meat market and ice house in St. Croix Falls was destroyed by fire. Tim had no insurance, was not the owner of the building, and lost his record books and about $1,000 in goods.

Other neighboring businesses were damaged from the fire of the meat market and ice house. It was after this event, citizens gathered to discuss a solution to prevent future catastrophes from happening.

The St. Croix Falls Fire Company was founded in 1907. A group of citizens formed a volunteer fire department in March of that year. The first fire chief was Fred Olcott, with Ben Clayton as assistant chief and F.W. Seaman as secretary. The first fire station was in the brick building on Main Street now known as Red Brick Grill.

It housed the fire department equipment until the 1960s. The fire hall on Main Street just to the south of

the Red Brick Grill location was built in the 1960s and was used as the fire station until 2004. The new fire hall is located on Pine Street in the city’s industrial park.

One of the major fires in the city included the Polk County Normal School, destroyed by fire in March of 1910. Other major fires included a portion of the hospital was damaged by fire on the upper level and water damaged on the lower level in May 1929. The Minar and Minar Garage was destroyed by fire in December 1945, some of the fire trucks were housed in that garage for storage, but none were there at the time of the fire.

Ironically, George Minar, owner of the business, was the fire chief at that time. Then the department had a record of 18 years with no buildings lost to fire. Then, Katz Produce in downtown burned in July 1963. Leo Katz was the owner of the store and ironically enough was also the fire chief during that time. The Lagoon Supper Club overlooking Deer Lake burned in November 1986.

The Friendly Valley Bake Shop was destroyed by fire in See 100 years celebrated, next page

Current members of the St. Croix Falls Fire Department stand outside the new fire station in the industrial park. The department celebrates their 100th year of service.

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100 years celebrated from page 1 April 1987. The First Presbyterian Church burned in 1992. The Livery Mall in Taylors Falls burned in January 2002 and St. Croix Falls assisted in fighting that fire.

Dale Anderson is the current fire chief.

In 1985, Anderson and another member of the department, Pat Packer, were honored by their peers as Firefighter of the Year in 1985.

Anderson has been with the department for 32 years and says, “I do it because I just love helping people. I like the rescue, the fire and enjoy doing it.”

Anderson said the workings of the department have changed since he’s been on it from everyone running when the call comes to it being more of a business now.

“I’m as proud as a peacock of our department,” says Chief Anderson. “The dedication every one of our guys and gals have goes beyond words. The time they put into it without pay is something to be said. I’m proud of each and every one of them and the department and what we do.”

Anderson said he is proud to wear a department shirt and to provide the quality of service to the community and the county. He said some other departments think St. Croix Falls goes over the top with their pride, but he says, “We have something to be proud of and, so why not?”

Firemen’s Prayer When I am called to duty, God wherever flames may rage Give me strength to save some life whatever be its age Help me embrace a little child before it is too late Or save an older person from he horror of that fate Enable me to be alert and hear the weakest shout And quickly and effectively to put the fire out

The Presbyterian Church in St. Croix Falls burned in the early 1990s. It was one of the bigger fires the St. Croix Falls Fire Department had put out. - Photos courtesy of SCF Fire I want to fill my calling and give the best in me To guard my every neighbor and protect his property And if according to your will I have to lose my life Please bless with your protective hand my children and my wife Amen (author unknown)

The first fire station on Main Street housed the department through the 1960s. Pictured are members of the Boy Scout Troop in front of it. The photo was taken in 1939.

Times have changed since the beginning of fire trucks. Pictured is one of the newer trucks on the fleet.

Members of the fire department who were hazmat certified worked on the cleanup of the Weinhardt property on River Street to remove hundreds of cats from the premises. One member is getting rinsed off after coming out of the home.

One of the early motorized trucks used by the department.

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Water Begonias

by Doris Hanson The love of flowers had always struck a soft spot in my dad’s heart as well as mine. Is it any wonder that when we invited Mom and Dad to go with us to the Tri-State Fair in Superior that we looked at all there was to see in the line of exhibits and other stuff to sell.

The first building that we stopped at had a display of the most beautiful flowers. There were many colors in shades of red, pink, yellow, orange and white.

Mother’s first comment was “Oh, if I could only raise flowers like those!”

Never fear, right away there was a salesperson ready to help. He explained how these beauties were so easy to grow. All we needed to do was to have a bowl with some stones in and place the bulbs in and add the water.

We just couldn’t go wrong with such simple directions. These were not the usual kind of bulb; rather they looked more like a nut. The price for these special nuts was three for $5. Dad decided to buy Mom three bulbs and George bought me three bulbs. The biggest job now was to decide on what color to select. They were all so beautiful.

We walked away so happy and excited about our purchase. We could hardly wait to get home and start our prize flowers. We had such a wonderful time at the fair, seeing so many nice exhibits, and eating all kinds of good fair food.

The next day mother stuck her flower nuts in a bowl with stones and water. I did the same with one of mine to see if it would sprout. The other two I saved

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to start at a later date. We watched, we waited, we added water when needed, and rotated the bowl. Week by week went by and nothing happened.

Or faces drooped as we could see that these nuts were not going to produce a flower or anything else.

Now we had this very good friend, George “Soybean” Briggs who was a professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin, at

Madison.

He had started out as the first county agent helping the farmers in Burnett County select new and improved varieties of Shelby oats, wheat, Alsike clover and alfalfa. He also introduced the first soybeans in Burnett County and was very enthusiastic about it, thus receiving the name “Soybean.”

At the time, John A. Hanson was a young farmer newly married to Minnie Hegge. He was interested in everything that Mr. Briggs could help him with. John had an interest in the raising of hybrid seed corn. Soybean Briggs made several trips out to the farm to inform him of new and better strains of hybrid corn.

When John and Minnie’s son was born, July 12, 1924, they decided to name him George after Mr. Briggs.

After moving to Madison, Briggs would still stay in touch with his many friends in Burnett County. Stopping in at the Hanson farm every visit he made up

here. By now I had become acquainted also to Soybean Briggs. It was on one of these visits that George and I told him about our flower experience.

He asked, “Do you have any of those nuts left?”

“Oh yes,” I said, and went to get the two that I hadn’t started yet. While I was gone George said, “You see the one that she put into water didn’t grow, I took the hammer to it and broke it to see if by any chance it had sprouted, but there was just nothing moving in it.” By now I was back in the kitchen with the other two begonia nuts.

“It doesn’t look like anything I’ve ever seen before,” Soybean Briggs said.

Then he asked; “Would you mind if I took these back to Madison with me and check it out a little further?”

“We would really appreciate that if you would.”

George said.

A couple of weeks later we received a letter from Briggs stating he had no material or information on a nut like this. All he could suggest was it might be a nut from some tree in a tropical region.

“Looks like you bought a ‘pig in a poke,’ “ he told us.

These beautiful flowers were like the double tuberous begonias we have now. However, we hadn’t seen anything like that before.

It was a sad ending to our glorious water begonia dream.

You’ve heard the old saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” In our case, there were four suckers born that minute! We were all just as gullible.

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Lutherans choose new leaders; Pederson named bishop, Zahrbock vice president

by Carl Heidel MENOMONIE - Lutherans in northwestern Wisconsin have a new bishop.

At the annual assembly of the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America last Friday and Saturday, voting members of the assembly discerned the Rev. Duane C. Pederson as bishop to succeed the current bishop, the Rev. Robert D. Berg.

Presently serving as senior pastor at First Lutheran Church in Eau Claire, the 52-year-old Pederson brings more than 26 years of experience in ministry and a wide range of skills and expertise into his new office. He has served churches in Montana and Illinois as well as Wisconsin, and along the way he has honed his skills in administration and preaching with a diverse and extensive ministry.

The bishop-elect describes himself as an “intentional learner,” who reads widely in many fields of interest. Those who know him concur with his own selfdescription as someone who has “a deep love of the Lord and his church, a pastoral heart and common sense.”

Pederson will need all those qualities as he ministers to the synod. One of 65

Bishop-elect the Rev. Duane C. Pederson addressed the annual assembly of the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin after his election. synods in the ELCA, the NSW covers the northwest area of Wisconsin with 211 congregations and 106,400 members.

Congregations in Burnett and Polk counties are part of this body.

When Pederson is installed as bishop in August, Berg will move into his new position with the ELCA Board of Pensions as assistant to the president for church relations.

In another election, the synod selected Susan Z. Zahrbock of Rice Lake as the synod’s new vice president to succeed Phyllis Beastrom of Ellsworth, who is retiring. Zahrbock presently sits on the candidacy committee for the NSW, and she brings broad experience in congregational administration into her new office.

Among the resolutions presented for action at the assembly, two attracted special attention. Voting members of the assembly gave their support to a proposal to provide financial support to NSW seminarians in an effort to offset the growing expenses of seminary training.

The assembly also supported a proposal calling for implementation of a program called “Cherish Our Children” at several levels through the synodical and national church. This program addresses the problem of the sexual exploitation of children.

Keynote speaker for the assembly was

the Rev. Gary L. Hansen, Bishop of the North/West Lower Michigan Synod of the ELCA. Hansen is on the board of directors of Habitat for Humanity in Michigan, and he called for congregations of the NSW to partner with Habitat to provide adequate housing throughout the U.S. and the world.

And that larger world made its presence felt at the assembly in the persons of two visiting bishops from the NSW’s companion synods. The Rev. Joseph Bvumbwe, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi, and the Rev. Waldir Trebien, synodical pastor (bishop) of the Sinodo Centro-Campanha Sul, represented their congregations at the assembly.

As part of the assembly’s emphasis on the church’s worldwide community, the two visiting bishops and Bishop Berg signed covenant documents strengthening the relationships between the NSW and its Brazilian and Malawian companions.

Now the synod enters a transition period as it moves toward the installation of Bishop-elect Pederson which will take place Aug. 26 at 3 p.m., at the UW-Barron County Campus in Rice Lake.

West Denmark Family Camp program set LUCK – You are invited to the 31st-annual Family Camp. Camp will begin at 7 p.m., June 30, and continue through July 3. The camp program this year is loaded with a variety of subjects and activities that should satisfy the interests of just about everyone.

This year the singing will be lead by Harry Johansen, a graduate of Luck High School and recently retired music professor at UW-Whitewater. Among

the crafts will be the making of felted purses, knitting, making mobiles, projects with photo transfer to fabric, a return to making dulcimers (over the years, perhaps as many as 50 have been made), bread making with children and more.

Morning discussions will include the topic Biodiesal as an alternative fuel; a panel discussion on global warming using clips from Al Gore’s film “An In-

convenient Truth” and a lecture on current issues by Ann Hraychuck, recently elected state Rep. of the 28th District.

There is an amazing slate for afternoon and evening discussions. Two graduates from Luck High School who also grew up in the West Denmark congregation will discuss their newly published books. Julie Henriksen Bowe will discuss her book “My Last Best Friend.”

Betty Christensen will discuss her re-

cently published book “Knitting for Peace.”

Denise Sweet, Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Professor at UW-Green Bay and also a graduate of Luck High School, will read and discuss her poetry.

For registration information please call 715-472-2383 or visit www.westdenmarkchurch.org. - with submitted information

St. Croix Valley Orchestra concert at Amery, Saturday AMERY – The St. Croix Valley Orchestra, under the direction of Randolph Elliott, will present a spring concert, Saturday, June 9, at 7 p.m. in Amery. The concert will be at Fishman Pavilion, Michael Riverfront Park, one block east of the Dairy Queen. The public is invited

to bring lawn chairs and to participate in a freewill offering. In case of inclement conditions, the concert will be at the Amery Congregational Church, one block off Main Street on the corner of Birch and Harriman.

Highlights of the concert include:

“Country Gardens,” “Jolly Fellows Overture,” “Turkish March,” “LaCumparsita,” “Voices of Spring Waltz,” by Straus, “Stars and Stripes Forever,” and the variation of “Nimrod” by Elgar, which was played at the National 9/11 service. Scandinavians will enjoy espe-

cially, “Ekko Fra Norden” and a singalong on “Helsen Den Dar Hemma.”

For information, call 715-268-7486. submitted

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River Road Ramblings

collected by Russ Hanson

Trade Lake Piano and String Band Music

by Stanley Selin Cleora Fornell had studied music for several years at the University of Minnesota, as well as Applied Piano at Carnegie Hall Studio in New York City.

In the early 1930s, the community was fortunate to have such an accomplished musician as Miss Fornell offering piano lessons to young people in the Trade Lake area. Recitals were given in the Swedish Lutheran and Baptist Lutheran Churches in February and September of 1931, respectively.

Monroe Peterson studied music in Minneapolis. His energentic use of the keyboard entertained people at social events and church programs. He was a member of the well-known Peterson Trio who often played on radio stations in Minneapolis. They also performed at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933.

The Trade Lake School No. 5 string band was organized by upper-grades teacher, Laura Larson, about 1940. It was primarily an in-school activity group that played for the purpose of musical education and enrichment.

The Trade Lake String Band, 1940-41. Back row: Doris Swanson, Barbara Monroe Peterson’s piano solos Ortendahl, Elvira Larson, Ramona Mott, Elaine Oberg, Amy Melin and were a favorite at school PTA proLaVonne Coyle. Front row, sitting: David Dahlberg, Stanley Selin and Vergrams. non Peterson. Photo taken in the Trade Lake School.

Photos from Selin collection

Cleora Fornell’s piano class outside Zion Swedish Lutheran Church at Four Corners, in 1931.

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Wedding superstitions A Lewis neighbor saved an article for this column from the Goodhue Historical Society. The subject was brides and old-time myths and beliefs, researched by Char Henn. They could be true or false, contrived simply because they rhyme.

For instance, choosing a wedding date can be very important. No wonder so may brides choose June.

Married in January’s frost and rime, Widowed you’ll be before your prime.

Married in February’s sleepy weather, Life you’ll tread in time together.

Married in March winds shrill and roar, Your home will be on a distant shore.

Married beneath April’s changing skies, A chequered path before you lies.

Married when bees over May blossoms flit, Strangers around your board will sit.

Married in the month of roses – June, Life will be one long honeymoon.

Married in July with flowers ablaze, Bittersweet memories on after days.

Married in August’s heat and drowse, Lover and friend in your chosen spouse.

Married in September’s golden glow, Smooth and serene your life will go.

Married when leaves in October thin, Toil and hardship for you begin.

Married in veils of November mist, Fortune your wedding ring has kissed.

Married in days of December cheer, Love’s star shines brighter from year to year.

Remember that the above is a silly rhyme. Remember, too, there are always exceptions to the rule.

Perhaps you will like the following: Wed on Monday, always poor, Wed on Tuesday, wed once more.

Wed on Wednesday, happy match, Wed on Thursday, splendid catch.

Wed on Friday, poorly mated, Wed on Saturday, better waited.

It doesn’t say a word about Sunday when Ken and I were married, so I’ll make up my own verse.

Wed on Sunday, God will bless, You and your home with happiness.

Evidently, what color the bride wears is also very significant. Consider the following: Married in white, you have chosen all right; Married in grey, you will go far away; Married in black, you will wish yourself back; Married in red, you will wish yourself dead; Married in green, ashamed to be seen; Married in yellow, ashamed of your fellow; Married in brown, you will live out of town; Married in pink, your fortune will sink.

No wonder white became popular in the 19th century!

“The lack of beauty and daintiness about the average man is never so fully realized as when it is seen of how little importance he is at a wedding.

Of course, he is a necessity but he is not a picturesque one; whether the ceremony takes place during the day or Bernice at night, he is never anything Abrahamzon more than a mere dark blotch upon it.” (The Ladies Home Journal, 1891) Fifteen years later the advice was: A man should give his responses in a clear and sustained voice, as if he meant what he says.

Of course, women wanted to be married. A writer in 1906 opined, “Contentment does not come from careers … If those single women who have done the best work in their respective arts, should tell the truth, they would declare that they knew they would have been happier married.”

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SIGNPOST

(Note: It seems as if I have always known “Happy the bride, the sun shines on” and “Marry in haste,” repent at leisure.” Perhaps some couples consult their horoscopes. I am Aquarius, and my husband was Leo, and it was a good combination.)

Here’s hoping the above information has been helpful to brides and grooms out there. Of course, it takes a lifetime to judge by, or perhaps not.

What a shock!

A woman goes to the doctor for her yearly physical. The nurse starts with certain basic items. “How much do you weigh?” she asks. “115,” she says. The nurse puts her on the scale. It turns out her weight is 140.

The nurse asks, “Your height?”

“5 foot 8”, she says.

The nurse checks and sees that she only measures 5’5”.

She then takes her blood pressure and tells the woman it is very high.

“Of course, it’s high,” she screams, “When I came in here, I was tall and slender! Now, I’m short and fat!”

Joke Did you hear about the two bed bugs who fell in love and were married in the spring?

And another An older man was telling his friends that he was getting married.

They asked, “Can she cook?” No. “Is she pretty?” Not really.

“Is she wealthy?” No. “Why are you marrying her?”

“She can drive at night.”

And finally and not a minute too soon Why is a room full of married couples much like an empty room?

There isn’t a single person in the place.

Someone else has written the following: Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday best day of all, Thursday for losses, Friday for crosses, And Saturday, no luck at all.

Until next week, Bernice

As customs shaped the kinds of ceremonies with which we are familiar, the brides were the focus of attention. Advice for men showed that they had to be there, but that they shouldn’t distract from the bride.

Singing cowboy returns Pop Wagner to perform Father’s Day weekend in St. Croix Falls ST. CROIX FALLS – The legendary singing cowboy Pop Wagner will perform on Father’s Day Eve at St. Croix Festival Theatre on Saturday, June 16, 7:30 p.m.

“We love having Pop in town for our Father’s Day Weekend events because he is simply the best at providing entertainment for all ages,” said Danette Olsen, Director of Festival Theatre. “He is an incredibly witty storyteller, his guitar finger-picking and songs are delightful, and those lasso tricks – well, if they don’t captivate you, nothing will!”

The evening concert is part of Festival’s acclaimed

Music Series. Wagner will play two full sets and join the audience afterward for social hour in the Mezzanine Café. In addition, Pop will perform a one-hour children’s concert at 2 p.m. Families interested in the afternoon concert can also consider a special boat trip on the Taylors Falls Princess that includes a box lunch and ticket to the afternoon Pop Wagner concert.

Reserved seating for the Father’s Day Eve Pop Wagner is $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Tickets for the one-hour Children’s Concert are $7.50 for youth and $12.50 for adults; while tickets for the Scenic Boat Cruise with box lunch and Children’s Concert tickets are $24.45 for youth and $29.45 for adults. For more information, to order tickets or join the Festival Theatre mailing list, call 715-483-3387 or 1-888-887-6002. You may also send an e-mail to boxoffice@festivaltheatre.org. – from Festival Theatre

Do you remember ?

Compiled by Bernice Abrahamzon

50 Years Ago Hagberg’s Federated, Frederic, had a sale on men’s chambray shirts at 99¢, children’s oxfords at $2.44 and flour sacks at 4 for 97¢.-Irvin Ziemann was coeditor of the newspaper at the State College of Wisconsin at Eau Claire.-Siren eighth-graders planted pine trees on old Hwy. 35 across from the Hopkins place. They worked under the direction of teacher Miss Hazel Fletcher and county agent Fred Evert.Children helped the members of the Siren American Legion Auxiliary sell popoies.-A dance was held at the Indian Creek Hall on May 25 with music by Pete’s Serenaders.-“Tarzan and the Lost Safari” was playing at the Frederic Theatre, starring Gordon Scott as the new Tarzan.-Free dances were held at Calderwood Lodge every Saturday night.-Specials at the Frederic Farmer’s Co-op Store were skinless wieners at 3 lbs. for 99¢, picnic hams at 35¢ lb. and catsup at two bottles for 39¢.-A bake sale was given at Carlson Hardware, Frederic, on June 1, sponsored by St. Dominics Ladies Guild of Frederic.-Boy Scouts attended a rainy camporee on May 24-26 at the junction of Trade River Cowan Creek. Don Orgeman, Frederic, was the district camping chairman.-Jeanne Wikstrom was a new clerk at Route’s Market, Frederic.-Bone Lake residents petitioned to join Frederic School District.

40 Years Ago A Labor-Management agreement was in effect at Stokely plants.-Specials at the Clover Farm Store included bacon at 69¢ lb., grapefruit at 10 for 39¢ and shortening at 3-lb. can for 69¢.-Obituaries included Mrs. Lyle Smedegard, Hubert Blattner and Arlene Shull.-Bids were being accepted for the Hertel school and land where it stood.-The annual pancake breakfast would be served every Sunday at the Frederic American Legion from 6:30 to 10 a.m.-Postmaster Peters announced that applications were being accepted for postal clerk at the Frederic Post Office. The starting pay was $2.64 and hour.-Three Frederic students competed at the state music contest at Eau Claire including a clarinet trio of Debbie Lundquist, Stanley Johnson and Diane Martin who won first.-The 35 Café at Milltown opened under the new management of Mrs. Aage Peterson of Luck who leased it.The 25th anniversary of Fr. Alex Anton, formerly of St. Dominics Catholic Church, was observed at Ladysmith for his silver anniversary as a priest.-Randall Holst, Frederic, and Janet Voight, Milltown, applied for Polk County marriage license.-Norma’s Beauty Shop, rural Frederic, was closed May 17-24.The West Sweden Homemakers sponsored a rummage and bake sale on May 19 in the Thompson building, next door to the Frederic Theatre.

20 Years Ago A grandstand was the goal for the Webster fairgrounds.-The Polk County Library Federation approved video equipment from Milltown TV and Demco.-Burglars took $50,000 in cash and bonds from the home of Bobby and Mary Schilling of rural Luck.-A public meeting was held to discuss a new post office site in Frederic.-All day, every day kindergarten was tabled at Frederic.-Frederic early childhood screening was held April 29.-The Bloodmobile came to Frederic on May 15.-Edwin Christensen of rural Frederic observed his 95th birthday on April 20.-A third story was proposed to meet space needs at the Luck Elementary School.-The River Valley Medical Center with offices at Milltown, St. Croix Falls, Luck, Balsam Lake, Osceola, Grantsburg and Taylors Falls/Lindstrom sponsored a Medical Notes column on the subject of Impetigo.-A smelt fry was held April 25 at the Lewis VFW at a charge of $3.50 for adults, $2 for children under 12 years and preschool free.-Donald “Buzz” and Mary Callaway and Jim and Flo Wikstrom were Frederic entrants in Canterbury Downs horse racing.-Pastor Mark Stevens of the Siren Assembly of God Church, gave the message on the church page in the April 22 issue of this newspaper.-Obituaries included Joseph McKinney, Joyce Lane, Alfred Garbe, Wilma Olsen, Verne Anderson, Rose Johnson, Evelyn Westlund, Adeline Hansen and Gordon Veidel.

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Gentle reminders As you may have read last week, the charge to recycle an appliance is now only $15. Drop-off locations for appliances are as follows: Spooner, Grantsburg, A&H and Oakland. Please call Jen at the recycling office for hours and exact locations at 715-635-2197. Remember that prices change at any time based on market conditions. RCC strives to keep prices for recycling as low as possible and we are constantly searching out new markets.

Please note: State recycling funds may only be used for the recycling of residential recyclables. If you are a business generating cardboard, you must arrange for the recycling of it yourself. If you have large amounts, you could consider buying or even leasing a baler for cardboard. There are companies that will pick up your bales and pay you revenue for your cardboard if it is baled. If you do not want to hassle with baling your own cardboard, call a waste hauler who can set you up with a cardboard recycling service. We apologize for this situation, but the burden it puts on our budget is heavy and Recycling Control Commission simply cannot provide this service for free to businesses.

Therefore we are asking all businesses not to bring your commercial card-

board to any of RCC recycling sites for recycling.

If you need assistance or have any questions please call Rick Schneider at 715-635Jen Barton 2197.

Tire prices continue to be the lowest in the area at only $4 per car/light truck tire, $7 for semiReycling sized tires and Control $12 for larger Commission tires such as tractor tires; please call Jen for locations that collect tires.

Please do not leave garbage at any recycling site. Items that you think could be reused and still have some life in them should be donated to charities, or put on the freecycle Web site (call Jen for details). Do not leave them at the recycling sites for others to take.

Most of the time, these items are not taken and become a problem of RCC’s.

If you see anyone dumping anything at the RCC recycling sites that is not a recyclable, take down their license plate. RCC has the authority to fine those that choose to dump illegally.

Please call or e-mail Jen with questions at jbarton@nwrpc.com, or 715-6352197.

EARTH NOTES

Come and hear the Rescue Story FREDERIC – Wednesday, June 13, at 7 p.m. at the Frederic Evangelical Free Church.

Dave and Barb Anderson, and five others survived a plane crash in the Bering Sea in 1993. The story has been heard by millions of people on “Focus On The Family” and on Christian TV networks.

Dave will tell about surviving nearly an hour in 36-degree water.

You might want to visit therescuestory.com even before you come to the concert. If you know anyone who does not believe in miracles, please invite them to the concert.

Dave and Barb Anderson were married in 1975 and since then have presented over 5,000 concerts in churches, schools, nursing homes, conferences and conventions, mission stations, military bases all over America, Hong Kong, Russia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, New Zealand, Israel and throughout Scandinavia.

Dave compiled and edited “The Other Songbook,” now 500,000 copies in print and published “The Best of the Best in

Dave and Barb Anderson Contemporary Praise and Worship.”

The Andersons helped start the contemporary worship movement within the Lutheran Denomination, Dave is the Founder of Lutheran Youth Encounter.

You will hear familiar gospel songs, choruses, praise and worship music, hymns, and children’s songs - all in one concert!

Best of all, you will be invited to sing along. So long as it’s the same song!

You won’t want to miss this. A freewill offering will be taken. - submitted

Aging Unit expresses gratitude to Wisconsin representatives BURNETT COUNTY – The Burnett County Aging Unit, along with the 700 seniors that reside in Burnett County and count on the Wisconsin SeniorCare Prescription Drug Program, extends gratitude to Sen. Herb Kohl, Sen. Russ Feingold and Rep. Dave Obey, for keeping the Wisconsin SeniorCare Prescription Drug Program available to them

through Dec. 31, 2009. This prescription drug program had previously been scheduled to expire this year in 2007.

If you would like more information on the Wisconsin SeniorCare Prescription Drug Program, please contact the aging unit office at 715-349-7600. – submitted by Lois Taylor, director, Burnett County Aging Unit

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Engagement

Frederic Senior Center Monday, May 28, Memorial Day was a nice day for us.

We had a wonderful buffet dinner and then spades were played at 1 p.m. The winners were: first Ed Berdal, second Lola Hinschberger, third Hazel Hoffman and fourth Marlys Borchert.

We enjoyed strawberry shortcake after the game was over.

Wednesday Pokeno players were having a enjoyable time playing their cards at 1 p.m.

Thursday 500 cards, 6:30 p.m. Winners were first Lorna Erickson, second Arvid Pearson, third Lonnie Jones, fourth Nina Voltz and fifth Margaret Ulick.

Friday, June 1 was the monthly meeting. The Pokeno

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Tweet/Shudy Paul and Cathy Tweet, Frederic, with great joy announce the engagement of their son, John, to Marysia Shudy, daughter of John and Marlene Shudy of New Brighton, Minn.

John received his master’s degree in civil engineering from the U of M-Minneapolis, and Marysia is a fourthyear medical student at the U of M-Minneapolis.

The sacrament of holy matrimony will be received in July 2007.

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Karen Mangelsen

Congratulations to Jeremiah and Ashley Ziemer, who had a baby girl April 30. Lindsey Nicole weighed 7 lbs., 12 oz. and was 21 inches long. Grandparents are Curt and Deb Ziemer. Lindsey joins a sister, Hailey, and a brother, Christopher.

Donna and Gerry Hines went to Cloquet, Minn., Tuesday to attend the funeral of Iona Korhonen. Her son, Earl, was pastor at Timberland Free Lutheran Church from 1998 to 2005.

Karen and Hank Mangelsen visited Dirk and Sandy Benzer Tuesday evening. Wednesday they called on Jake and Holly Mangelsen and family to help Jake and Holly celebrate their anniversary.

The following people enjoyed the play “Weekend Comedy” at the Red Barn Theatre Thursday evening: Beth Crosby, Bev Brunclik, Judy Albee, Sue and Roger Mroszak, Frank and Carole Jones, Rudy and Sharon Kessler, Gerald and Pat Bahrke, Bill Taubman, Jacqueline Avery and Al and Judi Kempin.

Hank and Karen Mangelsen were lunch guests of Marlene and Bruce Swearingen Friday.

Judy Albee hosted a card party Friday evening. Guests were Maynard and Ronda Mangelsen, Dean and Virginia Elken, Roger and Sue Mroszak, Don and Lida Nordquist, Bev Brunclik, Donald Albee, Beth Crosby and Matt Lester.

Saturday visitors of Karen and Hank Mangelsen were Gale and Mary Erickson from Rochester, Minn., and Jake, Hannah and Grace Mangelsen.

Sue and Roger Mroszak went to Forest Lake, Minn., Saturday and stayed overnight with Bob and Mary Anderson.

Other friends came there too, and they all enjoyed visiting and playing cards.

Ronda and Maynard Mangelsen attended the graduation open house Saturday for Ian Shara at the home of Stephanie and Daniel Lawrence. Ian is Stephanie’s brother.

Nina and Lawrence Hines and Lida and Don Nordquist went to Stillwater, Minn., Sunday to ride the Minnesota Zephyr, on which they enjoyed a five-course dinner during the three-hour trip. Later, they went to the home of Richard and Joleen Funk in Osceola to help Richard celebrate his birthday.

Maynard and Ronda Mangelsen attended the piano recital Sunday of Bria Williamson at Salem Lutheran Church. Dinner guests later at the home of Ronda and Maynard were Terry, Jean, Justine, Bria, Brin and Bryce Williamson, and Geri, Sammy and Tony Osborn.

Gerry and Donna Hines went to Annandale, Minn., Sunday to attend the graduation open house for their great-niece, Jackie Grundy.

Judy Albee joined several friends and relatives Sunday for dinner at the home of Gerald and Barb Jensen. The get-together was to celebrate the baptism of Carter Ronald St. Onge.

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Bev Beckmark

The Siren National Golf Course will host the 12th-annual Golf Tournament on Monday, June 11, with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. There will be a dinner following the tournament at the Pheasant Inn in Siren. For more information call 715-349-5755 or 349-5402.

Sympathy to the family of Velma Podabinski, who passed away May 22, and also the family of Walter Johnson, who passed away May 25.

June is dairy month and the Burnett Dairy will be celebrating it on Friday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. with free samples of cheese, cones and milk. There will also be a petting zoo for kids, young and old alike, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Siren Methodist Chuch’s Sunday school will be walking in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life at the high school. Several cancer survivors plus some others will be walking from the church.

Art and Bev Beckmark stopped in to visit Peggy Strabel out on Waldora Road and, while there, a big black bear came out of the woods and headed for her feeders.

After some shouting at him, he headed back into the woods.

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Local friends were surprised to hear of the death of former Siren shop teacher (tech ed) Thomas Stendall on May 28. Services were held Friday at Sand Lake Wesleyan Church, with interment at Onalaska Cemetery, Onalaska. Local friends attended the service with tributes given by Roth Trulson, Sheila Staples, plus the reading of a granddaughter’s letters. Among the pallbearers were familiar names of Roger Fry, Jim Gatten, Jim Larrabee, Darrell Rachner and Roth Trulson.

The Northwest Regional Writers will meet Friday, June 8, at 7 p.m., in the Community Room, Big Gust Apts., Grantsburg. The assignment is to write on “Holding Hands.”

The annual conference of the United Methodist Church will begin this coming weekend at Middleton. Lavonne Boyer is the Lewis Church representative. The United Methodist Women prepared several school kits, plus a food bucket to take as a donation to a place in need in the U.S. and abroad. The United Methodist men provided a completely outfitted carpenter’s toolbox, $100 value.

The women also provided several baby coverlets or quilts. All very useful gifts to those in need.

Recent rains have made the seeds really pop up out of the ground. Bridal wreath has already dropped its petal confetti all over the lawn, and roses are in bloom. Once spring arrives, it’s in a big hurry. Some farmers are trying to cut first-crop hay. Beautiful drifts of white daisies too, and lupine on sandy cuts.

Men of the church got together on Friday to work on the church grounds, pruning bushes, spreading mulch

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had the misfortune of having a nerve pinching her back so she has been under the weather all week. Hopefully she will be back very soon as we miss her cheerful face, plus her good cooking.

Get well wishes also to Gerry Ramsdell. We miss you at lunch, Gerry, and hope you will be joining us very soon.

We had another successful week with our good turnouts for 500 and spades. As I have said before, everyone is welcome. We are happy to say that we have players from Webster, Danbury, Grantsburg, Lewis, Indian Creek and of course, Siren.

Winners at 500 this week were, Marie Van Guilder, Gerry Vogel, Sue Newberger, Ed Berdal and Dorothy Cronquist. The winners at spades on Friday were, Sue Hughes, Dwaine Bentley, Clara Palomaki and Gerry Vogel.

Remember the farmers market is selling their produce in our parking lot every Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m.

Our monthly senior meeting will be held on June 19, at 9:30 a.m., followed by our monthly birthday party.

Siren

Looking outside these days it’s hard to believe just a short while ago we were in the middle of a dry spell.

Things can really go from a drab, dry brown to a beautiful green alive look with just a few rainstorms. Let’s hope this pattern continues so area farmers can look forward to a bountiful harvest this fall for a change after the past few shortcomings.

A special Siren lady, Erna Lueck, received a nice surprise on Sunday, May 20, when most of her family and even a few of her husband Stan’s, family all got together in the Cities at her son, Daniel’s, for a surprise party to help her celebrate her 80th birthday.

Congratulations to elementary student Cody Gerhardson, and high schoolers Mike Wampfler and Jennifer Mitchell for being chosen Siren Schools students of the week.

Daniels Township will hold their monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.

Daniels Township lost its oldest member on May 25 with the death of 100-year-old Walter Johnson. His friendliness and quick wit will be missed by all who enjoyed talking to him at many of the area functions.

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players played before and after the meeting as always.

Saturday Share-A-Lunch at noon with bingo and cards enjoyed after dinner.

We had good news that SeniorCare medication help has its time extended. We wish to thank Ann Hraychuck for her part in making this happen. She met with our senior groups and her town hall meetings were very effective to get us seniors letting our legislators know how important SeniorCare is to us. There is power in our senior numbers.

Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay.

Love isn’t love ‘til you give it away.

Siren Senior Center

We have had some telephone inquiries regarding the hours that the center is open. The center is accessible Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day.

This includes our gift shop, pool table, library and coffee.

So feel free to stop in anytime during these hours and someone should be available to accommodate you.

The Dining at Five dinner will be held on Thursday, June 7. Hopefully everyone that wants to dine has signed up, but Shirley Holmes is very good at sneaking a few last-minute people in, so call 349-2845 or 349-7810 to make reservations.

Thanks to Marjorie Nyberg and Elna Wamboldt, the center has a new look for June. Someone made the comment that it was too early for the 4th of July, but Marge has coordinated the decorations around Flag Day, which is June 14 . Thus we have the patriotic theme for both June and July.

Get well wishes to Shirley Holmes, our site manager/chef who had foot surgery a week ago. She thought she was going to have a speedy recovery but

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and removing a dead pine tree. It looks nice!

It isn’t very often that church friends have the opportunity to celebrate a 60th anniversary, but it happened on Sunday, at the Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church.

Alice and Charles Ford shared their special day in a very special way. They are the parents of two sons and three daughters. The children combined efforts to plan the program and activities.

Eldest son, Skipper Ford, gave the message in the form of a personal testimonial during the church service. Assisting Pastor Mike were Phil Schaetzel and Robin Petersen. It was also communion Sunday.

A program was given after the service, with family members having their say, plus a well-crafted video showing the highlights of the lives of Alice and Charles. With grandson, Brian Ford of Boyceville, at the piano, many old-time songs from the wartime era were sung, including “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” and “Pistol Packing Mama” and “Mairzy Doats” dating back to 19421943. They brought back memories.

Daughter, Kathy, prepared the turkey dinner, served at noon, after much shuffling around of tables and moving in extra ones. Tables were decorated with bright covers and many pots of pansies in bloom. The tiered wedding cake was cut and served.

Although there was no sunshine outside, guests sang “You are My Sunshine” during the program. Esther Schallenberger wrote a special poem for the honored couple and read it during the program.

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Luck Senior Center

Our new schedule: We are open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

The card game “Garbage” seems to be catching on.

Last Friday, a group of ladies played it for 2 hours before there was a winner. A good time was had by all.

Many thanks to Carol Weity for her donation of cheese and coffeecake. Donations of bread, lunchmeat, cookies, cakes, etc. are appreciated. (hint, hint) Anyone interested in playing horseshoes? Give me a call at the center. We would like to have a couple of teams. If you would like dominos or card games, give me a call at 715-472-8285. Little known facts from the Luck Senior Center: Did you know there is a wine called Two Buck Chuck? (Three Buck Church in Minnesota) Need more info, just ask Baldy.

Bye for now, have a great week, keep smiling!

Hostess hired at Luck Senior Center The board of the Luck Senior Center is pleased to announce that Shirley Lund has been hired to act as hostess three days a week at the center. Lund will be employed with the help of Experience Works, which is a federal employment program.

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The senior center has been closed much more than we’d like in recent weeks. In the past, the center has depended entirely on volunteers to act as servers/hostesses. At one time the center was open six days a week, with only volunteers keeping it open. Today, we no longer are able to find people who are well enough or have the time to do this.

The center is still used by area seniors who like to come in to visit and have coffee and a snack. We attract up to 40 people a day, so we still see a need to keep it open.

The center will be open four days a week now from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (We will still have volunteers serving on Wednesdays.) Open days are Tuesday through Friday. Anyone is welcome to come in, not just seniors.

Visitors at the center take part in various activities including playing pool, working on puzzles and card playing.

We also have a potluck on the last Friday evening of the month. At our potluck, we usually have someone speaking on various topics, or we will have entertainment. We are always looking for new members, if you are interested please just talk to Shirley or the server/hostess of the day.

Pictured here with Shirley Lund is Pearl Jensen. Pearl is a longtime member of the Luck Senior Center and enjoys coming there almost every day. – Photo submitted

St. Croix Valley Senior Center

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We have a few June birthdays. Those celebrating are Warren Beyl, Betty Sibernagel, Clancy Prokop, Ron Edlund, Arlys Petzel, Dottie Adams, Jack Lund, Virgel White, Ken Coutier and Gloria Kastka. Happy birthday to each of you!

Our center is open Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Coffee and treats always available. Our membership dues are $8 per person, payable June 1. The center is also available for rental for a reasonable fee. Cards and dominos are played on Tuesday afternoons at 12:30 p.m. and cards at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday evenings. Exercises are on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Crafts are Thursdays at 11 a.m. Our general meetings, blood pressure check and potluck lunch are at 12:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month. All are welcome.

Tuesday afternoon domino winners were: A tie for first place was Janice Mevissen and Don Anderson. In third place was Deloris Benson. 500 card winners were: Elaine Edlund in first place, Dave Anderson in second place, Don Benson in third place, Bernice Olson in fourth place, Jack Lund in fifth place.

Angel wings never tire – like a blanket around your shoulders. Like warm sunshine on your face, in the acts of random kindness. You will know an angel’s grace, like a mother’s kiss at bedtime, like a father’s warm embrace. In a note that say’s “I Love You.” Angels touch and leave their trace. They lift you up when you’re feelin’ down. They seek you out when no one’s around. They’re by your side in the midst of the storm. When your world is cold, they’ll keep you warm. Every prayer that you whisper. Every wish that you desire. In your heart you should remember angel wings never tire.

Thursday evening 500 card winners were Dave Anderson in first place, Cliff Qualle in second place, Roger Greenly in third place, Jeanne Thomfohrda in fourth place.

Thursday, June 7, a blood drive will be held at the community center in Cushing, 2 – 6:30 p.m. Please contact Sharon at 715-825-3733.

Have a great day!

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Cloverton - Markville

A really big event out here in this little section in Pine County each Memorial Day weekend is the annual Pancake Breakfast sponsored by the Duxbury Fire Department. This year’s breakfast was especially busy and fillwd with fun – not only for those who came to eat, but also for those of us who worked the event. Many locals and weekenders came to the hall during the seven hours of continuous serving to enjoy the food and seeing one another again.

The East Pine County Wanderers met on the last Wednesday of May in Markville. Shirley and Jerry Blokzyl brought the cake and door prize, a cute bear welcome sign that was won by Gordy Peschong. May birthdays were Marlene Mishler and Peter Fornengo.

Animal sightings are a regular part of life out here also.

Bears have been seen at either the garbage cans or bird fieeders of Marlene and Don Mishler, Maria Starowoitow and Bob Brewster. Shirley and Jerry Blokzyl saw a sow bear and three cubs right up by their home.

S[eaking of nature, Mary Schaaf reports that she hasn’t seen as many migratory birds this year, most notably she mentions an absence of orioles. Hummingbirds, swallows and rose-breasted grosbeaks are also down.

Some of us met Helen Feldt and her daughter, Margaret, and son-in-law Bill, at the Hay Creek Outpost for lunch recently. It was good to see all of them.

First son, Doug, came from Idaho for a wonderful two weeks with his mom, Esther Vink and her husband, Jim. Then, following on the heels of that visit, daughter Donna breezed in from Washington to spend time with Esther and Jim. Eleanor and Mel Elliott especially enjoyed having her mom, Mabel Burson, and their grandson Matt, from Isanti and Milltown, spend Memorial weekend with them. Matt was a big help cooking eggs for awhile at the breakfast.

Mary and Frank Schaaf went to the open house for the new school at Lake Lena. They said the school is in a beautiful setting. Another trip for them was to Mora for car maintenance and a visit with Blanche Howard at the Villa Care Center there.

Clara Lilly got lots of visitors while she spent time in Pine Medical Center. The Schaafs and Vinks were there, and Shirley Blokzyl took Clara down to her physical therapy one day and they chatted all of the time.

Sandi Drake joined eight friends for a birthday celebration for Annette Carlson at the Wild Waters Inn in Dan-

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bury recently. These women are members of the birthday club at the Zion Lutheran Church in Markville.

Sandi and Dave also attended the graduation of grandson Josh from the Meadow Creek Christian Academy in Andover. Josh plans to play soccer at Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma this fall.

Four friends that Allen Wolf and his wife met at their campground in Arizona several years ago, came up recently and the entire group went 4-wheeling on the Gandy Dancer Trail. They headed north into Wisconsin to check the trail out in that direction.

It was a big and wonderful group that converged on the Ruth and Gary Ament home Memorial Day weekend when 32 family members came to stay. Many of then did a lot of 4-wheeling, while the rest entertained the 11 children all under the age of 6.

Jason Mishler, his wife, Sally, and children Heather and Briar, came up to spend Memorial Day with parents Marliene and Don. Jan Streiff’s good friend, Liz Espointer, is back from wintering in Arizona now and she and her friend Bob joined Jan for the pancake breakfast. Then, on Tuesday, Liz and Jan went swimming at the East Central pool, then to taco Tuesday at Ringer’s in Askov.

Dave and I, with grandson Justin, went to see the orchards and gardens at Bumble Bee Farm and had a good visit with Bob Brewster and Patty Koehler while we were there. The orchards are grand, simply grand. It will be fun to watch them grow throughout the years. Good job, Bob and Patty.

Slap those mosquitoes wherever you are.

Jimmy Siler Jimmy Siler was chosen as the Employee of the Month at Good Samaritan Society Capeside Cove for the month of May. He has been employed at Capeside since March 2003 as the resident van driver. He was born in Menomonie, but currently resides in Grantsburg with his wife, Melissa. Together they have five children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One of the most outstanding events in his life was becoming a great-grandpa.

Jimmy says he loves hunting, fishing and enjoying his Boykin Spaniels. Jimmy’s most favorite thing about working at Capeside is “the residents and coworkers.” Congratulations, Jimmy!

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Engagement

Jack is a 3-year-old, neutered male Chihuahua. He has a shiny black coat and fold-over button ears. Jack was surrendered to the shelter because his people didn’t have enough time for him. He is used to living with adults and is housetrained to use “puppy-pads” when left unattended for long periArnell ods of time. Jack is a delightful little friend. He isn’t much of a Humane barker; instead likes to look out of Society windows like a cat. He likes to sleep in blankets and snuggle. He enjoys cucumbers as a snack and jumps through a hoola-hoop as an added bonus.

Jack is looking for a home where he will be loved for the rest of his life.

The shelter is full of warm and fuzzy. Adult cats and kittens fill the adoption Cat Room. Suzie is the Old Timer. She is a plump, short-haired black kitty that has been looking for a home since early April.

Trista is a classic calico with beautiful markings and a snuggle you can’t beat. Jada has a short Tortie coat and a personality that anyone would love to come home to, friendly, happy and loving. John has long white and grey hair. He is neutered, declawed and very handsome.

We have six healthy kittens waiting to pounce and play in a new home. Rascal, Tiny, Chip, Jasper and Pouncer are all neutered male 9-week-old kittens, each one different. They are grey tabby, orange tabby, white and tabby. Tina is the only female in this litter of six. She is all black and full of fun and cuddle. She will actually melt in your arms.

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Petersen/Renfroe Rachelle Petersen and Jerry Petersen, Luck, are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer, to Curtis Renfroe, son of Mike and Ramona Renfroe of Frederic.

Jennifer is a 2003 graduate of Luck, and Curtis is a 2001 graduate of Frederic.

A June 9, 2007, wedding is planned.

Births Born at Amery Regional Medical Center: A boy, Lyndell Lee Ross Newman, born April 28, 2007, to Ayssa Newman, Baldwin. Lyndell weighed 8 lbs., 6-1/2 oz.

••• A girl, Clara Ann Lundquist, born May 4, 2007, to Andrea and Nicklas Lundquist, Frederic. Clara weighed 9 lbs., 1 oz.

••• A boy, Ryley Kenneth Madison, born May 6, 2007, to Brittany Marz and Brandon Madison, Clear Lake. Ryley weighed 8 lbs., 7 oz.

••• A boy, Cayden Alan Smith-Johnson, born May 9, 2007, to Laurie and Chris Johnson, Amery. Cayden weighed 8 lbs., 2 oz.

••• A girl, Elaina Mae Wilson, born May 13, 2007, to Jennifer Gargulak and Samuel Wilson, Barron. Elaina weighed 6 lbs., 6 oz.

••• A girl, Jenna Marie Lundgren, born May 17, 2007, to Amy and Paul Lundgren, Clear Lake. Jenna weighed 7 lbs., 6 oz.

••• A girl, Olivia Grace Anderson, born May 19, 2007, to Rebecca and Steven Anderson, Clear Lake. Olivia weighed 6 lbs., 9 oz.

••• A girl, Dakota Eve Kahler, born May 22, 2007, to Jessica Kahler, Deer Park. Dakota weighed 7 lbs., 8 oz.

••• A girl, Haylee Kay Witt, born May 23, 2007, to Ashley and Brandon Witt, Amery. Haylee weighed 8 lbs., 15 oz.

••• A boy, Bradyn David Michael Novotny, born May 29, 2007, to Lea Novotny, Frederic. Bradyn weighed 8 lbs., 11 oz.

••• A girl, Emma Mae Medin, born May 30, 2007, to Stacy and Brice Medin, Clayton. Emma weighed 7 lbs., 8 oz.

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Born at Lakeview Medical Center: A girl, Lauryn Deborah Swenson, born May 30, 2007, to Arin and Michael Swenson of Peshtigo. Grandparents are Rick and Patty Swenson of Frederic.

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Born at St. Croix Regional Medical Center: A girl, Peyton Elizabeth Hanson, born May 21, 2007, to Travis and Bridget Hanson, Turtle Lake. Peyton weighed 8 lbs.

••• A girl, Madison Lynn Brian, born May 21, 2007, to Stacy Brian, Dresser. Madison weighed 7 lbs., 15 oz.

••• A boy, Raleigh Adair Johnson, born May 23, 2007, to Mark and Kristin Johnson, Luck. Raleigh weighed 6 lbs., 2 oz.

••• A boy, Conner Stephen Tollefson, born May 24, 2007, to James and Malisa Tollefson, Cushing. Conner weighed 8 lbs., 9 oz.

••• A boy, Caden Glen Folkestad, born May 25, 2007, to Chris and Katie Folkestad, Dresser. Caden weighed 7 lbs., 12 oz.

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Hello, Fritz here! It feels like the dog days of summer are on their way with the warm weather we’ve been having. That’s OK by me, the angels here at the shelter supply us with fresh water, a cool building in which to escape the heat and even a little doggie pool for my friends who like to cool off in the water.

Fritz The angels took a few of my furry friends to the Twin Cities NEWS FROM shelter so we’re not too crowded right now. Pearl, the long-haired Lab mix, is still with us. She’s about 5 years old, loves to play and is so sweet. Abigail is also waiting for a good home. She needs a place with lots of love. And of course

YOUR SHELTER

Fran Krause

The dog kennel is full as well. Twyla is a spayed, brindle Corgi-mix 4-month-old puppy. She is active and ready to play. Hogan is a 4-month-old redbonemix male pup with a short, rich burnt-red coat. He is smart and ready to learn. Dee is a 1-year-old purebred yellow Lab that is a typical Lab. She loves to play and be a part of the action. Lucy is a sweet, calm hound-mix adolescent. She has been waiting for a home since late April, as has Bear, a black longhair German shepherd with a heart. All of these dogs need forever homes.

Everyday at the shelter it is all about the animals.

The annual Arnell Humane Society Garage Sale on Saturday, June 9, is also all about the animals. Come to the shelter to find a treasure at the sale and in our kennels.

Arnell Memorial Humane Society, 185 Griffin St. E., Amery 715-268-7387 or visit our pets online: www.amhs.petfinder.com.

there’s me, fantastic Fritz. I’m a bit nervous and crazy but after some adjustment, I’d make a great furry companion too!

We have a large, male, black Lab who was found wandering in Scott Township. He’s very handsome and was wearing a black and red collar.

Don’t forget the Furry Family Reunion coming up on June 16. It’ll be fun and games for pooches and people alike with lunch provided. Just call the shelter and let us know you’ll be coming so the angels know how much lunch to prepare.

That’s the news this week at the shelter. With the summer heat approaching, don’t forget to keep yourself and your pet cool. Provide lot’s of fresh drinking water and a cool spot for both of you.

With your help HSBC is saving lives, one at a time. www.hsburnettcty.org, 715-866-4096.

Orange

The McPheeter family reunion was held at Iola Rachner’s over the Memorial Day weekend, with 92 relatives attending. There was a lot of visiting and good food to enjoy.

Theresa and Dave Childers and family spent Memorial Day weekend camping here. They and the O’Brien families attended Rachael O’Brien’s graduation at Frederic and graduation party over the weekend.

Harmony HCE Club met at Adeline Ingalls home Thursday morning.

Karen, Jerry and Karl Hintz spent Memorial Day weekend with Fran Krause. They and the Mark Krause family had a cookout at Kent and Nancy Krause’s Sunday.

Reeny Neinstadt spent a few days with friends at Bloomer. Natalie Bray and children spent the weekend at Andover, Minn.

Patty, Mike and Alex Kringen spent the weekend with Jack and Jeri Witzany. Chris and Melody Witzany joined them on Sunday.

Elaine and Charles Scott have returned from California to their summer home in Webster. They and Ethel Daniels visited Maxine Stone this week.

On Sunday, Maxine Stone and her sisters helped Iola Rachner celebrate her 93rd birthday.

LaVonne O’Brien

Jack and Lavonne O’Brien drove to Maplewood, Minn., on Wednesday. Lavonne attended the 4-year-old graduation party for Rylee O’Brien, daughter of Bob and Heather, held at Crooked Lake Park, Siren on Thursday.

On Sunday, all the O’Briens attended Ben O’Brien’s graduation from Webster High School and open house at Tom and Becky O’Brien’s.

On Saturday, Pat and Nancy O’Brien drove to the Cities and watched grandson Nick O’Brien play baseball. In the afternoon, they attended a nephew’s high school graduation open house. On Sunday they attended Ben’s open house.

The Mark Krause family was among those going to the Wisconsin State Track meet at La Crosse from Thursday night through Saturday. Bryan’s relay team placed seventh. Congrats to all. Peter Walsh received a first.

Nancy and Fran Krause attended David Arndt’s graduation party at Ellsworth on Saturday. She also attended Jessica Mosher’s party Friday night.

Sympathy is extended to the family of Mel Winberg, who passed away Sunday, after a lengthy illness.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Webster Senior Center Our center didn’t have a senior meeting on Monday, May 21, because we didn’t have enough present for a quorum as I was at Burnett Medical Center having tests, and Margel Ruck wasn’t back yet from her weekend trip to Illinois. She visited her daughter, Lynn, and Jim Shaw in Geneseo and also accompanied Lynn to Crystal Lake to a bridal shower for Kelly Ross, the future wife of grandson Phillip Heuer, whose wedding will be on July 28.

Deb Korhonen and sister, Judy Baker, attended a birthday party on Wednesay evening, May 23, for their brother, Chip, who lives near Pattison Park, south of Superior.

Happy birthday to Chip and others with May birthdays: Shirley Doriott, Pete Neubauer, Joan Velander, Ben Blodgett, Mary Gorman, Wes Maurer, Roy Fahland, Dudley Dingmann, Don Brand, Barb Heyer, Thelma Klugow and Bernice Burnett. All the diners enjoyed Deb’s chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.

Friday morning was a very traumatic day for me as I fell in the shower and broke my left arm, much worse than the right one I broke two years ago. So, off to the bone specialist who then operated on it and pinned it together on Saturday morning at Lakeview Hospital, Stillwater. Then finally after being a full day in “La La land,” daughter, Heather, was allowed to take me home. She finally convinced me to “shut my mouth” and quit talking or they probably would have kept me another night! So now this column will be typed once again with the old one-hand “hunt and peck” system for a few months.

On Saturday the town was taken over by thousands of people attending Webster’s annual craft fair. Otis Taylor Post 96, Webster, also did very well with their annual pan-

cake breakfast at the community center in the morning. I want to thank Dolores Lein for distributing poppies without me as I was supposed to be her partner. A friend said to me later, “You would do anything to get out of selling poppies, wouldn’t you, Mary?” And I said, “Absolutely!”

The Memorial Day activities at Oak Grove Cemetery had good weather for their program and I want to thank our American Legion Auxiliary President June Larson for taking my place as director of the Poppy Girls and having her granddaughters Chelsey and Taylor Larson and Shadiyah Knutson put poppies on the nine white crosses.

We must remember and honor our veterans, both deceased and alive, because “All gave some, and some gave all.” Approximately 120 people attended the Auxiliary’s roast beef dinner at the community center and several were heard to proclaim it as “the best ever.” Thanks to Gene Dopkins for home delivering our prepaid dinners, and both Elden and I said the same.

Twenty-two members of the Ravishing Rubies Red Hat Society met for lunch on Tuesday, May 29, at Wild Waters, Danbury, and enjoyed their selected food choices.

Due to the fact that Queen Mother Mary Klar had fallen and broken her arm, Vice Queen Jeanette Olson held court. Dee Sellman attended as guest of Helen Sellman.

Members sang with great gusto their Red Hat song and played their knives, spoons and kazoos.

There were no birthdays to celebrate. Janet Snelson told an amusing Sven joke, and of course, Mert Kisselburg had her usual supply of jokes. She must keep a joke file in her purse! Some members requested a membership list with addresses and phone numbers; the suggestion was made that we get a microphone to help the hard of hearing; and Marlene Kufalk offered to find a place for our next luncheon, and it was confirmed that the June 26 luncheon will be held at The Tracks, 7916 Hwy. 70 West, Spooner.

There was an all-time low of only 23 diners attending the Dining at Five Thursday evening meal. I couldn’t attend but Elden and I received the home delivered meal of meat-filled cabbage rolls with mashed potatoes. Come on, guys and gals, keep up your support of this monthly meal. It’s only $3.25 for the daily meal, and $5 for this once-a-month evening meal that includes a roll and dessert too. I know you can’t be that busy! Besides, we play pool and cards after (accompanied by spurts of laughter and leftover treats).

The Webster Lioness Club will be having their annual

Mary Klar bake and rummage sale on Friday, June 8, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Webster Community Center. If you have any good items or baked goods to donate, contact any Lioness member, or leave them at the center between noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday. Of course, we want you all to buy, buy, buy!

Our gratitude is extended to Bea Reese for donating a box of chalk for the pool players; Jack Witzany—aluminum cans; Dave Wardean—lawn mowing; Jane Wardeanflower plants, and Gladys Beers for helping her plant them in our flower window boxes; and Lily Gleason for rototilling our raised garden beds and planting them with tomato and pepper plants from which Deb will use their produce later in the nutrition meals.

Our get-well wishes and prayers continue to go out to Norma Martin, Dale Connor, Dudley Dingmann, Barb Parsons, Pete Neubauer, Maurey Heyer, Susan Hanninen, who is recovering from heart valve bypass surgery, Edith Sage who is now living with her daughter Ella Livingston, and Bernie Polaski who is now a resident at BMC Continuing Care Center-Grantsburg. Our sympathy and prayers also go out to the family of Jerome Bremer in his recent passing.

An elderly gentleman who was quite wealthy, finally invested in a hearing aid after becoming virtually deaf. It was one of those invisible kinds. He went to his doctor who asked “ how do you like your new hearing aids?” The gentleman replied “I like them great. I’ve heard sounds in the house the last few weeks that I didn’t know existed.”

“Well, how does your family like your hearing aids?” “Oh, nobody in my family knows I have them yet and I am having a great time. I’ve changed my will three times in the last two weeks!” What kind of a person places the value of his or her life upon what he receives or gives from a family inheritance? We may smile at this story. Yet what a clear picture this gives of the way we sometimes treat one another. The forgiveness we profess is often superficial.

It may be prompted by fear, or to clear our conscience, not out of genuine love for God and the one that has wronged us. We may say we forgive, but when the least little friction arises, we are quick to resurrect past grievances. “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32.

See you at the center!

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Frederic Blood Drive draws 99-plus units

FREDERIC - Frederic Legion Auxiliary Blood Drives are held each spring and fall.

This spring some new thoughts were received regarding giving blood.

Information from the Red Cross indicated researchers at Duke University and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke discovered acts of generosity activate a particular brain region that triggers feelings of joy and pleasure.

That was the atmosphere at the blood drive, Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, there were 72 presenting to donate, 63 units of blood and 12 deferrals.

On Friday there were 44 presenting, 6 deferrals, one incomplete and 36 units. The goal was 90 but during the last few drives, many donors had colds or flu-like symptoms and were unable to donate. The gift of blood is actually a gift of life and can not be reproduced in a laboratory.

Each year, blood donations increase by 2 to 3 percent, but the demand increases at a rate of 6-8 because of an increase in medical procedures that use blood products.

Since blood is a perishable product with a shelf life of only 42 days, it must be replenished constantly because there simply is no substitute. In normal circumstances, every two seconds, someone in America will need a blood transfusion. Only 5 percent of Americans who are eligible to donate blood actually do.

There were three first timers; Alex Puetz, Kathryn Underwood and Raymond Gruel. Nathan Hibbs received a 1-gallon pin and Dale Nelson received his 10gallon pin.

There will be another blood drive at St. Luke’s Methodist Church Thursday and Friday, Sept. 20 and 21.

If you have an interest in donating or helping with the blood drive, please call the Auxiliary.

What is needed are folks to make cookies for treats for the recovery table, help to serve cookies, cheese, crackers, potato chips, water, coffee and soft drinks.

Helpers also make salads and hotdishes to serve the Red Cross workers, one meal each day. There are other jobs such as helping with the calling and making out the appointments cards.

Working on this project to help others and feel good about ourselves, does bring joy and pleasure, even if we can’t personally donate a pint of blood. The Auxiliary looks forward to seeing everyone again in the fall and think about giving a helping hand; it can be a small act of generosity or several, all offers will be appreciated. - Respectfully submitted, Marie Weinzierl and Dorothea Jensen, coordinators. American Legion Auxiliary #249, Frederic

Unity High School’s first-annual Environthon held UNITY – The first-annual Environthon held was hosted by Unity High School and coordinated by USDA-Natural Resource and Conservation Service, Wisconsin DNR Forestry and Wildlife Divisions, and Unity High School’s Agriculture and Biology Departments.

Unity High School held Polk County’s first Envirothon. The Envirothon mission is accomplished by developing in young people an understanding of the principles and practices of natural resource management and ecology and through practice dealing with complex resource management decisions. The goals of the Envirothon are to demonstrate a desire to learn more about natural environment, promote stewardship of the natural resources, and experience in environmentally oriented activities.

Students from Unity High School were divided into teams of five, ranging from freshman through seniors with backgrounds equalized in educational experiences in forestry, soils, water and wildlife based on instructors’ recommendations. The four teams that participated commented that it was a great experience and was nice to be able to share some of the info they knew with others. It was truly a team event.

Teams came up with names that their team captains identified with: the Environmentalists included captain Mike Carlson, Jessi Martin, Hannah Zahler, Steph Lobert and Jason Coen; the Smiling Alders included captain Mike Schmidt, Dani Martin, Julia Larsen, Andy Kruse and Tyler Stelton; the Doubting Thomas’ Team C included captain Mike Kerber, Amy VanDeBrake, Reina

Mike Kerber was the team captain for the Doubting Thomas’ team. In the water portion of the Envirothon, they identified concerns of phosphates and nitrate contamination in streams, diagramed the water cycle, defined forms in wetlands, and calculated stream velocity. Team members included Reina Cox, Kalvin Zygowicz, Nate Reda, Amy VanDeBrake and Kerber. – Photos submitted Cox, Kalvin Zygowicz and Nate Reda; the Caterpillars included captain Zach Gurtner, Brittany Vollrath, Kelsey Jensen, Johanna Alling and Troy Voss.

The four stations were coordinated by Polk County experts in the areas of natural resources: soils – Keith Zygowicz-USDA, water – Kara Nelson-USDA, wildlife – Michelle CarlisleDNR, and forestry – Paul

Envirothon organizers this year included (Front): Kara Nelson, Michelle Carisle, Dane Olson and Paul Heimstad. Back: Matt Goulet and Keith Zygowicz.

A collaborative effort between the Unity School’s Agriculture and Biology Departments, USDA, and DNR made this environmental education opportunity available for students this year. Not pictured are Unity educators Jeanne Alling and Brian Collins who selected team members and coordinated time schedules.

Mike Carlson was the team captain for the Environmentalists team.

In the forestry portion of the Envirothon, they identified trees, calculated diameter, discussed forest ecology and management options.

Team members included Jason Coen, Carlson, Hannah Zahler, Steph Lobert and Jessi Martin.

Heimstead-DNR. The experts worked with Unity senior student co-chairmen Matt Goulet and Dane Olson to make sure that the outdoor, hands-on tests they provided were high school student user friendly. Unity High School teachers Jeanne Alling – agriculture educator, and Brian Collins – science educator, worked together with the students and experts to conduct the Envirothon on the Unity Nature Trail.

The teams were so evenly matched that the scores were close, but a few points separated each. Winning the first Unity Envirothon was the Environmentalists, followed by the Smiling Alders, the Caterpillars, and then the Doubting Thomas’. “I hope next year a county competition will be held,” commented student cochairman Dane Olson. He added, “An activity like this puts it all together, from agriculture to science, from hands-on to calculating velocity. I wish we had more things like this available for students to do.” “It was a rewarding experience to be in an advisory role,” said Matt Goulet, student co-chairman. Olson and Goulet are both in an independent study program in the Agriculture Education Department, this experience brings together their skills and adds a leadership component to assist with real-life experiences said Alling.

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POLK COUNTY LIBRARY NEWS Clear Lake Public Library

Amery Public Library “Grace (Grace Eventually): Thoughts on Faith” by Anne Lamott In her new collection of essays, Anne Lamott talks about the world, our country, the family and the human heart. Life never unfolds easily for Ms. Lamott. She is the single parent of a 16-year-old son, Sam, who, like most teenagers, can be both terrible and tender. She is active in her local Methodist Church. She cares deeply about politics, the state of the world and struggles with living her faith.

Lamott writes about aging, about losing friends to serious diseases and about struggling for grace in her life. She says it is an erratic journey, full of bumps and spills. She says grace doesn’t come with bells ringing but it is clog, slog and scotch on the floor in the silence, in the dark.

Lamott is the most human of writers who struggle daily but manage to find a way to love, live her faith and light up the world.

Library notes Summer reading is on the horizon so come and Get a Clue at Your Library starting on June 13. Sign up that day or any other throughout the summer for exciting reading and programs. Brochures are available at the circulation desk. Our first big program will be the Polk County Search and Rescue Dogs on June 13, at 10:30 a.m. Stop in and see how these amazing animals get a clue.

Story time on the road will start on June 18, behind the Twin Pines apartments on Minneapolis Avenue, at 5 p.m. Stop in for stories and crafts with Christinia and Kaitlyn under the big tree. This story time will

not happen if it is raining.

Remember, if you want your child to be able to use the Internet at the Amery Public Library, please come in and sign a permission slip for them. Do not drop off your children to use the Internet without doing this.

Friends of the Library will be having another book sale on June 22 and 23. If you have books, videos, tapes, or CDs to donate, we are taking them now. There will be a sign-up sheet in the library if you want to help or work at the sale.

Friends of the Library book group will be meeting on June 18, at 7 p.m., to discuss “One Thousand White Women” by Jim Fergus. Pick up a copy at the circulation desk and join us.

Otaku Club for teens who love manga and anime meets every Tuesday at 5 p.m. in the story time room. Stop in and check it out if you are a teen.

Teens Read book group meets on June 25, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. to discuss Danielle Trussoni’s, “Falling Through the Earth.” This depiction of a young Wisconsin girl growing up with a dad who was a tunnel rat in Vienam will touch your heart.

Pick up a copy at the circulation desk if you are a teen and want to join us. Subs and pop will be served.

Library hours Monday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Luck Public Library June will be an exciting time for the younger readers at the Luck Library. We will be starting our new June Your Readers Club on Tuesday evenings. Children between the ages of 5 and 10 are encouraged to come to the library and read with a partner. You can bring your own partner maybe a parent, sibling, grandparent or

friend, or read with one of our volunteers.

This is a great way to brush up on reading out loud and share time with a friend. We have got some cool new books just for this program, not to mention treats and prizes.

So come and join us anytime between the 6:30 and 8 p.m., every Tuesday in June.

Dresser Public Library Dresser Public Library is located at 117 S. Central Ave., Dresser, WI 54009. The Dresser Public Library Board of Trustees holds its monthly meeting on the last Monday of each month at 6 p.m.

Library hours Monday 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Tuesday noon–5 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.–noon and 1–7 p.m., and Saturday 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Three Internet computers You must physically present a MORE library card to library staff and library fines must be under $10 to use a computer.

Story time

tration for Get a Clue…at Your Library will be required this year. Summer reading will be Tuesday mornings at 10-11 a.m., for children, 3 to first grade. Children entering third grade this fall and older, may participate in the independent reading portion of summer reading.

Contact the library at 715-755-2944 which is our telephone and FAX number or e-mail us at www.dresser pl@ifls.lib.wi.us.

Our Web site, www.dresserpubliclibrary.org. also has information about story times, days closed, reference links, library policy and much more.

Summer reading begins June 12. Regis-

St. Croix Falls Public Library Story Hour Listen to stories, create great art and have fun with other kids and parents every Wednesday, 10:30 a.m. at St. Croix Falls Public Library story hour!

Technology Wireless is back. After some policy discussions and budget adjusting, the St. Croix Falls Library is again offering free wireless access to people with laptops.

So stop in and launch onto the Web. Also, visit the library’s revamped Web site to find out what’s happening at the library www.stcroixfallslibrary.org.

Hours, contact Our hours are Monday and Wednesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

New Arrivals: DVDs: “Hulk” (2-disc special edition); “Fun with Dick and Jane”; “Wallace & Gromit: The curse of the Were-rabbit”; “Hoot”; “Hardball”; “Fly Away Home”; “Duma”; “Snow Dogs”; “The Mask of Zorro”; “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”; “Must Love Dogs”; “The Last Samurai”; “Mythbusters” Season One from the Discovery Channel.

Adult fiction books: “Last Look” by Mariah Stewart; “The Good Guy” by Dean Koontz; “Dedication” by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (authors of “The Nanny Diaries”).

Young adult fiction books: “Charlie

Milltown Public Library Summer Reading Program Over 40 people are already entered into our weekly drawings for prizes from the Milltown Drive Inn, the Village Market, St. Croix Mini Golf and Go Karts, and Wild Mountain, as part of the Summer Reading Program. Join the fun! Register for the Summer Reading Program at the Milltown Library front desk, then bring home your reading record sheets and start reading!

You increase your chances to win one of the many weekly prize drawings, or even the grand prize iPod, by completing and turning in as many reading record sheets as possible. We will draw for prizes every Friday at 5 p.m. and will notify the winners.

The Summer Reading Program is open to everyone – kids and adults. As part of this program we’ll also offer many exciting events, in which you can reserve your spot by registering at www.milltownpubliclibrary.org. Also, check out our art table in the front of the library, which will have supplies and instructions for a different project each week!

Vanished Don’t miss an extraordinary historical exhibit visiting Milltown Public Library on June 8 from 1 to 4 p.m.

During WWII, the U.S. government interned 15,000 German-American civilians, including citizens, in perhaps the leastknown chapter of American WWII history.

Join us when the TRACES mobile BUSeum visits our communities to see the story Vanished: German-American Civilian In-

ternment, 1941-1948 through words, artifacts, and special guest speakers who were interned with their families in the camps.

During the BUS-eum display, at 3 p.m., we will also show a presentation about German soldier prisoner camps in small Midwest towns.

Story hour Milltown Public Library offers two story times every Tuesday. The morning story time begins at 10 a.m. Can’t make it in the morning? We will repeat the program at 6:30 p.m. Story times are free and are designed for children under 6 and their caregivers. Each story time lasts 30 to 45 minutes and includes time to browse and check out books.

Knit and crochet Join the most exciting group in Milltown at the library on the first and third Thursday of every month at 6 p.m. Experts and beginners are invited! If you’re in the middle of a project and are looking for help or just fun conversation while you finish that sweater, hat, mitten or whatever, please join us for the next meeting. Beginners are also invited for free lessons from talented club members – just call the library at 8252313 to ensure that a teacher and materials will be ready for you.

Hours Library hours are Monday and Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Balsam Lake Public Library Story time Story time is at 11 a.m. every Wednesday here at the library. All ages are welcome to join us for stories, crafts, music and snacks. We also have many new puppets that can be checked out for home use.

New books Some of our new books include “Bungalow 2” by Danielle Steel, “Double Agents”

by WEB Griffin, “Sleeping Doll” by Jeffrey Deaver, “Spare Change” by Robert Parker, “The Good Guy” by Dean Koontz and nonfiction – “The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods”

by Missy Lapine.

Favorite book group This book group will meet again Wednesday, June 6, 3 p.m. This group is for people to get together to share their favorite books and authors with each other.

Knitting group Our knitting group will take the summer off and resume in the fall. Check paper for details later.

Friends group

Dresser Public Library

Bone and the Beast” (#6 in the series); “Jango” by William Nicholson (#2 in The Noble Warriors series); “The Off Season”

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (author of “Dairy Queen”); “Maximum Ride: Saving The World and Other Extreme Sports” by James Patterson; “Girl at Sea” by Maureen Johnson (author of “Little Blue Envelopes”).

Library hours: Monday: Noon – 7 p.m.; Tuesday noon – 6 p.m.; Wednesday 3 – 9 p.m.; Thursday: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.; Friday: noon – 5 p.m.; and Saturday: 9:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. We can be reached by phone at 715-263-2802 or by e-mail at clearlakepl@ifls.lib.wi.us.

During Balsam Lake’s Freedom Fest, Friends of the Library will be hosting their annual book sale Saturday, June 30, from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. We will be taking donated books up until Friday, June 29. We have many books - something for every one so come early and stock up on your reading materials.

Events Rubber stamping class. Saturday, June 23, from 10 a.m. to noon at the library. Learn how to start making your own cards, invitations, and name tags. Instructor has been rubber-stamping for years and makes beautiful cards. All ages welcome. Summer events will be starting in June and the library will be hosting programs twice a month throughout the summer. More details to follow.

Hours Balsam Lake Library, (under the water tower) at 404 Main St., Balsam Lake.

Hours are Monday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., Tuesday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m.

– 8 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. E-mail: balsamlakepl@ifls.lib.wi.us Web site www.balsamlakepubliclibrary.org.

Centuria Public Library

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POLK COUNTY LIBRARY NEWS Frederic Public Library World War II special event June 7 Mark your calendars for a very special event Thursday evening, June 7, when the library hosts a traveling exhibit that tells the little-known story of 15,000 GermanAmerican civilians who were interned in the United States during WWII. The exhibit travels as a mobile museum aboard a special bus and will be at the Community Pride Shelter east of the Depot Museum from 5 to 8 p.m. Special guest speakers who were children of the camps will be part of the program. In addition, the library will screen a slideshow presentation beginning at 6 p.m. about German POWs in Midwest camps in a rare opportunity to learn about WWII history that had a local impact. Plan to attend the exhibit and bring friends and family. There will be a freewill donation toward the exhibit as well as a variety of books for sale about this period of history. For more information, please contact the library.

Wednesday morning story time begins June 13 Preschoolers and early elementary children are invited (with their caregivers) to meet at the library on Wednesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. for an hour of books, activities and fun. Our readers come from a group of wonderful volunteers who will share their talents with us; if you would like to volunteer to be a reader this summer, please contact the library.

Last call for book sale items If you’re cleaning shelves and closets, please consider donating your gently used books and movies to the library’s annual Family Days bake/book sale. Profits go to special library projects, and we welcome your donations any time up to the day of

the sale (June 15). Volunteers are needed to help set up for the book sale Thursday afternoon, June 14; if you can help, please contact the library. If you would like to bring something homemade to our very popular bake sale, we welcome your contributions the morning of Friday, June 15. Bake/book sale hours will be Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Reading groups meet June 21 The Thursday morning reading group will meet June 21 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, a novel set in 1950s Spain. The 10year-old son of a widowed bookstore owner discovers a rare novel by an obscure author, and when he tries to find more of his books he learns about a horribly disfigured man who has been burning every copy he can find of the author’s novels. The evening book group will meet the same day at 7 p.m. to talk about “Everything Is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer. With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis.

Copies of the books are available at the library for anyone who is interested in joining a reading group.

Library hours at a glance Regular library hours are Mon. 10 a.m.

- 7 p.m.; Wed., Thurs., Fri. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sat. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. The library is closed on Tuesdays.

How to contact the library Frederic Public Library, 127 Oak Street West.

715-327-4979; e-mail fredericpl@ifls.lib.wi.us.

Centuria Public Library Coming soon – Family read nights at the library The Centuria Public Library is planning fun family read nights on Thursday evenings during the month of July. Plan to bring your family and listen to fun stories, check out great books, play fascinating games, and earn prizes for reading this summer. Bring your family to the Centuria Public Library beginning on Thursday, July 5, at 6:30-7:30 p.m., and listen to enthusiastic storytellers share their love of reading.

New arrivals All spring, the Centuria Public Library has been receiving the latest best-sellers for readers to check out. New books for children have been added plus a host of new books for the young adult reader. In addition to new books, many new books on CD have been added, along with new

DVDs. Come into the library and check it out. Recent new additions include: “Whitewash” by Alex Kava “Hooked” by Matt Richtel “Vineyard Stalker” by Phillip R. Craig “When Day Breaks” by Mary Jane Clark “The Navigator” by Clive Cussler “Spare Change” by Robert B. Parker “Under the Northern Lights” by Traci Peterson “The Last Summer (of You and Me)” by Ann Brashares

Hours The Centuria Public Library is open Monday from noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday from noon to 7 p.m., Wednesday from noon to 5 p.m., Thursday from noon to 7 p.m., closed Friday, and open 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Osceola Public Library Hours, contact Our hours are Monday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday from noon to

5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Our phone number is 715-294-2310, and our Web address is www.osceolapubliclibrary.org.

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Unity Girl Scouts hold Court of Awards UNITY – The Unity Area Girl Scout Service Unit recently held their Court of Awards honoring not only the girls, but volunteers as well. The following is an alphabetical list of the adults honored: Jeanne Alling - Heart in Hand Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years, Service Unit Team Member; Dawn Anderson - Heart in Hand Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years: Jennifer Baker - Heart in Hand Award, Service Unit Team Member; Bobbie Jo Babcock Outstanding Service Award, Numeral Guard - 5 years, Service Unit Team Member; Kirsten Bloom - Heart in Hand Award; Tammy Bolling - Heart in Hand Award; Ashley Brua - Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 15 years, Service Unit Team Member; Brittany Brua-Forster - Numeral Guard - 15 years;

Unity Girl Scout Troop 2015 includes 10th- and eighth-grade members. Pictured are (front): Johanna Alling and Jenelle Larsen. Back: leaders Jeanne Alling and Evelyn Larsen. Jenelle completed her Silver Award by coordinating this year’s Unity MORP project - an after-prom party for Unity High School Students.

Missing is Girl Scout Julia Larsen.

Unity’s eighth-grade Girl Scout Troop 2121 earned their Silver Award this year. Troop members assisted with the Go Brownie Conference this Unity Girl Scouts recently recognized the community volunteers that assist year earning their award. Girls earning the honor include Elizabeth the Service Unit with its many activities and leadership roles. Pictured are: Bethke, Naomi Williamson, Alison Colleen and Pete Forster, Pat Davis and Lynn Dahn. Dahn is currently the Unity Lennartson, Jessica Golz, Katherine Girl Scout Service Unit Director. – Photos submitted Ebensperger and Josie Kalenda.

Troop leaders are Lynn Dahn and Denise Williamson.

Heidi Cox - Numeral Guard - 5 years; Lynn Dahn - Heart in Hand Award and Outstanding Service Award, Service Unit Team Member, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years, Leadership Development Pin. Pat Davis - Outstanding Volunteer Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years, Service Unit Team Member; Colleen Forster - Outstanding Volunteer Award, Years of Service Pin - 20 years, Numeral Guard - 20 years; Pete Forster - Outstanding Service Award; Lisa Johnson - Heart in Hand Award, Leadership Development Pin; Karyn Kruse - Heart in Hand Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years, Service Unit Team Member; Evelyn Larsen - Heart in Hand Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years; Holly Lenk -

Unity’s Kindergarten Daisy troop bridged to be Brownies at the recent Court of Awards. Recognizing the group’s achievements was troop leader Bobbie Jo Babcock.

Heart in Hand Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years, Leadership Development Pin; Raeann Lennartson - Heart in Hand Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 15 years; Cora Lindberg - Heart in Hand Award, Service Unit Team Member; Meri Locke - Numeral Guard - 15 years; Paula Mandell - Heart in Hand Award; Linda Martinsen - Heart in Hand Award, Service Unit Team Member.

Leisha McKenzie - Heart in Hand Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years; Amanda Nis-

sen - Heart in Hand Award, Numeral Guard - 5 years; Leslie Peterson - Heart in Hand Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years; Penny Schultz - Heart in Hand Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years, Leadership Development Pin; Sarah Weinzirl - Heart in Hand Award, Leadership Development Pin; Denise Williamson - Heart in Hand Award, Years of Service Pin - 5 years, Numeral Guard - 5 years; Melanie Wood - Service Unit Team Member; Tanna Worrell Heart in Hand Award. - submitted

Unity’s sixth-grade troop is currently working on their Bronze Award by colBridging to Junior Girl Scouts, was Unity’s third-grade troop, led by troop lecting hygiene products for families in need and also their leadership skills leader Bobbie Jo Babcock. They reflected on how they loved participating in by emceeing this year’s Court of Awards. Troop leaders for Troop 711 include the Girl Scout Festival of Nations and Cosmic Bowling with the other Unity Girl Leisha McKenzie and Karyn Kruse.

Scouts.

Unity’s fifth-grade Junior Girl Scouts received their Bronze Award at the recent Court of Awards for their involvement in the community. Their troop coUnity’s second-grade Brownie troop celebrated a great year including their ordinates the local Festival of Nations and they also collected food for the food Hats of Love project where the girls made 25 fleece hats to donate to the Sal- shelf, made baskets for the refugees and collected cans to use the money for vation Army’s Coats for Kids drive. Recognizing their achievements were their baskets of household items for women at the CRA. Troop leaders include troop leaders Lisa Johnson and Tammy Bolling.

Dawn Anderson, Penny Schultz, Leslie Peterson and Holly Lenk.

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Adult day care program offers support, laughs for adults with memory loss

by Julie Holmquist POLK COUNTY - On any given Thursday at the First Lutheran Church in Amery, you’ll find Tom McKinstry reading bits of Reminisce Magazine to a gathering of senior citizens. Then the chatting begins: maybe about ringer washers, mothers who made headcheese, or former jobs.

Later on, the group enjoys slices of freshly baked cake and sings a song or two accompanied by Lyn Klug’s autoharp.

It’s just another ordinary day at The Haven, an adult day-care program for older adults with memory loss or confusion. At The Haven, people seem to have a good time. If they aren’t baking or talking with home-schooled children, they’re playing pool or visiting farm animals.

“It’s gets to be just like family,” said McKinstry, a volunteer with The Haven for four years.

“We do a lot of laughing during the day,” said director Elsie Thoen-Goossen.

“They really like Ole and Lena jokes.”

One director, a few part-time staff people, and plenty of volunteers make a special “haven” for 26 clients.

The program is offered four days a week in three different Polk County locations and is designed for older adults with memory loss due to Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, or similar disorders.

Offered from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., the program gives a respite to caregivers, allowing them time to rest or run errands without interruptions. It also offers the clients a comfortable place to talk with others about the frustrations of memory loss.

“We’re like a support group for each other,” Thoen-Goossen said. “They can talk about things and laugh at it here.”

The Haven is currently available on Mondays in Dresser, Tuesdays and Thursdays in Amery and Fridays in Luck. Although Thoen-Goossen would love to see The Haven expand to five days a week, finances don’t allow it.

Polk County provides a telephone and office for the program, but operations and salaries come from client fees, grants, donations and the yearly fundraiser.

Thoen-Goossen said she’s grateful for the sites provided without charge by three churches, for the many individual donations of craft goods, cake mixes and money and for all the volunteers.

Lisa Dodge, a massage therapist from

The Haven

Volunteer Lisa Dodge gives client Orville a back massage to start the day.

Elsie Thoen-Goossen, director of The Haven, has a laugh with Roger during craft time.

Clear Lake, volunteers massages each Thursday morning.

“It’s amazing how good it feels to volunteer,” she said.

A young mother brings her three little

ones to sit on laps and help with puzzles, Thoen-Goossen notes, while others donate wood for crafts that are part of the regular routine.

Other activities include exercise,

maybe a walk outside, hot wax therapy for arthritic hands, manicures, or games like Wheel of Fortune or bingo.

“We just enjoy these people,” ThoenGoossen said. “We have a wonderful time.”

For more information about The Haven, call 715-485-8412.

Lyn Klug of Amery regularly plays autoharp for a sing-a-long at The Haven in Amery. - Photos by Julie Holmquist

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Bear country!

Cecilia Andrewson of CTH N in rural Webster submitted this photo near her home of what appears to be a large black bear.

Dick Keller of Frederic captured this black bear with his digital camera as it casually ate and drank in his backyard.

Patsy Lokker of Webster submitted these two photos showing a bear taking a nap on their tree stand. “We took pictures until he woke up … Then we drove on out of there! Here are two photos … one while he was asleep and one right after he woke up.”

Unity flyers

Unity students at Cumberland Airport (L to R): Cori Ward, Ryhley Mattison, Gabrielle Foeller, Hannah Wagner, Leann Claude, Phillip Sorensen, Olivia Jensen, Brandon Koethe, Erik Peterson, Wyatt Stenberg, Nathan Heimstead, Emerson DeHaven, Gaven Ouellette, Walter Lenk, Kacey Schallenberger and Sam DeHaven. Not pictured, Markie Ramich and Austin VonDoerhen. - Photos submitted

Emerson DeHaven, Sam DeHaven and Gaven OuelBrandon Koethe accepts his Young Eagle certificate lette are all smiles after a great flight. after his high-flying adventure.

BALSAM LAKE – Third-grade students in the Unity LEAD extended day program have been flying high! Students learned about the history of aviation and famous aviators. They learned geography and map skills by plotting courses on aeronautical charts.

Students learned about other forms of flight as well. They learned how a hot air balloon flies and how rockets are sent into space. Students created and launched their own Alka Seltzerpowered rocket. As a special end to this unit, students were offered a Young Eagles airplane ride through Rice Lake EAA Chapter 631.

Twenty students took to the sky at with volunteer pilots at Cumberland Airport. EAA Chapter 631 has approximately 50 members and is located in the area surrounding Rice Lake.

Once a month throughout the summer, the chapter holds a Young Eagle rally at one of several small airports in the area. Since 1992, the chapter has flown more than 5,300 Young Eagles. Chapter coordinator Jack Langland has himself flown more than 930 Young Eagles in his Cessna 172.

Unity third-grade students Cole Garvey and Nathan Heimstead took first and third place respectively in the International Aviation Art Contest. This contest is held each year to encourage young people to demonstrate the importance of aviation through their art. To see these prize-winning artworks, please see Wisconsin Department of Transportation Web site at http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/ travel/air/art07.htm. Theme: Airports.

Grants for this program were made possible

by Civil Air Patrol and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Unity School District recently received a $3,000 grant from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium for aviation and space education projects in the 20072008 school year. - submitted

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Big Gust Days • 2007 • Carlyle Sherstad Run/Walk GRANTSBURG - The 2007 Carlyle Sherstad 5K run/walk took place on the morning of Saturday, June 2, during Grantsburg’s Big Gust Days. The race started behind the Grantsburg High School track, on Madison Avenue.

This second-annual race had 167 registrants with 157 participating on the day of the event. Trophies and roses were awarded to the overall male and female finishers. And medals were awarded to the first three male and female finishers in each of nine age categories.

Jason Jorczak, age 37, from Hayward was this year’s overall male winner, with a time of 16:52. Kelly Pearson, age 26, of Webster, was this year’s overall female finisher, with a time of 20:00.

The Carlyle Sherstad 5K is named after a great promoter of running in the Grantsburg area. Carlyle Sherstad was the founder and organizer of a 16.2 mile Grantsburg race, called the Syttende Mai. That race was an annual event for many years and drew hundreds of runners from all over the Midwest.

Burnett Medical Center organizes the Carlyle Sherstad 5K and donates all profits. This year’s profits will be donated to Faith’s Lodge, located near Webster. Faith’s Lodge is a retreat facility for couples and families facing the serious illness or death of a child. To learn more about Faith’s Lodge, visit www.faithslodge.org or call 612-825-2073.

Results – Carlyle Sherstad 5K run/walk Overall male: Jason Jorczak, 37, Hayward: 16:52 Overall female: Kelly Pearson, 26, Webster: 20:00

Heading for the finish line of the Carlyle Sherstad 5K run/walk on Saturday, these young participants had a little bit of help. Photo by Gary King

LEFT: Skipping her way along the race course, Allie Lacek, age 4, Minneapolis, daughter of Mark and Susan Lacek, owners of Faith's Lodge at Webster, was having a fun time Saturday at the Carlyle Sherstad 5K run/walk.

BELOW: Local sponsors were recognized on the event T-shirts. - Photos by Gary King

Male division winners: Preteen: 1st - Bryce Ryan, 12, Grantsburg: 22:47 2nd - Brandon Ryan, 12, Grantsburg: 22:50 3rd - Carl Rachner, 11, Webster: 23:25 13-16 Years: 1st - Devin Trantanella, 16, Grantsburg: 22:21 2nd - Jeremy Biestada, 14, Pine City: 22:26 3rd - Kyle Roberts, 13, Grantsburg: 22:44 17-19 Years: none 20s: 1st - Austin Budlong, 26, Hopkins, Minn.: 20:08 2nd - Glen Andresen, 28, St. Paul, Minn.: 20:18 3rd - Nick Ryan, 20, Grantsburg: 20:26 30s: 1st - Scott Ramberg, 39, Marine St. Croix: 17:37 2nd - Tom Rippberger, 36, Plymouth: 21:46 3rd - Roger Norenberg, 35, Grantsburg: 22:29 40s: 1st - Dave Belisle, 48, Somerset: 21:27 2nd - Kobi Phillips, 46, Grantsburg: 21:28 3rd - Tom Kelby, 41, Webster: 22:12 50s: 1st - Jeff Erickson, 51, St. Paul: 22:20 2nd - Rod Kleiss, 59, Grantsburg: 25:16 3rd - Dennis Johnson, 58, Hugo: 26:57 60s: 1st - Harvey Johnson, 65, North Branch: 22:52 2nd - Lee Roberts, 64, Grantsburg: 31:46 3rd - Charles Andresen, 66, Duluth: 34:16 70+: 1st - Ron Ylitalo, 74, Grantsburg: 32:53 2nd - Bradley Ayers, 72, Frederic: 37:16 3rd - Dick Klawitter, 73, Grantsburg: 53:09

A total of 157 runners and walkers took part in Saturday’s Carlyle Sherstad 5K run/walk, sponsored by Burnett Medical Center and held in conjunction with Grantsburg’s Big Gust Days. - Photo courtesy Burnett Medical Center

Darlene Sherstad, widow of Carlyle Sherstad, is shown with this year’s overall male and female winners, Jason Jorczak of Hayward and Kelly Pearson of Webster. - Photo courtesy Burnett Medical Center Female division winners: Preteen: 1st - Emma Kelby, 12, Webster: 22:12 2nd - Heidi Schoettle, 10, Grantsburg: 37:50 3rd - Sarah Dotzler, 12, Foley, Minn.: 38:19 13-16 Years: 1st - Cherissa Vollendorf, 14, Grantsburg: 24:10 2nd - Kayce Rachner, 14, Webster: 27:31 3rd - Annie Kelby, 14, Pine City: 28:45 17-19 Years: 1st - Vanessa Kleiss, 17, Grantsburg: 25:08 2nd - Alyssa Ryan, 17, Grantsburg: 32:07 3rd - Krystyne Lindgren, 17, Grantsburg: 57:28 20s: 1st - Shana Karls, 24, Grantsburg: 22:42 2nd - Katie Herman, 24, Lino Lakes: 26:03 3rd - Amy Farrell, 29, Grantsburg: 26:19 30s: 1st - Christina Widiker, 31, Danbury: 22:27 2nd - Briar Andresen, 34, Minneapolis: 24:58 3rd - Melissa Hull, 31, Ham Lake, Minn.: 25:54 40s: 1st - Tami Sherstad Greiber, Orono, Minn.: 23:26 2nd - Sarah Kelby, 41, Webster: 26:49 3rd - Evelyn Nyberg, 49, Webster: 27:10 50s: 1st - Cindy Wick, 57, Grantsburg: 27:57 2nd - Carol Ahlquist, 58, Grantsburg: 30:44 3rd - Marva Sahs, 58, Spooner: 31:48 60s: 1st - Addie Alsabrook, 65, Grantsburg: 48:43 2nd - Lila Woodruff, 63, Cottage Grove: 51:25 3rd - Jo Louise McNally, 66, Grantsburg: 54:23

70+: 1st - Eunice Early, 76, Siren: 47:50 2nd - Louise Klawitter, 72, Grantsburg: 53:08 3rd - Mary Jane Meyer, 79, Grantsburg: 54:19

- Results by Apple Raceberry JaM

Kelly Pearson, Webster, overall female winner, is offered some post-race refreshment by Jaeger Staeven, event volunteer. - Photo by Gary King

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Big Gust Days • 2007 • Queen pageant Vanessa Kleiss is queen for a year

Grantsburg 2007 royalty, back row )L to R): LaShawn Nohrenberg, Vanessa Kleiss and Chandra Krout. Front row (L to R): Mackenna Johnson, Jami Michel and Rachel Glover.

GRANTSBURG – Grantsburg has a new queen as of Saturday night, June 2. Vanessa Kleiss is the 2007 Grantsburg queen, she brought home the talent award as well, with her musical theater performance from “Guys and Doll.” Chandra Krout is first princess, and LaShawn Nohrenberg is second princess. The six contestants chose First Princess Chandra Krout as Miss Congeniality.

Outgoing 2006 Grantsburg royalty said their farewells and shared memories from the year representing Grantsburg.

Miss Little Grantsburg was chosen as well.

Of the six Little Newly crowned Little Miss contestants, Miss Grantsburg 2007, Jami Michel was Jami Michel, waves to drawn as Little the crowd.

Miss Grantsburg, Rachel Glover was drawn as first princess and Mackenna Johnson was drawn as second princess. The Little Miss contestants were not judged. – Sherill Summer

RIGHT - Grantsburg royalty runs in the family: 2007 Little Miss Second Princess, Mackenna Johnson, and 2006 Miss Congeniality, Jade Johnson.

Photos by Sherill Summer Miss Grantsburg contestants don cowboy hats and perform to “Man, I Feel Like a Woman.”

Big Gust Days • 2007 • Talent show GRANTSBURG – A community variety show was held at Memory Lake Park on Sunday, June 3, one of the many Big Gust Day events. Although the clouds looked threatening throughout the show, the rain held off for most of the 14 performing acts. Wayne Anderson of Frederic put his Iraq preparations on hold for a couple of hours to emcee the event.

The newly crowned Grantsburg royalty was at the event selling Kozy Kitchen chicken or brat dinners.

The variety show was the kickoff for the Anna Olivia Fremstad memorial music and entertainment event. Other events are scheduled throughout the summer. The next event will be Kevin McMullen and Randy Sabien on Sunday, July 29, at Memory Lake Park. – Sherill Summer

Amber Pedersen singing the Beatles’ “Love Me Do.”

The Klawitter family accompanied themselves with a variety of instruments.

LEFT: Emcee Wayne Anderson is seen here one day before leaving for Iraq as an embedded journalist.

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Big Gust Days • 2007 • Schoolhouse dedication

The Reed School has found a new, and possibly permanent, home on the Grantsburg Schools campus.

One-room schoolhouse dedicated at Grantsburg GRANTSBURG - It will be used to teach students about the early days of education, as a meeting place for class reunions, and simply to claim a piece of local history for future generations.

Saturday’s dedication of the one-room schoolhouse that was moved last fall from the town of West Marshland to the Grantsburg Schools campus, marked the culmination of hours of planning and work by the Grantsburg Historical Society and volunteers from the surrounding community.

The Reed School was named for a Civil War veteran who lived near the school when it was located on James Road northeast of Grantsburg. The school opened in 1910 but closed in 1919 due to a lack of students. In 1923 it was moved 2.5 miles west to CTH F and was used as West Marshland’s Town Hall for many years.

Grantsburg Historial Society’s Gail Potvin and local historian Clayton Jorgensen spoke at Saturday’s dedication - noting the people involved in the project. Potvin thanked the West Marshland Town Board for their donation of the school to the historical society, presenting Art Bistram, a member of the town board, with a plaque of appreciation to hang in the town hall. She also thanked the school district for “cooperating wonderfully” with

the project, Northwestern Electric, for its help in moving and placing the bell tower on top of the school, and Bob Kallman for building the bell tower that was placed on top of the school, making it representative of all the local one-room school houses in the area.

Clayton and Karen Jorgensen, Potvin noted, were the driving forces behind the project.

Local volunteers refinished the desks and performed repairs.

The Grantsburg High School Band played America the Beautiful, and the national anthem and a flag that has flown over the Capitol was raised to replace the flag of 1919 vintage.

A crowd of approximately 60 people gathered for the dedication.

The school will be open by appointment for those who wish to tour it, Potvin noted.

Leader reporter Nancy Jappe will be writing an in-depth feature story on the school for a future issue of the Leader. - Gary King

LEFT: Joyce Christian of Grantsburg looks at book about the history of the Reed School prior to the dedication ceremony, Saturday.

RIGHT: Jeff Hermann, Clayton's Jorgensen’s son-in-law, unfurls the state flag with help from Max Jorgensen and Lauren Hermann.

A flag circa 1919 flew for the last time Saturday above the one-room schoolhouse.

Photos by Gary King

Janelle Hermann, daughter of Clayton Jorgensen, exchanges American flags with Greg Peer of the Grantsburg Historical Society, in preparation of raising the new flag that will fly above the one-room schoolhouse.

Gail Potvin (L) and Clayton Jorgensen spoke at Saturday’s dedication, Potvin thanking those involved with the project and Jorgensen reviewing the history of the Reed School.

Art Bistram, a West Marshland town board member, represented the town at the dedication and accepted a plaque of appreciation on behalf of the town.

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Big Gust Days • 2007 • Car Show

It wasn’t attractive members of the opposite sex that turned the heads of the gentlemen seated in front of Fiedler Ford in Grantsburg, Saturday, (photo at left) but instead vintage automobiles arriving for the annual Fiedler Ford Antique Classic Car & Truck Show. The event is held as part of the annual Big Gust Days celebration. Hundreds of autos, tractors and motorcycles were on display, drawing the usual large crowd throughout the morning and early afternoon. Photos by Gary King

Big Gust Days • 2007 • Apple race The first 200 Big Gust Days button holders to enter the Wood River Apple Race at Memory Lake Dam had an apple assigned to them. The first five apples to reach the apple catcher (right), standing a few hundred yards downstream, signified the winners. The first five finishers were presented with money - $50 for first, $40 for second, $30 for third, $20 for fourth and $10 for fifth. Winners were: 1st place - Alexis Wedin; 2nd - Sandra Wawersich; 3rd - Amber Wedin; 4th - Carolyn Peterson; and 5th - Lois Jerry. Winning button numbers are 3, 775, 27, 117 and 550. - Photos by Gary King

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Big Gust Days • 2007 • Demo Derby

Winners of Big Gust Days Derby held on June 2 Compact Cars Stock First - Dewey Kurtz, second - Mary Jo Youngbauer, third and Crowd Pleaser - Les Mishler 1980 and Newer First - Jesse Asmussen, second Mike Byers, third - Jerry Miller, fourth and Crowd Pleaser - Mike Ferns Powder Puff First - Julia Stordahl, second - Shannon Woodford, third - Cyndie Omer, Crowd Pleaser -Ashley Pantlin Compact Trucks First- Zach Chaffee, second - Robert Nichols, third - Travis Simon, fourth Nathan Anderson, fifth - Chris Fickbohm, Crowd Pleaser - Adam Bistram Full-size Cars First - Luke Johnson, second - Ken Cox, third - Jason Hahn, fourth - Dan Roberts, fifth - John Hahn, Crowd Pleaser - Jason Hahn

Full-size Trucks First - Chad Boyd, second - Dave Johnson, third - Tim Peck, fourth - Jeremy Scheider, fifth - Roy Zeiler, Crowd Pleaser - Dave Johnson Over 50 vehicles were entered. Despite the threat of bad weather, there was a good crowd and there was no rain during the derby. The remaining two derbies in the three-derby topdriver competition will be held on Aug. 24 and 26 at the Grantsburg Fair.

Photos by Raelynn Hunter

Big Gust Days • 2007 • Demo Derby GRANTSBURG – Grantsburg’s airport was taken over by small flying objects last Sunday, June 3.

Rockets of all colors, shapes and sizes lifted

off during 4-H’s fifth-annual rocket launch. Organizer Craig Bowman estimated there were about 50 rockets launched during the event.

Most landed relatively intact. – Sherill Summer

Some of the estimated 50 rockets and their creators at the 4-H rocket launch in Grantsburg.

Craig Bowman fits Jaden Cook’s glider-type rocket with an engine. – Photos by Sherill Summer

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Travel America

Are you and your family taking a trip this summer?

Here are some ideas on places to visit. Some may be close to where you live, while others may be far but fun places to visit.

Smokey Bear Historical State Park, New Mexico After a huge fire in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico, a black bear cub was found. This bear became the living symbol of Smokey Bear.

The Smokey Bear Historical State Park is devoted to the memory of Smokey Bear with photos and articles about him, a video and special activities. It is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year s Day. For more information on the park, visit http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/forestry/smokey.htm Bethel Historical Society, Maine See U.S. and New England history come alive in the regional history center of Bethel, Maine.

The Dr. Moses Mason House and the O Neil Robinson House are open to the public from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday to Friday, June to October. There are also tours of period homes. Before you head to the historical area, contact the historical society at 800/824-2910 or visit the Web site at http://orion.bdc.bethel.me.us/~history/ Florida s Gulfarium, Florida Dive right into the entertainment and education of Florida s Gulfarium, which has the oldest continuously operating marine show in the world. The performances feature dolphins, sea lions and a diver.

The Gulfarium also provides services for people and animals, from animal rescue to educational programs.

For more information, you may visit the Web site at http://www.gulfarium.com/ Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, Indiana Hoosier hysteria is alive and well at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in New Castle. It has displays, exhibits, artifacts, pictures, videos and more all about the history of Indiana basketball.

It is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, except for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas, New Year s Eve and Day, and Easter. For more information on visiting the Hall of Fame, check out the Web site at http://www.hoopshall.com/ Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Oregon Tour a submarine, visit the planetarium or enjoy the other exhibits at the OMSI. During the summer, the museum is open from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursdays and 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on other days. For more information on the museum or directions on how to get there, visit the Web site at http://www.omsi.edu/ Please note: This list only applies to the sites listed, not to any sites that may be linked. Web sites change constantly. At the time this article was written, these Web addresses worked.

Some of the sites may call for software you do not have.

You can still look at much of the information on the site, but you may need the software for movies. If you do need software, be sure to have your parent(s) read any software agreements before you download it.

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Students o f the Week SIREN

Jade Horstman has been chosen Siren Elementary School’s student of the week. She was nominated for displaying good citizenship. Jade is in kindergarten.

She loves school and is looking forward to being in first grade.

Her favorite class is math. Her favorite sport is football. She enejoys playing it with her family members. She also loves to go fishing.

WEBSTER

Emma Kelby has been chosen Webster Middle School’s student of the week. She is the daughter of Tom and Sarah Kelby. She is a delightful student who starts every day full of energy and greets her classmates and teachers will a smile. She maintains a very good grade-point average, has great attendance, and is courteous and respectful to everyone. Emma is very busy competing on the Webster crosscountry and track teams.

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Dalton Dockendorf has been chosen St. Croix Falls Elementary student of the week. He is in fourth-grade and the son of Gerry and Jenny Dockendorf.

Math is his favorite subject in school; he likes working on equations. Dalton enjoys playing outdoors and spending time with his dad. He collects miniature toy trucks and also has a collection of glass items. He is a very polite and enjoyable young man.

LUCK

Annaleise Greener has been chosen Luck Elementary School’s student of the week.

She is in first grade and the daughter of Jamie and Heidi Greener. She enjoys phy. ed., math and recess. She likes to read and has read lots of books.

Annaleise is happy, helpful and friendly.

Brittany Sanford has been chosen Luck Elementary Schoo’sl student of the week. She is in Mrs. Bartylla’s third-grade class.

Her favorite subjects are reading and art. Brittany is a good worker and gets along well with her classmates.

FREDERIC

Ashley Wendelboe has been chosen Frederic’s Middle School student of the week. She is in seventh grade and the daughter of Jason and Rebeca Wendelboe. She meets all deadlines and teacher expectations and has a good work ethic. She is cooperative and works well with others.

Ashley also stays on task and doesn’t complain. She is involved in volleyball. She enjoys riding horse.

Allison Martin has been chosen Frederic’s Middle School student of the week. She is in seventh grade and the daughter of Art and Kristan Martin. She has been on the honor roll all quarters. She is a quiet but conscientious student.

She likes challenges and always does her best. She plays the piano, reads and enjoys biking in her free time.

Megan Anderson has been chosen Frederic’s High School student of the week. She is a sophomore and the daughter of Cliff and Junellyn Anderson. She is on the honor roll, academic letter winner and has participated in state music and state forensics.

She is involved in volleyball, basketball and track. Her hobbies include scrapbooking and running.

UNITY

Sam Halverson has been chosen Frederic’s High School student of the week. He is the son of Wes and Barbra Halverson. Sam is an honor roll student. He is a independent thinker, has varied interests, is a good school citizen and cooperative. He is involved in cross-country. His hobbies include playing guitar, writing music, paintball and listening to music.

Karlie Moening has been chosen Unity Elementary student of the week. She is in Mrs. Nelson’s third-grade class and is the daughter of Missy Sherrard. Karlie is a wonderful girl in many ways. She is one terrific reader and math student. She is kind, helpful and friendly to all. She always has a smile and a positive attitude.

Alicia Szdlo has been chosen Unity High School’s student of the week. She was nominated for her hard work in school and pleasant can-do demeanor. She enjoys FBLA and other business and foods coursework. Alicia will be attending UW-River Falls in the fall majoring in accounting. She is the daughter of Yvonne Cheever of Balsam Lake.

Studebaker Drivers Club Car Show this Sunday SPOONER — The Badger Wheels Chapter of The Studebaker Drivers Club will host its 21st-Annual Car Show, Swap Meet, Craft Show, and Flea Market on Sunday, June 10, at the Washburn County Fairgrounds in Spooner. All makes and models of cars, military vehicles and farm tractors are welcome.

There are 23 classes competing for trophies. Crafters and flea market vendors from all over Wisconsin and Minnesota will be present to display their wares for

sale. Gates open at 6 a.m. Show car registration is $5 including driver. General admission is $3 with free parking. There will be car corral at $2 per car plus admission.

A pancake breakfast will be available starting at 7 a.m. Brats, hamburgers, and hot dogs will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Proceeds from the show will again be used to fund scholarships for two graduating senior high school students who

will continue their education to a school of higher learning. In addition, the chapter donates money to local food pantries, LDS (Lou Gehrigs Disease Research), and other benevolent charities the club feels deserving.

The Studebaker Drivers Club is an international organization that stated in 1962 under the founding leadership of the late Harry Barnes. Today it has over 125 chapters worldwide and over 14,000 members. Each year the Studebaker Drivers Club hosts an international meet for their members to come together for an annual meeting, camaraderie, seminars, showing and having their Studebakers judged and find or sell parts.

Each year members and local chapters compete for several awards presented

for performance and community service.

Last year, The Badger Wheels Chapter won honors by winning the Minnie Barnes award for community service to local communities. In addition the editor of the local chapter newsletter, The Badger Wheel Bullet’N, won first place in the annual SDC newsletter competition.

Membership is open to anyone who has an interest in the preservation of the Studebaker and Studebaker-related vehicles. You do not need to own a vehicle to belong. Contact Ernie Loga, 715-8327302, for more information about joining the Studebaker Drivers Club. — from SDC

AFS to host picnic FREDERIC – AFS Intercultural Programs is hosting a picnic on Tuesday, June 12, 6 p.m., at Coon Lake Park in Frederic. This will be a chance to say goodbye to the currently hosted AFS exchange students in Frederic and Webster, greet the January 2007 -08 exchange students in Siren, and get information concerning hosting foreign exchange students for the upcoming 2007-08 school year. AFS volunteers and host families will be on hand to visit and answer questions about hosting a student.

Several makes and models of cars can be seen at the car show to be held at Twenty-five exchange students from all the fairgrounds in Spooner on Sunday, June 10. — Photo submitted

over the world are looking for host families in Northwest Wisconsin. There will be photos and information available to see of the students waiting for placement. Families from Polk and Burnett counties are welcome to come. ”Open your door to the world.” Something extraordinary happens when you share your home and family with a high school student from another country.

Questions can be addressed to Amy Myers, 715-651-4398, or Nancy Buley, 715-327-4743. Or visit the Web at www.afs.org/usa. – submitted

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Bikeathon group stops at Luck Country Inn

Bike riders Linda Sandell, Matt Xiong, Steve Neumann, Josh Moberg, David Shirley, Frank Newman, Pat Shirley and Tom Gustafson posed for a photo in front of the Luck Country Inn at Luck recently as they faced their final 40 miles of a fundraising ride to Luther Park Bible Camp on Lake 26 near Danbury. The annual 115-mile bikeathon begins in Minneapolis and raises scholarship funds to help youth who cannot afford an outdoor ministry experience attend the camp.

Eleven riders from four Minneapolis churches took part, raising more than $8,000. This is the eighth year the group has stayed at the Luck Country Inn with its proximity to the Gandy Dancer Trail and “great accommodations and onsite restaurant” according to rider David Shirley. Not shown are support vehicle personnel Pastor Ernest Tate and Rod and Peggy Nerdahl and first-day riders Jon Oleson, Scott Wright and Mark Anderson. The group plans another event next year. – Photo submitted

Afghan raffle at SCRMC salad luncheon set for June 8 ST. CROIX FALLS – As part of the 41st-annual St. Croix Regional Medical Center Salad Luncheon on June 8, there will be an afghan raffle. It is a 42 x 52 inch crocheted afghan by Marie Lindahl of Dresser, called Odds and Ends. It won a blue ribbon at the 2006 Polk County Fair. Tickets will be available for purchase.

The Friday, June 8, salad luncheon will be held at St. Croix Falls High School between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

There is an express line for workers on lunch break and takeout orders are available. The luncheon features hot and cold salads, cheese, cold cuts, fruit, rolls, beverages and bars. Tickets purchased in advance are $6 for adults, $2.50 for children 10 and under are available at the SCRMC Gift Shop and Tangen Drug in St. Croix Falls, SCRMC Clinics in Frederic and Unity, from all Auxilians. At the door they are $7 and $3.

Proceeds from the raffle will go toward the salad luncheon goal to purchase an $11,500 noninvasive handheld bladder scanner for use by patients with bladder issues. The luncheon is sponsored by SCRMC Auxiliary and Staff. Proceeds will be matched up to $1,000 by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Polk-Burnett Chapter. - submitted

This crocheted afghan by Marie Lindahl will be raffled at the SCRMC Salad Luncheon on Friday, June 8. It was a blue-ribbon winner at the 2006 Polk County Fair. – Photo submitted

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Polk-Burnett Community Ag Association 23rd-Annual Dairy Breakfast set LEWIS – The public is invited to attend this year’s dairy breakfast at the Burdick Farm on Saturday, June 16. The menu includes Uncle Jack’s wild rice pancakes with ice cream and syrup, ham, cheese, milk, coffee and Wisconsin cranberry juice. Donations for the breakfast are $5 for adults, and $3 for kids ages 6-12. Serving starts at 6:30 a.m. Directions: From Frederic take CTH W east to CTH I, turn left on CTH I and then south on 73rd Street. From Lewis: take CTH E east to 65th Street, turn right on 65th Street and then right on CTH I and then Grant and Mary Burdick, Lewis, are the hosts of this year’s dairy breakfast to south on 73rd Street.

Watch for the dairy break- be held Saturday, June 16. – Photo submitted fast cow signs directing you to the farm.

Host Grant and Mary Burdick rotationally graze 30 Jersey cows. They raise all their own young stock and machine harvest very little of their forage. Winter feed is purchased from neighbor farms. Burdick’s ship their milk to Ellsworth Creamery.

All proceeds go to the Community Agriculture Association Scholarship Fund. - submitted

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Free film to celebrate Father’s Day at Siren School SIREN – Communities United in Education is pleased to bring you a new film to help you celebrate the Father’s Day weekend. On Friday, June 15, at 6 p.m., they will show the new release “Illusion” starring the legendary Kirk Douglas giving what some say is the best performance of his stellar career. There is perhaps no better way to show the importance of a father than to share this cinematic experience with the entire family.

Here is an excerpt from a recent review

by Arielle Ford: Celebrated actor Kirk Douglas never expected to still be acting at the age of 88, especially after suffering from a debilitating stroke in 1996, until he found an “Illusion” starring the legendary Kirk irresistible script called “Illusion.” Dou- Douglas will be shown at the Siren glas, the star of more than 80 films in- School on Friday, June 15. – Photo subcluding “Spartacus,” gives the mitted performance of a lifetime in “Illusion.”

The award-winning “Illusion” tells the story of a once powerful but now lonely, deep remorse after rejecting his only aged and ailing film director, Donald child, an illegitimate son named ChristoBaines (Douglas), who finds himself in pher (Michael Goorjian). Late one night

the legendary director is “awakened” by the ghost-like presence of his dear friend and editor, Stan (Ron Marasco), who has been dead for more than 35 years. Stan shows Baines three “mini-movies” of his son’s life at times when the son is at a pivotal point.

What the old man sees is the tragic life of the son he never claimed and the impact that his absence had in his life and on his ability to love. On his deathbed, Baines is given the opportunity to help Christopher who discovers that the only person who could change the story of his life was the father he never knew.

This powerful and uplifting film is the creation of Michael Goorjian (“Party of Five”) who, as writer/director/co-star of “Illusion,” literally bet the farm to make this film. After winning the First Place Feature and Audience Choice Awards at the 2005 Spiritual Cinema Festival-AtSea, he admitted, “I was, as they say in poker, all in. I spent all of my money, that of my friends and family, and maxed our

every credit card I could get my hands on to make this film.”

Goorjian’s compelling script combined with Douglas’ star power and entrancing performance make “Illusion” a movie that appeals to people from all walks of life. During his extraordinary lifetime of achievement, Douglas has appeared in 87 films, 10 plays, written nine books and been married to his wife Anne for more than 50 years.

Fathers, bring your sons and daughters. Sons and daughters bring your dad.

This is a movie you don’t want to miss, and one you may not have the opportunity to see elsewhere. Let the entire family start the celebration with this beautiful experience.

Admission is absolutely free, but give the school a call to let them know you will be coming.

Communities United in Education, 715-349-7070. - submitted

BURNETT COUNTY LIBRARY NEWS Puppet show kicks off summer reading program Burnett Community Library will kick off their summer reading program with a puppet show. It will be presented by Judy Robertus at 3 p.m. on June 8 in the community room at the public library located in Webster. The theme this year titled, Get a Clue at Your Public Library, invites children to explore mysteries and become supersleuths and daring detectives. Young people will enjoy stories, prizes, games, programs, etc. Registration for summer story time will be during the puppet show. Story time begins on Tuesday, June 12, from 10 to 11 a.m. and will continue for the remaining three Tuesdays. A summer wrap-up program is planned for Tuesday, Aug. 21.

For more information, call the library at 866-7697. The library welcomes children of all abilities. All programs are free of charge.

There are many new books and audiovisuals for the children to check out that were purchased with the summer reading program in mind. When looking for mysteries for our younger readers, ask for the new sets of books mentioned below.

• “The Stone Arch Mysteries” • “The Young Cam Jansen Mysteries” • “The Hawkeye Collins and Amy Adams Mysteries”

Grantsburg Public Library summer read program to begin This summer’s reading program starts on June 14 with a visit from the Lake Superior Zoo. This will not be a petting zoo but a live encounter with several animals.

Each animal has a unique conservation story that will give attendees a greater awareness of the environment around each animal.

June 21 - Fingerprints play a crucial part in finding and identifying people.

Police Chief Jeff Schinzing and Burnett County Sheriff Dean Roland have personal identification kits to take home that include fingerprints, pictures and other physical information. Each person has definite prints and the officers will ex-

plain how they identify each print.

June 28 - Dog trainer Susan Hager will show a 15-minute film on dog handling and present a live demonstration on dog training techniques.

July 5 - Carly Hawkinson, a member of Crex Meadows’ staff, has molds of local wild animal footprints. From her presentation you can learn to identify different animals by their footprints.

These programs are open to all schoolage children. As an incentive for children in grades one to six to read more during summer break, prizes will be given out each week.

Grantsburg choir sings at MOA

GRANTSBURG – On May 29 the Grantsburg High School Choir, Ladies Swing Choir, Travelers, and Jazz Choir traveled to the Mall of America where they performed as part of the “Talent in the Park” series. The four groups put on an hour-long concert, featuring numbers from the recent Choral Pop Concert. Accompanying the choir on the piano were Angela Bram, Emily Prazak, Becca Radtke and Vanessa Kleiss. Announcer for the day was Jamie Lund. The choirs are directed

by Linda Benge. Soloists included Lenora Benge Briggs, Zach Corbin, Tyler Myers, Brandon Mogel, Vanessa Kleiss, Kevin Berry, Emma Walker, Nathan Dahlberg and Lydia Benge Briggs.

The choir had lunch at Bubba Gump’s Restaurant, where they sang for the waitstaff and other diners. Audience members were very complimentary in both places. Shopping rounded out a great day. - info and photos submitted

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Luck High School Student Club builds giant chess set LUCK – The Career and Technical Education department at Luck School opened their Skills USA chapter with a community service project. “We began with building an outdoor chess set for the chess club. Improving our community, developing skills and character through service projects is a big part of our mission,” said Chris Boland, the Skills USA chapter advisor. The idea for the set came about when the Luck School Chess Club approached Boland about building a set they had seen a picture of in a magazine.

“The students of Lead-Deadwood Elementary in South Dakota and the Deadwood Arts Council had built a set similar to celebrate National Chess Day in October. I contacted them, and they sent pictures and told me the original design had come from a set seen on a high school trip to Sweden. I had only the pictures, but Chris Boland said his students could build it. And they did!” said Lydia Rennicke, chess coach. “The Skills USA students did a superb job. The pieces are light enough for our smaller students to lift, and big enough to be fun. It’s sturdy enough to stand up to kids. There are lots of extra details added to the set that make it very nice.”

The students are (L to R): Derek Buck, Jordan Lundmark, Dylan Fultz, Erik Nelson, Jason Nelson and Johnny Larkin.

The students played with the set for the first time on Friday. The chess club plans to use the giant chess set on the Photos submitted playground and at chess club activities throughout the year. - submitted

Derek Rennicke moves a pawn.

Eight finish principal licensure graduate program

RIVER FALLS – Eight master’s degree students at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls have completed the UWRF Principal Licensure Program in May. The program, leading to K-12 principal licensure, is a two-year 30-credit offering. A new cohort starts in June, and marks the eighth year of the program.

Those completing the licensure program include: (seated L to R) Sarah Schmidt, Unity School District; Samantha Konsela Hoyt, Chippewa Falls School District; (standing, L to R) David Brandvold, River Falls School District; Robert Seidl, Stanley-Boyd School District; Anthony DiSalvo, Baldwin-Woodville School District; Chad Buss, Barron School District; and Kelly Hopkins, Frederic School District. Not pictured: James Adam Zopp of the Clayton School District.

– Photo submitted

Luck students team up for black.

Academic news Local students receive diploma from Norwich University NORTHFIELD, Vt. - Charity Lake of Grantsburg, received a degree in biology from Norwich University during a May 13 commencement ceremony.

During the event, students and their families and friends had an opportunity to hear inspiring words by co-Valedictorians Amanda Benson and Julia Shedd, who spoke of the unity between corps and civilian students, and the importance of taking the time to enjoy each day. Commencement speaker General Richard Meyers, USAF (Ret.) told the graduating class that they were entering a world, which will require a lot of their attention. He encouraged them to use the leadership skills, integrity and character that they developed during their time at Norwich to make the world a better place. “We are all in this to-

gether,” Meyers said.

Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United States and the birthplace of the nation’s Reserve Officers Training Corps. The Class of 2007 consisted of 207 members of the Corps of Cadets, and 174 civilian students. A total of 87 of the graduates have been or will soon be commissioned into the armed forces (54 Army, 21 Navy/Marine Corps and 12 Air Force). submitted

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PLATTEVILLE – The University of Wisconsin – Platteville student Joanna Haas has received the Lois Goldman Memorial Scholarship. Students majoring in education are eligible for this scholarship.

Haas is currently a senior at UWP majoring in education (birth through age 11). She is a 2004 graduate of Frederic High School. Haas is the daughter of John and June Haas, Frederic. – submitted

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OBITUARIES Tom Stendall

Marion Bystrom

Thomas R. Stendall, 66, Onalaska, died Monday, May 28, at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, La Crosse.

Thomas was an industrial arts teacher at Siren High School at the time of his retirement in 1998. Prior to teaching in Siren, Thomas was a partner in a marine business, then in a construction business where he helped design and build one of the first dome houses.

While living in Webster, the Stendall family were members of First Baptist Church. Thomas’s teaching career covered 25-1/2 years in Baldwin, Webster and Siren.

After retirement, he and wife, Audrey, moved to Onalaska to be near their daughter, Kristi Leifeld, and her family.

Funeral services were held Friday, June 1, at Sand Lake Wesleyan Church, with burial in Onalaska Cemetery.

The Dickinson Family Funeral Home, Onalaska, was entrusted with arrangements. Memorials were directed to the Thomas R. Stendall Memorial Fund.

Marion Bystrom, of St. Croix Falls, died June 2, 2007, at St. Croix Regional Hospital, St. Croix Falls. She was 95 years old.

She was born Oct. 19, 1911, in Eureka Township to Henry and Anna Kruse. She graduated from Centuria High School and Superior State Teachers College. She taught school at Fairview near Milltown and Hillcrest in Scrub Town. She was baptized, confirmed and married at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Centuria.

Marion married Howard Bystrom and settled in Eureka Center and spent her entire life in that community.

To this union three children were born, Mary Ann, Gene and Alan. Marion was always active in community affairs, helped with 4-H, worked as a leader when her children were members. She served in Eureka School Board and later was clerk of St. Croix Falls School Board for nine years, then serving nearly 10 years as bookkeeper at the school. She was active in Homemakers serving as county president in northwest district chairman.

She loved her church and was a willing worker, serving several terms as president of ladies aid taught Sunday school for 20 years and sang in the choir.

Marion was preceded in death by her husband, Howard; grandson, Donald Sloper; great-great-grandson, Jaxson Larrabee.

She is survived by children, Mary Ann Sloper, Gene (Marjorie) Bystrom, Alan (Evelyn) Bystrom; 15 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren sisters, Sylvia (Kenneth) Thompson; sisters-in-law, Betty Bystrom and Janice Bystrom; many nephews and nieces; other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 6, at the Redeemer Lutheran Church, St. Croix Falls. Interment was at New Home Cemetery, Eureka Township.

The Edling Funeral Home, St. Croix Falls, was entrusted with arrangements.

Walter “The Tree Man” Johnson Walter Johnson, Siren, died May 25, 2007. He was 100 years old.

Walter was born Feb. 13, 1907, in Grantsburg, to Amelia and Johnson Johnson.

Walter married Ella Warren on October 2, 1936, at Dalton, Mass.

He was a farmhand, an arborist, a wilderness traveler, a logger, a sheepherder and a businessman. He was a faithful supporter of the First Baptist Church of Falun.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Ella; brothers, Floyd, Eugene and Arnold; sister, Elsa; and his son, Arvid.

Walter is survived by four children, Edna Esther Johnson of Zorzor, Liberia; Joanna Marquardt of Siren, Mary Robinson of New London, Conn., and Warren Johnson of Gaithersburg, Md.; 14 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews and friends.

Memorial services were held May 31, at the First Baptist Church of Falun with Pastor Kevin Miller and Pastor James Carmon officiating. Music was provided

by Pastor David Ahlquist and Carol Ahlquist, pianist was Karen Miller. Interment was at the Mud Hen Lake Cemetery in Daniels Township, Burnett County, beside his wife, Ella.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

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Eileen Margaret Jensen Eileen M. Jensen, 80, died at Regions Hospital on May 26, 2007.

She was born in Bismark, N.D. Eileen was a longtime resident of Luck and a successful business owner for many years.

She married Gary Jensen in 1957, together they owned the Luck-E Tavern in Luck for five years.

Then they purchased the Northern Barn in Luck, operating it for 27 years. She also was an accomplished seamstress for many years. She loved traveling, spending winters in warm climates with family and friends. She enjoyed fishing trips with family to Canada, gardening and planting many flowers at her home in Luck.

She loved to play bingo, traveling to many events.

She also held various positions with the Danish Brotherhood consisting of secretary, president and treasurer.

Eileen was also an avid member of the St. Dominic Church in Frederic.

Eileen is survived by Gary Jensen; their four children, Kathy Mara, Daniel Jensen, Jonathon Jensen, Sue (Mike) Radke; five grandchildren, Angela Blanski, Dustin Fjorden, Casey Mara, Ashley Fjorden and Russell Fjorden and three great-grandchildren, Shawn, Joshua JR and Adrianna and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Nicholas Finken and Regina Finken; brother, Werner Finken.

Memorial gathering was held at the Rowe Funeral Home in Luck on June 1.

The Rowe Funeral Home, Luck, was entrusted with arrangements.

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OBITUARIES Forrest “Frosty” Mathews

Dorothy L. Martin

Margaret L. Hendrickson

Forrest “Frosty” Mathews, 82, of Centuria, died on Wednesday, May 30, 2007, at the Good Samaritan Center in St. Croix Falls.

Frosty was born on March 11, 1925, in Chippewa Falls to Thomas and Sarah (Shaurette) Mathews.

In July of 1943 during WWII, he was drafted to the United States Army and later discharged in January of 1947 at the rank of Technician Sergeant in the 339th Harbor Craft Company in Biak Island, NEI. Marine Engineer with many honors.

He married Lovina Hedrington in February of 1952.

He worked for Serianni Tobacco Company in Eau Claire. In 1958, he worked as a supervisor for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. In 1962, he was transferred to Polk County and lived in Balsam Lake. In the fall of 1979, he moved to Centuria where he made his home until the time of his passing.

He was a member of Our Lady of the Lakes Parish, Knights of Columbus since 1952, charter member of the Knights of Columbus of Balsam Lake parish, member of the VFW since 1954.

In 1975, he had a heart attack and had to retire. He enjoyed fishing and making clocks until October of 2005 when he learned of his lung cancer.

Frosty is survived by his wife, Lovina; children Steve and Marlene Mathews of Cameron, Rita and Terry Sullivan of Barron, Sally and Weston Christiansen of Centuria, Sharon and Harvy Christensen of New Richmond, Janice and Merlin Fox of Balsam Lake; sisters, Esther Ford and Delores “Dee Dee” Spitzenberger; 13 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren; 39 nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; son, Gary Mathews; brothers, Thomas, Vernon, Paul and Cecil Mathews; sisters, Violet Sartore, Rita Mathews and Effie Anderson.

A mass of Christian burial was held at Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Church in Balsam Lake on Monday, June 4.

The Kolstad Family Funeral Home of Centuria was entrusted with funeral arrangements.

Dorothy L. Martin, 91, of Frederic, formerly of Inver Grove Heights, Minn., died May 31, 2007, at Burnett Medical Center.

Dorothy was born Oct. 26, 1915, in South St. Paul, Minn. She moved to Frederic after marriage to Joseph Martin in 1939. They later divorced.

Dorothy raised 10 children on the family farm. In the early years, she enjoyed gardening, canning, berry picking, baking bread and embroidery. Birthdays were always celebrated with the best homemade angel food cakes around. In her later years she enjoyed visits with her children and grandchildren, polka music and clipping coupons to share with others. A couple of her favorite treats were chocolates and Pepsi. Dorothy was fondly called “Special One” by her devoted son, Jerome.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Theresa; siblings, Edward, Henry and Rose; son, Joseph John; and grandsons, Steven John Vondrachek and Todd Charies Vance.

Dorothy is survived by nine children, Mary (John) of Reedsville, Jerome Martin of Frederic, Theresa (Ray) Siverling of Chippewa Falls, Duane Martin of Frederic, Ronald (Sharon) Martin of Menomonie, Daniel Martin of St. Paul, Minn., Jeanette (David) Harder of Frederic, Lois (Ken) Ruhn of Frederic and Suzanne Hecker of St. Peters, Mo.; 12 grandchildren, Scott, Greg and Jef Vondrachek, Lisa Coss, Heather Vance, Rachel Plets, Kimberly Martin, Shane, Matthew and Dean Harder, Tracy Ruhn and Chelsea Hecker; great-grandchildren, Evelyn Vondrachek and Abigail Plets; and nieces, nephews and cousins.

Casket bearers were sons Jerome, Duane, Ronald and Daniel; grandsons, Greg Vondrachek and Matthew Harder. Honorary casket bearer was deceased grandson Todd Vance.

Visitation was held in Frederic on June 4, 2007, at Rowe Funeral Home. Funeral services were held Tuesday, June 5, at St. Augustine Church in So. St. Paul, Minn., with visitation held prior to the service. Interment followed at Resurrection Cemetery.

The Rowe Funeral Home of Frederic was entrusted with the arrangements.

Margaret L. Hendrickson of Osceola died Sunday, June 3, 2007, at the St. Croix Good Samaritan Center at the age of 91.

Margaret was born Nov. 12, 1915, in North Dakota to Ehrman and Blanche Ferris. Margaret graduated from St. Croix Falls High School and attended beauty school.

On Jan. 16, 1937, she married Louis Hendrickson in Minneapolis, Minn. Margaret enjoyed gardening, feeding and watching birds and her family and friends.

Margaret was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Louis; sons, Russell Lowell and Eugene; brother, Francis; sisters, Maxine and Helen.

She is survived by her sons, Gordon and his wife, Violet, of Burnsville, Minn., Jerome and his wife Ruth of Menomonee; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; brother, Faye of Mannford, Okla.; sister, Ardelle Samford of Palestine, Texas; nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be at Friday, June 8, 11 a.m., at the Osceola United Methodist Church with the Rev. Alan Hagstrom, officiating. Interment will be in the St. Croix Falls Cemetery.

The Grandstrand Funeral Home, Osceola, was entrusted with arrangements.

Ruby Wells Ruby Wells of Odgen, Utah, formerly of Danbury, died Feb. 14, 2007, at Washington Terrace Nursing Home after a short illness. She was 95 years old.

Ruby was born Dec. 27, 1911, in Danbury, to Eakus and Phoebe Davis. She is the last of the original Davises that homesteaded Danbury.

Ruby was preceded in death by her husband, Leroy.

Ruby is survived her children, Yvonne (George) Cutler of Bozeman, Mont., Donna (Jack) Berggren of Las Vegas, Nev., Sharon (Don) Bearl of Surprise, Ariz. (also Big Lake, Minn.); Patricia (Jeremy) Taylor of Ogden, Utah, and son, Joe (Linda) Wells of Siren.

For the last six years, Ruby lived in Odgen, Utah, with her daughter, Patricia and son-in-law, Jeremy. The last three years, Ruby resided at Mountain Ridge Assisted Living, where she met many new friends and thoroughly enjoyed the staff who took very good care of her.

Ruby was cremated and her ashes were sent back to Wisconsin, where she will be inurned with her late husband at the Veterans Memorial in Spooner on Monday, June 11, at 1 p.m.

Mary E. Swanson Mary E. Swanson of St. Croix Falls, died Saturday, June 2, at St. Croix Good Samaritan Center at the age of 87.

Mary was born May 16, 1920, to Joseph and Amanda LaGoo. Mary was the last surviving of seven siblings.

She graduated from high school in 1938, the only one of her siblings to do so. She was a very determined and strong-willed person and survived lots of adversity to graduate and get to where she did in life. Mary married Anthony Golat, and from this union three daughters were born. Later in life, Mary married Floyd Swanson, and they lived in the Cushing area. Mary retired from State Farm Insurance after 20 years. She was active in the Wolf Creek United Methodist Church After Floyd died, she moved to an apartment in St. Croix Falls and joined the hospital auxiliary.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents; siblings, Albin, twins Edwin and Eldie, Andrew, Levi LaGoo and Alice Swanson; husband, Floyd; and daughter Louise.

She is survived by her daughters, Catherine (Roy) Ward and Mary Alice Anderson; son-in-law, William Swenson; 11 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren and two great-great-granddaughters.

Funeral services were Wednesday, June 6, at Wolf Creek United Methodist Church with the Rev. Alan Hagstrom, officiating. Interment was at the Wolf Creek Cemetery.

The Grandstrand Funeral Home, Osceola, was entrusted with arrangements.

Rev. Edward N. Coolidge The Rev. Edward N. Coolidge, “Pastor Skip,” 75, of Dairyland, died May 24, 2007, at this home.

Skip was born on July 10, 1931, in Baraboo to Clifford and Marie Coolidge.

Skip was a pastor for over 33 years in Colorado and Wisconsin. He was currently the assistant pastor at Woodland Wesleyan Church.

He is survived by his wife, Pastor Mary Coolidge; four children, Gay Coolidge of Cripple Creek, Colo., Renee (Ed) Vaught of Pueblo, Colo., Sherry Coolidge of Pueblo, Colo., and Greg (Vicki) Coolidge of Pueblo West, Colo.; six grandchildren, Annette (Tom) Shepard, Angela (Steve) Dune, Brian (Jeanie) Vaught, Sgt. Zachary (Audrey) Coolidge, Tasha and Rebekah Coolidge; three great-grandsons, Mikey Vaught, Cyrus Coolidge and Nacaio Shepard; sister, Grace Cook; brothers, John Coolidge, Calvin (Jean) Coolidge and the Rev. Ardee (Faith) Coolidge.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Lorraine (Rhode); and two brothers, Curtis and George Coolidge.

Funeral services was held Sunday, May, 27, at Woodland Wesleyan Church. Officiating was the Rev. Dan Bickle, DS of the Wisconsin Wesleyan Churches.

Melvin E. Winberg Melvin E. Winberg, Siren, died June 3, 2007, at his home. He was 81 years old.

Mel was the former owner of Winberg’s Resort and Campground on Clam Lake.

He is survived by wife Donna Lunceford; sons Mark, Sonny and Michael.

Funeral services were held June 6 at Bethany Lutheran Church, Siren. Memorials preferred.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

A complete obituary will be published at a later date.

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CHURCH NEWS Comings and goings The red squirrels are everywhere! They hurry and scurry from one backyard tree to another.

They run across the deck, perch on the railing, and steal food from the birds. It’s fun to watch their endSally Bair less comings and goings.

Watching them, I’m reminded of my own comings and goings.

Some days it seems that’s all I do— PERSPECTIVES come and go, with nothing of value to show for my hurry-scurry.

With Jesus, there was a special coming—to earth— and a special going—to the cross. Since we believers are to follow his example, our comings and goings should have value as his did.

Jesus invites us all to come to him—for healing, deliverance, and salvation. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30) We can come to him for rest and sustenance through daily, intentional, committed prayer and Bible reading. There is no better way.

Once we come to Christ, we are told to go for him.

In fact, he commands us to “follow” him. That going means we must go to the cross—that is, humble ourselves as he did, and deny ourselves so we will be holy, sacrificial servants of his love. Jesus doesn’t necessarily mean that we should have to give up our physical lives for his sake. He does mean, however, that we should be willing to do so if we’re faced with such a choice.

Jesus makes this very clear in Matthew 16:24-26. “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?

Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?”

We don’t hear this message of Jesus preached often enough. That doesn’t make it less important.

Lord, forgive us for our frantic comings and goings.

Help us remember to take up your cross and follow your will, not our own. Give us the will and desire to spend special time with you today and each day following. In Jesus’ name, amen.

(Mrs. Bair may be reached at sallybair@gmail.com)

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You can’t get to heaven alone

our goodness alone is insufficient. Jesus said, in the truest sense, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep (Part 1 of 5) the commandments.” (Matthew 19:17 We need each other. It’s easier to do NKJV). In this context, the rich young right when there are others to encourage ruler was very “good.” He had not done us; “For if they fall, the one will lift up his Garret such bad things as murder, adultery, stealfellow: but woe to him that is alone when he ing, or testifying falsely. He had, rather, falleth; for he hath not another to help him Derouin done such good things as honoring his up. Again, if two lie together, then they have parents and loving his neighbors THE heat: but how can one be warm alone? And (Matthew 19:18-20). In spite of his goodif one prevail against him, two shall with- PREACHER’S ness, Jesus said that something was lackstand him; and a threefold cord is not ing before heavenly treasure would be his PEN quickly broken.” (Ecc. 4:10-12 KJV). But (19:21). When he was unwilling to take that is not the focus of this article. Many the advice, this “good man” passed on a people believe they can get to heaven alone – with ticket to heaven (19:22-23). only one of God’s list of salvation essentials. InCornelius is another example. He was a “devout terestingly, the word “alone” is found 108 times man and one that feared God with all his house, which in Scripture (37 times in the N.T.) but is never gave much alms to the people and prayed to God alused with any one of the 26 different things to ways” (Acts 10:2 KJV). A very good man! Yet, he which salvation is attributed. Let’s examine some needed to hear words where by he and his house of the ways that people try to get to heaven could be saved (Acts 11:13-14). We cannot get to “alone.” heaven by our goodness alone. (Adapted from a Some try to get to heaven by GOODNESS tract by Wade Webster) alone.

If readers have questions or simply wish to The majority of Americans seem to believe that know more about the Church of Christ, we all a person has to do in order to go to heaven is would like to invite them to call 715-866-7157 or be a “good person.” Sure, rapists, drug pushers, stop by the church building at 7425 W. Birch St. in child molesters, etc. will be lost; but if you try to Webster. Sunday Bible class begins at 9:30 a.m. be a “good person,” most people think you’ll and worship begins at 10:30 a.m. We also meet surely be in heaven.

Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. Office hours are While it is commendable to be good, of course, Tuesdays through Fridays 9 a.m. - noon.

First Lutheran confirmands

On Wednesday, May 30, the youth group and their friends from Pilgrim Lutheran Church met at the church for the above photo. The group carpooled to Siren to play 18 holes of miniature golf. Afterwards the group stopped at the Dairy Queen for refreshments. The worship service this past Holy Trinity Sunday was enhanced with special music by The Bill Bittner Memorial Dixieland Jazz Band. Toes were tapping and voices were loud – singing along to the songs they played. Some of the songs were “Do Lord,” “Just A Closer Walk with Thee,” “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” and the closing hymn was “When The Saints Go Marching In.” During the singing of “Amazing Grace,” solos were performed by Bryn Anderson on clarinet; Adam Bever on trombone; and Brad Anderson on trumpet.

Other musicians were Bob Lindberg on drums and his brother Joe on bass along with Rachel Erickson on piano. Teachers are getting ready for Vacation Bible School. This year’s theme is “The Great Bible Reef” which will have kids swimming with delight as they explore all of God’s creation under the sea.

The children will dive deep into God’s word and take the plunge into a fun, faith-filled week that will have kids flipping their fins about God’s love. All children of the community, ages Pre-K through sixth grade are invited to join VBS. It will begin Sunday, July 29, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the church with registration and a family campfire along with the ever-popular smores being enjoyed by everyone. Around noon on Monday, July 30, Tuesday, July 31, Wednesday, Aug. 1, and Thursday, Aug. 2 arrangements have been made so the Frederic school bus will pick up students from summer school and drop them off at the church to attend VBS. When they arrive, lunch will be served and then an afternoon of making a splash with VBS. Parents are asked to pick up or make arrangements to pick up their children at 4 p.m. when VBS is done each day. For more information, call the church office at 327-8012 or go to their Web site www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.com. Pilgrim Lutheran invites all to attend Sunday morning worship services at their summer hours of 9 a.m. - submitted by Carol Thompson

Bethany presents Adventure Bibles Bethany Lutheran Church in Siren presented Adventure Bibles to second-graders Sunday, June 3. Autumn Tinman received her Bible at the 10:30 a.m. worship service; recipients not pictured here are: Brady and Bailey Mangen, Max Lindquist, David Greiff and Bobby Zirngibl. The Gospel and sermon for this week’s Holy Trinity Sunday were taken from John 16:12-13, “Jesus said, I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth….” Sunday services are held at 8 and 10:30 a.m. All are welcome. A new member class is beginning soon. For information, call 715-3495280.–from Bethany Lutheran Church, Siren

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CHURCH NEWS Distraction often the best discipline for toddlers Q: Please describe the best approach to the discipline of a 1-year-old child.

DR. DOBSON: Many children will begin to gently test the authority of their parents as they approach their first birthday. The confrontations will be minor and infrequent at first, yet the beginnings of future struggles can be seen. My own daughter, for example, challenged her mother for the first time when she was 9 months old.

My wife was waxing the kitchen floor when Danae crawled to the edge of the linoleum. Shirley said, "No, Danae," gesturing to the child not to enter the kitchen.

Since our daughter began talking very early, she clearly understood the meaning of the word "no." Nevertheless, she crawled straight onto the sticky wax.

Shirley picked her up and set her down in the doorway while saying "no" even more strongly as she put her down. Seven times this process was repeated until Danae finally yielded and crawled away in tears.

As far as we can recall, that was the first direct confrontation of wills between my daughter and wife.

Many more were to follow.

How does a parent discipline a 1 year old? Very carefully and gently! A child at this age is easy to distract and divert. Rather than jerking a wristwatch from the child's hands, show him or her a brightly colored alternative and then be prepared to catch the watch when it falls. When unavoidable confrontations do occur, as with Danae on the waxy floor, win them by firm persistence but not by punishment. Have the courage to

lead the child without being harsh or mean or gruff.

Compared to the months that are to follow, the period around 1 year of age is usually a tranquil, smooth functioning time in a child's life.

••• Q: My daughter is 5 years old and has been having some very scary Dr. James nightmares lately. She wakes up Dobson screaming in the middle of the night, but she can't tell us what frightened her. The next morning, she doesn't seem to recall the dream, but something is obviously troubling her. My wife and I are worried that she may be developing psychological problems that are being expressed in these terrible dreams. Is that possible?

DR. DOBSON: I think your daughter is all right. She is probably having a "night terror" rather than a nightmare. Let me describe the difference between the two.

Nightmares occur primarily in what is known as stage-three sleep, and are often remembered if the dreamer awakens. They are sometimes linked to emotional distress during waking hours, and may play a role in "working through" those disturbing experiences. A person can often talk about a nightmare and recount its scary story.

Night terrors, by contrast, usually occur in stagefour sleep, which is even deeper and further from consciousness. In this physiological state, the body mechanisms are reduced to a minimum to sustain life.

Community worship set TOWN OF WOOD RIVER - Area churches are joining together for a community worship night at Wood River Christian Fellowship on Saturday, June 9. The service will begin at 6 p.m. with praise and worship led by Jackie Maslow.

There will time for testimonies and prayer as well as worship. Everyone is

welcome to come and experience a time for refreshing from the presence of the Lord.

Wood River Christian Fellowship is located South of Grantsburg at 22780 Williams South Road. For further information call Pastor Dan Slaikeu at 4632792. - submitted

FOCUS ON THE

FAMILY

Breathing, heart rate, metabolism and every other function go into super slow motion. Some children experience strange dreams during this phase that cause them to sit up and scream in terror. However, when adults come to the rescue, they find that the child is unresponsive. The eyes are open, but the boy or girl is obviously not awake. And the next morning, there is no memory of what was so deeply disturbing.

This appears to be what you are describing with reference to your daughter. You'll be encouraged to know that there seems to be no connection between night terrors and psychological stress. It is not predictive of any known health problems or emotional disruption.

Nor do we know what causes them.

The good news is that your little girl is apparently fine. The bad news is that you may have to deal for a time with her midnight terrors that drag you from your own stage-four sleep.

••• Dr. Dobson is founder and chairman of the board of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, P.O. Box 444, Colorado Springs, CO. 80903; or www.family.org. Questions and answers are excerpted from "The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide" and "Bringing Up Boys," both published by Tyndale House. COPYRIGHT 2007 JAMES DOBSON INC., DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE, 4520 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. 64111; 816-932 6600.

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St. Luke’s serving annual Family Days lunch FREDERIC – Once again, the members of St. Luke’s Methodist Church in Frederic will be hosting their annual Family Days café. They will be serving lunch in the church dining hall on Friday, June 15,

from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. The menu consists of barbecues, hot dogs, baked beans, homemade pie and more. Everyone is welcome. – submitted

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JUNE

WEDNESDAY/6 Lindstrom, Minn.

• St. Croix Valley Orchestra summer concert, 7 p.m., at Lions Park.

Coming events

Coming event items are published as a public service. Items must be submitted by 10 a.m. on Mondays to be assured of publication in that week’s issue.

Clam Falls

Osceola

• 23rd-annual Dairy Breakfast, at the Grant Burdick Farm, 6 a.m.-noon.

• Auditions for “Good Night Ladies,” at the ArtBarn. Call 715-294-2787 for more info.

Frederic

St. Croix Falls • Blood drive, 12:30-6:30 p.m., at the Legion Hall. Call 715-485-3025 for more info.

• Noon potluck lunch, at the senior center.

Bingo, cards, pool or fellowship begins at 1:30 p.m.

Cushing

• Northwest Chapter of the Wisconsin Woodland Owners Assoc. field day, 9:30 a.m. Call 715-635-3733 for more info.

THURSDAY/7

Hayward

• Blood Drive, at the community center, 26:45 p.m. Contact Sharon at 715-825-3733.

Frederic

Milltown

• Traveling history exhibit, Bus-eum 2, 5-8 p.m., at the Community Aide Shelter. Call 715-327-4975 for more info.

• 500 cards, 6:30 p.m., at the senior center.

• The Lutheran Church’s 4th-Annual Auction, 11 a.m., Milltown Park on Hwy. 35.

Luck • Ice Age Trail work day, on the Straight River segment. Meet at 10 a.m., at the Dversdalls. Contact Dean at 715-472-4378 for more info.

St. Croix Falls • American Legion Post #143 meets, dinner at 7 p.m., meeting to follow. Election of new officers.

Siren

Siren

• Furry Family Reunion, at the Humane Society, with games & contests. Call the shelter, 715-866-4096 for more info.

• 23rd-annual Siren Ag. Club & Community Ag. Assoc. Dairy Breakfast, 6 a.m.-noon.

Call 715-349-7411 for location.

• Burnett County Officer of the Year picnic, at Crooked Lake Park.

FRI. & SAT./8 & 9 Amery

• Brat & Hot Dog stand by the senior citizens, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Dick’s Market.

St. Croix Falls • Destnd Furthr concert, at the St. Croix Falls Festival Theatre, 8 p.m. Call 715-4833387 for more info.

FRI. - SUN./8 - 10 Milltown

• 30th-annual youth slow-pitch Milk Tournament, at Melgren Field. Call 715-825-2494 for more info.

FRIDAY/8 Alpha

Tree trunks frame the rapids in the Wood River below Memory Lake Dam in Trade Lake Grantsburg. - Photo by Gary King • Lake Improvement Assn., 9 a.m. at the town hall. bus tour departing from the senior center at 8 a.m. Call 715-268-8353 for more info.

• St. Croix Valley Orchestra summer concert, 7 p.m., at Michael’s Park.

Balsam Lake • Red Cross baby-sitting class, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Call 715-485-3025 for more info.

Deer Park

• Burnett Dairy Day, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Call 715689-2748 for more info.

• 2007 Polk County Holstein Assoc. “Daylight” meeting, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at 60 150th St.

Cumberland

Luck

• Truck pull, 7 p.m., at Dale’s Twin Pines. Call 715-822-2554 for more info.

Frederic • Pokeno played, 1 p.m., at the senior center.

Grantsburg • Northwest Regional Writers meet, 1 p.m. at the Community Room, Big Gust Apts. Assignment: Write on “Holding Hands.”

Milltown • Traveling history exhibit, Bus-em 2, at the library. 1-4 p.m. Call 715-825-2313 for more info.

St. Croix Falls

• 41st-annual SCRMC salad luncheon/ bake sale/book fair fundraiser for Auxiliary, 11 a.m.-1 p.m, at the high school.

• St. Croix Valley Orchestra summer concert, 7 p.m., at Overlook Park.

Webster • Lioness Annual Rummage & Bake Sale, at the community center, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

• American Cancer Society Relay for Life, at the high school, 7 p.m. opening program.

• United Pioneer Home Yard Sale, Bake Sale & Raffle, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Call 715-472-2164 for more info.

• Ice Age Trail Hike, meet at 10 a.m., at the parking area at McKenzie Lake on 280th Ave. east of CTH I. Contact Dean at 715-472-4378 for more info.

Osceola

• Summer Kickoff, at Oakey Park, pancake breakfast, 8 a.m.-noon; intermediate school bike rodeo, 9-11 a.m.; Communitywide garage sale, 8 a.m-?; St. Croix ArtBarn art sale, music, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Call 715-755-3300 for more info.

Rice Lake

• Coin Show, at Cedar Mall, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Scandia, Minn.

• St. Croix Valley Orchestra summer concert, 2:30 p.m., at Gammelgarden Museum.

Wood River • Community Worship Night, 6 p.m., at the Wood River Christian Church. Everyone welcome to join for worship, testimonal and prayer.

SUNDAY/10 Dresser

SAT. - SUN./9 & 10

• Second half of the anniversary celebration at Bethesda Lutheran Church, 10:30 a.m. start. Call 715-755-2562 for more info.

• Aquafest Power Weekend, at the fairgrounds. Sat., truck/tractor pull. Sun., demo derby, cars & trucks. 7 p.m. each night.

Frederic

Barron

Frederic • Noon potluck lunch, at the senior center.

Bingo, cards, pool or fellowship begins at 1:30 p.m.

Grantsburg

• AARP 55 Alive classes, at the senior center.

Contact the Com. Ed. office 715-349-7070 to reserve.

Spooner • Railroad Memories Museum Celebration, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Model train show, at the elementary school.

Sat. 9-4, Sun. 10-2.

Webb Lake • ATV safety clinic, noon-4:30 p.m., at the town hall. Call 715-259-7888 for more info.

• Open house - 25th-anniversary at Golden Oaks Apartments, 3-5 p.m. Call 715-327-8490 for more info.

McKinley • Vintage Days, noon, at Trinity Church.

Spooner • 21st-annual Car Show, Swap, Craft & Flea Market, at the fairgrounds. Gates open at 6 a.m. Call 715-639-5114 or 715-635-3740 for more info.

MONDAY/11 Balsam Lake

• Seminar addressing financial security in later life, 1:30-3 p.m. & 6:30-8 p.m., at the Polk County Government Center. Call 715-485-8600 for more info.

Frederic

SATURDAY/9

• Spades played, 1 p.m., at the senior center.

• Arnell Humane Society Annual Garage Sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

• Polk County Historical Society, sponsored

• 12th-annual golf tournament, 1 p.m. shotgun start, at Siren National, with dinner follow-

Amery

Siren

ing at Kris’ Pheasant Inn. Call 715-349-5755 or 715-349-5402 for more info.

Somerset • 3rd-annual Good Sam Big Cup Golf Tournament, 1 p.m. Call 715-483-9815.

TUESDAY/12 Frederic

• AFS Intercultrual Program picnic, 6 p.m., at Coon Lake Park. Say goodbye to Webster & Frederic exchange students, greet Siren students & get info about hosting a foreign exchange student in the 07-08 school year.

Contact Amy Myers, 715-651-4398 or Nancy Buley, 715-327-4743.

Luck

SUNDAY/17 Clayton

• Clayton Cheese Days Demo Derby, 4 p.m.

Call 715-948-2923 or 715-948-2449 for more info.

MONDAY/18 Frederic

• Spades played, 1 p.m., at the senior center.

• American Legion & Auxiliary #249 meeting, 7 p.m. at the legion hall.

Luck • Danish Brotherhood Society monthly meeting, at noon. Potluck dinner, meeting & fellowship. New members always welcome.

Note time change.

TUESDAY/19 Clam Falls

• Main Street planning session, 4:30 p.m., at the village hall.

• Coffee Hour, 9 a.m., at the Lutheran church.

WEDNESDAY/13

• Northwest Cleansweep hazardous waste collection, 3-4:30 p.m., at the fairgrounds.

Frederic

• Pokeno played, 1 p.m., at the senior center.

• Anderson concert, 7 p.m., at the Evangelical Free Church.

THURSDAY/14 Amery

• Lorie Line performs, at the high school, 7:30 p.m., Call 800-801-5463 or 715-268-9771, ext.

220 for more info.

Dresser • The National Active & Retired Federal Employees, Chapter 1581 dinner meeting, noon, at the Village Pizzeria. All federal & retired federal employees are welcome. Reservations may be made by calling 715-268-8618

by Monday noon, June 11.

Frederic • 500 cards, 6:30 p.m., at the senior center.

Grantsburg Webster • Northwest Cleansweep hazardous waste collection, 10 a.m.-noon, at the fairgrounds.

WEDNESDAY/20 Frederic

• Pokeno played, 1 p.m., at the senior center.

THURSDAY/21 Frederic

• 500 cards, 6:30 p.m., at the senior center.

Luck • American Legion & Auxiliary #255 meeting, 7 p.m., at the village hall.

St. Croix Falls

FRI. & SAT./15 & 16

• Historical Society meeting, 7 p.m., at the Scenic Riverway Visitor Center.

• Central County Coonhunters Club’s UKC Tough Dog Event, 715-822-8834 or 715-642056.

FRIDAY/22

Connersville

FRIDAY/15 Frederic

• Zion Lutheran Church Garage Sale, at the VFW Legion Hall, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

• 7th-annual SCRMC fundraiser golf tournament, 715-483-9800 or 715-483-0247.

• St. Luke’s Methodist Church Family Days Café, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at the church dining hall.

• Pokeno played, 1 p.m., at the senior center.

SAT. - SUN./16 & 17 St. Croix Falls

• Regional Arts & Crafts Festival, at the Chateau St. Croix Winery. Call 715-483-2556 for more info.

SATURDAY/16 Amery

• Women’s Club Art & Craft Fair, at the North Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Call 715-268-6324 or 715268-4101 for more info.

Frederic

• Pokeno played, 1 p.m., at the senior center

SATURDAY/23 Clear Lake

• Heritage Days Demo Derby, at the park, 2 p.m.

Falun

• 500 cards, 6:30 p.m., at the senior center.

• Falun Community Reunion, at the First Baptist Church, 2 p.m. Call 715-463-3625 or 715689-2776 for more info.

Luck • Wisconsin Muskie Tour tournament, on Bone Lake. Call 715-369-1394 or log on to www.wmtseries.com. for more info.

Scott • Sunflower Daze plant sale/bake sale/crafts, etc., 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at Sacred Hearts Church.

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Webster graduation • 2007

As the final minutes as a high school student wound down, members of the Webster High School Class of 2007 appear somber as they study the diploma they just received. A total of 56 members of the Class of 2007 received diplomas during commencement exercises held Saturday. Shown (L to R) are Michael Curtis, Samantha Bump, Cowan Bruss, Kiel Bereiter and Josha Benton. RIGHT: Benjamin O’Brien, son of Tom and Becky O’Brien, prepares to walk across the stage.

Photos by Raelynn Hunter

Staff member Jeff Roberts (L) and high school principal Tim Widiker were speakers at Webster’s 2007 graduation ceremony.

Superintendent Jim Erickson (L) congratulates Michael Curtis upon his receiving a diploma.

This year Derek Petersen has graduated in the top 10 twice. He was in the top 10 for Webster High School where he left one semester early to join the Air Force. He has just graduated from basic training in the top 10 percent of a class of 580 students. He will now attend a 16-week security force training at Lackland Air Force Base. – Photo submitted LEFT: Paul Olsesen and Kevin Ingalls, Webster’s salutatorian and valedictorian, await their turns to speak to classmates.

The traditional cap toss was accompanied by yells of joy.

Graduate Galina Liljenberg receives a hug from Mallory Daniels following the commencement ceremony.

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St. Croix Falls graduation • 2007 RIGHT: Some faces were filled with laughter and some were filled with tears as the senior choir members sang “In My Life” by John Lennon.

Left to right are Nicole Cuddihy, Jade Miller, Jaclyn Jerrick, Tonya Zacharias, Stisha Brian and Meghan Johnson.

Photos by Tammi Milberg

Isaac Bont spoke to students about the present. Bont’s speech was humorous and reflected on what the present moment means for graduating seniors.

Emily Thayer was one of the class speakers and she spoke about the past and how it shapes so much of who a person becomes.

Emily Pfaltzgraff, co-valedictorian, spoke about the future and told students to imagine and dream what the future may be for them.

St. Croix Falls High School principal Pete Nusbaum introduced the class speakers for 2007.

Members of the St. Croix Falls Class of 2007 as they prepared for commencement.

Brenna Martens receives her diploma from superintendent Glenn Martin.