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Sept. 2, 2015
Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015 Vol. 127, No. 3 • Shell Lake, Wis.
We e ke nd w atch • Town & Country Days @ Shell Lake • Sailing club regatta @ Shell Lake • Free community meal @ Spooner See calendar on page 6 for details
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First skydive
Veterans get together at picnic Page 2
Shell Lake’s marching band takes a first
Logan Schraufnagel, Belleville, Ill., recently made his first skydive at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Ill. He is a freshman at the University of Kentucky. Schraufnagel is the grandson of Joyce Schraufnagel and the nephew of Dave and Val Schraufnagel, all of Shell Lake. His dad, Pat, is a past national skydive champion and world record holder with over 9,000 jumps. — Photo submitted
T & C Days this weekend
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Many family events planned for 37th-annual celebration
Soccer season under way SPORTS Page 13
Danielle Danford | Staff writer SHELL LAKE — Labor Day was originally organized to celebrate the social and economic achievements of American workers. Today it is celebrated across the country with backyard barbeques and end-of-the-summer vacations. In Shell Lake the Town and Country Days festival is held. This year marks the 37th year for the festival that has family-friendly and several free events planned from Friday, Sept. 4, through Sunday, Sept. 6. The Shell Lake Lions will be serving up fresh Lake Superior whitefish at the community center on Friday, Sept. 4, from 4-8 p.m. Those with an interest in aviation or breakfast fare will enjoy the fly-in drive-in breakfast on Saturday, Sept. 5, from 7:30-11 a.m., at the Shell Lake Municipal Airport. The Lake Point Aero Club sponsors the event. Free events include the fastest kid in town race, the Washburn County Historical Society’s chocolate fest, a sailing regatta, kids tractor pull and Dean-o-Mite kids interactive fun at the paSee T & C Days, page 3
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SHELL LAKE — The staff at the Washburn County Register would like to remind the public that the newspaper office will be closed Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7. Deadline for all ads and news copy for the Wednesday, Sept. 9, edition of the Register is Friday, Sept. 4, at noon. — WCR
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This year marks the 37th year for the Town and Country Days festival that has family-friendly and several free events planned from Friday, Sept. 4 through Sunday, Sept. 6. — File photo
Washburn County group organizes to shelter county’s homeless Danielle Danford | Staff writer SHELL LAKE — “There is a huge problem in the county that is going on. The issue is that the county is so sparsely populated that you don’t know there is an issue until they show up at your door. People just don’t realize how big of a problem it is,” said Bill Holden, spokesperson for the Washburn County Homeless Coalition. The Washburn County Homeless Coalition recently formed to provide assistance to those living in homeless situations in the county. The WCHC began as an offshoot of the Washburn Christian Outreach organization, which is a local faith-based organization that formed in December of 2014 to provide assistance to those in need. Many of the same players that form
WCO are involved with WCHC. Those include Tom Bremer, district director for the Salvation Army, Duana Bremer, Indianhead Community Action Agency shelter development, Dawn Wagner, of the Indianhead Community Action Agency Connections store, and various concerned county residents. “We encounter it all the time, we have no place to put homeless people so we either have to get them to organizations south of us or end up just putting them at a motel,” said Holden, who is also active in WCO and Ruby’s Pantry. Part of the problem with identifying and assisting the homeless is the difficulty in estimating
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See Homeless, page 3