Leader|feb 4|2009

W E D N E S D AY, F E B R U A RY 4 , 2 0 0 9 • V O L U M E 7 6 • N O . 2 4 • 2 S E C T I O N S • S E C T I O N A

• Red Cross fundraiser @ Dresser • Big Read Winter Rendezvous @ Danbury • Bluegrass, country, gospel jam @ Lewis • Lawn Mower Winter Nationals @ Webster • Sportsman’s Booya @ Balsam Lake • Ice-fishing contests @ Webb Lake, Amery See Coming Events and stories

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Polk County protects funds after warnings PAGE 5

Seating jurors a challenge Trial nears in year-old homicide case PAGE 3

Federal dollars already being spent at airport More grant money expected PAGE 3

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“Chicken ranch” raises a squawk in Balsam Lake

Unhappy neighbor addresses trustees PAGE 4

Big Read event at Forts, Saturday Event rundown PAGE 2

Ben Ones of Frederic was the lucky winner of an ice auger during the Frederic Coon Lake Classic Fishing Contest on Saturday, Jan. 31. It may be quite the task for him to try and use it, as it is twice as tall as he is. More photos in Currents section. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

Growing up to be what you want to be...fifinnally

1,000 points for Siren’s Janey Emery See front page of SPORTS Inside this section

by Priscilla Bauer GREEN BAY – Sitting with my college friends of 30 years as we waited for the awards ceremony to begin at the Wisconsin Newspaper Association convention, I thought about a little girl who liked to draw pictures for the stories she wrote.

I was that little girl. As far back as I can remember I wrote short stories and illustrated them. My mother still keeps many of those early writings in a scrapbook.

The stories and drawings I did of Hawaiian hula girls are some of my favorites. Maybe I wrote about them during a cold Wisconsin winter and was

dreaming of warmer places.

Some things don’t change. Winters in Wisconsin are still cold and I still dream of warmer places, but now, sometimes visit them. I also still write and illustrate about

See Growing up to be, page 4 RIGHT: Priscilla Bauer holds her first-place award for spot news photo in the Better Newspaper and Advertising Contest sponsored by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. She said getting this award made her feel like she has finally reached her dream of becoming a journalist. - Special photo

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Forts to host The Big Read Winter Rendezvous Events planned for this weekend DANBURY - Calling all would-be winter voyageurs!

A Winter Rendezvous will take place on Saturday, Feb. 7, from 1 to 4 p.m., at living-history museum Forts Folle Avoine in Danbury. This event is held in partnership with the The Big Read through the St. Croix Falls Public Library and the Festival Theatre.

Enjoy a winter day, London-style, Jack with sled dogs rides and a cross-country ski or snowshoe excursion through the woods on three classical loop trails.

“Not many people know about our ski trails,” says Forts director, Steve Wierschem. “They are unique, very manageable for kids and well marked.”

Displaying their historic fortitude, a winter voyageur encampment will offer in-character answers to questions about survival in the chilly season and life as a fur trader/craftsman.

The reconstructed fur trade posts and an authentic woodland Native American village of the Forts occupy the actual sites where business occurred from 1802 to 1805. Like the quest for

gold in the Klondike, English businessmen and French-Canadian voyageurs sought fortune through collecting furs and transporting bundles via canoe on the Yellow River that leads to the St. Croix, surviving by trading with native people.

“Experiencing Forts Folle Avoine is a fantastic family field trip,” says Amy Klein, project coordinator of the Big Read. “Knowing the authentic history of the place we live has a huge effect on the value we regard it with. If we love it, we will remember the past and take care of its future.”

Inside, dramatic readings of Jack London’s works, read-alouds of featured Big Read for Young Readers story “Paddle to the Sea,” by Holling C. Holling, with family mapmaking activities, are perfectly placed beside the stoked fireplace.

Forts Folle Avoine museum displays of voyageur and Native American artifacts will be open for viewing. A bonfire, warm drinks, wild rice soup and roasted treats provided for purchase by Fort volunteers will complete a memorable afternoon. Some rental skis and snowshoes will be on hand. No admission fee will be charged for this event.

The Big Read events continue at Festival Theatre in St. Croix Falls with the Frostbite Follies, a custom-produced vaudeville show of juggling, clogging, ventriloquy and other Klondike-era entertainment, performed on Feb. 14 by Pop Wagner and friends. The Big Read

participants and the general public will enjoy a special one-hour performance designed for youth and families and an evening performance at 7:30 p.m.

Don’t miss any part of the “Call of the Wild” Environmental Symposium, Feb. 27 and 28, featuring the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, a lineup of excellent environmental speakers and a presentation

by Arctic explorer Ann Bancroft. For more information on Big Read events and symposium details visit www.stcroixfallslibrary.org or contact Amy Klein at the Festival Theatre box office at 888-887-6002, groups@festivaltheatre.org. Tickets for these events are available at the Festival Theatre box office or online at www.festivaltheatre.org.

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. It is sponsored in partnership through 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 sent to: The Big Read, Attn: Amy Klein, Project Coordinator, P.O. Box 801, St. Croix Falls, WI 54024. - from The Big Read program

Law would fine schools using Native American-themes mascots STATEWIDE - Lawmakers are trying again to remove Native Americanthemed mascots and nicknames from schools around the state. If their latest effort succeeds, schools that continue using such mascots could suffer big financial consequences.

Assembly Rep. Jim Soletski of Green Bay and state Sen. Spencer Coggs of Milwaukee are drafting the bill. It’d require the Department of Public Instruction to investigate complaints about race-based team names or mascots in school districts. If a district doesn’t quit within a year of the violation, it could be fined up to $1,000 a day.

Soletski says team names like Red Men, Braves and Chieftains are offensive and outdated.

“God, it’s 2009! It’s time to make this change,” he says. “There’ve been so many studies about how using racebased logos and mascots, they denigrate the community – Native American community, any race community – and…I

think we’ve been working at this for about 20 years now.”

Currently, there are nearly 40 Wisconsin schools with race-based names for their sports teams. Locally, they include Osceola (Chieftains), Amery (Warriors), Rice Lake (Warriors), Clear Lake (Warriors) and Bruce (Red Raiders).

Gerald Eichman is district administrator for Auburndale, where the local team is known as the Apaches. He says dropping a school’s mascot is never easy, as it breaks tradition.

“But by the same token, a school district is not in a position to be paying heavy-duty fines, or lose state aids or anything as a result of a school logo, too,” says Eichman. “So I think they would be highly motivated to look at something else.”

Eichman says that “something else” would be a community decision should the anti-mascot bill become law. Part of that discussion may be how much to read into team names. Many schools have fairly universal terms like warriors or raiders, and have shed Native American imagery from years past.

Representative Soletski plans to introduce the bill this month. – Wisconsin Public Radio (Brian Bull)

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The Fishbowl Bar in Danbury brought this tractor and a hay wagon and hauled passengers from one end of the lake to the other during the fishing contest held on Burlingame Lake on Saturday, Jan. 31. More photos in Currents section.

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Briefly MADISON - The entire text of Gov. Jim Doyle’s State of the State Address, presented to state legislators at the Capitol in Madison last week, can be found on the Leader’s Web site at www.the-leader.net. For those Wisconsin residents who may be hearing more about Minnesota news, the speech given by Doyle is must reading, especially in these challenging economic times.

••• ST. CROIX FALLS - Winter fun awaits at an old-fashioned community skating party to be held Saturday, Feb. 14, from 1 to 3 p.m., at White Pine Park in St. Croix Falls (located at the corner of Kentucky and Madison). Once a railroad yard for the train that passed through St. Croix Falls, the remodeled park is designed with skating in mind and sports a warming house and many growing white pines. Bring the whole family for a lovely day of winter activity, hot chocolate, games and music. This event is sponsored by the city of St. Croix Falls Park and Recreation Committee. For more information, contact Amy Klein, 715-4839542. - Submitted ••• ST. CROIX FALLS - Lightswitch and Heidi Haskin will headline a free concert at St. Croix Falls Elementary School on Saturday, Feb. 21. For more information go to www.heidihaskin.com. - Submitted

Vehicle, cash retrieved from storm-ravaged Kentucky POLK COUNTY — Sheriff Tim Moore and Lt. Steve Smith of the Polk County Sheriff’s Department made a trip to an ice-covered Elizabethtown, Ky., last week to retrieve a vehicle and stolen cash connected to the December case involving the the theft of $230,000 by two teenagers from the safe of one of the teen’s grandparents.

Moore said a Ford Focus and $6,600 in cash were retrieved from the Elizabethtown Police Department.

Authorities there had arrested Samuel Durkot, 19, Cambridge, Minn., as Durkot made his way to Florida with the stolen cash. He was accompanied by an unidentified female. Durkot was transported to Polk County last month. He and Andrew Selvig, 18, of Taylors Falls, Minn., each face felony charges of theft.

Moore and Smith arrived in Kentucky in the aftermath of an ice storm which the Kentucky governor has called “the biggest natural disaster that this state has ever experienced in modern history.”

Hundreds of thousands were without power due to the heavy ice bringing down power lines, and Moore said he and Smith were lucky to find a hotel room after a half-dozen attempts.

“Everything was coated with ice,” Moore noted. “We had hoped to see green grass, but all we saw was the same stuff we have here except long lines to get kerosene for portable heaters.” He said Home Depot sold out of generators the first day, received a second shipment of 80 and sold those in about an hour.

“It was a mess with trees uprooted all over,” Moore said. “We were glad to load up and get out of there.”

Elizabethtown reported 9,000 people still without power as of Tuesday of this week, with hopes of returning electricity to everyone by this weekend. The storm is blamed for 24 deaths in Kentucky alone, with 10 of those from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Moore reported to the public protection committee Tuesday that while it cost the county a total of $2,700 to get Durkot and another person out of Virginia back to Polk County, he and Smith made their trip for under $500. Costs for the transport of Durkot were calculated using the IRS rate of 55 cents per mile, Moore said, while cost for retrieving the Ford Focus, cash and miscellaneous stolen property were actual. - Gary King

Seating jurors for homicide trial a challenge Huggett trial less than one month away

by Sherill Summer BURNETT COUNTY – In just under a month from now, Kyle Huggett, 33, Danbury, and his defense attorney, Craig Mastentuono, are scheduled to defend charges against Huggett of second-degree intentional homicide.

Earlier this week, potential jurors from Burnett County were at the county’s government center for orientation.

Normally 50 county citizens are asked to become potential jurors each month, but because the Huggett trial is high profile, Burnett County Clerk of Court Trudy Schmidt selected 90 potential jurors.

Already 75 have notified Schmidt that they will be unable to serve as jurors, so Schmidt has selected a second group of 30 potential jurors that will begin orientation in the next few weeks.

All of the potential jurors will watch a orientation movie and will be asked to fill out a questionnaire to determine their familiarity with the case and any opinion they may have of the Jan. 20, 2008, incident in which Huggett shot and killed a Grantsburg man, John Peach, 29.

Peach, apparently enraged over something said in text messages, arrived at Huggett’s house with two other men.

Police reports state that Huggett was home with his girlfriend - Peach’s former girlfriend - and her 5-year-old son

by Peach - when Peach arrived at Huggett’s house with two other men.

From the driveway, Peach attempted to call Huggett out of the house, indicat-

ing he wanted to fight, state reports.

When Huggett didn’t respond, Peach went to the door and banged on it until the doorjamb broke and it was forced open. As soon as Peach stepped inside, he was shot twice in the chest by Huggett. Peach was unarmed.

The goal is that the defense attorney and the district attorney review 80 juror questionnaires before the trial date.

The questionnaire is not the only preparation that is complete. Over the last couple of months, a series of status conferences have determined what information the jurors will be allowed to hear and other details.

For example, in the last conference on Tuesday, Jan. 27, Judge James Babbitt has ruled that there would be no sequestering of jurors, or in other words, the jurors will not be required to stay in motels to ensure their isolation from outside influences.

Also, Thursday, Feb. 12, was chosen as the last day that the district attorney’s office and Huggett’s defense attorney can arrange a plea bargain. If the charges are settled on the day of the trial, Huggett will have to either plead guilty to the charge as it stands or the district attorney’s office will have to dismiss the charges outright.

Also decided was a stipulation that the district attorney will not be allowed to mention new charges against Huggett from an arrest in Danbury, on Jan. 10, since mentioning the charges would unfairly prejudice the jury against Huggett, who faces a total of six charges from that arrest, including OWI and breaking conditions of his bond.

In earlier status conferences, it has been decided that the state will be allowed to prove that Huggett knew that Peach was physically disabled and was receiving Social Security disability benefits, and that prior statements by

Huggett can be used as evidence against him.

The text messages from both Peach and Huggett’s cell phones can be used, even though there are more records from Huggett’s phone than from Peach’s phone. The two men had been texting back and forth for several days prior to the shooting on Jan. 20. The police were able to collect records of text messages from both phones for Jan. 20 and Jan. 19.

However, only Huggett’s texts are preserved from Jan. 15 to Jan. 18.

The defense had argued that was not fair because the jury would only receive one side of the conversation during the Jan. 15 to 18 period. Babbitt, however, likened the one side of text messages as similar to someone testifying about overhearing a telephone conversation, which is generally allowed.

If the trial takes place in March, the cost of the trial will significantly deplete the budget set aside for jury costs. According the clerk of courts, Trudy Schmidt, the county usually spends $2,000 to $3,000 each month on juries that decide three or four trials each month. Schmidt estimates that the Huggett trial will cost about $5,000 alone.

Schmidt said she is thankful that the jurors are not sequestered, however.

That would likely cost about $15,000; which is, incidentally, the entire 2009 budget for jury costs.

Jurors are paid $20 a day plus mileage.

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Federal dollars already being spent at airport More grant dollars will be spent before project is finished

by Sherill Summer SIREN - Snowmobilers along the Gandy Dancer Trail in Siren have probably noticed some changes around the airport in Siren.

The arrow-straight Gandy Dancer Trail developed a series of corners last year. The trail now winds around the runway, and still will, even after the runway is extended from its current 3,500 feet to 5,000 feet.

The Gandy Dancer Trail has made use of abandoned railroad tracks that at one time cut across the airport runways.

Even if at one time airport runways were allowed to coexist with snowmobiles, hikers and bikers, the trail was moved in order to get approval for the planned airport expansion project, according to airport manager Jeremy Sickler.

The cost of relocating the trail was approximately $230,000, but because a Federal Aviation Administration grant was awarded, the county was only responsible for a 2-1/2-percent match, or $575.

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A fence separating the relocated Gandy Dancer Trail and the Burnett County Airport had been completed prior to this year’s airport expansion. Photo by Sherill Summer Fence erected Approximately 10,000 feet of statemandated fence erected between the trail and airport site cost about another $140,000, but again, an FAA grant was used and the county was responsible for a 2-1/2-percent match, or $350.

Sickler said the cost of the fence was much higher than 10,000 feet of fence would normally cost. But he explained that the state has very particular standards for fencing around airports. The poles were larger and placed deeper in the ground and the fence itself was also high quality, explained Sickler, so that the fence would last a minimum of 25 years.

Money set aside The money spent at the airport already is nothing compared to what will be eventually spent once the expansion is complete, but the actual expansion, like the relocation of the Gandy Dancer Trail and the fence, will be partially funded with grant money.

Unlike the relocation of the Gandy Dancer and the fence, however, the grant money that will be used to assist with the project comes from a variety of sources, with different county match requirements.

Burnett County has about $200,000 set aside for the project.

Exactly how much the project will cost is not yet known.

A 2006 estimate placed the price at about $1.33 million, but it is likely that the price tag has changed since then.

New estimates are being calculated now and must be completed before the bidding process can begin later this spring.

Complicating the picture is that the engineering firm that is assisting the county and the Wisconsin Bureau of Aeronautics is hoping the county will purchase land around the southeast corner of the airport, near the intersection of Hwys. 35/70.

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“Chicken ranch” raises a squawk in Balsam Lake

Ordinance changes to be refined for next month

by Mary Stirrat LUCK — A proposed amendment to the Balsam Lake zoning code that would allow a Balsam Lake couple to raise chickens brought an unhappy neighbor to the village board meeting Monday night.

The area on Old Main Street where Jim and Lori Duncan live is has the zoning designation of residential-scale commercial, which does not allow for chickens on the property.

The Duncans went through the process that would allow chickens to be raised at that location, and were awaiting final approval from the board Monday evening. A neighbor, however, has been opposed to the idea and spoke to the board about his concerns. After settling some property boundary issues, the first question brought up by neighbor Roark Flenniken regarded the process by which the zoning code could be changed.

“Everything followed procedure as it should have,” assured village President Guy Williams.

According to Lori Duncan, clerk for the village, in order to raise chickens in that zoning district an amendment needs to be made to the code that allows chickens as a conditional use.

A meeting with the zoning committee, at $200, is necessary to develop the amendment and apply for a conditional-use permit.

The planning commission met Jan. 21 and, according to Williams, “discussed the chicken ranch.”

At that time the zoning committee voted to recommend that the village board approve an amendment to the zoning code that would allow chickens as a conditional use in that zoning district.

Several stipulations were included in the amendment. The lot on which chickens can be raised must be at least one acre in size, and the chickens must be a minimum of 100 feet from any offpremise structure. The amendment also requires that the chickens be fenced, that no roosters be allowed, and that a maximum of 25 chickens be allowed.

The committee also voted at its Jan. 21 meeting to recommend that the village board approve a conditional-use permit for the Duncans in order to raise chickens on their property.

A second concern raised by Flenniken was that his property values would be affected by having chickens next door.

“Don’t you think this is going to affect my property values at all?” he asked the board. Trustee Jim Broome said he didn’t think 25 chickens next door would bring down property values, adding that he might consider raising them

himself.

“I think we’ll have more and more of this,” said Trustee Mike Voltz. People are becoming more aware and concerned about current food production practices, he indicated, and are going to want to raise more of their own food.

“What if I wanted to raise llama?” asked Flenniken.

“You don’t have enough space,” said Williams. If the property is zoned rural development, and is large enough, no special permit would be needed to have llamas. If zoned anything else, however, the property owner would need to follow the same procedure the Duncans followed.”

“I don’t see why we should be penalized and have to look at the chickens just because his lot is bigger than ours,” Flenniken said later in the meeting.

As a third concern, Flenniken asked if the board would at least require Duncan to put up visual barrier so he would not have to see the chickens and the coop from his porch. He also expressed concern about the smell that might be present.

The chickens would be within 60 feet of his window, said Duncan, compared with about 140 to Flenniken’s home. “If it stinks,” said Duncan, “they’re not going to be there.”

Trustees Chris Sondrol and Jeff Reed both said they felt the Duncans would be responsible about the fencing and

coop they built, but that other issues could arise down the road.

“I just have little bit of a concern of someone not doing as good of a job,” said Sondrol.

Reed agreed, saying that the stipulations regarding these two issues could be more specific, particularly in regard to upkeep or aesthetics.

In the end, the board voted to table the amendment and, by default, the Duncan’s conditional-use permit until the March meeting. At that time, trustees will present any additional stipulations they think should be included in the amendment.

Other business • With Sondrol abstaining, the board voted to purchase hanging flower baskets from Pro-Lawn. Total cost for the baskets is about $800, with an additional $1,000 for watering.

• The fire department received a $96,995 grant from FEMA to purchase equipment it is mandated to have. The equipment purchased cost a total $101,600, with the department covering the amount over and above the grant.

• The board gave approval for Balsam Lake Bassmasters to use the public boat launch and picnic area at the beach for its annual fishing contest July 18. The event was held at the Hwy. 46 landing last year.

Growing up to be/from page 1 these places, but have traded my pencil and crayons for a computer and quite expensive digital camera.

My interest in writing continued through school leading me to major in journalism and English at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls where I learned to write news and feature stories. I would spend hours in the darkroom (yes, back in the days before digital photography) developing the photos I’d taken. I wrote poetry and short stories for creative writing courses.

I was doing what I loved, but after graduation my life turned in another direction.

I took what I thought was to be a temporary job at a day care center and discovered I also loved working with young children. I liked what I was doing but grew farther and farther away from writing, vowing someday to return to it.

So several years later when an opportunity arose to work at one of the local papers, the Inter-County Leader, I applied and was offered a reporting job by the editor, Gary King.

But as we too often hear (and sometimes use as an excuse for not just following our dreams) “timing is everything.”

Due to the uncertainty of my father’s serious illness at that time, perhaps from fear of leaving a comfortable job, lack of confidence in myself as a reporter, or perhaps because of all the above, I turned the job offer down.

Another popular saying is “everything happens for a reason.” I eventually took a part-time job selling subscriptions at the Burnett County Sentinel to earn some extra money and was offered a full-time sales job.

I was at least, now in the newspaper business. The thought of doing some writing was never far from my mind. I’d often gaze longingly at the reporter’s desks and wished I were sitting there. And as time went on, I did actually write a few stories and take some photos.

But when a young reporter named Jodi McLain walked into the Sentinel office my dream of being a writer came rushing back full force right behind her.

She reminded me of me at that age, full of ideas and ideals.

After Jodi left the Sentinel other reporters came and went. Each time a reporting job opened I’d ask to be considered for the position but was always told I was much too valuable in the sales department.

I needed a change but also needed a push. That push came from another remarkable woman friend, Judy Anderson.

Priscilla Bauer had her own cheering section at the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Better Newspaper and Advertising Contest awards ceremony in Green Bay on Jan. 30. Bauer’s college friends Cindy England and Colleen Sauer wanted to be there when Bauer received her first-place award for spot news photo.

Judy gets the credit for getting me back to my dream. She, like Jodi, was not afraid to express her opinion, and I’ll never forget listening to her say she couldn’t very well tell people she had a friend who was a writer when her friend never wrote anything.

But the final push for me was when I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Judy’s words came back to me and I knew I had to stop talking and start writing.

I took an AmeriCorp position at Grantsburg Elementary tutoring students in reading and writing. I helped them publish a student-written newspaper which only strengthened my own desire to be a published writer.

And again the saying “timing is everything” comes back, as I remember a chance meeting with Leader staffer Raelynn Hunter at Webster’s Gandy Dancer Days. I casually asked her if the paper needed any help. It was my lucky day.

Raelynn told me to call Gary King. Yes, the same person who had offered me a job years before. He was willing to give me another chance reporting for the Leader.

And while it’s definitely been a learning or rather relearning experience, I love it.

I also love taking photos and invested in a really good professional camera, which I was still learning to use when Keith Kennedy went missing from the Trade Lake Camp last summer.

Searchers looked for seven days for the autistic man. I went to the camp every day

This photo of the Keith Kennedy rescue entitled, A Miracle won first place for spot news photo for InterCounty Leader reporter Priscilla Bauer in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Better Newspaper and Advertising contest. An awards ceremony was held at the WNA convention in Green Bay on Jan. 29 and 30. for information and to take photos.

As the search was about to be called off, I got a tip a helicopter was coming in and Kennedy had been found. I raced to the scene, grabbed my camera, jumped out of my car and headed to where several deputies and EMS personnel were standing.

As I tried to keep up to the deputy leading me through the tall grass at a dead run, I hoped I wouldn’t trip in my flipflops and drop my camera. (I learned not to ever wear flip-flops to a rescue). I started praying; praying my camera would work and I wouldn’t push any wrong buttons. I had to get the shots.

Sheriff Roland arrived with Kennedy’s parents and then the pickup truck carrying Kennedy with his rescuers pulled up.

Everyone cheered. I just focused on shooting photo after photo.

It was an experience like none I’m sure I’ll never have again. Emotions were running high and all eyes, including mine, were filled with tears. Keith’s parents and

Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation President John Ingebritsen presented Inter-County Leader reporter Priscilla Bauer with her award at WNA Better Newspaper and Advertising Contest awards presentation on Jan. 30 in Green Bay. Bauer won first place in the spot news photo category for her Keith Kennedy rescue photo. There were 2,978 editorial entries from 139 Wisconsin newspapers in this year’s contest, judged by the Texas Press Association. - Special photos the rescuers hugged, overwhelmed with joy. And there I was, capturing it all on film.

Watching the helicopter lift off with Kennedy safely aboard, I thought about what a remarkable day I’d had as a reporter.

My photos were quickly put on the Leader’s Web site. We got the scoop and soon calls came from Twin Cities television stations, CNN, the Associated Press and national networks asking for my photos.

The Leader published many of my photos and gave them to the news organizations requesting them. Seeing my photos with my credit on the nightly news was exciting, but more importantly was the feeling I had of finally being a legitimate reporter.

The Leader entered one of my Kennedy rescue photos in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest. I learned in December I’d won first place in the spot news category.

Last week I attended the convention, and walking across the stage to accept my award from WNA Foundation President John Ingebritsen I knew then that little girl had finally grown up to realize her dream.

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New appointment to GAM Board

Ollman has health care, finance experience

by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – Dave Ollman, St. Croix Falls, has been appointed to the open seat on the Golden Age Manor Board of Trustees.

Bryan Beseler, chair of the Polk County Board, made the appointment last week to fill the seat on the GAM board formerly held by Eugene Sollman. Ollman takes the position immediately as an interim appointment.

The county board will vote to make the appointment permanent at its next meeting in March. The term runs until April 2010.

Ollman brings both finance and health care experience to the GAM Board. With a degree in finance and an Master of Business Administration in Health Care, Ollman worked at the Hazelden Foundation for 19 years. He also served on the board of the St. Croix Valley Memorial Hospital for 15 years, where he held the positions of treasurer and vice president.

The appointment of Ollman ends a transition period that included the recent rejection by the county board of

Beseler’s prior choice for the seat, Kris Kremer-Hartung. The position, one of two public seats on the five-person GAM Board filled by noncounty board members, became open last April when Sollman’s two-year term ended.

Sollman, at the time, was part of the group suing the county to halt the sale of the nursing home. Beseler delayed making an appointment until that lawsuit was settled, and Sollman continued on the GAM Board.

The court process came to an end in December when the Supreme Court declined to review the case, and Beseler moved ahead to fill the seat. He made an interim appointment of Kremer-

Hartung on Jan. 14, at the same time he appointed Robert Blake to fill the other public seat to replace Fred Grimm, who had resigned. The Blake choice drew a large amount of public comment, much of it negative, at the Jan. 15 GAM Board meeting and the Jan. 20 county board meeting.

The county board approved the Blake appointment and rejected the KremerHartung appointment. Beseler then said his interim appointment of her stood until he made a new choice. Ollman is that choice. Kremer-Hartung was out of town Jan. 15 and did not take her seat at the GAM meeting that day. Thus she never served on the GAM Board.

Global banking worries touch home

Polk County protects funds after warnings

by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – The warning signs were up.

Local banks said to be very secure BALSAM LAKE – It seems that in this time of global financial insecurity, thinking small and local is good.

The county investment committee looked at the current ratings of three other Polk County banks where the county has placed some of its reserve funds.

The message delivered to the finance committee was that all three of these banks were doing “great” based on third quarter reports.

Citizens State Bank, Clayton, Sterling Bank, Luck, and RiverBank, St. Croix Falls and Osceola, all passed review with flying colors. The three banks are all locally owned and not part of any larger system. The county has a $500,000 CD with each of the three. (Other area banks that are not involved in the county investment pool with not reviewed), Gregg Westigard

Another of the largest international banking institutions was expected to have a bad fourth quarter financial report. More problems on a global scale.

But this bank was said to own another bank that had a branch in our area.

And Polk County has some of its reserve funds in that bank, a larger amount than was protected by the first and second lines of deposit guarantees.

The money was not at risk, but the problems overseas could lead to loss of access to the funds.

Last week, the Polk County investment committee, on the advice of the finance committee, closed out two certificates of deposit before their due date and paid an early withdrawal penalty.

The alternative was to possibly place the funds in an inaccessible status for an unknown time. The finance committee met Jan. 28, reviewed the situation, and approved the action. The CDs were cashed in by last Friday.

Polk County invests much its reserve funds in CDs. The CDs are purchased in a bidding process where financial institutions with offices in the county bid for the funds, in an online process, by offering the highest interest. The county puts up the funds for investment in blocks of $500,000, with the funds to be committed for terms ranging at present from 12 months to 30 months.

Last Wednesday, the county had $3 million invested in six CDs placed with

four local banks. Three of those CDs, with a value of $1.5 million, were placed with the same bank.

There are three layers of protection for time deposits like CDs. (Demand deposits like checking accounts have a different level of protection and are not the subject of this story). The first $250,000 of each investment is protected by the federal government through the FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. In Wisconsin, the state has set up a guarantee fund to protect the next $400,000 of public investments.

In the Polk County situation, the three CDs totaling $1.5 million was one investment. The combined protection for this investment was $650,000 ($250,000 FDIC, $400,000 state fund).

That left $850,000 that might become difficult to gain access to if the parent bank in Europe had difficulties and those problems reached down to the local bank.

Given this situation, the county investment committee, treasurer Amanda Nissen, finance Director Tonya Weinert, and county board Chair Bryan Beseler, with the support of the finance committee, cashed in two CDs, with a value of $1 million, before their due date. The penalty for the early withdrawal was $2,676. That money is now sitting in the county’s checking account drawing 3-percent interest.

Public deposit account has large reserve BALSAM LAKE – Public bodies, such as counties and cities, need to invest reserve accounts with balances that are higher than the FDIC deposit protection limit of $250,000.

In Wisconsin, the state has a fund, the Public Deposit Guarantee Account, to protect the investments of government units. This account adds another $400,000 of protection for each investment. The system is authorized in Chapter 34 of the state statutes.

The Public Deposit Guarantee Account had a balance of $39,328,889 on Sept. 30, according to a report from the state controller’s office.

According to Michael Mach, the account was established years ago with an assessment against banks in the state. Mach, administrator of the Division of Banking in the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, said that there have been only three draws against the account since 1985.

- Gregg Westigard

Deputy denied leave to work in Afghanistan

County policy, lack of time hinder request

by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Eric Swan has been denied a one-year leave of absence to train police personnel in Afghanistan.

The public protection committee turned down the request at its meeting Tuesday because county policy and union contracts state that no leave shall be granted to seek other employment.

Swan would have worked for the U. S. State Department under a civilian contract and thus would have had paid employment for the year.

While the request was first presented to the sheriff’s department on Monday,

the day before the meeting, immediate action on the leave was required. Swan said he would have to leave Feb. 14 for two weeks of training and evaluation. If he passed the training, he would leave for Afghanistan immediately after that.

The reaction to the request was mixed.

Sheriff Tim Moore, who said he had just heard about the request, said that the leave would have a negative effect on the department budget since part-time and overtime wages would be required to fill some of the spots left vacant by the leave. Moore added that the leave could cause some problems with court cases where Swan’s appearance might be required.

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Several public protection committee members said they favored the idea of Swan’s request. Neil Johnson said the training and experience Swan would receive would be good for Swan and for the department. He added that this would be an ambitious opportunity for Swan. Brian Masters said he wished the committee could grant the request.

Committee Chair Jay Luke said the short order for the request did not allow time to explore options and a change in policy would put strains on management.

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It was noted that while Swan would be serving in a military combat area and would, it fact, be working in uniform and with troops, this voluntary contract was different than a military reserve call up, where leaves of absence are allowed and required.

Final autopsy report released POLK COUNTY - The final determination of the cause of death in a probable murder/suicide near Luck in December has been released.

Sheriff Tim Moore released the information Tuesday which identifies the death of Rayburn Boyd, 74, as suicide attributed to “propxyphene toxicity,” or an overdose of prescription drugs and multiple incision wounds Boyd had inflicted upon himself.

An autopsy on the woman Boyd lived with, LaVonne Relander, 66, showed she died from three gunshot wounds from a .22 rifle.

The couple was discovered by Relander’s daughter on Dec. 27. Gary King

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Siren residents warned to keep water running

by Nancy Jappe SIREN – A warning is going out to Siren residents to keep their water lines open to avoid freeze-up. Residents are asked to leave a pencil-size stream of water (equaling about a quart jar of water a minute) coming from their faucets. Just letting a drizzle come out of the faucet, or turning the faucet off

entirely won’t work to keep pipes from freezing.

It is village policy to charge people when Public Works Department employees have to rethaw a line because running water hadn’t been left on in a house. The charge is figured on the past quarter billing and the billing for the same period last year, to be as

fair as can be in making an adjustment in rate.

People who are affected live in areas of the village where freeze-up has been a problem and in areas where the streets were cut down during the installation of curbs and gutters.

“People have to keep the water running until the Public Works Department

gives the OK for them to shut (the faucets) off,” said Siren Village Administrator Randy Surbaugh.

Surbaugh commented on how early freeze-up in January has occurred this year. Usually the freeze-ups come during the month of February.

Scout Sunday

Girl Scout Chelsea received her Larson Silver Award during the Sunday morning service at Siren United Methodist Church Sunday, Feb. 1.

The Silver Award is second only to the Gold Award as the highest honor a girl can receive in the Scout program. The Scouts also mentioned the upcoming 97th birthday of the founding of Girl Scouting by Juliette Gordon Lowe March 12, 1912.

Following the Sunday, Feb. 1, church service, members of Scout Pack 564 exited the colors. The Scout in the front of the sanctuary, Jeremy Roy, recently received his First Class Award.

Boy and Girl Scouts from five troops in the area planned and ran the Sunday morning service at Siren United Methodist Church Sunday, Feb. 1, under the direction of Siren/Webster Cubmaster Sharla Stickland. Represented were Girl Scout Troops 50406, 50432, 51627 and 2266 and Boy Scout/Cub Scout Pack 564. Scouts there are front row (L to R): Ian Mangelson, Jordan Mitchell, Cordell Fischer, Jason Peterson Jr. and Charlie Robinson. Middle row: Jeremy Roy, Moe Richard, Kaylin Ritchey and Kole Kettula. Back row: Sam Williamson (a Scout for the past 59 years), Scoutmaster Theo Mitchell from Troop 564, Rachel Larson, Cathryn McConnell, Tailor Larson, Scout leader Wendy Larson, Chelsea Larson and Sharla Stickland. – Photos by Nancy Jappe

Harsdorf responds to governor’s State of the State Address MADISON – The governor, in the State of the State address, outlined the challenges before our state and nation.

Wisconsin faces a historic budget shortfall in the midst of a treacherous national economic climate. Turning our economy around must be job one.

Sen. Sheila Harsdorf is hopeful that

the governor will provide necessary leadership on our state budget and economy, while rejecting partisanship and divisive issues that can often bog us down. This begins with a focus on fostering an environment to retain and expand jobs here in Wisconsin. Federal stimulus funds should be directed

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County fair getting master plan; work starting on GAM building needs

by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – Two county projects long in the planning stage are moving forward, according to reports presented at the Polk County Property Committee Monday, Feb. 2.

A master plan for the fairgrounds is ready for county review and prices are being gathered for a list of building needs at Golden Age Manor. The property committee had requested action on each of the items. And the county forests again generated money for local governments.

In 2008, the Polk County forests earned $147,077 in revenues for the county general fund. Another $109,367 was paid to the seven towns with county forestland. Forest Administrator Paul Pedersen reported that the money came from $400,989 in timber sales. The expense for management of the sales, reforestation, and maintenance of the 17,144 acres of county forestland was only $71,633. Of that, $25,000 went for replanting harvested areas and $40,600 covered the contract for Pedersen, who is not a county employee. That sum includes vehicle costs.

“You have a good fairgrounds,” Thomas Jennings told the property committee. “The fair is well-attended and has a good country feel. You have some historic buildings that should be maintained. The fair feels fresh. With a plan, you can build and improve in the right places, now and for 10 years out.”

Jennings is the landscape architect hired by the county fair board to produce a master plan.

The plan would preserve the historic building at the southwest corner of the property, improve the access and parking areas and upgrade the animal showing areas. Possible future projects include a new horse arena, a new grandstand, a year-round entertainment building and better camping areas.

Roads would be improved to separate cars from people. An immediate priority is completing the purchase of property on the eastern edge of the fair-

grounds. The land was bought at auction by some local people to keep it from being developed and is being held until the fair can buy the property.

The fairgrounds master plan will be presented to the full county board in March for review. The county board will be asked to support the concept plan in April.

Golden Age Manor “We are getting prices on our projects,” Golden Age Manor Administrator Gary Taxdahl told the committee. “We are looking at the carpets, the windows, the roof.”

Property committee member Russ Arcand had expressed concern that nothing was being done to maintain the nursing home building and asked that the issue be put on the committee agenda. The care of all county-owned buildings comes under the authority of the property committee and the buildings department under county policy.

Taxdahl told the committee that the projects had been in the plans for years but nothing had happened because of the ongoing talk of selling the nursing home. He said the county board did not approve requests for borrowing money for the projects. Much of that cost would be reimbursed by Medicaid payments he added.

Three projects listed in the agreement to sell the home were said to be nonissues. Taxdahl said there is no asbestos except for some floor tiles in a small utility room, the boilers do not need replacing and the service elevator only needs an emergency phone.

“Who is watching the building?”

Arcand asked. “The windows are 49 years old. You have 15 year old carpets.”

“My old board had the intent to sell the building,” Taxdahl said. “They had no desire to borrow money.” He noted that this has changed.

“I have heard (today) that the GAM board is on top of it,” Arcand said. “The jobs will be done. I am satisfied.”

Bryan Beseler, county board chair and property committee member, said the coming request for funds should go through the property committee for added support at the county board.

The property committee said it will keep the issue on its agenda to make sure the GAM board is following up on the projects.

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The economic stimulas package: 1. Will improve the economy within a year 2. Will be effective until funding runs out 3. Won’t do a thing but create bigger debt 4. Won’t help me much personally 5. Needs to give individuals more stimulus 6. Isn’t big enough To take part in our poll, go to www.the-leader.net and scroll down to the lower left portion of the screen

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ou realize optimism is fading to pessimism when talk around the water cooler begins to focus on the state of the national economy.

Especially when that talk starts to pose the question - “what’s in it for me?”rather than “what can I do for my country?”

And, perhaps, with good reason.

The economists and our government leaders won’t take seriously the notion that sending money directly back to the taxpayer - instead of billiondollar bailouts - would do just as good in stimulating the economy.

“Stimulate us!” cry the masses. Show us the money, they say, and we’ll spend it or put it in our local bank - either way, serving the same goal by sending the flow of money back into the system - maybe even creating a better economic system in the end.

What would you do, with say, a $10,000 stimulus check? Buy a new car?

Pay off your bills? Take a vacation? Kids-to-college fund?

Even frivolous spending - would, in most respects - flow money into the economy in some fashion, said one woman, whose husband is laid off while she’s working hard to help pay her family’s bills.

Economists have a flow chart to show how loaning money to failed companies and bailing out Wall Street is the best or only plan and experts on Oprah are talking about how this economic mess is the fault of the individual.

The stimulus package, meanwhile, will provide money to help states pay for education and roads and a few other business-as-usual items.

But, Big Brother, can you spare a few extra dimes to help us out of this dead-end life that offers only glimpses of the American Dream?

According to a New York Times editorialist, Americans have cut back on buying most nonessentials but are still shelling out money for Big Macs, Hershey’s chocolate, Campbell’s soup and Spam - “the four food groups of the apocalypse.”

Remember trickle down economics? This is just a rerun, apparently.

The current stimulus package likely to be passed by the U.S. Senate this week, won’t deliver a paycheck to you as was the case several months ago.

This time, the plan is to have your weekly paycheck increase a little bit due to less money being withheld by the government. It will add up to $500 per taxpayer or a total of $1,000 for a married couple. Another somewhat disguised, perhaps unintended swipe at the single person.

That clause of the package is what people are most interested in because it’s tangible. It will make a real difference in their lives, although $500, while a great start, continues the insult of the taxpayer, in light of the blatant misuse of his/her tax dollars.

Water cooler economists are saying it out loud - take some of those billions the government gave to Wall Street and give it directly to the people. Let us try our hand at rebuilding the economy...from the ground up.

Despite the scoffing from economists and government leaders, they, along with a growing number of others, are more than ready to sacrifice for their country and be part of a “trickle up” experiment.

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Ready for some trickle up?

Time may be up for mascot issue

awmakers in Madison will try again soon to remove Native Americanthemed mascots and nicknames from schools around the state.

Nearly 40 schools still have such nicknames.

The issue has been seriously debated for 20 years. Now, with a state law being proposed that would impose financial penalties (up to $1,000 a day) on schools that continue to use such mascots, it looks like its time is up.

And good. If Native Americans want them gone, they should be gone.

And it would be good to silence some of the rhetoric. For example, some non-Native Americans claim nicknames like the Spartans, Vikings and Celtics should also be banished.

“Where is the political correctness going to end?” asks one blogger on the Badger Herald Web site, where the paper’s editorialist supported ending the nicknames.

One man went on record on the same site to say he hopes all Bureau of Indian Affairs-run schools have the option to keep their mascots.

“Isn't using a certain ethnic group for a mascot a positive thing?” reads another blog entry. “People, especially children, love and respect their team’s mascots. Growing up Irish, I loved the Celtics and the Fighting Irish. None of the non-Irish in my elementary school had teams named after their heritage.”

But David Driscol, a curator with the Wisconsin Historical Society, puts the argument in perspective on the society’s Web site: “Even ‘respectful’ Indian mascots are examples of the dominant white culture defining the meanings of Native cultures without their consent,” he writes. He quotes Ann Marie Machamer (Coastal Band Chumash) who has written such mascots represent tenacious white “feelings of entitlement not only to our land and resources but also to our religions and identities.”

There are a handful of local schools among the 40 statewide with such nicknames - Osceola (Chieftains), Amery (Warriors), Rice Lake (Warriors), Clear Lake (Warriors) and Bruce (Red Raiders). They may be forced to look to bird or animal names. But even that’s not without controversy.

“How did Wisconsin get to be known as the Badger State considering the badger is all but nonexistent in the state?” another blogger on the Badger Herald. “The name is actually the derogatory name given to lead miners during the mid 1800s. It was not an endearing name...”

Okay...time out.

All unsigned editorials by editor Gary Kng

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A teacher and friend In 1939 – 1942, I was a student of Bill Johnson and I made furniture, etc., along with other shop projects. I also made a bobsled with round steel rod runners. To steer it, I put on a Model T steering wheel.

Then we pulled it up the long hill by Coon Lake. Boy, that thing would really go on ice. Then WWII came along and my dad put it in back of the store and sold it to a family from Milltown.

Later, they donated it to the museum in Frederic. Remarkable how it survived all these years. At the museum, it sat on the south end of the old depot along with a baggage wagon. My name was on the bottom of it. Where is it now? I had been told it was in the old village library, which is also on the grounds.

I put in a lot of night hours at school working on it, running the forge to heat and bend the runners for it, and Bill was there to help me. Bill was not only a teacher, but a friend.

I received a letter from him while he was in the Coast Guard, when I was in the Army Hospital in Missouri. Hats off to you Bill!

Willys Thomson Frederic Class of 1942 New Richmond

Let it sink in This is a quote worth reading and holding onto...let it sink in!

It comes from probably my favorite pastor of all times: “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” - the late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 to 2005, former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn.

Ken Mettler St. Croix Falls

Suggestion President Obama has decreed that Guantanamo Bay will be closed, but no one seems too know what to do with all the prisoners held there.

May I suggest that each one of those prisoners be given one of those infamous F.E.M.A. trailers and park all of them on the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas.

Darrel Mathieu Luck

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There have been several articles and letters to the editors, regarding the Golden Age Manor, over the last year. They covered the pros and cons of the sale of GAM, the lawsuits against the sale and the judicial reversal of the sale. There have also been articles and letters on how the GAM board and administration have been uncooperative and argumentative over county policies and procedures with the department of administration, finance committee and county chair.

I was elected to the Polk County Board in April of 2008 and chosen to be the chairman of the GAM Board of Trustees in May of 2008. Since I have been chairman of the GAM board, GAM has been in a state of limbo regarding being sold by the county and on hold by the court system. I compare it to treading water, unable to move forward and not wanting to sink. I admit to being defensive and stubborn in arguing some policy and procedure issues. I sincerely apologize for any problems I have caused the department of administration, the finance committee, the county chair and my fellow county board members.

GAM is a valuable Polk County asset for its residents, employees and the citizens of Polk County. Now that it has been determined that it will remain a Polk County asset I am confident that our county board will look to the future and make it even more valuable.

Bob Dueholm District I County Supervisor Luck

What’s going on?

I still keep reading about GAM in the newspapers.

I think people have forgotten that just maybe years ago, if the management of GAM had been more forthcoming as to where the money was going. When they had a large deficit year after year.

The county board was protecting the taxpayer. To me this wasn’t too much to ask. We can’t give these people a blank check. I feel if you have nothing to hide, you’d be forthcoming.

If this had been done, the county board wouldn’t have tried to sell GAM. So who is really to blame here?

Isn’t it amazing how, after all this mess, GAM is not in the red so much? So I have to ask just what was going on?

We can’t be too careful.

I think it’s time to get new board members at GAM. The statements about Blake I disagree with.

I know this has been hard for the residents, but there are more people to blame than the county board.

Martha Heiden Amery

Rethink smoking ban Wisconsin is experiencing the worst economic conditions in 70 years and taverns are bearing a large brunt of the crisis.

A snapshot of the economy shows that Wisconsin is in a recession, with unemployment numbers growing, sales tax collections declining and personal income growth stalling.

• According to the Department of Revenue, November corporate collections dropped a staggering 130 percent, showing a continued weakness in sales tax collections, which has contributed to the $5.4 billion state budget deficit.

• Wisconsin personal income growth, which had grown steadily over the last three years, stalled in 2005.

• Wisconsin’s unemployment rate for November 2008 was 5.3 percent, up 0.9 percent from October. The rate was 1 percentage point up from the rate in November of 2007. In December, Gov. Doyle stated, “We have just seen the biggest single-month jump in unemployment since the Depression.”

The recession has hit small businesses

especially hard and Tavern League members are asking for some consideration of their livelihoods and their employees’ livelihoods when you are looking at a statewide smoking ban.

Every politician in the country is scrambling to stimulate the economy and create jobs. President Obama’s stimulus plan would create 4.1 million new jobs nationwide, putting the brakes on the growing number of unemployed. We are in an economic crisis and this is not the time for legislators to enact extreme bills that could potentially put taverns out of business, which would contribute to escalating unemployment numbers.

Proponents of a statewide smoking ban should recognize this economic crisis and pledge to work with small-business owners to craft a proposal that will not further contribute to their economic loss. The thousands of small independent business owners in the Tavern League of Wisconsin urge you to oppose any effort to include a smoking ban in the state budget and to oppose an extreme smoking ban which would allow municipalities to ban smoking outdoors.

Proponents of a statewide smoking ban are well-intentioned and deserve credit for pushing their agenda so vigorously.

However, I would hope even the staunchest smoking-ban advocate can sympathize with the struggling smallbusiness owner in these unprecedented economic times. With all the difficult issues facing this state and the country, this is one that can be resolved quickly without jeopardizing more jobs but it may take compromise which the other side has not shown a willingness to do.

Chuck Anderson Burnett County Tavern League Webster

No to exceeding limit The Siren School District will be asking us who live in the district to continue paying $250,000 more per year for the next five years for a total of $1.25 million above a levy limit set by the state.

In these challenging economic times, I believe it is time for fiscal discipline by all recipients of our hard-earned tax dollars and to reverse tax increases.

I read recently that this over-the-limit spending costs the taxpayer only an additional $50, and it sounded like the district was downplaying the $50 per parcel paid by the landowner. The tax is based on the value of your property, and it equates to $50 per $100,000 in value, so if your property is worth more than $100,000 you pay more and you must remember this is per year over the next five years.

The $1.25 million to be voted on is in addition to what the Siren School District receives from the taxpayer under state law.

I will be voting not to allow the Siren School District to continue taxing me and spending over the limit for the next five years. Maybe a thank-you to the taxpayers for giving the Siren School District excess money to spend over the past years should be considered.

Mark Pettis Hertel

Lack of stimulus Have you been following the saga of the so-called “stimulus bill?”

I have, and it’s been pretty interesting!

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the bill without a single Republican voting for it. What’s not so well-known is that 11 Democrats also opposed the bill – and with good reason!

This week it’s in the Senate, and the more people learn about the bill the more outrage is growing across the country at both the amount of pork included in this bill and the lack of any stimulus.

One billion dollars would go to Amtrak, that wonderfully run, government owned train service that hasn’t made a profit in 40 years. Great stimulus there!

Two billion dollars to help subsidize child care. Well, that will create lots of

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jobs, right?

Almost $3 billion would go to that pseudoscience called global warming. This winter I wish global warming were true!

Fifty million dollars would go to the National Endowment for the Arts, and I know that would help us out of this recession!

Here’s a good one: $4 billion to help stave off foreclosures! Oh, wait, the money doesn’t go to the mortgage holders or their banks; no, it goes to cities, states, and nonprofits. Huh? Then there’s also $21 million to resod the National Mall because the $140 million inauguration caused some damage.

But here’s the kicker, and the one item that everyone in northern Wisconsin ought to be outraged and ashamed of: $2.5 billion for the national parks. Dave Obey wrote this into the bill, tripling the amount originally in the bill. Obey’s son is the chief lobbyist for the National Parks Association.

Please call our senators, Herb Kohl 202224-5653 and Russ Feingold 202-224-5323, and ask them to stop this abuse of American taxpayers. We need a stimulus bill that actually stimulates something besides a bigger government!

And in 2010, don’t forget about the way Obey used his position of power to help his son with our tax dollars.

Jeff Tyberg Wisconsin Rapids

Virtual school and open enrollment With the new Obama administration, the notion of “change” is certainly foremost in the American vernacular right now, and those in Washington have pledged that education is a high priority on the national agenda.

But closer to home, if families are contemplating a change in education for their children for the next school year, they need to start doing their research now and mark Feb. 2-20 on their calendar.

That is the state’s open enrollment period – the window of opportunity for families to apply for their children to attend a public school district other than the one in which they reside. These schools include virtual schools – public education delivered at home – such as Wisconsin Connections Academy, where I served as a teacher and now am principal.

Online education has been around for several decades, and WCA, Wisconsin’s first K-8 virtual school, has been offering alternative education since 2002. Yet many Wisconsin families are still unaware of this public school option, even after the legislature last year supported virtual education, agreeing that it was a valuable alternative to traditional bricks-and-mortar schools for many of our kids.

Virtual schooling isn’t for everyone, but it is beneficial for some students who, for a variety of reasons, learn better outside of the traditional classroom setting but can still benefit from the resources a public school provides, such as state-certified teachers, textbooks, lesson plans and a loaned computer.

Through my interactions with families throughout the state whose kids attend WCA, I can share the top three reasons our students choose the virtual option: 1) Flexibility in pace – allows students to receive extra help when they need it and the ability to move ahead when they’ve mastered a skill. For example, we have had students who struggled in a traditional classroom environment because their ADHD made it difficult to focus.

With their certified public school teachers a phone call away, virtual students can get one-on-one attention when they need it.

2) Flexibility in scheduling – is needed for many students who are involved in an activity, sport or volunteer work that doesn’t jibe with a traditional school day.

For example, one WCA student, Wolfgang, plays drums in a professional band with his dad, and now can find time

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any Wisconsin residents are fearful about what lies ahead due to the growing economic crisis and increasing unemployment rate. In an effort to calm these fears, the Assembly passed three pieces of legislation at the end of January, which increases jobs and invests in Wisconsin’s economy.

The first two Assembly bills aim to improve economic conditions in Wisconsin by injecting our money back into the state to further stimulate the economy, help local businesses and support workers. The Wisconsin First Act encourages the state to purchase goods and services from Wisconsin-based businesses, which will help create jobs and

grow Wisconsin’s economy. their families with much needUnder this bill, state agencies will ed time and funding to weathbe injecting nearly $50 million er this economic storm. into our economy.

As I have written about The next bill that the Assembly before, there are several passed was the American Jobs resources available to help Act, which also seeks to increase those dealing with unemploythe number of jobs in Wisconsin. ment. If you are without a This bill requires that all contract job and are interested in filing services purchased by the state an unemployment claim, you with taxpayer money have to be can file online at based in the U.S., unless that www.ucclaim-wi.org or by good or service is unavailable phone at 800-822-5246. Or if Ann nationally. you are following up on an The third bill passed this week, Hraychuck existing claim you can call Assembly Bill 5, will shift unem800-494-4944. ployment benefits funding to the 28th District I have helped many connational level and thus save Assembly stituents over the past few Wisconsin taxpayers more than weeks get their unemploy$44 million. It will additionally ment claim processed. In one extend unemployment benefits by 12 case, I forwarded the individual’s name weeks, providing Wisconsin workers and to the Department of Workforce and

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arcy Kaptur of Ohio is the longestserving Democratic congresswoman in U.S. history. Her district, stretching along the shore of Lake Erie from west of Cleveland to Toledo, faces an epidemic of home foreclosures and 11.5 percent unemployment. That heartland region, the Rust Belt, had its heart torn out by the North American Free Trade Agreement, with shuttered factories and struggling family farms. Kaptur led the fight in Congress against NAFTA. Now, she is recommending a radical foreclosure solution from the floor of the U.S. Congress: "So I say to the American people, you be squatters in your own homes. Don't you leave."

She criticizes the bailout's failure to protect homeowners facing foreclosure.

Her advice to "squat" cleverly exploits a legal technicality within the subprimemortgage crisis. These mortgages were made, then bundled into securities and sold and resold repeatedly, by the very Wall Street banks that are now benefiting from TARP (the Troubled Asset Relief Program). The banks foreclosing on families very often can't locate the actual loan note that binds the homeowner to the bad loan. "Produce the note," Kaptur recommends those facing foreclosure demands of the banks. "(P)ossession is nine-tenths of the law," Rep. Kaptur told me. "Therefore, stay in your property. Get proper legal represen-

do. Wayne County, including Detroit, has had more than 46,000 foreclosures in the past tation ... (if) Wall Street cannot two years. produce the deed nor the mortAfter reviewing TARP, Evans gage audit trail ... you should determined that home foreclostay in your home. It is your sures would conflict with TARP's castle. It's more than a piece of goal of reducing foreclosures, property. ... Most people don't and that he'd be violating the law even think about getting repreby denying foreclosed homesentation, because they get a owners the chance at potential piece of paper from the bank, Amy and they go, 'Oh, it's the bank,' Goodman federal assistance. "I cannot in clear conscience allow one more and they become fearful, family to be put out of their rather than saying: 'This is conhome until I am satisfied they have been tract law. The mortgage is a contract. I am afforded every option they are entitled to one party. There is another party. What are my legal rights under the law as a under the law to avoid foreclosure," he said. property owner?'

Bruce Marks of the Boston-based "If you look at the bad paper, if you look at where there's trouble, 95 to 98 per- Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of cent of the paper really has moved to five America is taking the fight to the homes institutions: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of of the banks' CEOs. Last October, as the America, Wachovia, Citigroup and TARP bailout was shaping up to benefit HSBC. They have this country held by the Wall Street and not Main Street, NACA blockaded the entrance of mortgage giant neck."

Fannie Mae until it got a meeting with Kaptur recommends calling the local executives there. Now NACA is working Legal Aid Society, Bar Association or 888with Fannie Mae to restructure mort995-HOPE for legal assistance.

The onerous duty of physically evicting gages. Marks is organizing a nationwide, people and dragging their possessions to three-day "Predator's Tour," going to the the curb typically falls on the local sheriff. CEOs' homes to demand meetings with Kaptur conditions her squatting advice, them. He told me: "This is what we're saying, "If it's a sheriff's eviction, if it's going to do with thousands of homeownreached that point, that is almost impossi- ers, go to their (the CEOs') home and say: ble." Unless the sheriff refuses to carry 'I want you to meet my family. I want you out the eviction, as Sheriff Warren Evans to see who you're foreclosing on.' ... If of Wayne County, Mich., has decided to they're going to take our homes, we're going to go to their homes, and we're

A R E A Gillis leaves new vehicle business

HAYWARD - Hayward’s oldest car dealership, Gillis Motors, has terminated its franchise with Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Plymouth and will switch over to a used car sales and vehicle service center as of Feb. 17. “With the tough economic times and the times they (Chrysler Corporation) are going through, we made the business decision to voluntarily terminate the franchise and move on as a used car dealer,” said Steve Gillis, co-owner of the business along with Pat and Brian Gillis. As of Feb. 17, Gillis Motors will no longer sell new vehicles or do warranty work, he said. They will service vehicles of all makes. They still have Chrysler-certified technicians in place and the physical location will remain on Hwy. 63. “There’s a lot of expenses involved in carrying a new car franchise,” Gillis said. “You can talk to any dealer — it’s gotten harder and harder to be a new car dealer. Over the years, the manufacturers have shifted so much of their cost structure to the dealers.

Business has slowed down for the manufacturers, but it seems like they still want the dealers to order cars to keep the factories running. It doesn’t make business sense to load up your new vehicle inventory and you have to pay interest on that inventory,” he added. “A lot of people don’t understand that we borrow to pay for those cars.” - Sawyer County Record

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Two held in death BARRON COUNTY - Charges are pending in the Barron County District Attorney’s Office against David Makowski, 36, and Bradley Tiegs, 41, both of Barron, who are being held in the death Sunday of Daniel Grindheim, 45, of Barron. A Barron County Sheriff’s Department dispatcher received a 911 call from 1595 12th St. in Barron Saturday at 7:31 a.m. reporting that a man was bleeding on the steps of the house. Authorities found Grindheim unconscious outside the house. He was taken by ambulance to Barron Hospital and later taken in critical condition to Luther Hospital in Eau Claire, where he died. A preliminary investigation showed that Makowski had been assaulted by the men, stated a news release issued by Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald.

- Rice Lake Chronotype Officer acquitted on three of four charges TWO HARBORS — The prosecutor portrayed Superior Police Officer Ross Magnuson as a good man who let a fellow motorist get under his skin, escalating into a road rage incident in which he unlawfully pulled his gun. The defense said Magnuson was only thinking of others when, while off duty, he confronted a reckless driver going 100 mph on Hwy. 61.

Jurors apparently thought Magnuson, 46, did more things right than wrong as they acquitted him Thursday, Jan. 29, of three of four charges — including the two most

serious — connected with the Aug. 17 altercation in the parking lot of Two Harbors’ Holiday West store. The ninewoman, three-man Lake County jury found him guilty of misdemeanor disorderly conduct, but not of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and terroristic threats charges — both felonies — nor of reckless handling of a dangerous weapon. Judge Kenneth Sandvik sentenced Magnuson to 30 days in jail for the misdemeanor crime, but stayed the jail time for a $300 fine. Lake County Attorney Russ Conrow said in his closing argument that Magnuson should have strapped a cell phone to his belt instead of a Smith and Wesson semi-automatic pistol when he headed out from his Knife River home for a day with his family at the Lake County Fair. He said Magnuson should have called 911 to report the alleged reckless driving so that Two Harbors police and Lake County Sheriff’s deputies could have responded, not an off-duty Superior police officer. The driver of the car testified that Magnuson pointed a gun at him after swearing into the open moonroof of his BMW in the parking lot. Magnuson said he lifted his gun out of its holster only when the driver threatened and charged him, which he considered a threat to his life. The driver said the defense portrayed him unfairly in an effort to excuse Magnuson’s behavior, but was satisfied the officer was convicted of a crime. Superior Telegram

Development at 7 p.m. and DWD contacted that person around 11 a.m. the next day. I encourage you to contact my office if you are having any problems getting through to DWD. You can also visit the DWD Web site, www.JobCenterOfWisconsin.com, which aids workers in finding employment and provides links to other labor-related Web sites that may be beneficial for you. The Polk County Job Center, located in Balsam Lake, can be reached by phone at 715-485-3115. The Wisconsin Job CenterBurnett County in Siren can be contacted at 715-349-2150.

As always, if you have any additional questions regarding unemployment, or have other legislative concerns, please feel free to contact me toll-free at 888-5290028 or by e-mailing me at Rep.Hraychuck@legis.wisconsin.gov.

going to tell them, 'No more.'"

Before the inauguration, Larry Summers, the chair of President Barack Obama's National Economic Council, promised congressional Democratic leaders to "implement smart, aggressive policies to reduce the number of preventable foreclosures by helping to reduce mortgage payments for economically stressed but responsible homeowners, while also reforming our bankruptcy laws and strengthening existing housing initiatives."

According to a report by RealtyTrac, "Foreclosure filings were reported on 2.3 million U.S. properties in 2008, an increase of 81 percent from 2007 and up 225 percent from 2006." As the financial crisis deepens, people facing foreclosure should take Kaptur's advice and tell their bankers, "Produce the note." *** 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.

Letters/from page 9 band with his dad, and now can find time to practice with the band. Another student, Elijah, needed to attend many therapy sessions for his autism. Through WCA he could begin his school day early and still attend the therapy sessions he needs.

Students work on their lessons when it is convenient for them to read their textbooks, use workbooks, read library books, enjoy physical education instruction (including yoga) and do hands-on science experiments.

3) A high degree of accountability – is provided, ensuring a high-quality education. Because WCA is a public school, chartered through the Appleton Area School District, students and their statecertified teachers must meet the same levels of accountability and must complete state standardized tests as traditional schools.

Students and families who are interested must apply online or via mail during open enrollment, from midnight, Feb. 2 to 4 p.m., Feb. 20. Submitting an open enrollment application does not obligate a child to attend WCA, but it does preserve the family’s right to choose WCA for the 20092010 academic year. Parents will be notified whether their application is approved to the district by mid-April and to the school by mid-May. Parents will have until June to make a final decision.

Michelle Mueller Appleton Editor’s note: Michelle Mueller is principal for Wisconsin Connections Academy, the virtual public school.

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Ice Age Trail group looks to future

Update on Straight Lake Park, future of stewardship funds topics at annual meeting

by Gregg Westigard ST. CROIX FALLS – “You have the largest annual meeting of any of the (21) chapters,” Mike Wollmer, executive director of the Ice Age Trail Foundation told the over 60 people gathered last Saturday for the annual meeting of the Indianhead Chapter, the local support group for the Ice Age Trail.

The members gathered at Interstate State Park to look back over the 2008 projects and start planning for 2009.

They also heard from Sen. Sheila Harsdorf and listened to an update on the planning process for Straight Lake Park, the newest state park in Wisconsin. And Chet “Gray Ghost” Anderson of St. Croix Falls shared the

story of his 148-day hike of the Appalachian Trail last summer.

The Ice Age National Scenic Trail starts at Interstate and ends on the shore of Lake Michigan after winding over 1,000 miles through the state following the terminal point of the last glaciers to cover Wisconsin. The Indianhead Chapter maintains and enjoys the 50 miles of the trail in Polk and Burnett counties. The trail will soon be routed through Straight Lake Park.

The master plan for that park should be ready for review this April, Bill Smith of the DNR told the group. The planning for the 2,000-acre Straight Lake Park and Wildlife Area has been proceeding for several years and a final draft is near completion. Part of that planning process involves setting out the path the Ice Age Trail will follow as it crosses the park. The Indianhead Chapter members will be involved in laying out and preparing the new trail once the plan is complete.

“This is the premier chapter in the state,” Smith told the members. “You are a shining example of involvement.

The quality of your volunteers has helped make this the best miles of Ice Age Trail in the state.”

“Fifty-seven percent of the population of Wisconsin lives within 10 miles of the Ice Age Trail,” Harsdorf said. She noted that stewardship funds helped provide the money needed to purchase the new Straight Lake Park. Harsdorf said she opposes any moratorium on spending stewardship funds during the current fiscal crisis. She said there is usually only one opportunity to buy a critical piece of land.

Harsdorf said that Wisconsin is looking at a deficit equal to 18 percent of the state operating budget. She said that the federal stimulus package may help.

Harsdorf said she is opposed to selling public lands to cover the shortfall, saying that selling assets does not solve the problems.

Chapter President Dean Dversdall announced coming events for the members and the public, starting with at snow shoe hike at Straight Lake Saturday, Feb. 14, and a cross-country ski tour March 7 at the park. The chap-

ter will plan coming hikes and work days on April 11 at Café Wren in Luck.

Everyone is invited to all the happenings, Dversdall said. The highlight of the year will be Sept. 8 through 12 when volunteers will gather from around the state to develop the new route through Straight Lake Park.

The Ice Age Trail in Polk County includes a number of sections in St. Croix Falls, the City of Trails. Those sections include the esker above the hospital where hikers walk through the heart of the city but in a stretch of quiet solitude with views of the river. The trail follows Mindy Creek down to the St. Croix River and heads north along the shore to Big Rock Creek. The longest stretch of the trail in the county winds through the McKenzie Creek State Wildlife Area, from CTH O in the south to the Clam Falls Flowage, passing remote lakes and rushing rivers.

The Indianhead Chapter alternates hikes and work days throughout the year. All the events attract a variety of outdoors lovers.

How did you spend your summer?

Chet Anderson hiked the Appalachian Trail

by Gregg Westigard ST. CROIX FALLS – Curt Anderson had a desire to hike the Appalachian Trail. Last year he retired and his dream trip became a reality. Anderson, the “Gray Ghost,” shared the story and pictures of his 148-day hike, March 14 through Aug. 8, with the people at the Ice Age Trail meeting Saturday. It is a story worth hearing.

Anderson has documented the story of the hike, where he was accompanied by his grandson, Daniel Harrington, in great detail. The facts are fascinating.

The 2,176-mile hike from Georgia to Maine took 148 days. The pair averaged 14.7 miles of hiking a day through forests and mountains. They carried their supplies for cooking and camping. Anderson’s pack weight was 22 pounds of basic supplies, which increased to 35 pounds with food and water added. The longest single day hike was 32.8 miles.

Those are the statistics. Anderson

Dean Dversdall, Luck, was honored as the statewide Ice Age Trail Volunteer of the Year at the annual meeting of the local Indianhead Chapter of trail volunteers Saturday, Jan. 31. Presenting him with a cake and a hiking staff were Mike Wollmer, (L), director of the Trail Foundation and Wanda Brown, a local active volunteer. - Photos by Gregg Westigard

Chet “Gray Ghost” Anderson hiked the 2,176-mile Appalachian Trail last summer. He told the story of his 148-day hike, which he took with his grandson, Daniel Harrington, at the Ice Age meeting.

Loggers owner charged with diluting liquor ST. CROIX FALLS – Loggers Bar and Grill owner, agent and treasurer, David L. Kremer, 44, Glenwood City, was charged with refilling upper-scale brand name-liquor bottles with lesser alcohol brands and serving it to patrons.

Polk County Circuit Court records filed Jan. 22, indicate Kremer was charged with a felony count of giving a fraudulent statement and eight misdemeanor counts of possession of diluted/refilled liquor bottles.

Polk County Court records state two Department of Revenue agents were at Loggers Bar and Grill to examine liquor bottles and sales receipts. Receipts showed liquors and beer had been purchased from two stores: one in

Glenwood City, and one in St. Croix Falls, for customer sales at Loggers, which violates state law.

Kremer initially denied refilling liquor bottles with cheaper brands at Loggers, and later admitted that he refilled quality-brand bottles of liquor with lesser-brand liquors. According to the records, there had been complaints about the taste quality of some liquors served.

The offense date for the felony and misdemeanor charges are Nov. 19, 2008.

Kremer’s initial court appearance is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 16, at 2 p.m., in front of Judge Molly GaleWyrick. – Tammi Milberg with information from Polk County Court records

says the real story of the trip was the sites they saw as they hiked the mountain route through 14 states. That and the people they met and shared experiences with. That includes the other hikers along the route, and the people living along the way. His photos of mountain views, plants, remote cabins and hikers of various ages offer a hint of an experience that must be lived.

By the way, Anderson started his hike

at age 65 and turned 66 along the way.

He grew almost an inch, starting with a height of 6’ 2-1/2” and ending 148 days later at 6’ 3-1/8”.

While he stretched out, he lost 26 pounds and ended weighing 194 pounds.

Anderson is ready to hit the trail again and plans to hike the 1,000-mile Ice Age Trail this summer.

Free tax assistance available soon POLK COUNTY – The American Association of Retired Persons Tax-Aide Program will begin in Polk County in February. This is a free, nationwide confidential service in which trained volunteers assist middle and lower income persons, especially those 60 and over, with their tax returns and Wisconsin Homestead Credit forms. Younger persons with lower incomes are also welcome to use the service.

Persons using this free tax opportunity are asked to bring with them all Forms W-2 and 1099, plus property tax bills or rent certificates, and last year’s returns.

Tax-aide volunteers will be available to give tax assistance at the Polk County sites listed below. The hours are 9 a.m. to noon (with a couple of exceptions in Amery), and appointments are encour-

aged but are not necessary.

Appointments can be made by calling the site listed. To ask questions about, the program, or to schedule home visits for those who are homebound, call 2687884.

Balsam Lake Aging Office - Thursday, Feb. 26 Frederic Senior Center - Thursdays, Feb. 12 and March 12 St. Croix Falls Senior Center Wednesdays, Feb. 18 and March 18 Luck Senior Center - Thursday, March 5 Osceola (Millside Apts., 403 2nd Ave E.) - Thursday, March 26 Amery Senior Center - every Tuesday from Feb. 3 to April 14 (9 a.m. to noon), and Tuesday, Feb. 24 (1 to 4 p.m.), and Saturday, March 7 (9 a.m. to noon). - submitted

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by Tammi Milberg OSCEOLA – Osceola Elementary began their Pennies for Patients campaign Feb. 2 with a kickoff event.

Through the month of February, students at the elementary school will be collecting pennies for a cure for leukemia. Students heard a presentation from Brooke Sahlstrom, of the Pennies for Patients campaign, who explained what cancer is and how it can be treated or even cured.

Students also were treated to hearing one of their own fellow students, 13year-old Hannah Kautz, who attends Osceola Middle School. Kautz was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 3

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Pennies for Patients kicks off years old. She said, “I went through chemo, I lost some of my hair, but I am better, and I still give to Pennies for Patients.” Kautz is cancer free.

Students not only learned about leukemia at the kickoff, but also learned how a penny can save a life. They were able to see the difference Pennies for Patients made with Hannah Kautz. She was performing in a small band ensemble with other Osceola Middle School students prior to the kickoff event.

Pennies for Patients was started by second-grade teacher Barbara Jorgensen, who is a lifelong member of the Luck community. Jorgensen lost her adult brother, Mark, to leukemia. She

To get students started with collecting pennies and turning them in, handfuls of pennies were tossed into the air for elementary students to grab up at the end of the kickoff. They will spend the month of February collecting pennies to save lives. – Photos by Tammi Milberg

Osceola Middle School student Hannah Kautz, 13, talks about her leukemia treatment to Osceola Elementary students. Kautz is cancer free. Also pictured (left) is Brooke Sahlstrom of the Pennies for Patients campaign.

has organized the Pennies for Patients campaign in Osceola for the past 13 years, hoping that even though she couldn’t save her brother, she could help save someone else.

Each year students raise between $2,000 and $3,500. Last year’s total was $3,400, making the grand total raised in 13 years by Osceola Elementary alone $26,400.

There is a prize for being the top penny-raising class. Jorgensen’s class has won that each year since the campaign began. Her students share the same passion for collecting those pen-

nies as Miss Jorgensen does. Posters around the elementary school have the slogan: “Can a penny save a life? Yes it can!”

Jorgensen gets check and money donations from all over during the Pennies campaign. People who wish to contribute don’t have to be from Osceola. For more information on how to donate, contact Barbara Jorgensen at Osceola Elementary School, 250 10th Ave. Osceola, WI 54020, 715-294-3457 ext. 298.

AnchorBank donates $2,250 to United Way of Polk County ST. CROIX FALLS – The United Way of Polk County recently received $2,250 from AnchorBank in support of its annual community campaign.

The donation will provide funding for various community programs to help improve the lives of children and families throughout Polk County. Of the many programs offered by the United Way, some focus on community needs such as affordable housing, unemployment and economic development.

Local AnchorBank branch managers Rhonda Anderson, Matt Hall, Sheri Soderquist and Lori Pardun presented the check to United Way regional Director Carleen Matosky. “United Way is an organization that works hard to strengthen the communities where we live and work,” said Pardun. “We are proud to make a donation every year.”

Through AnchorBank’s charitable contribution program, Anchoring Communities Together, the bank supports 25 United Way organizations statewide, contributing more than $58,000 each year, as well as individual contributions made

Local AnchorBank branch managers present a check for $2,250 check to the United Way of Polk County United Way Regional Director Carleen Matosky (shown at left). Shown (L to R) are Matosky, St. Croix Falls branch manager Rhonda Anderson, Balsam Lake branch manager Matt Hall, Osceola branch manager Sheri Soderquist, Centuria and Milltown branch manager Lori Pardun. - Special photo by employees year-round.

About AnchorBank: Founded in 1919, AnchorBank is one of the state’s largest financial institutions with 76 locations

throughout Wisconsin.

AnchorBank, fsb is a wholly owned subsidiary of Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin, Inc. Anchor BanCorp’s stock is traded on the over-the-counter market under

the NASDAQ symbol ABCW. More information about AnchorBank is available online at www.anchorbank.com. - submitted

Nominations invited for St. Croix River Stewardship award ST. CROIX FALLS - The St. Croix River Association is looking for nominations of individuals, organizations or businesses whose outstanding volunteer contributions to the well-being of the St. Croix River on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border should be publicly honored.

The nationally recognized river, one of the first to be designated a national wild and scenic river in 1968, is part of the U. S.

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The association is made up of over 300 households committed to sustaining the quality of the popular scenic and recreational river. It makes an annual stewardship award named for its highly regarded past President Robert Burns who died in 1997.

Past award recipients have been recognized for making impacts of lasting value to the river system and public enjoy-

ment of the area. They include Verna Kragness of Osceola; Helen White, formerly of Taylors Falls, Minn.; Jim Shaver of Marine on St. Croix, Minn.; C. W. “Buck” Malick of Hudson; Bill Neuman of Chisago County, Minn.; the Taylors Falls Scenic Boat Tours Company; the Jacob Wert family of Eden Prairie, Minn.; the BP Service Station in Osceola; and Nancy Brown of Stillwater, Minn. Nomination

forms can be obtained by contacting Jim Harrison, SCRA past president, at 651-224-0549. The deadline for submitting 2009 St. Croix Stewardship Award nominations is March 1. Additional information is available on the association’s Web site at www.stcroixriverassociation.org.

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Energy on our minds

Kris Schmid of Legacy Solar gave a presentation on solar energy to the crowd at the Alternative Energy Expo. dents were very informative and done very professionally, giving a lot of practical information. Tim Pitzen of J M Refrigeration, Heating & Air Conditioning gave a presentation on geothermal energy and how units are installed to bring the heat from the earth into the home to reduce heating costs.

Kris Schmid of Legacy Solar also gave a presentation on solar energy, which discussed how the heat is utilized from the sun to store its energy for use in the home.

Dave Grossman, left, had the opportunity to visit with the team from J M Refrigeration, Heating & Air Conditioning about their geothermal work.

People had the chance to watch a video, pick up literature and talk to these gentlemen about geothermal energy at the Alternative Energy Expo. The team consisted of Jim Meyer, Tim Pitzen and Dan Ricci.

Alternative Energy Expo coordinators and helpers were on hand for the event that was recently held at the Milltown Lutheran Church. Assisting with the events of the day were: Kim Grossman, Johanna Alling, Jenelle Larsen, Joe Larsen, Jessica Larson, coordinator Dave Grossman and Jena Alling.

Several Unity FFA members were on hand to assist with the PowerPoints. Joe Larsen, Unity FFA eighth grader commented, “I never knew how biodiesel was made. It is neat to see how many other ways there are to make energy.”

Jeanne Alling, Unity FFA advisor, commented that the experience researching the alternative energy topics and

Unity FFA members helped with the PowerPoints that were prepared by the high school conservation class at the Alternative Energy Expo.

Presentations were on biodiesel, geothermal, green roof energy, methane, nuclear power, solar energy, wind power and wood pellet stoves. Helpers included from left: Jena Alling, Joe Larsen, Johanna Alling, Jessica Larson and Jenelle Larsen.

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County government offices, bankers, realtors, attorneys and others involved in real estate transactions are encouraged to notify foreign investors of these reporting requirements. It is the foreign landowner’s responsibility to report the land transaction.

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MILLTOWN – Saving energy is on the minds of many people this winter and that is what the Alternative Energy Expo was all about that was held recently at the Milltown Lutheran Church.

Educational information was on display by Polk-Burnett Electric, Focus on Energy, J M Refrigeration, Heating & Air Conditioning, and Legacy Solar.

There were also PowerPoint displays

by Unity High School’s conservation class on biodiesel, geothermal, green roof energy, methane, nuclear power, solar energy, wind power and wood pellet stoves.

“It was a fun day with lots of information being presented,” stated Kim Grossman, Milltown Lutheran Church Board member. Lots of different ages of people were asking questions about how they could use an alternative energy source.

“It was a good start to get people more informed about alternative energy sources,” commented Dave Grossman, coordinator of the Alternative Energy Expo. “As an educational event, it was a great way to put a lot of information in front of people in an informal setting.” Grossman contacted a variety of agencies in the surrounding area to come and set up displays, be speakers, and be willing to share their thoughts on the alternative energy issue.”

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Tickets on sale for “The Wizard of Oz” ST. CROIX FALLS - Festival Theatre begins rehearsals this week for the next Youth and Family Theatre production, “The Wizard of Oz,” which opens on March 27 for two weekends only.

Tickets went on sale to the general public Feb. 2. The show is part of Festival’s new arts education initiative and will perform to school audiences starting March 24.

Director Marilyn Mays and arts education Director Amy Klein had their hands full through the audition process with over 80 youth turning out to be considered for just 25 roles.

“This is such an exciting time for us,” says Amy Klein, arts education director at Festival. “Festival Arts has been a project concept for quite some time and to have it continue to grow so well is a dream come true.”

In 2004, a study of arts education needs in the upper St. Croix River Valley was commissioned by Festival Theatre with support from the St. Croix Valley Community Foundation. The results were mixed: while a clear need was found for more arts learning activities and Festival Theatre was viewed as an obvious and respected organization for offering activities, the theater was not in a position to expand at that time. The board of directors never let go of the commitment to expand arts education programming even though they couldn’t prioritize the effort at that time.

“As we reorganized in late 2005 and early 2006, we

Burnett Co. sheriff’s report

Polk County deaths Donald Ray Jones, 78, Jan. 13, 2009, St. Croix Falls Arlene M. Tilseth, 82, Jan. 15, 2009, Somerset

Grace M. Reed, 67, Jan. 22, 2009, Balsam Lake

Burnett Co. criminal court check, $432.60 restitution, $243.00.

Jolene K. Pirila, 43, Siren, issue worthless check, $309.00.

Jennifer L. Bearheart, 39, Webster, issue worthless check, $309.00.

Joseph R. Kalway, 63, Buffalo, Minn., operating while out-of-service, $500.00.

Anthony W. Pewaush, 40, Webster, operate without license, $186.00.

James E. Lightfeather, 30, Lewis, disorderly conduct, 15day jail sentence, $88.00.

Christina L. Johnson, 37, Webster, OWI, $1,000, 20-day jail sentence, Huber release granted, licensed revoked 16 months, alcohol assessment.

Rose M. Burnham, 45, Luck, OWI, $1,020.00, 20-day jail sentence, Huber release granted, license revoked 16 months, alcohol assessment.

Robin A. Dearbin, 47, Webster, OWI, $957.00, 10-day jail sentence, Huber release granted, license revoked 14 months, alcohol assessment.

Accidents Jan. 28: Jack M. Holmes, 26, Danbury, was southbound on Old 35 Road in Swiss Township when lost control negociating a curve. He struck a tree in the ditch. There were no reported injuries. The driver was issued a citation for driving too fast for conditions.

Feb. 2: Michell E. Young, 27, Danbury, was northbound on Tower Road when she lost control on the ice covered road and struck trees in the ditch.

There were no reported injuries.

The driver was issued a citation for driving too fast for conditions.

Arrests Jan. 27: Sean T. Reynolds, 21, Webster, was arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property.

Other incidents Jan. 27: Thomas W. Haines, Siren, reported the entry door of a garage was forced oven and shelves in the garage were pulled out, but only a air wrench was noticed missing. Tire prints show that a vehicle pulled up to a barn, but nothing is reported missing from the barn.

The incident is under investigation.

Siren police report Jan. 26: At 11:03 a.m. the officer on duty investigated the report of an alarm for a smoke or carbon monoxide detector coming from an unoccupied apartment in Siren.

Jan. 27: At 8:40 p.m., a $31.60 gas drive-off from Siren Auto Stop was reported. The red mini-van was registered to the Sanberg Family Trust, Grantsburg. A note on the report indicated that Auto Stop employees believe this was not an intentional drive-off.

Jan. 28: Charges of disorderly conduct made against a student at Siren School were

referred to social services after various consequences at the school had no effect on the student’s behavior.

Based on receipt of a lab report, a fifth citation, driving with a blood-alcohol concentration of 1.0 percent or higher was issued to Samuel B. Woods, 35, Frederic. Four operating-whileintoxicated-related citations were issued Dec. 21, 2008, against Woods following a traffic stop at Clear Lake Park. The replaced citation was for driving with a PAC of .08 percent or higher.

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Tianna Z. Brodsky, 17, Shoreview, Minn., failure to keep vehicle under control, $198.60.

Lamoyne R. Stockland, 75, Menomonie, reckless driving, $375.00.

Kimberly D. Jensen, 34, Grantsburg, issue worthless check, $309.00, Georgia R. Breault, 31, Grantsburg, issue worthless

were very aware that our new staff leadership would have to be knowledgeable in the arena of arts education,” said Beth Hartman, board president. “We were so pleased to hire Danette Olsen, who has expertise in the general area of arts administration as well as an extensive background in arts education. Our dream since 2005 was to expand beyond producing professional theater. Arts education was at the top of the list.”

With funding support from the Hugh J. Andersen Foundation, the Andersen Corporate Foundation, the Xcel Energy Foundation, Polk Burnett Project RoundUp, Wal-Mart, and private donations, a full range of arts learning activities have been developed under the Festival Arts program. One high profile activity is the Youth and Family Theatre program which offers theaterarts training within the process of producing a play.

This process includes production coordination by the arts education director, inclusion of a professional director, and hiring at least one teaching artist to teach workshops throughout the rehearsal period. For “The Wizard of Oz,” Marilyn Mays (director of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” and Aunt Martha in “Arsenic and Old Lace” at Festival in 2008) is working as the director.

“The true stars in this program are the community actors – both youth and adults – who will work together for seven weeks prior to the opening,” says Klein.

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the play. We have 25 of them along with two adults who were cast and are now in rehearsal.”

Twelve St. Croix Valley communities are represented in “The Wizard of Oz,” cast with individuals from Polk and Chisago counties. In June, Festival Theatre will hold auditions for the second play in the Youth and Family Theatre program (“The Wind in the Willows”) which will rehearse in August and be onstage in September.

Public performances of “The Wizard of Oz” begin Friday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m., and run through April 5. Single tickets are $12.50 for adults and $7.50 for youth. A limited number of matinees are available to school groups for field trips and reward days. To learn more about opportunities for school groups, call Amy Klein at 715-483-3387 or check the Web site listed at www.festival theatre.org. - from Festival Theatre

Recalling the “Day the music died” DULUTH - Half a century ago, Buddy Holly, J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson, and Ritchie Valens flew into rock-and-roll immortality when their chartered plane American Pie crashed in an Iowa cornfield in the early morning of Feb. 3, 1959. Their deaths came in the middle of a frozen upper Midwestern music tour called The Winter Dance Party.

Rock ‘n roll DJ Tim Michaels was just 12 years old on Jan. 31, 1959, when he took in his first concert, which was The Winter Dance Party at the Duluth National Guard Armory. Buddy Holly was the headliner, but Michaels says Ritchie Valens set the crowd to jitterbugging. “(Valens) got the whole gang going, everybody, not only the gals, but the guys. When Ritchie Valens came on, that’s when they all started dancing.”

Today, three tractor trailers might carry the gear for a rock concert. But Michaels remembers there was none of that.

“Buddy Holly just came walking out with a speaker.

He put the speaker down, plugged it in and just started singing. He didn’t talk very much, he was very shy.

At the end of a song he would say “Thank you” and then boom! – into the next song.”

The tour left Duluth in 25 below cold on its way to Green Bay, having to cancel their Appleton concert because the bus broke down south of Hurley early Sunday morning. From Green Bay, they embarked to Clear Lake, Iowa, and their last concert.

Michaels’ future wife, Yvonne Pavlich, was also at that Duluth concert. She remembers when she heard news of the plane crash Feb. 3.

“The next day I remember we all wore arm bands, black arm bands, everybody at school. And then, on the radio they just continually played the music.” Wisconsin Public Radio (Mike Simonson)

Burnett Co. marriage license Robert J. Frederick, Dewey, and Melissa A. Harrison, Dewey, Jan. 30.

Burnett County civil court Capital One Bank vs.

Michael E. Wynveen, Webster, $1,789.57.

Burnett Medical Center vs.

Shawn M. Songetay, Danbury, $853.01.

Burnett Medical Center vs.

Bradley T. Adolphson, Grantsburg, $832.91.

Capital One Bank vs. Casey J. Crocker, Grantsburg, $752.68.

St. Croix Regional Medical vs.

Bruce A. Johnson, Grantsburg, $1,349,97.

Capital One Bank vs. Gina L. Timmer, Grantsburg, $1,571.90.

Capital One Bank vs.

Ronald J. Reis, Danbury, $2,074.44.

Velocity Investments LLC vs. Mary J. Christner, Webster, $1,986.09.

Capital One Bank vs.

Thomas B. Higgs, Webster, $789.99.

Capital One Bank vs. Sarah A. Shaffer, Webster, $1,427.13.

First Financial Investment Fund vs. George E. Kern, Danbury, $1,860.60.

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Grantsburg 60, Unity 38

by Brenda Sommerfeld GRANTSBURG – The Pirates outpowered and outshot Unity in order to take their first win of the season, 60-38, on Tuesday, Feb. 3.

“I was really pleased with how our girls played,” Grantsburg coach Lisa McKinley stated. “They continue to put together everything they’ve been learning.”

“They deserved to win,” Unity coach Chuck Holicky said. “They played very well.”

Unity had tied the game, 12-12, by the end of the first quarter, but Grantsburg finished the half with a 30-20 lead.

The Pirates scored 30 more points in the second half. The Eagles scored 14 points in the third quarter but only four more in the fourth.

“Offensively, scoring 34 points in three quarters was good for us and we had the opportunity to score many more,” Holicky said.

Grantsburg had many girls add up their points. The Pirates had three girls in the double digits with Kortney Morrin scoring 23, Haley Larson adding 11 and Gabby Witzany contributing 10.

Sarah Wald and Nicole McKenzie each scored five, Liz Gaffney added four and Jessica Moyer tallied up two.

“Everybody contributed so that was really great to see,” McKinley commented. “Even the people that came off the bench helped in some sort of way.”

“They [Grantsburg] put on a shooting clinic tonight,” Unity coach Chuck Holicky commented.

The Pirates went 50 percent from outside the arc, hitting seven 3-pointers.

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1 2 3 4 12 8 14 4 12 18 21 9 Individual Statistics Unity 2s 3s FTM/A Annie Confer 3 4/4 Samantha Ince 4 1/2 Crystal Donahue 4 Cailin Turner 1 1 0/2 Becca Milligan 1 0/1 Elizabeth Ebensperger 2 Marisa Hacker Katherine Ebensperger Totals 15 1 5/9 Grantsburg Sarah Wald Gabrielle Witzany Haley Larson Kortney Morrin Jessica Moyer Liz Gaffney Nicole McKenzie Totals

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Larson and Morrin each nailed three and Wald made one.

Annie Confer, Sam Ince and Crystal Donahue each scored for Unity. Confer totaled 10, Ince added nine and Donahue contributed eight. Cailin Turner had five points for the Eagles, Elizabeth Ebensperger made four and Becca Milligan added two.

St. Croix Falls 41, Luck 34 BALSAM LAKE – The Luck girls basketball team enjoyed sole possession of second place for just a few days, as the Saints came out on top Tuesday night.

“The battle for second place in the West Lakeland went down to the fourth quarter,” said Luck coach Marty Messar.

According to Messar, much of the team’s focus was on the Saints leading scorers in Jenny Benoy and Marissa Campeau. Benoy didn’t score and Campeau was held to just eight. Messar was happy with being able to stop both for the most part.

“But Sarah Petznick with 13 [points] and Amanda Larson with 12 made the difference,” Messar said.

Despite the Saints getting out to a fairly comfortable lead in the first quarter, and overall in the first half, Luck was able to get a nice run going in the third quarter. Down 23-14 with 5:20 to go, Aleah Lemieux put up two points and Taryn Pilz put up four under two minutes to bring the Cards to within three.

Morgan Denny hit a nice jumper moments later and a steal by Pilz led to a bucket that put the Cards up by one.

Luck held a one-point lead into the fourth quarter, but the Saints outscored Luck 14-6 with the help of Petznick’s seven points, including 3 of 4 from the foul line.

Pilz led the Cardinals with 15 points and 13 rebounds, while Lemieux had 10. Denny had 11 points on the night. – Marty Seeger

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1 2 3 4 11 8 8 14 7 6 15 6 Individual Statistics St. Croix Falls 2s 3s FTM/A Sarah Petznick 5 3/7 Sharanda Whittaker 2 Tashina Martinson 1 2/4 Marissa Campeau 4 0/2 Amanda Larson 6 Totals 18 5/13 Luck Morgan Denny Bailee Sweson Melissa Jenssen Krystal Stage Aleah Lemieux Taryn Pilz Totals

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Grantsburg’s Haley Larson was excited as her team won against Unity on Tuesday, Feb. 3. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

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Cardinal Morgan Denny guards Saint Sarah Petznick during their conference game on Tuesday night. – Photo by Marty Seeger

••• STEVENS POINT – The UWStevens Point women’s basketball team moved up to the No. 2 spot in the nation with a win over River Falls last Wednesday, Jan. 28. Former Luck athlete Britta Petersen scored 13 points for the Pointers in the game.

••• RICE LAKE – The 11th-annual Vintage Pride Ride and Show is being held on Saturday, Feb. 14, at the Rainbow Home Center just off of Hwy. 48 in Rice Lake. Registration for the snowmobile event is from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m., and the ride leaves at 10:30 a.m. and is back at 11:30 a.m.

Registration fee is $5 per sled. Swap spaces are available as well as food and beverages. Trophies will be awarded for first and second place, and best of show. Classes range from 1965 and older through 1989. Don’t forget the ugly junker class. The sled must run and move at least 10 feet.

For more information contact Brian Rezac at 715-434-1130 or Pete Schneider at 715-234-6636. – Marty Seeger with submitted information ••• LEADER LAND – The Friday, Feb. 6, Luck at Unity boys and girls basketball games can be heard on 104.9 FM beginning at 6 p.m. The Monday, Feb. 9, St. Croix Falls at Unity girls basketball game is being broadcast on 104.9 FM at 7:30 p.m. On Tuesday, Feb. 10, the Unity at Cameron boys basketball game can be heard on 104.9 FM beginning at 7:30 p.m.

••• AMERY – On Thursday, Feb. 5, the Somerset at Amery boys hockey game can be heard on 1260 AM beginning at 7 p.m. The Friday, Feb. 6, Durand at Amery girls basketball game is being broadcast on 1260 AM beginning at 7:30 p.m. Also on 1260 AM is the Amery at Prescott boys basketball game beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10.

••• MADISON – Badger athletics on 1260 AM can be heard on the following dates and times. The Sunday, Feb. 8, Wisconsin at Penn State basketball game can be heard at 2 p.m.

The Iowa at Wisconsin basketball game can be heard on Wednesday, Feb. 11. The Wisconsin hockey game at Minnesota is being broadcast Saturday, Feb. 7, beginning at 7 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’s Janey Emery marks her 1,000th point Third Siren girl in last four years

by Brenda Sommerfeld WEBSTER – Siren senior Janey Emery marked her 1,000th point during her team’s game against the Webster Tigers on Friday, Jan. 30.

“The whole Webster team would like to congratulate Janey Emery on reaching 1,000 points,” Webster coach Jeff Roberts said.

The Siren girls basketball fans are no strangers to seeing one of the players make it to the 1,000-point mark during their high school career. Former coach Jon Ruud had Abby Coyour hit the milestone in 2006 and Caitlyn Flannigan hit it in 2007.

“I’ve always said that I was really lucky because I coached great girls,” Ruud commented.

Emery played with Coyour and Flannigan as a freshman was the third leading scorer of the team, behind Coyour and Flannigan.

The game in Webster was Emery’s 83rd game. She has averaged 12 points per game. She scored 177 as a freshman, 286 as a sophomore, 356 as a junior and now 181 her senior year, totaling 1,000 points.

“What was so neat about Janey is it’s always been so easy,” Ruud said.

“Never once in all my years as her coach did she ever give me anything but the best attitude. If I would have said, you’re going to do this and you’re never going to shoot, I think she still would have played hard.”

Against Webster, Emery needed 19 points. She scored them all in the first three quarters, five in the first, eight in the second and six in the third quarter.

Her final two points came from free throws.

Even with several photographers under the basket and many fans waiting for the free throw shot, Emery wasn’t nervous as she stepped up to the line.

“I figured if I missed it, I’d make another shot,” Emery said.

“She’s the quietest 1,000 points I think you’ll ever see,” Siren head coach Ryan Karsten said. “It was nice to get Janey

Janey Emery holds on to the game ball as she poses with coach Ryan Karsten (L) and former coach Jon Ruud after the game against Webster on Friday, Jan. 30. – Photos by Brenda Sommerfeld

Janey Emery aims the ball for a free throw, which marks her 1,000th high school career point. the points.”

As first year varsity coach, Karsten doesn’t feel he had much to do with Emery’s 1,000 points.

“Her dad, sister, brother, mom and family have made her the player she is,” Karsten commented. “Jon and I just got to sit back and watch her score 1,000.

I’m more a passenger than a driver on this train. I’m just honored to be able to say I saw her score 1,000 points when I was head coach.”

Emery’s younger sister, Carley, has been playing right along side her on the court for the past two years. Carley, along with the rest of team, was very happy with Emery’s accomplishment.

“They’re more excited than I am,” Emery commented.

Emery has contributed many things

to the basketball court for the Siren High School team.

“She can play inside, she can play outside and she doesn’t force things,” Rudd said. “She always seems to let the game come to her. If they’re taking away the inside, she’ll go outside. If they’re taking away the outside, she’ll go inside.”

“Her leadership, ball-handling and scoring will be sorely missed on this team next year,” Karsten said.

Both coaches think highly of her off of the basketball court also.

“She’s a great kid,” Karsten commented. “She’s going to go far in life. She’s going to do wonderful things. She’s the politest, quietest girl.”

“She is as nice a person as she is a player on the floor,” Ruud said. “She’s a great girl and I was really lucky to have her for three years.”

Siren 57, Webster 32 WEBSTER – The Siren team remains undefeated with a 13-0 record after a 5732 win over the Webster Tigers on Friday, Jan. 30.

“I thought Webster played scrappy tonight,” Siren coach Ryan Karsten said.

“They got after it, but I thought my girls were ready to play.”

The Dragons took the lead in the first quarter, shutting out the Tigers, 11-0.

“We just got off to a bad start and it is too difficult to play catch-up versus Siren,” Webster coach Jeff Roberts said.

“Siren played very well and gave us fits with their half-court trap.”

The Siren defense held Webster’s score to under 13 points in each of the next three quarters.

“We were just never in the game, but I’m proud of our kids, they never stopped hustling or working,” Roberts commented.

Offensively, the Dragons gave the ball mostly to Janey Emery in order to get her 1,000th point.

“We didn’t play team basketball right away,” Karsten explained. “We got up and we kind of just worked everything to Janey.”

After Emery scored the 19 points she needed, she was taken out for a while and other Dragons racked up Siren’s final points. Carley Emery also totaled 19 points during the game. Ashley Guevara scored 12 points, Haily Mulroy added five and Jenna Wambolt contributed two.

“We are going to continue to play hard and work hard every minute we are on the court,” Karsten said. “We will use all 32 minutes of court time to get better.”

Michelle Gibbs was Webster’s leading scorer, adding 10 points. Rose Kopecky contributed eight, Reba Smallwood had five and Mary Johnson scored three.

“We continue to improve and we are so close to being a really good team,” Roberts said. “We hope to be a major factor at tournament time.”

Team Siren Webster

1 2 3 4 11 19 19 8 11 9 12 Individual Statistics Siren 2s 3s FTM/A Haily Mulroy 2 1/1 Sarah Howe Jenna Wambolt 1 Carley Emery 7 1 2/2 Janey Emery 6 1 4/6 Meghan Baasch Jamie Fischbach Ashley Guevara 5 2/3 Amber Guevara Totals 21 2 9/12

Webster’s Reba Smallwood rebounds the ball over teammate Brittany Burrow (No. 15) and Siren’s Ashley Guevara. Siren players Carley Emery (No. 20) and Sarah Howe are also pictured.

Janey Emery puts a shot up earlier in the game, before scoring her 1,000th point.

Webster Michelle Gibbs Kendra Spurgeon Reba Smallwood Brittany Burrow Rose Kopecky Rachel Salas Emily Roppe Mary Johnson Totals

2s 1 2 1 2 1 7

F 57 32 F 3 1 1 3 1 4 2 3 4 22

TP 5 2 19 19 12 57

3s FTM/A F TP 1 5/5 1 10 0/2 1 1/3 2 5 0/1 - 2 4/8 3 8 2/2 - 2 - 2 3/4 3 3 1 15/25 10 32

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Luck holds Saints down with tough defense Siren prevailed 49-41 over Clear Lake on the Warriors court.

“Our kids did a nice job,” coach Jon Ruud said.

Siren took a 25-21 lead after the first half. They were able to hold on to the lead by scoring four more points in second half.

Brennen Moose scored 19 for the Dragons, Andrew Brown added 14 points and had 16 rebounds. Luke Bollant put up five points.

“Different people have been stepping up every night,” Ruud said. – Brenda Sommerfeld

Webster, Grantsburg and Siren take wins Luck 60, St. Croix Falls 35

by Marty Seeger LUCK – It started out as a game shaping up to be a battle, but it didn’t take long for Luck to open up a nice lead in the second quarter, and hold that lead to the end.

Gus Koecher opened up the game with a steal and a layup, but the Cards came back with the next six unanswered points from Cole Mortel and Brennan Olson.

The Saints brought the game back to within one point with under a minute to go in the first quarter, but its as close as they’d get for the much of the game.

Before the half the Saints were still in it midway through the second quarter, but with just under four minutes to go Luck started pulling away, which included a long 3-pointer from Mortel.

The Cards led by 10 at the half and didn’t look back. Luck coach Rick Giller credited his defense for the win.

“Defensively it was a great team effort,” Giller said. “Cole Mortel and Nick Morgan stepped up at both ends of the floor.” Mortel had a 17-point effort with Morgan putting up nine.

Olson had 15 points on the night but sat out for much of the third quarter with a little bit of foul trouble that began in the first half. Overall Giller was pleased with his team’s effort. While the shooting percentage might have been a little low, Giller said the team keyed in on getting better on rebounding and boxing out.

“I think the kids came through with flying colors, so I’m really happy with that,” Giller said.

Webster 50, Frederic 19 WEBSTER – Webster’s defense did it against Frederic on Tuesday night, while the offense provided a nice cushion for the win.

The Tigers led by just three points after the first quarter, but didn’t allow a

Team St. Croix Falls Luck

Luck’s Harry Severson-Dickinson goes up for a shot over Matt Vold of St. Croix Falls on Tuesday night. – Photo by Marty Seeger single Vikings bucket in the second. In the first quarter Webster was led by Austin Elliot with six points, and in the second quarter Elliot fired two 3-pointers from the outside, and teammate Kyle Godfrey did the same with two threes of his own. In the second half the Tigers held Frederic to just 10 points.

Elliot led the Tigers with 14 points on the night, Godfrey had nine and Adam Baum had eight points. Webster hosts Grantsburg this Friday, Feb. 6, night and Frederic plays host to Northwood. Both games feature boys and girls games.

Grantsburg 66, Unity 30 GRANTSBURG – The Pirates continue to be one of the dominating teams in the West Lakeland Conference.

Grantsburg took another conference win on Tuesday, Feb. 3. Unity was the victim as they fell, 66-30.

Eagles Brady Flaherty started the game with the first basket, but the

Pirates hit enough shots quickly to take an 18-8 lead by the end of the first quarter.

Unity was not allowed to score more than nine points in a single quarter, while the Pirates added double-digit numbers each quarter.

Jason Jensen led the Grantsburg team in points, scoring 15. Tyler Myers followed Jensen with 13 of his own. Trent Bonneville was the other Pirate to score in double digits with 10. Connar Goetz added seven points, Ben Larson contributed six and Brent Myers and Thane Larson had five.

Tyler Bublitz scored the most for the Eagles with eight, Luke Hilleshiem followed with seven and Flaherty totaled six. – Brenda Sommerfeld Siren 49, Clear Lake 41 CLEAR LAKE – The Dragons won their fourth consecutive game on Tuesday, Feb. 3. It was a close game, but

1 2 3 4 7 12 9 7 10 19 11 20 Individual Statistics St. Croix Falls 2s 3s FTM/A Nick Johnson 1 Sam Schmidt Cory Gebhard 1 Gus Koecher 5 2/3 Josh Larcom 1/2 Ryan Larson 5 Kyle Christensen 2 0/1 Austin Whittenberger 2 Totals 16 3/6 Luck

Harry Severson-Dickinson

Cole Mortel Nick Morgan Adam Anderson Brennan Olson Alec Mortel Carson Giller Derek Buck Totals Team Siren Clear Lake Siren Elijah Hinze Luke Bollant Jesse Hinze Charlie Brown Vince Nasman Brennen Moose Andrew Brown Totals

2s 2 5 3 7 2 2 21

2s 3 4 1 4 3 15

F 1 2 1 2 2 1 9

TP 2 2 12 1 10 4 4 35

3s FTM/A F TP 1/2 - 5 2 1/2 1 17 1 - 9 1 0 1/2 3 15 2 4 1 1/2 2 4 1 4 4 4/8 10 60

1 2 3 4 14 11 12 12 10 11 10 10 Individual Statistics 2s 3s FTM/A 4/4 1 1 1 2 0/1 0/1 3 3 4/4 7 0/1 13 5 8/12

Clear Lake Matt O’Connell Cody Lien Andy Kuhn Mitch Warner Austin Danahue Brian Frienshuh Travis Wickboldt Totals

F 35 60

F 49 41 F 1 2 3 2 9

TP 4 5 3 4 19 14 49

3s FTM/A F TP 1 2/2 3 11 2 8 1 2/2 4 4 1 1/2 - 12 3 6 - 1 2 5/6 14 41

Team Unity Grantsburg

1 2 3 4 F 8 9 8 5 30 18 17 17 14 66 Individual Statistics Unity 2s 3s FTM/A Sam Bengston Luke Hilleshiem 2 1 Brady Flaherty 3 0/2 Tim Hallin 1 Rush Hickethier 1 2/2 Alec Carlson 3/4 Tyler Bublitz 4 Totals 11 1 5/8 Grantsburg Connar Goetz Ben Larson Tyler Myers Brent Myers Jake Ryan Jason Jensen Thane Larson Mitch Evenson Trent Bonneville Josh Phillipps Totals

2s 2 1 3 1 1 7 1 1 5 22

Team Frederic Webster

3s FTM/A F TP 1 1 7 1 1/1 2 6 2 1/2 - 13 1 - 5 2 2 1/4 2 15 1 1 5 - 2 1 10 1/2 - 1 6 4/9 9 66

1 2 3 4 9 0 5 5 12 21 8 9 Individual Statistics Frederic 2s 3s FTM/A Brent Crandell Tom Thompson Ethan Cook 2 1/1 Zach Anderson 1 2/4 Will Primm 1 Andrew Kurkowski 2 1/2 Ben Nelson 1 Claire Erickson Totals 6 1 4/7

Webster’s Quentin Johnson drives toward the basket against Frederic’s Ben Nelson on Tuesday. – Photo by Carl Heidel

Unity’s Tyler Bublitz looks to the basket for a shot during the Eagles game against Grantsburg on Tuesday night. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

Siren’s Elijah Hinze takes a free throw shot. Hinze went 4 for 4 from the line against Clear Lake. – Photo

by Brenda Sommerfeld

Webster Quentin Johnson Karl Weber Kyle Godfrey Austin Elliot Dan Erickson Mitchell Elliot Dakota Gardner Nolan Kriegel Adam Baum Donnie Holmes Totals

2s 2 2 1 4 1 1 4 1 16

F TP 1 2 7 4 6 - 2 1 4 - 3 - 8 8 30

F 19 50 F TP 1 1 1 5 - 4 - 3 - 5 - 2 1 4 19

3s FTM/A F TP 1 4 - 4 2 1/2 3 9 2 1 14 - 2 1 1 - 3 2/2 - 4 1 8 2 2 5 3/4 9 50

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Unity brothers piling on the wins

Dennis and Dustin McKinney having standout seasons Unity 58, LFG 18

by Marty Seeger BALSAM LAKE – The Eagles hosted Luck/Frederic/Grantsburg last Thursday night, and with just five matches overall, it was a relatively quiet night of wrestling. Unity’s Jared Peper pinned Manuel Silva at 160 lbs., and Jacob Johnson pinned LFG’s Kenny Sanford at 215 lbs.

LFG’s only win of the night came by way of pin by Austin Eskola over Steven Anderson. Unity’s Luke Nelson also won his match over Jesse Harrison 18-1.

Unity’s Dustin McKinney, 130 lbs., defeated John Schneider by a score of 22-6. It was win No. 112 for the junior, and although his brother Dennis didn’t wrestle last Thursday night, the senior still won by forfeit, and is up to 121 career wins. Both wrestling brothers were honored for their achievements, and both careers have been solid up to this point, with some of the most exciting wrestling yet to come.

“The winning is awesome but the thing I like most is watching these kids

Unity brothers Dennis and Dustin McKinney celebrated 100-plus career wins last Thursday in wrestling, with a lot more exciting matches to come for both of them. – Photo submitted become young men,” said coach Mark to say about Dennis, whom he considers Ferguson, who has a lot of good things a leader on the mat.

“The difference between Dennis from age 14 to age 18 is unbelievable. He is by far one of the best team leaders I’ve ever had. I’ve rarely seen a kid work harder than him,” Ferguson said.

Taking care of the other wrestlers on the team and leading by example in the practice room are just a couple of things that show what Dennis has become as a wrestler and a person according to Ferguson.

“He’s really come into his own in that respect,” said Ferguson.

With 121 wins so far in his career, Ferguson isn’t sure if Dennis can break the schools all time wins record set by Joe Mabry at 138. Right now, Dennis is second place in the schools all-time wins category, but junior Dustin McKinney, has a good shot at it next season with already 121 career wins.

Dustin is currently undefeated this season, and according to Ferguson, no wrestler has scored a point on Dustin yet this season.

“Dusty is just tremendous on his feet,” Ferguson said. He’s also one of the few undefeated wrestlers left in the state at 130 lbs.

The conference tournament begins this Saturday, Feb. 7, at 9 p.m.

Eight gymnastic teams compete in Hudson a 6.175 on floor and a 3.200 on bars.

Kayla Cross competed on beam and floor, receiving a 5.800 and 5.950. Haley Anderson received a 6.050 on beam.

Each of the participating teams also competed in a ‘70s and ‘80s dance-off.

Hudson won the competition, River Falls took second and Grantsburg received third.

Pirates take fifth, Saints take eighth

by Brenda Sommerfeld HUDSON – Eight gymnastic teams made their way to Hudson to compete in the invitational they hosted on Saturday, Jan. 31. Grantsburg and St. Croix Falls/Unity were two of the teams.

The Pirate team scored a 113.425 to take fifth place and the Saints scored a 106.875 for eighth. River Falls won the invitational with a team score of 143.375.

“Vault and bars went pretty good for us,” Grantsburg coach Kathy Lund said.

“Beam, still too many falls and floor, we just were not as clean as we could have been.”

Pirate Michelle Lund was the only local gymnast to finish in the top 10 of an event. Lund received ninth place allaround with a score of 30.975. She scored eights on two events, an 8.500 on vault and an 8.000 uneven bars. Her bars score was her highest this year, breaking her record of 7.750. Lund was close to an eight on floor with a 7.975.

Her lowest-scoring event was on balance beam with a 6.500.

Jessika Ilgen and Nikki Ticknor were Grantsburg’s other two all-around competitors. Ilgen received her season high score of 6.550 on the balance beam. Her other scores were 8.200 on vault, 7.250 on bars and 6.375 on floor. Ticknor received scores of 7.950 on vault, 5.250 on bars, 5.200 on beam and 6.475 on floor.

Breanna Fickbohm was the only other Pirate gymnast to break one of her records. Fickbohm had a season high on vault with a score of 8.300.

Emily Cole competed in three events for Grantsburg. She received a 7.325 on floor, a 6.300 on beam and a 5.950 on bars. Lauren Finch competed in two.

She received a score of 7.650 on vault and a 5.000.

Jenna Barenz and Haley Johnson each

Grantsburg’s Lauren Finch competed on the uneven bars during the Hudson Invitational. – Photos by Brenda Sommerfeld competed in one event for the Pirate varsity team. Barenz received a 6.650 on floor and Johnson totaled a 6.250 on beam.

The St. Croix Falls/Unity team had eight athletes compete for their varsity team in Hudson. Nichole McPherson was the only one to compete all-around.

McPherson received a 7.750 on vault, a 6.600, a 6.275 on floor and a 5.550 on beam.

Danae Meyer and Melissa Larson scored the Saints only eights during their vaults. Meyer got an 8.300 and Larson received an 8.050. Jenna Christensen and Katie Meyer were the other gymnasts who performed on vault. Christensen received a 7.250 and Meyer got a 7.700.

Danae Meyer also competed on floor, scoring a 5.500. Larson scored a 6.950 on bars and a 7.000 on beam. Katie Meyer scored a 6.950 on bars and 7.250 on beam. Christensen finished bars with a 3.750 and a 6.325. Brooke Parks received

Danae Meyer performed on vault for the St. Croix Falls/Unity team in Hudson on Saturday, Jan. 31.

Team River Falls Hudson Red Wing Tartan Grantsburg Menomonie Superior St. Croix Falls

Vault/Place 35.650 34.500 34.800 33.450 32.950 31.750 32.700 31.800

Bars/Place 35.375 34.475 32.075 29.425 26.450 23.250 25.200 24.250

Saints travel to Rice Lake RICE LAKE – The St. Croix Falls/Unity gymnastics team traveled to Rice Lake for a second time this season on Thursday, Jan. 29. The Saints finished behind Rice Lake with a score of 105.95.

“I am pleased with a progression the girls are making,” coach Dawn Peer said. “They are starting to realize the importance of pointed toes and staying tight in all routines and moves.”

On vault the St. Croix Falls/Unity team scored a 31.40, on bars a 24.00, on beam a 25.65 and on floor a 24.90.

“We still have a lot of cleanup to do in the routines before sectionals on Feb. 28,” Peer commented. “I really want to concentrate on no falls on beam routines and clean, connected floor routines.”

Beam/Place 36.050 33.700 32.350 29.400 25.600 29.050 24.500 26.100

Floor/Place All Around/Place Place 36.300 143.375 1st 34.025 136.700 2nd 31.650 130.875 3rd 29.675 121.950 4th 28.425 113.425 5th 28.075 112.125 6th 24.800 107.200 7th 24.725 106.875 8th

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30.975 28.375 24.875 19.575 12.650 8.300 6.650 6.250

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Dragons keep drivin’ with win over Frederic we didn’t give a point in the first quarter,” coach Ryan Karsten said. “We only gave up eight on the game, which is a testament to how we played defense tonight.”

Ashley Guevara was the leading scorer for the team with 25 points.

“A lot of her plays were set up by the passing of Janey Emery,” Karsten commented.

Janey Emery scored seven, Carley Emery scored 14 and Meghan Baasch added 11 to Siren’s board. – Brenda Sommerfeld

Siren girls hold Drummond to a single digit Webster 44, Frederic 39

by Marty Seeger WEBSTER – The Tigers grabbed a big win over Frederic on Tuesday night, which featured a close first half and a close game in the final minutes.

The game was tied after the first quarter Ana Miller had four points in the first quarter for Frederic and Brittany Burrow had four for Webster in the first quarter. Webster held a two-point lead at the half and according to Frederic coach Troy Wink, the Tigers jumped out to a nine point lead in the third quarter.

1 2 3 4 9 9 7 14 9 7 18 10 Individual Statistics 2s 3s FTM/A Frederic 1 Sam Nelson 2 Megan Anderson 3 Ana Miller Anna Tesch 3 2 3/4 Chrissy Chenal Becca Anderson 3 2/4 3 Kenra Wells 2/2 Jade Johnson Candace Buck 13 4 7/10 Totals Team Frederic Webster

Webster’s Brittany Burrow led the Tigers with 13 points in the team’s win over Frederic on Tuesday night. Frederic senior, Chrissy Chenal, is shown on defense. – Photos by Carl Heidel unless otherwise noted “To Webster’s credit, they stepped it up and built a 9-point lead. We got back to one, but missed some crucial rebounds and they scored and we never recovered,” Wink said.

Burrow led the Tigers with 13 points on the night and Michelle Gibbs had 12 points. The Viking were led with 11 points from senior Becca Anderson, and Chrissy Chenal added seven.

“This may have been our most complete game,” said Webster coach Jeff Roberts. “Good balance in all areas of the game...we played very well.”

Carley Emery had seven points against Drummond Tuesday night. – File photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

Siren 71, Drummond 8 SIREN – The Dragons held Drummond to a single digit in their 718 win over Drummond on Tuesday, Feb. 3.

“I thought we played very good defense, and for the third straight game

Webster Chris Stoll Michelle Gibbs Chelsey Robinson Reba Smallwood Brittany Burrow Rose Kopecky Rachel Salas Mary Johnson Totals

2s 1 4 1 5 2 1 14

Webster’s Rose Kopecky and Frederic’s Megan Anderson fight for the ball on Tuesday night.

Siren Haily Mulroy Sarah Howe Daphane Hubbell Jenna Wambolt Carley Emery Janey Emery Meghan Baasch Jamie Fischbach Ashley Guevara Amber Guevara Totals

2s 1 2 1 4 3 5 11 27

F TP 1 3 1 4 1 4 4 6 4 7 3 11 1 6 1 2 1 17 39

3s FTM/A F TP 4/4 - 6 1 1/4 3 12 1 1/2 1 3 3/6 3 7 3/6 3 7 1 1/2 1 3 1 13/24 13 44

1 2 3 4 2 6 8 25 14 10 22 Individual Statistics 2s 3s FTM/A Drummond 1 0/2 Caitlin Micheletti Crystal Oravis 1 Sam Walters Kim Fridsma Jenna Schick Kayla Schaffer 0/1 Lila Knabe 0/1 1 2/3 Jenny Renz Totals 3 2/5

Team Drummond Siren

F 39 44

F 8 71 F TP - 2 2 2 2 3 1 3 4 11 8

3s FTM/A F TP - 2 1 1 1 7 1 2 2 - 14 1/2 4 7 1/1 3 11 1 1 3 3/4 2 25 0/4 1 4 5/11 14 71

Eagles win dual over Saints Tuesday night Vlasnik, 145 lbs., pinned Jesse Wilson in 4:54. Another close match went down at 152 lbs., as Nate Reda won in overtime against Jake Radamacher. Unity’s Jared Peper, 160 lbs., pinned Erik Segelstrom in 4:58, and Jordan Hughes of Unity defeated Terrance Klemish at 171 lbs., by a 9-0 major decision.

Joe Raygor, 189 lbs., pinned Joe Swanson in 28 seconds, and Jacob Johnson pinned Blake Yunker in 3:29.

The final match of the night went the Saints’ way as Spencer Walters, 119 lbs., won 6-5 in overtime to Steven Anderson.

Conference wrestling tournament this Saturday in Cameron Unity 38, St. Croix Falls 24

by Marty Seeger ST. CROIX FALLS – The Eagles had a solid night of wrestling over the Saints on Tuesday night. It was a dual that filled nearly all weight classes as Unity grabbed 12 of its points by forfeit, with one other match forfeited by both teams.

Saints senior Jake Bruns, 125 lbs., won the Eagles first match of the night over a tough opponent in Luke Nelson. The match went into overtime, with Bruns winning by a 3-1 decision.

Dustin McKinney, 130 lbs., won by a major decision over Shaw Amundson by a score of 16-4, and Dennis McKinney pinned Zach Horn in 1:00.

Dylan Hendricks defeated Ryan Nussbaum of St. Croix Falls by a 2-1 decision at 140 lbs., and Unity’s Jason

Unity’s Luke Nelson went into overtime against St. Croix Falls wrestler Jake Bruns on Tuesday night. Bruns won the match 3-1. – Photo by Tammi Milberg

Conference wrestling in Cameron CAMERON – The Lakeland Conference Tournament is being held in its traditional Cameron location again this Saturday, beginning at 9 p.m.

All three Leader Land teams will be participating, including Luck/Frederic/Grantsburg, St. Croix Falls and Unity. Other schools include Bruce, Cameron, Clear Lake, Cornell/Gilman, Flambeau, Northwood, Shell Lake and Turtle Lake/Clayton.

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Lady Blizzard shut out by Ashland

Come back to win in Superior Ashland 4, Lady Blizzard 0

by Brenda Sommerfeld ASHLAND – The Lady Blizzard was shut out by Ashland, 4-0, during their matchup on Saturday, Jan. 31. It was their second game against Ashland.

Back on Saturday, Jan. 3, the Lady Blizzard had defeated Ashland, 4-1.

With goaltender Tiffany Meyer out with an injury, coach Tim Bennett has been trying different girls in the net.

Team Lady Blizzard Ashland

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Scoring (Time elapsed) First Period – 1 A Kelsey Sherry (Amber Maiwald, Lynzie Thorp) 2:23; 2 A Amber Johnson (Lauren Strauss) 13:54; 3 A Lynzie Thorp (Jese Konkler, Kaitlyn Sherry) 14:25.

Second Period – 4 A Lynzie Thorp 0:07.

Third Period – No scoring.

Goalies Saves – LB Casey Crawford (16); A Megan Ylitalo (26).

Against Ashland, Casey Crawford took her turn. Crawford finished the game with 16 saves.

Ashland scored three goals in the first period and one in the second.

The Lady Blizzard got 26 shots off but couldn’t get one between the pipes.

the Spartans two shots, which made it in.

The Lady Blizzard scored two unassisted during the second, one by Cody Crawford and one by Alex Lonetti.

During the third, the Lady Blizzard hit in four more, tying the game, 6-6.

Lonetti scored two of the goals and Crawford and Krysta Laqua each added one. Lonetti scored the tying goal with seconds left of play, making her fifth hat trick of the season.

“It was an excellent effort by everyone to keep their heads in the game,” Bennett commented.

Laqua knocked in the game-winning goal, three minutes into overtime, from just inside the blue line.

Defensively, Kelsey Lien played tough. Lien made the switch from forward to defenseman this year.

“She had to learn a new position and that is hard at this level, but Kelsey has become a rock-solid defenseman,” Bennett said.

Lady Blizzard 7, Superior 6 SUPERIOR – The Lady Blizzard traveled to Superior on Tuesday, Jan. 27, to make up for a snow day earlier in January. The Lady Blizzard defeated the Spartans, 7-6.

“This was a really fun game and a nice win for us,” coach Tim Bennett stated. “The girls pulled together to come from behind and get the victory.”

Foreign exchange student Michelle Wilde took her turn in the net for the Lady Blizzard.

“She was nervous to give it a try, but came through for us,” Bennett said, “especially in the third period, when she made several key saves to keep us in a position to win.”

Superior started the game scoring four goals in the first period, but in the second the Lady Blizzard only allowed

Randi Hunter hits the puck during a previous game this season. – File photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

Blizzard play two out of state Win one, lose one Silver Bay, Minn., 3, Blizzard 2

by Brenda Sommerfeld SILVER BAY, Minn. – The Blizzard’s first stop in Minnesota over the weekend was at Silver Bay on Friday, Jan. 30.

The Blizzard just missed the win to Silver Bay, 3-2.

“We didn’t really show up for this one,” coach Greg Sears said. “Two poor periods of play and we couldn’t dig out of the hole in the third.”

The Silver Bay team took the lead, 2-0, with a goal in the first period and one more early in the second. They also managed one more in the second, while the Blizzard only scored one in the first two periods.

David Harlander hit in a goal in the Team Blizzard Silver Bay, Minn.

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Scoring (Time elapsed) First Period – 1 SB Ryab Lenski (Hunter Panetti) 16:55.

Second Period – 2 SB Hunter Panetti 3:28; 1 B David Harlander (Tyler Richison, Jordan Sargent) 11:25; 3 SB Jesper Lingermyr (Jake Topspin) 14:21.

Third Period – 2 B David Harlander (Bryan Bennett, Steven Labatt) 7:53.

Goalies Saves – B Mike Billings (24); SB Neil Kelley (29).

Joe Engelhart takes a shot on goal for the Blizzard in an earlier game this season. Engelhart had two goals and three assists against Ely, Minn. on Saturday, Jan. 31. – File photo by Brenda Sommerfeld second period between Silver Bay’s two. Tyler Richison and Jordan Sargent both assisted him on it.

Harlander was able to knock in one more during a power play in the third period, with help from Bryan Bennett and Steven Labatt.

The Blizzard wasn’t able to score again to tie the game up, losing by one, 3-2.

“This was our sixth 2-3 loss of the sea-

son, frustrating” Sears commented.

Mike Billings made 24 saves in the net for the Blizzard.

Blizzard 8, Ely, Minn., 2 ELY, Minn. – While in Minnesota over the weekend, Ely was the Blizzard’s second stop. Making up for Friday’s loss, the Blizzard blew past Ely, 8-2.

Steven Labatt had a hat trick, scoring four of the eight goals. Joe Engelhart

scored two and David Harlander and Russ Thoreen each knocked in one goal for the Blizzard.

Engelhart made playmaker with three assists during the game. Several others also received assists. Thoreen had two, Bryan Bennett had two and Labatt had two.

Cody Benedict, Ben Shives, Tyler Richison and Thomas Labatt each assisted in one.

Thomas Labatt was in the net for the Blizzard, saving 24 shots from hitting the back of the net.

“In goal, Thomas Labatt got his first WIAA win and also had an assist in the game,” coach Greg Sears said. “It’s the second point recorded by a goaltender in four years.”

Team Blizzard Ely, Minn.

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Scoring (Time elapsed) First Period – 1 B Steven Labatt (Russ Thoreen, Joe Engelhart) 0:13; 2 B David Harlander (Bryan Bennett, Steven Labatt) 5:36; 3 B Joe Engelhart (Steven Labatt, Russ Thoreen) 16:59.

Second Period – 1 E Mike Skelton (Logan Morphy, Matt Urbas) 2:25; 4 B Steven Labatt (Bryan Bennett) 7:31; 5 B Joe Engelhart (Cody Benedict, Ben Shives) 8:00; 6 B Steven Labatt (Joe Engelhart) 15:33.

Third Period – 7 B Russ Thoreen (Tyler Richison, Thomas Labatt) 3:16; 2 E Sam Swanson (Logan Morphy) 9:35; 8 B Steven Labatt (Joe Engelhart) 11:00.

Goalies Saves – B Thomas Labatt (24); E Ryan Puzel (34).

Amery/Unity defeated by Hayward and New Richmond Tryggestad scores another hat trick Hayward 11, Amery/Unity 0

by Brenda Sommerfeld HAYWARD – The Warriors were goalless against Hayward in their 11-0 loss on Tuesday, Feb. 3.

Hayward took the ice in the first period and scored in eight seconds. They continued scoring in the first with five more goals. Hayward knocked three more goals past Amery/Unity’s goalkeeper, Patrick Bergan, in the second and two more in the third.

The Warriors had 21 shots on goal, but could not hit one into the net.

New Richmond 6, Amery/Unity 4 NEW RICHMOND – The Warrior hockey team fell to New Richmond, 6-4, on Thursday, Jan. 29, for their second loss to them this season. New Richmond had beat Amery/Unity, 6-2, back on Jan. 8.

“I thought we played fairly well,” coach Tim Henningsgard said. “We had to kill off some early penalties and a couple five on threes. When both teams were full strength it was a fast, intense game.”

Two of New Richmond goals were on power plays and one was with an empty net.

The Warriors had one power play goal of their own, by Tanner Tryggestad. Tryggestad scored the two goals for Amery/Unity in the first period. He also had two assists.

“Tanner Tryggestad was again phe-

nomenal and our goaltending was solid,” Henningsgard commented.

Kyle Schultz scored the Warriors one goal in the second and Cody Olson scored the one in the third.

Schultz and Anthony Peterson each Team Amery/Unity Hayward

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Scoring (Time elapsed) First Period – 1 H Nik VanVonderen 0:08; 2 H Nik Vanvonderen (Nolan Kirley, Alex Knutson) 1:28; 3 H Bucky Dixon (Jay Xu, Nolan Kirley) 7:03; 4 H Nik VanVonderen (Conner Sabin, Nolan Kirley) 16:07; 5 H Tommygun Danczyk (Bucky Dixon, Ian Hansen) 16:17; 6 H Jay Xu (Nolan Kirley, Tommygun Danczyk) 16:41.

Second Period – 7 H Conner Sabin (Nik VanVonderen, Ian Hansen) 0:26; 8 H Conner Sabin (Nik VanVonderen, Alex Knutson) 7:17; 9 H Conner Sabin (Nolan Kirley) 16:07.

Third Period – 10 H Conner Sabin (Alex Knutson, Nik VanVonderen) 15:42; 11 H Jay Xu (Tomygun Danczyk) 16:27.

Goalies Saves – AU Patrick Bergan (28); H Dan Noyce (21).

made one assist, while Nick Swenson had two.

“Our young players have come a long way,” Henningsgard said. “Lets hope they can continue to play at this high level.”

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Scoring (Time elapsed) First Period – 1 AU Tanner Tryggestad (Kyle Schultz, Nick Swenson) 1:58; 1 NR Dom Peterson (Jake Bellows, Tyler Montgomery) 6:30; 2 AU Tanner Tryggestad (Anthony Peterson) 8:17.

Second Period – 2 NR Jake Bellows (Zack Kier) 0:37; 3 AU Kyle Schultz (Tanner Tryggestad) 7:29; 3 NR Joe Bowar (Zack Kier) 9:22; 4 NR Joe Bowar (Jake Bellows) 11:20.

Third Period – 5 NR Joe Bowar 5:41; 4 AU Cody Olson (Tanner Tryggestad, Nick Swenson) 11:35; 6 NR Dom Peterson 16:48.

Goalies Saves – AU Patrick Bergan (41); NR Tanner Milliron (21).

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“Our bigs worked hard inside. “ Voss said.

“Ryan Larson, Austin Whittenberger, Kyle Christensen and Zack Christenson did a nice job on both ends of the floor.”

Webster comes close to beating Shell Lake Grantsburg 63, St. Croix Falls 60

by Marty Seeger ST. CROIX FALLS – Since Jan. 9, six of the Pirates seven games have been on the road, and three of their six road games have featured tough battles. Last Thursday night’s game at St. Croix Falls was no exception.

After a huge win in Luck just two days before, Grantsburg went up against a St. Croix Falls team that they had defeated at home 62-47 back in early December, but those who have followed games between the Saints and Pirates in nearly every sport know that it can often go either way.

“Getting a win there is always tough,” said Pirates coach Danny Judd.

The Pirates had a solid first half jumping out to a 15-10 lead in the first quarter. Connar Goetz led that frame with six points and Tyler Myers hit a 3-pointer to help the cause. Ben Larson and Jason Jensen got the Pirates off to a solid start in the second quarter, and it didn’t take long for the Pirates to gain an eightpoint lead. Despite a Cory Gebhard 3pointer with about four minutes to go in the quarter for the Saints, the Pirates had taken control, and led, 32-18, at the half.

“We had three or four turnovers that I was kind of disappointed with,” said Judd. He added, “Other than that, I think we played pretty well in the first half.”

The second half, however, quickly turned the Saints way, as forwards Ryan Larson and Austin Whittenberger got things going on the inside. Two points from Gebhard brought the game back to within six points, which forced a Grantsburg timeout.

Shortly after the timeout, Sam Schmidt hit a big 3-pointer for the Saints to make it a 36-33 Grantsburg lead with under three minutes to go in the third quarter. Grantsburg held a 40-37 lead at the end of the third quarter, but the Saints showed they weren’t going without a fight.

With 5:14 remaining in the game, the Saints began shooting bonus free throws. Gebhard brought the game to within one point going 1 for 2 from the foul line, but it was short-lived as Ben Larson, Brent Myers and Trent Bonneville each hit for two points to

Shell Lake 38, Webster 33 WEBSTER – The Tiger boys fell to Shell Lake by five points, 38-33, on Thursday, Jan. 29.

Austin Elliott scored Webster’s nine points in the first quarter to take the lead, 9-8 over Shell Lake.

James Wethern, Austin Elliott and Mitchell Elliott each scored a field goal for the Tiger’s six in the second quarter.

Webster led 15-12 going into halftime.

The Tigers held the lead in the third, 26-20, but lost it in the fourth. Shell Lake managed to add 18 points to their score, while Webster added only seven.

Quentin Johnson made a field goal and Austin Elliott scored one 3-pointer and two free throws.

Austin Elliott finished the game with 16 points, Wethern added seven, both Johnson and Mitchell Elliott contributed four and Nolan Kreigel scored two. – Brenda Sommerfeld Team Shell Lake Webster

Sam Schmidt had nine points for the Saints against Grantsburg last Thursday night, which included two 3-pointers in the second half that helped the Saints make up a 14-point lead held by the Pirates at the half. – Photo by Marty Seeger help the cause and bring the Pirates back up by seven with under three minutes to go. But again, Schmidt hit a 3pointer, to bring the Saints to within four.

“It certainly got a lot closer than we had hoped in the second half, but St. Croix played very well, and their kids played hard,” Judd said.

Grantsburg stretched their lead to six with 1:09 to go, but Saints sophomore Zach Christenson hit a nice jumper, while Gebhard hit a big three from the top of the key. The Saints took a timeout with 28 seconds remaining, and quickly fouled Bonneville, who missed his bonus free throw to give the Saints a chance at the basket. Still down by two, Schmidt took a shot from the outside that rimmed out, but the Saints came

down with the rebound and took another timeout with 11 seconds remaining.

Ryan Larson, who made 14 of his 20 points in the second half for the Saints, was under the basket for an inbound pass, and connected with the tying bucket to send the game into overtime.

Despite taking the team’s first lead of the game during the 4-minute overtime off a Larson bucket, the Saints efforts came up short. Larson again hit one basket with under a minute to go in the overtime, and the Saints trailed by just one point, but Tyler Myers, Jensen and Bonneville each connected in the overtime win for the Pirates.

“Hopefully winning a couple of close games, and getting into overtime and winning, is something that we can take with us down the road that hopefully we’ll be a little better for it come tournament time,” Judd said.

Saints coach Todd Voss was disappointed with the loss, but had several positives about his team.

“It was a very tough loss as we worked so hard to get back in it and had we not shot 8 for 31 in the first half we could have won,” Voss said.

The coach was pleased with only 11 turnovers against a tough Grantsburg press with the help of Gebhard, Koecher

1 2 3 4 8 4 8 8 9 6 11 7 Individual Statistics Shell Lake 2s 3s FTM/A Jake McQuade 2 3/5 Andrew Melton 1/2 Bob Scheu 3 1 0/1 Luke Gronning 2 4/4 Brandon Degner Evan Fox 2 2 3/4 Totals 9 3 11/16 Webster Quentin Johnson James Wethern Karl Weber Austin Elliot Mitchell Elliot Nolan Kriegel Totals

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3s FTM/A F TP 2 4 1/2 2 7 3 2 4/4 4 16 2/4 - 4 3 2 2 7/10 14 33

Team 1 2 3 4 OT F Grantsburg 15 17 8 14 9 63 St. Croix Falls 10 8 19 17 6 60 Individual Statistics Grantsburg 2s 3s FTM/A F TP Connar Goetz 4 1/2 2 9 Ben Larson 3 3/4 1 9 Tyler Myers 3 1 1/1 - 10 Brent Myers 4 1 2 11 Jason Jensen 5 0/2 4 10 Trent Bonneville 4 6/6 4 14 Totals 23 2 11/15 13 63

Grantsburg senior Tyler Myers shoots from the top of the key early in the fourth quarter. – Photo by Marty Seeger

St. Croix Falls Matt Vold Sam Schmidt Cory Gebhard Zach Christenson Gus Koecher Ryan Larson Kyle Christensen Austin Whittenberger Totals

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3s FTM/A F TP 1 2 1/2 2 9 2 1/4 2 13 1 2 4/4 2 6 0/1 1 20 1 2 2 0/2 4 8 6 6/13 14 60

Mitchell Elliott goes up for a shot against Shell Lake on Thursday, Jan. 29. – Photo by Larry Samson

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Cardinals cruise at home over Frederic the team was held to just three points in the first quarter while the Beavers rolled to a 31-13 lead.

“We lost the game in the first quarter,” said Unity coach Chuck Holicky. “We were flat and lethargic and they took advantage of that.”

According to the coach, the Eagles did manage a slight comeback in the fourth quarter, cutting Cumberland’s 17-point lead to just seven with over two minutes to go in the game. But in the end, Cumberland’s free-throw shooting made the difference in the end, as they made 5 for 7 in the fourth quarter.

“We held them to four field goals the whole second half, but we could not get over that hump,” Holicky said. “It was good to see some energy in the second half, we just ran out of time.

Becca Milligan had another nice effort offensively for the Eagles with 18 points. – Marty Seeger

Saints end losing streak with win over Pirates Luck 59, Frederic 44

by Marty Seeger LUCK – The Cardinals came out with a lot of fire against a scrappy Vikings team on Friday night, and didn’t look back.

“I was very apprehensive coming in, knowing we were going to be short a couple of players,” said Luck coach Marty Messar, who was “very pleased” with his girls overall play. With the win, the Cardinals moved to 5-3 in the conference, and grabbed sole possession of the second place spot in the conference pending the outcome of Tuesday night’s game versus St. Croix Falls, which can be found in this week’s sports section.

Luck set the tempo Friday night from the start of the game as they jumped out to an early 9-2 lead in the first quarter.

Morgan Denny provided some early offense and defense, scoring a 3-point play after a foul and converting a steal into two points. The Cards held onto a 9-point lead in the first quarter, but Frederic had the better showing in the second quarter, with Becca Anderson knocking down a 3-pointer, which helped the Vikings whittled Luck’s lead to two points with under two minutes to go before the half. Frederic outscored Luck by six in the frame, but the Cardinals maintained a 3-point lead heading into halftime.

“We didn’t play very well, but for the second time versus Luck, I felt Luck played better than us,” said Vikings coach Troy Wink. “They were well prepared to defend, to execute on offense and crashed hard on rebounds.”

Luck maintained their lead in the third quarter with the help of some solid offense from Aleah Lemieux, who was strong on the boards and had six points in the third quarter. Lemieux had a double-double on the night with 13 rebounds and 13 points, and sophomore Denny had a double-double as well with 16 rebounds and 15 points. Taryn Pilz led the team in scoring with 17 points and three assists. Krystal Stage led the team with four assists, and played well defensively according to the coach.

“The girls played together and played as a team,” Messar said.

Frederic tried to scrape up some points in the fourth quarter, but couldn’t seem to make up the difference that was extended in the Cardinal-dominated third quarter. The Vikings got some good offense from Becca Anderson, who led the Vikings with 19 points. The rest of the Viking offense was shut down to single digits in scoring.

“A good win against a quality oppoTeam Frederic Luck

1 2 3 4 9 14 6 15 18 8 17 16 Individual Statistics Frederic 2s 3s FTM/A Samantha Nelson Megan Anderson 1 1/3 Ana Miller 2 Anna Tesch 2 Chrissy Chenal 1 4/6 Becca Anderson 5 1 6/8 Kendra Wells 2 1/2 Terri McKinney 1 Jade Johnson 1/2 Candace Buck Totals 14 1 13/21 Luck Morgan Denny Sarah Elert Bailee Swenson Melissa Jenssen Krystal Stage Aleah Lemieux Taryn Pilz Totals

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Frederic’s Jade Johnson makes her way around Luck’s Bailee Swenson during the Cardinals win on Friday night. – Photo by Marty Seeger nent for the girls,” Messar said.

St. Croix Falls 46, Grantsburg 38 ST. CROIX FALLS – After losing the past four games, the Saints finally put an end to that with a nice game against the Pirates last Thursday.

“It was very nice to get the win last night,” said Saints coach Angie Maternowski.

The team was led by some powerful offense throughout the night, including a 21-point effort from Marissa Campeau. The junior is averaging just over 18 points per game for the Saints this season, and Jenny Benoy has been a big part of the team’s offense this season as well. Benoy had 13 points in the game to go along with a team-leading nine rebounds, while senior Amanda Larson had eight rebounds and Sharanda Whittaker had six.

Team Grantsburg St. Croix Falls

1 2 3 4 6 10 8 14 10 19 6 11 Individual Statistics Grantsburg 2s 3s FTM/A Sarah Wald 1 4/4 Gabrielle Witzany 5 Kortney Morrin 6 1/2 Jessica Moyer 1 Liz Gaffney 2 1/2 Nicole McKenzie 1 Totals 16 6/8 St. Croix Falls Sarah Petznick Sharanda Whittaker Jenny Benoy Tashina Martinson Marissa Campeau Amanda Larson Totals

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Cumberland 46, Unity 34 BALSAM LAKE – The Eagles girls basketball team hosted Cumberland last Friday night in a makeup game originally scheduled in early December. It was a tough night for Unity, however, as

Unity’s Crystal Donahue sets up for a shot. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld

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1 2 3 4 17 14 8 7 3 10 9 12 Individual Statistics Cumberland 2s 3s FTM/A Natalie Gagner 2 2 Jamie Lundequam 1 6/6 Sarah Mann 3 2 2/3 E. Buckley 4 4/8 Hillary Zimmer 2 1/2 Carissa Mathison Taylor Nyhus Totals 12 4 13/19 Unity Annie Confer Samantha Ince Crystal Donahue Cailin Turner Becca Milligan Elizabeth Ebensperger Marisa Hacker Totals

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“Marissa hit some big shots at the beginning of the game to get us started,” Maternowsky said. “Jenny also had a real good night on offense.”

Campeau and Benoy had all of the team’s 19 points in the second quarter, which helped the Saints to a 29-16 halftime lead. Grantsburg didn’t give up, however, as they outscored the Saints in the second half, but the Saints kept their lead throughout the game by contributing some pretty tough defense.

The team held Pirates leading scorer Kortney Morrin to 13 points, while Gabrielle Witzany added 10 points.

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Saints senior Amanda Larson closely guards Pirate Haley Larson of Grantsburg last Thursday night. – Photo by Marty Seeger

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Giller’s outside game powers Luck over Vikings Siren wins two Luck 76, Frederic 41

by Marty Seeger LUCK – Junior Carson Giller has been shooting well from beyond the arc lately. On Friday night Giller hit 6 of 8 from 3-point land to help lift the Cardinals to an easy win over the Vikings. In the past three games, Giller has hit 16 3-pointers, and shot 64 percent from beyond the arc. He had 24 points to go along with four assists and four steals.

Brennan Olson had another great night against the Vikings as well, with 24 points, six assists and seven steals.

Alec Mortel had a good night offensively, with 11 points and six rebounds. The team shot 63 percent from the field and 53 percent from 3-point range Olson and Giller combined five 3pointers in the first quarter, which helped Luck get out to a 25-10 lead at the end of the first quarter. Shots continued to fall for the Cardinals throughout much of the game, including a 23-point run in the third quarter.

Zach Anderson led the Vikings with 15 points on the night, with Will Primm adding eight.

Siren 58, Webster 42 WEBSTER – The Dragon boys took their fourth conference win, 58-42, over Webster on Friday, Jan. 30.

“I thought we played well [on] both ends of the floor,” Siren coach Jon Ruud said. “I was really happy.”

The Dragons took a 29-15 lead in the first half with 22 points scored in the second quarter. Freshman Elijah Hinze scored 23 of Siren’s 29 points in the first half.

Webster scored 27 points in the second half, but Siren’s 29 more gave them the victory. The Dragons scored 11 of Team Frederic Luck

1 2 3 4 10 8 10 13 25 12 23 23 Individual Statistics Frederic 2s 3s FTM/A 2 Brent Crandell Trae Gehl 1 1 Ethan Cook Zach Anderson 6 3/3 Will Primm 3 2/3 Deniz Mirioglu Andrew Kurkowski 2/2 Pete Draxler 1 Ben Nelson 2 Totals 14 2 7/8 Luck

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Luck’s Alec Mortel reaches up to put in a shot over Frederic’s William Primm. – Photos by Marty Seeger their 15 points in the fourth quarter off free throws from Tiger fouls.

Hinze led the Siren team in points with 28.

“All yearlong, he has hesitated when we give it to him,” Ruud commented.

“We talked about getting your feet set and getting your hands in position and getting the shot off. Tonight, he let it go, he didn’t hesitate. He looked to score from the outside.”

Along with Hinze, freshman starter Andrew Brown had a nice game with 14 rebounds and 11 points.

“It seemed like every ball that went up in the air, he was 10-12 inches higher than everyone,” Ruud said. “Both of the freshmen that start for me are going to be very good high school players.

Tonight was kind of a little coming-out party for both of them.”

For Webster, Adam Baum scored the most points with 13. James Wethern added eight, Austin Elliott contributed seven and Mitchell Elliott added six. – Brenda Sommerfeld

Webster’s Nolan Kriegel goes up for a shot against Siren freshmen Andrew Brown and Elijah Hinze. – Photo by Brenda Sommerfeld Siren 84, Prairie Farm 51 PRAIRIE FARM – Several Dragons saw court time during their 84-51 victory over Prairie Farm on Monday, Feb. 2.

After a 48-25 first half, most of the Siren starters were given a break. Siren managed to tally up 36 more points throughout the second half. The defense held Prairie Farm to 26 in the last two Team Siren Webster

1 2 3 4 7 22 14 15 8 7 12 15 Individual Statistics Siren 2s 3s FTM/A Elijah Hinze 5 5 3/5 Luke Bollant 1 Charlie Brown 2 1 1/5 Vince Nasman Brennen Moose 2 1 2/6 Andrew Brown 2 7/10 Totals 12 7 13/26 Webster Bryan Krause Quentin Johnson James Wethern Austin Elliot Dan Erickson Mitchell Elliot Alex Clemmons Adam Baum Donnie Holmes Totals

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Freshmen Andrew Brown and Elijah Hinze had another good game for the Dragons. Brown led the team in scoring with 20 points. Hinze scored 19, as did Brennen Moose.

Charlie Brown finished the game with 10 points, Luke Bollant totaled five and Eric Keith added three. – Brenda Sommerfeld Team Siren Prairie Farm

1 2 3 4 20 28 25 11 9 16 14 12 Individual Statistics Siren 2s 3s FTM/A Christian Hall 4 3 2/2 Elijah Hinze Eric Keith 1 1/2 Luke Bollant 2 4/6 Jesse Hinze 1 2/2 Charlie Brown 4 2/4 Brennen Moose 7 1 2/2 Andrew Brown 10 0/2 Totals 28 5 13/20 Prairie Farm Adam Klefstad Terry Soltau David Wright-Racette Travis Marvin Harley Peterson Matt Hoff Totals

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3s FTM/A F TP 2/5 2 26 1 0/1 2 5 - 8 3 2 4 6 2/2 5 4 1 4/8 16 51

Tiger girls claw way through Shell Lake Michelle Gibbs led team in points Webster 42, Shell Lake 33 WEBSTER – After a disappointing loss to Northwood on Tuesday, Jan. 27, the Webster Tigers came out on Thursday, Jan. 29, and won, 42-33, against Shell Lake.

“It was a much better game than we played Tuesday night,” coach Jeff Roberts said. “We did a good job on defense and limited the number of shots Shell Lake got.”

Scoring 20 points in the first half gave Webster the lead, 20-13.

“We played good team ball and our guards played extremely well,” Roberts commented. “We handled their halfcourt press very well, this is something

that has given us issues at times this year.”

The Tigers held onto their lead until the bitter end. Many of the players contributed to the points.

Michelle Gibbs led the team in points, scoring 13 and Chris Stoll followed, adding 11 points. Both Rachel Salas and Mary Johnson each added six, Reba Smallwood contributed five and Rose Kopecky scored one.

“Michelle Gibbs and Chris Stoll both had good games, and Reba Smallwood did a great job on the boards for us,” Roberts added. “Mary Johnson probably had her best game of the year.” – Brenda Sommerfeld LEFT: Webster’s Michelle Gibbs takes a shot over a Laker on Thursday, Jan. 29. – Photo by Larry Samson

Team Shell Lake Webster

1 2 3 4 8 5 11 9 10 10 11 11 Individual Statistics Shell Lake 2s 3s FTM/A Paula Burton 1/2 Steph Clark Leah Keefe 3/4 Nikki Scheu Sarah Jamme’ 6 0/2 Jennifer Cassel 2 Annie Dunham 2 Ashley Anderson 1 2 1/3 Totals 11 2 5/11 Webster Chris Stoll Michelle Gibbs Chelsey Robinson Kendra Spurgeon Reba Smallwood Rose Kopecky Rachel Salas Mary Johnson Totals

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Hinze scored five field goals and five 3-pointers.

He went 3 for 5 from the Elijah Hinze free throw line. In the next game, he scored 19 in the Dragons victory over Prairie Farm on Monday. – Brenda Sommerfeld

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NAME: Kortney Morrin SCHOOL: Grantsburg YEAR: Sophomore COMMENTS: During the Pirates first win of the season, Kortney Morrin scored 23 points. Morrin has consistently been the leading scorer for Grantsburg this year. She is currently ranked at No. Kortney Morrin 14, in the state according to www.wissports.net. The Web site states she is averaging 19.93 points per game. – Brenda Sommerfeld

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Sunday Afternoon Mixed Standings: Chippewa Checks 24, Gold Rush 23, Hole in the Wall 19, Mark’s Girls 18, Sandbaggers 17, Spare-Us 17, Hot Shots 13, The Gutter Busters 9.

Women’s games: Gail Linke (MG) 217, Audrey Pardun (HITW) 198, Lori Linke (GB) 186.

Women’s series: Gail Linke (MG) 600, Lori Linke (GB) 519, Audrey Pardun (HITW) 479.

Men’s games: Mark Loomis (MG) 219, Scott Morrison (GR) 205, Jamie Mier (GR) 195.

Men’s series: Larry Matrious (CC) 536, Jim Loomis (SU) 515, Scott Morrison (GR) 512.

Team games: Mark’s Girls 879, Hole in the Wall Casino 859, Sandbaggers 811.

Team series: Mark’s Girls 2546, Sandbaggers 2375, Hole in the Wall Casino 2360.

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Women’s games: Debbie Swanson (PB) 279 & 212, Jan Kruse (CT) 263, Kathy Underwood (JT) 212.

Women’s series: Debbie Swanson (PB) 651, Jan Kruse (CT) 648, Jobie Bainbridge (LC) 552.

Men’s games: Don Swanson (PB) 300, Len Knauber (K) 275, Chuck Kruse (CT) 262.

Men’s series: Don Swanson (PB) 773, Len Knauber (K) 730, Chuck Kruse (CT) 651.

Team games: Packer Backers 870, Knaubers 780, Chuck’s Team 765.

Team series: Packer Backers 2297, Knaubers 2200, Chuck’s Team 2183.

Monday Afternoon Seniors Standings: Bears 16.5, Nite Hawks 15.5, Cardinals 13.5, Swans 12, Eagles 11, Zebras 8.5, Badgers 8, Bye 0.

Women’s games: Nancy Morten 175, Lila Larson 165, Betty Anderson 159.

Women’s series: Betty Schandorff 447, Lila Larson 438, Nancy Morten 437.

Men’s games: Tom Funne 211, Jim Morten 203, Chuck Moyer 192.

Men’s series: Jim Morten 526, Chuck Hahr 512, Tom Johnson 512.

Team games: Bears 663, Nite Hawks 648, Zebras 601.

Team series: Bears 1856, Nite Hawks 1785, Zebras 1676.

Monday Night Ladies Standings: AnchorBank 33, House of Wood 30, The Bottle Shop 29, Mane Attractions 23, Miller’s Chicks 21, Hacker’s Lanes 17, Thrivent Financial 15, Bye 0.

Individual games: Nancy Anderson (HL) 201, Heidi Skow (MC) 200, Kelly Schmidt (MC) 176.

Individual series: Nancy Anderson (HL) 572, Heidi Skow (MC) 502, Kelly Schmidt (MC) 456.

Team games: Hacker’s Lanes 664, The Bottle Shop 604, Mane Attractions 601.

Team series: Hacker’s Lanes 1936, Miller’s Chicks 1720, Mane Attractions 1680.

Tuesday Youth (2 games) Standings: Pin Heads 4, Strikers ‘R Us 3, Eliminators 3, IDK 2.

Girls games: Alaura Lemieux 66.

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Warriors 10, Eau Claire 0

Goals: Kory Hill (6), Dawson Mershon (2), Jake Ganter, Cory Karnick.

Assists: Dawson Mershon (3), Jake Ganter (3), Austin vonDoehren, Cory Karnick, Casey Brune.

Saves: Tristan Weinholzer (2).

Burnett PeeWee A Saturday, Jan. 31

Burnett 6, Ashland 1

Goals: Jeremy Roy (2), Vinny Larson (2), Brian Billings, Paige Young.

Assists: Max Norman (2), Jeremy Roy, Vinny Larson.

Saves: DJ Hunter (13).

Grantsburg 5, Burnett 3

Goals: Vinny Larson (2), Brian Billings.

Saves: DJ Hunter (8).

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Goals: Brian Billings (2), Vinny Larson.

Saves: DJ Hunter (19).

B O W L I N G Girls series: Alaura Lemieux 116.

Boys games: Charlie Lindberg 156, Cody Holman 119, Daniel Formanek 113.

Boys series: Charlie Lindberg 269, Cody Holman 219, Austin Bruss 203.

Team games: IDK 222, Pin Heads 218, Eliminators 208.

Team series: Eliminators 399, Pin Heads 392, IDK 385.

Tuesday Classic Standings: Hacker’s Lanes 52, Great Northern Outdoors 51, Bottle Shop 40, Yellow Lake Lodge 35, Olsen & Son 32.5, Reliables 17.5, SCVH 17, Pioneer Bar 15.

Individual games: Ed Bitler 278, Brett Daeffler 264, Maynard Stevens, Mike Sullivan & Jake Anderson 244.

Individual series: Ed Bitler 720, Brett Daeffler 677, Jake Anderson 661.

Team games: Great Northern Outdoors 737, Bottle Shop 660, Hacker’s Lanes 632.

Team series: Great Northern Outdoors 1996, Bottle Shop 1849, Hacker’s Lanes 1815.

Games 50 or more above average: Ed Bitler (+76).

Series 100 or more above average: Ed Bitler (+115).

Tuesday Late Standings: Red Rollers 13, Terminators 11, Joe Blow 10, Cushing Rollers 6, LCR 2, Bye 0.

Individual games: Rick Hach & Frank Boerbon 192, Mike Kessler 189.

Individual series: Mike Kessler 538, Frank Boerbon 499, Rick Hach 498.

Team games: Joe Blow 518, Terminators 495, Red Rollers 474.

Team series: Terminators 1450, Joe Blow 1384, Red Rollers 1311.

Wednesday Night Early Men’s Standings: 4 Seasons Wood Products 11, Larsen Auto Center 10, Lewis Silo 9, Parker 9, Pioneer Bar 8, Skol Bar 8, A-1 Machine 6, Cummings Lumber 3.

Individual games: Don Hughes (4S) 248, Dave Romanowski (PB) 247, Dave Gabrielson (LS) 246.

Individual series: Don Hughes (4S) 671, Dave Romanowski (PB) 660, Buck Hanson (PB) 659.

Team games: 4 Seasons Wood Products 1063 & 1031, Pioneer Bar 1008.

Team series: 4 Seasons Wood Products 3009, Pioneer Bar 2876, Lewis Silo 2737.

Thursday Early Men’s Standings: Wikstrom Construction 36.5, Full Timers 34.5, Fab Four 34, Grindell Law Offices 31.5, K-Wood 25.5, Frontier Trails 21, Hell Raisers 18, Bye 7.

Individual games: Ed Bitler (KW) 279, Bruce Wikstrom (WC) 223, Dave Grindell (GLO) 222.

Individual series: Ed Bitler (KW) 748, Dennis Lieder (FuT) 629, Brian McBroom (FuT) 614.

Team games: Full Timers 591, Wikstrom Construction 578, K-Wood 574.

Team series: Full Timers 1735, K-Wood 1637, Fab Four 1618.

Consecutive strikes (5 or more): Ed Bitler 9x = 270, 9x = 279; Bruce Wikstrom 5x = 223.

Games 50 or more above average: Ed Bitler (+77 & +68); John Anderson (+58).

Series 100 or more above average: Ed Bitler (+141).

Splits converted: 3-10: Mike Route, Blake Douglas. 3-6-7-10: Marlin Larson.

Thursday Late Standings: Stotz & Company 13, Bazey Racing 10, Fisk Trucking 8, Hansen Farms Inc. 7, Johnson Upholstery 5, Hog

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Individual games: Ole Baillargeon 258, Gene Wynn Sr. 247, Dale Frandsen 245.

Individual series: Dale Frandsen 695, Gene Wynn Sr. 670, Ole Baillargeon 615.

Team games: Hansen Farms Inc. 1100, Stotz & Company 958, Bazey Racing 934.

Team series: Hansen Farms Inc. 2995, Stotz & Company 2716, Fisk Trucking 2653.

Friday Night Ladies Standings: Junque Art 31, Hole in the Wall 24, Pioneer Bar 22, Frederic Design & Promotion 22, Meyer’s Plus 22, The Leader 19, The Dozers 18, Skol Bar 10.

Individual games: Karen Carlson 219, Cindy Denn 213, Cara Holicky 210.

Individual series: Karen Carlson 542, Cara Holicky 533, Cindy Denn 526.

Team games: Junque Art 691, The Leader 656, Skol Bar 655.

Team series: Junque Art 1959, Pioneer Bar 1856, Skol Bar 1828.

Games 50 or more above average: Sam Otten, Cindy Denn.

Splits converted: 6-8-10: Melinda Linke.

McKenzie Lanes

Monday Night Ladies Standings: Milltown Appliance 17, Frederic Truck & Tractor 15, Sam’s Carpentry 13, Metal Products 11, Wolf Creek Log Furniture 9, McKenzie Lanes 7, Edina Divas 5, Bye 3.

Individual games: Kathy McKenzie 200, Shirley Wilson 194, Cinday Castellano 191.

Individual series: Jane Smith 528, Toni Sloper 514, Kathy McKenzie 513.

Team games: (Handicap scores) McKenzie Lane 1013.

Team series: (Handicap scores) Milltown Appliance 2920.

Monday Night Madness Standings: Mishaps 40, Ole’s Country Market 40, Alleycats 32, Scottay’s Trucking 32, McKenzie Lanes 28, Peper Tire & Align. 23, Pepie’s Gals 21, Bye 8.

Individual games: Barbara Benson 224, Julia Delougherty 203, Melanie Erickson 175.

Individual series: Barbara Benson 512, Julia Delougherty 501, Debbie Swanson 476.

Team games: (Handicap scores) Mishaps 613, Pepie’s Gals 609, McKenzie Lanes 603.

Team series: (Handicap scores) McKenzie Lanes 1728, Pepie’s Gals 1707, Mishaps 1674.

Tuesday Early Mixed Standings: Mom’s Boys 10, Kluge 9, Lemon Heads 8, Jim’s Flooring 6, Wild Boys 5, Lane Crashers 4.

Women’s games: Brenda Lehmann 212, Linda Larson 154, Sasha Garbow 150.

Women’s series: Brenda Lehmann 547, Linda Larson 427, Sasha Garbow 384.

Men’s games: Zach Gurtner 222, Glen Minick 205, Jeff Lehmann 205.

Men’s series: Glen Minick 552, Jeff Lehmann 512, Jim Coen & Jim Lammert 499.

Team games: Lemon Heads 554.

Team series: Lemon Heads 1488.

Tuesday Night Men’s Standings: Nel-Lo-Hill Farm 62.5, Hack’s Pub 59, Steve’s Appliance 54.5, Glass Bar 50, The Dugout 48, Dream Lawn 47, Greatland Transportation 40.5, McKenzie Lanes 38.5.

Individual games: Darren McKenzie 279, Dave Steinert & Rick Fox 258, Donny Potting Jr. 257.

Individual series: Darren McKenzie 740, Donny Potting Jr. 710, Bob Rettler

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Team games: (Handicap scores) Hack’s Pub 1244.

Team series: (Handicap scores) Hack’s Pub 3639.

Wednesday Early League Standings: Lite House 28, Holiday StationStores 28, JJ’s Club 35 24, Hendrick’s Motor 20, Hack’s Pub 16, Suzie Q’s 16, Top Spot 16, Cutting Edge 12.

Women’s games: Janice Fox 203, Patty Walker 199, Dixie Welling 174.

Women’s series: Patty Walker 496, Janice Fox 491, Dixie Welling 441.

Men’s games: Mike Welling 267, Greg Dick 258, Gene Braund 242.

Men’s series: Gene Braund 642, Mike Welling 628, Darrell Hendricks 600.

Team games: (Handicap scores) JJ’s Club 35 719 Team series: (Handicap scores) Suzie Q’s 1934.

Wednesday Night Men’s Standings: Harvest Moon 20, Reed’s Marina 20, Edina Realty 18, McKenzie Lanes 18, Davy’s Construction 15, Tiger Express 14, Hanjo Farms 14, Dalles Electric 9.

Individual games: Bill Swenson 277.

Verne Doolittle 256, Daryn Sylvester 258.

Individual series: Sam Leggitt 671, Scott A. Anderson 661, Craig Willert 657.

Team games: (Handicap scores) McKenzie Lanes 1050, Dalles Electric 1032.

Team series: (Handicap scores) Hanjo Farms 3031, Tiger Express 2994.

Saturday Mixed Standings: Happy Campers 42, Pin Busters 39, The In-Laws 38.5, Ten Pin Titans 36.5, Tiger Express 31, Eureka Bombers 30.5, Fisk Trucking 27.5, Roller Coasters 27.

Women’s games: Kathy Braund 192, Jan Lehmann 177, Kim Delaney 176.

Women’s series: Diane Fisk 493, Dixie Welling 492, Jan Lehmann 490.

Men’s games: Bill Berg 246, Jason Loney 236, Roger Fisk & Ervin Lehmann 233.

Men’s series: Roger Fisk 627, Ervin Lehmann 615, Doug Fisk 590.

Team games: (Handicap scores) Fisk Trucking 915, Ten Pin Titans 900, Pin Busters 896.

Team series: (Handicap scores) Fisk Trucking 2646, Pin Busters 2574, Happy Campers 2536.

Black & Orange

Early Birds Standings: 10th Hole 14-10, Gandy Dancer Saloon 13-11, Log Cabin Store 11.5-12.5, Black & Orange 9.5-14.5.

Individual games: Donna Kern (B&O) 192, Rita Tesch (10th) 187, Rosie Pumper (GD) 167.

Individual series: Rita Tesch (10th) 522, Donna Koon (B&O) 510, Lynn Toivola (LCS) 442.

Team games: 10th Hole 876, Gandy Dancer Saloon 874, Log Cabin Store 852.

Team series: 10th Hole 2534, Log Cabin Store 2506, Black & Orange 2376.

Games 50 or more above average: Donna Koon (+ 61); Ginnie Sihlberg (+73).

Series 100 or more above average: Ginnie Sihlberg (+150).

Splits converted: 4-6: Donna Koon.

Early Risers Standings: 10th Hole 16-4, A+ Sanitation 12-8, Gandy Dancer 8-12, Hole in the Wall 4-16.

Individual games: Lylah Nelson (A+) 170, Lucy Hansen (HITW) 169, Cris

Damman (10th) 161.

Individual series: Lylah Nelson (A+) 471, Cris Dammon (10th) 450, Kay Casey (HITW) 412.

Team games: A+ Sanitation 670, 10th Hole 639, Hole in the Wall 633.

Team series: A+ Sanitation 1943, 10th Hole 1870, Hole in the Wall 1834.

Monday Night Men’s Standings: Black & Orange 15-1, Bruce’s Auto 13-3, Larry’s LP 9-7, Vacant 5-11, Pope’s Construction 4-12, Glass & Mirror Works 2-14.

Individual games: Art Bliven (L) 233, Todd Kern (B&O) 219, Mike Johnson (BA) 211.

Individual series: Todd Kern (B&O) 571, Vern Nottom (B&O) & Mike Johnson (BA) 551, Art Bliven (L) 531.

Team games: Bruce’s Auto 954, Larry’s LP 921, Black & Orange 916.

Team series: Bruce’s Auto 2845, Black & Orange 2772, Larry’s LP 2635.

TNT Ladies Standings: Larry’s LP 16-4, Flower Power 13-7, Cashco 9-11, Wild Bill’s 218.

Individual games: Jennifer Kern (L) 204, Jayne Schwartz (C) 181, Jan Carlson (WB) 176.

Individual series: Jennifer Kern (L) 525, Cheryl Hansen (C) 471, Jan Carlson (WB) 454.

Team games: Larry’s LP 904, Cashco 865, Flower Power 864.

Team series: Larry’s LP 2617, Cashco 2525, Flower Power 2495.

Wednesday Night Men’s Standings: Northview Drive Inn 12-4, Cashco 9-7, Lions 9-7, 10th Hole 6-10, Black & Orange 6-10, T & P Tree Service 6-10.

Individual games: Roger Tollander (C) 210, Bill Simmons (L) 198, Art Bliven (L) 194.

Individual series: Art Bliven (L) 538, Mike Young (NDI) 494, Matt Swenson (NDI) 489.

Team games: Northview Drive Inn 956, 10th Hole 876, Lions 875.

Team series: Northview Drive Inn 2716, Lions 2549, 10th Hole 2495.

Splits converted: 4-6-10: R.J. Severude.

Thursday Night Ladies Standings: Lips 16-0, Pour House 7.58.5, Ben Ott Const. 5-11, Check Services 3.5-12.5.

Individual games: Jackie Churchill (L) 165, Angie Olson (CS) 164, Lydia Rossow (BOC) 155.

Individual series: Jackie Churchill (L) 477, Angie Olson (CS) 475, Daphne Churchill 412.

Team games: Ben Ott Const. 696, Pour House 657, Lips 636.

Team series: Ben Ott Const. 1953, Pour House 1917, Lips 1896.

Splits converted: 4-10: Laura Oustigoff.

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Grantsburg/Burnett Stars take third in New Richmond NEW RICHMOND – Last Saturday the Grantsburg/Burnett Stars went to New Richmond for an invitational tournament.

In the first game, Grantsburg/Burnett Stars played a team from the Madison area called the Ice Spirit. Grantsburg/Burnett Stars won the game 8-0.

Haylie Samuelson scored the first goal with assists from Daniel Pardun and Wendy Roberts. Paige Johnson scored the second goal with an assist from Sam O’Brien. Roberts assisted another goal scored by Johanna Lauer.

Ashley Dietmeier came in with the number four goal assisted by O’Brien and Taylor Heathman. Scoring the last goal of the first period was Samuelson assisted by Dietmeier.

Coach George Briggs change things up during the second period, moved players around to play different positions. Tianna Stewart scored the sixth goal of the game with an assist from O’Brien, which gave O’Brien a playmaker for the game. In the third period Johnson hit the net with help from Heathman and Lauer.

Brianna Phernetton knocked in in the eighth goal on assist from Samuelson. Hope Tucker earned a shut out with two saves.

Saturday night the Stars played the Central Wisconsin Storm. The Storm won the game 8-3. The Storm took an early lead on the Stars in the first period. Scoring all three goals was Dietmeier with Lauer assisting the second goal. Tucker had seven saves.

Pictured back row (L to R): Tianna Stewart and Sam O’Brein. Middle row: Assistant coach Teri O’Brien, head coach George Briggs, Johanna Lauer, Brianna Phernetton, Paige Johnson, Ashley Dietmeier, Taylor Heathman, Abby Stevens and Haylie Samuelson. Front row: Assistant coach Allison Briggs, Hope Tucker, Daniel Pardun and Kassie Lien. Missing from photo are Larissa Houtari and Wendy Roberts. – Photo submitted The Stars played the following Sunday for the third-place trophy against the rival team from Superior. It was a hard-fought battle until the end and went into the sudden death fiveplayer shootout. Grantsburg/Burnett Stars won the game, 5-4.

O’Brien scored the first goal with a assist from Kassie Lien. The second goal was just opposite of the first, with Lien

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.

9-0 6-3 5-4 5-5 4-6 2-6 1-8

Overall 14-0 8-6 9-7 10-6 7-10 3-10 1-14

Thursday, Jan. 29 St. Croix Falls 46, Grantsburg 38 Webster 42, Shell Lake 33 Friday, Jan. 30 Luck 59, Frederic 44 Siren 57, Webster 32 Cumberland 46, Unity 34 Tuesday, Feb. 3 St. Croix Falls 41, Luck 34 Webster 44, Frederic 39 Grantsburg 60, Unity 38 Siren 71, Drummond 8

Upcoming

Thursday, Feb. 5 7:30 p.m. Siren at Solon Springs Friday, Feb. 6 6 p.m.

St. Croix Falls at Siren Luck at Unity 7:30 p.m. Grantsburg at Webster Northwood at Frederic Monday, Feb. 9 7:30 p.m. St. Croix Falls at Unity Tuesday, Feb. 10 7:30 p.m. Siren at Spooner Shell Lake at St. Croix Falls Amery at Grantsburg

GIRLS HOCKEY Standings

Lady Blizzard

Scores

11-4-3

Tuesday, Jan. 27 Lady Blizzard 7, Superior 6 Saturday, Jan. 31 Ashland 4, Lady Blizzard 0

Upcoming

Saturday, Feb. 7 2 p.m.

Tomahawk vs. Lady Blizzard at Siren

WRESTLING Upcoming

Saturday, Feb. 7 9 a.m.

Conference at Cameron

GYMNASTICS Upcoming

Thursday, Feb. 5 6:30 p.m. Hudson at St. Croix Falls Grantsburg at Rush City, Minn.

BOYS BASKETBALL

West Lakeland Conference Standings

Team Grantsburg Luck St. Croix Falls Siren Webster Unity Frederic

Scores

Conf.

8-0 8-1 5-4 4-4 3-6 2-6 0-9

Thursday, Jan. 29 Grantsburg 63, St. Croix Falls 60 Shell Lake 38, Webster 33 Friday, Jan. 30 Siren 58, Webster 42 Luck 76, Frederic 41 Saturday, Jan. 31 Cornell 56, Unity 45 Monday, Feb. 2 Siren 84, Prairie Farm 51 Tuesday, Feb. 3 Luck 60, St. Croix Falls 35 Webster 50, Frederic 19 Grantsburg 66, Unity 30 Siren 49, Clear Lake 41

PREDICTS

Upcoming

BOYS HOCKEY Standings Scores

Thursday, Jan. 29 New Richmond 6, Amery/Unity 4 Friday, Jan. 30 Silver Bay, Minn., 3, Blizzard 2 Saturday, Jan. 31 Blizzard 8, Ely, Minn., 2 Tuesday, Feb. 3 Amery/Unity at Hayward

Upcoming

Thursday, Feb. 5 7 p.m.

Somerset at Amery Friday, Feb. 6 7 p.m.

Blizzard at Spooner Saturday, Feb. 7 1 p.m.

Blizzard at Baldwin Monday, Feb. 9 7 p.m.

Baldwin at River Falls

The perfect performance he visualized did not occur and the Swami had to settle for a mediocre 13-5 mark. That substandard effort dropped his season record to 78 percent at 80-22. “But I was proud of nailing all three of the Siren boys games THE SWAMI as well as my nearly dead-on prediction of the Luck boys 25-point win over St. Croix Falls Tuesday,” the Swami said, while preparing his handmade items for the annual Valentine’s Day Art and Craft Fair at a nearby village.

“This week I expect to jump back over 80 percent,” he added, “because I don’t see any games that I couldn’t easily pick correctly even if I was blindfolded and standing on one leg, which I might, in fact, try.” The Swami answers each and every one of the huge volume of e-mails he receives.

He can be reached at predictionking@yahoo.com.

The Swami

Friday, Feb. 6 6 p.m.

Grantsburg at Webster Northwood at Frederic 7:30 p.m. St. Croix Falls at Siren Luck at Unity Monday, Feb. 9 7 p.m.

LCO at Siren 7:30 p.m. St. Croix Falls at Osceola Tuesday, Feb. 10 7:30 p.m. Unity at Cameron Cumberland at Webster

Amery/Unity Blizzard

Overall 14-1 14-1 7-6 7-7 3-10 2-11 5-9

scoring with the assist from O’Brien.

Lien came in with the third goal assisted by Lauer.

With a 3-1 lead in the second period, O’Brien scored the fourth goal with help from Dietmeier. Superior also came in scoring two more goals to make the game 4-3 going into the third period.

Superior knocked one in about halfway through the third period to tie the game up, 4-4, where the score remained till the end of the game.

Five players from each team who were on the ice last got a chance to go one-on-one with the goalies. Johnson, O’Brien, Lien, and Lauer all took it in and were shut down by Superior’s goalie. But the first four of the Superior players were shut down by Tucker.

9-8 7-11

This week’s prediction: Boys games: Grantsburg 69, Webster 31 – The Tigers try unsuccessfully to control the tempo.

St. Croix Falls 50, Siren 48 – The youthful Dragons narrowly miss pulling a major upset.

Frederic 43, Northwood 42 – This is a nonconference game, so why not give

Dietmeier was the fifth player to go one on one and after a quick move to the left and then a fake to the right she scored G/B Stars fifth goal. Superior still had one player to shoot. It was their key player who they saved for last to go against Hope Tucker, daughter of Duke and Roxie Tucker, who by now, needed oxygen from all the stress and excitement. Superior player came down and Hope shut her down without even breaking a sweat to win the game and take home the third place trophy. Tucker had a total of 15 saves for this game.

The Grantsburg/Burnett Stars host an invitational tournament this weekend in Grantsburg with four teams. – submitted it to the Vikes?

Luck 58, Unity 33 – The Cards play much better than they did in their last match with the Eagles.

Siren 98, LCO 22 – Five teams have topped the century mark versus the Eagles and the Dragons will just miss it.

Cumberland 42, Webster 29 – The Beavers are caught off guard by the Tiger style but still manage to prevail.

Cameron 44, Unity 32 – The Comets have an excellent record while the Eagles continue to struggle.

Girls games: Siren 58, Solon Springs 30 – They are the champions, my friend, but they’ll keep on fighting ‘til the end.

Webster 48, Grantsburg 41 – Cagey coach Jeff Roberts finds a way to win another one.

Siren 55, St. Croix Falls 35 – A completely different game than these teams played at SCF last month.

Northwood 59, Frederic 40 – A frustrating stretch continues for our Vikes.

Luck 40, Unity 39 – You can always expect a coaching chess match when the Wausaukee Wizard (Marty Messar) matches wits with the Master from Montgomery (Chuck Holicky).

Unity 41, St. Croix Falls 40 – Here’s the upset of the week.

Amery 68, Grantsburg 40 – This one won’t be close.

Siren 43, Spooner 34 – A little frustrating for the Dragons because on paper they should hammer this team.

St. Croix Falls 41, Shell Lake 39 – A narrow escape for the Saints.

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Trumpeter swans, a DNR success story

There’s a soothing quality that comes with hearing waterfowl overhead during the longest stretch of winter. The springlike sounds seem to be a common occurrence lately during my frequent ice fishing on some of my favorite Polk County lakes. Open water and fields of Marty grain near the frozen lakes allow for several different species of migratoSeeger ry birds to hang out during the harsh winter months, including The Canadian geese, and an unmistakable flock of trumpeter swans that Bottom fly overhead almost on command Line while I’m on the lake.

It’s a comforting sight that residents of Polk and Burnett counties should be proud of. The success of the trumpeter comes from the decades of efforts from the DNR, countless volunteers and other conservation enthusiasts, local, state and federal governments.

Without that help, residents in the Midwest might not have the opportunity to experience a trumpeter swans resonating song from above.

“The majority of the nesting swans in the state of Wisconsin are in Polk and Burnett County,” said Patricia Manthey, the DNR field coordinator for the trumpeter swan reintroduction program in Wisconsin.

The DNR issued a statement recently explaining that the Natural Resources Board has approved the removal of the trumpeter swan from the state’s list of endangered species. Along with trumpeter swans, ospreys were included on that list. But before trumpeter swans and ospreys can be officially removed from the list, they’ll need to go through two more processes in the Legislature before it can become

Trumpeter swans on a lake near Frederic during the fall of the year. – Photo by Marty Seeger finalized. Manthey says the process probably won’t take place until sometime next summer, but believes there shouldn’t be any problems with getting it finalized through legislation.

“The rise and the population is dramatic and clear, so there should be no problems.” Manthey says.

Although there’s no sure way to know exactly how many trumpeter swans call Wisconsin home, Manthey said last fall there might have been close to 700 trumpeter swans in the entire state. Given the fact that the trumpeter swan had been extinct from Wisconsin for over 100 years, makes the rehabilitation process one of the DNR’s truly great success stories. A big part of that success is owed to the woods and waters of Polk and Burnett Counties.

In the past few years, Manthey said Crex Meadows alone had about 16 nesting pairs of trumpeter swans, which gives it the highest density of trumpeter swans anywhere in the state. Birds produced and hatched at the Crex have been spreading out to adjacent areas such as the Fish Lake Wildlife Area and other parts of Burnett and Polk counties for several years.

Manthey has been coordinating the reintroduction

program in Wisconsin since 1998, but the DNR began coming up with various ideas and ways to reintroduce the bird in Wisconsin in the late 1980s. Since 1998 Manthey has been responsible for the monitoring of the birds, banding, locating nests, aerial surveys and several other detailed tasks. Many of these tasks are done through several hours of volunteer work.

“The part of banding the birds relies so much on volunteers that come out and catch them, because it takes a lot of people out on the water,” Manthey said.

Each year, Manthey said efforts to band birds has taken place at the Crex. Next fall, they still plan on banding birds, but it all hinges on what types of funding they receive.

The recovery of the trumpeter swan is a success story in the state of Wisconsin, but it stretches far beyond its borders. By this summer people across the nation will be able to celebrate a truly special comeback story of a once-extinct Wisconsin treasure.

“It’s a real milestone. It’s nice to be part of bringing something back that had been completely gone from Wisconsin,” Manthey said.

Hibernating bear shot in Dunn County Bear initially thought to have been killed by a combine

by Marty Seeger DUNN COUNTY – Newspapers and radio stations across northwestern Wisconsin and beyond have been buzzing lately about a possible state-record bear that was initially thought to have been hit by a combine.

Recently, that bear was found to have been illegally shot by a 57-year-old man from North Dakota.

According to a report by Joe Knight of the Eau Claire Leader Telegram, the bear was hibernating in a standing cornfield on property owned by Neil and Phyllis Schlough in northern Dunn County, which is near the town of Boyceville. On the evening of Nov. 26, Neil Schlough hit the bear while he was combining corn. It was believed then that the bear had been killed accidentally. After an inspection by DNR wardens it wasn’t suspected that the bear had been shot, so it was sold to the Schloughs for a fee of $75. The Schloughs planned to get the animal mounted, but additional information caused game wardens to take a closer look.

“It was definitely dead when he hit it with the combine,” DNR supervisor David Housman of Baldwin said in an interview with Knight.

Through investigation it was found that another man hunting with the accused shooter tried purchasing a bear license the day it was killed. The two men were deer hunting during the regular nine-day rifle season on the Schlough farm, on which they had permission to hunt.

The DNR confiscated the remains of the bear at a taxidermist and found two bullet holes in the hide.

The name of the accused shooter has not yet been released until the district attorney of Dunn County files charges. Wardens from Minnesota and North Dakota interviewed the alleged shooter, who admitted to shooting the bear.

The Eau Claire Leader Telegram report stated that the Schloughs are not expected to be charged for any violations, and will get their $75 back, but the bear cannot be kept. It is reported that any unlawfully taken wildlife is to be withheld by the state.

The field-dressed bear was reported to have weighed about 618 pounds. Live weight could have reached over 700 pounds. – with information from the Eau Claire Leader Telegram This photo shows Phyllis Schlough with the huge black bear killed on their property in November. Estimated live weight of the bear might have been over 700 pounds. – Photo submitted

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Bowhunters League Traditional Bone Collectors: 464 The Woodsman: 415 R and D Web Solutions: 371 Men Granite Electric: 720 Stellrecht Tractor and Auto Repair: 717 Knoop Construction: 706 WFO: 699 Sheelan Flooring: 667

Shell Lake State Bank: 614 Bow Dogs: 572 Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church: 571 The Lakers: 518 Big Mike’s Sports Shop: 481 Sandstrom: 475 Men/Women Knoop Construction (2): 630 Wildlife Solutions: 582 Women Redbrick Café: 500 Custom Ink: 313

Shane Anderson of Wolf Creek harvested this 380-pound black bear during the hunting season in Oct. 2008 from the Crex Meadows area. Credit goes to a good shot, good dogs and a great hunting party. – Photo submitted

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NOTICE TOWN OF LUCK

Board Meeting Tuesday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m.

Town Hall Agenda 1. Reading of the minutes 2. Treasurer’s report 3. Review and pay bills 4. Patrolman’s report Any additional agenda will be posted in the Luck Town Hall and clerk’s office.

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Kiowa S. Staples, 22, Sandstone, Minn., warrant - failure to appear, Jan. 26.

Scott A. Staples, 39, Vadnais Heights, Minn., arrest warrant - complaint, Jan. 29.

Cheri L. Baker, 41, Danbury, failure to pay fines, Jan. 30.

(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.

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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

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Tony J. Lopez, 24, St. Paul, Minn., arrest warrant - failure to appear, Jan. 29.

Cindy L. Peterson, 45, Park Rapids, Minn., warrant - failure to appear, Jan. 29.

SECOND-FLOOR, 1-BR APT. IN FREDERIC Available Sept. 1. $

435/month

Call for special. Garage included. SECURED BLDG. No pets. No smoking.

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Call Carol at 715-472-8670

or 715-554-0009

Harley A. Williams, 27, Pine City, Minn., warrant - failure to appear, Jan. 27.

NOTICE

TOWN OF WEST SWEDEN

TOWN OF JACKSON

The next Planning Committee Meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 9, 6:30 p.m., West Sweden Town Hall

Monthly Board Meeting

Mon., Feb. 9, 2009, at 7 p.m., at the Town Hall

Full agenda posted Feb. 6, 2009, at the Town Hall, Town Office and Crow Bar. For the Town Board 477474 24L 14a Lorraine Radke, Clerk

(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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(Dec. 31, Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff, vs.

DEAN C. OMERNICK and CHRISTYNE R. OMERNICK, Defendants.

Case No. 08 CV 624 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on December 5, 2008, I will sell at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, on: Thursday, February 12, 2009, at 10 o’clock a.m. all of the following described mortgaged premises, to-wit: Lot Forty-four (44) of Schillberg Third Addition, EXCEPT parcel described as follows: Beginning at the Northeast corner of Lot 44 of Schillberg Third Addition; thence South 37º 54’ East, 111 feet along the Northeast line of said Lot 44; thence South 43º 17’ West, 37.48 feet along the Southeast line of said Lot 44; thence in a Northerly direction to the point of beginning; EXCEPT the parcel described as follows; Beginning at the Northeast corner of Lot 44 of Schillberg Third Addition; thence in a Southwesterly direction 1.3 feet; thence in a Southeasterly direction 111 feet to the Southeast corner of Lot 44 of Schillberg Third Addition; thence in a Northwesterly direction 122.27 feet along the East line of said Lot 44 to the point of beginning, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN: 165-00671-0000.

Street Address: 890 Maple Drive, Osceola, WI 54020.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash.

DOWN PAYMENT: 10% of amount bid by cash or certified check.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, this 18th day of December, 2008.

Timothy G. Moore, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson No. 1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

Lori Lundquist, Clerk (Dec. 31, 2008, Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4, 2009) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY WM SPECIALTY MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

TAMBRA L. GREVICH, a single person, Defendant.

Case No. 08-CV-462 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE (Foreclosure of Mortgage30404) By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of said Circuit Court in the above-entitled action which was entered on August 21, 2008, in the amount of $167,315.53, 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 24th day of February, 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: Parcel of land located in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW 1/4 of SE 1/4) of Section Twentythree (23), Township Thirtytwo (32) North or Range Eighteen (18) West, EXCEPTING land described in that certain deed dated August 20, 1946, and recorded on August 21, 1946, in the office of the Register of Deeds, Polk County, Wisconsin, in Volume 167 of Deeds on page 44 and shown as Document No. 241844.

Tax Key No. 002-01563-0000Town of Alden.

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. TIMOTHY G. MOORE, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin 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 247 192nd Street, Star Prairie, 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.

MEETING NOTICE

BONE LAKE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMMITTEE Sat., Feb. 7 9 a.m. - Noon Georgetown Hall

1847 100th St./Cty. Rd. H

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Magnor had been burglarized.

He is missing a tape measure, mouth spreader, fishing lures, spools of line and needle-nose pliers.

Jan. 23, SCOTT G. SCHMID JR., Milltown, reported leaving his vehicle in the Super America parking lot, St. Croix Falls Twp. When he returned to his vehicle on this date, someone had smashed the driver’s side window, stole his checkbook and an Alpine brand car stereo from his vehicle.

Jan. 24, the KIVLIN EYE CLINIC was vandalized sometime during the night. A subject had thrown a chunk of ice through a window.

Jan. 28, MICHAEL J. MICKELSON JR., RR Dresser, reported his mailbox had been vandalized.

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Other incidents Jan. 20, ROGER D. JOHNSON, RR Clayton, reported that his ice-fishing shack had been burglarized while it was located on Lake Magnor. He is missing a Coleman double-mantel lantern, a full 20-pound LP tank and a Mr. Heater portable Sunflower heater. He reported that several other fishermen reported that their shacks had also been burglarized.

Jan. 20, ALVIN K. PAULSON, RR Clear Lake, reported a burglary to his ice-fishing shack located on Lake Magnor. He is missing six jig poles, three regular ice-fishing poles, a Sunflower heater that was mounted on an older, 20-pound LP tank, ice chisel, fishing lures, 12-volt to 12-amp converter, and a black, vinyl chair with a red seat (the seat could be unsnapped to contain fish or equipment).

Jan. 20, BRENT T. SWAGGER, Clayton, reported his icefishing shack located on Lake

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near County Line Road and 145th Avenue. Victim, ALLAN J. SCHERFF, 59, Almena, was the lead snowmobiler in a group of snowmobiles that were heading southbound on the trail.

Witnesses believed that SCHERFF, upon cresting a hill, did not realize that there was a 90-degree corner at the bottom of the hill, overshot the curve and went off the trail and entered a ditch area next to a driveway. He was ejected from his snowmobile at that time, sustained injuries to his ribs and left arm, and was transported by the Cumberland Ambulance to the Cumberland Memorial Hospital.

Jan. 26, 12:24 p.m., McKinley Twp., 260th Avenue, .2 mile west of CTH E, ARTHUR E. PATNODE, 45, Shoreview, Minn., was westbound on 200th Avenue, drifted to the right, going into the ditch, striking a tree.

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received minor injuries and was transported by EMS. Jan. 24, 12 a.m., Alden Township, 185th Street, .14 mile south of 6th Avenue, OTTO L. DYG, 37, New Richmond, was southbound on 185th Street.

Unit 1 swerved to miss a deer, entered the east ditch and struck a tree. Driver issued citations for failure to notify police of an accident and hit-and-run property adjacent to highway.

Jan. 24, 2:35 p.m., Osceola Township, CTH F/100th Avenue at CTH MM/220th Street; #1— JEFFREY M. GABRICK, 20, Stacy, Minn.; #2—LISA A. KUBICKI, 36, Shafer, Minn. (pedestrian); Unit 2 was walking through the Trollhaugen parking lot. Unit 1 was driving through the lot and struck unit 2. Unit 2 received a minor injury and was not transported by EMS. Jan. 24, 2:26 p.m., 24-145th Avenue, Turtle Lake, PCSD was advised of a snowmobile accident on the snowmobile trail

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Accidents Jan. 18, 12 a.m., Apple River Twp., 101 Street, .2 mile north of Hwy. 8; THOMAS B. TESKE, 27, New Richmond, was northbound on 101st Street. Unit 1 failed to negotiate the curve and crashed into trees. Owner of unit 1 claimed his ex-girlfriend had crashed the truck. Criminal obstructing an officer has been requested.

The following citations were issued: unreasonable speed, failure to notify police of an accident and operating after revocation.

Jan. 23, 11:49 p.m., West Sweden Twp., CTH W, .5 mile west of 160th Street, TAYLOR T. GRUNOW, 16, Dresser; was westbound on CTH W. Driver lost control on ice while negotiating a slight curve. Driver was wearing a seat belt, received a minor injury and transported by EMS. Passenger, SIERRA M. ERICKSON, 14, Grantsburg, was not wearing a seat belt,

Notices/ Real Estate

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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(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

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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

Agenda: Review minutes from last month’s Regular Meeting, Caucus minutes, monthly Treasurer’s Report, Road Maintenance Report, discussion of old business, Comprehensive Plan discussion, discussion of new business, correspondence looked over, payment of bills, and any other business properly brought before the town board.

Respectfully Submitted 477476 Patrice Bjorklund, Clerk 24L 14a (Jan. 21, 28, Feb. 4) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, as servicer for U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the registered holders of Aegis Asset Backed Securities Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-2 Plaintiff Vs Cory D. Louis Stacie L. Louis Redline Wall Systems, Inc. Dean Anderson Diagnostic Radiology Associates Defendants SUMMONS Real Estate Mortgage Foreclosure Case No. 08 CV 864 Honorable Robert H. Rasmussen Case Code: 30404 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To the following party named as a defendant herein: Redline Wall Systems, Inc. / Dean Anderson.

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 January 21, 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 9th day of January, 2009.

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.

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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.

Notice is hereby given that a public test of the electronic equipment to be used at the Feb. 17, 2009, Spring Primary, will be held on Mon., Feb. 9, 2009, 6:30 p.m., at the Town Hall. This test is open to the general public.

Deborah Grover, Clerk

NOTICE TOWN OF LAKETOWN

TOWN OF LAKETOWN

Public Test of Voting Machine Tues., Feb. 10, 2009 24L 11 p.m. 477869 WNAXLP Cushing Community Center

TOWN OF LAKETOWN

Public Welcome Patsy Gustafson, Town Clerk

(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

NOTICE

NOTICE

Comprehensive Planning Meeting Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009 7 p.m.

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Try our E-edition

Monthly board meeting will be held Thursday, February 12, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., at the Cushing Community Center.

Agenda will be posted.

Patsy Gustafson Town Clerk

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The Monthly Board Meeting will be held Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 7 p.m., at the Lincoln Town Hall

TOWN OF McKINLEY ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT TESTING NOTICE

(Jan. 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-CB6, Plaintiff, Vs. RONALD C. BECKWITH; and TAMMY M. BECKWITH, his wife, 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

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.

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.

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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.

Notice is hereby given that a public test of the electronic voting equipment to be used at the February 17 Primary Election, will be held at 1 p.m., on Monday, February 9, 2009, at the Town Hall and Shop located at 1494 150th Ave., Balsam Lake. This test is open to the general public.

Tammy Nelson, Clerk

Donald A. Baker, 61, Siren Township, Jan. 24.

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TOWN OF LINCOLN

William J. Ueltschi, 65, Lincoln Township, Jan. 15.

Neal L. Erickson, 57, Siren Village, Jan. 15.

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I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE for debts made by anyone but myself as of February 2, 2009.

Everett A. Anderson

TOWN OF BALSAM LAKE

Burnett County deaths

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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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Agenda items to include: Clerk’s report, treasurer’s report, road report, ATV road usage and possible Town ATV Ordinance, pay bills and adjournment.

Suzanna M. Eytcheson 477647 24L 14a Meenon Town Clerk

NOTICE

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public test of electronic equipment to be used at the Feb. 17, 2009, Primary Election will be held at 11 a.m. on Mon., Feb. 9, 2009, at the Cushing Community Center. This test is open to the general public.

Julie Peterson, 477724 24L WNAXLP Town of Sterling Clerk

The Next Meeting Of The Meenon Town Board Will Be Held On Mon., Feb. 9, 2009, At The Meenon Town Hall At 7 p.m.

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TOWN OF STERLING ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT TESTING NOTICE

Notices/Employment

MEETING NOTICE

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NOTICE

The February meeting of the Village Board of Siren will be held Thurs., Feb. 5, 2009, at 2 p.m. at the Village Hall.

Agenda posted.

477482 Ann Peterson 24L Deputy Clerk-Treasurer

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Monday, Feb. 9, 2009 10 a.m.

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Frederic & Siren Subway Apply in person.

No phone calls, please.

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HELP WANTED

TOWN OF EUREKA

Monthly Board Meeting Thurs., Feb. 12, 2009, 7 p.m.

Eureka Town Hall Agenda: Call to order, minutes & reports. Old business updates: Willow River fee withheld issue, gravel pit reclaimation issue, land sales issue. New business: Craig Cox subdivision forms. Life Link III subsidy rate increase.

ATV routes on town roads? Correspondence, citizens comment time, discussion items/ announcements. Sign vouchers to authorize payment. Adjournment. 477801 24L 14a,d Financial Audit following meeting.

TOWN OF SIREN SIREN SANITARY DISTRICT MEETING TOWN OF SIREN BOARD MEETING

The Siren Sanitary District will hold a meeting on Thursday, February 12, 2009, at 6:30 p.m., at the Siren Town Hall.

Immediately following the Siren Sanitary District meeting the Town of Siren Board Meeting will be held at approximately 7 p.m. If you wish to be on the agenda, please call Mary Hunter, Clerk, at 715-349-5119.

477078 23-24L Mary Hunter, Clerk

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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NOTICE TOWN OF LAKETOWN NOTICE OF NEWLY ENACTED ORDINANCE Please take notice that on January 20, 2009, the Town of Laketown, County of Polk, adopted Ordinance 1 which is a Uniform Dwelling Code.

The ordinance creates the position of Town Building Inspector and adopts the Wisconsin Uniform Dwelling Code for the Town of Laketown.

The full text of the ordinance may be obtained at the village clerk’s office, 2773 - 230th St., Cushing, WI 54006. Clerk’s phone: 715-648-5569.

Patsy Gustafson, Town Clerk 477866 24L WNAXLP

NOTICE OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY GRANTSBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT January 21, 2009

Job Title: Teachers for Summer School 2009 Job Description: 4 hours/day for four weeks beginning June 15 and ending July 10. Interested individuals who would like to offer active, hands-on and student-centered courses are encouraged to apply.

Requirements: Teachers must have a current Wisconsin teaching license. Elementary and Middle School positions available. Other duties may include recess duty, helping students load busses and welcoming students as they arrive to school.

To Apply: Contact Linda Halacy at 715-463-2455.

Applications are available online at 477380 23-24L www.gk12.net.

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. 477504 13a,d 24L

NOTICE TOWN OF LaFOLLETTE The Monthly Board Meeting For The Town Of LaFollette Will Be Held At The LaFollette Town Hall, On Mon., Feb. 9, 2009, At 7:30 p.m.

Agenda: Verification of Posting; Clerk’s Minutes; Treasurer’s Report; Resident Issues; Road Items; Licensed Federal Firearms Dealer; White Pine Cemetery; Mailbox Posts Replacement Costs; House Inspector; Pay Bills; and look at correspondence.

477829 24L 14a Linda Terrian, Clerk

The Monthly Board Meeting Will Be Held Tues., Feb. 10, 2009, At Town of Daniels Hall At 7:30 p.m.

Agenda: Minutes of clerk and treasurer; pay bills & any other business properly brought before the board.

477870 24L Ellen M. Ellis, Clerk

(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

VILLAGE OF FREDERIC - NOTICE OF PUBLIC TEST ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT

A public test of the Village of Frederic’s Sequoia Voting System will be held at the Village Hall on Mon., Feb. 9, at 10 a.m.

Kristi Swanson, Deputy Clerk, Frederic, WI 477837 24L February 2, 2009 WNAXLP

NOTICE - TOWN OF LORAIN

Board Meeting February 12, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

Lorain Town Hall, 252 345th Ave., CTH E Agenda: Call meeting to order; roll call/verification of meeting notice; approve the minutes of the previous meeting; approve the financial report; motion to pay the bills; motion to reduce the number of election workers. Reports: road, fire dept., ambulance, cemetery, Comprehensive Plan Commission; possible board action on the church building; additional meeting items for future agendas; motion to adjourn; adjournment.

Susan Hughes, Clerk 477865 24L

REQUEST FOR BIDS LAWN CARE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT OF SIREN

This project will involve lawn care for the School District of Siren. Area of school grounds to be maintained are approximately 8 acres.

To obtain further specifications, contact the Siren School District Office at 24022 Fourth Avenue North, Siren, WI, or contact Don Fleischhacker Buildings and Grounds Maintenance Supervisor, by dialing 715-349-7392, ext. 403. To receive specifications by mail, dial 715-349-7392, ext. 401.

All proposal bids to be in the Siren School District Office

by February 13, 2009, at 4 p.m., sealed and marked “Lawn Care.”

Proposal bids may be mailed to: Siren School District Office, 24022 Fourth Avenue North, P.O. Box 29, Siren, WI 54872.

The Siren Board of Education retains the right to reject any 477279 23-24L and all proposal bids.

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.

The Regular Monthly Board Meeting For The Town Of McKinley Will Be Held Tues., Feb. 10, Immediately Following The Comprehensive Plan Meeting, At The Town Hall, At 7 p.m.

Agenda will be posted at the Town Hall.

Deborah Grover, 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

POLK COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009, at 9 a.m.

Shoreview Apartments, Balsam Lake Agenda: I. Call to Order. II. Minutes.

III. Financial Reports. IV. Operations Report.

V. Unfinished Business: A. CDBG. VI. New Business. VII. Adjourn

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PUBLIC TEST OF VOTING MACHINE

PART-TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE

NOTICE

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TOWN OF EUREKA

(Jan. 21, 28, Feb. 4) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE NAME CHANGE OF KIRAN MARIE KAUR CHHATWAL By: (Petitioner): Dawn Marie Ogilvie By: (co-Petitioner): Avinash Kamvar Chhatwal Notice and Order for Name Change Hearing Case No. 09 CV 23 NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT: A petition has been filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: Kiran Marie Kaur Chhatwal To: Kiran Marie Kaur Ogilvie IT IS ORDERED: This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Polk County, State of Wisconsin: Molly E. GaleWyrick Br. 1 Polk Co. Justice Center 1005 W. Main St. Balsam Lake, WI 54810 Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 1:00 p.m.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Inter-County Leader, a newspaper published in Frederic, WI, Polk County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: January 12, 2009.

BY THE COURT: Molly E. GaleWyrick Circuit Court Judge January 12, 2009

NOTICE

TOWN OF DANIELS MONTHLY BOARD MEETING

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Monthly Board Meeting Monday, Feb. 9, 2009 At 7 p.m.

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VILLAGE OF FREDERIC

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PUBLIC NOTICE

(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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Notices/Employment

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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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Burnett County Land & Water Resource Management Plan

The Burnett County Land and Water Conservation Department will hold a public hearing to accept comments and questions regarding the Burnett County Natural Land & Water Resource Management Plan. The public hearing will be held Tuesday, February 10, 2009, at 10 a.m. at the Burnett County Government Center, 7410 County Road K, Siren, WI, Room 165.

The purpose of the plan is to guide the Land and Water Conservation Department in its efforts to conserve and protect natural resources, while supporting sustainable economic and recreational use of these resources. The plan will also provide the basis for seeking funding from various private, local, state, and federal sources.

Copies of the draft plan are available from the Burnett County Land and Water Conservation Department located in the Burnett County Government Center, 7410 County Road K, Siren. The department office hours are 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

All interested persons are invited to present comments at the hearing. The Land and Water Conservation Department will accept written comments until Friday, February 477067 23-24L 6, 2009.

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Polk County is accepting applications for the following positions: Mental Health Therapist $23.27/hr.

2 Full-time Positions, 37.5 hr./week Deadline to apply: Open until filled JOB DESCRIPTIONS AND APPLICATIONS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM POLK COUNTY’S WEB SITE AT: www.co.polk.wi.us, or Polk County Dept. of Employee Relations, 100 Polk Co. Plaza, #229, Balsam Lake, WI 54810, 715-485-9176. AA/EEOC

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.

477667 24-25L (Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar. 4) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY

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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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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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Notices/Employment

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.) 477912 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.

PUBLIC NOTICE ELECTRONIC BALLOT TABULATION

Under Wisconsin State Statute 5.84(1), public tests of the electronic ballot tabulation system will be held to ascertain that the equipment will correctly count the February 17, 2009, Primary Election votes cast for all offices and on all measures. All tests are open to the public.

Town of Anderson, February 10, 2009, at 10 a.m. Town Hall – 13808 Anderson Road, Dawn Luke, Clerk, 715-689-2296 Town of Blaine, February 10, 2009, at 11 a.m. Northland Comm Ctr. - 1232 E. School Rd. Dori Willett, Clerk, 715-244-3910 Town of Daniels, February 7, 2009, at 10 a.m. Town Hall - 9602 Daniels 70 Rd. Ellen Ellis, Clerk, 715-349-5840 Town of Dewey, February 10, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. Town Hall - 24433 Town Hall Rd. Pamela Brown, Clerk, 715-468-7111 Town of Grantsburg, February 10, 2009, at 10 a.m. Town Hall - 23211 State Rd. 48/87 Romey Nelson, Clerk/Treasurer, 715-463-5545 Town of Jackson, February 10, 2009, at 2 p.m. Town Hall Office - 4599 County Rd. A Lorraine Radke, Clerk, 715-866-8412 Town of LaFollette, February 11, 2009, at 10 a.m. Town Hall - 24184 Malone Rd. Linda Terrian, Clerk, 715-349-2531 Town of Lincoln, February 7, 2009, at 10 a.m. Town Hall - 9110 Perida Rd. Patrice Bjorklund, Clerk, 715-866-7580 Town of Meenon, February 7, 2009, at 9 a.m. Town Hall - 7396 Kruger Rd. Suzanna M. Eytcheson, Clerk, 715-866-4893 Town of Oakland, February 10, 2009, at 5 p.m. – Clerk’s Office– 7426 Main St. W. Deanna Krause, Clerk, 715-866-8213 Town of Roosevelt, February 10, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. – Clerk’s Home – 22030 Bakker Rd. Karla Mortensen, Clerk/Treasurer, 715-468-4088 Town of Rusk, February 7, 2009, at 10 a.m. Town Hall - 25195 County Rd. H Ann Stellrecht, Clerk, 715-468-2329 Town of Sand Lake, February 9, 2009, at 6 p.m. Town Hall - 5364 County Rd. X Peggy Tolbert, Clerk, 715-866-4398 Town of Scott, February 9, 2009, at 11:30 a.m. Town Hall - 28390 County Rd. H Kim Simon, Clerk, 715-635-2308 Town of Siren, February 7, 2009, at 4 p.m. Town Hall - 7240 S. Long Lake Rd. Mary Hunter, Clerk, 715-349-5119 Town of Swiss, February 11, 2009, at 5:30 p.m. Town Hall - 7551 Main Street Deborah Pohlkamp, Clerk, 715-656-3030 Town of Trade Lake, February 8, 2009, at 5 p.m. – Clerk’s Home – 13361 St. Rd. 48.

Deborah Christian, Clerk, 715-488-2600 Town of Union, February 11, 2009, at 1 p.m. Town Hall - 9015 County Rd. F David Olson, Clerk, 715-866-4129 Town of Webb Lake, February 9, 2009, at 10 a.m. – Town Hall – 31000 Namekagon Trail Gail Keup, Clerk, 715-259-3439 Town of West Marshland, February 10, 2009, at 5 p.m. – Clerk’s Home - 25161 Spaulding Rd. Margaret Hess, Clerk, 715-463-2922 Town of Wood River, February 9, 2009, at 9 a.m. – Clerk’s Home – 11097 Crosstown Rd. Dawn Luke, Clerk, 715-689-2296 Village of Grantsburg, February 11, 2009, at 8:30 a.m. Village Hall - 316 S. Brad St. Jennifer Zeiler, Clerk, 715-463-2405 Village of Siren, February 11, 2009, at 8:30 a.m. Village Hall - 24049 First Ave. N. Ann Peterson, Clerk, 715-349-2273 Village of Webster, February 9, 2009, at 10 a.m. – Village Office - 7505 Main St. W. Clerk/Treasurer, 715-866-4211

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POLK COUNTY POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS

NOTICE - PUBLIC TEST ON VOTING EQUIPMENT

Notice is hereby given that the Town of St. Croix Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin, will be performing a public test of election voting equipment on Tuesday, February 10, 2009, at 9 a.m., in the town hall located at 1305 200th Street, St. Croix Falls.

Janet Krueger, Clerk, Town of St. Croix Falls www.townofstcroixfalls.org 477914 24L WNAXLP

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Six compete for title of 50th Winter Carnival queen LUCK — One of six young women will be chosen next Friday evening, Feb. 13, to be the 50th Luck Winter Carnival queen.

The pageant and coronation will be held in the Luck School auditorium starting at 7 p.m. Following is biographical information for each of the girls.

Samantha Fenning is the daughter of John and Kristi Fenning. She is sponsored by Durex and JB Studios and her escort for the evening will be John Fenning.

Fenning is active in band, choir, volleyball, FCCLA, National Honor Society, CIA and Spanish Club. She is also junior class treasurer, is on the honor roll, and has received both an athletic and an academic letter. Along with working parttime at Olson & Sons in Siren, Fenning volunteers her time ringing bells for the Salvation Army, teaching vacation Bible school, and helping with Ruby’s Pantry.

She enjoys playing volleyball, shopping, singing, baby-sitting and spending time with friends and family.

Alexandra Wilkinson is the granddaughter of Larry and Linda Glenn.

She is sponsored

by Hair’s the Thing, Red Hat Mamas, and Scott and Cathi Melon.

Her escort for the evening will be Larry Glenn.

Wilkinson is active in FCCLA, 4-H, FFA, CIA, softball and is captain of the cheerleading squad. She is a charter member of Wisconsin Education Covenant and has received special recognition for winning first place for her D.A.R.E. essay.

Wilkinson is involved in Ruby’s Pantry, Gift of Warm Clothes, Elder Care and is a member of Bone Lake Church. Her hobbies include being outdoors, reading, dancing, cheerleading and spending time with friends and family.

Sarah Elert is the daughter of Todd and Paula Elert and the late Nancy Elert. She is sponsored by Bella Salon and Holiday, and her escort for the evening is Cole Mortel. Elert is active in volleyball, basketball, choir, student council, FCCLA, CIA, school plays and Spanish Club.

She is also involved in helping with basketball tournaments and with Lucky Days. She has received special recognition for honor roll, an academic letter and positive shirt. Elert enjoys playing piano, listening to music, swimming, shopping, jet skiing and spending time with friends and family.

Ashlyn Petersen is the daughter of Kent and Rachel Petersen. She is sponsored by Luck Lumber and the Bottle Shop, and her escort for the evening will be Mick Petersen.

Petersen is active in basketball, volleyball, student council, FCCLA, choir, Drama Club and CIA. She sings for local churches, helps with Lucky Days and has provided special entertainment at past pageants. Petersen has received special honors including an academic letter, honor roll, and CIA gold card.

She enjoys singing, playing sports, going to the lake, shopping and spending time with friends and family.

Alyssa Hutton is the daughter of Glen and Tanya Branville and the granddaughter of Daniel and Debora Hutton.

She is sponsored by Rural American Bank and Suzy Q’s Snowshoe Tavern, and her escort for the evening is Suz Connefax. Hutton is active in FFA, band, fast-pitch softball, 4-H, Straight Rivers Riders Club and is a member of St. Luke’s Methodist Church. She enjoys horseback riding, snowmobiling, four-wheeling, camping, hunting, fishing and spending time with friends and family.

Devon Nelson is the daughter of Lisa Stevens and Ken Nelson. She is sponsored by Ken’s Keyboard and her escort for the evening will be Dan Nelson.

Nelson is active in FFA, choir and CIA. She enjoys helping out with the Luck Fire Department corn feed and the EMT smelt fry. Some of her special honors include lettering in cheerleading and an FFA pin. Nelson likes snowmobiling, hunting, fishing, reading, listening to music, four-wheeling and spending time with friends and family. – Photos submitted

Little Miss Luck contestants The Little Miss Luck contestants are front row (L to R): Courtney Johnson, Breanna White, Elizabeth Johnson, Isabelle Jensen, Maya Youngman, Hayley Helms, Annaleise Greener and Katie Mattson. Middle row: Katie Christensen, Brooklyn Petersen, Billie Webb, Laura Bartylla, Julianna Thompson, Andrea Johnson, Alyssa Fueller and Marissa Lundquist. Back row: Shannon Lane, Kerissa Minor, Jennifer Olson, Heather Lane, Autumn Hansen, Shaylin Eley, Jasmine Morales, Makena Ross and Addie Musial. – Photo submitted

Celebrating Cody Ward

The family of Cody Ward: Mom, Harlene Fitzpatrick and sister, Cori-lynn.

Ward remarked about the large group of family, friends and members of the community that came out in celebration of the life of Cody.

Joe Andrews of Evolution Studios in Balsam Lake was on hand the entire day to paint various designs on the faces of youngsters, including this one, who had the Batman symbol painted on his cheek.

Andrews is a tattoo artist at Evolution Studios located on Main Street in Balsam Lake.

Conner Clemmens came with his family all the way from St. Paul, Minn., to join in the benefit for Cody Ward last Saturday at Unity Elementary.

Several games, including table tennis, were played by kids in the elementary gym.

One of several items included in the silent auction was an authentic Minnesota Wild, jersey autographed by the team.

Photos by Marty Seeger

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Celebrate Luck’s 50th Winter Carnival Feb. 12 – 15 LUCK — The 50th annual Luck Winter Carnival begins Thursday, Feb. 12, with a lighting ceremony at the ice castle on Luck’s Main Street. The ceremony kicks off a weekend of indoor and outdoor winter fun.

A highlight of the weekend will be the 50th Luck Winter Carnival queen pageant and coronation, starting at 7 p.m. in the Luck School auditorium. Six young women are seeking the title of Luck’s 50th queen.

Saturday begins with the Luck Lion’s pancake breakfast at the school. From midmorning through the afternoon are a number of activities including the

Blocks of ice for the Winter Carnival ice castle are cut with chain saws from Sand Lake west of Luck.

Building of the ice castle for the 50th Luck Winter Carnival has begun. An ice castle was part of earlier winter carnivals, but the practice was discontinued for a number of years due to unpredictable weather. Last year it was once again made part of the carnival. The castle is located at the corner of Main Street and Hwy. 48. book sale at the library, a vintage snowmobile radar run on Big Butternut Lake, a basketball tournament at the school, barbeque and pie at the senior center, and Bingo at the DBS Hall.

Luck’s new museum will be open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring special displays on the history of the Winter Carnival. The museum will also host book signings for three authors from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. These authors are Buz Swerkstrom of Atlas, Vernon Peterson of Siren and Allen Hanson, author of “Indians of Wisconsin and the Surrounding Area.”

The first clue. for the medallion hunt, with a prize of $150, will be posted at 10 a.m. the DBS Hall, and additional clues will be posted hourly. The kiddie sawdust pile will be at 10:30 a.m. at Fort Luck Park, with a pile for children ages 2-7 and a pile for ages 8-14.

If snow conditions remain good, there will be a kiddy snowman contest all day at Fort Luck Park, with judging at 2:30 p.m. There will be cash prizes in two age categories: 6 and under, and age 7 to 12.

A special reception for former queens and grand marshals will be held at the

A volunteer cuts a block in half before it is taken to Luck for the Winter Carnival ice castle. — Photos

by Mary Stirrat senior center from 3 to 5 p.m. This will be followed by the reception featuring this year’s Grand Marshal Dan Valentine from 5 to 7 p.m.

The 12th-annual torchlight parade will start at 7 p.m., starting at United Pioneer Home, then following Main Street to 2nd Ave. and the DBS Hall.

The Winter Carnival dance will be held at the DBS Hall after the parade.

Sunday’s events include an ice-fishing contest on Big Butternut Lake from noon to 5 p.m., followed by a bonfire at the boat landing at 5 p.m. Concessions will be available, and it is recommended you bring your own lawn chair.

The 50th Winter Carnival will end with fireworks Sunday evening, at dusk, around 5:30 p.m. Freewill donations for the fireworks will be accepted at the concession stand (rising costs mean this may be the last year for fireworks).

Raffle winners will be announced during the bonfire and fireworks Sunday evening. — Mary Stirrat

E-EDITION EXTRA

Four extra pages of photos not used in this edition can be found on our E-edition at www.the-leader.net

Too-early bird Being early may be a virtue, but this Robin may have overdone it this year.

He was spotted locally this week. — Photo by Marty Seeger

Singing valentines offered by Indianhead Chorus quartets

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BURNETT/POLK COUNTIES - A group of singing quartets will spend Friday, Feb. 13, and also, in certain areas on Saturday, Feb. 14, delivering singing valentines in Burnett and Polk countie, a tradition that has grown in popularity.

For $30, you can have the quartet sing to your sweetheart at their home, place of work ... or at a place of your choosing. For that price you get at least one song, a flower to be given to

your valentine and a photo of your valentine with the quartet.

Interested persons should contact Duane Morris (Deer Park to Balsam Lake, Clear Lake to Turtle Lake) at 715-268-9063; Larry Fisk (Luck, Milltown, Frederic, Siren, Webster, etc.) at 715-327-8091; or Steve Swenson (St. Croix Falls to Lindstrom, Dresser, Osceola, etc.) at 715-483-9797.

More information at www.indian headchorus.com. - with submitted infor-

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Luck Winter Carnival ce lebrates 50 years

by Mary Stirrat LUCK — In less than two weeks, from Feb. 12-15, Luck will be celebrating its 50th-annual Winter Carnival, marking a half-century of winter festivities.

The milestone will be honored with four days of events, beginning Thursday evening with the lighting of the ice castle by outgoing royalty and ending Sunday evening with fireworks.

The first Luck Winter Carnival was held in 1960. According to a document provided by the Winter Carnival Committee, Frank Truscinski, who was the general carnival chair of the first event, “had a vision to incorporate our beautiful northland winter with a celebration and promotion” of Luck.

The Luck Commercial Club, forerunner of the community club, sponsored the weekend-long event.

The carnival committee felt a queen was needed to reign over the festivities, and decided to couple the idea of a Luck queen with promoting goodwill and the local businesses.

Eight girls, two from each class, were chosen by the student body. Rather than hold a pageant, with contestants judged on personality, appearance, or poise, the first queen was selected through local purchases.

During the competition for the title, people would vote as they made local purchases. They were able to cast one vote for every 25 cents spent. Large purchases could change the tallies quickly,

Lois (Jackson) Peterson was the first queen selected to represent Luck. Fifty years ago, in February 1960, she was crowned by St. Paul Queen of Snows Muriel Lux at the ice castle in Luck.

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An exhibit of Winter Carnival buttons will be on display at the museum in Luck during the carnival. and it was not unknown for someone to wait until carnival time to buy a new car or combine.

In 1960, the top vote-getter was Lois Jackson Peterson, with 112,685 votes. In second place was Sandy O’Brien with 111,066, followed by Karolyn Hanson with 93,413. At 25 cents per vote, more than $79,000 was spent during the selection process.

Peterson, who was only a freshman, was crowned by St. Paul Queen of Snows Muriel Lux. The coronation took place at an ice castle made from 1,600 blocks of ice cut from Big Butternut Lake.

This method of selecting the Luck Winter Carnival Queen continued through 1963. Beginning in 1964, the eight candidates were still selected by the student body but only from the junior and senior classes. This was also the first year that a pageant was held to crown the queen, rather than casting votes through purchases at local businesses.

According to the written history of the committee, “each candidate appeared before the public and a panel of judges in a program designed to display her ability to be a gracious and congenial representative” of Luck.

Each contestant had an interview with

The Winter Carnival float has changed through the years. This is the float from 1970, with queen Jan Larsen in back, first runner-up Carolyn Conrad at front left, and second runner-up Marlys Berg. Berg was named Winter Carnival Queen in 1972. each judge, performed a talent, and modeled street clothes and an evening gown. Dianne Berg Dueholm was the first queen selected in the new manner.

Before the pageant, Dueholm recalled, the local ladies met with the candidates about manners, how to sit and use utensils properly and other general etiquette issues.

Although each individual candidate performed a talent, there was no group production. When it came time to choose what she would do, said Dueholm, her aunt suggested she do something a little out of the ordinary.

Dueholm decided to sing a song her aunt taught her, called “You Can’t Make a Lady Out of Me.” “I had never heard it before that time, and I’ve never heard it since,” said Dueholm. “I think she may have made it up

herself.”

A highlight, said Dueholm, was attending the St. Paul Winter Carnival. “I had such a wonderful time,” she said.

“That as really a wonderful experience, to go and stay in a fancy hotel and eat in the big, fancy restaurants. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.”

At the pageant, the eight candidates were narrowed down to the top three.

The judges final choice was announced during the coronation ceremony following the Sunday parade, when the queen was called to the ice-palace throne.

The queen pageant and the Winter Carnival have changed through the years, with events added and others dropped. There have been snow and ice sculptures, hockey tournaments, cross-

See Winter Carnival, next page

On stage during the 1964 queen pageant with reigning Queen Faye Nelson Lawson (not in order) are Renee Rosendahl, Dianne Berg, Muriel Askov, Luella Hansen, Gail Lindgren, Marjorie Berklund, Bette Strenke, Barla Nyman, Becky Bohn and Sue Lande. This was the first year that an official pageant was held. During the five prior years, the queen was chosen by the amount of local purchases made in her name.

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Winter Carnival/from page 1 country ski races, demolition derbies and snowmobile rodeos.

“Barebones” stages and a one-page list of the candidates and their talents of the early days have been transformed into themes, decorated runways and glossy pageant booklets.

Construction of an ice palace continued each year through the first 15 years or so of the Winter Carnival, but unpredictable weather led organizers to drop this part of the celebration. Just last year, in 2008, it was reinstituted and is again a part of the festivities.

The carnival has had its ups and downs during the past 50 years. In 1974, for example, raffle tickets were recalled after state agents warned area civic groups to stop all raffles, contests, or give-away promotions or face state criminal charges. The grand prize was a Polaris Colt snowmobile, and event organizers wrangled with how to return money to those who had purchased tickets.

There almost wasn’t a carnival in 1984.

No one really took the reins after the pageant and carnival in 1983, and finally after the first of the new year, a group got together that decided not to let the carnival go under.

Rather than the usual Winter Carnival that year, however, Luck’s predominately Danish community celebrated on St. Patrick’s Day, with the theme Something Irish.

Another year, while interest was high in all the other Winter Carnival events,

Ice and snow sculptures have been a regular part of the Winter Carnival. Celebrating our nation’s 200th birthday in 1976, the Sylvan Erickson family built a sculpture of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

The Dorain Jensen family commemorated the event with a sculpture of Lady Liberty. there were no candidates for the title of Miss Luck. Nichole Chivers Trautt, selected queen in 1991, reigned for a second year until the 1993 pageant.

Various local and state celebrities were involved in the carnival at different times. Miss Teen Wisconsin and Miss Wisconsin, along with radio and television personalities took part in emceeing the pageant, including Milwaukee sportscaster Rod Luck. Luck emceed the pageant in 1978, receiving a Luck football jersey and a key to the village. Luck

was well-known for participating in the sport he was covering, sometimes with hilarious results.

To commemorate 2009 as the 50th Luck Winter Carnival, a special reception for former queens and grand marshals is being held Saturday, Feb. 14, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Luck Senior Center.

In addition, the Luck Area Historical

Jill Sandstrom was 1980 Winter Carnival Queen, riding on the float with the Luck horseshoe design.

With her are first Princess Kelly Olson and second Princess Lori Jerrick.

Society is developing special exhibits at the museum. Among items on display will be a collection of Winter Carnival buttons and programs. For some reason, said Dueholm, buttons from the 1970s seem to be hard to find, and anyone willing to donate or loan one can contact her.

The 1984 Winter Carnival was later than usual — St. Patrick’s Day in March — because volunteers were hard to find. Barbershoppers Jim Glover, Larry Jepsen, Loren Nelson and Mark Peterson entertained the crowd. The theme that year was Something Irish.

The 1965 Winter Carnival was publicized with posters featuring the coronation of Dianne Berg Dueholm the previous year.

All eight candidates for the first Luck Winter Carnival Queen rode in the float for the parade. For the first four years, the candidate who had the most local purchases made in her name was crowned queen.

Dan Valentine is 50th Winter Carnival grand marshal

by Mary Stirrat LUCK — Fifty and Valentine are two words that describe this year’s Luck Winter Carnival. This is the 50th Winter Carnival celebrated in the community, and it is being held over Valentine’s Day weekend.

But there is also another Winter Carnival connection to each word. This year’s grand marshal is Dan Valentine, administrator of United Pioneer Home, and Valentine recently turned 50 years old.

These coincidences probably did not influence the Winter Carnival Committee in its selection of the 2009 grand marshal, but it adds to the interest of the selection.

Valentine is no stranger to the Winter Carnival. He has been secretary of the

Dan Valentine Winter Carnival Committee, a subcommittee of the Community Club, since

1999, and has also been active in the Lucky Days celebration each year.

He has been involved in Boy Scouts for the past 15 years, serving at both the local and district level. For the past year three years he has been scoutmaster of the Luck troop. Just last year he was presented with the Silver Bear Award, the highest award that Scouts offer an adult.

Valentine, who has been administrator at United Pioneer Home since 1987, also sings barbershop with the Indianhead Choir, and his quartet will provide entertainment at the Winter Carnival Queen Pageant and Coronation Friday evening.

In past years, Valentine has helped select the grand marshal, and now he will be on the other side of that decision.

Among his duties will be the lighting

of the ice castle at a ceremony Thursday evening, Feb. 12. This event kicks off the start of the 50th Luck Winter Carnival.

As grand marshal, Valentine will also help judge the kiddie snowman contest on Saturday, host the grand marshal reception Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m., and the parade at 7 p.m.

Sunday evening he will attend the bonfire and fireworks that will close the Winter Carnival.

Valentine said he is pleased to be part of the strong, positive tradition of the Luck Winter Carnival.

“It’s quite an honor,” said Valentine of being selected grand marshal. “You get to be in the history books of Luck.”

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The Story Room

by Sally Bair Mom’s private room in the nursing home became one of my favorite places.

For most of the nine years she spent there, she shared stories about her childhood, spent on the North Dakota prairie. I cherish those stories and the time spent listening to them.

But it took me years to reach that point.

I once saw my mother’s repeated stories as a burden. It seemed that wherever we went, whatever room we occupied, she made sure I learned not only her own history, but her ancestors’ as well. For Mom, every room became a Story Room.

Where did she accumulate so many stories? She began her long journey to find her roots back in the early 1960s. She wrote letters, read history books, hounded librarians, and scoured the records of several state historical societies.

Her efforts, stamp money, and travel time paid off. In time she gathered enough material to make a genealogy chart of both her parents, a chart any history buff would be proud of. She found direct ancestral lines clear back to the 1100s.

Her genealogy chart, written in tiny script on three huge pieces of cardboard, held an incredible maze of names and dates. A thick, three-ring notebook con-

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Writer’s Corner tained the same ancestral data. Best of all, she included dozens of interesting facts about some of the people listed on the charts. These became her stories.

I remember being impressed when she showed me her charts and data and began to relate her ancestors’ stories. But my life back then had its own rhythm. I was busy raising three children plus two foster girls.

Then I went through a divorce, attended college, and started a new career. After that I remarried and began my own quilting business. When would I find the time to sit and listen to family history with my mother?

That didn’t deter Mom. At every opportunity, she told and retold her family’s stories. As I drove her to the mall, I heard about one ancestor who was hanged for stealing a horse. Another worked at the Northfield bank during the Jesse James robbery. One distant cousin became a Mormon and had three wives at the same time and 27 children.

From her own history, Mom told how her dad got lost in a blizzard on the way home from their mailbox and ended up a half mile away, where the owners brought him and the horse inside to get warm.

Mom retold the story of how her cousin’s corset was found stuck inside her coat sleeve as her new beau held the coat for her on their first date. Mom related in tears the story of her uncle being buried alive under a dirt bank at their North Dakota coal mine. I heard all about her

grandfather, who left home at age 16 and signed up on a whaling ship, gone for 41/2 years on The Desdemona.

It didn’t matter whether we were driving to the mall, eating lunch at a cafe, or watching television with the grandchildren, Mom talked about her family.

Would she never quit? For the umpteenth time, I heard about her aunt and uncle’s Dakota homestead when in 1899 they had to store their first crop of oats in the attic of the one-room shack, the same room where the aunt slept. That same aunt purchased a bicycle that summer to get around on those rough prairie roads. She told me how her mother and uncle started the first church and Sunday school in their prairie community. How her mother nearly died from pneumonia one spring after crossing their swollen coulee on the way home from the one-room school at which she taught. How Grandma shot a six-foot-long poisonous snake with Grandpa’s double-barreled shotgun by the chicken coop at their Florida cabin where they lived for a season.

So many stories! So many repetitions!

They’re all in the book Mom wrote, but she kept telling them to me anyway. My reaction eventually became a litany: “You told me that already, Mom. Don’t you remember?” I didn’t have time for her repetitions. I resented them. They encroached on my own time and thoughts.

Didn’t my mother know anything else?

Had her life become that narrow? As frustrated as I felt sometimes, I knew better.

Mom had many other interests. She studied nature. She took up writing, and published many poems and a book or two, children’s stories, and essays. She sold dozens of local history and feature stories and inspirational pieces. She sewed,

crafted, and taught her grandchildren about nature and crafts. She read voraciously – historical nonfiction, poetry, nature books, and the many Bibles she collected. Hers was a busy, fulfilling life.

After Dad died at age 95, Mom moved into an apartment building for seniors. By then, I had developed a semblance of patience, tolerating her repetitions more easily.

Her room in the nursing home became the place where I truly enjoyed her repeated stories. At long last I listened with an appreciative, grateful ear. While she spoke, I stitched on my quilts. Sometimes I read aloud to her from her writings or, while showing her the old photos she had inherited and collected from the past, I listened to her talk about them.

Eventually, I quit believing that a retold story has little value. And I came to realize that Mom retold her stories for several reasons – for the simple pleasure of telling them, for emotional release, and for posterity.

So now I’m following my mom’s determined habit – I’m telling and retelling those same stories, and mine as well, to my own children and grandchildren. The legacy will continue as long as I’m able.

And, I’m writing them down for future generations.

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Comic ventriloquist adds to the Frostbite Follies fun ST. CROIX FALLS - The Frostbite Follies will take audiences back in time to an era in which the historic Auditorium in downtown St. Croix 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. On Saturday, Feb. 14, Festival Theatre hosts a Valentine’s Day tribute to vaudeville with the five-act Frostbite Follies at 7:30 p.m.

“Everybody seems eager to catch this show,” said Pam Koch, Festival’s box office manager. “In particular, they seem intrigued to learn more about the comic ventriloquist, James Wedgwood!”

With characters like Fester McCrabbus (an undertaker with an attitude) and Luanda LaDouce (a cabaret diva), Wedgwood combines hilarious comedy routines with amazing ventriloquism that has captivated audiences on television (“Statler Brothers Show”), state and county fairs, and performing arts venues throughout the nation. Wedgwood’s act is a variety show in and of itself. He makes virtually everything talk – from a variety of great characters to purses, brooms, bottles, and audience members. Game shows, tap dancing, singing (without moving his lips!) and much more are all part of the fun.

The Frostbite Follies was created in the spirit of old classic vaudeville featuring music, juggling, dancing,

Ventriloquist James Wedgwood and one of his many sidekicks, Luanda LaDouce. - Photos submitted 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 last (but definitely not least) – one of Festival Theatre’s all-time favorites: Pop Wagner himself.

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.

“Our Valentine events include gourmet dessert, flowers for the ladies, and the performance for just $25 per person,” says Danette Olsen, Festival’s director. “And proceeds help support special building projects taking place this winter and spring in preparation for the 2009 Theatre and Music Series. We have planned a fantastic evening for everyone looking for something extremely fun to do in celebration of Valentine’s Day … or battling cabin fever!”

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.

Festival Theatre is located in historic downtown St. Croix Falls at 210 North Washington Street. For more information, to order tickets or join the Festival Theatre mailing list, call 715-483-3387 or 888-887-6002 or go to the Web at www.festivaltheatre.org. - submitted

SCRMC celebrates February as Healthy Heart Month with free events Go Red for Women ST. CROIX FALLS – Friday, Feb. 6, has been designated National Wear Red Day for Women. Red is the American Heart Association’s color for women and heart disease. “We need a bold color like red to draw attention to heart disease, which is women’s greatest health threat,” said St. Croix cardiologist Dr. Glenn Nickele. “Red symbolizes women’s power to take control of their health and passion for the women whose lives have been affected.”

The American Heart Association is encouraging everyone to wear red, such as a red dress, shirt, hat or

other item, on Feb. 6 in support of all women who have been touched by heart disease or stroke. On Friday, Feb. 6, staff at SCRMC will promote Wear Red Day by wearing something red and giving out free information. For information, visit their home page or www.goredforwomen.org.

Free HeartSaver CPR class Heart attacks and choking are among the highest causes of injury and death. In a one-session class on Saturday, Feb. 21, 9 – 11 a.m., taught by an emergency medical instructor, participants will learn cardio-pulmonary resuscitation for use on adults. This American Heart Association HeartSaver course provides essential

knowledge and hands-on practice for everyone. Normally $25, this class is free during February Healthy Heart Month. Please call 715-483-0431 or 800-642-1336, ext. 2431, to register. Space is limited.

Take care of your heart: cardiac rehab open house The public is invited to an open house in the SCRMC Cardiac Rehab Department, located on the third floor of the St. Croix Falls Clinic, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, from 1:30-3 p.m. Heart healthy recipes and other information will be available. Refreshments provided. - submitted

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Russ Hanson

River Road

Ramblings View of buildings in Camp No. 5.

Crex Carpet Company

by Russ Hanson The information in this story is taken from the booklet titled Past Industries of the Grantsburg Area,

by Alton C. Jensen, with permission from the Grantsburg Area Historical Society.

The Crex Carpet Company was one of the largest commercial enterprises in the Grantsburg area, and was in operation from 1911 until 1933. The company headquarters was located in New York City, and they manufactured grass rugs for use in homes.

In 1912, the Crex Carpet Company purchased 23,000 acres of marshland lying near Grantsburg. Marshland was necessary for the production of carex strickta, which was commonly known as “wire grass.” Controlled flooding and draining were essential for the successful growing of this grass. The land to the northeast of Grantsburg was known as Camp No. 5, and the land to the southwest was known as Camp No. 6.

The camps contained grass warehouses, blacksmith shops, water and sewer systems, horse barns, machine storage sheds, dining rooms, equipment building and repair shops, housing for workers, as well as for the managers and their families.

Specially designed equipment was used for the growing and harvesting of wire grass on the meadows. Most of this equipment was built in their shops.

Horses were used to pull the machinery but needed to be equipped with “bog shoes” to prevent them from

sinking through the surface. Likewise, the wheels of the harvesting machines had extra-wide rims to keep them from sinking down. Work in the meadows was mostly seasonal, with large numbers of workers being needed in the fall of the year. The lowest-paid workers were the “rubber backs,” who had to straighten the wind-tossed grass shortly after cutting. They were paid $36 a month, which included room and board.

After drying, the grass was put into stacks or baled.

Most of the baled grass was shipped out by rail from Grantsburg or the Lindspur siding, but some was stored in warehouses until needed. Large stacks of grass were kept in the meadows until sufficient storage space was available in the warehouses. The grass

was eventually shipped to St. Paul or New York for manufacturing into rugs and carpets.

An ad in the Burnett County Sentinel at this time explains the advantages of the “Ideal Floor Covering”: “CREX rugs are sanitary and made to withstand ordinary hard usage on any floor. Easily cleaned without beating, they lighten the burden of housekeeping while their low cost makes them particularly desirable.

• Solid and beautifully blended colors in a wide range of patterns to harmonize with room decorations.

• Beware of imitations, some of which are even made of split or crushed straw. Buy CREX rugs – the popular favorite in millions of homes – they will please you.

The company went out of business in 1933, due in part to the Great Depression and to the rise in popularity of linoleum floor coverings. Also, more and more rugs were being manufactured using wool and other fibers. Eventually, the Crex Meadow areas were purchased by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for use as a wildlife refuge.

Crex workers shown by a grass-storage warehouse.

An advertisement explaining the advantages of buying Crex rugs.

A free illustrated catalog could be ordered showing colors and the three weaves of rugs that were available – de luxe, herringbone and regular. - Photo from Burnett County Sentinel.

Cutting wire grass on the meadow using special machinery. - Photos courtesy of the GAHS

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Be proud to be a Wisconsinite The town you grew up in had a bar called Ma’s Place.

Your best shirt has a big letter F on it.

You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.

You know what euchre and sheepshead are.

You caught a fish in Lake Abrahamzon Michigan that glowed in the dark.

You know it’s traditional for the bride and groom to go barhopping between the ceremony and the reception.

You know that there is no “r’ in Wausau.

You know at least a half dozen Ole and Lena jokes.

You think the start of deer season is a national holiday.

You learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike.

Your bank has the name of your town included in its name.

You were delighted to get a miniature snow shovel for your third birthday.

You can recognize someone from Illinois by their driving.

You buy your Christmas presents at Fleet Farm.

You check the brand of every bathroom fixture you encounter to see IF it’s a Kohler.

You are a connoisseur of cheese curds and find anyone unfamiliar with them to be frighteningly foreign.

You get irritated at sports announcers that pronounce it “Wes-con-SIN.” You own at least one cheesehead.

You immediately think of fishing when you hear the name “Shakespeare.”

You spent more on beer than you did on food at your wedding.

You know that Kaukauna is NOT a Hawaiian Island.

You hear someone use the word “oof-dah” and you DON’T IMMEDIATELY break into uncontrollable laughter.

Bernice

Behind the Signpost

What is a woman?

“A woman is a little girl who has left behind her dolls, mud pies and little boys who pulled her braids or curls and put frogs down her back. She is some one who members of the male sex whistle at, send candy and flowers to, call on the phone and marry!

“A woman is a bride in a misty veil with stars in her eyes, dreaming of home and babies. She is a maid of work, who cleans, cooks, does the laundry and sews on buttons, darns socks, takes kids to school, church, the beach and zoo.

“What is a woman? A woman is a wife, mother, daughter, aunt, niece, sister, grandmother. She is a queen, princess, countess. She is a nurse, doctor, lawyer, pilot, bus driver, policewoman, secretary, stewardess, waitress, actress, artist, sculptress, homemaker, baby sitter, cook, technician, reporter, writer, photographer and numerous other things.

“A woman is called a dame, baby, sweetheart, tomato, broad, doll, honey, sugar. A woman is shy as

a violet, bold as brass, silly as a goose, pretty as a rose, gentle as a lamb, soft as a kitten, as fierce as a tigress, faithful as a hound dog, quiet as a mouse, alluring as a Lorelei, warm as toast, cold as steel, sly as a fox, loving as a turtle dove.”

– Excerpts from “What is a Woman?”

(Unfortunately, women are also called other names, not printable in a family newspaper.)

Northwest Regional Writers Columnists come and columnists go. Sometimes they get tired of weekly deadlines. Sometimes they feel they have run their string, with most of their stories already written. Sometimes other interests claim their attention.

Wisconsin is fortunate to have a state organization, Wisconsin Regional Writers Association. The organization provides information on the craft of writing, markets, round-robins, contests, conferences, and can open a whole new world of possibilities to both the amateur and professional.

Dozens of local clubs are scattered across the state.

Our own Northwest Regional Writers group was born over forty years ago.

I am a charter member and through the years have taken classes from Ben Logan, August Derleth, Jesse Stuart of Greenup, Ky., Tere Rios Versace, Beth Scott and Bob Gard.

Many of our local writers have published books, including Ruth Bunker Christiansen, Jean Bunker Schmidt, Arleth Lexen Erickson, Glendora Hauger, Anna Foltz, Alice Ford, Russ Hanson and me.

The other day my niece in Indiana found one of my books on eBay. (I hope the seller read it first!)

When you join a writers club, you will find yourself surrounded by opportunities. We have monthly assignments. They are good discipline and encourage creativity.

Our February meeting will be held the second Friday of the month, on Feb. 13, at a new location. We alternate meeting places and this time it’s in the Grantsburg area at Espresso Cabin at 1 p.m. It is possible to order food off the menu.

The assignment is to write a valentine story or something about romance or springtime. Lots of leeway.

Anyone interested in writing is welcome to attend.

Some writers prefer to be loners, affiliated with no group; others enjoy the fellowship with others who share like interests.

Many of our members avail themselves of the weekly Writers Corner in each issue of The InterCounty Leader. It is open to all. Send your poems or stories to editor Gary King.

Meanwhile, consider this your invitation to attend our February meeting. We would like to meet you and help shape a career or a hobby or avocation.

Our president is Denis Simonsen; vice president, Bob MacKean; secretary-treasurer, Bernice Abrahamzon.

Until next week, Bernice

Burnett County Restorative Justice receives donation Lisa Johnson, director of programming at Burnett County Restorative Justice, accepted a donation for $1,000 from Police Chief Chris Sybers on behalf of the village of Siren. This donation will be used to help support their work through their programming which provides victims, offenders and community members opportunities for restorative justice. – Photo submitted

Do you remember ?

Compiled by Bernice Abrahamzon

50 Years Ago Over 300 attended the Land O’ Lakes District 20 banquet at Luck.–Gustavus Adolphus College band would play a concert at Frederic on Feb. 16.-Leo Burdette will head the Easter Seal campaign.-Larry Swanberg, a junior in high school, injured his right leg while tobogganing.-George Gullickson, Cushing, won first in the Area Soil Conservation speaking contest held Jan. 22.-The Frederic Village crew had the first snow of winter to remove in late January.-Good Neighbor Day was held Jan. 29 at The Luck Co-op Exchange, with free coffee, milk and refreshments.Specials at Route’s Super Market included bacon 2 lbs. for 99¢, ground beef at 2 lbs. for 95¢, catsup at 2 bottles for 49¢, chicken noodle soup at 6 cans for $1 and salmon at 63¢ for a 1-lb. tin.-Specials at the Frederic Cooperative Store included slab bacon at 43¢ lb., grapefruit at 6 for 39¢, celery at 2 for 29¢ and tomato soup at 10 cans for $1.-The James Roy home north of Siren burned.-Emma H. Miller passed away.-Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier starred in the film “The Defiant Ones” at the Frederic Theatre.-West Sweden Lutheran Church planned to sponsor a bake sale at the Frederic Auto Company.

40 Years Ago The stockholders meeting for the Inter-County Coop Publishing Association was held Saturday, Jan. 18, 1969, at the Inter-County Leader office at Frederic at 1 p.m. for election of officers and changes in bylaws.Total assets at Fidelity State Bank, Luck-Dresser were $8,283,579.43.-Kaye-Don Tibbetts, Frederic, was missing in a plane crash.-Elvis Presley starred in the movie, “Live a Little, Love a Little,” playing at the Frederic Theatre.-Specials at Route’s Super Market in Frederic were corn at 7 cans for $1, polished rice at 2 lbs. for 29¢.-Specials at the Frederic Co-op Store included lettuce at 19¢ head, Rome Beauty apples at 3 lbs. for 59¢, russet potatoes at 20 lbs. for 89¢, kidney beans at 7 cans for 98¢, and tomato soup at 7 cans for 78¢.-Aluminum sheets were on sale for 25¢ each at the Inter-County Leader office. They were good for patching holes in roofs and buildings.-Customers were invited to enjoy the finest of food at the CharBroiler Top at the Luck Bakery.-Open house was held at the Northwestern State Bank, Cumberland, on Saturday, Jan. 18, to meet Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Burt, who recently acquired a controlling interest in the bank.

Refreshments were served.-Polk County recorded the first traffic fatality of 1969.

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 What a wonderful way to end the week – temperatures in the 40-degree-plus range with blue skies and lots of sun.

Now, if only it could last until spring! So many of my friends have arthritis and their joints seem to stiffen up with the severe cold weather. Even though being a senior citizen is actually during the prime of our life, it just takes us a little longer to get primed!

A number of our seniors enjoyed the free Bingo games and prizes on Monday that were sponsored by the Webster Lions Club on Monday at Cedarwood Manor.

Nine ladies from the Ravishing Rubies Red Hat Society had a meal of lasagna on Tuesday at Zia Louise Restaurant in Webster. “Happy Birthday” was sung for Janet Snelson and Elva Hughes, as they were celebrating January birthdays.

Vice Queen Mother Jeanette Olson’s birthday was on Jan. 26, but she was out of town and unable to attend. Jokes and stories were told by Queen Mother Mary Klar, Janet and and Elva. It was good to see Mert Kisselburg out and about again, and she also won the door prize – again. The next luncheon will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the Yellow River Saloon and Eatery. I wish they had named it something other than saloon, it makes me think of the Wild West days and that there should be a hitching post out front for the horses.

We had a good turnout for the liver and onions meal on Wednesday, as it seems to be a favorite meal for quite a few people. Nickie fixes it so tender that you can cut it with a fork.

The dime Bingo players had fun in the afternoon and everyone enjoyed the refreshments furnished by Bernie Boelter.

The Webster Lioness Club met on Thursday evening at the Webster Community Center for their regular monthly meeting.

A few of the ladies arrived early to undecorate the Christmas tree. Part of their evening business was spent making plans for their annual Valentine’s Day buffet luncheon and free bingo/card party to be held on Saturday, Feb. 14. The meal will be served promptly at noon with bingo and card games to follow. The price of the meal is only $4 and the bingo/card games are free. Everyone is welcome, including children, for a time of food, fun and prizes.

The center’s pool table got a good workout on Thursday evening with Earl Boelter, Dave Wardean, Ken Hayes, Gene Johnson, Harold Peterson and Pat O’Brien playing. The men are happy when they have an even number of players so they can partner up. Bernie Boelter and Margel Ruck waited patiently for Jane Wardean and yours truly to join them at cards because we had been at the Lioness meeting. Theresa Gloege and Gladys Beers were kept busy at the Webster High School gymnasium selling 50/50 tickets to people attending the basketball games. The money raised from this Hi, everybody! Blacky here from Humane Society of Burnett County.

Well, hopefully everyone has recovered from last Sunday’s big game by now. I don’t give a hoot about football myself (no sticks!), but I did like some of the advertisements; especially, that one with the horse who works for a beer company and who went and fetched a giant branch to upstage his dog sidekick’s stick-fetching. Now that was my kind of stick! Or how about Pedigree’s adoption drive commercial, “Maybe you should get a dog,” featuring folks with all kinds of crazy, wild animals for pets. Did you not see it? YAPpenings You can watch it on Pedigree’s Web site, and they’ll even donate a bowl of food for each of their videos viewed there! Of course, you can also help your local shelter (mine!) directly. I’d like to give a special nod to all the folks who helped us last month by autographing a paw print coupon and donating money to help my shelter friends; and to the business owners who allowed us to raise funds in their establishments. People were so happy to help us that I got choked up and forgot all about wanting to maim chipmunks or whack people with big sticks.

It’s February now - do you know what that means? Well, I guess it means all kinds of things: there’s Darn Groundhog Day (I’ll get him someday, too), Valentine’s Day, it’s the shortest month of the year, there’s the presidents’ and my mom’s birthdays (all of whom are the same age, I think), and, most importantly, Spay Day U.S.A.! Spay Day is on Feb. 24 and attempts to inspire people to spay or neuter their pets. Did you know that 4 million cats and dogs are put down in the U.S. each year due to overpopulation? Holy cats! And I mean that quite literally! That is waaaay too many unfortunate dogs and cats, puppies and kittens, who die without ever having someone to love them. How sad. If there’s one thing that I want to get into people’s heads, it is to please, oh please, get your animals fixed. You know, there are even a lot of purebred dogs that wind up in shelters, so it isn’t always just us mutts, or barnyard cats, that get the big needle. Sometimes folks just can’t find enough good homes for an entire litter of puppies or kittens. Sometimes it’s an unintentional “oops” and, whammo, next thing you know you have a passel of pups. There are just not enough homes, and if people truly love animals, they really need to be responsible and spay or neuter Fido and Fluffy.

OK, I’m done with my lecture. Boy, I sure get stirred up over that topic, only because I see it firsthand. On a happy note, I can tell you about four very-much-wanted pets, all friends of mine at the shelter. Puppy Bianca, Lucy, Belle and Pretty are all going home this week.

Blacky Shelter

Lioness project is used to fund scholarships to graduating high school seniors.

Upon returning to Webster on Saturday after attending the funeral of Nellie Pardun, of Danbury, Margel Ruck and Gladys Beers went with me to St. Croix Falls for the 90th birthday party for Madonna Danielson. It was good to see so many of the Webster/Danbury area people there for Madonna and family. Pastor John and Jan Palutke were there also, from Hurley, and they reported that they have received over 103 inches of snow so far this winter. Aaargh, I’m glad it’s there and not here! I was able to visit with Sharon (Danielson) Miller and husband Randy from Venus, Fla., and Fay Ann (Heier) Nagle from Delano, Minn., as we three were childhood friends and classmates. As we were leaving, Harry and Marlene Chipman who were also former classmates, arrived and were able to visit with Sharon and family.

Before returning home from Madonna’s party, Margel, Gladys and I stopped at the Frederic Nursing Home to see Margel’s mother, Olive Gehrke, who is spending a few days there recuperating. We were also able to chat awhile with Arlene Fink and Nita Howland.

Margel and I attending a Sunday morning service at the Lodge in Siren where two of her nieces, Kimberly DeVries of Eden Prairie, Minn., and Kathy Mueller of Tucson, Ariz., were attending a Christian women’s retreat sponsored by Eden Prairie Lutheran Church. Kim and Kathy are the twin daughters of Margel’s sister Charlene and Laverne Saxe of Hague.

Sixty young women took part in this weekend conference, whose theme was Be Still and Know that I am God. The guest speaker, Sarah Beckman, is a certified speaker, writer, parttime staff member of the Dynamic Communicators Workshops, and a mother of 3 children. She and her husband Craig founded Salt and Clay Ministries to “season the world with God’s truth,” and she is a dynamic speaker. Both of Margel’s nieces were part of the worship team with Kim playing the keyboard.

Kim and her husband, Brian, are leaving on Feb. 9 for a nine-day missionary team trip to Kakata, Liberia, with All Nations Ministries. The function of this team is to teach pastors who are without seminary education or Bibles, equip the local church, minister to orphans, and to have a small medical team for the orphans. Kim is taking her guitar with her to use to minister in music to the orphaned children. From 1989 to 2003, an estimated 250,000 people in Liberia were killed due to two civil wars. The first war alone claimed the lives of one out of every 17 people in the country, uprooted most of the rest, and destroyed a once-viable economic infrastructure.

About 7 percent of the entire population is currently estimated to be orphans as a result of the civil wars.

Their tails are wagging furiously! Chopper and Samuel are still waiting patiently, and two new surrenders arrived last week as well. Joey and Bosco arrived together, and they told me they are originally from Arizona. I asked them if they were nuts for coming up to Wisconsin in the winter; Joey said he had no say in the matter, and when I looked to Bosco for a reply, he just stood there quaking in his kennel.

Personally, I think he was just intimidated by my extra-large frame. Anyway, Joey is a heeler, about 4 to 5 years old; and Bosco is a black Lab mix, about 6 to 8 years old, though he acts a lot younger. Two of my old cat acquaintences have made a comeback to the shelter, too. Case and Clive are two young cats born last spring who were adopted; however, their owner wound up having to move and could not take them along. There’s still Morris, Amy and Tynan, too, to round out the population of Catland.

Construction has begun on upgrading our isolation area for the inbound dogs. The shelter folks are trying to make things a little nicer for the newcomers by giving them regular kennel-like digs, instead of keeping them in cages for the first few days after they arrive. I stopped in and saw that the kennel manager had a pile of blocks thawing out back there getting ready to become the new walls. Some people think he’s got a gravy job being able to play with dogs and cats all day. Not so. He’s the person that gets to take in and take care of animals out of conditions that most of us don’t even want to think about. I only hope that he doesn’t think too hard about the difficult aspects of his job, coupled with the notion of “isolation area,” and block himself in permanently. That would be a waste of a lot of blocks, uh...and Lucas too. I’m kidding. I admire all of the shelter staff and volunteers for all they do for my fuzzy pals - I was one of them once, remember, and they sure were good to me! Except for that one time when they dared try and cut my toenails...

I have one request before I sign off for the week. We could use some camera batteries of the AA variety. We have a stockpile of regular double-A’s, but they aren’t powerful enough to fuel our camera, and so we need batteries made especially for cameras. I’m not too smartly about such things, myself, but I guess there is a difference, and we need our camera to take pictures of my home-seeking friends for our Web site. If you have a lot of remotes at home, or other stuff that uses regular double-A’s, I’m sure the staff would probably make a trade with you. Also, they told me, “Nine-volt batteries, too.” There you have it.

I saw something out the corner of my eye just now that looked a lot like a mouse scurrying across the room, and I’ll have none of that in my domain! I don’t care how much furniture I have to crash into, that little pipsqueak is mine. I’m on a mission, everybody, so I’ll see you here next week!

HSBC is saving lives, one at a time (except for mice). www.hsburnettcty.org 866-4096.

Mary Klar After the morning service Margel treated us to lunch at Adventures Restaurant in Siren. The two girls drove to the Twin Cities so that Kathy could catch her flight home to Tuscon.

Gratitude is extended to Dave Wardean for installing a new ceiling fan in the kitchen; Harold Peterson for repairing a kitchen shelf; and Greg Treague from the ranger station who so willingly blows the snow away from the front entrance when needed.

Don’t forget to sign up for our next Dining at Five evening meal that will be at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb.10. Nickie is serving baked BBQ chicken, baked potatoes with sour cream, seven-layer salad and chocolate cake for dessert. Call 715866-5300 for your reservation.

The AARP tax aides will be at our center on Friday, Feb. 13, from 1 to 4 p.m., so mark your calendar if you haven’t done so already.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to both Norma Mauer and Effie Wester, who are recovering from having the flu; LaMoyne Gardner, still in the Spooner Hospital after having a stroke; and Eva Connor, who fell and broke her arm. Our prayers also go out for the family of Nellie Pardun in her recent passing.

Fear and worry is what happens when we forget what God is capable of. We need to remember that God speaks to those who take time to listen, and He listens to those who take time to pray. Let God be God – to do what he is able to do. Psalm 46:10 tells us to “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” “You’ll go forth a little stronger with a fresh supply of grace, if each day you meet the Savior in a secret, quiet place.” – Adams.

Jordon

Nov. 20, 1995 Loving, caring and affectionate are certainly traits that Jordon possesses. He is very concerned about others and their feelings, which shows how big of a heart he truly has.

He takes pride in keeping his room very neat and clean.

Jordon is a very active boy who loves to swim, bike and play ball. When he isn’t playing outdoors, he loves to play video games and watch movies.

Jordon needs to have a lot of organization and structure in his life. He is in need of a family that will love him unconditionally and offer him all of the care and support that he deserves.

For more information about Jordon or other Wisconsin children waiting for adoptive homes, call Adoption Resources of Wisconsin at 414-475-1246 or 800-762-8063 or visit the Web site at www.wiadopt.org.

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Karen Mangelsen

Sympathy is extended to Maxine (Larrabee) Olson, David and Sharlene Olson and other family members due to the death of Loren Olson, Maxine’s husband and David’s father.

A number of friends went to the home of Judy and Greg Leonard Monday night for a potluck supper. They helped Greg celebrate his birthday.

Wednesday evening, Dixie Andrea, Beth Crosby and Judy Leonard were supper guests of Judy Albee.

Don and Lida Nordquist, Karen and Hank Mangelsen, Donna and Gerry Hines and Marlene Swearingen had supper Thursdays at Tony’s in Spooner. They then went to Don and Lida’s home for coffee and dessert.

Hank Mangelsen visited Dirk and Sandy Benzer Friday evening.

Barry, Sue, Alex, Josh and Olivia Hines were Saturday visitors of Gerry and Donna Hines.

Patty and Dave Close and Grace, Hannah and Jake Mangelsen visited Karen and Hank Mangelsen Saturday.

Pastor Don Black, a retired minister from Stone Lake led the worship service at Lakeview UM Church Sunday.

Hank and Karen Mangelsen went to Barron Sunday to the home of Carol Romsos. They enjoyed a potluck meal and a time of fellowship with Karen’s brothers and their spouses.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Frederic Senior Center Monday, Jan. 26, Spades was played at 1 p.m., with the following winners: Willis Williams in first place, Lorna Erickson in second place and Lola Hinschberger in third place.

Tuesday, Whist was played. The pool players and morning coffee group get here in spite of cold weather. Wednesday Pokeno was played.

Thursday, 500 cards played with the following winners: Rich Hustad in first place, Arvid Pearson in second place, Willis Williams in third place and Bill Ihrig in fourth place.

Friday, executive board met at 9:30 a.m. Pokeno group as always enjoys their group. Card games also were played.

Saturday, food and fellowship was enjoyed with a fish dinner. The monthly meeting will be held Friday, Feb. 6, at 1:30 p.m.

Remember tax aides will be here from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Feb. 12 and March 12. Reservations are filling up. Call Shirley Sandquist at 715-327-4155 for appointment time. Saturday, Feb. 7, at noon, potluck and birthdays for February will be celebrated. February birthdays are Lloyd Nelson, Jean Hinrichs and Eleanor Bonneville.

We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day on Saturday, Feb. 14, with musical entertainment at 11:30 a.m. Buffet dinner at noon and cards in the afternoon. This should be a enjoyable way to celebrate Valentine’s Day. It has been proved, if you want to live a long healthy life, to have friends to mingle with will increase your longevity. A person can look, But a friend sees the heart.

New members are always welcome. Stop in and have coffee. The pot is always on.

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Siren

Bev Beckmark

We ended the month of January with a gorgeous weekend, one of warm temps and beautiful blue skies, after the rest of January left us with mostly below zero temps. Take heed though as the second of February brings us Groundhog Day. Remember the old saying? If he sees his shadow, we are in for six more weeks of winter. The weathermen are predicting a sunny sky, so we won’t be seeing spring any too soon if that is the case.

Sunday, Feb. 1, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts Pack 564 took over and did the service at the Siren Methodist Church and an excellent job they did. The Girl Scout Pack 504 helped with the service. Pack leaders Charla Stickland of the Cub Scouts and Wendy Larson of the Girl Scouts did an excellent job putting the service together. Cub Scout Leader Charla does a great job getting these boys wanting to be the best they can be. If you have a son or know of a boy or boys who would enjoy scouting, call Charla at 715-566-1479.

The Siren Methodist Church parishioners enjoyed a Souper Bowl Party Sunday after the service with a variety of soups, games, door prizes and sports trivia. This event was hosted by the church’s youth group.

Sympathy to the family of Donald Baker, who passed away Jan. 24.

Sympathy to the family of Marion E. Howe, who passed away Jan. 25.

Sympathy is extended to the family of Loren Olson, who passed away Jan. 31.

For those of you who enjoy winter sports here’s one for you, lawn mower races. There will be lawn mower races this Saturday at Devils Lake Resort Park in Webster, starting at noon with registrations. Entry fee is $10. For more information call Gabe at 651-343-9241.

The South Fork Sportsman Club will be hosting a gun show this Saturday, Feb. 7, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Lakeview Event Center across from Crooked Lake, north of Siren on Hwy. 35. For more information call Dick Kettula at 715-6534291.

Congratulations to elementary student Bailey Mangen, middle schooler Corey Bauer and high schooler Shawn Blum for being chosen Siren Schools students of the week.

Mike and Lori Jo Korties of New Brighton, Minn., stopped in at the home of Art and Bev Beckmark on Saturday afternoon on their way back to the cities to show off their new baby girl, Stella. Stella is their pride and joy, she is a little 10-week-old purebred weimaraner puppy.

Fran Krause

Orange

LaVonne O’Brien

February is finally here! Perhaps it will be a warmer, kinder month than January.

Feb. 1 was Communion Sunday. Assisting Pastor Tom Cook with the service were members of the Kerry Cook family, including Kerry, Linda, and MacKenzie (no relation to Pastor Tom), Communion stewards, JoAnn Gibbs and Ruth Lenz; and Scripture reader, Robin Peterson.

“Happy Birthday” was sung to Kerry Brendal and Kaylene Johnson.

It was Andy and Debbie Eaton’s wedding anniversary. Best wishes to them, at Hayward.

Surprising how long the poinsettia plants are lasting at

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church.

Pastor Tom shared the Boy Scout creed and aims with the congregation.

The monthly board meeting was held last Wednesday at church. Glorious leftovers, too, from the freezer top.

The NW Regional Writers will meet the second Friday in February, on the 13th, at a different location this time, at Espresso Cabin near the Catholic Church on the same side of Hwy. 70. The hour is 1 p.m., and food can be ordered off the menu. The assignment is to write something about spring or Valentine’s Day or romance. Prose or poetry.

Siren Senior Center According to Hazel Franseen, they have a new boarder at their bird feeder, a varied thrush. This probably accounts for all of the reports of folks that have seen flocks of robins this winter. The varied thrush (alias Alaskan Robin), apparently has found our weather comparable to the temperatures in Alaska, and decided to stake out a little territory.

We started up the card production on Tuesday morning. I think that most of our employees have been laid off, as Marge Nielson was the only one who reported to work that day. We have decided that maybe Tuesday isn’t such a great day after all to work on cards, so we are going to try Wednesday mornings. So if Wednesday is a better day for you to come and work on your crafts, or help with the cards, join us about 9:30 a.m.

Dining at Five will be served this week, Thursday, Feb. 5.

So, if you haven’t made your reservation, call it in so you can enjoy the roast beef dinner that CeCe has planned. As this is Valentine month, she plans on a few surprises to go along with the dinner. Also the ladies will have the center decorated for the Valentine’s Day. On Tuesday, our liver and onions day, we really had a nice group of people, I think four tables were full of diners. Especially nice was the presence of the area pastors dining with us.

CeCe also made a special birthday cake for Marjorie Ny-

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berg, who celebrated her birthday on Monday.

Thanks to Marjorie and CeCe, we had two desserts that day.

Gratitude is extended to the folks who have been bringing books to the center for our library. We have had many requests for Westerns, as they really fly from the shelves. So if you have any Westerns that you have finished, we would appreciate your sharing them with us, and our guys and gals will be happy readers.

Winners at 500 this week were: Sylvia Peterson, Anke Oleson, Sue Newberger, Gerry Vogel and Jeanette Olson.

Spades winners were: Ellis Erickson, Gerry Vogel, Lorna Erickson, Roger Greely and Clara Palomaki. We had good attendance at both card games this week, eight tables on Wednesday and 6-1/2 on Friday. People are coming out from their hibernation.

Birthdays for the month of February are Lucille Chelmo and Lloyd Talmadge. Lucille is still our youngest chick, as I think she is only 22 years old. Lucky her, being born on Feb. 29.

The center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The coffee pot is always on and there are always goodies to share. Dime Bingo is played on Tuesday, 500 cards on Wednesday, pool on Thursday and Spades on Friday.

All activities begin at 1 p.m. and everyone is welcome to join us.

Amery Senior Center

by Susan Shachtman, assistant director Although it’s been a cold and long winter so far, it’s hard to believe that it’s already February and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner.

Our next birthday party will take place on Thursday, Feb. 5, at 11:45 a.m. You don’t have to have a February birthday to attend. We also offer a free blood pressure clinic that day from 11 a.m. to noon. Following the meal at 12:30 p.m., there will be a seminar on reverse mortgages put on by Advisors Mortgage Group. If you are interested in attending the dinner, contact the center at 715-268-6605 by Feb. 3.

The board and staff of the Amery Senior Center would like to extend gratitude to Dental Arts for their generous donations to our Bronze Sustaining Partner Program. We appreciate the confidence they have placed in us. If you have a business and would like to take part in our Sustaining Partner Program, please contact Kari at 715-268-6605 – we appreciate your support.

If you’re feeling crafty, join us on Tuesday, Feb. 10, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., for a basket-weaving class. In one fun class, you will create and take home a 7-1/2 x 7-1/2 square napkin basket using rattan reed. Preregister for this class through WITC at 800-243-9482, ext. 4221.

Our first trip of 2009 will be to the Old Log Theater to see “Alone Together” on Thursday, Feb. 26. This is an entertaining and funny show and includes a complete luncheon with a choice of four entrees. The cost is $54 for members and $66 for nonmembers. Stop by the senior center before Monday, Feb. 16, to make your reservation and pay for the trip.

We are really excited about the Elvis Experience show that will take place on Sunday, March 15, at 2 p.m., at the TAC. This is a family-run organization featuring Steve and Tommy Marcio. Steve and Tommy will take you through the many different eras of Elvis’ career. Come join us for this amazing evening of music tributing “The King of Rock and Roll!” A silent auction will be held at the same time. Preferred seating tickets are sold out but we still have regular seating for $15, and $17 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at Chet Johnson Drug, Amery Senior Center, city hall, and Bremer Bank.

The second-annual Amery Scrap N’ Stampers Scrap-a-thon will take place on Saturday, Feb. 21, from 9 a.m. – 9 p.m., at Amery Centennial Hall. The cost of $30 includes lunch, dinner, snacks, reserved table, and door prizes. There will be demon-

You are invited to a birthday reception for Doris on Sunday, February 8, from 1 - 4 p.m.

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strations, make-and-take projects, swap and sale, and much more. To reserve a table call 268-6605. This event is open to the public.

If your hands are feeling dry from all of this cold weather, treat yourself to a free hand massage provided by Rachel Starbuck. Rachel is an independent Mary Kay consultant and if you present your 2009 senior center membership card your hand massage will be free. The nonmember cost is $2. The date is Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 11:30 a.m., through the afternoon.

Valentine’s gifts and other treats will be available for purchase.

Our German Club has really taken off and we are always looking for new members. We meet the fourth Monday of the month at 1 p.m. and dues are $5 per year. Every gathering has included sharing treats, histories, and stories so we encourage you to come and try it out. The next meeting will take place on Feb. 23, at 1 p.m.

We also want to extend gratitude Wendell and Ginny Anderson for hosting the 500 card party with the help of Paul and Val Seidel and Rich Hustad. Paul Seidel won first prize, Bob Norlander won second, and Audrey Ludovico and Ginny Anderson won door prizes.

The pool tournament winners were Paul Seidel in first, Mary Fisher in second, Val Hansen in third, and Paul Hartung in fourth place. The Wii bowling tournament winners were Mary Fisher in first, Jerry Fisher in second, and Carl Johnson in third. Monday’s Bridge winners were Bonnie Timm in first and Paula Schmidt in second. Wednesday’s Bridge winners were Lila Ward in first, Judy Strobush in second, Helen Magnuson in third place, and Sidney Lund in fourth.

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Harmony H.C.E. Club met at Cedarwood Manor Tuesday morning with Peggy Kearns and Diane Melaglia as hostesses.

John and Reeny Neinstadt, Sandy and Lamar Johnson and family and Bud and Natalie Flagstad and family returned home after an enjoyable two-week cruise through the Panama Canal.

Theresa Childers, Big Lake, Minn., spent the weekend with Jack and Lavonne O’Brien.

Maxine Stone is a patient at the Grantsburg Hospital and will be at the Extended Care Center this week. Her family, Brad and Dean Peterson, sister, Iola Rachner and family, Doris and Jim Taylor, Allyson and Fran Krause were visitors with her.

Marvel Merriam spent Super Bowl Sunday with Gary and Billie Graveson. Bill and Sue Hanninen were also guests.

Batty Kulbeck and Elaine Paulus were supper guests of Jack and Jerry Witzany last week.

Super Bowl Sunday visitors with Kent and Nancy Krause were Brad and Pam Peterson and Randy and Annette Hedrick.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Wrinkles is a 10-week-old, orange tabby kitten with a white tuxedo bib and mittens.

He and his brothers, Leo and Button, are looking for families to call their own. These three siblings are playful, mellow, snuggly and adorable; all in good measure. All three are neutered and ready to go home.

While everyone hunkers down for the remainder of winter – on a Mexican vacation, snowbirding in Florida or riding it out inside the house, the shelter is, for one brief month, quieter than any other time of year.

We use this interlude to accomplish tasks we don’t have time for throughout the rest of the year. This February we will be giving our front lobby a facelift with a new coat of paint and a few other updates to keep us running smoothly.

In our quest to help the animals that come to us, we operate as an adoption agency for pets. Beyond food and shelter, we assess each animal as an individual and try our best to provide the enrichment that will help them succeed at a second chance.

That enrichment may come in the form of housetraining a pup who wasn’t completely trained before he came to the shelter. We might need to introduce them to a leash and human walking manners. Quite often our stray and surrendered pets require coat care in the shape of a bath and a trim or a total grooming makeover . A shy pup may need socialization and playtime with others. Our goal is to provide whatever we can, to give them a little something extra to make their next home a permanent one.

Our commitment to placing an animal in a loving, responsible home doesn’t end with a bath or a picture on the Internet.

The adoption process begins with an application asking basic questions about the household and care the potential adopter will provide.

Just as each pet is an individual, so is the need for a home that will provide an environment where that pet will continue to thrive and succeed as a family pet.

Some pets will do well in any home, with any family makeup.

Others need more consideration. A dog or cat may not tolerate little children on a regular basis or she may be too large for apartment living. Just as each animal is individual, so must our consideration of the household be individual for each adoption. This screening process is not intended to say one home is better than another. It is in keeping with our goal to ensure that the animals who come into our care receive the best chance of succeeding in their newly adopted home, both for the animal and the family.

Providing the groundwork for the human-animal bond to enrich the lives of those we serve is what it’s all about.

Arnell Memorial Humane Society, Amery, 715-268-7387 or online: arnellhumane.org or petfinder.com.

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Birth announcements Born at Burnett Medical Center: A boy, Matthew Dee Reed, born Feb. 1, 2009, to Kimberly Reed, Webster. Matthew weighed 6 lbs., 9 oz. and was 20 inches long.

Siblings include Courtney Reed of Roswell, N.M., and Taryn Nunn of Webster.

Grandparents are Rhonda Reed and Brian Turnbull of Webster and Randle and Crystal Reed of Roswell, N.M. Great-grandparents are Jim and Eva Reed of Odessa, Texas, and Ronnie Hil of Ridoso, N.M. •••

Marek Chiropractic announces health workshop series FREDERIC - Starting Feb. 23, Marek Chiropractic will host a series of health workshops.

Dr. Joe Marek will speak on a variety of health issues. “I have practiced in Frederic for over 10 years and I feel this will be a great way to give even more to the community and surrounding area. I will be presenting research findings, treatment options, and basic information about several pertinent health issues.”

The workshops will take place at Marek Chiropractic, which is located south of Frederic on Hwy. 35 next to Larsen Auto, at 6 p.m., on one Monday of each month. On Feb. 23, he will discuss different types of headaches, research and treatment options and

Interstate Park news Nature story time 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).

Music and wagon rides offered 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.

Join the Friends of Interstate Park and experience a Valentine’s evening by candlelight as hundreds of candles are lit to guide skiers, snowshoers and hikers on separate trails.

Come when you can, 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. Or perhaps you would prefer a romantic ride past river and lake in a horsedrawn 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.

Mark your calendar today; this is a Valentine’s Day event you won’t want to miss.

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

St. Croix Falls Senior Center Each day this past week was buzzing with much activity at the St. Croix Senior Center. It must have been due to the nicer weather we had.

Monday found a large group working on their family geneology. Their meeting date and time has been changed to the fourth Monday of each month at 1 p.m. Contact Russ and Dottie Adams for any further information.

Tuesday again had an all-time high of 33 card players and eight members for Dominoes. 500 card winners were Roger Greenly, Kathy Larson, Donna Lindh, Don Benson and Bernice Olson. Domino winners were Don Anderson, Ione Meixner and and Janice Mevissen. There is till more room at the tables, so bring a friend next time your come by to play.

We learned of two of our members that are hospitalized this week. Marcella Frojker fell in her apartment and luckily didn’t have any serious injuries. Olga Young was hospitalized at St. Croix Falls and later transferred to Regions Hospital for heart surgery. A bluebird of happiness tells us she is recovering nicely and will be home soon. Olga also celebrated a birthday while at Regions.

Exercise class and Skipbo cards are a favorite of about eight members. Remember there is always room for more players at both of these activities and there is no charge for either.

Thursday evening, 22 members and friends were here for 500 cards. Winners that evening were Charlie Mevissen, Betty Wilson, Pat Willets and Arliss Rosen.

Friday Bridge group is looking for more players to join this group and share the treats and coffee that are available daily from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

We are accepting items for our annual garage sale. Please make sure items are clean and in working order. Please no clothing, shoes, TVs or large electrical items.

This coming week will have U Care Insurance here on Friday at 9 a.m. That will be followed by Bingo in the afternoon at 1 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 14, at 5:30 p.m., we will have a Valentine potluck and then play cards and Dominoes.

Gratitude is extended to all of our volunteers for their hard work and dedication to the St. Croix Valley Senior Center. For any of you who are looking for something new to do, please stop by and check us out.

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results. Some future topics will be fibromyalgia, ADHD, cancer and arthritis, among other issues.

Seating is limited, so it will be necessary to reserve a seat for the upcoming workshop by sending an e-mail to Marek at dr.marek@marekchiropractic. com or calling 715-327-4253. Marek is available to speak on different health issues at small group or club meetings.

You can get in contact with him to discuss that possibility. Marek added, “People are looking for information and treatment alternatives for many sicknesses and diseases and these workshops will meet a very important need in this area.” - with submitted information

ROBERTS – The St. Croix Valley Home Builders Association is proud to announce that during its upcoming 2009 Spring Tour of Homes event that begins on Feb. 28, some of the participating model homes will be offering the public to drop-off all drycell batteries and cell phones at their location.

Jill Larson, executive officer of the SCVHBA, noted that according to Nokia, only 3 percent of people recycle their unwanted mobile phones. They just leave them around the house or office.

Three out of every four people added that they don’t even think about recycling their devices and nearly half were unaware that it is even possible to do so.

Despite the fact that people on average have owned around five phones each, very few of these are being recycled and only 4 percent are being thrown into landfills. The majority, 44 percent, are simply being kept at home. One quarter are handed down to

friends or family, and 16 percent of people are selling their used devices.

Globally, 74 percent of consumers said they don’t think about recycling their phones, despite the fact that around the same number, 72 percent think recycling makes a difference to the environment, which is why the SCVHBA is proud to provide this service to anyone that visits a participating model home that is indicated by the recycling symbol in the Index of Homes information.

The SCVHBA hopes that everyone enjoys touring the 16 model homes during the Spring Tour of Homes event and reminds them to bring in their dry-cell only batteries and old cell phones at participating homes to begin cleaning up our landfills and providing a better tomorrow.

For more information on this program and on the Tour of Homes event, please visit their Web site at www.scvhba.com. submitted

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Meyer takes helm at Burnett Community Library New librarian in Webster

by Carl Heidel WEBSTER - There’s a new face at the Burnett Community Library in Webster.

Patti Meyer began her duties there as librarian on Monday, Feb. 2. She succeeds Maxine Peterson who retired after 17 years in the position.

Meyer comes to Webster with a varied background. In addition to the course work required for her library certification, she studied philosophy and studio art in college, and then received training to become a pharmaceutical clerk. She also qualifies as a nurse’s aide, and has served 13 years in that capacity. Along the way she managed to put in another eight years as a village clerk.

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Since all of this background required a great deal of reading, Meyer moved naturally into library work. She took the requisite basic courses for becoming a librarian, some of them online, and held a part-time post in St. Louis Park, Minn., putting in 10 hours a week.

The move to the Webster job will be a comfortable one for Meyer. She is coming from a small library, and says that her new library feels “cozy and homey.”

One of the strengths Meyer brings to her new job is her grant-writing ability, and this was a definite selling point in her interviews with the library board of directors. With plans for extensive remodeling and expansion of the library already under way, the grant-writing expertise will be a crucial factor in securing the resources needed to fund the project.

Meyer also brings an interest in devel-

oping programs for children as she comes to her new position. Board President Laura Rachford-Wilson has expressed the board’s intent that the library become an information center, and childoriented programs would expand the extent of that information outreach.

An important component in the development of the library as an information center will be the service of library volunteers. Meyer expressed hope that those presently volunteering will continue to do so.

Meyer said she plans no immediate changes. She intends to get to know the people of the community and what they want from a library, and then provide the services necessary to meet those wants.

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Spooks

ject the word venison, they should leave me alone.

I hope craigslist doesn’t have anything to do with that fool from Idaho; I was just looking for a boat, not a date.

If I Google “Bass Assassin” I doubt I’ll get “water boarded.”

We have former spooks that live in our community and I don’t feel threatened at all.

I doubt that the NSA has a satellite trained on Section 21 of Clam Falls Township.

I really don’t know what all the concern is over the surveillance of potential terrorists. Why do politicians demagogue the “three letter” agencies about spying on the citizens?

They imply that every time I use my computer or phone there’s someone monitoring my communications. Since my activities will never be the theme for a new Vince Flynn novel, I don’t care.

There are approximately 300 million people in the U.S., and I would think the spooks would have to prioritize their surveillance. If NSA “taps” me, they’re going to get a lot of dead air.

Now if I mention getting “bombed” at Clam Falls they may take a look at the text of my conversation, but I don’t think so. I suppose cooking and shooting could be key words, but if I inter-

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Jerry Cain, a native of St. Croix Falls, now of Puyallup, Wash., sent this tribute to teachers.

What do teachers make?

The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education.

He argued, “What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?”

He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.”

To emphasize his point he said to another guest; “You’re a teacher, Bonnie.

Be honest. What do you make?”

Bonnie, who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied, “You want to know what I make?”

(She paused for a second, then began.)

“Well, I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.

I make a C+ feel like the Congressional Medal of Honor.

I make kids sit through 40 minutes of class time when their parents can’t make them sit for five without an iPod, GameCube or movie rental.

You want to know what I make? (She paused again and looked at each and every person at the table.) ‘’I make kids wonder.

I make them question.

I make them apologize and mean it.

I make them have respect and take responsibility for their actions.

I teach them to write and then I make them write.

Keyboarding isn’t everything.

I make them read, read, read.

I make them show all their work in math.

They use their God-given brain, not the mancalculator.

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I make my the St. Croix Falls Historical classroom a place where all my stuSociety dents feel safe.

I make my students stand, placing their hand over their heart to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, one nation under god, because we live in the United States of America.

I make them understand that if they use the gifts they were given, work hard, and follow their hearts, they can succeed in life.”

(Bonnie paused one last time and then continued.)

“Then, when people try to judge me by what I make, with me knowing money isn’t everything, I can hold my head up high and pay no attention because they are ignorant... You want to know what I make?

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Pioneer Memoirs This is the fourth installment of a publication of memoirs written in 1947 by Frederic pioneer Alice Dahlin Lund. - Editor

by Alice Dahlin Lund One year a young man came to our neighborhood and took a homestead that joined our land. He stayed at our place while he built his cabin. After that was done, he moved into his own home.

He was single and he had to do his own cooking and all of his housework. One day he came to our house to grind some wheat, as we owned a big coffee mill and all of the neighbors around there used to come to grind some wheat. They used that flour for making coarse bread and muffins and for cereals for mush, which we used for our evening meal. If any of it was left, we fried it for breakfast. It was very good served with butter.

While he was grinding, something must have gone wrong, for he said something that we had never heard before, for our father never used profane language. After he had left we asked mother what Gustav meant when he said that. She told us it was a naughty word and we should never say it. “If you do,” she said, “you will be punished. If I am not around to hear you, God will hear you, even if you whisper.”

It did not have any effect on me, but my brother was terribly tempted. I was afraid he would say it, as I did not know just what would happen to him if he did.

One day he made up his mind he was going to use the strange word. We were sitting on a trunk right under the coffee mill. I tried to persuade him not to do so, but all of a sudden he said, “I am going to say it, right now, and out loud.”

FAN____ rang out that dreaded word (meaning devil). What happened, do you say? Mother came and lifted him right off the trunk and he got his little seat warmed, then and there!

It was early summer, and the fragrance of the flowers filled the air. The bright, moonlit evenings were very beautiful, but little chance for romance for Gustav. So it seemed, but little cupid was on the watch for him, so eventually Gustav got a wife. A neighbor who lived close by had a sister who came to visit

them, and whispering went around that she surely would be the one who would make a good mate for Gustav. It so happened that a party was given, and they were both invited and properly introduced. Sometime later, we saw Gustav going past our place all dressed up in his Sunday best.

He was on his way to see this girl. Oh, to be sure, she thought he was all right, for it was not long before preparations were being made for their wedding.

This was the first wedding in our community. His sweetheart came over and helped fix up the cabin. White curtains were hung up and tables and benches were scrubbed so white they fairly shone. It was a nice wedding, but when the big day was over, their lives and duties became like those of the other families, working and planning for something better.

I used to like to go up to their home on an errand for Mother. About a year later, I was called upon to go there to take care of a little baby that the stork had left there on his travels through the country. My mother made me a sunbonnet, and an apron of the same goods.

Gistaf and Tilda always let me go home on Sundays. One Sunday I came running home and my mother and a neighbor lady were walking around in the garden. When I came up to her, she said, “Why didn’t you wear your apron?”

Well kids are kids, I guess. I did not stop to think that this other lady was Tilda’s sister-in-law. I just said I could not, as Tilda had used it for a diaper for the baby, and it was not clean any longer.

Mother was quite put out about it, and the lady visiting mother thought it was an awful trick to do, too. I forgave her, as she was so very kind to me. She never scolded me. Years after that, when I married, we bought my father’s farm, so I had the same neighbors then as I had when I was a kid. She used to come to visit me, saying that she enjoyed talking over things with me that happened

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The pioneer days were not filled with excitement and thrills of the present days, but we experienced another type of excitement that could not happen in this generation. I will tell you of a few thrilling moments that were never to be forgotten by old or young.

One night as we lay in our peaceful slumber, a man on horseback rode up to our door and rapped on the window pane, calling out as loudly as he could, saying, “Get up and get ready as fast as you can to go out and fight the Sioux Indians. They are on their way out here and they will burn and kill everything.

See that the women and children hide someplace. The men will meet at the schoolhouse corner.”

We got into our clothes as fast as we could. I happened to be at the home of our friend Gustav at the time. I only got half dressed and my teeth chattered so that I was unable to talk. Gustav took his gun; we ran as fast as we could to my home. My folks had received the news, so they had gone over to our next-door neighbors who were only a short distance away.

It was decided that the children and women would go to my home and stay there, and if they heard any startling news, to use their own judgment as to what to do and where to run and hide.

By this time more men had arrived and they started out prepared to fight against the Sioux Indians. One man in our community became so frightened, he committed suicide. People were really afraid, and no wonder. The time that I am speaking of now was at the time of the terrible Indian massacre in the state of Minnesota. The situation looked very grave. We knew that we were in great danger. The news of the Minnesota Massacre, where such a large number of white people had been killed by the agressors, had instilled fear in the hearts of the white settlers as well as the friendly Indians who were of another tribe.

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Morning came at last, and nothing had happened. Most of the men returned. Some men, on horseback, had gone to find out all they could about the reason for the alarm that had been given. A message came to us about three days later explaining everything. We were not alone in our fear, for the governor of Wisconsin had been notified by the county board, who had telegraphed the alarm. Two Army officials were sent to investigate the Indians at Wood Lake.

The Indians had been having a powwow and had danced around the Indian mound nearby. Two settlers could speak the Chippewa language. One man was married to an Indian woman. The other man was Trader Carlson from Trade Lake, who had traded with the Indians for many years. These men acted as interpreters.

So as to show their friendliness, the Indians offered the peace pipe to the men, who, together with the Army officials, willingly smoked it to show that their friendliness was accepted. These Indians assured the men that there was no danger from their tribe and were sorry that their powwow, which was only a celebration, had been mistaken as the beginning of another possible massacre.

The Indians around our homes were also questioned. They said they knew nothing at all about this celebration, for this was another tribe, and the Chippewa tribe was as much afraid of the Sioux as we were.

There is much more to be said about the Sioux, General Custer and the Minnesota Massacre. I have read some very interesting articles. Here is a copy of a little newspaper clipping that interested me in 1945. As I read it, I prayed that peace would come again to a troubled world, never to be broken.

Truman Peace Pipe A ceremonial peace pipe was sent to President Truman as a gift from the Sioux nation at the conclusion of the tribe’s four-day victory dance at Pine Ridge, S.D. The pipe is one smoked by Chief Crazy Horse when he consented to return to the ranks of peaceful Indians after the Custer Massacre in 1876. – With information submitted by Brian Johnson’s family. – From Betty Fenton, director of public relations, Frederic Area Historical Society.

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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.

Clear Lake Public Library Monday: Noon - 7 p.m.; Tuesday: noon - 6 p.m.; Wednesday: 3 - 9 p.m.; Thursday: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.; Friday: noon - 5 p.m.; and Saturday: 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. We can be reached by phone at 715-263-2802 or email at clearlakepl@ifls.lib.wi.us.

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.

Milltown Public Library

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 director/youth services is Molly Kessler and the library clerk is Stephanie Fansler.

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.

Clear Lake Public Library

Sweet!

Join us for the third-annual card and candy making workshop at the Milltown Library on Feb. 13, from 2-5 p.m. Create a sweet treat for your sweetheart! This event is free and open to all ages. Children should be accompanied by an adult helper.

Teen Tech Week Teenagers can play Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation Rock Band, learn about free digital media downloads from the library, browse book displays, and more at the Teen Tech Week open house on Friday, March 13, from 6-9 p.m. Pizza, soda, and snacks will be served at 6 p.m.

Perk up We now proudly offer Wren Blend coffee at the Milltown Library all day every day we’re open!

Book Club The Milltown book club will gather again on March 25, at 7 p.m. This is a time for book lovers to gather, share and inspire.

Hours 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.

Frederic Public Library It’s the biggest book and bake sale in town!

Make plans to attend the Frederic Library Valentine’s book and bake sale on 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 story set in the Great Depression 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 Dominick Birdsey, whose entire life has been compromised and constricted by the schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents. Copies of the books are available at the library, and new members are always welcome.

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The Frederic Library Board is 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.

The library is a drop-off site for the community food shelf Please bring an item or two for the local food shelf when you visit the library – your donations will make you feel good and will help those in need.

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.

WHAT’S FOR LUNCH???

LOCATION

Menu

FREDERIC

MONDAY

FEBRUARY 9 - FEBRUARY 13 TUESDAY

BREAKFAST BREAKFAST Bagel pizza, cereal, juice, milk.

Combo bar, cereal, juice, milk.

LUNCH LUNCH Nachos with assorted toppings, Sub sandwich, raw veggies, chips refried beans OR chicken strip salad. OR chicken taco salad.

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

BREAKFAST BREAKFAST K-6 muffin, 7-12 mini pancakes, Tastries, cereal, juice, milk. cereal, juice, milk.

LUNCH Pepperoni pockets, lettuce salad, LUNCH peas and carrots OR tuna salad.

Valentine chicken nuggets, tritaters, cookie OR ham salad.

FRIDAY NO SCHOOL PRESIDENTS DAY BREAK

LUNCH Hamburger with fixings, oven potatoes, baked beans, pineapple tidbits.

LUNCH Chili, bread stick, lettuce salad, fresh veggies, mandarin oranges.

LUNCH Ham & cheese wrap, rice, steamed broccoli, pears.

LUNCH Pizza casserole, lettuce salad, corn, Jell-O cake.

NO SCHOOL

LUCK

BREAKFAST Cereal/bagel.

LUNCH Italian dunkers, dipping sauce, winter mix, fruit sauce. Alt.: Chicken patty, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Cereal/French toast.

LUNCH Taco Tuesday, Hard of soft shell, peas & carrots, fruit sauce. Alt.: Hot dog, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Cereal/egg muffin.

LUNCH Build your own sub, potato chips, corn, fresh fruit. Alt.: Mini corn dogs, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Cereal/waffles.

LUNCH Baked potato bar, ham/cheese/sour cream, broccoli w/cheese, fruit sauce. Alt.: Chicken nuggets, 7-12.

BREAKFAST Cereal/cinnamon roll.

LUNCH Barbecues, french fries, green beans, fresh fruit. Alt.: Chicken patty, 7-12.

SIREN

BREAKFAST Assorted cereal, toast served with juice and milk.

LUNCH Mini corn dogs, rice, caul./broc./celery/carrots, green beans, apples & oranges. Alt.: Chicken patty.

BREAKFAST French toast sticks, juice and milk.

LUNCH Hamburger, oven potatoes, baked beans, veggies, strawberries. Alt.: Turkey wrap.

BREAKFAST Assorted cereal, toast served with juice and milk.

LUNCH Chicken fajita on a bun, Tostitos, whole-kernel corn, shredded lettuce, peaches. Alt.: Pizza dippers.

BREAKFAST Mini pancakes, juice and milk.

LUNCH Turkey & cheese on whole wheat bun, soup, crackers, peas & carrots, lettuce, applesauce, kiwi & oranges.

Alt.: Chicken nuggets.

BREAKFAST Assorted cereal, toast served with juice and milk.

LUNCH Fish & heart-shaped pretzel, steamed broccoli, carrots, celery, cauliflower, banana. Alt.: Cook’s choice.

BREAKFAST Breakfast pizza.

LUNCH Chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese, green beans, peaches.

BREAKFAST Cheese omelets, breakfast potato, toast.

LUNCH Hot ham & cheese, spicy fries, peas, apple crisp w/topping.

BREAKFAST Yogurt parfait.

LUNCH Spaghetti w/meat sauce, lettuce salad, corn, pineapple, oranges.

BREAKFAST Scrambled eggs w/cheese, toast.

LUNCH Baked chicken, mashed potatoes, carrots, pears.

BREAKFAST Breakfast pizza.

Waffles and strawberry cups.

LUNCH Cheese Pepperonidogs pizza,w/toppings, lettuce salad,baked brocchips, cinnamon applesauce baked coli, applesauce. beans. Alt.: Veggie beef barley, turkey sandwich.

BREAKFAST

BREAKFAST Breakfast bites.

LUNCH Baked chicken and au gratin potatoes.

BREAKFAST French toast.

LUNCH Pizza burger or Mc Rib and fries.

BREAKFAST Bagles and cream cheese.

LUNCH Beef and cheese chimichanga, vegetable and pudding.

BREAKFAST Eggs and sausage.

LUNCH Pizza, corn and tuna salad.

LUNCH Baked chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, cranberries, mandarin oranges.

LUNCH BBQ pork, bun, potatoes, carrots OR homemade cheese soup with veggies, PBJ, applesauce, fruit cocktail.

LUNCH Chicken nuggets, scalloped potatoes, green beans, pears, pineapple.

LUNCH Pizza, fresh veggies, fresh fruit, Shape-up.

EARLY RELEASE

GRANTSBURG Each building will have their own breakfast menu.

ST. CROIX FALLS

Muffins.

UNITY

LUNCH Barbecues and hash browns.

WEBSTER

LUNCH Corn dog, au gratin potatoes, green beans, pears, banana.

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ST. CLOUD, Minn. - St. Cloud State University conducted fall 2008 commencement ceremonies for more than 1,000 undergraduates at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, before a crowd of more than 4,000 at Halenbeck Hall. Graduating student Kyle D. Jordahl, who started a real estate business while in college, gave the commencement address.

On Dec. 19 commencement and hooding ceremonies were held at 7:30 p.m. in Ritsche Auditorium for more than 160 students earning their graduate degrees. Approximately 600 guests attended the event.

Undergraduates included: Danbury Brittany Jean Fornengo, marketing, Bachelor of Science.

Academic news

Turtle Lake Mathew Ryan Jenkins, physical education, Bachelor of Science.

••• STEVENS POINT – The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point honored 2,265 undergraduate students for attaining high grade-point averages during the fall semester of the 2008-09 academic semester.

Full-time undergraduates who earned grade points of 3.90 to 4.0 (4.0 equals straight A) are given the highest honors designation.

High honor citations go to those with gradepoint averages from 3.75 to 3.89 and honor recognition is accorded to those with gradepoint averages from 3.50 to 3.74.

Personalized certificates of scholastic achievement are being sent to those who earned highest honors distinction.

Johansen honored with Morris Hayes Award EAU CLAIRE - At the recent annual meeting of the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association, held in Eau Claire Jan. 15-17, local resident, Dr. Harry Johansen was honored to receive the organization’s prestigious Morris Hayes Award. Established in 1985, the award carries the name of Morris D. Hayes, a charter member of WCDA and an icon of choral music in Wisconsin.

This lifetime achievement award is given to choral directors for outstanding contributions to choral music in Wisconsin. It was presented to Johansen by Dr. Robert Demaree, director of choral activities at UW-Platteville.

In his presentation, Demaree said about Johansen, “Born and bred in Luck, he attended UWSuperior (who lists him as a Dr. Harry Johansen (L) is presented the “Prominent Graduate”) before going to graduate schools at In- Morris Hayes Award by Dr. Robert Demadiana University and the Univer- ree, director of choral activities at UWsity of Iowa.” After holding Platteville. – Special photo positions as director of choral activities at Westminster College and at the University of Idaho, he returned to Wisconsin in 1989, first as head of Choral Music and, later, as chair of the music department at UW-Whitewater.

Since his retirement, two years ago, Johansen and his family have made their home east of Luck on Dahl Lake. – with submitted information

Math night held at Luck Grantsburg math teacher Jay Gilhoi works on a math game with his daughter, Amy, during the family math night at the Luck School held Thursday night, Jan. 29. It was organized by Luck’s Title I teacher Janet Brandt. Parents and students worked together on a variety of math activities including games, graphing their eye color, graphing their favorite weather and estimating how many Skittles were in a jar. - Photos submitted

Jackie Brenizer works with her son, Beau, on a money game. This was one of many games available for parents to play with their children on Thursday night.

Students who received honors include: Frederic William S. Puetz, high honors; Johanna E. Schmidt, honors.

••• ST. PAUL, Minn. – Lauren Howe, Siren, was named to the dean’s list at Hamline University for the fall term of the 2008-2009 academic year. Members of the dean’s list achieve a grade-point average of 3.50 or higher on a 4.00 scale. Howe, who is majoring in international management, is a graduate Siren High School and is the daughter of Jeffrey and Karen Howe of Siren. Hamline University is the top-ranked university in Minnesota in its class according to U.S.News & World Report, and the only Minnesota school in its class to be considered a “best value.”

Founded in 1854, Hamline is also Min-

nesota’s first university, and among the first co-educational institutions in the nation. - submitted ••• HOUGHTON, Mich.—Michigan Technological University has released the dean’s list for the fall 2008 semester, recognizing students who achieve grade-point averages of 3.5 or higher. Those earning straight A averages of 4.0 are indicated by asterisks.

Among the honorees are the following from the local area: Osceola David L. Carlson, senior, computer network and system adminstration •••

Yoga classes offered at SCRMC ST. CROIX FALLS - Yoga classes will be offered at St. Croix Regional Medical Center on Saturdays starting Feb. 7.

Instructor is Julie Karsky who can be reached at 715-483-5158 or by e-mail at 2karsky@centurytel.net.

A new class, Beginner’s Yoga, will be held (10 to 11 a.m.) Feb. 7 through April 4.

Learn the proper practice of the foundational steps for hatha yoga, alignment of body, breathing and moving into poses and postures. Begin the practice of

flowing from one pose to pose.

Experienced Yoga is being held (11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) currently, continuing the hatha yoga practice with more advanced poses and postures, deeper practice of flowing from pose to pose and including sun salutations.

Cost is $5 per session or $25 for six sessions.

Classes held in St. Croix Falls Clinic Physical Rehab Center on the third floor.

- from SCRMC

Local FFA chapters attend Half-Time Leadership Conference

FFA Half-Time Conference attendees included: State FFA President NIck Palkowski; Johanna Alling, Unity FFA president; Casey Johnson, Luck FFA treasurer and Amanda McKinney, Frederic FFA co-president. – Photos bumitted BALSAM LAKE – Johanna Alling, Unity FFA President; Amanda McKinney, Frederic FFA co-president and Casey Johnson, Luck FFA treasurer, attended the Wisconsin Association of FFA Half-Time Leadership Conference held at the Ramada Hotel in Stevens Point, Jan. 9-10. More than 400 FFA members, advisors and state FFA officers participated.

The Half-Time Leadership Conference provides FFA chapter leaders from around the state the opportunity to set goals and prepare for the second half of their year of service in their local FFA chapters. FFA members attended workshops focused on leadership and personal development, membership and chapter development, opportunities in FFA and publicity through FFA Week activities. They learned about applying for awards, preparing an FFA banquet and getting involved in community service.

In addition, FFA members had an opportunity to hear from Sheri Nelson and Ron Henningfeld, past state FFA officers, who presented a motivational address to the members on Saturday morning.

The Half-Time conference has an over 25-year tradition for Wisconsin FFA members to bring top leaders together to assist in leadership development and local FFA chapter activities. This year’s leadership conference was designed and conducted by the 2008-2009 Wisconsin State FFA officers. The theme of the conference was Experience the Thrill.

“Half-Time is one of the premier leadership conferences in our state and designed by student leaders. It allows FFA chapter leaders to develop their leadership skills, learn more about FFA activities and meet people while having fun,” said Cheryl Zimmerman, state FFA executive director. “We are able to provide young people with an excellent experience to develop their leadership skills and get them excited about agriculture, agricultural education and the FFA so they can build their local programs.”

FFA advisors were also busy during the weekend as they attended workshops to learn more about developing classroom curriculum and getting up-todate on new materials for their agricultural education programs. Teachers were also involved in the Wisconsin Association of Agricultural Educators Board meetings and committee meetings.

The Wisconsin Association of FFA, comprised of 250 local chapters in high schools across the state, prepares nearly 18,000 students for leadership and careers in the science, business and technology of agriculture. FFA activities and programs complement instruction in agriculture education by giving students practical experience in the application of agricultural skills and knowledge gained in classes. FFA’s mission is to develop premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. - submitted

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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

knew, and every dog knew, what had taken place behind the belt of river trees.

Continued from last week

Thirty days from the time it left Dawson, the Salt Water Mail, with Buck and his mates at the fore, arrived at Skagway. They were in a wretched state, worn out and worn down. Buck’s one hundred and forty pounds had dwindled to one hundred and fifteen. The rest of his mates, though lighter dogs, had relatively lost more weight than he. Pike, the malingerer, who, in his lifetime of deceit, had often successfully feigned a hurt leg, was now limping in earnest. Sol-leks was limping, and Dub was suffering from a wrenched shoulder blade.

They were all terribly footsore. No spring or rebound was left in them. Their feet fell heavily on the trail, jarring their bodies and doubling the fatigue of a day’s travel. There was nothing the matter with them except that they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil. There was no power of recuperation left, no reserve strength to call upon. It had been all used, the last least bit of it. Every muscle, every fibre, every cell, was tired, dead tired.

And there was reason for it. In less than five months they had travelled twenty-five hundred miles, during the last eighteen hundred of which they had had but five days’ rest. When they arrived at Skagway they were apparently on their last legs. They could barely keep the traces taut, and on the down grades just managed to keep out of the way of the sled.

“Mush on, poor sore feets,” the driver encouraged them as they tottered down the main street of Skagway.

“Dis is de las’. Den we get one long res’. Eh? For sure.

One bully long res’.”

The drivers confidently expected a long stopover.

Themselves, they had covered twelve hundred miles with two days’ rest, and in the nature of reason and common justice they deserved an interval of loafing.

But so many were the men who had rushed into the Klondike, and so many were the sweethearts, wives, and kin that had not rushed in, that the congested mail was taking on Alpine proportions; also, there were official orders. Fresh batches of Hudson Bay dogs were to take the places of those worthless for the trail. The worthless ones were to be got rid of, and, since dogs count for little against dollars, they were to be sold.

Three days passed, by which time Buck and his mates found how really tired and weak they were. Then, on the morning of the fourth day, two men from the States came along and bought them, harness and all, for a song. The men addressed each other as “Hal” and “Charles.” Charles was a middle-aged, lightish-colored man, with weak and watery eyes and a mustache that twisted fiercely and vigorously up, giving the lie to the limply drooping lip it concealed. Hal was a youngster of nineteen or twenty, with a big Colt’s revolver and a hunting knife strapped about him on a belt that fairly bristled with cartridges. This belt was the most salient thing about him. It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable. Both men were manifestly out of place, and why such as they should adventure the North is part of the mystery of things that passes understanding.

Buck heard the chaffering, saw the money pass between the man and the Government agent, and knew that the Scotch half-breed and the mail-train drivers were passing out of his life on the heels of Perrault and Francois and the others who had gone before. When driven with his mates to the new owners’ camp, Buck saw a slipshod and slovenly affair, tent half stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder; also, he saw a woman. “Mercedes” the men called her. She was Charles’ wife and Hal’s sister—a nice family party.

Buck watched them apprehensively as they proceeded to take down the tent and load the sled. There was a great deal of effort about their manner, but no businesslike method. The tent was rolled into an awkward bundle three times as large as it should have been.

The tin dishes were packed away unwashed. Mercedes continually fluttered in the way of her men and kept up an unbroken chattering of remonstrance and advice.

When they put a clothes sack on the front of the sled, she suggested it should go on the back; and when they had put it on the back, and covered it over with a couple of other bundles, she discovered overlooked articles which could abide nowhere else but in that very sack, and they unloaded again.

Sometimes as he crouched there, blinking dreamily at the flames, it seemed that the flames were of another fire, and that as he crouched by this other fire he saw another and different man from the half-breed cook before him. This other man was shorter of leg and longer of arm, with muscles that were stringy and knotty rather than rounded and swelling. The hair of this man was long and matted, and his head slanted back under it from the eyes. He uttered strange sounds, and seemed very much afraid of the darkness, into which he peered continually, clutching in his hand, which hung midway between knee and foot, a stick with a heavy stone made fast to the end. He was all but naked, a ragged and fire-scorched skin hanging part way down his back, but on his body there was much hair.

In some places, across the chest and shoulders and down the outside of the arms and thighs, it was matted into almost a thick fur. He did not stand erect, but with trunk inclined forward from the hips, on legs that bent at the knees. About his body there was a peculiar springiness, or resiliency, almost catlike, and a quick alertness as of one who lived in perpetual fear of things seen and unseen.

At other times this hairy man squatted by the fire with head between his legs and slept. On such occasions his elbows were on his knees, his hands clasped above his head as though to shed rain by the hairy arms. And beyond that fire, in the circling darkness, Buck could see many gleaming coals, two by two, always two by two, which he knew to be the eyes of great beasts of prey. And he could hear the crashing of their bodies through the undergrowth, and the noises they made in the night. And dreaming there by the Yukon bank, with lazy eyes blinking at the fire, these sounds and sights of another world would make the hair to rise along his back and stand on end across his shoulders and up his neck, till he whimpered low and suppressedly, or growled softly, and the half-breed cook shouted at him, “Hey, you Buck, wake up!” Whereupon the other world would vanish and the real world come into his eyes, and he would get up and yawn and stretch as though he had been asleep.

It was a hard trip, with the mail behind them, and the heavy work wore them down. They were short of weight and in poor condition when they made Dawson, and should have had a ten days’ or a week’s rest at least. But in two days’ time they dropped down the Yukon bank from the Barracks, loaded with letters for the outside. The dogs were tired, the drivers grumbling, and to make matters worse, it snowed every day. This meant a soft trail, greater friction on the runners, and heavier pulling for the dogs; yet the drivers were fair through it all, and did their best for the animals.

Each night the dogs were attended to first. They ate before the drivers ate, and no man sought his sleepingrobe till he had seen to the feet of the dogs he drove.

Still, their strength went down. Since the beginning of the winter they had travelled eighteen hundred miles, dragging sleds the whole weary distance; and eighteen hundred miles will tell upon life of the toughest. Buck stood it, keeping his mates up to their work and maintaining discipline, though he, too, was very tired. Billee cried and whimpered regularly in his sleep each night.

Joe was sourer than ever, and Sol-leks was unapproachable, blind side or other side.

But it was Dave who suffered most of all. Something had gone wrong with him. He became more morose and irritable, and when camp was pitched at once made his nest, where his driver fed him. Once out of the harness and down, he did not get on his feet again till harness-up time in the morning. Sometimes, in the traces, when jerked by a sudden stoppage of the sled, or by straining to start it, he would cry out with pain. The driver examined him, but could find nothing. All the drivers became interested in his case. They talked it over at mealtime, and over their last pipes before going to bed, and one night they held a consultation. He was brought from his nest to the fire and was pressed and prodded till he cried out many times. Something was wrong inside, but they could locate no broken bones, could not make it out.

By the time Cassiar Bar was reached, he was so weak that he was falling repeatedly in the traces. The Scotch half-breed called a halt and took him out of the team, making the next dog, Sol-leks, fast to the sled. His intention was to rest Dave, letting him run free behind the sled. Sick as he was, Dave resented being taken out,

Chapter V The Toil of Trace and Trail Author Jack London

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grunting and growling while the traces were unfastened, and whimpering brokenheartedly when he saw Sol-leks in the position he had held and served so long.

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and, sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

When the sled started, he floundered in the soft snow alongside the beaten trail, attacking Sol-leks with his teeth, rushing against him and trying to thrust him off into the soft snow on the other side, striving to leap inside his traces and get between him and the sled, and all the while whining and yelping and crying with grief and pain. The half-breed tried to drive him away with the whip; but he paid no heed to the stinging lash, and the man had not the heart to strike harder. Dave refused to run quietly on the trail behind the sled, where the going was easy, but continued to flounder alongside in the soft snow, where the going was most difficult, till exhausted. Then he fell, and lay where he fell, howling lugubriously as the long train of sleds churned by.

With the last remnant of his strength he managed to stagger along behind till the train made another stop, when he floundered past the sleds to his own, where he stood alongside Sol-leks. His driver lingered a moment to get a light for his pipe from the man behind.

Then he returned and started his dogs. They swung out on the trail with remarkable lack of exertion, turned their heads uneasily, and stopped in surprise. The driver was surprised, too; the sled had not moved. He called his comrades to witness the sight. Dave had bitten through both of Sol-leks’s traces, and was standing directly in front of the sled in his proper place.

He pleaded with his eyes to remain there. The driver was perplexed. His comrades talked of how a dog could break its heart through being denied the work that killed it, and recalled instances they had known, where dogs, too old for the toil, or injured, had died because they were cut out of the traces. Also, they held it a mercy, since Dave was to die anyway, that he should die in the traces, heart-easy and content. So he was harnessed in again, and proudly he pulled as of old, though more than once he cried out involuntarily from the bite of his inward hurt. Several times he fell down and was dragged in the traces, and once the sled ran upon him so that he limped thereafter in one of his hind legs.

But he held out till camp was reached, when his driver made a place for him by the fire. Morning found him too weak to travel. At harness-up time he tried to crawl to his driver. By convulsive efforts he got on his feet, staggered, and fell. Then he wormed his way forward slowly toward where the harnesses were being put on his mates. He would advance his forelegs and drag up his body with a sort of hitching movement, when he would advance his forelegs and hitch ahead again for a few more inches. His strength left him, and the last his mates saw of him he lay gasping in the snow and yearning toward them. But they could hear him mournfully howling till they passed out of sight behind a belt of river timber.

Here the train was halted. The Scotch half-breed slowly retraced his steps to the camp they had left. The men ceased talking. A revolver shot rang out. The man came back hurriedly. The whips snapped, the bells tinkled merrily, the sleds churned along the trail; but Buck

Three men from a neighboring tent came out and looked on, grinning and winking at one another.

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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 “You’ve got a right smart load as it is,” said one of them; “and it’s not me should tell you your business, but I wouldn’t tote that tent along if I was you.”

“Undreamed of!” cried Mercedes, throwing up her hands in dainty dismay. “However in the world could I manage without a tent?”

“It’s springtime, and you won’t get any more cold weather,” the man replied.

She shook her head decidedly, and Charles and Hal put the last odds and ends on top the mountainous load.

“Think it’ll ride?” one of the men asked.

“Why shouldn’t it?” Charles demanded rather shortly.

“Oh, that’s all right, that’s all right,” the man hastened meekly to say. “I was just a-wonderin’, that is all.

It seemed a mite top-heavy.”

Charles turned his back and drew the lashings down as well as he could, which was not in the least well.

“An’ of course the dogs can hike along all day with that contraption behind them,” affirmed a second of the men.

“Certainly,” said Hal, with freezing politeness, taking hold of the gee-pole with one hand and swinging his whip from the other. “Mush!” he shouted. “Mush on there!”

The dogs sprang against the breastbands, strained hard for a few moments, then relaxed. They were unable to move the sled.

“The lazy brutes, I’ll show them,” he cried, preparing to lash out at them with the whip.

But Mercedes interfered, crying, “Oh, Hal, you mustn’t,” as she caught hold of the whip and wrenched it from him. “The poor dears! Now you must promise you won’t be harsh with them for the rest of the trip, or I won’t go a step.”

“Precious lot you know about dogs,” her brother sneered; “and I wish you’d leave me alone. They’re lazy, I tell you, and you’ve got to whip them to get anything out of them. That’s their way. You ask anyone.

Ask one of those men.”

Mercedes looked at them imploringly, untold repugnance at sight of pain written in her pretty face.

“They’re weak as water, if you want to know,” came the reply from one of the men. “Plum tuckered out, that’s what’s the matter. They need a rest.”

“Rest be blanked,” said Hal, with his beardless lips; and Mercedes said, “Oh!” in pain and sorrow at the oath.

But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defense of her brother. “Never mind that man,” she said pointedly. “You’re driving our dogs, and you do what you think best with them.”

Again Hal’s whip fell upon the dogs. They threw themselves against the breastbands, dug their feet into the packed snow, got down low to it, and put forth all their strength. The sled held as though it were an anchor. After two efforts, they stood still, panting. The whip was whistling savagely, when once more Mercedes interfered. She dropped on her knees before Buck, with tears in her eyes, and put her arms around his neck.

“You poor, poor dears,” she cried sympathetically, “why don’t you pull hard?—then you wouldn’t be whipped.” Buck did not like her, but he was feeling too miserable to resist her, taking it as part of the day’s miserable work.

One of the onlookers, who had been clenching his teeth to suppress hot speech, now spoke up:— “It’s not that I care a whoop what becomes of you, but for the dogs’ sakes I just want to tell you, you can help them a mighty lot by breaking out that sled. The runners are froze fast. Throw your weight against the gee-pole, right and left, and break it out.”

A third time the attempt was made, but this time, following the advice, Hal broke out the runners which had been frozen to the snow. The overloaded and unwieldy sled forged ahead, Buck and his mates struggling frantically under the rain of blows. A hundred yards ahead the path turned and sloped steeply into the main street.

It would have required an experienced man to keep the top-heavy sled upright, and Hal was not such a man.

As they swung on the turn the sled went over, spilling half its load through the loose lashings. The dogs never stopped. The lightened sled bounded on its side behind them. They were angry because of the ill treatment they had received and the unjust load. Buck was raging. He broke into a run, the team following his lead. Hal cried “Whoa! whoa!” but they gave no heed. He tripped and was pulled off his feet. The capsized sled ground over him, and the dogs dashed on up the street, adding to the gayety of Skagway as they scattered the remainder of the outfit along its chief thoroughfare.

Kindhearted citizens caught the dogs and gathered up the scattered belongings. Also, they gave advice.

Half the load and twice the dogs, if they ever expected

to reach Dawson, was what was said. Hal and his sister and brother-in-law listened unwillingly, pitched tent, and overhauled the outfit. Canned goods were turned out that made men laugh, for canned goods on the Long Trail is a thing to dream about. “Blankets for a hotel” quoth one of the men who laughed and helped.

“Half as many is too much; get rid of them. Throw away that tent, and all those dishes,—who’s going to wash them, anyway? Good Lord, do you think you’re travelling on a Pullman?”

And so it went, the inexorable elimination of the superfluous. Mercedes cried when her clothes-bags were dumped on the ground and article after article was thrown out. She cried in general, and she cried in particular over each discarded thing. She clasped hands about knees, rocking back and forth brokenheartedly.

She averred she would not go an inch, not for a dozen Charleses. She appealed to everybody and to everything, finally wiping her eyes and proceeding to cast out even articles of apparel that were imperative necessaries. And in her zeal, when she had finished with her own, she attacked the belongings of her men and went through them like a tornado.

This accomplished, the outfit, though cut in half, was still a formidable bulk. Charles and Hal went out in the evening and bought six Outside dogs. These, added to the six of the original team, and Teek and Koona, the huskies obtained at the Rink Rapids on the record trip, brought the team up to fourteen. But the Outside dogs, though practically broken in since their landing, did not amount to much. Three were short-haired pointers, one was a Newfoundland, and the other two were mongrels of indeterminate breed. They did not seem to know anything, these newcomers. Buck and his comrades looked upon them with disgust, and though he speedily taught them their places and what not to do, he could not teach them what to do. They did not take kindly to trace and trail. With the exception of the two mongrels, they were bewildered and spirit-broken by the strange, savage environment in which they found themselves and by the ill treatment they had received.

The two mongrels were without spirit at all; bones were the only things breakable about them.

With the newcomers hopeless and forlorn, and the old team worn out by twenty-five hundred miles of continuous trail, the outlook was anything but bright.

The two men, however, were quite cheerful. And they were proud, too. They were doing the thing in style, with fourteen dogs. They had seen other sleds depart over the Pass for Dawson, or come in from Dawson, but never had they seen a sled with so many as fourteen dogs. In the nature of Arctic travel there was a reason why fourteen dogs should not drag one sled, and that was that one sled could not carry the food for fourteen dogs. But Charles and Hal did not know this. They had worked the trip out with a pencil, so much to a dog, so many dogs, so many days, Q.E.D. Mercedes looked over their shoulders and nodded comprehensively, it was all so very simple.

Late next morning Buck led the long team up the street. There was nothing lively about it, no snap or go in him and his fellows. They were starting dead weary.

Four times he had covered the distance between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter. His heart was not in the work, nor was the heart of any dog. The Outsides were timid and frightened, the Insides without confidence in their masters.

Buck felt vaguely that there was no depending upon these two men and the woman. They did not know how to do anything, and as the days went by it became apparent that they could not learn. They were slack in all things, without order or discipline. It took them half the night to pitch a slovenly camp, and half the morning to break that camp and get the sled loaded in fashion so slovenly that for the rest of the day they were occupied in stopping and rearranging the load. Some days they did not make ten miles. On other days they were unable to get started at all. And on no day did they succeed in making more than half the distance

used by the men as a basis in their dog-food computation.

It was inevitable that they should go short on dog food. But they hastened it by overfeeding, bringing the day nearer when underfeeding would commence. The Outside dogs, whose digestions had not been trained by chronic famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites. And when, in addition to this, the worn-out huskies pulled weakly, Hal decided that the orthodox ration was too small. He doubled it. And to cap it all, when Mercedes, with tears in her pretty eyes and a quaver in her throat, could not cajole him into giving the dogs still more, she stole from the fish sacks and fed them slyly. But it was not food that Buck and the huskies needed, but rest. And though they were making poor time, the heavy load they dragged sapped their strength severely.

Then came the underfeeding. Hal awoke one day to the fact that his dog food was half gone and the distance only quarter covered; further, that for love or money no additional dog food was to be obtained. So he cut down even the orthodox ration and tried to increase the day’s travel. His sister and brother-in-law seconded him; but they were frustrated by their heavy outfit and their own incompetence. It was a simple matter to give the dogs less food; but it was impossible to make the dogs travel faster, while their own inability to get under way earlier in the morning prevented them from travelling longer hours. Not only did they not know how to work dogs, but they did not know how to work themselves.

The first to go was Dub. Poor blundering thief that he was, always getting caught and punished, he had none the less been a faithful worker. His wrenched shoulderblade, untreated and unrested, went from bad to worse, till finally Hal shot him with the big Colt’s revolver. It is a saying of the country that an Outside dog starves to death on the ration of the husky, so the six Outside dogs under Buck could do no less than die on half the ration of the husky. The Newfoundland went first, followed by the three short-haired pointers, the two mongrels hanging more grittily on to life, but going in the end.

By this time all the amenities and gentlenesses of the Southland had fallen away from the three people.

Shorn of its glamour and romance, Arctic travel became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and womanhood. Mercedes ceased weeping over the dogs, being too occupied with weeping over herself and with quarrelling with her husband and brother. To quarrel was the one thing they were never too weary to do. Their irritability arose out of their misery, increased with it, doubled upon it, outdistanced it. The wonderful patience of the trail which comes to men who toil hard and suffer sore, and remain sweet of speech and kindly, did not come to these two men and the woman. They had no inkling of such a patience. They were stiff and in pain; their muscles ached, their bones ached, their very hearts ached; and because of this they became sharp of speech, and hard words were first on their lips in the morning and last at night.

Charles and Hal wrangled whenever Mercedes gave them a chance. It was the cherished belief of each that he did more than his share of the work, and neither forbore to speak this belief at every opportunity. Sometimes Mercedes sided with her husband, sometimes with her brother. The result was a beautiful and unending family quarrel. Starting from a dispute as to which should chop a few sticks for the fire (a dispute which concerned only Charles and Hal), presently would be lugged in the rest of the family, fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, people thousands of miles away, and some of them dead. That Hal’s views on art, or the sort of society plays his mother’s brother wrote, should have anything to do with the chopping of a few sticks of firewood, passes comprehension; nevertheless the quarrel was as likely to tend in that direction as in the direction of Charles’ political prejudices. And that Charles’ sister’s tale-bearing tongue should be relevant to the building of a Yukon fire, was apparent only to Mercedes, who disburdened herself of copious opinions upon that topic, and incidentally upon a few other traits unpleasantly peculiar to her husband’s family. In the meantime the fire remained unbuilt, the camp half pitched, and the dogs unfed.

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Church Directory ADVENTIST

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - FREDERIC

609 Benson Road. Pastor Curtis Denney Sat. Worship 11 a.m.; Sabbath Schl. 9:30 a.m.

ALLIANCE

ALLIANCE

ALLIANCE CHURCH OF THE VALLEY Senior Pastor Bob Morton 1259 Hwy. 35 S., St. Croix Falls Sunday Worship: 8:30, 9:45 & 11 a.m.

LAKETOWN LUTHERAN - CUSHING

Pastors Julie Brenden & Nanette Hagen Hinck Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School 10:30 a.m.

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

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

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

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

METHODIST

METHODIST

ATLAS UNITED METHODIST

Pastor Carolyn Saunders, 715-463-2624 Sunday School - 11 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST - GRANTSBURG Pastor Carolyn Saunders, 715-463-2624 Worship - 9 a.m.; Sun. School - 10:30 a.m.

DANBURY UNITED METHODIST

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sun. Worship - 9 a.m.

GRACE UNITED - WEBSTER

Cindy Glocke, Pastor, 715-866-8646 Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.

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

ST. ANNE PARISH

Rev. Thomas E. Thompson, 715-247-3310 139 Church Hill Rd., Somerset Mass Sun. 8:30 a.m.; Wed. 9 a.m.

Sacrament of Penance Sun. 8 a.m.

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER

Pastor Father Daniel Bodin, 651-465-7345 25293 Redwing Ave., Shafer, MN Sunday 9 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

LEWIS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST 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

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN OSCEOLA

Pastor Dave Guertin 7686 Lofty Pines Drive, Siren, 715-349-5601 Worship 10 a.m.; Sunday School 9 a.m.

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.

WESLEYAN WOODLAND WESLEYAN

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

CALVARY COVENANT - ALPHA

WEST DENMARK LUTHERAN

CHURCH OF CHRIST

CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH OF CHRIST

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.

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

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

TRADE LAKE BAPTIST

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

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

EVANGELICAL

140 Madison St. South, St. Croix Falls Pastor Mark K. Schoen Sun. Service - 9 a.m.; Sun.School - 10:30 a.m.

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.

ST. LUKE UNITED - FREDERIC

SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN (Missouri Synod)

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

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.

GRACE BAPTIST - GRANTSBURG

HOLY TRINITY UNITED METHODIST

ST. CROIX FALLS UNITED METHODIST

YELLOW LAKE LUTHERAN

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN - FREDERIC

Rev. Bruce Brooks - 715-483-3550 719 Nevada St. , (between Simonson & Tower Roads) , St. Croix Falls Worship - 10 a.m. (Nursery provided) Sun. Schl. - Child.- 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - Adults - 8:45 a.m.; Communion 1st Sunday

ST. 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

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN

ST. DOMINIC - FREDERIC & IMMACULATE CONCEPTION - GRANTSBURG CATHOLIC MASS SCHED.

350 Michigan Ave., Centuria Sun. Wor. - 10:45 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10 a.m.

ST. JOHN’S EV. LUTHERAN (Wis. Synod)

ELCA - 501 Hwy. 35, 646-2357 Mel Rau, Pastor Sunday Worship & Holy Communion - 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School - 10:40 a.m.

GRACE LUTHERAN - WEST SWEDEN

PRESBYTERIAN

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

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

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

PRESBYTERIAN

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.

church directory

ADVENTIST

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31st-annual Danbury Area Lions Club Ice-Fishing Contest

Danbury Lion Klaus Neider was the emcee for the 31st-annual Danbury Lions Ice-Fishing Contest.

Pat Traaseth of Siren was the first-place winner with this 11-lb. northern. This is his fifth year of fishing the Danbury Lions Club IceFishing Contest.

Jacob Hummel of Savage, Minn., (L) and Max Mauer show off this 6-lb., 11-oz. northern.

Ed Greener was the winner of the one-man ice-fishing portable shack that was raffled off during the contest.

Photos by Raelynn Hunger The 40 degree temperatures on Saturday brought many fishermen outdoors during the contest. This group of fishermen enjoyed a campfire on the ice.

Hailey Hunter, Webster, won $50 for the smallest sunny caught during the contest. She placed first and third in the division. The smallest sunny division was open for children 12 and under. All children 12 and under were also treated to free food and hot chocolate during the contest courtesy of Mark Mauer from Bloomington, Minn.

Winners Circle

Joey Moen, fourth-grader at Webster, caught this 3lb., 12-oz. northern.

Volunteers that helped in the kitchen are back row (L to R): Ingrid Neider, Jenny Estridge and Blanche Baker. Russell Estridge is the Danbury Lions Club treasurer.

$500 Savings Bond - Dan Millers $300 Savings Bond - Todd Hertog $200 Savings Bond - Jessica Steinmek $100 Savings Bond - Bob Holmstrom Largest Northern - Pat Traaseth Largest Horned Trout - Mark Johnson Largest Sunfish - William Anrold III and Ray Heller One-man portable ice-fishing shack - Ed Greener

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Frederic Winter Fun Day • 2009

Members of this year’s softball team, Corissa Schmidt and Lauren Domagala, weighed fish during the Coon Lake Classic Fishing Contest fundraiser on Saturday, Jan. 31. – Photos by Brenda Sommerfeld

Softball coach Erin Hansford holds a bucket as Miss Frederic Candace Buck draws a winner for a raffle during the fishing contest.

Cash, an ice auger and fish camera were the prizes of raffles.

This young man lined up his shot as he tried his hand at frozen minigolf. The course was nine holes long and had obstacles to go through.

Ethan Cook and Trae Gehl maned the minigolf course during the fishing contest. Funds brought in from all the activities on Coon Lake throughout the day go toward both the Frederic softball and baseball teams.

Many different ages of children found a hill to slide down to occupy their time as their parents fished on Saturday, Jan. 31. The hill was located on the edge of the lake and was made of the snow plowed from Coon Lake Park.

Brandon Riley ice fished for the first time during the Coon Lake Classic. He used a pole he made in Cub Scouts.

Snowmobiling was a way many people used to get around the lake during the fishing contest on Saturday, Jan. 31. Brynna Cox enjoyed pretending.

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Frederic Winter Fun Day • 2009

The Frederic Arts Board designed and built this sculpture during the snow sculpture contest from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31. There were a total of five entries in the contest. The arts board’s “The Big Sink” won the contest.

Choir members Candace Buck and Sarah Lexen found outfits during the garage sale on Saturday to wear on their Epcot trip. – Photo submitted A garage sale was held at the Frederic Elementary School on Saturday, Jan. 31, from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. It was for freewill donations and all of the proceeds went toward the Frederic band and choir’s Epcot trip. All donations for sale that did not sell were brought to Goodwill in Rice Lake.

Wormy and Squirmy adventure begins

by Wayne M. Anderson “Hey Squirmy, isn’t this great?” said Wormy the worm. “Here we are on a big, blue cruise ship heading around the world!”

“Yes, my wiggly pal. We’re on a fantastic adventure,” Squirmy replied with joy.

“And you and I will see so many cool countries and meet such interesting people along the way.”

Wormy added, “You know, we may even meet some fellow, foreigner worms.”

Hearing that, Squirmy paused a moment and said, “But when we go to their country, who then is the foreigner? Well, I suppose we are.”

The two traveling worms love to be guests anywhere, anytime. For traveling the world on an adventure like this is a cultural buffet, where you will taste the delights on a Chinese junk – sailing ship in China, savor an experience on the great savannah in Africa or feed dragons in Komodo.

Out here you will see the wonders of 27 astonishing countries—each one weird and wonderful. But strange as you may find these faraway places, you’ll discover kids on the other side of the world are just kids—just like you.

“Hey Squirmy, you know what’s cool about sailing to Hawaii right now?”

Wormy asked while “standing” in the bow of the ship.

Wayne M. Anderson The Anderson Report

Meet a crewman on the main deck aboard the ship.

He’s from Java, in southern Indonesia. Most of the crew on board are from all over Indonesia. They are cheerful people from a poor country. But they love to smile.

“What’s that, slimy seaman?”

Squirmy said with a chuckle.

“I love to sail the trade winds down here in the South Pacific Ocean,” Wormy said with delight, as the wind blew over his bald head. “The trade winds are warm and gentle and smell like salt,” he said breathing deep.

“You’re right, shipmate,” Squirmy acknowledged. “And you’re not alone in sailing history.”

The name “trade winds” was given by merchant sailors in the 17th century. Merchants from Spain and England and Holland depended on these favorable winds in the vast area called Polynesia to fill the sails of their ships and carry them to faroff countries, where they could “trade” their goods.

Life on a merchant’s ship then was a lot “Hola mis amigos (Hello my friends). I’m Felipe Sarria, in the center. I’m from the capital city Bogotá, in Columbia. Aboard the ship, I’m the Internet manager.

Today I’m helping out one of the passengers in the Internet room.

Many passengers stay in touch with family and friends back home using e-mail and the Web. The ship uses a satellite connection to hook up with the Internet.”

different than the good life on a cruise ship today. Cruise ships are like huge, floating hotels. They have comfortable cabins, art and culture everywhere, every food your taste buds can imagine and top-notch service.

“I think our cabin steward, Rana, is a great guy,” Squirmy noted.

“He’s a frog!?” Wormy shot back in fright.

“No, not La Rana,” Squirmy corrected his confused amigo.

“La rana” means frog in Spanish.

“Our cabin guy’s name is Rana. And he is from the country of Indonesia,” Squirmy explained.

“Wait a minute. Our cabin guy is from Indonesia, but his name means frog in Spanish?” said poor Wormy, as he sank in confusion. “I’m all twisted around in Polynesia.”

“Well pal, lots of things are going to seem different on this voyage,” assured Squirmy. “But different is interesting. And that’s what we’re going to get into on this journey, with a whole lot of fun along the way.”

“Hey Squirmy, when we get to Hawaii next week can we go surfing? I like to hang ten. It’s rad!” Wormy said while heading back to their cabin.

“Count on it, surfer worm,” Squirmy assured him with glee. “Island living is way cool. You can learn to do a hula dance or even a fire dance!”

So kids, get out your world maps, tack them on the wall and track these wormy

This kung-fu fighter stands guard on the ship. There’s a lot of cool art around telling of life both today and yesterday. This fighter is a replica of a warrior found in the tomb of an emperor in China from 210 B.C. He was not alone. With him they found about 6,000 life-size fighters and horses made out of terra-cotta (earth clay).

The figures were meant to guard the emperor in the afterworld. characters as they take you on a fabulous adventure to 27 countries. You’ll be amazed at all you will learn and see in four months with Wormy and Squirmy.

See you in Hawaii!

You can e-mail Wormy and Squirmy anytime at: wormyandsquirmy@gmail.com. Drop us a line soon!

Photo credits: Illustrations: Jake Ryan, Kaylynn Anderson and John Schneider.

Photos Wayne Anderson.

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Ready, aim, fifirre!

Catapults unleash volley of tennis balls

by Carl Heidel GRANTSBURG - The Grantsburg middle school gym had the feel of a medieval battleground last Friday with catapults everywhere. It was the annual fourth grade Great Catapult Shootout.

Designed to be a learning experience, the students each year are instructed to create an instrument that can hurl an object a specified distance and knock over empty plastic bottles. In most cases this leads to the creation of a catapult, but some of the instruments looked very much like slingshots supported by a catapult frame.

There was a wide variety of catapults at the event. Some of the catapults were simple rods with a cup on one end for holding the ammunition, others were large spoons on a frame, and still others were highly sophisticated implements, one even with a laser aiming system.

One catapult was made from Lego blocks, and while many catapults were simply the color of the construction material, there were some highly decorated multicolored catapults, too.

Jacob Byers applied a little “tongue English” as he prepared to fire.

William Johnson got down on the floor to take careful aim.

And the ammunition? Tennis balls, far less lethal than the ballast fired from the medieval predecessors. Some of the tennis balls were orange or multicolored, but most were bright yellow, easy to track as they down headed range for their targets.

From the number of parents in attendance, it was obvious that the catapult lesson had become a family event. Moms

and dads helped the kids set up and fire their instruments, and more than one of those instruments showed signs of parental input in the construction process.

When all of the individual firings were completed, the students lined up along one side of the gym to join in a mass firing. Middle school Principal Brad Jones volunteered to serve as target for the colorful volley. Fortunately for him, most of the weapons didn’t have either the range or the accuracy to offer much of a threat.

Judging from the noise level and the amount of laughter and cheering at the event, it was a huge success, even if the plastic bottles were seldom hit.

Photos by Carl Heidel

LEFT: Cassidy Lee used her laser aiming mechanism with great precision and blasted the bottle target.

Tyler Peterson squinted a bit to sight in his catapult before going to the firing line.

Balsam Lake Winterfest

Several nice pike and largemouth bass were the highlights of the 22nd annual ice-fishing contest held on Balsam Lake on Sunday, Feb. 1. – Photos by Marty Seeger unless otherwise noted

Ice anglers sat patiently in the final hour of the 22nd-annual Balsam Lake ice-fishing contest last Saturday, Jan. 31.

An ice-bowling competition was a part of the Balsam Lake Winterfest activities on Saturday, Jan. 31.

2009 Ice Drag winners

Class A: 1/2 ton & under gas trucks – Ryan Hyden Class B: 3/4 ton & 1 ton gas trucks – Josh Demulling Class C: SUVs (All Types) – Matt McKenzie Class D: 3/4 ton & 1 ton diesel trucks – Justen Walton

The four-wheel-drive drag racing event was held near the Balsam Lake Beach last Saturday, Jan. 31, during perfect weather conditions. Lots of spectators showed up for the event. At right, one of several competitors who entered the four-wheel-drive truck drag races last Saturday gets set to speed down the track. – Photos submitted

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OBITUARIES Ernest “Ernie” M. Schaaf

Loren A. Olson

Beryl E. Rydberg

Ernest “Ernie” M. Schaaf, 60, of Danbury, died Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, in Duluth, Minn.

A full obituary will be published in an upcoming edition.

Memorial services were held Feb. 3, at SwedbergTaylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, with Pastor Roger Pittman officiating.

The Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Loren A. Olson, 81, a resident of Siren, died Jan. 31, 2009.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, Feb. 5, at 11 a.m. (visitation prior from 10 – 11 a.m.) at Lakeview United Methodist Church in Hertel. Burial will be at the Lakeview Hertel Cemetery.

A full obituary will follow in a upcoming publication.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Alfred Milton Proffit

Henrietta Alvina Anderson

Alfred Milton Proffit, 95, of Cloverton, Minn., died Jan. 31, 2009.

Alfred was born July 28, 1913, to Edward and Elizabeth (Olson) Proffit. He was born in Cloverton in the house that he was to live in for the next 90 years. In 2003, because of his health, he moved in with his daughter, Edie (Aletha) and family.

Alfred was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Betty; his brother, Lloyd; and Lloyd’s wife, Esther, who also passed away on Jan. 31.

Alfred is survived by sister, Mildred Andersen of Brainerd, Minn., and her son, Allen Bell; his sister-inlaw, Virginia Jones; his sons, Ed (Janet) of Cloverton, Mit (Cheryl) of Fergus Falls, S.D.; his daughters, Edie (Bob) Quam of Fergus Falls, Laurie (Ken) Baalson of Emily, Amy (Ed) Proffit-Jacobs of Minneapolis, Minn.; his grandchildren, Lisa, LaMont, Darren, Keri, Melinda, Marcia, Teresa and Curtis; and 10 greatgrandchildren; his nephews, Duane (Karen) and Ron (Sharon) Proffit of Cozy Corners and their families and Alfred also loved Betty’s many nieces and nephews.

Graveside services will be held Saturday, Feb. 7, at 11 a.m., at the Markville Cemetery, with lunch and fellowship following at the Arna Town Hall in Markville, Minn., for all friends and family. Alfred’s children suggest that no flowers or memorials be sent.

The Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Henrietta Alvina Anderson (nee Sievert), St. Croix Falls, died Jan. 27, 2009, at the Good Samaritan Society Home in St. Croix Falls, at the age of 94.

Henrietta was born on May 26, 1914, to John and Lulu (Peterson) Sievert in Garfield Township, Polk County. She spent her younger years up in the Wanderoos area and then the family settled in Centuria.

She attended Big Lake and Amery Schools and graduated from Centuria High School in 1933. From 1934 to 1944, Henrietta worked in Balsam Lake for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. She started her career in social work with the Polk County Welfare Department (now Social Services) in 1944 and became the children’s worker in 1945, serving in that field until her retirement in 1975. In 1950, she met Alton Anderson of Amery when he joined Social Services. On April 26, 1958, they were married at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Centuria. In November of that year, they moved into their newly rebuilt home in Balsam Lake, where they lived together for over 40 years.

Henrietta had a great faith, showing it in her service to the church. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. She was active at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Centuria, then Faith Lutheran Church in Balsam Lake, then Fristad Lutheran Church in Centuria.

She served as a Sunday school teacher and superintendent, Luther League member and youth leader. She was very active in Lutheran Church Women and was an avid sewer of quilt tops for Lutheran World Relief, making over 2,000 tops or bottoms. She also held district synod offices on education, served on the church council, was a choir member and president of LCW and leader in her circle groups. Her adult hobby, for which she was widely admired, were her fabulous flower gardens. The family farm home outside Centuria and her home in Balsam Lake were both evidence of her energies and creativity. She also enjoyed travel and keeping in touch with friends and relatives.

Most cherished, because she and Alton had no children, she was “Aunty Retta” to 13 nieces and nephews and then 25 great-nieces and nephews, two great-greatnieces and six great-great-nephews.

Henrietta was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Alton; brother, Howard (Eleanor) Sievert; sister, Laura (Harry) Beck; sister-in-law, Miranda Sievert; Alton’s brother and sister-in-law, Ray and Grace Anderson; nephew, Dick Sievert and great-nephew, Jeremy Sievert.

Henrietta leaves to celebrate her memory, her brother, Donald Sievert of South St. Paul, Minn.; and all those nieces and nephews around the country.

A Christian funeral service was held at Fristad Lutheran Church in Centuria on Saturday, Jan. 31. Pastor Mel Rau officiated.

Interment was at St. John’s Cemetery in Eureka Township.

The Kolstad Family Funeral Home of Centuria was entrusted with arrangements.

Beryl E. Rydberg, 73, Spooner, died Jan. 25, 2009, at Spooner Health System. She was born Oct. 22, 1935, in Plum City, to Ralph and Evelyn (Sobottka) Kelly. Beryl was baptized, confirmed and married at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Plum City.

Beryl worked as a bookkeeper at International Harvestors in St. Paul, Minn. She was married in Plum City on Aug. 20, 1955, to Donald Rydberg. After moving to Shell Lake, she worked for the Shell Lake Clinic and the Sarona Farmers Union. She became an associate real estate broker with the United Farm Agency in Haugen. Beryl worked for 34 years for the Washburn County Department of Social Services. She started as a medical clerk and became supervisor of the economic department. Beryl was on many state committees and won the Northland District Award, the State Economic Support Award and an Idea Contest Award.

She was a member of St. John Lutheran Church prior to the merger with Faith Lutheran in Spooner. Beryl belonged to the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, Indianhead Community Health Care Inc. and the TLC Foundation. She had lifetime membership in the Washburn County Historical Society, Friends of the Shell Lake Library and the Wisconsin Social Services Association.

Beryl liked to golf and was an avid reader. She liked dancing, especially line dancing and regular old-time dancing. She loved to travel and visited many places in the U.S., as well as Germany, Poland and Russia.

Beryl spent many hours at grandchildren’s sporting and other activities.

Beryl was preceded in death by her husband, Donald, on March 21, 1993.

She is survived by children Joyce (Walter) Owens, Frederic, and Wayne Rydberg, River Falls and his fiancée, June Klees, Menomonie Falls; grandchildren Brandon Owens (fiancée, Dawn Luhmann), Cumberland, Jeffrey Owens, Frederic, Michelle Owens, Frederic, and Julia Rydberg, River Falls; sister Kathleen (Dewaine) Erickson, Effingham, Ill. Funeral services were Jan. 29 at Faith Lutheran Church, Spooner, with the Rev. Brent Berkesch officiating. Burial was in Shell Lake Cemetery. Pallbearers were Brandon Owens, Jeffrey Owens, Michelle Owens, Julia Rydberg, Brett Cave and Brian Cave.

The Pockat Funeral Home, Shell Lake, was entrusted with arrangements.

Bertha Lois (Rainey) Stevens, 72, Grantsburg, died Jan. 30, 2009.

She was born to David and Lois Rainey on Nov. 22, 1936, in Duluth, Minn. She grew up in Duluth, Minn., and the Wolf Creek area, where she met and married her husband, Vernon Stevens. They were married July 19, 1952.

During their marriage, they lived throughout the United States, finally settling in the Grantsburg area in 1983. They raised six children, Thomas of Arizona, Carmen (Ron) Bouchie of Grantsburg, Vernon Jr. (Mary) of Duluth, Minn., Kelly, Stephen (Wanda) of Webster, Sherry Gillis of Duluth, Minn., and grandson, Brenin (Charity) of Grantsburg.

She is survived by five children; 17 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; one sister, Margo Coleman of Bloomingtom, Minn.; brother, Clarence (Porky) Rainey of Duluth, Minn.; and sister-in-law, Amanda Rainey of Grantsburg.

Bertha was preceded in death by her husband, Vernon; son, Kelly; parents; sister, Shirley; and brothers, Dave and Thomas.

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Marie R. Rossman Marie R. Rossman, 93, died Jan. 31, 2009.

Funeral services will be held Friday, Feb. 6, at 10 a.m. (visitation prior from 9 – 10 a.m.) at the Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster. Interment will follow at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minn.

A full obituary will follow in a upcoming publication.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Dott Ellson Dott E. Ellson, 93, a resident of Webb Lake, died Jan. 24, 2009, at St. Anthony Village Nursing Home.

Dott was born July 2, 1915, in Minneapolis, Minn., to Harvey and Emma Dahlane. Dott resided in Webb Lake from 1973 – 1995. She enjoyed Thursday shopping and raising African violets.

Dott was preceded in death by her husband, Gerald.

She is survived by her son, Jeff (Gwen) Ellson; grandchildren, Steven (Sue) Ellson and Shari (Michael) Wodarck; great-grandchildren, Danielle, Blayne, Ryley, Brady and Brett; and other relatives and friends.

Memorial services were held Jan. 28, at the Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, with Pastor Carl Heidel officiating.

The Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

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Esther L. Proffit, 97, of Markville, Minn., died Jan. 31, 2009.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, Feb. 7, 2 p.m., at Markville Lutheran Church. Visitation will be from 1 – 2 p.m. at the church. Interment will follow at Markville Cemetery.

A full obituary will be published in an upcoming edition.

The Swedberg-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

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OBITUARIES Alice Hallen Schneider Alice Hallen Schneider, (nee Neer), 86, Balsam Lake, died on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009, at the United Pioneer Home in Luck.

Alice was born on March 4, 1922, in Cable, to Edna and Dr. Wilmer Y. Neer. She graduated from Cable High School in 1939, and Summa Cum Laude from Northland College in Ashland in 1943, majoring in English, with minors in music and French. While at Northland, Alice worked in the business office and for the college president. From June to November 1943 she attended and graduated from Minneapolis Business College.

Alice moved to Des Moines, Iowa, and was employed in the admissions office at Drake University.

She then became secretary for the editor of Successful Farming magazine (Meredith Publishing), eventually becoming editor in a section of the magazine entitled “Successful Women,” writing/editing articles about women and the home.

In December 1945 she married Edwin Hallen. They moved to Balsam Lake in 1958 where he was the Polk County social services director. Alice was employed for many years in the law offices of George W. Peterson and Bruce P. Anderson, and later the Polk County Extension Office.

Years after the death of her first husband, Edwin, (1977), she was united in marriage to Herbert Schneider in 1985. They were married for 10 years when Herbert died in 1995.

Alice’s overriding joy was her family; she supported and took pride in the accomplishments of her children and grandchildren. She was actively involved in the community, including the Balsam Lake Evergreens 4-H as music leader, Balsam Lake Study Club, the Balsam Lake Library and the United Methodist Church (now Holy Trinity United Methodist Church).

Music was a significant passion, beginning as organist for the Cable Congregational Church (now UCC) while in high school. She was organist for 45 years for the Holy Trinity United Methodist Church, and as music director for many years. Alice was thoughtful at choosing just the right hymns and anthems to enhance the church service.

Alice is survived by her children: Linda Hallen of Waukesha, Sheryl (Dell) Kieselhorst of Mukwonago, Mark (Deanna) Hallen of Circle Pines, Minn.; grandchildren, Justin Hallen, Tess Kieselhorst, Krista (Josh) Kriegler, Jill Kieselhorst, Leif Brostrom and Brooke Hallen; sister, Helen (Robert) Darwin of Naples, Fla.; and many extended family members and friends.

Funeral service will be held at the Holy Trinity United Methodist Church in Balsam Lake on Saturday, Feb. 7, 11 a.m. The family will greet visitors at the Kolstad Family Funeral Home in Centuria on Friday, Feb. 6, from 4-6 p.m. and then again at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of service. Interment will be at the Balsam Lake Cemetery following the funeral service.

A luncheon will follow the cemetery service and all are invited.

Memorials preferred to flowers and may be directed to Holy Trinity United Methodist Church, Interfaith Caregivers, Regional Hospice or the Balsam Lake Public Library.

Condolences may be sent to: Sheryl Kieselhorst, 1210 River Park Circle West, Mukwonago, WI 53149 The Kolstad Family Funeral Home of Centuria was entrusted with funeral arrangements.

Larry C. Fox Larry C. Fox, 66, of St.Croix Falls, died Monday, Jan. 2, 2009, at the St. Croix Regional Medical Center.

Memorial service celebrating his life will be held on Saturday, Feb. 7, 11 a.m., at the United Methodist Church in St.Croix Falls.

Visitation will be held at the vhurch one hour. prior to service from 10 to 11 a.m.

A full obituary will be published in an upcoming edition.

The St. Croix Valley Funeral Home and Polk County Cremation Society, St. Croix Falls, was entrusted with arrangements.

Nellie K. Pardun Nellie K. Pardun of Danbury, 90, died Jan. 26, 2009 at United Hospital in St. Paul. Funeral services were held Jan. 31 at Danbury United Methodist Church with Pastor Cindy Glocke officiating. Arrangements were entrusted to Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster.

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

Paul B. Wickman

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Paul Beven Wickman, Siren, died peacefully Jan. 23, 2009, at The Lutheran Home in River Falls. He was 81 years old.

He was born to Edward and Hattie Wickman on Jan. 8, 1928, at home in Timberland. He was raised on a farm, the youngest of nine boys.

On April 26, 1952, he married Charlene Elaine Westphal. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War. Paul continued farming until the early 1960s. He became employed at Paper Calmenson Steel in the Twin Cities as a crane operator until his retirement in the late 1980s.

As a gentleman gardener, throughout his lifetime he was known for having a “green thumb,” producing spectacular vegetable and flower gardens each year.

He is preceded in death by his infant son, Steven; and brothers Roy, Ralph, Joseph, Elmer and infant Raymond.

He is survived by his wife, Charlene; son Michael; brothers Reuben, Stanley and Chester; and several nieces and nephews.

Paul was cremated through the Cremation Society of Minnesota. A memorial service has been scheduled for Saturday, April 18, 11 a.m., at Bethany Lutheran Church in Siren. Friends and family are welcome.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that a contribution be made in Paul Wickman’s name to the Bethany Lutheran Church for the purchase of new hymnals.

Robert J. Humpal, 86, of Clear Lake, died on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, at the Golden Age Manor Nursing Home in Amery, where he had lived for the past couple of months.

Robert John Humpal was born on Jan. 21, 1923, in Forest Township, the son of Wenzel and Alice (Heibel) Humpal. He grew up the Clear Lake area and was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Catholic Church there. Bob attended White Birch School and Clear Lake High School before moving with his family to Iowa for a couple of years. He returned to the Clear Lake area to farm and was married to Bernice M. Herzog on Oct. 2, 1944, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Amery. Together they raised two children, Robert Jr. and Lucy.

Over the years, Bob worked various jobs and lived at many places in and around Polk, Barron and St. Croix counties. In 1945, he started hauling milk for Stella Cheese, and after a short time there, he began farming in Forest Township. In 1948, Bob drove a milk route for the St. Croix Valley Dairy out of Glenwood City and later with the Farmers Co-op Creamery in Clear Lake. In 1956, Bob stopped hauling milk and began hauling cattle.

In 1957, he purchased a dairy farm in Lincoln Township and operated that until 1973. At that time, Bob sold the farm and purchased the Midway Bar in Clear Lake. He returned to farming in 1979 and lived and worked in the areas of Comstock and Clear Lake and eventually settled on the Andy Hornick farm near Reeve in 1988. Bob resided there until 2007, when he moved to the Pineview Apartments is Clear Lake.

In his spare time, Bob enjoyed hunting and fishing and spent a lot of that time near Cornucopia. He enjoyed playing cards, especially 500, and loved spending time visiting with his family and many friends.

Bob was a member of St. John’s Catholic Church in Clear Lake.

He is preceded in death by his wife, Bernice; his parents, Wenzel and Alice Humpal; his brother, Wenzel “Bunny” Humpal; and special friend, Eleanor Tronrud.

He is survived by his children, Robert J. Humpal Jr. of Knapp and Lucy A. Hornick of Clear Lake; grandchildren, Heather (Doug) Goyett of Pilot Point, Texas, Melanie Humpal of Greensboro, N.C., T.J. Humpal of Oahu, Hawaii, Jeremy Wood (Shelly Helin) of Amery, Corey (Angie) Hornick of Clayton, Lindsey (Jason) Almsted of Clayton; great-grandchildren, Stephanie and Bryan Goyett, Kaylee and Gracie Hornick; stepgreat-granchildren, Stephen and Andea Almsted and Beau Helin; sister and brother, Ellen Weide of Roseville, Minn., and Richard (Lorene) Humpal of Manitowoc; in-laws, Shirley Humpal of Boyceville and Andy Hornick of Clayton; many nieces and nephews, family and friends.

Mass of Christian burial was at St. John’s Catholic Church in Clear Lake on Saturday, Jan. 31. Celebrant was Fr. Innareddy Thumma. Organist was Christine LaFond and music was provided by the St. John’s Choir. Interment was at Reeve Cemetery in Reeve.

Honorary casket bearers were Jason Almsted, Dale Cuper, Doug Goyett and Tom Humpal. Casket bearers were Corey Hornick, Dean Tronrud , Charlie Humpal, Byron Weide, Chuck Humpal and Jeremy Wood.

The ScheuermannHammer Funeral Home of Clear Lake was entrusted with arrangements.

Donald A. Baker Donald A. Baker, 61, a resident of Siren, died Jan. 24, 2009, at his home.

Donnie was born in St. Paul, Minn., to James J. and Marie Baker. He served in the United States Navy during Vietnam. Donnie was a longstanding member of the bricklayers union. He was an avid golfer, hunter and fisherman.

Donnie was preceded in death by his parents; and brother, James Baker Jr. Donnie is survived by his son, Gregory (Gemma) Baker; brothers, Gregory Baker and John (Linda) Baker; sister, Marianne (Geri Harley) Baker; sisters-in-law, Darlene Baker and Kathy Reidel; nieces and nephews, Christopher and Jean, Patrick, David, Jim Baker III and Linda, Rosie and John, Julie and Allen, Lorraine and Mike, Louie and Carrie, Charlie and Shelly; aunts, Iris and Ruth Kropelnicki and daughter, Sharon Blazer; cousins, Bruce and Carol Vanilli, Mary Fritz and Susan Reppe and former wife, Jackie Mardikian.

Memorial services were held Thursday, Jan. 29, at the Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Siren Chapel, with Pastor Steve Ward officiating. Military honors accorded

by Spooner State Honor Guard and Burnett County VFW Post 1256.

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Howard E. Proffit Howard E. Proffit, 92, Superior, formerly of Webster, died Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009 in the Golden Living Center, Superior.

He was born Jan. 20, 1917, in Hinckley, Minn., to John and Theresa (Pavek) Proffit.

He owned and operated his farm in Minnesota and also was employed with United States Steel. Howard was a World War II veteran serving in the United States Army. He was a member of Webster VFW. He liked to go fishing, trapping, hunting and he was an expert gardener.

He is survived by one sister, Angeline Sperling of Superior; 14 nieces and nephews; and several great-nieces and great-nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Visitation will begin at noon, until the 1 p.m. funeral service on Thursday, Feb. 5, in the Lenroot-Maetzold Funeral Home. The Rev. Fr. Leon Flaherty of Cathedral of Christ the King will officiate. Burial will be in Covenant Church Cemetery in Dairyland.

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CHURCH NEWS Despite what “experts” may say, all babies born unique

plete. That investigation is known is professional literature as the New York Longitudinal Study. The findings from this investigation, led by psychiatrists Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas, were reported in their excellent book for parents titled, “Know Your Child.”

Chess and Thomas found that babies not only differ significantly from one another at the moment of birth, but those differences tend to be rather persistent throughout childhood. Even more interestingly, they observed three broad categories or patterns of temperaments into which the majority of children can be classified. First, they referred to “the difficult child,” who is characterized by negative reactions to people, intense mood swings, irregular sleep patterns and feeding schedules, frequent periods of crying and violent tantrums when frustrated.

Does that sound familiar? I described those individuals many years ago as “strong-willed” children.

The second pattern is called “the easy child,” who manifests a positive approach to people, quiet adaptability to new situations, regular sleep pattern and feeding schedules, and a willingness to accept the rules of the game. The authors concluded, “Such a youngster is usually a joy to his or her parents, pediatrician and teachers.” Amen.

My term for the easy child is “compliant.”

The third category was given the title “slow-towarm-up” or “shy.” These youngsters respond negatively to new situations and they adapt slowly.

However, they are less intense than difficult children,

QUESTION: I was taught in my psych class that babies come into the world devoid of personality, and the environment then stamps its image. Do you disagree?

DR. DOBSON: Philosophers Locke and Rousseau told us in the 17th and 18th centuries that babies came into the world as “tabula rasas,” or “blank slates,” upon which society and the environment wrote the fundamentals of personality. But they were wrong. We now know that every newborn is unique from every other baby, even from the first moments outside the womb. Except for identical twins, triplets, etc., no two are alike in biochemistry or genetics.

How foolish of philosophers and behavioral scientists to have thought otherwise. If God makes every grain of sand unique and every snowflake like no other, how simplistic to have believed that He massproduces little human robots. That is nonsense. We are, after all, made in His image.

Just ask the real experts – the mothers who understand their babies better than anyone. They’ll tell you that each of their infants had a different “feel,” – a different personality – from the first moment they were held. If these mothers are eventually blessed with six or eight or even 20 children, they will continue to say emphatically that every one of them was unique and distinct from the others when only 1 hour old. They are right – and their perceptions are being confirmed by scientific inquiry.

••• QUESTION: What else does research tell us about the personalities of newborns?

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and they tend to have regular sleeping and feeding schedules. When they are upset or frustrated, they typically withdraw from the situation and react mildly, rather than explode with anger and rebellion.

Not every child fits into one of these categories, of course, but approximately 65 percent do. Drs. Chess and Thomas also emphasized that babies are fully human at birth, being able immediately to relate to their parents and learn from their environments. I doubt if that news will come as a surprise to most mothers, who never believed in the “blank slate” theory, anyway.

It should not be difficult to understand why these findings from longitudinal research have been exciting to me. They confirm my own clinical observations, not only about the wonderful complexity of human beings, but also about the categories of temperament identified by Drs. Chess and Thomas.

••• Dr. Dobson is founder and chairman of the board of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, Colo. 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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Immaculate Conception centennial under way GRANTSBURG –Grantsburg’s Immaculate Conception Catholic Church is celebrating 100 years in 2009.

The parish plans to celebrate with a different theme each month.

January was chosen to honor the IC Council of Catholic Women. All women of the parish are members of the CCW. Former names of the group include Ladies Aid, Rosary Society, Altar & Rosary Society and Catholic Women’s Club. The month was dedicated to the women who have gone before and made it possible for the group to be here.

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Communion breakfast, homemade quilts for the graduating seniors, coffee Sunday, funeral lunches, Harvest Festival and many others.

A statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary called “Our Lady of Grace” was purchased and was placed near the entrance of the church were she welcomes everyone. The background for the statue was painted by a very talented artist.

The CCW works hard as they volunteer their time and God-given talents to help out wherever they are needed.

Raising funds to help support IC has also been an important role. In 1927, a new fair house was constructed at the Grantsburg fairgrounds. The Ladies Aid had a

concession stand of approximately 20 feet by 30 feet erected along the northeast side. Here they served chicken dinners with donated potatoes and veggies. A wood-burning cookstove was used. The dinners were sit-down, family-style and the charge was 50 cents. The stand was sold sometime in the early 1940s.

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CHURCH NEWS Trust, obey and practice

Renew your mind

The saying goes, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.”

That’s partly the reason my son and his crab-fishing crewmates made it safely home after their boat capsized in heavy seas and violent winds. Known as williwaws, the violent winds coming across the Bering Sea and over the mountains of the Gulf of Alaska have caused countless sea disasters.

Perspectives During their six-week trip to the Bering Sea, the skipper insisted they practice a timed drill. They had to put on their clumsy survival suits, practice using the emergency locator device, inflate the life raft, jump into the icy water, swim to the raft, and board it. The routine practice runs resulted in all the men knowing exactly where everything was and how to use it. It helped save their lives.

They may have complained about the time and effort it took, but they did obey the skipper—unlike the Israelites who not only complained but disobeyed their leader’s commands. They distrusted both Moses and God. Their mutinous spirit of complaining and unbelief resulted in hardship and ultimately death.

Only two entered the Promised Land.

Caleb and Joshua, the exceptions, trusted that God would provide victory against their adversaries— even when the enemies appeared like giants and outnumbered them. They knew that God, their Skipper, would help them through the mountainous waves and williwaw winds of trouble that would face them—because they had witnessed many of God’s miracles. They knew his Word and believed it. Because of their trust, they had faithfully obeyed his Word by putting it into daily practice.

How can we Christians practice our faith? How can we avoid the sins of unbelief and disobedience when we’re facing mountainous waves and williwaw winds of adversity?

The Bible is full of answers. Here are a few, paraphrased. Trust God with your whole heart rather than trusting in your own, lesser understanding. Carry the Bible in your heart and use a part of it every day. Listen to God’s voice and follow his commands. Step out of the boat and get your feet wet, allowing God to lead you to the safer side of the sea. Pray endlessly. Praise God in all things. Trust him for the best answers to your problems.

“My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land where he went ….” (Numbers 14:24) Lord, give us a Caleb spirit of trust and obedience—in trouble and triumph, in problems and prosperity, in calamity and comfort. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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Is faith a “blind leap” or can one know the Bible holds all Truth? Consider a piece of evidence from the field of archaeology—the Moabite Stone (also known as the Mesha Inscription). A missionary named F.A. Klein first discovered the stone in August of 1868.

When he initially saw the black basalt stone, it measured approximately 3-1/2-feet high and 2-feet wide.

Years later, Arabs decided to shatter it (possibly for profit or for retaliation) and the pieces ended up being scattered. But eventually, about two-thirds of the original stone ended up being relocated, and currently reside at the Louvre in Paris.

The written inscription on the stone provides a piece of outstanding evidence that verifies the Bible’s accuracy. Mesha, the king of Moab, had the stone cut in c. 850 B.C. to relate his numerous battle conquests.

In the over 30-line text (composed of approximately 260 words), Mesha mentioned that Omri was the king of Israel, just as 1 Kings 16:21-28 indicates. Furthermore, it mentions Ahab, Omri’s son, in close connection with the Moabites, as does 2 Kings 3:4-6. In addition, both the stone and 2 Kings 3:4-6 list Mesha as King of Moab. Further down in the inscription, the stone records the Israelite tribe of Gad, and the Israelite God, Yahweh. Each word verifying the accuracy of the Bible!

Another important feature of the Moabite stone is the fact that it resolved a question that has remained unanswered for years. The biblical record chronicles the Moabite suppression under King David and King Solomon, and how the Moabites broke free at the beginning of the divided kingdom.

However, the Bible also mentions (2 Kings 3:4) that Ahab was receiving tribute from Moab. As Alfred Hoerth has remarked: “Nowhere does the Bible state how or when Moab was reclaimed, for Ahab to be receiving such tribute. The Moabite Stone provides that information, telling, as it does, of Omri’s conquest from the Moabite point of view.” Taken as a whole, the Moabite Stone remains one of the most impres-

sive pieces of evidence verifying the historical accuracy of the Old Testament. We have the evidence—our faith should not be a “blind leap.” [Brad Harrub is a professional apologists who works with Focus Press. www.focuspress.org] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved Preacher’s in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. (1 Peter 1:3-9 NKJV) For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

(1 John 5:4 NKJV) 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.

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News from the Pews at Pilgrim Lutheran

Back Row (L to R): Riley Anderson, Kinzie Matz, Zane Matz and Austin Kurkowski. Front row: Mara Erickson and Cade Engen. – Photo submitted

FREDERIC – Last Sunday was the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. Even with the time change of worship beginning at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 9 a.m., the pews were full so it was apparent a lot of people remembered the time change. During worship the children sang the ever popular song “I’m In Love with the King,” using hand motions describing to the words of the song.

The committee continues to make preparations for the fourth-annual Valentine’s dinner to be held on Sunday, Feb. 8, following worship services. At noon a lunch will be served. Make your reservation by calling Affordable Quality Appliances in downtown Frederic, 327-4271, as there will not be any tickets sold at the door. Singles $8, couples $15 and a family will be $25. The public is invited to this event and the funds

Welcome at Bethany Nine young people from Bethany Lutheran Church in Siren faithfully attended classes and were prepared to receive their First Communion on Sunday, Feb. 1. Pictured are back row (L to R): Teacher Diane Blahauvitz, Michelle Dalsveen, Elizabeth Stanford, Emily Steimann, Cassidy Formanek, Madeline Doty and Pastor John Clasen. Front row: Aaron Rud, Kacie Tolzman, Laurel Kannenberg and Kaylee Tolzman. - Photo submitted

raised will go towards the Camp Scholarship Fund which has been established so all children will have the opportunity to get help in attending the camp of their choice; many of the students go to Luther Point Bible Camp in Grantsburg. Supplemental funds from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans have been applied for.

After lunch there will be a program by the youth of the church and it has been rumored that there may be a performance by “Dirty Dan” who has entertained the group in previous years. Mark your calendar to join in on this special celebration of celebrating love, and love of family and friends.

Check out their Web site www.pilgrimlutheran frederic.org or call the church office at 327-8012 for more information. - submitted

FEBRUARY 4, 2009 - INTER-COUNTY LEADER - NORTHERN CURRENTS, SECTION B - PAGE 25

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 (cont’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

477496 13a,d 24-26L WNAXLP

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009 - INTER-COUNTY LEADER - NORTHERN CURRENTS, SECTION B - PAGE 27

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

YEAR TAX

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

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

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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The Exploradome and math/science fair FREDERIC – On Jan. 29 the Frederic Elementary hosted a math/science fair night that was a huge success! The hallways were packed with awesome projects that the classrooms have been working on throughout the three-week Sky's the Limit Adventure. There were solar systems, 17 different puzzles that were put together of all different space scenes. The hallways also had constellations, myths and many other awesome projects. "I was amazed at how much the students learned from this unit of study" said Kelly Steen. "I attended an Exploradome adventure with our Mite-YVikes and a kindergarten class, and I was amazed at the answers they were able to give the presentor. It was great!"

Two hundred and ten people went through the Exploradome for each of the eight time slots that the show “The Night Sky" was presented. During the school day, each grade level picked a show that they wanted to see, which included, “The Northern Lights,” “Changes in the Sky,” “The Solar System,” and “Motions in the Sky,” the students just loved the

Hunter Schmidt and an erupting volcano. – Photos submitted

Julia Buck's (L) display and Kinzie Matz looking at it.

Exploradome experience as did the adults that evening.

The Polk-Burnett Electric Operation Round-Up grant helped with the funds to bring the Exploradome in to the elementary school.

The Frederic PTO is also hosting a meal for parents to help with fundraising and gratitude is extended for taking all of the “space photos” of the students.

The 22 students who planned and presented a project at the science/math fair did an excellent job with their projects.

The projects were all well done and there was an excellent variety of displays. There were presentation of an erupting volcano, math prime numbers, a sun dial, origami and many more projects. The students were very knowledgeable and did an excellent job teaching the students and adults who came to visit them during the evening.

On Monday, Feb. 2, Tim and Justin Moore came to the elementary and launched two rockets to conclude the three-week adventure. It was a super voyage. - submitted

Shot of the earth from inside the Exploradome.

Be prepared for winter power outages CENTURIA – “Local utility companies work hard to prevent power outages,” said Joan O’Fallon, communications director for Polk-Burnett. “But snow, wind and ice are inevitable during winter. While we can’t avoid power outages completely, members can be prepared to keep their home and family safe.”

Polk-Burnett offers the following safety tips to keep your home and family safe: • If your power goes out, check fuses and circuit breakers first. Second, check your neighbors to see if they have power. Then, report the outage to your electric company. Make sure you have your electric company’s phone number on hand in case of emergency.

• Remember, cordless phones do not

work without electricity. Make certain you have access to a regular hard-wired phone or a charged cell phone for emergencies.

• Keep away from downed wires and power poles; they may still be energized. Do not cut or clear trees or branches from power wires or poles.

Report these hazards to your electric company immediately.

• Never use gas space heaters indoors; they may cause carbon monoxide poisoning, fire and explosion.

• Protect computers, televisions, telephones and other electronic equipment with surge suppression devices.

• If you have a critical need for electricity to operate lifesaving medical equipment, livestock facilities or business operations, alert your electric com-

pany so it can provide priority service in response to an outage.

• If you use a wood-type stove for heat, know how it operates if your power fails.

• Create an emergency kit that includes bottled water (without electricity, your well and pump do not work); battery-powered radio; battery-powered flashlight; extra batteries; candles and matches; first-aid supplies; fire extinguisher; blankets; medicines; and nonperishable food that does not have to be heated.

“On-call utility crews often work in extreme conditions, and response time to restore power depends on the severity of damage and the weather,” said O’Fallon. “Power lines that serve the greatest number of people are repaired

first. Winter storms and power outages remind us of the importance of electricity and being prepared.”

For more information, contact your local energy provider or polkburnett.com. – from Polk-Burnett

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PLEASE NOTE IMPORTANT NOTICE YOU WILL LOSE TITLE TO YOUR PROPERTY IF THESE TAXES ARE NOT PAID ON OR BEFORE MARCH 19, 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. 2008-1 on file in the Office of the Clerk of Circuit Court of Polk County, dated January 15, 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 15, 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 March 19, 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 March 19, 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: 2008-1 PETITION FOR JUDGMENT VESTING TITLE TO POLK COUNTY Branch 2 - Judge Robert H. Rasmussen Authenticated 09CV31 - By Lois Hoff 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 14th day of January, 2009.

Carole T. Wondra, Polk County Clerk Polk County Government Center 100 Polk County Plaza, Suite 110, Balsam Lake, WI 54810 Filed Jan. 15, 2009 - Clerk of Circuit Court, Lois Hoff, Polk County

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 2008-1 AFFIDAVIT Branch 2 - Judge Robert H. Rasmussen Authenticated 09CV31 - By: Lois Hoff 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 2008-1 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 14th day of January, 2009.

Carole T. Wondra Notary Public, Polk County, Wis. Filed Jan. 15, 2009 - Clerk of Circuit Court, Lois Hoff, Polk County

LIST OF TAX LIENS OF POLK COUNTY BEING FORECLOSED BY PROCEEDING IN REM 2008-1 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

001 Town of Alden 002-01313-0200 Sec 14 T32 R18 Lot 2 CSM No 3455

Owners: Mitchel E. & LaVon K. Johnson Mortgage Holders: The RiverBank MERS as Nominee for Countryside Bank FSB

2005

002 Town of Alden 002-01592-0000 Sec 24 T32 R18 Lot 2 CSM No 3228

Owner: Curtis Ventures LLC Mortgage Holders: Schanon Mortgage assigned to Bremer Bank NA Lien/Judgment Holders: Discover Bank Sysco Food Services of Minnesota

003 Town of Alden 002-01627-0100 Sec 25 T32 R18 Lot 1 CSM No 2909

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

85.76

87

12% Annually

2005 SC 2005

1,729.87 100.00

102

12% Annually

Owners: Donald D. & Wendy L. Canopy Mortgage Holders: The RiverBank Citifinancial Inc. Lien/Judgment Holders: LVNV Funding Livingston Financial LLC North Star Capital Acquisition Secura Insurance Arrow Financial Services LLC WESTconsin Credit Union

2005 SC 2005

2,064.05 100.00

104

12% Annually

Owner: Mitchell R. Erickson Land Contract Holder: Donald H. & Harriet Schroepfer Assignment of LC: Rural American Bank Luck Lien/Judgment Holders: Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue

2005 SC 2005

005 Town of Alden 002-02200-0000 Sec 27 T32 R18 Pt Lot 29 Plat of Cedar Bend

Owner: Scott M. Mondor Mortgage Holder: First State Bank & Trust Lis Pendens: Viking Electric Supply Inc.

2005 SC 2005

510.84 100.00

123

12% Annually

006 Town of Alden 002-02207-0000 Sec 27 T32 R18 Lot 30 Plat of Cedar Bend

Owner: Scott M. Mondor Mortgage Holder: First State Bank & Trust Lis Pendens: Viking Electric Supply Inc.

2005 SC 2005

3,886.80 100.00

124

12% Annually

004 Town of Alden 002-01731-0000 Sec 27 T32 R18 Pt SW SW

798.07 100.00

108

12% Annually

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

YEAR TAX

007 Town of Apple River 004-00024-0100 Sec 01 T34 R16 Lot 1 CSM No 4169

Owner: Troy J. Hanson Mortgage Holder: S&C Bank nka AnchorBank Lien/Judgment Holder: WESTconsin Credit Union

2005 SC 2005

008 Town of Apple River 004-00121-0200 Sec 5 T34 R16 Lot 2 CSM No 1709

Owner: John T. Aronson Mortgage Holders: MERS as Nominee for Full Spectrum Lending Inc. Schanon Mortgage Inc. Bremer Bank NA Lis Pendens: Schanon Mortgage Lien/Judgment Holders: GMAC Maxwell Heating & Air Conditioning

009 Town of Apple River 004-00398-0000 Sec 12 T34 R16 Pt SE NE & NE SE Aka Pcl 1 PD 820

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

289.55 100.00

135

12% Annually

2005 SC 2005

1,818.44 100.00

136

12% Annually

Owner: Laurie Sabata Mortgage Holders: Polk County, Wisconsin Bremer Bank NA

2005 SC 2005

1,157.33 100.00

152

12% Annually

010 Town of Apple River 004-00803-0000 Sec 29 T34 R16 Gov Lot 2

Owner: Vicky L. Desota Lien/Judgment Holder: Ford Motor Credit Company

2005 SC 2005

285.56 100.00

213

12% Annually

011 Town of Apple River 004-00804-0000 Sec 29 T34 R16 Gov Lot 3

Owner: Susan J. Peterson Lien/Judgment Holder: Hill Top Excavating

2005 SC 2005

515.82 100.00

214

12% Annually

012 Town of Apple River 004-00808-0000 Sec 29 T34 R16 SE SW Exc 6 Acres

Owner: Susan J. Peterson Lien/Judgment Holder: Hill Top Excavating

2005 SC 2005

282.39 100.00

218

12% Annually

013 Town of Apple River 004-00899-0040 Sec 33 T34 R16 Pt Lot 4 CSM No 1740

Owner: Joshua Beauvais

2005 SC 2005

119.16 100.00

231

12% Annually

014 Town of Apple River 004-01000-0000 Sec 6 T34 R16 Unit 7 East Balsam Resort Condominium

Owner: Mark G. Mann Mortgage Holder: Associated Bank NA

2005 SC 2005

159.69 100.00

236

12% Annually

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LIST OF TAX LIENS OF POLK COUNTY BEING FORECLOSED BY PROCEEDING IN REM 2008-1 (cont’d.)

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

YEAR TAX

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

015 Town of Apple River Owners: Vernon J. & Lucille 004-01189-0000 M. Kelly Sec 36 T34 R16 Pt Lot 7 & Lot 12 Assessor’s Plat of NE NE (Range)

2005 SC 2005

016 Town of Balsam Lake 006-00426-0000 Sec 15 T34 R17 Pt SE NE incl OL 1 CSM No 2762

Owner: Peter J. Hanson Lien/Judgment Holders: Country Carpet & Loft Madison Equine Clinic Rick Held Steve Martell

2005 SC 2005

224.49 100.00

269

12% Annually

017 Town of Balsam Lake 006-01042-0000 Sec 35 T34 R17 Pt NE NE

Owner: Laura L. Goodwin Mortgage Holders: Forrest G. & Mary G. Clark Lien/Judgment Holders: Dept. of Workforce Development WESTconsin Credit Union Rural American Bank Luck The RiverBank Bay Finance Company Kemper Independence Insurance Co. AER Development Group

2005 SC 2005

374.89 100.00

316

12% Annually

018 Town of Balsam Lake 006-01079-0001 Sec 35 T34 R17 Outlot 1 CSM No 4438

Owners: Jeffrey D. Hulett Carolyn A. Michels Michael G. Tibbetts Mortgage Holders: JP Morgan Chase Bank Security State Bank of Marine

2005 SC 2005

110.12 100.00

330

12% Annually

019 Town of Balsam Lake 006-01375-0000 Sec 8 T34 R17 Lot 7 Plat of Spring Park

Owners: Thomas C. Huber Debra Jean Shafer Lien/Judgment Holder: Patti A. Leafgren

2005 SC 2005

1,242.34 100.00

344

12% Annually

020 Town of Beaver 008-00516-0000 Sec 18 T34 R15 Gov Lot 10

Owner: Maria Baucom aka Maria L. Rush Mortgage Holder: WESTconsin Credit Union Lien/Judgment Holder: Wells Fargo Financial

2005 SC 2005

342.07 100.00

373

12% Annually

021 Town of Black Brook 010-00188-0000 Sec 8 T32 R16 Pt S 1/2 NE NE

Owners: Charles E. & Wanda Stuntz Mortgage Holder: Bremer Bank NA Lien/Judgment Holders: Amery Regional Medical Center Cemstone Ready-Mix Inc.

2005 SC 2005

69.44 100.00

418

12% Annually

022 Town of Black Brook 010-00487-0600 Sec 19 T32 R16 Lot 6 CSM No 4232

Owner: Richard F. Diedrich Mortgage Holders: MERS as nominee for America’s Wholesale Lender Countrywide Home Loans Inc. Lien/Judgment Holder: Asset Acceptance

2005 SC 2005

1,425.85 100.00

434

12% Annually

023 Town of Black Brook 010-00763-0000 Sec 30 T32 R16 E 40 Rods of Gov Lot 7

Owner: Jason R. Dawson Mortgage Holder: MERS as nominee for Union River Mortgage LLC

2005 SC 2005

80.17 100.00

446

12% Annually

024 Town of Bone Lake 012-00135-0000 Sec 8 T36 R16 Pt NE NE

Owners: Terry L. & Kimberly R. Brenizer Mortgage Holder: Associates Industrial Loan Co. Lien/Judgment Holders: Adrian & Angela Tuynman State Farm Mutual Insurance Busy B’s Service & Wash Country Pride Cooperative Capital One

2005 SC 2005

1,208.07 100.00

467

12% Annually

Owner: Diane L. Buhler Mortgage Holder: S&C Bank nka AnchorBank Lien/Judgment Holders: Arrow Financial Services Portfolio Recovery Associates Cavalry Portfolio Services Resurgence Financial LLC

2005 SC 2005

Owners: Mark L. Holmgren Patricia L. Lawrence Mortgage Holders: Thomas D. & Margaret A. Rogers Lien/Judgment Holder: Diagnostic Radiology Associates

2005 SC 2005

025 Town of Bone Lake 012-00179-0000 Sec 9 T36 R16 Pt SE SE

026 Town of Bone Lake 012-00645-0000 Sec 27 T36 R16 Pt NE NE

1,137.41 100.00

1,149.31 100.00

526.32 100.00

246

468

491

12% Annually

12% Annually

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

YEAR TAX

027 Town of Bone Lake 012-00729-0000 Sec 29 T36 R16 Lot 1 CSM No 4278

Owner: Danny E. Hoffman Lien/Judgment Holder: Department of Revenue

2005 SC 2005

173.49 100.00

501

12% Annually

028 Town of Clam Falls 014-00615-0000 Sec 29 T37 R16 NW SE

Owners: Calvin M. King Robert Dale King Christopher King Jr. Jason King Pamela A. King Possible Lien Holders: Brown Child Support Agency Milwaukee Child Support Agency Portage Child Support Agency Winnebago Child Support Agency Manitowoc Child Support Agency La Crosse Child Support Agency

2005 SC 2005

1,133.11 100.00

572

12% Annually

029 Town of Clam Falls 014-00616-0000 Sec 29 T37 R16 SW SE

Owners: Calvin M. King Robert Dale King Christopher King Jr. Jason King Pamela A. King Possible Lien Holders: Brown Child Support Agency Milwaukee Child Support Agency Portage Child Support Agency Winnebago Child Support Agency Manitowoc Child Support Agency La Crosse Child Support Agency

2005 SC 2005

405.36 100.00

573

12% Annually

030 Town of Clayton 016-00173-0000 Sec 8 T33 R15 Pt NW SE

Owners: Steven D. & Suzanne L. Brihn Land Contract Holders: Augusta B. & Donald G. Fennern Mortgage Holder: First American Bank NA nka Bremer Bank Lien/Judgment Holders: Department of TreasuryInternal Revenue Service Joseph V. & Amy Sigsworth

2005 SC 2005

190.70 100.00

601

12% Annually

031 Town of Clayton 016-00764-0000 Sec 31 T33 R15 Pt Gov Lot 4

Owners: Arthur W. Renander Zara Renander Sonja V. Renander Mortgage Holder: Farm Credit Services of Northwest Wis. FLCA Craig W. Shirley

2005 SC 2005

746.51 100.00

640

12% Annually

032 Town of Clayton 016-00765-0000 Sec 31 T33 R15 Pt Gov Lot 4

Owners: Arthur W. Renander Zara Renander Sonja V. Renander Mortgage Holder: Farm Credit Services of Northwest Wis. FLCA Craig W. Shirley

2005 SC 2005

272.26 100.00

641

12% Annually

033 Town of Clayton 016-00769-0000 Sec 31 T33 R15 N 1/2 Gov Lot 6

Owners: Arthur W. Renander Zara Renander Sonja V. Renander Mortgage Holder: Farm Credit Services of Northwest Wis. FLCA Craig W. Shirley

2005 SC 2005

91.75 100.00

643

12% Annually

034 Town of Clayton 016-00771-0000 Sec 31 T33 R15 Gov Lot 7

Owners: Arthur W. Renander Zara Renander Sonja V. Renander Mortgage Holder: Farm Credit Services of Northwest Wis. FLCA Craig W. Shirley

2005 SC 2005

851.89 100.00

644

12% Annually

035 Town of Clear Lake 018-00116-0600 Sec 6 T32 R15 Lot 6 CSM No 2709

Owner: Jeff C. Brandt Mortgage Holder: Green Tree Financial Servicing Corp.

Lien/Judgment Holders: Household Auto Finance Amery Regional Medical Center

2005 SC 2005

1,264.51 100.00

652

12% Annually

036 Town of Clear Lake 018-00452-0001 Sec 23 T32 R15 Lot 1 CSM No 1617

Owner: Kevin Beyl

2005 SC 2005

985.58 100.00

668

12% Annually

12% Annually

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AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

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PLEASE NOTE IMPORTANT NOTICE YOU WILL LOSE TITLE TO YOUR PROPERTY IF THESE TAXES ARE NOT PAID ON OR BEFORE MARCH 19, 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. 2008-2 on file in the Office of the Clerk of Circuit Court of Polk County, dated January 15, 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 15, 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 March 19, 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 March 19, 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: 2008-2 PETITION FOR JUDGMENT VESTING TITLE TO POLK COUNTY Branch 2 - Judge Robert H. Rasmussen Authenticated 09CV32 - By Lois Hoff 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 14th day of January, 2009.

Carole T. Wondra, Polk County Clerk Polk County Government Center 100 Polk County Plaza, Suite 110, Balsam Lake, WI 54810 Filed Jan. 15, 2009 - Clerk of Circuit Court, Lois Hoff, Polk County

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 2008-2 AFFIDAVIT Branch 2 - Judge Robert H. Rasmussen Authenticated 09CV32 - By: Lois Hoff 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 2008-2 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 14th day of January, 2009.

Carole T. Wondra Notary Public, Polk County, Wis. Filed Jan. 15, 2009 - Clerk of Circuit Court, Lois Hoff, Polk County

LIST OF TAX LIENS OF POLK COUNTY BEING FORECLOSED BY PROCEEDING IN REM 2008-2 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. YEAR TAX

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

009 Town of Johnstown 028-00146-0000 Sec 8 T35 R15 SW NW

Owner: Dean Lundstrom

2005 SC 2005

971.65 100.00

1015

12% Annually

Owners: Douglas C. & Rebecca E. Holmstrom

2005 SC 2005

322.45 100.00

1019

12% Annually

12% Annually

010 Town of Johnstown 028-00295-0000 Sec 12 T35 R15 Pt SE SW

Owner: Bank of America NA

2005 SC 2005

22.39 100.00

1029

12% Annually

12% Annually

011 Town of Johnstown 028-00841-0000 Sec 33 T35 R15 E 1/2 W 1/2 NE SW

Owners: David P. & Susan Johnson Possible Liens: Kenosha Child Support Agency Calumet Child Support Agency Dane Child Support Agency Polk County Child Support Agency

2005 SC 2005

23.49 100.00

1032

12% Annually

12% Annually

012 Town of Johnstown 028-00846-0500 Sec 33 T35 R15 Lot 5 CSM No 2014

013 Town of Laketown 030-00116-0000 Sec 4 T36 R18 Pt NW SE

Owners: William J. & Kathleen A. Rivard Mortgage Holder: Rural American Bank Luck Lien/Judgment Holders: Eagle Valley Bank The RiverBank U.S. Bank Elizabeth Heidi Rivard

2005 SC 2005

1,200.96 100.00

1040

12% Annually

014 Town of Laketown 030-00508-0300 Sec 21 T36 R18 Lot 3 CSM No 4624

Owners: Michael A. & Andrea L. High Lien/Judgment Holders: Wells Fargo Financial Acceptance William A. Patterson

2005 SC 2005

41.78 100.00

1065

12% Annually

015 Town of Laketown 030-00761-0000 Sec 31 T36 R18 Pt NW NW

Owner: Craig A. Jones Mortgage Holder: Community Bank of Cameron - Grantsburg

2005 SC 2005

146.53 100.00

1080

12% Annually

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

001 Town of Farmington 022-00533-0100 Sec 22 T32 R19 Lot 1 CSM No 1753

Owners: Inpong Luangrath & Melinda M. Swanson Mortgage Holders: Associates Home Equity Services MERS as nominee for America’s Wholesale Lender

2005 SC 2005

002 Town of Farmington 022-00578-0000 Sec 24 T32 R19 Pt NW NW

Owner: Troy K. Buege Mortgage Holder: First State Bank & Trust

2005 SC 2005

855.66 100.00

817

003 Town of Farmington 022-00901-0000 Sec 17 T32 R18 E 1/2 SW SW SE

Owners: Gergory L. & Kathryn E. Leisch

2005 SC 2005

1,072.00 100.00

838

004 Town of Farmington 022-00977-1900 Sec 29 T32 R18 Lot 19 CSM No 3762

Owner: Larry J. Kolve Lien/Judgment Holders: Dept. of Workforce Development David Cook Croix Management Company Mark Lange St. Croix Falls Family Housing

2005 SC 2005

670.78 100.00

851

005 Town of Farmington 022-01034-0100 Sec 31 T32 R18 Lot 1 CSM No 2465

Owners: David M. & LoAnne K. Nemeth Mortgage Holder: First State Bank & Trust

2005 SC 2005

2,591.26 100.00

855

12% Annually

006 Town of Garfield 024-00077-1400 Sec 5 T33 R17 Lot 14 CSM No 3816

Owner: Neil J. Jacobson Mortgage Holder: Associated Bank

2005 SC 2005

530.79 100.00

871

12% Annually

007 Town of Garfield 024-00079-0700 Sec 5 T33 R17 Lot 7 CSM No 3719

Owners: Gary J. & Jennifer I. Wendlandt Jay S. Mattsfield Mortgage Holder: Associated Bank

2005 SC 2005

182.37 100.00

875

12% Annually

008 Town of Johnstown 028-00122-0000 Sec 7 T35 R15 SE NE

Owners: Dean Lundstrom Norman Lundstrom Dawn Lundstrom

2005 SC 2005

753.69 100.00

1014

12% Annually

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

814

12% Annually

709.88 100.00

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AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

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LIST OF TAX LIENS OF POLK COUNTY BEING FORECLOSED BY PROCEEDING IN REM 2008-2 (cont’d.)

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

YEAR TAX

AMT. TAX CERT. #

016 Town of Laketown 030-00814-0000 Sec 33 T36 R18 Pt NW NW

Owners: Rolland W. & Rosie S. Davison Mortgage Holders: Wells Fargo Financial Acceptance Beneficial Wisconsin, Inc. Lien/Judgment Holder: Monogram Credit Card Bank

2005 SC 2005

017 Town of Laketown 030-00819-0000 Sec 33 T36 R18 Lot 1 CSM No 709

Owner: Brian J. Larson Mortgage Holder: Firstar Bank Grantsburg NA Firstar Bank USA NA Firstar Bank NA

2005 SC 2005

963.56 100.00

1083

12% Annually

018 Town of Laketown 030-00928-0000 Sec 4 T36 R18 Lot 8 Plat of Peterson & Nelson Shores

Owner: Calvin Jacobson Lien/Judgment Holder: Bank One NA

2005 SC 2005

336.81 100.00

1089

019 Town of Lincoln 032-00025-0000 Sec 2 T33 R16 Pt SW NW

Owner: Bruce Alan Boe

2005 SC 2005

569.19 100.00

020 Town of Linoln 032-00157-0200 Sec 8 T33 R16 Pt N 1/2 NE aka Pcl F Map of Survey PD No 1293

Owners: John M. & Kimberly K. Kelly Mortgage Holder: Green Tree Financial Servicing Corp.

Lien/Judgment Holder: Racine County Child Support Agency

2005 SC 2005

1,003.41 100.00

021 Town of Lincoln 032-00510-0000 Sec 20 T33 R16 Pt Gov Lot 3

Owners: Laurie J. & Eva L. Porter Lien/Judgment Holders: St. Croix Truck & Trailer

2005 SC 2005

159.60 100.00

1121

12% Annually

022 Town of Lincoln 032-00522-0000 Sec 20 T33 R16 Lot 1 V2 CSM/62 in Gov Lot 4

Owner: Kaivon M. Momeni Dorothy Hirsch (LE) Mortgage Holder: Bremer Bank NA

2005 SC 2005

2,651.54 100.00

1124

12% Annually

023 Town of Lincoln 032-00601-0000 Sec 21 T33 R16 Pt SW SE

Owners: Edward G. Sr. & Patricia Beck Mortgage Holder: Washington Mutual Bank FA

2005 SC 2005

1,416.58 100.00

1133

12% Annually

1,597.98 100.00

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

YEAR TAX

024 Town of Lincoln 032-00909-0000 Sec 21 T33 R16 Pt NW NE

Owner: Barbara F. Henck Mortgage Holder: WESTconsin Credit Union

2005 SC 2005

50.55 100.00

025 Town of Lincoln 032-00976-0000 Sec 32 T33 R16 Pt SE NW

Owners: Kathleen M. Cross Mark R. Athey Mortgage Holder: Option One Mortgage Corp.

Lien/Judgment Holders: Amery Regional Medical Center Polk County Zoning Paul A. Hauge DDS

2005 SC 2005

1,319.22 100.00

1157 12% Annually

12% Annually

026 Town of Lincoln 032-01536-0000 Sec 25 T33 R17 Pt Lots 15 & 16 Ragna’s Add to Sand Beach Park

Owners: Robert S. & Beverly A. Borgstrom Mortgage Holders: Northwest Savings Bank Bremer Bank NA

2005 SC 2005

340.48 100.00

1182 12% Annually

1093

12% Annually

027 Town of Lorain 034-00185-0000 Sec 10 T37 R15 Pt SW NE

2005 SC 2005

689.44 100.00

1194

1107

12% Annually

Owner: Dorothy L. Chenal Lien/Judgment Holders: Wisconsin Department of Workforce Department of Revenue Capitol One Bank L.E. Proffit & Sons Polk County Child Support Agency

028 Town of Luck 036-00858-0100 Sec 34 T36 R17 Lot 1 CSM No 4014

Owner: William T. Menne Mortgage Holder: S&C Bank nka AnchorBank

2005 SC 2005

2,008.35 100.00

029 Town of McKinley 038-00751-0000 Sec 32 T36 R15 SE NW

Owner: Mark A. Bottolfson Mortgage Holder: AgStar Financial Services

2005 SC 2005

46.25 100.00

1293

030 Town of McKinley 038-00781-0000 Sec 33 T36 R15 Pt NE SE

Owner: Robert Bates Lien/Judgment Holder: Cumberland Memorial Hospital

2005 SC 2005

465.50 100.00

1296 12% Annually

031 Town of McKinley 038-00857-0000 Sec 10 T36 R15 Lot 2 Sunrise Roost

Owners: Donald C. & Rebecca J. Seaquist

2005 SC 2005

51.43 100.00

1300 12% Annually

1082

INT. RATE 12% Annually

AMT. TAX CERT. # 1154

INT. RATE 12% Annually

12% Annually

1260 12% Annually

12% Annually

476986 22-24L 12a,d

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LIST OF TAX LIENS OF POLK COUNTY BEING FORECLOSED BY PROCEEDING IN REM 2008-1 (cont’d.)

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

12% Annually

041 Town of Eureka 020-00547-0000 Sec 20 T35 R18 Pt NW SW

2005 Owners: Jose H. & SC 2005 Ana G. Trejo Lien/Judgment Holder: Milwaukee Child Support Agency

656.18 100.00

720

12% Annually

692

12% Annually

721

12% Annually

693

12% Annually

2005 Owners: Jose H. & SC 2005 Ana G. Trejo Lien/Judgment Holder: Milwaukee Child Support Agency

114.04 100.00

1,335.91 100.00

042 Town of Eureka 020-00548-0000 Sec 20 T35 R18 S 30 Acres of SW SW

239.29 100.00

766

12% Annually

714

12% Annually

Owners: Donald R. & Jessica L. Parks Mortgage Holder: MERS as nominee for First Magnus Financial Corp.

2005 SC 2005

57.43 100.00

043 Town of Eureka 020-01240-0900 Sec 24 T35 R19 Lot 9 CSM No 4487

AMT. TAX CERT. #

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

037 Town of Eureka 020-00005-0000 Sec 1 T35 R18 Pt of SE NE & Pt NE SE

Owner: Michael Vernon Chaney Mortgage Holder: S&C Bank nka AnchorBank

2005 SC 2005

1,189.58 100.00

683

038 Town of Eureka 020-00082-0000 Sec 4 T35 R18 Pt SW SW

Owner: Brian J. Larson Mortgage Holders: Firstar Bank USA NA

2005 SC 2005

213.08 100.00

039 Town of Eureka 020-00084-0000 Sec 4 T35 R18 SE SW

Owner: Brian J. Larson Mortgage Holders: Firstar Bank USA NA

2005 SC 2005 2005 SC 2005

Owner: David O. Johnson 040 Town of Eureka 020-00417-0000 Lien/Judgment Holder: Sec 17 T35 R18 Pt SW SE Polk Cty. Child Support Agency

YEAR TAX

INT. RATE

YEAR TAX

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

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PLEASE NOTE IMPORTANT NOTICE YOU WILL LOSE TITLE TO YOUR PROPERTY IF THESE TAXES ARE NOT PAID ON OR BEFORE MARCH 19, 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. 2008-3 on file in the Office of the Clerk of Circuit Court of Polk County, dated January 15, 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 15, 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 March 19, 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 March 19, 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: 2008-3 PETITION FOR JUDGMENT VESTING TITLE TO POLK COUNTY Branch 2 - Judge Robert H. Rasmussen Authenticated 09CV33 - By Lois Hoff 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 14th day of January, 2009.

Carole T. Wondra, Polk County Clerk Polk County Government Center 100 Polk County Plaza, Suite 110, Balsam Lake, WI 54810 Filed Jan. 15, 2009 - Clerk of Circuit Court, Lois Hoff, Polk County

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 2008-3 AFFIDAVIT Branch 2 - Judge Robert H. Rasmussen Authenticated 09CV33 - By: Lois Hoff 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 2008-3 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 14th day of January, 2009.

Carole T. Wondra Notary Public, Polk County, Wis. Filed Jan. 15, 2009 - Clerk of Circuit Court, Lois Hoff, Polk County

LIST OF TAX LIENS OF POLK COUNTY BEING FORECLOSED BY PROCEEDING IN REM 2008-3 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

001 Town of Milltown 040-00354-0000 Sec 12 T35 R17 Pt SE SE

Owner: Theodore L. Hughes Lien/Judgment Holder: Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service

2005 SC 2005

002 Town of Milltown 040-00399-0000 Sec 14 T35 R17 Pt SE SW

Owners: Michael A. & Janis G. Larson Mortgage Holder: Rural American Bank Luck Possible Lien/Judgment Holder: Milwaukee Child Support Agency

2005 SC 2005

Owners: Michael A. & Janis G. Larson Mortgage Holder: Rural American Bank Luck Possible Lien/Judgment Holder: Milwaukee Child Support Agency

2005 SC 2005

004 Town of Milltown 040-00619-0000 Sec 23 T35 R17 Pt E 1/2 NE NW

Owners: Michael A. & Janis G. Larson Mortgage Holder: Rural American Bank Luck Possible Lien/Judgment Holder: Milwaukee Child Support Agency

2005 SC 2005

64.77 100.00

1351

005 Town of Milltown 040-00474-0000 Sec 17 T35 R17 Pt S 1/2 SE

Owner: Richard J. Mueller Lien/Judgment Holders: County of Polk Paul A. Hauge DDS Stenberg Motor Supply Inc. Milltown Corp.

Paul’s Sheet Metal Inc. Karen Freeman Joseph (Pat) Callahan Patrick Sand

2005 SC 2005

523.60 100.00

1341

Owner: Julie Ann Thomas Mortgage Holder: S&C Bank nka AnchorBank Lien/Judgment Holder: Paul A. Hauge DDS

2005 SC 2005

003 Town of Milltown 040-00400-0000 Sec 14 T35 R17 Pt SE SW

006 Town of Milltown 040-00558-0000 Sec 21 T35 R17 Pt SE NW

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

137.25 100.00

1335

12% Annually

1,083.02 100.00

1337

12% Annually

1,368.94 100.00

2,379.41 100.00

1338

1347

12% Annually

12% Annually

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/ YEAR TAX JUDGMENT HOLDER

007 Town of Milltown 040-00609-0100 Sec 23 T35 R17 Lot 1 CSM No 2878 & Pcl In SE SE Sec 14

Owner: Fred A. Jenderny Mortgage Holder: Rural American Bank Luck

2005 SC 2005

008 Town of Milltown 040-01445-0000 Sec 25 T35 R17 Pt Lot 13 Plat Green Bay nka Lot 1 CSM No 5091

Owner: Virginia J. Wahlquist Trust

009 Town of Milltown 040-01447-0000 Sec 25 T35 R17 Pt Lot 14 Plat of Green Bay nka Lot 1 CSM No 5091

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

1,355.43 100.00

1350

12% Annually

2005 SC 2005

681.62 100.00

1383

12% Annually

Owner: Virginia J. Wahlquist Trust

2005 SC 2005

1,432.71 100.00

1384

12% Annually

010 Town of Osceola 042-00304-0000 Sec 16 T33 R18 Lot 1 CSM No 1669

Owners: Robert D. & Francis E. Petrich Lien/Judgment Holder: St. Croix Valley Good Samaritan Center

2005 SC 2005

842.25 100.00

1399

12% Annually

011 Town of St. Croix Falls 044-00235-0000 Sec 9 T34 R18 NE SW

Owners: Matthew R. Rieschl, Alex C. Foeller, Greg X. Foeller, Dean C. Frokjer, Vern H. Simon, Harvey L. Quist, Marcella Ann Frokjer, Kathleen M. Simon Land Contract Holders: Harvey L. Quist & Marcella Ann Frokjer Lien/Judgment Holders: Randal L. Petersen Midland Funding Wisconsin Electric Power Co.

2005 SC 2005

1,108.04 100.00

1454

12% Annually

012 Town of St. Croix Falls 044-00239-0000 Sec 9 T34 R18 Pt SE SW

Owners: Matthew R. Rieschl, Alex C. Foeller, Greg X. Foeller, Dean C. Frokjer, Vern H. Simon, Harvey L. Quist, Marcella Ann Frokjer, Kathleen M. Simon Land Contract Holders: Harvey L. Quist & Marcella Ann Frokjer Lien/Judgment Holders: Randal L. Petersen Midland Funding Wisconsin Electric Power Co.

2005 SC 2005

750.29 100.00

1457

12% Annually

12% Annually

12% Annually

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LIST OF TAX LIENS OF POLK COUNTY BEING FORECLOSED BY PROCEEDING IN REM 2008-3 (cont’d.)

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

013 Town of St. Croix Falls 044-00243-0000 Sec 9 T34 R18 Pt SW SE

Owners: Matthew R. Rieschl, Alex C. Foeller, Greg X. Foeller, Dean C. Frokjer, Vern H. Simon, Harvey L. Quist, Marcella Ann Frokjer, Kathleen M. Simon Land Contract Holders: Harvey L. Quist & Marcella Ann Frokjer Lien/Judgment Holders: Randal L. Petersen Midland Funding Wisconsin Electric Power Co.

2005 SC 2005

014 Town of Sterling 046-00540-0000 Sec 22 T36 R19 Lot 3 V3 CSM/72 & Pt Lot 4 V546/341

Owner: Richard J. Albright Lien/Judgment Holder: Capital One

2005 SC 2005

417.87 100.00

1568

12% Annually

015 Town of Sterling 046-00694-0000 Sec 28 T36 R19 Lot 1 CSM No 4494

Owner: Kenneth C. Paulson Mortgage Holder: S&C Bank nka AnchorBank Lien/Judgment Holders: First BankCard Center Robert R. Gadwa Firstar Bank NA Platinum Financial Services Beth Neely Sherman Acquisition Green Tree Servicing Township of Sterling Sam Weber Grindell Law Offices Department of Revenue Ladd Memorial Hospital

2005 SC 2005

1,577.00 100.00

1575

12% Annually

016 Town of Sterling 046-00734-0000 Sec 30 T36 R19 Pt NW NE

Owners: Francis J. & Katherine W. Sheehan

2005 SC 2005

67.61 100.00

1580

12% Annually

017 Town of West Sweden 048-00110-0000 Sec 5 T37 R17 PT SW SW

Owner: John Lindell

2005 SC 2005

136.89 100.00

1609

12% Annually

018 Town of West Sweden 048-00333-0000 Sec 14 T37 R17 Pt NE SE

Owner: David M. Chenal Party of Interest: Fransisco Vallella Lien/Judgment Holders: Dearco Distributing Inc. The Estate of Elizabeth Coen Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service

2004 2005 SC 2005

1,966.37 2,069.32 100.00

1562 1621

12% Annually 12% Annually

019 Town of West Sweden 048-00646-0000 Sec 28 T37 R17 Pt SE NW

Owner: Sandra L. Hoff Mortgage Holder: U.S. Bank NA ND Lien/Judgment Holders: St. Croix Regional Medical Ctr. CenturyTel

2005 SC 2005

020 Town of West Sweden 048-00649-0000 Sec 28 T37 R17 Pt NE SW

Owner: Sandra L. Hoff Mortgage Holder: U.S. Bank NA ND Lien/Judgment Holders: St. Croix Regional Medical Ctr. CenturyTel

2005 SC 2005

021 Town of West Sweden 048-00951-0000 Sec 28 T37 R17 Lot 4 Wm J Starrs Subdiv NW SE

Owner: Sandra L. Hoff Mortgage Holder: U.S. Bank NA ND Lien/Judgment Holders: St. Croix Regional Medical Ctr. CenturyTel

2005 SC 2005

47.91 100.00

1663

12% Annually

022 Town of West Sweden 048-00952-0000 Sec 28 T37 R17 Lot 5 Wm J Starrs Subdiv NW SE

Owner: Sandra L. Hoff Mortgage Holder: U.S. Bank NA ND Lien/Judgment Holders: St. Croix Regional Medical Ctr. CenturyTel

2005 SC 2005

13.68 100.00

1664

12% Annually

023 Town of West Sweden 048-00905-0000 Sec 27 T37 R17 Lot 17 Blk 2 Setzers Add To NW NW

Owner: Thomas F. Nordmeyer

2005 SC 2005

55.47 100.00

1659

12% Annually

024 Village of Balsam Lake 106-00352-0000 Sec 11 T34 R17 Lot 2 Blk 2 Indianhead Shores

Owner: Doris M. Usher Mortgage Holder: Polk County Bank nka AnchorBank Lien/Judgment Holder: Wisconsin Electric Power Co.

2005 DC 2005 SC 2005

799.34 650.57 100.00

1682 1682

12% Annually

025 Village of Balsam Lake 106-00555-0100 Sec 10 T34 R17 Pt NE NW

Owners: Gregory A. & Jeanne S. Nelson Mortgage Holder: S&C Bank nka AnchorBank Possible Lien: Dane Child Support Agency

2005 SC 2005

1,711.24 100.00

1686

12% Annually

YEAR TAX

AMT. TAX CERT. # 26.91 100.00

180.23 100.00

1,524.28 100.00

1458

1645

1646

INT. RATE

12% Annually

12% Annually

12% Annually

NO. DESCRIPTION

OWNER/MORTGAGE CO. LIEN/JUDGMENT HOLDER

YEAR TAX

AMT. TAX CERT. #

INT. RATE

026 Village of Centuria 111-00088-0100 Sec 11 T34 R18 Lot 1 CSM No 2203

Owner: Larry W. Knutson Mortgage Holder: Eagle Valley Bank NA Lien/Judgment Holders: Mudge, Porter, Lundeen & Seguin, Pinewood Homes

2005 SC 2005

2,195.79 100.00

1700

12% Annually

027 Village of Clear Lake 113-00164-0000 Sec 19 T32 R15 Pt Lot 6, All Lots 7 & 8 Blk 25 Original Plat

2005 Owners: Keith J. & Miranda J. Lutz Mortgage Holders: The RiverBank DC 2005 SC 2005 WESTconsin Credit Union Lien/Judgment Holders: Arrow Financial Services Capital One Bank USA

1,896.69 133.63 100.00

1738 1738

12% Annually 12% Annually

028 Village of Dresser 116-00297-0000 Sec 7 T33 R18 Pt Outlot 27 Assessor’s Plat

2005 Owners: Kathryn M. Ellingworth SC 2005 James L. Nelson Possible Lien: Milwaukee Child Support Agency

80.89 100.00

1765

12% Annually

029 Village of Dresser 116-00468-0601 Sec 18 T33 R18 Lot 6 Plat of Silver Ridge

Owner: Dorothy H. Goodroad

2005 SC 2005

92.16 100.00

1777

12% Annually

030 Village of Frederic 126-00031-0000 Sec 27 T37 R17 Pt Lot 10 & 11 Blk 3 Original Plat

Owner: Ruby E. Jones Land Contract Holder: Richard D. Jones Mortgage Holder: Village of Frederic

2005 SC 2005

633.57 100.00

1783

12% Annually

031 Village of Luck 146-00540-0000 Sec 28 T36 R17 Lot 2 CSM No 463

Owners: Jack H. Jr. & Theresa D. Phillips Mortgage Holder: Beneficial Wisconsin Inc.

2004 2005 SC 2005

1,097.62 2,637.35 100.00

1783 1852

12% Annually 12% Annually

032 Village of Luck 146-00601-0000 Sec 34 T36 R17 Pt Gov Lot 4

Owners: Scott A. & Lisa L. Roberts Mortgage Holder: U.S. Bank NA ND

2005 SA 2005

2,127.84 2,094.55

1856 1856

12% Annually 12% Annually

033 Village of Milltown 151-00323-0000 Sec 17 T35 R17 Pt NW NW

Owners: John N. Duxbury Sharon Ronnenberg Mortgage Holder: Ameriquest Mortgage Co.

2005 SC 2005

863.45 100.00

1895

12% Annually

034 Village of Milltown 151-00427-0000 Sec 8 T35 R17 Lot 35 Pixie Acres Mobile Home Second Addn

Owners: Douglas J. & Anna M. Walton Mortgage Holder: Green Tree Finan. Serv. Corp.

Lien/Judgment Holder: Capital One Bank

2005 SC 2005

410.35 100.00

1906

12% Annually

035 City of Amery 201-00256-0000 Sec 28 T33 R16 Lot 5 Blk 2 C H Johnson Addn

Owner: Northwest Homes of Wisconsin Inc. Mortgage Holders: Bremer Bank NA Polk County, Wisconsin; Polk County Housing Authority

2005 SA 2005 DC 2005 SC 2005

1,575.07 22.22 231.17 100.00

1964 1964 1964

12% Annually 12% Annually 12% Annually

036 City of St. Croix Falls 281-00037-0000 Sec 19 T34 R18 Lots 8 & 9 & Pt Lot 10 Blk 51 1st Addn

Owner: Richard Timothy Koons Land Contract Holder: Richard W. Koons

2005 SC 2005

1,788.56 100.00

2065

12% Annually

037 City of St. Croix Falls Owner: Richard Timothy Koons Land Contract Holder: 281-00038-0000 Richard W. Koons Sec 19 T34 R18 Pt Lot 10 Blk 51 1st Addn

2005 SC 2005 SC 2005

509.47 40.76 100.00

2066 2066

12% Annually 12% Annually

038 City of St. Croix Falls 281-00039-0000 Sec 19 T34 R18 Lot 11 Blk 51 1st Addn

Owner: Richard Timothy Koons Land Contract Holder: Richard W. Koons

2005 SC 2005

917.77 100.00

2067

12% Annually

039 City of St. Croix Falls 281-00069-0000 Sec 19 T34 R18 Lot 19 Blk 52 1st Addn

Owner: Jeremy Dahlquist Lien/Judgment Holder: Polk Cty. Child Support Agency

2005

577.45

2070

12% Annually

040 Village of Luck 146-00559-0000 Sec 28 T36 R17 Pt Gov Lot 1

2005 Owners: John M. Wright, Robert DC 2005 P. Wright, Mary Kaye Rausch, SC 2005 John E. Rausch Mortgage Holder: S&C Bank nka AnchorBank Lien/Judgment Holders: Milwaukee Child Support Agency Racine Child Support Agency Wisconsin Dept. Industry, Labor & Human Relations

1,533.38 182.35 100.00

1853 1853

12% Annually 12% Annually

041 City of St. Croix Falls 281-01175-0000 Sec 30 T34 R18 Lot 1 & Outlot 1 V4CSM/ 67 In Lot 137 Assessor’s Plat

2005 Owner: John Wright SC 2005 Mortgage Holder: Polk Cty. Bank nka AnchorBank Lien/Judgment Holder: Wisconsin Dept. of Industry, Labor & Human Relations Milwaukee Child Support Agency

836.47 100.00

2130

12% Annually

042 City of St. Croix Falls 281-01282-0000 Sec 19 T34 R18 Lot 12 Blk 3 Bretl Addn

2005 Owner: Janet S. Feske SC 2005 Mortgage Holder: Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc.

707.83 100.00

2135

12% Annually

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Students of the Week GRANTSBURG

FREDERIC

Tessa Domagala has been chosen Frederic Elementary School’s student of the week. She is in kindergarten and the daughter of Scott Domagala and the late Kelly Domagala. Some of her favorite activities in school are arts and crafts, playing with her friends and going to the computer lab. She is a very caring student who is always willing to help her classmates. She works hard in every subject and loves to learn.

When she grows up, she would like to be a baby sitter.

Rachel Poirier has been chosen Frederic Middle School’s student of the week. She is in seventh grade and the daughter of Myrvin Poirier and Kathy Atkins. She is involved in band, choir, bells, track and volleyball. Hobbies include drawing, outdoors and animals. She would like to be a veterinarian. She is an honor roll student. She is very sociable, has a pleasant personality, is respected by peers and adults and gets work done on time.

Joel Knauber has been chosen Frederic High School’s student of the week. He is a junior and the son of Leonard and Wendy Knauber. He is involved in show choir, church youth group and soccer. Hobbies include dirt biking. He is a classroom leader, involved in drama productions, he helps with producing technology projects, is very talented and always willing to help out. He has excellent computer skills, a good sense of humor and good work habits.

Luke Trittelwitz has been chosen Grantsburg Elementary School’s student of the week. He is in second grade and the son of Clay and Rachel Trittelwitz. Luke is very caring about all the students and he shows responsibility in all he does. Luke is very kind and thoughtful. His favorite things about school are math and reading. Hobbies include riding bike, getting the mail and fishing.

Joe Christensen has been chosen Luck Middle School’s student of the week. He is in eighth grade and the son of David Christensen and Sue Peterson. He is a pleasant, respectful and friendly young man. He is involved in football and wrestling. In his spare time, he enjoys riding snowmobile, fishing and snowboarding.

Jeff Holmes has been chosen Luck High School’s student of the week. He is a senior and the son of Rebecca Holmes and Wes Parker. He is an intelligent student who enjoys learning. His positive attitude helps him and his classmates learn. He is involved in FCCLA, FFA and AYSO soccer league. He enjoys listening to music, playing on the soccer field, exercising and going to the movies.

Ella Berens has been chosen St. Croix Falls Elementary School’s student of the week.

She is in second grade and the daughter of Don and Trudee. Ella likes to play tag in phy ed, because it is a lot of fun and also good exercise. She enjoys math.

She is a very pleasant girl and has a lovely smile. She collects seashells and toy horses of all kinds. Ella really likes horses and has read a lot about them and enjoys riding them at the fair.

Michelle Potempa has been chosen Siren Middle School’s student of the week. Michelle is in seventh grade and the daughter of Tony and Mary Potempa. Michelle leads by example; she is respectful to staff and peers. She is always ready to help another student or staff member. She has made the transition from elementary school to middle school successfully.

Vince Nasman has been chosen Siren High School’s student of the week. He is a senior and the son of Rick and Carolyn Nasman. Vince works very hard and has shown great organization and work ethic in important areas of his life. He is involved in football, basketball and track.

He is a captain on the basketball team and has provided great leadership this season.

Trent Gustafson has been chosen Webster Elementary's student of the week. Trent is in third grade and the son of Erica and Kelsey Gustafson. He is very helpful to other students in the classroom. His favorite subjects are phy ed and science. He is very considerate to everyone.

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Abby Swenson has been chosen St. Croix Falls High School’s student of the week. She is a senior and the daughter of Steve and Karrie Swenson. She is a member of S-Club, FFA and the Saints softball team. She plays both fast-pitch and slow-pitch softball. She is in 4-H where she works with the cows. She enjoys having fun on her uncle's farm and watching movies like “Dirty Dancing” and “The Notebook.”

She was also selected as the Rotary Student of the Month.

Zachary Koelz has been chosen Webster Middle School’s student of the week. He is in sixth grade and the son of Peter and Jean Koelz. He is a highly curious and pleasant student. He is hardworking, cooperative and always has his work complete. He has a good sense of humor and enjoys making his classmates laugh. He is involved in band and basketball. He enjoys reading and building things with Legos. He would like to be an author when he grows up.

Siiri Larsen has been chosen Webster High School’s student of the week. She is a sophomore and the daughter of Terry and Brenda Larsen. She has a solid work ethic, even if she has been absent she gets her work done on time and done well. She has a great outlook on life. She is very pleasant student to have in class. She participates in SIGN, volleyball, business club, student council, basketball and softball. Hobbies include 4wheeling and traveling.

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Emma Seifert has been chosen St. Croix Falls Middle School’s student of the week. She is in sixth grade and the daughter of Mike and Andrea Seifert. Her pets include dogs, cat, sheep and chickens. Her favorite pastime is texting. She is involved in volleyball and gymnastics. Her favorite subject is social studies because she gets to learn about other countries. She likes being able to switch classes in the middle school.

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SIREN

Whitney Plaster has been chosen Siren Elementary School’s student of the week. She is in sixth grade and the daughter of Todd Plaster.

She is a good student and works hard during the school day. She is helpful and kind toward others. Her favorite subject in school is science.

In her free time, she enjoys drawing.

Jessika Ilgen has been chosen Grantsburg High School’s student of the week. She is a junior and the daughter of Brett and Sharon Ilgen. She is a dedicated student who has high expectations for herself. She is willing to make great effort to achieve. She is hardworking, persistent, pays attention to detail, creative and friendly. She is involved in gymnastics, NHS, church activities and more. Hobbies include snowmobiling, drawing and cooking.

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LUCK

Katie Christensen has been chosen Luck Elementary School’s student of the week. She is in second grade and the daughter of Jon and Julie Christensen. She is a very motivated and positive student who always does her best.

Her favorite subject in school isart. After school, she likes to watch TV.

Rhiana Pochman has been chosen Grantsburg Middle School’s student of the week. Rhiana is in fourth grade and the daughter of Jason and Radene Corry. Her favorite class is math, but she also likes drawing and writing stories.

She is active in sports. She enjoys volleyball and basketball.

She always tries to do her best and she makes sure that she understands what is being taught.

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Amber Wetterau has been chosen as Unity Elementary School's student of the week.

She is in first grade and the daughter of Tara Kuske and James Wetterau. She is a very hard worker who is excited about learning. She is friendly to everyone and loves to help other students.

Val Schultz has been chosen Unity Middle School’s student of the week. She is in seventh grade and the daughter of Dale and Penny Schultz. She was chosen because she is a joy to have in class. Her humor and kindness shine. She is a hard worker, which is appreciated by all of her teachers.

Kym Radke has been chosen Unity High School’s student of the week. She is a freshman and the daughter of Jim and Kris Radke.

She is involved in dance, volleyball and enjoys hanging out with friends. She plans to attend college.

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FEBRUARY THURSDAY/5 Amery

• Free blood pressure clinic, 11 a.m.-noon, followed by birthday party at 11:45 a.m., then seminar on reverse mortgages at 12:30 p.m., at the senior center, 715-268-6605.

Frederic

Coming events

MONDAY/9 Amery

• DivorceCare and DivorceCare for Kids meet at Apple River Community Church at 7 p.m., 715-268-2176, 715-268-8360.

Frederic

• Spades at the senior center, 1 p.m.

TUESDAY/10

• 500 cards at the senior center, 6:30 p.m.

Luck

Siren

• Take Off Pounds Sensibly #WI 261 meets at the senior citizens center at 5:30 p.m., 715-4722341.

• Dining at Five at the senior center, 5 p.m., 715-349-2845, 715-349-7810.

• Sheep Management WisLine teleconference at the Extension office, 7:30-9 p.m., 715635-3508, 800-528-1914.

Siren

• Crib-size fleece/SIDS class at the Family Resource Center, 10 a.m., 715-349-2922.

FRIDAY/6

Webster

• Dining at Five at the senior center, 5 p.m., 715-866-5300.

Dresser

• Rockin’ for the Red, a fundraiser for the Polk County branch of the American Red Cross, 7-11 p.m., at Trollhaugen Convention Center, 715-485-3025.

WEDNESDAY/11 Frederic

• Pokeno at the senior center, 1 p.m.

Frederic

THURS.-SUN./12-15

• Pokeno at the senior center, 12:30 p.m.

• Senior center monthly meeting, 12:30 p.m.

Luck

Spooner

• Luck Winter Carnival. Fri. pageant 7 p.m.; Sat. Lions breakfast, radar runs, parade, dance; Sun. ice-fishing contest, bonfire, fireworks.

• Safari series, Alternative Crop Tillage System at the Ag Research Station, 10:30 a.m.noon, 715-635-3506, 800-528-1914.

THURSDAY/12

SAT. & SUN./7 & 8

Danbury

Rice Lake

• Ruby’s Pantry Food Distribution at the maintenance shop, 2-3:30 p.m. Free.

• UW-Madison Madhatters concert at UWBarron County, Sat. 7 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m., 715234-8176, ext. 5445.

SATURDAY/7 Dairyland

• Cozy Corner Trails, Inc. will meet at Cozy Corner Inn, 9:30 a.m.

Danbury

• Big Read Winter Rendezvous, dog sled rides, skiing and snowshoeing at Forts Folle Avoine, 1-4 p.m., 888-887-6002.

• Ruby’s Pantry Foods Distribution at the maintenance shop, 10 to 11:30 a.m. $15 donation appreciated.

Frederic

• Potluck and February birthday party at the senior center, noon.

Lewis

• Bluegrass, country, gospel jam session at the Lewis Methodist Church, 6-9 p.m. Call Brad Alden at 715-349-2573 for more info.

Milltown

• Unity Area Soccer Club spaghetti dinner fundraiser at the Lutheran Church, noon-4 p.m., 715-497-3042.

Frederic

This opossum paused long enough last Sunday to see its shadow, just like the groundhog did the following Monday. Either way, winter is here to stay for another six weeks. – Photo by Marty Seeger

Rice Lake

• Shepherd’s Clinic and Trade Show at WITC, registration 8-8:45 a.m., 715-268-6286, www.indianheadsheep.com.

Siren

• South Fork Sporting Club Gun Show at the Lakeview Event Center, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 715653-4291.

Wanderoos

• 20th-annual Wanderoos Area Lions IceFishing Contest on Lake Wapo, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Webb Lake

• 5th-annual N.A.M.A. Lawn Mower Winter Nationals at Bump’s Bar. Registration begins at noon, 651-343-2941.

West Sweden

• “The Magic of Broadway” at Grace Lutheran Church, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY/8 Balsam Lake

• 48th-annual Polk County Sportsmen’s Club Booya at the Legion, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Frederic

• Ice-fishing contest at Oak Ridge Inn on Lower Webb Lake, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m., 715-2597927 or 715-259-7844.

• 4th-annual Valentine’s Day dinner at Pilgrim Lutheran Church, noon, 715-327-8012.

Webster

• St. Croix Valley Christian Community Choir begins rehearsals for “Who is This Man, Jesus?” at the intermediate school, 3 p.m., 715-294-4775.

• A Winter Rendezvous at Forts Folle Avoine, www.theforts.org.

Osceola

• Tax aides at the senior center, 8:30 a.m.-noon, 715-327-4155.

• 500 cards at the senior center, 6:30 p.m.

Hertel

• School referendum forum at the tribal center, 2 p.m., www.siren.k12.wi.us.

Luck

• Get-together crafts at senior center, 1-3 p.m.

Siren

• School referendum forum at the school auditorium, 7 p.m., www.siren.k12.wi.us.

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.

Funds raised for scholarships at Luck LUCK - The annual Luck Community Graduate Scholarship Fundraiser was held at Luck School on Friday, Jan. 30.

It was a busy place as families from Luck and Frederic enjoyed a lasagna supper, bought raffle tickets, and cheered their teams at the doubleheader basketball game. Community volunteers, the senior class, and parents worked together at the event. A total of 300 people were served at the supper. The meal was scheduled to run from 5 to 7:30 p.m., butthe food ran out by 6:30 p.m. The meal expenses and beverages were donated

by Larsen Auto Centers and Bernick’s Companies.

The proceeds from the supper and raf-

fle support the Community Graduate Scholarship Fund. For the past 13 years, graduating Luck seniors receive a scholarship toward their continuing education expenses. The class of 2009 are each able to receive a $125 scholarship. Students have up to three years following graduation to use this scholarship, and those who enter military service are given three years past their discharge date to receive their scholarship. The total amount raised between the raffle and supper was over $2,630, enough for 21 scholarships.

The raffle drawing was held at halftime of the boys varsity game. Seniors helped Luck Community Education Di-

Community members and parents of seniors helped at the lasagna supper.

Shown are (L to R): Dan Valentine, Julie Sorensen, Donna Pedersen and Vicki Gross each served up a portion of the fundraiser’s meal. The new red aprons worn by the volunteers were sewn by Barb Kass.

rector Amy Aguado draw the winning names. The prizes and winner’s names are: Grand prize, full-size quilt - Mark Hall Video rocker or bean bag chair - Robin Lindvall $35 Café Wren gift certificate - Nancy Hardenbergh $30 Countryside Co-op Cenex gift certificate - Christi Hendricks $25 Natural Alternative Food Co-op gift certificate - Dee Jones $25 Bird’s Nest Thrift Shoppe gift certificate - Carol Adleman $10 Fibre Functions gift certificates Audrey Gutzmer, Dorothy Mattson and Zuli Rosendahl Stampin’ Up vase and photo frame Michael Jenssen $10 Flying Pie Pizza gift certificates Taylor Joy and Ray Johnson $10 JJ’s Club 35 pizza gift certificate Zuli Rosendahl Holiday StationStore gift certificates Lisa Hamack and Kris Palmer – submitted

Community Education Advisory Board member Matt Rosendahl takes a break from washing dishes to enjoy supper with his family.

On Rosendahl’s left is his daughter Zuli and her friend, Zoe Schmid. – Photos submitted

LEFT: Quilt winner Mark Hall and wife Naomi happily display the raffle grand prize. Donna Pedersen has hand quilted the top prize for many years.

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E-EDITION EXTRA More scenes from the Danbury Lions Club Ice Fishing Contest on Burlingame Lake in Burnett County. - Photos by Raelynn Hunter

Steve Naglosky talks to Connor and Ethan Melton, 3-year-old cousins during the annual Brady Mortenson wrestling tourmament held at Shell Lake this past weekend. Grandpa Richard Melton had no favorites in this match. - Photo by Larry Samson

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E-EDITION EXTRA Hunter Mevissen found the most appropriate item at the garage sale fundraiser held as part of Frederic Fun Days this past weekend. He bought Mickey’s Sorcerer’s apprentice hat. – Photo submitted

Scenes from Frederic Fun Days • 2009

The girl scouts pose with their snow octopus after the snow sculpture contest on Saturday, Jan. 31.

The day was referred to as Frederic Winter Fun day. – Photos by Brenda Sommerfeld unless otherwise noted

While most people were out on the lake, Alexia enjoyed playing on the open Frederic skating rink with her grandparents.

This little guy was the youngest worker on any snow-sculpting team. The two hour contest was held during the ice fishing contest.

The girl scouts worked hard on their creation during the first annual snow sculpture contest hosted by Friends of the Pool on Saturday, Jan. 31. Each team had two hours to complete a sculpture.

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E-EDITION EXTRA Ready, aim, fire!

More photos from the annual Grantsburg Middle School fourth grade “Great Catapult Shootout”

Richard Johnson was proud of the catapult he’d built from his Lego set.

L E F T: L a n d o n Bush (L) and dad Jeff (R) watched their launch head down range toward the target.

Kayla Glover managed to aim her slingshot catapult even though a younger brother (to her left) wanted to help.

MaKayla Staples, Britta Roufs and Katie Smith (LR) opened fire during the mass firing at the end of the shootout.

-Photos by Carl Heidel

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