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Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 Vol. 123, No. 21 • Shell Lake, Wis.

Weekend watch

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• Jack Frost Fest Saturday • Shell Lake’s first ice-racing contest • Shell Lake FFA ice-fishing contest, Sunday. See Events, page 8

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SPORTS

Basketball and wrestling See pages 12-14

Saying goodbye to Debbie Glessing See page 2

People you should know: Dave McNulty See back page

BREAKERS

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SPOONER — Are you a parent or caregiver of a youth between the ages of 10 and 14? If so, you are invited to join a fun-filled interactive program called Super Families. This evidence-based program is designed to help parents and youth learn how to work better together and form stronger bonds. The program is proven to reduce the use of alcohol and drugs in youths who have participated in the program. The program helps parents find better ways to set rules and consequences for their children. One parent wrote, “Very worthwhile, it is helpful to share experiences with other parents.” All families in Washburn County are welcome. The class runs from 5-7:30 p.m. Dinner is provided as well as day care for younger children at no cost. Gas cards and other incentives are provided to families who participate. This program is being offered in the Spooner Middle School, Tuesday evenings for six weeks. The dates for the program are Jan. 17 through Feb. 21. Families with youth between ages 10 and 14 are encouraged to sign up for some fun and learning. If interested, contact Deb Meyer with UW-Extension at 715-635-4444 or Judy Schnacky with the Lakeland Family Resource Center at 715-635-4669. — from UW-Extension ••• SHELL LAKE - Local Dems and volunteers in collecting signatures to recall Gov. Scott Walker held an informal celebration this week after collecting nearly 2,000 signatures to be added to those from 71 other counties in the process of gathering the minimum required 540,208 signatures to force the recall election this spring. The deadline for submission of all signatures is next Tuesday, Jan. 17. Just four weeks into the campaign, United Wisconsin announced that 507,533 people had signed a recall petition. The campaign’s new goal is now 720,277, nearly 200,000 more than needed.

“Critics say an early election is expensive,” said Democratic Chair Sue Hansen. “We see from the damage Walker has done already that Wisconsin can’t afford to wait. Wisconsin has endured much during its lost year under Scott Walker. That’s why 2012 will bring renewed commitments to the Wisconsin ideals of fair play, honesty, integrity and equal opportunity for all, not just out-of-state corporations or the superrich.” Supporters of Walker say not only is the recall process expensive and voters should wait for the next regular election, but that Walker’s policies have saved school districts and local municipalities large amounts of money by making changes in the collective bargaining rules. - with submitted information

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Three-year-old Kala Pederson found the waffles and strawberries much to her liking.

The only problem she had was that her eyes were bigger than her stomach. — Photo by Larry Samson

Do you recognize this person?

TREGO — On Sunday, Nov. 27, a subject entered the Trego Community Church during the church service, entered the pastor’s room and stole a 2-foot-tall tan safe. The subject was able to gain entry into the safe. Inside was the church’s debit card. The subject took the debit card up to the Bank of the West in Minong and was able to obtain in excess of $200 from the ATM via the debit card.

The Washburn County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the subject who did this. Photos were obtained from the Bank of the West’s ATM on Nov. 27, 2011. If anyone has information or recognizes the subject in the photo, they are asked to contact the Washburn County Sheriff’s Office via the nonemergency telephone number 715-4684720. Or the public can call the Washburn County anonymous tip line 715-468-2720. — from the Washburn County Sheriff’s Office

Do you recognize this man? If so, contact the Washburn County Sheriff’s Dept. - Photo from Washburn County Sheriff’s Dept.

Fresh Start program requests community service projects

Council addresses guidelines for short-term rentals

by Jessica Beecroft SHELL LAKE – Sherri Anderson, teacher and program facilitator for the Fresh Start program, came to the city council’s regular monthly meeting Monday, Jan. 9, requesting

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help for getting community service projects for the participants.

The city council said they had several projects and the council will have Jeff Parker, public works director, and Brad Pederson, city administrator, assign projects to the group throughout the year. “It’s been a real good working relationship,” Pederson said about the previous experiences they have had with the Fresh Start program.

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Saying goodbye

Debbie Glessing was a dispatcher/jailer for Washburn County for 20 years. As a dispatcher for 911, she touched the lives of many people. She died Monday, Jan. 2, and was laid to rest Friday, Jan. 6, at the Lakeside Cemetery in Barronett. Her pallbearers were the officers she served with, Terry Dryden, Mike Richter, Pete Frey, Brian Jilek, Dave Bos, Jason Mayer, Nick Helstern and Audie Parenteau. — Photos by Larry Samson

The funeral procession winds through the Barronett countryside that Debbie Glessing loved and called home.

Law enforcement officers from northern Wisconsin said their last goodbye to a good friend and colleague, Debbie Glessing, Friday, Jan. 6.

RIGHT: It was a long, solemn walk for these law enforcement officers. For the second time in recent weeks, the Washburn County Sheriff’s Office has lost one of their own. Deputy Sheriff Gerald McAllister was buried Dec. 20.

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Short-term rentals The city council has approved a final draft of a resolution that states, among other things, that all short-term rentals must obtain a conditional use permit from the city and meet certain critera.

The matter will go to a public hearing that is tentatively scheduled for Monday, Jan. 30.

Each application will be decided on a case-by-case basis with these general rules: • Between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., occupancy of the dwelling unit shall be limited to two people per bedroom plus an additional two people, but in no event shall the occupancy exceed eight people in the dwelling unit.

• No more than one conditional use permit per tax parcel may be issued under this subsection.

• If the premise has a private well or septic system, said system must be code compliant, properly maintained and size appropriate for the use and occupancy of the unit.

• There shall be no more than four exterior on-site parking spaces utilized per dwelling unit.

• There shall be no launching or loading of any motorized watercraft from the shoreline of the property covered by the conditional use permit.

• No recreational vehicles, campers, tents or other forms of supplement sleeping accommodations shall be permitted on the property covered by the conditional use permit.

• No fireworks shall be permitted on the property covered by the conditional use

permit.

• The owners of the real estate covered by the conditional use permit shall provide to the city of Shell Lake Zoning Administration a telephone number at which the owner or his or her authorized agent can be reached at any time, day or night. Failure of the owner or authorized agent to respond to a telephone call within 12 hours of the time a call is made, will be deemed a violation of the conditional use permit.

A city-approved sign, at least 8.5 inches by 11 inches, must be erected, properly located and properly maintained on the property covered by the conditional use permit which shows all of the following: The maximum number of occupants permitted, the maximum number of parking spaces permitted, and the name of the contact person and the telephone number which has been provided to the zoning administration.

• Each person who rents the property shall be provided with, and must sign, a rental agreement which clearly sets forth the rules.

• The owner of the property shall comply with all regulations of the state of Wisconsin or other regulatory agencies which may apply to the rental of dwellings for human habitation.

This draft is not in its entirety and some changes may occur before the public hearing. For full details, watch for the upcoming publication from the city of Shell Lake with the notice of public hearing.

More information on the full city council meeting to follow.

by Steve Roisum Wisconsin Public Radio STATEWIDE - Every quarter, the Farm Bureau performs a market basket survey in Wisconsin on the price of 16 basic food items you’d find at the grocery store, such as milk and boneless chicken breasts. The total cost of the market basket items in the last quarter of 2011 dropped 4 percent from the quarter before it.

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spokesman Casey Langan says economists predict the costs of food at the grocery store could stabilize this year. But, he says energy prices could prove to be the wild card. “If we see a spike in energy prices, whether it’s unrest in the Middle East, if we see a spike in energy prices then all bets are off.”

The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation’s latest market basket survey found that 14 of the 16 items cost more now than a year ago.

Food prices stabilize

Attorney conduct at issue in Gableman dustup

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by Bill Lueders Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism STATEWIDE – Michael Gableman, the Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, has been drawing flak over revelations that he received free legal help in an ethics case from a law firm representing clients with past and pending cases before the court.

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan watchdog group, has filed ethics complaints against Gableman with the Wisconsin Judicial Commission and state Government Accountability Board.

Participants in ongoing redistricting cases involving the law firm, Michael Best & Friedrich, are asking that Gableman recuse himself or be disqualified. And Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne has asked the court to revisit its decision to uphold Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining law, a case in which Gableman sided with Michael Best.

Critics say Gableman’s fee arrangement, under which Michael Best would get paid only if Gableman won his case (he didn’t), violates a judicial rule against accepting gifts from lawyers or firms that “have come or are likely to come before the judge.” A separate state ethics rule bars public officials from accepting “anything of value” for free because of their position.

The value of legal services provided to Gableman by Michael Best between 2008 and 2010, when the justice was charged with an ethics violation for running misleading campaign ads, has been estimated in the tens of thousands of dollars.

But, as the saying goes, it takes two to tango. If Gableman’s receipt of legal services from Michael Best violated state ethics rules, what can be said about Eric McLeod, the Michael Best lawyer who entered into this agreement?

Plenty, as it turns out.

Monroe Freedman, a nationally recognized expert on legal ethics at Hofstra Law School in New York, says in an interview that he believes McLeod is in violation of an ethics rule against “knowingly assist(ing) a judge or judicial officer” in improper conduct. He also feels the attorney may have run afoul of the rule requiring competent representation.

In addition, Freedman suggests that McLeod violated the rule against attorneys engaging in “dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.”

According to a Nov. 28 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article by veteran re-

porter Patrick Marley, “McLeod said Gableman had a standard billing agreement with the law firm and has paid that bill.” Michael Best general counsel Jonathan Margolies subsequently wrote the court to set the record straight — that, aside from Gableman’s paying for out-ofpocket legal costs, “no bill for attorneys fees was sent and none were paid.”

Freedman calls McLeod’s initial statement, if accurately reported, “at best misrepresentation and therefore a serious violation.”

The Office of Lawyer Regulation, an arm of the Supreme Court, can initiate an investigation into attorney misconduct on its own accord or in response to a filed grievance, director Keith Sellen says. The office won’t say if an investigation is under way.

McLeod did not respond to requests for comment. Margolies sent a brief reply to an e-mail outlining the alleged violations: “Michael Best believes that in filing the letter with the Supreme Court, the firm has met its ethical obligations to the bar and the court. We have no further comment.”

According to Margolies’ letter, Michael Best’s arrangement with Gableman provided that payment for services “would be contingent upon the recovery of fees pursuant to Wis. Stat. 757.99.” The wording of this statute seems to require the judge to incur expenses, which are then repaid; Gableman’s arrangement meant he would not in any case have to foot his legal bill.

Contingency agreements are common in personal injury cases, where the percentage payoff may greatly exceed a firm’s actual investment, but not in cases where it can, at most, get its usual rate.

Walker’s office is reviewing whether it wants McLeod involved in ongoing cases.

McLeod has already resigned from a committee that advises the governor — on judicial selections.

Bill Lueders is the Money and Politics Project director at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. The project, a partnership of the Center and MapLight, is supported by the Open Society Institute.

The nonprofit and nonpartisan Center, www.WisconsinWatch.org, collaborates with Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Public Radio, other news media and the UWMadison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by the center do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.

by Jessica Beecroft WASHBURN COUNTY – The Washburn County Board of Supervisors had no one running for District 9 after William Allard announced he will not be running. Now, Terry A. Leckel Sr. has

filed a Declaration of Candidacy to run for county board supervisor – District 9, as a write-in candidate. His son, Terry Leckel, is also running for the Washburn County Board of Supervisors in District 21, against Dan Hubin (I).

by Rich Kremer Wisconsin Public Radio PEPIN COUNTY - Due to tight budgets and a significant cut in state aid for recycling, local governments are changing the ways they collect recyclable materials.

In Pepin County, reduction in state recycling aids meant a loss of $33,000 for the county budget. Recycling and Solid Waste Coordinator Terry Mesch says that left the city of Durand and villages of Pepin and Stockholm with a choice.

“Eliminating curbside pickup of the recyclables was going to be the most effective, cost-saving measure they could do.

It will now become a private contract between the citizen and private hauler to have recycling picked up at their residences or businesses.”

Mesch says a handful of residents have signed up with the hauler to keep their curbside pickup, but others will have to

haul their recyclables to county drop-off sites.

Joe Van Rossum directs the state’s Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center.

He says Pepin County’s is the first example of communities ditching curbside collection, but there are many other, more subtle changes being made to recycling programs across the state. His office has sent out a survey to local governments on how the 40-percent cut of state recycling aid is playing out.

“Communities with drop-off programs have reduced the number of hours that their facilities are opened and staffed, seeing reduced access to recycling possibilities.”

In his biennial budget, Gov. Scott Walker proposed eliminating the state’s recycling mandate but backed away after widespread criticism.

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Government and citizen abuse

The heavy-handed big government is alive and well in the United States today.

When the country started there were few federal crimes – among those that existed were treason, counterfeiting and evasion of excise taxes. There were also few enforcement agencies. Over the first 200 years or so, the country added a few more laws and law enforcers - such agencies as the Secret Service, FBI and IRS agents. However, in the 1960s and 1970s, the number of laws, rules and regulations whose violation subjects citizens to criminal prosecution has mushroomed.

The number of such regulations is estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

Today, the Code of Federal Regulations has 165,000 pages and takes 27 feet of shelf space when printed and bound.

About 90 federal agencies send their enforcers to a federal training camp to learn investigative techniques, police tactics and skills. Agencies such as Fish and Wildlife, National Park Service, Labor Department and many Commerce Department subagencies send their people for training. Many of these agencies have their own SWAT teams with automatic rifles, dogs, etc., that often sweep down on unsuspecting citizens that are unaware that they may be violating some federal regulation. Intention or lack thereof to violate a regulation seems to no longer be a factor as to whether a raid should take place.

Back in September of 1996, the EPA raided Mr. Hubert Vidrine Jr.’s refinery company. The raid involved the use

guns, dogs, flashing lights and roadblocks. The plant had about 260 employees. The federal agents refused to allow the female employees to use the rest rooms or call their day-care providers to make arrangements for their children. In 1999, Vidrine was charged with knowingly storing hazardous waste. The case was dismissed in 2003 by which time Vidrine had spent $120,000 defending himself. This action against the company forced the company to close and the employees to lose their jobs. The judge in the case called the regulations that supposedly were violated a morass and noted that the EPA personnel themselves were in disagreement of what they meant.

Last September, Vidrine was awarded

$1.67 million because of the egregious behavior of EPA personnel. The judge said she would have awarded more money but was restricted from doing so by federal law. The EPA is now urging the justice department to appeal the judge’s ruling. I guess the EPA is a sore loser. The Democratic Party is usually identified as the party of big government. It is hard to believe the Democrats support this type of citizen abuse. They just don’t realize that it is a side effect of the policies they promote.

Nothing happens in our government by accident; we the people have lost control. Our representatives in Congress and Senate have for most part little to say in the direction our country is going. We are being controlled by czars appointed by the president; government agencies with their bureaucrats make laws, bypassing the legislative branch of our government.

The president also uses executive orders as another way to make laws and bypass our founders intent. The few good people in the legislative branch are gridlocked into doing nothing.

Our Constitution is being destroyed before our eyes, government agencies are out of control making laws that are used to take away our rights and demonizing anyone who speaks out. Our un-

alienable God-given rights are denied us by government that puts themselves above God. Those in security and law enforcement are able to place you on a suspicious-persons list for the most feeble excuses, taking pictures in a mall, a bumper sticker on your car, attending a Tea Party gathering or even writing a letter in a local newspaper. And where does that information go? It goes to a government agency called a state fusion center. This agency is used to collect information about the American public. This has been going on for years. Who knows, you may be on a list at the fusion center.

Now that the president has signed the National Defense Authorization Act that both our senators voted for, we can be ar-

rested by our military, claming us to be a threat to the government and locking us up without trial or bail indefinitely.

I know what you’re saying, “That won’t happen to me.” Don’t count on it.

“What can I do about it anyway?” You could do like the chicken, sit down and close your eyes and wait for the fox to eat

you. Maybe you could just community organize and join together in groups and stand up for your God-given freedom. If you do nothing, say goodbye to your freedom and the American way of life.

The many predictions that Bill Thornley wrote about did not come to pass. He explained that well.

I think the reason they didn’t come to pass is the people that wrote them didn’t read what the Bible says. In Matthew 24:1-35, Jesus tells us all about that time.

In Matthew 24:36-51, Jesus tells us the day and hour are unknown. Jesus said

that even the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father knows. Then in Matthew 6:25-34 Jesus tells us not to worry but to be ready and watchful.

BARRON – A New Year’s baby made nine for a Barron family. Alex and Lydia Savchenko are the proud parents of the first baby of 2012 at Mayo Clinic Health System-North. A daughter, Jennifer, 8 pounds and 1 ounce, arrived unexpectedly at home at 9:33 p.m., Jan. 1, before the ambulance could arrive to bring mother and baby to the hospital. She joins seven sisters and one brother. — from Barron News-Shield ••• RICE LAKE — After serving shoppers in the area for just shy of 30 years, the Rice Lake Kmart store will close. About 70 jobs will be lost. The announcement was made by Sears Holding Corp. After Kmart Corporation filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002, it merged with Sears under the umbrella of Sears Holding Corp., which also owns Lands End. Sears said it could no longer prop up marginally performing stores. — from the Rice Lake Chronotype ••• RICE LAKE — The body of a 56-year-old Rice Lake man was found in the passenger seat of a burning vehicle on Sunday night, Jan. 1, in the Whitetail Apartment complex parking lot, and emergency responders were unable to immediately extricate him. Donald E. Barker, Rice Lake, was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death and fire are under investigation, and police do not suspect foul play, as there was nothing suspicious about the manner of death. — from Barron News-Shield ••• BARRON — A Barron woman, 23-year-old Jamie L. Kuehn, was arrested on multiple charges including OWI after the vehicle she was operating struck and injured a Turtle Lake police officer. A 4-year-old female child was in the vehicle when the incident occurred according to a report from the Turtle Lake Police Department. Authorities began looking for Kuehn’s vehicle after the sheriff’s department received a report of a female passed out in a vehicle in a ditch on Hwy. 8. An alert later stated that the vehicle had been driven out of the ditch and was westbound on the highway.

Four minutes later, a bulletin was issued that the car had now crashed into trees on the south side of the highway in the Turtle Lake village limits. Officer Jon Fick of the Turtle Lake Police Department found Kuehn’s vehicle up against a tree with its tires spinning forward.

Fick approached the vehicle from the rear due to several trees to the side of the vehicle, saw Kuehn put the vehicle in reverse with its engine accelerating. Fick attempted to get out of the way, but was struck on his left knee and waist area. The impact threw him 5 feet from

where he was struck, according to the report. When Fick got to his feet, he ordered Kuehn to get out of the car, an order she ignored. Fick broke a rear passenger window to gain access to the locked vehicle and saw a female child sitting on the woman’s lap. Fick was able to get the woman and child out of the vehicle. Kuehn was arrested and charged with causing injury/OWI with a passenger under age 16 in addition to two counts of second-degree recklessly endangering safety. — from Barron News-Shield ••• POLK COUNTY — Polk County has the highest number of suicides per capita in the state. Area people who have taken their lives include a young father, a young mother, two students from one high school and an 11-year-old. Each death is its own story, but the people who have died and the families and friends left behind are part of the broad community. The community has come together to address an area crisis. Two meetings on suicide prevention and awareness aimed at bringing the community together to help address the issue were scheduled. The first was Monday, Jan. 9, and an upcoming one on Thursday, Jan. 19. The Mental Health Task Force of Polk County is also providing information to help increase awareness about ways to help prevent suicides. — from the Inter-County Leader ••• POLK COUNTY — The April 3 Polk County Board election may be the least contested in years, but county residents will also be voting on a referendum that day that would make a major change in Polk County after the 2014 election. The ballot issue, if approved, would reduce the size of the board to 15 members. If voters approve the referendum, the board elected would need to draw new supervisory district lines before December 2013. The new lines would again use the 2010 census figures but would eliminate about one out of three seats. Supervisor Larry Jepsen raised his concerns about the upcoming referendum.

“Smaller is not less expensive,” he said. We (the organization committee) put a whole lot of work into the new district lines. We should not roll over and play dead. We think 23 is the right number for the board.” — from the Inter-County Leader

Say goodbye to freedom

Signs of the end of the age

Bert Richter Sarona

Got time? Got talent?

Spooner Area School District needs you

SPOONER — Spooner Area Schools are looking for volunteers at the elementary, middle and high school buildings.

If you enjoy working with children of any age, or just enjoy being in a school setting, they could use your help.

There are a variety of opportunities available: Tutoring one on one or in small groups, in-classroom help, chaperone field trips, help with special events, Afterschool Club helper, and office or library help. Or be a guest speaker and talk to students about an interest, hobby or career.

Schools have recently benefited from volunteers working in the above areas.

Their willingness to spend their time and talent helping children is a great asset to a school environment and community.

Recent budget cuts have affected school programming and volunteers have made a huge difference in filling the gaps.

Many students have been identified as needing extra help, and there are many that are still waiting to benefit from oneon-one or small-group tutoring. Tutoring can involve a variety of tasks,

including reading to elementary school students to allow them to get an ear for good fluency, listening to students of all ages read and helping them to identify different word sounds and rules, practicing math facts, using flashcards or teacher-provided activities, and helping a middle or high school student look for context clues to answer homework questions.

Of course there are many more great examples of how volunteers can make a difference.

A volunteer orientation will be held Thursday, Jan. 19, 10-11:15 a.m., Room C45, Spooner High School. A tour of the high school will follow for anyone who would like to familiarize themselves with the facility. Orientation and tour will be organized by AmeriCorps team members Sharon Johnson and Jessica Smuda. Please RSVP to Karen Collins, 715-635-0243 or e-mail collinsk@ spooner.k12.wi.us.

You can volunteer for one event one time or for several times each week. Also learn about the STEP program for adults over 62, and learn how you can volunteer and reduce your property taxes. — from AmeriCorps

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Snowshoe-making class to be held in Spooner

SPOONER — Storme Nelson, executive director at Hunt Hill, will be teaching a snowshoe making class at the Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum in Spooner on Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 25-26, 6 – 9 p.m.

The cost includes the snowshoe kit, six hours of instructions and a lot of fun.

You will learn basic techniques, work on

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completing the shoes at class and finish varnishing them at home. The bindings are not included in the price.

Please contact Hunt Hill at 715-6356543, info@hunthill.org or go to www. hunthill.org for more information and the cost. Registration and payment due Friday, Jan. 13. — from Hunt Hill

State patrol law of the month

Move Over Law drivers must provide a safety zone for stopped law enforcement and other emergency vehicles

STATEWIDE — This time of year, law enforcement officers, tow truck operators and emergency responders are busy working on the side of highways to rescue motorists and remove vehicles that have slid off icy roads or into other vehicles. Although the frigid conditions test their resolve, the greatest danger these workers face is being hit by vehicles traveling at high speeds just a few feet away.

To protect law enforcement officers, tow truck operators, emergency responders, road maintenance workers and others who work on the side of roadways, Wisconsin has a Move Over Law. The law requires drivers to shift lanes if possible or slow down in order to create a safety zone for a law enforcement vehicle, ambulance, fire truck, tow truck or highway maintenance vehicle that is stopped or parked on the side of a road with its warning lights flashing.

“To create a safety zone on interstate highways and other divided roads with multiple directional lanes, you must move over to vacate the lane closest to the law enforcement or other emergency

Shell Lake Lions Calendar Winners

January 1 - $500 Bernadette Wabrowetz, Shell Lake January 2 - $30 Amber Kasprowicz, Shoreview, Minn.

January 3 - $30 Chuck Robotti, Shell Lake January 4 - $30 Bob Meyer, Spooner January 5 - $30 Bill Taubman, Shell Lake January 6 - $30 Shirley Hile, Shell Lake

Anderson Hager Moe Winners also announced on WJMC FM Radio

Temps & levels

Temperatures recorded at Spooner Ag Research Station 2011 Jan. 2 Jan. 3 Jan. 4 Jan. 5 Jan. 6 Jan. 7 Jan. 8

2012 Jan. 2 Jan. 3 Jan. 4 Jan. 5 Jan. 6 Jan. 7 Jan. 8

High 8 11 17 9 19 14 9

High 26 17 21 33 47 45 31

Low -2 -3 -4 -5 -8 -8 -4

Low 13 -6 8 11 21 25 16

Precip. .8” snow

1.2” snow Precip. .5” snow

vehicle if you can safely switch lanes,” says Wisconsin State Patrol Captain Jeff Frenette of the Northwest Region. “If the road has a single directional lane or you can’t safely move over because of traffic, you must reduce your speed until safely past the vehicle.”

Violating the Move Over Law can be expensive as well as dangerous. A citation costs $263.50 with three demerit points added to your license.

“When drivers disregard the Move Over Law, they are putting lives at risk.

Failure of motorists to create a safety zone by moving over or slowing down is one of the major reasons that motor vehicle crashes kill more law enforcement officers on duty than any other cause. Tow truck operators, highway maintenance workers and emergency responders also are killed and injured when drivers don’t move over or slow down,” says Frenette.

“By obeying the Move Over Law, drivers can protect themselves, their passengers, our officers and others who work on highways from needless injuries and deaths.” — from WSP

If you are looking for a convenient place to make a donation to the Washburn County Food Shelf, there is a drop-off box inside Dahlstroms Lakeside Market on Shell Lake’s Main Street. Nonperishable items may be placed in the bin located near the checkouts. Volunteers from Salem Lutheran Church pick up donations weekly and take them to the food shelf. Located at the same spot is a container to place box tops, labels and milk caps that are being collected by the PTA for Shell Lake Schools. — Photo by Suzanne Johnson

Register Memories

1952 - 60 years ago

• Births at the Shell Lake hospital were Richard Nyle born to Mr. and Mrs. Nyle Hove, Spooner; Gayle Rae born to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dopp, Shell Lake; Gloria Jean born to Mr. and Mrs. Arvid Pederson, Shell Lake; and Joe Jr. to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lapcinski, Birchwood.

• W.J. Carter, graduate of the University of Minnesota, was in charge of band and chorus in Shell Lake when Mrs. Beckman resigned.

• Two cases of diphtheria developed at the Orin Daniels home at West Sarona.

Robert, 15, was recovering but developed a heart condition, which resulted in his death. Duane, his brother, was better and out of danger.

• Sgt. Bessy L. Bitney, daughter of the late E.H. Bitney, arrived in Frankfort, Germany, for assignment with the 97th General Hospital as a medical technician. Her two sisters, Mrs. Ellen Pinney and Verna Bitney, and brother W.W. Bitney all lived in Shell Lake. A graduate of Shell Lake High School, Sgt. Bitney attended Nurses Training School, Ancker Hospital, St. Paul, before enlisting in the Women’s Army Corps. She received the Good Conduct Medal and the European Theater of Operations ribbon.

1962 - 50 years ago

• The wrecker from Shell Lake Motors and a car went through the ice of the southwest bay on Shell Lake as the wrecker driver was attempting to pull the Chevrolet belonging to Bailey Reinhart of Shell Lake off the ice after it had stalled while Reinhart was ice fishing.

The rear end of the wrecker and the front end of the car sank into about 7 feet of water. The ice was sawed to make a channel to the shoreline near the end of the airport where Harry Swan’s power shovel was used with the aid of 600 feet of cable to pull the wrecker from the lake. Reinhart stated his vehicle could stay in the lake until spring. Damage to the wrecker was held to a minimum.

• Chester Daveports was convalescing at the base hospital at Ft. Lewis, Wash., following a heart attack.

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• Births announced were Kraig Arthur to Mr. and Mrs. Vern Scribner, Sarona; Billy Joe, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gruenhagen, Birchwood; and Sandra Lynn to Mr. and Mrs. Terry Remmington, Trego.

• Marvin Ross, Shell Lake High School junior forward, was leading the Western Division of the Lakeland Conference in the scoring department. His average per game was 21.0. Jim Lewis, junior forward from Shell Lake, was in number 5 spot with a 17.7-per-game average.

Tommy Moen was in 11th place with a 11.3 average, and Ken Schrankel was in 12th with an 11.3 average.

1972 - 40 years ago

• New arrivals at the Indianhead Memorial Hospital were Anthony Bruce to Mr. and Mrs. Dale Martin, Springbrook; Nicole Marie, to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hillman, Shell Lake; Susan Lorali to Mr. and Mrs. James Clark, Exeland; Julie Ann to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Holman, Shell Lake; and Daniel James, to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Dadoler, Minneapolis, Minn.

• At the Shell Lake City Council meeting, William Albright appeared before the council representing the Lions Club stating they had made arrangements to have a skating rink maintained on the lake and wanted to know if the shelter house could be used as a warming house.

• The service department at Mid-Way Chev & Olds in Shell Lake was going to be open six days a week.

• A defective gas range was blamed for a fire that started between the walls of the home of Mrs. Bernice Nyhus.

Many volunteers help carry out and salvage much of the furnishings. Nyhus stated that someone carried out a completely set supper table and didn’t even spill the coffee and milk.

1982 - 30 years ago

• Temperatures plummeted to 30 degrees below zero, strong winds and a fresh snowfall combined to make the weather the worst for the season so far.

• A new roof over the south wing, new entry and doors, plus other improvements were going on at the Shell Lake

Elementary School.

• Stoney and June Diesterhaft celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

• First-grader Keesha Hall and fifthgrader David Powers were named Shell Lake Elementary School Citizens of the Week.

1992 - 20 years ago

• Brianna Marie Stellrecht, daughter of Mark and Laurel Stellrecht, Shell Lake, was the first baby born in 1992 at the Indianhead Medical Center-Shell Lake.

Brianna was born Jan. 2. Terry O’Brien, president of the Shell Lake Chamber of Commerce, presented the mother and daughter with gifts from local merchants.

• Horton Manufacturing Company Inc. announced plans to put all of its manufacturing operations under one roof in Webster. They were looking for a buyer for the Shell Lake facility.

• Mayor Ray Heilborn was the celebrity chef at the grill at TipTown Steak House. Customers were urged to make a contribution to Friends of the Shell Lake Library for the privilege of having Heilborn prepare their steaks.

• Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Gloria R. Raymond, daughter of Roy and Rosalie Hadlock, rural Shell Lake, returned from an unscheduled five-month deployment in support of continuing Desert Storm operations.

2002 - 10 years ago

• Jeremy Dezek’s Chevy truck fell through the ice on Shell Lake about 300400 feet off Rolph’s Point. Formerly of Spooner, Dezek was home on leave from the Army.

• The Shell Lake Laker girls basketball team defeated the Frederic Vikings 6720. Casey Bruce had a wonderful evening, scoring 28 points.

• Two positions up on the Shell Lake School Board were the positions of incumbents Jeri Bitney and Kent Wabrowetz.

• Vying for the position of mayor of Shell Lake were city Alderperson Donna Barnes-Haesemeyer and former Alderperson Larry Fletcher.

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by Nan Hendry SHELL LAKE — A father/daughter-of-all-ages ball is set for Friday, Feb. 17, at the Shell Lake Community Center. There is no charge for the event, but seating is limited, therefore reservations are required

by Friday, Feb. 10. Seats may be reserved by calling Nan, 715-635-2555, or Tina, 715-865-6580. Fathers and daughters whose last name begins with A-M are requested to bring a dessert. Those whose last name begins with N-Z are asked to bring a salad for the king’s table.

It is the dream of the Joy Circle Ladies of Hope Fellowship in Spooner to create a ball to help strengthen family relationships and to bless fathers and their daughters. They hope to help create memories for fathers and daughters to cherish for a lifetime. It is the ladies desire that all girls will feel like a princess and all fathers feel comfortable and like the heroes they desire to be in their daughter’s eyes. The advice to fathers, it will never matter how well you dance or how dressed up you are, what matters is that you are there with your little girl and loving her whether she is little anymore or not.

The ball will feature picture taking, princess crowns, waltz lessons, a feast and Christian music.

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Explore fun and enriching age-appropriate activities during Afterschool Club in Spooner

SPOONER — Afterschool Club registration is now open to all children living in the Spooner Area School District. Children between the ages of 6 and 14 can participate due to grants and community funding. Registration is open on a first-come, first-served basis.

Brochures with club descriptions and registration forms are available at the elementary, middle and St. Francis School offices as well as on the school Web site, www.spooner.k12.wi.us.

Afterschool Club time includes recreation, snack, homework, engaging enrichment and field trip opportunities.

Club sessions run from after school until 5 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, following the school district calendar.

The following clubs will be offered Jan. 16 - April 26:

Two big Midwestern retailers to merge

by Patty Murray Wisconsin Public Radio SPOONER — Two Midwestern store chains are merging. ShopKo announced it will acquire Pamida, which operates nearly 200 stores mostly in small towns, including Spooner.

The Pamida stores will be converted and renamed ShopKo Hometown. The stores are about half the size of a big-box store. The two companies are effectively reuniting. ShopKo owned Pamida up until 2006 when a holdings company split them up.

Paul Jones is chair, president and CEO of ShopKo. He says the conversions will begin later this year, and ShopKo plans to open brand-new stores after that. Jones

says a pilot project for the smaller stores was successful, “This is an opportunistic merger. It’s not done out of any type of financial engineering or anything on that order. It is purely opportunistic because of the success we’ve had with the 10 ShopKo Hometown stores we’ve opened.”

ShopKo is headquartered in Ashwaubenon. The retailer also announced plans to add more than 100 jobs at its corporate offices. “We will be adding, in Green Bay to our corporate headquarters, 120 good-paying jobs from this consolidation.” Some of those jobs may be people transferring from Omaha where Pamida is headquartered. All told, the new company will employ 20,000 people.

ShopKo is not commenting on the financial details of the merger. The deal is expected to be finalized in February.

Confession

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t has been said that confession is good for the soul.

This confession is actually quite embarrassing. After reading this column, I may not have to make a face-toface confession to hubby Milt.

When it comes to jewelry, I am not a very responsible person. I have a habit of removing my earrings and setting them down wherever I may be sitting at the time.

Sometimes I leave them behind in the car, in a suitcase or the bottom of my purse. Due to my bad habit, it is best that I only possess costume jewelry and none of the finer jewels.

I was mentioning this fact to Milt one evening, when he told me that the earrings he had given me last year were about $20. And then I started asking myself, “what earrings?” As I looked in the little box that I sometimes put earrings into, I questioned, “Which pair did he give me?” Trying to be sly about it, as we were preparing to go to a party, I put on two different earrings and asked Milt which pair I should wear, hoping he would touch the correct ones and say, “the ones I gave you.” Instead he said, “the bigger ones.” Well, that didn’t work.

I started wearing a pair of earrings that I hadn’t been wearing for a while. I wasn’t sure now if they were a pair that my friend, Gerry, had

given me or if perhaps they were the ones Milt gave me. When Gerry stopped in the office one day and said, “Oh, I see you have on the earrings.” I knew that pair was from her and not Milt.

This was starting to make me feel guilty. So I asked daughter Amanda if she remembered the earrings Milt gave me. She wasn’t too sure and said she thought they were little stud earrings.

If I can’t wait until Milt reads this column to confess my dilemma, I might have to ask if he actually gave me a pair of earrings or if he was referring to the ones that he confessed he had bought for me for Mother’s Day and hid from me and has yet to find where he hid them.

Well, I do have more to add to my story. Upon his previewing of this column, Milt isn’t sure what the earrings I am questioning look like either. He remembers ordering them from a jewelry party that our friend, Lois, hosted. A light went off in my head, and now I remember him telling me when I opened the gift that he had bought them through Lois. I searched through some cardboard jewelry boxes I had and came up with the box from Lois. Unfortunately it was empty. Milt’s comment was, “I guess we better look under the seat of the car.”

Beyond the office door • Suzanne Johnson

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Shell Lake Lions member Rudy Kessler, (L), presented Bernadette Wabrowetz with a check for $500 as she was this year’s Shell Lake Lions calendar early-bird winner. — Photo submitted

Elementary ages: Backyard Explorers, Cool Kids 4-H Afterschool, First-Grade Fun plus Games, Fitness and Fun, KidzLit, KidzMath, Language in the Lab, Nature Rocks, Pump it Up, Silly Science & Fun, On Stage, ¡Viva el Español!, and Skills Boosters.

Middle school ages: Power Hour, Kids Concoctions, Drama, Pump it Up, Rhythm ‘n’ Rhyme, 4-H Mixer, Books and Cooks, Game Showin’, Photography, Baby-sitting and Skills Boosters.

Register early, as spots fill up quickly. If you have specific questions or need more information contact Karen Collins, Spooner Area Community Education at 715-6350243 or collinsk@spooner.k12.wi.us. — from SACE

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line services. Customers are busy, and they appreciate the convenience. The most popular online service continues to be vehicle registration renewal. In the last 12 months, 867,000 customers have chosen this option.

Other popular online services provide DMV customers the opportunity to schedule a road test, request both driver and vehicle records, find out whether their choice for a personalized license plate is available or change their address.

“Clearly online is the way to go if you want to save time and money,” notes Fernan. Aside from getting a driver’s license, just about everything else a customer needs from DMV can be done online at www.wisconsindmv .gov or through the mail and does not require a visit to a service center. — from WisDOT

Ice racing comes to Shell Lake

by Jessica Beecroft SHELL LAKE – On Saturday, Jan. 14, Shell Lake’s first ice-racing contest will be held in conjunction with the ice-sculpting contest.

This year’s ice-racing contest is hosted by Klopp’s Tavern. Shannon Klopp can be contacted for more information at 715-468-7457. Technical inspection will start at 10 a.m., and the racing starts at noon.

Another local ice-racing enthusiast, Patrick Powers, has had a hand in requesting the NW Ice Racing Series to head north and give the community of Shell Lake a try on the Northern Wisconsin Ice Racing Circuit.

The Northern Wisconsin Ice Racing Circuit started in 2006 when a group of guys who love the sport of ice racing wanted to see it happen up here in the north woods of Wisconsin.

“Our first season was the 2006 season,” said a statement from the organization. “It started off with success, and since then, there has been more and more interest.

Each year, the group has seen growth, and we have had

more racers in each class and new classes have been formed. If you are interested in knowing more of what we’re all about, feel free to come and watch us, or bring your machine. Our season starts in early January and continues through February and possibly early March.”

In 2009, they became an official ATV club which was then incorporated as a nonprofit organization. They race studded and unstudded ATVs and studded motorcycle.

They hope to plan yearly date-designated summer rides all over northern Wisconsin. The club is just starting and definitely still growing, and they want to see more members.

Registration for the winter ice racing takes place at the Bungalow Bar in Rice Lake, Moose Hall in Bloomer or The View on Lake Wissota, depending on location on race day. Time for registration and practice is from 10 to 11:30 a.m., and racing starting at noon, or just after the drivers meeting. There is no admission for spectators.

Also, all comments and suggestions are welcome.

HOUGHTON, Mich. — Seth Adams, Sarona, an electrical engineering technology major with a 4.0 grade-point average has been named to the dean’s list at Michigan Technological University. — from ReadMedia Newswire ••• SUPERIOR — The University of Wisconsin-Superior has named the following local students to the dean’s list for academic achievement in the fall 2011 semester.

To be named to the dean’s list, students must have completed 15 semester credits and achieved at least a 3.50 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale. Sarona: Daniel Fuller and Jessica Rubin; Shell Lake: Sharon Ricci; Spooner: Arthur Collins, Adam Frankiewicz, Kyle Gauger, Alyssa Gostonczik, Brittney Hanley, Samuel Holden and Lindsey Lenser. — from The Link

••• SUPERIOR — Kelli Marlow, Shell Lake, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, is spending the next week in Italy as the university’s choirs perform in several cathedrals and sing for Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

Sixty members of UW-Superior’s a cappella choir and chamber choir are touring Jan. 11-19 in Rome, Siena, Montecatini, Assisi, Florence and Tuscany. Along with sharing their talents, the UW-Superior students will visit famous cultural sites and learn about Italian culture.

Marlow, who is majoring in music education, performs as a soprano with both choirs. UW-Superior music ensembles and tours are open to all qualified students regardless of their major. — from UWS

Academic news

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uesday, Jan. 3: I received an e-mail asking for help. A black swallowtail butterfly was born in a home in St. Paul, Minn. I could hardly believe it.

How was this possible? Erin Pryor Pavlica needed to know what nectar sources to offer the butterfly. The butterfly formed a chrysalis in November and Erin brought it inside. The butterfly emerged on Jan. 3.

Normally butterflies don’t need nectar for 24-48 hours after they emerge. I suggested she try sweet fruit such as an orange and sugar water. Butterflies taste with their feet. The next day, Erin reported that the butterfly did not taste the orange. She was going to try sugar water next.

Erin posted her story on Facebook. Many people around the country answered with suggestions and some had tried similar nectar for butterflies born out of season in their own homes. All agreed that it would be impossible to move the butterfly. There is an average of 560 species of swallowtails. Many are brilliant and live in the tropics. The Monarch Butterfly Habitat in Shell Lake is home to the yellow Canadian Tiger swallowtail in season. Normally the butterfly overwinters outside in the pupal stage.

Some swallowtails may spend more than a year like this. I imagine that the home, being heated, was too warm and triggered a different response. Perhaps this is why the butterfly emerged in winter.

Surely the butterfly was out of its natural life cycle and habitat.

The black swallowtail is thriving. The butterfly has enjoyed sipping from a rotten old apple and an aged squashed banana. On Saturday, Erin said, “Yes, I have several cotton pads with sugar solution soaked into them. I put fresh solution out several times a day. The butterfly

is usually active after eating!”

I would like to mention that Erin had a baby girl, Quinn Mae, on New Year’s Eve. She is thrilled that the black swallowtail butterfly arrived within days of the child’s birth. A black swallowtail. — Photo I invited the fam- by Erin Pryor Pavlica ily to visit Shell Lake next summer. I look forward to celebrating the butterfly baby at the Native Wildflower and Butterfly Garden. Quinn Mae won’t be the first butterfly baby to be remembered at the Monarch Butterfly Habitat.

••• Tuesday, Jan. 24: Environmental Film Fest, noon, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College, 13466 W. Trepania Road, Hayward, will show the film “Waterbuster.” The film is about the effects of the Gannon Dam on the Missouri River and how a family, which is one of the Waterbuster clan, was torn apart and their journey back to wholeness again. Susan Menzel, tribal college intern, stated she watched the film and drew parallels about Lac Courte Oreilles history. There was a time when the tribe was flooded to create the Chippewa Flowage in 1924 and the Winter Dam was installed. The dam was turned over to LCO in the 1970s. Speaker to be announced. The event is open to the community.

Butterfly Corner • Mary Ellen Ryall

ADOPTABLE PETS OF THE WEEK My name is Sketcher, I’m orange and white, I use to be shy, but now I’m a delight.

People aren’t scary, they’re really quite nice, Sort of like catnip, cat treats, fish and mice.

I like other cats and some dogs are OK, And since I’ve been here, I’ve found I like to play.

I’m not very old, I’m somewhere around 2, I’m neutered and ready to go home with you.

Perhaps I should mention, I’m larger than most, About 14 pounds though I don’t like to boast.

I’m also quite handsome, as you can all see, And if I am lucky, you’ll come adopt me.

Cats for adoption: 3-1/2-month-old male gray medium-hair kitten; 8-month-old male black shorthair; 1-year-old spayed brown/white shorthair Abyssinian mix; 2-year-old neutered orange/white shorthair; 8-month-old female white/black tiger shorthair; 4-year-old neutered black/silver shorthair tabby; 5-month-old female white/black shorthair tiger; 2 spayed/declawed orange/white shorthairs; 3-month-old gray/white male shorthair and a 3month-old male orange tiger.

Dogs for adoption: 1-year-old female yellow/white hound mix; 2-year-old neutered black longhair German shepherd mix; 1-year-old female Lab/pit mix and a 1-1/2-year-old spayed min pin; 1-1/2-year-old female tan/white American Staffordshire terrier; 1-year-old spayed black/white American Staffordshire terrier and a 2-year-old black female Newfy/Airedale mix.

Also for adoption: Young black/orange guinea pig.

Strays include: An adult female chocolate Lab and an adult male yellow Lab found running together on Hwy. 53 and 70.

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MADISON — Wisconsin ID cardholders who need to renew their ID cards can now renew them online. Because a Wisconsin ID card is valid for eight years and can be renewed online one time, Wisconsin ID cardholders can go up to 16 years without having to visit a DMV customer service center. Patrick Fernan, deputy administrator for the DMV, notes that “DMV has offered the option of getting a duplicate Wisconsin ID card or driver’s license online for some time now, but renewing an ID card online is a new service.” DMV would like to remind people that Wisconsin ID cards that are needed for voting purposes are free.

There are now more than a dozen transactions a DMV customer can do online, and that number will continue to increase. There is growing interest in all of DMV’s on-

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SHELL LAKE FFA ICE-FISHING CONTEST

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Hourly Door Prizes • Concessions Available

Prizes For: BIGGEST Fish = Ice Kit BIGGEST Northern = $50 • BIGGEST Bass = $30 BIGGEST Crappie = $30 Biggest Bluegill/Pumpkinseed/Sunfish = $30 BIGGEST Perch = $30 Time: Noon - 3:30 p.m. • Registration: 10:30 a.m.

Location: Bashaw

Lake

(Bashaw Lake Road is at the junction of CTH B and H, west of Shell Lake)

Access: Public Landing On Bashaw Lake Road Cost: $8 • Community Welcome Raffle with over a $500 value in prizes and gift certificates to local sports shops in the area

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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 715-4682453 or e-mail wcahs@centurytel.net.

••• The Washburn County Historical Society is looking for a volunteer to design a Web page for them and also to instruct how to update. Open Tuesdays. Call 715-468-2982.

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H A P P E N I N G S

Events

January Thursday, Jan. 12 • The Shell Lake Lions Club will meet, 6:30 p.m., at the Shell Lake Community Center.

• Fibromyalgia/CFS/Chronic Pain support group of Barron County meets from 1-3 p.m. at the Chetek Lutheran Church, Chetek. Coffee and refreshments served. Educational materials available to sign out. Call 715-651-9011 or 715-237-2798 for further information.

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

Saturday, Jan. 14 • Washburn County Food Distribution in conjunction with Ruby’s Pantry, Spooner Middle School Tech Ed Building on Elm Street. Ticket sales at 9 a.m. Distribution at 9:30 a.m. Volunteers needed. To sign up or for more information, contact Chuck at 715-635-9309, Bill at 715-468-4017 or Ardys at 715-222-4410.

• Northern Wisconsin Ice-Racing Contest on Shell Lake, hosted by Klopp’s, technical inspection at 10 a.m., racing begins at noon.

• Jack Frost Day, Spooner.

• All Dogs Allowed Vinyasa Yoga class by donation with all contributions going to Rescued Tails Animal Sanctuary in Shell Lake. Held at 9:30 a.m. at Om Sweet Om Yoga studio, Shell Lake. More info at www.omsweetomyoga.net, Lorrie at 715-645-2543 or omsweetomyoga@live.com.

Sunday, Jan. 15 • Shell Lake FFA ice-fishing contest, noon to 3:30 p.m. Registration 10:30 a.m. Bashaw Lake, junction of CTH B and H west of Shell Lake. Access at public landing on Bashaw Lake Road.

Monday, Jan. 16 • Northern Lights Camera Club meets at 7 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Spooner. Feedback on photos, education, and support. Beginners to professionals.

• 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. Info call 715-635-4669.

Tuesday, Jan. 17 • Shell Lake/Spooner Masonic Lodge 221 will meet at 7 p.m. at the lodge.

Wednesday, Jan. 18 • Games and activities, 1 p.m., Shell Lake Senior Center.

• Shell Lake Public Library Board of Trustees meeting, 5 p.m., at the library, 501 1st St., Shell Lake. The public is welcome.

• The Washburn County Humane Society open board meeting will meet at 5:30 p.m. at the state patrol headquarters in Spooner. Call 715-635-4720 for more information.

• Washburn County American Cancer Society Relay For Life kickoff at Jersey’s in Spooner. Steve at 715416-0486.

Thursday, Jan. 19 • Shell Lake PTA meeting, 6:30 p.m., in the 3-12 school library. Baby-sitting will be provided.

Friday, Jan. 20 • Making Money With Sheep and Goats in Northern Wisconsin seminar at Spooner Agricultural Research Station, 10:30 a.m., 715-635-3506.

Saturday, Jan. 21 • Northland Area Builders Association’s family icefishing event, Nelson Lake, Hayward, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

Registration at public boat landing on Gerlack Road.

Bring a nonperishable food item to donate to the Salvation Army to receive $1 off registration fee. Registration includes entry and lunch. For more details and a list of sponsors, visit www.northlandareabuilders.com.

• Shallow Lake ice-fishing contest sponsored by the Barronett Civic Club members.

• Prairie Fire Children’s Theater “Robinhood,” 4 and 7 p.m., Shell Lake Arts Center.

Sunday, Jan. 22 • “Blood Money,” a documentary that aims to expose the reality of abortion, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, Spooner, approx. 11:30 a.m. Freewill offering lunch served before movie. Everyone welcome. Please respond by Jan. 16 if planning on lunch, 715-635-2774, e-mail sfdsschool@gmail.com. To view trailer see bloodmoneyfilm.com/.

Tuesday, Jan. 24 & Wednesday, Jan. 25 • Rice Lake Area Farm Show, Cedar Mall, 10 a.m.3:30 p.m. For more info call 715-289-4632.

Wednesday, Jan. 25 • Free community supper, 4-6 p.m., St. Alban Episcopal Church, Spooner.

Thursday, Jan. 26 & Friday, Jan. 27 • American Red Cross Blood Drive, Thursday noon-6 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., United Methodist Church, Shell Lake.

Thursday, Jan. 26 • First Year Parenting class, 5-8:30 p.m., Spooner Annex Building, UW-Extension conference room. To register, call Deb Meyer at 715-635-4444 or deb.meyer@ces.uwex.edu.

• The Shell Lake American Legion will meet at 6:30 p.m., at the Friendship Commons.

• Shell Lake VFW will meet at 7 p.m., at the Friendship Commons.

Friday, Jan. 27 • Using Cover Crops to Improve Soils and Farm Profitability seminar at Spooner Agricultural Research Station, 10:30 a.m., 715-635-3506.

Saturday, Jan. 28 • Free community breakfast, 7-10 a.m., First United Pentecostal Church, Spooner. All welcome. Donations accepted.

• The Butterfly Effect Yin Yoga class by donation with all contributions going to Happy Tonics/Monarch Butterfly Habitat in Shell Lake. Held at 9:30 a.m. at Om Sweet Om Yoga studio, Shell Lake. More info at www.omsweetomyoga.net, Lorrie at 715-645-2543 or omsweetomyoga@live.com.

• Shell Lake Fire Department third-annual ice-fishing contest, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Registration at Shell Lake South Bay. • “Shine!” 7 p.m., at the Quam in Shell Lake.

• Shell Lake PTA Winter Carnival, 4-8 p.m., 3-12 school.

February Wednesday, Feb. 1 • Washburn County HCE meeting, UW-Extension meeting room, Spooner, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

• Washburn County Health Department Open Immunization Clinic, Spooner, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Walk-ins on that day only. Appointments are available on other days by calling 715-635-4400. Suggested donation of $5 per vaccination. Bring child’s immunization record.

Thursday, Feb. 2 • 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. Contact person Betsy 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, Spooner, 4-6 p.m. All welcome. Donations accepted.

talented volunteers skilled in group and 1:1 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.

••• Volunteer help at the Shell Lake Arts Center is needed for special occasions during the school year. We need help with the middle school honors band, bulk mailings, the piano festival, middle school honors choir and the Gala. If you are interested in volunteering please call 715-468-2414.

••• 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 715-6352252 or e-mail Faith In Action at faithinactionwc@yahoo.com.

••• To publish a volunteer opportunity, submit it to us by Monday noon.

E-mail it to wcregister@centurytel.net, bring it to the office, or call 715-468-2314. Please list the type of volunteer work you need, as well as dates, times and length of service. Make sure to include your contact information, including your name and phone number. When the volunteer position is filled, please let us know so we can take it off the list. This service is offered free of charge in an effort to bring the community together so those that are looking for help can find those that are looking to help.

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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.

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

••• Amber Bednar, RN, Washburn County Health Department, is available at the public health office to provide breastfeeding basics, how-tos and postpartum support. Appointments can be made at 715-635-4400.

Domestic abuse and sexual assault are crimes.

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

The Washburn County Genealogy Research Room, 106-1/2 2nd Ave., Museum Hewitt Building, Shell Lake, is closed for the winter. The room can be opened upon request, weather permitting. Call 715635-7937 or 715-635-6450, for more information.

Shell Lake Alano Club Meetings on CTH B, 2 blocks off Hwy. 63.

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Monday: Partners of Veterans women’s support group will meet from 1 to 2:30 p.m., at Counseling Associates in Siren, located across from the Burnett County Government Center. For more information, contact Julie Yaekel-Black Elk at 715-349-8575.

• 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.

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.

• The Washburn County Historical Society Research Room, 102 West Second Avenue, Shell Lake, open Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. throughout the year.

• Bridge at Friendship Commons, Fourth Avenue, Shell Lake, 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Practice your Bridge skills. Beginners welcome.

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

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Many benefit from labor of love

by Diane Dryden SHELL LAKE – Dottie, Mrs. Ed Strand, of Shell Lake credits her mother for passing on valuable hand-crafting skills. “My mother would knit and crochet and encouraged all of us to do the same,” she said. “Mom also did tatting, but that wasn’t for me; too much small work with all those knots and the tiny shuttle. Mom would spend hours throwing that shuttle back and forth between her string-encased hand and she effortlessly produced exquisite work similar to lace.”

Even though the tatting didn’t take, Strand soon added her own artistic endeavors which included projects like macramé, which is similar to tatting with its knots, but on a much larger scale. She would locate aluminum lawn chairs in good condition and then remove all the plastic webbing. Then she would replace the webbing with a special stringlike material, which she would weave and knot into patterns. She’s sold many of these each time she’d have a garage sale and people still request them, usually in Packers and Viking themes and colors.

She’s dabbled in Russian embroidery and Swedish weaving, but what she loves to do best is crochet afghans. Most measure close to 5 feet wide and 8 feet long and as far back as she can remember, even to her high school days, she’s made afghans.

Originally they were either knitted or crocheted, but ever since 2003, she’s had to give up knitting. “I felt funny one morning and decided it might be something wrong with my body, so I kept an eye on it for a while and eventually I went in to the doctor. I had a checkup and was told to take aspirin. This happened again soon, and the treatment was the same, aspirin. Later that day I had a stroke that affected my right side, causing me to have to learn to walk, read and write all over again; I also started to have a constant shake that didn’t go away. Needless to say, doing any craft that required the use of two knitting needles working together was out of the question, but holding one crochet hook was no problem and it also became part of my continuing physical therapy. I’ve always like crocheting, but now I do it partly because I have to for my continuing health.

“Ten years ago my grandson, Matt Graham, got a job with the Spooner Fire Department, and he said that my afghans would be a welcome gift for the people who had lost their homes and everything in them due to fire. I started making afghans one after another, and from then

Dottie Strand of Shell Lake has made hundreds of ripple-patterned afghans in her life, many of them given to the Spooner Fire Department and the Spooner Nursing Home. – Photos by Diane Dryden

on there was always one or two in the fire truck. Even though I’ve made well over a hundred afghans in my lifetime, I still make about 15 a year and give them to my family members, friends and residents at the Spooner Nursing Home. I still supply the fire department too.”

The entire family is crafty and some embroider pictures that are beautifully framed and ready for gift giving. She and her family went through a season where they embellished sweatshirts with seasonal decorations and sold many as well as the ones they still have in their personal wardrobes.

Daughter Ann, who died at a relatively young age, was also a crafter, and Dottie inherited over 10 large totes of yarn which she’s slowly using up by adding them to her own quilts. Pretty stripes in the ripplepattern quilts that take close to three weeks to crochet are a gentle way of honoring her daughter to this day.

She’s passed on the appreciation of vintage handcrafting to her four children and seven grandchildren and hopefully her 14 great-grandchildren. After all, it was the afghans that she had lovingly created for each of them as babies that should have given them their own start in the expressive world of creativity, not to mention her quiet influence of being a selfless giver for

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Aluminum lawn chairs are stripped of their plastic webbing which is replaced by clever weaving that produces butterflies, horses and lots of Packers and Vikings logos.

DNR recommends burning storm-damage debris now

SPOONER — The Wisconsin DNR urges people who own property in or near stormdamaged areas in Northwest Wisconsin to plan their brush reduction projects now rather than wait until the end of winter.

Each year dozens of wildfires are caused when debris piles, which were believed to be out, continue to smolder and flame up again. Because of the many debris piles resulting from the July storms, fire officials in northwestern Wisconsin are concerned about the potential holdover fires in the spring Ash, for example, is excellent insulation and can allow embers to smolder for long periods of time without noticeable smoke or flame. Make sure the fire is completely extinguished before you leave. The only

way to be certain is to stir the ashes, expose the remaining embers and extinguish them.

For property owners who do not burn this winter, other options will need to be explored when the snow melts. Brush can be moved to a local brush collection site, or it can be chipped on-site. The DNR anticipates burning will be prohibited in the storm-damaged areas of Northwest Wisconsin by early spring. Fire restrictions will be implemented according to specific weather conditions and fire risk. The option of burning brush piles will not be available at that time.

For more information on storm recovery options, please visit dnr.wi.gov/forestry/ stormRecovery/. — from Wisconsin DNR

Ruby’s Pantry has record year

PINE CITY, Minn. — “For such a time such as this” has never meant more than it does today for the urgency of food needs for families in rural communities in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Ruby’s Pantry continues to grow to meet the needs of the underemployed, unemployed, elderly and all families needing a hand up in these challenging economic times. In 2011, Ruby’s Pantry provided 5,867,320 pounds of food at their distributions to 70,086 families. According to government estimates of food value that equates to $13,553,509 of food distributed to over 210,258 individuals estimating three people per household. This does not include the food provided to other food organizations, churches, charitable events, civic organizations, and spoilage or pallet weight.

Ruby’s Pantry is in its ninth year of serving rural communities with donated surplus food and goods to fight hunger and disease. It provides large quantities of food for distributions directly to families in 32 rural communities covering 16 underserved counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin presently distributing food to 7,000-8,000 families per month. Its largest individual distribution in 2011 was 760 families in Brainerd, Minn.

Five more distribution sites are planned for 2012 increasing the distribution to families to 9,000-10,000 families per month.

Ruby’s Pantry has five semi-tractors, nine refrigerator road trailers and five reefer storage dock trailers with new carrier reefer units, five straight box trucks, three reefers, three cube vans and one cargo van that are needed to accommodate the mission. Ruby’s Pantry is a community food outreach program of Home and Away Ministries Inc. with its distribution and

outreach centers at 39404 Grand Ave., North Branch, Minn., 138 S. Oborn St., Waupaca, 24534 Hwy. 35/70 Siren, and its main offices at 1300 Northridge Drive, Suite 101, Pine City, Minn.

In 2011 Home and Away Ministries provided 240 children in the small rural community of Ramey, Minn., toys at Christmas and 13 new bikes were also distributed to children in the Pine City, Minn./Rush City, Minn., area.

Its MissionXpress program sent mission teams to the Rio Grande Valley, McAllen, Texas area, where youth and adults participated in worship services in Spanishspeaking churches and distributed food and clothing to people walking one to four miles across the Mexican border. In 2012, they are sending more mission teams from churches with a coach bus available to transport large groups to Texas. They are also planning construction teams to work in Spanish-speaking Rio Grande Valley churches through their James Gang outreach program. There are over 400 Spanishspeaking churches in the Rio Grande Valley.

Home and Away Ministries employs nine staff in Pine City, Minn., nine staff in North Branch, Minn., four staff in Siren, and one staff in Waupaca.

Ruby’s Pantry distribution is hosted by the United Methodist Church at the school vocational area in Spooner the second Saturday of the month. The doors open at 8 a.m. and distribution starts at 9 a.m. and ends at approximately 10:30 a.m.For more information on the programs and food distribution locations please see their Web site at www.rubyspantry.org, e-mail goodnews@rubyspantry.org or call 320-6297400. — from Ruby’s Pantry

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Washburn County AODA mini grants applications available

SPOONER — Washburn County Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse mini grant applications are now available.

Mini grants are awarded for a maximum of $1,000. Any group, organization or individual may apply. Previous grants were awarded for such items/events as antidrug educational materials, videos and alternative activities for youth and adults such as Safe Night and Family Festival, and professional training.

All grants must contain the following: The program or event must have a clear AODA message. All participants must be alcohol and drug free during the program/event. All events must have adult supervision.

In addition, the committee recommends coordination of speaker dates to reduce cost where applicable and to research the possibility of a joint application for a larger grant award and shared resources.

Applications and grant guidelines are available at the Washburn County Health Department on 222 Oak St. in Spooner or on the Washburn County Web site at www.co.washburn.wi.us/departments/health/in dex.htm.

Completed applications must be returned to the health department by Friday, Feb. 24. Completed applications can be dropped off in person, faxed to 715-6354416 or e-mailed to dstumph@co.washburn.wi.us.

The next meeting of the Washburn County AODA Committee will be at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 14, in the meeting room located at the Washburn County Highway Shop on CTH H in Spooner. Questions can be directed to Dianna Stumph at the Washburn County Health Department at 715-635-4400. — from WCHD

Winter classes offered in Spooner

SPOONER — Now that the holidays are over, it’s the perfect time to learn to knit and crochet or to improve your skills. Northwind Book & Fiber in Spooner is offering six classes this winter. They are: Knit the popular ruffled scarf, Monday, Jan. 23, 5:307:30 p.m. Beginning knitting, Saturday, Jan. 28, 1-4 p.m.

Knit top-down socks on magic loop, Saturday, Feb. 4, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. This is the first of two sessions.

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Mikolayunas will discuss ways to keep your costs of production low while taking advantage of market opportunities for your lambs and goat kids. She will also discuss how to feed your sheep and goats to maintain great growth while keeping costs as low as possible.

Following a brief discussion of lamb and kid nutritional needs, Mikolayunas will explore some low-cost feeds and how they can be utilized to increase your farm profit. This talk will provide you with the tools you need to make the right decisions on your farm to make more money with your sheep or goats.

The other two topics of the series are: Using Cover Crops to Improve Soils and Farm Profitability by Kevin Shelley, UW-Extension nutrient and pest management specialist, Friday, Jan. 27, and Raising Backyard Pigs by Mahlon Peterson, Interim UW swine specialist and swine team leader, Friday, Feb. 10.

This winter marks the 28th year that UW-Extension has sponsored the Northern Wisconsin Safari of Agriculture Specialists. The goal of this series is to bring University of Wisconsin-Extension specialists and agents and their expertise to the state’s northern counties with the latest research-based information for farmers and farm businesses. Seminars are held on Fridays at 10:30 am at the Spooner Ag Research Station. They are free and open to the public. Preregistration is requested.

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by Larry Samson SHELL LAKE — The Shell Lake boys dropped to 1-9 with a 52-26 loss to Luck on Tuesday, Jan. 3, and a 55-35 loss to Unity on Friday, Jan. 6. AJ Denotter was the top scorer for Shell Lake, with 13 points against Luck and 11 against Unity.

Shell Lake came out of the first quarter with an 11-5 lead against Unity and trailed 15-17 at the end of the first half only to go cold in the second half being

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outscored 38-20. Wyatt Carlson took the opening tip-off and scored the first points in the game with a layup, adding a 3-pointer. That was the last score of the game from him. BJ Burton put in three baskets in the first, only to be shut out for the rest of the game.

Shell Lake will travel to Clear Lake on Tuesday, Jan. 17, for a conference matchup. Clear Lake is 0-4 for the season.

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David Brereton’s jump shot is just out of the reach of Unity defender Brandon McKenzie. Brereton had six points against Unity.

Wyatt Carlson took the opening tip-off and scored on the fast break. Shell Lake took it to the Unity Eagles in the first quarter with a six-point lead but ran out of steam, losing 55-35 in a nonconference game held Friday, Jan. 6, in Laker land. — Photo by Larry Samson

Jon Lloyd with a jump shot under the basket. He didn’t draw a foul on this shot.

Basketball clinic for youth to be held in Shell Lake

There seems to be a little confusion as to where the ball is on this rebound.

SHELL LAKE — Total Hoops Academy is holding four basketball training sessions for boys and girls in fifth through eighth grades starting Sunday, Jan. 15.

Held from 6-7:15 p.m., at the Shell Lake High School, these clinics will focus on offensive fundamentals.

The training sessions, in addition to this Sunday, will be held Sunday, Jan. 29, Sunday, Feb. 12, and Sunday, Feb 26. The cost for all four camps is $40. To register, please call 715-205-4424.

The Total Hoops Academy instructs players from around the globe and offers a money-back guarantee for all players. — from Total Hoops Academy

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

Girls take a loss in overtime

by Larry Samson SHELL LAKE — With a 52-46 loss to Luck on Tuesday, Jan. 3, and a 55-46 loss to Unity on Friday, Jan. 6, the Shell Lake girls basketball team slipped into a 4-4 record for the season. They had started out the season hot, winning their first three games only to go cold.

Frustrated, coach Tom Sauve hopes to shake them out of their cold snap as they head into the second half of the season.

Shell Lake outplayed the Luck Cardinals but came away with a 52-46 overtime loss. Tied up 43-43, the Cardinals outscored the Lakers 9-3 in overtime. The Lakers were 8 for 22 at the free-throw line, shooting 36 percent. The high scorer for Shell Lake was Shania Pokorny with 15 points followed by Jen Cassel with 12 points. The Shell Lake defense was not able to rein in Avery Steen, as she accounted for 23 of Luck’s points.

Shell Lake hosted the Unity Eagles, a Division 3 school. Unity is 5-3 for the season. The Shell Lake shooters were cold but they were outplayed in the first half 33-20. While they outscored Unity in the second half, it was too little too late. Pokorny was the Lakers high scorer with 17 points and Erica Kozial played one heck of a game putting 10 points on the board.

Shell Lake will get the chance to redeem themselves when they take on the 3-5 Clear Lake Lakers on Friday,

Jan. 13, at Clear Lake. They will play Division 4 Grantsburg in a nonconference game on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at home.

Hannah Cassel was good for two points on this jump shot as Unity defender Brittany Thomfohrda makes an effort to block the ball.

Jen Cassel drives the basket and gets this shot off with four Unity defenders in the area.

High-flying Shania Pokorny with a nice move. The basket was good and gave her a trip to the free-throw line. Pokorny was the high scorer for Shell Lake with 14 points. — Photos by Larry Samson

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Erica Kozial gets this jump shot off under pressure from Unity defender Sarah Bader in the first half of their home-court 55-45 loss to Unity on Friday, Jan. 6.

Boys varsity basketball Tuesday, Jan. 17: At Clear Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 20: Doubleheader at Northwood, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 24: Doubleheader vs. Prairie Farm, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 27: At Bruce, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 3: Vs. Cameron, 7:30 p.m.

Girls varsity basketball Friday, Jan. 13: At Clear Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 17: Vs. Grantsburg, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 20: Doubleheader at Northwood, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 24: Doubleheader vs. Prairie Farm, 6 p.m.

Varsity wrestling Thursday, Jan. 12: Vs. Cameron, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 14: Ladysmith Invitational, 9 a.m.

Thursday, Jan. 19: Vs. Bruce, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 21: Shell Lake Tournament, 10:30 a.m.

Junior high girls basketball Thursday, Jan. 12: Vs. Clayton, SLAC, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 17: Vs. Prairie Farm, SLAC, 5 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 26: Vs. Turtle Lake, SLHS, 5 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 30: At Northwood, 5 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 2: Vs. Clear Lake, SLAC, 5 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 3: Vs. Cameron, SLHS, 5 p.m.

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

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Shell Lake attends the Spartan Classic

Sam Muska, wrestling in his first varsity match, lost to Jacob King by a pin. As a freshman, Muska showed that he has the potential to be a great wrestler.

Cody Melton pins his Northwood opponent, Ethan Luedtke, in the 285-pound weight class at the dual meet held at Northwood on Thursday, Jan. 5. Shell Lake defeated Northwood/Solon Springs 48-24, the Evergreens are coached by a former Laker wrestler, Ben Kidder.

Caleb Schmidt uses his four years’ experience as a varsity wrestler to get the best of his Northwood opponent, Dilan Wehmhoefer.

Results of Shell Lake at Superior High School Spartan Classic

Saturday, Jan. 7 106: David Castillo placed third and scored 12.00 team points.

120: Anthony Landsverk placed sixth and scored 3.00 team points.

126: Noah Skluzacek placed fourth and scored 7.00 team points.

132: Beau Skluazcek placed seventh and scored 5.00 team points.

138: Sam Muska place is unknown and he scored 0.00 team points.

145: Bryan Knoop placed sixth and scored 0.00 team points.

152: Dillon Hopke placed second and scored 14.00 team points.

160: Turner Moe placed sixth and scored 0.00 team points.

182: Leo Carrillo placed sixth and scored 7.00 team points.

195: Caleb Schmidt placed fourth 11.00 team points.

285: Cody Mayer placed third and scored 13.00 team points.

Koy Hopke, a future Laker wrestler, shows some of his break-dancing moves on the mat before the start of the match. He will get his chance to show his wrestling moves at the Brady Mortensen Youth Wresting Tournament that will be held Sunday, Jan. 22, at Shell Lake. — Photo by Larry Samson

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Dewey-LaFollette by Karen Mangelsen

Karen Mangelsen visited Lois Snyder Monday afternoon.

Clam River Tuesday Club met Jan. 4 at the home of Diane Hulleman. Verna Lindstrom’s birthday was celebrated.

The next meeting will be Feb. 8, at the home of Judy Leonard. The afternoon will begin with a potluck meal at 12:30 p.m. There will be a gift exchange ($10) for those who wish to participate. Also, the dice game will be played, so each person is asked to bring several new, small wrapped gifts for that.

Hank and Karen Mangelsen visited Bob and Pam Bentz Friday evening.

Hannah and Grace Mangelsen were overnight guests of Karen and Hank Mangelsen Saturday.

Lida Nordquist went to the home of

Joleeen and Richard Funk Saturday to help Rick Funk celebrate his birthday.

Lida stayed overnight with Jan Schott and family Saturday and returned home Sunday.

Donna and Gerry Hines visited Delores and Harold Anderson in Cumberland Sunday afternoon.

Marlene Swearingen called on Lida Nordquist Sunday afternoon. They both visited Gerry and Donna Hines later.

Karen and Hank Manglesen joined Carol, Carlotta and Gene Romsos, and Ron and Juliann Jensen for supper at the Romsos Farm Sunday, with Wayne and Marie Romsos hosting the get-together.

Birthdays of Ron and Juliann were celebrated.

What weather we are having; won’t you agree? But I’ll bet when we do get a storm it will be a doozy.

On Jan. 2 we lost a dear friend here in Shell Lake. Debbie Glessing, 55, passed away after suffering from a fatal illness.

She put up a big fight and always seemed so cheerful. She will be missed.

Our sincere sympathy to her family and loved ones. She had retired from the sheriff’s department, and they showed up in great numbers as a tribute to her.

Funeral services were held at the Shell Lake Methodist Church.

Another death that has affected a lot of people in Spooner, Trego and Shell Lake was Gene Larson, 58, who passed away Wednesday from leukemia. His wife, Janet, is our beautician here at Glenview.

Our heartfelt sympathy to his family. Funeral service was held at Dahl Funeral Home Monday, Jan. 9. Wanda Norton is filling in for Janet at the shop here.

Thursday, Jan. 5, some of our tenants were taken to Rice Lake to shop and lunch out.

Friday night, the Shell Lake Educational Foundation put on a fundraiser by selling Belgian waffles. Several tenants here ordered them, and they were delivered by our own Sue Weathers. The waffles had whipped cream, strawberries and sausages.

On Sunday morning Mavis and Roger Flach went to Turtle Lake to watch grandson Blake Flach wrestle in a tournament. He came in first place in his division. Good going, Blake!

Saturday morning visitors of Mavis and Roger Flach were Rudy, Martha and Sheri Ericson of Wilson. Connie Baker of Eden Prairie, Minn., spent the afternoon

with the Flachs.

Lillian Ullom is home suffering from a bad cold. She sounded like it, too!

Judy and Myron Bolterman took in the visitation for Gene Larson Sunday evening at Dahl Funeral Home.

Saturday, Dec. 31, the Owens family had their Christmas dinner at Wealthy Marschall’s in Amery. On Sunday, Wealthy entertained again for her friends and some family which she does every year. This last Saturday, John and Mary Marschall and Wealthy had lunch together for John’s birthday. Birthday greetings, John.

Thursday evening, Mary Marschall attended the visitation for Debbie Glessing at Skinner Funeral Home in Cumberland.

Saturday night, Jan. 7, John and Mary Marschall took in the reception and dance for Heidi (Smith) and her husband, Brian, at Das Lach Haus in Cumberland. Congratulations to you. Heidi is the daughter of Kevin and Laurie Smith of this area.

Welcome Louie and Dorothy Neste of Spooner to Glenview. We hope you will like it like the rest of us do.

Last Monday, Arlys Santiago attended a memorial service for Ned Waldman at Thomas Landing in Rice Lake.

Sunday, Jan. 8, Arlys took a friend, Holly Gerland, from the Twin Cities out for a ride to the Timberland area to show where her dad lived on the Olson farm.

They came back to Arlys’ home and had supper together.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be enjoyed. The weather is going to be good so enjoy it.

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Old-time funny man

by Mary B. Olsen Mark Twain, in his writings, often poked fun at the humorists of his time who were using odd spellings and slang language, like Joel Chandler Harris, who wrote about Brer Rabbit, and another top funnyman of the time, Josh Billings.

Twain probably thought it was talking down to his audience, average newspaper readers. I suppose it was what we call cracker-barrel humor. In my hometown, my dad told me that when he was just a boy people often gathered around a potbelly stove without the cracker-barrel and talked about politics and such things in my uncle’s store when he was working there. Some of them would read items from the papers. He said they were all so funny, and listening to their discussions was the greatest thing.

I suppose there was a lot to comment on that was really funny. The papers were full of regular columns with large followings.

Josh Billings is considered the second most famous humor writer of the second half of the 19th century. Looking at his picture, he appears to be a tall, rather serious-looking man with long hair, a droopy mustache and a little beard. He was born of a distinguished family on April 29, 1818, in Lanesborough, Mass.

His given name was Henry Wheeler Shaw. His father and grandfather and an uncle served in Congress. He attended Hamilton College, but he was expelled in his sophomore year. The reason given is that he removed the clapper from the campus bell. I think his parents were upset about it. This is such a mild indiscretion, but I think this budding humorist, with a rare sense of humor, was anxious to get out into the world on his own.

The young man tried his hand at a lot of things, as a coal miner, and an auctioneer, and settled on journalism. He wrote under the pen name Josh Billings, for a newspaper in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He became a popular lecturer and wrote many humorous books. In his

books he used colloquialisms, odd spellings, and included social commentary. The titles are: “Farmers Allminax,” “Josh Billings’ Sayings,” “Everybody’s Friend,” “Choice Bits of American Wit” and “Josh Billings’ Trump Kards.”

We may find some of his sayings in current literature, and many are just as clever and funny as they were in his day.

He wrote, poking fun at himself and other comedians, “A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.”

“Nature never makes enny blunders.

When she makes a phool she means it.”

“I don’t kare how much a man talks, if he only says it in few words.”

“Don’t take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.” A funny way of telling folks to be cautious.

“It is better to know nothing than to know what isn’t so.”

“In the whole history of the world there is but one thing money cannot buy, to wit the wag of a dog’s tail.”

“Love is like measles ... the later in life it comes, the tougher it gets.”

Josh Billings was 38 years old when he married Zipha E. Bradford in 1845.

Some old sayings were used before his time, but he was able to twist things in a funny way that had his audience and readers laughing.

Here’s a bit of his verse.

“I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, Is the one that gets the grease.”

His advice to kids, “Consider the postage stamp, son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

Josh Billings died in Monterey, Calif., Oct. 14, 1885. If he lived today, he would probably have a receptive audience. We all need humor in our daily lives.

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Several people have asked me if I have started computer classes yet. That was my New Year’s resolution, you know.

Well, I haven’t, but I am learning a lot anyway. I bought “Quick Books for Dummies” and have been studying that so that I can learn how to do all the reports and stuff I need for taxes. And, I learned how to do W-2s and unemployment insurance on the Internet. I think I’m going to like this. If I make a mistake I have a chance to go through the whole thing to change it before submitting anything. Yea! Maybe I’m not too old and dumb to learn something new.

I had a chance to chat with Paul and Sherry Maine at the Red Brick Cafe the other day. Sherry said that their grandson, Chad Collins, is now in Afghanistan, the Kandahar province.

Once in a while they are able to talk to him by phone, and he seems to be doing very well. He told them that the weather is different over there, warm during the day and cooler at night and that there is no snow. Hmmm. That’s not much different this year so far, is it. It’s so nice that Chad is able to call home to reassure his parents and grandparents that he is OK. I saw Audrey Cusick at the bank on Friday morning, and she said that their son, Mark, who is also in Afghanistan, received the packages from Barronett Lutheran Church and was very happy to get them. She said that they haven’t been able to talk to Mark yet, but they will be set up to do so in about a week. In the meantime, they have been keeping up with what he’s doing through conversations with his wife.

Please keep Chad and Mark and all our soldiers overseas in your prayers for a safe return to their families.

Walter Bell was at the Red Brick having breakfast - as usual - one morning, so I sat down and had a cup of coffee with him. He has a birthday coming up next month. He’ll be —, you don’t really think I would tell you his age, do you? Anyway, there will be a birthday party for him the last Saturday in February at the Red Brick Cafe. Walter said that the bad part about living so long is that all the people he used to work with aren’t with us anymore. Guess he’ll just have to put up with us whippersnappers at his party.

Mark it on your calendar. Feb. 25 at the Red Brick Cafe to wish Walter a happy birthday.

Duane and I stopped by Timberland

Tavern for supper last week. We hadn’t been out there for years and were very glad we stopped. Randy, who was cooking and tending bar at the same time, was a lot of fun to talk to. Les Olsen and Patty were there too, and Patty and Randy have a contest going about who can answer the daily-double question on Jeopardy. Way too smart for me. Anyway, with the food and the conversation, we thoroughly enjoyed our evening out.

The Shallow Lake ice-fishing contest, sponsored by the Barronett Civic Club members, is rapidly approaching. It’ll be on Saturday, Jan. 21. I’ve been told by a very reliable source that Luanne Pachacek, Queen of the Ice Mavens, and her court of lovely ladies will be here once again to pick a new king. Rambo has been representing Barronett as king since last January, and I’m sure that he will be very gracious in passing down the crown. You know, of course, that there will be lots of fun things to do at the community center after the fishing contest. Hope you can join us then.

The women of Barronett Lutheran met on Thursday evening for their regular monthly meeting. The big news from that meeting is that we are going to buy new tables for the church basement. We are hoping we will be able to have them delivered before the annual meeting, which is Sunday, Jan. 15.

Oh, by the way, you know how I always say that Duane is the best husband in the world? Well, I’m starting to have second thoughts. We were playing Cribbage a couple of days ago, and he beat me two games, then I won one and told him we had to play just one more so that we could see who is really the best player. I shouldn’t even tell you this, but he double-skunked me the last game.

Can you imagine? Getting skunked is one thing, but double-skunked! I will get even!

I guess that’s about all I know from Barronett this week. Hope you’re having a great start to 2012, and that you haven’t broken all your resolutions yet. See you later.

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Our weather is the talk of the town! It sure saves on the woodpile, heat and snowplowing bill. It’s great for loggers and woodcutting. The Al Loews have loggers cutting on their property next to me. I can even see their field across the wayside now and Dave Schilling has Tom Elliott helping him. They have a huge pile cut just south of me, also.

Be careful with your chain saws though. My brother, Don Shoquist, cut through his boot, cutting his toe nearly off while cutting firewood the last day of December. They reattached it. A hard hat, chaps and special boots are a must.

The safest, cheapest and least painful route, he found out, a little late though.

There’s a downside to our weather though. It’s so hard on businesses that depend on the income from winter sports activities. It will be really tough on the local economy with no snow and poor ice.

The snowmobilers and skiers are praying, or should I say crying, for snow. We really need some moisture.

January can be a long winter month, but with these nice days it’s going by fast and one can even notice the days getting longer. We have had a beautiful full wolf moon the last couple of nights.

Sarona folks extend deepest sympathy to those who have lost loved ones this past week. To the family of Marian Walker, 83, of Madge, who passed away while on hospice care at the Spooner Nursing Home. She was a kind, compassionate lady and very spiritual and was so talented in her artwork. I have a cedar ornament with a cardinal painted on that she made to remember her by.

Debbie Glessing, a gal that touched the hearts of many in her 55 years, and it sure showed with all that were at the visitation in Cumberland and at UMC in Shell Lake, which was full and a lot of folks standing Friday for the service. She will be remembered for her big smile, loving personality and always so upbeat and will be dearly missed by all that knew her.

Al Ricci, 83, Rice Lake, Johnnie’s good horseshoe and pool-shark friend, passed Friday, Jan. 6, after a fight with cancer.

Mary Krantz and I attended his wake in Rice Lake Sunday evening. Sympathy to wife Jean and family.

Donnie Barker, 56, Rice Lake, died Jan. 1 as the result of a car fire at his residence. He was the son of Sharon (Lenny) Quinn, Sarona.

Vilas Huerth, 79, died unexpectedly Saturday, Jan. 7, at his home in Pine River. He was raised on the farm and farmed across from Roger Furchtenicht.

His wife, Shirley, passed away July 15, 2010. In addition to his six children, 13 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren, he is survived by sisters Mavis Schlapper, Sarona; Joyce Wade, Hayward; and Boots Belliveau, Crivitz. His funeral was held Thursday in Poy Sippi.

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He was a great guy. I always told him I could boss him around because I was a month older. Sympathy to the family.

Kenny and Marion Rieter sold their home on Oak Lake recently and moved to the Kenny White place on Cranberry Marsh Road that they have remodeled.

We wish them much happiness in their new location.

Virginia Stodola’s grandson, Matthew Hartwig, returned home to Okmulgee, Okla., after spending time there with her and his dad in Spooner.

On Saturday, Elaine Ryan and Rocky Furchtenicht went to her sister Amy’s in Stoddard for a belated Christmas for the Weitzenkamp family. Others there were brothers Carl and Wayne and sisters Amy, Sally, Betty and their spouses. They came home Sunday.

The Madge-Sarona gals once-a-month Tuesday breakfast will be held at Peggy’s Place in Shell Lake on Feb. 7.

The gray wolf has been removed from the endangered species list and now the DNR will be in control of them. They are seen often in our area.

Casey Furchtenicht spent Christmas vacation with his brother, Troy, and family in Ashland. Sunday his friend, Brett Holman, was out. They were making a movie for a school project.

I went along with grandsons Brady and Brian to their grandma Wealthy Marschall’s in Amery for New Year’s Day dinner with around 20 there. Really nice.

Russ and Nancy Furchtenicht are enjoying baby-sitting the grands, Jillian and Jaxson, while their folks are on vacation.

Dale Webb, Somerset, stopped by with a hi while up checking on his property here. Doing good after recent surgery at Mayo in December. It was his 50th birthday Friday. Belated wishes to him.

Jan Rielfeld and Jeff had family in on Friday, her folks, Anton and Gloria Frey, aunt Irene Glessing, cousins Bob and Rudene Kruger, Carol and Donald Strunk and Marie and Ron Deschesneau.

They had a great visit. So nice to just get together at a happy time.

At noon on Monday it was 46 degrees on my thermometer, the skies were a beautiful blue. Really something for a winter day in January here and so until …

Happy birthday wishes this week to Jim Gagner, Julia Lyga, Ron and Karianne Furchtenicht, Jan.13; Paul Jachim, Daniel Anderson, Jolyn Wade, Ingrid Elliott, James Swanson, Billy Pfluger, Bill Ripley and Eli Zaloudek, Jan. 14; Val Smith, Barb Haynes, Wanda Lindenberger, Jason Johnz, Donna Millard, Jan. 15; Catherine Benham, Jan. 16; Anthony LaVeau and Frank Anderson, Jan. 17; and Allan Donetell, Jan. 18. Have a happy one.

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by Pauline Lawrence

With Christmas and New Year’s behind us, it’s time to think of other stuff.

Yes, how about those Packers going to the Super Bowl? Yes, and isn’t the weather just great? We have a little snow now but with the temps in the 30s-40s each day it’s not going to last. Oh well, this is what life is all about.

A very happy birthday to Ralph Smith Jr. way down in Texas. Have a wonderful day, Ralph, on Jan. 13.

A very happy birthday to Olivia Hile on Jan. 13. Olivia is the daughter of Chuck and Heidi Hile. Have a great day Olivia.

Jan. 14, a very happy birthday to Glen Crosby on his special day with many more to come.

A very happy birthday to Keolani Baumgart on her special day with more to come on Jan. 15.

A very happy birthday to Hannah Brion on Jan. 17 with many more to come.

Monday, Jan. 9, was a very sad day for my family. Yes, it’s been one year since my Sunshine passed away. Have I missed him? Yes, with many tears. It seems like I look outside when the tractor is going and think it’s my Sunshine when in real life it’s our son Richy. I miss him so much and when I cry, I find my little Rory cuddling up to me to try to

help. It’s been a long and hard year as many widows will tell you. Somehow, someway, we have to get through it.

My little Rory is quite the little dog.

Now if he can’t get the best of my housecat, he backs it in a corner and sits on it.

Those two keep me on my toes, believe me, as they race around the house after one another. First it’s Rory chasing the cat, and the next round it’s the cat chasing Rory. It’s really cute!

Haven’t we had the most unusual weather? Yes, they tell us on the weather report that we’re to have the 40s again.

Of course, it will leave our ground bare and it will affect the ski slopes, the snowmobiling, and much more. Last year at this time we had lots of snow and had good crops. I’m wondering if Ol’ Ma Nature is trying to tell us something?

January is real estate tax month. Yah, January is the worst month in the year, don’t ya think?

Table Talk: Do you really think our economy is getting much better? If so, how? Well, I don’t think it’s getting any better. How about the millions of workers who were laid off and no jobs. What’s going to happen to them?

Diane Hulleman had the Clam River Tuesday Club at her home Wednesday.

They do many great things in our community as well as others. They gave

money to the Burnett County and Washburn County food banks and to Cumberland Operation Center plus much more.

Good for you gals. Nancy Murray, Ginny and Amanda Bernias had lunch with Diane. Chris Hulleman and his wife and kids enjoyed lunch with Diane on Saturday.

The Shell Lake FFA will be having their fishing contest Saturday, Jan. 15, on Bashaw Lake from noon to 3:30 p.m.

There will be lots of prizes. Come and enjoy an afternoon of fun.

We hear Vicki Trott is laid up with a terrible sinus cold. Get-well wishes go out to her.

Eating supper with the Quam family Sunday night were Rick, Janie and Noel and Elliana. We hear they had ham and all the trimmings.

Heard on the news that in Iowa land is going for $10,600 per acre. Of course, they have very prime land and it grows great crops.

Last Monday, Robyn Major came and cleaned her mother’s, Sandy Redding’s, house. What a great gift for Sandy. Sandy has been having problems with her kidneys and can’t do a lot of work now.

Jim Toll, Tammy Moe and kids went down to Jim’s wife, Marilyn’s, and all of Jim and Marilyn’s kids were there. New Year’s found Jim Toll, Tammy Moe, and David Toll enjoying supper at Hilltop.

Jim tells us they had the steak and it was delicious. This weekend found Dave Toll and Tammy Moe getting up another load of wood. Jim ran the splitter for them.

Sunday Jim took his ATV for a ride and along the way enjoyed seeing some deer.

Marv Knoop tells us Noel’s dad was up for the weekend and Mark, Noel, Bryan and her dad went fishing on another lake. Marv tells us for Christmas Eve they had 98 people attending the services at the Lakeview Methodist Church. On Sunday they had 66.

News from the Fjelstad Palace finds that on New Year’s visiting Bob and Kris were Pam Pomykala and Elmer Talbert and Kris’ son, Roger Dawley, and his daughter, Abbi. Kris also visited Sue Peterson. Monday Cherie Dorweiler visited Bob and Kris. Tuesday Marv Knoop visited Bob and Kris. Wednesday Kris attended the Clam River Tuesday Club meeting at Diane Hulleman’s. Thursday Bob and Kris were in Eau Claire for appointments. While in Eau Claire, Kris visited her sister, Pat Kage. Friday, Gary Peterson visited Bob. Also Cherie and Emily Dorweiler visited Bob and Kris.

Saturday Kris visited Pam Pomykala and Elmer Talbert. Sunday Jeff Larson visited Bob and Kris.

Scatter sunshine!

Have a great week!

SHELL LAKE — Shell Lake Community Ed will be offering a variety of class in January and February. To register for a community ed class, call 715-468-7815, Ext. 1337. For WITC classes, call 800-243WITC. Open Ski - Classic or skate skiing at Timberland Hills lighted trail: January start date coming soon. 5-6 p.m. Young and old, novice or expert, grab your skis and head to Timberland Hills Lighted Loop Trail for a casual group ski with a guided tour. Cumberland Area Ski Touring Association members are encouraging people to use the trails so they’ve set some dates to meet you out there. Directions, trail conditions and other information can be found at www.timberland hills.com. Contact SLCE for more information or ride-share info.

Walk the halls with comfort and ease!

Monday-Friday 6:45-7:45 a.m. and 3:30- 9 p.m. The cold weather is no reason to stop moving! The Shell Lake 3-12 building is open for hall walking. Please enter the building through the main doors and use the halls to warm up and keep you fit for the winter. Please be mindful of scheduled events by checking the district calendar at www.shelllake.kl2.wi.us., calling the CE office, or referring to the calendar printed in the Laker. Walking maps with mileage loops are available.

Computers: Set up your blog with WordPress: WITC 60-107-602, catalog No. 25384, Monday, Jan. 23, 6-8 p.m.

Want to start your own blog? WordPress is the simplest and most powerful blogging platform available and makes the task of content management easy for anyone. Find hosting, a theme that suits you, edit content, promote and find readers, make money and optimize your site for high traffic. Cost is $12, $8 62-plus, payable to WITC, 800-243-WITC. Registration deadline is Jan. 16.

Cooking with Betsy: Chocolate desserts: Monday, Feb. 6, 6-8 p.m. Local chef and owner of Spooner Market & Grill, Betsy Helgesen, will guide you through chocolate. You will make three chocolate desserts using Dutch cocoa and chocolate ganache. Class maximum is 15. The $25 includes hands-on instruction, desserts and recipes. SLCE. Registration deadline is Feb. 1.

Gentle Yoga for all levels: WITC 60807-628, catalog No. 25392. Thursdays, Feb. 9 through March 29, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

While many people believe you have to be naturally flexible to practice yoga, the

reality is that people of all ages and physical conditions can benefit from the practice. Yoga can help reduce back and neck pain, lower blood pressure and improve your energy, strength, flexibility and balance. Postures can be practiced in a chair. Wear comfortable clothing. Instructor is Lorrie Blockhus, OmSweetOm Yoga. Cost is $36, $20 62-plus, payable to WITC, 800-243-WITC. Location: Shell Lake Senior Center, Friendship Commons. Registration deadline is Feb. 2.

Knitting mittens with Lisa Mikula: Previous knitting experience is helpful.

Thursdays, Feb. 9 and 16, 5:30-7 p.m.

This knitting class will guide you through the introductory steps needed to start a pair of mittens. Learn from scratch or refresh your memory through handson instruction, guidance and fun in this class!. Students should bring size 7 double-point needles and one-to two skeins of worsted-weight yarn. Class maximum is six. Cost is $10 SLCE registration deadline is Feb. 3.

Computers: Best of the Web Reddit Manual. WITC 60-107-602, catalog No. 25388. Monday, Feb. 6, 6-8 p.m. Wonder how your friends always find cool stuff on the Internet before you do? They’re probably using Reddit, the self-proclaimed front page of the Internet. This site is your key to finding the best things on the Web. Reddit covers every type of subject imaginable, and with their system of voting on pieces of content, you will know right away that what you are seeing is the best content around. Discover how to find content you’re interested in, the meaning of Reddiqutte, how to submit a link, and other unique functions. Cost is $12, $8 62-plus, payable to WITC, 800-243-W1TC. Registration deadline is Jan. 30.

Computers: Operation Cleanup - malware removal. WITC 60-107-602, catalog No. 25395. Monday, Feb. 20 6-8 p.m.

Think your Windows computer might be infected? Clean it up yourself using this operation cleanup. Complete Malware Removal Guide. Malware is a general term for any malicious software including viruses, trojans, rootkits, spyware and adware. Get back online after a nasty infection, protect yourself with free portable virus scanners, fix a hijacked browser, unhide your files, and where to find help online when all else fails. Cost is $12, $8 62-plus, payable to WITC, 800243-WITC. Registration deadline Feb. 13.

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by Rich Kremer Wisconsin Public Radio STATEWIDE - A bipartisan group of state lawmakers wants to exempt prescription drugs from the unfair sales act.

They say it will lower drug costs for consumers, but opponents feel it could drive community pharmacies out of business.

Wisconsin’s Unfair Sales Act makes it illegal for retailers to sell prescription drugs below invoice costs. But a proposal introduced by Republican legislators Leah Vukmir and Bill Kramer, along with Democratic legislators Tim Carpenter and Jon Richards, would change the law, exempting prescription drugs. They argue large retailers like Wal-Mart can sell $4 pharmaceuticals in bordering states, but not in Wisconsin, and people are crossing state lines to get cheap drugs. Rep. Kramer says customers in Wisconsin shouldn’t be treated any differently than other states, “If they can get

them for $4, I don’t want them having to pay more, and if that means smaller drugstores are going to have trouble competing, well they’re going to have to compete harder.”

But Ken Nelson, who owns Somerset Drug in Somerset, says it’s not possible to compete with a megastore selling drugs below cost, “They can operate at a loss for a while and still survive, small community pharmacies cannot. Our only source of income is from the services and prescriptions we dispense, and once that is taken out of a community, that’s tough if not impossible to get back.

Tom Engels represents the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, which opposes exempting drugs from the sales act. He says it’s ludicrous to believe people are driving across the state border to get prescription drugs and changing this law will drive independent, community pharmacies out of business.

by Chuck Quirmbach Wisconsin Public Radio STATEWIDE - Mild weather in southern Wisconsin has kept more waterfowl and other birds in the state.

The lack of snow and the presence of open water in many southern counties mean quite a few ducks, geese and other birds that would have headed south by now are still around. Sara Kehrli is a DNR wildlife biologist in Columbia County, north of Madison. She says during last week’s annual midwinter waterfowl survey, the numbers were up. She also says during an airplane flight over some sandbars along the Wisconsin River, she saw many sandhill cranes.

Kehrli calls it a banner year for winter bird-watchers. DNR wildlife biologist Dick Nikolai has been counting birds in Outagamie, Brown and Calumet counties. He also says waterfowl numbers are up, and Nikolai notes there are hundreds of bald eagles along the Fox River near Wrightstown.

Nikolai says there appears to be little risk of a sudden cold snap or snowstorm harming the wintering birds, as they could head south on short notice. He does urge people to be careful and not disturb nesting sites. Nikolai says hundreds or maybe thousands of geese being at a golf course or park this winter could affect some types of recreation.

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OBITUARIES

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

Iona Morgan

Iona Morgan, 84, Trego, passed away Jan. 6, 2012, at Spooner Health System Nursing Home.

Iona was born July 11, 1928, in Chicago, Ill., to Henry and Mary (Gorka) Suhrbier. She was married to Herman (Monie) Morgan.

Iona worked at Motorola in Schaumburg, Ill. After retiring in 1986, she moved to Trego. In Trego, she was known as the “lady who waved at the train.” When she heard the train whistle she would run out on the hill of her house and wave.

Iona was preceded in death by her husband, Monie; her parents; brothers Henry and Don; and sisters Lorraine and Harriet.

She is survived by and will be sadly missed by her daughter, Naomi (Augie) Johnson; and her beloved grandsons Neil and Adam Johnson; along with cousins, nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews who loved her dearly. She was a brilliant light on this earth that will continue to shine bright in the hearts of many.

There will be a memorial services for Iona in May at the Earl Cemetery where she will be placed beside Monie. Arrangements were entrusted to Taylor Family Funeral Home, Spooner. Online condolences can be made at www.scalzo-taylor.com.

Senior Lunch Menu

Monday, Jan. 16: Salmon loaf, creamed peas, baby Yukon potatoes, tropical fruit salad, bread, butter, milk, coffee.

Tuesday, Jan. 17: Chicken-fried steak, cracked-pepper gravy, mashed potatoes, stewed tomatoes, fruited gelatin dessert, bread, butter, beverage.

Wednesday, Jan. 18: BBQ chicken, macaroni and cheese, Harvard beets, frozen yogurt, bread, butter, milk, coffee.

Thursday, Jan. 19: Spanish rice casserole, green beans, banana cream pie, bread, butter, milk, coffee.

Friday, Jan. 20: Pork chop in gravy, sweet potato/cran bake, spinach salad, pear halves, bread, butter, milk, coffee.

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

Thank You

Debra “Debbie” J. Glessing, 55, Shell Lake, died Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at Indianhead Medical Center in Shell Lake.

She was born Feb. 24, 1956, in Minneapolis, Minn., to Nicholas and June (Benson) Danyo and graduated from Edison High School in Minneapolis.

She was married in Cumberland on June 18, 1977, to Curt Glessing. Debbie finished her medical transcriptionist training and began working for Indianhead Medical Center in 1977. She gave birth to Lauralei in 1980. Debbie and Curt later divorced. In 1990, she left the hospital, and on July 21, 1991, she joined the Washburn County Sheriff’s Department as a dispatcher/jailer. She retired in October of 2011.

She enjoyed traveling to Minnesota’s North Shore, Martha’s Vineyard, New Mexico and all over the U.S. Debbie loved fine arts, including opera and musicals,

loved to dance and had a beautiful singing voice. She enjoyed flower gardening and had a unique fashion sense. Mostly, she loved her family, and truly enjoyed time spent with her grandchildren.

She is survived by her daughter, Lauralei (Jake) Anderson, Cumberland; grandchildren Chase and Lily Anderson, Cumberland; siblings Gary (Kathy) Danyo, Minneapolis, Minn., Gayle (Gary) Nereson, Andover, Minn., and James (Darlene) Danyo, Denver, Colo.; her companion, Dennis Williams, Sarona; and several nieces and nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles.

Funeral services were held Jan. 6 at Shell Lake United Methodist Church with the Rev. Gregory Harrell officiating. Burial was in Lakeside Cemetery, Barronett. Pallbearers were Sheriff Terry Dryden, Chief Deputy Mike Richter, Deputy Pete Frey, Deputy Brian Jilek, Officer Dave Bos, Deputy Jason Mayer, Deputy Sgt. Nick Helstern and Deputy Audie Parenteau.

The Skinner Funeral Home, Shell Lake, was entrusted with arrangements.

Gene L. Larson, 58, Spooner, died Jan. 4, 2012, at St. Mary’s in Duluth, Minn., after a courageous battle with leukemia.

Gene was born June 3, 1953, in Fargo, N.D. He was the only child of Clifford and Josephine Larson.

After moving from Madison in 1963, Gene attended school in Spooner and graduated in 1971.

Gene went on to vocational school in Eau Claire where he earned a degree in diesel mechanics. In 1975, Gene married Janet (Wetzel), and they decided to make their permanent home in Spooner and raise a family together. Gene worked for many years as a propane delivery and service man in the Spooner area, enjoying his work and making many friends.

Gene was an active member of the Railroad Memories Museum Board, served as a chairman for the Town of Casey for many years and was active with the Spooner Girls Sports Boosters. Gene enjoyed traveling, hunting, camping, having coffee with friends, volunteering for the community, NASCAR and dirt track racing, but most importantly taking care of his family and

playing with his grandson, which he never stopped doing. He loved his family and friends.

He was an adored husband, father, grandfather and friend who will be greatly missed.

Gene was preceded in death by his parents, Clifford and Josephine Larson; an unborn grandchild, and many aunts and uncles.

Gene is survived by his loving wife, Janet; daughters Sarah (Darin) Baier and Joanna (Cory) May; grandson Rylan Gene Baier; best friend Steve “Bud” Robbins; and nieces and nephews.

Gene will be remembered for his endless spirit, love of family and tremendous kindness.

A funeral service was held Jan. 9 at Dahl’s Funeral Home with Father Bob Rogers officiating. Interment followed at the Spooner Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers were Steve “Bud” Robbins, Larry Lawrence, Bryan Westlund, Merlin Richter, David Jahr, Jerome Kapaun and Maynard Schmidt. Memorials may be directed to the family of Gene Larson and will be distributed to local organizations.

The Dahl Funeral Home, Spooner, was entrusted with arrangements.

Thomas “Tom” F. VanSelus, 79, Shell Lake, passed away Dec. 29, 2011, at Spooner Health System Hospital.

He was born to parents Art and Cleone (Reynolds) VanSelus on Dec. 17, 1932, in the Bashaw Valley of Dewey Township. Tom spent his younger life on the small family farm. He attended Maple Grove School and later Shell Lake. After high school and service in the National Guard, Tom moved to the Chicago area where he married Helen Kenosha on June 24, 1955. Tom spent many years as a machinist at Chicago Rivet and Tool. He was a creative man with many talents. He could overhaul an engine or remodel a house or fix most anything, and he enjoyed helping friends and family with their various projects. He enjoyed fishing, camping and the camaraderie of family, friends, and coworkers. He loved to tease and will be remembered for his witty comebacks. In 1971, Tom and family moved back to his rural Shell Lake homestead and worked many years at the Shell Lake Boat Factory building and

finishing the Shell Lake and Lund lines of fiberglass fishing boats. Tom also owned a small excavating business serving the Shell Lake and Spooner areas, along with home remodeling projects and working in the woods. He loved tinkering with old cars, tractors and farm machinery, gardening and spoiling his grandsons.

Tom was preceded in death by his parents, Art and Cleone; sisters Winnie (Gilbert) Jersey and Jean (John) Rhode; nephews David Graf, Tim Clark; and greatnephew David Lawton.

He is survived by his wife, Helen; sister Carol Haseltine; son Tom (Renee) VanSelus; grandsons Robert and Thomas J.; along with many cousins, nieces and nephews.

Tom requested that there be no formal wake or funeral. Please keep him and Helen and family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

The Taylor Funeral Home, Spooner, was entrusted with arrangements.

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The family of Billie Palm would like to thank everyone for their support, cards and concern during our time of loss. A special thank-you to Regional Hospice, Essentia Health Clinic and Heart Center. We are truly grateful.

John and Richard Palm, Greg, Barb & Joe Engelhart

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Alliance

Lake Park Alliance 53 3rd Ave., Shell Lake Pastor John Sahlstrom Lay Pastor Richard Peterson Youth leader Ryan Hunziker 715-468-2734 Worship Service: 10 a.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

W7135 Green Valley Rd. (Green Valley Rd. and Hwy. 63) Pastor James Frisby 715-635-2277 Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 11 a.m.

Sunday evening service 6 p.m.

Wed. evening service 7 p.m.

Catholic

St. Joseph's 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

Faith Lutheran

St. Alban's

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

Sunday Mass: 10 a.m.

(Missouri Synod) South of Spooner off Hwy. W7148 Luther Rd. Pastor Brent Berkesch 715-635-8167 Sunday Worship 8 a.m.

Sunday School 9:15 a.m.

Praise and Worship 10:30 Lutheran Hour on WJMC 96.1 FM Radio at 9 a.m. Sundays

Corner of Elm and Summit St., Spooner Father Bob Rodgers 715-635-8475 Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and Thursday at 9:30 a.m.

Morning prayer: 8:15 a.m. Monday - Thursday

Shell Lake Full Gospel

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.; Thurdays: Compassion Connection (Coed meetings) 7 p.m.;

Lutheran

Barronett Lutheran 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.

(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.

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.

Long Lake Lutheran Church

Full Gospel

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church

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

St. Francis de Sales

Episcopal

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W3114 Church Rd., Sarona Pastor Mary Strom Sunday Worship 9 a.m.

Sunday School 9 a.m.

Salem Lutheran, ELCA

803 Second St., Shell Lake 715-468-7718 www.shelllakesalem lutheran.org Sunday Worship: 8 and 10 a.m.; coffee and conversation: 9:15 a.m.

Timberland Ringebu Free Lutheran

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 Tuesdays 2 & 7 p.m.

Trinity Lutheran

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

Sunday School: 9:15 a.m.

Methodist

United Methodist

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

Sunday School during worship time; FISH Youth Group Wednesday, 7:30 - 9 p.m.

Sarona Methodist

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.

Wesleyan

Spooner Wesleyan

Hwy. 70 W, Spooner www.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 www.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 years-6th grade 6:30 p.m.

Pastor Gregory Harrell Sunday worship 9 a.m.

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Accidents

Saturday, Dec. 31 At 3:17 a.m., Derrek R. Hanson, 39, Sarona, was eastbound on CTH D, at Frey Road in Shell Lake, when he hit a deer. Minor damage to the vehicle, and no injuries were reported.

Terry A. Anderson, 51, Maplewood, Minn., was westbound on Hwy. 70, one-half mile east of 10th Street in Spooner, when he hit a deer at 4:45 p.m.

Passengers were Yolanda L. Anderson, 44, Maplewood, Minn., and two minor children. The vehicle was towed with moderate damage. No injuries were reported.

At 10:30 p.m., Stacy J. Millin, 28, Minong, was westbound on Deeper Lake Road, one-fifth mile east of Bridge Road in Minong, when her vehicle slid from the snowy roadway, down a steep embankment and rolled onto its side. No injuries were reported, but the vehicle had minor damage.

Wednesday, Jan. 4 At 11:40 a.m., Tony P. Loomis, 20, Minoqua, was eastbound on Hwy. 70, three-quarter mile west of CTH M in Spooner, when he struck a deer.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY LEGAL SECRETARY FULL TIME

Washburn County is accepting applications for a full-time Legal Secretary in the office of the District Attorney. The position will perform difficult and responsible tasks involving a variety of advanced legal secretarial and administrative duties of a varying nature. The employee frequently works with considerable independence of action and is expected to exercise discretion, good judgment and resourcefulness in dealing with unusual circumstances. The work is performed under the direct supervision of the District Attorney.

Education Requirement: High school diploma plus a two-year legal secretarial or related degree with at least two years of legal secretarial or comparable experience in a legal setting; or the equivalent combination of education and experience which provides the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities.

Experience & Abilities Required: Thorough knowledge of modern legal office practices and procedures, legal terminology, good knowledge of the Wisconsin Criminal Code, related state statutes, administrative rules and regulations, laws, county ordinances and established procedures pertaining thereto; ability to type accurately and at a speed of 60 wpm; ability to maintain complex legal clerical records and prepare documents from such records in a confidential manner. Starting salary will be $16.34 with excellent benefits.

Selection procedure will consist of written and typing exam and oral interview. The testing for this position will be held in Rice Lake.

Visit our Web site at www.co.washburn.wi.us to download an application or contact the Washburn County Administration/ Personnel Department, P.O. Box 337, Shell Lake, WI 54871 at 715468-4624; fax 715-468-4628, adminper@co.washburn.wi.us to receive a position description and employment application.

Resumes will be accepted but will not take the place of a completed application. Applications must be received by 4:30 p.m., Friday, 552382 20-21r 10-11b January 20, 2012. “EOE.”

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY LIMITED-TERM DISPATCHER/JAILER

Washburn County is seeking applicants for the position of Full-Time, Part-Time and/or Limited-Term Dispatcher/Jailer with the Sheriff’s Office. This position would work a wide variety of hours and perform a wide variety of duties connected with the operation of the jail and the countywide emergency communication system. Position requirements include graduation from high school, or equivalent, clerical training and knowledge of computers, computer stations and Windows operating systems. Work experience as a Dispatcher, Guard or additional training in related law enforcement, criminology or corrections preferred. Statutory requirements allow apointment of male or female candidates depending on the position opening.

The employment roster established at this time will be used to develop the eligibility list to fill future male and female vacancies, which may occur within the next twelve months. Selection procedure will consist of the State Dispatcher/Jailer test and a Personnel Evaluation Profile written exam. Testing for this position will be held at the Washburn County Courthouse - Lower Level Law Enforcement Meeting room in Shell Lake, WI. A Washburn County employment application must be completed. Resumes will not be accepted in place of the application. Contact the Washburn County Personnel Office, P.O. Box 337, Shell Lake, WI 54871, 715-468-4624; Fax: 715468-4628 or e-mail adminper@co.washburn.wi.us. Please visit our Web site at www.co.washburn.wi.us. Applications accepted no later than 4:30 p.m., Friday, January 27, 2012.

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Summons and Complaint Small Claims Case No. 11SC409 Code No. 31001 Claim for Money, $10,000 or less If you require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to participate in the court process, please call 715-4684677 at least 10 working days prior to the scheduled court date. Please note that the court does not provide transportation.

SUMMONS To the Defendant(s): You are being sued as described below. If you wish to dispute this matter you must appear at the time and place stated. You must file a written answer and provide a copy to the plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney on or before the date and time stated.

Date: 01/24/2012 Time: 01:30 p.m.

Washburn County Clerk Of Court Washburn County Courthouse Shell Lake, WI 54871 If you do not appear or answer, the plaintiff may win this case and a judgment entered for what the plaintiff is asking.

Clerk/Attorney Signature Karen Nord December 20, 2011 COMPLAINT Plaintiff’s Demand: The plaintiff states the following claim against the defendant(s): 1. Plaintiff demands judgment for Claim for Money $3,000.00 2. Brief statement of dates and facts: Money for damages to my rental property and money in back rent and borrowed from me.

State of Wisconsin County of Chippewa Subscribed and sworn to before me on 12-18-2011.

Charles Norseng Notary Public/Court Official Marlys Daniels Plaintiff December 18, 2011

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(Dec. 14, 21, 28, Jan. 4, 11, 18) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BRANCH 2 ST. CROIX COUNTY ANCHORBANK, FSB Assignee of S & C BANK Plaintiff vs.

DAVID H. RAILSBACK II ARLA J. RAILSBACK LAMPERT YARDS, INC. ANTCZAK CONSTRUCTION, INC. STATE OF WISCONSINDEPARTMENT OF REVENUE JOHN DOE #1 AND JOHN DOE #2 the unknown tenants of the premises located at W8389 Carlton Rd., Spooner, WI 54801 JOHN DOE #3 AND JOHN DOE #4 the unknown tenants of the premises located at N5126 Greenfield Road, Spooner, WI 54801, Defendants.

Case No. 10CV822 Case Code: 30404 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE By virtue of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above-entitled action on October 20, 2010, the undersigned Sheriff of Washburn County, Wisconsin, will sell at public auction at the front entrance of the Washburn County Courthouse in the City of Shell Lake, in said county, on the 15th day of February, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., the real estate and mortgaged premises directed by the Judgment to be sold, therein described as follows: The NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 and S 1/2 of the NW 1/4, the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4, lying S of the road and the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4; lying S of the road, all in Section 34, Township 39 North, Range 13 West, Town of Evergreen, Washburn County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: W8389 Carlton Road, Spooner, WI N5126 Greenfield Road, Spooner, WI. TERMS OF SALE: Cash.

DOWN PAYMENT: A deposit of 10% of sale price to be deposited in cash or by certified check with the Sheriff at the time of sale; balance to be paid by cash or certified check within ten days after confirmation of sale.

Dated this 8th day of December, 2011.

Terry C. Dryden Washburn County Sheriff Donald R. Marjala, Lawyer Spangler Nodolf, Bruder & Klinkhammer, LLC P.O. Box 1165 Eau Claire, WI 54702-1165 (715) 830-9771 Attorneys for Plaintiff Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1692), we are required to state that we are attempting to collect a debt on our client’s behalf, and any information we obtained will be used for that purpose.

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Thursday, Dec. 29 At 4:48 p.m., Charles E. Welcher, 81, Trego was westbound on Hwy. 53, at CTH E in Trego, when he went to turn northbound onto Hwy. 53 and struck the truck driven by Todd V. Bursaw, 44, Durand, stating that he did not see the vehicle because no lights were on. Bursaw had passenger Tina M. Bursaw, 40, Durand.

Welcher was transported by ambulance for medical attention and issued a citation for failure to yield.

Welcher’s vehicle was towed with moderate damage, while Bursaw’s truck had minor damage reported.

election.”

The Government Accountability Board released a memo Friday, Jan. 6, that said it would need an extra $100,000 for software and technical support to comply with Davis’s ruling. Those expenses would have normally been covered by the Walker campaign. This would have taxpayers bear the cost.

But the governor says that’s the way it should be, “This is not something that should just be left up to campaigns. They’re the agency that should do it. They wouldn’t have to spend a penny if there wasn’t a recall in the same way that counties and municipalities across the state that will have to spend millions of dollars conducting the recall wouldn’t have to do it if there wasn’t one, but there is.”

In fact, an estimate released Friday by the Government Accountability Board suggests recall costs for the state, counties and municipalities could run as high as $9 million.

(Jan. 4, 11, 18) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY MARLYS ANN DANIELS 728 MANSFIELD STREET CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI 54729 Plaintiff, vs.

BRIAN & THERESA DAWSON 210 5TH AVENUE SHELL LAKE, WI 54871 Defendant(s).

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In past recalls, staff at the Government Accountability Board has flagged potentially fictitious or duplicate petition signatures, but left it up to campaigns to call for their removal. Waukesha County Judge Mac Davis ruled that the board should go further and strike those signatures itself.

While it was reported as a win for the Walker campaign, state Democratic Party Chair Mike Tate said the ruling changes very little. Democrats, he says, will meet their recall signature goals, “The number we hand in will be so overwhelming that it will remove any doubt about if we’re going to have an election. It will simply be a matter of when and how much of the public’s time Scott Walker wants to waste by attempting to delay this

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED ZONING CODE AMENDMENTS CITY OF SHELL LAKE

The Shell Lake Plan Commission has petitioned the Shell Lake City Council to amend the City of Shell Lake Zoning Code by including the following proposed regulations pertaining to shortterm rental property: Section 13-1-24 R-1 SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DIS-TRICT is amended to add the following subsection after (b) Permitted Uses: (ba) Conditional Uses (1) Single-family dwellings used for short-term rentals, meaning leased or rented for a term of less than thirty (30) days.

Section 13-1-25 RL-1 SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LAKESHORE DISTRICT is amended to add the following subsection after (b) Permitted Uses: (ba) Conditional Uses (1) Single-family dwellings used for short-term rentals, meaning leased or rented for a term of less than thirty (30) days.

Section 13-1-26 RL-2 SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENT LAKESHORE DISTRICT is amended to add the following subsection after (b) Permitted Uses: (ba) Conditional Uses (1) Single-family dwellings used for short-term rentals, meaning leased or rented for a term of less than thirty (30) days.

Article E, Section13-1-68 CONDITIONS AND GUARANTEES, Subsection (a), is amended and supplemented as follows: (18) In the event that a conditional use permit is issued under Section 13-1-24(ba)(1), Section 13-1-25(ba)(1) or Section 13-1-26(ba)(1), the conditional use permit shall contain the following conditions: (i) Between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., occupancy of the dwelling unit shall be limited to two people per bedroom plus an additional two people, but in no event shall the occupancy exceed eight people in the dwelling unit. (ii) No more than one conditional use permit per tax parcel may be issued under this subsection. (iii) If the premises has a private well or septic system, said system must be code compliant, properly maintained and size appropriate for the use and occupancy of the unit. (iv) There shall be no more than four (4) exterior on-site parking spaces utilized by vehicles per dwelling unit. (v) There shall be no launching or loading of any motorized watercraft from the shoreline of the property covered by the conditional use permit. (vi) No recreational vehicles (RVs), campers, tents or other forms of supplement sleeping accommodations shall be permitted on the property covered by the conditional use permit. (vii) No fireworks shall be permitted on the property covered by the conditional use permit. (viii) The owner of the real estate covered by the conditional use permit shall provide to the City of Shell Lake Zoning Administrator a telephone number at which the owner or his or her authorized agent can be reached at any time, day or night. Failure of the owner or authorized agent to respond to a telephone call within twelve (12) hours of the time a call is made, will be deemed a violation of the conditional use permit. (ix) A city-approved sign, at least 8-1/2” by 11” must be erected, properly located and properly maintained on the property covered by the conditional use permit which shows all of the following: a) The maximum number of occupants permitted. b) The maximum number of parking spaces permitted. c) The name of the contact person and the telephone number which has been provided to the Zoning Administrator. (x) Each person who rents the property shall be provided with, and must sign, a rental agreement which clearly sets forth the following rules: a) The maximum number of occupants of the dwelling. b) The maximum number of motor vehicles that are allowed to park on the premises. c) The prohibition against launching or landing watercraft on the premises. d) The prohibition against having recreational vehicles (RVs), campers, tents or any other supplemetal sleeping accommodations on the premises. e) The prohibition against fireworks on the property. (xi) The owner of the property shall comply with all regulations of the State of Wisconsin or other regulatory agencies which may apply to the rental of dwellings for human habitation. (xii) These restrictions do not apply while property is owner occupied. Owners must cover or remove sign required under (ix) during such time the unit is owner occupied.

(19) Any other requirements necessary to fulfill the purposes and intent of this Chapter.

A public hearing will be held on the proposed code amendments Monday, January 30, 2012, at 5 p.m., in the Council Chambers, City Hall.

Clint R. Stariha, Zoning Administrator 552689 21-22r WNAXLP

SCHOOL DISTRICT OF SHELL LAKE REGULAR BOARD MEETING DECEMBER 19, 2011

President Jeri Bitney called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.

Roll call found these members present: Jeri Bitney, Wendy Muska, Tim Mikula, Phil Holman, Mary Ann Swan, Stu Olson and Linda Nielsen. Also present: Jim Connell, Don Peterson, Kimberly Osterhues, Pam Brown, Phyllis Bergeron, Boyd Anderson, Lori Hanson-Hungerbuhler, Sage Dunham, David Schraufnagel, Jessica Beecroft and Al Nauertz.

There were no public comments.

Sage Dunham gave the Student Council report. Students have been writing letters to soldiers. Jr. High Student Council is participating in Sticker Shock in conjunction with New Paradigm Partners where stickers are placed on alcoholic beverages to warn adults of the penalties of furnishing alcohol to minors.

Mr. Mikula moved to accept consent agenda items a - c with changes to Strategic Planning minutes, seconded by Linda Nielsen. The motion carried.

Administration reports Kim Osterhues Discussed Parent Teacher conferences.

The Elementary Christmas program went well. The Primary School Christmas program is on Dec. 20.

Don Peterson A follow-up meeting will be held to look at MAPS percentages. MAPS data will be a help to teachers in classrooms.

Danette Hopke is working with Tier 1 students (higher level) and has had them help out as tutors.

Jim Connell PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) teams have been formed.

The PEP (Physical Education Program) grant is being utilized. Possible expansion of weight room and more equipment may be added. Teachers and students are taking part in the study by wearing pedometers.

Unfinished Business Mrs. Muska moved to approve handbook language that noncertified staff are provided with unpaid leave, charging them one half the cost of a sub or $40.00 if no sub is needed, seconded by Mr. Holman. The motion carried.

Tim Mikula gave a discussion on the Perceptions Survey.

The decision is to keep WEA as the school’s dental insurance.

Mrs. Nielsen moved to drop WEA as long-term disability insurance provider and choose EPIC Life Insurance as longterm disability insurance provider, seconded by Mrs. Muska.

The motion carried.

Mr. Olson moved to drop WEA as short-term disability insurance provider and choose EPIC Life Insurance as short-term disability insurance provider, seconded by Mrs. Nielsen. The motion carried.

Mr. Holman moved to drop the number of required C-squad girls basketball players in order to keep C-squad girls basketball coach in current structure, seconded by Mr. Mikula. The motion carried.

Mrs. Swan moved to adopt Policy 341.34, Nutrition in the School Environment, seconded by Mrs. Muska. The motion carried.

Mrs. Swan moved to adopt Policy 723, Emergency Plan, and delete previous policy, seconded by Mr. Holman. The motion carried.

Mrs. Nielsen moved to adopt Policy 723.3, Emergency School Closing and delete previous policy, seconded by Mrs. Muska. The motion carried.

Mrs. Muska moved to adopt Policy 731.2, Video Surveillance with changes, seconded by Mrs. Swan. The motion carried.

New Business Dan Thole of LarsenAllen gave the audit report for the school year, 2010-2011. Mrs. Swan moved to accept the audit report as presented, seconded by Mrs. Muska. The motion carried.

The 2012-2013 calendar was reviewed.

Mr. Mikula moved to approve the summer school program for 2012, seconded by Mrs. Muska. The motion carried.

Mrs. Nielsen moved to authorize administration to organize summer technology institute for staff members, seconded by Mr. Olson. The motion carried.

There was some discussion of the need for Jr. High reading to be reinstated in the Jr. High curriculum. The 7-period day makes it difficult to fit in the schedule. The administration will meet and discuss this matter.

Mrs. Muska moved to purchase a 3/4-ton pickup from Arrowhead Motors for $29,003.00, seconded by Mrs. Nielsen.

The motion carried.

Mr. Mikula moved to purchase a bus from Wisconsin Bus Sales for $92,300.00, seconded by Mrs. Muska. The motion carried.

Mr. Mikula moved to accept the resignation of Jenifer Bos as assistant track coach and thank her for her years of service, seconded by Mr. Holman. The motion carried.

Committee reports were given.

Mrs. Muska moved to suspend the regular meeting to convene an executive session in accordance with Wisconsin Statutes 19.85(1)(c) for the purpose of discussing staff needs and evaluations, seconded by Mr. Holman at 9:15 p.m. Roll call found all members voting aye. The motion carried.

Mr. Holman moved to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Mrs. Muska. The motion carried.

552674 21r The meeting was adjourned at 9:58 p.m.

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(Dec. 28, Jan. 4, 11) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FLOYD W. PEDERSON Notice to Creditors (Informal Administration) Case No. 11PR54 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for informal administration was filed.

2. The decedent, with date of birth March 22, 1921, and date of death June 12, 2010, was domiciled in Washburn County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 201 Glenview, Lane #2, Shell Lake, WI 54871.

3. All interested persons waived notice.

4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is March 30, 2012.

5. A claim may be filed at the Washburn County Courthouse, 10 W. 4th Ave., Shell Lake, WI. Marilynn E. Benson Probate Registrar 552033 December 7, 2011 WNAXLP

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(Jan. 11) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT BARRON COUNTY Donald A. Socha 104 Laker Drive P.O. Box 112 Shell Lake, WI 54871 Defendant PUBLISHED NOTICE Case No. 11 SC 1329 You are being sued by WESTconsin Credit Union in Small Claims Court. A hearing will be held at the Barron County Justice Center, 1420 Hwy. 25 N., Barron, WI 54751 on Jan. 23, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. or thereafter.

If you do not appear/answer, a judgment may be given to the person suing you. A copy of the claim has been mailed to you at the address above.

NOTICE TO ALL WASHBURN COUNTY DOG OWNERS

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Call 715-468-2314 to place ad, or e-mail your ad to wcregister@centurytel.net Advertising deadline is Monday at noon.

Pursuant to WI Stat. 174.052, notice is hereby given to all Washburn County dog owners that you are required to license and vaccinate for rabies, under the provisions of WI Stat.

95.21(2), any dog over 5 months of age. (Statute defines a dog owner as anyone who owns, harbors or keeps a dog.) The license year is defined as January 1 - December 31.

Minimum Dog License fees are as follows: $5.00 for spayed or neutered dogs, $10.00 for unspayed or unneutered dogs.

Multiple dog license fees are: $50 for up to 10 dogs and $5.00 for each additional dog. Local municipalities may supplement these fees, please check with your local treasurer for current fee amount.

Dogs not licensed by April 1, or within 30 days of acquiring ownership, or after reaching 5 months of age, are subject to a late fee of not less than $5.00 per dog. Owners who fail to license or vaccinate a dog pursuant to the above statutes are subject to citation and forfeiture.

Dog licenses are obtained through your local municipal treasurer.

552769 21r WNAXLP Lynn K. Hoeppner, Washburn County Clerk

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The Washburn County Zoning Committee will hold a business meeting Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 3:30 p.m. in the Washburn County Boardroom, Elliott Building, 110 Fourth Avenue West, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

PUBLIC HEARING CONDITIONAL USE REQUESTS Conditional use requests have been filed with the Washburn County Zoning Office. This public hearing will be held January 24, 2012, immediately following the rezoning requests in the Washburn County Boardroom, Elliott Building, 110 Fourth Avenue West, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

BIRCHWOOD Township: Henry & Ione Niehoff, Stone Lake, Wisconsin. Map#: BI 1860/Record ID# 6153 - .57 acre, 1st addition Belvidere Park, Lot 21, Block 4, Section 17-38-10, Town of Birchwood, requesting to have a conditional use permit for rental of house for short-term use.

Interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard.

The committee will deliberate in “Open Session.” Handicapped access is available through the south door, parking is near the door. This agenda and the subsequent meeting minutes are available in large type. If you need assistance, please call Lynn Hoeppner at 715-468-4600, prior to the meeting.

Webster Macomber 552295 20-21r WNAXLP Zoning Administrator

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4K students build snowmen without snow, with parents

How cool is this? Spending the school day with your mother. Melody Taylor enjoyed the time with her mother, Thursday, Jan. 5. The message Crissy is sending her daughter is that school is important.

Castin Melton and his father, Amos, are making a snowman as part of a 4-year-old kindergarten project they worked on Thursday, Jan. 5. Without snow this will have to do this year.

Cyrice Lehmann’s arms are a little too short for this project.

Jacob Haynes was temporarily distracted from the snowman that his mother was helping him make.

LEFT: Jordan Lawrence feels very special as she gets help on her snowman from volunteer Jerri Hoekstra and elementary Principal Mrs. Osterhues.

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Katie Olson is getting a little help from Mrs. Wondra in operating the stapler.

School menus

Breakfast Monday, Jan. 16: Juice, cereal, toast.

Tuesday, Jan. 17: Fruit, sausage link, waffle sticks.

Wednesday, Jan. 18: Juice, breakfast pizza.

Thursday, Jan. 19: Fruit, yogurt, toast.

Friday, Jan. 20: No school.

Lunch Monday, Jan. 16: French toast, sausage patty, hash browns, applesauce. No Laker.

Tuesday, Jan. 17: Turkey and gravy on biscuit, green beans, peach slices. Laker: Salad bar.

Wednesday, Jan. 18: Chicken patty on bun, fries, mixed vegetables, pineapple tidbits. No Laker.

Thursday, Jan. 19: Meatball sub, whole-grain rotini, carrots, pear slices. Laker: Salad bar.

Friday, Jan. 20: No school.

Breakfast served each day for K-12 students. Whole-grain bread and buns and milk served with each meal. Laker sandwiches available to grades 7-12 only. Laker salad bar available to grades 3-12.

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THE PERSON I MOST ADMIRE: My wife. We have some very strong challenges in recent years and through it all she relied on her faith and positive outlook to make our family stronger. She is not afraid to be her own person!

BEST MOVIE I EVER SAW: “A Few Good Men” and “A Christmas Story.”

FAVORITE MOVIE LINE: “You can’t handle the truth ... ” – from “A Few Good Men.” FAVORITE TV SHOW: “Seinfeld” or “The Office.”

MUSIC I LISTEN TO: Classic rock, contemporary Christian and almost anything live. I’ve been to more concerts than I can count. “Jam bands.”

FAVORITE DISH: Swedish meatballs on Christmas Eve. LAST BOOK I READ: “The Help” – Great book!

MY FRIENDS WOULD DESCRIBE ME AS: Funny, adventurous, a risk taker and very loyal to friendships.

MY FIRST JOB WAS: Worked on an emu farm in New Jersey while I was in high school.

Yes, that’s really true.

I’D LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED FOR: Being a good role model for my children and also helping those in recovery who have overcome similar issues.

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FULL NAME, AGE: Dave McNulty, 41 FAMILY: Wife, Janine, and three sons – Ben, 9; Jacob, 8; and Nicholas, 2.

OCCUPATION: Sales manager, Heartwood Conference Center & Retreat (as of last week!).

WASHBURN COUNTY RESIDENT SINCE: 2005 HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Camping, hunting, travel, fishing with my boys, canoeing – especially in the Boundary Waters and everything and anything to do with Wisconsin Badgers, plays and acting in local theaters, Theater in the Woods.

CLAIM TO FAME: My dad worked for CBS Sports and I stood on the sidelines for two Super Bowls (1989 and 1991) and even was in the locker room after the games. I have some great pictures holding the Super Bowl trophy!

MY FAVORITE SPORT TO PLAY: Mostly anything with my boys, usually football or baseball.

FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH: Badger football, but Badger basketball is a close second.

PLACE I WOULD MOST LIKE TO VISIT: New Zealand. But we love to travel, so anywhere we haven’t been is fair game.

DINNER COMPANION, DEAD OR ALIVE: Three “J’s” – Janine, Jerry Garcia and Jesus. It would be a great conversation.

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