Leader|feb 11|2009

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W EEKEN D WA TCH :

• Book an bake sale @ Frederic • Winter Carnival @ Luck • Ice-fishing contest @ Wood Lake • Valentine’s dance @ Grantsburg • Ice-fishing contest @ Clam Falls • Ice-fishing contest @ Siren • Vaudeville Valentine @ St. Croix Falls See Coming Events and stories

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Restorative Justice coming to Polk County

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Judge rejects plea bargain What’s Yappening?

Dogs, cats seek homes CURRENTS, page 6

Hjelseth says she was not aware her actions would cause harm PAGE 2

Ruby’s Pantry director explains new donation system Big Read continues

Anne Bancroft, fifillm series this Saturday at SCFalls See page 16

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Distribution of food was never “free,” says director PAGE 13

Fluoride stays in city water, for now

SCF city council has yet to decide issue PAGE 15

With the help of Cliff Maxfield, state Sen. Sheila Harsdorf was given a dogsled ride at Forts Folle Avoine historical park in Danbury. The winter rendezvous at the Fort brought to life many of the elements of Jack London’s “Call of the Wild" which is featured in this year's Big Read project. More photos in Currents section. - Photo by Sherill Summer

What if we had an election..and no one voted?

High cost for next Tuesday’s primary raises questions

Tigers scratch Pirates perfect record See front page of SPORTS Inside this section

by Gregg Westigard B U R N E T T / WA S H B U R N / P O L K COUNTIES – There is a statewide primary election next week with a single issue on the ballot in most areas, narrowing the field of candidates who want to head the state education system. The election will cost many thousands of dollars in our area. And if history repeats, almost no one will vote.

In Washburn, Burnett and Polk counties there are 85 towns, villages and

cities. Two areas have local election issues, a school board primary in Osceola and a referendum in Siren.

There are 12 local governments in those two school districts The other 73 municipalities in our area do not need to open their polls except for the superintendent of education race.

The Leader has asked area county clerks and municipal clerks what it will cost to hold the Feb. 17 primary. Here is a sampling of the answers, plus some comments on the system.

Lynn Hoeppner, Washburn County clerk, comes up with a total of $11,246 to conduct the “ridiculous” (her word) election in Washburn County. That

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Grantsburg loses one of its own Jon (Jake) Lysdahl dies in Arizona GRANTSBURG - Jon “Jake” Lysdahl, longtime Grantsburg resident, died in Arizona on Feb. 8.

Lysdahl was the Grantsburg postmaster from 1963 to 1990. Lysdahl was also a former Grantsburg Legion commander and the served Grantsburg community in many ways through the Lysdahl years. Most recently Lysdahl was instrumental in creating a group dedicated to providing music at Memory Lake Park during the summer.

Funeral services for Lysdahl are pending. Look for a full obituary and article in next week’s Leader. Priscilla Bauer

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Judge rejects plea bargain

Hjelseth says she was not aware her actions would result in great bodily harm

by Sherill Summer BURNETT COUNTY – Peggy Hjelseth, 67, Roseville, Minn., appeared in the Burnett County Courthouse on Tuesday, Jan. 10, expecting to plead guilty to the reduced charge of reckless injury – causing great bodily harm, a Class F felony that had a maximum sentence of 12-1/2 years in prison and / or $25,000 fine.

Hjelseth was the director of Trade Lake Camp, a recreational camp for mentally handicapped adults, when she gave a 50year-old Shirley Meade the wrong medication. Even though Hjelseth realized her mistake, she did not take Meade to the hospital or even contact the camp nurse.

Meade died later that day.

Hjelseth told Judge Eugene Harrington that she gave Meade the wrong medications and should have taken her to the hospital, but she thought that Meade would sleep it off.

In routine questioning, Hjelseth readily admitted that her actions had cause great bodily harm and that, in hindsight, her

actions were unreasonable or reckless.

However, Hjelseth could not admit that she knew that her actions could cause great bodily harm or were reckless as she was doing them. In other words, she didn’t think that Meade would die.

Because Hjelseth must admit that she knew her actions could cause bodily harm and were reckless while she was doing them, Harrington did not accept her guilty plea, and the plea bargain that was worked out was dismissed.

It now seems that the matter will go to trial.

Because the plea bargain was dismissed, she again faces the more serious charges, and it appears now that she will face these charges in a trial where the district attorney must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she had reason to believe that Meade could have died if she did not take her to the hospital or contact the camp nurse for advice.

Hjelseth is charged with recklessly subjecting an individual at risk to abuse, causing death, with a 40-year sentence and / or a $100,000 maximum and second-degree reckless homicide with a 25year sentence and / or a $100,000 maximum.

Mystery project

POLK COUNTY - The Polk County Democrat Party will meet Thursday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. at The Boulevard Bar & Grill on Hwy. 35, in Dresser.

The public is invited to attend the meeting, which begins with a 5:30 p.m. social hour and dinner. - with submitted

Car overturns but driver OK BURNETT COUNTY — Janet R. Peterson, 53, St. Croix Falls, overturned on Hwy. 48 and Freedom Drive on Monday, Feb. 9, around 7:45 a.m.

A State Patrol report said that Peterson was driving east on the highway and had just completed a curve when she came upon a car in the ditch, with people standing in the road nearby.

The report said Peterson slowed to go around them, but due to extremely slippery roads, she lost control and went into the south ditch, where she overturned.

Peterson was not injured. Her vehicle had severe damage and was removed from the scene by Anderson Towing. — with info. from the Wisconsin State Patrol

Incumbents nominated at Frederic caucus Glockzin only challenger

by Gregg Westigard FREDERIC – There will be little change on the Frederic Village Board after the April 7 election. All incumbents were renominated to their present positions, and one challenger accepted a place on the ballot. The caucus was held Tuesday, Jan. 27, the last day caucuses could be held.

Phil Knuf will be the only candidate for village president, a position he has held since the resignation of Charlie Wolden in 2006. Three incumbents will be running for re-election to the trustee seats on the village council. William Johnson IV and Maria Ammend are completing their first terms on the board. John Boyer was elected in 2005 and 2007 and had served previous terms. Their only challenger is John Glockzin.

The village has a six trustees in addition to the president. Continuing on the board until next 2010 are Brad Harlander, Jamie Worthington and Kerry Brendel.

Frederic Boy Scouts are helping to make a “mystery project” for Coon Lake as part of a Frederic Arts Initiative. Information as to what the project will be when completed is being withheld at this time, but more information is expected to be released in next week’s Inter-County Leader. E-mail us with your best guess and win a year’s subscription to the Leader’s e-edition. - Special photo

Icy roads keep officers busy

BURNETT/POLK COUNTIES Icy roads created by melting snow and freezing rain kept Polk County Sheriff’s deputies busy Monday morning, according to Sheriff Tim Moore.

A report from Polk County Sheriff’s dispatch center - from 12:01 a.m. Monday until midnight, records three dozen motorist assist and traffic accident responses by officers.

About three-quarters of those responses occurred between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m., according to Moore.

Many were vehicles sliding into the ditch with no damage, and others

involved vehicle damage, some of which were under $1,000 in damage, and not technically reportable.

In Burnett County, records show officers were called to just four vehicle-ditch incidents, beginning at 9:30 a.m. - with information from Burnett and Polk sheriff departments

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Castle to get new ice

Rain and warm weather has taken its toll on the Luck Winter Carnival ice castle, but volunteers will be out cutting new ice today, Wednesday. The castle will be rebuilt with a different design, said Sharry Swenson of the community club, but the lighting ceremony will go on as planned Thursday evening at 5 p.m. — Photo by Mary Stirrat

Briefly LUCK – It’s been a tough week for ice castles, as folks in Luck realized when their Winter Carnival creation began to melt in 40-degree weather and rain as this year’s January thaw arrived late. The warmer temps were a welcome respite for winter-weary residents and somewhat of an economic boon as everyone began imagining lower numbers on their next heating bill. For others, it meant a nervewracking drive to work. (See stories on opposite page). Numerous accidents were reported as drizzle, combined with freezing ground temperatures, resulted in near impossible driving conditions. Some schools delayed the start of classes by two hours.

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••• GRANTSBURG - The Brask-Fossum Janke American Legion Post 185 will hold its 16th-annual American Legion ice-fishing contest on Big Wood Lake in Grantsburg on Saturday, Feb. 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch and refreshments served at the north side of the lake at Thoreson American Legion Park. Tickets $5. Cash prizes for largest fish caught in each of four categories and door prizes.

First 40 fish caught and turned in by kids 15 years and under receive $5 cash prize.

Take Wisconsin Hwy. 70 to CTH Y. Everyone welcome! For more information call Jeff Fallstrom at 715-463-5434. Priscilla Bauer ••• STATEWIDE - A new survey finds Wisconsin traffic deaths dropped 20 percent in 2008 compared to the previous year. Dennis Hughes, chief of safety programs for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, says there were 588 traffic deaths last year in the state. He adds that’s the lowest number since 1944.

Hughes credits record high gas prices, severe winter weather and the slumping economy for the drop. Preliminary numbers from the Governors Highway Safety Association found Wisconsin is one of 40 states reporting a decline in traffic deaths in 2008. - Wisconsin Public Radio (Christina Clarkson) ••• NATIONWIDE - The 12th-annual Great Backyard Bird Count takes place this coming Friday through Monday, Feb. 13-16. Bird-watchers in your town and across North America are planning to tally the birds they see in backyards, park, nature centers and public lands. They will file their reports online at birdcount.org where you can see results showing up on maps in real time. - from National Audubon Society ••• ST. CROIX FALLS - Northwestern Wisconsin K-9 Club is sponsoring a hunting dog seminar to be held Saturday, March 7, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Tractor Supply Company on Hwy. 8 in St. Croix Falls. The cost is $20 per person and advanced registration requested.

Speakers are Tim Landecker of TKO Retrievers, Clearwater, Minn.,Tony Roettger of Roettger Ridge, North Branch, Minn., and Don Erlandson of Captains Kennels, St. Croix Falls. The seminar is for those just starting out with hunting dogs. Topics include: Getting your dog started on retrieving, flushing and pointing and What are hunt tests, which ones are appropriate for which breeds? To register call Ann at 715-349-8377. - Submitted

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Referendum information

Siren teacher Wayne Koball (shown here) and school board President Dayton Daniels handed out referendum flyers during the evening meal at the Siren Senior Center Thursday, Feb. 5. As part of the Feb. 17 election ballot, school district voters will again be asked to approve a $250,000-ayear, five-year allocation that will primarily go toward maintaining student programs, technology and material and the school building plus to offset projected deficits. This is a continuation of the allocation that has been made twice before, and means no change in the school district taxes voters already pay. Two open-house forums for people with questions are scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 12, one at 2 p.m. in the St. Croix Tribal Center in Hertel, the second at 7 p.m. in the Siren School auditorium. Online information can be found at www.siren.k12.wi.us. – Photo by Nancy Jappe

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by Gregg Westigard AREA – There will be two local issues on the ballots for next Tuesday’s primary election. Osceola will have a school district primary and Siren School District will vote on a funding issue.

The Osceola School District primary has three candidates running against incumbent Rosanne Anderson for the single open seat on the five-person board. On the ballot besides Anderson are Scott Sirek, Mary Cotch and Richard Lowney. The two persons with the most votes Tuesday will go on the April 7 spring election ballot.

Anderson was appointed to the Osceola School Board in April 1999 and elected to three-year terms in 2000, 2003 and 2006.

The Osceola School District includes the village of Osceola and all or parts of the towns of Osceola, Garfield, Farmington and Alden.

Voters in the Siren School District will vote on whether to maintain the current district funding level which exceeds a revenue cap. (See story elsewhere in this issue for details.)

The Siren School District includes the village of Siren and all or parts of the towns of Daniels, Lincoln, Meenon, Siren, LaFollette and Sand Lake.

County starts over with chief deputy search

by Sherill Summer BURNETT COUNTY – Burnett County Sheriff Dean Roland informed the public safety committee on Thursday, Feb. 5, that the candidate offered the chief deputy position has declined the offer.

The position has been vacant since Don Taylor retired in December of 2008.

According to Roland, the candidate was afraid that he would not be able to sell his current home.

Since there was a long negotiation period with the leading candidate, Roland has decided to start over with the search.

Applications will be accepted until Feb. 20.

Veteran pot smoker cited for OWI-controlled substance

Services Sunday for Carman Swanson POLK COUNTY -Funeral services for Carman Swanson of Eureka Center, who died Feb. 10, will be held this Sunday, Feb. 15, at Eureka Baptist Church at 2 p.m.

A complete obituary will be published in next week’s Inter-County Leader.

School ballot issues in Osceola, Siren Tuesday

Part of the $40,000 in property that was taken from a storage unit during a burglary in Siren in November 2008 is shown here. According to Siren Police Chief Chris Sybers, the burglary has now been solved, and the name of the burglar(s) may be released by next week. – Photo by Nancy Jappe

POLK COUNTY - A 28-year-old man who told authorities he’d been smoking marijuana since he was 8 years old was issued citations for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, stemming from an arrest Sunday, just after noon.

Mack L. Greer of rural Luck was stopped for speeding, 73 in a 55-mph zone, according to a Polk County Sheriff’s deputy. The arresting officer smelled burning marijuana coming from the vehicle when Greer rolled down the passenger side window after being stopped.

Asked by the officer if there was any marijuana in the vehicle, Greer stated there were “probably some roaches in the ashtray.” Officers found a marijuana cigarette and rolling papers in a pocket of Greer’s coat. The officer asked Greer when he last smoked marijuana and he said it was that morning. When asked to be more specific, Greer said “about 20 minutes ago.”

Also found in the vehicle were three roaches in the front ashtray and one in the rear ashtray. There were also flakes of marijuana on the gear shift between the driver and front passenger seats. The substance tested positive for marijuana in a field test. - with information from Polk County Sheriff’s Dept.

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Sheriff’s department may create a K-9 unit

by Sherill Summer SIREN - Burnett County Deputy Trevor Thiex spent four years with the St. Croix Tribal Police Department and had opportunity to help with the K-9 unit training exercises. He has firsthand knowledge not only on how the ongoing training exercises are conducted, but how valuable a K-9 unit is for a department.

According to Thiex, a unit is needed in Burnett County and sheriff’s deputies, investigators and even Sheriff Dean Roland have talked for a while about creating a K-9 unit in Burnett County.

The idea was taken one step farther on Thursday, Feb. 5, when Thiex gave a presentation to the public safety committee.

Among other things, the committee learned that while a K-9 service dog doesn’t take the place of an officer, the dog is a tool that could go into places that are too dangerous for a person. The K-9 unit would be a great deterrent in the jail and other dangerous situations as well and could be used as a public relations tool in school demonstrations.

Already the sheriff’s department has fielded requests to search school lockers if and when a K-9 unit is established in Burnett County.

Another benefit of having a K-9 unit in the sheriff’s department is that any increase in drug seizures would be more money available for the sheriff’s department. In 1996, Washburn County collected over $460,000 worth in narcotics, cash and property.

Currently, Burnett County must split drug seizure money with the department supplying a service dog, if a service dog is used during the arrest.

There are possible grants that could be used to help offset the cost of a dog and training for the dog and officer.

At the end of the presentation, the committee passed a motion for the sheriff’s department to continue gathering information on creating a K-9 unit in Burnett County.

Burnett County Deputy Trevor Thiex presented basic information on K-9 units to the Burnett County Public Safety Committee on Thursday, Feb. 5. Although the committee did not commit to creating a K-9 unit in Burnett County, Thiex received permission to search for grants and gather additional information on creating a unit in Burnett County to present to the committee at a later date.

- Photo by Sherill Summer

Update on sale of Capeside property

by Nancy Jappe SIREN – The closing date for sale of the Capeside Cove property on south Fourth Avenue had been set for Tuesday, Feb. 10. “The way things are going these days, I wouldn’t put my life on it,” Roger Ihde from Abarim Realty, Rochester, Minn., said when asked about that date in a phone conversation Friday, Feb. 6.

Abarim Realty is the broker for the Good Samaritan Society, owners of the property. At first, Ihde said that the Feb. 10 date looked good at this point, but later admitted that it might be somewhere else in February, the reason being that the parties are working through some title issues.

One of those issues is the presence of a large propane tank that is partially on the property. “We have a couple of solutions,” Ihde said, mentioning the choice of

either moving the tank or not buying the property. He was not at liberty at this time to say which would be chosen.

“We are looking forward to getting started on the project,” said Neal Blanchett, vice president/general counsel for Traditions Management, the firm that plans to run a senior citizens assisted living/memory care home on the property. “We have an agreement with the Good Samaritan Society, and are working our way through issues prior to closing. We are hoping to close as soon as we can.”

According to Blanchett, again in a Feb. 6 phone interview, a fair number of calls have come in to his company from former Capeside employees who are interested in coming back to work, and from people working in other assisted-living care facilities. Phone

calls have also come in from people who are interested in living in the new facility.

Blanchett praised the cooperation shown by the Siren Village staff with issues such as zoning, utility data, meter readings, etc. “It’s a good opportunity for us, and we are looking forward to it,” he commented.

The Capeside Cove property is owned by the Good Samaritan Society headquartered in Sioux Falls, S.D. For many years, they ran a skilled nursing home on the property. When the decision was made to close the building, the existing residents were moved to other facilities in the area. Since that time, the building has stood vacant, with the community waiting for someone else to hopefully buy the property and offer badly needed health care for seniors and disabled people.

Teaching money management to teens

Timely topic at Grantsburg Area Chamber meeting

by Priscilla Bauer GRANTSBURG – Bruce Frei, vice president of the Indianhead Credit Union, was talking money management at Grantsburg Area Chamber’s Feb. 5 meeting.

But Frei was not there to educate chamber members on sound money practices, but rather to explain an upcoming simulation, called Mad City Money, the credit union will be offering for Grantsburg seniors next month.

“We feel there is a great opportunity to provide financial education to young adults in our area schools through class training and the Mad City simulation,” said Frei. “Many of these students do not know how to balance, or even use, a checkbook. We hope that this training and simulation will provide the education that is needed.”

The simulation takes the high school students into the future with each student getting an “about me” sheet.

Listed on the sheet will be the student’s occupation and salary. Some students will have loans owed and credit card debt. The cost of medical and car insurance will also be listed.

Some participants will be designated as single while others will have a spouse. Some will play the role of single parent in the simulation. Students could be recent college or tech school graduates and others will be already in the work force.

The objectives of the simulation include giving students practice in budgeting as an adult in realistic situations, identifying and experiencing the consequences of poor decisions, developing good judgment in spending and budgeting and understanding budgeting as a necessary step in good money management.

Participants will have to build a monthly budget based on their incomes and their bio sheet. Volunteers will be set up to represent nine Mad City merchants where participants will go to purchase housing, transportation, food, day care and other needs. There will also be a shopping mall and a credit union for financial services.

Just as in real life, participants will experience unexpected changes in their financial situations. At any

Bruce Frei, vice president of Indianhead Credit Union talked to Grantsburg Area Chamber members at their Feb. 5 meeting about an upcoming money management workshop the credit union will present to Grantsburg seniors. Frei said 30 volunteers are needed to act as merchants and other businesspeople students will encounter during the Mad City Money simulation. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 4, from 8 a.m. to noon, at the Crex Convention Center at the Gateway Plaza in Grantsburg. – Photo by Priscilla Bauer time during the simulation a “Fickle Finger of Fate” could randomly visit a participant, distributing an unexpected windfall or an unplanned expense.

Frei explained that since the Mad City Money simulation will involve the entire Grantsburg senior class, about 30 volunteers are needed for the workshop. Frei asked the chamber members to sign up to act as merchants and other businesspeople the participants would encounter during the workshop.

Frei told chamber members that when the credit union has presented the Mad City Money simulation for other school’s seniors it has gone very well. “So far, I believe that each simulation we have done has been a great experience for both the students and the volun-

teers. In reading the completion surveys from the students, each one said that they had learned something from this simulation. Our goal is to have each student gain at least one piece of knowledge through his or her experience. Whether they learn how expensive it is to raise kids or just how to manage a checkbook, the lessons learned are valuable.”

“I have received many thanks from the volunteers,” said Frei. “Each one has learned what this generation of students is thinking – what obstacles are in front of them and what financial future they face. Most of the volunteers have asked me to let them know when the next Mad Citiy will be so they can participate again.”

Grantsburg’s Mad City will be held Wednesday, March 4, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, with volunteers asked to arrive at 8 a.m. for a short training session to prepare them for their roles in the simulation.

Anyone interested in volunteering can contact Frei by calling Indianhead Credit Union’s Spooner office at 715-635-8273.

In other chamber business Members discussed plans for the upcoming Midwinter Sports Day on Feb. 21 which the chamber is co-sponsoring with Hummer’s Rendezvous and Squirrels Unlimited.

The event is shaping up to be a fun-filled day for the whole family and includes a pancake breakfast, 5K race; logging competition, ice-fishing contest, polar plunge, minigolf tournament, lawn mower race on the ice and fireworks and dance. A Midwinter Sports Day button design contest was held with Grantsburg third graders. Buttons with the winning design will be sold at various Grantsburg businesses before and during the event. A drawing of button numbers will be held for several large door prizes.

Members also discussed plans for a customer appreciation pancake breakfast and an Oktoberfest celebration.

Nicki Peterson, who handles the chamber’s advertising and marketing, presented several options as to how to proceed with getting a chamber website up and running. Several members also made suggestions and comments as to how set up and maintain a chamber Web site. Peterson will continue to work on the best way to proceed, and report at the next meeting.

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More changes for Luck Golf Course

by Mary Stirrat LUCK — Management and oversight of the Luck Municipal Golf Course has been in a state of flux during recent months, and that trend continues with the resignation of two prominent members of the golf course commission.

Commission President Kyle Johansen and member Eric Dueholm each tendered a resignation in January after the village board took no action to refinance a loan that would enable the golf course to purchase equipment and put new roofs on two buildings.

At the Feb. 4 meeting of the village board, Danette Olsen was appointed to the commission, joining Steve Nielsen, Rich Callister and Al Nelson. Sue Gilhoi declined a nomination to the commission, and one citizen vacancy remains on the commission.

Olsen, executive director of St. Croix Festival Theatre, grew up in Luck and recently moved back. She said she played golf at the municipal golf course as a youth.

“I’m glad to be back, and was interested in finding some way I could serve the community.”

Discussion on both the refinance of the loan and on the future structure of the golf course were tabled. According to the report of village Administrator Kristina Handt, lack of a quorum at the January meeting of the golf course commission meant that there was no recommendation regarding the refinance.

In December, the golf course commission sought to refinance a 2003 note to include the purchase of a new mower, a new tractor and a new roof on the maintenance and pro shop buildings. The commission requested that about $125,000 be added to the loan balance of $452,797 to pay for the equipment and roofing projects, and to carry the golf

course through until the new season begins.

The board approved the request in December, but in January rescinded its decision after the bank asked the village to secure $50,000 of the loan.

While no discussion was held on the structure of the golf course, the board did approve a job description for an associate golf course superintendent.

The action does not approve hiring for the position but only establishes the job duties.

If the board decides to hire for the position, said Handt, they would be looking for someone with management experience to work with golf course superintendent Seth Petersen to oversee the day-to-day operations of the grounds crew.

A work meeting for the board to discuss the golf course was set for Feb. 19.

On the agenda will be issues such as golf course operations, financials, goals and projects that could approved pending federal stimulus funding.

Part-time officer hired Peggy Lester was approved as a parttime police officer for the village and she began work Friday, Feb. 6. She is currently part-time in Frederic, said police Chief Dan Deiss, and comes with strong recommendations.

Another part-time officer was needed due to the temporary National Guard leave of part-time officer Nick Nelson.

According to Deiss, the police department is prepared for the upcoming Winter Carnival.

Public works, golf course An annual salary of $46,000, beginning Feb. 1, 2009, was approved for the public works director. After a satisfactory six-month review the salary will be increased to $47,000 per year.

In addition to the annual salary, the public works director will receive health insurance, vacation and retirement benefits.

Seth Petersen was hired for the position, starting Feb. 1, after the retirement of longtime public works director Roger Giller.

The board also approved an amendment to the job description for the public works director that states that the public works director will serves as golf course superintendent.

Ice illuminators Candles inside blocks of ice will line Luck’s Main Street during Winter Carnival this year, weather permitting.

Sharry Swenson of the Community Club appeared before the board to present the idea, saying that the ice blocks will be two feet tall with a hole drilled into it for a candle. The candle will be deep enough, she said, so that children won’t be able to reach far enough to get burned.

“We just though it might enhance the Winter Carnival and make Luck a little more fun,” Swenson told the board.

The ice block illuminators can be placed on the sidewalks by the light poles so they don’t interfere with snowplowing or shoveling, she added.

Petersen was head superintendent at the municipal golf course for six years prior to his hiring as the public works director.

One-quarter of his time will be spent as golf course superintendent, with that portion of his salary to be paid with golf course revenue. The remaining 75 percent of his time and salary will be divided equally between general public works duties, the water utility and the sewer utility.

Village Administrator Kristina Handt said that she has contacted the village insurance company to make sure there would be no added liability. The village crew will remove them after the Winter Carnival.

“Thanks for thinking of that,” said Gene Cooper, chairing the meeting in the absence of village President Rich Callister.

Other business • The board voted to amend the village bidding policy to state that public construction in excess of $25,000 must be bid, in accordance with the state bidding policy. The previous limit was $10,000.

• The board adopted a purchasing policy and a credit-card policy reflecting current practices.

• Evaluation forms approved by the finance and personnel committee for a six-month evaluation of village Administrator Kristina Handt were distributed. The evaluations will be completed by each trustee and each department head. Handt will also compete a self-evaluation form. The forms are to be completed and returned by Feb. 24 for compilation by Handt, with a review of findings during a closed session at the March board meeting.

• Mediation between the village and Teamsters Local 552, representing five employees in the the public works and clerk/treasurer departments, will begin Feb. 17. The Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission has assigned a The three-year contract mediator. expired Dec. 31, said Handt. Both the village and the union must pay a $400 mediation charge.

Board says no tax dollars for fundraisers

by Mary Stirrat MILLTOWN — Growing need and a heightened awareness of making every penny count put an end to one aspect of “business as usual” for the Milltown Village Board.

The board last year provided a $500 donation to a local business woman to support her in the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.

Monday evening, however, when board members considered the request from Michelle Sherrard of Wig Diva and Hair’s the Thing, they ended up deciding that it might not be the right way to spend taxpayer dollars.

Initially the board discussed the fact that last year, after approving the $500 donation to Sherrard’s cause, they received other requests but had no more funds available. The question then arose as to whether tax dollars should be used in this manner.

“Last year, after we (voted to donate),” said village President LuAnn White, “we ran into a couple of other people wanting to do that.”

Trustee Ben Wheeler commented that

The water tower in Milltown needs painting, and the village board is considering ways to incorporate Milltown’s 100th anniversary next year into the new paint job. - Photo

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maybe it should be included in the village budget and distributed, possibly as a village grant, on a first-come, firstserved basis.

“But we want to be fair,” said Trustee

Dawn Ferguson, adding that it could be advertised that anyone requesting funds could apply by a certain date, and the applications could then be reviewed.

“Me, personally,” said Trustee Paul Brooks, “our taxpayer money shouldn’t be going to this.” Both Brooks and Wheeler said that the cause was “a great thing,” but Wheeler said he had also gotten comments that echoed Brooks’ feelings. He then pointed out that the village budget is pretty tight already.

When asked by White if the village should or shouldn’t provide the donation, Brooks said, “My personal feeling is no, because that’s the taxpayers money.”

“I agree,” said Trustee Sam Owen.

The other board members agreed, also, and Sherrard’s request was denied.

Dog complaint Betty Aronson and Ruth Arnold of Sunnyview Apartments came to the board meeting to discuss a dog that lives with a resident of the building.

The dog is now on a runner that keeps it near its owner’s apartment but, last

fall, it was left free to roam the yard.

The owner is disabled, and the two women said that not enough was being done to make sure the yard was kept clean.

Since the dog is on private property, said village board members, the issue must be taken up with the manager or owner of the apartment.

Other business • The board voted to establish a $25 charge for checks that come back due to nonsufficient funds, and a 1-percent per month interest charge unpaid statements.

• The board approved high-speed Internet for the police department, at $155 per month plus $200 in start-up costs. The cost includes fax and phone service. The village is now paying $110 per month for dial-up Internet, phone and fax.

• The board discussed a $2,231 bill for spraying for mosquitoes that was done without authorization from the village.

The consensus of the board was to not pay the bill.

Polk County applauds cigarette tax increase

POLK COUNTY - Health advocates in Polk County today applauded President Barack Obama’s decision to sign into law a 61.66-cent increase on the federal tax on cigarettes – a move hailed as a simple, highly effective way to improve health in the county. The increase is scheduled to take effect on March 31.

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids estimates that the increase in cigarette taxes will mean that nationwide nearly two million children alive today will not become smokers – and 1 million more who currently smoke will quit because of the price increase, said Jennifer

Swenson of the Polk County TobaccoFree Coalition.

In addition, Obama’s decision is expected to save more than $44.5 billion in long-term future health care costs.

“This is, pure and simple, excellent health care policy,’’ Swenson said. “The price increase can reduce smoking rates by encouraging people to quit and keeping children from starting to smoke in the first place.”

In Wisconsin, the federal price increase will keep an estimated 33,500 children from smoking, encourage 16,000 adult smokers to quit, and pre-

vent nearly 15,000 smoking deaths, according to federal estimates. It will also save Wisconsin approximately $740 million in future health care costs.

That’s important in this state, Swenson said, because smoking-related illnesses kill 8,000 people a year and cost the state more than $3 billion in health care costs and lost worker productivity.

Last year, Wisconsin raised its cigarette tax by $1 to $1.77 which health advocates praised at the time for helping to keep an estimated 65,800 children alive today from smoking and help

33,300 current smokers to quit.

“Few policies lower costs, raise revenue and save future governmental expenditures as effectively as raising the cigarette tax,’’ said Swenson.

Smokers who want to quit can call the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line at 1-800QUIT NOW for free coaching and a free two-week supply of lozenges, gum, or patches. The Quit Line is funded by the Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Control Program and administered by the UW-Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. - from Polk County Tobacco-Free Coalition

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Siren passes truancy ordinance

by Nancy Jappe SIREN – The Siren Village Board, at its Feb. 5 meeting, passed a truancy ordinance that is modeled on the county truancy ordinance. Only the names of the issuing agency, the village of Siren, and the school district have been changed.

To this time, cases of truancy in Siren have been going through the Burnett County court system.

Circuit Court Judge Ken Kutz, during his Feb. 5 visit to the board, said that since taking office last summer, one of the first things he did was to instigate a more comprehensive truancy court, calling for once-a-week truancy appearances.

“Two kids in December didn’t show up for their court appearances,” Kutz told the board. “I issued an arrest warrant for them. They were on the phone (with me) within 24 hours.”

In the new Siren truancy ordinance, a truant is defined as “a pupil who is absent from school without an acceptable excuse for part or all of any one day on which school is held during the school semester and is under the age of 18.”

According to state law, students must be in school until they reach the age of 18. The age limit of 16 for

Siren Police Chief Chris Sybers presented his case for replacement of the department’s Dodge Durango squad car to the village board Thursday, Feb. 5. Board member Luanne Swanson is shown on Sybers’ right.

being in school no longer applies.

A habitual truant is defined as “a child who is absent from school without an acceptable excuse for any portion of all of five school days during a semester in which school is held.”

Parents can be found at fault for their children’s truancy. Kutz told the board that by high school age, truancy is usually the kids’ fault whereas in the younger age, from elementary to Siren Village early middle school, Administrator/Engineer more often than not it is Randy Surbaugh is pic- the parents fault. tured here during the Judge talks about his Feb. 5 meeting of the philosophy for the court Siren Village Board. system Judge Kutz has been taking time lately to talk to town and village boards. He emphasized the importance of the Restorative Justice program and of drug court, and his actions in dealing with truancy and with the many property foreclosures that have been going on, looking first to mediation and alternatives to foreclosure. He is also very much in favor of continued community service for those in jail and with people who aren’t paying fines. His goal is to keep the court system proactive.

“Our phone lines are always available; our doors are open,” the judge said in urging people to be in contact with him when questions, concerns and problems arise.

Police department to get new squad car After discussion, the board gave Chief Chris Sybers approval to order a new squad car, with the provision that the existing Dodge Durango be kept in use until the new vehicle arrives, then be sold.

Department policy is to replace vehicles every four years. The Durango is a 2005 model with current mileage of 82,000. It recently was out of service for repairs for three weeks, which is not a problem at this time of year, when the population in the area is down.

Money is available in the police department budget to cover the purchase of a new squad, which will be white with black graphics.

Meeting schedule Village board committees will meet in February as follows: Roads, streets and utilities – Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2 p.m.; buildings, grounds and parks – Monday, Feb. 16, 2 p.m.; personnel and finance – Monday, Feb. 23,

Three people showed up dressed in valentine red, (L to R) Joan O’Fallon, Janet Hunter and Dave Alden, for the Siren Village Board meeting Thursday, Feb. 5. Hunter is the village president.

O’Fallon and Alden are village trustees.

10 a.m.; public safety – Monday, Feb. 23, 4:30 p.m.

Open house at the new utility shop will be Thursday, Feb. 26, 2-4 p.m.

Siren Village President Janet Hunter (L) and village clerk/treasurer Ann Peterson are shown here during the Feb. 5 meeting of the village board.

Hunter is running unopposed for re-election in April to her second term as the village’s first woman president.

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Wal-Mart issue resurfaces

by Regan Kohler SHELL LAKE – The Wal-Mart matter resurfaced last week, with company representatives asking for another extension on the plan for the Spoonerdesignated store, despite an announcement made in December that the company would not be continuing with the project.

Monday, Feb. 9, Washburn County’s Executive Committee tentatively approved a one-year extension on the original agreement, made in 2005 with Wal-Mart on the land on CTH H between Hwys. 53 and 63, Spooner, to build a 98,000-square-foot store. The land was appraised at $900,000.

However, in the ensuing years, the company had to request many six-month deadline extensions on the agreement, due to obstacles.

One of these obstacles came when the company faced opposition from a citizen group, Washburn County First, concerned that bringing Wal-Mart into the area would take away from local business and possibly not provide adequate jobs for people. Two lawsuits were brought before the company, city of Spooner and the county by WCF: one accused the county of violating openmeeting laws when making the land sale to Wal-Mart, and the other said that Spooner’s Board of Appeals didn’t adequately discuss some of the variances granted to the project before approving them. One was dropped, and the other was settled.

The company also had to work out infrastructure improvements to the site, for traffic. Roadblocks arose due to the fact that the Wild Rivers Trail for ATVs and the railroad tracks ran across the Hwy. 63 turnoff. This took awhile to get through, and numerous approvals had to be made.

Last fall, Wal-Mart met with the county and Spooner officials to say that the project had gone $1 million over its budget, and asked if they could work to come up with ways to reduce these costs. Some ideas included less infrastructure improvements and use of taxincrement district funds; Wal-Mart would be located in TID No. 4 of Spooner. The county also reappraised the land to see if they could offer it to Wal-Mart at a lower cost, and found it could be offered at $80,000 less than the original value.

In December, officials received a press release saying Wal-Mart was withdrawing its plans for Spooner, due to “corporate strategy to improve returns, productivity and sales within its stores across the country.”

However, the company was still on its seventh deadline extension, which expires this week, on Thursday, Feb. 12, and had a possible eighth extension it could exercise, which would carry through Aug. 12. Wal-Mart had been paying extension fees for each extension, around $30,000, and the county had not seen any of this.

Monday morning at the Elliott Building, Shell Lake, county board Chair Micheal Bobin said that last week, one of Wal-Mart’s developers had asked for another extension, this time one year, on the purchase agreement.

Board Vice Chair Don Quinton said they were under the impression that Wal-Mart had backed out.

“They never gave us anything official,” replied Bobin, as there was nothing on paper except the press release, just a phone call from the company saying the project was terminated.

Bobin had a fifth amendment to the original agreement from Wal-Mart, in which they asked that the agreement be extended through Feb. 12, 2010, and no further.

“They’re asking for a year,” he said.

There is $142,000 in escrow from the extension fees, and a $15,000 deposit, Bobin said. If the board approved the full year, this amendment would cancel out the eighth extension and the $30,000 fee, but the county would receive $50,000 of the money in escrow in lieu of the fee. The $50,000 would be applicable to the purchase price and nonrefundable to the buyer if Wal-Mart canceled the agreement, and comes out of the $900,000, Bobin said.

“This is all we received in writing,” Bobin said about the project post-cancellation.

Interestingly, Bobin said, the reappraisal was never brought up in this discussion.

Corporation counsel Jeffrey Kohler, who had initiated contact with the company to find out what was going on with the extension fees, said that there were a few factors that could prevent the county from receiving the money.

They would be if the property were damaged or condemned somehow; if the seller – the county – defaulted on the sale; or if the county denied Wal-Mart entry to inspect it, though it already was inspected, Kohler said.

Supervisor Tom Mackie asked Bobin to clarify the facts: If the county went along with the extension, the money would be released, but if not, the county would lose $157,000 and the contract would be null and void. Bobin said this was correct.

Kohler said that if the contract were voided, the case could end up in court.

Quinton said he knew there were lots of disappointed citizens, as evident in letters to the editor in the local newspaper, who had hoped to have a Wal-Mart in Spooner. Quinton said he doubted the land was a “hot commodity” at the moment.

“I see no reason not to extend it,” he said.

Administrative coordinator/finance director Mike Keefe said there is still no guarantee that the project will come back, and that Wal-Mart has made it clear they wouldn’t put more money than originally planned into the project, due to the economic recession.

Transportation officials push new online information services MADISON The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is urging motorists to use its new 511 Traveler Information Web site, which includes a winter road map for mobile phones and other devices.

DOT spokesman Mike Goetzman says the color-coded display lets travelers know which roads are safe and which ones are hazardous or impassible.

“Or you can access to other travel information like events that impact traf-

fic,” he adds. “Message signs, camera images, and for some cities, travel times.

If people have better information they’ll make smarter choices about the routes they take and when they depart.”

The 511 system was launched late last year, replacing the state’s toll-free dial-in service. Part of the enhanced system is making more lines available, to keep drivers from getting busy signals. – Wisconsin Public Radio (Brad Bryant and Brian Bull)

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However, there is an existing agreement, Keefe said, and the amendment is an offer.

“We haven’t defaulted on it,” he said in regard to the question of the county possibly losing the escrow funds.

Bobin said that the amendment would mean the county is extending the right of first refusal, a real estate term for the first person to put an offer on a piece of property that prevents another from taking it instead. He said Wal-Mart is using money already committed to the project for this deal.

Bobin said that all across the county, from the northernmost part, he has heard comments about the canceled project, with people asking how the county could have let it happen.

Any resolution passed by the executive committee needs to receive full county board approval. As the meeting is always the third Tuesday of the month – which happens to be next week – Supervisor Dan Hubin told the committee that the current extension would expire before then.

Bobin said that passing the motion on contingency of full board approval would be OK with Wal-Mart. If need be, a meeting can be called as long as it is noticed within 24 hours, but Bobin said holding a special meeting would cost more money.

The committee approved the fifth amendment for the yearlong extension, contingent on full board approval.

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Siren referendum

he referendum question being posed to Siren School District residents next Tuesday is obviously the most interesting and important election occurring this primary election season.

The referendum asks for voter permission to exceed state-imposed revenue limits in order to levy a $250,000-a-year, five-year allocation to maintain programs and meet buildng needs. The referendum simply maintains the current tax rate, according to the district’s Web site. Informational forums for voters will be held this Thursday at Hertel and Siren.

This is the third time such a referendum has come before Siren district voters who have been gracious and tenacious in approving the first two, supporting their school in the face of what has been challenging financial times for many smaller, and rural school districts.

The support is impressive, especially after a majority of Siren voters supported a proposal to consolidate their school with Webster several years ago. It’s obvious the yes votes in that referendum were influenced by the allure of property tax relief. The votes from the Webster School District spoke louder, defeating the proposal.

Eyes of neighboring school district residents will be on Siren next week as voters there are put to another test as the future of their school - which offers talented instructors and outstanding programs - teeters in the balance.

Until there is some kind of meaningful reform in the state aid forumula for funding schools, Siren may have to be the example for other districts one step away from their situation of asking voters to pay a little more to keep their school vital and improving.

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Awesome, Otellini

heers to Paul S. Otellini, the chief executive of Intel, who called on other large companies this week to follow his lead in investing in the United States by building plants here instead of overseas.

Otellini held up his company’s $7 billion investment in new computer chip factories as a patriotic gesture for other businesses to follow.

“This is all about confidence,” he said. “Economic cycles are about confidence.”

Intel’s investment will go toward chip plants in Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico, not the factories overseas. “We believe in the company and in this country,” he said.

Should Otellini’s example be followed, it might spark other mega companies such as Wal-Mart, to purchase their goods only from U.S. factories.

Would stimulus money be better spent offsetting the difference in the cost in wages and manufacturing to help convince some of these companies to play their part in establishing and keeping jobs stateside?

We need more Otellinis stepping forward to help us out of its economic mess.

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Big Top founder charged BAYFIELD - The founder of Big Top Chautauqua and host of “Tent Show Radio” will be edited out of his own broadcast in light of his arrest last week.

Allegations of sexual assault and battery against Big Top Chautauqua founder and artistic director Warren Nelson last week lead him to take a leave of absence this week. His absence will also be felt on the Big Top radio program “Tent Show Radio,” which is carried on more than 50 stations in 10 states, including all of Wisconsin Public Radio’s Ideas Network affiliates. WPR Acting Director Mike Crane says the decision to remove Nelson from the program was made by the nonprofit Big Top Chautauqua’s board of directors. Crane says they never considered canceling the show, which airs after Garrison Keillor’s “Prairie Home Companion” on Saturday nights. Crane does agree Nelson is a state icon for his music and poetry. “We would be natural to be concerned for Warren but also for any potential victims. Beyond that because there is a legal case, I would rather not comment,” he said. Nelson founded Big Top Chautauqua nearly a quarter of a century ago. The 900-seat outdoor theater is nestled on top of Mount Ashwabay three miles south of Bayfield — pitched under a blue and white big-top tent. Big Top Chautauqua operations manager and musician Phil Anich will replace Nelson as host. Nelson will appear in Bayfield County Circuit Court for formal charges on Feb. 24. – Wisconsin Public Radio (Mike Simonson) Post office cutbacks?

BARRON - If Congress gives the postmaster general permission to do it, then patrons may soon see their mail delivery drop from six days a week to five days.

Recurring deficits at the U.S. Postal Service are forcing considerations of scaling back mail delivery services from the traditional Monday-Saturday schedule.

Postmaster General John E. Potter asked Congress last week to allow his office the flexibility to decide whether to continue on that delivery schedule or to drop one of the days with the lightest mail volume. One candidate that’s been mentioned for a possible mail delivery day to cut is Tuesday. Rhonda Olson, postmaster at the Barron Post Office, said that the possibility of losing a day in the mail week has generated a lot of questions from the public. Many in the past week who have stopped by the post office to conduct their regular business have also been asking what the proposal could mean for them. Olson cautioned that the postmaster general has only asked that Congress give him the option to cut a day of service. The option may not necessarily be taken, but current rules mandate that deliveries be made six days a week. Besides deficits that have been plaguing the U.S. Postal Service’s bottom line for year after year, Olson said that total mail volume has also been on the decline, so the postmaster general is trying to respond to those forces. It’s not just the public that is curious about how this dilemma will conclude. “I Google it every day to see what new stories are out about it and what people are saying,” Olson said. – Barron News-Shield

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Letters t o t h e e d i t o r

Choice for DPI head

The state superintendent of schools primary election is next Tuesday, Feb. 17, and I encourage everyone to get out and vote for the candidate of their choice. In this important election, the winner will have great influence over the direction of education in Wisconsin for the next four years and beyond.

I feel there are two real choices in this election - Tony Evers, the current deputy superintendent who has served for the last eight years, and Todd Price, a college professor and education research specialist.

In my research, I found that our school system has had declining test scores and is failing our children. We need a change from past practices that degrade our schools.

I believe we need the visionary leadership of Price as superintendent. He has proven himself a leader on education issues. He advocates for building safe schools, an end to the testing mess and for fixing the school funding formula so that our local schools get their fair share of state money.

Visit his Web site at http://toddprice.squarespace.com/issue s/.

I encourage you to join me in voting for Todd Price on Feb. 17.

Cindy Stimmler Dresser

Wrong path Following an onslaught of publicity and lobbying, the Wisconsin Legislature feels compelled to “get tough on drunk drivers.” This is a biennial event that has taken place at least for 20 years. Every session a menu of more punitive, restrictive and arbitrary proposals is created and promoted by MADD and other anti-alcohol interests. This year a special effort is being made to capitalize on national publicity that implies Wisconsin residents are a collection of drunken losers. This impression was further driven home by a multimonth series in a major daily newspaper that reinforced the same implication.

That the aforementioned “studies” lacked any real credibility, and the conclusions drawn from these studies are contradicted by actual traffic safety data has not deterred MADD and its acolytes, or many members of the state Legislature. Their quest is to kill the “drinking culture” in Wisconsin. Why, because Wisconsin stands as testimony that MADD’s neoprohibitionist agenda isn’t about traffic safety, it’s about demonizing drinking.

It’s true that Wisconsin residents do drink more than residents of other states, but they do so mostly in moderation.

Wisconsin does not have as many harsh and punitive anti-drinking and driving laws as do many other states, but the state’s traffic safety record is superior to many states with harsher laws, as well as being superior to the national average.

Could improvements be made, certainly, although not by following policies that have already proven to be failures.

For example: Mandating ignition interlock devices for first-time offenders. The most authoritative study on this topic, done for the California Legislature, found that firsttime offenders with ignition interlock devices in their vehicles had far more accidents than first-time offenders who did not have these devices in their vehicles.

These results held true no matter what the original BAC was of the offender.

Mandating ignition interlocks for this population is like throwing them down the stairs to keep them from hurting themselves. Isn’t the ultimate purpose of these laws supposed to be improving safety?

Legalizing DUI roadblocks. Roadblocks catch very few drunk drivers. Their primary purpose is to intimidate and harass the general population. Once roadblocks are legalized for one purpose, they will be used for any purpose deemed desirable by law enforcement agencies, all they have to do is call the roadblock a DUI checkpoint.

Making DUI offenses a felony. Felonies are our most serious crimes against society. The consequences of being found guilty of a felony are serious penalties and lifelong restrictions that can affect every aspect of a person’s life. Murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, rape; these are real felonies, they constitute intentional harm to other persons. Does having three beers and being stopped for a burned-out taillight really reach this level of intentional harm?

Wisconsin residents deserve better than to be served up this new version of McCarthyism, especially under the pretence of safety.

James J. Baxter, President National Motorists Association Waunakee, Wis.

I could hear the ghosts Last Saturday, I attended the Winter Rendezvous at Forts Folle Avoine in Danbury held in connection with the Jack London Big Read.

I had so much fun with people dressed in winter furs and wool who were passionate talking about “their” life during Jack’s time.

There was a musher with a dog sled team eager to take me for a ride. I thought I could hear ghosts from the “Call of the Wild.” After eating a bowl of the chili that had been kept warm in a cauldron over the campfire, I talked with a costumed bead expert who had many examples of old beads and how they were made.

Stories were read aloud and the “Cremation of Sam Magee” was read outside by the campfire. This was a wonderful day of learning for kids and adults.

Big thanks to all who made it happen.

Wilma Gray St. Croix Falls

Failure to keep it We the people have failed!

At the conclusion of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia Ben Franklin was asked, “What have you given us sir?”… to which he replied “A Republic, if you can keep it!” We the people have failed to keep it!

Our founders created a constitutional republic, not a democracy. They knew that it was far too easy for the majority in a pure democracy to violate the natural rights of the individual. “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49.” Thomas Jefferson We the people have allowed 545 i.e…

435 members in the House of Representatives, 100 senators, nine Supreme Court Justices and one president… in a far-off government center, to dictate and control virtually all facets of over 300 million people.

Our country cannot make any meaningful corrections to problems until we elect public servants who place their allegiance to the constitution higher than to party politics or self.

Visit www.commonsenserevisited.org download and read this remarkable document. The original version was written by Thomas Paine in 1776 and has been credited with motivating the colonies to continue the Revolution from British rule.

Leon Moe Luck

Memories of Bill

When we say “Bill,” we think of something that we have to pay, or what a bird uses to eat its food. When we say “Bill Johnson,” we think of what a very special person he was.

He never intended to make a name for himself, for in his eyes he was just doing what any person should do. As members of the Frederic Historical Society, we’d like to share with you and give Bill credit for all he did as a part of our group. He was a friend, accepting us as we were. He didn’t try to rule our society, but worked with us to accomplish the dream for the old train depot. He possessed foresight and hindsight. He made many friends over the years, both young and old. Bill was able to bring out the best in each age group. He was handy with a saw and hammer, and also with encouragement.

We look at the many things he accomplished, yet he always made us feel it was a joint effort for all of us.

Bill, we cherish our memories of you and in the sharing of our museum dream that became a reality.

Leona Cummings, on behalf of the Frederic Historical Society Frederic

Remember the CCC? What does our Congressman Obey’s GOP opponent Tyberg want? Is not $2.5 billion for improvements in our national parks not stimulus?

Jeff Tyberg may not be old enough, nor read enough history, to remember what the CCC did to provide jobs for young men and improve our parks back during the Great Depression, but I am and have frequently enjoyed the improvements they made in places like the Interstate Park in St, Croix.

Only this time we are going to be more free-enterprise oriented. Improvement work will be put out for competitive bids to private employers with the necessary expertise who in turn will hire the workers and buy the supplies needed.

And supposedly this is all tainted by Obey’s son being a lobbyist for the National Parks Association. With 15 years lobbying experience in Washington, I can only say thank goodness they’ve got someone to tell their story who can compete with the highly paid lobbyists for Wall Street and the oil and coal industries who secure ever more loopholes in tax laws, subsidies and freedom from essential regulation in their pursuit of bonuses and profits.

All of us like to pay as low taxes as possible, but what would I do to stimulate the economy if I got one? It is doubtful I would spend it.

I could buy a new car–but I could do that now. I would likely put it in a CD or the stock market, and how many jobs would that create?

If you are a devotee of the trickle-down theory maybe a little eventually would get there–but we need urgent relief for the unemployed and stimulus, now, not a little some place down the road.

Eiler Ravnholt Luck

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his is the heart of winter, a time for skis and snowshoes, a time to enjoy the homestead. But a new book tugs at me and makes me wish spring were here so I could head out into the countryside with my bike and my hiking boots.

I would like to explore some new places and take another look at some familiar places. The places on my list are found Gregg in a wonderful new book, “Polk County Westigard Places” by Buz Swerkstrom.

Swerkstrom, a journalist and feature writer, is a Polk County native. The book is about his impressions and explorations of the area he knows and cares about. It is his telling of a sense of place. He conveys an appreciation of that place, a place he understands.

“Polk County Places” tells about our area and places to go, but it also tells about our people and the character of our area. When he explores a place, he experiences more than the physical scene and he shares that deeper appreciation with the reader. Swerkstrom is a poet. His “A Walk in The Woods” perfectly expresses the joy of an autumn hike.

Much of the book is about our special public areas. He explores Interstate State Park, the new Straight Lake Park, and the overlooked county and community parks. Swerkstrom knows nature. He sees things in the parks that might be overlooked and explains nature in a way that is clear and exciting. The reader gets an understanding of what we are seeing in the ancient bed rock of our area. But he knows his territory and tells us the human story of our area as well.

There are out-of-the-way places in the county waiting to be explored, Swerkstrom takes you to Simonson Woods, Lotus Lake with its rare American Lotus beds, remote Tula Lake, the depth of the Ice Age Trail and the shores of the St. Croix River with its endangered mussels. We meet local artists and musicians. We get an appreciation of round barns and see our landscape with new eyes. Our area can be explored by car, bike, canoe and foot.

Swerkstrom is a great writer. The book will be a joy to read even if the reader can’t visit the territory. But his depth of knowledge and his style, with his personal comments adding flavor to the book, will make it hard not to get out and explore.

The book should end up in our the cars and backpacks.

(A feature story on Buz Swerkstrom and his book appears elsewhere in this issue).

Low mortgage rates present big opportunities

STATEWIDE – As home prices continue to fall and interest rates plummet, some are describing the current conditions as a “perfect storm” for homebuyers.

The market is currently experiencing the lowest interest rates in more than 30 years, creating great opportunities for first-time homebuyers and those interested in refinancing. For people with good credit, these historically low rates present a buying or refinancing opportunity that is hard to beat.

As home prices drop and interest rates hover well below 6 percent, the following

tips may be helpful for consumers: • If you have an adjustable-rate mortgage, now is the time to convert that to a fixed-rate mortgage.

• If you like the interest rate, lock it in!

Rates change frequently, sometimes by the hour, and waiting for the perfect rate may mean you lose out on a rate that would have saved you money in the long run.

• Don’t wait! Due to the consolidation among mortgage, appraisal and title companies, a logjam is imminent as more people take advantage of the low rates – capacity within the system is limited.

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• If you or someone you know is interested in taking advantage of the current rates, contact your local loan officer or bank.

The attention the housing industry is getting from the government is positive, and 2009 could be a great year to take advantage of these great rates and opportunities.

Consumers should be encouraged, and for those looking for a home or to refinance, now is a great time to talk with a loan officer or a banker. – from Glenn J. Meier, market manager, Bremer Bank

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L e a d e r New Wisconsin road conditions hotline D

riving on Wisconsin roads can be frustrating, especially in the winter, but thanks to the new Wisconsin 511 service provided by the Department of Transportation you now have up-to-date information on road conditions all day, everyday.

You can dial 511 from your landline telephone, cell phone or log on to the Web site www.511wi.gov for information on major Wisconsin highways. The information provided includes: incident reports, lane closures, work zones, winter road

conditions and roadside services such as rest areas or travel information centers. 511 is free for landline users and normal airtime charges apply for cell phone users.

The Wisconsin 511 system is voice or keypad activated. After dialing, you will hear a welcome message and be asked what information you are interested in.

Speak clearly and minimize background noise if possible including radios and open windows.

For road information, you will be asked to provide a highway number, your direction of travel as well as an exit, mile marker and city or county to help the sys-

F O R U M tem provide you the most accurate information.

You can preregister your landline phone or cell phone at www.511wi.gov and personalize your information under the My Profiles setting. It is possible to set up to five routes in advance, such as home, work, grandma’s house or the cabin. Once registered, the system acknowledges your caller ID, and speeds up access to your routes. www.511wi.gov also gives you the option to receive text messages on your cell phone with updates regarding road conditions and incident infor-

mation for your five most frequented routes.

Hearing and speech impaired persons can dial 711 to use the same system through the Wisconsin Relay Service by asking the operator to dial the alternate number 866-511-WISC (9472).

Please remember to practice safe driving. Have someone else in the car dial while you drive, dial in before you begin your journey or pull off the highway, park in a safe place and then dial in.

If you would like a brochure regarding the new 511 hotline or have other legislative concerns, please feel free to contact me toll-free at 888-529-0028 or by e-mailing me at Rep.Hraychuck@legis.wisconsin.gov.

Obama as far as a surge that would lead to a more intense bombing of Afghan villages and professor of law at DePaul centers and a heavy dependence University and the former on military. I would like to see us United Nations human-rights reach out more, to be accommoinvestigator in Afghanistan. In dating, and negotiate with all of 2005, he was forced out of the the factions in Afghanistan."

United Nations under pressure Carter should know. He from the Bush administration, helped create what his nationaldays after he released a report security adviser, Zbigniew criticizing the U.S. military and Amy called "the Afghan Brzezinski, private contractors for com- Goodman trap," supporting Islamic mitting human-rights abuses. I mujahideen in the late-1970s asked Bassiouni about Obama's approach to Afghanistan. He against the Soviets in Afghanistan, theretold me: "There is no military solution in by creating what evolved into the Afghanistan. There is an economic-devel- Taliban. Brzezinski told the French newsopment solution, but I don't see that com- paper Le Nouvel Observateur in 1998: ing. ... Right now, the population has "What is most important to the history of nothing to gain by supporting the U.S. the world? The Taliban or the collapse of and NATO. It has everything to gain by the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central being supportive of the Taliban."

Europe and the end of the Cold War?" Bassiouni's scathing 2005 U.N. report accused the U.S. military and private mil- More than 14,000 Soviet troops were itary contractors of "forced entry into killed, and the Afghan toll exceeded 1 homes, arrest and detention of nationals million. Osama bin Laden got his start and foreigners without legal authority or with the help of the CIA-funded Afghan judicial review, sometimes for extended operation.

Bassiouni suggests that a military soluperiods of time, forced nudity, hooding tion is doomed to failure, noting that the and sensory deprivation, sleep and food Taliban "realized they could not defeat deprivation, forced squatting and standing for long periods of time in stress posi- the American forces, so they went undertions, sexual abuse, beatings, torture, and ground. They put their Kalashnikovs under the mattresses, and they waited. A use of force resulting in death."

I also put the question of the military year ago, they resurfaced again. They can surge to former President Jimmy Carter. do the same thing. They can go back in He responded: "I would disagree with the mountains, push the Kalashnikovs under the mattress, wait out five years.

They have been doing that since the 1800s with any foreign and every foreign invader."

As Carter told me, "To offer a hand of friendship or accommodation, not only to the warlords but even to those radicals in the Taliban who are willing to negotiate, would be the best approach, than to rely exclusively on major military force."

Have we learned nothing from Iraq?

"When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances, for waiting and patience is over. Too many lives have been lost and too many billions have been spent for us to trust the president on another tried-and-failed policy."

That was Sen. Barack Obama in January 2007. With his Joint Chiefs now apparently gunning for more fighting and less talk in Afghanistan, Obama needs to be reminded of his own words.

••• Denis Moynihan contributed research to this column.

••• Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 700 stations in North America. Her column’s appearance in the Leader is sponsored by the local group, The Gathering, an informal group of people of diverse ages, experience, and philosophies who meet every other week at a member's home for silent meditation and lively discussions about peace, justice, spirituality, religion, politics, environment, global cultures and humanity.

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Obama’s Afghan trap P

resident Barack Obama held his first prime-time news conference Tuesday night. When questioned on Afghanistan, he replied, "This is going to be a big challenge." He also was asked whether he would change the Pentagon policy banning the filming and photographing of the flag-draped coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said he was reviewing it. The journalist who asked the question also pointed out that it was Joe Biden several years ago who accused the Bush administration of suppressing the images to avoid public furor over the deaths of U.S. service members. Now Vice President Joe Biden predicts a surge in U.S. troops in Afghanistan will mean more U.S. casualties: "I hate to say it, but yes, I think there will be. There will be an uptick."

Meanwhile, The Associated Press recently cited a classified report drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommending a shift in strategy from democracy-building in Afghanistan to attacking alleged Taliban and al-Qaida strongholds along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

And the campaign has clearly begun.

Days after his inauguration, Obama's first (known) military actions were two missile strikes inside Pakistan's frontier Waziristan province, reportedly killing 22 people, including women and children.

Cherif Bassiouni has spent years going back and forth to Afghanistan. He is a

Reining in wasteful spending in tough times I

n these tough economic times we need a lot of things – cooperation between the political parties, for instance, and a determination to buckle down and come up with the right approach to boosting our economy. There’s also something we don’t need – wasteful spending on pet projects that members of Congress may try to sneak into legislation. These projects, known as earmarks, are an abuse of taxpayer money, something we can’t afford as we work to get our economy back on track.

We have made some progress in reforming earmarks in Congress, most notably in the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, which was enacted into law in September 2007 and included a number of provisions I cham-

why members sneak them into legislation in the first place – and why forcing these projects pioned with then-Sen. Barack to get 60 votes will help stop Obama. But we have to do more; most earmarks in their tracks. we shouldn’t just disclose earWhen we introduced the marks, we should make it harder bill, McCain outlined just a to pass them, and Sen. John few pet projects that have been McCain and I have joined forces tucked into larger bills in on a new proposal that would do recent years.

They included just that. $188,000 in spending for someThe Fiscal Discipline, Earmark thing called the Lobster Reform, and Accountability Act Institute, a cooperative proof 2009 will move beyond dis- Russ gram of research and educacouraging earmarks to actually Feingold tion with the lobster industry making it harder to enact them in the first place. Our proposal United States at the University of Maine.

Some of the Lobster Institute’s would allow any senator to strike work includes a Lobster Cam, Senate an unauthorized pet project from which features a lobster trap at a spending bill, unless 60 senathe bottom of the ocean with a tors vote to keep the earmark in the bill.

Many of these projects don’t have that camera in it, and the creation of a new kind of support in the Senate, which is lobster dog biscuit. Other projects are

just as questionable, such as the $125,000 spent on an International Mother’s Day Shrine in Grafton, W. Va., and funding for a maritime museum in Mobile, Ala. President Obama was absolutely right recently when he said that the economic recovery bill should be free of earmarks.

The best way to keep bills free of earmarks is to pass the reforms that McCain and I, along with other members from both parties, are proposing. While we were not able to pass our earmarks reform when the Senate considered the economic stimulus bill recently, I am pleased that 31 of my colleagues supported our effort. With the economic challenges we face, it’s more important than ever that we rein in wasteful spending, and that’s what we plan to do as we continue to gain support in Congress for this tough new proposal.

Harsdorf leads on budget reform measures MADISON - State Sen. Shiela Harsdorf has opened the 2009-2010 Legislative Session with the introduction of legislation aimed at increasing transparency and accountability to the state budget bill.

Harsdorf has authorized legislation to prohibit campaign fundraising during budget bill deliberations and introduced a resolution to restrict new addon provisions to the budget bill during the conference committee. New provi-

sions added in the conference committee are not subject to public hearings and are not amendable upon consideration by the Legislature.

“Wisconsin taxpayers entrust lawmakers with billions of their dollars,” said Harsdorf. “Our budgeting process should be open and citizens should have confidence that we are acting in the public interest, not well-financed special interests. Prohibiting new items added during the conference committee

will ensure that taxpayers have an opportunity to have their voice heard and not be shut out of the process.”

Harsdorf has been a longtime advocate for budget reform legislation, most recently helping to prohibit the use of the infamous Frankenstein Veto that created a $427 million hole in the state’s transportation fund.

Harsdorf also welcomed the recent embrace by state Assembly leadership to require its members, under Assembly

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rules, to not engage in fundraising during the budget.

“We can and should pass this into law so all state officials involved in the budget are subject to the same rules,” said Harsdorf. “Ensuring the integrity of the budget bill goes a long way to restoring confidence in the budgeting process as well as building a better project.” – from the office of Sen. Harsdorf

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Public meeting for future development along Hwy. 77 and Hwy. 35

Meeting to focus on ongoing and development potential

DANBURY – The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Northwest Region in Eau Claire is announcing a public information meeting to consider long-term recommendations for possible improvements to Hwy. 35/77 through Danbury. The

meeting is scheduled from 5-7 p.m., on Monday, Feb. 16, at the town of Swiss town hall, 7551 Main Street, Danbury. A short presentation will be held at 5:30 p.m.

WisDOT has contracted with the Northwest Regional Planning Commission to provide an update to the transportation element of the town of Swiss comprehensive plan that would help provide long-term recommendations for possible improvements to the highways. WisDOT has been working

cooperatively with the town, Burnett County and the St. Croix Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to produce a longrange plan that meets the transportation needs of the various government entities and public, enhances the Danbury community in a way that is sensitive to the cultural and historic nature of the area and provides a blueprint for future economic development.

The pubic is encouraged to attend the meeting, provide input and ask questions concerning this plan. WisDOT rep-

resentatives will be available to discuss the plan on an individual basis.

If you are unable to attend the meeting, or would like more information, contact regional planner, Brent Pickard at 715-836-4623. Citizens who are hearing-impaired and who require an interpreter may request one by contacting Pickard at least three working days prior to the meeting via the Wisconsin Telecommunications Relay System (dial 711). – from DOT

Only certain residents asked to keep water running

by Nancy Jappe SIREN – Only certain village residents have been specifically asked to keep the water in their indoor pipes running to avoid freeze up. These people live in areas where freeze up has been a problem and where streets have been cut

down during the installation of curbs and gutters.

The Siren Public Works Department has been in communication with these residents. The warning to keep water running does not apply to all residents in the village of Siren, only those who

have been contacted.

The warning article that appeared in the Feb. 4 issue of the Inter-County Leader only applies to the residents who have been contacted. It was designed to make sure these residents will keep their water running until the

Public Works Department tells them it is safe to shut the faucets off. It was also to make sure that they keep an adequate stream of water running, equal to about a quart jar of water a minute.

Memory Lake Management Plan approved

Midwinter Sports Day coming soon

by Gregg Westigard GRANTSBURG – The Grantsburg Village Board did some looking forward at its monthly meeting Monday.

Much of the meeting involved moving the Memory Lake Management Plan forward. The board looked at a study of solar heating options for the pool and heard comments from judicial candidate Paul Baxter. A few members of the public were present for the meeting which started at 5 p.m. at the village hall.

The character of Memory Lake has been changing over the years. The lake has been silting up behind the dam and weed growth has been a concern. The village is now moving forward with a proposal, the Memory Lake Management Plan, to restore the lake and the Wood River to a more natural state and improve the park land around the lake. A draft of the plan was completed a year ago and has been under review since then.

Village residents had a chance to make comments on the large document over the past month. Now the village council has adopted the plan and sent it to the DNR as a request for approval and funding.

The plan has five sections of recommendations. The first is a change to the dam operation to mimic the natural

flow of the Wood River. The gates of the dam would be opened from the bottom during times of high water flow at spring runoff and after storms. This should help move the sediment buildup in the lake bed. The impact of this on a mussel bed downstream would be monitored.

The second part is a plan to modify the village storm water runoff. Options here might include opportunities for homeowners to build rain gardens to control runoff before it reaches the streets and drain system.

There are plans for shoreland restoration, including buffer strips to minimize erosion and use by geese. A fourth element would allow continued weed harvest to control exotic species. The watercross event would continue to work at cutting weeds, with special attention given to one weed that reaches its peak of bloom in late June.

Finally, there is a proposal to work with the county to work with property upstream on the Wood River to reduce sediment inputs.

All these proposed ideas will be reviewed by the DNR for approval and possible help with funding. The DNR will decide which projects are acceptable and which ones have funding available. Those funds would be protection grants that would cover 75 percent of the costs. The village will review the DNR report on projects and funds later this spring and make a decision on what items to proceed with and how much

money the village has for its 25 percent of the cost.

While some improvements for Memory Lake seem to be certain, another idea was looked at and found to be impractical. The village wondered if there was a solar heating option for the campground shower, the showers at the pool, and for the pool itself. Kris Schmid, Clam Falls, a solar heating consultant, prepared a detailed study of each idea. His conclusion is that the payback time for each of these seasonal operations is too long to be of benefit.

The campground shower project could cost $12,000 and have a payback period of 65 years. Heating the pool could cost $126,000 and have a payback period of 37 years. And the pool showers project could cost $42,000 and but would have a payback period of 186 years.

Paul Baxter, a candidate for Burnett County Circuit Court Judge in the April 7 election, introduced himself to the council. He presented his background as a court commissioner in Douglas County as well as his years as a private attorney in the area. Baxter said he was a long-term interest in the job and does not view the bench as a stepping stone to another office.

“I would be a rule of law judge committed to consistence,” Baxter said.

“There is a time for alternate solutions, but there is a time for the remedies of the court.” Baxter is running against Kenneth Kutz who was appointed to the vacant court seat last August.

The Grantsburg Volunteer Fire Department delivered a very detailed written report of its activities for 2008.

The crew was called out 96 times, down from 107 calls in 2007. Of those calls, 21 were “good intent incidents or false alarms. Of the 75 actual incidents, 13 were motor vehicle accidents or fires, 14 were medical or rescue incidents and 19 were fires. That included 11 structure fires and eight wildland fires. The village was the destination for 37 of the calls. There were 18 calls to the town of Grantsburg and 17 calls to Wood River.

The 22 volunteer firefighters put in 1,782 hours of service during the year.

The village crew has cut its overtime hours to zero as a way of helping to lower village expenses. The employees are using comp time instead. “We appreciate it,” the board said.

the cost for electric, heat, plumbing and plowing.

Many clerks said the election process, with training, machine testing and changing rules, is making it harder to recruit any election workers. Many younger persons are working full time, and older persons are often bothered by a job where they need to be on-site before sunrise and must work until the votes are counted and the results recorded. While this election might take 10 minutes to wrap up, the presidential election required many of these people to stay at the poll until midnight.

Who votes? The last primary of this type in Johnstown brought out 17 voters. The clerk in Scott doubts if one person, aside from the election staff, votes.

In one local precinct in a recent primary, there were fewer votes than there were people working at the poll.

Every polling place has the new voting machines. Those machines need to be programmed and tested before each election. Polk County Clerk Carole Wondra said the Polk County bill to set up the machines for next Tuesday’s election is $7,057. And that does not include all the machines, just those that chose to

buy a common design used by most of the 36 local governments.

Hoeppner summed it up, “The system keeps getting worse. The state keeps making new rules and sending out new forms. It is harder to keep election workers. They are afraid to drive home in the middle of the night. They are scared about making mistakes after they hear stories on the radio.”

This election could cost a large amount of money per vote. Are you planning on lowering that cost by voting?

states. People knowledgeable about the duties of the job would have oversight of the person and the superintendent’s performance would be subject to ongoing review.

Second, the election could be moved to the fall ballot when there is a more likely chance that there will be other primary races.

Third, if it stays on the spring ballot, local governments should be able to combine voting stations if the only issue is a statewide primary. All votes might be cast at the county seat or by mail.

The concern of local clerks is the statewide races and not the local contests.

The spring nonpartisan election is basically for local government. There are school board and village elections every year. Town boards are elected in the odd-numbered years and county boards in the even-numbered years.

Spring primaries occur only where nominating papers are used and multiple candidates file. The nominating caucus system can not result in a primary.

Midwinter Sports Day is coming Saturday, Feb. 21, will be an active day in Grantsburg, starting with a breakfast at 8 a.m. and ending with a huge fireworks display. The day will include a Frigid 5K race, a logging competition and an ice-fishing contest.

Memory Lake will be the scene of a lawnmower race and minigolf. A highlight will be a polar plunge into the lake at 2 p.m. Food will be available all day.

And everyone can sit on hay bales around the lake in the early evening and watch a fireworks display. Who needs summer to enjoy the outdoors?

What if/from page 1 includes $5,000 to reprogram the voting machines and $946 for other county government costs including notices and ballots. It will cost $180 for the canvassing board to verify the vote. On top of that, Hoeppner estimates it will cost the 25 local governments an additional $5,000 to run the election. That includes $3,750 for election workers and $1,250 for utilities.

Every voting place in the area must be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Allowing for setup time and vote-counting time, that amounts to 14 hours per election site.

There must be three election officials at each site. The election officials are paid from under $6 an hour to over $8 an hour. Do the math: 14 hours times three workers times $7 per hour estimated average times 73 voting places. That is a $21,462 estimated expense just for the local election staffs.

There are other costs. The town of Grantsburg has to rent a port-a-potty for the day. The Wood River Town Hall was shut down for the winter. They need to turn on the heat and plow the yard, “A day’s work for the town patrolman.”

The Union clerk says it will probably cost a $1,000 to open the hall, including

Is there an option?

There are two statewide offices that could generate a spring primary, the Supreme Court and the Superintendent of Public Education.

The superintendent position is an administrative job with a four-year term. When an incumbent retires there is usually a primary for the $110,000-ayear job.

There are suggestions on how the position could be filled in a different way.

First, the superintendent could become a hired position as it is in most

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Local couple attends “Day the Music Died” event

by Jackie Thorwick CLEAR LAKE, IOWA - Lowell and Colleen Duncan, of rural Milltown, found themselves on the afternoon of Monday, Feb. 2, getting in their vehicle and heading south to Clear Lake, Iowa.

They hadn’t planned to go, but on that day, “We felt compelled to go. We had no idea why. We just knew we needed to go,” Lowell Duncan said.

It was a bitterly cold day, with belowzero temperatures; not a day for a joyride. They didn’t have tickets to the event they were hoping to attend: the 50th anniversary event commemorating “The Day the Music Died,” the day Buddy Holly, J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson, and Ritchie Valens were killed when their chartered plane crashed in a cornfield near Clear Lake.

Don McLean’s famous song “American Pie,” was written about the tragedy and

A poster advertising the original concert in 1959. – Photos submitted

tonight.” He was crying.

After the concert, about 150 people made a pilgrimage through the bitter cold to the crash site at the time the plane went down, 1:03 a.m. On the way, the Duncans, and a fellow from England who caught a ride with them, went into a ditch. Considering the hour and the frigid temperatures, they thought better of going further. Why did they want to go out there, why was this event important for them to attend? “It was a mythical flight into a blizzard that changed rock and roll forever,” said Lowell Duncan. “It was the first great tragedy of rock and roll. But the music lives on.”

Lowell Duncan at the Surf Ballroom with one of the many Buddy Holly look-alikes.

- Photo by Colleen Duncan its tremendous impact on the young rock ‘n’ roll generation.

The Duncans arrived at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake around 7:30 p.m. and were able to buy scampled tickets to the sold-out event in the parking lot for $100 a head. Inside, they were greeted with red carpet and interviewed by local media. “The place was jampacked, standing-room only,” said Colleen Duncan. “There were lots of Buddy Holly impersonators, lots of poodle skirts and boppy ponytails, and even a beehive hairdo. I saw her in the bathroom and her hair was crunchy,” Colleen laughed. People came from all over; the Duncans talked to people from Canada and England. There was a man with lots of memorabilia who displayed three napkins on the wall. They were very likely the last autographs the three musicians ever gave, given to a woman after their last concert and signed with her eyebrow liner on napkins. “The evening dripped with nostalgia,” said Lowell Duncan.

The celebration was full of the music of the rock ‘n’ roll pioneers, now legends, their family, friends, and fans crammed together in the large ballroom. Performers included Graham

Buddy Holly is shown above in an undated photo. Until now, there were no known photos of Buddy Holly’s last concert at the Surf.

Rolling Stone magazine’s Feb 5, 2009, issue contains a photo of Holly playing at the Surf Ballroom on Feb. 3, 1959, at their last concert.

- Special photo Nash, Peter and Gordon, Dave Mason, Chris Montrose, Los Lonely Boys, Los Lobos and Buddy’s old band, The Crickets.

The crowd loved it.

“Everyone sang along with the songs,” said Colleen Duncan. “You could see it on their faces when they heard the old songs, the memories coming back.”

The event was something of a family reunion as well. Many members of the Valens family were present. Buddy Holly’s widow was there and sang La Bamba with Los Lobos, Los Lonely Boys and Ritchie Valens’ family. Valens’ nephew played the harmonica. The Big Bopper’s son was there. He was born 3 months after his father died. He stood onstage and held up a briefcase and said, “My dad left this at the Surf 50 years ago. It’s going home with me

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And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those people dance And, maybe, they’d be happy for a while.

But February made me shiver With every paper I’d deliver.

Bad news on the doorstep; I couldn’t take one more step.

I can’t remember if I cried When I read about his widowed bride, But something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

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Drove my Chevy to the levee, But the levee was dry.

And them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye Singin’, “this’ll be the day that I die.

“This’ll be the day that I die.”

Frederic board negotiating Internet antenna placement

by Brenda Sommerfeld FREDERIC – Owners of Starwire Technologies, Sara McLain and Joe Cremin, presented the Frederic Village Board with a proposition at their meeting on Monday, Feb. 9.

“We are here to propose to lease space from you off of your north water tower,” McLain said to the trustees.

Starwire Technologies is a wireless Internet provider located in Siren.

McLain and Cremin requested to place four light, small high-speed Internet antennas on the water tower at the north end of Frederic by Pilgrim Lutheran Church. The antennas should reach residents between a mile and 15 miles away depending on terrain.

“We’re trying to expand into places where people either don’t have highspeed available or the Internet they

have is less than adequate for what their needs are,” McLain explained.

Consumer choice was also discussed as a reason to bring the company in.

“The country, everyone’s trying to push getting broadband everywhere.

Unfortunately with the economy, its hard to put up funding for it,” Cremin said. “Which is why we’re trying to do it on our own and trying to do it at a minimal cost to anybody involved, be able to provide it without the village having to have out-of-pocket expenses.”

McLain and Cremin suggested to the village that they barter services.

Starwire Technologies would be able to attach their antennas to the water tower and use power, while Starwire provided Internet services to the village municipal buildings.

McLain also suggested, if the board

Heine named Mason of the Year During the December installation of offices, Dean Daniels, Master of Landmark Masonic Lodge, presented Brother Greg Heine with the 2008 Mason of the Year Award.

This prestigious award is given to one Mason who has demonstrated outstanding service for his local Masonic Lodge and community.

In addition to Brother Heine’s service as chaplain to Landmark Masonic Lodge, he teaches vocal music for grades 7-12, middle and high school choir and teaches K-12 art at Frederic Schools. - Special photo

Owners of Starwire Technologies, Sara McLain and Joe Cremin, presented the Frederic Village Board with a proposition at their meeting on Monday, Feb. 9. - Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld would rather, the company could rent the space for $25 an antenna like they have done other places.

“We’re talking about a really small amount of power,” Cremin commented.

A 2-foot by 2-foot box would be placed at the bottom of the tower. The box would be an enclosure for the power supplies and would house a battery backup. The battery backup would regulate the power, keeping a steady flow all the way down to like 80 volts, according to Cremin.

Trustees spoke concerns of lightning and licensing. McLain explained the three frequencies they use are considered open frequencies and do not require a license to use or operate as of now.

“Everything is grounded, and if it

[lightning] were to hit our equipment obviously we’d be liable for replacing any of our own stuff,” Cremin said.

“I know there’s definitely a need here, I just hope that we can come up with an agreement that will help both of us out to make it work,” McLain finished.

With the board’s agreement, village Administrator Dave Wondra agreed to write up a lease agreement and bring it to the next board meeting for approval.

Other business •The Frederic Village Board adopted a purchasing policy and a credit card policy, written by the finance committee.

•Joy Friberg resigned from the park board. Virginia Clausen was appointed to the position.

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Unity to consider energy-saving measures

Board hears about music, art, phy ed and driver’s ed programs

by Mary Stirrat BALSAM LAKE — Building improvements at Unity School over the past several years have often had a component of reducing energy costs, and the school district is looking for more ways combine building upgrades and savings.

At the Feb. 10 meeting of the school board of education, Administrator Brandon Robinson said that representatives from five energy service companies recently toured the school as part of a request for proposals tour.

The next step is for the companies to develop proposals for projects that will reduce energy consumption and operational costs at the school. Known as performance contracting, the improvements would be funded by the energy savings, generally over a contract term of seven to 10 years.

If the savings do not materialize,

according to Robinson, the energy service company would pay the difference and not the school.

The five companies that attended the tour are expected to submit proposals that will be considered this spring by the long-range building and planning committee. The district is not required to accept any of the proposals, Robinson noted.

“At this time,” he said in his administrator’s report, “Unity School District is pursuing the process as a commitment to sound fiscal management and longterm facilities management.”

Robinson’s complete report can be found on the district Web site.

Curriculum report As part of an ongoing process to keep board members informed of school activities, curriculum presentations were given by the music, art, physical education and driver’s education departments.

Elementary music teacher Shanin Henningsgard talked with the board about how technology is being used by the music department. Students, she said, use keyboards and SMART Boards to learn music and music theory, conduct research projects and develop keynote presentations using technology.

They also use Dance, Dance Revolution to learn rhythm and movement.

Art history is being explored in elementary art, said art teacher Jennifer VosBenkowski. She showed examples of student work and demonstrated ways she helps them remember artists.

Fourth-graders have been studying pop art, said VosBenkowski, and their projects focusing on food are currently on display in the cafeteria.

Elementary physical education, said teacher Sharon Stoll, includes swimming. Showing pictures of students in the pool, Stoll explained how the swimJennifer VosBenkowski, Unity art ming program moves children through teacher, discusses how art history is different levels to make them more comtaught at the elementary level. fortable and proficient in the pool.

Middle school students, said teacher

Middle school physical education teacher Cory Nelson shows school board members some of the equipment, including a 3-pound puck, that is used in playing underwater hockey. – Photos by Mary Stirrat Cory Nelson, have the opportunity to participate in a six-week underwater hockey unit. The game uses a 3-pound puck and 9-foot-long goals. Students who do not wish to participate in hockey can take part in other aquatic games.

Driver’s education, said Andy Brown, incorporates “real world” issues such as improving gas mileage by approaching a stoplight in a particular way as well as the regular rules of the road.

Between 95 and 98 percent of Unity students take driver’s education through the school’s program. The ongoing training and continuing education of instructors produces a program that is equal or better to any private program, Brown said.

Other business • The deadline for open enrollment applications is Friday, Feb. 20, at 4 p.m.

• The board approved increasing an

“Fatal vision goggles” distort vision and give wearers the perception of being under the influence of alcohol. The goggles are used in Unity’s driver’s education program to raise awareness of how alcohol impairs vision. Demonstrating the is Unity School goggles Administrator Brandon Robinson.

Wearing variations of the goggles and watching (L to R) high school Principal Jason Cress, and elementary school Principal Wayne Whitwam. early childhood position from 80 percent back to full time due to enrollment increases.

Ruby’s Pantry director explains why donations are now required Distribution of food was never free, states director

by Lynn Sahr, director, Ruby’s Pantry PINE CITY, Minn. - In May of 2003 a small group of friends formed a nonprofit corporation to do missions work in Mexico.

In its effort to procure toys in Minneapolis for kids in Mexico, it began to receive food instead of toys and lots of it! Thus, Ruby’s Pantry was born.

Over time, the food distributions as we know them today, started and had an immediate positive impact on the communities they serve. This area spans approximately 60 miles east, west and north of North Branch, Minn., where their offices and 11,000-square-foot distribution center are located in the industrial park.

Ruby’s Pantry had sought out Second Harvest Heartland to help provide food in the area as they were already distributing food to their capacity. On a cold November day in 2006, Ruby’s Pantry joined forces with SHH for a special Thanksgiving distribution in the community of Luck, with the encouragement and support of Chanda Elliot of Wayne’s Foods Plus. The building that was to be used was not large enough to hold all the food, and the distribution had to be held outside in the cold as darkness set in. Even so, there were 265 very happy families that stood in line for food.

The need for a program like Ruby’s Pantry was obvious.

Through a special arrangement with SHH, Ruby’s Pantry managed the distributions and SHH furnished the food for Polk and Burnett counties with a modest sponsorship fee that was paid for by local churches, businesses and individuals. In other words, the distributions were never

free. These were the only kind of distribution of this type anywhere.

Ruby’s Pantry was distributing food in rural communities in northeast Minnesota that a donation by the participants was asked for. Today, the requested donation is $15. Although they were able to carry on the monthly distributions in Polk and Burnett counties with SHH without requesting a donation, this is no longer possible. SHH is no longer participating in the program. Therefore, a decision had to be made to either change to a donation distribution or discontinue the distributions.

In discussing this recently with an 80year-old Ruby’s Pantry volunteer he said, “The people depend upon the food.” It is for this reason that Ruby’s Pantry is continuing to the best of its ability to provide absolutely as much high-quality food as possible at each distribution. Sometimes there will be more and other times less.”

There are some questions that people ask in regard to this that are important to answer.

Couldn’t Ruby’s Pantry operate cheaper?

There is one full-time and three parttime employees in the office in 2008 working a total of 33 hours weekly between them. They have over 1,000 volunteers throughout the various communities. Of the four big diesel trucks, three are donated. All of the vans are donated.

What happens if you don’t have the $15 donation?

In almost six years of operation, Ruby’s Pantry has never turned anyone away. But if there isn’t adequate donations the program cannot exist. Too often people have money for tobacco, alcohol, drugs and gambling and yet do not have money for food for their children. There is something wrong with this picture. It may be construed that Ruby’s Pantry is paying for people’s bad habits by enabling them to get food with no donation.

Why does Ruby’s Pantry have to ask for donations from the participants?

Without the donations, Ruby’s Pantry would not exist. The donations that are given by the people at the distributions represent over 95 percent of Ruby’s Pantry total income.

Where does all the money go?

In most communities, 80 percent of the donations go directly to Ruby’s Pantry to operate the program, and 20 percent of the donations stay with the local sponsoring organization to be used to help people in crisis. In other words, for the $15 donation, $3 stays in the community to help neighbors, family and friends of the participants. Yes, you are helping other people locally with your donation.

Why does Ruby’s Pantry have to ask for donations when they get the food free?

It is true that they have never purchased any food, but it is not free. In 2008, Ruby’s Pantry paid $74,520 in truck repairs, maintenance, fuel and insurance. All of the drivers are volunteers. And to maintain the distribution center in North Branch was an additional $34,362.

Will I get my $15 worth?

It is not about getting your $15 worth but rather a donation to the program to help people. There have been families who have received over $100 or even $150 of food at distributions. Even in the lean months, there has always been over $50 in retail food value. But whatever is distributed, it is the very best Ruby’s Pantry can do.

2009 distribution schedule:

Danbury Danbury Town Hall First Saturday of the month Doors open 7:30 a.m.

Distribution: 8 a.m. to about 9:30 a.m. *Winter hours start at 10 a.m.

Webster Wayne’s Foods Plus Old School Parking Lot Second Thursday of the months of April, June, Aug. and Oct. Doors open 3:30 p.m.

Distribution: 4 p.m. to about 5:30 p.m.

Luck Bone Lake Lutheran Church (School bus garage) Third Tuesday of the even months Doors open at 11:30 p.m.

Distribution: noon to about 1:30 p.m.

Frederic (Please note different day, time) School bus garage Third Saturday of the odd months Doors open at 7:30 a.m.

Distribution: 8 a.m. to about 9:30 a.m.

Siren Siren Covenant Church Men’s Group 24534 Hwys. 35/70 Fourth Thursday of the month Doors open 4:30 p.m.

Distribution: 5 p.m. to about 6:30 p.m. *Winter hours start at 2 p.m. *Winter hours October – April.

Check calendar on their Web site for date changes on holidays.

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School wins Spirit of Excellence Award

by Tammi Milberg ST. CROIX FALLS – The school district of St. Croix Falls received word that the portfolio submitted by members of the high school, student council President Carissa Libbenga and teacher Suzanne Imhoff was awarded first place for the district and third place in the state for the Spirit of Excellence Award.

The award is given to schools that present evidence of excellence in leadership, service, sportsmanship and other criteria included in a portfolio submitted by the schools for consideration.

This is the first year the school submitted their portfolio and most first-time applicants, according to Pete Nussbaum, high school principal, are told to try again and work on their portfolio. St. Croix Falls was not only selected their first year, but were given numerous compliments on their portfolio; especially the service portion.

The school will receive recognition and the award

presentation at a Milwaukee Bucks game during halftime.

The board congratulated Imhoff and the students who worked hard on the submission.

In other business, the board approved a bid for the high school remodeling project for $10,000 from Archnet of Stillwater. The remodeling includes renovation of the old music rooms into math, health, and weight room areas and improvements to the FACE room.

The board also approved a consent agenda including the resignation of Kathy Sharfenberg as the middle school assistant drama coach; approval of Bobbie Dunn as co-middle school drama coach, and maternity leave for Holly Waterman.

The board reluctantly accepted the resignation of Carolie Gubasta, financial specialist for several years, effective June 30, 2009.

The board heard a request from a set of parents

requesting their eighth-grade daughter be placed in a girls hockey co-op with Grantsburg, Webster, Siren, Frederic, and Luck, by including St. Croix Falls. The board heard the request and were informed that joining the co-op would be no cost to the district and would not affect them with respect to Title IX. Currently, the student skates with Grantsburg Hockey, Somerset Cyclones and Spooner Junior Badgers. She skated with River Valley Hockey Association before joining the other teams, but was released because there were not enough girls for her to skate against. She wants to play high school hockey and would have to be included in the co-op or attend a school that is already in the co-op in order to play varsity.

The board thanked the parents for their information and indicated that because the item was not on the agenda, they could not put it to a vote until the next board meeting.

Family climbs for cystic fibrosis thank God they did, because I think it made them strong enough to make it into their 30s.”

Cystic fibrosis is a lung disease. The lungs develop a mucous and it makes breathing very difficult. The cause of death is usually heart failure or lung hemorrhaging.

“In 1973, Had and Jamie were 3 months old, and were both diagnosed with CF,” said Fairchild. “I was the oldest, and I had to grow up fast at 7 years old.”

She said because the boys were identical twins, they were volunteer guinea pigs for the University of Minnesota, and they had done numerous medication studies for years. She remembers when they were young having a home health nurse come daily to drain the fluid and mucus out of the boys lungs. “It was called bronchial drainage then,” she said. “With CF, you have a hard time breathing, any viruses or colds can be dangerous. It is hard to gain weight because you have to take pills to help with digestion or you can’t digest foods.”

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Her brother Had, who is waiting for a physician to do a lung and liver transplant and is on the list for such a transplant in Rochester, did the climb and has done it for a number of years. “My brother is in shape, but it still affects his heart and lungs.”

Fairchild said the year Jamie died, the family was going to do the climb, but all of them got sick. The next year, Laura lost her son who was in the Army, and she did not walk that year. She said she had to get herself going and do the walk this year, and the team raised $4,000 in collected pledges.

“Jamie was a well-known little guy,” she said about her younger brother. “Over 1,000 people came to his funeral. Because of Had and Jamie, we tried to make it our life goal to do this climb every year. You always hear about other diseases and raising funds to help, but you don’t hear much about cystic fibrosis, and we want to get the word out there that you can donate and raise money to help. We would like to get a bigger team and just get the word out there.”

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Along with her was her brother, Had, sister-in-law, Anne, sister, Heidi, brother, Todd, sister-in-law Christine, and Christine’s sister, Corey. Their team is called Had and Jamie’s Gang.

This is not the first time Fairchild has been in the climb-a-thon, but it was the first time after having a couple of years off.

The whole family is involved because Had Fairchild, 35, is living with cystic fibrosis. He was born with it.

So was his identical twin brother, Jamie Fairchild.

Jamie passed away two years ago at the age of 33 when his lungs hemorrhaged.

“Had and Jamie weren’t supposed to live past the age of 18 months, then it was age 2, then 3, and they just kept living strong,” Laura Fairchild said.

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Fluoride stays in city water for now

by Tammi Milberg ST. CROIX FALLS – The city council has been discussing the issue of fluoride in the water for a couple of months now. The topic for discussion is to have fluoride remain in the water system or to have it removed.

The council is getting updated on information for and against fluoridation of the water supply, but still has not made any decision to change the current practice of fluoridating the water even after the Feb. 9 council meeting.

Persons in attendance Monday night were in favor of keeping fluoride in the water. The council received an e-mail from Woody McBride, resident and business owner not present at the meeting. McBride’s e-mail indicated his disapproval of fluoridation of the water stating, “As a citizen in your district, I am strongly opposed to our mayor, city officials, city council and city government continuing to medicate us without

our consent. It is a violation of our human rights to be subjected to compulsory medication - let alone one as harmful as fluoridation. It is not the job of government or anyone else to medicate the general population.”

The council decided to stay informed on the issue and make a decision in the future. For now, the water will stay fluoridated.

Other business •The city council approved a microloan for façade and improvements up to $30,000 for a lessee of the fire hall building downtown. The owner has listed the business for sale, but can lease the building if some improvements are done. The loan is from revolving loan fund dollars. These loan dollars are put back into the fund when the borrower pays the loan back.

•The council approved elimination of the two westmost parking spaces at the intersection of Adams and State streets by the medical center. The reason is

because it is a traffic hazard. The city did a trial of placing compact car parking only restrictions on the two spaces, but the compact rule was not obeyed. When larger vehicles parked there, it was difficult to see getting out of the intersection of Adams Street. Since the compact car parking rule was not followed, the city eliminated those two spaces altogether.

•The council will look at a small services contract with Warren White at a later date. The item was on the agenda, but the council wanted a shorter contract description that what was presented. No action was taken.

•The council was updated that changes in the National Scenic Riverway District Code, which were made in 2006, were in review by the state, and once the state approved the code amendments, the city would need to hold a public hearing on the matter. No action was taken.

Taylors Falls amends snowmobile/ATV codes

by Tammi Milberg TAYLORS FALLS, Minn. – The city council for Taylors Falls reviewed and amended a portion of the city code of ordinances, section 605 regarding snowmobile and ATV use within the city limits.

The change came about because there is no state legislation to prohibit an open bottle while operating on an off-road trail unless it is included in an ordinance.

The statute in Minnesota referring to open bottle is not applicable to off-road vehicles on trails.

Zoning administrator Larry Phillips said the intent is to prevent open bottles from being on trails.

The council discussed two issues with respect to the ordinance. The first was to include the language in the city’s ordinance to prohibit open bottles on ATVs and snowmobiles and trails, adding language that the prohibition of open bottles does not apply to private landowners having open bottles on their own machines on their own property.

“I don’t want to infringe on a property owner, what they do on their own property,” stated Mayor Michael Buchite.

Councilmen Zara Kinnunen and Larry Julik-Heine were absent.

Councilman John Tangen stated he felt the language about private property owners should be included. He added that amending the ordinance would help with the citation process if citations were issued for viola-

tors.

The other issue discussed with respect to the ordinance was a citizen comment by Joe Stein. Stein indicated he would like to see an amendment to the section of uses permitted with respect to allowing ATVs to go into town for fuel and food, or to access another trail by the shortest distance possible by operating on the most right-hand lane of a municipal street or alley.

The language in the ordinance allows for snowmobiles to do this, and Stein said he would like to see ATVs included, and that he was approached by several people to speak to the council about including ATVs. “Snowmobiles and ATVs are handy for a lot of things,” Stein said. “I’d like to see ATVs included in the language to use roads to get from one permitted use area to another permitted use area by taking the shortest means possible. Also, some business owners would like to see ATVs get downtown for fuel and other things if possible.”

Corporal Shane Carroll was present at the meeting to give his report for the month of January, and was questioned about allowing ATV use included with snowmobiles on streets to get downtown.

Carroll stated that from April 1 to Aug. 1, no use of vehicles along the roadways is permitted south of Hwy. 95 because it is considered agricultural zoned.

Carroll said it would not make sense to add ATV use

language in the ordinance because there are no legal streets for ATV travel during that time.

The council passed the ordinance amendment to include the prohibition of the open bottles on trails for ATVs and snowmobiles and language exempting private property owners from the ordinance.

Other business •In other business, the council passed a motion to purchase six new tires, with balancing and mounting for the 1-ton truck. Recently, the city had a truck inspection from the DOT and the tires for the 1-ton truck did not pass inspection after a tread test. If the city did not fix the tires, the truck would have to be out of commission. The city’s spending freeze requires that all spending be evaluated by the council as essential or nonessential. The council deemed it essential because the truck is used daily by public works. Six bids were gathered. The low bid from Tire Experts in Milltown for the tires and balancing and mounting for $1,400 was authorized by the council.

•The council recognized city clerk/treasurer Jo Everson for 15 years with the city.

•The council also thanked Kevin Rivard for three years as the fire chief. Rivard recently retired from the fire department. An election by the fire department named Al Rivard as the new fire chief.

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The meeting will be used to gather information regarding local issues and opportunities relating to the intersection closure and to explain the study’s parameters and schedule.

Persons with a concern for or knowledge about historic buildings and structures and archaeological sites are encouraged to attend this meeting or provide comments to the city of St. Croix Falls.

The public is encouraged to attend the information meeting and provide information that will assist with the development of the study. Maps and other materials describing the study will be on display.

Interested citizens are encouraged to attend the meeting, visit with the study team and review the displays.

Citizens who are unable to attend the meeting, or would like more information, can contact Ed Emerson at 715-483-3929. Written comments can be mailed to Ed Emerson, city of St. Croix Falls, 710 Hwy. 35 South, St. Croix Falls, WI, 54024. Citizens who are hearingimpaired and require an interpreter may request one by contacting Robert Fieldbinder by phone at 414-8314129 or by e-mail at Robert_Fieldbinder@urscorp.com at least three working days prior to the meeting. - with information from city of St. Croix Falls

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Big Read environmental symposium features Ann Bancroft and fifillm festival ST. CROIX FALLS - Simply stated, a symposium is a conversation.

St. Croix Falls Public Library and Festival Theatre invite youth, families, educators, scientists, appreciators of literature and our Earth to join in discussion at the “Call of the Wild” environmental symposium on Feb. 27-28.

The event marks the culmination of the Big Read program in the St. Croix River Valley featuring Jack London’s novel, “The Call of the Wild.” All those who have taken the opportunity to read and discuss London’s written works during the Big Read program will now have the opportunity to apply themes from the literature to important topics of local and global environmental concerns.

The conversation begins with the Patagonia-presented Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, p.m., 7:30 Friday, Feb. 27, at Festival Theatre. Called “the next Sundance,” WSEFF was started by a grassroots conservation group dedicated to blocking the construction of a dam on the South Yuba River in California. Through their collection of more than 400 dynamic films, Wild and Scenic both informs people about the state of the world and inspires them to take action. Whether it is the struggle for environmental justice, information on renewable energy or an educational tale about an endangered species, the films expose people to forward-thinking ideas and global awareness.

“We choose films that not only highlight the concerns but provide solutions, reaching people through beautiful imagery like the sweeping landscapes of

the tallgrass prairie or the grandeur of the rivers around the world,” says film festival organizer Susie Sutphin.

With a growing public awareness for the environment, the festival aims to increase awareness through inspiring and educational films which hopefully will motivate people to go out and make a difference in their community and around the world.

The festival tour brings together the best of Wild and Scenic’s 2009 films with a two-hour program selected with the St. Croix River Valley in mind. A list of films to be shown can be found at www.festivaltheatre.org and information on the films, including viewable trailers can be found at www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org.

Saturday, Feb. 28, shifts the symposium to St. Croix Falls Elementary School for a full day of excellent environmental education beginning at 9 a.m.

Kids Get Wild Film Festival, an additional hour of environmental films geared especially for youth ages 3-14, will utilize the district’s new theatersized screen and projection equipment.

“Not only is this a great opportunity to use such a wonderful new educational venue, but this setting—an elementary school—speaks to the importance of getting our youth and families involved in environmental matters through example,” says Big Read organizer Amy Klein.

Arctic explorer and keynote speaker Ann Bancroft follows at 10:30 a.m., relating stories and images of her expeditions to both the North and South poles. As a Minnesota native and Scandia, Minn. resident, Ann’s international recognition makes her one of today’s most influential role models.

Honored with numerous awards for her accomplishments, Bancroft’s love of the outdoors, adventure and using her experiences as a vehicle to teach and inspire others, has been a lifelong pursuit. Bancroft’s Bancroft will use London’s “The Call of the Wild” to

Arctic explorer Ann Bancroft will be the keynote speaker at the Big Read Environmental Symposium at 10:30 a.m. at the St. Croix Falls Elementary School. She will relate stories and images of her expeditions to both the North and South poles. – Special photo honor the spirit of exploration, to look back on a time when land was open and wild and to highlight the changes that have come with our modern age, namely global climate changes and other important environmental concerns. A question-and-answer session will follow her presentation.

Dr. Kelly Cain from the UW-River Falls, St. Croix Institute of Sustainable Community Development, will bring protagonist Buck’s keen adaptation principles home to the St. Croix Valley and lead into a series of break-out sessions featuring presenters offering six environmental applications of “The Call of the Wild” themes. Capping off an enriching day will be presentations from the winners of The Big Read Winter’s Past literary arts contest and St. Croix National Scenic Riverway Superintendent Christopher Stein pre-

senting the National Park Service Film, “Northwoods Journey.”

Says Sarah Adams, St. Croix Falls Library director, “The speakers that we’ve assembled have educational value that goes far beyond just enjoying a classic piece of literature. We hope that the conversation that begins at the environmental symposium will be just the start of reverberations that will carry on through our communities, the St. Croix Valley, and on to other people and places that also care about protecting the Earth.”

Tickets for the Friday night film festival or the Saturday symposium are $10 advanced or $12.50 at the door for adults; $5 advanced or $7.50 at the door for youth. Full symposium tickets (Friday night and Saturday, including an on-site Buy Local lunch for those preregistered) for adults are $20 advanced or $25 at the door and for youth, $10 or $12.50 at the door. Tickets are available at the Festival Theatre box office, 888887-6002, or online at www.festivaltheatre.org The St. Croix River Valley Big Read is jointly sponsored by Festival Theatre and the St. Croix Falls Public Library.

Donations to support the match for the St. Croix River Valley Big Read program can be send to: The Big Read, Attn: Amy Klein, Project Coordinator, P.O. Box 801, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024. For additional questions about becoming a Big Read donor or joining in The Big Read, please contact Amy Klein, 715483-3387.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. For more information about The Big Read please visit www.neabigread.org. – submitted

Grantsburg School Board turning the corner on driver’s ed program

by Priscilla Bauer GRANTSBURG – Grantsburg School Board member Jim Sundquist put the decision to change how the district offers driver’s education this way, “We have been fortunate to have people willing to handle the program for many years but now we have to turn the corner.”

Sundquist made his remarks at the board’s Feb. 9 meeting during a discussion on restructuring the school’s drivers education program.

The announcement by the district’s current driver’s education instructor, Paul Bergman, that he will retire at the end of this year prompted the board to consider changing the program.

To teach driver’s education through a school-funded program, an instructor must be a licensed teacher and also have completed 15 credits for driver’s education certification. No teacher in the district has shown interest in doing so at this time.

Board members and Superintendent Burgin stated they knew the time would come when it would be necessary to consider other options and with Bergman’s retirement that day has arrived.

“We are one of the only districts to still run driver’s education this way,” commented Burgin, referring to the program presently being administered through the school.

Board President David Ahlquist asked if a phased-in program could be considered.

“I think we should make the change.

I’d rather we have the driver’s ed money used for all the students,” said board member Chris Erickson. “This would be the year to do it and save costs,” Erickson said.

Erickson was referring to the fact that money to fund driver’s education currently comes from the district’s Fund 10.

If the program were turned over to a

private company, students would pay the full cost, with the school’s driver’s education funds going back into the general fund.

The board had proposals from three private companies, Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College and Cooperative Educational Service Agency to teach the classroom courses and give driving instruction.

The board discussed all the options and agreed to contract with Safe Start Driving School of Milltown, after addressing a concern brought by board member Dahlberg regarding scheduling classes for Grantsburg.

Safe Start stated the months of May and December are the only ones available to schedule classes for Grantsburg this year. Dahlberg and other board members agreed these two months would limit training time for Grantsburg students and therefore felt Safe Start should make schedule adjustments before an agreement with the school would be finalized.

The board voted to approve contracting with Safe Start for one year, contingent on agreeable calendar dates for classes being worked out with Safe Start.

The program with Safe Start Driving School will be run through the district’s community education program with classes at Grantsburg High School. The cost per student will be $365 plus a community education administration fee.

The board also heard Good News in Our School reports from the school principals: Elementary School Principal Katie Coppenbarger reported a school Family Night for elementary and Nelson school students and parents was well attended and was a great opportunity to bring together families and the school community.

Middle School Principal Brad Jones reported the school hosted the middle

school solo ensemble contest and celebrated National School Counseling week.

Grantsburg High School has recently been awarded several grants, according to Principal Stan Marczak.

A grant was received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and co-sponsored by the Minnesota and Wisconsin DNRs, the University of Minnesota Fisheries Department and Macalester College to study the endangered sheepnose mussel found only on the Chippewa River in north-central Wisconsin.

Forty large, high-quality reproductions of great American art, which will be used to teach American history and culture, will soon be arriving at GHS through another grant, made possible through an educational initiative sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The 2008 Community Grant of $20,000, sponsored by Farmer’s Independent Telephone Company, was awarded to GHS to provide funding in the areas of choir, band, football, volleyball and cross country. These school activities were selected as they include the widest range and most diverse group of students participating in activities in the school district.

In other business: The grounds committee met to discuss expansion of the high school weight room and postponing purchasing any new equipment for school grounds maintenance.

The board voted to approve the 20092010 school calendar and also the Insight School calendar.

The board voted to approve Mike O’Donnell for assistant high school football coach.

The story of The White Lady

by Nancy Jappe BURNETT COUNTY – One day Cecilia Andrewson, the subject of this week’s Leader Currents feature, asked me if I had ever heard about The White Lady. Someone had told her about encountering the figure of a woman dressed in white as they were driving along a Burnett County road.

Apparently many Burnett County residents have had an experience with, or have heard stories about The White Lady. One man, Burnett County District Attorney Bill Norine, who lives in Grantsburg, put a story about her down in poetry form at Halloween time, 2006.

The poem that follows is reprinted with Norine’s permission. The word from Norine is that the first part of the poem is true, that such a woman did exist. As to luring unlucky drivers to the side of the road, that is open to interpretation.

The White Lady

The year was nineteen hundred three.

She was galloping to the country church on Pleasant Prairie, all dressed for her wedding, when her horse gave a lurch and flung her against a dead-oak tree.

Her neck was broken, and many tears were shed when she was laid to rest in her nuptial gown and veil of woe that settled about her like fallen snow.

Now it has been a hundred years – Some have told with grim foreboding of how she lures to the side of the road unlucky drivers; how she works her harm far out of sight of house and farm.

Others, adding to the tales, have said she roams the ramparts without a head.

Silly stories only; old farmers lore To make for Halloween, no more.

So who was the lady, all dressed in white That Marion saw running through the woods last night?

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A fine night for the Webster boys Team upsets Grantsburg by a point

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Webster 52, Grantsburg 51

by Marty Seeger WEBSTER – The home crowd had a lot to cheer about in Webster last Friday night as the Tiger boys pulled out an upset win over the Pirates. The win gave Grantsburg their first conference loss this season, leaving the West Lakeland Conference void of any team with a perfect record. For the Tigers, it showed they can still be competitive among some of the best teams in the conference.

“You have to bring your A game to play against them (Grantsburg) and I thought our kids actually did,” said Webster coach Randy Hedrick.

It started with some pretty solid offense according to Hedrick, who said his team has been pretty solid all year from the free-throw line, but their outside game has struggled. On Friday night, the Tigers shot consistently from the charity stripe, shooting 7 of 9 and shot above 50-percent from the field.

“It’s a nice change,” Hedrick said, but added that he knew it was going to be a battle until the end.

The Pirates held a two-point lead after the first quarter, but the Tigers led by three at the half. Hedrick said that in the first quarter Adam Baum ran into a bit of foul trouble, but it was a total team effort as the bench stepped up.

“The kids that I brought in as subs played well I thought, they did exactly what I wanted them to do,” Hedrick said. He also added that the team stepped it up defensively in the first half by not allowing the Pirates second and third opportunities at the basket.

“You gotta allow them one shot to be successful against them,” said Hedrick, whose team lost handily to the Pirates in early January, 66-32. The Tigers played zone for much of that game but switched to man-to-man against the Pirates Friday night. It was just part of the puzzle that needed a solid effort on offense to go with it. One piece of the offense came from sophomore James Wethern, who led the Tigers with 17 points. Three of those shots came from the outside, and two came in the third quarter.

“When he gets on a roll he can knock Team Grantsburg Webster

1 2 3 4 15 8 12 16 13 13 16 10 Individual Statistics Grantsburg 2s 3s FTM/A Connar Goetz 1 1 Ben Larson 3 1 1/2 Tyler Myers 4 0/1 Brent Myers 1 1 Jason Jensen 2 1/2 Thane Larson 2 Trent Bonneville 6 2/5 Totals 19 3 4/10 Webster Bryan Krause Quentin Johnson James Wethern Karl Weber Kyle Godfrey Austin Elliot Dan Erickson Nolan Kriegel Adam Baum Totals

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F 51 52 F 4 2 1 1 4 2 14

Webster’s James Wethern led the Wethern totaled 17 points during the Heidel it down,” Hedrick said. “He certainly had some confidence on Friday night, so that’s good to see.”

At one point in the second half, the Tigers led by as much as 11 points, but it didn’t take long for the Pirates to make a comeback. Connar Goetz and Brent Myers both hit one from the outside in the fourth quarter, and the Pirates outscored the Tigers 16-10. According to Hedrick, Baum went to the free-throw line for a one-and-one after the foul, sinking the first free throw and missing the second. Grantsburg came down with the rebound and took a final timeout with about four seconds to go.

Hedrick said Grantsburg’s Ben Larson took it the full length of the court and took the final shot just inside the free-throw line, but missed.

“I think it was just a solid effort, our kids played well and we were determined to send a little message out there that we can still play in Webster and add some confidence, it was fun,” Hedrick said.

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3s FTM/A F TP 2 0 2 3/3 2 9 3 2 17 1 4 3 4 - 4 - 2 - 14 4/6 4 8 5 7/9 615 52

1 2 3 4 16 23 22 8 6 5 11 12 Individual Statistics Luck 2s 3s FTM/A Derek Letch Harry Severson-Dickinson 3 1 Cole Mortel 1 Nick Morgan 4 Adam Anderson 0/2 Brennan Olson 7 3 2/4 Alec Mortel 5 4/5 Carson Giller 1 1 3/3 Derek Buck 1 Totals 21 6 9/12 Unity Sam Bengtson Seth McKenzie Luke Hilleshiem Brady Flaherty Rush Hickethier Eric Goulet Tyler Bublitz Luke Hetfeld Totals

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Tigers in points against Grantsburg. game on Friday night. – Photo by Carl Luck 69, Unity 34 BALSAM LAKE – Everything seemed to click for the Cardinals Friday night as they pulled out an all-out effort against the Eagles. Defensively Luck held Unity to 11 points in the first half, while putting up 39 points of their own.

Brennan Olson led the team with a 25point effort, including three 3-pointers.

Alec Mortel had 14 points for the Cards, while Harry Severson-Dickinson added nine points and Nick Morgan and Carson Giller each had eight points.

Rush Hickethier led the Eagles with 11 points, and Brady Flaherty had eight points on the night.

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3s FTM/A F TP 1 1 3 1 1 2 2/2 4 8 1 1 11 4 0/1 3 4 - 6 2 2/3 14 34

Unity’s Eric Goulet looks to pass around defender, Luck’s Cole Mortel.

– Photo by Lori Nelson

••• OSCEOLA – Osceola senior Lindsay Danielson recently signed a letter of intent to play women’s golf at UW-Madison according to the uwbadgers.com Web site. Danielson is the only four-time state golf champion in Wisconsin history, and played all four among Divison 2 talent. She ranked 31st in the 2008 National Junior PGA Championships, and was featured in the December issue of Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” section for her successful career at Osceola High School.

••• STEVENS POINT – The UWStevens Point women’s basketball team was upset by the UW-Blue Devils last Wednesday, Feb. 4.

Former Luck athlete Britta Petersen led the Pointers with 16 points and nine rebounds, while former Webster standout, Char Edwards had 16 points and six rebounds for the Blue Devils.

••• AMERY – Updates from the WIAA wrestling regionals held at Amery, Barron and St. Croix Central can be heard on 1260 AM this Saturday, Feb. 14.

••• LEADER LAND – The Thursday, Feb. 12, Webster at Luck boys and girls basketball games are being broadcast on 104.9 FM beginning at 6 p.m. The Friday, Feb. 13, Siren at Unity boys and girls basketball games can be heard on 104.9 FM beginning at 6 p.m. On Monday, Feb. 16, the Clear Lake at Unity boys and girls baskeball games can be heard on 104.9 FM beginning at 6 p.m. The Prairie Farm at Unity girls basketball game on Tuesday, Feb. 17, can be heard on 104.9 FM beginning at 7:30 p.m.

••• AMERY – The following games on 1260 AM can be heard on the following dates and times. The Thursday, Feb. 12, Amery at Ellsworth girls basketball game begins at 7:30 p.m.

The Friday, Feb. 13, Durand at Amery boys basketball game begins at 7:30 p.m., and the Tuesday, Feb. 17, Somerset at Amery girls basketball game begins at 7:30 p.m.

••• MADISON – The Ohio State at Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball game can be heard on 1260 AM on Saturday, Feb. 14, beginning at 8 p.m.

••• LEADER LAND – Local sports tidbits to share? Please contact the Leader by 4 p.m. on Tuesdays 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 2008 and hasn’t been mentioned, send us an e-mail and we’ll take it from there. – Marty Seeger and Brenda Sommerfeld

SPORTS RESULTS DEADLINES: WEDNESDAY - MONDAY: 1 p.m. the following business day. TUESDAY: 7 a.m. on Wednesday. Missed deadlines mean no coverage that week!

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Siren girls secure conference championship St. Croix Falls takes second

Siren 64, St. Croix Falls 36

by Brenda Sommerfeld SIREN – The Dragon girls stand alone on the top of West Lakeland Conference for their second consecutive year, but have had the title for three. During the 2006-07 season, Siren shared the championship title with Grantsburg. This year’s title was secured for Siren in their 64-36 victory over St. Croix Falls on Friday, Feb. 6.

“That was goal No. one on the season and we have many more to accomplish in the upcoming weeks,” Siren coach Ryan Karsten said. “If we continue to get better every day and work hard, we hope to accomplish many more.”

Winning against St. Croix Falls on Friday gave the Dragons a 10-0 conference record. They have four more wins than any other team and only have two more conference games to play before playoffs.

“Overall, for it being parent’s night and senior night, I couldn’t have scripted a better game for our crowd to see,” Karsten commented.

Both the Saints and Dragons started the game slow offensively. Siren totaled eight points, three being free throws, during the first quarter. St. Croix Falls wasn’t far behind with a total of six points.

“It was our third game of the week, so I was worried that we would have dead legs,” Karsten said. “I was right and we started slow.”

The Dragons picked up their scoring pace in the second quarter, outscoring the Saints 24-3, taking a 32-9 lead at halftime.

“It was a combination of shots falling and our defensive pressure having an impact,” Karsten explained. “The big shift came when their point guard, Sarah Petznick, got in foul trouble in the second quarter. She is a very good point guard that caused us problems with our press when she was in the game.”

The second half scoring was closer by the two teams. Siren managed to add 32 points to their score and St. Croix Falls added 27.

“Jamie Rohm did a nice job, getting the ball down the court,” Saints coach Angie Maternowsky said. “Tashina Martinson and Marissa Campeau did a good job on defense.”

Sophomore Carley Emery led the Dragon team in points with the 25 she scored. Ashley Guevara added 16 for the team, Janey Emery had 10 and Haily Mulroy contributed eight.

Campeau scored the most for the Saints with a total of 14 points.

Frederic 48, Northwood 37 FREDERIC – The Vikings are 6-1 in nonconference games after their 48-37 win over the Northwood Evergreens on Friday, Feb. 6.

Team St. Croix Falls Siren

1 2 3 4 6 2 4 23 8 24 10 22 Individual Statistics St. Croix Falls 2s 3s FTM/A Sarah Petznick 2 Sharanda Whittaker 2 Jamie Rohm Jenny Benoy 2 0/1 Tashina Martinson 1 3/3 Marissa Campeau 3 2 2/2 Amanda Larson 2 1/3 Totals 12 2 6/9 Siren Haily Mulroy Sarah Howe Carley Emery Janey Emery Meghan Baasch Jamie Fischbach Ashley Guevara Amber Guevara Totals

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F 36 64 F TP 4 4 - 4 1 1 4 2 5 - 14 1 5 9 36

3s FTM/A F TP 2 2/4 1 8 1 2 4 1/2 3 25 3 10 3 1/2 1 1 3 3/4 3 16 1 2 9 7/12 16 64

Siren’s Haily Mulroy goes up for a shot against St. Croix Falls on Friday night, Feb. 6. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld “We played a very solid game versus a really good opponent,” coach Troy Wink stated. “I am extremely proud of our girls effort tonight.”

The teams stayed close in the first two quarters. Frederic scored 13 in the first quarter, while Northwood had 12. The Vikings put up another nine points in the second, while the Evergreens had eight.

The score came within points a few times throughout the second half, but Frederic was able to secure the win, scoring 26 to Northwood’s 17.

“Our defense did a great job, we held their top player No. 10 to eight points,” Wink said.

Three of the Vikings scored in the double digits. Becca Anderson totaled 15 points, Kendra Wells had 13 and

Becca Anderson led the Vikings in points with 15 over Northwood on Friday. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld Team Northwood Frederic

1 2 3 4 12 8 11 6 13 9 16 10 Individual Statistics Northwood 2s 3s FTM/A Ashlee Blegen 1 2 Deanna Scheller 1 Katie Sohn 1 Ashley Block 5 2/4 Janie Murray 2 Amy Hermeier Annie Block 2 1 2/2 Totals 12 3 4/6 Frederic Megan Anderson Ana Miller Chrissy Chenal Becca Anderson Kendra Wells Candace Buck Totals

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3s FTM/A F TP 2/3 2 6 4 2 2/3 1 10 3 2/4 1 15 1 2/2 2 13 2/2 - 2 4 10/14 10 48

Chrissy Chenal contributed 10.

“We did a nice job at the free-throw line,” Wink mentioned.

Frederic went 10 of 14 from the line during the night.

Luck 34, Unity 30 BALSAM LAKE – The Cardinal girls got by a scrappy Unity team that has become consistently stronger on defense. In the end however, it all came down to some solid free-throw shooting from Luck’s Morgan Denny.

“The game was close from the opening tip-off, and with Morgan Denny making 8 of 9 free throws…6 of 6 in the

Webster’s Chris Stoll guards Pirate Sarah Wald during their game on Friday, Feb. 6. – Photo by Carl Heidel Team Grantsburg Webster

1 2 3 4 13 4 11 10 12 8 12 17 Individual Statistics Grantsburg 2s 3s FTM/A Sarah Wald 2 4 Gabrielle Witzany 1 2/2 Haley Larson 5 0/2 Kortney Morrin 2 0/2 Jessica Mayer 1 Nicole McKenzie 1 Totals 12 4 2/6 Webster Chris Stoll Michelle Gibbs Chelsey Robinson Kendra Spurgeon Reba Smallwood Rose Kopecky Rachel Salas Mary Johnson Totals

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F 38 49 F 5 4 1 2 1 3 16

TP 16 4 10 4 2 2 38

3s FTM/A F TP 2/2 1 2 1/1 - 7 1/1 - 3 0/2 - 10 2/2 0 18 1/4 3 9 3 4 0/1 2 6 7/13 9 49

fourth quarter, we were able to escape with a win,” said Luck coach Marty Messar.

Denny also led the team with 14 points and nine rebounds in the game, but the Eagles came after Luck with some great defense according to Messar, who says the Eagles only allowed them 34 shots.

“Besides defending well, the Eagles limited our offensive rebounds to only five for the game,” Messar said.

As a team the Cardinals shot 12 of 18 from the line. Other leading rebounders included Taryn Pilz with six and Aleah Lemieux with five. With the win Luck stretched their conference record to 6-4 and 10-7 overall.

“Another tough loss,” said Unity coach Chuck Holicky. “We played well, rebounded exceptionally well, but just came up short. We showed a lot of patience on offense, got some great looks, but just couldn’t finish.”– Marty Seeger Webster 49, Grantsburg 38 WEBSTER – The Tigers were victorious last Friday night over Grantsburg.

The game gives the Tigers a shot at finishing the season at .500. It was a good win according to coach Jeff Roberts.

“We played pretty well again Friday, did an excellent job of getting the ball inside to Reba [Smallwood] and Rose [Kopecky],” Roberts said.

Smallwood led the Tigers with 18 points and Kopecky added nine. For Grantsburg it was Sarah Wald who led the team with 16, but Webster held the Pirates leading scorer, Kortney Morrin to four points.– Marty Seeger

Luck’s Krystal Stage fights hard to keep the ball out of the hands of the Unity players. – Photo by Lori Nelson Team Luck Unity Luck Morgan Denny Bailee Swenson Melissa Jenssen Krystal Stage Aleah Lemieux Taryn Pilz Totals

1 2 3 4 9 10 6 9 8 7 7 8 Individual Statistics 2s 3s FTM/A 3 8/8 1 1 2/4 2 0/1 1/2 4 1/4 11 12/19

Unity Annie Confer Samantha Ince Crystal Donahue Cailin Turner Becca Milligan Elizabeth Ebensperger Marisa Hacker Totals

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F 34 30 F TP 1 14 1 2 2 4 1 4 4 1 1 9 10 34

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Blizzard blows through two before playoffs The Blizzard now holds a 4-0 Northern Cup record over the Spooner/Shell Lake team.

“We dominated play from the drop of the puck,” coach Greg Sears said. “A lot of people made the trip over and the atmosphere was great.”

The Blizzard took a 4-0 lead after the first two periods with Bryan Bennett, David Harlander, Tony Folk and Jamie Robb each scoring one goal.

Spooner/Shell Lake scored their only goal in the beginning of the third, while the Blizzard nailed three more into the net. Harlander had two more for a hat trick and Bennett scored the final goal.

Tyler Richison and Bennett each made two assists. Russ Thoreen, Cody Benedict, Steven Labatt and Harlander each had one assist during the game.

“Harlander and Bennett stole the show,” Sears commented. “David is our only senior and he will leave the program 4 for 4 in Northern Cup games.”

First round of regionals in Siren Blizzard 3, Baldwin/Woodville 2

by Brenda Sommerfeld BALDWIN – After a 3-2 win over Baldwin/Woodville on Saturday, Feb. 7, the Blizzard finishes their season with a 9-11 record going into regionals on Tuesday, Feb. 17. They will face Baldwin/Woodville for the first round.

“After starting 2-10, we have won seven of eight games and get to host a playoff game for the second time in four years,” coach Greg Sears said.

On Saturday, David Harlander scored an early goal in the first period to take the lead. Cody Benedict nailed another goal for the Blizzard early in the second, but Baldwin/Woodville came back to score two of their own, tying it 2-2.

Tony Folk scored the winning goal in Team Blizzard Baldwin/Woodville

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Second Period – 2 B Cody Benedict (Joe Engelhart, Steven Labatt) 1:15; 1 BW Taylor Carter (Jake Rock, Dillon Anderson) 4:38; 2 BW Taylor Carter (Dylan DeMotts) 5:24.

Third Period – 3 B Tony Folk (David Harlander, Bryan Bennett) 12:44.

Goalies Saves – B Mike Billings (35); BW Bo Nelson (17).

Ben Shives takes the puck around an opponent during an earlier game this season. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

Team Blizzard Spooner/Shell Lake

the third period on a power play with assists from David Harlander and Bryan Bennett.

“We spoiled senior night for the Blackhawks,” Sears commented.

Bennett totaled two assists. Folk, Joe Engelhart, Steven Labatt and Harlander each totaled one assist. Mike Billings

Scoring (Time elapsed) First Period – 1 B Bryan Bennett (Tyler Richison) 5:52.

Second Period – 2 B David Harlander 8:47; 3 Tony Folk (Russ Thoreen, Bryan Bennett) 11:09; 4 Jamie Robb (Cody Benedict, Steven Labatt) 15:22.

Third Period – 1 SS Brandon Shutt (Cavan Maher, David Roberts) 7:41; 5 B David Harlander 9:33; 6 B David Harlander 12:57; 6 B Bryan Bennett (David Harlander, Tyler Richison) 13:19.

Goalies Saves – B Mike Billings (22); SS Jarett Sykes (38).

played hard in the net for the Blizzard, making 35 saves.

Blizzard 7, Spooner/Shell Lake 1 SPOONER – The Blizzard kept possession of the golden Northern Cup trophy, with a 7-1 victory over Spooner/Shell Lake on Friday, Feb. 6.

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Saints conquer Dragons Northwood 46, Frederic 45 FREDERIC – The Vikings gave Northwood a run for their money on Friday, Feb. 6, but eventually fell 46-45 to the Evergreens.

Zach Anderson totaled 16 points, Trae Gehl had 10 and Ethan Cook contributed eight.

Frederic falls to Northwood by one point St. Croix Falls 72, Siren 56

by Brenda Sommerfeld SIREN – The Saint boys remain third in the West Lakeland Conference after a 72-56 conference win over the Siren Dragons on Friday, Feb. 6.

The Dragons held the lead for much of the first quarter, until St. Croix Falls went on a scoring rally to take a 17-15 lead. Before the halftime buzzer, the Saints had pulled ahead, 31-21. St. Croix Falls held the game throughout the rest of it, scoring 40 points in the second half.

Sam Schmidt made nine field goals to score 18 points and lead the Saints. Cory Gebhard, Ryan Larson and Austin Whittenberger each followed Schmidt, scoring 10 points.

Siren’s Andrew Brown led his team

Team St. Croix Falls Siren

1 2 3 4 17 14 21 20 15 6 14 21 Individual Statistics 2s 3s FTM/A St. Croix Falls Matt Vold Nick Johnson 4/4 Sam Schmidt 9 Ben Anderson 2/2 Cory Gebhard 2 2 Zach Christenson 2 Gus Koecher 3 0/1 Ryan Larson 5 0/2 Kyle Christensen 3 2/4 Austin Whittenberger 4 2/7 Totals 28 2 10/20

Saint Sam Schmidt leaps to the basket against the Siren Dragons. – Photos by Brenda Sommerfeld with 13 points, with brother Charlie Brown following with 11 of his own.

Elijah Hinze finished the game with 10 and Christian Hall scored nine.

Frederic’s Trae Gehl pushes past a Northwood player to the basket on Friday night.

Siren Christian Hall Elijah Hinze Luke Bollant Charlie Brown Vince Nasman Brennen Moose Andrew Brown Totals

2s 2 2 1 4 4 5 18

F 72 56 F 1 1 1 3 3 2 3 14

TP 4 18 2 10 4 6 10 8 10 72

3s FTM/A F TP 1 2/2 2 9 2 2 10 1 0/1 4 5 3/4 3 11 1 - 8 3/5 3 13 4 8/12 15 56

Dragons blaze burns bright against Solon Springs Kristen Sexton scores first varsity points Siren 69, Solon Springs 34

by Brenda Sommerfeld SOLON SPRINGS – Siren quickly took the lead and won their game against Solon Springs, 69-34, on Thursday.

“It was a road game in the middle of winter, with that said, we took care of business and played OK,” coach Ryan Karsten commented. “We gave up a few more points then I would have liked, but the offense put 69 on the board, which was a surprise.”

The Dragons took a 34-7 lead over

Amber Guevara aims for a shot during a recent home game. – Photo

by Brenda Sommerfeld

Solon Springs in the first half, allowing Solon Springs only two points in the first quarter. Siren went on to score 35 more points in the second half, while Solon Springs added 27 more to their score.

Karsten played many girls throughout the game. The team starters scored most of the team’s points, but others also added some. Starters Janey Emery scored a total of 22, Ashley Guevara added 20 and Carley Emery scored 14.

Daphne Hubbell, Abigail Mitchell and Kristen Sexton each got to play in the fourth quarter. Hubbell scored four points and Sexton added two during their playing time.

“Kristen Sexton scored her first varsity points of her career,” Karsten added.

Team Siren Solon Springs

1 2 3 4 20 14 15 20 2 5 15 12 Individual Statistics Siren 2s 3s FTM/A Sarah Howe 1 Daphane Hubbell 1 2/2 Jenna Wambolt Carley Emery 1 4 Janey Emery 8 1 3/4 Meghan Baasch 1 0/3 Jamie Fischbach 1 Kristen Sexton 1 Danielle Keller Ashley Guevara 4 2 6/8 Amber Guevara Totals 17 6 12/17 Solon Springs Rachel Hanleys Chanda Deming Chanae Barrett Lorin Larson Salann Gilbert Ailien Bowker Alex Sickler Totals

2s 5 3 1 3 1 13

F 69 34 F 2 3 3 1 3 1 1 1 15

TP 2 4 14 22 2 3 2 20 69

3s FTM/A F TP 1 3/4 4 16 3 6 2 2 0/2 2 6 3 1/3 - 1 1/2 1 3 1 5/11 15 34

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Conference wrestling sees three area champions team bumped him up to the 171-lb. class to get him some practice matches, according Ferguson, who was impressed with his fifth-place finish.

“Which is incredible when you consider that he is a freshman who’s giving up 20-25 pounds to his opponents,” said Ferguson. “He’s fearless.”

Others placing last Saturday include Luke Nelson, 125 lbs., fourth place; Jared Peper, 160 lbs., and Jake Johnson, 215 lbs., in fifth place; Steven Anderson, 119 lbs., sixth, and Joe Swanson, 189 lbs., finished eighth.

Saints wrestler Joe Raygor lands MVP honors

by Marty Seeger CAMERON – The conference wrestling tournament in Cameron is a nice warm-up for the post-season, and from what wrestling fans witnessed last weekend there’s no question that the best matches are still to come.

St. Croix Falls was among the area’s best in terms of team placing, as they finished fourth among 11 other teams with a score of 210.

Unity brought in fifth place with 200 points.

Individually, it was Joe Raygor, 171 lbs., who brought home the tournament MVP. Raygor received a bye in the first two rounds before winning by Joe Raygor technical fall over Kade Latz of Cornell Gillman and Woody Reindahl of Clear Lake. Raygor won by scores of 19-4 and 23-8 respectively.

“It was a nice honor for Joe to get the MVP of the tournament,” said Saints wrestling coach Dan Clark.

It was a nice tournament too, for several other Saints wrestlers including Jake Bruns, 125 lbs., and Shaw Amundson, 130 lbs., who each took second place. Bruns lost the first-place match in double overtime to Andrew Phelps of Cornell/Gillman, 2-1.

Amundson lost to Dustin McKinney of Unity by a 17-8 major decision.

Spencer Walters, 119 lbs., and Jake Radamacher, 152 lbs., placed third at Cameron, and Jesse Wilson, 145 lbs., placed fourth. Wilson pinned Nathan Camp of Shell Lake in 38 seconds to advance to the third place match, where he lost by a 5-1 decision to Derek Berrier of Clear Lake.

Jake Bruns defeated Shell Lake’s Brandon Dorriott in his first match at the conference tournament in Cameron last Saturday. – Photos by Larry Samson unless otherwise noted “We wrestled very well, all of our kids wrestled hard all day long in every match,” said Clark. “That is the performance we have been asking for all year.”

Also placing were Ryan Nussbaum, 140 lbs., and Brian Backus, 275 lbs., placing fifth, Grant Simpson, 135 lbs, sixth and Nick Campbell, 112 lbs., and Eric Segelstrom, 160 lbs., each took seventh place.

“It seems we came out very flat against Unity [last week] and did not wrestle well at all,” Clark said. “It was nice to see the team bounce back quick-

Dennis McKinney took first place at Cameron on Saturday. Here he’s shown wrestling Jake Malsom of Cameron, who he defeated 15-1.

LFG’s Chase Dodds had a good day of wrestling at 119 lbs. He took fourth place overall. – Photo by Lori Nelson

ly.”

All area teams including St. Croix Falls, Unity and Luck/Frederic/Grantsburg will wrestle in the Division 2 regional tournament this Saturday in Amery. Others teams include Osceola, Somerset and Amery.

Two Eagles land first place CAMERON – Unity’s Dustin and Dennis McKinney battled their way to the top of the conference with first-place finishes in Cameron last Saturday.

Dustin, 130 lbs., took first after receiving a bye in the first round and pinning John Schneider in 3:13. He pinned Gabe Skluzacek of Shell Lake in 1:41 and then defeated Shaw Amundson by major decision, 17-8.

Dennis, 135 lbs., also received a bye in the Dustin McKinney first round and won by major decisions in the the first two rounds. He defeated Jake Malson of Cameron, 15-1, and Tyler Anderson of Shell Lake, 14-0. He won a close contest in the first-place match in a 1-0 decision over Eric Gunderlach of Cornell/Gillman.

Dylan Hendricks, 140 lbs., took third place overall by defeating Jordon Olson of Clear Lake, a wrestler who defeated Hendricks in an earlier dual this season by a 9-1 decision. At Cameron, Hendricks won 11-3 for the third-place finish.

“That’s a sign of hard work in practice, and constant improvement,” said coach Mark Ferguson. “Dylan had a great tournament.”

Nate Reda, 152 lbs., had a great tournament as well with a second-place finish. Reda had a bye in the first two rounds and pinned Tim Koehler of Shell Lake in 5:43. He lost the first-place match to Ryan Crotteau by a 4-1 decision.

Jordan Hughes is a JV wrestler who was bumped up considerably in his normal weight class to take fifth-place overall. Hughes is a freshman who started at 145 lbs., but is up to 155 lbs. That qualifies him to wrestle at 160 lbs., but the

LFG places six CAMERON – The Luck/Frederic/ Grantsburg wrestling team has been taking a hard hit with various illnesses and other circumstances that have kept several of their team members from being able to wrestle. At least three wrestlers couldn’t make the conference tournament in Cameron, but six did, and all placed, which gives coach Chris Bartlett a better idea of what to expect at regionals in Amery this Saturday.

Chase Dodds place fourth overall, and coach Bartlett thought he wrestled well all day at 119 lbs. Dodds defeated Tyler Peters of Cornell/Gillman by a 53 decision.

Austin Eskola, 112 lbs., took fifth place overall, but normally wrestles at 119 lbs.

“112 was one of the toughest weight classes at our conference,” Bartlett said, and added that Eskola might have placed higher at 119, but coaches wanted to look ahead to the regional tournament.

Eskola won two matches on the day, decisions over Nick Austin Eskola Campbell of St. Croix Falls and Dillon Hopke of Shell Lake.

Ben Ackerley also placed fifth, but lost a close match to go for a chance at third.

According to Bartlett, Ackerley was up the entire match on one opponent. He managed to win two matches on the day, and both were over Grant Simpson of St. Croix Falls.

Ray Kurkowski, 103 lbs., took sixth, and Brent Johnson gave up some weight for eighth-place at 125 lbs., while John Schneider also placed eighth-place at 130 lbs.

The Cardinals will be without Brett Bartylla for the rest of the season due to a shoulder injury, but Bartlett is hopeful the team can get a few through regionals and on to sectionals.

“It all depends where people move to,” Bartlett said.

Unity’s Dylan Hendricks takes Ryan Nussbaum of St. Croix Falls to the mat in Cameron. Hendricks placed third overall and Nussbaum took fifth.

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Saints make a comeback at Unity Thursday, so hopefully it’ll be a different game with Jenny Benoy back and Sarah Petznick healthy, and we’ll see what happens,” Maternowsky said.

Extend streak to three on Tuesday St. Croix Falls 44, Unity 41

by Marty Seeger BALSAM LAKE – It was a quiet crowd at Unity on Monday night, but both the Saints and Eagles generated energy on the court to make for an exciting game.

“It might be a rough week here, but I’m very happy to have pulled that one off,” said Saints coach Angie Maternowsky.

The Saints were a little shorthanded, with starter Jenny Benoy out with a ruptured eardrum, and starting point guard Sarah Petznick was not feeling 100-percent according to Maternowsky.

Petznick remained in the game and had six assists, eight rebounds and four points. Yet it was freshman Caitlyn Olson and junior Jamie Rohm who stepped up considerably according the coach, with one succeeding defensively and the other coming up with some offensive shots.

“Caitlyn Olson and Jamie Rohm stepped up and helped us out a lot,” Maternowsky said after the game.

“Jamie with her aggressiveness, and Caitlyn with her offensive shots.”

The Saints got off to a bit of a slow start, but took a five-point lead midway through the first quarter. Unity managed to get back in the game with a pair of buckets from Becca Milligan, which helped give the Eagles a one-point advantage at the end of the first quarter.

The Eagles turned it loose in the second quarter as they quickly went on a solid scoring drive that forced the Saints to take a timeout. Crystal Donahue scored eight for the Eagles in the second quarter on some nice passes and fast breaks, which gave Unity an 11-point lead at one point, and a 9-point advantage at the half. The Saints were held to

Saints Caitlyn Olson dribbles into a Shell Lake defender on Tuesday night. – Larry Samson Team St. Croix Falls Unity

1 2 3 4 11 16 10 4 12 4 20 8 Individual Statistics St. Croix Falls 2s 3s FTM/A Sarah Petznick 1 2/4 Sharanda Whittaker 3 Caitlyn Olson 2 Jamie Rohm 1 Tashina Martinson 2 Marissa Campeau 5 1 5/7 Amanda Larson 2 2/3 Totals 16 1 9/14 Unity Annie Confer Samantha Ince Crystal Donahue Cailin Turner Becca Milligan Elizabeth Ebensperger Marisa Hacker Totals

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2s 2 4 3 4 1 2 16

F 44 41 F TP 3 4 2 6 1 4 - 2 - 4 3 18 3 6 12 44

3s FTM/A F TP 2 1/2 3 5 2/2 2 10 1 1 9 3/8 3 11 1 2 3 4 1 6/12 15 41

Saints Sarah Petznick and Tashina Martinson fight with Unity’s Samantha Ince for posession of the ball Monday night. – Photo by Marty Seeger just four points in the second quarter, but managed to turn things around in the third quarter.

“The second half of this game I’m very happy with, first half we still got to work on,” Maternowsky said.

The third quarter was a different scenario for the Saints as they managed to turn unforced turnovers into scoring opportunities. Marissa Campeau scored 10 of her 18 points in the third quarter to help the cause and shot 4 for 5 from the line in the second half. She also had 11 boards, five blocked shots and two steals, including two assists. As a team the Saints shot 60-percent from the field in the third quarter, while Sharanda Whittaker scored six points in the third and Olson scored four.

“When the game was on the line we came up short,” said Unity coach Chuck

Siren’s Jamie Fischbach looks to pass the ball in an earlier game. – File photos by Brenda Sommerfeld Team Shell Lake St. Croix Falls

1 2 3 4 6 7 7 11 8 17 10 7 Individual Statistics Shell Lake 2s 3s FTM/A Ashley Anderson 1/2 Steph Clark 2 3/7 Leah Keefe Nikki Scheu 0/1 Sarah Jamme’ 5 3/8 Jennifer Cassel 2 1/2 Annie Dunham 2 1/2 Totals 11 9/22 St. Croix Falls Sarah Petznick Sharanda Whittaker Caitlyn Olson Jamie Rohm Tashina Martinson Marissa Campeau Rebecca Wampfler Amanda Larson Totals

2s 2 4 1 2 6 1 16

F 31 42 F TP 3 1 1 7 1 - 2 3 13 2 5 - 5 10 31

3s FTM/A F TP 1/2 2 5 1 3 11 - 2 1 2/3 2 6 2/3 3 13 1 2 2/4 5 2 1 7/12 17 42

Holicky. “We didn’t make free-throws and had too many unforced turnovers.”

The Eagles went seven consecutive possessions in the fourth quarter with an unforced turnover according to Holicky also added.

It was a low-scoring affair in the fourth quarter and the Saints shot 6 of their 8 fourth-quarter points from the free-throw line. The Saints stepped up defensively and slowed things down as well, which forced Unity to foul for a chance to come back.

Despite having just a few games left in the regular season, it was the first time Unity and St. Croix Falls had met due to the cold weather conditions in January.

With that in mind, Maternowsky hopes the team can turn things around before playoffs begin in a couple of weeks.

“It is very weird to see them for the first time at the end of the season…you know, we’ll see them again next

Pirate Gabby Witzany looks to the basket for a shot during a previous game this season.

Team Siren Spooner

1 2 3 4 14 12 10 13 16 8 6 10 Individual Statistics Siren 2s 3s FTM/A Haily Mulroy 1 2/2 Sarah Howe 1/3 Carley Emery 1 3 3/4 Janey Emery 2 6/10 Meghan Baasch 2 1 5/6 Jamie Fischbach 1 2/2 Ashley Guevara 2 Totals 9 4 19/27

Spooner Rosy Bray Samantha Honk Katie Nowak Kayla Vik Angela Stellrecht Nicole Slaminski Kirsten Vik Totals

2s 1 3 4 8

F 48 40 F 5 3 5 3 3 1 3 23

TP 4 1 14 16 12 4 4 48

3s FTM/A F TP 0/1 2 2 1 1/3 5 4 1 0/2 3 9 1/3 5 1 2/4 2 2 1 7/12 2 18 3 11/25 19 40

St. Croix Falls 42, Shell Lake 31 ST. CROIX FALLS – The Saints grabbed their third-straight win over Shell Lake on Tuesday night. It was the second-straight game without starter Jenny Benoy, who missed Monday’s game at Unity with a ruptured eardrum.

Stepping up was Marissa Campeau with a team-leading 14 points and 10 rebounds. Sharanda Whittaker had 11 points for the Saints, and Sarah Petznick had eight assists. Amanda Larson came down with seven rebounds.

St. Croix Falls led by two at the end of the first quarter but opened up their offense with 17 points in the second quarter, and held the Lakers to seven.

The Saints host PACT Charter, Minn., this Thursday, Feb. 12, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Siren 48, Spooner 40 SPOONER – The Dragons defeated a Division II team, the Spooner Rails, 4840, on their road trip Tuesday, Feb. 10.

“The game was a war,” coach Ryan Karsten said. “The are big, strong and very physical. We knew that it would be close early and we had hoped that by the second half we could wear them down with our pressure.”

Siren managed just that. The Rails led 16-14 after the first quarter, but Siren scored enough in the second to take a 26-24 halftime lead. The Dragons held on to the lead and finished eight points above Spooner.

“All seven of my girls played together as one,” Karsten commented. “They were my band of seven sisters tonight.”

Karsten said Janey Emery, Haily Mulroy and Jamie Fischbach’s ballhandling and defense were major reasons for the team’s success against the Rails.

Sarah Howe and Ashley Guevara were also major powers on defense.

Meghan Baasch made many rebounds and scored 12 points. Carley Emery scored 14 points including three 3pointers in the second half. Janey totaled 16 points for the team.

“It was a battle and a great test for our team at this point of the season,” Karsten said. – Brenda Sommerfeld Amery 72, Grantsburg 34 GRANTSBURG – The Amery Warriors took an early lead over the Grantsburg Pirates on Tuesday and ended the game in a victory of 72-34.

The Pirates scored 20 points in the first half and added 14 in the second half.

Kortney Morrin and Gabby Witzany each scored nine points for Grantsburg.

Sarah Wald totaled eight and Nicole McKenzie contributed four. – Brenda Sommerfeld Team Amery Grantsburg

1 2 3 4 15 20 19 18 10 10 5 9 Individual Statistics Amery 2s 3s FTM/A Sarah Nelson 1 0/2 Liz Isakson 1 Kendra Schiell 2 0/2 Kelly Stewart 4 Karen Hanson 2 Hayley Olson 5 1/2 Lisa Clark 2 Mackenzie Jensen 1 2 Courtney Luke 1 Molly Fitzgerald 1 Heather Byl 10 5/5 Totals 30 2 6/11 Grantsburg Sarah Wald Gabby Witzany Lisa Gaffney Kortney Morrin Jessica Moyer Liz Gaffney Nicole McKenzie Totals

2s 1 3 1 1 1 2 9

F 72 34 F 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 9

TP 2 2 4 8 4 11 4 8 2 2 25 72

3s FTM/A F TP 2 1 8 1 2 9 - 2 1 4/4 2 9 2 2 3 0/2 1 4 4 4/6 11 34

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Tigers claw through Cumberland Beavers on Monday, Feb. 9.

Elijah Hinze, Charlie Brown, Vince Nasman, Brennen Moose and Andrew Brown started the game for Siren but were taken out after their 41-8 firstquarter lead. Hinze scored 22 points during his time on the court, Andrew Brown added 14, Charlie Brown contributed five and Moose totaled four.

All other members of the varsity team saw playing time and scored another 48 points for the Dragons. LCO was only allowed nine more points during the game.

Luke Bollant scored 13 points and Christian Hall and Mike Wampfler each added eight.

Dragons cream LCO Webster 70, Cumberland 56

by Brenda Sommerfeld WEBSTER – After an exciting win over Grantsburg on Friday, Webster kept a winning streak going, beating the Cumberland Beavers 70-56 on Tuesday.

The Tigers trailed 35-24 at halftime, but stepped it up in the second half.

With 2:13 left in the third quarter, Webster had tied the score 39-39, but fell back by one 42-41 to the Beavers by the end of the quarter.

Cumberland fell behind the Tigers 5749 in the fourth with two minutes remaining. In those two minutes, the Tigers scored 13 more to take the victory.

The Webster team went 20 for 25 from the free throw line with seven different players being put on the spot.

James Wethern led the Webster team in points, scoring a total of 26. Karl Weber also scored over 20 points, totaling 23 in the game.

Siren 89, LCO 17 SIREN – The Dragons starting five only played one quarter in their 89-17 win over the Lac Courte Orieilles team

Webster’s Adam Baum goes up for a block against a Cumberland athlete on Tuesday night.– Photo by Sherril Summer

Cameron 56, Unity 37 CAMERON – The Eagles were shut down at Cameron on Tuesday night.

Cameron held just a six-point lead at halftime but outscored Unity by 13 points in the second half to grab the win.

“We were inconsistent,” said coach Shaun Fisher. “We still haven’t learned how to win.”

The Eagles were led by Brady Flaherty who had 12 points and Rush Hickethier had seven, while Luke Hetfeld added six. Unity shot just 5 of 14 from the free-throw line. Despite the nonconference loss, the Eagles will be making adjustments before the playoff push in the coming weeks.

“We are going to try and improve so we play our best down the stretch,” Fisher said. – Marty Seeger Osceola 65, St. Croix Falls 54 OSCEOLA – The Saints lost Monday to a tough Osceola team that currently posts an 11-4 overall and sit tied with New Richmond at the top of the Middle Border Conference at 8-1.

Ryan Larson led the Saints with 17 points, and Gus Koecher added 14 points, while Austin Whittenberger had 10 points. Brian Bartley and Tyler Olson led the Chieftains with 18 and 17 points respectively. Fifteen of Olson’s points were hit from the 3-point line. The Saints cut Osceola’s lead to four points at the end of the third quarter, but St. Croix Falls was held to just five points in the fourth quarter.

The Saints have two more nonconference games scheduled before they host Unity on Thursday, Feb. 19. – Marty Seeger

Brennen Moose of Siren goes up for a shot. – File photo by Brenda Sommerfeld Team Cumberland Webster

1 2 3 4 19 16 7 14 12 12 17 29 Individual Statistics Cumberland 2s 3s FTM/A Brandon Enget 2 1 Brady Rose 3 3 6/10 Sam Clark 3 5/6 Josiah Helbig 1 0/3 Mike Forster 2 2/2 Joey Wistrcill 2 1 1/1 Totals 12 6 14/22

Webster Bryan Krause Quentin Johnson James Wethern Karl Weber Kyle Godfrey Dan Erickson Mitchell Elliot Nolan Kriegel Adam Baum Donnie Holmes Totals

2s 1 5 9 1 1 1 1 19

Team LCO Siren

F 56 70 F 5 3 4 3 4 2 21

Brady Flaherty led with 14 points at Cameron Tuesday night.– File photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

TP 7 21 11 3 6 8 56

3s FTM/A F TP 4 4/6 1 6 4 4/6 - 26 5/6 3 23 2/2 4 2 3 2 2/2 - 4 2/2 - 2 1/1 4 3 - 2 4 20/25 19 70

1 2 3 4 8 4 5 41 20 18 10 Individual Statistics LCO 2s 3s FTM/A Esiban Parent Tony Roach 1/3 Paul Dust 1/2 Ricky Miller 2 1 Jeff Kakazu 1 2 Howard Bressette Totals 3 3 2/5 Siren Christian Hall Elijah Hinze Tadd Oachs Eric Keith Mike Wampfler Luke Bollant Jesse Hinze Charlie Brown Brennen Moose Andrew Brown Murdock Smith Totals

2s 4 11 1 1 4 6 1 1 2 6 3 40

F 17 89 F TP 1 3 1 1 1 2 7 2 8 4 10 17

3s FTM/A F TP 2 8 0/1 - 22 3 2 1 1 8 1/1 - 13 1 - 5 3/3 - 5 - 4 2/2 2 14 - 6 1 6/7 9 89

Saint Ryan Larson had 17 points against Osceola on Monday. – Filephoto by Marty Seeger Team Unity Cameron

1 2 3 4 6 15 9 7 12 15 11 18 Individual Statistics Unity 2s 3s FTM/A Sam Bengtson Seth McKenzie Luke Hilleshiem 1 1 Brady Flaherty 5 2/5 Drew Walker 1 0/1 Rush Hickethier 2 1 0/2 Eric Goulet Jared Mork 1 1/2 Luke Hetfeld 2 2/4 Tyler Bublitz 1 Totals 13 2 5/14 Cameron Jared Motropulos Tanner Linsmeyer Ben Harm Kolby Kiehl Taylor Seeger Joe Spamel Levi Borstad Zak Sharp Jordan Amacher Totals

2s 3 4 2 2 1 2 4 4 22

F 37 56 F TP 2 1 1 5 5 12 - 2 2 7 2 3 3 2 6 2 2 20 37

3s FTM/A F TP 1/2 1 1 3/6 1 9 0/1 3 8 0/1 1 4 4/4 3 8 1 2 1/4 3 3 3/5 - 4 4 8 12/23 17 56

Team St. Croix Falls Osceola

1 2 3 4 15 14 18 5 20 16 15 14 Individual Statistics St. Croix Falls 2s 3s FTM/A Matt Vold Sam Schmidt 2 2/2 Cory Gebhard 1 Zach Christenson 1 Gus Koecher 5 1 1/1 Ryan Larson 8 1/3 Kyle Christensen 1 1/2 Austin Whittenberger 4 2/4 Totals 22 1 7/12 Osceola Tyler Olson Brian Bartley Ryan Burkhamer Tyler Pauley Alex Mahler A. Rohlman Adam Schuman Garret Johnson Tevin Pittman Matt Fox Totals

2s 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 12

F 54 65 F 1 3 1 4 3 4 4 20

TP 6 2 2 14 17 3 10 54

3s FTM/A F TP 5 - 17 1 3/4 4 18 5/6 - 7 1 5/6 2 8 - 2 2/2 1 4 1/2 1 3 4/8 1 4 0/3 4 - 2 7 20/31 13 65

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Pirate gymnasts score team high in Rush City low score for the difficulty level of their vaults,” Lund said.

The team had season highs on beam with a 28.40 and floor with a 6.55.

“Our floor routines were much cleaner, but the scores did not reflect on how well the girls performed,” Lund commented.

Emily Cole was the only gymnast to receive a personal best with a score of 8.30 on floor. Cole also received a season-high score of 6.65 on the uneven bars.

Haley Johnson and Ilgen received season highs on beam. Johnson scored a

Coach upset with certain scoring Rush City 139.675, Grantsburg 118.700

by Brenda Sommerfeld RUSH CITY, Minn. – The Grantsburg gymnastics team traveled to Rush City, Minn., on Thursday, Feb. 5. They received the highest team score so far this season, with a total of 118.700, “The meet was our team high, but there was some issues with the scoring that was a little upsetting, in the beginning of the meet,” coach Kathy Lund said.

The teams highest score was on vault, with a team total of 32.35. Vaulting was one of the events that the scores were disappointing according to Lund.

“Both Michelle Lund and Jessika Ilgen threw 9.60 value vaults and received 8.20 and 8.40 scores, which is a

Team Rush City Grantsburg

Haley Johnson earned a season high score on the beam on Thursday. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

Vault/Place 34.625 32.350

Bars/Place 33.900 26.400

Grantsburg Individual Scores 8.200 Michelle Lund 8.400 Jessica Ilgen 7.575 Nikki Ticknor Emily Cole Lauren Finch 7.700 8.050 Breanna Fickbohm Jenna Barnez Haley Johnson

6.55 and Ilgen a 7.15.

Jenna Barenz and Nikki Ticknor scored their season highs on floor.

Barenz received a 7.15 and Ticknor got a 7.95.

Both Ilgen and Ticknor also received season highs as all-around gymnasts.

Ilgen totaled a 29.30 in all four events and Ticknor received a 27.075.

“I was very pleased with the girl’s performance,” Lund said. “They are still adding new skills and making better connections. Nikki Ticknor made a great improvement from last week, jumping up over two points.”

Beam/Place 34.650 28.400

7.650 7.100 5.000 6.650 4.800 -

Floor/Place All Around/Place Place 36.500 139.675 1st 31.550 118.700 2nd

7.450 7.200 6.550 7.250 6.550

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31.600 29.300 27.075 22.200 12.500 8.050 7.000 6.550

Lady Blizzard take fifth season loss Hopkins and Cody Crawford each made an assist for the game.

Meyer back in goal Tomahawk 3, Lady Blizzard 2

by Brenda Sommerfeld SIREN – The Lady Blizzard has been on a bit of a losing streak, taking their third consecutive loss on Saturday, Feb. 7. The Tomahawk Hatchets beat the Lady Blizzard 3-2 at the Siren arena. The Lady Blizzard now has a standing record of 11-5-3.

Tiffany Meyer was back in the net for the Lady Blizzard on Saturday after being out a few games.

The Hatchets knocked two goals past Meyer in the first period and one in the third.

The Lady Blizzard scored one in the second and one late in the third. Alex Lonetti scored both of the goals for the Lady Blizzard. Nicole Steiner, Brittani

Team Amery/Unity River Falls

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2 1 1

3 2 1

F 3 5

Scoring (Time elapsed) First Period – 1 RF Jackson Rhode (Ross Anderson, Karl Andersen) 6:33; 2 RF Danny Patrick (Zach Lindquist) 8:38; 3 RF Ross Andersen (Erik Friede, Dylan Dock) 15:01.

Second Period – 4 RF Jackson Rhode (Trey Peterson) 12:24; 1 AU Jake Hendrickson 14:20.

Third Period – 5 RF Zach Bennett (Erik Friede, Jackson Rhode) 14:52; 2 AU Kyle Schutz (Cody Olson, Tanner Tryggestad) 16:41; 3 AU Tanner Tryggestad 16:54.

Goalies Saves – AU Patrick Bergan (45); RF Garrett Jensen (15).

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3 1 1

F 3 2

Scoring (Time remaining) First Period – 1 T Lizzy Hilgendorf (Kendall Nelson) 14:59; 2 T Kacey Iwen 7:16.

Second Period – 1 LB Alex Lonetti (Nicole Steiner) 5:59.

Third Period – 2 LB Alex Lonetti (Brittani Hopkins, Cody Crawford) 14:56; 3 T Kendall Nelson (Lizzy Hilgendorf 9:29.

Goalies Saves – T Kate Nelson (41); LB Tiffany Meyer (11).

LEFT: Nicole Steiner takes a shot at the Tomahawk goal in their game on Saturday. Steiner made one assist during the game. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

Warriors fall to River Falls River Falls 5, Amery/Unity 3

by Brenda Sommerfeld RIVER FALLS – Amery/Unity made up a postponed game against River Falls on Monday, Feb. 9. The Warriors lost to River Falls, 5-3.

“They were a really good team, deserving of the No. 3 ranking in the state,” coach Tim Henningsgard said.

River Falls took a quick 3-0 lead in the first period. Scoring one more goal in the next two periods held the Warriors from catching them.

Jake Hendrickson, Kyle Schultz and Tanner Tryggestad each scored a goal for Amery/Unity. Tryggestad and Cody Olson made one assist each. Patrick Bergan made 45 saves in the net for the Warriors.

“We got some outstanding play from Patrick Bergan in the nets and the rest of the team played with a ton of heart,”

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Henningsgard commented. “Pretty proud of their effort.”

Amery/Unity will play Barron/Chetek on Tuesday, Feb. 17, in Amery, for their first regional game.

Amery/Unity 4, Somerset/Osceola 1 AMERY – The Amery/Unity Warriors beat Somerset/Osceola for the second time this season. The Warriors won on Thursday, Feb. 5, 4-1, giving them a second place finish in conference.

Cody Olson and Anthony Peterson each scored on power plays during the first period. Nick Swenson and Tanner Tryggestad scored one goal apiece in the second period. Tryggestad’s was while his team was shorthanded.

Kyle Schultz had two assists and Peterson and Tryggestad each made one assist.

Goaltender Patrick Bergan made 25 saves for the Warriors.

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Scoring (Time elapsed) First Period – 1 AU Cody Olson (Anthony Peterson, Tanner Tryggestad) 5:29; 2 AU Anthony Peterson (Kyle Schultz) 8:31.

Second Period – 3 Nick Swenson (Kyle Schultz) 5:41; 4 AU Tanner Tryggestad 11:37; 1 SO Sean Conrad (Robbie Flom, Tanner Vansomeren) 14:16.

Third Period – No scoring.

Goalies Saves – SO Dylan Rivard (23); AU Patrick Bergan (25).

2008-09 Boys Hockey Playoffs Regionals

Tuesday February 17

Sectionals

Thu rsday or Friday February 19 or 20

Tuesday February 24

Friday or Saturday February 27 or 28

(#1) Superior

(#9) Baldwin/Woodville

@Wessman Arena, 7 p.m.

Thurs., Feb. 19, 7 p.m.

@Siren 7 p.m.

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@New Richmond Sports Center S at., Feb. 28, 2 p.m.

(#3) River Falls @River Falls Thurs., Feb. 19, 7 p.m.

(#11) Barron @Amery 7 p.m.

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Knights of Columbus hold free-throw contest

The Knights of Columbus Council 6370 held a free-throw contest at the Frederic High School last Saturday. Winners from each age level move on to compete at the Siren High School on Saturday, Feb. 28. More results and details of the event can be found on www.sirenballpark.net.

First-place boys include (L to R): Connor Myers, 14, Grantsburg; Charlie Lindberg, 13, Frederic; Jaryd Braden, 12, Frederic; Augie Rovney, 12, Luck and Casey Ogilvie, 10, Luck. – Photos submitted

Second-place girls (L to R) include: Avery Steen, 14, Luck. Missing from photo are Brandie Bahr, 13, Frederic; Whitney Peterson, 12, Luck; Breylin Johnson, 11, Siren and Sarah Wells, 10, Frederic.

First-place girls include (L to R): Kendra Mossey, 14, Frederic; Emily Wells, 13, Frederic; Stephanie Wambolt, 12, Siren; Emily Howe, 11, Siren and Taylor Alseth, 10, Frederic.

Dakota Schultz, 10, Grantsburg, took second place.

Second-place boys (L to R): Zach Kuechenmeister, 13, Frederic; Zach Schmidt, 12, Frederic and Joe Rauchbauer, 11, Grantsburg. Missing from photo, Dakota Schultz, 10, Grantsburg.

Special Olympian alpine skiier Ryan Pierce earns bronze WAUSAU – Nearly 300 Special Olympics athletes of all ages competed Jan. 31 – Feb. 1 in various winter sports at Greenheck Field House, Granite Peak Ski Area and Nine Mile County Forest Recreation Area in Wausau.

Alpine skier Ryan Pierce of Amery competed in slalom, giant slalom and downhill alpine skiing events held at Granite Peak Ski Area. Pierce earned Bronze medals in slalom and giant slalom Pierce’s coach Debbie Petzel, a teacher at Unity Elementary School, said Special Olympics is a great opportunity for Pierce and other athletes. Special Olympics provides the opportunity for new friendships and to increase physical fitness and the sense of accomplishment.

Pierce has been training weekly at Trollhaugen Ski Area with Petzel for the event. He also competed in the Duluth Invitational Ski Race at Spirit Mountain in January.

Special Olympics of Wisconsin holds more than 75 competitions a year in 18 Olympic-style sports. Special Olympics Wisconsin serves nearly 10,000 athletes in nearly 220 communities statewide. submitted

Alpine skier Ryan Pierce of Amery competed in slalom, giant slalom and downhill alpine skiing events at Granite Peak Ski Area in Wausau. – Photo submitted

Bart Starr statue stands in Green Bay GREEN BAY – Football fans visiting Green Bay will now be able to see Bart Starr anytime. A statue honoring the Hall of Fame quarterback and two others paying homage to Starr and other legends of eras in which he played and coached have become a permanent part of Titletown’s landscape through the Oneida Nation Walk of Legends, east of Lambeau Field.

Aspire, L.L.C., the project’s creator, has installed the 14-foot, 12-ton, engraved-granite-and-steel tribute to Starr at the corner of South Oneida Street and Lombardi Avenue, across from Lambeau. It completes a trio of statues that mark the entranceway to the one-mile, 24-statue Oneida Nation Walk of Legends.

Following Starr’s unveiling were installations of two other statues - one bearing the name “Glory,” the other, “Honor” - at Marty’s Boston Crab, Lombardi Avenue at Bart Starr Drive.

“Glory” covers the Lombardi victory era between 1959 and 1968 and “Honor,” the period of time between 1969 and 1978.

Both statues include the names of every player who played pro football in Green Bay during those decades, along with artistic compositions highlighting the historic moments of the two eras and the legends responsible for them.

Utilizing 2,800 square feet of engraved granite and more than 288 tons of stone and steel, Aspire, L.L.C.’s Oneida Nation Walk of Legends is one of the largest outdoor, living-history initiatives and public art pathways in the nation.

Twelve statues in the Walk have been dedicated to individual players, one honors coach Vince Lombardi, and another 11 depict eras that collectively cover the entire span of Green Bay’s 114year football history. – submitted A statue honoring Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr has become a permanent part of Titletown’s landscape, east of Lambeau Field. – Photo submitted

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Successful Courage Center benefit

The Antiques Team was the oldest skiing team to race at the benefit race on Saturday. – Photos submitted

The Board Stiff Team was one of the teams to compete in the Courage Cup Benefit Race at Trollhaugen.

The Hula Girls Team was the youngest team to compete in Dresser during the benefit.

The Schuss-Ski-Bob team raced to help raise funds for Courage Center on Saturday, Feb. 7.

DRESSER –Courage Center Ski and Snowboard is a Minneapolis-based, nonprofit rehabilitation and resource center that specializes in advancing the lives of people with physical disabilities or visual impairments. In order to raise funds for this specialized program, a

Courage Cup Benefit Race was held at Trollhaugen, in Dresser, on Saturday, Feb. 7.

There were 124 people that gathered together to support the Courage Center and raced to raise funds. Teams were encouraged to have a theme and dress

accordingly; to the delight of many, most teams did. This was a very spirited bunch, ranging in ages and abilities.

Each team was awarded for their feisty efforts, while a raffle and silent auction helped contribute to the fundraising event.

Because of the Courage Center organizers, the sponsorship of Joe’s Sporting Goods and the racers participation, this event was a huge success. – submitted

A R E A Hacker’s Lanes

Sunday Afternoon Mixed Standings: Gold Rush 30, Mark’s Girls 25, Chippewa Checks 24, Hot Shots 19, Hole in the Wall 19, Sandbaggers 18, Spare-Us 17, The Gutter Busters 16.

Women’s games: Gail Linke (MG) 225, Cheryl Matrious (CC) 184, Dorothy Barfknecht (HS) 178.

Women’s series: Gail Linke (MG) 648, Cheryl Matrious (CC) 514, Dorothy Barfknecht (HS) 486.

Men’s games: Scott Morrison (GR) 211, Rick Benjamin (CC) 192, Jamie Mier (GR) 186.

Men’s series: Scott Morrison (GR) 569, Jamie Mier (GR) 510, Gary Barfknecht (GB) 502.

Team games: Gold Rush 876, Mark’s Girls 849, Hot Shots 822.

Team series: Mark’s Girls 2480, Gold Rush 2457, Hot Shots 2351.

Games 50 or more above average: Lori Dake (+51); Melinda Linke (+51).

Series 100 or more above average: Gail Linke (+117).

Splits converted: 2-4-10: Lori Linke. 27: Jamie Mier. 3-10: Cheryl Matrious, Larry Matrious, Gail Linke.

Monday Afternoon Seniors Standings: Bears 19.5, Nite Hawks 16.5, Cardinals 14.5, Swans 14, Badgers 12, Eagles 11, Zebras 10.5, Bye 0.

Women’s games: Lila Larson 178, Mary Askov 169, Barb Austad 168.

Women’s series: Lila Larson 456, Ruth Sorenson 446, Mary Askov 435.

Men’s games: Tom Johnson & Dennis Bohn 190, Tony Deiss 189.

Men’s series: Dick Coen 525, Dale Johnson 503, Dennis Bohn 480.

Team games: Nite Hawks 695, Bears 629, Badgers 625.

Team series: Nite Hawks 1876, Bears 1775, Swans 1664.

Monday Night Ladies Standings: AnchorBank 37, House of Wood 33, Mane Attractions 30, The Bottle Shop 29, Miller’s Chicks 26, Hacker’s Lanes 24, Thrivent Financial 17, Bye 0.

Individual games: Julie Hall (MA) & Rhonda Bazey (HW) 179, Merry Yates (HL) 174.

Individual series: Ramona Renfroe (MC) 492, Julie Hall (MA) 487, Nancy Anderson (HL) 479.

Team games: House of Wood 668, Hacker’s Lanes 623, AnchorBank 606.

Team series: House of Wood 1821, Hacker’s Lanes 1802, AnchorBank 1781.

Tuesday Youth (2 games) Standings: Pin Heads 7, Eliminators 6, Strikers ‘R Us 3, IDK 2.

Girls games: Alaura Lemieux 57.

Girls series: Alaura Lemieux 94.

Boys games: Charlie Lindberg 141, David Lindberg 118, Charlie Lindberg 117.

Boys series: Charlie Lindberg 589, David Lindberg 211, Cody Holman 190.

Team games: Pin Heads 225, Strikers ‘R Us 209, Eliminators 188.

Team series: Pin Heads 392, Strikers ‘R Us 380, IDK 352.

Tuesday Classic Standings: Hacker’s Lanes 61, Great Northern Outdoors 55, Bottle Shop 48, Yellow Lake Lodge 40, Olsen & Son 39.5, Pioneer Bar 23.5, SCVH 23,

B O W L I N G Reliables 22.

Individual games: Gene Ackland 266, Reed Stevens 257, Dale Gregory 255.

Individual series: Dale Gregory 667, Reed Stevens 622, Don Hughes 607.

Team games: Hacker’s Lanes 651, Bottle Shop 642, Yellow Lake Lodge 638.

Team series: Hacker’s Lanes 1844, Bottle Shop 1779, Yellow Lake Lodge 1702.

Tuesday Late Standings: Red Rollers 17, Terminators 15, Joe Blow 11, LCR 9, Cushing Rollers 6, Bye 0.

Individual games: Travis Davis 222, Wesley Costa 207, Frank Boerbon 194.

Individual series: Travis Davis 552, Wesley Costa 510, Frank Boerbon 501.

Team games: Red Roller 515, Terminators 504, Joe Blow 449.

Team series: Terminators 1476, Red Rollers 1342, Joe Blow 1290.

Wednesday Night Early Men’s Standings: 4 Seasons Wood Products 15, Larsen Auto Center 13, Skol Bar 11, Lewis Silo 10, Parker 10, Pioneer Bar 9, A-1 Machine 6, Cummings Lumber 6.

Individual games: Mike Erickson (PB) 246, Don Swanson (CL) 237, Milt Daeffler (LAC) & Curt Phelps (4S) 234.

Individual series: Norm Hanson (A1) 637, Brett Daeffler (LA) 623, Gene Ackland (4S) 610.

Team games: 4 Seasons Wood Products 976 & 964, Cummings Lumber 954.

Team series: 4 Seasons Wood Products 2871, Larsen Auto Center 2723, A-1 Machine 2683.

Thursday Early Men’s Standings: Wikstrom Construction 45.5, Full Timers 38.5, Fab Four 38, Grindell Law Offices 36.5, K-Wood 33.5, Frontier Trails 30, Hell Raisers 27, Bye 11.

Individual games: Blake Douglas (GLO) 235, Lydell Larson (FT) 224, Jeremy Ones (HR) 222.

Individual series: Don McKinney (FF) 594, Lydell Larson (FT) 593, Brian McBroom (FuT) & Blake Douglas (GLO) 588.

Team games: Fab Four 587, Wikstrom Construction 557, Frontier Trails 550.

Team series: Fab Four 1601, Wikstrom Construction 1585, Frontier Trail 1583.

Consecutive strikes (5 or more): Blake Douglas 9X = 235.

Games 50 or more above average: Jeremy Ones (+82); Blake Douglas (+52).

Splits converted: 2-7: Ed Bitler. 2-5-7: Chuck Hahr. 3-10: Mike Route. 5-10: John Hickey.

Thursday Late Standings: Stotz & Company 16, Bazey Racing 11, Hansen Farms Inc. 10, Hog Wild BBQ & Grill 9, Fisk Trucking 8, Johnson Upholstery 6.

Individual games: Jon Anderson 257, Gene Wynn Sr. 236, Gene Wynn Jr. 234.

Individual series: Gene Wynn Jr. 657, Dale Frandsen 620, Gene Wynn Sr. 597.

Team games: Hansen Farms Inc. 998, Stotz & Company 905, Bazey Racing 884.

Team series: Hansen Farms Inc. 2752, Bazey Racing 2565, Stotz & Company 2553.

Friday Night Ladies Standings: Junque Art 33.5, Hole in the Wall 29, Meyer’s Plus 27, Pioneer Bar 24, Frederic Design & Promotion 24, The Leader 24, The Dozers 22.5, Skol Bar 12.

Individual games: Cindy Denn 212, Sandy King 191, Mary Young 189.

Individual series: Cindy Denn 533, Sandy King 531, Kathy Sandberg 510.

Team games: The Leader 686, Skol Bar 659, Meyer’s Plus 629.

Team series: Skol Bar 1850, The Leader 1847, Meyer’s Plus 1828.

Games 50 or more above average: Cindy Denn.

Splits converted: 5-10: Dorothy Barfknecht, Myrna Magnuson. 6-7-10: Sheila Hanson. 8-10: Carrie Lindahl.

McKenzie Lanes

Monday Night Ladies Standings: Milltown Appliance 30, Frederic Truck & Tractor 27, McKenzie Lanes 24, Wolf Creek Log Furniture 22, Sam’s Carpentry 20, Metal Products 14, Edina Divas 12, Bye 11.

Individual games: Yvonne Snyder 200, Cindy Castellano 194, Barb Wilson 193.

Individual series: Barb Wilson 535, Yvonne Snyder 521, Cindy Castellano 499.

Team games: (Handicap scores) Wolf Creek Log Furniture 1074.

Team series: (Handicap scores) Wolf Creek Log Furniture 3031.

Tuesday Early Mixed Standings: Kluge 20, Jim’s Flooring 18, Wild Boys 15, Mom’s Boys 13, Lemon Heads 12, Lane Crashers 6.

Women’s games: Linda Larson 169, Brenda Lehmann 151, Darlene Prose 149.

Women’s series: Linda Larson 487, Brenda Lehmann 424, Darlene Prose 412.

Men’s games: Jim Coen 224, Glen Minick 212, Brandon Kahl 210.

Men’s series: Jim Coen 608, Jeff Lehmann 605, Glen Minick 560.

Team games: Jim’s Flooring 524.

Team series: Jim’s Flooring 1495.

Tuesday Women’s Day Standings: B & H Builders 92, Country Gals 80, Hauge Dental 79, Tomlinson Insurance 78, Custom Outfitter 75.5, Kassel Tap 71.1, Gutter Dusters 47, Bye 21.

Individual games: Lois Swenson 199, Jan Kruse 190, Denise F. Donaghue & Toni Sloper 177.

Individual series: Lois Swenson 520, Jan Kruse 520, Denise F. Donaghue 497.

Team games: (Handicap score) Country Gals 772, Tomlinson Insurance 767, B &

R E S U L T S H Builders 759. series: (Handicap score) Team Tomlinson Insurance 2288, B & H Builders 2255, Custom Outfitters 2181.

Tuesday Night Men’s Standings: Nel-Lo-Hill Farm 73.5, Hack’s Pub 68, Steve’s Appliance 65.5, Glass Bar 61, The Dugout 57, Dream Lawn 56, Greatland Transportation 50.5, McKenzie Lanes 48.5.

Individual games: Rick Fox 276, Jerry Prokop 267, Donny Potting Jr. 258.

Individual series: Rick Fox 713, Bob Rettler 710, Donny Potting Jr. 695.

Team games: (Handicap scores) Steve’s Appliance 1245.

Team series: (Handicap scores) Glass Bar 3538.

Wednesday Early League Standings: JJ’s Club 35 32, Lite House 32, Holiday StationStores 30, Hendrick’s Motor 26, Suzie Q’s 24, Cutting Edge 16, Hack’s Pub 16, Top Spot 16.

Women’s games: Kathy Braund 195, Jeanne Kizer 173, Justine Melin 168.

Women’s series: Kathy Braund 529, Jeanne Kizer 481, Patty Walker 443.

Men’s games: Mike Welling 241, Merlin Fox 234, Rick Katzmark 227.

Men’s series: Mike Welling 657, Greg Dick 620, Gene Braund 616.

Team games: (Handicap scores) Hendrick’s Motor 718.

Team series: (Handicap scores) JJ’s Club 35 1948.

Wednesday Night Men’s Standings: McKenzie Lanes 26, Reed’s Marina 24, Harvest Moon 22, Tiger Express 20, Edina Realty 20, Davy’s Construction 19, Dalles Electric 15, Hanjo Farms 14.

Individual games: John Chartrand 267, Verne Doolittle 266, Dennis Kindem 264.

Individual series: Sam Leggitt 735, Darren McKenzie 679, Daryn Sylvester 655.

Team games: (Handicap scores) McKenzie Lanes 1083, Dalles Electric 1060.

Team series: (Handicap scores) Dalles Electric 3032, Tiger Express 2962.

Thursday Night Women’s Standings: Bont Chiropractic 118.5, Hauge Dental 115, RiverBank 104.5, Hack’s Pub 104, Eagle Valley Bank 96, Cutting Edge Pro 92, K.C. Electrical 87.5, Century 21 82.5.

Individual games: Connie Krech 225, Norma Hauge 223, Paula Foerst 198.

Individual series: Norma Hauge 562, Anita Bont 533, Jackie Patterson 524.

Team games: (Handicap scores) K.C. Electrical 1059, Hauge Dental 1011, Eagle Valley Bank 977.

Team series: (Handicap scores) Hauge Dental 2927, K.C. Electrical 2877, Cutting Edge Pro 2823.

Black & Orange

Early Birds Standings: 10th Hole 16-12, Gandy Dancer Saloon 16-12, Log Cabin Store 12.5-15.5, Black & Orange 11.5-16.5.

Individual games: Cheryl Parkins (GD) 192, Lynn Toivola (LCS) 166, Donna Crain (B&O) & Kay Casey (10th) 156.

Individual series: Cheryl Parkins (GD) 461, Kay Casey (10th) 456, Donna Crain (B&O) 438.

Team games: Gandy Dancer Saloon 864, Black & Orange 849, Log Cabin Store 845.

Team series: Gandy Dancer Saloon

2453, Black & Orange 2431, 10th Hole 2430.

Monday Night Men’s Standings: Bruce’s Auto 17-3, Black & Orange 17-3, Larry’s LP 11-9, Pope’s Construction 8-12, Vacant 5-15, Glass & Mirror Works 2-18.

Individual games: Art Bliven (L) 211, George Godzik (PC) 202, Dean Eytcheson (BA) 200.

Individual series: Art Bliven (L) 536, Dean Eytcheson (BA) 512, Curt Phelps (BA) 505.

Team games: Bruce’s Auto 997, Black & Orange 958, Pope’s Construction 898.

Team series: Bruce’s Auto 2700, Pope’s Construction 2619, Black & Orange 2565.

TNT Standings: Larry’s LP 17-7, Flower Power 16-8, Cashco 10-14, Wild Bill’s 519.

Individual games: Robin Willard (WB) 198, Jennifer Kern (L) 183, Sue Eytcheson (FP) 174.

Individual series: Jennifer Kern (L) 491, Robin Willard (WB) 468, Julie Remund (WB) & Sue Eytcheson (FP) 441.

Team games: Larry’s LP 881, Flower Power 868, Wild Bill’s 831.

Team series: Wild Bill’s 2421, Larry’s LP 2413, Flower Power 2412.

Games 50 or more above average: Robin Willard (+57).

Wednesday Night Men’s Standings: Northview Drive Inn 13-7, Cashco 12-8, 10th Hole 10-10, Lions 911, Black & Orange 9-11, T&P Tree Service 7-13.

Individual games: Roger Tollander (C) 193, Monte Rinnman (C) & Breck Eytcheson (C) 190, John Bearhart (ND) 186.

Individual series: Roger Tollander (C) 523, Monte Rinnman (C) 516, Doug McDowel (ND) 493.

Team games: Cashco 954, 10th Hole 925, Black & Orange 920.

Team series: 10th Hole 2621, Cashco 2620, Black & Orange 2609.

Games 50 or more above average: John Bearhart (+54).

Splits converted: 4-7-10: Roger Tollander.

Early Risers Standings: 10th Hole 19-5, A+ Sanitation 12-12, Gandy Dancer 9-15, Hole in the Wall 8-16.

Individual games: Cris Damman (10th) 190, Dot Fouks (GD) 181, Kay Casey (HITW) 172.

Individual series: Cris Damman (10th) 471, Lylah Nelson (A+) 459, Kay Casey (HITW) 450.

Team games: Hole in the Wall 746, 10th Hole 707, Gandy Dancer Saloon 701.

Team series: Hole in the Wall 2064, 10th Hole 1982, Gandy Dancer Saloon 1969.

Games 50 or more above average: Dot Fouks (+54); Cris Damman (+50).

Thursday Night Ladies Standings: Lip’s 19-1, Pour House 8.511.5, Check Services 6.5-13.5, Ben Ott Const. 6-14.

Individual games: Angie Olson (CS) 193, Daphne Churchill (L) 186, Jackie Churchill (L) 172.

Individual series: Angie Olson (CS) 511, Daphne Churchill (L) 485, Jackie Churchill (L) 455.

Team games: Lip’s 699, Pour House 661, Check Services 630.

Team series: Lip’s 1937, Pour House 1914, Check Services 1803.

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Grantsburg/Burnett U-14 girls take third in home tourney GRANTSBURG – The Grantsburg/Burnett U-14 team took third in their invitational tournament that they hosted in Grantsburg over the weekend. Altoona took first and Coon Rapids, Minn., took second place.

Grantsburg/Burnett Stars didn’t start off very well with an 8-1 loss to Coon Rapids. Sam O’Brien scored the only goal with an assist from Paige Johnson.

Hope Tucker was very busy in the nets with 21 saves.

Later in the day, the Stars took on the Cambridge-Isanti U-14 team and won the game, 9-3. Tianna Stewart scored one goal, Kassie Lien made two goals

and one assist and Sam O’Brien also knocked in two goals and one assist.

Ashley Dietmeier had a hat trick with three goals. Dietmeier also had two assists. Daniel Pardun made one goal, assisted by Larissa (Roo) Houtari.

Goaltender Hope Tucker made 19 saves during the game.

Sunday morning, the Grantsburg/ Burnett team took on their friends from down south, Western Wisconsin Stars, the Amery, New Richmond, and Somerset co-op team. The Stars won the game 5-0.

Lien made one goal and one assist, O’Brien with one goal and one assist,

Wendy Roberts with two goals and one assist from Larissa (Roo) Houtari.

Johanna Lauer hit the final goal. Tucker had 11 saves for the game.

The last game for the Stars was against Altoona U-14 team and that ended in a 5-5 tie. Scoring for the game was Lien with two goals and one assist and O’Brien with two goals and three assists (playmaker). Johnson also scored one goal. Tucker had another 17 saves in the net.

Next weekend, Grantsburg/Burnett will be hosting the U-14 play-down tournament for their region. The games will be played at the Grantsburg rink on

Blizzard accepted to Two Rivers Conference Conference play starts next season

by Brenda Sommerfeld BLAINE, Minn. – Monday, Feb. 9, the Blizzard boys hockey team was accepted as an eighth member to a new hockey conference called Two Rivers Hockey Conference.

The conference teams

will include the teams not currently affiliated with a conference. Seven of the teams are from Minnesota including Pine City, Moose Lake, Mora, North Branch, Minneapolis East, Minneapolis West and Meadow Creek Christian Academy. The Blizzard will be the only Wisconsin team in the conference.

“I am very excited about this and look forward for the kids to have the opportunity to play for a conference championship and other conference awards,” Blizzard coach Greg Sears commented.

LEADER S P O R T S SCOREBOARD GIRLS BASKETBALL

West Lakeland Conference Standings

Team Siren St. Croix Falls Luck Frederic Webster Unity Grantsburg

Scores

Conf.

10-0 7-4 6-4 5-5 5-6 2-8 1-9

Overall 17-0 10-7 10-7 11-6 8-10 3-12 1-16

Thursday, Feb. 5 Siren 69, Solon Springs 34 Friday, Feb. 6 Siren 64, St. Croix Falls 36 Luck 34, Unity 30 Webster 49, Grantsburg 38 Frederic 48, Northwood 37 Monday, Feb. 9 St. Croix Falls 44, Unity 41 Tuesday, Feb. 10 Siren 48, Spooner 40 St. Croix Falls 42, Shell Lake 31 Amery 72, Grantsburg 34

GIRLS HOCKEY Standings

11-5-3

Saturday, Feb. 7 Tomahawk 3, Lady Blizzard 2

Upcoming

Thursday, Feb. 12 7 p.m.

Lady Blizzard at Hayward

BOYS HOCKEY Standings

Amery/Unity Blizzard

Scores

9-8 7-11

Thursday, Feb. 5 Amery/Unity 4, Somerset/Osceola 1 Friday, Feb. 6 Blizzard 7, Spooner/Shell Lake 1 Saturday, Feb. 7 Blizzard 3, Baldwin/Woodville 2 Monday, Feb. 9 River Falls 5, Amery/Unity 3

Upcoming

Scores

Conf.

9-1 8-1 6-4 4-5 4-6 2-7 0-9

Overall 15-1 14-2 8-7 8-8 5-10 2-13 5-10

Tuesday, Feb. 17 7 p.m.

Baldwin/Woodville vs Blizzard at Siren Barron/Chetek at Amery

Thursday, Feb. 12 6 p.m.

Frederic at Grantsburg 7:30 p.m. Webster at Luck St. Croix Falls at PACT, Ramsey, Minn.

Friday, Feb. 13 6 p.m.

Siren at Unity Monday, Feb. 16 7:30 p.m. Clear Lake at Unity Tuesday, Feb. 17 7:30 p.m. Clayton at Grantsburg St. Croix Falls at Shell Lake Prairie Farm at Unity Webster at Birchwood Luck at Bruce Frederic at Turtle Lake

WRESTLING Upcoming

Saturday, Feb. 14 10:30 a.m. LFG at Amery Regional St. Croix Falls at Amery Regional Unity at Amery Regional Tuesday, Feb. 17 TBA Team sectionals at Somerset

GYMNASTICS Upcoming

WOMEN’S POOL LEAGUE Score 91 76 74 74 71 70 68 55 51 45

Youth Hockey Blizzard Squirt A Saturday, Feb. 7

Amery 4, Blizzard 1

Goals: Brady Mangen.

Saves: Baily Mangen (12).

Sunday, Feb. 8

Blizzard 10, Altoona 2

Goals: Jenna Curtis (6), Brady Mangen (2), Jordan Larson (2).

Assists: Tanner Lee, Logan Tayler, Jake Smith.

Saves: Baily Mangen (7).

Burnett PeeWee A Sunday, Feb. 8

Burnett 7, Somerset 2

Goals: Ryan Curtis (3), Brian Billings (2), Brett Richison, Max Norman.

Assists: Max Norman (2), Brian Billings, Ryan Curtis.

Saves: DJ Hunter (13).

Burnett 10, Baldwin 4

Goals: Vinny Larson (3), Brian Billings (3), Ryan Curtis (2), Paige Young, Jeremy Roy. Assists: Brian Billings (2), Brett Richison, Vinny Larson, Max Norman.

Saves: DJ Hunter (12).

OF THE

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NAME: James Wethern SCHOOL: Webster YEAR: Sophomore COMMENTS: James Wethern has led his team in points during their last two games. Against Grantsburg, Wethern totaled 17 points, including three 3-pointers.

On Tuesday, he scored 26 points against Cumberland to help his team to victory.

James Wethern He went 4 of 6 from the free-throw line, made four 3-pointers and five others from the field. – Brenda Sommerfeld

NAME: Carley Emery SCHOOL: Siren YEAR: Sophomore COMMENTS: Carley Emery contributed a lot to the Dragons win over St. Croix Falls on Friday to secure the conference title. She totaled 25 points, four rebounds, four assists and three steals during Carley Emery the game. Emery has been averaging 13.5 points per game for Siren during the 2008-09 basketball season. – Brenda Sommerfeld

A very-mediocrce 11-5 mark dropped the Swami’s success rate to 77 percent while his season record stands at 9127. And he admitted to having egg on his face after his Webster boys, picks which were laughably off-themark. “But at least THE SWAMI it was from the yolk of an egg from a free-range, uncaged chicken,” said the health conscious, left-leaning nature boy.

The Swami was referring, of course, to the Tigers stunning upset of Grantsburg followed by their easy, high-scoring win over Cumberland, neither of which were forecast by The Great One. “I have suspended Webster from my predictions in the past and might do it again if they aren’t more cooperative this week,” he added. The Swami answers all e-mails and can be reached at predictionking@yahoo.com.

won’t stop Birchwood’s big scorer.

Unity 44, Clear Lake 39 – The Eagles pull off a minor upset.

Cameron 44, Siren 42 – This will be the only blemish on a tremendous Dragon season.

Unity 54, Prairie Farm 34 – The Eagles feel good about winning two in a row.

Frederic 54, Turtle Lake 47 – Win number 13 for the Vikes.

Luck 49, Northwood 43 – The Evergreens can be tough but the Cards prevail.

St. Croix Falls 44, Cumberland 40 – A hard-fought road win for the Saints.

PREDICTS

This week’s predictions:

Saturday, Feb. 14 1 p.m.

St. Croix Falls at Ashland Grantsburg at Ashland Team Greg's Gals Glass Bar Hack's Wise Guys Suzy Q's Blacksmith Shop JJ's I JJ's II Kassel Tap Shafer's

PREPS

The Swami

Upcoming

Upcoming

Scores

Team Luck Grantsburg St. Croix Falls Siren Webster Unity Frederic

Friday, Feb. 6 Webster 52, Grantsburg 51 St. Croix Falls 72, Siren 56 Luck 69, Unity 34 Northwood 46, Frederic 45 Monday, Feb. 9 Siren 89, La Courte 17 Osceola 65, St. Croix Falls 54 Tuesday, Feb. 10 Cameron 56, Unity 37 Webster 70, Cumberland 56

Thursday, Feb. 12 6 p.m.

Webster at Luck 7:30 p.m. Frederic at Grantsburg Clear Lake at St. Croix Falls Friday, Feb. 13 7:30 p.m. Siren at Unity Monday, Feb. 16 7:30 p.m. Birchwood at Webster Tuesday, Feb. 17 6 p.m.

Clayton at Grantsburg 7:30 p.m. Siren at Cameron St. Croix Falls at Cumberland Northwood at Luck Turtle Lake at Frederic

Lady Blizzard

BOYS BASKETBALL

West Lakeland Conference Standings

“This is a great stride forward for the Blizzard boys hockey.”

Conference play will begin for the teams during the 2009-2010 season.

Saturday, Feb. 14, and Sunday, Feb. 15.

The winner of the tournament will be the team to go on to state. – submitted

Girls games Luck 42, Webster 37 – Much closer than some experts expect.

Frederic 59, Grantsburg 49 – An entertaining basketball game.

St. Croix Falls 52, Clear Lake 34 – The Saints win comfortably at home.

Siren 47, Unity 27 – Will the Dragons go 20-0?

Birchwood 53, Webster 47 – The Tigers thought they had a shot, but

Boys games Luck 45, Webster 44 – The Tigers confuse me.

Grantsburg 69, Frederic 40 – The coleaders are back on track.

PACT Charter 75, St. Croix Falls 67 – Careful analysis of game film led to this prediction.

Siren 60, Unity 49 – The Dragons have already exceeded expectations and might finish at .500.

Unity 50, Clear Lake 47 – Here’s one the Eagles can, and will, win.

Webster 73, Birchwood 47 – As one would expect, the Tiger mauls the diminutive Bobcat.

Grantsburg 60, Clayton 54 – An excellent tune-up for next week’s Luck clash.

Turtle Lake 49, Frederic 45 – The Vikes perk up when they see a nonconference foe, but come up short in this one.

Luck 60, Bruce 35 – Not much of a test for the Cards.

St. Croix Falls 66, Shell Lake 43 – The Saints bounce back from their loss to longtime-rival PACT Charter.

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O UTDOORS INTER! COUNTY LEADER

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

Pike Rally on Upper Red Lake

Friend, and Red Lake Rally member, Jason Siebert, is no stranger to lifting heavy objects. As a foreman in the masonry business, he is accustomed to Marty heavy lifting for several hours at a time, Seeger and endless days of physically demanding work. It was comThe ical then, to hear such Bottom whining from a 250pound block layer Line struggling to lift his trophy 45-inch, 24pound pike for a simple photo. He wasn’t being sarcastic either.

“Hurry up my arms getting tired!” he yelled for about the third time as I steadied quickly for photos. It was less than an hour into our second-annual trip to Minnesota’s Upper Red Lake, and already there was a 45-incher on the ice. It was as good of a start as you could ask for, and it had everyone anticipating the next three days of fishing. Some of us hadn’t even had our two lines in the water yet.

Our trip actually began before we left

Eric Larson with a 20-inch walleye on the final evening at Upper Red Lake.

JR’s Corner Access last year. We enjoyed it so much that we booked two icehouses from Thursday, Feb. 5, until Sunday, Feb. 8. At 2 a.m. last Thursday morning our group left from Prairie Farm for the 5 -1/2-hour trek to JR’s Corner Access, which is between Shotley and Otto, Minn.

In a way, our trip to Big Red has become similar to making a trip to a family reunion, except in this case you actually have the desire to go. There were a couple of relatives on the trip, including my uncle Del, who was my fishing partner for the weekend, and another nonblood relation, Joe Hellman of Boyceville, who brought his two brothers and a couple of other friends for the first trip to the lake. For the rest of us, it was as if we’d never left the lake last year. But instead of sleeping and fishing about a half mile from shore like we did last year, our guide had us about five miles further from the landing.

For my uncle and me, fishing was better than last year. On Thursday we caught just over 10 walleyes from a portable shack less than 50 yards from our sleeper. Not a bad day, considering most averaged 17 inches or better. My uncle and I fished the same holes for the next two days, with the exception of one journey three miles farther out on Saturday, but for the most part, much of our crew fished within eyesight of our sleepers on the lake.

Heavy snowfalls in the area made traveling off plowed roads impossible without a snowmobile or strong pair of legs, and nearly 30 inches of ice made it difficult work to drill a considerable amount of holes. Fortunately for us, we kept a relatively steady catch on the walleye, and we all felt satisfied that our guide put us in the best possible position to catch fish.

The trip, at least for Siebert, was all but complete after catching his trophy, but for the rest of the crew the fishing had really just begun. Walleye fishing was a bit slow again for most of us on Friday, and Saturday, but each night, the group was treated to a fresh fish fry and a pile of fries that were made by JR. It was a nice end to a long day of fishing.

While Red Lake is more commonly known for its huge crappies, it’s becoming increasingly popular for the

Timberland Archery Bowhunters League Week 5

Traditional The Woodsman: 441 Bone Collectors: 430 R and D Web Solutions: 404 Men Stellrecht Tractor and Auto Repair: 843 Granite Electric: 762 Knoop Construction: 742 Sheelan Flooring: 737 WFO: 721

Shell Lake State Bank: 718 Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church: 611 The Lakers: 542 Big Mike’s Sports Shop: 527 Sandstrom: 484 Bow Dogs: 430 Men/Women Wildlife Solutions: 711 Knoop Construction (2): 589 Women Red Brick Café: 446 Custom Ink: 313

Jason Siebert (L) with a 45-inch wallhanger from Upper Red Lake, and Mike Wirth with his trophy, which measured 41-1/2 inches. – Photos by Marty Seeger walleye and trophy-sized pike that inhabit its waters. Last year not a single person caught a crappie, and this year only one 14-incher was hauled in. It didn’t seem to bother anyone though, because on Friday afternoon Mike Wirth hauled in the second trophy of the weekend, a 41-1/2-inch pike that weighed 19 pounds. Randy Siebert also caught and released a big pike that measured 38 inches that same day. All fish were caught on ciscoes, but some pike were caught on fatheads as well.

Last year Wirth released a 39-incher due to the slot limits set for the lake, which requires all pike between 26 and 40 inches to be released. Walleye have a 17 to 26-inch slot, with a limit of three apiece. Last year the limit on walleye was two, so the increased limits alone show how strong the walleye fishing has been over the past year.

Despite 107,832 acres of lake to fish, JR has been able to pin down the best locations for catching fish both years.

Fish tend to move more frequently due

to a lack of structure. The lake averages about 14-feet nearly everywhere you go, but when the bite is on, it can be pretty amazing.

Even when the fishing gets slow, there’s plenty of beauty that surrounds the lake. On clearer days the sunrises and sunsets are nothing short of spectacular, and the friendly service that surrounds the whole fishing experience is worth the time and money. The fishing trip alone cost about $150 per person. Factor in gas money, a little food for breakfast and lunch and you’ve got a pretty reasonable fishing excursion.

Plus, it allows you to see friends and family you don’t get to see all that often, and that’s really what it’s all about. This year’s Red Lake Rally had it all. Spectacular sunsets and sunrises, perfect ice fishing weather, enough walleye to feed a dozen anglers and trophy northern pike. For more information contact JR at 320-290-3838 or visit redlakeaccess.com.

Balsam Lake Winterfest ice-fishing winners Northern First: Jason Jensen, 9.33 lbs.

Second: Jason Jensen, 8.29 lbs.

Third: Larry Goldsmith, 6.63 lbs.

Crappie First: John Amrhien, 1.12 lbs.

Second: Bob Chitty, 1.00 lbs.

Third: Wayne Inckrum, .96 lbs.

Bass First: Twain Beyer, 3.89 lbs.

Second: Joyce Jensen, 3.71 lbs.

Third: Greg Cloutier, 3.21 lbs.

Sunfish First: Marv Ziem, .75 oz.

Second: John Amrhien, .72 oz.

Third: Jerry Beaurlt, .70 oz.

Third: Tom Biven, .70 oz.

Third: Brent Berg, .70 oz.

Great Northern Outdoors Archery League A LEAGUE JM Electric Terrible Twosome Whiz Kids Kill Em Off Constantly Damage Inc. Shockers Team C&Z TNT H&H Performance Breezy Tee James Gang

Jake J., John M. Ross W., Erika W. Paul M., Charlie W. Doug A., Sheri B. Luke K., Jared N. Brent L., Sam Chad L., Jason C. Cole D., Zach M. Troy S., Trae G. Shawn H., Rob B. Al B., Mike T. 177 Kyle J., Mark J.

PTS. 16 12 12 11 10 10 10 8 6 6 4 3

B LEAGUE Johnson & Johnson GNO Stupid Fox Meyer Merry Men Crash Beauty & Beast Broken Arrow Jail Bait Challenged Sliver Slingers Men in Tights

W. Johnson, Dale J. Adam O., Bruce R. Scott D., John A. Cory M., Jolene M. Joel C., Joe R. Mark J., Mickey O. Tim B., Olivia B. Adam M., Russ B. Allen J., Steve S. Joe W., Chad D. Tucker S., Marley H. Rex E., David G.

PTS. 18 16 14 12 12 12 12 10 8 4 0 0

C LEAGUE PTS. He Said Robin's Hoodz Team B B&E Ammo She Said Litter Runts The Cripplers Browning Busters Animal Lovers Swamp Busters

Brad S., Zach S. Pat J., Andy W. Jeff B., Beau B. Becky A., Emily A. Kelly S., Corissa S. Randi G., Laura Y. Mike A., Shawn S. Richard S., John S. Jr Laurel, Maddie John S., Patti S.

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Restorative Justice coming to Polk County

POLK COUNTY - The Polk County Criminal Justice Collaborating Council has been working diligently to bring Restorative Justice to Polk County.

Among the accomplishments of the council are a successful drug court program, the formation of an active Restorative Justice committee and the many benefits of having more than 20 professionals and representatives of various organizations who gather to collaboratively address criminal justice issues in Polk County.

Restorative Justice is a communitybased response to crime that invites those affected: the victim, the community and the offender, to address the full impact of the crime and ways to repair the resulting harm. Restorative Justice encompasses healing for victims and accountability for offenders by inviting victims, the community and the offender to participate in repairing the harm, thus strengthening our communities.

Restorative Justice programs can offer the following: • Victim-offender conferences • Community justice conferences • Victim impact panels • Community service projects • Youth educational shoplifting program The CJCC and the Polk County Restorative Justice Committee has partnered with Burnett County Restorative Justice to apply for and subsequently attain a grant through the Bremer Foundation and Higher Education

Consortium for Urban Affairs. Bremer and HECUA partnered to offer a summer internship to a college student who is interested in working in the nonprofit sector.

Polk County and Burnett County saw this as an excellent opportunity to collaborate with the intent of both counties benefitting from an intern.

The goal of the internship is for the student to implement programming through a nonprofit organization; to create something new, and then to have that program live on after they have completed that internship placement.

The intern will be responsible for learning about Restorative Justice principles by shadowing the director in Burnett County and working on expanding their already successful Restorative Justice program. The intern will take that knowledge and bring it to Polk County. He/she will then begin implementing a Restorative Justice program in Polk County that will begin with a formal community service program. The community service portion of Restorative Justice in Burnett County has already proven its impact on the community through financial savings to the citizens via “free labor,” through the immeasurable benefits of helping victims feel whole again and for offenders to take responsibility for their actions.

If you or someone you know is a college student and are interested in applying for this paid summer internship please contact Lisa Johnson, director of programming at Burnett County

Restorative Justice Response at 715-3492117 or Brooke Whitley, chairperson of Polk County Restorative Justice

Committee at 715-485-8438.

All applications must be submitted by April 13. – with submitted information

EIO donates to Epcot trip

Local EIO Sno-Riders snowmobile club donated $250 to the Frederic High School band and choir for their Epcot trip this spring. EIO Sno-Riders vicepresident and treasurer Todd Miller (far right) hands the check to band instructor Patti Burns and choir instructor Greg Heine. – Photo submitted

Burnett County circuit court Adam M. Andersen, Grantsburg, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Erika K. Bagge, Fall Creek, speeding, $160.80.

John R. Bailey, Spooner, speeding, $160.80.

John M. Belland, Grantsburg, fail/validate or attach deer carcass tag, $329.00.

Nichole R. Benjamin, Danbury, speeding, $186.00.

Gary A. Berget, New Richmond, speeding, seat belt violation, not guilty pleas.

Krystal R. Bergquist, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Brad I. Bibler, Winona Lake, Ind., operating while under influence, operating with PAC .10 or more, operating left of centerline, not guilty pleas.

David J. Bina, Pine City, Minn., hunt in refuge or closed area, not guilty plea.

Neal W. Binsfeld, Vadnais Heights, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Jerome J. Blatt, Webster, fail/validate or attach deer carcass tag, $329.00.

Marshall T. Bloomer, Siren, speeding, $160.80.

Jamie L. Booth, St. Croix Falls, speeding, $160.80.

Paul J. Bremer, Webster, nonregistration of auto, not guilty plea.

Albert S. Brown, Champlin, Minn., possess/loan/borrow another’s license, $288.80; place/transport loaded firearm in vehicle, $243.60.

Patti K. Carpenter, Danbury, failure to notify police of accident, knowingly operating while suspended and cause property damage, not guilty pleas.

George L. Casey, New Richmond, group deer hunting violation, not guilty plea.

Keven J. Cassellius, St. Croix Falls, use automated or elevated feeders, $329.00.

Joseph A. Castro, Portland, Ore., speeding, $160.80.

Jennifer T. Chappa, Crystal, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Kevin W. Christenson, Grantsburg, operating while under influence, operating with PAC >=.8 < .10, reckless driving – endanger safety, not guilty pleas.

Joseph L. Collins, Grantsburg, nonregistration of auto, $160.80.

Toni M. Dakins, Barron, inattentive driving, $173.40.

Brittany A. Davison, Grantsburg, speeding, not guilty plea.

Maria L. Dearbin, Webster, inattentive driving, operating w/o valid license, not guilty pleas.

Richard G. Dittrich, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

April S. Florez, Apple Valley, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Cody J. Fox, Grand Rapids, Minn., speeding, $168.80.

Kim M. Freymiller, Danbury, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Bruce A. Frommader Jr., Grantsburg, speeding, $160.80.

James M. Gannucci, Cottage Grove, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Anthony R. Gardner, Champlin, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Martha S. Gatten, Webster, inattentive driving, $173.40.

Arthur W. Gill, Webster, OAR, not guilty plea.

Jesse B. Glommen, Roseville, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

James G. Glover, Grantsburg, speeding, $160.80.

Nancy J. Gossard, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Frederic police report The Frederic Police Department handled 64 incidents during the month of January.

Incident Amount 911 hang-up 1 Animal complaint 2 Assist county 3 Assist motorist 4 Assist PCSD 1 Attempt to locate 1 Auto theft 1 Background check 1 Bail jumping 2

Citation 4 Civil 1 Damage to property 1 Death investigation 2 Informational 3 Lockout 1 Medical 3 Open door 2 Paper service 2 Theft/larceny (UCR) 2 Traffic enforcement 3 Vehicle violation 14 Warning traffic 9 Warrant arrest 1

Brian L. Granger, Brooklyn Park, Minn., speeding, $186.00, operating w/o valid license, $186.00.

Mia N. Graves, Siren, possess open intoxicants in MV, $249.00; operating while suspended, $186.00.

Brandon W. Gutzmer, Luck, speeding, $160.80.

Michelle M. Hancock, White Bear Lake, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Bradley P. Hansen, Hayward, speeding, $160.80.

Scott T. Harrison, Rosemount, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

William R. Hartzell, Grantsburg, driving too fast for conditions, not guilty plea.

Ethan A. Hayes, Siren, speeding, $186.00.

Paul J. Hietpas, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Daniel W. Himmel, Buffalo, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Kevin M. Hinze, Pine City, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Cheryl T. Hoffman, Cushing, nonregistration of auto, $160.80.

Kenneth G. Hopkins, Siren, speeding, operate vehicle without permit, nonregistration of other vehicle, vehicle equipment violations – group 1 – two counts, not guilty pleas.

David R. Hubbell Jr., Siren, fail to stop at stop sign, not guilty plea.

Nicholas S. Hughes, Webster, speeding, $160.80.

Grant A. Hulter, Danbury, speeding, $160.80; operate w/o valid license, not guilty plea.

Ashley L. Hunter, Frederic, speeding, $186.00.

John J. Hupke, Chicago, Ill., speeding, $186.00.

Nathan L. Hutton, Cushing, speeding, $160.80.

Amy M. Janusiak, Bennett, speeding, $160.80.

Sadie M. Jirik, Jordan, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Angela M. Johnson, Webster, speeding, $160.80.

Darin L. Johnson, New Hope, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Paul Johnson, Grantsburg, place/transport loaded firearm/vehicle, $243.60.

Sierra L. Johnson, Grantsburg, speeding, not guilty plea.

Kevin L. Jordan, East Bethel, Minn., illegally construct,

use or fail/remove or attach name/address or DNR No. to unattended tree stand, $186.00.

Yonsey J. Karasek, Hayward, speeding, $160.80.

Theresa E. Kegel, Webster, OAR, not guilty plea.

Nathan J. Knetter, Stratford, speeding, not guilty plea.

James P. Kouri, Woodbury, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Jeffrey Krahenbuhl, Cumberland, illegally construct, use or fail/remove or attach name/address or DNR No. to unattended tree stand, $148.20.

Austin W. Kroll, Grantsburg, driving too fast for conditions, $198.60.

Jimmy L. Kroon, Sturgeon Lake, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Sheila O. Krzebetkowski, Hayward, speeding, $160.80.

Richard A. Lawrence Sr., Shell Lake, place material – feed/attract wild animals, $329.00.

Christopher E. Le Clair, Luck, speeding, $160.80.

Jonathan S. Lindamood, Grantsburg, driving too fast for conditions, not guilty plea.

Kyle D. Lindus, Grantsburg, speeding, $186.00; display false vehicle registration plate, $249.00; transferee fail/apply new vehicle title, $160.80.

Jill M. Lowder, Chanhassen, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Katelyn R. Mack, Grantsburg, speeding, $160.80.

Steven L. Malevich, Edina, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Jesse P. Marek, Frederic, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Casey D. Marshall, Duluth, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

David L. Martin, St. Croix Falls, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Preston Mason, Grantsburg, OWI, $616.00, 6-month license suspension and order for assessment.

Mary B. McGinley, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Kristi D. McNeilly, Woodbury, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Micah D. Melander, Coon Rapids, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Brian R. Messer, Hudson, speeding, $186.00.

Rachel J. Meyer, Frederic, failure to keep vehicle under control, $198.60.

Judson G. Mosher, Webster, speeding, $236.40, license suspension.

Robert W. Nelson, Crystal, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Jonna A. Nesgoda, Siren, speeding, $160.80.

Diane K. Ness, Wilson, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Grant D. Ness, Wilson, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Roger W. Olson, Superior, place/transport loaded firearm/vehicle, $243.60.

Jackie L. Pardun, Danbury, operating w/o valid license, $186.00.

Jessica L. Peterson, Webster, speeding, $160.80.

Preston T. Pettis, Oakdale, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Diana M. Pewaush, Webster, OAR, not guilty plea.

George E. Phelps, Webster, speeding, $160.80.

Herbert Pilhofer, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Christopher A. Puchner, St. Louis Park, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

John E. Quist, Siren, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Theresa M. Rahn, Marathon, Fla., speeding, $160.80.

William E. Reis, Prior Lake, Minn., fail/validate or attach deer carcass tag, illegally construct, use or fail/remove or attach name/address or DNR No. to unattended tree stand, not guilty pleas.

Gregory R. Rewey, Moundsview, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Douglas L. Roberts, Gordon, operating commercial motor vehicle without a license, not guilty plea.

Ronald J. Sanoski Jr., Dresser, hunt deer in unauthorized quota area, group deer hunting violation, not guilty pleas.

Kevin M. Saunders, Beloit, speeding, $160.80.

Joel H. Saxum, Hayward, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Kayle R. Schaaf, Hinckley, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Lon M. Scheele, Luck, operating while under influence, operating with PAC .10 or more, drink open intoxicants in motor vehicle, operating left of centerline, not guilty pleas.

Mary K. Seidl, Grantsburg, speeding, $186.00.

John W. Shand, Burnsville, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Amie J. Simon, Webster, underage drinking, not guilty plea.

Anthony M. Sisco, Mound, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Walter R. Sleva Jr., Trego, speeding, $160.80.

Angela R. Smith Sybers, Siren, inattentive driving, not guilty plea.

Kevin R. Sohn, Spooner, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Erin R. Spohn, Grantsburg, speeding, $160.80.

Tyler J. Starks, Webster, operating while under influence, $677.00, 6-month license suspension and order for assessment.

Mark A. Streitz, Spooner, OAR, not guilty plea.

Shawn S. Swanson, Siren, nonregistration of auto, $160.80.

Marilyn G. Thacker, Greenwood, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Terrance W. Thielman, Webster, violation of child safety restraint requirements, $135.60; nonregistration of vehicle, $160.80.

Paul D. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minn., operating while under influence, operating with PAC >= .8 < .10, speeding, not guilty pleas.

Richard S. Trenkmann, Chicago, Ill., fail to stop/improper stop at stop sign, not guilty plea.

Davin G. Tyler, Webster, OAR, failure to notify police of accident, hit and run – property adjacent to highway, driving too fast for conditions, not guilty pleas.

April M. Vantassel, Webster, speeding, $186.00.

Kelly J. Walters, St. Cloud, Minn., operate unregistered truck, $186.00; seat belt violation, $10.00; failure to notify police of accident, $249.00.

Tristan J. Wiberg, Cumberland, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Sandra L. Wood, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Fern M. Woods, Siren, operating left of centerline, operating while under influence, operating while PAC .02 or more, not guilty pleas.

William F. Wright, Munising, Mich., speeding, $160.80.

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OWI tickets charge fourth offenses

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.

476421 WNAXLP

RONALD C. BECKWITH; and TAMMY M. BECKWITH, his wife, Defendants.

Case No. 08-CV-496 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Foreclosure of Mortgage 30404 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 4th day of March, 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 NW1/4 of NW1/4, Section 2435-18, Polk County, Wisconsin. Tax key 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

WNAXLP

Hersh Law Offices, LLC 10555 N. Port Washington Road Mequon, WI 53092 262-241-9339 State Bar No. 1016890 Velnetske 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 a debt owed to such creditor, and any such information obtained will be used for that purpose.

476238

(Jan. 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY Bremer Bank, National Association, Plaintiff vs.

Donovan’s On The Lake, LLC, Donovan M. Sienko and Kathleen B. Sienko, Defendants.

Case Code: 30404 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No. 08 CV 266 Hon. Robert H. Rasmussen PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on the 8th day of August, 2008, the Sheriff of Polk County will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: DATE/TIME: Feb. 26, 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.

PLACE: Lobby of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 17 of the Sunrise Roost Plat, on file and of record with the Register of Deeds for Polk County, Wisconsin, as Document No. 488385, Envelope 244B. (FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY: Plaintiff believes that the property address is Lot 17 Sunrise Roost, Town of McKinley, Wis.) Timothy Moore Sheriff of Polk County Stein & Moore, P.A. Attorneys for Plaintiff 332 Minnesota St. Ste. W-1650 St. Paul, MN 55101 651-224-9683

(Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, March 4) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY EVERHOME MORTGAGE COMPANY Plaintiff, vs.

SHAUN A. THAYER and MORIA L. THAYER husband and wife and JANE DOE and/or JOHN DOE unknown tenants; and MIDLAND FUNDING LLC., and WESTCONSIN CREDIT UNION; and BELINDA MAHONEY Defendants Case No. 08-CV-798 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 January 16, 2009, in the amount of $110,185.36, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: March 17, 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 8, Block 12, Village of Centuria, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 512 Polk Avenue, Village of Centuria.

TAX KEY NO.: 111-321-0000.

Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County, Wis. 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.

Anderson Automotive vs.

Todd Chafer, Danbury, $990.45.

Burnett County warrants Jeremy J. Hofferber, Siren, 29, arrest warrant - complaint, Feb. 4.

Russell A. Manning, 39, Luck, warrant - failure to appear, Feb. 5.

Melinda S. McMahon, no birth date given, Siren, arrest warrant - complaint, Feb. 3.

Guy Moser, 43, Webster, warrant - failure to appear, Feb. 3.

(Feb. 11, 18, 25) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

Carleen K. Schuman Mark D. Schuman Defendants SUMMONS Real Estate Mortgage Foreclosure Case No. 09 CV 55 Honorable Robert H. Rasmussen Case Code: 30404 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To the following party named as a defendant herein: Carleen K. Schuman You are hereby notified that the plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you. The complaint, which is also served on you, states the nature and the basis of the legal action. Within 40 days after February 11, 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: Polk County Clerk of Circuit Court 1005 West Main Street Balsam Lake, WI 54810-9071 and to Chaz M. Rodriguez/ Blommer Peterman, S.C., plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is: Blommer Peterman, S.C. 13700 W. Greenfield Avenue Brookfield, WI 53005 You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not provide a proper answer within 40 days from the date stated above, 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.

Dated this 4th day of February, 2009.

(Feb. 11, 18, 25, March 4, 11, 18) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff vs.

MICHAEL SMITH, et al.

Defendants.

Case Number: 08 CV 437 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on September 29, 2008, in the amount of $240,794.64, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: April 2, 2009, at 10 a.m.

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

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

PLACE: Front entrance to the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main St., Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 3337, filed April 16, 2001, in Volume 15 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 104, as Document No. 610977, located in the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 35, Town 34 North, Range 17 West, Town of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, also described as: Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 3337, filed April 16, 2001, in Volume 15 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 104, as Document No. 610977, located in the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 35, Town 34 North, Range 17 West, Town of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Together with a 66 foot wide access easement for the benefit of Parcel 1 as designated by Surveyor of Certified Map No. 3337.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1225 135th St., Amery, WI 54001 TAX KEY NO.: 006-010760100 Dated this 5th day of February, 2009. /s/ Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County Benjamin J. Pliskie State Bar #1037985 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. (142016)

Chaz M. Rodriguez/Blommer Peterman, S.C. State Bar No. 1063071 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 that purpose. (142002)

Anderson Automotive vs.

Tim Peck, Grantsburg, $282.96.

Capital One Bank vs. Cary A. Weaver, Grantsburg, $3,563.53.

(Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, March 4, 11) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY Conquest Investments, LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

Levi A. Carrillo and Tamela L. Carrillo, and Lawrence G. Boos and Elizabeth J. Boos, Defendants.

Case No. 08-CV-643 Case Code: 30404 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on Dec. 11, 2008, in favor of Conquest Investments, LLC, in the amount of $180,045.91, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: March 26, 2009, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: Pursuant to said judgment, 10% of the successful bid must be paid to the Sheriff at the sale in cash, cashier’s check or certified funds, payable to the Clerk of Courts (personal checks cannot and will not be accepted). The balance of the successful bid must be paid to the Clerk of Court in cash, cashier’s check or certified funds no later than ten days after the Court’s confirmation of the sale or else the 10% down payment is forfeited to the Plaintiff. The property is sold “as is” and subject to all liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Foyer Area, Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main St., Suite 900, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin 54810.

DESCRIPTION: The North Eighty-two (82) feet of that certain parcel of land in the City of Amery, described in Volume 185 of Deeds, page 203, Document No. 276091, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point 40 feet East and 10 feet North of the Southwest corner of the Northeast Quarter (NE 1/4) of the Northwest Quarter (NW 1/4), Section Thirty-three (33), Township Thirty-three (33) North, Range Sixteen (16) West, in the City of Amery, Polk County, Wisconsin; thence East 200 feet, thence North 320 feet, thence West 200 feet; thence South 320 feet to the place of beginning.

TAX KEY NO.: 201-009640000.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 337 Keller Avenue South, Amery, WI 54001.

Dated this 28th day of January, 2009.

Timothy G. Moore Polk County Sheriff James M. Jorissen, Esq. Leonard, O’Brien, Spencer, Gale & Sayre, Ltd. 100 South Fifth Street Suite 2500 Minneapolis, MN 55402 (612) 332-1030 394769

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(Jan. 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18)

Feb. 4: At 1:10 a.m., a black Labrador that had been running around the school for 10-15 minutes was picked up and taken to the humane society. The reason for the pickup was the subzero temperatures out that night.

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issued to her Jan. 22. If that fine is not paid within five days, a second citation will be issued, this one for $125. The second citation will go onto Bredenberg’s driving record.

Feb. 3: A letter was sent to Christy Merrill, Siren, regarding movies she took out from the Siren Auto Stop. She has until Feb. 11 to return the movies or face a charge of theft.

After being asked how much she had to drink by the officer, she stated “Too much probably.” She was taken to the Polk County Jail after a test was done at the St. Croix hospital.

Others issued OWI tickets by Polk County officers in the past two weeks include: • Christopher N. Hard, 25, Amery, OWI – first offense, Jan. 31.

• Jeffrey S. Krohn, 22, Clear Lake, OWI – first offense, Feb. 2.

Burnett County civil court The RiverBank vs. Lindsay M. Denn, Siren, $1,274.29.

Siren police report Jan. 31: Amber A. Richison, 25, Frederic, was cited for operating with a suspended driver’s license (regarding a parking ticket) and for operating a vehicle with a suspended registration.

The traffic stop took place at 5:30 p.m. on First Avenue by the hockey arena.

Feb. 1: The Siren officer on duty assisted the Grantsburg Police Department and a county deputy in the apprehension of Kyle M. Lindus, 19, Siren, following a search of a Grantsburg residence. According to the report, Lindus was involved in a chase, after which he pulled into a driveway and ran into some woods.

Feb. 2: A letter was sent to Leigh Ann Bredenberg, Champlin, Minn., in regard to a $25 illegal parking citation

Witnesses called the accident in after checking to make sure Kleffer was not injured. Kleffer was arrested and handcuffed by an officer after a PBT result of .187.

Kimberly A. Kenyon, 55, Dubuque Iowa, was arrested on Milltown’s Main Street for her second OWI offense, Sunday, Feb. 1. An officer pulled her over after observing her vehicle doing unsafe lane deviation.

Kenyon’s eyes were glazed and bloodshot and her speech was slurred.

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Jay J. Junglen, 45, of Barron, was arrested Saturday, Jan. 31 for OWI – fourth offense on Hwy. 8, just west of 150th Street after an officer observed him serving and speeding.

The officer discovered that Junglen’s Minnesota driver’s license had been cancelled and expired in 1996. After agreeing to perform standard field sobriety tests, Junglen was arrested for a PBT reading of .133.

On Saturday, Jan. 31, the driver of a car involved in a one-vehicle accident was arrested for an OWI – second offense. Gale R. Kleffer, 50, of Stacy, Minn., went into the ditch in East Farmington.

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POLK COUNTY – Two OWI – fourth offenses and two OWI – second offenses were issued to end the month of January in Polk County.

Reports of a one-vehicle accident at the intersection of 210th Street and 120th Avenue in St. Croix Falls brought an officer to the scene where he discovered Carl W. Enck, 48, of Dresser. Enck admitted to the officer about having “a few drinks” at a bar earlier.

Enck was placed under arrest for OWI – fourth offense and was brought to the St. Croix Falls hospital where they performed a blood draw. Enck had previous offenses in 2002, 2003 and 2005. His driving status was also suspended at the time of the incident.

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Nominal opening bids start at $10,000 28978 HANSCOM LAKE TR., DANBURY 2 BRs, 2 baths, 1,386 sq. ft. +/-

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Chaz Rodriguez / Blommer Peterman, S.C. State Bar No. 1063071 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 that purpose. (141409)

Alice E. Hallen Schneider, 86, Jan. 30, 2009, Balsam Lake Dorothy B. Messicci, 80, Feb. 1, 2009, Turtle Lake Norman R. Seever, 86, Feb. 1, 2009, Turtle Lake

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(Jan. 21, 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25) 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: March 17, 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, 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.: 020-011020150 Dated this 15th day of January, 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.

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(Feb. 4, 11, 18) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY AnchorBank, fsb f/k/a S&C Bank 25 West Main Street PO Box 7933 Madison, WI 53708, Plaintiff, vs.

Robert E. Marcum 3411 115th Street Frederic, WI 54837, Susan M. Marcum a/k/a Sue Marcum 3411 115th Street Frederic, WI 54837, Defendants.

SUMMONS Case No: 08 CV 748 Case Code: 30303 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, To each person named above as a DEFENDANT: 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 20 days of receiving this summons (45 days if you are the State of Wisconsin or an insurance company, 60 days if you are the United States of America), 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 Polk County Clerk of Circuit Court, Polk County Justice Center, Suite 300, 1005 West Main Street, P.O. Box 549, Balsam Lake, WI 54810, and to Nicholas J. Vivian, Plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is Eckberg, Lammers, Briggs, Wolff & Vierling, P.L.L.P., 1809 Northwestern Avenue, Stillwater, Minnesota, 55082. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not provide a proper answer within 20 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.

Dated: October 22, 2008.

Eckberg, Lammers, Briggs, Wolff & Vierling, P.L.L.P. /s/ Nicholas J. Vivian Nicholas J. Vivian, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff State Bar I.D. No.: 1047165 1809 Northwestern Avenue Stillwater, Minnesota 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.

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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Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, L.P., Plaintiff, vs.

Kerry L Lysdahl Stanley R. Berry Unknown Spouse of Kerry L. Lysdahl Unknown Spouse of Stanley R. Berry Unknown Tenants RJA Partnership M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank S & C Bank State of Wisconsin, Department of Workforce Development The RiverBank Frederic Fuel Company Defendants.

SUMMONS Real Estate Mortgage Foreclosure Case No. 09 CV 29 Honorable Robert H. Rasmussen Case Code: 30404 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To the following party named as a defendant herein: Stanley R. Berry/Unknown Spouse of Stanley R. Berry You are hereby notified that the plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you. The complaint, which is also served on you, states the nature and the basis of the legal action. Within 40 days after February 11, 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: Polk County Clerk of Circuit Court 1005 West Main Street Balsam Lake, WI 54810-9071 and to Chaz Rodriguez/Blommer Peterman, S.C., plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is: Blommer Peterman, S.C. 13700 W. Greenfield Avenue Brookfield, WI 53005 You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not provide a proper answer within 40 days from the date stated above, 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.

Dated this 29th day of January, 2009.

Lenora T. Haney, 94, Jan. 24, 2009, Amery Raymond A. Lee, 96, Jan. 26, 2009, St. Croix Falls Marion Andrewson, 88, Jan. 28, 2009, St. Croix Falls

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Position: Johnson O’Malley Home School Coordinator & Tutor (10 mo.)

Location: Unity School District, Shell Lake/Spooner School Districts Immediate Supervisor: Education Coordinator Salary: $11.00/hour, 24-36 hours/week The purpose and function of the Home School Coordinator is to be a liaison between the school, parents, students and the St. Croix Tribe who oversees their duties.

Required Qualifications: 1. Associate degree in education field or high school diploma with a minimum 2 years’ experience working in an educational setting.

2. Familiarity with Public Law 93-638 Johnson O’Malley programs, Act 31.

3. Ability to communicate effectively and work with Native American students and families.

4. Knowledge of St. Croix Chippewa culture and language.

5. Experience providing educational assistance to students.

6. Strong computer, verbal, math and written communication skills.

7. Commitment to teamwork and relating to others in a positive manner.

8. Reliable and dependable and documented by work history.

9. Experience and familiarity working with families and children. Must have knowledge of local resources (i.e. AODA, Mental Health, Domestic/Sexual Abuse).

Essential Responsibilities: 1. Obtain a list of all eligible Native American Students (506 forms).

2. Serve as liaison between the school district(s), guardians/parents, students, community, Local Indian Education Committee (LIEC), Tribal education department.

3. Identify the general concerns of Native American students and parents, recommend or apply effective measure to resolve the needs.

4. Encourage and assist students to participate in after school activities; provide direction for NA activities (i.e. talking circle, storytelling).

5. Work to improve school attendance and retention of Native American students with the help of parents.

6. Counsel and assist students in planning and participating in post-high school education programs.

7. Provide oral progress/written reports to the local Indian Education Committee, Tribal Education Committee, Principals.

8. Communicate regularly with Native American students and parents.

9. Encourage and assist students to complete work on time. Assist students with goalsetting and time management in relationship to the assignments given to students.

10. Make contact with students in grades K-12 to provide support and encouragement.

11. Attend school staff in-service meetings as program representative.

12. Report and refer students with personal and behavioral problems to the proper authorities (i.e. Sheriff’s Department, Tribal Police, school principals, parents, etc.).

13. Attend monthly Tribal Education meetings, workshops and conferences deemed appropriate as necessary by the Tribal Education Coordinator and/or school administrators.

14. Maintain daily activity log, provide ongoing program updates to administration, school staff, parents and students in regard to Native American education.

15. Attend IEP meetings as requested by school officials and/or parents.

16. Applicant shall serve as a liaison between the school district, staff, parents, LIEC, Education Coordinator and St. Croix Tribal Council.

17. Arrange meetings with parents and teachers as needed regarding student issues.

18. Keep track of students’ attendance/grades/graduation rates.

19. Maintain confidentiality.

All candidates must possess a valid Wisconsin driver’s license, liability insurance and pass a federal background check, which includes drug screening.

Native American preference will be given in accordance with P.L. 93-638 and amendments.

Applications may be picked up at the St. Croix Youth Center/Education Department or the St. Croix Human Resource Department.

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Burnett County sheriff’s report Accidents Jan. 31: Christopher A. Nissen, 34, Spencer, Iowa, was snowmobiling near Big Hill Road in Blaine Township when he left the snowmobile trail and hit a tree. Reportedly he was leading a group of snowmobilers and lost control when he looked over his shoulder.

He was transported to Burnett Medical Center with a broken arm.

Feb. 3: Sarah Ann D. Mitchell, 18, Forest Lake, Minn., was northbound on West River Road in Grantsburg Township, negotiating a curve when southbound Desiree M. Hicks, 23, Frederic, was negoti-

ating the same curve too fast and slid into the Mitchell vehicle.

There were no reported injuries.

Hicks was cited for driving too fast for conditions.

Arrests Jan. 30: Kyle D. Lindus, 19, Grantsburg, arrested for resisting and obstructing an officer, fleeing an officer and disorderly conduct. After fleeing from an attempted traffic stop by the Grantsburg Police Department, he abandoning the car in a driveway on Hwy. 70, and fled on foot. A K-9 officer from Pine County assisted in locating Lindus in a nearby home.

Lindus appeared to be intoxicated.

Other incidents Jan. 31: A cabin owned by Roger Hinrichs, Red Wing, Minn., was entered. At least a couch and television were taken. The incident is under investigation.

Jan. 31: Darlena K. Glonek, 28, Grantsburg, reported four new tires and a spare were taken from a Suburban. The incident is under investigation.

Feb. 3: Wade D. Frank, Bloomer, reported a axe, splitting maul and a metal fish net missing from a shed.

The incident is under investigation.

Burnett County criminal court Dennis E. Johnson, 36, Webster, improper parking of vehicle, $135.00; nonregistration of auto, $160.80; OWI, $677.00, license revoked six months, alcohol assessment.

Steven W. Labatt, 16, Cushing, speedometer violations, $160.80.

John A. Simmons, 53, Norwood, Ohio, speeding, $160.80.

Gary A. Berget, 52, New Richmond, speeding, $160.80.

Edward M. Marx, 50, Bloomington, Minn., fail to stop or improper stop at stop sign, $160.80; failure to notify police of an accident, $249.00; reckless driving - endangering safety, $375.00.

Aaron G. Benjamin, 23, Danbury, disorderly conduct, one-year probation, no contact with vicitm, complete an anger management program, alcohol assessment, $88.00.

John E. Andresen Jr., 21,

Webster, theft of movable property, one-year probation, $88.00.

Kathleen V. Funmaker, 19, Black River Falls, possession of marijuana, $500.00.

Daniel N. Osterby, 49, Wausau, OAR, 11-day jail sentence, $88.00.

Brent D. Pardun, 31, Webster, OWI, $2,739.00, 110day jail sentence, Huber release granted, license revoked 30 months, alcohol assessment.

NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION

At the Primary Election to be held on February 17, 2009, in Polk County, Wisconsin, the following polling place locations will be used for the municipalities indicated.

Polling places will open at 7 a.m. and will close at 8 p.m.

Voters must be registered before they may vote. You may already be registered.

If you have any questions concerning your polling place, or registering, contact the municipal clerk prior to the election.

All polling places are accessible to elderly and disabled voters.

City of St. Croix Falls Voting at: City Hall (Located at 710 Hwy. 35 South, intersection of U.S. Hwy. 8 & Hwy. 35 S.) Bonita Leggitt, Clerk - 715-483-3929, ext. 11 CITY OF ST. CROIX FALLS OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY, FEB. 16.

Town of Alden Voting at: Alden Town Hall (Located 1 mile east of Hwy. 65 on Cty. Rd. C & CC) Judy Demulling, Clerk - 715-248-7859 Town of Apple River 612 U.S. Hwy. 8, Range Ken Sample - Clerk, 715-268-4701 Town of Balsam Lake Voting at: Balsam Lake Town Hall & Shop (Located at 1494 150th Ave., intersection of 150th Ave. & 150th St.) Tammy J. Nelson, Clerk - 715-268-6426 Town of Bone Lake Voting at: Bone Lake Lutheran Church (1/2 mile S. of Hwy. 48, corner of Cty. Rd. I & 255th Ave.) Darrell Frandsen, Clerk - 715-472-8212 Town of Clam Falls Voting at: Clam Falls Town Hall (County Road I to 320th Avenue, east to 80th Street, then south 1/4 mile - hall on east side of street) Betty L. Knutson, Clerk - 715-653-4206 Town of Eureka Voting at: Eureka Town Hall (Located at 2111 State Rd. 87 Approx. 4 miles south of Cushing on Hwy. 87) Edna Tonnar, Clerk - 715-646-2171 Town of Farmington Voting at: Farmington Town Hall (Located 1/4 mile west of Hwy. 35 on 30th Ave.) Debbie Swanson, Clerk - 715-294-2370 Town of Georgetown Voting at: Town Hall (Located corner of Cty. Rds. H & I) Kristine Lindgren, Clerk - 715-857-5788 Town of Laketown Voting at: Cushing Community Center (Located at 2410 241st St., Cushing School) Patsy Gustafson, Clerk - 715-648-5569

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Town of Lorain Voting at: Lorain Town Hall (Located at the intersection of 20th St. & 345th Ave., next to fire hall) Susan Hughes, Clerk - 715-653-2629 Alex Till, Deputy Clerk Town of Luck Voting at: Luck Town Hall (Located at St. Rd. 48, next to Luck Medical Clinic) Lloyd Nelson, Clerk - 715-472-2037 Town of McKinley Voting at: McKinley Town Hall (Located at Corner of Hwy. 48 and 15th St.) Deborah Grover, Clerk - 715-822-3864 Town of Milltown Voting at: Milltown Fire Hall (Located at 127 Eider St., on Hwy. 35 north of Milltown) Virgil Hansen, Clerk - 715-825-2494 Town of Osceola Voting at: Town Hall (516 East Ave. N, Dresser) Lorraine Rugroden, Clerk/Treas. - 715-755-3060 Town of St. Croix Falls Voting at: St. Croix Falls Town Hall (Intersection of U.S. Hwy. 8 and 200th St.) Janet Krueger, Clerk - 715-483-1851 Town of Sterling Voting at: Cushing Community Center (From Hwy. 87 turn by Stop-a-Sec (Cty. Rd. N), go straight onto 241st St.) Julie Peterson, Clerk - 715-488-2735 Town of West Sweden Voting at: West Sweden Town Hall (Located in Frederic, off Hwy. 48 W., on (N.) 3rd Ave.) Lori Lundquist, Clerk - 715-327-8740 Village of Dresser Voting at: Municipal Office (Located on the corner of Main St. and Central Ave., 2 blocks off of State Rd. 35) Jodi A. Gilbert, Clerk - 715-755-2940 Village of Frederic Voting at: Frederic Village Hall (107 Hope Road West , 1/2 block west of Hwy. 35) Kristi Swanson, Clerk - 715-327-4294 Village of Osceola Voting at: Osceola High School Auditorium Neil J. Soltis, Clerk - 715-294-3498

NOTICE OF SPRING PRIMARY AND SAMPLE BALLOTS February 17, 2009

OFFICE OF THE POLK COUNTY CLERK TO THE ELECTORS OF POLK COUNTY: Notice is hereby given of a spring primary election to be held in Polk County on the seventeenth day of February, 2009, at which officers named below shall be nominated. The names of the candidates for each office, whose nominations have been certified to or filed in this office, are given under the title of the office under the appropriate party or other designation, each in its proper column, together with the questions submitted to a vote, if any, in the sample ballot below.

INFORMATION TO ELECTORS Upon entering the polling place, an elector shall give his or her name and address before being permitted to vote. Where ballots are distributed to electors, the initials of two inspectors must appear on the ballot. Upon being permitted to vote, the elector shall retire alone to a voting booth and cast his or her ballot, except that an elector who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the elector’s minor child or minor ward. An election official may inform the elector of the proper manner for casting a vote, but the official may not in any manner advise or indicate a particular voting choice.

At the spring primary election where paper ballots are used, the elector shall make a cross (X) in the square next to the name of the candidate for whom he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the elector shall write in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote. On referendum questions, the elector shall make a cross (X) in the square next to “yes” if in favor of the questions, or the elector shall make a cross (X) in the square next to “no” if opposed to the question.

Where optical scan voting if used, the elector shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for whom he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the elector shall write in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided and fill in the oval or connect the arrow on the write-in line. On referendum questions, the electors shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the elector shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “no” if opposed to the questions.

Where touch screen voting systems are used, the elector shall depress the button next to the name of the candidate for whom he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the elector shall type in the name of the person of her or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote. On referendum questions, the elector shall depress the button next to “yes” if in favor of the questions, or the elector shall depress the button next to “no” if opposed to the question.

The vote should not be cast in any other manner. If the elector spoils a PAPER OR OPTICAL SCAN ballot, he or she shall return it to an election official who shall issue another ballot in its place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one elector. If the ballot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is defective in any other way, the elector shall return it to the election official, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place. The elector may spoil a touch screen ballot at the voting station.

Not more than five minutes’ time shall be allowed inside a voting booth. Sample ballots or other materials to assist the elector in casting his or her vote may be taken into the booth and copied. The sample ballot shall not be shown to anyone so as to reveal how the ballot is marked.

After an official paper ballot is marked, it shall be folded so the inside marks do not show, but so the printed endorsements and inspectors’ initials on the outside do show. The elector shall leave the booth, deposit the ballot in the ballot box, or deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit, and shall leave the polling place promptly.

After an official marksense ballot is marked, it shall be inserted in the security sleeve so the marks do not show. After casting her or her vote, the elector shall leave the booth, insert the ballot in the voting devise and discard the sleeve, or deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit. If a central count system is used, the elector shall insert the ballot in the ballot box and discard the sleeve, or deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit. The elector shall leave the polling place promptly.

After an official touch screen ballot is marked, the elector shall leave the polling place promptly.

After casting his or her vote, the elector shall leave the voting booth, properly deposit the ballot and promptly leave the polling place.

An elector may select an individual to assist in casting his or her vote if the elector declares to the presiding official that he or she is unable to read, has difficulty reading, writing or understanding English or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot. The selected individual rendering assistance may not be the elector’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or agent of a labor organization that represents the elector.

The following is a sample of the official ballots:

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Carole T. Wondra, County Clerk

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Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, 8 p.m. At The Clerk’s Home

Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, At 6 p.m. At Grantsburg High School Library, (Southern Cluster Meeting) 480 East James Ave. Grantsburg 478300 25L

Agenda: Call to order; reading of agenda; clerk’s minutes; treasurer’s report; public comments; payment of bills; road report; dam update; and plan commission report.

Darrell Frandsen, 478208 25L Town Clerk

Ellen M. Ellis, Clerk

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(Feb. 11, 18, 25) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY In The Matter Of The Estate Of LAVONNE M. RELANDER DOD: 12/25/2008 Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 09 PR 09 An application has been filed for informal administration of the estate of the decedent, whose date of birth was 3/23/1942 and date of death was 12/25/2008.

The decedent died domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a post office address of: 2172 East Big Round Lake Lane, Luck, WI 54853. All interested persons have waived notice.

Creditors’ claims must be filed with the probate registrar on or before May 18, 2009.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar February 6, 2009 Terrence L. Dunst of Bakke Norman, S.C. Personal Rep./Attorney 990 Main Street, P.O. Box 54 Baldwin, WI 54002 715-684-4545

(Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARILYN SALMON D.O.B. 5/3/1929 Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 08 PR 95 An application has been filed for informal administration of the estate of the decedent, whose date of birth was May 3, 1929, and date of death was December 13, 2008. The decedent died domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a post office address of: 2134 200th Ave., Centuria, WI 54824.

All interested persons have waived notice.

Creditors’ claims must be filed with the probate registrar on or before April 24, 2009.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar January 15, 2009 Attorney David L. Grindell GRINDELL LAW OFFICES, S.C. P.O. Box 585, Frederic, Wisconsin 54837 477444 WNAXLP 715-327-5561

COACHING OPPORTUNITY

The Frederic School District is accepting applications for the following coaching position:

Head Cross-Country Coach Send letter of application, resume and credentials to: Jeff Carley, Athletic Director, Frederic School District, 1437 Clam Falls Drive, Frederic, WI 54837. Telephone 715-327-4223. Deadline for applications is February 17, 2009.

The Frederic School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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(Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar. 4) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY S & C Bank, Plaintiff, vs.

David B. Holmdahl, Teresa M. Holmdahl, f/k/a Teresa M. Johnson and U.S. Bank, National Association, N.D., Defendants.

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case No. 07 CV 649 Case Code: 30304 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on March 14, 2008, in the amount of $226,631.85, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: March 19, 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 will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

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

PLACE: The front lobby of the Polk County Judicial Center located at 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: The SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 28, Township 36 North, Range 19 West, Town of Sterling, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2717 250th Avenue, Cushing, WI 54006.

Dated this 14th day of January, 2009. /s/ Timothy G. Moore Polk County Sheriff Ronald L. Siler VAN DYK, WILLIAMSON & SILER, S.C. Attorney for Plaintiff 201 South Knowles Avenue New Richmond, WI 54017

SPRING PRIMARY ELECTION FEBRUARY 17, 2009

TOWN OF LORAIN ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT TESTING NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that a public test of the electronic equipment to be used at the Feb. 17, 2009, Primary Election will be held at 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, at the Lorain Town Hall.

This test is open to the general public.

Susan Hughes 478336 25L WNAXLP Clerk (Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL J. POHLEN a/k/a MICHAEL POHLEN Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 09 PR04 An application has been filed for informal administration of the estate of the decedent, whose date of birth was December 17, 1936, and date of death was October 19, 2008. The decedent died domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a post office address of: 1383 167th Street, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024-7535.

All interested persons have waived notice.

Creditors’ claims must be filed with the probate registrar on or before April 24, 2009.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar January 14, 2009 Scott M. Nelson Personal Representative/ Attorney 400 South Second Street #210 Hudson, WI 54016 612-339-8131

CITIZENS OF THE DANBURY SANITARY DISTRICT AND INTERESTED PLUMBERS There will be a public meeting to discuss the new water and sewer system in the Swiss Town Hall on Thurs., Feb. 19, 2009, at 7 p.m. This meeting will help you learn of your requirements and obligations for this new system.

All interested Wisconsin licensed Master Plumbers are encouraged to attend.

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LOCATION AND HOURS OF POLLING PLACES A Partisan Election will be held on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, in the State of Wisconsin. This notice of location and hours of polling places is published on behalf of the municipalities. Following is a list of polling place locations for Burnett County municipalities:

Town of Daniels Town of Dewey Town of Grantsburg Town of Jackson Town of LaFollette Town of Lincoln Town of Meenon Town of Oakland Town of Roosevelt Town of Rusk

Town Hall Town Hall (Northland Comm. Ctr.) Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Timberland Luth. Church Town Hall

13808 Anderson Rd. 1232 E. School Rd. 9602 Daniels 70 Rd. 24433 Town Hall Rd. 23211 State Rd. 48 4599 County Rd. A 24184 Malone Rd. 9110 Perida Rd. 7396 Kruger Rd. 27826 Lone Pine Rd. 20805 Cty. Rd. H 25195 County Rd. H

Town of Sand Lake Town of Scott Town of Siren Town of Swiss Town of Trade Lake Town of Union Town of Webb Lake Town of West Marshland Town of Wood River Village of Grantsburg Village of Siren Village of Webster

Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Town Hall Village Hall Village Hall Community Center

5364 County Rd. X 28390 County Rd. H 7240 S. Long Lake Rd. 7551 Main Street 11811 Town Hall Rd. 9015 County Rd. F 31000 Namekagon Trail 12259 County Rd. F 11610 State Rd. 70 316 S. Brad St. 24049 First Ave. N. 7421 Main St. W.

The polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. All of the polling places are accessible to elderly and disabled voters. If you have questions concerning your polling place, contact the municipal clerk: Town of Anderson Town of Jackson Town of Roosevelt Town of Swiss Town of Wood River Dawn Luke, Clerk Lorraine Radke, Clerk Karla Mortensen Deborah Pohlkamp, Clerk Dawn Luke, Clerk 11097 Crosstown Rd. 4742 County Rd. A 22030 Bakker Rd. 7551 Main St. 11097 Crosstown Rd. Grantsburg, WI 54840 Webster, WI 54893 Shell Lake, WI 54871 P.O. Box 157 Grantsburg, WI 54840 715-689-2296 715-866-8412 715-468-4088 Danbury, WI 54830 715-689-2296 Office: 715-656-3030 Town of Blaine Town of LaFollette Town of Rusk Village of Grantsburg Home: 715-656-4493 Doris (Dori) Willett, Clerk Linda Terrian, Clerk Ann Stellrecht, Clerk Jennifer Zeiler, Clerk 4035 Big McGraw Rd. 23928 Malone Rd. 25304 County Rd. H Town of Trade Lake 316 S. Brad St. Danbury, WI 54830 Siren, WI 54872 Spooner, WI 54801 Deborah Christian, Clerk Grantsburg, WI 54840 715-244-3910 715-349-2531 715-468-2329 13361 St. Rd. 48 715-463-2405 Grantsburg, WI 54840 Town of Daniels Town of Lincoln Town of Sand Lake Village of Siren 715-488-2600 Ellen Ellis, Clerk Patrice Bjorklund, Clerk Peggy Tolbert Ann Peterson, Clerk8713 Daniels 70 P.O. Box 296 P.O. Box 165 Town of Union Treasurer Siren, WI 54872 Webster, WI 54893 Webster, WI 54893 David Olson, Clerk 24049 First Ave. 715-349-5840 715-866-7580 715-866-4398 8637 Grover Point Rd. P.O. Box 23 Danbury, WI 54830 Siren, WI 54872 Town of Dewey Town of Meenon Town of Scott 715-866-4129 715-349-2273 Pamela Brown Suzanna M. Eytcheson, Kim Dropps, Clerk 1148 Swiss Chalet Rd. Clerk 28390 County Rd. H Town of Webb Lake Village of Webster Shell Lake, WI 54871 25863 E. Bass Lk. Dr. Spooner, WI 54801 Gail Keup, Clerk Michael Spafford, Deputy 715-468-7111 Webster, WI 54893 715-635-2308 2363 Escape Drive Clerk-Treasurer 715-866-4893 Webb Lake, WI 54830 7505 Main St. W. Town of Grantsburg Town of Siren 715-259-3439 P.O. Box 25 Romey Nelson, ClerkTown of Oakland Mary Hunter, Clerk Webster, WI 54893 Treasurer Deanna Krause, Clerk 23340 Soderberg Rd. Town of West Marshland 715-866-4211 13324 Solness Rd. 7426 W. Main St. Siren, WI 54872 Margaret A. Hess, Clerk P.O. Box 642 P.O. Box 675 715-349-5119 25161 Spaulding Rd. Grantsburg, WI 54840 Webster, WI 54893 Grantsburg, WI 54840 715-463-5545 715-866-8213 715-463-2922 478314 25L WNAXLP

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Duties include but are not limited to: • Working with all data entries; payroll and back-up to corporate manager.

• Requirements: 2-year Accounting Degree or 5-year Accounting Experience A MUST. Strong organizational & communication skills, self-motivated and accuracy required.

• Pay scale to follow experience. Benefit package available.

Stop-a-Sec Inc. offers competitive wages, a benefit package, vacation pay and employee discounts. For immediate consideration, send your resume, including references and salary requirements in confidence to: Please send resume, salary requirements and references to:

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Attn.: Corporate Manager P.O. Box 560, Luck, WI 54853 • 715-472-4220 • E.O.E.

EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL WANTED

Pharmacist - Days with occasional weekend, in hospital setting. Receive benefits. Must be licensed to work in Wis. Apply Directly To SCRMC: www.scrmc.org 715-483-0286 • Fax: 715-483-0508 235 State Street, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 An Equal Opportunity Employer

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Town of Anderson Town of Blaine

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MONTHLY TOWN BOARD MEETING

(Jan. 21, 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY U.S. BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF CSFB HOME EQUITY PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004AA1 Plaintiff, vs.

TED MICHAELSON, et al Defendants Case Number: 07 CV 648 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on July 15, 2008, in the amount of $108,864.27, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: March 10, 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 St., Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lots 1, 2 and 3, Block 3, Baker’s Addition to the Village of Milltown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 105 Elizabeth Street, Milltown, WI 54858.

TAX KEY NO.: 151-25.

Dated this 6th day of January, 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. (138506)

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TOWN OF DANIELS COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING

(Jan. 21, 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ND Plaintiff, vs.

CHRIS STELLMACH, TRACY MARIE SMITH-STELLMACH, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., Defendants.

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case No. 08 CV 278 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on November 17, 2008, in the amount of $122,532.51, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: March 11, 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. PLACE: Lobby of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

Property Description: THE WEST HALF (W 1/2) OF LOT FOUR (4), BLOCK “B”, PETERSON’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF AMERY, POLK COUNTY, WISCONSIN. Tax Key No.: 201-00504-0000 Property Address: 212 SOUTH STREET, AMERY, WI 54001.

Gunar J. Blumberg State Bar #1028987 Attorney for Plaintiff 39 S. LaSalle Street, Suite 400 Chicago, IL 60603 312-541-9710 Johnson, Blumberg & Associates, LLC, is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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Notices/Employment

TOWN OF STERLING MONTHLY TOWN BOARD MEETING The Monthly Board Meeting Will Be Held Monday, February 16, 2009, At The Cushing Community Center At 7 p.m.

Agenda: Clerk’s minutes; treasurer financial report; update on town leases; update on Old Settler’s Church rebuilding; Board to sign Ambulance Service Contract with new Unity Ambulance owners, citizen concerns; road maintenance; Board to discuss road maint. employee wages; set March agenda; pay bills.

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Notices/Employment

CHIEF DEPUTY

Burnett County Sheriff’s Department

This full-time (sworn/management) position will perform complex administrative and supervisory work managing a comprehensive public safety program.

For further information and application material (www.burnettcounty.com.)

Deadline: Friday, February 20, 2009.

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VILLAGE OF WEBSTER POSITION POSTING

Clerk/Treasurer - Village of Webster (pop. 603).

Position: Performs duties required by Wis. Stat. 61.25 and 61.26, oversees elections, administers property tax system, manages Village records and files, keeps financial records, handles payroll, performs utility billings, issues licenses and takes minutes of Village Board meetings.

Qualifications: Minimum of associate degree or equivalent in accounting and 3 years’ experience of municipal accounting or 5 years’ experience in related accounting field. Requires knowledge of computers and a variety of programs including accounting, word processing, spreadsheet, Workhorse software and e-mail systems. Must have strong customer service and office skills. Wage commensurate with experience and abilities, plus benefits. Shall act as a Deputy Clerk/Treasurer during probationary period, with increase in wage on assuming responsibilities of Clerk/Treasurer.

A complete statement of qualifications and duties is available, along with an employment application, at the Village Office located at 7505 Main Street, P.O. Box 25, Webster, WI 54893, 715-866-4211. Completed applications due by Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. The Village of Webster is an equal opportunity employer.

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS SIREN SE NEIGHBORHOOD STREET IMPROVEMENTS - PHASE 1 VILLAGE OF SIREN BURNETT COUNTY, WISCONSIN The Village of Siren will receive sealed bids at the Village Hall, located at 24049 First Avenue South, P.O. Box 23, Siren, WI 54872 for the construction of Siren SE Neighborhood Street Improvements - Phase 1 until 1:00 p.m., February 26, 2009. All bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at that time.

The work for which bids are asked includes the following (quantities are approximate): 2,800 L.F. RCP Storm Sewer (12” to 27” dia.)

600 L.F. 6” Ductile Iron Watermain 7,000 C.Y. Unclassified Excavation 2,500 C.Y. Crushed Aggregate Base Course 3,000 Tons Asphaltic Concrete Pavement 5,700 Lineal Feet Concrete Curb and Gutter The BIDDING DOCUMENTS may be examined at the offices of MSA Professional Services, Inc., Rice Lake, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota; the Village of Siren; the Builders Exchange of St. Paul, Minnesota; Duluth Builders Exchange, Duluth, Minnesota; Minneapolis Builders Exchange, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Northwest Regional Builders Exchange in Altoona (Eau Claire), Wisconsin. Planholders list will be updated periodically on our Web address at www.msa-ps.com under Projects Bidding. An updated planholders list will be mailed with any and all addenda. No planholders list will be faxed.

Copies of the BIDDING DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of MSA Professional Services, Inc., 302 East Thomas Street, Rice Lake, WI 54868 upon receipt of a nonrefundable deposit of $35.00 for a half size (11”x17:) set of plans.

No proposal will be accepted unless accompanied by a certified check or bid bond equal to at least 5% of the amount bid, payable to the OWNER as a guarantee that, if the bid is accepted, the bidder will execute and file the proper contract and bond within 15 days after the award of the contract. The certified check or bid bond will be returned to the bidder as soon as the contract is signed, and if after 15 days the bidder shall fail to do so, the certified check or bid bond shall be forfeited to the OWNER as liquidated damages.

No bidder may withdraw his bid within 60 days after the actual date of the opening thereof.

Pursuant to Section 66.0903, Wisconsin Statutes, the minimum wages to be paid on the project shall be in accordance with the wage rate scale established by State and Federal wage rates.

Attention of Bidders is particularly called to the requirements as to conditions of employment to be observed and minimum wage rates to be paid under the contract, Section 3, Segregated Facility, Section 109 and E.O. 11246.

Federal wage rates can be found at http://www.gpo.gov/ davisbacon/. Be aware that project Administrators, Bidders, and Contractors are required to use the latest federal wage rate available at the time of bid opening.

OWNER reserves the right to waive any informalities or to reject any or all bids.

Published by the authority of the Village of Siren.

CONSULTING ENGINEER: MSA Professional Services, inc.

302 East Thomas Street Rice Lake, WI 54868 Teresa K. Anderson, P.E. 715-234-1009

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Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College is seeking to hire an individual who is an enthusiastic champion of learning resources and related technologies to serve as Director, Learning Resources. The successful candidate will have a passion for teaching and learning, eagerly embrace innovation, and be well-versed in the latest theories and technologies to meet the individual learner’s needs. As Northwest Wisconsin’s leader in technical education, WITC creates dynamic opportunities for career preparation and personal effectiveness. We are committed to making each and every experience with the college meaningful and professional.

Qualifications include: Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science or a related degree, prior library management experience, one year of occupational experience in a noneducational setting, knowledge and experience with automated library systems, electronic databases and demonstrated interest in new and emerging technologies including virtual or online instructional resources, budget preparation and management experience and supervisory experience.

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WISCONSIN INDIANHEAD TECHNICAL COLLEGE

For a complete list of qualifications and to apply visit our Web site at www.witc.edu/jobs/employ. TTY 888/261-8578

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

NOTICE OF MEETING TOWN OF WEST SWEDEN

Notice Is Hereby Given That The Regular Monthly Town Board Meeting Will Be Held On Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, At 6:30 p.m. At The Town Hall.

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

4. Public input 5. Old Business 6. Employee report 7. Correspondence 8. New Business 9. Bills/vouchers 10. Set next meeting date 11. Move to adjourn Lori Lundquist, Clerk

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

DIRECTOR, LEARNING RESOURCES

PART-TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE CASHIER & SALES

Must have excellent people skills and be detail oriented. Retail experience preferred, but not required.

Flexible schedule and benefits available. Add’l. $2.50 per hour for weekend hours.

Apply In Person At:

MENARDS

1285 208th Street St. Croix Falls, Wis. 478325 25L 15d

SITE MANAGER Folsom House, Taylors, Falls, MN

Responsible for seasonal public tours program, yearround security, upkeep and maintenance in exchange for free rent and utilities. Strong background in 18th and 19th century U.S. or Minn.-Wis.. regional history, good speaking & tour leading skills required. For details, send summary of education & experience to: Board Chair, Taylors Falls Historical Society, P.O. Box 333, Taylors 478307 25Lp Falls, MN 55084.

SAMPLE BALLOT NOTICE OF SPRING PRIMARY ELECTION FEBRUARY 17, 2009

OFFICE OF THE BURNETT COUNTY CLERK TO THE ELECTORS OF BURNETT COUNTY: Notice is hereby given of a nonpartisan spring primary election to be held in the several wards in the County of Burnett on February 17, 2009, at which the officers named below shall be chosen. The names of the candidates for each office to be voted for, whose nominations have been certified to or filed in this office, are given under the title of the office, each in its proper column, together with the questions submitted to a vote, for a referendum, if any, in the sample ballot below.

INFORMATION TO ELECTORS Upon entering the polling place, an elector shall give his or her name and address before being permitted to vote. Where ballots are distributed to electors, the initials of two inspectors must appear on the ballot. Upon being permitted to vote, the elector shall retire alone to a voting booth or machine and cast his or her ballot, except that an elector who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the elector’s minor child or minor ward. An election official may inform the elector of the proper manner for casting a vote, but the official may not in any manner advise or indicate a particular voting choice.

At The Spring Primary Election Where paper ballots are used, the elector shall make a cross (X) in the square next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the elector shall write in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote.

Where touch screen voting systems are used, the elector shall depress the button next to the name of the candidate for whom he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does

not appear on the ballot, the elector shall type in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided for a write-in vote.

The vote shall not be cast in any other manner. If an elector spoils a ballot, he or she shall return it to an election official who shall issue another ballot in its place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one elector. If the ballot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is defective in any other way, the elector shall return it to the election official who shall issue a proper ballot in its place. The elector may spoil a touch screen ballot at the voting station. Not more than five minutes’ time shall be allowed inside a voting booth. Sample ballots or other materials to assist the elector in marking his or her ballot may be taken into the booth and copied. The sample ballot shall not be shown to anyone so as to reveal how the ballot is marked.

After an official paper ballot is marked, it shall be folded so that the inside marks do not show, but so the printed endorsements and inspectors’ initials on the outside do show. After casting his or her vote, the elector shall leave the booth, deposit his or her folded ballots in the proper ballot box or deliver the ballots to an inspector for deposit, and shall leave the polling place promptly.

After an official touch screen ballot is marked, the elector shall leave the polling place promptly.

An elector may select an individual to assist in casting his or her vote if the elector declares to the presiding official that he or she is unable to read, has difficulty reading, writing, or understanding English, or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot.

The selected individual rendering assistance may not be the elector’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or agent of a labor organization which represents the elector.

The following is a sample of the official ballot:

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Wanda Hinrichs, Burnett County Clerk

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Monday, February 16, 2009, 6:30 p.m.

Frederic 7 - 12 School, Room 107

1. Call to order.

2. Opening ceremonies A. Approve agenda B. Welcoming remarks C. Audience to visitors and delegations 3. Reports of officers A. Minutes from previous meetings B. Invoices and receipts C. 2008-09 budget D. Board member reports/Governance - State Convention report; Commencement 2009 4. Reports of the administration A. Superintendent B. High School Principal C. Elementary Principal D. Buildings and Grounds E. Food Service F. Virtual Education G. Swimming pool H. Boiler proposals 5. Unfinished Business A. Bus transportation review B. CESA 11 Services contract 6. New Business A. Contracts B. Personnel - Staffing for 2009-2010; Counseling C. Prom 2009 D. Sale of bus #7 E. Junior High softball F. Preview 2009-2010 calendar 7. Closed session: Wisconsin statutes 19.85 (1)(c)(f), Staffing reductions; Leave of absence 8. Business as a result of closed session 9. Adjourn 478338 25L

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Polk County Land Information Committee will hold public hearings on Wednesday, February 18, 2009, at 8 a.m. in the Government Center (1st Floor, County Boardroom), Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. The Committee will recess at 8:30 a.m. to view sites and will reconvene at 11 a.m. at the Government Center in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, to consider the following and other agenda items: ROBERT MERCORD/TODD KULLMANN request a Special Exception from Article 8D1 of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to operate a transient lodge. Property affected is: 1503 Bridget Lake Ln., Lot 3, CSM #604, Vol. 3/Pg. 90, Pt. of Gov’t.

Lot 2, Sec. 33/T34N/R17W, Town of Balsam Lake, Bridget/Mud Lake.

JAY & ROBYN WEST request a Special Exception from Article 8D1 of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to operate a transient lodge. Property affected is: 2191 East Round Lake Ln., Pt. of Gov’t. Lot 1, Sec. 13/T35N/R16W, Town of Georgetown, Big Round Lake.

477709 24-25L 14a,d WNAXLP ROBERT MORAVITZ requests a Special Exception from Section VIB5 of the Polk County Comprehensive Land Use Ordinance to continue operating a gravel pit with a change from prior request dated October 9, 2001, from screening to crushing rock. Property affected is: S 1/2, NW 1/4, NE 1/4, Sec.26/T34N/R15W, Town of Beaver.

NOTICE OF HEARING

The Polk County Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at the Government Center in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. The Board will recess at 12:15 p.m. to view the site and will reconvene at 1:45 p.m. at the Government Center in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. At that time the applicant(s) will inform the Board of their request.

The Board may go into closed session under Wisconsin State Statutes, s.19.85(1)(a)(g), deliberating concerning a case which was the subject of any judicial or quasi-judicial trial or hearing before that governmental body. (THE APPLICANT MUST APPEAR AT 1:45 P.M. WHEN THE BOARD RECONVENES AT THE GOVERNMENT CENTER.) 477913 24-25L 14a,d WNAXLP MATTHEW & ELLEN JACOBY request a variance from Article 11C, Table 1 & 11F2(a)(2)+(1) of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to add an addition onto existing dwelling which will go off to the side and exceed a 750sq.-ft. footprint. Property affected is: 201 E. Lower Pine Lake Ln., Lot 2, CSM #181, Vol. 1/Pg. 182, Pt of SE1/4, SW1/4, Sec 23/T32N/R18W, town of Alden, Lower Pine Lake.

FACSIMILE BALLOT NOTICE OF SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENDUM ELECTION February 17, 2009 Office of the Siren School District Clerk To the Electors of Siren School District: Notice is hereby given of a special referendum election to be held in the several wards in the School District of Siren, on February 17, 2009, at which the referendum question set forth below shall be submitted to a vote, in the sample ballot below.

INFORMATION TO ELECTORS Upon entering the polling place, an elector shall give his or her name and address before being permitted to vote. Where ballots are distributed to electors, the initials of two inspectors must appear on the ballot. Upon being permitted to vote, the elector shall retire alone to a voting booth or machine and cast his or her ballot, except that an elector who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the elector’s minor child or minor ward. An election official may inform the elector of the proper manner for casting a vote, but the official may not in any manner advise or indicate a particular voting choice.

On referenda questions where paper ballots are used, the elector shall make a cross (X) in the square at the right of the answer which he or she intends to give. If in favor of the question, the elector shall make a cross (X) in the square at the right of “YES.” If opposed to the questions, the elector shall make a cross (X) in the square to the right of “NO.” On referenda, where paper ballots or lever machines are used, the elector shall make a cross (X) in the square or depress the lever or button at the right of “yes” if in favor of the question, or the elector shall make a cross (X) in the square at the right of or depress the button or lever next to “no” if opposed to the question.

The vote should not be cast in any other manner. If the elector spoils a ballot, he or she shall return it to an election official who shall issue another ballot in its place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one elector. If the ballot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is defective in any other way, the elector shall return it to the election official, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place. Not more than five minutes’ time shall be allowed inside a voting booth. Unofficial ballots or a memorandum to assist the elector in marking his or her ballot may be taken into the booth and copied. The sample ballot shall not be shown to anyone so as to reveal how the ballot is marked.

After an official paper ballot is marked, it shall be folded so the inside marks do not show but so the printed endorsements and inspectors’ initials on the outside do show. After casing his or her vote, the elector shall leave the booth, and where paper ballots are distributed to the electors, deposit his or her folded ballots in the ballot boxes, or deliver the ballots to an inspector for deposit, and shall leave the polling place promptly.

An elector may select an individual to assist in casting his or her vote if the elector declares to the presiding official that he or she is unable to read, has difficulty reading, writing, or understanding English or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot. The selected individual rendering assistance may not be the elector’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or agent of a labor organization which represents the elector.

NOTICE OF REFERENDUM

Please take notice that the School District of Siren shall submit a referendum question to the electors of the District at the election to be held on February 17, 2009.

The text of the question shall read as follows: Whether the limit on revenue imposed upon the School District of Siren pursuant to §121.91(2m)(e), Wisconsin Statutes may be exceeded by the sum of $250,000 annually commencing with the 2009-2010 school year and continuing through and including school year 2013-2014 on a 5-year recurring basis for the purpose of meeting the operating expense requirements to properly operate its educational programs and facilities?

If you vote “YES,” you are in favor the School District of Siren exceeding the revenue limit imposed on school districts under §121.91(2m)(e), Wisconsin Statutes, by the amount of $250,000 for the 2009-2010 school year and continuing through and

including school year 2013-2014 on a 5-year recurring basis for the purpose of meeting the operating expense requirements to properly operate its educational programs and facilities.

If you vote “NO,” you are not in support of the amount of $250,000 for the 2009-2010 school year and continuing through and including school year 2013-2014 on a 5-year recurring basis for the purpose of meeting the operating expense requirements to properly operate its educational programs and facilities.

School District of Siren By: Bill Ellis, Clerk The following is a facsimile of the official ballot:

SIREN SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE OF SPECIAL REFERENDUM

At the election to be held on February 17, 2009, in the School District of Siren, the following polling place locations will be used for the wards indicated: Municipality Polling Place Municipal Clerk Village of Siren Village Offices Ann Peterson Town of Siren Siren Town Hall Mary Hunter Town of LaFollette LaFollette Town Hall Linda Terrian Town of Daniels Daniels Town Hall Ellen Ellis Town of Lincoln Lincoln Town Hall Patrice Bjorklund Town of Meenon Meenon Town Hall Suzanne Eytcheson Town of Sand Lake Sand Lake Town Hall Peggy Tolbert All polling places will be open at 7 a.m. and will close at 8 p.m.

If you have questions concerning your polling place, contact the municipal clerk.

All polling places are accessible to elderly and disabled voters.

SCHOOL DISTRICT OF SIREN By: Bill Ellis School District of Siren 478090 25L WNAXLP

Notices/Employment

NOTICE FOR THE TOWN OF BALSAM LAKE

At the January 20 meeting, the Resolution consenting to the imposition of special charges for a sanitary sewer bypass facility, installation by the Village of Balsam Lake, to be charged to property owners located in the Town of Balsam Lake (Indianhead bypass) was passed.

The monthly meeting for the Town of Balsam Lake will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, at 8:30 p.m. Agenda includes: Public comment, amendment to ambulance contract, payment of bills, various road and equipment maintenance.

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POLK COUNTY POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS Polk County is accepting applications for the following positions:

Receptionist - Human Services Full time, 37.5 hr./week Deadline to apply: Feb. 19, 2009 Mental Health Therapist 2 Full-time Positions, 37.5 hr./week Deadline to apply: Open until filled

$14.00/hr. $23.27/hr.

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NOTICE OF FREDERIC SCHOOL BOARD REGULAR MEETING

Job descriptions and applications can be obtained from our Web site at: www.co.polk.wi.us, or Employee Relations, 100 Polk Co. Plaza, #229, Balsam Lake, Wis., or 715-485-9176. YOU MUST COMPLETE A POLK CO. EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION TO BE ELIGIBLE. AA/EEOC (Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar. 4) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., Plaintiff, vs.

HERMAN HULSEY and SANDRA HULSEY husband and wife and JANE DOE and/or JOHN DOE unknown tenants; and MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., Defendants.

Case No. 08-CV-763 Code No. 30404 Foreclosure of Mortgage Dollar Amount Greater Than $5,000.00 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on December 16, 2008, in the amount of $234,708.10, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: March 18, 2009, at 10:00 o’clock a.m.

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

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

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. PLACE: Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Parcel I:Part of Lot 1, Block 2, Plat of Big Lake Beach, Polk County, Wisconsin, described as follows: Commencing at an iron stake on the dam on the inlet adjoining the Plat of Big Lake Beach; thence West by Southwesterly at an angle of 74° with the West line of Section 1, Township 32 North, Range 18 West, to a point which is 65 feet Northeast of the County Trunk Highway, said distance being measured along said line, this being the point of beginning; thence along said line 65 feet to the East line of the right of way of said County Trunk Highway; thence along the Easterly line of said County Trunk Highway approximately 185 feet to 1-1/2 inch pipe stake marked “W.B.”; thence in a North-

easterly direction parallel to the said line running from said dam to a point 65 feet Northeast of the right of way of said County Trunk Highway measured along said line; thence in a Northwesterly direction to the place of beginning. Parcel II: A part of Block 2, Plat of Big Lake Beach, Polk County, Wisconsin, described as follows: Commencing at the Northwest corner of Section 1, Township 32 North, Range 18 West; thence South 00° 00’ 00” East along the West line of Section 1, 840.71 feet; thence North 89° 17’ 28” East 296.69 feet to an iron pin on the East right of way of County Highway K, being the point of beginning; thence North 23° 12’ 12” West along said right of way 37.71 feet to an iron pin; thence North 73° 06’ 00” East 65.00 feet to an iron pin; thence South 23° 12’ 12” East 57.33 feet to an iron pin; thence South 89° 17’ 28” West 69.93 feet to the point of beginning. Parcel III: A part of Block 2, Plat of Big Lake Beach, Polk County, Wisconsin, described as: Beginning at the intersection of Line 6 of Outlot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 1398 recorded in Volume 6 at page 214 as Document No. 481273 and the East line of County Trunk Highway “K”; thence South 23° 12’ 12” East 25.5 feet more or less to the Northwest corner of that certain parcel described in Volume 239 at page 303; thence East along the North line of said parcel to the lakeshore of Big Lake; thence Northwesterly along said lakeshore to the intersection of Line 7 and the East line of Outlot 1; thence South 71° 15’ 00” West 25.56 feet more or less to the point of beginning.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1891 60th Avenue, Town of Alden.

TAX KEY NO.: 002-020230000 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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Superintendent candidates range from insider to critic

Primary Tuesday narrows field to two

by Gregg Westigard AREA – The five candidates for Superintendent of Public Instruction in the Feb. 17 primary range from the current deputy head of the department to a critic of the Department of Public Instruction.

Two of the five candidates will go on to the April 7 spring election. Tony Evers, Rose Fernandez, Lowell Holtz, Van Mobley and Todd Price are each seeking to replace Elizabeth Burmaster

when her four-year term ends in July.

The field includes a current school administrator and two professors.

Evers is the insider, having served as the top deputy under Burmaster since 2001. Prior to that, he was a principal, school district administrator and CESA head. Evers lists endorsements from an alliance of school administrators and from several teachers groups and unions.

Fernandez is running as a critic of the current administration. She led a fight to defend virtual schools when funding for that concept was under attack from the teachers union. Her issues statement

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says, “We can change DPI.” Holtz is the current administrator of the Beloit School District and stresses building a partnership with teachers, businesses, and the community. He says he is the only nonpartisan, nonparty affiliated candidates and calls himself a fiscal conservative.

Mobley is an associate professor at Concordia University Wisconsin. He has a background in education and economics. Mobley talks about getting back to the basics in education. He favors keeping the current cap on the total increase in pay and benefits for schoolteachers.

Price is also a professor, at NationalLouis University. He is a critic of the current No Child Left Behind program.

While the state superintendent office is nonpartisan, Price is running with support from the Green Party.

Each of the candidates has a Web site where issues are presented and endorsements are listed.

Web sites for the candidates for state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers – tonyevers.com Rose Fernandez – changedpi.com Lowell Holtz – holtz4kids.com Van Mobley – vanmobley.com Todd Price – toddprice.org

Learning about Lincoln

Hunter Mevissen found the most appropriate item at the garage sale held Saturday, Jan. 31 during Frederic’s Winter Fun Day. He bought Mickey’s Sorcerer’s apprentice hat to help fund the high school band and choir trip to Epcot in the spring. – Photo submitted

Mrs. Gloodt’s kindergarten class learned about President Lincoln this week.

The Nelson School students made Lincoln puppets and wrote stories about our 16th president. Students Kaley Bergstrom, Christian Stewart (photo at

Edward Jones opens offificce in Siren

by Nancy Jappe SIREN – Two members of pretty wellknown Burnett County families, the Edaburns in the Grantsburg area and the Thomas family in Siren, make up the staff of Edward Jones, a provider of financial services for individual investors that opened its Siren office Nov. 23, 2008.

Dan Edaburn Jr. is the Edward Jones financial advisor. His office assistant is Dawn (Thomas) Nelson, who is wellknown to people in the area from her previous employment as “Dawn from the dental clinic.”

An open house to introduce the office to the community at large will be held Wednesday, March 18, from 3-7 p.m., with refreshm e n t s offered and door prizes given out.

A seminar on market volubility from a historical viewpoint will be held April 1 at an undeSignboard for Jones. cided local location.

Edaburn was born and raised in Grantsburg. He was an Edward Jones client for 12 years, and has worked for the company for the past 2-1/2 years. He described his training as “grueling,” with licensing involving passing the Series 7 Securities

Test. Licensing is required for anyone who sells securities.

The test was given in Minneapolis.

The intensive test took five hours to complete, with a security camera on the entire time to guard against cheating.

Edaburn has been licensed since November 2007.

He has previously worked out of his home and, before moving to the Siren office, was going back and forth to the Edward Jones office in Spooner, a place where people can work under the Legacy Program until they get their own office.

Nelson was also working at the Edward Jones office in Spooner.

Edaburn knew Nelson’s daughter, but he had met Nelson herself back in the days when he was a young child and teenager going in for dental treatment at the Siren Dental Clinic. She knew he was opening an office in Siren, and agreed to transfer from Spooner to Siren with him.

Both Edaburn and Nelson love Burnett County and the Siren area.

“I’ve only left the county a few times, but ended up coming back,” Edaburn said. “I am very excited to transfer and move back to Siren,” Nelson added.

Edaburn and his wife of three years, Trista (Topp) Edaburn, plan to move from Grantsburg to either Siren or Frederic in the future. He is especially interested in being in this area because, as he said, “people need help, especially when the laws are the way they are today. The key is me being from this area. It would be very difficult for people from another area to come in and try to advise people on investments and financial planning.

“People need help to focus on (getting) income from their investments rather than the value,” he commented, referring to the fact that people look at where their investments were a year ago compared to where they are today. His

ple who are unable to come into the office. He tries to be flexible as to people’s work schedules.

Training is one of the strong points about Edward Jones as a company.

Edaburn is at a training opportunity at least one day a month. “It is daily learning, learning something new all the time,” Nelson said.

Nelson took part in a six-month, onthe-job training program and on computer when she started with Edward Jones. Besides taking tests along the way, she had to pass a final test at the end, a test on which she only got one question wrong.

Both Edaburn and Nelson agree that the one-on-one emphasis in dealing with clients is the strong feature in the philosophy of Edward Jones. Edaburn has been invited to birthday parties for his clients. “You are one of the family,” he said.

Dan Edaburn Jr. and Dawn Nelson at Jones — Photos by Nancy Jappe About Edward Jones Edward Jones is one of the only finantheory is that watching the income from cial service firms to exclusively serve those investments is more important individual investors, more than seven than watching the value. million of them. Its headquarters are in “It is important for people to (ask), if St. Louis, Mo., and there are more than they see something that is guaranteed, 10,000 offices, in all 50 states, with addihow is it guaranteed – by the insurance tional offices in Canada and the United company or the government?” Edaburn Kingdom. said. He added that people who don’t Edward Jones financial advisors protalk to a financial advisor at least once a vide quality long-term investment year are doing a disservice to their famopportunities that include a broad mix ilies. of municipal, government and corpoAs an example of this importance, he rate bonds, mutual funds, common mentioned a woman who came in to see stocks and tax-advantaged securities. him a week ago, a woman who was The company’s principles include: 1) dragged into his office by her husband.

Serving just one client. 2) Emphasizing “On the way home, she couldn’t say quality and a well-balanced portfolio. enough about coming in to talk with 3) The belief that personal relationships me,” Edaburn commented. are key.

The Edward Jones office in Siren is For more information on Edward open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday Jones, contact the Siren office at 715-349through Friday. Appointments can also 5140 or visit www.edwardjones.com on be scheduled Thursday and Friday the Internet. evenings and on Saturdays. Edaburn is willing to do home visits to elderly peo-

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Local writer publishes “Polk County Places” Book looks at “impressions and explorations”

by Mary Stirrat ATLAS — What makes Polk County — well, what makes it Polk County?

Beginning with the first sentence of his new book, “Polk County Places: Impressions and Explorations of Polk County, Wisconsin,” author Buz Swerkstrom points out that a place is much more than its location or physical characteristics.

“Places have such a powerful hold on us,” he writes, “that we think of them not only in physical terms, but in psychological terms as well. . . Places — actual physical places — are imbued with memories, impressions, stories, associations, and experiences.”

As his subtitle suggests, Swerkstrom delves beyond the physical places of Polk County to record impressions, character, the “sense” of a place.

“I wanted impressions as well as basic information,” he said. The book is by no means exhaustive, Swerkstrom emphasizes, but is designed to explore the way that places shape us.

“Experience of place is something profoundly personal,” he writes. “Two people standing next to each other and observing the same outdoor scene will have different impressions and different points of view.” the book includes Although Swerkstrom’s own impressions, memories, and “sense” of the places he describes, he also brings in the viewpoints of local residents, experts and other personalities to add to the flavor that makes Polk County what it is.

Divided into nine categories including parks, preserves, trails, roads and communities, the book opens with a common denominator for most of Polk County — the trap rock that underlies and forms the land itself.

Swerkstrom explores some of the landmark locations that draw people to Polk County — and provide enjoyment to those who live here — like Interstate Park, the Ice Age Trail, and Festival Theatre, along with some of the lesserknown treasures like the view from Hwy. 87 north of St. Croix Falls and prairie restoration at Rock Creek.

He gently probes the good and bad of the Gandy Dancer Trail and the character of Polk County communities. He introduces us to the Clear Lake’s two claims to fame — baseball Hall of Famer Burleigh Grimes and environmentalist Gov. Gaylord Nelson. We learn of a monarch butterfly farm, a bed and breakfast modeled on “The Andy Griffith Show,” and a historic lodge where President Calvin Coolidge fished for trout.

The entire book is an interesting mix of fact and impression. Drawing on the factual knowledge of experts, like Interstate Park naturalist Julie Fox Martin, Swerkstrom shares that the trap

The cover of Swerkstrom’s new book about Polk County shows its peaceful beauty. rock was formed from molten lava.

Because the lava flowed on the surface and cooled relatively quickly, compared with lava cooling beneath the surface, the rock is solid, dense and hard.

He points out that “lichens expand very slowly — some only one-sixteenth of an inch over the course of several decades.”

But rather than leaving it with just the factual information, Swerkstrom adds his own sometimes poetical observations that create a deeper “sense” of the place.

“With their pattern-like appearance, it’s not hard to imagine that we should be able to discern some sort of secrets — some message, some timeless truth — from lichens. They seem vaguely hieroglyphic, so that if we studied them long enough, or viewed them in a certain way . . . we would understand what the patterns, the colors, and the physical relationships of various lichens revealed.”

Along with his impressions, Swerkstrom at times steps into the realm of prophecy. Musing about the beauty of a scene near Atlas, he notes that the perfection of the view is marred by presence of power lines and poles.

To dream of the absence of those power lines, he continues, is not “to dream the impossible scene.”

“If I were to make one prediction as to how the American landscape is likely to improve in the next hundred years it would be that we will have something close to a wireless landscape by then,” he says. “I mean, if we don’t need wires strung everywhere for radio and TV signals, why should we need wires to transmit electricity?”

Not only physical places are brought to life on the pages of his book.

Swerkstrom also explores the artistic

Buz Swerkstrom, in front of the Luck Library and Museum. The museum is hosting a “meet the author” event this Saturday, where Swerkstrom will be signing his new book. — Photo by Mary Stirrat personality of Polk County by allowing readers to experience it through the impressions of local artists, performers and writers.

“Where in the world would a person rather be than right here right now?” asks landscape artist Mary Pettis. “I can’t imagine where it could be. What a privilege. It’s just a privilege to be in the face of nature like this, and then just to see the subtleties.”

At Pipe Dream Center at the eastern border of Polk County, musician Manfred Schonauer connects place and sound in a dramatic way. “It was immediately evident that there was a symbiotic relationship between Manfred’s music and the Pipe Dream Center,” Swerkstrom writes of his first concert in the renovated two-room schoolhouse.

“While the unique music made the Pipe Dream Center seem like a special place — sort of a sanctified place — at the same time the building’s intimate scale and country setting probably gave the music a brighter tint of enchantment and a deeper shade of mysticism than it would have had elsewhere.”

Despite the size and diversity of the county, Swerkstrom contends, there is more that connects it than divides it.

The mere fact of boundary lines makes all the difference.

“As few times as I’ve been to Clayton and Clear Lake,” he writes, “I sense an affiliation with them because they are in my county, just as I have a sense of connection to cousins I rarely see.

Establishing border lines brings everything within those lines together in

"Polk County Places" now available for purchase Meet the author at Luck Museum LUCK — Local writer Buz Swerkstrom, author of “Polk County Places: Impressions and Explorations of Polk County, Wisconsin,” will have a book signing at the Luck Museum this Saturday, Feb. 14, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

His book will be available for purchase for $18, which includes tax. It is also available at Festival Theatre and the Polk County Information Center in

St. Croix Falls, the Interstate Park gift shop, Pipe Dream Center, and the offices of the Amery Free Press and Osceola Sun. Cost at retail shops is $20.

The books can also be purchased directly from Swerkstrom for $20 by contacting him at 2126 295th Ave., Luck, WI 54853, 715-648-5308, or at buzzwords@centurytel.net.

Other authors that will be at the museum Feb. 14 are Vernon Peterson of Siren and Allen Hanson, author of “Indians of Wisconsin and the Surrounding Area.” — Mary Stirrat

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Swerkstrom explores some of Polk County’s more interesting spots to explore in his book “Polk County Places.” - Special photo some psychic sense.”

His own special places, Swerkstrom readily admits, are those near water. “I would hate not to live beside a lake,” he writes. “Living somewhere where I could see only land all around would, I think, disorient me and give me a sense of unease.”

The public lake, he feels, provides a sense of security while it provides a buffer.

“A lake is a natural art canvas,” Swerkstrom says. “Nature paints a multitude of scenes and impressions upon the surface of a lake.”

Whether it’s the lake view out back, the trap rock underfoot, a field out the window, or a familiar drive along a well-known road, places provide us with a sense of belonging and security.

“We all want to have special places,” Swerkstrom writes. “We all want to have places that make us feel at home, both physically and psychologically.

We long for a sense of place.

“With a sense of place comes a sense of connections, a sense of roots, a sense of comfortable orientation and a sense of spiritual calm.”

One hope for his book, said Swerkstrom, is that it will encourage others to explore the special places in Polk County. Not meant to be all-inclusive, he hopes that people will get out and see more of what makes this area unique in character and in form, and realize their connectedness to it.

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W or k i n g wi t h f oo d i s i n g r a i n e d i n t h e l i f e o f C e c i l i a A n d r e w s on Siren Site manager for the Burnett County Nutrition Program

by Nancy Jappe SIREN – Cecilia (CeCe) Andrewson didn’t cook on a stove until she was 13 years old. All her family’s cooking was done outside, in a big pot over a cooking fire at their home in St. Thomas, one of the American Virgin Islands. She grew up eating a lot of seafood and fresh produce. A meal of octopus or squid wasn’t at all unusual.

You won’t see that kind of fare on meals prepared for the Siren Nutrition Program or at the Siren Senior Center where Andrewson is the nutrition site manager/cook. She does, however, describe herself as an inventive cook, who is always trying to keep on top of everything in the line of food.

Andrewson started at the Siren center as a sub cook, filling in at the Siren and Webster nutrition sites, usually on liver day. She was told she wouldn’t be qualified as a nutrition site manager because she didn’t have a food certificate.

She later learned that food certification is a safeguard to make sure the cook has all the information they need to do the job property. There is a one-year time limit in which to get a food certificate after you start on the job.

“I’ve been in the food business since the age of 17. A lot of stuff is ingrained in me,” Andrewson said, assuring our readers that she did get her food certificate within the required year after she started in her current position.

Her reception as cook at the Siren Senior Center has grown by leaps and bounds. “We hope we can keep her for a long time. She is an asset to the senior center and to the county nutrition program,” Abby Brand commented, adding, “She does a wonderful job in conserving food. There are no leftovers. She makes use of everything. If she can’t use it for meals on wheels, it is served here.”

Andrewson started at the Siren Senior Center last March. Her work day officially begins at 7 a.m. four days a week, and ends at 1 p.m. The meal program is closed Wednesdays. You will probably find Andrewson at the center at other times, though. Her job isn’t measured in hours; it is measured by all the good she does for the people she has been hired to feed.

During the time at the center, Andrewson and her helpers prepare meals for the homebound elderly, and also put on a daily meal for anyone who comes into the senior center for lunch. It isn’t absolutely necessary to call ahead 24 hours if you are coming in. Food is always available, and an alternate choice is provided for those who don’t like something that is being served on a particular day.

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It is important to let people know how important the home-delivered meals program is. They need to make sure the program is always there.

– Abby Brand (Siren Senior Center)

Cecilia Andrewson, better known to everyone as CeCe, is the Siren Nutrition Site manager for the Burnett County Nutrition Program. She grew up in St. Thomas, one of the American Virgin Islands, and came to the United States at the age of 20 to attend Bible college. Food has always been a part of her life, starting with cooking in a big outdoor pot at her family’s home in the Islands. program, the number to call is 715-3492845. There’s also an e-mail address to use – sirensrdining@sirentel.net.

There is a suggested donation for the meals, but this is not designed to keep anyone away. “If you can’t pay, you can come anyway. The program is for your benefit,” Brand said.

When asked what was the most unusual food she has ever prepared, Andrewson mentioned blood pudding, saying that this is the weirdest thing she would ever consider preparing for the general public. Blood pudding is really a blood sausage with no meat – just blood, salt and rice. It is often served with eggs for breakfast, and she readily admits it is not her favorite fare. “It’s a good source of protein,” she added.

Blood pudding is not served in the U.S., but lutefisk, a food she ranks right up with blood pudding, is one food she learned about when she came here. Andrewson had the experience of fixing that Norwegian delicacy for the first time when she was cooking at a Bible college.

“I did a lot of butchering when I was growing up. I know meat from before, through slaughter to the final mix,” she commented.

At the age of 14, Andrewson started as a Red Cross volunteer, then went to work at a USO. She became the youngest USO board member at the age of 18. She was there for six years, fixing hamburgers with everything on them and hot dogs, the favorites of service personnel. The price was 35 cents for a loaded hamburger and fries when she started and the same when she left the is-

lands in 1980. Beer and pop cost 25 cents each. No hard liquor was served. Up to 3,500 service personnel might be on hand for a meal at any one time.

While with the USO, she had the opportunity to tour all of the aircraft carriers that came in, and to take meals with the admirals and the people in charge.

When she was invited to dinner on a submarine, the staff had to throw her from the boat she arrived in onto the submarine, quite an experience to remember.

When she turned 20, Andrewson left the Islands, the first member of her family to do so. She wanted to attend a Bible college. The one chosen was in Bloomington, Minn. She was there for the next eight years, spending two years of that time in Puerto Rico, cooking, doing housekeeping and writing manuals.

In 1988, she took a six-month furlough during which she met and married her husband, Robert Andrewson.

His brother bought the farm on which Andrewson and Robert live outside Siren.

They bought the rest of the land, giving them 117 acres, cut the wood on that land and built their home. They have no children, but there are a lot of animals to care for – three dogs, three finches in inside cages, eight hens, a rooster named Mick Jagger (a Polish rooster with blue legs), four calves, stray cats and other stray animals. There was even a cougar on their property right after the tornado in 2001.

Caring for the animals is Andrewson’s responsibility after she goes home from the senior center. She finds time for writing when she can, and is at work on two

novels. One novel is based on superstition and folk lore; the other on photography, one of her special interests. “I always have a camera on hand,” she said, mentioning her photo of a 500pound bear that appeared in one of the past Leader issues.

Coming from a culture where superstition and folklore play a big part in daily life, she is basing the one novel on conversations she has had with her mother and other family members as she was growing up in the Islands.

Andrewson describes herself as a person who can adapt to any situation, no matter where she goes. Her mother taught her two main things to remember: 1) Respect other people. 2) Always help those you meet, especially the elderly.

Since she has been in Siren, she has been the supervisor of housekeeping at The Lodge at Crooked Lake, and worked in the kitchen at The Experience, Northwoods Crossing and Capeside Cove Good Samaritan Center for four years until that facility closed. She also worked in the kitchen at Seven Pines Lodge in Lewis.

“There’s always something to eat here,” Andrewson said in referring to the Siren Senior Center. Cookies or something to have with coffee are on hand to encourage people who come into the center to pull up a chair and sit a while.

An evening meal is served on the first Thursday of every month. Andrewson always tries to have something special for this meal, which is called the cook’s

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Cherry pie, what else for Valentine’s Day month, was the dessert for the once-a-month evening meal at the Siren Senior Center Thursday, Feb. 5. CeCe Andrewson is shown in the center, cutting the pie, with help from sub cooks Tami Green (L) and Carol Berglind.

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Cooking all her life/from page 1 choice. The February evening meal was served Feb. 5, with roast beef, mashed potatoes, green-bean casserole and cherry pie for dessert. Forty-seven people came for this meal.

The noon meal attendance at the center has grown, going from six a meal to between 15 and 20. Between 30 and 50 meals are delivered to people in their homes four days a week, on two separate routes with volunteer drivers doing the deliveries.

When asked about her dream for the nutrition program, Andrewson quickly mentioned her hope that more young people would take an interest in what is going on around the senior center. “Just to get knowledge and to learn about people who are elderly,” she said. “The young people will be the next family to help the seniors continue the program.”

The age group she specifically singled out is the preteen or teen group. She envisions these young people coming to the senior center to interview people, learn about their lives, the interesting things they have done, experiences they have had, then write up their stories. An offshoot of this could be a newspaper

column, sharing this information, with a different person featured in every issue.

“As an individual that has worked with many people of many ages, heritages and culture, (I know) there is one thing that is always in the forefront. We all have a story to tell but, as each generation approaches (their older years), the stories are lost because people are too busy to listen. We need to reach our young people, and have them see our seniors as fountains of adventure.”

“As members of the Burnett County Nutrition Program,” Andrewson went on, “we believe in doing whatever we can to make a difference in the lives of the people we serve by providing nutritional meals, finding the support team they need and being the person that not only drops off the meals, but gives them a daily hello. We believe this is not just a job, but an honor to serve those that have gone before us, and a chance to give back a little of what was given to us.”

Andrewson – a colorful, inventive, curious character (her words) who brings a fresh look on life to everything she does and who firmly believes that there is always an adventure around the corner.

One of Andrewson’s big interests is photography, and she always has a camera on hand. She started with a 110, then moved up the line, a camera at a time, to the digital she now uses. This shot of a lightning bolt is one photograph she is especially proud of.

Writing is another of her interests. She is at work now on a novel involving photography and another regardingsuperstition and folklore.

These photos of a swan and a full moon are examples of Andrewson’s talent for photography.

4K Busy Bugs BALSAM LAKE – Unity High School seniors in AP psychology class recently visited the 4K Busy Bug students in the elementary school. The AP psychology students were studying the unit on developmental psychology - how one grows physically, socially and cognitively. The AP psychology students met with several 4K students and asked them different questions based on Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development.

For one of the questions, the seniors rolled equal amounts of molding clay, but one was in the shape of a snake and the other was in the shape of a ball. The 4K students had to say which shape had more molding clay or if they were the same. This tested the concept of conservation. The students had a lot of fun and got to apply the theories they are learning in class in a hands-on approach. submitted

Lexis Olson, Jordan Smith, Sam Bengston, Julia Larsen, Destiny Switzer and Elizabeth Ebensperger participate in different activites to test the concept of conservation.

Caroline Ozman and Ashley Elfers use chips to test different theories.

Mason Brown, 4K Busy Bug student, and Becca Pollock test the theory with different size water glasses. – Photos submitted

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The Big Bite

by Carolyn Marquardt Stranded! Can you believe it? The day started off innocently enough. I awoke as usual, downed my early morning coffee and raced off to Curves for my exercise fix. I knew the day would be busy. After all it was only a week before Valentine’s Day and my big party.

My list was made. Today I designated Nonperishable Buying Day. Tomorrow would be Table Decoration Day. Every day’s activity was planned to perfection. This party was going to come off without a hitch. Never had I been so organized. Every procrastinating bone in my body ached at the thought of such out-of-character behavior. But I was determined. This party would be different. I would actually be so prepared that I could sit casually on the couch

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Writer’s Corner waiting for the first guests to arrive. “It will never happen,” my bones seemed to say. “It will too!” I resolutely responded.

The morning was hectic, as I hurried from store to store. Even with my list in hand, I was running late. Reality was setting in. Lunch had to be a quick burger, fries and pop. No health food today, no time. My diet was shot but my schedule still on target. Only one stop left. The Chocolate Factory for the piece de resistance – a huge, candy heart with “Be Mine” written in red, an edible centerpiece. Well, if I was going to decorate the tables tomorrow, I had to have the centerpiece today.

Arriving at the factory not a moment too soon, I checked in with the receptionist (factories are funny about that) and headed to the customer service window to pick up my special order.

While waiting for the clerk to return, the burger, fries and pop began to do a number on my intestinal system. Darn

the diet. My stomach was ruined for fast food. So I aimed myself towards the door marked “Ladies.”

I thought I was relatively quick, for a woman that is. Go potty, wash hands, check makeup, comb hair, check to make sure nothing indiscrete showing above or below hemline. But to my amazement the place was vacant when I came out. Where had everyone gone?

The clock said 5:05 but that couldn’t explain the quiet, could it? “Hey,” I called, “is anyone here?” No response.

Well, I figured, they left. What about my huge chocolate heart? Looking toward the customer service counter, I saw it, beautiful in its plastic wrapper. Luscious, actually.

I wrote out a check for the amount on the bill, picked up the heart and headed for the door. It should be okay, I reasoned. After all, they left the heart on the counter for me. But when I reached the door, oh my, it was locked tighter than a drum, whatever that means. I pushed against the bar on the door but it didn’t move. Panic struck. Frantically I searched the building for another door. There must be a way out. There had to be. I had my lists to do. My party was planned, for heaven’s sake. Down to the last minute. But search as I might,

there was no way out. No wonder there was no night watchman. No one could get in – or out. I was stuck for the night, my plans down the drain. I sobbed.

There was no room in my organizational chart for a night in the chocolate factory. As I cried, my procrastinational bones shouted with glee, “She’ll be frazzled as usual when the guests arrive.”

Why, oh why, didn’t I just be my usual frantic self?

Suddenly my stomach started to complain. “You haven’t had a bite since the burger, fries and pop,” it said “and that didn’t last very long, did it?” Well, what was I to do? My stomach had to be satisfied. The salad with its no-fat dressing sat in my refrigerator at home and my stomach sat in the chocolate factory.

And there on my lap was a huge heart that said, “Be mine.” And it was!

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Pop Wagner to host the Frostbite Follies ST. CROIX FALLS - A long-standing regional favorite, Pop Wagner, is spending several days this week in St. Croix Falls preparing for the Frostbite Follies Valentine’s Day Vaudeville shows which take place on Saturday, Feb. 14.

“Pop needs time to load-in some pretty unusual props and prepare the stage for his portion of the five-act extravaganza,” said Festival’s director, Danette Olsen.

“He will also serve as emcee for the event, which is sure to be a fantastic evening for everyone looking for something fun to do in celebration of Valentine’s Day … or to battle cabin fever!”

Pop Wagner is best known as a singing cowboy and storyteller. His finger-style guitar work, songs, lasso tricks and Western wit have landed Pop a loyal following, however for the vaudeville show even his most ardent fans will see Pop in a new way as he attempts to ride an eight-foot-tall stilt horse while spinning a 40-foot lariat loop.

The Frostbite Follies takes audiences back in time to an era in which the historic Auditorium in downtown St. Croix

Pop Wagner will host the Frostbite Follies Valentine’s Day Vaudeville shows on Saturday, Feb. 14.

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Falls was first built – 1916. Long before radio shows and television programming provided mass entertainment, vaudeville acts criss-crossed the nation bringing talented performers to local venues. The Frostbite Follies was created in the spirit of old classic vaudeville, fea-

turing music, juggling, dancing, rope twirling and more. It’s sponsored in part

by The Big Read and four other acts round out the event: comic juggler Sean Emery; two principal members of Café Accordion Orchestra – Dan Newton and Eric Mohring; the amazing talents of

Julie Young, percussive step dancer extraordinaire; and James Wedgwood, a mind-boggling ventriloquist.

This is Festival Theatre’s third-annual Valentine’s event, but the first time that the holiday falls on a Saturday. All the local restaurants in the St. Croix area are taking reservations, and mentioning the Frostbite Follies will ensure that patrons can arrive at Festival by 7 p.m.

The Valentine’s event includes gourmet dessert, flowers for the ladies, and the performance for $25 per person. Proceeds help support special building projects taking place this winter and spring in preparation for the 2009 Theatre and Music Series.

During the afternoon a one-hour children’s version of this full-length vaudeville show will be onstage at 1 p.m.

Details on the children’s concert can be found on Festival’s Web site. - from Festival Theatre

Dancing for fun(ds) this Friday at Luck LUCK - This Friday at the Hog Wild in Luck, something new in the way of fun fundraising is going to be kicking off.

Jim and Mike Miles have been involved in the local music scene for years as both performers and promoters. They know that times are tough both for local businesses and nonprofits so the idea came to throw parties for charities in local restaurants.

“Why not use the best sound and light show around to get folks into a place that is already set up to sell food and drinks and do it for groups that are providing needed services to county residents,” said Jim. “If you can pull it off everyone wins.”

Last November their band (which currently holds the No. 1 spot on Neil Young’s “Living With War Today” song chart) played a benefit at Hog Wild for a group that is trying to stop the mining of Iver’s Mountain.

“Hundreds of people showed up and had a great evening,” said Mike. “We had fun singing, Dave sold a lot of beer

and food, and the Iver’s Mountain people made some money. Other groups began to ask us if we would do it again for them so we’re going to give it a try and see what happens.”

With the Luck Winter Carnival going on this weekend it seemed like a good time to throw a party. “Dave has a band coming in Saturday night but nothing on Friday so we’re going to bring all our toys along and turn Hog Wild into the hottest dance club around,” said Jim. After making some calls they decided to give a share of the proceeds to Loaves and Fishes, the local food pantry. “They don’t even know it yet but I bet they’ll be happy to get a check,” said Mike.

Recently the two brothers also started a dance club for high-school-age students at the West Denmark Hall. Turnout was small but they weren’t surprised. “It takes longer to get something going for young people, who aren’t sure who you are and why you are doing this,” said Mike.

“The kids who were there liked what

they saw so it’s just a matter of time before word gets around. The local schools and parents were glad to see someone trying to get something going for this age group.”

The suggested donation for the dance on Friday at Hog Wild will be $5. For more information call 715-472-8721, or 715-472-8797. – submitted

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Growing tobacco in Wisconsin (I met Cliff at Natchez State Park in Mississippi where he and his wife were escaping the cold weather in Wisconsin. Around his campfire he told me about tobacco raising.

A hundred and fifty years ago you probably would have seen small patches of tobacco around Cushing and Alabama, raised by the families from the state of Alabama who came north to settle in Laketown - Russ).

Back in the 1940s, when I was at home on our farm north of Colfax, we raised tobacco as a cash crop. It took a lot of time and labor, but I think it paid for dad’s farm over five to 10 years. Dad raised no more than 5 acres and at the last, probably only an acre and a half.

In the late spring, we planted the tobacco seeds in a special bed. We made several rectangular beds out of 1x6 inch boards about two feet by 15 feet filled with good dirt, well worked up. We carefully planted the tiny seeds in the bed, trying to space them out evenly.

Then we stretched old flour sacks, as a cover, across the whole bed. They were attached by nails driven through the boards, sticking out along the outside. I suppose it helped keep the plants warm and protected them from the wind and bugs. On nice days we opened the plants to the sunlight.

As the seeds sprouted and started to grow, they had to be weeded, watered and thinned to give each plant room to grow. When they were about six inches tall or so, they were ready to transplant into the tobacco field, which had been plowed and kept weed-free ahead of time. Each plant was gently pulled up from the bed and put into pails with water in the bottom. There were thousands of seedlings to transplant.

We used a tobacco planter. It was pulled by horses. On it were three seats.

One in the front to drive the horses and two sticking out behind for the planters.

A barrel of water gave each plant a shot of water when it was planted. There were two pails of seedlings, one on each side. As the planter was pulled across the field, it marked the next row as well as dug a narrow trench. Each person picked a plant from his pail and carefully dropped it in the trench while another part of the planter in the back pushed the dirt back in around the seedling. The plants were dropped about 18 inches apart. One person dropped his plant and reached for another, alternating with the other person, trying to keep a smooth rhythm.

After the tobacco was all planted, we started the hoeing. We didn’t use a mechanical cultivator so we wouldn’t break any of the leaves. It was all hand hoeing. As we hoed, we carefully looked at the plants to see if there were any tobacco worms. They were big caterpillars with a horn on their head.

You grabbed them by the horn and picked them off and stepped on them.

Once you found any, then you had to spend a lot of time lifting the individual leaves looking for hidden ones.

Later in the summer, a seed stalk would grow up through the middle of the plant. We didn’t want any of the plants energy going into seed making, so we went through the field and broke off each seed stalk and dropped it to the ground between the rows.

At the base of each leaf, there would be a new shoot starting, what we called

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All of this time we were still hoeing the rows to keep the weeds out.

The full-grown leaves were about 6 inches wide and 12 to 18 inches long.

Well before frost, when the leaves were still green, we harvested the tobacco.

We had a sharp metal cutter that went through the field and cut each plant with its many leaves and dropped it to the ground. We only cut some of the plants each day - the amount that we could get into the barn that day. The plants were cut, dropped to the ground and allowed to wilt, and then gathered and brought to the drying barn.

Dad had a special sort of spear made to pick up the plants. It was sort of a wide, flat, metal arrowhead shape that fit over the end of a four-foot wooden lath (like the kind you find in old latheand-plaster house walls). You went to each plant and poked the spearhead through the main plant stem, back far enough so it wouldn’t split to the end.

You slid the split plant stem down onto the lath until you had maybe six or seven on a lath. The spearhead was removed and put on a new lath and another bunch of plants speared.

Then you loaded the plants and laths onto a wagon and hauled them to a special tobacco-drying barn. We didn’t have one of our own, but our neighbor up the road had a large one that we used (he didn’t raise tobacco then). It wasn’t painted - maybe to keep any paint flavor entering the leaves. The boards on the sides of the barn were vertical, with every other one hinged so it could be opened for ventilation. Inside the drive-in barn, the whole barn was lined with a framework of poles up into the top part. We unloaded the laths of tobacco and then hung them up between poles in the barn. The tobacco leaves were wilted, but still very wet and needed to dry for a month or more.

It was a little dangerous hanging leaves up in the higher areas where the poles could roll away and let you fall down.

On good drying days we might open the sideboards wide to let the breeze through. Other days we had to close them. We watched the leaves so they were drying evenly, spreading and turning them as needed.

When they were dry enough, as I remember maybe in late September or early October, they were quite brittle.

We waited until we had one of those fall days with damp fog that made the leaves pliable and then started baling them.

We had a wooden box, about two feet square, and three feet long. We put two ropes down in the box and out over the

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Don’t forget the maple syrup meeting this Saturday (yep - Valentine’s Day) at Anderson’s Maple Syrup, just off Hwy. 48 between Luck and Cumberland.

Open house all day with a program for beginners at noon, and other producers next. Lots of good deals, information and fun. Get ready for the upcoming season! This is a free event.

Author’s Day at the Luck Museum as part of the Luck Winter Carnival, Saturday, Feb. 14, 11a.m. to 2 p.m. This is also a free event. If you are an author, come and autograph and sell your books! Buy that book for your Valentine!

Yes, Margo and I are back from the South getting ready to tap the maples, chase the mice from the cabin and plant the early garden.

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sides and over the ropes a layer of heavy brown paper in the bottom and up the two insides. Then we took each plant and stripped each leaf off and graded it into three qualities: was it free of any breaks or holes from handling or worms; had only a few holes or breaks; or had lots of holes and breaks. Leaves of the same grade were packed together by laying them in one direction, then the opposite, trying to get a level square stack. When our bale was the right size, we pulled the two ropes to tightly wrap the brown paper around the tobacco leaves and tied them and set the bale aside.

I think we had as many as 40 bales when we were done. They weighed about 50 pounds each. They were marked as to their quality. I can’t remember if we waited for a buyer to come or if we sent them to an auction house or just took them to town to sell.

The highest quality leaves were for cigar wrappers, the lowest quality for filler. I am not sure what the medium quality were used for - maybe cheap cigars? I don’t know how much money Dad got for a crop, probably $500 or so. In those days a farm only cost a few thousand dollars.

We never used our own tobacco for our own use. Dad always had a can of Copenhagen with him from the store. I think ours all went for cigar wrappers.

The acres of tobacco you could raise were strictly controlled by a tobacco board. Although we raised only a few acres, it took a great deal of time and work.

The tobacco that was raised in Wisconsin was quite different from the that

raised in the south. Ours had larger leaves and was harvested green. In the south, they let the leaves yellow before it was harvested. I think theirs was for cigarettes.

Sometime in the late 1960s, I think, a U.S. law was changed to allow cigars to be wrapped with reconstituted tobacco instead of a high-quality Wisconsin whole leaf. That meant the scraps could be ground up and made into cigar paper, and the price of Wisconsin tobacco dropped tremendously. The crop had almost disappeared in the state a few years ago. Lately there has been a Wisconsin resurgence when tobacco companies found that raising Burley tobacco in a northern climate changed the composition to have a lower level of carcinogens.

I mostly remember all the work it took to raise just a small field of tobacco.

You had to be very fussy with tobacco to get a good quality crop so the buyers would pay a good price. I still have my Dad’s two tobacco spearheads. That is about all I have left from my tobaccogrowing days except my memories and a sore back!

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The Watchers

by Shirley Olson A thud on the patio door startled me. As I glanced up, I heard a distressing chirp … a chickadee was running across the deck towards the glass. My eyes followed as he ran over to a motionless bird lying inches from the glass door.

The cat, too, had heard the thud. She had her nose pressed Abrahamzon against the glass.

The active bird … probably her mate … reluctantly backed off, turned and flew away.

With my foot I shoved the excited cat away as I opened the door just enough to squeeze through. As the door clicked shut, I could see the flat-nosed cat inside.

As I picked up the stiff little chickadee, she opened one eye. Maybe she hadn’t broken her neck. Perhaps she had just knocked herself senseless. I gently laid the silent bird down on the deck, about ten feet away from the door and the drooling cat.

Back in the house the cat and I played a waiting game. Twenty minutes passed. The little bird began to move. She shook her head. I turned to see if I might see her mate. When I glanced back she was gone.

The cat shrugged and walked over to eat her Meow Mix. Then from the basswood tree I heard, “Phee-bee.”

A moment of silence, “phee-bee.” I turned toward the sound. I saw nothing, but I felt good.

(Note: The above essay was written by a one-time member of our Northwest Regional Writers. She and her husband, Wally, were living in one-half of a duplex, newly built in the woods.)

Bernice

Behind the Signpost

Closet space Is your closet too crowded? Perhaps the single greatest indicator of the overload that we have in life are closets.

They are packed. It doesn’t matter how big our closets are. Sooner or later we fill them up. Why? There is a closet rule of life that states: Clothes expand to fill all available closet space.

Sooner or later, if you keep getting more clothes you either have to: a. Get more closet space. b. Get rid of some clothes.

Two B is what we hate to do. But if we are to be what we are to be, we need to learn the rule of 2B and get rid of some clothes.

Time is like closet space. We have a limited amount of it. We keep putting more and more things in until our time is cluttered.

The more cluttered it gets, the more things are out of place.

The time that we should be sleeping, we’ve got something else in that space.

The time we should be spending with family, we’ve got something else in that space.

The time that we should have to ourselves to do whatever we do to help our spirit, we’ve got something else in that space.

Even as our closet hinges strain to keep from bursting, we still try to put more stuff in.

Take a look around your closet of time right now.

How much has accumulated that you should have gotten rid of long ago.

They may still be good clothes, but your closet is just too full.

We have habits that we formed in our teen-age years that should have long ago been removed from our closets.

Some even have friends that should have long ago been removed, for they no longer fit our style or destination. As you change and grow, you should change what’s in your closet. Maybe we don’t need more stuff in the closet. Maybe we don’t need a bigger closet. Maybe we just need to clean out some stuff and not with the purpose to make room for more stuff. We may just need some space, in a lot of areas, for a lot of reasons.

There is a spiritual saying that tells you to go into your closet to pray. For many of us there’s simply no room. Go look at your bedroom closet right now.

Chances are, it will reflect your closet of time.

(A MountainWings original) Good thoughts Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

••• God never closes one door without opening another.

••• Life is hard by the yard but by the inch, life is a cinch.

••• Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a car.

••• Footprints in the sands of time were not made by sitting down.

••• It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Until next week, Bernice

Third-annual book exchange

The third-annual used book exchange at the Luck Elementary School was met with excitement last week. A total of 46 students in kindergarten through fifth grades brought in 363 of their used books from home Feb. 2 - 4 to the media center. On Thursday, Feb. 5, students were able to choose up to 12 “new” books from the donated selection. Organized by district reading specialist Janet Brandt, this event continues to grow in popularity with students and parents alike. Brandt has also been the Title I teacher for six years; she can attest to the positive impact when students read books. One nice surprise was to overhear children thinking of others. “I am going to get this one for my little sister and read it to her. I know she’ll really like it!” and “My cousin is really into these books. I’m going to pick one up for him.”

An ongoing program is being planned to make books readily available and promote the importance of reading. Community members and families of students are encouraged to get books back into circulation. There will be a drop box for book contributions at Luck School. The donated books will be stamped Read and Reuse. Any student may select a book and keep it or bring it back when they are finished. If you would like to donate age-appropriate books or help with this program, please call Brandt at 715-4722152 ext. 168. - Special photo

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Compiled by Bernice Abrahamzon

50 Years Ago At the blood center at Frederic, 172 pints were collected.-Abe Lincoln’s birthday on Feb. 12 was a legal holiday.-A sauerkraut supper was set for Feb. 10 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Frederic, served with roast pork, mashed potatoes, etc. for $1 adults, children 12 and under for 50¢ and preschool free.-Specials at Route’s Super Market, Frederic, included grapefruit at 10 for 49¢, cut lunch herring for Lent at 49¢ for 16-oz. jar, smoked picnics at 39¢ lb., Jell-O at 4 pkgs. for 49¢ and 50 lbs. flour at $3.69.-A fishing contest was set for Sunday, Feb. 14, at Big Ward Lake, with a 12-ft. AlumaCraft Boat awarded.-The Gustavus Band would be at the Frederic High School on Monday, Feb. 16, with a concert, sponsored by Pilgrim Lutheran Church, Frederic.-The film “Me and the Colonel” starring Danny Kaye was playing at the D’Leux Theatre.-”Houseboat,” starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, was playing at the Frederic Theatre (located where the new Frederic Library is located).-Roy Bohn started work on washed gravel industry for Frederic area.-Former teacher Dan Dykstraw delivered a Lincoln Day address at Kingdom Hall, in Salt Lake City, Utah.-Henry Ahlgren received Swedish Ag honors.-Wisconsin milk prices were below Jan. 1958.

40 Years Ago Luck girls competing for the queen title at the Luck Winter Carnival included Margaret Jensen, Deborah Anderson, Yvonne Pautsch, Pamela Hochstetler, Susan Erickson, Julie Hendrricks, Lois Skow, Marty Dulny, Vicki Cruthers and Kathy Krey. The 1968 queen was Julie Berg.-Frederic received approval for 20-unit housing for elderly.-Specials at Route’s Super Value, Frederic, included cherry pie mix at 43¢ can, book matches at 10¢ for carton of 50, wieners at 49¢ for 12-oz. pkg. and bananas at 10¢ lb.-Specials at the Frederic Co-op Store included carrots at 10¢ lb., celery at 19¢ stalk, rutabagas 9¢ lb., sirloin steak at 99¢ lb. and beef stew meat at 79¢ lb.-Carlyle’s had a dress, coat and sweater sale on Jan. 23 at their Grantsburg store.-Assemblyman Harvey Dueholm was named to Agriculture and Tax committees in Madison.-The DAR Good Citizen at the Unity School was Julie Erickson.-School expenditures were in line with budget figures in 1968-1969 term at Frederic.-The state administrator asked for cuts in welfare costs.The Wash House was a new business in Frederic established at the former Standard Oil station in Frederic, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Simonson of Frederic.-Judy Bruss was named DAR Citizen at Webster.-The February special at Our Own Hardware, Frederic, was a grater-shredder at 49¢.

20 Years Ago Prenatal classed were taught by Jude Bolterman, RN Certified Childbirth Educator, in the dining room of the Shell Lake Medical Center on Monday nights from Jan. 9 – Feb. 13, from 7 – 9 p.m.-the Town of Sterling had a firewood stumpage sale.-Farm bankruptcies were down in the state of Wisconsin.-Members of the Russian class at Luck were planning fundraisers for a trip to the USSR.-Rose Hughes was retiring after 26 years on the job at Suburban Propane at Frederic as bookkeeper.-More than 18 confirmed cases of Lyme disease were reported in Washburn County in 1988.-The Frederic Ski Club snowmobile was stolen from the Brad Harlander yard between 16-89 and 1-7-89.-The Luck Supper Club boasted of a long history with many owners.-Obituaries included Katie Friberg (101 years), Walter Erickson, Fred Vanek and Robert Meronk.-Ruth Bunker Christiansen wrote news from Golden Oaks where she lived.-Tributes were paid to Karen Hendricksen on her 85th birthday.-Burnett County needs a park director, according to the forestry administrator, David Olson.-The first baby of the year in Burnett County was born to Carol and Mutt Wilson at S.C.F. on Sunday, Jan. 8.-A curfew was likely for Siren youths.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Webster Senior Center

866-4334 Another week of winter weather is over and spring can’t arrive soon enough to please me. I want to stop dressing in layers and put away my winter coat and boots, and I want to quit whining about it.

I want to welcome Patti and George Meyer as new residents of the village. They are now living in the house they purchased from Angeline Sperling. They moved here from Fairchild, as Patti was hired as our new Burnett Community Library director/librarian, replacing Maxine Peterson following her retirement. She told me she loves it here and that everyone has been very friendly. Our library board will be hosting a reception for Patti on Saturday, Feb. 28, from 1 to 3 p.m., at the library, and the public is invited to stop in and get acquainted with Patti and George.

Our congregate diners had a spaghetti dinner on Wednesday. Harold Peterson, Gene Johnson and Bruce Behrens stayed afterwards and played a couple of games of pool.

Eleven ladies played dime Bingo in the afternoon, and yes, Bernie Boelter finally won a game. Refreshments were furnished by Mary Klar.

Since our nutrition site was closed on Thursday, a number of our seniors went to the Siren Senior Center for their evening Dining at Five meal. I hope that some of their seniors reciprocate and come to our center’s evening meal on Tuesday evening.

Both Jeannie Wicklund and Martika Atkins celebrated their birthdays on Thursday, so happy birthday, ladies.

A lot of fun and laughter was going on at the center on Thursday evening as Earl Boelter, Harold Peterson, Dave Wardean, Pat O’Brien, Gene Johnson and Ken Hayes were playing pool. They didn’t have all the fun though, because Theresa Gloege, Bernie Boelter, Carol Berglind, Nancy Hi, everybody! Blacky here from Humane Society of Burnett County.

Well, the world mouse population has been reduced by one, thanks to me. I guess I broke a teapot in the process, which is no big deal to me, but my face did meet up with a falling cactus while I was chasing my prey through the house. I felt like a pincushion; and although I did a good deed by ridding my house of a mouse, I was called a lumbering giant for my efforts. I cannot help that I was supersized at birth. I was just doing my job.

It won’t be long until the snow melts and the ground thaws out, and then I can really have some fun! If there are YAPpenings any groundhogs in my yard, it is my shadow, not theirs, that they have to worry about seeing when they poke their head out of a hole. My tail is wagging just thinking about it!

I heard something else wag-worthy the other day, too.

You might remember me telling you about Lucy, the Lab mix who came to us last month with her three pups. Well, Lucy was adopted by someone who lost their dear old friend recently, and the two of them have really hit it off. Lucy is glued to her new mom’s side, and apparently the no-sittingon-the-furniture rule was thrown out the window. Also, my good friend Chopper finally found himself a new home, and I am elated! He was my best buddy at the shelter, and I thought if someone didn’t adopt him soon, I would have to smuggle him home to live with me. I’m gonna miss him, and I hope he stays in touch.

The shelter’s remodeling job is going well. I wanted to go over there Monday and see it for myself, but when I was on my morning walk I soon discovered that the roads were very icy, so I stayed home. I had a hard enough time walking, so I can imagine what riding in a car might be like. Two things I know for certain: dogs weren’t built to do the splits, and even though I’m big, I cannot push (or pull) a car out of a

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O’Brien, Gladys Beers, Margel Ruck and I had our share of it.

By the time we left to go home, I was exhausted from laughing so hard. However, laughter amongst friends is a good cure for the winter doldrums.

Speaking of cures, I was reading a book recently on oldfashioned home remedies. It said that an old-time common cure for a sore throat was by gargling a mixture of kerosene and water, or vinegar and water. Also, painting your throat with iodine and strong pickle juice was good. I think that just the thought of the treatment was enough to cure you, if it didn’t kill you first.

Nicky made salmon loaf for Friday’s meal. I eat at the center every time salmon is served. I eat salmon out of the can at home with several crushed saltine crackers and seasoning. Sometimes I even eat standing at the sink so I don’t dirty any extra dishes. Is that being lazy, or what? I always say that any meal that I don’t have to cook is a good meal.

Our gratitude to David Smith for donating a container of donut holes for the coffee drinkers; Nancy O’Brien, magazines; Nicky is grateful to have Bruce Behrens flattening her food boxes for recycling; and for Lily Gleason and all the other volunteers help out each day.

The AARP tax aides will be at our center on Fridays, Feb. 13 and 27, from 1 to 4 p.m., so gather up your papers and come on in. If you want to eat first, call Nicky at 715-8665300 to make a reservation.

Nicky will be serving birthday cake for February birthdays on Friday, Feb. 28, in addition to roasted turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, vegetables and fruit. Call now and make your reservation for that too.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Maxine Stone; LaMoyne Gardner who is now in the Shell Lake Nursing Home ditch. Anyway, I will get there sometime this week, if I haven’t already by the time you read this.

The kennel manager tells me he’s grateful for the assistance given to him on the construction project: Brian Hegge from Lakeview Land Work, who is helping put up the walls; the folks from Pike Bend Concrete, who loaned us their tools; and the workers from Restorative Justice, who’ve helped out in lots of ways. He Tiger also told me that his friend is visiting from Denmark and enjoyed playing with the dogs and helping out; however, none of the dogs understand Danish.

I bet there was a lot of head tilting going on when he spoke.

Ha! Maybe next week I can share some pictures with you of our refurbished accomodations. This week, I’d like to share a picture of our sole newcomer, who arrived at the shelter last week. His name is Tiger, and he is a male beagle/dachshund mix. I know I don’t often put pictures of my new pals in my column, but this one I couldn’t resist - look at those whirly-bird ears! (By now, you know I have a thing about ears.) Tiger is a surrender, 1 to 2 years old, and has lived with older children and other dogs and cats. He is playful, affectionate, and an all-around nice guy.

Because I, too, am an all-around nice guy, it’s time for me to go outside and round up my eldest brother. I think I told you he can’t hear, so I have to go out and nose him on the shoulder to get his attention to come indoors. It’s time for his nap....errr, well, most of the day is nap time for him, but I don’t want him snoozing on a snowbank. It’s much nicer inside - on the furniture.

Happy Valentine’s, everybody! Don’t feed your dog any chocolates, and I’ll see you here next week.

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Siren Senior Center With the help of Marge Nyberg and Marge Nielson, the center was decorated for February with our usual valentine theme on Monday morning. On Tuesday, the dime Bingo group had five full tables participating, a great turnout for this event.

We had three people working on greeting cards on Wednesday morning. Marge Nielson and Gerry Hessey made a nice supply of valentines to sell. They are featured on the bottom row in the card rack, so if you’re interested in sending a valentine, stop in and have a look at their talents. Also, welcome to Gerry, she is fairly new in the community and we appreciated her efforts to come out and give us a hand.

Wednesday we had 26 people for 500, the winners were, Carl Link, Barb Munger, Gerry Vogel, Dorothy Cronquist and Earl Boelter.

Another record on Thursday evening for our Dining at Five with 50 people turning out to dine. Gerry Vogel was the winner of the cherry pie that CeCe donated for a door prize. I recall that he said he was going to share it with the card players on Friday, but I failed to see it. Guess it found its way into other people’s stomachs. We appreciated the thought though, Gerry.

We were also pleased to see Eloise Anderson who volunteered to come and man the moneybox. We still have to wait a few more weeks before the doctor gives her the OK to come back to work assisting in the kitchen.

Also we were happy to see a large group from Webster who

Barb Munger

joined us Thursday evening.

Friday, we had 21 folks out to play Spades. The winners were: Marjorie Nyberg, Anke Oleson, Dorothy Cronquist, Gerry Vogel and Rich Hustad. Besides the usual goodies we want to thank Nona Severson and Inez Pearson for sharing their bars with us. It is worth the effort to come out and play just to partake of all of the treats that are provided, and if you win sometimes that is just an extra bonus.

Gratitude from everyone at the center to the anonymous donor who brought in a large amount of tomatoes, which were shared among the diners on Monday. Thanks to Corrine Root for the liver, beef roast and soup bones that she donated for our nutrition program. Word has it that she swiped it from someone’s meat locker.

Thanks to Phyllis Kopecky for the donation of books and also Lois Taylor who brought in a box of large print books.

They are on the shelf waiting to be taken out. Also, thanks to Ed Smythe. The library shelf isn’t listing anymore as he has solved that problem for us.

Remember the monthly senior meeting will be held Feb. 17, starting promptly at 9:30 a.m.

We are planning on having the Feet First ladies on the 16th and I think there are one or two more spaces for reservations.

Call the center at 715-349-7810 or 715-349-2845 to get on the list.

Mary Klar following his stroke; and Orlin Anderson who is recovering after hip surgery. Our prayers also go out to Barb Parson and family in the recent death of her mother; and the families of Donald Baker, Ernest (Ernie) Schaaf, Esther Proffit, Alfred Proffit and Howard Proffit in their recent passing. Howard used to be my neighbor before being admitted to a nursing home in Superior. He also was a fishing buddy of my late husband, Elden. When Howard was still able to live at home, he would drive his golf cart to the center to eat lunch, and sometimes Elden rode with him.

Members of the U.S. Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence and plainly declared their belief in God and the concept of individual freedom. The drafters of this proclamation knew that the sweeping freedoms they were proposing could work well only in a society where the Creator is acknowledged. They affirmed that God has endowed all people with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness because He values each of us. President Thomas Jefferson was distressed by the sin he saw in the new nation. He wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.” If he trembled then, he would have a violent seizure now to see the permissive lifestyle that allows people to do almost anything they please. True freedom can never be enjoyed by people who refuse to fear God. We are responsible to God, because He created us in love. The Bible tells us in Psalm 100:3 “Know that the Lord, He is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people.”

“Every blessing in our nation is a gift from God above, but we cannot know true freedom till we trust His grace and love.” – Watts. See you at the center!

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Karen Mangelsen

Beth Crosby visited Judy Albee Tuesday evening.

Clam River Tuesday Club met Feb. 4 at the home of Judy Leonard. The next meeting will be March 4 at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Trudy DeLawyer.

Congratulations to Kristen Sexton, who played in her first varsity basketball game for Siren High School Thursday. She scored some points for the team.

Judy Albee hosted a Stampin-Up party at her home Thursday evening.

Congratulations to Carrie Sexton and Joshua VanKleek, who were married Friday evening at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church in Spooner. There was a reception at Adventures in Rice Lake following the ceremony. The newlyweds are making their home in Washburn. Joshua is from Barron, and Carrie is the daughter of Rose and Jerry Sexton.

Mary Peterson, a lay speaker from the Siren/Webster, led the worship service at Lakeview UM Church Sunday.

Weekend visitors of Karen and Hank Mangelsen were Larry, Celie, Baxter, Jake, Holly, Hannah and Grace Mangelsen and April, Dave, Patty and Mandy close. Celie’s birthday was celebrated.

Birth announcements Born at Amery Regional Medical Center: A boy, Hunter Robert Fowler, born Jan. 15, 2009, to Melissa and Thomas Fowler, Almena. Hunter weighed 8 lbs., 13 oz.

••• A girl, Ayla Michele Anderson, born Jan. 17, 2009, to Rebecca and Steven Anderson, Clear Lake. Ayla weighed 8 lbs., 12 oz.

••• A girl, Chevelle Rose Lee, born Jan. 19, 2009, to Tara Blakeborough and Ryan Lee, Amery. Chevelle weighed 7 lbs., 21/2 oz.

••• A girl, Emma Katherine Amundson, born Jan. 26, 2009, to Dana and Robert Amundson, Balsam Lake. Emma weighed 6 lbs., 12 oz.

••• A boy, Andrew Anthony Buhr, born Jan. 28, 2009, to Anna and Anthony Buhr, Clear Lake. Andrew weighed 7 lbs., 9-1/4 oz.

••• A boy, Tanner Michael Ash, born Jan. 28, 2009, to Rhonda Munson and Ryan Ash, Clayton. Tanner weighed 6 lbs., 11 oz.

••• A boy, Tyler William Thomas, born Jan. 30, 2009, to Rebecca and Ryan Thomas, Clear Lake. Tyler weighed 7 lbs., 6-1/2 oz.

••• A girl, Kayson Marie Johnson, born Feb. 5, 2009, to Shawna Johnson, Clayton. Kayson weighed 7 lbs., 5 oz.

••• Born at Burnett Medical Center: A boy, Lawrence Eben Bildeau Jr., born Feb. 6, 2009, to Brianna Bearheart and Lawrence Bildeau, Webster. Lawrence weighed 6 lbs., 6 oz.

Grandparents are Bennie Benjamin and Brian Bearheart of Webster and Renae Davis of St. Paul, Minn., and Eben Bildeau of Spoon Town. Great-grandparents are Sammy Bearheart of Webster and Marian Benjamin of Shell Lake.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Frederic Senior Center

by Ardyce Knauber Monday Spades was played with the following winners: Lola Hinschberger in first place, Netha Polson in second place, Lorna Erickson in third place and Hazel Hoffman in fourth place.

Whist was played on Tuesday. Morning coffee drinkers and pool players keep the center busy in the morning.

Wednesday Pokeno is played along with refreshments.

Thursday 500 cards at 6:30 p.m., with the following winners: Bill Ihrig in first place, Arnie Borchert in second place, Dave Peterson in third place and Shirley Sandquist in fourth place.

Friday our monthly meeting was held and Pokeno was played along with other cards. Afternoon coffee time followed with a lunch.

Saturday was potluck, with birthdays celebrated.

Keep next Saturday on your list to celebrate Valentines Day at the center. There will be music at 11:30 a.m., and a noon buffet.

Tax aides will be at the center Thursday, Feb. 12 and Thursday, March 12. Call Shirley Sandquist at 715-327-4155 for appointment. Walk-ins will be worked in if possible in the 8:30 a.m. to noon time frame. Please bring your necessary papers with you.

If you are happy and look at life in the best way, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

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Siren

Bev Beckmark

Old Mother Nature must be taking pity on us because of our long hard winter. She is finally sending us a spell of warm weather with temps in the 30s and not for just a day or two.

Spring must surely be on its way as the chickadees in my bird yard have been singing a new song lately and several of the goldfinches are starting to change into their spring clothes as you can faintly see their sporty black summer caps.

The 16th-annual Grantsburg American Legion Brask/Fossum Post No. 185 ice-fishing contest this is Saturday, Feb. 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Big Wood Lake west of Siren, with lots of prizes for winning and other prizes. Some you need not be there to win. There will be lunch and refreshments at the lake. So guys, spend the day fishing and in the evening take your sweetie to the Grantsburg Legion Hall for an evening of fun at the Valentine’s dance from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

The Marine Corps, Northwoods Detachment No. 1281, is having their first-annual ice-fishing contest on Clear Lake in Siren from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cash prizes for the overall largest fish and prizes for largest northern, bass, walleye and panfish plus drawings during the contest. Lunch and refreshments are available on the lake.

Sympathy to the family of Paul Wickman who passed away Jan. 23.

Valentine’s Day is this Saturday and the Siren Covenant ladies will be at both the Siren Bremer and U.S. banks Friday from 9 a.m. until they are sold out of the chocolates they will be selling. So stop in Friday and treat your valentine on Saturday.

Congratulations to elementary student Whitney Plaster, middle schooler Michelle Potempa and high-schooler Vince Nasman for being chosen Siren Schools students of the week.

Congratulations also to Elijah Hinze for being chosen Leader Sports Prep of the week.

Siren school kids will be celebrating Winter Fest the week of Feb. 17 – 20 with dress-up day Feb. 17, rainbow day Feb. 18, rock star dress-up day Feb. 19 and spirit day Friday, Feb. 20, with a dance in the evening in the small gym from 9 to 11 p.m. to end the week’s activities. This brings back memories of my school days as many of these events were done back then and enjoyed. All in all, kids haven’t changed much in the past 50 years, they still enjoy having fun.

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The jam session held Saturday night from 6 – 9 p.m. at the Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church was a big success.

There were 115 there to enjoy the spontaneous instrumental/vocal program. Easy to enjoy all the talent there. Brad Alden thanked everyone for coming and participation.

The Northwest Regional Writers will meet this Friday at a different site. The time is 1 p.m. at Espresso Cabin near the Catholic church on Hwy. 70 going toward Grantsburg. Food can be ordered there if desired. The assignment is to write on valentines, romance or spring. Take your pick.

Those assisting with Sunday’s church service were LouAnn Gackle, Robin Peterson, ushers, Linda and Kerry Cook.

Goodies were served after the service by John Glockzin and Mickey.

Bernice Abrahamzon

Activities at church this week include choir rehearsal Monday evening; Bible study, Tuesday evening; D.O.G.’s followed

by UMW at 7 p.m.

Happy Valentine’s Day to all.

Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on Feb. 12 is now lumped in with Presidents Day for George Washington and “Abe.” Local authors are invited to come to the new Luck Library between 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, to meet the readers. They are invited to bring their books to sell if wished.

The Frederic Public Library will have a book sale/bake sale this week in Frederic. Good chance to stock up on books for winter reading as we still have a lot of February and then there is long, cold, snowy March.

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by Joyce Kirchhoff Christmas is over and I watched the ball drop in New York City on New Year’s Eve. I know 2009 will be a good year because nine is my lucky number, so trust me, it will be OK. I spent Christmas in Denver with my daughter Val. I was there for one week and in all those days, I had to go to church to get some wine … only two sips. They sure don’t know how to celebrate the holidays. I got home on Dec. 30 so I had a day in which to get some spirits ready, so with glass in hand I wished you all a happy new year.

Someone wrote that Cookie Johnson put in an appearance.

I wish I lived close enough to do that – or better yet, to still live up there. I suppose I should say something about our exgovernor gab, but can’t think of anything nice. His name is on every toll road, which will have to go now that he is out of business. I suppose some black paint could be used, hopefully it wouldn’t resemble his hair.

I didn’t get a card from Ruth Bertell so I called her last week – waited because I didn’t want to hear bad news. Turns out she is OK. Just under the weather. What a relief.

Ruth Potter called instead of sending a card. She winters in Texas. Quite a few fly the coop for warmer climes and they are usually the ones who complain the most about the heat in summer.

This is the longest winter I’ve ever lived through … and I’ve lived through quite a few. Like all of you, I do what I can to pass the time. Play Bridge, read a lot, paint and keep warm.

Caroline Osborn has her house up for sale. So do the Schmidts. I know Caroline doesn’t want to move, like me. But getting old brings change. She will be moving to the St. Paul, Minn., area, near her family.

I watch to see what kind of weather is going on by you so I

know it has been cold and snowy. Same here. Funny though, this is called winter. We had a bad ice storm which kept all my old friends in their houses. The mailman came (what a guy) so, being a wimp, I got in my car, pulled out of the attached garage 30 feet to my mail box, then back. There were deer tracks across the lawns. I love to see that. I have seen a lot of deer here, but of course, not anything like you have where they jump on your cars. Silly things.

The A & H Senior Center had problems with its septic system. The word senior should give you a clue. Most older people have the same problem. Anyway, our fearless leader, John Mueller, had the situation well in hand and all is well. Insurance covered that. I wonder if that came under the flood cause.

Edna Pagenkoff and Irene Wagner need prayers. So does Bill Hedberg, just on general principles. Seems he swallows things usually left on their containers.

I talked to Bill Thornley Sr. His house on Crescent Lake is for sale. He now lives in Gaslyn Court, Unit 13, in Spooner. He could use some company. Do drop by and beat the pants off him in Cribbage. Well, you don’t have to go that far, just beat him.

I keep Annie’s dog food in the garage where it can get really cold. Anyway, I dipped out a scoopful and when I got it out, there was a mouse on top, kind of like ice cream. Well, I blew at him, but he was a goner. Poor little thing probably froze to death. I put him outside so a hawk could have a meal, but I guess they don’t have microwaves to defrost things as that mouse is still on its back, four little feet in the air. Ah, city living.

Take care of yourselves and I will do the same.

Cloverton-Markville

Members of the Proffit family have lived in this area for as long as the old-timers can remember. The Proffits have lived here, worked here, raised their families here and gone to school here for years and years. Therefore, it was a very sad day on January 31 when three senior members of the Proffit family passed away.

Esther Proffit, age 97, who had lived in Cozy Corners, right over the border from the townships of Arna and New Dosey, was a gracious, warm, dignified and intelligent woman who gave new meaning to the word “lady.” Her home on the grounds of the Proffit Lumber Co. was always open to visitors and her gardens and landscapes were the envy of all of us.

She died at the Middle River Health Care Facility in Douglas County. She will indeed be missed.

One cannot think of the history of New Dosey Township without remembering Alfred Proffit. Alfred was one of the architects of the policies and procedures that governed our township. He served on the town board, many years as chair, and influenced the plans for the future of the town. He was a Fran sharp, witty, outgoing man who was beloved in this area. Until LaVonne he moved to Fergus Falls, S.D., a few years ago to live with Krause O’Brien his daughter, Alfred had lived all of his life in the little farmhouse that he was born in. He died in Fergus Falls at age 95.

Jack and Lavonne O’Brien were Superior shoppers on Howard Proffit was the son of Alfred’s cousin, Jack, and Wednesday. grew up in Kingsdale, a small community north of Cloverton Tim O’Brien spent the weekend with his parents while his and part of New Dosey Township. He had not lived in Kingswife visited friends at Ely, Minn. dale for many years and died in Superior at age 92.

Gary and Billie Gravesen and Marvel Merriam watched her great-grandson play basketball on the St. Croix Falls J.V. team at Siren Friday night.

The Orange 4-H’ers enjoyed sledding on Krause’s hill Saturday afternoon, followed with snacks at the Bill Summers PFC Jules J. Zappa home. graduated from Marine Sympathy is extended to the Proffit families with the pass- Corps Boot Camp on Jan. ing of Esther, Alfred and Howard Proffit.

23 in San Diego, Calif., His Reeny and John Neimstadt attended Esther’s funeral Satnext duty station will be urday at Markville.

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Our sympathies to all members of the Proffit family.

Maria Starowoitow would like to thank first responders Mike McCullen and Dave Baker, and all of the other friends and neighbors, including Ed and Bev Carlin, Agnes Sexton, Don Mishler and Mark Pahlo, who came to help her after she fell in her home. She is recuperating nicely now and getting stronger every day.

Helen Allen spent about four days in Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater, Minn., with a recurrent bout of pneumonia recently.

Her son, Jeff, an RN, who lives in Stillwater, brought her home last week.

Cheryl Wickham has joined the group of seniors from our area going over to the senior dining program at the Northland Community Center. Darlene Merimonti, Clara Lilly, Sandi Drake and Fran Levings have been going on a regular basis.

Mary Schaaf and Frank stopped for a bite to eat after a doctor’s appointment for Mary in Duluth last week.

On Tuesday, they attended the funeral of Frank’s nephew, Ernie Schaaf, at the Swedberg Funeral Home in Webster.

Ernie died at age 60 of cancer.

Dave and I have been hunkering down lately. It has been a good time for reading, so Dave read “Black Swan Green,” and I read the latest P.D. James mystery, “The Private Patient.”

Pick up a good book, wherever you are.

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Camp Pendleton, Calif., where he will undergo infantry training school.

Zappa is A 2008 Webster graduation and the son of Herbert and Barb McNeely of Webster.

••• PETERSBURG, Va. – Army National Guard Pfc. Cassandra L. Wagenius

has graduated from the petroleum supply specialist advanced individual training course at Fort Lee, Petersburg, Va. The course is designed to train students in receipt, storage, issue, shipping, and distribution of petroleum, oil and lubricant products used by the Army. Training included instruction in petroleum and water accounting, operating equipment associated with fuels and water distribution; and fueling and defueling operations and procedures on vehicles, aircraft and stationary equipment.

Wagenius is the daughter of Stacy J. Lindman, and stepdaughter of Darold B. Lindman, both of Grantsburg.

Her husband, Terry, is the son of Dennis A. and Shirley Wagenius of Grantsburg.

Cassandra is a 2003 graduate of Grantsburg High School. - submitted

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POLK COUNTY LIBRARY NEWS Polk County Library Hours Osceola Public Library Monday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Our phone number is 715-294-2310, and our Web address is www.osceolapubliclibrary.org.

St. Croix Falls Public Library Open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day, except Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Closed on Sunday. 715-483-1777. E-mail: scflibrary@ifls.lib.wi.us.

Online: www.stcroixfallslibrary.org.

Balsam Lake Public Libary 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.

Centuria Public Library Monday: Noon - 5 p.m.; Tuesday: noon - 7 p.m.; Wednesday: noon - 5 p.m.; Thursday: noon - 7 p.m.; Friday: closed; and Saturday: 10 a.m. - noon.

Luck Public Library Open from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Monday – Thursday. Fridays we will be open 11 a.m.

– 5 p.m. Saturday we will be open from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Dresser Public Library Monday 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Tuesday noon–5 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.–noon and 1–7 p.m., and Saturday 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Amery Public Library Hours will be 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.

Polk County Library Federation The director is Colleen Gifford, assistant library/clerk in Tina Riley. Please call the Polk County Library Federation for more information, 715-485-8680. The Polk County Library Federation is open Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Milltown Public Library The library hours are Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m.

– 5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.; Sunday closed.

Clear Lake Public Library February is Food for Fines Month: For every nonperishable item you bring in to the Clear Lake Public Library, we’ll take $1 off of your library fines.

Upcoming events: Monday, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m.: Come and join us as we watch “The City of Ember” (Rated PG). Refreshments will be served.

Saturday, March 7, 9 a.m.: The Polk County Master Gardeners will share information about the cold weather vegetables that are generally the first things you plant in the spring. Freewill offering (money or nonperishable food items) taken for the Lifeline Food

Pantry. Door prizes and refreshments.

Saturday, March 14, 11 a.m.: Author Buz Swerkstrom will discuss his new book “Polk County Places: Impressions and Explorations of Polk County, Wisconsin.” Refreshments will be served.

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 email at clearlakepl@ifls.lib.wi.us.

Frederic Public Library Grisham and goodies Make plans to attend the Frederic Library Valentines book and bake sale on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 12 - 13, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Feb. 14, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. We have something for everyone and bargains galore.

Book groups will meet The Thursday morning book group will meet Feb. 19, at 10 a.m. to discuss “Water for Elephants,” by Sara Gruen, a Great Depression story about the characters and relationships in a hapless circus. The evening book group will meet Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. to talk about “I Know This Much Is True,” by Wally Lamb, a novel about a man whose life has been overshadowed by the schizophrenic twin brother he loves and resents. Copies of

the books are available at the library, and new members are always welcome.

We are looking for a library trustee The Frederic Library Board of Trustees has a vacancy for a term that will expire June 30, 2010. The library board directs the programs and services of the library, and meets the first Monday of each month at 6 p.m. This is a great way to make a difference in your community, so drop by the library soon to pick up an application.

Hours and information Frederic Public Library, 127 Oak Street West.

715-327-4979, e-mail 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.

Polk County Library Federation Clear Lake Public Library

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Interstate Park news Nature story time at Interstate Park Join Naturalist Julie Fox at 10 a.m. on Thursdays through March at the Ice Age Center at Wisconsin Interstate Park for a story and activity chosen especially for preschoolers and their parents. Please bring clothing for outdoor play (weather permitting).

Special candlelight night at the Park set This is a Valentine’s Day event you won’t want to miss! Come to Wisconsin Interstate Park for a special Valentine’s Candlelight Night on Saturday, Feb. 14, from 6 to 9 p.m.

Experience a Valentine’s evening by candlelight as hundreds of luminaries are lit to guide skiers, snowshoers and hikers on separate trails. Ski at your own pace on the Quarry Cross-Country Ski Trail; snowshoers will discover the

winter solitude of Lake O‘ the Dalles (snowshoes are available for use free of charge for ages 6 and up). Hikers can enjoy a candlelit walk beside the St. Croix River. There will be hiking opportunities no matter the snow conditions.

Or perhaps you would prefer a romantic ride in a horse-drawn wagon pulled by the horses of Victory Farms (rides $4 per person, children under 5 free). Listen to live music by John and Linda while enjoying refreshments and warming fires located near the Camp Interstate Shelter building.

Interstate Park is located in St. Croix Falls, on Hwy. 35 just one-half mile south of Hwy. 8. The event is free of charge, but a Wisconsin State Park sticker is required to enter the park.

Annual passes for 2009 are $25 for Wisconsin residents or $35 for nonresidents.

Daily passes are $7 for residents or $10 for nonresidents. For more information about the event call 715-483-3747. - submitted

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The director is Colleen Gifford, assistant library/clerk in Tina Riley. Please call the Polk County Library Federation for more information, 715-485-8680. The Polk County Library Federation is open Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

St. Croix Falls Senior Center The start of the first week of February saw Puxatawny Phil seeing his shadow and guaranteeing us more winter weather. Hopefully not as cold as most of January was.

The weather didn’t stop 37 card and Domino players on Tuesday from having a fun afternoon. 500 card winners were Don Benson, Lonnie Jones, Bob Norlander, Roger Greenly and Laurie Lambert. Domino champs were Ione White, Martha Lundstrom and Don Anderson.

Thursday evening had 22 players for cards.

Ironically, the winners were all men – Phil Mevissen, Rich Hustad, Roger Greenly and Jack Lund. Good job guys.

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Brown Bag library lecture The Brown Bag library lecture will be held Feb. 25, from 12:30 – 1 p.m.

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Croix Falls from Regions Hospital following her recent surgery. Glad to have you back here with family and friends.

Several of our members were seen at the Polk County Sportsman Booya on Sunday, with several of them winning prizes.

We will celebrate Valentine’s Day on Saturday, Feb. 14, with potluck at 5:30 p.m., followed by cards and games. Come and enjoy an evening of fun and fellowship.

Wednesday, Feb. 18, the tax aides will be at the senior center to assist those in need with help with their taxes. No appointment is necessary.

Beware this Friday, it’s the 13th. Stop by any time between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. for coffee, treats and catch up on the local news.

Have a great week everyone.

Entrants sought for FAI Chili Cook-off FREDERIC - The Frederic Arts Board will hold a chili cook-off on Saturday, March 7, upstairs of the Frederic Clinic on Oak Street. Chili tasting will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m., followed by a concert with local musicians from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Persons interested in participating with their favorite chili recipes in the FAI chili contest should contact Cynthia DeMar at 715-554-0590 by Feb. 27. Chili should be prepared in large slow-cookers. Traditional and original recipes, spicy and vegetarian recipes are all welcome.

This event is a fundraiser for Frederic Arts Inc. supporting the arts in rural Wisconsin. – with submitted information

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Schools participate in honor band and honor choir

On Monday, Jan. 12, six Webster High School students participated in the Upper St. Croix Valley Music Association Honor Band and Honor Jazz Band. It was held at Siren High School. Nine area schools participated, with approximately the top 10 percent of each high school band represented. Students spent the entire day preparing for the concert under the direction of Matt Mealey, jazz band director from New Richmond High School and Jim Colonna, director of bands at UW-Eau Claire. Pictured are: Sam Kopecky, Catie Mahlen, Brittany Flatten, Rose Kopecky, Becca Schrooten and Reba Smallwood. – Photo submitted

Frederic students (in no particular order) Aaron Hedlund (tenor sax); Bobbi Jo O’Brien (percussion), Sarah Lexen (clarinet), Candace Buck (trombone), Marissa Nelson (flute), Haley Kurkowski (alto sax) and Brady McWilliam (euphonium) were among nearly 100 area high school band students selected to take part in the Upper St. Croix Valley Music Association Conference Honor Band held at Siren on Jan. 15. The students rehearsed during the day with guest conductor Dr. Jim Colonna, director of bands and UW-Eau Claire, and performed an evening concert. Honor band participants are chosen by their band director based on exceptional musical talent, leadership and commitment to their instrumental ensemble. - submitted

Luck’s state middle school honors choir participants – bottom row: Dylan LeMay and Geoffrey M a i d e n Mueller; back: Katelyn Dinnies and Tatia Hibbs.

Four students from Luck High School and four middle school students from Luck were in Eau Claire to participate in the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association All-State High School and Middle School Choirs on Friday, Jan. 16. Ten students from Luck participated in the 10-school honors band concert in Siren on Monday, Jan. 12. Luck’s honors band participants include: front row (L to R): David Franzel, Brett Larson, Kenny Sanford, Jordan Hall and Mitchell Larson. Back row: Kristine Wortman, Marnie Rozumalski, Ashley Valentine, Mary MaidenMueller and Grace Jenson.

Bont Chirpractic held annual food drive

Luck’s state high school honors choir participants – Ashley Valentine, Jennifer Roettger, Grace Jenson and Alyssa Lehmann. - Photos

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March of Dimes grant helps Polk County’s mothers and babies

Bont Chiropractic held their annual food drive in January. Patients donated dry and canned foods for the food shelf over a two-week period. Pictured is Dr. Steven Bont with the contribution from the St. Croix Falls office. Bont Chiropractic has offices in Grantsburg and Somerset and those offices held the food drive also. The food collected in each office will go to that respective community’s food shelf. – Photo by Tammi Milberg

BALSAM LAKE – The March of Dimes, Wisconsin chapter, has awarded a grant to Polk County Health Department that will address significant maternal and child health needs.

“This grant addresses significant maternal and child health issues such as nutrition, physical activity, weight management and substance use. All are of concern in our community,” said Terry Murphy, Polk County health educator.

These grants are one way the March of Dimes pursues its mission of preventing birth defects and infant mortality.

“Here in Polk County we found that we could help mothers and babies through screening and briefly addressing a variety of lifestyle choices. We are grateful that March of Dimes successful fundraising efforts, such as March of Babies, make

it possible for us to support new efforts to help more babies to be born healthy in Polk County,” said Murphy.

This grant is one of many that the March of Dimes awards in pursuit of its mission to prevent birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

The March of Dimes is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

Founded in 1938, the March of Dimes funds programs of research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies and in 2003 launched a campaign to address the increasing rate of premature birth.

For more information, visit the March of Dimes Web site at marchofdimes.com or its Spanish language Web site at nacersango.org. – submitted

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Writers spring conference to be held in Siren SIREN – Imagine writers gathering from throughout Wisconsin to share work in progress, to gather new ideas and to generally recharge their batteries by associating with others having similar interests. Imagine all of this happening in Siren the first weekend in May, the date set for the annual spring conference of the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association, one of Wisconsin’s oldest writing organizations.

The conference will take place Friday and Saturday, May 1 and 2, at The Lodge at Crooked Lake.

A major highlight of the conference will be presentations by humorist and author Michael Perry, whose books head any bestseller list of Wisconsin authors.

There will be presentations by Michael Norman, author of those many “Haunted Wisconsin” books and by Bev Larsen, lecturer communication studies and theater arts at UW-River Falls, on poetry. A new aspect of this conference will include a presentation by local young authors reading their original stories, poems and essays led by Cassie

Hansen of Amery.

Imagine hearing original stories, poems and essays written by local writers from throughout Northwest Wisconsin as well as from other parts of the state. Imagine seeing original artwork inspired by local writing in Rusk County.

Imagine hearing original music composed and performed by local writers and musicians from Polk County, a performance piece by a local writer from Douglas County and an original dramatic piece performed by local actors from Polk County.

The Wisconsin Regional Writers Association is a statewide organization of writers, amateur and professional, dedicated to improving the writer’s craft for themselves and to providing service to other writers. The association was founded in 1948 by Professor Robert E. Gard of the University of Wisconsin and a small, dedicated group of men and women who worked tirelessly and traveled throughout the state to build an association of more than 1,000 members within its first two years.

The purpose of the organization is to draw together the many creative writers in the state and provide an opportunity and an outlet for that creative writing talent, including the encouragement of literary expression and appreciation for the arts. The Wisconsin Regional Writers Association provides a structured fellowship of amateur and professional writers who support and assist fellow writers with all phases, types and categories of creative writing. The association encourages the preservation of family, local, regional and state history. It offers informational and educational services to writers and to the general public, including assisting writers in editing, publishing and marketing their work and providing counsel and contact with publishing and literary agencies and representatives.

As a statewide organization focused upon writing as a creative art, the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association believes that a person’s deepest experience of life is essentially solitary. At the same time, he or she desires to communicate

to others his or her rich memories of the past, present experiences and creative imagination about the future, or even about fantasy worlds. In the recreating and the sharing of these memories, experiences and creative ideas, the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association, has its being and meaning.

The association believes that the mark of an educated person is the ability to express himself or herself competently in language, that this ability can be gained best through study and application of the basic principles of creative writing, that with this study and application grow enlightenment and discrimination and that the democratic process of government is safest in the hands of an educated, enlightened people who participate actively in the democratic process through the well-written word.

Further details about the association and the spring conference can be found on the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association Web site: www.wrwa.net. – from Wisconsin Regional Writers Association

HFH seeking family for home build in Burnett County BURNETT COUNTY - Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity is seeking a new family for the home build in Siren in the summer of 2009. The local board is requesting applications, which are due by Feb. 15. Interviews with prospective families will follow, with home construc-

tion to begin this spring. To get an application, call 715-349-7477.

Eligibility requirements for Habitat Partner Family: • Present home inadequate or substandard.

• Can’t obtain conventional home loan

from another lender.

• Have lived in Burnett County for at least one year.

• Willing to partner with Habitat for Humanity.

• Annual income requirement is based on family size but must be at least

$1,500/month or $18,000/year.

Call for an application, which must be completed by Feb. 15: 715-349-7477. from HFH

Authors day at the Luck Museum LUCK – Next Saturday, Feb. 14, the Luck Historical Museum will host authors from around the local area. Between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., these writers

will be available to discuss, sell and sign their books. As part of the Luck Winter Carnival, the museum will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Saturday. In addition

to book signing, three new exhibits featuring Winter Carnival history, valentines of the past and kitchen and homemaking utensils will be on display.

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Pioneer Memoirs This is the fifth installment of a publication of memoirs written in 1947 by Frederic pioneer Alice Dahlin Lund. - Editor

by Alice Dahlin Lund What do you think my father saw one evening when he went out to bring the cows home for milking? A mother bear with two cubs! Father hurried home to get our neighbor, Anders, to bring his gun. They took a hatchet and hunting knives with them also, and went back to the woods for the bears.

The bears were still there when they arrived. Instead of going into the forest, the mother chased her cubs up a tree and then she, I suppose, intended to fight her enemies.

Anders fired his gun at the bear, but missed her. In the meantime, my father had climbed the tree that sheltered the cubs. The report from the gun frightened the big bear for a few minutes. She hid, but soon came out of her hiding place and tried to climb the tree where my father and her cubs were, but he reached down with his hatchet and cut her claws off so that she could not climb. Then she raised up on her hind legs, going straight for Anders, who fired one more shot, which of course wounded her. Again she went into the forest and stayed for some time. The cubs tried to go down from the tree, but father held them back.

Father and Anders thought the big bear might have died from the wound, but they were sure that if they could make the cubs squeal, the mother would come if she was not too badly wounded or dead. Father hurt one cub. Sure enough, its squeal brought her out of the woods. She raised up on her hind legs and walked toward the tree, but Anders fired, hitting her squarely in the breast.

Again she went into the woods, and again they waited for her to return. They waited a long time, and since she did not Do you know who your neighbors are? We got acquainted with one neighbor at the annual meeting of the Indianhead Chapter of the Ice Age Trail last week at – appropriately enough – the Ice Age Center at the Wisconsin Interstate Park. Chet Anderson, who lives two blocks uphill (on Madison Street) from this Adams Street house, presented a slide-illustrated program of his 2,120-mile hike across the Appalachian Mountain Trail.

It was an absorbing story of endurance and accomplishment, gritty drive and the deliverance of “angels” … those people who stopped and helped, by driving them into nearby towns to buy supplies or make other connections.

That’s when I discovered that I was an “angel.” Chet remarked that during that hike, there was little chance of washing of any kind. “We got quite smelly.”

I recalled picking up a couple of hikers many years ago, on a trip to Glacier Park. They were a couple of exuberant young people, grateful for the ride on the road stretch of their trip, but, sorry to say, I remembered how “fragrant” they were.

When I mentioned that to Chet, after his presentation, he remarked, “Well, you were one of those we knew as ‘angels.’”

••• Nature will be calling life back to the Crex Meadows soon, as migrating flocks stop to rest and feed at the unique bog that Russ Hanson brought to our attention recently in his River Road Ramblings column in the Leader. There may still be old-timers around here who had one of those unique carpets, far more pleasant, to my mind, than the linoleum that succeeded them.

••• When the Taylors Falls Historical Society met recently at the national park headquarters here in St. Croix Falls, two presentations were featured. First, a National Park Service film of canoeing on the Namekagon and St. Croix Rivers, after which Clarence Nelson, of Taylors Falls, showed a collection of wintertime

return, they killed the cubs. Now, I am not going to say how they killed them, for I do not know, but I know they were dead, for father and Anders came dragging them home just about daybreak.

My mother was up. I imagine she did not sleep all night. I woke up when I heard them talking.

I was about 4 years old. I ran out in the kitchen and climbed upon the table to look at the bears through the door. I was very much frightened, so mother took me in her arms and went over to the cubs and stroked them to convince me that there was nothing to fear.

The mother must have died from the last wound, for later in the summer they ran across her carcass when they were out looking for the cows.

Shall I tell another little bear story?

One night Anders’ wife went to get the cows as the men were busy and could not go. She went alone and got lost. It became dark, so she decided the best thing to do would be to settle down for the night. The men went out with lanterns and tooted a big horn that they had for just such a purpose. She heard them, but was too far away to answer them, so she lay down in a hollow. Suddenly she heard some heavy steps coming close to her. It was a big bear. She did not dare to move. He came so close she could feel his breath on her face, but the bear only sniffed around a little and left.

As soon as daybreak came, the men went out to look for her again. This time she tried to answer their call. They finally heard her. She had been almost three miles from home.

Well, there is another. We were three

Betty Fenton Historical

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photos he’d taken over a 50-year period. It was an absorbing show, as we recalled those “good old days” … ice skating on the pond (that’s now gone, Rosemarie replaced with the apartment buildVezina ing on the corner), sledding down the steep hills, building giant snowmen.

There’s the classic view of a toddler Sponsored by bundled up for the frigid temperthe St. Croix as Falls Historical atures; Clarence pointed Society out, you knew he was properly dressed when the thick layers of clothing stuck his arms straight out at his sides!

Some St. Croix River scenes brought up the subject of Nevers Dam, which had been located 11 miles upriver from the falls. When was it built? (In 1890 by Stillwater lumbermen to control the water level and tumult of logs cut from the riverbanks). When was it torn down? (In 1955, after it had been badly battered by ice floes over the years).

The story of Nevers Dam, published in a booklet in 1965, which is out of print due to costs, is now available on computer. The Web site address to reach the Nevers Dam article is: www.mnstatepark.info.

••• A new lease on life for the Dalles Visitor newspaper has been signed … as Jerry Boucher, of Schoolhouse Productions, has purchased the publication rights. The newspaper was established in 1969 by Helen M. White and Rosemarie Vezina (Braatz), as an annual guide for visitors and residents, of attractions and, mainly, historical background.

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farmers living close together and we all had sheep. We did not have any pasture for them, and we did not dare let them go in the woods alone, so in the evening after supper we used to go together and watch them until about ten o’clock at night. We could tell readily if there were any wild animals near, for the sheep would come running to us for protection, and the dog would bark a lot to let us know. This night I know the sheep had not had their fill of grass, but came running up to us in fear. The rams were now stamping their feet in the ground and the dog was growling, so we hurried them home as fast as we could. After we got the sheep in their place safely, we all started for our homes. When we came to our gate, we saw a bear down by the creek, just a little ways from us. We invited our neighbors to come in and spend the night with us, for they had to cross the creek right where the bear had been standing in order to get to their home.

A few nights later, just as my brother and I left our house to join the others, we heard a blood-curdling scream. We hurried to the place as fast as we could. Our other neighbors were already there. We were all excited to learn what it was all about.

Two boys had gone out ahead and built a fire. They were only 8 or 10 years old. The youngest heard something close to him, but thought it was his brother and kept right on talking, but when he looked up, instead of his brother, it was a big black bear standing on his hind legs, looking at the fire.

His brother had gone to gather some more firewood. When the older brother came running, the bear got down on all four feet and ran away. We all got there in a few minutes, but the bear did not return. The poor little boy became so hoarse from fright and screaming that he could not talk out loud all evening.

You may wonder why the men did not do this work. They had to rest, for they

got up at four o’clock in the morning to start their farm work, and we children enjoyed the evenings, bears or no bears.

While the mothers sat by the fire visiting, we children played games and had all kinds of fun. We were not out in the open fields, oh, no! We were right out in the thick forest with large trees, with open spaces here and there where the sheep found plenty of good grass to eat.

I will tell you another little incident that I think is kind of cute. One of the farmers who lived about three miles away from our home was plenty puzzled about the disappearing of their milk.

Since we did not have icehouses or creameries then, cellars were made in a sidehill. They were fixed up nicely with crude shelves and tables. In these we kept our milk, butter, meat and all kinds of food. Milk was strained in pans of tin and earthenware. We made butter in a churn with a dasher and packed it in earthen crocks. We also made all our cheese.

For some time when the farmer’s wife came to the cellar to skim off the milk, she had found the pans empty and turned upside down on the shelf. At first they thought of Indians, but the Indians were never seen roaming around at night, and furthermore, they could have milk by merely asking for it, so there would be no reason for them to steal it.

The men got together and took their guns with them. The first night nothing happened. They went again the next night.

They moved very quietly. About midnight who do you suppose came walking down the path to the cellar? A big black bear! He raised up on his hind legs and pushed the door open, went in and had his drink of milk and turned the pan upside-down. The poor bear had a sad surprise when he came out this time. The hunters all fired at him. They had caught the thief this time. – With information submitted by Brian Johnson’s family. – From Betty Fenton, director of public relations, Frederic Area Historical Society.

Local fair represented at state convention WISCONSIN DELLS – Members of the Polk County Fair Association and other fair representatives attended the Wisconsin Association of Fairs Convention on Jan. 11 to 14.

Polk County Fairest of the Fair Greta Nelson, along with Dale and Chris Wood, Janis and Mike Larson, Greg and Karen McCurdy, Judy and Tom Bainbridge, Gerianne Christensen, Susan Olson, Grant Burdick and Rebecca Larson (Hall of Fame Award Winner, Dist. 2) from the local fair association were present.

The dates for the Polk County Fair this year are July 30 to Aug. 2. Watch for announcements of the fair’s entertainment lineup. This year’s theme is “Summer’s Best Family Get-Together!”

Nearly 1,000 delegates representing more than 65 county, district and state fairs and associated businesses celebrated the New Year by attending the 86th-annual Wisconsin Association of Fairs annual convention. The theme of this year’s convention was “Farmer in the Dells, A Moooving Experience.”

The convention offered workshops and

Rebecca Larson was the Hall of F a m e Award Winner from District 2, honored at the Wisconsin Association of Fairs Convention in Wisconsin Dells.

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keynote speakers. The convention culminated with the crowning of the 2009 Fairest of the Fairs, Melissa Ploeckelman of Wisconsin Valley Fair in Marathon County. – with submitted information

Greta Nelson, Polk County’s Fairest of the Fair, (center) represented Polk County at the Wisconsin Association of Fairs Convention in Wisconsin Dells, along with a group of local fair association members. – Special photo

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“The Call of the Wild”

As part of the St. Croix River Valley Big Read, experience Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild” as it was published in 1903, serialized in the newspaper. In the remaining weeks, all chapters will be printed in the Library Pages of the Inter-County Leader. Many thanks to all who helped make this possible. - St. Croix Valley Big Read

Continued from last week Mercedes nursed a special grievance—the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex-prerogative, she made their lives unendurable. She no longer considered the dogs, and because she was sore and tired, she persisted in riding on the sled. She was pretty and soft, but she weighed one hundred and twenty pounds—a lusty last straw to the load dragged by the weak and starving animals.

She rode for days, till they fell in the traces and the sled stood still. Charles and Hal begged her to get off and walk, pleaded with her, entreated, the while she wept and importuned Heaven with a recital of their brutality.

On one occasion they took her off the sled by main strength. They never did it again. She let her legs go limp like a spoiled child, and sat down on the trail.

They went on their way, but she did not move. After they had travelled three miles they unloaded the sled, came back for her, and by main strength put her on the sled again.

In the excess of their own misery they were callous to the suffering of their animals. Hal’s theory, which he practised on others, was that one must get hardened.

He had started out preaching it to his sister and brother-in-law. Failing there, he hammered it into the dogs with a club. At the Five Fingers the dog food gave out, and a toothless old squaw offered to trade them a few pounds of frozen horsehide for the Colt’s revolver that kept the big hunting knife company at Hal’s hip. A poor substitute for food was this hide, just as it had been stripped from the starved horses of the cattlemen six months back. In its frozen state it was more like strips of galvanized iron, and when a dog wrestled it into his stomach it thawed into thin and innutritious leathery strings and into a mass of short hair, irritating and indigestible.

And through it all Buck staggered along at the head of the team as in a nightmare. He pulled when he could; when he could no longer pull, he fell down and remained down till blows from whip or club drove him to his feet again. All the stiffness and gloss had gone out of his beautiful furry coat. The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted with dried blood where Hal’s club had bruised him. His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide that was wrinkled in folds of emptiness. It was heartbreaking, only Buck’s heart was unbreakable. The man in the red sweater had proved that.

As it was with Buck, so was it with his mates. They were perambulating skeletons. There were seven all together, including him. In their very great misery they had become insensible to the bite of the lash or the bruise of the club. The pain of the beating was dull and distant, just as the things their eyes saw and their ears heard seemed dull and distant. They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly. When a halt was made, they dropped down in the traces like dead dogs, and the spark dimmed and paled and seemed to go out. And when the club or whip fell upon them, the spark fluttered feebly up, and they tottered to their feet and staggered on.

There came a day when Billee, the good-natured, fell and could not rise. Hal had traded off his revolver, so he took the axe and knocked Billee on the head as he lay in the traces, then cut the carcass out of the harness and dragged it to one side. Buck saw, and his mates saw, and they knew that this thing was very close to them. On the next day Koona went, and but five of them remained: Joe, too far gone to be malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only half conscious and not conscious enough longer to malinger; Sol-leks, the oneeyed, still faithful to the toil of trace and trail, and mournful in that he had so little strength with which to pull; Teek, who had not travelled so far that winter and who was now beaten more than the others because he was fresher; and Buck, still at the head of the team, but no longer enforcing discipline or striving to enforce it, blind with weakness half the time and keeping the trail by the loom of it and by the dim feel of his feet.

It was beautiful spring weather, but neither dogs nor humans were aware of it. Each day the sun rose earlier

Author Jack London

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture. Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, a 2004 NEA report, identified a critical decline in reading for pleasure among American adults. The Big Read aims to address this issue directly by providing citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their communities.

and set later. It was dawn by three in the morning, and twilight lingered till nine at night. The whole long day was a blaze of sunshine. The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. This murmur arose from all the land, fraught with the joy of living. It came from the things that lived and moved again, things which had been as dead and which had not moved during the long months of frost.

The sap was rising in the pines. The willows and aspens were bursting out in young buds. Shrubs and vines were putting on fresh garbs of green. Crickets sang in the nights, and in the days all manner of creeping, crawling things rustled forth into the sun. Partridges and woodpeckers were booming and knocking in the forest. Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wildfowl driving up from the south in cunning wedges that split the air.

From every hill slope came the trickle of running water, the music of unseen fountains. All things were thawing, bending, snapping. The Yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down. It ate away from beneath; the sun ate from above. Airholes formed, fissures sprang and spread apart, while thin sections of ice fell through bodily into the river. And amid all this bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening life, under the blazing sun and through the soft-sighing breezes, like wayfarers to death, staggered the two men, the woman, and the huskies.

With the dogs falling, Mercedes weeping and riding, Hal swearing innocuously, and Charles eyes wistfully watering, they staggered into John Thornton’s camp at the mouth of White River. When they halted, the dogs dropped down as though they had all been struck dead. Mercedes dried her eyes and looked at John Thornton. Charles sat down on a log to rest. He sat down very slowly and painstakingly what of his great stiffness. Hal did the talking. John Thornton was whittling the last touches on an axe handle he had made from a stick of birch. He whittled and listened, gave monosyllabic replies, and, when it was asked, terse advice. He knew the breed, and he gave his advice in the certainty that it would not be followed.

“They told us up above that the bottom was dropping out of the trail and that the best thing for us to do was to lay over,” Hal said in response to Thornton’s warning to take no more chances on the rotten ice.

“They told us we couldn’t make White River, and here we are.” This last with a sneering ring of triumph in it.

“And they told you true,” John Thornton answered.

“The bottom’s likely to drop out at any moment. Only fools, with the blind luck of fools, could have made it.

I tell you straight, I wouldn’t risk my carcass on that ice for all the gold in Alaska.”

“That’s because you’re not a fool, I suppose,” said Hal. “All the same, we’ll go on to Dawson.” He uncoiled his whip. “Get up there, Buck! Hi! Get up there!

Mush on!”

Thornton went on whittling. It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things.

But the team did not get up at the command. It had long since passed into the stage where blows were required to rouse it. The whip flashed out, here and there, on its merciless errands. John Thornton compressed his lips. Sol-leks was the first to crawl to his feet. Teek fol-

lowed. Joe came next, yelping with pain. Pike made painful efforts. Twice he fell over, when half up, and on the third attempt managed to rise. Buck made no effort.

He lay quietly where he had fallen. The lash bit into him again and again, but he neither whined nor struggled. Several times Thornton started, as though to speak, but changed his mind. A moisture came into his eyes, and, as the whipping continued, he arose and walked irresolutely up and down.

This was the first time Buck had failed, in itself a sufficient reason to drive Hal into a rage. He exchanged the whip for the customary club. Buck refused to move under the rain of heavier blows which now fell upon him. Like his mates, he was barely able to get up, but, unlike them, he had made up his mind not to get up.

He had a vague feeling of impending doom. This had been strong upon him when he pulled in to the bank, and it had not departed from him. What of the thin and rotten ice he had felt under his feet all day, it seemed that he sensed disaster close at hand, out there ahead on the ice where his master was trying to drive him. He refused to stir. So greatly had he suffered, and so far gone was he, that the blows did not hurt much. And as they continued to fall upon him, the spark of life within flickered and went down. It was nearly out. He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.

And then, suddenly, without warning, uttering a cry that was inarticulate and more like the cry of an animal, John Thornton sprang upon the man who wielded the club. Hal was hurled backward, as though struck by a falling tree. Mercedes screamed. Charles looked on wistfully, wiped his watery eyes, but did not get up because of his stiffness.

John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too convulsed with rage to speak.

“If you strike that dog again, I’ll kill you,” he at last managed to say in a choking voice.

“It’s my dog,” Hal replied, wiping the blood from his mouth as he came back. “Get out of my way, or I’ll fix you. I’m going to Dawson.”

Thornton stood between him and Buck, and evinced no intention of getting out of the way. Hal drew his long hunting knife. Mercedes screamed, cried, laughed, and manifested the chaotic abandonment of hysteria.

Thornton rapped Hal’s knuckles with the axe handle, knocking the knife to the ground. He rapped his knuckles again as he tried to pick it up. Then he stooped, picked it up himself, and with two strokes cut Buck’s traces.

Hal had no fight left in him. Besides, his hands were full with his sister, or his arms, rather; while Buck was too near dead to be of further use in hauling the sled. A few minutes later they pulled out from the bank and down the river. Buck heard them go and raised his head to see, Pike was leading, Sol-leks was at the wheel, and between were Joe and Teek. They were limping and staggering. Mercedes was riding the loaded sled. Hal guided at the gee pole, and Charles stumbled along in the rear.

As Buck watched them, Thornton knelt beside him and with rough, kindly hands searched for broken bones. By the time his search had disclosed nothing more than many bruises and a state of terrible starvation, the sled was a quarter of a mile away. Dog and man watched it crawling along over the ice. Suddenly, they saw its back end drop down, as into a rut, and the gee pole, with Hal clinging to it, jerk into the air. Mercedes’s scream came to their ears. They saw Charles turn and make one step to run back, and then a whole section of ice give way and dogs and humans disappear. A yawning hole was all that was to be seen. The bottom had dropped out of the trail.

John Thornton and Buck looked at each other.

“You poor devil,” said John Thornton, and Buck licked his hand.

Chapter VI For the Love of a Man When John Thornton froze his feet in the previous December, his partners had made him comfortable and left him to get well, going on themselves up the river to get out a raft of sawlogs for Dawson. He was still limping slightly at the time he rescued Buck, but with the continued warm weather even the slight limp left him.

And here, lying by the river bank through the long spring days, watching the running water, listening lazily to the songs of birds and the hum of nature, Buck slowly won back his strength.

A rest comes very good after one has travelled three

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"It was in the Klondike that I found myself.

There, nobody talks. Everybody thinks. You get your perspective. I got mine."

- Jack London thousand miles, and it must be confessed that Buck waxed lazy as his wounds healed, his muscles swelled out, and the flesh came back to cover his bones. For that matter, they were all loafing—Buck, John Thornton, and Skeet and Nig—waiting for the raft to come that was to carry them down to Dawson. Skeet was a little Irish setter who early made friends with Buck, who, in a dying condition, was unable to resent her first advances. She had the doctor trait which some dogs possess; and as a mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck’s wounds. Regularly, each morning after he had finished his breakfast, she performed her self-appointed task, till he came to look for her ministrations as much as he did for Thornton’s.

Nig, equally friendly, though less demonstrative, was a huge black dog, half bloodhound and half deerhound, with eyes that laughed and a boundless good nature.

To Buck’s surprise these dogs manifested no jealousy toward him. They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton. As Buck grew stronger they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in which Thornton himself could not forbear to join; and in this fashion Buck romped through his convalescence and into a new existence. Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. This he had never experienced at Judge Miller’s down in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. With the Judge’s sons, hunting and tramping, it had been a working partnership; with the Judge’s grandsons, a sort of pompous guardianship; and with the Judge himself, a stately and dignified friendship.

But love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, that was madness, it had taken John Thornton to arouse.

This man had saved his life, which was something; but, further, he was the ideal master. Other men saw to the welfare of their dogs from a sense of duty and business expediency; he saw to the welfare of his as if they were his own children, because he could not help it.

And he saw further. He never forgot a kindly greeting or a cheering word, and to sit down for a long talk with them (“gas” he called it) was as much his delight as theirs. He had a way of taking Buck’s head roughly between his hands, and resting his own head upon Buck’s, of shaking him back and forth, the while calling him ill names that to Buck were love names. Buck knew no greater joy than that rough embrace and the sound of murmured oaths, and at each jerk back and forth it seemed that his heart would be shaken out of his body, so great was its ecstasy. And when, released, he sprang to his feet, his mouth laughing, his eyes eloquent, his throat vibrant with unuttered sound, and in that fashion remained without movement, John Thornton would reverently exclaim, “God! you can all but speak!”

Buck had a trick of love expression that was akin to hurt. He would often seize Thornton’s hand in his mouth and close so fiercely that the flesh bore the impress of his teeth for some time afterward. And as Buck understood the oaths to be love words, so the man understood this feigned bite for a caress.

For the most part, however, Buck’s love was expressed in adoration. While he went wild with happiness when Thornton touched him or spoke to him, he did not seek these tokens. Unlike Skeet, who was wont to shove her nose under Thornton’s hand and nudge and nudge till petted, or Nig, who would stalk up and rest his great head on Thornton’s knee, Buck was content to adore at a distance. He would lie by the hour, eager, alert, at Thornton’s feet, looking up into his face, dwelling upon it, studying it, following with keenest interest each fleeting expression, every movement or change of feature. Or, as chance might have it, he would lie farther away, to the side or rear, watching the outlines of the man and the occasional movements of his body. And often, such was the communion in which they lived, the strength of Buck’s gaze would draw John Thornton’s head around, and he would return the gaze, without speech, his heart shining out of his eyes as Buck’s heart shone out.

For a long time after his rescue, Buck did not like Thornton to get out of his sight. From the moment he left the tent to when he entered it again, Buck would follow at his heels. His transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent. He was afraid that Thornton would pass out of his life as Perrault and Francois and the Scotch half-breed had passed out. Even in the night, in his dreams, he was haunted by this fear. At such times he would shake off sleep and creep through the chill to the flap of the tent, where he would stand and listen to the sound of his master’s breathing.

But in spite of this great love he bore John Thornton, which seemed to bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive, which the Northland had aroused in him, remained alive and active. Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof, were his; yet

he retained his wildness and wiliness. He was a thing of the wild, come in from the wild to sit by John Thornton’s fire, rather than a dog of the soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of civilization.

Because of his very great love, he could not steal from this man, but from any other man, in any other camp, he did not hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him to escape detection.

His face and body were scored by the teeth of many dogs, and he fought as fiercely as ever and more shrewdly. Skeet and Nig were too good-natured for quarrelling,—besides, they belonged to John Thornton; but the strange dog, no matter what the breed or valor, swiftly acknowledged Buck’s supremacy or found himself struggling for life with a terrible antagonist. And Buck was merciless. He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

He was older than the days he had seen and the breaths he had drawn. He linked the past with the present, and the eternity behind him throbbed through him in a mighty rhythm to which he swayed as the tides and seasons swayed. He sat by John Thornton’s fire, a broad-breasted dog, white-fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all manner of dogs, halfwolves and wild wolves, urgent and prompting, tasting the savor of the meat he ate, thirsting for the water he drank, scenting the wind with him, listening with him and telling him the sounds made by the wild life in the forest, dictating his moods, directing his actions, lying down to sleep with him when he lay down, and dreaming with him and beyond him and becoming themselves the stuff of his dreams.

So peremptorily did these shades beckon him, that each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest. But as often as he gained the soft unbroken earth and the green shade, the love for John Thornton drew him back to the fire again.

Thornton alone held him. The rest of mankind was as nothing. Chance travellers might praise or pet him; but he was cold under it all, and from a too demonstrative man he would get up and walk away. When Thornton’s partners, Hans and Pete, arrived on the long-expected raft, Buck refused to notice them till he learned they were close to Thornton; after that he tolerated them in a passive sort of way, accepting favors from them as though he favored them by accepting.

They were of the same large type as Thornton, living close to the earth, thinking simply and seeing clearly; and ere they swung the raft into the big eddy by the sawmill at Dawson, they understood Buck and his ways, and did not insist upon an intimacy such as obtained with Skeet and Nig. For Thornton, however, his love seemed to grow and grow. He, alone among men, could put a pack upon Buck’s back in the summer travelling. Nothing was too great for Buck to do, when Thornton commanded. One day (they had grub-staked themselves from the proceeds of the raft and left Dawson for the headwaters of the Tanana) the men and dogs were sitting on the crest

of a cliff which fell away, straight down, to naked bedrock three hundred feet below. John Thornton was sitting near the edge, Buck at his shoulder. A thoughtless whim seized Thornton, and he drew the attention of Hans and Pete to the experiment he had in mind.

“Jump, Buck!” he commanded, sweeping his arm out and over the chasm. The next instant he was grappling with Buck on the extreme edge, while Hans and Pete were dragging them back into safety.

“It’s uncanny,” Pete said, after it was over and they had caught their speech.

Thornton shook his head. “No, it is splendid, and it is terrible, too. Do you know, it sometimes makes me afraid.”

“I’m not hankering to be the man that lays hands on you while he’s around,” Pete announced conclusively, nodding his head toward Buck.

“Py Jingo!” was Hans’s contribution. “Not mineself either.”

It was at Circle City, ere the year was out, that Pete’s apprehensions were realized. “Black” Burton, a man evil-tempered and malicious, had been picking a quarrel with a tenderfoot at the bar, when Thornton stepped good-naturedly between. Buck, as was his custom, was lying in a corner, head on paws, watching his master’s every action. Burton struck out, without warning, straight from the shoulder. Thornton was sent spinning, and saved himself from falling only by clutching the rail of the bar.

Those who were looking on heard what was neither bark nor yelp, but a something which is best described as a roar, and they saw Buck’s body rise up in the air as he left the floor for Burton’s throat. The man saved his life by instinctively throwing out his arm, but was hurled backward to the floor with Buck on top of him.

Buck loosed his teeth from the flesh of the arm and drove in again for the throat. This time the man succeeded only in partly blocking, and his throat was torn open. Then the crowd was upon Buck, and he was driven off; but while a surgeon checked the bleeding, he prowled up and down, growling furiously, attempting to rush in, and being forced back by an array of hostile clubs. A “miners’ meeting,” called on the spot, decided that the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged. But his reputation was made, and from that day his name spread through every camp in Alaska.

Later on, in the fall of the year, he saved John Thornton’s life in quite another fashion. The three partners were lining a long and narrow poling boat down a bad stretch of rapids on the Forty Mile Creek. Hans and Pete moved along the bank, snubbing with a thin Manila rope from tree to tree, while Thornton remained in the boat, helping its descent by means of a pole, and shouting directions to the shore. Buck, on the bank, worried and anxious, kept abreast of the boat, his eyes never off his master.

At a particularly bad spot, where a ledge of barely submerged rocks jutted out into the river, Hans cast off the rope, and, while Thornton poled the boat out into the stream, ran down the bank with the end in his hand to snub the boat when it had cleared the ledge. This it did, and was flying downstream in a current as swift as a millrace, when Hans checked it with the rope and checked too suddenly. The boat flirted over and snubbed in to the bank bottom up, while Thornton, flung sheer out of it, was carried downstream toward the worst part of the rapids, a stretch of wild water in which no swimmer could live.

Buck had sprung in on the instant; and at the end of three hundred yards, amid a mad swirl of water, he overhauled Thornton. When he felt him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his splendid strength. But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress downstream amazingly rapid. From below came the fatal roaring where the wild current went wilder and was rent in shreds and spray by the rocks which thrust through like the teeth of an enormous comb. The suck of the water as it took the beginning of the last steep pitch was frightful, and Thornton knew that the shore was impossible. He scraped furiously over a rock, bruised across a second, and struck a third with crushing force. He clutched its slippery top with both hands, releasing Buck, and above the roar of the

To be continued next week Calling all writers! The Winter's Past Literary Arts Contest invites all adults and secondary level students to submit pieces in two categories: Oral History from a dog's perspective and Nature Writing.

Cash prizes for the top three entries, $100, $75, and $50. Winners will present written pieces at the closing session of the "Call of the Wild" Environmental Symposium, Feb. 28, 2009. Contest guidelines available online at www.stcroixfallslibrary or by contacting Amy Klein at groups@festivaltheatre.org or 888-887-6002.

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Grantsburg Legion presents scholarship GRANTSBURG – The history of the 40/8 group goes all the way back to 1920s France. The numbers 40 and eight stand for 40 men and eight horses.

Started in France in 1920 as an independent fraternal organization of U.S. veterans, the official name of the organization, La Societe des Quarante Hommes at Huit Chevaux, translates to The Society of Forty Men and Eight Horses. The numbers stem from the transportation of American Servicemen to battle on the French narrow gauge railroads called Chemin de Fer. Each of the French cars was stenciled with the numbers 40/8 which meant the cars could hold only 40 men and eight horses. Needless to say since the boxcars (called Voitures) were half the size of American train cars, making the train trips uncomfortable and re-

membered well by all those traveling to the trenches via the French railway. Later, American soldiers took the lighthearted term 40/8 and made it their own, a symbol of their dedicated service and sacrifices in a time of war, whose shared experiences created an everlasting bond between all who fought together.

Today membership in the 40/8 honor society is by invitation for American Legion members who have shown exemplary service, veterans of congressionally recognized wartime periods through their Legion membership.

The group’s two main programs are helping individuals interested in pursuing nursing careers with financial assistance through scholarships and assisting families and individuals in times of local disasters.

Jim Chapin, state finance officer of the American Legion’s 40/8 group and Don Anderson, Polk-Burnett finance officer of the Legion’s Voyageur 236 group presented Renee Sandwick with a nursing school scholarship on Feb. 8 at the Grantsburg Legion Hall. Sandwick’s grandfather and past Chef De Gare for the Voyager 236, Arid Fossum, also attended the presentation. – Photo by Priscilla Bauer

Stained-glass demonstration by area artist RICE LAKE – The Art of Stained Glass Making demonstration will be presented by artist, Mary Dosch, co-owner and artist from the Brickyard Pottery and Glassworks in Barronett. This opportunity is offered at 12:30 p.m., on Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall in Rice Lake. The public is

invited to share this experience in learning how to design stained-glass art, cut glass and the process of leading. No admission will be charged, however, a freewill donation will be accepted to start a fund for a stained-glass window in the hall.

Brian and Mary Dosch are longtime

area artists, who opened their business in 1980. The Brickyard Art Gallery, which is located in an old brick schoolhouse one mile north of Barronett features pottery, stained glass and etched glass by owners. They also feature the work of many other local artists in clay, metal, wood, watercolor, photography,

jewelry and fibers.

Dosch is a very talented artist and will have some of her stained-glass creations on display. The stained-glass art demonstration will be held in the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall at 230 West Messenger Street, Rice Lake. The facility is handicapped accessible. - submitted

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Forts Folle Avoine Blacksmith Project continues Students travel to Fort Snelling to see actual historical forge and bellows DANBURY – The Forts Folle Avoine Blacksmith Project is a project to document the local history of blacksmithing in Burnett County and to construct a historically accurate circa 1890 forge and bellows at FFA. All of the research, design, and construction is being done by students from the three Burnett County high schools: Webster, Siren and Grantsburg.

A project kickoff dinner was held at the Fort in September with students, teachers and organizers attending. At that meeting some of the teachers mentioned it would be beneficial if the students could see an actual historical forge and bellows.

Kevin Maijala, director at historical Fort Snelling in St. Paul, Minn., was contacted to see if anything could be arranged for the students. Since it was nearing the end of their season and the pace was hectic at the Fort, Maijala suggested that a tour by the students occurring after the Fort closed for the season might be most beneficial for the students. So at 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 5, about 20 students and three teachers started loading on a bus for the long trip to Fort Snelling. Realizing that the trip was going to take all day, and not wanting to waste valuable student time, the time on the bus to and from Fort Snelling was used for educational experiences.

Carl Nordquist and Chuck Awe, both local blacksmiths, used the bus time going toward the fort to educate students about the history of blacksmithing in general, and about the history, design, terminology, and functions of a 19th century forge and bellows.

The bellows at Fort Snelling. Students will be using this as an example to design their bellows for the blacksmith project. - Special photo Upon arrival at Fort Snelling, the students were greeted by Matt Cassady, Fort Snelling program associate, and John Waldo, Fort Snelling historical blacksmith.

The group then proceeded to the blacksmith shop where Cassady and Waldo explained how a 19th century smithy (blacksmith shop) worked. Since the forge was cold, students were able to poke and prod, measure and manhandle the forge and bellows. The brief history class that had occurred on the way to the fort proved beneficial as the students were able to ask informed and probing questions about operation and construction of the forge and bellows.

Once all questions had been asked and many measurements made, sketches drawn and photos taken, it was time to “fire it up.” Using charcoal for fuel, Waldo

proceeded to start the forge. When a good fire was going, he demonstrated how nails were forged. Never one to miss an opportunity to teach, Nordquist asked if he could demonstrate some forging. Within a few minutes Nordquist had demonstrated how to forge a tool for turning steaks on a grill. Waldo answered any remaining questions and then Cassady took the group on their own personal tour of the fort.

The bus trip home was used to discuss what had been learned and the challenges the students were facing to construct an accurate forge and bellows for Forts Folle Avoine. Before anyone knew it the bus was pulling into the Grantsburg High School parking lot to drop off the first students. By that time there had already been substantial progress in determining the design for both the forge and bellows. Now all the students have to do is finalize their design plans, perhaps construct a prototype and obtain approval from the Burnett County Historical Society for their design. The students came away from the experience excited and energized. Chelsea Hane, one of the student reporters from Grantsburg, stated, “This was really fun, and we learned a lot.”

Throughout the course of the project so far, the participants have been impressed by the generosity of those involved. Fort Snelling, in a neighboring state, opened their doors to them after their season had closed and treated the students and teachers as though they were visiting scholars and dignitaries on a quest for knowledge. And the cost for the tour? No cost! In the eyes of Kevin Maijala, “We’re just trying to be good neighbors!”

Those with questions about the project, or who want further information about the blacksmithing history of Burnett County, should call their local high school and someone will contact them. – submitted

St. Croix Falls closes their Pennies for Patients Week in style

Mr. Clark with his class, the top fundraisers. – Photos submitted ST. CROIX FALLS –With the assistance of local stylists Rachel Carney, proprietor of Rachel’s Hair & Nail Studio, Sherry Cameron and Megan Miller from Barb’s Family Hair Care in Taylors Falls, Minn., and Jessica Parks, owner of Jess’ Countryside Salon, the students and staff at St. Croix Falls Elementary had a wild ending to their leukemia and lymphoma fundraiser. Staff either volunteered or were persuaded to have their hair styled in the closing ceremonies on Friday morning. Along with this activity, Sylvan Erickson, of the Eagle Valley Bank, presented a check to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in the amount of $1,538.14. Mr. Clark’s class raised the most money with their total at $181.90.

Other activities included duct taping Mr. Benoy, elementary principal, to the wall during lunch recess! This “Stuck for a Buck” activity raised $401! Classrooms also honored state heroes by reading more about their fight against cancer within their classes. Mrs. Sal

Bonneville, second grade teacher, Anna Parsons, first-grade teacher and Maria Gjovig, school counselor, planned and organized the activities throughout the week. In addition, there were many students that also made the fundraiser a success. The fourth-grade students included: Emma Schorn, Kyle Drinken, Kevin Cross, Eve DeSmet, Stephanie Hansen, Kiley Sanislo, Katie Reeves, Coby Halstrom, Palo DeConcini, Casi Peterson, McKenzie Meyer, Ashley Ewald, Sophie Gutzmer, Kristin Petherbridge, Erin Gray, Ella Kerkow, Lyndsey Nelson, Katie Kopp, Kayeleen Ryan, Jeremiah Peer, Breanna Wondra, Taylor Jacobson, Leah Lyman, Andrew Jones, Carl Mevissen, Olivia Stoffel, Sydney Paulson, Alexis Murphy, Alyssa Brown, Sydney Paulson, Matthew LaMirande, Wren Smith, Noah Berg, Alysa Hankel, Timothy Fitzgerald, Rio Armstead, Courtney Zehm, Isaiah Lane and Olivia Peer.

Staff members were persuaded to have their hair styled in the closing ceremonies of the Pennies for Patients Week event.

Mr. Benoy being “Stuck for a Buck” by staff and students.

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"The Magic of Broadway Comes to West Sweden"

The chorus from Grace Lutheran Church, West Sweden, plus a few singers from outside the church, collaborated in selections from “Music Man” and “My Fair Lady” during “The Magic of Broadway Comes to West Sweden.” Most of the accompaniment was provided by Sandy Lundquist on the grand piano with prelude and postlude music by her daughter, Beth Cunningham. This magical musical evening was held at the church Saturday, Feb. 7. At least one request has already come in for a repeat performance at another location in the future.

Sisters Tina, Lena, Tillie (also known as Joan Route, Marlene Friberg and Lynda Wood), along with Helga, the accompanying pianist, who is not shown in this photo, put their comic skills together in a number titled “White Christmas.”

Photos by Nancy Jappe

Roberta Bitler provided a humorous but none-the-less talented note to the program with her rendition of “Hello Dolly,” asking the audience to join her on the final chorus.

Laryn Larson, dressed for the part of the Phantom from “Phantom of the Opera,” sang to his lady love, played by Andrea Lundquist, in the hit song from that show, “All I Ask of You.” RIGHT: Terrie Stoner performed the song “Cabaret” from the musical of the same name.

“The Magic of Broadway Comes to West Sweden” was the title of an evening program put on at Grace Lutheran Church Saturday, Feb. 7. The program, directed by Andrea and Sandy Lundquist, featured a chorus of singers in compilations from “Music Man” and “My Fair Lady” plus a wide variety of selections by individual performers.

LEFT: Linda Sventek sang “Almost Like Being in Love” from “Brigadoon.”

RIGHT: Andrea Lundquist and Andy Peloquin combined their voices on “Seasons of Love” from the Broadway musical “Rent.”

Lou Jappe’s outfit was deemed one of the best as he portrayed Tevye, the poor papa struggling to make a living against the edicts of the Tsar in “If I Were a Rich Man” from the musical “Fiddler on the Roof.” Jappe was accompanied, on the grand piano, by his wife, Nancy.

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Big Read comes alive at the Fort

by Sherill Summer DANBURY - Dogsled rides, cross country skiing and snowshoeing, a rendezvous winter camp and family activities were all a part of the Big Read event at Forts Folle Avoine this past Saturday, Feb. 7.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Read is "The Call of the Wild," by Jack London, story of Buck, the family dog who was taken from his comfortable home in California to the harsh Klondike wilderness. The intention of the winter rendezvous at the Fort was to bring many elements from the Klondike gold rush era alive.

Hopefully, you have noticed the serialized story in tis paper, beginning on Jan. 14. If you have missed this, or have missed a segment, it is still possible to view each segment so far on the Leaderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s e-edition.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts and is sponsored locally by the St. Croix Falls Public Library and the Festival Theatre, also in St. Croix Falls.

The event at the Fort is only one of many events scheduled in Burnett, Polk and Chisago counties. The next event will be Frostbite Follies at the Festival Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 14.

For more information about this or other Big Read events, contact Amy Klein at 888-887-6002 or visit the St. Croix Falls Library Web site at www.stcroixfallslibrary.org.

The Big Read event at Forts Folle Avoine on Saturday, Feb. 7, was a great excuse for Fort director Steve Wierschem (R) to bring out the rendezvous gear. Hot soup, warm drinks and a roaring fire made survival possible in the winter months, not only during the Klondike gold rush, but during the fur-trade era as well. This year's Big Read serialized "The Call of the Wild," by Jack London.

Enjoying the snow at Forts Folle Avoine was Noah.

Photos by Sherill Summer

Invited to make a map of her favorite place, Abigail drew a merry-go-round because she went to Walt Disney World with her family and rode on a horse on the merry-go-round. Besides dramatic readings from "The Call of the Wild," portions of "Paddle to the Sea," the classic by Holling C. Holling, were read during the event. Participants were then invited to create their own map of favorite places.

RIGHT: Al Johnson explained the history of various fur-trade era beads during the Big Read event at the Forts Folle Avoine on Saturday, Feb. 7.

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Family Game night

On Friday night, Jan. 30, the Grantsburg Elementary School hosted a Family Game Night. Parents and students were invited to bring board games to share.

Popcorn, juice, prizes and a good time was had by all. The elementary school has planned other family nights throughout the year, such as Family Movie Night, Family Reading Night and Family Math Night. Above, left photo, Jamie Michel, Ellie Duncan and Shilo Covey play Twister. Photo at right, William Coppenbarger, Samuel Dumas and Hauk Moritz play Ants in Pants. - Special photos

Wednesday Art Night now through March 25 SIREN - Burnett Area Arts Group and North Wind Arts are asking you to beat the winter blues and express your creativity each Wednesday night at Wednesday Night Art Night at North Wind Arts in Siren.

The event is open to the public.

Artists young and old should bring in a piece of art they are working on and enjoy the company of other artists.

Projects in any media is fine, from oil, acrylic and watercolor paint, to pastels, pencils, collage, pottery, jewelry, fiber, mixed media, etc.

The purpose of the group is to provide a chance for artists to come to-

gether to create and share ideas.

Many Wednesdays will have a special presenter that will share an art technique that they are familiar with, or direct a group project. Contact North Wind Arts to learn more about presentations planned.

The event is from 4:30 to 7 p.m. each Wednesday night through March 25.

A contribution of $5 is appreciated, but not required.

For more information, contact Jenny Goalen at 715-349-8448 or Web This is the second year that Burnett Area Arts Group and North Wind Arts have site northwindarts.net. - Sherill Sumhosted a Wednesday Night Art Night. Here is a photo from the event last year. - submer mitted

Local doctor takes calls for KARE 11 OSCEOLA - Colds, weight-loss strategies, diabetes – Osceola Medical Center’s Amanda Tembreull, M.D., heard it all last week when she answered health-related questions over the phone at KARE11 studios. The annual family physician phone bank at the television station offered free health advice during four news programs over the course of the day last Tuesday.

Co-sponsored by the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians, Tembreull joined nearly two dozen other family providers to answer more than 500 calls from viewers.

“This was a no-holds-barred, ask the family provider any medical question opportunity,” Tembreull said, and the questions they got were across the board.

Questions ranged from weight-loss strategies to getting better control over diabetes, and influenza and high blood pressure to joint pain and migraines.

“There were quite a few questions

a b o u t lumps and bumps, and dealing with chronic pain in elderly patients. Also a lot of cold and sinus issues: I recommended saline nasal irrigation a lot.”

The more Amanda Tembreull, M.D. challenging questions, though, did not deal with ailments. They centered on “trying to find medical care in this climate of job layoffs and budget cuts in medical assistance,” Tembreull said.

“Particularly frustrating and touching

Osceola Medical Center’s Amanda Tembreull, M.D., second from right in the front row, joined some two dozen providers last week answering health-related questions during a phone bank at KARE-11 studios. More than 500 people called to get answers to all sorts of ailments, including diabetes, migraines and the flu. The annual phone bank was co-sponsored by the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians. - Photo submitted

was a caller concerned about a friend of his who was living out of his truck down south and without medical insurance.

He apparently has tumors throughout his body, but is unable to have further workup or treatment due to lack of health care. The caller wants his friend to come up to Minnesota, but wanted to be sure he could find a place that would agree to treat him, and was asking me if I knew of any resources.

“I was amazed by the number of callers who didn’t have health insurance and were wondering how they could get medical care.”

By the end of the evening, Tembreull was pleased by the work she and her panel of providers accomplished.

“This was really a great experience,” Tembreull said. “I felt like I helped reassure some people, reinforced what their

own provider had already told some, and was just a needed listening ear for others.

“I think that in the hustle and bustle of our day-to-day practices, we may not take the time to explain thoroughly to patients in plain English what’s going on with their bodies. The phone bank gave callers a chance to ask questions anonymously and get some of those answers.”

A member of the MAFP, Tembreull said she saw an opportunity to volunteer for this annual phone bank.

“I haven’t done this before, but plan on being involved again next year.”

A family medicine physician, Tembreull practices at OMC in Osceola.

Along with family practice and preventive care, Tembreull also has special interests in women’s health, obstetrics and pediatric medicine. - from OMC

DMV customer service centers closed Feb. 16 for staff training STATEWIDE — Division of Motor Vehicles customer service centers and phone centers throughout Wisconsin will be closed for business on Monday, Feb. 16, Presidents Day, so that all frontline customer service representatives may receive technical process and procedural updates and training.

Although staff at DMV phone centers will be in training and unable to take calls, DMV’s automated phone system will remain available so that motorists can still make road test appointments and have access to recorded information. Many services do not require a visit to a service center and are available online at: www.wisconsindmv.gov.

DMV conducts regional training sessions to minimize employee travel and to provide more training time at reduced costs to the division, according to Kristina Boardman, director of the DMV’s Bureau of Field Services. “Ongoing staff training is essential to keep up with changes in technology, policies and procedures,” Boardman said. “It helps us meet our primary goal – providing customer services that are as consistent and efficient as possible.”

She indicated that Feb. 16 was selected for the statewide training because it is a federal holiday, which typically reduces the number of customers visiting service centers. — from DMV

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Luck Honor Roll and C.I.A. Card earners

The Cardinal Intelligence Agency was created at Luck High School 17 years ago as a program to recognize and reward academic excellence and student achievement. As a part of this, Luck High School has created a student achievement incentive program. Its concept is to recognize students with shortterm, tangible incentives; just as is done in the world of business with employees. The incentives are earned on a quarterly basis. For example, after the first-quarter grades come out, students who are a part of the program can be enrolled to be members in one of the four following groups: Gold Card: This full-time regular education student has earned an A- (3.666) or above grade point average during the preceding quarter, has one or fewer disciplinary notices, has no failing grades or incompletes, has no unexcused absences or unserved detention time, no extracurricular code violations, and no suspensions.

Red Card: This full-time regular education student has earned a B- (2.666) or above grade point average during the preceding quarter, has two or fewer disciplinary notices, has no failing grades or incompletes, has no unexcused absences or unserved detention time, no extracurricular code violations and no suspensions.

Cardinal Card: This full-time regular education student has earned a C- (1.666) or above grade point average during the preceding quarter, has three or fewer disciplinary notices, has no failing grades or incompletes, has no unexcused absences or un-served detention time, no extracurricular code violations and no suspensions.

C.I.A. Card: Students earning this card are full-time regular education students who have earned less than a C- (1.666) grade point average; however, they have improved their quarterly grade point average by 0.5 or more from their previous quarterly average. In addition, they can have no extracurricular code violations, no unexcused absences, no suspensions, and no unserved detention time.

Levels of membership in the cardinal intelligence agency fluctuate from quarter to quarter; however, once a student chooses to enroll in the C.I.A., his or her eligibility to retain membership ceases only upon their graduation from Luck High School. This program offers recognition and serves as an incentive for all of the students at Luck High School. History has shown that the majority of students who are currently earning Cardinal or C.I.A. cards will move up to Red and/or Gold Cards in the future. This program seeks to move all students toward the pursuit of academic excellence.

According to the district motto, Luck Schools prepare lifelong learners and responsible citizens. The Cardinal Intelligence Agency attempts to promote this goal by recognizing students’ perfect attendance and by requiring that positive behavior be one of the cornerstones of the C.I.A. program.

Luck High School is a community – a community where

every student can and will learn, where every student can and will graduate, where every student can and will celebrate excellence as he/she climbs the ladder toward academic success.

Honor Roll Seniors Adam Anderson – G, Maraya Anderson, Cody Borresen, Aushleana Branville – G, Shane Buchholz – R, Christine Franzel, Jamison Gross – G, Sierra Hulett, Grace Jenson – G, Melissa Jenssen – G, Kasey Johnson, Alyssa Lehmann – G, James Longhenry – G, Christian McCabe – G, Hannah Melin – G, Jimmy Mellon, Nick Morgan – R, Brennan Olson – G, Ashley Overby – G, Ross Petersen, Jenny Roettger – G, Chantalle Rowley – G, Marnie Rozumalski – G, Harry Severson – Dickinson, Krystal Stage – G, Ariel Thompson, Joe Thompson – R and Ashley Valentine – G.

A Honor Roll Grade 9 Daniel Bjorn, Benjamin Davis, Rachel Diffee, Benjamin Dorff, Lucas Henneman, Thomas Labatt, Daniel Larsen, Paul Lewis, Kaelah Maslow, Nicole McKenzie, David Ohnstad, Cora Olson, Isaac Peterson, Kyle Roberts, Hannah Rod, Mathew Swenson, Nicole Ticknor and Gabrielle Witzany.

Wilde and Larissa Wilhelm.

Grade 10 Emily Cole, Lauren Finch, Jessica Hoffman, Haley Johnson, Rosalie LaMere, Alyssa Landsberger, William Lauer, Gavin Meyer, Tiffany Meyer, Brent Myers, Cory Niles, Dianna Olson, Dylan Roberts, McKenzie Ryan, Carissa Skifstad, Erin Stavne, Emily Swenson, Cherissa Vollendorf, Tabitha Wanless and Alison Warren.

B Honor Roll Grade 9 Zackery Arnold, Cody Benedict, Haley Burkhardt, April Campana, Joseph Engelhart, Jessica Finch, Kali Fleischauer, Jeffrey Konz, Nicholas Lindgren, Amanda Lindus, Devin McDaniel, Kelsey Meyer, Stephanie Miklya, Kaitlyn Muellner, Carl Palmquist, Damien Rasmussen, Matthew VanDeusen and Craig Vollendorf.

Grade 11 Carinna Coy, Casey Crawford, Cody Crawford, Lindsey Fallstrom, Kelsey Lien, Michelle Lund, John Schneider Jr., Kallie Thoreson, Aimee VanTatenhove, Sarah Wald, Michelle

Crystal Mattson of Luck has recently been named to the Crown College Honorable Mention List for the fall 2008 semester. A senior this year, Mattson is pursuing a degree in nursing. She is a 2004 graduate of Luck High School, and is the daughter of Dale and Robin Mattson and Gary and Theresa Nelson.

••• RIVER FALLS – Jennifer Rogers, Frederic, has been named to the dean’s list at UW-River Falls for the 2008 fall semester.

Only students carrying 12 or more credits and having a grade point of at least 3.5 are honored in this way.

Juniors Taylor Horsager – G, Kassi Ingram – G, Peter Langeness G, Mitchell Larson – R, Aleah Lemieux, Mary MaidenMueller – G, Bailee Swenson – R and Rachel Virkus – G. Sophomores Morgan Denny – G, Sarah Elert – G, David Franzel – G, Karissa Giller – G, Logan Hacker – G, Kyle James – G, Brady Klatt – G, Tabitha Pilz – R and A. J. Walsh-Brenizer – R. Freshmen Taylar Anderson – G, Brett Bartylla – R, Julie Franzel - R, Michael Jenssen – G, Laurie Jorgenson – G, Maia Lehmann – G and Morgyn McGinnity – G. Honorable mention Seniors Kaylyn Ball – R, April Branville – R, Melita Erickson – R, Dylan Fultz, Jeff Gackle, Jared Jensen, John Larkin, Brett Larson, Derek Letch – R, Glenn Mishler, Justin Virkus – R and Andy Wortman – R. Juniors Dana Ericksen – R, Samantha Fenning – R, Carson Giller – R, Arnold Gore – R, Katie Gutzmer, Diana Kufalk – R, Elie Lewis – R, Lakeysha Schallenberger – R, Alex Smith and Eryn Taber.

Sophomores Bryce Amlee – R, Karie Bartlett – R, Stacie Buck – R, Nick Leal, Megan Moore – R, Kasey Ouellette, Adrian Riedman – R, Lindsey Stapel, Roger Steen – R, Landen Strilzuk, Alex Wilkinson and Kristine Wortman – R.

Grantsburg Honor Roll

Grade 12 Lydia Benge Briggs, Bradley Berner, Michael Corty, Nicole Davis, Justine Diffee, Mitchell Evenson, David Larsen, Lauren Leonard, Jennifer Lisiecki, Nathan McConnell, Tyler Myers, Lauren Stavne and Abbey Vaksdal.

Grade 10 Rachel Anderson, Andrew Falk, Lisa Gaffney, Steven Haupt, Anna Horky, Valerie Jensen, Lauren Jewell, Kyle John-

Academic news

••• OSHKOSH –UW-Oshkosh officials have announced the names of students who qualified for the dean’s list and honor roll in the fall semester of the 2008-2009 school year.

To qualify for the honor roll, a student must take at least 12 credits and earn a grade-point average of at least 3.3. Those with a GPA of 3.75 or higher qualify for the dean’s list.

Chelsea Benitz and Kelsey Hendricks, Osceola, and Amy Busby, St. Croix Falls were named to the honor roll.

••• ROCHESTER – Rochester Community and Technical Col-

Freshmen Chad Adams, Tony Aguado – R, Alysha Dalbec – R, Lindsey Ericksen – R, Shardae Garcia – R, Jake Gerlach, Summer Johnson – R, Danielle Nelson – R, Spencer Nelson, Krystal Ouellette – R, Jesse Rennicke – R, J.P. Richey, Jake Schrock – R and Andrew Sund – R. Additional Red Cards Juniors Derek Buck, Gary Ekholm and Alecia Ouellette.

Sophomores Cole Mortel and Gena Pearson.

Freshmen Clint Gage, Brandon Holdt, Ben Kufalk and Nick Otlo.

Cardinal Cards Seniors Jerod Buck and Jake Meyer.

Aaron Sorenson.

Juniors

Sophomores Devin Douglas, Devin Harvieux, Kayla Karl, Neal Mellon, Alec Mortel, Jade Schrock, Brandon Skow, Chris Spencer and Kelly Stokes.

Freshmen Jessie Harrison, Cain Lindquist, Morgan Pullin and Nick Tronrud.

Perfect Attendance – second quarter Taylar Anderson, April Branville, Derek Buck, Carson Giller, Karissa Giller, Logan Hacker, Melissa Jenssen, Michael Jenssen, Connery Johnson, Laurie Jorgenson, Kayla Karl, Ben Kufalk, Justin LaDuke, Maia Lehmann, Krystal Ouellette, Ashley Overby, Gena Pearson, Marnie Rozumalski, Jake Schrock, Aaron Sorenson, Krystal Stage and Bailee Swenson.

Perfect Attendance – first semester Karissa Giller, Logan Hacker, Melissa Jenssen, Michael Jenssen, Connery Johnson, Kayla Karl, Krystal Ouellette, Aaron Sorenson, Krystal Stage and Bailee Swenson.

son, Steven McKinley, Laissa Miller, Kortney Morrin, James Nelson, Seth Odegard, Christine Peterson, Lydia Pfluger, Jonathan Radtke and Trevor Thompson.

Grade 11 Jessica Banks, Jessica Bryant, Kody Capistrant, Heather Davison, Austin Eskola, Anthony Folk, Daniel Gaffney, Jessika Ilgen, Steven Labatt, Jennifer Langevin, Cerenity Louis, Christopher Olson, Anne Palmquist, Joshua Phillipps, Ethan Prazak, Dustin Ryan, Derek Sando, Cody Tromberg and Matthew Wood.

Grade 12 Ingrid Ames, Kevin Berry, Trent Bonneville, Benjamin Cole, Jonathan DeRocker, Bobbie Durand, Connar Goetz, Gretchen Hedlund, Jason Jensen, Kirsten Kaiser, Sarah Kline, Anthony Larson, Thane Larson, Keegan Marek, Jessica Moyer, Samantha Oman, Kathleen Preissing, Jake Ryan, Erika Syverson, Kaitlin Unbehaun, Kristin Zastrow and Tina Zimmermann.

lege is pleased to announce its fall semester dean’s list. The following students have achieved a grade point average between 3.0 and 4.0 for courses completed in the fall semester ending this past December.

Jonathan M. Melin, Centuria; Brian D. Offerdahl, Cushing; Nolan J. Neumann, Frederic; Cari L. Skifstad, Grantsburg; and Alisa L. Eckel, Luck were named to the dean’s list.

– submitted •••

Charter school accepting enrollment applications for 2009-2010 school year tion packets are available for the 2009-10 school year.

Applications must be postmarked or received at the Woodland Elementary School by 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20.

Residents who do not reside in Barron County must also submit WI DPI open enrollment forms.

Anyone wondering about the Montessori method of education is encouraged to attend a series of educational events. Join them in the library at Woodland Elementary School from 6-7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 11, for Doorway To Lifelong Learning, focusing on how Montessori prepares children for life, the process of normalization and transitioning from Children’s House to lower elementary or a traditional classroom. Wednesday, March 11, Dr. Steven Hughes, internationally renowned University of Minnesota Medical School pediatric neuropsychologist, will share his cutting-edge knowledge of early childhood brain development and brain-based, developmental education.

Application packets may be picked up at either workshop or at the Woodland Elementary School office. Bar-

ron Area Montessori School does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin or differing ability. Questions? Visit www.barronmontessori.org, contact Sherry Wesolowski, 715-537-5627, wesolowskis@barron.k12.wi.us, or the Woodland Elementary office, 715-537-5621. — from Barron Area Montessori School

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BARRON — The Barron Area Montessori Charter School is accepting enrollment applications for the 2009-10 school year. The Barron Area School District is excited to offer a lower elementary Montessori program for six- to nine-year-olds in addition to the existing Children’s House program for three- to six-year-olds.

The charter school is currently located at the Woodland Elementary School.

Montessori experiences establish a strong foundation for learning by fostering the child’s curiosity, creativity and natural intelligence in an environment of respect, peace and joy. Each mixed-age classroom provides a three-year curriculum that allows children to learn at their own pace. The Montessori approach to learning helps children develop their whole personality in order to prepare themselves for life. The children work independently and in small groups with interactive, scientifically designed learning materials under the guidance of highly trained, nurturing Montessori Guides.

Barron Area Montessori School enrollment applica-

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A Honor Roll Grade 5 Daniel Okes, Cassidy Formanek, Annika Hendrickson, Grant Preston and Kaela Lundeen.

Grade 6 William Cooper, Zachary Koelz, Brett Richison, Carrie Rosenthal, Ellora Schaaf, Madison Main, Marissa Elmblad, Nathanael Gatten, Sean Martinez, Alyssia Benjamin, Dade McCarthy, Nicholas Robinson, Ashley Davis, Alec Gustafson, Ryan Curtis, Julia Saraceno, Mallory Daniels, Raelyn Tretsven, Kendel Mitchell, Kimberly Thielman, Alexis Frazee, Katrina Matrious-Staples, Emilie Pope and Ciarra Lechman.

Grade 7 Brian Billings, Mikayla Hatfield, Kristine Watral, Evon Maxwell, Paige Young, Harley Berthiaume, Cullan Hopkins, Sarah Thielke, Roxanne Songetay, Jess Petersen, Cabrina Hopkins, Steven Stoll, Jack Ralph, Logan Rutledge, William Arnold III, Amysue Grieff, Erik Larson, Ashley Dietmeier, Lance Preston, Tamera Quatmann, Aleah Heinz, Megan Hophan, Janie Waltzing, Sydney Stellrecht, Jalicia Larson, Aaron Dietmeier, Ashley Starks, Alex Spafford, Julio Calixto Rosas and Devon Rondou.

Webster Honor Roll

Grade 8 Amber Davis, Nikkita Emberson, Jacob Hunter, Charles Mahlen, Chelsey McIntyre, Samantha Perius, Brianna Phernetton, Danielle Formanek, Kaleiah Schiller, Matthew Smith, Brenna Nutt, Darren Deal, Cailea Dochniak, Emma Kelby, Tessa Schiller, Danielle Curtis, Alyxandria Hatfield, Tianna Stewart, Cassandra Heller, Victoria Pope, Brooke Bird, Jacob Sargent and Gabriella Schiller.

Grade 9 Olivia Kopecky, Audrey Mulliner, Brittany Maxwell, Matthew Hophan, Chelsea Larson, MacKenzie Koelz and Miranda Burger.

Grade 10 Devin Greene, Michael Billings, Shaina Pardun, Michelle Gibbs, Mason Kriegel, Siiri Larsen, Kayce Rachner, Breeana Watral, Connor Pierce, Greg McIntyre, Bryana Andren, Chiara Colalelli, Samantha Kopecky, Jenna Anderson, Elise Windbiel, Kayla Duclon, Billie Ingalls and Jayme Mitchell.

Grade 11 Nolan Kriegel, Nick Doriott, Allison Leef, Chaz Heinz, Nicholas Koelz, Bryan Krause, Loreto Stange, Thitiwan “Pare” Seephueng,

Grade 12 Kelsey Tretsven, Brittany Flatten, Rose Kopecky, Olivia Main, Niels Van Vliet, Bradley Nutt, Catie Mahlen, Ryan Clemmons, Ashley Clay, Eric Plath, Courtney Erickson, Quentin Johnson, Kara Gall, Cassandra Anderson and Ashley Matrious.

B Honor Roll Grade 5 Samantha Culver, Alec Ralph, Nicole Hursh, Nicole Moretter, Max Norman, Tate Fohrenkamm, Darrick Nelson, Taylor Espeseth, Toni Petersen, Jonathan Rein, Connor Raschke and Emma Olsen.

Grade 6 Andrew Schrooten, Alexandria Spears, Marissa Bambery, Kenna Gall, Madeline Snow, Kelly Waltzing, Megan Tyson, Christina Weis, Richard Bell, Daniel Formanek, Summer Bjork, Brandon Johnson and Vincent Larson.

Grade 7 Robert Cook, Alexandria Holmstrom, Michael Johnson, Cassandra Kilgore and Marissa Elliott.

Siren Honor Roll

A Honor Roll Grade 7 Devan Pavlicek, James Richison, Lucas Stiemann, Jessica Strabel and Whitney Yambrick.

Grade 8 Elizabeth Brown, Joy Dunlap, Raven Emery, Mackenzie Erickson, Matthew Larson, Joshua Lemieux and Hunter Wikstrom.

Stephanie Taylor.

Grade 9 Luck Bollant, Rachel Gloodt, Kaylene Johnson, Christina Luna, Jessica Lysdahl, Evan Oachs and Isaac Wegner.

B Honor Roll Grade 7 Corey Bauer, Austin Bruss, John D’Jock, Jared Emery, Courtney Fischer, Carly Good, Timothy Gravelle-Moody, Amber Moore, Michelle Potempa, Mackenzie Smith, Jade Taylor and Valdimir Zirngibl.

Grade 10 Carley Emery, Nathaniel Larson, Tadd Oachs, Elizabeth Otto, Jacob Stiemann and

Violet Wilkie, Bethany Nutt and Andrew Larson.

Grade 11 Jamie Fischbach, Sarah Howe and Mackenzie Swenson.

Grade 12 Allison Didier, Emily Muus, Wambolt and Andrew Wellman.

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Grade 8 Brittany Coulter, Shay Johnson, Kyaisha Kettula, Cassandra Mercer, Lisa Moylan, Shelbi Spafford, Jacob Swenson, Samuel Vasatka and Mathew Wampfler.

Grade 9 John Aguilera, Heather Bearheart, Andrew Brown, Amber Hall, Leo Hanson, Elijah Hinze, Katie Kelly-Schaefer, Qi Xin Li, Ian Martin, Abigail Mitchell, Leanne Pigman, Taylor Renberg, Tyler Richison and Jocelyn Rudd.

Grade 10 Ashley Bjornstad, Tiara Hanson, Brittani Hopkins, Danielle Keller, Catrina Luna, Dillon Lysdahl, Jessica Morris, Coty Reh, Kris-

Grade 8 Savana Arcand, Carl Rachner, Sheyanne Kislenger and Nathan Puttbrese.

Grade 9 Matthew Elmgren, Kimberly Reed, Shauna Rein, Melissa Gustavson, Katlyn Payson, Tatyana Pope, Joseph Erickson, Tanya Johnson, Joshua Baer, Benjamin Leef and Leslea Wiggins.

Grade 10 Alyssa Main, Austin Elliott, Annie Kelby, Mary Johnson and Benjamin Jensen.

Grade 11 Sarah Walsh, Rachel Larson, Nicole Steiner, Timothy Sundstrom, Ashley Robinson-Madsen, Ellie Isaacson, Phillip Preston, Karl Weber, Shane Rossow, Kevin Packard, Judson Mosher, Joseph Cook, James Erickson and Daniel Pope.

Grade 12 Kaci Deering, Mitchell Elliott, Rebecca Schrooten, Nicholas Krinkie, Rebecca Smallwood, Adam Baum, Travis Hughes, Jordan Werdier and Kara Woller.

ten Sexton, Michael Wampfler and Jeremy Wikstrom.

Grade 11 Meghan Baasch, Breanna Barr, Jessica Bauer, Chelsea Hunter, Jenna Jarrell, Derek Jaskolka, Kendra Jones, Joseph Pigman and Samantha Will.

Grade 12 Amanda Bachman, Shawn Blum, Charles Brown IV, Benjamin Clasen, Christina Conrow, Janey Emery, Aaron Engstrand, Amber Guevara, Jesse Hinze, Damian Hubbell, Michael Hunter, Kevin Niedenfuer, Cassandra Olson, Samuel Radke, Myia Schroeder and Collin Tewalt.

WHAT’S FOR LUNCH???

LOCATION

Menu

FREDERIC GRANTSBURG Each building will have their own breakfast menu.

LUCK

SIREN ST. CROIX FALLS UNITY WEBSTER

FEBRUARY 16 - FEBRUARY 20

MONDAY NO SCHOOL

PRESIDENTS DAY

NO SCHOOL PRESIDENTS DAY

NO SCHOOL PRESIDENTS DAY

NO SCHOOL PRESIDENTS DAY

NO SCHOOL PRESIDENTS DAY

NO SCHOOL

TUESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

BREAKFAST Uncrustable, cereal, juice, milk.

LUNCH K-6 ham patty, 7-12 pretzel with cheese, cottage cheese, winter mix OR chicken taco salad.

BREAKFAST BREAKFAST Cinnamon roll, cereal, juice, milk.

Breakfast pizza, cereal, juice, milk.

LUNCH LUNCH Mini corn dogs, pretzels, baked Meat loaf, scalloped potatoes, corn, pudding cup OR beef taco salad. beans OR turkey salad.

BREAKFAST Breakfast bites, cereal, juice, milk.

LUNCH Roast beef sandwich, chips, raw veggies, dip OR ham salad.

LUNCH Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, peaches.

LUNCH Italian dunkers, macaroni & cheese wedges, peas, mixed fruit.

LUNCH Taco salad w/fixings, refried beans, corn, mandarin oranges.

LUNCH Cheeseburger, vegetable beef soup, sliced carrots, pineapple tidbits.

BREAKFAST Cereal/omelet.

LUNCH Mini corn dogs, corn bread, baked beans, fruit sauce. Alt.: Hamburger, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Cereal/donut.

LUNCH Cardinal burger, macaroni & cheese, corn, fresh fruit. Alt.: Chicken patty, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Cereal/pancakes.

LUNCH Scalloped potatoes & ham, peas, fruit sauce. Alt.: Pizza, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Cereal/cinnamon roll.

LUNCH Hot dog, hash browns, green beans, fresh fruit. Alt.: Hamburger, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Cinnamon tastry, juice and milk.

LUNCH Peanut butter and jelly, yogurt, peas, veggies, applesauce. Alt.: Chicken tender wrap.

BREAKFAST Assorted cereal, toast served with juice and milk.

LUNCH Sloppy joes, Tostitos, shredded lettuce, baked beans, pineapple and mandarin oranges. Alt.: Hot dog.

BREAKFAST Pancake & sausage on a stick, juice and milk.

LUNCH Baked chicken, mashed potatoes, lettuce salad, corn, pears. Alt.: Salisbury steak.

BREAKFAST Assorted cereal, toast served with juice and milk.

LUNCH Pizza dippers, rice, baby carrots, peas, pineapple and mandarin oranges. Alt.: Cook’s choice.

BREAKFAST Cereal bar and toast.

LUNCH Chicken patty, bun, spicy potato wedges, carrots, pears.

BREAKFAST Egg and cheese muffin.

LUNCH Tacos, hard and soft shell, lettuce and fixings, peas, pineapple, cinnamon rolls.

BREAKFAST Pancakes and sausage.

LUNCH Turkey gravy, biscuits, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, peaches.

BREAKFAST Breakfast pizza.

Blueberry muffins.

LUNCH Cheese Mini corndogs dogs,w/toppings, tater tots, baked corn, chips, cinnamon spicy apple slices.applesauce baked beans. Alt.: Veggie beef barley, turkey sandwich.

BREAKFAST

BREAKFAST Yogurt parfaits.

LUNCH Pizza calzone and mixed vegetables.

BREAKFAST

BREAKFAST Breakfast pockets.

LUNCH Sub sandwich, chips & cottage cheese.

Waffles.

PRESIDENTS DAY

LUNCH Chicken a la king, potatoes or biscuit and peas.

NO SCHOOL

LUNCH Hot dog, bun, baked beans, potatoes, peaches, pears.

PRESIDENTS DAY

WEDNESDAY

LUNCH Chicken fajita, salad, salsa OR hamburger gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, fruit cocktail, applesauce.

Pancakes.

LUNCH Chicken nuggets and rice.

LUNCH Sub sandwich, chips, pineapple, mandarin oranges.

LUNCH California cheeseburger, bun, fresh veggies, fresh fruit.

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CHURCH NEWS Love thy neighbor and they enemy

Daily

There’s love … and then there’s love. The kind of love celebrated on Valentine’s Day most often refers to physical love – Eros.

Some of us celebrate the day with friends or family in the context of brotherly love – phileo. Both kinds of love evoke pleasant feelings between or among people.

Both prompt us to give tokens such as flowers, candy, cards, special meals, or other gifts. Valentine’s Day truly is special.

Perspectives God’s love – agape love, however, encompasses much more than the giving of gifts or outward affection to another person. Besides loving God first and our neighbor as ourselves, God’s love allows us to love even our enemies. Can you imagine giving someone a box of chocolates after he or she stole your car? Can you imagine yourself going up to the guy who murdered your son and saying, “I forgive you”? Can you imagine loving the man who raped your daughter?

These are hard facts of life that happen every day.

Love and forgiveness for such criminals comes hard.

But Jesus said, “Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you …” (Matthew 5:44) He knew what psychologists and others teach us today, that forgiveness brings healing to the forgiver.

Jesus’ example is the one we are to follow. That means loving and forgiving our enemies whether we feel like it or not. It doesn’t necessarily mean we should bring them chocolates, but it does mean we are to express our love in ways that Jesus did.

Jesus also wants us believers to love other believers, whether they agree with us or not. Love among Christian brothers and sisters promotes unity, which is His desire.

Neighbors, Christian brothers and sisters, family members, spouses, enemies: we are to love them all.

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another … by this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Love is patient and bends over backwards to please.

It sees the best in others and overlooks the worst. It’s compassionate, rather than harsh or rude, prone to give soft touches, kind words, and smiles. It is not self-serving.

Lord, may Your awesome love rule in our hearts today and always, so much so that we will be compelled to show it to others—even our enemies. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Sally Bair Eternal

Donor appreciation part of evening BALSAM LAKE - Interfaith Caregivers Donor Appreciation and Annual Meeting will be held Saturday, Feb. 14, beginning with a donor reception at 10 a.m. with the annual meeting at 10:30 a.m. at the lower level conference room at Interfaith offices, 214 Main Street in Balsam Lake.

The program helped 273 seniors and adults with disabilities to maintain their independence at home in 2008.

Caring volunteers offered nonmedical services like transportation, friendly visits, yard work and more at no cost to neighbors in Polk County.

At the organization’s annual meeting, Interfaith will be celebrating its successes – their volunteers donated 6,127 hours and 55,769 miles last year. Interfaith is looking forward to 10-percent growth in requests and volunteers for 2009.

Persons are asked to RSVP so Interfaith volunteers can plan refreshments. For more info contact 715-485-9500. – with submitted information

Juleen to be honored

Have you ever noticed how often the word “daily” occurs in the New Testament? According to the NKJV, it’s occurs 22 times. I would like to consider just a few examples: Matthew 26:55, Mark 14:49, and Luke 19:47 record that Jesus “sat DAILY” teaching others, even those who attacked and persecuted Him. Acts 5:42 tells us that “DAILY in the temple, and in every house,” the early saints “did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.” Do you make the opportunity to teach about Jesus every day, and in every way, you can?

Acts 17:11 says that the Berean Christians, “searched the scriptures DAILY” in order to confirm, what they heard and what they were told was inspired and consistent with God’s word. Do you go to God’s word every day in order to increase your understanding of His commands and desires for your life?

Hebrews 3:13 urges God’s people to “exhort one another DAILY” so that none will fall into the deceitfulness of sin. If we wait until someone is already drowning in sin, it may be to late. We need to encourage each other regularly to help keep from sin. Like the doctor says, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Acts 17:17 exhorts us through Paul’s example as he “reasoned in the synagogues with the Jews and Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace DAILY with those who happened to be there.” Do we discuss Jesus with others every day? Is Jesus part of our daily conversations?

Matthew 6:11 teaches us to pray and thank God for everything that is provided for us, including “our DAILY bread…” Do we appreciate all that God does

for us? Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (Matthew 6:30-33) Luke 9:23 reminds us that if Preacher’s anyone desires to come after Christ, he must deny himself, and “take up his cross DAILY,” and follow Him. The Bible makes it abundantly clear that our faith is not meant to be some sort of “Sunday only” religion. Instead, it is something to be lived and practiced and obeyed DAILY. Think about it.

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 at 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.

Garret Derouin The Pen

Operation Warm & Toasty When informed about Operation Warm & Toasty, where knitted or crocheted hats are needed for our troops, Ambassador Girl Scouts Cora and Jessica Bauer of Webster had to pause and think, “Who knits or crochets?”

It was a project they couldn’t do themselves, yet they wanted to help. They asked Karen Wright to show them how to crochet, and on Feb. 8, Wright came to their home with patterns, yarn, instructions, and a lot of patients to show the two girls different stitches. Wright has been knitting/crocheting for about 35 years. “We now have four hats for the wounded warriors that are being flown on medevac flights from Iraq to Germany,” said an e-mail from the Bauer sisters. – Special photo

Locks of Love donation

UW-Barron County student Lake Lacy Sellent, 19, cut 14 inches of hair off this January.

She donated it to Locks of Love. This was not Sellent’s first hair donation. She also donated 11 inches five years earlier. – Photo submitted

MILLTOWN – Jane Juleen will be honored by the Milltown Lutheran Church for her many years of service as the financial secretary and the Milltown WELCA treasurer on Sunday, Feb. 15, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. (between morning worship services. - submitted

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CHURCH NEWS Full circle…at last FREDERIC – Two years ago the Leader published an article, Almost Full Circle, on Pastor Larry and Ilona Juergensen as they were welcomed to Wisconsin by the congregations of Clam Falls Lutheran and Zion Lutheran churches.

Two years later, they are moving back to their home state of Minnesota. They have bought a home in Chisago City, located just off of Hwy. 8.

“We want to live closer to our grandchildren and we hope and pray that I’ll receive a letter of call to serve as a pastor,” Larry noted.

During his time as a pastor in various places across the United States, Juergensen has witnessed up close what he describes as the best of God’s creations during his canoe ventures – from the Boundary Waters of Minnesota to the bayous of Louisiana.

He considered his latest charge as one of the better “miracles” he’s experienced because it allowed him to be closer to family and friends. It was the latest chapter in a career that began in a church in Iowa and over the years brought him to churches and parishes in northern Minnesota, North Dakota, Louisiana, Arizona and Illinois.

“I consider all the places I’ve been to blessed by God because he wanted me specifically there,” he noted.

“He made ways that I could go there.”

Through all the stops, Juergensen said he’s kept his passion for canoeing. All his life he’s made trips to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota with family and youth groups.

The beauty of God’s wilderness is all around, he said, and the St. Croix and Namekagon rivers were close by and the people of the churches he served have been warm and welcoming.

“As I told our congregation on our first Sunday,” Juergensen noted. “We’re in heaven, and we haven’t died.”

Juergensen said he once asked one member of his church where he was from originally and the member said that he was “from heaven and I’m on vacation in Wisconsin.”

“That statement topped mine,” Juergensen said.

Pastor Larry and Ilona Juergensen pose near an apple tree in the yard of their home near Clam Falls.

Pastor Larry served the Clam Falls Lutheran and Zion Lutheran churches for the past two years and the couple is now moving to Minnesota. – File photo

by Gary King “Wisconsin is truly a heavenly place to live on earth.

It’s a beautiful part of God’s creation.”

Members of both churches have wished the Jergensens well as they enjoy their grandchildren in semiretirement.

Behind their new town home in Chisago City is a walking path and within five minutes the Jergensens can be at a park overlooking Chisago Lake. It’s called Paradise Park.

“We hope this is our last earthy home until we are called to ask in our new Paradise Park called heaven,” Juergensen said. “Now we have come full circle at last!”– with information from Oct. 4, 2006, Leader article

Two welcomed into God's family

OBITUARIES Dorothy Foss Dorothy Fern Anderson Hagen Foss, 89, Sarona, died Feb. 8, 2009, at Heritage Manor in Rice Lake.

She was born March 12, 1919, at home in Alden Township, Polk County, to Alfred and Lottie (Elden) Anderson. She was baptized on March 15, 1919, and confirmed on Nov. 5, 1933, at Black Brook Lutheran Church. She attended school until her eighthgrade graduation. She had several jobs as hired help on farms and also worked at a chicken hatchery in Star Prairie. In the spring of 1937 she went to Madison and worked at the Oscar Mayer plant in Madison for six years. On Sept. 9, 1937, she was married at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Madison to Henry Hagen. They moved to the Long Lake area in July of 1944 due to Henry’s health problems. He died after a battle with cancer on July 5, 1970.

Dorothy worked for several of the resorts in the area cleaning cabins, and from 1958 to 1976, she worked at Birchwood Manufacturing in Rice Lake. She married Ernest Foss on Feb. 12, 1972, at Long Lake Lutheran Church. He preceded her in death on June 28, 1996. She was also preceded in death by an infant son; stepson Niel Foss; great-grandson Austin Hagen; sisters Marie Rudeen, Alfreda Nitzkowski, Emma Maypark and Ida Mae Silvig; brothers Herman, Gaylord, Nels and Arthur Anderson. Dorothy loved gardening and flowers, especially gladiolas. She also enjoyed music, reading stories to children and remembering people by sending cards. She was a member of Long Lake Lutheran Church since 1944 and belonged to the ladies circle.

She is survived by son Arthur (Connie) Hagen, Rice Lake, and Alfred (Debrah) Hagen, Sarona; Lois and LaVern Modrow, Shell Lake; Robert and Connie, Sarona; Harold and Ruth in Texas; David and Jean, Rice Lake; Carol and Dennis, Sarona; Carl and Dana in Georgia; sister-in-law Joyce Anderson; Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson, Cumberland, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Raark of South Dakota; many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren; her siblings, Mildred Spurell and Walter Anderson both of Amery Funeral services were held Feb. 11 at Long Lake Lutheran Church. Burial was in Long Lake Lutheran Cemetery. Pallbearers were Alfred Hagen, Cheri Pankratz, Andrew Hagen, Valerie Leake, Kristopher Hagen and Tad Hagen.

The Jarocki Funeral Home, Rice Lake, was entrusted with arrangements.

Loren Olson

On Sunday, Feb. 8, two children were welcomed into God’s family through baptism at Bethany Lutheran Church in Siren. Photo at right: Sydney Ann Erickson, daughter of Russ and Terri Erickson, is an active youth member of Bethany, participating in confirmation classes and often leading Wednesday night devotional services with her class. Sydney’s sponsors are Craig Chenal, Samantha Thomas, Lee and Erica Doriott. Her special faith partner is Robie Carlson. Photo at leftt: Lucy Ellen Peterson is the daughter of Dan and Karla Peterson. Her sponsors are Beth Peterson, Dale Peterson, Bonnie Foehser and Kerri Nelson. - Photos submitted

Luck church to hold ‘50s sock hop LUCK – The Bone Lake Lutheran Mission trip is sponsoring a ‘50s sock hop at the DBS Hall in Luck on Saturday, Feb. 21. There will be food and activities for all ages from 4 until 11 p.m.

Activities will include a best costume contest, dance contest, hula-hoop contest, a talent contest, basket raffle and silent auction.

Preregistration is required for the talent contest. To register and explanation of rules, call 715-472-2535.

Tickets for the event may be purchased in advance at the Bone Lake Lutheran Church or are available the day of at the door. The cost is $6 for adults and $4 for youth ages 5-16. All children under 5 get free admission. – with submitted information

Free chocolate!

FREDERIC - Come to the Frederic Evangelical Free Church and enjoy an uplifting Ladies Chocolate Covered Morning Re”treat.” Be inspired by discovering Biblical truths for life’s journey that dispel false, energy draining beliefs. Bring a friend and join they as they enjoy a cup of hot chocolate, mocha, coffee or tea, sweet chocolate treats and fellowship. Friday, Feb. 20, 9:15-11:15 a.m. Child care provided. - submitted

Loren A. Olson, Siren, WWII veteran, died peacefully in his home, surrounded by loved ones, on Jan. 31, 2009, at the age of 81.

Loren was born on June 11, 1927, in Siren, the fourth of 10 children to Nels and Florence Olson. He was raised in Siren and spent his younger years attending Siren School and working to help support his family.

In 1944, Loren enlisted in the Navy and spent two years serving overseas in Guam and Tokyo Bay. Upon returning to the States, he re-enlisted, this time in the Army, and he was stationed for two years in Germany.

After his second period of military service, Loren moved back to his hometown, where he worked as a machinist at Parker Hannifin and McNally for many years. In 1958, he married Maxine Larrabee, and the pair eventually opened the Pine Country Restaurant in Siren, a business he operated with his family for over 20 years.

An avid outdoorsman, he loved hunting, fishing, birdwatching and spending time in the woods. He had an inventive mind and sharp sense of humor, and he liked playing a variety of games - from crossword and picture puzzles to Solitaire and Cribbage.

Loren was preceded in death by his parents, Nels and Florence; his brothers, Elmer, Chuck and Russell; and his sisters, Margaret and Irene.

He is survived by his wife, Maxine; brothers, David and Marvin; sisters, Carol and Violet; children, David (Sherry), Scot and Dawn (Robert); grandchildren, Jason, Jenny, Sara and Jessica; great-grandchildren Alec, Makenzie, Cole and Kody; and many other beloved relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held Thursday, Feb. 5, at Lakeview United Methodist Church in Hertel with Pastor Steve Ward officiating. Special music was performed

by Rose Brown and Loren’s granddaughter, Sara Lindberg. Interment followed at the Lakeview Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Jerry Olson, Harry Anderson, Ed Anderson, Robert Olson, Jason Olson and Bill Woodworth.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

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OBITUARIES Esther L. Proffit

Ernest “Ernie” Murl Schaaf

Elmer Kennneth Wicklund

Esther L. Proffit, 97, a resident of Dairyland, died Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009, at Middle River Health and Rehab Center in South Range.

Esther was born on Aug. 14, 1911, in Mt. Ayr, Iowa, to Louis and Rose Wheeler. The family moved to a farm just west of Cloverton, Minn., in 1917. Esther graduated from Cloverton High School in 1929. She worked with her Aunt Ethel in St. Paul, Minn., for several years. In 1936, she married Lloyd Proffit again making her home in Cloverton until 1947, when they moved to Dairyland. Esther and Lloyd were pioneers in the logging industry in Wisconsin from 1936-1955. In 1955, they established L.E. Proffit and Sons, a retail lumber business which still exists in Dairyland. Esther was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church in Markville and active in the WELCA Ladies Aid, the local Homemakers Club and Northland Senior Meal Site.

Esther was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lloyd; sisters, Louise and Mary; and brothers, Ernest, Robert and John.

Esther is survived by sons, Dwayne (Karen) Proffit and Ronald (Sharon) Proffit; seven grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren, along with nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, at Zion Lutheran Church with Pastor Tim Faust officiating. Music was provided by her grandchildren. Interment followed at the Markville Cemetery. Casket bearers were Peter Fornengo, Josh Proffit, Douglas Arendt, Alan Gustafson, Daniel Proffit and Kenny Anderson. Honorary casket bearers were Larry Kinblom, Donald Slipher, George Nelson and Ron Gallagher.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Ernest “Ernie” Murl Schaaf, Danbury, 60, died Jan. 29, 2009.

Ernie was born on April 4, 1948, in Frederic to George and Florence Schaaf.

As a man, he moved to Arizona, where he did plumbing and irrigation work for the city of Tucson.

He invented a Gold Recovery Machine that was U.S. patented in the late 1970s. He spent a lot of time in the mountains looking for gold. He took many trips to the coast of Mexico to fish in the ocean and could speak Spanish fluently.

Ernie returned home to Lake 26 after about 20 years in Arizona and continued his life here in Danbury.

Hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild rice with his best friend John Holmes. You would hardly see Ernie without John being by his side.

Ernie was extremely talented when it came to fixing anything. Cars, trucks; if it couldn’t be fixed, he would rebuild it and make it better. He did carpentry and plumbing work, flooring, wiring and mason work. He loved his family and friends getting together at the lake or in the woods, special occasions, which he usually cooked for, fish fries or boils, and anything cooked on the grill. He enjoyed fishing, hunting and fixing or building things.

Ernie was preceded in death by his parents, George and Florence; half sister, Ellen; sister, Lynda; and greatniece, Leah.

Ernie is survived by his life partner, Denise Walls; and four brothers and two sisters; Mike and Ella, Patti, Glen and Tussy, Shelby Snorek and Gary, Gary and Vicki, Marty and Jill with many nephews and nieces and one son, Lawrence (Butch).

Memorial services were held at Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home with Pastor Roger Pittman officiating.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Elmer Wicklund, 85, died peacefully at the Amery Regional Medical Center on Feb. 2, 2009.

He was born March 20, 1923, on his family’s farm near Alpha, to John Albert and Christina Olea Wicklund (nee Aronson). He completed eighth grade at Alpha School in 1934, and worked at home for neighbors until 1940, when he was accepted at the Lake 26 CC Camp. Later, he worked the Minnesota and Dakota harvests and cut cordwood. Next, he took a 600-hour machinist course in Superior and then worked in Milwaukee for Automatic Screw Machine, making bomb parts. He wanted to join the Navy, but because he already had four brothers in the service, the government sent him to ag school in River Falls instead, and he worked at the Goodrich Farm, until he was finally allowed to enlist in the Navy, and left for Great Lakes Naval Station on March 20, 1944. After taking basic engineering, advanced diesel and LST training, he was assigned to LST 897 in Pittsburgh and sailed to New Orleans. On Feb. 20, 1945, LST 897 left San Diego for Pearl Harbor and spent the rest of the war in the Pacific – The Carolinas, Solomons, Philippines, Russells, Saipan, Eniwetok and Okinawa during the Okinawa invasion, where they carried troops and amphibious machinery. They sailed in convoy and alone, zigzagging in sub-infested waters. Elmer worked in the engine room and advanced to Motor Machinist Second Class After the war, 897 stayed in the Pacific, returning Chinese and Korean refugees and Japanese POWs to their homes. In October of 1945, the LST weathered a typhoon, and in January 1946, Elmer was made acting chief and took the ship home. He was discharged in May of 1946, with a handful of ribbons and medals, considered re-enlisting, but his parents had asked for help with the farm.

He returned to Alpha, bought the cows and machinery, a Fordson tractor and his Ford 8N, and settled in as a renter. On Thanksgiving Day of 1955, he married Diane Franzen. They were married in a double ceremony along with his sister, Effie, and Art. Elmer and Diane raised three children, Kenneth Allen, born in 1957; Judith Karen, born in 1960; and Karl Eric, born in 1972.

In 1964, Elmer and Diane bought their farm and he took a job with Maki Implement of Grantsburg (later Nelsons). Next he moved to Parker-Hannifin, where he worked for 10 years and then retired. In 1981, the American Legion Post 185 broke with tradition, and instead of choosing one Man of the Year for Grantsburg, they gave the title jointly to all five Wicklund brothers.

Elmer is survived by his children, Ken (Nylene Johnson) of Trade Lake, Judy of Luck; and Karl (Amanda Pearson) of Luck; grandchildren, Anders, Jay, Spencer and Anika; sisters, Edna Sorensen, Helen Johnson and Elsie Berg. He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Harold, Roy, Melvin, Arne and Delbert; and sisters, infant sister Effie and her namesake Effie.

Elmer was baptized and confirmed at the old Ansgaarius Swedish Lutheran Church of Wood River Township, the church his grandparents had attended as young settlers. He saw it become part of Trinity Lutheran of Falun, and remained a member for the rest of his life, devoting 20 years to council positions and countless more to other church duties. He was also volunteer treasurer for Ansgaarius Cemetery Association for many years. He was active in 4-H, school and other community organizations and was a member of the Legion Post 185.

Funeral services were held at Trinity Lutheran on Feb. 5. Pastor Carl Heidel officiated, with Naomi Glover assisting. The Edling Funeral Home, Grantsburg, was entrusted with arrangements. Interment was at Ansgaarius.

Larry Fox Larry Fox, 66, of St. Croix Falls, died at the St. Croix Regional Medical Center on Feb. 2, 2009.

Larry was born the oldest of 10 children to Clyde and Katie Fox in Amery on March 6, 1942. He attended Pine Lake Grade School and graduated from Osceola High School in 1960. On Oct. 21, 1967, he was united in marriage to Sandy Olson at the Atlas United Methodist Church in Luck. To this union three children were born.

Larry worked at Bellanca in Osceola for 18 years.

This kept him close to the airplanes and flying that he loved. After Bellanca closed he went to work for his present employer, Wipaire, of South St. Paul, Minn.

Larry was an active member of the United Methodist Church in St. Croix Falls, where his presence will be greatly missed. Some of his favorite pastimes were taking pictures, woodworking, refinishing furniture, reading, growing flowers in the summer, airplanes and watching the Green Bay Packers.

He is survived by his wife, Sandy; and children, Heidi (Rob) Kisler of Hudson, Stacy (Jeff) McCurdy of Plymouth, Minn., and Trent of Palm Bay, Fla.; grandchildren, Holly Kisler, Kullen Rivard, Rosagna Reyes, Lorena Fox and Parker McCurdy; his mother, Katie, of Osceola; sisters, Sharon (Jerry) Barr of Turtle Lake, Darlene (Bill) Blair of Osceola, Julie Fox of Osceola, Ione (Tim) Thompson of St. Croix Falls; sister-in-law, Kathy Hauble of Forest Lake, Minn.; brothers, Mick (Kathy) of Somerset; Mervyn (Manuela) of New Richmond, Dean (Julie) of Osceola and Arlyn of Osceola; nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, other relatives and many friends.

He was preceded in death by his father, Clyde; and brother, Ardell.

There was a memorial service for Larry on Saturday, Feb. 7, at the United Methodist Church in St. Croix Falls.

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Lois Marie (Sauerbrey) Hughes, Seattle, Wash., died Jan. 24, 2009. She was 79 years old.

Lois was born June 21, 1929, in Chokio, Minn., to Henry and Martha Sauerbrey. The family later moved to Wisconsin, where she resided until her marriage to Ross Hughes on Dec. 8, 1951, at Grace Lutheran Church in Sandstone, Minn.

She was baptized at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Chokio, Minn., and confirmed Bethany Lutheran Church in Kingsdale, Minn.

Lois and her husband moved to Seattle in 1951. They spent their entire married life in the Seattle area. She enjoyed crafting, crocheting, camping, genealogy, photography and spending time with her husband and son.

Lois is survived by her husband, Ross; son, Dale; brothers, Leroy (Connie), William (Kathy), Marvin (Mary), Orville (Elaine) Sauerbrey; sisters, Helen (Norman) Matthews, Mary Ann (Dean) Loucks, Joyce (Jack) Klingbeil, Ruth (Clayton) Tibbs, Martha (George) Hauer, Linda (James) Grinnell; sisters-in-law, Marjolane, Florence, Mary Sauerbrey, Marie Steinberger, Ella Hills, Betty (Bob) Moss, Elva Hughes, Mavis Hughes; brothers-in-law, Bert Zillmer, Harlan (Betty) Hughes; nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Harold, Robert, Frederick, John, George and James; sisters, Agnes Zillmer, Deloris Miller, Dorothy Pedersen and Irene Bielke. Interment took place at Tahoma National Cemtery in Covington, Wash.

Pall bearers were Ken Lloyd, Duane Hughes, Doug DeWitt, Ryan Gowin, Todd Gowin and Mark DeWitt.

Memorials may be made to the Memorial Fund at Lakeridge Lutheran Church; Group Health Hospice at P.O. Box 34936, Seattle, WA 98124 or the American Diabetes Association.

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Kenneth Carl Anderson Kennneth Carl Anderson, 79, Centuria, died Feb. 7, 2009, at his home, after a long battle with cancer.

He was born on March 21, 1929, the son of George and Mary Anderson. He was a longtime member of the Harness Racing Association.

Kenneth served as a radioman with the U.S. Army in Germany from 1951 to 1953. In 1955, he built the Dairy Queen in Cambridge, Minn., and has owned it ever since.

Kenneth is survived by his loving wife of 53 years Lois; sons, Gregg, Mark and John; sister, Lil; brother, Gil; and many other family members and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, C.V. Anderson and Fredolph Anderson; sisters, Gladys Brown and Julia Helbig.

Funeral services were held Feb. 10, at Faith Lutheran Church in Balsam Lake, with Pastor Diane Norstad officiating. Dorene Hendrickson was the organist.

The Williamson-White Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Amery, was entrusted with arrangements.

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OBITUARIES Victoria Lee, age 79, of Colfax, died at her home Sunday evening, Feb. 1, 2009.

Victoria, daughter of Harrison and Dolas Spurlock, was born March 22, 1929, in Maxine, W. Va. Later, she worked as a telephone operator in Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Richmond. She married Allan H. Lee on Oct. 6, 1951. Their union of 57 years was blessed with five children. Victoria found her passion in nursing and was an excellent and caring nurse who touched many people’s lives. She worked at the Barron Nursing Home and later at the Red Cedar Medical Center in Rice Lake.

Throughout her life, she enjoyed quilting, sewing, gardening, traveling, reading, keeping up with current events, and most importantly spending time with her family who will miss her advice and love.

She was preceded in death by parents; her brothers, Clarence and Lawrence Spurlock; her sisters, Jeanette Dunlap, Ann Hamblin and Betty Peace.

She is survived by her husband, Allan Lee of Colfax; children, Brenda (Tony) Mazzuca of Agate, Colo., Susan (Mike) Ebner of Elizabeth, Colo., David (Tami) Lee of Colfax, Pamela (Jeff) Weeks of Buffalo, Minn., and Michael (Leigh) Lee of Mundelein, Ill.; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; siblings, Edward Spurlock of Georgia, Arthur Spurlock of Georgia, Howard Spurlock of Charleston, W. Va., Dual Spurlock of Prairie Farm, Carrie Spurlock of Lynwood, Wash., and Mary Bowlbey of Seattle, Wash.; sister-in-law, Myrtle Spurlock of Clear Lake; many nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held Feb. 5, at the Moe Lutheran Church in Clear Lake. Interment was at Moe Lutheran Cemetery in Clear Lake. Pastor Margaret Grant officiated. Carol VanHueklom was the organist.

Casket bearers were Mike Ebner, Tony Mazzuca, Mike Lee, Jeff Weeks, Nate Harvey and Nick Weeks.

The Scheuermann-Hammer Funeral Home, Clear Lake, was entrusted with arrangements.

Marlin B. Gerlach Marlin B. Gerlach of Dresser died Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, at Osceola Medical Center at the age of 80.

Marlin was born March 22, 1928, on the family farm in Farmington Township to August and Laura Gerlach.

He graduated from Osceola High School and the Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis. On May 17, 1952, he married Joan P. Meinke at Zion Lutheran Church in East Farmington. He served in the U.S. Army from 1946 until honorably discharged in 1948, earning the Victory Medal and the Army of Occupation-Japan Medal. Marlin enjoyed field trial dogs, hunting, fishing, was a “story teller,” enjoyed all sports and especially his family and friends.

Marlin was preceded in death by his parents; sisters, Alice and Janice.

He is survived by his wife, Joan; son, John, and his wife, Sue; daughter, Sue, and her husband, Rick Yunker; grandchildren, Ryan, Matti, Josh and Megan.

Memorial services were held Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Grandstrand Funeral Home with Pastor Michael Brand, officiating. Music was provided by the New Life Christian Community. Private interment will be at a later date.

The Grandstrand Funeral Home, Osceola, was entrusted with arrangements.

Eugene H. Smith Eugene H. Smith of Osceola died Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009, at his home at the age of 71.

Gene was born March 16, 1937, at Appleton, Minn., to Dorothy and Howard Smith. On May 12, 1957, he married Beverly Berg at Belview, Minn. He owned and operated a small engine repair business in Dresser for over 38 years.

Gene was preceded in death by his father, Howard; daughter, Pamela Lystig; grandchildren, Stephanie Hanson, Heidi Hanson and Andrew Lystig.

He is survived by his wife, Beverly; sons, Michael (Carolyn) of Faribault, Minn., and Terry (Lisa Jones) of St. Croix Falls; mother, Dorothy Dunn of Amery; sister, Mavis (Jim) Olson of Amery; brother, Darrel (Peggy) Smith of Kingsford, Mich.; grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

The family greeted friends at the Grandstrand Funeral Home in Osceola on Friday Feb. 6. Private interment will take place at a later date.

The Grandstrand Funeral Home, Osceola, was entrusted with arrangements.

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Joseph Eugene Kirchner, 57, of Red Wing, Minn., died Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, at Fairview Seminary Home.

He was born on June 11, 1951, to Ralph Kirchner and Norma (Morrow) Kirchner. He married Susan Duffing on April 29, 1972.

Joseph worked at NSP for 23 years and served as a union representative for No. 949 for many years. He also volunteered for Boy Scouts for 10 years, leading multiple camping trips. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, NASCAR, and spending time with his grandchildren and granddog, Rags.

He is survived by his wife, Susan; son, Jamie (Angie) of Duluth, Minn.; daughter, Jennifer (Randy) Hanson of Red Wing, Minn.; two grandchildren, Brenden and Jazmin; brother, Father Larry (Wanda) Kirchner of Okinawa, Japan; two sisters, Susie (Lee) Robins of Owatonna and Angie (Gordy) Chelmo of Frederic; as well as many other relatives and friends.

He is preceded in death by his parents.

Funeral service was held Feb. 9, at the Mahn Family Funeral Home, Bodelson-Mahn Chapel. Honorary pallbearers were Eric Lindblom, Charlie Lindblom, John Chelmo, Sonny Chelmo, Steve Stoetzel and Rudy DelCastello.

The Mahn Family Funeral Home was entrusted with arrangements.

Nellie K. Pardun, 90, a resident of Danbury, died Jan. 26, 2009, at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minn.

Nellie was born Feb. 25, 1918, to Christian and Inger Hansen in Ogema Township, Pine County, Minn. She attended Bangs Brook School for eight years and then graduated with honors from Hinckley High School in 1935. She worked for Larsen’s Blue Room Café in Danbury and in 1936 was voted Miss Danbury. On Aug. 25, 1937, she was united in marriage to Everett Pardun at the Lutheran church in Hinckley, Minn. To this union, two sons were born, James and William.

Nellie was a member of the Danbury United Methodist Church since 1984 and was active in the church works. She wrote the Danbury news for the Inter-County Leader, Burnett County Sentinel and the Superior Telegram for over 30 years. Nellie has been a resident of Danbury in 1937.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Christian and Inger Hansen; her husband, Everett; sister, Marie Olson and her husband, Oswald; three brothers, Louis and his wife Nora, Henry and Charles.

Nellie is survived by her sons, James Pardun and William (Diane) Pardun; granddaughter, Crystal (Robert) Jarrell; two great-grandchildren, Jenna and Robert Jr.; sisters-in-law, Edith Hansen, Jean Hansen, Helen Pardun, Irene Fornengo, Bonnie Smiley, Donna Richardson and Janice Chapman; brother-in-law, Harold Pardun; many nieces, nephews and a host of friends and special friends.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Jan. 31, at Danbury United Methodist Church with Pastor Cindy Glocke officiating. Music was provided by organist Dianne Gravesen. Interment followed at Danbury Cemetery. Casket bearers were Steve Holter, Maynard Hartshorn, Jerry Pardun, Ron Pardun, Mike Hansen and David Hansen.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Richard J. Fabbrini Richard J. Fabbrini, age 79 of Balsam Lake, formerly a westsider of St. Paul, Minn., died Feb. 7, 2009, at St. Croix Regional Medical Center in St. Croix Falls.

Richard was born on May 2, 1929, in St. Paul, Minn., to Louis and Melva (Howe) Fabbrini. Richard and his wife lived in Balsam Lake for the last 40 years; he worked for the Polk County Deputy Sheriff’s Department as the emergency government coordinator, FEMA, and a longtime business man in community service. Richard was founder and president of the Snowmobile Club, and started the Red Cross program in Polk County. He was also a Lions Club member.

He is survived by wife, Louisette; sister, Catherine “Bette” Plant; sons, Richard Jr. and Robert.; stepdaughters, Ingrid (Kenneth) Beach, Ruth (Ernie) Reynolds; 10 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

A private graveside service will be held on Friday, Feb. 13, at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.

The St. Croix Valley Funeral Home and Polk County Cremation Society of St. Croix Falls was entrusted with arrangements.

Vincent M. Morten Vincent M. Morten of New Richmond, died suddenly on Thursday, Feb. 5, at the age of 89.

Vince was born Aug. 15, 1919, in Minneapolis, Minn., to Marie and Harlow Morten. He attended grade school at Wyoming, Minn. He served in the U.S. Army during WWII and received the Bronze Star and two Purple Crosses. On June 30, 1944, he married Edna Martin in St. Paul, Minn. He owned Morten Trucking, driving over the road until he was 81 years old. Vince enjoyed fishing, trucks and growing vegetables in his garden.

Vince was preceded in death by his wife, Edna; son, Mark; grandsons, Eric DeFlorin and Richard Doyle.

He is survived by his son, Lorre (Ahleece); daughters, Vernette (Bob) Doyle, Cheryl DeFlorin, Tina (Mike) Moreland and Jody (Ken) Girling; 14 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; sisters, Myrtle Engle and Juanita (Fritz) Grilz; many other family and friends.

Funeral services were held Monday, Feb. 9, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Stacy, Minn., with the Rev. Ed Wheatley officiating. Interment was in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Farmington.

The Grandstrand Funeral Home, Osceola, was entrusted with arrangements.

Jon (Jake) Lysdahl Jon (Jake) Lysdahl of Grantsburg died Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009 in Arizona.

Funeral services are pending in Grantsburg.

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Mae R. Rossman Mae R. Rossman, age 93, a resident of Shell Lake died Jan. 31, 2009, at Terraceview Living Center.

Mae was born on Nov. 10, 1915, in Bayfield, to Willmar and Rose Sarver. Mae ran her own catering business, Catering by Mae Rose. Rose was a member of Daughters of American Revolution in Minneapolis for a number of years.

Mae was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Ross; daughter, Darlene; son, Ross; sister, Tykie; and brothers, Donnie and Ronnie.

Mae is survived by her children, Barbara Parsons and Harry Rossman; grandchildren, Steven, Janine, John, Sarah, Richard, Michael, David, John, Victoria and Peter; along with many great-grandchildren; sisters, Evelyn Palm, Vera McGregor and Norma Helstern; and best friend, Ruth Dueholm.

Funeral services were held Friday, Jan. 6, at Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home with Pastor Merrill Olson officiating. Interment followed at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minn.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Alma May Uhrhammer Alma May Uhrhammer, 89, of Inman, S.C., died Feb. 10, 2009, at Rosecrest Retirement Community.

Services will be held Thursday, Feb. 12, 11 a.m., at Rosecrest Retirement Community in Inman, S.C.

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CHURCH NEWS The class clown often struggles with low self-esteem

her married. And so it goes.

These and other comedians got their training during childhood, using humor as a defense against childhood hurts. That’s usually the inspiration for the class clown. By making an enormous joke out of everything, he conceals the self-doubt that churns inside.

That understanding should help us meet his needs and manage such a child more effectively.

••• Q: I would like to teach my own child about human sexuality, but I’m not sure I know how to go about it. Talk about the matter of timing. When do I say what?

DR. DOBSON: One of the most common mistakes made by parents and many overzealous educators is teaching too much too soon. One parent told me, for example, that the kindergarten children in her local district were shown films of animals in the act of copulation. That is unwise and dangerous! Available evidence indicates that there are numerous hazards involved in moving too rapidly. Children can sustain a severe emotional jolt by being exposed to realities for which they are not prepared.

Furthermore, it is unwise to place the youngster on an informational timetable that will result in full awareness too early in life. If 8-year-old children are given an understanding of mature sexual behavior, it is less likely that they will wait 10 or 12 years to apply

Q: I’m a teacher and I love my students. There is one kid in my sixth-grade class, however, who drives me nuts. He works overtime trying to make everybody laugh. What drives this impish child? Why does he want to make life miserable for me?

DR. DOBSON: We all remember the kid you’re talking about. He’s called “the class clown,” and some other things that are less flattering. He is a trial to his teachers, an embarrassment to his parents and an utter delight to every child who wants to escape the boredom of school. There are millions of class clowns on the job today. It’s my belief that boards of education assign at least one such kid to every class just to make sure that schoolteachers earn every dollar of their salaries.

These skilled little disrupters are usually boys. They often have reading or other academic problems. They may be small in stature, although not always, and they’ll do anything for a laugh. Their parents and teachers may not recognize that behind the boisterous behavior is often the pain of inferiority.

You see, humor is a classic response to feelings of low self-esteem. That’s why within many successful comedians is the memory of a hurting little boy or girl.

Jonathan Winters’ parents were divorced when he was 7 years old, and he said he used to cry when he was alone because other children teased him about not having a father. Joan Rivers frequently jokes about her unattractiveness as a girl. She said she was such a dog, her father had to throw a bone down the aisle to get

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this knowledge within the confines of marriage.

Generally speaking, children should be given the information they need at a particular age. Six-year-olds, for example, don’t need to understand the pleasures of adult sexuality. They are not ready to deal with that concept at their developmental stage. They should be told where babies come from and how they are born.

Sometime between 6 and 9, depending on the maturity and interest of an individual (and what is being heard in the neighborhood), he or she ought to understand how conception occurs. The rest of the story can be told later in elementary school.

Admittedly, this ideal timetable can be turned upside down by exposure to precocious friends, racy videos or unwise adults. When that occurs, you have to cope with the fallout as best as possible. It is regrettable that we expose our vulnerable children to far too much of the wrong kind of sexuality.

••• Dr. Dobson is founder and chairman of the board of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, CO 80995 (www.family.org). Questions and answers are excerpted from “Solid Answers” and “Bringing Up Boys,” both published by Tyndale House.

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Siren church buys land to help in realizing its dream

by Nancy Jappe SIREN – On July 4 last year, Dionne Johnson’s house on Bradley Street around the corner from Siren United Methodist Church burned down. Johnson and her family were on vacation in the western part of the country that day, and no one was at the house when the fire started.

The case of how the fire started has never been closed, but with the insurance company finally settling with Johnson, the cleared land was put on the market.

People of the church, realizing that they had a great

opportunity to build on their dream and mission statement of “spreading the love of Jesus Christ,” purchased the land. That purchase was finalized Jan. 31.

“We see ourselves as a growing church that is following our mission statement while we use the property we have just purchased,” members of the church’s administrative council echoed at their Feb. 9 meeting.

The congregation envisions this property being used as a place for church picnics and get-togethers, a place for children to play and a site for the summer’s community Vacation Bible School. Usage ideas started

flowing as council members put their minds to work on the benefits ownership of the property can bring in the future.

Members of the congregation have recently compiled a list of all the things in which the church is currently involved. Continuing with these efforts is part of the church’s mission for the next four years. The new land purchase will be a big help in allowing these efforts to succeed.

As Pastor Tom Cook said, “It is the realizing of a dream.”

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Pastor: Rev. Dennis M. Mullen, 715-327-8119 Sat.: 4:30 p.m. St. Dominic; Sun.: 8:30 a.m. Immaculate Conception; 10:30 a.m. St. Dominic Call the office for daily & holy day Mass times

METHODISTMETHODIST

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.

BIBLE FELLOWSHIP

113 W. Main St.. W., Phone 715-825-2453 Pastor Danny G. Wheeler 9 a.m. Prayer & Praise Service 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:40 a.m. Worship Service

WORD OF LIFE CHURCH

NORTH VALLEY LUTHERAN

CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST - GRANTSBURG

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

Meeting in homes. Elders: Cliff Bjork, Jon Zens, 483-1357 and 755-3048 Sun. Fellowship - 10 a.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

NEW WINE MINISTRIES - CENTURIA 309 5th Street, 715-220-5920 Pastors Randy and Pam Stone Saturday 6 p.m., 24/7 Service

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 - 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.

BETHESDA LUTHERAN - DRESSER (LCMC) www.bethesdalutheran.ws

Pastor Mark Richardson & Pastor Rob Lubben 1947 110th Ave., Dresser, 715-755-2562 Sun. Contemp. Wor. 8:15 a.m.; Folk & Gospel Wor., Adult Ed & Sun. Schl. 9:30; Trad. Wor. 10:45 a.m.

BONE LAKE LUTHERAN bllc@lakeland.ws

Pastor Mary Ann Bowman, 5 mi. E. of Luck on Hwy. 48, 1/2 mi. S. on I; 472-8153, Office/Kit. - 472-2535 Sun. Schl. 9 a.m.; Adult Bible Study 9:15 a.m.; Fellowship 10 a.m.; Worship 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 - 715-653-4461 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 Arthur Bruning, 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

Pastors Julie Brenden & Nanette Hagen Hinck; 648-5323 or 648-5324 Sun. Wor. 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 10:15 a.m.

FRISTAD LUTHERAN - CENTURIA

LUCK LUTHERAN

510 Foster Ave. E.; Mark E. Hall, Pastor Office 715-472-2605; Home 715-472-8424 Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

MILLTOWN 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

Pastor John Siedschlag, Phone 866-5406; Church Phone 866-7191 Sun. Schl. - 8:30 a.m; Sun. Wors. - 9:30 a.m.; Adult Bible Study 11:00 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. 8:30 & 11 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9:40 a.m.; Confirmation Wed. 6 p.m.; HS Youth Wed. 6 p.m.

PILGRIM LUTHERAN - FREDERIC (ELCA) Pastor Catherine Burnette 507 Wisconsin Ave. N., 715-327-8012 Sun. Wor. - 10 a.m.; Sun. School - 9 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 2nd Sundays www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.org

REDEEMER EV. LUTHERAN

(Wisconsin Synod) Pastor Gene DeVries 200 N. Adams St., St. Croix Falls Sun. Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 8:30 a.m.

(Missouri Synod) Pastor Jody R. Walter, 327-8608 Sun. Schl. - 8:45 a.m.; Service - 10:30 a.m.

Communion - 1st & 3rd Sun.

LAKESIDE COMMUNITY LUTH. - ELCA

CTH H, 1/2 mi. N. of CTH A & H on H Church Off. 715-635-7791Roger Pittman, Pastor Sunday Schl. 9 a.m.; Worship Serv. 10 a.m.

Communion 1st and 3rd Sundays

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sun. Worship - 9 a.m.

GRACE UNITED - WEBSTER

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST

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

TRINITY LUTHERAN LCMS, DANBURY

Pastor John Siedschlag Home 715-866-5405; Church 715-866-7191 Sunday Worship Service - 8 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

TRINITY LUTHERAN - FALUN

WESLEYAN WOODLAND WESLEYAN

LEWIS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST

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

McKINLEY UNITED METHODIST

ASSEMBLY

Tom Cook, Pastor Worship 8:45 a.m.; Sunday Schl. 10 a.m.

Pastor Bruce Stunkard Sun. Wor. 11 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

Potluck dinner 1st Sunday

OSCEOLA UNITED METHODIST

Rev. Mike Weaver Sunday Worship Service - 10 a.m.

Sun. School is at 9 a.m., Nursery available Pastor Arveda “Freddie” Kirk, 327-4436 Early Wor. 8:30 a.m.; Sun. Wor. 10 a.m.

Souper service Wed. 5:15 p.m.

Tom Cook, Pastor Sunday School 9 a.m.

Worship - 10:15 a.m. (Nursery available)

TAYLORS FALLS UNITED 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 Rev. Mike Weaver Sunday Worship - 8:15 a.m.

COVENANT

COVENANT

CALVARY COVENANT - ALPHA

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN OSCEOLA

Pastor Dave Guertin 7686 Lofty Pines Drive, Siren, 715-349-5601 Worship 10 a.m.; Sunday School 9 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

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 - 715-472-2062 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

Pastor Scott Sagel, 715-689-2541 Sun. Schl. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Wor. 10:30 p.m.; Elevator provided, welcome

SIREN COVENANT

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

Pastor Larry Hendry Worship - 11 a.m.; Sun. School - 11 a.m.

Holy Communion - 1st & 3rd Sunday

Balsam Lake - Rev. John A. Drummy, Pastor - 405-2253 Mass: Sat. eves. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8:30 a.m.; Tues. 5:30 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m.

Sacrament of Reconciliation 7:30 a.m.

Sun. or by appt.

ZION LUTHERAN - TRADE LAKE

SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS & MARY

ZION LUTHERAN - MARKVILLE

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

1289 160th St. (Hwy. 65), St. Croix Falls Phone - 715-472-2258 Bible Study - 9:30 a.m.; Wor. - 10:45 a.m.

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC

Pastor Marty Nolet Wor. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - during worship hour

Hwy. 70 East, 689-2271 Pastor: Carl Heidel Worship 9 a.m.; Sunday School 10:15 a.m.

Communion -Every Sunday

300 Seminole Ave. (CTH M) Mark Kock, Pastor, 715-294-2828 Sunday Worship at 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School (ages 4 thru 12th grade), Fellowship, Adult Bible Class at 9:15 a.m.

CHURCH OF CHRIST

CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH OF CHRIST

LAKEVIEW UNITED - HERTEL

ASSEMBLY

CENTURIA ASSEMBLY OF GOD

Pastor Don Wiltshire, 715-640-6400 Centuria - Phone 715-646-2172 Sunday Service: 10 a.m.

OSCEOLA COMMUNITY CHURCH

SIREN UNITED METHODIST

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

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

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.

Holytrinity@wisconsinumc.org 1606 165th Ave., Centuria Paul Foulke, Pastor, 715-485-3363 Sun. Wor. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10:15 a.m.

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

TRINITY LUTHERAN - ELCA

TRADE LAKE BAPTIST

HOLY TRINITY UNITED METHODIST

EVANGELICAL

140 Madison St. South, St. Croix Falls Pastor Mark K. Schoen Sun. Service - 9 a.m.; Sun.School - 10:30 a.m.

Pastor Doug McConnell Youth Pastor Chris Radtke At Grantsburg High School, 715-463-5794 Sun. Serv. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

CHURCH OF CHRIST - WEBSTER

ST. LUKE UNITED - FREDERIC

SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN (Missouri Synod)

LIVING HOPE CHURCH

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.

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.

1614 CTH, North Luck; Mark E. Hall, Pastor Office Phone 472-2605 Dial-A-Devotion 472-2345 Sun. Worship - 9 a.m.

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.

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC

ST. CROIX FALLS UNITED METHODIST

YELLOW LAKE LUTHERAN

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN - FREDERIC

DANBURY UNITED METHODIST

Pastor Father Daniel Bodin, 651-465-7345 25293 Redwing Ave., Shafer, MN Sunday 9 a.m.

ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN - LUCK

GEORGETOWN LUTHERAN - ELCA

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

Pastor Carolyn Saunders, 715-463-2624 Worship - 9 a.m.; Sun. School - 10:30 a.m.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER

350 Michigan Ave., Centuria Sun. Wor. - 10:45 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10 a.m.

ST. JOHN’S EV. LUTHERAN (Wis. Synod)

Rev. Rexford D. Brandt 447 180th St., Osceola, 715-294-2936 Sun. Wor. 8:00 & 10:30 a.m.; Sun. School 9:15 a.m.; Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month

GRACE LUTHERAN - WEST SWEDEN

Pastor Carolyn Saunders, 715-463-2624 Sunday School - 11 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

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

ELCA - 501 Hwy. 35, 646-2357 Mel Rau, Pastor Sunday Worship & Holy Communion - 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School - 10:40 a.m.

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

ATLAS UNITED METHODIST

ST. ANNE PARISH

GRACE BAPTIST - GRANTSBURG

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.

Pastor Larry Mederich, 715-294-4332 Mtg. @ Osceola Elementary School Sun. Service - 9:45 a.m.

SIREN ASSEMBLY OF GOD

EVANGELICAL

TRADE RIVER EVAN. FREE

APPLE RIVER COMMUNITY (EFCA)

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.

FREDERIC EVAN. FREE CHURCH

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 Interim Pastor, 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 Sun.: 8:15 a.m. Adult Sun. Schl.; 8:30 a.m.

Sun. Schl. for Pre-K to Sr. High; 10 a.m.

Morning Worship.

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 715755-3454; 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

Loc. across from elemen. schl. 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.

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

CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX HOLY TRINITY ORTHODOX

523 1st St., Clayton 715-948-2493 Fr. Christopher Wojcik, Pastor Sat. Vespers - 5 p.m.; Sun. Liturgy - 9:30 a.m.

HOLY CROSS ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN

Meeting at Zion Lutheran Church, 28005 Old Towne Rd., Chisago Lakes, MN Fr. Robert McMeekin, pastor 715-220-5111/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 COM\MUNITY

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.

MERCY FELLOWSHIP

26390 Lakeland Ave., Webster (Hwy. 35 across from Wayne’s Foods & DNR) Pastor Doug Quenzer, 715-866-7006 Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m.

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 Serv. 9:45 a.m.; Nursery available

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.

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ADVENTIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2009 - INTER-COUNTY LEADER - NORTHERN CURRENTS, SECTION B - PAGE 27

PLEASE NOTE IMPORTANT NOTICE YOU WILL LOSE TITLE TO YOUR PROPERTY IF THESE TAXES ARE NOT PAID ON OR BEFORE APRIL 3, 2009 TAKE NOTICE that all persons having or claiming to have any right, title or interest in or lien upon the real property described in the list of tax liens, No. 2009-1 on file in the Office of the Clerk of Circuit Court of Polk County, dated January 26, 2009, and herein set forth, are hereby notified that the filing of such list of tax liens in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Polk County constitutes the commencement by said Polk County of a special proceedings in the Circuit Court for Polk County to foreclose the tax liens therein described by foreclosure proceeding In Rem and that a notice of the pendency of such proceeding against each piece or parcel of land therein described was filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on January 26, 2009.

Such proceeding is brought against the real property herein described only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such list. No personal judgment will be entered herein for such taxes, assessments or other legal charges or any part thereof.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all persons having or claiming to have any right, title or interest in or lien upon

the real property described in said list of tax liens are hereby notified that a certified copy of such list of tax liens has been posted in the Office of the County Treasurer of Polk County and will remain posted for public inspection up to and including April 3, 2009, which date is hereby fixed as the last day of redemption.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that any person having or claiming to have any right, title or interest in or lien upon any such parcel may, on or before said April 3, 2009, redeem such delinquent tax liens by paying to the County Treasurer of Polk County, the amount of all such unpaid tax liens and in addition thereto, all interest and penalties which have accrued on said unpaid tax liens, computed to and including the date of redemption, plus the reasonable costs that the County incurred to initiate the proceedings plus the person’s share of the reasonable costs of publication under sub. (6).

POLK COUNTY

By Amanda Nissen Polk County Treasurer

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY In the Matter of the Foreclosure of Tax Liens under Section 75.521 Wis. Statutes by Polk County: 2009-1 PETITION FOR JUDGMENT VESTING TITLE TO POLK COUNTY Now comes the County of Polk, by Carole T. Wondra, Polk County Clerk, and alleges and states as follows: 1. The Polk County Treasurer, Amanda Nissen, has prepared a List of Tax Liens of Polk County being Foreclosed by proceeding In Rem, a verified copy of which is attached and incorporated herein by reference.

2. The foreclosure of the tax liens through In Rem proceedings is governed by Section 75.521 Wisconsin Statutes and the requirements therein have been fulfilled.

3. The time periods after the date of the tax certificates, as stated, is set forth in Section 75.521 (3) Stat., have lapsed for the properties included and described in said list.

4. Notice of this proceeding shall be given to all parties specified in Section 75.521 (3) c Stat. by the County Treasurer sending a copy of this petition, and a copy of the List of Tax Liens of Polk County by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested.

WHEREFORE, the Petitioner requests that the court grant judgment in favor of Polk County vesting title to the parcels of land described in the attached “List of Tax Liens” in Polk County, thereby, barring any and all claims whatsoever of the former owners or any persons claiming through and under the former owners since the date of filing the list of tax liens in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court.

Dated this 26th day of January, 2009.

Carole T. Wondra, Polk County Clerk Polk County Government Center 100 Polk County Plaza, Suite 110, Balsam Lake, WI 54810

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY In the Matter of the Foreclosure of Tax Liens under Section 75.521 Wis. Statutes by Polk County; list of Tax Liens for 2009-1 AFFIDAVIT I, Amanda Nissen, being first duly sworn under oath, depose and state as follows: 1. I am the Treasurer for the County of Polk.

2. I prepared the attached List of Tax Liens of Polk County which are being foreclosed by proceeding In Rem 2009-1 in the Circuit Court of Polk County.

3. I verify that the information contained in the listed tax liens is true and correct and that said information is based upon the files and records contained in the Polk County Treasurer’s Office.

Amanda Nissen Polk County Treasurer 715-485-9255 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of January, 2009.

Carole T. Wondra Notary Public, Polk County, Wis.

LIST OF TAX LIENS OF POLK COUNTY BEING FORECLOSED BY PROCEEDING IN REM 2009-1 STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF TAX LIENS UNDER SECTION 75.521 WISCONSIN STATUTES BY POLK COUNTY, LIST OF TAX LIENS FOR YEARS INDICATED. NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

YEAR TAX

009 City of Amery 201-01351-1100 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 11 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

010 City of Amery 201-01351-1200 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 12 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

011 City of Amery 201-01351-1300 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 13 Whispering Waters Condominium 12% Annually

2041

105.71 100.00

2005 SC 2005

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

105.71 100.00

2046

12% Annually

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2047

12% Annually

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2048

12% Annually

012 City of Amery 201-01351-1400 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 14 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2049

12% Annually

12% Annually

013 City of Amery 201-01351-1500 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 15 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2050

12% Annually

2042

12% Annually

014 City of Amery 201-01351-1600 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 16 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2051

12% Annually

105.71 100.00

2043

12% Annually

015 City of Amery 201-01351-1700 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 17 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2052

12% Annually

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2044

12% Annually

016 City of Amery 201-01351-1800 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 18 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2053

12% Annually

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2045

12% Annually

017 City of Amery 201-01351-1900 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 19 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2054

12% Annually

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

YEAR TAX

001 Town of Beaver 008-00717-0100 Sec 27 T34 R15 Pt NW NW

Owner: Edward J. Moryn Jr.

2005 SC 2005

002 Town of McKinley 038-00446-0100 Sec 20 T36 R15 Pt NE NE

Owners: Jon R. & Amy L. Lindberg Mortgage Holder: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. assigned to U.S. Bank NA Lien/Judgment Holders: Terry Neeley Diagnostic Radiology Assoc.

Dr. Paul Hauge Northland Ambulance St. Croix Reg. Medical Ctr.

2005 SC 2005

003 City of Amery 201-01351-0500 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 5 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2040

004 City of Amery 201-01351-0600 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 6 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

005 City of Amery 201-01351-0700 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 7 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

006 City of Amery 201-01351-0800 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 8 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

007 City of Amery 201-01351-0900 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 9 Whispering Waters Condominium 008 City of Amery 201-01351-1000 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 10 Whispering Waters Condominium

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

4.47 100.00

395

12% Annually

17.56 100.00

1280

12% Annually

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LIST OF TAX LIENS OF POLK COUNTY BEING FORECLOSED BY PROCEEDING IN REM 2009-1 (contâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d.)

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

YEAR TAX

12% Annually

035 City of Amery 201-01350-1400 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 14 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2019

12% Annually

2056

12% Annually

036 City of Amery 201-01350-1500 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 15 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2020

12% Annually

105.71 100.00

2057

12% Annually

037 City of Amery 201-01350-1600 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 16 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2021

12% Annually

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2058

12% Annually

038 City of Amery 201-01350-1700 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 17 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2022

12% Annually

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2059

12% Annually

039 City of Amery 201-01350-1800 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 18 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2023

12% Annually

023 City of Amery 201-01351-2500 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 25 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2060

12% Annually

040 City of Amery 201-01350-1900 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 19 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2024

12% Annually

024 City of Amery 201-01351-2600 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 26 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2061

12% Annually

041 City of Amery 201-01350-2000 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 20 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2025

12% Annually

025 City of Amery 201-01351-2700 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 27 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2062

12% Annually

042 City of Amery 201-01350-2100 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 21 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2026

12% Annually

026 City of Amery 201-01351-2800 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 28 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2063

12% Annually

043 City of Amery 201-01350-2200 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 22 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2027

12% Annually

027 City of Amery 201-01350-0001 Sec 5 T32 R16 Outlot 1 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

2.12 100.00

2007

12% Annually

044 City of Amery 201-01350-2300 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 32 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2028

12% Annually

028 City of Amery 201-01350-0100 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 1 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2008

12% Annually

045 City of Amery 201-01350-2400 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 24 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2029

12% Annually

029 City of Amery 201-01350-0200 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 2 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2009

12% Annually

046 City of Amery 201-01350-2500 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 25 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2030

12% Annually

030 City of Amery 201-01350-0900 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 9 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2014

12% Annually

047 City of Amery 201-01350-2600 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 26 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2031

12% Annually

031 City of Amery 201-01350-1000 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 10 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2015

12% Annually

048 City of Amery 201-01350-2700 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 27 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2032

12% Annually

032 City of Amery 201-01350-1100 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 11 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2016

12% Annually

049 City of Amery 201-01350-2800 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 28 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2033

12% Annually

033 City of Amery 201-01350-1200 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 12 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2017

12% Annually

050 City of Amery 201-01350-2900 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 29 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2034

12% Annually

034 City of Amery 201-01350-1300 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 13 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2018

12% Annually

051 City of Amery 201-01350-3000 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 30 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2035

12% Annually

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

YEAR TAX

AMT. TAX CERT. #

018 City of Amery 201-01351-2000 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 20 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2055

019 City of Amery 201-01351-2100 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 21 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

020 City of Amery 201-01351-2200 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 22 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

021 City of Amery 201-01351-2300 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 23 Whispering Waters Condominium

Owner: M.B. Development L.L.C. Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

022 City of Amery 201-01351-2400 Sec 5 T32 R16 Unit 24 Whispering Waters Condominium

INT. RATE

477497 13a,d 24-26L WNAXLP

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

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LIST OF TAX LIENS OF POLK COUNTY BEING FORECLOSED BY PROCEEDING IN REM 2009-1 (cont’d.)

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

052 City of Amery 201-01350-0300 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 3 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: Homes by Biermann Amery LLC Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2010

12% Annually

053 City of Amery 201-01350-0700 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 7 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: Homes by Biermann Amery LLC Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

2005 SC 2005

105.71 100.00

2012

12% Annually

Honor roll Fifth grade Roen Aronson, Leann Claude, Gabrielle Foeller, Joshua Gorne, Nathan Heimstead, Olivia Jensen, Brandon Koethe, Walter Lenk, Emma Moore, Mitchell Morse, Erik Peterson, Matthew Peterson, Breanna Prouty, Marcus Qualle, Whitney Rock, Phillip Sorensen, Freyja Van Der Paardt, Matthew Volgren and Elijah Vos Benkowski.

Sixth grade Tevin Anderson, William Anderson, Hunter Fjorden, Joshua Grams, Brandon Jensen, Tatum Kline, Jordan Lowe, Paige Lunsmann, Eryn Mares, Collin Nelson, Olivia Nelson, Nicole Paulzine, Hope Peterson, Kyle Priest, Dylan Ruck and Ben Traynor.

Seventh grade Therese Anderson, Kayla Bramsen, Nicole Bystrom, Morgan Camper, Riley Carnes, Olivia Coen, Courtney Galle, Rebecca Garvey, Emily Gross, Caleb Hacker, Cash Hickethier, Carly Holin, Carly Ince, Damian Johnson, Reese Johnston, Alex Juleen, Neil Kline, Mitchell Krueger, Angela Larson, Lillian Lenk, Ella Luepke, Danielle Mares, Kennedy Olson, Sophie Peterson, Oliver Raboin, Madeline Ramich, Jade Rau, Valerie Schultz, Sierra Thomfohrda, Desiree Walton and Dakota Ward.

Eighth grade Alisha Aronson, Justin Aronson, Sarah Bader, Emily Bethke, Elaine Butala, Kourtney Collins, Anna Ebensperger, Taylor Heathman, Kasey Heimstead, Sanay Hemingway, Janet Hunter, Kelsy Johnson, Megan Jones, Shauna Jorgenson, Jessica Kalenda, Aaron Koshatka, Brittany Kruse, Anna Luepke, Dawn Michaelson, Justin Mooney, Justin Moore, Shay Nelson, Hailey Olson, Marissa

Grade 7 Rachel Thomas, Claire Coddington, Abigail Pickard, Lexi Domagala, Benjamin Kurkowski, Zachary Kuechenmeister, Destiney Wetzel-Peterson, Carly Gustafson, Sawyer Tietz, Elise Coddington, Jazalyn Anthony, Tylyn O’Brien, Abigail Brightbill, Jack Tricker-King, Rachael Poirier and Jaryd Braden.

Grade 8 Charles Lindberg, McKenna Rognrud, Natalie Phernetton, Emily Wells, Paige Burton, McKenna Cook, Kendra Mossey, Matthew Elrod and Ian Lexen.

Grade 12 Ryan Andrie, Shelby Ayde, Jennifer Benoy, Brittany Bess, Brittany Brenholt, Chase Bushweiler, Ashley Chapman, Leif Chinander, Alexandra Confer, Alexandra Critton, Shelby Emerson, Cassandra Gary, Jessica Hall, Thomas Hansen, Matthew Jacobs, Chris Johnson, Zachary Johnston, Ashley Kes, Michelle Lamb, Amanda Larson, Carissa Libbenga, Paige Marek, Tashina Martinson, Kaisha Merrick, Carlos Meyer, Mason Millermon, Tyler Nelson, Shantelle Pranke, Jessica Rohm, Meghan Smith, Katherine Standing, Mara Swanson, Abigail Swenson, Laura Swenson, Samantha Wheeler, Sharanda Whittaker, Katherine Wright and Joshua Yunker.

YEAR TAX

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

054 City of Amery 201-01350-0800 Sec 5 T32 R16 Lot 8 Plat of Whispering Waters

Owner: Homes by Biermann Amery LLC Mortgage Holder: The RiverBank

YEAR TAX 2005 SC 2005

AMT. TAX CERT. # 105.17 100.00

2013

INT. RATE

12% Annually

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Unity Honor Roll

Paulzine, Jacob Ruck, Ethan St. Amand, Megan Volgren, Benjamin Zahler and Kaina Zygowicz.

Honorable mention Fifth grade Danielle Ahlm, Logan Bader, Jarett Davison, Heather Eames, Cole Garvey, Allison Gross, Derek Johnson, Alexandra Kreft, Markus Linski, Shanna Lowe, Karlie Moening, Brett Nelson, Gaven Ouellette, Kyle PaulMarkell Ramich, Emerson son, Rollings-DeHaven, Alex Schlechter, Raelin Sorensen, Wyatt Stenberg and Kyler Turner.

Sixth grade Mikayla Allison, Tanner Amrhien, Sabrina Bratland, Briana Colbert, Breana Collins, Shallena Davison, Emily Ferguson, Ashlee Hoffman, Beth Johnson, Destinie Kobs, Kali Langer, Hannah Matteson, Ashley Monn, Charles Moore, Leslie Peterson, Desiree Rohlf, Evan Schlechter, Bailey Soper, Josh Stage and Zoe Vondrasek.

Seventh grade Justin Bradley, Alex Burton, Kaitlyn Collins, Cassandra Hanson, Madisen Hewitt, Cassandra Hughes, Zachary Johnson, Samantha Langermann, Heidi McCurdy, Rayven Merrill, Tucker Olson, Kelly Radke, Skyler Ricketson, Juan Sanchez, Mercedes Swanson, Coleman Thill and Kelly Tourville.

Eighth grade Keith Arnett, Scott Bever, Billie Bracht, Mitchell Egge, Morgan Hoehne, Katie Jensen, Mollie Jepsen, Kayla Johnson, Mercedes Kobs, Anthony Kreft, Jonathan Larsen, Alexander Lennartson, Austina Lennartson, Andrew Lieske-Daniels, Evan Lunda, Elijah Marek, Renae McKenzie, Austin Petersin, Morgan Peterson, Colton Sorensen, Stephanie

Stivers and Zakary Turner.

A honor roll Freshmen Steven Anderson, Jade Baerg, Benjamin Bengtson, Brittney Bublitz, Xavier Foeller, Paige Gurtner, Gary Gustafson, Ashley Johnson, Etta Johnston, Reide Kemis, Alec Larson, Connor MacKinnon, Kaitlyn MacKinnon, Kristy Mikl, Emily Petzel, Michelle Rindal, Matthew Schultz, Brittany Thomfohrda, Brady Turner, Jennifer Vlasnik and Amanda Vondrasek.

Sophomores Hayla Bader, Jacob Bengtson, Beau DaviNathan Dorrance, Katherine son, Ebensperger, Brady Flaherty, Marisa Hacker, Rush Hickethier, April Johnson, Kayla Johnson, Josephine Kalenda, Jessica Kutina, Erin Mabry, Denise McKenzie, Hannah McMeekin, Dale Michaelson, Julia Moore, Mickey Muller, Lucas Nelson, Bryana Petersin, Jessica Raboin, Haley St. Amand, Emily Stelling and Lindsey Voss.

Juniors Joy Albrecht, Madeline Anderson, Esther Bielau, Tyler Bublitz, Brooke Gillespie, Timothy Hallin, Cadi Harper, Logan Hilleshiem, Luke Hilleshiem, Samantha Ince, Derek Jorgenson, Laura Krueger, Ariane Mattson, Jacob Monahan, Karly Peckman, Katie Petzel and Brittany Petznick.

Seniors Sheri Belisle, Brittany Bernier, Amber Christensen, Jordyn Christensen, Annie Confer, Elizabeth Ebensperger, Ashley Elfers, Amanda Fehlen, Jennifer Gorne, Eric Goulet, Erica Gurtner, Rachael Janusch, Aubrie Jerhoff, Stephanie Kothlow, Brianna Krumrie, Andrew Kruse, Raya McKenzie, Dennis

Frederic Honor Roll

Grade 9 Christopher Hopp, Erik Stoner, April Halverson, Seneca Lundeen-Brooks, Megan Amundson, Lauren Domagala, Leah Engbretson, Nicholas Rognrud, Waylon Buck, Alexander Miller, Dayton Rivera, Jordyn Siebenthal, Nicole Coulter, Autumn Schmidt, Alexandra Lundblade, Sara Underwood, Corissa Schmidt, Michelle Jensen, Michael Tesch, Maria Miller, Danielle Swanson, Sheldon Thayer, Ray Kurkowski, Allison Martin, Bryce Williamson, Brittani Hughes, Kristina Marcyan, Ashley Wendelboe and Bradley Knauber.

Grade 10 Tanesha Carlson, Sarah Knauber, Isabel Lexen, Samantha Nelson, Daniel Halverson, Allison Anderson, Anthony Peterson, Kayla Nelson, Jade Johnson, Josiah Lund, Sage Karl, Jesse Chouinard, Calla Karl, Krysta Laqua, Joseph Draxler, Trae Gehl, Vanessa Neumann, Amanda Blok, Ashley Bergeron, Ryan Phernetton and Benjamin Ackerley.

Grade 11 Joel Anderson, Amanda Runnels, Kendra Wells, Alexandra Lonetti, Terri McKinney, William Primm, Danielle Pearce, Adam Hardenbergh, Bradley Thomas, Haley Kurkowski, Ethan Cook, Marissa Nelson, Joel Knauber, Cody Hallanger, Nicole Root, Chris-

St. Croix Falls Honor Roll

Grade 11 Jessica Adam, Ben Anderson, Nicole Berganini, Cecilia Binkley, Jenna Brousil, Katherine Burns-Penn, Nicholas Campbell, Marissa Campeau, Nathan Casler, Crysta Chock, Kyle Christensen, Abby Culver, Kim Culver, Jordan Fehlen, Cory Gebhard, Samantha Grange, Alicha Greenlee, Racheal Hansen, Nicholas Krenz, MacKenzy Kuhlmann, Ryan Larson, Paul Manoppo, John Mikl, Josiah Mortenson, Hannah Nelson, Gabrielle Nuckles, Sarah Perszyk, Michelle Peterson, Cassondra Petherbridge, Cortney Rasmussen, Joseph Raygor, Zachary Rintoul, Jamie Rohm, Brittany Rudolph, Candice Saunders, Emily Scheuermann, , Angela Sommer, Christopher Stenberg, Jessica Sveback, Emily Ward, Rhett Werner, Austin Whittenberger, Kelsey Willow, Christian Wolfe and Megan Yunker.

Grade 10 Molly Austin-White, Bailey Bergmann, Zackory Blume, Ashley Bollig, Alora Breault, Brittany Buss, Marcus Campbell, Alicia Chelberg, Mary Chernyaev, Zachary Christenson, Jessica Derrick, Mirielle Francis, Lauren Frokjer, Mitchell Geisness, Heather Gilbert, Simon Grange, Nathan Gravesen, Tess Hedrick, Ryan Jaremczuk, Nicholas Johnson, Jessica Larcom, Ryan Leach, Lori Linke, Lauren Lund, Alexandra Lunde, Carley Martin, Mara Martinson, Alaina Mathias, Katelynn Meyer, Samuel Mike, Daniel Nelson, Brooke Parks, Samantha Peterson, Timothy Roettger, Nathaniel Seifert, Taylor Sempf, Jared Spreiter, Stephanie Stich, Taylor Stowell, Allison Swenson, Joseph Thayer, Rebecca Wampfler, Kierlyn Ward, Summer Wilson, Emma Wimberley, Margaret Wimberley and Richelle Wood.

McKinney, Nicholas Ostman, Erin Owens, Brittney Peters, Rebecca Pollock, Spencer Severson, Cailin Turner, Hannah Zahler and Alexandra Zarling.

B honor roll Freshmen Zachary Cardot, Jenna Christensen, Aaron Cousins, Nathan Despiegelaere, Mollie Hanson, Edward Haar, Jordan Hughes, Mitchell Johnston, Steven Krueger, Paris Miller, Amanda Minke, Luke Peterson, Jonathan Struck and Cassandra Sturgul.

Sophomores Elizabeth Bethke, Tyler Brooks, Crystal Donahue, Samuel Foight, Jessica Golz, Dylan Hendricks, Kaitlyn Johnson, Brandi Larson, Alison Lennartson, Brandon Mooney, Alisha Nutter, Naomi Williamson and Kathryn Zahler.

Juniors Brittany Arnett, Amanda Bestland, Amanda Brunotte, Alec Carlson, Dustin Dunsmoor, Joshua Eaton, Heather Goetz, Morgan Gordon, Steven Gustafson, Cassandra Haasnoot, Brittany Hoyt, Stephanie Hunter, Dustin McKinney, Jared Mork, Kristen Norlund, Kaylynn Olson, Cathrine Peper, Matthew Picton, Kelsey Radke, Jacob Rollings-DeHaven, Monique Slate, Jacob Thomfohrda, Kayla Turner and Kalvin Zygowicz.

Seniors Samuel Bengtson, Reina Cox, Jake Davison, Samantha Hill, Amanda Kuske, Julia Larsen, Anthony Larson, Rebecca Milligan, Alesa Paulsen, Kayli Paulsen, Abby Schlechter, Troy Voss and Benjamin Walsh.

tine Chenal, Cathryn McConnell, Zachary Petersen, Anthony Thayer, Michael Elrod, Deniz Mirioglu, Danielle Peterson, Gregory Puetz and Justin Pyke.

Grade 12 Adrianna Otte, Kelly Daeffler, Bobbi Jo O’Brien, Megan Anderson, Rebecca Anderson, Stephanie Tido, Sarah Lexen, Benjamin Knauber, Chelsey Chute, Christopher Nanez, Zachary Anderson, Peter Draxler, Ana Miller, David Harlander, Amy Jones, Brittany Mortensen, Corrie Pearce, Andrew Kurkowski, Brett Williamson, Orianna Tesch, Rhaya Larson, Brent Crandell, Amanda McKinney, Candace Buck, Christina Dahling, Bryan Meyer and Manuel Silva.

Grade 9 Taylor Ader, Crystal Anderson, Ethan Anderson, Haley Anderson, Nathan Barry, Jessica Berganini, Alex Bertram, Tanesia Bibeau, Sam Blesi, Benjamin Clausen, Chad Cochran, Nicholas DeConcini, Christopher Eisen, Alexander Frey, Elliott Frokjer, Alicia Gravesen, Robert Heilig, Natasha Helbig, Ahna Hoefler, Zachary Horn, Emily Johnson, Erin Kessler, Terrence, Klemish, Lauren Koschmeder, Carlee Libbenga, Brenna Loen, Sasha Lundgren, Nichole McPherson, Alex Mikl, Samuel Nichols, Dylan Norgard, Ryan Nussbaum, Caitlyn Olson, Sarah Petznick, Cassandra Rasmussen, Joseph Reddy, Lauren Richter, Matthew Rude, Erik Segelstrom, Nicholis Siltberg, Grant Simpson, Samuel Sizer, Erik Swenson, Jenna Van Soelen, Brittany Whittier and Haley Yunker.

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HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (PG-13)

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Students of the Week GRANTSBURG

FREDERIC

Shane Anderson has been chosen Frederic Middle School’s student of the week. He is in eighth grade and the son of Susie and Dan Niles. He is involved in basketball, baseball and football.

Hobbies include paintball guns, hunting chipmunks and raccoons.

Shane is a hard worker and accomplishes tasks assigned to him. He is friendly to adults and peers and he likes to participate and get involved in activities.

Tara Anderson has been chosen Frederic High School’s student of the week. She is a sophomore and the daughter of Dwight and Paula Anderson.

Tara has a very pleasant personality, is a hard worker, enjoys challenges and is cooperative.

She is involved in cross country, basketball and softball. Tara enjoys outside activities like swimming, 4-wheeling and biking.

Her future plans are to major in physical therapy in college.

Cole Reichstadt has been chosen Grantsburg Elementary School’s student of the week. He is in third grade and the son of Joe and Carol Reichstadt. Cole is a very responsible student. He always has a positive attitude and is very kind and helpful.

Cole’s favorite subjects are math and Spanish. He enjoys riding go-cart and snowmobiling.

Ross Petersen has been chosen Luck High School’s student of the week. He is a senior and the son of Kelly and Billy Petersen. Ross quietly goes about his business without attracting a great deal of attention. He is hardworking and will be joining the Marines after graduation. This is an example of his dedication and loyalty. Ross is involved in football and track. He enjoys listening to music, playing video games and working out.

Matt Thompson has been chosen Luck Middle School’s student of the week. He is in eighth grade and the son of Brian and Cindy Thompson. Matt is a pleasant young man who usually has a smile on his face. He is respectful of staff and always willing to lend a helping hand. Matt is involved in student council, football, wrestling, basketball, track, baseball and works with his dad in the summer. He enjoys reading and playing his PS3.

Caleb Gearhart has been chosen St. Croix Falls Elementary School’s student of the week. He is in third grade and the son of Shawna and Rick Gearhart. He has two older brothers, Brendon and Treven. Math and art are his favorite subjects. Caleb enjoys sledding, swimming, riding bike and 4-wheeling, as well as many other sports. He is in hockey right now, but has also been involved with baseball, soccer and flag football.

WEBSTER

SIREN

Raymond Merrill has been chosen Siren Elementary School’s student of the week. He is in sixth grade and the son of Becky Swenson. Raymond is polite and respectful. He enjoys basketball and football during his free time.

Josh Lemieux has been chosen Siren Middle School’s student of the week. He consistently performs well at both conduct and academics. Josh is a reminder that the traditional values of politeness are still alive and well inside well-rounded students.

Josh’s work ethic shows that students who work hard and polish their work until it shines will continue to impress.

Evan Oachs has been chosen Siren High School’s student of the week. He is a freshman and the son of Michelle Bailey and Cary Oachs. Evan is very active in extracurricular activities and works very hard in the classroom.

He enjoys sports and outdoor activities. Evan’s favorite movie is “Night at the Roxberries.” He enjoys reading Field and Stream while eating burritos. He is respectful and courteous.

Dustin Kern has been chosen Webster Elementary School’s student of the week. He is a hardworking student who is always respectful to his classmates and teacher. Dustin was involved in third-grade basketball this year. He enjoys going to school and his favorite subject is reading. Dustin likes to play with his Wii. He is the son of Todd and Jennifer Kern.

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Madison Main has been chosen Webster Middle School’s student of the week. She is in sixth grade and the daughter of Todd and Laura Main. Madison has a wonderful attitude about school, enjoys her classmates and works very hard to get her work done. Her smile, respect and enthusiasm are nice to see.

Madison enjoys art, swimming, volleyball and collecting key chains.

She also participates in band, the school play and church group, KFC.

Thitwan (Pare) Seephveng has been chosen Webster High School’s student of the week. She is a junior and her host parents are John and Tammy Ingalls. Pare works extremely hard. Her work is neat, accurate and top notch. She is exactly what teachers are looking for in a student. Pare is involved in SIGN, cross country, track and softball. She enjoys reading and surfing the Internet. Her future plan is attending college for pharmaceuticals.

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Angela Gaffney has been chosen Grantsburg High School’s student of the week. She is a sophomore and the daughter of Molly and Greg Gaffney. Angela is responsible, has great integrity and is competitive. She is involved in cross country, basketball, track, AODA and youth group at Grace Baptist Church. Angela enjoys running, biking and soccer. Her future plans are to join the Navy or Marines and go to college.

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LUCK

Timothy Thompson has been chosen Luck Elementary School’s student of the week. He is in first grade and the son of Melissa and Jay Thompson. Tim loves to visit and play with his school friends.

He likes to play with the classroom cash box and count big bills.

Tim works very hard and will help his classmates whenever the opportunity arises. Tim’s sense of humor helps him be a positive person. He loves to read and ice fish.

Landon Bush has been chosen Grantsburg Middle School’s student of the week. He is in fourth grade and the son of Jeff and Lesley Bush. Landon’s favorite class is math. He takes an afterschool class in accelerated math.

Landon is a very creative thinker.

He pays attention and always has his work done on time.

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Nathan Wester has been chosen Unity Elementary School’s student of the week. He is in third grade and the son of Kevin and Jamie Wester. Nathan is so friendly, helpful and kind. He works hard and has great academics. Nathan moved here from Somerset and has adjusted well and made many new friends.

Kali Langer has been chosen Unity Middle School’s student of the week. She is in sixth grade and the daughter of Dana Switzer. Kali was chosen because she has a positive attitude and is respectful. She is a joy to have in class and brings a smile with her. Kali is very sweet and polite.

Cassie Sturgul has been chosen Unity High School’s student of the week. She is a freshman and the daughter of Todd and Cindy Sturgul. Cassie is involved in gymnastics and danceline. She enjoys hunting and hanging out with friends. Cassie hopes to attend college to become a vet tech. The greatest influences in her life are her parents and grandparents.

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FEBRUARY

THURS.-SAT./12-14 Frederic

• Book and bake sale at the library, Thurs.-Fri. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 715-3274979.

Coming events

Spooner

• Fundraiser for Larry & Ann Stellrecht at Lipsie Pines, noon start, 715-468-2085, 715-4687553.

St. Croix Falls

Luck

• Sunday morning breakfast at the American Legion Post 143, 8 a.m.-noon.

• Tri-County Life Care Center is hosting a country dance, silent auction and bake sale at the Valley Christian School, 6-9 p.m., 715755-BABY.

• Luck Winter Carnival. Fri. pageant 7 p.m.; Sat. Lions breakfast, radar runs, parade, dance; Sun. ice-fishing contest, bonfire, fireworks.

MONDAY/16

THURSDAY/12 Danbury

• DivorceCare and DivorceCare for Kids meet at Apple River Community Church at 7 p.m., 715-268-2176, 715-268-8360.

Frederic

• Hwy. 77/35 information meeting at Swiss Town Hall, 5-7 p.m., 715-836-4623.

THURS.-SUN./12-15

Amery

Danbury

• Ruby’s Pantry Food Distribution at the maintenance shop, 2-3:30 p.m. Free.

Frederic

• Tax aides at the senior center, 8:30 a.m.-noon, 715-327-4155.

• 500 cards at the senior center, 6:30 p.m.

• Spades at the senior center, 1 p.m.

Luck

Hertel

• DBS Hall meeting at the DBS Hall. Potluck dinner, meeting and followship.

• School referendum forum at the tribal center, 2 p.m., www.siren.k12.wi.us.

St. Croix Falls

Luck

• Christian Women’s Luncheon at the senior center, 715-483-1901.

• Get-together crafts at senior center, 1-3 p.m.

Siren

TUESDAY/17

• School referendum forum at the school auditorium, 7 p.m., www.siren.k12.wi.us.

Amery

St. Croix Falls

• Tax aides at the senior center on Tuesdays through April 14, 715-268-7884.

• Sjoland Lodge 5-635, Sons of Norway will meet at First Lutheran Church, 7 p.m.

• Exercise, 10-11 a.m., 500 cards, 6:30 p.m., at the senior center, 715-483-1901.

Turtle Lake

• Presentation by Regional Center for Joint Replacement at the Country Lodge, 12:30-2:30 p.m., 715-236-6336, www.lakeviewmedical.com.

FRIDAY/13 Frederic

• Pokeno at the senior center, 1 p.m.

Grantsburg

• Northwest Regional Writers meet at Espresso Cabin (note new location), 1 p.m. Assignment: Write on valentines, spring or romance. Possible to order food.

Milltown

• Annual Valentine’s candy & craft making extravaganza at the library, 2-5 p.m., 715-8252313.

Siren

• Siren Covenant Women’s Ministries Annual Chocolate Affaire at Bremer and U.S. Banks, 9 a.m. until gone.

Spooner

• Safari series, Low-Cost Parlors and SmallScale Bio-Digesters at the Ag Research Station, 10:30 a.m.-noon, 715-635-3506, 800-528-1914.

St. Croix Falls

• Bridge at the senior center, 10 a.m., 715-4831901.

• American Legion Fish Fry at the Legion Hall, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Webster

• Tax assistance for seniors and people with low incomes, at the senior center, 1-4 p.m., 715-866-5300.

SAT. & SUN./14 & 15 Webster

• Snowmobile safety course at the ranger station, 9 a.m.-noon, 715-866-8201.

Clam Falls

Local photographer Ed Berdal caught one of the sky’s many paintings with his camera right from his back door. – Photo by Ed Berdal

Osceola

SATURDAY/14 Balsam Lake

• Interfaith Caregivers Donor Appreciation and annual meeting at Interfaith offices, donor reception at 10 a.m., meeting at 10:30 a.m., 715-485-9500.

• 3rd-annual coyote hunt at the rod and gun club. Registration Feb. 8 & Feb. 13, 715-2943562.

Rice Lake

Frederic

• 11th-annual Vintage Pride Ride and Show at Rainbow Home Center, 715-434-1130, 715234-6636.

Grantsburg

• 1st-annual Marine Corps Northwoods Detachment #1281 ice-fishing contest on Clear Lake, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

• Valentine’s Day celebration at the senior center, entertainment 11:30 a.m., buffet dinner noon.

• 16th-annual Legion ice-fishing contest on Big Wood Lake, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

• Valentine’s dance at the Legion Hall, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Indian Creek

• Indoor fishing contest at Indian Creek Tavern, 2-6 p.m., 715-653-2671.

Luck

• Winter Carnival alumni basketball tournament at the school, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Kyle@sterlingbank.ws.

• Annual Luck Winter Carnival Fundraiser at senior center, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

• Open house at Anderson’s Maple Syrup, east of Luck on Hwy. 48, with several speakers on various aspects of maple syruping beginning at noon, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Ice Age Trail Indianhead Chapter snowshoe hike through Straight Lake State Park. Meet at 10 a.m. at parking area, 715-472-2248.

• Authors day at the museum, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Milltown

• 500 card party at the United VFW Post 6856, 2 p.m.

Siren

St. Croix Falls

• Valentine’s Candlelight Night at Interstate Park, 6-9 p.m., 715-483-3747.

• Vaudeville Valentine event at Festival Theatre, 7 p.m., one-hour children’s version, 1 p.m., 715-483-3387.

• Valentine potluck & 500 cards at the senior center, 5:30 p.m., 715-483-1901.

Webster

• Webster Lioness annual Valentine’s buffet luncheon and free Bingo/card party at the community center, noon-3 p.m.

SUNDAY/15

• Coffee hour at Clam Falls Lutheran Church, 10 a.m. Everyone welcome.

Grantsburg

• Grantsburg Area Christian Women’s Club, 9 a.m.

Luck

• Take Off Pounds Sensibly #WI 261 meets at the senior citizens center at 5:30 p.m., 715-4722341.

• Ruby’s Pantry food distribution, at Luck School bus garage, noon-1:30 p.m. or until food is gone, 715-653-4279, www.rubyspantry.org.

Siren

• Monthly meeting at the senior center, 9:30 a.m., 715-349-7810.

• Siren Lioness Club’s monthly meeting at the senior center, 6:30 p.m.

St. Croix Falls

• Exercise, 10-11 a.m., 500 cards and Dominos, 12:30 p.m., at the senior center, 715-4831901.

WEDNESDAY/18 Frederic

• Pokeno at the senior center, 1 p.m.

St. Croix Falls

• Open house in SCRMC Cardiac Rehab Department, third floor of clinic, 1:30-3 p.m.

• Tax aides at the senior center, 8:30 a.m.-noon, 715-268-7884.

Clam Falls

THURS.-SUN./19-22

Cumberland

• 6th-Annual Winter Carnival, 715-259-3910.

Rice Lake

• Polk Burnett Beekeepers meeting at the Justice Center in the Community Room, 8 p.m.

• South Fork Sporting Club’s annual fishing contest on the flowage, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

• 26th-annual Wisconsin State Ice-Fishing Tournament at Beaver Dam Lake, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., www.cumberlandgap.org.

• The Art of Stained Glass Making at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 12:30 p.m.

Voyager Village

THURSDAY/19

Siren’s signs of the times Because of the availability of its accommodations (lodging, meals, conference and exhibit space), Siren has become known as a place for meetings and events. Signs out Saturday, Feb. 7, show the Northwoods Crossing Event Center as the location for the gathering of members of the northwestern section District 3A of the Wisconsin Towns Association, and the Lakeview Event Center as the site of a very well-attended gun show. This was the second time that District 3A has held its once-ayear meeting in Siren, with members liking the facilities that are available to them. The sign along the highway by the ballpark encourages people that spring, and the baseball season, aren’t all that far away, while a sign at the Best Western Northwoods Lodge (not pictured) puts the welcome mat out for snowmobilers.

– Photos by Nancy Jappe

Balsam Lake