Leader|june 30|2009

T U E S D AY, J U N E 3 0 , 2 0 0 9 • V O L U M E 7 6 • N O . 4 4 • 2 S E C T I O N S • S E C T I O N A

• Fourth of July celebrations @ Siren, Webster, Danbury, Balsam Lake, Clam Falls, etc.

• Live music @ St. Croix Falls • Tractor pull @ Lorain • Queen pageant @ Balsam Lake • Forts wild rice pancake breakfast @ Danbury • Pie and ice-cream socials throughout area See Coming Events, stories inside

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Fix delayed by high cost, low usage PAGE 3

Who killed 18 geese?

Tour de Revs

Vehicle strikes birds near Cushing PAGE 18

Man dies when tree falls on him Brandi Larson crowned Miss Milltown Currents section

Services Thursday for Dwight “Ike” Olson PAGE 4

School board will stick with its own plan Board meets with community focus group PAGE 6

What about...Bill?

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Woman knocked down by bear No serious injuries; DNR investigates PAGE 3

Unemployment dips slightly in Burnett, Polk Voyager showcases improvements Back page

New figures released PAGE 2

Panel of judges will hear appeal of Huggett State to handle case PAGE 2

Unity Legion picks it up over Luck See SPORTS Inside this section

Income up for Golden Age Manor Home profitable through May PAGE 4

The trio of riders was all smiles as they began their ride from Luck Lutheran Church in Luck. - Photo by Carl Heidel

Battle against hunger reaches Polk-Burnett area Unique bicycle carries Tour de Revs

by Carl Heidel POLK-BURNETT COUNTIES - It’s billed as the Tour de Revs, and it’s object is to battle world hunger. Last Friday it rolled through Polk and Burnett counties on a bamboo bicycle built for three.

The revs in this project are three pastors from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America parishes in West Virginia, Reinhold Schlak, Jr., Frederick Soltow and David Twedt.

They’re taking their message across 13,000 miles of the U.S., to 65 cities, in 100 days, and they’re doing it with a one-of-akind bicycle.

Last Friday the Ridin’ Revs made stops at Lutheran churches in Luck, Frederic, Falun, Grantsburg and rural Grantsburg, Branstad. And at each stop the crowds gathered to examine the unique bicycle and listen to the pastors’ message.

The pastors are riding with three goals in mind. First, to create an awareness of local and world hunger; second, to stimulate ELCA congregations to formulate and implement realistic plans to eradicate hunger; and third, to raise money to support the battle against hunger.

It wasn’t just the young bicycling set that was interested in the bamboo bike. The appeal reached across all ages.

Their message pulled no punches.

Soltow pulled out a Bible marked with sections that spoke of God’s concern for justice, for an end to poverty and hunger, some 2,000 plus selections. According to him, Revelations says that God opposes

See Tour de Revs, page 14

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That’s actor/comedian Bill Murray in the life jacket, standing alongside Eric Flinn and his staff at Eric’s Bike and Canoe Rental in St. Croix Falls on Saturday, June 20.

A former member of the “Saturday Night Live!” cast and star of movies such as “Caddyshack,” “Ghostbusters,” “Groundhog Day” and “What About Bob?,” Murray stopped at the Polk County Information Center with friends before heading to Eric’s, across Hwy. 35 from the center, to rent the canoes, according to The Valley Wire.

Employee Katelin Zevenbergen said Murray was funny and curiously poked his head into the windows of the rental shop and made faces at a barking dog. Murray is no stranger to the region, visiting the Twin Cities frequently as part-owner of the St. Paul Saints minor league baseball team. He was accompanied down the St. Croix River to the Osceola Landing by Mike Veeck, co-owner of the Saints and son of Bill Veeck, former owner of the Chicago White Sox. Also on the trip were Murray’s sons, Jackson, Cooper and Lincoln, and some friends. See The Valley Wire for more on the story. – Photo courtesy Eric’s Bike and Canoe Rental and The Valley Wire RIGHT: Bill Murray, wearing a life jacket in “What About Bob?” – Special photo

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New unemployment numbers show decline in both Burnett and Polk

Folk humorist, Mary Mack will be kicking off the Midwest portion of her CD release tour Friday, July 3, at Madden's Steakhouse in Siren. Mack refers to her new album, Pinch Finger Girl, as a "tragedomedy." The live stories teeter on the edge of sadness yet end in a humorous, albeit skewed manner. After the Siren performance, Mack will take her schtick to California, Georgia and Quebec, before continuing the run of midwest shows in Eau Claire, Alma, Cloquet, Minn., and Minneapolis. Mack, aka Webster graduate Mikelle Budge, appeared in last summer's Last Comic Standing semifinals on NBC, and on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham that same month. She and her mandolin/clarinet sing-alongs, have been featured on the nationally syndicated “Bob and Tom Radio Show” and XM's “National Lampoon's Comedy Network.” Other credits include appearances in the Vancouver Comedy Fest (2007), HBO's Andy Kaufman Awards (2007) and best of the KQ92 Morning Show. Mack started her comedy career in Nashville after a fiveyear polka band leader and music teacher stint. To her worried mother's dismay, she now divides her time between Los Angeles, Minneapolis and northern Wisconsin.

Tickets for the 9 p.m. show are $10, and are available day of at the door. CDs will be available for sale. In fact, Mack claims if you bring in her last CD, she'll give you a discount on the new one. Clips and more available at marymackcomedy.com or myspace.com/mary_mikelle_mack Special photo

Couple found dead in home Cause unclear CASEY – The bodies of a Casey couple were discovered Saturday, June 27, after the Washburn County Sheriff’s Department responded to an animal complaint.

According to the Sheriff’s Department, deputies were sent to investigate a barking dog complaint at an N7801 Little Bass Lake Road residence around 9:15 p.m. Saturday. There, they discovered Edward L. Linehan, 72, and his wife, Susan A. Linehan, 69, deceased.

The cause of death was unclear.

The sheriff’s department said the investigation into the deaths is proceeding in a manner consistent with its processing of a crime scene. There is no indication that a crime has been committed, but the investigation will continue until such time as the cause and manner of their deaths are determined.

Sheriff Terry Dryden called in the Wisconsin Criminal Laboratory technicians from Wausau to process the scene.

The bodies were transported to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s office in Minnesota to determine the cause of death.

This matter was still under investigation as of Monday morning, June 29. – submitted by the Washburn County Sheriff’s Department

and Polk counties was lower during the month of May than in April, according to data released by the Department of Workforce Development on Wednesday, June 24.

Burnett County’s May rate was 10.5 percent, lower than the 12 percent recorded in April. The county ranked 11th highest in the state in unemployment.

Polk County’s May rate was 9.9 percent, lower than the 11.2 percent it recorded in April. Polk County ranked 20th in the state.

Rusk County again held the highest unemployment rate in the state at 13.4 percent. The lowest rate in the state was Dane County with a 5.9-percent unemployment rate.

The unemployment rate decreased in 49 of 72 counties from April to May. It stayed the same in seven and increased in 16 counties, including Dane County. Last month the unemployment rate in Dane County was 5.6 percent.

All counties recorded a higher unemployment rate over a year ago. The Wisconsin unemployment rate is 8.7 percent overall, down one-tenth of a percentage point from a month ago.

There are 2,828,400 estimated employed in Wisconsin and 276,300 unemployed statewide.

The current U.S. unemployment rate is 9.4 percent.

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BURNETT/POLK COUNTIES - There’s plenty to do this weekend with many area communities offering public Fourth of July celebrations. For those wanting to provide your own fireworks display, the DNR cautions that conditions are still dry in the area and fireworks have been known to start wildfires.

••• ST. CROIX FALLS - The Wannigan Days Talent Show will be held Thursday, July 16, starting at 6:30 pm at the Overlook in downtown St. Croix Falls. This is the 8th year the event has taken place thanks to the generosity and community spirit of Eagle Valley Bank which has donated the $800 in prize money each year. The competition has three age categories with cash prize winners to the top three in each age group.

If you would like to be in the talent show please call 483-3913. Space is limited. - submitted ••• AMERY - The National Active and Retired Federal Employees, Chapter 1581, will hold a dinner meeting at noon on July 9 at The Tac in Amery. All active and retired federal employees are welcome. Reservations may be made by calling 715-268-8618 by noon July 6. - Submitted

Woman knocked down by bear

DNR investigates incident SIREN - Department of Natural Resource officials are investigating an incident involving a bear knocking a woman down outside her home on the outskirts of Siren Sunday evening.

The woman, who wished not to be identified, sustained minor injuries was treated and released from a local hospital.

The bear had entered the family’s home a few nights earlier before leaving through a porch door and causing some damage. Because the bear had been at the woman’s home on several other nights and appears to be unafraid of humans, DNR officials say that to assure public safety, if and when the animal is found it will be euthanized.

“What we have here is a problem with a wild animal that has become habituated to raiding bird feeders, area garbage cans, and other human foods,” said DNR Northern Region Wildlife Supervisor, Mike Zeckmeister. Nearly all human-bear conflicts are a result of the animal’s search for food and inevitably this becomes a problem when bears associate people with food sources, he said. He added that there are enough natural foods for bears to eat.

Human encounters with bears resulting in injuries are rare, according to Regional Law Enforcement Supervisor Dave Zebro.

He noted that only a few times each year do his wardens and wildlife staff have to deal with incidents of this type. He stressed that law enforcement officials are the only ones authorized to kill or euthanize bears and other wild animals outside of the normal hunting seasons.

The bear is believed to be about 125 pounds, putting it in the yearling class, Zeckmeister said. A larger bear had also been seen near the residence. Bears are nearing the end of their breeding season, and this is a time when sow bears are forcing yearling bears out of the family group, he said.

Federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service trappers have placed a culvert type live trap at the residence and plan to place a similar trap in the area in hopes of trapping the bears. Area residents are urged to leave the traps alone and to remove all bird feeders, outside dog food, and put garbage indoors. “This family was not intentionally feeding wild animals but other people in the area were,” the wildlife biologist said.

Along with the APHIS trappers the DNR is working with the county sheriff’s office in the investigation and work in finding the bears.

“The safety and health of our citizens are our primary focus in this investigation,” Zebro said. - from the DNR

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W stands for “worst”

CTH W is considered the worst road in Polk County; fix delayed by high cost, low usage

by Gregg Westigard WEST SWEDEN CTH W from Frederic north to the Burnett County line is the worst county road in Polk County.

That statement is not an opinion, it is the official highway department ranking of the seven-mile stretch of road. Its condition has been recorded in all the department studies. But the cost of repair, combined with the traffic count for the stretch, has ranked this project low in the Polk County Six Year Road Plan.

The West Sweden town board hopes that the highway’s repair can be moved up on the highway department’s list of projects. In response to a request from the town board, the highway committee will reinspect the road July 30, according to town Chair Dennis O’Donnell. A report on that inspection and options will be presented at the West Sweden town board meeting in August. The date of that meeting has not been set.

Reconstructing the seven miles of road would cost an estimated $10 to $14 million, according to highway commissioner Steve Warndahl. That is four times the amount bonded, $2.5 million, to for the first five years of the road plan. Warndahl says that fixing the road to the federal standards required to get aid for the reconstruction would destroy much of the ascetic beauty of stretches of the road that wind past marshes and through a grove of pines. Even doing an overlay on the road is estimated to cost

Just one example of the poor condition much of CTH W is in. - Photo by Gregg Westigard $500,000 and that would be a temporary fix.

Driving the seven miles north of Frederic reveals why this section, designated W4 in the county highway system, is a difficult project. The road, which is rarely straight, skirts hillsides and wetlands. These wetlands create a special problem since there is nowhere to widen or straighten the road, which was built over an unstable base many years ago. This is especially true on the three mile stretch near Grace Lutheran Church and the Skol Haus.

Warndahl says some work will be

done on W4 this fall. But the highway department and its governing committee are faced with allocating limited levy dollars to the upkeep of 330 miles of county highways. Each year, the cost and complexity of W4 has kept the project low on the road plan. The present Polk County Six Year Road Plan does not include any work on W4 until 2013 when a thin overlay will be laid over the existing surface at an estimated cost of $227,000. The town hopes that something can be done sooner.

Handberg speaker at Friends annual author’s luncheon

by Carl Heidel WEBSTER- Ron Handberg, nationally known author and former news director at WCCO, will be the speaker at the annual author’s luncheon at the Burnett Community Library July 11. The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, and co-sponsored by the Webster Lionesses.

In 1989, after a career in television broadcasting that spanned nearly 30 years, Handberg fulfilled a lifelong dream to pursue a career as a novelist.

His first novel, “Savage Justice,” came off the presses in 1992, and this was followed by three more novels in the next few years.

Three of Handberg’s novels are in the “journalistic mystery” genre, and the fourth, “Dead Silence,” is based on a real event that occurred in Minneapolis almost 50 years ago. Rights to reprint the books have been purchased in several European countries, and a screenplay has been made from his book, “Cry Vengeance.” His fifth novel is waiting

Ron Handberg, nationally known author and former news director at WCCO, will be the speaker at the annual author’s luncheon at the Burnett Community Library July 11. Special photo

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A graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism, Handberg led WCCO Television to major regional, national and international awards in broadcast journalism. In 2000, the St. Paul Pioneer Press named him one of the 150 Influential Minnesotans in the past 150 years.

The luncheon will begin with punch and visiting at 11:30 a.m., and the lunch will be served at noon by the Lionesses.

Handberg will speak at 1 p.m.

Friends President Bonnie Niemi expressed gratitude for the support that the Lionesses have provided for this event over the years. She attributes much of the success for past luncheons to the lunches that the Lionesses have provided.

Tickets for the July 11 luncheon are $6, and are available at the Burnett Community Library in Webster or from any member of Friends of the Library.

Challenges filed in tribal election

HERTEL - Challenges to the results of the June 13 tribal council election of the St. Croix Tribe of Chippewa Indians have been filed, according to the latest issue of The Vision.

Unofficial results show that four of the five incumbents were defeated.

Only incumbent Jay “Elmer” Emery retained his seat on the council.

Election results are unofficial pending the appeals and the decision of the election board.

Following are the unofficial results of the vote by tribal members in their four communities:

Big Sand Lake Leo Butler - 182 Michael Decorah (I) - 151 Elmer “Jay” Emery, Jr. (I) 210 Bennie Rogers - 117 Francis Songetay - 145 Lewis Taylor - 251

Maple Plain Jeanne Awonohopay - 194 Michael L. Bearhart - 20 Hazel Hindsley - 147 Peter LaBlanc - 119 Wynn Merrill - 27 Marlene Mitchell - 38

Danbury Beverly Benjamin - 209 Gloria E. Benjamin - 178 Nancy Matrious - 86 Susie Matrious - 19 Delores Staples - 52

Round Lake Georgia Cobenais - 75 Steven Fowler - 13 Jerald “Jerry” Lowe - 122 Phyllis Lowe - 37 David “Maabin” Merrill - 192 Jimmy Mosay Sr. - 91 Thomas Saros - 18

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Large county boards a Wisconsin tradition Change is possible

by Gregg Westigard BURNETT/POLK COUNTIES – Once upon a time the county boards included the chairs of each town board and supervisors elected from each village or city.

Until the mid-1960s, that meant a 35member board for Polk County and a 24member board for Burnett County. The board met twice a year, to organize in the spring and to prepare a budget in the fall. That was then.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling man-

dating equal representation led to the requirement that counties be divided into districts of equal population that elected the supervisors. The counties set up districts that followed the old town lines as much as possible, and the county boards stayed very much the same size. The Polk County board actually decreased from 35 to 23 over the years.

Every 10 years, after the census, counties must redraw the district boundaries to reflect the population changes. The new lines are drawn by the boards elected in the census years, (1990, 2000, 2010) and the new district lines go into

effect the next election (1992, 2002, 2012).

In the past, those lines have remained unchanged until the next 10 years or five elections.

A new Wisconsin law allows district lines to be changed one additional time during the ten years between the census changes. This change can be made by the county board or by a referendum initiated by residents and approved by the voters. Several counties have used this process to lower the size of their county boards.

It is too late for referendums to change the size of the county boards elected in

2010 since a referendum must be approved at the next scheduled election and that will be the April 2010 that elects the new board.

County boards could change board size for the 2010 election, but they would need to complete action before December 2009, the start of the filing period for the 2010 election.

The boards elected in 2010 will be required to draw new district lines so any change in the county boards now would only apply to one election.

Income up for Golden Age Manor Home profitable through May

by Gregg Westigard AMERY – Golden Age Manor, the Polk County-owned nursing home in Amery, is showing a profit from operations through May. The latest financial figures, released at the monthly meeting of the GAM governing board Tuesday, June 23, show that year-to-date revenue is up over the previous year while expenses are basically

the same. The home shows a net income of $300,000 through May 31. Of that, $116,000 is a profit from operations.

Revenues from operations are up $154,000 over the same period for 2008.

The increases come from medical assistance revenue and various therapy services. These increases total $223,865 and are offset by a drop of $75,546 from Medicare and private pay revenues. The total GAM revenue of $2,972,577 is within $95,000 of the budget.

In addition to operating income, Golden Age Manor receives funds from

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the state through the supplemental payments program, designed to cover losses government-owned nursing homes incur from serving medical assistance residents. The SP revenue through May is $184,000, up $96,000 from the prior year.

Expenses through May total $2,672,464, up $26,000 from the previous year but $245,000 under budget. The result of all this is the net income of $300,113. Excluding the $184,000 SP revenue, Golden Age Manor was made $116,113 from operations. GAM lost

$12,500 through May 2008 from operations and showed a net income of $76,000 only when the SP revenue was included.

GAM has been operating at close to full capacity each month this year. The occupancy goal of 94 percent has been exceeded each month, reaching a peak of 98.53 percent occupancy in March. Since Medicare residents are in the home for short periods of time during recovery from hospitalization, a 100-percent occupancy rate might be unobtainable.

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Golden Age Manor turns 50 this year

Anniversary party in August

A newly refurbished water tower in Balsam Lake greets visitors traveling north into town on Hwy. 46. The tower was completed just in time for the town’s Freedom Fest celebration that runs Thursday-Sunday, July 2-5. – Photo

by Marty Seeger

by Gregg Westigard AMERY – Golden Age Manor will have a 50th birthday party, Aug. 30.

Preliminary details were announced at the GAM governing board meeting, Monday. Also on the board’s agenda was an update on the progress of three remodeling projects, some of which have been delayed by the bidding process.

GAM’s profitable financial picture is reported in a separate story.

The birthday party will be held during the afternoon of the last Sunday in August. The Friends of Golden Age Manor are raising donations for the public event and for an anniversary booklet. GAM administrator Gary Taxdahl said details of the program are being worked out, but 350 people are expected for the party.

The remodeling projects are for roof repairs, new carpeting and the replacement of the 50-year-old windows on the nursing home. Bids were requested for each project with mixed results. There were no bids at all for the carpeting, and

a local contractor said not enough time was allowed to get bids in.

“There was only three working days to get the bids together,” Gary Bruce, owner of Independent Roofing, Clear Lake, told the board. He said the bid request was not advertised locally, and the one newspaper listing did not give local contractors a chance to compete for the projects.

Board member Gerald Newville described the bid process as difficult. He said the specs for the three projects totaled 170 pages and a bonding requirement that appeared to tie up the bidders money for up to 30 days may have discouraged bids.

Details for the carpeting bids included an installation schedule that was said to be different from that provided by GAM staff. The limited hours to do the work, too many specifications, too short a bidding time, and too restrictive a bonding process were all cited as reasons why no one bid for the carpet job. It will be rebid.

Bids for the windows and roof are being reviewed. The low bids may be taken to the July county board meeting for approval.

Siren man dies after tree falls on him TOWN OF MEENON – A 56-year-old Siren man lost his life Sunday, June 28, when a tree fell on him as he cut firewood.

Dwight “Ike” Olson managed to call 911 himself, using his cell phone, and pulled himself from under the tree, but

his injuries were extensive.

The accident occurred at approximately 5:30 p.m.

An ambulance took Olson to Burnett Medical Center in Grantsburg and an air ambulance was dispatched to BMC, but Olson lost his life before the helicopter

arrived.

According to Burnett County Medical Examiner Mike Maloney, Olson sustained head injuries, his upper leg was broken, and he likely sustained internal bleeding.

Funeral services were scheduled for

this Thursday at Bethany Lutheran Church in Siren.

A death notice is published elsewhere in this issue of the Leader. – Gary King

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In other business The city approved increasing the room tax from three percent to four percent to be reviewed in a year. The room tax committee met and discussed ways to help support tourism and the Polk County Information Center, as well as helping hotels fund administration costs for the room tax, by getting some type of percentage back. The idea was to increase the room tax from 3 percent to four percent to accomplish this. The idea was even expanded to allow for a five percent room tax. Dawn Peterson and her husband Roger own the Dalles House Motel. Dawn Peterson was in attendance and stated that the three percent room tax is already hurting their business because people get upset or leave and state they will stay somewhere else when they find out about the room tax. “Five percent will really hurt us,” she said.

Arnie Carlson said he could understand what Peterson was saying, but also was puzzled by someone who would leave over an extra $1.50 to $2. “I just don’t what to say to that,” he said. After a brief discussion, the council approved a four percent room tax with the review of said tax in a year to make sure it is not hurting the lodging businesses in the city.

•The council approved the tug-of-war across the St. Croix River for Wannigan Days.

•The council met the newest member of the VISTA crew, Katelin Holm, who just started work for the program. Holm’s salary is funded by federal dollars, not local city dollars.

•The council was introduced to Sherri Steele as the city tourism director, recently hired.

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ST. CROIX FALLS–The city of St. Croix Falls council held to a tie vote on a resolution to grant a Class B liquor license to Indian Creek Winery at the June 29 council meeting.

The issue sparked public comment at the last council meeting June 8, when the council approved liquor licenses, but the license for Indian Creek was tabled until June 29.

The main concern, say local establishment owners was that the license was for a capacity of 300, and they didn’t see 300 seats at the winery and grille, and the dilution of liquor licenses available in the city. According to the background reports, at the time of the purchase of the business

by Mike Welch, the city agreed to allow for the outdoor seating for 3 years. Mayor Darrell Anderson attested to this as he voted yes to break the tie vote and grant the license.

“I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror if we back pedaled on this,” he said. “We made a deal with them and they stuck money into this business that would have been foreclosed on and probably empty today.”

The resolution began, “Whereas: the city has the authority to grant class B liquor licenses and has executed an agreement with Indian Creek Orchards Winery and Grille to utilize the adjacent ‘mini-park’ space owned by the city…”

The rest of the resolution stated that the city granted a liquor license to Indian Creek under the 300 seat exemption, use of the mini-park created vitality in the downtown, therefore, the city shall grant a oneyear Class B liquor license to Indian creek with 3 conditions: 1. During the permit year, the winery should explore the potential of securing a Class B liquor license from an existing entity. 2. Any renewals to the license in following years will have a public hearing with all Class B liquor li-

to vote no, not because she didn’t like the business, but because she could not make heads or tails of the seating plan submitted

by Indian Creek. She also stated, “The basic assumptions here are if you don’t have a hard liquor license, it would be detrimental to your business. By having wine and beer, your business could still flourish.”

Greg Miller, Indian Creek, responded that 30 percent of their business is hard liquor. “People want margaritas and martinis on weekends. Our food prices are low, but our liquor is our moneymaker. That is how we pay the bills.”

Council member Paul Kuhlman, who also voted against the motion, stated that he was also new on the council at the time and wished he were better informed at the time he approved the agreement with Indian Creek. He said he felt the business was very positive and it was nothing against Indian Creek. “It was very hard for me to vote the way I did,” he said.

On the other side, council president Arnie Carlson said he supports the idea with the 1-year review and added that he has heard that the downtown businesses support it as well.

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cense holders duly notified. 3. The city work with the Jim Miller family on placing a small sign designating the park, Miller Park, in recognition of the original deed of the property to the city.

The resolution also noted the concerns aired at the June 8 meeting stating: “Legitimate concerns have been raised and expressed regarding: a. increasing number of Class B liquor licenses dilutes the value of existing licenses, and protections need to be in place to assure the ‘mini-park’ remains public in intent and to prevent a slow privatization of the space.”

Much discussion took place prior to the vote June 29. Owner of Red Brick Grill, Jared Brunfelt, said that it was his understanding if there were an available liquor license, he would be the first in line for it after hearing the condition about Indian Creek looking to secure an available license. City administrator Ed Emerson confirmed that Brunfelt is the first in line for said license.

Jim Miller, long-time owner of the Dalles House restaurant in the past, stated he was concerned that the city was creating licenses that shouldn’t be created and that it not only devalues the existing licenses in the city, but also sets precedence.

Steve Balej, Dalles House, expressed his concern about the 300 seating, saying he didn’t believe there were 300 seats to warrant the license, and also stated his concern that once the city grants the license to Indian Creek, Brunfelt could come in next and request the same thing. Balej said he felt like there would be as many as 10 licenses in the city if the pace continued and the city granted new licenses. He also stated former mayor Lee Uhrhammer took the Dalles House license and gave it to another establishment, and that the Dalles House was told the only license they could get was a 300 seating one, rather than the one it held for 60 years.

Debra Kravig, council member, stated she was new on the council at the time this proposal came through and she was going

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Appeal of Huggett case to be heard by panel of judges

by Sherill Summer BURNETT COUNTY - On May 29 Judge James Babbitt dismissed the second-degree homicide charge with prejudice - against Kyle Huggett because the sheriff’s department did not preserve two allegedly threatening voice mails left by John Peach shortly before he traveled to Huggett’s Danbury home on Jan. 20, 2008.

Peach was shot and killed by Huggett after Peach entered Huggett’s home.

Exactly one month later, on Monday, June 29, the Burnett County District Attorney’s office filed a notice of appeal with the Burnett County Clerk of Court. This notice is the formal start of the district attorney’s at-

tempt to overturn Babbitt’s decision, but the appeal process actually began within days of the Babbitt’s decision when Burnett County District Attorney Bill Norine contacted the Wisconsin Department of Justice to obtain permission to file an appeal, permission he received last week.

From now on, the DOJ will lead the appeal process, and Norine will be a resource for the DOJ. Burnett County is in the Wisconsin Court of Appeal’s Third District, based in Wausau. It is likely that a panel of three judges will decide this case.

But before the court of appeal judges can review Babbitt’s ruling, Huggett’s court file, now in Burnett

County, will be forwarded to Wausau along with new briefs from Huggett’s defense attorney and the DOJ. All necessary court files and briefs must be in Wausau 40 days after a notice of appeal has been filed. There is additional time for the DOJ and Huggett’s defense attorney to respond to each other’s briefs.

Once everything is in Wausau, a screening process will determine if appeal judges will hear oral arguments or if they will make a decision based on the briefs, among other key information, and the case will be placed on the schedule.

At this time there is no estimation when a decision might be reached.

School board sticks with its own plan

Clarifies plan to improve communication

by Sherill Summer SIREN - It has been a week since a community focus group submitted a plan to the Siren School Board aiming to improve school climate and create better communication between the community and the school board, and on Monday, June 29, the submitted plan was on the agenda of a special school board meeting.

The community focus group’s plan was an alternative to the school board’s own plan developed earlier this month that also attempts to improve the climate within the school district and tackle some personnel issues that have dominated public comments in recent school board meetings.

Despite the common objectives of both plans, there are differences between the two. The community group’s plan uses an independent facilitator to lead discussions, and the school administration, Scott Johnson, would not be part of the initial process.

The school board’s plan uses a series of meeting, many conducted in closed session, to discuss the problems.

The school board room was filled to capacity during Monday’s special meeting. During the public comments session, the legality of the school board’s plan and the school board’s procedure of developing a plan in closed session was questioned by the public. There was also a call to change the order of the scheduled meetings in the school board’s plan so that the community discussion would be first, before the closed meeting with staff and support staff, instead of vice versa.

After the public comments, school board members Molly Bentley and Jeff Howe stated that they both prefer the school board’s own plan over the community group’s plan. Dave McGrane also stated his preference for the school board’s plan earlier during the public comments. Stated reasons for the preference were the need for closed session to discuss personnel issues and the inclusion of the administration during the process.

School board President Dayton Daniels added, “I don’t know if it is our plan or their plan that will be important, but I think we need to get to work and solve problems.” He also reiterated the need for the administrator to be part of the process. “To exclude the administration at any point of the process is wrong, because they need to know the problem to solve the problem.”

The board also discussed the logistic problems of

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Local student named to honor list MOORHEAD, Minn. – Dr. Mark Krejci, provost and dean of the college, has announced the names of students whose superior academic achievement during the second semester of the 2008-09 academic year placed them on the dean’s honor list at Concordia College.

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changing the order of the scheduled meetings and have the community discussion first, as proposed in the public comments, since letters have already been sent out to staff and support staff informing them of the meeting dates.

In the end, no action was taken on the submitted community focus group’s plan and the school board’s own plan remains the plan of action.

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Area youth are Balsam Lake grand marshals

Johanna Alling and Julia Larsen, 2009 Unity High School graduates, will be honored as this year’s Balsam Lake Freedom Festival’s grand marshals. The girls received the Balsam Lake Chamber of Commerce scholarships this year and were asked to be grand marshals to honor youth active in the community.

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Larsen is the daughter of Evelyn and the late Jim Larsen. “The girls have their hearts in the right place. They think of others first; I am so proud of them,” added Alling. ”We have learned a lot about helping others from our family and the others in our community,” said Johanna. “You can learn so much by listening to the elders in the community. It’s easy to do things for others, you just have to ask or offer to help. Our grandma, Gloria Larsen, has been such a wonderful role model. She always told us to do unto others as you want to have happen to you.”

Larsen’s favorite service activity that she has participated in is the MORP afterprom party that she and Alling initiated five years ago. “MORP (Prom spelled backwards) has grown each year, providing a healthy alternative for youth to participate in after prom,” says Julia.

Alling’s favorite service activity has been participating in the Clean Boats Clean Waters program, because, she says, “We are making a difference and we get to meet so many people coming to Balsam Lake. Thanks to Carl Holmgren and the Balsam Lake Lakes Association for the opportunity.” Also Alling has enjoyed assisting with the Ruby’s Pantry program.

“I like to see the people smile,” she said. Alling was also instrumental in the organization of the FFA day of service where FFA members went out into the community to do service projects. “I think it is only right that we give back to the community that supports us,” she said.

The Balsam Lake beach and Pine Park are the favorite places Alling and Larsen enjoy the most in Balsam Lake. “We hope people take the time to visit both when they come to town for the Freedom Festival,” says Larsen. Alling added, “We really like the Balsam Lake/Unity community. It is a safe place to grow up; everyone knows one another.” ”We would like to thank the Balsam Lake Chamber of Commerce for giving us the honor to be the grand marshals for the Freedom Festival. We are very appreciative of them for being so proactive in recognizing youth in the community.” – with submitted information.

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BALSAM LAKE - Johanna Alling and Julia Larsen, 2009 Unity High School graduates, have been named grand marshals for the 2009 Balsam Lake Freedom Festival.

When Corby Stark, member of the Balsam Lake Chamber of Commerce, called and asked the young ladies if they would consider being grand marshals, they responded, “Why us? Isn’t that something that the elders in the community are recognized for?”

Stark responded that the chamber was interested in recognizing them for their participation in the community, and since the two of them received the Balsam Lake Chamber of Commerce scholarships this year, they were glad to accept the position.

Both Alling and Larsen, who are also cousins, have been extremely active in the Unity community in a variety of ways. In the past four years in high school, the two have a combined community-involvement level of 1,800-plus hours. They have been members of the South Milltown 4-H for the past 13 years, both having served as Polk County 4-H ambassadors. They have been members of the Unity FFA for the past six years, both having been in numerous leadership roles, have gone to the National FFA Convention, have both been in the state FFA AgriScience Fair and each received their state FFA degree in June.

The girls have been members of the Unity Leos Club for the past seven years, assisting the Unity Lions as needed and doing service projects for the community.

Through Leos, they have assisted with a used school supplies project, sending these items to Nicaragua through the Polk County Home and Community Education program. Both girls also graduated from the Unity Girl Scout program this year after having been instrumental in the development of a Christmas cookie program that sent 220 dozen cookies to troops through the Cookie Brigade this year and in the promotion of the community prom with the adult development center. ”Johanna and Julia don’t think twice when asked to help with something. It is the way they were brought up,” said Jeanne Alling, their advisor and leader for their youth activities. Alling is the daughter of Jeanne and Albert Alling.

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Results from last week’s poll:

This week’s question:

Should money budgeted by local municipalities for fireworks be donated to the local food shelf instead?

1. No 2. Yes

To take part in our poll, go to www.theleader.net and scroll down to the lower left part of the screen

J o e H e l l e r

F O R U M Playing it safe

It’s always inspiring to see the effort by local volunteers for the American Cancer Society.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been raised by the walk and relay events in Burnett and Polk counties alone.

The events also give inspiration to cancer survivors and an opportunity to publicly honor those loved ones who have lost battles to the disease. For many of us, that’s enough of a reason to plan, support and take part.

While offering support of local cancer events for years, this newspaper – more specifically this space - has also offered some disparaging words, pointing out there really hasn’t been much significant progress made in the fight.

Some cancer treatments, perhaps the most common, have remained the same over the last half a century.

This week the New York Times validated that thought, publishing an article that suggests a few disarming theories – and if you believe the numbers – facts.

Here are a few paragraphs from the article: • “The cancer institute has spent $105 billion since President Richard M. Nixon declared war on the disease in 1971. The American Cancer Society, the largest private financer of cancer research, has spent about $3.4 billion on research grants since 1946.”

• “The fight against cancer is going slower than most had hoped, with only small changes in the death rate in the almost 40 years since it began.”

• “One major impediment, scientists agree, is the grant system itself. It has become a sort of jobs program, a way to keep research laboratories going year after year with the understanding that the focus will be on small projects unlikely to take significant steps toward curing cancer.”

• “The private American Cancer Society follows a similarly cautious path.

Last year, it awarded $124 million in new research grants, with some money coming from large donors but most from events like walkathons and memorial donations.”

Again, most of us are fine with our fight – the one we wage at the most local of levels, walking, remembering, helping people fight the disease by simply supporting travel costs and wigs for those losing their hair while undergoing chemotherapy.

But if you’re so inclined, it may not hurt to write a few letters, ask a few questions and apply a little political pressure. The ACS knows that playing it safe with donations is an insult to our children and grandchildren who face another generation of fighting this disease – and losing loved ones too soon.

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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

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

We’re convinced state Legislators feel they did the best they could in cobbling a two-year state budget in times of an enormous deficit and tough economic times.

But it remains a tough sell to citizens in the trenches, eeking out a living from paycheck to paycheck. The term “insulated with ignorance,” used liberally by a longtime local government official, comes to mind.

Despite trying to overcome a huge deficit, the Legislature “protected working families,” said Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Madison), co-chair of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee.

We’re sure Mr. Pocan believes that. And he has numbers to help him sleep well. Just $128 more a year, he said. That’s how much this new budget will cost the average family. About $94 more in property taxes, $27 more due to a new 75-cent fee on phone lines, and $7 more to cover increased landfill fees.

What a bargain.

Unfortunately, $128 might as well be $128,000 to many of our taxpayers.

And Mr. Pocan failed to average in the jump in cost of insurance premiums – vehicle owners will be required to have insurance and more liability coverage.

Gov. Doyle received a letter from 13 state legislators who requested he remove the provisions involving changes to Wisconsin’s auto insurance laws and regulations.

“The changes…will result in higher costs to consumers at a time when they can least afford it.”

The current insurance limits, the legislators note, “are sufficient to cover over 90 percent of all claims.” Wisconsin residents, already struggling to make ends meet, won’t be able to afford being forced to buy auto insurance at the highest liability limits in the nation.

And yes, there was some deep thought put into this budget.

The wealthiest taxpayers will pay more in income taxes – those with incomes more than $225,000. There will be an across-the-board six percent cut in spending by state agencies, staff cuts and furloughs among state employees.

And cuts in aid to local governments and schools.

All still resulting in another $128 for each of our families.

It’s the two steps forward, three steps back method of budgeting.

The serious side of bears

Some readers are tiring of the bear photos we’ve published week after week.

Others find it entertaining.

“I wish I could see a bear!” wrote one Leader reader.

Well, this week brings a bit more serious side to bear watching. A young Siren women, reportedly in the advanced stages of pregnancy, had a run-in with a small black bear. She wasn’t seriously injured, but the potential for greater harm was obviously there.

She wishes to remain unnamed and keep the incident low-key, but the DNR saw it as an opportunity to do what they do best - educate the public about wildlife and situations like this.

Their press release, on page 3 of this section, illustrates some good points about avoiding conflict with the animals we love to watch and photograph.

All editorials by Gary King

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Letters t o t h e e d i t o r Voice concerns on Luck land purchase Earlier this month I learned the village of Luck offered to purchase 109 acres of agricultural land to develop as an industrial park. There are two issues that make this move by the village noteworthy: the village’s Comprehensive Land-Use Plan (adopted in May 2009) designates this property for “rural preservation” and the property is right across the road from Little Butternut Lake.

On May 6 of this year the village approved the Comprehensive Land-Use Plan that designates this particular property for “rural preservation.” One month later the village ignored this plan and moved to purchase this property for an industrial park. The Comprehensive Land-Use Plan cost was in excess of $20,000. Why spend the money on a plan if it was not to be considered?

At the June 15 special meeting I was asked by a village trustee if I was willing to pay more taxes if the proposed industrial development was not pursued. I rejected the idea that moving forward with this proposal will bring anyone’s property taxes down. Placing an industrial development on farmland, especially when it is a stone’s throw from a lake, is questionable at best. This purchase should be stopped for economic as well as environmental reasons. Iver’s Mountain was a closed sale before anyone knew about it. This sale isn’t closed!

The village of Luck decided to seek public input on this venture after the property is purchased. I contend that input should be solicited prior to the purchase and ask the village president and her fellow trustees to reconsider.

Let’s work together to better analyze this

proposal so we are all well-informed, fiscally responsible and respectful of our natural world and agricultural heritage.

I was told at a village meeting that Luck was built on a swamp and there isn’t any place for the village to expand except into this 109-acre farm. Personally, it is my hope that our legacy won’t be to plant the last flag of industrialism in an environmentally delicate area simply because it has some high ground.

I ask all concerned citizens to attend the July 8 village board meeting to voice your concerns.

Lynn Gregorash Luck village

Chicken haters here, too I read the letter about the two poor chickens that got shot in the cemetery.

We have chicken haters in the Siren area, also.

I had an RIR rooster and an old white hen. Someone who lives close to me called the zoning office. Good waste of tax dollars. Zoning said no chickens.

Then I hatched out some guinea fowl (African game fowl). Everything was OK for one year, then back to zoning again. This time, with more tax dollars wasted, they called them livestock.

Think about that.

So I had to get rid of them, also. I live three miles out of town. Poor birds don’t have a chance.

I just wanted them for pets and to get rid of the ticks.

Sorry it had to happen.

Talk is easy In the last county board election, Herschel Brown won a write-in campaign by pledging to stop the “fleecing” of Polk County taxpayers. He promised to bring spending under control and thus keep property taxes from going up. Who could argue with that?

Unfortunately Supervisor Brown’s performance in office hasn’t matched his rhetoric. On the highway committee he has voted for every spending program that has come before him, including approval of using potential dollars from the federal stimulus package (which he had strenuously opposed in a letter to the editor) to finance a new highway shop. In fact, the only spending cuts he’s supported have been to our libraries, home health care and Golden Age Manor – programs that are essential to our quality of life in Polk County.

Supervisor Brown’s most recent act of hypocrisy was his vote against a county board resolution that would have temporarily suspended supervisors’ ability to collect mileage reimbursements for traveling to and from meetings. While it wouldn’t have saved the county a huge amount of money, passing that resolution would have sent a signal that we’re all in this together. Unfortunately, it failed on a vote of 12-11.

It’s easy to talk about cutting spending when you’re running for office, but it seems like Herschel Brown has found that putting campaign rhetoric into practice is a bit more challenging.

Jan Mathieu Georgetown resident

Al Bennett Siren

Appreciation I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to all of the Frederic 7-12 students, staff and parents who supported my position as 7-12 school counselor. It means a lot to me that so many people took initiative to try and save my position when they learned that I had received a layoff notice in February.

I was aware that the job was potentially a temporary position when I accepted it due to the former counselor, Jan King, being on a leave of absence. I am extremely flattered and honored by all of the support I received, and I am very proud of the students for standing up for something they felt strongly about. I also want to extend my appreciation to the school board members who worked hard on a plan to allow me to stay in my position.

Although I have accepted a counseling position with the Grantsburg School District for the upcoming school year, I will always have a strong connection to the students, parents, staff and community members in Frederic. It has been a memorable year and definitely one I will never forget. Thanks again for all the support.

Cara Casey Frederic

Correction The letter by Bill and Judy Hammond, published in last week’s Leader, had the title of Sen. Kohl deleted in several places, which the authors feel was disrepectful to the senator. The Leader apologizes for the edits.

Governor Doyle puts final ink on budget plan MADISON - Governor Jim Doyle signed Wisconsin's state budget Monday, marking the first time in three decades that a budget was completed on time.

Doyle also vetoed several pieces, including an optional sales tax hike for Milwaukee County. The budget that passed the legislature would have allowed for a .65-percent sales tax increase to pay for buses and public safety in Milwaukee County. It was a far cry from the three-county sales tax the Governor would have allowed in his budget specifically for bus and rail in Southeast Wisconsin.

Democrats make it final: Over $2 billion tax increase in budget The final budget bill, negotiated behind closed doors, passed the State Senate 17-15, with all Republicans and one Democrat voting no. Democratic leadership introduced and passed a twoyear state budget that increases spending by $4 billion, raises state taxes and fees by $2.1 billion, leaves the state with a structural deficit of nearly $2.3 billion for the next budget, and borrows another $2.9 billion.

I voted against the budget bill.

Budget bills are about choices and priorities, and there was little doubt that the historic budget shortfall would be challenging. However, instead of pushing cost-saving reform measures that would help property taxpayers and invest limited taxpayer funds wisely, the budget bill includes measures that will put a crunch on school budgets, increases property tax bills by hundreds more, and targets job providers and in-

The Governor's plan would have created what's known as a "regional transit authority" which qualifies a region for federal funds. Doyle says the plan the legislature passed didn't quite fit that billing, adding that the proposal got things off on the wrong track and it’d be hard to build a true regional transit authority from that.

Doyle also used his partial veto to scale back film tax incentives that passed the legislature. Those are the credits that helped lure the film “Public Enemies” to shoot in Wisconsin. The Governor capped the credits at $500,000 which is

vestors with jobkilling tax increases.

The budget includes over 100 earmarks – or pork projects – that helped get the vote of various legislators for the budget bill. The earmarks Sheila added $50 million Harsdorf to the budget bill!

It is appalling that 10th District when families are working to make Senate ends meet and business are struggling to keep their doors open, certain legislators are trumpeting pet projects at our expense. Nonfiscal policy items were also abundant, and many will now increase the cost of educating our kids, building our roads and living in Wisconsin.

The taxing and credit card spending in this budget bill are unprecedented.

The budget bill now goes to the state Assembly for passage and then onto Gov. Doyle.

along the lines of what he wanted all along. Doyle says these are refundable tax credits, which is like actual cash being handed out to film crews.

Most of the budget survived the Governor's veto pen, including two major insurance mandates. One would require all drivers to carry auto insurance. Another,

Cattleman’s Wife Steve’s a cattleman, hardened by more than 50 years of outdoor work – 24/7. Sue, she’s all about horsemanship – soft hands and an independent seat.

Everything’s about cattle for Steve, whether he’s chiseling the spring fields for corn and beans, or mowing, raking and baling the hay. There’s a ton of stuff on Sue’s plate - her job, the gardens, dogs, neighbors, grandkids and (of course) her horse buddies.

Most of the time, Steve’s wearing almost raggedy T-shirts and well-worn Carhartts, especially for calving and other doctoring. Colorful scarves, tucked carefully out of harm’s way, and well-fit Levi’s help his beautiful woman shine on horseback or in the cattle chute.

The world is a big place, but Steve knows exactly why Italy is buying the whole North Dakota durum crop this year, how much hay Iowa is shipping to Georgia and how much the co-op is paying for beans. Sue knows she’s lucky – Steve cuts for her while the drought is driving up hay prices for her horse friends.

Any cattleman knows that you can’t start naming the animals no matter how good a producer your favorite cow may be. But names abound for horses: there’s the official pedigree name, the barn name and the name that’s earned

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which the Governor highlighted, would require all health policies to cover autism treatment. Doyle said at the signing that he could say it on a lot of issues, but on the autism one especially, “it shows elections matter.” - Wisconsin Public Radio (Shawn Johnson)

Community Voices Lisa Doerr when they eject an ignoramus or cross an especially deep spring creek.

Driving the big John Deere as he listens for an out of beat rhythm in the mechanical rumble, Steve is fine with being alone. Of course, he also loves to track who’s coming and going with their trailers, Buicks and SUVs as he swaths alongside the big road to town.

Hawks, eagles, invading possums and returning wolves also catch his eye and fill his heart.

Riding a fresh two-year-old or her beloved old gelding, Sue never figures herself to be alone. On the best of days she has only to think it and off they trot; perhaps to the creek or over the south ridge. On a bad day she may have to add some leg or a flick of the rein to get things moving. Osprey, fox and deer fill surprising spaces between the grasses, woods and sky.

Lisa Doerr lives with her husband, Ron Erickson, near Cushing, where she writes and trains Rocky Mountain gaited horses. ( www.northernlakesfarm.com)

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Luck joins New Paradigm Partners

Elementary principal contract approved

by Mary Stirrat LUCK — The Luck School District is the newest member of a coalition of schools in northwest Wisconsin called New Paradigm Partners, designed to strengthen rural schools and communities through collaboration.

The Luck School Board of Education voted at its monthly meeting June 29 to become a member, at $3,000 for the year.

According to Sherry Timmermann of New Paradigm, the 16-year-old organization has its roots in rural school superintendents discussing “the plight of rural school districts” and what they could accomplish by working together. They realized that, by working as a consortium, they were more able to compete for resources, grow their purchasing power and share strengths.

In providing the board with an overview of New Paradigm, Timmermann focused on its school-based business program and its Rural Communities Organized for Drug Elimination program.

An example of the school-based business program is Youth Press of Wisconsin, which was started by seven schools in 1997 to train and organize youth in journalism through print media, radio and television. As with other businesses started through the program, Youth Press has become a community-based organization and is now sponsored by the Center for Community Outreach at Marshfield Clinic.

The Rural CODE Coalition involves a comprehensive plan to include all sectors of the community to target access to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs by underage users.

New Paradigm, said Timmermann, was one of 75 organizations that received federal grant money for the program, although more than 400 organizations applied.

A brochure on Rural CODE gives some statistics that indicate the seriousness of underage use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in this area.

Locally, the brochure states, the average age of first use is 11 years old. Statistics show that 65 percent of high school seniors binge drink or consume five or more alcoholic beverages in one sitting.

More than 75 percent of high school stu-

“It seems like a good investment,” said board member Daryl Bazey. “I think it’s a good program.”

The board voted unanimously to join New Paradigm Partners. Other members are the Birchwood, Shell Lake, New Auburn, Northwood and Chetek school districts.

Sherry Timmermann of New Paradigm Partners talks with the Luck School Board Monday evening. – Photo by Mary Stirrat dents say it is easy to obtain alcohol at a party and more than 75 percent say that parents of their friends allow them to drink alcohol in their homes.

Alcohol is associated with the three leading causes of death in teenagers: accidents, homicides and suicides, and five times as many teens die from alcohol an overdose than from any other drug, legal or illegal.

Another alcohol-reduction program sponsored by New Paradigm is the SoberCruzin Summer Program. Targeting students who have just finished sixth- through eighth-grade, the program provides alcohol-free activities in various communities.

Students involved in SoberCruzin have the opportunity to go swimming, fishing, hiking on the Ice Age Trail, take in a movie and have a backstage tour, take a short airplane ride and have a golfing lesson. All the activities are free, and transportation is provided.

The events are free, said Timmermann, thanks to funding from the Kellogg Foundation.

One of the things that makes New Paradigm so unique, she said, is that so many different schools and communities are involved. Each can “leverage” its resources and people to benefit the bigger group.

Frederic Eastern Star “You Are a Star” Award Duane Norgard, second from left, recently achieved 50 years of membership in Eastern Star.

The You Are a Star Award honored Norgard, Mary Norgard (far left), Dorene Grove and LaVerna Petersen for their over 209 cumulative years of service.

Duane is a member of Landmark Masonic Lodge No. 244 in Frederic, Aurora Masonic Lodge No. 100 of Brainerd, Minn., and other Masonic bodies. – Photo submitted by Mary Norgard

American Red Cross baby-sitting class set BALSAM LAKE – The local Red Cross office will be offering Baby-sitting Training Course Saturday, July 11, in the Balsam Lake office of the American Red Cross. This course is recommended for youth ages 11-15. Class time will be 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Each participant will receive the newly

revised handbook, an emergency reference guide and a CD-Rom which includes a printable activity booklet with games, crafts, songs and recipes, a resume template and lots more.

Preregistration is required. Please call 715-485-3025 for more information. - submitted

Elementary principal contract In a closed session at the end of the regular meeting the board approved the final contract for elementary Principal Ann Goldbach (see separate story of introduction).

The contract is for 220 days, or 11 months, per year, with no vacation time.

The teachers’ contract calls for 186 working days, so Goldbach will be at the school throughout the school year plus several weeks before and after the school year is in session.

Her starting salary is $69,000.

Administrative report District Administrator Rick Palmer reported that the state budget was passed earlier in the day, but many questions remain.

For example, the new budget eliminates, as of July 1, the qualified economic offer, which was instituted in the early 1990s. It enables school districts to offer a wage and benefit increase of 3.8 percent, thus precluding binding arbitration for wage and benefit issues. Revenue caps are still in place, however, and the district is expected to lose an additional $128,000 in state aid.

“It’s not a pretty picture,” Palmer said, adding that more information will be available by the July board meeting.

Palmer also reported that the district is eligible for $19,700 in economic stimulus money, which will be used to create a computer lab in the high school media center. The floor in the back area of the media center will be raised, with wiring installed under the new floor.

The stimulus money will be used for the computer equipment, said Palmer, while a different grant will cover the

“bricks and mortar” for remodeling the media center.

Ag teacher hired full-time For the past several years the Luck and Frederic school districts have shared an agriculture teacher. Monday evening, however, the Luck School Board voted to terminate the agreement with Frederic and take ag teacher Tom Wesle on as a full-time Luck teacher.

“Mr. Wesle has done a very nice job of building up our ag program,” said district Administrator Rick Palmer. “In the interest of maintaining our programs, this is a good move.”

Palmer explained that Wesle will add a construction class and a welding class, but a beginning woods class may be dropped for the upcoming year. Most likely it will be reinstituted in the future, he said.

Prior to offering Wesle the full-time position, said Palmer, the idea was discussed with the Frederic School District.

Other business • The board accepted, “with many thanks for a job well done,” the resignation of softball coach Aimie Jorgenson. A contract for Brandon DeNucci as assistant basketball coach was approved, and Mike Rozumalski was hired as a bus driver.

• The board voted to renew its membership in the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, which provides policy and legal opinions, publications and is the district’s voice in the Wisconsin Legislature. Cost for the year is $2,587 and is based on enrollment.

• The board voted to change its property and liability insurance coverage from Community Insurance Corporation to RiverBank. At $46,580 per year, the district will save about $1,600 annually and will have better underinsured and uninsured coverage. It will also receive a better workers’ compensation dividend.

New elementary principal hired at Luck

by Mary Stirrat LUCK — Monday evening the Luck School Board of Education finalized the contract with new elementary Principal Ann Goldbach, who was hired to replace John Nichols. Nichols retires this Friday after 31 years with the school district.

Goldbach comes to Luck Schools after 15 years as elementary principal with the Gurnee, Ill., school district.

She had the opportunity to take early retirement in Illinois, she said, so she took advantage of it and she and her husband purchased a place near Hayward.

Goldbach knew, however, that she wanted to continue work but in a different environment.

“I wanted something in a small community, with something less than 300 students, and this popped up on the radar screen,” she said. It’s a big change, coming from a school with 1,200 students just in first through third grade, but every position has its own challenge.

In a smaller district, Goldbach said, she will have to wear a lot of different hats that she didn’t have in her previous school. “It’s never easy,” she added.

“I’m looking forward to something more intimate,” said Goldbach. “I’m looking forward to getting to know the staff, the students and the community.”

Prior to her 15 years as elementary principal at Gurnee, Goldbach taught elementary and high school students, worked with elementary at-risk stu-

Ann Goldbach is the new elementary principal at Luck. — Photo by Mary Stirrat dents, and served as assistant principal for both elementary and middle school.

She gets her love for the education world from her father, who was a teacher for 38 years.

Goldbach’s husband, Roger, is a retired McDonald’s executive. They have two grown daughters. Gretchen, also a teacher, is married and has a 6-monthold son. Margaret works at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield.

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Hat trick for Festival Theatre and St. Croix Falls Public Library

Plans under way for The Big Read 2010

The Big Read in Polk and Burnett counties in Wisconsin and Chisago County in Minnesota will focus on the literary and dramatic works of Thornton Wilder’s, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” and “Our Town.” - Special photo play “Our Town” both focus on the preciousness and precariousness of our lives, whether in small-town America, 18th-century Peru or anywhere where we happen to live.

The organizations selected receive Big Read grants ranging from $2,500 to $20,000 to promote and carry out community-based reading programs featuring activities such as read-a-thons, book discussions, lectures, movie screenings and performing arts events. Participating

communities all over the St. Croix Valley truly is the work of bridging periods of time and differences, making connections and building community,” says Festival Theatre Executive Director Danette Olsen. “Involving libraries, nonprofits, government agencies, media outlets and historical organizations takes the Big Read beyond just the literature. It’s also about what can be accomplished through partnership.”

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. Support for The Big Read is provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Transportation for The Big Read is provided by Ford. For more information about The Big Read please visit www.neabigread.org.

For individuals and organizations who would like to get involved in the 2010 Big Read, contact Amy Klein at Festival Theatre: 715-483-3387 or by e-mail at groups@festivaltheatre.org. . - submitted

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DEATH NOTICES Services Thursday for Dwight “Ike” Olson

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

SIREN – Dwight “Ike” Olson, 56, of Siren, died June 28, 2009.

Visitation will be Wednesday, July 1, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Siren Chapel. Funeral services will be Thursday, July 2, 11 a.m.

Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. prior to the service at Bethany Lutheran Church, Siren. Interment will follow at Lakeview/Mudhen Lake Cemetery. A full obituary will follow next week.

Arrangements were entrusted to Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home.

Herbert F. Peck, 93, a former resident of the town of Scott, died June 25, 2009.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at the Sacred Heart of Jesus & Mary Catholic Church at A & H. Interment followed at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery. A full obituary will follow next week. Arrangements were entrusted to Scalzo-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Spooner.

Mildred Lucile (Fleming) Bayliss Mildred Lucile (Fleming) Bayliss died at Willow Ridge Health Care Center in Amery, on June 18, 2009. She was 93 years old. She was born Graceville Township in Big Stone County, Minn. on Aug. 20, 1915. When she was five years old, her family moved to a farm near Frederic. She attended school in Frederic and graduated from Frederic High School.

She is survived by her nieces Betty (Gale) Roush and Shirley (Joe) Ganter, nephews Curtis (Meg) Fleming and Wayne (Judy) Fleming, as well as several great-nieces and nephews. A private graveside service with interment will be held at Maple Grove Cemetery in Frederic.

Williamson – White Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Amery was entrusted with arrangements.

Herbert F. Peck

Alfons C. Pundys Alfons C. Pundys, 80, a resident of Hertel, died June 27, 2009. Funeral services are pending at this time. Arrangements were entrusted to Scalzo-Taylor Family Funeral Home, Spooner.

James Lloyd Bailey James Lloyd Bailey, 73, died June 18 in Bozeman, Mont.

He was born in Union Township in Burnett County and grew up in the Danbury area.

A family memorial service was held at the Bluff Lake Cemetery in Union Township on June 27 with Pastor Kevin Miller officiating. Family members from Montana, Minnesota, Washington and relatives from this area, were there to honor his memory.

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

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ST. CROIX FALLS - Festival Theatre and St. Croix Falls Public Library recently announced they received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to host The Big Read in February 2010.

Its third-consecutive award, the partnership between Festival Theatre and the St. Croix Falls Public Library is one of 269 nonprofits across the nation - including arts, culture, and science organizations; libraries; and municipalities - to receive a grant to host a Big Read project between September 2009 and June 2010.

The Big Read gives communities the opportunity to come together to read, discuss and celebrate one of 30 selections from U.S. and world literature.

The Big Read in Polk and Burnett counties in Wisconsin and Chisago County in Minnesota will focus on the literary and dramatic works of Thornton Wilder’s, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” and “Our Town.”

The latest Big Read grantees represent 44 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Since the 2006 pilot program, with 10 participating organizations, the NEA has given more than 800 grants to support local Big Read projects.

“The nationwide reach of The Big Read in our communities is excellent.

There are countless stories of the impact literature has had on folks from our first two Big Read projects. It’s a tremendous privilege to continue the work of The Big Read here in the St. Croix River Valley,” says Amy Klein, project coordinator.

Thornton Wilder, a Wisconsin native, is the only writer to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and drama. His novel “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” and

communities also receive high-quality, free-of-charge educational materials to supplement each title, including reader’s, teacher’s and audio guides.

The Festival Theatre/St. Croix Public Library partnership received the maximum possible award of $20,000.

The St. Croix River Valley Big Read program will take place Feb. 27 to March 31, 2010. The program features the Capture Our Town photojournalism exhibit, the “Your Town, A Living History” oral history project that will compile stories gathered by area residents to create a stage reader’s theater piece, and appearances by Wisconsin author David Rhodes and Jean Feraca from Wisconsin Public Radio. Celebrating the first-time Big Read inclusion of a dramatic piece, Festival Theatre will produce Wilder’s “Our Town” with a cast of local students and professionals, touring the play to local high schools and closing its run with public performances at Festival Theatre.

“I’ve always been amazed at the ability literature has to draw out the commonalities of our human experience. Bringing this classic American dramatic piece to

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Grocery grab

Darla Nelson of Grantsburg, started grabbing groceries off the shelves as she raced to get as many items into her cart as she could in one minute, including helping herself to some hams. “I was excited about winning but pretty nervous to start with,” said Nelson, about her 60second shopping spree win at Grantsburg Family Foods.

“I want to give a special thank you to Matt Fury, the store manager. He was so good about explaining what I had to do and calming me down.” When she’d finished her shopping Nelson’s cart totaled $284.12 at the checkout.

Hugs for country star

Collette Boettcher of Rice Lake gave country star Collin Raye a big hug back stage at the Rice Lake Aquafest, where Raye was performing with other bands, including Restless Heart. Boettcher was accompanied to the concert by her mother, Connie Magnuson of Webster and aunt Cathie Burnett of Siren (shown L to R in photo below). Collette’s purchase of a CD made her eligible for the oneon-one meeting with Raye, with proceeds from the CD sales going to charity. Raye has produced Top 10 singles on the country charts for more than a decade. - Special photos Roger Corty was going to get as much as he could into his cart as he grabbed groceries with both hands during his 60-second shopping spree at Grantsburg Family Foods on Wednesday, June 24.

LEFT: Corty got help unloading his cart from Family Foods manager, Matt Fury, as Ashley Larson checked him out. Corty donated the $199.89 worth of groceries he garnered in his minute of free marketing to the Grantsburg Food Shelf. Fury said the shopping sprees and other Family Foods givealways, which included gift certificates, free cakes and chicken dinners, and 24 bags of groceries, were part of the store’s Price Rebellion Kick-Off. “It went well,”said Fury of the promotion. “We had all local winners and I just want to thank the community support in shopping locally.” - Photos by Priscilla Bauer

A whole lotta queens...

Royalty from throughout Burnett and Polk counties gathered for a queen’s tea at Frederic Family Days earlier this month. - Special photo

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Tour de Revs/from page 1 the injustice of hunger and poverty.

Schlak called for a “revolution,” a change in American lifestyles. As he pushed for a sharing of resources with the poor and hungry, he said, “We need to live with less so that others can live with more. We need to share.”

And Twedt had a message about raising revenue. “Every time you take a breath,” he said, “somewhere in the world a child dies of hunger. One billion people live on only a dollar a day.” He said that if the Lutherans living in northwest Wisconsin all set aside 35 cents a day, they could raise over $15 million in a year to feed the hungry in the world.

And while the message was important, it was the bicycle that drew the crowds. The “triplet” is a custommade three-person bicycle with a frame made of bamboo, the only one in the world. Weighing only 52 pounds, the bike has hit speeds of more than 48 mph, and on the stretch through Polk and Burnett counties the trio averaged well over 20 mph.

Bamboo was chosen for the bicycle’s frame since it is a readily available, self-generating and renewable resource that leaves no carbon footprint.

After treatment to prevent splitting, the California firm that manufactured the bike added a Shimano-Ulterga drivetrain and components and mounted custom-built tires designed to carry a payload of 600 pounds.

The crowds that welcomed the riders were interested and enthusiastic.

They stared at the bike, donated funds to fight hunger, offered a place of shade and rest and cheered as the riders arrived and rode on.

And it would appear that the impact of the Tour de Revs will be longlasting. At several stops voices in the crowd were heard talking about the message of the revs and how their ideas could be implemented.

Photos by Carl Heidel

The appearance of the riders and their unique bicycle drew crowds all along the route.

Bethany Lutheran Church in rural Grantsburg furnished a place for rest and visiting at the end of the ride.

When the tour reached Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Frederic, the pastors received a check to be used in the ELCA’s world hunger program. Pictured left to right, riders Fred Soltow, David Twedt and Ron Schlak, Pilgrim’s Pastor Burnette and Alex. Since it was Alex’s birthday, he got to turn over the money.

The bamboo bicycle carrying the Ridin’ Revs was custom built in California with a price tag of just under $10,000. After the tour it may be offered to the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.

The trailer carrying the bicycle between stops, and the tour’s supplies, carried its own advertising.

Pastor Victor St. George, of Faith Lutheran Church in Grantsburg, welcomed the riders near the end of their tour through Polk and Burnett counties.

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SUMMER SPORTS INTER! COUNTY LEADER • INTER! COUNTY LEADER • INTER! COUNTY LEADER

F R E D E R I C • G R A N T S B U R G • L U C K • S T. C R O I X F A L L S • S I R E N • U N I T Y • W E B S T E R L E G I O N B A S E B A L L • A M AT E U R B A S E B A L L

Unity lands win over Luck Legion

Blue A’s grab win over Grantsburg

Extra Points

Unity 11, Luck 7

by Marty Seeger LUCK – A pair of doubles from Luke Nelson and Brady Turner, followed by a home run from Brady Flaherty, got the Eagles going last Thursday in American Legion baseball action. Unity scored three runs in the first inning against Luck despite Luck getting a pair of runs in their first at bat of the game in the bottom of the first.

In total, the Eagles had seven doubles, including one from Derek Jorgenson and Drew Walker in the second inning that led to one run and a 4-2 lead. Unity scored three more runs in the third inning when Flaherty hit a leadoff double.

Zach Cherry drew a one-out walk, and singles from Jorgenson and Clay Peckman helped to bring in the runs.

The Unity Eagles Legion team gets a pep talk from coach Ryan Flaherty in an earlier game this season. – Photos by Marty Seeger

Blue A’s speed demon Nick Johnson steals second against Grantsburg last Thursday. Johnson also stole home safely in the Blue A’s 11-5 Legion win.

Spencer Walters eyes up a fly ball for the Blue A’s in right field. three runs. Despite Luck’s pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh, Unity stayed ahead with two insurance runs in the seventh for the win. On Thursday, July 2, Luck hosts Grantsburg while Unity is playing host to Osceola. The seven-inning games will both begin at 5:30 p.m.

The Eagles held onto a 9-2 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth inning when Luck managed to pick up three runs starting with a walk drawn by Brady Klatt. Logan Hacker hit a double, while Collin Svoboda hit a one-out single and Gary Ekholm also singled. Jesse Rennicke topped out the inning with a double, but Luck ended the inning with

St. Croix Falls 11, Grantsburg 5 ST. CROIX FALLS – The Blue A’s commanded their game against Grantsburg last Thursday by a score of 11-5. The Blue A’s have moved to a record of 6-2 and host Cumberland on Thursday, July 2.

No game stats were available at press time for a more complete roundup of the game.

Marcus Campbell of St. Croix Falls fires the ball to first.

Blue A’s baserunner Ben Anderson was out at third on this play against Grantsburg last Thursday evening.

••• ENGLAND – St. Croix Falls grad and 2008 Olympic rower Megan Kalmoe has her sights set on her next race at the Henley Royal Regatta.

Kalmoe rowed in the double sculls event during the Olympics in Beijing, but will race in the singles at Henley. More reKalmoe cently, competed in the United States Na- Megan Kalmoe tional Championships single sculls on Saturday, June 27, winning a bronze medal.

Kalmoe's 2008 Olympic Double Sculls partner, Ellen Tomek, won the gold medal in that event. Kalmoe and Tomek travel to Henley-on-Thames, England this week where they will both compete in the single sculls event during the Henley Royal Regatta which runs from July 1-5. Results will be available on row2k.com.

“What I do in the single at Henley is completely up to me, and it does not affect the outcome of World Cup or World Championship lineups for me and my teammates,” Kalmoe stated in a blog on Wednesday, June 24, which can be found at www.megankalmoe.com.

••• LEADER LAND – Legion baseball featuring Cumberland at St. Croix Falls can be heard Thursday, July 2, on WXCE 1260 AM beginning at 5:30 p.m. The Tuesday, July 7, BaldwinWoodville at St. Croix Falls Legion baseball game can be heard on 1260 AM beginning at 5:30 p.m.

••• MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee Brewers baseball can be heard on 1260 AM on the following dates and times: The Brewers at Cubs games from July 2-5 can be heard at 7 p.m., 1 p.m., noon and 1 p.m., respectively. The Cardinals at Brewers games on July 7 and 8 begin at 7 p.m. both nights.

••• MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Minnesota Twins baseball on 104.9 FM can be heard on the following dates and times: The Tigers at Twins series from July 3-5, can be heard at 3 p.m., 6 p.m., and 1 p.m., respectively. The Yankees at Twins games July 7 and 8 begin at 7 p.m. both nights.

••• 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 and we’ll take it from there. – Marty Seeger and Brenda Sommerfeld

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

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Lund named Division 3 Player of the Year

Palmquist makes second team all-state

by Brenda Sommerfeld GRANTSBURG – Winning the state title put the Grantsburg Pirates on the Wisconsin fast-pitch Softball Coaches Association radar for their All-state team picks. Pirate pitcher Michelle Lund was named first team all-state and 2009 Division 3 Player of the Year. First baseman Annie Palmquist was named second team all-state.

Lund pitched a total of 145 innings over the season for Grantsburg, finishing with 25 wins and 225 strikeouts. Only nine of 23 runs scored against Lund were earned runs. She totaled a 97.5 fielding percentage with 11 putouts, 28 assists and only one error. At the plate, Lund batted a .481 average in the 27 games.

She had 38 hits with 34 RBIs, including four doubles, two triples and two home runs.

At first base, Palmquist had 118

Michelle Lund winds up for the pitch for the Pirates. – Photos by Brenda Sommerfeld

Grantsburg’s Annie Palmquist eyes up a pitch.

putouts, one assist and one error for a 99.2 fielding percentage. She batted a .427 average. She too had two home runs in her 35 hits and 29 runs. Eleven of

this year, giving them the chance to show the state their talents once again next year.

Palmquist’s hits were doubles and one was a triple. She totaled 32 RBIs for her team during the season.

Both Lund and Palmquist are juniors

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GRANTSBURG - Snowmobile watercross racers are once again gearing up for the World Championship Snowmobile Watercross in Grantsburg, Friday-Sunday, July 17-19.

The annual event, enjoying its 33rd year, will draw thousands of spectators to beautiful Memory Lake to watch as over 125 racers, including top competitors from the United States and Canada, compete on open water in both drags and oval classes.

The International Watercross Association sanctions watercross racing and the Grantsburg watercross event is the world championships within the yearly circuit. Racers consider this event the “Granddaddy” of all the races, offering the largest purse, huge spectator turnout, and a truly unique experience for the entire family.

The first Grantsburg watercross competition was held in July 1977, when racers simply competed to see who could make it straight from the island to the shore, approximately 300 feet away.

Most didn’t. In the years following, racers became more skilled, machines more powerful, and the competition more intense. Today, sleds reach up to 85 mph and the ovals competitions defy all logic when considering the snowmobiles are

on open water.

The weekend begins with qualifying races Friday at noon and all day Saturday. Sunday’s finals conclude with the must-see grand finale, a six-man, eightlap pro-open thriller Sunday afternoon, determining the 2009 World Champion.

Chad Howie gets out in front of the competition in an earlier watercross event. – Photo submitted

Bandits bested by New Richmond Former Saint makes pitching debut for Bandits New Richmond 7, River Bandits 1 NEW RICHMOND – Former Saint and 2009 First Team All-Leader second pitcher Will Ball started his first game with the St. Croix River Bandits last Wednesday, June 24, against New Richmond. Ball pitched just over five innings, allowing four runs (two earned) on seven hits, and had two strikeouts with two walks. Luck senior Collin Svoboda Will Ball also pitched, but

Other features In addition to three days of IWA racing excitement, the event offers many displays and vendors, food and beverage booths, a tremendous fireworks display on Saturday at dusk, street dances on both Friday and Saturday evening featuring top-name regional bands, wristwrestling competition and Vintage Snowmobile Club of America Antique and Classic Snowmobile Show featuring over 100 unique and memorable snowmobiles. And for the second year now, vintage and youth racing will be held Friday evening starting at 5 p.m. These two events are open to anyone. For more information visit www.grantsburgwatercross.com, or for camping information call 715-463-4269 (h2ox) or e-mail info@grantsburgwatercross.com. Tents, campers or motor homes are accepted. – submitted

Water X donates to the Frederic Library

made it just one-third of an inning, walking three and hitting one batter with a pitch.

Despite nine hits, the Bandits were unable to score except in the first inning when Scott Lindholm hit a leadoff single and stole second base. Michael Chelberg made it to first on an infield single to move Lindholm to third. Lindholm later scored on a wild pitch. The Bandits had runners at first and third with only one out but with Kyle Kahl and Adam Lewis strikeouts the Bandits left without a run.

The River Bandits next game is scheduled against Osceola on Wednesday, July 8, at Oakey Park beginning at 7 p.m. For more information visit www.scriverbandits.com.

Chris Byerly accepts a check of $100 for the Frederic Library from Arlen Peterson of Frederic Water X Racing Inc. This is the second of a total of six different donations from Frederic Water X Racing Inc., coming off profits of the 2009 race. – Photo submitted

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St. Croix Falls Saints AA players took first place in the around-the-horn competition at a tournament held at the Siren Ballpark on June 12-14. Shown are Jake Jacobson, Conner Olson, Mitchell Gjovig and Niko Neumann.

The Grantsburg AAA team took fourth place at the June 19-21 tournament at the Siren Ballpark. took home a third-place trophy under coach Pete Johnson. Complete results can be found at www.sirenballpark.net. – Photos submitted

RIGHT: Cooper Peterson and Charlie Vizenna of St. Croix Falls won first place in the baserunning pairs competition for AA baseball.

Collin Nelson and Hunter Fjorden of Unity placed second overall in the AAA baserunning pairs competition.

Nelson also took first in the overall baserunning competition with a time of 5.5 seconds

The AA Grantsburg Pirates baseball team took second place overall at the Siren Ballpark tournament held June 12-14. The team also took home a thirdplace trophy at a Siren Ballpark tournament held on June 19-21.

Brandon Loeselle and Jake Sommers took third place in the AAA baserunning pairs competition at a tournament in Siren held June 19-21.

River Rats perform on Balsam Lake

LEADER SPORTS SCOREBOARD MEN’S SLOW-PITCH Standings

Team Overall Century 21 8-1 Chell Well 8-1 Sundown 8-1 God Squad 6-3 Fur, Fins & Feathers 5-3 Pour House 5-4 Grantsburg Sanitary 5-4 Lake Lena 2-7 Shooters Bar 2 1-6 Shooters Bar 1 1-8 Da Crew 0-8 Scores Wednesday, June 24 Sundown 35, Da Crew 0 Grantsburg Sanitary 18, Shooter’s Bar 1 17 Century 21 12, Fur, Fins & Feather’s 5 Chell Well 24, Shooters Bar 1 4 God Squad 23, Lake Lena 12 Pour House 16, Shooters Bar 2 7

FALUN CHURCH SOFTBALL

Standings Team Overall Falun Churches 6-0 Siren Assembly 4-2 Trade Lake Baptist 4-2 Siren Covenant/Bethany 4-3 W. Sweden/Zion Lutheran 3-3 Webster Baptist 3-3 Calvary Covenant 2-4 Trade River Free 2-4 Frederic Free 2-3 Faith Lutheran 1-5 Scores Thursday, June 25 Webster Baptist 29, W. Sweden/Zion Lutheran 11 Siren Covenant/Bethany 15, Trade Lake Baptist 10 Friday, June 26 Faith Lutheran 10, Trade River Free 1 Falun Churches 16, Calvary Covenant 10 Frederic Free 16, Siren Assembly 12

WOMEN’S SLOW-PITCH

Standings Team Overall Chell Trucking 9-0 Coyland Creek 8-2 Maurer Construction 3-6 Clam Falls/Pheasant Inn 3-6 Smith Family Eye Care 3-5 Bobbie’s World 2-7

Scores Monday, June 29 Coyland Creek 20, Bobbie’s World 0 Smith Family Eye Care 16, Maurer Construction 2 Chell Trucking 16, Clam Falls Pheasant Inn 8

CLOSE DOESN’T COUNT HORSESHOES Junior Standings Name Won Lost Amanda Kuske 12.0 8.0 Eric Kuske 10.5 6.5 Jena Alling 9.0 10.0 Julia Larsen 7.5 3.5 Kyle Golz 7.5 12.5 Cash Hickethier 7.0 6.0 Joe Larsen 6.5 9.5 Jenelle Larsen 6.0 5.0 Naomi Williamson 5.0 5.0 Jessica Golz 5.0 5.0 Johanna Alling 5.0 7.0 Beau Davison 4.0 1.0 Leanne Claude 3.0 2.0 Dakota Bratland 3.0 2.0 Sabrina Bratland 2.0 3.0 Jessica Larson 1.0 4.0 Adult Standings Name Won Lost Shari Davison 11.0 1.0 Gage Norm 8.0 4.0 Dave Ninnemann 11.0 1.0 Tory Jseke 5.0 4.0 Edie McKinney 10.0 2.0 Beau Davison 6.5 5.5 Gloria Smith 8.0 4.0 Chris Gage 8.5 3.5 Denise Williamson 5.5 6.5 Ev Larsen 4.0 8.0 Jim Harder 4.5 7.5 Mary Sue Morris 2.5 3.5 Ed Leverty 2.5 6.5 Toni Sloper 7.0 5.0 BJ VonDoehren 2.0 7.0 Sass Caryl 4.0 5.0 Scott Davison 1.0 2.0 Naomi Williamson 0.0 9.0 Cindy Castellano 5.0 7.0 Mary Pederson 0.0 12.0 Toni VonDoehren 0.0 3.0 Jenelle Larsen 2.0 1.0

Total Shoes 600 510 570 330 600 390 480 330 300 300 360 150 150 150 150 150

The Twin Cities River Rats water-ski show wasn’t just fun for the crowd that gathered in front of Paradise Landing last Saturday evening. The River Rats are based in Minneapolis, Minn., and A water-ski pyramid was one of are a 100-percent volunteer organization that performs every Thursday on several stunts performed on Balthe Mississippi River. – Photos by Marty sam Lake, despite choppy conditions.

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A large crowd gathered in front of Paradise Landing on Balsam Lake to watch the Twin Cities River Rats perform last Saturday.

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

Who killed 18 geese near Cushing? week and the road location where the incident occurred, it is probably someone who lives in the Cushing area,” Ashton said.

As a result, the DNR is teaming up with the Polk County Sportsmen’s Club, which is offering a $100 reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. Those providing information on this case will be kept confidential, and should contact Ashton at 715-472-2253.

DNR seeks help of the public; reward offered

by Marty Seeger CUSHING – The DNR is looking for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of a subject or subjects responsible for killing at least 18 Canada geese near Cushing. It is believed that a vehicle ran down the geese last Thursday, June 25, at approximately 7 p.m., about one-fourth mile south of CTH N

The driver who ran the geese over with a vehicle appears to have had plenty of time to see them judging by the photo at the scene. – Photos submitted

At least 18 geese were killed last Thursday, with the possibility of even more that may have fled the scene wounded.

and 230th street near McKeith Lake.

“There’s no way it was an accident,” said Conservation Warden Jesse Ashton, who responded to the scene after getting a call from a concerned citizen. Ashton said several of the geese killed were adult birds but many included their young. Ashton said several geese at the scene were still wounded or dying and

had to be dispatched, and there may have been even more geese that ran off that are still wounded or dead.

“It was obvious, they were right in the middle of the road, they didn’t dart out or anything,” Ashton said, adding that the geese may have been backed over by the vehicle as well.

“I believe that due to the time of the

Some geese were still alive when a bystander first arrived, while several others lay dead in the ditch or on the road.

NR Board updated on wolf management in Wisconsin NEW RICHMOND – The Natural Resources Board heard last week at its meeting in New Richmond that Wisconsin’s gray wolf population is now estimated at between 626 and 662 wolves, about a 14-percent increase over the 2007-2008 estimate of between 549 and 576. The population report was part of an annual update on wolf-management activity under Wisconsin’s Wolf Management Plan.

The presentation also included information on the goal and outline for a new wolf-management plan that is due in 2010. In the event that a public wolf harvest were to be authorized at some point in the future, the update included an initial hunting and trapping season framework suggested by the department and the Wolf Science Committee, a state group of biologists and researchers from a number of governmental agencies and universities.

The board heard that implementation of a wolf hunting and trapping season would require new legislation, rule development and extensive public input throughout the process. The Wolf Science Committee also suggested that any Wisconsin harvest plan be considered from a regional viewpoint, taking into consideration wolf populations and territories in neighboring Minnesota and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, as those states are in various stages of considering a harvest season. Wisconsin’s current wolf population was established by wolves dispersing on their own from those states.

The annual winter wolf count relies on aerial tracking of radio-collared wolves and snow-track surveys by DNR and volunteer trackers. Also included are

wolf sightings by members of the public.

The agency has conducted these counts since the winter of 1979-1980 when there were 25 wolves in the state.

Adrian Wydeven, a DNR conservation biologist and wolf specialist, indicated that although the wolf population growth had slowed down in recent years, it did increase somewhat this past winter. State wolf populations increased over 20 percent annually during the 1990s, but since 2000, growth rates have slowed to 10-12 percent annually. He also noted that to adequately protect the wolf population, should a wolf harvest season be implemented, the science team felt an increase in the current management goal would have to be considered.

The revised goal would be part of a new management plan.

A total of 162 wolf packs were detected in Wisconsin. A pack consists of at least two adult wolves each. Biologists found 23 packs distributed across central Wisconsin and 139 packs in northern Wisconsin. The largest packs in the state were the Tupper Creek Pack near Winter in Sawyer County, with eight to 11 wolves and the Miller Creek Pack in the Stockbridge Indian Reservation of Shawano County, with eight wolves. At least 47 packs had five or more wolves in them.

Gray wolves were removed from the federal list of endangered species on March 12, 2007, but due to a court challenge, wolves were placed back on the endangered species list on September 29, 2008. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service addressed these technicalities and republished the wolf delisting rule. On May 4, 2009, wolves were again removed from the federal list of threatened and

endangered species in Wisconsin and the remainder of the Western Great Lakes area. This means state and tribal wildlife managers can again trap and euthanize wolves that prey on livestock.

Currently, wolves in Wisconsin are being managed under Wisconsin’s wolf management plan, which focuses on problem wolves attacking livestock and domestic animals and allows permits for landowners to shoot wolves in some areas under very limited conditions.

The DNR issued shooting permits to 39 landowners with wolf problems in 2008. Two wolves were shot on these permits. Two additional wolves were shot by landowners who observed wolves in the act of attacking livestock on their property.

Wildlife Services staff from the U.S. Department of Agriculture – Wildlife Services conducted trapping on Wisconsin farms with wolf depredation in 2008, capturing and killing 39 wolves and two

wolf-dog hybrids. In 2007 and 2008 wolves caused depredation to livestock on 30 farms. In 2006 wolves killed livestock on 25 farms. So far in 2009, wolves have depredated on eight farms and attacked three dogs at people’s homes. WS has trapped and euthanized eight wolves, and a landowner shot one defending his livestock. Wydeven said the wolf remains both a popular symbol of the wild lands in Wisconsin and an important component of the ecosystem. As large predators, wolves help reduce the impact of intense browsing and grazing by deer and beaver, allowing more species of plants to take hold and to form a more diverse forest habitat.

The 1999 Wisconsin Wolf Management Plan can be reviewed on the DNR Web site.

For more information contact Adrian Wydeven at 715-762-1363 or Robert Manwell, senior public affairs manager, at 608-264-9248. – from the DNR

Great Northern Outdoors Thursday Bass Fishing League Week seven 1. Adam Memmer, 5 lbs. 6 oz.

2. Brian Cox, 4 lbs., 1 oz.

3. Jamie Magnuson 4 lbs., 1 oz.

4. Cory Meyer 3 lbs., 4 oz.

5. Mark Wiehl, 3 lbs., 1 oz.

6. Aaron Long 2 lbs., 13 oz.

7. Rob Buchholz 2 lbs., 8 oz.

8. Shawn Hutton 1 lbs. 7 oz.

9. Tim Hutton 1 lbs., 1 oz.

Week eight 1. Rob Buchholz, 3 lbs., 5 oz.

2. Jamie Magnuson, 3 lbs.

3. Vern Knauber, 2 lbs., 14 oz.

4. Adam Memmer, 2 lbs. 13 oz.

5. Aaron Long, 2 lbs., 12 oz.

6. Shawn Hutton, 2 lbs., 11 oz.

7. Kirk Miller, 2 lbs., 7 oz.

8. Bryan Cox, 1 lbs., 6 oz.

9. Tony Peterson, 1 lbs., 6 oz.

10. Aaron Briese, 1 lbs., 5 oz.

11. Dean Clontz, 1 lbs., 4 oz.

12. Bruce Dau, 1 lbs., 3 oz.

13. Michael Clontz, 14 oz.

14. Kathy Erickson, 12 oz.

Standings 1. Rob Buchholz, 30 lbs., 7 oz.

2. Adam Memmer, 26 lbs., 4 oz.

3. Aaron Long, 24 lbs., 4 oz.

4. Troy Olson, 22 lbs., 7 oz.

5. Al Briese, 21 lbs., 8 oz.

6. Shawn Hutton, 17 lbs., 13 oz.

7. Tim Hutton, 12 lbs., 5 oz.

8. Jamie Magnuson 12 lbs., 4 oz.

9. Bryan Cox, 11 lbs., 9 oz.

10. Marc Wiehl, 11 lbs., 7 oz.

11. Cory Meyer, 10 lbs., 9 oz.

12. Vern Knauber, 8 lbs., 14 oz.

13. Kirk Miller, 8 lbs., 7 oz.

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

15. Bruce Dau, 8 lbs., 1 oz.

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

17. Aaron Bistram, 5 lbs., 11 oz.

18. Adam Bistram, 4 lbs., 13 oz.

19. Tony Peterson, 3 lbs., 2 oz.

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

21. Kathy Erickson, 12 oz.

22. Ralph Britton, 0 23. Rick Hutton, 0 Big bass weekly winners Week 7: Adam Memmer, 3 lbs., 14 oz.

Week 8: Troy Olson, 2 lbs., 12 oz.

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Teacher of the Year recalls her own Rotary roots

by Priscilla Bauer GRANTSBURG – Stepping to the podium, Christine Le Page’s face beamed as she accepted the Grantsburg Rotary Teacher of the Year award from Rotary President Greg Peer at the club’s June meeting.

Rotarians listened as Le Page, an art instructor for grades first through eight in the Grantsburg School District for the past 14 years, first thanked the group for honoring her with the award, then explained why receiving this recognition from the Rotary held extra meaning for her.

Le Page’s smile broadened as she told how receiving the award evoked memories of her own family’s Rotary roots and she wanted to share them the Grantsburg Rotary group.

“The Rotary Club has ‘revolved’ through our family’s life for generations.” Le Page said of their long time connection and affection for the Rotary.

“My paternal grandfather had articles published in The Rotarian Magazine.

My father, who is now 90 years old, worked as a writer for Wausau Insurance Companies, and he used to get up at 4 a.m. to write stories in hopes of selling them. His first story sold to The Rotarian, followed by two more, followed by a job offer to be associate editor of The Rotarian.”

Le Page said her father had been “so tempted” to take the job but it would have meant moving their family to Evanston, Illinois and her father was as she put it “in love with the North Country.

“The three stories first published in The Rotarian are now included in a book of my Dad’s essays on the North Country,” said Le Page holding up a copy telling the audience she had copies for them as a gift from her father. “I called him last night and he offered to give copies of his book to any of you Rotarians who would be interested.”

And her family’s ties to the Rotary didn’t stop there but also extended to her mother, who covered the Rotary Club and wrote articles on the weekly meetings as a reporter for the Wausau paper.

Le Page said she felt very honored to have been chosen Teacher of the Year as she has worked with so many fine teachers in the Grantsburg School District.

“When my husband, daughter, and I moved up to Grantsburg from the Madison area l6 years ago, we were im-

Christine Le Page was chosen as this year’s Grantsburg Rotary Teacher of the Year. Le Page made the remarks during her acceptance speech at the group’s June meeting.

Le Page held up a book of her father’s North Country essays, which includes three stories, which were first published in The Rotarian magazine. Le Page presented to Rotary members with copies of the book as a gift from her father. - Photos by Priscilla Bauer mediately impressed with the high quality of the schools here. We noticed the dedication and hard work of such a high percentage of the teachers. I am much honored to have been chosen Teacher of the Year this year, since I have now had the opportunity to work alongside these teachers and I realize how many are deserving of this honor.”

Le Page said she also wanted to thank her husband Bruce for all the help he has given to her and her students over the years.

“He has dedicated to the fine arts in the Grantsburg schools,” she said. “He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his skillful contributions have included everything from taking apart ceramic kilns to masterminding and building with me twelve foot tall armatures for totem pole sculptures. He is always willing to take time out from his own work to help.”

Le Page, showing the obvious affection for her work and the community, spoke of what teaching at Grantsburg has meant to her.

“Teaching art in this northern community is a real privilege,’ said Le Page as she noted how her students have connected the great nature opportunities our area offers to their art.

“First of all, the students are so aware of nature. They have firsthand experience with bears, bald eagles, trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes, and snapping turtles. Art and nature are so closely related. How many children in this country are lucky enough to live within a few miles of a national park and the largest preserved wetland area in Wisconsin, Crex Meadows? “ Le Page also shared her view of how the fine arts can relate to other academic subjects. “I have always felt that the fine arts can be used to show the interconnectedness of many fields of endeavor.

When we are working with radial symmetry and use the terms radius, diameter, and circumference a fifth grade student will say, “We just learned that in math class!” When we mention pattern, repetition, and rhythm, a second grade student will say, “We are learning that

Elementary School Principal Katie Coppenbarger introduced Grantsburg School District art instructor, Christine Le Page at the Grantsburg Rotary’s June meeting where Le Page accepted the organization’s Teacher of the Year award. Coppenbarger said Le Page was an exceptional teacher, “Mrs. Le Page is a very talented artist and has a deep understanding of art but more important, she is able to make the necessary connections with students.

She exemplifies the attributes of a gifted teacher . . . a love for the students first . . . combined with her life passion, art.”

in music!” We just studied that in writing.” Studying art or architecture from many cultures involves geography, history, music, political science, even philosophy.”

Grantsburg Elementary School Principal Katie Coppenbarger, who introduced Le Page, said Le Page is dedicated to her teaching, to art and to her students.

“Christine’s passion for her work is evident everyday in her approach to her classroom. It is not unusual to see Christine standing on a table as she introduces a new technique or type of art to the students. Her approach captivates her students.”

Coppenbarger said Le Page was an exceptional teacher, “Mrs. Le Page is a very talented artist and has a deep understanding of art but more important, she is able to make the necessary connections with students. She exemplifies the attributes of a gifted teacher . . . a love for the students first . . . combined with her life passion, art.”

When asked to comment on cuts some school districts are making in their fine arts curriculum Le Page referred to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 which lists the arts among the core academic subjects.

“It has been demonstrated high poverty schools benefit dramatically from a strong fine arts curriculum,” said Le Page. “The arts can reach students who are disengaged, help develop problem solving skills, and help develop vision and imagination.”

Le Page said there were countless stories of students struggling academically or socially that have found new confidence when recognized for their artwork.

“Art is about patience, persistence and perseverance. It is about self-discipline and it is about human expression and meaning.

An emotional Le Page then concluded her speech quoting from a poem by one of her students, Lily Hane, written on her last day of art class this spring.

“Art is an honor, a way to live.

Art is the way of learning of all kinds. …Art is not just clay, or pictures and paint.

Art is laughter, memories, and the way we live.”

Once upon a time ...

Looking like it could have played a role in a fairy tale, this home likely has some connection to Polk County but its purpose and the location of this home remain a mystery. The photo was included in a box of photos donated to the St. Croix Falls Historical Society by longtime resident Grace Wiesner. Anyone with information about the photo is asked to contact Rosemarie Vezina Braatz of the historical society at 715-483-3046. - Special photo

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State bee inspection 2009

by Wayne M. Anderson POLK/BURNETT COUNTIES – A state official inspected the bees and apiaries throughout Polk and Burnett counties and gave beekeepers a passing grade with praise.

Dr. Gordon Waller, one of two state bee inspectors, conducted the inspection in the inter-counties recently. The inspection is a state-sponsored service, which he last performed here in 2007.

State inspectors are looking at the health, population and growth of bee colonies. His inspection and tests did reveal several maladies, but overall the bees in this area are in good shape, he said.

The two maladies he was most concerned with are two ongoing problems: Varroa mites and American Foul Brood.

Minor signs of varroa mites were found in most apiaries. The varroa mite is an insect parasite that can devastate a bee colony. Waller said the amount of varroa found was small and manageable with treatment.

The AFB is a more serious concern and was only found in one bee yard. AFB is caused by a spore, which infects the young bee larvae. The disease can live more than 40 years. Burning the contaminated hives is the only surefire cure.

Waller found no sign of Colony Collapse Disorder. CCD is the mysterious phenomenon being discussed in research journals and in the media.

“We don’t have that here,” he said.

Other states are not as fortunate as Wisconsin.

Besides disease, another topic of con-

Dr. Gordon Waller, a state inspector, examines a frame of bees, as area beekeepers look on in a apiary near Amery. – Photos by Jonathan Maslow

Dr. Gordon Waller shows club members of the Polk-Burnett County Bee Association some novel bee equipment. The club meets every third Thursday of the month at the Justice Center in Balsam Lake.

Olesen dental team part of Mission of Mercy

by Carl Heidel SIREN - When the Wisconsin Dental Association made plans for a two-day mission providing free dental care June 26 and 27 in La Crosse, Siren-area dentist Dr. Sheldon Olesen asked his staff if they would like to participate. All but one of them said yes, and that person simply wasn’t able to go because of other commitments.

Olesen explained that the Mission of Mercy was operated by a team of around 1,000 volunteers from around Wisconsin to provide everything free from cleanings to extractions for low-income children and adults. He said that the volunteers included dentists, dental hygienists and assistants, dental students and community members, all donating their time and skills. There were also nine dentists and hygienists from four other states participating.

The entire staff from Olesen’s office,

minus the one person unable to attend, was part of that volunteer group. “I am very proud of these people,” said Olesen, “and I commend them for their willingness to help others.”

Cheryl Chelmo, a dental hygienist with Olesen’s team, described the work as a “wonderful experience.” She said that the days were long and tiring, but the reward came in seeing the long line of people who were being served by the project.

The WDA acknowledges that more is needed than just charity work. This meets some individuals’ urgent dentalcare needs, but it is not a long-term solution for those needs.

The WDA hopes that a program such as this two-day event will increase awareness of the need for funding to provide continuing dental care wherever it is needed.

Dr. Sheldon Olesen, Siren area dentist, works on a patient at last week’s Mission of Mercy sponsored by the Wisconsin Dental Association. - Photo submitted

cern was observed. The amount of nectar being brought in by the bees is negligible.

“The drought of Northwest Wisconsin is hurting our beekeeping,” said Waller.

“And it’s going to get worse if it doesn’t rain soon.”

Bees make honey from the nectar they gather from blooming flowers and fruit plants. This year’s slow, cold spring and shortage of rain are critical factors for the lack of nectar being produced.

Area beekeepers received praise for the pride they take in their beekeeping.

“Well kept hives and tidy yards,” said

Waller. “The equipment is very good.”

He noted a sense of pride by area beekeepers in how well their hives are painted and how organized their yards and work areas are.

Waller has been keeping bees for 60 years and operates Waller Apiaries in Augusta.

Bees are an important part of Wisconsin agriculture. Their pollination of crops, and the honey they produce, is a substantial part of local agriculture and the economy.

For more information on beekeeping, call: 715-327-5525.

Big Band music comes to Amery July 11 AMERY – The Generation II Big Band will perform in Amery, Saturday, July 11, 7 p.m., at the middle school commons. They will play classics made popular by Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller, whose “In the Mood,” swept the nation 70 years ago. Attendees will be welcomed to listen and/or dance.

A meatball, mashed potatoes and gravy meal will be catered by BB’s Café at 6 p.m. in the school commons.

Tickets are $20 per person, which includes the music and meal. College-age and younger folks will be charged $5 per person if they prefer to attend just to swing dance.

Tickets available at WPCA Radio, 130 Riverside Blvd., Amery, 715-268-9722, and Amery City Hall, 118 Center St., Amery, 715-268-7486. Any funds beyond costs will be used by WPCA for future concerts in the Be at Home in Amery promotion. – submitted

Carlyle Sherstad donation

June 6 marked the fourth-annual Carlyle Sherstad 5K Run/Walk as part of Grantsburg’s Big Gust Days. Thanks to 220 registered participants and 30 local business contributors, the event grew by more than 100 percent from 2008 and was a great success. Darlene Sherstad, Carlyle’s widow (center), along with Kelli Eklof, race director (right), proudly present this year’s recipient Deb Haley, director of Kinship of Burnett County, with a check in the amount of $2,172.80. Mark your calendars to join them for the fifth anniversary of the event on June 5, 2010, and benefit another great community cause. – from Burnett Medical Center

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Polk County circuit court

Lots of VHS movies; motorcycle saddle and luggage bags; 2008 Sportster bike seat; 2 cushioned glider rockers; brown recliner love seat; push mower; push string trimmer; some women’s & men’s lg. clothes; women’s leather coats; much more misc. items.

9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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Friday & Saturday, July 3 & 4

8 miles east of Grantsburg on Hwy. 70 to Falun, north 1/2 mile on Range Line Rd.

GARAGE SALE Tons of name-brand clothes - men’s size 3236, women’s size 16, girls 4T-8; toys; books; misc. household and furniture.

310 Warren Street Balsam Lake

Thurs. & Fri., July 2 & 3 8 a.m.- 4 p.m.

THE ART OF HAIR EXTENSIONS

MISSY is now offering hair extensions at

RACHEL’S HAIR & NAILS 2668 250th Ave. • Cushing Call for a complementary consultation.

715-648-5121 Fun for special occasions!

COME AND CELEBRATE! Gene & Pat Olson’s 60th Wedding Anniversary Pat’s 80th Birthday at Coyland Creek - 8 miles east of Siren on Co. B. Watch for signs.

Sunday, July 12 - at 2 p.m.

Instead of gifts, please bring a nonperishable food item for the Food Pantry.

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Sunday, July 5

10 a.m. at Birchwood Beach on Spirit Lake and 7 p.m. at Skonewood Bring your own lawn chairs.

Both services will be held rain or shine.

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Larry D. Wright Jr., Luck, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Adam L. Zemek, Mora, Minn., disorderly operation of motor vehicle, $173.40.

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Jacob M. Ostrowski, St. Croix Falls, speeding, not guilty plea.

Robert E. Pacyga, Little Canada, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Edwin R. Parmeter, Centuris, two seat belt violations, $10.00 each.

Scott A. Pederson, Andover, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Catherine L. Peper, Centuria, fail./stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Robert T. Peters, Turtle Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Beau B. Petersen, New Richmond, disorderly conduct with a motor vehicle, $156.20.

Roger M. Peterson, Osceola, OWI, operating w/PAC>= .10, not guilty pleas.

Michael J. Pierre, Balsam Lake, open intoxicants, $173.40.

Sohaib A. Qureshi, Bristol, Conn., speeding, $160.80.

Diann D. Richardson, Osceola, speeding, $186.00.

Joshua J. Richardson, Milltown, fail./stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Gloria M. Richter, Luck, disorderly operation of motor vehicle, $173.40.

Lee C. Rivard, Spooner, speeding, not guilty plea.

Nellie V. Rogers, St. Croix Falls, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Travis D. Roth, Clayton, vehicle owner’s liability for failing to stop at accident scene, hit and run, property adjacent/Hwy. $186.00.

Darlene M. Rucinski, Oshkosh, speeding, $160.80.

Katherine A. Sather, Dresser, speeding, $160.80.

Ranaye M. Schrantz, Osceola, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Cody A. Seagren, Circle Pines, Minn., speeding, $280.50.

Donna M. Shellito, Milltown, fail./stop at stop sign, not guilty plea.

Davena M. Sherman, Luck, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Kellie L. Sly, North Branch, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Christopher S. Spencer, Frederic, disorderly conduct w/a motor vehicle, $248.00.

Anthony W. Stack, Pelkie, Mich., speeding, $186.00.

Gary M. Stelter, Osceola, speeding, $160.80.

Zachary R. Stenzel, Coon Rapids, Minn., operate w/o valid license, not guilty plea.

Jerod C. Stephenson, Forest Lake, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Jeffrey H. Sturgis, Wayzata, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Mary L. Swedahl, Turtle Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Ward G. Taber, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Warren G. Thomas, Birchwood, speeding, not guilty plea.

Cory R. Traynor, New Richmond, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Patricia K. Trulen, Clear Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Justin A. Virkus, Luck, disorderly conduct w/a motor vehicle, $248.00.

William M. Whalen, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Chesarae M. Whitcomb, Red Wing, Minn., operate w/o valid license, $186.00.

Cory R. Williams, Balsam Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

David L. Wittlief, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Stacy M. Wondra, Frederic, seat belt violation, $10.00.

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Blake P. Karwoski, Scandia, Minn., seat belt violation, $10.00.

Tasia M. Kelley, New Richmond, speeding, $186.00.

Crystal L. Kieckhoefer, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Amy L. Klein, St. Croix Falls, speeding, $186.00.

Joyce A. Knopps, Clayton, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Sarah E. Kobernick, Osceola, speeding, $160.80.

Christopher J. Kornberg, Crystal, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Craig L. Kreidler, Balsam Lake, speeding, not guilty plea.

Dorlene F. Krewson, Winter, speeding, not guilty plea.

Allison L. Krosnoski, Glenwood City, speeding, $160.80.

Amanda R. Kuske, Milltown, speeding, $160.80.

Michael H. Laney, Maple Grove, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Kayla R. Laqua, Frederic, speeding, $160.80.

Tara J. Lasley, Clayton, failure to license animals, two dogs, $138.20.

James S. Lauer, Woodbury, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Kenneth R. Leckel, Trego, violation Class A Hwy. weight limits, $458.60; nonregistration of vehicle >10,000 lbs., $249.00.

Seokwon Lim, Mounds View, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Stephanie N. Linski, Centuria, speeding, $160.80.

Matthew S. Lodermeier, Balsam Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Marlene E. Long, Turtle Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Elizabeth Lowe, Luck, operating while suspended, not guilty plea.

Thomas F. Madison, Hopkins, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Benjamin M. Magler, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80; seat belt violation, $10.00.

Donald A. Major, Blaine, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Carl W. Maki, Elk River, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Scott D. McMahon, Centuria, speeding, $160.80.

Chelsea T. McMillan, Dresser, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Dennis M. McQuillan, Comstock, speeding, $186.00.

Cody W. Meyer, Clayton, speeding, $211.20.

Larry D. Miller, Cedar, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Melody L. Minor, Coon Rapids, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Eric A. Moll, Deer Park, nonregistration of auto etc., not guilty plea.

Andrew C. Monson, Clear Lake, operating while suspended, $186.00.

Michael L. Moos, Cumberland, disorderly conduct with a motor vehicle, $156.20.

Tiffany C. Mullan, Clayton, speeding, $160.80.

Corey L. Nelson, Milltown, operating while suspended, not guilty plea.

John B. O’Connor, Minnetonka, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Elizabeth A. Ofstead, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Kimberly J. Oft, Luck, speeding, $160.80.

Jason C. Olsen, Milltown, nonregistration of auto etc., $160.80.

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Lisa L. Cross, Coon Rapids, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Leonard Davydov, St. Cloud, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Mary B. Dearborn, Shakopee, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Brady J. Dewitt, North Branch, Minn., inattentive driving, $173.40.

Rolf E. Dittmann, Stillwater, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Scotty L. Divine, Balsam Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Angela R. Dodge, Clear Lake, nonregistration of auto, etc., $160.80; operating while suspended, $186.00.

Shane R. Dore, Waconia, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Joshua E. Drinken, Rice Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Ferne B. Dumke, Balsam Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

James A. Erickson, River Falls, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Gregory H. Etie, Houston, Texas, speeding, $186.00.

Dwight M. Evenson, Amery, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Charles T. Fee, St. Paul, Minn., speeding; $160.80; operate w/o valid license, not guilty plea.

Timothy R. Fischer, Ellsworth, speeding, not guilty plea.

Sarah C. French, Eau Claire, speeding, $160.80.

Kenneth L. Fritz, Cottage Grove, Minn., operate w/o valid license, $186.00.

Amanda M. Frokjer, Balsam Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Tonya J. Fuglsang, Dresser, speeding, $160.80.

Donald K. George, Shoreview, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Donald A. Gill, Lethbridge, AB, speeding, $160.80.

Richard L. Glendening, Barron, speeding, $160.80.

Doreen A. Gustafson, Frederic, speeding, $160.80.

Brandon W. Gutzmer, Luck, disorderly conduct, $173.40.

Brian E. Hagberg, Mankato, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Charles P. Hall, Turtle Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Scott T. Harrison, Rosemont, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Jonathan M. Hawkins, Luck, seat belt violation, $10.00.

James E. Henton, Lindstrom, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Matthew D. Hoffmann, Cudahy, speeding, $160.80.

Michael P. Honer, Cambridge, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Douglas A. Hordyk, Circle Pines, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Erik O. Hovlin, Culver City, Calif., speeding, $211.20.

William D. Huspek, North Branch, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Andrew J. Hynek, New Richmond, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Gary M. Jacob, Mendota Heights, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Sarah A. Jenkins, Brooklyn Park, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Skye B. Jensen, Milltown, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Zachary M. Jensen, Cushing, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Hannah G. Johnson, Star Prairie, speeding, $160.80.

William A. Johnson, Naples, Fla., speeding, $160.80.

Amy H. Jones, Frederic, speeding, $160.80.

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Charles R. Abrams, Richfield, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Aweys O. Ahmed, Barron, possess open intoxicants in MV, $186.00 Mark D. Almlie, Rice Lake, speeding, not guilty plea.

Brock P. Alton, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Keri L. Aquino, Clear Lake, nonregistration of auto, etc., not guilty plea.

Brianna K. Arneson, Rice Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Ebanjelina Banda, Luck, speeding, $186.00; seat belt violation, $10.00.

Ryan E. Barnes, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Jacob J. Becker, Turtle Lake, speeding, $186.00.

Luke S. Becker, Centuria, violation of child safety-restraint requirements, child under 4 yrs., $160.80.

Bridget A. Behrend, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Carol D. Bergmann, White Bear Twsp., Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Joann M. Berkowitz, Medine, Ohio, speeding, $160.80.

Karl A. Berntson, St. Croix Falls, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Anthony G. Bibeau, Balsam Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Dru G. Blakeborough, Amery, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Robert C. Bloomer, Little Canada, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Erik G. Bobzin, Luck, speeding, $160.80; drink open intoxicants in MV, $249.00; deposit or discharge solid waste on public or private property, $186.00.

Jason D. Bottolfson, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

Samuel W. Bradley, Centuria, ATV operation on freeway, $186.00.

Rezeda R. Branch, New Richmond, speeding, $160.80.

Thomas G. Brindamour, Elk River, Minn., speeding; fail/yield to stop for emergency vehicle, not guilty pleas.

Lynnette M. Brinkman, Somerset, violation of child safety-restraint requirements, child 4 yrs., but less than 8 yrs. of age, $135.60.

Stephen T. Bush, Bloomington, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Westin G. Bye, Long Lake, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Blake W. Byrd, Cumberland, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Anthony D. Cabreana, Dresser, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Melody L. Cassavant, Deer Park, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Dianne L. Chermak, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Ashley L. Cizek, New Market, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Paula K. Clement, Webster, speeding, $160.80.

Jason M. Coen, Balsam Lake, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Michael J. Collins, Humboldt, Iowa, Interstate record of duty status, $194.00.

Roger N. Comstock, Hudson, speeding, $160.80.

Gary L. Cottor, Osceola, operating while under influence, not guilty plea.

James R. Cowley, Luck, operating while under influence; speeding; operating with PAC .10 or more, not guilty pleas.

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Burnett County circuit court Ryan S. Friel, Webster, operating while suspended, reckless driving – cause bodily harm, not guilty pleas.

Cole E. Gallagher, Spooner, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Shawn S. Gannaway, West St. Paul, Minn., underage drinking, $249.00.

Manuel P. Garcia, Kewanee, Ill., speeding, $160.80.

James H. Garfunkel, Webster, set fire without extinguishing fire, $160.80.

Michelle J. Gibbs, Webster, operating left of centerline, $198.60.

Andrew R. Gillum, Plymouth, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Holiday H. Gladis, St. Paul, Minn., burning without a permit, $160.80.

James F. Gloodt, Siren, speeding, $186.00.

Scott J. Gmeinder, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Molly M. Godfrey, White Bear Lake, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Nena M. Gourley, Hayward, speeding, $186.00.

Kevin J. Grafwallner, Conover, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Marilee M. Grove, McCook, Neb., speeding, $160.80.

Donald R. Hacker, Elk River, Minn., operate boat without valid certification number, $186.00.

Kurt J. Halverson, Lake Elmo, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Bradley W. Hanson, Hudson, speeding, $160.80.

Craig A. Hawkins, Danbury, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Ethan A. Hayes, Siren, set fire without extinguishing fire, $160.80.

David M. Heckman, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Maria L. Helin, Webster, speeding, $160.80.

Brandon A. Hertog, Lino Lakes, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Michael J. Hill, Mellen, speeding, $160.80.

Samantha C. Hogle, Webster, underage drinking, not guilty plea.

James J. Holden, Le Center, Minn., fail to carry boat floatation devices, $148.20.

Jeffrey D. Holmberg, Webster, speeding, $160.80.

Kevin J. Holmes, Grantsburg, OWI, operating with PAC over, possess open intoxicants in motor vehicle, violation of child safety restraint requirements, not guilty pleas.

Brandon S. Hopkins, Webster, nonregistration of vehicle, $249.00.

Traci L. Hopkins, Webster, nonregistration of vehicle, $249.00.

Joseph C. Hubbell, Siren, operating while revoked, not guilty plea.

Lance R. Huebscher, Cohasset, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Cheryl A. Hunter, Danbury, violation of child safety restraint requirements, $135.60.

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Andrew D. Huot, St. Paul, Minn., license restriction violation, failure to keep vehicle under control, failure to notify police of accident, not guilty pleas.

Benjamin D. Jahnz, Pine City, Minn., speeding, $236.40.

Cory G. Johnson, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., underage drinking, $249.00.

Craig R. Johnson, Lake Elmo, Minn., operate boat without valid certification number, $186.00.

Joseph M. Johnson, Grantsburg, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Joseph V. Johnson, Brainerd, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Nathan C. Johnson, Eau Claire, speeding, $186.00.

Roy D. Johnson, Grantsburg, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Vanessa R. Johnson, Webster, operating with PAC .10 or more, not guilty plea.

Brian C. Jorgensen, Danbury, operate ATV without valid registration, not guilty plea.

Modesta D. Kaefer, Lake Bluff, Ill., speeding, $186.00.

Peter H. Dornfeld Kastler, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Kirsten H. Kennedy, North Branch, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Brian W. Knapp, Eau Claire, speeding, $186.00.

Andrew W. Larson, Danbury, underage drinking, $249.00 and order for assessment.

Dennis D. Legrand, Webb Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Victoria L. Lehman, Luck, speeding, $160.80.

Travis R. Lehmann, Centuria, operate boat without valid certificate number, $186.00.

Carl P. Lentz, Danbury, underage drinking, not guilty plea.

Morris L. Lewis, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.00.

Susan L. Lewis, Stillwater, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Daniel M. Lieber, Edina, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Derek L. Lindemann, Webster, operating while suspended, $186.00.

Michael F. Livingston, Siren, speeding, $160.80.

Johnathan L. Lowry, Siren, disorderly conduct, not guilty plea.

Michael J. Ludwig, New Brighton, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Michael M. Madsen, Danbury, operating while revoked, not guilty plea.

Patrick J. Magee, River Falls, operating while under influence, $677.00, 6-month license revocation and order for assessment.

Jacquelyn B. Maher, Shell Lake, nonregistration of auto, $160.80; speeding, $186.00.

Jean A. Maher, West, Ariz., speeding, $160.80.

Nicholas D. Maher, Lindstrom, Minn., underage drinking, $249.00.

Michael D. Mapson, Balsam Lake, speeding, $160.80.

Gwen M. Martini, Spooner, speeding, $160.80.

Keith A. Martini, Spooner, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Elizabeth H. Marty, Edina, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Joseph L. Matrious, Danbury, operating while suspended, speeding, not guilty pleas.

Douglas A. Mattson, Webster, burning without a permit, not guilty plea.

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Arthur Maud, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.00.

Amy M. Max, Blaine, Minn., towing occupied sled/bicycle on hwy., $160.80.

Mary M. McCorry, Danbury, speeding, $160.80.

Debra A. Menden, New Prague, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Teana M. Merrill, Siren, operating while suspended, $186.00; twice.

John E. Meyer, Siren, operating while under influence, automobile following too closely, seat belt violation, operating left of centerline, not guilty pleas.

Kolin E. Miley, Hayward, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Elizabeth A. Nicklos, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Kathleen S. Nordby, Coon Rapids, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Mark T. O’Connell, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Leslie G. Olsen, Barronett, speeding, $160.80.

Robert O. Olson, Birchwood, fail to stop/improper stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Colleen F. O’Malley, Siren, took pkg. of cigars from Holiday Gas Station, $150.00.

Gary R. Osborn, Grantsburg, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Melanie A. Osburn, speeding, $160.80.

Richard R. Pakonen, Andover, Minn., passing in no-passing zone, $198.60.

Michael A. Pallies, Bowlus, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Jacob A. Pardun, Webster, speeding, $160.80.

Michelle M. Parsons, Webster, operate without valid license, $186.00.

Edward R. Pearce, Delafield, speeding, $160.80.

Connie L. Peters, Spooner, speeding, $160.80; speeding, $186.00.

Holly A. Peterson, Spooner, speeding, not guilty plea.

Shawn M. Petsch, Maplewood, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Janet L. Polach, St. Louis Park, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Bryan D. Pope, Danbury, speeding, $160.80.

William E. Puckett, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Conrad L. Rainey, Danbury, fail to notify address change, $148.20.

Laura L. Rankin, Siren, speeding, $160.80.

Melissa J. Rapp, Hertel, speeding, $160.80.

Robin J. Rasmusson, Lindstrom, Minn., underage drinking, $249.00.

Reid G. Rehbein, Lino Lakes, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Patricia J. Reyes, Hayward, speeding, $186.00.

Jellisa A. Reynolds, Boyceville, fail to notify police of accident, $249.00.

Randy J. Rich, Spooner, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Debra A. Rochford, Plymouth, Minn., speeding, $160.00.

Danielle D. Rodriguez, Danbury, passing in no-passing zone, $198.60.

Cindee M. Roessel, Brooklyn Park, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Shelley M. Ross, White Bear Town, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Joel D. Rud, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., fail to stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Rinehart W. Ruff, Plymouth, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Juanjose Salas, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., speeding, $160.80; operate without valid license, $186.00.

Mikel J. Sanford, Frederic, speeding, $160.80.

Megan N. Sartwell, Danbury, speeding, $211.20.

Eugene B. Saumer, Spooner, speeding, $186.00.

Ryan S. Schmitz, Kentwood, Mich., speeding, $186.00.

Darryl J. Schumann, Webster, speeding, $160.80.

Mark A. Segelstrom, Clear Lake, speeding, not guilty plea.

Stephen T. Selix-Diebold, Golden Valley, Minn., speeding, $236.40 and 15-day license suspension.

Marlene G. Shelley, Oak Park Heights, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Mark S. Simenson, Bennett, speeding, not guilty plea.

Jennifer A. Smisson, Harris, Minn., speeding, $160.00.

Rick J. Smith, Duluth, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Robert D. Synder, Lake Elmo, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Dale A. Stafford, Spooner, burning without a permit, $160.80.

Francis J. Stage, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Mark P. Staloch, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

David A. Stevens, Land O Lakes, speeding, $160.80.

Christopher D. Stewart, Savage, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Amber D. Strese, Cushing, speeding, not guilty plea.

Aaron M. Stroot, Webster, underage drinking, $375.00, 6month license suspension and order for assessment.

Scott R. St. Thomas, Winona, Minn., jet ski – operate without floatation device, $148.20.

Rachel T. Tanning, New Brighton, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Russell C. Thoreen, Grantsburg, speeding, fail to stop at stop sign, operating while under influence, operating with PAC .10 or more, not guilty pleas.

Jessica A. Tiedemann, Amery, speeding, $160.80.

David C. Triemert Sr., Lakeland, Minn., trespass to land, not guilty plea.

Sharon L. Triemert, Lakeland, Minn., trespass to land, not guilty plea.

Whitney E. Turner, Princeton, Minn., speeding, operate without valid license, not guilty pleas.

Margery A. Vosbury, Hampton, Iowa, speeding, $186.00.

Charles R. Walton, Maplewood, Minn., speeding, $160.00.

Lance J. Watkins, Maple Grove, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Michael L. Westeen, Webb Lake, speeding, $211.20.

Daniel H. Wiggins, Webster, ATV – operation on highways, $186.00; operate ATV without valid registration, $186.00.

Jerome D. Wilsey, Siren, fail to stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Kaleb M. Wilson, Minnetonka, Minn., speeding, $343.50.

Bruce W. Wlaschin, Danbury, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Bradley C. Young, Danbury, operating while revoked, not guilty plea.

Peter A. Zimmerman, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

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Deborah J. Bromley, Grantsburg, burning without a permit, not guilty plea.

Ryan C. Budlong, Minneapolis, Minn., burning without a permit, $160.80.

Leslie J. Campbell, Little Canada, Minn., speeding, $160.00.

Cheryl L. Carson, Siren, speeding, $160.80.

Jason R. Casey, Danbury, speeding, not guilty plea.

Nicholas A. Christenson, Grantsburg, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Jeramie D. Christianson, Danbury, speeding, $186.00.

George H. Clark, Siren, burning without a permit, $160.80.

David M. Cloutier, Danbury, speeding, $186.00.

Ritchard K. Cook, Webster, operate motorcycle without valid license, not guilty plea.

Charles D. Coon, Luck, disorderly conduct, $150.00.

Daniel J. Cox, Eden Prairie, Minn., speeding, $211.20.

Steven W. Curtis, Forest Lake, Minn., speeding, not guilty plea.

Daniels Heating and Plumbing, Siren, vehicle equipment violations, $231.80.

Maryann M. Daugherty, White Bear Lake, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Jordan M. Decorah, Webster, operate after rev/susp. of registration, $160.80.

Alejandro Deviana, W. St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Rodolphe M. Diusse, Los Angeles, Calif., speeding, $236.40.

Robert W. Dolder, Watertown, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

James E. Drost, Rice Lake, failure to notify police of accident, $249.00.

Kevin M. Eder, Ashland, speeding, $160.80.

Becky F. Eklof, Duluth, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Elia Cristobol Pesantez Ortiz, Minneapolis, Minn., vehicle equipment violations, $231.80.

Cryus B. Elliott Jr., Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $160.00.

Dale J. Emberson, Danbury, underage drinking, $249.00 and order for assessment.

James D. Engelsma, Edina, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Kenneth A. Erickson, Grantsburg, operating while revoked, not guilty plea.

Ryan A. Estridge, Danbury, underage drinking, $249.00 and order for assessment.

Shaun P. Fahey, Robbinsdale, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Janet K. Fausch, Danbury, speeding, $160.80.

Taylor M. Finch, Grantsburg, speeding, not guilty plea.

Aaron G. Frazier, St. Louis Park, Minn., fail to stop at stop sign, $160.80.

Chad A. French, Danbury, underage drinking, $123.00 and order for assessment.

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Kevin J. Ackland, Siren, construct or place any structure or deposit any material in navigable waters, $753.00.

Tammy R. Ackley, Cable, speeding, $160.80.

Shirley A. Albrecht, Webster, operating while under influence, operating with PAC .10 or more, not guilty pleas.

Carol J. Allers, Bloomington, Minn., drink open intoxicants in motor vehicle, not guilty plea.

Allied Waste Services of North America Llc, Rice Lake, vehicle equipment violations, $168.80.

Glen C. Allison, Woodbury, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Bradley C. Anderson, Siren, seat belt violation, $10.00.

Michael J. Anderson, Fridley, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Barbara A. Ankrum, Vadnais Heights, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Richard R. Antonson, St. Croix Falls, speeding, $186.00.

Terrie A. Aschenbrenner, Stevens Point, speeding, $160.80.

Tanya G. Austin, Maple Grove, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Samuel D. Bartz, North Branch, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Robert C. Bauman, Brooklyn Center, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Elsie N. Bearhart, Webster, speeding, $261.60; possess open intoxicants in motor vehicle, $249.00.

Gary D. Bearhart Sr., Danbury, speeding, $160.80.

Carol A. Becker, Maplewood, Minn., speeding, $186.00.

Bryan L. Belisle, Webster, operating while revoked, not guilty plea.

Robert R. Belisle Jr., Hertel, operating while under influence, not guilty plea.

Tracee R. Belisle, Webster, operating while revoked, nonregistration of auto, not guilty pleas.

Joanna R. Bendickson, Rush City, Minn., speeding, $161.30.

Bernadette L. Benjamin, Webster, OAR, not guilty plea.

Steven D. Bernard, River Falls, set fire without extinguishing fire, $160.00.

Timothy T. Bieniek, Bowlus, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Patrick K. Bigham, St. Paul, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Roger J. Braun, St. Anthony Village, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

Kyle D. Breault, Danbury, speeding, $160.80.

Pamela A. Brewers, New Prague, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

James D. Brinkman, Cambridge, Minn., speeding, $168.00.

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Siren police report June 21: Bradley D. Carter, 25, Columbus, Ohio, was cited for unsafe passing on right.

June 21: Siren Police Department picked up a bike that had been left at the Siren ballpark for a couple of days.

June 28: Claudia B. Hardy, Cambridge, Minn., was cited for speeding.

Burnett County deaths Mary L. Lee, 85, Sterling, June 12.

Hannah R. Newburgh, 77, Grantsburg Village, June 15.

Burnett Co. marriage licenses Christopher R. Melin, Grantsburg, and Kathryn L. Cashman, Grantsburg, June 22

FULL-TIME MANAGING COSMETOLOGIST WANTED For New Aveda Salon Opening In Grantsburg Send resume to: P.O. Box 657 Grantsburg, WI 54840 489372 44-45L

(June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY SCHANON MORTGAGE, INC. 228 N. Keller Ave. Amery, WI 54001 Plaintiff vs.

JOHN T. ARONSON and DEON M. ARONSON, his wife 1072 E. Neibel Lane Balsam Lake, WI 54810 Defendants NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No. 08 CV 74 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered in the above action on March 23, 2009, the undersigned Sheriff of Polk County, Wisconsin, will sell at public auction in the foyer area of the Polk County Justice Center, in the Village of Balsam Lake, State of Wisconsin on Tuesday, July 28, 10 a.m., the following described premises: Part of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, Section 9, Township 35 North, Range 16 West, Town of Georgetown, Polk County, Wis. described as Lot 2 of Certified Survey Map No. 3182 filed in Volume 14, page 204, as Document No. 602781.

TERMS: Cash; subject to all unpaid property taxes, special assessments, penalties and interest. Buyer to pay transfer fee and costs of sheriff’s sale.

DOWN PAYMENT: 10% of amount bid by certified check.

BALANCE DUE: Within ten (10) days of confirmation of sale.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 963 Big Round Avenue, Luck, WI 54853.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, on June 5, 2009.

Timothy Moore Polk County Sheriff Kenneth Wm. Jost Jost Law Office P.O. Box 54, Chetek, WI 54728 487947 WNAXLP

SCHOOL DISTRICT OF SIREN JOB VACANCY

The School District of Siren has opened a search for the following positions for the July 13-31 Summer School Program: Native American Culture and Language Teacher: This is a temporary position. Must possess proper Wisconsin DPI licensure.

Bus Driver: This is a temporary part-time position to transport students.

Wisconsin Bus Driver license required.

Qualified candidates should submit a letter of interest and a resume to: Scott Johnson, District Administrator, School District of Siren, 24022 4th Ave., Siren, WI 54872. These positions will be filled as soon as possible. 489922 45L

CITY OF TAYLORS FALLS JOB POSTING

Public Works Superintendent. The City of Taylors Falls is accepting applications for a full-time Public Works Superintendent. Applicant must have public works experience and supervisory or work director experience. This position answers directly to the City Council and requires a hands-on individual reponsible for performing the daily operation of the Public Works Department, including water & wastewater facilities, street, park, storm sewer, building and vehicle maintenance. Applicant must have experience and a working knowledge of heavy equipment, budgeting, safety, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Must possess a valid Minnesota class B driver’s license with air brakes and a Class C or D water and wastewater operator’s certificate. Salary will be DOQ. Application packet is available at City Hall by contacting Jo Everson, ClerkTreasurer at 651-465-5133, ext. 21, by e-mail at: tfclerk@frontiernet.net, or can be obtained on the City’s Web site www.ci.taylors-falls.mn.us, or by writing to 637 First Street, Taylors Falls MN. 55084-1144.

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The City of Taylors Falls is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status with regard to public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, disability, sexual orientation, or age pursuant to MS 363.03 & 181.67. The City is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C.A. 12105 et seq., please call (651) 465-5133 if any reasonable accommodations need to be made. The City will be providing Veterans Preferences points MS 197.455 & 43A.11.

Inter-County Leader. Since 1933.

(June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY First State Bank and Trust, Plaintiff, Vs. David M. Nemeth and LoAnne K. Nemeth, Defendants.

Case Code: 30404 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Case No. 08 CV 395 Hon. Robert H. Rasmussen PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on the 14th day of January, 2009, the Sheriff of Polk County will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: DATE/TIME: July 16, 2009, at 10 a.m.

TERMS: 10% of successful bid must be paid to the Sheriff at sale in cash or by certified check. Balance due within 10 days of court approval.

Purchaser is responsible for payment of all transfer taxes and recording fees. Sale is AS IS in all respects.

PLACE: Lobby of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 2465 recorded in Vol. 11 of Certified Survey Maps, pg. 173, Doc. No. 568668, located in the SW1/4 of SE1/4 Sec. 31-3218, Polk County, Wisconsin.

(FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY: Plaintiff believes that the property address is 2341 County Line Avenue, New Richmond, WI).

Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County Stein & Moore, P.A. Attorneys for Plaintiff 332 Minnesota St., Ste. W-1650 St. Paul, MN 55101 487613 WNAXLP 651-224-9683

(June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff, vs.

SUSAN K. ROBERTS, et al Defendants.

Case Number: 09 CV 155 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on April 14, 2009, in the amount of $167,591.04, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: July 28, 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, Wis. DESCRIPTION: Lot 1, Plat of Lamperts Addition, City of Amery, Polk County, Wis. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 669 Otis Avenue, Amery, WI 54001.

TAX KEY NO.: 201-01147-0000.

Dated this 5th day of June, 2009 /s/Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County Christina E. Demakopoulos State Bar #1066197 Attorney for Plaintiff 13700 W. Greenfield Avenue Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. (155576)

VILLAGE OF SIREN PART-TIME ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT - POLICE DEPARTMENT

The Village of Siren is looking for a Part-Time Administrative Assistant to work in our Police Department.

Duties include acting as a receptionist, routine clerical work including DMV services. Complete job description available at Village Hall. This position requires a criminal background check.

Applications and complete job description are available at Village Hall at 24049 First Avenue, Siren, Wisconsin. Resumes will be accepted but must be accompanied by a completed application. Submit application to Ann Peterson, Village Clerk/Treasurer, P.O. Box 23, Siren, WI 54872. Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. on July 13, 2009.

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(June 17, 24, July 1) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN E. CLARK Order Setting Time to Hear Petition for Administration and Heirship and Notice to Creditors Case No. 09 PR 39 A petition has been filed for administration of the estate and determination of heirship of the decedent, whose date of birth was October 10, 1921, and date of death was January 7, 2007.

The decedent died domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a post office address of 115 2nd Avenue West, Balsam Lake, WI 54810.

IT IS ORDERED THAT: 1. The petition be heard at the Polk County Courthouse, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, Room Br. 1, before Hon. Molly E. GaleWyrick, Court Official, on August 4, 2009, at 8:30 a.m. or when scheduled thereafter.

2. Heirship will be determined on the date set for hearing on the final account. You need not appear unless you object. The petition may be granted if no objection is made.

3. Creditor’s claims must be filed with the court on or before September 18, 2009.

4. Publication of this notice shall constitute notice to any persons whose names or addresses are unknown.

Please check with attorney/ petitioner below for exact time and date.

BY THE COURT: Molly E. GaleWyrick Circuit Court Judge June 12, 2009 George W. Benson Attorney at Law BENSON LAW OFFICE LLC P.O. Box 370 Siren, WI 54872 715-349-5215

(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

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Accidents June 25: Rich L. Jensen, 26, New Richmond, reported hitting a deer while on Hwy. 87 in Anderson Township. No injuries were reported.

June 27: Craig A. Naylor, 29, Spooner, was westbound on Kessler Road in Scott Township when he lost control negotiating a curve and hit a tree. Neither the driver or two passenger reported injuries, but the vehicle was towed due to damages.

Alcohol was a factor in the accident. The driver was issued three citations and was arrested.

Dale E. Coen, 55, Frederic, possess, loan or borrow another’s license, $288.80.

Richard D. Morse, 65, Siren, speeding, $160.80.

Amy L. Monicken, 36, Danbury, issue worthless check, $309.00.

Brent A. LaPierre, 35, issue worthless check, $309.00.

John E. Vanous, 58, Danbury, OWI, $677.00, license revoked six months, alcohol assessment.

NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Registered Nurse: Casual on Med./Surg. Varied shifts and days. No guaranteed hrs. Prefer applicant w/acute care nursing experience.

Learn the details and download application at www.scrmc.org; click on Employment.

St. Croix Regional Medical Center 715-483-0286 • Fax: 715-483-0508 an equal opportunity employer

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Terry L. Justin, 49, Braham, Minn., violation of child safety restraint requirements, $135.60.

Hazel M. Slayton, 20, Stone Lake, speeding, $211.20.

Vince L. Rightman, 37, Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, fraud in obtaining a license, $464.00.

Kenneth J. Anderson, 57, Medina, Minn., speeding, $160.80.

George W. Darwin, 57, Trego, speeding, $160.80.

Joel E. Cycenas, 42, Chisago City, Minn., seat belt violation, $160.80.

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Suzanne M. Hudek, 46, Minnetonka, Minn., issue worthless check, $309.00.

Cory S. Olson, 38, Cloquet, Minn., issue worthless check, $309.00.

Notices/Employment

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Burnett County criminal court

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 20092010 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 10. Screening of applications will take place the week of July 13 and interviews will take place the week of July 20.

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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)

TOWN OF MILLTOWN

NOTICE OF LIQUOR LICENSE APPLICATION VILLAGE OF LUCK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the following application has been received by the undersigned Village Clerk, Village of Luck, for a liquor license for the ensuring year, Wayne’s Star of the North Markets, Inc., for a Class “A” Intoxicating Liquor License at 151 Butternut Avenue, Luck, Wis. The Village of Luck Board will take action on this application at their regular meeting on Wednesday, July 8, 2009.

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Monthly Board Meeting Monday, July 13, at 7 p.m.

Milltown Fire Hall Virgil Hansen, Clerk 489094 34-35a,d 45-46L

BONE LAKE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT BUDGET MEETING Sat., July 11, 2009 9 a.m.

Georgetown Hall

Preparing budget for 2010 to be approved at the annual meeting; old business; new business

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Case No. 09-PR-42

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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

(June 17, 24, July 1) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALAN O. RISVOLD Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 09 PR 41 An application has been filed for informal administration of the estate of the decedent, whose date of birth was November 13, 1924, and date of death was May 12, 2009. The decedent died domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a post office address of: 3386 140th Street, Frederic, WI 54837. All interested persons have waived notice.

Creditors’ claims must be filed with the probate registrar on or before September 18, 2009.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar June 10, 2009 Joseph D. Boles, Attorney 219 North Main St. P.O. Box 138 River Falls, WI 54022 715-425-7281

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Midland Funding LLC vs.

Nicole Gille, Danbury, $2,231.51.

Atlantic Credit and Finance Inc. vs. Nancy J. Weiler, Grantsburg, $4,360.96.

(June 17, 24, July 1) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY Old Republic Insurance Company 307 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60601 Plaintiff, vs.

Lori J. Kyle 2405 Beede Lake Trail St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 Defendant.

Case No. 09 CV 304 PUBLICATION SUMMONS THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To each person named above as a defendant: You are hereby notified that the plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you. The complaint, which is also served on you, states the nature and basis of the legal action.

Within 20 days after June 17, 2009, you must respond with a written answer, as that term is used in chapter 802 of the Wisconsin Statutes, to the complaint. The court may reject or disregard an answer that does not follow the requirements of the statutes. The answer must be sent or delivered to the court, whose address is: Clerk of Circuit Court Polk County Courthouse 1005 W. Main Street Balsam Lake, WI 54819 and to Steven L. Stolper, plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is: 740 N. Plankinton Ave. #336, Milwaukee, WI 53203. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not provide a proper answer within 20 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the complaint. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

Dated this 5th day of June 2009.

Steven L. Stolper Plaintiff’s Attorney 740 N. Plankinton Ave. Suite 336 Milwaukee, WI 53203 414-270-0505 State Bar No. 1016512

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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

(July 1, 8, 15) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Plaintiff, vs.

STEVEN E. PHERNETTON and LESA M. PHERNETTON Defendants.

SUMMONS Case No. 09 CV 412 Case Classification No. 30404 Foreclosure of Mortgage TO: LESA M. PHERNETTON 621 220th Street Osceola, WI 54020 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you.

Within forty (40) days after July 1, 2009, you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Complaint. The demand must be sent or delivered to the Court, whose address is: Clerk of Court Polk County Justice Center 1005 West Main Street, Ste. 300 Balsam Lake, WI 54810 and to plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is: Steven J. Swanson 105 Washington Street South P.O. Box 609 St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not provide a proper Answer within forty (40) days after July 1, 2009, 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 the 25th day of June, 2009.

Steven J. Swanson #1003029 Attorney for Plaintiff 105 Washington Street South P.O. Box 609 St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

NOTICE

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SIDNEY B. TEIGEN

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(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.

An application has been filed for informal administration of the estate of the decedent, whose date of birth was May 2, 1914, and date of death was June 5, 2009. The decedent died domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a post office address of 3245 90th St., Frederic, WI 54837.

All interested parties have waived notice.

Creditors’ claims must be filed with the probate registrar on or before September 30, 2009.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar June 18, 2009 Todd H. Anderson Attorney at Law P.O. Box 507 Grantsburg, WI 54840 715-463-5365

(June 24, July 1, 8, 2009) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY

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(June 24, July 1, 8) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Carolyn R. Maack Deceased Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 09 PR 43 An application has been filed for informal administration of the estate of the decedent, whose date of birth was Feb. 22, 1941, and date of death was May 15, 2009. The decedent died domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a post office address of: 1532 270th Ave., Luck, WI 54853. All interested persons have waived notice.

Creditors’ claims must be filed with the probate registrar on or before September 30, 2009.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar June 19, 2009 Elsa A. Thompson 1600 Merrill St. St. Paul, MN 55108 489310 651-489-7566 WNAXLP

Midland Funding LLC vs.

Christopher H. Severance, Webb Lake, $4,156.85.

(July 1, 8, 15) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DEAN R. ANDERSON Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 09 PR 44 An application has been filed for infomal administration of the estate of the decedent, whose date of birth was March 27, 1925, and date of death was April 23, 2009. The decedent died domiciled in Polk County, State of Wisconsin, with a post office address of: Good Samaritan Center, 750 East Louisiana St., St. Croix Falls, WI 54024.

All interested persons have waived notice.

Creditors’ claims must be filed with the probate registrar on or before September 30, 2009.

Jenell L. Anderson Probate Registrar June 24, 2009 Steven J. Swanson Personal Representative/ Attorney P.O. Box 609 St. Croix Falls, WI 54024 715-483-3787

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Permits are required for any and all fireworks displays within the Town of Eureka. This applies to private citizens as well as commercial operations.

Contact Gene Krull at 715-483-9488 to acquire a no-fee permit.

Notices

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(June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY Archie and Kathy Lessard Family Limited Partnership, Plaintiff, vs.

Thomas Owen McKenzie, And KLC Financial, Inc., Defendant.

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case No. 09 CV 148 Case Code: 30404 Foreclosure of Mortgage By virtue of and pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure entered in the above-entitled action on the 15th day of May, 2009, I will sell at public auction at the foyer area of the Polk County Justice Center, 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin, on the 25th day of August, 2009, at 10 a.m., all of the following described mortgaged premises, to-wit.

Part of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE 1/ 4 SW 1/4), Section 22, Township 37 North, Range 17 West, lying West of State Highway #35, right lane, except the West 8 rods thereof. Town of West Sweden, Polk County, Wisconsin. Property Address: 3201 State Hwy. 35 North, Frederic, Wis. Terms of the sale: Cash due upon confirmation of sale.

Down payment: Ten Percent (10%) of amount bid by certified check due at time of sale.

Dated at Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, this 29th day of May, 2009.

Timothy G. Moore, Sheriff Polk County, Wisconsin GRINDELL LAW OFFICES, S.C. John Grindell P.O. Box 585 Frederic, WI 54837 715-327-5561 487949 Plaintiff’s Attorney WNAXLP

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Notices

NOTICE - TOWN OF LORAIN BOARD MEETING

Thurs., July 9, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

Lorain Town Hall, 252 345th Ave., Cty. Rd. E Agenda: Call meeting to order; roll call/verification of meeting notice; approve the minutes of the last meeting; approve the treasury report; motion to pay the bills; Reports: Road, Fire Dept., Ambulance; cemetery, Comprehensive Plan Commission; additional meeting items for future agendas; motion to adjourn; adjournment.

Susan E. Hughes, Clerk 489898 45L

TOWN OF SIREN SIREN SANITARY DISTRICT BOARD MEETING TOWN OF SIREN BOARD MEETING

The Siren Sanitary District meeting will be held on Thursday, July 9, 2009, at 6:30 p.m., at the Siren Town Hall. Immediately following the Sanitary District Meeting, the Town of Siren will hold a Board Meeting at approximately 7 p.m. If you wish to be on the agenda, please call Mary Hunter, Clerk.

Mary Hunter, Clerk 715-349-5119 488877 44-45L

(June 24, July 1, 8) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY RESURGENCE FINANCIAL, LLC, an Illinois Limited Liability Company Plaintiff, vs.

LINDA A. BAKER 2383 250TH AVE. CUSHING, WI 54006 Defendant(s).

PUBLICATION SUMMONS Case No. 09 CV 388 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 June 23, 2009, you must respond with a written answer, as that term is used in Chapter 802 of Wisconsin Statutes, to the Complaint. The Court may reject or disregard an answer that does not follow the requirements of the statutes. The answer must be sent or delivered to the court, whose address is: 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 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: June 15, 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 WI007164

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(July 1, 8, 15) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY U.S. Bank National Association ND, Plaintiff, vs.

James D. Gaudette and Cara L. Gaudette, Defendants.

Case Classification: 30404 SUMMONS (For Publication) Case No. 09 CV 407 Hon. Robert H. Rasmussen THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, to Defendant Cara L. Gaudette: You are hereby notified that the plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you.

This is a real estate foreclosure auction. Therefore, within 40 days after July 1, 2009, (60 days as to the United States of America), you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the complaint. The demand must be sent or delivered to the court, whose address is Clerk of Court, Polk County Courthouse, 1005 West Main Street, Balsam Lake, WI 54810 and to Ralph Moore, Plaintiff’s attorney whose address is 332 Minnesota Street, Suite W - 1650, St. Paul, MN 55101. You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy of the complaint within 40 days (60 days as to the United States of America), 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.

The object of this action is to foreclose two mortgages each recorded with the Register of Deeds for Polk County, Wisconsin, on May 20, 2008, as Document Nos. 745642 and 745644.

Date: June 26, 2009.

STEIN & MOORE, P.A. By: s/ Ralph L. Moore ID #1046351 Attorneys for Plaintiff 332 Minnesota St. Suite W-1650 St. Paul, MN 55101 651-224-9683

Craig A. Stevens, 36, Danbury, arrest warrant - complaint, June 23.

Wayne E. Stevens, 55, Bagley, Minn., warrant - failure to appear, June 24.

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(June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT POLK COUNTY BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC a Delaware Limited Liability company, Plaintiff, Vs. GARY W. ZEIDLER and PENNY -JO T. ZEIDLER, husband and wife, JOHN and/or JANE DOE unknown tenants; and KEVIN L. JONES and ANDREA G. JONES husband and wife Defendants.

Case No. 08-CV-694 Code No. 30404 Foreclosure of Mortgage Dollar Amount Greater Than $5,000.00 Code No. 31003 REPLEVIN NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on January 16, 2009, in the amount of $206,746.72, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: July 21, 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 for 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: Part of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, Section 30, Township 36 North, Range 18 West, Town of Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin, Described As Follows: ComMencing 15 Rods 12-1/2 Feet East Of The Southwest Corner Of Said Section 30, Township 36 North, Range 18 West, Thence Running North 171 Feet, Thence East 130 Feet, Thence South 171 Feet, Thence West 130 Feet To The Place Of Beginning. (PARCEL No. 030-00728-000).

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 2391 250th Ave., Town of Laketown.

TAX KEY NO.: 030-00728-0000 Timothy G. Moore Sheriff of Polk County, Wis. O’DESS & ASSOCIATES, S.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 1414 Underwood Ave. 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.

Charles L. Crittenden, 27, Minneapolis, Minn., warrant - failure to appear, June 24.

Jamie M. Magnuson, no date of birth given, Frederic, warrant failure to appear, June 25.

Guy R. Moser, 44, Webster, arrest warrant - complaint, June 25.

Amir A. Slate, 17, Minneapolis, Minn., arrest warrant - complaint, June 24.

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Tamara A. Cordie, 43, St. Croix Falls, warrant - failure to appear, June 24.

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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)

MEETING NOTICE

The Monthly Meeting Of The Clam Falls Town Board Will Be Held Wednesday, July 8, 2009, At 7 p.m., At The Town Hall The agenda will include minutes of the June meeting, treasurer’s report, comprehensive land use committee report, 340th St. bids, letter from Bradley Ayers.

Full agenda will be posted.

Betty Knutson, Clerk 489858 45L 35a For The Town Board

MEETING NOTICE

The next meeting of the Meenon Town Board will be held on Monday, July 13, 2009, 7 p.m., at the Meenon Town Hall.

Agenda to include: Approval of minutes; approval of treasurer’s report; chairman’s report; supervisor’s report; road report; budget discussion; road boring and public nuisance ordinances; items for future agendas; pay bills; adjournment to closed session per Wis. Stats.

19.85(1)(f); and meeting adjournment.

489879 45L 35a Suzanna M. Eytcheson, Meenon Town Clerk

www.the-leader.net (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

(June 17, 24, July 1) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT ST. CROIX COUNTY LORI A. ZILLGES 1442 Co. Rd. K, #14 New Richmond, WI 54017, Plaintiff vs.

MEGAN M. LENZ 1211 U.S. Hwy. 8 Amery, WI 54001, and ALLIED PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY c/o CT Corporation System, Registered Agent 8040 Excelsior Drive, Suite 200 Madison, WI 53717 Defendants.

File No. 09 CV 543 SUMMONS Case Code: 30101 THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, To each person named above as a Defendant or Subrogated Defendant: You are hereby notified that the plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you. The complaint, which is attached, states the nature and basis of the legal action.

Within 45 days of receiving this summons, you must respond with a written answer, as that term is used in Chapter 802 of the Wisconsin Statutes, to the complaint. The court may reject or disregard an answer that does not follow the requirements of the statutes. The answer must be sent or delivered to the court whose address is Clerk of Circuit Court, St. Croix County, 1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, WI 54016, and to Michael J. Brose, plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is Doar, Drill & Skow, S.C., 103 North Knowles Avenue, New Richmond, WI 54017.

You may have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not provide a proper answer within 45 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the complaint. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

Dated: April 21, 2009.

DOAR, DRILL & SKOW, S.C. Signed: Michael J. Brose Attorneys for Plaintiff State Bar No.: 1000827 103 North Knowles Avenue New Richmond, WI 54017 715-246-2211

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POLK COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING Thursday, July 16, 2009, at 9 a.m.

Shoreview Apartments, Balsam Lake

Agenda: I. Call to Order. II. Minutes. III. Bid Opening. IV. Financial Reports. V. Operations Report. VI. Unfinished Business: A. CDBG. VII. New Business. VIII. Adjourn. 489428 45L NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ZONING VARIANCE VILLAGE OF WEBSTER TAKE NOTICE THAT A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD AT THE VILLAGE OFFICE, 7505 MAIN STREET, WEBSTER, WISCONSIN, ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2009, AT 6 P.M. For the purpose of the consideration of a zoning variance for Stefan Benson dba Northbound Business Ventures, for his business located at 7435 Main Street West, Webster, Wisconsin, Parcel #191 3300 02 800. The property is zoned C-1, General Commercial Business District. The request is to build a 20x36 addition to be 13’6” from north side of alley.

The zoning code allows for 25’ from the alley. The Board will hear all interested persons, or their agents or attorneys, and thereafter will make a decision on the request.

For additional information, please contact: Patrice Bjorklund, Village Clerk, 7505 Main Street West, Webster, WI 54893.

Phone: 715-866-4211.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF SIREN, WISCONSIN

Please note that the Luck Village Board will have a change in their meeting time as follows: The Village Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, for their regular July meeting at the Luck Village Hall.

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Kathy Hanson, Clerk/Treasurer

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE VILLAGE OF WEBSTER WEBSTER VILLAGE HALL 7505 Main Street West • Webster, WI 54893 Wednesday, July 8, 2009 - 5:30 p.m.

The Village of Webster will conduct a public hearing regarding its proposed application for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. The public is invited to attend to learn about the CDBG program, to help identify additional local housing and community development needs and to comment on the activities proposed to be included in the CDBG application.

The agenda for the public hearing is: 1. Identification of total potential funds.

2. Eligible CDBG activities a. Economic Development b. Public Facilities c. Housing d. Public Facilities for Economic Development e. Blight Elimination & Brownfield Remediation 3. Presentation of identified housing and community development needs.

4. Identification of housing and community development needs by public.

5. Presentation of activities proposed for CDBG application, including potential residential displacement.

6. Citizen input regarding proposed and other CDBG activities.

Residents of the Village of Webster are encouraged to attend, especially residents with low to moderate incomes. 488889 44-45L WNAXLP The meeting room is handicapped accessible.

Persons needing additional accessibility accommodations should contact Patty Bjorklund, Village Clerk, at 715-866-4211. 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.

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(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-

To whom it may concern: Public notice is hereby given to all persons in the Village of Siren, Wisconsin, that a public hearing will be held before the Plan Commission at 10 a.m., on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, at the Village Hall, 24049 First Avenue, Village of Siren, Wisconsin, relative to an application for a Conditional Use Permit per the terms of the Village of Siren Land Use Ordinance as follows: To allow operation of a beauty shop as a home occupation at 23950 First Avenue (PID 07-181-2-38-16-17-5 15-603019000) in an R-1 Single Family Residence District.

All persons interested are invited to attend said hearing and be heard. Information on the proposal is available at the Village Office at 24049 First Avenue, Siren.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Polk County Land Information Committee will hold public hearing(s) on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, at 9:30 a.m., in the Government Center (1st Floor, County Boardroom), Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. The Committee will call the public hearing to order at 8:30 a.m., immediately recess to view sites and will reconvene at 9:30 a.m. at the government Center in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, to consider the following and other agenda items: KIRKHAM B. WOOD requests a Special Exception from Article 8D1(a) of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to operate a Tourist Rooming House. This is a continuation from the May 20, 2009, hearing. Property affected is: 2161 E. Pipe Lake Ln., Lot 7, CSM #1914, Vol. 9/Pg. 61, Pt. of Gov’t. Lot 3, Sec. 15/T35N/R15W, Town of Johnstown, Pipe Lake - class 1.

CURTIS HOFFMAN requests a Special Exception from Article 8D1 of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to operate a Transient Lodge. Property affected is: 2298-A 120th St., Lot 5, CSM #2151, Vol. 10/Pg. 74, Pt. of Govt.

Lot 1, Sec. 7/T35N/R16W, Town of Georgetown, Bone Lake class 1.

BART & KATY ANDERSON request a Special Exception from Article 8D1(a) of the Polk County Shoreland Protection Zoning Ordinance to operate a Tourist Rooming House. Property affected is: 2246 24th St., Lot 7, CSM #957, Vol. 4/Pg. 204, Pt. of Govt. Lot 3+4, Sec. 10/T35N/R15W, Town of Johnstown, Pipe Lake - class 1.

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DOCUMENT 00 11 14 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Flooring Replacement Golden Age Manor

Bid Opening: July 21, 2009, 10 a.m. (CST) Location: Polk County Government Center 100 Polk County Plaza East Conference Room Balsam Lake, WI 54810 Sealed bids for the project designated above will be received for and on behalf of Polk County and Golden Age Manor, hereinafter referred to as the Owner, at the location listed above, on or before the above-mentioned time and date, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Work of this contract consists of removal of the majority of the existing carpet and installation of new carpeting. Other work includes installation of new vinyl composition tile.

A lump sum price will be requested for flooring work.

Bids shall be on the forms provided for that purpose and according to the Contract Documents prepared by Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. dated June 23, 2009.

The Bidding Documents may be seen at the issuing office of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. located at: 421 Frenett Drive, Chippewa Falls, WI 54729-3374 (715-720-6200) or at the Polk County Government Center, Parks & Buildings Suite #10.

Each bid shall be accompanied by the Bidder’s Bond or Certified Check in the amount equal to at least 10 percent of the amount of the total bid, which shall be forfeited to the Owner in the event the successful bidder fails to enter into a Contract.

Bids shall be directed to the Owner securely sealed and endorsed upon the outside wrapper BID FOR FLOORING REPLACEMENT. Each bidder must attend a prebid meeting at the Golden Age Manor on July 9, 2009, at 2 p.m. to tour the facility and become acquainted with the various renovation work items.

Bidders who do not attend the prebid meeting will not have their bids accepted and they will be returned unopened.

The Owner reserves the right to retain the deposits of the three (3) lowest bidders for a period not to exceed 30 days after the date and time set for the opening of bids. No bids may be withdrawn for a period of 30 days after the date and time set for the opening of bids.

Paper copies of the Bidding Documents may be obtained from SEH located at 421 Frenette Drive, Chippewa Falls, WI 54729-3374 (715-720-6200) for a fee of $30.00 or from the Polk County Web site: http://www.co.polk.wi.us/RFP/data-rfp/ news.asp?optmember=38.

Bidders may be requested to submit “Contractor’s Qualification Statement.”

Bidders will be required to provide performance and payment bonds of 100 percent of bid amount.

This work shall be subject to the minimum wages and labor standards in accordance with Wisconsin state law.

Bids may be submitted to: Ms. Tonya Weinert Finance Director/County Auditor 100 Polk County Plaza, Suite 220 Balsam Lake, WI 54810 Bids are due by July 21, 2009, at 10 a.m.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids or accept that bid which is more advantageous to Polk County.

Ms. Tonya Weinert Finance Director/County Auditor 100 Polk County Plaza, Suite 220 489163 44-45L 34-35a,d Balsam Lake, WI 54810

Notices TOWN OF ST. CROIX FALLS IS REQUESTING BIDS FOR CULVERT REPLACEMENT

Notice is hereby given that the Town of St. Croix Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin, is accepting bids for replacement of two 36” culverts along River Road. Sufficient erosion control measures required as specified by State, County and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

For specific details of the above project, contact Steve Jacobs, Pubic Works, or Janet Krueger, Town Clerk, Town of St. Croix Falls, at 715-483-1851.

Bids to be considered must be received by the town at 1305 200th Street prior to Noon on Tues., July 14, 2009. Bids will be opened on Wed., July 15, 2009, at the monthly Town Board meeting commencing at 6 p.m. The Town Board reserves the right to accept or reject any, any part of, and/or all bids and to waive irregularities and information therein and further reserves the right to award the contract in the best interest of the Town of St. Croix Falls. www.stcroixfalls.org 489371 44-45L WNAXLP

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AMENDMENT #1 TO TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICT #3 VILLAGE OF FREDERIC Notice is hereby given of a public hearing to be held by the Plan Commission of the Village of Frederic. The purpose of the hearing is to solicit public input on the proposed amendment to the Project Plan for Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District #3. The public hearing will be held in the boardroom of the Frederic Village Hall located at 107 Hope Road West in Frederic, on Wednesday, July 15, 2009, at 6 p.m. The pro posed amendment includes the addition of territory and projects to TIF #3. Grants and loans to developers or development incentives/reimbursements may also be provided. The estimated cost of the proposed amendment is $450,000. A copy of the proposed amendment is available from the Village Clerk upon request.

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS CLEAR LAKE STREET OVERLAY PROJECT SIREN, WISCONSIN

The Village of Siren will receive sealed bids at the Village Hall, located at 24049 First Avenue, P.O. Box 23, Siren, Wisconsin, 54872, for the construction of Clear Lake Street Overlay Project until 2 p.m., Wednesday, July 8, 2009. All bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at that time.

The major work for which bids are asked includes the following (quantities are approximate): 170 Tons of Asphalt Paving.

The BIDDING DOCUMENTS may be examined at the office of the Village of Siren. Plan holders list will be available at the Village Office.

Copies of the BIDDING DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of the Village of Siren, 24049 First Avenue, Siren, WI 54872.

No proposal will be accepted unless accompanied by a certified check or bid bond equal to at least 5% of the amount bid, payable to the OWNER as a guarantee that, if the bid is accepted, the bidder will execute and file the proper contract and bond within 15 days after the award of the contract. The certified check or bid bond will be returned to the bidder as soon as the contract is signed, and if after 15 days the bidder shall fail to do so, the certified check or bid bond shall be forfeited to the OWNER as liquidated damages.

No bidder may withdraw his bid within 30 days after the actual date of the opening thereof.

This project is a Wisconsin Local Roads Improvement Project (LRIP).

OWNER reserves the right to waive any informalities or to reject any or all bids.

Randy D. Surbaugh, P.E. Village Administrator/Engineer 489328 44-45L WNAXLP

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Sealed proposals will be received by the Owner, The Polk County Housing Authority, in the Shoreview Apartments Community Room at 108 Old Courthouse Drive, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin 54810 (located behind the County Museum), until 9 a.m., Thursday, July 16, 2009, at which time they will be opened and publicly read.

If proposal is mailed or faxed, they must be received at the Housing Authority Office, 403 Second Avenue, Osceola, Wisconsin 54020, by Wednesday, July 15, 2009, before 3 p.m.

The project consists of roof and fascia replacement at three separate facilities. All materials except nails, will be purchased by the Owner. A material list from the lumberyard(s) will be available for contractor’s use.

Contractor is to submit one, two or three individual proposals for the three (3) individual project sites. Contractor may submit a combined proposal for all three sites. An estimated start and completion date must be included with each proposal.

Contractor may be asked to submit, to the Owner, a Qualification Statement (AIA A305), list of references and previous experience listing.

Contractor may not withdraw their proposal within 30 days of date of submittal.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and to waive any informalities and to accept the proposal most advantageous to the Owner. The Owner will have the right to accept proposal breakdowns in any order or combination.

Drawings may be obtained from the Designer or Owner after June 23, 2009. Contractors are encouraged to visit the site(s) to determine existing conditions. Contact Eloise Heathfield at 715294-4243 to set up an appointment.

Owner Polk County Housing Authority 403 2nd Avenue East Osceola, WI 54020

Designer SJS Design 2938 19-3/4 Street Rice Lake, WI 54868 715-296-7840

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Siren Lionesses install new members

Siren Lioness installed three new members on May 19, which brings the membership total to 36. Pictured (L to R) are President Sandy Ferguson, CeCe Anderson, Sponsoring Lioness Nancy Tamminga, Judy Baker and Diane Hillyard. Welcome to the club ladies.

2009 Siren Lioness officers pictured (L to R) are John Carlson, Lioness Liaison; Evie Weber, Lioness Tamer; Diane Hillyard, Skirt Twister; directors - Nancy Tamminga, Judy Masel and Shari Kult; Joan Chapman, second vice president; Anke Olesen, treasurer; Debra Pavlicek, membership; Charlene Hyslop, secretary; and center Mary Jo Bierman, historian. Absent are Sandy Ferguson, president; and Marilyn Lemieux, first vice president. — Photos submitted

Anke Olesen was also roasted on June 16 with many memories and stories of her years of service and friendship.

Tuesday, June 16, was a special night for Lioness Anke Olesen as family and friends gathered to celebrate her receiving the Melvin Jones Award.

Past District Gov. Larry Blahauvietz presented Olesen with this award for many years of service. Shirly Albrecht, who was present, sponsored her nto the Lioness in 1984. Since, she has volunteered half of those years as treasurer and finance chairperson and served on numerous other committees and activities.

Miss Centuria pageant

The Miss Centuria pageant will be held Friday evening, July 10, at the Unity School. Candidates for Miss Centuria are from back: Jessica Raboin, Janelle Larson, Katie Bestland and Jessica Golz. The pageant is part of the community’s annual Memory Days celebration, July 10-12. - Special photo

Candidates for Little Miss Centuria are Gracie Peterson, daughter of Rod and Leslie Peterson (standing); Billie Jo Erickson, daughter of Tim and Vickie Erickson (sitting, left) and Ryana Bates, daughter of Lisa and Jason Bates (sitting, right).

Not shown is Taylor Lehner, daughter of Joe and Suzy Lehner. - Special photo

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Guests attending the Thursday, June 26 celebration at Voyager Village hosted to show off the residential and recreational development’s $2 million capital improvements and enhancements, enjoyed a day of complimentary golf after touring the new Legends Bar and Grille, pro shop, sport court and bocce ball courts.

Photos by Priscilla Bauer

The new Legends Bar and Grille features a spacious bar overlooking the Voyager Village Golf Course in Danbury.

Voyager Village showcases improvements LEFT: Voyager Village General Manager Mark Crowl welcomed and thanked guests attending the special luncheon and day of golfing last Thursday to celebrate the completion of the residential and recreational development’s multiyear golf course, new pro shop and new Legends Bar and Grill.

Crowl told guests nearly $2 million in capital improvements and enhancements to the property have been invested funded fully by real estate sales of almost $2.8 million. “I think this is amazing,” said Crowl, noting 103 new homes have been built in Voyager Village in the last three years.

“We are a great asset to Burnett County.” Crowl said the majority of the projects were completed by local contractors and vendors.

A large gazebo looks out at the beautiful Voyager Village golf course. The gazebo is a great picnic and barbequing spot for summertime parties and get-togethers after a day of great golfing.

A new Sport Court also offers courts for tennis, volleyball, badminton and basketball.

RIGHT: Ryan Benson takes time before heading to the golf course to check out the golfing accessories and clothing at the new Voyager Village pro shop. Benson and other invited guests enjoyed a special lunch and day of golfing to celebrate Voyager’s newly renovated facilities.

Voyager Village board member Jim Thoreson and Steve Johnson, Voyager’s golf course superintendent, look over the newest addition to Voyager Village’s recreational facilities, the Bocce Ball courts.

The Voyager Village board of directors, elected by the property owner’s association, and other invited guests attended a celebration lunch on Thursday, June 26, to tour the recently completed Legends Bar and Grille, pro shop and multiyear golf course renovation. Board members L to R: Mike Maloney, Bob Ellson, President Elra Johnson, Vice President Larry Lindberg, Treasurer Jerry Gobel, and Jim Thoreson. Not present board member, Tom Heenan.

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Osceola man joins international delegation in attempt to bring hope to people of war-weary Gaza Strip

With nowhere else to live, families such as this remain in what was once their house. - Photo by Oruba Rabie

Mike Levy distributes toys at Maghazi Refugee Camp women’s program. Levy joined more than 60 others as part of an international peace group that traveled to the Israeli-controlled Palestinian homeland of the Gaza Strip. – Special photo tinian kids. Soon the kids had drawn colorful greetings for me to bring to the Palestinian children. I also brought with me hundreds of small toys to hand out, and Cathy and her husband, Bruce, contributed to help purchase art supplies so that art therapists and teachers in Gaza working with children with special needs might - if we were allowed in - have drawing paper and coloring supplies that could not be normally be brought in to Gaza through the border crossings.

Toys and coloring supplies were apparently classified

by Israel as “nonessential” items that have generally been prohibited from being shipped into Gaza.

If we weren’t allowed in, we planned to set up a camp at the border and try to draw attention to this almost invisible crisis.

Finally, after several days of discussions with Egyptian authorities and calls to U.S. officials, the Egyptian government agreed to let us cross the border. We were overjoyed. The devastation and suffering were immediately apparent.

Whatever ideas I had when I boarded the plane for Cairo regarding the complex debate about Israel bombs versus Palestinian rockets were quickly washed away by tears of sadness and gratitude once we saw the reactions of the Palestinians as we drove from the Rafah crossing to Gaza City. We were overcome by the depth and breadth of the suffering and saddened to know that the missiles and torturous white-phosphorous incendiary shells that can smolder inside the body of victims for days or weeks were supplied to Israel by the United States. The Palestinians joked that the Gaza Strip had been turned into “the largest prison in the world.” Yet hope had survived. The faces of children and adults everywhere lit up with heartwarming smiles and waves of welcome as we waved to them.

As I sit writing this in a quiet family-style hotel in Cairo after leaving Gaza less than a day ago, I am still overwhelmed by what I have seen. How can I put it into words? Perhaps in a few days I will be able to write more. Here are three of their stories I cannot get out of my mind.

It is the third day of our visit. The mayor of the Palestinian city of Kahn Yunis, Gaza, is all smiles and courtesy Wednesday as he welcomes us into his modest

office. The city, home to over 180,000 Palestinian refugees, was, like most of Gaza, hard hit during the 22 days of Israeli attacks last December and January. The hot Gaza sun and the dust from the city’s bombed rubble and torn up streets has left us sweaty and dirty after several hours setting up playground equipment Code Pink has brought for the city’s traumatized children.

International visitors are so rare, he tells us. A university professor who sits on the local city council described the devastating isolation into which the entire Gaza Strip has been plunged for the past three years, while the mayor screens a video we could not bear to watch, as it showed photo after photo of smashed houses, maimed and dead children, and ambulances, mosques, and schools that looked as if they had been crushed by a gigantic meteor from outer space.

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What remains of the American school in Gaza. – Special photo

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by Mike Levy CAIRO, Egypt - “Welcome to Gaza” said the two young girls, smiling and locking arms, as we finally crossed the border from Egypt into the Israeli-controlled Palestinian homeland of the Gaza Strip.

“We are so happy that you have come here, but we just want to ask you one question: What would you do?

What would you do if foreign soldiers destroyed your home and all your possessions, everything. And what would you do if they killed your child or your wife or your sister in front of you?”

This was the one question we heard over and over, and the hardest to answer.

On May 25, I left Osceola to join the 66 members of an international delegation from 10 countries coordinated by the peace activist organization Code Pink.

Despite our group’s diversity in ages, professions and backgrounds, we were all shocked and saddened by the reports of the international human rights organizations, the United Nations and the alternative media about the grave humanitarian and human rights crisis continuing in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory of Gaza.

We knew that the Egyptian and Israeli borders remained largely closed to foreigners and Palestinians for more than four months after the end of 22 days of attacks. We were told we probably wouldn’t be allowed by the Israeli or Egyptian government to cross the border into Gaza.

Like many others in our delegation, I was not coming empty-handed. When Osceola Elementary School teacher Cathy Oscarson heard I was going on this trip, she alerted her fellow teachers to the plight of the Pales-

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Gaza Strip/from page 1 Behind the mayor, on a satellite TV screen, live images of President Obama’s arrival in Saudi Arabia seem almost irrelevant. While many Palestinians were anxiously awaiting Obama’s speech to be given the following day in Cairo, they said they understood the many pressures that make it hard for a U.S. president to take a balanced position that fully recognizes Palestinian rights and would lead to decisive action to end the Israeli occupation. Speeches are important, they told us, but action is what people want to see.

The contrast between the pomp and ceremony in Saudi Arabia unfolding on the TV screen and the poverty and suffering of the Palestinians was embarrassing. After all of the endless conferences and meetings and statements about peace in the Middle East, how must it look to a Palestinian whose home, crops and possessions have been destroyed, whose children are starving and sick with fear, wondering when the next screaming missile will fall, and with no safe place to evacuate even after he has lost his home.

The generous hospitality of our hosts was a recurring theme despite the hardships they face. We were treated to Arabian coffee (a blend of cardamom, nutmeg and other herbs), pita bread with pickles and three kinds of salad (yes, we

Special education programs seek to help traumatized children in Gaza. – Special photo even met vegans in Palestine), and a plate of simple meat sandwiches, falafel and sweets. But then in an instant the mood changed as the officials took us to meet a family living in the town’s refugee camp. A young girl sat on cement amid a pile of cardboard and old newspapers baking bread in a crudely

Setting up one of three playgrounds. – Special photo

fashioned oven.

Her paralyzed little brother looked at us from a makeshift wheelchair. (Because of the border closures, a wheelchair smuggled through the dangerous tunnels costs $1,000, we are told.) A single small room is home to 14 members of the family. There isn’t even room for mattresses, which are kept in the tiny kitchen during the day. The kids greeted us with anxious smiles, as the father said there are no jobs, no way and described the humiliation of not being able to support his family or protect them from Israeli bombs, or send them to school.

As we were about to leave to visit a second family living in even more difficult conditions, I heard the sound of birds tweeting in the kitchen.

Looking up toward the ceiling, I saw five small birdcages perched on an extremely narrow shelf. “Why does he have these birds in his tiny kitchen, when there is hardly any room for his family?” I asked. The mayor leaned over and quietly said something like this: “He struggles to have any self-respect and hope for the future, so he goes out to a wild spot of Gaza and looks for birds. He catches them and keeps them here, not to eat, but as friends, and to remind him to keep on hoping.”

That afternoon, we went to a meeting at the office of the Gaza Department of

Justice to meet the families of prisoners who are held for many years in Israeli prisons without trial. The large hall was packed with families holding photos of their loved ones. Most of them had tears in their eyes, from toddlers to the 82year-old man who spoke eloquently about his son. And then, a woman was called by the Minister for Detainees to take the microphone and talk about her father. She walked proudly and quickly from the back of the room. All I could see of her were narrow slits through which her eyes flashed pride and courage. “I am 17 years old, and I have never seen my father. The Israelis have never allowed us to visit him, which is contrary to international law.”

As she spoke, she held out her arms and gestured defiantly. Again and again on this five-day visit to Gaza we saw how strong is the bond of family, and how the children and parents will go to almost any length to protect each other.

For now, the cease-fire on the Palestinian side appears to hold. But every day and every night we were there, we heard the sound of detonations coming from across the border with Israel or from the sea, where the Gaza fishermen are constantly harassed and sometimes injured or killed by Israeli gunboats. Every Palestinian we met said that peace is uppermost in their hearts, as it is in ours.

We may debate the fine points of a peace agreement, but there is no more time to debate whether to end the siege of Gaza.

We must simply act.

A woman living near the Israeli border - Photo by Oruba Rabie

Local Girl Scouts receive Silver Awards ST. CROIX FALLS - On Sunday, June 7, four members of St. Croix Falls Girl Scout Troop No. 50760 joined with other Girl Scouts from the Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys at the Tedd Mann Center in Minneapolis to receive their awards.

Below is a brief summary of their individual projects: Taylor Stowell: “As I wondered what I would like to accomplish with my Silver Award project, I realized I would like to do something to help our environment. I had gone to a ‘Girl Scouts Go Green’ event at Camp Rolling Ridges in Hudson, and got some good ideas to share. So I decided that besides cleaning up the roadsides, I would work with a younger troop of Girl Scouts. We had a discussion about recycling, and I taught them ways to be more environmentally conscious; we also made fun reusable shopping bags. The younger girls were a lot of fun to work with.”

Rebecca Wampfler: “The nursery at Peace Lutheran Church in Dresser had sustained some significant water damage. In the process of getting that fixed, the nursery was left looking dingy and drab and was no longer being used. For my Silver Award project, I scrubbed and treated the walls to prevent further damage. I then painted the walls bright colors, sorted and disinfected the toys, and made the room more safe and cheery looking. The nursery is once again being used on a regular basis.”

Heather Gilbert: “My Silver Award project provided blankets for children who may be involved in some kind of accident,

Girl Scouts receiving Silver Awards are (L to R) Taylor Stowell, Rebecca Wampfler, Heather Gilbert and Lauren Lund. - Special photo whether it was a car accident, fire or domestic incident, and it would give them some comfort. I chose this project because I wanted to help kids in some way, and I felt that all kids should have some sort of “security blanket” and who better to give blankets to than kids who have been in accidents recently. They may have lost their ‘blankie’ or ‘teddy’ so I wanted to give them something that they could feel safe with.”

Lauren Lund: “I cleaned, sorted and organized children’s clothing to distribute to needy families in the local area. Parents of preschoolers can contact the United Methodist Church in St. Croix Falls if clothing is needed. The phone number is 715-483-9494.” - Submitted

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Crazy irrational drivers

by Carolyn Lumsden In the early spring and throughout the autumn days, some motorists become terrible drivers. This is true especially in the latter part of the week and sometimes even on Sundays.

These drivers slam on their brakes with only a moment’s notice, they turn in front of other drivers, turn signals are

PoCo Penners The PoCo Penners meet the second Friday of the month at 2 p.m. at the county boardroom in the government center in Balsam Lake. Contact Brenda Mayer at 715-485-3571 or Iris Holm 715-294-3174 for more information. - submitted

Writer’s Corner not put on until they’re ready to turn, etc.

Driving erratically, they sometimes are speeding along and then slow down dramatically. They may or may not accelerate again. Sometimes, they stop for seemingly no reason at all. They make U-turns on roads and shoulders. Sometimes they turn around in driveways.

Summer is almost here. We would like to run favorite summer memory stories throughout the summer. Submit your story to the Leader by mail or e-mail.

These seasonal drivers are a conundrum to many other drivers. The more “normal” drivers curse, shake their raised fists at these erratic drivers. They pass these cars in unusual places, and often honk their loud annoying horns at them, etc.

These drivers are considered crazy and irrational. No self-respecting cop would pass them, for a driver’s exam, with such bad behavioral patterns. But I would venture to say, all of these socalled irrational drivers already had a valid license.

Apparently these erratic driving patterns seen to have something to do with sporadic signs on the roadsides. Colors vary from white, hot pink, bright green and any other description imagined by anyone because they vary dramatically.

Strange looking arrows of various sizes are seen on these signs. Some signs

have only one word and others have numerous words and numerals that are very difficult to read. Perhaps that’s why those signs cause the strange, crazy, phenomenal and irrational drivers to do the things they do.

I hate to admit it, but being an otherwise rational, careful driver most of the time, I also succumb to these months when they roll around and as the week diminishes, I, too, become one of those crazy, irrational drivers.

Why do you ask? You see, I’m an avid garage saler, too!

Northwest Regional Writers The Northwest Regional Writers meet at 1 p.m. the second Friday of the month either in Frederic or Grantsburg. Call Mary Jacobson at 715-349-2761 for more information about the organization.

Submissions should be typed, double-spaced on one side only of 8 -1/2 x 11 white paper, leaving a minimum of 1-inch margins all around. Handwritten submissions will not be accepted. Submissions should be no more than 800 words.

Submissions may be delivered to The Leader’s offices in Frederic or Siren, mailed to Box 490, Frederic, WI 54837 or e-mailed to the-leader@centurytel.net. We prefer e-mailed copy.

If hand-delivered or mailed, please write "Writers’ Corner" somewhere on the front of the envelope. If e-mailed, please use "Writers’ Corner" as the subject and include the submission as body text of the e-mail. No attachments, please. Your submission to Writers’ Corner grants The Leader one-time rights to publish the item in the weekly newspaper. The author retains the copyright and all future publication rights. The Leader may edit submissions for grammar and punctuation, clarity and length. If you have any questions about this feature, please contact us at the-leader@centurytel.net or call 715-327-4236. - Editor First, I want to say goodbye to Ted Berkland. He and Carolyn are two of the most wonderful and respected people I know and it is an honor to know them. He will be missed by so many.

He has left a mark on our hearts and souls and words of wisdom in our minds. May he rest in peace. Carolyn, my heart hurts for you. Your memories will bring you peace.

I am a very disorganized person. I have admitted it and I can’t take it back.

Everyone has a junk drawer. We have one even if we don’t want to admit it. I have a junk box. Larger than a drawer, larger than two or three drawers. I ventured into the box today. This is a big step for me because I am never sure what is in there. I found things I have been looking for and could not find for a long time. My calculator, my favorite nail polish, a tiny straw basket (?), a box of thumb tacks (I didn’t even know they made those anymore) and on and on. I even found my grandson’s atomizer and he has been asthma free for nine years. I feel guilty about that one, because we had to call his doctor and get an emergency replacement while he was staying with us. I even found a box of hair color and I have not been that color since 2002. I am not a pack rat. I really don’t like to keep things. I give away more than I have and Denny is afraid he will come home and find the house empty. That happened with his

last wife, only she was gone too. I would still be here.

I have nowhere to go, would not put my kids through taking me in, and I can’t leave my “furry children.”

I had a dream last night, or rather early this morning.

I was working at a Blodgett school and as I walked out with my arms full of papers my bichon ran after some kids. I heard the yip and knew what had happened. There I saw a car and my precious puppy looking up at me under the car. I actually woke up in a sweat (I know women are not suppose to sweat but I can’t wake up in a perspire.) I reached down just to be sure she was at the bottom of the bed snuggled up to my feet. My heart was pounding so hard and I was afraid to go back to sleep. I still have that sight in my head and like a song that just stays there and you can’t get rid of, the sight of my dog under that car will not leave my mind. I know it is not real. She would never go into the road although she does have a habit of running to meet a car coming in

Barb

Caregiver's

Gifts

A heritage preserved

Visitors who take the tour of the Ojibwe Indian area at Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park soon realize that the typical understanding of Native American life is rife with stereotypes, something Jack Peel is quick to dispel. He skillfully shares with his audiences a vast knowledge of Woodland Indian life as it was at the time of the Yellow River fur trading years of 1802-05.

Jack's expertise stretches back to his youth in the 1930s, when he was raised by great-grandparents for a while on Minnesota's Mille Lacs Reservation.

“It was the Depression, and they chose to live by what they knew of their traditional ways; later on, when I was exposed to the world at large, I realized what a gift those years were – it gave me insights few could ever obtain firsthand. One of my uncles knew more legends and stories than anyone I met.”

While he later spent time in the Twin Cities and in the Air Force, where he used his background to develop a combat crew survival course, he always retained and kept expanding his

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knowledge of the “old” ways.

“As a teen, even though I no longer lived on the reservation, I was sent back many summers and continued to learn what was left of traditional ways. My mentor there was an elder who shared with me all the ways of fashioning beadwork, birchbark crafts (including canoe-building), you name it. The woodland lifeways I learned were even incorporated into the survival training

the driveway until I yell “stop.” Usually the car stops, although it is the command that means she had better turn around and go and sit on the grass until the car has passed and parked. She can not even move until it is turned off and the person inside is stepping out.

Thank the dear Lord the little one follows my older dog and has learned I mean what I say. So the two of them sit on the lawn until the car is parked.

They are trained, but I live in fear that one day she will get her “I don’t hear you” attitude and go to the car as it comes in the driveway. My heart stops and I just hope the car sees her and tiny Bitzy. Most people know enough to proceed with caution but I am still uneasy.

How we worry about our children, be they human or animal. Wait, a human is an animal. I guess you know what I mean though. My oldest is 46 now and my youngest is 7. That includes grandchildren. There are 14 in all and I still wait for the call in the night telling me one of them has been hurt or in an accident. I wonder if I will ever get over that.

I suddenly realized that July is only a few days away. Is that possible? I must have daydreamed June away. I really hate being so busy that I don’t take time to enjoy the seasons and the wonderful things each brings. OK, so I don’t care for the humidity and heat, but I love

programs I conducted in the military.”

Eventually, Peel incorporated his knowledge in exhibits he helped build and interpret at a number of sites and museums throughout the region.

Meanwhile, he and his late wife, Louella Benjamin, developed a school program in 1989 which has been presented in more than 1,000 schools since then, here and in Europe and Germany.

In the early 1990s, he greatly expanded the Ojibwe area at Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park. As he puts it, “I enjoy the opportunity to share this heritage at a place like Folle Avoine, but at age 75 it's physically demanding to stay with the upkeep. Unlike the trading posts, the Indian structures need yearly and continuous maintenance, just like the originals did.” His tours, though, still win plaudits for their accuracy and easy-but-thorough coverage of the historic Native American way of life.

Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park will host a wild rice pancake breakfast this Sunday, July 5, from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The park is located on CTH U, three miles west of Hwy. 35, north of Webster in the Yellow Lake area. “Living his-

summer because I love the green that comes with it. The heat gets to me. I can take winter, because I can always put more clothes on, but in the heat of summer, I can’t take more off without frightening the deer away, to say nothing of people. I so look forward to the Fourth, but this year we already have plans to be involved with Interfaith Caregivers. And too, this is the month I begin to worry about Christmas for Kids 2009. My theory is, why worry. It won’t change things and it takes time when I could be doing something else. I worry anyway and will until the end of December when I can start worrying about Christmas for Kids 2010. Since Interfaith took on that and other projects my hair is turning grey and Denny’s is completely grey. Time to slow down or I won’t be able to keep up with boxes of hair color.

Finally, it is 4:30 a.m. and time to close. I wish you the best Fourth of July.

Please be safe. Remember, I worry.

Until next time, God bless.

Barbara Blodgett Director of Interfaith Caregivers of Burnett County Webster icburnettcounty@centurytel.net

Jack Peel at the Forts Folle Avoine Ojibwe Indian village. - Special photo tory” tours are conducted each week from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

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Collected by

Russ Hanson

River Road

Ramblings

The Hanson farm had overhead water pipes going from the pump shed to the house and barn in the 1940s and ‘50s that were prone to freezing. - Special photos

With a very dry spring, and summer starting the same way, we have been watering the garden a little. Mom worries if there is enough water in the well to use for the tomatoes. The well has served the farm for 150 years and appears to be holding out fine this year too.

Mom’s garden on Evergreen Avenue is looking good. Her strawberry crop is just finishing but was delicious. The early peas are in the middle of their run.

A few tomatoes are already a couple inches across. The radishes and lettuce have been producing for a couple of weeks. The next to come are the spring raspberries. They are loaded and should be ready in another week.

Mom raises several rows of dill and in the past sold lots of it to local stores and neighbors. She has been cutting back and this year has only two rows. However, her garden is full of volunteer dill coming up with the beans, peas, squash, cucumbers and between the rows.

Last month we spent some time working on Mom’s water system. Living on the farm, she has the water system that evolved over a century and a half of people living in the same place. It is typical of an old farm with a deep, hand dug well, pumpjack, aboveground tank in a small insulated building above ground with underground water lines to the house and barn. It was time to replace the motor, belt and pulley.

The farm behind Bass Lake on Evergreen Avenue was opened in the 1860s

by Charles Howe and purchased in the 1880s by a Norwegian settler, Ole Nelson. Later it was owned by his son John with his family of 21 children. John’s son, Emil, told us about the well many years ago.

Early farmers tried to locate their house near a spring, stream or lake so water was easy to get. People needed water as well as the livestock. The Nelsons settled on top of a hill so a well was needed to get water.

The Nelson well was hand dug— ninety feet deep. The digger used a pick and shovel, making a square hole less than 3x3. As he dug down, he lined it with boards to keep the dirt from caving in. He dug down a foot and back under the boards so they would slide down the hole. The man at the top added more boards so the well was fully lined.

Some well diggers laid up stones instead of using boards.

The digging was hard at the Nel-

An old rock-cribbed, hand-dug well, along the St. Croix River, dug by the Lundquist family. sons—more than 30 feet to get through the bricklike clay layer. Big stones required the maul. In later years, some well men carried a bottle of liquid TNT. If they hit a big stone, they would pour a little into a small glass bottle; tie the bottle to a long string and lower it to the bottom of the well and let it crash the last few feet into the rock—breaking it into pieces.

A windlass was built over the hole. It was a round post with a crank supported on both ends. A large bucket on the end of the rope lowered the digger down each day and then cranked out load after load of dirt. The man on top had to be very careful not to let go of the crank and let the bucket drop and hit the digger.

One of the local well diggers was John Penny, who lived where Joan Swanson has Penny Lane on CTH G. He often was injured when the bucket or stones fell on him and by falls from the bucket as he was being lowered or pulled out of the well. Very few people could stand the crowded dark conditions as the well went deeper and deeper. Sometimes the air would get bad and the digger died.

Along the River Road adjacent to Wolf Creek you can drive a well point and pipe into the ground 20 feet or less and get water. Up the hill to the east where Mom lives, it’s 90 feet or more.

For the first 20 years, the Nelson farm well was an open one with a bucket and windlass. Another bucket was used to

lower food to the bottom where the cool temperatures made it the family refrigerator.

Eventually the wooden cribbing started to rot and fall in. The Nelsons put in a six-inch casing. A casing was a large metal pipe reaching the whole 90 feet. The bucket was replaced with a well pump with a handle.

A pump required a new 1-inch pipe inside the casing. A well point was at the bottom—a piece of pipe with holes and screening in it. Above that was the pumping cylinder. The pipe was 90 feet long to the surface. Inside the pipe was a well rod—a half-inch metal rod screwed together in sections reaching from cylinder to the pump. Each stroke of the pump handle transferred to the cylinder that brought water to the top.

A shallow well, less than 32 feet deep, could “suck” the water to the top without cylinder and rod.

The Nelsons put a windmill on a tower over the pump. The fan turned ‘round in the wind and moved a wooden pole up and down connected directly to the pump. At the top of a windy hill, it worked fine for water pumped for the house and barn.

Sometime in the 1920s or 1930s the Nelsons sold the windmill and replaced it with a gas engine and a pumpjack. A pumpjack turned the rotary motion of an engine into an up and down stroke to run the pump. That way there was water whether the wind blew or not.

The well quit in 1936, the driest and hottest year of the last century. Neighbor and well expert, Paul Bergstrom, pulled the pipes and point and studied it a little. He put a new point on the end of the pipe, built a special pumping cylinder that could be pounded on and driven, and dropped it back into the well and then drove it another 10 feet below the old level and water was again abundant.

The Nelsons bought the old wood shed when the Worth School closed in 1931 and moved it to their farm as a pump house to cover the gas engine. It was about a 12x16 building and held the

harnesses, some bins for grain and sheltered the engine and pump and occasionally a batch of moonshine.

Dad bought the farm in 1941. He wanted water into the barn and into the house. He put a pipe straight up from the pump through the roof of the shed— about 12 feet high. From there a tee and valve directed water in one pipe to the house and one to the barn.

He put a 100-gallon water tank in the upstairs of the house for gravity feed to the kitchen below. He put a 200-gallon tank in the barn, overhead of the cows.

With a ladder to the roof of the shed he could turn a valve and send water to house or barn. Each tank had an overflow pipe that ran to the outside in the event he waited too long to turn off the pump. The barn was plumbed with water cups so each pair of cows could have fresh water in their stalls. The house overflow went into the concrete goldfish pond.

A single kitchen sink was the only water outlet in the house. The drain was a pipe through the wall out into the garden where wastewater gave the plants a boost. Dad put a 50-gallon closed water tank in the basement connected to the tank upstairs. He ran a piece of copper tubing from this tank into the wood furnace and looped it around and back. When the furnace was hot, we had hot water. In the summer, a small wood burner with a water jacket heated the hot water on washing days. The woodstove reservoir in the kitchen kept a supply of hot water too.

The indoor bathroom came a few years later.

The overflow from the barn tank was to an outdoor cattlewatering tank that at first served as a milk can cooling tank too. By the end of the summer, the cold water in the cattle tank would be filled with layers of brilliant multicolored green, yellow and blue algaes brought by the cows from the nearby pond. We put a few fish in from catches at nearby Bass Lake. We added a milk house with an indoor concrete tank to cool the milk with the overflow filling the cattle tank.

In winter the overhead pipes, which tended to sag between poles, froze solid in the low spots. To thaw them, Dad nailed a crosspiece on the end of a 10foot two-by-four, wrapped it with kerosene-soaked rags and held it high in the air to burn and thaw the pipes. We joked that he was likely to get arrested for KKK-like activities with his burning cross.

After a particularly cold year and lots of frozen pipes, he told Everett, “If I don’t bury the water lines underground this summer, you have me put away!”

In late September, Everett said “Well, I guess it is time to start looking for mental hospitals—the pipes are still up.”

Dad went to the phone and called Marcus Theis and made arrangements for the trenching to be done a week later. At the same time he tore down the big, old pump shed and replaced it with a small, heavily insulated shed just big enough to hold the pump, tank and motor.

Harvey Olson from Cushing converted it from old to new system using the same pumpjack and electric motor— shortening the jacking arms to just 18 inches.

That was about 50 years ago. The well has been there for six generations of farmers, reliably providing water for the farm. The old oaken bucket gave way to hand pump, windmill, gas engine, now electricity. The water is cold, full of good-tasting minerals. An abundant supply of good water is an important part of living the good life here in the St. Croix Valley.

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Lunch with Mrs. Peppenger Our farm is too near the woods, and wildlife creatures are infringing on our land.

Deer stroll onto our property every night when we are sleeping, nibbling corn in the corncrib, sampling goodies in our garden, sometimes going right down a row of string beans, Abrahamzon obliterating them.

Now we have a woodchuck living in our metal shed. If she is an expecting mother, she and her babies will be waiting for the lettuce and other green food to get big enough to nibble. Our springer spaniel, Molly, is determined to dispatch that strange animal to another world.

To say nothing about the hungry red fox, who raids our farm every night, a duck here, a banty hen there with little chickens, nothing is safe.

Most of our birds live in coops and are comparatively safe, but banties like their freedom, finding a delicious blade of grass here, a stray bug there, and tidbits everywhere. They cluck and call their baby chicks to share the goodies.

At present we have a perky little white hen with five babies, and she leads them on a merry chase, accompanied by a white rooster. What a lovely little family. A black banty rooster accompanies them, thinking he’s part of the family circle, too.

This morning my son said, “The fox got the little brown hen and part of her babies last night. All she leaves are the telltale feathers.

If the fox is feeding a family, heaven help us when she brings them with her on a nighttime raid.

We have a special affection for banties. They are small, compact birds, industrious, cuter than the bugs they eat. Fun to watch, hustling and bustling around the yard. Colorful, too, with iridescent feathers, glossy, shining in the sun. There was a time when every farm had a few banties.

Years ago, Louella Peppenger (nicknamed Mrs. Pepp) had a few banty hens in a small coop near her country house. Those little hens kept her in enough eggs to get by. Their eggs, too, were small, but she faithfully picked them up every day.

I often checked in with Mrs. Pepp as she had a hobby of repairing worn-out dolls and could work wonders sewed on an arm or mending a dress. Poor old doll with her hair cut off by a small child wielding a big scissors. She sewing new outfits, sewed hats to cover bald doll heads, making them all look presentable, huggable, again.

Before Christmas, these dolls, teddy bears and other toys were shipped to poor children down south. Mrs. Pepp really worked miracles with needle and thread and ingenuity.

Bernice

Behind the Signpost

She was a vegetarian and a Seventh-Day Adventist in Frederic, and one day she invited me to stop in for lunch.

What did she have? She had boiled some of these precious banty eggs, chopped them up, creamed them and served the mixture over mashed potatoes.

It was very good, especially since we also had good conversation.

Sometimes, in the morning the scent of skunk is heavy in the air, at our own farm, and we are grateful it moved on and didn’t stay.

If we ever deserted this farm, it wouldn’t take long for the animals to take over. It wouldn’t take long before the sumac and green ferns would take back their own and saplings appear in our fields.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Nature would quickly take over and obliterate all that we have accomplished.

That’s a sobering thought…

The pink slip Fifty years ago a woman instinctively knew what a pink slip was. It was a delicate undergarment with perhaps a shadow panel, to wear under a dress so a dress wasn’t transparent. It was made of pink nylon or pink rayon material with straps on shoulders.

Those straps were a nuisance and often slipped down the arm and had to be pushed back in place.

Of course, there was also such a thing as a half-slip, covering a woman’s body from waistline to hem.

And yes, sometimes that pink slip arrived in the mail in a big envelope from Sears Roebuck or Montgomery Ward catalog mail houses.

But today in 2009, receiving a pink slip in the mail is not a gift or response from a mail-order business.

It’s a dreaded notice of termination of a job. You are, in other words, sacked or made redundant, nonrenewable.

Comedians joke about it, but receiving a pink slip is no joke. It is life-changing, doomsday in the work place. It is often the result of downsizing of the company or economic crisis in the world.

If anyone askes, “What’s in the envelope?” pray that isn’t your pink slip, sent not only to women but to men, too.

A pink slip is bad news in the workplace. It may be short but it certainly is not sweet.

(Note: The above was our June assignment in our NW Regional Writers Club. We were asked to write on “What’s in the envelope?”)

Happy Fourth of July and may you find no pink slips in your envelopes.

Until next week Bernice

Durocher Family Concert set TRADE LAKE – The Durocher Family Concert will be held Saturday, July 4, 7 p.m., at the Wilderness Fellowship/Johnson Hall, located 4.3 miles south of Hwy. 70 on CTH M. or 2.3 miles north of Hwy. 48 on CTH M. Bring the whole family to experience the Durocher Family live. One mom, one dad and 10 of their 12 children share an evening of uplifting lively music and humorous stories centered on faith and family. From Massachusetts to Mexico, the Durochers have been encouraging audiences with their simple and sponta-

neous love and laughter. Paul is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and has served as a pastor, church planter, author, speaker, and also a carpenter and homebuilder. Paul and Judy are home educators of their 12 children ages 3-27, and they raise horses on a small hobby farm making their home in northern Minnesota.

Admission is free and an offering will be received.

For information call 715-327-8564. - submitted

Carolyn Wedin to address Swedish Club AMERY - On Tuesday, July 7, professor Carolyn Wedin of Frederic will update the Swedish Club on the publishing of the new translation of L. J. Ahlstrom’s “Historiska Skildringar, or Historical Sketches,” about the immigrant Swedes, especially rebel Baptists, who settled Northwest Wisconsin in the 19th century, and will share some of Ahlstrom’s stories about pioneer Swedish women especially.

She will also share plans for the next Big Read Grant for Polk and Burnett counties, and Chisago County, Minn., announced by the National Endowment for the Arts on June 23, doing Thornton Wilder’s play, “Our

Town,” and his novel, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” with emphasis on ways in which the Swedish Club might partner with the committee on Big Read-related activities in March 2010.

Wedin is working on a dramatization of Ahlstrom’s pioneer stories, modeled on “Our Town” with the working title “Our Willage.” She hopes the club will want to perform it. The regular monthly meeting of the Swedish Club will be at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Deronda Street, Amery at 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 7. - with submitted information

Moonlight Madness for night owls HERTEL - It’ll be madness at the Little Turtle Hertel Express on Friday, July 3—Moonlight Madness, that is.

The Hertel casino is inviting all night owls to come in for a great party from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Express Club members will earn double bonus points. But there’s more. You can win up to $1,000 in random drawings held every half-hour. To be eligible

for the drawings, you must be using your Express Club card to play. And the casino’s deli will be feature a Moonlight Madness special until 11 p.m.

Don’t miss your chance to howl. Come to LTHE for Moonlight Madness for Night Owls on July 3. - from St. Croix Tribe

Do you remember ?

Compiled by Bernice Abrahamzon

50 Years Ago The Frederic Hospital was village-owned for 14 years.–Heavy showers during the week broke the drouth in this area.–The Red Cross made an appeal for type O negative blood.–Goliath, the world’s largest hippo, was coming to Webster according to a headline.

It was coming with the James Christy Animal Circus in July.–Graduation Day was held at the Frederic Red Cross swimming lessons.–Northwest Breeders merged with Consolidated Breeders Cooperative.–Gabby Hayes was coming to Spooner for a July 11-12 celebration.–Good used outboard motors were for sale at Ernie’s Shop, Webster.–Specials at the Clover Farm Store, Frederic, were cold cuts at 49¢ lb., cantaloupe at 5 for $1, lemons at 39¢ dozen, coffee at 2 lbs. for $1.39 and Creamettes Juniorettes were 10¢ pkg.–Specials at Route’s Super Market, Frederic, were wieners at 49¢ lb., carrots at 2 lbs. for 19¢, marshmallows at 23¢ for a 1 lb. bag.–Glockzin’s Restaurant, Frederic, had carry-out fried chicken on sale advertised for the Fourth of July.–Florence Dopp was the new Burnett County Home agent.–There was a seashell and sea horse museum at Viola Lake owned

by U.S. Grant, a longtime salesman.–A 43-lb. musky won the top prize in a fishing contest caught by George Schaaf of Danbury, weighed at Alden’s Store in Siren. It was caught in Lake 26.–Mr. and Mrs. Ed Styles celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary June 21 at the Lutheran church at Coomer.–A large crowd attended a Thorp auction at Siren.

40 Years Ago

Zoning ordinance No. 127 for the village of Frederic was published in this newspaper.–Dairy Queen Jets were on special at 11 for 89¢ at the Frederic Dairy Queen.–The dance schedule for Yellow Lake Lodge was July 3, – Fern’s Blackjacks; July 4, Nahkala and Raymer; July 5, Dickie Durand.–A wedding dance was held at Indian Creek Dance Hall on June 28, given by Julie Burton and William Baker.-Readers were invited to enjoy the finest of food at the Char Broiler, in the Luck Bakery building.–A free wedding dance was given at Joe’s Cross Roads on June 28 with Glenn Hunter’s orchestra, given by (Vicky Alden) Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson.–Mrs. Herman Peterson had a June 28 auction on Benson Road, Frederic.–A special service was held at Trade Lake Mission Church on Sunday, June 29, 1969, sponsored by the Gideon Camp in Grantsburg.–Wanted at North Lakes Wood Products, Siren, were 62” red oak logs, worth up to $30 a cord.–The Tin Man, St. Croix Falls, offered pump repair and well drilling.–Specials at the Frederic Co-op Super Market included cantaloupe at 3 for 89¢, potatoes at 10 lbs. for 69¢, butter (in quarters) at 69¢ lb., fryers at 35¢ lb. and ham at 75¢ lb.–Special of the month at Our Own Hardware, Carlson’s Store, Frederic, was a granny knife at 29¢ each.–Jensen Furniture Store, Luck, offered a Hoover Tune-up Clinic to be held July 12.–Three filed for board in Frederic including Clifford Erickson, Dale Knauber and LaVern Olson.

20 Years Ago

Al Gorr made a fine contribution to the businesses of Frederic, running a shoe repair business for many years, at first downtown and then out of his home.–A total of 31 graduated at Luck High School.–Obituaries included Eleanor Winchester, Rose Manosky, Dr. Duane Dahlberg, Ella Mattson, Thomas Fulkerson and Theodore Turnquist.–Individuals or groups were wanted for Frederic Talent Show during Family Days.–The 50th wedding anniversary of Boy and Esther Brenizer was held May 27 at their home.–Business of the Week was Blooming Branch Flower Shop at Milltown run by Linda Knutson.–Pastor Scott Carlson and family moved into the United Methodist parsonage at Siren in June to serve Siren-Lewis. He was ordained June 4.-The Webster landfill would close with a transfer station to open.–Hosts at Crooked Lake, Siren, were Harry and Lil Marshall.–Lyme disease was on the rise in Wisconsin.–A full-time medical transcriptionist was needed at Burnett General Hospital.–A recent West Point graduate, Second Lt. Tim Johnson, a native of Unity school area, gave the Memorial Day speech at the Balsam Lake Cemetery.–A Bremer grant of $17,400 given to Ann Turner, director of CRA and Welcome Home Shelter, will aid victims of domestic abuse.

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Webster Senior Center

866-4334 Eldon Freese, Mary Poretti and I attended the Aging and Disability Resource Center Board meeting on Monday morning at the Polk County ADRC conference room in Balsam Lake.

Chairman Eldon advised the group that Dick Klawitter has also been appointed to represent Burnett County on the board. Director Laura Neve gave an agency update on staffing, training and marketing. She indicated that marketing thus far has been geared toward a monthly article in the Burnett County Speaker, Polk County Senior Voices, a Polk County newsletter, Interfaith Caregivers and bulletin boards for both agencies in Polk and Burnett counties.

Congregate diners and home-delivered-meal recipients enjoyed Nicky’s roast turkey dinner on Tuesday, in addition to having a nice air-conditioned center to eat it in, what with the hot and humid weather we had all week.

Fourteen ladies had a great time playing dime Bingo on Wednesday afternoon, I even won 2-1/2 games, so I had a great time too. Thanks to Theresa Gloege for furnishing the rhubarb dessert.

The nutrition site was closed on Thursday and the hot, humid weather, in addition to other family activities, kept most everyone else away as only Ken Hayes, Harold Peterson and Dave Wardean played pool in the evening and Gladys Beers and Jane Wardean played cards.

Eighteen hungry diners had Nicky’s salmon patties on Friday with birthday cake served for those celebrating June birthdays. Happy birthday to Jane Wardean, Bernie Boelter, Delores Farr, Effie Wester and Mary Lou Peterfeso.

Lily Gleason won first prize for the Most Unique Hat contest and Dudley Dingman won second prize, and both won homemade baked goodies from Nicky.

In the afternoon, our carpets were commercially cleaned so they could dry completely over the weekend.

I was happy to have my daughter, Connie Geiger of St. Paul, come and visit me Friday afternoon and spend the night. On Saturday, her husband Doug, in addition to almost all of my four children’s families, came for a family picnic.

In all, we had 28 people (including 9 little children) waiting for the sun to come out and dry up the wet deck and ground, and it eventually did, and it was all good! We were thankful for the rain, too.

The chicken barbeque put on by the Webster Lions Club on Sunday in the village of Webster was well attended. They had a little competition from the wind, but the sun was shining and the temperature was cooler, so it all worked out great.

Don’t forget to mark your calendar to attend the Friends of the Library annual Author’s Salad Luncheon on July 11 at the Webster Community Center at 11:30 a.m. with nationally known author Ron Handberg as special speaker. Tickets may be obtained at Burnett Community Library or from any FOL member.

You can sign up now at your local senior center nutrition site for the annual Burnett County Senior Dining picnic to be held on Thursday, July 16, at noon at the Crooked Lake Park in Siren.

The Webster High School All-School Reunion will be held on Thursday, July 16, at the Ike Walton Lodge, so call 715-

SCF Senior Center As you talk to people today, be aware that your opinions and thoughts count.

Don’t be afraid to say what you mean.

Since the deadline was Friday, this week’s news will be brief.

Tuesday’s 500 winners were Bren Nel Ward, Olga Young, Marian Davison, Wally Quist, and there was a tie between Leone Montgomery and Bonnie Kohrt. Millie Lindquist and Bren Nel Ward won the 9 bid.

Domino winners were Janice Mevissen, Donna Schlosser and Delores Benson.

Five minutes and six seconds after 4 a.m. on July 8 of this year, the time and date will be 04:05:06 07/08/09. This will never happen again.

Thursday was an exciting day for the exercise group. While looking out the

window it was noticed that two men were painting the next-door building, so the entire group stopped exercising and what else … “They watched paint dry.”

Twenty three people were at evening cards. Winners were Don Benson, Del Olson, Bob Norlander and Elaine Edlund.

Take off your watch, hide the calendar, eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are tired. Don’t plan a thing.

Relax and enjoy life.

Remember, if you are looking for a place to host an event, come in and check out the facilities. We are open on a daily basis from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and always have beverages available, along with something for the sweet tooth.

Have a great weekend.

Frederic Senior Center

by Ardyce Knauber Monday, June 22, Spades were played at 1 p.m. with the following winners: first place, Netha Polson; second place, Eleanor Bonneville; third place, Delloris Potter and fourth place, Lorna Erickson.

Tuesday, the senior area meeting will be held here. Each morning, Monday through Friday, coffee is enjoyed. Morning pool players also enjoy the company.

Wednesday Pokeno group always enjoys the game together. They really appreciate the good air conditioning in the hot, dry weather.

Thursday 500 cards was played at 6:30 p.m. with the following winners: first place, Shirley Sandquist; second place, Nina Vold; third place, Willis Williams and fourth place, Donald Antiel.

Friday Pokeno and other cards were enjoyed. Coffee time and refreshments were served.

Saturday food, fellowship, cards and either Pokeno or Bingo after dinner. Coffee time and refreshments were served.

Next Friday, July 3, the monthly meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. Pokeno starts at 12:30 p.m. and lunch will be available, as the nutrition center is closed for the July 4 holiday.

Saturday, July 4, potluck and birthday of the month will be celebrated. The following members have birthdays: Delloris Potter, Holly Stonesifer, Edna Utley and Willis Williams.

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Our special thanks to Ken Hayes for taking down our old flower window boxes and Harold Peterson for disposing of them; Pat O’Brien for building new window boxes; and Dave Wardean, Ken and Harold for moving tables and chairs so that the carpets could be shampooed on Friday afternoon; and also to Therese Gloege for donating candy; Melanie and Dan Johnson – eggs; and Ann Nelson – holiday decorations.

Our prayers and get-well wishes continue to go out to Edna Canfield; Bill and Susan Hanninen’s mother, Ellen Hanninen who is now living with them; Brenda Schmidt; Chris Bies who is facing surgery on his shoulder; and Jim and Mary Bies. Our thoughts and prayers also go out to Sarah (Turner) Johnson and family in the recent passing of her husband, Miles Johnson, of Portland, Ore. A middle-aged man was heard to say at his father’s funeral, “I am crying not only for my father, but for me. His death means that I’ll never hear the words I alHi, everybody! Blacky here from Humane Society of Burnett County.

Well, it’s happy times in Blacky’s world: I found my dead fish to roll in, and boy am I glad! Mom took us swimming at a lake that had all kinds of sunbaked fish on the shoreline, although I suspect she didn’t know that ahead of time. My brother ate his; he’s not so much into perfume, but I covered myself from head to toe. For some reason, I’m not allowed in the house right now, but I care not. I’m a stinky black dog, and that’s how I like it.

I don’t really have any new shelter friends to tell you about this week. Because I had to have my column in early for the holiday deadline, I feel like I turned around three times, laid down, then had to get up and write another c o l u m n !

You humans and your schedules ... I do have a couple of updates, though, and it’s good news. The tiny kitten, Okie, went home already and so did Tiger. He’s a Chihuahua. It must’ve been Adopt a Shrimp week at the shelter, because my two littlest friends have gone. Wade is going to be packing up and moving out as well. He’s sure a nice dog, and I wish him the best. Sophie, the big Great Dane, had her surgery and is going to stay with some nice folks until she recovers, then she is going off to her new home. I am going to miss her a lot. When I was at the shelter last, Buckles hadn’t had his operation yet. I guess we’re still in need of some money to cover the cost. If you want to help out, you can mail a check to HSBC at 7347 Midtown Rd., Siren, WI 54872. The four-legged and twolegged friends of mine at the shelter would sure appreciate it. Also, if you find you have too many soft/stuffed toys at your house, you can unload some of them to give to my furry pals.

It’s nice to have a plush toy to snuggle with while you’re living at the shelter, but some dogs aren’t so kind to theirs.

They have to pull the innards out and rip them to shreds, especially if their toy happens to be squeaky. You see, it’s like trying to get to the middle of a Tootsie Pop for some dogs. They have to get to the secret center and then eat it like it’s a prize! Mostly, the squeakers find their way into the play yard, if you get my meaning, but it’s still not a wise idea to eat them.

Did any of you visit my friends at the Siren band shell for Music in the Park?

Juno, Big Boy and George came along with some of the shelter staff, and they

Mary Klar ways wanted to hear him say: that he was proud of me and the life that I have lived and the family I have raised.”

Afterwards, he then went on to give his own children the words of encouragement he himself had never heard, saying that he was proud of them and the lives that they had made. Many times, tension between fathers (and mothers) and children are left unresolved and old wounds remain unhealed. We are unwilling to forgive the angry words and hurts from the past. But for the sake of ourselves and of our families, we need to do what we can to dismantle the walls of separation between us. God’s grace can break the cycle of anger and give our children what they long to hear from us, words of blessing and love. “Love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous, not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing.” – I Peter 3:8-9. “Our children need to know we care, that when they need us we’ll be there; for deep within they need to hear, that they are loved by someone dear.” – Unknown. See you at the center! said they had a good time. I wanted to stop, and we actually drove by, but that was on the way home from the lake with the above-mentioned fish. Mom said my presence would bring a sour upon the note evening, and my new cologne would YAPpenings make everyone head for the hills. Some people have no taste.

When I was out walking today, I thought of a couple of things I wanted to remind some of you pet owners about. With the Fourth of July rapidly approaching, please be mindful that your dog might not get such a kick out of fireworks like you do. They scare me, and my brother once got so rattled when someone launched a bottle rocket that he hid in some bushes - and you could see the branches shake! Now that’s pretty frightened, and sad to see, so if you plan on lighting up things that go boom, please keep your dog inside or somewhere quiet so you don’t scare the tar out of him. The other thing I thought about was my feet - or any dog’s feet, for that matter. Pavement and sand can be really hot on a dog’s pads. I like to walk earlier in the day, before the road heats up too much and burns my paws or in the evening when things cool down. Sometimes I walk on the grass alongside the road, but I prefer to walk directly behind my mom (when I’m not busy chasing tree rats).

There’re a lot of deerflies out buzzing around, and they always like to swarm around my head. If I walk right behind my mom, they can’t - her caboose acts as a shield! She says I slobber on her calves and step on her shoes, but she must not mind too much because she lets me do it, and I can hear her chuckle sometimes.

Well, I hear keys jingling inside the house, so maybe that means we’re off for an adventure and a swim. I’ve got to hide that rotten bottle of shampoo and quick! There’s no picture of a fish on the label, and that can’t be good news for me.

Have a safe and happy holiday, everyone, and I’ll see you here next week!

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TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Amery Senior Center

by Susan Shachtman, assistant director It’s hard to believe the Fourth of July holiday is almost here! It has certainly been feeling a lot like summer lately and I for one am loving it.

Interested in trying something different this summer?

Join our Gentle Yoga class taught by Kripalu Yoga instructor Cindi Buenzli. The class will meet for 6 sessions on Wednesdays from 10 to 11:15 a.m. Yoga helps improve balance, strength, and flexibility and leads to greater self awareness, confidence, and peace of mind.

If you are interested in signing up for Cindi’s class contact the Senior Center at 715-268-6605. Cost will be based on a sliding fee scale with a suggested minimum of $60 for the session.

Our July birthday party will take place on Thursday July 2, at 11:45 a.m. If you would like to attend please contact the Center by June 30 to reserve your place. Following the meal at 12:30 p.m., a seminar will be presented on “Chronic Wounds.” Learn about causes of nonhealing wounds and how the Wound Healing Center can help. This seminar is free of charge and open to the public.

Please note that the Amery Senior Center will be closed on Friday, July 3, in honor of the Fourth of July holiday.

If you weren’t able to attend last time, you won’t want to miss our next “Lode Stone Antique Road Show”! Come to Centennial Hall on Sunday, July 12, from 1 – 3 p.m., to have your antiques appraised by Larry and Linnea Phillipson and Mark Cilloti. Admission is $2 per person and please limit your items to 2 per person.

We 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 non members 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 great cheese curds and other dairy items.

Contact ASC by July 6, to pay/make your reservation.

Another trip you will want to sign up for is “Fall Colors in Door County” from Sept. 24, to September 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 non members. A reservation and $100 deposit is due by Aug. 1.

Thanks so much to Wendell and Ginny Anderson for hosting last week’s 500 card party at which Arlis Rosen won first place and Val Seidel won second.

The pool tournament winners were Paul Seidel in first, Carl Johnson in second, Mary Fisher in third, and Paul Hartung in fourth place. The Wii bowling tournament winners were Jerry Fisher in first, Paul Seidel in second, Ed O’Neill in third, and Mary Fisher in fourth.

Wednesday’s Bridge winners were Lila Ward in first, Pete Hanson in second, Mary Delougherty in third place and Betty Toftness in fourth. Monday’s Bridge winners were Sydney Lund in first and Marion Christensen in second. Congratulations to all!

Have a safe and wonderful week.

Siren Senior Center Last chance to sign up for the Dining at Five dinner which will be Thursday, July 2. CeCe, due to the holiday coming up and the fact that she doesn’t want any leftovers, is planning on having it picnic style. You will be treated to either chicken or tuna salad with extra sides and the salad bar and fresh fruit. A donation of $5 or your nutrition dining ticket would be appreciated.

Call 715-349-2845 or 715-349-7810 to make your reservation.

Remember on Saturday, July 11, we will hold a bake sale, along with the farmers market, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. We will also have our greeting cards and items from the craft store available for this sale. If you have any bakery items that you would care to donate, either bring them to the center on Friday, the 10 or before 9 a.m., Saturday.

The Senior Dining Picnic will be held at noon on Thursday, July 16, at Crooked Lake Park. Donations for this are $3.50 (age 60 plus) or for people under 60, $5.

Reservations should be made at your individual dining

sites but if you decide to come the last minute you are welcome.

Sally, our Feet First lady will be at the center on July 20. The reservation sheet is out so be sure to sign up if you need to be clipped.

The monthly senior meeting will be held on July 21, beginning promptly at 9:30 a.m., with birthday cake to follow. The only birthday that I have for July is Margaret Westlund, congratulations to her.

Due to the Fouth of July this week, there will be no dining at the center on Friday. Also, we will not be playing Spades on Friday, but will continue with the usual card games the following week.

Gratitude to Janet and Art Matson for the bag of paperback books and puzzles that they brought in this week. Also from an unknown person another bag of books, which included our very first copy of a Harry Potter book along with a lot of other interesting titles and Westerns. Our library is really looking good with a good assortment of reading material.

Barb Munger We have made a lot of sales on our greeting cards this week and want to especially thank Gerry Vogel’s dad for his purchase of 27 cards. Bless him, he comes in every year and purchases a card for every member of his family for the whole year, what a guy! Marge Nielson is still working hard on our cards and we have a good supply on hand, so stop in and check them out.

Winners at 500 cards this week were: Carl Link, Gerry Vogel, Roger Greely, Marjorie Nyberg and Ron Yourchuck. The players were treated to cake from Anke Olesen, bars from Muriel Todd, and Hud Andren furnished a tray of cheese, meats and crackers. Winners at Spades were: Millie Hartshorn, Ann Smith, Flo Antiel, Sue Newberger and Hud Andren.

We play dime Bingo every Tuesday, 500 on Wednesday and Spades Friday. All games begin at 1 p.m.

Everyone is welcome to come and join us. The center is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Have a safe Fourth of July.

Academic news RIVER FALLS – The UW-River Falls spring semester 2009 dean’s list honoring 1,280 students has been released by Registrar Daniel Vande Yacht.

To be named to the dean’s list, a full-time undergraduate student must earn a grade-point average of at least 3.5 on a scale of 4.0, or midway between an A and B average.

The following area students were named to the list: Frederic Julie L. Larson, animal science; Tasha M. Larson, dairy science; Jennifer L. Rogers, preprofessional.

Grantsburg Ryan A. Hansen, horticulture; Christine S. McConnell, communicative disorders; Kerissa E. Nelson, marketing communications.

Luck Aren L. Gerich, elementary education; Kelly J. Johnson, agricultural education; Jamie S. Melin, business administration.

Siren Christine M. Daniels, environmental science; Kyle R. Malm, business administration.

Webster Zachary J. Freese, history. – submitted ••• MENOMONIE – Following are students who received the chancellor’s award for the spring 2009 semester.

The award is presented to students who have a gradepoint average of 3.5 or above.

UW-Stout, Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University, is a special mission university in the UW System. The university has a long-standing reputation of serving business, industry, education and the helping professions through its specialized educational programs. Enrollment this year is approximately 8,776.

Amery Andrew Bensen, art; Cody Faschingbauer, general business administration; Tarisa Helin, human development and family studies; Darren Hose, art education; Shannon Maanum, retail, merchandising and management; Marlene Richter, undecided; Patrick Wears, applied science.

Clear Lake Laura Arcand, human development and family studies; John Buhr, business administration; Cecilia Nelson, psy-

chology; Sarah Olson, human development and family studies; Dane Soderberg, manufacturing engineering.

Dairyland Casandra Baer, engineering technology.

Dresser Jerry Judkins, engineering technology; Christopher Smith, manufacturing engineering.

Frederic Phillip Lundborg, manufacturing engineering.

Grantsburg Megan Branstad, apparel design and development.

Luck Kristine Clarke, art; Ashley Hall, family and consumer sciences education; Samuel Hochstetler, vocational rehabilitation; Jesse Schallenberger, manufacturing engineering; Jacob Stonesifer, business administration.

Osceola Janelle Meyer, early childhood education.

degree, unified early childhood studies.

Luck Eric J. Castellano, Bachelor of Applied Sciences degree, recreation - outdoor education.

Osceola Allison J. Adam, Bachelor of Accounting degree, accounting; Erin E. Tomfohrde, Bachelor of Business Administration degree, management information systems.

Shell Lake Kelsey S. Bennett, Bachelor of Science degree, biology.

Spooner Brody J. Sunderland, cum laude, Bachelor of Arts degree, geography; Robin L. Sunderland, magna cum laude, Bachelor of Arts degree, communication.

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Shell Lake William Clark, golf enterprise management; Rachael Spears, hotel, restaurant and tourism management.

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Star Prairie Wendi Arndt, management. - submitted ••• DULUTH, Minn. – The following students were candidates for graduation at the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Undergraduate Commencement, Saturday, May 16, at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center.

Clear Lake Jacqueline L. Nilssen, departmental honors, magna cum laude, Bachelor of Arts degree, English, Spanish.

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Great Forts Folle Avoine annual rendezvous set for July 24-26 DANBURY - Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park will play host to one of the Upper Midwest’s largest fur trade events—The Great Forts Folle Avoine Rendezvous – on July 24-25-26 (Friday thru Sunday).

According to Forts Director Steve Wierschem, “We’re a natural – being the only fur trading site in Wisconsin rebuilt on its original location, fur trade hobbyists are naturally drawn to what we have to offer.”

This year more than 160 historic camps are expected to fill the field and woods above the picturesque historic site. The event will be open to the public on Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a wide range of activities available for the participants to take part in and the public to observe and interact with.

“The number of people taking part in Rendezous activities has expanded greatly in recent years. Many have found it to be the perfect family outing and a unique way to learn about fur trade history firsthand,” Wierschem observed.

The Rendezvous focuses on all aspects of the fur trade, not just the 1802-1805 period of the original Forts Folle Avoine North West/XY Company trading stations. Several hundred people garbed in colorful, authentic-styled clothing representing 250 years (1600-1850) of fur trade history will be at the gathering.

Many crafters will demonstrate their activities and sell their wares at the site’s Traders Row encampment. These are

One of the Upper Midwest’s largest fur trade events, The Great Forts Folle Avoine Rendezvous, is coming up, Friday through Sunday, July 24-25-26. — Photo by Carl Heidel handmade items, including clothing, jewelry, wood and leather pieces, and a wide array of artistic, one-of-a-kind objects, many of them based on original fur-trade-era artifacts. Working blacksmiths will be among the participants, some of them using the park’s own blacksmith shop.

A variety of foods will be available at the Rendezvous, including bread from a French-Canadian-style clay oven recently completed in the site’s primitive camp area along the Yellow River. No rendezvous is complete without skills competitions, and this year‘s will include

tomahawk and knife throws, archery, and muzzleloading events. In addition, a number of kids games and a medallion hunt will add an element of fun, as will Wierschem’s own creation, what he calls his “ma-pa trapper run” to be held on Sunday afternoon. In addition, “living history” tours of the reconstructed fur trading posts will introduce visitors to life in the fur trade of the early 1800s.

Admission to this year’s Great Forts Folle Avoine Rendezvous is $8 per adult (ages 13+), $5 for children 6-12, and free for those 5 and under; or families $24 (2 adults and 2 children). In addition to the

rendezvous activities, the site will be hosting a wild rice pancake breakfast from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Sunday morning at the park’s visitors center.

Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park is located three miles west of Hwy. 35, north of Webster. Besides the Rendezvous, it is open for tours and special events Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. until Labor Day, and on weekends in September, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This season concludes with a grand “Beaver Club Dinner” Oct. 10. — submitted

TOWN TALK/COUNTRY CHATTER Cloverton-Markville An entire community came out to pay its final respects to one of its own on Monday, June 22. Eleanor Elliott, age 70, died at home on Wednesday, June 17, after a four-month battle with cancer.

To say that we have lost a powerhouse in the little townships of Arna and New Dosey is an understatement. This was a woman whose work ethic and sense of integrity were unmatched. Married to a farmer and a farmer in her own right, Eleanor Elliott worked at all of it right alongside her husband, Mel. The planting, the care, the harvesting, the baling and the canning were an integral part of her life. When eight months pregnant with Todd, she was carrying five-gallon buckets of water to the washhouse to do the family laundry. Her grandson, Clint, says that as recently as last fall, his grandma was throwing two nine-lb.

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bales at a time onto the hayrack, which took them to the mow. Two-hundredfifty to 300 bales a day were nothing for her to heft.

A no-nonsense, mater-of-fact woman, Eleanor stood for no complaining. She just rolled up her sleeves, got the job done and expected others to do the same.

She had no time for anything she deemed frivolous or unnecessary. When chemotherapy became too awful and too useless, she said, “enough of that monkey business” and stopped having it.

Sandi Drake recalls that when they moved to Markville, Eleanor warned her to be sure and stock up on food for when the frost boils made travel to town impossible.

Eleanor was truly the heartbeat of her family. The intelligence and organizational skills that made her valedictorian

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The bear problems in our neck of the woods have taken on a stranger twist in the bears’ search for food. They have been raiding birdhouses in bear country out by the golf course. Last week we had one bluebird house with its roof torn off, and the nest and whatever was in it on the ground. Neighbor Lavonne Brethorst reported she also had one birdhouse roof torn off and the nesting materials and feathers on the ground. She fixed the roof on the house only to have it ripped off again the next two days before they left it alone. We are told not to feed the birds because of bears. Are we not now able to put out houses for birds either? Maybe it’s time to reduce the size of the bear population in our area.

The Siren Methodist ladies will be serving their annual pie and ice cream at the church from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., so after the parade, stop in and enjoy a piece of homemade pie, homemade ice cream and a beverage, all for only $3.50. There will be a good selection of pies to choose from.

Bev Beckmark

There will be a pie and ice-cream social in the town of Falun west of Siren on Hwy. 70 at the Falun Trinity Lutheran Church from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Sympathy to the family of Theodore A. Berkland who passed away June 20.

Lots of activities are going on this weekend in Siren. Friday there is the queen pageant at 6:30 p.m. at the school and a street dance on Main Street at 8 p.m. The fourth brings the Freedom 5 race at 8 a.m., bed races at 10 a.m., the big parade at 11:30 a.m., the pie and icecream social at Siren Methodist Church, Music in the Park at 8 p.m. and the best part of the day, the fireworks at Crooked Lake.

Good luck to the queen candidates Christina Luna, Kristen Sexton, Samantha Rasado, Abigail Mitchell and Jennica Kosloski.

The Siren Methodist men’s group will be selling brats on both the third and Fourth of July. The Methodist youth group will be selling root-beer floats and freezes on the fourth.

of her graduating class were used again and again in helping Mel raise their children and run their farm. Her expectations for etiquette in her home may have fallen on the old-fashioned side. Hats were removed and cursing stifled. Yet her generosity and affection were ever apparent. Dave Drake, Arna town chair, said she was like a second mom to him.

She was a pillar of the community.

After 28 years as Arna town clerk, it is no wonder that she understood the need to always keep the town records safe. The current clerk, Marit Heidbreder, recalls Eleanor calling her a few years back to say, “Grab the records and flee the town.

A fire is on the way.” She served as treasurer of her church, a member of the Markville Community Club and a longtime member of the Seven County Senior Federation.

It was, however, her husband, her children and her farm that brought the most contentment and joy to her life. Isn’t it fitting that on one of the last days of her life, when the windows were open, that all of the cows and horses (as if they knew) came close to the house to eat, moo and perhaps provide company for their friend?

Rest in peace dear Eleanor.

We were also saddened to learn of the death of Marge Dougherty, a former longtime resident of Kinsdale. Marge worked at the St. Croix Camp for many

years before she and her partner, Jo Morrin, moved to Marquette, Mich., about three years ago. She also died of cancer, and she too will be missed.

When the East Pine County Wanderers met last week, Clara Lilly was the winner of the door prize – a 10-lb. bag of wild birdseed. Evelyn Johnson brought the cake and prize. It was good to see weekender Mary Moser again as she is not back for the summer. Maria Starowoitow was able to attend her first meeting in six months. June birthdays are Clara Lilly and Fran Levings.

The business meeting of the Duxbury Volunteer Fire Department held in Markville on June 24 was attended by Markville and Cloverton firefighters Dave Drake, Al Wolf, Don Mishler and Dave Baker. Paul Fornengo went and is going to join the department, fire Chief Mike McCullen and Patrice Winfield also were there. They discussed many things.

We were relieved to learn that Julie Yaekel-Black Elk is recovering from her motorcycle accident on June 14. She is currently in the rehabilitation unit at Miller-Dwan Hospital in Duluth, Minn.

The accident occurred on Hwy. 77. Julie and her daughter Cheyenne were part of a cancer fundraiser motorcycle caravan at the time.

Count your blessings, wherever you are.

Birth announcements Born at St. Croix Regional Medical Center: A girl, Autumn Rose Steffen, born June 12, 2009, to Hallie and Jason Steffen, St. Croix Falls. Autumn weighed 4 lbs., 10 oz.

••• A boy, Trenton Michael Travis, born June 16, 2009, to Casey Travis and Ashley Strobel, Lindstrom, Minn. Trenton weighed 8 lbs., 7 oz.

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A boy, Jacob Brandon Fornengo, born June 18, 2009, to Jessica Anderson and Brandon Fornengo, Webster. Jacob weighted 7 lbs., 3 oz.

••• Born at Hayward Memorial Hospital: A boy, Brenden Jon, born June 19, 2009, to Jon Knoepke and Jennifer Denhartog of Siren. Brenden weighed 6 lbs., 4 oz. and was 18 inches long. Brenden’s siblings are Taylor and Austin.

Grandparents are Connie and Ted Zasada and Brian and Dawn Denhartog.

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A-Team Health care for everyone seems reasonable. If you live in the United States you have the best medical technology and talent available anywhere on earth. There has always been a mystique about medicine as well as an expectation.

You are led to believe that the uninsured are denied health care; this is not the case. Health care insurance is expensive but few of us want to gamble we won’t need it. For those that can’t afford insurance or choose not to have it there is Medicaid. The cost is perceived to be high because we hate to pay for something we may not need and we have to cover the expense of the uninsured care.

One problem is too many layers of “managers,” as in health management organizations. An HMO’s primary purpose is to negotiate how much and what will be paid for. They pool large groups of people and contract with health care facilities for a per diem payment. Before the physician can proceed with diagnostic tests and treatment he or she has to check with your HMO to see what and how much is covered. There is an incentive to do less and use cheaper diagnostic procedures because the money left over is profit. If this frugal approach leads to an improper diagnosis, the patient suffers the consequences. The system depends on the expertise of the physician to order only the tests and procedures that are appropriate to make you well.

Not all physicians are created equal, some are conscientious superstars and others are not. A good family practice physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant will get a good history and physical and defer to a specialist when indicated.

I’m an advocate of supplanting Xrays with MRIs. Why fiddle around with century-old X-ray technology when you can use a definitive tool? I’m not talking about an obvious fracture but rather a symptom of unknown origin.

All of these decisions should be made unencumbered by cost or the contract with an HMO. If the outcome

is poor, the next step may be litigation, which doesn’t save money.

I spent my entire adult life in the health care arena. During that time the changes have been dramatic. When I first started working in hospitals the average hospital stay after gall bladder surgery was ten days; today it is an outpatient procedure. Transplant of organs was science fiction. Premature infants usually died at birth. Children with cystic fibrosis usually died as teenagers. Ambulances were hearses painted red or gold, driven by burley guys that didn’t know CPR. (Right now, 4:18 p.m., Friday, June 26, 2009, I got this text message: “Dad, Went perfect! Will be able to see her in half hour. Did it with laparoscopic procedure.”)

I started this column thinking about my daughter-in-law Jill. She was scheduled to have a possible malignant tumor removed from one kidney or the kidney removed this afternoon.

The tumor was discovered using magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI. The tumor would have gone undetected using a standard X-ray.

A team of physicians agreed on the course of action and deferred the surgery for three weeks until two great surgeons could be scheduled together.

Without good diagnosticians, technology and surgeons, the outcome would have been very different.

I don’t think we need bureaucrats providing national health care. If socialized medicine is instituted, you should know that if you are 70 years old and need a heart revascularization, you probably won’t get it. If the government interferes more with the existing system I don’t believe health care will attract the A-team.

Columnist note: Jill is a dispatcher for North Memorial.

Friday, July 3 The Skinny about Skins, 2 p.m., at the Ice Age Center. Critter coverings – they come in the form of feathers, fur, scales and more.

Meet Naturalist Barb Walker and Copper, our resident Fox Snake, and see examples of how amazing and different critter coverings can be.

Hike to the Summit, 4 p.m., at the Summit Rock Trail sign. Join the naturalist for a hike to the summit and learn fascinating facts about the history and geology of the area and see spectacular views of the St. Croix River.

Owls: Silent Hunters of the Night, 7 p.m., at the Amphitheater behind the beach parking lot. Owls are among the most successful predators of the night because of their wonderful adaptations. Learn all about them with Naturalist Barb Walker and her live owl Aztec.

Saturday, July 4, Independence Day Wisconsin Explorer, 2 p.m., at the Amphitheater behind the beach parking lot.

Meet the naturalist and receive free booklets and guidance for fun activities for parents and their children ages 3 through 12.

The Secrets of Eagle Peak, 4 p.m., at the Eagle Peak Trail sign in the Pines Group Camp. Join Naturalist Barb Walker for a hike up the trail to learn the secrets of the peak and see a beautiful view of the St. Croix River Valley.

A Billion Years on the Pothole Trail, 7 p.m., at the Pothole Trail sign. Join the naturalist for a hike back in time to see the geological wonders created over the last billion years.

Sunday, July 5 A Different Pace: The St. Croix by Kayak, 11 a.m., at Lake O’ the Dalles beach. Discover a different way to experience the river’s pace, slough, and backwaters as National

Doriott/Peterson Brenda Bentley and David and Carol Doriott, of Webster, are pleased to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Dayna Lee Doriott, to Clint Peterson, son of Mike and Beverly Peterson of Medford.

Dayna is a 2001 graduate of Webster and is employed with Empi, in medical equipment sales. Clint is a 1998 graduate of Colby and is employed with Rosenbauer/General Safety, as an electrician.

The couple met while serving in Iraq with the Wisconsin National Guard.

Their wedding will be held at The Lodge at Crooked Lake in Siren on Aug. 1. – Photo submitted

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Interstate Park news Naturalist programs at Wisconsin Interstate Park

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Park Ranger Caroline Stedman shares the basics of kayaking, a mode of transportation that has over 4,000 years of history. Those interested will have an opportunity to try their hand at paddling a kayak around the lake’s beach area. For more information contact the St. Croix River Visitor Center at 715-4832274.

Tuesday, July 7 Twilight Paddle: The Full Thunder Moon, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., from Wisconsin Interstate Park to Osceola Landing. Meet National Park Ranger Dale Cox and embark on a 6-1/2-mile paddle to observe the river and learn about the special nature of this protected area. Participants must provide their own canoe/kayak and other gear, including a personal floatation device, which must be worn at all times while on the river. Shuttle services are available through area outfitters licensed by the National Park Service. The program will be cancelled in the event of inclement weather.

For more information call Dale Cox at 715483-2274.

Wednesday, July 8 Family Fun: Dragons and Damsels, 10 a.m., or the lake side of the Beach House.

Meet Naturalist Julie Fox and learn about nature’s helicopters!

Thursday, July 9 Nature Story time, 10 a.m. Join Naturalists Julie Fox or 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. - submitted

News from the Service WEBSTER – Army National Guard Pvt. Nathan B. Burton has graduated from One Station Unit Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Mo. The course of instruction included basic combat training and advanced individual training.

The basic trainee received instruction in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history and traditions.

During AIT, the soldier completed the combat engineer course to perform basic combat construction and rigging operations; operate

light and heavy engineer wheeled and armor tracked vehicles while participating in combat mobility, countermobility and survivability operations; assist in assembly and maintenance of military standard float and fixed bridges; prepare, install and prime firing systems for demolition and explosives; arm, disarm and install anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, locate mines by visual means or with mine detector; and recognize and neutralize land mines, firing devices and booby traps.

Burton is the son of Petra and stepson of Tom McCarthy of Webster. - submitted

Luck Public Library The Summer Reading Program has begun. Join us for Festival Theatre Fun on Wednesdays from 4- 5 p.m.

Book Donations Lucky Days is just around the corner, and the library is taking book and yard sale item donations. Are you wondering what to do with your own yard sale leftovers? Call the Luck library, 715-4722770, and arrange for a time to drop them off. The library is open from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m., Monday – Thursday and 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Friday. Call us, we can help you declutter your place.

Please ask for a donation slip for your tax-deductible donation.

Volunteers are needed for set up and take down of the library’s annual rummage sale. This sale traditionally takes place during Lucky Days, Saturday July 18. Setup is on Friday, July 17. If your particular talent is organizing and setAlex is a handsome black Lab looking for a home. He would love to share his brand of love and friendship with a family.

He is happy, enthusiastic and entertaining. Alex strikes an impressive pose in his shiny black coat.

Any family would be lucky to bring him home. Dogs have become a large part of the American culture. Their unconditional love and attention is a gift we give ourselves by giving them a home. Humans can learn so much from this noble creature, if only we take the time to recognize their lessons for us.

Lessons we can learn from a dog: Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.

Avoid biting when a simple growl will do. When you are happy, dance around and wag your entire body. Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.

Take naps and always stretch before ris-

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ting up rummage sales – we need you.

Come help us out and join the fun.

New computers are coming The Luck Public Library has received a grant to purchase new technology for the library. We will soon have six publicaccess computers for our patrons to use.

We also have Wi-Fi and comfortable seating for our laptop users to enjoy.

Children and adults alike will enjoy our new Wii on Thursday nights. Come in, get away from the heat and relax. So kids, grab your parents, friends, mentors or grandparents and bring them to the library for a little quality time.

Hours Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Sunday, Ancestry.com tutorial only from noon – 4 p.m. Library is closed to checkouts and browsers.

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Run, romp and play daily. Be loyal. Learn new tricks no matter your age. Depend on someone.

Eat with gusto. When loved ones come home, always run to greet them. Enjoy the ecstasy of fresh air and wind in your face.

Let others know when they have invaded your territory. If what you want is buried, dig until you find it. When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close and nuzzle them gently. Run to discover each new event with enthusiasm and a desire to understand. Hide your favorite snack.

Alex and his friends at the Arnell Humane Society are ready and waiting to share with you the special quality and lessons of life with a dog. 715-268-7387 or online: arnellhumane.org

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Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series on the history of the Clam Falls area, compiled by local historian Clayton Jorgensen A change came to the Clam Falls farming community in 1895 when Sam Larson, LaVonne Smith’s grandfather, and Chris Hanson bought the first threshing machine in the township.

About the same time John Grattes purchased the first steam tractor in the area.

In the late 1890s Lund built a large steam-operated sawmill in the village of Clam Falls. This was the start of the hardwood logging era. Logs were brought in by big log sleds using the Maple Valley skid-way to the Clam Falls mill.

The McKenzie tote road was used to supply the large logging camp near Crooked Lake. A road called the Clam Falls Trail was built from the Coon Lake camp and mill to the Clam Falls Road to carry supplies. After the train arrived to the Coon Lake Mill the trail was used to transport people back and forth from Clam Falls to the train.

Oscar Nelson had a good team of horses and provided the transportation.

It could be said he had the first taxi in the area.

Big excitement came to the area in the mid-1890s when the lumberjacks and area men started playing baseball. There were plenty of men to have their own league and the first field was in the village of Clam Falls. Indian Creek’s team also used the field.

A baseball score was found in the 1904 Polk County Ledger. It was a game between Clam Falls and Clam Lake, which Clam Falls won 11 to 7.

A field was built north of Clam Falls and Huey Johnson was a player at that time.

Milton Peterson started a second team

Around 1900 a sawmill was built in Clam Falls to saw hardwoods. This mill was powered by steam. Many of the logs came from the Maple Valley area and areas to the south. A logging skid road from that area to Clam Falls can still be found. aged, umpired, or kept the score book over the years.

Some of the area men who played baseball for Clam Falls during the 1940s and 1950s included: H. Donald Johnson, Lloyd Johnson, John Smith, Sidney Teigen, Kenneth Nelson, Andy Nelson, Wally Nelson, Russell Nelson, Norman Rudd, Milton Peterson, Richard Olson, Martin Peterson, Victor Weinzierl, Robert Weinzierl, and Elmer Paulsen.

During the weekend of July Fourth the village of Clam Falls will have activities to celebrate the Fourth of July and recognize 152 years of the village.

••• A threshing maching operated by Sam Larson and Christ Hanson, on the property of Sam Huyck in the early 1900s. in the area and a field was built on the Jewell farm. H. Donald Johnson said he played on two Clam Falls teams.

Many of the guys could not get enough ball playing. Many members of the Nelson family either played, man-

Shown are some of the players from the area on the Clam Falls teams in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. Shown far left is Victor Weinzierl and shown far right is Wally Nelson. Those shown in the middle group are (L to R), back row: Wayne Johnson, Martin Peterson, Donald Johnson and Quentin Weinzierl. Middle row: Joe Domagala (son of Joe and Ellen), Sidney Teigen, Norman Rud and John Smith. Front: Dick “Dilly” Hoover.

July 4 - there will be a pig roast at 4 p.m., and fireworks at dusk sponsored by the Clam Falls campgrounds. At 2 p.m., there will be a big parade ($50 prize for the funniest unit) followed by the Rex Cactus Band from 4 – 7 p.m.

Volleyball (sponsored by Clam Falls tavern) will be played all day.

July 5 - two-person canoe races will be held on the flowage with first-place prize of $200.

Be sure to come, have some fun and see historic Clam Falls!

A 1904 newspaper clipping states: “The ball game played between the Clam Lake nine and the Clam Falls nine last Sunday, came out in favor of Clam Falls, 11 to 9.

‘Clam Falls, Clam Falls, Hip, hip hooray, The Clam Falls ball nine, Are all O.K.!’ - Maid -of-the-Mist.

A scene from a Fourth of July celebration in the village of Clam Falls in 1904. Some of the band members shown could be from West Sweden.

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Delving into some old files recently,

I found a copy of The Standard-Press of May 17, 1928, and this headline caught my eye: How Father Spiked Indian Attack Told By Pioneer. The article that headline introduced was this, about a planned massacre of the pioneer settlers in this area of the St. Croix Valley: Sixty-four years ago a FrenchChippewa trader and his 8-year-old son drove a team and wagon 100 miles from Gordon, Wis., to Rush City, Minn., in 24 hours.

Over about the headwaters of the Mississippi in the Leech Lake vicinity the war drums were beating in the forest where the campfires pierced the darkness and Chippewa braves, armed and painted for war, danced in the gleam.

For the wiley Sioux had won them over to a plan for a massacre which would outdo the New Ulm uprising and drive the whites forever out of Minnesota.

Regardless of fatigue, the father and son pushed on through the night across the rude pioneer trails. For the father, Antoin Gordon, was hurrying to break up the massacre which he foresaw would mean only the extermination of his people. He succeeded.

The son who accompanied him was William Gordon, who now lives with

his son, the Rev. Father Philip Gordon, in the parish house of St. Patrick’s parish a few miles northeast of here.

“My father was first cousin of Rosemarie Hole-in-the-Day, chief of all the MisVezina sissippi Chippewas,” he said the other day in relating the story. “He was a fur trader at Gordon, which was named for Sponsored by him. When he the St. Croix heard that the Falls Historical Sioux were getting Society the Chippewas to join in another massacre he nipped it in the bud – stopped it dead. We started at 2 p.m. and drove all night. Every 25 miles we would stop to feed the horses. At 2 p.m. next day we got to Rush City.

“My father caught the train down to St. Paul and took the Northern Pacific to Elk River, Minn. That is as far as it went in those days. From there he staged it to Crow Wing and then went on foot to

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Leech Lake. There he found all the Chippewas painted up and ready for war. He asked where Hole-in-the Day was and walked into the tepee where he was sitting. He was carrying a walking stick and drew it back like he was going to hit the chief. “‘You old dog, you, I’ve a mind to kill you,’ he said. You know that is the only swear word there is in the Chippewa language – to call a man a dog.

“The chief drew back and said, ‘Why cousin, what is the matter?’ “ ‘I come not to stop you,’ my father said. ‘I have come to instruct you what you have got to do before you start any bloodshed. Kill all your women, all your children, your sick and old men.

Because they will starve otherwise.

Your braves all will be hanged like they hanged the Sioux down at Mankato.’

“Half an hour later Hole-in-the-Day sent out scouts to all his people with the message ‘do not fight.’ ” Meanwhile the little son had to drive back across the 100 miles of rough trails to his home, alone, except for his dog.

“John Beer, the hotel man at Rush City, gave me a lot of lunch and even fixed up some scraps for the dog,” he said.

“My father was born at Sand Lake, Minn.,” he continued. “He was a trader

and ran a hotel and store at Gordon. He used to send all his furs to St. Paul. My father was well known in the Twin Cities. He was 96 years old when he died at Gordon 20 years ago.”

William later became head of the Indian police at Odanah, Wis., with 1,500 Chippewa of the Bad River reservation in his charge. He also was a government interpreter there. Now he has charge of household arrangements for his son, the priest. He was busy burning the grass off a plot of ground back of the parish house as he intends to make garden this spring.

The Chippewa have a sense of humor, the aged man said, citing the nicknames they often bestow on other races. “You know,” he said, “that the Scandinavians always used to wear striped clothes when they came over here from the old country. So the Chippewas called them ‘aguangus,’ or chipmunks.

His son later amplified this by saying that his people call the Irish “Shashawanabiss” or swallow tails, because of the long-tailed coats the early immigrants from Erin used to wear.

(More about Father Gordon next week.)

“The Foreigner” to be presented “You won’t want to miss this.”

VOYAGER VILLAGE – Barrels of laughs and lots of fun will be yours when you attend “The Foreigner,” the 11th performance by the Village Players Community Theatre. Written by Larry Shue, directed by Bunny Day, and produced by Kitty and Steve Holmquist, this promises to be an evening of high delight. The play has a cast of seven from all around the area.

The setting takes place in a log cabin on a lake in Georgia and is run by affable widow Betty Meeks, who offers home cooking, swimming, fishing, cards and libation at night. Sgt. Froggy Le Seuer arrives and his “supposed” helper from England, Charlie Baker. Charlie’s life is a bit of a mess as he tells Froggy, “My wife dislikes me!” Charlie is shy, boring, and lacks conversational skills. Froggy has a brilliant scheme to free Charlie from speaking and introduces Charlie as a foreigner. This creates hilarious comedy.

One thing leads to another as you meet Betty and her other guests and visitors,

Standing: Rod Kleis and Galen Brown. Sitting: Violet Wilke, Lee Gillis, Olivia Main, Bunny Day and Ian McNurlin. Standing: Steve Roger and Paul Lewis. – Photo submitted

including David, a young minister, and Catherine, his fiancée, a debutante from the city. Catherine’s brother Ellard is slow witted but clever.

A devious scheme is revealed to con Betty out of her cabin and dubious character Owen Musser, a not overly bright Southerner, is one of the villains. He despises foreigners and enjoys mocking them. This is a popular play that is a must see at Village Players Community Theatre.

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchase by calling Jeri Schell at 715-2597995. Cost is $13 for preordered tickets and $15 at the door. Performances start at 7 p.m. Thursday – Saturday, July 2325 and July 30-Aug. 1, and starting at 6 p.m. and during intermission, there is a beverage bar and concessions available.

Sunday performances, July 26 and Aug. 2, start at 2 p.m., but come to the icecream social at 1 p.m. for $3. All tickets are at a will-call desk. Credit cards are accepted. If you want to enjoy a dinner at the Voyager Country Club prior to the performance please call 715-259-3910, ext. 21. - submitted

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Burnett Community Library news The Burnett Community Library will be closed on Saturday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day. The Burnett Community Library building fund will be selling bottled water at the Fourth of July parade on Saturday as a fundraiser.

Hope to see you there.

Author Thomas Wayne King signed and donated a copy of his latest book, “Tales from the Red Pump: 130 Years of Northland Wisconsin Family Adventures.” He lives and writes in Solon Springs.

My public library is important to our community because “It’s a good place for meeting friends and a good choice of books, music, DVDs for all ages.” (another patron’s response during National Library Week.)

The summer reading program has been meeting on Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. for the younger children, from age 0 to 3, and 12:30 p.m. for the youngsters from age 4 on up. We usually have about seven children, but there is room for more. Come join the fun stories and art

activities.

The Burnett Community Library book club will be reading “Moloka’i,” by Alan Brennert, to be discussed on Tuesday, July 27, at 10 a.m. If you need a copy, please call the library at 715-866-7697, and we will be glad to obtain one for you.

A special meeting was held by the Burnett Community Library Board on Friday, June 26. They met with architect Carter Arndt and discussed building plans for the library renovation project.

On Wednesday, July 8, at 5:30 p.m., the village of Webster will conduct a public hearing at the Webster Village Hall regarding its proposed application for Community Development Block Grant funds. The public is invited to attend to learn about the CDBG program, to help identify additional local housing and community development needs, and to comment on the activities proposed to be included in the CDBG application. Residents of the village of Webster are encouraged to attend, especially residents

with low to moderate incomes. The meeting room is handicapped accessible.

New books for children “The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones,” by Rick Riordan, Book 1 “The 39 Clues: One False Note,” by Gordon Korman, Book 2 “The 39 Clues: The Sword Thief,” by Peter Larangis, Book 3 “Worst Enemies/Best Friends,” by Annie Bryant New books for adults “Paul Newman: A Life,” by Shawn Levy “The Indifferent Stars Above,” by Daniel James Brown “Kabul Beauty School,” by Deborah Rodriguez “Knock Out,” by Catherine Coulter “Scrapbookers Handwriting Workshop,” by Crystal Rieger “Perfect Match,” by Jodi Picoult “Vanishing Acts,” by Jodi Picoult “Toddler’s Busy Play Book,” by Robin

McClure New DVDs ”Space Buddies” ”High School Musical 2” ”High School Musical 3: Senior Year” ”Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” ”Beverly Hills Chiahuahua” ”National Treasure” New Audio CDs “The Shack,” by William P. Young “Angel’s Game,” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon “Sworn to Silence,” by Linda Castillo “Matters of the Heart,” by Danielle Steel “Neighbor,” by Lisa Gardner Hours Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

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A smile crosses the face of Brandi Larson as she realizes she’s just been crowned Miss Milltown 2009. The crowning took place at a pageant held at Bering Park, along Hwy. 35, Friday evening. Crowning the new queen was outgoing queen, Alica Milander.

Moments before the crowning, the three candidates for Miss Milltown, Krystal Beckwith, Brandi Larson and Taylor Loken, await the final crowning moments of the Miss Milltown pageant.

“It's almost over Alicia!" The 2008 royalty were awaiting their pagent in the park when they realized it was almost over for their year as royalty.

Princesses Kaylynn Olson and Julia Larsen console Queen Alicia Milander. - Photo by Jeanne Alling

LEFT: Newly crowned Little Miss Milltown Royalty, Queen Myah Nelson (far left) smiles after being crowned by last year’s Little Miss Milltown.

Other candidates, Lydia Milberg and Sydney Beaudry are the new Little Miss Princesses. Shown in back is Margaret Butler, Little Miss Milltown 2008, who crowned the new Little Miss on Friday evening.

Photos by Gary King unless otherwise noted

The crowd in Bering Park in Milltown listened to live music, shared good food and watched the queen pageant program, which included a salute to this year’s Fishermen’s Party Parade Grand Marshal Carol Pool and Honored Citizen Jane Juleen. Making the tributes was pageant emcee Marie Sogge.

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The Milltown Fishermen’s Party parade, Sunday afternoon, brings a big crowd to Milltown’s Main Street each summer with the opportunity for some relaxation, entertainment, and the chance to snare some free candy, as the young man in the photo at right demonstrated.

Hot dogs weren’t just on the menu Sunday at Milltown, as this little fellow had to be wondering “How much farther?” as he walked the hot pavement for the half-mile Fishermen’s Party parade route. He survived the trek in good shape.

“Off the Top Hair Shop” presented one of the more colorful and interesting parade units in Sunday’s Fishermen’s Party parade.

The Shriners Band entertained parade-goers at Milltown with their precise marching-band skills and stopped along the route for performances to the audience.

A “very easy rider,” this young woman in the sidecar had the enjoyment of riding the parade route without worrying about the driving. The classic Harley-Davidson was one of several taking part in a caravan of Harleys in honor of Milltown’s legendary Harley drawing.

Photos by Gary King

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It was another day of work Sunday for Milltown Police Chief Andy Anderson, who guided the fire trucks and other parade units safely off the parade route at the south end of Main Street.

Crowned Friday evening, Milltown’s new royalty were in full spendor for their ride down Main Street in Sunday afternoon’s parade. New Miss Milltown Brandi Larson is shown with new Little Miss Milltown Mia Nelson and Princsses Taylor Loken and Krystal Beckwith.

The Milltown VFW unit is an annual entry into Milltown’s Fishermen’s Party parade.

Visiting royalty in Milltown’s Fishermen’s Party parade on Sunday included Frederic royalty (photo at left) and Centuria royalty (photo at right). Frederic’s royal court was just chosen a few weeks ago, and the Miss Centuria royalty will relinquish their titles at Memory Days, July 10, 11 and 12.

Photos by Gary King

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Auctions draw a crowd to Milltown.

Each year some lucky person wins a new Harley.

A classy lady greets visitors to the Milltown Business Center, home of Trends & Treasures and Milltown Karate.

The slow tractor race was one of the events for the classic tractors Saturday.

The classic snowmobiles come out of their summer hibernation for the Milltown Fishermen's Party.

Donald Beaulieu heads down Main Street in the slow tractor race. – Photos by Greg Westigard

Past winners of the Harley are listed on Fishermen’s Party flyers hung up around town.

Matt Rosendahl came back to the Milltown library to help the new head librarian, Jennifer Fenske, with the popular book sale.

This 1958 Ford tractor belongs to Dean Thaemert, Centuria.

The River City Cloggers from Taylors Falls, Minn. entertained the crowds at Milltown.

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Farmers markets report: It's really summer

by Colleen Draxler BURNETT/POLK COUNTIES - It’s really summer!

Baskets of sweet, shiny, red strawberries are plentiful at the farmers markets.

Although strawberry shortcake is the family favorite, Bev Raudabaugh of Melon Vine Farms was planning to surprise her husband, Lee, with a fresh strawberry cheesecake for Father’s Day. Sounds like the perfect dessert for any celebration. They will continue harvesting great-looking asparagus until July 4.

Asparagus and rhubarb are perennial plants that must be given time to rebuild so that they can produce again next year.

It is now time to stop cutting and allow the asparagus to develop a fernlike growth. Crunchy kohlrabi, romaine lettuce and spinach are now available.

Green beans and zucchini will be ready soon.

Robert and Paula Peters of Earth Friendly Farm, are hoping to be selling carrots and a variety of beets – Red Ace, Detroit and Red Cloud – in the next few weeks. They currently feature eggs, spinach, lettuce, radishes, cilantro and basil.

Customers have a great selection of early summer produce at the local farmers markets. Melon Vine Farms patrons are preordering pickling cucumbers in a variety of sizes and types.

Beautiful bunches of broccoli are available from Alice Snoskoski and Vince Speiker’s farm near Webster. And, take it from us, if you need advice on how to

Deb Minar, from the Twin Cities, shops at the Siren Farmers Market every week. Usually she buys produce to enjoy at her lake home but she was leaning toward purchasing a monkey butt (smells like bananas) soy candle at Token Creek Creations and Candle Company.

make the perfect apple pie, be sure to stop by and have a chat with Alice.

Adolf Schmidt planted his potatoes on Good Friday and will be selling new potatoes - reds, russets and Yukon Golds by the end of June. Baby peas will be ready for picking to make a favorite summer dish of creamed peas and new potatoes. Elvira and Adolf have gorgeous purple and green romaine lettuce, dark-green curly leaf spinach and juicy strawberries.

This quick, easy and very tasty cake recipe will be a welcome treat at your Fourth of July picnic. We’ve enjoyed it for years using rhubarb. You’ll want to try it with strawberries. It is great served warm or cold.

Strawberry or Rhubarb or Strawberry-Rhubarb Custard Cake 1 pkg. white, yellow or French Vanilla cake mix 4 cups strawberries (or 3 cups fresh rhubarb) or a combination of both 3/4 to 1 cup sugar, depending on the sweetness of the fruit you use 2 cups heavy whipping cream (not whipped) Directions: Prepare cake mix as directed on the box, pour into a greased and floured 9x13 baking pan. Slice fruit, mix with sugar and spread evenly over top of unbaked cake. Pour two cups cream over all. Bake at 350 degrees for 60 minutes. The custard will form at the bottom as the cake bakes. Must be refrigerated.

New vendors are always welcome,

growers and crafters alike. Interested vendors should call Chuck Awe for the Grantsburg/Siren markets, 612-2261220; Doug Amundson, Frederic market, 715-327-8842; and Connie Van Sluys, Spooner market, 715-766-2105.

The Siren Farmers Market is open on Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Siren Senior Citizen Center parking lot. The Grantsburg Farmers Market is on Mondays noon to 2 p.m.. at the village offices/library. The Spooner Farmers Market is open Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. between the canoe museum and the train museum. Milltown’s farmers market is open Fridays from 3 to 7 p.m. and the first and third Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at Hwy. 35 and Eider Street. The Balsam Lake market is in the Balsam Lake Market & Deli parking lot and features a church bake sale each Friday from 3 to 5:30 p.m. The Frederic Farmers Market will open Saturday, July 18, 8 a.m. to noon, in the Inter-County Leader parking lot.

Chuck Awe, of Mud Hen Lake Farm and Smithy, demonstrated how to apply a finish to a handwrought, child-friendly hot dog roasting stick using beeswax and fire. Note the curved end. - Photos by Colleen Draxler

Story of animal neglect inspires respect and dignity for animals SUPERIOR - The death of a 9-month-old, neglected, starving colt is being remembered in school lessons for children in northern Wisconsin. The WindChill Foundation is dedicated to teaching people about neglect, abuse, dignity and respect for animals.

Grandma Carol and Paula Moore tell the story of WindChill to some second-graders at Northern Lights Elementary School in Superior. It isn’t a nice story.

WindChill was found on a Douglas County field Feb. 9, last year. It was frigid – 50 below with the wind – and Kathi Tucker didn’t hesitate to rescue the starving colt.

Tucker says the colt wasn’t going to make it through the night there, so they dragged him out of the pasture on a little orange sled. His legs were curled in a fetal position the whole time, because WindChill couldn’t stand.

Tucker and her husband, Jeff, couldn’t save WindChill. He died 20 days later. But Moore tells the kids that they didn’t fail. They gave him medicine and grooming, and lots of love and attention. He gained weight and strength, and could stand and walk. She says his eyes grew bright and he showed a sweet personality, making new friends. When he died, he did so with dignity and with love surrounding him.

Paula Moore says the word “dignity” is really important in this story.

The effort to save WindChill got national attention and thousands of dollars of donations. The WindChill Web site peaked at 30,000 hits an hour during the struggle. So today, there’s the WindChill Foundation that

An 11-yearold miniature horse named Magic helps tell the story of the death of a 9-monthold, negl e c t e d , starving colt as part of school lessons for children in northern Wisconsin.

The WindChill Foundation is dedicated to teaching people about neglect, abuse, dignity and respect for animals. WPR photos

visits nursing homes and classrooms. And the star of the show isn’t Moore or Grandma Carol.

It’s an 11-year-old miniature horse named Magic.

Magic’s handlers say she loves to be petted and scratched and hugged. But not everything about Magic charms the kids. Tucker routinely adds a lesson in dental hygiene to each visit, including the animal’s some-

times brown teeth. But brown teeth or not, Kelly Larson and her classmates have learned the lesson of what all animals need: love, food, shelter and warmth.

Another child says that WindChill had a spirit inside.

And if an animal’s in danger one should tell their parents and have them call 911.

More information about horse rescue and the WindChill organization can be found at: http://www.thewindchilllegacy.org - Wisconsin Public Radio (Mike Simonson)

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Frederic Area Historical Society awarded parade trophy FREDERIC - The society received the Community Award trophy for the entry of their 1925 Model T Ford, one-ton pickup that was once used for a dray business in Brainerd, Minn.

The driver of the truck was Clarence Fenton, along with his wife, Betty. This was their entry for the parade during the recent Family Days celebration held over Father’s Day weekend. Harriet Hall from Robbinsdale, Minn. donated the truck to the society in November of 2001.

Harriet’s late husband, Ken, had inherited the truck from his grandfather, Silas, nearly 40 years earlier and had been restoring it. Harriet was definitely looking for a permanent home for the truck and a place that it would be cherished and put on display for others to enjoy and appreciate. The historical society was fortunate to get this truck. With the help of many people they got it to Fred-

eric, including help from Terry Larsen of Larsen Auto Center.

The society is always looking for new people to join them in helping to preserve history for future generations. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, July 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the depot/museum in downtown Frederic. For more information call the president, Roxi White, at 715-327-4892. – submitted Clarence Fenton, the driver of the 1925 Model T Ford, is shown with his wife, Betty. Other winners in the Frederic Family Days parade included Ken Kakac for Best Antique Car, Bruce and June Coen for Best Horse Unit, Frederic Library – Special Award, Hudson float won the Chamber Award and the Luck FFA won the Best Youth entry. – Special photo

Ken Kakac’s 1962 Cadillac was judged the best car entry in the 2009 Frederic Family Days parade, Sunday. – Photo by Gary King LEFT: Kathy Meyers, Frederic’s Volunteer of the Year, along with members of her family, rode in Frederic’s Family Days parade, June 20. - Photo

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Winners of the Family Days Kids Fishing Contest June 20 were Donovan Swanson (3 to 5 age group), Ethan Alexander (6 to 8 age group), Noah Koska (9 to 11 age group) and Cole Hanson (12 to 14 age group). – Photo by Rob Harrison

The Stingers softball team won the softball tournament at Coon Lake Park on Sunday afternoon. The Stingers went undefeated for the weekend. The Stingers played the championship game against the Subway team. Third Place winner was the Sundown Saloon team. – Photo by Jackie Kurskowski

On Friday night at Coon Lake Park the Junior Treasure Hunt winner was Jeret Corty of Luck. He found the silver coin after three clues. The Junior Treasure Hunt is sponsored by Masonry Builders, Chell Trucking and Pound and Pour Construction. – Photo by Jackie Kurkowski

On Saturday the seventh-annual treasure hunt began and Becca Anderson of Frederic was the lucky winner of a limited edition silver eagle coin donated by Bremer Bank and a $50 Savings Bond donated by US Bank.

Becca and her brother have won the hunt two times in the past seven years, and this year, her dad was her helper. – Photo by Jackie Kurkowski

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Fireworks, fine art and sailboats

Hunt Hill

by Regan Kohler SHELL LAKE – Independence Day falls on an action-packed weekend in Shell Lake, with the kickoff Friday, July 3.

The city always celebrates Independence Day on July 3. The Eagle River Band will be playing from 8 p.m. to midnight, sponsored by Klopp’s Fifth Avenue Bar. Entrance is $1.

The chamber of commerce will be selling brats, hot dogs, hamburgers, soda and water starting at 6:30 p.m. Down by the lake, in the community center from 4:307:30 p.m., the Lions club will be having its annual summer cookout, featuring their popular steak sandwiches, award-winning brats, hot dogs, beans, potato salad, coffee and lemonade. It costs $7 for adults and $5 for children under 12. The Lions club invites families to enjoy the food while celebrating the community center’s 30th anniversary (see article).

The fireworks begin at dusk in Memorial Park, and the Shell Lake Fire Department will be on hand to make sure everything goes as planned. The city and chamber sponsor the fireworks and collect

donations before and during the event.

Saturday, July 4, has a multitude of activities. The seventh-annual Fine Art Festival will be in Memorial Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Artists from across the Midwest, who are selected through a special juried process, come to display and sell their handcrafted works. There will be more than 30 local and regional artists present, with jewelry, pottery, painting, woodworking, photography, weaving, glass and fiber works and music exhibited. Spiritwood, an instrumental band from Ely, Minn., is returning to perform at the art festival. The downtown/lakefront events committee, which sponsors the festival, will be selling their famous Italian beef sandwiches.

The Washburn County Historical Society’s annual Pie and Ice Cream Social will be at the museum from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

At noon Saturday, the Shell Lake Sailing Club regatta starts. This is one of two yearly regattas, and the sailboats will push off from the landing just north of the beach.

Tractor safety Bridget Belfort, program director at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minn., brought a full-grown bald eagle to Hunt Hill. The 8year-old eagle is developmentally delayed because of lead poisoning from lead sinkers and shotgun pellets.

Lead poisoning is a threat to wildlife. — Photos by Larry Samson Kids of all ages enjoyed the eagle program. Barb Ray, Simon, Grace and their mother, Sarah McDonald, were just a few of the 211 people in attendance.

A Youth Tractor and Machinery Safety Course was offered for youth primarily in Burnett, Washburn and Sawyer counties. The course was at the Spooner Agricultural Research Station on June 15, 16 and 18. Shown are top row (L to R): Rupert Jaden Mullet, Ryan Melton, Max Speary, Colton Tretsven, Austin Otis, Brandon Loree, Jake Howe and John Hennk. Bottom: Austin Schrock (on tire), Carl Rachner (hidden), Andrew McKeag (on seat), instructor Kevin Schoessow, Tyler Crosby, Jorden Otis and instructor Otto Wiegand (all standing). Not pictured: Jacob Slabaugh. — Photo submitted

Rodeo banquet held

Zach Huebner poses with committee member Sue Coquillette after he won a door prize. Like anything associated with the rodeo, the BBQ was a family affair for the committee members and sponsors.

The Heart of the North Rodeo BBQ is a time when the new royalty steps in and the old royalty steps out. Princess Amber O’Shay Dorn, 2009 Queen Miriah Lehmann, 2008 Queen Lynzie Tomesh and Chloe Tomesh, who dreams of being the 2020 Rodeo Queen.

Photos by Larry Samson

Dick Fankhauser presented Phyllis VanWyhe the Committee Member of the Year Award. The award is given to a member for their hard work and dedication to the Heart of the North Rodeo. The rodeo is a little over two weeks away as it will be held July 9 through July 11.

2008 Rodeo Queen Lynzie Tomesh says her tearful goodbye to rodeo members and sponsors at the Spooner Rodeo BBQ held at the Washburn County Fairgrounds on Tuesday, June 16. “I had a blast that I would do again if I could.”

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Webster honor roll A Honor roll Grade 5 Nicole Hursh, Cassidy Formanek, Tate Fohrenkamm, Daniel Okes, Nicole Moretter, Alec Ralph, Annika Hendrickson, Elizabeth Freymiller and Grant Preston.

Grade 6 William Cooper, Ryan Curtis, Ashley Davis, Marissa Elmblad, Zachary Koelz, Madison Main, Brett Richison, Carrie Rosenthal, Ellora Schaaf, Dade McCarthy, Alyssia Benjamin, Sean Martinez, Mallory Daniels, Katrina Matrious-Staples, Andrew Schrooten, Nathanael Gatten, Daniel Formanek, Megan Tyson, Alexis Frazee, Kendel Mitchell, Nicholas Robinson, Ciarra Lechman, Taylor Elmblad, Raelyn Tretsven, Alec Gustafson, Christina Weis and Marissa Bambery.

Grade 7 Harley Berthiaume, Brian Billings, Ashley Dietmeier, AmySue Greiff, Mikayla Hatfield, Megan Hophan, Sarah Thielke, Kristine Watral, Erik Larson, Evon Maxwell, Jess Petersen, Ashley Starks, Alexandria Holmstrom, Roxanne Songetay, Paige Young, Janie Waltzing, Steven Stoll, Jack Ralph, Logan Rutledge, Aleah Heinz, Cullan Hopkins, Tamera Quatmann, William Arnold III, Marissa Elliott, Lance Preston, Jalicia Larson,

Cabrina Hopkins, Cassandra Kilgore and Sydney Stellrecht.

Grade 8 Darren Deal, Jacob Hunter, Brianna Phernetton, Kaleiah Schiller, Amber Davis, Nikkita Emberson, Danielle Formanek, Chelsey McIntyre, Alyxandria Hatfield, Samantha Perius, Matthew Smith, Brenna Nutt, Danielle Curtis, Charles Mahlen, Emma Kelby, Tessa Schiller, Savana Arcand and Tianna Stewart.

B Honor roll Grade 5 Max Norman, Tyler Grey, Emma Olsen, Toni Petersen, Samantha Culver, Kyle Matrious, Connor Raschke, Darrick Nelson, Taylor Espeseth and Kaela Lundeen.

Grade 10 Devin Greene, Mason Kriegel, Siiri Larsen, Breeanna Watral, Bryana Andren, Michael Billings, Jenna Anderson, Shaina Pardun, Kayce Rachner, Greg McIntyre, Connor Pierce, Jayme Mitchell, Christine Stoll and Chiara Colalelli.

Grade 6 Vincent Larson, Kimberly Thielman, Madeline Snow, Kelly Waltzing, Summer Bjork, Brandon Johnson, Brandon Smiley, Bailey Weeks, Samantha Emberson, Kenna Gall, Emilie Pope, Alexandria Spears, Jessie Yezek, Casey Ritchey and Diana Pope.

Grade 11 Nick Doriott, Bryan Krause, Nolan Kriegel, Allison Leef, Ashley RobinsonMadsen, April Matrious, Andrea Yezek,

Grade 7 Lindsay Schilling, Alex Spafford, Michael Johnson, Aaron Dietmeier, Robert Cook, Julio Calixto Rosas, Casey Sperling and Alexander Hopkins.

business plan creation, alternative marketing and innovative production techniques. Classes are led by farmers and other agricultural professionals from the area. The classes, which meet approximately twice a month, run until March 2010, followed by an on-farm education component that includes farm tours and skills sessions.

During the past decade, over 350 people have graduated from the Minnesotaregion Farm Beginnings program, and 60 percent of them are actively farming, according to class data. Farm Beginnings graduates are involved in a wide range of agricultural enterprises, including grass-based livestock, organic vegetables, community-supported agriculture and specialty products.

LSP will also be offering a Farm Beginnings course for 2009-2010 in the Minnesota community of Spicer. - submitted

Horse pasture walk in Burnett County GRANTSBURG — A horse pasture walk has been scheduled on Saturday, July 11, from 10 a.m. to noon, at the Wild Wind Farm Equestrian Center at Grantsburg. Topics will include rotational paddock grazing, horsemanship, horse breed differences and marketing unique riding experiences.

The center specializes in beginner riding and driving lessons, wellness that can be derived from being around and working with horses, and unique parent-child experiences.

Directions: From the Burnett Dairy

Grade 12 Kelsey Tretsven, Brittany Flatten, Rose Kopecky, Jake Holmes, Stephen Krear, Bradley Nutt, Niels Van Vliet, Dakota Gardner, Catie Mahlen, Quentin Johnson, Kyle Godfrey, Travis Hughes, Eric Plath, Jordan Werdier, Ryan Clemmons and Donald Holmes.

Grade 9 Miranda Burger, Melissa Gustavson, Mackenzie Koelz, Olivia Kopecky, Katlyn Payson, Shauna Rein, Matthew Hophan, Chelsea Larson, Audrey Mulliner, Brittany Maxwell and Kimberly Reed.

Beginning farmer course coming to River Falls RIVER FALLS — One of the most successful beginning farmer training programs in the country is coming to River Falls. Classes for the 2009-2010 session of the Land Stewardship Project’s Farm Beginnings course will be held at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, beginning in October. The registration deadline is Aug. 26. For more information, call the Land Stewardship Project’s office in Lewiston, Minn., at 507-5233366. Details on the course are also available atwww.farmbeginnings.org.

In 2009, the Land Stewardship Project’s Farm Beginnings program is marking its 12th year of providing firsthand training in low-cost, sustainable methods of farming. The course is tailor-made for people of all ages just getting started in farming, as well as established farmers looking to make changes in their operations. Farm Beginnings participants learn goal setting, financial planning,

Nicholas Koelz, Bethany Nutt, Phillip Preston, Joseph Cook and Thitiwan “Pare” Seephueng.

Cooperative on Hwy. 70 in Alpha, take CTH Y two miles south to Hanson Point Road and turn left. The address number is 22735. Watch for Pasture Walk signs.

The Northwest Wisconsin Graziers Network, in cooperation with UW-Extension, sponsors the walk. Contact UWEX Ag Agents: Otto Wiegand, or Kevin Schoessow, 715-635-3506; Tim Jergenson, Barron County, 715-537-6250; or Ryan Sterry, Polk County, 715-485-8600.

— from UW-Extension

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Grade 8 Jacob Sargent, Brooke Bird, Victoria

Pope, Cassandra Heller, Katherine Liljenberg, Cailea Dochniak, Gabriella Schiller, Megan Hughes, Lori Benjamin, James Pijanowski Jr. and Danielle Pardun.

Grade 9 Leslea Wiggins, Sharon Zabel, Austin Bork, Felicia Paulzine, Tatyana Pope, David Kislenger, Alyce Deblase, Tanya Johnson, Aaron Clay, Danielle Dyson, Cody Hughes, Joseph Erickson, Mary Arnold and Benjamin Leef.

Grade 10 Samantha Kopecky, Allison Rydel, Michelle Gibbs, Alyssa Main, Tiffani Demarre, Annie Kelby, Elise Windbiel and Kayla Duclon.

Grade 11 Rachel Larson, Amanda Dupre, Seth Pardun, Violet Wilkie, Christina Becker, Chaz Heinz, Nicole Steiner, Trevor Fontaine, Judson Mosher, John Elmgren, Benjamin Shives, Adam Eichman, Mackenzie Nordstrom, Danielle Stanton, Holly Gustafson and Loreto Stange.

Grade 12 Ashley Clay, Leagh Casey, Olivia Main, Mitchell Elliott, Rebecca Smallwood, Kara Gall, Chelsey Robinson, Abigail Ingalls, Nicholas Krinkie, Anthony McCain, Shauna McCain and Adam Rinman.

North Country Master Gardener bus tour set SPOONER – The North Country Master Gardener Volunteers is hosting a tour for area gardeners on Tuesday, July 21. Edelweiss Nursery in Duluth, Minn., will be the first stop on the tour. Edelweiss is a full-service garden center with a demonstration park including streams, ponds and rock gardens. The owner, Josef Braeu, will guide a tour through the park and the nursery. Edelweiss specializes in dwarf conifers, alpines, and flowering shrubs as well as perennials.

The second stop will be at the Walk on Lake Superior. The Leif Erickson Park Rose Garden, with over one hundred varieties of roses, will welcome visitors. Restaurants are available in the area or people may wish to bring their own picnic lunch.

Pederson’s Garden Center in Superior will be the final stop. Pederson’s specializes in hanging baskets, perennials, ornamental grasses, small garden trees and

landscape trees, conifers, shrubs and fruit. A guided tour will be provided.

Both garden centers have gift shops and coffee shops available. Participants will be able to purchase plants and other merchandise. There will be refreshments and snacks on the bus, but you are encouraged to pack something for breakfast or eat before coming.

The bus will leave from the Spooner Agricultural Research Center at 7:30 a.m. and is expected to return by 6:30 p.m.

Partipants may catch the bus at Bloomer or Rice Lake, if they prefer.

The cost for this event is $20 per person. The deadline for registration is Monday, July 13. Send check and registration information to Sandy Hoecherl, 124 Rolphs Point Drive, Shell Lake, WI 54871. Make checks payable to North Country Master Gardeners. - submitted

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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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CHURCH NEWS

Sally Bair Eternal

THANK YOU

The family of Vicki Holdt wishes to say thank you for all of your support during these difficult times.

We lost a wonderful woman that can never be replaced. During these days and weeks following her death, we have been blessed with the loving embrace of our family and friends. It is during these difficult times that we see how lucky we are to have such caring people in our lives.

Vicki has a special place in all our hearts, and through our cherished memories she will live on forever.

“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings, and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.” Socrates A celebration of Vicki’s life and her birthday will be held on August 22, 2009, for everyone who knew and loved her. Vicki’s wish was to have her ashes spread where all her pets that left this world before have been buried. The celebration will be held on the acreage Arlen and Vicki own just north of the Luck School forest where her ashes will be spread near her beloved animals. A memory garden is being planned and birthday presents for Vicki’s garden are welcome at that time. In case of rain, the celebration will be held at the Holdt residence.

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In order to be pleasing to God so we can be saved, we must have faith in Him. Jesus says, “for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins,” (John 8:24). “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him,” (Hebrews 11:6). Our faith must cause us to diligently seek God if we are to be saved.

To believe in Christ is to believe and do what He teaches.

But what is faith? “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen,” (Hebrews 10:1). Faith is not a feeling, an opinion, or a hunch. Faith is based on facts. Faith is a firm persuasion and conviction in what one believes. True faith causes us to place all our confidence in the Lord, and to do everything He tells us to do. Only then will our faith save us.

How do we get faith? “So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).

It is by the grace of God through faith that we are saved. “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). We can never earn our way to heaven, but we must be obedient to God if we expect to go there. Jesus says, “So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, we are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do” (Luke 17:10). We are saved by the grace of God when our faith works by love. “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love” (Galatians 5:6). “By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for the obedience to the faith” (Romans 1:5). In order to receive the grace of God we must have an obedient faith. If our faith is not an obedient faith, then we have a dead faith.

“Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead“ (James 2:17). “But do you know, O, foolish man, that faith without works is dead” (James 2:20).

“For the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also” (James 2:26). Our faith cannot be alive until it acts.

There are many in the denominational world who say that we are saved by “faith only” and that there is nothing we can do to affect our salvation. They say we are saved the moment we believe and accept Jesus as our personal saviour and say the “sinner’s prayer.”

Nothing could be farther from the truth than this (In fact, no example of such a prayer can even be found in scripture). This may sound impressive but this is Satan’s way of causing people to be eternally lost. We do not earn our salvation but we qualify for it only when we have done what God tells us we must do.

Satan is trying to tell people today that they do not have to do anything to receive God’s gift of eternal life. If Satan can only cause us not to do what God requires, then Satan has achieved his purpose in causing us to be lost. The Bible does not say we are saved by “faith only,” but it says the very opposite. “You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only” (James 2:24). If one says we are saved by faith only then he is no better than the demons because, “Even the demons believe and tremble” (James 2:19).

Just believing is not good enough for one to be saved. “Nevertheless even among the rulers many

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This spring the temps ran a rollercoaster ride for weeks. It’s a wonder we didn’t get cricks in our necks from watching our thermometers plunge to below freezing and then zoom up into the 70s.

Life brings its ups and downs, too. Every time we face a crisis, whether it’s a rejection, disease, death or loss of any kind, our spirits plunge to the depths. When situations get better, we rise to the heights of happiness. Then another plunge, another rise and on it goes. Perspectives We could compare our emotional roller-coaster rides to williwaws, violent winds that sweep the Bering Sea and gain strength and speed as they zoom up the mountains of the Alaska Peninsula and then plunge into the ocean.

The book of Judges is a good example of such a life.

Whenever God chose a judge to lead the Israelites, happiness and well-being reigned. As soon as the judge died and the people went back into sin, God allowed them to be attacked by their enemies and their former good life came crashing down. The cycle continued through 13 judges.

We don’t have to go through violent – or even lessthan-violent- changes from up to down and back up.

We can follow the examples of such people as David, who looked up to God even when he was forced to live in a cave, fearful for his life. Or Paul and Silas who sang praises to God while chained in prison. Or Jesus, who faced threats from the Pharisees and scribes every day and yet continued to minister with joy and compassion. Or the countless martyrs who went to their deaths, worshiping God and preaching his word to the end.

In other words, the downs in these people’s lives turned not only to ups but to ops – opportunities to share God’s love with others. When we look upward to God, as they did, he will not only give us the strength and power to bring us up out of the depths of our despair. He will allow us to turn our downs into opportunities.

Each time a williwaw causes a wave to push us down, God will lift us up. It’s then that we can see the ops around us. Let’s all turn our downs into ops.

“I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help! My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” (Psalms 121:1) Lord, help us to turn our trials and adversities into opportunities to share your love and bring help to others. In Jesus’ name, amen.

(Mrs. Bair may be reached at sallybair@gmail.com)

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believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God” (John 12:42-43). God requires action on our part for us to be saved. “By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain” (Hebrews 11:4). It took action on Abel’s part in obeying God’s “By faith command.

Noah…moved by godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household” (Hebrews 11:7).

Preacher’s Without an active faith Noah would have perished. “By faith Abraham obeyed…offered up Isaac” (Hebrews 11:8, 17). Abraham was pleasing to God because he had an obedient faith. We are not saved by faith alone. We are not saved by works alone. We are saved by “faith working through love” (Galatians 5:6).

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We are not saved at the point of faith. We are saved when our faith causes us to obey the Lord’s requirements in order to qualify for His grace. “And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him” (Hebrews 5:9). The Lord has promised salvation only to those who obey Him. Jesus says, “Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven” (Matthew 7:21).

We can only go to heaven when we have done the will of the Father. We cannot go to heaven by obeying the “faith only” doctrine of men which is really the doctrine of Satan. The purpose of the “faith only” doctrine is “to pervert the gospel of Christ” (Galatians 1:7) and cause people to be eternally lost. If we are to qualify for God’s salvation we must do what God says, in the way He says, and for the expressed reason He says.

If our faith is to save us then it must act by manifesting itself in obedience to the instructions of God’s word. After one has heard and believed God’s word, he must repent. Jesus says, “Unless you repent you will all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3). We must be willing to confess our belief in Jesus before men. Jesus says, “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him will I confess before My Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32). Then our Lord says, “He that believes and is baptized shall be saved” (Mark 16:16).

Baptism is not a work of merit which man can boast, but one of humble obedience to God. Our faith must cause us to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:12). Our faith must cause us to obey God so we can be saved and go to heaven. (Written by Ron Boatwright) If readers have questions you would like answered in this weekly column or simply wish to know more about the church of Christ, we would like to invite you to call 715-866-7157, visit our web site (www.burnettcountycofc.com) or stop by the church building at 7425 W. Birch Street in Webster. Sunday Bible class begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship begins at 10:30 a.m. We also meet Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. Office hours are Tuesdays through Fridays 9 a.m.

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In Memory Of

BONNY ANDERSON

Who Passed Away 5 Years Ago On July 2 My mother was a Christian, In every important way; The fruit of the Holy Spirit Was displayed in her every day.

My mother was filled with kindness, With love and joy and peace; Her patience and her goodness Inspired, and never ceased.

She followed our Lord Jesus, With faithfulness, and more; She was gentle and had self-control, She knew what prayer is for.

Thanks, Mom, for being a Christian, and showing us how to be; We’ll follow your example For all eternity.

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OBITUARIES

Theodore L. “Ted” Pittman Jr.

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Theodore L. Pittman Jr., 73, of Clear Lake, died June 21, 2009, surrounded by his loving family, at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire.

Theodore Lester Pittman Jr. was born on Feb. 21, 1936, in Clear Lake, the son of Theodore and Bernice (Johnson) Pittman. He grew up in the Clear Lake and Reeve area, attended school at Reeve, and graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1954.

After graduation, he began driving truck for Spurlock Milk Hauling in Clear Lake. Ted was married to Joanne L. Rognholt in Menomonie on June 1, 1957. They lived for a short time in St. Paul, Minn., where he was employed as a computer operator for St. Paul Fire and Marine. They returned to the Reeve area in 1960, where he worked for his family milk-hauling business, Pittman Bulk Hauling, until 1977. During this time, Ted and Joanne raised five children, Theodore, Teresa, Troy, Trudy and Todd. In 1977, he stopped hauling milk and began Trinity Insulation. After a couple of years, Ted worked a short time for Alvin Paulson Construction. In 1979, Ted began working at Son Equipment in Clear Lake and in 1991 switched to Baribeau Implement in St. Croix Falls. He was employed by Vold/Value Implement of Baldwin since 1994.

Ted enjoyed the outdoors, camping, hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, cycling, golfing and going to garage sales and auctions. He also loved to travel and took numerous trips with his family. His travels included vacations in Washington state, Arizona, California, the Black Hills and Badlands, Washington, D.C., Florida, Missouri, Michigan, Canada and Alaska. Ted and Joanne also took trips to Europe, including Italy and Norway.

He was active in the Clear Lake community, serving as a Boy Scout Master, and was a member of the Clear Lake Lions Club, supporter of the Clear Lake Wrestling Club and active with the Snow Jammers of Boyceville.

Ted was also a member of the Reeve Evangelical Free Church for many years.

He is survived by his wife, Joanne L. Pittman of Reeve; sons and daughters, Theodore L. (Lora Harms) Pittman III of Madison, Teresa (Ken) Barrick of Barron, Troy (Sandy Linkert) Pittman of Lakeville, Minn., Trudy (Isiaka) Barrow of Madison and Todd (Kim) Pittman of St. Louis, Mo.; seven grandchildren, Justin Schultz and Emily Schultz of Barron, Bree Pittman, Brendan Pittman and Braden Pittman, all of New Glarus, Trevor Millsaps-Fair of St. Louis, Mo. and Turner Pittman of St. Louis, Mo.; in-laws, Lyman and Rose Rognholt of Coon Rapids, Minn., Lyla and Myron Marlette of Knapp, Norma Hillstead of Menomonie, Rodney and Bonnie Rognholt of Camp Verde, Ariz. and Donna Rognholt of Boyceville; and many nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.

Funeral service was held at the Reeve Evangelical Free Church in Reeve on Friday, June 26. The Rev. Todd Groat officiated. Musicians were Nancy Bergmann, Paul Anderson and Niles Ellingson. Casket bearers were Pete Cogbill, Mike Johnson, Allen Libby, Alger Monson, Scott Nash and Jeff Pittman. Honorary casket bearers were Doug Cahow, Robert Hammons, Gary Harnisch, Robert Ludtke, Richard Moe and Gaylord Pittman.

Interment was at Reeve Cemetery in Reeve.

The Scheuermann-Hammer Funeral Home & Cremation Services of Clear Lake was entrusted with arrangements.

Clinton M. Belle-Isle, 68, formerly of Minneapolis, died June 10, 2009, in Yakima, Wash. He was born on Nov. 26, 1940, the fourth oldest of nine children to Martin and Rose Belle-Isle of Georgetown, Wis. His parents moved to Minneapolis, where he attended St. Anthony School through the eighth grade.

He graduated from Edison High School in 1959 and then took a factory job. He married Joyce Hajny on May 9, 1964, and to this union two daughters were born.

Clinton joined the United States Army and enjoyed a 26-year career. For several years he was a food service manager for the generals in Korea, and retired as a sergeant first class. He married Sandra Manahan on Aug. 14, 1992.

Clinton was preceded in death by his parents, Martin and Rose Belle-Isle, brother Arthur of New Richmond, brother-in-law, James Ouellette of Milltown, and his wife Sandra of Yakima, Wash.

Clinton leaves to celebrate his memory, brothers, Cletus (Ramona), Somerset, Vernon (Mary) Mesa, Ariz., Jerry (Patricia) Minneapolis; sisters, Sharon (Donald) Johnson, Centuria, LaVon (Cedric) Solland, Balsam Lake, Joan Ouellette, Milltown, and Rose (Robert) Ouellette, Amery; daughters, Tamara Belle-Isle and Dawn Carlson of Minneapolis; grandchildren, Jarek Belle-Isle and Disa Miller of Minneapolis; stepchildren, Vicki Wilson and her husband Mike of Selah, Wash., James Allay of Selah, Wash., step-grandchildren, Zachariah Manahan, Brooklyn and Jacob Wilson of Selah, Wash., foster son, Rick Soliz, Granger, Wash., and other loving family and friends.

A memorial Mass in celebration of Clinton’s life will be held Tuesday, July 7, at 5 p.m. at Our Lady Of The Lakes Catholic Church in Balsam Lake. The family will greet visitors one hour prior to the service at the church. The Most Rev. John A. Drummy will officiate.

Following the service military honors will be performed in honor of Clinton with a meal following, all are invited.

In lieu of flowers, memorials would be preferred to Our Lady Of The Lakes general fund.

For online condolences please visit www.kolstadfamilyfuneralhome.com Kolstad Family Funeral Home of Centuria has been entrusted with arrangements.

Hartley C. Pennison, 76, died June 6, 2009, with his family by his side.

Hart was born in Minneapolis, Minn., to Hartley and Stella Pennison on June 1, 1933. His mother died when Hart was only 4. He was the second oldest of four children. After graduating high school in 1951, Hart entered the Army and went to Korea. He was stationed there until 1953. Upon discharge, he started working for the Great Northern Railway in St. Paul, Minn. On July 6, 1956, he married Maureen Giwoyna. To this union three children were born: Steven, Sharon and Michele. The family moved from St. Paul in 1971 to Forest Lake, Minn., and then to Grantsburg in 1979.

Hart retired from 3M in 1995, and needed his first triple-bypass in 1996. Hart had a strong passion for coin collecting, as well as steam engine trains. He truly enjoyed sharing his knowledge of both with anyone that was interested. Hart and Maureen started wintering in Arizona in 2002. With Hart’s health declining, another triple-bypass was needed this past March.

Hart was preceded in death by his parents and beloved canine companion, Scooter.

He is survived by his wife of almost 53 years; son, Steven (Terri) Pennison, Forest Lake; daughters, Sharon (Mike) Gabele, Ariz., and Michele (Bill) Briggs, Trade Lake; grandchildren, Melissa, Steven Jr. and Michael Pennison, Bradley and Amy Gabele; greatgranddaughters, Haylee and Kayla; sister, Ruth (Chuck) Walker; brothers; George and Robert (Theresa).

A military memorial service will be held later this summer.

All memorials may be made to the American Heart Association.

Services and programs scheduled for First and Laketown Lutheran CUSHING – The following services and programs have been scheduled for First and Laketown Lutheran churches: • Cushing Community Campfires at First Lutheran Church at 6:30 p.m., on all Wednesdays in July. Bring a stump. All are invited.

• Parish bluegrass service at Laketown Lutheran Church at 11 a.m., on Sunday, July 5, with a potluck to follow. Bring a lawn chair.

• Vacation Bible school/day camp with Luther Point, beginning Sunday, July 19 and ending Thursday, July 23, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. A light supper will be provided for the whole family.

• Guatemalan service at First Lutheran Church on Sunday, July 26, at 11 a.m. Hispanic-flavored potluck to follow. - submitted

Lyle R. (Wally) Nelson Lyle R. (Wally) Nelson, 85, of New Tripoli, Pa., died Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at Lehigh Center.

He was born Dec. 28, 1923, in Lorain, the son of the late Oscar and Martha (Johnson) Nelson.

Lyle was raised in Lorain Township and attended Frederic High School.

He honorably served his country during WWII as a sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps while stationed in Sudbury England and was a lifetime member of the American Legion; Indian Creek Post No. 396 and Slatington, Pa., Post No. 16.

Lyle was united in marriage to Patricia Rommel on Sept. 20, 1958, in Mason City, Iowa, and later divorced on Jan. 21, 1972. He was formerly employed with Alexander Construction of St. Paul, Minn., and Martin Peterson Construction of Lewis, building roads and airfields in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona and Bermuda.

He retired in 1985 from the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local No. 49 after 30 years of service.

He was a Master Mason and a member of Clam Falls Lutheran Church. Following his retirement, Lyle spent summers in Clam Falls and winters with family in North Carolina and Georgia, and in 1995 he moved to Pennsylvania to live with his son Walter and his family.

He was preceded in death by five brothers, Chester, Robert, Russell, Vernon and Norman.

He is survived by his son, Walter (Wally) and his wife, Lori, of New Tripoli, Pa.; granddaughter, Rachel (Jason) Schulley of Fogelsville, Pa.; grandson, Preston of New Tripoli, Pa.; many nieces, nephews and friends.

A memorial service will be held at the Clam Falls Lutheran Church. Friends may call at the church on Thursday, July 2, from 3 p.m. until the time of the memorial service at 4 p.m., followed by military honors at the Clam Falls Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Clam Falls Lutheran Church, No. 471 345th Ave., Frederic, WI 54837.

The Keller Funeral Homes, Inc. of Fogelsville, Pa., was entrusted with arrangements.

Boneta “Bonnie” M. Smiley Boneta “Bonnie” M. (Pardun) Smiley, 73, a resident of Danbury, died on June 19, 2009, at her home.

Bonnie was born on Oct. 11, 1935, in Danbury, to Ernest W. and Louise M. Pardun. Bonnie married Doug Smiley in Pine City, Minn., on Oct. 14, 1952. Bonnie and her husband, were dairy farmers for over 45 years. She loved gardening, canning and going to garage sales. She also enjoyed spending time reading, fishing and traveling. She loved to take care of everyone and spending as much time with her family and grandchildren as possible.

Bonnie was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Ernest, Ray, Guy, Everett, Warren, David, Lyle, Howard, Danny and Stanley; sisters Barbara, Pearl, Erma and Blanche.

Bonnie is survived by her loving husband, Doug; children, Deborah (Tony) Dunkley and Trudy Smiley; grandson, Joel (Tiffany) Hunter; great-grandchildren, Joey and Morgan; brother, Harold Pardun; sisters, Irene (Joe) Fornengo, Donna Richison and Janice (Monte) Chapman; along with numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, June 23, at the Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home with Pastor Brian Pardun officiating. Interment followed at Danbury Cemetery. Casket bearers were Rick Pardun, Lon Pardun, Monte Ray Chapman, Anthony Chapman, Bruce Wiswell and Doug Wiswell.

The Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home, Webster, was entrusted with arrangements.

Bluegrass music services scheduled TRADE LAKE/CUSHINGLindley Creek Bluegrass, featuring the Greer Family from Lebanon, Mo., will perform at Birchwood Beach and Skonewood outdoor services on Sunday, July 5. They will be at Birchwood Beach on Spirit Lake at 10 a.m. and Skonewood at 7 p.m. Both services will be held, rain or shine. People are asked to bring their own lawn chairs. – submitted

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Roxanna grew up in the Clear Lake community and graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1982. She moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, where she completed her college education. She later moved to San Antonio and made her home there for the past 20 years.

Roxanna recently traveled to Clear Lake to visit her family.

A memorial gathering of family and friends was held in Clear Lake at the Knutson residence on June 28, and a memorial service will later be held in San Antonio, Texas.

Roxanna was a devoted mother and family person, who loved to cook for big group get-togethers. She enjoyed reading and crafts and special pets. For the past few years, Roxanna faced significant health obstacles. Throughout these challenges, and even with the loss of her husband, she kept a positive outlook about the joys of life. She was dearly loved and will be greatly missed.

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In 1992 Dorothy and Phil moved to Milltown. She became active with Milltown Lutheran Church, a member of WELCA and various other church activities.

She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Jeane Rotta; and brother-in-law, Ken. Dorothy is survived by her husband, Philip; daughter, Gail (John) Chartrand; and her son, Mark (Merlyn); six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.

A memorial service was held at Milltown Lutheran Church on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, with Pastor Danny Wheeler officiating. Memorials preferred to Milltown Lutheran Church.

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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.; Mark E. Hall, Pastor 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

ST. DOMINIC - FREDERIC & IMMACULATE CONCEPTION - GRANTSBURG CATHOLIC MASS SCHED.

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

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

METHODISTMETHODIST

Rev. Thomas E. Thompson, 715-247-3310 139 Church Hill Rd., Somerset Mass Sun. 8:30 a.m.; Wed. 9 a.m.

Sacrament of Penance Sun. 8 a.m.

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. ANNE PARISH

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; Mark E. Hall, Pastor 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

church directory

ADVENTIST

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CHURCH NEWS Certain childhood behaviors are nothing to be ashamed about QUESTION: My 4-year-old has recently “discovered” his penis and seems rather preoccupied with it. Do you think it’s unusual or sinful for him to fondle himself so much?

DR. DOBSON: The answer to both of your questions is an emphatic no! Unintentional (or even intentional) self-arousal in young children, specifically boys, is neither unusual nor sinful. Your little guy is simply showing that he is “properly wired.” There are no long-term consequences to this kind of innocent childish behavior and it will soon resolve itself.

The only significance to early fondling activity is in how you as a parent deal with it. I’ve received letters from mothers who say they have spanked their preschoolers for touching themselves. Some have described great concerns about this behavior, seeing it as evidence of an immoral nature that had to be crushed. That is a very dangerous posture to take. I suggest that you not make a big deal over it.

••• QUESTION: That’s easy for you to say. My 4-yearold daughter doesn’t just fondle herself at home, where we ignore it. She rubs herself whenever we are in public, such as at church or at a restaurant. How should I deal with that?

DR. DOBSON: You should respond as a teacher, not a disciplinarian. Take your daughter aside and talk about your concern. Explain that there are some things that we don’t do in public – not because they are wrong, but because they are impolite. Just as you

wouldn’t urinate in front of other people, you should not be touching yourself when others can see you. If she continues to fondle herself, other people will think she is strange and some may laugh at her – something you’re sure she wouldn’t like. Your purpose in speaking this way is to sensitize her to the social implications involved in what she’s doing. Show yourself to be firm and confident, not shocked or embarrassed.

The key to your approach is the avoidance of any suggestion that her body is dirty, or wrong or evil.

Such an implication might raise a whole host of other problems for your child that could carry over into adolescence and even adulthood.

••• QUESTION: My son is an outstanding gymnast.

His high school coach says he has more natural ability than anyone he’s ever seen. Yet, when he is being judged in a competitive meet, he does terribly! Why does he fail during the most important moments?

DR. DOBSON: If your son thinks of himself as a failure, his performance will probably match his low selfimage when the chips are down. In the same way, there are many excellent golfers on the PGA Tour who make a satisfactory living in tournament play, but they never win. They may even place as high as second, third, sixth or 10th. Whenever it looks like they might come in first, however, they choke at the last minute, and someone else wins. It is not that they

Dr. James

Dobson Focus on the Family

want to fail; rather, they can’t conceive of themselves as winners, and their performance merely reflects this image.

I once spoke with a concert pianist of outstanding talent who has resolved never to play in public again.

She knows she is blessed with remarkable talent but believes she is a loser in every other regard. Consequently, when she plays the piano on stage, her mistakes and errors creep into her performance. Each time this mortifying experience has occurred, she has become more convinced of her own unworthiness in every area. She has now withdrawn into the secluded, quiet, talentless world of have-nots.

A person’s self-concept is instrumental in determining those who are “winners” and those who see themselves as “losers.” Professional tennis players call this characteristic “tournament toughness,” but it is really nothing more than confidence in action.

••• Dr. Dobson is founder and chairman emeritus of the nonprofit organization Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80995 (www.family.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

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Feed Mill - Grain Dept.

Cushing, Wis. 715-648-5215

WILD RIVER FLAGS

By Willits Jerry & Pat Willits, Owners We sell flags, banners, wind socks, pennants, flag poles & accessories.

Installations Available 2815 285th Ave. • Sterling Township 715-488-2729

Hwy. 35 North Webster, Wis. Phone 715-866-4157 M.P.R.S. #03059

SWEDBERG-TAYLOR FUNERAL HOME Webster, Wis. Phone 715-866-7131

BRUCE’S AUTO REPAIR & TOWING

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NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN ELECTRIC CO.

Wrecker - Flatbed Air Conditioning & Computerized Car Service - Cold Weather Starts

Webster, Wis. 715-866-4100 Days • 715-866-8364 Eves.

SIREN OLSEN & SON

Your Full-Service Drugstore Siren, Wis. Phone 715-349-2221

Any area business wishing to help sponsor the church listings should contact the Leader at 715-327-4236.

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Turtle Lake area, 715-6411977. 44-45Lp FREE KITTENS, cute, Grantsburg, 715-463-2735.

44-45Lp GARAGE SALE: Fri., July 10, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sat., July 11, beginning at 8 a.m.

Lots of household – perfect for someone setting up housekeeping or needing to add a few items to complete their kitchen cupboards, drawers, linen closet or wardrobe (women’s size large). There will be some furniture and holiday decorations. 7673 Lofty Pines Drive, Siren. 45-46Lp Public Auction: Monday, July 13, Luck Mini Storage, Hwy. 35/48, Luck, 800-2363072, 9:30 a.m. Personal effects, household goods and misc. items belonging to the following: Unit No. 08, Mary Wicklund. 45-46Lc

Dr. Daniel C. Satterlund Hours: Tues., Thurs., Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Phone (715) 472-2121 GRANTSBURG EYE ASSOCIATES 715-463-2370

WEBSTER EYE ASSOCIATES 715-866-4700

SEE US FOR ALL YOUR VISION CARE NEEDS. Exams, Glasses & Contacts, Foreign Body Removal, Treatment of Eye Disease www.stcroixeye.com

Mon.-Fri. • 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Swedberg-Taylor Funeral Home Webster, Wisconsin

“Distinctive Funeral Service”

Robert L. Nelson New York Life Insurance Company Box 313 Luck, Wis. 54853 Phone

715-472-2502

NEW YORK LIFE

Sorry, no passes or reduced admission tickets.

Daily: 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00

THE PROPOSAL (PG-13) Daily: 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15

Public Auction: Monday, July 13, Siren Mini Storage, 24591 Hwy. 35/70 East, Siren, 800-236-3072, 10:45 a.m. Personal effects, household goods and misc. items belonging to the following: Unit No. 09, Dan Anderson/Kara Fox. 45-46Lc Public Auction: Monday, July 13, Grantsburg Mini Storage, 13240 Hwy. 70, Grantsburg, 800-236-3072, 11:45 a.m. Personal effects, household goods and misc. items belonging to the following: Unit No. 15, Cindy Holden. 45-46Lc

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Fri.-Thurs.: 1:30, 4:30 & 7:30 p.m.

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ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS

Rated PG, 94 Minutes.

Fri.-Thurs.: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 & 9:00 p.m.

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Fridays, 3 - 7 p.m.

June through October

Special thank-yous to the parents, grandparents and mentors who brought the kids to the lake. And to our sponsors: Amery Bass Anglers Frederic Design & Lucky’s Bait Shop Bauer Salvage Promotion - Betty Knutson MarketPlace Foods Bernick’s Co. Gary & Wayne Coleman Northbound Sports BobberStop Tackle Shop Inter-County Leader Rack-It-Up Taxidermy Buck N’ Bassers - Eric & Marty Seeger Chad Daniels Paula Hermanson Jeremy Sigsworth Rich and Patty Coan Dave and Neva Larson Kassel Tap - Keven & Mary St. Croix Outdoors Deer Lake Sports Cassellius The Copy Shop Don and Melanie Ken McKenzie and Hedy Tom Green Construction Hoag Lake Fork Trophy Baits Wal-Mart Forster Septic Services Troy Lee (Minnow Races) To the Polk County Sportsmen’s Club for their cosponsorship along with the family and friends of Neil. To the boat owners, drivers, guides and volunteers.

And...to the originators: Dave and Ann Hraychuck, Denny O’Donnell, John Boyer and Terry Peer.

Let’s take those kids fishin’ and huntin’ while respecting the rights and property of others...keep tellin’ those stories.

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The annual Relay For Life in St. Croix Falls was held last Friday, June 26, at the St. Croix Falls High School track. The evening began with the opening ceremony which included comments by honorary co-chairs, Bonnie Buchli and Pat Killingsworth. The event included a survivor lap with all cancer survivors present participating. Following the survivor lap, the Relay began and continued through the night. Teams walked the track to raise money for the American Cancer Society for research. A luminaria ceremony was held later in the evening in which lighted bags were placed along the track in memory of someone who lost their battle with cancer and to honor those who are battling the disease.

Photos by Erik Barstow

A woman photographs one of the luminarias along the Relay track.

A hair-cutting station was part of Friday’s Relay for Life event at St. Croix Falls. Those wishing to donate hair to cancer patients could do so, with style.

Pastor Michael Brand of the New Life Christian Community Church took his turn at the grill during the relay event, which each year sees a number of participants camping out along the high school track.

St. Croix Falls Mayor Darrell Anderson made a pit stop during Friday evening’s Relay for Life event to enjoy a BBQ sandwich.

The Hill family made their way around the Relay for Life track, Friday.

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JULY

WEDNESDAY/1 Danbury

• Ruby’s Pantry at maintenance shop, 5-6:30 p.m. Note date and time change for July only.

Frederic

• Blood pressure screening at Bremer Bank, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

• Pokeno at the senior center, 1 p.m.

Coming events

THURSDAY/9 Balsam Lake

• Deadline to sign up for Red Cross Learn To Swim classes at Unity pool, noon, 715-8252101, ext. 1560.

Frederic

• 500 cards at the senior center, 6:30 p.m.

Grantsburg

• Preschool-kindergarteners Story and Stroll at Crex, 10-10:45 a.m., 715-463-2739.

Shell Lake

• Tribute to Big Bands at the arts center, 7 p.m.

• Membership dinner at American Legion Hall, 4 p.m., 715-431-0365.

St. Croix Falls

• Naturalist-led hike on summit Rock Trail at Interstate Park, 10 a.m., 715-483-3747.

Siren

• Music in the Park - Brad Alden’s band, Crossed Paths, at Crooked Lake Park, 7-9 p.m.

THURSDAY/2 Frederic

St. Croix Falls

• 500 cards at the senior center, 6:30 p.m.

• Exercise 10-11 a.m., Skipbo 11 a.m.-noon and 500 cards 6:30 p.m. at the senior center.

Siren

• Dining At Five Dinner at the senior center, 5 p.m., 715-349-2845.

FRI.-SUN./10-12

FRI. & SAT./3 & 4

Centuria

Siren

• Memory Days, with crafts, food, music all day Saturday, garage sales, etc., 715-6462300.

FRIDAY/3

FRIDAY/10

• Fourth of July celebration, 715-349-8399, www.visitsiren.com.

Balsam Lake

Cumberland Frederic

• Workshop on Native Plants at Polk County Business Center, 2-5 p.m., 715-268-9992, harmonyenv@amerytel.net.

Eureka

• Farmers market, in salt/sand building, Eureka Center, 3-7 p.m.

• Tractor pull at Dale’s Twin Pines, 7 p.m.

• Pokeno at the senior center, 12:30 p.m., monthly meeting at 1:30 p.m.

• Farmers market, in salt/sand building, Eureka Center, 3-7 p.m.

St. Croix Falls

• Bridge 10 a.m. and Bingo 1 p.m. at the senior center.

• Music on the Overlook, Patino Jazz Trio, 7 p.m.

SAT. & SUN./4 & 5 Clam Falls

• Saturday parade, 2 p.m.; pig roast, live band, all-day volleyball, fireworks. Sunday, canoe races.

SATURDAY/4 Balsam Lake

• Faith Lutheran Church White Elephant and Bake Sale, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Eureka

Leo Richards of rural Webster submitted this photograph of a Tragopogon Frederic dubius, better known as a goat’s beard. - Photo submitted • Pokeno at the senior center, 1 p.m.

Osceola

Trade Lake

TUESDAY/7

Webb Lake

• Professor Carolyn Wedin to address Swedish Club at Our Saviors Lutheran Church, 7 p.m.

Webster

• Coffee hour at Clam Falls Lutheran Church, 9 a.m. Everyone welcome.

• Durocher Family Concert at the Wilderness Fellowship, 7 p.m., 715-327-8564.

• Huge sale fundraiser for food shelf & Crescent Lake Community Center at the event center, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

• Celebrate in Webster, food, parade, fun, www.websterwisconsin.com.

SUNDAY/5 Cushing

Centuria

• The Lindley Creek Bluegrass, gospel & bluegrass, to perform at Skonewood, 7 p.m.

Clam Falls

• Wild rice pancake breakfast at Forts Folle Avoine, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 715-866-8890, www.theforts.org.

• Pie & ice-cream social at Holy Trinity United Methodist Church, 1-4 p.m.

• Pie and ice-cream social at the Lutheran church, 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Danbury

• Danbury Day, food, parade, fireworks.

Falun

• Pie and ice-cream social at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 1-3 p.m.

Frederic

• Potluck at the senior center, noon, Pokeno or Bingo and birthdays of the month celebrated.

Hertel

• Viola Lake Fourth of July boat parade, 4 p.m.

Indian Creek

• Farm tractor pull, 11 a.m., 715-653-2649, 715-653-2566.

Siren

• Listen to the Community Band right before the fireworks at Crooked Lake Park.

• Farmers market at senior center, 1-3 p.m.

• Pie & ice cream at Siren United Methodist Church, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Danbury

Trade Lake

Amery

Clam Falls Frederic

• Frederic Chapter 239, Order of the Eastern Star meeting, 7:30 p.m.

• Historical society meeting at the depot/ museum, 6:30 p.m., 715-327-4892.

Grantsburg

• Farmers market at the village offices/ library, noon-2 p.m.

Luck

• Meeting of Indianhead Rock & Mineral Society at the senior citizens center, 7:30 p.m., 715-472-8809.

SATURDAY/11 Amery

• Baby-sitting course at the Red Cross office, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 715-485-3025.

St. Croix Falls

• Craft show sale. Call Marci at 715-646-2109.

• Music in the Park, Wilson Family Singers, in Triangle Park, 6:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY/8

• 7th-annual Luther Point Scramble at the golf course, 9 a.m. registration, 715-689-2347, LutherPoint.org.

• Spades at the senior center, 1 p.m.

Luck

• CPR certification through Ice Age Trail Association, 715-472-2248.

Luck

• Preschool-kindergarteners Story and Stroll at Crex, 10-10:45 a.m., 715-463-2739.

Wolf Creek

Frederic

SAT. & SUN./11 & 12

• Generation II Big Band performs at the middle school, 7 p.m., 715-268-7486.

• Exercise 10-11 a.m., Skipbo 11 a.m.-noon, 500 cards and Dominos, 12:30 p.m. at the senior center.

MONDAY/6

St. Croix Falls

• Bridge 10 a.m. at the senior center.

• Music on the Overlook, River City Cloggers, 7 p.m.

Grantsburg

• The Lindley Creek Bluegrass, gospel & bluegrass, to perform at Birchwood Beach on Spirit Lake, 10 a.m.

• Truck & tractor pull, 1 p.m., 715-483-9255.

• Poco Penners host annual writers’ get-together with the NWRW at Iris Holm’s apt. building, 715-483-9738.

Frederic

• Pokeno at the senior center, 1 p.m.

Luck

• Polk/Burnett Winter Texan picnic at Big Butternut shelter, noon.

THURS.-SAT./9-11

Balsam Lake Centuria Frederic

• Food & fellowship at the senior center, noon, cards, Pokeno or Bingo.

Grantsburg

• Music in the Park, music by Cool Classic Country, in Memory Lake Park, 6 p.m.

• 100-bird shoot at Grantsburg Rod and Gun Club, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

• Horse pasture walk at Wild Wind Equestrian Center, 10 a.m.-noon, 715-635-3506, 715-4858600.

Luck

Webster

• Lions Club to host an official deed turnover fundraiser at the DBS Hall, 5 p.m., Bingo, food, refreshments.

Spooner

• 8th-annual bike show, registration noon-1:30 p.m., 715-246-2959.

• Central Burnett County Fair, www.CentralBurnettCountyFair.org, 715-8668261.

• Heart of the North Rodeo, 800-367-3306, www.spoonerrodeo.com.

Rice Lake

Three seek Miss Balsam Lake crown Pageant is Thursday evening at Unity BALSAM LAKE — Three young women are seeking to win the crown of Miss Balsam Lake and represent the village throughout the upcoming year.

The Miss Balsam Lake queen pageant will be held Thursday evening, July 2, in the auditorium at Unity Schools, beginning at 7:30. The pageant marks the beginning of the 2009 Balsam Lake Freedom Festival.

Candidates for queen are Stephanie Hunter, Alison Lennartson, and Naomi Williamson.

Stephanie Hunter

Alison Lennartson

Stephanie is the daughter of Dawn and Gordon Hunter. In school she is active in Shooting Stars 4-H, Unity FFA, band and choir. Her hobbies include volleyball, fishing, and swimming.

Brewski’s and Balsam Lake Hardware

Naomi Williamson

are Stephanie’s sponsors for the pageant.

Alison Lennartson is the daughter of Don and RaeAnn Lennartson. In school she is active as wrestling manager, on the danceline, and in cross country and

softball. Her other interests include tubing, hanging out with friends, and teaching vacation Bible school. Alison is being sponsored by Balsam Lake Market and Deli and Angler’s Inn. Naomi Williamson is the daughter of Brad and Denise Williamson. At school she is the track manager, is on the volleyball team, and is involved in FFA, LEOs, band, and choir. Her hobbies include a variety of outdoor activities.

Naomi is sponsored by Paradise Landing and the Balsam Lake Fire Department. — Mary Stirrat, with information from the Balsam Lake queen pageant