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Wisconsin Guardsmen hold the hill in Iraq Currents

750 marijuana plants found

Charges pending PAGE 2

Ambulance service choice faces towns

Close Danbury or pay higher per cap cost? PAGE 12

A chance for memories Currents feature

Budget looks grim at Luck

Tysen Wink of Frederic chomps his way around a juicy cob of corn.

Corn is king at the farmers markets this week. See Currents section for the local farmers market report. – Photo by Colleen Draxler

Down by the riverside

Board hopes to expand co-op programs with Unity PAGE 3

Turning 107

Conquering MS and Mount Everest

Not only have they never had such a beautiful bench, but Richard and Karen Melton have never had such a beautiful garden. - Photo by Diane Dryden

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Essie Eibs, St. Croix Falls, turns 107 Aug. 26. She is a resident of Comforts of Home in St. Croix Falls. Her family is having a birthday party for her this weekend. – Photo by Tammi Milberg

by Diane Dryden SHELL LAKE - Some people take pains to write out party invitations on exactly the right paper, placing the stamp just so on the envelope and then mailing them out in plenty of time for the recipients to R.S.V.P. That’s some people.

Country people are often noted for their more casual approach to gathering others together. It’s usually by word of mouth and sometimes a few phone calls. One case in point was the workday/ surprise party for rural Shell Lake/Burnett County woman, Karen Melton, on Saturday, Aug. 1.

The party honored two events, one very happy and one quite sad.

Fifteen years ago Melton’s dentist, Ed Dunbar in Shell Lake, detected an abnormality on her tongue and advised her to see a specialist. She did, only to find out that she had a precancerous condition and the offending part of the tongue was then removed.

She’s now had six surgeries on her tongue with the last one this past July. “I was a little surprised, because it was only a year ago that my oral surgeon reported my tongue was the ‘best it’s ever been.’

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The inflatable Serta sheep in front of Jensen Furniture in downtown Luck was stolen last Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, Aug. 19-20. The sheep was laying flat (deflated) when it was stolen. It’s valued at $3,300. Store owner Jake Jensen is offering a cash reward for the return of the sheep or for information regarding its theft. Call 715472-2487 or the village of Luck Police Department at 715472-9191. - Photo submitted

STATEWIDE - Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey issued the following statement Wednesday morning regarding the death of Senator Ted Kennedy: “Ted Kennedy was the greatest Senator of our age. He had a commitment to justice and he

knew how to use the legislative process to achieve it. The passion of his life was health care reform. Above all else he would want us to redouble our efforts to achieve it. We will miss him in the fight.” - from the office of Congressman Obey

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Funeral mass for Jim Ryan on Saturday FREDERIC - Leonard James “Jim” Ryan of Frederic died Tuesday, Aug. 25, at his home in Frederic. He died peacefully in his sleep.

Visitation will be held Friday evening, Aug. 28, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Rowe Funeral Home in Frederic with a funeral Mass at St. Dominic Catholic Church in

Frederic at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 29.

A complete obituary will be published in a future issue of the Leader.

Deputies fifinnd 750 marijuana plants

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The Polk County Sheriff’s Department received information Aug. 18 from concerned residents in the southern part of the county about a large amount of marijuana plants that had been observed. The sheriff’s department located the plans growing in a wooded area and removed 750 immature plants throughout the area. All the plants appeared to be new plantings this year and had been cultivated and tended. The sheriff’s office is offering a reward for verifiable information regarding this case. Persons wishing to provide information may call 715-485-8338 to speak with an investigator. Photos from Polk County Sheriff’s Dept.

Briefly STATEWIDE - Sesquicentennial license plates, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Wisconsin’s statehood, are showing their age, and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s Division of Motor Vehicles recommends that motorists replace them if the plates are unreadable. Over 440,000 of the plates were issued between December 1996 and December 1998, and around 185,000 are still on the road. Motorists who currently own sesquicentennial license plates should carefully examine their condition and request new plates if needed. Customer requests for replacements will receive regular design nonpersonalized license plates free of charge if the request is mailed to the address on the MV2118 replacement license plate application found on the DOT Web site. For more information, visit www.wisconsindmv.gov. - from the DOT ••• OSCEOLA - St. Croix ArtBarn will offer a soft, wearable crochet necklace class with Linda Iwaszko from Mrs. I’s Yarn Parlor, Osceola, Wednesday, Aug. 26, from 7-9 p.m. Persons do not have to know how to crochet. Hooks and yarn will be available. The project requires a size H or I crochet hook. For more information or to register call Jody at 715-248-7205. - submitted ••• CORRECTIONS: The story titled, “Polk approves four-day workweek” in last week’s Leader incorrectly stated that corporation counsel Jeff Fuge said that the child-support office and law enforcement would not be included in a proposed consolidation of county financial and accounting functions. Fuge did not make that statement. In clarification, Fuge indicated that the child-support office could be included in the consolidation but that there are issues to be addressed regarding incorporation of the sheriff’s department.

••• In the photo caption on page 2 of last week’s news section, the correct title for the man giving the award is: CSM Frank Lever, retired, who is president of the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States. We apologize for the error.

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Luck budget grim

Board hopes to expand cooperative programs with Unity

by Mary Stirrat LUCK — Residents of the Luck School District, at the Sept. 28 annual district meeting, will be asked to approve a budget with a $150,000 deficit for the 2009-10 school year.

Cuts and changes have been made, but the budget still comes up $150,000 short, district Administrator Rick Palmer told the school board at its meeting Monday evening, Aug. 24.

The shortfall is double the amount the district faced for the 2008-09 school year.

Last year, said Palmer, a deficit of $62,000 was originally predicted. The actual shortfall was $73,000.

to have to make some really serious cuts again next year,” he told the board. “We can’t continue to deficit spend.”

Board member Daryl Bazey said he felt that, eventually, the district is going to have to look at a referendum vote to raise more tax revenue.

“If we’re going to continue as a school we’re going to have to,” he said. “The state doesn’t want small districts.”

Palmer agreed, noting incentives that the state offers to districts that consolidate. It’s time to quit saying the district is short of money, he said, and start deciding what to do about it.

“It’s a challenge,” he told the board.

“Let’s just figure out ways to handle it.

Let’s put our heads to the grindstone and come up with some ideas.”

He then told the board that he wants

See Budget, page 18

Fugitive in homicide was living in Luck LUCK - A 30-year-old man suspected of a July 26 shooting death in St. Paul, Minn., was arrested Monday, Aug. 17, in Anoka County, Minn., just hours after leaving a rural Luck residence, where he had been staying.

Robert J. Sherman is accused of shooting Roberto Flores near Case Avenue in St. Paul. Sherman was identified as a Discipline Gangster gang member of the Twin Cities area.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Department

received information from the Minnesota Fugitive Task Force that Sherman may be staying in Polk County. The St. Paul Police Department and United States Marshals East Metro Fugitive Task Force identified an address in Luck Township as a possible location of Sherman.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office obtained a search warrant, and the Polk County Emergency Response Team executed the warrant at a residence on

170th Street Sherman was not located, but it was confirmed that he had been staying at the residence and had left a few hours earlier.

Information obtained from the warrant in Polk County led the Fugitive Task Force to a residence in Anoka County, where Sherman was located and taken into custory on the felony warrant. - with information from Polk County Sheriff’s Department

Jet skier found dead near dock of parents home POLK COUNTY - The death Saturday of a 36-year-old Minnesota man remains under investigation this week by Polk County authorities. The body of Derek Solberg of Cottage Grove was discovered by his parents in shallow water near a dock at his parents home on Horseshoe Lake. He had been out on a personal watercraft and had returned to

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Photographer may or may not be threat, says sheriff BURNETT COUNTY - Burnett County Sheriff Dean Roland said his department is watching for a man who has been taking photos of adolescent and teenage girls in the Siren area.

“You have some very suspicious activity and you don’t know if you have a kidnapper or child molester or someone taking photographs for art class,” Roland told redrockonair.com in a radio interview.

Roland said there have been two or

Last year’s shortfall was covered by the general fund balance, said Palmer, as will this year’s. At this time, he said, the fund balance is at $825,000.

Accounting standards recommend that school districts maintain a fund balance of 20 percent of annual expenditures. This enables districts to pay bills in times of low cash flow due to the cyclical nature of receiving revenue.

A 20-percent balance at Luck, said Palmer, would mean more than $1 million. At $825,000, he said, the district is at about 15 percent of its annual expenditures.

The lower fund balance means that the district requires more short-term borrowing. In his first year at the school, said Palmer, there was $250,000 is shortterm borrowing. Last year that amount went to $450,000.

“The best I can tell you is we’re going

three incidents involving the man but no girls have been approached and there’s no physical description of the man. The man is driving a maroon car with plates that come back as stolen upon a records check.

Roland said it may be a false alarm, but his department needs to take every precaution. Persons with information should contact the sheriff’s department or local police department. - with information from redrockonair.com.

the dock, according to a news release from the Polk County Sheriff’s Department. Family members and neighbors began CPR until Polk County deputies and first responders arrived on the scene. Medical personnel transported Solberg by ambulance to Cumberland Memorial Hospital where he was declared dead. The Polk County Sheriff’s

Department and Polk County Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating the cause of death.

Also responding to the scene were members of the Turtle Lake police and fire departments, Cumberland ambulance and Life Link air ambulance. - with information from Polk County Sheriff’s Department

Benefit for Hertel man, Sept. 5 HERTEL —A benefit to help with expenses involved in the recovery of a man who sustained serious injuries after being knocked from his motorcycle by a deer will be held Saturday, Sept. 5, at the Mud Bog in Hertel.

Mark L. Pettis Jr., 34, sustained serious head injuries in the Aug. 6 accident, which occurred on Dake Road in the town of LaFollette. Pettis was airlifted to North Memorial Hospital where he was treated for injuries and is now home while undergoing therapy for a full recovery. He is the son of

Obey tours Amery’s first Habitat home On Monday, Aug. 24, Congressman Dave Obey met Amery Mayor Harvey Stower, city Administrator Darcy Long and board members of the Polk County Habitat for Humanity chapter to tour the chapter’s first home, built in Amery. The home is nearing completion now and is located at 410 Minneapolis Street. Shown are (L to R), back row: Eric Kube, Sarah Fiedler, Darcy Long and Neal Baker. Front row: Carolyn Stone, Ernie Naumann, Obey and Stower. - Special photos

Mark and Joey Pettis.

The benefit band and free pig-roast event will begin at 5 p.m. Persons are asked to bring their own lawn chair.

Benefit items will include T-shirts, Mardi Gras items and food concessions, which will be available for sale all weekend. There will be a band cover charge of $5.

More information is available at minnesotamud.com or by e-mailing indiancreekmudbog@yahoo.com. - with submitted information

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Vote of “no confidence” surfaces at annual meeting

School board, concerned citizens come up with more ideas to improve communication, address issues

concerns and it will be up to that committee member to bring those concerns to the committee as a group and the district.

Jim Gloodt noted at the regular school board meeting that for several years the same idea of an ad hoc committee was discussed and it died. He said he wants to be sure that doesn’t happen again.

by Gary King SIREN - Proposals to establish groups and surveys to improve communication between the Siren School District, staff and community - and a motion in which three dozen hands went up to support a “vote of no confidence” for school Administrator Scott Johnson - are the latest developments in an ongoing issue involving a concerned citizens group, school board and administration.

The developments took place during back-to-back meetings held Monday evening, a regular monthly school board meeting and the district annual meeting, the sessions together lasting a total of about four hours.

A majority of approximately 100 staff and members of the public who chose to take part in voting at the annual meeting passed motions asking the school board to conduct a survey to “determine the climate and needs of the community” before turning to another referendum for extra money and to establish long-range goals, which teacher Polly Imme said should be “meaningful, measurable and attainable ... not just words on paper.”

Imme presented three resolutions at the meeting - all of which were supported by those who voted. One asked the board and administration to “support and participate in any community or staff efforts to organize a communityvisions or focus-group approach” to

Ongoing A group called the Siren School Community Concerns Group formed earlier this year and has been working with the school board in recent months to establish goals and work toward better communication in general. A catalyst for creating the group involved the suspension of a staff member and concerns regarding how inquiries into the matter were handled.

Superintendent Johnson has gone on record saying he could not discuss specifics of some allegations being made outside of closed session because it involved personnel issues.

Approximately 100 persons attended the Siren School District annual meeting, Monday evening. Many were there as members of the Siren School Community Concerns Group, which has been working with the school board and administration to address the group’s concerns about improving communication between the district and the public, as well as other issues. - Photo by Gary King identifying concerns and establish longterm goals for the district.

Imme said this was done in 1996 by the administration, education association and Moms for Kids. “It was professionally facilitated and evaluations were overwhelmingly positive,” she said.

Imme also asked that any report of district goals - and information on what actions were taken to achieve them and whether they were achieved or not should be presented at the annual meeting.

Ad hoc committee Prior to the annual meeting, which was held in the school’s auditorium, the school board met in regular session with a standing-room-only audience in the district meeting room, where agenda items included the formation of a 10-person ad hoc committee, an idea formed by meetings between the citizens group and

the administration team of principals Joe Zirngibl, Jason Wilhelm and Administrator Johnson.

The committee will include two members of the school staff, one member of the support staff, one nonunion school employee, one member of the administration, one member of the St. Croix Tribe, two parents, one businessperson and one senior citizen.

School board member Jeff Howe suggested a student be chosen to give regular reports to the committee.

The board will appoint members of the committee - and members of the public were invited to sign up if they were interested in serving on the committee. A sign-up sheet was made available at the annual meeting.

In a comment at the annual meeting, Howe noted that members of of the public will be able to approach ad hoc committee members to register their

Vote of no confidence It was an uncommon annual meeting as key personnel normally involved in the running of the meeting were unable to attend, including school board President Dayton Daniels and Administrator Johnson, who underwent throat surgery earlier that day.

Andrea Voelker of the legal firm Weld, Riley, Prenn and Ricci, helped guide voters through the process, answering questions and noting at more than one point that votes and motions made by the public at an annual meeting are simply advisory in nature to the school board.

See Annual meeting, page 5

Situation not as bad as group contends, says principal SIREN - In the wake of statements made at Monday evening’s school meetings, Siren K-12 principal in charge of attendance, discipline and student affairs, contacted the Leader to say he doesn’t believe things are as bad as the concerned citizens group makes them out to be.

“I do believe that we can improve things at the school,” Wilhelm noted.

“However, all of our (administration and school board’s) efforts to make movement in a forward direction have been

blocked by the group.”

Wilhelm referred to the shirts worn in solidarity by some of the group’s members at the meetings, stating “We support Siren School.”

“None of their actions thus far have even resembled support,” he said.

“Every single one of their actions has been underhanded, very calculated, vague and damaging to our community, school and individual people.”

Wilhelm said the lack of comment from administration to the group regard-

ing personnel issues is an effort to protect employee confidentiality.

“If an open records request was brought forth, we would need to disclose all information,” he noted. “That has not happened. So we continue to remain professional regardless of the group’s actions.” He also said the group’s concerns have not been specific, making it difficult to respond as well and that many facts being presented are not accurate.

Bringing concerns to administration in their offices should have been the first

step, Wilhelm added, noting that has not happened.

New district bookkeeper Andrew Licata also weighed in on the issue during an interview concerning the proposed budget. He said he felt frustrated that the issue has escalated to this point.

“Scott Johnson is an outstanding administrator, and I think he and district residents should be very proud of what he’s been able to accomplish for the school over the past 10 years.” - Gary King

Siren enters ‘09-10 school years with projected budget deficit

by Gary King SIREN - School district residents were informed Monday evening the proposed budget for the coming school year 2009-2010 - will end with a projected deficit of $366,627.

School board members and the administrator listened to the concerns of the district residents and decided not to make substantial cuts to the proposed budget, new district bookkeeper Andrew Licata told an audience of approximately 100 school staff, board members and members of the public, at the district’s annual meeting and budget hearing.

That deficit can be offset with money from the district’s fund balance, which currently sits at a healthier level than most neighboring districts, equaling 26 percent of the district’s overall expenditures. If the projected $366,000 deficit plays out and that much is subtracted from the fund balance, the fund balance level will fall to 19.6 percent, said Dan Thole, an auditor from the Larsen-Allen auditing firm of Rice Lake.

Thole said a fund balance represents not cash on hand but a net of all cash, liabilities, assets and payables.

In response to a question from former school administrator Jim Bucher, Thole said the recommended level of fund bal-

ance varies but most financial consultants recommend 20 percent.

Mary Bucher noted that she found most area school districts have fund balances that range from 15 to 24 percent of their overall expenditures.

Monitoring expenses Licata said he, along with the district administrator and school board members will be monitoring expenses closely over the coming year to see how the projected deficit will play out not only during the coming year, but how it will effect the following school years.

The school district’s budget has been given help in past years through a tax levy that exceeded the state’s levy cap, but only with permission of voters, via a referendum vote. The most recent referendum asking voter permission to continue the extra tax was denied. And the window to attempt holding yet another referendum for this school year’s budget has closed.

Last year’s budget for the school year ending June 30, saw a surplus of $208,000, or 3.3 percent of the overall budget. That was due, Licated said, to wise and conservative budgeting last summer by the administrator, school board and previous bookkeeper in light of projected hikes in fuel and utility costs

in the midst of a nationwide recession.

Fortunately, Licata noted, some of the projections did not occur and the district ended up not having to spend $80,000 of its transportation budget or $60,000 of its utilities budget. The district also realized an unanticipated extra $75,000 in impact aid, money the federal government provides to school districts which encompass military bases or Indian reservations, in lieu of property taxes.

The Siren School District includes the St. Croix Tribe reservation.

Licata said budgeting for schools receiving impact aid might be easier if districts knew exactly how much they would receive each year in impact aid.

Such monies sometimes accumulate and districts, in any given year, can get delayed, unexpected payments.

Impact on taxpayers The proposed $6.5 million budget is up approximately $400,000, calling for a tax levy of $4,563,502, up 2.42 percent from last year. That compares with a levy increase last year of 2.53 percent (from 2007-08 to 2008-09).

The proposed 2009-10 budget calls for a slightly lower levy rate - from 9.44 last year to 9.33. Translated into dollars, that’s $9.33 per $100,000 of property value.

The district’s overall property value, as set by the state, is used in determining the levy rate.

“We’re projecting it (levy rate) to go down further,” Licata said. “I used a 3 percent increase on valuation as my guide - if valuations go up higher than 3 percent, obviously the levy rate would drop.”

The district will be able to better finalize numbers following the third Friday in September enrollment count and with the state certification of property valuation in early October.

Voters at the annual meeting voted down resolutions to approve both the budget and the levy, with little discussion, but later revisited both resolutions and approved them.

Licata acknowledged the proposed budget is pretty straightforward but not the best-case scenario.

“I’m a little concerned we’re going into the year with a deficit plan,” he said.

“That’s a difficult way to go into a school year because when you do that, what happens the next year? We could spend our fund balance that the district has spent a lot of years building up - but you can spend that down pretty quickly.”

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Committee votes not to pursue public transportation grant

by Sherill Summer SIREN - For a second year in a row, Burnett County government has decided not to apply for a supplemental transportation rural assistance program grant.

This year the decision was made Monday, Aug. 24, during an administration committee meeting. Burnett County Aging Unit Director Lois Taylor was leading the effort to apply for the STRAP grant that was going to be used to create a public transportation system in Burnett and Polk counties.

The St. Croix Tribe was a partner in the effort.

Taylor repeatedly tried to correct preconceived notions of a public transportation system in Burnett County. For example, she said, most people think of public transportation as city bus stopping at a bus stop. In Burnett and Polk counties, public transportation would likely be a van and would probably run only once a week along highway corridors.

Burnett County already received one STRAP grant in 2008, for about $20,000, that was used for a feasibility study. A consultant was hired to study the county

and make suggestions as to what might work in the county. One suggestion that came out of the study was to partner with Polk County and the St. Croix Tribe.

Not enough information Polk County readily agreed to partner with Burnett County because they too were considering a public transportation system. The two counties planned to apply for a STRAP grant last year for about $160,000, but members of the Burnett County Board of Supervisors did not feel they had enough information in August of 2008 to support the application, and they voted not to apply.

This year, Polk and Burnett counties and the St. Croix Tribe have put together an application for a smaller STRAP grant of $116,000. Polk County had already given approval for the application, but again Burnett County voted not to apply.

Unlike last year, more general information about what Polk and Burnett counties could do if they received the grant was presented to Burnett County supervisors prior to the vote. A daylong conference on public transportation was held last Wednesday, Aug. 19, in Fred-

eric. Taylor and the director of North County Independent Living in Superior answered questions about state and federal funding for public transportation and STRAP grant specifics at an administration committee meeting held earlier this month, Wednesday, Aug. 5, and a discussion of the STRAP grant was held in a July administration committee meeting where a motion to approve the grant application was made and seconded before the supervisors decided to postpone the issue.

Present services Hand in hand with the discussion of public transportation is discussion about what Burnett County already does have, a volunteer driving program that transports the elderly and disabled to medical appointments. Last year the program had cost overruns and the service was limited to only medical trips, but there is a need for personal shopping trips by the same people. This perceived benefit of public transportation was tempered by worries of the sustainability of a public transportation program once the STRAP grant money was spent.

Burnett County Administrator Candace Fitzgerald e-mailed a statement following the vote commending Lois Taylor and the STRAP grant committee for investing so much time pursuing this project. Fitzgerald said a functioning public transportation program is a concept that everyone would welcome, but it is well documented that a good public transportation system is not self-sustaining.

A clearly frustrated Taylor also reiterated her dream after the vote of providing transportation for citizens of the county regardless of age or other restrictions, just a need for transportation.

A STRAP grant committee meeting scheduled for next week will be held as planned, even though a STRAP grant will not be a reality this year, possibly an indication that the idea will be back next year.

Door-to-door transportation services are provided by volunteers with their own vehicles for people 60 years of age and over or any disabled person regardless of age. A minimum of 24 hours notice are needed to arrange transportation services.

Focus on progress at Siren Schools

SIREN - The annual meeting for Siren Schools held Monday evening began with a progress report by principals Joe Zirngabl and Jason Wilhelm.

Noted among several items presented was “greatly improved relations” with local law enforcement, resulting in fewer instances where police need to enter the school building and cases requiring the involvement of the court system.

In the area of academics, Siren students met all annual yearly progress standards and tested at or near the state average.

Among other items of progress noted were: • Installation of bus cameras and bus monitors • Flu pandemic planning enacted • Continued upgrading of the computer lab and upgrading of teacher com-

puter workstations • Enactment of an after-school tutoring program • Open gym in the morning to provide structure for early arriving students • Seven students won gold/silver awards in the Scholastic writing contest, under the guidance of teacher Jodi McLain Richards. Three of the students went to New York City to receive their awards.

• Participation in the Badger Boys/Girls program • Student county board representative appointed, who is allowed to take part in discussion, without voting rights. The student is paid a stipend.

• The district, for the past two years, has been rated among the top 1,500 high schools in the nation scholastically, earning a Bronze Award from U.S. News and

World Report.

• Elementary students raised $700 for Ruby’s Pantry, a local food shelf, via a penny-war project.

• Academically, Siren students met all state standards and scored at or near state average in state testing.

• Interactive TV lab offers four languages. The district offers two years of Spanish, French, German and American Sign Language.

• Students took part in advanced placement exams, sponsored by CESA, with a couple of students scoring very high.

• The district received an AODA grant of $9,000 to help fight alcohol and other drug abuse through educational programs, etc.

Facilities Bookkeeper Andrew Licata reviewed progress in upgrading facilities over the past five years, noting that projects had a “direct impact on students” in various areas of the school.

They include remodeling of the high school science rooms, upgrading the ITV equipment, replacing textbooks, landscaping, security cameras, the addition of a press box and sound system at the football field, replacing a roof membrane, updating three computer labs, installing energy-efficient lighting, plumbing the downspouts of the school into the street sewer system, a new dust collection system, garage doors and paint booth in the tech ed department and more. - Gary King

Bert Lund Jr. was chosen to chair the annual meeting for the Siren School District, Monday evening.

He is shown reading from the informational packet and agenda handed out to all those who attended. Also shown seated (L to R) are: principals Jason Wilhelm, Joe Zirngible and school board member Jeff Howe.

Photo by Gary King

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“When asked, they responded ‘we did it in several invoices,’” Bucher said. “I’m sorry, but that’s manipulation of a policy.”

Bucher said parents have felt discounted, there have been violations of open-meeting procedures (she encouraged board members to independently check out open-meeting laws), inaccurate public record keeping and some questionable bidding practices, and a 32percent increase in administration cost (since 2003-04) while spending on direct education has decreased.

“We are very, very concerned about how to keep good teachers. And there are so many areas we know we could excel in but know we’ve taken a step back.”

Annual meeting/from page 4 Mark Gill, on behalf of the citizens group, stood to read a statement issuing a vote of no confidence for the administrator, citing the following points: • Lack of credibility between the superintendent, public and staff • Excessive/illegal use of closed sessions rather than open-meeting discussion and practices.

• Low/poor staff morale/school climate • Expensive/unnecessary superintendent/board room furnishings • Inconsistent hiring practices • Incomplete official school board meeting minutes • Poor conflict resolution, interpersonal skills, educational leadership and staff managmeent • Lack of trust and respect between the superintendent, community and staff.

The motion also noted use of $250,000 of referendum money, intended for maintenance and operating of the recent school addition, being used to increase the fund balance. (More on fund balance in separate story).

The “no confidence” motion passed by a vote of 38 to 16 (unofficial count by reporter) in a show of hands.

Support for superintendent District resident Peggy Moore took issue with the “no confidence” motion, and walked to the front of the group to say that she had encountered a problem with the school as a parent that caused her to consider home-schooling her child, but that Administrator Johnson changed her mind.

“I took the issue, with documentation, to him and within 24 hours he addressed it - and I was satisfied with the result,” Moore said. “I think he’s doing a good

job. Rather than saying ‘it’s Scott Johnson,’ you should get specific in your allegations,” she said. “If you can specify what the issue was - then you can’t go against him based on someone else’s word.”

Spontaneous applause Several audience members spoke and at least two persons received spontaneous applause at the end of their presentations.

Karen Howe said she had become a member of the concerned citizens group when there was noticeable progress in getting the school board and the group together in working toward solutions.

She said that she became frustrated when the group began “picking and choosing” who they informed about times and places of meetings and said she was apparently deleted from their email list and was unable to attend the most recent meetings of the group.

She said “nonproductive ads” were placed in the Inter-County Leader by the group, ads which cited criticisms of the board and administration, which caused

her to be embarrassed to be a part of the group. Some of the accusations made, she noted, are “vague.”

“My children received an amazing education at Siren and the group was making the school out to be this bad place,” she said. “I just wondered whether they were out to facilitate change or punish.”

Howe said she didn’t want to negate the concerns of the group, only question their method of operating. “Both sides are feeling insulted,” she said. “The best results will come through patience and productive actions on everyone’s part.”

Mary Bucher, who has helped coordinate efforts of the citizens group, said she felt very sad the community had to come to this point. Some, she said, were fearful to speak out about their concerns and the group’s goal was to help bring resolution to their issues.

“Leadership comes from the top to the bottom and as a district we were not following our own policies,” she said.

She gave as an example the purchase of furniture for the district office, not approved by the school board. The board, she said, is required to approve any pur-

For the board’s consideration Routine resolutions presented at the annual meeting - authorizing the school board to do everything from setting its own compensation to furnishing textbooks to approving the proposed budget - were passed, but not so routinely.

Resolutions K and L, authorizing the budget and levy, were voted down, but later revisited and approved.

Attorney Voelker reminded voters that their motions were simply advisory and that state statutes require the board to set a budget in order to allow the operation of the school to proceed.

Imme said it really didn’t matter whether the votes made at the meeting were binding.

“I just hope the board takes this all into consideration; that’s what it’s for.”

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Safety issues bring coaches back at Luck Board discusses fees for participation in sports

by Mary Stirrat LUCK — Safety factors and liability issues were the key reasons cited by members of the Luck School Board of Education Monday night when they voted to reinstate two coaching positions that were eliminated last spring.

Both a football coaching position and a volleyball coaching position were approved, following discussion of budget shortfalls and safety issues.

Head football coach Don Kendzior met with the board, expressing concern about the coach-to-athlete ratio. More than 40 students are participating, with only three coaches plus volunteers.

High school Principal and athletic Director Mark Gobler said he supported Kendzior. At the end of last year, he said, the number of students in the program was in the low 30s, so three coaches seemed adequate. However, he said, the incoming freshman class is athletic and the number has grown.

Besides, said Gobler, there tend to be more students out for sports during tougher economic times, because jobs are harder to find.

Comparing football to other sports, Gobler said that baseball had 20 participants and two coaches. Girls softball and wrestling, each with 15 participants, had two coaches, and basketball had three coaches to 28 players.

Saying he was going to play the “devil’s advocate,” Daryl Bazey brought up the projected $150,000 budget shortfall for 2009-10. This shortfall, he noted, comes after several years of deep cuts, and the board will have to be able to justify hiring a coach with that kind of deficit.

“We got crucified for hiring Ann (Goldbach),” he said, referring to the new elementary principal, “and she’s not even full time.

“I don’t know where we’re supposed to come up with the money,” Bazey concluded.

“It’s deficit spending,” commented district Administrator Rick Palmer. He said he agrees with the justification but was concerned that approving the request could start a “parade” of similar requests.

“We made the cuts last spring,” he said, “knowing we were going to be short on dollars and cents.”

From a safety standpoint, Palmer said, the additional coach could be “cheap insurance.” Insurance coverage for athletes increased $1,000 for the upcoming school year, he said, noting that over the past several years the district has paid just under $50,000 in insurance but has collected $57,424.

Jake Jensen, acknowledging that there will be district residents opposed to the hiring, said that he was concerned that noncontact sports have a better coach-toplayer ratio than football, a hard-contact sport.

“I have a problem with that,” he said.

“Is this the place to start talking about fees for sports?” Bazey asked. He added that maybe fees for all extracurricular activities, including drama, should be considered.

“We’re close to not having a district,” he said. Instituting fees for activities might be a way to help the district “survive,” he said.

According to Gobler, many districts have a formula for extracurricular fees that is based on free and reduced lunch.

“We’re not the only school in this situation,” he added.

Gobler said that he would take a survey of other districts in the Lakeland Conference to find out how many have fees for athletics and other activities.

Luck, he said, is one of the few schools that does not charge a fee.

In addition, said Palmer, the district needs to standardize the ratio of coaches to players, and a formula needs to be in place that works for all extracurricular activities.

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“I’ve always been against charging for athletics,” he said, adding that he feels it is “elitist.” Also, said Palmer, charging a fee could cause one student to decide to open enroll to a district that has no fee, costing the district $5,000 is lost state aid.

Before the vote on the position was taken, board President Bob Clifton asked for a consensus among members, and Clifton and Bazey indicated they would not be in favor of the hiring. Members LeRoy Buck, Amy Dueholm and Jensen said they would be in favor.

Volleyball coach With 30 girls out for volleyball, the board again discussed liability issues and, at the recommendation of Gobler, the board voted to hire Diane Aldrich as third coach.

After the above discussion on studentto-coach ratio, said Bazey, the board

New staff at Luck (L to R) are: elementary education teachers Alyssa Friedrich and Rachelle Schmitt, and elementary principal Ann Goldbach.

Not pictured is new bus driver Mike Rozumalski. A staff breakfast and teacher workday Aug. 25 marked the beginning of the 2009-10 school year, with the first day of classes set for Tuesday, Sept. 1. — Photo by Mary Stirrat

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Other business • The board approved a first reading of the new anti-bullying and anti-harassment policy, which covers both cyberbullying and traditional bullying.

• District Administrator Rick Palmer was asked to give a presentation on Luck’s energy efficiencies at the Sept. 16 Wisconsin Green Building Alliance convention in Milwaukee.

• The board adopted procedures to accommodate students with severe food allergies. These procedures include the provisions that food can no longer be consumed in any school vehicle and that the kitchen will be a nut-free zone, with no peanut butter available for students in grades kindergarten through third grade.

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Since Aug. 1, Curves members have been gathering school supplies that will be divvied up between Siren and Webster school districts in time for the upcoming school year. This drive has been another example of Curves commitment to the community. (L to R): Janet Swenson, Joyce Bailey and Annie Billings. - Photo by Sherill Summer

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by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – A new complaint against Polk County has been filed in Federal District Court.

Daniel Owens, currently a prisoner at the Oshkosh Correctional Institute, claims that the county failed to provide him with proper medical treatment after his arrest in April 2007 and while he was in county custody awaiting trial and sentencing. Owens is asking $2.5 million.

The complaint was filed on Aug. 19 with the U.S. District Court in Eau Claire.

Owens claims that he had an open sore at the time of his arrest and that repeated requests for treatment of the wound were ignored by the jail nurse and the county.

He claims that he received the needed treatment only after he was sent to a state correctional institution.

Owens, who lived in Nye at the time of his arrest, was found guilty of soliciting a child for prostitution and of manufacturing and distributing amphetamines.

He was sentenced to prison in December 2007.

“Owens was convicted of trading a female child for methamphetamine,” said Sheriff Tim Moore. “And now, with nothing but time on his hands while sitting in prison, chooses to sue the taxpayers of Polk County, who provided his medical care while he was in jail. I do not believe Mr. Owens could have committed a more morally corrupt act had he tried. I am confident that medical staff at the jail, and local hospital personnel provided him with the best health care possible.”

No dates have been set for action on the complaint.

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F O R U M Back to the debate

A few weeks ago, in our first editorial on fact-checking, a topic which seems to be turning into a series, we posed a question, tongue in cheek: “Who’s checking the fact checkers?”

Well, again, the answer is ... our readers, of course.

An informational piece printed last week, aimed at dispelling common myths of the national health care coverage debate and provided by factcheck.org, drew a response from one reader, who shall remain anonymous.

“This past week, there was an attempt in the local paper to quell editorial opposition to Obamacare,” the e-mail begins.

OK, stop right there. Let’s fact check a bit. That’s not the case. We’re trying to quell misinformation. And it was written that the Leader is scaling back letters on the issue but will still print submissions which offer sources for information presented. But go ahead ...

“The article cited FactCheck.org as being the source of information and stated FactCheck.org is ‘a non-profit, non-partisan’ organization able to refute the myths in the health care debate. The truth is that FactCheck.org is a political wing of the Annenberg Foundation. Google for a comprehensive list of activities of the (foundation) but of note is the fact that Obama was on the board of directors of Annenberg of Chicago from 1995-2001, and was the chairman from 1995-1999. Another key factor in the Annenberg Project was the foundation involvement of one of Obama’s closest friends, William Ayers ... if one desires the truth on some of these issues, rather than going to the Obama-supporting FactCheck.org, try something like Heritage.org, which is a patriotic organization that researches and publishes the truth on American history and on current issues and debates.”

We won’t completely discount factcheck.org or its informational piece dispelling myths, unless someone can dismantle its arguments with counter intelligence.

But you can see how even perception of being bias can create doubt.

Can you find the unbiased facts today without digging into the raw data?

And, round two, also in response to the editorial, from another reader, who shall also remain anonymous: “People should be encouraged to spout off on it (health care coverage debate) in the newspapers or town meetings in the hope that legislators – who refuse to meet with their own constituents –might get the message they need to hear from those of us whom they have forgotten in favor of their special interest funding sources.

The misinformation and disinformation comes from HB 3200 – the only bill out there. Obama refers to ‘his plan’ but doesn't have one – if he does, please show it to your readers so we can read it, too. There are at least four versions being considered in various committees of the Senate – none of which is yet in legislative form and we get gobbledygook from our Congressmen and the media – and our local newspaper decides we shouldn't be talking about it anymore? Encourage the debate – don't stifle it!”

Again, it was meant to be more of a time out than a stifle, but points are well taken from both e-mails.

And now it’s on to business - but please remember - when writing letters for publication, please research your sources, cite them and be prepared to stand behind them.

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President Barack Obama 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C. 20500 www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ Governor Jim Doyle P.O. Box 7863, Madison, WI 53707 wisgov@mail.state.wi.us

Congressman David Obey (7th District) 2462 Rayburn Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20515 or Federal Building, Wausau, WI 54401 (715) 842-5606 Rep. Nick Milroy (73rd District) Room 221 North, State Capitol P.O. Box 8952, Madison 53708 E-mail: rep.milroy@legis.state.wi.us

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Rep. Ann Hraychuck (28th 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. Mary Hubler (75th District) Room 7 North, State Capitol P.O. Box 8952, Madison, WI 53708 or 1966 21-7/8 St., Rice Lake 54868 (715) 234-7421• (608) 266-2519 rep.hubler@legis.state.wi.us U.S. Senator Herb Kohl 330 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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Senator Robert Jauch (25th District) Room 19 South, State Capitol P.O. Box 788, Madison, WI 53707 E-mail: Sen.Jauch@legis.state.wi.us Senator Sheila Harsdorf (10th 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 U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold SDB 40, Rm. 1, Washington, D.C. 20510 or 1600 Aspen Commons Middleton, WI 53562-4716 (608) 828-1200 senator@feingold.senate.gov

There are people who can mark their political involvement in years by the number of Kennedys they have voted against.

For various reasons, people seem to either love or hate the iconic Kennedy family, a family many of us grew up watching, some measuring their own aspirations using the Kennedy family as a ruler.

So the news Wednesday morning of the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy had an impact on most of us. Just a few weeks after his sister Eunice’s passing, Ted’s death, not unexpected, marks the end of an era with an exclamation point. He was the last of his siblings to die, and takes with him a bit of Camelot, lore tied to John Kennedy’s presidency by his wife and countless authors, the first being Theodore White.

Books on the Kennedys often refer to a Bible quote the Kennedy family members said their parents reinforced to them as they grew up, children of rich parents. “For to those to whom much is given, much is expected.”

Through their focus on issues regarding the less financially and otherwise fortunate, it’s obvious Ted, John, Robert, Eunice and other family members held true to that motto, or at the very least inspired others to.

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Letters t o t h e e d i t o r The dilemma in small schools We’re back to the same story: To consolidate schools or to work cooperatively between schools.

Enrollment is down in all the small towns. A few years ago Webster and Siren had similar problems as Frederic and Luck do today. We personally voted to consolidate in Webster even though phone calls were made locally to the community residents by teachers to vote against it because we may just lose our identity or where to build the new school, or why one school should assume the debt of another.

These were lame excuses.

What we would have gained were less administrator salaries; which are well over $100,000 (including benefits) per year for each administrator and not to mention all the principals pulling higher wages than the teachers. We are “loaded” at the top end in all the small schools. Making the right decision up front would have saved millions over the years. Because Webster stalled, the new school took a while to pass referendum and cost millions more. Why build two or three schools when one consolidated school would be better for the variety of academics? You will pay to save your identity with higher taxes, squeezing more students into the classroom, and not being able to provide higher-level classes for specified careers.

Naturally administrators, principals and teachers are scared about losing their jobs.

What about the homeowners that can’t make their payments or pay their ever-increasing taxes? How did we ever get to this place of one administrator and two or three principals (at least) per school?

That’s top-heavy. Another problem: A new teacher is hired fresh out of college; tell him/her they’re done just before tenure (three years) and hire another new beginning teacher. This is not a good idea to save money. Experience is valuable in the classroom for the students. Granted, I totally understand replacing a new teacher for lack of classroom management but have they tried mentoring the new teacher before giving the ax?

Nearly everyone is feeling the financial crunch. We are in a dilemma. Districts can’t afford to consolidate and state aid is down for each school. If only we would have consolidated the small schools years ago! The consolidated schools would have been much further ahead today. Cuts are inevitable, consider downsizing at the top.

A reminder to the boards in each town: You are the elected officials to represent the people of your community. Please make careful and wise decisions.

Jo-Ann Rachner Retired elementary teacher Webster

Who is in control?

My husband and I are survivors of the “greatest generation.” We believe in the work ethic, honesty and integrity. Never did we think we would see our country become a banana republic where unemployment would be from 10 to 27 percent in some places. Never did we imagine our farmland would be planted with trees or used for windmills with unknown consequences for food shortages, never did we believe that if we tried to peacefully protest, brownshirt thugs with baseball bats would threaten us!

Praise God, we know he still is in control and we don’t need to worry about anything! Like the voice in the wilderness, “Lord how long?”

Marliss and Lauri Mustonen Siren

Festival a gift

This past Friday, after music on the Overlook, my wife and I attended the Shawn Colvin concert at the St. Croix Falls Auditorium Theatre.

Seeing and hearing an international recording star right here in our cool old Main Street theater was fantastic!

It was a great show. Then, on Saturday, we attended the live, professional Festival Theatre presentation of “Sylvia.” It was really funny but also had some deeper meaning. It was well directed and beautifully performed.

Hooray for the Festival Theatre! What a gift to our community.

Leif Bjornson Luhrs/Bjorson Artworks St. Croix Falls

Good job, Pamm

We are not golfers, but we drive by the Luck Golf Course almost every day to go to the farm.

We would like to compliment Pamm Torraance for the excellent job she is doing with the flowers on the Luck Golf Course.

What an improvement to the entire golf course.

Jim and Marilyn Martinsen Luck

GAM 50th

On Aug. 30, Golden Age Manor will celebrate its 50th anniversary. It has been 135 years since Polk County opened the Volga “poor farm” to care for the poor and elderly. The Volga farm was closed and residents moved to GAM when it opened in 1959. GAM was built and paid for by what we refer to as this country’s “greatest generation.” It has also provided a safe, comfortable home to thousands of that generation.

Over the last 10 years, along with providing a good home for hundreds of our senior citizens 365 days a year, GAM has had a great economic impact on Polk County. It has brought, or kept, $54.4 million of operating revenue to Polk County.

GAM also received $6.5 million of federal supplemental payments that only came into Polk County because of GAM. With this $60.9 million, Polk County spent $49.3 million on good jobs for hundreds of dedicated employees and $11 million on other operating expenses. Most of these $60 million of wages and expenses were spent within Polk County.

The celebration, (Aug. 30, at GAM, public welcome) is being financed entirely by private donations. This is a great opportunity to show your support of GAM. If you can not make it to the celebration you can send a donation of any amount. Mail to GAM 50th Anniversary Committee at: Golden Age Manor, 220 Scholl Court, Amery, WI 54001.

Hope to see you on Aug. 30.

Bob Dueholm, GAM Board Chairman Polk County Supervisor, District 1 Luck

Carrying water for big government I see that Jeff Peterson is campaigning for his chair in the Polk County Board. In his most recent letter to the editor, he is on the attack of Herschel Brown and cites government numbers to support government ideas. In reference to the cap and tax bill before Congress, Brown stated we would see approximately $720 increase if this passes, whereas Peterson thought that was nine times too high.

Please consider this according to PolkBurnett Electric’s Power Times flier, which many of us receive with our electric bill each month: our expected increase in rates could easily be $60 per month, which alone equals Brown’s $720 figure. For myself, this is about a 30-percent increase; with that in mind, consider this: As consumers, every product we buy has an electricity charge built into the final retail price. Now then, instead of my 30-percent increase, use 10 percent as an increase of cost of production and sale of everything we buy. With this scenario, Brown’s $3,000 a year may actually be way too low.

As an example, fuel and steel manufacturing and retail sales (lighting and refrigeration) are major users of electricity and this is a large portion of their cost production.

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very now and again I must place my head in the noose, if only to know what it feels like.

Here goes.

Overpopulation is the leading cause of all the major problems facing the planet. War, disease, famine, environmental destruction, corporate world domination, the manufacture and purchase of useless and harmful material goods, poison water, no water, take your pick. They all come back to this one sad fact.

We are too many.

In the ‘70s (I remember, because I’m old) there was a concept afloat known as Zero Population Growth. People thought it might be a wise idea if the fertile population of the world could just take a break from breeding for awhile, say five or ten years. The idea of balancing the birth rate with the death rate to stabilize the planet’s population seemed ingenious.

The concept of caring for those already here among us presented a challenge, a step up in empathy. I never hear that phrase anymore. Now, in the shadows of large cities worldwide, whole tribes of abandoned children scratch for existence, slums hold populations in the millions and life means nothing to world leaders willing to throw hundreds of thousands of their countrymen and women into wars with other like-minded (or no-minded) people.

The planet is rapidly approaching a no-going-back point. Its resources are finite while the ability of people to pro-

My questioning soul

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of my favorite songs is “Galileo” by the Indigo Girls. The song was written by Emily Saliers and has an interesting take on reincarnation, seeking some help from the 17th-century scientist in answering some of life’s puzzling questions.

This is what Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, has to say about the haunting tune: The song’s lyrics discuss reincarnation, partially through the lens of the story of Galileo Galilei, the 17th-century physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution.

The song’s chorus invokes both existential angst and Galileo’s genius with “How long till my soul gets it right/Can any human being ever reach the highest light/I call on the resting soul of Galileo/King of night vision, king of insight,” referencing both the clarity of physical vision made possible through his modernizations of the telescope and his support of Copernicanism, which stated that the sun, rather than the earth, was the center of the universe.

Aug. 25 marked the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first demonstration of his telescope (I’ve ordered my Galileoscope, have you? ) and 400 years later we are still searching the heavens and earth for answers to some cosmic questions.

Galileo got in a lot of trouble with the Catholic Church back then ( he spent the last decade of his life under house arrest) with his notion that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the planeAs a farmer, you may say I can sell carbon credits for a profit. This is possibly true if I reduce tillage to the least-possible usage. But, if I do that, I must make up for it with increased use of chemicals and sprays to allow for better yield, which environmentalists would most likely not appreciate. Do the math. I don’t believe my increased spray costs would be covered by the $5 per year I would gain considering the $100 million per year divided by the

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Community Voices Kelly Green create is infinite. The religious leaders of the world, who promote endless procreation without a thought to the planet’s ability to sustain an ever-expanding population, should pay attention.

Why raise armies to fight other armies because one god says “you’re the best” and another god says “no, you are?” Doesn’t that sound like grade school playground nonsense?

Why breed workers to make and buy useless products? Why manufacture consumers? Why can’t we create an organization, using the concept of Doctors Without Borders, and call it Free Vasectomies Forever? That would negate the need for abortion. Just because we have the ability to do a thing doesn’t mean we must, and that goes for breeding, consuming and killing alike.

Jonathan Swift wrote his “A Modest Proposal” in a satirical vein, suggesting we consume the children to stop overpopulation. Though I am a huge fan and practitioner of satire, this seems to be one subject I can no longer find amusing.

Kelly Green is the pseudonym of a group of tiny people living in the caves and tunnels beneath the village of Frederic. Check out his dank, mushroomy poetry at poetrypottery.com

Staff Corner Priscilla Bauer tary system. Questioning the status quo can often be trouble for truth seekers.

My parents taught me to always be a questioning soul. More concerns than ever over what’s happening to good old planet Earth have me asking a lot these days. Four hundred years ago Galileo was determined to find the truth and we need to be just as determined today in finding answers to the planet’s problems.

And yeah, I still have some personal questions of my own to work out, too.

Just when and how am I going to “get it right” in this complicated, present life I’m leading? Where’s that Galileo guy when you need him?

Note: The Galileoscope mentioned above is supposed to be a pretty cool little telescope. I ordered mine about six weeks ago and am still anxiously awaiting its arrival. According to information on the Web site, the Galileoscope is a high-quality, low-cost telescope kit designed and developed for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 by a team of leading astronomers, optical engineers, and science educators. For more information on how to order a Galileocsope go to www.galileoscope.org number of farms.

Please keep in mind as more government programs are promoted, Social Security, Medicare and the post office are all good examples of how a government-managed program is guaranteed to lose money.

In summation, it sounds as if Peterson still hasn’t met a tax he didn’t like and is campaigning on that idea.

Robert F. Rickard, Cumberland

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Health-Care reform buzz The president and the United States Congress are pushing an agenda to rework the nation’s health-care system with sweeping legislation. With health care making up about one-eighth of our nation’s economy, people have reason to raise questions and get answers before entrusting the federal government with so much power.

In Wisconsin, the state Legislature has not been immune from the debate on health-care reform. Last session, Senate Democrats attempted to insert in the state’s budget bill, with just hours notice, a proposal that would have resulted in a government takeover of health care in Wisconsin.

Now, as public support for nationalized health care wanes, state Democratic leaders are suggesting they will bring

Federal government extends SeniorCare program Earlier this week, Gov. Doyle announced that the federal government would be extending Wisconsin’s senior prescription drug program, SeniorCare, through 2012. The SeniorCare program, which was set to expire at the end of this year, assists Wisconsin seniors over the age of 65 by providing them with access to quality and affordable prescription medications.

Last December, we wrote to President Obama urging him to continue federal support of this program, which helps over 87,000 of Wisconsin’s seniors.

The statewide SeniorCare program has become a popular alternative to the federal Medicare Part D prescription plan. A majority of eligible seniors – 94

back their plan for Wisconsin. Dubbed Healthy Wisconsin, the Democratic plan would impose a new double-digit payroll tax on job providers and working families to participate in a state-managed health-care system.

I believe Healthy Wisconsin would be a taxpayer disaster that would limit choice and send jobs fleeing out of Wis-

consin.

Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach, the lead sponsor of Healthy Wisconsin, stated recently that his bill will be ready to go if U.S. Congress fails and challenged those that disagreed to come up

with alternatives. His presumption that something should be done is correct, but “reform” should not entail MORE government involvement at all steps.

We need to work together on addressing the most pressing issue with health care – affordability. Here are some doable reforms that can address escalating costs: • Tort reform. Preserve and enact strong medical malpractice limits to avoid increased health-care costs resulting from lawsuits.

• Promote health-care cooperatives.

Cooperatives are run and managed by their members, not government. Such cooperatives can empower consumers with greater purchasing power that can lead to greater choice and lower premiums.

• Extend tax credits for health savings accounts. Wisconsin is the only state to not allow deductions for purchasing HSAs. HSAs offer insurance for serious

injury or illness while allowing consumers choices and the ability to directly benefit from savings.

• Expand transparency. The Patients Right to Know Act introduced last year would ensure patients get cost estimates for nonemergency care over $500. To control costs, prices must be readily available.

• Provide reinsurance to protect small businesses and families dealing with catastrophic care. By having state government assume the costs and risks of serious injury or illness, insurers face predictable costs. Predicable costs enable lower premiums for employers and would avert bankruptcies driven by medical catastrophes.

• Visit my Web site, www.harsdorfsenate.com, to learn more about state issues, offer your input and weigh in on legislative matters through my online survey.

percent – save more money through SeniorCare than they would by enrolling in Medicare Part D. In addition to saving Wisconsin seniors money, the average annual federal subsidy for a SeniorCare participant is about half as Ann as what is Hraychuck much spent on a Medicare 28th District Part D participant.

This means that Assembly Wisconsin’s seniors are receiving muchneeded relief with their continuously increasing medical costs, while also costing taxpayers less money.

Anyone who is a permanent resident of Wisconsin and over the age of 65 may be eligible for SeniorCare. Deductibles

for those enrolled in SeniorCare are dependent upon one’s income. Once the deductible is met, SeniorCare participants are then only required to pay a $30 annual enrollment fee, $5 co-pay for every generic medication and $15 copay for each prescription medication.

For more information on Wisconsin’s SeniorCare program, please visit the Wisconsin Department of Health ServWeb site at ices http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/seniorcare/.

If you are a resident of Wisconsin who is at least 65 years old and is interested in applying for SeniorCare, I encourage you to contact your county’s director on aging. The Burnett County Unit on Aging director, Lois Taylor, can be reached by telephone at 715-349-7600 or via e-mail at ltaylor@burnettcounty.org.

If you reside in Polk County you should contact their aging programs Director, Kari Flom, at (715) 485-8599 or by e-mail at flom@co.polk.wi.us. For St. Croix

County, please contact Brad Beckman from the Department on Aging, he can be reached at 715-381-4360 or by e-mail at bradb@co.saint-croix.wi.us. Contact information for Eau Claire County’s Department of Aging can be found at http://www.co.eau-claire.wi.us/ Aging_and_DisabilityResourceCenter/i ndex.htm.

Finally, if you live in Chippewa County, the contact information for their director of aging can be found at http://www.co.chippewa.wi.us/depart ments/Aging/aging.aspx.

If you would like more information on this issue, or have other legislative concerns, please feel free to contact Hraychuck’s office toll-free at 888-5290028 or by e-mailing her at Rep.Hraychuck@legis.wisconsin.gov.

Rep. Dexter can be reached toll-free at 888-534-0068 and via e-mail at Rep.Dexter@legis.wisconsin.gov.

Sheila Harsdorf 10th District

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Letters t o t h e e d i t o r Apple pie and fruitcake In 1969, the Woodstock Nation was born and a rainbow of diversity began to appear across our nation. Women, Blacks, Latinos, American Indians, gays and other minorities started finding their voices and began making inroads into the white-male power structure running our country. In 1969, President Nixon was completing his first six months in office and about this time, he mentioned the “silent majority” in one of his speeches.

This year, the TEA Party Nation was born and the fruitcake fringe of the Republican Party is rapidly rearing its ugly head.

President Barack Obama is completing his first six months in office amid a spitshower of hate, lies and crackpot theories belching from this belligerent minority.

Obama is using his bully pulpit to persuade us of the need to reform our health care system and make it more affordable and accessible to all. Virtually every elected public official - whether Republican, Democrat or Independent - agrees there is a need for some degree of health care reform.

You would expect differences of opinions on such a complex issue. Likewise, you would expect reasonable adults with differences of opinion to sit down and try to work out compromises for complex issues.

Do not expect that type of adult behavior from TEA Party members. They have bullied their way into the town hall meetings being held by senators and congressional representatives. Since they yell the loudest, they must be right. For the TEA Partiers – like all bullies - there is no debate. Either you agree with them or you are a socialist, communist or Nazi. There are no rainbows at the TEA Party. It is black or white – preferably white.

Do not be fooled. These TEA Party bullies did not rise out of the ruined economy Bush left Obama. They started because he was elected president on a message of “hope” and “change” – words that strike

fear into the cold hearts of TEA Party participants. Of course, they will quickly remind you they are “conservatives,” not Republicans, Even though 99 percent of the TEA Partiers likely voted for President George W. Bush – twice.

Of course, TEA Partiers have a constitutional right to protest, wear loaded guns at their “nonpartisan” rallies, demand to see President Obama’s birth certificate and pray for President Ronald Reagan to rise from the dead by his own bootstraps. I support their lunacy. Thankfully, America is a tolerant country with room for both apple pie and fruitcake.

James P. Nelson New Richmond

AG needs our support As most people have probably heard by now, the Democrats in the Wisconsin Legislature (with the help of Rep. Ann Hraychuck) established gay marriage by another name - domestic partnerships - in the recent budget bill.

Behind the leadership of Gov. Jim Doyle, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a budget bill that included a package of items supportive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.

There are two major problems with the way in which this action was taken. First, approving domestic partnerships in a budget bill instead of in a stand-alone bill is a disgrace. While reasonable people can disagree on the policy and aims of this action, by surreptitiously slipping such a controversial item into a budget bill, Madison Democrats, with help from Hraychuck, denied the citizens of this state the opportunity to have a robust debate about this important issue. Instead, in some back room of the capitol building, a handful of members of the Legislature effectively decreed from their throne that henceforth, in Wisconsin marriage would no longer have to be between one man and one woman.

While it’s true that strictly speaking, this action did not approve “gay marriage,” in practice, it did exactly that.

By approving this measure without any public notice or debate, the liberals in Madison have again shown tremendous disrespect for the citizens and voters of the state. Apparently, Hraychuck and her liberal friends are so smart and so omniscient that they feel it is acceptable to deny Wisconsinites their fundamental right to discuss, debate and more importantly, vote on important issues. (What is the next issue they will decide for us?)

The second problem with this is its dubious constitutionality. As most people recall, in November, 2006, the people of this state amended the Wisconsin Constitution by a 60-percent vote to prohibit gay marriage and anything like it. The amendment reads: “Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized in this state.” (What part of this do they not understand and how do you make it clearer?)

It is difficult to imaging how domestic partnerships are not “[a] legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals.” In fact, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has declined to represent the state in a lawsuit challenging the domestic-partnership law for this reason. In a recent press release, Van Hollen said the following: “In November 2006, Wisconsin voters amended our state constitution to declare that marriage was between one man and one woman. The amendment prohibits our government from recognizing any other legal status substantially similar to marriage. But the general domestic partnership provisions contained in Act 28 do just that – recognize a legal status that is substantially similar to the legal status of marriage.”

Since announcing his decision not to rep-

resent the state in this action, Van Hollen has been mercilessly attacked by ultraliberals in Madison, including Doyle. Van Hollen should be commended, not attacked, for his courage in standing up for an issue already voted on by the citizens.

As citizens and voters, we should thank Van Hollen for standing up for us and what we voted for when we approved the 2006 amendment to our constitution. Our displeasure can be expressed by contacting members of the Assembly - including Hraychuck, 608-267-2365 or 888-529-0028, who denied us our right to be heard on this important issue by voting for it in the budget bill. We should also contact Van Hollen, 608-266-1221, to thank him for standing up for the rights of ordinary voters in Wisconsin.

Bill Blair Osceola

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Letters t o t h e e d i t o r ELCA churches and pastors There was a time when all Lutherans confessed that God’s word clearly condemned homosexuality as sin (Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 18).

All taught that when an individual caught up in such sin repents, the forgiveness of the Gospel is to be fully applied (1 John 1:8-9). All taught that God’s institution of marriage is between a man and a woman, enjoying a lifelong companionship in mutual love. All taught that marriage is the only proper context for the expression of sexual intimacy. (Genesis 2:18-24 and Matthew 19:4-6).

Yes indeed, there was a time when all Lutherans believed and taught such clear things. It didn’t matter what synod it was.

The Bible was clear as a bell. It was not “unloving” or “right wing” to believe this.

It was simply Christian, Lutheran and mainstream.

What a sad situation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Last week, the ELCA convention approved that homosexual clergy in committed relationships will now be accepted. Much of the blame falls on the leaders and homosexual advocates, who are “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” To quote Jesus: They “teach as doctrines the commandments of men.”

How many leaders and pastors will remain silent, tolerate or promote these unscriptural views? It is time for faithful pastors and parishioners to speak up against such false teaching!

God’s word warns us: “A time will come when they will not listen to sound teaching, but, following their own desires, they will surround themselves more and more with teachers who say what they want to hear. They will refuse to listen to the truth…” (2 Tim. 4:3-4).

As Christians we are called to “speak the truth in love.” In that spirit, we are calling ELCA churches and pastors in Chisago, Polk and Burnett counties, to believe, teach and confess what God clearly says in his word. “I stand alone on the word of God; the B-I-B-L-E” (as the Sunday school song goes). Make it plain: “This is what we believe and teach - based on the word.”

If not, we encourage all who hold to the truth to realign themselves with a Lutheran church in their area that will teach them the sound teachings of God’s word.

“Thy word is truth.”

Pastor Mark K. Schoen Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church St. Croix Falls Pastor Jody Walter Immanuel Lutheran Frederic Pastor David Emmons Zion and Immanuel Lutheran churches Turtle Lake and Clayton

Three musty steers The Larsens donated a vacant building that they owned in Webster to be converted to a public library. The three musty steers - Doyle, Obey and Hraychuck - showed up to claim credit for this generous act by the Larsens.

The Larsens were the only ones who had actually given of themselves toward the public good. Doyle proclaimed that it would not have been possible without Obey, the 40-year fossil that has filled his pockets at our expense for his entire life.

Doyle may be right. Had Obey not voted for about every tax and spend proposal that has come down the pike, had he not supported the governmental theft of Larsen’s Dodge franchise in Frederic, had he not supported the “stimulus” bill that he claims to have written but hasn’t even read, a bill so outrageous that our unborn grandchildren will be dedicating most of the money they earn in their lives to paying the bill for Obey’s folly, the good people of the Webster area might have had enough of their own money left to build themselves a library without the government sticking it’s stinking, grubby paws into it.

These three people represent a grand total of eight years of private sector experience. Obey was in the state Legislature prior to being elected to Congress and has been in Congress for 40 years, and can’t remember working a day in the private-sector as an adult. Doyle has worked in government for all but eight years, when

he was in private law practice in Madison - which I count for zero private-sector experience - he was a lawyer, for cripe sake.

Hraychuck has spent her entire adult life working for the government. Their ludicrous claim to feel the pain of actual working people is laughable.

One has to compare these three to a thief that sneaks into your house and steals $100. He gives $80 to members of his own family and then donates $20 to the library and expects you to be grateful.

The sooner these three are gone the better.

I also find it interesting that the press always knows about these local appearances by liberal Democrats in time to cover the story, but the public—who would like to ask “the Fossil” to explain his anti-American voting record, and might like to ask the governor and assemblywoman to explain their support of the worst state budget ever—has to hear about their visit after they have slithered off into the swamp.

The assemblywoman has proudly proclaimed her support of the state budget and bragged of having gotten it passed “early.” As taxpayers, we would have all been better off if they had not passed it at all.

Bob Blake Rural Frederic

Hidden tax

I want to make sure that all the readers of the Inter-County Leader are aware of the latest bait-and-switch scam perpetrated by our representatives in Madison.

On your next phone bill, you might notice a new charge, specifically a new 75 cent police and fire protection fee. This is a new tax on all of your phone bills, including your cell phone. Our representatives in Madison think that by calling it a police and fire protection fee that we’ll all think the money is going straight to support public safety. However, the money from the police and fire fund is transferred right into the general fund, just like a sales tax or income tax.

To make matters worse, the governor vetoed a provision that would have ended the fee in two years.

We need to tell our lawmakers in Madison that enough is enough. Stop scamming us by hiding taxes on our monthly phone bills like the phony police and fire protection fee.

Harold Dau Milltown

Mindfulness and health care I read the Leader’s Aug. 19 editorial pages with delight. Laura Tiede’s wellwritten column “Being mindful,” about the benefits of seeing our world in shades of gray rather than in black or white, was as welcome as the wonderful rain we’ve been receiving.

The national discussion on health-care reform has been great in one respect. It’s democracy in action, and lots of people have strong feelings about it. That’s all good.

But the “I’m right and you’re wrong” shouting match it has become, coupled with the tons of misinformation being shoveled about, aren’t helpful at all.

Leader editor Gary King was right to require sources for “facts” in letters to the editor on the subject. Kudos to him also for running the FactCheck.org health care information. There are real, legitimate reasons to disagree — it’s not necessary to make up terrifying scenarios like “pulling the plug on grandma.” Let’s talk about the real reasons we disagree and see if we can make some headway.

Tiede’s column spoke of how children are being taught, when in conflict, to “note their own feelings, breathe, listen,” and to try to consider someone else’s point of view. Perhaps we need to call for a national day of mindfulness regarding health care. Perhaps we can agree that, as a nation, we are strong enough and caring enough to provide health-care insurance for everyone. If we decide to do it, we can do it – better than anyone in the world.

Nothing can stop us if we work together.

Jackie Thorwick West Sweden

Area Ne ws at a Glance Accident claims life

HAYWARD - A 42-year-old Lac Courte Oreilles reservation resident, Dennis Miller, died early Thursday, Aug. 20, as the result of being hit by a vehicle. At 3:23 a.m. Thursday, Lac Courte Oreilles police and Sawyer County sheriff’s deputies responded to a residence at 9308N Round Lake School Road on a report of a person trapped beneath a vehicle. LCO Fire Department and first responders, the City of Hayward Fire Department extrication unit and a Sawyer County ambulance crew also were paged out. Upon officers arrival, Miller was found to be deceased on his residential property. The victim was transported to Ramsey County Medical Center in St. Paul, Minn., for an autopsy.

The name of the driver was not released at this time. The incident is under investigation by the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Police Department. - Sawyer County Record

Woman killed in two-vehicle accident

RICE LAKE - Colleen Lundequam, 37, Cumberland, was killed and two others were injured Sunday afternoon in a twovehicle accident on Hwy. 63 just north of Comstock. According to the Barron County Sheriff’s Department, Lundequam’s Ford Focus crossed the centerline just before 4 p.m. and struck a Pontiac Aztek driven by Jaclyn Laursen, 19, Cumberland. Laursen and Lunde-

quam’s 16-year-old passenger, Jamie Lundequam, were taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., to be treated for their injuries. A 2-month-old passenger in the Aztek was also taken to Regions for observation. Both lanes of traffic in the area were closed for several hours following the accident. - Rice Lake Chronotype

Consolidation up for vote

CHETEK - People living in the school districts of Chetek and Weyerhaeuser will officially vote if they want to consolidate. On Nov. 3, the two districts will hold separate referendum votes. If both communities pass the referendum – the Weyerhaeuser school would close, and about 130 students would be bussed to Chetek schools. The thought of losing their school is a sad thought for many in Weyerhaeuser. In fact, it was in this small community that enough petitions were signed to force a consolidation referendum – instead of having the school board’s decide. Superintendent of Chetek schools, Al Brown says, “I think what happens is people equate losing their school as the community is dying.”

But he says with 60 percent of school districts in the state dealing with declining enrollment, consolidation has become the best option for Weyerhaeuser. He says, “I would say it’s probably your last resort – most people don’t start at a consolidation. Because of the financial times you’re going to start to see more and more of these kind of conversations.”

Diane Biery is a Chetek resident, she says, “My grandkids went to school in Weyerhaeuser and the school was so tiny – they had to have every boy in the school go out for football – otherwise they wouldn’t have a football team.”

Brown says scenarios like these wouldn’t have to happen anymore if a consolidation takes place. With 950 students in the Chetek district, student programs, services and extracurriculars are running smoothly – and Brown says they could get even better if the schools consolidated. The district’s new name would be Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area Schools. weau.com

Search for rocks turns up skeletal remains

BARRON COUNTY - A search for rocks on a Prairie Lake island turned into an anthropologic expedition when human skeletal remains were found. The Barron County Sheriff’s Department had received a report at approximately 5:27 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, about possible skeletal remains being found on a small island located on Prairie Lake. The reporting party had come across the surprise find while picking rocks. Deputies responded to the island and, with the help of a forensic anthropologist, were able to confirm that the bones were of human origin. Preliminary estimates are that the bones are from a prehistoric Native American. Law enforcement removed the skeletal remains for further

study and is working with the state historical society and the office of prevention and planning to learn more about the bones. The sheriff’s department has turned down photo requests, citing objections from the state historical society and the office of prevention and planning. Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said, however, that he will release photos as soon as possible. The case is currently still open and active; it won’t be considered closed until a final determination has been reached regarding the origin of the skull, in particular. - Barron News-Shield

Woman sought

ST. CROIX COUNTY - The St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating Jessica Christner. Christner, 29, is being sought for questioning in connection with the Aug. 1 shooting of two people in Wilson.

Chief Deputy John Shilts said Christner is not a suspect in the case at this point, but she is believed to have information of importance to the case. Christner is also wanted by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. Christner is believed to be in the Eau Claire area, but has ties to Dunn, Chippewa and St. Croix counties.

Anyone with information about Christner’s whereabouts is asked to contact the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office at 715-386-4711 or a local law enforcement agency. - rivertowns.net

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Towns and villages to choose between two ambulance options

Raise cost to remaining members or close Danbury station

by Sherill Summer SIREN - Representatives of most of the towns and villages remaining in the Burnett County ambulance coalition met at the Burnett County Government Center on Thursday, Aug. 20, to hear their options now that the towns of Roosevelt, Trade Lake and Dewey will probably choose not to remain in the ambulance coalition.

The remaining member towns were given two options that must be decided on in town and village meetings throughout the county: either keep the same amount of service currently provided and raise the per-capita charge to $35.83, up $3.10 from last year’s charge of $32.73, or to keep the same per-capita charge as last year and close the Danbury ambulance station. The votes must be in by Oct. 1.

The choice facing the ambulance coalition is similar to the choice last year when the majority of towns and villages chose to keep Danbury open and pay more per capita so that four strategically placed ambulances would continue to service the county. At the same time, there was a call to invite other ambulance services in to see what they would charge to cover Burnett County.

The countywide coalition, which arranged for countywide ambulance service for more than 20 years, apparently began to dissolve when little or not action was taken to research what level of service other ambulance providers might provide in the way of service – and at what cost – to the county.

Sand Lake Trustee and North Memorial EMT Jim Tolberg explained how the four ambulances based in Burnett County operate as a coordinated system at a special meeting of the towns association held at the government center on Thursday, Aug. 20. - Photo

by Sherill Summer Some towns took matters in their own hands, and over the summer Trade Lake Township voted to use the Northland Ambulance service based in Frederic/Luck, Roosevelt Township indicated they will go with Cumberland Ambulance Service in nearby Cumberland and Dewey Township will likely stay with North Memorial, but join the Spooner/Shell Lake coalition, since they were already serviced by the ambulance in nearby Spooner.

Because areas serviced by North Memorial in Spooner have a more concentrated population than Burnett County, one ambulance station with two ambulances is able to handle the same number of ambulance runs as all of Burnett

County’s four ambulances, at a lower price. As a result, municipalities in Washburn County receiving ambulance service from North pay about $16 per capita rather than the $32.73 Burnett County paid last year.

Now that Dewey Township has joined the Washburn County coalition, they will pay the $16 price.

Roosevelt and Dewey townships, both located in southeastern Burnett County, were offered this option this summer when the two townships jointly brought in North Memorial and Cumberland Ambulance Service to two separate Roosevelt town meetings. Both towns were already serviced by the ambulance in Spooner because of their close proximity to Spooner, and North offered the deal to try and keep the towns in their fold.

Roosevelt decided to accept an even better deal with Cumberland and will pay a per-capita price of $6.

Similarly, Trade Lake Township heard a proposal by Northland Ambulance based in Luck and Frederic that offered service for $9 per capita.

The towns and villages left in the coalition, however, have to make up an additional $70,000 in per-capita supplement and ambulance run revenue that the three townships would have provided if they would have remained in the countywide coalition.

In a telephone statement made after the meeting, Director of Out State Ambulance Services Gary Pearson explained that closing the Danbury station would come close to offsetting the $70,000 projected deficit, and the proposed $3.10 increase in supplemental per-capita charge only takes into account Roosevelt and Trade Lake township populations.

North Memorial did not try to make up the difference for Dewey and its 605 res-

idents joining the Spooner/Shell Lake consortium.

During the meeting on Thursday night, North Memorial EMT Jim Tolberg and Supervisor Mark Manning explained how the different ambulances based in Burnett County and in Spooner are coordinated depending on how many and which ambulances are on a run. There is also a paramedic care ambulance based in Frederic that occasionally can make runs in Burnett County when it is idle.

Also discussed was the difference between ambulances staffed with EMTs and ambulances staffed with paramedics, why ambulance service in Washburn County was lower than Burnett County, how often Burnett County ambulances travel outside the county, North Memorial’s pro-bono habit of having ambulances available during athletic events throughout the county and alternative ways of divvying up the ambulance costs in the county.

There was also discussion about the coalition itself, and the general feeling was that next year, when requests for price were submitted by various ambulance providers and a three-year contract was negotiated, it would be stipulated that towns and villages would not be able to drop from the coalition during at least the length of the contract.

County board Chairman Phil Lindeman attempted to call for a vote on Thursday night, but some supervisors and trustees from the towns and villages refused cast a vote without taking the matter back to their respective boards.

It was decided then to scrap the immediate vote and draft a letter with the two choices to send to all participating towns and villages. All votes must be received

by Oct. 1.

County’s nonunion positions to be evaluated Compensation recommendations to be made

by Sherill Summer SIREN - The Burnett County Board of Supervisors held its regular monthly meeting last Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Burnett County Government Center.

Charles Carlson of Enetrix gave a presentation to county supervisors on how he will evaluate the jobs of nonunion staff in Burnett County. Enetrix was hired to study 32 to 35 positions, mostly department manager positions in the county. Compensation recommendations will be presented to the supervisors after the evaluation is complete.

The study of manager compensation was ordered because new management is often hired at a higher cost than before because of higher education and skills, often making more than managers on the job for many years. Also some union employees are making as much as the managers.

Carlson answered several questions from supervisors about what he has seen in other counties over the years.

Elected officials and the administrator will not be evaluated.

Student representatives recognized The term has ended for the three student representatives, one each from the three Burnett County high schools, and each representative was given a plaque in recognition of their service. This was the first year the program sat highschoolers on the county board. Three elected supervisors helped mentor the student representatives, explaining the procedures used in county government and given background information as needed.

Each student representative was sent the same package as elected supervisors before the meeting so they could look over what would be on the agenda.

Burnett County Chairman Phil Lindeman thanked the three principals from the schools that allowed the students to

There were some long discussions during a couple of agenda items in the August meeting of the Burnett County Board of Supervisors held on Thursday, Aug. 20.

Wanting to add his voice to the discussion, Supervisor Eldon Freeze held his hand up long enough to get some needed support from Supervisor Brent Blomberg. - Photos

by Sherill Summer get involved with county government.

Three more student representatives have been chosen to take the outgoing student representatives places.

The Webster representative, Brittany Flatten, address the board towards the end of the meeting to explain the Burnett County Adolescent ADODA Prevention Coalition.

In other business A resolution was passed to withdrawal four tracks of forestland totaling about three-quarters of an acre, mostly near intersections along Hwy. 77. The Wisconsin DOT is expected to purchase the land that will be used during the Hwy. 77 reconstruction planned for 2010.

A resolution revising the land use ordinance was passed. The original language did not allow for heights over 199 feet the way it was written, and the changes would allow some towers over 199 feet tall upon approval from the land use committee.

A resolution to apply for a conservation aid grant was approved. The forestry and parks department applies for this grant annually. The conservation

aid grant requires a 50-percent match, and the total amount applied for will be $4,744.

The forestry annual work plan was ap-

proved. Approval was needed for a grant application that traditionally pays for the recreation supervisor.

After long discussion, the Burnett County Investment Policy went back to the administration committee for revisions.

The loan financing the highway department salt shed was refinanced at a higher rate after a lengthy discussion.

Borrowing for the salt shed was initially approved in 2004 and the loan expired on Aug. 5, 2009, with little notice from the bank that the loan was up for refinancing. The Aug. 5 payment was made and the loan is current prior to formal approval for the refinance. The current balance is $63,281.09, and the loan will be reviewed at a administration committee meeting to determine if the county should continue to finance the shed or to pay it off.

The supervisors accepted the land and water resources plan and the annual report from register in probate.

The student representatives to the county board from area high school received some recognition during Thursday’s meeting, Aug. 20. Three students had a seat at the table during the county board meeting to get a close-up look at local government. All three will be attending college this fall, but three replacements have been chosen to take their place during this year. At left are: (L to R) UW extension youth director and coordinator of this program Mary Pardee and Webster representative Brittany Flatten. At right is Grantsburg representative Joshua Phillips with Pardee. Siren representative Collin Tewalt was unable to receive his recognition in person.

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Engstrom selected to Women’s National Team!

One step closer to qualifying for winter games in Vancouver

by Marty Seeger BALSAM LAKE – A busy summer of training has paid off for Siren native Molly Engstrom as she was recently chosen as one of 23 hockey players to the 2009-10 U.S. Women’s National Team.

She’s now one step closer to reaching her second appearance in the Olympic Games, set for Vancouver, Canada, in 2010.

“I had a really great summer,” Engstrom said.

The news of her making the team came during a press conference held Monday at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minn., which came a day after 40 athletes spent five days scrimmaging, while the team’s head coach, a committee and several evaluators came together to make the final decisions. The entire process was a bit different for Engstrom, who recalled what the process was like in 2005, as she prepared for the 2006 winter games in Torino, Italy. She said training took place then at Lake Placid, N.Y., and the team selections were made primarily by the coach as opposed to committee members and evaluators.

Scrimmages were also relatively quiet and very few people attended. This time around was a bit different.

“The place was just packed and it was awesome,” Engstrom said, adding also that it brought a little intensity and a little tension as well. She said it was a tough, slow game at the start, and athletes as a whole didn’t play well. Things soon picked up however, and some pretty fast hockey ensued according to Molly’s mom, Judy Engstrom.

“It’s some of the best hockey that you’re ever going to see,” Judy said, and mentioned that the 40 girls selected to tryouts were phenomenal.

During the five days, four scrimmages were held with 20 women chosen for a blue team and another 20 women for team white. Engstrom played on the blue team that won three out of the four games.

“She’s in top shape,” Judy said. “She’s worked very hard at getting where she’s at, and she’s real healthy and probably in the best shape ever.”

Engstrom is a veteran on a relatively young national team this year, and will likely look toward the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver as a renewal of sorts. In 2006 she suffered an ankle injury and even elected not to walk during the opening ceremonies to save herself for when the actual games began. She did manage to get time on the ice as U.S.A. came out with a bronze medal, but of course, the focus now is on what’s ahead.

Engstrom is one of seven defensemen, and only one of six on the team that has Olympic experience. But she’s been around several of the athletes for quite some time already and appreciates the talent level of the team. She’s also just happy being out on the ice, and being around her teammates.

“In a sense, as a veteran we just use our experience where it needs to be, but

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Several family and friends were on hand last week to support Molly Engstrom at the tryouts held at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minn. From (L to R): Pam Daniels from Siren, Ryan Karsten from Siren, Molly Engstrom, Molly's brother Chris Engstrom and his girlfriend Connie Carlson, both from Siren. – Photos courtesy of Judy Engstrom

Molly Engstrom (at right) and teammate Natalie Darwitz hoist the cup from the United States second-straight World Hockey Championship title in Finland last spring. those kids are great hockey players,” she said.

Engstrom and the 23 athletes on Women’s National Team are now part of the Qwest Tour which begins Sept. 25, and ends prior to the start of the Olympic Games in Vancouver. The tour features 10 games against Division 1 hockey teams, the WCHA All-Stars, Canada, Finland and others. The first game, on Sept. 25, will be held at the Xcel Energy Center against the WCHA AllStars. Of the 23 athletes on the Women’s National Team, two will be cut at the end of the Qwest Tour. The 21 athletes chosen to participate in Vancouver will be decided sometime in mid-December.

“I’m just glad it’s over,” Engstrom said

with relief.

The outlook for the U.S.A. women’s hockey team in Vancouver looks bright.

These are the same women that can boast back-to-back world-championship titles and are ranked No. 1 in the world.

Hockey already begins this weekend on Saturday, Aug. 29, when the team heads to Vancouver to play in the Canada Cup, but not before a quick stop at the Minnesota State Fair this Thursday, Aug. 27.

The team will participate in the daily parade at 2 p.m., and host a meet and greet at Carousel Park from 3-5 p.m.

••• POZNAN, Poland – St. Croix Falls native and Olympic rower Megan Kalmoe completed a second-place finish at the World Rowing Championships last Sunday, Aug. 23, to advance to the semifinals this Thursday, Aug. 27.

She and rowing partner Ellen Tomek competed Megan Kalmoe in the women’s double sculls event and fell three seconds behind first-place Germany.

Kalmoe and Tomek won gold at a World Cup race in Lucerne earlier in the summer, and fifth in the 2008 games in the same event at the Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

••• LEADER LAND – The Unity versus Shell Lake football game at UWStout’s Gridiron Classic can be heard on Friday, Aug. 28, beginning at noon on WLMX 104.9 FM. The Osceola at St. Croix Falls football game on Friday, Aug. 28, is being broadcast on 104.9 FM beginning at 7 p.m.

••• MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee Brewers games being broadcast on WXCE 1260 AM can be heard on the following dates and times. The Reds at Brewers game on Aug. 27, begins at 1 p.m. The Pirates at Brewers games on Aug. 29-30, begin at 6 p.m., and 1 p.m., respectively. The Brewers at Cardinals games Sept. 1-2, begin at 7 p.m., both nights.

••• MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., – Minnesota Twins games broadcast on WLMX 104.9 FM can be heard on the following dates and times. The Rangers at Twins games Aug, 28-30, begin at 6 p.m., and 1 p.m., respectively. The White Sox at Twins games Sept. 1-2 begin at 7 p.m., and noon respectively.

••• GREEN BAY – The Packers at Cardinals game can be heard on WXCX 105.7 FM on Friday, Aug. 28, begining at 9 p.m.

••• MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., – The Vikings at Texans game featured on WLMX 104.9 FM can be heard at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 31.

••• LEADER LAND – Local sports tidbits to share? Please contact the Leader by 4:30 p.m. on Mondays to go in Extra Points. – Marty Seeger and Brenda Sommerfeld ••• LEADER LAND – Leader Sports strives to follow the college careers of area athletes. If you know of an athlete who will be playing collegiate sports in 2009 and hasn’t been mentioned, send us an e-mail or call and we’ll take it from there. – Marty Seeger and Brenda Sommerfeld

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Conference opener goes Unity/Luck’s way No. 1 doubles team wins all seven of their matches Unity/Luck 6, Osceola 1

by Brenda Sommerfeld BALSAM LAKE – After losing five of six matches in the past week, the Unity/Luck team faced their first conference opponent, Osceola, on their home court Tuesday, Aug. 25. Osceola fell victim to Unity/Luck 6-1.

“It was so great to see the girls start out so strong,” coach Beth Trudeau said.

“Our team has been working hard all summer and has played in some tough tournaments in preparation for the season. This match definitely showed how all our work has paid off.”

Each singles player, Lexie Kothlow, Alex Davison, Julie Franzel and Joy Albrecht, defeated their Osceola opponent in two games. The No. 1 doubles team, Jessi Kutina and Katherine Ebensperger, defeated Laura Neumann and Nicole Newman, 6-1 and 6-3. No. 2 doubles Maddie Anderson and Anna Ebensperger took their games both 6-2.

No. 3 doubles Mary Maiden Mueller and Emily Petzel fell to their opponents in two games, giving Unity/Luck the 61 victory on the match.

“I am extremely proud of everyone and so happy for their success today,” Trudeau commented.

Baldwin/Woodville 5, Unity/Luck 2 Ashland 4, Unity/Luck 3 Rice Lake 4, Unity/Luck 3 RICE LAKE – Unity/Luck had no luck as a team at the Rice Lake Quad Monday, Aug. 24, as they lost all three of their matches. Baldwin/Woodville, Ashland and Rice Lake were the teams they were put up against.

No. 1 singles Kothlow and No. 1 doubles team Kutina and Ebensperger won Tuesday, Aug. 25 Osceola at Unity/Luck

Unity/Luck 6, Osceola 1 No. 1 Singles: Lexie Kothlow (U) d. Michelle Chen (O) 6-0, 6-2; No. 2 Singles: Alex Davison (U) d. Annie Guenthner (O) 6-2, 6-2; No. 3 Singles: Julie Franzel (U) d. Mariah Hamm (O) 6-2, 6-4; No. 4 Singles: Joy Albrecht (U) d. Lauren Pauley (O) 7-5, 6-1; No. 1 Doubles: Jessi Kutina and Katherine Ebensperger (U) d. Laura Neumann and Nicole Newman (O) 6-1, 6-3; No. 2 Doubles: Maddie Anderson and Anna Ebensperger (U) d.

Sammi Rouw and Sarah Haley (O) 6-2, 6-2; No. 3 Doubles: Sarah Evans and Mac Larson (O) d. Mary Maiden Mueller and Emily Petzel (U) 6-0, 6-4.

No. 1 doubles team Jessi Kutina and Katherine Ebensperger won all seven matches that they played during the past week. – Photos by Marty Seeger each of their three matches. Kothlow took her Ashland and Rice Lake opponents down in two games but had to go into three for a tiebreaker against Baldwin/Woodville’s Haily Noha.

Kutina and Ebensperger made it look easy winning in two games against all three team’s opponents.

Unity/Luck’s No. 2 singles Davison defeated Ashland’s Emily Halvorson, but fell to Baldwin/Woodville’s Katie Bauer in a super set third game of 10-4.

No. 2 doubles Anderson and Ebensperger won against Rice Lake in Unity/Luck’s third match of the day, 7-5 and 6-4.

Pacelli 4, Unity/Luck 3 Onalaska 5, Unity/Luck 2 Unity/Luck 4, Fox Valley Lutheran 3 MARSHFIELD – No. 2 doubles Kutina and Ebensperger won three more matches during the Columbus Invitational in Marshfield Saturday, Aug. 22.

The Unity/Luck team won against Fox Valley Lutheran in their third match but lost to Pacelli and Onalaska in their first two.

No. 1 singles Kothlow won two of her three matches, No. 2 doubles Anderson and Ebensperger also won two of their three matches and No. 2 singles Davison and No. 3 singles Franzel each took one victory out of three in Marshfield.

Monday, Aug. 24 Rice Lake Quad

Baldwin/Woodville 5, Unity/Luck 2 No. 1 Singles: Lexie Kothlow (U) d. Haily Noha (BW) 7-6 (7-3 tie break), 6-2; No. 2 Singles: Katie Bauer (BW) d. Alex Davison (U) 6-3, 2-6, 10-4 (super set); No. 3 Singles: Katie Thompson (BW) d. Julie Franzel (U) 7-5, 4-6, 11-9 (super set); No. 4 Singles: Maddy Otis (BW) d. April Johnson (U) 6-0, 6-1; No. 1 Doubles: Jessi Kutina and Katherine Ebensperger (U) d. Jessica Johnson and Tanis Klingler (BW) 6-1, 6-2; No. 2 Doubles: Danielle Mundt and Abby Gadbois (BW) d. Maddie Anderson and Anna Ebensperger (U) 3-6, 6-4, 10-7 (super set); No. 3 Doubles: Sam Rode and Katie Zimmerman (BW) d. Mary Maiden Mueller and Kathryn Zahler (U) 6-0, 6-0.

Ashland 4, Unity/Luck 3 No. 1 Singles: Lexie Kothlow (U) d. Maya Quinlan (A) 6-1, 6-0; No. 2 Singles: Alex Davison (U) d. Emily Halvorson (A) 6-3, 6-0; No. 3 Singles: Amber Ovaska (A) d. Julie Franzel (U) 6-3, 6-2; No. 4 Singles: Torri Larson (A) d. Emily Petzel (U) 6-4, 6-2; No. 1 Doubles: Jessi Kutina and Katherine Ebensperger (U) d. Hailey Stuart and Kate Dufek (A) 6-2, 6-1; No. 2 Doubles: Lyndi Thompson and Jessica Newman (A) d. Maddie Anderson and Anna Ebensperger (U) 6-1, 7-5; No. 3 Doubles: Keauna Olson and Maddie Auvinen (A) d.

Kayla Johnson and Joy Albrecht (U) 7-6 (7-4 tie break), 2-6, 10-7 (super set).

Rice Lake 4, Unity/Luck 3 No. 1 Singles: Lexie Kothlow (U) d. Amy Brendel (RL) 6-4, 6-2; No. 2 Singles: Faith Lindner (RL) d. Alex Davison (U) 6-0, 1-6, 10-7 (super set); No. 3 Singles: Julia Gray (RL) d. Julie Franzel (U) 7-6 (7-5 tie break), 4-6, 11-9 (super set); No. 4 Singles: Tia Conwell (RL) d. Joy Albrecht (U) 6-3, 6-2; No. 1 Doubles: Jessi Kutina and Katherine Ebensperger (U) d. Jenna Shipman and Jada Hamilton (RL) 6-2, 6-0; No. 2 Doubles: Maddie Anderson and Anna Ebensperger (U) d. Tiffany Carlson and Emily Walsh (RL) 7-5, 6-4; No. 3 Doubles: Chelsea Peterson and Lauren McCracken (RL) d. Mary Maiden Mueller and Emily Petzel (U) 7-6, (8-6 tie break), 6-4.

Unity/Luck’s No. 1 singles player Lexie Kothlow waits for the serve during the match against Osceola on Tuesday, Aug. 25.

Saturday, Aug. 22 Columbus Tennis Invitational, Marshfield

Pacelli 4, Unity/Luck 3 No. 1 Singles: Lexie Kothlow (U) d. Maya Groos (P) 63, 6-7 (5-7 tie break), 10-6 pro-set; No. 2 Singles: Jessy Zywicki (P) d. Alex Davison (U) 6-2, 7-5; No. 3 Singles: Becca Czysen (P) d. Julie Franzel (U) 6-3, 6-1; No. 4 Singles: Emily Glinski (P) d. Kayla Johnson (U) 6-0, 6-0; No. 1 Doubles: Jessi Kutina and Katherine Ebensperger (U) d. Nikki Sommers and Michelle Nagel (P) 7-5, 5-7, 10-6 pro-set; No. 2 Doubles: Maddie Anderson and Anna Ebensperger (U) d. Jessica Simonis and Lydia McIntee (P) 6-4, 6-2; No. 3 Doubles: Veronica Eberhard and Hannah Jansch (P) d. April Johnson and Kathryn Zahler (U) 6-1, 6-0.

Onalaska 5, Unity/Luck 2 No. 1 Singles: Leslie Klinski (OL) d. Lexie Kothlow (U) 6-0, 7-5; No. 2 Singles: Stefanie Cox (OL) d. Alex Davison (U) 6-4, 6-1; No. 3 Singles: Susanna Harbach (OL) d. Julie Franzel (U) 6-3, 2-6, 10-5 pro-set; No. 4 Singles: Mackenzie Hoeppner (OL) d. Kayla Johnson (U) 2-6, 62, 10-5 pro-set; No. 1 Doubles: Jessi Kutina and Katherine Ebensperger (U) d. Allison Grokowsky and Olivia Krause (OL) 6-4, 6-1; No. 2 Doubles: Maddie Anderson and Anna Ebensperger (U) d. Sheridan Burmeister and Leah Justin (OL) 6-4, 6-3; No. 3 Doubles: Becky Riediges and Shelby Salmi (OL) d. April Johnson and Kathryn Zahler (U) 6-1, 6-2.

Unity/Luck 4, Fox Valley Lutheran 3 No. 1 Singles: Lexie Kothlow (U) d. Erica Bejvan (FVL) 6-3, 6-2; No. 2 Singles: Alex Davison (U) d. Alyssa Ticks (FVL) 6-1, 1-6, 10-3 pro-set; No. 3 Singles: Julie Franzel (U) d. Elizabeth Shinnick (FVL) 6-3, 7-5; No. 4 Singles: Sara Sugden (FVL) d. Kayla Johnson (U) 6-0, 6-0; No. 1 Doubles: Jessi Kutina and Katherine Ebensperger (U) d. Katherine Cherney and Holly Plamann (FVL) 6-2, 6-2; No. 2 Doubles: Amber Brukardt and Cassie Keller (FVL) d. Maddie Anderson and Anna Ebensperger (U) 6-3, 7-5; No. 3 Doubles: Brooke Schneider and Megan Voss (FVL) d. April Johnson and Kathryn Zahler (U) 6-1, 6-0.

Webster takes first match of season Pirates defeat two Webster 3, Birchwood 0

by Brenda Sommerfeld WEBSTER – With home-court advantage, the Webster Tigers found their first victory of the season with a three-game win over Birchwood Tuesday, Aug. 25.

The first two games were done with scores of 25-13 each. The third lasted slightly longer, with a 25-20 victory for the Tigers.

Webster had three weapons at the net against Birchwood. Alyssa Main had seven kills into the Bobcats court, Michelle Gibbs had five and Mary Johnson had five. Siiri Larsen was the designated setter, making 16 assists throughout the match.

Gibbs topped the team in digs with six, while Billie Ingalls and Johnson both had five. Serving went pretty well for the team with a total of 14 aces, Gibbs with

the most, knocking in four, followed by Larsen with three.

Webster will have their first West Lakeland Conference opponent, Unity, in Balsam Lake on Thursday to see if they can keep a winning streak going.

Grantsburg 3, Solon Springs 0 Grantsburg 3, Cameron 0 GRANTSBURG – The Grantsburg Pirates started the season strong as they defeated both Solon Springs and Cameron 3-0 in the triangular they hosted Tuesday, Aug. 25.

The Pirates will face Clayton Tuesday, Sept. 8, on their home court.

LEFT: Webster Tiger Alyssa Main goes for a kill over a Birchwood blocker. Main topped the list of kills for the Tigers with seven against the Bobcats during Webster’s season opening win. – Photos by Brenda Sommerfeld

MacKenzie Ryan puts the ball up for a serve against Solon Springs during the Pirate-hosted triangular Tuesday.

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Let the games begin The local high school football season begins Thursday with Webster’s appearance at the annual UW-Stout gridiron classic. The Unity Eagles play the following day with fringe Leader Land teams Turtle Lake, Cumberland and Shell Lake also on the docket. If you’ve never had the chance to attend this event, you’re somemissing thing. There may not be a better way for a sports fan to get into the mood and swing of the school year than to spend an afternoon or evening immersed in the high-spirited atmosphere that you’ll find Thursday and Friday on the Stout campus in Menomonie.

the Barron High School graduate and Florida State alumnus has two homers, 34 RBIs, 12 stolen bases and an on-base percentage of .327. During his local summer ball tenure, Hallberg’s skills were honed by Unity all-sports icons Doug Ramich and Greg Paulsen.

Incidentally, Mobile plays its home games in Hank Aaron Stadium. Aaron – a former Eau Claire Bear, Milwaukee Brave and Milwaukee Brewer – is a native of Mobile, Ala.

wastefully back into the swamp, I opted instead to skin out the hind legs and loin and turn the masked invader into last night’s supper and Wednesday’s reheated noon lunch. Here’s the quick and easy stew recipe which was found on the Internet and came to fruition Tuesday evening as John Gordon and Dan Gladden were broadasting the latest Twins victory over the FM-radio airwaves.

No grousing about Bonasa umbellus numbers Outdoorsmen who set down the remote control and push themselves out of the recliner continue to encounter nice numbers of ruffed grouse in their woodland forays. When it comes time for the lowdown on wildlife populations, one is better off ignoring the official data from state agencies and instead checking with rural mail carriers, woodcutters, mushroom hunters and archery deer scouters. The Wisconsin ruffed grouse season opens on Sept. 12.

Coon Stew

Ex-Unity Little Leaguer Hallberg heats up in Double A ball After a slow start offensively, former Unity Little League star Mark Hallberg has raised his batting average to .260 after more than 400 at-bats for the Mobile BayBears, the Arizona Diamondbacks class AA affiliate. As of this writing the BayBears Web site indicates

Good dog!

A routine woodland stroll Monday evening turned into a hunting and gathering activity when the 10-year-old mutt at my side suddenly bolted into a tag-alder clump and soon emerged with a squealing, writhing and eventually dead young raccoon. Rather than toss the expired beast unceremoniously and

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Team Sundown Chell Well God Squad Grantsburg Sanitary Century 21 Pour House Fur, Fins & Feathers Shooters Bar 1 Lake Lena Shooters Bar 2 Da Crew

Overall 22-2 18-5 19-6 16-8 15-9 13-11 12-12 8-16 5-19 5-19 1-24

Scores Monday, Aug. 24 Shooters Bar 1 13, Pour House 1 Century 21 15, Lake Lena 5 Sundown 15, Chell Well 13 Grantsburg Sanitary 6, Shooters Bar 2 5 God Squad 19, Fur, Fins & Feathers 17 Shooters Bar 1 22, Da Crew 10

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West Lakeland Standings Team Conf.

Overall Grantsburg Pirates 0-0 2-0 Webster Tigers 0-0 1-0 Clayton Bears 0-0 0-0 Clear Lake Warriors 0-0 0-0 Frederic Vikings 0-0 0-0 Luck Cardinals 0-0 0-0 St. Croix Falls Saints 0-0 0-0 Shell Lake Lakers 0-0 0-0 Siren Dragons 0-0 0-0 Turtle Lake Lakers 0-0 0-0 Unity Eagles 0-0 0-0 Scores Tuesday, August 25 Webster 3, Birchwood 0 (25-13, 25-13, 25-20) Grantsburg 3, Solon Springs 0 Grantsburg 3, Cameron 0 Upcoming Thursday, August 27 7:30 p.m. Webster at Unity Siren at Weyerhaeuser Frederic at Northwood Tuesday, September 1 7:30 p.m. Frederic at Solon Springs St. Croix Falls at Luck Winter at Siren Turtle Lake at Unity

GIRLS GOLF Upcoming

Thursday, August 27 9 a.m.

Luck/Unity at St. Croix Falls

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Small Lakeland Standings Team Conf.

Overall Bruce Red Raiders 0-0 0-0 Flambeau Falcons 0-0 0-0 Frederic Vikings 0-0 0-0 Shell Lake Lakers 0-0 0-0 Turtle Lake Lakers 0-0 0-0 Birchwood/Weyerhaeuser Cats 0-0 0-0 0-0 Northwood/Solon Evergreens 0-0 Siren Dragons 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Winter Warriors Large Lakeland Standings Team Conf.

Overall 0-0 0-0 St. Croix Falls Saints Unity Eagles 0-0 0-0 Cameron Comets 0-0 0-0 Clear Lake Warriors 0-0 0-0 Grantsburg Pirates 0-0 0-0 Webster Tigers 0-0 0-0 Luck Cardinals 0-0 0-0 Upcoming Thursday, August 27 5 p.m.

Webster vs. Lake Holcombe at UW-Stout 7 p.m.

Osceola at St. Croix Falls Friday, August 28 Noon Unity vs. Shell Lake at UW-Stout 7 p.m.

Frederic at Flambeau Grantsburg at Spooner Prairie Farm at Luck Northwood/Solon Springs at Siren

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Scores Saturday, August 22 Pacelli 4, Unity/Luck 3 Onalaska 5, Unity/Luck 2 Unity/Luck 4, Fox Valley Lutheran 3 Monday, August 24 Baldwin/Woodville 5, Unity/Luck 2 Ashland 4, Unity/Luck 3 Rice Lake 4, Unity/Luck 3 Tuesday, August 25 Unity/Luck 6, Osceola 1 Upcoming Thursday, August 27 4 p.m.

Baldwin/Woodville at Unity Monday, August 31 1 p.m.

Barron at Unity

CROSS COUNTRY

Upcoming Thursday, August 27 4:30 p.m. Frederic at Grantsburg Luck/Unity at Grantsburg St. Croix Falls at Grantsburg Webster at Grantsburg Tuesday, September 1 4:30 p.m. Grantsburg at Frederic St. Croix Falls at Frederic Unity/Luck at Frederic Webster at Frederic

Overall 3-7

1 raccoon, cleaned, skinned and quartered ~ pepper ~ 4 cups water ~ 2 carrots, diced ~ 1 stalk celery, diced ~2 large potatoes, cubed ~ salt In a large pot, place the meat and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook for one hour. Remove meat and allow to cool. Discard water. Remove meat from bones and cut into 1” - 2” cubes. Sprinkle with pepper. Add meat back to pot and add water, carrots, celery and potatoes. Season to taste with salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook until veggies are tender. Adjust seasoning if needed.

Serve and enjoy.

More about sports on the radio Local radio personality Ron Revere of New Mix 105 radio has announced that Minnesota Vikings games will be broadcast on WLMX, or 104.9 on your radio dial. Football may not be the radiofriendly sport that baseball is, but then again, who wants to sit inside on a gorgeous September or October day and watch three and a half hours of football? On those days, mellow autumn

days especially, radio is the answer.

Favre coverage comes to an end for now The e-mail inbox has been filled with readers asking to see continued and ongoing coverage in this column of Brett Favre and his return to the NFL. “Most Wisconsin papers have been anti-Favre and it’s nice to see a more balanced viewpoint,” said one e-mailer. Such compliments notwithstanding, be reminded that this column traditionally focuses on local sports and attempts to stay out of the national realm. Additionally, the Packer-Viking rivalry is the last thing in which this columnist wishes to become embroiled.

Hence, at this time I have no intention of mentioning Brett Favre in this space. So until further notice, Favre is being retired from this column.

Trivia returns! What doesn’t belong?

Contestants are to cull out the term which is not associated with this fall sporting activity.

1) Volleyball a) ace b) assist c) dig d) maim e) kill 2) Grouse hunting a) flush b) ground swat c) gray phase d) brood e) brow tine 3) Football a) audible b) triple lutz c) blitz d) bootleg e) draw 4) Golf a) birdie b) clothesline c) mulligan d) fore e) rough 5) Cross country a) hydration b) stride c) personal record d) scrum e) loop course Correct answers: 1-d, 2-e, 3-b, 4-b, 5-d John Ryan may be reached at jmr202@yahoo.com.

Saints take second in Amery for one night only

by Marty Seeger AMERY – Both St. Croix Falls and the Luck/Unity girls golf teams were delayed by rain last Thursday, Aug. 20, playing through only three or four holes apiece. But both teams got back on the course Monday, Aug. 24, in Amery, and the Saints finished just three strokes behind first-place Baldwin-Woodville.

The Saints were led by senior Marissa The Swami is a longtime Green Bay Packer fan who was so distraught over Brett Favre’s signing with the Vikings that he almost didn’t submit a prediction column this week. “But I take just as much pride in my streak (of consecutive preTHE SWAMI dictions) as Favre takes in his consecutive game streak, so – like Brett – I decided to keep plugging away,” he said Wednesday afternoon as he loaded organically grown garden produce into the back of his pickup truck.

The Swami had a 73-percent success rate during the 2008 grid season and expects to do even better this year, stating that his goal is an 80-percent rate.

The Swami

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Campeau, who individually placed third overall with an 81. Cortney Rasmussen and Tess Hedrick shot 94 and 99 respectfully, and Brittany Buss scored a 119.

Both Luck/Unity and St. Croix Falls will be golfing in St. Croix Falls this Thursday, Aug. 27, beginning at 9 a.m.

No golf scores were available at press time for the Luck/Unity golf team.

This week’s predictions: Webster 24, Lake Holcombe 12 – The Tigers make the most of the chance to perform on the big stage at UW-Stout.

Shell Lake 26, Unity 20 – The Eagles have twice the enrollment but the Lakers win anyway.

Spooner 36, Grantsburg 6 –The Pirates open against a formidable foe.

Luck 34, Prairie Farm 6 – Part two of the Kendzior era begins with an easy victory.

Minong-Solon Springs 48, Siren 6 – The new-look Dragons are off to a rough start.

Flambeau 30, Frederic 12 – The Falcons are loaded this year.

Osceola 20, St. Croix Falls 17 – Some new personnel helps the Chieftains avenge last year’s upset.

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

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

On the edge of the year’s best

It’s the time of year hunters and anglers live for. A chance to really get outside and see first hand the wonders of the waters and woods. But lately, at least for me anyway, Marty the outdoors has eluded me for about Seeger three weeks, or maybe even longer. Poor The planning is mostly to blame, but to be honBottom est, I can’t remember Line the last time I had the boat out on the water.

It’s actually been doing a better job at collecting water than anything. But depending on how you look at it, it can be a good thing.

We’ve finally had enough rain over the past couple of weeks to really get the

garden spewing veggies and already there’s a fine stash of carrots, broccoli, beans and peas in the freezer for the winter. In fact, gardening was so much fun this summer the wife and I are looking to expand the garden on our giant half-acre landmass that our house sits on. Actually, it’ll be more like a five-foot extension so the zucchini and summer squash can stretch out a bit more. I’m guessing there are several others out there who decided to throw in a garden to cut a few costs at the grocery store. It only works though, if you steer clear from planning a trip out west to harvest an elk to go along with the veggies. That is, if an elk is actually harvested.

For those who really care to save money this fall as opposed to shopping for store-bought meat, have a lot of opportunity coming this way in September. It’s also why many of us plan for time away from the regular routines of a drawn out workweek. If you’re archer, hopefully you’ve already begun getting you’re broadheads honed in, or at least crashed the local sporting goods store

for last minute supplies. The deer season will be here sooner than you think.

For those who completely forgot about sending in for a fall turkey permit this year, there’s still time to try and purchase the remaining permits over the counter this Saturday, Aug. 29, beginning at noon. It’s a convenient way to take the thanksgiving turkey off the grocery list without having to leave your bow stand. It’s not always easy, but the challenge makes eating it all that more rewarding in the end.

Although dog training for bear closes on Monday, Aug. 31, Tuesday, Sept. 1, seems to set the fall hunting season in motion for the rest of the year. There may not be a high number of mourning doves in this area, but the season offers a lot of opportunity. There’s not only very little pressure, but doves are one of the cheapest forms of hunting there is.

Plus it’s a challenging way to sharpen your skills for the upcoming duck and goose seasons. That is, unless you’ve drawn for a tag in Zone C where bear hounds aren’t allowed. Otherwise,

For those lucky enough to have drawn a bear hunting permit this fall there’s the Sept. 9-15 opener. Those with tags in zones A, B, and D will get to use hounds first this season. That is unless you’ve drawn for a tag in Zone C where bear hounds aren’t allowed. The methods for harvesting bear alternates each year, but all methods may be used from Sept. 16 through Oct. 6.

By Sept. 12, the bulk of the fall options begin to open up and hunters can flood the woods in search of just about everything they‘ve been dreaming about all summer long. The archery deer opener, grouse, rabbit, squirrel and fall turkey seasons begin at this time, and those who understand this exciting transition suddenly realize why they get out of bed every morning.

For some, the summer ends when school begins, or after the first sporting event of the year. For others in Wisconsin, it ends on Sept. 1, when we can finally get a start on what we love doing the most.

Deadline to apply for disabled deer hunt is Sept. 1 POLK COUNTY – The Polk County Sportsmen’s Club is hosting its annual Gun Deer Hunt for Hunters with Disabilities. The hunt will take place from Saturday, Oct. 3, through Thursday, Oct. 15. To qualify for this hunt, you must have a Class A, B or C disabled permit. If you have a Class B you must have a long-term Class B permit to participate.

Landowner response for new hunting ground has been great for the 2009 hunt.

Thousands of acres of private hunting land have been reserved throughout Polk County for this event. The sportsmen’s club will provide guides, blinds and club-owned firearms, if needed.

Prior to the hunt, a picnic will be held for all participants. The picnic is sched-

uled for Friday, Sept. 18, at the Balsam Lake Rod and Gun Club starting at 5 p.m. Participation in the picnic is not required but is encouraged. This will give hunters an opportunity to sight in their firearms and to meet the landowners and guides.

For further information about this event, to register for the hunt, or to vol-

unteer as a guide or support staff, contact DNR Warden Jesse Ashton at 715472-2253 or Steve Jacobs at 715-646-1466.

Tuesday, Sept. 1, is the deadline for hunters to sign up to participate in the hunt. – submitted

Turkey, grouse hunting have special safety concerns STATEWIDE – “There’s something very special about turkey and grouse hunting,” says Tim Lawhern, hunter-education administrator for the state Department of Natural Resources. “And with the enthusiasm that goes with this type of hunting, we should all be mindful of making sure we return home safe and sound at the end of each hunt.” Here are some things Lawhern says hunters need to keep in mind when going afield after ruffed grouse and fall turkey: • In grouse hunting, two is company and three is definitely a crowd. Any hunt with more than two will become difficult to manage from a safety aspect.

• Communicate. Grouse cover is thick and sometimes it will be difficult to see a hunting partner who might only be a few yards away.

• Plan your hunt and hunt your plan.

Keep it simple. Know in advance how far and in what direction you will be going and when turns will be made.

• Advise someone else of where you will be hunting and when they should expect you back. Then, if something goes

wrong, at least someone will know where to start looking.

• Know your safe zone of fire. If you are on the left, your safe zone is to the left and slightly forward. The opposite is the case if you are on the right. Always advance forward in unison, and don’t get ahead or behind your partner.

• In heavy cover, shoot only at birds that are at least eight feet above the ground. Don’t shoot at low birds that could have a hunter or a dog behind them!

• Wear blaze-orange clothing and stay in visual contact with your partner at all times. If you lose sight of your partner stop hunting, call and listen until you locate each other.

• Turkey hunters need to be sure of their target - shooting into heavy brush without positive identification can lead to tragedy.

Follow the four basic rules of firearm safety: TAB K. Treat every firearm as loaded; Always point the muzzle in a safe di-

rection; Be certain of your target and what’s beyond it; Keep your finger outside the trigger guard until you are ready to shoot.

Lawhern suggests hunters also consider wearing some type of eye protection. A good pair of clear or light-colored safety glasses can go a long way toward avoiding injury to eyes and sight.

Grouse and turkey hunters also need to be aware that there might be other hunters afield at the same time after

other types of game. Bow hunters may be perched in tree stands and other turkey hunters may be under a tree.

Most of them will be wearing full camouflage and be very hard to see.

“Famed conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, ‘There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting and ruffed grouse hunting,’” Lawhern says. “Don’t let careless hunting practices spoil this special tradition.” – from the DNR

Great Northern Outdoors Thursday Bass Fishing League Week 16 1. Al Briese, 2 lbs., 4 oz.

2. Aaron Long, 2 lbs., 3 oz.

3. Adam Memmer 2 lbs., 2 oz.

4. Tim Hutton, 2 lbs., 1 oz.

5. Kirk Miller, 1 lb., 15 oz.

6. Rob Buchholz 1 lbs., 13 oz.

7. Cory Meyer, 1 lbs., 4 oz.

8. Vern Knauber, 1 lb., 3 oz.

9. Shawn Hutton, 1 lbs., 2 oz.

10. Jamie Magnuson, 8 oz.

11. Tony Peterson, 5 oz.

Standings 1. Aaron Long, 51 lbs., 11 oz.

2. Rob Buchholz, 46 lbs., 4 oz.

3. Al Briese, 44 lbs., 10 oz.

5. Adam Memmer, 41 lbs., 10 oz.

4. Troy Olson, 40 lbs., 10 oz.

6. Bryan Cox, 27 lbs., 3 oz.

7. Shawn Hutton, 27 lbs.

8. Vern Knauber, 26 lbs., 9 oz.

9. Tim Hutton, 25 lbs., 9 oz.

10. Aaron Bistram, 23 lbs., 5 oz.

11. Kirk Miller, 22 lbs., 4 oz.

12. Marc Wiehl, 19 lbs., 6 oz.

13. Jamie Magnuson, 18 lbs., 10 oz.

16. Cory Meyer, 15 lbs., 9 oz.

14. Bruce Dau, 15 lbs., 5 oz.

15. Adam Bistram, 14 lbs., 7 oz.

17. Tony Peterson, 8 lbs., 11 oz.

18. Dean Clontz, 8 lbs., 3 oz.

19. Micheal Clontz, 5 lbs., 13 oz.

20. Rebecca Hutton, 4 lbs., 2 oz.

21. Kathy Erickson, 3 lbs., 14 oz.

Big bass weekly winner Week 16: Al Briese 1 lbs., 4 oz.

Learn the Olympic sport of curling RICE LAKE – Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in Rice Lake is offering classes in the Olympic sport of curling this fall, in time to acquire and sharpen the necessary skills before the season starts. The course will be taught by instructors Larry Sharp and Bill Kind, themselves world class curlers. The classes will be held at the Rice Lake Curl-

ing Club, one of Wisconsin’s largest, most modern curling clubs.

The beginning level course, Sept. 21Oct. 8, is an introduction to curling and covers topics including rules of the game, delivery of the rock, sweeping techniques and game etiquette. The intermediate/advanced class, Oct. 12-29, is designed for the more experienced

curler. Topics include game strategies and situations and being a team member.

Both courses are held on the ice on Mondays and Thursdays from 6-8 p.m. Cost is $34.42 per course or $4 for individuals 62 years old or better.

WITC-Rice Lake Continuing Education offers these courses and many more, covering a large variety of topics, and

held in many locations around northwest Wisconsin. To get a complete list of courses or to register online, log on to witc.edu, and click on Classfinder. Or call 715-234-7082 or 800-243-9482, extensions 5477, 5410 or 5409 for more information. – submitted

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ACT scores improve, still below average

by Mary Stirrat LUCK — Luck students consistently score very well on state testing, said high school Principal Mark Gobler at the Aug. 24 meeting of the Luck School Board, but unfortunately this success is not reflected on the ACT scores.

The ACT, or college entrance exam, consists of tests in English, mathematics, reading and science that are designed to measure the skills needed for success in first-year college course work.

Luck students scored below the state average in all areas of the ACT. In English and mathematics, Luck scores have been steadily climbing since the class of 2005, according to a chart distributed at the Aug. 24 meeting of the school board.

Scores in reading and science are lower than last year but higher than the previ-

ous year.

In English, Luck’s score of 20.7 is one full point lower than the state average, but still higher than the 18 points ACT sets as a benchmark for college readiness in English composition.

Luck’s math score is 20.5 below both the ACT benchmark of 22 points and the state average of 22.2. This is the testing area where Luck has made the greatest strides, gaining three points since 2006.

In reading, Luck’s score of 21.8 is above the benchmark of 21 points but below the state average of 22.6.

In science, Luck’s score of 21.5 falls short of the state average of 22.3 and the benchmark of 24 points.

Several factors contribute to the belowaverage scores, including the high percentage of students taking the test. At

Luck, said Gobler, between 55 and 65 percent of graduating seniors take the ACT. All students are encouraged to do so if they desire, whether or not they plan to attend a four-year college.

“One reason it fluctuates year to year depends on the dynamics of the class taking the test,” he said. “Some classes are more academically competitive, while others rather flow with the crowd.”

The fact that some students are not good test takers, and the level of preparation required by some of the other school districts, also contribute to the differences.

“Over half of our students perform higher than the state average on the ACT,” Gobler said later. “What we see is that some of the students that have

low scores unfortunately have very low scores.”

The low scores have a severe impact on the school’s average score, he said, adding, “We need to do a better job with those students.”

Gobler said that he and high school guidance counselor Rachel Berg have discussed adding an ACT preparation class for which students can earn credits.

There is currently an online prep program, he said, that students can access if they choose.

“We also look at the positive side,” Gobler said. “The math scores are steadily increasing along with the English. A number of our students have received substantial scholarship money from colleges because they did so well on the ACT.”

Polk capital improvements approved Most of money for vehicles, equipment

by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – The Polk County Board approved spending $1.5 million on levy funded items requested in the Capital Improvement Plan for 2010.

The total requests for levy-funded items totaled $1,945,775 in the final revision presented at the Aug. 18 board meeting. The board took no action on removing items from the list. The board started the monthly meeting at an earlier time, 4 p.m. instead of 6:30 p.m., to review and discuss the CIP.

Most of the CIP levy money was requested for replacement vehicles and large equipment, over $900,000 of the total. That includes $169,750 for law enforcement vehicles, $400,000 for highway department trucks and $330,000 for highway department heavy equipment.

The departments looked at the age of items, miles of use, trade in value and estimated future repair costs in justifying what should be replaced in the coming year.

Road projects for 2010 account for $798,831 of the levy money in the CIP. That would be matched by an additional $1,013,800 in borrowed funds, the last of the $2.5 million in bond funds raised for the county’s six-year road improvement

plan. The highway committee earlier removed a request for $694,653 for paving work on the eastern end of CTH W. A scaled-down improvement of that stretch is now planned for 2012.

Other levy funded requests in the CIP came mostly from the parks and buildings department, a total of $139,000. That includes $48,500 for repairs at the highway building. Most of that money is to repair plumbing code violations in the 76-year-old building. Other funds would be used for parking lot work, routine painting and janitorial equipment. The buildings department is responsible for the repair and maintenance of the government center, the justice center, the highway building and possibly the

Golden Age Manor building.

Resolution of the CIP part of the budget had been requested by members of the personnel committee. The finance committee had requested personnel to find $1 million in employee savings. Personnel members said they needed to know where the savings would go and what was included in the projected $1.5 CIP shortfall. A petition was started at a personnel committee meeting calling for a special meeting of the county board to review and approve the CIP. That petition led to the early start of the Aug. 18 meeting and the resolution approving the CIP part of the budget.

Feingold calls for flexible timetable to bring troops home from Afghanistan APPLETON – This week, in a meeting with the editorial board of the Appleton Post-Crescent, Sen. Feingold called for a flexible timetable to bring our troops out of Afghanistan. During his meeting, Feingold said: “After eight years, I am not convinced that simply pouring more and more troops into Afghanistan is a well thought-out strategy. And I have raised this issue with the president, with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mullen, Mr. Holbrooke, the special representative to the area, and everybody else I can and have never been convinced that they have a good answer to the concern that I have, and that other people have. And that is aren’t we sort of helping drive more extremists into Pakistan, by continuing to build up troops and resentment in Afghanistan.

And of course, Pakistan is where the

witch’s brew of every kind of nightmare comes together in a nuclear country, and I think it’s not a very well-thought strategy.

“So something I have not said before which I want to say here in Appleton is that I think it is time we ought to start discussing a flexible timetable when people in America and Afghanistan and around the world can see where we intend and when we intend to bring our troops out. This isn’t something that can’t be adjusted. It isn’t something that can’t be thought out. But I think what you do is increase the view that we are occupying the country, we don’t have a strategy, if you don’t say look, this is basically what we think we’ll do. I know the argument will be, well they’ll know when we’re leaving. Well you can say the same thing about Iraq right now.

And those who claim we’re succeeding

New staff at Unity

Two new teachers will greet students next week at Unity Schools. Chris Lesneski (L) is the high school physical education and health teacher, and Nicole Kobar (R) is the new full-time school psychologist. Teachers have started orientation and in-service, preparing for the first day of school Tuesday, Sept. 1. — Photos by Mary Stirrat

in Iraq aren’t saying that now. There’s a timetable out there, and people claim it’s succeeding. I think showing the people there and here that we have a sense about when it’s time to leave is going to be one of the best things we can do to succeed in Afghanistan. People in that country have to take ownership of it, everybody says that. So I want a conversation in this country to begin. (Four) years ago I was the first senator in the United States - I announced it in Marquette, Wisconsin - to say we ought to have a timetable for Iraq. I believe that activism was important in moving us forward and having elections where people said it’s time to finish it.

“So we have to be dead serious about security. We have to maintain the ability to go after al-Qaida within Afghanistan.

It doesn’t mean we give that up. But simply continuing operations there - and apparently there are going to be requests for many more troops - I’m not sure it’s a wise idea.”

In a couple recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings, Feingold raised his concerns with the Mullen, and the Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Holbrooke, both of whom could not guarantee that increasing the U.S. presence in Afghanistan would not push Taliban and other fighters into Pakistan making a dangerous situation even worse. More about Feingold’s comments during his meeting with the Appleton Post-Crescent editorial board is available at //www.postcrescent.com. from the office of Sen. Feingold

Chorus places fifirrst

Following a great performance at the Polk County Fair with the Vallee de Croix Chorus from Stillwater, Minn., the K.A.M.(L). quartet went on to win first place for their age category in the Polk Country Fair Talent Show. Kayla Classen, Molly Tolfohrde, Alli Langer and Maggie Szczesna have been making the rounds of fairs and talent shows this summer sharing their gift of music. As an auditioned quartet from Osceola High School, this quartet has created many memories not only for themselves but also for the many audiences who have had the priviledge of seeing them perform. - Special photo

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Taylors Falls approves proposals

by Tammi Milberg TAYLORS FALLS, Minn. – The city of Taylors Falls council met Aug. 24, approving two proposals on a short agenda.

The first proposal was from the steering committee for the Chisago Project.

The recommendation was to vacate a portion of Mulberry Street in order to provide enough right of way to Xcel Energy to construct three 60-foot-tall transition poles west of CTH 20 in the city, as outlined in the Sept. 2000 mediated settlement agreement.

A public hearing was held at 7:05 p.m. for the council to hear comment in favor of or against the proposal. No public comment was given, and the hearing was closed at 7:10 p.m. Following the closing of the public hearing, the council deliberated the vacation of the street and pending resolution to do so.

First, zoning administrator/coordinator Larry Phillips presented

the council with the reasoning behind the resolution. Phillips stated that the area west of CTH 20 is not large enough without a vacation of a portion of Mulberry Street, which would leave an alternate of one monopole 98 feet in height.

“The city felt this was unacceptable because it’s too high and felt that the street vacation with easements for the water main, telephone and electric line in place was the best solution,” he said.

The council discussion brought up one question from councilman Larry JulikHeine about the language in the resolution that said Xcel has the following rights: “From time to time the electric lines and supporting structures may be reconstructed or relocated on the said easement area with changed dimensions, voltages.”

Julik-Heine said he wondered what, if any, ramifications the city would have by allowing that language. He stated that he was thinking about the Cherry Hill Park

view and that he did not want to see major structure changes in that area.

John Wertish, Xcel Energy, stated he did not see the resolution and was not familiar with the language Julik-Heine was referring to. He said that he thought that the language was for maintenance and that any changes in the structure or voltage would come before the city council. He added that any change in voltage would require a permitting process to take place again, of which the city would be duly notified.

Vice mayor Ross Rivard is also a member of the steering committee and said that the three poles in question are steel poles, and he said any upgrade to those structures would not happen for 30, 40 or even 50 years.

The council seemed satisfied with the resolution language after the explanation and passed it unanimously, with councilman John Tangen absent.

In other business, the council ap-

proved a proposal from the historical society that first came to the council April 27. The proposal was for the historical society to occupy some space in the community center as an office, storage area and to put up two display cases in the lower level with the agreement to pay the city $50 monthly to help defray costs of operating the community center. The council indicated that they felt it was a good use of the space to allow community groups to use the space and indicated that other groups like the Lions Club have expressed interest in using the space as well.

The council’s decision that evening was to vote to approve a letter of understanding between the historical society and the city for the use of the space in the community center. The council approved the letter of understanding with all in favor.

St. Croix Falls schools on track with AYP

by Tammi Milberg ST. CROIX FALLS – The school board for St. Croix Falls met Aug. 25, with the agenda relatively short, but with reports about getting ready for the start of school on Sept. 1 from the principals.

The principals reported that the teachers are reporting this week, the high school remodeling project is just about wrapped up, enrollment is up, a new look of paint is in the elementary school and middle school orientation is scheduled. With that, the board also heard from Superintendent Glenn Martin about a proposal from Mike Prichard about the school utilizing the Wert Nature Preserve (land across from the Lions

Park) as an outdoor classroom or school forest for grades K-12. The board and principals all seemed to agree that the idea was a good one, and Martin said he would bring more information to the board after he has a second meeting with Prichard.

Also on the agenda was the AYP review summary from John Gyllen, director of pupil services. Gyllen said that the district is sitting well for the or adequate yearly progress for WKCE testing.

Gyllen said the report is scored on four items: test participation, other academic indicator, reading and mathematics.

Test participation is scored as adequate progress if the district can prove every

student is tested. The other academic indicator is that attendance of students is at least 95 percent or in high school, the graduation rate is above 85 percent. The reading score is based on at least 74 percent of students scoring advanced/proficient, and the math score is based on at least 58 percent of students scoring advanced/proficient.

“The scores for the past three years show we have 12 out of 12 indicators that are adequate for the elementary, middle school, high school and district as a whole,” he said. Gyllen said now the percentages for advanced/proficient will begin to increase this year from 74 and 58 percent gradually until the year

2014, when the advanced/proficient percentages will be 100 percent. While the school is above the state’s minimum required percentages now, it will become more challenging to keep meeting those as the percentages increase, but staff is aware of the increases to come.

The school board announced the annual meeting Sept. 14. The regular board meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m., a budget hearing will be held at 7:30 p.m., and the annual meeting will take place at 8 p.m., where voters in the district will set the levy and budget for the school year.

Polk budget reviews start Department heads talk about funding cuts

by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – The Polk County Finance Committee has started a week of reviewing 2010 department budget requests.

The process started Monday, Aug. 24, and will conclude on Thursday when the committee makes its first round of rec-

ommendations. With a projected shortfall of over $2 million for the coming year, most departments are coming in with budgets that ask for no increase in levy dollars. However, two departments pointed out how present demands and past cuts have hurt them.

The state has cut funds to the human services department by $278,183 for the coming year at a time when the demand for those services is rising. HS director Sherry Gjonnes and HS finance officer Pat Kirkwood said that state funding for some programs was cut by over 10 per-

cent as the state balanced its budget by reducing funds for programs delivered at the county level. At the same time, the economic slowdown has increased the human service caseloads for child protection, economic assistance, mental health and juvenile justice.

“Much of our work is court ordered,” Gjonnes said. “The cost of housing six clients at state hospitals costs $452,000.

We are running all mandated programs at a minimal level.”

“We are down to a maintenance program,” highway Director Steve Warn-

dahl said. “We have done what you asked us to do. We have come in with a no levy increase budget.”

A review of the past highway budgets shows reductions or no increases for most of the past nine years. Warndahl said without funding, the county road system will continue to deteriorate. The six-year road plan, funded by levy dollars and bonding funds, has designed to bring the 330 miles of highways up to a good condition and keep them maintained. Without funding, the department may need to change that plan.

Americans for Prosperity to hold health-care town hall meetings in state STATEWIDE - Trying to building pressure on Democratic members of Congress in Wisconsin, a conservative group will hold town hall-style meetings in late August on the health-care reform bill in Congress.

The Wisconsin chapter of Americans

for Prosperity, which opposes the bill, is hosting the health-care meetings in districts represented by Reps. Dave Obey, D-Wausau, Ron Kind, D-La Crosse, and Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison. The group was a force behind antitax “tea party” rallies in the state this summer.

Burglary suspects arrested BURNETT COUNTY - A press release from the Burnett County Sheriff’s Department this week stated that on Friday, Aug. 20, eight people suspected of over 100 burglaries and thefts were arrested.

Five of the eight individuals were arrested in Burnett County. The Burnett County Sheriff’s Department was in cooperation with the sheriff’s departments of Polk, St. Croix, Chippewa, Dunn, Barron and Washburn counties in Wisconsin and Mille Lacs County in Minnesota.

Also listed as investigating the string of burglaries and thefts is the police departments of Webster, Webb Lake/Scott, New Richmond, White Bear Lake, Maplewood, Minn., Burnsville, Minn., Spooner, Aitken, Minn., and Siren.

The FBI is also reportedly involved and is considering filing federal charges against the suspects, according to Stacy Hopke of the Burnett County Sheriff’s Department.

The press release also said that a large amount of property has been recovered and that victim notification is under way.

The Burnett County Sheriff’s Department and other cooperating agencies are still investigating leads. Names of the suspects will be release once the investigation is complete. - Sherill Summer

The members of Congress will be invited to attend the sessions in their district.

ABC News 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel will moderate the sessions, which will feature speakers on both sides of the issue, according to AFP’s state director,

Mark Block.

The gatherings tentatively are set for the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 26, in Madison, lunchtime on Thursday, Aug. 27, in La Crosse and an evening meeting the same day, in Rothschild near Wausau. - Milwaukee Journal

Budget/from page 3 ways to improve efficiency in all areas, including transportation, athletics, and buildings and grounds. Committees will be asked to “think outside the box,” he said, to come up with new ideas.

Another facet of dealing with the shortfall is continued discussions with Frederic regarding cooperative programming. Palmer told the board that the district administrators and board presidents from the two districts met to discuss some ideas.

“We had a good discussion,” he said, “and want to keep the doors open.”

Some of the ideas discussed, Palmer said, did not necessarily save money but would preserve programming or provide additional educational opportuni-

ties for the students.

He then asked if the board would be interested in bringing the Unity School District into the discussions, to make it a three-way cooperative effort.

“I would think having a three-way conversation would be even more beneficial than a two-way,” he said.

Bazey pointed out that Luck and Unity already cooperate with sports and swimming lessons, and agreed that expanding the relationship could be beneficial.

“I think there’s going to have to be some unusual partnerships,” said Palmer, adding that it may include sharing of students.

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Polk staffing plans reviewed

No tax dollars for new staff, no cuts

by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – There will be no new positions in Polk County paid for with levy dollars.

And no present jobs will be eliminated. That is the 2010 staffing recommendation of the Polk County personnel committee after its first round of staffing plan reviews. The Personnel Committee, meeting jointly with the finance committee, listened county department heads making their staffing presentations Friday afternoon, Aug. 14, and all day Monday, Aug. 17.

There were a few requests for new positions, most of which were paid for by no levy (property tax) dollars and two management positions were recommended for elimination. Most of the requests and changes involve the Human Services Department.

The slow economy is generating an increased demand on the programs provided by human services, Interim Director Sherry Gjonnes told the committees. The Human Services Board recommended adding four new positions in

child protection, mental health, juvenile justice, and economic assistance. Personnel recommended adding the juvenile justice and economic assistance positions since each would be paid with nonlevy dollars. The child protection social worker position, with a levy cost of $75,387, and the mental health case manager position, with a levy cost of $40,614, were not recommended. Human services is eliminating the now – vacant deputy director position at a savings of $110,000 a year. The deputy director had supervised the long-term care division that has been shifted to a new multicounty agency.

Lime quarry manager is the other management position recommended for elimination. That now vacant post cost $80,000, with the funds coming from quarry operations. The lime quarry may be managed by the highway department if a proposed merger is approved.

Aside from these changes, there were few other requests from the departments and nothing that would increase the levy was approved.

Department head comments A common theme from department heads was that their departments had al-

ready been cut to the minimum size in past years and any more cuts would affect their ability to perform their services. Several department heads noted that many positions are partly funded by nonlevy dollars, and a cut in those positions would result in a loss of revenue to the county.

“I am the only person in my department who is on the levy,” Sara McCurdy, land information director said. “Fees we generate pay for the other positions. We are spending our time enforcing compliance with zoning and land use issues. Citations are at a record high. We can’t make the laws and not enforce them.”

“We are working on preserving and protecting our water resources,” Tim Ritten, land and water resources director said. “That is what the state requires.

Our surface waters are the tax base of our county. It is a tug-of-war to protect those resources. We may be losing that war. Our actual need is 15 people to do our job. We have a staff of nine.”

“There is not enough work for three people and too much for one,” Veterans Service Officer Rick Gates said. “If I lost the hours of my assistant, our efficiency would go down. That would result in lost dollars for the vets. We bring in $14

million a year for our veterans.”

Committee comments After the review of the staffing plan requests, the five personnel committee members, Russ Arcand, Keith Rediske, Patricia Schmidt, Gerald Newville and Herschel Brown, summed up their views. No one suggested making any cuts in present staff. Arcand said it was too early to look at staff reductions.

Newville said things will get better in the economy, and it would be wrong to take apart departments that are working.

“We need to look long range,” Rediske said. “Home health may need to come back to the table. We may need to phase out library. The information center needs to look at other contributions. We need to look at more cross-training of employees. The departments are operating at a minimal level. Each explained the consequences of making cuts. For example, we are behind in protecting water quality. If we cut, we fall farther behind. Human services is at a threshold. If we take a cog out, the machine fails. We are at a critical point of need.”

Doyle’s decision sparks parties to find successor MADISON – Gov. Jim Doyle officially confirmed Monday, Aug. 17, that he won’t run for re-election and vowed to serve out the remainder of his current term in office.

Doyle told supporters at his boyhood

Town hall meeting set BALSAM LAKE - A community town hall meeting will be held Thursday, Sept.

3, at 7 p.m. in the West Conference Room of the Government Center in Balsam Lake.

One of the topics for discussion will be the proposals by President Obama and the Congress for health-care reform. An invitation has been sent to Sen. Kohl and Rep. Dave Obey. Phone calls have been made to their offices as well. Confirmation has not been received as to their ability to attend.

The town hall meeting will be held regardless of their attendance and questions will be recorded to forward to their respective offices. - submitted

elementary school in Madison that now was not the time to reminisce. The governor’s term expires in January 2011, and he says that gives him plenty of time to tackle tough issues like education reform and global warming. He told the audience “This moment in history will not be wasted.”

Democrats had been particularly curious about the governor’s plans. Doyle was raising campaign funds aggressively, but rumors persisted that he would bow out or leave. The governor says he arrived at his decision in the last week or so. He acknowledged that some people would’ve preferred a later decision but doing so would’ve made it more difficult for a Democratic candidate to launch an effective campaign for his office.

Doyle will depart as an undefeated candidate. He won two elections for governor and three for attorney general.

He says he would have done well if he’d run again.

But this was no ordinary year for the governor. Wisconsin’s unemployment rate has hovered near double digits and the recession blew a massive hole in the state budget. Doyle fixed it using a com-

Gov. Doyle will not run for re-election but will serve out the remainder of his current term in office. - Special photo bination of tax increases and cuts. His approval rating dropped to all-time lows.

If re-elected, Doyle would have certainly had to deal with another major budget shortfall in 2011. Mark Marotta served as Doyle’s administration secretary during his first term, when the state was reeling from the last recession.

Marotta says it’s exhausting to govern under those circumstances, as plans to help grow a state often are pulled back and cut just to keep things afloat.

Both parties are already looking ahead to the next governor’s race.

Almost immediately after Doyle’s announcement, an aide to Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton said she will run for governor.

La Crosse Rep. Ron Kind released a statement saying he’ll decide whether to run in coming weeks.

Republican Party Chair Reince Preibus said yesterday that Doyle’s departure was good news for the GOP. He says having an open seat gives them “a tremendous opportunity” and a “free shot” at the governor’s mansion.

Republican Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker announced his run for governor months ago and has raised funds faster than anyone the first half of this year. Former GOP Rep. Mark Neumann entered the race last month.

Madison-based Democratic pollster Paul Maslin says it’s too early to assume anything in the race for governor.

There’ll be new faces from the Democrats and Republicans, and that “becomes a crapshoot.”

There had been widespread speculation ever since President Obama was elected that the governor might leave for a job in the administration. But Doyle says he feels strongly about serving out his term. Assuming he follows through, that would make him the longest-serving Democratic governor in state history.

See the Leader’s Web site (www.theleader.net) for the full text of Doyle’s speech on his decision not to seek reelection. - Wisconsin Public Radio (Shawn Johnson)

Pepper the Great Dane goes missing

CORRECTION: The photo above, published on page 6 of section A last week along with the Webster Village Board story by Sherill Summer, had the incorrect caption. The caption should have read: John Stroschine from Northwest Regional Planning (L) talked about the facade loan program that provides up to a $20,000, low-interest loan to business owners wishing to improve the facade of their downtown businesses. Webster business owner Rick Anderson (R) added that he was quite certain that if businesses knew about these funds, they will want to access them. - Photo by Sherill Summer

BURNETT COUNTY - Pepper is a 2year-old Great Dane who came to Siren from Rockford, Ill., after emergency surgery. While being unloaded, Pepper bolted and ran. This was at midnight Aug. 7.

For the next 48 hours, dozens of people in the Waldora Road/Peterson Road and Siren National Golf Course area searched for her. She was in need of medical attention. People came out on foot, motorcycle, ATV, boat and one neighbor took up his plane to help search. The Burnett County Sheriff’s Department helped in the search.

Pepper was spotted many times but

ran the moment she saw people. She was last seen in this area Aug. 11 and the sightings ended. On Aug.15, Pepper showed up almost 15 miles away at Clam Drive and 115th Street, southeast of Lewis. She came to two different homes and ate the food left for her.

Pepper is now a walking skeleton and probably weighs around 55 pounds. She still has a leg wrap and may still have a pain patch taped to her side. Pepper is all black and may be mistaken for a skinny Lab as she is very small for a Dane. If she is spotted please contact Ann at 715-7910109. - with submitted information

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OWI sixth and second arrests made CENTURIA - David Anderson, 47, Frederic, was arrested and charged with OWI, sixth offense, on Saturday, Aug. 22.

Shortly after 1 a.m. that day, a police officer observed Anderson’s truck pull slowly into the Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative parking lot in Centuria. The truck stayed in the lot for a brief time, then went back onto Hwy. 35, traveling slowly and weaving within its lane. The officer stopped the vehicle and administered a preliminary breath test, which registered .25. Anderson was taken for a blood draw and then to the Polk County jail.

On Friday, Aug. 21, Susan Brenizer, 51, Grantsburg, was arrested and charged with OWI, second offense, after being stopped on CTH 87. A police officer noted Brenizer did not dim her headlights when their cars passed in opposite lanes, and that her car was weaving within its lane. The officer stopped her, administered a preliminary breath test which registered .183. She was taken for a blood test and to the Polk County Jail. — with information from the Polk County Sheriff’s Department

Clayton man charged with OWI, resisting arrest POLK COUNTY – Alan Beestman, 49, Clayton, was charged with OWI, first offense, and resisting arrest on the evening of Friday, Aug. 21. Beestman was found asleep behind the wheel of his car on 45th Avenue at Polk and Barron streets by a DNR warden. According to the arrest report, the brake lights were on, the car was in gear, and the ignition switch was on. The warden woke Beestman, spoke with him, put the car in park and removed the keys from the ignition.

Beestman allegely tried to get out of the vehicle and fight the warden, who held him in the vehicle until a police officer arrived.

Beestman was given a preliminary breath test, which read .184. While he was being taken to the squad car, Beestman allegedly resisted, trying to pull out of the officer’s grip and putting one arm in front of his body so handcuffs couldn’t be put on him. Another officer had also arrived, and Beestman was handcuffed and taken in for a blood draw and then to the Polk County Jail.

Other OWI arrests included the following: On August 21,

Karen Livingston, Centuria, was arrested and charged with OWI. A police officer saw her vehicle going onto Hwy. 8 without taillights. The officer pulled Livingston over and she stopped in the middle of an intersection. Her PBT registered .296 and she was taken to the Polk County Jail.

Jeramey Mallet, 26, St. Croix Falls, was arrested and charged with OWI, first offense, on Aug. 21 also on Hwy 8.

Mallet had allegedly failed to stop at a stop sign and also did not have taillights on. His PBT registered 127. Marijuana was found in his pocket at the jail.

On Saturday, Aug. 22, David Magnine, 48, Amery, was arrested and charged with OWI, first offense. Police were dispatched to CTH C, east of Hwy. 65, with a report of a powerline down on the road. Magnine was found walking on the road. He said he had crashed his truck and was walking home. His truck was found in the ditch. Magnine was given a prelimary breath test which read .182, and was arrested. — with information from the Polk County Sheriff’s Department

Legislation would punish suspects who injure police MADISON - People who flee from police and end up hurting officers could face up to six years in prison under a plan state lawmakers are considering.

A person who intentionally injures a police officer can already be charged as a felon and face prison time. But police say suspects who injure officers while resisting arrest usually face lighter charges because it’s tough to prove they meant any harm.

Officer Dale Veto with the Dane County Sheriffs Office says that’s what happened to the erratic driver he was trying to pull over last year. Veto says he tried to use road spikes to flatten the driver’s tires, but then the car turned toward him at “approximately 65 miles per hour.” Veto recalls seeing his broken legs flopping around as he neared the pavement and

is convinced the driver was aiming for him.

The offender was never charged with an extra felony for intentionally harming an officer. But under a proposal by Trempealeau Assembly Democrat Chris Danou, anyone who resists arrest and even accidentally hurts an officer could face prison time. A former officer himself, Danou says the plan won’t deter everyone but says it will send a message to some, especially repeat offenders who know the system.

The state Department of Corrections says the plan would come at a cost to the state because it would mean more inmates behind bars. The state public defender says it will also cost more to represent suspects in court. Neither agency had a firm dollar figure. - Wisconsin Public Radio (Shawn Johnson)

Motorcyclists hits parked SUV; driver arrested CUSHING – On Sunday, Aug. 23, Kenneth Schulte, 46, St. Croix Falls, was arrested and charged with OWI, hit and run of an unattended vehicle, resisting or obstructing an officer, possession of marijuana, second offense, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

At about 2:30 that morning, a police officer was sent to Cushing due to a report of a motorcycle that had hit a parked car.

Witnesses in Cushing showed the officer an SUV with damage to the driver’s side back corner panel and taillight. They said they saw Schulte, whom they recognized, going north on 240th Street, run over a barricade that had been put up for a town festival. Schulte allegedly had narrowly missed hitting pedestrians, had “whipped” a U-turn and gone south, moving fast, then hitting the SUV, and drove off.

The officer went to Schulte’s residence. Schulte was coming out of the garage and had a bandage on his right hand. The officer asked what had happened and Schulte said some horses had gotten out. Schulte appeared intoxicated. The officer asked about his motorcycle and said he thought there would be damage to it; Schulte showed him the cycle, which allegedly had a large amount of blood on it and some paint transfer.

Schulte admitted he had been lying and said he’d tell the truth.

Schulte then said several people had “jumped” him while he was riding his motorcycle in Cushing and they had hit him with something, probably a bat. Schulte appeared quite intoxicated but said he had had several drinks after returning home.

He refused to take a PBT and was arrested. During the arrest, what appeared to be marijuana and a marijuana pipe was found. Schulte was taken to the hospital but refused both treatment for his hand and a blood draw. He was then taken to the Polk County Jail. — with information from the Polk County Sheriff’s Department

Balsam Lake man charged with false imprisonment

OSCEOLA – Robert Nelson, 27, Balsam Lake, was charged with false imprisonment and disorderly conduct on Tuesday, Aug. 18.

Early that morning, police were sent to 305 South Ave. for a report of a domestic disturbance happening on the balcony of of the apartments there. one A woman at that address told officers Nelson, her boyfriend, had been yelling at her. Officers found Nelson inside in bed.

Nelson denied any argument had happened.

A neighbor reported hearing the woman tell Nelson to “leave her alone and go away,” and Nelson had made “loud offensive comments.”

The woman involved told police that Nelson held her in the apartment against her will, that he wouldn’t let her go to the bathroom alone and she wasn’t able to leave the apartment to lasting value to our economy.”

The funding will be used to repave a nine-mile stretch of smoke. She said Nelson would stand in front of her and put his Hwy. 77 in Ashland and Sawyer counties beginning near the hands on her chest, physically not allowing her to leave. Nelson was placed under arrest and taken to the Polk County Jail. community of Clam Lake heading south.

The contractor for the project is Monarch Paving of Amery. — with information from the Polk County Sheriff’s Department Work on the project began Aug. 3, and should be completed by the end of September.

Doyle thanked Congressman Dave Obey for his leadership Every page in color in our on ARRA, which helped make this project possible. Because of Obey’s leadership, Wisconsin is able to continue to make and expand investments in long-term economic growth in communities across Wisconsin. - from the office of Gov. Doyle Go to: www.the-leader.net

Doyle announces $2.7 million Recovery Act funds for Hwy. 77 CLAM LAKE — Gov. Jim Doyle this week announced $2.7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for improving Hwy. 77 in Ashland and Sawyer counties. The governor visited the construction site just south of Clam Lake as part of his Northern Tour, an eight-day tour through the northwoods to promote Wisconsin tourism, announce major investments in local communities and bring state government directly to the people.

“This investment in Hwy. 77 will make travel safer, easier and more affordable,” Doyle said. “Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we have the opportunity to make strategic improvements to our infrastructure that will help get people to work, improve our quality of life and add

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Polk County circuit court A-1 Septic, Cumberland, nonregistration of vehicle, $175.30; towing w/improper safety chains, $200.50.

Jeffrey J. Anderson, Balsam Lake, speeding, not guilty plea.

Brooke M. Baker, Stillman Valley, Ill., operate personal watercraft w/o valid safety certificate, persons born after 1/1/1989, not guilty plea.

Kenneth W. Beecroft, Frederic, speeding, $160.80.

Jeremy J. Berg, Centuria, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Amanda K. Biedler, Luck, operating while under influence, operating w/PAC .10 or more; fail./yield right/way from stop sign, not guilty pleas.

Amy A. Bonjean, Lakeville, Minn., permit operation of a motorboat or personal watercrft by underage person, $162.70.

John C. Bowes, Luck, public urination, not guilty plea.

Denise S. Brenne, St. Croix Falls, operating while under influence, not guilty plea.

Thomas J. Butterfield, Edina, Minn., fish w/o license, $206.70.

Jeanne M. Campion, West St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $175.30.

Diane C. Carlson, Scandia, Minn., operating boat towing skier w/o observer, $175.30.

Patricia A. Christensen, Turtle Lake, fish w/o license, $206.20.

Susan A. Claude, Centuria, disorderly conduct, $248.00.

Travis D. Coen, New Richmond, operating while under influence, 6-mos. license revocation., assessment and compliance, $691.50.

Joseph F. Conlan, Balsam Lake, operate boat while intoxicated, boater speed in excess of limit, operate boat w/PAC >= .08<.10, not guilty pleas.

Shelby L. Gasior, Davis Junction, Ill., operate personal watercraft w/o valid safety certificate – persons born after 1/1/1989, not guilty plea.

Barb A. Geissinger, Balsam Lake, dog at large, not guilty plea.

Adam M. Giller, Luck, disorderly conduct, not guilty plea.

Taylor T. Grunow, Dresser, disorderly conduct of a motor vehicle, $200.50.

Dana A. Harsen, New Brighton, Minn., fish w/o license, $206.70.

Nicole L. Hanson, Burnsville, Minn., speeding, $175.30.

Christine A. Hoen, White Bear Lake, Minn., disorderly conduct – public urination, $263.50.

Thomas A. Johnson, Clayton, operating while suspended, $200.50.

Terry L. Kelly, Amery, operate w/o valid license, has until 10/13/09 to reinstate license, $200.50. ‘

Ronald R. Knudtson, Strum, hunt w/o license – R, $206.70.

Robert A. Kozumplik, Frederic, passing in no-passing zone, not guilty plea.

Michael J. Langer, Centuria, speeding, $175.30.

Ryan Q. Long, St. Paul, Minn., operate personal watercraft w/o valid safety certificate – person born after 1/1/1989, $162.70.

Rodney T. Lowe, Winnebago, seat belt violation, $10.00 - twice.

Gregory A. Marquand, Amery, fish w/o license, $188.20.

Ryan S. Martin, Milltown, disorderly conduct w/a motor vehicle (erratic driving), $173.40.

Jason T. Medved, White Bear Lake, Minn., operating boat towing skier w/o observer, $175.30.

Tim W. Michaelson, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $175.30.

Paul R. Moe, Clear Lake, possess open intoxicants to MV, $263.50.

Amanda M. Monson, Centuria, speeding, $160.50.

Samuel K. Monson, Clayton, nonregistration of auto, etc., $175.30.

Paul S. Montpetit, Milltown, disorderly conduct, $248.00.

Ewrin M. Morgan, South Sioux City, Neb., speeding, $200.50.

Namasco Corporation, Peosta, Iowa, fail./carry weight permit in vehicle, $170.70.

Marvel E. Nielsen, Balsam Lake, nonregistration of auto, etc., $175.30.

Nathan D. Noonan, Luck, allow dog to bark, not guilty plea.

Mary J. Otis, Rochester, Minn., speeding, $200.50.

Judith F. Pearce, Deer Park, speeding, $200.50.

Shawn W. Peterson, Milltown, disorderly conduct w/motor vehicle, $248.00.

Kirk M. Ramautar, Osceola, disorderly conduct w/a motor vehicle, $187.50.

Shawn R. Raverty, Clear Lake, fail. to stop/improper stop at stop sign, $175.30.

John D. Rusnak, Milltown, keep open intoxicants in MV, $263.50.

Michael W. Sayre, Luck, fail./carry boat floatation devices, $137.50.

Gene R. Schuldt, St. Croix Falls, speeding, not guilty plea.

Jon D. Sheflet, Minneapolis, Minn., operated boat w/o valid cert. number, $200.50.

Vernon H. Simon, Balsam Lake, D/C w/motor vehicle, $173.40.

Benjamin W. Skinaway, Turtle Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Monica L. Skinaway, Luck, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Michael J. Show, Luck, operate boat at excess speed (small lake), $187.90.

Michael J. Spengler, St. Croix Falls, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Gunnar C. Styles, St. Croix Falls, nonregistration of auto, etc., $160.80.

Phillip C. Svenkeson, Lake Elmo,

Minn., disorderly conduct, $263.50.

William A. Turner, Nekoosa, seat belt violation, $10.00.

April M. Vold, Luck, disorderly conduct, not guilty plea.

Michael J. Vold, Dresser, disorderly conduct, not guilty plea.

Todd G. Wagner, Milltown, disorderly conduct, public urination, $263.50.

Gerald B. Weber, Milltown, operate boat w/o valid cert. number, not guilty plea.

Larry J. Wilson, Iver Grove Heights, Minn., speeding, $200.50.

Zachary J. Wilson, New Richmond, speeding, $175.30.

George M. Zappa, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia, not guilty pleas.

Siren police report Accidents July 10: Kristine E. Lien, 53, New Market, Minn., was eastbound on Hwys. 35 / 70 in the village of Siren, slowing to a stop, when Trevor L. Brewer, 38, St. Croix Falls, also eastbound and following the Lien vehicle, didn’t see the Lein vehicle slowing down. Reportedly Brewer tried to avoid an accident, but was unable to do so. No injuries re-

ported.

Aug. 13: A semi truck drove into an electrical guy wire near DSI, causing a power outage in the south end of Siren. The driver was identified as Michael E. Riedeman, 62, Sandstone, Minn. No injuries were reported.

Arrests and citations Aug. 9: Sheena R. Belisle, 34, Siren, was ticket for speed-

ing.

Aug. 19: Donald J. Buchholz, 25, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., was arrested for disorderly conduct.

Aug. 22: William R. Hunter, 67, Siren, was ticketed for speeding.

Aug. 23: Samual M. Henry, 23, Minneapolis, Minn., was issued a citation for operating while suspended.

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Burnett County sheriff’s report Joseph P. Sutherland, 42, Grantsburg, criminal trespass to dwelling, $309.00.

Matthew T. Widgren, 42, New Richmond, criminal damage to property, $309.00, twice.

Nicholas D. Maher, 21, Lindstrom, Minn., obstructing an officer, $309.00.

Christopher A. Hanson, 19, Siren, disorderly conduct, $309.00.

Tracee R. Belisle, 25, Webster, operate without valid license, $186.00.

Chad L. Bartusch, date of birth not given, Grantsburg, issue worthless check, $309.00.

Robert R. Belisle Jr., 39, Hertel, OWI, $803.00, license revoked eight months, alcohol assessment.

Burnett County warrants Nathan A. Belland, 27, Grantsburg, warrant - failure to appear, Aug. 20.

Eric E. Garvey, 38, White Bear Lake, Minn., arrest warrant - complaint, Aug. 19.

Michael M. Madsen, 29, Danbury, warrant - failure to appear, Aug. 20.

Gregory W. Nelson, 45, Anoka, Minn., arrest warrant complaint, Aug. 21.

Frankie J. Bildeau, 23, Webster, operating while suspended, $186.00.

Ryan E. Tirrel, 18, Grantsburg, underage drinking, alcohol assessment, $249.00.

Carl P. Lentz, 17, Danbury, underage drinking, alcohol assessment, $249.00.

Erye J. DeMarre, 31, Grantsburg, operate with out valid license, $186.00.

Christopher A. Hebard, 27, St. Anthony, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Anton P. Mentele, 49, Shell Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Jennifer J. Ries, 32, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

David C. Dropps, 53, Siren, speeding, $236.40.

Dwight C. Anderson, 63, Grantsburg, speeding, $160.80.

Sarah J. Langosch, 21, Birchwood, speeding, $160.80.

Thomas J. O’Brien, 62, North Oaks, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Joseph P. Burlianek, 19, Woodbury, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Robert L. Montgomery, 64, Lexington, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Steven W. Curtis, 47, Forest Lake, Minn., speeding, $236.40.

Sherri L. Denver, 47, Dresser, speedometer violation, $160.80.

Mary L. Pitzen, 54, Lino Lakes, Minn., unsafe lane deviation, $160.80.

Marvin J. Imholte, 52, Clear Lake, Minn., failure to keep vehi-

cle under control, $198.60.

Joey I. Erickson, 56, Grantsburg, improper animal shelter strength, $250.00.

Jeremy L. Olson, 19, Frederic, possession of illegal sized fish, $260.90.

GARAGE SALE

Fri., Sept. 4, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sat., Sept. 5, 8 a.m. - ?

24696 Threshold Rd. 1 mile east of Hertel on Hwy. 70. Watch for signs.

Upright freezer; dining room table with 6 chairs, all in good condition; tools; XXXL men’s clothing and lots of household and holiday decorations.

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Orval V. Simon, 43, Grantsburg, warrant - failure to appear, Aug. 20.

Dmitriy A. Stepanov, 24, Prior Lake, Minn., arrest warrant - complaint, Aug. 21.

Toby T. Tomas, 26, Burnsville, Minn., arrest warrant - complaint, Aug. 19.

Jeffrey D. Wickman, 46, St. Paul, Minn., arrest warrant complaint, Aug. 19.

Accidents Aug. 21: Michael J. Tuhy, 53, West St. Paul, Minn., was towing a boat and trailer through the parking lot of Log Cabin Store in Danbury when the boat trailer hit a legally parked vehicle owned

by Anthony G. Peterson of Luck. The Peterson vehicle had minor damage. No injuries were reported.

Aug. 22: James L. Mahoney, 29, Amery, was southbound on

CTH H when he failed to negotiate a corner and the vehicle entered the ditch.

A nonincapacitating injury was reported, despite the injury, the driver walked to a bar before continuing to drive southbound on CTH H. Three citations were issued including speed too fast for conditions, failure to have control and OWI.

Scott R. Holmberg, 52, Frederic, possession of illegal sized fish, $234.65.

MULTIFAMILY GARAGE SALE Thurs., Fri. & Sat., Aug. 27, 28 & 29 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Great variety of items.

904 Big Round Ave., Luck East of County Rd. I between Bone Lake & Big Round Lake.

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GARAGE SALE Saturday, August 29, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Sunday, August 30, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Motocross equipment & bike; hockey, golf & softball equipment; electric dryer; forced air furnace; light fixtures & garage doors. Girls clothes 4T-12 & juniors; nice women’s size S-M-L sweaters, dress clothes & misc. men’s nice L & XL clothes; kids & adult winter clothes; toys; children & teen books. Household misc., too much to list.

8060 County Rd. D • Webster, WI 54893

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Peggy S. Conley, 49, Siren, OWI, $1,555.00, 80-day jail sentence, Huber release granted, license revoked 24 months. alcohol assessment.

Kevin J. Holmes, 35, Grantsburg, OWI, $1,030.00, 20-day jail sentence, Huber release granted, license revoked 16 months, alcohol assessment.

Mia N. Graves, 28, Webster, possess amphetamine / LSD / psilocin, one-year probation, sent. withheld, license suspended six months, obtain GED, maintain absolute sobriety, may need further treatment or assessment, $88.00.

Matthew L. Coon, 23, Stanley, operating after revocation, 10-day jail sentence, alcohol assessment, $904.00.

Government’s gas-guzzler rebate program idles to a halt

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Bethany Lutheran Church, Siren, has a part-time position open for office secretary.

Current hours are Tuesday - Friday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Office organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and be flexible, ability to interact with others in a positive way and maintain confidentiality. Knowledge and ability to efficiently utilize computer systems and Microsoft Office software. (Familiarity with WordPerfect, helpful).

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Bethany Lutheran Church

FOR RENT

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR HOUSEKEEPING POSITIONS

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all – Sepic says – “it helps the American public see that we might be coming out of the recession.”

Cash for Clunkers officially was to end at 7 p.m.

Monday. Sepic warns many dealers chose to end their participation over the weekend. - Wisconsin Public Radio (Brian Bull)

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STATEWIDE – The federal Cash for Clunkers rebate program officially wraps up tonight. Wisconsin’s statewide dealers group says despite some bumps along the way, the program has gone well and suggests the economy is revving up.

Bill Sepic, president of the Wisconsin Auto and Truck Dealers Association, says Wisconsin figures into the top tier of states in terms of products sold over the course of Cash for Clunkers. He says the program will mostly be remembered as a success, though there are still some loose ends. Currently, 30 percent of all deals submitted nationwide have been paid, which leaves 70 percent of them either rejected or pending, says Sepic. He says he can’t emphasize enough how serious of a cash flow problem that puts on dealerships.

The Obama administration has assured dealers that the rebates will be covered. They range from $3,500 to $4,500, for the purchase of more fuel-efficient cars. Sepic says despite the lag, Cash for Clunkers shows cause for optimism. He says it’s shown nationally, that consumer confidence is on the rise, and buyers are willing to incur some debt to make large purchases. Banks and credit unions have been making loans to consumers, so over-

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

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

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Must Be Available To Work Weekends & Holidays Apply In Person At

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BID NOTICE TOWN OF BALSAM LAKE POLK COUNTY

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Town of Balsam Lake, Polk Co., is accepting bids to prep and lay with blacktop (cold or hot mix) 1 mile of 150th Ave. west of 150th Street. We are also looking for bids for crack sealing on 175th Ave. approximately 5,500 pounds. Bidders must contact Brad Mabry at 485-3844 for review and specifications. Bidders must supply proof of insurance. Bids will be opened at the September 21, 2009, 8 p.m. regular board meeting. The Town Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

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Polk County marriages

The Polk County Land Information Committee will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, September 2, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. in the Gov-ernment Center (1st Floor, County Boardroom), Balsam Lake, Wis-consin. The Committee will call the public hearing to order at 8:30 a.m., immediately recess to view sites and will reconvene at 10:30 a.m. at the Government Center in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, to consider the following and other agenda items: GARY & LOIS THEIS request a Special Exception from Article 15B1+2 of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to excavate on slopes of 20% or greater and 12-20% after-the-fact. Property affected is: 151-C 230th Ave., S 300’; of SW1/4, NE1/4 & S 300’ of E1/2 of SE1/4, NW1/4, V591/Pg. 240, 151-C 230th Ave., Sec. 2/T35N/ R15W, Town of Johnstown, Martell Lake (class 3). 493731 52-1L 42a,d WNAXLP

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF GRANTSBURG TEACHER AND SUPPORT STAFF SUBSTITUTES NEEDED The Grantsburg School District is looking for substitute teachers, custodians, aides, secretaries and cooks. Please contact the District Office for an application.

School District of Grantsburg Attn.: Karen Miller 480 E. James Ave., Grantsburg, WI 54840 Phone: 715-463-5499 Grantsburg School District is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color national origin, sex, religion or handicap.

(Aug. 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BARRON COUNTY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case Type: 30404 Case No.: 08-CV-553 Highland Bank a Minnesota banking corporation, 8140 26th Avenue South, Suite 160 Bloomington, MN 55425, Plaintiff, vs.

Scott Nagel West 15430 Old Highway 194 Sheldon, WI 54786, Melanie Nagel West 15430 Old Highway 194 Sheldon, WI 54786, Cemstone Ready-Mix, Inc. 1190 County Road G New Richmond, WI 54017, United States of America 211 West Wisconsin Avenue Mail Stop 5303 Milwaukee, WI 53203, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Granite Mortgage & Construction Finance, Inc. 2711 Centerville Road Suite 400 Wilmington, DE 19808,

Rachel L. Hoverman, Osceola, and Nathan R. Rixmann, Farmington, Minn., issued Aug. 21.

Belinda R. Lee, Clear Lake, and Christopher R. Weiss, Clear Lake, issued Aug. 21.

Burnett Co. deaths Thomas W. Giswold, 82, Wood River Township, Aug. 11.

Bertha A. Boyer, 72, Swiss Township, Aug. 2.

ATTENTION CLAM FALLS TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS

The Clam Falls Township Comprehensive Planning Committee Will Meet Every Tuesday At 7 p.m.

Through 2009.

If you wish to participate in your township’s planning process, please attend.

If you have questions or need information about this process, call Perry Karl, Committee Chairperson, 715-653-4247.

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American Title and Abstract Company of Eau Claire, Inc., 1903 Keith Street, Suite 1 Eau Claire, WI 54701, John Doe, Mary Roe, and XYZ Corporation, Defendants.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on July 21, 2009, the Sheriff of Polk County, Wisconsin, will sell the following described real property at public auction as follows: TIME/DATE: October 7, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 10% of successful bid must be paid to Sheriff at sale in certified funds, with the balance due and owing on the date of confirmation of the sale by the Court.

PLACE: Lobby of the Polk County Justice Center 1005 W. Main Street Balsam Lake, WI 54810 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Lot 2 of Certified Survey Map No. 5295 recorded in Volume 23 of Records, Page 202 as Doc. No. 724189, being located in part of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of the Southwest Quarter (1/4), Section 24, Township 32 North, Range 17 West, Town of Alden, Polk County, Wisconsin (“Property”).

(FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY: Plaintiff believes that the property address is: 1255 20th Avenue, Amery, Wis.) Dated this 19 day of August, 2009. /s/ Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County, Wisconsin

(Aug. 12, 19, 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY SCHANON MORTGAGE, INC. 228 N. Keller Ave. Amery, WI 54001 Plaintiff, vs.

JOHN T. ARONSON DEON M. ARONSON, his wife 1072 E. Neibel Lane Balsam Lake, WI 54810 Defendants.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No. 08 CV 74 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered in the above action on March 23, 2009, the undersigned Sheriff of Polk County, Wisconsin, will sell at public auction in the foyer area of the Polk County Justice Center, in the Village of Balsam Lake, State of Wis., on Tuesday, Sept.

29, 2009, at 10:00 a.m., the following-described premises: Parcel 1: Lot Two (2) of Certified Survey Map No. 1709 recorded in Volume 8 of Certified Survey Maps, page 57 as Document No. 519702, located in the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (NE1/4 of NW1/4), Section Five (5), Township Thirty-four (34) North, Range Sixteen (16) West, Town of Apple River, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Subject to a, John T. and Deon M. Aronson, a prior Mortgage (Parcel 1) to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting as nominee for Full Spectrum Lending, Inc. in the original amount of $108,800.00, dated August 2, 2004, and recorded in office of Polk County Register of Deeds on September 1, 2004, in Volume 958 of Records on page 815 as Document No. 685910.

TERMS: Cash; subject to the above first mortgage, all unpaid property taxes, special assessments, penalties and interest. Buyer to pay transfer fee and costs of sheriff’s sale.

DOWN PAYMENT: 10% of amount bid by certified check.

BALANCE DUE: Within ten (10) days of confirmation of sale.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1072 Neibel Lane, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

This Instrument Was Drafted By: ANASTASI & ASSOCIATES, P.A. 14985 60th Street North Stillwater, MN 55082 651-439-2951 TCS/13885 494467 WNAXLP

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, on August 12, 2009.

Timothy Moore Polk County Sheriff Kenneth Wm. Jost Jost Law Office P.O. Box 54, Chetek, WI 54728

Dorothy M. Nagel a/k/a Dorothy N. Nagel N8908 Birch Drive Gilman, WI 54433, Wisconsin Bureau of Child Support c/o Office of General Counsel 2135 Rimrock Road P.O. Box 8907 Mail Stop 6-173 Madison, WI 53708,

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The Zoning Board of Appeals for the Village of Frederic will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, September 14, at 4 p.m. at the Frederic Village Hall, 107 Hope Road W., to consider a request from Wesley and Virgina Cockerham for a Variance to Zoning Code 17.04(2) “The dwelling shall have a minimum width of 24 feet and a core area of living space at least 24’x24’,” so as to place a 16’x70’ mobile home on Parcel 12600447-0100 which is located at 300 3rd Ave. S. in the Village of Frederic.

Any and all public comment will be heard at this time.

Kristi Swanson 494272 1-2L WNAXLP Village Clerk

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Pamela A. Stoklasa, Lincoln, and Joseph W. Telschow, Lincoln, issued Aug. 17.

Cassandra L. Cran, Black Brook, and Brent E. Johnson, Black Brook, issued Aug. 17.

Jodi K. Anderson, Clear Lake, and Robert D. Gilbertson, Clear Lake, issued Aug. 20.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF FREDERIC

(Aug. 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, vs.

ROGER GORDON, et al.

Defendants.

Case Number: 08 CV 874 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on April 6, 2009, in the amount of $173,502.66, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 14, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% of successful bid must be paid to Sheriff at sale in cash or by certified Check. Balance to be paid upon confirmation.

PLACE: Front Entrance to the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main St., Balsam Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: The North 180 feet of the East 325 feet of the Southeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4; and that part of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast corner of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4; thence North along the East boundary line of said Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 220 feet, or less, to the Southeast corner of that parcel described in Volume 353 of Records, Page 325, as Document No. 353191; thence West parallel to the South boundary line of said Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4, 325 feet; thence South parallel to said East boundary line 220 feet, more or less to the South boundary line of said Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4; thence East on said South boundary line 325 feet to the point of beginning; all located in Section 23, Town 32 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Black Brook, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 223 75th St., Clear Lake, WI 54005 TAX KEY NO.: 010-00590-0000 Dated this 24th day of August, 2009. /s/Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County Christina E. Demakopoulos State Bar #1066197 Attorney for Plaintiff 13700 W. Greenfield Avenue Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. (167109)

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Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. (166264)

(Aug. 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2007-HE5 by: Saxon Mortgage Services, its attorneyin-fact, Plaintiff, vs.

GERALD C. VOLGREN and DEBORAH A. VOLGREN, husband and wife, and JANE DOE and/or JOHN DOE, unknown tenants, and ANCHORBANK, FSB, and BAYFIELD FINANCIAL LLC, and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and STATE OF WISCONSIN, Defendants Case No. 09-CV-336 Code No. 30404 Foreclosure of Mortgage Dollar Amount Greater Than $5,000 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on June 15, 2009, in the amount of $169,273.68, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 7, 2009, at 10 o’clock a.m.

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

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

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. PLACE: Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 West Main St., Balsam Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: The North 460 Feet of the West 800 Feet except the West 379 Feet thereof of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Section 27, Township 35 North, Range 17 West, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1440 200th Ave., Town of Milltown.

TAX KEY NO.: 040-00860-0000.

Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County, WI O’DESS AND ASSOCIATES, S.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 1414 Underwood Avenue Suite 403 Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 727-1591 O’Dess and Associates, S.C., is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

If you have previously received a Chapter 7 Discharge in Bankruptcy, this correspondence should not be construed as an attempt to collect a debt.

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(Aug. 19, 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. Plaintiff, vs.

MARIETTE E. HOEFLER, et al.

Defendants.

Case Number: 08 CV 531 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on September 11, 2008, in the amount of $334,773.42, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 8, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.

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

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

PLACE: Front Entrance to the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 5 of Certified Survey Map No. 4351, recorded in Volume 19 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 132, as Document No. 674078, located in the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 12, Township 35 North, Range 19 West, in the Town of Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin. Together with an undivided 1/5 interest in Lot 4 of Certified Survey Map No. 4351, recorded in Volume 19 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 132, as Document No. 674078, located in the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 12, Township 35 North, Range 19 West, in the Town of Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin. ALSO DESCRIBED AS: Parcel 1: Lot 5 of Certified Survey Map No. 4351, recorded in Volume 19 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 132, as Document No. 674078, located in the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 12, Township 35 North, Range 19 West, in the Town of Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin. Parcel 2: An undivided 1/5 interest in Lot 4 of Certified Survey Map No. 4351, recorded in Volume 19 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 132, as Document No. 674078, located in the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 12, Township 35 North, Range 19 West, in the Town of Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2434 225th Ave., St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 TAX KEY NO.: 020-01102-0150 Dated this 17th day of August, 2009.

Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County Chaz M. Rodriguez State Bar # 1063071 Attorney for Plaintiff 13700 W. Greenfield Avenue Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719

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(Aug. 19, 26, Sept. 2, 9) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

CLAYTON R. HENSCHKE, et al.

Defendants.

Case Number: 08 CV 769 AMENDED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on February 18, 2009, in the amount of $433,985.50, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: September 23, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.

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

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

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax from the proceeds of the sale.

PLACE: Front Entrance to the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: Parcel 1: Lot 6 of Certified Survey Map No. 1813 recorded on February 28, 1995, in Volume 8, Page 161, as Document No. 527587, being part of Government Lot 4, Section 7, Town 35 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Georgetown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Parcel 2: An Easement for the benefit of Parcel 1 for ingress and egress over that part of Government Lot 4, Section 7, Township 35 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Georgetown, Polk County, Wisconsin, described as Outlot 1 of Certified Survey Map recorded February 28, 1995, in Volume 8 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 162, as Document No. 527588.

Parcel 3: A 66 foot wide private roadway easement for the benefit of Parcel 1 for ingress and egress as shown on the subject Certified Survey Maps over Government Lot 4, Section 7, Township 35 North, Range 16 West and Government Lot 1, Section 18, Township 35 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Georgetown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2222 117th St., Milltown, WI 54858.

TAX KEY NO.: 026-00246-0060.

Dated this 17th day of August, 2009 /s/Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County Chaz M. Rodriguez State Bar # 1063071 Attorney for Plaintiff 13700 W. Greenfield Avenue Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. (166353)

Bridgette G. Chopskie, Forest Lake, Minn., and Peter M. Davis, Forest Lake, Minn., issued Aug. 19.

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AUGUST 26, 2009 - INTER-COUNTY LEADER - NEWS SECTION - A - PAGE 23

(Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26, Sept. 2, 9) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY INDYMAC FEDERAL BANK, FSB Plaintiff, vs.

STEVEN K. HOWELL, et al.

Defendants.

Case Number: 08 CV 780 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on March 3, 2009, in the amount of $237,355.20 the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: September 22, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% of successful bid must be paid to Sheriff at sale in cash or by certified Check. Balance to be paid upon confirmation.

PLACE: Front Entrance to the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 4 of Certified Survey Map No. 3646, recorded in Volume 16 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 159, as Document No. 629820, being located in Government Lot 1, of Section 21, Town 33 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Lincoln, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 996 85th Ave., Amery, WI 54001 TAX KEY NO.: 032-00565-0110 Dated this 3rd day of August, 2009 /s/Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County Christina E. Demakopoulos State Bar #1066197 Attorney for Plaintiff 13700 W. Greenfield Avenue Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. (164671)

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

(Aug. 19, 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY CITIMORTGAGE, INC. SUCCESSOR BY REASON OF MERGER WITH CITIFINANCIAL MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Plaintiff, vs.

BRIAN BOTTOLFSON, et al.

Defendants.

Case Number: 07 CV 259 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on June 15, 2009, in the amount of $167,198.29, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 7, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% of successful bid must be paid to Sheriff at sale in cash or by certified Check. Balance to be paid upon confirmation.

PLACE: Front Entrance to the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 2 of Certified Survey Map No. 5685, recorded on October 3, 2008, in Volume 25, Page 162, as Document No. 750062, located in the Southeast 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 29, Town 32 North, Range 17 West, in the Town of Alden, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1675 West Church Road, Star Prairie, WI 54026 TAX KEY NO.: 002-00758-0000.

Dated this 14th day of August, 2009. /s/Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County Deborah A. Blommer State Bar # 1000749 Attorney for Plaintiff 13700 W. Greenfield Avenue Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719

Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. (165968)

(Aug. 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY HSBC BANK USA, AS NOMINEE OF MERS, Plaintiff, vs.

BRUCE A. COCKRELL, SARAH V. COCKRELL, Defendants.

CITIFINANCIAL, INC., Added Defendant Case No. 09 CV 54 FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE 30404 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure in the amount of $219,292.31, entered by the court on April 21, 2009, the undersigned Sheriff of Polk County, Wisconsin, will sell the following described real estate.

Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 1658, recorded in Volume 8 of Certified Survey Maps on page 6 as Document No. 514007, located in the NW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 21, Township 33 North, Range 16 West, Town of Lincoln, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Tax Key No. 032-597-0000 Street Address: 846 N. Wisconsin Ave., Amery, WI 54001 Place of Sale: Foyer of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 W. Main St., Balsam Lake, WI Date & Time of Sale: October 22, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.

Terms of Sale: 1. Property is sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances, including but not limited to unpaid and accrued real estate taxes, special assessments, and other governmental charges, plus interest and penalties, if any.

2. A bid deposit of not less than ten percent (10%) of the bid amount shall be due in the form of cash, cashier’s check, or certified funds at the time of sale.

3. Successful bidder to pay the entire unpaid balance of bid within ten (10) days following confirmation of the sale by the court plus buyer to pay for buyer’s title insurance, document recording fees and Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. 4. Failure to make timely payment following confirmation of sale will result in forfeiture of bid deposit.

Timothy G. Moore, Polk County Sheriff Law Offices of James E. Huismann, S.C. N14 W23777 Stone Ridge Dr. Suite 120 Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188 (262) 523-6400

(Aug. 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY AnchorBank, fsb f/k/a S&C Bank, Plaintiff, vs.

James T. Dalton and Unknown Spouse of James T. Dalton, Defendants.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No: 09 CV 202 Case Code: 30404 Judge: Robert H. Rasmussen PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on the 27th day of June, 2009, in the amount of $78,112.63, the Polk County Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: DATE/TIME: October 15, 2009, at 10 a.m.

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

PLACE: Polk County Sheriff’s Office, 1005 West Main St., Suite 900, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

DESCRIPTION: That part of Block 1 of Basil’s First Addition to the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, described as follows: Beginning at the Northwest corner of said Block 1, running thence East on the North line of said Block 1, 75 feet; running thence South parallel to the West line of said Block 1, 116 feet; running thence West parallel to the North line of said Block 1, 75 feet; running thence North on the West line of said Block 1 to the point of beginning. Said Block being a part of Government Lot 1, Section 10, Township 34 North, Range 17 West.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 100 Basil Street, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

Timothy G. Moore Polk County Sheriff’s Office ECKBERG, LAMMERS, BRIGGS, WOLFF & VIERLING, P.L.L.P. Nicholas J. Vivian #1047165 Attorney for Plaintiff 1809 Northwestern Avenue Stillwater, MN 55082 (651) 439-2878 Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1692), we are required to state that we are attempting to collect a debt on our client’s behalf and any information we obtain will be used for that purpose.

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on the 23rd day of June, 2009, in the amount of $117,748.94, the Polk County Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: DATE/TIME: October 15, 2009, at 10 a.m.

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

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

DESCRIPTION: Parcel 1: Lot Two (2), Plat of Townline Lake Estates “A County Plat” located in Government Lot one (1), Government Lot two (2) and in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW 1/4 of the NE 1/4), Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range sixteen (16) West, Town of Apple River, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Parcel 2: Lot eleven (11) and 1/5 interest in Outlot three (3) plat of Townline Lake Estates “A County Plat” located in Government Lot one (1), Government Lot two (2) and in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW 1/4 of NE 1/4), Section twenty-four (24), Township thirty-four (34) North, Range sixteen (16) West, Town of Apple River, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Parcel 3: Together with an easement for ingress and egress for the benefit of Parcels 1 and 2 and others described as Outlot one (1) and Outlot two (2) of the Plat of Townline Lake Estates (also shown as the future town road 145th Avenue).

PROPERTY ADDRESS: N/A. Vacant Land.

Timothy G. Moore Polk County Sheriff ECKBERG, LAMMERS, BRIGGS, WOLFF & VIERLING, P.L.L.P. Nicholas J. Vivian #1047165 Attorney for Plaintiff 1809 Northwestern Avenue Stillwater, MN 55082 (651) 439-2878 Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1692), we are required to state that we are attempting to collect a debt on our client’s behalf and any information we obtain will be used for that purpose.

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Case No: 09 CV 257 Case Code: 30404 Judge: Molly E. GaleWyrick

(Aug. 26) SMALL CLAIMS AMENDED SUMMONS STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY CIVIL DIVISION TO: LAURIE MUMM 120 WOODLAND TRL CLAYTON, WI 54004-0086 Defendant(s) Case No. 09SC701 File No. 728196 You are being sued by CACH, LLC Assignee of GE Money Bank in the small claims court for Polk County, Wisconsin, 1005 W. Main St., Suite 300, Balsam Lake, WI 54810. A hearing will be held at 1:30 p.m. on 09/14/2009.

If you do not appear, a judgment may be given to the person suing you. (A copy of the claim has been mailed to you at the address above.)

Dated: August 14, 2009. /s/ Brandon E. Bowlin RAUSCH, STURM, ISRAEL, ENERSON & HORNIK LLC ATTORNEYS IN THE PRACTICE OF DEBT COLLECTION 250 N. Sunnyslope Rd., Suite 3009 Brookfield, WI 53005 Toll-free: 888-302-4011

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STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY AnchorBank, fsb f/k/a S&C Bank, Plaintiff, vs.

Steven G. Danielowski and Unknown Spouse of Steven G. Danielowski, Defendants.

(Aug. 26) SMALL CLAIMS AMENDED SUMMONS STATE OF WISCONSIN: CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY CIVIL DIVISION TO: ELIZABETH ALBRIGHT 1104 20TH AVENUE DEER PARK, WI 54007 Defendant(s) Case No. 09SC700 File No. 707199 You are being sued by CACH, LLC Assignee of WAMU/ Providian Bank in the small claims court for Polk County, Wis., 1005 W. Main St., Suite 300, Balsam Lake, Wis. 54810.

A hearing will be held at 1:30 p.m. on 09/14/2009.

If you do not appear, a judgment may be given to the person suing you. (A copy of the claim has been mailed to you at the address above.)

Dated: August 14, 2009. /s/ Brandon E. Bowlin RAUSCH, STURM, ISRAEL, ENERSON & HORNIK LLC ATTORNEYS IN THE PRACTICE OF DEBT COLLECTION 250 N. Sunnyslope Rd., Suite 300 Brookfield, WI 53005 Toll-free: 888-302-4011 494465 WNAXLP

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(Aug. 12, 19, 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley, MSAC 2007-HE1 c/o Saxon Mortgage Services, Inc. Plaintiff, vs.

ANTHONY R. STACE and JANE DOE, unknown spouse of Anthony R. Stace and JOHN and/or JANE DOE, unknown tenants, Defendants Case No. 08-CV-834 Code No. 40404 Foreclosure of Mortgage Dollar Amount Greater Than $5,000.00 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on January 14, 2009, in the amount of $155,603.64, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: September 23, 2009, at 10 o’clock a.m.

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

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

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. PLACE: Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin DESCRIPTION: Lot One (1) of Certified Survey Map No. 4530 recorded in Volume 20 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 82 as Document No. 683169, being part of Government No. One (1), Section Sixteen (16), Township Thirty-five (35) North, Range Nineteen (19) West, Town of Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2760 Nevers Dam Road, Town of Eureka.

TAX KEY NO.: 20-1172-0100.

Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County, WI O’DESS & ASSOCIATES, S.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 1414 Underwood Avenue Suite 403 Wauwatosa, WI 53213 414-727-1591 O’Dess and Associates, S.C., is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

If you have previously received a Chapter 7 Discharge in Bankruptcy, this correspondence should not be construed as an attempt to collect a debt.

(Aug. 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30)

(Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26, Sept. 2, 9) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff, vs.

THOMAS C. COTTELEER, and VILLAGE OF DRESSER, and CAPITAL ONE BANK, Defendants.

Case No. 08 CV 653 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on March 10, 2009, I will sell at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin on: Thursday, September 17, 2009, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., all of the following described mortgaged premises, to-wit: Lots 19 and 20, Block 6, Village of Dresser, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN: 116-00112-0000 STREET ADDRESS: 136 East Main St., Dresser, WI 54009 TERMS OF SALE: Cash DOWN PAYMENT: 10% of amount bid by cash or certified check.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, this 20th day of July, 2009.

Timothy G. Moore, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin

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(Aug. 12, 19, 26) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NORMAN PALMER SKOW Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 09 PR 45 An application has been filed for informal administration of the estate of the decedent, whose date of birth was 12-26-1920 and date of death was 04-042009. The decedent died domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a post office address of: 210 Park Avenue, Luck, WI 54853. All interested persons have waived notice.

Creditors’ claims must be filed with the probate registrar on or before October 1, 2009.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar June 25, 2009 Dale A Skow 106 Elizabeth St. Milltown, WI 54858 715-472-2161

HSBC Auto Finance Inc. vs.

Herbert D. McNeely, Webster, return of 2005 Nissan, $419.50.

Capital One Bank vs. Mildred Curtis, Webster, $4,188.24.

Capital One Bank vs. Monica R. Butler, Shell Lake, $1,400.05.

RAB Performance Recoveries LLC vs. Jake Johnson, Danbury, $2,197.62.

Atlantic Credit and Finance Inc. vs. Gregory D. Belland, Grantsburg, $1,560.39.

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(Aug. 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff, vs.

KERRY L LYSDAHL, et al Defendants.

Case Number: 09 CV 29 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on April 9, 2009, in the amount of $109,736.42, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 14, 2009, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% of successful bid must be paid to Sheriff at sale in cash or by certified check. Balance to be paid upon confirmation.

PLACE: Front Entrance to the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: Lot 2 of Certified Survey Map No. 4134, recorded June 26, 2003, in Volume 18 of Certified Survey Maps, on Page 164, as Document No. 660373, in the Town of Eureka, Polk County, Wis. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2284 190th St., Centuria, WI 54824.

TAX KEY NO.: 02-00279-0120.

Dated this 20th day of August.

2009. /s/Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County Christina E. Demakopoulos State Bar #1066197 Attorney for Plaintiff 13700 W. Greenfield Avenue Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Blommer Peterman, S.C. is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. (166551)

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GRANTSBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT August 19, 2009

Job Title: 5th-Grade Teacher Job Description: 100% FTE Qualifications: Appropriate Wisconsin Certification: Elementary Education Requirements: Elementary experience preferred. Individual should have the skills to teach in an active, hands-on and student-centered approach.

Background of teaching with guided reading, using a balanced literacy approach desired.

Having the knowledge to differentiate instruction is a must. Ability to work as a team is desired.

How to Apply: Send letter of application, resume, credentials (three current letters of recommendation and transcripts) and a copy of license by September 2, 2009.

Contact: Brad Jones, Principal Grantsburg Middle School 500 East James Ave. Grantsburg, WI 54840 715-463-2455 The School District of Grantsburg is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, 494095 1L color, national origin, sex, religion or handicap.

NOTICE OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY WEBSTER SCHOOL DISTRICT Job Title: Instructional Assistant Job Description: This person will assist a classroom teacher in the supervision and instruction of students; assist in the preparation of classroom materials; and do related work as assigned.

Hours: This is a full-time position to begin September 1. Hours will be 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

M-F, 180 days during the 2009-2010 school year.

Rate of Pay: $13.20 per hour.

Experience: Prior experience working with children, preferably in an instructional setting.

How to Apply Complete a district application and submit a letter of interest by August 28, 2009.

Contact: Tim Widiker, Principal Webster School District P.O. Box 9 Webster, WI 54893 493568 52-1L www.webster.k12.wi.us

NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD OF REVIEW TOWN OF MILLTOWN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Review for the Town of Milltown, will meet at the MILLTOWN FIRE HALL, on Thursday, September 10, 2009 from 6 to 8 p.m., for the purpose of reviewing and examining the assessment roll of the real estate and personal property therein, and correcting errors in said roll whether in description of property or otherwise and to perform such other duties as imposed by law.

Please be advised on the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedural requirements if appearing before the Board: No person shall be allowed to appear before he Board of Review to testify to the Board or to contest the amount of any assessment of real or personal property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the assessor to view such property.

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

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

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

Virgil Hansen Town Clerk 494446 1-2L 43-44a,d Town of Milltown

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(Aug. 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY AnchorBank, fsb f/k/a S&C Bank, Plaintiff, vs.

James T. Dalton and Unknown Spouse of James T. Dalton, Defendants.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No: 09 CV 199 Case Code: 30404 Judge: Robert H. Rasmussen PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on the 27th day of June, 2009, in the amount of $26,924.63, the Polk County Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: DATE/TIME: October 15, 2009, at 10 a.m.

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

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

DESCRIPTION: Lot 3 of Certified Survey Map No. 4681, Volume 21, Page 8, Document No. 691120 being part of Lot 2 of Certified Survey Map No. 3036, Volume 14, Page 58, Document No. 597197, being located in the Northeast 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 32, Township 35 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Georgetown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: Lot 3 CSM 4681, Georgetown, Wis. Timothy G. Moore Polk County Sheriff ECKBERG, LAMMERS, BRIGGS, WOLFF & VIERLING, P.L.L.P. Nicholas J. Vivian #1047165 Attorney for Plaintiff 1809 Northwestern Avenue Stillwater, MN 55082 (651) 439-2878 Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1692), we are required to state that we are attempting to collect a debt on our client’s behalf and any information we obtain will be used for that purpose.

Robert L. Chivers, 82, Aug. 1, 2009, Luck Craig A. Hagen, 52, Aug. 5, 2009, Black Brook Township (July 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-CB6, Plaintiff, vs.

RONALD C. BECKWITH; and TAMMY M. BECKWITH, his wife, Defendant.

Case No. 08-CV-496 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE (Foreclosure of Mortgage30404) By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of said Circuit Court in the above-entitled action which was entered on September 3, 2008, in the amount of $118,788.50, I shall expose for sale and sell at public auction in the Foyer of the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main Street, in the village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, on the 15th day of September 2009, at 10:00 a.m., the following described premises or so much thereof as may be sufficient as to raise the amount due to the plaintiff for principal, interest and costs, together with the disbursements of sale and solicitors’ fees, to-wit: The West 5 acres of the NW 1/4 of NW 1/4, Section 24-3518, Polk County, Wisconsin. Tax Kay No. 020 00630 0000 TERMS OF SALE: 10% down cash, money order or certified check. balance due within ten days of confirmation of sale.

This property is being sold as is and subject to all liens and encumbrances. /S/ TIMOTHY G. MOORE, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Hersh Law Offices, LLC 10555 N. Port Washington Road Mequon, WI 53092 262-241-9339 The above property is located at 2088 190th Street, Centuria, Wisconsin.

Hersh Law offices, LLC, is a law firm representing a creditor in the collection of debt owed to such creditor, and any such information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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REBID NOTICE - TOWN OF ST. CROIX FALLS IS REQUESTING BIDS FOR CULVERT REPLACEMENT Notice is hereby given that the Town of St. Croix Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin, is accepting bids for replacement of two culverts along River Road. Sufficient erosion control measures required as specified by State, County and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

For specific details of the above project, contact Steve Jacobs, Public Works, or Janet Krueger, Town Clerk, Town of St. Croix Falls, at 715-483-1851.

Bids to be considered must be received by the Town at 1305 200th Street prior to Noon on Tuesday, September 1, 2009.

Bids will be opened on Tuesday, September 1, 2009, at Noon.

The Town Board reserves the right to accept or reject any, any part of, and/or all bids and to waive irregularities and information therein and further reserves the right to award the contract in the best interest of the Town of St. Croix Falls. www.stcroixfalls.org 493757 52-1L WNAXLP

NOTICE OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING OF THE ELECTORS TOWN OF GARFIELD

Ronald D. Porell, 54, Aug. 8, 2009, Almena Donald Dosch, 89, Aug. 9, 2009, Black Brook Township (Aug. 12, 19, 26, Sept. 2, 9, 16) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY Karen E. Minutello, as Assignee of M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank, Successor by merger with Century Bank Plaintiff vs.

David J. DeHaven and Jane Doe, alias, his wife, if any, and Arden P. Williams and John Doe, alias, her husband, if any, Defendants Case No. 04 CV 75 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action, I will sell the described premises at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wis., on: Thurs., Sept. 24, 2009, at 10 a.m.

TERMS OF SALE: 1. 10% down in cash or certified funds at the time of sale; balance due within 20 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeiture of deposit plaintiff.

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

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. DESCRIPTION: East half of the Southwest Quarter (E1/2 SW1/4), Section 22-32-17, Town of Alden, Polk County, except 1 square acre in NW corner of NE SW, Section 22; the North line thereof is the South line of CTH C and West line thereof is the West line of said NW1/4 SW1/4, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN: 002-00574-0000, 00200578-0000, 002-00579-0000 Dated at Balsam Lake, Wis., this 22nd day of July, 2009.

Timothy G. Moore, Sheriff Polk County Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson/ No. 1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

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Jason M. O’Malley, 24, Aug. 9, 2009, St. Paul, Minn.

Doris J. Larson, 89, Aug. 11, 2009, St. Croix Falls Wilma F. Baldish, 75, Aug. 12, 2009, Lindstrom, Minn.

(Aug. 12, 19, 26) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY Discover Bank 6500 New Albany Road New Albany, OH 43054 Plaintiff, vs.

Terry Morton 1860 140th St. Balsam Lake, WI 54810 Defendant(s).

SUMMONS Case Code: 30301 Case No.: 09CV562 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To each person named above as a Defendant(s): You are hereby notified that the Plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you.

The Complaint, which is attached, states the nature and basis of the legal action Within forty (40) days of August 12, 2009, you must respond with a written answer, as that term is used in chapter 802 of the Wisconsin Statutes, to the Complaint. The court may reject or disregard an answer that does not follow the requirements of the statutes. The answer must be sent or delivered to the court, whose address is Lois Hoff Clerk of Circuit Court, 1005 West Main Street, Ste. 300, Balsam Lake, WI 54810 and to Messerli & Kramer, P.A., Plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is 3033 Campus Drive, Suite 250, Plymouth, MN 55441. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not provide a proper answer within forty (40) days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the complaint. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

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NOTICE - TOWN OF LORAIN BOARD MEETING

Thursday, September 10, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

Lorain Town Hall, 252 345th Ave., Cty. Rd. E Agenda: Call meeting to order; roll call/verification of meeting notice; approve the minutes of the last meeting; approve the treasury report; motion to pay the bills; Reports: Road, Fire Dept., Ambulance; Cemetery, Comprehensive Plan Commission; Additional item: Open designated town roads to ATV travel with possible action of the board; additional meeting items for future agendas; motion to adjourn; adjournment.

Susan E. Hughes, Clerk 494241 1L

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Receptionist/Secretary $12.03/hr.

Child Support Agency Limited Part Time, Limited Term, 8:30 - 12:30 Monday - Friday Deadline to apply: Sept. 3 at 4 p.m.

YOU MUST COMPLETE A POLK CO. EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION TO BE ELIGIBLE. For applications, complete job description and qualifications, please visit our Web site at www.co.polk.wi.us, Employment Opportunities, or in person at 100 Polk Co. Plaza, #229, 494482 1L 43a-e Balsam Lake, WI 54810, 715-485-9176, AA/EEOC

Polk County

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, at 7 p.m. at the Garfield Town Hall, 690 Minneapolis St., Town of Garfield, Amery, WI 54001, a Special Town Meeting of Electors will be held pursuant to Section 60.12(1)(c) of Wisconsin Statutes to consider the following action: 1. Pursuant to Section 60.10 (2)(h) and Section 60.62 (2), of Wisconsin Statutes to authorize the Town Board to enact Town zoning ordinance pursuant to Section 61.35 of Wisconsin Statutes.

Town of Garfield, Town Clerk Published: August 25, 2009 Posted: Town Hall 494160 1L WNAXLP

COACHING OPPORTUNITY

The Frederic School District is accepting applications for the following coaching positions:

7th- & 8th-Grade Boys Basketball Coach Send letter of application, resume and credentials to: Bob Pyke, Junior High Athletic Director, Frederic School District, 1437 Clam Falls Drive, Frederic, WI 54837. Telephone 715-327-4223. Deadline for 494094 1-2L applications is September 10, 2009.

The Frederic School District is an Equal Oppotunity Employer

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NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD OF REVIEW FOR THE TOWN OF LORAIN

NOTIFICATION OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Grantsburg School District

Job Title: Secretary to the School Psychologist Qualifications: The secretary is responsible for handling communication between the school psychologist, parents, students, teachers and administration with tact and confidentiality. The secretary serves as the office information manager, arranging and scheduling meetings or appointments, organizing and preserving paper and computer files, managing projects, performing research, distributing information through the use of telephones, mail and e-mail, works with state reports and a variety of school-related tasks. The secretary must be highly motivated, capable of working independently and must conduct themselves in a professional manner.

A candidate with strong interpersonal and technology skills is required. A working knowledge of computer programs dealing with spreadsheets, word processing, and database management is necessary. The secretary is expected to be highly capable of typing and especially proficient in spelling, punctuation and other English and proofreading skills. Additional responsibilities will be assigned by the school psychologist.

Requirements: Preference goes to a candidate with a minimum of a 2-year degree in office management or equivalent experience.

Candidates must have strong interpersonal and technology skills. The ideal candidate for this position will be highly energetic, confident and possess a high degree of professionalism.

The candidate must have the desire and ability to work with students and staff and must be able to work collaboratively, follow written and/or oral directions and maintain good work habits.

Wage & Hours: Per the Support Staff Master Contract 3 hours per day Part time, no health or dental benefits How to Apply: Send a letter of application, resume, credentials and references

by September 1, 2009.

Contact: Joni Burgin Grantsburg School District 480 East James Avenue Grantsburg, WI 54840 The School District of Grantsburg is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion or handicap.

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NW 1/4), EXCEPT that part thereof lying North and East of the centerline of the town road crossing said 40-acre parcel as said road is currently laid out and traveled; the Southeast Quarter of Southwest Quarter (SE 1/4 of SW 1/ 4); the Southwest Quarter of Southeast Quarter (SW 1/4 of SE 1/4) EXCEPT the East 300 feet of the North 500 feet thereof; all in Section Thirtyfive (35), Township Thirty-four (34) North, Range Fifteen (15) West, Polk County, Wisconsin; AND That part of the Southwest Quarter of Northeast Quarter (SW 1/4 of NE 1/4), Section Two (2), Township Thirty-three (33) North, Range Fifteen (15) West, Polk County, Wisconsin, lying north and West of the former Soo Line Railroad right of way. That part of the Northeast Quarter of Northeast Fractional Quarter (NE 1/4 of NEfr 1/4), Section Two (2), Township Thirty-three (33) North, Range Fifteen (15) West, Polk County, Wisconsin, lying North and West of the former Soo Line Railroad right of way. The Northwest Quarter of Northeast Fractional Quarter (NW 1/4 of NEfr 1/4), Section Two (2), Township Thirtythree (33) North, Range Fifteen (15) West, Polk County, Wisconsin, lying North and West of the former Soo Line Railroad right of way.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 981 U.S. Highway 63, Clayton, Wisconsin.

THE TERMS OF SALE: Cash.

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

Dated this 27th day of July, 2009. /s/Timothy G. Moore Polk County Sheriff Christine A. Gimber Weld, Riley, Prenn & Ricci, S.C. P.O. Box 1020 Eau Claire, WI 54702-1030 715-839-7786 Attorneys for Plaintiff This is an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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(July 29, Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26, Sept. 2) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY COMMUNITY BANK OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN f/k/a BRILL STATE BANK Plaintiff vs.

THOMAS H. NONEMACHER a/k/a THOMAS H. NONEMACHER JR., JULIE A. NONEMACHER, RODNEY KELLER JR., U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, N.D., ASSOCIATED MILK PRODUCERS, INC., CEMSTONE READY MIX Case No.: 09CV44 Case Code: 30404 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of a Stipulation and Order entered by the Court in the above-captioned matter on July 20, 2009, the undersigned Sheriff of Polk County will sell at public auction at the Polk County Courthouse in the City of Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, on the 17th day of September, 2009, at 10 a.m., the real estate and mortgage premises directed by the Stipulation and Order to be sold and therein described as follows: The Northwest Quarter of Northeast Quarter (NW 1/4 of NE 1/4); that part of the Northeast Quarter of Northeast Quarter (NE 1/4 of NE 1/ 4) that lies North and West of railroad right of way (n/k/a The Cattail Trail); and the North Half of Northwest Quarter (N 1/2 of NW 1/4); Section 13, Township 33 North, Range 15 West, Polk County, Wisconsin.

The South Half of Southwest Quarter (S 1/2 of SW 1/4); Section 12, Township 33 North, Range 15 West, EXCEPT Certified Survey Map No. 1664, recorded in Volume 8 CSM, Page 12, Document No. 514693, Polk County, Wisconsin. The East Half of Southeast Quarter (E 1/2 of SE 1/4); Section 12, Township 33 North, Range 15 West, EXCEPT railroad right of way (n/k/a The Cattail Trail) and EXCEPT parcel described in Volume 211 Records, Page 437, Document No. 290499, Polk County, Wisconsin.

AND The Southwest Quarter of Northwest Quarter (SW 1/4 of

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Review for the Town of Lorain of Polk County shall hold its first meeting on the 10th day of September, 2009, from 5 to 7 p.m. at 252 345th Avenue, Frederic, Wis. (Lorain Town Hall).

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

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

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

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

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the board by telephone or subject or object to a valuation; if that valuation was made by the Assessor or the Objector using the income method; unless the person supplies the Assessor all of the information about income and expenses, as specified in the manual under Sec. 73.03(2a), that the Assessor requests. The Town of Lorain has an ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expense that is provided to the assessor under this paragraph which provides exceptions for persons using information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or of the duties of their office or by order of a court. The information that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determined that it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying under Sec. 19.35 (1), WI Statutes.

The board shall hear upon oath, by telephone, all ill or disabled persons who present to the board a letter from a physician, surgeon or osteopath that confirms their illness or disability. No other persons may testify by telephone.

Respectfully Submitted, Town of Lorain 494242 1L WNAXLP Susan E. Hughes, Clerk

NOTICE OF BOARD OF REVIEW TOWN OF OAKLAND Will meet on Monday, Oct. 5 6-8 p.m. at the Webster Fire Hall 7420 Main St. W., Webster, WI

OPEN BOOK

will be held Saturday, Sept. 26, from 9-3 p.m., also at the fire hall.

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

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

No person may appear before the board of review, testify to the board by telephone or contest the amount of any assessment unless, at least 48 hrs. before the first meeting of the board or at least 48 hrs. before the objection is heard if the objection if allowed under sub, (3) (a), that the person provides to the clerk of the board of review notice as to whether the person will ask for removal under sub. (6m) and if so which member will be removed and the person’s reasonable estimate of the length of time that the hearing will take.

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

No person may appear before the board of review, testify to the board by telephone or object to a valuation; if that valuation was made by the assessor or the objector using the income method; unless the person supplies to the assessor all of the information about income and expenses, as specified in the manual under s.73.03 (2a) that the assessor requests.

The municipality or county shall provide by ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expenses that is provided to the assessor under this paragraph and shall provide exceptions for persons using the information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or of the duties of their office or by order of a court. The information that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determines that it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and coping under s.19.35(1).

Respectfully Submitted, Deanna J Krause, Clerk 494019 1L 43a

TOWN OF SIREN SIREN SANITARY DISTRICT BOARD MEETING TOWN OF SIREN BOARD MEETING

The Siren Sanitary District meeting will be held on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at 6:30 p.m., at the Siren Town Hall.

Immediately following the Sanitary District Meeting the Town of Siren will hold a Board meeting at approximately 7 p.m. If you wish to be on the agenda, please call Mary Hunter, Clerk.

Mary Hunter, Clerk 494470 1-2L 715-349-5119

FREDERIC SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNUAL NOTICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION REFERRAL AND EVALUATION PROCEDURES

Upon request, the Frederic School District is required to evaluate a child for eligibility for special education services. A request for evaluation is known as a referral. When the district receives a referral, the district will appoint an Individualized Education Program (IEP) team to determine if the child has a disability, and if the child needs special education services. The district locates, identifies, and evaluates all children with disabilities who are enrolled by their parents in private (including religious) schools, elementary schools and secondary schools located in the school district.

A physician, nurse, psychologist, social worker or administrator of a social agency who reasonably believes a child brought to him or her for services is a child with a disability has a legal duty to refer the child, including a homeless child, to the school district in which the child resides. Before referring the child, the person making the referral must inform the child’s parent that the referral will be made.

Others, including parents, who reasonably believe a child is a child with disability may also refer the child, including a homeless child, to the school district in which the child resides.

Referrals must be in writing and include the reason why the person believes the child is a child with a disability. A referral may be made by contacting Kristi Fenning, Director of Special Education, Frederic School District at 715-327-4223 or by writing her at 1437 494116 1L Clam Falls Drive, Frederic, WI 54837.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Plan Commission of the Town of Lorain, Polk County, Wis., will be conducting a public hearing to discuss the Town of Lorain Comprehensive Plan 20092029 and the proposed ordinance to adopt the Comprehensive Plan. The Public Hearing will be held on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, from 10 a.m. until noon at the Lorain Town Hall on CTH E in Indian Creek.

Comments on the plan will be heard and discussed and any necessary updates will be made to the Comprehensive Plan prior to adoption.

Comprehensive Plan Summary: The Town of Lorain has been working on the development of the state-mandated comprehensive plan for over a year now. The comprehensive plan covers 9 statutory elements: Issues and Opportunities, Housing, Transportation, Utilities and Community Facilities, Agricultural, Natural, and Cultural Resources, Economic Development, Intergovernmental Cooperation, Land Use, and Implementation. Each issue was discussed by the plan commission and the attending citizens at a meeting open to the public. The residents of the Town of Lorain were also given a survey to fill out and send back on issues related to the development of the Comprehensive Plan. The survey results as well as the meeting input were used to formulate goals for the Town in each of the 9 elements. The end result is a proposed plan that addresses the required elements by the State of Wisconsin and the views and opinions of the residents of the Town of Lorain. The majority opinion according to the above sources is for the Town of Lorain to remain rural for the foreseeable future.

Copies of the Draft version of the Comprehensive Plan and comment forms are available from the Town of Lorain Plan Commissioners: Michael Sparish Wilfred Owens 548 335th Ave., 315 335th Ave., Frederic, WI 54837 Frederic, WI 54837 715-653-2688 715-653-2663 Daniel Beecroft 175 305th Ave., Frederic, WI 54837 715-653-2635

Susan Hughes 3340 15th St. Frederic, WI 54837 715-653-2629

Susan Sopiwink Richard Eggers 3058 50th St. 336 355th Ave., Frederic, WI 54837 Frederic, WI 54837 715-653-4276 715-653-2551 A digital copy of the Town of Lorain’s Comprehensive Plan is also available on Polk County’s Web site at the following address: www.co.polk.wi.us/landinfo/pdfs/ Planning/CompPlanTLorain.pdf Comment forms will also be available at the following Web site: www.co.polk.wi.us/landinfo/pdfs/Planning/ CommentFormTLorain.pdf.

Additional copies or more information may be requested by contacting Michael Sparish at 715-6532688 or Tim Anderson – Polk County Planner at 715485-9225 or tim.anderson@co.polk.wi.us. All written comments will be reviewed to the public hearing. There will be public comments time held at the public hearing as well. Please submit all written comments to either Michael Sparish or Tim Anderson at least one week prior to the public hearing date to the contact information above.

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VILLAGE OF FREDERIC REGULAR BOARD MEETING PROCEEDINGS JULY 13, 2009 The regular meeting of the Village Board was held on July 13, 2009, at the Village Hall. President Phil Knuf called the meeting to order at 7 p.m. Present: Brad Harlander, Kerry Brendel, Maria Ammend, John Boyer, William Johnson and Jamie Worthington.

President Knuf announced that a closed Session will follow the Regular Meeting, per Wisconsin Statue 19.85(1)(e), “Deliberating or negotiating the purchase of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business.”

Minutes: Brendel made the motion to approve the minutes from the June 8 Regular Meeting with the spelling correction noted, second by Ammend and motion carried.

Treasurer’s report: Motion by Johnson to approve the June Treasurer’s report as presented, second by Harlander and motion carried.

2010 Census Resolution #071309: Harlander, Worthington. All in favor and motion carried.

Resolution to Apply for Community Forest #071009: Brendel, Boyer. All in favor and motion carried.

Write Off Revolving Loans per 2008 Audit: Johnson, Worthington. All in favor and motion carried.

Green Acres License Renewal: Harlander, Ammend. All in favor and motion carried.

Library Board Appointments: Johnson made the motion to approve Carey Lillehaug & John Lindquist term ending June 30, 2012 as recommended by the Library Board, second by Harlander and motion carried.

Worthless Check Diversion Program Presentation: Daniel Siebenaler, Investigator Financial Crimes Services, LLC made presentation to the board regarding collection of worthless checks. Mr. Siebenaler is currently working for the Polk County District Attorney’s office. Chief has cards of contact.

Watercross Presentation - Arlen Peterson: Presented a handout reporting revenues and expenses for the 2009 Watercross.

Peterson is requesting June 12, 2010 for next year’s date.

Will need to start fundraising efforts, advertise in state tourism book by Sept. Peterson stated the sound system volume will be addressed. Local donations were over $3,000 this year. Board will address date for 2010 at the August meeting.

Committee and Department Head Reports: Public Works - Ken Hackett reported that the street light by Avalon had been replaced along with the roof on #5 well, hole behind bakery repaired. Harlander commented that he appreciates Public Works and Police Dept. efforts during Family Days.

Park Board - William Johnson IV reported that they met last Friday. Urban Forestry will be discussed at the next park board meeting, trees missing on blvd. totaled 95. Received Twins grant in the amount of $5,000 which will be used to finish dugouts at softball field. Developing a management plea for Coon Lake - Jeremy Williamson DNR took inventory of storm water shed, plants, etc. will work with park Board and Village. Watercross/Family Days recycling program expectations were exceeded, aluminum donated to “Friends of the Pool.” Johnson commented that the Sederlund Memorial Garden is a joint effort of the Library summer program, park Board, and the Chamber.

Library - Christine Byerly amazed by number of citizens working with the library, provided summer program July calendar, stated last week was highest circulation for the year. The kids are working with the Park Board on Marilyn’s garden, a special thanks to all citizens who have made this possible.

Law Enforcement - RJ Serverude provided the combined summary report for June, listing 110 incidents. Will be receiving a $4,000 grant from State of Wisconsin for safety checks in June, looking at grant for radio usage.

Village Administrator - David Wondra announced that on Wednesday there will be a public hearing for TIFD #3 expansion and review of site plan for Dollar General. Division 8 will be closing on building July 20. Wondra met with couple interested in purchasing Good Ol Drive Inn building. Wondra will meet with auditor tomorrow to discuss 2008 audit. Personal and Finance to meet next week.

New Business: Worthington suggested getting the Village ordinances on the Frederic Web site. Wondra advised that we have changed to word press which allows us to do a lot of the updates ourselves.

Convene to Closed Session, per WI STAT 19.85(1)(e): Johnson made the motion to convene to closed session 8:06 p.m., second by Brendel. Roll Call: Harlander - yes; Brendel - yes; Ammend - yes; Boyer - yes; Johnson - yes; Worthington yes; Knuf - yes.

Reconvene to Open Session: Motion by Johnson to reconvene to open session, second by Worthington. All in favor and motion carried.

Adjourn: Motion by Ammend to adjourn, second by Worthington and motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:32 p.m.

Kristi Swanson, Treasurer/Deputy Clerk

VILLAGE OF FREDERIC SPECIAL BOARD MEETING PROCEEDINGS JULY 27, 2009 The Special Meeting of the Village Board was held at the Village Hall, on July 27, 2009. President Knuf called the meeting to order at 7 p.m. Present: Brad Harlander, Kerry Brendel, Maria Ammend, John Boyer, William Johnson IV and Jamie Worthington.

President Knuf announced that a closed Session will follow the Regular Meeting, per Wisconsin Statue 19.85(1)(e), “Deliberating or negotiating the purchase of public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified public business.”

Review recommendation from the Planning Commission for the site plan from point of Beginning (Dollar General Store project): Wondra updated members of the Board on the Planning Committee recommendation. General Dollar would like to begin building in September. Harlander made the motion to approve the site plan, second by Brendel. All in favor and motion carried.

Review TIF request from DGI-FREDERIC, LLC - Todd Platt: Todd Platt was present to discuss a possible developers agreement in the Tax Incremental District between the Village and Dollar General.

Convene to Closed Session: Brendel made the motion to convene to closed session, second by Johnson. All in favor.

7:30 p.m.

Reconvene to Open Session: Brendel, Worthington. All in favor.

Adjourn: Johnson made the motion to adjourn, second by Worthington. Meeting adjourned at 7:56 p.m.

Kristi Swanson, Treasurer/Deputy Clerk 494469 1L

FREDERIC BOARD OF EDUCATION

Notices

Regular Meeting - Monday, July 20, 2009 The President, Mr. Nelson, called the regular meeting of the Frederic School District Board of Education to order at 6:30 p.m., on Mon., July 20, 2009, in the 7 - 12 School, Room 107.

Board members present: Mrs. Amundson, Mr. Engen, Mrs. Matz, Mr. Nelson and Mr. Taylor.

Administration present: Mr. Draxler, Mrs. Steen and Mr. Tischer.

Also present for this meeting were: Kay Friberg, Earl Lee, Lynn Johnson, Dustin Taylor, Jon Sederlund, Duane Taylor and Judy Shafer, and members of the press.

Motion Amundson/Matz that this meeting was properly noticed. Motion carried 5-0.

Motion Matz/Taylor to approve the 6-15-09, regular meeting minutes as corrected. Motion carried 5-0.

Motion Matz/Taylor to approve the 6-11-09 and 6-19-09, special meeting minutes. Motion carried 5-0.

Mr. Nelson provided a summary of the 6-11-09 & 6-15-09, closed session minutes.

Motion Taylor/Matz to approve the 5-18-09 & 6-03-09, closed session minutes. Motion carried 5-0.

The invoices for June 2009 were presented as follows: Regular invoices (#7525-7599 & 37883-37931). .$219,553.69 Payroll account.....................................................$382,899.47 Motion Amundson/Matz to authorize and confirm the money payments of the invoices presented. Motion carried 5-0.

Mr. Engen presented receipts for June 2009 totaling $1,020,356.02.

Mr. Tischer reviewed the 2008-2009 budget.

The administration presented building and district reports.

Reports were submitted and presented by food service, and buildings and grounds.

Mr. Tischer reported that work on the football press box has been completed.

Motion Matz/Amundson to increase guidance counselors to two full-time positions. Motion carried 5-0.

There was considerable discussion by the Board and others in attendance regarding the agriculture program, since Mr. Wesle will be employed full time at Luck (previously a LuckFrederic 66.30 shared position). Mr. Draxler explained how the ag science classes could be taught by current staff. Earl Lee, Kay Friberg and Duane Taylor shared their opinions on the importance of having an agriculture instructor on staff.

Motion Taylor to hire a .38 FTE agriculture instructor. The motion failed.

Motion Matz/Amundson to accept the resignation of Lucy Hess, elementary guidance counselor. Motion carried 5-0.

Motion Amundson/Matz to approve a contract with Jesseka Wink, varsity volleyball coach. Motion carried 5-0.

Motion Matz/Engen to approve the purchase of a food warmer from Big Tray Co. for $2,329. Motion carried 5-0.

Motion Amundson/Matz to approve the K-6 Handbooks for staff and students. Motion carried 5-0.

Motion Engen/Matz to approve the 7-12 Handbooks for staff and students. Motion carried 5-0.

Mr. Nelson announced to members of the Board that they should consider adjourning to closed session for the purpose of staffing and negotiations. Mr. Nelson informed the Board that the closed session would be proper and is authorized by s. 19.85(1)(c)(i) of the WI Statutes.

Motion Matz/Amundson to adjourn to closed session. Vote by roll call was unanimous to convene in closed session and the motion carried 5-0. Time: 8:50 p.m.

The regular meeting reconvened at 9:28 p.m.

Motion Engen/Taylor to post/advertise for an agriculture instructor. The motion failed with a 3-2 vote (Amundson, Matz and Nelson voted no).

Mr. Nelson announced to members of the Board that they should consider returning to closed session for the purpose of staffing and negotiations. Mr. Nelson informed the Board that the closed session would be proper and is authorized by s. 19.85 (1)(c)(i) of the WI Statutes.

Motion Engen/Matz to adjourn to closed session. Vote by roll call was unanimous to convene in closed session and the motion carried 5-0. Time: 9:40 p.m.

The regular meeting reconvened at 9:49 p.m.

Motion Amundson/Engen to adjourn. Motion carried 5-0.

Time: 9:50 p.m.

Rebecca Amundson, Clerk

FREDERIC BOARD OF EDUCATION

Special Meeting - Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 The President, Mr. Nelson, called a special meeting of the Frederic School District Board of Education to order at 6:30 p.m., on Mon., Aug. 10, 2009, in the 7 - 12 School, Room 107.

Board members present: Mrs. Amundson, Mr. Engen, Mrs. Matz and Mr. Nelson.

Administration present: Mr. Tischer.

Gregg Westigard, Jim Worthington and Jamie Worthington were also present for this meeting.

Motion Engen/Matz that this meeting was properly noticed.

Motion carried 4-0.

Mr. Nelson announced that the hearing for the S.A.G.E. waiver would commence. There was discussion by the Board and those in attendance, regarding elementary class sizes.

Motion Engen/Amundson to make application for a S.A.G.E. waiver for grades Kindergarten, First and Second for 20092010; grades First, Second and Third for 2010-2011 and 20112012. Motion carried 4-0.

Motion Matz/Engen to accept the bread bid from Pan of Gold for the 2009-2010 school year. Motion carried 4-0.

Motion Matz/Engen to accept the bid for gasoline and diesel from Frederic Fuel for the 2009-2010 school year. Motion carried 4-0.

Motion Matz/Engen to approve the snowplowing bid from Leonard Knauber for the 2009-2010 school year. Motion carried 4-0.

Motion Amundson/Matz to approve a contract with Christina Lehman for 7-12 school guidance counselor. Motion carried 4-0.

Motion Matz/Engen to accept the resignation of Jesseka Wink, assistant volleyball coach. Motion carried 4-0.

Motion Matz/Engen to approve a contract with Kelly McCoy, assistant volleyball coach. Motion carried 4-0.

Motion Amundson/Engen to adjourn. Motion carried 4-0.

Time: 7:20 p.m.

Rebecca Amundson, Clerk 494123 1L

NOTICE OF OPEN BOOK TOWN OF MILLTOWN Pursuant to s70.45, Wis. Stats., the assessment roll for the 2007 assessment year will be open for examination at the following time: Tuesday, September 8 from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Milltown Fire Hall.

At the open book session, instructional information and objection forms will be available. These documents will assist with scheduling a hearing before the Board of Review. The assessor will be present and available to answer questions at the open book. Keep in mind that objection forms must be filed with the clerk of the Board of Review at least 48 hours before the Board of Review is conducted, unless the Board of Review chooses to waive this requirement.

Virgil Hansen, Town Clerk 494444 1-2L 43-44a,d Town of Milltown

TOWN OF SIREN ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE ORDINANCE #9-2008 ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE ROUTES AMENDED 7-9-2009 State of Wisconsin Town of Siren, Burnett County, Wis. An Amendment to the ordinance designating all-terrain vehicle routes and regulating the operation of all-terrain vehicles.

The following roads have been added: Selvig Road, Godfrey Lake Road and Little Deer Road.

SECTION I - INTENT The Town of Siren of Burnett County adopts the following allterrain vehicle ordinance/route for the operation of all-terrain vehicles upon the roadways listed in Section III. Following due consideration of the recreational value to connect rail opportunities and weighted against possible dangers, public health, liability aspects, terrain involved, traffic density and history of automobile traffic, this ordinance has been created.

SECTION II - STATUTORY AUTHORITY This route is created pursuant to Town of Siren authority under Section 1.1.01 as authorized by 23.33 (8)(b), Wis. Stats.

SECTION III - ROUTES The following roads are designated as routes: 1. Clam Lake Drive - in its entirety 2. Malone Road - west side 3. Lynch Bridge Road - in its entirety 4. Soderberg Road - in its entirety 5. Burnikel Road - in its entirety 6. Herman Johnson Road - in its entirety 7. Lind Road - in its entirety 8. South Shore Drive - from the Village of Siren limits to Lind Road 9. Service Roads - east and west side of State Hwy. 35/70 10. Johnson Road - from Polk County line to Elbow Lake Rd. 11. South Elbow Lake Road 12. Elbow Lake Road - State Hwy. 35 to Town Line 13. Nyberg Road - in its entirety 14. Tewalt Road - Village of Siren limits to John Nelson Road 15. Waldora Road - Town Line to Nyberg Road 16. John Nelson Road - east side 17. Airport Road - south side from State Hwy. 35/70 to Town Line 18. Fish Lake Road - Old Hwy. 35 to Town Line 19. Old Hwy. 35 - from Village of Siren limits to Town Line 20. Lone Star Road - in its entirety 21. Hideaway Road - in its entirety 22. Cumberland Point Road - in its entirety 23. Fandeen Road and Garden Drive - in its entirety 24. Birch Road - in its entirety 25. Polansky Road - in its entirety 26. Nyren Road - in its entirety 27. Selvig Road - amended 7-9-2009 28. Godfrey Road - amended 7-9-2009 29. Little Deer Road - amended 7-9-2009 SECTION IV - CONDITIONS 1. All ATV operators hall obey posted route speed limits.

2. All ATV operators shall ride in single file on right-hand side of hard portion of roadway.

3. All ATV operators must be 16 years of age or older NO 12 to 16 years of age allowed.

4. Hours of operation of ATVs shall be 6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. on all Routes within the Town of Siren.

5. Operators of ATVs must slow to 10 MPH within 150 feet of a dwelling or business.

6. Routes must be signed in accordance with NR 64.12 & NR 64.12 (7) c.

7. You are required to wear a helmet under the age of 18 except when traveling for the purpose of hunting or fishing.

8. Passengers under the age of 18 must also wear a helmet.

9. Maximum speed limit allowed on routes is 20 MPH. SECTION V - ENFORCEMENT This ordinance shall be enforced by any law enforcement officer of the State of Wisconsin or Burnett County, Wisconsin.

SECTION VI - PENALTIES Wisconsin State All-Terrain Vehicle penalties as found in s.

23.33(13)(a) Wis. Stats., are adopted by reference.

SECTION VII - SEVERABILITY The provision of this ordinance shall be deemed severable and it is expressly declared that the Town of Siren would have passed the other provisions of this ordinance irrespective of whether or not one or more provisions may be declared invalid.

If any provision of this ordinance or the application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance and the application of such provisions to other person’s circumstances shall not be deemed affected.

SECTION VIII - EFFECTIVE DATE This ordinance becomes effective upon passage, publication and proper signing on roads opened.

Amend Ordinance passed the 9th day of July, 2009 Mary Hunter, Clerk DuWayne Wiberg, Chairman Philip Stiemann, Supervisor 493760 52-1L WNAXLP Jeff Howe, Supervisor

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Discover Wisconsin

The final broadcast of the Discover Wisconsin Television show highlighting the trails of Northwest Wisconsin and Lac du Flambeau is set. The program, titled “Your Escape to Northern Wisconsin – Northwest Wisconsin Trails and Lac du Flambeau,” will air in seven states, and is scheduled for broadcast Aug. 29 and 30. The Cattail Trail and Gandy Dancer Trail will be among the highlights along with Crex Meadows Wildlife Area in Burnett County and snowmobiling throughout the area. The episode was written and produced by Whitney Abbott of Madison, and is hosted by former Miss Wisconsin Stephanie Klett. Shown above are Sue Matthews, director of the Polk County Visitors Center with Stephanie Klett (L), Host of Discover Wisconsin, and writer Whitney Abbott (R). Also shown are local bicyclists who helped filming the Gandy Dancer Trail. - Special photos

Wisconsin State Fair 2009

Polk County Sheep and Swine Exhibitors at the State Fair were back row (L to R): Mitchell Johnston, Isaac Christensen, Randy Bertelsen, Kevin Glunz, Reece Johnston, Johanna Alling and Amy Van De Brake.

Front row: Jake Mullendore, Emily Petzel, Rachel Mullendore, Jena Alling, Joe Larsen and Haley Yunker.

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Emily Petzel was awarded Reserve Grand Champion Performance Lamb. In addition to showing their livestock, exhibitors also took part in the Wisconsin State Fair Premier Exhibitor Contest. The combined scores of the livestock judging contest, skillathon, industry interview, showmanship contest, and livestock quiz were used to select the top 10 exhibitors in Wisconsin. Emily Petzel received fourth place in the premier exhibitor contest. Full results of all livestock competitions can be found at the Wisconsin State Fair Web site. http://www.wistatefair.com/fair_info/09_judging.ht ml.

“American Daredevil” coming to New Richmond

Tickets are now available for the Indianhead Chorus 2009 Annual Show on Oct. 10, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Unity High School. The price is $8 in advance from any chorus member. The chorus and local quartets will sing, as well as the Storm Front quartet, who came in third this year in international competition in Anaheim, Calif. Vocality, a recent Land-O-Lakes District championship quartet, will also be singing on the show. Last year, the show sold out before the show date, so get your tickets early. Shown is Storm Front Quartet (L to R): Jeff Selano, tenor; Jim Clark, lead; Sydney Libsack, bass; and Darin Drown, baritone. For tickets call 715-483-9202 or e-mail Klomett@hotmail.com. - Special photo

January 2000, saw Bubba Blackwell complete the longest HarleyDavidson motorcycle jump in history in downtown Las Vegas for the UPN TV show, “I Dare You, the Ultimate Challenge.”

Blackwell made it look easy as he sailed his 400-pound XR-750 over 15 tour buses with room to spare, completing the dream of being the only daredevil to beat all of Evel Knievel’s jumping records using the same type motorcycle and the same size ramps. Blackwell and his team will perform two stunt shows at St. Croix Harley-Davidson Saturday, Sept. 5, at 1 and 3 p.m. There is no admission charge and the whole family is welcome. There will be food vendors on-site, door prizes, and the new 2010 Harley-Davidson models on display and available for test ride. For more information visit www.stcroixhd.com - Photo submitted

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Famed MS climber takes on lecture circuit BAYFIELD - The Bayfield woman who became the first person with multiple sclerosis to climb to the top of Mount Everest will begin a speaking tour this week.

It took her 16 years, but Lori Schneider climbed all seven of the continental summits, climaxed in May when she stood on top of Mount Everest with a World MS flag. This next journey will take her to Door County, Janesville, Milwaukee, Chicago and even Germany to urge people to step outside their comfort zone and climb life’s mountains.

Schneider says when she was diagnosed with MS 10 years ago, she was afraid and ran away from a lot of things in life. Through mountain climbing she took back some of her power to move forward again. She says she hopes that other people will look at their lives and move forward on some of their dreams.

Schneider says this is a natural extension of her life after retiring as a schoolteacher. She’s already spoken at the London World Multiple Sclerosis headquarters in June, and is booked to speak in Germany next year.

Schneider begins her speaking tour on her home turf this Wednesday and Thursday at Stage North in Washburn. Wisconsin Public Radio (Mike Simonson)

Lori Schneider during her climb on Mount Everest in May. - Special photo

This flag was tucked away in Lori Schneider’s clothing while the Bayfield woman climbed to the summit of Mount Everest in May. There she took it out and let it wave at the top of the world. In June, she traveled to MS International offices and presented them with the 3’x3’ flag. Schneider recalls having tears in her eyes, saying the flag became a part of her, the climb and her purpose.

The flag’s journey was in itself incredible. It arrived in Katmandu on the back of a yak, and then she kept it in a plastic bag in her suit during the climb. Even so, it’s almost in perfect shape. An inscription on the flag reads, “Live your dreams one step at a time. Lori Schneider, Everest ‘09.” - Special photo

Riverside/from page 1 “Normally it’s just a dead spot that I feel, but this time there was a small growth that I could feel and see and the area was white around it; more surgery.”

She was scheduled to go to Mayo on Sept. 19, where the pathology department was primed to do continual testing while she was in the OR. Not only did they keep taking slices of her tongue until there was a clear margin without cancer, but they also took 38 lymph nodes from her neck and there was only one that had a 1mm x 1mm spot of cancer. She now will have to have health exams every three months to keep watch on the progress of its growth.

The happy part of this story was due to one woman’s inspired idea and her generosity.

Deb Holst, the artist that created the amazing steel angel bench, wanted to honor her friend and spiritual mentor, Melton. “After I made my own bench to sit between my two babies’ graves in our apple orchard, there was still half a sheet of steel left and I requested it made into another angel bench, this one for her. I also made a few phone calls with the message that Bill, my husband, and I, were going to go to Melton’s place and create a healing garden for her. Since Melton would be working at Poor Richards, their family business, that day until five, we had the entire day to create something from virtually nothing.”

The word spread quickly and by the end of Saturday they had over 85 people, each doing their part with a bit of tree cutting, earth moving, rototilling, rock hauling, rock painting and bench placement, along with an archway and paving

stones for a beautiful 600-square-foot garden near the creek on their property, complete with donated plants and flowers numbering several hundred, pine trees and a flowering crab tree.

Some women were in charge of the kitchen and not only served both lunch and a potluck supper, but they also baked enough bars and cookies to keep all the workers happy.

Members of Richard Melton’s church, River of Life in Bruce, which is 80 miles away, came to work, and they even brought their musical instruments along and there was music and laughter into the wee hours of the morning.

The kids had their own jobs too, including painting rocks using new brushes and recycled paint. Many colorful creations not only reflected their enthusiasm for the job but also their words of comfort, many with just the word HOPE written in childish script. These were used to create a garden area within the main garden.

“I wondered what was going on when I got near our house, because there were cars parked clear out to and on CTH H,” mused Karen. “When I finally got into the yard I was overwhelmed with what all these people were doing. I couldn’t stop crying. Even when Deb told me what was going on and why, I still couldn’t believe it. I burst into tears again when I saw the garden and especially when I saw the beautiful angel bench.

The Bible verse on the seat is one of my favorites. It’s from the Old Testament book of Jeremiah and it quotes God when he promised, ‘I know the plans I have for you. They are plans for good

Karen’s husband, Richard Melton, places one of the children’s creations in the garden within the garden. – Photos submitted and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’

“I’ve never had a garden before, so this was a real treat. I’ve been thinking about the garden even now since I’ve gone back to work while waiting for my surgery, because I realized how important gardens must be even to God. After all, he placed the first man and woman in one. I sit out in it all the time and think about the verse on the seat and think about how overwhelmed I still am that so many people came to do this for me.

We even had four generations of family helping.”

“It’s technically called a healing garden,” said instigator Holst, “but it isn’t the rocks or the plants or even the angel bench that heals. They simply represent the quiet calm and sense of peace the body and mind and heart need in order to hear God speaking words of love and assurance to the soul.”

In the upcoming days not only will the Meltons need calm and peace for healing, but they will also need it to find the hefty fee that was charged by Mayo presurgery. Needless to say, a fundraiser is being planned. For further information you can call Deb Holst at 715-635-8945.

Someone had to feed all the hungry workers, so women took over the kitchen Over 85 people showed up to create a healing garden for their friend, Karen and baked all day, served sandwiches for lunch and had a generous potluck for supper.

Melton, some coming as far as 80 miles.

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Those attending the Marshland Center’s Memory Day share St. Croix stories

by Priscilla Bauer ROCK CREEK, Minn. – I was looking for a story and Chad Erickson had a story to tell. Was it a chance meeting or were we on the same serendipitous path?

I was late getting to the National Scenic Riverway’s Marshland Center’s Aug. 15 Memory Day. When I pulled in the parking lot and saw only a few cars I figured my chances of getting someone’s

story of their St. Croix River memories were slim.

Walking into the center I was greeted

by National Park Service Ranger and Marshland District Interpreter Jean Van Tatenhove who further dashed any hopes when she said the memory day had gone well. A response using the past tense was not what I wanted to hear.

I glanced around the room and saw a man and a young boy looking at the large map of the riverway system on the wall.

Thank goodness there was someone there. Maybe I could at least get a photo of them checking out the memories display.

The man was pointing out a spot high on the map and the boy was straining to

Chad Erickson and his family spend many lazy summer days at his Grandma Helen and Grandpa Toi Jambeck’s cabin on the St. Croix River.

NPS Ranger and Marshland District Interpreter Jean Van Tatenhove showed Chad and Kaj Erickson some of the written accounts of the St. Croix River including John H. Daniels’ book, “In The Boat” which is filled with detailed accounts and records of fishing on the St. Croix. Daniels, a member of a private fishing camp located some 10 miles upriver from the Marshland Center, had his own St. Croix story to tell and compiled a 90-year history of the St. Croix Fly-Fishing Club.

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I explained that I worked for the one of the local newspapers and had come looking for someone who could tell me their St. Croix story.

“Do you mind if I take your photo?

Did you just stop in to check out the memory display?” I asked, thinking I might get a response to use with the photo.

My question elicited a response that was more than I could have hoped for.

“We didn’t even know it was memory day,” said Chad Erickson, as he intro-

The banks of the St. Croix River today show no signs of where Chad Erickson’s grandparent’s cabin stood. After the St. Croix was designated a national and scenic riverway the Jambecks leased the cabin for 25 years before it reverted back to the Park Service. Jambeck’s cabin and others located just north of the Marshland Center were auctioned off and the riverbank reclaimed to its natural state. Chad Erickson and his son Kaj later found the cabin site by spotting a familiar oak tree and a grove of pines. Erickson said it brought back a rush of wonderful memories of time spent on the river.

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duced himself and his 12-year-old son, Kaj. “Spending time here on the river was a huge part of my childhood. You can’t even imagine how huge. My grandmother had one of the cabins that used to be just north of the information center.

I was just trying to find it on the map so I could show Kaj where it was,” Erickson explained.

Erickson’s grandparents, Helen and Toi Jambeck, along with Erickson’s parents, Bob and Sue Erickson, bought lots on the St. Croix in 1964 from James Whitcomb. Whitcomb owned property from Hwy. 70 to the end of the road that ran along the St. Croix’s Minnesota side, just north of where the NPS Marshland Center stands today.

Erickson said there were 10 lots that faced the river and theirs was one of them.

Before 1967 when the Jambecks built their cabin, the family, which included relatives from Pine City, Minn., would come to spend many happy days camping on the river lot.

As slides of bygone days on the St. Croix flashed on one of the Marshland Center’s walls, Erickson said he could probably add quite a few to the collection. “We have hundreds of family photos of our times at the cabin.”

Erickson went on to say it was disappointing having to give up the cabin where they had spent so many happy family times together.

In October of 1968 the St. Croix River was declared a national scenic riverway and the Jambeck cabin, along with the others, became the property of the NPS.

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Memories/from page 1 Owners were given the opportunity to buy a 25-year lease on their cabins. The Jambecks and several other cabin owners bought the leases offered and the couple used the cabin as their residence.

Helen Jambeck stayed at the cabin after her husband’s death until the lease ran out. The cabin then reverted back to the government and with others was auctioned off.

“But Helen had time to prepare for it, and she accepted it well,” said Erickson’s father, Bob, who I phoned for more information. He was excited to tell some of his own memories of cabin days on the St. Croix.

“Our family spent a lot of time at ‘Grandma’s cabin. It was a very special time and place. I can remember canoeing upstream to the big sandbar just north of the cabin to go swimming, because the river was too deep in front of the cabin,” said Erickson.

“We knew the road from Minnetonka to the cabin and we used to get groceries in Grantsburg,” Erickson recalled.

Chad Erickson also remembered those grocery trips to Grantsburg. “I was having memories today as we came down Hwy. 70. When we came over the hill I remembered the old metal bridge. When we’d go get groceries in Grantsburg we would hold our hands up to touch the car’s ceiling as we went over it.”

Both Chad and his father said the cabin meant a great deal to all the family. When the cabin’s lease ran out the elder Erickson said another of his sons, Brent, had even made a video of Grandma Helen’s cabin before it was taken away.

“I remember Grandma had a gazebo and the driveway had rocks around it. I took one of them as a souvenir,” said Chad, who went on to say how sometimes a smell or sound would evoke his memories of the sounds and smells he remembers of the cabin and the river.

“Sometimes when I catch the smell of

Chad Erickson showed his son Kaj the location of his grandparents cabin on the large map of the St. Croix River system at the National Park Service Marshland Center on Hwy. 70 just west of Grantsburg. Erickson’s son got to hear some of his father’s memories of fun times at the cabin when they stopped in at the center’s Memory Day on Aug. 15. Erickson said he didn’t even know about the special day inviting people to come and share their memories of the river but thought having a Memory Day was a perfect thing to do. “That’s what memories are for,” said Erickson. rain, I remember how the cabin smelled all those years ago when we’d be to-

Slides of bygone days on the St. Croix River flashed on a wall during the National Park Service Marshland Center’s Memory Day held on Saturday, Aug. 15. – Photo submitted

gether in it on a rainy Sunday afternoon,” said Erickson, smiling.

“I remember my cousins and I catching river frogs. And the cabin was where I tapped into my Finnish heritage, running from the sauna, past the pines, slipping down the bank and into the river.

What a great place to spend lazy summer days!”

Erickson’s son Kaj sat transfixed as his father poured out memories of those carefree childhood days on the St. Croix.

“Kaj hasn’t heard these stories before, and that’s why it’s a perfect thing to have this memory day. That’s what memories are for, to share,” said Erickson. As Erickson and his son walked to the door to thank Van Tatenhove, he picked up a copy of the book, “In The Boat” lying on the counter.

The book was written by John H. Daniels, a member of a private fishing club located some 10 miles upriver from the Marshland Center. Daniels was inspired to compile and write a 90-year history of the St. Croix Fly-Fishing Club with detailed accounts and records of fishing on the St. Croix. Daniels was yet another man with a St. Croix River story to tell.

I said goodbye to Erickson and Kaj and told them how glad I was for the chance to meet them and hear some of Erickson’s memories.

Van Tatenhove asked if they’d like to see the video, “The St. CroixA Northwoods Journey,” which also featured people telling their St. Croix River tales.

“Sure,” said Erickson, even though earlier he had told me they were very late getting to a friend’s cabin, he couldn’t resist another chance to hear a few more stories of the St. Croix.

The next day Erickson e-mailed me with this message: “After we spoke, Kaj and I walked down the path to where the cabin once stood. I was able to locate it because of a particular oak tree and a grove of pines that are still there. We found where the sauna was located and the path leading down to the river. Stopping there brought back such a rush of wonderful memories! Thanks for being on the same serendipitous path.” Chad Serendipity: having good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries. That’s a pretty good description of my memory day experience at the Marshland Center.

The unexpected meeting with the Ericksons was most fortunate. Erickson got a chance to tell his memories to me and more importantly to his son, and I got a chance to write about it.

Our paths crossed at just the right time, giving us all the chance for a new St. Croix River memory.

Note: The video titled “The St. Croix – A Northwood’s Journey,” is available for viewing and for sale at the National Park Service Marshland Center located approximately four miles west of Grantsburg, just across the St. Croix River Hwy. 70 bridge on the Minnesota side.

John H. Daniels’ book, “In The Boat,” is also available for viewing at the center and the Grantsburg Public Library has a copy for checkout. Daniels only had 100 books printed, so copies of his detailed account of fishing on the St. Croix are hard to come by and coveted by those who are lucky enough to have one.

Siren class reunions held at Pour House SIREN – Two Siren High School classes met for a reunion on Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Pour House in Siren. - submitted

Class of 1952: Herb Colvin, Charles D’Jock, Ron Nyren and Don Donniker.

Class of 1953: Back row (L to R): DuWayne Wiberg, Don Fuerstenburg, Red Anderson, Dean Hunter, Don Donniker and Allen Kringle. Front row: Rae Ellen (Engstrom) Johnson, Joan (Anderson) Daniels, Nina (Mangelson) Hines, Jack Hunter, Sharon (Doran) Stewart and Barb (Schallenberger) Olinger. – Photos submitted

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The cycle of silence

by Boyd Sutton The cycle of life is full of silence. It comes in many forms.

The moment of silence you endure before your newborn baby makes her first cry.

The silence of the evening as you quietly get out of the rocker and put your baby, who has finally fallen asleep, into her crib.

The suspicious silence that you are suddenly aware of in a house with three rambunctious children, all less than 5 years old.

The silence that greets you as you enter the house after putting your youngest child on the bus for her first day of school.

The stony silence after your teenager slams the door of her bedroom when Summer is here. We would like to run favorite summer memory stories throughout the summer. Submit your story to the Leader by mail or e-mail.

Writer’s Corner you tell her she can’t go out with her friends that night.

The awkward silence at the dinner table while Mom and the kids eat dinner without Dad, who just called to say he’s working late—again.

The silence that greets Dad when he comes home, late again, having missed his daughter’s first piano recital.

The stunned silence at the homecoming game when the place-kicker misses the field goal that would have won the game as time ran out.

The silent ride home with your son after the game—your son, the placekicker.

The silence as you are startled awake in the middle of the night by the sound of something breaking downstairs while your husband is away on a trip.

The silence that envelops you, block-

ing out all the noise around you, as you watch with pride while your daughter crosses the stage to accept her diploma.

The silent moment you have with your wife as you put your arm around her and the two of you watch your son drive away, his car packed to the gills with gear for his first year at college in another state.

The perfect silence you experience as the two of you sit quietly on a ridge, way off the beaten path in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park, overlooking the forested valley with the sparkling stream meandering through it.

The silence of the early morning on the lake as you make your first cast and can just barely see through the slight fog rising off the water to see where the lure lands.

The silence of the room, broken only by the slight rhythmic creak of the rocker, as the two of you enjoy reading your books.

The silence that envelops the room as you sit with your sick husband in the doctor’s office and the doctor tells you the tests reveal cancer.

The absolute and seemingly final silence of the house as the widow closes the door on the last guest to leave the dinner following her husband’s funeral.

The silence as Grandma sits eagerly by the window, waiting for her son and his wife to arrive for their first visit since the birth of her first granddaughter.

Northwest Regional Writers The Northwest Regional Writers meet at 1 p.m. the second Friday of the month either in Frederic or Grantsburg. Call Mary Jacobson at 715-349-2761 for more information about the organization.

PoCo Penners The PoCo Penners meet the second Friday of the month at 2 p.m. in the Conference room, next to the restroom, in the Justice Center in Balsam Lake. Contact Brenda Mayer at 715485-3571 or Iris Holm 715-294-3174 for more information. - submitted

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Submissions may be delivered to The Leader’s offices in Frederic or Siren, mailed to Box 490, Frederic, WI 54837 or e-mailed to the-leader@centurytel.net. We prefer e-mailed copy.

If hand-delivered or mailed, please write "Writers’ Corner" somewhere on the front of the envelope. If e-mailed, please use "Writers’ Corner" as the subject and include the submission as body text of the e-mail. No attachments, please. Your submission to Writers’ Corner grants The Leader one-time rights to publish the item in the weekly newspaper. The author retains the copyright and all future publication rights. The Leader may edit submissions for grammar and punctuation, clarity and length. If you have any questions about this feature, please contact us at the-leader@centurytel.net or call 715-327-4236. - Editor Hello again. It is daytime. Yes, not the middle of the night, but actually during the day. How did that happen, you ask? I went to bed at 8:30. We had company for the weekend and I was exhausted. I think I was so tired I actually slept until Denny woke me up to say goodbye to our daughter who lives in Omaha. That was 7. I got busy with laundry, cleaning out the refrigerator, changing beds, etc., and here I am at 9:30 a.m. Now, why I told you that is because I want you to know I am not always up in the middle of the night, but I honestly miss that alone time when I can get things done without all of the daily noise.

Our daughter, Lori, (from Omaha), Denny’s sister from Green Bay and Kelsey, my organizational daughter, were here and all of the donated clothes, dishes, toys and everything else is packed and ready for the Interfaith fundraising rummage sale on Sept. 4 and 5. (See how I got that in there?).

My theory is, remind people and they will come. Also give them free popcorn and they will come. So, we will have free popcorn, soda for a dollar and everything you can imagine for a freewill offering. We have a few things we will mark. Perfect furniture, etc.

The chipmunks have hid their sunflower seeds in the cushions, but I will vacuum them out and you will never know they have been there, they have caused no damage. Two sofa sleepers

are in excellent condition. We have a lovely blue chair that I wish someone would tell me exactly what it is. I think of a lady lounging in it with her negligee while looking in a hand mirror and eating bonbons. Can you get any concept of what I am talking Blodgett about? Come see and you will know.

We had an interesting client who I fell in love with right away. He is now in the nursing home and I visit when I can. What a sweet man. Of course all of our elderly clients are sweet except those who are cranky. I think when I get to their age I will not be cranky. I keep telling my kids to push me into the woods and leave me there if I begin to annoy them. Come to think of it, I would probably be there by now because I have annoyed them at one time or another. Luckily it has not happened to them all at the same time or the deer and raccoons and I would be living together.

Speaking of the woods, I took the dogs out last night about 8 and it was getting dusky (Spell check accepts that

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word, so I guess it really is a word). I heard an owl and then the loudest shriek that actually stopped all of us in our tracks. Bitzy was in the middle of going and I don’t think she ever finished. It occurred to me that the owl had secured its dinner and from the sound of the noise, and its breakfast and meals for a week. We don’t have rabbits and I can’t imagine what would make that horribly painful noise. I know the rule is survival of the fittest, but I have a feeling the owl took advantage of a sleeping something. At any rate I will not take the dogs out after dark anymore. Bitzy, weighing in at four pounds, would make a great meal for an owl. That owl will have to take me before her. I will not take a chance of losing my beloved pets.

I have to tell you about my friend Mary. She is from St. Paul and whenever or wherever there is a sale on something we can use for Christmas for Kids or the kids at school she buys as much as possible and donates it to Interfaith. We were able to give to the schools 175 notebooks, 178 rulers, 50 boxes of 24 crayons and so many pencils I lost count. This woman and her husband are saints and I can never thank them enough. Bill, Mary’s husband, has discovered the Goodwill Outlet where they sell things by the pound.

He is not a shopper, but every day he must stop at Goodwill to see if they have something special that we can use.

He always buys new and always gets bargains. Mary says I have created a monster. Heck, I just say thanks and sometimes cry because they do so much.

Anything that is donated is appreciated so much. You honestly have no idea. Oh yes, I want to mention and extend gratitude to the U.S. Bank for the grant money we received. I feel so lucky that they think of us. There are so many who donate, we feel so blessed.

Still, Christmas for Kids is coming up and I am in my usual panic mode. Help if you can and if you can’t, say a prayer that we make our goal.

Oh, speaking of donations, the huge bake sale that will be at the same time as our rummage sale will not be as huge as it would be with more donations.

Make something easy or your something that has your secret recipe, and please either drop it off at our house, 7596 Hayden Lake Road, Danbury, (the place of the rummage sale, by the way) or we will pick it up, just call 715-8664970. We appreciate everything you do.

Don’t know where we would be without your donations.

Until next time, Barb Blodgett Director of Interfaith Caregivers of Burnett County

Polk County's Habitat for Humanity Chapter continues to make progress BALSAM LAKE – Polk County’s first Habitat for Humanity home is nearing completion, because of hundreds of donated hours, labor and materials by area volunteers, businesses, churches, and the Habitat family. The chapter board, led

by Eric Kube, president, has made great strides in setting up the foundation for this home and future homes in Polk County.

The chapter is already laying the

groundwork for fundraising, finding another partner family and finding a building site for its next build in 2010. People interested in getting information on owning a Habitat home should attend a Habitat homeowner information meeting to be held at Unity High School Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 7 p.m. The chapter is also seeking a discounted or donated lot, which can be fully tax-deductible. Please contact the chapter office at 715-268-6589

or e-mail polkcohabitat@amerytel.net for more information.

They welcome any inquiries about the chapter. Many folks visited the booth at the Polk County Fair this year and sought more information. They would like to congratulate the Dish a Day winners, too. Kristine Hackett of Star Prairie, Mindy Hansen of Osceola, and Mary Strom and Ruth Pogue of Amery are all recipients of Balsam Lake Pottery

pieces, donated for the chapter.

The continued efforts and support of Polk County residents in developing affordable, decent housing in this area are appreciated.

Polk County’s first Habitat for Humanity home is in its final stages of completion. It is located at 410 Minneapolis St., Amery. - submitted

Seat belt campaign BURNETT/POLK COUNTIES – The St. Croix Tribal Police Department and the Tribal Injury Coalition worked on seat belt awareness in and around the Tribal communities for the month of July.

The St. Croix coalition took surveys on seat belt usages before and after the cam-

paign, noting there was a 13-percent increase in seat belt usage.

In this campaign, they handed out 60 $10 gift cards to those who were checked by the Tribal police /the coalition.

At the end of the campaign, out of the

60 participants there were two $100 gas card winners, Carol Brown and Erica Doriott.

Congratulations to the both of them and gratitude is extended to all who participated.

Gratitude is extended to the Tribal Police Department, the Tribal Coalition and the Native American Health Alliance in making this a positive campaign. – submitted by St. Croix Tribal Injury Prevention Coalition

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M.A. Gedney Pickling Station

by Stanley Selin Note: The information in this article was taken from the December 1909 issue of the Journal of Burnett County. Additional information was copied from the booklet titled “Past Industries of the Grantsburg Area,”

by Alton C. Jensen, with permission from the Grantsburg Area Historical Society.

A meeting was held in the Burnett County courthouse in Grantsburg in December of 1909 to discuss the building and operation of a pickling station in Grantsburg. C. B. Gedney of the Gedney Pickling Company was the main speaker. Mr. Gedney was interested in the Grantsburg area as having good potential for the growing of cucumbers, from which pickles were made. Gedney indicated that before they began building a processing station, they must be confident that a sufficient acreage would be planted to make the effort worthwhile.

The planting of 60 acres of pickles were pledged by the farmers attending the meeting, which satisfied this requirement. Gedney outlined what they could expect from the company, and what the Gedney company expected of them. The company would furnish the seed to the farmer, insisting only their seed should be used, since they claimed it was raised from perfect stock and tested. Gedney referred to a yield of cucumbers raised by their company in Chaska, Minn. He indicated the average yield was 253 bushels per acre, and the average income from each acre was $100. Gedney said there were no penal-

Friday & Saturday, Aug. 14-15

A benefit for the renovation of Lamar, a 1905 school on the National Register of Historic Places.

Featuring: 2 days of fabulous music, spoken word, and dance; 61 performing artists; attended by 700 people; 5 local vendors selling deliciously, wonderful food and beverages; 140 pieces of Lamar Ladies pies; 67 people in a conga line; over one thousand plates, glasses, forks, cups washed; and when it was over: 4 bags of recyclables; 3 barrels of compost; 1 small container of garbage and lots of happiness!

A thousand thanks to everyone who makes it happen!

Collected by

River Road

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A map showing the location of the pickling station and some of the other early industries in Grantsburg. – Original map drawn by Alton C. Jensen.

ties in the contract if the grower loses his crop for some reason. In this case, he would not be liable to the pickling company for the cost of seed. The company would pay $1 per 100 pounds for cucumbers less than four inches long, and 40 cents per hundred for those four to five inches long, paying cash every two weeks.

The M. A. Gedney Co. did build a pickling station at the eastern end of Madison Avenue in Grantsburg about 1910.

A railroad siding was also extended from the depot to the new pickling station. The cucumbers were brought to the station for weighing and sorting.

The cucumber harvest was a very labor intensive operation during the fall of year, and lasted until the first frost, after which all cucumber deliveries

ceased. Hand sorting was done by locally employed workers. After sorting and weighing, the cucumbers were washed and put in large wooden vats containing a salt solution. After curing, they were transferred to wooden barrels containing another salt solution, dill stalks and vinegar.

After frequent testing of the product during the curing process, the barrels were plugged and shipped to other M. A. Gedney plants for final processing.

Andrew Anderson was the station manager for the longest period of time, and was known locally as “Pickle Andrew.”

Gradually, farmers changed more of their efforts to dairying instead of raising cash crops as an income source. The pickling process eventually ceased at the Grantsburg station.

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The seven-day weekly cleaning schedule Create a routine and write it down where you can see it every day. Then you won’t waste time figuring out where you are supposed to be and what you’re supposed to be doing. Think of a weekly plan Abrahamzon as a guide to focusing your life seven days at a time. It should include the following.

• A Play Day: a day that has some time plugged into it for reading, painting, lunching with friends.

• A Desk Day: when you’ll spend time paying bills, balancing your checkbook, answering letters, planning family activities such as vacations.

• A Full Cleaning Day: Until your house is dejunked, you’ll spend this time scrubbing and polishing surfaces.

• A Half Cleaning Day: Laundry, dusting, pet hair on carpets, toothpaste blobs in the sink, etc.

• A Go-Fer Day: This is the day reserved for groceries, banking, going to the dry cleaners, hardware store, post office or anywhere else your errands take you.

• A Family Work Day: this is the day that every person in the family can expect to contribute to the maintenance of the household such as mowing lawns, washing cars, etc.

• A Family Play Day: A day that makes your family feel rested and refreshed.

– From the Simple Home (Note: The above schedule would not be good in our household as Sunday includes church, perhaps an afternoon ride, a mug of root beer or root-beer float. I usually write the Lewis news.

Some days I’m in a writing mood and when that happens I give it free reign.

Whatever happened to Monday is wash day, Tuesday is ironing. (Is everything okay? Well, I should say!) What happened to baking bread on Saturday?

I couldn’t follow such a schedule. When would I clean the parakeet cages, read newspapers or play with the dog?

And what would I do on the day my sons pick a pail of chokecherries for jelly or bring in fresh string beans for supper. I snitzel beans so it takes a while.

And when would I talk on the phone with friends?

On a farm, we take each day as it comes. A lot depends on the weather, too.

Summer squash is overdoing itself. We have too many pattypans. They are pretty with a scalloped edge and are easy to prepare. Wash them, cut out the star on one side and the belly button on the other. Do not peal. Chunk them and cook five minutes in water.

Watch carefully. Drain, add butter and a little salt.

The chunks are very pretty and quite bland and tender.

My sons joke about zucchini squash. I wash it, do

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not peel, slice not too thick, not too thin, dip slices in beaten egg, roll in cracker crumbs, sauté in vegetable oil. Slices brown nicely and I can keep them warm in the oven.

My sons say, “Then we scrape off the crumbs and eat them and discard the zucchini.” They joke, of course, as they eat five or six slices with the rest of their supper.

Perhaps it’s an acquired taste. We prefer fall squash, acorn, turban, etc. My sons are pretty good about eating vegetables, but they draw the line at brussels sprouts. As the daughter of a professional gardener I learned to eat all vegetables. I am very good about eating eggplant, parsnips or buttered beets.

On the other hand, I don’t eat much meat. As a child of the first big Depression, we never had much meat, mostly fowl or fish. My mother even made fish cakes (not a dessert).

My sons draw the line at eating brussels sprouts but I tell them, “Think of them as baby cabbages.”

That doesn’t convince them.

Don’t worry. Be happy!

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not get bent out of shape. – Anonymous We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail and to make fools of ourselves. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make it a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball. – Billie Jean King The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. – H.G. Wells It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads your hips. – Fred Allen Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. – Helen Keller A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. – Phyllis Diller Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. – Loretta LaRoche Until next week, Bernice

Health-care reform SPOONER – Spooner Health System chief executive officer, Mike Schafer, attended a health-care reform meeting with Sen. Herb Kohl at St. Mary’s Hospital of Superior on Aug. 19. Schafer was invited to attend by Dr. Tom Patnoe, President of St. Mary’s Duluth Clinic Health System. Kohl spoke of the need for health care reform, then spent time listening to the opinions of those present at the meeting. As a representative of Shown are (L to R): Mike Schafer, Wisconsin Hospital Association chair; SHS and the Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis.; and Dr. Thomas Patnoe, president of SMDC Health Hospital Association, System. – Photo submitted Schafer thanked Kohl for pushing for a system that ance. This is better than the proposals for coverage in rewards value and quality. Schafer also encouraged Washington.”

Kohl to use Wisconsin as a model for the nation. He Schafer went on to state that hospitals do not supreminded Kohl that in June 2008 the federal Agency port an overreaching public plan. A public plan that for Health-Care Research and Quality ranked Wiscon- uses Medicare reimbursement rates, the current “pubsin No. 1 in the nation for overall health-care quality. lic plan,” will have very negative consequences for “Hospitals support health-care reform that gives Wisconsin. He explained that Medicare underpays everyone access to health insurance, and Wisconsin is hospitals millions of dollars for the cost of providing leading the way through innovative approaches that care. Medicare payment formulas fail to recognize target uninsured and at-risk populations,” stated low-cost/high-quality providers and penalize states Schafer. “Under Gov. Doyle’s leadership, 98 percent like Wisconsin where the quality and value are taking of all people in Wisconsin have access to health insur- hold. - submitted

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50 Years Ago The Leader had 5,000 readers each week.–The Frederic Bottling Co., Inc., Frederic, advertised Hires and fun go hand in hand.–Williams Shopping Center in Range advertised a half gallon of ice cream at 89¢, fryers at 29¢/lb., men and boys’ tennis shoes at $1.77, shower or beach sandals at 29¢, Flame Room coffee at 63¢/lb. and Miracle Whip at 43¢/qt.–Hagberg’s had a full page of specials at their store in Frederic, including clothes for all ages.–The Super Market, Burnett County’s largest store, had these specials on pure ground beef at 49¢/lb., picnic hams at 29¢/lb., lard at 12¢/lb., Jello at 5¢/pkg.–A dance was set for Aug. 29 at Indian Creek Hall.–A dance was also set for Yellow Lake Lodge every Thursday and Saturday with old-time music and music by Merrill Hill and his orchestra.–The movie “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness” was playing at the D’Lux Theatre, Luck, starring Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens and Robert Donat.–The Central Burnett County Fair at Webster was set for Sept. 3, 4, 5, 1959, with a 4-H horse show, local talent show at night, 4H dress revue and a baseball game between Oakland and Yellow Lake.–A dance was set for Sept. 6 at Joe’s Crossroads, sponsored by Oakland Baseball Club.

40 Years Ago The Frederic School Board set the school levy at 20.83.–The sale of Lawson Greenhouses was in the works.–The Lewis Methodist Church was looking forward to observing its golden anniversary on Sunday, Sept. 28, 1969, with the pastor in charge, Bervie Scott.–A delay in receipt of state aid caused a shortfall.–The Lewis Oil Co. and the Lewis Post Office were receiving a new look to dress up the building’s exterior. The building no longer exists but was on Hwy. 35, Lewis.–The American 1970 car showing of the new Hornet, Ambassador and Rebel was set for Sept. 25 with free coffee and doughnuts, served all day (no location given).–The showing of the new Chrysler-Plymouth Valiant and Belvedere was set for Sept. 23 at Frederic Community Motors, Inc.–Specials at the Frederic Co-op Super Market included 49¢ for a 3-1/2-lb. bag of pancake mix, chuck roast was 53¢/lb., oranges were 67¢/dozen and Honeycomb was 43¢ for a 9-oz. box.–Specials at Route’s Super Market, Frederic, included Gem Russet potatoes at 10 lbs. for 39¢, bacon at 2 lbs. for $1.59, 50-lb. bag flour at $3.69, Shasta canned pop at 10¢ each can and soda crackers at 2 lbs. for 43¢.–The film “Hell’s Belles” was playing at the D’Lux Theatre, Luck.–A new Ben Franklin Store would open in Frederic on Sept. 25.

20 Years Ago The Sterling Old Settlers picnic fell on a rainy day.–June obituaries included Myron Johnson, Eugene Merrill and Sven Carlson.–There were more than 560,000 veterans in Wisconsin.–Al and Dorothy Schommer observed their golden anniversary on July 2, 1989.–Rep. David Obey visited in Polk and Burnett counties for health-care concerns.–The question was asked in a Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative ad, “Ever wonder why so many smart people insist on off-peak electric heat?”–The Yellow Lake Golf Course was known as the “home of sand greens.”–Unity Schools will keep activity bus routes.–Wallace Anderson planned to retire after 19 years at Frederic Schools.–Terry and Jo Duea planned to move their Sears Store to a new location in Frederic.–Interstate Park St. Croix Falls bore the tag line “A quiet magnificence.”–Obituaries in July included Lilly Swenson, Ed Olson, Francis Smith, Rose Nijakowski, Axel Johnson, Dorothy Java, Niels Andersen and Wilbur Woods.–Lawn-care and ball-field policy were discussed by the Luck Village Board.–County officials said workforce is working.–The permit for an asphalt plant in Burnett County was denied.–Siren was studying purchase of former Doerr plant.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER

866-4334 The Webster Senior Citizens, Inc. meeting was held on Monday afternoon following Nicky’s hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes meal. I don’t know if it is just because it is comfort food or what, but it is one of my favorite meals. We didn’t have much money in our family as I was growing up, but we always had enough food to eat, and my mother could stretch a pound of hamburger to go into so many different tasty recipes that I never got tired of it.

Terry Escola of the Grantsburg area came and picked up our aluminum cans on Tuesday morning. There were 316 lbs. total weight minus 18 lbs. of trash that was mixed in the plastic bags, so our total poundage was 298 lbs. at 20 cents per lb., so we received $60 net for our efforts. I have made the decision to not collect the cans for our center and store them in my pole shed as I don’t have room for them anymore. If anyone else is willing to take on this project for our senior center, please let me know, otherwise we have officially stopped collecting aluminum cans.

Fifteen ladies played dime Bingo on Wednesday and had lots of fun and laughs, and Gladys Beers furnished the refreshments. Grandson Ricky Stahl celebrated his eighth birthday on Wednesday, but he was upset with his dad because he told him that he couldn’t officially start celebrating until after 9:27 p.m. that evening because that was when he was born. Happy birthday Ricky!

I mentioned last week that until the end of September 2009, all nutrition sites will serve congregate meals five days per week and a breakfast meal will be offered to the home-

Webster Senior Center delivered meal clients. Nicky told me to remind everyone that a breakfast meal will be offered to the congregate diners as a takeout meal with it being ordered at least 24 hours in advance of the day requested. All breakfasts will be made fresh daily and not frozen.

Harold Peterson, Dave Wardean, Earl Boelter, Ken Hayes and Rod Hopkins played pool Thursday evening. Bernie Boelter and Margel Ruck were the only ladies present so they played Hand and Foot cards and indicated that they really enjoyed doing so, as it had been a long time since anyone has played it at the center. Some of the other ladies absent were attending their Lioness meeting.

The Webster Lioness Club met on Thursday evening at the Webster Community Center for their monthly dinner meeting that was catered by Marilyn Meyer of Emily’s Restaurant. The members collected quite a large amount of school supplies to be donated to the Webster Elementary School, in addition to having a silent auction as an in-house fundraiser for operating expenses.

I was overwhelmed and pleased with the number of friends and relatives that came to the senior center on Saturday afternoon to help Bud and I celebrate our recent marriage.

Close to 125 people helped make our day special and it is awesome to think that so many people care about us.

For lunch on Thursday, Sept. 3, Nicky will be making fry bread tacos, so stop by or call and sign up.

Tuesday, Sept. 8, is our next Dining at Five evening meal. Call 715-866-5300 to make

St. Croix Valley Senior Center

by Carol Van Buskirk

Does it feel like a hint of fall is in the air?

Nights are cooler and crisp, making for good sleeping weather. Squirrels have been seen gathering nuts and other food, putting it all in storage for their long winter ahead. Leaves are slowly falling from their parent tree, vegetables are in abundance from the garden, while members of the household are busy canning or freezing their produce.

This week on Monday we served 60 members of the Christian Women Group. They will be back again in September and then not again until next year.

Tuesday after the exercise group, there were two tables of Skip-Bo card players. Winners from those groups were Alice, Juanita, Carol and Marian.

Twenty-four spirited 500 card players had top winners as Elaine Edlund, Marian Edler, John Brown, Ray Nelson and Don Benson.

Of the nine Domino players, Jean McIntyre, Ione White and Donna Schlosser were the top winners.

Thursday was another full day. Our monthly meeting was held following a potluck lunch. Thirty-two members and friends enjoyed this meal together. Much discussion centered around the Autumn Fest program to

be held in the city the last weekend of September. We will be serving hot dogs, brats and pork chops on a stick. After the meeting ended 12 people stayed to play 500 cards.

Winners from that group included Artis Brown, Ray Nelson and Phil Mevissen.

Twenty-one people came back in the evening for more 500 cards. Winners from that group were Jeanine Olson, Bob Norlander and Arliss and Kim Rosen tying for third place.

Bridge and Bingo were the games played on Friday. Coverall Bingo winners were tied between Julia and Jeanne.

On the second Friday of each month some of the members have been going to the Good Samaritan Center to spend part of the afternoon playing 500 cards with Cliff Qualle and Emma Klawitter. If anyone is interested in joining this group please talk with Phil Mevissen.

Give yourself a pat on the back. You deserve one – for so many reasons. For facing challenges, for not losing sight of what’s important to you and for doing so much for so many. You make an ordinary day special just by being a part of it. You make the world a better place just by being yourself. You’re a good person and that is something to feel great about.

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by Kari Fladwood, director

It’s been an exciting week here at the senior center - we just received two brand-new pool tables. The faithful players decided it was time to trade in the old tables and are actively raising funds to pay off the new tables.

They’ve set up brat stands, they’ll be teaching classes - doing all they can to raise the money. It has been great fun to see their excitement, from the time they started researching tables, to the delivery and setup. They were purchased from The Pool People in Chippewa Falls; we received an excellent deal. So stop in sometime and take a look.

They look wonderful.

Which brings us to a renovation update: we are nearing the end - finally! The committee settled on some window treatments, which, of course, are on backorder. But they’re coming. The front hall furniture should be arriving any day, and the rest of the pictures will be hung soon as well. The only thing we haven’t yet started to work on is the centerpieces for the tables - but as soon as everything else gets into place, we will begin to work on that.

Overall, we are pleased with the progress, and we thank everyone for your patience.

Gratitude is extended to Carl and Milt Johnson, Ann Wike and Don Waldbillig for helping to assemble the September Centennial Bell. (I can’t believe how fast the summer went.) There are a lot of things coming up, so make sure you check it out! We have a lot of classes planned for the fall, along with all

kinds of events and activities. We are always looking for more things, so if you have any suggestions, please let us know. Also, if you receive your newsletter in the mail, but come in to the center often, how about picking it up there? It would help us save on postage. Let us know if you want to be removed from the mailing list.

Have an anniversary or wedding reception coming up? Or maybe you booked a Tupperware party, and there is no room in your house for all your guests. Consider renting Centennial Hall! We strive to keep our rates competitive, and have much to offer. Give us a call to reserve that date now. We have large rooms, small rooms and the kitchen available for your convenience.

Don’t forget we are always taking rummage sale items. Did you have a sale of your own and have some leftovers? Are you going through your stuff and find you have more than you need? Drop your items off at the senior center between 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and pick up a tax-deductible receipt. We appreciate the support.

Paul Seidel won first place on the new pool tables! Mary Fisher came in second and Val Hansen won third. Carl Johnson was first in the bowling tournament, Jerry Fisher was second and Paul Seidel was third. Lila Ward was first in Wednesday Bridge, with Sydney Lund in second, Dorothy Mueller following in third, Pat Davis in fourth and Madeline Mickelson fifth.

your reservation.

Gratitude is extended to Theresa Gloege for refilling our ever-emptying candy dish and Dave Wardean for spraying the weeds around the center and sidewalk.

Dave Wardean celebrated his birthday on Saturday by having dinner with Jane at the Grand Casino buffet in Hinkley, Minn. Happy birthday Dave!

Our prayers and get-well wishes continue to go out to Carol Kissinger and Todd Lamson. Our sympathy and prayers also go out to the families of Maxine Stone, Mabel Buhler and Ione Spafford in their recent passing.

Indian evangelist Sundar Singh wrote about a devastating forest fire in the Himalayas where he was traveling. While many were trying to fight it, a group of men stood looking up at a tree with flames climbing up its branches. They were watching a mother bird flying frantically in circles above the tree. She was chirping out an alarm to her nest full of fledglings. As the nest began to burn, the mother didn’t fly away; instead

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We also stand in awe as we think of Calvary where the fire of holy judgment burned. For there Jesus willingly suffered and “bore our sins in His own body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24). V.Grounds. “He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you shall take refuge.” – Psalm 91:4. “Under his wings I am safely abiding, though the night deepens and tempests are wild; Still I can trust him, I know he will keep me, He has redeemed me and I am his child.” – Cushing.

See you at the center!

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Mary Dunn, Marlene Swearingen, Ruth Rydberg, Lorri McQuade, Nina Hines, Lida Nordquist and Karen Mangelsen were guests at the home of Donna Hines Tuesday afternoon. They all enjoyed a time of visiting and playing cards.

Gerry and Donna Hines visited Marlene and Bruce Swearingen Wednesday and had lunch there.

Sue and Roger Mroszak went to The Machine Shed in Woodbury, Minn., Thursday and had dinner with several friends. They stayed overnight with Dick and Phyllis Eklers.

On Friday, Roger and Sue attended a play in which their granddaughter Carli Pederson acted and sang.

Don and Lida Nordquist were supper guests of Joleen and Richard Funk in Osceola Friday. Jan, Jim, Caleb and Hannah Schott were there also to help Don celebrate his birthday. After Lida and Don came home, Roy and Dee Nordquist brought cake over to share for more celebrating.

Donna and Gerry Hines and Marlene Swearingen went to the Twin Cities Saturday.

Marlene visited at the home of son, Brad, to help daughter-in-law Lee Ann celebrate her birthday. Gerry and Donna went to the home of daughter, Brenda, and Tim Sweet and helped grandchildren, Nicole and Bryce Sweet, celebrate their birthdays.

Darrel and Shirley Ramhorst of Spirit lake, Iowa, were weekend guests of Hank and Karen Mangelsen. On Friday night, Donna and Gerry Hines and Marlene Swearingen came for supper and to visit. On Saturday, Lida and Don Nordquist and April, Patty and Mandy Close were supper guests. Nina and Gerald Mangelsen, Evelyn Rufsholm and John and Diana Mangelsen visited later. During the daytime on the weekend, Shirley and Darrel and Karen and Hank called on Nick and Esther Mangelsen, Linda, Doug, Nicholas and Alex Brustad, Holly, Jake, Han-

News from the Service COLUMBIA, S.C. – Army National Guard Pvt. Alex S. Goehring has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches and field training exercises.

He is the son of Virginia Goehring of Dresser and Tony Goehring of Osceola. The private is a 2006 graduate of Osceola High School. - submitted

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nah and Grace Mangelsen, Lawrence and Nina Hines and Inez and Arvid Pearson.

Shirley is a cousin of the Mangelsen siblings.

Nina and Lawrence Hines went to Eden Prairie, Minn., Sunday and attended the retirement party for their longtime friend, Dale Johnson. Gerry and Donna Hines went to the celebration, also.

Special historical markers will be set at the sites of two former schools in this area Saturday, Aug. 29. A sign will be placed at the Arbuckle School site at 1:30 p.m. After that, a sign will be placed at the Maple Grove site.

Any interested people are invited to come to the events.

Birth announcements A boy, Dylan James, was born to Eric and Erica Chappelear, Milwaukee, on Aug. 12, 2009. Dylan weighed 6 lbs., 9 oz. and was 18 inches long. His grandmother is Cheri Chappelear of Luck and great-grandmother is Ethel Lane of Frederic. - submitted •••

Born at St. Croix Regional Medical Center:

A boy, Henry Joseph Christensen, born Aug. 14, 2009, to Joe and Carolyn Christensen, Balsam Lake. Henry weighed 6 lbs., 5 oz.

••• A boy, Carter Lee Harmon, born Aug. 14, 2009, to Curtis and Stephanie Harmon, Grantsburg. Carter weighed 7 lbs., 5 oz.

••• A girl, Marlene Marian Peer, born Aug. 11, 2009, to Dawn and Corey Peer, New Richmond. Marlene weighed 8 lbs., 4 oz.

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Born at Burnett Medical Center:

A girl, Renae Jeanette Rengo, born Aug. 21, 2009, to Ben and Billie Rengo, Grantsburg. Renae weighed 8 lbs., 14 oz. and was 21 inches long.

Renae has a sister named Ruby. Grandparents are Jessica Simonson, Hayward, and Howard and Charlotte Rengo, Esko, Minn. Great-grandparents are Martha Ollanketo, Ashland, and Jeanette Rengo, Esko, Minn.

••• A boy, Nicholas Phillip Swanson, born Aug. 21, 2009, to Kati Day and Shawn Swanson of Siren. Nicholas weighed 7 lbs., 13 oz. and was 20 inches long.

Siblings are Natalie and Mitchell. Grandparents are Robin Day and Lynn Skrupky, Webster, and John and Sue Sevelius.

••• Identical twin girls, Anna Christina and Erika Catherine Wedin, born Aug. 22, 2009, to Daryl and Cheryl Wedin, Grantsburg.

Anna weighed 6 lbs., 9 oz. and was 19 inches long. Erika weighed 5 lbs., 8 oz. and was 18-1/2 inches long.

Siblings are Kjersten and Gustaf. Grandparents are Janice and the late Myron Marek, Grantsburg; Marcella and the late Larry Wedin, Grantsburg. Great-grandparents are Edward and Bernice Melquist, Grantsburg and Carmen and the late George Marek, Frederic.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Lewis A lot of people used Sunday as a vacation day as summer winds down. We probably won’t get back on schedule until after Labor Day. Siren Schools started Tuesday this week through Thursday. If my eldest son should ever say, he didn’t want to go to school, I’d have to tell him, “You have to go. You’re a teacher.”

The question we’re all asking is, “Where did the summer go?” And the next line is, “What summer?”

Last year we had a long and glorious fall. Here’s hoping for the same this year, but how about our chilly, almost cold nights?

The Sullivan Family show held outside a week ago Tuesday drew an audience of 158. They liked coming to Lewis and would like to come again.

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The last of the baby swallows are ready to leave their nests in the barn and will soon head for Capistrano or wherever they go.

The monthly church board meeting will be held this Wednesday at the Lewis church, preceded by a potluck fellowship supper at 6 p.m.

Members of the Lewis church are responsible for working at the Frederic Food Shelf every Thursday from 2 – 6 p.m. in September. Three volunteers are needed every Thursday.

Sign-up sheets are in clear view at the church.

Sheila Staples and Rick Abrahamzon completed a correspondence course at St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minn.

They each had to write a comprehensive term paper.

The NW Regional Writers will meet on Friday, Sept. 11, at

Cloverton-Markville The Markville reunion last weekend drew a record crowd.

Over 80 people came to eat a potluck meal, visit with friends and do some singing. The event was held both indoors and outdoors at the town hall with a tent and picnic tables set up.

People came from as far away as Illinois, Spooner, Walker and Jordan. People were encouraged to sing karaoke style and a hit of the afternoon was Mel Elliott singing with Evelyn Johnson, Cheryl Wickham and Darlene Merimonti. Mel, as many of you know, in his young years, wrote and sang a number of songs. Clara Lilly said she especially enjoyed this karaoke because it was quieter than most. People began pouring into the hall around 11 a.m. and the party wound down about 5:30 p.m.

Peggy and Ken Coveau helped daughter, Alicia, celebrate her 29th birthday in the Cities last week. During the first week of August they hosted former Kingsdale resident, Jo Morrin, and her niece at their home. Jo was back in Cloverton to visit with friends and to spread the ashes of her longtime partner, Marge Doughtery, at the home they used to own in Kingsdale.

While Jo was here, they all visited with former resident Lola Royer and her boyfriend at the lovely private camping spot she owns on the Hay Creek River.

Marlene and Don Mishler attended the Markville reunion for a while, then went to a get-together at the home of Phil and Helen Nolan on Viola Lake. They were joined by Doug and Sharon (Nolan) Panek, Wayne Mishler and Sandy and

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Eldon Johnson of Pine City, Minn. After a pontoon ride, Phil cooked steaks on the grill for all of them.

Heidi and Danielle Carstensen came up this week to help dad, Al Wolf, continue extracting his honey.

Sandi and Dave Drake enjoyed a heartwarming weeklong visit from granddaughter Elizabeth. Among the events for the week was a shopping trip to Duluth, Minn., cleaning out a cupboard and hamburgers at the Fish Bowl one evening.

Mike Lilly and his entire family came for a weekend visit with mom Clara awhile back. While three of the women went up to the Black Bear in Carlton, the rest of the family had dinner at the Hay Creek Outpost.

Wild turkeys and their chicks have been roaming the yard of Deloris Schirmer these days. She has three hens with about five chicks each hanging around.

Deloris’ son, Del, spent a week in Oklahoma on his job as a state-licensed boiler inspector for Travelers Insurance.

Some of his inspections have included the old Pine County Courthouse and the casino in Mille Lacs, Minn.

My husband, Dave Baker, and I had lunch at the Grand Grille in Hinckley, Minn., with good friend Bill Foster, Beroun, on Saturday. On Sunday, we went with friends from Superior to see the William Holman Hunt exhibit at the Art Institute in Minneapolis, Minn. On the way home, we ate at the Washington Square Grill in White Bear Lake, Minn.

No more rain wherever we are.

Burnett Community Library The Burnett Community Library “has all information and resources that you need plus copies, Internet access, fax, movies and plenty to read,” says one of our patrons.

The preschool story hour will start up again on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 10:30 a.m. Everyone is welcome. If you have any questions, please call the library at 715-866-7697.

We will meet in the lower-level reading room.

The Burnett Community Library book club will be reading “I Feel Bad About My Neck,” by Nora Ephron, in September and will discuss it on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 10 a.m. If you need a copy, please call the library at 715-866-7697 and we will be glad to order one for you.

The American Library Association sponsors a September event, Library Card Sign Up Month. “Visit your library today.

It is a community hub of activity. In tough economic times, your library card will give you free access to books and computers, homework help, assistance with resumes and job searches, accurate financial information, adult education courses, assistance for new Americans, CDs, DVDs and much more…The library card is the smartest card in your wallet. Sign up for yours today.”

Don’t forget that the Moose Lodge is sponsoring a spaghetti dinner/silent auction for library fundraising on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 5 to 7 p.m. Join us for a Taste of Italy.

New juvenile books “Mule Train Mail,” by Craig Brown “Do Your ABCs Little Brown Bear,” by Jonathan London “In November,” by Cynthia Rylant “We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt,” by Steve Metzger “The Littlest Pilgrim,” by Brandi Dougherty “Winter Trees,” by Carole Gerber “Monday With a Mad Genius,” by Mary Pope Osborne New adult books “The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People,” by Carol Eikleberry “Getting Back to Work,” by Linda K. Rolie “Take One,” by Karen Kingsbury “Take Two,” by Karen Kingsbury “South of Broad,” by Pat Conroy “Smash Cut,” by Sandra Brown “The Job Search Solution: The Ultimate System for Finding a Great Job,” by Tony Beshara Hours Monday-Thursday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Frederic Senior Center Spades was played at 1 p.m., Aug. 11, with the following winners: Shirely Sandquist in first place, Edwin Ruhn in second place, Eleanor Bonneville in third place and Carmen Marek in fourth place.

Whist is played on Tuesdays and other cards if players desire.

Wednesday Pokeno is played at 1 p.m. Other cards are played if desired. Refreshment time together is enjoyed.

Thursday 500 cards was played at 6:30 p.m., Aug. 20, with the following winners: Tim Abrahamson in first place, Hazel Hoffman in second place, Arnie Borchert in third place and David Peterson in fourth place.

Friday was Pokeno at 1 p.m. As always, they enjoyed their game.

Saturday a light buffet luncheon was held. Cards and Bingo was played after lunch with refreshments at coffee time.

I really loved Clareese Marek’s peanut-butter cake. The morning coffee time is enjoyable and our morning pool play-

1 p.m. at Sunrise Apts., Frederic. The assignment is to write a “killer first sentence” (one that really hooks the reader).

Kerry Berdal is recuperating well at home in Frederic after surgery at Regions Hospital, St. Paul, Minn.

Two more Sunday night programs are coming at Skonewood as the season ends.

Chokecherries are ripe and making jelly is the order of the day. Wild grapes are good this year, too, but a bit of a frost will make them sweeter.

Enjoy the waning days of summer.

The meeting of the Indianhead Gem and Mineral Society will be held later in September due to the holiday of Labor Day.

Ardyce Knauber

ers are having a good time challenging one another.

Executive committee meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 28.

The monthly meeting will be held Sept. 4, 1:30 p.m. Our potluck and birthday celebration will be at noon, Sept. 5. We will enjoy Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 7. The fish fry is always a treat. Spades at 1 p.m. Keep all these dates on your calendar.

We extend our sympathy to the Charles Freeberg family.

Charlie enjoyed coming to our center and we enjoyed having him.

We wish a happy birthday to Hazel Bohn, who will reach the 102-year mark. She is our mentor, so we will try to make this our goal.

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

Siren Bev Beckmark

Written for last week

We finally got some hot and humid weather, but not very many of us were up to humidity. Seems like this year’s summer weather is favoring either late spring or early fall with not much for summer temps at all. Have you noticed that some of the bucks have already changed their summer red coats for those grey brown ones of fall? Do you think old Mother Nature is telling us we’re in for an early winter?

Sympathy to the family of John Anderson who passed away July 25.

Sympathy to the family of Carol Conners Larson who passed away July 31.

The Webster Redeemer Lutheran Church hosted the food and friends community dinner for the month of August.

Written for this week

We finally took a family vacation after about 10 years. We started out on Aug. 6, and headed for Ames, Iowa, and a quick visit with Art’s second cousin Janet Beer and her husband Craig. Then on through Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, an overnight stay in Salem, Ore., and a visit with my sister, Donna Rutledge, who is in a nursing home. Back on the road and on to Washington to visit our son, Arthur Beckmark Jr. “Punk,” grandson Steven Beckmark and wife, Brittney, and their two daughters, 18-month-old Rian and new born Cheyenne, grandsons Ross and Grant. We stayed at our adopted children, Emanual and his wife, Tammy, Donaldson’s, two of the greatest people. We then reversed the trip, stopping at the Black Hills and then Pipestone. We didn’t see many animals, mostly cattle, a few antelope, but a lot of rubber alligators. If you aren’t a trucker or have one in your family, a rubber alligator is a long piece of rubber off the semi truck tires laying in the roads.

The Siren Methodist Church will once again be hosting their Scandinavian Smorgasbord on Friday, Sept. 11, from 4 to 7 p.m., so if you enjoy authentic Scandinavian cuisine, mark you calendars for that date. Tickets are $8.50 for adults in advance, $9 at the door, kids are $3.50. If you wish to purchase tickets early call Shirley at 715-349-2514 or Darlene at 715-866-8242.

Sympathy to the family of Maxine Stone who passed away Aug. 15.

Ruby’s Pantry will be distributing food on Thursday, Aug. 27, at 24534 on Hwy 35/70 north of Siren at 5 p.m. Cost is $15, bring your own boxes for the food.

Those of you who are knitters or crocheters, there is an ample supply of yarn in at the Siren U.S. Bank for your projects of hats, mittens or scarves for the Siren Lioness/U.S. Banks mitten tree. Remember, winter is just around the corner. Let’s make this year’s tree even fuller than last year’s.

Congratulations to Rudy and Ruth Mothes on their 50-year wedding anniversary. Many more years to you both.

Don’t miss the Grantsburg fair from Aug. 27 – 30. This will be the 132nd fair with the famous tractor pull on Saturday night.

Fran Krause

Orange

LaVonne O'Brien

Pat and Nancy O’Brien have returned home from a twoweek trip to visit friends at Durango, Colo., and their son, Matt Lindberg and family in Colorado.

Tim and Vikki O’Brien visited Jack and LaVonne O’Brien on Saturday.

John and Reeny Neinstadt drove to Finlayson, Minn., on Tuesday to visit Corey and Elaine Steeg.

Sandy Johnson came on Friday to pick up Mitchell and Brittany, who had spent the week with the Neinstadts and Natalie Flagstad and family. They returned home late Saturday.

The Orange 4-H Club met at Orange Community Center Wednesday evening.

Stacie Freeborn is spending a few days with Marvel Merriam.

Fran Krause joined Bethany quilters for lunch at Homestead Cafe in Danbury on Wednesday.

Allyson Krause returned to UW-Stevens Point where classes will soon begin. Kathryn Krause returned to UWRiver Falls to join the cross-county team again.

Academic news MADISON - More than 6,100 students received degrees during the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s spring commencement ceremonies, May 15-17.

Amery: Eva Vasiljevic, Bachelor of Arts, biology, French; Jared P. Waterman, Bachelor of Science-Physician Assistant, physician assistant; Jesse R. Wien, Bachelor of Arts, history, political science; Caleb S. Young, Bachelor of Science-nursing, nursing.

Balsam Lake: Bryna S. Nielsen, Bachelor of Science-

Landscape Architecture, landscape architecture.

Frederic: Melissa K. Peterson, Bachelor of Science, atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

Luck: Nathaniel A. Armour, Bachelor of Arts, history; Evan Hall, Bachelor of Arts-Journalism, journalism; Katelin M. Holm, Master of Science-Agroecology, agroecology; Jay M. Messar, Bachelor of Arts-Journalism, journalism; Ingrid K. Olson, Bachelor of Arts, philosophy.

St. Croix Falls: Allison E. Virchow, Bachelor of Science-

Natural Sciences, genetics.

Shell Lake: Matthew J. Pesko, Bachelor of Science-Rehabilitation Psychology, rehabilitation psychology.

Siren: Kristina S. Sherstad, Bachelor of Business Administration, business: finance, investment and banking.

St. Croix Falls: Candice M. Leach, Doctor of Medicine, medicine. - submitted

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Barb Munger

Siren Senior Center The August birthday cake was served after the monthly senior meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 18, but the list of names for those that were celebrating was missing, therefore we wish a happy birthday to Elna Wambolt, Barb Munger, Ed Smythe and Glenna Hauger.

Also discussed at the meeting was the fact that we are in need of volunteers to man the center when it is open. Grace Haines volunHi, everybody! Blacky here from Humane Society of Burnett County. It’s that time of week again for me to give you the news, so I’ll take a timeout from my Shed All Over Everything program and tell you what’s going on at the shelter. Boy, if there was a market for shed dog hair, my brother and I would be rich! I thought I was bad, but my brother resembles some of the stuffed toys at the shelter after the dogs get ahold of them. And then there’s my eyebrows. All of a sudden they’ve decided to grow in white! My mom says when I look at her, my eyebrows make me appear to look surprised. That’s just great - not exactly the expression I want to be wearing when I’ve got a tree rat cornered in the woodpile. I’m supposed to look ferocious, not like I’m about to go into shock. Oh well, life could be a lot worse.

I was a little shocked, however, when I went to visit my shelter friends last weekend. I wanted to see how my little black Lab pup friends were doing. I told you about them last week. They came in sick and hungry, and I wanted to check on them.

Well, two of them have left already, but two are remaining at the shelter until they regain their health - a boy and a girl. They are such lovable little ones that I just want to lick their faces and bring them home with me.

Anyway, while I was spending some time with them, I heard a tiny little voice behind me that said, “Mew!” I went over to the cat condo across the room to see who was talking to me, and I saw not one, but five tiny kittens! And there was yet another one in a separate apartment! Now I don’t live with cats, so I don’t understand what all their mewsings are about, but I do know that when a cat is purring it’s a good thing. Linus was the little voice I heard, and he starts purring before you even reach out to pick him up. He and his littermates are a mixed bag of colors and hair lengths. Linus is orange, and always looks like he just woke up. He’s got a brother, Miles, and three sisters; Olive, Pansy and Violet. Mandy is an unrelated kitten. This baby is white with some black markings, and she is extremely cute herself.

I’ve also got a couple of wayward dogs to tell you about. Barney is a stray bassett hound who was picked up in Grantsburg

G-force Too often it is reported that someone dies after being ejected from their vehicle.

In 1961-62 I learned the value/necessity of seat and shoulder restraint during a stint driving “hobby” stock cars. The belts weren’t retractable; we used three belts, one across the lap and the other two crossed over the shoulders. They were a little cumbersome when you were in a hurry to get out through the side window, but it beat getting your chest crushed in a sudden stop. At that time I was an immortal teenager but they wouldn’t let me race without a helmet and the appropriate modifications to the car. The only injury I incurred was to both thumbs that were nearly torn off by the horn ring (you will have to ask an old person what a horn ring is).

My experience saved our two sons lives in 1972. They were 4 and 6 years old at the time and we would put a pillow on their laps and fasten the lap belt over it. My mom and dad were taking them to South Dakota in our new Ford van; they hit a patch of ice and rolled twice. My dad fractured a rib but everyone else was unscathed. The first thing our 6-year-old told us was that “Grandpa’s glasses were flying around.”

teered that she would cover Monday morning, Ken Peterson Tuesday morning, and Fran and Don Oltman will be here on Wednesday morning. So really all we need is one more volunteer to take care of Thursday morning. The afternoons are covered by Abby and Don Brand, the Tuesday Dime Bingo people, Wednesday and Friday the card groups and Thursday afternoon our pool Township. He is brown and white and wears a red collar. He thinks he is about 6 or 7 years old. Maurey is perhaps a corgi mix. He has long black hair with a white chest and he is built kind of low to the ground. I don’t know where he came from, but he looks like he could belong to a monarch!

In the main section of the shelter await my YAPpenings three pals; Stoney, Big Boy and Buddy.

Stoney is a sheltie mix who likes to wear a handkerchief around his neck, and let me tell you, it suits him! One of the shelter’s volunteers gave Stoney a bath and then presented him with a brand-new kerchief (the one he arrived with was looking pretty ratty). Oh, he was a happy dog! You could see it in his eyes. Buddy is a German shepherd mix who is also a happy guy. He is alert and curious and has beautiful eyes and markings. Big Boy is a big, energetic golden retriever mix. He’s got the softest, prettiest coat I’ve seen in awhile. He doesn’t have to worry about gray eyebrows, but he sure would like to find a permanent home where he can rip around the yard and be himself.

If you haven’t yet, you’ve still got time to sign up for the shelter’s Walk for the Animals event. Or, you can sponsor a walker if you are unable to walk it yourself. The walk takes place on Saturday, Sept. 26, at 1 p.m., during Siren’s Harvestfest celebration.

Details and registration info are available on the shelter’s Web site, or you may call the shelter if you’d rather talk to a person. Personally, I like it when people talk to me - it puts my tail in motion. I can’t purr, obviously, but I can clear a coffee table with my tail just by hearing five little words: “Wanna go for a walk?”

I do!

Take care, everyone, and I’ll see you here next week!

HSBC is saving lives, one at a time. www.hsburnettcty.org 715-866-4096

Blacky Shelter

When seat belts were first introduced there were urban legends floating around about people trapped because they couldn’t unfasten their belts.

Drowning due to a stuck belt was my favorite, especially in areas where there was no water.

During 30 years of working in hospitals I was always horrified to see the crushing injuries resulting from hitting the dash or steering wheel or from being ejected.

Remember, however fast your vehicle is going when it suddenly stops, you will continue on at that speed, unless you are restrained. Bracing you’re feet on the firewall will most likely result in fractured ankles, tibias, fibulas and femurs, unless your restrained.

Today you have the added benefit of retractable restraints and air bags, but only if you stay in the vehicle.

I have a policy – buckle up or walk.

My e-mail address is biedingerb@wildblue.net

Brooke Biedinger

Irregular

Columnist

players.

We would appreciate any volunteer subs that could take over when the regulars aren’t able to. Please call the center at 715-3407810 or stop in and put your name on the volunteer list if you are willing and able to do this.

Thanks to Fran Oltman our library shelves are all organized and a lot of the really old books disposed of (donated to another worthwhile organization).

As was reported last week our parking lot has been resurfaced and marked. We lost two parking spots because we were not aware that we were in violation with law, but that has been rectified and we are again law abiding.

The Dining at Five meal will be served on Sept. 3. The reservation sheet is out at the center and you can either call 715-349-2845 or stop in and put your name on the list.

Winners at 500 last week were: Ralph Groves, Nona Severson, Tony Rutter, Anke Olesen and Darlene Groves. Spades winners were Gerry Vogel, Flo Antiel, Clara Palomaki, Sue Newberger and Inez Pearson.

The center hosts dime Bingo on Tuesday,

500 on Wednesday and Spades on Friday.

All of the games begin at 1 p.m. and everyone is welcome to come and join us. The center is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and our nutrition dinner is served at 11:30 a.m.

The gals have spiffed up Millie’s craft room so it looks quite presentable, and Marge and Mel Nielsen have donated some like-new merchandise to the store, so stop in and take a peek. We also have a great supply of greeting cards. With the cost of stamps going higher all the time where else can you find a nice card for 35 cents and help the center at the same time?

Our donation box for the humane society is still in place and anything that you can spare for our furry friends is greatly appreciated.

Also thanks to Fran and Don Oltman for delivering the last box to the humane society.

Our prayers and thoughts are with Helmi Larson and Bea Wallace in the Spooner nursing facility. If you are down that way please stop in and say hello.

Hope to see you at the center.

Tank is an enthusiastic young St. Bernard who loves treats and likes to lean on things, including people. He has classic Saint markings with a red saddle and head with dark shading on his face and ears.

Saints were bred as draft and rescue dogs.

They are easy-going and eager to please. They make great companions for people who don’t mind daily hair brushing and drool on the floor.

Saints are recommended for owners who have time each day to train and exercise their pet, a large car, and enough room and money to properly care for this giant breed.

The sheer power of this breed makes it mandatory for a Saint to be controllable with respect and verbal commands.

Tank was surrendered to the shelter because he needs to learn boundaries and general appropriate dog behavior with humans. He is gentle and friendly, but tends to throw his weight around, approximately 150 pounds, without knowing the damage he can do.

Tank will need consistent, committed training in his new home.

To that end, Tank has begun his training at the shelter on a Gentle Leader head collar, a halterlike device that helps control a dog without employing pain or brute s t r e n g t h .

The Gentle Leader uses dog psychology and physics to help you control the dog’s head and the direction he’s moving. After only one lesson, Tank was walking under control without a fuss. If used correctly, the Gentle Leader will harness the energy of the

largest, most unruly beast by translating your requests into “dog language” and telling him that you are the leader.

With an untrained dog the size of Tank, it is a miracle tool for muchneeded training and should be continued in his new home.

There is nothing more beautiful than a happy and cooperative human-animal team.

This relationship becomes majestic with a dog the size of Tank. Just like people, dogs need an occupation and a good leader.

Obedience training can give your dog a job you can appreciate and create an understanding that is the foundation of the humananimal bond.

A wonderful opportunity to watch humananimal teamwork is at the Polk County Fair Horse Pull competition. Draft horses weighing 2,000 pounds pull up to 4,800 pounds on sleds for their drivers.

This year’s lightweight horse pull winner was a young lad, about 12 years of age. His Dad was beside him, but it was the youngster who handled the team and won the contest. A sight no less amazing than a well-behaved and respectful St. Bernard inside your home.

The dog kennel at Arnell is full.

Also available are two Chesapeake retrievers, two redbone coonhounds, a St. Bernard mix, two husky mixes, two Border collie mixes, a shepherd mix, terrier mix and a black Lab. All are waiting to amaze you with

Arnell Humane Society Happy Tails

Await

Wisconsin Interstate Park news Naturalist programs at Interstate Park Friday, Aug. 28 The Owl and the Mouse, 3 p.m., at the grassy area in the center of the North Campground. Meet Aztec, a live South American spectacled owl, and play a game that illustrates the exceptional hearing of some nocturnal animals that have the best hearing of any on earth. A fun activity for the entire family.

Saturday, Aug. 29 Incredible Edible Mushrooms, 1:30 to 3 p.m., at the Ice Age Center. If you are interested in wild mushrooms, then this is for you – a workshop all about identifying edible wild mushrooms presented by an experienced, self-educated mushroom hunter. Join Leslie Jo Meyerhoff and learn all about our local wild mushrooms. The fee is $3 for Friends of Interstate Park and $5 for nonmembers.

Sunday, Aug. 30 Catch and Tag a Monarch Butterfly! 1 to 3 p.m., starting at the Ice Age Center.

Monarch butterflies begin their migration

to Mexico in late summer. Meet at the Ice Age Center for a short discussion on the monarch butterfly and a demonstration of how to tag them by Randy Korb, local naturalist. Participants will then drive to nearby fields to net and carefully apply numbered wing tags to the monarchs. The fee is $3 for Friends of Interstate Park and $5 for nonmembers.

Recipe for a Pothole, 4 p.m., at the Pothole Trail sign. Meet naturalist Julie Fox for a guided hike around the Pothole Trail to learn the makings of Interstate Park’s natural wonders.

Wisconsin’s Logging Days, 7 p.m., at the Ice Age Center. Join the naturalist for a lively and informative program about some of the colorful people of our past who shaped this area’s future.

Wednesday, Sept. 2 Hike to Horizon Rock, 10 a.m., at the Horizon Rock Trail sign across from the Pothole Trail. Join Walker for a relaxing hike to Horizon Rock – appropriately named because of the incredible view.

Interstate Park is located in St. Croix Falls on Hwy. 35 just one-half mile south of Hwy. 8. For more information call Julie or Barb at 715-483-3747. - submitted

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A zest for history Many people happen upon Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park and, liking what they find, return in later years to visit, learn more, take part in activities there, and contribute in their own way to the park’s programs. Some, like Mercedes Tuma-Hansen, turn their intrigue into a pursuit which shapes their lives in more ways than one.

“I have always loved history,” she says, “starting with the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Then, about 8 years ago, a couple of girlfriends and I camped at the Folle Avoine rendezvous. We had a tiny, leaky tent and couldn’t cook our own food, but lots of friendly neighbors helped us out.”

And, as she soon realized, “Forts Folle Avoine is a treasure because it is rebuilt on the exact spot it stood over 200 years ago. It is magical to stand on the very spot where Ojibwe, voyageurs and traders lived and worked, and try to see things as they did. It is beautiful along the river, and I love just spending time there.”

Besides treks to the Yellow River site, TumaHansen’s interest led to her employment as a tour guide/history interpreter at the North West Company Fur Post site near Pine City, Minn. Her experiences there furthered her background in that era’s history.

As she explained, “the fur trade has a unique history—it’s the only time Europeans met natives not with the intent of conquering them, but dependent on the Indians continuing their native ways, who in turn shared their culture and survival skills with the newcomers.”

Tuma-Hansen was also instrumental in creating a new group—the Friends of the Folle Avoine Fur Posts (www.friendsofthefolleavoinefurposts.com). As she explains, “Last winter, Doug Friede, who helps out at the site, told me of his idea to start a Friends organiza-

Folle Avoine Chronicles Woodswhimsy the gnome

tion. His notion was to sponsor classes at the fort and apply for grants to support educational programs there. His enthusiasm was infectious, and I wanted to be a part of it. Now I’m the secretary, which is a very unromantic title for an awful lot of work! Right now I’m finalizing our paperwork as a nonprofit support Mercedes Tuma-Hansen and her fiance, Ryan Gale, share an ingroup so we can continue to get more terest in fur-trade history. people involved.”

That zest for involvement will be in evidence over the Labor Day weekend, when Tuma- written by her fiance Ryan Gale, and work on another Hansen, Friede and the Friends group will host an publishing project under way, what began as a mere event where they will try their hand at cattail mat- intrigue has indeed become a major focus in this making (cattail mats were used for mattresses and young historian’s life.

••• wigwam walls), crafting birch bark makuks (baskets), Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park is open 10 a.m.-3 and delve into the art of bread making via the site’s p.m.

Wednesday through Sunday each week. It is lonew outdoor clay oven. Also featured will be a cated on CTH U, three miles east of Hwy. 35 in Burtalk/demo on historic trade beads and a talk about the nett County’s Yellow Lakes region.

1830s Protestant mission on Yellow Lake.

With an eye towards becoming a museum curator, Signed, Tuma-Hansen is designing exhibits for the University Woodswhimsy of Minnesota, and hopes to intern with the Smithsonian this winter. Having also edited a fur-trade book

HSBC's Walk for the Animals set for Sept. 26 in Siren Sponsors sought SIREN - The Humane Society of Burnett County’s Walk for the Animals event will be held Saturday, Sept.

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Persons may register and get more information on the event by going to the Web site www.hsburnettcty.org/ and clicking on “Animal Walk.” That will take you to the fundraising Web site - scroll down and click on the green button titled “Register Now” to start registration.

Each person participating in the walk (12 and over) must pay a $15 registration fee and be registered separately. Children under 12 do not have to pay a registration fee, but must have a parent/guardian register them at the event and must be accompanied by an adult also

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Rudy and Ruth Mothes and family thank all who had a part in their 50th wedding anniversary celebration.

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registered for the walk. If you are unable to register by credit card online, you can request the registration forms and information by contacting Pam Cunningham at pam10258@hotmail.com or 715-866-4096.

HSBC is also asking that people try to get other people to sponsor their walk. That is where the real fundraising happens! There will be a trophy and a prize for the person bringing in the most sponsorship donations. Using their fundraising Web site (active.com) is an easy, efficient way to register and collect sponsorship monies online – using a credit card.

Those who will not be participating or sponsoring someone in the run but would still like to make a taxdeductible donation by credit card may also do so via the Web site.

To make a tax-deductible donation by check, please

THANK YOU

We would like to extend a big thank-you to the Luck, Milltown & Frederic Fire Departments for a job well done, extinguishing our fire on August 18.

Thanks to your extremely quick response and knowledge of what to do to contain the fire, over half of our business was saved.

Also, a special thank-you to Angela Tuynman, who spotted the fire when driving by and called 911.

Thank you all so much, Don & Marion Lundquist and all of us at Northland Church Furniture

mail your check made payable to HSBC to: Pam Cunningham (HSBC Walk for the Animals), Humane Society of Burnett County, 7347 Midtown Road, Siren, WI 54872 If your dog is well-behaved in crowds, does well on a leash, and is current on vaccinations, he/she is welcome to participate (no registration fee and sponsorships required for your canine friend)! You will be provided a resealable baggy and be responsible for picking up anything left by your dog during the walk.

Colorful bandanas with the HSBC name and logo on them will be available for sale at $2 apiece for your dog (or you) to wear on the walk. - with submitted information

THANK YOU

We wish to properly and profusely thank all the wonderful people - adults and children, friends and family - who attended and enjoyed with us the gathering Saturday, August 15, at The Lodge on Crooked Lake.

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LIBRARY NEWS

Amery Public Library “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett In 1962 in Jackson, Miss., three women take an extraordinary step. Skeeter, a young white woman recently graduated from Ole Miss, has taken a job at the local newspaper office writing a household advice column. Knowing nothing about the subject she is supposed to be expert in, she asks for help from Aibileen, a wise black woman who has raised more than a dozen white children. While talking, Skeeter and Aibileen decide to write a book about the experiences of black household help in the deep South. They recruit Minnie, a feisty maid who has been fired for insubordination, and eventually they craft a document, which will change all their lives forever.

Kathryn Stockett, raised by black women in Mississippi, has written a brilliant first novel, which can’t help make a person think about the changes which have occurred in this country in the last 40 years. Don’t miss this last great summer read; it is a page-turner.

Library notes Summer reading is winding down with the last day for turning in stickers Wednesday, Aug. 26. Our last special program for summer reading will be Underwater World from Mall of America on Aug. 26, at 10:30 a.m. Story time resumes with Elaine in September at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesdays.

The Amery Area Public Library Board will meet on Tuesday, Sept. 8, for its regu-

lar meeting at 6:15 p.m.

The Friends of the Library are raffling off a quilt made by Mary Wolff. Tickets are $5 for one and $10 for three tickets. Tickets are available at the library and from Friends of the Library.

The fundraising committee is having a huge consignment auction on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 12:30 p.m. at Robbie’s Auction House. You may donate items for the auction with 20 percent going to the library fund or all proceeds going to the library, whichever you wish. Check out posters for items accepted or call the library at 715268-9340.

Friends of the Library book group meets on Monday, Sept 21, at 7 p.m., to discuss a classic from 1939 “The Yearling,” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Pick up a book at the circulation desk and join us.

Teens Read meets on Monday, Aug. 31, at 5:30 p.m., to discuss “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale,” by Holly Black. Pick up a book at the circulation desk and join us if you are 13 or older.

The Amery Area Public Library will be closed on Monday, Sept. 7, for Labor Day. 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.

Milltown Public Library What a fun youth summer reading program.

Our grand finale program, Music in the Park, will be at Bering Park of Milltown at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27. Magic Mama performs organic hip-hop and world beats for the entire family. Through her music, she delivers an empowering and hopefilled message of love and respect for all and inspires creative thinking and Earthfriendly actions. Don’t miss this high-energy, interactive music performance, especially as we will be announcing the 2009 Youth Summer Reading Program grand-prize winner. Rain? The program will be hosted at the Milltown Public Library.

Gratitude is extended to all of the fantastic young readers for participating and especially to the sponsors that helped make the 2009 Youth Summer Reading Program such a great success! Gratitude is extended to Amery Regional Medical Center, Anchor Bank, The Adventure Falls Mini-Golf, Fawn Doe Rosa, Hack’s Pub, Hair’s The Thing, Jeff’s Small Engine, Judy Minke, Lakeland Communications, McKenzie Lanes, Milltown Appliance & Heating, Milltown Auto & Radiator Repair, Milltown Community Club, Milltown Dock & Marine Service Center, Milltown Drive Inn,

Milltown Hardware, NAPA Auto Parts, and St. Croix Regional Medical Center.

Stop in for the new story time.

Preschoolers and an accompanying adult are invited to partake in a half hour of themed stories, a small craft and fun every Tuesday morning at 9:30 am. Stop by to pick up a menu of this month’s story time themes.

Hone your basic computer knowledge, learn how to create your own seasonal letter to friends and family, develop an updated resume or learn how to create an e-mail account. Starting Sept. 2, basic computer classes will be available every Wednesday at 1 and 6 p.m. Space is limited, so sign up in advance for one of these one hour time slots. Contact the Milltown Public Library at 715-825-2313.

Enjoy a cup of fresh brewed coffee and our fast wireless Internet every day, www.milltownpubliclibrary.org, 715-8252313.

Regular library hours Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.; and Sunday closed.

Balsam Lake Public Library Summer reading program Summer reading program is over and school will be starting soon, so be sure to bring the preschoolers to our story time.

Every Wednesday at 11 a.m. Stories, crafts and snacks, all ages welcome.

New books for September “Have a Little Faith: a True Story,” by Mitch Albom, “Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown, “Last Song,” by Nicholas Sparks, “Heaven’s Keep,” by William Kent Krueger, “The Deen Bros. Take It Easy: Quick and Affordable Recipes the Whole Family Will Love,” by Jamie and Bobby Deen.

Book club “Shipping News,” by Annie Proulx. In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone

through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He’s not attractive, he’s not brilliant or witty or talented, and he’s not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle’s psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life. Book club meets Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 3 p.m. New members are always welcome.

Hours Balsam Lake Library, (under the water tower) at 404 Main St., Balsam Lake.

Hours are Monday 10 a.m. –8 p.m., Tuesday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. E-mail: balsamlakepl@ifls.lib.wi.us.

Web site http://www.balsamlakepubliclibrary.org.

Frederic Public Library Final call for summer reading program checklists What a wonderful summer reading program! The library was busy with kids and activities, and more than 800 children and adults attended the “Be Creative @ Your Library” sessions. The library will accept reading checklists through Saturday, Aug. 29, so be sure to finish them up and turn them in for a prize.

Book groups meet in September The Thursday morning book group will meet Sept. 17, at 10 a.m., to talk about “The Persian Pickle Club,” by Sandra Dallas.

The evening Book Group will meet Thursday, Sept. 17, at 6:30 p.m., to discuss “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. New members are always wel-

come, so join us for lively conversation about books.

Tomatoes and squash for the food shelf The library is a drop site for the food shelf, and we encourage you to remember the food shelf each time you visit the library. Staple boxed and canned foods are always welcome, and if you have garden produce to share, consider donating some of your bounty to the food shelf.

Hours and information Frederic Public Library, 127 Oak Street West.

715-327-4979, email fredericpl@ifls.lib.wi.us.

Regular open hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; and Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

St. Croix Falls Public Library Join us this Saturday for a photojournalism workshop from 9-11:30 a.m. at the St. Croix Falls Public Library. Experienced photojournalist Jerry Boucher has tips to share for making photographs tell a story.

Learn tips about composition, lighting, photographing people, mixed light sources and more. There is no charge for this workshop, but registration is required at the St. Croix Falls Public Library, 715-483-1777 or online. Space is limited. Register byAug. 27.

“Capture Our Town” photojournalism project ~ Sponsored by the Festival Theatre and the St. Croix Falls Public Library.

“An archeologist’s eyes combine the view of the telescope with the view of the microscope. He reconstructs the very distant with the help of the very small.” ~Thornton Wilder, from the preface of “Our Town.”

The Grover’s Corners of Thornton Wilder’s classic American play, “Our Town” seems a lot like most of Polk, Burnett and Chisago, Minn. counties. This photojournalism project will allow us to experience and appreciate the process of capturing the more than 80 municipalities, townships and unincorporated hamlets that exist across the Big Read area. In photographic image, these “artifacts” of our lives today will create a montage of modern everyday “Our Town” life of as seen by the people living there. We invite all area photographers to submit digital images and join in the Big Read.

• Photos must be taken between June 23 and Dec. 31.

• Possible Subjects: Bridges, cemeteries, main streets, gathering spaces (dance halls, taverns, ice-cream parlors, bowling alleys, city parks), churches, mailboxes, work and industry (creameries, filling stations, feed mills, farms, factories).

• Open to professional, amateur and youth artists.

Next book club meeting will be Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 3:30 p.m. at Coffee Time in St. Croix Falls. Current book selection is “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

Have you seen the new building site?

How exciting! Shrubs and trees have been planted; native perennials will be planted in late August. The projected grand opening is Saturday, Sept. 26, at 1p.m.

It’s double your donation. Our second $100,000 challenge grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation started in April. The library has one year to raise $50,000 and the foundation will match that figure. The mission of the Otto Bremer Foundation is to assist people in achieving full economic, civic and social participation in and for the betterment of their communities.

Story Hour Listen to stories, create art and have fun with other kids and parents every Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.

Hours, contact The library is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Monday through Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 715-483-1777. E-mail: scflibrary@ifls.lib.wi.us.

Online: www.stcroixfallslibrary.org.

Clear Lake Public Library Local author Edna Knutson Bjorkman has published her second book entitled “An Ordinary Genius: Edward T. Yelle.”

Yelle just celebrated his 90th birthday.

Edna, his niece, had been wanting him to tell his life story, especially his experiences during World War II for several years. He finally consented to be interviewed and Edna was able to tape his stories, many of which ended up in the book.

Edward’s life story is an example of why people called the greatest generation are remembered and celebrated. Born one year after the the end of World War I, Edward grew to manhood during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He served nearly four years in the U.S. Army Air Force.

Yelle was with the Allied Forces, which liberated France and Belgium, and conquered Germany. He came back home after World War II to live an optimistic and productive life. Throughout all the hard times in his life, he maintained his appreciation for humor.

Regular library hours Monday: 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Tuesday: 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Wednesday: 2 - 8 p.m.; Thursday: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.; Friday: 11 a.m. - 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.

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Community of faith helps forge a bit of history for ELCA Editor’s note: Steve McCormack of St. Croix Falls recently attended the national Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis. In this article he offers his perspective as a voting member as the ELCA tackled controversial issues.

Steve McCormack

by Steve McCormack, DDS NW Synod of Wisconsin voting member MINNEAPOLIS - The Churchwide Assembly, the chief legislative authority of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, met in Minneapolis Aug. 17-23 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

About 2,000 people participated, including 1,045 ELCA voting members. The theme for the biennial assembly was God’s Work … Our Hands. Approximately 40 percent of the voting members were clergy, with the remaining 60 percent being lay members.

Each voting member received a large reference workbook for the ELCA Assembly. – Photos submitted As a voting member from the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin, I was continually honored to hear people speak with such firm passion and deep conviction on a wide spectrum of issues. Though many may have come to the assembly with distinct opinions on the most controversial issues before the voting body, I think all of them left with a deeper understanding of the faithful journey we all were witnessing.

The daily worship services reflected the ELCA’s commitment to increase diversity within itself. Parts of the services were held in Chinese Mandarin, Spanish, Native Inuit, Arabic and others. Services for 2,000 with impressive choirs and music were very moving.

Underlying many of the discussions within the voting body as a whole or in small group discussion, was the need for a decision to be taken in the spirit of bearing one another’s burdens, serving the neighbor, and respecting the “bound conscience” of those with whom we disagree.

For Lutherans the reality that people hold convictions from deep faith that may be in conflict with others is not merely a procedural or political difficulty. As sisters and brothers in Christ, they were asked to bear one another’s burdens through bound conscience.

Though the assembly may be marked by the two most publicly controversial issues before them, it needs to be noted that a great number of resolutions, memorials, amendments and recommendations were addressed. The remainder of this article is a summary of various news releases by the

Central Lutheran Church, the site of the tornado and host for the assembly; and Central Lutheran’s broken steeple from the tornado.

The delegation of the NW Synod along with Bishop Duane Pederson.

ELCA. “The way this assembly has discussed these questions is a continuation of the way this church has deliberated: with deep and heartfelt respect for each other, engaging with Scripture, listening to the faith stories and experiences of one another and, through worship and prayer, seeking the discernment of the Spirit,” said Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson By a wide vote, the Churchwide Assembly adopted a full-communion agreement with the United Methodist Church. This is the ELCA’s sixth full-communion relationship and the first for the UMC. Steven Chapman, a layman from the ELCA Northwest Washington Synod, asked, “What took so long?” in reference to the agreement.

“I know what Lutherans are going to bring to the potluck,” he quipped, “but what are the Methodists going to bring?”

“I think we have the same recipe books,” answered Bishop Sally Dyck of the UMC’s North Central Judicatory Episcopal area of Minnesota, which drew laughter and applause from the assembly.

Full communion is not a merger. But it means that the two churches express a common confession of Christian faith; mutual recognition of baptism and sharing Holy Communion; join worship and freedom to exchange members; agree to mutual recognition of ordained ministers for service in either church; express a common commitment to evangelism, witness and service; engage in common decision-making on critical matters; and a mutual lifting of criticisms that may exist between the churches.

The two churches began formal theological dialogues together in 1977, which led to declarations of “Interim Eucharistic Sharing” in 2005. The ELCA has 4.6 million baptized members and the UMC has 8 million.

Members of the ELCA also voted to raise $10 million to support the ELCA HIV and AIDS strategy. Planners hope to raise the money over the next three years (20092012).

Voting members at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted overwhelmingly to support a program that seeks to eliminate malaria in south-Saharan Africa by 2015.

The Lutheran Malaria Initiative, with a fundraising goal of $75 million, was endorsed by a vote of 989 to 11. It would create a shared effort in concert with the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, Lutheran World Relief, and the United Nations Foundation. A significant element of LMI will be the purchase of $10 malaria nets to be distributed in Africa.

Voting members at the ELCA Assembly voted overwhelmingly to urge reform in the nation’s current immigration policy.

Voters agreed to urge comprehensive reform of U.S. immigration policies and processes, and to call for suspension of immigration raids until such reform is enacted.

Voting members also approved, all by wide margins, memorials (resolutions brought from individuals and synods) that would advocate for justice for women; encourage providing worship and educational materials for blind and visually impaired church members; and enable recruitment of people of color as clergy candidates.

The ELCA assembly adopted the “Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust” social statement with the narrowest margin-ofvictory vote possible. This is the denomination’s 10th social statement. It addresses a spectrum of topics relevant to trust and

human sexuality from a Lutheran perspective. Social statements “guide us as we step forward as a public church because they form the basis for both this church’s public policy and my public speech as presiding bishop,” the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop, told the assembly. “I am very proud of this church,” the Rev. Rebecca S. Larson, executive director, ELCA Church in Society, said at the news conference. “It is a time of diminished joy,” she said. “We know there is suffering all around on this issue.”

The 2009 Churchwide Assembly also voted to open the ministry of the church to gay and lesbian pastors and other professional workers living in committed relationships. The action came by a vote of 559-451 at the highest legislative body of the 4.6 million-member ELCA denomination. Earlier the assembly also approved a resolution committing the church to find ways for congregations that choose to do so to “recognize, support and hold publicly accountable lifelong, monogamous, samegender relationships,” though the resolution did not use the word “marriage.”

The action here changes the church’s policy, which previously allowed people who are gay and lesbian into the ordained ministry only if they remained celibate. During the hours of discussion, led by the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, voting members paused several times each hour for prayer, sometimes as a whole assembly, sometimes in small groups around the tables where the voting members of the assembly sat, debated and cast their votes.

Discussion here proved that matters of sexuality will be contentious throughout the church. Pastor Richard Mahan of the ELCA West Virginia-Western Maryland Synod was among several speakers contending that the proposed changes are contrary to biblical teaching.

“I cannot see how the church that I have known for 40 years can condone what God has condemned,” Mahan said, “Nowhere does it say in scripture that homosexuality and same-sex marriage is acceptable of God.” But others said a greater acceptance of people who are gay and lesbian in the church was consistent with the Bible.

Bishop Gary Wollersheim of the ELCA Northern Illinois Synod said, “It’s a matter of justice, a matter of hospitality, it’s what Jesus would have us do.” Wollersheim said he had been strongly influenced by meetings with youth at youth leadership events in his synod, a regional unit of the ELCA. Some speakers contend that the actions taken here will alienate ELCA members and cause a drop in membership. But Allison Guttu of the ELCA Metropolitan New York Synod said, “I have seen congregations flourish while engaging these issues; I have seen congregations grow recognizing the gifts of gay and lesbian pastors.”

During discussion of resolutions on the

Harry W. Griffith, an ELCA chaplain and commander in the U.S Navy Chaplain Corps, with the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. implementation of the proposals, Bishop Kurt Kusserow of the ELCA Southwestern Pennsylvania Synod asked that the church make clear its provision in its policies to recognize the conviction of members who believe that this church cannot call or roster people in a publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationship.

A resolution that the denomination consider a proposal for how it will exercise flexibility within its existing structure and practices to allow Lutherans in same-gender relationships to be approved for professional service in the church was adopted 667-307.

Much work remains with the ELCA Church Council and Council of Presiding Bishops to further refine the notion of structured flexibility that will allow each congregation to, in essence, exercise its own “local option” in candidacy decisions and the extending of call for a pastor.

As Bishop Duane Pederson of the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin said, “… when the Churchwide Assembly is viewed through a wide-angle lens, the scope of our work has been broad and breathtaking.” It was his sense that the biblical and theological work on matters of homosexuality has only begun. “Spade work has taken place, but backhoe-depth work is needed … It is my view that the actions of the assembly need not be church dividing. While I am abundantly clear of the perspective of those who disagree, it is my conviction that our unity is grounded in Christ and not in the uniformity of policy or perspective.

Our unity is shaped by a common mission and in our commitment to living out our faith in witness and service for the sake of the world.”

I was a witness to the depth and breadth of discussion at the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. For that I was humbled and honored. It was with genuine sadness for those who felt left behind with the decisions made by the assembly, that silence and prayer was observed after the most controversial votes. There was no celebration. We bore each other’s burdens. The essence of “bound conscience” was palpable with each vote.

Throughout the week, as we competed for national media attention on the issues before the assembly, we were all left to wonder, when after Day 1 it was the Brett Favre story; then on Day 2 the damage to our convention center by the tornado; that as Day 3 unfolded we had to wonder what would be in store for us that day!

It was through the community of faith, and embracing the theme God’s Work, Our Hands, that we forged a bit of history for the ELCA. I urge you all to visit HYPERLINK “http://www.elca.org/” www.elca.org for more information on the ELCA Churchwide Assembly.

The deacons gathered to serve the communion for the congregation of over 2,000 attending the ELCA Assembly.

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Farmers market report

by Colleen Draxler BURNETT/POLK COUNTIES – Your local farmers are finally up to their ears in corn. It’s time to head for the farmers market for some of the best tastes of summer. Homegrown Wisconsin sweet corn on the cob is only available for a short time. When you go shopping look for plump, full ears with bright green husks. Today’s hybrid sweet corn is much sweeter than the corn grandpa grew years ago. Although there is nothing better than a hot cob of corn dripping in butter, sweet corn now stars in desserts – sweet-corn ice cream, sweetcorn fruit pie and cookies. Who knew?

Your family will enjoy this old-fashioned Fresh Corn Pudding recipe that is tasty and easy to make but is not quite a

dessert.

Fresh Corn Pudding 6 ears fresh corn, about three cups of kernels 2 tablespoons butter, softened 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon salt 3 eggs, well beaten 1/2 cup half and half 3 tablespoons flour Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut off the kernels into a bowl and scrape all the juice from the cob with the backside of the knife. Add the butter, nutmeg, salt and eggs. Mix, then add the cream and flour. Mix well. Pour into buttered 1 1/2-quart baking dish and bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes until firm.

Peppers and zinnias will brighten your menu and lift your spirits. Bouquets of gladiolus and sunflowers are ready for you at the markets. – Photos submitted

A great selection of homemade wheat and rye bread, cinnamon rolls and other baked goodies bring steady a stream of customers to vendors Pennie and Carroll Wicklund at the Frederic market.

A friend and her family recently celebrated this glorious time of the summer with a Corn Party. Their menu included corn on the cob, corn salsa, corn chips, corn bread, corn dogs, corned beef, popcorn, caramel corn and candy corn.

Young and old participated in a hotly contested cornhole tournament. Cornhole is a popular game for tailgaters before football games. Players toss colored beanbags (filled with corn kernels) to-

ward a tilted board with a six-inch hole in the surface. A bag in the hole scores three points and a bag on the surface scores one. The first to reach 21 wins.

Are you partying at the lake?

Add a fishing contest using only corn, of course, for bait. How about a corniest joke competition? Which vegetable has the best hearing in the field? An ear of corn. Sounds like a fun weekend activity for all ages celebrating a favorite sum-

60 years of marriage

Colorful and tasty veggies are for sale by growers Robert and Paula Peters each Saturday at the Frederic market.

Gene and Pat Olson, Siren, recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. In lieu of gifts, they requested that their guests bring items for the new Ruby’s Pantry/Siren Food Shelf. They are pictured here delivering 65 pounds of items to the food shelf. – Photo submitted

Frederic Class of 1950 The Frederic Class of 1950 celebrated its 59th class reunion at the Pour House in Siren on Wednesday, Aug. 19.

Those attending were back row (L to R): Jim Glockzin, Lyle Johnson, David Anderson, Mark Dahlberg, Geraldine Grotjohn Wright, Claudia Denn Wagner and Liz Colvin Johnson.

Front row: Thorsten Moline, Helen Fisher Weinzierl, Betty O’Donnell Jensen, Jean Jorgenson Flanigan, Joan Jorgenson Anderson and Delores Lindfield Wilcox. – Photo submitted

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Pink Ball Tournament celebrates 10th anniversary Golfing fundraiser raises over $700 for breast cancer research

Alice Reed, Karen Skandel, Pat Mooney and Jeannette Wasmund won first place for the lowest team score at the Pink Ball Tournament on Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Grantsburg Golf Course. – Photo submitted

Dorothy Nelson was spied in her special hat at this year’s Pink Ball Tournament held at the Grantsburg Golf Course last week. Nelson said she and friend Lori Peterson decorated the hats with lots of pink six years ago for the tournament and have been wearing them each year since to the golf fundraiser for breast cancer research. – Photos by Priscilla Bauer unless otherwise noted “We’re just having so much fun and for a great cause,” said Alma Karels as she and fellow team members Janet Kotz, Jeanne Corcoran (back cart) and Alice Hedberg head to their final hole of the Pink Ball Tournament held Aug. 20 at the Grantsburg Golf Course. This was the 10th anniversary of the tournament, which raises funds for breast cancer research. More than $700 was donated to the American Cancer Society, with 33 women participating in this year’s event.

Bella means beauty in Grantsburg

by Priscilla Bauer GRANTSBURG - Bella is the Italian word for beautiful, and the recently opened Bella Salon in downtown Grantsburg is just that, beautiful. Owner Heather Johansen, has given this new satellite salon of her Bella Salon in Luck a trendy and inviting look for her hair- and beauty-care customers.

The salon offers haircuts for men, women and children; Bella also offers Aveda products, coloring, pedicures and manicures.

The new salon is located in the Nelson Insurance Building across from Fiedler Ford and is open Tuesday through Friday and Saturday by appointment.

A grand opening with refreshments, free gifts and prizes will be held on Thursday, Aug. 27, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Bella Salon owner Heather Johansen and stylist Megan Hacker greet customers at the new hair-care and beauty salon located in the Nelson Insurance Building across from Fiedler Ford in downtown Grantsburg. - Photos by Priscilla Bauer

The new Bella Salon in Grantsburg has a trendy and inviting look, offering customers Aveda products and a full-service hair and beauty salon.

Evone Finch gets ready to “putt the pink” during the annual Pink Ball Tournament at Grantsburg Golf Course last Thursday afternoon. Finch and team members later won the Pink Ball first-place-team award for lowest score.

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Kinship match offers friendship, mutual encouragement

POLK COUNTY - Often mentoring relationships turn into much more than an adult impacting the life of a young person. It turns into a tale of friendship, mutual encouragement and growth. Nothing could be truer for this trio.

No one would have predicted the journey Missie Sogge and Mark Leach were beginning when they decided to become mentors to Sanay, then finishing the 5th grade at Unity School. She was a cute, spunky girl, dealing with being a young teen.

Sanay says, remembering back to that time, that she didn’t have a lot of friends, so having someone there for her who accepted and liked her, was invaluable.

Sogge, a fifth-grade teacher at Unity School, soon became a confidant and her classroom was a regular stopping place for Sanay. Even when Sanay transitioned into middle school, she still found her way to Sogge’s room several times a week, stopping to touch base.

Who knew that there would be a profound twist in their friendship? Theirs is a story about sharing life with one another, whether that is an easy or difficult journey. In August 2008, Sanay was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Sogge, having battled a kidney disease for several years and on her way to her second kidney transplant, transitioned from a caring ear/ shoulder, to one who could understand first hand the stories and struggles Sanay was going through.

Sanay and mentor Missie. - Special photo Sogge and Sanay and talked about their 3-1/2-year match. The fondness that they have for one another was evident as they chatted over ice-cream treats. There was an ease in their conversation that comes from the familiarity of friendship and time. They attribute flexibility and liking similar things with the success of their match. When asked what the highlight of their match has been, they didn’t respond with a spectacular activity, but rather shared about times of simply hanging out together. They like to watch movies together, bake together or just play with Leach and Sogge’s pets. They have also turned their attentions outward, talking about the time that they redecorated a room at CRA. Sogge smiled at Sanay and said that she sometimes felt like

she was Sanay’s “get-out-of-the-house card.” Sanay nodded and smiled in return.

They smile and giggle, showing each other their newest battle scars or sharing stories about treatments, crabby moments in the hospital or whose medicine tastes like what. Life has led them to a place with stories and dialogue that most people can’t fully understand, but for the two of them it is a language that comes easy now. There is comfort in sharing such experiences and stories with another, especially one who can hear the unspoken in the sentence or laugh with you about subjects others may be uncomfortable with.

Although illness is a part of their relationship, their match is not defined by it. Their story is one of friendship and support. Charles Swindoll says, “People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in.

Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life’s circumstances to push them down and hold them under.”

For more information on how to get involved, contact Kinship of Polk County at 715-268-7980 or visit their Web site at www.polkkinship.org. - from Kinship of Polk County

Former aircraft employees luncheon held DRESSER - A get-together of 51 former Champion Aircraft employees and spouses had lunch at the Pizzeria in Dresser on Wed., Aug. 19.

The group meets annually now, on the third Wednesday of each August, same time, same place.

Next year the meeting will be held Aug. 18.

All enjoyed seeing Milly Brown again and renewing old friendships. - Submitted

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Cookie Brigade thank-you fundraiser Sept. 12 in Siren Veterans, military families and military working dogs remembered FREDERIC – Continuing a tradition since 2004 to express gratitude to the U.S. troops serving in the military by baking and sending homemade cookies and dog biscuits to the brave men, women, and canine teams, the Cookie Brigade and its founder, Susan Hager, is planning a Sept. 12 Thank You to The Troops event. The event takes place in Siren from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Northwoods Crossing Event Center on Hwy. 35.

The afternoon of fun and music will honor the brave servicemen, women and canine teams who are currently serving and who have bravely served our country in past wars. Also being honored will be our wounded warriors and Cookie Brigade volunteers.

Thank-you baskets will be awarded to Cookie Brigade bakers, which will include donated gifts from Zeroll, a proud partner of the Cookie Brigade. Zeroll

will be donating hand-engraved original ice-cream scoops, a follow-up to the dishers (dough scoops) previously donated to the Cookie Brigade to help bring uniformity to the shapes and sizes of the baked cookies.

“The Cookie Brigade started when I began working with local women to send homemade cookies to our family members deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2004. Their response and reports that home-baked goodies were gone within minutes served as the inspiration for Cookie Brigade,” said Susan Hager, who recently was honored with the National Guard Patriotism Award for her work. According to Hager, the Cookie Brigade bakes 250 dozen cookies per month! This doesn’t include the special dog biscuits they bake each month for military working dogs, which must conform to the strict diets of these active canines.

“The heart of our cookie baking program is to thank veterans and active combat troops for their service to our country, but we also make a special effort to reach combat troops that don’t get any packages from home.

When we learn about this from their superior officers, we make sure that these troops are added to our baking list,” added Hager.

Guest speaker for the Sept. 12 event will be Debbie Kandoll, the founder and director of Military Working Dog Adoptions. She will be accompanied by Benny, a German shepherd, her adopted retired military working dog. There will be a silent auction, cookies for sale, door prizes and many more surprises. Music provided

by Entertainment Express. Veterans and military families are encouraged to attend. Admission is free and open to the public. Donations at the door would be appreciated.

“I am so thankful of the sacrifices made by our veterans and active troops, and the selfless contributions made by our local military families, church groups, 4-H groups, Girl Scouts, and everyone else who helps bring a little home to our warriors,” said Hager.

For more information visit www.cookiebrigade.com.

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Unraveling the mysteries of edible mushrooms ST. CROIX FALLS – If you are interested in wild mushrooms then this is for you – a workshop all about identifying edible wild mushrooms presented by an experienced, self-educated mushroom hunter. Join Leslie Jo Meyerhoff from 1:30-3 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Ice Age Center at Wisconsin Interstate Park to learn all about local wild mushrooms. The workshop will be repeated from 10:30-noon on Saturday, Sept. 26, and 1:30-3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10.

Meyerhoff has lived in Polk County nearly 20 years and has been successfully harvesting wild edible mushrooms for the last 10 years. She has eaten close to 70

different kinds of mushrooms—many which are easily identifiable.

Learn about where and when to go foraging for mushrooms and what to bring along. Learn to identify what you’ve found and how to prepare and preserve your harvest. Put your fears aside, separate fact from fiction, and join Meyerhoff as she demystifies those curious culinary collectibles.

Preregistration is required; call Interstate Park at 715483-3747 to register. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Friends of Interstate Park, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to promoting a greater appreci-

ation of the human and natural history of Interstate Park by enhancing the park’s interpretive program.

The fee for the workshop is $5 for nonmembers, $3 for members. Please bring pen and paper and a mushroom guidebook if you have one.

Interstate Park is located in St. Croix Falls on Hwy. 35, just one-half mile south of Hwy 8. A Wisconsin state park sticker is required to enter the park; daily passes are $7 for residents or $10 for nonresidents. For more information about the workshop call 715-483-3747. submitted

USDA implements farm storage facility loan program changes MADISON – Wisconsin Farm Service Agency announced changes to the Farm Storage Facility Loan program, including modifications to loan amounts, terms of payment and the inclusion of hay and renewable biomass as eligible commodities.

The maximum principal amount of a loan through FSFL has increased to $500,000 per structure. Participants are required to provide a down payment of 15 percent, with Commodity Credit Corp. providing a loan for the remaining 85 percent of the net cost of the eligible storage facility and permanent drying and handling equipment. Loan terms of seven, 10 or 12 years

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Interest rates for each loan term are different and are based on the rate, which CCC borrows from the Treasury Department.

Payments will also be available in the form of a partial disbursement and a remaining final disbursement.

The partial disbursement will be available after a portion of the construction has been completed. The final fund disbursement will be made when all construction is completed. The maximum amount of the partial disbursement will be 50 percent of the projected and approved total loan amount.

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Applications for FSFL must be submitted to the FSA county office that maintains the farm’s records. An FSFL must be approved before any site preparation or construction can begin.

The following commodities are eligible for farm storage facility loans: Corn, grain sorghum, rice, soybeans, oats, peanuts, wheat, barley or minor oilseeds harvested as whole grain Corn, grain sorghum, wheat, oats or barley harvested as other-than-whole grain Pulse crops – lentils, small chickpeas and dry peas Hay Renewable biomass Fruits (including nuts) and vegetables – cold storage facilities For more information about FSFL or other FSA price support program, please visit your FSA county office or www.fsa.usda.gov. – submitted

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LUNCH Hot dog, chips, pasta salad, fresh veggies, bananas, apples, oranges, bread basket.

LUNCH Pizza, lettuce salad, corn, sliced pears, apples, oranges, bread basket.

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LUNCH Nachos supreme, tortilla chips, peas, fresh fruit. Alt.: Hot dog, 7-12.

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LUNCH Tacos, corn bread, lettuce, refried beans, cinnamon apple slices.

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LUNCH Sloppy joes, tortilla chips, shredded lettuce, peas, diced pears. Alt.: Pita pocket.

BREAKFAST French-toast sticks, juice and milk.

LUNCH Chicken nuggets, rice, green beans, fresh veggies, peaches. Alt.: Mexican rice casserole.

BREAKFAST Assorted cereal, toast served with peanut butter, juice and milk.

LUNCH Whole-grain pizza, lettuce salad, whole-kernel corn, pineapple, mandarin oranges. Alt.: Cook’s choice.

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LUNCH Chicken patty, bun, potato wedges, green beans, peaches.

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BREAKFAST Waffles and sausage.

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BREAKFAST Pretzel and cheese.

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Cinnamon roll and yogurt cup.

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LUNCH Chicken nuggets and rice.

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LUNCH Tuna Macaroni salad, PBJ, peas, peaches.

LUNCH Chicken nuggets, au gratin potatoes, California blend veggies, pineapple.

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CHURCH NEWS Children’s behavior may be accidental, not intentional Q: I need more help understanding how to interpret childish behavior. My problem is that I don’t know how to react when my son, Chris, annoys me. I’m sure there are many minor infractions that a parent should just ignore or overlook. At other times, immediate discipline is necessary. But I’m not sure I’ll react in the right way on the spur of the moment.

DR DOBSON: Obviously, the first thing you have to do is determine Chris’ intent, his feelings and his thoughts. Is there evidence that Chris is challenging your authority? The more blatant his defiance, the more critical it is to respond with decisiveness. But if he has simply behaved immaturely, or perhaps he’s forgotten or made a mistake, you will want to be much more tolerant. It is a very important distinction. In the first instance, the child knows he was wrong and is waiting to see what his parent will do about it; in the second, he has simply blundered into a situation he didn’t plan.

Let me be specific. Suppose Chris is acting silly in the living room and falls into a table, breaking some expensive china cups and other trinkets. Or maybe he loses his books on the way home from school. These are acts of childish irresponsibility and should be handled as such. Perhaps you will want to ignore what he did, or maybe you’ll require him to work to pay for whatever he lost, depending on his age and level of maturity.

However, these accidents and miscalculations do not represent direct challenges to authority. Since they aren’t motivated by haughty defiance, they

shouldn’t result in serious reprimands or punishment.

On the other hand, when a child screams obscenities at his mother or stamps his foot and tells her to shut up, something very different is going on. He has moved into the realm of willful defiance. As the words imply, it is a deliberate act of Dr. James disobedience that occurs when the child knows what his parDobson ents want but he clenches his fists, digs in his heels and preFocus pares for battle. It is a refusal to accept parental leadership, on the such as running when called, Family or disobeying and then perhaps lying about it. When this kind of nose-to-nose confrontation occurs between generations, parental leadership is on the line. It is not time for quiet discussions about the virtues of obedience. It is not the occasion for bribes or bargaining or promises. Nor is it wise to wait until Dad comes home from work to handle the misbehavior.

You have drawn a line in the dirt, and Chris has tossed his cute little toe across it. Who is going to win? Who has the most courage? Who is in charge here? Those are the questions he is asking, and it is vital that you answer them for him. If you equivocate at that moment, he will precipitate other battles designed to ask them again and again. That’s just the way a strong-willed child thinks. It is the ultimate paradox of childhood that youngsters want to be led but insist that their parents earn the right to lead them.

In summary, when misbehavior occurs, your obligation is to look first at the issue of intent, and second, at the issue of respect. From your interpretation of these two attitudes, you should know instantly how to respond.

••• Q: Do you think a child should be required to say “thank you” and “please” around the house?

DR. DOBSON: I sure do. Requiring these phrases is one method of reminding the child that his is not a “gimme-gimme” world. Even though his mother is cooking for him and buying for him and giving to him, he must assume a few attitudinal responsibilities in return. Appreciation must be taught, and this instructional process begins with fundamental politeness at home.

••• Dr. Dobson is founder and chairman emeritus of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80995 (www.focusonthefamily.org).

Questions and answers are excerpted from “Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide” and “Bringing Up Boys,” both published by Tyndale House. COPYRIGHT 2009 JAMES DOBSON INC., DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo. 64106; 816-581-7500.

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CHURCH NEWS Can we understand the Bible alike?

Kindness is required I see it out my window every day.

Two hummingbirds chasing each other away from the feeder that’s big enough for four, squirrels racing across the yard in pursuit of the biggest acorn or just out of orneriness, deer huffing and stomping their hooves at one another. Their actions seem unkind to me.

I see it among some of the the people I meet, too. And it’s not only kids who express unkind Perspectives words or actions to their siblings, parents and friends. It’s common between spouses. My heart grieves when I hear one spouse criticize and blame or verbally batter the other.

In the effort to remain socially “nice,” they use humorous undertones that are acceptable to the audience or soft, snide remarks.

“Oh, he doesn’t care what I do with my time,” may sound like she’s happy about her independence when it could mean she’d like him to care more about her needs.

“My wife is a regular lion. All she does is lie on the couch all day,” is a humorous attempt at criticizing his wife who is lazy, or so he thinks.

The Bible provides us with guidance about kindness. It is part of the fruit of the Spirit, according to Paul’s words to the Galatians. It’s an essential part of love that many forget to use in their daily lives. It’s easy to say “I love you” but another thing altogether to show that love. What husband wouldn’t say, “Of course, I love her,” when confronted with such a question, yet exhibit unkindness in his words or acts?

What wife wouldn’t say, “Of course, I’m kind to him; I make his meals and warm his bed,” yet exhibit unkindness in her words or acts?

There’s so much more to kindness than following the rules. It’s a character trait that must be learned— from childhood by the example of parents and by the words in the Bible. Jesus’ example of kindness came from his great love for his own bride, the church. And when the church rejected him, he extended his love to those outside: the gentiles, the poor and needy, the down and out, the desperate—grafting them into his body, the church.

In Ephesians 4:32, we’re told to “be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” When we follow the example of Christ, we can be kind to even our worst enemy. That’s love shown through kindness.

Lord, we thank you for your infinite love shown through your tenderhearted kindness and forgiveness. Help us to emulate your Son, Jesus’, perfect example. Amen.

(Mrs. Bair may be reached at sallybair@gmail.com)

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If people are confused over what the Bible teaches, it is not God’s fault “For God is not the author of confusion” (I Corinthians 14:33). He desires for all men to be saved (I Timothy 2:4). He has provided the means of their salvation through Christ (Hebrews 2:9). He desires that all men be ONE in Christ. To the church at Corinth it is written, “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body...” (I Corinthians 12:13). If all are baptized into ONE body, why then is there confusion and division? It’s because men refuse to see the Bible alike, not because they can’t.

Jesus prayed that we all see the Bible alike. “...That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us...” (John 17:20-21).

The Bible was written to be understood. “Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ” (Ephesians 3:4). The same message was taught by every gospel preacher in the first century. Paul said he taught the same thing “...everywhere in every church“ (I Corinthians 4:17).

God’s plan is that everyone be united in Christ.

That can only be accomplished by a proper understanding and practice of the Bible. God’s five-fold plan for unity is outlined in I Corinthians 1:10, “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” In this plan, one step leads to another. If (1) we

all speak the same thing (2) there will be no divisions among us. If there are no divisions among us we will be (3) perfectly joined together. If we are perfectly joined together we will have (4) the same mind. And, if we have the same mind, we will have (5) the same judgment.

There are strict warnings given concerning those who do not teach the same message! Romans 16:17 says, “...mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.” God Preacher’s hates those who sow discord (Proverbs 6:19) for there is only ONE body, ONE faith (Ephesians 4:4-5). Are you in the one body?

For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’ (Acts 22:15-16) Written by Garland Robinson If readers have questions you would like answered in this weekly column or simply wish to know more about the Church of Christ, we would like to invite you to call 715-866-7157, visit our Web site, www.burnettcountycofc.com, or stop by the church building at 7425 W. Birch St. in Webster. Sunday Bible class begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship begins at 10:30 a.m. We also meet Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. Office hours are Tuesdays through Fridays 9 a.m. -noon.

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Tot-Time set at Peace Lutheran Church DRESSER – Tot-Time, an hour of Bible stories, music, crafts and a snack is held the first and third Tuesdays, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., during the school year, Septem-

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The community is welcome. Please contact the church office to register at 715-755-2515. - submitted

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CHURCH NEWS News from the Pews at Pilgrim Lutheran Pictured are Janelle Coulter-Miller, Bob Thorsbakken and Doug Harlander, who were ready to cook or wash dishes or do whatever needed to be done.– Photo submitted

FREDERIC – What a beautiful day it was this past Saturday for Pilgrim to celebrate its third-annual harvest dinner event. All the preparations prior to the event were a time of bonding with fellow members of the church and getting to know one another better and the end result was sharing God’s harvest in the form of a meal. The youth did a fine job with their responsibility of being the wait staff. Gratitude goes to all the people who donated food items, those who worked at various jobs and those who prayed for a successful event and to the public for joining us to help make it a successful event. Five percent of the proceeds will go to the Frederic Food Shelf and 5 percent will go to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal. Matching funds by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has been applied for.

At worship services this past Sunday Hanna Daeffler sang the special song, “Here I Am Lord,” and was accompanied on the piano by her grandma, Mary Lou

Daeffler. Hanna is the daughter of Brian and Konny and was baptized at Pilgrim many years ago.

A special blessing was bestowed on the Erickson family, Wade, Rachel and their daughters Hannah and Mara, who will be moving to Somerset. Pilgrim wishes the family God’s blessings on their new journey of life.

Mark your calendar to join Pilgrim on Sunday, Sept.

13, for Sunday School Kickoff at 9 a.m. for all students pre-K through the sixth grade. Weather permitting, the 10 a.m. worship service will be outdoors in the park across from the church, bring your own lawn chair for this event. Following services there will be a potluck lunch served. Come join in for a fun family time. For more information about the church or any of the upand-coming events, call the church office at 715-3278012 or go to their Web site www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.org. - submitted

Bible school has theme of operation space GRANTSBURG - Grace Church, Grantsburg, held its vacation Bible school Aug. 3-7, using operation space curriculum.

Average attendance was 62 (68 on the last day).

At least 20 children made decisions to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.

Each day kids enjoyed a space probe, B.A.S.I.C. Bible training, singing, galactic games, cosmic crafts and stellar snacks. They learned about Jesus, God’s word and saw that the Bible is totally true.

They had a Cosmic Coin Challenge, boys vs. girls, the heaviest bucket would win. The boys won and the kids raised just over $340 for a Christian kids camp being built in Petrodsovik, Russia. Extra, fun activities included face painting, a rocket shot up over 400 feet in the air, trying actual astronaut ice-cream bars and a daily drama performed by kids from the youth group.

– submitted

OBITUARIES Charles J. Freeberg

Charles J. Freeberg, resident of Comforts of Home in Frederic, died Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009, at the age of 95.

He is survived by his son, Brian (Teresa) Freeberg; and daughter, Carol (Tom) Searing; eight grandchildren, Robin Viestenz, Mike (Benae) Freeberg, Brad (Dina) Pietz, Jeff (Michelle) Searing, Greg Pietz, Jeff Pietz, Kelli Montgomery and Bobbi Montgomery; and eight great-grandchildren, Megan, Matthew and Mark Viestenz, Ashley, Brianna and Cole Freeberg, and Charlie and Lily Pietz.

Funeral services will be held at Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Frederic on Thursday, Aug. 27, at 11 a.m.

The Rev. Catherine Burnette will be officiating. Music will be provided by organist, Mary Lou Daeffler, and soloist, Gaylen Brown. Pallbearers will be Charles Martin, Greg Engelhart, Jerry Olafson, Joe Schommer, Lon Hansen and Jeff Schefelker.

Visitation will be held at the Rowe Funeral Home in Frederic on Wednesday, Aug. 26, from 4-7 p.m. and again on Thursday, Aug. 27, at the church beginning at 10 a.m. and will continue until the time of the service.

Interment will follow the service with full military honors at the Lewis Cemetery.

A complete obituary will be printed in a future edition.

The Rowe Funeral Home of Frederic was entrusted with funeral arrangements.

Earling H. Oleson Earling H. Oleson, 94, a resident of Frederic, died Aug. 14, 2009, at St. Croix Regional Medical Center.

Earling was born on June 27, 1915, in Minneapolis, Minn., to Carl and Hilda Oleson. He married Sara Oleson on Oct. 4, 1941, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Chippewa Falls and lived there until moving to St. Paul, Minn., on Aug. 15, 1963. They then moved to the Siren area in 1984.

Earling served in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, serving in the Asian Theater, India and Burma. He worked as a cattle broker in the Colfax area and also worked as a carpenter for St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. Earling retired in 1980, moving to the Siren area, and enjoyed wintering in southern Texas. Earling was a member of Bethany Luthern Church. He enjoyed hunting and fishing.

Earling was preceded in death by his wife, Sara; parents; sister, Mildred; and brothers, Neil (in infancy) and Lyle.

Earling is survived by his sons, Steven (Donna) of Winfield, Ill., Thomas (Diane) of Apple Valley, Minn., Gary of South St. Paul, Minn., and Daniel (Brenda) of Montevideo, Minn.; three grandchildren, Erin of California, Ryan of Chicago, Ill. and Jessica of Minneapolis, Minn.; and sister, Delores Phillips of Phoenix , Ariz.

Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 1, at 11 a.m., with visitation prior to services from 10-11 a.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church in Siren with Pastor John Clasen officiating.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Grief support meeting A daily puppet show was held during Bible brief time in the classroom.

Carol Ahlquist and Lori Peterson dressed up as astronauts for Grace Baptist Church’s vacation Bible school. - Special photos

Annual harvest festival at Immaculate Conception Celebrates centennial year GRANTSBURG – The end of summer will be marked by the harvest festival to be held by Immaculate Conception Church in Grantsburg. The festival will be held Sunday, Sept. 13, at the church on Hwy. 70, beginning at 11 a.m. and serving to 2 p.m.

This year’s theme is the celebration of Immaculate Conception’s centennial. All former parishioners that could be located have been invited back to celebrate the day, as well as all seasonal visitors and any interested persons from the area.

The festival will be preceded by a special Centennial Mass at 10 a.m.

The Men’s Club will be grilling chicken and ham.

The festival will feature entertainment, a raffle, kids games, adult games, a county store and farmers market, crafts and baked goods.

Entertainment will include outdoor music by Gary and Pat Fender and Company.

“This year’s festival promises to be a great time for the community, as well as somewhat historic,” says Mike Myers, festival chair. “The harvest festival is organized and run by the entire parish. The participation makes it fun and meaningful for all,” added Myers.

Mike Cole (co-Chair) added that anyone wanting to meet and greet the past parishioners returning for this event is welcome to do so.

The price of the chicken and ham dinner is $8 for adults and $4 for children age 11 to 6 (free for 5 and under). Express carryouts will be available.

For more information about the festival, please contact Mike Myers at 715-431-0352 or Mike Cole at 715463-2688. - submitted

SPOONER – Regional Hospice and Spooner Health System will be supporting a four-week grief support group. The group will meet for four sessions starting on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 6 p.m. This group is open to adults who are grieving the death of a loved one. The program offers information about the grief process and gives an opportunity for people to share their thoughts and feelings in an environment of understanding and empathy.

The sessions are provided free of charge but preregistration is required.

For more information or to preregister call: Mary Lou at 715-635-9706 or contact Regional Hospice at 715-6359077. – submitted

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OBITUARIES

Ruby Aichele

Colleen “Kelly” Rosa Piel

Ellen V. Ferdon

Ruby Aichele, 90, Amery, and formerly of Tuttle, N.D., died Aug. 10, 2009, at the Amery Regional Medical Center.

Ruby was born Sept. 24, 1918, in Kidder County, north of Robinson, N.D., to John and Lydia (Aichele) Weippert. She married Rueben Aichele on Sept. 10, 1940, and they lived in Tuttle from 1945 to 2004, when they moved to St. Croix Falls. Ruby loved entertaining and family gatherings, cooking, baking, sewing, painting and fishing.

She was a member of the Tuttle English Lutheran Church, an auxiliary Eagle and homemakers club member, and 4-H and Brownie Scout leader.

Ruby is survived by her husband, Rueben, of Amery; daughter, Bonnie (Glenn) Schimke of Balsam Lake; granddaughters, Nicole Schimke-Jones and Mandee Schroder; and great-grandchildren, Kylee and Hunter, all from Wisconsin; sister, Hilda Rodacker of Harvey; half brothers, Eugene, Wilbert, Clarence and Edward; and half sisters, Darlean, Judy and Linda.

She was preceded in death by her parents; eight siblings; and her baby son, Harold.

Funeral service was held at the English Lutheran Church in Tuttle, N.D., on Saturday, Aug. 15, visitation was held at the church one hour prior to the service.

Ruby will be laid to rest at the Tuttle Cemetery following the service. A luncheon was served at the church after cemetery services.

The Kolstad Family Funeral Home of Centuria, was entrusted with arrangements.

Colleen “Kelly” Rosa Piel, 60, Milltown, died at her residence on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009, surrounded by her family.

Kelly was born on Nov. 25, 1948, in St. Paul, Minn., to Cecelia (Warner) and Al VanderHeyden. She attended the St. Louis Grade School and graduated from Humboldt High School in 1966. She attended Century College in White Bear Lake, Minn., and graduated with honors.

She married Joseph Piel on Feb. 24, 1968, in St. Paul, Minn., and to this union five children were born. They moved to Shafer, Minn., and then to Milltown, where they made their home. Kelly enjoyed visiting with her family and friends, playing golf and motorcycles.

Kelly leaves to celebrate her memory, husband, Joseph, of Milltown; children, Tracy (Brandon) Johnson of Shafer, Minn., Sarah Nelson of Lindstrom, Minn., Jody Piel of Palm Springs, Calif. and Joseph “Jay” (Kelley) Piel of Sioux Falls, S.D., grandchildren, Tony, Alex, Bailee, Jasmine, Thomasia, Morgan and Trae; and greatgrandchild, AhShaun.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and her son, Michael.

Mass of Christian Burial was held Wednesday, Aug. 26, at Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Church in Balsam Lake.

She was laid to rest next to her son, Michael, at the New Home Cemetery in Eureka Township. Casket bearers were Joe VanderHeyden, Nick VanderHeyden, Eric Mraz, Will Mraz, Mike Gillespie and Steve Hammer.

The Kolstad Family Funeral Home of Centuria was entrusted with funeral arrangements.

Ellen V. Ferdon, 88, died Aug. 19, 2009, at Burnett Medical Center Continuing Care Center in Grantsburg after a short illness.

Ellen was born in Minneapolis, Minn., where she was a volunteer for 15 years at the Salvation Army Church and active in the Ladies Aid. She moved to Danbury with her husband Lloyd, where she remained until moving to the Continuing Care Center in 2006.

Ella was preceded in death by her parents, Gottfried and Edith Anderson; husband, Lloyd; brother, Milton; two sisters-in-law, Phyllis and Angie; and two nephews.

Ellen is survived by her sister, Betty Zawislak of Minneapolis, Minn.; brother, Donald Anderson of Florida; and many nieces, nephews, and great-nieces and greatnephews.

At Ellen’s request, no services are being held. Interment will be at Danbury Cemetery.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Maxine Stone Maxine Stone, 99, a resident of Webster, died Aug. 15, 2009, at Continuing Care Center, Grantsburg.

Maxine was born on Dec. 29, 1909, in Webster City, Iowa, to Irvine and Allie McPheeters. Maxine was the fifth of eleven McPheeters children. The family moved to the Webb Lake area when Maxine was a young girl.

Maxine was united in marriage to Albert Stone on Jan. 26, 1935. Two children were born to this union, Lloyd and Delores.

Maxine was a schoolteacher. She was a 4-H leader for 35 years and helped keep the Burnett County Fair in Webster. She organized the Women’s Democratic Party and was the chairperson for 11 years. Maxine was the first woman on the Webster High School Board of Education. She was a member of the Grace United Methodist Church for many years. She helped many young people gain a work ethic by having them help out with work on the farm, also giving them a chance to earn some money.

Maxine was an avid baseball fan, seldom missing a game. She was also a skilled card player and was always off to take in a game with her sisters and friends.

She enjoyed bird watching and “Wheel of Fortune.”

She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother who took great pleasure in her great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her son, Lloyd (Margaret) Stone of Racine; sisters, Iola Racher of Webster, Doris Schauer of Siren and Myrtle Fahland of St. Paul, Minn.; grandchildren, Brad (Pam) Peterson of Webster, Randy (Ida) Stone of Alta Loma, Calif., Brian (Helen) Stone of Rawlings, Wyo., Dean (Mary Jo) Peterson of Clear Lake, Iowa; seven great-grandchildren and numerous other relatives and friends and the special “E” sisters.

Maxine was preceded in death by her husband, Albert Stone; daughter, Delores Stone Peterson; sisters, Sylvia Johnson, Genevieve Nagy and Aleene O’Brien; brothers, Irvin McPheeters, Carl McPheeters, Virgil McPheeters and Glenn McPheeters.

Funeral services were held on Friday, Aug. 21, at Grace United Methodist Church in Webster with Pastor Cindy Glocke officiating. Music was shared by Allyson Krause and Dianne Gravesen. Interment was at the Oak Grove Cemetery beside her husband, Albert.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Thomas Walter Giswold Thomas Walter, 82, of Grantsburg, died Aug 10, 2009.

Thomas is survived by wife, Elaine; children, Gregg, Shelley, Brad, Kent and their families; and many other family members and friends.

Memorial service will be held at Faith Lutheran Church in Grantsburg on Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 1 p.m.

Private interment.

Memorials preferred to the family.

Joy Muriel Klipp Cooke Joy Cooke, formerly of West Sweden, died. She was 92 years old.

Joy Cooke was born Aug. 5, 1917, in Minneapolis, Minn. She lived her early life in the community of West Sweden, West Sweden Township, northern Polk County.

Joy was a graduate of West Sweden State Grade School, District No. 1, Frederic High School, and Minneapolis Business College. She worked four years as a medical secretary for the Arveson, Diamond, Andrews Clinic in Frederic.

On Aug. 30, 1941, Joy married Kermit Cooke of rural Independence at St. Luke United Methodist Church, Frederic. They would have celebrated their 68th anniversary this Aug. 30.

Joy was an environmentalist, and she recycled before it became popular. She loved flowers, birds, dancing, playing the piano and singing. She never forgot a birthday; she was a charming hostess and a prolific letter writer. She was one of the founders of the Buffalo County Homemakers, the Sunshine Club, she was an honorary life member of the USAF Air Defense Team and she was a member of the Methodist Women for whom she played the piano when anyone wanted to sing.

Joy is survived by her husband, Kermit; and her four children: Jan (Janice) of rural Independence, Joyanne Pezzolo of Healdsburg, Calif., C.H. Erik of Thailand, and Karin of Eau Claire; grandchildren, Todd (Heather) Cooke of Webb City, Mo., Jennifer Holbrook of Healdsburg, Calif., Cashton (April) Cooke of Plover, Colin Cooke of Eau Claire and Anna Li Holey of Eau Claire; five great-grandchildren, Aubrey, Jace and Charlsie Cooke and Shayla and Erin Cooke; many cousins, nieces and nephews and friends.

As an only child, Joy grew up and played with her first cousins. Some who have preceded her in death are Royal, Helen, Irene, Loyal, Bud and Bengt.

A funeral service was held on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at Our Savior’s United Methodist Church, with Pastor Dale Engen officiating. Burial followed at Cooke Valley Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials preferred to Our Savior’s United Methodist Church.

The Poeschel-Talbot Funeral Home was entrusted with arrangements.

Sanay Julia Hemingway Sanay Julia Hemingway, Balsam Lake, died Aug. 21, 2009, at Children’s Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. She was 14 years old.

Sanay was born Jan. 17, 1995, in Cumberland. At 10 months of age, she joined the Hemingway household and was officially adopted into the family in March of 2000, at the age of 5 years.

Sanay was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer in August of 2008. She underwent several major surgeries, minor surgeries, multiple chemo treatments and radiation therapy. She amazed everyone with her upbeat attitude and tenacious spirit. Sanay clung to hope and her Savior’s hand and taught what it meant to look cancer square in the eye and keep on going.

Sanay completed the eighth grade at Unity Middle School. She was a member of the band and choir and an avid reader.

Sanay leaves to celebrate her memory, parents, David and Lois Hemingway of Balsam Lake; sisters, Rachel (Matthew) Larson of Maple Grove, Minn. and Alyssa Hemingway of Shoreview, Minn.; brother, Ryan Hemingway of Fort Sill, Okla.; nephew, Evan Larson; grandparents, Irvin and Eunice Alen of Balsam Lake and Jerry and Eunice Hemingway of Naples, Fla.; aunts, uncles, cousins and many friends.

Sanay was preceded in death by her aunt, Julie Hemingway.

Funeral service will be held on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, at 11 a.m. at the East Balsam Lake Baptist Church.

The Rev. Ben McEachern, the Rev. David Sollitt and the Rev. Daniel Munson will officiate the service.

Music will be provided by Reuben Dahlquist, David Swanson and Vickie Peterson.

Visitation will be held at East Balsam Baptist Church on Wednesday, Aug. 26, from 4 - 7 p.m. with a Time of Sharing at 7 p.m. in the church sanctuary. Visitation will continue on Thursday beginning at 10 a.m. until the time of service.

She will be laid to rest at the Bunyan Union Cemetery in Georgetown Township following the service.

Casket bearers will be Mark Alen, Michael Alen, Bruce Peterson, Jim Widmyer, Bill Alleva and Steve Volgren.

Honorary casket beaers will be Dr. Julie Chu, Lori Ranney, Kathy Slagerman, Jodi Betsinger, Theresa Huntley, Shannon Brice and Missy Sogge.

A luncheon will be held at the East Balsam Lake Baptist Church following the cemetery service.

To offer online condolences, please visit www.kolstadfamilyfuneralhome.com.

The Kolstad Family Funeral Home of Centuria has been entrusted with arrangements.

Thomas P. Poladian Thomas P. Poladian, 58, LaFollette Township, died Aug. 13, 2009, at his home. Thomas was born on Oct. 17, 1950, in California to Robert and Eileen Poladian.

Thomas is survived by his children, Matthew Poladian of St. Louis Park, Minn., and Michelle Poladian of Minneapolis, Minn.; a brother and sister.

Private family services to be held at a later date.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements. Online condolences can be made at www.swedberg-taylor.com.

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Church Directory ADVENTIST

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - FREDERIC

609 Benson Road. Pastor Curtis Denney Sat. Worship 11 a.m.; Sabbath Schl. 9:30 a.m.

ALLIANCE

ALLIANCE

ALLIANCE CHURCH OF THE VALLEY Senior Pastor Bob Morton 1259 Hwy. 35 S., St. Croix Falls Sunday Worship: 8:30, 9:45 & 11 a.m.

BIBLE FELLOWSHIP

BIBLE FELLOWSHIP

WORD OF LIFE CHURCH

Meeting in homes. Elders: Cliff Bjork, Jon Zens, 483-1357 and 755-3048 Sun. Fellowship - 10 a.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

LUTHERAN

LUTHERAN

BALSAM LUTHERAN CHURCH

1115 Mains Crossing, 1/2 Mile South Hwy. 8 On 110th St.; Pastor Matt Faarem Sun. Worship 9 a.m.; Sun. School 10:15 a.m.

Wed. Bible Study 8:30 a.m.

Wed. LOGOS 3:20 p.m.

BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR LUTHERAN (WELS)

Gene E. Jahnke, Pastor, 715-635-7672, Hm. 715-354-7787, Hwy. 70 at 53, Spooner Sun. Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. School & Bible Classes For All - 10:45 a.m.

BETHANY LUTHERAN - BRANSTAD

Pastor Jay Ticknor, 715-463-5746 3 miles So. of Grantsburg on Hwy. 87 Sun. Schl. - 9:30 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

BETHANY LUTHERAN - SIREN

Hwy. 35, 1/2 blk. N. Main St. Pastor John Clasen; Pastoral Serv. 349-5280 Sunday Worship - 9:15 a.m.

BETHESDA LUTHERAN - DRESSER (LCMC) www.bethesdalutheran.ws

Pastor Mark Richardson, 715-755-2562 1947 110th Ave., Dresser Sun. Contemp. Serv. 8:15 a.m.; Heart Song Serv. 9:30 a.m.; Trad. Serv. 10:45 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9:30 a.m.; Outdoor Wor. Sched.: Aug. 30, 9:30 a.m.

BONE LAKE LUTHERAN bllc@lakeland.ws Pastor Mary Ann Bowman, 5 mi. E. of Luck on Hwy. 48, 1/2 mi. S. on I; 472-8153, Office/Kit. - 472-2535 Adult Bible Study 8:30 a.m.; Worship 9:30 a.m.; Fellowship 10:30 a.m.; Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

CHRIST LUTHERAN

Pipe Lake CTH G & T, 715-822-3096 Sun. Serv. 10:45 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9:15 a.m. during school year; Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sun.

CLAM FALLS LUTHERAN (AALC)

Pastor Gary Rokenbrodt - 715-653-2630 Communion 1st Sunday Worship 9 a.m.; Sunday School 9 a.m.

FAITH LUTHERAN - BALSAM LAKE

faithlutheran@lakeland.ws Pastor Diane Norstad 715-485-3800; CTH I & Mill Street Worship 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 10:40 a.m.; Holy Communion 1st & last Sundays

FAITH LUTHERAN - GRANTSBURG

Pastor Victor St. George, 715-463-5388 Worship 9:30 a.m.; Sun. School 10:45 a.m.

FIRST EVAN. LUTHERAN

5561 Chestnut St., Taylors Falls, MN 651-465-5265 Traditional Wor. 8:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. & Youth 9:45 a.m.; Adult Learning 10 a.m.; Contemp. Wor. 11 a.m.

FIRST LUTHERAN - CUSHING

Pastor Dorothy Sandahl 648-5323 or 648-5324 Sun. Wor. 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 10:15 a.m.

FRISTAD LUTHERAN - CENTURIA

ELCA - 501 Hwy. 35, 646-2357 Mel Rau, Pastor Sunday Worship & Holy Communion - 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School - 10:40 a.m.

GEORGETOWN LUTHERAN - ELCA

Rt. 1, Balsam Lake, WI (Fox Creek) Pastor Neal Weltzen; GT Office - 857-5580, Parsonage - 822-3001, TR Office - 822-3001 Wors. Serv. 10:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9:15 a.m.; Holy Communion - 1st Sun. of each month

GRACE LUTHERAN - WEST SWEDEN

LUCK LUTHERAN

510 Foster Ave. E. Office 715-472-2605; Home 715-472-8424 Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

MILLTOWN LUTHERAN

113 W. Main St.. W., Phone 715-825-2453 Pastor Danny G. Wheeler 9:30 a.m. Worship

NORTH VALLEY LUTHERAN

Pastor Maggie Isaacson, 715-825-3559 3 mi. W. of Milltown on “G” Sun. Wor. - 9:15 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 10:30 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN, (LCMS) WEBSTER

Rev. Jody Walter, Interim, Phone 327-8608; Church Phone 866-7191 Sun. Wors. - 9:15 a.m.; Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

PEACE LUTHERAN - DRESSER (ELCA)

2355 Clark Road, Dresser, WI, 715-755-2515 E-mail: peace@centurytel.net Pastor Wayne Deloach, Intern Bob Sinclair Sun. Wor. 9 a.m., Wed. 7 p.m.

PILGRIM LUTHERAN - FREDERIC (ELCA)

CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST - GRANTSBURG Pastor Carolyn Saunders, 715-463-2624 Worship - 9 a.m.; Sun. School - 10:30 a.m.

DANBURY UNITED METHODIST

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sun. Worship - 9 a.m.

ST. JOHN’S EV. LUTHERAN (Wis. Synod) 350 Michigan Ave., Centuria Sun. Wor. - 10:45 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10 a.m.

ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN - LUCK 1614 CTH, North Luck Office Phone 472-2605 Dial-A-Devotion 472-2345 Sun. Worship - 9 a.m.

SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN (Missouri Synod)

140 Madison St. South, St. Croix Falls Pastor Mark K. Schoen Sun. Service - 9 a.m.; Sun.School - 10:30 a.m.

TRINITY LUTHERAN - ELCA

LAKEVIEW UNITED - HERTEL

Pastor Jack Starr Wor. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - during worship hour

LEWIS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST Tom Cook, Pastor Worship 8:45 a.m.; Sunday Schl. 10 a.m.

Pastor Annie Tricker Sun. Wor. 11 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

Potluck dinner 1st Sunday

OSCEOLA UNITED METHODIST

ST. CROIX FALLS UNITED METHODIST Rev. Mike Weaver Sunday Worship Service - 10 a.m.

Sun. School is at 9 a.m., Nursery available

ST. LUKE UNITED - FREDERIC

Pastor Arveda “Freddie” Kirk, 327-4436 Early Wor. 8:30 a.m.; Sun. Wor. 10 a.m.

Souper service Wed. 5:15 p.m.

SIREN UNITED METHODIST

Tom Cook, Pastor Sunday School 9 a.m.

Worship - 10:15 a.m. (Nursery available)

Rev. Mike Weaver Sunday Worship - 8:15 a.m.

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN OSCEOLA

300 Seminole Ave. (CTH M) Mark Kock, Pastor, 715-294-2828 Sunday Worship at 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School (ages 4 thru 12th grade), Fellowship, Adult Bible Class at 9:15 a.m.

WEST DENMARK LUTHERAN

Pastors Mike & Linda Rozumalski 1 mi. west of Luck on N, 2478 170th St., Luck Worship - 9:30 a.m.; Fellowship after service.

WEST IMMANUEL LUTHERAN - ELCA

Rev. Rexford D. Brandt 447 180th St., Osceola, 715-294-2936 Sun. Worship June 7 to Sept. 13 - 9 a.m.; Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month

YELLOW LAKE LUTHERAN

1/2 mi. W. of Hwy. 35 on U, 715-866-8281, Pastor Ray Reinholtzen, Douglas Olson and Roger Kampstra Services begin at 9:30 a.m.

Communion 1st & 3rd Sun.

ZION LUTHERAN - BONE LAKE (AALC)

Pastor Gary Rokenbrodt - 715-653-2630 5 mi. E. of Frederic on W, 2 mi. south on I; Sun. School 9:30 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m.

Communion - 1st Sunday

ZION LUTHERAN - MARKVILLE

(Missouri Synod) Pastor Jody R. Walter, 327-8608 Sun. Schl. - 8:45 a.m.; Service - 10:45 a.m.

Communion - 1st & 3rd Sun.

Pastor David Almlie, 715-327-8384, 715-327-8090 Fellowship - 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

Communion - 1st & 2nd Sundays

LAKESIDE COMMUNITY LUTH. - ELCA

PRESBYTERIAN

ZION LUTHERAN - TRADE LAKE

PRESBYTERIAN

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN

Rev. Bruce Brooks - 715-483-3550 719 Nevada St. , (between Simonson & Tower Roads) , St. Croix Falls Worship - 10 a.m. (Nursery provided) Sun. Schl. - Child.- 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - Adults - 8:45 a.m.; Communion 1st Sunday

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC

Holytrinity@wisconsinumc.org 1606 165th Ave., Centuria Paul Foulke, Pastor, 715-485-3363 Sun. Wor. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10:15 a.m.

TRINITY LUTHERAN LCMS, DANBURY

Hwy. 70 East, 689-2271 Pastor: Carl Heidel Worship 9 a.m.; Sunday School 10:15 a.m.

Communion -Every Sunday

Pastor Father Daniel Bodin, 651-465-7345 25293 Redwing Ave., Shafer, MN Sunday 9 a.m.

HOLY TRINITY UNITED METHODIST

TAYLORS FALLS UNITED METHODIST

TRINITY LUTHERAN - FALUN

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.

10 mi. W. of Cumberland on Hwy. 48 (McKinley) - Pastor Neal Weltzin GT Office 857-5580, Parsonage 822-3001, TR Office - 822-3001 Wor. Serv. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10:15 a.m.

Holy Communion - 1st Sunday Rev. Jody Walter, Interim Home 715-327-8608; Church 715-866-7191 Sunday Worship Service - 7:45 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

Rev. Thomas E. Thompson, 715-247-3310 139 Church Hill Rd., Somerset Mass Sun. 8:30 a.m.; Wed. 9 a.m.

Sacrament of Penance Sun. 8 a.m.

GRACE UNITED - WEBSTER

oumc@centurytel.net 306 River Street, Osceola, 715-755-2275 Pastor Alan J. Hagstrom, 715-294-3195 Adult Class - 9 a.m.; Sunday Schl. 10 a.m.

Sunday Worship - 10 a.m.; Holy Communion 1st Sunday

(Wisconsin Synod) Pastor Gene DeVries 200 N. Adams St., St. Croix Falls Sun. Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 8:30 a.m.

ST. ANNE PARISH

Pastor Michael J. Tupa, 715-866-7321 Cedar & Muskey Ave. - Webster Mass Sun 10:45 a.m., Wed. 5:45 p.m. (SeptMay), Fri. 9 a.m. (Summer) Sat. 8:15 p.m. on Sept. 1

REDEEMER EV. LUTHERAN

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN - FREDERIC

Pastor Dorothy Sandahl Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School 10:30 a.m.

Pastor Carolyn Saunders, 715-463-2624 Sunday School - 11 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

McKINLEY UNITED METHODIST

Pastor Tim Faust Worship - 11 a.m.; Sun. School - 10 a.m.

Holy Communion - 1st & 3rd Sunday

LAKETOWN LUTHERAN - CUSHING

ATLAS UNITED METHODIST

Pastor Catherine Burnette 507 Wisconsin Ave. N., 715-327-8012 Sunday Worship - 9 a.m.; Holy Communion 1st & 2nd Sundays www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.org

Phone 327-4340, 327-8384, 327-8090 Pastor David Almlie Worship 9:15 a.m.; Sun. School 10:30 a.m.

Communion - 1st & 2nd Sundays

CTH H, 1/2 mi. N. of CTH A & H on H Church Off. 715-635-7791 Roger Pittman, Pastor Sun. Schl. 9 a.m.; Worship Serv. 8 &10 a.m.; Sat. 7 p.m.; Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

METHODIST

METHODIST

290 W. Government Street, 715-294-4436 Reverend Dr. Rolland Robinson Sunday Service - 10 a.m. with nursery Sunday School - Sept. - May at 10 a.m.

WOLF CREEK UNITED METHODIST

COVENANT

COVENANT

CALVARY COVENANT - ALPHA

Pastor Scott Sagel, 715-689-2541 Sun. Schl. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Wor. 10:30 p.m.; Elevator provided, welcome

SIREN COVENANT

Pastor Dave Guertin 7686 Lofty Pines Drive, Siren, 715-349-5601 Worship 10 a.m.; Sunday School 9 a.m.

UNITED COVENANT - CLEAR LAKE

Pastor Gary Tonn Praise Time 8 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School 9:20 a.m.

CATHOLIC

CATHOLIC

ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Rev. Thomas E. Thompson, 715-247-3310 255 St. Hwy. 35, East Farmington Mass Friday 9 a.m.; Sacrament of Penance Sat. 3:30 p.m.

CHURCH OF ST. JOSEPH

Pastor - Father Daniel Bodin 490 Bench St., Taylors Falls, 651-465-7345 Sat. Vigil 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7:30 & 10:30 a.m.

Tues. - Thurs. 7:30 a.m.

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP

Danbury - 7586 St. Rd. 77, 866-7321 Pastor - Father Michael J. Tupa Mass - Wed. 5 p.m. (Summer), Fri. 9 a.m. (Sept.-May).

Reconciliation as per bulletin & by appt.

OUR LADY OF THE LAKES

Balsam Lake - Rev. John A. Drummy, Pastor - 405-2253 Mass: Sat. eves. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8:30 a.m.; Tues. 5:30 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m.Sacrament of Reconciliation 7:30 a.m. Sun. or by appt.

SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS & MARY

Pastor Father Michael J. Tupa CTHs A & H - 715-866-7321 Crescent Lake Voyager Village area.

Mass Sun. 8:15 a.m., Thurs. 11:30 a.m.

Reconciliation as per bulletin and by appt.

ST. DOMINIC - FREDERIC & IMMACULATE CONCEPTION - GRANTSBURG CATHOLIC MASS SCHED. Pastor: Rev. Dennis M. Mullen, 715-327-8119 St. Dominic: Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 10:30 a.m.

Immaculate Conception: Sat. 6:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30 a.m.

Call the office for daily & holy day Mass times

404 Wis. Ave., Amery, 715-268-7717 Father John Drummy, Pastor Sat. Mass 4 p.m., Sun. Mass 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Sacrament of Reconciliation Sat., 3:30 p.m. or by appt.

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC

Rev. Thomas E. Thompson, 715-294-2243 255 E. 10th Ave., Osceola Masses: Sun. 10:30 a.m., Tues. 5 p.m.

Thurs. at 10 a.m. at Osc. Nursing Home ASSEMBLY

ASSEMBLY

CENTURIA ASSEMBLY OF GOD

Pastor Don Wiltshire, 715-640-6400 Centuria - Phone 715-646-2172 Sunday Service: 10 a.m.

OSCEOLA COMMUNITY CHURCH

Pastor Larry Mederich, 715-294-4332 www.occconnect.org Mtg. @ St. Croix Art Barn; Sun. Serv. - 9 a.m.

Nursery and children church

SIREN ASSEMBLY OF GOD

Pastor Andrew Bollant Sun. Schl. - 9:15 a.m.; Morn. Serv. - 10:15 a.m.; Supervised Nursery; Wed. Evening - Worship Serv. 6:30 p.m.

EVANGELICAL

EVANGELICAL

TRADE RIVER EVAN. FREE

Pastor Dale VanDeusen, 715-488-2296 or 715-488-2653 20296 Hwy. 87, Grantsburg Morn. Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10:45 a.m.; Nursery provided for all services

GRACE BAPTIST - GRANTSBURG

716 S. Robert St., Grantsburg, 715-463-5699 Sr. Pastor Brad Moore David Ahlquist, Assoc. Pastor Sun. Wor. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

LIVING HOPE CHURCH

Pastor Doug McConnell Youth Pastor Chris Radtke At Grantsburg High School, 715-463-5794 Sun. Serv. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

TRADE LAKE BAPTIST

Pastor Andy McDaniel, 715-327-8402 Sun. Schl. - 9:15 a.m.; Wor. Serv. - 10:15 a.m.; Wed. 6:30 p.m. Bible Study; Nursery provided.; www.tradelakebaptistchurch.org

CHURCH OF CHRIST

CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH OF CHRIST - WEBSTER

Minister Garret Derouin, 866-7157 Musky & Birch St., Avail. in office 9 a.m. noon, Tues.-Fri.; Sun. Bible Study 9:30 a.m.

Worship 10:30 a.m.

WESLEYAN

WESLEYAN WOODLAND WESLEYAN

Dairyland - Rev. Jack Martiny 715-244-3649 Sunday School - 10 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

FULL GOSPEL

FULL GOSPEL WOOD RIVER CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Pastor Dan Slaikeu 4 mi. SE of Grantsburg on Williams Rd. Sun. School 9:30 a.m.; Wor. 10:30 a.m.

HOPE FELLOWSHIP OF SOMERSET

231 Bluff Drive, 715-247-2435 Services are Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

Call Pastor Darryl Olson at 715-755-3133 for information and directions

CHRISTIAN CENTER

CHRISTIAN CENTER EL SALEM/TWIN FALLS CHRISTIAN CENTER

1751 100th Ave., Dresser Sun. School 9:30 a.m.; Morn. Wor. 10:30 a.m.

Evening Services Sun. 6 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN

APPLE RIVER COMMUNITY (EFCA)

CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX HOLY TRINITY ORTHODOX

FREDERIC EVAN. FREE CHURCH

HOLY CROSS ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN

Pastor Bruce Tanner, 715-268-2176 942 U.S. Hwy. 8, Amery Sun. Schl. 9:30 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday Bible study 7 p.m.

Pastor Greg Lund, 715-327-8767 700 Churchwood Lane; 505 Old CTH W Sun. Schl. - 9 a.m.; Morn. Worship - 10:15 a.m.; Nursery provided for all services BAPTIST

BAPTIST

EAST BALSAM BAPTIST - BALSAM LK. Pastor David Sollitt 715-857-5411 or 715-268-2651 Wor. Serv. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl.-10:15 a.m.

EUREKA BAPTIST

2393 210th Ave., St. Croix Falls Pastor Willis Christenson, 715-483-9464 Sun. Schl. - 10 a.m.; Wor. Serv. - 11 a.m.

FAITH FELLOWSHIP

Hwy. 35 and CTH N., Luck Bill McEachern Pastor, 715-485-3973 Sun. Bible study - 9 a.m.; Sun. Wor. - 10 a.m.

FIRST BAPTIST - AMERY

131 Broadway St., 715-268-2223; www.fbcamery.org Pastor Charlie Butt, Lead Pastor Sunday Worship: 10 - 11:15 a.m.

Sunday School for Pre-K to 5th; Sunday School for middle and high school 8:30 a.m. at teen center; Nursery available

FIRST BAPTIST - MILLTOWN

Pastor Marlon Mielke, 715-825-3186 Sun. Schl. 9:45 a.m.; Wor. 11 a.m., 7 p.m.

GRACE CHURCH OF OSCEOLA

“The Cure for the Common Church” 722 Seminole Ave., Osceola Pastor Dr. Kent Haralson; 715-294-4222 or 715-755-3454; info@gracechurchosceola.com Sun.: Praise & Worship Serv. 9 am., Adult Bible Study 10:45 a.m., Children’s Sun. Schl. 10:45 a.m.

FIRST BAPTIST - TAYLORS FALLS, MN

Located across from elemen. school on West St., Pastor, Dr. Kevin Schumann; 651-465-7171 Sun. Morn. - Sun. Schl. for all ages - 9 a.m.

Morn. Worship - 10:15 a.m.; Nursery provided.

FIRST BAPTIST - WEBSTER

Church Phone 715-866-4111; Rev. Merrill Olson - Pastor Sun. Schl. - 9:30 a.m.; Wor. - 10:45 a.m (Nursery Provided)

FIRST BAPTIST - FALUN

Pastor Kevin Millen Associate Pastor Jim Carmon Sunday School - (all ages) - 9:30 a.m.

Church Serv. - 10:45 a.m.

523 1st St., Clayton, 715-948-2493 Fr. Christopher Wojcik, Pastor Sat. Vespers - 5 p.m.; Sun. Liturgy - 9:30 a.m.

Meeting at Zion Lutheran Church, 28005 Old Towne Rd., Chisago Lakes, MN Fr. Robert McMeekin, pastor hcomm.org Sunday Worship Service 9:30 a.m.

NAZARENE

NAZARENE

CALVARY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 510 S. Vincent, St. Croix Falls Pastor Lori Ward, 715-483-3696 Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Worship 10:45 a.m. & Wed. 6:30 p.m.

FAITH COMMUNITY

7535 Peet St., Danbury, 715-656-4010 Reverend R.A. Luebke Adult Bible Service 9 a.m.; Services: Sun. 10 a.m.; Sunday School during church service.

NONDENOMINATIONAL

NONDENOMINATIONAL

CENTERPOINT CHURCH “Come as you are”

Pastor Dick Enerson, www.centerpointstcroix.com 715-294-1833, Meeting at SCF High Schl. Main entrance 740 Maple Drive, St. Croix Falls Sunday Worship 10 - 11:15 a.m.

NEW LIFE COMMUNITY - AMERY Pastor Timothy Barnes Sat. 7 p.m. prayer; Sun. Worship 10 a.m.; Children’s Church to 6th Grade

NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

Meets at Dresser Elem. School, Dresser Pastor Michael Brand, 715-417-2468 Sun. Schl. 8:45 a.m.; Adult Class 9 a.m.; Worship Service 9:45 a.m.; Nursery available

NEW WINE CHURCH - CENTURIA 309 5th Street, 715-338-2751 Pastors Randy and Pam Stone Sunday 10 a.m.; Wednesday 7 p.m.

NORTHERN PINES FRIENDS WORSHIP GROUP 715-733-0481 or 715-733-0480 for time of meeting.

INTERDENOMINATIONAL

INTERDENOMINATIONAL

RIVER VALLEY CHRISTIAN

1289 160th St. (Hwy. 65), St. Croix Falls 715-483-5378 Pastors Dan and Claudia Denissen Asst. Pastor Ken Janes Sun. School 9 a.m.; Worship 10 a.m.

church directory

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Fri.-Thurs.: 1:15, 3:35, 6:00 & 8:30 p.m.

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Whether he’s “Moved your earth” or “Moved your soul,” please join us at the Frederic Country Club (golf course) on Saturday, Sept. 5, anywhere from 2 - 7 p.m.

Hors D’oeuvres served. No gifts, please.

SHOWS AND SHOW TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL SEATS $6.50 UNTIL 6 P.M.

THE FINAL DESTINATION (R)

Fri.-Sun.: 2:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:10; Mon.-Thurs.: 5:10, 7:10, 9:10

HALLOWEEN 2 (R) Fri.-Sun.: 2:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15; Mon.-Thurs.: 5:15, 7:15, 9:15

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Rated PG-13, 120 Minutes.

Fri.-Thurs.: 1:15 & 6:15 p.m.

SHORTS

Rated PG, 89 Minutes.

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Fri.-Thurs.: 4:00 & 9:00 p.m.

Phone 715-268-2004

Eye health exams, glaucoma checks, foreign body removal, full line of street wear, safety and sport wear, contact lenses

GRANTSBURG EYE ASSOCIATES 715-463-2370

WEBSTER EYE ASSOCIATES 715-866-4700

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Mon.-Fri. • 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home Webster, Wisconsin

“Distinctive Funeral Service”

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715-472-2502

NEW YORK LIFE

Daily: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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• WEDDING BOUQUETS • FUNERAL DESIGNS • CUT FLOWERS • GIFTS • BALLOONS • BEDDING PLANTS • POTTED PLANTS • TUXEDO RENTAL BY SAVVI • ANTLER KING PRODUCTS Hwy. 35 & “FF,” Webster Flowers Phoned Anywhere

Call 715-866-7261

• Commercial Printing • Office Supplies • Daily UPS Pickup • Fax & Copy Service See us for all your printing needs.

INTER-COUNTY COOPERATIVE PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION • Frederic, 715-327-4236 • Siren, 715-349-2560

• Shell Lake, 715-468-2314 • St. Croix Falls 715-483-9008

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Fri.-Sun.: 2:05, 4:45, 6:55, 9:05; Mon.-Thurs.: 4:45, 6:55, 9:05

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Wisconsin Guardsmen hold the hill in Iraq

by Spc. Tyler Lasure 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team CAMP BUCCA, Iraq - From atop one of the only hills in southern Iraq, a team of Wisconsin National Guardsmen keeps a watchful eye over the surrounding area.

Soldiers of Company C, 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry, Fond du Lac, and Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2127, Appleton, man an outpost on Safwan Hill, far from the comforts of nearby Camp Bucca. The soldiers on the hill provide security for communications towers there and have a bird’s-eye view to help other units in the area.

“Having that overhead view is a real good thing for the guys on the ground,” said Spc. James Hegner, an infantryman with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2-127. “Knowing that we’ve checked it out beforehand, I think gives them more of a warm and fuzzy on the inside.”

Life on top of the hill is different than life back at camp. Soldiers on Safwan Hill don’t have the comforts of camp life: there isn’t a large chow hall like the base has, instead soldiers rely on one cook;

The brothers of Safwan Hill: Spc. Kyle Bestul (R) and Spc. Kory Bestul (L) of New Holstein. The brothers enjoy their time on the hill and see it as a chance to hang out together. – U.S. Army photos by Spc. Tyler Lasure

Pfc. Kevin Lewis, Kaukauna, mans an M-240B machine gun at one of the guard towers on Safwan Hill.

The makeshift weight room on top of Safwan Hill. Soldiers living on the hill have to give up the comforts found on the larger forward operating bases.

there is no conventional gym, instead soldiers set up a bench press and rack of dumbbells; there aren’t enough rooms for spacious living quarters, instead soldiers sleep six or more in a room.

Even with all these inconveniences, soldiers enjoy their time away from the base. “I really enjoy that it’s small, you are away from the flagpole,” said Staff Sgt. William Poor from Juneau, the noncommissioned officer in charge of the hill, and a squad leader for Company C. “I’m in charge of the entire hill; it’s great to be in charge of something again.”

For two soldiers in Poor’s squad, manning the hill is a family affair.

Spc. Kyle Bestul and Spc. Kory Bestul are brothers from Marytown, who work at the outpost together.

“It’s a good time, I enjoy it, he is an interesting character,” said Kory, an infantryman with Company C, 2-127, about working with his brother.

“It’s pretty sweet actually, I get to hang out with him,” added Kyle, who serves in the same company.

These soldiers will continue to watch over the area until their return to Wisconsin sometime in January 2010.

Spc. Stephan Mcessey, Fond du Lac, keeps watch from the outpost atop of Safwan Hill. Mcessey and other Company C soldiers provide a bird’s-eye view for troops down below.

Sgt. William Poor (L), Juneau, shows Command Sgt. Maj. Edgar Hansen (R) around the outpost. Poor is responsible for operations on Safwan Hill.

Tasting event to benefifitt saving Iver's Mountain and Trade River TOWN OF TRADE LAKE - The Trade River Winery will be hosting a wine, cheese and appetizer tasting event to benefit the saving Iver’s Mountain campaign and bring awareness to protecting the Trade River and Forsythe Lake Wetlands.

This event will be held outdoors on the waterfall patio of the Trade River Winery

located off Hwy. 48, west of Frederic, on Saturday, Sept. 5, from 3 to 7 p.m. Enjoy an afternoon of wines, cheese, appetizers and music by the local musical group, Rex Cactus. Tickets are $10 per person.

Protecting the Trade River from contamination from the proposed traprock mining on Iver’s Mountain is a major environmental concern shared by the St.

Croix River Association. The Trade River flows into the St. Croix River and is defined as part of the St. Croix River Watershed. The lower St. Croix was recently listed as one of the most threatened waterways in America.

For additional information please see the Iver’s Mountain Web site at www.friendsofiversmountain.org or

contact them at iversmountain@hotmail.com.

Silent auction items can be donated by calling 715-472-8344.

Wines will be available for sale at the event to benefit saving Iver’s Mountain.

The Trade River Winery can be contacted at 715-327-4193. - with submitted information

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EVERY Monday

• Grantsburg Farmers Market at the village offices/library, noon-2 p.m.

Thursday

• St. Croix Falls Farmers Market next to Overlook Deck, 3-6 p.m.

Friday

• Balsam Lake Farmers Market at the grocery parking lot, 3-5:30 p.m.

• Eureka Farmers Market, in salt/sand building, Eureka Center, 3-7 p.m.

• Falun Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m., Johnson Lumber parking lot, Hwy. 70.

• Milltown Farmers Market 3-7 p.m., north of town on Hwy. 35.

Coming events

Voyager Village

• Safe Ride golf tourney, 1:30 p.m. shotgun start, 715-349-5755.

MONDAY/31 Frederic

• Spades at the senior center, 1 p.m.

SEPTEMBER TUESDAY/1 Clam Falls

• Coffee hour at Clam Falls Lutheran Church, 9 a.m.

Saturday

• Frederic Farmers Market at the Leader parking lot, 8 a.m.-noon.

• Siren Farmers Market at senior center, 1-3 p.m.

Dresser

• Tot-Time at the Peace Lutheran Church, 9:3010:30 a.m., 715-755-2515.

AUGUST

St. Croix Falls

• Exercise 10-11 a.m.; Skip-Bo 11 a.m. and 500 Cards and Dominos 12:30 p.m. at the senior center, 715-483-1901.

THURS.-SUN./27-30

WEDNESDAY/2

Grantsburg

• Burnett County Ag Society Fair.

Frederic

THURSDAY/27

• Blood pressure screening at Bremer Bank, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

• Pokeno at the senior center, 1 p.m.

Amery

• Polk County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity monthly meeting at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 6 p.m.

St. Croix Falls

• Women Ecopreneurs seminar, 6-8:30 p.m., 715-483-3929, ext. 15.

Danbury

THURS.-SAT./3-5

• Ravishing Rubies Red Hat Society luncheon at Forts Folle Avoine, 1 p.m., 715-8668890.

Danbury

Frederic

• 500 cards at the senior center, 6:30 p.m.

• All Frederic telephone operators reunion at CenturyTel, noon-3 p.m.

Grantsburg

• Networking event for area businesses at Crex Convention Center, 5-7 p.m.

• Preschool-kindergarteners Music and Movement at Crex, 10-10:45 a.m., 715-4632739.

Luck

• Historical Society meeting and Luck Telephone Company program, 7-8:30 p.m., 715472-4378.

Milltown

• Music performance by Magic Mama at Bering Park, or at the library if rain, 7 p.m., 715825-2313.

Siren

• Ruby’s Pantry at 24534 Hwy. 35/70. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. Distribution starts at 5 p.m.

St. Croix Falls

• Exercise 10-11 a.m.; Skipbo 11 a.m.-noon, Health Seminar 1 p.m. and 500 Cards 6:30 p.m. at the senior center, 715-483-1901.

Webster

• Ravishing Rubies Red Hat Society luncheon at Forts Folle Avoine, 1 p.m.

• Garden Tea at Forts Folle Avoine, 715-8668890.

FRI. & SAT./28 & 29 Webb Lake

Cushing

• Northern Lights musical program at Skonewood Christian Retreat Center, 7 p.m.

• Community club rummage sale at the hall, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Attack and defense. Two female ruby-throated hummingbirds square off for rights at the feeder. – Photo by Carl Heidel

FRI.-SUN./28-30 Danbury

• 36th-annual Wild Rice Festival, holeinthewallcasino.com.

FRIDAY/28 Cumberland

• Tractor pull at the hockey arena. First hook 5:30 p.m., 715-296-1927, 715-671-8279.

Frederic

• Pokeno at the senior center, 1 p.m.

St. Croix Falls

• Bridge at the senior center, 10 a.m., 715-4831901.

SATURDAY/29 A&H

• The Scott A&H Lions Clubs will have their annual lasagna dinner and Bingo night at the Scott Town Hall/Fire Station. Dinner at 5:30 p.m., Bingo at 6:30 p.m., 715-259-7195 or 715635-2728.

Cumberland

• Truck pull at the hockey arena. First hook 6 p.m., 715-357-3524.

Cushing

• Donkey baseball at Cushing ball field, 2 p.m., 715-491-3803.

• Wonderland Snowmobile Club’s annual garage/bake sale, bake sale is the 5th, at club’s shed, badcrain@cnturytel.net.

Frederic

THURSDAY/3

Lewis

• Citizen/Volunteer of the Year Banquet at Hacker’s Lanes, 6 p.m., 715-327-4836.

• 500 cards at the senior center, 6:30 p.m.

• Light buffet luncheon, cards, Pokeno or Bingo after dinner.

• Polk County Outdoor Experience at South Fork Sporting Club, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 715-4722253, 715-327-4954.

Luck

• Straight Lake Park Trail corridor clearing, meet at 130th St. & 280th Ave., 9:30 a.m., 715472-2248.

Osceola

• Movies Under The Stars at Millpond Park, dusk, 715-294-2886.

St. Croix Falls

• Polk County Special Olympics Auction at the Legion hall, 11 a.m.

• Learn to identify edible wild mushrooms at Interstate Park. Must preregister. 1:30-3 p.m., 715-483-3747.

• Photojournalism workshop at the library.

Registration required. 9-11:30 a.m., 715-4831777.

Webster

• Benefit for Doug Knutson at Smitty’s Saloon, 2 p.m.-?, 715-866-4730.

SUNDAY/30 Balsam Lake

• Holy Trinity United Methodist Church pig roast, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., 715-485-3363.

Frederic

Siren

• Dining at Five meal at the senior center, 5 p.m., 715-349-2845.

St. Croix Falls

• Exercise 10-11 a.m.; Skip-Bo 11 a.m.-noon and 500 Cards 6:30 p.m. at the senior center, 715-483-1901.

FRI. & SAT./4 & 5 Danbury

• 3rd-annual Interfaith Caregivers rummage and bake sale. Fri. 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m.-5 p.m., 715-866-4970.

FRI.-SUN./4-6 Cushing

• Men’s fast-pitch softball tournament.

Siren

• Lion/Lioness annual yard sale at Crooked Lake Park, 8 a.m., 715-349-2400.

FRI.-MON./4-7 Balsam Lake

• Girl Scout fundraiser Corn on the Curb, 715-485-3334.

Annual Wild Rice Powwow this weekend DANBURY – The St. Croix Chippewa of Wisconsin will celebrate the wild rice harvest season at the 36thAnnual Wild Rice Powwow Aug. 28-30. The powwow

One of the dancers at last year’s St. Croix Tribe of Chippewa Wild Rice Powwow at Danbury. – Photo by Gary King

will be held one mile west of the Hole in the Wall Casino in Danbury. Attracting participants from all over North America, the Wild Rice Powwow is a traditional powwow featuring drums, dancers and singers dressed in the historic and contemporary regalia of various Native American tribes. Wild rice has been an integral part of the St. Croix tribe’s culture ever since their arrival in northwestern Wisconsin 600 years ago. They came to this area after being directed to move southward from Lake Superior to the “place where there is food upon the water.” Thus, unlike other tribes whose main crop was corn, the St. Croix’s main crop was wild rice, which grew in the lakes of Wisconsin and surrounding areas.

Because the harvest traditionally takes place in September, in its early days, the Wild Rice Powwow was also held in September. But when September weather became unpredictable, often unseasonably cool and wet, the powwow was permanently moved to the last weekend in August. While the highlight of the powwow is the traditional dancing and singing, powwow attendees can also enjoy Native American food specialties—Indian tacos, wild rice and venison dishes, hamburgers and venison burgers and traditional fry bread—on the powwow grounds.

And a variety of Native American crafts will be on display and for sale. A free meal will also be served at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Powwow grand entries are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday. Each grand entry promises to be a spectacular display of Native American artistry. A

bald eagle will also accompany the Saturday afternoon grand entry. All ages are welcome to attend. Admission is just $5. For more information, call Rick Benjamin or Aimee Juan at 800-236-2195. - Special photo

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FALL SPORTS PREVIEW

INTER-COUNTY

State: How many will make the grade?

Can Webster boys take the state championship title again? See page 13

Will Grantsburg find gold instead of silver? See page 10

Can the Saints putt their way once again? See page 16 Can the Unity/Luck underclassmen follow in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seniors footsteps?

See page 17

Will St. Croix Falls and Webster share the conference title once again? See pages 3 & 4

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A season of change

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There’s a new vibe for several area sports teams this year, particularly for the athletes and their new coaches. Out of the seven schools in the Inter-County Leader coverage area, there is Marty a total of 10 new Seeger coaches, not including the assistants that are coming with it. Some The coaches aren’t necesBottom sarily new, however, like Luck’s head footLine ball coach Don Kendzior, who hasn’t coached football in Luck for about six seasons. During his seven coaching seasons in Luck from 1995-2002, Kendzior produced a 57-18 record, which is sure to draw some excitement in the Luck community this season. Kendzior has a great group of athletes to work with as well, so it should be interesting to see how the Cardinals stack up in the Large Lakeland.

Also new, but not so new, in Luck, is Alyssa Notermann, who’s taking on the head coaching duties of the Cards volleyball team this year. You may remember Notermann for her two seasons coaching the Frederic volleyball team. The team can only go up from last year’s overall record of 0-14.

Three other volleyball teams, including St. Croix Falls, Unity and Siren, are looking at new head coaches this season. Staci Hoff has a lot of talent to work with on the Saints volleyball team and they hope to make a run at the conference title. Chris Lesneski has taken over the Unity volleyball team and brings lots of experience. He’s not only

coached at the high school level at Solon Springs for seven years, but has coached at the collegiate level as well.

Siren’s volleyball team will see a new head coach in Karen Stanford, who will be getting help from assistant Kristen Kosloski. The Siren football team also got a change in the coaching staff with Jason Bins, who will hope to get the Dragons over a two-year losing drought.

The Unity/Luck tennis and Unity/Luck cross-country teams are seeing a change in the coaching staffs as well. Beth Trudeau was an assistant last year for Unity/Luck tennis, and Lori Anderson coached the middle school cross-country team in Unity.

Both are assuming the head coaching roles this year and have a lot to look forward to.

While Grantsburg’s coaching staffs remain the same this fall, the Frederic Vikings have at least two new coaches in Jesseka Wink and Ian Karl. Wink is taking over the coaching duties of the Vikings volleyball team, and Karl is set to lead the Frederic cross-country team.

In my three years with the Leader, I’ve never seen so many coaching changes, but we look forward to working with all of them this season. They’ll no doubt get plenty of e-mail requests from myself and Brenda Sommerfeld, but it’s all about giving area athletes the best possible sports coverage.

One of the most positive themes this year involved comments from several coaches about how much their athletes worked to improve over the summer. It seems that many local athletes spent a lot of time in the weight room, at various sports camps and their own personal training over the summer.

Hopefully they still had a little time for some fun too. Good luck to our new coaches, and their respective teams this year. We look forward to working with all of you.

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You may have noticed that we added the cheerleaders and dance teams to last school year’s winter sports preview. With all the enthusiasm and gratitude from those Brenda teams and coaches, my co-sports writer Sommerfeld Marty Seeger and I have chosen to once again include those One teams into the preGame view.

There are three area to Play schools, Unity, St. Croix Falls and Webster, who have cheerleading squads that will bring spirit to their football games. Cheerleaders show athletic ability through cheers, dancing and stunts. They need to be in good shape in order to keep up.

The Unity school has a very big interest in dance team with 40 girls signing up. Coach Jillian Chell says she wants to give everyone a chance to be a part of the dance team. Anyone is allowed to join even if they are in other sports, the team just works around all the other sport schedules in order to have time to learn routines. The team will perform during halftime shows of the Unity Eagles football games on Friday nights.

The other dance team of the area, Frederic, just started back up this season. After several years without a team, some underclassmen girls decided to look for an advisor in order to start one last year. They didn’t have any luck during much of the 2008-09 school year, but by the end of the year, mom of one

of the girls, Jackie Kurkowski, decided to help the girls out. They started practice in June. They practice twice a week and are looking forward to their first performance at a football game.

I personally was never much into cheerleading when I was in high school or now probably either, but I do know they work as hard as any other athletes to keep up their skills. Dancing is also considered a sport to many. Whether you like to be in a group with routines or just boogey on a dance floor, you know that it takes a lot of energy and muscle to complete a dance.

Saying that, I feel that all athletes, no matter which sport, deserve to be recognized in their local newspaper. With that in mind, we do our best here at the Inter-County Leader to cover as many of the high school sporting events as possible through each season. We appreciate all of the help we receive from area coaches by sending stats, replying to e-mails and returning phone calls.

This fall sports preview proved once again to be the hardest to put together.

The biggest reason for this is that school has not yet started so it is more difficult to find out how to get in contact with coaches and find out when and where each team is practicing. We also try to put it together before too many events have taken place, making it in the first weeks of practice. Many coaches have not yet made final decisions about positions by the time the preview is printed.

It makes our jobs here that much easier when we have very cooperative coaches to help us out in order to put their athletes in the paper. Now that the whole thing is put together, I just want to thank everyone who helps us build it and all of those athletes, coaches, parents and fans who appreciate these previews.

AUGUST 26, 2009 - INTER-COUNTY LEADER - FALL SPORTS PREVIEW - SECTION C - PAGE 3

ST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS FOOTBALL Conference, playoffs on top of priority list for Saints

ST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS FOOTBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Matt Vold, John Mikl, Ben Anderson, Cory Gebhard, Chris Stenberg, Ryan Larson, Blake Yunker, Joe Raygor, Shaw Amundson, Noah Qualle, Josh Larcom, Travis Murphy, Justin Ahlstrand, Mac Ryden.

JUNIORS: Taylor Sempf, Garret Radinzel, Spencer Walters, Nick Johnson, Auney Seifert, Zach Newell, Ian Anderson, Blake Klopfer, Ryan Jaremczuk, Marcus Campbell, Zach Christenson, Connor Nelson.

SOPHOMORES: Cody Zelinski, Ben Clausen, Jace Marek, Alex Mikl, Grant Simpson, Jake Rademacher, Zach Horn, Alex Bertram, Nick Siltberg, Eric Segelstrom, Ryan Nussbaum, Preston Larson, Terrance Klemish, Austin Foeller, Ethan Anderson, Kyle Yunker, Nolan O’Brien, Kelly Fossum, Erik Swenson.

FRESHMEN: Noah Casterton, Tony Stelton, Michael Chernyav, Shane Swanson, Brandon Loiselle, Kevin Fisk, Jake Sommer, Taylor Woller, Marshall Dillman, Robbie Foss, Zach Constant, Philip Bayle, Jordan Amos, Ryan Johnson, Dylan Lynch, Bryan Nelson.

by Marty Seeger ST. CROIX FALLS – The Saints finished in a three-way tie with Webster and Clear Lake in the Large Lakeland last season. They took a 5-1 conference ending and finished 8-2 overall after a disappointing 44-0 loss to Bloomer in the first round of the playoffs. Although it didn’t end as hoped last season, getting Coach Rod Sempf to the top of the

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Rod Sempf ASSISTANTS: Jacob Meyer, Brandon Jensen, Bill Hoeffle.

Friday, Aug. 28 Thursday, Sept. 3 Friday, Sept. 11 Friday, Sept. 18 Friday, Sept. 25 Friday, Oct. 2 Thursday, Oct. 8 Friday, Oct. 16 Thursday, Oct. 22 Tuesday, Oct. 27 Saturday, Oct. 31 Saturday, Nov. 7 Saturday, Nov. 14 Thursday, Nov. 19

The St. Croix Falls football team practices their running game for the upcoming season. The team hopes to be at the top of the conference agains this season. – Photos by Marty Seeger conference and back into the playoffs is a possibility for St. Croix Falls this fall.

“Our goal every year is to take the conference and make the playoffs, and both are realistic goals this year,” said coach Rod Sempf, who’s in his third year in the head coaching position.

Good numbers are again on the Saints side, along with some key players on offense. Senior Matt Vold will be back as quarterback and Nick Johnson and Auney Siefert will likely provide speed in the backfield. Cory Gebhard caught quite a few passes last year and Ryan Larson was a solid presence as a tight

end. Offensively the Saints have quite a few players coming back, and Sempf already knows his team will be more aggressive, and faster offensively. On defense, there may be some changes going on.

“On defense we really only have three guys that will be returning to their same positions, so we’re going to have to do a major overhaul,” Sempf said.

One of the biggest anchors of the Saints defense last year was Joe Raygor, who will be forced to miss the season due to an off-season knee injury.

“You can’t replace Joe,” Sempf said. He

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later added, “We hang our hat on our inside six, on our stack-three defense, and only one of those six guys is back this year. With Joe’s injury, it will be interesting to see.”

Last year the Saints played very aggressive on defense, and Sempf noted that the team chemistry has changed quite a bit since last year.

“Last year we really hung our hat on playing good defense and running the ball and playing ball control, and we felt very comfortable winning a 16-14 game,” Sempf said. This year, the Saints might be changing gears a little, but look for the team to be a force again this season.

ABOVE: A few players toss around a ball during practice. The Saints have several players back from the 2008 team to play in 2009.

Justin Ahlstrand

Shaw Amundson

Ben Anderson

Cory Gebhard

Josh Larcom

Ryan Larson

John Mikl

Travis Murphy

Noah Qualle

Mac Ryden

Chris Stenberg

Matt Vold

Blake Yunker

Marcus Campbell

Zach Christenson

Nick Johnson

Ryan Jaremczuk

Blake Klopfer

Connor Nelson

Garrett Radinzel

Taylor Sempf

Auney Siefert

Spencer Walters

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Polk-Burnett St. Croix Family Dentistry St. Croix Chippewa Enterprises Steven Swanson AAL Tangen Pharmacy Uncle Donuts Wild River Flags

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WEBSTER TIGERS FOOTBALL Piecing puzzle to replace graduates

by Brenda Sommerfeld WEBSTER – The Webster Tigers topped the Large Lakeland Conference tying with St. Croix Falls and Clear Lake, each with a 51 record. Winning two other nonconference games, but being defeated in the Level 1 playoffs, led to the Tigers 8-2 overall record.

Coach Jeromie Voeltz Six-year coach Jeromie Voeltz is sad to lose last year’s seniors but is very happy having over 30 students sign up to play on his team this year.

“We lost some very good seniors last year, and we have to try to find the pieces of the puzzle to get back to where we were last year,” Voeltz said.

Having several pieces to work with is an advantage for Webster as they start the season. Several upperclassmen make up this year’s roster, and even though they may not have the size from last year, Voeltz feels it is made up by speed.

“I think you can play with somebody a little smaller if they have the intensity and they’re willing to hit,” Voeltz said.

As they take the field this year, junior James Wethern will be put in at quarterback in order for Chad French to play fullback.

“I think that our ability to use him (French) more as an athlete will help our team,” Voeltz said. “It’ll be better to put him in a position where we can get him the ball rather than just handing the ball

WEBSTER TIGERS FOOTBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Chad French, Shane Rossow, Dan Pope, Dan Erickson, Sam Hope, Tyler Macke, Jake Lubich, Nolan Kriegel, Phillip Preston, Andrew Bondanese, Kyler Liljenberg, Ben Shives, Adam Eichman, Jason Hendry, Joe Cook, Nick Koelz, Andrew Larson.

JUNIORS: James Wethern, Dan Dochniak, Mason Kriegel, Andrew Starks, Greg McIntyre.

SOPHOMORES: Garrett Eichman, Aaron Clay, Austin Bork, Josh Baer, Anthony Dietmeier, Chris Weeks, Trent Cairns, Mycal Larson, Mike Bambery.

FRESHMEN: Nathan Puttbrese, Dillon Reeder, James Pijanowski.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Jeromie Voeltz ASSISTANTS: Jovin Kroll, Andy Smith, Craig Dorn.

MANAGERS: Toni Zappa, Rachel Larson, Jenna Anderson, Rachel Salas.

Thursday, Aug. 27 Friday, Sept. 4 Friday, Sept. 11 Friday, Sept. 18 Friday, Sept. 25 Friday, Oct. 2 Thursday, Oct. 8 Friday, Oct. 16 Thursday, Oct. 22 Tuesday, Oct. 27 Saturday, Oct. 31 Saturday, Nov. 7 Saturday, Nov. 14 Thursday, Nov. 19

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Dan Pope comes down with the ball during the scrimmage at Shell Lake on Friday, Aug. 21 that the Tigers participated in. – Photos by Larry Samson off or throwing. I think we can utilize him more at that position.”

As quarterback last season, French carried the ball for 106 yards scoring a total of 36 points for his team.

Dan Pope led the team in many of its stats. He scored a total of 66 points, he rushed for a total of 1,209 yards and he totaled the most tackles with 92. Pope will be a big force for the Tiger team as they try to stay on the top of the conference.

“Team goal hasn’t changed from last year,” Voeltz said. “Team goal is to make the playoffs. Our next goal is to repeat as a conference champion.”

Voeltz thinks this year there will be competition in the conference saying, “I think every team in our conference is going to be better. I think at any game on any Friday night, I don’t necessarily know if there’s a clear-cut winner.”

Andrew Bondanese

Joe Cook

Adam Eichman

Dan Erickson

Chad French

RIGHT: James Wethern looks to make a pass.

Wethern will start out playing quarterback for the Tigers as they move Chad French to play fullback.

Jason Hendry

Sam Hope

Kyler Liljenberg

Jake Lubich

Tyler Macke

Dan Pope

Phillip Preston

Shane Rossow

Ben Shives

Dan Dochniak

Mason Kriegel

Greg McIntyre

Andrew Starks

James Wethern

Garrett Eichman

Austin Bork

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Pour House St. Croix Chippewa Enterprises The Tap U.S. Bank Vasatka Systems Voyager Village Country Club Yellow Lake Golf Course

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FREDERIC VIKINGS FOOTBALL Coach confident this could be the year

by Brenda Sommerfeld FREDERIC – The Frederic Vikings tied for third with Turtle Lake in the Small Lakeland Conference, underneath Shell Lake and Flambeau, during the 2008 season.

Shell Lake and Flambeau were two of the four teams Frederic lost to.

Northwood was the other loss in their 53 conference record.

Coach Ken Belanger McDonell Catholic Central defeated the Vikings in the first round of playoffs to pull them out of the tournament.

Coach Ken Belanger has yet to defeat conference rival Shell Lake since he started coaching Frederic. He thinks this could be the season that it will happen.

Ben Ackerley will take the position of quarterback for the Frederic Vikings this year.

FREDERIC VIKINGS FOOTBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: William Primm, Claire Erickson, Ian Anderson, Bradley Thomas, Joe Armstrong, Greg Puetz, Andrew Byerly.

JUNIORS: Trae Gehl, Ben Ackerley, Robert Kirk, Chase Dodds, Tony Peterson, Zack Tietz, John Chelmo, Jesse Sanchez, Ryan Phernetton, Josiah Lund.

SOPHOMORES: Waylon Buck, Eric Stoner, Ray Kurkowski, Chris Hopp, Dayton Rivera, Bryce Williamson.

FRESHMEN: Adam Chenal, Mike Runnels, Jack Neumann, Garrett Wendelboe, Chris Schorn, David Crandell, Brad Peterson, Ryan Strenke, Matt Tietz, Alex Harlander, Gino Lonetti.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Ken Belanger ASSISTANTS: Troy Wink, Jason Pickering, Billy Struck.

Friday, Aug. 28 Friday, Sept. 4 Friday, Sept. 11 Saturday, Sept. 19 Friday, Sept. 25 Friday, Oct. 2 Friday, Oct. 16 Thursday, Oct. 22 Tuesday, Oct. 27 Saturday, Oct. 31 Saturday, Nov. 7 Saturday, Nov. 14 Thursday, Nov. 19

The Frederic Vikings took part in the Clayton scrimmage Friday, Aug. 21.

Coach Ken Belanger and his team are hoping that 2009 could be the year that they defeat rival Shell Lake. – Photos by Marty Seeger “These guys really believe in themselves and have just worked extremely hard,” Belanger said. “So we think this could be the time.”

Belanger and his team like to believe they can be competitive with both Shell Lake and Flambeau, who are expected to be the top teams of the Small Lakeland Conference again this year.

“We like to think that we are one of the top three,” Belanger stated.

Although the Vikings team lost several starting seniors to graduation, many lettering athletes return in 2009. Top offensive players Tony Peterson, Ben Ackerley and Claire Erickson return along with top defensemen Ian Anderson and Trae Gehl.

“Right now, I’d have to say our running game is definitely a strength,” Belanger said. “Those two big backs in the

backfield are both really, really strong kids, and both of them are pretty big.”

Peterson, 5 feet 9 inches 180 pounds, will play tailback, and Anderson, 6 feet 1 inch and 215 pounds, will be at fullback. Last season, as a sophomore, Peterson was Frederic’s top offensive player, averaging 126.4 yards per game.

Anderson didn’t average many offensive yards but was the top tackler, totaling 29 solo tackles, 38 assists and two sacks.

These top players along with other experienced teammates, including Erickson, Gehl, William Primm, Greg Puetz, Bradley Thomas and Robert Kirk, will have the job of helping their coaches guide the less-experienced teammates through the first couple of games, Flambeau being their first.

“At some positions, I’d say our weakness would be lack of experience,” Be-

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langer said. “Maybe it isn’t a weakness, until we really get going we don’t know.”

Ben Ackerley will take over last-yeargraduate Dave Harlander’s spot at quarterback. Ackerley didn’t take many snaps for the varsity team last season, but started at the position in JV for the Vikings. There will also be younger players playing offensive tackle, while some seniors will be placed in new positions they haven’t started at before.

“We’re filling a lot of spots, but like I say, we’re very optimistic and excited,” Belanger added.

Ian Anderson

Andrew Byerly

Claire Erickson

Will Primm

Greg Puetz

Brad Thomas

Ben Ackerley

John Chelmo

Chase Dodds

Robert Kirk

Trae Gehl

Josiah Lund

Ryan Phernetton

Tony Peterson

Jesse Sanchez

Zach Tietz

Chris Hopp

Bryce Williamson

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Frederic Grocery Frederic Nursing & Rehabilitation Community Frederic Paintball Frontier Trails Riding Stables Grindell Law Offices Indianhead Credit Union Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association Lakeland Communications Larsen Auto Centers Linda’s Family Child Care North Land Ambulance #975

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LUCK CARDINALS FOOTBALL Luck looking to bounce back after

by Marty Seeger LUCK – The Cardinals don’t exactly have a new head coach this year in Don Kendzior. He not only knows his way around the school as a teacher, but coached football in Luck beginning in 1995 and stopped coaching in 2002. In seven-year that stretch, Kendzior coached the Cards to an impressive 57Coach Don Kendzior 18 record, and won 21 straight Lakeland Conference games when he first took over.

Not much has changed according to Kendzior. He coached this year’s Cardinal team for a couple of years in junior high. In at least one of those years the team went 9-1, so he definitely knows the potential of kids this season.

“The kids have done a nice job this summer in the weight room, I mean when you average 30-plus kids between

LUCK CARDINALS FOOTBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Carson Giller, Taylor Horsager, Collin Svoboda, Gary Ekholm, Derek Buck, Jason Nelson, Alex Smith.

JUNIORS: Landen Strilzuk, Brady Klatt, Alec Mortel, A.J. Walsh-Brenizer, Cole Mortel, Roger Steen, Kyle James, Kasey Ouellette, Nick Leal, Kenny Sanford, Logan Hacker.

SOPHOMORES: Ben Kufalk, Brandon Holdt, Jake LaDuke, Jake Schrock, Hunter Wilson, Nick Tronrud, Tyler Anderson, J.P. Richey, Cain Lindquist, Matt Pennington, Blake Rust, Jesse Rennicke, Spencer Nelson.

FRESHMEN: Nate Armour, Brody Kunze, John Denny, Alex Richey, Eric Blaser, Kyle Hunter, Dylan Lemay, Brendan Fenning, Matt Thompson, Joe Christensen, Cole Engstrand, Matt Sanford.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Don Kendzior

Luck takes the line during the scrimmage they hosted Friday, Aug. 21. The Cardinal coach Don Kendzior says he definitely knows the potential of the kids playing on his team this season. – Photo by Marty Seeger six and nine in the morning, there’s some dedication there,” said Kendzior, which he says makes it easy on him and the staff to decide who plays and who doesn’t. It’s strict, but it’s something many of the Cardinal athletes have adopted to become a better team.

“If you don’t show up consistently you’re not going to play, and we probably had four or five kids that didn’t come out because they knew that they’re not

going to play. I’ll put a kid in that’s been here all summer and go 0-9. I mean we have to set a standard somewhere,” Kendzior.

One of the strengths that Kendzior has noticed this season already is the team’s work ethic. The first couple of weeks of football practice aren’t easy, but the Cardinals seem to be handling everything Kendzior can throw at them.

“Our strength is our work ethic. These

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last two weeks are the hardest I’ve ever worked a group of kids, and there wasn’t one complaint. So our motto this year is ‘Some wish for it, we work for it,’ and the kids know that,” Kendzior said.

Luck’s goal this season is simply 14 games. Being the smaller school in the conference will make it tough to contend with the larger schools, but if the Cardinals can make it through to the playoffs, after playing the tougher conference, they could make a nice run this season, especially if the team stays healthy.

“If we can get in the playoffs after playing these tough schools I feel that we have a pretty good shot,” Kendzior said.

Derek Buck

Gary Ekholm

Carson Giller

Taylor Horsager

Jason Nelson

Alex Smith

Collin Svoboda

Logan Hacker

Kyle James

Brady Klatt

Nick Leal

Alec Mortel

Cole Mortel

Kasey Ouellette

Kenny Sanford

Roger Steen

Landen Strilzuk

A.J. Walsh-Brenizer

Tyler Anderson

Brandon Holdt

Ben Kufalk

Jacob LaDuke

Cain Lindquist

Spencer Nelson

Matt Pennington

Jesse Rennicke

J.P. Richey

Jake Schrock

Nick Tronrud

Hunter Wilson

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Pawn Gallery Peper Tire & Alignment Polk-Burnett Rowe Funeral Home Scott Mellon/Edina Realty St. Croix Chippewa Enterprises Sterling Bank Thrivent Financial For Lutherans – Luck United Country – Gary Giller, Assoc.

Van Meter’s Meats Wilkins Bar & Resort

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UNITY EAGLES FOOTBALL Eagles bulk up for the season

by Marty Seeger BALSAM LAKE – While the Eagles ended last season with a 1-8 record, the team has a lot of positives going for them this year. Several of the players have been doing double duty in the off season not only in the weight room but also in a summer football camp Coach Dave Anderson in Duluth, Minn.

About 38 members of the team helped to raise funds for the camp by taking out and installing lake docks through Lake Services Unlimited.

It proved to be a valuable program according to Unity coach Dave Anderson.

He says that out of 14 teams and 370 athletes, Dustin McKinney won an award for the fastest athlete. McKinney is a senior this season and will provide the Eagles with speed in the backfield.

Senior Joe Swanson also received recognition for being the strongest in camp.

The team was also in the semifinals of a king of the field competition.

“We’ve been in the weight room and have been working real hard,” Anderson said. He added that last year Unity had one of the smallest and youngest teams in the conference.

“We’re still pretty small but we’ve got way more size than we did last year, and we’re a lot stronger,” said Anderson. He added that the team is much faster too.

UNITY EAGLES FOOTBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Dustin McKinney, Alec Carlson, Michael Johnson, Jared Peper, Logan Hilleshiem, Luke Hilleshiem, Dylan Kothe, Jake Dahaven.

JUNIORS: Mitchell Galle, Rush Hickethier, Joe Swanson, Lucas Hetfeld, Jake Johnson, Dylan Hendricks, Luke Nelson, Jason Vlasnik, Brady Flaherty, Zach Edgell, Tyler Fox, Tyler Christianson, Reid Binfet, Doug Bengtson.

SOPHOMORES: Kevin Bystrom, Ben Bengtson, Brady Turner, Jordan Hughes, Nate DeSpiegelaere, Clay Peckman, Josh Kreft, Jacob Severson, Garrete Lunsmann, Steven Anderson, Xavier Foeller, Reed Sorenson, Nick Murphy, Justin Runberg.

FRESHMEN: Zac Baxter, Alex Lennartson, Brendan Foeller, Jacob Ruck, Austin Peterson, Chris Lopez, Aaron Koshatka, Jacob Mikl, Morgan Peterson, Nolan Merrill, Mitch Egge, Kyle Sorenson, Evan Lunda, Brandon McKenzie, Keith Arnett, Taylor Bibeau, Justin Peper, Erik Kuske.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Dave Anderson Friday, Aug. 28 Friday, Sept. 4 Friday, Sept. 11 Friday, Sept. 18 Saturday, Sept. 26 Friday, Oct. 2 Friday, Oct. 9 Friday, Oct. 16 Thursday, Oct. 22 Tuesday, Oct. 27 Saturday, Oct. 31 Saturday, Nov. 7 Saturday, Nov. 14 Thursday, Nov. 19

The Unity Eagles participated in a scrimmage at St. Croix Central on Friday afternoon. One of the team’s main goals this season is to compete for the conference title. – Photo submitted One of the main goals of the team this year is a relatively simple one. To compete for the conference title among teams like St. Croix Falls, Luck, Clear Lake and Webster. It’s a realistic goal considering the changes over the summer and experience of the team. While still young, the team is returning 18 players that have varsity experience, with most coming in as juniors and six are seniors. Last year, there were more sophomores that started on varsity than juniors and seniors combined. Anderson pointed out that the

team has a big sophomore class, and freshman class as well, which bodes well for the future. Some of the sophomores on the team will also see some playing time this year.

“I project us to be way better than we were last year,” Anderson said.

The Eagles were close in several

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games last season, including games against Cameron and Webster. Perhaps this season Unity will jump over the boundaries that kept them from the winning side last season.

Alec Carlson

Jacob Dehaven

Logan Hilleshiem

Luke Hilleshiem

Michael Johnson

Dustin McKinney

Jared Peper

Steven Anderson

Ben Bengtson

Doug Bengtson

Reid Binfet

Kevin Bystrom

Tyler Christianson

Zach Edgell

Brady Flaherty

Xavier Foeller

Tyler Fox

Mitchell Galle

Dylan Hendricks

Lucas Hetfeld

Rush Hickethier

Jordan Hughes

Jake Johnson

Luke Nelson

Reed Sorensen

Joe Swanson

Jason Vlasnik

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Greatland Transportation Hansen Insurance Services Harvest Moon Saloon Indianhead Chiropractic Indianhead Credit Union Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association Jeff’s Small Engine Johnson Motors, St. Croix Falls Lakeland Communications Larsen Auto Centers

Paradise Landing Polk-Burnett St. Croix Chippewa Enterprises Sterling Bank Steve’s Appliance Plus Tangen Pharmacy Tire Experts Uncle Donuts U.S. Bank

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GRANTSBURG PIRATES FOOTBALL Looking to returning upperclassmen for leadership

by Brenda Sommerfeld GRANTSBURG – Coming off a winless season in 2008 and losing more than a handful of seniors to graduation, coach Keith Lehne and the Pirates will be looking for returning upperclassmen to push their way through the 2009 season to some wins.

“We have some good young players Coach Keith Lehne mixed with a few solid returning upperclassmen,” Lehne said. “At this point we will be playing several sophomores, and we don’t have a lot of depth.”

Grantsburg has one of the bigger-number teams of the area. Most of the numbers come from underclassmen, which means inexperience may play a role on the team for a while.

Two of the 2008 team’s top five offensive players, Derek Bertelsen and Brent

GRANTSBURG PIRATES FOOTBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Mike Bearhart, Jordan Heinecke, Allen Lindus, Josh Phillipps, Casey Swosinski, Matt Wood.

JUNIORS: Derek Bertelsen, Devan Christensen, Andy Falk, Will Geiger, Tanner Goepfert, Kyle Johnson, Gavin Meyer, Brent Myers, Jim Nelson, Trevor Thompson, Cole White.

SOPHOMORES: Cody Benedict, Seth Coy, Nolan Hansen, Brent Johnson, Andy Jones, Jeffrey Konz, Daniel Larsen, Bert Luedtke, Devon Vinall-Mogel, David Ohnstad, Damien Rasmussen, Mat Swenson, Mike Winquist.

FRESHMEN: Jacob Glover, Jake Langevin, Dakota Linke, Connor Myers, Adam Parker, Clay Poeschl, Brandon Roufs, Brandon Ryan, Bryce Ryan, Evan Ryan, Colton Tretsven, Jacob Wald, Lucas Willis.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Keith Lehne ASSISTANTS: Josh Watts, Bob Martin, Mike O’Donnell.

The Grantsburg Pirates participated in the scrimmage that was held in Shell Lake on Friday. The team faces Spooner on Friday, Aug. 21 for their first game.

– Photo by Larry Samson Myers, are back while the other three graduated. The two juniors will be guides to help the sophomores get into their game over the next few weeks.

This starts Lehne’s 12th year as head coach of the Grantsburg Pirates football team. His lifetime coaching record with

the team is 62-48. Before becoming head coach, Lehne was the defensive coordinator for two years and a volunteer for one.

Lehne led the Pirates in 2008 in more of a running game with a total of 1,513 rushing yards. The team totaled 1,039 yards on 72 pass completions during the season.

With Trent Bonneville graduated, the Pirates will need to find a quarterback to replace him.

Both Josh Phillipps and Bertelsen have little varsity experi-

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ence, taking few snaps last season. We’ll have to wait to see who gets placed in the position, considering Bertelsen was their top rusher.

Grantsburg’s quarterback gets ready to throw a pass during the scrimmage.

Mike Bearhart

Jordan Heinecke

Allen Lindus

Josh Phillipps

Matt Wood

Derek Bertelsen

Devan Christensen

Andy Falk

Tanner Goepfert

Kyle Johnson

Gavin Meyer

Will Geiger

Brent Myers

Jim Nelson

Trevor Thompson

Cole White

Cody Benedict

Seth Coy

Nolan Hanson

Brent Johnson

Andy Jones

Daniel Larsen

David Ohnstad

Bert Luedtke

Damien Rasmussen

Mat Swenson

Devon Vinall-Mogel

Mike Winquist

Casey Swosinski

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Grantsburg Animal Hospital Grindell Law Office Herb’s Tee To Green Holiday StationStores – Grantsburg Indianhead Credit Union Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association Kozy Kitchen Larsen Auto Centers

Polk-Burnett Pour House St. Croix Chippewa Enterprises State Farm Insurance – Corey Arnold Trade Lake Store Trailer City U.S. Bank Wild River Sports Cycle Woodlands Grille Pub

AUGUST 26, 2009 - INTER-COUNTY LEADER - FALL SPORTS PREVIEW - SECTION C - PAGE 9

SIREN DRAGONS FOOTBALL New coach to lead the small, young team

by Brenda Sommerfeld SIREN – The last few years have been tough ones for the Siren Dragons football team. In 2008, the team had a winless season under coach Brian Webster. After the season, Webster announced his retirement from the head coach position.

Will new coach Jason Bins be able to bring the Dragons to victory this year?

Coach Jason Bins Bins said he chose to coach this season in order to bring hard work and a winning attitude to Siren football. Bins has some coaching experience being an assistant coach. He was an assistant for the Howards Grove High School team, and he was a student assistant coach at Lakeland College in Sheboygan.

This year the team is young; graduating 11 seniors last year leaves a total of 18 players, including only one senior and two juniors.

“The leadership needs to come from senior Christian Hall and juniors Tadd Oachs and Jeremy Wikstrom,” Bins said.

“All our players will play an important role in what we do this season.”

Being young may be considered a weakness, but Bins feels his team also has a big strength.

“The strength of this team is their ability to work together as a unit,” Bins stated.

Hall will stay at his position of quarterback from last year, while the other team members will find their homes on the field. Several sophomores and freshmen will make up both the offensive and defensive teams, with many playing both.

Bins, being new to the Dragon football team and area, may not know all of the other teams well, but he has heard who to look out for.

“From what I have heard, Shell Lake and Flambeau will be the teams to beat this year,” Bins said.

SIREN DRAGONS FOOTBALL ROSTER

SENIOR: Christian Hall.

JUNIORS: Tadd Oachs, Jeremy Wikstrom.

SOPHOMORES: Elijah Hinze, Isaac Wegner, Evan Oachs, Will Haines, Taylor Renberg, Jordan Sargent, Murdock Smith, Andrew Brown.

FRESHMEN: Sean Coy, Matt Larson, Josh Lemieux, James Keller, Hunter Wikstrom, Shay Johnson, Courtland Otto.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Jason Bins ASSISTANTS: Frank Taylor, Bill Sargent, Ron Dorn, Dave Hatch.

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NORTHWOOD at Frederic TURTLE LAKE at Washburn at Shell Lake at Flambeau BIRCHWOOD WINTER at Bruce Level 1 Playoffs Level 2 Playoffs Level 3 Playoffs Level 4 Playoffs State Championship

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A Siren runner sneaks by a Luck player during the scrimmage both teams participated in on the Luck field Friday, Aug. 21. – Photos by Marty Seeger

Christian Hall is the one and only senior on the Siren team this season. He will help lead the team from the position of quarterback. Here he looks to throw the ball during the scrimmage in Luck.

The Siren bench was pretty sparse during the scrimmage on Friday. The Dragons have a total of 18 players on their football team this season.

Christian Hall

Tadd Oachs

Jeremy Wikstrom

Andrew Brown

Elijah Hinze

Evan Oachs

Taylor Renberg

Jordan Sargent

Murdock Smith

Isaac Wegner

Sean Coy

Shay Johnson

Matt Larson

Josh Lemieux

Courtland Otto

Hunter Wikstrom

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Fiedler Ford Grantsburg Animal Hospital Herb’s Tee To Green Indianhead Credit Union Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association Kris’ Pheasant Inn Larsen Auto Centers

Lee’s Sports Polk-Burnett Pour House Russ’ Old Fashioned Meats Siren Dairy Queen St. Croix Chippewa Enterprises U.S. Bank Vasatka Systems

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GRANTSBURG PIRATES VOLLEYBALL Silver-winning team lost only three

by Brenda Sommerfeld GRANTSBURG – Coach Bill Morrin and his Grantsburg Pirates volleyball team took silver at the state competition last year, and Morrin is pretty confident his team will be just as talented this year.

“We pretty much have our whole team back, and we finished second,” Coach Bill Morrin Morrin said.

“They’re used to playing together. They know how to win.”

Three seniors, Ingrid Ames, Lydia Benge Briggs and Nicole Davis, gradu-

Mac Ryan puts up a serve during the Grantsburg Pirates practice. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

ated from last year’s team. Ames was out for regionals with an injury, and Davis suffered from a broken finger for part of the season leaving the juniors and sophomores to step up.

“As far as our kids from last year, Kortney was definitely our go-to kid,” Morrin stated. “I think we’re going to have a few more weapons this year than we did last year.”

Kortney Morrin was the team’s biggest hitter. Annie Palmquist was also a force behind the ball, while Lauren Romanowski was at the net blocking.

Emily Cole, Larrisa Wilhelm and Sarah Wald are all back with experience for the team. Kallie Thoreson is looking at getting more playing time this year.

Coach Morrin feels his team is pretty solid, but he knows his job will be to keep them focused on each game.

“I think if there’s going to be a weakness in a team like this it will be focus, being bored,” he said. “We’re going to

Annie Palmquist

Lauren Romanowski

Kallie Thoreson

Sarah Wald

Larissa Wilhelm

Emily Cole

Lauren Finch

Tiffany Meyer

Kortney Morrin

Mac Ryan

Saisha Goepfert

Carly Larson

GRANTSBURG PIRATES VOLLEYBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Lauren Romanowski, Annie Palmquist, Kallie Thoreson, Larissa Wilhelm, Sarah Wald.

JUNIORS: Tiffany Meyer, Kortney Morrin, Lauren Finch, Mac Ryan, Emily Cole.

SOPHOMORES: Carly Larson, Gab Witzany, Saisha Goepfert, Nikki Ticknor, April Campana, Breanna Fickbohm, Emily Virgilio, Jenna Barenz, Haley Burkhardt.

FRESHMEN: Kylie Pewe, Samantha Schwieger, Jennifer Schweiger, Grace Corbin, Ellie Corbin, Nicole Johnson, Stacey McKenzie, Ruthann Pederson, Arikka Davison, Melissa Dahl, Lily Benge Briggs, Cathy LaMere, Somer Rikkola, Tashina Hartley, Ashley Holmen.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Bill Morrin ASSISTANTS: Dana Morrin, Deb Allaman-Johnson.

MANAGER: Carissa Skifstad Tuesday, Sept. 8 Thursday, Sept. 10 Saturday, Sept. 12 Thursday, Sept. 17 Saturday, Sept. 19 Tuesday, Sept. 22 Thursday, Sept. 24 Saturday, Sept. 26 Tuesday, Sept. 29 Tuesday, Oct. 6 Thursday, Oct. 8 Tuesday, Oct. 13 Thursday, Oct. 15 Saturday, Oct. 17 Tuesday, Oct. 20 Friday, Oct. 23 Saturday, Oct. 24 Thursday, Oct. 29 Saturday, Oct. 31 Thursday, Nov. 5 Friday, Nov. 6 Saturday, Nov. 7

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try to get up for every match that we have. That’s my job. That’s not their job.

I’m going to practice them, train them and all that stuff, but I’m also going to get them ready mentally, to make sure that we’re focused, to make sure we do one match at a time.”

Nikki Ticknor

Gab Witzany

FREDERIC VIKINGS VOLLEYBALL New coach feels team is tall and strong

by Brenda Sommerfeld FREDERIC – The Vikings volleyball team has a different head coach once again. With Staci Lemieux stepping down in order to go to school full time, her assistant coach for the past two years, Jesseka Wink, will step into the position.

While Lemieux was at the reins last Coach Jesseka Wink year, Frederic tied for third place with Clear Lake and Shell Lake in the conference with a 6-4 record.

The team was cut off early from the tournament losing to Turtle Lake in the first

Chrissy Chenal

Camilla Collovati

Alex Lonetti

Kendra Wells

round of regionals 4-1.

This year’s team will miss last year’s seniors, Megan Anderson, Becca Anderson and Ana Miller, as they first take the court, but have many with experience to take over.

“I will look to the seniors for leadership on the court,” Wink said. “The underclassmen will provide help to make us a successful team.”

This year’s seniors, Chrissy Chenal, Alex Lonetti and Kendra Wells, all saw playing time last season and will help newcomer seniors Annie Kackman, Camilla Collovati and foreign-exchangestudent Paola Endara, make their appearances.

Junior Krysta Laqua and sophomores Maria Miller and Corissa Schmidt are among the experienced players. Other than experience, Wink feels this year’s team has some other advantages compared to last year’s.

“I believe we have more height,” Wink said, “and will be stronger at the net.”

Wink feels her team has some tough competition in the West Lakeland Conference.

“Grantsburg and Clayton will be tough,” she stated, Paola Endara

Alli Anderson

Krysta Laqua

FREDERIC VIKINGS VOLLEYBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Paola Endara, Kendra Wells, Chrissy Chenal, Camilla Collovati, Alex Lonetti, Annie Kackman.

JUNIORS: Krysta Laqua, Vanessa Neumann, Isabel Lexen, Alli Anderson, Allison Gustafson, Kayla Nelson, Tara Anderson.

SOPHOMORES: Maria Miller, Corissa Schmidt, Allie Lundblade, Ashley Wendelboe, Autumn Schmidt, Breanna Jensen, Jamie Taft, Lauren Domagala.

FRESHMEN: Kendra Mossey, Kourtni Douglas, Larissa Houtari, McKenna Cook, McKenna Rognrud, Natalie Phernetton, Paige Burton.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Jesseka Wink ASSISTANT: Kelly McCoy Thursday, Aug. 27 Tuesday, Sept. 1 Tuesday, Sept. 8 Tuesday, Sept. 15 Thursday, Sept. 17 Saturday, Sept. 19 Tuesday, Sept. 22 Thursday, Sept. 24 Tuesday, Sept. 29 Thursday, Oct. 1 Tuesday, Oct. 6 Thursday, Oct. 8 Saturday, Oct. 10 Tuesday, Oct. 13 Thursday, Oct. 15 Tuesday, Oct. 20 Friday, Oct. 23 Saturday, Oct. 24 Thursday, Oct. 29 Saturday, Oct. 31 Thursday, Nov. 5 Friday, Nov. 6 Saturday, Nov. 7

“as they both took second at state last year and they return key players.”

Isabel Lexen

Vanessa Neumann

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at Northwood at Solon Springs BIRCHWOOD at Webster UNITY at Grantsburg tourney at Turtle Lake CLEAR LAKE ST. CROIX FALLS at Luck at Clayton GRANTSBURG at Winter tourney at Siren SHELL LAKE Regional Regional Regional Sectional Sectional State State State

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Maria Miller

Corissa Schmidt

AUGUST 26, 2009 - INTER-COUNTY LEADER - FALL SPORTS PREVIEW - SECTION C - PAGE 11

ST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS VOLLEYBALL Saints get a new coach this season

by Marty Seeger ST. CROIX FALLS – The Saints volleyball team floated around the .500 mark last season but managed to keep several games close. The team lost just three seniors to graduation last year and is loaded with talent under new head coach Staci Hoff, who replaces Scott Petznick.

Hoff was the Saints softball coach Coach Staci Hoff last spring and taught 4-year-old kindergarten part time at St. Croix Falls. She also taught in Frederic and in Clayton prior to coming to St.

Kayla Bixler

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Alicia Chelberg

Croix Falls. After working with most of the girls last spring during softball, she feels comfortable with what she knows about her team already.

“It’s a lot of the same girls still, so I know most of their personalities pretty well,” Hoff said.

While this is Hoff’s first time coaching volleyball, she certainly has knowledge of the game and athletic background overall. She was on the Bears state championship volleyball team in 1996 and was an outstanding basketball player for UW-Stout.

“Everybody teases me about it,” Hoff said about playing college basketball and being a head coach of a softball team. But she means business on the court and already has a handle on who she has on the court.

Senior Megan Yunker will likely be the Saints lead hitter, after missing all of last season due to a shoulder injury. Sophomore Sarah Petznick and junior Alicia Chelberg will also be key contributors as well as seniors Gabby Nuckles and Jamie Rohm. Senior Kayla Bixler is a newcomer on the team this season after coming over from Osceola.

Jamie Rohm

Heather Gilbert

Alex Lunde

ST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS VOLLEYBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Kayla Bixler, Megan Yunker, Jamie Rohm, Gabby Nuckles.

JUNIORS: Alex Lunde, Heather Gilbert, Alicia Chelberg.

SOPHOMORES: Caitlyn Olson, Sarah Petznick.

FRESHMEN: Sydney Geisness, Natalie Sempf.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Staci Hoff ASSISTANT: Angela Maternowsky Friday, Aug. 28 Saturday, Aug. 29 Tuesday, Sept. 1 Tuesday, Sept. 8 Thursday, Sept. 10 Tuesday, Sept. 15 Thursday, Sept. 17 Saturday, Sept. 19 Monday, Sept. 21 Thursday, Sept. 24 Tuesday, Sept. 29 Thursday, Oct. 1 Saturday, Oct. 3 Sunday, Oct. 4 Tuesday, Oct. 6 Tuesday, Oct. 13 Thursday, Oct. 15 Tuesday, Oct. 20 Friday, Oct. 23 Saturday, Oct. 24 Thursday, Oct. 29 Saturday, Oct. 31 Thursday, Nov. 5 Friday, Nov. 6 Saturday, Nov. 7

Kayla Bixler sets the ball during one of the Saints practices at the beginning of the 2009 season.– Photo by Marty Seeger “We have a couple of freshmen that will contribute a lot this year, and an excellent freshman class that came up this year,” Hoff said.

Caitlyn Olson

Sarah Petznick

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at Menomonie Sprawl at Menomonie Sprawl at Luck OSCEOLA TURTLE LAKE at Siren SHELL LAKE at Osceola Tourney at Glenwood City at Clayton at Frederic CLEAR LAKE at Heritage Tourney at Heritage Tourney GRANTSBURG at Webster UNITY Regional Regional Regional Sectional Sectional State State State

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Other than working on good passing and filling a spot on the left side, the Saints could be a viable conference contender this year. Hoff added that one of the strengths could be the team’s hitting.

“I think we should do well, I really do.

They’re competitive this year, they’re ready to go and they’re willing,” said Hoff.

Sydney Geisness

Natalie Sempf

WEBSTER TIGERS VOLLEYBALL All players key to success

by Brenda Sommerfeld WEBSTER – Coach Mindy Widiker is one of the only remaining veteran volleyball coaches in the area. Widiker returns once again to help the Webster Tigers to victory over the upcoming season. Last year, the team had an overall record of 66.

The team graduated three and lost Coach Mindy Widiker foreign exchange student Loreto Stange when she went back to Chile after the school year. This year’s two seniors, Kendra Spurgeon and Nikki Steiner, will have several juniors and a sophomore to make up the team.

“All of the players will be key in order for us to be successful,” Widiker said.

“They each have an important role to carry out. We win as a team and lose as a Kendra Spurgeon team.”

Nikki Steiner

Ally Daniels

WEBSTER TIGERS VOLLEYBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Kendra Spurgeon, Nikki Steiner, Nicky Benjamin.

JUNIORS: Chris Stoll, Michelle Gibbs, Ally Daniels, Siiri Larsen, Billie Ingalls, Alyssa Main, Mary Johnson, Jayme Mitchell, Casey Matrious, Bryana Andren, Emily Roppe, Jan Likitworawan, Laura Melzer.

SOPHOMORES: Sarah Nyberg, Melissa Gustavson, Chelsea Larson, Tanya Johnson, Ciara Koenen, Ali Becvar, Audrey Mulliner, Shauna Rein, Alyce DeBlase.

FRESHMEN: Amber Davis, Chelsey McIntyre, Danielle Curtis, Merissa Kern, Nikki Emberson, Jill Holmstrom, Briana Phernetton, Tianna Stewart, Gabby Schiller, Megan Hughes, Sheyanne Kislinger.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Mindy Widiker ASSISTANTS: Marleana Rank, Rachel Belisle.

MANAGERS: Tailor Larson, Sophie Phernetton, Abby Widiker.

Tiger Michelle Gibbs works on her bumping skills during practice. Coach Mindy Widiker thinks her varsity team has good chemistry. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld Inexperience shouldn’t be a problem for the team with several of this year’s upperclassmen seeing many court minutes last year.

“They seem to have good chemistry as

Michelle Gibbs

Billie Ingalls

a team and are positive players,” Widiker stated.

The one thing Widiker thinks may have an effect on their playing is that none of the players are real tall. She is

Mary Johnson

Siiri Larsen

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at Unity at Cumberland CLEAR LAKE FREDERIC at Grantsburg LUCK at Shell Lake SIREN at Unity at Turtle Lake ST. CROIX FALLS at Clayton Regional Regional Regional Sectional Sectional State State State

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looking forward to a good season.

“I want the girls to be competitive, play hard and have fun,” she commented. “I’d like to see individuals improve upon their skills as the season progresses.”

Alyssa Main

Sarah Nyberg

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UNITY EAGLES VOLLEYBALL Eagles set to soar with new head coach

by Marty Seeger BALSAM LAKE – The Eagles went 5-7 overall last season and finished right in the middle of the pack in the West Lakeland Conference. Despite losing a handful of key players to graduation, they’ll be getting a fresh start this season under new head coach Chris Coach Chris Lesneski Lesneski, who might be familiar to other area coaches.

Lesneski taught and coached at Solon Springs for seven years and was able to turn the program volleyball program around and into a conconference tender. In his first season with Solon Springs, they finished 4-13, but in the final two years of his coaching career, the team posted records of 25-5 and 23-8, inBrooke Gillespie

Cadi Harper

Sam Ince

UNITY EAGLES VOLLEYBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Sam Ince, Cadi Harper, Brittany Petznick, Brooke Gillespie.

JUNIORS: Crystal Donahue, Marisa Hacker, Hayla Bader, Bryana Petersin.

SOPHOMORES: Brittany Thomfohrda, Jenna Christensen, Ashley Johnson, Mollie Hanson, Jennifer Vlasnik, Cassie Sturgul, Kym Radke.

FRESHMEN: Sarah Bader, Shay Nelson, Taylor Heathman, Kortney Collins, Nikki Wendt, Janet Hunter, Hailey Olson, Shauna Jorgenson.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Chris Lesneski ASSISTANTS: Jennifer DeLozier, Briana Coombe.

MANAGER: Naomi Williamson

Newcomer coach Chris Lesneski takes time to talk with his team during practice the second week of the season. – Photo by Marty Seeger cluding a year where they grabbed the co-conference championship.

The Phillips native also coached at the college level before coming to Unity.

During college at UW-Superior, he was the first assistant and also had a stint as head coach of a team at Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls, Iowa.

Lesneski will be teaching grades 9-12 physical education and health full time

Brittany Petznick

Hayla Bader

this year at Unity, and he’s approaching the volleyball team without any preconceptions.

“I’m coming in with a clean slate. I generally have people respond to me differently than they did to a different coach, or somebody else,” Lesneski said.

That means several positions are still open and nothing is set in stone. Several of the girls have been working hard over

Crystal Donahue

Marisa Hacker

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WEBSTER/WINTER TURTLE LAKE CLAYTON at Clear Lake at Frederic at Osceola at Grantsburg SIREN at Weyerhaeuser WEBSTER at Amery at Shell Lake LUCK at St. Croix Falls Regional Regional Regional Sectional Sectional State State State

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the summer, and Lesneski said he had a great turnout during the contact day in July.

“Things seem to be going pretty well, and they seem to be enthusiastic about it,” Lesneski said.

Brittany Thomfohrda

Sarah Bader

SIREN DRAGONS VOLLEYBALL New coach brings playing experience

by Brenda Sommerfeld SIREN – The Dragons volleyball team has seen several different coaches over the past few years, and this year is no exception. Caryn Stanford will take over has the varsity head coach with Kristin Kosloski as her assistant.

Stanford is no stranger to the Coach Caryn Stanford game of volleyball making first team all-state as the setter for West High School in Waterloo, Iowa. She continued her volleyball career playing four years at Division 1 school Western Illinois University. She knows the game but has never coached before.

“I never thought I would really coach, but actually, I’m glad I am,” Stanford said. “I definitely have a new appreciation for all my Kayla Asmus coaches.”

Meghan Baasch

Sarah Howe

SIREN DRAGONS VOLLEYBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Sarah Howe, Deanna Phernetton, Tasha Jo Kosloski, Meghan Baasch, Kayla Asmus, Jessica Bauer.

JUNIORS: Carley Emery, Ashley Guevara, Danielle Keller, Stephanie Taylor, Brittany Moose, Daphne Hubbell.

SOPHOMORES: Bernice Mixooke, Jessica Lysdahl, Amber Hall, Katie Kelly, Abigail Mitchell, Jennica Kosloski, Annie Li, Page Kelby, Heather Bearheart, Christina Luna.

FRESHMEN: Kendra Sheldon, Shelbi Spafford, Brittany Coulter, Raven Emery, MacKenzie Erickson, Kyisha Kettula, Kaitlyn Warner, Elizabeth Brown.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Caryn Stanford ASSISTANT: Kristin Kosloski

Carley Emery knocks a practice kill over the net. Emery is one of the experienced players on the Dragon team. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld Stanford says she really enjoys the sport, and with two daughters, one in sixth and one in fourth grade at the Siren School, she may have the chance to coach them at the varsity level.

“They both like it, and they’re both with me all the time,” Stanford said of her daughters. “They like to be at practices so it’s pretty fun.”

The Siren team won only a couple of games during 2008. They lost a few sen-

Tasha Kosloski

Carley Emery

iors but return several. Sarah Howe, Meghan Baasch, Ashley Guevara and Carley Emery all saw playing time last year. They, however, may find themselves in different positions.

“I’ve made a few changes in positions from last year,” Stanford commented.

“I’ve moved a few girls around to capture all their best abilities.”

Stanford feels her team has good cohesiveness and works really well together.

Ashley Guevara

Daphne Hubbell

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at Weyerhaeuser WINTER at Birchwood at Shell Lake LUCK at Chetek ST. CROIX FALLS CLAYTON at Clear Lake at Unity at Webster TURTLE LAKE NORTHWOOD FREDERIC at Grantsburg Regional Regional Regional Sectional Sectional State State State

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The one thing she thinks may hold them back is the lack of experience winning.

“When you go in, you go in with the expectation of winning,” Stanford said she’s trying to teach her team, “if you lose, you know its not the end of the world, but it’s a learning experience.”

Amber Hall

Abigail Mitchell

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LUCK CARDINALS VOLLEYBALL Cards can only go up from here

by Marty Seeger LUCK – After going through last year with an 0-14 overall record, the Cardinals volleyball team can only go up this season. Luck got a new head coach this year in Alyssa Notermann, who isn’t an unfamiliar face in the area, or in the Luck School District. Notermann Coach Alyssa Notermann has been a substitute teacher at Luck for quite a while now, and taught in Grantsburg for at least two years. She was also the Frederic volleyball coach from 2005-06. She replaces former Luck

Sam Fenning

Katie Gutzmer

Alecia Ouellette

Morgan Denny

head coach Sheila Brom, who coached in Luck for over 30 years.

“Coaching is perfect because I love coaching and I love this game,” Notermann said about her chance to coach again this season. Notermann also played volleyball for a time at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa.

Notermann believes the Cardinals should be pretty competitive this season, and likes the fact that one of the team’s strengths is offense.

“We’re really an offensive team. I have so many strong hitters, which is really exciting,” Notermann said, and added that the other part of the equation is working on their defense, particularly in the blocking department.

The team is relatively young, but balanced in terms of class rank. Three are freshmen, with one sophomore, four juniors and three seniors.

Junior Morgan Denny is back this year and Notermann said she expects her to be a solid hitter. Senior Aleah Lemieux was moved from the middle to an outside hitter this season, and Notermann said there’s still a lot of mixing and matching to do before the Aleah Lemieux first quad tourna-

Sarah Elert

Ashlyn Petersen

LUCK CARDINALS VOLLEYBALL ROSTER

SENIORS: Sam Fenning, Katie Gutzmer, Aleah Lemieux, Alecia Ouellette.

JUNIORS: Morgan Denny, Sarah Elert, Ashlyn Petersen, Jade Schrock, Karissa Giller, Rebecca Hutton, Megan Moore, Laura Taylor.

SOPHOMORES: Maia Lehmann, Alysha Dalbec, Morgyn McGinnity, Krystal Ouellette, Michelle Tomlinson, Taylar Anderson, Lindsey Erickson, Danielle Nelson.

FRESHMEN: Ashley Dexter, Taylor Joy, Hannah Karl, Jaimee Buck, Leah Lemay, Jillian Petersen, Kylie Rich, Katelyn Dinnies, Tatia Hibbs, Lena Ueke-Foster, Kelcie Wilson.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Alyssa Notermann ASSISTANTS: Vern Longhenry, Diane Aldrich.

Morgan Denny and Aleah Lemieux team up to block teammate Maia Lehmann’s hit during practice. – Photo by Marty Seeger ment comes in another week, but she likes what she sees. Plus, several of the girls have been working at improving over the summer.

“It’s definitely not required of them, of

Maia Lehmann

Ashley Dexter

SCHEDULE

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ST. CROIX FALLS NEW AUBURN WEYERHAEUSER at Siren at Pine City, Minn.

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course, because they have other sports and other stuff they’re doing, but it does seem like once you end up seeing who your best players are and you choose your varsity, those girls are the ones that have been playing out of season,” Notermann said.

Taylor Joy

Hannah Karl

WEBSTER TIGERS CROSS COUNTRY Many back from undefeated boys team

by Brenda Sommerfeld WEBSTER – The Tiger boys cross country went undefeated and took a state title in 2008.

This year’s team has the pressure to live up to last year’s accomplishments.

Coaches Jim Muus and Roy Ward are confident in their abilities, having Coach Jim Muus many of the runners back in 2009.

“The boys are looking to win conference, sectionals and a chance at another state title,” the coaches said.

Quentin Johnson, Nick Krinkie and

WEBSTER TIGERS CROSS COUNTRY BOYS ROSTER

SENIORS: Jim Erickson, Bryan Krause, Chaz Heinz, Tim Sundstrom, JT Elmgren, Derek King.

JUNIORS: Jack Taylor, Devin Greene.

SOPHOMORES: Joey Erickson, Taylor Heinz, Brad Krause, Cody Isaacson, Matt Elmgren.

FRESHMEN: Carl Rachner, Cortland Summer.

GIRLS ROSTER

SENIORS: Sarah Walsh, Ashley Robinson.

JUNIORS: Shaina Pardun.

SOPHOMORES: Olivia Kopecky, Danielle Dyson, Tami Petersen.

FRESHMEN: Emma Kelby, Kally Schiller, Tessa Schiller.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Jim Muus ASSISTANT: Roy Ward Thursday, Aug. 27 Thursday, Sept. 3 Tuesday, Sept. 8 Tuesday, Sept. 15 Thursday, Sept. 24 Monday, Sept. 28 Tuesday, Oct. 6 Thursday, Oct. 15 Saturday, Oct. 24 Saturday, Oct. 31

The Webster girls cross-country team is made up most of underclassmen.

There are only two seniors and one junior on the team. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

JT Elmgren

Jim Erickson

Chaz Heinz

Derek King

Bryan Krause

Tim Sundstrom

Adam Rinnman will be missed during races, but with six key seniors and two juniors returning, the team has a very good chance at making their goals.

“The boys are tough,” Muus said.

Ashley Robinson

“Most came into the season ready to race. They know what it takes to win, and they are focused on another trip back to state.”

The girls, on the other hand, have only three upperclassmen and six underclassmen to make up their team.

“The girls are strong, but they need a couple of more that are willing to come out and run for the team,” Muus stated.

Sarah Walsh

Devin Greene

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at Grantsburg 4:30 p.m. at Spooner 4:30 p.m.

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“They look to be in the top four in conference unless some girls appear out of the woodwork.”

Sarah Walsh and Ashley Robinson are first-year seniors who are running this season. Robinson is currently out on injury, but the coaches feel both the girls will help the team.

“It is a pleasure to coach such great kids,” Muus and Ward agreed about both teams. “They give everything and go over and beyond our coaching expectations.”

Jack Taylor

Shaina Pardun

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GRANTSBURG PIRATES CROSS COUNTRY Small girls team, younger boys team

by Brenda Sommerfeld GRANTSBURG – Three returning members, Steven McKinley, Angela Gaffney and Michelle Lund, of the Grantsburg crosscountry team made the trip to state last season. Coach Paul Huskamp will be looking to the three to help lead the teams once again this season.

The girls running Coach Paul Huskamp team missed state by one place in 2008 and missed the conference championship by only one point. With none graduating, the team has a good shot, even without much depth, at being toward the top in 2009.

“Michelle and Angela both have talent that is yet to be seen,” Huskamp said. “I think we will see more from them this year. Jessica Banks and Aimee Van Tatenhove are seniors this year and they have lots of good potential. I would like to see all our senior girls make all-conference and take Angela and Michelle to state.”

As for the boys, Huskamp says the team is still rebuilding and has several

John Schneider

Jessica Banks

GRANTSBURG PIRATES CROSS COUNTRY BOYS ROSTER

SENIOR: John Schneider JUNIOR: Steven McKinley SOPHOMORES: Nick Lindgren, Brendan Kutz, Zach Arnold, Daniel Biorn.

FRESHMEN: Jake Radtke, Seth Ilgen, Bradley Taylor, Sean Handy.

GIRLS ROSTER

SENIORS: Michelle Lund, Jessica Banks, Aimee Van Tatenhove.

JUNIORS: Jordan Christopherson, Haley Larson, Rosie LaMere, Angela Gaffney.

COACH

HEAD COACH: Paul Huskamp Thursday, Aug. 27 Tuesday, Sept. 1 Tuesday, Sept. 8 Thursday, Sept. 10 Tuesday, Sept. 15 Saturday, Sept. 19 Thursday, Sept. 24 Monday, Sept. 28 Tuesday, Oct. 6 Thursday, Oct. 15 Monday, Oct. 19 Saturday, Oct. 24 Saturday, Oct. 31

The Grantsburg cross country team has a good chance of sending athletes to the state competition this year. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

Michelle Lund

Aimee Van Tatenhove

Steven McKinley

Jordan Christopherson

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inexperienced runners. He is hopeful for them to stay healthy and be able to be competitive.

“Steven McKinley has put in some miles this summer and ended up coming on strong at the end of the season,” Huskamp stated. “I look forward to seeing what some of our new runners will turn out to be. I also look forward to see what Brendan Kutz is capable of as long as he stays healthy.”

Angela Gaffney

Rosie LaMere

ST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS CROSS COUNTRY Saints have small numbers, several positives

by Marty Seeger ST. CROIX FALLS – The St. Croix Falls cross-country team is a bit small again this year, but several of those kids have put a lot of running time in over the summer, with some going over the 100-mile mark.

Jennifer Clemins has taken the role as head coach this season, Coach Jenn Clemins and this is her second year as the head coach.

Last year, both the boys and girls teams finished sixth out of the seven scoring teams in the conference, and at least half of the athletes on the girls team are newcomers.

“It will take a meet or two to see how they do, then Nick Campbell we can focus better

Christian Wolfe

Kim Culver

ST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS CROSS COUNTRY BOYS ROSTER

SENIORS: Nick Campbell, Christian Wolfe.

JUNIORS: Nate Gravesen, Joe Thayer.

SOPHOMORES: Chris Eisen, Alex Frey, Rashaud Kelash, Sam Nichols.

FRESHMAN: Jared Binkley

GIRLS ROSTER

SENIORS: Kim Culver, Brittany Rudolph.

JUNIORS: Bailey Bergmann, Ashley Bollig, Jessica Derrick, Carley Martin.

FRESHMEN: Autumn Erickson, Allie Holmdahl, Savannah Stone.

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Jenn Clemins ASSISTANT: Tammi Braund Thursday, Aug. 27 Tuesday, Sept. 1 Tuesday, Sept. 8 Thursday, Sept. 10 Tuesday, Sept. 15 Thursday, Sept. 24 Monday, Sept. 28 Tuesday, Oct. 6 Thursday, Oct. 15 Monday, Oct. 19 Friday, Oct. 23 Saturday, Oct. 31

Both the girls and boys St. Croix Falls cross-country teams put a lot of running time in over the summer. – Photo by Marty Seeger on what is necessary to improve,” Clemins said. “As for the boys, we only have two new recruits as of right now.

The rest of the returning athletes seem very eager for the race season to begin.

Brittany Rudolph

Nate Gravesen

Most have trained over the summer and should do very well this season.”

Clemins would like to see at least three or four members on the team finish with all-conference honors. Bailey Bergmann,

Joe Thayer

Bailey Bergmann

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at Grantsburg 4:30 p.m. at Frederic 4:30 p.m. at Webster 4:30 p.m. at Cameron 4:30 p.m. at Rice Lake 4:15 p.m. at Unity 4:30 p.m. at Cumberland 4:30 p.m. at Amery 4:15 p.m. at Webster Conference 4 p.m.

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former state qualifier, and Alex Frey will be at the lead for the girls and boys teams. Staying injury-free and seeing everyone accomplish goals personally set by themselves is another thing Clemins would like to see, but most of all, to see her athletes have fun.

“I also have a new assistant coach, Tammi Braund, whom I am looking forward to working with. She comes to the team with a great deal of running experience and will be a positive influence on the team,” Clemins said.

Jessica Derrick

Carley Martin

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UNITY/LUCK CROSS COUNTRY New coach working with young Eagles team

by Marty Seeger BALSAM LAKE – Lori Anderson replaces coach Shanin Henningsgaard this season as the new head coach of the Unity/Luck crosscountry team. Anderson is familiar with coaching duties and the team, as she’s taught for nine years at the school and has coached middle school basketball for three seaCoach Lori Anderson sons and middle school cross country last year. Tyler Bublitz is the team’s only senior and will assume the leadership duties.

“We have other key runners who have been part of this cohesive group and will all be able to add their own unique strengths to the team. There is some talent emerging from our freshmen as well as a new recruit which will better our team overall,” Anderson said.

While some athletes didn’t put much time into running or improving over the summer, others did. One such athlete

Tyler Bublitz

Jake Bengtson

UNITY/LUCK CROSS COUNTRY BOYS ROSTER

SENIOR: Tyler Bublitz JUNIORS: Paul Mueller, Jake Bengtson, Michael Owen, Mickey Muller.

SOPHOMORES: Matt Hays, Mitchell Johnston, Steven Krueger, Alec Larson FRESHMEN: Scott Bever, Colton Sorenson.

GIRLS ROSTER

JUNIORS: Alison Lennartson, Jessica Raboin.

SOPHOMORES: Brittney Bublitz, Tina Lennartson.

FRESHMEN: Anna Luepke, Megan Volgren

COACH

HEAD COACH: Lori Anderson ASSISTANT: Yvonne Sorenson

SCHEDULE

Thursday, Aug. 27 Tuesday, Sept. 1 Tuesday, Sept. 8 Thursday, Sept. 10 Tuesday, Sept. 15 Thursday, Sept. 17 Saturday, Sept. 19 Thursday, Sept. 24 Tuesday, Oct. 6 Thursday, Oct. 15 Monday, Oct. 19 Saturday, Oct. 24 Saturday, Oct. 31

The Unity/Luck cross-country team has a new coach this season. The nineman boys team and the six-member girls team will race under the direction of Lori Anderson this year. – Photo by Marty Seeger was junior Mickey Muller who ran in the Grandma’s Half Marathon in Duluth,

Mickey Muller

Michael Owen

Minn., and has spent several hours in the weight room.

Ali Lennartson

Jessica Raboin

at Grantsburg 4:30 p.m. at Frederic 4:30 p.m. at Webster 4:30 p.m. at Cameron 4:30 p.m. at Rice Lake 4:15 p.m. at Shell Lake 4:30 p.m. at Osceola 10 a.m.

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“These are the kind of athletes who continue to inspire our team,” Anderson said.

The Unity/Luck cross-country team might be a little smaller this season, and younger, but along with assistant coach Yvonne Sorenson, Anderson is hopeful the team can continue to improve.

“If they stick with the program and give their best effort, you will definitely see a decrease in their CC racing times from previous years,” Anderson said.

Brittney Bublitz

Mitchell Johnston

FREDERIC VIKINGS CROSS COUNTRY Boys join, still not enough for team

by Brenda Sommerfeld FREDERIC – The Frederic cross-country team was an all-girls team last year.

This year, there are four boys, not quite enough for a team at competitions.

Four of the five girls from last season return; two more joining brings their number to six for the upcoming year.

Another change for the Vikings running team is a new Coach Ian Karl coach. Ian Karl replaced Nathaniel Wilson. Karl, cousin to the Karl runners of Frederic, was raised in Minocqua. He has coaching experience just not in cross-country running.

Joel Anderson

Gus Neumann

Tanesha Carlson

Jesse Chouinard

FREDERIC VIKINGS CROSS COUNTRY BOYS ROSTER

SENIORS: Joel Anderson, Gus Nuemann.

JUNIOR: Jesse Chouinard FRESHMAN: Ian Lexen

GIRLS ROSTER

JUNIORS: Jade Johnson, Sam Nelson, Calla Karl, Sage Karl, Tanesha Carlson, Sarah Knauber.

COACH

HEAD COACH: Ian Karl VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT: Eric Olson MANAGER: Cathryn McConnell Thursday, Aug. 27 Tuesday, Sept. 1 Tuesday, Sept. 8 Thursday, Sept. 10 Tuesday, Sept. 15 Tuesday, Sept. 22 Thursday, Sept. 24 Monday, Sept. 28 Tuesday, Oct. 6 Thursday, Oct. 15 Monday, Oct. 19 Saturday, Oct. 24 Saturday, Oct. 31

Six junior girls make up the Frederic girls cross-country team, while the boys have only four. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld “It’s my first year coaching cross country, but I’ve coached cross-country skiing and soccer in the past in different areas,” Karl said. “I saw this great opportunity to get involved. I really couldn’t pass up the opportunity.”

Karl’s girls team consists of all juniors, a strong group to take him through his

Jade Johnson

Calla Karl

first season. The four returning helped their team take fourth at sectionals, and both Sam Nelson and Calla Karl ran at state last year.

“We’ve got a really strong group in general,” Karl said.

There is not yet a full boys team, but Karl is confident with the four he does

Sage Karl

Sarah Knauber

SCHEDULE

at Grantsburg 4:30 p.m.

FREDERIC 4:30 p.m. at Webster 4:30 p.m. at Cameron 4:30 p.m. at Rice Lake 4:15 p.m. at Barron 4:30 p.m. at Unity 4:30 p.m. at Cumberland 4:30 p.m. at Amery 4:15 p.m. at Webster Conference 4 p.m. at St. Croix Falls 4:30 p.m. at Boyceville Sectional TBD State TBD

have.

“The boys we do have out are showing a lot of heart and a lot of drive,” Karl said. “They’re looking good.”

Senior Joel Anderson may be joining for his first year, but he’s trained all summer.

“He should put on a good show this fall,” Karl mentioned.

Karl sees potential in all of his team’s athletes.

“We’ve got high hopes, high aspirations,” Karl stated. “They’re showing a lot of promise and drive in training.”

Sam Nelson

Ian Lexen

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ST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS GIRLS GOLF Another state appearance on the horizon?

ST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS GIRLS GOLF ROSTER

SENIORS: Marissa Campeau, Cortney Rassmussen.

JUNIORS: Tess Hedrick, Brittany Buss.

COACHES

HEAD COACHES: Jeff Benoy, Terry Benoy.

by Marty Seeger ST. CROIX FALLS – In their 10 years of coaching, Terry and Jeff Benoy have had similar years where only four girls grace

Coach Jeff Benoy

Thursday, Aug. 27 ST. CROIX FALLS Thursday, Sept. 3 at New Richmond Tuesday, Sept. 8 at Ellsworth Thursday, Sept. 10 at Prescott Monday, Sept. 14 at Somerset Thursday, Sept. 17 at St. Croix Central Monday, Sept. 21 at Osceola Thursday, Sept. 24 at Amery Conference Wednesday, Sept. 30 at Baldwin Regionals at Amery Sectionals Tuesday, Oct. 6 Monday, Oct. 12 State Tuesday, Oct. 13 State

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Coach Terry Benoy

the team roster, so having four again this season is nothing new. Despite the small team, however, the Saints have already proven in their first two golf meets of the season that they’ll once again be contending for a conference title and another possible trip to state. Last year, the team not only took the regional championship title but the sectional championship as well, and finished fifth overall at the state tournament.

“They’ve been working hard, working on their own and working hard in practice, and they’re having fun, which is the

Marissa Campeau

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Cortney Rassmussen

Four young ladies make up the St. Croix Falls varsity golf team. There have been many years where there is only four. – Photos by Marty Seeger most important,” said Terry Benoy.

The team was led last year by Jenny Benoy, who was individual sectional champion and but has since graduated and plays at Augustana College. Leading the Saints this season will be senior Marissa Campeau, an all-conference golfer that has already grabbed an individual second-place finish at the team’s

Brittany Buss

Tess Hedrick

latest golf meet. Others include Cortney Rasmussen, Brittany Buss and Tess Hedrick. With only four members on the team this year, it will add a little pressure to each golfer on the team, as each tournament or meet takes the top four scores from each team.

“It puts pressure on them because there’s nobody to fall back on, and they seem to enjoy that pressure. They seem to take it as a challenge that they want to work hard to do well,” Terry Benoy said.

One of the main goals of the team this year is to remain positive and focused, and with four strong golfers who have been in pressured situations before, the goals are certainly attainable this season.

“I guess a main goal is for them to work toward their potential and play toward their potential, and keep having fun,” said Terry Benoy.

Senior Marissa Campeau takes a swing at the ball during one of the teams first meets this season.

LUCK/UNITY GIRLS GOLF Luck/Unity uses golf as a lifetime sport

by Marty Seeger LUCK – The Luck/Unity golf team has just a handful of girls out this season, and at least two are new to the sport. The two girls back from last season are Emily Stelling and Lindsey Stapel. The other three include Luck coach Ron Steen’s daughter, Avery, who led the team on their last outing with a 98.

Jena Alling and JesCoach Ron Steen sica Larson are the two new to golf this season. The Cardinals are still in need of more interest from other athletes.

Several girls have taken interest in volleyball, but the ones who have stuck with the golf team are going to be enjoying this season, and plenty more seasons even after high school is over. Steen teaches that golf is a lifetime sport for anyone who’s willing to take part, and it seems his team of five has embraced that already this season.

“It’s a work in progress, but the girls are having a blast, they’re having fun

Jessica Larson

Lindsey Stapel

ST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS GIRLS GOLF ROSTER

SENIOR: Jessica Larson JUNIORS: Lindsey Stapel, Emily Stelling.

FRESHMEN: Avery Steen, Jena Alling.

COACHES

HEAD COACHES: Ron Steen

SCHEDULE

Thursday, Aug. 27 at St. Croix Falls at New Richmond Thursday, Sept. 3 Tuesday, Sept. 8 at Ellsworth Thursday, Sept. 10 at Prescott Monday, Sept. 14 at Somerset Thursday, Sept. 17 at St. Croix Central Monday, Sept. 21 at Osceola Thursday, Sept. 24 at Amery Conference Wednesday, Sept. 30 at Baldwin Regionals Tuesday, Oct. 6 at Amery Sectionals Monday, Oct. 12 State Tuesday, Oct. 13 State

Two of the five girls that are part of the Luck girls golf team are back from last season. Two of the other three are freshmen this year. – Photos by Marty Seeger playing golf and they love socializing with girls from the other team,” Steen said.

Jena Alling

Avery Steen

Already the Cardinals have had three meets, and by the way it looks in the early goings of the Middle Border Conference, St. Croix Falls, BaldwinWoodville and New Richmond will be nearing the top of the conference this year.

As for Luck, they’ve got a long way to go, but there’s plenty of room for improvement, and the girls have already began penciling in fewer strokes on the course this season.

LEFT: Lindsey Stapel putts during a meet last year.

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UNITY/LUCK TENNIS Eagles expecting another great season

by Marty Seeger BALSAM LAKE – The Unity/Luck tennis team had a remarkable season last year, sending three girls to state including fourth-time state qualifier Stephanie Kothlow and their No. 1 doubles team of Elizabeth Ebensperger and Alesa Paulsen.

The team finished 61 in the Middle BorCoach Beth Trudeau der Conference and 9-3 overall as a team, making them the second best team, behind New Richmond.

The three state qualifiers from last year have since graduated along with two other varsity players, but according to new head coach Beth Trudeau, the team is again on a path to success.

“With our new players, we lack slightly in experience, yet make up for it with determination and work ethic,” Trudeau said.

Back from last year is Lexie Kothlow, who was the No. 2 singles player last year, and is looking for her first state appearance. There’s also the No. 2 doubles

Alex Davison

Lexie Kothlow

UNITY/LUCK TENNIS ROSTER

SENIORS: Lexie Kothlow, Madeline Anderson, Joy Albrecht, Alex Davison, Mary Maiden Muller.

JUNIORS: Katherine Ebensperger, Jessica Kutina, Kayla Johnson, April Johnson, Kathryn Zahler.

SOPHOMORES: Julie Franzel, Emily Petzel.

FRESHMEN: Anna Ebensperger

COACHES

HEAD COACH: Beth Trudeau Thursday, Aug. 27 Monday, Aug. 31 Thursday, Sept. 3 Tuesday, Sept. 8 Thursday, Sept. 10 Tuesday, Sept. 15 Thursday, Sept. 17 Tuesday, Sept. 22 Tuesday, Sept. 29 Thursday, Oct. 1

Alex Davison is one of the five seniors on the Unity/Luck tennis team this year. Davison and her teammates have a new coach this year. Beth Trudeau will guide them through the 2009 season. – Photo by Marty Seeger team from last year with Katherine Ebensperger and Jessica Kutina, who will be the No. 1 doubles team this year.

There’s also a handful of other athletes on the team ready for the challenges ahead.

Trudeau was an assistant with the tennis team last year with Sarah Schmidt,

Mary Maiden Mueller

Katherine Ebensperger

who will likely help out during the season. Volunteer assistant Chris Schneider will also be helping out again this season. Trudeau played high school tennis in Marshfield and also played for one season with UW-La Crosse. She teaches 4K at the Unity Elementary School.

“We have built a solid community of

April Johnson

Kayla Johnson

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BALDWIN/WOODVILLE BARRON at Amery DURAND at Bloomer MONDOVI at Ellsworth at New Richmond at Durand at Barron

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tennis players,” Trudeau said. “The girls feed off each other’s support. Our new faces to the team bring us a newfound enthusiasm and energy to excel in our sport.”

Joy Albrecht

Maddie Anderson

Jessica Kutina

Kathryn Zahler

FREDERIC VIKINGS DANCE TEAM Girls start dance team after several years without one

by Brenda Sommerfeld FREDERIC – The Frederic High School has not had a dance team in several years, but a few young ladies, sophomore age and younger, took time and ambition to start one this year.

“The girls tried to get somebody to be the advisor last year and didn’t have any luck,” advisor Jackie Kurkowski said. “So being the mom of one of Coach Jackie Kurkowski them, I got roped into it.”

Kurkowski is having a good time helping the team make up an original routine. The team started practicing two times a week in June and will be performing during football halftime shows later this fall.

“We’re going to shoot for the Oct. 16 home game and make a big preview I hope,” Kurkowski said.

Meanwhile, the team will be putting on fundraisers in order to purchase uniforms. They will hold a tailgate party beFREDERIC VIKINGS DANCE TEAM ROSTER

SENIOR: Paola Endara JUNIOR: Allison Gustafson SOPHOMORES: Ashley Kurkowski, Danielle Swanson, Breanna Jensen.

FRESHMEN: Kourtni Douglas, Tashia Bailey.

EIGHTH GRADE: Carly Gustafson, Lexi Domagala.

SEVENTH GRADE: Melana Nelson, Kendra Mosay, Hayden Swanson, Jamie Siebenthal, Makayla Arthurs.

COACH

COACH: Jackie Kurkowski

SCHEDULE

Halftime shows of home Frederic football games.

Lexi Domagala, Melana Nelson, Carly Gustafson and Ashley Kurkowski are four of the 14 girls that are part of the newly started Frederich High School dance team. There hasn’t been a dance team in Frederic for several years. – Photo submitted fore the first home game Friday, Sept. 4.

After football, the team will also perform at basketball halftimes in the winter. The girls will also be going to witness competitions to see if it’s something they may be interested in.

“With the young age that I have with these girls, if it’s something they want to do next year we could set a goal,” Kurkowski said.

For this year, the girls will be sticking to halftime shows and pep fest perform-

ances.

“They’re very enthusiastic,” Kurkowski commented. “This is their baby, so they really have worked hard to get it organized.”

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UNITY EAGLES DANCE TEAM Big numbers participating with Unity’s dance team

by Marty Seeger BALSAM LAKE – The Unity dance team has become a popular activity, and this year’s team totals about 40 girls. One of the things that has made the program so popular is that anyone can do it according to fourth-year coach Jillian Chell. Plus, girls can make some time for it amidst the regular sports Coach Jillian Chell schedule. Girls from the tennis, golf, cross-country and volleyball teams participate.

“Here at Unity they can play all of the other sports and do dance at the same time, and so we just try to work around everything else. It’s hard, but the girls love it. I think some of them just find it UNITY EAGLES DANCE TEAM ROSTER

SENIORS: Alicia Milander, Amanda Brunotte, Brooke Gillespie, Jessica Larson, Joy Albrecht, Kari Owens, Kelsey Radke, Kristen Norlund, Laura Krueger.

JUNIORS: Alison Lennartson, Bryana Petersin, Denise McKenzie, Erin Mabry, Haley St. Amand, Hayla Bader, Jessica Raboin, Josie Kalenda, Julia Moore, Katherine Ebensperger, Lindsey Voss.

SOPHOMORES: Brittney Bublitz, Kym Radke, Michelle Rindahl.

FRESHMEN: Anna Ebensperger, Anna Luepke, Brittany Kruse, Elaine Butala, Emily Bethke, Janet Hunter, Kasey Heimstead, Megan Volgren, Sarah Bader, Shauna Jorgensen, Shay Nelson, Stephanie Stivers, Taylor Heathman, Tina Lennartson, Jade Baerg, Renae McKenzie, Brianna Koethe.

COACH: Jillian Chell

COACH

SCHEDULE Home football games.

The Unity dance team totals 40 girls this season. All are welcome including those in other sports, because coach Jillian Chell works around the other sports in order for everyone to be able to join. Over the summer the team participated in a camp at the high school. – Photo by Marty Seeger fun, its not stressful, its just something to do with their friends,” Chell said.

Over the summer the team participated in a camp at the high school, with help from former Unity graduates, who do much of the choreographing and pick some of the music. Chell said former Unity grad Tiffany Hallin has been very

helpful and helps teach the girls different routines and dance moves.

“Right now we’re working on our football dance for all of the home football games. The goal is to be dancing at all of them,” Chell said. Once the football season is over, the team will then shift gears toward a new routine for the basketball

season.

One of the goals this season is to get the team to the regional competition in Eau Claire. They’ve been able to do it in the past and hope to make it at least every other year in the future.

UNITY EAGLES CHEERLEADING Eagles cheer squad to incorporate new routines

by Marty Seeger BALSAM LAKE – The Unity Eagles football cheerleaders will be working with five girls this year. Unity has three separate squads which include basketball and wrestling according to coach Betsy Lyga, who is in her third year of coaching.

“This year I have co-captains, Katie Peper and Alicia Milander,” Lyga exCoach Betsy Lyga plained. “They are seniors, and have been involved in the cheer program throughout their high school years. Also returning this year is sophomore Katelyn McKinnon. We have two new members this year, Jessica Raboin and Taylor Matteson.”

Unity also participated in a camp this year, picked up a few new dance routines and will incorporate them into routines in the winter. They attended a Central Wisconsin Cheer camp in Wisconsin Rapids for two days and learned basics, technique, routines and competitions.

“We focused on learning new techniques for our stunts over the summer UNITY EAGLES CHEERLEADING ROSTER

SENIORS: Katie Peper, Alicia Milander, Jessica Raboin, Taylor Matteson.

SOPHOMORES: Kaitlyn MacKinnon COACH: Betsy Lyga

COACH

SCHEDULE All home and away football games.

Five girls will be able to be seen on the sidelines of football games as cheerleaders for Unity. Pictured front row (L to R): Co-captains Katie Peper and Alicia Milander. Back row: Jessica Raboin and Kaitlyn MacKinnon. Missing from picture: Taylor Matteson. – Photo submitted and are excited to show our new skills!

The bases have become more comfortable, and the flyers have built up a lot of trust in the bases,” Lyga said.

You can look for the Unity cheer squad to be at every home and away football game this season.

“I think the most exciting thing for us this season is simply implementing what we learned at camp. We’ve been practicing the stunts and mounts. It’s harder than it looks! We are looking into hosting our own camp between the fall and winter sports seasons with one of the in-

structors from CWCC. It would be a great refresher for the girls who attended camp and an awesome learning experience for those who were unable to attend,” Lyga explained.

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ST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS CHEERLEADING Saints cheerleaders will sport new jerseys

by Marty Seeger ST. CROIX FALLS – The St. Croix Falls cheerleading squad is raring to go this fall, and hopes to lead the fans to cheer on their Saints football team. This year 10 girls have decided to join the squad as opposed to nine from last season, and they look forward to showing the crowd a little something different.

Coach Sarah Campbell For starters, cheerleaders will sport new jerseys and hope to sell them as a fundraiser at home games.

The team has also been working hard in the off-season along with coach Sarah Campbell, and some help from a twoday camp presented by the Universal Cheerleaders Association.

“A girl came in and she taught them lots of new stuff, and so they’re going to be able to not only incorporate that into cheering but into dance,” Campbell said.

One of the stunts this year is called an inverted stunt, where a girl goes from a hand stand into a shoulder and elevates up. Campbell said all this is done while cheering and a dance routine. It’s someST. CROIX FALLS SAINTS CHEERLEADING

The St. Croix Falls football team will have the spirit of 10 cheerleaders to get the fans excited on the sidelines during games. The Saint cheerleaders trained in the off-season with help from coach Sarah Campbell. The team will be performing new stunts this season so watch for them at the games. – Photo by Marty Seeger

ROSTER

SENIORS: Brandi Swenson JUNIORS: Sam Peterson, Taylor Stowell, Brooke Parks, Alexa Meyer, Bridgette Bayle, Jenna Bartusch.

SOPHOMORES: Lauren Richter, Jessica Theroux, Samantha French.

COACHES

COACHES: Sarah Campbell ASSISTANT: Susie Jasperson.

SCHEDULE All home and away football games.

thing they’ve done in the past, but transition stunts are something new.

“We’ve stunted before, and we like to stunt, but what we learned is transition stunts, like going from one to another stunt within the same cheer or the same

activity,” said Campbell, adding that it’s a little bit like what you might see on television.

The Saints cheerleaders have also been working on jumps as well, and have several different jump exercises to help

strengthen their legs.

Out of the 10 girls on the squad, seven are new this year, but Campbell says all have cheerleading experience from other sports and look forward to working with some great Saints fans this year.

WEBSTER TIGERS CHEERLEADING Seniors will help teach newcomers

by Brenda Sommerfeld WEBSTER – Four seniors and four freshmen make up this year’s Webster High School cheerleading squad. Coach Shirley Tyson starts her seventh year coaching and this year, her coaching life has been made a little bit easier with volunteer coach Kandi Otero starting.

Three girls graduCoach Shirley Tyson ated from last year’s squad leaving three experienced seniors to help teach the other five members of the squad.

Christina Becker, Amanda Dupre and Bethany Nutt will help the others along through the year. Senior Veronica Otero came late in the school year but joined basketball cheerleading giving her experience with a Tigers squad.

“We have a very well matched squad as far as temperaments this year,” Tyson said. “They all get along really, really well, and the seniors are very helpful for the freshmen.”

The squad cheers for each football game and goes to volleyball games during homecoming and parents night to WEBSTER TIGERS CHEERLEADING ROSTER

SENIORS: Christina Becker, Amanda Dupre, Bethany Nutt, Veronica Otero.

FRESHMEN: Felicity Bell Brenna Nutt, Sam Perius, Michelle Radke.

COACH

COACH: Shirley Tyson VOLUNTEER COACH: Kandi Otero MANAGER: Megan Tyson

SCHEDULE All home and away football games.

The Webster Tigers cheerleading squad is made up of four seniors and four freshmen this year. You can see them perform cheers at every football game. They will also make locker tags and spread school spirit throughout the other sports of volleyball and cross country as well. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld support them. They make locker tags for all three sports of football, cross country and volleyball during the year.

At football games, the girls are on the sidelines showing school spirit and getting the crowd into many cheers.

“Some cheers we learned from camp

last year, others have been passed down through the generations,” Tyson said of the cheers. “Some cheers have been around for a long time, and we’ve made up a couple of our own.”

The girls so far have chosen not to compete in competitions, but they per-

form a different stunt every football game during the school song.

“I look forward to a very good year and new challenges,” Tyson commented.

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Unity vs. Shell Lake at UW-Stout Frederic at Flambeau Grantsburg at Spooner Prairie Farm at Luck Osceola at St. Croix Falls Northwood/Solon Springs at Siren

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Frederic at Turtle Lake Webster at Grantsburg St. Croix Falls at Luck Siren at Flambeau Unity at Cameron

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Grantsburg at St. Croix Falls Luck at Mondovi Birchwood/Weyerhaeuser at Siren Webster at Cameron

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Unity at Clear Lake

Thursday, September 3

St. Croix Falls at Lake Holcombe

Friday, October 9

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Siren at Frederic Grantsburg at Cumberland Cornell at Luck Chetek at Unity Clayton at Webster

Friday, October 16

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7 p.m. Northwood/Solon Springs at Frederic Grantsburg at Luck Elk Mound at St. Croix Falls Turtle Lake at Siren Webster at Unity

Friday, September 18 7 p.m.

Unity at Grantsburg Luck at Webster Clear Lake at St. Croix Falls

Saturday, September 19 1 p.m.

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Frederic at Winter Siren at Washburn

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Luck at Unity

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Cross-Country Thursday, August 27

4:30 p.m.Frederic at Grantsburg Luck/Unity at Grantsburg St. Croix Falls at Grantsburg Webster at Grantsburg

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4:30 p.m.Grantsburg at Frederic St. Croix Falls at Frederic Unity/Luck at Frederic Webster at Frederic

Thursday, September 3 4:30 p.m.Webster at Spooner

Tuesday, September 8

4:30 p.m.Grantsburg at Webster Unity/Luck at Webster St. Croix Falls at Webster

Thursday, September 10

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Thursday, September 24 4:30 p.m.Frederic at Unity Grantsburg at Unity Webster at Unity St. Croix Falls at Unity

Monday, September 28

4:30 p.m.Frederic at Cumberland Grantsburg at Cumberland Webster at Cumberland St. Croix Falls at Cumberland

Tuesday, October 6

4:15 p.m.Frederic at Amery Grantsburg at Amery Unity/Luck at Amery St. Croix Falls at Amery

4:30 p.m.Grantsburg at Cameron St. Croix Falls at Cameron Frederic at Cameron Unity/Luck at Cameron

Thursday, October 15

4:15 p.m.Grantsburg at Rice Lake Webster at Rice Lake Unity/Luck at Rice Lake St. Croix Falls at Rice Lake

Monday, October 19

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Thursday, September 10

Thursday, October 8

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Saturday, October 10 Monday, October 12 7:30 p.m.Luck at Birchwood

Tuesday, October 13

7:30 p.m.Frederic at Webster Shell Lake at Luck St. Croix Falls at Siren Unity at Clear Lake

Thursday, September 17

7:30 p.m.Unity at Frederic Webster at Grantsburg Shell Lake at St. Croix Falls Clayton at Siren

Saturday, September 19

7:30 p.m.Frederic at Siren Grantsburg at Turtle Lake Luck at Unity St. Croix Falls at Webster

Thursday, October 15 7:30 p.m.Siren at Grantsburg Turtle Lake at Luck Unity at St. Croix Falls Webster at Clayton Shell Lake at Frederic

Saturday, October 17

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9:30 a.m.Unity at Cameron Grantsburg at Cameron

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St. Croix Falls at Glenwood City

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State

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State

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Girls Golf

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Saturday, September 24

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Wednesday, September 30

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Tuesday, October 6

Luck/Unity at Somerset St. Croix Falls at Somerset

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Tuesday, September 15

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Tuesday, September 8

Unity at Amery

Tuesday, October 6

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Saturday, September 12

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7:30 p.m.Grantsburg at Shell Lake Luck at Siren Turtle Lake at St. Croix Falls Clayton at Unity Clear Lake at Webster

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Barron at Unity

Thursday, October 1

Thursday, September 10

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Grantsburg at Duluth Marshall

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Tuesday, September 8

Thursday, August 27

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Baldwin-Woodville at Unity

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7:30 p.m.Siren at Birchwood Webster at Cumberland New Auburn at Luck

4:30 p.m.Frederic at St. Croix Falls Grantsburg at St. Croix Falls Webster at St. Croix Falls Unity/Luck at St. Croix Falls

Saturday, October 24

4 p.m.

Saturday, September 26

Unity/Luck at Webster Conference Frederic at Webster Conference Grantsburg at Webster Conference St. Croix Falls at Webster Conference

4:30 p.m.Unity/Luck at Shell Lake

Saturday, September 19

Thursday, August 27

TBD Webster at Unity 7 p.m. Siren at Weyerhaeuser 7:30 p.m.Frederic at Northwood

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Monday, September 14 9 a.m.

Tuesday, September 17 4 p.m.

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9 a.m.

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TBD

Luck/Unity at Osceola St. Croix Falls at Osceola

Luck/Unity at Amery Conference St. Croix Falls at Amery Conference

Luck/Unity at Baldwin-Woodville St. Croix Falls at Baldwin-Woodville Luck/Unity at Amery Sectional St. Croix Falls at Amery Sectional State