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• Youth Ice-Fishing Fun Day, sponsored by AAA Sportshop, Spooner Lake.

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One final look January

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gram at Shell Lake Schools. Patti Naglosky, coordinator of the SMILES program, received the check from Gwen Bartholomew, treasurer of ICHC. Local students participated in “Shine,” held at the Erika Quam Memorial Theatre.

Jenna Shayne Hershey, Hayward, was recognized as the first baby of the new year for Shell Lake. She was born Jan. 29, assisted by the services of LifeCircle Birth Center of Shell Lake. Weighing 9 pounds, 7 ounces, and measuring 221/2 inches long, she joined parents Debra and Ben Hershey and sister Sherra.

The family received a gift basket from the Shell Lake Chamber of Commerce.

Tom and Sunshine Crosby, rural Shell Lake, were recognized by the National Farmers Organization for their dairy operation during the NFO convention.

Debbie Glessing, 55, Washburn County dispatcher/jailer for 20 years, was laid to rest at the Lakeside Cemetery in Barronett.

Bernadette Wabrowetz was the Shell Lake Lions early-bird calendar winner. She received $500.

The North Wisconsin Ice Racing Circuit came to Shell Lake.

Ryan Anderson, 24, Sarona, lost his life in a snowmobile accident when he failed to negotiate a corner. Injured in the accident was his 6year-old passenger.

Fane Hershey, 3, Shell Lake, lost his life in a one-vehicle accident.

As part of a PEP grant Shell Lake Schools received, students would be using pedometers to see how many steps they were taking in a day. The goal was 10,000 steps per day.

The Shell Lake FFA sponsored their annual ice-fishing contest on Food4Fines took Bashaw Lake. Taking place at the Shell first place for the biggest Lake Public Library fish with an 8-pound during the month of northern was Allen WINTER WATCH • A snowy owl perched on February. For every Melton.

Through Prairie Fire a fence, waiting for a rabbit or other small animal to nonperishable food Children’s Theatre, stu- make its presence known. The black mark on the item brought to the lidents at Shell Lake forehead indicates this is a banded bird, with the brary, $1 was taken off library fines.

Schools presented number V60. — Photo by Larry Samson Cyril Willette, resi“Robin Hood.”

The Shell Lake Fire Department held their dent at Glenview, turned 100 years old.

The Shell Lake walleye statue was highannual ice-fishing contest on Shell Lake.

Shawn Denver took first place in the panfish lighted in a Super Bowl commercial for Cenex. class, Dan Burns took second and Tristan Den- Larry the Cable Guy wore his Spooner Fire ver took third. Mitch Kraetke took first and District T-shirt during an interview with NFL third in the northern class while Jim DeLadi Network’s Rich Isen.

Keagan Blazer, Shell Lake Junior High stutook second place.

The Shell Lake girls basketball team held a dent, received a star first in Class A competinight-out fundraiser dinner at the Lakeview tion with her alto saxophone solo at the solo Grill in Shell Lake. The team members assisted and ensemble festival held in Prairie Farm. She would advance to state at the UW-Eau Claire as waitstaff and busing tables.

Indianhead Community Health Care Inc. do- in May. nated $500 to the Student Mentors Involved in Leading Elementary Students mentoring proSee Year in Review, page 2

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STATEWIDE - The latest monthly survey of Wisconsin employers shows an increase of more than 10,000 private-sector jobs last month, putting the state back in positive territory for 2012. These monthly estimates are frequently revised, but if this one holds up, it would be one of the state’s best months for job creation in 2012. Until the November report, Wisconsin was estimated to have lost jobs this year. But with November’s 10,300 jobs added, the state is back in the positive with a total of 9,200 jobs added for 2012. Labor economist Laura Dresser, with the Center on Wisconsin Strategies, says it’s good news for the state if the trend continues. “You know, you gotta see some months in a row before you can really put much money on this. But you know, for now at least, it’s better than usual.” A smaller monthly survey of Wisconsin households also found job growth in November, causing the unemployment rate to drop from 6.9 percent to 6.7 percent. Dresser says that’s also good news, but she cautions that there are still 250,000 fewer people working here now than were working before the recession started in 2007, “So we are still in a massive, massive jobs deficit. But it is good to see that number go up into the positive.” In the past, the Walker administration heralded jobs reports like these, but not this time. Walker is now stressing the more thorough, less frequent, quarterly economic census of employers. Shawn Johnson/Wisconsin Public Radio

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FAST START • 2012 got off to a fast start locally when the Northern Wisconsin Ice Racing Circuit brought their excitement to Shell Lake for the first time. — Photo by Larry Samson

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Camryn Nasman, 10, started a club at Shell Lake Schools where kids vow to be a buddy and not a bully.

Nasman made a video to use at the school’s media fair.

Shell Lake Girl Scouts made up gift packages for soldiers overseas that also included Girl Scout cookies.

Franziska “Franzi” Graf, Germany, was staying with the Deb Nebel family as an exchange student.

Shell Lake senior Hannah Hodgett’s poster entry in the Silent Flight aviation art contest placed third. The entry advanced to national competition in Washington, D.C. The Shell Lake jazz band Cabaret was held with guest director Robert Baca.

Bosch Packaging Technology in Shell Lake was pursuing a Tier 2 of Wisconsin’s Green Tier.

Anna Johnson was the winner of a tin of Dove chocolates and Starbursts from the Shell Lake Public Library when she guessed 100 candies in the container in a contest held for Valentine’s Day. There were 98 candies in the tin and six patrons guessed 100. Johnson’s name was drawn from the group of six, making her the winner.

Cody Mayer, sophomore, wrestler for Shell Lake, lost his first match at the Independence Sectional Division 3 meet. Mayer was the only Shell Lake wrestler to make it to sectional competition.

Caleb Schmidt, a Shell Lake senior, was selected to be a member of the North Divisions 4-7 All-Star Football Team for 2012. The game was scheduled for July 14 at Titan Stadium in Oshkosh. Shell Lake football players named in past years were Garrett Knoop, Class of 2005; and Luke Gronning, Class of 2009.

A special halftime presentation was held to remember Nancy Erickson who was instrumental in the Shell Lake High School girls basketball program in the late 1970s.

Erickson lost her battle with cancer.

Shell Lake Middle School spelling bee champions were Nicole Mikula, seventh grade; Courtney Melton, eighth grade; and Miranda Weber, sixth grade. Mikula advanced to regional competition.

A jury trial began in Dunn County in the first-degree intentional homicide case against Jess Richard Carsello, 49, Sarona, who had pleaded not guilty in the July 25, 2010, shooting death of 31-year-old Michael Elliott, Sarona. Carsello admitted shooting Elliott but claimed it was in self-defense.

The Shell Lake Lions Club donated a Sara Scanner to Cameron student Kelsi Watters. The scanner would allow Watters the opportunity to scan printed materials that could be read back to her.

Dale Cardwell, along with daughters Kristine, Kathryn and Anna, skied in the Birkie in Hayward.

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SAYING GOODBYE • Law enforcement officers from Washburn County gathered in January to say goodbye to fellow officer Debbie Glessing. It was the second time within weeks local officers had lost one of their own.

In December of 2011 sheriff’s deputy Gerald McAllister was laid to rest. — Photo by Larry Samson

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MOMENTS • Volunteer Paul Johnson delivered petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker to the Government Accountability Board office in Madison in January. At right, an ATM camera captured the image of a person thought to be guilty of stealing a safe from a local church. Authorities published the photo in hopes of finding the person. — Photo at left courtesy Wisconsin State Journal, photo at right from Washburn County Sheriff’s Dept.

Neighbors of Richard and George Hlava said they were left dumbfounded when the county’s zoning committee decided to approve a request for the rezoning of a cabin on Little Bear Road on Long Lake from residential into a commercial resort property. The action came in spite of advice from the zoning chair, David Haessig, who said, “If we approve this, I feel we’re making a big mistake.”

Adam Gronning caught the biggest fish during the Shell Lake Lions ice-fishing contest held on South Bay of Shell Lake. Cash prizewinners were Dan Burns, $50; Parker Humphrey, $75; Nick Kraetke, $100; Luke Parker, $200; and Lauren Burdon, $100.

With the arrival of 16.5 inches of snow during the week, the Ski Out Cancer fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, held at Red Barn Campground in Shell Lake, could be held. The event had previously been set for February but was postponed due to the lack of snow.

Photographer Kyna Pearson opened her studio, Sawyer Creek Photography, in Shell Lake.

Indianhead Community Health Care donated $2,000 for the purchase of new television sets at Indianhead Medical Center in Shell Lake. The donation was made possible by a gift of money from the Jane Winton family.

Winton was an active member of ICHC for numerous years and was fondly known as the TV Lady who made her rounds almost daily while pushing the television rental cart to patients rooms.

Jess R. Carsello, formerly of Sarona, was found not

VINTAGE ICE SHACK • Rau Shimek enjoyed show-

ing off his 1929 Model A Ford which doubles as an ice fishing shack, complete with woodstove, during the firemen’s ice-fishing contest in January on Shell Lake. — Photo by Larry Samson

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Gas leak causes evacuation at Shell Lake Hospital

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by Jessica Beecroft Register staff writer SHELL LAKE – The Indianhead Medical Center was evacuated on Friday, Dec. 21, after the smell of gas was detected. At 7:10 a.m. the staff noticed the smell of gas and notified the authorities right away. The patients were all evacuated as a precaution. The gas leak was detected at the back of the building, which according to Shell Lake Police Chief David Wilson, Shell Lake Police Chief; was caused by snow removal activities damaging the pipeline.

Patients were taken to Terraceview Living Center in Shell Lake, and some patients were transported to the Spooner Medical Center. Paul Naglosky, IMC administrator, said “Patient safety is our No. 1 priority. The patients were all removed right away and back to the facility within two hours of the incident.”

The Shell Lake Police Department, the Washburn County Sheriff’s Department, the Shell Lake Fire Department and Wisconsin State Patrol all responded to the scene and called an “all clear” by 8:30 a.m.

The Indianhead Medical Center patients were evacuated on Friday, Dec. 21, after a gas leak in the rear of the building was detected.

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A Citizens Guide to caucuses in Washburn County

Residents to decide who will be on April ballot

by Gregg Westigard Special to the Register WASHBURN COUNTY – Residents in the 21 Washburn County towns and the village of Birchwood will soon get to decide who will run for their boards in the April election. Candidates for all the town government offices will be nominated by caucuses during January. In addition, the terms of Birchwood Village president and two members of the village council are up in April. Candidates for village and city offices in Minong, Shell Lake and Spooner have been circulating nominating papers in December to get on the April ballot.

(See stories below for the caucus dates.)

Caucuses are grassroots democracy. Every voter living

in a town can take part in the caucus, but many caucuses have a low turnout. In some cases, less than a full slate of candidates is nominated.

Caucuses must be held between the first and last Tuesday in January. In 2012, caucuses may be held from Jan. 2 through Jan. 29. Citizens gather at a designated time, choose a chairperson for the meeting and nominate people to be placed on the April ballot.

Towns have a town chair and two supervisors. They also have a town clerk and treasurer. All the officials serve twoyear terms, and all the positions are up next April. (There are some exceptions. The Towns of Gull Lake, Springbrook and Stone Lake have combined the positions of clerk and treasurer. The Town of Minong has made the position of clerk/treasurer an appointed position. It also has expanded its town board to five members with two supervisors elected in the even-numbered years. And the town elects a constable.)

Nominations take place in two ways. A common

method is to use paper ballots to place a name in nomination. An alternate method is spoken nominations. Nominees present can remove their names from consideration.

A person does not need to be present to be nominated.

Two candidates can be nominated for each position.

If the nomination process produces the number of candidates allowed for the ballot, for example four names for two supervisor seats, a motion can be made to accept the nomination list as the final list. When more than the maximum number of candidates are nominated, a vote is held to narrow the list to the allowed number.

People do not need to be present to be nominated, but all nominees must accept the nomination within five days of notification of the caucus results. If a candidate declines the nomination, the ballot spot remains empty.

Smith and Ed Slavick are up. The terms of Supervisors Linda Featherly and Tom Havlicek will be up in 2014. Minong also elects its constable, so the incumbent, Erik Gulbrandsen, will be up for re-election. However, Minong has made the combined office of clerk/treasurer an appointed position, so that position will not be on the April ballot.

Here are the dates for the caucuses in Washburn County.

Call your town clerk for the time and location of the caucus.

Barronett Jan. 5, Bashaw Jan. 8, Bass Lake Jan. 9, Beaver Brook Jan. 8, Birchwood Jan. 14, Brooklyn Jan. 8, Casey Jan. 9, Chicog Jan. 12, Crystal Jan. 8, Evergreen Jan. 14, Frog Creek Jan. 10, Gull Lake Jan. 8, Long Lake Jan. 19, Madge Jan. 9, Minong Jan. 14, Sarona Jan. 14, Spooner Jan. 8, Springbrook Jan. 8, Stinnett Jan. 19, Stone Lake Jan. 8 and Trego Jan. 12.

seat. Nominated people don’t need to be at the caucus, but if a person nominated is not present and declines the nomination, that spot stays blank on the ballot.

The village of Minong and the cities of Spooner and Shell Lake use nominating papers to place candidates on the ballot. Those papers are being circulated now with a deadline of Wednesday, Jan. 2, for getting on the ballot.

Washburn towns hold nominating caucuses in January

Few voters take part in candidate selection process

by Gregg Westigard, Special to the Register WASHBURN COUNTY – Round two of the spring election cycle starts next week. Local residents get a chance to gather with their neighbors in January and decide who will be on the April ballot for positions on the town boards.

Nominating caucuses are a grass roots process where residents decide who will make the decisions on their town boards, the basic level of local government. Very few people show up for these meetings.

The common message heard during calls to get the caucus dates was that there is little involvement and little interest in serving on town boards. Incumbents sometimes run for new terms because no-one else is willing to serve.

All 21 towns in Washburn County will hold nominating caucuses between Jan. 5 and Jan. 19. Many of the caucuses are held on Saturdays to encourage attendance. Up for election in 2013 are the entire town boards: the town chairs and both supervisors. In addition, the positions of town clerks and treasurers are also up in April.

The only exception is in the Town of Minong, which holds it caucus Monday, Jan. 14. Minong is the only town in Washburn County with a five-member board, with two supervisors elected each year. In 2013, the terms of town Chair Harold “Smokey” Smith and Supervisors James

Birchwood Village holds caucus Jan. 8 Will nominate candidates for April election

BIRCHWOOD – Residents of Birchwood Village can decide who will be on the April ballot for village president and the open council seats when they go to their nominating caucus Jan. 8. Up for election next April are the seats held by village President Morris Gillett and two trustees, Robert Hayes and Stacie Small. While most villages have seven-person councils, Birchwood has chosen to have a five-person council.

All village residents of voting age can take part in the caucus, which will nominate up to two candidates for each

Wisconsin Democrats to introduce gun bills

by Shawn Johnson Wisconsin Public Radio MADISON - Several Democratic state lawmakers say they’ll introduce bills that would ban assault rifles and socalled “maximum damage” bullets in Wisconsin to prevent shootings like the one in Newtown, Conn. But Gov. Scott Walker says the state should focus on improving Wisconsin’s mental health system.

The semiautomatic rifle carried by the shooter in the Newtown tragedy used 30-round magazines. They held bullets designed to fragment inside a body once they strike tissue, inflicting more damage than a bullet that travels straight through.

Milwaukee Assembly Democrat Fred Kessler called that one of the tragedies of the Newtown shooting, “These kids had no chance. I mean once the bullet disintegrates in your body, you know, I thought ‘Oh God, the opportunity to go to the hospital and be saved disappeared.” And I think that, to me, would be a pretty easy issue that we could deal with.”

In addition to banning those bullets, Kessler and other Milwaukee Democrats would also ban assault rifles. They would also require concealed carry applicants to undergo a psychological evaluation.

Speaking to reporters in La Crosse, Walker said previous shootings had shown there was a huge breakdown in the mental health systems in many states. He called for improvements there but brushed off talk of banning assault weapons. “I’m not going to get into the federal government, the president and members of Congress will talk about that. I think what we want to talk about here in Wisconsin is trying to figure out a comprehensive way, whether it’s mental illness, whether it’s looking at school safety, all those sorts of things are things that need to be looked at. I think there’s no one silver bullet, but there’s going to be a variety of things that we have to look at.”

Walker said the state should also better track people on restraining orders for domestic violence, a response to the spa shooting earlier this year in Brookfield.

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BURNETT COUNTY — The Webster Police Department and the Polk County Emergency Response Team responded to reports of multiple gunshots in the village of Webster on Saturday, Dec. 15. Cowan Bruss, 23, Webster, was arrested and charged with reckless use of a firearm while intoxicated, possession of methamphetamines, obstructing and disorderly conduct. Two other men were taken to the Burnett County jail, Tomas Polski, 20, Danbury, for obstructing; and James Kroplin, 23, Webster, resisting and disorderly conduct. Polski had walked to an ambulance standing by at the scene and told an EMT that he had been shot by Bruss. Polski was intoxicated and uninjured. — from the Inter-County Leader ••• CUMBERLAND — Cumberland firefighters were called to the David Moeri residence in the Town of Johnstown on Thursday, Dec. 13. The structure was fully engulfed upon arrival and was a complete loss. A chimney fire was the cause of the blaze. Smoke alarms alerted the homeowner, who was not hurt. Also in the Town of Johnstown, firefighters were called to the Bill Selle residence for a barn fire on Tuesday, Dec. 11. — from the Cumberland Advocate ••• BARRON — Quick action by unnamed employees of the Jennie-O Hatchery probably saved the building after fire broke out in a trailer inside the building Thursday Dec. 13, according to local authorities. No one was injured, but there was heavy damage to both the trailer and parts of the building in which it was stored. Even though the trailer was in flames, Jennie-O workers were able to use a semi-tractor to back it out of the garage before firefighters arrived. Sixteen firefighters and five vehicles responded to the call and the fire department shut down Hwy. 8 for an hour so that fire hoses could be stretched across the pavement. — from the Barron News-Shield ••• SIOUX CREEK — Plans for a 920-acre frac sand mine in the Town of Sioux Creek was presented Thursday, Dec. 13, at the town hall there. About 25 people turned out for the meeting. The Sioux Creek Town Board took no action, but the board will negotiate with the company to determine operating hours and other restrictions. The mine site is about five miles southeast of Chetek along CTH A. — from Rice Lake Chronotype

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I am a Second Amendment proponent, however, I have been recently reviewing the statistics about how many deaths are caused to innocent bystanders or children by assault rifles in this country and comparing them to other countries.

We have certainly won this war times 100. While we are 17th in math in the world, we are first in the number of assault weapons causing innocent life lost. It has been suggested that we look at Mexico ... OK, let’s do just that.

Mexico is being supplied by the USA in terms of their assault weapons. When a homeless dude can walk into an Arizona gun shop in rags, plunk down $250,000 and walk out with as many HK91s as that will purchase him and do it without so much as a “Are you planning to sell these to the drug lords in Mexico?” or “Did you just escape from a mental facility?” or “Are you planning to go take out a

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It’s been awhile since I received the following in an e-mail from Gene Romsos, but I will share it now.

“The Dash” “I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend, he referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning to the end.

He noted that first came her date of birth, and spoke the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth. And now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not how much we own, the cars ... the house ... the cash.

What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard, are there things you’d like to change?

For you never know how much time is left that can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough to consider what’s true and real and always try to understand the way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile, remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.

So, when your eulogy’s being read with your life’s actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?” ~ Linda Ellis, author

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As we enter a new year, some people are optimistic.

It is a fresh start to a new day, new month, as well as a new year. “We can’t undo yesterday, but we can act today to influence tomorrow,” is a quote I read from an unknown source. “Someone said that courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is that quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, poet and author Some like to spend a part of New Year’s Day planning their goals for the year ahead, such as financial, recreational, personal and spiritual. Some even set five-year and 10-year goals. “Best thing about the future is it comes one day at a time.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Debbie Macomber, in her devotional “Patterns of Grace,” wrote about how we all have something of value to offer others. She wrote, “Whether it’s a shared recipe or an unexpected birthday card to a shut-in or even what we’re convinced is a brilliant business plan, believe in yourself and in God’s ability to use your talents as he sees fit.” She encourages people to live creatively and shared one of her favorite verses from “The Message” translation of Galatians 6:4-5, “Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you

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lencers and any apparatus that changes my little .22-cal plinker to an automatic weapon needs to be banned. The woman who bought the guns, bought the ammo, trained the shooter, convinced a young man with Asperger’s that guns make people have respect for you ended up a victim, which is the case more times than not, and 20 innocent angels and their heroic teachers were blown apart.

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whole school full of children with these?” I think the problem is pretty obvious.

Here is another scenario to contemplate. Let’s just suppose that you disagree with the way our government is working, and decide you need to overthrow it. Um, have you met our government? They can pinpoint your location and count the whiskers on your chin with current satellite technology, and they will send a drone up your backside, take out your whole block, and so your little pea shooter AK-15 is worthless.

We have some wiggle room here, folks. No hunter uses AK-15s to deer hunt, and no one needs a 30-round mag to bag a deer unless you are the worst shot in the history of mankind, and in that case you need to get out of the woods before you hurt yourself.

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The nursing staff on the second floor was the winner as their entry, Happy Feet Lead You to The Greatest Gift, reflected the true meaning of Christmas.

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Strengthening families program to be offered

SPOONER — Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 will be offered on Tuesday evenings starting Jan. 15, 2013, in Spooner. Preregistration is required by Tuesday, Jan. 8.

Please call Lakeland Family Resource Center at 715-635-4669. There is no cost for the program.

This 7-week series helps caregivers — parents, grandparents, other adult relatives or guardians — build on their strengths, show love and set limits.

Youth, ages 10-14, will develop skills in resisting negative peer pressure and building a positive future. Sessions include interactive games and activities.

Classes run from 5-7:30 p.m. on Tues-

EAU CLAIRE — With the recent winter storm affecting western Wisconsin, Xcel Energy strongly reminds natural gas customers to keep their gas meters free of ice and snow to prevent the potential for a dangerous natural gas pressure buildup in their homes.

The accumulation of ice on or around natural gas meters can lead to a dangerous natural gas buildup inside a house or other buildings. Melting snow and ice on roofs and in trees can melt and drip on meters, then refreeze, increasing the potential for a meter malfunction. Xcel Energy also recommends that appliance vents, often located on a home’s roof, be kept clear in order to operate properly.

The natural gas meter’s regulator vent is especially vulnerable to plugging anytime there is a combination of snow and ice buildup and fluctuating temperatures. A plugged vent can adversely affect the operation of the gas pressure regulator, resulting in a potentially hazardous condition by preventing the flow of natural gas.

Xcel Energy strongly recommends that customers very gently remove snow or ice from the gas meter, any associated piping and the roofline above the meter.

Also check to ensure that melting snow or ice is not dripping on the meter from the roof or nearby trees, which can plug the vent if it refreezes.

It is also recommended that customers maintain a clean path to and from the

Shell Lake Lions Calendar Winners

December 17 - $30 Monica Burkart, Shell Lake December 18 - $30 Scott Roppe, Birchwood December 19 - $30 Jemima Robillard, Farmington, Minn.

December 20 - $30 Stacy Meyers, Belvidere, Ill. December 21 - $30 Aaron Pierson, St. Paul, Minn.

Shell Lake Self Storage 2013 Calendars Available!

Winners also announced on WJMC FM Radio

Temps & levels Temperatures recorded at Spooner Ag Research Station 2011 Dec. 17 Dec. 18 Dec. 19 Dec. 20 Dec. 21

2012 Dec. 17 Dec. 18 Dec. 19 Dec. 20 Dec. 21

High 22 28 41 29 32

High 34 22 30 30 26

Low 8 10 17 18 17

Precip.

Low Precip.

20 14 15 trace snow 15 1.1” snow 6 .9” snow

days from Jan. 15 to Feb. 26 at Spooner Middle School. A free supper will also be provided each week.

Program sponsors are UW-Extension, Lakeland Family Resource Center, Washburn County Human Services, Washburn County AODA Committee and Spooner School District. The University of Wisconsin-Extension provides equal opportunities in employment and programming, including Title IX and ADA. To ensure equal access to this program, please make requests for reasonable accommodations as soon as possible by contacting the Washburn County Extension Office so proper arrangements can be made. — from LFRC

Arts center receives donation from Shell Lake State Bank Shell Lake Arts Center’s Vice President Mary Hemshrot recently received a check for $1,225 from David Haroldson, president of the Shell Lake State Bank. This generous donation will help the arts center celebrate its 46th camp season and continue their mission of providing quality arts education. — Photo submitted

Keep gas meter clear of ice and snow meter to allow easy access in the event of an emergency. Carefully shovel around the meter and clear the meter itself by hand. Avoid using any sharp tool, including a shovel and snowblower, on or near the meter and piping.

Xcel Energy encourages annual inspections of your natural gas appliances and venting systems as a key defense against carbon monoxide poisoning. With heavy snowfall, it’s possible that your home’s venting systems, such as an outdoor air intake vent to a fuel-burning appliance, can become packed with snow or ice. It’s also important to make sure that these vents are not clogged with debris such as leaves and bird nests.

Carbon monoxide can develop if venting systems or appliances are not operating properly. Inspections are extremely important because they can determine and correct the source of a problem if one exists.

Xcel Energy reminds natural gas customers that if they smell natural gas, a bad smell typically described as rotten egg or sulfur-like, in their homes, to

The arrow points to this natural gas meter’s regulator vent, which can be plugged by ice and snow. — Photo submitted

Register Memories

1952 - 60 years ago

• The Bion Melton family miraculously escaped injury when a pickup truck driven by Marvin Melton missed a curve on Hwy. 70 and came crashing into the living room of their home.

• The Boy Scouts were conducting a scrap metal drive.

• Army Sgt. Harry F. Hobscheid, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Hobscheid, Barronett, was serving in Japan with the 1st Cavalry Division.

• The Shell Lake Student Council sponsored a Christmas dance with the Night Clubbers providing music.

1962 - 50 years ago

• Mrs. B.G. West and Mrs. R. Trader were hostesses at the Talent Club Christmas party held at the Sarona Methodist Church.

• Winners of the PTA-sponsored card party held at the Sarona State Graded School for 500 were Gerald Campbell and Mrs. Addison Andrews. In Smear, the winners were Mrs. DuWayne Olson and Marcus Zimmerman. Door prizewinner was Vic Sigmund.

• Herbert Miller, Sarona, accidentally shot himself in the nose while squirrel hunting.

• Larry Kibler, 19, and Linda Wigchers, 17, Shell Lake, narrowly escaped serious injury when the Kibler car, in which they were both riding, skidded on a slippery spot in the roadway approximately 50 yards north of the Farmers Union on Hwy. 63 on the edge of Shell Lake. The car rolled over three or four times down the steep embankment, which goes down to the high school football field. Driver Kibler suffered a knee injury while Wigchers escaped injury. The car was a total loss.

leave the house immediately and follow these other important safety precautions: • Don’t turn lights on or off or use any other electrical switches, including garage door openers, under any circumstances.

• Don’t open any windows or doors other than the ones you pass through on your way out.

• Don’t use a cell phone or any other phone while still in the house; go to a neighbor’s house or other safe place away from your home to call Xcel Energy’s gas emergency number, 800-895-2999 for help, or 911 in an emergency.

• Don’t return to the home until a safety expert such as a utility company employee or firefighter says it’s safe to do so.

Before removing snow from rooftops or trees, always first look up to find any overhead power line and then keep yourself and any tool you’re using a minimum of 10 feet away. Assume all power lines are energized and therefore dangerous. — from Xcel Energy

Compiled by Suzanne Johnson

1972 - 40 years ago

• The speech classes of Shell Lake High School participated in the Voice of Democracy Scriptwriting Broadcast contest. This called for a three- to fiveminute tape of a radio script on the subject My Responsibility to Freedom.

The contest was sponsored by the VFW and VFW Auxiliary with cooperation of the National and State Association of Broadcasters. Of the 51 students participating, judges Muriel Penning, Don Tobias and JoAnne Olson picked Jeff Hile as the winner. Steve Harr was runnerup, and the three finalists were Charlene Nesthill, Frank Melton and JoAnn Crosby.

• A large crowd attended the Christmas service at Lakeview Church. Mrs. Eliason showed interesting slides of Christmas in England at a church she visited while touring. Following the service a fellowship meal was served to all in the basement.

• The Sarona Snowmobile Club had a Christmas party potluck dinner on Ripley Lake. Games were played and Santa Claus came.

• A wedding shower was held for Garry Crosby and Beth Denver.

1982 - 30 years ago

• Citizens of the Week at Shell Lake Elementary School were first-grader Steve Naglosky and third-grader Tammy Johnson.

• Duane Johnson, Shell Lake, was selected to serve as a student representative to the University of Minnesota Board of Regents.

• Washburn County received its first snowstorm for the winter when a reported 16-18 inches of snow fell.

• Mark Aderman put his tip-ups out on Shell Lake and caught two walleyes, one 9-1/4 pounds and 29 inches, the

other 6-1/4 pounds and 26 inches.

1992 - 20 years ago

• The Shell Lake wrestling team placed first at the Spooner Invitational tournament. Members of the team were Dan Burns, Ben Kidder, Steve Naglosky, Ty Hopke, Paul Campton, Josh Erwin, Andrew Melton, Troy Green, Corey Mortensen, Jared Forseth, Adam Erickson, Dustin Petz, Ken Ailport, Paul King, Ryan Smith and Travis Bergeron.

• Thirteen-year-old Regan Kohler from Lincoln 4-H Club was the Outstanding Young 4-H Member for December.

• Officers of the Excella 4-H Club were Marine Housel, president; Jeff Housel, vice president; Brandon Harrington, secretary; Betsy Olson, treasurer; Brett LaBumbard, photographer; and Hannah Rechsteiner, reporter.

• Board of directors for the Washburn County Food Pantry were Evelyn Safeblade, coordinator; Kathy Shattuck, chairperson; Father Ward Simpson, Myrtle Hess, Theresa Sigmund, Don Lass and Jim Fenton, treasurer.

2002 - 10 years ago

• Named to the all-conference honors choir were Amanda Burton, Angie Olson and Sarah Mellen.

• All-conference honors band members were Alyssa Degner, Mya Dosch, Ben Kunselman, Shannon Reinert, Anne Bitney, Bethany Simpson and Savannah Stanley.

• Andy Mancl, son of Dave and Linda Mancl, Shell Lake, received his Eagle Badge.

• A fire destroyed the home of Noah and Rachel Clark in rural Sarona. Twoyear-old Ashley received third-degree burns on her back and leg. She was airlifted to Regions Hospital.

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by Diane Dryden Register staff writer SPOONER — Don and Delores Stellrecht, of Spooner, both grew up in the Shell Lake and Spooner area. They also exited the area after graduation and moved to financially greener pastures, she as a receptionist for a chiropractor and he as a librarian.

They lived happily in Red Wing, Minn., for years, establishing their family and working hard. After they retired, they designed and built a house on Spooner Lake. Then their son got a job working for a popular American import company. Not only was it a great job, but he was able to purchase items from the overstock warehouse for half price and he got an additional 75 percent off with his employee discount, bringing the items down to giveaway prices. Not only could he shop, but his parents could shop too. That was the beginning of 20 years of Christmas pieces and collections.

They were so into collecting that even if the stuff wasn’t from their son’s company, if it was on a great sale, they bought it. Their house is full to overflowing with Christmas now. It’s a large home and, even so, there are 24 Christmas trees in all throughout the public rooms. There is one in the bathroom, decorated with glass doves. The three half-

In the dining room, all the decorations, even the nativity set, are white.

You can blame their son

Don Stellrecht shows off one of his hundreds of Santas. He likes the larger pieces and this is his latest one.

trees that hang on the kitchen walls are loaded with crystal angels from Delores’ favorite company, Princess House Crystal. There is a huge display of ceramic houses in the kitchen’s bay window and the tiny white lights on top of the cupboards stay up year-around. Don’s favorite collection is one he bought at a discount store because he liked the gingerbread look of the buildings. Originally, they were made to each hold a candle inside for light, but the Stellrechts cleverly run a string of white lights behind, lighting up the houses and the shelves on which they sit.

The house, itself, features a bow front, the kind of front that makes you feel you’re at the helm of a large ship, and the room sports a 10-foot tree, fully loaded, with a family of 4-foot snowmen in front.

There are many nativity sets scattered

An overwhelming display of Christmas stands in the hall. – Photos by Diane Dryden

Sarona by Marian Furchtenicht

We had an early deadline this week when the day was beautiful, bright, calm, clear, sunny and cool. Winter solstice began Dec. 21. It’s so perfect at Christmas with the sparkling snow.

Rocky and Pet Semm, along with daughter Mary Doanes, Rice Lake, attended the Christmas school program in Elk Mound on Monday. The grands, Suzie and Seth Sundeen’s boys, Carter and Gavin, were in it. Reports it was nice.

Mavis Schlapper attended the adult Christmas concert that daughter Pam played the clarinet in Monday evening in the hospital basement in Eau Claire.

Debbie West took great-grandma Elfreda West with to her granddaughter Ande Thompson’s Christmas school program in Spooner on Thursday. It’s so fun to watch those little kids all dressed up, just singing their hearts out.

Thoughts and prayers to Elfreda West’s stepmom, Gertrude Larson, Stone Lake, who is a patient in Shell Lake.

A speedy recovery is wished for Gene Kasten who is recovering from knee replacement. That’s a nice Christmas gift.

There were 13 of us 80-year-olds at our Class of 1950 Christmas get-together for lunch and gift exchange at Tony’s Riverside Wednesday noon. We had special cake for Ray Smith’s birthday. His wife, Gerene, had ordered it but then they couldn’t make it. Ray was taken to Duluth with health problems. The cake was luscious, and he was in our thoughts and prayers. Carolyn West brought us each packages of Hokey’s microwave potatoes. They are so good and quick to fix.

There will be no class get-together the month of January.

Gloria Frey and her sister, Joann Paulson, spent last Sunday and overnight in

Delores Stellrecht stands next to a nutcracker that was once on display at Macy’s Department Store.

through the house, from occasional tables to nooks and crannies, and there are two behind the sofa. The one on top of the table is more Princess House Crystal and the large scene below came from their trip to Ecuador as they visited Don’s sister, Valerie, who was a missionary there for years. “Thank goodness we bought it before the luggage restrictions were put into place on the airlines,” Don said happily.

As soon as you enter the house, you realize there is hardly a spot not fully decorated for the season. There is a cluster of lighted trees to the left as soon as you enter, backed by the stairway to the second floor loft/library, which has a large Santa on each step. Don is drawn to the bigger pieces and this is where just a small portion of his collection of over 100 Santas is displayed.

On the other side of the doorway is a wonderfully tall nutcracker that Don found in an antique shop in Cumberland. The original owner told him it was from one of the Macy stores.

The dining room is done in all white with a tree that looks like it came out of a Southern Home magazine. The nativity set in that room is also in white and is underlit with white lights. “With the different kinds of lights out today,” said Delores, “it’s very frustrating to buy new strings each year. You can’t just buy white lights anymore. Now they’re termed bright lights, warm lights, LED lights, and they’re all a different color white, so where we thought we’d only have to replace one string, we end up replacing all the strings on a tree.”

Back in the main hall, you notice a cabinet full of small cubbies that not only has Christmas items in front of the cubbies, but ornaments hang in front of the cubbies.

The library/loft has not been forgotten in all this decorating because a beauti-

Hinckley and had a good time.

Mavis Schlapper had Gloria Frey, Elfreda West, Joyce Wade and I in on Wednesday afternoon for a Christmas get-together and cookie exchange, which was very nice.

Fuernot Farms had their employee Christmas party at Hansen’s Hide-Away in Haugen on Wednesday night with 43 attending. Visiting, great food, lots of games and prizes were enjoyed. Roger Lundeen came with a walker; doing well, glad to say, after his recent hip replacement at Oak Leaf in Eau Claire.

Roger and Cindy Furchtenicht went to the Twin Cities on Thursday afternoon, and Cindy came home with a new car for Christmas. So, she’s a happy camper.

Birthday wishes this week to John Sauer, Tim Ross, Casey Jo Child, Joel Marsh, Tiffany Westlund, Heidi Smith Hoffelt and Mary Gagner, Dec. 27;

As soon as you enter the home of Don and Delores Stellrecht, it’s Christmas everywhere, with lighted trees and stairways full of Santas.

The library/loft has a tree which overlooks the great room below.

fully lighted and decorated 10-foot tree overlooks the great room below.

The Stellrechts start to decorate after Thanksgiving and usually keep their items up until the end of January. One advantage of building your own house is that you can put storage in wherever you can find the room and Don has storage space upstairs tucked behind the library walls.

They used to overdecorate for Easter and Thanksgiving too, but they’re downsizing those items. Each year, when they take down their Christmas things, they say they’re going through them to get rid of a few. Whether they do or don’t, there’s still plenty to go around, and the house is absolutely stunningly beautiful.

Tommy Benjamin, Andy Scalzo and Bob Gagner, Dec. 28; Shea Anderson and Pam Trudell on Dec. 29; Tim Albee and Ruth Twining, Dec. 30; Marie Soholt and Caprice Jo Elliott, Dec. 31; Janet Zimmerman, Rick Roeser, Larry Sutherland, Kristen Gustafson, Cindy Furchtenicht, Troy Busick, Daryl Crosby and Brianna Schaefer, on New Year’s Day; Mary Gustafson, Jan. 2; Dean Schlapper, Brenda Gagner and Leonard Lang, Jan. 3.

Anniversary wishes to Eric and Nicole Bernecker, Dec. 27; Dr. Jeff and Dixie Dunham, and Bob and Joyce Kibber, Dec. 30; Harley and Kathy Bergeron, Dec. 29; and Bob and Mary Gagner, Dec. 31.

A great holiday week with families together, making memories to be passed down is wished to you, from Sarona folks!

DECEMBER 26, 2012 - WASHBURN COUNTY REGISTER - PAGE 7

As supply meets demand, Wisconsin’s frac sand rush slows

Pros and cons to market’s wane

by Kate Prengaman If planned mines don’t develop and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journaljobs they promised don’t materialize, ism who loses out?

STATEWIDE – For more than a year, a The owners of properties that are not 30-foot-tall pile of unwanted sand towdeveloped may lose the most, depending ered over three acres on Claude Rigleon what type of contract they signed with mon’s property. The price for the sand the mining company. Some landowners dropped about the time this stockpile was have mineral rights contracts that offer no ready for sale, so the 120,000 tons of sand payment up front, said Lance Pliml, chair just waited. of the Wood County Board and president Riglemon isn’t a miner. A real-estate of the recently formed Wisconsin Counappraiser, he also runs a cranberry operties Association Frac Sand Task Force. ation north of Tomah. He jumped into the Pliml said some mining companies frac sand frenzy when a mining company may be negotiating contracts for land offered to dig him a new reservoir in exthey have little intention of mining — eichange for the rights to the sand it rether to boost the amount of sand they can moved. claim in reserve or perhaps prevent comThe company built him a great reserpetitors from moving in. voir — but then struggled to sell the “My guess is that long term, some peosand. ple won’t see that windfall they anticiWisconsin’s sand is in demand for use pated,” Pliml said. “If they don’t exercise in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a options that they (mining companies) method of unlocking previously trapped have on these properties, it’s just back to oil and natural gas that has boomed in the square one, back to farming.” recent years.

On the other hand, communities rarely Frac sand mining has surged in WisThis pile of frac sand sat on Claude Riglemon’s Jackson County cranberry farm for more than a consin over the past few years, growing year before the mining company found a buyer. Now they are finally hauling it away. – Photo by make investments to support or entice proposed mining projects, Beekman said, from a handful of sites to almost 100 per- Matthew Perenchio/Jackson County Chronicle so they don’t have anything to lose if the mitted facilities. Nationally, the hydraulic plan falls through. fracturing industry purchased $3.7 billion of the market, Budinger said.

“The counties that might lose out are those lifting worth of sand in 2011, according to The Freedonia “Week by week, month by month, the price shifts can Group, a business research firm. be dramatic, but over the long term, there is strength in moratoriums, hoping to get new mine development now that they have regulations in place,” Beekman Although no official figures are available, the Wis- our market share,” Budinger said. said.

“They might not because the market is close to satconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has esti“When fracking boomed, drillers were so desperate mated that the state’s frac sand industry will create they would buy any sand,” said Mike O’Driscoll, the uration.”

That appears to be the case in Dunn County. A yearmore than 2,500 jobs. The industry has created contro- global head of research for the trade magazine Indusversy as well — some residents are concerned about trial Minerals. “Now that there is more supply coming long moratorium expired in October, and according to Cleo Herrick, the county zoning administrator, the traffic increases, dust pollution and environmental online, they can choose to use better sand.” county has yet to receive a single new application. damage.

That’s OK with Barb Flom, a Dunn County The sand is valuable, but mining it profitably de- Moving sand costs plenty landowner who turned away a frac sand company inpends on both the cost of transportation and on fluctuAnd buyers want the best prices. Transportation exating market prices. For example, the fine-grained sand penses can make up about 50 percent of the cost of a terested in her property. She believes mining exacts too the natural gas industry prefers has lingered in Rigle- ton of frac sand, said Jen Casebier, who runs DownHo- high a price on communities.

“I would be happy if the whole industry left,” Flom mon’s backyard because the U.S. currently has a sur- leTrader.com, which connects drilling companies to said.

“Dirty air, dirty rivers. Those are the costs that plus of natural gas. suppliers. local citizens are paying.

“The demand just isn’t there,” Riglemon said. “WestSaid O’Driscoll, “Sand is a high-volume commodity. ern Wisconsin is all sand; this is not a scarce commod- You need a lot of it, but it’s relatively low priced, and it ity. So the big issue becomes logistics. The cost (of costs a lot to move this stuff from point A to B.” transporting the sand) freezes the little guys out.”

Large sand mine operators, unlike many small ones, Trucks finally started hauling away the sand from typically sign long-term contracts with both buyers and Riglemon’s land in late November. He said he thinks railroads so they can produce and sell a steady supply the company, which he declined to name, had good in- of sand, DOT’s Beekman said. tentions, but was caught by surprise when the price for Only about a quarter of Wisconsin’s operating and sand dropped. developing sand facilities have rail access on-site, but Wisconsin’s sand is in demand, yes, but only to oil most of the largest operations are on that list. Beekman and gas drillers operating out of state. Getting it to buy- said rail access is key for the frac sand industry going ers in North Dakota or Pennsylvania turns out to be a forward. serious logistical challenge, said Tom Beekman, re“It’s not just the number of mines, it’s who has the gional planning engineer with the Wisconsin Depart- business model to set themselves up on a rail line, who ment of Transportation. Sand that’s mined far from rail has property to expand,” he said. “That’s the business lines or barges may be too expensive. model that’s going to be successful.”

“They’ve got all kinds of sand in the backyard, but they just can’t get into the market,” Beekman said of the Enough sand mines, maybe? small operations. “Individuals have realized that they The growth in Wisconsin’s sand mining industry has can’t get sand to the rail.” already slowed. County officials received far fewer new Sand prices range widely depending on grain size, permit applications this fall than they did earlier in the strength and location, but industry experts agree that year, according to Wisconsin Center for Investigative the prices have come down significantly from the more Journalism research. Only eight new mines or processOn June 21, covered semi-trucks carried sand from mines in than $100-a-ton high that ignited Wisconsin’s mining ing facilities were proposed during the past four Wisconsin to Winona, Minn., for processing and shipping along boom. Official government estimates are not yet avail- months, compared to more than 60 between June 2011 the Mississippi River. – Photo by Lukas Keapproth/Wisconsin Cenable for 2011 or 2012. ter for Investigative Journalism and June 2012.

For smaller operators who planned for higher prices, Beekman said his research shows the nationwide dethe frac sand boom might turn out to be a bust. mand for frac sand is likely about 40 million tons a year, and “we might have enough (facilities) in place right The future of frac sand Most industry experts agree frac sand mining is not Supply soon to meet demand now.”

The price of frac sand depends on the demand for its “The companies that have managed to put large pro- going to disappear anytime soon, despite the recent use in fracking. cessing plants on the rail lines average about 1.5 mil- slowdown in the natural gas industry.

“The only thing that makes frac sand mining go Shale gas production exploded in the past decade, lion tons a year,” Beekman said. “Twenty to 25 of these away is the end user,” Pliml said. “As long as they increasing 2,400 percent nationally from 2002 to 2012, big locations could meet the national demand.” according to the U.S. Energy Information AdministraSome permitted mine sites have not yet begun con- allow fracking, I don’t see it going away.”

In fact, Budinger says lower natural gas prices don’t tion. This boom created a surplus of natural gas this struction. Beekman suspects some are waiting to see if necessarily mean bad news for the sand industry. Afyear, which lowered gas prices, leading to lower prices sand prices go back up. for sand.

But, O’Driscoll said, “A lot of the smaller operations fordable energy could lead to a resurgence of American And as more of the new sand mines in Wisconsin who are waiting might be waiting a while. I don’t think manufacturing. More manufacturing means more demand, long term, for both energy and sand, he said. begin production this year, the supply is catching up the price of sand is going to go back up very soon.”

Riglemon is just happy that his days in the frac sand with the demand.

Not everyone agrees that Wisconsin’s sand boom is Rich Budinger, the regional manager for the Wiscon- over. Trempealeau County leads the state with nine industry are almost over. He supports the industry, but sin Industrial Sand Company, a subsidiary of Fair- mines in operation and 11 more in development. Kevin he describes his own experience as frustrating.

Riglemon estimates he spent about $6,000 on the permount Minerals, which has three operating sand Lien, the county director of land management, reports mitting process, including the environmental engineers facilities and one more in development in Wisconsin, that applications are still coming in. said these price fluctuations are part of natural market “It’s not crazy like it was a year ago, but it hasn’t let who drew up his stormwater and reclamation plans. cycles. Lower prices will benefit experienced sand mine up,” Lien said. “I think people are speculating that the Given the chance, he wouldn’t do it again — too much operators like WISC, said Budinger, who also is presi- drop in price is just economics and it will come back of a hassle.

“I would tell anybody that was going to get involved dent of the Wisconsin Industrial Sand Association. up.” to be very careful and know who they are dealing “If prices continue to drop off, a competitive market Lien said the construction delays he’s seen are the rewill be established,” Budinger said. “Experienced sult of companies adjusting their plans to be more com- with,” Riglemon said.

“Right now, it might be a little Wild West, but in a companies have seen that before, and we’re prepared petitive in the market. Raw sand is not very valuable, so couple of years, the quick-buck operators will wash out. for it.” mines are adding facilities to wash the sand, requiring The boom will subside. The big guys will provide the WISC doesn’t just produce frac sand. It also sells more permits and taking longer to build. market with what they need.” sand for glass, construction and recreational uses. This diversification is key to weathering the ups and downs

2012

Year in Review/from page 2

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One final look

guilty in the jury trial for first-degree intentional homicide of Michael T. Elliott, Sarona.

Rodger and Elaine Studt, Shell Lake, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

Shannon Wendel, special education teacher at Shell Lake Schools, helped coordinate Words Hurt Week, bringing attention to the impact words can have on others.

A grass fire took the barn at the Larry Samson residence in the Town of Bashaw.

The Shell Lake High School Drama Club presented “The Beverly Hillbillies.” Directors were Don and Laura Bruce.

Members of the Shell Lake EDC board were Ken Schultz, president; Andy Eiche, vice president; Dave Haroldson, secretary; Shane Williams, treasurer; Jack Dahlstrom and Terry Leckel, directors.

Recognized as the first baby of spring born at Indianhead Medical Center in Shell Lake was Tiffany Skye to Jason and Dica Ferdelman, Spooner. Tiffany received a gift basket of baby items from the Shell Lake Chamber of Commerce.

Kale Hopke, son of Stacy Byron, won the Youth State Wrestling Championship title.

April

A deer in the Shell Lake area tested positive for chronic wasting disease. This was the first case of its kind in northern Wisconsin.

The Shell Lake girls 4x400-meter relay team set a new school record. Team members were Hannah Cassel, Shania Pokorny, Emma Anderson and Jen Cassel.

Donna Barnes-Haesemeyer resigned from the Shell Lake City Council.

Bicycle winners in the Shell Lake Chamber of Commerce Easter Egg Hunt were Isaiah McKelton, Robert Egger, Jacob Latz, Ben McNulty and Ana Ohly. Kennedy Harrington won a tricycle and Liam Russell and Jax Foss won Little Tikes cars.

Jeff Parker, Shell Lake pubic works director, received an award from the Rural Water Association for high standards in keeping up with water regulations. Mayor Sally Peterson presented the award during a city council meeting.

Zach Jensen, 10, son of Bryan and Keri Jensen, Shell Lake, participated in the turkey youth hunt. He shot his first turkey at 22 yards away. The beard of the turkey was 11-1/4 inches long.

Wendy Muska resigned from the Shell Lake School Board.

A new Shell Lake School sign was put into place. The sign was made possible through community donations and community education funds.

Shell Lake students advancing to state competition in forensics were Grace Helstern, Andrea Miranda, McKenzie Johnson, Caleb Schmidt, Renae Lloyd, Kelsey Egbert, Emmalee Statz, Sarah Shumaker and Lashanda Mays. Emily Schlieve was their advisor.

Jen Cassel was selected as this year’s Daughter of the American Revolution at Shell Lake Schools.

Selected to represent Shell Lake at Badger Boys State were Brett Holman and BJ Burton, alternate, and at Badger Girls State, alternate Kim Atkinson would attend rather than Chloe Wykel.

Casey Furchtenicht, king, and Chloe Wykel, queen, reigned over Shell Lake High School prom. Other prom court members were BJ Burton, Kendra Collier, Isaac Cusick, Jill Butenhoff, AJ Denotter, Kim Atkinson, Jessica Irvine, Austin Williams, Allison Socha, Anthony Lloyd, Marissa Spaulding and Nick Muska. Crown bearers were Colton Wykel and Olivia Ricci.

The Shell Lake SMILES organization was treated to a pizza party where they received T-shirts. The shirts and pizza were provided through funds received from Indianhead Community Health Care Inc. Elected to a three-year term at the annual meeting for the Washburn County Historical Society were Marguerite Kevan, Robert Washkuhn, Cathy Wahlstrom and Myrna Atkinson. Holdover board members were Elmer Anderson Jr., Shelley Fox, Marian Furchtenicht, Robert Lampman, Curtis Atkinson, Joyce Ripley, Mary Olsen, Rose Mangelsen and Rod Ripley. The new board officers were Rod Ripley, president; Joyce Ripley, vice president, and Wahlstrom as secretary/treasurer. Tim Brabec was the liaison with the Washburn County Board.

Shell Lake pitcher Darren Sahlstrom, a senior, had 10 strikeouts in the Laker game against the Birchwood Bobcats.

The Shell Lake Junior High girls track 4x100 relay team set a new school record. Team members were Amber Anderson, Grace Anderson, Emma Thomas and Lindsey Martin.

STANDING PROUD • Dominic Olson stands tall and proud during the Memorial Day program at the Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery. His grandfather, Army Sp4 Robert Olson, is buried at the cemetery. - Photo by Larry Samson

May

The Shell Lake Arts Center was celebrating their 45th anniversary. members of the board of directors were Mary NEW SIGN • A new sign for the Shell Lake Dosch, Joe Fitzgerald, Vince Cosmano, Jeanne Chamberlain, School District was installed in April. - Photo by Jeff Southern, Carol Heim, Kathy Stewart, Bill Taubman, Larry Samson Kathy Johnson and Mary Hemshrot.

New officers for the Shell Lake FFA organization were Dani Kuechle, president; Ally Feeney, vice president; Ryan Melton, sentinel; Bryan Knoop, treasurer; Taylor Bauch, reporter; Rachel Mechtel, historian; Stephanie Stetler, student advisor; and Maddie Dennis, secretary.

Gov. Scott Walker fished during the 47th-annual Governor’s Fishing Opener on Trego Lake.

Jen Cassel received the WIAA Scholar Athlete Award during a ceremony held in Wausau.

Paul Niemann, Minneapolis, Minn., presented the Frances Bergin-Paul Niemann American Legion Post 225 with a photograph of his uncle, Paul F. Niemann, who served in World War I. Jeff Hile, Cumberland, son of Shirley Hile and Glen Hile, Shell Lake, was named recipient of the UW-Barron County Foundation’s 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award. The award recognizes outstanding UW-BC alumni who reflect the ideals of UW quality and have established an exceptional reputation in their careers and communities.

Elise Bouchard, Shell Lake, was awarded the Charles and Carol Levine Memorial Scholarship for the fall 2012 semester at WITC-Rice Lake. Bouchard was enrolled in the medical administrative specialist program.

Shawn Seever was the recipient of the Dave Manosky Memorial Scholarship given at the WITC scholarship banquet.

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and deputies and who had died.

Jacob Richey, of S&S Farms, survived being attacked by a bull.

Sage Dunham and Josiah Kay were the co-valedictorians of the Class of 2012 at Shell Lake High School. Jen Cassel was salutatorian.

Pvt. Dillon Hopke, a 2012 graduate of Shell Lake High School, was the keynote speaker at the Shell Lake Memorial Day ceremony.

Shell Lake High School band director Aimee Pashby would be leaving Shell Lake for a position with Rice Lake Schools.

Jen Cassel, Emma Anderson, Shania Pokorny, Hannah Cassel and Hana Anderson earned their way to state competition in track.

Named to the all-conference baseball team were Jesse Gronning, Darren Sahlstrom, BJ Burton and Sam Livingston. Honorable mention was Caleb Schmidt. Named to the all-conference softball team were Emmalee Statz, Kristen Kraetke, Hailey Flach, Jenny Connell and Katie Gronning. Receiving honorable mention were Erica Kozial and Kayla Blazer.

The Shell Lake softball team members were the regional champs for the second year in a row.

The Shell Lake Art Club completed a community service project for Ventures Unlimited by designing and painting a sign for the shredding service Ventures provides to area businesses.

Tessica and Jamie Trudell, Shell Lake, won a trip to Hollywood and found themselves on the red carpet of Hollywood Boulevard’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater for the movie premiere of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.”

June

Washburn County Clerk Lynn Hoeppner filed declaration of noncandidacy and would not run for re-election.

Candidates filing for the position were Jacque Avery, Democrat, Shell Lake; Lolita Olson, Republican, Springbrook; and David Kidder, Republican, Shell Lake. Olson and Kidder would face each other in the August primary election. Incumbents running unopposed were register of deeds Diane Poach, Democrat; treasurer Janet Ullom, Republican; and District Attorney J. Michael Bitney, Republican.

Stephen Smith, Shell Lake, filed papers as a Democratic candidate for Assembly District 75.

Al Rock, 93, Shell Lake, took part the Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. Mary Dunbar was named Shell Lake School District’s Volunteer of the Year.

The Tri-County Dairy Promoters annual dairy breakfast drew over 1,500 people.

Michael Cifaldi, of Cifaldi Motors in Cumberland, presented Shell Lake Schools Superintendent Jim Connell with a check for $1,620, for the Shell Lake Education Foundation, from the Drive a Dodge event fundraiser.

Indianhead Community Health Care Inc. donated firstaid kits to the Shell Lake Arts Center and two AEDs to the Washburn County Sheriff’s Department.

Abby Thompson was the first participant in the Shell Lake Public Library’s summer reading program, Dream Big — Read, to reach the reading goal of reading 16 books.

The Shell Lake band and choir, 63 students and 23 chaperones, took an eight-day trip to Washington, D.C., and New York City.

About a 3-1/2-hour power outage interrupted business in Shell Lake. A power pole went down in the area after a strong wind and thunderstorm.

New board of directors for the Shell Lake Lions Club were Mike Cox, Harry Durand, Roger Lundeen, Jeff Dunham, Vern Lokken, Phil Soltis, Rollie Erickson, Phread Kosmach, Tom Klassa, Rudy Kessler and Bill Taubman.

Dunham would replace Cox as president.

Longtime Lions Elmer Anderson and Hugh Smith were honored for their many years of service to the Shell Lake Lions Club.

Brett Holman was selected to the Wisconsin School Music Association’s High School State Honors Music Project in Green Bay. Shell Lake High School senior Pvt. Taylor Bauch left for basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Her training would take her to September when she would return to Shell Lake to finish her last year of high school.

Julie Symond’s dream to turn the space between her store, My Favorite Things, and the building next door into a garden became a reality. La Jardin au Calme, meaning Garden of Calm, was created for people to enjoy.

During the Big Band Tribute concert at the Shell Lake Arts Center, the performance hall was dedicated and named the Darrell Aderman Auditorium.

Red Hat member Georgean Kruger was crowned Royal Queen of the Zippity Do Dah’s Red Hat Chapter of Shell Lake by Exalted Queen Mother Sue Ellen Cooper at the 2012 RHS International Convention in Las Vegas, Nev.

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Lakers dual meet

Cody Mayer with a takedown of his Northwood opponent, Ethan Luedtke, in the 285-pound weight class. In the Thursday, Dec. 20, dual meet between Shell Lake and Northwood there were only two varsity matches. Mayer won this match in a 4-2 decision.

Northwood wrestler Trevor LaFave pinned Leo Carrillo, Shell Lake, in the 185-pound weight class.

Sports reporter: Larry Samson E-mail results to: wcregister@centurytel.net

SPORTS

Spooner wrestles Northwestern

Lucas Hagberg, with a pin over Northwestern opponent Jay Karich, gave Spooner six points in a 57-17 win over conference rivals Northwestern in a dual meet on Thursday, Dec. 20, in Spooner.

Richard Lauterbach had his opponent in a cradle and eventually a pin in the 182-pound weight class.

What most people don’t know is that Santa is a wrestling fan.

Lilly Quinton and Lilly Melton are fans of wrestling and Santa.

Tough loss for the Rails

Jordan Shaver was good for two points on this jump shot. He was the high scorer for the game with 12 points.

Jordan Melton under the basket. Spooner lost a tough game, 46-39, against their Heart O’ North Conference opponent Bloomer on Tuesday, Dec. 18. Melton had two 3-pointers for the game.

Spooner guard Drew Miller with a jump shot against Bloomer defender Dalton Dezern.

Photos by Larry Samson

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Shell Lake ladies take on Northwood

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SHELL LAKE — Ski! Shell Lake has cross-country skis available for rental for the entire ski season. Adult and youth packages in classic and skating can be picked up at any time in the next couple of weeks.

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For more information on ski rental, ski lessons or joining Ski! Shell Lake, please call 715-205-4424. — from Ski! Shell Lake

Spooner wrestles Northwestern

Hannah Cassel collided with Molly Linen on this jump shot under the basket. The Shell Lake versus Northwood games are always hard-fought battles. In the end, Northwood was victorious over Shell Lake, 46-34, in the game played Tuesday, Dec. 18, in Shell Lake.

LEFT: Taylor Bauch put up two points as she was defended by Elise Burns and McKayla Waggoner. — Photos by Larry Samson

Shania Pokorny goes up against Northwood’s Sara Benson. Pokorny had 16 points for the game and Benson put up 13 points.

Youth wrestling held in Spooner

SPOONER — The coaching staff of the Spooner Wrestling Club would like to invite any pre-K through fourth-graders to participate in the free youth wrestling practices.

The practices will run from 5-6 p.m. in the wrestling room at the Spooner High School. Practices will run on Mondays starting Monday, Jan. 7, through Monday, Feb. 25. If no school, no practice that Monday. — from Spooner Wrestling Club

SPORTS

SCHEDULE

High school boys basketball Friday, Jan. 4: At Unity, DH, 7:30 p.m.; JV 5:45 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 8: At Birchwood, 7:30 p.m.; JV 5:45 p.m.

High school girls basketball Friday, Jan. 4: At Unity, DH, 5:45 p.m.; JV, DH, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 8: At Birchwood, DH, 5:45 p.m.; JV, DH, 7:30 p.m.

High school wrestling Friday, Dec. 28-Saturday, Dec. 29: Bistate, 10 a.m.

Thursday, Jan. 3: At Cameron, 7 p.m.

Hunter Huth’s takedown on Jackson Doller was good for two points. Huth lost the match as he was pinned. —Photo by Larry Samson

SPOONER — “For the first time since I have been coaching, Spooner has not lost at home yet this season.

We beat Hayward in our first dual and won our tournament on Dec. 8. I encouraged the wrestlers to continue the streak on Thursday night as they wrestled against Northwestern,” commented Spooner’s head wrestling coach Andrew Melton.

The action Thursday, Dec. 20, started out with the 195-pound weight class, and Jared Quenette got the Rails going in the right direction with a pin in the second period. At 220, Zach Shutt received a forfeit. At 285, Blake Johnson once again looked very impressive with only a month of experience. He pinned his opponent in the first period. Due to some wrestlers needing to miss a match because of grade checks, it was decided to bump Blake Larson up to 113 and double forfeit at 106.

“Blake did a great job, considering he had to give up so much weight to his opponent. Blake had a good attitude after being pinned in the first period,” praised his coach.

At 120, Andy Mason received a forfeit along with Jadin Schwartz at 126. At 132 Dustin Metzig looked very strong as he pinned his opponent late in the first period. At 138, Brandon Jepson was tech-falled in the third period. The closest match of the night came at 145 when RJ Anderson won by a score of 9-8. Anderson wrestled hard and hung onto the lead right to the end of the match.

At 152, Richard Lauterbach looked good as he used a couple of different cradles to pin his opponent in the first period. At 160, Dylan Sahr kept things going for the Rails as he pinned his opponent in the first period.

At 170, Hunter Huth struggled early in the match and was pinned by his opponent. At 182, Lucas Hagberg wrestled one of their best wrestlers and still dominated the match. Hagberg controlled the entire match and pinned his opponent in the second period. This made the final team score Spooner 57 and Northwestern 17.

“I was very happy with how well the team wrestled on Thursday. Hopefully they can enjoy the Christmas season with their family before heading to River Falls to wrestle in the Northern Badger on Dec. 28 and 29,” stated Melton. — from Spooner Athletic Department

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DISPATCH

Christmas program held at Spooner Elementary

The second-grade class, under the direction of Tim Kern, sings during the Spooner Elementary School Christmas program. – Photos by Larry Samson

Singing in the second-grade concert were Hunter Christner, Charlotte Macone and Justine Swanson.

Aiden Wilmot is not worried as he looks over the crowd at the Christmas program, confident that he knows his music.

Ethan Ferguson, Rylea Tucker and Linnea Christianson sang “While the Shepherds Watch Their Flocks.”

Singing “The First Noel” at the Spooner Elementary School Christmas concert Thursday, Dec. 20, were (L to R): Ariahna Scherer, Naomi Kasten, Kevin Retzlaff, Henry Schmitz and Megan Smith.

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Dewey Country

As I look back when I was a kid at Christmas, we young kids were sent upstairs. Yes, we kids went upstairs and crawled under the bed, and Santa would come. He’d rattle around making all kinds of noises. He would come to the door that went upstairs and knock on it.

He’d make noises like he was coming up, and we kids would crawl into a corner under the bed. Eventually, we’d hear “Ho, ho, ho” and “Merry Christmas!” In coming years, we finally figured out who Santa was and came downstairs. We’d crawl out of the corners and then come downstairs to see the beautiful, lit tree.

Oh, how beautiful the tree was with candles all lit. I think back and wonder how come our house never burnt as those candles certainly wouldn’t be allowed today. Our eyes would be aglow seeing all the presents around the tree, and we wondered which were ours. Thrilled we were, but we knew there was a big box in there that was opened last. Actually it was a 30-dozen egg crate. As we opened our presents we watched for the egg crate, and finally Dad would take his pocketknife and slit the twine with a slip, slip. Now for the goodies! First was oldfashioned rye bread and no other bakery could match that rye bread flavor. Next came the cookies, and not just any cookie, but pfeffernusse cookies, which were a ginger-type cookie with powdered sugar on the outside. Last, but not least, it was the box of Tootsie Pops. How delicious they were! We kids all went for the Tootsie Roll Pops, enjoying them so much. As the evening drew to a close, we were certainly thankful for the 30-dozen egg crate as it came from our friends who lived in Chicago, the Henry Eichlers. The Eichlers came up to Benoit Lake

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by Pauline Lawrence

for years spending two weeks. We really enjoyed all the Eichlers sent us, as we smacked our Tootsie Pops!

Happy birthday to Clarence Beecroft.

Many more Clarence.

A very happy anniversary to Larry and Rita Hillman on their special day, Dec. 26, with many more.

A very happy anniversary to Gene and Donna Crosby as they celebrate together on Dec. 27 with many more to come.

Happy birthday to Cole Beecroft, Mark Meister and Tom Benjamin, all on Dec. 28.

A very happy birthday to Cameron Madison when he turns 8 years old on Dec. 29. Have a wonderful day Cameron.

Happy anniversary to Loren and Judy Rawling as they celebrate their special day with lots more to come on Dec. 30.

Happy birthday to Colleen Knoop, Brianna Stellrecht and Jaelyn Foust who turns 3 years old on Jan. 2.

Happy birthday to Daniel Watkins and Mike Roe both on Jan. 3.

A very happy anniversary to Justin and Emily Parker who celebrate four years together on Jan. 3.

Did you know that 34 people in the U.S. die each day from gunshot wounds?

Amazing. That’s 12,410 U.S. residents.

Diane Hulleman tells me she and son Steve split up three pickup loads of wood on Sunday. That should keep yah warm Diane.

Please keep Bob Lawrence in your special thoughts and prayers as he was very seriously sick and spent three days in the hospital. He said it was a terrible cold.

Hope you all had a terrific Christmas and you got just what you wanted.

Scatter sunshine!

Have a great week!

Area writers corner

The lighter Side of Christmas

by Mary B. Olsen The old story is, some things are funny, and some are not. Seeing someone slip on a banana peel is funny. Broken bones are not funny. New Year’s, especially New Year’s Eve, is often funny. People get excited and toot whistles and hug people they don’t even know. Balloons pop and little noisemakers curl like snakes. People laugh. If the great big ball dropping in New York didn’t fall down at the right moment, that might be unusual but it won’t make people laugh.

They would deal with it. Celebrating Christmas is pretty serious. Most people take it as a time to cut out the humor and be serious.

When I was 5, I was a snowflake. It was about the Sugar Plum Fairy and they had us dance the snowflake dance.

We didn’t get to see the show. You waited to go on the stage, and then you danced, and your family took you home.

It was a cute costume, but I always felt like I missed out on the show. I often wondered why they had such a sad story. If they had let us fly around the stage like real snowflakes it would have been really funny, and joyful.

Even though you don’t hear many jokes about Christmas, funny things can happen. When you gather together with decorations and children, things happen.

The little ones have to learn, but until they understand that you can’t play catch with ornaments, there will be funny things happening. Testing strings of lights is a good job for the older kids.

It can keep them occupied while someone goes to the store to get new strings of lights.

Pets are often a problem. They see the new decor as a challenge. It is sad for the people who like to have an organized tree, with an unorganized pet. Very funny for anyone watching a pet, and it and its owner come to an understanding.

A dog and a tree can certainly be together in the same house as long as the

dog keeps all four feet on the floor.

Over the years, while trying to get pets acclimated to Christmas trees and decorations, I have seen a lot of funny things happen. We had puppies that were able to swallow tinsel and survive. A sick puppy is not funny. There is nothing so humorous about a puppy pulling down a holiday stocking and gobbling up things a puppy should not eat. It is so cute, you have to admit, but at the time you don’t see the humor in it.

Cats react to decorated trees in various ways. One of my cats ignores it. The other cat, an admirer of the lights, bats at anything dangling, like a piece of string, or a ribbon, and amuses itself by shattering ornaments. The tree has fallen down every Christmas at least twice. I like to think there is some incredible life lesson to be learned from my pets. It could be that every time a Christmas tree falls over, an angel gets its wings. When you hear bells ring, it might be the smoke alarm. Check it out.

Some of the humorous things I remember are priceless. It is not trying to put together a tricycle on Christmas Eve with directions written in three languages, none of which are English. It is not waking at 5 a.m. to the sounds of children laughing and exclaiming over the gifts left by Santa Claus. It is watching lights twinkle and go out, and the triumph you feel as you find the trouble and get them twinkling again. It is nearly falling off the ladder, while putting the star at the top of the tree. It is kids dancing around the tree. It is finding out where the cat hid the Baby Jesus that was in the manger in the stable the last time you saw it. The cat wanted it in his bed. Some of the songs we sing at this season are funny. Remember, “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth”? This is a funny song, but it is pretty serious for a child without front teeth. When his or her permanent front teeth come in, it will be funny, long after the ball has dropped and the new year is upon us. Have a merry and funny Christmas and a funny and happy New Year.

White Christmas church

The parishioners of the United Methodist Church in Sarona were greeted to a white Christmas when they attended services during the Christmas season. — Photo by Larry Samson

Barronett by Judy Pieper

Happy New Year.

This year I’m going to let someone else tell us their New Year’s resolutions. Mine always fall flat in less than three months.

Actually, I did learn quite a bit more about computers even though I never got around to taking a class. Maybe I’ll have someone else tell me what to do to improve myself this year. I’m sure lots of people have some pretty good suggestions. Not that I would necessarily follow them, of course, but I’m willing to listen.

If you are willing to tell us your resolutions, or suggest one for me, please give me a call, I’ll pass them on.

Did you happen to see the Early Bird last week? The picture on the front page of the cute little guy with a Christmas tree on top of his car is my grandson, Wrigley. We love him and he’s not spoiled at all.

Tristin and Morgan Neitzel stopped by our place for a couple of minutes a few nights ago. Tristin was out selling cookie dough, pizza and breakfast rolls to raise money for Cumberland wrestling. From what I understand, he is a super wrestler, but he leaves a lot to be desired as a salesman. He certainly is a quiet young man. Duane and I had to talk him into selling us a pizza and a pumpkin roll.

I’m sure they will be delicious.

Eleven residents of Cumberland ECU were among the many people who attended the Cumberland High School Christmas concert last week. Marilynn Shaurette was one of the volunteers who accompanied them, and she said that it was absolutely wonderful. We have so many talented kids in this area, and we have teachers and coaches who know how to bring out the best in them. Do we have a teacher/coach appreciation day?

If not, we should get one started.

Anitia Lehmann and I had a great time making lefse for the Sons of Norway at the Rolling Oaks a couple of weeks ago.

We cooked the lefse right in the banquet hall. We had quite a few people come over to comment on how we were doing.

It was fun talking to them. Several asked for our recipe and I’m always happy to share that information. If everyone knew how easy it is to make, the people selling it would be out of business. Oh, one of the best parts about doing anything for Pat at the Rolling Oaks is that she gives us gift certificates for dinners there.

We’re going to get together and use them very soon.

George Pederson and his family were at the Red Brick a couple of Sundays ago enjoying Debbie’s food. I saw him a few days later and, while we were talking, Phil Underman joined us. When George jokingly mentioned that their names would probably be in the Barronett news, Phil thought not, because there was nothing good to write about George.

Excuse me! I don’t know anything but good stuff about George. I’ll dig around and see if I can find any dirt, but don’t hold your breath. I doubt I’ll find anything.

Lynn Thon, Tru Lehmann and I spent the whole day last Tuesday running helter-skelter. Poor little Tru, if she wasn’t buckled in a car seat she was in a shopping cart. You can imagine what a terrible day that was for an almost 2-year-old. Anyway, we had just passed through Poskin, and I heard her say, “potty.” Oh no! I told her there was nowhere to stop, and that I’d stop at Aunt Pat’s as soon as we got to Barron, a distance of about six miles. When we got to Pat’s driveway, I asked if she still needed to go potty, and she said, “Nope.” Honesty is so cute in a small child. Lynn and I laughed at her, and I’m sure she was wondering what she did that was so funny.

Our deadline this week was early, so I can’t even tell you how the Sunday school program went. I’m sure it was great, and I’ll tell you about it next week.

I hope you had a very good Christmas, and that you were able to spend the day with family and friends. I’ll see you later.

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DECEMBER

Thursday, Dec. 27 • First Year Parenting class, 5-8:30 p.m., Spooner Annex Building, UW-Extension conference room. Call Deb Meyer at 715-635-4444 or deb.meyer@ces.uwex. edu.

• Youth Ice-Fishing Fun Day, sponsored by AAA Sportshop, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Spooner Lake. For more info, call 715-635-3011. This is not a contest. Food and equipment available.

JANUARY

Wednesday, Jan. 2 • Unit on Aging, 1 p.m., Shell Lake Senior Center.

• Free soup and sandwiches, Church of the Nazarene, Spooner, 5:30 p.m. Call 715-635-3496 to confirm. All welcome. Donations accepted.

Thursday, Jan. 3 • Shell Lake Chamber of Commerce meeting, 4:30 p.m., Shell Lake City Hall meeting room.

• Aphasia Group, 10-11:30 a.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, Spooner. Call 715-520-7999.

• Northwest Wisconsin Parkinson’s Disease Support Group, 1 p.m., lower level at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Shell Lake.

• Free community meal, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, 409 Summit, Spooner, 4-6 p.m. All welcome.

Donations accepted.

Tuesday, Jan. 8 • Moms Club meets at Faith Lutheran, Spooner, 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 9 • Free community meal, 4-6 p.m., United Methodist Church, 135 Reinhart Dr., Shell Lake. All welcome. Donations accepted.

• The board of directors for the Railroad Memories Museum meeting, 1 p.m., Spooner City Hall. All volunteers welcome.

Thursday, Jan. 10 • The Shell Lake Lions Club meeting, 6:30 p.m., Shell Lake Community Center.

• United Ostomy Association local support group meeting, 1:30 p.m., at the Spooner Health System, lower level class room. More information, call 715-6375020.

• Fibromyalgia/CFS/Chronic Pain Support Group, 1-3 p.m. at the Chetek Lutheran Church. Call 715-651-9011 or 715-237-2798.

• Education and support for people affected by cancer, 3:30-5 p.m., Marshfield Clinic Rice Lake Center.

Registration required, 715-236-8327.

Saturday, Jan. 12 • Jack Frost Day celebrated in Spooner.

• Washburn County Food Distribution in conjunction with Ruby’s Pantry, Spooner Middle School Tech Ed Building on Elm Street. Tickets 9 a.m. Distribution 9:30 a.m. Volunteers needed. Contact 715-635-9309, 715468-4017, or 715-222-4410.

Tuesday, Jan. 15 • Shell Lake/Spooner Masonic Lodge 221 meeting, 7 p.m., at the lodge.

Wednesday, Jan. 16 • Games and activities, 1 p.m., Shell Lake Senior Center.

• Shell Lake Public Library Board of Trustees meeting, 5 p.m., at the library. The public is welcome.

• The Washburn County Humane Society open board meeting 5:30 p.m., state patrol headquarters, Spooner, 715-635-4720.

Thursday, Jan. 17 • Shell Lake PTA meeting, 6:30 p.m., in the 3-12 school library. Baby-sitting available.

Sunday, Jan. 20 • Shell Lake FFA ice-fishing contest, noon to 3:30 p.m. Registration starting at 10:30 a.m. Bashaw Lake.

Monday, Jan. 21 • Northern Lights Camera Club, 7 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, 1790 Scribner St., Spooner.

• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Support Group, 5 p.m. group activity, 5:30 p.m. dinner, 6-7 p.m. meeting, Lakeland Family Resource Center, 314 Elm St., Spooner, 715-635-4669.

Thursday, Jan. 24 • First Year Parenting class, 5-8:30 p.m., Spooner Annex Building, UW-Extension conference room. Call Deb Meyer at 715-635-4444 or deb.meyer@ces.uwex. edu • The Shell Lake American Legion meeting, 6:30 p.m., Friendship Commons.

• Shell Lake VFW meeting, 7 p.m., Friendship Commons.

Saturday, Jan. 26 • Free community breakfast, 7-10 a.m., First United Pentecostal Church, 337 Greenwood Ave., Spooner. All welcome. Donations accepted.

Don’t miss this most significant event of 2012

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himself to lie in a stable. See Philippians eekly, it seems that there are head2:6-7. Jesus grew to manhood and died a lines that are more dramatic or lifecruel death on a cross and then was reschanging than the day or week before. urrected to life — providing the blessed During the calendar year of 2012, our hope for all who would believe and reprolific media coverage and techno gadceive him. He is the prodigal God who getry have kept us abreast and captiseeks after his children with a self-empvated by many of these events. Last tying and desperate measure. winter, we began with the Olympics and Is this not the most underpublicized the early stuff of elections — right up world-changing event ever in all of histhrough Hurricane Sandy. More aggrestory? While the greatest story of creation sive attention was placed on national and sacred romance were unfolding, and global economics, revolutions, and most of civilization was unaware and celebrities, technology and sports. Sadly Pastor John Sahlstrom and uncaring. We, like they, all too easily we saw the tragedy of shootings at malls and theaters and await the next atten- wife Lynn of Lake Park Al- focus on the mundane and miss the liance Church in Shell Lake. work and presence of God in our midst. tion-grabbing headline.

— Photo submitted Immanuel — God is with us. God is now In the irony of our preoccupation with the dramatic, have we missed the most significant here! There is a hope! A blessed and present hope for event? Could we so easily overlook the most impor- all to enjoy… God, our God, holy and loving Father, tant of all? We are so blessed to live in a time and place invites each of us to come “home” for Christmas. where the Blessed Hope (Jesus) is shared through Home is a place where each person is invited into felmultimedia, evangelists, pastors, laypeople and cre- lowship and peace with our Father. In essence, the ative access workers (missionaries) and parachurch message of Christmas is, “Come home. All is forgiven. ministries, etc., each representing God and bringing I love you!”

If you let him be your blessed hope, he will become hope to people across the street, nation and ocean.

Billy Graham often included in his messages the great your savior, too! This Christmastime, this most signifiquestion: “Where is the hope?” The blessed hope is cant event, what is it? Titus 2:11-14 says, “for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all peoJesus!

It is characteristic for our world to pay attention to ple, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled lives in the presthe entertaining and to miss the eternal. ent age, waiting for our blessed hope, Jesus’ birth some 2,000 years ago was obthe appearing in glory of our scured by world events, politics, busy great God and Savior Jesus schedules, taxes and other Christ, who gave himself for nondigital media news. us, to redeem us from all World leaders then, and lawlessness and to purify now, trudge through life, for himself a people for his engrossed with their worldown possession, who are class cares, most unaware of zealous for good works.” a true King, Jesus, who quietly left his throne at the Father’s right hand to humble

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Please stop in to ICAA at 608 Service Road and pick up an application or call 715-635-3975 for more information.

••• The Washburn County Area Humane Society is looking for volunteers to update and maintain their Web site and to research and apply for grants. For more information, call Susie at 715-468-2453 or email wcahs@centurytel.net.

••• Terraceview Living Center Inc. is providing opportunities for talented volunteers skilled in group and one-to-one interactions with the elderly. Seeking services between 3-7 p.m. daily. There will be flexibility in scheduling your services. Orientation is provided. If you are interested please stop by their office and fill out an application.

••• Faith in Action of Washburn County is looking for volunteers to provide direct services to seniors and adults with disabilities. Tasks might include transportation, light housekeeping, light yard work, fix-it jobs, telephone and in-person visits. Training is provided, and all volunteers choose what they want to do and when they want to volunteer. For more information, please call 715-635-2252 or e-mail Faith In Action at faithinactionwc@yahoo.com.

••• Washburn County Unit on Aging is in need of volunteer drivers for the Meals on Wheels program and the medical escort program. This is a great opportunity to socialize, meet new people, travel and help others. Mileage is paid to volunteers who use their own vehicles when transporting and/or delivering. You must possess a valid state of Wisconsin driver’s license and be able to read maps, road names and street signs. If interested, please contact Eva at the Aging and Disability Resource Center in Spooner at 715-635-4460.

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Washburn County Genealogy Room is closed for the winter. The room may be opened by appointment, depending on weather conditions. Please call 715-6357937 for more information.

Monday: Celebrate Recovery meetings at 6:30. This is a Christ-centered recovery program. Meetings take place in the Community Life Center at Spooner Wesleyan Church, Hwy. 70 West. For more information, call 715635-2768.

• First Friends Playgroup open to all children. Focus on infants and their caregivers with sensory stimulation and movement experiences. Art project materials provided and the morning closes with circle music time and instrument exploration. 10 a.m. to noon at Lakeland Family Resource Center, 314 Elm St., Spooner.

• Friendly Bridge games, Shell Lake Friendship Commons on 4th Avenue, 1 p.m. All abilities welcome.

Monday and Thursday: Washburn County Alzheimer’s Day Respite Program is held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Spooner. Daily fee includes lunch and a program of crafts, exercise, games, music, quiet time, etc. For more information, call 715635-4367.

Tuesday: Women Healing Women support group at Time-Out Family Abuse Outreach office, every other Tuesday, 4-5:30 p.m. For survivors of domestic abuse and/or sexual abuse. Free, confidential, closed after first session. For more info or to register, contact Time-Out Family Abuse Shelter Outreach office at 103 Oak St., Spooner, WI 54801, 715-635-5245.

• Ala-Teen meets at 6:30 p.m. in the New Life Christian Center in Rice Lake. Use the back entrance.

Wednesday: Lakeland Family Resource Center open from noon to 3 p.m.

• AA meeting, 7 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Spooner.

• 9 a.m. to noon, sewing at Shell Lake Senior Center.

• Kidstime-Parentime at Lakeland Family Resource Center, 314 Elm St., Spooner, 10 a.m. to noon. Learn, discuss and share ideas and experience to enrich parenting skills. Preselected art or play materials available for children of all ages. Kidstime-Parentime provides quality time for families, networking for parents and a social opportunity for both parents and children. The last Wednesday of the month a potluck lunch is held at 11:15 a.m.

Thursday: AA meets at 7 p.m. at Calvary Lutheran Church, Minong.

• Al-Anon meets at 8 p.m. in the cafeteria at Indianhead Medical Center, Shell Lake.

• Library Fun For Little Ones, 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Shell Lake Public Library. A time for stories, craft and a snack.

No age minimum or maximum for participants.

• Washburn County Historical Society Research Room open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Located in the basement of the main museum. Also by appointment. Call 715-468-2982.

Thursday and Monday: Washburn County Alzheimer’s Day Respite Program, see listing above.

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Time-Out provides free, confidential victim support. If you or someone you know is experiencing violence in a relationship, please call 800-924-0556.

Shell Lake Alano Club Meetings on CTH B, 2 blocks off Hwy. 63. All meetings are nonsmoking Sunday 10 a.m.

AA Monday Noon AA Open Tuesday Noon AA Closed 7 p.m.

AA Closed Wednesday 1 p.m.

AA Open 7 p.m.

NA Open Thursday 1 p.m.

AA Open 7 p.m.

Al-Anon Closed Friday 2 p.m.

AA Closed 7 p.m.

AA Open Saturday Noon AA Closed Fourth Saturday of every month, Pin Night with 5:30 p.m. potluck and 7 p.m. meeting.

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A new year full of promise

by Diane Dryden you’re trying to reach Haiti,” said Dan Register staff writer Slater, the medical mission team leader.

HAITI — For the past three years, ever “The phones might be down for a month since a top-top rolled down a steep emand then back up for only a day or two.” bankment while loaded with people, both But he was finally able to get through to inside and out, we’ve followed the Pastor Yves to learn that Jacqueline is proprogress of a young woman named gressing very well, staying near the hosJacqueline. The medical mission team pital in the mission house that is hours from the Shell Lake Full Gospel Church away from her home. She is doing daily got to know her directly after her accitherapy. The lodging is free, but she is dent. They were determined to help her, running out of money for her daily food no matter how long it took. allowance. She has a companion with her Jacqueline has a 5-year-old daughter at the mission house that helps her with and lives with her mother and brother in her daily bodily needs but, unless a bit of a mud hut. She was one of the few who money comes in so they can stay, they’ll survived the accident, but she did lose her be on their way home way too early. left arm at the elbow. As medical help was Naguiriged originally thought that limited because of her poverty, she would be at least one more surgery there Before the surgery on Jacqueline’s right arm. learned to live with a half arm on the left required to shorten the tendons that have The problem was now in and a badly broken right arm, which healed into a stretched horribly the past three years, the funding. A call went grotesque shape and was unusable. She was not able to but the therapy is making a huge differdo anything for herself, her child or the other members out through the Washburn ence, possibly negating the need of a secof the family, or even perform the most basic body care County Register newspaond or third surgery. per and generous donafor herself.

“If you have it in your heart,” said The medical team pooled their money and set her up tions were made. It wasn’t Slater, “this is when a financial gift for Jacqueline’s arm after the 4-1/2-hour surgery. Jacqueline would be the timeliest. If she in a little roadside business selling trinkets and per- enough, though, so a sonal-care items like shampoos and soaps. The team re- run/walk was held this – Photos by Diane Dryden can afford to stay, she can complete her turned to the United States with one mission, to find a past fall. It was well-atdaily physical therapy and possibly avoid tended, bringing in additional funds. Three years after more surgery.” doctor to repair her arm.

Two of the team nurses approached multiple doctors; the accident, enough funds had finally come in for All contributions are tax deductible, with a receipt there was always some reason why they couldn’t do the Jacqueline to have her surgery. After the 4-1/2-hour coming from Full Gospel in plenty of time for this surgery. Finally last year, a Haitian doctor in Port-au- surgery, the calcium deposits have been cut off and the year’s taxes. If you choose to help, make your checks to Prince, Dr. Naguiriged, said she would perform the sur- arm has been reattached with pins. It is now restored to Full Gospel Missions, adding the words Jacqueline’s gery. She said it would probably be a 2- or 3-step its original shape and, because of her age, 26, she is im- surgery on the memo line. The church’s address is Full process with one surgery following the next as she proving greatly on a daily basis.

Gospel Church, P.O. Box 575, Shell Lake, WI 54871.

“Telephone communications are always dicey when healed. The cost of the surgery would be $5,000.

OBITUARIES

Send death notices/obituaries to P.O. Box 455, Shell Lake, WI 54871 or e-mail wcregister@centurytel.net

Jack H. Avery

They left us in 2012

As we reflect back on 2012, we pause to think of those who have left us. Names of the people whose obituaries were printed in the Register from January to June were:

January Iona Morgan, Debra J. Glessing, Gene Larson, Ronald A. Zarada, Leo L. Petz, Elsa M. Dahlgren, Florence Besse, Stephen “Steve” W. Maddux, Fane C. Hershey, Ryan “Butch” Anderson, Margaret M. Lobnitz, Frances G. Atchinson, Bonnie DeLawyer, Maria Thompson, Roger D. Birkland, Blanche Weberg and Marlene M. Kufalk.

Help Wanted

February Kevin C. Kronlund, Raymond J. Liczkowski, Margaret Lombard and Janice L. Richards.

March Iona J. Plath, George Love, Valerie A. Floren, Alice Johnson, John L. Christiansen, Dorothy Foss, Anna B. Fak, Audrey C. Nichols and Mary “Kay” Farkas.

April Florence A. Melton, Virginia “Ginny” Denotter, Cecelia “Lil” Olson, Robert C. Emerson, Inez L. Haugland, Ronald F. Dietz, Dolores “Dee” Stina Magnus, Gustav “Butch” Zittlow, Cindy Zittlow, Theresa A. Sigmund, Terry G. Groves and Toby A. Pease.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ZONING SERVICES CITY OF SHELL LAKE

The Shell Lake City Council is requesting proposals for zoning related services. Services to include issuing building, land use permits, administration of shoreland-wetland zoning, floodplain zoning, conditional use permits, rezoning and variances, advise public and contractors on code compliance, issuing orders to correct discrepancies and code violations.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Ability to work independently; ability to communicate with the public, the Plan Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals; ability to prepare and maintain accurate and complete files and records; ability to read and interpret zoning codes including shoreline and floodplain zoning. Ability to determine the ordinary highwater mark, building setbacks, etc. Knowledge of lake management practices including shoreline buffers, rain gardens, impervious surfaces, erosion control, etc. This part-time position will require evening meetings and meeting applicants evenings and weekends. Proposals to include qualifications and fee structure. For further information, contact City Administrator Brad Pederson, phone 715-468-7679. Proposals must be submitted by 12:00 p.m., Monday, January 14, 2013, to the City of Shell Lake, 501 First St., P.O. Box 520, Shell Lake, WI 54871. The City reserves the right to accept, negotiate and/or reject any or all 575335 8-9b 19-20r WNAXLP proposals. E.O.E. Bradley A. Pederson, City Administrator

NURSERY ATTENDANT Nursery attendant needed to care for infants and preschool children, 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. every Sunday. Must be able to lift 40 lbs.

Background check required.

Child-care experience preferred.

Wage $8 per hour.

Applications may be picked up at the:

May Gladys G. Sasse, Richard “Dick” Thompson, Hallie Babette Cornelison Henning, Steve Crosby, Gary L. Fox, Marilyn K. Scalzo, William “Chip” Wood, Roxain “June” Holman and Donnie Denotter.

June Joan M. Rock, Stephen J. Geissler, Fred R. Smith, James R. Swenson, Henry J. Honken, Bernice A. Schwartz, Bernard “Pete” Shaw and Vincent C. Gillespie.

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PART-TIME HELP WANTED Energetic, reliable, caring part-time Certified Nursing Assistant to work 1:1 with an individual that has developmental disabilities at Ventures Unlimited, Inc. Day Center in Shell Lake. Parttime, daytime hours, Monday through Thursday, 30-32 hrs. per week. Experience working with adults having developmental disabilities is preferred. Must pass a background check and have a valid DL with a good driving record.

Call 715-468-2939 for an application or visit our Web site at venturesunlimited.org. Applications must be received by 3:30 p.m., Thursday, January 3, 2013.

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Jack H. Avery, a longtime resident of Trego, passed away Dec. 14, 2012, in Rockport, Texas, at the age of 75.

He will be greatly missed by his wife, Carol; daughters Jacqueline, Shell Lake, and Cynthia (Cee), Minnetonka, Minn.; son Brad and his wife, Jean, Spooner; four grandsons; two granddaughters; and six greatgrandchildren. He will be remembered for his passion of flying and his great ability to build planes, his Glastar being his last accomplishment.

He has been a member of EAA Chapter for 25 years and retired from a long career as a welder/pipe fitter in 2000.

The Charlie Marshall Funeral Homes and Crematory Inc., Aransas Pass, Texas, was entrusted with arrangements.

Accidents

Tuesday, Dec. 11 At 5:50 a.m. Susan A. Conaway, 38, Minong, was southbound on Hwy. 53, just north of mile marker 176 when she lost control on the snow while negotiating a curve and ended up in the ditch. The vehicle was towed out with no damage. No injuries were reported.

Wednesday, Dec. 12 At 3:34 p.m. the Washburn County Sheriff’s Office was notified of an SUV going through the ice on McClain Lake, just off of Landing Road in Minong. The vehicle was driven by Bruce A. Thompson, 54, Minong. The passenger was listed as Harold A. Ortegel, 52, Trego.

Both people escaped the vehicle, and it was not fully submerged.

Thompson had a friend, Ricky L. Black, Trego, remove the vehicle for

him as he was not physically able to do so. The vehicle had total damage and was removed from the scene.

No injuries were reported.

Sunday, Dec. 16 Jennifer J. Kleyweg, 27, Birchwood, was southbound on East Side Road, a half mile north of CTH D in Sarona, when she slid off the roadway as she was negotiating a curve and hit trees. The accident occurred at 11:30 a.m. The vehicle was towed with moderate damage. No injuries were reported.

Monday, Dec. 17 Robert S. Stoner, 39, Sarona, reported hitting a deer on Hwy. 253, 1,000 feet north of Losey Road in Spooner. The vehicle had slight damage. No injuries were reported.

Senior Lunch Menu

Monday, Dec. 31: Pork chop, red potatoes, asparagus, brownie, bread, butter, milk, coffee.

Tuesday, Jan. 1: No meals.

Wednesday, Jan. 2: Chicken dumpling soup, crackers, wheat buns, fruited gelatin dessert, V8 juice, milk, coffee.

Thursday, Jan. 3: Turkey cutlet, gravy, sage dressing, tossed salad, ginger pumpkin mousse, bread, butter, milk, coffee.

Friday, Jan. 4: Pork chop, sauerkraut, buttered red potatoes, bread pudding, rye bread, butter, milk, coffee.

Meal reservations must be made at least 24 hours in advance. Call 715-468-4750.

AREA CHURCHES

Alliance

Lake Park Alliance

53 3rd St., Shell Lake 715-468-2734 Rev. John Sahlstrom, Lay Pastor Richard Peterson, Youth Director Ryan Hunziker, Sunday School 9 a.m.; Sunday Worship Service 10 a.m., Nursery Provided; Faith & Friends, K - 6th grades, Wednesdays 3:15 - 5 p.m.; Youth Group, 7th - 12th grades, Wednesdays 7 - 8:30 p.m.

Baptist

Northwoods Baptist

W6268 Cranberry Dr., Shell Lake; 1 mile north of CTH B on U.S. 253 Pastor Adam Dunshee 715-468-2177 Sunday School: 10 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 11 a.m.

Sunday service: 6 p.m.

Wednesday service: 7 p.m.

Spooner Baptist

Episcopal

Salem Lutheran, ELCA

St. Alban's

803 Second St., Shell Lake 715-468-7718 shelllakesalem lutheran.org Worship 9 a.m.

Sunday School 10:15 a.m..

Corner of Elm and Summit St., Spooner 715-635-8475 Holy Eucharist: Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

Full Gospel

Timberland Ringebu Free Lutheran

Shell Lake Full Gospel

20805 CTH H, Barronett 715-468-4403 Pastor Al Bedard Sunday School 8:30 a.m.

Family Worship 9:30 a.m.

Fellowship follows worship Holy Communion first Sunday of the month Midweek Studies Mondays 2 p.m.

293 S. Hwy. 63, Shell Lake Pastor Virgil Amundson 715-468-2895 Sunday School & Adult Education Classes: 9 a.m.

Celebration worship 10 a.m.; KFC (Kids For Christ) during Service; UTurn Student Ministries 6 p.m.; Tuesdays: Compassion Connection (Men only) 7 p.m.; Wednesdays: Compassion Connection (Women only) 7 p.m.; Thursdays: Compassion Connection (Coed meetings) 7 p.m.;

Trinity Lutheran

1790 Scribner St., Spooner Pastor Russ Leeper 715-635-3603 Sunday Worship: 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

Lutheran

Methodist

W7135 Green Valley Rd. (Green Valley Rd. and Hwy. 63) Pastor Darrel Flaming 715-635-2277 spoonerbaptist.com Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 11 a.m.

Sunday evening service 6 p.m.

Wed. evening service 6:30 p.m.

Barronett Lutheran

St. Joseph's Catholic

(WELS) Hwy. 70 at Hwy. 53, Spooner Pastor Gene E. Jahnke 715-635-7672, Home: 715-354-7787 Sunday Worship: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School and Bible class: 10:45 a.m.

Catholic

100 N. Second St., Shell Lake Father Edwin Anderson Saturday Mass: 4:30 p.m.

Books and Coffee: Tues. 9 a.m.

St. Catherine's Catholic

CTH D, Sarona Father Edwin Anderson 715-468-7850 Sunday Mass: 8:30 a.m.

St. Francis de Sales

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409 N. Summit St., Spooner Father Edwin Anderson 715-635-3105 Saturday Mass: 6 p.m.

Sunday Mass: 10 a.m.

United Methodist

776 Prospect Ave., Barronett Pastor Todd Ahneman 715-671-3197 (cell) Sunday Worship: 9 a.m.

The Spirit Connection Youth Group will meet the first Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m.

135 Reinhart Dr., Shell Lake, 715-468-2405 Pastor Gregory Harrell Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School during worship time; webcast livestream.com/slumc

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church

Faith Lutheran

(Missouri Synod) South of Spooner off Hwy. 63 W7148 Luther Rd. Pastor Brent Berkesch 715-635-8167 Sunday Worship 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School 9:15 a.m.; Lutheran Hour on WJMC 96.1 FM Radio at 9 a.m. Sundays

Long Lake Lutheran Church W3114 Church Rd., Sarona Pastor Mary Strom Worship Service & Sunday School 9 a.m.

Sarona Methodist Pastor Gregory Harrell Sunday Worship 9 a.m.

United Methodist

312 Elm St., Spooner 715-635-3227 Rev. Jack Starr Sunday Worship: 10:45 a.m.

Lakeview United Methodist Williams Road, Hertel 715-635-3227 Rev. Jack Starr Sunday Worship: 9 a.m.

Wesleyan

Spooner Wesleyan

Hwy. 70 W, Spooner spoonerwesleyan.org Senior Pastor Ronald W. Gormong; Assistant Pastor Chopper Brown 715-635-2768 Sunday Worship 9 a.m.; Sunday School and ABFs: 10:30 a.m.; nursery provided; Celebrate Recovery, now every Monday at 6:30 p.m.

Team Kid, ages 4 yrs. - 6th grade, Wednesday 6:30 p.m.

Other

Cornerstone Christian

Pastor Tom Kelby 106 Balsam St., Spooner 715-635-9222 cornerstonechurch spooner.com Sunday Worship: 10 a.m.

Children’s Sunday School: 10:30 a.m.; Wed. Prayer: 6:30 p.m.

Youth Group Wednesday: 6:30 p.m.

Team Kid, 4 yrs. - 6th grade, Wednesday 6:30 p.m.

Trego Community Church

Pastor John Iaffaldano W5635 Park St. Trego, WI 54888, 715-635-8402 Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. prayer meeting; 6:30-8 p.m. AWANA Sept. - April. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., all ages.

Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Bishop Patrick F. Roper 715-719-0124 644 S. 6th Street, Barron 715-537-3679 Sunday: Sacrament 10 a.m., Sunday School/Primary 11:20 a.m., Priesthood/Relief Society 12:10 p.m.

Nazarene

Church of the Nazarene

Hwy. 253 S, Spooner Rev. David Frazer 715-635-3496 Sunday Worship: 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.; Wednesday adult, youth and children ministries: 6:30 p.m.

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od’s word is the very best guide available if we want to know what we can do to make 2013 our best year yet. Here’s the plan: Experience God’s pardon. As we begin our journey into another year, God provides us with an opportunity to “begin again.” We read in John’s lovely little letter, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse us from all of our sins.” Others talk of being free from the past; only God makes it possible and allows us a clean slate.

Enjoy God’s presence. He encourages us with his words, “Fear not, for I am with you!” With his spirit to empower us, his angels to protect us, his word to guide us and his arms around us, we have all that we need to face every challenge knowing that the victory can be ours if we take him at his word.

Engage God’s power. He promises that, “I, the creator and sustainer of the universe, will strengthen you!” For every sickness he will give us his healing. For every problem he will give us his solution. For every question he will give us his answer.

For every doubt he will increase our faith. And in the darkest hour, he will provide us with his light.

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NOTICE FIRST WARD VACANCY CITY OF SHELL LAKE

Anyone interested in filling the First Ward vacancy on the Shell Lake City Council until April 16, 2013, caused by the resignation of Jane Pederson, is asked to submit their name and qualifications to City Administrator Brad Pederson, City Hall, 501 First Street, P.O. Box 520, Shell Lake, WI 54871, by 11 a.m., Wednesday, January 9, 2013. Candidates must be at least 18 years old and a First Ward resident. For further information, call Sally Peterson or Brad Pederson at 715-468-7679 or e-mail shelllakeadm@gmail.com. It is anticipated this appointment will be made by the Shell Lake City Council at their January 14, 575211 18-19r WNAXLP 2013, meeting.

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It is the policy of Terraceview Living Center, Inc., Shell Lake, Wisconsin, to admit and to treat all residents without regard to sex, religion, age, race, color, national origin or physical challenge. The same requirements for admission are applied to all, and residents are assigned within the nursing home without regard to religion, age, race, color, national origin or physical challenge. There is not distinction in eligibility for, or in the manner of providing any resident service provided by or through the Living Center. All facilities of Terraceview Living Center, Inc. are available without distinction to all residents and visitors, regardless of sex, religion, age, race, color, national origin or physical challenge. All persons and organizations that have occasion either to refer residents for admission or recommend Terraceview Living Center, Inc. are advised to do so without regard to the residents’ sex, religion, age, race, color, national origin or physical challenge.

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REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING CITY OF SHELL LAKE DECEMBER 10, 2012

Mayor Peterson called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.

Council members present were Bruce, Eiche, Graf, Harrington, Leckel, Schultz and Shelton. Also present were Dave Wilson, Teresa Anderson, Dave Zeug, Tammy Holman, Joan Quenan, Joe Weiss, Dave Zebro, Seth Bauer and Brad Pederson. The meeting was opened with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Schultz moved, seconded by Graf, to approve the November 12, 2012, regular meeting minutes. The motion carried. Schultz moved, seconded by Graf, to approve the December 3, 2012, special meeting minutes. The motion carried.

Eiche moved, seconded by Bruce, to bring the chronic wasting disease (CWD) topic forward on the agenda. The motion carried. Alderperson Eiche presented a CWD update and noted the target sample numbers determined by the DNR for the 10-mile area surrounding the confirmed CWD sample has been reached. Alderperson Eiche noted the DNR has not reached their target sample number in the 2-mile area. A proposal was presented to allow the harvest of 10 adult deer within the portion of the city limits that is within the 2-mile zone starting January 7, 2013. The proposal includes opening up certain public lands to rifle hunting and one area to shotgun or muzzleloaders. Program requirements pertaining to safety, public notice, hunting hours, donation of venison and eligible participants were reviewed and discussed. Three audience members, who are hunter safety instructors, indicated they felt the proposed program as presented would be safe. It was noted the program could not be implemented unless approved by the DNR. Eiche moved, seconded by Harrington, to accept the proposal as drafted, to waive the provisions of Sec. 11-2-1 Regulation of Firearms in the defined areas, and appoint Dave Zeug, Lisa Burns, Dan Burns, Steve Naglosky, Jason Schroeder and Gene Harrington to harvest the deer, subject to approval of the proposal by the DNR. Upon a unanimous vote the motion carried.

Dave Wilson reported on Police Department activities.

Brad Pederson reported on zoning activities.

PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION: The December 5, 2012, committee meeting minutes were reviewed. A quote from Nielsen Construction for labor and materials to build enclosed structures in both well houses to address the corrosion problems caused by fluoride for a total cost of $3,000 was reviewed. It was noted two fluoride tanks would be required at an estimated cost of $400 each. Schultz moved, seconded by Eiche, to accept the bid and reactivate the fluoridation program. The motion carried 6-yes, 1-no.

An update on the 2013 public works projects was given.

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION: The December 10, 2012, committee meeting minutes were reviewed. Bruce moved, seconded by Graf, to approve vouchers 1435-1563. The motion carried.

The Budget Status Report was reviewed.

NEW BUSINESS: It was reported Jane Pederson resigned her position as First Ward Alderperson effective November 30, 2012. The City Council directed the City Administrator to advertise for candidates to fill the position.

Draft Request for Proposals and Job Description for the vacant zoning administrator position were reviewed. Graf moved, seconded by Shelton, to refer this matter to the Executive/Human Resources Committee. The motion carried.

Eiche moved, seconded by Shelton, to grant a 2-1/2% pay increase to the city administrator effective 1/1/13. The motion carried.

Schultz moved, seconded by Eiche, to adjourn at 8:50 p.m.

The motion carried.

Sally Peterson, Mayor 575434 19r WNAXLP Bradley A. Pederson, City Administrator

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EVA J. SARTELL a/k/a EVA J. SARTEL, MONICA BINDER, FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OMAHA, CITIBANK (SO. DAKOTA) NA, DISCOVER BANK, DICKINSON FINANCIAL LLC, PALISADES COLLECTION LLC, Defendants.

Case No. 12 CV 145 FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE 30404 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure in the amount of $155,302.40, entered by the court on December 3, 2012, the undersigned Sheriff of Washburn County, Wisconsin, will sell the following described real estate.

The following described real estate in Washburn County, State of Wisconsin: That part of Government Lot Two (2) of Section Thirty-two (32), Township Forty-two (42) North, Range Twelve (12) West (in the Township of Minong), described as: Commencing at the Northeast corner of said Government Lot 2; thence West on the North line of said Government Lot 2, a distance of 280.8 feet to the point of beginning; thence S.1˚15’E., 1,549.89 feet to an iron stake; then S.84˚40’E., 140.92 feet to an iron stake; then N.1˚15’W., 1,562.46 feet to an iron stake; thence N.87˚47’W. to the point of beginning.

TAX KEY NO.: 65-030-2-42-1232-5 05-002-002000 STREET ADDRESS: W7018 Old Bass Lake Road, Minong, WI 54859.

PLACE OF SALE: North entrance of the Washburn County Courthouse, 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, WI. DATE & TIME OF SALE: January 9, 2013, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS OF SALE: 1. Property is sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances, including but not limited unpaid and accrued real estate taxes, special assessments and other governmental charges, plus interest and penalties, if any.

2. A bid deposit of not less than ten percent (10%) of the bid amount shall be due in the form of cash, cashier’s check or certified funds at the time of sale.

3. Successful bidder to pay the entire unpaid balance of bid within ten (10) days following confirmation of the sale by the court plus buyer to pay for buyer’s title insurance, document recording fees and Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax. 4. Failure to make timely payment following confirmation of sale will result in forfeiture of bid deposit.

DATE: December 7, 2012.

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Leneya M. Dematthew, Racine, speeding, $175.30.

Derek S. Dickson, Duluth, Minn., speeding, $175.30.

Seth G. Hamlet, Hayward, failure to obtain wild turkey hunting license, $187.95; load/discharge firearm/bow in/from a vehicle, $258.10; hunt turkeys/other than shotgun or bow, $263.10; possess game birds/animals without license, $613.10.

Eric B. Holl, Duluth, Minn., operating ATV or UTV while intoxicated, $452.50.

Steven D. Kittleson, Minneapolis, Minn., speeding, $175.30.

Michael S. Moen, Cloquet, Minn., speeding, $276.10.

Tiana R. Oswald, Hayward, place/possess/transport loaded firearm in vehicle, $258.10; hunt turkey without valid permit, $308.55; possess game birds/animals without license, $613.10.

Michael J. Schwartz, Oconomowoc, passing in no-passing zone, $213.10.

Amanda M. Talarico, Duluth, Minn., OWI, $817.50, license revoked 6 months, alcohol assessment.

Mark J. Vaisvil, Fayetteville, Ga., speeding, $200.50.

(Dec. 19, 26, Jan. 2) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY H. NEBEL DOD: November 16, 2012 Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 12PR65 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for informal administration was filed.

2. The decedent, with date of birth May 10, 1922, and date of death November 16, 2012, was domiciled in Washburn County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 802 E. Cty. Hwy. B, Shell Lake, WI 54871.

3. All interested persons waived notice.

4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is April 2, 2013.

5. A claim may be filed at the Washburn County Courthouse, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

Marilyn E. Benson Probate Registrar December 12, 2012 Katherine M. Stewart P.O. Box 364 Spooner, WI 54801 715-635-9081 Bar Number: 1005716 575242 WNAXLP

(Dec. 12, 19, 26) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF IONA J. PLATH DOD: 3/01/12 Notice to Creditors Case No. 12 PR 18 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An application for informal administration was filed.

The decedent, with date of birth 9/09/1928, and date of death 3/01/12, was domiciled in Washburn County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 205 1st Street, Spooner, WI 54801.

All interested persons waived notice.

The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is March 5, 2013.

A claim may be filed at the Washburn County Courthouse, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

Hon. Eugene D. Harrington Circuit Court Judge Dec. 5, 2012 Katherine M. Stewart P.O. Box 364 Spooner, WI 54801 715-635-9081 Bar Number 1005716 574890 WNAXLP

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TOWN OF BASHAW TAXES

Taxes for the Town of Bashaw may be paid at the Shell Lake State Bank in Shell Lake, or by mailing them to the treasurer at: Lynn Hoeppner, W8876 Co. Hwy. B, Shell Lake, WI 54871. First half taxes are due by January 31, 2012, and are not payable at the Courthouse. Please remember to include your dog license which expires December 31.

Lynn Hoeppner, Treasurer Town of Bashaw 575575 19-20r WNAXLP

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Brian F. Wold, Boyceville, speeding, $200.00.

Dalton J. Butterfield, Minong, possession of THC, $299.00.

Victoria D. Hove, Trego, possession of THC, $263.50; possession of drug paraphernalia, $263.50.

Dexter M. Hubin, Spooner, OWI, $1,109.00, local jail, license revoked one year.

Talia J. Jaros, Superior, possession of THC, $299.00.

Dillon M. Leonard, Hayward, operating without carrying license, $263.50.

David A. Long, Lake Nebagamon, criminal damage to property, $1,379.10, probation, sent. withheld; disorderly conduct, $243.00, probation, sent. withheld.

Vicki M. Overstreet, East Ellsworth, possession of drug paraphernalia, $299.00.

Jesse J. Priesgen, Spooner, possess drug paraphernalia, $299.00, other sentence.

Aleica M. Springer, Spooner, bail jumping, $243.00, sent. withheld.

Robert A. Truitt, Rice Lake, criminal damage to property, $571.90, probation, sent. withheld.

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(Dec. 19, 26, Jan. 2)

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY

IN THE MATTER OF THE NAME CHANGE OF: SARINA MARIE NANANHILLMAN

By Petitioner: Nicole Marie Hillman

Notice and Order for Name Change Hearing Case No. 12 CV 195

NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: Sarina Marie NananHillman To: Sarina Marie Hillman Birth Certificate: Sarina Marie Nanan-Hillman

IT IS ORDERED: This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Washburn County, State of Wisconsin: Eugene D. Harrington, Washburn County Courthouse, 10 Fourth Ave., 2nd Floor, Shell Lake, WI 54871, January 15, 2013, 9 a.m.

BY THE COURT: Hon. Eugene D. Harrington Circuit Court Judge December 14, 2012 575302 WNAXLP

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… and the angels sang

The Shell Lake first-grade class sang “All I Want For Christmas” for their parents, grandparents and guests at the Shell Lake Primary School Christmas program Tuesday, Dec. 18. A large crowd attended both the morning and afternoon programs. Shown (L to R): Avery Vic, Ryan Klobertanz, Claire Cross and Nolan Miller. – Photos by Larry Samson

The kindergarten handbell choir, under the direction of Mrs. Miller, performed “Silent Night.” Jordan Lawrence and Chase Anderson, dressed in their Sunday best, helped ring in Christmas.

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The second-grade class sang “Frosty the Snowman.” Shown back row (L to R): Hannah Schultz and Sylus Stellrecht. Front: Katie Green, Mary Lesneski and Amelia Hampe.

The kindergarten class performed “Jingle Bells” as only 6-year-olds can. Shown back row (L to R): Peter Steines, Aselin Olson, Will Mehsikomer and Melody Taylor. Middle: Michael Peirsiak, Colton Marker, Isabelle Hodgett and TJ Hanson. Front: Chance Kidder, Isaiah Norton, Carter Allen, Kaitlin Olson, Hunter Harrington and Makenna Vanderhoof.

Shell Lake Primary giving tree helps two organizations

The other song that the first-grade class sang was “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.” Shown back row (L to R): Nolan Miller, Rainah Powers, Jameson Lucas, Mark Skluzacek and Destiny Trimble. Front: Donavan Balts, Emily Swan and Jack Cusick.

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Shell Lake Primary students collected items for the Washburn County Food Pantry and the Washburn County Humane Society during the holiday season. Both organizations were very thankful for the donations. Appreciation is extended to everyone who participated in the giving. — Photo submitted

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Two yearlings seem to be posing on the edge of the woods in this late February photo.

LEFT: Just waking from its nap in a bed of lupines was this newborn fawn, born in the morning of May 30 in a garden east of Shell Lake on CTH B. Photos by Larry Samson

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by Shawn Johnson Wisconsin Public Radio MADISON - Several Democratic state lawmakers say they’ll introduce bills that would ban assault rifles and so-called “maximum damage” bullets in Wisconsin to prevent shootings like the one in Newtown, Conn. But Gov. Scott Walker says the state should focus on improving Wisconsin’s mental health system.

The semiautomatic rifle carried by the shooter in the Newtown tragedy used 30round magazines. They held bullets designed to fragment inside a body once they strike tissue, inflicting more damage than a bullet that travels straight through.

Milwaukee Assembly Democrat Fred Kessler called that one of the tragedies of the Newtown shooting. “These kids had no chance. I mean once the bullet disintegrates in your body, you know, I thought ‘Oh God, the opportunity to go to the hospital and be saved disappeared.”

And I think that, to me, would be a pretty easy issue that we could deal with.”

In addition to banning those bullets, Kessler and other Milwaukee Democrats would also ban assault rifles.

They would also require concealed carry applicants to undergo a psychological evaluation.

Speaking to reporters in La Crosse, Walker said previous shootings had shown there was a huge breakdown in the mental health systems in many states. He called for improvements there but brushed off talk of banning assault weapons.

Walker said the state should also better track people on restraining orders for domestic violence, a response to the spa shooting earlier this year in Brookfield.