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• 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
Four extra pages of photos in this week’s E-edition Go to www.the-leader.net
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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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