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Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Vol. 123, No. 30 • Shell Lake, Wis.

Weekend watch

• “The Beverly Hillbillies,” performed by Shell Lake students, Erika Quam Memorial Theatre.

See Events, page 8

Taking a stand

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Local family recognized by National Farmers Organization See page 5

The paper Wall of Intolerance See page 24

Chelsea Melton and Grace Helstern are taking a stand against verbal abuse and bullying.

It was through their efforts that a wall was constructed of black bricks with words that hurt and builds walls between people. See story on page 24. — Photo by Larry Samson

SPORTS

Basketball and area sports See pages 12-14

People you should know: Jane Lauterbach See back page

BREAKERS

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STATEWIDE - DNR evaluating state hatchery system, closing some.

Wisconsin’s state fish hatchery system is in the process of downsizing.

Three hatcheries have already closed in the past six years, and the Brule River facility looks to be next. The Brule River Fish Hatchery was built in 1927 on the Little Brule River that feeds into Lake Superior. It produced 200,000 brook trout in 1928. Last year, it raised about twice that number in Coho salmon and brown trout, most bound for Lake Michigan with 100,000 for Lake Superior. It may only employ two people, but state Rep. Nick Milroy says it’s important for the area, “It is a big deal for Brule.

Brule is a small, tight-knit community. A lot of people are dependent on the tourism industry.” Milroy says the hatchery and the Brule River, known as one of the best trout streams in the country and fished by several presidents, draws visitors from around the country. “We want to make sure that if anything were to happen to the steelhead population that we would have the infrastructure in place to help rehabilitate that stock, and that’s what that hatchery has done in the past when the stock has collapsed, and we’d like to have it there for the future.” But budget realities have idled three of the state’s 14 hatcheries and four others are operating below capacity. DNR District Director John Gozdzialski says Brule is old, small, needs repairs and is susceptible to the deadly fish virus VHS because it is connected to Lake Superior, “It’s tied to the budget. It’s tied to investment or need to upgrade it to make it compliant. So, it’s a combination of things.” Although Brule has been given a one-year reprieve, state Fisheries Management Director Mike Staggs says it is next on the list to be closed. He says the whole system is being evaluated, and more cuts will have to be made. – Mike Simonson, Wisconsin Public Radio

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What we thought we knew

Local nurse and mother has firsthand experience with concussions

came to diagnosing Caleb’s concussions,” says Schmidt.

“The new information was just coming out in 2010, right after his first concussion. To make it worse, our son’s concussions didn’t present themselves normally. One time we thought

by Diane Dryden he had the flu because the SHELL LAKE - According whole team had been sick, to Kelly Schmidt, nurse for throwing up and having the Shell Lake School Sysheadaches. tem for the past 12 years, “Years ago kids were told “Everything the medical to ‘shake it off’ and get back field thought about concusinto the game unless it was sions during the last 100 years has all proved untrue Kelly Schmidt, better known thought to be a bad concusduring the past 10 years.” as Nurse Kelly to the students sion and the common Schmidt has a vested in- of the Shell Lake School Sys- thought about them was to terest in the treatment of tem, knows about concus- make sure the patient didn’t concussions because her sions firsthand with her own go to sleep. Now we realize son, Caleb, had three of son’s, Caleb’s, three concus- that sleep is the best thing to them in the years between sions in three years in two dif- help the brain heal. Another his being a sophomore and ferent sports. - Photo by Diane thing science has discovered is that television watching, a senior, eliminating him not Dryden or texting, or doing math only from the chance of breaking school records, but it will keep him problems and even lights inhibit the brain from participating in the prestigious Shrine from healing.”

By definition, a concussion is not a lifeBowl of football.

“My husband Tim and I have three chil- threatening injury, but it can cause both shortdren, Connor, Molly and Caleb, and they term and long-term problems. Researchers at have all made sports a huge part of their the University of Pennsylvania School of school experience, but it’s only been Caleb Medicine have found direct evidence that that had head trauma which created the con- mild repetitive head injuries can lead to Alzheimer’s disease. Upward of 5 million sufcussions.”

The medical description for concussion is fer from Alzheimer’s disease, a statistic that simply a bruised brain, or in more formal is likely to rise along with the aging populaterms, a traumatic brain injury. This term has tion. Alzheimer’s develops slowly, beginning been used for centuries and is still commonly with frequent memory problems and resultused in sports medicine. Frequently defined ing in severe brain damage. Within the brain, as a head injury with a temporary loss of amyloid plaques and fibrous tangles of nervbrain function, concussions can cause a vari- ous system tissue choke off and eventually ety of physical, cognitive and emotional destroy brain cells. Eventually sufferers resymptoms.

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FFA Red Cross Blood Drive

Tammy Holman is all smiles as she donates blood at the FFA Red Cross Blood Drive held Wednesday, March 7, at the Shell Lake High School. Holman is giving doubles through a process where part of her blood red cells are extracted and the remaining cells are returned. The process allows her to give two units of red cells. — Photos by Larry Samson

“The Beverly Hillbillies”

Characters from the popular 1960s TV show are brought back to life in the Shell Lake High School Theater production of “The Beverly Hillbillies.” Gabe Lagarde, Emmalee Statz, Jon Lloyd and Sage Dunham are part of a 20-member cast that will be performing at the Erika Quam Theatre on Friday, March 16, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, March 17, at 2 and 7 p.m. Seating is limited so make your reservation at 715-468-4387. — Photo by Larry Samson

These Shell Lake FFA volunteers are too young to give blood, but they are old enough to know the value of donating their time. Working as runners standing in the back row are Maddie Dennis, Dani Kuechle, Dominic Hopke and Marty Anderson. Manning the registration table were Cassie Skindzelewski, Emma Crosby, Tyler Crosby and Trevor Anderson. By hosting a blood drive the FFA earns money for scholarships.

ICHC donates toward purchase of TVs

Indianhead Community Health Care organization donated $2,000 for the purchase of new television sets at Indianhead Medical Center in Shell Lake. This donation was made possible by a generous gift of money from the Jane Winton Family. Winton was an active member of ICHC for numerous years, oftentimes seen proudly wearing her red smock and pushing the television rental cart to patients rooms. She was fondly known as the “TV Lady” who made her rounds almost daily. Winton lived her life helping others, even earning awards for her volunteer services. Though being past the days of renting a television, by providing IMC’s patients with a bedside TV, Winton’s legacy of service will not be forgotten. Shown (L to R): Gwen Bartholomew, ICHC treasurer; Doris Laursen, IMC director of nursing; and Sue Weathers, ICHC president. — Photo submitted

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Carsello found not guilty

Jury finds reasonable doubt that shooting was intentional

by Jessica Beecroft WASHBURN COUNTY – Jess R. Carsello, 48, formerly of Sarona, was found not guilty in the jury trial for firstdegree intentional homicide of Michael T. Elliott, 32, Sarona.

Jurors deliberated just over a day – eight hours on Wednesday and five hours on Thursday – beginning at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 7, and coming back with a not guilty verdict on Thursday, March 8, by 2 p.m. The trial started on Monday, Feb. 27.

A member of the Elliott family summed it up by saying simply, “He (Carsello) walked.”

District Attorney Mike Bitney made

the case against Carsello during the first week of the trial, while the final week began with the plaintiff’s opening statements.

Carsello was facing possible life in prison.

Some were in disbelief after learning of the verdict.

Jurors felt there was a reasonable doubt as to whether Carsello intentionally murdered Elliott, based on evidence presented by defense attorney Harry Hertel who said Carsello feared for his life and felt he had to protect himself from Elliott and a third man Carsello claimed had threatened him.

Hertel told weau.com that Carsello was “overwhelmed” by the jury’s decision, hugging his family, but noted that the Carsello family truly regrets the incident happened. – with information from the Washburn County Sheriff’s Department

Weight limits for Washburn County roads

WASHBURN COUNTY — Washburn County road bans went into effect Friday, March 9.

Notices are posted on the Washburn County Highway Department Web site

at www.co.washburn.wi.us, department listings (Highway), and are available by calling the highway department at 715635-4480. — from Washburn County Highway Department

Fireworks donations, please

by Jessica Beecroft SHELL LAKE – The Shell Lake City Council met Monday, March 12. Terry Leckel noted that the fire department and chamber of commerce are already out looking for donations for the fireworks this year. All donations can be sent directly to the city of Shell Lake.

Police chief reports Shell Lake Police Chief Clint Stariha gave his monthly report to the city council. The police department responded to 19 complaints, six county assists, two motorist assists, one car versus deer, one accident, six arrests, four dog complaints, one dog to the pound, two funeral escorts, two alarms, two car accidents, one theft, one welfare check, one helicopter assist, one juvenile out of

control, 21 verbal warnings, 17 citations, one gas drive off, one lift assist and one fight.

The following tickets were issued: two speeding, one left of center, two failure to stop, two underage drinking, one open intoxicants, one hit and run, one nonregistration, one failure to notify of accident, one OWI, one BAC, one reckless driving, one disorderly conduct and one speeding in excess.

Stariha also said that the SLPD offered a simulation class on March 14 with the Washburn County Sheriff’s Department.

“Shoot/Don’t Shoot” is a simulation class offered by WITC where officers get laser guns and practice their shooting skills with the “bad guys and good guys.” Officers from all over the county come to the training.

Rivard: The loss of a great opportunity

Loss of mining company heavy blow to Wisconsin economy

RICE LAKE — Rep. Roger Rivard, RRice Lake, expressed his disappointment with the Senate for failing to pass legislation that would have created thousands of jobs for generations in Wisconsin.

“I greatly respect my colleagues in the Senate but this was simply the wrong decision,” said Rivard. “The legislation they failed to pass would have created thousands of jobs and brought billions of dollars of economic activity to northern Wisconsin counties that desperately need it.”

The legislation failed to pass the Senate by one vote. It was opposed by the minority and one Republican senator.

“There seems to be a great deal of concern regarding the impact of this mine on

the environment and rightfully so,” said Rivard. “The truth is that this bill did not allow a mining company to circumvent the DNR, EPA, Army Corps of Engineers or other regulatory entities that would have maintained environmental standards.

“The bill before the Senate simply allowed for a detailed permitting process to be created. The process would have still been under the control of the DNR. “I voted for this bill in the Assembly because it would have eased the burden on families throughout northern Wisconsin and would have had a positive impact on our own region.

“The mining company has now abandoned their plans for Wisconsin, shifting investment and jobs away to states like Michigan and Minnesota that have a ferrous permitting process. It’s a sad day in Wisconsin, specifically for those in the Northwoods desperately looking for a job.” — from the office of Rep. Rivard

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This is AmeriCorps Week

SPOONER — This week, Saturday, March 10, through Sunday, March 18, is AmeriCorps Week, a time to recognize the commitment of both current and alumni AmeriCorps members and the impact that they have made across America during their terms of service.

AmeriCorps is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, an agency that was established in 1993 under the presidency of Bill Clinton. Each year, 75,000 AmeriCorps members serve across America in a variety of programs that benefit the communities in which they serve. Spooner Area School District is the recipient of two such programs.

For the past six years, Spooner has had AmeriCorps members serving in the Service for Learning and Life project.

While funded through the Corporation of National and Community Service, the grant is administered through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

The three main goals of this project are to tutor students, recruit and manage volunteers, and to work with students in developing service-learning projects in the community.

This year, returning AmeriCorps member Sharon Johnson and new member Jessica Smuda are dedicating their service to fulfilling these goals. They have tutored many students in the elementary, middle and high school grades that are struggling in reading or math. Many volunteers also assist them in this task. It is rewarding for both students and tutors alike, and in light of the funding crises for our local schools, helps fill needs that would otherwise go unmet.

In addition to one-on-one and smallgroup tutoring, volunteers are also utilized in the classroom, in the after-school program and at special events. Johnson and Smuda also enjoy working with students in various service-learning projects. Service learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience. Students have been learning more about their community and the needs that exist there. Recent projects include helping younger children learn to read, walking dogs at the humane society and spending quality time with residents at an assisted living center.

Middle school students in the Rumblin’ Rails 4-H Club, with the help of Nan Hendry, made a quilt to be given away at last fall’s Family Reading Night.

Students also joined many in the community who put together shoe boxes full of toys and personal hygiene items for needy children in other parts of the world. These experiences help students see beyond themselves, helping them to learn civic responsibility and give them a part in making our communities a better place to live.

Also making a difference in the Spooner School District is the AmeriCorps Farm-to-School project, now in its fourth year. The goal of the Farm-toSchool program is to provide an innovative approach to decreasing childhood obesity by promoting healthy eating habits in K-12 students and increasing access to local foods. This year, Robin Heier is leading nutrition education lessons while Community Outreach is facilitated by Amy Young. Young is in her third year as a half-time AmeriCorps Farm-to-School member. Spooner utilizes this program in a multitude of ways. Heier will continue to provide nutrition lessons and hands-on fun throughout the year and throughout all of the elementary grades, as well as spend some time with the middle school children, too. Grades K-6 are involved in planting lessons revolving around the school gardens, utilizing a grow cart or exposure during class time. AmeriCorps members Heier and Young also oversee fruit and veggie presentations five to six times a year to K-6 students. Through these presentations, they are able to bring in community members like firemen, farmers/growers and doctors to help deliver presentations and to get the kids excited about the new foods they are tasting. In addition, this helps to add more local foods to the school menu such as cranberries, wild rice, apples and asparagus to name a few. Farm-to-School AmeriCorps members greatly appreciate and work very closely with the North Country Master Gardeners and local UW-Extension employees. With their help, the school is able to have two school gardens and all the produce goes back to the school or the local community through food banks.

All of the AmeriCorps members collaborate as a team on certain projects. In the fall, they worked together to plan and implement Family Reading Night at the elementary school. This was a funfilled family event that drew over 250 people to celebrate reading. The event had a fairytale theme, titled Tell Me A Tale, and featured locally grown produce from the school garden for the stone soup, which was served. Teachers and volunteers worked with the AmeriCorps team to provide an evening of fun activities, music, puppetry and drama, as they brought stories to life. They also participate together in other special school events like Jump Rope for Heart, Family Math Day, volunteer orientation and appreciation events, open houses and Spooner Middle School’s Spring Fling. They are looking forward to partnering again to organize an opportunity in late April for K-4 students to celebrate both Earth and Arbor Days in Be Green Week. — from Sharon Johnson and Amy Young

by Steve Roisum Wisconsin Public Radio STATEWIDE - When it comes to shaping opinions about agriculture and agproducts, so-called mommy bloggers are holding more power than ever before.

But it’s a two-way street. Some bloggers say they want better communication between them and ag businesses.

An e-market study says there are an estimated 4 million mommy bloggers and over 90 million readers, mostly fellow moms. Some write about the food they feed their families, sharing concerns over such issues as growth hormones and genetically modified foods.

Social media expert Roxi Beck says sometimes bloggers put out misinformation. But not on purpose. She says it can be a matter of the writer not having enough information, “This gets down to they either don’t have the resource to go to, whether from an expert standpoint, or they haven’t done it, they don’t have

the time to find the research.”

Vanessa Druckman has taken extra steps to learn more from farmers. She’s a Chicago-based blogger who writes about food including her favorite recipes. She says around 7,000 read her on a regular basis. Druckman says the ag industry shouldn’t fear social media. She says there just needs to be better communication between farmers and bloggers so everybody has their facts straight, “I think more good can be done by sharing information instead of shielding things in worrying that moms won’t understand what you do with antibiotics and what do we mean by hormones and what’s the difference, what’s natural, what’s unnatural. Give moms credit.”

It turns out at least some in the ag industry are listening. Farmers will get a chance to ask mommy bloggers questions, including Druckman, at the upcoming Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin Conference in Madison.

“Mommy bloggers” hope to improve communication with ag industry

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We need true health-care reform

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

Who was it that stated, “if you like your health plan, you can keep it”? Oh yes, it was Barack Obama back when he was working to pass Obamacare.

Well, this is not the case for Catholic colleges and hospitals that do not cover costs for contraception and sterilization in their plans so that their plans are in line with church teachings. Initially these religious organizations were told to offer plans that include this coverage with nocost-to-plan participants. A $2,000 annual penalty per participant would be the price to the institution for failure to comply with the mandate.

After an uproar, the Obama administration offered a compromise: the religious entities would still have to offer such plans; they just wouldn’t have to pay the extra cost. Who exactly would pay the extra cost wasn’t specified. I wonder if Santa is available.

This isn’t a question of a woman’s access to health care — you can obtain a month’s supply of birth control pills at Target or Wal-Mart for $9. This is a power play where the secular government wants to show a religious organization who is boss.

This mandate for birth control coverage came from the U.S. Preventative

Services Task Force, a committee given its power under Obamacare. This directive will be the first of many. The task force is already combing through medicines and medical procedures to determine which should be included in health plans.

Don’t liberals and progressives who favored the passage of Obamacare trust our doctors and other medical providers — with our input of course — to make the right decisions for us? Maybe they are thinking like Barack did when during a discussion of doctors treating children with allergies he stated, “The doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself – you know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out.”

It just amazes me that anyone would favor having choices taken away from them and given to some remote committee who knows nothing about them.

How will doctors react when the government limits their treatment options? We need true health-care reform that expands choice, not the strangulation that Obamacare entails.

I read with great interest your article about a 10-year-old student taking a stand against bullying because as a student, I too, suffered at the hands of a bully. He is now imprisoned for murder (not mine).

I’m also enthused to hear that Rush Limbaugh, an entertaining bully who made false, disgusting comments about a law

school student who tried to testify before a congressional committee, is being dumped by many of his radio sponsors.

Is there justice in this world? Sometimes.

I noticed on my last tax bill that the only entity to raise their taxes was the city of Shell Lake. All others went down. How many other cities raised their rate?

I heard rumors that more money was given toward places in the industrial park and more for some improvements. True or not? Normally when a business or industry adds on or makes some improvements, the city gives them money or the city does work for them for incentives to help them out. Nothing shows it was done in the council minutes. Why? Will this TID cash out or will the city have to pick up the tab?

If it doesn’t cash out it will go on the tax roll.

Short-term rentals: Look at the restrictions put on lake property only. Why not put on the same for all property in the city?

Why was this done when most of the lake people are gone for the winter? Good timing, so they won’t get to give some input. Is this the proper way to handle this? What will be the total cost to implement this ordinance? Some of the trustees voted no at times, what were their reasons? Vern Redlich commented that this should go to a referendum vote. What will be the cost for the enforcement also? Is Shell Lake the first city to do this short-term rental thing?

Putting a logo on the city water tower, is this a waste of tax dollars? Should list how all trustees voted by name. Will the logo be seen by people traveling on Hwy. 63?

My goodness, that was close. For a time I was concerned we would have to get up and go to work at a real job and earn some real money, but two of our state senators, Robert Jauch and Dale Schultz, joined with others to kill the mining bill. I was also concerned the tribes would also favor the bill as the folks working at the mines would have that much more money to spend in their casinos.

But we can continue to live on the selfappointed environmentalists hot air. It is good stuff. As that eminent philosopher Ambrose Bierce once observed, “Air is a

nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.”

I can’t see how the people in Michigan, Minnesota and North Dakota put up with their mining operations. Why would they decide a workforce in a private industry is better than hot air? I don’t understand. Hot air is so tasty and filling. And think of the taxes they must pay.

Thursday night, March 1, Gov. Walker finally came back to Wisconsin from his cross-country money-gathering tour.

Where did he land? Right here in Spooner for another secret fundraiser!

Ironically, the event was held on the same block as a free "Community Supper" hosted by St. Francis DeSales Catholic Church. Driving into town on Hwy 53/63 one saw the hand-made sign directing hungry folk to the Community Supper.

One block west and you could choose (if you knew about the secret fundraiser) a free meal at the church or the $500 per person hors d'oeuvres and cash bar with Gov. Walker. Those who could afford the $500 price tag also got to have their photo taken with the divisive governor. Can you afford

to spend $500 on a political campaign? Me neither! And think how helpful those donations from wealthy Republicans would be toward feeding lots of hungry people at the churches – yet Walker needs it for his pockets because he's divided our state like no other.

Still, with only two hours notice about 30 people dropped everything to gather on the sidewalk outside the Northwest Sports Center (where the event was being held) to chant up at the ballroom window ... "Recall Walker!" They felt the need to let Walker know he cannot hide from local citizens, even in "little" Spooner.

James Lewis Shell Lake

Is there justice?

Ed Fischer Spooner

Is the economy good or bad?

Harold Emanuel Poplar Grove, Ill., & Shell Lake

Hot air

Rod Ripley Spooner

Walker sighting

Sue Hansen Spooner

Hope

Spring is nearly here. Soon the grass will grow green and buds on the trees will take on a new life. Take heed, there will also be new life in the movement called the 99 percent. Most of what is going to take place will be evil and dangerous to our country.

There is some truth in the 99 Percent Movement. Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to price gouge with the government’s blessing through the federal drug authority. Our health system is being destroyed from within. The green movement is given our money to squander. The 99 Percent Movement is being used to destabilize our country. It will bring more control, less freedom and a great change to our country. The movement will be crushed by our government. A beneficiary to change that’s coming, George Soros, is predicting vio-

lent protests and a collapse of our financial system.

We the people need to wake up from our sleep to the fact that our moral values are being destroyed. Our wealth is being stolen and our God-given freedom is nearly gone. Danger is near, you must prepare yourself, both spiritually and physically for what is to come.

There are warning signs everywhere.

Open your eyes and see! The elections will change nothing. The same old forces will still be there. As a nation we must return to God. Good moral men and women must take a stand and act now to protect our freedom. We must take America back, look up!

Sell off the Chequamegon National Forest? Sell off the state forests? Still the lands along our wild rivers like the Namekagon? Those of us who hunt and fish, trail ride, camp and hike need to take a moment to think about this. It’s been proposed recently.

Personally, I know of no finer moments in my life than when I have silently walked a hunting trail in the Chequamegon at dawn with a doublebarrel 20-gauge at port arms, waiting for that thunderous burst of a grouse getting up from the brush.

We need the public lands because, more and more, private lands are being restricted for hunting and any other uses by the public. So we had better carefully consider who we’re going to vote for in the fall, because two candidates want to get rid of our public lands.

Last month in Nevada, Mr. Romney said of our public lands, “I don’t know what the purpose is. Unless there’s a

valid, legitimate and compelling public purpose, I don’t know why the government owns so much of this land.”

And Mr. Santorum wants to sell them off to private investors. He said, “The federal government doesn’t care about this land. They don’t live here, they don’t care about it. We don’t care about it in Washington.” Well, I care about it. These lands are not the federal government’s, they are ours, all of ours, to enjoy in trust forever.

What surprises me is that most of our public lands exist because of two great Republicans, Gifford Pinchot, creator of our national forests; and President Teddy Roosevelt, who was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. I‘d hate to see the Chequamegon sold off in parcels to the very rich and closed to our use. So think about it in November.

OSCEOLA — A house fire claimed the lives of two women in a dramatic blaze on Tuesday, March 6, between Osceola and Dresser, just south of Hwy. 35.

According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Department, the call came in about 6:59 a.m., and the caller said the home was fully engulfed. Lost in the fire were a 43year-old military veteran and her 16year-old daughter. A man, the father and grandfather to the victims, had let his dogs out and came back a short time later to find the former farm home filled with smoke, with flames shooting through the windows, making rescue of the other residents impossible. He was transported to the Osceola hospital and later taken to a Twin Cities hospital for treatment. “It’s just a tragedy, in so many ways,” stated Polk County Medical Examiner Jonn Dinnies, who was on the scene for much of the afternoon. — from the Inter-County Leader ••• ST. CROIX FALLS — The Bloomington, Minn., man accused of throwing objects, including a metal vise, at passing cars was arrested after a brief highspeed chase in St. Croix Falls just a few hours after he was released from jail in his home state. Gerret Parks, 39, refused to leave the black SUV when pulled over by a St. Croix Falls police officer, claiming he couldn’t get his seat belt undone.

He briefly wrestled with officers as he was placed under arrest. He was charged with fleeing an officer, resisting arrest, possible DUI, third offense, and reckless driving. — from the Inter-County Leader ••• ST. CROIX FALLS — Authorities con-

tinue to investigate a brazen bank robbery that took place Friday, March 2, at about 1:40 p.m., at the Eagle Valley Bank in downtown St. Croix Falls. “The suspect is believed to be a white adult female, who entered the bank and demanded money,” said Polk County Sheriff Peter Johnson. The suspect is approximately 5 feet, 4 inches tall, with a thin build. The suspect obtained an undisclosed amount of cash, and it is unclear how she fled the scene or if she used a vehicle. “I can confirm that some of the money taken was found outside of the bank and turned over, not all of it,” Johnson stated. — from the Inter-County Leader ••• RICE LAKE — Two men have been arrested in connection with ice-shack break-ins and thefts on area lakes. Several ice shacks on Rice Lake and another area lake were broken into, along with a garage on the south end of Long Lake in Washburn County. Information from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department led Rice Lake police to the whereabouts and recovery of stolen property from the burglaries. Two Rice Lake men, ages 23 and 25, have been arrested and charges are pending. — from Barron News-Shield ••• RICE LAKE — Rice Lake police arrested a 43-year-old man shortly before 2 p.m., Saturday, March 3, after he was reported to be walking in the middle of West Knapp Street. The man was blocking traffic and causing vehicles to swerve around him on the busy street, which is also Hwy. 48. — from Barron News-Shield

Allan Heil Shell Lake

Sell off the state and national forests?

Kent Shifferd Trego

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Troop 51 to hold Court of Honor

by Casey Furchtenicht SHELL LAKE — The Boy Scouts of America Troop 51 of Shell Lake would like to invite the public to their Court of Honor ceremony on Sunday, March 18, 3 p.m., at the Masonic Lodge in Shell Lake.

This Court of Honor is meant to give recognition of troop members achievements and rank advancements.

Public donates food

SHELL LAKE — The public donated 127 pounds of food to Connections Store and More of the Indianhead Community Action Agency in Spooner through the Food For Fines program at the Shell Lake Public Library.

For the month of February, $1 was taken off a patron’s library fine for every nonperishable food item brought to the library.— from SLPL

Applications available for ICHC scholarship

SHELL LAKE — Indianhead Community Health Care Inc. is offering a scholarship to a senior or graduate of Shell Lake High School who will be pursuing a career in the health-care field.

Applications may be picked up and returned to the Shell Lake High School guidance office. Deadline for the applications is Friday, May 4.

For more information call Joni Parker, 715-468-7393. — from ICHC

Shell Lake Lions Calendar Winners

March 5 - $30 Doug Downs, Shell Lake March 6 - $30 Jan Erickson, Shell Lake March 7 - $30 Julie Krueger, Lino Lakes, Minn.

March 8 - $30 Richard Hoober, Shell Lake March 9 - $30 Bernard Durand, Buffalo, Minn.

Lake Insurance

Winners also announced on WJMC FM Radio

Temps & levels

Temperatures recorded at Spooner Ag Research Station 2011 March 5 March 6 March 7 March 8 March 9 March 10 March 11

2012 March 5 March 6 March 7 March 8 March 9 March 10 March 11

High 29 28 27 31 43 37 41

High 26 31 49 46 32 40 58

Low Precip.

19 3 14 2.4” snow 16 trace snow 24 trace snow 19 15

Low 0 17 31 18 9 13 39

Precip.

2.3” snow 2” snow .12” rain

National Farmers recognizes Shell Lake’s Tom and Sunshine Crosby at 2012 convention

AMES, Iowa — Tom and Sunshine Crosby, Shell Lake, received accolades for excellence in dairy operations at the National Farmers National Convention on Jan. 31.

The Crosbys farm with Tom’s brother, Garry Jr. (Shorty), and run 1,150 acres of crops, corn, soybeans and alfalfa. They also custom harvest about 2,500 acres of corn and soybeans. They operate a 110head of Holstein dairy, with an additional 120 heifers. They feed out about 200 head of steers annually. Tom and Shorty were raised on the farm, and started their business partnership in 1999.

All the milk and cattle from the Crosby farm has been sold through National Farmers since Tom and Shorty started farming, as they have been since Garry Sr. took over from his father in the early 1970s. The family started using Grain Marketing Plus, a comprehensive grain forward contracting and sales program, about four years ago when they started in the grain business.

“We all strongly believe in working together with other producers,” Tom said. “National Farmers is the only organization whose success is totally based on the success of its members. We are grateful to belong to this organization, and we look forward to our future.”

Tom and Sunshine have three chil-

Tom and Sunshine Crosby were recognized by the National Farmers Organization for their dairy operation in rural Shell Lake. — Photo submitted dren, Isaac, 5, Josie, 3, and Alicia, 1.

Shorty and his wife Melissa have two children, Tyler, 14, and Katie, 11. All four adults work full time on the farm.

Tom received the Collective Bargainer award in West Des Moines, Iowa, during the organization’s annual winter

farm convention.

National Farmers is a price-negotiation and risk management organization for the nation’s farmers and ranchers. — from NFO

Spooner Schools looking for potential kindergarten students

SPOONER — The Spooner Area School District needs your help in locating all children living in the district who will be 5 years old on or before Sept. 1.

If this is the case for your child or a

child you know, please contact Spooner Elementary School at 715-635-2174. You will be asked to give the following information: child’s name, date of birth, parents name, address and phone number.

Register Memories

1952 - 60 years ago

• Cappy Ek, a student at Marquette University in Milwaukee, only suffered bruises, but received widespread publicity when she was run down by a bull on the Main Street of Milwaukee.

• Judee Morey celebrated her seventh birthday on March 13 when her mother, Mrs. Howard Morey, entertained at a party for her.

• The West Sarona 4-H members met at the Ralph Drake home. The Plainview Jolly Workers 4-H Club met at the L.W. Taubman home, and the Viesetta 4-H Club met at the Marvin Morrow home.

• Stokely Foods Inc., Chetek, was contracting for cucumber acreage for delivery at Shell Lake. Contract and seed was available at Masterjohn Drug in Shell Lake.

1962 - 50 years ago

• The Cub Scout sleigh ride party was canceled due to the high snowbanks and dangerous conditions of streets in town.

• The following births on March 10 at the Shell Lake Hospital were announced.

Born were Yvonne Elaine to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Furchtenicht, and David Alonzo to Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Melton.

• Local students attending Eau Claire State College were Judy Axon, freshman; Karen Lenz and Arthur Wigchers, sophomores; Gretchen Blume and Clifford Kallenbach, juniors.

• Charles Ross, water and street supervisor for the city of Shell Lake, attended a short course for water works operators at the University of Wisconsin.

1972 - 40 years ago

• Kathie Mortensen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mortensen, Shell Lake, and a second-year student at the Rice Lake Vocational-Technical School, received the Outstanding Student Award, one of the most coveted awards given at the annual state leadership conference on the Wisconsin Distributive

The school staff is hoping to locate all potential kindergarten students before kindergarten round-up. It is an opportunity for children to be introduced to the kindergarten program. — from SASD

Compiled by Suzanne Johnson

Education Association at Green Lake.

• Ronnie Freber served a free buffet from 1-4 on a Sunday in March at the Narrow Gauge for all snowmobilers.

• The Shell Lake FFA hosted donkey basketball.

• This month’s Hostess with the Mostest would have to be Mary Lee Dinnies, when she arranged for a surprise birthday dinner for 22 couples at her home honoring Nan Rounce.

1982 - 30 years ago

• Leonard Dahlstrom, 53, who grew up in the Shell Lake area and graduated from Shell Lake High School, was killed in a mining accident at Whitehall, Mont.

• Shell Lake wrestlers, ranging from preschool through eighth grade, came away with five first and several other places in a Junior Chamber of Commerce-sponsored meet at Chetek. Brothers Shane and Cory Williams and Chuck and John Hile, along with Steve Flach, took first places. Second places went to Jamie Schaefer, David Kidder and Jeff Bontekoe. Brad Flach and Brad Olek earned third places. Earning fourth were Reggie Levy and Paul King. Glen Jerry also participated.

• Mark Bruce, operator of Arrowhead Cable TV in Shell Lake for the past 12 years, joined ERA Ringlien Realty of Spooner. He would represent the firm in Shell Lake and the surrounding area. He would continue to operate Arrowhead Cable TV as well.

• Allan Gas and Oil Co., doing business in Shell Lake, was a Shell Oil jobber for the last 53 years and switched to Union 76. According to Joe Rounce, manager, the company switched to Union 76 when Shell Lake decided to pull out of this part of Wisconsin.

1992 - 20 years ago

• Cleanup of soil and water contaminated from leakage of underground fuel storage tanks at Shell Lake Municipal Airport could cost more than $70,000.

The city’s share of that cost was 5 percent with the balance coming from a state petroleum cleanup fund.

• Members of the Shell Lake girls basketball team coached by Holly Akervik were Tanya Zaloudek, Katie Hewitt, Rebecca Witte, Tennille VanWyhe, Gretchen Peterson, Angie Parker, Britt Pockat, Terri Butler and Kendra Carlson. JV girls coached by Jan Todd were Jane Quam, Gretchen Nielsen, Stephanie Kasten, Dawn Melton, Katie Hewitt and Trudy Smith.

• Members of the Shell Lake Division 4 regional boys basketball championship team were Mike Durand, Wayne Krantz, Mark Cusick, Eric Olson, Lance Benzer, Chad Benzer, Levi Lindeman, Chris Rydberg, Mike Schultz, Jacob Ekern, Tim Peterson, Aaron Smith and Luke Burns.

Head coach was Mark Cain assisted by Dave Swan and managers Trevor Krantz and Danielle Stariha.

• Karen Mangelsen accompanied Lida and Jan Nordquist, Marlene Swearigen and Inez Pearson out for lunch in Spooner to help Inez celebrate her retirement from the Inter-County Leader.

2002 - 10 years ago

• Shell Lake firefighters recognized for five years of service were Dave Wilson, Bill Frahman, Gary Johnson, Keith Dahlstrom and Warren Johnson.

• All-conference basketball players at Shell Lake were Lindsay Alt, Casey Bruce, Craig Furchtenicht and Adam Wabrowetz. Named honorable mention were Chris Soukup and Tiffany Spears.

• Shell Lake eighth-grader Sami Dodge placed second at the Badger Regional Spelling Bee held in Turtle Lake.

She competed against 21 area schools.

• Kate Folstad was working through AmeriCorps as a volunteer in service to America with the after-school program at Shell Lake. She would be helping to develop the community education program and the summer school program.

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Ski Out Cancer race results

SHELL LAKE — A warm, sunny day greeted almost 80 racers in the Ski Out Cancer cross-country ski race in Shell Lake on Sunday, March 4. With over $500 raised for the American Cancer Society, the day was a great success.

Garnering the prize as the Tim Reedy State Farm Overall Champion Skiers were Tom Dettle from Sarona and Rachel Jensen from Shell Lake. Both of these athletes won multiple races and did so with grace and style.

The following are the results for the top-three finishers in each race: New Moon Ski Shop Elite 10K Women’s freestyle: Andrea Carroll, Hayward, 32:48; Mary Johnson, Hayward, 33:02; Ann Michalski, Park Falls, 42:08.

Open classic: Tom Dettle, Sarona, 42:45; Jamison Wendel, Shell Lake, 43:35; John Licktel, Duluth, Minn., 51:32.

Spooner Health System Youth 5K High school: Rachel Jensen, Shell Lake, 14:53; Ryan Kay, Rice Lake, 15:53; Claudia Schwartz, Eau Claire,

17:28.

Middle school: Alex Kay, Rice Lake, 18:51; Sam Dettle, Sarona, 19:12; Hans Erdahl, Minnetonka, Minn., 19:22.

Out There Elite 2K Open skate: Greg Lyga, Sarona, 6:23; Bob Schwartz, Eau Claire, 8:34; Ann Michalski, Park Falls, 8:20.

Classic: Tom Dettle, Sarona, 8:41; Jamison Wendel, Shell Lake, 8:43; Lars Erdahl, Minnetonka, Minn., 8:44.

Dahlstrom Lakeside Market Youth 2K Morgan Wendel, Shell Lake, 15:51; Julia Lyga, Sarona, 16:50; Sabian Ripplinger, Sarona, 17:02.

Shell Lake Clinic Middle/High School 2K High school: Rachel Jensen, Shell Lake, 6:21; Claudia Schwartz, Eau Claire, 7:11; Elena Smith, Eau Claire, 8:56.

Middle school: Sam Dettle, Sarona, 7:47; Ed Kleber, Edina, Minn., 7:58; Jamie Gargrave, St. Paul, Minn., 8:04.

Riverbrook Bike and Ski Shop Elite 5K Women’s freestyle: Rachel Jensen, Shell Lake, 15:01; Andrea Carroll, Hayward, 15:56; Mary Johnson, Hay-

UW-BC scholarships available

BARRON — First-year, continuing and transferring UW-Barron County students are now eligible to apply for scholarships for the 2012-2013 academic year. Scholarships are provided by the UW-Barron County Foundation scholarship program.

New freshmen who have been admitted for the fall 2012 semester by April 2 are eligible and encouraged to apply for the 16 available scholarships totaling over $9,000. Award amounts range from $250 to $1,000. The deadline for new freshmen — first-year students — to apply for admission and submit completed scholarship application forms is April 2.

There are 42 scholarships available for UW-BC continuing students totaling over $21,000 and three scholarships totaling over $3,000 for students transferring from UW-Barron County. The deadline for continuing and transfer students to apply for scholarships is April 6.

It should be noted that half of the total scholarship

Washburn County Area Humane Society

ADOPTABLE PETS OF THE WEEK My name is Candy how do you all do, I have been looking for someone like you.

Someone who doesn’t have another pet, All others do is make me real upset.

People I love the attention is great, Food I love too but I should lose some weight.

I am a bit older but older is fine, Class comes with age by the way I am 9.

I’m also declawed if for you that’s a must, And long hair won’t bother you much I will trust.

I will be here waiting and watching for you, Adopting me should be the first thing you do.

Cats for adoption: 2-year-old neutered orange/white shorthair; 6-year-old spayed/declawed orange/white shorthair; 3-month-old gray/white male shorthair; 5-month-old black/white male shorthair; 6-1/2-year-old spayed shorthair tiger; 5year-old spayed all-white shorthair; 1-1/2-year-old neutered orange/white longhair; 1-year-old spayed buff shorthair tabby; 9-year-old spayed/declawed dilute calico Maine coon; 5-year-old female calico/tiger kitten; 4-year-old neutered white/black tiger and a 7-year-old spayed orange/white tiger.

Dogs for adoption: 1-year-old female Lab/American Staffordshire terrier mix; 8-monthold male shepherd/Doberman mix; 4-year-old male beagle; 6-year-old male rott/Lab/husky mix; 1-1/2year-old black male Chihuahua mix, and a 1-1/2year-old male shepherd/collie mix.

Strays include: Young black/white male Staffordshire terrier mix found in Barronett.

The month of March is Adopt a Rescued Guinea Pig Month. Look on Petfinder.com to learn all about this interesting little animal.

Come join the fun at our annual Pins for Pets bowling fundraiser held at Kegler’s Pub and Pin, Spooner Saturday, April 14. Call WCAHS at 715-6354720 for more information.

Located at 1400 Cottonwood Ave. in Spooner (Behind the county fairgrounds)

715-635-4720 www.wcahs.com

award amount is paid at the beginning of each semester in the 2012-2013 academic year. For a scholarship listing, criteria and application form go to barron.uwc.edu, look under the Action Links listing on the homepage, and click on Apply online for 2012-2013 scholarships.

The UW-BC Foundation’s scholarship program is funded through the generous support of area businesses, individuals, civic organizations and UW-Barron County faculty and staff. For more information contact the foundation office at 715-234-8176, Ext. 5445 or uwbcfoundation@uwc.edu. — from UW-BC

ward, 16:01.

Men’s freestyle: Greg Lyga, Sarona, 15:43; Ron Kay, Rice Lake, 16:23; Bob Schwartz, Eau Claire, 17:45.

Classic: Jamison Wendel, Shell Lake, 21:25; Laura Schmid Taylor, Spooner, 21:28; Alex Kleber, Edina, Minn., 21:44.

Sterling Bank 1K Sprint Alex Kay, Rice Lake, 2:24; Sam Dettle, Sarona, 2:34; Jason Berg, Ellsworth, 2:45.

Youth: Emily Kay, Rice Lake, 4:10; Noelle Reinikanen, Rice Lake, 4:58; Faith Reinikanen, Rice Lake, 5:08.

McDonald’s Super Sprint Third-graders: Faith Reinikanen, Rice Lake, :58; Noel Reinikanen, Rice Lake, :59; Emily Kay, Rice Lake, 1:10.

First- and second-graders: Sabian Ripplinger, Sarona, 1:40; Ethan Lyga, Sarona, 2:09; Jason Costa, St. Paul, Minn., 2:12.

The Little Tykes: Byron Ripplinger, Sarona, 2:45; Raleigh Ripplinger, Sarona, 8:39. — from Ski Out Cancer

Car seat technician to speak at Lakeland Family Resource Center

SPOONER —Tim Nickell, certified car seat technician, will share important car seat safety information and answer questions at Lakeland Family Resource Center during the Kidstime/Parentime on Wednesday, March 21, at 10:30 a.m.

LFRC is located at 314 Elm St., Spooner. For more information call 715-635-4669. — from LFRC

Regional cow-calf meeting features Scottish Highlanders

SHELL LAKE — Be sure to attend this year’s regional cow-calf meeting on Wednesday, March 28, in rural Shell Lake, sponsored by the UW-Extension Livestock Team. The meeting will be held at the Rachel Swanson Farm, 24560 Poquette Lake Road, just west of Spooner in Burnett County. From Spooner, go seven miles west on Hwy. 70 and then three-fourths of a mile south on Poquette Lake Road. Watch for the signs.

Swanson rotationally grazes 20 Scottish Highland beef cattle on 50 acres following a grazing plan developed by the NW Graziers Network. Her Highlanders are very tame. Swanson and her business partner, Rob, own 72 scenic acres and a homestead that is well-kept.

They run a landscaping business called R&R Landscapes. Rob also restores antique tractors. The meeting

will be held in a heated facility.

The program begins at 5 p.m. with a farm tour followed by a beef supper and program at 6 p.m. at the farm. Topics will include: Selling $1,000 calves in 2012, Cow-calf industry outlook, Using pastures to add pounds and value to calves, Using blood pregnancy tests and Update on wolves and other predators.

Speakers will include state extension specialists from UW-Madison, UW-River Falls and a USDA/APHIS wildlife biologist.

Please register in advance by Monday, March 26. For registration, cost or questions, contact Otto Wiegand or Kevin Schoessow at UWEX-Spooner, 800-528-1914 or 715-635-3506. — from UW-Extension

Acknowledge those who pack your chute

“T

oo often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia Unfortunately today it seems that not having respect for others is escalating in our culture. While watching the news one may think that the story being covered is in another country as we see and hear the disrespect being spewed forth. The unfortunate fact is, it is our own people attacking our own because of the difference of opinions. There was a time when people could and would respect the fact that others could have opinions that differed from their own belief. We may have felt they didn’t get it, but we still acknowledged that they, too, could have their own opinion.

The headlines we read tell of the consequences of others being bullied.

Why have we strayed so far from the Golden Rule, “Treat others as you wish to be treated”? Do some people actually want to be treated the way they are treating others?

I recently read a story about U.S. Navy pilot Charles Plumb from the book “The Power of Kindness” written by Max Anderson. Plumb’s plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile, after he had completed 75 combat missions in Vietnam.

Several years later, a man addressed the former pilot with, “You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!”

“How in the world did you know that?” asked Plumb.

“I packed your parachute,” the man

replied. The man shook Plumb’s hand and said, “I guess it worked!” Plumb assured him, “It sure did. If your chute hadn’t worked, I wouldn’t be here today.”

In the story, Plumb thinks about the man that packed his chute stating, “I kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat; a bib in the back; and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said, ‘Good morning, how are you?’ or anything because you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor.”

Plumb thought about how the sailor would have spent hours at a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn’t know.

As a speaker today, Plumb asks his audience, “Who’s packing your parachute?” We all have someone who provides what we need to make it through the day. Plumb points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory. He needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching safety.

There are times we miss what is really important in our daily walk. Sometimes we fail to use our manners – saying please, thank you or even hello. Do we remember to congratulate someone on something good that has happened to them?

Do we give a compliment? Do we do something nice for no reason?

“Practicing small acts of kindness changes your own life while also changing the lives of others.” — unknown

Beyond the office door • Suzanne Johnson

Country Pride Co-op and Country Store

MARCH 14, 2012 - WASHBURN COUNTY REGISTER - PAGE 7

POT POT O’GOLD O’GOLD GRAND GRAND PRIZE PRIZE DRAWING DRAWING Saturday, 3 p.m.

$399 Weber Gas Grill

GRAND OPENING

First 20-lb. fill is FREE Utensils donated by Spooner Ace Hardware

Friday, March 16, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Saturday, March 17, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

REGISTER FOR YOUR PRIDE REWARDS CARD PET GROOMING DEMO Saturday, 1 p.m.

PURINA PRINCE RFG GENERAL PETS

MANY DELI LUNCH SPECIALS Such As

Reps will be on hand to answer your questions both days.

BUY 1, GET 1

BUY 2, GET 1

FREE

FREE

Exclusive Product (all sizes)

Goods must be matched purchase product Offer good only on Grand Opening Day at the location of the Grand Opening. Limit one coupon per customer and one free bag per customer. No cash value.

79¢ Each

Limit 5 per person

LIVE RADIO 95.3 99.1 Broadcast 97.7

BEEF CATTLE FEEDS

5 OFF

$

ANY RANGELAND 225# TUB

Goods must be matched purchase product Offer good only on Grand Opening Day at the location of the Grand Opening. Limit one coupon per customer and one free bag per customer. No cash value.

MA N Y IN-STO R SPECIALS E

CALF FEEDS & MILK REPLACERS $

BEEF CATTLE FEEDS

2PEROFF BAG

BUY 1 BAG OF RANGELAND WEATHERIZED MINERAL, GET

5 OFF THE 2ND BAG

CHARBROIL BURGERS

All Equine Brand Products

MANY SHA MROCK EN D COUPONS HID T U O H G U O R TH E R T HE ST O

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Maximum of 2 discounts.

DOOR PRIZES E V ERY HOUR

OF LAND O’ LAKES MILK REPLACER

Maximum of 5 bags per purchase.

555725 19a,b,c,d 30r

Co-op

Sun. 6 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Mon. - Thurs. 5:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.

Fri. 5:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Sat. 6 a.m. - 10 p.m.

Maximum of 4 tubs per purchase.

CALF FEEDS & MILK REPLACERS BUY 1 BAG OF LAND O’ LAKES CALF STARTER, GET

5 OFF THE 2ND BAG

$

Maximum of 2 discounted bags.

715-468-2302

1/2 mile south of Shell Lake on Hwy. 63.

Check with Dennis for discounted or discontinued items!

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H A P P E N I N G S

Events

March Thursday, March 15 • Washburn County Historical Society meeting at 6:30 p.m., at the Hewitt Building in Shell Lake. The public is invited to attend.

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

Friday & Saturday, March 16 & 17 • “The Beverly Hillbillies,” performed by Shell Lake students, 7 p.m. Friday; 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Erika Quam Memorial Theatre. Make your reservations at www.titw.org or 715-468-4387.

Monday, March 19 • 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, Spooner.

Call 715-635-4669.

Tuesday, March 20 • Shell Lake/Spooner Masonic Lodge 221 will meet at 7 p.m. at the lodge.

Wednesday, March 21 • 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 at 5:30 p.m. at the state patrol headquarters in Spooner. Call 715-635-4720.

Thursday, March 22 • 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, March 23 • He-Man Volleyball Tourney, 5-9 p.m., 3-12 gym, Shell Lake.

Saturday, March 24 • Free community breakfast, 7-10 a.m., First United Pentecostal Church, Spooner. All welcome. Donations accepted.

• Jason Price Quartet, 7:30 p.m., at the Quam in Shell Lake. For reservations call 715-468-4387 or visit www.titw.org.

Wednesday, March 28 • Free community supper, 4-6 p.m., St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Spooner.

Friday & Saturday, March 30 & 31 • “How He Loves” performed at the Shell Lake Full Gospel Church, 7 p.m., Friday; 2 p.m. Saturday.

Saturday, March 31 & Sunday, April 1 • Northwoods Figure Skating Club 23rd-annual Festival on Ice presents Glee-tastic, 2 and 7 p.m., Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Northwest Sports Complex, Spooner.

Saturday, March 31 • St. Joseph Catholic youth fifth-annual quilt event, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Joseph School gymnasium, 111 West Marshall St., Rice Lake.

April Sunday, April 1 • “How He Loves” performed at the Shell Lake Full Gospel Church, 7 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday, April 5-7 • “How He Loves” performed at the Shell Lake Full Gospel Church, 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 2 p.m.

Saturday.

Tuesday, April 3 • Shell Lake/Spooner Masonic Lodge 221 meeting, 7 p.m. at the lodge.

Wednesday, April 4 • Washburn County HCE meeting at 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.

Spring brings changes to recycling system

It seems as though spring has arrived. How exciting to begin a new season and to welcome the change it brings. We also have some changes to the Burnett County and Washburn County recycling drop-box system. Some of these changes come because of cuts in funding we have suffered over the past year, and some changes are exciting additions to the system. If questions ever arise regarding either recycling or handling hazardous waste items, please do not hesitate to either call the recycling office at 715-635-2197 or send an e-mail to jbarton@nwrpc.com.

First off, we have a new Web site, www.nwrpc.com, that has been completely redone and has easy-to-access information contained in it. RCC has a section all to itself as does the NW Cleansweep hazardous waste program. The site has the 2012 draft of the hazardous waste Cleansweep schedule, a page designed to help determine if the products you have at home should be disposed of at a hazardous waste collection or not and the new updated Recycling Guide. Please let me know what else you would like to see within the recycling section or the hazardous waste section of the Web page.

Your input is important and I want information that is valuable to you to be available to you anytime, anyday.

A few site changes to mention; first we are no longer baling cardboard in Minong, Spooner, A&H or Oakland. Please break down cardboard and place in the specially labeled bins that are now on-site at those locations. The Grantsburg recycling site had to cut their hours from being open two days per week to one.

They are now open on Saturdays only, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Please do not drop off items at this site during closed hours as it has been experiencing some illegal drops. Grantsburg recycling site will also no longer be accepting oil filters or used oil. As mentioned in previous Earth Notes, it is now illegal to dispose of used oil filters in the landfill. I want to provide options for disposal in the two-county region to assist with this issue. The following outlets may be used to properly dispose of oil filters: • O’Reilly Auto Parts has stepped forward as collectors for this material. Not only will most stores take oil filters, but they accept them for free. Stores providing this service are Siren and Grantsburg.

• The Spooner recycling site will accept oil filters for a fee of 50 cents for small vehicle size filters, and $1 for the extra-large equipment filters.

• The Minong Transfer Station will take oil filters for the same charge as Spooner. Call 715-466-2062 for more information.

• Save filters for household hazardous waste collections scheduled for June 12, Aug. 4 or Sept. 8.

Used oil can be taken to a number of auto mechanics across the two-county region as well as the Minong Transfer Station. It is recommended you call your local mechanic or call the recycling office. A list of a few businesses accepting used oil free of water or antifreeze does exist, call the recycling office. The Spooner recycling site has cut their hours as well, the site is no longer open on Wednesdays. It is now open only on Saturdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The Long Lake site in Washburn County will reopen (pending ground conditions) on Saturday, April 1, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Gratitude is extended to all those who have used the Sarona site during the winter months. Shell Lake’s site on New Knapp will reopen once the snow melts. Shell Lake will no longer have an attendant on duty, so your cooperation is also appreciated to keep the site as clean and litter free as possible. Please do not put things that do not belong in the bin. There was a large child’s stroller in the Shell Lake bin last month. Shell Lake does not accept any items except cardboard and recyclables going into the green bin.

RCC is no longer accepting any garden pots for recycling. Currently, no viable markets exist for this material. We will continue to investigate options for this material, but as of now please do not put any agricultural plastic in the recycling bins. Tennis shoes are still being accepted, however, and can be dropped off at a number of sites throughout the two-county region.

Please call Barton for details at 715-635-2197 or e-mail at jbarton@nwrpc.com.

We have some great news regarding new plastics accepted by our hauler. Please check out the informational poster on our Web site at www.nwrpc.com. There you can download a really pretty poster for you to display near your garbage or recycling bin. It is some very exciting news, but I will say no more. Please visit our new Web site.

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

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

••• Terraceview Living Center Inc. is providing opportunities for 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.

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••• 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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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 715-635-7937 or 715-6356450, for more information.

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

All meetings are nonsmoking Sunday 10 a.m.

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

AA Wednesday 1 p.m.

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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 Christcentered recovery program. Meetings take place in the Community Life Center at Spooner Wesleyan Church, Hwy. 70 West. For more information, call 715-635-2768.

• 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 715-635-4367.

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 for children of all ages. Kidstime-Parentime provides quality time for families, networking for parents and a social opportunity for both parents and children. The last Wednesday of the month a potluck lunch is held at 11:15 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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Keeping kids safe in Washburn County

Washburn County Keeping Kids Safe Coalition members are (L to R): Patricia Reinert, Lakeland Family Resource Center; LeAnn Johnson, Washburn County Human Services Department; Tim Nickell, Washburn County Health Department; Cheri Nickell, Washburn County Health Department; Clint Miller, Spooner Health System; Rhonda Carlton, Spooner School District; Lori Bina, Washburn County Human Services Department; Clint Stariha, Shell Lake Police Department; and Dennis Stuart, Minong Police Department.

— Photo submitted WASHBURN COUNTY — Keeping Kids Safe in Washburn County is a new community partnership that is committed to keeping the children of Washburn County safe. This is done through advocacy and collaboration on injury-prevention initiatives, and education and outreach to parents and caregivers on child safety and injury-prevention issues.

Members include schools, law enforcement, fire, health-care organizations, service organizations/nonprofits and county agencies.

Any individuals or organizations interested in promoting child safety are welcome to join the coalition.

Please call Cheri Nickell at 715-635-4421 or send an email to cnickell@co.washburn.wi.us. — submitted

Jazz-rock fusion band returns to Shell Lake

SHELL LAKE — Shell Lake’s premier arts organizations, Shell Lake Arts Center and Theatre in the Woods, proudly present the Jason Price Quartet, a professional jazz-rock fusion band out of the Twin Cities, in concert on Saturday, March 24.

Performing on the Theatre in the Woods stage at 7:30 p.m., the quartet is comprised of well-known, first-call jazz musicians from the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. Members include Dan Musselman, piano; Jeff Bailey, bass; Greg Keel, saxophone; and Jason Price on drums. When the music starts, you’ll imagine you have entered one of the Twin Cities’ top jazz clubs. A phenomenal performance will be provided when the Jason Price Quartet returns to the Erika Quam stage.

For ticket prices and more information, please contact Theatre in the Woods at 715-468-4387 or online at www.titw.org. — from SLAC

Meet, greet, eat pizza and learn the Koinonia Way

SPOONER — Would you like to learn martial arts in a low key, easy and fun way? Join the party on Friday, March 23, 6:45 p.m., to meet, greet, talk about the class, eat pizza and watch a short film. Go to learn more about the class during the question-and-answer time, and stay and enjoy the party.

The classes will begin Monday, April 2. There are two times a week to meet, on Saturdays from 9-10 a.m. and on Mondays from 4:30-5:30 p.m. The new beginners class is for all ages. Children are welcome. No one is too old. Special times may be set up later to help fit around schedules.

The instructor has taught in three different countries during 37 years of practicing the martial arts. The emphasis is on body limbering, body strengthening, new abilities, defense and at a pace you can enjoy. This is a safe way to learn and develop a new ability.

Because the class is very low key, the style is called the Koinonia Way. Koinonia is a Koine Greek word translated for fellowship, a close mutual relationship, participation, sharing in, partnership, contribution and gift.

The class emphasizes more than a martial art, but a way to be disciplined, regain mobility and flexibility,

set physical goals, learn defense and the time is to be fun for all ages.

The class is free. A uniform is not required, but wear loose clothing. Preregistration is required to participate.

The classes are held at the Church of the Nazarene, located at N4584 Hwy. 253, Spooner, south on Hwy. 63 until Hwy. 253, then eight-tenths of a mile to the church.

If you have questions, want to register or to visit the advance class, call 715-635-3496 or e-mail df777@ juno.com. — from Church of the Nazarene

WITC adult ed computer classes offered at Shell Lake Schools

SHELL LAKE — The WITC computer classes will be offered through community ed at Shell Lake High School. Please register for all classes by calling WITC Rice Lake Campus 800-243-WITC or online at: www.witc.edu/ricelake/index.htm, click on Adult Learners (left-hand column). On the Adult Learner page, click on Class Finder (left-hand column). Enter the class number below to register for your class. All classes are held at the Shell Lake 3-12 School, Hwy. 63.

Classroom signs and directions will be posted at the school entrance.

Watch the Web: Building a Media Center, class number 60-107-602: Monday, March 19, 6-8 p.m., Shell Lake High School business lab. Cut the cable and get your favorite shows online. Before you make the leap, know what you are getting into and how to build your own media center, find online content for free, understand hardware and software and common problems with Internet TV. Cost is $12 or $8 senior fee for those

62-plus at the start of class.

Five Star Guide for iPad, class number 60-107-602: Monday, April 9, 6-8 p.m., Shell Lake High School business lab. Want to get more out of your iPad? Check out iPad: A Magical and Revolutionary Guide featuring the 40 best free apps. Learn the ins and outs of the market’s premier tablet. Whether you are a casual user looking to learn a bit more or an iPad addict wanting to get the most you can, learn to maximize the use of your e-book reader, newspaper, entertainment center or workstation all in one. Cost is $12 or $8 senior fee for those 62-plus at the start of class.

Complete Guide to Twitter, class number 60-107602: Monday, April 23, 6-8 p.m., Shell Lake High School business lab. If you really want your Twitter to fly high, it doesn’t end with just creating an account. Tackle every Twitter feature, tip and trick you can think of.

Learn to work the interface, how to tweet from your desktop, as well as cool Twitter bots and funniest peo-

ple to follow. Cost is $12 or $8 senior fee for those 62plus at the start of class.

Operation Cleanup: Malware Removal, class number 60-107-602: Monday, April 30, 6-8 p.m., Shell Lake High School business lab. 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 find help online when all else fails. Cost is $12 or $8 senior fee for those 62-plus at the start of class. — from SLCE

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Johnson to receive Governor’s Service Recognition Award

MADISON — Sharon Johnson, Department of Public Instruction, Service for Learning and Life AmeriCorps member, will receive the Governor’s Service-Learning Recognition Award for her outstanding work with service-learning projects.

Serve Wisconsin board members will be presenting the award to Johnson and five other recipients on Thursday, March 15, in Madison.

Sharon Johnson, AmeriCorps Johnson has strengthservice-recognition honoree. — ened her Spooner Area submitted Photos School District by going beyond the realm of her dents in reading and math, recruitwork plan and offering a ing and managing community volcommunity-serviceunteers, coordinating themed middle school service-learning projects and organafter-school 4-H club in adizing school family events with a Sharon Johnson, AmeriCorps service-recognition honoree, is shown with her middle school dition to working on servzest for doing what really matters: after-school 4-H club with which she has helped coordinate service-learning projects. ice-learning projects building strong children who will connected more directly to children’s sensitivity to the needs of others, net- others who have served in AmeriCorps help their community and state succeed working strengths and humble attitude over the years. She pulls all of these gifts for a better tomorrow. — from Spooner school-day efforts.

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Highlights of JV 17-2 season

Amy Bouchard gets her shot off against a Solon Springs defender as Makenzie Olson boxes her out to get position on the rebound.

April Richter drives the basket against the defender. She will be one of three seniors on the team next year. She has had the opportunity to play some varsity this year.

Playing forward, Makenzie Olson takes the pass under the basket. — Photos by Larry Samson

Hailey Flach with a jump shot. The talented sophomore plays both varsity and JV.

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Middle school wrestling Thursday, March 15: Vs. Northwood, Ashland, Hayward, 5 p.m.

Monday, March 19: At Spooner High School, with Cameron, Phillips, Chequamegon, Northwestern, 5 p.m.

Thursday, March 22: At Northwood with Ashland, Cumberland, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, March 27: At Cameron High School, with Prairie Farm, Turtle Lake, Spooner, Cumberland, Cornell/Gilman, 5 p.m.

Friday, March 30: Conference tournament at Cumberland High School, 5 p.m.

Point guard and team captain Kim Atkinson on a fast break as Shell Lake JV beat Solon Springs.

Tia Carlson getting set for a shot under the basket. Shell Lake JV defeated Northwood 21-18 in the last game of the season on Thursday, March 1. The JV Lakers finished the season with a 17-2 record.

Youth wrestlers receive fourth trophy

LADYSMITH — Eight Shell Lake youth wrestlers competed in Ladysmith on Saturday, March 10. Once again, the youth athletes came away with a secondplace team trophy. This is the fourth trophy for the youth wrestlers this year.

AAA Sport Shop Week 6

Hunter League Grandpas: 576 Black Arrows: 570 Arrow Afflected: 555

Placing first for Shell Lake was Dominick Ricci, Tanner Smith and Cade Hanson. Second place went to Jamison Lucas, TJ Huehn and Cody McTaggart. With a third-place finish was Brady Lehnherr. Chane Hutton brought home fourth place. — submitted

Archery league scores

Timberland Archery

Compounds Granite Electric: 746 Double D’s: 721 Shell Lake State Bank: 697 Catlin Taxidermy: 662 Brian and Lori Melichar: 647 Team DROB: 640 Great Lakes Cheese: 608

Week 9 Rootin Tootin: 546 Klopp’s 5th Ave.: 439 Close Encounters: 400

Women’s Bearded Hens: 638 Red Brick Cafe: 434 Red Brick II: 390

Traditional Timberland: 453 Cracked Limbs: 410 Bone Collectors: 355 Putzs: 323

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Junior high girls basketball teams

The eighth-grade team, under the direction of coach Don Kevan, is back row (L to R): Breanna Davies, Caitlyn Brereton, Ashley Lord, Amanda Brereton and Cassie Skindzelewski. Front: Natalie Smith, Courtney Melton, Amber Anderson, Keagan Blazer, Emma Thomas and Sheri Clark.

Coach Dan Kevan addresses his eighth-grade basketball team after their last game. They will be taking with them the skills and character needed to play high school basketball. Shell Lake has built up a good girls basketball program based on athleticism, character and sportsmanship.

quire full-time medical care.

Not just football There are a number of veteran football players who are known to have Alzheimer’s, such as John Mackey, who is a Football Hall of Famer, and Andre Waters, the former Philadelphia Eagles player who committed suicide at the age of 44. His brain autopsy report revealed that his brain tissue resembled that of an 80-year-old with Alzheimer’s. Former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson, at age 34 said he was exhibiting the depression and memory lapses associated with oncoming Alzheimer’s.

But it’s not just the sports world that deals with concussions. They can be the result of car accidents, accidently walking into a pole, which happened to a Shell Lake student, playground mishaps, winter skiing or snowboarding spills, to what our military men and women experience as a part of their daily lives.

The National Hockey League has stepped up to the plate and is seriously considering rules to effectively end fighting in nonprofessional leagues as soon as next season. The rules would apply to dozens of leagues

stretching from near the Arctic Circle to south Texas.

Even the three top junior leagues in Canada, major fight-friendly feed systems to the NHL, are considering immediate ways to make fighting a rarity, not an expectation.

For decades, debates centered on whether hockey could survive without fighting and now the talk is about how long the sport can live with fighting. Such a change of attitude has placed the sport at one of the most significant crossroads of its long history. In January, USA Hockey’s Junior Council discussed emergency legislation that would combat fighting with much harsher penalties, starting as early as next fall, but changing the rules may be the easy part; changing the culture is something else entirely.

In the past couple of years, the brains of four deceased NHL players have been found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a progressive disease caused by repeated head trauma. The most striking case involved former Minnesota Wild enforcer Derek Boogaard, who died at 28 of an accidental alcohol and

painkiller overdose. The downside of this controversy comes from people like NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, who has said, “Healthy attendance figures show that fans don’t want to banish fighting,” and he cast doubt on the science linking hockey fights to brain damage.

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The seventh-grade team, under coach Sara Skinner, has finished their season. Shown back row (L to R): Coach Skinner, Gina McSweeney, Jerney Meister, Madison LaFave, Savannah Soltis and Cassidy Schroeder. Front: Heidi Steines, Emily Parish, Kylie Williams, Caitlyn Rocarak and Shrishti Monga.

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Kyla Leek, Kaitlin Olson and Ally Sauve cheered the Shell Lake girls on to a 50-38 win over the Drummond Eagles on Tuesday, March 6, in the first round of the regional playoffs. — Photos by Larry Samson

Ben Best, star player for the Drummond Eagles, towers over two Shell Lake fans Hannah Cassel and Hana Anderson at a cross-country meet last fall. The 6-foot-6-inch junior and his team are headed for the state tournament on Thursday, March 15. Drummond, 24-3, is the only northern school in the tournament. While Best is the tallest on the team, there are two 6-foot-5-inch teammates. — Photo by Larry Samson

The excitement was too much for Ally Sauve at the Shell Lake versus Northwood girls basketball game Thursday, March 8. Trailing by eight points with 19.6 seconds left, Shell Lake came within three points, losing 41-38. Northwood went on to beat South Shore 53-47 for the regional championship.

Northwood will face Washburn on Thursday, March 15, at Hayward.

WIAA stance The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association begs to differ. They realize that even a mild blow to the head or body can cause the brain to suddenly shift or move and it may take up to two weeks to heal, but it can take longer. According to the WIAA, “There are unique concerns surrounding concussions in high school sports because adolescents are more vulnerable and get concussions more often and they take longer to heal. And high school players can be reluctant to admit their symptoms for fear of removal from the contest.

Based on recent high school injury surveillance information, the following sports have the highest risk of concussion based on athletic exposures during practice and competition. Football comes in first followed by boys and girls ice hockey, girls lacrosse, girls soccer, boys lacrosse, wrestling, girls basketball, girls field hockey, boys soccer, softball and boys basketball. The risk for girls is much higher than boys in the same sports; in fact, soccer and basketball carry twice the risk for concussion in girls than boys. “

Post-concussion requirements Coaches and parents should watch for any worsening signs or symptoms of severe concussions, which can be loss of consciousness, decreasing level of alertness, unusually drowsy, seizure, vomiting and difficulty breathing.

The Shell Lake School System has several post-concussion requirements before a student returns to play, or school if the injury was severe. One is a grading scale that includes 22 symptoms with a corresponding checklist that goes from 0 to 6 in severity. After reading each symptom, students are asked to circle the number that best describes the way they have been feeling. Some of the items include headaches, dizziness, fatigue, nervousness, feeling mentally foggy and double vision. This paper is then “graded” to determine whether the student should resume their school day.

The second requirement is the school’s concussion management plan, which is their return-to-school recommendations. This paper is not only for the student and the health-care professional to fill out, but it’s also a comprehensive concussion management plan that will provide appropriate provisions for adjustment of academic coursework on a case-by-case basis for teachers and administrators.

Schmidt knows concussions firsthand, not only because of her own son’s experiences, but she’s also Nurse Kelly to 600 Shell Lake students and is responsible for their health and care while in school. “All of our coaches are fully aware of the new guidelines for concussions and they follow them strictly. We also have a great doctor in Jeff Dunham who is our local expert for sports medicine injuries.”

Despite Caleb’s frustration with concussions that have brought two promising sports to a close for him – football and wrestling – he will be attending UW-Green Bay in the fall, studying not only to be a history teacher, but also a coach.

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Northwood Evergreens regional champions

by Larry Samson MINONG — With a 41-38 loss to Northwood, the Lakers girls basketball season came to an end. The Evergreens continued on their quest for a state title.

The Friday, March 9, game played before the Northwood fans was the third matchup between these two rivals. With this win and the win over South Shore on the following day, Northwood earned the regional championship and will advance to the sectionals where they face Washburn in the first game on Thursday, March 15, at Hayward. The winner of that game will play Owen-Withee or Columbus Catholic in Spooner on Saturday, March 17.

Shell Lake defeated Drummond 50-38 in the first game of the playoffs on Tuesday, March 6, in Shell Lake.

The Lakers took a two-point lead in the first quarter and

gradually built on that lead. Erica Kozial had a good game on defense and offense. She was the top scorer for Shell Lake with 14 points. Shania Pokorny put up nine points in the win that advanced the Lakers to game two.

The second game was a different story. Northwood came out on the starting line with a strong defense that held the Lakers to two points in the first half. The team went into the locker room at halftime with a 17-2 lead.

With that insurmountable lead, the game should have been over, and in most cases it would have been, but this is March Madness and anything can happen. Coach Tom Sauve brought his team back on the court with a different attitude, that they could win this game. In the third quarter, Shell Lake started driving the basket, sending them to the free-throw line 12 times connecting on nine of them. They narrowed the lead by one

point and that was a start.

In the fourth quarter, Shell Lake outscored Northwood 26-17. Northwood had a seven-point lead with two minutes left in the game and tried to slow the game down as Shell Lake worked the clock. Northwood held onto the lead by scoring from the free-throw line. Morgan Block was four for four on the free-throw line and that was the game. With just 40 seconds left in the game, Shell Lake scored seven points to narrow the lead. Hannah Cassel shot a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Pokorny was the top scorer for Shell Lake with 10 points followed by Jen Cassel and Jen Connell with seven each. Teagen Harings was the top scorer for the Evergreens with 17 points while teammate Mckayla Waggoner put up 11 points.

Jen Cassel finished up her high school basketball career in Northwood on Friday, March 9. She was held to seven points by a strong Evergreen defense. Track practice will start soon and Cassel will be planning her return to state to cap off her senior year. – Photos by Larry Samson

Erica Kozial played her best game of the season against Drummond on Tuesday, March 6, in the first game of the playoff. With her 14 points the Lakers won 50-38.

Shania Pokorny, driving the inside against a Drummond defender. The sophomore has been the top scorer throughout the season. She is a physical player on offense and defense, one who always plays with the intensity of a champion.

Cardwells ski the Birkie

Last spring, Dale Cardwell asked his three daughters to ski with him in 2012, his 31st Birkie. In the past, the girls had skied the Korteloppet, but not the Birkie. Kristine (Cardwell) Toone who lives in Birmingham, Ala., trained on roller skis. Kathryn Cardwell who lives in Denver, Colo., and Anna (Cardwell) DeLaRosby, Tacoma, Wash., both drove into the mountains on weekends to ski. They all came for the Birkie in Hayward and skied the 31-mile hilly course on Saturday, Feb. 25. Dale and his daughters had a great time and finished together. — Photo submitted

Emma Anderson from Shell Lake is being defended by Mckayla Waggoner in front of the Shell Lake bench. Shell Lake started out slow in the first half trailing 17-2 but came back in the second half, losing 41-38.

More about White House Pets

by Mary B. Olsen Sometime after Lafayette’s alligator was a guest in the East Room of the White House, during the term of John Quincy Adams, in the year 1829, President Andrew Jackson came to live in the White House.

Some people thought he was sort of a rough frontiersman as well as a military man. It was true that he entertained folks who could be described as rough and unmannerly. They scraped the furniture and floors with their hobnailed boots. Not only that, he was a man who raised racehorses. It was not exactly a genteel sport. He had taken part in a duel because of an insult uttered by a loser after a horse race. The result was he killed a man and was wounded himself.

Jackson acquired the nickname Old Hickory, but he was softhearted when it came to children. He and his wife, Rachel, adopted one of twin boys born to her brother and his wife and raised him as their own. They raised 11 children, and six of them lived in the White House while he was in office. Andrew’s wife died shortly before his inauguration. His adopted son’s wife, Rachel, held the first lady job and cared for the children and their pets.

Andrew had a horse named Sam Patches that was his mount in battle. His racing fillies were Emily, Lady Nashville and Bolivia, and his outstanding racehorse, Truxton. There were other animals, but he was away at times and inquired about the health of Poor Poll, a parrot he called, “the favorite pet of my dear wife.”

Abraham Lincoln had never had a pet when he was a child, except for a pig that he taught to play hide and seek.

In Springfield, Ill., he usually had his cat in his lap whenever he sat down. While he was in the White House, he had two little sons, Willy and Tad. The boys were given a cat and a dog. The same day the cat had kittens, the dog had puppies. Abe told about thinking up names for all of them. The story made the national papers. They had ponies. Abe liked to ride the streets of Washington and sometimes they followed along with him.

A year after they came to the White House, Willy died.

A dark cloud hung over the family. The 10-year-old Tad refused to ride a pony. He said it reminded him of the good times with Willy. He moped about. People gave them white rabbits and other pets, hoping to help him get over the death. Abe took the boy with him for a ride and they spotted some goats. They watched them beside the fence, and Tad actually perked up. Abe had his aide purchase a pair of young goats they named Nanny and Nanko. Tad got interested in training them to pull a cart, and soon he was enjoying life again with his new pals.

Tad enjoyed the turkey named Jack, and when he heard that it would be on the menu for their Christmas dinner, he went to his father in tears. Abe wrote the turkey a reprieve.

It started a tradition.

Along came President Theodore Roosevelt. He arrived at the White House with his wife and daughter, Alice, and sons. They brought along and later obtained many pets.

Alice was fond of snakes, especially a green snake she dubbed Spinach. She went to show her father four snakes she had brought home on approval and set the visitors scattering. The boy, Quentin, spent most of his spare time at the pet store, and helped clean cages and care for the pets. Their Oyster Bay summer home was a zoo. They had a Chesapeake Bay retriever they called Sailor Boy that liked to hear firecrackers go off. He would swim out to their boat if he got left behind. Then there was the day the little boys brought the calico pony named Algonquin into the White House and rode the elevator with it up two flights so their brother, Archie, could see it. He was in bed with the measles.

A well-known White House dog was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s dog, Fala. The Scottish terrier was given to him by his cousin, Margaret Daisy Suckley, bred in Westport, Conn. He was born April 7, 1940, and named Big Boy. Franklin changed his name to Fala, for a Scottish ancestor of his named Murray the Outlaw of Fala Hill. The dog was Franklin’s constant companion. Fala would do tricks, like sit up and beg, and everyone knew he and his master were inseparable. In one of his Fireside Chats, Franklin nipped at some Republicans who had said he had left Fala behind on his trip to the Aleutian Islands and a destroyer had to go back for the dog, costing thousands of dollars. Fala didn’t bite people. Mrs. Roosevelt’s dogs, Meggie, the Scottie, and Major, the German shepherd dog, did, and they nipped at some visitors and reporters.

Then there was the story that Blaze, Elliot Roosevelt’s mastiff, was taking up the seat of a homeward bound soldier. Franklin’s son, Elliot, accompanied him on travels to important meetings. The famous dog, Fala, sat on the floor

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When the Kennedy family came to live in the White House, they carried on the tradition of horses on the grounds. Jack and his wife and children lent a kind of youthful glow over the staid old mansion. Caroline cared for the ponies, Tex and Macaroni, when she was only 4 years old. The large extended family were usually surrounded by dogs and other pets and at their home in Hyannisport Port, Mass.

President Lyndon Johnson got into trouble when he was accused of dog abuse because he lifted the beagle, Him, by his ears. The press report and picture circulated and he didn’t apologize. Some say people with hunting dogs often lift them by their ears so they can hear them yelp. It hurts a little. That sound is music to the ears of the beagle owners. Otherwise they do not yelp.

There was the story about President Nixon’s dog, Checkers. Some say the indignant answer to the charge that he kept a gift of a dog that his daughters and the family loved and would not return it, was what got him into the White House. The dog, unfortunately, died before he assumed office.

Margaret Truman’s book about the pets is like a journey back in time. From a hot and wet Virginia swamp and a settlement with a population of 8,000 when Adams arrived in 1809, it grew. There have been other presidents and their pets in the White House down through the years and it will continue. We can count on reporters keeping us informed.

Studts to celebrate a milestone

Rodger and Elaine Studt, 1962. – Photo submitted

Rodger and Elaine Studt of Shell Lake will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on March 17. The couple met in Braham, Minn., and were married at the Siloa Lutheran Church.

The couple has three children, Tim Studt and wife Laurie, Ripon; Rick Studt, Shell Lake; and Sherri Norman and husband Tom, Carson, Calif. They have seven grandchildren, Nick Studt and wife Hannah, Hudson; Aaron Studt and wife Karen, Apple Valley, Minn.; Rachael Studt, Platteville; Joshua Studt, Fargo, N.D.; Aleksander Norman, Benjamin Norman and Abigail Norman, Carson, Calif. — Photo submitted

King joins Spooner Community Ed leadership team

SPOONER — Katy King joins Spooner Area Community Ed leadership team this spring. She is a nature photographer and author of 10 novels.

After growing up in Shawnee, Kan., King lived in Rochester, Austin, and Minneapolis, Minn., before settling in the Wisconsin woods near Danbury. She has taught high school math and science, owned and operated a group home, kissed the Blarney stone, been a home health aide and lifeguard. She is currently occupied with an extended celebration of her 70th birthday: howling with the wolves in Ely, Minn., and hiking in the Canadian Rockies; she has published her ninth novel; and finally the Freshwater Society bought one of her photos for the back cover of its Minnesota Weatherguide Environment Calendar.

You can meet King in person at her creative writing class 1-3 p.m., four Wednesdays, April 4 - 25, in Spooner High School Room C16. Bring to class a pencil and paper or lap-

top for exercises.

You can expect to transform your story into fascinating fiction or a lively memoir. Several activities will help you open your creativity while you work on skills and techniques to improve writings. Registration deadline is Monday, March 26.

Register for classes by calling 715-635-0243; going online at spooner.k12.wi.us under Community to get a complete listing and registration form; mailing a registration form to Spooner Area Community Ed, 801 CTH A, Spooner, WI 54801; or dropping off the registration form at the district office. Class fees must accompany registration form.

Information on cost and required items for each class is available from Spooner Area Community Education and on the school’s Web site. SACE assumes no responsibility for reaching those who do not provide daytime contact information. — from SACE

by Kristen Durst STATEWIDE - Spring is arriving early this year, and one Wisconsin horticulturist says that’s not a good thing. This is a vulnerable month for plants and shrubs, and gardeners should be wary.

At the Rotary Botanical Gardens in Janesville, many perennials are already in bloom.

“Out in the gardens we saw, for instance, snowdrops blooming as early as four weeks ago which would be about seven weeks earlier than we’ve ever seen them bloom here.”

And as exciting as it is, for gardeners especially, to see plants come to life in spring, horticulture Director Mark Dwyer says that he would actually prefer at this point that the gardens still be covered in snow, “You know a true winter has a lot of importance out in the gardens in terms of keeping plants dormant, keeping roots secure in frozen soil, and the cold temperatures will also help regulation of some of the insect populations that become problems in our gardens the following summer.”

Dwyer says his real concern with a warm March is that anything could happen weatherwise, and a cold snap could be detrimental to emerging plants, “We’re keeping mulch over many of our tender plants that are coming up

early because of the fear of some real severe frost causing tissue damage. We’d love to see the ground stay frozen through most of March, and that’s not going to be the case at this point, so we are keeping an eye on things out in the gardens as the weather patterns will dictate our activities.”

Dwyer says gardeners should take advantage of the warmer weather to prune and do spring cleanup, but he says it is not safe yet to plant.

Early spring poses some challenges to gardeners

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Dewey Country

by Pauline Lawrence

What a beautiful day we had Sunday in Dewey Country. Yep, the sun was out and it was certainly melting those big snowbanks we had, which we hadn’t seen in years. Oh yes, by the way, I saw my first robin on March 11. He was picking on my lawn, and I know my eyes didn’t deceive me. It’s onward to spring.

Happy birthday to my favorite sister, Marie Quam, on March 16, with lots more to come, Marie. Hope you have a wonderful day.

Happy birthday to Brandon Doriott and to Lane Hinksuss when he turns 5 years old on March 16. Have a wonderful day.

March 19, a very happy birthday to Kelli Marlow as she enjoys her special day with lots more to come.

March 20, a very happy birthday to my sister-in-law Marie Lawrence, to Loren Rawling, Shane Denotter, Aaron LaVeau and to Pam Osmondson. Have a wonderful day each of you.

Happy birthday to my little granddaughter on March 21 as she turns 8 years old. Yes, Rylee, you’re growing up way too fast but have a fun day.

Hats off to the Wisconsin dairy farmers for producing 26.1 billion pounds of milk in 2011. Now that’s a record.

Want to know how much food prices have gone up?

Well, it’s 5 percent.

Got a call from a telemarketer this last week. Well, it was a recording, so I decided to call it back and dialing the numbers the line was dead. They know they’re not to call as I’m on the no-call list.

Did you know that Oreos are 100 years old now?

Gosh they taste so good with a cold glass of milk.

Get-well wishes go out to Judy Leonard as she had hip replacement surgery in Eau Claire last week and is now home recuperating.

March 1 found Jim Atkinson on his way to have hip replacement at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire.

March 5 he was released to Indianhead Medical Center in Shell Lake. March 9 he came to Dewey Country.

Please keep Jim and Sandy in your special thoughts and prayers. Sandy tells us their son, Jimmy, is now over in Ireland on vacation. He likes it there Sandy says. Sunday, Pattie and Noel Beaufeaux and sons, Mitch and Kyle, Lisa and Dan Otto and children, Marjorie and Charlie, and Scott and Kristen Karls and children were at Jim and Sandy Atkinson’s helping out on things to be done. At this time, Jim is doing well.

Talking with Gretchen Best we find them on their way to Andover, Minn., with Gretchen’s mom, Lillian Stege, to a baby shower for Gretchen’s niece, Cara Johnson, which was put on by Cara’s sister, Tess.

Funeral services for Karl Amendt, 89, who passed

Folks are adjusting to the time change and have their clocks reset. Can’t believe this mild March weather we are having. The snow is disappearing fast. The sap will be running. Robins are here, I had two in my yard on Sunday. Spring doesn’t begin until next week. There are a lot of colds and flu going around that aren’t much fun.

Folks were saddened in the result of the Carsello trial last week.

Virginia Stodola’s cousins, Carmillo Johnson, Haugen, and Eunice Hyllested, Rice Lake, visited her on Sunday.

Get-well wishes to Joyce Wade as she had some surgery in Duluth, Minn., Thursday and is home recovering.

Mavis Schlapper went along with Jan Rath, Adella Koel and her brother, Larry, to the dance at the Pines in Bloomer on Sunday and helped a friend, George, celebrate his 98th birthday. Reports he’s still going strong and still dancing. Sounds like another Aage Duch.

Mavis Schlapper went to the St. Catherine’s monthly soup and sandwich get-together on Monday.

Anton Frey and all his boys and grandson Andy, Corey and Russ Furchtenicht, Tom Elliott and John Roeser were all at the Brill Trap Shoot on Sunday. Andy

Frey had supper with Gramps and Gram, Anton and Gloria Frey, on Friday night.

Anton and Gloria visited her mom, Dorothy Foltz, at the Rice Lake convalescent center on Monday and found her with a cold and bad cough. Otherwise she has been doing well for going to turn 99 the end of March. They visited Joann Paulson in Haugen on the way home.

Elaine Ryan entertained her kids for supper on Monday evening.

There were about a dozen ladies at the Katty Tuesday breakfast on Tuesday and a few guys. I visited Evie Campbell in Spooner afterward.

Wednesday evening, I went along with John and Mary Marschall, Brian and friend Jade to Amery for birthday supper for Brady Marschall at Grandma Wealthy’s. Brady was in Amery as he had been milking cows for his grandma’s neighbor while they were on vacation. Sara and Kyle picked up Bona Casa food to go for our supper. Ashley Anderson visited at Sara’s and came down with them. Brady turned 21. His mom provided a luscious cake for the occasion.

Thursday, I, Mary Krantz and Bobbi Bailey attended our class get-together at Tracks. We visited at Mary’s afterward. She has her apartment at Lakeland Manor fixed up cute and comfy and is still getting used to it.

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away recently, were held at the Wesleyan Church in Spooner.

Monday, March 5, found Loretta VanSelus driving to Cameron to see the bands playing and also students singing. Loretta says there were about eight bands there and it was very good.

Talking with my sister, Marie Quam, she says the boys were all fishing on Sunday except for Michael.

Johannah Feeney, a student at River Falls, is home for the week. She’s doing very well in college.

No one's fishing on Bashaw Lake according to Marv Knoop. He says they come down on the landing and go out and after a while they come back skunked.

Jim Toll tells us he was also fishing on Bashaw Lake, and all he and Tammy Moe caught was one little perch.

So they’re not biting well anywhere.

It was raining all Sunday night. Yep, it was taking the snow away.

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arch 8: Estela Romero, a local reporter in Angangueo, Michoacan, Mexico, the monarch butterfly’s winter home, went to the monarch butterfly sanctuary with monarch expert Dr. Lincoln Brower, Sweet Briar College, Va. Estela has been watching the monarchs for weeks and thinks they are more active.

She saw many butterflies flitting about, instead of hibernating on trees. The scientist and his guide went to the Chincua sanctuary. Further up the mountain, last year’s flood and mud slide damage could be seen.

Dr. Brower expressed his concern about how dry the Mexican forest is this year. In winter 2010, monarch butterfly populations endured a terrible flood in the mountains, where the sanctuary is located. This year, the soil is baked dry and unstable because there are fewer trees to stabilize the mountains. It is so dry that Dr. Brower is concerned that the butterflies may not have sufficient moisture, which they use for respiration. Last fall 2011, Texas suffered a terrible drought.

The state suffered massive fires. Texas is the gateway to and from Mexico for the butterfly. Lack of liquid and plant nectar in Texas may play a major role on the monarch butterfly migration 2012 .

Dr. Brower is concerned that now the monarchs may not have enough lipids to make the journey north this spring. Yes, many will make it, but what about the majority of the migration? Deforestation continues in Mexico. There are fewer oyamel fir trees in the Mexican forest. Fewer trees mean less winter habitat for the monarch butterfly.

Since the time of the dinosaurs, the butterfly has been around. How could a

Saturday afternoon, my brother, Don, and Shirley Shoquist and I visited our sister, Sharon, and Merle Wilber in rural Webster and had a nice dinner together and a great visit.

The new Country Store open house at Cenex in Shell Lake is Friday and Saturday. Check it out.

Boy Scout Troop 51 of Shell Lake is having Court of Honor on Sunday, March 18, at 3 p.m., and invites you to join them. It’s held at the Masonic Lodge in Shell Lake. These boys would love to have you there to see what they have achieved.

It’s time to start your vegetables and flowers in your indoor flats now and prune apple trees and grape vines if you haven’t already.

Happy birthday this week to Dennis Boland, Rick Johnson and Gayle Benedict, March 15; Gina Noterman, Michael Durand, Andrew Frey, Levi Swensen, Jaci Reynolds, Jenny Wood and Byron Baker, March 16; Carol Hennikens, Darian Johnson and Glenda Haynes, March 17; Frank Galli, Cory Campbell and Parker David Hart, March 18; Jasmine Dahlstrom, March 19; Jerry Curtiss, Dawn Quinton, Tyler Zaloudek and Tyler Bohn turns 10 on March 20; Brian Zimmerman and Tyler Odden and Bruce Halverson turns 5 on March 21.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all. butterfly, which has survived throughout history, be so impacted by our material world and climate change in such a short time? We will follow the migration north to keep you posted.

••• The Monarch Butterfly Habitat in Shell Lake has some good news. Volunteer staff discovered that black swallowtail caterpillars and adult butterflies were seen in Shell Lake in the summer of 2011. With this news, Happy Tonics plans to include host plants for the butterfly. We want to welcome this species to the habitat.

••• March 24: I did an author interview with Morgen Bailey, Northhamton, United Kingdom. The interview will go live on Saturday, March 24. Morgan interviews published authors and publishers. My book, “My Name is Butterfly,” was published by Salt of the Earth Press in 2011. The in-depth interview will be posted at http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/. I am thrilled to have my book talked about in England and beyond the big waters. Happy Tonics has published butterfly articles in the UK before with “Butterfly Observer,” Cornwall Butterfly Conservation.

March 29: The first week of April, I will be in Washington, D.C. While there, I will attend Cindy Dyer’s one-woman photography exhibit at Green Springs Garden, in Alexandria, Va. Cindy is Happy Tonics vice president of marketing. I am doing a book tour in D.C., Southern Maryland in Calvert and St. Mary’s County, and in Northern Virginia. I have been invited to speak at meet-the-author events. It will be good to see my old stomping grounds again.

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Barron Electric rebates over $27,000 to local business

BARRON — Barron Electric Cooperative recently gave more than $27,000 in rebates to Louisiana Pacific Corporation in Hayward and Jennie-O Turkey Store in Barron.

Louisiana Pacific received nearly $24,000 after installing energy-efficient equipment. After installing several motors, LP could save up to 30 percent in energy costs on this equipment. JennieO Turkey Store installed energy-efficient lighting in their turkey barns and re-

ceived over $3,200 in rebates. Compact fluorescent lights can save up to 75 percent over incandescent lamps.

These rebates are offered in conjunction with Dairyland Power Cooperative, Barron Electric’s wholesale power supplier. In 2011, Barron Electric gave nearly $110,000 in rebates for energy-efficient products.

Along with custom rebates, Barron Electric offers a variety of rebates on Energy Star appliances, energy-efficient

It was a foggy morning here in Shell Lake on Monday along with rain. I was hoping the sun would come out. How about that snowstorm on Feb. 29?

Schools were closed, even some of the universities. I’m sure the schoolkids were happy to have a snow day.

Pastor Don West of Salem visited here at Glenview to see the Nestes and myself. He had been to Terraceview Living Center and visited some of the parishioners. He saw Arvid Pederson and said he was in good humor.

Ruth McConkie had a birthday this week. Of course there was a good cake.

The next day, the McConkies celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary. Greetings to you.

Sorry to report that Roger Flach is in Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire. He was having a reaction to his chemo treatment. Our prayers are with Mavis and Roger.

Peder Pederson reported his family including Cheri and Steve Minot and family, Curt and Martha Pederson and family of Hudson went to Eau Claire where they met Cheri and Steve’s daughters, Tanya and Michelle, and all went to church together. Afterward, they enjoyed dinner at the Olive Garden before leaving for home. It was such a gorgeous day to be out and about.

Judy Bolterman went back to work on Monday after a leave for her surgery.

Glad to know you are fully recovered,

Judy.

Friday evening, Arlys Santiago had dinner at Pine Ridge with friends. She says it is a great place to eat.

Brent Pederson of Minneapolis, Minn., was home to visit his family over the weekend.

Greta and Logan Zinsli of Eau Claire stopped to see Grandma Helen Pederson on their way home from Solon Springs Sunday afternoon. Greta’s mom, Sue, and Larry Winner had a birthday party on Saturday for all the March birthdays of the Bachinski family.

Wednesday, Brady Marschall celebrated his 21st birthday. The family all went to John’s mom, Wealthy Marschall, in Amery that evening to celebrate with food Sara Marschall had picked up at Bona Casa. Sounds like a winner. Happy birthday, Brady!

Last Friday, John and Brady Marschall, Rick Gronning and Ryan Furchtenicht went to Eau Claire to attend the open house at Farrell Equipment.

Open house here at Meadowview at their new duplex Sunday afternoon was well-attended. Refreshments were served.

Happy birthday to Ruth Swan on Wednesday, March 14.

One nice thing that happens on occasion is the terrible weather forecast turns out to be wrong.

Have a good St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday.

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Lida Nordquist and Janice Schott visited Joleen Funk at her home near Osceola Monday.

Donna Hines called on Marlene Swearingen Wednesday.

Clam River Tuesday Club met March 7 at the home of Lida Nordquist. The next meeting will be April 4 at 1:30 p.m. at the home of Trudy DeLawyer.

Hank Mangelsen visited Maynard Mangelsen Wednesday afternoon.

Lida Nordquist went to Eden Prairie, Minn., Thursday and stayed with Nancy and Steve Hagen for a few days. On Friday, she visited her sister-in-law, Bunny Johnson. Lida returned home Sunday.

Karen and Hank Mangelsen went to

Circle Pines, Minn., Friday to visit Nick and Esther Mangelsen. They all went out to lunch to celebrate Esther’s birthday.

Barry, Josh and Olivia Hines visited Gerry and Donna Hines Sunday.

Hank and Karen Mangelsen went to the Romsos Farm Sunday for dinner as guests of Wayne and Marie Romsos. Ron and Juliann Jensen were there also.

Wayne and Marie’s birthdays were celebrated.

Visitors of Ronda and Maynard Mangelsen at various times over the weekend were David Lester, Jeff and Jackie Peterson and their three grandchildren, Ken and Tyann Otis, Coty and Jake Reh and Dylan Longhenry and his girlfriend.

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Northwest Wisconsin educators form NorthWERD group to support economic development

SHELL LAKE – Eight institutions in northwestern Wisconsin are joining together to form a regional consortium of educational partners called Northwest Wisconsin Educators for Regional Development or NorthWERD. The group has been developed to respond to the needs of regional developers and students, as well as identify regional economic trends and opportunities for graduates as they choose a career path. NorthWERD partners will celebrate the group’s formation in a signing event at the Lac Courte Oreilles Community College in Hayward on Wednesday, March 28, at 9 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.

“I’m really excited about the partnership in that all the partners have a tremendous attitude in working together,” says Bob Meyer, NorthWERD chair and Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College president. “I think the combined effort and enthusiasm of everyone involved will make NorthWERD a great success as educators listen to and support the needs of economic developers in the region.”

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“Economic development goes beyond economic growth,” says Michael A. Miller, NorthWERD vice chair and Northland College president. “We need to ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place and enhance access to programs for students and regional developers in order to grow a vibrant business community.”

NorthWERD has outlined four focus areas that will help participating institutions be more responsive to economic development needs in order to promote healthier, sustainable communities. The consortium of educators will focus on responding to regional educational and economic development needs, assess existing research and gather additional data to pinpoint economic opportunities, provide career pathways to success and offer academic advising and assessment for parents and students. — from NorthWERD

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Scott Sand, grow-out production manager at Jennie-O Turkey Store in Barron, accepts a $3,264 check from Jennifer Beaudette, marketing and economic development specialist at Barron Electric. — Photos submitted

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OBITUARIES

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

George Love

George Jerry Love, 72, Springbrook, passed away Saturday, March 3, 2012, at Hayward Area Memorial Hospital surrounded by his family.

Jerry was born Aug. 2, 1939, in Grantsburg to the late Frank E. and Helen (Burchard) Love.

Jerry graduated from Webster High School in 1957 and then went on to the University of Wisconsin–Superior. He joined the Army National Guard in September 1956 and served until March 1964. Jerry married Barbara Zehm in 1965, following in the footsteps of his two brothers who married Barb’s two sisters. Jerry and Barb then moved to Washburn where they lived until 1975. He was employed by the DNR as a forest fire tech and enforcement officer and retired in August 6, 1984. Jerry enjoyed teaching others about fire safety, and he played Smokey Bear at schools in Washburn and Hayward. He was an avid nature photographer and sportsman. He enjoyed collecting all types and sizes of belt buckles.

Jerry and Barbara owned and operated Gimpy Acres where people with disabilities could come and enjoy

the outdoors or hunt. One thing that made Jerry’s eyes light up was when Pastor Tim Warner visited with him.

He is preceded in death by granddaughter Angela Hope Love; brothers David, Kenneth and John; sistersin-law Jean Love, Carol Petz and Edna Grimm; brothers-in-law Preston Asp and Joe McGrady.

George Jerry is survived by his wife of 46 years, Barbara, Springbrook; daughter Becky Jo Love; and son Herbert (Karen) Love; grandson Walker James Garcia; brother Herbert D. (Joan) Love, Gordon; sisters Grace Asp, Springbrook, Stella (George) Rogers, Gordon, and Edna McGrady, Middletown, Ind.; and many nieces and nephews; great-nieces and nephews; a very special friend, Tony Wentzel, Hayward.

Memorial services were held Saturday, March 10, at the Anderson-Nathan-Koerpel Funeral Home of Hayward. Pastor Timothy Warner officiated. Burial will be held at a later date.

The Anderson-Nathan-Koerpel Funeral Home, Hayward, was entrusted with arrangements. To leave messages in an online guestbook, or to order flowers for George’s family, please visit www.andersonnathan. com.

Alice Johnson, 89, a lifelong resident of the Spooner/Trego area, died on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, at the Spooner Nursing Home.

Alice May Moen was born on March 25, 1922, in Spooner, to parents Martin and Carrie (Young) Moen. She attended and graduated from the Spooner Schools in 1940. Alice married August Johnson and lived on their farm in Trego where they raised their six children and had a variety of farm animals and crops. Alice also worked at the Trego Dinner Bell for many years and later at the Shell Lake Boat Factory. Alice was a religious person and enjoyed knitting, crocheting and many other crafts in which she was very good, with some people even calling her room Alice’s Boutique. Many will remember Alice for her wonderful laugh.

Alice was preceded in death by her parents; husband August; son Leroy William “Bill” Keys; brothers Henry, Bob, Roy and Edward; and three infant siblings.

Alice is survived by her children: August Johnson Jr., Trego, Dale Johnson, Nunnelly, Tenn., Rayola Irwin, Corapeake, N.C., Dean Johnson, Lusby, Md., and Julia McGraw, Rogers, Ark.; sisters Lillian Faber, Spooner, and Mary Jordan, Spooner; brother Donald Moen, Perkinstown; and 14 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held March 14 at the Assembly of God Church in Spooner with Pastor Dennis Kruger officiating. Interment followed at the Earl Cemetery next to her husband. To sign an online guest book, or to order flowers, please visit www.dahlfh.com.

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

Alice Johnson

Valerie Floren

Valerie Floren, 46, Spooner, died March 10, 2012, at Spooner Health System Hospital.

Funeral service will be Thursday, March 15, at 11 a.m., with visitation from 9-11 a.m., at Taylor Family Funeral Home, Spooner.

A full obituary will be printed at a later date.

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

Senior Lunch Menu

Monday, March 19: Swiss steak with onions and mushrooms, baked potato with sour cream, broccoli with cheese sauce, mixed fruit sauce, rustic bread, beverages.

Tuesday, March 20: Scalloped potatoes and ham, orange-kissed beets, blueberry scone, sherbet, milk, coffee.

Wednesday, March 21: Spaghetti with meat sauce, Parmesan cheese, spring leaf salad, gingerbread with lemon sauce, garlic bread, milk, coffee.

Thursday, March 22: Baked chicken dumplings, gravy, sweet-herbed carrots, fruit cranberry relish, whole-wheat bread, butter, milk, coffee.

Friday, March 23: Split-pea soup, fruit and cheese plate, raisin oatmeal cookie, whole-wheat dinner roll, crackers, milk, coffee.

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

Caps 4 Cancer

Trego Community Church calls new pastor

In November 1999, Iaffaldano’s wife, Kristi, passed away after an extended illness, leaving him with the responsibility of raising their three young daughters. Now grown, Heather and husband Alex have one daughter, Evelyne Grace, and are expecting their second child. They reside in Hugo, Minn. Mary Rose and husband Joel reside in Aurora, Ill. Alicia is attending college in Cedarville, Ohio.

Trego Community Church would like to extend an invitation to the general public to join them in welcoming Iaffaldano to his new church home on Sunday, March 18. The installation service will begin at 10:30 a.m. with a reception to follow the service. — from Trego Community Church

Teacher again upset by governor’s use of her story

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Wauwatosa East where Walker’s sons go to school. Recently, Walker has again been referring to Sampson’s Milwaukee layoff, for example in this speech last week at the Milwaukee Rotary Club, “How could you possibly lay someone like her off? Well, under the old collective bargaining system, last hired, first fired. Anytime there were layoffs, and these were layoffs long before I was elected as governor, that said if you were the last one in, you were the first one out. Seniority and tenure trumped over everything else. Our reforms changed that.”

In an e-mail last week to Wisconsin Public Radio, Sampson wrote it upsets her that Walker continues to

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use her story “in a wielding way.” She says Walker could have talked with her at Wauwatosa East parentteacher conferences a few weeks ago, and finds his “disregard for her presence there, odd to say the least.”

Sampson says she still works with Milwaukee students through a program called Upward Bound. She says she sent Walker e-mails last year saying she would appreciate him no longer using her situation in his political rhetoric.

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by Churck Quirmbach Wisconsin Public Radio WAUWATOSA - A Wauwatosa high school teacher says she’s upset that Gov. Walker is again referring to her in his speeches.

Last year, Walker started highlighting the story of Megan Sampson, who was a top-rated first-year high school English teacher in the Milwaukee public schools.

She was laid off in 2010, due to budget problems and seniority rules. A year ago, Sampson wrote that she was hurt that her story was being used to “make her the poster child for Walker’s political agenda.”

Sampson also noted she had been hired at

Students at Spooner Elementary and Middle schools raised over $300 during the recent Caps 4 Cancer event. The school is planning to hold a similar event again in May. - Photos submitted

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TREGO – At a special congregational meeting held Sunday, Jan. 29, the Trego Community Church voted to confirm Pastor John D. Iaffaldano of Lindstrom, Minn., as its new pastor.

Iaffaldano graduated in 1992 from Northwestern College with a Bachelor of Arts in pastoral studies and is currently working on a Master of Arts in theology, biblical counseling, from Central Baptist Seminary and is expected to graduate in 2013.

As a member of the Chisago Lakes Baptist Church for the past 12 years, Iaffaldano served in a number of church capacities and has a wide range of experience in preaching, deaPastor John D. Iaffaldano con ministries, formal counseling, will be installed at Trego Comyouth ministries, adult Sunday school munity Church on Sunday, and greeter ministries.

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AREA CHURCHES

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 Darrel Flaming 715-635-2277 www.spoonerbaptist.com Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 11 a.m.

Sunday evening service 6 p.m.

Wed. evening service 6:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Sunday Worship: 10:45 a.m.

Shell Lake Full Gospel

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

Sunday School 9 a.m.

Church of the Nazarene

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.

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church

(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.

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.

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

Long Lake Lutheran Church

Full Gospel

Faith Lutheran

St. Francis de Sales

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Salem Lutheran, ELCA

803 Second St., Shell Lake 715-468-7718 www.shelllakesalem lutheran.org New hours starting Sunday, March 4, Worship 9 a.m.

Sunday School 10:15 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

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.

Episcopal

United Methodist

St. Alban's

312 Elm St., Spooner 715-635-3227 Rev. Jack Starr

Corner of Elm and Summit St., Spooner

H

ave you read the story of “Frosty the Snowman”?

Frosty came to life and went to town with the boys and girls. He was bad and he broke some rules. This bothered the policeman.

“But you’ve got to excuse him,” cried Karen. “He just came to life, and he doesn’t know much about such things.”

That’s a beautiful attitude to take with newborn believers.

Too often we criticize and ostracize, when we ought to sympathize.

St. Paul said, “Dear brothers, if a Christian is overcome by sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help him back onto the right path, remembering that next time it might be one of you who is in the wrong.”

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LEGAL NOTICE APPOINTMENTS TO THE WISCONSIN INDIANHEAD TECHNICAL COLLEGE DISTRICT BOARD

The committee to appoint members to the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College District Board will hold a public hearing at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College Administrative Office, located at 505 Pine Ridge Drive, Shell Lake, WI, to review the following candidates’ applications submitted for consideration for the following 3-year-term positions: 1 Employee member position representing Region 1 - Douglas County (3-year term), 1 Employer member position representing Region 6 - St. Croix County (3-year term) and 1 School District Administrator member position representing the WITC District. Candidates must be present and must provide two written references before being interviewed to qualify for appointment to the Board.

Aimee Curtis Jean Serum 608 N. 22nd St. N8640 River Rd. Superior, WI 54880 Trego, WI 54888 Maurice Veilleux 310 Arlene Ct. New Richmond, WI 54017 AGENDA Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College DISTRICT BOARD APPOINTMENT COMMITTEE Thursday, March 29, 2012, 2:30 p.m.

WITC Administrative Office 505 Pine Ridge Drive, Shell Lake, WI 54871 Public Hearing 1. Call Public Hearing to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Establishment of Quorum 4. Determination of Compliance with Open Meetings Law and Statutory Notices 5. Determination of Names and Qualifications of the Candidates 6. Interview each Candidate 7. Testimony from the Public Regarding Candidates 8. Close of Public Hearing Appointment Committee Meeting 1. Call Public Meeting to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Establishment of a Quorum 4. Determination of Compliance with Open Meetings Law and Statutory Notices 5. Approval of the June 22, 2011, Board Appointment Committee Public Hearing and Appointment Committee Meeting Minutes 6. Purpose of Meeting and Explanation of Statutes Governing District Board Appointments 7. Review the Plan of Representation, Approved on June 22, 2011 8. The committee may go into closed session, in accordance with State Statutes §19.85 (1)(f), for the purpose of consideration of financial, medical, social or personal histories information of the candidates 9. Reconvene Public Meeting 10. Appointment of District Board Members 11. Review, Discuss and Consider Approval of or Changes to the Plan of Representation for the next Board Appointment Process 12. Adjournment of Public Meeting Note: President Meyer will be available during the meeting to answer any questions.

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Accidents

Friday, March 2 At 7:58 a.m. Scott A. Ronningen, 49, Minong, was plowing a driveway, when he pulled out into Wallin Drive, one-third mile north of CTH I in Minong. Brian T. Carter, 43, Minong, came over the hill and collided with Ronningen. The plow from Ronningen’s truck went under the carriage of Carter’s vehicle.

Ronningen’s vehicle had very minor front end damage, and Carter’s vehicle had moderate damage to the front and driver’s side. No injuries were reported.

Saturday, March 3 At 6:13 a.m. Sandra L. Vesper, 35, Spooner, slid into the ditch off the slippery Hwy. 53, at Cranberry Drive in Spooner. The vehicle was towed. No injuries were reported.

Sharon M. White, 67, Springbrook, was westbound on North

HELP WANTED Waitstaff & Cook Peggy’s Place Restaurant Main Street Shell Lake Apply Within No Phone Calls, Please

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COUNTY FOREST GROUNDSKEEPER Limited-Term Employment

Washburn County is seeking applicants for the positions of two (2) County Forest Park - Groundskeepers. Responsibilities include grounds maintenance, sanitation, building and equipment maintenance. Position requires a general background in grounds, building and equipment maintenance plus a high school degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. The position will be available in mid-May and mid-June 2012. This is a temporary seasonal position not to exceed 572 hours. Salary is $9 per hour. For an application and further information, contact Washburn County Personnel Office, P.O. Box 337, Shell Lake, WI 54871, (715-4684624 or adminper@co.washburn.wi.us). Application deadline is 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, 2012. “EOE.” 555924 19-21b 30-32r

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COUNTY FORESTRY SEASONAL Limited-Term Employment

Washburn County is seeking applicants for a County Forestry Seasonal position. Responsibilities include timber sale establishment, forest inventory and other duties as assigned. Position requires a high school diploma. A bachelor’s degree in Forestry, current enrollment in a Forestry program or prior experience is preferred. Candidates must be able to start in late May of 2012. This is a temporary seasonal position not to exceed 572 hours.

Salary will be $10 - $13/hour depending on experience.

For an application and further information, contact Washburn County Personnel Office, P.O. Box 337, Shell Lake, WI 54871, (715-468-4624 or adminper@co.washburn.wi.us). Application deadline is 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, 2012. “EOE.” For more information regarding the position duties, please contact Mike Peterson at (715) 635-4490 or by e-mail: 555923 19-21b 30-32r forestry@co.washburn.wi.us

Road, at Friday Street in Earl, when she stopped at the stop sign, and Thomas L. Keith, 65, Springbrook, made a right-hand turn onto Friday Street and slid into White.

The accident occurred at 10:30 a.m. Minor damage was reported to White’s vehicle and very minor damage to the front of Keith’s vehicle.

No injuries were reported.

At 5:48 p.m. Melanie A. Smith, 22, Solon Springs, slid in the median off of Hwy. 53, between Pine Grove Road and Duck Pond Road in Sarona. The vehicle was towed. No damage or injuries were reported.

Tuesday, March 6 At 6:45 p.m. Michael E. Ellis, 59, Orange Park, Fla., was southbound on Hwy. 53, one-tenth mile south of CTH A in Spooner, when he hit a deer. No injuries or damage were reported.

Thursday, March 8 At 12:35 a.m. Gretchen H. Nielsen, 34, Shell Lake, was westbound on Sand Road, a half mile east of Sunset Drive, when she struck a deer. Moderate front-end damage was reported. No injuries were reported.

(Feb. 8, 15, 22, 29, Mar. 7, 14) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY CITIFINANCIAL, INC. Plaintiff vs.

LEWIS MONNIER, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 11 CV 34 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on September 22, 2011, in the amount of $159,255.08, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: March 28, 2012, at 10:15 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: At the North entrance of Washburn County Courthouse located at 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, Wisconsin DESCRIPTION: The following described real estate in the Town of Minong, Washburn County, Wisconsin (the property): Lot 5 in Links Estates, according to the plat thereof of record in the office of the Register of Deeds, Washburn County, Wisconsin.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: N13050 Bresler Drive, Minong, WI 54859.

TAX KEY NO.: 65-030-2-42-1223-5/ 15-422-502000.

Dated this 2nd day of February, 2012.

Terry Dryden Sheriff of Washburn County Dustin A. McMahon State Bar #1086857 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way, Suite 100 Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 283161

Court news

Bruce V. Featherly, Minong, unlawful phone use, harassment, $162.70.

(Mar. 14, 21, 28, April 4, 11, 18) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY JOHN E. LINK, Plaintiff, vs.

TROY J. LINK AND JAY LINK, Defendants Case No.: 2010CV134 NOTICE OF SALE Public notice is hereby given that by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Circuit Court for Washburn County, Wisconsin, the following real estate will be sold at public auction in Washburn County, at 10 4th Avenue, North Entrance of the Washburn County Courthouse, Shell Lake, Wisconsin, at 10 a.m., on April 25, 2012, by and under the direction of the Sheriff of Washburn County: A parcel within Government Lot 5, Section 27, Township 42 North of Range 13 West, whose exterior boundary is described as: Beginning at the monumented southeast corner of Lot 7 of Certified Survey Map No. 1566 as recorded in Volume 6 of CSM, page 287; Thence North 5º17’03” East along the east line of said Lot 7 a distance of 349.93 feet to an iron pipe on the shore of Lake Nancy; Thence along said shore South 57º32’03” East on a meander line 205.07 feet to an iron pipe; Thence South 13º08’47” West 245.56 feet to an iron pipe in the north right of way of Lake Nancy Peninsula Road, a town road; Thence North 89º42’28” West along said right of way 149.40 feet back to the point of beginning; Said parcel containing 49,800 square feet, more or less, and including all lands between said meander line and the water’s edge of Lake Nancy, now known as Lot 8 of Certified Survey Map No. 1907, filed March 15, 1993 in Volume 8, Page 68 as Doc. No. 227416.

Subject to easements, highways, utility rights, reservations and restrictions of record.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 8650 W. Peninsula Road, Minong, WI 54859.

TAX KEY NO.: 65-030-2-42-1327-5 05-005-005000.

TERMS: 1. Ten percent (10%) of the purchase price shall be deposited at the time of the auction. Payment must be by cash or certified bank check payable to the Washburn County Clerk of Court.

Personal checks cannot and will not be accepted; 2. The remaining amount shall be due within three business days of the confirmation hearing; 3. Any sale is subject to real estate taxes; 4. Property is being sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

Dated this 22nd day of February, 2012.

By, Terry Dryden Washburn County Sheriff’s Department Herrick & Hart, S.C. Webster A. Hart 116 West Grand Avenue P.O. Box 167 Eau Claire, WI 54703 715-832-3491

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Conditional use requests have been filed with the Washburn County Zoning Office. This public hearing will be held March 27, 2012, immediately following the rezoning requests in the Washburn County Boardroom, Elliott Building, 110 Fourth Avenue West, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

BASS LAKE Township: Kathi Follet and Robert Lessard, Hayward, Wisconsin.

Map #BL 19B/Record ID #2024 - 35 acres, Part of the E frl 1/4, NE frl 1/4 & BL 30/ Record ID #2075 - 33.23 acres, Part of the NE 1/4 SE 1/4, Sec. 2-40-10, Town of Bass Lake, requesting to have a conditional use permit to open a business - an outdoor movie theater providing the community a safe, fun and wholesome place.

BIRCHWOOD Township: Heartwood Enterprises LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota. BI 1515/Record ID #6389 - .92 acre, Forest Park Lots 4 & 5, Sec. 20-38-10, Town of Birchwood, requesting to have a conditional use permit for rental of house for short-term use.

BIRCHWOOD Township: LQS Properties, LLC, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. Map #BI 1728/Record ID #6237 - 1 acre, Belvidere Park, Lot 17, Block 1 & E 16’, Lot 16, Block 1, Section 19-38-10, Town of Birchwood, requesting to have a conditional use permit for rental of house for short-term use.

MADGE Township: David & Shirley Olson, Edina, Minnesota. Map #MA 794/ Record ID #18699 - Part of Lakeview Lot 26 & 27 Exc N 16-1/2 feet, Section 2538-11, Town of Madge, requesting to have a conditional use permit for rental of house for short-term use.

MINONG Township: Novy Vacation Rentals, LLC, Madison, Wisconsin. Map #MI 684A/Record ID #20590 - 1.59 acres, Part of Govt. Lot 7, Section 32-42-12, Town of Minong, requesting to have a conditional use permit for rental of house for short-term use.

MINONG Township: Novy Vacation Rentals, LLC, Madison, Wisconsin. Map #MI 1004B/Record ID #21149 - 4.27 acres, Part of Govt. Lot 6, Section 11-42-13, Town of Minong, 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.

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NOTICES

The Washburn County Zoning Committee will hold a business meeting Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at 3:30 p.m., in the Washburn County Boardroom, Elliott Building, 110 Fourth Avenue West, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

(Mar. 14, 21, 28, Apr. 4, 11, 18) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

DAMIAN J. FERGUSON, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 09 CV 170 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on November 10, 2009, in the amount of $140,486.76 the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: May 2, 2012, at 10:15 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: At the North entrance of Washburn County Courthouse located at 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, Wis. DESCRIPTION: Lot 19, Eastland Addition to the City of Spooner, Washburn County, Wis. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1200 Woodland Street, Spooner, WI 54801.

TAX KEY NO.: 65-281-2-39-1229-5-15-262-509000 (Legacy PIN: 65-281-2-39-12-29-4-35090).

Dated this 7th day of March, 2012.

Terry Dryden Sheriff of Washburn County Christina E. Demakopoulos State Bar #1066197 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way, Suite 100 Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 285170

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WASHBURN COUNTY TIMBER SALE

OFFICIAL NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING/ ELECTION

East Central Energy Board of Directors Secretary-Treasurer Diane Zimmerman

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The 76th-Annual Meeting of East Central Energy (ECE) will be held Saturday, April 14, 2012. The event begins at 8 a.m. at Rush City High School, 51001 Fairfield, Ave., Rush City, MN. The business meeting begins at 10:15 a.m.

(Feb. 29, Mar. 7, 14, 21, 28, Apr. 4) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. Plaintiff vs.

DOUGLAS D. DAVIS, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 09 CV 163 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on November 16, 2009, in the amount of $256,878.09, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: April 18, 2012, at 10:30 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: At the North entrance of Washburn County Courthouse located at 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 3 of Certified Survey Map No. 2965, recorded in Volume 13, Page 122, as Document No. 292231, being a part of the Southeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 and part of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 27, Township 39 North, Range 12 West, in the Town of Spooner, Washburn County, Wisconsin.

Together with the right of ingress and egress over and across the Southeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4, the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4, the Southwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 and the Northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 27, Township 39 North, Range 12 West, for roadway easement to Spooner Lake Road as shown in CSM No. 2965 and CSM No. 2966.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: W5978 Kenneth Drive, Spooner, WI 54801.

TAX KEY NO.: 65-034-2-39-1227-3-4-0030.

Dated this 22nd day of February, 2012.

Terry Dryden Sheriff of Washburn County Chaz M. Rodriguez State Bar #1063071 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way, Suite 100 Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 284650

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(March 7, 14, 21, 28, April 4, 11) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. as servicer for Bank of New York as trustee for the benefit of Alternative Loan Trust 2007-7T2 Mortgage Passthrough Certificates, Series 2007-7T2 Plaintiff vs.

Ross A. Schliesmann, et al.

(Defendant(s) Case Number: 08 CV 236 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on February 23, 2009, in the amount of $588,653.31, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: April 25, 2012, at 10:30 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: At the north entrance of Washburn County Courthouse located at 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: A parcel of land in Government Lots 1 and 2, and in lands not part of the U.S. Public Land Survey, Section 3, Township 37 North, Range 10 West, and in the SE1/4 of the SW1/4, Section 34, Township 38 North, Range 10 West, Town of Birchwood, Washburn County, Wisconsin, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the Quarter Corner to Section 34, Township 38 North, Range 10 West and Section 3, Township 37 North, Range 10 West and Section 3, Township 37 North, Range 10 West, marked by a 2-1/2” brass-capped iron pipe; thence N 64 Degree 55’03”W, 715.83 Feet to the place of beginning. Thence S36 Degree 12’11”W, 818.88 Feet to a 1” iron pipe near the North Shore of Nick Lake; thence N39 Degree 34’57”W, 257.90 Feet along the lake to a 1” iron pipe; thence leaving the lake N36 Degree 12’11”E, 448.96 Feet to a 1” iron pipe; thence N27 Degree 36’35”E, 410.00 Feet to a 1” iron pipe; thence S 28 Degree 01’48”E, 181.15 Feet to a 1” iron pipe; thence S46 Degree 04’54”E, 149.48 Feet to the place of beginning. Including also all lands lying between the lakeshore Meander Line and Nick Lake. Surveyor’s Certificate I, Stuart L. Foltz, Registered Land Surveyor #S-1170, hereby certify that we have surveyed the above-described property; that this plat is an accurate survey and a true representation thereof, and correctly shows the exterior boundary lines and the correct measurements thereof; that we have made such survey by the order of Ross Schliesmann, and that we have complied with Chapter 236.34 of the Wisconsin Statutes. Also known as: Parcel 1 of C.S.M. No. 3464 recorded on July 25, 2006, as Doc. No. 319583.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: W1129 Peufald Road, Birchwood, WI 54817 TAX KEY NO.: 65-010-2-37-1003-5-05-002-001010 Dated this 27th day of February, 2012 Terry Dryden Sheriff of Washburn County Scott D. Nabke State Bar #1037979 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way, Suite 100 Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 284851

Sealed bids will be received by the Washburn County Forestry Committee for harvest of timber on 10 tracts.

Bids will be received until 3 p.m. on March 28, 2012, at the Washburn County Forestry Office, 850 W. Beaverbrook Ave., Spooner, WI. Please contact the Forestry Department for the timber sale prospectus. 715-635-4490.

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STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO REISSUE A WISCONSIN POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (WPDES) PERMIT No. WI-0020095-09-0 Permittee: City Of Shell Lake, P.O. Box 520, Shell Lake, WI 54871.

Facility Where Discharge Occurs: Shell Lake City of, 55 Richie Road, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

Receiving Water and Location: The groundwater of the Upper Yellow River Watershed within the St. Croix River drainage basin in Washburn County.

Brief Facility Description and Summary of Proposed Changes: The City of Shell Lake owns and operates a wastewater system to treat wastes generated from homes and businesses in the community. The system is designed to treat 195,000 gallons per day; actual flow was 84,000 gallons per day (2009 through 2012). The facility consists of two aerated ponds followed by two seepage cells. In the ponds, naturally occurring bacteria already in the wastewater break down organic matter in the waste until it is clean enough to discharge. The treated water (effluent) is discharged to the seepage cells, where it is further filtered by sandy soil in the bottom of the cells as it percolates through the soil, eventually reaching the groundwater. There are four monitoring wells located around the seepage cells to assess any groundwater impacts of the discharge. To extend the life of the seepage cells, effluent is stored during the winter (November through early April) in unused seepage cells.

It is the Department’s intention to renew the permit for another term. The proposed new permit expiration date will be June 30, 2012. Appropriate discharge limitations, monitoring requirements, and reporting conditions will be included in the permit. Changes from the previous permit include: A new sample point was added to measure the amount of effluent sent to winter storage. The Preventive Action Limit (PALs) and Enforcement Standard (ES) has changed for two parameters, Nitrite + Nitrate and Ammonia. Because of improved water quality data from the wells the Nitrite + Nitrate Alternate Concentration Limit (ACL) of 21.5 mg/L has been replaced with a PAL of 2.0 mg/L and ES of 10 mg/L. The PAL for Ammonia of 2.1 mg/L has been changed to a PAL of 0.97 mg/L and ES of 9.7 mg/L, reflecting the change in ch. NR 140 Wis. Adm. Code.

Three compliance schedules have been added: Due to dry wells there is a significant amount of missing monitoring data.

As a result, new deeper wells are necessary. A map with the location of all monitoring wells is required. And submit an update to the Land Management Plan.

Permit Drafter: Sheri A. Snowbank, DNR, 810 Maple Street, Spooner, WI 54801, 715-635-4131, sheri.snowbank@wisconsin.gov.

Basin Engineer: Kathy Bartilson, DNR, 810 W Maple Street, Spooner, WI 54801, 715-635-4053, kathy.bartilson@wisconsin.gov.

Persons wishing to comment on or object to the proposed permit action, or to request a public hearing, may write to the Department of Natural Resources at the permit drafter’s address. All comments or suggestions received no later than 30 days after the publication date of this public notice will be considered along with other information on file in making a final decision regarding the permit. Anyone providing comments in response to this public notice will receive a notification of the Department’s final decision when the permit is issued. Where designated as a reviewable surface water discharge permit, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is allowed up to 90 days to submit comments or objections regarding this permit determination. If no comments are received on the proposed permit from anyone, including U.S. EPA, the permit will be issued as proposed.

The Department may schedule a public informational hearing if requested by any person and shall schedule a public informational hearing if a petition requesting a hearing is received from 5 or more persons or if response to this notice indicates significant public interest pursuant to s. 283.49, Stats. Requests for a public informational hearing shall state the following: the name and address of the person(s) requesting the hearing; the interest in the proposed permit of the person(s) requesting the hearing; the reasons for the request; and the issues proposed to be considered at the hearing.

Information on file for this permit action, including the draft permit and fact sheet (if required), may be inspected and copied at the permit drafter’s and basin engineer’s office, Monday through Friday (except holidays), between 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Please call the permit drafter or basin engineer for directions to their office location, if necessary. Information on this permit action may also be obtained by calling the permit drafter at 715-635-4131 or by writing to the Department. Reasonable costs (usually 20 cents per page) will be charged for copies of information in the file other than the public notice and fact sheet. Permit information is also available on the Internet at: http://dnr.wi.gov/org/water/wm/ww/drafts/ pubnot.htm. Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, reasonable accommodation, including the provision of informational material in an alternative format, will be made to qualified individuals upon request.

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JURISDICTIONAL OFFER

Date: February 23, 2012 To: Cree H. Lininger hereinafter referred to as Owner Relocation Order Date: June 1, 2011 Relocation Order: Filed in the office of the County Clerk County: Washburn Public Purpose for Property: Highway Renovation Washburn County, hereinafter referred to as Purchaser, offers to purchase a parcel of real estate and/or rights therein in which you own an interest all as particularly described on attached page, and agrees to pay the sum of: One Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($1,200) within 60 days from the acceptance of this offer.

A. The said property, and/or rights as described, are required by the County of Washburn for the public purpose stated above, as more fully described in Relocation Order, date and place of filing specified above. The County of Washburn in good faith intends to use the above-described property for such public purpose.

B. The County of Washburn proposes to occupy and the Owner will vacate the premises on April 30, 2012.

C. Pursuant to s.32.05(3)(d) Wis. Stats., the above purchase price is allocated as follows: (a) Loss of land, including improvements and fixtures actually being acquired $1,200. (b) Damages caused by loss of existing rights of access $0. (c) Damages caused by loss of air rights $0. (d) Damages caused by loss of legal nonconforming use $0. (e) Damages resulting from actual severance of land including damages resulting from severance of improvements or fixtures and proximity damage to improvements remaining on Owner’s land $0. (f) Damages to property abutting on a highway right of way due to change of grade $0. (g) Cost of fencing reasonably necessary to separate land taken from remainder $0. (h) Market value of uneconomic remnant $0. (i) Other $0.

Compensation for additional items of damage listed in s.32.19 Wis. Stats. has not been included. If any such items are shown to exist the owner may file claims as provided in s.32.20 Wis. Stats.

D. The purchase price is based upon an appraisal of the owner’s property of which a copy of the appraisal report has been provided to the owner.

E. Owner has 20 days from the date of personal service of this offer, if personally served, or 20 days from the date of postmark of the certified mail envelope transmitting this offer, if transmitted by mail, or 20 days from the date of publication of this offer, if published, in which to accept this offer, unless such time is extended by mutual written consent of Owner and Purchaser. Acceptance shall be as follows: Owner must execute the acceptance clause on back of this offer on or prior to March 19, 2012; and the offer and acceptance must be delivered to Purchaser at 1600 County Highway H, Spooner, WI 54801, not later than regular office closing time on March 19, 2012, or mailed to Purchaser at the last above-stated address in an addressed, postage prepaid envelope bearing postmark of not later than 12:00 midnight on March 19, 2012.

F. If the Owner does not accept this offer as set forth, Owner has 40 days from the date of service, postmark or publication of this offer to commence a court action to contest the right of condemnation as provided in s.32.05(5) Wis. Stats. provided that the acceptance and retention of any compensation resulting from an award made prior to the commencement of such an action shall be an absolute bar to such action.

G. If owner agrees to accept the Jurisdictional Offer, it is considered a negotiated purchase; therefore, the condemnor must record the conveyance with the Register of Deeds in the county where the land is located. Also, all owners of record should receive by certified mail a copy of the conveyance and a notice of their right to appeal within 6 months after the date of the recording of the conveyance.

Such an appeal would challenge the amount of compensation received by the property owner from an accepted Jurisdictional Offer.

H. Owner has 2 years from the date of the recording of an award, as described in s.32.05(7) Wis. Stats., in the office of the Register of Deeds in which to appeal for greater compensation without prejudice to Owner’s right to use the compensation given to Owner by the award. Owner’s right of appeal is subject to the provisions of s.32.05(9)(a) and (11), Wis. Stats.

I. The law provides for the payment of litigation expenses by the condemner and these costs are defined in Ch. 814 of Wisconsin Statutes.

J. If this offer is accepted by Owner, the transfer of title shall be accomplished within 60 days after acceptance including the payment to Owner of said purchase price, provided however, that notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, said 60-day period may, at the request of the Owner, be extended by mutual written agreement of the Owner and Purchaser.

K. This offer may be withdrawn by Purchaser at any time prior to its acceptance by Owner.

L. Real estate taxes for the current year shall be prorated as of the date of proposed occupancy set forth, said proration to be based upon the latest available tax assessment.

M. Purchaser will prepare necessary instruments to accomplish said transfer. Transfer shall be by Warranty Deed unless a lesser conveyance is accepted by Purchaser.

Transfer shall be free of defects and encumbrances but subject to ordinances and restrictions of record.

N. If all persons or entities designated as Owner do not accept this offer within the time specified, this offer will be deemed to have been rejected by all such persons or entities notwithstanding the acceptance by one or more of such persons or entities.

O. Included in the purchase price is payment in full for the acquisition of the following items now on the described property: Description on additional page(s).

P. This offer, if accepted by Owner, shall constitute a binding contract.

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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.

(Feb. 29, March 7, 14) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARIA THOMPSON Order Setting Time to Hear Petition for Administration and Deadline for Filing Claims (Formal Administration) Case No. 12PR09 A petition for formal administration was filed.

THE COURT FINDS: The decedent, with date of birth August 19, 1923, and date of death January 28, 2012, was domiciled in Washburn County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 201 Glenview Lane, Shell Lake, WI 54871.

THE COURT ORDERS: 1. The petition be heard at the Washburn County Courthouse, Shell Lake, Wisconsin, before Circuit Court Judge/Circuit Court Commissioner Eugene D. Harrington, on March 28, 2012, at 3:30 p.m. You do not need to appear unless you object. The petition may be granted if there is no objection.

2. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is May 23, 2012.

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

4. Heirship will be determined at the hearing on petition for final judgment.

5. Publication of this notice is notice to any persons whose names or addresses are unknown.

If you require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to participate in the court process, please call 715-4684688 at least 10 working days prior to the scheduled court date. Please note that the court does not provide transportation.

BY THE COURT: Eugene D. Harrington Circuit Court Judge Feb. 22, 2012 Kathryn zumBrunnen Box 96 Spooner, WI 54801 715-635-3174 Bar Number 1016913

(Feb. 15, 22, 29, March 7, 14, 21) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY ROYAL CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, vs.

TYRELL L. HOPKE, KIMBERLY S. HOPKE, Defendants.

Case No. 11CV05 Case Code: 30404 Forclosure of Mortgage NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of an Amended Judgment of Foreclosure and sale rendered in the above-entitled action on February 1, 2012, in the amount $141,786.35, the undersigned Sheriff of Washburn County will sell at public auction at the North entrance of the Washburn County Courthouse in the City of Shell Lake, Wisconsin, on the 4th day of April, 2012, at 10:15 a.m., the real estate and mortgage premises directed by the Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: The Fractional Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, Section 6, Township 37 North, Range 13 West, in the Town of Barronett.

TAX KEY NOS.: 65-002-2-3713-06-3-2-0010 PROPERTY ADDRESS: N2298 Spring Lake Road, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

THE 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 upon confirmation of sale. /s/Terry Dryden Washburn County Sheriff Christine A. Gimber Weld, Riley, Prenn & Ricci S.C. P.O. Box 1030 Eau Claire, WI 54702-1030 715-839-7786 Attorneys for Plaintiff This is an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

(Feb. 29, Mar. 7, 14, 21, 28, Apr. 4) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY USDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT, Plaintiff, vs.

STEVEN A. MONCEL, and SALENA MONCEL, et. al Defendants.

CASE NO.: 11-CV-81 FORECLOSURE CASE CODE30404 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of a Judgment of Foreclosure made in the aboveentitled action on November 23, 2011, in the amount of $75,552.17, I will sell at public auction at the The North Entrance (a.k.a. North Steps) of the Washburn County Courthouse, 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, WI 54871, City of Shell Lake, County of Washburn, State of Wisconsin, on April 18, 2012, at 10:45 a.m., all of the following-described mortgaged premises, to wit: Lot Three (3), Block Fourteen (14), First Addition to the City of Spooner, Washburn County, Wisconsin.

TAX KEY NO.: 65 281 2 39 12 31 5 15 001 620000.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash.

DOWN PAYMENT: 10% of amount bid by cash or cashier’s check due at time of sale.

Balance of purchase price must be paid within ten (10) business days after confirmation of the sale.

This property is sold “as is” subject to all legal encumbrances and any outstanding and accruing real estate taxes, special assessments, and penalties and interest, if any. Upon confirmation of the sale by the Court, purchaser will be required to pay all recording fees and, if desired, the cost of title evidence.

Dated this 29th day of February, 2012, at Shell Lake, Wis. /s/Terry Dryden Sheriff Of Washburn County, Wi David B. Eskra KOHNER, MANN & KAILAS, S.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 4650 N. Port Washington Road Milwaukee, WI 53212 PH: (414) 962-5110 The above property is located at: 314 Vine Street, Spooner, WI 54801.

Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. Section 1692), we are required to state that we are attempting to collect a debt on our client’s behalf and any information we obtain will be used for that purpose.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT REQUESTS CITY OF SHELL LAKE

A public hearing will be held on the following conditional use permit requests, pertaining to short-term rentals, Monday, April 2, 2012, at 5 p.m. in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 501 First Street, Shell Lake, WI: Michael & Pat Pesko, 224 Ellwood Beach Road, Shell Lake, WI 54871, SW 1/2 Lot 6 & Lot 17, Block A, Ellwood Beach, (proposed rental address 328 Ellwood Beach Road), City of Shell Lake.

Hal & Sue Hansen, 1123 E. Lake Drive, Shell Lake, WI 54871, Lot 2, Block 1, Pine Hill View Addition, (proposed rental address 312 Donovan Cove Road), City of Shell Lake.

Jeff Green, 4804 Island View NE, Rosewell, GA 30075, Lot 2, Pine Ridge Addition, (proposed rental address 516 Pine Ridge Drive), City of Shell Lake.

Robert Alleva, 2365 S. Oaks Drive, Red Wing, MN 55866, Lot 2, Block 1, Pine Lane Plat, (proposed rental address 107 East Lake Drive), City of Shell Lake.

Donelle Ege & Scott Ege, 3436 Montlake Drive, Rockford, IL 61114, Pt. of Gov’t. Lot 5, Lot 2, CSM V 6, P 179, V 286, P 178, S6-T37N-R12, (proposed rental address 1411 South Lake Drive), City of Shell Lake.

Lee Critchett, 5968 Scenic Place, Shoreview, MN 55126, Pt. Gov’t. Lot 5, Lot 6, CSM V 17, P 51, V 263, P 202, S6-T37NR12W, (proposed rental address 1471 South Lake Drive), City of Shell Lake.

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(Mar. 7, 14, 21, 28, Apr. 4, 11) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY CITIFINANCIAL, INC. vs.

Plaintiff

DARLENE HANSON, et al.

Defendant(s) Case Number: 11 CV 42 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on September 15, 2011, in the amount of $111,636.35 the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: April 25, 2012, at 10:30 a.m.

TERMS: 1. 10% down in cash or money order at the time of sale; balance due within 10 days of confirmation of sale; failure to pay balance due will result in forfeit of deposit to plaintiff.

2. Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: At the North entrance of Washburn County Courthouse located at 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

DESCRIPTION: Lot 2 of Volume 10 of Certified Survey Maps, Page 58, Map No. 2336, and an easement for ingress and egress to Lot 2 of Volume 10 of Certified Survey Map, Page 58, Map No. 2336, along the currently existing common driveway located on the Westerly 10 feet of Lot 2 of Volume 10 of Certified Survey Map, Page 36, located in Section 34, Township 39 North, Range 13 West.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: W8368 Hwy. 70, Spooner, WI 54801.

TAX KEY NO.: 65-020-2-39-1334-3 04-000-008000.

Dated this 24th day of February, 2012.

Terry Dryden Sheriff of Washburn County Scott D. Nabke State Bar #1037979 Blommer Peterman, S.C. 165 Bishops Way, Suite 100 Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.blommerpeterman.com to obtain the bid for this sale. Blommer Peterman, S.C., is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for the purpose. 284850

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MEETING NOTICE SHELL LAKE AREA FIRE ASSOCIATION The Shell Lake Area Fire Association Board of Directors will hold their quarterly meeting Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at 7 p.m., at the Fire Hall, 400 6th Ave., Shell Lake, WI Agenda: Approval of minutes; voucher list; treasurer’s report; fire chief’s report; unfinished business; new business: set next meeting date.

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(Feb. 22, 29, Mar. 7, 14, 21, 28) 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 SECOND 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 18th day of April, 2012, at 10:15 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 17th day of February, 2012.

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.

(Feb. 15, 22, 29, Mar. 7, 14, 21) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY Associated Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, vs.

MICHAEL L. LIND RIKKI LIND (Known Spouse of Michael L. Lind) Defendants.

Case No. 11-CV-167 Hon. Eugene D. Harrington Br. 1 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that by virtue of a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the abovecaptioned action on September 30, 2011, in the amount of $67,671.47, the Sheriff or his assignee will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: April 4, 2012, at 10:00 a.m.

PLACE: In the North Entrance of Washburn County Courthouse, 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, WI 54871.

DESCRIPTION: Lot Two (2) of the Plat of Hidden Lake, recorded at the office of the Washburn County Register of Deeds on January 3, 2003, in Envelope No. 117, pages 1 and 2, as Document No. 290461, located in part of the Northwest Quarter (NW 1/4) of the Northeast Quarter (NE 1/4) and part of the Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4) of the Northeast Quarter (NE 1/4) of Section Two (2), Township Fortyone (41) North, Range Twelve (12) West, Washburn County, Wisconsin. Also, along with all lands lying between the meander line shown on the abovereferenced Lot and the ordinary high-water mark of Hidden Lake.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: Lot 2, Hidden Lake Plat, Minong, WI 54859.

TERMS: Cash; down payment required at the time of Sheriff’s Sale in the amount of 10% by cash, money order, cashier’s check or certified check made payable to the Washburn County Clerk of Courts; balance of sale price due upon confirmation of sale by Court.

Property to be sold as a whole “as is” and subject to all real estate taxes, accrued and accruing, special assessments, if any, penalties and interest.

Buyer to pay applicable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax from the proceeds of the Sale upon Confirmation of the Court. Purchaser to pay the cost of title evidence.

Terrence C. Dryden, Sheriff Washburn County, Wisconsin Plaintiff’s Attorney: Mallery & Zimmerman, S.C. 500 Third Street, Suite 800 P.O. Box 479 Wausau, WI 54402-0479 715-845-8234 This is an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

This communication is from a debt collector.

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Several firsts at Festival Concert competition

The Shell Lake High School choir earned firsts in the three songs they performed at the concert festival held Monday, March 5, at Cameron. The choir is under the direction of Steven Bulgrin. The junior high choir earned a first in their performance.

Logan Zebro, Cassidy Schroeder, Heidi Steines, Gina McSweeney and Madison Smith in the Shell Lake Junior High trumpet section, and Sheri Clark playing percussion in the back row.

Taylor Bauch, Casey Furchtenicht and Brett Holman in the trumpet section, the soul of the band.

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Emma Gimse White, Calista Holman, Dakota Robinson, Maddie Hodgett and Seth Quinton play the French horn and saxophone. The high school band earned a first in their three performances in Class A. A first is the highest rating a band can achieve.

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Reyna Stone, Alyssa Hodgett and Kyley Williams with their director Aimee Pashby before coming in with their flutes. The junior high band received a first in their performance. One of the judges commented that they played like a high school band.

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Breakfast Monday, March 19: Juice, cereal, toast.

Tuesday, March 20: Fruit, sausage link, French toast sticks.

Wednesday, March 21: Juice, breakfast pizza.

Thursday, March 22: Fruit, pancakes.

Friday, March 23: Juice, yogurt, toast.

Lunch Monday, March 19: Grades 7-12: Potato bowl with popcorn chicken. Grades K-6: Chicken nuggets, corn, pear slices. No Laker.

Tuesday, March 20: BBQ pork on bun, green beans, fresh fruit. Laker: Salad bar.

Wednesday, March 21: Hamburger on bun, cheese slice, fries, pickles, beets, pineapple tidbits. No Laker.

Thursday, March 22: Mozzarella dippers, mixed vegetables, applesauce. Laker: Turkey and cheese sandwich.

Friday, March 23: Turkey and gravy on biscuit, broccoli, pear slices. Laker: Salad bar.

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One day was just not enough

People you should know

“Being born and raised in a small town on a dairy farm made me anxious to spread my wings after high school. I decided to go to college to a veterinary technician school. After successfully completing the program, I moved to southern Wisconsin to work. But after 11 years of being away from home, I moved back. I missed my family and our Jane Lauterbach close-knit community. That was the best decision I have ever made because I met my best friend and amazing husband, at Becky’s no less.

“Now I have a new career working with Rick at Spooner Tax Professionals. I am also the president of the Spooner MOMS Club which has been a great experience, by contributing back to our community and finding new friends. Moving away, but then returning, has really given me an appreciation for all the blessings I have. And we can’t imagine a better place to raise our children.”

On Friday, March 9, the paper Wall of Intolerance was held by several teachers awaiting the onslaught of third-graders who were chosen to break down the wall during the Words can Hurt campaign at Shell Lake. help turn the film into an edited version of the week’s activities.

The TEE-Mates are already excited about the Mix it Up monthly activity. They’ve already been buzzing about next year’s weeklong antibullying and tolerance week, coming up with clever and exciting ways to stop any bullying in the Shell Lake School System.

The race was on.

There was almost nothing left of the wall. – Photos by Diane Dryden

cess rate with the monthly Mix it Up lunches and this past week’s activity because the atmosphere in the school is changing,” says Wendel happily. Wendel is joined by Danette Hopke, high school guidance counselor; Kari Jensen, community ed and AODA leader; Natasha Killdow, elementary guidance counselor; and nurse Kelly Schmidt. The two student TEE-Mates are junior Chelsea Melton, who has been in charge of videotaping the entire week, and Sarah Mayer, who will

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Full name, age: Jane Marie Lauterbach, 35 Family: Husband Rick; children, Richard 15, Ryan 11, Noah 5 and Ellianna 19 months.

Occupation: Office manager at Spooner Tax Professionals/ Certified vet tech.

Washburn County resident since: I was born in Spooner, I went to Shell Lake public schools then moved away in 1995. I returned in 2006.

Hobbies/interests: Baking, cooking, spending time with family and friends, Spooner MOMS Club and watching my kids play sports.

Claim to fame: The best cook my family knows.

My favorite sport to play: Games with my kids (basketball, baseball etc.).

Favorite sport to watch: Noah wrestling (pre-K age).

Place I would most like to visit: Disney World (we are going in May).

Dinner companion, dead or alive: Grandma Meister - she was an amazing lady that I miss very much.

The person I most admire: My mom, she has amazing strength and love.

Best movie I ever saw: “Jerry McGuire.”

Favorite TV show: “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Music I listen to: Bob Marley.

Favorite dish: Snow crab.

Last book I read: Patrick Swayze “Time of my Life.”

My friends would describe me as: Energetic, outgoing, talented and thoughtful/giving.

My first job was: Dahlstroms IGA greenhouse.

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by Diane Dryden SHELL LAKE — In the Little House on the Prairie books, author Laura Ingalls Wilder describes how teachers dealt with bullies back in the 1880s - the male teachers would beat them, whip them or simply fight them with bare fists. If the teacher was a woman, a school board member would do it. That was then, this is now.

Shannon Wendel, special education teacher at the Shell Lake Schools for the past 12 years, has a different idea when it comes to bullies. Starting Monday, March 5, the campaign, Words can Hurt, began. Using two flat-screen TVs mounted high on the commons area wall at the school, videos were shown debunking many myths of bullying as well as a background of music sung by professional teen-friendly artists, combined with poignant public service announcements. The Words Hurt Week wall was begun, offering 490 students the opportunity to fill out a paper brick that would be attached to the wall the following day, making it a wall of words that hurt others.

Tuesday, the group of four women who have named themselves the Teaching, Empathy and Empowerment Mates, continued building a wall with the students help. Students were to not only write down words that had hurt them, but they were also invited to write down the words that they used to hurt others. The wall was sadly revealing, and the sentiments gave the TEEMates an inside look into the students they were trying to reach.

Wednesday the word retarded, or better known as the R-word, was discussed as part of the activity and a giant poster was placed on the wall near the commons for students to sign as a pledge to never use that word again. Each of the 280 students who signed the poster received a sticker.

Thursday was the most exciting day, because the huge wall with all the negative bricks was brought into the gym where it was thoroughly demolished by a group of students during the special all-school assembly.

By Friday, the Wall of Intolerance had been reconstructed and filled with positive statements replacing the negative ones with a glorious sun shining over the project.

Wendel is an avid proponent of peer mentoring, especially for students who need friends. Last November, the TEE-Mates kicked off their Mix it Up campaign by hosting a luau in the commons during the lunch hour one day. Not only were there Hawaiian decorations, but the 14 tables were each covered with different colored paper. Each student was given a piece of paper that coordinated with the tablecloths. Students were to sit at the corresponding table and use the table talk cards provided to initiate conversation with other students who were virtual strangers to them.

December there was a Holiday Movie theme, and in January there was a Dum-Dum suckers lunch, each time including the table talk cards.

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