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Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Vol. 126, No. 9 • Shell Lake, Wis.

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Blue and gold pride at homecoming Pages 12-13

Hangin’ out at the Jack O’Lantern Fest Page 11

Area sports highlights Pages 14-16

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OCTOBER IS CO-OP MONTH

Cooperatives fuel state, local economies

Danielle H. Moe | Staff writer WASHBURN COUNTY — There are 773 incorporated cooperatives in Wisconsin that generated an estimated $17.2 billion in annual sales, 35,000 jobs and wages of $1.5 billion. These findings are from a report published in 2014 by the University of Wisconsin - Madison on the economic impacts of cooperatives in the Wisconsin.

In 2012, Wisconsin cooperatives represented 1 percent of the jobs in the state and 4.5 percent of the total revenue.

Wisconsin’s economy has long felt the effects of cooperatives that are in many different types of businesses across the state.

By the way they are formed, owned and controlled by their members, they also contribute to their local economies.

There are five main cooperative sectors: grocery retail and wholesale, agricultural marketing, manufacturing and farm supply, credit unions, mutual insurance and utilities. Those that don’t fit these categories are placed in the other sector that includes cooperative businesses like transportation, health care and housing. The Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association, publisher of the Inter-County Leader and Washburn See Cooperatives, back page

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The Wednesday, Oct. 8, lunar eclipse over a Town of Dewey farmhouse. This eclipse is interesting because it is the second in a tetrad, four lunar eclipses in a series. The first happened on April 15, the next two will occur on April 4, 2015, and Sept. 28, 2015. — Photo by Larry Samson

Nov. 4 vote: Smith challenged

by Quinn in 75th District

Danielle H. Moe | Staff writer WASHBURN COUNTY — Election Day is less than a month away, and the Register has compiled profiles on the candidates for the 75th Assembly District for voters. The 75th Assembly District includes half of Washburn County, parts of Polk, St. Croix, Dunn and a majority of Barron County.

The Democratic incumbent candidate Stephen Smith will be listed on the ballot beside Republican challenger Romaine Robert Quinn. Profiles of each candidate include their background information, their campaign issues and their responses to questions about party affiliation, job growth and governmental spying.

Smith is a Shell Lake resident that was first elected to the 75th Assembly Stephen Smith

seat in 2012 after receiving 51 percent of the votes. Smith holds a bachelor’s in accounting from the University of Wisconsin - Superior and owns Rainbow Home Center in Rice Lake. He currently sits on three legislative committees: agriculture, rural affairs and small business development.

Issues from his campaign website include health care, education, agriculture, jobs and the economy. Smith says he votes for good ideas to put money back in the hands of taxpayers including $104 million in property tax relief and the proposed $408 million Blueprint for Prosperity plan. He is against expanding the voucher school system, for Medicaid expansion and protecting agriculture.

“I have been in the district campaigning, Romaine Quinn

See Candidates, page 3

No photo ID for voters in Nov. 4 election Danielle H. Moe | Staff writer SHELL LAKE — Last week the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the state of Wisconsin from implementing a law that required voters to show photo identification in order to vote in November. The decision came three days after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals declared the law constitutional, spurring an emergency request for an order to block the law.

The voter ID law was passed in 2011 and was

in effect for the 2012 primary election but was put on hold by legal challenges. As it stands now Wisconsin voters will not need an ID to vote in the Nov. 4 election.

Proponents of the law say that it is a commonsense solution to eliminating voter fraud while opponents contend that widespread voter fraud doesn’t exist and the law could pre-

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Record turnout for Whitetails Unlimited banquet

Doug’s Masonry and Nick’s Family Restaurant have been sponsors for 20 years. Receiving their awards were Doug Smith and Dan and Tim Tyler.

Photos by Larry Samson

The Northwest Wisconsin Chapter of Whitetails Unlimited held their 24th-annual membership banquet on Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Shell Lake Arts Center. Dave Zaloudek earned his 10-year Chapter Committee Service Award, and Bill Thornley earned his 15-year award. The committee members have all worked hard to make this the premier Whitetails Unlimited Banquet in northern Wisconsin. This year over 220 members attended the banquet.

Luther found a good home with Hunter Rhea. He plans to train him for waterfowl hunting.

Cole Wohik won this Aaron Rogers print in the Eddie Snell raffle. All the money in this raffle stays within the area to provide books and hunters safety supplies to area schools.

Leah Dezek is the proud winner of the Crossman A17 pellet rifle. Standing with her is her best friend, Alysa Bluse.

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Spooner City Council moves forward with ongoing projects Danielle H. Moe | Staff writer SPOONER — The Spooner City Council addressed agenda items that included the 2015 budget, the roundhouse property and the Spooner Civic Center, among others, at their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 7.

Carol Dunn, Ward Two and finance committee chair, gave information about the city’s 2015 budget. Dunn stated that since the state did not allow any levy increase, the city had worked the budget with a zero-percent increase. Under the 2013-15 state budget, a municipality is allowed to increase its levy over the amount it levied in the prior year by the percentage increase in equalized value from net new construction. If no new construction occurred in the community, then the allowable levy increase is zero percent.

Dunn said that there is a small increase in expenditures, less than 1 percent, that is

offset by other revenues, not the tax levy.

“Our equalized assessed value went down in the city this year so that meant that there actually is an increase in the mill rate,” said Dunn. The mill rate will increase by 3.85 percent for 2015. She said what helped to balance the budget was a zero-percent increase in the health insurance. The council approved the budget be published on a voice vote. A public hearing on the 2015 budget will be scheduled for next month.

The resolution seeking the council’s approval of a contract with Endeavor Environmental Services to perform an environmental site assessment for the roundhouse and develop a work plan to the property met council approval.

Mayor Gary Cuskey stated that the city already owns the rail yard property and that Endeavor Environmental Services will provide an idea of what the city is

looking at in terms of work and costs of the project going forward if they were to accept the roundhouse property donation.

“Personally, I think it is probably not in as bad of shape as we might be afraid of and I am also very optimistic with the involvement of Drew,” said Cuskey. Drew Nussbaum is a regional tourism specialist with the Wisconsin Department of Tourism and provided the city with information about how the acquisition of the property would benefit the city and the area. The cost of the services from Endeavor is $2,400.

The council approved the resolution to authorize the redevelopment authority to acquire the Spooner Civic Center. The property at 301 Walnut Street is in the midst of a purchase process by Wayne and Juanita Poteet that involves the city of Spooner, taxpayer money and its po-

tential economic impact. The resolution was approved on a seven-to-one vote.

Ward One council member Michelle Ortman voted against. A public hearing on the project is to be scheduled for some time at the end of the month as a requirement of labeling the property blighted.

Also approved by the council was $1,078 in material expenses to repair the outdoor hockey rink. James Dohm, Ward Two and municipal operations committee chair, explained that the funds would be used to purchase a reusable tarp that would shield the ground to create ice on the rink faster.

The offer to purchase 30 of 35 acres of county land by the county highway shop was referred back to committee after the offer was declined by the county’s public property and land sale committee.

Council hears opinions on fluoridation Danielle H. Moe | Staff writer SHELL LAKE – A discussion regarding the Shell Lake City Council’s unanimous decision in September to stop putting fluoride in city water was held during the council’s regular monthly meeting on Monday, Oct. 13.

Two dentists, Dr. Dellin Bakkum and Dr. Edward Dunbar, along with Linda Jorgensen, a dental hygienist and president of the Northwest Wisconsin Dental Hygienists Association, appeared at the meeting to share their professional viewpoints on maintaining fluoride in public water supply.

“Based on overwhelming evidence to date, water fluoridation is considered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to be one of the 10 most successful public health actions ever undertaken in our country,” said Dr. Bakkum. Bakkum, of Green Valley Dental Care in Spooner, stated that the reasons that had spurred the decision, employee safety and cost to properly ventilate the two city pump houses that contain the fluoridation equipment, were justified.

Bakkum stated that an estimate to the

cost of the concerns in the pump house was about $20,000, but that there is grant money available that the city should take advantage of to maintain the long-standing public procedure.

Two city residents voiced their opinions about the matter. Randy Baker stated that he felt there had not been adequate communication with utility users about the change of procedure. “I think it was illadvised to just throw it out ... I think there should have been contact with the state health,” said Baker.

Kate Folstad also spoke but in favor of its discontinuation. “I have an almost 3-year-old who actually does have an intolerance to it and I just don’t believe that it is one more thing that somebody else should be deciding for me,” said Folstad.

In council actions, two recommendations by the public works administration committee were approved. The first approval was for a request from street construction contractor JPS for the city to cover the actual cost of the project at the intersection of 7th Avenue and 4th Street.

The council already approved the cost of the construction at $7,500 for this portion

of the project but after its completion JPS submitted documentation to the city that its actual cost was about $10,000.

The second approval was for a lease agreement with the Washburn County Highway Department for two 2010 Mack dump trucks. The lease agreement states that the purchase price of each dump truck is $89,000, with $15,000 monthly lease payments. Both trucks will come with all snow removal attachments with the balance on the trucks to be paid in full

by March 2015.

“It’s a lot of money to spend on two dump trucks but we’re practically stealing these and they will take care of our snow removal issues for the next 20 years,” said Terry Leckel, Ward Two council member.

The authorization by the city council for the issuance and sale of up to $450,220 sewer system revenue bonds was approved on a voice vote. Andrew Eiche, city administrator, explained that this was stage two of the already adopted resolution relating to the 2013-14 street projects and part of the Clean Drinking Water fund- Safe Drinking Water loan. “This is the piece that the principal forgiveness

comes with, and so by resolving to sell the bonds you’re also getting the principal forgiveness grant for the interceptor sewer and wastewater screen,” explained Teresa Anderson of MSA Professional Services.

An agricultural lease recommendation for property around the Shell Lake Municipal Airport was also approved. A map included with the lease agreement indicates that the property is about 54 acres.

Eiche explained that the land would be farmed for hay only and the leaser would be required to disc the field.

“One of the advantages of agreeing to this for the airport was the rough terrain on either side of the runway,” said Eiche.

The hope is for the farming activity to level out the land on either side of the runway in the case of an emergency landing. The five-year lease was approved at $0 per acre in 2015-16, $10 an acre in 2017 and then $20 an acre in 2018-19.

Public forum on Common Core Standards to be held SPOONER — A public forum on Common Core Standards will be held on Monday, Oct. 27, in the lower level at The Veterans Hall, Hwy. 70 and Northwestern Avenue, Spooner, at 6:30 p.m.

Karen Schroeder, president of Advocates for Academic Freedom, will address the problems and myths about Common Core Standards and provide solutions that the public can implement at their local schools. Following the presentation, Schroeder will participate in a questionand-answer time and will stay until every question is answered.

Many parents are concerned that their right to make decisions regarding their child’s education was circumvented when state Superintendent Tony Evers implemented Common Core Standards as a state mandate rather than a choice available to school districts. Those citizens who wish to protect their right to be involved in determining the academic and behavioral standards in their schools may find this forum to be helpful.

The federalization of education and the politicization of curricula will also be addressed by Schroeder. The federal govern-

ment used tax dollars to create Common Core Standards and to align textbooks and tests to Common Core Standards. By aligning accreditation tests and college entrance exams to Common Core, school choice settings will have to teach the Common Core aligned curricula. Many citizens are concerned that the integrity of school choice options is being undermined when the federal government aligns tests to a federally approved curriculum.

The federal government invested $16 billion to develop Common Core Standards. Schroeder will provide samples

of a variety of academic standards that are more challenging than Common Core Standards and that are available to school districts for no charge. The need for a national set of standards will also be addressed during this forum.

The public is invited to exercise due diligence and analyze all sides of Common Core Standards that will impact the quality of education enjoyed by the children in surrounding local schools. — submitted by Forum on Common Core Standards

continue to be debated next year,” wrote Lolita Olson, Washburn County clerk, in a press release on the ruling. Election officials were sent scrambling in September after a three-judge panel ruled the state

could implement the law while it was being deliberated by the circuit court of appeals.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Advancement Project, which filed the

emergency blocking request, have 90 days to file a formal petition for the Supreme Court to take on the case.

common sense must be used when addressing this issue while respecting constitutional rights.

Romaine Robert Quinn is a resident of Rice Lake and served as that city’s mayor in 2010 to 2012. Quinn studied for two years at the University of Barron County and one year at an undisclosed four-year college.

Issues from his campaign website include economic growth, local control and education. He believes that eliminating income tax for manufacturing businesses, encouraging tourism, collaboration with the business and educational communities are paths to economic growth. If elected he says he would work to maintain the independence of local units of government, including education, from

state and federal influences.

“I pretty much fit the party platform, it’s just a matter of I might choose different tack or different methods to accomplish those things,” said Quinn. He thinks that Republicans have done a poor job of communicating on issues like samesex marriage, abortion and taxes. “I think we need to do a better job at communicating, that would be the only problem I see,” he said.

Quinn is surprised on how well Wisconsin’s economy is doing and attributes its growth to the state government, not the federal government. “Now that being said, government itself doesn’t create jobs but we can create a competitive playing field so that we can compete,” he said. He also thinks that national and global issues

must be looked at because of their effects on the economy and job growth.

Quinn acknowledges the sensitive nature of the government spying issue but says he is a strong believer in civil liberties. “I think I am a little more on the civilliberties-minded side than some of the rest of the overall party and think it’s so important,” he said. Quinn doesn’t think the government has any right to screen citizens phone calls, listen in on their conversations or read their emails without a warrant. “I think it’s very important that the state play a role in protecting Wisconsin’s privacy rights, and the nation,” he said.

Photo ID/from page 1 vent eligible voters from voting.

“Even though this means there won’t be any further action by the courts between now and the November election, it is expected that the voter ID issue will

Candidates/from page 1 I have yet to go to a party convention, and I haven’t looked at their platform because I represent people before the party line politics, and I will do what is best for the people I represent regardless of what party politics say,” said Smith.

Job growth figures are the strongest they have been in a half decade, but Smith feels the real job creators are individuals buying products and services, not government or elected officials. He also thinks that governmental spying should be limited to what is absolutely necessary to provide for national security.

“I understand that some things can be controversial, but I also remember 9/11 ... if we have to do things that prevent that from happening again, we do not need another 9/11,” he said. Smith says that

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Letters to the editor Supports Stephen Smith Since taking office, Stephen Smith has been an adamant supporter of local control, and I’m not talking about federal overreach, I’m talking about Madison politicians who want to place more burdens on our local communities. Smith has consistently voted in favor of local control, and he has opposed legislation that would take away local control away from us. Madison needs more representatives that will continue to put the cities, towns and villages of northwestern Wisconsin

first, before party-line politics.

Both houses of the state Legislature and the executive office are controlled by one party. This majority party continues to push to have more power, but they are leaving local communities with an increasing number of unfunded mandates in the process. An example of this would be earlier this year when AB 476 was introduced with the intent to dictate how individual communities regulate frac sand mining. There was a strong op-

position to this bill from the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, The Wisconsin Towns Association, as well as Stephen Smith. Thankfully, it failed to pass because of strong opposition.

Historically, Republicans have referred to themselves as the “party of local control.” It has become increasingly more difficult to see this point of view when the local control has become so limited.

Furthermore, Wisconsin has always had a reputation to have strong local control

with its unique local governments. Unfortunately these local governments are attacked through the power of the majority party in Madison. Thankfully we have a state representative that will continue to put politics aside, and do what’s best for our communities, not what is best for his own political party.

Dave Vold Town of Bashaw

Can you pay your share?

Our national debt is $17 trillion going on $18 trillion. Each American’s individual share comes to about $56,000 or $224,000 for a family of four. Can you sit down and write out a check to the IRS? The Republicans are accused of being the party of the rich fat cats. The Democrats have such people as the Kennedys, John Kerry, the Clintons and Nancy Pelosi to name only a few who seem to have more than $2 in their pockets. Warren Buffet whose BNSF railroad hauls most of the Canadian and North Dakota oil in the north tier at $30 per barrel generates $2 billion in revenue per year. Buffet contributes heavily to Obama and

the Democrats, which is probably why Obama won’t approve the Keystone pipeline, which would transport the oil at $10 a barrel. Every year delay is another $2 billion in Buffet’s coffers.

During the past 20 years, the two national teachers unions have contributed more to congressional candidates and their parties than any other group – something like $55 million. No wonder the public union bosses control so much of our agenda.

Mary Burke claims she is going to create thousands of jobs. How? Who is fighting the development of the new mine in northern Wisconsin in an area where

Democracy is a form of government in which people choose leaders by voting.

Only Republican legislators and governors have attacked our democracy by voter ID and restricted access laws. Scott Walker and Dane Deutsch claim that one fraud vote negates your vote while suppressing 30,000 people from voting is OK. This statement is even more incredible because in-person voter fraud is virtually nonexistent.

I vote for Democrats because I want my voice to be heard by my government. I

want both sides to compromise and come up with solutions to problems in place of “divide and conquer” as Walker was taped saying. Rep. Duffy has done absolutely nothing while in Washington.

He follows the Tea Party blockers and wastes millions of taxpayer dollars in the process. We need someone who is willing to work for the $170,000 he whined about. Public education is under attack, $800 million was slashed from our K-12 schools and 30 percent cut from technical colleges. A Rice Lake job fair was a bust

It seems Republicans from all over the place are being enlisted to write antiObama and anti-Democrat letters to the editor. I was puzzled at first, wondering why they were working so hard against our twice-elected president when he is not on the ballot. Then came a letter by a local conservative letter-writer warning folks about the new breed of Democrats they should fear. He told people not to

be fooled … that while Liberals used to be their dirty word for left-leaning people, the new word to fear is Progressives. Well, let me tell you about Progressives, who got their start from Wisconsin Republican Bob Lafollette, June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925. La Follette served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was the governor of Wisconsin and was also a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, 1906 to

much successful mining once took place – creating hundreds of good paying jobs?

Mining has been going on in the Minnesota Iron Range for over a hundred years.

Along with the unelected, self-appointed obstructionists who claim they love the environment, our dear Sen. Jauch also fought against the mine. And he along with many of his Democratic colleagues hid out in Illinois early in Gov. Walker’s tour to show support for the public union bosses. So where did that leave us in the private sector? Apparently we don’t count.

Has anyone tried to start a business, build a house or do anything that re-

quires a permit and some bureaucrat’s permission and stamp of approval before they can proceed? And shell out a pile of money to stoke the pot? It ain’t easy, McGee. Apparently those of us in the private sector are too dumb to take care of ourselves.

Too many politicians today, now seemingly mostly Democrats, swim in hypocrisy which must make poor Harry Truman spin in his grave.

When you go to vote, consider how you are going to pay for your share of our $17 trillion-plus debt.

Rod Ripley Spooner

Want your voice heard? Vote for Democrats because they did not have the trained people they need to fill jobs. Property tax increases loom from state decreases in funding for schools and our court system.

A budget surplus is heading for a huge deficit. We need more women in our government; our bodies are being regulated, (forced trans-vaginal ultrasound), and the Equal Pay Enforcement Act was recently repealed by Walker. Five rural Planned Parenthood clinics were shut down under Walker’s budget; they did not perform abortions but did provide breast, cervi-

cal cancer screenings and reproductive health exams. We cannot afford more of Scott Walker’s agenda, which is rubberstamped by Republican candidates. We need change in Washington and Wisconsin. Vote for energetic, smart, hardworking candidates Mary Burke for governor, Kelly Westlund for the House of Representatives, Janet Bewley state Senate and re-elect Stephen Smith for Assembly.

Michelle Hyllested Rice Lake

Republican dirty words 1925.

Some liberal/progressive achievements which make me proud to hang my hat with Progressive, Liberal and Democrats are: They got women and African Americans the right to vote, created Social Security, passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, created Medicare, passed the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, and ended segregation.

What did Conservatives do? They opposed every one of those programs.

Something to think about before you cast your vote. I trust Mary Burke, governor; Kelly Westlund, Congress; Janet Bewley, state Senate; and Stephen Smith, state Assembly, to look out for people over big-money corporate types.

Susan Hansen Shell Lake

Get out and vote With elections less than three weeks away, we have a choice of what we get.

If we choose to stay home and not vote we are, in fact, choosing to elect officials who will continue to slash funds for public schools, refuse federal dollars for health care, reduce the number of Medicaid recipients and cut funding to local municipalities. We deserve what we get.

If we choose to stay home and not vote, we are, in fact, choosing to elect officials who restrict voting rights and give tax breaks to businesses that take their jobs out of state, causing Wisconsin to be ranked last in the Midwest in job creation.

We deserve what we get.

If we continue to elect officials who tell us how good things are when in reality

we know things are not going forward, we deserve what we get.

Finally, if we don’t mind the huge amounts of money from outside Wisconsin that try to influence our Election Day votes, we deserve what we get.

I, for one, think we deserve better than what the last four years have given us, therefore, I choose to show up at the

polls and cast my vote for Mary Burke, governor; Kelly Westlund, Congress 7th Congressional District; Janet Bewley, state Senate 25th District; Nick Milroy, state Assembly 73rd District; and Stephen Smith, state Assembly 75th District.

Bob Ademino Spooner

Nov. 4 is Election Day Nov. 4 is Election Day. If we want Wisconsin to reclaim its status as a state of excellence, we must vote for Mary Burke, Janet Bewley, Kelly Westland, Susan Happ, Stephen Smith and team. Be sure to go and vote that day.

The state has gone backward. Instead of creating jobs that address stagnation by working on the challenges we have, like climate change, Walker says, “train people for jobs that exist.” That is stagnation.

He doesn’t want minimum wage raised, though it would inject more money into

the economy. He refused assistance for transportation. There has been no public transportation in northern Wisconsin for decades. He uses money for public education for his experimental voucher schools in Milwaukee at the expense of schools in the north of Wisconsin. He touts his attack on teachers as his biggest and best achievement. Teachers, of all people. People who sacrifice, put children first, work so very hard to educate our children. It’s abominable.

There is misinformation on radio ads by

Walker backers and the Rifle Association saying the Dems won’t let people have guns. That is just not true. It has never been true all the years they have said that.

One of our biggest assets is of course the beautiful natural resources that abound around the state, especially in the north.

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater body in the world. The lakes, streams, forests, wildlife and more are spectacles of splendor and magnificence but Walker would give the go-ahead to mining plans and other pursuits of the powers that be

to desecrate our natural resources, one of our best assets, for the advantage of a few money grabbers.

Take Wisconsin back. Don’t let it continue to go backwards. We want our excellence back. We must retain our assets and move forward not backward.

Remember to vote on Nov. 4 for Burke, Bewley, Westland, Happ, Smith and team.

Mary Hovey Spooner

Reconsideration for hockey While reading the Washburn County Board of Supervisors minutes, I was very surprised to read eight supervisors voted against a county opportunity to offer fi-

nancial support to save hockey here in Washburn County. These eight supervisors are, in my opinion, very shortsighted.

I sincerely hope one of the eight will

ask for a reconsideration of this proposal.

Hockey is an exciting sport, building body and character.

Vern Redlich Shell Lake

Next week will be the final week for publication of political letters to the editor. Letters submitted after next week’s deadline will be posted on our website.

Letters policy In general the Register welcomes letters to the editor but reserves the right to edit or to reject letters for any reason. Letters should be no longer than 400 words in length and contain the signature, address and telephone number of the author. All letter writers will be limited to one published letter per 30 days, with the exception of rebuttals. The number of exchanges between letter writers will be decided by the editor. Thank-you letters are most appropriately published in specially designed box ads. Vulgarity, racial slurs and other mean-spirited, insulting terms are not allowed. Complaints about businesses and individuals involving private matters will not be published. Letter writers should provide sources when citing facts. Opinions expressed in letters are not those of the newspaper but rather those of the individual, who is solely responsible for the letter’s content. Emailed letters are preferred. Letters may be emailed to news@wcregisternewsroom.com or mailed to Washburn County Register, P.O. Box 455, Shell Lake, WI 54871

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Letters to the editor Supports Dane Deutsch Are you unhappy with the current state of political affairs? Do you feel helpless and that those you’ve elected fail to represent your views? Have the partisan politics and party squabbling prevented important decisions from being made, obscured the issues, and impaired our ability to move forward for the betterment of society? Do the attack ads and the onesided editorials completely fail to clarify the issues? Aren’t you sick of them?

We need leadership. We need to quit voting party lines, and elect leaders who are unafraid to tackle tough issues. We need leaders who will represent what is

in the best interest of our country, and who will end the bitter enmity between political parties. Leaders who will listen to everyone, bring differing sides together to compromise for the common good, and get some things done.

Dane Deutsch is that leader. His meteoric rise to captain in the Air Force, his business acumen, strength of character, sense of fairness, strong belief in family, and devotion to duty and honor are exactly the characteristics we need in anyone chosen to represent us.

We must ensure our representatives have character and honor. As busy as we

all are, we need to elect someone we can trust to do what we hired them to do. As someone who has been an Eagle Scout, American Legion Boys State senator, Air Force captain, CEO of his technology company, owner and coach of a family gymnastics business, John Maxwell Leadership facilitator/trainer, Character Counts trainer and ambassador, a member of Kiwanis and the chamber of commerce, Deutsch exemplifies these qualities.

He wants to represent you for the Wisconsin State Senate 25th District.

You have a chance to do something that makes a difference. You have the ability

to improve the political landscape, to take a hand in crafting the future of northern Wisconsin. Forget the party, forget all the bitterness. Vote for the candidate that represents the very best in all of us. Elect Dane Deutsch; make a statement that Wisconsin puts leadership, character and honor above politics.

Al Horvath Superior

Support Rep. Smith on Nov. 4 Please support state Rep. Stephen Smith in continuing to serve the citizens of the 75th Assembly District. Smith has brought a great deal of local business and financial experience with him to Madison.

He has the “ear” for continued growth in the local economy and education, as well as understanding statewide diversity.

In his first term, Smith has gained wellearned respect from the public as well as other lawmakers and governmental offi-

cials.

As the taxpayers of Turtle Lake are aware, in September of 2013 our village faced an uphill battle with an issue, which none of us asked for, that needed to be addressed with the help of our legislators in Madison. Changes to state law left all of us taxpayers shaking our heads on how we, as a village and community, would pay for the creation of the anaerobic digester, which essentially became tax-ex-

empt overnight. In asking Smith for help, he immediately aligned in a bipartisan effort to present to the state Legislature a corrected solution. Smith held his past promise to look out for the citizens of the 75th Assembly District and work in a bipartisan fashion.

In supporting Smith again, he will continue to listen to the locals, fight for education and agriculture, work as a team player, and remember that the northwest-

ern Wisconsin small towns, rural areas, local businesses and citizens mean just as much as the big cities. Rep. Smith represents the people of Turtle Lake and the rest of the 75th Assembly District with respect.

Sheryl Gehrman Village president of Turtle Lake

Area news at a glance BARRON COUNTY — Severt Olson, who served UW-Extension Barron County as the 4-H agent for 28 years, will be one of the first 100 inductees into the brand-new Wisconsin 4-H Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame will honor individuals and organizations that made significant contributions to the Wisconsin 4-H Youth Development program. During his career, Olson made a positive impact on many Barron County families. Many remember him for his tireless enthusiasm for softball, dairy judging, and other 4-H activities. He helped start the Barron County Junior Livestock Program, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.

Next year, the 4-H dog project will be 50 years old; another one of Olson’s many 4-H accomplishments. Olson retired from UW-Extension over 20 years ago. He still serves the community in many capaci-

Shell Lake Lions Calendar Winners Oct. 6 - $30 Mary/Kevin Casey, Apple Valley, Minn.

Oct. 7 - $30 Wayne Mortenson, Andover, Minn.

Oct. 8 - $30 Dorothy Rand, Black River Falls Oct. 9 - $30 Marvin Straw, Cumberland Oct. 10 - $300 Roger Lundeen, Shell Lake

Jacobson Advanced Eye Care Winners also announced on WJMC FM Radio

Temps

Temperatures recorded at Spooner Ag Research Station 2013 Oct. 6 Oct. 7 Oct. 8 Oct. 9 Oct. 10 Oct. 11 Oct. 12

High 58 58 62 73 73 71 75

Low 49 37 41 51 51 53 50

Precip.

1.20” rain .11” rain

2014 Oct. 6 Oct. 7 Oct. 8 Oct. 9 Oct. 10 Oct. 11 Oct. 12

High 47 53 55 55 45 50 55

Low Precip.

34 34 .01” rain 32 27 killing frost 26 25 24

Lake level Monday, Oct. 14, 2013: 1,216.67’ MSL Monday, Oct. 13, 2014: 1,218.54’ MSL

ties, including organizing mission trips and contributing his time to the American Legion. He is a lifetime member of the Wisconsin Association of Extension 4-H Development Professionals and is an active member of the Retired 4-H Agents group. He will be inducted into the Wisconsin 4-H Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Wisconsin Dells on Nov. 15. Olson is a graduate of Shell Lake High School. — from the Rice Lake Chronotype ••• FREDERIC — A helicopter landed in the Olby Automotive Sales car lot in Frederic on Thursday evening, Oct. 2. The pilot, who was flying from Minneapolis to the Hayward area, was unable to see because

of the black clouds and fog. When he saw the lights at Olby Automotive, he made an emergency landing and waited until the next morning before leaving. — from the Inter-County Leader ••• HAYWARD — Hayward Area Memorial Hospital and Water’s Edge Care Center has partnered with the Chippewa Valley Council of Boy Scouts of America’s Exploring® program, which serves boys and girls ages 14-20, to offer a learning opportunity for the Sawyer County community. The program will give insight on the wide range of careers that exist in the health-care field. Participants will receive a variety of information and hands-on

Register Memories 1954 – 60 Years Ago

• The Shell Lake homecoming football game was postponed due to heavy rains.

The homecoming parade for grade school students was held in the high school gym.

McCarty School won first place; Shell Lake fourth and sixth grades took second and third place, respectively.

• Avis Nordin resigned her position at the hospital and accepted the position of secretary in the school office. Doris DesJardins resigned due to illness.

• Meat special at Neil Rydberg’s Frozen Food Center in Shell Lake was 3 pounds of ground beef for $1; veal chops for 49¢ per pound; sliced bacon, 49¢ per pound; and Swift’s Arrow chuck roast at 39¢ per pound.

• Edward Otto Petz, 33, had been eating supper when he felt an attack coming on. He got in his car and was driving up Main Street when he died. His car went out of control and ran into the side of Tomasiak’s truck, which was unloading furniture in front of the post office. Eddie had worked as a mechanic at Allen’s Garage for several years and for the past several months operated the Cities Service gas station on the south side of Shell Lake.

1964 – 50 Years Ago

• Airman 2nd Class Daniel W. Hubin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hubin, Shell Lake, arrived for duty at Offutt AFB, Neb., after a tour of service in Turkey.

• Applications were being accepted at the office of the city clerk in Shell Lake for the position of city clerk for Shell Lake.

Minimum requirements were 33 hours per week with a starting wage of $325 per month.

• The birth of Kathryn Ann, born Oct. 1, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Albee, Barronett, was announced.

• Ronald Theese, who had been a patient at the Methodist Hospital in Minneapolis for injuries he sustained in a car accident, returned to his home in Barronett.

1974 – 40 Years Ago

• Tim Studt, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Rodger Studt, Shell Lake, advanced

experiences in health-care careers such as nursing, surgery, radiology, long-term care and much more. This Exploring® program will consist of six sessions that will last approximately 90 minutes each.

Participants must be at least a sophomore in high school, up to the age of 20. There will be a light dinner at the beginning of each session. A sign-up/informational meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 20, beginning at 6:30 p.m., in the Hayward Area Memorial Hospital conference room.

For additional information please contact Sarah Peterson at 715-416-0006 or email at sarah.peterson@scouting.org. — from Chippewa Valley Council

Compiled by Suzanne Johnson

to the area competition of the punt, pass and kick contest at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minn., following his first-place win in his age group in Rice Lake.

• Shell Lake city police had a new helper to deal with speeding automobiles within the city limits. The city purchased a new radar device. Radar patrolled signs would be posted at all major highways entering the city.

• Members of the Shell Lake volleyball team were Nancy VanMeter, Robyn Melton, Pam Schuster, Mary Tomasiak, Ki Flogstad, Bonnie Haugland, Sue Lindemann, Wendy Zillmer, Lynn Flogstad, Renee Cassel, Janie Dinnies, Nancy Scharhag, Kathy Druschba, Peggy Norton, Terry Erickson, Deb Utt, Tammy Hall, Jacki Leverty, Patti Dahlstrom, Brenda Krantz, Carrie Parker, Cathy Wallner, Debbi Melton and Karen Knoop. They were coached by Joan Snell and Connie Mikeholski, assistant.

• Shell Lake Tuesday Club members modeling fun fashions at the Teachers Tea were Peg Garnhart, Billie Aderman, Lilli Bakker, Liz Fortney, Marilyn Thannum, Pearl Rolph, Raye Plahn and Gina Lewis.

1984 – 30 Years Ago

• Rae Ann Bontekoe was Shell Lake’s homecoming queen. King was Bill Pfluger.

• Bill Sutton, Lampson summer resident, and Debra Friedell, Shell Lake, hooked a 21-1/2-pound, 44-inch muskie while fishing on the Namekagon River.

The two caught the muskie on 6-pound test line with no leader and battled the lunker for more than 30 minutes.

• Deidre Degner, Shell Lake, was the recipient of two major awards at the 4-H Club Achievement Night. She received the Key Award and was selected as Outstanding 4-H Girl. Dave Kempin, Shell Lake, also received the Key Award.

• Youngsters participating in a bike-athon aimed at raising funds for St. Jude’s Cancer Research Center were Gretchen Gerovac, Stacy Briggs, Eric Halverson, Susie Halverson, Scott Briggs and Josh Melton.

1994 – 20 Years Ago

• The following Shell Lake students were enrolled at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls: Chad Benzer, Lance Benzer, Toni Gulan, Keesha Hall, Jason Jerry, Jessica Johnson, Angela Parker, Jennifer Peterson, Nancy Schultz, Jeffrey Smith, Lynn Swan and Dawn Zaloudek.

• Lois and Tom Eichman, Shell Lake, accompanied the Singing Strolling Strings of Northern Wisconsin on a concert tour of the British Isles. Lois was the keyboard director for the group.

• Eric Olson, 19, Shell Lake, qualified to compete in the Central Region Finals of the International Professional Rodeo Association when he finished the rodeo season in fifth place in the calf-roping event.

• Pat and Everett Rounce celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.

2004 – 10 Years Ago

• The Shell Lake City Council approved a $1.45 million settlement of the lawsuit relating to the failed pipeline designed to lower the water level of Shell Lake. The water level of Shell Lake, which has no natural outlet, had been rising for several years, washing out the beaches and lawns of homes around the lake. The city received permission to build a pipeline to take water from the lake to the Yellow River, four miles to the north. Construction of the pipeline began in the fall of 2002. The pipeline could never be put into service due to multiple leaks in various locations throughout the underground 24-inch pipe. New contractors succeeded in making the pipeline workable and the line was put into operation November, 2003.

• Lisa and Barb Haynes opened Organized Chaos, a scrapbook and stamping supply store.

• FFA officers attending a sectional leadership workshop were Keith Mechtel, Tyler Latz, Jeff Hagedorn, Randy Kidder, Emily Bakker and Alex Mentele.

• David Smith, 12, Shell Lake, a recipient of a Class A bear license through the DNR Youth Transfer Program, bagged a nice bear.

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Former exchange student returns for visit

Suzanne Johnson | Staff writer SHELL LAKE — Staying connected to the Shell Lake community through the Register’s Facebook page, Sergio Quaresma returned to Shell Lake to visit his host family. Quaresma was a senior at Shell Lake High School in 1979 through the student exchange program. He made his home with the Bob Washkuhn family.

Quaresma and his wife, DeFatima “Maria,” of Sao Paulo, Brazil, stopped into the Register newspaper office on Tuesday, Oct. 7, along with Bob Washkuhn, Shell Lake, and his son, Bob, Hayward. The Quaresmas last visited their American family in 2010, at which time the elder Bob’s wife, Mable, was still alive.

Both Quaresmas are dentists. Sergio

also teaches dental implants at the university. They are the parents of Ana Paula, 24, and Arthur, 15.

Sergio would like to say, “Hi” to everyone. He commented that Shell Lake is well kept and is getting better and better.

He found both the city and the lake to be “beautiful.”

Enjoying time together are (L to R): Bob Washkuhn, Shell Lake; Maria and Sergio Quaresma, Brazil; and Bob Washkuhn, Hayward. — Photo by Larry Samson

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Thursday, Oct. 16 • Shell Lake PTA meeting, 6:30 p.m., in the 3-12 School library. Baby-sitting available.

Saturday, Oct. 18 • Knit a cabled Irish hiking hat, 9:30 a.m., or crochet the Brompton Abbey cowl, 1 p.m., at Northwind Book & Fiber, Spooner. Call 715-635-6811 or visit northwindbook. com. Preregistration request.

• St. Joseph’s and St. Catherine’s CCW annual fall bazaar, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m., at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 502 N. Second St., Shell Lake, please use back entrance.

Lunch served from 11 a.m.- 1 p.m.

• Theatre in the Woods celebrates 25 years with 25 plays in 25 minutes, 7 p.m., at the Erika Quam. RSVP to 715-635-9500.

Monday, Oct. 20 • Northern Lights Camera Club, 7 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, 1790 Scribner St., Spooner.

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

• Guest author Jeff Miller will sign his book “Notes from a Small Ice-Cream Shop” at the Shell Lake Public Library, 6-7:30 p.m. Sponsored by Friends of the Library.

Tuesday, Oct. 21 • Shell Lake/Spooner Masonic Lodge 221 meeting, 7 p.m., at the lodge.

• Games and activities, 1 p.m., Friendship Commons, Shell Lake Senior Center.

• Shell Lake retired school staff luncheon, noon, Lakeview Bar & Grill Shell Lake. All retired school staff and their guests are welcome.

Thursday, Oct. 23 • The Shell Lake American Legion meeting, 6:30 p.m., Friendship Commons.

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

Thursday, Nov. 6 • Aphasia Group, 10-11:30 a.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, Spooner. Call 715-520-7999.

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

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

Donations accepted.

Saturday, Nov. 8 • Knit a basket-weave dishcloth, 9:30 a.m., at Northwind Book & Fiber, Spooner. Call 715-635-6811 or visit northwindbook.com. Preregistration request.

• Washburn County Food Distribution in conjunction with Ruby’s Pantry, Spooner Middle School Tech Ed Building on Elm Street. Tickets 9 a.m. Distribution 9:30 a.m. Volunteers needed. Contact 715-635-9309, 715-4684017 or 715-222-4410.

• Shell Lake PTA Carnival, 4-7 p.m., Shell Lake 3-12 commons and gym. Food available. Will include sweettooth walk and Chinese auction for adults. To make a donation, contact Tara at 715-790-0822.

Monday, Nov. 10 • Knit an alpaca shawl, 5 p.m., at Northwind Book & Fiber, Spooner. Call 715-635-6811 or visit northwindbook. com. Preregistration request.

Tuesday, Nov. 11 • Moms Club meets at Faith Lutheran, Spooner, 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 12 • Free community meal, 4-6 p.m., United Methodist Church, 135 Reinhart Dr., Shell Lake. All welcome.

Donations accepted.

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

Thursday, Nov. 13 • The Shell Lake Lions Club meeting, 6:30 p.m., Shell Lake Community Center.

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• Playing More, Eating Right and Powering Down Night, 5-7 p.m., at the Spooner Elementary School.

Friday, Oct. 24 & Saturday, Oct. 25 • Haunted Schoolhouse, Shell Lake Arts Center, 6-8 p.m., spooky; 8-10 p.m. terrifying.

Friday, Oct. 24 • Ceska Opera Foundation membership meeting at Haugen Area Historical Museum, 311 W. 3rd St. Potluck at 6 p.m., followed by business meeting. All members and guests welcome. Board of directors will meet prior to general meeting at 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 25 • Indianhead Writers Fall Writing Contest, 8:30 a.m.3 p.m., Spooner Agricultural Station, Hwy. 70, east of Spooner. For more information, call 715-468-2604.

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

Wednesday, Oct. 29 • Free community supper, 4-6 p.m., St. Alban Episcopal Church, 220 Elm St., Spooner.

November Saturday, Nov. 1 • Annual Scandinavian Ole and Lena lutefisk and meatball dinner, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 2502 23rd Ave., Rice Lake. Also annual bazaar and bake sale 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 2 • Jitrnice dinner, Czech pork sausage, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Ceska Opera House, Haugen, 320 W. 3rd St. Tuesday, Nov. 4 • Shell Lake/Spooner Masonic Lodge 221 meeting, 7 p.m. at the lodge.

Wednesday, Nov. 5 • HCE annual meeting at UW-Extension meeting room, 9:30 a.m. Everyone welcome.

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

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Spooner senior class play is “Never Mind What Happened, How Did It End?” SPOONER — The drama department at Spooner High School will present “Never Mind What Happened, How Did It End?”

by David Rogers as the senior class play for the Class of 2015. Performances in the high school auditorium will run Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 26, at 1 p.m.

This deft and charming comedy is contemporary in subject matter and nostalgic in execution. The story investigates the changing attitudes toward young love over three generations, beginning in the late 1970s with 18-year-old Ann, her mother, Donna, and her grandmother, Penny, who was a fabulous movie star.

SPOONER — Spooner Elementary and Middle schools are recipients of a 21st Century Community Learning Center grant. This grant allows the school to offer academic enrichment and What I Need clubs to elementary and middle school students. In addition, they are commissioned to offer a series of family educational events throughout the school

Saturday, Sept. 27 At approximately 9 a.m., Steven M. Soltis, 41, Shell Lake, was westbound on Hilltop Road in the Town of Bashaw when his tire blew, causing him to go into the ditch. The 2003 Oldsmobile minivan he was driving sustained damage to the front bumper and side panel area. The vehicle was towed from the scene.

Wednesday, Oct. 1 At approximately 2:50 p.m., Nathan Couture, 19, Rice Lake, was northbound on Hwy. 253 in the Town of Beaver Brook when he swerved to miss a bear that was crossing the road in front of him. Couture slid off the roadway and overturned the 1999 Pontiac Sunfire he was driving. The vehicle came to rest on its top. Couture

Through flashbacks to the ‘20s and the ‘50s, the interplay and counterpoint of the scenes of the three young girls in different times offers an intriguing overview of young people’s concerns, pointing out that trends may change, but the nature of human nature does not.

“It’s a touching, sometimes funny, often serious play,” says Bob Thornley, the show’s director. “Following the success of the last year’s productions — our challenging class play and our spring musical production, “Bye Bye Birdie,” I knew I needed to answer the question, ‘What next?’ so I was looking for something that would challenge my talented cast and be

a great crowd pleaser for our adult audiences. I’d read about 20-30 plays over the summer, when I happened to notice the “Never Mind” script on my shelf. It’s a play that I first produced in Spooner in the fall of 1996. I pulled the script from the shelf and began to reread it. The experience was a case of life imitating art, because as I read, almost as in the play, I could see my students from the past as well as my current students performing the roles. The play is quite challenging because it intercuts among three different time periods, and often all three are happening simultaneously. Still, I knew that if we did it well, our audiences would

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The first of these events for the entire family is Playing More, Eating Right, and Powering Down Night on Thursday, Oct. 23, 5-7 p.m., at the Spooner Elementary School.

Families are invited to join school staff and community organizations to learn about PEP. The evening includes a free

meal served from 5-6 p.m., displays on fun games, nutrition and wellness, tips on bullying prevention, and math expressions. Power down with a good book, found at the book fair. Get your groove on during the evening dance.

This family event is sponsored by Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse, Spooner Area Schools, and the 21st Century Community

enjoy it, and I’m pleased to say, the Class of 2015 is rising to the challenge of doing it well!”

SHS senior students involved in the play are Jake Aardappel, Brad Baker, Austin Barbrick, Julianne Bray, Kori Cahill, Mariah Carroll, Dana Danger, Brett Gauger, Katie Gobel, Clayton Groehler, Catherine Harris, Richard Lauterbach, Becker Lindner, Alex Mason, Megan Meisberger, Jordan Melton, Rylee Nelson, Adriana Oakland, Annabelle Revak, Dylan Sahr, Matt Slaminski, Matt Smith, Zoe Smith, Kallie Thompson and Julia Vogel. — from Spooner High School Drama Department

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was wearing a seat belt and suffered an incapacitating injury. The accident report states the roadway was wet at the time of the accident and that the Pontiac was totaled.

Thursday, Oct. 2 At approximately 7:45 a.m., Daniel Boissy, 29, Trego, was southbound on Hwy. 53 in the Town of Trego, when Roger Landendorf, 87, Trego, failed to yield at the intersection of CTH E. Boissy’s 2002 Ford Focus hit Landendorf’s 2000 Oldsmoblie Intrepid as Landendorf crossed Hwy. 53.

Boissy’s vehicle came to rest in the southwest corner of the ditch after striking a stop sign. Landendorf’s vehicle came to rest in the intersection. Boissy was wearing a seat belt and may have been injured,

while Landendorf, who was also wearing a seat belt, suffered incapacitating injuries. Both vehicles sustained very severe damage and were towed from the scene.

Landendorf received a citation for failure to yield at a right of way.

Friday, Oct. 3 At approximately 8:05 p.m., William Jenderny, 65, Shell Lake, was westbound on Hwy. 53 in the Town of Spooner, when Gregory Achtor, 64, Hayward, partially pulled into the roadway from the intersection of CTH H. Jenderny’s 2005 Chrysler 300 hit Achtor’s vehicle. The crash involved four passengers, Eric and Rebekah Jenderny, Comstock, Jeremy Gister, Dallas, and Lou Jenderny, Shell Lake. The driver may have been injured

while Rebekah and Lou Jenderny suffered nonincapacitating injuries. Jenderny’s vehicle was severely damaged. Achtor’s 2006 GMC Savana sustained moderate damage. Jenderny was cited for failure to stop-improper stop at a highway area.

Sunday, Oct. 5 At approximately 7:42 p.m., Beverly Stoddard, 63, Cloquet, Minn., was northbound on Hwy. 53 in the Town of Minong when she hit a deer. The accident occurred a quarter mile north of Block Road.

The 2009 Lincoln she was driving was towed. — Danielle H. Moe with information from the Washburn County Sheriff’s Office

C O M M U N I T Y H A P P E N I N G S Monday: First Friends Playgroup open to all children, 10 a.m.noon. Focus on infants and caregivers with sensory stimulation and movement experiences. Art project materials provided, closes with circle music time and instrument exploration. Lakeland Family Resource Center, 314 Elm St., Spooner.

Monday & Thursday: Washburn County Alzheimer’s Day Respite Program, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, Spooner. Daily fee includes lunch, program of crafts, exercise, games, music, quiet time.

Call 715-635-4367.

Tuesday: Women Healing Women support group, every other Tuesday, 4-5:30 p.m. Contact Time-Out Family Abuse Shelter Outreach office at 103 Oak St., Spooner, WI 54801.

Tuesday & Friday: Shell Lake Farmers Market, 2-6 p.m., by the campground and community center. For more information call 715468-7836.

Wednesday: Lakeland Family Resource Center, 314 Elm St., Spooner, open from noon-3 p.m. Kidstime-Parentime 10 a.m.-noon.

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

• Library Fun For Little Ones, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Shell Lake Public Library. Stories, craft and a snack. No age minimum or maximum for participants.

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

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Saturday: The Washburn County Genealogy Research Room, 106-1/2 2nd Ave. Museum Hewitt Building, Shell Lake, is closed. Call 715-635-7937 for more information or to make a reservation during the winter, weather permitting.

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Addresses

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n today’s world we have more individual addresses than in generations past. We have a physical address that indicates where we reside. We may have a separate mailing address for receiving postal mail. We have an email address, possibly one for work and a different one for personal use. When using an address to receive an item by post, we may be able to have it sent to our post office box. Other items may be delivered through another means and that would require a physical address. I have heard the comment, “If coming by a different mode rather than the United States Postal Service, remember, a truck can’t get into your P.O. box; use your physical address, please.”

Some have a summer address and a winter address. When subscribing to

this newspaper, remember to do your address change when you leave one place to reside at another.

Even though the Register doesn’t print the complete address and phone number on letters to the editor, to be considered for publication the letter must contain this information for the editor’s records.

A few months ago, the Register newspaper implemented a new email address, news@wcregisternewsroom.com.

I have had callers ask if this new email will reach the Shell Lake of-

fice. Yes, this is the email to send news articles, news suggestions, and to make contact with the staff of the Register.

New email addresses can be confusing.

Yes, news@wcregisternewsroom.com is a long email address. When you break it down, though, it does make sense in my opinion.

When the Register editor took a new email address I could correspond easily from the Shell Lake office to his email.

One evening I wanted to get a message to him from my home computer and I found I didn’t have his new email address. I took a chance that it was editor@ and then filled in what I thought could be the correct server name. It was only a matter of minutes after typing my message with information and questions and hitting send that I received a

message back. The message read, “Hey, this sounds like something to look into.

Only thing is, I am an editor of a newspaper in Alabama.” “Whoops, sorry about that,” I responded. I’m grateful the editor replied back that I had made an error, otherwise I would have assumed that my email had gone to the correct editor.

I, too, respond to emails that I receive. Therefore if you send a letter to the editor or something else to news@ wcregisternewsroom.com and don’t hear back from me, it is possible that the message has not been received. I don’t know where undelivered messages end up. Do you think it could be the same mysterious place where a missing sock or mitten goes?

Beyond the office door • Suzanne Johnson Area writers corner Old and new Mary B. Olsen ere where I live a big change has taken place. Our small store has become a supermarket. Where in other days a customer or two chose items and chatted with neighbors, now the aisles, much too narrow, cause us to hurry through. We see the need for roomier aisles and a larger parking lot. We have become a mega-shopping center. The old market was modern, but not modern enough.

If we turn back the clock a hundred years, some things would be available to shoppers like the old days, but there would be tremendous changes. The stores were quite small and featured a couple of benches outside where some folks might gather in the shade of an awning or in winter, inside around the pot-bellied stove. The general store was where men might play a game of checkers with a friend, or talk about the weather and the crops. There might be a sleepy hound dog, and some sleepy old codgers spitting tobacco into a can and arguing politics.

Inside the old store you would not see anything like the array of foods items available to us today. There would be no front checkout. There would be a man at

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the cash register at the back counter. You would go back there and give him your list, or tell him what you wanted. Selfservice was waiting in the wings. The grocer would get each item from barrels, kegs, or big wooden crates, or gunnysacks. If you needed a dozen eggs, he would take them out of an egg crate and put them in a little paper bag for you.

No aisles like our supermarkets would be seen. There were no frozen foods.

If you wanted ice cream, perhaps you could have the grocer dip up a cone for you, but it would not be available in bulk. He might have Coca-Cola in a cooler out front in summer. There would be no other soft drinks. You could buy coffee, maybe even ground coffee that he would grind for you. No baby food. No pet foods. No chips or junk foods.

Most people out in the country had cow’s milk or could get it fresh from a neighbor. The dairy farmer would sell cream, and some years later milk, and his wife might make butter and trade it at the store along with her eggs for other things she needed like sacks of flour and sugar. You could buy butter, but never oleomargarine, which was the enemy of every dairy farmer in Wisconsin. You could get lots of cheese, though.

How many aisles are there now for paper products and household clean-

ers? You wouldn’t see them in the old store. The cleaners might be Old Dutch cleanser and Fels Naptha soap. For your bath bar, there was Ivory, and Palmolive and Lifebuoy. The only products in paper might be toilet paper, and often that was not needed, as people had old catalogs available. The grocer gave you a bag for your groceries. He might wrap some meat in paper and tie it securely with string he pulled from a cone on the counter.

You might find prunes and raisins, and canned items, vegetables and fruits.

Most stores sold these products fresh in season, but people used their own canned goods put up in fruit jars from their gardens and orchards. They picked wild berries and used them so they didn’t have to buy canned things. There might be watermelons in summer.

We have bakery goods in our stores, which were not found in general stores.

The farmwives baked their own bread and rolls and made pies and cakes for their families. There were no prepared mixes, either. You could choose cookies that were packed dry in boxes. Cereals were limited to the oats and corn meal, and maybe cornflakes. There were no honeyed chunks of cereal.

If you wanted to buy a can of soup, you wouldn’t find it. What’s the matter?

Don’t you have a soup kettle at home on your range? Eliminate all the sauces and mixes and combined spices casting their aroma in the current stores, and you pretty much are down to the nitty-gritty.

You would have to live without all those delicious deli foods.

You would have instead an assortment of hardware items, like nails, and you could buy a quart jar of kerosene if you brought your own quart jar. You could buy lamp chimneys, and stove polish and saddle soap. You could find veterinary products, liniment and Smith Brothers cough drops. There would be chicken feed, and seeds, maybe seed potatoes, in season, and some garden and household things like a broom or a pitchfork.

Then you could satisfy your sweet tooth with your choice of candy from an assortment that contained licorice, chocolate bonbons, peppermint candy and lemon drops. Candy bars came out, but not a hundred years ago in your local general store.

If you were between paychecks, the grocer might keep a tab and let you pay when you got your check. You wouldn’t have had a credit card, either, but you would have had someone who trusts you to pay when you have the cash. After all, you’re neighbors.

Tech classes and guest author among happenings at public library SHELL LAKE — The final tech ed classes for the current session will take place at the Shell Lake Public Library on Friday, Oct. 17. E-Reader Basics will be from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Tech time will be from 12:30–3:30 p.m. Tech time is devoted to helping patrons on a one-on-one basis.

You may come into the library anytime during tech time for help. Patrons will be

served on a first-come, first-served basis.

All tech classes and tech times are free.

Friends of the Shell Lake Public Library will be hosting guest author Jeff Miller at the library on Monday, Oct. 20, from 6-7:30 p.m. Miller spent years as an international lawyer in New York, Hong Kong and London. His book, “Scoop: Notes from a Small Ice Cream Shop,” is the chroni-

cle of Miller’s, and his partner Dean’s, first year in Hayward and how they are humbled by the challenges of operating both the ice-cream shop and a bed and breakfast. It is also a story of Hayward and how the traditions and the stories of those who built the town helped entrepreneurs adjust to the rhythm of life in their new home. Signed books and samples of

ing locations are available: Siren, private site for village of Siren residents only;

Grantsburg, A&H, leaves only; Spooner, Fall brings many jobs in the yard and private site for city of Spooner residents garage in preparation for winter. When only; Minong, Long Lake, private site for you are straightening up your garage Long Lake property owners only; and for winter, RCC wants to remind you of the Lake Area Landfill in Sarona accepts some basic information on some hard-to- some items, call 715-463-3356 for info. In handle items that may pose problems for some cases, it may be necessary for you residents. to call a private company to chip large Please remember to store paints, stains brush and stumps. Some cities and viland chemicals inside during winter so lages in the region do hold special leaf they do not freeze and become useless. pickup days. If you have any questions Both Burnett and Washburn counties about locations and residency restrichold household hazardous waste col- tions dealing with the disposal of yard lections in the summer months. This is waste please call Jen at the recycling ofa free collection, except some items that fice at 715-635-2197. do require a fee, for residents. Those A reminder/update to all of the resiwishing to dispose of hazardous wastes dents of Burnett and Washshould hang onto them until next sum- burn counties, some computer mer, no hazardous wastes are collected pieces, appliances, vehicle batin the winter months. teries, rechargeable batteries Leaves and brush are collected at and cell phones are accepted a few locations throughout the two- free of charge from households county region, however, most of these at Grantsburg, Oakland, A&H, locations accept only from residents of and Spooner Recycling Site their community and proof of residency locations. Monitors, printers is often required. Currently the follow- and plastic microwaves are $5

each to recycle. Other special waste items such as fluorescent bulbs including CFLs, tires and oil filters are also accepted at the above locations, but there is a fee.

Please call Jen for more information at 715-635-2197, or email her at jbarton@ nwrpc.com. You can also check out the Recycling Waste Management Guide on the website: nwrpc.com. Just click on Environmental Services and then Recycling Control Commission. There is also NW Cleansweep Household Hazardous Waste collection program information posted there.

There are options for appliance pickup in the region. Two such private businesses do exist, call Jen for details. If you have something that is useless to you but may be useful to someone else please consider listing the item on freecycle.org. There are both Spooner area and Burnett County groups, or on one of the selling pages on Facebook. If you need help with this please don’t hesitate to call and ask. I have a passion for reuse.

I am sure most of you know,

Fall 2014 reminders

Earth Notes • Jen Barton

West’s Hayward Dairy ice cream will be available after the discussion.

All these events at the library are free of charge. All are welcome. For more information, please contact the Shell Lake Public Library at 715-468-2074. — from SLPL

but Allied Waste now accepts many more items for recycling than before. They have added No. 3 - No. 7 coded plastic containers, plastic bags and cardboard beverage containers like the ones juice comes in to their acceptable-items list.

This is excellent news. If you have Allied Waste Services as your hauler, or you utilize one of Recycling Control Commission’s 14 recycling containers placed throughout the two-county region, please now include the items mentioned above in your collections.

The Long Lake Recycling Site in Washburn County will be closed for the winter months, Nov. 1 – April 1. All of the same services are provided at the Sarona location, approximately six miles away, which is at the Lake Area Landfill on CTH D between Sarona and Shell Lake. The Sarona location also accepts single-stream collection of recyclables including: tin, aluminum, newspaper and magazines, glass, paper products, and No. 1 through No. 7 plastics. Please, no automotive bottles regardless of number.

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Variety of yoga classes offered stress in body and mind. It is also a nice option if you are feeling fatigued or are recovering from illness or injury since the postures require little effort to get into and generally leave you feeling relaxed and refreshed. Participants can bring a yoga mat, but all props and some mats are provided for student use. Cost: $30/ six classes. Drop in: $7/class.

Beginner/Level 1 Yoga: Tuesdays, Nov 4.-Dec. 9, 4:45-5:45 p.m. This is an alignment-oriented style of yoga that gives you time to observe the details of each posture and balance your effort with ease. You’ll receive clear instruction on what you’re doing, why, and how to modify your postures so you can remain safe, comfortable and make the most of your efforts – your practice should meet you where you are, not the other way around. You’ll learn the importance of a strong foundation and how to access your deep core line and use that to keep your spine and body well supported both on the mat and off. This also helps to reduce unnecessary physical stress in your movement. Students will gain both strength and flexibility, improve balance and move toward a deeper understanding of your self as a whole, which is what yoga was originally meant to do. This class is fantastic for complete

ICHC to host district meeting Suzanne Johnson | Staff writer SHELL LAKE — Indianhead Community Health Care Inc., will host the fall Northwestern District meeting for Partners of Wisconsin Hospital Association.

The meeting is set for Tuesday, Oct. 28, at the Shell Lake United Methodist Church.

Registration begins at 9:30 a.m., and the meeting will begin at 10 a.m. Dr. Eugene Rigstad, physician at the Shell Lake Clinic and Indianhead Medical Center, will be the guest speaker. He will be speaking on health concerns for women. A catered lunch will be served.

The hospitals that make up Partners of WHA of the Northwestern District are Ashland, Ladysmith, Hayward, Park Falls, Superior, Spooner and Shell Lake.

The mission statement of Partners of WHA is the commitment to advocating for the health of communities and advancing the success of local health-care volunteer organizations, through the coordination and provision of volunteer education, development resources and leadership opportunities for health-care volunteers and their organizations.

Any member of ICHC that would like

Dr. Eugene Rigstad will speak on health concerns for women at the Northwestern District meeting for Partners of WHA. — File photo to attend the district meeting should contact Linda King, president, at 715-6356507, by Monday, Oct. 20.

Discover UWBC open house set RICE LAKE — A Discover UWBC open house event will be held at UW-Barron County in Rice Lake for high school juniors, seniors and their parents at the end of October.

According to Chris Wylie, program coordinator, “If you are just starting to explore college options or have already applied for admission, this is your chance to learn about UWBC.” The Discover UWBC open house is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 28. Tours of the Glenwood Commons student residence will be given from 5-5:45 p.m., a campus tour will begin at 6 p.m. followed

by the program at 6:30 p.m.

The program will inform participants about UWBC’s low tuition, save over $8,000/year if you live at home, admissions and financial aid, meet faculty and staff, find out about transferring to a fouryear institution, visit with current students, and learn about opportunities for student life and activities.

To register for the event, call UWBC Student Services at 715-234-8176, press 1, email uwbcinfo@uwc.edu or register online at barron.uwc.edu/admissions/visit.

— from UWBC

State Assembly debate at UWBC RICE LAKE — The public is invited to attend a political debate featuring the candidates vying for Wisconsin’s 75th Assembly District seat at the University of Wisconsin - Barron County in Rice Lake.

The state Assembly debate is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m., in the UWBC Fine Arts Theatre. This debate will feature incumbent Democratic 75th District State Assembly Rep. Stephen Smith and challenger Republican candidate Romaine Quinn.

Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin - Barron County and WJMC News Radio, the debate will be broadcast live on WJMC-AM 12.40 and will be moderated

by Dr. Eric T. Kasper, assistant professor of Political Science at UW-Eau Claire. The events timekeepers will be UWBC profes-

sors of communication and theater arts Mary Hoeft and Nichole Kathol.

Each candidate will be allowed to give an opening statement of up to two minutes in length. The moderator will then ask the candidates several questions he developed and which were not disclosed to the candidates before the debate.

Thereafter, the moderator will ask questions submitted by audience members.

The debate will conclude with each candidate giving a closing statement of up to two minutes in length. The order of speakers will be decided by a coin flip before the debate begins.

For more information, please contact UW-Barron County at 715-234-8176.

— from UWBC

novices up to experienced beginners, and provides a lot of tools for athletes, injury recovery and stress reduction.

While everybody can practice yoga, not everybody should practice every posture or breathing technique, so please inform your teacher of any injuries or medical conditions so modifications or alternate postures can be offered. Participants can bring a yoga mat, but all props and some mats are provided for student use. Cost: $30/six classes. Drop in: $7/class.

Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga: Tuesdays, Nov. 4-Dec. 9, 6-7 p.m. CSV is the only yoga style built to give people twice the results for the time on their mat.

It’s hard, but not overwhelming, most experienced beginners and up can do it.

Movement options will be offered for everyone, and everyone, even the most fit among us, will be challenged to their next level. This flowing style of yoga is rooted in anatomy and physics and will mesh movement with breath, bringing a fluid quality to your practice. You’ll learn the unique golden flame breath to build heat, power and help you to fully activate your deep core line along with the more commonly used outer body muscles. This keeps students activating and moving strongly between poses while holding less tension in the body and mind. All

of this adds up to working smarter, not harder, and transforming one’s inner and outer body fitness more quickly so you can feel stronger, stress free and more empowered both on your mat and off.

Participants can bring a yoga mat if they wish, but all props and some mats are provided for student use. Please inform your teacher of any illness or injury. Cost: $30/six classes. Drop in: $7/class.

Yin and Yang Yoga: Wednesdays, Nov. 5-Dec. 10, 9-10 a.m. This class will blend movement (yang) and stillness (yin) to give you the best of both worlds. Start with active standing postures to build strength and body awareness – proper alignment will be stressed here to keep your efforts comfortable and efficient.

The second half of this class will focus on seated and reclined postures that let gravity do the work for you so you can move your awareness inward to release stress and tension in the body and mind.

Movement options will be offered for all experience levels; beginners are invited to attend. Participants can bring a yoga mat if they wish, but all props and some mats are provided for student use. Please inform your teacher of any illness or injury. Cost: $30/six classes. Drop in: $7/ class.

Heino receives National Merit Scholarship commendation SPOONER — Katelyn Heino, Spooner High School, has been named a Commended Student in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program. Commended Students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2015 competition by taking the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. “The young men and women being named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success,” commented a spokesperson for NMSC. “These students represent a valuable national resource; recognizing their accomplishments, as well as the key role their schools play in their academic development, is vital to the advancement of educational excellence in our nation. We hope that this recognition will help broaden their educational opportunities and en-

Shown (L to R): Robert Hoellen, Spooner School Board president; Katelyn Heino, National Merit Scholarship Commended Student; and Michelle Schwab, Spooner Area School District superintendent. — Photo submitted courage them as they continue their pursuit of academic success.” — from NMSC

Writers to hold fall writing contest SPOONER — Attention, writers! Can you write a poem, article or story that will win a $50 prize? It is not too late to prepare your entry, but mark your calendar. The Indianhead Writers’ Fall Writing Contest is set for Saturday, Oct. 25, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Spooner Agriculture Station on Hwy. 70 east of Spooner.

Any and all writers’ club members, as well as individual writers, may take this opportunity to try for a prize. They can benefit from meeting with other writers to discuss writing and marketing problems and tell about the activities of their writing clubs. There will be three cash prizes of $50 each, for fiction, nonfiction and poetry. This is the fifth year the Indianhead Writers have sponsored this fall event.

The contest rules are simple. The entrant must write a fiction or nonfiction piece, or a poem, on any subject with a limit of 100 words minimum to about 1,500 words maximum. The entry should not require much more than five minutes to be read.

Only one entry per person. The writer or a designated person will read it. Every-

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one attending the meeting will vote to determine the winning entries. The three winning entries will be determined at the end of the meeting. A writer who wishes to enter a story, article, poem or essay, can preregister before the meeting, but they may enter the contest at the meeting. The entries will be read in the order of their registration. Late entries may not be read due to time constraints.

Prizes are to be awarded at the meeting.

It is not necessary to enter the contest to attend. Lunch will be served. Those who intend to stay for lunch may purchase a $5 lunch ticket. Please register for the lunch before Thursday, Oct. 23. There is no charge for admission or to enter the contest.

Those attending may bring their books, photographs and other work to show, sell and tell about. To preregister, or to register for lunch, write to Indianhead Writers, Mary. B. Olsen, 314 6th Ave., Shell Lake, WI 54871, or call 715-468-2604 for more information. — from Indianhead Writers Club

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SHELL LAKE — The Shell Lake School is excited to partner with the Shell Lake Arts Center to bring a variety of yoga classes with local instructor, Lorrie Blockhus, OmSweetOm Yoga. Read class descriptions below to find a yoga practice that is right for you. All classes will be held at the Shell Lake Arts Center. Please use one registration form for each class. Please contact the community ed office with questions regarding registration or further class details, 715-468-7815, ext. 1337 or jensenk@shelllake.k12.wi.us.

Restorative Yoga: Tuesdays, Nov. 4-Dec. 9, 9:30-10:30 a.m. This restorative class will work predominantly in a yin yoga style, which exercises joints and connective tissue - the yin tissues of the body. Classes can focus on working a certain area of the body such as the hips, or moving energy along specific meridians in the body. Postures are practiced with soft muscles and are held for 2-10 minutes. Virtually all postures take place on the floor and can use props such as blankets or blocks to remain supported and comfortable for the lengthy holds, which allows you to just relax. This is a fantastic style of yoga to balance a typical active/yang lifestyle and can help you retain or regain your range of motion. The long holds can be quite relaxing, meditative and relieve built-up

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Free financial fitness classes offered SHELL LAKE — The following classes will be offered next week at Shell Lake Schools. These classes are free and open to everyone. Please register at jensenk@ shelllake.k12.wi.us or calling 715-4687815, ext. 1337 by Saturday, Oct. 18.

Be Scam Aware! Monday, Oct. 20, 5:306:30 p.m. No tricks-or-treats here! Learn from mistakes of others and avoid financial pitfalls. Explore the theory of Red Flags for Bad Advice, based on real-life examples of how easy it is to be misled into harmful financial situations. Find out how to spot a salesman clothed in financial adviser clothing, and tell the difference between friendly and likeable salesman and competence and integrity.

Expect financial consultants Brad Seboe

and Brian Niemann to answer these questions: Aren’t all planners and advisers the same? What characteristics should I look for? And avoid? Is there a place I can research reputable financial advisers on the Internet?

How To Save A Dollar When You Don’t Have a Dime: Thursday, Oct. 23, 5-6:30 p.m. Do you ever wonder exactly where your money goes? Are you worried about putting gas in the car and groceries on the table? Then this workshop is for you. This free workshop includes: Ideas for cutting expenses and saving money; tips for paying down debt; helpful hints for setting up a budget; and living to tell about it.

— from SLCE

WITC benefits from three-year, $20 million federal grant

On Saturday, Oct. 11, members of Faith Lutheran Church, Spooner, and its Women’s Missionary League participated in a food-packaging event hosted by Kids Against Hunger. The packaged food will be hand delivered to the village of Lozandier, Haiti, by local mission volunteers in November. — Photo submitted

SHELL LAKE — Wisconsin’s healthcare employers and workers will benefit from a $20 million investment by the U.S. Department of Labor in the form of a grant to Wisconsin’s technical colleges to address emerging needs in the health-care sector. Advancing Careers and Training for Healthcare is a collaboration of all 16 colleges in the Wisconsin Technical College System, industry partners, workforce development systems and previous Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grant recipients to develop, expand and enhance healthcare training programs.

WITC’s $593,789 portion of this grant will support development of an associate degree gerontology program that will include career pathway options of embedded credentials. Students may opt to pursue a full gerontology degree or enhance other program degrees that serve the aging population’s needs with gerontology embedded certificates or technical diplomas. The three-year grant funding began Oct. 1 and will conclude Sept. 30, 2017.

“The TAACCCT 4 funding provides some terrific opportunities for WITC, especially in terms of meeting the needs of our growing, aging population in the district,” said Mary Ann Pebler, WITC director of resource development. “A growing aging population means we have more families needing services and yet fewer younger community members available to meet these needs. This will be a big challenge in the near future, and the TAACCCT 4 grant is just a piece of how WITC will move forward to meet this challenge.”

The grant will also allow for a significant upgrade of human patient simulation equipment for all campuses nursing labs.

From 1990 to 2009, the number of workers in Wisconsin’s robust healthcare industry increased by 106 percent, remaining steady even during the 2008 recession. The health-care workforce continues to grow, with 387,882 jobs throughout the state projected to increase to nearly 423,000 by 2018, representing a greater increase than any other industry.

The successful grant application comes under the fourth installment of a multiyear, nearly $2.0 billion federal community college initiative designed to increase credential attainment in high-priority economic sectors. In previous rounds, Wisconsin’s technical colleges won grants to expand innovative programs that produce high-skilled workers in information technology, $23.1 million in 2013, and manufacturing, $18.3 million in 2012.

This round also includes a $5 million, three-year grant to the WTCS to oversee technical assistance, professional development and shared learning that advances career pathways across sectors and regions in Wisconsin. Career pathways organize curriculum and services around flexible, stackable modules that progressively build over the course of a career.

“These one-time federal funds allow us to advance a more robust initiative in support of our health-care sector than would be possible otherwise,” said Wisconsin Technical College System President Morna Foy. “In the past three years, the Department of Labor has provided a strong complement to our core state and local funding.”

Wisconsin’s technical colleges received the largest single award and the collaborative is one of the few applicants to successfully receive grants in each of the past three years. — from WITC

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Spooner celebrates fall with annual Jack O’ Lantern Fest Dan Thompson won first place in the pumpkin-carving contest sponsored by the Spooner Memorial Library.

Annabelle Lampert was not afraid to go for a ride on the bungee slingshot. Twenty feet up in the air she is all smiles. The slingshot was one of the most popular events at the Spooner Chamber of Commerce Jack O’ Lantern Fest held Saturday, Oct. 11.

Oliver Schmitz and Georgie Gothblad are painting pumpkins at the Lakeland Family Resource Center. The pumpkin painting was just one of many activities for the children at the center.

Dalmatians are better known for lying around firehouses and riding on fire trucks, but they can guard pumpkins so people can’t just walk off with them.

Mackenzie Leach won first place in the youth division with this 284-pound pumpkin that she grew in her backyard.

The runner is running from something other than the zombie near the finish line at the Zombie Run. Running through the Spooner City Park, a known hangout for zombies, was full of perils.

Jason Danielson won first place in the largest pumpkin contest in the adult division with this 805.5-pound pumpkin.

LEFT: Gracelyn Piskie watches her pumpkin bounce and roll down the hill.

The pumpkin roll is a Spooner tradition and is sponsored by the Spooner Fire Department. It is almost as much fun for the children as it is for the firefighters.

Photos by Larry Samson

RIGHT: Cody Sylvester and Braylee Witt are proud of their kids pedal tractor pull trophy.

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Blue-and-gold pride shines through during homecoming

Powder-puff football fans for the Monday, Oct. 6, tournament braved the cold weather to support their favorite team.

Shown (L to R): Chloe Swan, Emily Swan and Aubrey Rosselli being held by Alicia Meister and Desiree Rosselli.

Showing their school spirit and class pride, Marty Anderson and Linden Nelson were the sophomore cheerleaders for their favorite powder-puff team.

Homecoming Queen Tia Carlson and homecoming King Leo Carillo enjoyed a special dinner while their classmates and the rest of the commoners had to eat the school cafeteria food.

Jesi Sando is showing her school and class spirit for the homecoming game.

Savannah Soltis shows her true colors as she supports her team.

Julia Lyga, Haley Balts, Addison Schroeder and Ashlyn Madsen are documenting their homecoming experience with a selfie. They watched the parade and game on Friday, Oct. 10.

Photos by Larry Samson

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Shell Lake Homecoming

The Shell Lake marching band played during the long parade route that wound through Shell Lake’s Main Street and ended at the high school, giving the community an opportunity to enjoy the music and be part of the homecoming festivities on Friday, Oct. 10.

Freshman running back Grace Anderson is running for a touchdown as she evades sophomore defenders Kylie Williams and Ariana Udovich.

The Shell Lake juniors are the 2014 homecoming powder-puff champions with their win over the seniors. Shown back row (L to R): Bryanna Davies, Ashley Lord, Gwendalen Fiorito, Ashley Lawrence, Natalie Smith, Amber Anderson, Cassie Skindzelewski and Amanda Brereton. Front: Sheri Clark, Keagan Blazer, Lindsey Spaulding, Courtney Melton and Lindsey Martin.

Homecoming is a community event as shown by Ashlyn Madsen, Gaby Norton, Jeremiah Norton Norton, Isaiah Norton and Jayden Hodgett.

This is the first year that the Shell Lake School permitted the country students to drive their tractors in the homecoming parade to show their school pride and their rural heritage.

Photos by Larry Samson

These seniors are enjoying their last high school homecoming. Shown back row (L to R): Sarah Bontekoe, Staci Temple, Courtney Roat, Tyrone Banks, Chelsea Christensen, Dylan Sandwick, Amy Bouchard, Tia Carlson and Alina Mujic, former exchange student who returned for a visit. Front: Danielle Allar, Alicia Meister, Carisis Kodesh and Jesi Sando.

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Shell Lake plays Clear Lake in homecoming game Shell Lake defensive men Drew Johnson, Trevor Anderson and Christian Monson team up to bring down Clear Lake quarterback Mitch Paulson. The Shell Lake defense held strong in the first half, holding the powerful Clear Lake offense to 19 points. The Shell Lake team ran out of steam in the second half, losing their homecoming game 6-48 on Friday, Oct. 10.

Ben Frey brings down Clear Lake quarterback Mitch Paulson.

Trevor Anderson drives ahead for extra yardage as Clear Lake defender Dylan Kurtz tackles him.

Travis Klassa takes down Shell Lake’s touchdown came in the third quarter when James Crawford broke a long run and Clear Lake running back Brandon Aasmundrud behind the line crossed the goal line with five Clear Lake defenders chasing him, at Shell Lake’s homecoming game on Friday, Oct. 10. of scrimmage for a loss.

Photos by Larry Samson

Cross-country team runs and rolls on Hayward course

HAYWARD — “Hayward ended up being a beautiful meet with no rain and some wind, which was blocked pretty well by the trees,” stated Shell Lake cross-country coach Katrina Granzin. It is a meet that is well known for caramel apples after the race, but getting to that point is pretty hard to do. The course has a number of hills that students either rolled or fell down this year. It is not a

race where anyone will have a personal best, but it is one of the best courses for preparing the team for the next race, which was conference on Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Grantsburg.

The Shell Lake Middle School girls team took second place out of eight teams that placed at the Tuesday, Oct. 7, run.

Times were Julia Pokorny, 10:46.8; Meredith Kevan, 10:48.1; Emmery Nielsen,

Shell Lake’s fifth- and sixthgrade team shuts out Northwestern After falling 18-14 one week earlier, the Shell Lake fifth- and sixth-grade football team traveled to Northwestern on Saturday, Oct. 11, for the second half of a home-and-home series. On this occasion, the results were much different as Shell Lake came away with an 18-0 win to end a successful season. Scoring on the day were Dylan Taylor twice on runs from 3 and 63 yards respectively, and Jayden Hodgett took a Kale Hopke pass and scored from 73 yards. Shown back row (L to R): Coaches Dave McNulty, Steve Flach and Byron Hopke. Third row: Brody Heckel, Blake Flach, Dan Melton, Jackson Schaeffer, Jacob McNulty, Sawyer Schultz, Jacob Latz, Koy Hopke, Jayden Hodgett, Will Fisher and Makenna Anderson. Second row: Bryton Summer, Matt Steines, Tanner Smith, Kale Hopke, Dylan Taylor, Tyler Schunck, Isaac Hopke and Nick Eiche. Front: Cade Hanson and Cody Joe Swan.

Not pictured: Taren Farley, Connor Hamac, Emmit Johnston, Isaac Smith and Cody Wayne Swan. — Photo submitted

00:11:58.4; Alexis DeLadi, 11:59.8; Brittany Clark, 12:26.2; Brooke Lehnherr, 12:29.3; Kora Folstad, 13.22.4; Raemie Hammac, 17:11.2; and Anna Klassa, 17:15.0. Times for middle school boys were Luke Savas, 12:53.7; and Logan Kyllingstad, 15:33.4.

Times for the high school girls were Lauren Osborn, 26:31.2; Emma Thomas, 29:08.4; Alyssa Hodgett, 30:07.5; Nicole Mikula, 32:15.9; Emma Crosby, 32:23.8;

and Sabrina Skindzelewski, 33:07.7. Runners for the boys high school team were Daniel Parish, 22:11.2; Nathanial Swan, 23:46.0; and Marty Anderson, 26:04.8.

— with submitted information

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Members of the Spooner Rails honored

Spooner sophomore Dani DeWitt has been selected all-conference for the Heart O’ North Conference. She was one of the top players for the Rails all season, finishing third in conference, regionals and sectionals.

Photos by Jean McShane

After competing in sectionals, these members of the Spooner Rails golf team qualified for state competition. (L to R): Hannah Gostonczik, Sydney Busch, Rachel Johnson, coach James Anderson, and Dani DeWitt, Larissa Schmock and Lyndsey Hanson, alternate.

2004 football team recognized

The Spooner Rails Team shown (L to R): Coach Jim Anderson; Lyndsey Hanson, freshman; Alison Barnes, junior; Larissa Schmock, senior; Hannah Gostonczik, senior; Rachel Johnson, sophomore; Dani DeWitt, sophomore; and Sydney Busch, sophomore. — Photo submitted

Hannah Gostonczik, Spooner senior, was named all-conference for the Heart O’ North Conference for her golfing skills.

Senior Larissa Schmock was selected as all-conference for the Heart O’ North Conference. She was a conference meet medalist and runner-up in regionals and sectionals. She has been a top player and an outstanding leader for the Rails.

Parents Night Shell Lake quarterback Zach Melton stands proudly with his parents, Nancy and Mark Melton, on Parents Night on Friday, Oct. 10.

Photos by Larry Samson

FALL sports

schedule Football Friday, Oct. 17: At Clayton, 7 p.m.

Volleyball JV2 at 4:30 p.m.; JV1 at 6 p.m.; Varsity 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 16: At Cameron Saturday, Oct. 18: Tournament at Shell Lake, 9 a.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 21: Regionals at Shell Lake versus Birchwood, 7 p.m.

The 2004 Shell Lake state championship team was recognized during halftime at the homecoming game on Friday, Oct. 10. The team, coached

by Matt Clearly, went undefeated for the season. Shown back row (L to R): Sam Gronning, Randy Kidder, Yuri Wolzak, Jared Gronning, Garret Knoop, Brent Pederson and Andrew Berlin.

Front: Kelly Kidder, Dan Peterson, Steve Soukup, Dale Marker and Aaron Pederson. — Photo by Larry Samson

For the Skluzacek family, football is a family tradition. Kurt and Paige Skluzacek stand proudly with their sons, Noah and Jack. Their oldest son, Gabe, played football and their youngest son, Mark, plans to play when he gets older. The Skluzaceks own a dairy farm eight miles west of Shell Lake.

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Shell Lakes plays Clear Lake

Shell Lake’s Tia Carlson tips the ball back to Clear Lake on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at Clear Lake.

Caitlin Brereton, of Shell Lake, spikes the ball.

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AREA CHURCHES Episcopal

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

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

Thursday morning prayer 8:15; Mass 9:30 a.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 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.

St. Francis de Sales

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

Sunday Mass: 10 a.m.

St. Alban’s

Full Gospel Shell Lake Full Gospel

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

Celebration worship 9 & 10:30 a.m.; KFC (Kids For Christ) during Service; UTurn Student Ministries 6 p.m.; Tuesdays: Compassion Connection (Men only) 7 p.m.; Wednesdays: Compassion Connection (Women only) 7 p.m.; Thursdays: Compassion Connection (Coed meetings) 7 p.m.;

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.

Faith Lutheran

Nazarene

Long Lake Lutheran Church

(Missouri Synod) South of Spooner off Hwy. 63 W7148 Luther Rd. Pastor Brent Berkesch 715-635-8167 Sunday Worship, 8 a.m. with Holy Communion 2nd, 4th and 5th Sunday. Praise worship: 10:30 a.m. with Holy Communion 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday. Sunday school: 9:15 a.m. Lutheran Hour on WJMC 96.1 FM Radio at 9 a.m.

Sundays

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

Salem Lutheran, ELCA

803 Second St., Shell Lake 715-468-7718 Pastor Sue Odegard shelllakesalem lutheran.org 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 Mondays 2 p.m.

Church of the Nazarene

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

Wesleyan

Spooner Wesleyan

Hwy. 70 W, Spooner spoonerwesleyan.org 715-635-2768 Senior Pastor Ron Gormong; Pastor Brian Scramlin, Assistant Pastor; Pastor Patrick Cooper, Student Ministries; Pastor LeRoy Drake, Pastoral Care; 9 and 10:30 a.m. Sunday Worship and 9 a.m. Sunday School and ABF; 10 a.m. Third Place Cafe; 10:30 a.m. Worship; Wednesday - 6:30 p.m. Family night, kids, youth and adult programming, nursery provided.

Trinity Lutheran

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

School School, 9:15 a.m.

Office hours: Monday Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Methodist

United Methodist

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

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

Sarona Methodist Pastor Steve Miller Sunday Worship 9 a.m.

United Methodist

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

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

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Cornerstone Christian

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

Wednesday: Bible study and prayer, 6:30 p.m.

Trego Community Church

Pastor John Iaffaldano W5635 Park St. Trego, WI 54888, 715-635-8402 Sunday School 9:15 a.m.

Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. prayer meeting; Youth group, 6:30 p.m.; Kids program, AWANA, ages 4 - grade 6, 6:30 p.m.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 Exodus 33:12-23

Matthew 22:15-22

Psalm 99

Revised Common Lectionary © 1992 by the Consultation on Common Texts for

Sunday, October 19, 2014 Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost ollowing directions to get from one place to another is sometimes difficult. Even using a map or listenF ing to a distant voice speak to us on a global positioning

system often creates uncertainty. Often we have feelings of uncertainty until we arrive safely at our intended destination.

There was no doubt in the mind of David for those who wanted directions if a person wanted to enter into the presence of God. It is a clear if/then. “If,” David wrote, “you want to stand in his presence, ‘then’ you must have clean hands and a pure heart.”

Hands refer to our actions and hearts refer to our attitudes. Certainly, the word pure would eliminate most of us. In our moments of honesty and openness before God, we all recognize soiled hands and devious hearts.

What then are we to do if we want to plead our case before God? Who can say, “I am pure?”

Jesus said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” There is little doubt that none of us will achieve a pure heart in this life. Was Jesus teasing us? Indeed not.

In the beatitudes Jesus is talking about how we are to live. And he knew that we could never achieve the goals for Christian living that he was talking about.

So, what are we to do? In the beatitudes he is talking about motives. He wants us to have an inner attitude and desire to conspicuously seek the Lord by reading his word, seeking to know him and then honoring him.

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Washburn County Area Humane Society

ADOPTABLE PETS OF THE WEEK The lady at the shelter, yes the one that writes these poems, Said I would not be here real long, I’d surely have a home.

‘Cause people like the little dogs, they ask for them the most, I must admit, I do agree and I’m not one to boast.

But now I have to wonder if the lady might be wrong, For three of us, yes little dogs, have been here way too long.

I’ll tell you just a little bit about the dog I am, I’m 5 years old, I’m tan and white, I’m gentle as a lamb.

Paco is my name and I like everyone I meet, I like to play, I bark sometimes and won’t turn down a treat.

I have a couple of friends here that would like to go home, too, They are Chihuahuas just like me, they’re also feeling blue.

Miss Tinkerbelle and Diesel, oh please come and check us out, I know that you will love us, I don’t have a single doubt.

Dogs for adoption: 6-1/2-year-old neutered white Chihuahua; 6-year-old spayed brown Chihuahua; 5-year-old neutered tan/white Chihuahua; 2-year-old female black Lab/boxer mix and a 2-year-old neutered tan boxer/hound mix.

Cats for adoption: 3-year-old female brown/black shorthair tiger; 1-year-old spayed black/brown shorthair tiger; 2-year-old neutered black/white shorthair; 3-1/2-month-old gray/white male shorthair; 3-monthold black shorthair; 9-week-old white/brown/black medium-hair; 8-week-old shorthair tortie; 2-year-old shorthair calico and her two kittens, one orange and one tortie; 2-year-old male gray/white shorthair with frostbitten ears; 12-week-old shorthair orange tiger; 8-year-old spayed/declawed medium-hair calico; 3-year-old neutered tan longhair; two 9-week-old female black kittens; 3-1/2-month-old male shorthair tiger and many new kittens from 5 weeks old up.

Strays include: Adult male yellow Lab wearing an orange collar found on Front Street in Spooner; adult male tricolor hound found on Hwy. 27/CTH B in Sawyer County and an adult male black Lab found on Collage Street in Spooner.

Please visit website wcahs.com and remember to spay and neuter your pets. Please drop off your unwanted scrap metal items in the dumpster located at the shelter to help raise money for WCAHS.

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Diane Lynn Estebo Kidder Diane Lynn Estebo Kidder, 64, Shell Lake, passed away Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, at her residence surrounded by her family.

Diane was born Jan. 25, 1950, in Buffalo Center, Iowa, to John and Marlene Estebo.

She graduated from Belvidere High School in 1968. She married John Kidder, her high school sweetheart, in 1969. After moving to Shell Lake in 1978, she began working as a paraprofessional in 1978 for Shell Lake School District.

Diane is survived by her mother, Marlene Estebo, Rockford, Ill.; husband, John; her five boys, David and Beverly, Shell Lake, Joseph and Kristine, Shell Lake, Andrew and Janelle, Zimmerman, Minn., Benjamin and Ingrid, Minong, and Jared and Em, Shell Lake; 16 grandchildren; and her four siblings, Vicky (Don) Johnson, Linda Abramson, Angie Mandzen and Jonathan (Carrie) Estebo.

Diane was preceded in death by her father, John Es-

tebo; and granddaughter, Brook Kidder.

Mom loved sewing, quilting and baking, which she enjoyed doing at home and with others in the community. She always had a smile or an encouraging word for the students at school. She was an inspiration to others and a godly example to her family.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, Oct. 14, at the Spooner Wesleyan Church. Burial was at the Greendale Cemetery. Pastor and friend Ron Gormong officiated the ceremony. Honorary pallbearers were Chris Kidder, Cory Kidder, John Kidder, Chance Kidder, Chase Kidder, Silas Kidder and Blaise Kidder. Pallbearers were Kelly Kidder, Warren Johnson, Chad Kidder, Don Johnson, Larry Graber and Bob Kidder. The family would like to thank everyone for their prayers, support and gifts.

The Dahl Funeral Home in Spooner was entrusted with arrangements.

Perry at Hayward this Friday HAYWARD - Author, songwriter Michael Perry brings his band, the Long Beds, to Hayward’s Park Theater on Friday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. Molly “O” Stoddard and Andy Dee will join them onstage.

“First time I ever heard Waylon Jennings,” Perry recalls, “was on an 8-track tape in a four-wheel-drive truck doing 60 miles an hour down a Wyoming hay meadow.

We were running late for Bible study.” The songs on “Tiny Pilot,” Perry’s most recent release with his band, the Long Beds, are a direct reflection of that experience.

Ranging from straight-up twang to churchy harmonies and populated by characters drawn straight from rural and small-town America, they launch from places like the overpass outside Perry’s beloved hometown of New Auburn, population currently 562, a gospel service in a granary and the kitchen floor of a woman about to drop a world of hurt on her drunken husband.

While the music made

by Perry and the Long Beds has been variously described as country folk, roughneck folk, folk-twang and Americana, they prefer the description given by an audience member after a benefit concert in Perry’s old high school gym: “You sound just like Gordon

Lightfoot … only zippier!” Nice – but there are limits.

“Zippy or not,” says Perry, “when ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ comes on the radio, we sit down, shut up and listen.”

Tickets may be purchased in advance at a reduced price at Art Beat of Hayward, 15845 W. 2nd St., or at ParkTheaterProject.com. Full-price tickets will be available at the door. - submitted

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Wedding

Mya Dosch, daughter of Mary and Brian Dosch, Barronett, and sister of Jenna, married Miles Harris on Sunday, Aug. 31. Many Wisconsinites were in attendance for the festive weekend at Farm and Wilderness Camp in Vermont.

Brian and Mary made pottery for wedding favors, and a Louie’s summer sausage made an appearance. — Photo submitted

Sarona

by Marian Furchtenicht Farmers are really busy with fall harvest. Last week chopping, pushing, packing corn silage in the bunker, combining soybeans, corn, Lundeen’s manure trucks hauling, tilling it in and swathing hay. We were having some good weather for it.

Some trees still have color but are more drab and barer looking. It was a pretty white frosty morning on Saturday. I had 23 degrees.

Robins must be migrating, folks have been seeing them hopping around on their lawn lately. Gloria Frey says the bats are still here. While watching her bat house she counted 18 coming out one evening.

Willie Lombard got home last Monday, having spent three weeks in Alaska with siblings Doriene, Frannie and Ted from there and his brothers, Ben from Menomonie and Andy from Colorado. He shot a nice moose with a 56-inch spread and Ted outdid him, getting one with a 57-inch spread. He reports they are enjoying fresh moose meat.

Virginia Stodola had a great 94th birthday, celebrated all last week. Her boys and their wives and grandkids and greats were all home at sometime or another. Daughter Sue and husband John Thornburg and grandson Matt Hartwig from Okmulgee, Okla., drove up and spent five days. Virginia says she is resting up now. Wishing her many more happy ones like that.

The Steph Gramberg and family benefit held at Becky’s in Shell Lake on Saturday was packed. Lots of folks coming together and working together making it all possible for their special friends.

Marion Reiter spent 10 days in Madison at her son’s who had eye surgery for a detached retina and couldn’t drive. She said it was nice to spend time with him.

There were lots of folks at the Barron Electric meeting in Spooner on Tuesday. Marion Reiter and I went

Dewey Country

together and enjoyed our box lunch, the homemade ice cream and the good music by Lenora Berg and Charles Kirkwood. We then went bowling.

Vivian Bergman took in the football game at Rice Lake against Eau Claire Memorial. Her nephew Ben Bergman plays.

The St. Joseph Catholic Church in Shell Lake and St. Catherine’s of Sarona are having a luncheon and their fall bazaar on Saturday in Shell Lake. It starts at 9 a.m. Good chance to start your Christmas shopping.

Saturday, Greg and Sue Krantz and granddaughter Lainey helped at the benefit in Shell Lake. Sunday Sue was busy canning apple pie filling.

Wednesday, Bobbie Bailey, Mary Krantz and I went together to our class dinner at the Prime in Trego with 16 attending. Jan Sutherland stopped by our table to visit.

Her bridge group was there playing bridge.

Gloria Frey, Mavis Schlapper, Elfreda West and I took in the once-a-month Sarona/Madge ladies breakfast last Tuesday at the Roost.

I see the sunflower fields along CTH B are all brown, sprayed to kill down for harvest.

Cindy Furchtenicht and son Troy Coulter went to Ashland on Friday and visited Casey at Northland while there.

Laurie Frey and Cindy Furchtenicht got together and went out to lunch and had a visit on Sunday.

Sue and John Thornburg and Matthew visited at Anton and Gloria Frey’s while they were here from Oklahoma.

Ryan and Jessie Furchtenicht flew to the Alamo for a few days for their ninth wedding anniversary and were expected home Monday. The kids, Jillian and Jaxson, stayed with Grandpa Russ and Gramma Nance.

Russell Furchtenicht went along with Jaxson and his Shell Lake kindergarten class to The Pumpkin Patch in

Rice Lake. Russ, Nancy and kids went to Chippewa Falls to the water park Friday night and to the children’s museum on Saturday.

My sister, Verna Clyde, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., and her daughters, Candy Weisner and Kelly Burns, visited me Saturday. The girls really enjoyed the barn, cows and calves while here. They went to visit Nell Lee in Stanberry and to brother Don Shoquist’s in Spooner and stayed overnight there.

Sympathy to the families of these dear folks that have touched our lives and left us this past week. Included are Diane Kidder, 64, Shell Lake. Her funeral was Tuesday at the Wesleyan Church in Spooner; Darrell Mogensen, 70, Sarona. His celebration of life was held at the Hungry Hollow Club Chapel in Rice Lake. He at one time worked for Wests in Sarona. Doug Johnson, 71, Sarona, passed away Saturday at this home. Folks loved to hear him sing and play his guitar and he was very active in the Long Lake Lutheran Church where his funeral will be held Friday, Oct. 17. These folks will be dearly missed.

Birthday wishes this week to Don Albertson, Hana Anderson, Jeremy Vogler, Kathy Krause, Joann Melton, Allan Lawrence and Patsy Gagner, Oct. 16; Geoff Hagen and Roger Elliott, Oct. 17; Charlotte Thompson, Penny Jo Stephen and Mable Perry, Oct. 18; Alivia Swenson and Debbie Marginean, Oct. 19; Norm Pokorny, Virginia Sando and Johnnie Patterson, Oct. 20; Kaitlyn Haynes, Heather Ripplinger, Peyton Kooper, Mike Baker and Kristi White, Oct. 21; Lenny Quinn, Hailey Herchery and Pearl Andrea, Oct. 22.

Couples with anniversaries this week are Mark and Debbie West and Dan and Kayla Smith, Oct. 16; Joe and Debbie Elbe, Oct. 17; Ike and Dorian Glaze, Oct. 19; and Allan and Donna Cusick, Oct. 21. Have a happy one.

by Pauline Lawrence

It is Oct. 12 as I am writing this. This month is going fast! Yes, time waits for nobody. It was windy and kind of chilly on Sunday and just a typical day for this time of year. Last Friday night, Old Jack Frost came a-creepin’ throughout our countryside and sprinkled frost. Yes, the gardens got it too, but I do think most people who had gardens are through and glad of it.

A very happy anniversary to Chuck and Kerry Russell as they celebrate their special day Oct. 15. Have a great one.

Oct. 15, a very happy anniversary to Brady and Megan Forrestal as they enjoy their special day. Happy birthday to Brady also on his birthday. Have a great day.

A very happy anniversary to Everett and Verna Lindstrom as they enjoy their special day Oct. 18 with many more.

Happy birthday to Charlotte Thompson as she enjoys her birthday Oct. 18. Have a wonderful day Charlotte.

Oct. 19, a happy birthday to Rachael Spears as she enjoys her special day with lots more to come. Also a happy birthday to Logan Melon on Oct. 19 as he enjoys his special day.

Happy birthday on Oct. 20 to Mitch Beaufeaux as he celebrates his birthday.

A very happy birthday to Sonny Erickson as he turns 75 years old on Oct. 21 with lots more to come.

Happy birthday to Rick Lauterbach as he enjoys his special day Oct. 21 with lots more to come.

A very happy birthday to Cindy Roberts as she enjoys her special day Oct. 21 with many more to come.

A very happy anniversary to Stanley and June Wickman as they enjoy 72 years together on Oct. 21. Enjoy yourselves with many more to come.

A very happy anniversary to Gene and Debbie Quam on Oct. 21 when they enjoy their special day with many more to come.

Oct. 22, a very happy birthday to Bonnie Scheu as she celebrated her special day with lots more to come.

Talking with Sandy Atkinson, she tells us her son-inlaw, Noel Beaufeaux, and his son, Kyle, were up on Saturday to their home where Kyle cleaned out their chimney and Noel got more wood up. What a nice surprise. The Beaufeauxs went back to Eau Claire on Saturday night.

Talking with Myrna Atkinson, she tells us she goes to quilting on Wednesday and then does her grocery shopping. Says she lives a very quiet life. She tells us her son, Steven, was cutting firewood for the winter and the chain saw accidently went through his shoe and cut him a couple of weeks ago. He hasn’t been able to work. Steve’s daughter made the remark that “Now he will have to buy another pair of shoes.”

Sunday, Kevin and Sonny Meister, from Webb Lake, came to their folks and grandparents, Carl and Betty Meister, and enjoyed dinner. I believe they celebrated Sonny’s birthday.

With the winds we have had recently I see the corn is getting white and the soybeans are about ripe, too. Fall is here and time to get them harvested. You never know what the days will bring from here on.

I talked to Jack Soelle to see how he was doing and found he had to have surgery on his elbow and it was slow healing. So no idea of when Jack can go back to work.

Talking with Marv Knoop, we find his son, Mark, is shelling corn and has all the corn chopping done. Marv said he helped him a little with that.

Saturday, Diane Hulleman, had a wedding shower for her granddaughter-to-be, Heather Nelson, who will be marrying Diane’s grandson, Ryan Perlt on Nov. 11. Diane served her cheesecake. Most of the group stayed over at Diane’s and had breakfast before heading home. Chris and Tiffany and their little 7-month-old son, Eli, were to go to Ryan’s father’s on Sunday to help take out a dock.

Last Thursday, Diane met with the Lakeview Medical Center nurses for lunch and caught up on all the news.

News from the Cecil Meltons finds Cecil and Evelyn going to Amos Melton’s to help his son, Castin, celebrate his birthday with ice cream and cake. Vicki Trott didn’t go to her folks’ home on Sunday as she spent it in La Crosse with three others for the weekend.

Packers won! Yippee! Yah, they beat the britches off the Vikings as the Vikings didn’t even get a score. This past game with the Miami Dolphins the Packers won again.

Joanne Bauer is home visiting area relatives and staying with her mom and dad, the Glen Crosbys. Joanne’s honey is in a place near China where Joanne will be going back to when she leaves.

Are you a genius? Read on and find out if you can answer the following without pulling your hair out. No. 3: Tabitha likes cookies but not cake. She likes mutton but not lamb, and she likes okra but not squash. Following the same rule, will she like cherries or pears?

The answers for No. 1 and No. 2 that were printed earlier are 1,155. Jane’s daughter. Jane’s mother’s husband is Jane’s father, his daughter is Jane and Jill is her daughter.

Scatter sunshine!

Have a great week!

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by Judy Pieper

Heart Lake I hope all of you are nice and warm. It was in the 50s as I wrote this, with gray skies and it looked like it could rain. I guess we take things as they come and no use to grumble.

The Weatherses, Bun and Margaret, Tooker and Sue, returned on Monday after a trip to Indiana, enjoying every bit of it.

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have to mince garlic and dry it. Do you remember that old nonsense song about the old lady who swallowed a spider to get rid of the fly? I can relate to that.

I have been pretty busy this past week.

Jim and Summer Marsh went on a 10-day vacation, and asked me if I would stay at their house with the kids while they were gone. Well, Maddy and Olivia are pretty self-sufficient, they even make their own lunches for school, but little 3-year-old Wrig keeps me running. I had forgotten how active little boys can be. And, he expects me to keep up with him. I can’t even begin to guess how many miles we’ve traveled on our hands and knees pushing little tractors and trucks around the front room. And, he loves to ride his bike to the playground, rake leaves and then throw them around the yard so that we can rake them again, push pumpkins from place to place in his wheelbarrow, you get the picture. He is absolutely adorable, and he’s such a good little guy. He helps by picking up his own dishes and putting his toys away. I’ve had a wonderful time with him, but I remember now why God had young women be moms and us oldtimers be grandmas.

Wrig went to The Pumpkin Patch in Rice Lake with his Uncle Aaron, Aunt Carrie and cousin Oliver on Saturday evening. After they saw all the sights and went on a hayride, they stopped by Pizza Hut for supper. Wrig had lots of fun on his evening out, and I thoroughly enjoyed

putting my feet up and relaxing with a book for a few hours.

Olivia went to Superior for a dance competition with her dance class, Your Turn to Dance, on Saturday. They did very well in the competition, taking one platinum and one gold for their routines.

Jerry and Savanna Marsh stopped by to visit on Sunday afternoon. I was so glad to see Savanna – well, Jerry too, of course, but we see him a little more often.

Savanna has been so busy with school and drill since she came home from boot camp that she hardly ever comes up to Barronett anymore. They had been out bow hunting at their place in the Town of Maple Plain, but neither of them got a deer. They stayed for supper and we had a really nice visit.

I guess that’s about all I know from Barronett this week. Stay warm. See you next time.

Birth announcement Born at Sacred Heart Hospital: John and Jill Okonek, Shell Lake, welcomed son Knox Robert, 9 lbs., 15 ozs., 19.5 inches, on Oct. 3, 2014. Siblings are Bailey and Mikaela. Grandparents are Bob and Jane Pederson and Jay and Ann Okonek. — from Sacred Heart Hospital

by Helen V. Pederson Judy Bolterman returned from Garrison, N.D., on Wednesday where she was caring for her granddaughter, Abigail, while her parents went on a belated honeymoon to Glacier National Park. I hope you had a good time Amy and Charlie. I know Judy did.

We have a new employee here. Amanda (Leckel) Williamson started last week.

by Mary Nilssen

small right, before your eyes. He shares his passion for proclaiming the Word of God through his paintbrush. It was a marvelous message. His home address is in Deer Park. He had Christmas cards, alloccasion cards, and his paintings of all sizes for sale.

We had a big birthday party here at Glenview for Andy Wejnerowski’s 90th birthday, given by his family. Food and entertainment filled the afternoon. Tom Dahlstrom and Dr. Goellner furnished the music. Andy danced and sang. Happy birthday Andy.

Mary Odden of Odden Floral in Cumberland surprised me last week with a visit and a lovely basket of flowers. Thank you, Mary.

Memory is what tells a man today that his wife’s birthday was yesterday.

Welcome to you.

On Thursday we were all treated to malted milks at our Malt Shoppe.

Happy birthday to daughter Mary White on Oct. 11 in Cross Plains.

Green Bay came out on top with their game on Sunday with the Miami Dolphins, 27-24. Keep it up.

Aaron and Nick Pederson were home for the weekend. Aaron and Brent attended the game Friday where they recognized the 2004 football champs at halftime. Floyd and I went to Madison for that game.

Lillian Ullom visited Terraceview Living Center on Sunday to visit the shut-ins.

On Sunday morning, Salem Lutheran Church observed their harvest festival with a potluck dinner. The guest for the morning service was Paul Oman, artist and pastor. He goes around to churches, schools, or any event, religious or nonreligious. He paints on a canvas large or

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A reminder, the Flirty Girls low-impact and toning classes are still going on at the Lions hall, Monday and Thursday from 4-5:30 p.m. If you have questions, please call Judy at 715-865-3005.

Have a wonderful fall weekend and be safe!

Mary Nilssen can be reached at 715-865-4008 or upnorthnils2@gmail. com.

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The Stone Lake Wesleyan Church is collecting clean, gently used coats, hats, mittens and gloves for distribution to families, adults and children in our community that are in need of warm clothing.

The collection drive will run until Sunday, Oct. 19. Drop-off boxes are provided at the three Stone Lake locations: Shell Lake Bank, the post office and the Wesleyan Church. Cash donations are always welcome. Distribution for these clothing items will be Friday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 25, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the

tiful fall scenery. They stopped to tour Montpelier, the historical home of James Madison, and then on to Asheville, N.C., to visit with Shirley’s son, Ben Lemke, for a couple of days. Shirley said that the fall colors in the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains were fantastic, and that they had a great trip.

Pat and Doug Sweet had visitors from Georgia this past week. Doug’s brother and sister-in-law, Gordon and Monika Sweet, and niece Nikkie Grzelka were up to attend the funeral of Doug’s sister, Harriet Spangenberg. They stayed at the Sweet farm from Friday until Tuesday of last week.

Mavis and Ole Johnson of Rice Lake stopped by the Sweet farm to visit with Doug and Pat last Thursday. Pat said that they had a good time catching up on all the news with their old neighbors.

Judy Norton’s family traveled from California to attend a family reunion this past week. Judy’s out-of-state guests were: Dad, Allan Strubb, from Mission Viejo; sister and brother-in-law, Melanie and Ken Johnson; Karen Johnson; and Brian and Emily Johnson and Lyle, Everleigh and Bradley, all of Escondido, Calif.

Do you remember that last week I told you that I canned sauerkraut and, hopefully, got rid of the smell of it fermenting in the house? Well, one of the kids asked me how I got rid of the lingering odor.

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Abby Ring, who was originally selected as Fairest of the Fair, will be inducted into the U.S. Navy in November, and, therefore, will be unable to complete her reign.

We thank Abby for the time and effort she has put into representing our county up to this point, and wish her all the best in her military career.

Of one thing Abby can be sure, Barron County will continue to be well represented by Devon. I don’t believe I have ever met anyone else who would be more dedicated to promoting agriculture in our county. Congratulations, Devon, and good luck in the state competition in December.

Gloria Gunderson has a new greatgranddaughter, so, of course, that means that Barb Pease has a new granddaughter!

Tobie Jazmine Kangas, daughter of AJ and Jessica Kangas, came into this world on Sept. 26. Her big brother, 5-year-old Steven, is absolutely thrilled with his new little sister. Congratulations to the Kangas family on their new little bundle of joy.

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Nov. 4 ballot: Constitutional amendment

STATEWIDE - In addition to electing a new Legislature and governor, Wisconsinites will vote on a constitutional amendment in this November’s election.

Question 1: Creation of a Transportation Fund. Shall Section 9 (2) of Article IV and section 11 of Article VIII of the Constitution be created to require that revenues generated by use of the state transportation system be deposited into a transportation fund administered by a department of transportation for the exclusive purpose of funding Wisconsin’s transportation systems and to prohibit any transfers or lapses from this fund?

Transfers to end?

State law considers gas taxes and various driver and vehicle registration fees as user charges to be held in a segregated transportation fund. If passed, the amendment would require that these revenues remain in the transportation fund and be used solely for transportation purposes. The amendment aims to prevent the transfer of transportation monies to other funds, as the state did for much of the prior decade to avoid general fund deficits.

Background

The state constitution forbids the Leg-

islature from borrowing to close deficits in the state’s general fund, where most major state taxes, e.g. income and sales, are placed. Borrowing for capital projects like roads and bridges is permitted.

During 2003-11, the governor and lawmakers approached each new biennium facing the likelihood that expenditures would exceed revenues, and a deficit, illegal in Wisconsin, would result. State officials turned to the transportation fund to erase anticipated budget shortfalls, shifting revenues from gas taxes, driver licensing fees and vehicle registration fees to the general fund. In order to replace the displaced funds, they authorized borrowing for transportation needs.

All told, during 2003 through 2011, the state shifted $1.4 billion from the transportation fund to the general fund. Simultaneously, the Legislature authorized nearly $1.2 billion of general obligation debt for transportation purposes.

Increased use of revenue bonding exacerbated the problem. Revenue bonding increased 26.1 percent from $136.1 million in 2003 to $171.7 million in 2011. Due to the rise in borrowing, burdensome debt service payments resulted. While these payments claimed about 7 percent of transportation fund revenue during 1998-

2002, they represented 16 percent in 2013.

The amendment

The proposed amendment, which aims to halt this practice, reads: All funds collected by the state from any taxes or fees levied or imposed for the licensing of motor vehicle operators, for the titling, licensing or registration of motor vehicles, for motor vehicle fuel, or for the use of roadways, highways or bridges, and from taxes and fees levied or imposed for aircraft, airline property or aviation fuel or for railroads or railroad property shall be deposited only into the transportation fund or with a trustee for the benefit of the department of transportation or the holders of transportation-related revenue bonds.

The debate

Pros: Fundamentally, amendment proponents see it as a guarantee to transportation users that the earmarked taxes and fees they pay are used as promised. They argue that the amendment is needed to prevent further inter-fund transfers that have helped leave the transportation fund with heavy debt. And they point out that a majority of states, including most of Wisconsin’s neighbors, constitutionally restrict

the use of transportation user fees.

Cons: Opponents of the amendment question the wisdom of denying the Legislature needed budget flexibility during times of fiscal crisis that transfers from the transportation fund allow. They wonder whether it is fair to give transportation programs a “free pass” during recessions, while other programs must be cut or taxes increased.

Additionally, some question whether a permanent constitutional remedy to an occasional practice is “overkill.” Transportation transfers could be prevented by statutory restrictions instead of by constitutional amendment.

What’s next?

The amendment has already passed both the Assembly and Senate in two consecutive legislative sessions. Come November, voters will make the final decision. If more than 50 percent approve, Wisconsin’s constitution will be amended, making it unconstitutional to spend gas taxes and vehicle registration fees on anything other than the maintenance and upkeep of Wisconsin’s transportation system. - submitted

Attorney general candidates spar over when to defend state laws Happ, Schimel disagree on whether it’s appropriate to defend voter ID Chuck Quirmbach | WPR news MADISON - State attorney general candidates Susan Happ and Brad Schimel spent some time during their first debate continuing an argument over the defense of state laws.

Happ, a Democratic district attorney in Jefferson County, has said throughout her campaign that in rare cases, the attorney general should be able to decline to defend the state when Wisconsin laws are challenged.

“The attorney general is not a robot.

The attorney general has to be able to look at the law, compare it to the Constitution and determine if it passes constitutional muster,” said Happ at the debate, which took place at Marquette University Law School on Sunday.

Susan Happ, and Brad Schimel. - Images courtesy of WPT Schimel, a Republican district attorney in Waukesha County, has maintained a stance that attorneys general have a responsibility to defend all state

laws: “You’re not a robot when you defend the laws the way they’re written,” he said.

Schimel and Happ revisited the

issue on Sunday with the fresh example of Wisconsin’s voter ID law. Last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the law from being enforced in Wisconsin this fall. Happ said that it was a good move.

“The concern I had was that we had this law going into effect so close … to the election,” she said.

Schimel said if the Supreme Court eventually decides to rule on the merits of Wisconsin’s law, he’d be there to defend it.

“Right now, our law is constitutional,” said Schimel. “The U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t said otherwise. Of course the attorney general is going to defend that, if I’m the attorney general.”

Schimel conceded that months ago he said he wouldn’t have defended the state’s domestic partner registry, but he’s since withdrawn that statement. Schimel also said he’s not sure if he agrees with incumbent Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s announcement that he won’t defend a Wisconsin law that limits campaign coordination with outside groups.

With Voter ID blocked, election officials shift focus to boosting turnout Chuck Quirmbach | WPR news STATEWIDE - Now that voter ID requirements have been put on hold, election officials in some Wisconsin cities are back to focusing on other steps to boost voter turnout.

Milwaukee Election Commissioner Neil Albrecht said voter registration in the city is only about 70 percent of what it was at this time in 2010. That could be significant for Democrats, given that the party

is hoping for a large turnout in Milwaukee to offset Republicans self-described efforts to “run up the score,” or their vote margins, in the conservative suburbs.

Albrecht said the few weeks spent trying to tell people about the now-halted photo ID requirements was a distraction.

“That includes all of the different groups who were normally engaged in voter registration activities. They were sort of sidetracked with the need to get

the messaging out around voter ID,” said Albrecht.

Albrecht and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett are now promoting efforts to register voters at city libraries over the next few days before an early-registration period expires. They’re also reminding people they can register on Election Day and take part in early voting — though Barrett said Republicans have limited that, too, and eliminated it on weekends.

“So the practice that we saw here for many, many years of people going from churches to the polls on Sunday, for example, has ended,” said Barrett.

Republicans have said they wanted voting hours to be the same around the state, and that many rural counties don’t have the money for weekend hours. Early voting, also known as in-person absentee voting, starts in Wisconsin on Oct. 20.

Next governor will face major health care policy decisions Shamane Mills | WPR news STATEWIDE - Whoever wins the upcoming gubernatorial election will dictate the direction that health care policy takes Wisconsin, through deciding whether to expand Medicaid and through potentially changing health care for even more residents under a little-known federal rule.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in 2012, it surprised many officials by allowing states to opt out of Medicaid expansion. Many Republican-controlled states did just that, and while some have since changed their minds, Wisconsin has not.

Gov. Scott Walker first started giving hints about his health plan in February of 2013, saying it was designed to reduce Wisconsin’s uninsured, “but also reduce the number of people who are dependent on the government on a permanent basis.”

Said Walker: “I want to provide a ‘hand up,’ not a ‘handout.’”

His unique plan used mostly state fund-

ing to partially expanded BadgerCare, the state’s Medicaid program, but only to those below the poverty line. Wisconsin rejected federal money to expand Medicaid to slightly higher-income people.

Critics say that decision resulted in fewer people covered, at greater expense to state taxpayers.

“Wisconsinites lost in the sense of having to spend over $200 million in state tax dollars unnecessarily. We could have used that money for any number of useful purposes,” said David Riemer, a senior fellow with the Public Policy Institute in Milwaukee.

The $206 million is over a two-year period, and the savings would have climbed even higher with time. But Walker argues the federal government might not make good on its promise to pick up the full tab for Medicaid expansion through 2016.

After that, the state has to gradually kick in money, up to 10 percent.

In a forum this spring before the Milwaukee Press Club and Milwaukee Ro-

tary, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke said she “definitely” would have taken the federal Medicaid expansion money to cover those who likely can’t afford private insurance.

“They are getting sick and they are getting care,” said Burke. “Unfortunately it’s now charity care from hospitals. That makes insurance and health care more expensive for all of us. This money comes into our economy. It helps to create jobs, it does provide people with insurance.”

Walker nevertheless remains steadfast.

“We’re doing something unique,” he said. “We’re covering everyone living in poverty for the first time. And moving forward, I don’t think people of Wisconsin want us to expand Obamacare. I think if anything they’d like us to repeal it.”

A Marquette University Law School poll found 50 percent of Wisconsin voters have an unfavorable view of ObamaCare.

Another 39 percent had a favorable view.

When asked in March if it would affect how they vote, 45 percent said that it it

wouldn’t.

Another Marquette poll found 56 percent of registered voters support taking the federal money to expand Medicaid.

The next governor could also reshape key parts of the ACA in 2017 through what’s known as the State Innovation Waiver. Donna Friesdam with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute said the waiver would allow states to potentially drop — or enhance — the individual mandate, tax credits, and the employer responsibility requirement.

“It’s a very significant provision of the law. It’s one of the largest flexibility provisions within the law. I think people haven’t talked about it because 2017 seems far away,” said Friesdam.

The waiver does come with strings attached: States must cover at least as many people as they do now at no additional cost to the federal government.

Vermont has already signaled its intent to use the waiver to create a single-payer system.

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2. The decedent, with date of birth September 22, 1938, and date of death August 4, 2014, was domiciled in Washburn County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of N5731 Division Avenue, Stone Lake, WI 54876.

3. All interested persons waived notice.

4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is December 26, 2014.

5. A claim may be filed at the Washburn County Courthouse, 10 Fourth Avenue, P.O. Box 316, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

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(Oct. 15, 22, 29) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Margaret V. zumBrunnen Order Setting Deadline for Filing a Claim (Formal Administration) Case No. 14 PR 34 A petition for formal administration was filed.

THE COURT FINDS: 1. The decedent, with date of birth September 9, 1917, and date of death January 14, 2014, was domiciled in Washburn County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 201 Glenview Lane, Shell Lake, WI 54871.

2. All interested persons waived notice.

THE COURT ORDERS: 1. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is December 19, 2014.

2. A claim must be filed at the Register in Probate Office, Washburn County Courthouse, Shell Lake, WI 54701, Wis.

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Steve E. Raspotnik, Ashland, speeding, $200.50.

Lisa S. Schuerman, Birchwood, speeding, $200.50.

Robert E. Willits, Lake St. Croix Beach, Minn., speeding, $200.50.

Joseph E. Kapoun, White Bear Lake, Minn., speeding, $175.30.

NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that at their regularly scheduled meeting on October 23, 2014, at 9:00 a.m., in the Washburn County Boardroom, Elliott Building, 110 Fourth Avenue West, Shell Lake, Wisconsin. The Washburn County AG/LCC Committee will conduct a public hearing to solicit comments from the public related to the adoption of amendments to the county Animal Waste Ordinance, Chapter 10 Article II, Washburn County Code. Interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard. The committee will deliberate in “Open Session.” This agenda and the subsequent meeting minutes are available in large type. If you need assistance, please call Lolita Olson at 715-468-4600, prior to the meeting.

Copies of the ordinance amendments may be obtained via email: bedlin@co.washburn.wi.us or by calling the Washburn County Land and Water Conservation Department at 715-4684654.

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Notice is hereby given that the Washburn County Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, at 7 p.m. in the Washburn County Boardroom, Elliott Building, 110 Fourth Avenue West, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

Long Lake Township: Vincent Kelkamp from Freeport, IL. To have a variance to have a road setback reduction of 90 feet from centerline and 35 feet from the right of way of County Highway M (normally 133 feet from the centerline or 100 feet from the right of way, whichever is greater) for house improvements. Location: Map #LL 618/Record ID #17822 - 2.0 acres, PT SE NE, Section 34-37-11.

MADGE Township: Debbie Esenther, La Grange, Illinois, and Mark Schneider, La Crosse, Wisconsin. A variance to have a road setback reduction of 33 feet from the centerline of Rockford Road (normally 75 feet centerline or 50 feet from right of way, whichever is greater) to build a 24’x28’ new garage; a road setback reduction of 10 feet from the edge of Rockford Road (normally 75’ from the centerline or 50 feet from the right of way, whichever is greater), and a navigable water setback request to be 60 feet from the ordinary high-water mark of Long Lake to relocate existing garage, and a variance for an addition to a nonconforming dwelling at 27’ from the ordinary high-water mark of Long Lake (normally 75’ from the the ordinary highwater mark) and 20 feet from the centerline of Rockford Road (normally 75’ from the centerline or 50 feet from the right of way, whichever is greater) to square off northeast corner of cabin. Location: Map# MA 758/Record ID#18633, East 50 feet block 3 Rockford Park, Section 24-38-11, Town of Madge.

Casey Township: Mary & Thomas Jonikas from Prescott, WI. To have a navigable water setback of 48 feet from the ordinary high-water mark on Bass Lake (Class 2 Lake) which has a 100foot setback. For an addition for a BR and bath space to rear of existing cabin, existing cabin is 32 feet from ordinary high-water mark. Location Map #CA 846A/Record ID #9181 - 2.07 acres, PT GOV L 4, Section 32-40-13.

Interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard.

The committee will deliberate in “Open Session.” This agenda and the subsequent meeting minutes are available in large type. If you need assistance, please call Lolita Olson at 715468-4600, prior to the meeting.

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Senior lunch menu

Monday, Oct. 20: Swedish meatballs over buttered noodles, rutabagas, cherry crisp with whipped topping.

Tuesday, Oct. 21: Cowboy beans, glazed carrots, ice cream, apple cinnamon muffin.

Wednesday, Oct. 22: Baked cod with lemon, tartar sauce, baked potato, sour cream, garden peas, banana cream dessert.

Thursday, Oct. 23: Broccoli cheddar soup, crackers, turkey sandwich on cranberry nut bread, fruit cup.

Friday, Oct. 24: Pulled pork sandwich, BBQ sauce, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, tropical fruit.

Meal reservations must be made at least 24 hours in advance, call your senior center to confirm. Menu subject to change. All meals served with bread, butter, coffee, milk and water.

(Oct. 8, 15, 22) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY OneWest Bank, N.A. Plaintiff vs.

ESTATE OF EDWARD R. GULLICKSON, et al.

Defendant(s) Case No: 13 CV 120 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on July 29, 2014, in the amount of $97,710.79, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: November 5, 2014, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: By bidding at the sheriff sale, prospective buyer is consenting to be bound by the following terms: 1.) At least 10% down tendered in a form of payment as directed by the Clerk of Courts or Sheriff’s Department at the time of sale; 2.) Sold “as is” and subject to all legal liens and encumbrances.

3.) Plaintiff opens bidding on the property, either in person or via fax and as recited by the sheriff department in the event that no opening bid is offered, plaintiff retains the right to request the sale be declared as invalid as the sale is fatally defective.

PLACE: at the North entrance of Washburn County Courthouse located at 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, Wisconsin DESCRIPTION: Part of Government Lot 9, Section 6, in Township 38 North, Range 12 West, in the Town of Beaver Brook, Washburn County, Wisconsin, described as Lot 2 of Certified Survey Map No. 2226 and recorded in Volume 9 on Page 166, as Document No. 246867.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: N4827 Fairgrounds Road, Spooner, WI 54801.

TAX KEY NO.: 65-008-2-38-1206-5 05-009-030000.

Dated this 29th day of August, 2014. /s/Sheriff Terry Dryden Washburn County Sheriff Scott D. Nabke Blommer Peterman, S.C. State Bar No. 1037979 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 that purpose.

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facebook.com/ washburncountyregister (Oct. 1, 8, 15) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT WASHBURN COUNTY Kondaur Capital Corporation, as separate Trustee of the Matawin Ventures Trust Series 2013-1 Plaintiff vs.

WILFRED C. VIG, et al.

Defendant(s) Case No: 13 CV 19 AMENDED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure entered on November 15, 2013, in the amount of $221,068.79, the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows: TIME: October 29, 2014, at 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: By bidding at the sheriff sale, prospective buyer is consenting to be bound by the following 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.

3.) Plaintiff opens bidding on the property, either in person or via fax and as recited by the sheriff department in the event that no opening bid is offered, plaintiff retains the right to request the sale be declared as invalid as the sale is fatally defective.

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

DESCRIPTION: The North 330 Feet, of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 8, Township 40 North of Range 10 West.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: N8996 Tripp Road, Springbrook, WI 54875.

TAX KEY NO.: 650062401008303000003000.

Dated this 18th day of September, 2014. /s/ Sheriff Terry Dryden Washburn County Sheriff Scott D. Nabke J. Peterman Legal Group, Ltd. State Bar No. 1037979 165 Bishops Way, Suite 100 Brookfield, WI 53005 262-790-5719 Please go to www.jpetermanlegalgroup.com to obtain the bid for this sale. J. Peterman Legal Group LTD is the creditor’s attorney and is attempting to collect a debt on its behalf. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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Shell Lake firefighters talk to primary students during Fire Prevention Week

Students had the opportunity to see the inside of a fire truck as the Shell Lake firefighters visited the Shell Lake Primary School on Monday, Oct. 6, as part of Fire Prevention Week.

Photos by Larry Samson

Students inside the smoke house are seeking a way of escape.

LEFT: Firefighter Brandon Melton assists students inside a simulated smokefilled building.

RIGHT: Shell Lake Firefighter Dave Schraufnagel, right, explains the fire suit that firefighter Duane Halverson is wearing. Other firefighters shown in the background are Brandon Melton, Bill Frahman and Keith Dahlstrom, fire chief.

Haunted Schoolhouse in Shell Lake

Walking to school

SHELL LAKE — What happens when a school is left alone for a hundred years?

Find out at the Haunted Schoolhouse, where those who dare will experience a haunted school forest, cemetery, classrooms, wicked lunch ladies, a messed-up PTA carnival, and you really don’t want to be sent to the nurse’s office at this school.

The Haunted Schoolhouse will take place at the Shell Lake Arts Center on Fri-

day, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 25, from 6-10 p.m., with 6-8 p.m. less scary, and 8-10 p.m. terrifying for braver attendees.

The Shell Lake Arts Center, Shell Lake Chamber of Commerce and Shell Lake Education Foundation will be sponsoring this event held at the Shell Lake Arts Center, 802 First St. For more information email info@shelllakeartscenter.org or visit shelllakeartscenter.org. — from SLAC

Shell Lake schoolteacher Brenda O’Brien leads a group of students who are participating in the annual Walk To School event. On Wednesday, Oct. 8, the students walked from the fire hall to school. It was a one-mile trek. Students that normally don’t walk to school enjoyed the opportunity as bus drivers dropped them off a short distance from school so they could take part in the Walk To School event. – Photo by Larry Samson

Shell Lake School Menu Breakfast Monday, Oct. 20: Pop Tarts or mini cinnamon roll.

Tuesday, Oct. 21: Waffles or Get Vertical Bar. Wednesday, Oct. 22: Cheddar egg sandwich or ultimate breakfast round.

Thursday, Oct. 23: Fruit pocket or muffin.

Friday, Oct. 24: Laker pizza or apple stick.

Breakfast is served with a choice of juice/fruit and milk with their main item.

Every day breakfast is free to all students.

Lunch Monday Oct. 20: Ham or turkey wrap.

Tuesday, Oct. 21: Burrito bowl.

Wednesday, Oct. 22: Hot Italian sub.

Thursday, Oct. 23: Chicken nuggets.

Friday, Oct. 24: Homemade lasagna.

Salad bar is provided daily to all students. All students also have a daily alternate entrée choice of either sandwich pack: PB&J, flavored cracker and cheese stick or yogurt pack: Flavored fat-free yogurt with granola on side, flavored cracker and cheese stick.

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Spooner FFA attends state FFA FIRE! Conference

Flying high

Section 1 State FFA Officer Ethan Dado welcomes Blake Bartle of Spooner FFA to the FFA FIRE! Conference held at UW-River Falls Saturday, Oct. 11. — Photo submitted

Emma Voeltz is flying higher than Ironman at the bungee slingshot during the Spooner Chamber of Commerce Jack O’ Lantern Fest held Saturday, Oct. 11. More photos on page 11. – Photo

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RIVER FALLS — Blake Bartle of the Spooner FFA Chapter attended the Wisconsin Association of FFA Foundations in Reaching Excellence Conference, Saturday, Oct. 11, at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls Campus in River Falls. The conference helps young FFA members discover opportunities in the FFA organization and gain valuable leadership skills. This is one of three conferences held around the state of Wisconsin for seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade FFA members. Over 600 members will attend these three conferences.

The state FFA FIRE! Conference is designed to inform beginning FFA members about the FFA and motivate them to participate in its many activities. Students learned about communication skills, social skills, goal setting, FFA awards and programs, and opportunities in agriculture along with developing leadership skills to help them be effective members in their local chapters.

The conference is conducted by the 2014-2015 state FFA Officer Team along with assistance from the UW-River Falls Ag Education Society. Alison Wedig, state FFA president, along with her fellow state FFA officers developed this conference around the theme Road Signs to Success.

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Not only does this conference help students understand the FFA organization and all its opportunities, but it helps them develop skills in meeting people, working with others an setting goals with a plan of action. “In the FFA, we assist members starting in seventh grade to develop skills they will need for future careers and opportunities,” said Cheryl Zimmerman, state FFA executive director. “FFA develops the whole person and these young members are taking a step in the right direction.”

The Wisconsin FFA Association is comprised of 255 local chapters with 19,000 members gaining leadership for the future of agriculture. FFA activities and award programs complement instruction in agriculture education by giving students practical experience in the application of agricultural skills and knowledge gained in classes. FFA’s mission is to develop members potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. submitted

Cooperatives/from page 1 County Register, would fall into this last other-sector category. This broad sector accounts for an estimated 3,000 jobs, $200 million in wages and almost $1.3 billion in revenue alone. ICCPA employs more than 70 individuals with an annual payroll of approximately $2 million a year.

The 2011 Wisconsin Cooperatives directory lists four cooperatives in Washburn County. They are the Northwoods Medical Cooperative, the Northwoods Wisconsin Cooperative, the Shell Lake Cooperative Livestock Shipping Association and the Lakes Community Cooperative.

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Agricultural and farm supply cooperatives accounted for just over half of direct cooperative revenue activity. Agriculture also accounted for 53 percent of the wages and 47 percent of the jobs generated by cooperatives in Wisconsin. — From UW-Madison cooperatives study