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Polk County supervisors vote 19 to 2 against $20 annual fee for highway maintenance PAGE 3

Motorized marijuana

Sophisticated system found PAGE 2

Alicia Chelberg crowned Miss St. Croix Falls Currents section

Second fatal fall

Another person loses life after fall from Interstate Park rocks PAGE 2 Hunger in Burnett County

More food for people in need Hunger Task Force considers food hub Editor’s note: This is the first in a series about hunger and feeding the hungry in Burnett County. Inter-County Leader writer Carl Heidel and Burnett County Sentinel writer Steve Briggs are collaborating on a series of stories on hunger in Burnett County and the new Hunger Task Force. The articles will appear in both newspapers.

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Currents feature

by Steve Briggs Contributing Writer BURNETT COUNTY - Concern over rising unemployment, poverty and hunger in Burnett County has fostered a Hunger Task Force of individuals, pastors, parishioners, charitable groups and tribal organizations.

Their goal is to prevent hunger in Burnett County, and provide more free or low-cost food to individuals and families in need, before the winter weather hits.

Representatives of Ruby’s Pantry in Siren and the Grantsburg Food Shelf are participating, as are the Salvation Army, senior centers, many churches, Tribal Food Distribution,

See Hunger, page 3

Two-year-old Will and his four-year-old brother, Derrick (not shown) were “riding shotgun” on a stagecoach on Luck’s Main Street, Saturday, July 18, as part of the Lucky Days celebration. (See photo, page 2.) The parade unit promoted the 25th year of Luck Saddlery and Outfitters, owned

by Paulette and Craig Adair. More photos of the parade in Currents section. - Photo by Gary King

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Today’s TEA parties echo message of the the nation’s first patriots

by Diane Dryden NORTHWEST WISCONSIN - Even though the original tea party was held in Boston in mid-December back in 1773, a new series of TEA parties - the TEA standing for Taxed Enough Already - are reminiscent of the colonists saying “no more.”

No more stamp tax, no more levied taxes through the Townsend Act and no more tax on the inferior tea that was sent to those whom Britain thought would be intimidated by their power over them.

Today’s TEA parties are sending the same message to the current leaders: No more.

No more bailouts, no more “passing stimulus plans

See TEA, page 4 RIGHT: A tea bag hangs from the hat of a member of the audience at Saturday’s TEA party rally at Siren, July 18. - Photo by Gary King

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Motorized marijuana growth system seized SCF man charged with manufacture of marijuana ST. CROIX FALLS – Ilie Horvath, 29, St. Croix Falls, was arrested and charged with manufacturing marijuana on July 14 after a police officer found extensive evidence at his home of a sophisticated marijuana production system.

The officer had gone to Horvath's address about 9 o’clock that morning while investigating a burglary. The officer spoke to Horvath and asked to check the pole shed for stolen goods. Horvath said he was renting the home and denied access to the shed.

The officer located the owner of the property shortly after noon, received permission to search the pole shed and was granted a search warrant. The search was executed at about 3 that afternoon.

A large amount of marijuana manufacturing equipment was found, including about 65 healthy plants of different maturity, over 250 empty pots, grow lights and lighting equipment, and a grow chamber.

A sophisticated, motorized rail system was also seized that was not assembled.

The system is apparently designed to carry young plants through a series of liquid fertilizer baths and grow lights, resulting in a faster, 24-hour-a-day growth cycle. Sheriff’s department personnel also seized a 16 foot enclosed trailer containing equipment and supplies.

Horvath has a previous felony conviction and a criminal history that includes convictions for receiving stolen property and multiple OWIs. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 8, at 3:15. — with information from the Polk County Sheriff’s Dept.

These two photos show an unassembled motorized rail system, found during a search at a rural St. Croix Falls residence, designed to speed up the growth process of marijuana plants. - Photos from Polk County Sheriff’s Dept.

LEFT: Over 250 vacant pots were found during the search on July 14 at a home near St. Croix Falls.

R I G H T: T h i s grow chamber was part of the equipment found.

Second fatal fall from rocks TAYLORS FALLS — An 18-year-old Minnesota man died last week after losing his balance along a cliff at Interstate Park Minnesota and falling 20 to 30 feet.

Daniel R. Canfield was hiking with two friends, a male and a female, in a northern area of the park just after 3 p.m.

Wednesday, July 15, when he slipped off a rock ledge, according to the Chisago

County Sheriff’s Department.

The Taylors Falls Fire Department and Interstate Park rangers responded.

Canfield was transported to Regions Hospital by air ambulance. He was pronounced dead from his injuries at 5 p.m.

Thursday.

It was the second fatal fall to occur along the rock cliffs of the St. Croix River

this summer. Skylar Francisco, 22, Roseville, Minn., died June 5 after falling 40 to 60 feet from a cliff edge in Interstate Park Wisconsin while sitting on the cliff’s edge, visiting with five of his friends.

That accident occurred after hours, in a restricted area of the park. – Gary King with information from Chisago County Sheriff’s Dept.

Stagecoach visits Lucky Days

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Two teams of horses pulled this stagecoach down Main Street in Luck as part of the Lucky Days parade, Saturday afternoon. The unit was sponsored by Luck Saddlery and Outfitters of Luck, owned by Paulette and Craig Adair, in honor of their 25th year in business. The owner of the stagecoach is a longtime friend of Paulette’s, Doug Koss of West Salem, Wis., shown driving the coach. “He has had the stagecoach for many years and does a wonderful job of training all his horses himself,” noted Paulette. The coach is a reproduction. Also shown on the stagecoach are Brad and Leann Hanson of Chetek, friends of Koss, and their grandchildren, Derrick and Will. - Photo by Gary King

Briefly BALSAM LAKE - Larry Jepsen reported to fellow Polk County supervisors Monday evening that a new invasive plant species has been identified in Polk County. The plant looks like a bamboo fishing pole, he said, and is fast growing with large leaves. It was introduced through ornamental gardening.

••• MADISON - Wisconsin Public Radio’s Spectrum West show this Friday will feature interviews with Festival Theatre Director Danette Olson, LaMoine MacLaughlin, director of Northern Lakes Center for the Arts in Amery, and comedian and Webster High School graduate Mary Mack. The show airs at 5 p.m. on 88.3 FM (Menomonie-Eau Claire) and 88.7 FM (River Falls). - Wisconsin Public Radio ••• SIREN - The Lakeview Event Center will host the Burnett Arts Festival on Saturday, Aug. 1, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The event will feature the sales of work by more than 35 local and regional artists and crafters, a wine tasting event with the Trade River Winery, live music by local musicians all day, food and beverage sales and a display of oil paintings by the late Siren artist Jens Rasmussen, the first public exhibit of his works. - with submitted information

New technology to help promote tourism in NW Wisconsin NORTHWEST WISCONSIN - The eight counties of Northwest Wisconsin have a bond through Northwest ITBEC, an organization which promotes tourism and commerce to the region.

ITBEC, which stands for the International Trade, Business and Economic Development Council, has its eight Northwest Wisconsin counties pooling their resources to promote its events and attractions in a variety of ways – from television and radio, to newspapers and magazines. Now, the organization has one more tool to help get the word out on tourism opportunities to the area.

In a venture with Discover Wisconsin and Discover Mediaworks, Inc., Northwest ITBEC has acquired a clip player for its Web site. This clip player allows potential visitors to the area to see what they can do before they ever set foot in the area.

By visiting the organization’s Web site at www.northwestwisconsin.com, users just click on the “Experience our Video Adventures” icon, which brings them to various short films or clips of the counties.

Users can go county by county, or by interest, like trails, silent sports and waterways. Northwest ITBEC will have the opportunity to add more and more content as they get it.

“The trend in tourism is that people want to view the place they are thinking about visiting before actually making the trip,” said Greg Smith, managing director of the Discover Wisconsin Media Network. This clip player allows Northwest Wisconsin to do just that, by showcasing so many of the great things they offer visitors. It’s really an exciting venture.” - from ITBEC

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No additional vehicle registration fee

County votes 19 to 2 against $20 annual fee for highway maintenance

by Mary Stirrat BALSAM LAKE — For now, anyway, Polk County car owners will not be asked to pay a $20 vehicle registration fee to help fund highway maintenance.

The Polk County Board of Supervisors, at its July 21 meeting, voted 19 to 2 against imposing the annual fee. At least one supervisor, however, said that she might have to reconsider her vote against the idea if the budget cannot be balanced any other way.

The resolution to establish, by ordinance, a $20 annual vehicle fee was submitted by Supervisor Gerald Newville, who told the board that about $800,000 annually would be brought in to fund county highway maintenance. Of the $20, all but 10 cents would come back to Polk County. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation would retain 10 cents per registration to cover administrative costs.

Speaking against the resolution was Supervisor Herschel Brown, who said,, “I’m not one who thinks you can tax and borrow your way out of trouble.”

Brown painted a dismal picture of Polk County, saying the county has 11 percent unemployment, a good number of underemployed, falling property values, increasing property taxes, failing businesses, and a growing number of foreclosures, mortgage and property tax

delinquencies.

“My constituents think there’s a lot of fat we can trim without raising taxes,” he said.

Newville responded by saying that the county vehicle registration fee would address some of the issues noted

by Brown. The county is looking at a budget shortfall of $2.5 to $3 million, he pointed out, and laying off county employees won’t help the unemployment rate and other economic difficulties Brown mentioned.

About two years ago, former Supervisor Carl Holmgren submitted the idea of a county vehicle registration fee, Newville reminded the board. Had it been established at that time, he said, “We wouldn’t be in the position we are.”

The gas tax, said Newville, used to fund the roads but no long does. “I’ll pull this if you show me some other way you’ll balance that budget,” he said.

“Something has to happen to fund our roads. This is a fee, a charge, for using the roads in Polk County.”

Newville acknowledged that the idea doesn’t make people happy, but he said it would take up to 60 layoffs to make up the $3 million shortfall. Layoffs would cause the unemployment compensation to rise, and would cost the county revenue because many positions actually bring in more than they cost.

“If it’s not passed now,” he warned, “it will show up again.”

According to Supervisor Brian Masters, there are a lot of ways to trim the budget and not increase taxes.

Why, he asked, should Polk County taxpayers pay an additional $20 when many others, including tourists, seasonal residents and truckers all use county roads?

“How much more can we tax our residents?” he asked.

People who are on a fixed or lower income, said Supervisor Gary Bergstrom, will be most hurt. “The people who can afford it least — these are the ones that will be hit the hardest,” he said.

There is a perception out there, said Supervisor Keith Rediske, that this would be one more government tentacle in peoples’ lives.

“I think people just don’t want one more way in which they see us grabbing from them,” he said. “I’m not saying we might not do it another way,” he added.

Just prior to the vote, Supervisor Diane Stoneking said she had gotten four calls on the resolution. Two were in favor, and two were opposed. She said that she would vote against it and wait to see what happens as the budget process moves further along.

If the budget can’t be balanced and the resolution comes back to the board, she said, she might have to consider it.

The two supervisors who voted in favor of the $20 fee were Russell Arcand and Gerald Newville. Supervisors Kathy Kienholz and Ken Sample were absent from the meeting.

heads the HTF. “Some people prefer to be directly involved in buying the food, bringing it to their food shelf and helping to distribute it,” she says. “We don’t discourage any kind of giving.”

“But,” adds Awe, “once people understand the food hub concept, they see that their donated dollar buys a lot more food. Then it becomes a no-brainer.”

HTF is looking into several methods for collecting the money, purchasing and distributing the food. It expects to implement a plan very soon.

Although Awe, Miller and Kooiker are all part of Burnett County government, they stress that HTF “is not a government group. It is a citizens group. Our role was to help get it organized, to help facilitate, but it is a citizens thing.”

Awe said some people question why it’s necessary to provide food. “We recognize that there are ‘chronically poor’ people out there.

“But, in February, our unemployment rate in Burnett County was the highest it has been in decades. Typically the un-

employment rate from February to March starts going down, because seasonal work begins. But in March this year, unemployment went up again.

“What we need to look at and really consider are the economic conditions that exist now,” Awe says. “There is this whole crop of ‘new poor.’ They just lost their job. They can’t find a job. They are losing their homes. They are having financial troubles.

“They are not the chronically poor.

They are the new poor. We all need to eat every day. Hopefully, next year they won’t be out there for food. But right now they don’t have money, and they can’t find a job.

“Next year we hope they will be working. We need to keep a program in place to help the chronically poor, but we need people to understand that with so many new poor, we may have a crisis this winter of people who need food.

People get hungry every day.”

See Registration fee, page 4

Hunger/from page 1 farmers markets, the Burnett County Nutrition Coalition, Indianhead Community Action Agency and some members of the Burnett County Board of Supervisors.

While visiting the Twin Cities last December, county board Supervisor Maury Miller was inspired by a food assistance plan he encountered. “Why couldn’t we do that in Burnett County?” he asked.

Family Living agent Marilyn Kooiker brought Miller’s question to the Burnett County Nutrition Coalition. They surveyed 56 county organizations to determine how food for the needy is collected and distributed in Burnett County.

About one-third of the organizations responded. Some reported a recent increase in food shelf usage of 10 to 30 percent. Among needs expressed were for a refrigerator, a freezer and a permanent building for food distribution.

The survey also invited individuals and organizations to join the new HTF. About 25 people attended the first meetings in January and February. HTF has established subcommittees to address four major areas: food acquisition, food distribution, education and communication.

Central food hub As discussions have progressed, HTF has begun to focus on the concept of a central food hub.

The idea behind it, says Chuck Awe, is to stretch the donations by encouraging donors to give cash rather than cans.

Awe, a county board supervisor, represents the local farmers markets on the HTF board.

“Today a person goes to the grocery store and buys one can of beans for the food pantry. If the person would instead donate that money to the food hub, it could buy four or five cans of beans,” Awe says.

Donating cash instead of food goods would allow the hub to buy food more efficiently, resulting in greater quantities of food to send to the local food shelves, such as Ruby’s Pantry, Indianhead Community Action Agency, Salvation Army and the Grantsburg Food Shelf.

“Direct gifts of food would still be accepted,” says Sarah Miller, Burnett County Public Health dietitian who

Construction on plant starts again

Construction has begun again at the Quality Wood Shavings plant being built at the Centuria Industrial Park. Cement and carpentry work are under way, and trusses will be set Wednesday or Thursday, said contractor and investor Jeff Schoeder of B.S. Construction, Elmwood. — Photo by Mary Stirrat

Registration fee/from page 3 Audit, finance reports The board got a good report on the audit for 2008, presented by Steve Tracey of LarsonAllen. Tracey declared that the various finances of the county were “in good shape” or “very good shape,” and praised finance director Tonya Weinert for the quality of the records.

Included in his audit summary was a chart of revenue and expenditures, indicating that property taxes accounted for 50 percent, nearly $22.8 million, of the $45.5 million in revenue for 2008. About one-third, or $14.2 million, came from intergovernmental sources, and nearly $6.2 million came from public charges for services, licenses, and permits.

Health and human services claim the largest amount in expenditures, at $18.9 million of $45.9 million. Public safety

took the next biggest chunk, at $8.3 million, followed by general government costs at $5.9 million and transportation at $5.3 million.

Weinert said that revenue to date is on track, at 50 percent of the budgeted amount, and expenditures are slightly below projections, at 46 percent. The not-so-good news, she said, is that interest earnings are lower than projected.

Sales tax revenue has been a little lower than projected, she said, but is stable.

Other business • The board voted to approve two applications for farmland preservation agreements, both in the town of Alden.

Agreements for nearly 100 acres owned

by Merle Swenson and Leonard Swenson and 212 acres owned by Arnold and

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Rebecca Berquam, were approved. The agreement provides the landowners with tax credits and protection from special assessments, while requiring that it remain in agricultural use with only farm structures built. The agreements are each for 10 years.

• The board voted unanimously, with supervisors Kathy Kienholz and Ken Sample absent, to authorize the personnel committee to meet with the unions “for the purpose of making and considering proposals that would affect the terms and conditions of all 2009-2011” contracts. An amendment to link union concessions with nonrepresented contracts was deemed by corporation counsel to be inappropriate.

• Supervisor Michael Larson reported that 170 applications have been received

for the administrative assistant position in the treasurer’s office. He also reported that $831,250 in federal stimulus money and a $358,000 grant from the Department of Natural Resources have been secured for developing the Amery to Dresser Trail as a bike trail. The Balsam Branch Ski Trail was awarded a $28,000 grant for lighting.

• Brooke Whitley gave a presentation on the county’s restorative justice program, focusing on the work of the summer intern who is coordinating work sites for community service by nonviolent offenders. The intern position is grant-funded and will expire at the end of August. Another grant is being sought to continue the program.

TEA movement/ from page 1 crowd, which consisted of Democrats, Republicans and Independents. She called for the end of “out-of-control government spending,” citing mainly the Cap and Trade Bill which allows the government to take more control over the lives of its citizens, using some interesting measures.

If you Google cap and trade there are many sites that provide more information about the new measures that would make houses harder to sell and a wide variety of other issues.

The second speaker, Pastor Jeff Vesta, warned the assembled group that “When you vote yourselves privilege, you buy personal slavery.” He continued by saying, “Because of what the framers of our country wrote in the official documents we still hold sacred today, we as citizens have the right to expect our government to provide us with governing that is ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’” He also urged those assembled to contact their congressmen and senators. “Be a vocal, not a silent, majority.”

Local woman Dolleen Norton brought a strong sense of personal history as she talked about part of her family being Native American and living in Springbrook.

She also honored her family members who came from various European countries, many who escaped and came to America.

“We were raised on the river, which was the best of childhoods. You might have called us river rats, because we lived near the river that gave us our entertainment and livelihood. But then eminent domain reared its ugly head and many of our personal freedoms were ripped out of our lives. We can’t sit back and let this government control our freedom because the history of America is in our hands.”

Also speaking was also a representative from Americans for Prosperity. Jim Zeiler is the grassroots coordinator out of Siren. His job at the TEA was to assist the organizers in their second step to get their message to Washington, D.C. “We have chapters in 24 states already, and we are continuing to grow daily as more and more people are tired of how the current government is wildly spending our money.”

Zeiler also gave Wisconsin’s new TEA party Web site, fightbackwisconsin.com along with his own, americansforprosperity.org, which promotes every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity.

There were prayer and songs and a welcome and a closing by Randy Wickman, who along with Sandy Mageske was the main organizer of the day.

Zeiler mentioned that he had two other TEA parties to attend yet that day, one in Wausau and one in Eagle River.

“The message is getting out to the public,” he said. “Now just to get it to Washington.”

“Don’t tread on me,” reads a sign that hung from a rifle brought to the Siren TEA party last Saturday by one audience member. The phrase, which adorned early American flags and featured a drawing of a snake, symbolizes American independence. - Photo by Gary King

Dan Mielke, candidate for Congress, speaks to the TEA rally crowd (left) at Crooked Lake Park in Siren, last Saturday.

Former Polk County Board Chairman Bob Blake of rural Frederic has been a featured speaker at four of the regional TEA party rallies this summer. He spoke at the Siren rally last Saturday. “These Tea Party gatherings offer unmistakable evidence that there exists in our country an ominous divide between those who value personal freedom and its rewards, and those who still believe in the failed goals of Karl Marx,” Blake told the crowd. “ Obama said recently that he has known for most of his life that he must dedicate his life to equality.

America is not about equality. It’s about freedom. Americans are equal at birth. From that point on they are free to attempt to set themselves apart from others and pursue goals of their own choosing. The Obama administration and these pathetic whackos in Congress are determined to drag America down to the level of European socialist countries.” Other speakers at the rally included Dan Mielke, small-business owner, farmer and candidate for the 7th Congressional District seat; John Schess, candidate for governor; Jim Zeiler, grassroots coordinator for Americans for Prosperity; Pastor David Kin, founder of Milwaukee Godsquad; and Ashland County District Attorney Sean Duffy, candidate for Congress, 7th District. - Photo by Gary King

The three main players of the day at the Shell Lake rally were Jim Zeiler, with Americans for Prosperity, and Randy Wickman and Sandy Mageske, Jim and Carol Peck from Webb Lake brought their own signs to a recent TEA the original organizers of the TEA party at Shell Lake. “We’re angry and we want the government to know it.” party. - Photo by Diane Dryden Photo by Diane Dryden

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Listening session presents questions for school board to answer

by Nancy Jappe SIREN – The third of three meetings held within the past week – a listening session with people from the community – was held Monday, July 20, in the Siren High School library/media center. Over 70 people were on hand to pose questions to the board on various areas of concern related to the school district.

The first meeting was held the previous Monday for certified staff. The second meeting, scheduled for the following day with support staff, was not held because none of the support staff showed up. According to district Administrator Scott Johnson, “the union leadership sent a letter indicating they were not interested in meeting in that forum.”

Six or seven certified staff members did meet with the school board in open session to voice their general concerns and later in closed session to voice concerns that required confidentiality.

A list of the concerns voiced in the open session was circulated following that meeting, but Johnson later stated that these comments did not necessarily reflect the opinion of everybody who was there.

Mary Bucher, chair of the community focus group that has been meeting for the past several months, passed out a packet of questions to board members, shown here (L to R) Jake Mangelsen, Bill Ellis and Dayton Daniels. The packet detailed areas of questions for the July 20 special meeting with the board.

At the July 20 meeting, school board President Dayton Daniels set the ground rules for those wishing to speak. These rules included the need for one person to speak at a time, giving their name as identification before they spoke, that the meeting would be limited to an hour and a half, that there would be no closed session following the meeting and also that questions would not be answered by the board at that meeting.

Mary Bucher, who represented the community focus group that has been meeting for the past several months independently of the board, presented a packet of questions that members of the public would speak about.

The packet included questions related to: Curriculum/student achievement.

Leadership style of administration.

Open meeting practices/inconsistent minutes/postings/secrecy.

Bidding, purchasing and conflict of interest.

Open government (Is the Siren School and administration operating in the most open and informative way?)

The community focus group is asking the school board to take action on the following items: 1) Organize an ad hoc curriculum committee that includes school board, staff and community members and set a meeting date by the time of the annual meeting Aug. 24.

2) Review summaries of a staff survey and discuss at the July 27 open session of the regular school board meeting.

3) Conduct a board review of the hiring/nonrenewal process over the past four years (with several areas of concern highlighted) by the board’s September meeting.

4) Conduct exit interviews with past

Over 70 people gathered in the Siren High School media center Monday, June 20, for a special meeting with the school board. The session was called as a listening session with the public. “We are here to talk with you about things that are of concern to the public with regard to Siren School,” said board President Dayton Daniels at the start of the meeting. – Photos by Nancy Jappe employees over the past four years by the September board meeting.

5) Review the bidding/purchasing process and contractors and report on this at the Aug. 24 annual district meeting.

6) Provide a list of which committees each board member serves on, to be put on the Web site and in the minutes as soon as possible.

“We will work hard and answer as many questions as we can,” Daniels responded, adding, “There is no way we will get all the answers by July 27.”

Janis Wegner, parent of past and current students at the school, started the discussion of curriculum by pointing out that the district only offers language classes to students via ITV. “The cost of having a language teacher to the district is a necessity rather than a nicety,” Wegner commented. She mentioned scheduling problems for her son and said that the district should not use its size as a reason to cut classes.

Becky Strabel mentioned Spanish as a language she would like to see offered at the school, and Luanne Swanson talked about offering language in the lower classes. “If we can afford it, why don’t we have it?” asked Denis Simonsen, referring to the lack of language classes in the district.

Connie Virchow asked why buses were not provided for summer school this year, indicating that this kept her grandson from attending. The loss of the 21st-Century Grant to the district was mentioned as a reason for not providing transportation. Mary Bucher asked if any community volunteers had offered to write grants for the district.

Jill Gloodt, on behalf of herself and husband Jim, referred to curriculum areas in which Siren students fall below the state average. “Why do you think Siren doesn’t perform better on state tests?” she asked.

Polly Imme brought up the subject of the turnover in staff, quoting the figure of approximately 50 staff who have come and gone over the last six years (10 of them due to retirement). “I am concerned that Siren is becoming more of a training field. I would like to see us work together as a community to see that our staff stays here. We have not had a teacher move from initial (educator) to professional (educator) under the new state law (it takes five years to do so),” Imme said.

Board member Dave McGrane pointed out that teachers who come from other areas often get opportunities in those areas, thus leaving the district. “It’s not something terrible in Siren,” he said.

Bucher reviewed the question about exit interviews with the people who have left over the past four years. “We don’t know the answer to why they left,” she said.

Jim Gloodt asked about who does the interviewing for new staff, and Jill Gloodt suggested that there be a community member in on the interview process.

Anthony Licata, the new bookkeeper for the Siren School District, gave an explanation of balance fund during the special Siren School Board meeting Monday, July 20.

Licata was business manager for the school districts in Spooner and Hayward and the bookkeeper in Palmyra-Eagle prior to that. He replaces Sharon Peterson, who resigned at the end of June to take an identical position with the Unity School District.

A question regarding hiring of a recent coach was nixed by Daniels. “We are not going to go into that here. That is a personnel issue. We are not going to talk about individual situations,” he said.

Scott Johnson added, “You should have come to talk to me if you didn’t think this happened right.” Johnson explained that someone taking a one-year position is not considered a long-term substitute, but is a part of the union as a regular staff member.

Sheryl Stiemann pointed out that the staff knows the curriculum better than the board and would be the best people to ask when a new person is being hired.

The Gloodts brought up the subject of meeting minutes and why they are not approved right away. Jim Bucher, a former Siren district administrator, stated that minutes must be approved during the month in which they occur. He also said that minutes were not detailed enough in several areas. Mary Bucher stated that closed-session minutes need to be available to the public.

In regard to the focus group’s request for a review of the bidding process, Mary Bucher said that the board needs to understand their role in this process. “We are bringing this to you as a reminder,” she said.

Imme asked about whether the three service stations in the district are being given the opportunity to provide service for district vehicles. “Could this be considered as an annual bid?” she asked. “I don’t think that would be a problem,” Bill Ellis said.

The policy for rental of the facility by nonprofit/profit entities was given considerable time. Andy Fox, who with his daughter owns a dance studio in Siren, asked about the policy of changing meeting times and notification times to people on the agenda, stating that he had received notice of a time change for a meeting he was to be at two hours before the meeting was to start. He also asked why fees were so high for local business and about the opportunity for adjustment of those fees.

Fox was told by Johnson that the board policy sets the cost for nonprofits at a low rate and for-profit entities substan-

Jill and Jim Gloodt, parents of two current Siren School students, had comments to make and questions to ask during the July 20 listening session with the public. The Gloodts expressed concern over percentages in various curriculum areas where Siren students fall below the state averages. “Why do you think Siren doesn’t perform better on state tests?” they asked. tially higher. Apparently that policy was changed in 2007.

Jim Bucher pointed out that, in the past, the policy set the high rate for use by big organizations who wanted to come. “This is a closed-session issue,” Daniels said.

“There are exceptions to every rule, at certain times and for certain things. We are a public facility. We need to make exceptions,” JoAnn Yourchuck commented.

Concern was expressed over the release to the community of a recent union survey of administration completed by certified and support staff. “I feel this information should be available to all people at all times,” said union representative/certified staff member Jim Kopecky, who brought the survey results to the July 15 community focus meeting.

A request for documentation for Mr. Zirngible’s contract for summer school was requested by Mary Bucher in the light of the fact that he is a full-time school employee. “We are wondering if it is the right process. We understand the complexity of running the school district and being on the school board, but the responsibility of the school board and administration has to be above question,” Bucher said.

Zirngible explained that he was the oversight person for summer school who took over when the person in charge of summer school (Kelly Pearson) left the district unexpectedly.

Questions about the district’s fund balance, which the board has tried hard to bring into line, was the last item talked about before the meeting time was up.

The district’s current fund balance is at 24 percent, a figure the board hopes to maintain. However, Johnson said that the district is estimated to be $400,000 behind at the end of the next year, functioning without referendum monies and reduction in per-pupil reimbursement.

Despite this, Johnson said, “The board made the decision not to make cuts in staff.”

“The school board and Mr. Johnson have done a wonderful job of building the fund balance,” commented the new district bookkeeper Anthony Licata. “It is at our students’ expense,” Janis Wegner responded.

“This was very informative,” commented Daniels as he called the meeting to a close. “We have the information before us and will work hard to answer as many questions as we can.”

“We will probably have more questions in the future,” Bucher said.

Note: The Siren School District annual meeting will be held Monday, Aug. 24, starting with budget hearing and the annual meeting to follow. Times will be published later.

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Possible loss of ag program at Frederic protested

Board votes not to hire new ag teacher

by Gregg Westigard FREDERIC – The fate of the agricultural programs and classes at Frederic was the main topic of the monthly school board meeting Monday, July 20.

Tom Wesle, the agriculture teacher for the past six years, will teach full time in Luck next year. The districts had split his services.

After a lengthy meeting and a closed session, the board voted to not hire a new part-time ag instructor for the coming school year. Board member Terry Taylor made a motion to start the hiring process for an ag teacher. Troy Engen supported the motion, but the other three board members, Scott Nelson, Shari Matz and Becky Amundson, voted no and the motion failed.

The district must now decide how to offer agriculture-related classes next year.

Seven members of the public, including a local farmer, a former ag teacher and a former board president, attended the meeting to urge that Frederic hire an agriculture instructor.

“This area was built on farming,” local farmer Duane Taylor told the board. “We must remember our roots. Not all our kids will leave the community when they graduate. Our area is still based on agriculture. It’s more than farming. It’s trees, fruit. Agriculture provides the jobs around here. We need to teach ag classes to our kids, not do away with it. We need another teacher like Mr. Lee.” “We teach to the top, not to the middle and the bottom,” former ag teacher Earl Lee said. “Ninety percent of our programs in high school are for the top-end students. We need to offer programs for the kids that will stay in our area, not leave after graduation. Local businesses want good quality help. We need to hire an ag teacher.”

“The people who stay in our community are the blue-collar workers,” said former board President Kay Friberg.

“Hands-on students remain here and work. Do we have the right personnel on staff to compensate for this loss?”

Administrator Gerald Tischer said there are three options for the agriculture classes for the board to consider. First would be to hire a part-time teacher. That would cost $30,000. Second would be to reschedule students of agriculture classes to new “agriculture type” classes taught by current staff members who are not ag certified. Third is that it might be possible to arrange for Frederic students to take ag classes in Luck. He added that enrollment numbers, scheduling and cost might make this option not possible.

“Something is lost every time we cut a department,” high school Principal Ray Draxler said. “We pay the price when we drop programs. We are losing a person who can work well with kids. There are now 18 kids in plant science. We do our best for all students, we don’t forget about any. But schools are better designed for post-high-school training than for training for employers.”

Draxler said that some current classes

could be modified to include an agricultural component. He said it would depend in part on what the other teachers could do. Draxler said the board has a tough decision to make, can we combine programs or should we hire.

Board member Taylor spoke in favor of hiring a half-time ag teacher. Other members said they wanted more information before making a decision. Nelson said the board needs to know if there are teachers willing to help and what the financial aspects would be. Matz asked if the course content would be the same.

Amundson said Wesle is a wonderful teacher and whatever comes next will be different. Nelson said there were lots of loose ends to tie up, knowing the community wants to see the board make it work.

“Either we can’t afford to hire an ag teacher or we can’t afford not to,” Engen said before the board went into closed session.

Frederic expenses below budget for year

negative balance in their food account.

The district is looking at the number of students in next year’s first grade. The count now is 38 students, but some of those children could end up at other schools. The district is looking at whether to offer two or three sections of first grade.

The district intends to equalize the bus routes. Some routes now take over 1-1/2 hours to complete while other are less than an hour. The district may determine that students living within a quarter mile of the elementary school not be transported.

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The flamingoes are forecasted to arrive back in the Frederic area next summer.

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trict is seeking a new high school counselor to replace Cara Casey, who was hired by Grantsburg.

The loss of students through open enrollment cost the district $254,671 in state aid. The June payment from the Department of Public Instruction included a deduction of $285,796 to cover the cost of open-enrollment students leaving the district and $31,125 for open-enrollment students who came to Frederic.

Judy Shafer, the food service director, said the district lost a significant amount of money serving meals to students whose parents have not paid their entire bill for meals. She said it is hard to tell students they can’t eat because there is a

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by Gregg Westigard FREDERIC – Discussion of the Frederic agriculture took up a large part of the school board meeting Monday night, but other items were also on the agenda as the five board members and three administrators met for the monthly meeting.

Administrator Gerald Tischer said the district expenses came in under budget for the fiscal year ending June 30. The

district budgeted $6,285,896 for program expenses and spent $5,944,345. Adjusting for a reserve expense, that was $338,147 under budget or 95 percent of projected costs. More adjustments may be made during the audit, and these figures do not include debt expense. The district is preparing the budget for 2009-10 and assessing the effect an estimated cut of $476,026 in state aid will have on the district.

The board accepted the resignation of Lucy Hess, who had been the half-time elementary school counselor. That leaves Jan King, who is returning to Frederic after a three-year leave of absence, as the probable elementary counselor. The dis-

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Frederic Planning Commission recommends TIF district expansion Dollar General site plan recommended

by Brenda Sommerfeld FREDERIC – After holding an open public hearing to discuss the amendment to the Tax Increment Financing District No. 3, the Frederic Planning Commission made a motion to recommend the additions to the village board.

The expansion will include the property that once held the elementary school, Linden Street and properties south of Linden east to the residential property across from the park. Properties east of Hwy. 35, where the retention pond is all the way south to the old Northern Image building, will also be included.

As part of a TIF district, redevelopment and community-improvement projects may be financed through the public financing method of TIF. According to Wikipedia, “TIF is a tool to use future gains in taxes to finance current improvements, improvements that theo-

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retically will create those gains.”

“If you read in this plan, we can include some costs that we would incur in projects that would primarily be infrastructure projects and street projects within one-half mile of the existing district, so we’re not necessarily limited to this outline for expenditures,” planning commission Chair Jim Pearson said.

The commission is looking at plans of fixing up Linden Street and making sidewalk improvements in the future. Other projects may also be discussed.

A site plan, by Point of Beginning, for the Dollar General to be placed on the property where the elementary school used to be, was presented to the planning commission. After a few suggestions to the proposed project, the commission recommended the village board review the site plan for final approval.

Purchasing of the American Legion building across from Coon Lake Park was also discussed. Further discussion is to take place at a future meeting.

POLK COUNTY - The Polk County Tobacco Compliance Check Program, administered by the Polk County Tobacco-Free Coalition, in partnership with the Polk County Sheriff’s Department, performed the first round of tobacco compliance investigations for 2009 in June and early July.

The purpose of the program is to ensure that licensed tobacco vendors and their employees are obeying state and local laws pertaining to the illegal sales of tobacco products to minors. Of the 35 completed compliance investigations thus far, seven sites sold tobacco products to a youth investigator, resulting in a 20-percent sales rate. This is a dramatic increase compared to the 10-percent sales rate of last year’s investigations.

“The protocol for the investigations has changed this year,” said Jennifer Swenson, coordinator of the Polk County Tobacco-Free Coalition. “In the past, youth investigators have not shown their IDs when asked. This year they are producing IDs, and we are finding that many vendors are not reading the birth dates correctly.”

Polk County Ordinance No. 19-03 re-

stricts the sale or gift of tobacco products to individuals under the age of 18, and requires the Tobacco-Free Coalition to check all tobacco vendors twice a year for compliance.

Swenson reminds retailers and their employees that the easiest way to make sure they are complying with the Polk County ordinance is to always ask for identification and check the birth date to assure they are not selling to a minor.

Swenson reports, “The good news is vendors are consistently asking to see IDs, now they just have to make sure they are reading the birth dates correctly.” Checking identification is the only way to ensure you are not breaking the law when selling tobacco products.

Retailers with a tobacco license are encouraged to contact Swenson at Polk County Health Department at 715-4858517 to obtain information, education, training resources and posting materials to minimize sales risks. Retailers are also encouraged to visit the Smokecheck.org Web site to obtain free online training opportunities for their employees. - from Polk County Health Dept.

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This week’s question: Biggest topic of the summer?

1. Local drought 2. Job seeking 3. Cost of living/taxes 4. Brett Favre To take part in our poll, go to www.theleader.net and scroll down to the lower left part of the screen

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F O R U M Hunger here

This issue includes our first installment in a series of articles on hunger in Burnett County. (Front page).

It’s difficult to find excitement in bringing such serious news to readers but at the same time it feels like the focal point of the first article - the newly formed Hunger Task Force - has already found success, even before working out all the logistics of how it will get food to those who really need it.

The group, coordinated by county officials, even in its inception marked a victory by recognizing the need for an organization and need for action.

The beauty of this project lies in its simplicity. By giving a cash donation to the task force, you allow them to buy food in quantity, saving money while serving a local need.

For those of us who have followed the money in our nation’s stimulus spending - and found it curious where some of it ended up - this local program is designed to be as simple as it gets. Your money helps your neighbors feed their families.

The task force will succeed because it has brought available resources together under one goal. We hope our series brings heightened awareness of a very serious, and growing, problem.

The ultimate success lies with those of us who can afford to give to the project. What a great, local investment it will be.

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Note to self - keep it clean

ars - even cold ones - often create ghastly actions.

But you can’t help but wonder what our government was thinking when it dumped more than 1,400 barrels of chemicals into Lake Superior during the Cold War. Lake Superior. Those of us who have waded into its crystal clear, cold water and witnessed its breathtaking scenes realize it’s truly a gem of this world, and certainly a source of pride for Wisconsin natives.

Some of that pride comes from the lake’s water quality, which scientists say is still the best among the Great Lakes, but not quite as good as it was just 20 years ago.

According to those who study Superior, the lake takes an estimated 185 years to flush itself out, using the annual inflow created by rain and melting snow.

“Lake Superior is extremely sensitive to pollution sources in the lake's relatively small drainage basin,” notes George Hite, in an academic paper published at eagleharborweb.net. “Pollution sources such as ... mill deposits, taconite tailing dumpings along the Minnesota north shore a few decades ago, discharges from wood pulp mills and growing populations around the lake, have long lasting and accumulative impact.”

The dumping of more than a thousand barrels of chemicals remains the most puzzling of all known pollutants in that lake. It was a bad decision, possibly made by one person, in a pre-Earth Day era.

According to Wisconsin Public Radio, about 100 people gathered on the shore of Lake Superior this past Sunday, including John LaForge of rural Luck, to protest the dumping of the barrels, which are known to contain mercury, arsenic, PCBs, benzine, cadmium, chromium and possibly radioactive materials.

Demonstrators did what they set out to do - create public awareness and keep the pressure on our government - not just to carry through with plans to clean it up - but to think twice about shrugging it off, or letting it happen again.

“The Defense Department is paying for a study and removal of about 70 of the barrels next summer, with grants to the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa,” says the WPR article.“ A statement issued by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency refers to a report that states the barrels “pose no health risk because the lake dilutes the danger.”

There’s likely some truth in that statement but little urgency. Tribal member Katy Brisette Butterfield was quoted in the WPR article as saying “the lake is everyone’s responsibility to protect.”

And sometimes it takes an orchestrated protest - and the news it creates - to remind us of those responsibilities.

Editorials by Gary King Views expressed on these pages do not necessarily represent those of the Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association management or board

Where to Write

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

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

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

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Rep. Ann Hraychuck (28th District) State Capitol, P.O. Box 8942 Madison, WI 53708 Phone: 608-267-2365 • Toll free: 888-529-0028 In-district: 715-485-3362 rep.hraychuck@ legis.state.wi.us Rep. Mary Hubler (75th District) Room 7 North, State Capitol P.O. Box 8952, Madison, WI 53708 or 1966 21-7/8 St., Rice Lake 54868 (715) 234-7421• (608) 266-2519 rep.hubler@legis.state.wi.us U.S. Senator Herb Kohl 330 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 senator_kohl@kohl.senate.gov

Senator Robert Jauch (25th District) Room 19 South, State Capitol P.O. Box 788, Madison, WI 53707 E-mail: Sen.Jauch@legis.state.wi.us Senator Sheila Harsdorf (10th District) State Capitol, P.O. Box 7882 Madison, WI 53707 (608) 266-7745 • (715) 232-1390 Toll-free - 1-800-862-1092 sen.harsdorf@legis.state.wi.us U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold SDB 40, Rm. 1, Washington, D.C. 20510 or 1600 Aspen Commons Middleton, WI 53562-4716 (608) 828-1200 senator@feingold.senate.gov

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Chetek, Weyerhaeuser schools will merge

CHETEK - By unanimous vote last week in Chetek, the Weyerhaeuser and Chetek school districts will consolidate effective July 2010. The newly created district will teach grades K-12, and its name will be Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District. Both school boards were present at a July 15 night meeting. The process of consolidation began about 17 months ago after Weyerhaeuser voters rejected a referendum to allow the district to exceed revenue limits and increase property taxes. The district looked at consolidation with Chetek among other districts including Ladysmith, Bruce and Cameron. Student population in the 2008-2009 school year for Chetek was 493 and Weyerhaeuser enrollment was 159. The new district will have students attending Roselawn Elementary School and Chetek High School/Middle School. The Weyerhaeuser Elementary/Secondary School will close. - Rice Lake Chronotype

Andersen trims over 100 area jobs

STILLWATER, Minn. - Andersen Corporation announced last week that it will cut 250 management and office staff positions within the next two weeks. Over half of those jobs are at the Bayport, Minn., facility. Not all are currently filled. In January, the company announced the temporary layoff of about 600 production workers. Those employees are now back on the job, said Maureen McDonough, Andersen’s director of corporate communications. She said the cuts announced Tuesday will be permanent. The reduction amounts to about 10 percent of the company’s management and support staff. The adjustment will result in “leaner management and support staff,” said McDonough - rivertowns.net

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Bob Germer of the Wisconsin DNR Waste and Materials Management Program and I were invited to share some information with the students about Going Green. What better approach to introduce the concept of sustainability than to teach our youth the importance of recycling.

Much to our surprise, the students knew a whole lot more than we expected. They asked wonderful questions and were very considerate and respectful. What a wonderful program, and what a wonderful group of students!

Grantsburg, you should be proud of this program and those who organize it! Without people like Janel Hutton and the wonderful staff at the Grantsburg Library, programs like this would not exist. Just wanted to pass on a little good news for a change. Any questions about recycling in Burnett or Washburn counties can be directed to Jen at 715-635-2197 or visit the Web site at www.nwrpc.com.

Jen Barton Recycling Control Commission Bob Germer Wisconsin DNR Spooner

GAM’s 50th This year marks the 50th anniversary of Golden Age Manor. The Manor opened April 30, 1959, when residents were moved from the nearby Volga “poor farm” and other private facilities into the newly constructed building in Amery. This year also marks the 135th year since Polk County first established the Volga home to care for the elderly.

A celebration is planned for Sunday afternoon, Aug. 30, at Golden Age Manor.

The public is welcome to attend.

The celebration is being financed entirely by private donations. If your organization, your business, or you as an individual wish to contribute to this celebration, please send a donation to GAM 50th-Anniversary Committee at Golden Age Manor, 220 Scholl Court, Amery, WI 54001.

Any donation is tax deductable.

Gary Taxdahl, director on behalf of the committee, Scott Sjogren and Marilyn Zurcher, cochairs Amery

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Intergovernmental cooperation There has been a lot of coverage in the newspapers recently of the decisions being made by towns about ambulance service.

According to Wisconsin statutes, towns are responsible for providing ambulance service for their citizens.

Several years ago, in an effort to consolidate costs, the towns in Burnett County delegated the task of acquiring and administering ambulance service to the Burnett County Board. Things seemed to be going fine until last year when the ambulance rate took a significant jump. In its response to the situation, the county failed to manage and communicate the matter in a timely manner. As a result, the towns had no choice but to remain with the existing services, but with an expectation that the county would be more proactive and do better planning and communication for 2009.

Unfortunately, the county representatives again failed to effectively plan and communicate the situation and issues. The towns were forced to do their own research, and some towns have decided to select other ambulance services. I believe these decisions were made hastily and without consideration for the impact on other towns.

The towns and villages of Burnett County should be working together to identify effective and economic solutions for all of us. Could the Burnett Medical Center be a part of the solution? If more towns chose North Land could it not only help North Land grow to effectively service Burnett County but also provide goodpaying jobs here?

I don’t have the answers. The towns need to take the time to sit down together and talk with each other to find solutions that work for all of us. Intergovernmental cooperation is governments working together toward a common goal.

The towns have a vehicle in place to support and facilitate this; namely the Wisconsin Towns Association. I hope the July 23 town’s association meeting will be well-attended, and active discussion will be had around this topic for 2010. Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend. I have a prior family commitment.

Dan Peterson, chairman Daniels Town Board Town of Daniels

Careful what you wish for I was shocked when a letter in last week’s newspaper invited readers to go to the Burnett County Government Center to view a movie that was put out by Micheal Moore, entitled “Sicko.” It was put out a few years ago and is about the state of health care in this country.

I called the government center and they had no knowledge of who had reserved one of their conference rooms with the express purpose of showing this movie and making it look as if Burnett County was promoting the showing.

There is an old saying that says, “Be careful what you wish for.”

Those that think they want universal health care had better look at countries like Canada and Great Britain and decide if that is what they want for themselves and their families.

Do you really want your health care rationed? Do you want the government to decide if you can have the basic health care that you need?

Do you want them to decide if you should have bypass surgery or if you should have an MRI for a brain tumor? Or do you want them to tell you that you cannot have the medicine that would do you the most good because it is too expensive and you have to settle for a less-effective drug. Do you want to wait in line for months to get assigned to a doctor or surgeon because there are not enough of them to cover the vast amounts of people on the government health-care program?

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Ode to plastic bags

I have been pack-ratting my empty

bread bags, the liners to the Multigrain Cheerios boxes, and rinsing and rerinsing resealable bags.

The rumors of stores sacking their use of plastic bags have me freaked about a reeking garbage bin. In fact, even though I request as many bags as a respectable mom can at the grocery store, I still run out.

As in most households, the bags line our bathroom trashcans. But they also protect our snouts from poopy diapers until the kitchen bin is full, and Hubby hauls it out. I fill them with the potato and carrot peelings or celery and strawberry tops when I clean the produce right in the sink, so I can rinse as I go.

Then I can carry the refuse – drip-free – over to the bin.

I use bags to pack breakables, to stuff into the diaper bag to separate dirty bib and washcloth from clean, and to lug along daughter’s muddy rain boots in the car, just in case.

When I visit my mom, and she hands over her 200-plus-bag supply, it’s like Christmas.

So what to do in a sans-plastic-bag world? Okay, I realize I should start a compost pile for the peelings. (Read: Mission Compost Pile has now been accomplished.)

But the diapers? Is changing my garbage can bag daily any better than reusing a plastic grocery bag for each diaper? You’re going to say, “Use cloth diapers,” but, until summer break started, I barely had time to wash daughter’s sleepers; I can’t imagine the multistep sterilization of butt rags – not to mention working this out at the multi-poopy-butted daycare.

I know it’s not that hard to wash clothes, but when you’re on off-peak electric (See, I’m doing something for the environment), you’ve got about two hours a day to do the wash if you’re a nine-hour sleeper like myself, and not even that long if you have a child like mine who wakes at the sound of the machine’s lid shutting.

(Read: No I will not use a washboard and haul the clothes to the creek. But …

Canada has ads out telling the U.S. not to adopt the type of health care they have.

It doesn’t work. People from Canada come to the U.S. on a regular basis to get their tests done because it takes too long in their own country. The death rate from cancer is higher in both Great Britain and Canada than it is in this country and that is because of the wait for treatment. People die while they are waiting to see a doctor or get the treatment they need.

Canada is now considering letting Canadians buy their own health insurance instead of being forced into the government-run system.

Health care is not some kind of collective public service like fire protection, that is provided equally to all who need it. No government can provide the same body repair services to everyone. Not all doctors are as effective as others and patients don’t all react to treatment in the same way.

Health care in the U.S. will never be equal no matter what the government does, and you as a patient should not want that kind of care.

If we persevere in our quest for medical

equality we will sacrifice personal freedom as its price. We will all be provided with the same low-quality health care and the price tag will bankrupt the country, which already has the biggest deficit in history.

Tell your congressman that you do not want government-run health care and you do not want the country to run up any more deficits than it already has.

Tell them also that you are for firing everyone in Congress and voting every incumbent out of office. Let’s see how that sits with them.

Rose Swanson Danbury

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Community Voices Jodi McLain Daughter is now potty trained. Joy to the world! And I finally just strung some twine around a couple of trees until we can get a proper clothesline built – out of recycled materials, thank you very much.)

So, should I instead buy foam packing peanuts to send my sister some homemade jam and my mother pictures of my growing child?

I just don’t see how eliminating plastic bags altogether truly behooves us.

I’m guessing it will simply coerce moms into buying those designer dirtydiaper liners, a.k.a. plastic bags with Eddie Bauer’s name on them. Or those packages of portable Hefty sacks, a.k.a. plastic bags with Hefty’s name on them.

And how many people have simply replaced their use of plastic bags with cloth ones and now have about 50 extra at home because they keep forgetting to put them back into the car and guiltily buy another? I can’t imagine the production of fabric is any less harmful on the environment than sheets of plastic.

Yes, I have reduced. Certainly, I reuse. And God bless you, recycle. But let’s keep the paper (I need them for recycling) or plastic option open, please.

P.S. Can you tell I feel a little guilty about this?

P.P.S. Now that I compost, have a potty-trained girl, and e-mail the photos to Mom, I have 25 or so grocery bags, bread bags and cereal-box liners stashed away. Any takers?

Jodi McLain writes in rural Grantsburg, where she lives with her family. A former newspaper reporter, she’s now a public school teacher. Her writing has appeared in magazines including Minnesota Monthly and Running Times, literary journals such as Whirligig, and is scheduled to appear in Grit.

Health care for all The most pressing issue on the minds of citizens these days is affordable health care. I believe the only solution to this problem is a single-payer insurance plan.

If you don’t understand the term singlepayer, stop reading now and do some research.

This country has an insurance-based health-care system. We spend $2.4 trillion on health care in America – 16 percent of our gross national product. And $800 billion of that a year goes to the insurance companies for corporate profits, stock options, bloated salaries of executives, salaries, advertising, paperwork and other administrative waste — cost which could be greatly reduced or eliminated.

We have 50 million Americans without any health care; tens of millions underinsured who will lose their homes, life savings and their retirements at the whim of insurance companies. We know insurance companies make money by denying claims.

If we have really reclaimed our government, then we have a right to demand health care for all; single-payer, not-forprofit, universal health care. We should not settle for anything less.

Paul A. Sexton Siren

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Letters t o t h e e d i t o r Epitome of corruption As a follow-up to the recent letter regarding the poll about government bailouts, allow me to continue with some more disturbing information about what some would consider to be an inside job that could involve some fairly high echelons.

A friend of mine, who lived a few years in California, became friends with a structural architect named Richard Gage. On May 28, Gage was interviewed on a Fox news channel in Fresno, Calif., to share his input as to the 9/11 attack. Gage compared a video of a controlled building implosion to Bldg. 7 that was also destroyed in the 9/11 attack. Side by side, these buildings collapsing were virtually identical. In addition, they found puddles of melted metal where the trade towers stood. Jet fuel burns at approximately 1,700 degrees, and it would require a temperature in excess of 3,000 degrees to melt steel.

Samples of the ashes from these towers were also tested in labs, and interestingly, they found nanoparticles of a substance called thermite. From the source of Wikipedia it gives the following information on thermite: Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide, which produces an aluminothermic reaction known as a thermite reaction. It is not explosive, but can create short bursts of extremely high temperatures focused on a very small area for a short period of time.

Thermite is not likely to be found in a terrorist cave in Afghanistan. This is the link to the interview of architect Richard Gage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =oO2yT0uBQbM The fact that someone could mastermind the killings of over 3,000 people in the World Trade towers to justify another war to satisfy the greed of our military industrial complex does not surprise me in the least. John F. Kennedy had ordered the return of military personnel from Vietnam by the end of 1965, which would have meant the loss of in excess of $500 billion to our military industrial complex, and as a result Kennedy was assassinated. This resulted in over 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam and millions of noncombatants slaughtered to satisfy the greed of a few people.

Leon Moe Luck

Change we can believe in

An open letter to all who voted for President Obama to get his version of “change we can believe in.”

Now that he has been in office for six months, have you been paying attention to what he has done and is doing? His radical leftist policies are well on the way to destroying this country as we have known it.

We had to have the stimulus package passed immediately or unemployment would go over 8.5 percent. What is it now?

And the president says only 6 or 7 percent of it has been spent because that is the way it was designed. Does anyone else think it will be spent in 2010 because there is a congressional election coming up? I have tried many times to contact our representative Obey, and he won’t respond. As I recall from a previous letter, I am not the only

More spending not solution

If it seems like every solution to our economic downturn demands more government spending, it’s because it has. A constituent e-mailed me this week with the subject line “No More Spending!” He had it right.

Over the past few months, we have seen the federal government multiply our nation’s debt. In Wisconsin, a challenging state budget bill resulted in no reforms to the long-term operational costs of state government. Instead, we were thrown billions by the federal government that allowed the Democraticcontrolled Legislature to pass a budget

one with that problem.

Our national debt has now passed a trillion dollars for this year, with maybe another trillion to be added before the end of the year, and our treasury secretary is a tax cheat who was a major player on Wall Street when the financial problems started.

We are on the verge of having a cap and trade bill passed, with most of the reasons for doing so based on junk science. Is it worth the tax-increasing, job-destroying, deficit-increasing outcome of this to maybe lower the temperature of the earth one tenth of a degree? And on top of this, the two main polluters in the word, China and India, refuse to go along.

We have an abundance of our own natural resources that we should be using – coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power, but we are stopped from doing so by Congress, while we spend billions buying oil from our enemies. We are on the road to health-care reform that will cost more trillions and put some government bureaucrat of czar in charge of what care we can receive, how much money doctors can make and whom we can be treated by. The government is now in charge of two of the three major automobile manufacturers, with now a second auto czar who is an ex union official. How many czars are there now? Over 30, I think, with none of them vetted by or approved by Congress. This is the transparency in government we were promised?

Our attorney general is on the road to destroying our second-amendment rights, one of the few we still have left, he dismissed charges against left-wing activists for disrupting voting in the administration.

The president’s first Supreme Court nominee believes judges are to set policy from the bench and is extremely anti-gun.

The president is on a continual world tour to apologize for us being the leader of the free world. After what we have done for the world over the years, we have no reason to be sorry for who we are. The president fires a solicitor general for getting too close to charging an insider buddy of his, contrary to a law the president helped get enacted while he was a senator.

The Congress passes bill after bill, some of them with thousands of pages in them that no one has read, and they refuse to subject themselves to the laws they pass for us, i.e. health care, retirement, etc. We are in danger of being subjected to world law and currency, with the U. N. being able to dictate to us what rights we have, again I point to the second amendment. I fear this is getting too long, but it is just a start.

Is this really the kind of change you all voted for? If not, pay attention and let your senators and representatives hear from you.

plants, like France has, and provide lowcost money to finance the nuclear power plants, this would enable the U.S. to decrease its dependence on foreign oil, cause very little pollution and provide the necessary electric energy we need to increase manufacturing jobs in the U.S. The only problem the president and most members of Congress have with this solution is that they wouldn’t have a way to collect a disguised tax on electric consumers to fund other government projects.

Dennis R. Carson Amery

It’s illegal

The president, most members of Congress and Wall Street want to sell us capand-trade carbon allowances, which are basically a tax on the electric consumer.

Most of the money collected from the capand-trade tax would go into the U.S. government to finance Obama’s proposed health-care plan.

If the U.S. government would permit the electric utilities to construct nuclear power

It’s right there on page 16 of the 18-page bill. It is a provision that makes private medical insurance illegal. The bill will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law. The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts. Nothing gives individuals more control over their medical care, and the government less, than HSAs. What happened to the promise that we can keep private health insurance?

The Senate has admitted that they have no idea how they are going to fund the $1.5 to $2 trillion estimated cost. When has a new government program ever cost us less than estimated? Rep. Blackburn, Tenn., says that the plan is unsustainable, even according to the Congressional Budget Office figures. Do we know what it means to us when our politicians admit that a plan is unsustainable? Unsustainable! The government has not figured out a way to pay for more than half of what the estimated costs will be. Half of what they say they can raise is going to come from small businesses.

House Democrats unveiled the plan and small businesses with five to nine workers will be at the cusp of the hit. Many smallbusiness owners are firmly in the “No new taxes if you earn under $250,000 group.”

What happened to that happy little promise? I am sure I don’t have to spell out how the destruction of small business will affect your lifestyle and the health of our nation.

These new taxes do not include the cap and trade taxes. Cap and trade will, to quote President Obama “necessarily result in skyrocketing energy costs.” You might be wrong if you think that increased energy costs will not impact the price you pay for items you purchase. Energy is consumed in manufacturing, packaging, shipping, etc. Is this not a heavy burden on the people who can least handle an increase in living costs?

What’s the hurry? Why so fast? Why are our politicians signing bills they have not even read? May we look at alternatives, please? Look into the Patients’ Choice Act [one of the authors is Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.] “The Patients’ Choice Act transforms health care in America: strengthening the relationship between the patient and the doctor; using the forces of choice and competition rather than rationing and restrictions to contain costs; and ensuring universal, affordable health care for all Americans.”

What would be wrong with taking a little time to look at an act that would put patients and doctors in charge of our health care, not the government? All would have

with more pork spending, more costly political giveaways, and another $2 billion in jobkilling state taxes.

Families are facing economic anxieties in this recession and understand that government cannot continue to spend Sheila beyond taxpayer Harsdorf means. It is common that I now get calls 10th District and e-mails encour- Senate aging the state to rein in spending. Yet, the state budget included over $40 million in earmarks for special projects like

$100,000 for a barn in Oconto, $500,000 for an opera house in Oshkosh and $46,000 for recycling bins in Wrightstown. These earmarks are testament to the recently passed budget bill not taking our economic situation seriously or using our tax dollars prudently.

So, what steps can Wisconsin take to help save resources? Here are some ideas: Reform government spending. Provide tools to local government so they can save money – such as enabling schools to utilize the state health insurance plan to save hundreds of millions.

Change state aid formulas to provide for basic community services, not reward more local spending with more state dollars. Enact zero-based budgeting so that state spending needs are justified.

Adolph Peterson Grantsburg

Clean electric energy

the ability to own a portable health-insurance policy, regardless of employment status. Gone would be the stigma of being a Medicaid patient.

Ask a Canadian or a Brit about their health-care system. If we achieve socialized medicine, where will the Canadians go for their health care? We will be putting the brokers that help Canadians come to U.S. hospitals to get timely cancer surgery and treatments out of business, www.freemarketcure.com.

Call to action: Call, write or e-mail your representatives, www.house.gov and www.senate.gov.

Sign a petition, www.joinpatientsfirst.com is one. Educate yourself and others, www.askheritage.org, and google Patients’ Choice Act. Margo Johnson Osceola

Blind cutting of taxes Many others and I feel that blind tax cutting is more destructive to our country’s future than spending to try to turn around our economy. Our economy has been devastated by war and lack of financial controls.

Where would we be today if Eisenhower would not have pushed for a federal highway system? The tax at that time to pay for the highway was 80 percent on the highest incomes, and that was before offshore tax schemes were practiced.

A better option to blind cutting of taxes would be to consider the long-range implications. Cutting research is a long-range disaster. Cutting missile defense would be a good move, as missile defense doesn’t work. It is part of what Eisenhower called the “military industrial complex.”

Denying medical care to all citizens in the richest country in the world is morally reprehensible.

Many cities still run huge quantities of raw sewage into the rivers. (St. Louis is one example). Leaving contaminated rivers to our children is equally as bad as a debt.

For the results of blind tax cutting see Time magazine, July 27, 2009, page 16: “California Budget Crisis.”

Many other problems will take courageous leaders and a supportive public, and taxes, to fix these problems.

Francis Peterson Rural Spooner

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Increase capacity for energy production. It is time to lift the moratorium on nuclear power, which can provide clean and abundant energy resources for our economic well-being.

Exempt capital gains that are reinvested in Wisconsin jobs. Instead of jobkilling taxes, let’s target job creation by encouraging private-sector investment.

Balancing our state budget in a fashion that does not stymie jobs or saddle future generations with spending is going to demand reforms that allow government and families to do more with less.

You can learn more about my ideas to help state job growth, reduce spending, and reform government online at www.harsdorfsenate.com. I welcome your input and exchange of ideas.

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Letters t o t h e e d i t o r Apathy Michael Jackson died, and the news broadcasts were consumed by that event for the next two weeks. Meanwhile about a dozen GIs were killed in Afghanistan and at least 50 more were very seriously injured with hundreds more experiencing things that will haunt them the rest of their lives.

During this time, I saw nothing on the news (even on FOX) about their sacrifices.

The Vietnam veterans returned to a society who held them in judgment with some contempt. These new veterans are returning to apathy.

A 23-year-old Marine who was an honor student in high school and who joined the Marines at the age of 18 for four years was recently discharged. He spent over five years on active duty under a policy called “stop loss.” He spent three tours in Iraq and one tour in Afghanistan. He saw heavy combat as an infantryman and now is subject to go a fifth time if his Reserve unit is called up over the next three years. Two days after he got home he attended a college graduation party for an old high school friend. The recent college graduate said to him, “Hey, good to see you, thanks for coming. I haven’t seen you around.”

The recently discharged Marine replayed, “Yeah well, I just got out of the Marines and back from my fourth tour in Iraq.” The graduate asked, “ Is that still going on?”

I saw a picture on the Internet of a banner hung up in the officer training mess hall at the Marine Base in Quantico, Va. I don’t know if the picture was a fake or not and it doesn’t matter. The banner read, “ THE MARINES ARE AT WAR. AMERICA IS AT THE MALL!” That says it all.

Last week I took down my American flag which flew over Baghdad five years ago and hung up a Marine Corps flag. I didn’t do this because I am angry. I did it because I am sad.

Charlie Wolden Frederic

W stands for “Wonderful...”

The June 20 Leader reported CTH W is officially the worst road in the county. I live on W and this was no surprise – I know better than to drink a cup of coffee while driving on W. Yes, CTH W needs repairs. But the discussion about fixing the roads “to federal standards” required to get aid, was alarming. I hope we never get funding to widen or straighten CTH W. It would be a crime to take this charming, winding, tree-lined road and turn it into a mini-highway. Our world is full of wide straight boring roads. Curvaceous ones like CTH W are an endangered species.

Let’s not wreck this one!

There are big changes happening in the federal government now. Let’s investigate the possibility of funding for repairs that will not require CTH W to change its personality. Maybe we can smooth out the bumps and figure out a way to maintain it that will that will let us drive safely and comfortably on our wonderful road.

Jackie Thorwick West Sweden

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Hraychuck-Holperin ATV bill introduced in state Legislature LRB-2803 would modify the definition of an all-terrain vehicle MADISON – Legislation adjusting the definition of an all-terrain vehicle was introduced this week by Rep. Ann Hraychuck, D-Balsam Lake, and Sen. Jim Holperin, D-Conover.

Current law defines ATVs based on specific width, tire, rim and weight requirements, a definition that restricts use on public land. Product improvements by ATV manufacturers have surpassed legal limits in rim size without changing the size or nature of the vehicle, calling for a change in legislation.

Collaboration between the legislators and their constituents was an important part of the formation of this bill. Constituents who were unnecessarily con-

strained by these regulations contacted Hraychuck and Holperin, who acted in response to these concerns.

“The importance of this law is to allow outdoor enthusiasts to use their new vehicles legally. It keeps legislation up to date with the wants of outdoorsmen and the needs of local business owners,” said Hraychuck. “Safer and higher quality vehicles should not be restricted by outdated laws originally intended to prevent extreme customization.”

Tire diameter and overall width will still be restricted in order to preserve the quality of forest trails and to prevent future damage.

The bill will need to pass the Assembly and Senate before heading to the governor’s desk to be signed into law. from the office of Rep. Hraychuck

State Rep. Ann Hraychuck made appearances at both the Lucky Days parade on Saturday afternoon and the Wannigan Days parade at St. Croix Falls and Taylors Falls, Saturday evening. Here she is shown at the Lucky Days parade in Luck. - Photo by Gary King

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Now a felony to run from scene of accident with injury MADISON - The Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District IV, held last week that it is a felony to run from the scene of an accident that resulted in injury.

Ross Brandt was convicted of three felony counts of hit-and-run involving injury. He claimed on appeal that he should have been convicted of misde-

meanors rather than felonies because the crime of hit-and-run involving injury has a maximum penalty of ninemonths’ incarceration. He based his claim on statutes and case law involving the general categorization of crimes as felonies and misdemeanors.

The court of appeals rejected Brandt’s

argument. It held that the general provisions Brandt cited were trumped by a more specific statute, Wisconsin Statute 346.74(5), that expressly designates the crime of hit-and-run involving injury as a felony.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen heralded the decision as a victory for every-

one who uses Wisconsin roadways.

“This case underscores that leaving the scene of an accident when individuals are injured is not only wrong; it is a serious crime.” - from the office of state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen

Suspicions of racism were exacerbated when Valley Swim Club President John Duesler Gates and his driver are said, "There was concern that a African-American. According lot of kids would change the to the Cambridge [Mass.] Pocomplexion ... and the atmoslice report, a white woman phere of the club." The U.S. Desaw the two black men atpartment of Justice has opened tempting to enter the home an investigation. and called police.

The Senate Judiciary hearings Ogletree continued: "The Amy on Supreme Court nominee officer ... asked Professor Sonia Sotomayor were permeGates whether he could prove Goodman ated by the race question, espethat he lived there and taught cially with white, male senators at Harvard. Professor Gates said that he questioning her comments on how a could, and ... handed both his Harvard "wise Latina" might rule in court. If conUniversity identification and his valid firmed, one of the first cases she will Massachusetts driver's license to the of- hear will be that of Georgia death-row ficer. Both include Professor Gates' pho- prisoner Troy Anthony Davis, an tograph, and the license includes his African-American. address." Police officer James Crowley As it moves into its second century, reported that Gates responded to his re- the NAACP is, unfortunately, as relequest for identification: "Why? Because vant as ever. It is confronting the death I'm a black man in America?" Despite penalty head-on, demanding Davis' his positive identification, Gates was claims of innocence be heard and asking then arrested for disorderly conduct.

Attorney General Eric Holder to investiMeanwhile, in Philadelphia, more gate the case of Pennsylvania death-row than 60 mostly African-American and prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Another Latino children attending the Creative new NAACP initiative asks people to Steps camp were disinvited from a sub- record instances of bias, discrimination urban Valley Swim Club, which their and police brutality with their cellcamp had paid for pool access. phone cameras, and upload them to

naacp.org.

At the group's centennial, longtime board Chair Julian Bond said, paraphrasing Jay Leno: "When I started, my hair was black and my president was white. Now my hair's white, and my president is black. I hold the NAACP responsible for both." While the Cambridge Police Department has dropped the charges against Gates, his charges of racial discrimination remain. W.E.B. Du Bois' color line has shifted – but it hasn't been erased.

••• 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. “We have a deep concern about how religious ideals affect society.

Therefore, we are also interested in politics and in causes and programs, which will benefit our community,” says a spokesperson for the group.

The 21st century color line W.E.B. Du Bois' classic 1903 work "The Souls of Black Folk" opens with "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." Du Bois helped form the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which just celebrated its 100th anniversary.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., who directs Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, knows much about the color line – not only from his life's work, but from life experience, including last week, when he was arrested in his own home.

Gates' lawyer, Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree, said in a statement that the arrest occurred as Gates returned from the airport: "Professor Gates attempted to enter his front door, but the door was damaged. Professor Gates then entered his rear door with his key, turned off his alarm, and again attempted to open the front door. With the help of his driver they were able to force the front door open, and then the driver carried Professor Gates' luggage into his home." Both

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A month late, executive committee provides little guidance

by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – Polk County Policy 881 requires the executive committee of the county board to meet by June 15 and issue staffing and programming guidance to the county departments as they prepare their budget and staffing requests for the coming year.

The committee, composed of the county board chair and the chairs of the 10 governing committees, finally met on July 21, over a month late.

A large audience gathered to hear the committee’s directives on how to start the delayed 2010 budget process. Present were over 20 department heads and elected officials, all but the district attorney, clerk of court and librarian. Also present were most of the remaining county board members, all but Joan Peterson, Craig Moriak, Kathryn Kienholz and Ken Sample. (The latter two were out of town.)

What they heard, after two hours of talk, was support for a four-day week, a decision not to cover state-funding cuts with county money, and a motion that the departments use common sense in addressing the four areas, out of a list of seven in the policy, not covered by the committee during the meeting. The actions by the executive committee might cut $60,000 from the projected shortfall of $3 million.

Under the four-day week plan, most county offices would be closed one day a week but open longer hours on those days. The public could benefit from evening hours of service. Employees would work four 10-hour days, save one commute and have three-day weekends.

There would be no decrease in wages, but the change could save the county an estimated $60,000 a year. Of that, $45,000 would come from less overtime pay, according to a projection from employee relations director Andrea Jerrick. The remaining $15,000 would come

from reduced building costs, including utilities, according to buildings director Debra Peterson. The change in office hours would not affect the departments serving the courts.

The state provides the county a large amount of revenue to cover part of the county’s cost of providing mandated services to the public. The state has cut some of that reimbursement funding this year. The committee passed a motion saying that any cut in outside revenue (state funds) would lead to a decrease in services.

In other words, the county will not cover state budget cuts with county levy dollars. It was noted that this might mainly affect human service department programs for the public.

The areas left to the departments to decide include items such as turning over programs to private industry, outsourcing some services, consolidating efforts between departments, and increasing fees and rates for services.

There was discussion on the most effective way to reduce staff and services.

“Department heads are in the best position to know what we can run well,” finance Chair Gary Bergstrom said. “They know what programs can be cut. Understaffed programs are not well run. If we can’t run programs well, we must make selections. We need to balance our budget.”

“We can’t ask the department heads to make the cuts,” personnel Chair Russ Arcand countered. “We can’t pit them against each other. We have asked them to do that for three or four years and it has not worked.

It is our [the county board’s] decision on what programs to eliminate and what departments to consolidate.”

The committee voted in favor of furloughs or unpaid

holidays as a method to lower costs. The state has implemented eight days of unpaid days off on all its employees, including four agents in the county’s UW-Extension Office.

The motion to turn remaining items over to the departments came after the executive committee had met for two hours and with just a short time left before the start of the monthly county board meeting. Supervisors Bob Dueholm and Arcand had both commented that the committee was not giving the department heads any directions.

“Dispute” resolution The executive committee did spend a half hour at the start of the meeting mediating an area of conflict between two departments, only to be told that the conflict did not exist.

County board Chair Bryan Beseler said there was a disagreement between the Golden Age Manor Board and the property committee over whether operation of all county buildings should be under property or whether GAM was separate. Discussion went back and forth about regulations for nursing homes, day-to-day operations of the facility in Amery and the job descriptions of the two department heads involved. Finally, one of those heads, Peterson, was asked to comment.

“I didn’t ask for this,” Peterson told the committee.

“There is no dispute between me and Golden Age Manor. Don’t make a decision on this today. Think it out further.”

With that, the committee referred the possible dispute to the two committees. Larry Jepsen, a member of the property committee, said he is not sure what the committees are supposed to do.

Supervisors reject mileage reimbursement cut

by Mary Stirrat BALSAM LAKE — The Polk County Board of Supervisors Tuesday evening rejected by just one vote a proposal to reduce the per-mile reimbursement that they receive for driving to meetings.

Submitted by supervisors Bob Dueholm and Ken Sample, the proposal would have cut mileage reimbursement to 75 percent of the IRS rate, from 55 cents per mile to 41.25 cents per mile. The cut would also have applied to citizen members of the county’s administrative boards and standing committees.

Based on last year’s total mileage reimbursement paid of about $31,000, the cut would save the county about $7,700.

Dueholm said he submitted the resolution calling for the cut to help address the “financial crisis” the county is in. He said he hoped the board would first look at cost-saving measures that do not affect county services and be willing to make sacrifices.

Supervisor Gary Bergstrom was opposed to the resolution, saying that he would be open to a cut in the per diem that supervisors receive for each meeting but that he was not in favor of cutting reimbursement for an out-of-pocket expense.

By taking the cut, argued Supervisor Gerald Newville, the board would show that it was willing to make sacrifices. If the board isn’t willing, he said, it would be hard to ask the union and nonrepresented employees to take a cut.

“Nobody else gets paid for driving to the county,” he said. “It’s like we’re saying we want somebody to make cuts but we don’t want it to be us.”

“We’ve got to set the pace,” agreed Supervisor Jim Edgell. “We’re talking a $3 million deficit and we’re asking everyone but ourselves to take a hit.” Referring to the $7,700 total cut for the entire board, Edgell said, “I think we could sacrifice that much.”

Supervisor Diane Stoneking said that it was very difficult to get someone to run for county board in her district, which is why she ended up with the position. She said she felt she has already sacrificed to serve on the board, having to give up income opportunities while being approached about board business at any time and

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Larry Jepsen stands to address his fellow supervisors at the July 21 meeting of the county board.

Seated are supervisors Kim O’Connell and Diane Stoneking. — Photo by Mary Stirrat

any place.

“I do feel like I’m sacrificing in my own personal life,” she said.

Stoneking pointed out that supervisors receive $60 per committee meeting and $100 for a full county board meeting.

“Getting mileage for these meetings — I don’t feel guilty at all,” she said. “This is an important job. I do consider it half volunteer. But certainly the mileage does help.”

Responding to the comment that most people don’t get paid to drive to work, Stoneking said that most people get an actual salary and benefits once they are at work.

Supervisor Keith Rediske pointed out that each supervisor can chose whether or not to submit his or her mileage for reimbursement. He added that supervisors cannot compare themselves with the employees, since the employees get annual wage increases but the per diem rate for supervisors has not increased since 2000.

Receiving mileage and per diem, said Supervisor Larry Jepsen, could make the difference between some-

one deciding to run for county board and deciding not to.

Newville said that he was sad that so many of the supervisors felt it was drudgery to be on the board.

“I am happy to be here,” he said. “And I certainly don’t feel cheated if I have to study up. I’m proud of the things I’ve been able to get done at the county level.”

As discussion continued, Supervisor Russ Arcand pointed out that the same supervisors were making comments, and he asked for a vote to be taken.

Voting in favor of the cut in mileage reimbursement were supervisors Dueholm, Dean Johansen, Herschel Brown, Edgell, Brian Masters, Arcand, Kim O’Connell, Larry Voelker, Newville, and board Chair Bryan Beseler.

Opposed to the cut were Joan Peterson, Patricia Schmidt, Marvin Caspersen, Rediske, Craig Moriak, Michael Larsen, Jay Luke, Stoneking, Jepsen, Bergstrom and Niel Johnson. Absent were supervisors Kathy Kienholz and Sample.

Former local man rescued

LITTLE FALLS, Minn. – A former Frederic area man was rescued from a northern Minnesota lake last Wednesday, July 15, after the boat he was in with three others and a dog capsized.

Justin D. Anderson, 21, Little Falls, formerly of rural Frederic, and Cody J. Krueger, 21, Royalton, were rescued but two others, Shawn Allen Ramsdell, 33, and Adam Joseph Bobick, 23, drowned. The deceased were both residents of Little Falls.

The drownings occurred on Blackduck Lake, approximately 25 miles north of Bemidji, Minn. The boat cap-

sized at approximately 4 p.m. Divers recovered the bodies of the deceased at approximately 1:30 p.m. the next day.

The search and recovery efforts included the Lakes Area Dive Team based in Cass County, the Itasca County Sheriff’s Dive Team, the Beltrami Sheriff’s Office, Blackduck Fire Department and the DNR. Anderson grew up in Indian Creek and attended Frederic and Luck schools. – Gary King, with information from Morrison County Record

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B U R N E T T

C O U N T Y

H E A D L I N E S

Local woman is victim of e-mail scam

by Nancy Jappe GRANTSBURG – “I need your help” was the subject of the July 3 e-mail to persons on Diane Brask’s e-mail list. The e-mail went on to ask those who received it to send money to Brask in care of a hotel in Kensington in the London, England, area because all her money and her passport had been stolen from the hotel in which she had lodged during a trip to the United Kingdom.

“I have spoken to the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively. I will return the money back to you as soon as i (lower case used often in this e-mail) get home,” the e-mail stated, adding, “since i can’t access the internet

always you will use my name in sending me the money via Western Union Money Transfer.”

As you have already guessed, this email was a scam intended to bilk money out of people who are Brask rural-mission supporters.

“THIS IS A SCAM,” Brask wrote to friends July 11, using a new e-mail account. “Do not send any money or respond to this in any way.”

“I work under two reputable organizations – International Ministerial Fellowship (IMF) and The National Network of Youth Ministries (NNYM),” she continued. “I assure you, if I was in a state of an international emergency and needed

money, I would contact them and the U.S. Embassy of that country.

“Please know that I value my friends and donors and that I would NEVER do anything to take advantage of you. I would never stoop that low to get money. If any of you have wired money through Western Union already, please call them immediately and see if you can freeze the transaction.”

At this point, as far as Brask knows, only one elderly couple did respond to the scam, wiring $200 to the address that was listed.

“Since my explanation e-mail went out, I received, from many people who got my response, that this kind of thing

has happened to many individuals and organizations around the world,” Brask commented.

“You can survive,” she went on to say.

“You can overcome this, but in this day of technology, it is frustrating. I had to get a new phone and new e-mail account and gather all phone numbers and email addresses again. It has been very time-consuming and costly. I am in the process of continuing to pursue this and to try to track down the person who hacked into my account to see that person is brought to justice.”

Space needs for government center, highway department complex presented

by Sherill Summer SIREN - It has been more than a quarter of a century since Burnett County has had a major building project to upgrade space to house its county departments.

Back then, during the 1980s, the county had roughly 78 percent of the population it has now, and while population growth does not automatically mean a bigger county government, the county departments are now cramped for room, according to Gary Faught, Burnett County’s maintenance supervisor.

The county hired Ayres Associates last year to do a space-needs study, and the infrastructure committee got its first look at the results at a meeting held Wednesday, July 15.

The study evaluated the government center, located north of Siren, and the highway department buildings, located on Hwy. 70, west of Siren.

The county also has the medical examiner, the forestry and parks department and the airport manager housed in the airport terminal next to the government center.

Highway shop According to Bob Brown and Steve Hoecherl of Ayres Associates, the space that is in most need of updating is the highway department complex. The main shop building is over 50 years old and is at the end of its effective life cycle. The study predicted that additions or up-

by Carl Heidel WEBSTER - The Webster School Board got some good news when it met Monday evening. The school has issued recall notices to two teachers laid off by budget cuts, and loss of state aid was not as great as reported earlier.

District Administrator Jim Erickson told board members that stimulus monies have made it possible to recall Renee Ones and Lynn Stubbe. Ones,

ity would include highway administration and highway shop offices, a 7,000square-foot repair shop for general service and repair, a 25-stall, 20,400square-foot vehicle and light equipment garage, a 30-stall, 22,000-square-foot heavy equipment garage and two wash bays.

The existing fuel station, salt and sand storage building and general storage building would remain. The total project could cost $8.7 million, including shop equipment costs, if started in the near future.

Bob Brown of Ayres Associates unveils preliminary results of a spaceneeds study at an infrastructure committee meeting held Wednesday, July 15. - Photo by Sherill Summer grades to the existing buildings would not be cost effective and proposed to demolish the existing shop and storage building to the west of the shop. The study then recommended building a new shop to the north of the existing shop so that the existing shop could be used while the new space is under construction.

The proposed 65,850-square-foot facil-

Webster recalls teachers

who taught 7-12 FACE before the layoff, has been offered a position as part-time guidance counselor. Stubbe would return in her original position as part-time instructional aide.

Erickson also said that the school’s loss of state aid will be “somewhere around $37,000.” Earlier reports had claimed that state budget cuts in state aid to schools would take $248,000 from the Webster district’s coffers. And while the

Drought ravages farms up north

COLFAX - Farmers in northern Wisconsin are coping with the effects of five straight years of drought. Some are worried about how their crops will hold out and if they’ll make a profit.

The state Climatology Center says so far this year, rainfall up north is more than 6 inches below average.

Ray Dreger farms 400 acres of corn and soybeans in Colfax. He says that drought conditions year after year are drying up ponds and subsoils. There hasn’t been enough moisture over the winter or early spring to replenish the subsoil, so farmers are very reliant on what kind of surface rain that’ll come in the growing season. He calls that a “dangerous situation.”

Farmers are installing irrigation sys-

Government center While the study noted that the government center, constructed in 1983, is structurally sound and well maintained, it confirmed what many working in the building already knew; it is too small for the current county departments. Compounding the problem is that department managers anticipate 40 more employees or so could be working in the building within the next 10 years. The study also recommended moving the forestry and parks department and the medical examiner office to the government center. Currently these departments are in the airport terminal.

Currently, the government center provides about 32,500 square feet of space for the departments to work out of, not counting the airport terminal. It is estimated that the county could use an ad-

tems, and using heartier hybrids of plants that weather drought better. But both of those solutions have high startup costs. Dreger says when a farmer’s crop goes bad, they rely on federal crop insurance to keep them going for another year. Those proceeds are used to purchase inputs to put the crop in for another year, but there’s nothing left for profit or to improve the farmstead, homestead or even purchase new equipment.

But Dreger says that not all is lost for this year’s growing season. Corn is just beginning to pollinate in the northern areas of the state, and if a good rainfall comes in the next week and half, the corn yields should be almost normal. – Wisconsin Public Radio (Madeline Nordholm)

smaller cut is still a hardship to the district, Erickson said that it is “manageable.”

In related action, Erickson announced that the new state budget offers an allowance for schools that employ their own nurse. With that allowance, the board gave approval to a contract with Karen Spafford as school nurse, conditional upon her licensing.

In other action the board: • approved a school fees schedule for

ditional 72,641 square feet. This includes quadrupling the size of the jail and adding a second courtroom. Only the register in probate, the corporate counsel and county board rooms were considered adequate in the study. The departments that should receive a lot more space according to the study are the sheriff’s department, health and human services, and land and water conservation.

The study proposed a two-story addition to the southwest of the current building and remodeling of the existing building, plus a single-story, 71-bed jail to replace the current 31-bed facility.

The cost of the two-story addition and remodeling of the existing government center is estimated to cost over $9.5 million if the county built it now. A new jail would cost an additional $9.5 million to construct.

The proposals presented at the infrastructure committee were described as preliminary and it is expected that Brown and Hoecherl will appear at a supervisors’ meeting in the future to discuss the proposals further. Brown and Hoecherl expressed willingness to adjust the proposals in response to supervisor feedback.

Brown also emphasized that any expansion of government buildings could be completed in stages and was not suggesting that the county attempt to build all of the proposed buildings all at once.

2009-2010 that left fees unchanged from the past year; • approved revisions in the 2008-2009 budget in preparation for the annual fiscal audit; • approved a contract with Stotz and Company to conduct the fiscal audit; • accepted the resignations of Diana Kalepp, second-grade teacher, and Brenda Larsen, high school Spanish teacher; • and discussed the use of laptop computers by the students.

Gov. Doyle approves $2,248,580 project at Burnett County Airport SIREN – Gov. Jim Doyle has approved a $2,248,580 project to reconstruct and extend Runway 14/32 at the Burnett County Airport, north of Siren.

The governor’s action releases $600,030 in state funds to resurface the existing 3,500-foot runway and extend it to 5,000 feet. Burnett County is contributing $180,033 to the project and the Federal Aviation Administration is providing $1,468,517.

According to Gayle Stearn, airport development engineer with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the proj-

ect will extend the life of the existing pavement and help ensure that the airport meets transportation and safety demands.

The project is scheduled to begin in July 2009 and should be completed by spring 2010.

Along with a crosswind runway, facilities at the Burnett County Airport include the current 3,900-foot primary runway. There are some 30 aircraft based at the airport and about 15,000 aircraft take-offs and landings each year. - from the office of Gov. Doyle

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Hope Cottages seeks to make a difference

Housing, services for disabled now available in Milltown

MILLTOWN – A new option for people who experience disabilities is now open and anxious to provide residential support services in Milltown.

Hope Cottages Inc. is a small company capable of delivering individualized service with a personal touch and attention to detail. It is a certified adult family home, now ready to serve the needs of individuals who are interested in living in Milltown.

John Casterton, director of Hope Cottages, has overseen the renovation of duplexes on Manor Drive, all of which are two-bedroom condominiums constructed on a single level. Staff quarters are included in each unit.

For the time being, Casterton said, the round-the-clock live-in staff member can be provided free of charge, if needed.

“I am in a position to do something for free, at least initially,” he said.

Each of the units are “cute, clean, spacious and bright,” he said, and fully furnished if desired. They can be modified to accommodate the specific needs of any individual. Respite, short- and longterm supports are available.

Hope Cottages, according to informational materials, is dedicated to working with anyone with any manner of physical or behavioral issues.

The staff at Hope Cottages Inc. has years of experience as well as the education and training to provide comfortable housing and superior service to disabled men in the community, he said. They

Hope Cottages Inc., with live-in staff for 24-hour assistance, has residential units available in Milltown. The two-bedroom units can be fully furnished if desired, and will be modified to meet specific needs. — Photos submitted take pride in specializing in serving the needs of those who desire their own greatest level of independence and who might need a certain level of structure and assistance to experience life to its fullest.

“Our philosophy and our approach toward doing everything we do,” states the Hope Cottages brochure, “is based on the conviction that it is not the limitation of people on which we should focus; rather, we must concentrate on the interests and abilities of all people.

“While it is certainly true that some of us have greater needs and greater limitations than others of us, we firmly believe that focusing on what ‘can’t be done’ is a fundamentally flawed way to view and experience life.

“We feel it is not the first hurdle, but rather the finish line, which must be emphasized.”

In addition to housing and residential supports, Hope Cottages Inc. seeks to provide recreational experiences, vocational training and employment opportunities for men in the community no

matter the level of assistance or accommodation that might be required. It is in business to support the needs and interests of community members whose desires have gone largely unacknowledged or impossible to facilitate.

Hope Cottages Inc. works with NorthernBridges, a long-term care coordination organization for an 11-county are in Northwest Wisconsin, along with the Polk County Adult Development Center.

“We’re enthusiastic about the prospect of working closely with NorthernBridges as our mission and philosophy mirrors theirs,” said Casterton.

“NorthernBridges has developed service standards and will use service-specific quality measurement tools to ensure quality of care and services,” he said.

“Provider quality is of utmost importance to NorthernBridges, as they understand and appreciate that it is the provider that gives the hands-on care and services to their members.”

Casterton, a builder and carpenter, has extensive experience in assisting those with difficulties, having worked for var-

John Casterton, director of Hope Cottages Inc., in front of one of the Milltown condominiums now available to people with disabilities. — Photo by Mary Stirrat ious agencies as a teacher, mentor, coach, supervisor, case manager and counselor.

He has nearly 20 years of experience working with delinquent and neglected teenagers, aggressive adults with developmental disabilities, and in the adult correctional systems of both Alaska and Minnesota.

He has a bachelor’s degree from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and has completed graduate level courses in ethics, social deviance, and human development at Minnesota State University at Mankato in pursuit of his Master of Science degree in sociology.

Anyone who is interested in learning more about Hope Cottages and the services they provide can contact Casterton at 612-518-4585. — Mary Stirrat with information from Hope Cottages Inc.

Amery-Dresser trail gets $831,000 stimulus grant

Arcand disputes friends of trail agreement

by Gregg Westigard BALSAM LAKE – Polk County has received an $831,000 federal stimulus grant to improve the Amery-Dresser State Trail and prepare the route, now a hiking trail, for bicycle use.

The county is also receiving DNR stewardship money for engineering work on the trail. The grant was discussed at a meeting of the property committee Thursday, July 16.

That meeting also considered approval of an agreement between Polk County, the DNR and the Friends of the AmeryDresser State Trail. Committee member Russ Arcand expressed some strong criticism of the agreement and the timing of the action. That in turn led to a strong re-

sponse from Supervisor Diane Stoneking, a supporter of the new trail.

Arcand expressed his displeasure that the agreement language states the route is intended to be a nonmotorized trail.

He said that the original intent was for the former rail bed to be a multiuse trail.

Arcand also said he was not given enough time to review the nine-page agreement.

“Why are we even part of this agreement?” Arcand asked. “Can’t the DNR deal directly with the Friends group?

What do we do when the next group comes along? There must be some cost for the county on this.”

Property director Debra Peterson explained that the DNR has an agreement with the county to manage the trail. She said this agreement passes authority to work on the trail to the Friends group

and removes liability from the county.

Corporation counsel Jeff Fuge told Arcand that the circuit court decision making the Amery-Dresser trail nonmotorized stands. He said that the DNR did not take the risk of contesting the ruling by Judge Molly GaleWyrick because that could have put the multiuse status of all state trails in jeopardy.

“I feel your agenda is just ATVs,” Stoneking told Arcand. “You are not willing to give up. The law has spoken.

The Amery-Dresser trail is an asset to the county.”

Action on the tripartnership agreement was put off until the next meeting of the property committee.

The Amery-Dresser State Trail is owned by the DNR and managed by Polk County. The Friends group was incorporated to raise funds for the trail and

assist in its development and operation.

The property committee has directed the property department to spend no county money on the trail. The grant and the agreement will allow the trail to be opened to more uses, such as bicycles, without cost to the county.

Use of the 14-mile trail has been in dispute for many years. Some ATV users wanted access to the trail for summer use. Another group wanted the trail restricted to nonmotorized use during the summer. (There was less dispute about snowmobile use in the winter). After a long series of hearings and debates, the issue of trail use went to the courts.

There it was ruled that all state trails should be nonmotorized under state statutes. By not contesting that decision, the DNR limited the court’s ruling to the Amery-Dresser trail.

Yet another lawsuit filed against Link

by Regan Kohler MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – More legal hard times are ahead for a member of the Link family, after a Minnesota-based company filed a federal lawsuit against its former chief operating officer citing “reckless mismanagement.”

Jay Link became CEO of Jerky Snack Brands in 2007, after irreconcilable differences between himself, and his father and brother, Jack and Troy Link, CEO and president of the internationally successful Link Snacks beef jerky company, caused him to be terminated from the family business. Link then formed his own business by partnering with Jerky Snack Brands, which he brought to Minong, just across the street from the Link Snacks headquarters.

Jack and Troy Link sued Jay Link, who countersued, in a jury trial that spanned over nearly three months last summer.

His father and brother’s suit claimed that Jay Link had reneged on a buy-sell agreement in which he was to sell back his stocks in the company if he ever left the business. Link, in turn, sued them with the claim that what they offered

him for his shares was well below the market value. In the end, both sides were awarded around $5 million each.

This case is still going on, as the attorneys are hammering out the details of the shares in court, and Jay Link has filed an appeal.

The next chapter began last week, when the Mankato, Minn.-based offices of Jerky Snack Brands, Inc. filed a lawsuit against Jay Link, who, according to the suit, was terminated as an officer last month. The suit’s introduction reads that Link “misused his position as a director … to further a long-standing and vindictive campaign against [Link Snacks, Inc.].” It further says that Link “has exhibited a pattern of erratic and irrational behavior which confirms that he viewed Jerky Snack Brands not as a corporation to which he owed fiduciary duties, but rather as a vehicle to fund his efforts to make good on his threat to bring his former company ‘to its knees.’” This last part is referring to statements from Link Snacks’ side in the jury trial, in which this was the threat Jay Link was said to have made upon leaving.

Jerky Snack Brands’ attorney brings counts of breach of fiduciary duty (loyalty and care) to the company and corporate waste of the company’s assets.

In 2006, Link entered a joint venture with Jerky Snack Brands. The suit says that the company “was optimistic … [and] confident in its own ability to produce sufficient quantities of high-quality meat products.” It also said that Link projected a successful image.

However, the suit continues to say that he “was not at all concerned with whether Jerky Snack Brands – indeed, the entire joint venture – succeeded or failed. He was intensely and myopically focused on only one thing: Competing with his father, brother and the Link Companies, and exacting his revenge for the harm he believed was inflicted on him as a result of their fallout and subsequent litigation.

The suit alleges that Link’s concern over the competition rather than the company’s best interests caused “potentially ruinous financial results for Jerky Snack Brands.” It goes on to say that Jerky Snack Brands lost $25 million by

March 2009. In addition to the monetary loss, the suit alleges that Link engaged in acts to befit his own personal interests, such as negotiating with another company’s purchase while still in discussion over a joint venture and overpaying for them, bringing Jerky Snack Brands a significant debt, and moving the company’s main operations to Minong, with no seemingly legit business concern. The suit says that “it is extremely difficult to attract top-executive talent to any company that is based there [Minong],” due to its remoteness from large cities and commercial airports; though, given the success of Link Snacks, this does not appear to be a troublesome factor.

Other allegations include Link charging non-company-related expenses to Jerky Snack Brands’ account, a costly rebranding effort that brought forth “undesirable packaging” that did not help with marketability, and impulsive behavior that resulted in the termination of the vice president of operations, and Link’s alleged refusal to purchase the VP’s home pursuant to a severance agreement.

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WANNIGAN DAYS 2009 • TALENT SHOW

This boy sang a song from Disney’s “Camp Rock.”

This girl sang and played her guitar to Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours.”

Isabell Clasen and Brittney Mollberg took first place in the 12 and under category of the Wannigan Days Talent Show Thursday, July 16. The two girls performed a hiphop dance routine mixed with a bit of stylish attitude.

This young lady sang a Joni Mitchell song.

This young lady played a violin solo during the talent show.

Asha Keith won second place for her clogging dance to “Piper’s Dream.”

This girl sang “Fight Like a Girl” by Bombshell.

Henry Klein played keyboard solos during the talent show.

L U C K Y

D A Y S

Photos by Tammi Milberg

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ST. CROIX FALLS - The 10th annual Wannigan Days Talent Show took place on Thursday, July 16, at the Overlook Deck in St. Croix Falls. Despite cool temperatures, quite a crowd turned out for the event. Winners for ages 12 and under were Isabel Clasen and Brittney Mollberg, Asha Keith, and Alison Johnson. Winners for the 13-18 age category were Ahna Hoefler; Erin, Karl, and Jed Gallagher; and Michael Carpenter. Winners for the over 18 category were Mike Alsaker and Steve McMaan; Lois Barott, and Jim Snyder and Michelle Nelson.

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Members of the Luck High School Class of 1959, holding photos of themselves from 50 years ago, rode a float in Saturday’s Lucky Days parade. - Photos by Gary King

A member of the Luck High School Class of 1959 held a photo cutout of himself, taken when he was in high school, as he and other classmates rode in a float in Saturday’s Lucky Days parade.

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WANNIGAN DAYS 2009 • PARADE

Members of the St. Croix Falls Marching Saints flag corps march ahead of the band in Saturday’s Wannigan Days parade. – Photos by Tammi Milberg Grand marshals for St. Croix Falls Miriam and Arne Lagus wave to the people in St. Croix Falls during the Wannigan Days parade.

Miss St. Croix Falls Royalty already have their waves and smiles coordinated after just being crowned Friday evening and participating in the parade Saturday night. Pictured are Miss St. Croix Falls Alicia Chelberg, first princess Molly Austin-White, second princess Stephanie Stich and third princess/Miss Congeniality Bridgette Bayle.

Ew-nique Boutique owner Shelly Staeven is rollin’ on the river dressed as Tina Turner.

Staeven dressed up as Marilyn Monroe for last year’s parade.

Taylors Falls grand marshals Leland and Delores Rivard traveling down Main Street St. Croix Falls in the parade Saturday evening.

George Meixner drives the antique St. Croix Falls Fire Department truck in the parade. Meixner retired in June after 50 years on the department. In the wagon are St. Croix Falls city clerk Bonita Leggitt, council member Debra Kravig and council member Paul Kuhlman.

Taylors Falls kiddie parade

Mayor Michael Buchite and the Royal Lady of the Village Jeanette Dahlquist participated in the Taylors This little one showed some patriotic flair during the This trio of cowboys made their way Falls, Minn., kiddie parade Friday night, July 17. down River Street during the kiddie parade. Taylors Falls kiddie parade during Wannigan Days July 17.

Photos by Tammi Milberg

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O UTDOOR S I N T E R! C O U N T Y L E A D E R

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

A retreat all their own

Herbst said. “It’s so healing, and you know, there’s a bigger world out there.

It’s a much bigger world out there than our worries and our fears.” She added that she had never fished before but plans to continue fly-fishing in a pond across the street near her home.

For angler Marilyn Gigure, the drive to the retreat was basically in her backyard.

She resides on Viola Lake and hopes to continue fly-fishing in the future along with her family. Her thoughts were much the same as the rest of the group.

“Oh my gosh, it is beyond fantastic,” Gigure said, adding that as a nurse, she is used to being the one caring for another person, and she seemed quite content with the roles being reversed for a change. “This is phenomenal to be totally taken care of,” she said.

Her guide for the day, David Hall, not only helped her catch at least one nicelooking rainbow trout, but fielded questions about wet and dry flies, and treated Gigure to a lesson in identifying caddis larvae and other insects that attract trout.

As the morning wore on, Knapp Creek continued to host the anglers and their guides. Much of it was quiet and as peaceful as the setting provided. The sweet smell of the towering white pines, the occasional clicking sound of a drag being pulled from a reel, a muffled con-

Breast cancer survivors gain more than just a lesson in fly-fishing

by Marty Seeger LEWIS – Fly-fishing is the perfect time to reflect, relax and retreat from the grind of everyday life. Last weekend, a group of 14 women who have fought or are fighting breast cancer learned fly-fishing and received both emotional and physical healing through a special retreat hosted near Lewis and Siren. In the end, they found a new way to reconnect with nature, and a common bond with others facing similar struggles caused by breast cancer.

“They are very special women, very strong, special women,” said volunteer program coordinator and retreat leader Kim Rasmussen. She and several others involved spent 11 months planning for the retreat through the national nonprofit support and educational program, Casting for Recovery. The program was founded in 1996 and began with just two retreats in two states. This year, there are 42 retreats in 27 states, and the one held last weekend was the first ever held in either Wisconsin or Minnesota. Of the 14 participants, 12 were from Minnesota and two resided in Wisconsin.

The retreat comes at no cost to the participants and are supported by volunteers and local organizations. One of the largest supporters is The Hartford, which is a life insurance company in Minneapolis, Minn. Rasmussen said one of the reasons The Hartford got involved with CFR is because they were one of the first to insure women with breast cancer and cancer survivors at standard rates.

“Not only do they put all their values into their products, but they also put it into the programs that they support,” Rasmussen said.

Several volunteers from The Hartford helped throughout the weekend, as well

Casting for Recovery is a national nonprofit support and educational program for women who have fought or are fighting breast cancer.

See CFR/ page 23

Karen Dalrymple was pleased on Sunday with a rainbow trout she caught while fishing with guide Mike Andert on Knapp Creek at Trout Haven Retreat near Lewis. – Photos by Marty Seeger as at least 14 fly-fishing guides, who arrived Sunday morning to pair up with the participants. Several of the guides included those from the Laughing Trout fly-fishing club in the Twin Cities and Hudson’s Kiap-TU-Wish chapter of Trout Unlimited, that works to protect trout streams in St. Croix and Pierce counties.

Clear blue skies Included in the retreat was a stay at The Lodge at Crooked Lake in Siren, and the participants were treated to food from Adventures catering and enjoyed pillow gifts each night when they arrived at their room. The “girls” (as many of the participants called themselves), were shuttled to Trout Haven Retreat near Lewis Sunday morning at around 9 a.m.

They had just finished a spiritual gathering at Crooked Lake Park and everyone appeared bright-eyed and ready for anything the day might bring.

LEFT: Candy Magnuson smirks after losing a trout just before a photo opportunity, but was rewarded a short time later with one of the larger trout of the morning – a 12-inch rainbow trout. Her guide, Rich Frick (R) was with Magnuson the entire morning and helped her land several fish.

The Sunday weather seemed to offer a gift in itself, as pure blue skies opened up warmth from the sun after more than two days of heavy cloud cover. A faint whisper of Knapp Creek could be heard even through the bustling sounds of laughter and conversation.

Waders and other fly-fishing gear were neatly organized just outside a picturesque cabin, and khaki-colored vests marked the names of each one of the participants. After casually slipping on the gear they needed for the day on the water, fly boxes, rods and reels were doled out to each person, as well as a guide for every angler.

Although the anglers weren’t aware of it that morning, they would learn later that day that the rods, reels and fly boxes would be their’s to keep at the end of the day. The fly boxes were loaded to the gills with homemade flies tied by the local trout chapter members, and even though the fly rods were to be handed over at the end of the day, the anglers would be getting them back. Each participant was getting their rod personalized with their name on it through a special donation from custom rod maker, David Mayer. The rods will be sent by mail in another month as a special gift, to allow them to continue to continue fly-fishing.

A new angle on life Cancer survivor, Suzie Herbst, drove 4-1/2 hours from the Madison area to join the retreat. She hadn’t caught a fish yet but looked at peace while the waters of Knapp Creek gurgled by over the rocks. She took a brief moment to discuss the weekend and reflected on what it meant to her.

“It’s unbelievable. The best part I think of these (retreats) is the friendships,”

A fly-fishing vest drapes over a chair, waiting for one of the 14 anglers last Sunday.

Suzie Herbst (L) was a trooper according to her guide, Michelle Sparrow, as they both waited patiently on Knapp Creek for a trout to take a fly.

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drags class for the past three years and took a second four years ago. “Last year I had neck surgery so couldn’t race,” said Rinker. “Loren (Ward) raced my sled and took the win.” In addition, Ward, from Old Forge, N.Y., took a third in mod drags this year on a sled owned by Rinker.

Young Fischer leads 800 stock drags David Fisher, Eagan, Minn., is the son of past World Champion Jeff Fischer.

Young Fischer has not only grown up in the IWA watching Dad race, but is very comfortable on a sled himself. Fisher began his watercross career in 2007 with the drags at the age of 14. The next year he added ovals and took to the new style of riding with ease. “I do a lot of riding out west in the winter,” said Fisher. “I think that type of riding helps with ovaling on water.” In addition to the 800 drags this year, Fisher raced both the semi-pro stock and semi-pro open ovals, finishing 10th and third respectively.

Andy Busse takes his victory lap after winning the pro open competition at the World Championship Snowmobile Watercross race in Grantsburg last weekend. – Photos by Kerri Harter

Chad Maki world pro stock champ

by Kerri Harter GRANTSBURG – Andy Busse, Berlin, is back on top, claiming this year’s Pro Open World Championship Snowmobile Watercross title in Grantsburg. Racing well all weekend, Busse easily qualified for Sunday’s finals, where he took a first in his quarterfinals heat and a second in his semifinals heat. He then went up against past world champs Jeff Fisher and Howie Steenberg, 2008 year-end points champ Brian McCurdy Jr., Chad Maki and Brian Laybourn in the six-man, eight-lap final. Steenberg took a second, Fisher third, Laybourn fourth and Maki fifth, all Straightline Performance, Forest Lake, Minn., sponsored racers.

Although Busse has been dominating the pro stock class this year and took the pro open win in Frederic, he failed to make the pro open finals in either Moose Lake or Ely, Minn. “With the trouble we have had this year, to cap it off with a pro open win at Grantsburg makes the entire season worth it. The fans, families and other race teams make this sport what it is today,” Busse said. Busse also ended the weekend with a second in the pro stock ovals and a fourth in the mod drags.

Busse made IWA history in 2005 when he took year-end points in both pro open and pro stock ovals. He made a second

Rookies make a splash It was the year of the rookies this year at the world championship, where racers competing for their first or second year walked away with titles in the semi-pro classes.

Second-year racer, Kyle Carpenter, Stacy, Minn., took a title win at the first race of this season held in Moose Lake, Minn., in June and now adds a semi-pro open world championship title to his name. Although Carpenter said he was experiencing some sled trouble, he took firsts in the quarterfinals and semifinals

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mark in the IWA history books in 2006 when he triple crowned in Grantsburg, taking all three titles, in pro open ovals, pro stock ovals and mod drags. In addition, he took year-end points in all three of his classes that year. The following two seasons Busse reeled in several second-place trophies in Grantsburg, but came short of any world champion titles.

Maki wins pro stock Chad Maki, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., took the title in pro stock. He took seconds in both the quarterfinals and semifinals, but got the first when it counted. Maki also took fifth in the pro open, after having to run twice in tiebreaker heats just to qualify for Sunday’s finals. In addition, he ran the East-West Challenge race and took the win, bringing the trophy back to the IWA for the year. In this event, three EWA racers, who turn ovals to the left in their circuit, and three IWA racers, right-turn ovalers, compete in a 16-lap race, eight laps to the left, and then eight laps to the right. “It was exhilarating!” said Maki. “We did the left turns first, and I drew lane one.

It’s actually not too difficult changing to the left-turn style. It’s mostly a mind thing.”

Rinker first in mod drags Jerry Rinker, Canadensis, Pa., travels 1,200 miles for the world championship race each year, along with his wife, Cathy, who races ovals, and their two children. Rinker has dominated the mod

Chad Maki with the checkered flag after winning the pro stock finals.

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Watercross/continued and ended the day with the win. “It felt great to win,” said Carpenter. “There were two guys down (in the finals) and going six laps, it’s tough trying not to hit them. I’m definitely looking forward to next year!”

First-year racer Dan Dombrowsky, Wausau, took a first in semi-pro stock at Moose Lake, Minn., and a third in Ely, Minn. “I didn’t think I’d come out on top (in Grantsburg), but it sure felt good!”

Rinkers travel many miles to compete GRANTSUBRG – Jerry Rinker smiled and said, ”Is this really the world championship?” then answered his own question.”Yes! This event is a class act. You couldn’t ask for a better show!”

First place winners on Sunday were: Back row (L to R): Dan Dombrowsky, Andy Busse, Chad Maki and Jerry Rinker.

Front: Ryan Keith, Kyle Carpenter and David Fisher. – Photos by Kerri Harter

Jerry and Cathy Rinker have traveled 1,200 miles each year for the past decade to race at the world championship. – Photos by Kerri Harter

said Dombrowsky.

World Championship winner of 600 stock drags, Ryan Keith, Siren, may be in his second year in the circuit, but it’s his first year entering the 600 stock drags. “It felt pretty darn good,” said a happy Keith. “It’s been lots of hard work but it’s paid off. I owe it all to my sponsors.”

Keith also races in the semi-pro stock ovals where he took a fourth.

participation. “Adding new things for spectators to enjoy throughout the weekend is in part what makes this event such a success,” said Tucker. Another crowd pleaser was the all-new Champs from the Past held Saturday evening with past pro open world champions each taking a turn running a sled across Memory Lake. “That was great!” said Tucker.

“Mike Benoy, IWA president, said he definitely wanted to do this every year!”

Tucker also commented on his enjoyment working with the IWA board and racers and the appreciation for the great participation from the racers out East.

And, if you were at the event on Sunday and saw cameramen on scaffolding filming all day, that was the Speed Channel which is based out of Chicago. “We were very happy to have them on site,” said Tucker. “We have been working toward getting them here the past few years and it finally worked out. The camera guys said this was the most exciting event they had filmed and were quite surprised by it all,” he added. “This is great exposure for us as well as for the IWA.” In summary, Tucker said their committee continually works toward making each year a better production. “We are constantly listening to spectator feedback, comments, whatever,” he said. “We

Jerry and Cathy Rinker, who compete in the EWA and who have been coming to this event for the past decade, say there are several more outeast racers who would be great competitors here but are either unwilling or unable to make the journey. “You gotta make the trip to the world championship if you want to go for the world championship title,” said Jerry.

Praising event Director Duke Tucker, the hockey association and the entire community, Jerry said, ”We are treated so well here, and I can’t say enough about the event and how we are received. Duke stays in contact with us throughout the year to make sure we are all set.” (See mod drags winner in story for more on Jerry) Cathy Rinker, who took a fourth in the semi-pro open ovals, earned seconds in both her quarterfinals and semifinals before moving on. “It’s been four years trying to make the finals,” said Cathy. “It felt great!” A petite yet obviously physically fit avid snowmobiler, Cathy says that she doesn’t want to be treated any differently because she is a woman in a largely male-dominated sport. In fact, though there were a handful of woman competing in the semi-pro stock class, Cathy was the only woman in the semi-pro open.

Cathy also competed in the semi-pro stock class and took a ninth. – Kerri Harter

Director comments on event According to Duke Tucker, event director, this year’s event was a huge success, seeing a bigger crowd than last year. “We went with some different marketing strategies,” said Tucker, “that brought more spectators from outside the county area.” Tucker also said the event continues to see more local organizations getting involved to help make the event run smoothly. “We added four or five more groups, which brings us to about 30 different organizations. It’s truly a community event when you see this type of volunteer help,” he added. “We simply could not be this successful without everyone’s contribution.”

Tucker said they will continue relationships with the Kids Pro Ice organization, sponsors of the youth racing. Participation tripled from its debut last year. Vintage racing also saw an increase in

Cathy Rinker during an oval heat on Sunday.

In the final showdown, Howie Steenberg (front) took a second, Chad Maki (middle) took a fifth and Jeff Fisher (back) came in third.

World Championship Snowmobile Watercross results Memory Lake, Grantsburg Friday–Sunday, July 17–19

600 Drags 1. Ryan Keith, No. 321, POL, Siren; 2. Rachel Vorwerk, No. 247, DOO, New Ulm, Minn.; 3. Mike Chlan, No. 318, POL, New Market, Minn.; 4. Mann Nordin, No. 700, DOO, Maple Plain, Minn.; 5.

Shawn Cummings, No. 101, DOO, Pine City, Minn.; 6. Mark Engnes, No. 365, DOO, Beldenville.

800 Drags 1. David Fischer, No. 222, DOO, Eagan, Minn.; 2.

Dan Dombrowsky, No. 314, YAM, Wausau; 3.

Charlie Fleck, No. 144, DOO, Forest Lake, Minn.; 4.

Cody Engstrand, No. 151, POL, Luck; 5. John Stadick, No. 217, POL, Courtland, Minn.; 6. Krista Maki-Zurn, No. 176, DOO, Ely, Minn./Downing.

Mod Drags 1. Jerry Rinker, No. 62, DOO, Canadensis, Pa.; 2.

Jeff Fischer, No. 2, YAM, Eagan, Minn.; 3. Loren Ward, No. 55, DOO, Old Forge, N.Y.; 4. Andy Busse, No. 4, DOO, Berlin; 5. Matt Ledin, No. 78, POL, Luck; 6. Chad Maki, No. 413, DOO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn.

Camoplast East West Challenge 1. Chad Maki, No. 413, DOO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn.

Semi-Pro Stock 1. Dan Dombrowsky, No. 314, YAM, Wausau; 2.

Ole Baillargeon, No. 713, POL, Luck; 3. Jason Meskill, No. 310, POL, Ely, Minn.; 4. Ryan Keith, No. 321, POL, Siren; 5. Troy Marsh, No. 887, DOO, Bay City; 6. Aaron Hein, No. 639, DOO, Berlin; 7.

Kelly Weisinger, No. 411, DOO, Ely, Minn.; 8. Ben Grandprey, No. 327, CAT, Chisago City, Minn.; 9.

Cathy Rinker, No. 53, DOO, Canadensis, Pa.; 10.

David Fischer, No. 222, DOO, Eagan, Minn.; 11.

John Stadick, No. 217, DOO, Courtland, Minn.; 12.

Matt Podgorski, No. 469, YAM, Merrill.

Semi-Pro Open 1. Kyle Carpenter, No. 930, POL, Stacy, Minn.; 2.

Greg Metz, No. 612, POL, Merrill; 3. David Fischer, No. 222, DOO, Eagan, Minn.; 4. Cathy Rinker, No. 53, DOO, Canadensis, Pa.; 5. Danny Smekens, No. 669, YAM, Twin Lakes; 6. Nate Winberg, No. 606, YAM, Boyceville; 7. Mike Smekens, No. 769, YAM, Powers Lakes; 8. Matt Podgorski, No. 469, YAM, Merrill; 9. Chris Erzar, No. 987; POL, Ely, Minn.; 10. Kelly Weisinger, No. 411, DOO, Ely, Minn.; 11.

D.J. Lindbeck, No. 129, CAT, Chicago, Minn.; 12.

Alex Nelson, No. 518, DOO, Grantsburg.

Pro Stock 1. Chad Maki, No. 413, DOO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn.; 2. Andy Busse, No. 4, DOO, Berlin; 3. Daryl Ortlieb, No. 71, POL, Boonville, N.Y.; 4. Howard Steenberg, No. 14, DOO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn.; 5. Dan Hoffmann, No. 419, POL, Sleepy Eye, Minn.; 6. Scott Mosher, No. 34, POL, Ithaca, N.Y.; 7. Matt Ledin, No. 78, POL, Luck; 8. Leo Dunlavy, No. 828, DOO, Shell Lake; 9. Shawn Zurn, No. 76, DOO, Downing; 10. Todd Engstrand, No. 51, POL, Luck; 11. Loren Ward, No. 55, DOO, Old Forge, N.Y. Pro Open 1. Andy Busse, No. 4, DOO, Berlin; 2. Howard Steenberg, No. 14, DOO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn.; 3. Jeff Fischer, No. 2, YAM, Eagan, Minn.; 4.

Brian Laybourn, No. 74, CAT, Fairwater; 5. Chad Maki, No. 413, DOO, Inver Grove Heights, Minn.; 6. Brian McCurdy Jr., No. 1, CAT, Lindstrom, Minn.; 7. Shawn Zurn, No. 76, DOO, Downing; 8.

Kenny Kolitsch, No. 175, POL, Little Suamico; 9.

Rick Arbour, No. 11, DOO, Penetanguishene, Ontario; 10. Eric Peterson, No. 444, DOO, Hudson; 11.

Ryan Jurek, No. 167, DOO, East Bethel, Minn.; 12.

Dale Lindbeck, No. 29, CAT, Chicago, Minn.

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Bandits split Wannigan Days weekend Take win over Hudson on Sunday Eagles 8, Bandits 3 Bandits 8, River Rats 6 ST. CROIX FALLS – After an 8-3 loss to the Menomonie Eagles on Saturday last weekend, the Bandits redeemed themselves with a win over the Hudson River Rats the following Sunday. The win ended Hudson’s 10-game winning streak and stopped a five-game skid by the Bandits.

Earlier in the season the Bandits were handled easily by the River Rats, 12-2, in Hudson, and they dropped both games last season as well. The upset win featured Jim Rochford on the mound, who was coming off a rocky start in an earlier game against Hagar City, allowing 11 hits and six earned runs in five innings.

Hudson came out with two runs in the top of the first inning on a two run home run to center field. But the Bandits fired right back in the second half of the inning as Gus Koecher walked and stole second base. Matt Vold knocked him in with an RBI single and Steve Siqueiros walked. Trevor Todd hit a light grounder to the left of the second baseman. The

St. Croix River Bandits second baseman, Curtis Roebuck gets the force out at second before firing to first in an attempt at a double play against the Menomonie Eagles last Saturday. Despite the 8-6 loss, the Bandits grabbed an upset win over Hudson the following Sunday. – Photo by Marty Seeger

Leske to join Braves Hall of Fame OSCEOLA – St. Croix Falls grad Dave Leske will be inducted into the newly formed Osceola Braves Hall of Fame during the fifth inning of the Braves versus Ellsworth game this Friday, July 24.

The game starts at 7:30 p.m.

Other inductees in the first group include Lute Pettis, deceased, who started the team in 1943; Ken Staples, former manager/manager of the 2003 state championship team; and Derek Ander-

son, a Somerset grad who was one of the best infielders and hitters in the league for many years before retiring last season. Leske and Anderson both played key roles

on the state championship team. Leske is still pitching and coaching for the Braves. – submitted LEFT: St. Croix Falls grad Dave Leske will be inducted into the Osceola Braves Hall of Fame with a brief ceremony in the fifth inning during the Osceola Braves versus Ellsworth game this Friday night at Oakey Park in Osceola. – Photo submitted

Twins Community Fund approves $78,700 in youth baseball and softball grants Village of Frederic receives $5,000 MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Twins Community Fund Board of Directors announced today the approval of $88,700 in grants to youth baseball and softball organizations throughout the Upper Midwest.

In partnership with the Carl and Eloise Pohlad Family Foundation, the Minnesota Twins Community Fund approved 13 Fields for Kids grants, totaling $74,700. The Fields for Kids program provides financial support to renovate the condition of youth baseball and softball facilities. Since its inception in 1999, the program has granted more than $1.5 million to help renovate 406 Upper Midwest, Southwest Florida and Latin America ball fields.

The village of Frederic was awarded $5,000 from the program.

The Twins Community Fund’s tournament grant program distributed nine grants totaling $9,000 to assist youth baseball and softball organizations administer national, regional or statewide tournaments.

Applications for all Twins Community Fund grant programs are available on the Twins’ Web site at www.twinsbaseball.com/community.

Established in 1991, the Twins Community Fund’s mission is to enrich local and regional communities by providing

The village of Frederic received a Fields for Kids grant for $5,000 from the Twins Community Fund and the Carl and Eloise Pohlad Family Foundation.

With the money, dugouts are being built on the youth field near the Frederic Elementary School. – Photo by Marty Seeger resources for the healthy development of children and families through an association with baseball, softball and the Minnesota Twins. The Twins Community Fund is governed by a board of directors consisting of a majority of members from

the community. For more information about the Twins fund, call 800-33-TWINS or visit the team’s official Web site at www.twinsbaseball.com/community. – submitted

Rat’s Mitch Lewis was unable to turn the double play, and only was able to get Todd out at first, with the Bandits having runners on second and third with two outs. Kyle Kahl, who wasn‘t even planning on playing, hit an 0-1 stung line drive to center field, scoring both Vold and Siqueiros, and the Bandits took a 32 lead.

Rochford got into trouble in the top of the second inning, loading the bases with no outs, but a defensive play from Koecher on a diving play near the leftcenter gap saved a possible two runs.

Despite three hits in the inning, the Bandits got out of it and the game remained scoreless for the next five frames.

Rochford allowed three hits and two walks through five innings and at one point retired 11 batters in a row.

Then, in the bottom of the seventh the Bandits scored five runs on four hits, including an infield hit by Michael Chelberg. Koecher singled and Scott Lindholm was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Vold hit his second of the day and picked up two RBIs. Todd singled on an 0-2 count and the Bandits eventually got out to an 8-2 lead.

Despite Hudson’s four runs in the bottom of the ninth, the Bandits held onto the win “This was a great victory for us, our first win versus Hudson. With these young guys like Koecher and Vold (currently HS seniors) playing with us every game, next year we can expect a lot more hitting and a lot more running and a lot more excitement,” said Rochford after the game. Kahl and Vold each had three RBIs on two hits and Todd had one hit and two RBIs. Koecher also had a pair of hits. For more information on the St. Croix River Bandits check out www.scriverbandits.com. – with information from www.scriverbandits.com

Extra Points

••• LEADER LAND – The Luck at Unity Legion baseball game on Tuesday, July 28, can be heard on 1260 AM beginning at 5:30 p.m.

••• MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee Brewers games being broadcast on WXCE 1260 AM can be heard on the following dates and times. The Brewers at Braves series on July 24, 25 and 26 begins at 7 p.m., 6 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively. The July 27, 28 and 29 Nationals at Brewers series begins at 7 p.m. each night.

••• MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., – Minnesota Twins games broadcast on WLMX 104.9 FM can be heard on the following dates and times. The Twins at Dodgers series on July 23, 24, 25 and 26 begins 9 p.m., 9 p.m., 8 p.m., and 2:30 p.m. respectively. The White Sox at Twins series on July 27, 28 and 29 begins at 7 p.m., each night.

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

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Third Player of the Year tournament held at FGC FREDERIC – On Sunday, July 12, the third of six total Player of the Year tournaments was played at Frederic Golf Course. Sunday’s event was called the Flag Open. Golfers were given a flag indicating their allotted number of strokes for the round. Their number was calculated by using 80 percent of their handicap plus par.

The competition was close with all participants nearing the end of the round before forfeiting their flag. Only three of them made it around the entire course and continued on to play the first hole again. Trevor Cogswell used his last stroke in the fairway on hole No. 1, with his father, Chuck Cogswell making it to the green before using up all of his strokes. Jon Anderson, who had two strokes remaining, made his putt and was declared the winner. Anderson ac-

credited his win to having a “hot” putter with only 27 putts in the entire round.

This is Anderson’s second year in a row winning the Flag Tournament.

Three Player of the Year races remain.

The four-person Yellow Ball tournament will be held on Sunday, Aug.16, and the Three of Clubs is on Sunday, Sept. 13.

The final event is the Red Tee Open on Sunday, Oct. 4. Anyone with a valid handicap is welcome to sign up. For more information, contact the Frederic Golf Course at 715-327-8250. – submitted LEFT: Chuck Cogswell, (L), and Jon Anderson were the remaining two golfers last Sunday during the Flag Open held at the Frederic Golf Course.

Anderson has won the flag tournament two years in a row. – Photo submitted

Rustic Road Fun Run 5K/10K and Fun Walk OSCEOLA – Osceola Community Education is sponsoring the 22nd-annual Rustic Road Fun Run set for Saturday, Sept. 12. The fun run consists of a 5K/10K run, a two-mile fun walk and a free children’s race for kids 10 and under. All children participating will receive a medal.

Registration for the 5K/10K run is from 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. in the Osceola Intermediate School commons. The bus will leave at 7:30 a.m. to take runners to the drop-off point. The two-mile fun walk will begin from the school at 8 a.m.

Fun walk registration begins at 7:15 a.m.

Preregistration is suggested for the 5K/10K runs and the two-mile walk. To

print a registration form, go to www.osceola.k12.wi.us, click on the Community Education tab, click on Fun Run 22nd-Annual. Registration forms can also be picked up at any of the Osceola School District offices. Preregistration is not needed for the children’s race.

Questions, call Osceola Community Education at 715-294-2127, ext. 407 or email ComEd@osceola.k12.wi.us. The registration fee will include a T-shirt, refreshments and drawings for door prizes during the awards ceremony Saturday morning. Medals will be awarded to top runners. Register by August 31 to ensure you receive your T-shirt in your size. – submitted

DRAGON FOOTBALL CAMP

Siren High School will be holding the first-annual Dragon Football Camp on Monday, July 27 through Thursday, July 30.

The high school portion of the camp will take place from 5 to 6:30 p.m., and the camp for grades 3 through 8 will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The cost for four nights of instruction and a camp T-shirt is $10. Registration forms are available in the Siren District Office or you can register on the first night of the camp.

491533 48L The camp is open to anyone who is interested.

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Mini Mascot LEFT: Zack Clark, 6, of Dresser, and son of Dan and Tracey Clark, was chosen to be a mini mascot alongside Minnesota Twins Mascot TC Bear on Sunday, July 12.

Zack helped TC Bear cheer on the Twins to a 13-7 victory over the Chicago White Sox. – Photo submitted

Frederic Water X donates to police department

LEADER SPORTS SCOREBOARD MEN’S SLOW-PITCH Standings

Team Overall Sundown 12-2 Chell Well 11-3 Century 21 11-4 God Squad 11-3 Fur, Fins & Feathers 10-5 Pour House 8-6 Grantsburg Sanitary 8-6 Lake Lena 3-11 Shooters Bar 1 3-11 Shooters Bar 2 2-12 Da Crew 1-14 Scores Wednesday, July 15 Pour House 12, Lake Lena 11 Grantsburg Sanitary 11, Chell Well 10 Fur, Fins & Feathers 24, Da Crew 4 Sundown 15, Century 21 2 God Squad 11, Shooters Bar 2 9 Fur, Fins & Feathers 24, Shooters Bar 1 18 Monday, July 20 Chell Well 13, Pour House 7 Fur, Fins & Feathers 20, Lake Lena 7 Grantsburg Sanitary 10, Da Crew 2 Shooters Bar 2 10, Century 21 9 Sundown 22, Shooters Bar 1 2 God Squad 30, Century 21 11

FALUN CHURCH SOFTBALL

Standings Team Overall Falun Churches 7-1 Siren Assembly 6-2 Trade Lake Baptist 6-2 Siren Covenant/Bethany 6-3 Webster Baptist 5-3 W. Sweden/Zion Lutheran 3-5 Calvary Covenant 3-5 Frederic Free 2-5 Trade River Free 2-6 Faith Lutheran 1-7 Scores Thursday, July 16 Siren Covenant/Bethany 20, Calvary Covenant 14 Siren Assembly 19, Faith Lutheran 2 Friday, July 17 Falun Churches 25, Trade River Free 6 Webster Baptist 22, Frederic Free 2 Trade Lake Baptist 19, W. Sweden/Zion Lutheran 10

Frederic Water X Racing Inc.’s Arlen Peterson hands RJ Severude a $100 check in donation to the Frederic Police Department.

"That brings the total donations to $1,300 for the year which put us $1,220 in the hole for the year,” Peterson said. “We still plan on having a race next year the same weekend providing the Frederic Village Board approves our request by the August meeting, so we can get started with fundraising right away. This could be a much better fundraiser for the community with more involvement from other businesses and individuals from the community. It takes lots of hours to plan and set up a weekend event like this. If anyone is interested in helping, or has suggestions please e-mail us at info@fredericwatercross.com or call 715-497-2222. We would like to build our donations back up to the $3,000 to give back more to the community and this is possible thru cooperation and help from all. Help us make the community a better place for all by getting involved and make this event the best ever in 2010." – Photo submitted

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Grantsburg 14U second in Minnesota state tournament RICHFIELD, Minn. – The 14U Grantsburg girls fast-pitch softball team played in the Minnesota Fastpitch League’s state tournament at Richfield, Minn., July 1819. The state tournament consisted of 22 teams who were invited through a qualifier tournament the weekend prior.

On Saturday, the Grantsburg 14U team played the Chanhassen Thunderstorm, winning 6-2, and they played Chaska, Minn., winning 5-1. On Sunday, they played Forest Lake, Minn. Grantsburg won 13-2. They next faced Hermantown, Minn., and their outstanding pitcher, who threw pitches traveling 55 mph.

Hermantown defeated Grantsburg 3-0.

Being placed in the loser’s bracket of the double elimination, Grantsburg played Forest Lake, Minn., defeating them 7-1.

Grantsburg faced Hermantown once more in the championship game. Grantsburg, being defeated 3-0 once again in the final game, took second place in the state tournament. – submitted

LEFT: The 14U Grantsburg fastpitch team took second in the Minnesota Fastpitch League’s state tourney. Pictured back row (L to R): Coach Becky McLain, JoJo Lauer, Ruthann Pedersen, Macy Hanson, Kate Rod, Stacey McKenzie, Kassie Lien, Alison Owens and coach Jim McKenzie. Front row: Grace Corbin, Sam Schwieger, Jen Schwieger, Becca Glover and Ellie Corbin. – Photo submitted

Historic Aussie “shocker” ST CROIX FALLS – On a night where season-opener-like temperatures greeted racers and fans to Kopellah Speedway, 87 race teams provided scorching hot action for the fans to combat the plummeting mercury. For the second consecutive Friday, history of sorts was made – this time courtesy of a racer born half a world away.

The inaugural campaign of the Upper Midwest Sprintcar Series made its sixth visit to the quarter-mile bullring just west of Centuria, but it was the first visit

by Australian-born Brooke Tatnell.

From his stateside home of Forest Lake, Minn., Tatnell made the short trek to Kopellah as a substitute driver of the No. 14 winged sprint normally piloted

by John Nelson. Nelson suffered an early season injury that will keep him on the sidelines for the remainder of the summer, and the team tapped the world-renowned talents of Tatnell on this night. After winning both of his preliminary races earlier in the evening and racking up the highest passing point total, Tatnell redrew the No. 4 pill, placing him on the outside of the second row for the 20-lap main event. A quick outside move through the opening set of turns by Tatnell was negated by the red flag brought out for Brad Barickman’s twisting double flip in turn four.

While Barickman was able to walk away uninjured from the incident, the same could not be said for his heavily damaged No. 34 sprinter.

On the restart, Tatnell again tried the high line as he, Greg Gunderson and Lynn Franklin shot down the back stretch three abreast. Carrying the most speed through turns three and four, Tatnell hit the line as the lap one leader. Behind Tatnell, a mid-race bobble by second place running Franklin was all the opening Tatnell’s brother in-law, Jerry Richert Jr., needed to stake claim to the runner-up position. The final caution appeared after lap 15 of 20, and with only three laps remaining, Tatnell’s mount began to visibly slow – courtesy of a broken shock mount suffered during an earlier caution period. Richert, the winner of three of the last four UMSS main events at Kopellah, began reeling in the previously dominant Tatnell. With the white flag waving, Richert was glued to Tatnell’s fuel cell and the duo were running wheel-towheel through the final set of turns. But as he had done all race long, Tatnell used the momentum of the high groove and drag-raced the final 400 feet to win by less than the length of crocodile’s tail – making him, unofficially, the first Australian to ever win a feature event at Kopellah Speedway. After Richert, the

Terry Lehnertz rest of the top five consisted of Sye Anderson, Gunderson and Cody Hahn.

The WISSOTA Amsoil Dirt Track Series main events got under way courtesy of the Midwest Modifieds. Rookie Ben Johnson and Vince Corbin paced the field of sixteen racers to the green flag with Corbin quickly establishing himself atop the heap and fourth-starting Mike Haseltine tucked in behind.

The big mover, however, was current track points leader Jason VandeKamp.

VandeKamp, with a track-best sticker collection already numbering six, used crafty moves and three early cautions to inch closer to the front. At the start of the first extended streak of green flag racing, VandeKamp wrested the top spot away from Corbin on lap five. The other big movers were Bryce Johnson and John Remington. Remington suffered a flat right rear during a caution that was charged to Johnson, and the pair restarted at the tail. While VandeKamp steadily stretched his advantage, Remington and Johnson were doing the heavy lifting, slicing their way through the pack. The final caution appeared on lap fourteen, and by that time, Johnson had clawed his way back into the top five. After the restart, it took just two more laps for Johnson to get his No. 01 into the runner-up spot, and two laps after that, Remington emerged in third. All of that hard work, however, left the ultimate prize unclaimed – as neither driver had the answer to solve the VandeKamp puzzle, who pushed his dominating season-win total to seven. Johnson was able to outrun Remington to secure second, and early leader Corbin had to settle for fourth. With ever increasing frequency, Luck’s Josh Bazey once again found himself in the top five.

Kim Korstad was scheduled to start the WISSOTA Street Stock feature on the pole, but elected to tag onto the tail of the field. That move allowed Behn Mensen to start on the pole just ahead of defending track co-champion Chanda Fjorden Nord. At the drop of the green, Fjorden Nord made a quick strike for the leader’s spot and was in charge after lap one. Predictably, once the Luck native got out front, she did what she is so accustomed to doing at the speedway, she stayed there. Sixthstarting Scott Walker charged his No. G60 hot rod from sixth up to second, but

could make no further progress. With a dearth of cautions to bunch things up, Fjorden Nord went on to win in dominating fashion, picking up her sixth Kopellah trophy of the season ahead of Walker, Marcus Simonson, Ryan Asp and Kyle Howland.

Marcus Berget and Brian Lick paced the WISSOTA Super Stock competitors to the green flag for their main event.

Making just his second visit to the speedway this season, third-starting Joe Nelson sat out front after a lap-one caution was charged to Berget. Eighthstarting and dominating points leader in the division, Dan Gullikson, passed the likes of Curt Myers, Jason Schill, Andy Grymala and John Remington to earn the right to work on Nelson for the lead. After following Nelson for a few circuits, Gullikson made his move on lap ten and dove to the inside coming out of turn two. Gullikson had nearly cleared Nelson when contact between the leaders sent Gullikson into the backstretch retaining wall. After Gullikson took his damaged No. 00x pitside, Nelson spent the rest of the race fending off the advances of Grymala to pick up his first victory of the season. Behind Grymala, Schill, Remington and twelfthstarting Doug Merrill rounded out the top five.

The final WISSOTA feature of the night belonged to Keith Tourville and his No. 111. Starting outside of Jason Schill, Tourville quickly nabbed the point and never relinquished it. Rick Kobs wrested the second spot away from Schill one lap in, and not much changed after that. That’s not to say the race was boring, however, as Kevin Adams and Schill had a spirited battle for most of the race while contesting the third spot. Up front, Kobs was never able to mount a serious challenge and the final rundown was Tourville, Kobs, Schill, Adams and Scott Miller placing first through fifth.

Feature racing got off to a flying start with eighteen Hornets clashing for top honors in their main event. Justin Rick and Jon Wigchers paced the field but the No. 04 of Jesse Tripp wasted no time in scooting from fifth to first on the opening lap. Tripp sparred with Rick, Kris Kaphing and Steve Sutton at different points throughout the race, but when all was said and done, it was Tripp who was posing in Victory Lane for his first Kopellah feature victory. Kaphing, Jeremy Johnson, Doug Fick and Dan Strobach finished second through fifth, respectively.

Zach Manley already was crowding four Kopellah Speedway trophies onto his mantel coming into the night, and that prior success relegated him to a row-four starting spot for the Pure Stock feature. Pole starter Austin Galloway held off the field for the first two laps

but hard-charging Manley quickly rocketed to the point in the space of three laps. A midrace, midpack challenge was keeping fans on the edge of their seats as last week’s winner, Krysta Swearingen, Josh Bach and Steve Baker were in a line-swapping, slicing and dicing donnybrook in the battle for fourth. Back up front, the fifteen-lap event ended with Manley collecting his fifth win of the summer ahead of Galloway and Nathan Swanson. After falling back early, former track champion Nate Fisk charged through the field for a fourth-place finish ahead of Baker.

Racing action resumes on Friday, July 24, at 7 p.m. With racing in all six regular classes, WISSOTA Modifieds, Super Stocks, Street Stocks and Midwest Modifieds, along with Kopellah Pure Stocks and Hornets. Also, UMSS and Kopellah officials announced and additional sprint-car show, to be added to the schedule on Friday, Aug. 7. For more information please visit the track’s Web site at www.kopellahspeedway.net.

Hornets, Feature: Tripp, Kris Kaphing, Johnson, Fick, Strobach, Rick, Ben Kaphing, Matthew Skipper, Josh Bruckridge, Brandon Davis, Wigchers, George Simonson, Sutton, Brandon Fischer, Doug Summer, Jason Christianson, Jason Greene, Kevin Bradwell.

Pure Stocks, Feature: Manley, Galloway, Swanson, Nathan Fisk, Baker, Dusty Brown, Kyle Hunter, Mike Olson, Sonja Ellingson, Swearingen, Tyler English, Bach.

WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds, Feature: VandeKamp, Bryce Johnson, Remington, Corbin, Bazey, Kyle Matuska, Mark Turner, Tim Swanson, Sampson Haseltine, Ben Johnson, Corey Fogleson, Ryan Johnson, Michael Haseltine, Myles McEvers, Greg Arnt, Josh Amans.

WISSOTA Street Stocks, Feature: Fjorden Nord, Walker, Simonson, Asp, Howland, Mensen, Korstad, Jim Maki, Adam Delfosse.

WISSOTA Super Stocks, Feature: Nelson, Grymala, Schill, Remington, Merrill, Jeff Heintz, Doug Fisk, Michael Dyrdahl, Myers, Lick, Gullikson, Berget.

WISSOTA Modifieds, Feature: Tourville, Kobs, Schill, Adams, Miller, Marc Johnson, Steve Lavassuer, Tim VanMeter, Kevin Marlett.

UMSS Sprints, Feature: Tatnell, Richert, Anderson, Gunderson, Hahn, Jimmy Kouba, Leigh Thomas, Jack Zweber, Franklin, Joe Kouba, Barickman. – submitted

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Stopping the invasive hitchhikers WASHBURN COUNTY - In a region covered with lakes large and small, it’s impossible to miss the signs posted near every body of water: “Don’t transport aquatic hitchhikers.”

Helping boaters understand the methods to avoid these hazardous waterborne hitchhikers is Jared McQuade’s summer job.

McQuade is one of five young people hired in Northwest Wisconsin to address the problem of invasive water species.

Assigned to various boat landings across the 10-county region, and paid by American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funding, these summer youth workers have two primary duties. They inform and educate boaters about invasive species, and they perform simple inspections of the boats.

Mostly, McQuade and his co-workers model a careful approach to fishing and boating, which will help stop the spread of invasive species.

McQuade was keeping watch over the landing at Gilmore Lake, in Washburn County, last Friday afternoon. “This lake is really pretty clean. We have only one invasive species here – the curly leaf pondweed. But we don’t want ones from other lakes getting in here. Most people who use Gilmore Lake are happy to see me here because they don’t want this lake to get messed up like some others.

And, tourism is big in Washburn County.

If the lakes get filled up with a bunch of junk – weeds and water life that doesn’t have natural predators—they’ll be unusable.”

When boaters arrive at the landing, McQuade asks them where their boats were last used, and if they’ve drained all

Barb and Russ Robinson, Jared McQuade and Lisa Gabriel promote the Clean Boats, Clean Water program at Gilmore Lake, near Minong. – Special photo the water, including the live well. He also checks for weeds or aquatic animals that may be attached to the boat and trailer. Then, as boaters leave the lake, he again inspects the boats for plants and repeats the request to drain all the water.

Fishermen need to dispose of leftover

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bait, and make sure they have iced any fish they’ve caught. McQuade’s supervisor, Lisa Gabriel with the Department of Land Conservation, explained, “We need to be sure the boaters aren’t transporting live fish or bait and possibly letting them loose in another lake, as this can spread

the fish disease viral hemorrhagic septicemia.”

“It’s been really helpful to have Jared working with us this summer,” Gabriel continued. “The land conservation office usually doesn’t have the funding for staff time to do these inspections. Jared, however, is paid by the summer youth employment program. And, he’s been great, especially since he’s willing to work weekends, when I really need him at the landings. He moves around, going to several different lakes across Washburn County. ” The aquatic invasive species program is a collaborative effort between the Department of Workforce Development and the Department of Natural Resources. The Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program, Inc., locates and refers the youth workers, through its seven offices serving the 10 counties in this region. Land conservation staff then supervises the five young people, assigning them to various boat landings at lakes throughout the Northwest counties.

“These jobs are funded for only eight weeks; I won’t have Jared’s help after Aug. 25. Then, I’ll need citizens to continue to pitch in and help as volunteers,” Gabriel said.

To learn more about volunteer opportunities and local efforts to stop the spread of aquatic invasive species contact the county land conservation office at 715-468-4654, or Erin Henegar, the state coordinator for the Clean Boats, Clean Waters program in Stevens Point, at 715-346-4978. - submitted

CFR/ from page 17 versation in the distance, or the simple sound of running water.

Smiles were frequent, and oftentimes a holler from the distance signaled yet another successful angler and another rainbow in the net. Karen Dalrymple was on the other end of the catch this time around, and she and her guide, Mike Andert, were hoping for a quick photo.

Dalrymple said she lives near Mille Lacs Lake, in Minnesota, and has been fishing many times before, but fly-fishing and this retreat was a first.

“I have never done this before in my life, and so obviously very new to me,” Dalrymple said.

“And just meeting all of these wonderful women, I’m going to have friends forever after this retreat.”

Dalrymple was celebrating life over the weekend. It was not only her third year as a breast cancer survivor but the anniversary week of her surgery. She seemed ready to move forward with life and put the past behind her.

“I just think the past is the past, and the future…I’m hoping is

Marilyn Gigure learned to identify caddis larvae and other insects that attract trout from guide David Hall. – Photo by Marty Seeger going to be fly-fishing for me because I love it,” she said.

As an employee of The Hartford, Dalrymple said she was normally on the volunteer end of events like these. She described it as unfortunate, yet wonderful, and although the discussion brought tears to her eyes on Knapp Creek Sunday morning, it was an indication of a very moving weekend.

“I’m going to start crying if I say too much more. It has been a wonderful experience and I’m going to remember it for the rest of my life, which is going to be a long time.”

For more information about Casting for Recovery visit www.castingforrecovery.org.

Great Northern Outdoors Thursday Bass Fishing League Len Carlstrom of Siren caught one of the largest walleyes of his life recently, which he estimated at about 10 pounds. Carlstrom had been fishing alone on a local lake with limited light sources when the fish hit on a large balsa Rapala. Much to his surprise, the walleye had already swallowed a sizeable northern, and the tail (inset photo) was hanging out of the fish’s mouth. Carlstrom tied the fish to a small rope and phoned someone with a camera, before releasing the fish. – Photos by Jennie Carlstrom

Week 11 1. Kirk Miller, 5 lbs., 8 oz.

2. Bryan Cox, 2 lbs., 9 oz.

3. Cory Meyer, 2 lbs. 9 oz.

4. Al Briese, 2 lbs., 8 oz.

5. Rob Buchholz, 2 lbs., 7 oz.

6. Vern Knauber, 2 lbs., 5 oz.

7. Tim Hutton, 1 lbs. 14 oz.

8. Shawn Hutton, 1 lbs., 13 oz.

9. Tony Peterson, 1 lbs., 12 oz.

10. Adam Memmer, 1 lbs., 9 oz.

11. Bruce Dau, 1 lbs., 7 oz.

12. Kathy Erickson, 14 oz.

Standings 1. Aaron Long, 36 lbs., 10 oz.

2. Rob Buchholz, 34 lbs., 3 oz.

3. Troy Olson, 32 lbs., 11 oz.

4. Adam Memmer, 30 lbs., 9 oz.

5. Al Briese, 29 lbs., 10 oz.

6. Tim Hutton, 21 lbs.

7. Shawn Hutton, 19 lbs., 10 oz.

8. Bryan Cox, 18 lbs., 6 oz.

9. Vern Knauber, 18 lbs.

10. Aaron Bistram, 16 lbs., 13 oz.

11. Marc Wiehl, 16 lbs., 6 oz.

12. Jamie Magnuson, 14 lbs., 15 oz.

13. Kirk Miller, 13 lbs., 15 oz.

14. Cory Meyer, 13 lbs., 2 oz.

15. Bruce Dau, 13 lbs., 1 oz.

16. Adam Bistram, 10 lbs., 5 oz.

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

18. Tony Peterson, 7 lbs., 6 oz.

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

20. Kathy Erickson, 3 lbs., 3 oz.

21. Rebecca Hutton, 2 lbs., 11 oz.

22. Ralph Britton, 0 23. Rick Hutton, 0 Big bass weekly winners Week 11: Kirk Miller, 4 lbs., 5 oz.

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County board approves Trade River Winery zoning change

by Nancy Jappe SIREN – At its July 16 meeting, the Burnett County Board of Supervisors approved a zoning change from rural residential (RR-3) to agriculture (A-2) for the property owned by John W. Seeger Jr., and Margaret Seeger, and operated as the Trade River Winery.

The change came to the board as a recommendation from the land-use and information committee, which was the committee of jurisdiction for issuance of a conditional-use permit regarding the winery. The conditional-use permit, which replaced an older conditional-use permit, contained restrictions regarding usage, hours of operation and provision for a committee review after a year to see whether further disruption (of neighbors) had occurred.

A protest was filed by neighbors last summer. The land-use (zoning) committee paid a visit to the property at that time. A public hearing on the issuance of the new conditional-use permit was

Frederick Painter, who owns property next to the Trade River Winery, brought objections from neighbors to the attention of the Burnett County Board of Supervisors at their July 16 meeting. The objections centered around: 1) Citations against Trade River Winery from July 2008, that have not been adjudicated, 2) A 15,000-foot event center that is to be built next to Painter’s house, and 3) Noise, especially on Saturday afternoons, that is not compatible with the neighborhood.

Burnett County maintenance Supervisor Gary Faught accepted an award of service for retired custodial engineer Jeff Ormston, from Ro Endresen, chair of the county board’s infrastructure committee, during the July 16 board meeting. Ormston, who has been with the county for 30 years and three months, moved to Texas as soon as his retirement was effective. held May 29. According to committee Chair Maury Miller, the hearing was very well attended, and each side had full opportunity to speak.

“It was a unanimous vote by all seven on the committee to approve recommending (to the county board) the zoning change plus unanimous approval of the conditional-use permit, including our restrictions,” Miller said, adding that the event center has not been approved by the committee.

Because a protest by more than 50 percent of the adjoining property owners has been filed, approval of the recommendation required a voice approval vote by three-quarters of the county board members.

Zoning Supervisor Jim Flanigan explained that the need for a three-quarter voice vote came from state statutes. He also said that, while there have been citations filed against Trade River Winery in the past, the county’s corporate counsel is looking into ways to resolve these citations. “This should be a way to partly resolve it as well,” he said, referring to the zoning change and issuance of the new conditional-use permit by the county committee of jurisdiction.

Webster students attend summer music camp

Five students from Webster Middle/High School attended the Northland Youth Music Program last week. They spent the week on the campus of the University of Wisconsin – Superior with 15 different music instructors from the area. More than 75 students participated in daily small and large group music rehearsals, clinics and fun activities such as a cookout at Pattison State Park. The week concluded with a concert performance on Friday, July 17. Two bands and one choir performed. Shown (L to R) are: Andrew Schrooten, Mary Arnold, Alec Gustafson, AmySue Greiff and Bree Watral. - Special photo

Only one no vote was registered, the vote of Supervisor Don Chell, during the roll-call vote to approve the zoning change from RR-3 to A-2.

All three Burnett County students who attend the board meetings as youth representatives also voted to approve the zoning change.

One of those students, 2009 Siren High School graduate Collin Tewalt, notified the board that this was his last board meeting. Tewalt is soon to head to Colorado to begin his college studies. Board members thanked him for representing his school at board meetings this past year and said what a good opportunity it was for him, a comment Tewalt agreed with.

Another issue that drew discussion by board members was a resolution to set the marriage/divorce licensing fees for domestic partnerships at $75 each, the same as would be charged for a regular marriage/divorce filing.

The ability to license for domestic partnerships has already been approved by state law. County Clerk Wanda Hinrichs explained to the board that passage of the resolution described above would be a way of record-keeping for history sake only. Board member Gene Olson abstained from the vote, citing separation of church and state. Supervisor Eldon Freese stated he didn’t think this should have come to the county board as a resolution.

The board passed a resolution opposing any legislative proposal to reduce the interest-rate charge on delinquent property taxes. This reduction was proposed in 2009 State Assembly Bill 149. The county would lose over $50,000 in interest revenue in 2009 if the proposed legislation had been enacted previously. The resolution stated that “a temporary reduction of interest rate charged on delinquent property taxes is not a sound fiscal solution that will bring about long-term relief to taxpayers.”

Additional items approved by the board: 1) Resolution to adopt a zoning change from F-1 to A-4 for property requested by Franklin D. Pichelman in the town of Rusk. 2) Resolution to rezone property west of Clear Lake in the town of Siren from A-2 to RR-1 because the A2 zoning no longer fits the land use. 3) Resolution adopting revised land-use ordinance text amendments deleting permitted uses for agricultural processing industries and warehouses, except slaughterhouses, rendering and fertilizer plants in A-2 zoning and the addition of uses permitted by conditional permit for those same entities. 4) Resolution adopting revised zoning from RR-3 to I-1 to allow for an LP storage tank facility in the town of Rusk. 5) A resolution to refer

Burnett County Land-Use and Information Committee Chair Maury Miller (R) responded to questions regarding a zoning change for the Trade River Winery property in the town of Trade Lake from RR-3 (rural residential) to A-2 (agricultural). Miller pointed out, at the July 16 county board meeting, that the board was only asked to approve the zoning change, not the conditional-use permit for the winery, which had already been granted by his committee. Supervisor Gerry Pardun is shown here with Miller. to the county forestry committee to authorize the DNR to start the withdrawal process for .75 acres along Hwy. 77 for the Hwy. 77 reconstruction project planned for 2010.

Two other resolutions that were approved dealt with staff-clothing reimbursement for county personnel and the Web site policy for the Burnett County Geographic Information System, a record by which the public can be given information by use of a name.

Supervisor Richard Anderson reported on the county’s revolving loan fund, telling members that there is $4.9 million in the fund, $1.7 million available for loan and that $60,283 in interest was earned in the first six months of this year.

Board members talked for a while about the ambulance-service renewal, with board Chairman Phil Lindeman noting that the town of Trade Lake has opted to go with Northland Ambulance Service out of Frederic rather than stick with the county contract with North Ambulance Service. Supervisor Norm Bickford pointed out that everything in the county’s 911 system will have to be changed if any townships in the county bow out of the contract. He suggested that whoever requests a change should have to pay for it. The county’s corporate counsel was the one cited to make this decision.

Supervisor Chuck Awe mentioned the need to alert townships, giving them fair warning when something like this goes into effect that will affect them.

Lindeman said that the county will lose $6,000 in revenue with the town of Roosevelt going to ambulance service out of Cumberland, $9,000 if the town of Dewey chooses to go with North Ambulance out of Spooner and $31,000 roughly for the loss of the town of Trade Lake.

Maury Miller talked about his conversation with a nephew who is a hospital administrator in Glenwood, Minn., in an area about the same size as Burnett County. There, the hospital owns the ambulances and gets no subsidy from the county. Mary Falk suggested that the board find out what Polk and St. Croix counties are doing, i.e. paying a subsidy plus a fee for ambulance service.

“We are working on a request for proposal and will come back to governments and units to see what we are doing, what services can be provided and at what cost,” Lindeman commented.

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Plan commission hears pitch for waste to energy plant

Festival Theatre discussion continues

by Tammi Milberg ST. CROIX FALLS – The plan commission heard a proposal from Greg Radefeldt, Northern Builders. Radefeldt lives in Lindstrom, Minn., and owns 70 acres of land on 208th Street, across from and south of Menards. Radefeldt said he is looking into the idea of waste-to-energy plant development on his property. His proposal was on the agenda for the July 20 meeting.

He stated that many trucks haul garbage past that location and burning the garbage could generate energy to heat water or cool buildings. He offered up box store names like Target, Kohl’s and Wal-Mart as entities that could supply garbage to the plant. He indicated that Target and Kohl’s, if they developed in that area, may generate enough waste energy to heat or cool their buildings. He wanted to go to the plan commission first for input and said he also needs to contact the county, township of St. Croix Falls and Centuria Village to get their

input.

Mayor Darrell Anderson stated he thought it was a good idea, but money to build the plant and water needed to run it are not resources the city has. The plant cost is estimated to be between $130 million and $150 million. Radefeldt stated that he would hope some stimulus money or federal dollars for going green would be captured to pay for the cost of the plant and that enough refuse is generated to keep it running with an estimated 20-year payback. He also discussed the possibility of locating a water park in that area, allowing the waste-to-energy process to heat the water. Again, the millions of gallons of water needed daily for this plant and developments to operate is not a resource the city has.

Radefeldt said the village of Centuria is an option for running water out to that location, but more discussion needs to take place.

Councilperson and plan commissioner Debra Kravig said she was concerned about the ash and how that is buried, because it can pollute ground water if not disposed of properly. She also said she

was concerned about mercury levels and other possible toxins emitted into the air that are not detectable, the air quality and how it would be monitored, as well as the technological know-how to properly run a facility like this.

Radefeldt stated he has done research, and the plants have a self-monitoring system and the EPA haS requirements for the plants to meet and consequences if they are not met. Plan commissioner Dan Meyers asked how many people would be employed at a plant such as this if it were built, and Radefeldt stated he thought at least 40 to 60, because it is such a large operation.

The commission thought the waste-toenergy idea is the way to go because of the amount of garbage being transported and dumped into landfills, but again indicated they did not have the money or water to pursue it. The discussion indicated that the city was not saying no to the idea, because the water could come from another source like Centuria Village and the dollars could come from another entity like the county, state or federal government. The commission encouraged Radefeldt to keep them posted on

his progress and findings.

In other business, the planning and discussion for Festival Theatre continued during the remainder of the meeting.

After reviewing and discussing documents regarding the theater, the plan commission agreed on the following consensus points: • A fundraising team needs to be established as well as a three- to five-year fundraising strategy.

• The priority list of improvements and cost estimates including the library space/lobby for $400,000; HVAC w/mechanical room at $700,000; elevator on the north face for $250,000; roof and exterior resurfacing at $200,000; and contingency and inflation at $155,000.

The total of the improvements on the list (estimated) is $1,705,000.

• No public tax dollars should go into the building improvements.

• Funds raised deposited into a City Auditorium building account set up at city hall. Once $200,000 - $300,000 is raised, serious fundraising can begin and grants could begin to be explored.

The plan commission will be discussing Festival for three more meetings.

Alleged kidnappers bound over for trial

by Sherill Summer SIREN - Bradley Belisle, 31, Hertel, and Jonathon C. Oiyotte, 30, Hertel, are facing charges of kidnapping, robbery with use of force, and substantial battery after an alleged kidnapping in Rusk Township during the early-morning hours on April 4. Belisle, a convicted felon, is also charged with possession of a firearm by a felon because a .22-caliber handgun was found in the car he was driving when he was arrested on unrelated warrants later that morning.

Both men were in the Burnett County Courthouse on Thursday, July 16, for their preliminary hearing.

The first witness to testify in the preliminary hearing about the alleged kidnapping was the victim, Jason Kenowski, 30, Stillwater, Minn. He described a night of drinking with his girlfriend, who is from Burnett County, and going to his car to sleep outside a small party.

He then described being pulled from his car, beaten, thrown into the trunk of an-

other car and taken to a trail in the woods off of Gaslyn Creek Trail in Rusk Township.

He called the police with his cell phone while in the trunk of the car, but police were unable The alleged kid- to respond. napping victim, Once in the Jason Kenowski, woods, he was testifies during a pre- beaten again and liminary hearing on stripped of his Thursday, July 16, at pants before the the Burnett County attacker drove Courthouse. - Photo away leaving

by Sherill Summer him in the woods.

After the attackers had driven off, Kenowski walked to Gaslyn Creek Road and was picked up by a passing motorist

J o n a t h a n Bradley Belisle - Photos submitted Oiyotte (Belisle) and taken to the hospital in Spooner. He suffered a broken nose, a fracture to the right side of his face, broken ribs and possible internal bleeding from the beating.

Kenowski was unable to identify his assailants, although he knew there was more than one.

Next to testify at the preliminary hearing was Kenowski’s girlfriend, Stephanie Davis, who testified that Belisle and Oiy-

otte were at the party from where Kenowski was taken, but she did not see them leave or hear anything that happened, even though she also testified that Kenowski was parked about 30 feet away from the house.

Also testifying during the four-hourlong preliminary hearing was a Burnett County deputy that described Oiyotte with Kenowski’s phone when he was arrested. Another officer testified that she heard Oiyotte tell someone over the phone that he beat someone and putting him in a trunk, and yet another officer took at statement from a 19-year-old Hertel man saying Belisle was laughing about putting someone in a trunk.

The combined testimony was enough to bind the two men over for further court proceedings. The kidnapping charge alone, a class C felony, could bring a $100,000 fine and/or a 40-year prison term. Both men are free on bond.

Polk County circuit court Lucas W. Abbott, West Lakeland, Minn., fail/stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Chase C. Anderson, Deer Park, operating while suspended, $186.00; display unauthorized vehicle registration plate, $223.80.

Denise M. Anderson-Dieffenbach, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Teresa M. Arndt, Somerset, speeding, $160.80.

Joseph S. Aubart, Milltown, speeding, $160.80.

Brandon R. Bachman, Radisson, operate without valid license, $186.00.

Thomas S. Bauer, Ellsworth, unsafe backing of vehicle, $160.80.

David M. Berg, Marine on St. Croix, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Howard R. Blair, St. Croix Falls, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Michael T. Carruth, Eau Claire, operate without valid license, $186.00.

Marcus S. Catlin, Deer Park, operating while under influence, $675.00, 6-month license revocation and order for assessment.

Jason M. Coen, Balsam Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Marcos M. Cohen, Minnetonka, Minn., operating while under influence, speeding, operating with PAC .10 or more, not guilty pleas.

Katy R. Dahlquist, Balsam Lake, speeding, $160.80; operate without valid license, $186.00.

Adrian E. Davis, Milltown, operating while under influence, operating with PAC .10 or more, not

guilty pleas.

Alexander J. De Silya, Bonita, Calif., speeding, $160.80.

Seth E. Dilorenzo, Blaine, Minn., trespass, not guilty plea.

Daniel C. Douse, Milltown, operating while revoked, $249.00.

Darwin D. Draisey, Dresser, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Robert J. Eastman, Shafer, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Edward L. Ellman, St. Croix Falls, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Jeremy R. Erickson, North Branch, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Jacob P. Ferrell, Osceola, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Theresa L. Fischer, Turtle Lake, display unauthorized vehicle registration plate, $223.80.

Anton J. Freiseis, Amery, operating while under influence, $803.00, 8-month license revocation and order for assessment.

Daniel J. Gage, Frederic, nonregistration of auto, $160.80.

Patrick J. Garsow, River Falls, operating while under influence, $675.50, 6-month license revocation and order for assessment.

Peter A. Gilberston, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Chanz J. Green, Turtle Lake, fail/stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Timothy A. Hanacek, Amery, speeding, $261.60.

Lonnie J. Hanson, New Richmond, operating while revoked, $249.00.

Marcos O. Hernandez, Balsam Lake, operating without valid license, $186.00.

Scott T. Jensen, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Corey G. Johnson, New Richmond, riding on boat decks/gunwales, $160.80.

Jay L. Johnson, Amery, operating while under influence, $675.50, 6-month license revocation and order for assessment.

David S. Kammerud, Osceola, operating while revoked, $249.00.

Michael L. Kelsey, La Crosse, speeding, $160.80.

Lindsey A. King, Balsam Lake, operate large vehicle after rev./susp of registration, $160.80.

Collin R. Knutson, Amery, nonregistration of auto, $160.80; display unauthorized registration plate, $223.80; failure of owner to transfer title, $160.80.

Kristen L. Lacey, Zimmerman, Minn., automobile following too closely, not guilty plea.

Jaclyn R. Laursen, Cumberland, speeding, $160.80.

Tamara J. Linaman, Oakdale, Minn., ATV operation on roadway, $186.00.

Paula A. Loude, Dresser, fail/stop at stop sign, not guilty plea.

Mitchel H. Loug, Menomonie, speeding, $160.80.

Keshia M. Lundgren, Osceola, operating while suspended, $186.00; seat belt violation, $10.00.

Erin L. Maier, Amery, speeding, $160.50.

Vicki E. Main, Amery, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Thomas J. Maurer, Centuria, speeding, $160.80.

John P. McDonough, Burnsville, Minn., operate ATV without valid registration, $186.00.

Linda J. Meixner, St. Croix Falls, speeding, $160.80.

Matthew L. Methewy, Turtle Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Curtis L. Mishler, Amery, fail/stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Justin C. Mortenson, Dresser, fail/stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Andria M. Norlund, New Richmond, speeding, $160.80.

Colleen K. Olson, Maplewood, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Kasey J. Ouellette, Luck, speeding, $160.80.

Chad A. Paulson, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Kelly J. Peterson, Luck, fail/yield right of way from stop sign, $160.80.

Richard D. Pundsack, Stillwater, Minn., operating while under influence, operating with PAC .10 or more, not guilty pleas.

Blake S. Reber, Dresser, speeding, $236.40; seat belt violation, $10.00.

Curtis E. Renfroe, Frederic, speeding, $160.80.

Susan E. Ryan, Mahtomedi, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Robert J. Schmulske, Hudson, operate without valid license, $186.00.

James D. Shafer, Clear Lake, ATV – careless operation, $186.00.

Tiffani A. Simons, New Hope, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Steven N. Skemp, Balsam Lake, unreasonable and impru-

dent speed, not guilty plea.

Jeffrey T. Smith, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Jacob M. Stevens, Milltown, operating while under influence, operating with PAC .10 or more, not guilty pleas.

Jon-Arthur D. Stotts, Turtle Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Richard J. Sword, Somerset, operating while under influence, $675.50, 6-month license revocation and order for assessment.

Travis M. Thimm, Champlin, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Timothy L. Thompson, St. Croix Falls, speeding, not guilty plea.

Kelly L. Tido, Centuria, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Kyle J. Truckey, Osceola, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Justin M. Vanderwerf, St. Croix Falls, speeding, $160.80.

Steven E. Wallin, New Richmond, speeding, $160.80.

William R. Webber, Clear Lake, speeding, $236.40; operating while suspended, $186.00.

Kevin L. Western, Osceola, fail/stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Steven L. Winkelman, St. Croix Falls, operating while under influence, operating with PAC .10 or more, not guilty pleas.

Michelle J. Wylie, Frederic, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Kristina J. Zevenbergen, Osceola, speeding, $160.80.

Nicole M. Aken, Thorp, speeding, $160.80.

Kevin M. Andersen, Clear Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Brian E. Anderson, Amery, operating while under influence;

operate motorcycle w/o valid license; operating with PAC .10 or more, not guilty pleas.

Jacob E. Anderson, Clear Lake, speeding, $186.00.

Maminiaina Andrianotahina, Madison, speeding, $160.80.

James D. Barnett, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Robin W. Bastar, Salt Lake City, Utah, speeding, $160.80.

Elaine M. Beauvais, Gordon, speeding, $160.80.

Mary B. Berger, Rice, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Joshua R. Bjorke, Osceola, speeding, $160.80.

Glenn C. Boatman, Minneapolis, Minn., litter/deposit debris on state property, $186,00.

Gerald L. Bostrom, Balsam Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Jason D. Bottolfson, Amery, nonregistration of auto, etc., $160.80; vent./side window excessive tinting, $160.80.

Karen M. Breault, Luck, speeding, $186.00.

Diana E. Brookman, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Kristy J. Brunkhorst, New Richmond, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Loren B. Burton, Frederic, operate lg. veh. after rev./susp. of reg., $160.80.

Sara J. Burton, Hudson, speeding, $160.80.

Alison R. Busby, St. Croix Falls, speeding, $160.80.

Travis V. Byl, Amery, seat belt violation, $10.00.

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Burnett County criminal court Matthew F. Phillips, 24, Grantsburg, exposing genitals to child, four-month jail sentence, Huber release granted, no contact with victim, $88.00; fourthdegree sexual assault, four-month jail sentence, Huber release granted, $88.00; battery, $88.00.

Elizabeth A. Carpenter, 21, Cedar, Minn., receiving stolen property, one-year probation, comply with all treatment recommendations, $88.00.

Reid J. Hopkins, 35, Webster, OWI, one-year prison sentence, followed by three years of extended supervision, credit for

365 days served in Burnett County Jail, extended supervision began July 15, no consumption of alcohol or illegal drugs, shall submit to random drug testing.

Ronee L. Boswell, 33, Hayward, OWI, $967.00, 20-day jail sentence, license revoked 14 months, alcohol assessment.

Merle L. Skinaway Jr., 55, Danbury, disorderly conduct, no alcohol assumption, no abusive contact with victim, $188.00.

Frank D. Huber, 56, Danbury, resisting or obstructing an officer, $750.00.

Micaela R. Larsen, 20, Cumberland, operate without valid license, $186.00.

Curtis R. Clippard, 29, St. Croix Falls, issue worthless check, $26.00 restitution, $248.00.

Mark A. Jereczek, 53, Danbury, issue worthless check, $248.00.

Beverly J. Pitts, 60, Grantsburg, issue worthless check, $249.00.

Barbara J. Koshenina, 52, Webster, operating with PAC greater than .08, license revoked six months, $250.

Andrew D. Huot, 22, St. Paul, Minn., failure to keep vehicle under control, $198.60.

John M. Peterson, 38, Rosemount, Minn., receiving stolen property, $312.00 restitution, 60day jail sentence, Huber release granted, $167.01.

Jeffrey D. Moe, 42, Spooner, manufacture or deliver THC, license revoked six months, fivemonth jail sentence, Huber release granted, alcohol assessment, provide a DNA sample, $363.

David J. Getschel, 35, Hudson, speedometer violation, $160.80.

Daniel M. Ahlman, 38, Grantsburg, fail to stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Douglas A. Mattson, 48, Webster, burning without a permit, $160.80.

Andrew Leino, 23, Barnum, Minn., fail to stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Mark A. Segelstrom, 54, Clear Lake, speedometer violations, $160.80.

Jason R. Casey, 38, Danbury, speedometer violations, $160.80.

Taylor M. Finch, 18, Grantsburg, speeding, $160.80.

Holly A. Peterson, 36, Spooner, speeding, $160.80.

Whitney E. Turner, 20, Princeton, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Joseph L. Matrious, 28, Webster, speeding, $186.00.

Nancy L. Olinger, 55, Centuria, speeding, $160.80.

Andrew G. Hankins, 22, Richfield, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Webster municipal court David P. Anderson, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $83.80.

Maurice C. Anderson, Siren, issue worthless checks, $286.50.

Peter O. Baumgart, Spring Brook, speeding, $83.80.

Corey S. Bearheart, Webster, nonregistration of auto, $83.80.

Richard M. Bell, Danbury, nonregistration of vehicle, $83.80.

Andrew T. Bollant, Siren, speeding, $83.80.

Carol Buck, Webster, speeding, $83.80.

Daniel C. Cady, Siren, speeding, $83.80.

Sharmin M. Carlson, Webster, nonregistration of vehicle, $83.80; failure to stop/improper stop at stop sign, $83.80.

Ruth A. Chavarria, Webster, speeding, $83.80.

Judy L. Cornelison, Grantsburg, issue worthless checks, $409.65.

Jill C. Czub-Peterson, Hayward, speeding, $83.80.

Hazel L. Falk, Danbury, unsafe turn at intersection, $83.80.

Micah D. Flodin, Siren, speeding, $109.00.

Douglas J. Fontaine, Webster, nonregistration of auto, $83.80.

Diane L. Gilmore, Vadnais Heights, Minn., speeding, $83.80.

Heather A. Hines, Shell Lake, speeding, $83.80.

Christopher T. Hoffman, Stillwater, Minn., speeding, $83.80.

Melissa R. Honts, Star Prairie, operating after suspension, $109.00.

Alycia K. Hunter, Frederic, speeding, $109.00.

Michael D. Iverson, Webster, speeding, $83.80.

James M. Jackson, Siren, nonregistration of auto, $83.80.

Diann L. Jensen, Webster, issue worthless checks, $386.50.

Gary W. Johnson, Foxboro, speeding, $83.80.

Luanne J. Jorgenson, Rochester, Minn., speeding, $134.20.

Mary J. Kester, Hinckley, Minn., speeding, $83.80.

Denise M. Kurschner, Stacy, Minn., speeding, $83.80.

Lonnie D. Mackyol, Danbury, fail to stop/improper stop at stop sign, $83.80.

Susan A. Matheson, Lino Lakes, Minn., speeding, $83.80.

Michael C. Meade, Burnsville, Minn., speeding, $83.80.

John D. Meyer, Amery, operating while intoxicated, $726.00.

Steven B. Milne, Apple Valley, Minn., speeding, $83.80.

Ruby K. Mora, Siren, speeding, $83.80.

Thomas H. Murlowski, Blaine, Minn., speeding, $83.80.

Jacob A. Pardun, Webster, damage to property, $356.18.

Jeffery J. Pavelka, Webster, nonregistration of vehicle, $83.80.

Matthew R. Pawlak, Webster, nonregistration of auto, $83.80.

Jared Phernetton, Webster, issue worthless checks, $579.50.

Donald R. Potvin, Luck, speeding, $159.40.

Robert Roatch, Siren, issue worthless checks, $312.14 Danielle R. Romanowski, Grantsburg, speeding, $83.80.

Gloria J. Songetay, Danbury, speeding, $83.80.

Aaron M. Stroot, Siren, drink open intoxicants in motor vehicle, $109.00.

Matthew A. Thom, Kansasville, speeding, $83.80.

Vanessa N. Wallace, Hinckley, Minn., speeding, $83.80.

Kuue Yang, Duluth, Minn., speeding, $109.00.

Russell A. Johnson, Andover, Minn., seat belt violation, speeding, not guilty pleas.

Tryn D. Johnson, St. Croix Falls, nonregistration of auto, etc., $160.80.

Larry S. Karr, Star Prairie, operating while revoked, $249.00.

Donald A. Kaste, Cottage Grove, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Terry Kelly, Amery, action conducted without land-use permit, $438.00.

Cathleen L. Kennedy, Sauk Rapids, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Ronald Kitzmann, Hastings, Minn., placement of a travel trailer for more than 14 days, $375.00.

Heather M. Klinker, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Heather M. Klinker, Amery, operate w/o valid license, $186.00.

Christina R. Klugow, Clayton, speeding, $186.00.

Jonathan D. Kofler, Superior, Colo., speeding, not guilty plea.

Jesse L. Kuske, Mosinee, speeding, $160.80.

Joseph F. Lado, Arlington, Va., speeding, $186.00.

Brian M. Larose, Amery, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Charles F. Latimer, Charles, Ill., speeding, $160.80.

Christopher D. Lawson, Menomonie, speeding, not guilty plea.

Betty A. Lessard, Ham Lake, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Dylan M. Lien, Cottage Grove, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Thomas S. Lipe, no town given, legally jump/dive into St. Croix River, $135.60.

Carleton L. Logan, Amery, speeding, $186.00.

Richard A. Long, Sioux Falls, S.D., speeding, $160.80.

Alana L. Luehring, Frederic, speeding, $160.80.

Christopher D. Madison, Milltown, operating while under the influence, not guilty plea.

Peter M. Mauel, St. Croix Falls, speeding, $160.80.

Brian T. McCarty, Northfield, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Cary C. McDonald, Vadnais Heights, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Colleen M. McLaughlin, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Larry A. Mettler, La Crosse, speeding, $160.80.

Katelyn M. Mewes, Turtle Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Christi L. Miller, Somerset, speeding, $160.80.

Courtney J. Miller, Almena, seat belt violation, $10.00; nonregistration of auto, etc., $160.80.

Thomas C. Miller, Balsam Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Andrew R. Millis, Savage, Minn., constructed a garage within setback area, $375.00.

Jamie H. Miron, Billings, Mont., fail./carry boat floatation devices, $148.20.

Raymond W. Moe, Chippewa Falls, operating left of centerline, $198.60.

Kathleen E. Moore, Blaine, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Ricky A. Mosay, Luck, operating with PAC .10 or more, $803.00; operating while under influence, $803.00; operate w/o valid license b/c expiration, $148.20.

Cory A. Muonio, Victoria, Minn., illegally jump/dive into St. Croix River, $135.60.

Patricia A. Nehring, Luck, speeding, $160.80.

Mark W. Nickel, West Fargo, N.D., speeding, $160.80.

Bryon K. Nilsson, Falcon Heights, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Dustin N. Nohr, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, speeding, $186.00.

Jennifer W. Norlund, Somerset, speeding, $186.00; seat belt violation, $10.00; operate while suspended, $186.00.

Jessica M. Nosbish, Somerset, speeding, $160.80.

Todd A. Noteboom, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Devon M. Olson, Wilson, operate motorboat w/o valid safety certificate, not guilty plea.

Ryan A. Olson, Balsam Lake, operating while revoked, $250.00.

Matthew A. Ortiz, St. Paul, Minn., illegally jump/dive into St. Croix River, $135.60.

Laurel J. Pearson, N. St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Joseph S. Pederson, Forest Lake, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Justin R. Perry, Forest Lake, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Johnathon P. Peterson, Woodbury, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Matthew J. Pilon, Richfield, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Cura L. Pine, St. Francis, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Joshua A. Potting, Osceola, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Michelle S. Pulles, Plymouth, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Ralph W. Pullman, New Richmond, fail to signal turn, not guilty plea.

Jacob L. Ramroop., St. Paul, Minn., illegally jump/dive into St. Croix Falls River, $135.00 Diane H. Reber, Dresser, speeding, $186.00.

Matthew D. Redinger, Mound, Minn., illegally jump/dive into St. Croix River, $135.60.

Teresa K. Regenauer, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Saree L. Reindahl, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Amber A. Richison, Siren, operating while suspended, $186.00.

Karl R. Riebe, Barronett, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Robert E. Rock, Braham, Minn., hunt w/o license, NR, $192.20.

Brittany A. Rose, Luck, failure to keep vehicle under control, $198.60.

Jayson S. Sam, Onamia, Minn., seat belt violation, $10.00.

Richard A. Sanden, Woodbury, Minn., permit operation of a motorboat or personal watercraft by underage person, $148.00.

Matthew J. Savoy, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Daniel S. Schaaf, Centuria, speeding, $211.20.

Devlin D. Schever, Osceola, operating while revoked, $249.00.

Steven J. Schiller, Prescott, operate boat w/o valid cert. number, $186.00.

Brandon G. Schladweiler, Maiden Rock, speeding, $186.00.

George F. Scott, Shoreview, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Nick C. Seefert, Osceola, speeding, $160.80.

Kristine J. Senogles, Osceola, speeding, $160.80.

Daniel M. Shilson, Osceola, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Kristine M. Shilson, Dresser, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Alicia C. Smith, Hudson, speeding, $160.80.

Frederick J. Smith, Thunder Bay, Canada, speeding, $160.80.

Paul M. Smith, Cushing, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Steven E. Smith, Camplin, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Jennifer A. Stewart, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Michael J. Storm, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Terrence M. Sullivan, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Nicole M. Swanson, Amery, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Calvin C. Thompson, Dresser, operating while revoked, $249.00.

Aleksey A. Tikhonoy, Apple Valley, Minn., driving w/person riding illegally, not guilty plea.

Marvin R. Topper, Bloomington, Minn., seat belt violation, $10.00; speeding, $186.00.

Kathryn A. Vanderkolk, Holland, Mich., speeding, $160.80.

Wane A. Vlasnik, Luck, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Heather L. Walch, Vadnais Heights, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

John J. Waldock, Lino Lakes, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Robert A. Walker, Ramsey, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Chad M. Wallgren, Somerset, speeding, $186.00.

Nadine M. Washburn, San Diego, Calif., operating while under influence, OWI $803.00 forfeiture, 6 mos. lic. rev., assessment & compliance – PAC. Zachary T. Weaver, Columbia Heights, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Jeffrey W. Webb, Roseville, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Steven G. Weigang, Amery, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Zachary D. Whittenberger, St. Croix Falls, speeding, $160.80.

Paul L. Wickland, Star Prairie, speeding, $160.80.

Dean L. Wold, Dresser, speeding, $160.80.

Lue Yang, Blaine, Minn., start fire in unauthorized area, $160.80.

Joy K. Zasadny, Bloomington, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Mitchell T. Zellmer, Luck, speeding, $160.80.

Jeffrey L. Zentzis, Somerset, speeding, $160.80.

Kelsey C. Zerniche, Star Prairie, speeding, $160.80.

Polk court/from previous page Jeffrey T. Chapman, Taylors Falls, Minn., inattentive driving, $183.40.

Michael W. Cipe, Winsted, Minn., illegally jump/dive into St. Croix River, $135.60.

Donna B. Clearman, Anoka, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Kevin E. Clint, Milwaukee, speeding, $211.20.

Rebecca H. Cloyd, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Padraic J. Connolly, Chisago City, Minn., speeding, $186.00, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Gary S. Constantineau, Osceola, failure to notify police of accident, $249.00; operating left of centerline, $198.60; inattentive driving, $173.40.

Sadie L. Cunningham, Star Prairie, speeding, $160.80.

James W. Dalbec Jr., St. Paul, Minn., illegally jump/dive into St. Croix River, $135.60.

Matthew J. Denhartog, Centuria, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Rachael E. Dodge, Star Prairie, speeding, $160.80.

Rachel L. Dohmen, Forest Lake, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Larry A. Doxtater, Amery, operating with PAC .10 or more, $803.00.

Deborah H. Drost, North Branch, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

James A. Drury, Rice Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Dennis C. Ducheneaux, Dresser, driving too fast for conditions, failure to notify police of accident, reckless driving, endanger safety, not guilty pleas.

Gene R. Dumas, Plymouth, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

David J. Elzinga, White Bear Lake, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Margaret R. Evans, Coon Rapids, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Mitchell J. Everett, Centuria, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Robert W. Farmer, Superior, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Stephanie M. Fenton, St. Croix Falls, speeding, $186.00.

Justin E. Ferris, St. Paul, Minn., illegally jump/dive into St. Croix River, $135.60.

Mark W. Fisk, Hopkins, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Alicia A. Franken, White Bear Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Byron A. Freer, Milltown, speeding, $160.80.

Kelsey M. Friberg, Amery, possess marijuana on state land, not guilty plea.

Karole L. Friese, Amery, speeding, $211.20.

Nicholas D. Garner, Clayton, fail./stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Bono Z. Gbolo, Roseville, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Francis S. Gill, Wayzata, Minn., fail./carry boat floatation devices, $186.00.

Efrain G. Gomez, Grantsburg, speeding, $160.80.

Jacob M. Grisell, Mahtomedi, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Bryanna K. Haas, Amery, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Tamera L. Hafner, Lakeland, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Todd J. Harshman, Clayton, operating while revoked, $249.00.

Robert B. Hartley, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Bryon J. Hartung, Amery, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Donna M. Haseley, Osceola, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Scott J. Hause, Stillwater, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Gregory P. Heinen, Maple Grove, Minn., transport child in truck cargo area, $135.60; speeding, $160.80.

Adam L. Hemmelgarn, Andover, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Marcus J. Hibbard, St. Croix Falls, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Max D. Hiivala, St. Bonifacius, Minn., illegally jump/dive into St. Croix River, $135.60.

Justin L. Hill, White Bear Lake, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Virgene V. Hockenson, Forest City, Iowa, speeding, not guilty plea.

Sue A. Holmen, Lafayette, Calif., speeding, $186.00.

Bryce M. Holstad, Forest Lake, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Reed T. Homola, Mound, Minn., illegally jump/dive into St. Croix River, $135.60.

Karen L. Ingram, Burnsville, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Bradley M. Jamison, Woodbury, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Todd M. Jansma, Lino Lakes, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Jonell R. Jechorek, Oakdale, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Burnett Co. marriage licenses Richard J. Chenal Jr., Webster, and Michelle M. Phelps, Webster, July 13.

Ritchard K. Cook, Oakland, and Joyce A. Tucker, Meenon, July 16.

James R. Brewster, Siren, and Sarah M. Daniels, Siren,

July 17.

Clint M.C. Peterson, Stacy, Minn., and Dayna L. Doriott, Stacy, Minn., July 19.

Dennis J. Spencer, Pittsburg, Kan., and Theresa R. Scimeca, Pittsburg, Kan., July 20.

Burnett Co. civil court Hopkins Sand and Gravel Inc. vs. Richard Kranz, St. Paul, Minn., $3,372.98.

Hopkins Sand and Gravel Inc. vs. Deb Simenson, Bennett, $2,055.06.

Capital One Bank vs. Jeffrey W. Stager, Siren, $1,007.80.

American Family Mutual Insurance Co. vs. Robin Haaf, Grantsburg, $3,360.04.

Burnett County deaths John A. Robinson, 76, Scott, June 29.

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Some pets OK. Background check First month’s rent and damage deposit

NEW HOME 109 Pearl St. Balsam Lake No maintenance!

$

800

Rent

Option to buy/ owner financing.

2 BRs, 1-1/2 baths, attached garage

Water, sewer and garbage included. Pets OK. Background check. First month’s rent and damage deposit

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FOR RENT In Centuria

3 bedrooms, 1 bath, completely remodeled.

700/mo.

$

Plus utilities and deposit.

Small pets considered with pet deposit.

Call for application.

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APARTMENTS FOR RENT Frederic & Siren Shirley

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LARGE 2-BR RENTAL APARTMENT IN LUCK Don Tomlinson Apartments P.O. Box 308 • Luck, WI 54853

Work 715-472-2299 • Home 715-472-2368

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Available Aug. 1, 2009. Electricity, heat, water/sewer & normal bagged garbage included. No pets.

Main-floor apartment & no steps. Rent is based on your income after adjustments.

80 acres in McKinley Township, 12 miles east of Luck.

Prime deer, turkey, goose and duck hunting. Oak ridges and new-growth poplar valleys for deer browsing.

Two natural ponds and Clam River runs through it.

Borders 2,500 acres of Polk County forestland.

For Sale By Owner

199,000

$

Phone 715-349-2457

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HUNTER’S DREAM FOR SALE

228 West Wis. Ave. (In Town) Grantsburg, WI Water skis; tubes; furniture; hockey skates; crafts; material; bunk beds; clothing including teenage girls. Something for eve491558 48Lp ryone.

QUALITY NEW CONSTRUCTION IN LUCK

139,900

$

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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(July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff, vs FORD G. FRIDAY, et al Defendants Case Number: 08 CV 731 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on February 13, 2009, in the amount of $139,579.20, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 18, 2009, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Front Entrance to the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Outlots 93 and 94 of the Village of Clayton, a part of the Southwest 1/4 Southeast 1/4 of Section 24, Township 33 North, Range 15 West except: a) Records 212-529 b) Records 351-166 c) Records 384-385 d) Records 426-304 e) Records 441-530 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 239 E Clayton Avenue, Clayton, WI 54004.

TAX KEY NO.: 112-00255-0000.

Dated this 24th day of June, 2009.

Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County Chaz M. Rodriguez State Bar #1063071 Attorney for Plaintiff 13700 W. Greenfield Avenue Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 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. (158231)

Immediate occupancy, never occupied.

1689 243rd Ave., Luck, Wis.

Energy efficient, 944 q. ft., finished 2 BRs, 1 bath, look out split-entry with attached 2-car garage.

All appliances included. 1.74-acre lot in West Denmark Estates.

Call today for showing. Gary Brunclik Construction,

715-755-3377.

info@garybrunclikconstruction.com (July 15, 22, 29) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

Jane Kearns Robin Kearns Unknown Tenants Defendants SUMMONS Real Estate Mortgage Foreclosure Case No. 09 CV 411 Honorable Molly E. GaleWyrick Case Code: 30404 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To the following party named as a defendant herein: Jane Kearns / Robin Kearns 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 July 15, 2009, you must respond with a written answer, as that term is used in Chapter 802 of the Wis. Stat., 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 26th day of June, 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. (159559) 490583 WNAXLP

Thurs., Fri. & Sat., July 30 through Aug. 1

8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Furniture; new carpet; tools; clothes; toys; dishes; yard; lawn mowers; horse tack; Australian saddle; house decor; log siding; and firewood.

11778 West Round Lake Rd., Luck.

7 miles west of Frederic on Co. 48. Go south on Co. Z a half mile to West Round Lk. Rd.

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Fri., July 24, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sat., July 25, 8 a.m. to Noon

MOVING SALE

Notices/Employment (July 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12, 19) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP Plaintiff, vs.

RUTH M. SCHADEWALD, et al.

Defendants.

Case Number: 06 CV 57 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on February 24, 2009, in the amount of $179,104.22, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: September 1, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% of successful bid must be paid to Sheriff at sale in cash or by certified Check. Balance to be paid upon confirmation.

PLACE: Front Entrance to the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 3 of Certified Survey Map No. 4217, recorded in Volume 18 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 247, as Document No. 666504, locate in the Northeast 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 7, Township 35 North, Range 18 West, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 22852285A 230th Street, Cushing, WI 54006 TAX KEY NO.: 020-00177-0300 Dated this 9th day of July, 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. (160961)

(June 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff, Vs. LUCAS R. SWAGER and HEATHER L. SWAGER, Defendants.

Case No. 08 CV 879 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on January 27, 2009, in the amount of $111,289.53, I will sell the described premises at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin on: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, at 10 o’clock a.m.

TERMS OF SALE: 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 forfeiture of deposit plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. DESCRIPTION: Lot Four (4), Block Two (2), Except the South 15 feet thereof, Plat of Meadow Lane, Village of Centuria, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN: 111-00343-0000.

Street Address: 107 Meadow Lane, Centuria, WI 54824.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wis., this 2nd day of June, 2009.

Timothy G. Moore, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson No. 1103029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

COACHING OPPORTUNITY

The Frederic School District is accepting applications for the following coaching position:

Assistant Girls Volleyball 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.

491615 Deadline for applications is August 3, 2009.

48-49L 38-39a The Frederic School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

CERTIFIED MEDICAL ASSISTANT

Shell Lake Clinic is seeking a Certified Medical Assistant for immediate and/or future openings at our Shell Lake and Siren Clinics.

Qualifications: Completion of Medical Assistance Program with certification or ability to sit for certification within 6 months. Clinical experience preferred.

Shell Lake Clinic offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Please send letter of application and resume to the address below by July 31, 2009.

SHELL LAKE CLINIC, LTD.

Attn.: Betty Johnson P.O. Box 336 • Shell Lake, WI 54871 715-468-2711 bslclinic@centurytel.net 491345 48-49r,L

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$

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GARAGE/ MOVING SALE

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FOR RENT ONE-BR APT.

Arrests and citations July 15: Mark A. Chapman, 49, Danbury, was arrested on a probation violation.

July 16: Christopher M. McLain, 21, Grantsburg, was arrested on a probation violation.

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July 20: Robert G. Owens, 78, Spooner, was eastbound on CTH A in Meenon Township when a westbound vehicle driven

by Christopher A. Staples, 22, Webster, made a left-hand turn into the path of the Owens vehicle. Staples reportedly fled on foot after the accident. Alcohol was a factor in the accident, and Staples was cited for seven citations: operating without a valid driver’s license, causing property damage when knowingly operating without a valid driver’s license, fail to yield the right of way, reckless driving, failure to notify police of an accident, open intoxicants in motor vehicle, hit and run. The vehicle that Staples was driving was reported as stolen. No injuries were reported.

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Accidents July 15: Matthew W. Schlapper, 27, Superior, reported hitting a deer while on Hwy. 70 in LaFollette Township. No injuries were reported.

July 16: Jamie M. Robb, 18, Grantsburg, was southbound on Larson Road in Grantsburg Township when he lost control of the vehicle, left the roadway and hit some trees. The driver was severely injured and flown to a hospital in the cities for further care. An 18-year-old Grantsburg man was an occupant in the vehicle at the time of the accident, and he reported possible injuries.

The Grantsburg Police Department responded to the accident.

No citations were issued by the Burnett County Sheriff’s Department.

July 19: Aimee T. Risley, 27, Spooner, was eastbound on CTH A in Jackson Township when she lost control of her vehicle while negotiating and curve. The driver reported a possible injury.

Alcohol was a factor in the accident. One citation was issued.

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Please send resume or stop by to fill out application.

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PUBLIC NOTICE BURNETT COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Public input is being sought for the 2010 Department of Health & Human Services Plan and Budget. The public is invited to attend two Health & Human Services Board Meetings to provide input. We are seeking comments from clients, providers, interested citizens and community agencies as to the adequacy and need for services in such areas as services to juveniles, child protective services, services to the elderly and handicapped, mental health services, substance abuse services, services to the developmentally disabled and any other services being or needing to be provided in the community.

The first meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 28, 2009, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 165 of the Burnett County Government Center, 7410 County Road K, Siren, WI 54872.

The second meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 165 of the Burnett County Government Center, 7410 County Road K, Siren, WI 54872.

Written comments may also be submitted prior to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 30, 2009, addressed to: Burnett County Department of Health & Human Services Attn: Katherine Peterson, Director 7410 County Road K #280 491378 Siren, WI 54872 48L 38-39a The meeting site is accessible to the physically disabled.

(July 15, 22, 29) WI009554 STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY RESURGENCE FINANCIAL, LLC, an Illinois Limited Liability Company Plaintiff, vs.

DEREK G. BYSTROM 2114 210TH ST. CENTURIA, WI 54824 Defendant(s).

PUBLICATION SUMMONS Case No. 09 CV 418 Case Code: 30301 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, to the said defendant(s): You are hereby notified that the Plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit against you. The Complaint, which is attached hereto, stated the nature and basis of the legal action.

Within forty (40) days of 7/14/ 2009, you must respond with a written answer, as that term is used in Chapter 802 of Wis. 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: P.O. Box 549, 1005 W. Main St., Balsam Lake, WI 54810-0549 and the Legal Department of Resurgence Financial, LLC, whose address is 6980 N. Port Washington Rd., Suite 204, Milwaukee, WI 53217. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not provide a proper answer to the Complaint or provide a written demand for said Complaint within forty (40) days, the Court may grant a 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: July 6, 2009.

RESURGENCE FINANCIAL, LLC

By One of Plaintiff’s Staff Attorneys Robert I. Dorf State Bar No. 1027887 RESURGENCE FINANCIAL, LLC Legal Department 6980 N. Port Washington Rd. Suite 204 Milwaukee, WI 53217 877-694-7500 490584 WNAXLP WI009554

(July 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12, 19) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY AnchorBank, fsb, Plaintiff, vs.

Roy Peckman and Mary Peckman, as husband and wife Defendants.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No: 08 CV 823 Case Code: 30304 Judge: Molly E. GaleWyrick PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on the 9th day of February, 2009, in the amount of $122,523.45, the Sheriff of Polk County will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: DATE/TIME: September 1, 2009, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: 10% of successful bid must be paid to the Sheriff at sale in cash or by certified check. Balance due within 10 days of court approval.

Purchaser is responsible for payment of all transfer taxes and recording fees. Sale is AS IS in all respects and subject to all liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Polk County Sheriff’s Office, 1005 West Main St., Suite 900, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin 54810.

DESCRIPTION: A part of Government Lot 4, Section 3, Township 34 North, of Range 17 West, described as follows: Beginning at a point on the north-south quarter line in said Section 3, that is 325 feet North of the 1/4 post between Section 3 and 10; thence West at right angles 488 feet; thence North parallel to the 1/4 line 125 feet; thence due East 488 feet to the 1/4 line; thence South 125 feet to the point of beginning. Said land being in the Village of Balsam, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 109 Idlewild Drive, Balsam Lake, WI 54810 /s/Timothy G. Moore, Sheriff ECKBERG, LAMMERS, BRIGGS, WOLFF & VIERLING, P.L.L.P. Nicholas J. Vivian #1047165 Attorney for Plaintiff 1809 Northwestern Avenue Stillwater, MN 55082 (651) 439-2878 Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1692), we are required to state that we are attempting to collect a debt on our client’s behalf and any information we obtain will be used for that purpose.

NOTICE OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY GRANTSBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT July 15, 2009

Job Title: Custodian at Nelson Primary Job Description: This person will be responsible for cleaning at Nelson. This person will work together with custodial staff at both GES and Nelson.

Hours: 2-1/2 hours per day; 9-month school-year position.

Qualifications: The ideal candidate for this position will be highly professional, confident and possess a great deal of energy and pride in workmanship.

The person will have a sincere interest in children and be able to perform a wide array of duties while contributing to a nurturing learning environment. Must be able to work collaboratively, follow written and/or oral directions and maintain good work habits. Excellent communication skills are a must and candidates must have the ability to lift at least 50 lbs. and shovel snow. Computer skills and experience preferred.

Rate of Pay: Per contract schedule.

How to Apply: Employment applications are available at the District Office or the Elementary School.

Please complete and return to the Elementary School by August 7, 2009.

Contact: Katie Coppenbarger, Principal Grantsburg Elementary School 475 East James Ave. Grantsburg, WI 54840 The School District of Grantsburg is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion or handicap.

ATTENTION CLAM FALLS TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS

The Clam Falls Township Comprehensive Planning Committee Will Meet Every Tuesday At 7 p.m.

Through 2009.

If you wish to participate in your township’s planning process, please attend.

If you have questions or need information about this process, call Perry Karl, Committee Chairperson, 715-653-4247.

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(July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff, vs.

CLAYTON R. HENSCHKE, et al Defendants.

Case Number: 08 CV 769 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on February 18, 2009, in the amount of $433,985.50, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 20, 2009, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: Front Entrance to the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main St., Balsam Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Parcel 1: Lot 6 of Certified Survey Map No. 1813 recorded on February 28, 1995, in Volume 8, Page 161, as Document No. 527587, being part of Government Lot 4, Section 7, Town 35 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Georgetown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Parcel 2: An Easement for the benefit of Parcel 1 for ingress and egress over that part of Government Lot 4, Section 7, Township 35 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Georgetown, Polk County, Wisconsin, described as Outlot 1 of Certified Survey Map recorded February 28, 1995, in Volume 8 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 162, as Document No. 527588.

Parcel 3: A 66-foot-wide private roadway easement for the benefit of Parcel 1 for ingress and egress as shown on the subject Certified Survey Maps over Government Lot 4, Section 7, Township 35 North, Range 16 West and Government Lot 1, Section 18, Township 35 North, Range 16 West, in the Town of Georgetown, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2222 117th St., Milltown, WI 54858.

TAX KEY NO.: 026-00246-0060.

Dated this 25th day of June, 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. (158444)

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Notices / Employment

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(June 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff, Vs. BRENT M. NIEMAN, and JOLENE L. NIEMAN, and WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, and KATHLEEN M. GIONIS, and CAPITAL ONE BANK, Defendants.

Case No. 08 CV 799 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on January 26, 2009, in the amount of $144,565.65, I will sell the described premises at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wis., on: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, at 10 o’clock a.m.

TERMS OF SALE: 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 forfeiture of deposit plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. DESCRIPTION: Lot One (1) of Certified Survey Map No. 2300, Recorded in Volume Eleven (11) of Certified Survey Maps, page 7, Document No. 559128, located in the Southeast Quarter of Northeast Quarter (SE1/4 of NE1/4), of Section Seven (7), Township thirty-six (36) North of Range Eighteen (18) West.

PIN: 030-00166-0100.

Street Address: 2863 230th Street, Cushing, Wis. 54006 Dated at Balsam Lake, Wis., this 2nd day of June 2009.

Timothy G. Moore, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson No. 1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

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(June 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the auction of Charter Bank Eau Claire vs. Donald H. Bottolfson, et al, Polk County Case No. 08CV673, I will sell at public auction in the foyer area of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, on TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2009, AT 10 A.M. the following described premises, located in Polk County, Wisconsin: Lot Six of Certified Survey Map No. 5283 recorded in Volume 23 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 190 as Document No. 723208, being a division of Lot Four of Certified Survey Map No. 3911 recorded in Volume 17 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 174 and a division of Lot Six of Certified Survey Map No. 4897 recorded in Volume 22 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 4, located in the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Section Twelve, Township ThirtyThree North, Range Seventeen West, Town of Lincoln, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Together with the 40 foot wide easement area for the benefit of Lot Six over and across the north 40 feet of Lot Seven of Certified Survey Map No. 5283, Volume 23, Page 190, Document No. 723208.

Property Address: 1083 120th Street, Amery, Wis. Notice is further given that the successful purchaser will be responsible for the lien of real estate taxes, for the municipal charges, if any, the Wisconsin real estate transfer fee, and is responsible for obtaining possession of the property, which is sold “as is.”

TERMS OF SALE: Cash with 10% to be paid at time of sale.

Sheriff Timothy G. Moore Polk County, Wisconsin James Flory Wiley Law, S.C. 21 S. Barstow Street P.O. Box 629 Eau Claire, WI 54702-0629 Phone: 715-835-6171 Fax 715-835-4222

(June 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY HSBC MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff, vs.

WILLIAM F. BOKENYI and SHERRI D. BOKENYI, husband and wife; and JANE DOE and/or JOHN DOE, unknown tenants, Defendants.

Case No. 08-CV-608 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 October 17, 2008, in the amount of $199,967.55, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 4, 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 32 of First Addition to Montriol Estates.

Said land being in the City of St. Croix Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 684 S. Moody Road, St. Croix Falls.

TAX KEY NO.: 281-1341-0000.

Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County, Wis. O’DESS AND ASSOCIATES, S.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 1414 Underwood Avenue Suite 403 Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 727-1591 O’Dess and Associates, S.C., is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

If you have previously received a Chapter 7 Discharge in Bankruptcy, this correspondence should not be construed as an attempt to collect a debt.

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(July 8, 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff, vs.

GERALD R. WONDRA, JR., and ROYAL CREDIT UNION, Defendants.

Case No. 08 CV 422 AMENDED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on November 25, 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: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, at 10 o’clock a.m., all of the following described mortgaged premises, to-wit: The East 67 feet of Lot 3, Block B, Peterson’s Addition to the City of Amery, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN: 201-00503-0000.

STREET ADDRESS: 218 South Street, Amery, Wisconsin.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash.

DOWN PAYMENT: 10% of amount bid by cash or certified check.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, this 21st day of May, 2009.

Timothy G. Moore, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin

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Kelvin D. Johnson, 53, July 8, 2009, Alden Township Jason R. Whittier, 38, July 10, 2009, St. Croix Falls Elsie A. Hacker, 69, July 11, 2009, Laketown Township Irene M. Nelson, 83, July 14, 2009, Amery

Burnett Co. warrants pear, July 14.

Betty A. Miller, 53, Birchwood, arrest warrant - complaint, July 17.

(June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2009) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff, vs.

THOR L. JEPSEN, and CHRISTINE M. JEPSEN, and HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORP III, and CAPITAL ONE BANK, Defendants.

Case No. 08 CV 547 AMENDED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on October 3, 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: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at 10:00 o’clock a.m. all of the following described mortgaged premises, to-wit: A parcel of land in the Southeast Quarter of Southwest Quarter (SE1/4 of SW1/4), Section 8, Township 35 North, Range 17 West, Village of Milltown, Polk County, Wisconsin, described as follows: Commencing at the Northwest corner of Block “D,” First Addition to the Village of Milltown; thence N 00 degrees 14 minutes East, 8.0 feet on the West line of said SE1/4 of SW1/4; thence South 89 degrees 44 minutes East 367 feet; thence North 00 degrees 14 minutes East 32 feet which is the point of beginning; then N 00 degrees 14 minutes East, 114 feet; thence South 89 degrees 44 minutes East, 102 feet; thence South 31 degrees 50 minutes East to a point directly East of the point of beginning; thence West to the point of beginning.

PIN: 151-00244-0000.

Street Address: 212 First Avenue East, Milltown, WI 54858.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash.

DOWNPAYMENT: 10% of amount bid by cash or certified check.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, this 14th day of May, 2009.

Timothy G. Moore, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson / #1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787 489209 WNAXLP

(July 8, 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY THE RIVERBANK, Plaintiff, vs.

COLIN D. MUELLER, and CAROLYN M. MEYER f/k/a CAROLYN M. MUELLER, and VILLAGE OF LUCK, and STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BUREAU OF CHILD SUPPORT, and DAVID R. MUELLER and KATHRYN A. MUELLER, Defendants.

Case No. 09 CV 222 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on June 19, 2009, in the amount of $89,745.62, I will sell the described premises at public auction at the Main Front Entrance of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, in the Village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wis., on: Thursday, August 20, 2009, at 10 o’clock a.m., TERMS OF SALE: 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 forfeiture of deposit plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

3. Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. DESCRIPTION: A parcel of land in the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4, Section 28-3617, described as follows: Beginning at a point 255.4 feet East and 105 feet North of the Quarter Post of Sections 28 and 33-26-17, thence East 153 feet, thence North 73 feet, thence West 153 feet, thence South 72 feet to the point of beginning, Village of Luck, Polk County, Wisconsin.

PIN: 146-00552-0000.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, this 24th day of June, 2009.

Timothy G. Moore, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Steven J. Swanson No. 1003029 Attorney at Law P.O. Box 609 105 South Washington Street St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

CUSTODIAN/ENGINEER MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT

Burnett County is currently seeking applicants for a full-time Custodian/ Engineer position on the afternoon shift. This position is required to perform higher skilled maintenance, plumbing, electrical and mechanical repair work in addition to regular custodial duties.

Requires two-year degree from a vocation/technical school in building maintenance or engineering plus two years’ working experience preferred, or an equivalent combination of training and experience. Must possess a valid motor vehicle operator’s license.

Starting salary: $15.29 per hour plus excellent fringe benefits.

Contact the Burnett County Administration/Human Resources Office, 7410 County Rd. K, #116, Siren, WI 54872. www.burnettcounty.com or mthalacker@burnettcounty.org. Phone: 715-349-2181, Fax: 715-349-2180.

Application deadline: July 24, 2009.

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Edwin K. Akana, 25, Frederic, arrest warrant - complaint, July 13.

Linda F. Lightfeather, 48, Webster, warrant - failure to ap-

Notices

Polk Co. marriage licenses Amanda D. Doroff, town of Garfield, and Jacob C. Meyer, town of Garfield, issued July 13.

Amy J. Wilson, Luck, and Douglas R. Mitchell, Luck, issued July 13.

Cassie J. Johnson, Syracuse, N.Y., and Keith W. Mignault, town of Lysander, N.Y., issued July 14.

Jessica A. Koehler, town of Almena, and Kyle R. Moryn, town of Beaver, issued July 14.

SEEKING BIDS

Unity School District Is Seeking Bread Bids For The 2009-10 School Year

Specifications may be obtained by calling the District Office at

715-825-3515

Bids will be due Aug. 4, 2009, 491069 48-49L at noon.

Brandy J. Frank, town of Lincoln, and Jacob A. Greenberg, town of Lincoln, issued July 15.

Sarah A. Gilson, town of Osceola, and Jonathan R. Gilberg, town of Ashland, issued July 17.

NOTICE TOWN OF LAKETOWN

Monthly Board Meeting Will Be Held Tuesday, July 28, 2009, At 7:30 p.m., At Cushing Community Center.

Agenda: Roll call, clerk’s report, treasurer’s report, open forum, budget review, discuss dog ordinance, possible closed session to discuss Mathy lawsuit, pay bills, review correspondence, adjourn.

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UNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

SATURDAY CUSTODIAN WANTED Unity School District is taking applications for a Saturday Custodian. EOE. Qualifications: Possess high school diploma, commercial driver’s license (CDL) with school bus endorsement required. The District may assist with obtaining a CDL. Qualified, interested persons should send a letter of application, resume, two letters of recommendation and the Unity School District application to Brandon W. Robinson, Unity School District, P.O. Box 307, Balsam Lake, WI 54810. District applications may be obtained from the District Office (715-8253515), or downloaded from the Unity Web site: www.unity.k12.wi.us. Deadline for applying is July 27, 2009.

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Plan Commission Meeting Wednesday, July 29 7 p.m.

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NOTICE TOWN OF LUCK PLAN COMMISSION MEETING Tues., July 28, 2009 7 p.m.

Luck Town Hall

The meeting is open to the public.

Lloyd Nelson, Clerk

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BIDS WANTED

The Frederic School District, Frederic, WI, will accept bids for the 2009-2010 school year on the following: 1. Sliced hamburger, hot dog and sub buns. Bread: Sliced white and wheat.

2. Gasoline and diesel (diesel mix can be 80-20 except from November 1-March 31 when the blend must be 70-30.

3. Snow removal (call 715-327-5630 for bid specifications).

Further details may be obtained by calling Gerald Tischer, Superintendent, at 715-327-5630. All bids are due by 2 p.m., July 30, 2009. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

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PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF MILLTOWN BORDER AGREEMENT ORDINANCES

The Annual Town Picnic for the Town of Sand Lake

The Town of Milltown will hold a Public Hearing, on Border Agreement Ordinances on Monday, August 3, 2009, at 7 p.m., at the Milltown Fire Hall.

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TOWN OF EUREKA

(July 15, 22, 29) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JORGE R. DIMAS Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 09 PR 48 An application has been filed for informal administration of the estate of the decedent, whose date of birth was July 6, 1985, and date of death was June 14, 2009. The decedent died domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a post office address of: 518 Pinewood St., Amery, WI 54001.

All interested persons have waived notice.

Creditors’ claims must be filed with the probate registrar on or before October 20, 2009.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar July 9, 2009 Thomas R. Schumacher Bakke Norman, S.C. Personal Representative/ Attorney 990 Main St., Suite 200, Box 54 Baldwin, WI 54002 715-684-4545

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Alys M. Wilson-Pribnow, 78, July 2, 2009, Clayton Lorena F. Hanson, 90, July 3, 2009, Milltown Blanche R. Nelson, 96, July 3, 2009, Amery Joseph G. Hudella, 86, July 4, 2009, St. Croix Falls

Virgil Hansen, Town Clerk Town of Milltown

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Polk County Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing at 10:30 a.m. on Tues., Aug. 4, 2009, at the Government Center in Balsam Lake, Wis. The Board will call the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m., recess to view each site(s) at 8:45 a.m. and reconvene at 10:30 a.m. at the Government Center in Balsam Lake, Wis., to consider the following and other agenda items. The Board may go into closed session under Wisconsin State Statutes, s.19.85(1)(a), for the purpose of deliberating the decision of the appeal, which is 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 10:30 A.M. WHEN THE BOARD RECONVENES AT THE GOVERNMENT CENTER.) JOSEPH & MARY BETH WALDO request a variance from Article 11C, Table 1 of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to build a new dwelling which will be closer than 75’ from the ordinary high-water mark and closer than 25’ from the rear lot line – a continuation from 6/30/09 hearing. The Board may take additional testimony as it relates to location of property lines and placement of structures on the following property: 85-A South Horseshoe Lake Dr., desc. as Lot “H” of unrecorded South Shore Park, Pt. of Gov’t. Lot 3, Sec. 13/ 490852 T34N/R15W, Town of Beaver, Horseshoe Lake – class 1.

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BIDS WANTED VILLAGE OF WEBSTER Burnett County, Wisconsin

The Village of Webster is seeking sealed bids for the following street work until 4:30 p.m., August 11, 2009.

The Village of Webster reserves the right to reject any or all bids, or select the bid which may be most beneficial to the Village of Webster.

Each bid listed is a separate bid, please submit your bids separately.

Milling approximately 1-1/2 inches, of 56 feet x 125 feet and 38 feet x 550 feet of street on East Main Street with 1-1/2” overlay of hot-mix asphalt. and Pulverizing existing pavement and replacing with 2 inches of hot-mix asphalt on Kola Street, Locust Street and Maple Street the following dimensions: 22 feet x 525 feet each.

For full specifications, contact: Jay Heyer, Director of Public Works at 715-866-4211.

Send bids marked, “Street Work Bids” to: Village of Webster, P.O. Box 25, Webster, WI 54893.

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Polk County deaths

Will be held on Sun., Aug. 16, 2009, 12:30 p.m.

Bring a dish to share with friends and neighbors. The Town Board will provide beverages, plates, napkins, cups and cutlery. All current and former residents and property owners 491538 48L 38a are welcome!

FULL-TIME POSITION TOWNSHIP EMPLOYEE

The Town of Clam Falls is accepting applications for a full-time employee. The position includes general maintenance and upkeep of: 1. Township properties.

2. Approximately 44 miles of road (paved and gravel), including snowplowing, sanding, brush cutting, mowing, patching, etc.

3. Township equipment, machinery and tools including trucks, tractor, grader, dump truck, loader.

Must be able to work independently, keep accurate records and comply with drug and alcohol testing program.

Heavy equipment experience and a CDL are required.

Send resume to Betty Knutson, Clerk, Town of Clam Falls, 3335-90th St., Frederic, WI 54837. Application deadline August 3, 2009.

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HEAD BOYS HOCKEY COACH

Job Description The Webster Boys Hockey Co-op is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Head Boys Hockey Coach. The position will begin for the 2009-2010 hockey season. The Webster WIAA Hockey Co-op is an established program in its fifth season, and just renewed its two-year WIAA co-op application in April.

The co-op consists of players from Webster, Siren, Frederic, Luck and Grantsburg. We just joined the newly formed Two-Rivers Hockey Conference which consists of Minneapolis East, Minneapolis West, Moose Lake, Mora, North Branch, Pine City, Meadow Creek and the Webster Co-op. The Grantsburg Hockey Association and Burnett Youth Hockey Associations support and fully fund the program. The co-op has two hockey facilities located in Siren and Grantsburg.

Qualifications The Webster Co-op is seeking highly motivated candidates who possess excellent communication skills, discipline, organization and can successfully teach hockey to adolescent players.

Requirements Successful hockey coaching experience is preferred.

How to Apply Please send an application portfolio consisting of: 1) letter of application; 2) resume, 3) letters of recommendations, 4) references to: Tim Widiker Athletic Director, Webster High School, P.O. Box 9, Webster, WI 54893. The application deadline is Friday, July 31.

Web Site http://www.webster.k12.wi.us 491024 47-48L

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Notices / Employment

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Proposed Base Flood Elevation Determination for the Village of Balsam Lake and the Unincorporated Areas of Polk County, Polk County, Wis. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency solicits technical information or comments on the proposed Base (1%-annualchance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) shown in the Preliminary Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and on the Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for your community. These proposed BFEs are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to either adopt or show evidence of having in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

For a detailed listing of the proposed BFEs and information on the statutory period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s Web site at: https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/Scripts/ bfe_main.asp, or call the FEMA Map Assisatance Center toll491083 48-49Lp free at 1-877-FEMA MAP.

TRAINING COORDINATOR, CONTINUING EDUCATION WITC Rice Lake Campus

Applications are being accepted from qualified candidates for a Training Coordinator, Continuing Education at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College Rice Lake Campus. The Training Coordinator, Continuing Education, manages and coordinates programs and efforts to provide customized job training programs for business and industry that facilitate economic development and assist organizations with their job training and workforce development requirements. The position is based out of the Rice Lake Campus and covers the WITC Rice Lake and New Richmond regions.

Qualifications include: Bachelor’s degree in related area; Master’s degree preferred, two years’ occupational experience outside the area of education, two years’ teaching experience sales or account management experience required, experience in developing training programs for business and industry preferred and training/teaching experience with business and/or industry preferred.

WISCONSIN Deadline to apply: August 5, 2009 a complete list of qualifications INDIANHEAD For and to apply, visit our Website at TECHNICAL witc.edu/jobs/employ. TTY 888-261COLLEGE 8578.

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POLK COUNTY POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS

3 Full-Time 37.5-hr./wk. positions in Human Services Substance Abuse Counselor $23.84 Wrap-Around Case Manager $22.44 Substance Abuse Case Manager $22.44 Accepting applications until positions are filled.

YOU MUST COMPLETE A POLK COUNTY EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION TO BE ELIGIBLE. For application, complete position requirements and details, please visit our Web site at www.co.polk.wi.us, Employment Opportunities, or in person at 100 Polk Co. Plaza, #229, Balsam Lake, WI 54810, 715-485-9176. Please, no faxed applications.

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NOTICE OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY GRANTSBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT

Job Title: H.R. Contact: Contact Phone: Job Description: Qualifications:

Requirements:

WITC is an equal opportunity/access/employer and educator.

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west 1/4, Northeast 1/4, Of Section 17, Township 39 North, Range 15 West, Town Of Sand Lake, County Of Burnett, State Of Wisconsin And More Particularly Described As Follows: Commencing At The Southwest Corner Of The Southwest 1/4, Northeast 1/4 Of Section 17; Thence South 89° 29’ 16” East 910.44 Feet Along The South Line Of The Southwest 1/4, Northeast 1/4 To The Point Of Beginning; Thence Continuing South 89° 27’ 16” East 24.11 Feet Along Said South Line; Thence North 33° 23’ 14” West 33.45 Feet To A Point On The Southerly Right-Of-Way Line Of Whistler Road; Thence Southwesterly Along Said Right-Of-Way Line 20.07 Feet On The Arc Of A Circle Concave To The Northwest Whose Radius Is 199.75 Feet The Chord Of Said Arc Bearing South 61° 07’ 53” West 20.06 Feet; Thence South 33° 23’ 14” East 21.57 Feet To The Point Of Beginning; Parcel 2) Beginning At The Easternmost Point Of Lot 1 Of Certified Survey Map No. 3312, Volume 16, Page 58 And 59; Thence North 55° 26’ 24” West 10 Feet To A Point; Thence North 33° 23’ 14” West To The North Line Of The Northwest 1/4, Southeast 1/4, Of Section 17, Township 39 North, Range 15 West; Thence Westerly Along Said Line To The Northeast Corner Of Said Certified Survey Map; Thence South 33° 23’ 14” East 110.26 Feet To The Point Of Beginning.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 26232 WHISTLER ROAD, Town of Sand Lake.

TAX KEY NO.: 07-026-2-39-1517-4-02-000-013000.

LEGACY PIN: 026-3217-03-210.

Dean Roland Sheriff of Burnett 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.

How to Apply:

Employer:

Job Address: Web Site: Description: 490827 47-48L

(July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BURNETT COUNTY EVERHOME MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs.

FRANK R. FLEISCHHACHER and JANE DOE, unknown spouse of Frank R. Fleischhacher; and PATRICIA A. OMUNDSON and JOHN DOE, unknown spouse of Patricia A. Omundson a/k/a Patricia A. Osmundson; and JANE DOE and/or JOHN DOE, unknown tenants; and BURNETT DAIRY COOPERATIVE; and LARRY’S L.P., INC., Defendants.

Case No. 08-CV-296 Code No. 30404 Foreclosure of Mortgage Dollar Amount Greater Than $5,000 Code No. 30405 Other Real Estate AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on November 18, 2008, in the amount of $85,343.17, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 11, 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: Burnett County Government Center, located at 7410 County Road K, Siren, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 1 Of Certified Survey Map Survey Map No. 3312, Volume 16, Pages 58 And 59, A Part Of The Northwest 1/4, Southeast 1/4 Of Section 17, Township 39 North, Range 15 West, Burnett County, Wisconsin; Together With A Nonexclusive Easement For Ingress And Egress Over And Across The Following Described Parcels Of Land: Parcel 1) A Parcel Of Land Located In The South-

Elementary Teacher Kathleen Coppenbarger 715-463-2320 100% FTE Elementary Classroom Teacher Appropriate Wisconsin Certification: 71Early Childhood-Middle Childhood (Birthage 11) or equivalent.

The ideal candidate will have experience with differentiation, Everyday Math and Guided Reading. Desire to work in a team of collaborative progressive thinking educators focused on the development of the whole child. Candidate must have the ability to provide a safe and positive learning environment for all students.

Technology literacy is also desired.

Send letter of application, resume, e-mail address, credentials, including three letters of recommendation, transcripts and a copy of license by July 24, 2009.

Grantsburg School District 475 E. James Ave. Grantsburg, WI 54840 Same as the employer address. http://www.gk12.net Grantsburg School District is a K-12 school system of 1,000 students that is located in NW Wisconsin. It is located just over an hour from the Twin Cities Metro area. Grantsburg is located on the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway and is the home of Crex Meadows Wildlife Center.

The School District of Grantsburg does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or handicap.

(July 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-CB6, Plaintiff, vs.

RONALD C. BECKWITH; and TAMMY M. BECKWITH, his wife, Defendant.

Case No. 08-CV-496 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE (Foreclosure of Mortgage30404) By virtue of and pursuant to a Judgment of said Circuit Court in the above-entitled action which was entered on September 3, 2008, in the amount of $118,788.50, I shall expose for sale and sell at public auction in the Foyer of the Polk County Justice Center located at 1005 W. Main Street, in the village of Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, on the 15th day of September 2009, at 10:00 a.m., the following described premises or so much thereof as may be sufficient as to raise the amount due to the plaintiff for principal, interest and costs, together with the disbursements of sale and solicitors’ fees, to-wit: The West 5 acres of the NW 1/4 of NW 1/4, Section 24-3518, Polk County, Wisconsin. Tax Kay No. 020 00630 0000 TERMS OF SALE: 10% down cash, money order or certified check. balance due within ten days of confirmation of sale.

This property is being sold as is and subject to all liens and encumbrances. /S/ TIMOTHY G. MOORE, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin Hersh Law Offices, LLC 10555 N. Port Washington Road Mequon, WI 53092 262-241-9339 The above property is located at 2088 190th Street, Centuria, Wisconsin.

Hersh Law offices, LLC, is a law firm representing a creditor in the collection of debt owed to such creditor, and any such information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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(July 8, 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY HSBC MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff, Vs. CLIFFORD HARPER and DARLA DIXON HARPER, husband and wife and JANE DOE and/or JOHN DOE unknown tenants; and BENEFICIAL WISCONSIN, INC., and LAMPERT YARDS, INC. Defendants Case No. 08-CV-233 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 June 3, 2008, in the amount of $170,927.96, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: August 25, 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, Wis. DESCRIPTION: Lot 7, Block 8, Original Plat of the City of Amery, Polk County, Wis. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 224 Harriman Avenue South, Amery.

TAX KEY NO.: 201004240000 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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SCHOOL DISTRICT OF LUCK REGULAR BOARD MEETING

NOTICE OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Agenda: 1. Call to order and seek approval of the agenda Robert Clifton.

2. Motion to convene to Special Public Hearing on seeking a waiver for SAGE class-size requirement: Explanation of request and time for public input.

3. Possible Board action to submit the SAGE waiver to the DPI. 4. Motion to reconvene and proceed with the regular meeting.

5. Consideration of previous minutes- LeRoy Buck.

6. Presentation of vouchers - Amy Dueholm.

7. Treasurer’s report - Amy Dueholm.

8. Recognition of guests or delegates.

A. Amy Aguado - Community Ed. 9. Administrative Reports.

A. Mr. Palmer B. Mr. Gobler 10. New Business A. Short-Term Borrowing: Be it resolved that the Luck Board of Education, per authorization by the public at the Annual Meeting, shall borrow $100,000 for cash flow purposes for a duration of less than 1 year. Such monies will be used to meet monthly obligations of the District and shall be repaid in a timely manner as cash flow permits.

B. Preliminary report on Auditor findings.

C. State budget and discussion of reduction of an estimated $272,125 of state aid.

D. Recommendation to increase all hot lunches by $.05 per meal. Keep breakfast the same.

E. Assignment of Board Members to existing subcommittees, certified negotiations, noncertified, budget, transporation, athletics, buildings and grounds and Community Ed. F. Any other business that may properly come before the Board.

11. Motion to adjourn.

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Job Title: Middle School Secretary (9 months plus 4 weeks summer) Qualifications: The middle school secretary must be highly motivated, capable of working independently yet also needs to work as a team and must conduct themselves in a professional manner. As the role and responsibilities of the middle school office staff changes, a candidate who is adaptable and flexible is essential. The secretary is responsible for handling communication between the community, parents, students, teachers and administration with tact and confidentiality. The secretary is also responsible for the attendance; issuing absentee & tardy slips, entering and logging attendance daily in PowerSchool. Having the ability of counting and keeping track of money is a must as this position is in charge of the student/staff breakfast/lunch accounts as well as the necessary reports. A candidate with strong interpersonal and technology skills is required. A working knowledge of computer programs such as PowerSchool, Windows and Microsoft Office and dealing with spreadsheets, word processing and database management is necessary. This position is also responsible for updating the middle-school Web site. Disseminating information via e-mail, telephone, oral and written documentation in an efficient and effective manner is a must. This position also requires providing first aid and basic health care to ill and injured students as well as issuing student medications.

Requirements: A minimum of a 2-year degree in office management or equivalent experience is preferred. Candidates must have strong interpersonal and technology skills. The ideal candidate must be able to understand the middle-school-aged student, thus being highly energetic, be able to display confidence, have a sense of humor and maintain a high degree of professionalism.

How to Apply: Send a letter of application, resume, credentials and references

by July 28, 2009. Previous applicants for the High School 12Month Secretary position need only to send a letter of application.

Contact: Brad Jones, Principal Grantsburg Middle School 500 East James Avenue Grantsburg, WI 54840 The School District of Grantsburg is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion or 491395 48L handicap.

Monday, July 27, 2009, 6 p.m.

Boardroom

GRANTSBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT

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Watercross scenes

Radio personalities from the Twin Cities station, KQRS made an appearance at the World Championship Watercross in Grantsburg Saturday. Bryce Crousore and Brian Zepp posed with Jackie Herman, who Crousore described as a “Smokin Hot” KQ listener. - Photos by Priscilla Bauer

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Ty Stromquist came from Stacy, Minn. to show off his 1968 Sno Jet with other vintage snowmobiles on display at the World Championship Watercross held last weekend in Grantsburg. “It still runs perfect,” said Stromquist. “I’ve been driving it every year since ’68 except when we didn’t have snow.”

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Tug across St. Croix goes to Wisconsin side

Steve Jensen of the St. Croix Falls Lions Club kept the audience informed throughout the Tug Across the St. Croix held at Lions Park last Saturday.

Citizens of St. Croix Falls represented the Wisconsin side as they tugged their way to another victory over the Minnesota side of the St. Croix River. – Photos by Marty Seeger

The ladies of St. Croix Falls formed a team to defeat an all-female team from Taylors Falls in the final competition of the day last Saturday.

Citizens of St. Croix Falls seemed to have little trouble during the St. Croix Falls Fire Department pull versus the Taylors Falls Fire Department team.

The green flag is waved on the St. Croix River to signal a win for the 14-and-under Wisconsin team.

Meggy Anderson gets some support from Lisa Robbin during Polk County Tavern League’s tug against the Tavern League of Chisago County. Polk County was the decided winner.

It was a tough day for the Taylors Falls side of the St. Croix River, as all five of the teams from Wisconsin won the Tug Across the St. Croix on Saturday, July 18. The third-annual event was part of the Wannigan Days 51st-annual celebration.

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by Tammi Milberg OSCEOLA –– About a year ago, I was contacted by Paul Esser, a member of the Red Wing Soaring Association, about going up in a glider and doing a story on their gliding club, which is a nonprofit co-op organization with about 40 members.

The Red Wing group originated in 1963, when they flew out of the Red Wing Airport, but they then moved to Benson’s Airport, a small grass runway in White Bear Lake, Minn. When it became too crowded and was unsafe in White Bear Lake, the organization moved to Osceola, in 2006. Esser first contacted me in 2008, but our schedules never seemed to match for me to glide. I thought I was off the hook. Then, recent member of the gliding club and newly certified gliding instructor Woody Minar e-mailed me about going gliding and writing about the club and the gliding experience. So, here is a story about the club and my flight.

With a local gliding instructor in the area, the likelihood of me actually gliding was inevitable. I had flown in Minar’s Cessna 150 two-seater in August 2008, and that went well, so I figured, why not? At first, like Esser, our schedules didn’t seem to match. Eventually, we set up a time for what he described as “soaring.” I still call it gliding, but I’m new to the gig. Minar started gliding in 2007 and got his glider flight instructor license this past May. The weather this past week was unusually cold and cloudy. The conditions were not the best for a gliding experience weather wise, but we took our chances on Saturday afternoon and the sun even came out for a bit while we were airborne.

It was a nice break from the Wannigan Days festivities I had been covering over the weekend. I figured if I lived, the least I could do was head over to the Indian Creek Winery and Grille for the free wine tasting event and drink a little toast to living. By now, you may get the impression I was a little nervous. Well, maybe a lot nervous. I know there is no engine to fail, like in a plane, and nothing happened when I went in the plane, so I was less nervous once I got to the L.O. Simenstad Municipal Airport in Osceola. I drove up to see two golf carts along the roadway and a glider on the grass and thought to myself, it doesn’t get any more real than this. I walked out and was met by Minar, Paul Campobasso, who took Minar’s camera and snapped some photos on the ground before and after the flight, a student of Minar’s, Darryll Dodson, who had just finished a gliding flight, and another pilot, Pete Kroll (an instructor). The tow pilot was Ted Perron, but he was in the plane keeping busy running glider tows all day.

There were brief introductions and then it was right into the glider. The

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The Piper Super Cub, towrope and dash of the glider from the front seat.

– Photo by Tammi Milberg

Tammi Milberg inside the glider before the safety harness was clicked and before takeoff. – Photos by Paul Campobasso except where noted

down, I was a little startled, then in awe.

There is so much you can see from above and it looks so different.

Because the weather was chilly, there weren’t a lot of thermals, which make the glider go higher because of rising air.

We went through a couple of clouds and experienced rising air in the center of the cloud, followed by sinking air around the outside of the cloud. It was sort of like a mild roller coaster during those thermal patches, but otherwise, the flight was very smooth.

We released from the tow plane at 4,800 feet (3,900 above the ground). The glide ratio of the gliders is 28:1, which means it loses about 190 feet every mile over the ground. This does not take into account sinking air or rising air. We were in the air for about 30 minutes once the tow plane released us.

From the glider, I could see the St. Croix River, Deer, Wapogasset, Horse, Bone and Balsam lakes, all at the same time.

We kept circling around and around trying to catch thermals, which you would think make you dizzy, but it felt

glider I was in seats two people: one in signment off the ground, pun intended, front and one in back. The controls are but never once thought about the rope the same in the front and back, which breaking. Great. meant I got to sit in the front but did not So we closed the hatch and were just have to touch any controls. I was at ease about ready to begin. There were some already, because when I was in the words over the radio and the Cub began Cessna 150 aircraft, I was pulling up on to move ahead of us. I saw the rope movthe yoke to lift off the ground for takeoff ing left, then right, then tightening and and that put a little pressure on me then. we were off at a pretty good clip. There This time, I could sit back and enjoy the are wheels under the glider for takeoff ride. and landing. It’s like being pulled in a I got into the glider, which was kind of wagon, only faster and more furious. I like climbing into a canoe, only taller. It’s saw the plane go up in front of me, and not the most graceful or glamorous en- its wings are on the horizon, which trance or exit. Once I was inside, a photo Minar said was a good thing. Then, the of me was snapped by Campobasso. glider started to lift off the ground. There Next, Minar helped me with my harness was a bit of a rush of adrenaline as we safety belts. As he was clicking the har- continued to climb higher behind the ness and adjusting the straps, I asked, Cub. I wanted to get a picture of the Cub, “So, if we’re not going to crash, is this re- towrope, and my view from the front of ally necessary? Is it to give me a false the glider, and playing with the camera sense of security? Like, nothing’s going to get that shot took my mind off of what to happen to me now because I’m was happening as far as being raised up strapped in.” That got a big laugh from higher into the air. When you look out, the guys. Once Minar got into the glider, instead of down, it is less impacting. Of See Gliding, next page more photos were taken. Then, I was course, after I got my shot and looked given a quick explanation of what all the gauges and levers are for. “I promise not to touch anything I’m not supposed to,” I said. This got more laughs from the crew, who likely sensed my nervousness, but was actually feeling OK. Minar talked about how the Piper Super Cub (tow plane) would pull us up and once we got enough altitude, the rope would release, and the loud “pop” of the release was simulated, while we were on the ground so that when it happened for real I wouldn’t panic. Then Minar went through the emergency plans. There were three, based on feet above the ground, and the procedures for each one. I was really fine, until he mentioned the plan for if the towrope broke and we disconnect from the plane.

Hello? I really did not need to hear that.

On the ground getting ready for takeoff behind the tow plane. – Photo by I had already conjured up enough “what Tammi Milberg could go wrong” scenarios in my head over the past year of trying to get this as-

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Gliding/from page 1 like an amusement park ride, kind of like a merry-go-round in the sky. We stayed mostly over Osceola schools, the industrial park, and Main Street areas because usually there is more thermal air to catch.

Minar stated most of the thermals are picked up there when he goes up in the glider. He said he thinks it’s because of the asphalt generating more heat into the air.

We did get a few good lifts in that area and I could see the altimeter measuring the rising and falling air. Once I knew what the readings meant, the rising up and dipping down was like a boat on the waves and created no problems or concerns for me.

I forgot to mention, I was shown where the “barf bag” was before take-off.

I didn’t need it, but I suppose with all the turning and rocking motion, some people may need one. To me it was a relaxing ride, and I took in all the sights of the plotted property lines, trees, fields, buildings, lakes, and river. We were up high enough for a while that I could not distinguish cars moving on Hwy. 35 or 8, but then we dropped down a little and I could see them. Going over the Osceola bus garage was neat because the school buses looked so tiny. Reminded me of Hostess® twinkies lined up on the ground.

One of the coolest things was seeing another glider above us being released from the tow plane. Through the glass canopy, it looked like you could reach up and touch the sky. When you looked straight up like that, it felt like you were flying without a craft.

Coming in for a landing was fairly smooth as well. There are brakes that flip out on the wings and slowed down our speed and brought down the altitude. I was a little nervous about the landing be-

After the landing, Tammi Milberg unhooking the safety harness and Woody Minar preparing to exit the glider. cause when we touched down on the grass and started rolling and bumping along, I thought of how many crash videos I’ve seen that start out like that, and hoped we would just continue to slow down and stay upright. We did.

This experience was fun and something I recommend people who may not like the bumpiness or noise of a plane should try, to get a more relaxing experience with flying.

Once I got my harness of security off, there were more pictures and the graceful exit from the glider and more pictures. There is a black box type recorder in the craft that maps the flight, and we plugged that into the computer at the office for the Soaring Association and watched a computerized glider image circling above a map of the Osceola area.

The flight path was marked by a line running from the glider in different colors, indicating our altitude by designated colors, with a legend on the side of the screen. It was neat to see.

About that toast to living, I sampled a Cabernet and purchased a bottle of Riesling to enjoy some time later. The flight

was relaxing enough, and the bottle looks great in my wine rack.

Minar said the club runs 15-20 glider rides in a day. He said anybody can stop by and glide or sign up to train to learn to pilot a glider. “Operations are every Saturday and Sunday from April through November, and sometimes on Friday, depending on weather,” he said.

“One member of our club has soared to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and to Illinois. We have a contest with a glider club in Stanton, Minn., called the Delbert Trophy. The holder of the trophy has bragging rights until the other club soars from their location to the other to pick it up. Currently, we hold the trophy.” A link on the trophy and some history is: http://www.rwsa.org/history.aspx.

More information about the Red Wing Soaring Association and gliding: • A private pilot-glider license is the same as a powered aircraft license; it just applies to a different kind of aircraft.

• The medical certificate of health which is required for power pilots is not required for gliders, however you must have no known medical conditions that

would impair your ability to fly.

• Under the supervision of a flight instructor, a student may fly a glider solo at age 14 and test for a private license at age 16.

• Whether or not you have an aviation background, you may join the club. You do not need to be a certified pilot to join.

They have instructors available to help you learn all the necessary skills and become a certified FAA private pilot glider rating. If you’ve taken a demo ride from them, $40 will be deducted from your membership fees.

• Scenic demonstration rides are available at a cost of $99 (3,000-ft ride lasting 20-30 minutes) or $149 (mile-high ride lasting 30-40 minutes). These flights are typically available on weekends from 10 a.m. to noon, spring through fall. Occasionally, they are able to accommodate rides at other times. Taking a flight is dependent upon good weather conditions, availability of gliders, qualified pilots and the number of club members waiting to fly. Since they are a glider club, they are unable to accept reservations for scenic demonstration rides. Call 651-6531631 after 8:30 a.m. on the day you wish to fly, and they will do their best to accommodate your schedule. You may also check the scheduling calendar to view days they are flying. Send e-mail questions or comments to scheduler@RWSA.org.

• Request a gift certificate for someone special! Custom gift certificates for a scenic glider ride (demonstration ride) will be printed and mailed to you or the recipient of the gift!

• Visit the Web site for moreinformation: http://www.rwsa.org/about _us.aspx or http://www.rwsa.org/ soar_mn.aspx.

LUCKY DAYS 2009 • TRACTOR PULL

The front wheels are off the ground, but this John Deere is still pulling the weight.

A truck is off in a cloud of dust, dragging the weighted sled.

An intent young driver at the start of his run during the tractor pull. – Photos by Gregg Westigard

A nicely restored Minneapolis-Moline tractor waiting its turn Sunday at Luck.

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Beyond the River

by Austin Bruss Night overwhelmed us as we struck off across the wooded hills, a longer way to go, but we could not traverse the marshlands in the dark.

So we took the hill track, riding the ridge ways and hunting runs which joined Siren with neighboring settlements.

As we approached the first stronghold, the cloud cover thinned somewhat, and the moon shone briefly, not long, but enough to see the settlement, black against the blacker hills beyond the river.

Summer is here. We would like to run favorite summer memory stories throughout the summer. Submit your story to the Leader by mail or e-mail.

Writer’s Corner The Battle of a Lifetime

by Don Miller Little Wood Lake, Wisconsin August 8, 1975; 8:39 a.m.

Temperature: 92 degrees F. Humidity: 85 percent Rage and fury broke the peace and calm of a miserably hot and humid summer morning. A millisecond earlier there had been a subtle tug on the line; I gave a snap jerk upward to set the hook. My line headed for the bottom hard and fast in the icy-cold, spring-fed water.

Back and forth we battled, letting line out and reeling it back in. He proved his acrobatic skills as he launched himself into the air—bucking and twisting

as he thrashed, fighting the hateful line.

For about three seconds he appeared to be walking on the surface of the water—on the tip of his tail.

He was an energetic, athletic bass that had bitten on a black and silver Shad Rap. Soon, he tired of his exertions and Dad scooped him out of the water with the net and pulled him into the boat.

My father and I had been up in Burnett County for a week (Aug. 1 to Aug. 8); we had spent time with relatives, eating Northwoods delicacies like Spam sandwiches, drinking noxious lime-green Kool-Aid, devouring cookie after cookie, and playing a card game called Smear—high, low, Jack, Joker, game.

It was our last day up at the family cabin on Little Wood Lake. We rose early, at 6:30 a.m., did the morning rit-

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ual, ice-cold shower (the water heater needed replacing), brisk rubdown, air dry—breakfast of scrambled eggs, hash browns, and greasy sausage links—this was pre - the cholesterol scare of the 1980s.

At 7:45 a.m. we began hauling stuff down to put in the rowboat – cushions, life vests, tackle boxes, and rods and reels. My rod was a fiberglass, five-foot Zebco; my reel was a trusty old Zebco 101.

We decided to troll the southern shoreline. We followed the shoreline down to the lily pads at Zetteberg Landing, and then turned the boat around in the opposite direction. We went to the edge of the bay. We repeated this procedure three times and were nearing the bay again, when...

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Meet the Village Players

by Nancy O’Brien Ellis VOYAGER VILLAGE - It is really a unique year for the production “The Foreigner” at the Village Players Community Theatre as many of the actors have appeared in other entertainments on the stage. Gaylen Brown appeared in “A Murder is Announced” as Edmond, so this will be his second appearance with the VPCT. He plays the part of Froggy LeSeuer, a staff sergeant from England spending a few days at the cabin. Charlie Baker is his friend he brings along.

Brown took some improv acting lessons when he lived in California and has participated in several productions there.

Among them are “Hello Dolly,” “Dancing the Cows Home,” and “Arsenic and Old Lace.”

Brown is also active at his Bethany Lutheran Church of Grantsburg and has been one of a group of 29 singers from there that performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

A f t e r doing some travel nursing in Calif o r n i a , Brown is currently an RN at Spooner Health Systems Hospital. You may Gaylen Brown see him

there. He also wants to extend gratitude to Pat Edwards for his delightful English accent.

“Art imitates life,” Rod Kleiss is fond of Rod Kleiss saying, and it seems to ring true. Marital and familial bliss are probably not going to happen for him on the stage of Village Players Community Theatre where he plays the part of Charlie Baker in the play “The Foreigner.” Four years ago Kleiss escaped a scheming daughter as he played the part of Captain Mooney in “Opal’s Husband.” In his present role, he has to contend with an ornery wife and says, “All women are impossible, which we men already know.” His character Charlie Baker arrives at the cabin from England with his pal Staff Sgt. Froggy LeSeuer. Charlie is sad and shy and socially not up to polite conversation of any kind. How Froggy solves this problem is what makes this such a funny and great play.

Kleiss is from Grantsburg and is married with three grown daughters. He designs and sells plastic gears of all kinds and other things as well. To watch Kleiss

Village Players Community Theatre cast of "The Foreigner." – Photos submitted play his role is a great treat and you will really appreciate his acting ability. He is a star. Previous experiences are as the brain-damaged father in “Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates” at the St. Croix Festival Theatre and several more.

Another Kleiss quote is “I don’t know what it is but I keep getting cast in plays with difficult women.” He also said the present cast, director and producers are “really remarkable.” See for yourself.

How the plot twists and turns all the way through is why you really should plan on a theater night out to see “The Foreigner.”

To make reservations, call Jeri Schell at 715-259-799. It’s less expensive if you reserve your tickets in advance. Credit cards accepted.

Wisconsin Interstate Park open house set ST. CROIX FALLS – Wisconsin Interstate Park and the Friends of Interstate Park invite you to an open house event at the park on Sunday, Aug. 2, to celebrate the completion of a new addition to the Ice Age Interpretive Center. A pancake breakfast will be served from 8 a.m. to noon, and a special dedication of the addition will take place at 11 a.m. at the Ice Age Center. There will be free admission to the park for the event.

The pancake breakfast, sponsored by the Friends of Interstate Park, will serve as a fundraiser to furnish the new classroom addition. Funds will also be used to build a nearby shelter building for use for educational field trips. The cost is $5 for adults, $3 for children under 10.

The dedication at 11 a.m. will include comments from WDNR Parks Director Dan Schuller, Northern Region Director John Gozdzialski, and Reps. Sheila Hars-

dorf and Ann Hraychuck. Tours of the addition will be provided, and public input for additional programming and event ideas are welcome.

Please bring friends and family and join park staff and the Friends of Interstate Park for this special open house event on Sunday, Aug. 2. Admission to the park is free; all are welcome. Interstate Park is located in St. Croix Falls, on Hwy. 35 just one-half mile south of Hwy.

8. The Friends of Interstate Park is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the education program at the park through memberships, sales, fundraisers and donations. For more information about the Friends or the open house event, call Julie at the park at 715-4833747. – submitted

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Cranberries in the meadows

Cranberries growing on the vine.

Russ Hanson

River Road

Ramblings

Cranberries ready for making sauce or relish. – Photos submitted.

States government and the state of Wisconsin. The marshes were regarded as free areas for the use of anyone who wished to pick them. This uncontrolled picking often damaged the vines and reduced the quantities available during later harvests. This problem became worse as more immigrants arrived and the number of settlements increased.

Plants were often trampled by harvesters and the bags of picked berries were dragged over the plants, causing further damage. Probably the worst enemy of all was the use of the cranberry rake, originally designed to speed up the harvesting. In drier seasons, the cranberry worm also caused significant damage.

In 1872, A. N. Bugbee of Oshkosh explored the region and selected the best areas for growing wild cranberries.

Portion of a map shown in the August 1904 Journal of Burnett County, promoting an elaborate scheme for large-scale cranberry production in the township of West Marshland. However, unforeseen problems developed which prevented the scheme from materializing.

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During that year, with the aid of some helpers, he harvested a few hundred bushels and shipped them to Oshkosh, where he sold them for a big profit.

This encouraged him to organize several smaller companies to develop the marshes for commercial production. In 1873, there was an excellent crop of premium berries. However, a shortage of pickers existed that year which limited the harvest to only 8,000 barrels, which was about one-sixth of the available crop. The $10,000 profit from this venture enabled more investments in the cranberry marshes.

A grand scheme was drawn up to develop a huge commercial acreage in the township of West Marshland. Many people from Oshkosh came to this region, as they had had previous experience in cranberry culture. They erected many buildings, such as dry-houses, cooking shanties, and sleeping quarters.

Tents were set up to shelter workers while preparing the cranberries for shipment. With the opening of the picking season, men, women and children would flock in from other sections, anxious to earn some extra money. Usually, the wife would tend camp and take care of the small children while the rest of

the family worked in the marshes. A fast picker could gather up to six or seven bushels a day for which he received 75 cents a bushel. In a good year, 20,000 barrels were shipped out, producing an annual revenue of $100,000. The greater part of this income, however, was paid out for labor and other expenses. As railroad to Grantsburg had not yet been completed, the cranberry harvest had to be hauled overland to the railroad station in Rush City, Minn.

Handmade wooden boxes were required for transporting the product by wagons over the 30 miles of loose, sandy roads. Then they were ferried across the St. Croix River and reloaded onto wagons for the final leg of the trip to the station.

For a while, the venture was so successful that a decision was made to dig ditches and build dams for water control, with the intention of further increasing cranberry production.

Unfortunately, the digging of ditches soon resulted in the ruin of the marshes, as this drained out the much-needed moisture required by the berry plant.

During the dry seasons, especially, the vines dried out, making them vulnerable to marsh fires. Wire grass gradually replaced the vines, taking over large areas. This eventually attracted the Crex Carpet Company, which harvested the grass to make rugs and other products. A few bog pockets did retain enough moisture to support a few cranberry vines, but the ditch-digging experiment effectively led to the end of the cranberry industry in the Grantsburg region. Later on, smaller cranberry marshes in the eastern part of Burnett County were developed and continue in operation until this day.

Headline for a story in the 1904 Journal of Burnett County enthusiastically promoting the large-scale development and production of cranberries.

Thank You

The Luck Girl Scouts send a big THANK-YOU to the following businesses and individuals for their generous support of our Kids Carnival during Lucky Days: Luck Dental Clinic Dr. Dann Rowe & Dr. Dan Luck Lumber Satterlund, for allowing us to Bella Salon use the space between their New York Life Insurance buildings.

Bernick’s Cos. Robert Nelson, for the use of Stop-A-Sec/Holiday the sno-cone machine.

StationStore Angie Chivers, for her time at Luck Medical Clinic/Amery the hair station.

Regional Medical Center Sterling Bank The Pfaff Family Wayne’s Foods Plus The Joy Family Flowers Forever Luck Do-It-Best Hardware Rowe Funeral Home Thanks to your donations, our carnival was a big success!

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by Stanley Selin Note: Some information in this account is taken from the booklet “Past Industries of the Grantsburg Area,” by Alton C. Jensen, with permission from the Grantsburg Area Historical Society.

Before the arrival of immigrants to this part of Wisconsin, the Chippewa harvested cranberries from the extensive marshes north of modern-day Grantsburg. Later, they brought many of their cranberries downriver and exchanged them with the settlers for other goods. During the years of the logging industry, not much attention was paid to the marsh areas where cranberries grew. The Chippewa did not regard them as a favorite food, describing them as “too much sour.” They often picked and sold cranberries to the logging camps who used them to supplement their food supply. Until about 1870, the marshes were still owned by the United

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Another rock show We are still waiting for warm weather without chilly nights.

Weather forecasters predicted a cool summer, so I guess they pegged it correctly.

It doesn’t seem possible that our 42nd gem and mineral show is this Saturday and Sunday at the Frederic High School. Abrahamzon I figure when the show arrives, summer is half over.

Our early shows were held in Webster, and then we moved them to Siren and eventually to Frederic.

In our nation’s bicentennial year, the men wore straw hats (skimmers?), plus lots of red, white and blue decorations.

One year at Frederic, I filled a jar with agates, a big one hidden in the middle plus small chips. A sign invited viewers to guess the number of rocks in the jar and win a prize. Our night watchman, Clyde Kammer, guessed the exact number and I knew that as I had counted them.

What a good guess! Clyde confessed that he had dumped them out and counted them too.

We’ve had lots of fun through the years, lots of laughs and learned something, too. For years we met in the Lewis church for our meetings, the original church and the new one. After years and years of making coffee, it dawned on me that I was a bit tired of doing that. Friends tell me they would have gotten tired a lot sooner than that, but you know that time goes fast when you’re having fun.

The Lewis church women served lunch at our rock and mineral shows for several years, but the hours were long. One time someone devised what they labeled a “Methodist table” with a split right down the middle, so everything slid right off it and disappeared.

Rock hounds and pebble pups are jokers at heart.

They have to be, clambering over hills and cliffs, bent under the weight of rocks. Whenever they set up a show, or take it down, they wish rocks were feathers.

My one son took geology in college and is most interested in fossils and scientific displays.

Many women like rock jewelry the most – rings, necklaces, broaches, pins, etc. there is great beauty in polished stones.

One of my faithful readers told me, “I like all your columns except the ones where you write about rocks.” Well, you can’t win them all.

At one of our meetings, I read an article out loud about a man who collected rocks, minerals, arrowheads, etc., and when he aged, he decided to give someone else the joy of discovery. He lugged certain rocks back to the area where he had discovered them and deposited them there.

You should have seen the faces of our local rock

Bernice

Behind the Signpost

hounds. They were not even considering ever doing anything like that. It’s amazing that rock hounds can ever bear to part with any of their good finds.

Know this, however, for every specimen that is sold, the finder has more.

There is no such thing as having too many rocks.

Collecting is addictive.

I cannot keep my hands off displays of polished stones. I have to run my fingers through their smoothness, their colors and shapes. Fortunately there are seldom, almost never, signs saying, “Do not touch.”

There is no charge for parking cars and no entry fee for getting into the show but once inside, you’ll be sorely tempted to part with a few coins.

I have seen a dish of polished rocks in private homes, looking like candy, shiny and beautiful. I’d be afraid a child might pop one into his mouth.

I cannot open a drawer in our house without finding an agate, a piece of chert, a crystal or even copper.

We don’t have fruit bowls filled with fruit but heavy with rocks.

Some rocks are like people, perhaps a bit plain on the outside but beautiful on the inside. We call them geodes.

This is my personal invitation to you to come to our show this weekend. Hours on Saturday are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday hours are a little shorter, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sign up for a chance to win a door prize. Let the kids play the spin game or buy a grab bag or dig in the rock pit outside. Lunch is available by a faithful 4-H Club. Homemade goodies too. Tables are set up in the corridors.

Collecting Rocks I think that there will never be An ignoramus just like me.

Who roams the hills throughout the day To pick up rocks that do not pay.

For there’s one thing that I’ve been told I take the rocks and leave the gold.

O’er desert wild or mountains blue I search for rocks of varied hue.

A hundred pounds of rock I pack With blistered feet and aching back.

And after this is said and done I cannot name a single one.

I pick up rocks where e’er I go The reason why I do not know.

For rocks are found by fools like me Where God intended them to be. – Anonymous Until next week, Bernice

cappella band that performs every year, will give two performances. The approximate time is 8:15 p.m.

Fireworks begin at dusk.

Sunday, there will be a 9 a.m. church service, followed by the doubles horseshoe pitch at 10 a.m. Registration for the Whips and Wheels Contest begins at 10:30 a.m.

The veggie races are at 11:30 a.m., and the Dairyland Garden Tractor Pullers are tentatively set to begin at noon.

The annual talent show, which has monetary awards in first, second and third places in each age category, begins at 2 p.m. Singers, dancers, ventriloquists, musicians and anyone else with a talent to show is encouraged to participate. The categories are 12 and under, 13-18 and adult.

The clothing review will be on the stage following the talent show.

Throughout the four days, the carnival and games will be open, the junior, open-class and commercial exhibits will be on display, and the food vendors, including the 4-H food stand, will be running.

Parking is $3 daily and $6 for a season pass. Walk-ins are $1.

"The Doughnut Maker" this weekend OSCEOLA - St. Croix ArtBarn will present “The Dougnut Maker,” this Friday, July 24, 7 p.m., and Saturday, July 25, 2 and 7 p.m., featuring young people from various St. Croix Valley communities. ArtBarn is located at 1040 Oak Ridge Drive, one block east of Hwy. 35, next to the Osceola Middle and High schools.

This play is adapted for the stage by Elly Mason John-

Compiled by Bernice Abrahamzon

50 Years Ago Obituaries included Elsie Soderquist, Harry Ekland, Martha Glockzin and William Frank.-Dances were held at Yellow Lake Lodge every Thursday and Saturday.-A wedding dance was set for Danbury Town Hall for Mr. and Mrs. Vance Johnson (Marilyn Johnson) on July 25.A wedding dance was set at the Indian Creek Hall for Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Zappa (Marilyn Statler).-A plane crashed at Bone Lake with the plane in bad shape but the pilot OK.-The Polk County Fair would open Aug. 1.-The 1959 legislative session was the longest in Wisconsin’s history.-Amery’s Fall Festival was set for Sept.

5.-The Norgrant family of Milltown held its first reunion in 26 years.-Bill Tuynmen was hospitalized with burns.

He was 15 years old, lived in Lewis and dropped a kettle of hot water intended to be used in butchering ducks.-Specials at Route’s Super Market, Frederic, included pie cherries at two tins for 33¢, frozen meat pies at four for 89¢, tuna fish at 25¢ tin, cake mixes at 4 for 79¢ and a 6-oz. jar of Hills Bros. instant coffee at 89¢.Windus Apparel of Frederic had a bathing suit sale, from $4.95 to $8.95.-Frederic Community Motors, Inc., had a Plymouth summer sale.-Obituaries included Andrew Bottolfson and Ellen Johnson.-Speed boat races were set for Sunday, Aug. 2, St. Croix Falls, as part of the St. Croix River Regatta.-Susan Hayward was starring in the movie “Woman Obsessed,” at the Auditorium Theatre, St. Croix Falls.-Jerry Lewis was starring in “The Sad Sack” at the Grand Theatre, Grantsburg.

40 Years Ago In Burnett County an evangelistic tent crusade was held Aug. 3 – 10, on the south shore of Mud Hen Lake between Grantsburg and Siren, with congregational singing, organ and piano numbers, with the Rev. Gordon Langlie preaching.-A national award was given to Walter Wedin at Grassland Council.-A returned Vietnam war veteran, Geoffrey Rudell of Frederic, passed away suddenly.-A young colt on the Willard Johnson farm on Bone Lake was up and about but with some deep gashes caused by a wild animal.-New plat books were out in Polk County.-Fatality No. 70 included in high toll of highway accidents in this area.-Specials at Route’s Super Market, Frederic, included fryers at 34¢ lb., bread at three loaves for 79¢, canning peaches at $2.39 a crate, rib steak at 89¢ lb., pork and beans at four cans for 89¢ and 3-lbs. coffee at $1.89.-Specials at the Frederic Co-op Super Market included Pillsbury flour at 10 lbs. for 59¢, new white potatoes at 10 lbs. for $59, 2 lbs. coffee at $1.29 and tuna at three cans for 89¢.-Rusk Town Hall was the meeting place for senior citizens.-A Bronze Medal for heroism in Vietnam was presented to Roger Skold.-A welcome was held for the new pastor at Trade Lake Baptist Church, Pastor Clyde Dalbey.-Committees were named for the coming rock and mineral show at the Webster school gym.-A new shop was opened in Siren for radio and TV repair.-Book reviews were written each week by Bernice Abrahamzon.-The coming special in August at Our Own Hardware, Carlson, Hardware, Frederic, was a stainless steel granny spoon for 49¢.-Edmar in Frederic had specials on sofas, chairs, recliners, etc.

20 Years Ago

Washburn County Fair July 23 - 26

by Regan Kohler SPOONER – The Washburn County Fair starts Thursday, July 23, and goes through Sunday, July 26, at the fairgrounds, Spooner.

Thursday is entry day for junior and open-class exhibits, and judging begins. The exhibits can be seen in the faigrounds many buildings.

That night’s entertainment includes a horse fun show in the arena at 7 p.m., followed by the kiddie tractor pull at 8 p.m. There will be live entertainment on the stage, too.

Friday, judging of exhibits continues. At 11 a.m., Washburn County centenarians will be honored.

The Midwest Horsepullers horse pull will be in the arena at 7 p.m.

The 2009 Fairest of the Fair winner will be announced on the stage, tentatively at 8 p.m. The Twerps will be the night’s musical entertainment.

Saturday, judging continues. The 4-H pancake breakfast is from 8-11 a.m.

The singles horseshoe pitch, with cash prizes, begins at 10 a.m.

That night is the livestock show and sale, at 7 p.m.

Immediately afterward, fan favorite Tonic Sol-Fa, an a

Do you remember ?

son from Tales from Centerville by Robert McCloskey.

For tickets call 715-294-2787 or visit www.stcroixartbarn.com A silent auction fundraiser and a raffle of a James Wilcox Dimmers painting will coincide with the production in the ArtBarn Gallery. submitted

Falun Head Start was selected as pilot site.-The 50thwedding anniversary of Elenor and Byron Branstad was celebrated on June 11 with open house at the Grantsburg Senior Citizen Center.-John Glockzin and Earl Hansen were appointed to the hospital task force, Frederic.- Miss Milltown candidates were Jennifer Shouten, Betsy O’Geay, Tammi Milberg, Julie Carlson, Michelle Smith and Amanda Cook.-The adjourned meeting of the Board of Review of Trade Lake was published by clerk, Vera Wicklund.-Lowell Madsen retired from the United Pioneer Home Board in Luck.-A special at Corner Cupboard Café and Deli, Frederic, was a 16-oz. soft drink for only 25 cents with any food purchase.-Dawn Lindberg was featured in an article written by Sandra Benson. She was happy to represent the village of Frederic.-Obituaries included Mathilda Mathis, Mary Pilsner, Samuel Williamson Sr., William Sheehan, Richard Fredericks, Henry Kubicka and Lawrence Buck.-Pioneer Home, Luck, reported an operating loss the past year.-Siren was asked to annex property on the north.-Forts Folle Avoine grand opening was held June 24.-Steve Little Memorial Park in Webster was dedicated June 17.-Bob Becker wrote on the magical words of “Up North.”-Forestlands in Anderson Township were closed to ATV, cycle traffic.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Webster Senior Center

866-4334 Thirty-three seniors enjoyed eating the turkey dinner prepared by Nicky on Tuesday evening.

Gene Johnson’s niece, Lynn Stumne of Florida, who has been visiting him while here to attend the Webster all-school reunion, was at the dinner also and won a door prize of a loaf of homemade bread made

by Nicky. Mert Kisselburg won a loaf also.

Kenny Anderson joined the congregate diners on Wednesday and then stayed to play several games of pool with Harold Peterson.

Millie Hopkin’s sisters Vera Tromberg of Virginia, Minn., and Marion Peterson of Mayor, Minn., have been guests of Rod and Millie, and they joined the Dime Bingo players on Wednesday afternoon. Everyone enjoyed the blueberry cheesecake bars furnished by Millie.

The Burnett County Aging/Nutrition Program annual picnic held at Siren’s Crooked Lake Park on Thursday was well attended even though the weather was a bit uncooperative. Everyone wore jackets and sweatshirts to stay warm, but the food was good and the chance to visit friends from the four senior nutrition sites was great. Margel Ruck was celebrating her birthday and friends took the opportunity to sing “Happy Birthday” to her.

The Webster Lioness Club met on Thursday evening for their monthly dinner meeting at the community center, which was catered

by Emily’s Restaurant. Prospective new members Angel Jackson and Shelly Gonza-

les were guests. If any women are interested in becoming members of the Lioness Club, they should contact President Gladys Beers at 715-866-4392 or any other Lioness member. Plans were made for their annual Gandy Dancer Days bake sale for Saturday, Aug. 8 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. BBQ pork sandwiches will also be sold at the shelter on Main Street north of the community center.

Wayne and Martha Anderson and Kurt Anderson enjoyed a visit with Julie in Waseca, Minn., on Friday.

Margel Ruck’s daughter, Lynn and Jim Shaw of Roscoe, Ill., came to spend a few days visiting family and to help Margel celebrate her birthday. They also visited Margel’s mother, Olive Gehrke, on Sunday afternoon at the Frederic nursing home where she resides.

The ladies and men from Grace United Methodist Church in Webster outdid themselves this year as they served guests on Saturday afternoon a Victorian tea.

The tables were decorated and lace was draped like curtains around the sides of the fellowship hall with vintage dresses on display.

Don and Shirley John of Dixon, Ill., visited Karen and Orlin Anderson and on Sunday morning they provided special music of playing the wonderful old hymn “When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder” in a Psaltry duet at First Baptist Church.

Maverick and 5-year old twins Kaylynn and

Burnett Community Library My Public Library is important to our community because “…reading can take you anywhere.” This is another patron’s response to the community library.

Below is the official Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s statement on BadgerLink (available online through the library’s Merlin Web site: http://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/search.

Once there, click on databases and scroll down to the BadgerLink button.)

“At a time of tight budgets for state and local governments, new contracts for Wisconsin’s online library service are expanding resources to provide more of what libraries need: free access to more resources for increasing numbers of library patrons.

Contracts for BadgerLink, Wisconsin’s online library coordinated through the Department of Public Instruction’s Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning, are nearly doubling the content available from one provider and are adding Britannica Digital Learning as a fifth database resource.

The Britannica database will have age-appropriate reference articles, journals and magazines as well as selected Web sites, multimedia and curriculum content that will help students with their schoolwork. ‘We know that citizens of all ages are turning to their local libraries,’ said state Superintendent Tony Evers. ‘Whether it is for computer access to write a resume or search for a job, resources to manage health or learn new skills, or reference material to research a report or complete a school project, libraries are there to help.’”

The Friends of the Library’s annual Author’s Luncheon, held on July 11 at the Webster Community Center, was a huge success.

Ron Handberg ,the guest speaker, autographed copies of his books won as door prizes. He has been a resident of Burnett County for the last 40 years.

The library is in the process of developing a new Web page. This new page will be much more interactive and informative due to new technology available from Northern Waters Library System. It will be easier to keep

up-to-date and keep patrons informed about local events.

The summer reading program meets at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays for children ages 4 and up. The toddlers story hour meets at 11:30 a.m. Last week, the children created sidewalk art with chalk, and this week made picture frames for the photos that were taken of their sidewalk art.

The Burnett Community Library Book Club will be reading “Moloka’I,” by Alan Brennert, to be discussed on Tuesday, July 28, at 10 a.m. If you need a copy, please call the library at 715-866-7697 and they will be glad to obtain one for you.

The Burnett Community Library Garden Tour Fundraiser will be on Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is $5. The tour will include eight gardens, and many varieties in the Webster, Siren and Voyageur Village areas. A list of the gardens is available at various local businesses. Information is available at the library or at 866-7798.

New juvenile books

“The Chronicles of Narnia,” by C.S. Lewis “Lost and Found,” by Jim La Marche “The Blueberry Girl,” by Neil Gaiman “The Looking Book,” by P.K. Hallinan “Camping Day,” by Patricia Lakin

New young adult books

“Extra Credit,” by Andrew Clements “Sprout,” by Dale Peck “Orange Houses,” by Paul Griffin

New adult books

“Moscow Rules,” by Daniel Silva “The Apostle,” by Brad Thor “Fugitive,” by Phillip Margolin “Plague of Secrets,” by John Lescroart “Killer Summer,” by Ridley Pearson “Horse Soldiers,” by Doug Stanton “Devil’s Punchbowl,” by Greg Iles

Hours

Monday through Thursday open from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Grantsburg Community Education Grantsburg Community Education trips – register early – must be accompanied by payment.

To reserve your spot call 715-463-5165, ext. 160 and mail payment to: Grantsburg High School, 480 E. James Ave., Grantsburg, WI 54840. Checks should be made out to Grantsburg Community Education. For more information, talk to Cindi Throngard at the aformentioned number.

Minnesota State Fair, Monday, Aug. 31.

Leave Grantsburg at 7 a.m. and return about 6 p.m. Register five or more paid registrations and get $5 discount. Cost is $20.

Always Patsy Cline, Wednesday, Sept. 23.

Chanhassen Dinner Theatre. Trip includes

coach, dinner and show. Registrations and payments due by Aug. 23. Cost is $63.

Titanic Exhibit, Tuesday, Oct. 20. Minnesota Science Museum. Leave Grantsburg at 9 a.m.. Registration by Oct. 10 a must.

Lunch on your own. Cost is $45.

Deer Hunting Mall of America Trip, Saturday, Nov. 21. Registration by Nov. 15. Cost is $20. Register five or more paid registrants and all go for $15.

The Christmas Window, Friday, Dec. 11, North Heights Lutheran Church. Leave at 4 p.m. Trip includes coach, dinner and show.

Cost is $68.

Mary Klar

Chyanne Braun, children of Jeanice and Max Braun of St. Paul, Minn., are enjoying a tenday stay visiting their aunt Debra Gloege and James Ptak at their home on Devils Lake. On Sunday, Grandma Theresa Gloege and Auntie Jeanice took the children to the aquarium in Duluth, Minn., and Duluth Park to celebrate Maverick’s seventh birthday.

Don’t forget, Red Hatters that the next Ravishing Rubies Red Hat Society luncheon will be held at noon on Tuesday, July, 28, at Bobbies World, east of Siren on Hwy. 70.

Our prayers and get-well wishes continue to go out to Maxine Stone, Ellen Hanninen and David Smith. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of June Mensen who passed away on Saturday.

Our gratitude to Pat and Nancy O’Brien for planting flowers in the two new window flower boxes that were built by Pat and to the anonymous donor of two large garbage bags of aluminum cans.

Do you sometimes feel that you are treading water trying to stay afloat in these troubled times? The American Cancer Society’s Web site (www.cancer.org) says, “Humor therapy is the use of humor for the relief of physical or emotional pain and stress. It is used as a complementary method to promote health and cope with illness.” The over 40 references to laughter in the Bible prove that Hi, everybody! Blacky here from Humane Society of Burnett County. I was outside flinging my baseball up in the air and acting silly when I remembered I best get to work.

Ah, summertime. I love being outside there’s so much to sniff and see and chase around. And there’s nothing better than snoozing outdoors on a sunny day with a breeze blowing across my fur.

Adoption Day was last Saturday, and a big crew of my furry friends made the trek to Tractor Supply in St. Croix Falls. Cats Shurcanpur and three kittens; and dogs Wade, Juno, Daisy and Misty all loaded up in the Waggin’ Wagon. And, get this - the staff never had to say, “Don’t make me have to pull over!” even once! I guess Misty had to take five in the van after she got there because she was so excited, but after that she was fine. I can relate to that, for sure, except I have trouble cooling my jets until I get home. The nice folks at TSC even sent my friends back with a couple of boxes of supplies. That was pretty thoughtful of them, and we sure appreciate them hosting our events.

I have a couple of new friends to tell you about this week, and one of them even shares my name! (Only she’s a girl.) She spells hers differently though; its B-L-A-CK-I -E. I asked my mom why mine’s spelled with a “Y” instead, and she said “Y” is short for “Y are you such a big, lovable, goofy dog?” I don’t know. I just am. Anyway, goofiness aside, let me talk about my new furry pals. Blackie and her sister, Brownie, are two Lab/retriever-mix girls who were surrendered to the shelter. They are a year old. I think Brownie should have been named “Blondie” as her coat is more yellow, even after she gets all dusted up in the play yard. They are both sweet girls who are very friendly. Savannah is a hound who arrived just in time for the shelter’s board meeting last week, and she looked like she got all groomed for the occasion. She is a stray who was picked up in Meenon Township, near Pike Bend Road. She’s pretty!

Grayson is a male, tricolored Pekingese mix. He is also a stray who was found not

Fran Krause

God has a sense of humor and wants us to laugh, too. Bill Cosby mentioned biblical humor many years ago when he gave his version of God telling Noah to build an ark.

Noah’s response to a nosy neighbor (“How long can you tread water?”) became a catchphrase. Biblical humor sounds like a great topic for a scripture study group. It’s easy to imagine Jesus chuckling at Cana when he saw the reaction of wedding guests who tasted wine when they thought they were drinking water. Here are a few other examples: “Abraham was a 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah then said, ‘God has given me cause to laugh, and all who hear of it will laugh with me’” (Genesis 21:6). “The one enthroned in heaven laughs” (Psalm 2:4). “A glad heart lights up the face, but by mental anguish the spirit is broken” (Proverbs 15:13). “Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh” (Luke 6:21). “I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” (John15:11). “A joyful heart is the health of the body, but a depressed spirit dries up the bones” (Proverbs 17:22). Just remember, keep a smile on your face and everyone will wonder what you have been up to.

See you at the center. far from the shelter, on Lakeview Road. There are two more kittens for me to tell you about as well. Woods is a 2month-old, orange, domestic shorthair kitten who was in tough shape when he arrived.

He was wounded and weak, and he’s kind of a scaredy cat, but he is getting better on medicine and he loves to be held. Missy is also a kitten and she, too, YAPpenings came in with an injury.

She had a sore hip, which is healing nicely, and she loves to play and cuddle up.

We’ve also got another new fella for me to tell you about, only he’s not up for adoption. Kevin Niedenfuer is spending a few weeks at the shelter through the Youth Options program. He helps out in the office, the kennels, and I bet he’s been introduced to cleanup detail out in the play yard too! It’s not all fun and games at the shelter, though you might think that it is since it’s jampacked with all my furry associates! There’s lots to be done, and the staff is still looking for more volunteers to lend a hand, mostly in the office. Anyhow, we are all happy to have Kevin with us, because he is a nice young man.

I guess I will wrap this up for the week.

I’ve been entertaining a guest at my house the past few days while his dad’s gone on a road trip. He’s a pretty nice dog, but he’s kind of chatty and he sleeps in my dirt holes.

I don’t mind sharing, really. I’ve certainly got enough of them to choose from; plus, I think he’s kind of lonesome. I’m going to go chase him around the yard for a bit so he feels better.

Take care, everybody, and I’ll see you here next week.

HSBC is saving lives, one at a time. www.hsburnettcty.org, 715-866-4096.

Blacky Shelter

Orange

Elaine Scott, Ethel Daniels, Ellen Hartshorn and Edna Greeson were among those that attended the annual picnic at the Orange School Sunday. Edna is here for a month from Waco, Texas, visiting friends and relatives. They also attended the Webster all-school reunion on Thursday at Ike Walton’s.

Fran Krause also attended the picnic. On Friday Fran visited Maxine Stone at Grantsburg Care Center. Monday Fran and Allyson Krause were shoppers in Rice Lake.

Bryon and Brad Krause are at the Wood

LaVonne O’Brien

Lake Bible Camp this week. Sympathy to the family of June Menson, longtime Webster resident who passed away on Saturday.

Jack, LaVonne, Mike and Tylyn O’Brien attended Tylie O’Brien’s seventh-birthday party on Saturday. Saturday evening Teresa and Amy Childers visited Jack and LaVonne.

Sunday Travis O’Brien and friend Amy visited Jack and LaVonne.

Wednesday Jack O’Brien attended his class reunion at Timberidge restaurant.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Lewis Can you believe it? Our 42nd Gem and Mineral Show is this coming Saturday and Sunday at the Frederic High School. Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lots to see. Lots to tempt you to open your wallet. Free admission. Free parking. See ad in entertainment section of all five Advertisers. Food served by the 4-H Club in the building. The theme of the show is We love agates.

Although the sky was overcast last Saturday, nothing materialized in rain and the open house for Amy Jones turned out fine in the yard of Jim and Chong Jones. It was a day to celebrate the recent graduation of Amy from Frederic High School and observe her departure on Tuesday to go into the Navy.

Sylvia and Phil Schaetzel served coffee and goodies after the Sunday service at the Lewis church, along with goodies from the Jones’ household. Nice to have visitors and the everfaithful too. The choir sang and a mission collection was also

accepted along with the regular giving.

The Lewis church ladies sponsored a bake sale last Thursday on the grounds of the Siren Dairy Queen. Good help to sell good pies, cakes, bread, caramel corn, etc.

The August meeting of the Northwest Regional Writers will be held the second Friday in August with assignment of “It’s heating up,” at the Espresso Cabin, near the Catholic church in Grantsburg, at 1 p.m. Welcome!

Loggers are clear-cutting the area behind the Lonny Pearson property. The back 40 was sold several years ago. Lots of activity.

The Charles E. Lewis Days committee met Wednesday to plan Aug. 7, 8 and 9 activites. Contact Ethel Lane for setting up for the Saturday and Sunday flea market and contact Tammy Baxter for Little Miss and Mr. Lewis contest.

Yes, we want a parade, and a grand marshal(s).

A moving sale will be held at the Lonny and Terri Pearson home in Lewis this Friday and Saturday. See the Indianhead

Siren Senior Center

Bernice Abrahamzon Advertiser for details.

Bears have been eating wild berries along the fence line.

It’s surprising there are any berries under such dry conditions.

Rain clouds flirt with this area but refuse to materialize.

Good haying weather but not good for growing the stuff. Perhaps we should tempt the powers that be and wash our cars, leave all the windows down, wash clothes and leave them up overnight, paint the open porch and do an impromptu rain dance.

Linda Herrick, the Brian Webster family and Sheila Staples spent Friday night in Gilman. On Saturday they were joined by Linda’s mother, sister, brothers and friend, Judy, as they traveled to Luxemburg to attend the graduation celebration for Matthew Onesti. Matthew’s mother, Bonnie, is a cousin to Linda and Brian’s family and Sheila traveled in Europe with Bonnie. Luxemburg is near Green Bay so time was spent enjoying the tourist attractions. The group returned home on Sunday evening.

Barb Munger

As you drive by the center, you will now see our new flag flying on our new flagpole. As I mentioned before, we were in need of a new pole, and thanks to the generous memorial from Neil Olson, in memory of Jeanette, we were able to replace it.

A new flag was donated by the American Legion Post, and last but not least, thanks to Lou Jappe and Ralph Severson for doing all of the grunt work of removing the old one and planting the new pole for us. A plaque is on order that will be placed in the center commemorating the memorial.

Although it was a chilly day, around 100 people were brave enough to come out for the annual senior picnic held in Crooked Lake Park. Lois Taylor and all of the site managers and helpers did a wonderful job and everyone enjoyed the abundance of food and conversation.

Wow! Have we had a deluge of books donated this past week. We could really use a couple more shelves for them, but we haven’t got the space unless we can oust Millie from her craft room. She isn’t allowing us to do that, so we will just donate some that have been around for quite a while to the Lions for their Labor Day sale. So stop in as we have a lot of new reading material.

The Dining at Five dinner will be held on Aug. 6. CeCe is serving roast beef, mashed potatoes with gravy, corn, salad bar and apple pie. The sign-up sheet is out so call in your reservation or stop by and put your name on the list.

I am happy to say that Don Brand is home and doing well.

He still has some appointments but is improving greatly.

Winners at 500 this week were Marge Nyberg, Tom Knopik, Inez Pearson, Darlene Groves and Arvid Pearson. The 500

players were treated to a dessert provided by Marie and Dwaine Bentley. Winners at Spades were Millie Hartshorn, Ralph Groves, Clara Palomaki, Ron Yourchuck and Mary Sicord. Marie Van Guilder provided bars for the players along with our other goodies.

Remember, we play Dime Bingo on Tuesday, 500 on Wednesday and Spades on Friday. All of the games begin at 1 p.m. and everyone is welcome to join us.

The center is staffed from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and dinner is served promptly at 11:30 a.m. Your reservation is appreciated a day in advance.

Carol Berglind delivered our donations to the humane society on Friday so we can start filling our box up again. Thanks to all of you who help make our furry friends a little more comfortable and fed.

Arnell Pet of the Week is camerashy Ben, an 8-year-old Chihuahua.

Ben is frisky, friendly and a gentleman. To be sure, Ben is the perfect little companion dog. He accepts children, cats, dogs and even adult humans. In fact, he is rather partial to an adult lap if one can be had. He doesn’t bark much, just goes about his business calmly. Chihuahuas live to be 15 years or older, and so Ben has many years of companionship to give. He is a special little dog waiting for a new home.

Perhaps it was the fireworks or numerous annual summer vacations taken at the same time, but for some reason, the shelter took in more stray dogs than usual last week. A few were reclaimed by their owners and that is always a good thing. Many have completed their seven-day hold and are now available for adoption.

People often ask how long a dog or cat is held at the shelter. All strays are held for seven days in order to give the owner time to reclaim their pet.

After that initial week, adoptable stray pets are put up for

a d o p t i o n .

A list of adoptable pets at Arnell Humane Society can be found at Polk County vet clinics and on our Web site and petfinder.com . There is no set amount of time an animal is held for adoption at Arnell. We try to hold them until they are adopted. That could mean one week or 10. It all depends on an adopter coming through the door.

Each adopter has their own set of criteria for the perfect companion. It may include a size restraint due to a living arrangement or the length of hair or most commonly, personality. And each adopter finds something different to be irresistible.

Last week a woman came to the shelter to surrender her 10-year-old golden retriever. The woman was caring for her elderly mother with Alzheimer’s and was no longer able to give Sally the time and care she deserved. A 10-year-old

dog can be difficult to find a home for and with heavy hearts we took Sally in.

The very next day, the right person walked through the door of the shelter. Sally was the dog she had been looking for. Sally’s adopter had adopted from us before and returned earlier this summer to look for a new canine companion.

None had been right, but on this day she left the shelter with a “happy to meet you” golden retriever. Sally spent one night at the shelter.

On the other hand, Smokey, a tabby-point mix was also adopted last week. Everyone who came to the shelter said what a beautiful cat he was and “surely he would be adopted quickly. Someone will take him!” they said. Smokey came to the shelter in May and was adopted after two and a half months. It all depends on the adopter.

All the pets at Arnell are waiting as long as they can for that special someone who finds them ideal. If an adopter doesn’t walk through the door, they will never meet their next best pal and the wait for a new home will continue. If you or someone you know is looking for a pet, visit the shelter to meet adoptable pets. You may just find your next best friend.

Arnell Memorial Humane Society, 715-268-7387 or online: arnellhumane.org

Arnell Humane Society Happy Tails

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Cloverton-Markville A very worthwhile volunteer firefighters training session was held at the Cloverton Fire Station on July 14. Cloverton firefighters Don Mishler, Dave Fornengo, Paul Fornengo, Dave Baker and Al Wolf were joined by Gary Ament and Dave Drake from Markville and Chief Mike McCullen and Paul Raymond from Duxbury. The training centered on water sources and was continued with a discussion session on emergency tagging at the Cozy Corner Inn while enjoying tacos.

Peggy and Ken Coveau have spent a couple of days with their daughters and their husbands. One weekend down at Maple Grove, Minn., with Alicia and Ted had them helping with yard and garden work in addition to lots of visiting and eating.

A few evenings later, they went to Duluth, Minn., to help Annie plant some hostas and then they watched one of her softball games. It’s always special to spend time with ones adult children.

Shirley and Jerry Blokzyl were enjoying a critter morning last Friday. A turkey hen with four chicks was facing off two little fawns while a grouse was watching from another part of their yard.

468-2940 Don and Eleanor Grunnes visited Donna and Gerry Hines Monday.

Nettie Otis, Karen Mangelsen, Ruth Rydberg, Marlene Swearingen, Lida Nordquist and Nina and Donna Hines were Tuesday afternoon guests at Mary Jane Dunn. They enjoyed playing cards.

Hank and Karen Mangelsen visited Sue and Roger Mroszak Tuesday evening.

Lee and Mary Nelson of Blue Earth, Minn., called on Lawrence and Nina Hines Thursday, and they enjoyed a good visit. They were neighbors of Nina and Lawrence when they lived in Richfield, Minn.

It took two days last week for them to move Shirley’s mom, Ann Boylan, into an assisted living home in McGregor, but it all went smoothly. Ann started the very next day with activities provided in her new home.

Another moving project for the Blokzyls was getting Shirley’s daughter, Tracy Martin, moved from Harris, Minn., to Hibbing, Minn., where she will now be working.

Kingsdale weekender Don Proffit got tired of hoeing and hilling his potatoes on his Kingsdale property, so he took a break on Monday evening to come visit with his cousin Ed. Jan served coffee and banana bread and they all had a nice visit. Don lives in Hugo, Minn.

Sandy Drake joined six other members of the Zion Lutheran ladies for quilting one day, and then they all journeyed to the Oak Ridge Inn in Webb Lake to help Jo Masters celebrate her birthday.

On another occasion, the Drakes went to Big Pine Lake for dinner at the home of their son, Tim, and his family. Granddaughter Alex was excitedly talking about her move to Duluth, Minn., this fall to attend UMD.

Dewey - LaFollette Don and Lida Nordquist went to the Twin Cities Friday and stayed with Don’s sister, Bunny Johnson. They visited other relatives also, before returning home Saturday.

Maynard and Ronda Mangelsen spent Saturday with Carl and Cheryl Mangelsen at their lake property.

Karen and Hank Mangelsen and their children and grandchildren were at the Romsos farm Saturday. They helped Karen’s brothers, Gene and Wayne Romsos, and sister-inlaw, Carol Romsos, and all their families host a get-together to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Romsos farm. It was purchased in April of 1909 by Karen’s grandfather and has been in the family ever since then. About 175 people came to

Darlene Merimonte and Evelyn Johnson really liked the country Western show of Gretchen Wilson and Josh Turner at the Grand Casino last Saturday.

Cheryl Wickham had the opportunity to celebrate her birthday with three different events last week. First of all, daughter Diane and her family came up on the weekend and they all had dinner at Cozy Corner Inn. Secondly, Darlene Merimonte joined them at Rosenthal’s Bar and Café in Webb Lake for dinner on Tuesday, and lastly, Cheryl cooked a big turkey dinner for her and Gene and brother Rodger and his wife, Wanda, on Wednesday. Happy birthday Cheryl.

On the home front, Dave and I joined my son, Chuck, and his family from Ashland at Perkins in Superior for breakfast on Saturday, then we all toured the Train and Children’s Museum at the depot.

Last Sunday, we enjoyed a dinner at the home of Jeanne and Gordon Larson in Sturgeon Lake.

Eat healthy, wherever you are.

Karen Mangelsen the celebration.

Pastor Jack Starr began as the new pastor for Lakeview and Spooner UM churches Sunday. A potluck picnic was held at Lakeview following services to welcome the pastor, his wife, Cheryl, and daughter, Hannah. About 100 people attended the festivities.

Nick and Esther Mangelsen were Sunday afternoon visitors of Gerry and Donna Hines.

Visitors of Ronda and Maynard Mangelsen Sunday were Ken and Tyann Otis, Ken’s children, Austin, Jordan and Tony Otis, Nettie and Duane Otis, and John Otis.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Birth announcements Born at St. Croix Regional Medical Center:

A boy, Thomas Michael King, born July 6, 2009, to Daniel and Jessica King, Luck. Thomas weighed 8 lbs., 12 oz.

••• Twin boys, Isaiah Donald and Isaac Geafry Tate, born July 8, 2009, to Donnie and Kim Tate, St. Croix Falls. Isaiah weighed 8 lbs., 6 oz. and Isaac weighed 8 lbs., 14 oz.

••• A boy, Tyler Christian McCormick, born July 9, 2009, to Mathew and Pamela McCormick, Grantsburg. Tyler weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz.

••• A boy, Eddie Lloyd Alcala, born July 10, 2009, to Jenna Mosay and Eduardo Alcala, St. Croix Falls. Eddie weighed 8 lbs., 2 oz.

••• A boy, Sayer Christian Bank, born July 12, 2009, to Stacia

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and Chris Bank, Chisago City, Minn. Sayer weighed 9 lbs., 12 oz.

••• A girl, Izabelle Mae Anderson, born July 12, 2009, to Thomas and Jennifer Anderson, Dresser. Izabelle weighed 8 lbs.

••• A boy, Wyatt James Mickelson, born July 13, 2009, to Michael and Christina Mickelson, Lindstrom, Minn. Wyatt weighed 8 lbs., 12 oz.

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Born at Burnett Medical Center:

A boy, Lyle Wayne Lozier Jr., born June 4, 2009, to Lyle Lozier and K. Thacin, St. Croix Falls. Lyle weighed 7 lbs., 15 oz. and was 20-1/4-inches long. He has four siblings – Janessa, Emily, Colten and Dane.

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SCF Senior Center Yes, ask any active member of the St. Croix center if it was a busy week and the standard answer would be yes.

Tuesday exercise group worked extra hard, thanks to Rita’s new ideas. We used stretch bands, weights, music and balls to make a varied routine. At Skip-bo, Ione White and Rita Boyle were top winners.

Afternoon 500-card winners were Ray Nelson, Olga Young, Marian Edler, Phil Mevissen and Helen Love. Wally Quist and Phil Mevissen had the 9 bid. Seven Domino players had George Meixner, Delores Benson and Janice Mevissen as their winners.

Wednesday the St. Croix Falls Class of 1942 had their 67th class reunion at the facility. John Brown was one of 12 graduates in attendance. All enjoyed visiting and looking at old school pictures and news articles, which was followed by lunch.

An old saying goes: “You can’t turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.” Sounds like this is what these classmates have already done.

August birthdays are Barb Bolton, Esther Prokop, Connie Gray and Iva Hanson.

On Thursday, Rita skunked the rest of the Skip-bo players by winning both games.

The monthly meeting had 32 members in attendance and was held following a potluck lunch. Most of the discussion centered around the Wannigan activities of having a bake sale and selling food outdoors. It had been suggested by Phil

Mevissen that we stay and play 500 cards after the meeting.

Sixteen members did stay and the winners were Ray Nelson, Phil Mevissen, Leone Montgomery and Rita Boyle and Elaine Edlund tied for fourth place. Nine-bid winner was Jeanne Thomforhda and Phil Mevissen. Domino winners were Dottie Adams, Russ Adams and Don Anderson.

Seventeen members came back in the evening for cards.

Those winners were Elaine Edlund, Lloyd Knutson and Bren Nel Ward; Phil Mevissen won the 9 bid – again.

On Friday, the Bingo coverall winner was Laurie Lambert.

After working hard all day Saturday selling baked goods and food outside, many members climbed aboard the decorated truck provided by Ron and Ruth Flostrand and rode in the large parade. What a perfect day and evening for this local event.

A phone call from Bob Norlander on Sunday morning with results from Cedar Lake cards the previous evening showed a record score of 5,580 by Rich Hustad. Irv Bird took second with 3,860 and Wilma Bird won the free game drawing.

You have more power than you realize. One person can’t make much of a difference, we tell ourselves. But that is just not true. One smile can brighten someone’s spirits. One word can improve their whole outlook and one kind act can set off a chain reaction that changes anything. And you can start.

Have a terrific week.

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So far summer seems to be eluding the area, as does the rain. Drive through any of the farm areas and you can see how desperate the need for rain is. Our lawns may be brown but it doesn’t hurt our livelihood. Without the rain many of our small farmers may be done farming, period. Corn, soybeans and hay fields seem to be beyond a turnaround. Farmers depend on Mother Nature doing her fair share and when she doesn’t they often fail to recover at all.

Mark you calendars for Aug. 2, as the Siren Tornado Golf Tournament will be held at the Siren National Golf Course.

Registration will start at 9 a.m. and a shotgun start of the tournament at 10 a.m. Food will be provided for the golfers after the tournament. If you wish to sign up your team or teams, or just need more info, call Ryan at 715-349-5215 or Larry at 612-750-6766. This event is sponsored by the Siren Chamber of Commerce and the Siren Lions Club.

The July Food and Friends Dinner will be held at the Siren Covenant Church on Tuesday, July 28, at 5 p.m. Come early as the food can go fast. This is a free dinner for all but donations are accepted.

The time is here again, the 42nd-annual Gem and Mineral Show and sale will be held again this year at the Frederic High School on Saturday and Sunday, July 25 and 26, from

Bev Beckmark

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come, bring the whole family, there is something for all ages to enjoy. Browse through the rocks and gems from all over the world, maybe even pick up a gift or two. While there, sign up for the door prizes. Lunch is available if you get hungry. This two-day event is free to the public and is a good way to enjoy an afternoon.

Bev Beckmark received word on Thursday last week that her cousin, Dick Sowas’ wife, Julie, had passed away from cancer. Bev and husband Art attended the funeral on Tuesday, July 21, in Twig, Minn.

Harold and Virginia Larson of Webster spent last Saturday afternoon in the Cities at a graduation party for Harold’s granddaughter, Sara Larson. Sara is the daughter of Jeff Larson.

Siren’s community block party ended up to be smaller due to other community goings-on, but they still had a good crowd who enjoyed Brad Alden and his band, Crossed Paths, as well as some jokes by Babe Anderson and a young juggler, a petting zoo, sawdust pile and other games for kids, plus lots of good food and a chance to visit with neighbors and friends.

Amery Senior Center

by Susan Shachtman, assistant director

As far as I’m concerned, the summer is flying by way too fast. I still have lots of pontooning, fishing and grilling left to do, so I guess I better get going on all of those things.

Speaking of grilling, make sure you stop by our brat stand at Dick’s Fresh Market on Friday, July 24, and Saturday, July 25. You can have a tasty brat or hot dog along with chips and a drink. This fundraiser benefits the Amery Senior Center, and we really appreciate your support.

We also have two great trips coming up that you won’t want to miss. The first is a trip to Treasure Island Resort and Casino on Monday, July 27, at 9 a.m. The cost is $10 for members and $22 for nonmembers, and you will receive free pull tabs and a $3 meal coupon! The bus will also make a stop at the Ellsworth Creamery on the way home for cheese curds and other dairy items. Contact ASC to pay/make your reservation.

Another trip you will want to sign up for is Fall Colors in Door County from Sept. 24 to 27. There will be a traditional fish boil in Ephraim, a Thursday evening Ghost Tour, a harbor dinner cruise, a stop at the Door Peninsula Winery, and much more. We will be staying at the Bridgeport Waterfront Resort in Sturgeon Bay with amenities such as continental breakfasts, indoor swimming pool and a hot tub. The cost is $450 for members and $462 for nonmembers. A reservation and $100 deposit are due by Aug. 1.

If you’re looking for something fun to do, join us on the sec-

ond and fourth Fridays of each month at 1 p.m. for Bingo. It only costs $2 for two cards and we play at least 10 games.

Anyone that has attended will tell you we always have a great time.

We would like to ask that if anyone borrowed irons from the craft room, to please return them as soon as possible. If anyone would like to donate irons, we would be truly grateful.

We’d like to thank Carl Johnson, Milt Johnson and Milt’s granddaughter, Allison Eaton, for helping with our Lode Stone Antique Road Show.

Gratitude to Wendell and Ginny Anderson for hosting last week’s 500 card party at which Kim Rosen won first place and Arlis Rosen won second.

The pool tournament winners were Paul Seidel in first, Val Hansen in second, Carl Johnson in third and Mary Fisher in fourth place. The Wii bowling tournament winners were Carl Johnson in first, Mary Fisher in second and Paul Seidel in third. Wednesday’s bridge winners were Dorothy Barton in first, Madeline Mickelson in second, Jim Thorn in third place, Dorothy Mueller in fourth and Priscilla Peterson in fifth place.

Monday’s bridge winners were Bev Vetter and Bea Gilbertson, who tied for first place. Congratulations to all.

Have a safe and wonderful week.

Campbell/Cherry Kelly K. Campbell and Justin R. Cherry, both of New Richmond, are pleased to announce their upcoming wedding on Aug. 22, 2009, at Willow Ridge Gardens in New Richmond. A reception will be held at the St. Croix National Golf and Event Center.

Kelly is the daughter of Steven and Mary Ann Campbell of Milltown and Sunnyvale, Calif. Justin is the son of Glenn Sr. and Bonnie Cherry of Clear Lake. - submitted

Interstate Park news Naturalist programs at Wisconsin Interstate Park Friday, July 24

Wisconsin Explorer, 3 p.m. at the amphitheater behind the beach parking lot. Join naturalist Barb Walker and receive free booklets and guidance to fun activities for parents and their children ages 3 through 12. Also meet Copper, our resident fox snake and learn about the snakes of Wisconsin.

Saturday, July 25

If the River Could Talk … 2 p.m., at the Summit Rock Trail sign. Join the naturalist and hear some of the fascinating history of the St. Croix River Valley on this scenic hike to the summit.

Hiking the Ice Age Trail, 4 p.m., at the Pothole Trail sign.

The Pothole Trail is the western terminus of the 1,200-milelong Ice Age National Scenic Trail that spans the state of Wisconsin. Join naturalist Walker and learn about the unique geology of Interstate Park, a unit of the Ice Age National Scenic Reserve.

Universe in the Park, 9 p.m., at the Ice Age Center.

An outreach program of the Space Astronomy Lab and the Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, this special Universe in the Park presentation will be followed by a stargazing session outside (weather permitting).

The indoor program will be presented rain or shine. Learn about the latest discoveries and puzzles of our universe.

Wednesday, July 29

Hike to Horizon Rock, 10 a.m., at the Horizon Rock Trail sign across from the Pothole Trail. Join the naturalist for a relaxing hike to Horizon Rock – appropriately named because of the incredible view.

Thursday, July 30

Nature story time, 10 a.m. Join naturalists Julie Fox and Barb Walker for a story and activity chosen especially for children pre-K through kindergarten and their parents. Check at the park office upon arrival for program location.

Interstate Park is located in St. Croix Falls, on Hwy. 35, just one-half mile south of Hwy. 8. For more information call Fox or Walker at 715-483-3747.

HACKER’S LANES 413 Wis. Ave. S., Box 45, Frederic, WI 54837 Phone: 715-327-9969 • Fax: 715-327-8535 E-mail: 10pin@centurytel.net

Oops! Summer Goes By Too Fast!

Soon Time To Think BOWLING!

We will have some league and individual openings this fall.

Our “Sponsor a New Bowler” program last year was such a great success bringing in over 50 new bowlers! We again will offer you and a friend a chance to win a brand-new bowling ball!

Please watch for more info in the near future on adult, mixed and youth leagues for 2010-11!

Please call for more information or to join a league as a regular or sub. Look forward to seeing YOU on the lanes!

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Friends helping friends

Frederic Senior Center

by Ardyce Knauber

Monday, July 13, Spades was played with the following winners: Shirley Sandquist in first place, Netha Polson in second place and Hazel Hoffman in third.

Whist and the usual coffee-time drop-ins on Tuesday.

Morning coffee time is enjoyed and the pool players are quite competitive and good at their game.

Wednesday Pokeno group table was full.

Refreshment time with the other cardplayers was enjoyed.

The Community Referral on Aging held their monthly meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15. The board members appreciate this comfortable center for their meetings.

Our executive meeting date has been changed to Thursday, July 30, at 10 a.m., as we will be taking care of the senior building at the Polk County Fair from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, July 31. If you are at the fair, stop in and have coffee, visit and rest.

Thursday, July 16, 500 cards was played with the following winners: Nina Vold in first place, Donald Antiel in second place, Shirley Sandquist in third place and Marlyce Borchert in fourth place.

Friday Pokeno was played. As always, this group enjoys playing together and cards are

also enjoyed along with refreshments.

We extend our sympathy to the family of our former member, Cleo Koch, who resided in St. Paul, Minn., but visited her special friend, Lloyd Nelson. Cleo loved to play cards and spent many hours with us throughout the year. We miss her and Lloyd. Best wishes and sympathy to Lloyd in the loss of his special friend.

Saturday activities included a light luncheon at noon, with cards, Pokeno or Bingo following. We always enjoy our special cake that our 98-year-old member, Clareece Marek, makes for us each Saturday.

We miss Vi Luke and hope her therapy will get her back with us. We miss our members who are not able to attend our activities. It has been proven that, as you age, friends are so very important to your health, both physical and mental. If you are feeling empty and depressed, being with others lifts your spirits. We welcome new members, stop in and visit. We try to alert our members about programs available to us seniors. We belong to the Coalition on Aging which is a liason between us and the Legislature which has provided us with benefits such as Senior Care, which provide many of our members with help in paying for the high cost of drugs.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Academic news DULUTH, Minn. – Victoria Jo Weinzierl, daughter of Kevin and Renee Weinzierl of Frederic, graduated cum laude from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth on Sunday, May 10, 2009. She was awarded a Bachelor

of Science degree in nursing. The College of St. Scholastica is regularly recognized as one of the finest colleges in the Midwest. - submitted •••

Polk County Library Federation

OES members from several different chapters conducted Frederic Eastern Star’s installation of officer’s ceremony. Pictured in the front row (L to R) are Pat and Bill Beetcher, who were installed as worthy matron and patron; Mary Pat Vreeland – Installing Organist of Chippewa Chapter, Chippewa Falls. Back row: Harold Christensen – Installing Chaplain of Willow River Chapter, New Richmond; Steve Schwartz – m.o.c. and Carol Peterson – Acting Conductress of Kinnickinnic Chapter, River Falls; Karen and Joe Langer – Installing Matron and Patron from Willow River Chapter, New Richmond and Janet Arndt – Installing Marshal of Ellsworth Chapter, Ellsworth. – Photo submitted

by Mary Norgard FREDERIC – As the Frederic Chapter moves into a new year, the members aim to support the local community as good neighbors, continue to appreciate everyday blessings and strive to promote their OES, dedicated to charity, truth and loving kindness.

The major charity project this year will once again be food shelves in Polk and Burnett counties. The Polk-Burnett chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has approved a grant request for supplemental funds. Watch for announcements of the annual Harvest Dinner – tentative date is Oct. 25.

Saturday, Aug. 15, (9 a.m. to 1 p.m.) join them for a read-a-thon at the Frederic depot during the Frederic Arts and Crafts Fair. The Cat in the Hat and other Dr. Seuss characters will be there reading, rocking and generally having a good time. The motivation for this fun event is to obtain children’s books for

the Frederic Library. Reading to children from birth on is extremely important to their language development and fosters the love of reading.

Last year the Frederic OES chapter: • participated in the Frederic Cookie Brigade for servicemen and servicewomen • provided boxes of food and $840 to food shelves • created Helping Hand kits for children in Polk and Burnett CRA shelters • donated school supplies to Frederic Elementary School • donated to Polk, Burnett and Barron counties’ Christmas for Kids • performed a ‘make a difference’ mitzvah for the staffs of Frederic and Luck care Centers, residents of the Frederic care center and the Comforts of Home residents.

• 65 teddy bears to local sheriffs/police departments, nursing homes and shelters.

Funds to help DR Tech expand

Osceola Library Director Nate Deprey with Polk County Library Federation Director Colleen Foxwell aka Gifford. – Photo submitted Check us out at the Polk County Fair on July 30 through Aug. 2.

The Polk County Fair this year is from July 30 – Aug. 2. The Polk County Library Federation will be having its annual book sale at the library booth at the fair. The location of the booth will be in the building next to the grandstand.

There will be a large selection of paper-

backs; ranging in all genres and for all ages! Stock up on your winter reading while supporting the libraries. This year, again, many of the Polk County Library directors, friends of libraries and board of trustee members will be volunteering their time to help out at the library booth.

Romance on the river ST. CROIX FALLS/TAYLORS FALLS - A tradition born in 2007 continues as Festival Theatre partners with area restaurants for Date Night events. The next romantic opportunity is Friday, July 24, with dinner at Tangled Up in Blue in downtown Taylors Falls, Minn., followed by a performance of “Four by Two” at Festival Theatre.

“This will be a great night out,” said Festival’s patron services coordinator, Pam Koch. “By placing one reservation couples have their entire evening planned. I’m really glad we can offer something like this to couples in the community.”

The evening on the town begins at Tangled Up in Blue, just across the river from Festival Theatre. An elegant fourcourse dinner awaits with the choice of main entrée being duck confit or beef

short rib.

After dining, couples will make their way to the theatre for a 7:30 p.m. performance of “Four by Two” in which two actors perform four short plays in a tribute to off-Broadway.

All details for Date Night and the full menu can be found at Festival Theatre’s Web site festivaltheatre.org or by calling the box office at 715-483-3387. Date Night reservations are needed by noon on Friday, July 24.

Festival Theatre is located in historic downtown St. Croix Falls at 210 North Washington St., directly across the street from Overlook Park. Tickets for the entire package are $100 per couple (but do not include alcoholic beverage or gratuity). Box office hours are noon to 4 p.m.

Tuesdays through Saturdays. - from Festival Theatre

Northwest Regional Planning Commission Program Manager John Stroschine, (R), presents a Northwest Wisconsin Business Development Corporation check to D.R. Tech, Inc. President Rick Leffleman (center) and D.R. Tech, Inc. General Manger Jon Bram. Equity funds along with funding from the Community Bank of Grantsburg and NWBDC were used to help the business expand its operations in the town of Grantsburg. The project is expected to retain 44 existing employees while creating an additional 12 full-time jobs over the next three years. - Special photo

IF YOU HAVE BEEN INJURED!

The Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin appoints the members of the District 11 Committee of the Office of Lawyer Regulation. This committee investigates and reports on attorney conduct to ensure the ethical and competent practice of law by Wisconsin attorneys. I am honored to have been selected chairman of that committee.

I have successfully handled injury and death cases since 1977. Home, hospital and office appointments are available. Cases are handled on a contingent fee basis, such that if there is no recovery, there is no fee. When you, a relative or a friend, need an attorney, you should contact John Grindell at Grindell Law Offices, S.C., Box 585, Frederic, WI 54837. Telephone: 715-327-5561.

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A special time – and place As some of you know, we gnomes wander about at night, fixing and tidying up things, along the way making interesting discoveries. Just the other night, for instance, I had a curious find while traveling along the Yellow River near Forts Folle Avoine—some sort of felt hat which must have been lost by one of those historic-actor-types one meets out there. Coming up the riverbank, I ran straight into another of the strange inhabitants of the Forts, muttering about some rendezvous soon to take place there. His turned into a rather curious story of its own.

Seems the fellow Duluth resident Kevin Hoyt was camped there, helping the Forts people prepare for the large number of like-minded men and women soon to join him for the historic site’s annual Rendezvous event, a large gathering of people who study history in a unique way—by vicariously reliving it, learning skills, techniques, and lore of fur trade life, and then sharing their knowledge with visitors to places like Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park.

Hoyt, perhaps better known by his fur trade name of “Sleeping Lynx,” grew up in a backwoods fashion near Hawthorne, first witnessed a “rendezvous” when he was 16 years old,

Folle Avoine Chronicles Woodswhimsy the gnome

and has been hooked on them ever since. Several years later, he heard about the Burnett County site via a talk presented by Jacques Deseve, a “voyageur” from Folle Avoine, at the Gordon Area Historical Society. After touring the reconstructed fur posts here he found it an ideal place to learn and share his newfound passion for fur trade history. It wasn’t long before Hoyt/Sleeping Lynx was volunteering his time at Forts Folle Avoine, helping out at numerous events, such as the spring encampment, Rendezvous, and fall gathering, especially those that involve educational activities.

Since the mid-1990s, Kevin, his brother Don, and their families, have al-

ways made sure to be on hand for the Rendezvous. Asked what brings him back every year, he has a ready answer: “Family – a rendezvous is one of the best family activities going, both for the participants and the visitors. Actually, one gets the feeling of the Rendezvous and all the acquaintances made there as an extended family, involving lots of camaraderie and good fellowship all around. This is sadly lacking in today’s world, and we treasure these opportunities to camp together and learn about life in fur trade times; learn effortlessly, ‘cause it’s also loads of fun.”

While Rendezvous activities focus on the camps and demonstrators (those in Traders Row also have handmade items for sale), there are a variety of other curiosities planned, including a “High Tea”(!) presentation on Saturday afternoon, plus ongoing demonstrations at the site’s newly finished outdoor clay baking oven, located near the river. Visitors will receive maps at the entry gate.

Many participants come away with special memories that will last a lifetime. Asked to name his, Hoyt/Sleeping Lynx recalled one night when the campers had gathered for an impromptu dance. “Just as the fiddle music reached a crescendo,” he recalls, “the northern lights burst over the scene, bright enough to illuminate the entire dance. I’ll never forget that special evening in a special place.”

Kevin Hoyt/Sleeping Lynx with his handmade wooden flute. – Photo submitted

Rendezvous activities – including a Sunday morning wild rice pancake breakfast – are scheduled for Friday through Sunday, July 24-26, at Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park, located on CTH U, three miles west of Wisconsin Hwy. 35, in the Yellow Lake region northwest of Webster.

Signed, Woodswhimsy

Javier Trejo finds purpose in music RURAL ST. CROIX FALLS - Javier Trejo, born in Monclova Coahuila, Mexico, grew up swimming in the St. Croix River and Big Twin Lake.

Singer, songwriter and guitarist for The Beads and the New Primitives, Javier has opened and played with some of the United States’ finest acts: The Neville Brothers, Widespread Panic, The Big Wu, Willie Waldman Project, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Los Lobos.

“I’ve done a lot in the small amount of time that I’ve been on the Earth. I’ve been blessed to do what I love and be creative and use it as an outlet,” says Trejo. His good fortune is everyone’s when he performs at the Lamar Festival Saturday, Aug. 15.

Trejo’s parents, who kept homes in Eureka Center and St. Paul, Minn., when he was growing up, started him in music as a child – first violin, then piano and saxophone, which he played through his senior year.

“I wanted to play an instrument that I could sing to,” says Trejo, thus, he got his first guitar at age 13. His parents both worked in education. “So in the summer you couldn’t do nothing. (I always said it was a ripoff.) But one summer my mother gave me this camp for talented youth, YPC, Youth Performance Company,” he recalls. He and 14 other kids, all under the age of 16, wrote music and played it on the stage at Macalester College at the end of the camp. That was his first performance. By the time he was a junior in high school, the family was spending more time in the city. He was playing nights at the Turf Club and get-

Javier Trejo will perform at the sixth-annual Lamar Festival to be held Aug. 14 and 15 in rural St. Croix Falls. - Special photo

ting up early to go to English class at St. Thomas Academy in the morning.

“The bouncer took us downstairs when we weren’t playing to protect us from corruption,” he says.

The power of the live performance impressed Trejo from the start. “The first live music I ever saw in my life as a child was in Eureka, a band called Eureka Gold with Rick Stage. I remember the lights; my parents were dancing. I was a little kid running around with other little kids. Everyone was happy. It was so innocent,” he says.

But the innocence ran out. And right now, when he lists his greatest accomplishments, it’s not the music, the recordings, the big names. “I’ve been sober for three years. My biggest accomplishment ever is to persevere – to quit doing drugs and alcohol and keep per-

forming,” he says.

After breaking up with the New Primitives this past spring, he began questioning himself: “What do I do now? Was the New Primitives my peak? I felt like I was starting over. I was in question about what I was going to do. I was frustrated and sad and holding some resentment.”

He played a festival on the reservation at Pine Ridge, S.D., in June. It was only his third appearance after leaving the New Primitives.

“I had one of those magical shows where I fell in love with the music. They could hear my music for 2 miles around the festival and over the next few days, people talked to me,” he says. He was invited to do a sweat lodge and after the sweat was over, the ceremony chief thanked him for coming to the reservation and sharing his music. He said, “You’ve made these people happy and that’s what they need right now.”

Says Trejo, “That was my answer. I want to have some food and be able to take care of my kids. All the other stuff, the drugs and the ego, I want them out of it. I started playing music because it made me feel good – that’s the point of this whole crazy long journey that I’ve been on. It makes me feel good. When I put my heart into this, when I feel good about it, it comes through in my music and people enjoy themselves.”

The sixth-annual Lamar Festival is Aug. 14 and 15, in rural St. Croix Falls. For more information, go to www.lamarcommunity.org. - submitted

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NORTH MEMORIAL AMBULANCE announces an upcoming

EMT CLASS

North Memorial Ambulance is currently recruiting people who may be interested in becoming an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and working for the local ambulance service. With ambulances located in Grantsburg, Webster, Danbury, A & H and Spooner, we hope to recruit additional EMTs to fill open positions. North Ambulance currently has both paid and “on-call” positions available.

North Memorial Ambulance will reimburse 100% of the expenses of the course upon successful completion of the class and subsequent employment with our service.

IN ADDITIONAL, North Memorial will give a $1,000 bonus to each new EMT employee that elects to work as an “on-call” EMT at either our A & H, Danbury or Grantsburg ambulance stations upon completion of 500 hours of “oncall” time (subject to need and available funding).

For those who may be interested in becoming an EMT, the following EMT basic course will b e held in the area: Siren Area/Location TBA: Starting Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, finishing Jan. 14, 2010 Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 6 - 10 p.m.

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Collected by

Clayton Jorgensen

Clam Falls area

152 years

Editor’s note: This is the eleventh in a series on the history of the Clam Falls area, compiled by local historian Clayton Jorgensen

Lewis area

Lewis was a growing town with more and more businesses coming.

The Almquist Store was built and later Westlund Brothers bought it and had a store there for many years. The store slogan was “On the Corner and on the Square.” (I remember getting two big scoops of ice cream in a cone for a dime.)

A large creamery began in the town.

Charles Lewis invested in this for a place close to his farm to ship milk.

Later he sold his interest to local farmers who made it the Clam Falls Co-op and the patrons grew from 39 to 100 and it served the whole area.

Lewis was located in a good farming section, which was being rapidly settled by a progressive class of farmers and this helped the area grow even more. A feed mill and potato warehouse were built to help serve the farmers. Soon the town had a restaurant and confectionery store. A large garage was built doing all kinds of repair work and also carrying a large assortment of auto accessories.

A lumberyard, produce exchange, telephone company and other businesses were starting all over town. A large village hall was built and hosted many activities for the area, including township meetings and basketball.

Soon the village was over 300 people and the big sport of baseball came to town in 1918. The first ball field was south of town and later moved to an area southwest of the railroad station.

A new field was built east of town and is still used for activities. Two of the first

Lewis team members were Myron Peterson and Henry Johnson. Both of them became storekeepers, one in Clam Falls and the other in Lewis.

Lewis had many outstanding teams with local men playing; Vernon Ulick played many years and also managed for some time.

In 1921 the community decided, with the help of Charles Lewis, to build a new school in the village of Lewis. The Almquist School just south of town was only 10 years old, but student population was growing and more room was needed.

The new school was divided into two rooms by a folding wall. The building was perhaps the nicest, most modern and well-equipped school in the area. It had beautiful maple floors, furnace, indoor plumbing and flush toilets. The basement was used as a play area. The first teachers were Clara Almquist Edling and Laura Chell.

A big event took place in the township of Clam Falls in 1928, when President Coolidge came to visit Seven Pines and do some fishing.

Charles Lewis also had a plan to build an airport, but this did not get completed.

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Lewis Days – Aug. 7, 8 and 9

1925 Creamery meeting (picnic)

President Coolidge’s train coming to Clam Falls Township and the village of Lewis in 1928.

Be sure to put Lewis Days on your calendar. One of the big events will be the Methodist Church tent activities. Starting Friday, Aug. 7, at 5:30 p.m., there will be live music and good food. On Sat., Aug. 8 and Sun., Aug. 9, more live music and good homemade food at the church tent, along with an exhibit of the history of Clam Falls Township.

In March of 1900 Mr. Charles E. Lewis bought all of Knappville for $8,000. A group of seven pine trees grew on the farm, so Lewis named his new property Seven Pines.

Lewis laid out the present town site of Lewis, streets were opened. a bank was established. The bank was robbed a few times over the years.

Lewis Chicken Hatchery

Lewis 1915 Fourth of July Lewis Bank

1918-1919 Lewis baseball team. Front row: second from left is Henry Johnson; third from left is Myron Peterson.

Almquist Store, later Westlund Store

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Festival’s Featured Artist ST. CROIX FALLS –Shawn Boyd claims a nomadic lifestyle growing up, having lived throughout the Midwest (Winona, Minn.; Jamestown, N.D.; Gifford, Ill.; Wisconsin Rapids), but probably most remarkable is that his family once lived in St. Croix Falls, right down the street from Festival Theatre in the house that is now Family Dentistry.

“I still remember walking down the street just to get a drink from the lion water fountain,” says Boyd. “I was happy to see that it is still there so many years later. It feels like a beautiful twist of fate brought me back here as an adult after being away so many years.”

Boyd’s earliest performance art activity of note was playing the role of Brom Bones in his fifth-grade production of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” He remembers making his shoe buckles out of cardboard wrapped in aluminum foil! Noticing how both the audience and actors became involved in the story, he was hooked.

A resident of St. Paul’s Uppertown, Boyd has appeared on many stages across the Twin Cities including Park Square Theatre in “The S i s t e r s Shawn Boyd Rosensweig,” Swandive Theatre’s “Inventing Van Gogh,” Theatre in the Round in “See How They Run,” Nimbus Theatre, “Firebugs,” Workhouse/Kaleidoscope Theatre, “Autobahn,” La Vie Theatre, “Dearly Departed” and “Beer Goggles: The Musical,” and the University of St. Thomas/St. Kate’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Freedom of the City.”

Boyd earned a bachelor’s degree in speech from Northwestern University

and a masters degree in English at St. Thomas. Recently, he’s been studying with one of his favorite local actors, Raye Birk, at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. However, it was just about one year ago that Boyd decided that he needed to begin his journey as a full-time actor.

“After years of searching for what I should be doing with my life, I finally became clear on it. And now I am getting to live it. Following your heart is so crucial, and over time I’ve learned to truly listen to mine. It’s what guided me back to acting after a long hiatus, and it’s what brought me to doing it for my career now. But besides following my heart and living my dream myself, my purpose is to support and inspire others as they uncover and move towards their own dreams. It’s a scary business to go where you heart leads you because your heart doesn’t pull you to anything less than the extraordinary – and extraordinary things require a lot more faith and risk than our safety-seeking minds can

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This passion for helping others explore their dreams also led to Boyd’s joining the arts education department at Festival Theatre as a teaching artist.

During the year ahead he will serve as the production manager for “Wind in the Willows,” Festival’s next Youth & Family Theatre production and he will be part of the production team for the next Big Read project when the theater produces a touring production of “Our Town” featuring high school youth from a three-county area.

Audiences can see Boyd in Festival Theatre’s current production of “Four

by Two,” which runs July 23 to Aug. 8, “Sylvia” from Aug. 13 to 23 , and “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” from Nov. 28 through Dec. 27. - submitted

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Larson performs at the Shell Lake Arts Center SHELL LAKE - Luck native Brett Larson performed at the Shell Lake Arts Center’s final jazz concert on Friday, June 26.

This concert was a culmination of a weeklong jazz band camp, where participants received instruction from professional jazz musicians from across the nation, receiving instruction on improvisation, instrument master classes, performing in small and large ensembles, and more.

There are four weeks of jazz every summer at the Shell Lake Arts Center, as well as many other camps in art, singing, classical music, music theater and dance.

Congratulations to Brett on a great performance. - from the Shell Lake Arts Center

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LUCKY DAYS 2009 • BED RACES

The New York Life team made the fastest time during the Lucky Days Bed Races on Friday, July 17. – Photos by Brenda Sommerfeld

The Bon Ton team took the second-fastest time in the bed races.

Maxwell Heating and Air Conditioning manuevers around a cone during the Lucky Days bed races on Friday.

The Flinstones bed race team received the award for best dressed during Friday evening’s bed races.

The Bone Lake Lutheran Church bed race team dressed up as Sesame Street characters to compete in the race.

After watching the bed races, this Cones are not just used to block streets but also entertain children. young man helped flip brats.

LUCKY DAYS 2009 • ACTIVITIES

A young man competes in the football toss as his father looks on during a kids carnival held as part of the annual Lucky Days celebration, Saturday morning. – Photos by Gary King

A used book sale drew crowds to the Luck Library and Museum on Main Street during Saturday morning’s Lucky Days activities.

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LUCKY DAYS 2009 • PARADE

This youngster clapped in appreciation of the Lucky Days parade, Saturday afternoon on Luck’s Main Street.

RIGHT: 2008 Fairest of the Fair Gretchen Nelson has had a busy year promoting the Polk County Fair and Polk County. She will relinquish her yearlong title at this year’s Polk County Fair, set for July 30-Aug. 2 at St. Croix Falls.

Pastor Mary Ann Bowman gets twirled on Main Street as she rides a bed during the Lucky Days parade, Saturday afternoon. Bed races have become a big part of the Lucky Days celebration in the village of Luck. They were held Friday evening on Main Street (see separate coverage).

The Rowdy Red Hat Mamas added color and fun to Saturday’s Lucky Days parade.

Members of the Woodville royalty got down with Leif Ericson, the Norse explorer, during their appearance in the Lucky Days parade, Saturday.

Photos by Gary King

Angie Chivers and members of her Purity in Motion dance class walked the Lucky Days parade route on Saturday afternoon.

The seating was a little tight, but the fuel economy might have been good for this tractor driver in the Lucky Days parade.

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LUCKY DAYS 2009 • CAR SHOW

Luck’s Main Street was a busy place, Saturday morning, July 18, as the annual Lucky Days car show and other events, drew a crowd to the village’s downtown area. A used book sale at the library, a garage sale at the Lions Hall, a kiddie carnival, sawdust pile, street sales and live music were part of the three-day celebration.

This 1959 Cadillac coupe had an interesting engine compartment, prompting a few questions for owner John Eisaba of Bloomington, Minn. “I guess you just hope nothing goes wrong with the engine,” said one spectator.

Lon Chivers’ 1965 Ford Cobra, a historic “supercar,” drew plenty of looks at Saturday morning’s Lucky Days car show on Main Street.

- Photos by Gary King

“Cruisin” says the emblems on this 1960 Ford Fairlane station wagon, which had a surfboard hanging out the back.

A classic car and travel trailer.

Roy Snowbank’s 1956 Pontiac Chieftain was one of dozens of classic and antique vehicles on display at the Lucky Days car show Saturday morning. Snowbank is from Cumberland.

RIGHT: A 1948 Chrysler Windsor, owned by Al Sohlo of Lindstrom, Minn.

RIGHT: With temperatures in the high 50s and low 60s, it didn’t feel like a July celebration on Luck’s Main Street Saturday morning. This person chose to bundle up and read a book during the activities, which included a car show.

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LUCKY DAYS 2009 • ACTIVITIES

The Lemon Squeeze is the newest area business. Lorraine, Eric and Chrissy Carlson, Frederic, started their fresh lemonade business a month ago. – Photo by Gregg Westigard

Valerie King and Dave Young restored this 1983 Luke Built trike with attached trailer/camp tent. Bike maker Gary Luke has been building custom machines in Iowa for 35 years. – Photo by Gregg Westigard

There was money buried in this giant pile of sawdust, but it was enough for some of the searchers to simply enjoy playing with the sawdust. - Photos by Gary King

Ted Ball Sr., Cumberland, started with a 1984 VW engine and built this custom bike from scratch over one winter. – Photo by Gregg Westigard

Volunteers prepared picnic tables for food sold on Main Street during the Lucky Days events on Saturday, including the afternoon parade. - Photo by Gary King

A bake sale was held on Main Street near the tractor sale, Saturday morning during Lucky Days. - Photo by Gary King

A fine lineup of classic motorcycles at Lucky Days. – Photo by Gregg Westigard

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The Lamar Festival - A globalocal invitation to the arts RURAL ST. CROIX FALLS - For the sixth year, the Lamar Festival offers a local event with a global perspective that brings a rich fusion of traditions to an outdoor stage with a cornfield as a backdrop in rural St. Croix Falls.

During the weekend of Aug. 14-15, the festival features music: Latin, country, jazz, rock, blues, Middle Eastern, rockabilly; art; dance; spoken word; exceptional food and drink; and family activities. In keeping with the organization’s advocacy for sustainable living, tours of the 10-panel radiant solar array will be featured again and this year, the festival itself will incorporate practices to reduce waste.

Salsabrosa, a remarkable Afro-Cuban band from the Twin Cities.

Photos submitted Friday night – Viva The festival opens on Friday, Aug. 14, with a reprise of “Viva! A Celebration of Latin Dance and Music” from 6:30 – 11:30 p.m. Salsabrosa, a remarkable AfroCuban band from the Twin Cities built on the great tradition of salseros, will be back again playing music that blends traditions and is sometimes called Latin jazz because of its improvisational nature.

Cuban-born Viviana Pintado, an internationally recognized composer, vocalist and keyboard player, has recorded with salsa singer Albita Rodriguez and performed throughout Europe and the Americas. Her work has garnered Grammy nominations and she was featured in the 1995 film, “Dance with Me,” starring Vanessa Williams and Chayenne. Viviana carries the vocals with Frankie Rivery, also from Cuba, and with an international resume as well, who shines on the congas.

Percussionist for the group, Andrew Turpening, who has trained in Spain and Cuba including seven months at Cuba’s Superior Institute of Art, is leading a drum seminar earlier in the evening, free with admission to the festival. It’s a chance to learn about those intricate clave rhythms that hold the music through soaring solos for Viviana and Frankie; Eric Wangensteen, trumpeter for Bette Midler; and Matt Darling, trombone player in the tradition of Willie Colon.

Charismatic dance artist-instructor Rene Thompson will offer a free dance lesson again this year, teaching the cultural background of the dances as he does them and getting people moving like they didn’t know they could: merengue, cha-cha, bachata, salsa, and more. Thompson was

Masterful guitar player and vocalist Javier Trejo, who was born in Monclova Coahuila, Mexico, and grew up in Eureka Center, Wis., and St. Paul’s West side, riles up the afternoon with his very own Latino-Midwest-countryrockabilly mix.

Eclectic Saturday Saturday’s lineup from 1 to 11:30 p.m. features headliner after headliner and great in-between acts.

“We encourage all our artists to take risks at the Lamar Festival and as a result, we get to hear music that is unique and ex-

Ellen Whyte ceptional, a day of performances that simply can’t be duplicated,” says Bruce Bjork, chair of the stage lineup committee.

For blues, it’s Ellen Whyte from Portland, Ore., with the Sue Orfield Band lead

by Orfield playing tenor saxophone that soars out of this world. Whyte’s latest CD, “Four Way Stop,” made it into the firstround entry list for the Grammy Awards this year for Best Contemporary Blues Band.

That same CD won Best NW Regional Self-Produced CD from the Cascade Blues Association of Oregon. Two of the songs on the CD were finalists in the International Songwriting Competition out of Nashville, Tenn. Orfield, just back from yet another European tour with the Tiptons Saxophone Quartet, moved to the Midwest in 2004 after a stunning professional career in the Seattle, Wash., area where she was named Best Blues Horn of the Year 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003,2004. Orfield has shared the stage with some musical greats over the years, among them Jo Dee Messina, the Indigo Girls, Bo Diddley, Ann Wilson of Heart, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry and Bobby McFerrin. Orfield’s original music and powerful presence on stage make her one of the Midwest’s favorite saxophone players. “BONK!,” her latest CD, debuts in August.

The Ben Mills Mystery Project, with its

intelligent melodic jazz fusion, will be back at the Lamar Festival for the third year and playing the late-night set. The four-piece group (Ben Mills on sax, Kyle Tennis-guitar, Jason McLean-bass, Anthony Blochdrums) has been playing together for five years now and thrives on the high musicianship of original music and improvisational genius. “We are honored to be invited back to the Lamar Festival for the third time,” says Mills. “The audience is so engaged and energetic. The creative outlet that Lamar has built is a credit to the organization’s energy, a committed audience and community.”

Masterful guitar player and vocalist Javier Trejo, who was born in Monclova Coahuila, Mexico, and grew up in Eureka Center, Wis., and St. Paul’s West side, riles up the afternoon with his very own LatinoMidwest-country-rockabilly mix. After making a name for himself as bass player and vocalist for the New Primitives, he’s now putting together a couple of bands of his own and playing stripped down and solo. “I’ve been having a lot of fun singing my own songs. I want to give more of my own taste to the music. That’s a lot more fun for me and it comes through to the audience,”says Trejo.

The original and inspiring Manfred Schonauer, born in Germany and a U.S. citizen since 1979, opens the festival on Saturday. With his background training in classical piano in Germany and jazz in the U.S. under Bernard Pfeiffer, Manfred synthesizes cultures and musical styles and brings the same daring independence to his music as he does to the Pipe Dream Center. “Twenty years ago we decided to leave the concrete jungles behind and move out to the country and still find an audience for our craft here,” says Manfred.

He bought a lovely stone schoolhouse near Pipe Lake and christened it the Pipe Dream Center. He’s been composing, performing and teaching from the location ever since and has presented over 800 performances.

Manfred comes to the festival with keyboards and synthesizers and his original compositions.

The St. Croix Valley keeps producing originals and one of them is Juizzy Blazz, a band with a big sound lead by Tony Berning. In its new incarnation, the band performs as the Juizzy Blazz Shake-up, reprising the happy jump swing sound in all original music. Another local group, The Belted Galloways, pulls off an Irish rock fusion under the innovation of Brian Liggett. Singer songwriters Don Frantz and Anthony Del Fiacco will be back on stage following their fine performances in the Shy Songwriter’s Forum featured at the festival in 2008, and Sabyre Rae Daniels, who has been on the road performing on the west coast, returns to make her debut appearance at Lamar. Tribal Spirits of the Sun, a local dance fusion group based on Middle Eastern traditions, adds attraction with its compelling drumming and joyful dance.

Spoken word – the entertaining, enchanting and often hilarious presentation of poetry – is coming to the festival for the first time with three of the area’s poets – Roy McBride, Kelly Green and Jodi McLain. Roy McBride, who recently moved to rural Osceola, is well-known in the Twin Cities as a founder of the Powderhorn Writer’s Festival, collaborator with Willie Murphy on “Traffic,” and a persistent activist. Kelly Green, currently living in Frederic, brings his irreverent, sensual, compassionate poetry to the Lamar stage for a late-night reading. Green is the

Ben Mills founder of Poetry Harbor, has 20-plus chapbooks to his credit and hundreds of readings throughout the region. Jodi McLain, who is known to local audiences for her range of spoken-word performance from the dire to hilarious, also teaches at Siren. She mentored three of her students to acclaim in the Scholastic Poetry competition and will be reading with two of them – Lizzie Brown and Lucas Stieman – at Lamar.

“This is the third year that the festival has been funded by the Wisconsin Arts Board,” says Lamar Executive Director Kathleen Melin, “which is such a great affirmation of our mission to promote the arts, engage youth and educate, all with the backdrop of our historic property – the former Lamar School, built in 1905.” In keeping with those goals, the buildup to the festival has included a series of Latin dance lessons, rock (band) school, a soundproduction workshop, and a unique kids art camp that lets kids do process-oriented art at a lovely historic schoolhouse. “We want art to belong to everyone,” says Melin “and so we have lots of hands-on activities for kids of all ages.”

Lamar has gained a reputation as a pioneer of sustainable living. In keeping with that philosophy, this year’s festival is striving for zero waste and food and beverages will be offered in compostable containers.

Currently, the organization is renovating its building, the 1905 Lamar School, with a commitment to sustainable building materials and renewable energy systems. In 2004, along with Focus on Energy, the building was retrofitted with a 10-panel solar high-mass heating system. Annually, Lamar offers a seminar on radiant solar for domestic water and space heating in addition to other sustainable-living seminars such as those offered this past summer on embodied energy and waterless toilets.

The project is sponsored in part by grants from the Wisconsin Arts Board, with funds from the state of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts; by the St. Croix Valley Community Foundation; many generous business and individual donors; and some incredible volunteers.

Tickets are $10 for Friday, $12 for Saturday and $20 for both days. Kids 12 and under are free. Lamar is located at 1488 200th St. in rural St. Croix Falls, just one hour northeast of the Twin Cities; in the country, four miles east of St. Croix Falls on Hwy. 8 and two miles north on 200th Street. For more information, go to www.lamarcommunity.org. - submitted Globalocally Since 2004

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Thompson operates a dance studio at the intersection of Chicago and Lake Street in Minneapolis where teaching dance is a mission alongside outreach to at-risk youth. Thompson defected from Cuba while on a dance tour and was granted asylum in the United States 18 years ago.

He worked in Hollywood when he first arrived here and danced in a number of popular movies including “Dirty Dancing Havana Nights.”

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"Four by Two" opens at Festival Theatre ST. CROIX FALLS - Festival Theatre is tipping its hat to the energy of off-Broadway productions with their upcoming show “Four by Two” which runs July 23 through Aug. 2 in downtown St. Croix Falls.

“This is our 20th summer of producing theater in the upper St. Croix Valley,” said Danette Olsen, executive director at Festival Theatre. “We wanted to put some really fun but relevant productions on stage and ‘Four by Two’ fits the bill in a number of ways: there are a lot of great laughs in the show, but there’s also the theme of recognizing human connections, what it takes to make them, sustain them, and work through our idiosyncratic behaviors as we navigate the journey of life.”

“Four by Two” features four one-act plays performed by two actors, Shawn Boyd and Jessica Balts. Boyd and Balts were both part of the cast in “Crimes of the Heart” earlier this summer, and they have their work cut out for them in Shawn Boyd and Jessica Balts star in “Four by Two” opening July 23 at Fes“Four by Two.” Not only does each of tival Theatre. - Special photo the four plays take place in a different era, the characters come from different things at exactly the right time resulting agree when hunger looms large.

The quest for a single, universal lanwalks of life and span a 25-year age in the perfect ending for their first encounter. guage brings Don and Dawn together in range.

In the second story, an all too familiar the third story. Audience members will First the audience will meet Bill and story shakes out as a couple just cannot be amazed at how quickly they, too, will Betty, who are meeting each other by where they’ll dine out.

It seems decide Unamunda and find themselves learn chance at a café, where they just can’t that something so simple would be easy rooting for a woman who tries to overseem to get themselves on the same to resolve, but anybody who’s been in a come both shyness and a lifelong battle page. Fortunately, they have a unique relationship more than six months is sure with stuttering by adopting a new lansituation in which multiple second to recognize the maddening humor guage. chances allow them to say all the right when two people just cannot seem to Finally, the fourth story opens a win-

dow on the anxiety most women feel at one time or another when the guy in their life just doesn’t seem ready to move to the next relationship level. Gayle’s been talking with her girlfriends again and, sure enough, she feels it’s time to take a stand with her boyfriend.

“Four by Two” is directed by an ensemble of four directors: Jeanette Abdo, Ed Moersfelder, Patrick O’Brien and Danette Olsen each took on one of the shows. The design team is Rod Sietsema and Olsen for scene design, Marilyn Mays in properties and set dressing, Justin Swanson for costume design, Rod Sietsema for lighting design and Peter Weber for sound design.

There are 10 performances of “Four by Two” starting on July 23. Matinees take place at 2 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays, while evening performances start at 7:30 p.m., on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Tickets for “Four by Two” are $26 for adults and $13.50 for youth (appropriate for teens). Discounts are available by purchasing Flex Pass packages. Festival Theatre is located in downtown St. Croix Falls, at 210 North Washington St. For more information, to order tickets or join the Festival Theater’s mailing list, call 715-483-3387 or 888-887-6002. Patrons may use the theater’s Web site www.festivaltheatre.org, for tickets or additional information, including phone numbers for dining and lodging options.

First phase of store remodeling completed Phase One of the store façade remodeling has been completed at the Natural Alternative Food Coop in Luck. The photos show the before and after of the storefront. Through a combined work effort of local contractors, and volunteers, along with funding from donations, numerous fundraisers and an interest-free loan from the village of Luck, some much-needed repairs have extended the longevity of this Main Street community market. In addition, this work has enhanced the building’s energy efficiency which will reduce future operating costs. Phase Two will focus on the south and west sides of the building. Come see the new storefront and colorful murals created by local artists. The Natural Alternative Food Co-op is a member-owned grocery store offering bulk, natural and organic as well as locally produced food items. Membership is not required to shop there, however members are able to take advantage of monthly discounts. The co-op seeks to provide the community with information about and access to natural, healthy foods while supporting the sustainability of local growers and small businesses. - Special photos

Nursing is normal photography exhibit debuts at Polk County Fair POLK COUNTY – The Nursing is Normal photography exhibit will debut at the Polk County Fair, July 30 through Aug. 2.

The NIN Project is a photographic display of mothers nursing in public places.

The NIN Project was started by Kathy O’Brien, a doula and photographer in Fort Worth, Texas, for the purpose of helping women feel comfortable nursing in public.

She explains, “The intention behind the project is the belief that the more often something is seen, the more accepted it becomes. The mothers who are part of this display pose in various public settings to help other mothers feel comfortable nursing in public. Nursing is normal.”

The Polk County Breastfeeding Committee, a countywide group whose mission is to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, has expanded the project to Polk County by photographing local women and babies. Angela Chivers, a lactation specialist for St. Croix Regional Medical Center and Polk County WIC, was drawn to the project as a way to fur-

The Nursing is Normal photography exhibit debuts at the Polk County Fair, July 30 through Aug. 2. The NIN Project is a photographic display of mothers nursing in public places and was started by Kathy O’Brien, a doula and photographer, for the purpose of helping women feel comfortable nursing in public. - Photo by JB Studios

ther support breastfeeding.

“Breastfeeding is a natural extension of mothering,” Chivers noted. “We can’t tell women that breast is best and then have them feel awkward about nurturing their baby at the time and place their baby needs to be fed. Women also need to know that they can breastfeed modestly. It is the way our bodies were designed to feed our children and it is normal.”

Chivers coordinated the NIN – Polk County Project with ease, remarking, “Mothers flocked to this project. I had my ten volunteers in a single morning.”

Photographer Julie Buck, owner of JB Studios, donated her services, stating, “I have been passionate about breastfeeding since nursing my own children. And mothers and babies are my favorite photography subjects.”

The photos capture not only the ease of nursing in public, but also the bond between mother and baby. Chivers notes, “We had a wonderful day taking photos. Moms and kids were sparkling and people at the locations were supportive. The experience was truly a high-

light for everyone involved.” The traveling exhibit will begin its tour at the Polk County Fair in the Exploring Building, close to the Mother Baby Comfort Room. After the fair, the exhibit will travel throughout the county. If you are interested in hosting the exhibit at your place of business, please contact Chivers at 715-554-2357.

Background The Polk County Breastfeeding Committee, part of the Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition, is comprised of Polk County Health Department staff, medical staff from local clinics and hospitals, and community volunteers. Funding for this project comes from a larger obesity prevention community grant received by the Polk County Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition. This grant is one of 16 that have been awarded to community coalitions throughout the state of Wisconsin and runs through June 29, 2010. To learn more about the coalition, go to www.polkNPAcoalition.org. from NIN

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JULY

FRIDAY/24

THURS.-SUN./23-26

Centuria

Voyager Village

• Village Players Community Theatre play “The Foreigner.” Thurs.-Sat. 7 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m., 715-259-7995.

THURSDAY/23

• Unity Class of 1964 reunion meet and greet at McKenzie Lanes, with all Unity alumni invited, 7 p.m., 715-485-3946, 651-739-8635.

Frederic

• Pokeno at the senior center, 1 p.m.

St. Croix Falls

Frederic

• 500 cards at the senior center, 6:30 p.m.

• Rally for a Cure golf scramble, 715-3278250.

Grantsburg

• Preschool-kindergarteners Music and Movement at Crex, 10-10:45 a.m., 715-4632739.

• Future of Grantsburg Scouting meeting at Central United Methodist Church, 6 p.m.

• Historical society ice-cream social on the museum lawns/Pine & Oak streets, 6:30-8 p.m.

• Bridge 10 a.m. at the senior center.

• Music on the Overlook, Feelin’ Groovy, 7 p.m.

St. Croix Falls

• Exercise 10-11 a.m., Skipbo 11 a.m.-noon, Health seminar 1 p.m. and 500 cards 6:30 p.m. at the senior center.

Luck

SATURDAY/25 Balsam Lake

• Unity Class of 1964 reunion dinner at rod and gun club, 6 p.m., 715-483-3946.

Cumberland

• Shooting Starts Annual Benefit 5K Run & 2-Mile Walk at the middle school. Registration 7 a.m.

• Light lunch at the senior center, noon, cards, Pokeno or Bingo.

• Brat stand fundraiser at Dick’s Market for the senior center.

• “The Doughnut Maker” at the ArtBarn. Fri. 7 p.m., Sat. 2 & 7 p.m., 715-294-2784.

• 7th Bryce Hacker Memorial Muskie Tournament on Bone Lake, 7 a.m.-3 p.m., 715-8253314.

FRI.-SUN./24-26

Luck

Markville, Minn.

• The Great Folle Avoine Fur Trade Rendezvous at The Fort, 715-866-8890, www.theforts.org.

• 7th-annual Pottery and Tile Tour, 715-656-

• Music in the Park, Frank Gust Old-Time Swing, in Triangle Park, 6:30 p.m.

Cushing

Danbury

Frederic

• 47th-annual Summer Festival at St. Dominic Catholic Church. Polka Mass, 10:30 a.m.; dinner, 11 a.m.; games and silent auction, 715-3278119.

Trade Lake

• Swedish Mission Church service at 11 a.m.

Followed by potluck.

Webster

• Yellow Lake Lutheran Church annual picnic following the 11 a.m. service.

MONDAY/27

Frederic

• Smorgasbord at Zion Lutheran Church, 5-7 p.m., 715-244-3565, fclauson@centurytel.net.

St. Croix Falls

• Exercise 10-11 a.m., Skipbo 11 a.m.-noon and 500 cards and Dominos 12:30 p.m. at the senior center.

WEDNESDAY/29 Frederic

• Chamber of commerce golf scramble tournament/fundraiser at Frederic Golf Course, noon registration; 1 p.m., golfing begins, 715205-3394, 715-327-8250.

Luck

Balsam Lake

• Athletic Screening Day at the medical center, 4-8 p.m., 715-294-3500.

• Red Cross blood drive at Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Church, 1:30-6:30 p.m., 800448-3543, givebloodgivelife.org.

Frederic

• Spades at the senior center, 1 p.m.

Milltown

Osceola

THURS.-FRI./30 & 31 St. Croix Falls

• Polk County Fair, www.polkcountyfair.com.

Voyager Village

• Village Players Community Theatre play “The Foreigner.” Thurs. & Fri. 7 p.m., 715-2597995.

Music in the Park is Thursday

On July 15, the St. Croix Falls Class of 1942 celebrated their 67th class reunion at the downtown senior center. Present were nine graduates and five spouses. Back row (L to R): Bernice Ziegler Jensen, Lola Gleason Schenk, Neal Route, Helen Dombrock Swanson, John Brown and Ted Boettcher. Front row: Jane Eclund Martinson, Marjorie Peterson Larson and Avis Shaw Cookinham. – Photo submitted

Doug Crane will perform at this Thursday’s Music in the Park concert at Crooked Lake Park in Siren. Crane, who will be on stage from 7 to 9 p.m., entertains his audiences with a variety of styles of music, including rhythm and blues, soft rock and contemporary folk music. He started playing guitar in 1964 and has been strumming and picking ever since. He has played in many bands covering a wide medley of music genres and venues. Along the way, he has developed his own fascinating solo style on acoustic, resonator and electric guitars. Crane takes time off from his professional life as a land surveyor in the northwestern woods of Wisconsin to replenish his soul with music. He loves sharing his talents, so come and enjoy his performance. - Special photo

HELP!

After 75 years in Grantsburg, Cub Scouts may come to an end.

We have the Scouts. We need volunteers to lead them. We are asking all former Scouts, parents of Scouts, godparents of Scouts and friends of Scouts, to attend a meeting about the future of Cub Scouts in Grantsburg,

on Thursday, July 23, at 6 p.m., at Central United Methodist Church.

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Siren

• Food and Friends Community Dinner at Siren Covenant Church. Dinner 5-6 p.m.

• Red Hat Society luncheon at Bobbie’s World, noon.

• Burnett County Republican Party will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 162 in the Government Center.

• Neighborhood Mass at Jerry and Pat Spies residence, 6 p.m., 715-327-8119.

• Senior center trip to Treasure Island Resort & Casino, 9 a.m.

67th class reunion

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Luck

Amery

• Poetry workshop for ages 10-18 at the library, 1-3 p.m.

Our thanks for all the cards and gifts for our Anniversary/Birthday Celebration. We enjoyed seeing everyone who came out to Coyland. The new Food Pantry in Siren will benefit from all the gifts of food you donated. A special thank-you to our family for making it possible and we feel truly blessed. God is good!

Balsam Lake

SUNDAY/26

• Wild rice pancake breakfast at The Fort, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 715-866-8890, www.theforts.org.

• Chain saw certification through Ice Age Trail Association, 715-472-2248.

Amery

• Polk County Historical Society annual picnic at Wapogasset Park, 6:30 p.m.

Webster

• Homemakers (HCE) Annual Whatnot And Bake Sale at Orange schoolhouse, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

• 42nd-annual Gem & Mineral Show & Sale at the high school. Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 715-357-3223, 715-349-2241.

Frederic

TUESDAY/28 • Public meeting to provide info to the Polk County Human Services Department at the government center, 8:30 a.m.

SAT. & SUN./25 & 26

FRI. & SAT./24 & 25 Amery

• Arts and crafts market at North Wind Arts, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., 715-349-5226.

• Fly-in breakfast at the airport, 6:30-11 a.m.

• Lions/Lioness yard sale donation drop-off day at their building, 9 a.m.-noon, 715-3492400.

• The Kings Trio program at The Skonewood Christian Retreat Center at 7 p.m.

Siren

• Frederic Class of 1952 reunion at the Pour House, noon.

• Ruby’s Pantry at 24534 Hwy. 35/70. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. Distribution starts at 5 p.m.

Danbury

Siren

3305, www.nwwisconsinpotterytour.com,

Burnett Community Library

Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Closed Sunday Main Street

Webster

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The family of

Gerry & Donna Hines

invites you to join them in celebrating their

50th Wedding Anniversary

Saturday, August 1, 2009 - 1-4 p.m.

at Timberland Free Lutheran Church 20805 County Rd. H, Barronett, Wis. No gifts, please.

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CHURCH NEWS These principles will help single people find love

problem is finding one another.

14. Regardless of how brilliant the love affair has been, take time to “check your assumptions” with your partner before committing yourself to marriage. It is surprising how often men and women plunge toward matrimony without ever becoming aware of major differences in expectations between them.

15. Sexual familiarity can be deadly to a relationship. In addition to the many moral, spiritual and physical reasons for remaining virgins until marriage, there are numerous psychological and interpersonal advantages as well.

Though it’s an old-fashioned notion, perhaps, it is still true that men do not respect “easy” women and often become bored with those who have held nothing in reserve.

Likewise, women often disrespect men who have only one thing on their minds. Both sexes need to remember how to use a very ancient word. It’s pronounced “no!”

16. Country singer Tom T. Hall wrote a song in which he revealed an understanding of the concept we have been describing. His lyric read, “If you hold love too loosely then it flies away; if you hold love too tightly, it’ll die. It’s one of the mysteries of life.” Hall’s observation is accurate. If the commitment between a man and a woman is given insufficient importance in their lives, it will wither like a plant without water.

The whole world knows that much. But fewer lovers

QUESTION: Last week, you explained the first nine principles of your Love Must Be Tough philosophy. What are the remaining eight?

DR. DOBSON: These are the remaining eight Love Must Be Tough principles that will help you avoid the common pitfalls among those who are trying to win the heart of another during the courtship phase: 10. Beware of blindness to obvious warning signs that tell you that your potential husband or wife is basically disloyal, hateful, spiritually uncommitted, hooked on drugs or alcohol, given to selfishness, etc.

Believe me, a bad marriage is far worse than the most lonely instance of singleness.

11. Beginning early in the dating relationship, treat the other person with respect and expect the same in return. A man should open doors for a woman on a formal evening; a woman should speak respectfully of her escort when in public, etc. If you don’t preserve this respectful attitude when the foundations of marriage are being laid, it will be virtually impossible to construct them later.

12. Do not equate human worth with flawless beauty or handsomeness. If you require physical perfection in your mate, he or she may make the same demands of you. Neither of you will keep it for long.

Don’t let love escape you because of the false values of your culture.

13. If genuine love has escaped you thus far, don’t begin believing “no one would ever want me.” That is a deadly trap that can destroy you emotionally. Millions of people are looking for someone to love. The

Dr. James

Dobson Focus on the Family

seem to realize that extreme dependency can be just as deadly to a love affair. It has been said that the person who needs the other least will normally be in control of the relationship. I believe that to be true.

17. There is nothing about marriage that eliminates the basic need for freedom and respect in romantic interactions. Keep the mystery and the dignity in your relationship. If the other partner begins to feel trapped and withdraws for a time, grant him or her some space and pull back yourself. Do not build a cage around that person. Instead, release your grip with confidence while never appeasing immorality or destructive behavior.

These are the basics of the love must be tough concept. I could list another hundred suggestions, but you get the idea.

••• Dr. Dobson is founder and chairman emeritus of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80995 (www.focusonthefamily.org).

Questions and answers are excerpted from “Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide” and “Bringing Up Boys,” both published by Tyndale House. COPYRIGHT 2009 JAMES DOBSON INC., DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo. 64106; 816-581-7500

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Any area business wishing to help sponsor the church listings should contact the Leader at 715-327-4236.

CHURCH NEWS The easy way out When I was a kid, I went with a group of friends to a Ben Franklin store. The plan was for each of us to steal something. With sweating hands and a pounding heart, I took a tube of lipstick and furtively hid it in my pocket. But the enormity of what I had done hit me hard—hard enough to overcome the peer pressure to steal. I returned the lipstick.

The “easy way out” could have led me to more thefts and eventually dulled my conscience. I suspect that’s how some people Perspectives become perpetual thieves. Besides popularity and acceptance, the easy way out can mean not having to work for what we need or taking more of what we want.

Jesus is our best example of refusing to take the easy way out. When tempted by the devil in the wilderness for 40 days, Jesus told him to leave him alone.

Satan said, “If you are the son of God, command this stone to become bread.” (Luke 4:3) Though hungry after 40 days, Jesus instead relied on his Father to feed him. Later, the devil tempted Jesus to take the easy way to power—a detour around the cross, but Jesus refused.

Sadly, the message of salvation through the cross of Christ isn’t taught in many churches. But the Bible clearly states that the only way to salvation is through believing that Christ died for our sins on the cross.

And once we’ve accepted that gift, we are to keep dying to ourselves every day. That’s what Jesus tells us in Luke 9:23: “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”

Some people believe their good deeds will get them to heaven. Others believe they can live as they please—perhaps even stealing lipstick or more—because we’ll all go to heaven anyway. Another detour around the cross can be the church, itself. How easy to sit in a pew every Sunday, hear a feel-good message, sing three songs and go back home. And if the message is hard-hitting rather than feel-good, it may be tempting to quit attending. There is no way around the cross.

Lord, you gave Jesus the strength to turn down the devil’s offer. We ask for your strength to take up the cross and follow your ways rather than our own. In Jesus’ name, amen.

(Mrs. Bair may be reached at sallybair@gmail.com)

Sally Bair Eternal

Restoration verses Reformation: Recently, I was asked the question again: What is the difference between “Reformation” and “Restoration”? If you will go to your dictionary, and look up both of these words, you will find for the word “Restore” statements such as: The act of replacing in a former state. To bring back or recover… in to its former state.

To repair; to rebuild. For the word “Reform” you will most likely find a definition similar to that of Webster’s: To correct; to supply a defect; to improve or make better, by some addition of what is wanted, as well as by expunging what is wrong… Notice the idea of supplying or making additions. Even though it most certainly implies, the attempt of improving something that is broken or incorrect, it attempts to do so by adding or replacing with something different rather than returning something to its original state.

What does the Bible say about “Reform”? The only uses of the word “Reform” are: (1) Leviticus 26:23, where God tells the Israelites to “reform” from the ways of the Pagans. (2) Hebrews 9:10, where the inspired writer is speaking of the improved reform of the New Covenant over the Old. How does the Bible define “Restoration”? When the prophets; Ezra, Nehemiah, Isaiah, Daniel, and others spoke of the Restoration of Israel, they were inquiring as to when it would be returned to its original position. When Jesus healed the man with the hand (Matthew 12:13; Mark 3:5), the scripture says that “it was restored whole, like as the other.” When a brother has repented of a wrong, we are told to “restore such a one.”

The following is a story that I feel can help explain the difference between the two words, and why I believe “Restoration” is a better ambition of what we should be doing, as Christians in regards to religion.

“Long ago in Soulac, France, a farmer stumbled over a stake in a field. Attempting to dig it out, he discovered it was attached to something buried much deeper in the

Garret Derouin

The

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Siren Covenant block party

St. Dominic Catholic Church Parish Festival July 26 FREDERIC- Chairs of St. Dominic’s parish festival committee, Don Langel and Jerry Spies, and the members of their committee, have been busy putting plans in place for the 47th-annual festival to be held on Sunday, July 26.

To observe this group is to see military precision in action. They have history to draw on in their planning, but they also want to improve the festival each year with new ideas and events. The only thing that isn’t minutely planned in advance is the weather. Only God can handle that one.

Starting about 5 a.m., men of the parish fire up the grills. As soon as the coals are ready, they begin grilling the chicken, using the grills, which many years ago were custom-made for this annual event.

The festival begins with a polka Mass beginning at 10:30 a.m., with music by John Filipczak and the Classics. Grilled chicken dinner is served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hamburgers and hot dogs are available for those who prefer them.

The country store, which stocks breads and bakery items, home-canned goods, garden produce, white elephant items, grab bag items and a quilt raffle, is open for business at 11 a.m.

Children’s games and prizes, cakewalk, sawdust pile for ages 7 and under, and silent auction items are planned throughout the event. Cash prizes are awarded every 10 minutes from noon to 2 p.m., and there is a raffle drawing at 3 p.m.

Looking back at all the years during which this festival has been held, they notice that some of the faces have gotten older, there is a new generation handling much of the preparation, and it’s rewarding to see so many of the younger people participating in the preparation for and handling of the activities. Elementary-age members are called “runners” and their job is to help people carry food, or anything else they need; high school and college kids help with the cooking and take charge of the children’s games.

It’s a festival day that is looked forward to each year; a day to meet friends and enjoy the meal and fellowship on the church grounds in Frederic. - Mary Ellen Bechtel

ground. Others came to his aid and were amazed to find that ‘stake’ was the steeple of a buried church building! Across the centuries, the ravages of nature and the debris of war had covered the building and it had been completely forgotten. Eventually, the entire building was uncovered and restored to use.” What would happen if I substituted the word “Reformed” at the end?

Would it convey the same meaning? Would it even make sense?

Two-thousand years ago Jesus came to earth and died to estabHis church (Acts 20:28; Matt Preacher’s lish 16:18). Through the centuries, the church has often been hidden from view beneath the rubble and debris of man-made tradition, innovation and opinion (1Timothy 4:1-7). In the 20th century, Christianity can only go forward by going back to the N.T. and the church of the first century. Our divided, tradition burdened, religious world needs to dig beneath the rubble of modern denominationalism to rediscover the church Jesus built. My attempt here has not been to argue over the proper “word” for us to use as Christians, but what the proper philosophy is that we should be working from. To “Reform” implies the adding of new ideas and traditions, rather than simply “Restoring” the original, simple and perfect pattern of the Bible.

If readers have questions they would like answered in this weekly column or simply wish to know more about the Church of Christ, they are invited to call 715-866-7157, visit the Web site at www.burnettcountycofc.com or stop by the church building at 7425 West 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 Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m.

- noon.

Siren Covenant Church held a block party July 19, featuring entertainment by Crossed Paths with Brad Alden, juggler Brad Knauber, comedian Babe Anderson, kids games, a petting zoo and free food for all. – Photos courtesy Kathy Drinkerd

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CHURCH NEWS 50 years in the ministry YELLOW LAKE – A celebration was held on Sunday, July 19, at Yellow Lake Lutheran Church, between Webster and Danbury, in honor of Pastor Ray Reinholtzen’s 50th year in the ministry.

Pastor Todd Iverson, assistant to the bishop of the NW Synod of Wisconsin, was the speaker, with special music by associate members, Jonathon Preus on clarinet and Mary Preus on flute. Lunch was served following the service and memories shared by members of the congregation and friends. A gift was presented to Pastor Ray with thanks for sharing part of the 50 years with Yellow Lake Lutheran.

Pastor Ray graduated and was ordained in July 1959. He served four Lutheran parishes in Bucyrus, N.D., until 1963, and the next 10 years was at Jefferson Prairie, which is on the Illinois/Wisconsin line. In 1973, he finished his master’s degree while working full time as librarian in Rockford, Ill., serving part-time at St. Paul Lutheran and also in Beloit. In 1977 to 1986, he was at Wittenburg, in 1986 to 1992, he served in Blair.

In 1992, he took a call to Lakeside Lutheran in Webb Lake and retired in 1998.

Retirement ended in 1999, when he,

Pastor Ray Reinholtzen with two other retired pastors, Clint Erickson and Roger Kampstra, agreed to serve Yellow Lake Lutheran Church. In 2009, Pastor Erickson fully retired and Pastor Doug Olson took his place.

Pastor Ray and wife, Ivy, have celebrated their 53rd anniversary. They have

The luncheon held at the Yellow Lake Lutheran Church to celebrate Pastor Ray Reinholtzen's 50th year in the ministry. – Photos submitted six daughters, Christi (Ken) Westfal, at Gustavus College in St. Peter, Minn.; Sanna, a team pastor serving the University Church in Berkely, Calif., while working on her Ph.D.; Randi (Tim) Buehner of Tallahassee, Fla.; Thona (Mark) Olson, in Buffalo, Minn., Kari

Bible Camp

Baptism

Twenty confirmation students from Bone Lake Lutheran Church enjoyed the week of July 12 at Luther Point Bible Camp in Grantsburg. Front row (L to R): Franki Wilkinson, Kalley Lunsmann, Whitney Petersen, Emily Ferguson and Hope Peterson. Middle row: Katie Pfaff, Alicia Sund, Austin Hillman-Baker, Jordan Bazey, Hunter Fjorden and Jeremiah Johnson. Back row: Danielle Tonnar, Carly Ince, Kendra Mosay, Cassidy Peterson, Sammi Harvey, Brendan Fenning, Kyle Hunter, Zachary Kuechenmeister, Dylan Broome and Pastor Mary Ann Bowman. - Special photo

The Leader obituary policy lived in Burnett and Polk counties, for a death that occurred more than three months earlier, to mark the anniversary of a death or for an obituary the family wishes to appear as written (unedited). Paid in memoriam ads/obituaries may be written to any length, edited and designed as families choose; they are handled as advertising by the advertising department.

* *** *** *** ** NORTHWEST WISCONSIN CREMATION CENTER Visit Our Web Site For Information And Online Preplanning For Assistance, Call:

715-825-5550 Or 715-566-1556 bruce@wicremationcenter.com 141 Eider Street - Milltown, Wisconsin

On Sunday, July 19, Jada Lynnae Nick was baptized into the Christian faith at Bone Lake Lutheran Church. From left to right: Jada’s father, Earl Nick; baptismal sponsors SethDavid Maack and Candace Buck; Pastor Mary Ann Bowman; and Jada’s mother, Darla Nick. - Special photo

SonRock Kids Camp VBS set FREDERIC – Frederic Evangelical Free Church invites all the children in Frederic and the surrounding area to join the SonRock Kids Camp VBS. At SonRock Kids Camp your kids will experience the fun and excitement of summer camp! Children will have a great time singing, watching skits, creating crafts and playing games. But most important, they’ll discover more about who Jesus is and about some daily truths we can live by. Parents are welcome to stay and for coffee, treats and conversation.

The church is looking forward to sharing this exciting event with the children and parents in the area, and hope you will all join them at SonRock Kids Camp.

There will be a bus with adult supervision to transport children from Luck, available each night. The bus will leave from Fort Luck Park at 6 p.m. sharp each night and leave the church at 8 p.m. This service is free of charge.

SonRock Kids Camp begins Sunday, Aug. 2 through Friday, Aug. 7, 6 – 8 p.m., 505 Old CTH W, Frederic. For information call 715-327-8767. – submitted

E.D.G.E. offered at First Presbyterian

Cremations Done Locally www.wicremationcenter.com

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(Brad) Reinert, in Whittenberg and Vivi (John) Saufferer, in Lakeville, Minn.; and 13 grandchildren. They divide their time between their home in Voyager Village and a home on Lake Vermillion in northern Minnesota. – submitted

ST. CROIX FALLS - The First Presbyterian Church, 719 Nevada St., St. Croix Falls, invites the public to join them at the E.D.G.E. for vacation Bible school.

E.D.G.E. stands for Experience and Discover God Everywhere, with an outdoor hike and camp theme.

The school will run from July 27 to 30, with supper from 5:30 to 6 p.m. each day. Activities, education and music will run from 6 to 8 p.m.

E.D.G.E. will offer fun, Christian education, food and meeting new friends. For registration, contact Shirley at 715-4831580. - with submitted information

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OBITUARIES

Durand Builders Service, Inc. earns ABC National Safety designation

Clarence Henry Larson III to his calling. They traveled to Africa in 2006 to spread God’s word. He had a profound impact on the lives that he touched and will be greatly missed.

Funeral services will be held Monday, July 27, at 1 p.m., at the Kolstad Family Funeral Home in Centuria.

The family will greet visitors at the Kolstad Family Funeral Home one hour prior to the service.

Full military honors will be performed following the service in Clarence’s honor. A luncheon will be served at the Centuria American Legion Hall at the conclusion of all services. The family extends an invitation to all family and friends to join them for the luncheon.

Clarence leaves to celebrate his memory, parents, Jeanette and Clarence H. Larson II, Milltown, wife, Claudette Larson, Des Moines, Iowa; son, Chad (Barb) Larson, Brooklyn Park, Minn., son, Matthew (Sarah) Larson, Waverly, Minn., daughter, Starlyn (Joseph) Watters, Apple Valley, Minn., son, David Woodcock, North Branch, Minn., nine grandchildren, brother, Tom Larson, Milltown, sister, Tanya (Bill) Elrite, Mora, Minn., brother, Gerald Larson, Lino Lakes, Minn., many nieces, nephews, cousins and other loving family and friends.

The Kolstad Family Funeral Home of Centuria was entrusted with arrangements.

Memorial service set for June Mensen WEBSTER – A memorial service will be held Friday, July 24, for June K. Mensen, 77, Webster, who died July 17 at her home.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Church in Webster with visitation one hour prior to the service.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home in Webster. Online condolences can be made at www.swedberg-taylor.com.

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

training efforts. STEP awards are presented annually in four categories: bronze, silver, gold and platinum.

Each year, over 2,000 contractors of various sizes participate in the STEP program.

Durand Builders Service, Inc., located in Durand, is a leader in the general contracting business that has been serving the commercial, industrial, residential and agricultural markets since 1964. – submitted

Polk County Historical Society annual picnic set AMERY – PCHS Annual potluck picnic will be held at Wapogasset Park on Tuesday, July 28, at 6:30 p.m. Bring a dish to pass, the beverages will be available. Speaker Jo Ann Hallquist will give

the history of Wapogasset Park and show recent artifact findings. Park is located on CTH F, five miles west of Amery. - submitted

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Clarence H. “Chuck” Larson III, 56, Milltown, died Friday, July 17, 2009, in his home in rural Milltown.

He was born in Philadelphia to his loving parents, Jeanette (Johnson) and Clarence Larson on Feb. 23, 1953, and they spent most of his childhood in Coon Rapids, Minn., with his brothers and sisters, Mark, Tanya, Jerry and Sam. He excelled in track and field at Coon Rapids High School and graduated in 1971. On Oct. 14, 1971, Clarence joined the United States Marine Corps. While stationed at Camp Pendleton in California, Chuck qualified for membership in the 1,000-Mile Club by running 1,000 miles in 66 days. At the time, it was the fastest anyone had ever gained entrance into this elite club, and Clarence was sometimes running 30 miles a day.

After completing his tour, Clarence met his first wife, Connie Larson (Beavers), while working in California.

They married on Aug. 15, 1975, and had three children: Chad, Matthew and Starlyn. After his first marraige Chuck fell in love with Gladys Woodcock and David was born. Chuck worked as a truck driver most of his life, most recently as a Department of Defense contractor in Iraq.

In September of 2003, he married Claudette E. Larson. They were ordained as elders into the ministry of his local church in 2005, and he was faithful

DURAND – Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin announced that Durand Builders Service, Inc. has achieved the silver level of ABC’s prestigious Safety Training and Evaluation Process program.

STEP was established in 1989 by the ABC National Environment, Health and Safety Committee to assist ABC member contractors in evaluating and improving corporate safety practices and recognize outstanding safety

Cakewalk Games & Prizes Sawdust Pile For Ages 7 & Under Silent Auction

10:30 a.m. - Polka Mass 11 a.m. - Country Store

Homemade With Heart!

Breads & Bakery Items Home-Canned Goods White Elephant Items Grab-Bag Items Quilt Raffle

11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Grilled Chicken Dinner

Noon - 2 p.m. - Cash Prizes Every 10 Minutes 3 p.m. - Raffle Drawing

Yellow Lake Lutheran Church

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Dale Knauber

It’s 27 years ago since you were suddenly taken from us. And you are in our thoughts daily. The memories of the love you provided me and our son, Kevin, has given us strength to go on with life. I wish you could have lived and could have shared the joy our three grandchildren have provided me. You would have loved living in our Knauberville neighborhood.

Blessed be the memory of Dale Knauber.

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her grandchildren.

She is survived by son, Terry Hederman, USP Leavenworth, Kan.,; daughters, Kimberly Hederman-Owen, St. Croix Falls; April (Frank) Prestwood, Aurora, Colo.; Jennifer (Joshua) Dailey, Rice Lake; and a stepson, Marc (Becky) Needham and their children, Justin and Austin; grandchildren, Kalel and Isis Prestwood, Aurora, Colo., and Caleb and Jaedon Dailey, Rice Lake; sisters and brothers, Candace Java, Yorktown, Va.; Jolene Haines, Punta Gorda, Fla,; Jayne (Scott) Steuck, Moundsview, Minn.; James (Diane) McKnight Jr., Hayward; Timothy McKnight (Patricia Kokesch), Grantsburg; and Joel (Joni) McKnight, Mesa, Ariz.

Gale was preceded in death by her parents, James and Elizabeth; sister, Mary Heidtke; niece, Shauna Whiteside; son-in-law, Terrence Owen; and stepfather, Melvin Clay.

Memorial services are 1 p.m. July 27, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Rice Lake.

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Gale Neoma McKnight, 61, Rice Lake, died July 17, 2009, at her home after a battle with cancer.

Gale was born Monday, July 27, 1947 to James McKnight and Elizabeth Anderson in Hastings, Minn. She was the oldest of seven children born to James and Elizabeth.

She was married to Dell Hederman on Aug. 14, 1965, in Minneapolis. They had three children together.

Gale was then married to Thomas Jensen on Jan. 15, 1977, in Robbinsdale, Minn., and had one child from that marriage.

She enjoyed music from the ‘60s and ‘70s, art, nature, listening to the birds, fishing, reading, writing, crossword puzzles, playing cards, spending time with family and especially playing with

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OBITUARIES

Irene M. Nelson

Joseph E. Adams

Ernest Edward Burger

Irene M. Nelson, 83, Clear Lake, died early on Tuesday morning, July 14, 2009, at the Amery Regional Medical Center.

Irene was born on Dec. 19, 1925, in rural Clear Lake, the daughter of William and Mary (Dietrich) Kessler.

She grew up in the Clear Lake area, was baptized and confirmed at Grace Lutheran Church, and graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1943.

Irene was married to Percy F. Nelson on June 23, 1944, in Amery, at the parsonage of Pastor Mendenwald. Together they made their home in Clear Lake and raised two children, Diane and Dennis.

In addition to raising her family, Irene loved tending to her flower gardens, vegetable gardens and blueberry bushes. She also worked for a time at Zinn’s Floral Shop in Amery. Irene entered many of her floral arrangements in county fair competitions and was proud of the many ribbons she won for her creations.

She was very active and a charter member of the Clear Lake VFW Ladies Auxiliary serving in nearly every capacity, including president, vice president, poppy chairman and cancer chairman. Irene was also a den mother and Girl Scout leader. She and Percy enjoyed traveling around the country in their motor home, visiting Canada and all 50 states. They also visited Europe twice and wintered for many years in Arizona.

Irene has been an active member of the United Covenant Church since 1985. She had been a resident of River Bend in Amery since last November.

Irene was preceded in death by her husband, Percy Nelson; her parents; and her sister, Ellen Cloeter.

She is survived by children, Diane (Gary) Sorensen of Duluth, Minn., and Dennis (Cindy) Nelson of Clear Lake; grandchildren, Heidi (Dustin) Franz of Visalia, Calif., Jason Sorensen and (Michelle Ross) of Lakewood, Colo., Michelle (Eric) Brihn of Clear Lake, Stacia (John) Hoefferle of Deer Park, Ryan (Jessica) Nelson of Clear Lake; five great-grandchildren; sisters, Violet Milligan of Centuria and Emma Klawitter of St. Croix Falls; many nieces and nephews; and very special friends, Russell and Thelma Booth and Dola Simonson.

Funeral service at the United Covenant Church in Clear Lake were Friday, July 17. Clergy was the Rev. Gary Tonn, and music was provided by Margaret Peterson and Richard Dietrich. Honorary casket bearers were the Clear Lake VFW Ladies Auxiliary. Casket bearers were John Buhr, Darryl Klawitter, Tim Buhr, Michelle Ross, Dustin Franz and Jason Sorensen. Interment was at the Clear Lake Cemetery of Clear Lake.

The Scheuermann - Hammer Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Clear Lake was entrusted with arrangements.

Joseph E. Adams, 65, a resident of Danbury, died July 14, 2009, at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minn.

Joseph was born on July 31, 1943, in St. Paul, Minn., to Doran and Marvel Adams. Joseph grew up in the St. Paul area, moving to Pine City, Minn., where he lived for 25 years before spending the past nine years in Danbury. He was most recently employed by Grand Casino Hinckley where he had worked for 11 years until retiring in 2006.

Joseph was preceded in death by his parents; and children, Debra and Mary.

Joseph is survived by his wife, Rita; children, Julie, Ron, Alan, Tammy, Wendy, Susi, Travis and Ashley; stepchildren, Tammy K., John, Lisa, Connie and William; brothers, Dave (Deb) Adams, Dwayne (Barb) Adams and Ray (Cheryl) Hoyt; sister, Gretchen (Don) Selander; 22 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; along with nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Memorial services were held Monday, July 20, at Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home with Deb Lindau officiating. Music was provided by Bill Hennen. Interment was held at the Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis where military honors were provided.

Honorary pallbearers were Daniel DiGedio, Travis Adams, John Preston, Dave Adams, Ray Hoyt, Klaus Nieder and Dwayne Adams.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Ernest Edward Burger, 58, of Bartlesville, Okla., died on Saturday, July 11, 2009, at his home in Bartlesville, Okla.

Ernest was born on Oct. 13, 1950, in Superior, to Marie and Edward Burger.

As a child his family moved to St. Paul, Minn., where he lived until he entered the United States Army. He toured in Vietnam and when he returned he lived in Arizona and eventually made his home in Bartlesville, Okla.

Ernest is survived by his mother, Marie Ulbricht, and her husband, Eugene, of Centuria; several brothers, sisters, stepbrothers and sisters, nieces, nephews and other loving family and friends.

Private service will be held.

The Kolstad Family Funeral Home of Centuria was entrusted with arrangements.

Billy Klugow

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Mom, Zip and Ann Children & Grandchildren

Ronald R. Grambow

Shari Runnels

January 15, 1935 - July 18, 2008

Who Passed Away 10 Years Ago On July 24

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They say time heals all sorrows, And helps us to forget.

But time so far has only proved, How much we miss you yet.

God gave us strength to take it, And courage to bear the blow, But what it meant to love you, No one will ever know.

Ronald Gramborn July 18, 2008

There is a hand I Love to hold, a face I love to see.

There is a voice I love to hear that means the world to me.

There is a heart that understands what I am, and all of these belong to you, the wonderful man I love.

You alone are the one I love, the one I’m always thinking of. You alone will always be the one who means the world to me.

Your ever-loving wife, Lois XOXO

2 Years Since You’ve Passed

Another year has passed since you have been gone.

Your place in our hearts hasn’t healed. But you left us with beautiful memories that carry us through the lonely times. We think of you every day and are thankful for the days you were here for us and with us. Rest in peace with our love.

In Loving Memory Of

In Loving Memory Of Our Daughter

Love you and miss you, Mom and Dad

In Memory Of

In one-year Memory of

We can hardly believe it has been one year now since you have been gone.

We have missed your smile, your great advice on flowers and the fun fishing trips! (Fish on, Fish off). So Dad, here is a Kaneuper to you!

God has you in his keeping and we have you in our pictures, memories and most of all, our hearts.

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In Memory of

William Marek

October 15, 1912 - July 27, 1989 OUR PRECIOUS DAD

We wish we could see you one more time Come walking through our door.

But we know that is impossible, We will hear your voice no more.

We know you can feel our tears, And you don’t want us to cry.

Yet our hearts are broken because we can’t understand Why someone so precious had to die.

We pray that God will give us strength, And somehow get us through.

As we struggle with this heartache That was caused by losing you.

Sadly Missed By His Family!

We Love You Dad!

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Shirley J. Paquin, Dresser, died June 21, 2009, at Good Samaritan at St. Croix Falls at the age of 73.

Shirley was born July 21, 1935, to Walter and Anna Prieve. She was the wife of Joseph Paquin.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 24, at the Grandstrand Funeral Home in Osceola with Deacon Fred Johnson, officiating. Interment was in the Holy Rosary Cemetery in Georgetown Township.

The Grandstrand Funeral Home, Osceola, was entrusted with arrangements.

Becky Lynn Getschel Dombrock, St. Croix Falls, died July 9, 2009, in Winona, Minn. She was 58 years old.

She was born Oct. 17, 1950, in New Richmond, to Phyllis and Arden Getschel. The family farm was located in East Farmington, where she grew up helping her family in the fields, barn and home.

After graduating from Osceola High School in 1969, she married David (Duke) Johnson in 1970. Much of the ‘70s was spent helping her mom at the Coffee Cup Café, where she welcomed both strangers and old friends.

Later, in the ‘80s, she would find herself back helping on the family farm, spending many mornings and evenings in the milk barn. She also worked many years, on and off, at Wayne’s Cafe, where she looked forward to the social gathering and so enjoyed the conversations she had and the lasting friendships that developed.

Becky graduated from Minnesota Business College in 1992 with a nursing certificate. She was remarried to Lee Dombrock in 2001 and spent the rest of her life on the Dombrock century-old homestead in St. Croix Falls.

Becky was preceded in death by her mother, Phyllis (Hamble) Getschel and father, Arden Getschel.

She is survived by her husband, Lee Dombrock; daughter, Lauri (Dennis) Hoyt; granddaughter, Cassondra Hoyt; sisters, Cathy (John) Dunham, Jody VandeVrede, Tami (Steve) Abramson; brothers, Jerry (Jan) Getschel, Denis (Julie) Getschel and Dale (Lori) Getschel; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held July 14 at Peace Lutheran Church in Dresser.

The St. Croix Valley Funeral Home and Polk County Cremation Society, St. Croix Falls, was entrusted with arrangements.

Brent Mason Roux, 33, Siren, died July 18, 2009, at home.

He was born Oct. 8, 1975, in Rice Lake, to Vic and Beth (Johnston) Roux.

He was married in Rice Lake on Sept. 8, 2001, to Carrie Hyllengren.

He is survived by his wife, Carrie; and their children, Mason and Isabelle; parents Vic and Beth Roux, Rice Lake; brother Zach (Cindy) Roux, Maple Grove, Minn.; niece Olivia Stobb and nephew Carter Stobb; maternal grandmother Eunice Johnston, Rice Lake; mother-in-law Judy (Jim Scheffer) Nelson, Chetek; father-in-law Brian (Nancy) Hyllengren, Rice Lake; and sister-in-law Dana (John) Hyllengren-Stobb, Hayward.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 23, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Rice Lake with Father Jim Powers officiating. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Jarocki-Skinner Funeral Home in Rice Lake, with a Scripture service at 4 p.m., and for one hour prior to Mass on Thursday at the church. Burial will be in Nora Cemetery, Rice Lake.

Pallbearers are Brian Woods, Steve Scheurer, Josh Tomesh, Kenny Erickson, Scott Frolik and Mike Roux.

In lieu of flowers, memorials preferred.

The Jarocki-Skinner Funeral Home, Rice Lake, was entrusted with arrangements.

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Becky Getschel Dombrock

Brent M. Roux

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Church Directory ADVENTIST

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - FREDERIC

609 Benson Road. Pastor Curtis Denney Sat. Worship 11 a.m.; Sabbath Schl. 9:30 a.m.

ALLIANCE

ALLIANCE

ALLIANCE CHURCH OF THE VALLEY Senior Pastor Bob Morton 1259 Hwy. 35 S., St. Croix Falls Sunday Worship: 8:30, 9:45 & 11 a.m.

BIBLE FELLOWSHIP

BIBLE FELLOWSHIP

WORD OF LIFE CHURCH

Meeting in homes. Elders: Cliff Bjork, Jon Zens, 483-1357 and 755-3048 Sun. Fellowship - 10 a.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

LIFE 24/7 - CENTURIA

309 5th Street, 715-640-1450 Pastors Randy and Pam Stone Saturday 6 p.m.

LUTHERAN

LUTHERAN

BALSAM LUTHERAN CHURCH

1115 Mains Crossing, 1/2 Mile South Hwy. 8 On 110th St.; Pastor Matt Faarem Sun. Worship 9 a.m.; Sun. School 10:15 a.m.

Wed. Bible Study 8:30 a.m.

Wed. LOGOS 3:20 p.m.

BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR LUTHERAN (WELS)

Gene E. Jahnke, Pastor, 715-635-7672, Hm. 715-354-7787, Hwy. 70 at 53, Spooner Sun. Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. School & Bible Classes For All - 10:45 a.m.

BETHANY LUTHERAN - BRANSTAD

Pastor Jay Ticknor, 715-463-5746 3 miles So. of Grantsburg on Hwy. 87 Sun. Schl. - 9:30 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

BETHANY LUTHERAN - SIREN Hwy. 35, 1/2 blk. N. Main St. Pastor John Clasen Pastoral Serv. 349-5280 Sunday Worship - 9:15 a.m.

BETHESDA LUTHERAN - DRESSER (LCMC) www.bethesdalutheran.ws

Pastor Mark Richardson, 715-755-2562 1947 110th Ave., Dresser Sun. Contemp. Serv. 8:15 a.m.; Trad. Serv.

9:30 a.m.; Outdoor Wor. Sched.: May 31, June 28, July 26 & Aug. 30, 9:30 a.m.

BONE LAKE LUTHERAN bllc@lakeland.ws Pastor Mary Ann Bowman, 5 mi. E. of Luck on Hwy. 48, 1/2 mi. S. on I; 472-8153, Office/Kit. - 472-2535 Adult Bible Study 8:30 a.m.; Worship 9:30 a.m.; Fellowship 10:30 a.m.; Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

CHRIST LUTHERAN

Pipe Lake CTH G & T, 715-822-3096 Sun. Serv. 10:45 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9:15 a.m. during school year; Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sun.

CLAM FALLS LUTHERAN (AALC)

Pastor Gary Rokenbrodt - 715-653-2630 Communion 1st Sunday Worship 9 a.m.; Sunday School 9 a.m.

FAITH LUTHERAN - BALSAM LAKE

faithlutheran@lakeland.ws Pastor Diane Norstad 715-485-3800; CTH I & Mill Street Worship 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 10:40 a.m.; Holy Communion 1st & last Sundays

FAITH LUTHERAN - GRANTSBURG

Pastor Victor St. George, 715-463-5388 Worship 9:30 a.m.; Sun. School 10:45 a.m.

FIRST EVAN. LUTHERAN

5561 Chestnut St., Taylors Falls, MN 651-465-5265 Traditional Wor. 8:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. & Youth 9:45 a.m.; Adult Learning 10 a.m.; Contemp. Wor. 11 a.m.

FIRST LUTHERAN - CUSHING

Pastor Dorothy Sandahl 648-5323 or 648-5324 Sun. Wor. 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 10:15 a.m.

FRISTAD LUTHERAN - CENTURIA

ELCA - 501 Hwy. 35, 646-2357 Mel Rau, Pastor Sunday Worship & Holy Communion - 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School - 10:40 a.m.

GEORGETOWN LUTHERAN - ELCA

Rt. 1, Balsam Lake, WI (Fox Creek) Pastor Neal Weltzen; GT Office - 857-5580, Parsonage - 822-3001, TR Office - 822-3001 Wors. Serv. 10:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 9:15 a.m.; Holy Communion - 1st Sun. of each month

GRACE LUTHERAN - WEST SWEDEN

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

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN - FREDERIC

(Missouri Synod) Pastor Jody R. Walter, 327-8608 Sun. Schl. - 8:45 a.m.; Service - 10:45 a.m.

Communion - 1st & 3rd Sun.

LAKESIDE COMMUNITY LUTH. - ELCA

CTH H, 1/2 mi. N. of CTH A & H on H Church Off. 715-635-7791 Roger Pittman, Pastor Sun. Schl. 9 a.m.; Worship Serv. 8 &10 a.m.; Sat. 7 p.m.; Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

LAKETOWN LUTHERAN - CUSHING Pastor Dorothy Sandahl Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School 10:30 a.m.

LUCK LUTHERAN

510 Foster Ave. E. Office 715-472-2605; Home 715-472-8424 Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

MILLTOWN LUTHERAN

113 W. Main St.. W., Phone 715-825-2453 Pastor Danny G. Wheeler 9:30 a.m. Worship

NORTH VALLEY LUTHERAN

Pastor Maggie Isaacson, 715-825-3559 3 mi. W. of Milltown on “G” Sun. Wor. - 9:15 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 10:30 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN, (LCMS) WEBSTER Rev. Jody Walter, Interim, Phone 327-8608; Church Phone 866-7191 Sun. Wors. - 9:15 a.m.; Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

PEACE LUTHERAN - DRESSER (ELCA)

2355 Clark Road, Dresser, WI, 715-755-2515 E-mail: peace@centurytel.net Pastor Wayne Deloach, Intern Bob Sinclair Sun. Wor. 9 a.m., Wed. 7 p.m.

PILGRIM LUTHERAN - FREDERIC (ELCA) Pastor Catherine Burnette 507 Wisconsin Ave. N., 715-327-8012 Sunday Worship - 9 a.m.; Holy Communion 1st & 2nd Sundays www.pilgrimlutheranfrederic.org

PRESBYTERIAN

PRESBYTERIAN

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN

Rev. Bruce Brooks - 715-483-3550 719 Nevada St. , (between Simonson & Tower Roads) , St. Croix Falls Worship - 10 a.m. (Nursery provided) Sun. Schl. - Child.- 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - Adults - 8:45 a.m.; Communion 1st Sunday

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.

ST. DOMINIC - FREDERIC & IMMACULATE CONCEPTION - GRANTSBURG CATHOLIC MASS SCHED. Pastor: Rev. Dennis M. Mullen, 715-327-8119 St. Dominic: Sat. 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 10:30 a.m.

Immaculate Conception: Sat. 6:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30 a.m.

Call the office for daily & holy day Mass times

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

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC

HOLY TRINITY UNITED METHODIST

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.

LAKEVIEW UNITED - HERTEL

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC

Holytrinity@wisconsinumc.org 1606 165th Ave., Centuria Paul Foulke, Pastor, 715-485-3363 Sun. Wor. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10:15 a.m.

LEWIS MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST

Rev. Thomas E. Thompson, 715-294-2243 255 E. 10th Ave., Osceola Masses: Sun. 10:30 a.m., Tues. 5 p.m.

Thurs. at 10 a.m. at Osc. Nursing Home

McKINLEY UNITED METHODIST

ASSEMBLY

Pastor Marty Nolet Wor. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - during worship hour Tom Cook, Pastor Worship 8:45 a.m.; Sunday Schl. 10 a.m.

ASSEMBLY

FIRST BAPTIST - FALUN

Pastor Kevin Millen Associate Pastor Jim Carmon Sunday School - (all ages) - 9:30 a.m.

Church Serv. - 10:45 a.m.

GRACE BAPTIST - GRANTSBURG

716 S. Robert St., Grantsburg, 715-463-5699 Sr. Pastor Brad Moore David Ahlquist, Assoc. Pastor Sun. Wor. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

LIVING HOPE CHURCH

Pastor Doug McConnell Youth Pastor Chris Radtke At Grantsburg High School, 715-463-5794 Sun. Serv. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. 11 a.m.

TRADE LAKE BAPTIST

Pastor Andy McDaniel, 715-327-8402 Sun. Schl. - 9:15 a.m.; Wor. Serv. - 10:15 a.m.; Wed. 6:30 p.m. Bible Study; Nursery provided.; www.tradelakebaptistchurch.org

CHURCH OF CHRIST

CHURCH OF CHRIST CHURCH OF CHRIST - WEBSTER

Minister Garret Derouin, 866-7157 Musky & Birch St., Avail. in office 9 a.m. noon, Tues.-Fri.; Sun. Bible Study 9:30 a.m.

Worship 10:30 a.m.

WESLEYAN

WESLEYAN WOODLAND WESLEYAN

Dairyland - Rev. Jack Martiny 715-244-3649 Sunday School - 10 a.m.; Worship - 11 a.m.

FULL GOSPEL

CENTURIA ASSEMBLY OF GOD

FULL GOSPEL WOOD RIVER CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

Pastor Don Wiltshire, 715-640-6400 Centuria - Phone 715-646-2172 Sunday Service: 10 a.m.

Pastor Dan Slaikeu 4 mi. SE of Grantsburg on Williams Rd. Sun. School 9:30 a.m.; Wor. 10:30 a.m.

oumc@centurytel.net 306 River Street, Osceola, 715-755-2275 Pastor Alan J. Hagstrom, 715-294-3195 Adult Class - 9 a.m.; Sunday Schl. 10 a.m.

Sunday Worship - 10 a.m.; Holy Communion 1st Sunday

OSCEOLA COMMUNITY CHURCH

HOPE FELLOWSHIP OF SOMERSET

1614 CTH, North Luck Office Phone 472-2605 Dial-A-Devotion 472-2345 Sun. Worship - 9 a.m.

ST. CROIX FALLS UNITED METHODIST

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.

SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN (Missouri Synod)

ST. LUKE UNITED - FREDERIC

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.

ST. JOHN’S EV. LUTHERAN (Wis. Synod) 350 Michigan Ave., Centuria Sun. Wor. - 10:45 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10 a.m.

ST. PETER’S LUTHERAN - LUCK

140 Madison St. South, St. Croix Falls Pastor Mark K. Schoen Sun. Service - 9 a.m.; Sun.School - 10:30 a.m.

TRINITY LUTHERAN - ELCA

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

TRINITY LUTHERAN LCMS, DANBURY

Rev. Jody Walter, Interim Home 715-327-8608; Church 715-866-7191 Sunday Worship Service - 7:45 a.m.

Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays

TRINITY LUTHERAN - FALUN

Pastor Annie Tricker 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.

SIREN UNITED METHODIST

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

Hwy. 70 East, 689-2271 Pastor: Carl Heidel Worship 9 a.m.; Sunday School 10:15 a.m.

Communion -Every Sunday

COVENANT

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN OSCEOLA

SIREN COVENANT

300 Seminole Ave. (CTH M) Mark Kock, Pastor, 715-294-2828 Sunday Worship at 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School (ages 4 thru 12th grade), Fellowship, Adult Bible Class at 9:15 a.m.

WEST DENMARK LUTHERAN

Pastors Mike & Linda Rozumalski 1 mi. west of Luck on N, 2478 170th St., Luck Worship - 9:30 a.m.; Fellowship after service.

WEST IMMANUEL LUTHERAN - ELCA

Rev. Rexford D. Brandt 447 180th St., Osceola, 715-294-2936 Sun. Worship June 7 to Sept. 13 - 9 a.m.; Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month

YELLOW LAKE LUTHERAN

1/2 mi. W. of Hwy. 35 on U, 715-866-8281, Pastor Ray Reinholtzen, Douglas Olson and Roger Kampstra Services begin at 9:30 a.m.

Communion 1st & 3rd Sun.

ZION LUTHERAN - BONE LAKE (AALC)

Pastor Gary Rokenbrodt - 715-653-2630 5 mi. E. of Frederic on W, 2 mi. south on I; Sun. School 9:30 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m.

Communion - 1st Sunday

ZION LUTHERAN - MARKVILLE

CALVARY COVENANT - ALPHA

Pastor Scott Sagel, 715-689-2541 Sun. Schl. 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Wor. 10:30 p.m.; Elevator provided, welcome Pastor Dave Guertin 7686 Lofty Pines Drive, Siren, 715-349-5601 Worship 10 a.m.; Sunday School 9 a.m.

UNITED COVENANT - CLEAR LAKE

Pastor Gary Tonn Praise Time 8 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School 9:20 a.m.

CATHOLIC

CATHOLIC

ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Rev. Thomas E. Thompson, 715-247-3310 255 St. Hwy. 35, East Farmington Mass Friday 9 a.m.; Sacrament of Penance Sat. 3:30 p.m.

CHURCH OF ST. JOSEPH

Pastor - Father Daniel Bodin 490 Bench St., Taylors Falls, 651-465-7345 Sat. Vigil 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7:30 & 10:30 a.m.

Tues. - Thurs. 7:30 a.m.

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP

Danbury - 7586 St. Rd. 77, 866-7321 Pastor - Father Michael J. Tupa Mass - Wed. 5 p.m. (Summer), Fri. 9 a.m. (Sept.-May).

Reconciliation as per bulletin & by appt.

OUR LADY OF THE LAKES

Pastor Tim Faust Worship - 11 a.m.; Sun. School - 10 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

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

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 www.occconnect.org Mtg. @ St. Croix Art Barn; Sun. Serv. - 9 a.m.

Nursery and children church

SIREN ASSEMBLY OF GOD

EVANGELICAL

EVANGELICAL

TRADE RIVER EVAN. FREE

Pastor Dale VanDeusen, 715-488-2296 or 715-488-2653 20296 Hwy. 87, Grantsburg Morn. Wor. - 9:30 a.m.; Sun. Schl. - 10:45 a.m.; Nursery provided for all services

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.

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 hcomm.org Sunday Worship Service 9:30 a.m.

NAZARENE

NAZARENE

CALVARY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

Pastor David Sollitt 715-857-5411 or 715-268-2651 Wor. Serv. - 9 a.m.; Sun. Schl.-10:15 a.m.

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.

EUREKA BAPTIST

FAITH COMMUNITY

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 Sunday Worship: 10 - 11:15 a.m.

Sunday School for Pre-K to 5th; Sunday School for middle and high school 8:30 a.m. at teen center; Nursery available

FIRST BAPTIST - MILLTOWN

Pastor Marlon Mielke, 715-825-3186 Sun. Schl. 9:45 a.m.; Wor. 11 a.m., 7 p.m.

GRACE CHURCH OF OSCEOLA

“The Cure for the Common Church” 722 Seminole Ave., Osceola Pastor Dr. Kent Haralson; 715-294-4222 or 715-755-3454; info@gracechurchosceola.com Sun.: Praise & Worship Serv. 9 am., Adult Bible Study 10:45 a.m., Children’s Sun. Schl. 10:45 a.m.

FIRST BAPTIST - TAYLORS FALLS, MN

7535 Peet St., Danbury, 715-656-4010 Reverend R.A. Luebke Adult Bible Service 9 a.m.; Services: Sun. 10 a.m.; Sunday School during church service.

NONDENOMINATIONAL

NONDENOMINATIONAL

CENTERPOINT CHURCH “Come as you are”

Pastor Dick Enerson, www.centerpointstcroix.com 715-294-1833, Meeting at SCF High Schl. Main entrance 740 Maple Drive, St. Croix Falls Sunday Worship 10 - 11:15 a.m.

NEW LIFE COMMUNITY - AMERY Pastor Timothy Barnes Sat. 7 p.m. prayer; Sun. Worship 10 a.m.; Children’s Church to 6th Grade

NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

Meets at Dresser Elem. School, Dresser Pastor Michael Brand, 715-417-2468 Sun. Schl. 8:45 a.m.; Adult Class 9 a.m.; Worship Serv. 9:45 a.m.; Nursery available

NORTHERN PINES FRIENDS WORSHIP GROUP

Located across from elemen. school on West St., Pastor, Dr. Kevin Schumann; 651-465-7171 Sun. Morn. - Sun. Schl. for all ages - 9 a.m.

Morn. Worship - 10:15 a.m.; Nursery provided.

715-733-0481 or 715-733-0480 for time of meeting.

FIRST BAPTIST - WEBSTER

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 Phone 715-866-4111; Rev. Merrill Olson - Pastor Sun. Schl. - 9:30 a.m.; Wor. - 10:45 a.m (Nursery Provided)

INTERDENOMINATIONAL

INTERDENOMINATIONAL

RIVER VALLEY CHRISTIAN

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Queen contestants and 2008 royalty perform a dance to open the Miss St. Croix Falls pageant Friday night. Pictured (L to R) are: 2008 Second Princess Brandi Swenson, contestant Katelyn Brenholt, contestant Lauren Frokjer and contestant Richelle Wood.

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Burnett Arts Festival to showcase Jens Rasmussen oil painting

by Hattie Landers SIREN – When the Burnett Area Arts Group, or BAAG, was founded in Siren five years ago by Thom Scott and Tim and Jenny Goalen, their goals were to raise awareness of the arts in general and specifically of talented local artists. With the Burnett Arts Festival these goals are being met in a big way.

The Burnett Arts Festival, a family event presented

by BAAG and North Wind Arts, will be held Saturday, Aug. 1, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. at the Lakeview Event Center on Hwys. 35/70 in Siren. Admission and parking are free. The event is also part of the Siren Summerfest.

The festival features an exhibit of oil paintings by the late Siren artist Jens Rasmussen, booth sales by artists and crafters, performances by favorite local musicians and wine tasting.

“We are very excited to show the work of the late Jens Rasmussen to the world,” said Jenny Goalen, NWA owner and exhibit organizer. “And we are very grateful to the family for their cooperation,” she added.

This is the first major public exhibition of Rasmussen’s paintings.

Rasmussen lived in Siren until his death in 2006. He painted landscapes and scenery of Burnett County. Dr. Ruth Olson, noted folklorist from Madison, will conduct two public discussions about Rasmussen’s life and times at 1 and 3:30 p.m. “I will share what I have learned through my research on him and then open it up so that people in the audience who really knew Jens have a chance to tell stories and talk about their own sense of history in this area,” said Olson.

More than 30 local and regional artists and crafters will display and sell their works, including jewelry, pottery, paintings, sculpture, children’s books, copper work, wood carving, photography, soap and more. The majority of booths are inside the air-conditioned event center.

Throughout the day three local musicians will perform: Mitch Keating, guitar/vocal (10 a.m. 1 p.m.); Doug Crane, guitar/vocal (1:30-3:30 p.m.); and Mike Kelly, with his band Paddy (4:30-6:30 p.m.)

The Trade River Winery will conduct wine tasting; there will be beverage and food sales.

“This is an ambitious project by BAAG members who are volunteering their time and talents to bring arts into the spotlight for Burnett County full- and part-time residents,” said Harriet Rice, BAAG president and festival director. “Everyone has worked very hard, from registration, public relations and logistics to budgeting and grant writing.”

The painting shown will be one of about 60 paintings by Jens Rasmussen that will be exhibited at the Burnett Arts Festival on Aug. 1 at the Northview Event Center in Siren. - submitted The Burnett Arts Festival is funded in part by grants from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Wisconsin Arts Board and the state of Wisconsin. The WHC supports public programs that encourage the people of

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for Nonmembers for Nonmembers

If you can donate prizes, make a cash donation, or would like to volunteer, please call Joan at 715-327-8250.

Includes: Entry fee, prizes, golf, cart and dinner.

Proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Grab your clubs and put on your pink. Come and enjoy a great day for a great cause.

You must preregister before July 16 by calling the Frederic Golf Course at 715-327-8250.

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AMERY – JoAnn Hallquist, rural Amery, will be speaking at the July 28 Polk County Historical Society’s pot luck picnic to be held at Garfield Park, three miles west of Amery on CTH F. Hallquist will be talking about the history of Wapogasset Park, how it was formed, how it was destroyed and lay in limbo after the 1942 tornado, and JoAnn Hallquist its rejuvenation now.

Hallquist was born and raised in the town of Garfield, at the north end of the lake where this premier park is located, and attended Amery High School. After leaving high school in Amery, she received her undergraduate degree at Madison preparing her for the foreign service. She successfully received an appointment as a foreign service officer in the Department of State, serving overseas stints as vice consul in Bermuda, economic officer in Saigon and in Brussels, plus several years of international trade issues, including negotiation of issues in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Hallquist was the economic officer on the Vietnam desk in the State Department during the late 1960s - the years when the war became controversial.

Everyone is welcome to the Polk County Historical Society’s 6:30 p.m. picnic at Lake Wapogasset Park, Tuesday, July 28. - with submitted information

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Wapogasset Park to host speaker JoAnn Hallquist