Scene Newspaper - Fond du Lac - September 2015

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FOND DU LAC EDITION

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L6 CONTENTS COVER STORY L6 Teamwork, Pride, Life Lessons FINE ARTS

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FOOD & DRINK L16 The Green Cafe R2 Brewmaster R2 The Wine Cave

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Dobie Maxwell Kat Reinhert The Spanish Inquisition Postcard from Milwaukee Concert Watch Riders in the Sky

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Fond du Lac and surrounding south valley Where did summer go?

What do you mean it’s time to go back to school?

I don’t know where my backpack is?

Do they still use trapper-keepers?

Baseball season is winding down...and the Brewers stink, a sure sign of fall.

Trees are turning. Squirrel’s are getting fat. I’m not ready.

Although...with autumn comes football season!

Bob Hyland was kind enough to take some time out his busy August to talk with our Mike Mentzer. The Ledgers are coming off a state championship season, and have another team chock full of talent this year.

Do you know the music of Los Lonely Boys? You should! Jane Spietz interviewed Jojo Garza of The Boy’s who have a show slated for the intimate Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake.

Comedian Dobie Maxwell remembers his back-to-school days with a story about his grade school lunch box, and the trauma inflicted upon him because of it.

I remember my lunch box. It was a Daniel Boone lunch box. I wish I still had it. I have no idea whatever happened to it.

Somehow the thermos that came with it survived, and it’s a prized bit of memorabilia to me.

Kimberly Fisher again educates us on wine this month, while Trish has what sounds like a scrumptious Chicken Piccata recipe and has healthy news about spinach!

Jamie Lee Rake discovered a hidden treasure of a restaurant in Fond du Lac...I can’t wait to try it.

George Halas found a new jazz vocalist named Kat Reinhert who has a new album out!

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CONTRIBUTORS Michael Mentzer Jamie Lee Rake Steve Lonsway Kimberly Fisher Jean Detjen Dobie Maxwell Tony Palmeri

Bob Meyer Rohn W. Bishop Rob Zimmer George Halas Blaine Schultz Jane Spietz

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BY MICHAEL MENTZER Someone unfamiliar with Coach Bob Hyland would be hard pressed to believe that the head guy of the Fond du Lac St. Mary’s Springs football program has mellowed in any way.

Hyland insists he has mellowed “quite a bit.” His wife Carol and his son Rob — two people who know him best — concur. Longtime assistants agree.

Anyone who watches the veteran of 44 Springs football campaigns and 13 state championships in day-to-day action, however, would gauge such talk as unthinkable. From a distance, Hyland

exudes that old-time coaching fire and snarling demeanor that brings back memories of George Halas, Vince Lombardi, Forrest Gregg, Woody Hayes and Barry Alvarez.

“He’s a teddy bear,” his wife Carol says, with a knowing smile. “He might look and act hard on the outside, but he isn’t that way really. The Hallmark Channel is one of our favorites, and he gets tears in his eyes watching the shows. He gets emotional for a lot of reasons. He’s an emotional guy.”

Rob Hyland pointed out, “People who know him know he gets choked up at times. He doesn’t try to hide it. That’s

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him.”

He added, “There’s no doubt he’s not as intense as he used to be, but sometimes the early ’80s Bob comes out … sometimes his younger version jumps up there.”

For the record No matter which version of the coach is on display along the sidelines or on the practice field, it’s the passionate and successful Bob Hyland who is running the show. The record speaks for itself — 415 wins, 101 losses and two ties (as of Aug. 21) in a career dating to his first year at Springs in 1971; 22 appearances in state

championship games; 13 state championships; state football playoffs in 13 of the past 15 seasons; consecutive state championships in 2011 and 2012; the Division 6 state championship and a 14-0 record in 2014; four consecutive Flyway Conference championships since 2011 and 29 straight conference victories in that time frame — in fact, the Ledgers have never lost a game as members of the Flyway Conference.

The accomplishments are mind boggling, but it was not always the case for Coach Hyland and Springs.

He and Carol arrived in Fond du Lac in 1971, not yet married a year, with Bob Continue on Page L8

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Continued from Page L6 set to begin teaching math and a full slate of coaching at Springs, and Carol poised to begin an internship and her final year of clinicals at St. Agnes Hospital.

Carol recently retired as chief executive officer of Consultants Lab at Agnesian HealthCare.

A difficult start for Coach “It was rough at the start,” the coach said. “My record after the first two years was 1-15-2.”

One win in two years…it seems incomprehensible in hindsight. The winningest coach in Wisconsin football history had one win and two ties in his first two years of work.

Hyland laughs when he says it now, but it was demoralizing at the time: “It made me question whether I could coach or not. We didn’t unpack for three years,” he said. “We didn’t think they would want us to stay on.”

For Hyland the glut of losses was foreign to everything he had known in athletics. In four years at Wisconsin Rapids Assumption High School and four years at North Dakota State University, he had experienced losses a mere five times.

Members of the search committee that brought

Hyland to Springs were more than patient. They saw overall improvement and reason for hope, even though “the kids hadn’t learned how to win yet,” Carol recalled.

“I said to myself, ‘Just give me four years to work on the fundamentals and we can get it done,’ Hyland recalled. “Our fifth year we went to State.”

Hyland describes himself as a “fundamentals guy,” with emphasis on proper blocking and tackling and devotion to detail and discipline.

Building a program The players learned how to win, expected to win, refused to lose, Hyland pointed out.

That is the tradition he has strived to preserve and fortify over four decades.

“The kids know what the goals are. They know the expectations from the minute they get here,” he said.

Hyland’s son, Rob, a member of the Class of ’92 and one of Springs best overall teams in ’91, is back for his eighth season as an assistant to his Dad. He says the keys to his father’s coaching success are his regard for teaching and his ability to assess players’ Continue on Page L10

Athletic Director Kyle Krueger shares view of his coach, mentor,‘father figure’

BY MICHAEL MENTZER St. Mary’s Springs High School Athletic Director Kyle Krueger is savoring the start of his 26th year as an assistant coach to Springs head coach Bob Hyland, his former coach and a man he views as a “father figure” in his life.

It’s an interesting dynamic to say the least. Technically, Krueger is Hyland’s boss, even though Krueger is an assistant coach and offensive coordinator for Hyland.

“We both have to be the boss at times,” Krueger says with a chuckle, noting that he is in charge in terms of overall administration of the Athletic Department.

However, Hyland is the undisputed coach of the players and coach of the coaches. Everything related to the team falls under the Hyland “umbrella.”

“He trusts us (as a staff) to coach the right way,” Krueger pointed out. “He serves as the umbrella.”

That doesn’t mean there aren’t

spirited discussions and disagreements along the way. The staff doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with the head coach, according to Krueger and Hyland’s son, Rob, who is in his eighth year of assisting his Dad. They view the discussions as healthy and vibrant and undeniable proof that Hyland is open to new ideas and varying points of view.

Krueger has had the opportunity to know Coach Hyland on a number of levels over the past three decades.

As a student at Sacred Heart grade school, Krueger knew he wanted to play someday on Hyland’s Springs team.

He became the captain and an AllConference defensive back on Hyland’s first state championship team in 1983.

When the opportunity presented itself, Krueger joined Hyland’s football staff and has been an integral part of the team’s phenomenal success over the years.

He sees several reasons for Hyland’s coaching success, including the coach’s

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passion and interest in the game, his ability to develop “great relationships” with players, his longevity, stability of his approach and trust in fundamentals.

“The players respond to him,” Krueger said. “They don’t want to disappoint him. They want to perform at the highest level for him.”

That goes for his assistant coaches as well. Krueger and former Springs player, Shawn O’Laughlin, who has been with Hyland for 38 seasons, handle the offensive and defensive coordinator positions respectively.

“It gives Coach the opportunity to look at the big picture,” Krueger noted.

“It takes some of the stress off him.”

Krueger also noted that Hyland “teaches what he believes in,” and he has found “a formula for success that works at the high school level.”

Like others who know the coach well, Krueger readily concedes that the once fiery, fuming, feisty Hyland has mellowed over time. That doesn’t mean the

fire and passion have declined, however.

“In the ‘80s when I played, guys from the ‘70s would say Coach has really mellowed,” Krueger said, laughing. “Each decade he has mellowed a bit more…that’s probably true. But he just keeps on doing what he does.”

Krueger pointed out that people on the outside don’t get a chance to see the real Bob Hyland that students, players and coaches see on a daily basis.

“People don’t see him telling jokes and stories in the locker room,” Krueger said. “Most people don’t see him breaking down and crying in front of his team and their parents at an awards ceremony or during an emotional moment with his team.”

Krueger makes the point that Hyland is not “just a 24/7-365-days-a-year football coach,” who cares about nothing but wins and losses and X’s and O’s.

“He’s a regular, normal guy…an emotional man who cares about all sorts of things,” Krueger said.

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Continued from Page L8 strengths and abilities and place them where they can be the most effective and successful.

“Yes, he motivates them, but he also develops them,” Rob pointed out. “You need a variety of talents to make a team.

He really knows how to do that.”

Rob, who has a degree in electrical engineering, is employed at Mercury Marine as a member of the IT Department management team. He finds time as often as possible when the work day is done to help out at Springs with the high school team, then turn his attention to coaching his son Isaac on the sixth-grade St. Mary’s Springs Academy team and hopefully get home for dinner by 8 at night.

“We’re starting to see some of the next generation (sons of his teammates) playing in grade school,” Rob said. “They want to play for Springs when they’re in high school.”

Sense of family It speaks to the sense of family that Bob Hyland refers to at Springs.

“It is the families that set Springs apart,” Hyland said. “We get families from all backgrounds; there are significant sacrifices that go along with that. We get great crowd support and we have excellent school spirit.”

“Another huge factor, I think, is the Catholic identity we have here,” Hyland said, noting the historic impact of the Agnesian sisters and the school’s core values.

“Just as an example, we start the day with prayer and we say grace at lunch,” Hyland noted. “It makes you stop and think that there is more to it all than meets the eye.”

He also points to his coaching staff as a key factor in Springs’ success from year to year.

“We have tremendous experience, tremendous continuity, and great volunteers on top of it,” Hyland said of his staff.

Among his staff are Shawn O’Laughlin, 38 years; Kyle Krueger, the school’s athletic director, 25 years; and Kurt Krueger and Tom Lemke, each with 20 years.

“They know the goals, the system and Continue on Page 12

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Continued from Page L10 the expectations. They carry it on,” Hyland added.

Not surprisingly, Hyland believes deeply in the value of football as “the ultimate team sport,” a bastion of mental and physical toughness, and a repository of life lessons.

“Football is one of the last places I know of where toughness is developed in people and valued,” he said. “It is about standing up for the person next to you, teamwork, working with people, developing pride, doing the job, and being successful.”

“I really believe that football teaches life lessons,” Hyland insisted. “You are going to get knocked down. Life is not kind… it’s not fair. How well you pick yourself up when you’re knocked down or fall down is what really matters. You have to have toughness and you need to have discipline.”

Support of wife and family With 44 seasons under his belt, Hyland realizes that he is a rarity in the world of coaching.

“To be around as long as I have, you have to have a good and understanding wife and a family that is totally supportive,” Hyland pointed out. “That’s one of the reasons you don’t see as many career coaches any more. Wives and girlfriends just can’t take it for very long…or won’t.”

“To be successful, you have to spend the time, make the commitment,” Carol pointed out. “You have to have common goals and vision. Your partner has to be supportive.” And it works both ways.

They think back to the years when Bob worked days and Carol worked nights to make ends meet and to coordinate the demands of jobs, family and child care.

They remember when their son Rob and their daughter Molly were “little kids” and spent hours playing near the practice field as their Dad fumed, yelled, corrected and coached his teams.

Bob and Carol laugh now — they didn’t when it happened all those years ago — when they recall the day Molly wandered into a nearby cornfield and got hopelessly stuck in the mud. Assistant coach Shawn O’Laughlin heard her calling for help after practice was over, searched for her and pulled her out. Her shoes remained behind.

Thankful for the rewards “Springs has been wonderful to us,”

Carol said, noting that there have been sacrifices and struggles, and lots of good times.

“We love our life here. I give credit to the men who brought Bob here and gave him the chance.”

“One of my proudest moments was seeing Bob selected as Coach of the Year and Rob as Player of the Year (in Wisconsin) in the same year (1991),” she said.

And she says it’s uplifting when players from a year ago or 10 years or 30 or more approach her husband and tell him the positive impact he has had on their lives.

Football ‘safer than ever’

Despite societal concerns about concussions and injuries, trends toward specialization by high school athletes and the competition for players in other sports, Hyland views the future of football as “very bright.”

“High school football is safer than it’s ever been,” he said. “We’re teaching the fundamentals better. Coaches are better educated. The equipment is much better.”

Hyland has given no serious thought to retirement, even though he has notched his 68th birthday.

He has two grandsons he would like to coach before he hangs up his whistle, and a granddaughter he would like to coach in

track.

Peyton is in eighth grade, Isaac is in sixth, and Brody, who is sometimes referred to as “Little Bob,” is in third.

If all goes according to plan and coaching still trips his trigger, Hyland will be on the sidelines for Brody’s final game as a Ledger in 2024. The Coach would be 77 years old with 54 seasons at the Springs helm to his credit. A championship game would be the ultimate icing on the cake.

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FOOD & DRINK // THE GREEN CAFE

A Taste For It

BY JAMIE LEE RAKE The friend who met me to eat at The Green Cafe (inside Just B Still Massage Studio,1211 Rickmeyer Dr. Suite, A, Fond du Lac, near Menard’s) remarked that the place almost looks too fancy to eat there.

Classy locale though it is, it would be a shame to not grab a bite there should you find yourself in mind of darkening its door.

Their name derives more from a commitment to ecological and nutritional healthiness than the colors of its decor.

There’s really hardly any green to be seen amid the cafe’s elegantly minimal decor, but the quality of what’s served here may inspire another kind of green among other restauranteurs...that of jealousy wishing they could offer food as unique and scrumptious. That most other eateries don’t have their own gardens from which to

obtain some of their ingredients, as does The Green Cafe, may inspire some envy as well.

My guess is that at least the organic mixed greens in my recent supper there came from the plot out back of the cafe.

They comprised but one element of the chicken salad...Lady Anabella’s chicken salad no less, between the ninegrain, sesame seed-topped bread slices

filling a hearty sandwich.

Also intermingling with those greens and breast of free-range fowl are cranberries, walnuts, and chunks of celery, red onion and apple. You don’t even need mayo what with the moisture from all that juicy produce mixing with the meat. None was listed on the menu, so here’s assuming there wasn’t. And the flavor combination is no lesser for its absence. The salubrious salad may also be had inside a whole wheat tortilla as a wrap, but why not go for the eight other grains, I say.

In case you’re a guy reading this, note that most every sandwich here has a femi-

chain pizzeria offerings know that Margherita’s is not only another gal’s moniker, but also that of an actually Mediterranean style of ‘za.

Adding to the international flair of Green Cafe’s iteration, it’s not only folded in the manner of the Japanese paper sculpture for which it’s named; it’s also made not with traditional crust, but a thin type of naan, the soft flat bread native to India.

Here’s it’s prepared with garlic, complementing the Margherita’s usual combo of basil pesto, olive oil, tomato and mozzarella sourced from Wisconsin’s own Grande Cheese company. My friend had a bit of a

scare with the pine nuts in the pesto, allergic as he is to most nut meats, but he was fine.

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But don’t let it be a threat to your masculinity! My dining companion, also male, was amply satisfied with his Margherita orgigami pizza. Lovers of the savory Italian pie who’ve not let their tastebuds succumb to

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entree’, I may know what I’ll be ordering upon my next visit. And, Lord willing there will be numerous visits to come.

But back to my fare.

Offered to me as a side to accompany my sandwich were chips of white potato, sweet potato or root veggies or a carrot salad. On the right day one can get all those fried crunchies at the Aldi’s not

far from the cafe, so of course, culinary adventurer that I endeavor to be, the other option was the one for me. Orange, purple and brown tubers, the latter of which I mistook for shoestring potatoes, basked in a piquantly sweet marinade, making for a fine textural complement to my sandwich.

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You can choose from several hormone-free beef, tuna, salmon, a walnut meal patty and a couple kinds of vegan burgers. Top any of them with one of four cheeses, up to three of nine toppings, one of a quartet of chip varieties on the side, and one of nearly a dozen condiments (only 50 cents each for those with especially saucy tastes).

Soups and salads will have to wait for future meals, but I did splurge for dessert. Though caramels, ice cream and super fruits made with dark chocolate were all tempting, I followed through on the suggestion of our greeter, experiencing her first day on the job, and went with her suggestion among the four smoothies offered. She said the Power Packed Protein Smoothie “tastes just like dessert.” But it’s a decidedly adult dessert, with a combo of ginger, cinnamon, cardamon and nutmeg adding a bite after the smoother initial hit of almond butter, banana and vanilla yogurt. And speaking of that last ingredient, one of my future trips back will have to be for breakfast, as the yogurt delight, topped with ground flax seeds and fresh fruit looks to give McDonald’s a run for its own fruity, granola-laden parfait for which I have a fondness (don’t judge!).

The Green Cafe’s complimentary water is special and fancy as anything else there too. Mint and lavender subtly infused our H2O, but the plants inside the decanter change from day to day.

As I said, I want to go back. And even if you care not a whit for the state of the planet nor the purity of what goes down your gullet, it’s tough not to appreciate The Green Cafe’s care and tastiness.

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FOOD & DRINK // BREWMASTER

FARM GIRL SAISON

Lift Bridge Brewing Company, 1900 Tower Drive West, Stillwater, Minnesota

BY STEVE LONSWAY As the Mile of Music 3 slowly fades, all who participated are left with many fond memories of another successful year. The Stone Arch Brew crew is also left with the deepest of gratitude for all the support our brand received during this epic event. And thanks to the band Ruben, we were also left with several 16 ounce cans of Farm Girl, a Saison brewed by Lift Bridge Brewing Company out of Stillwater, Minnesota.

Unfortunately this beer isn’t yet available in our market, but we thought the gesture itself was worth the story. Besides, The Twin Cities is only a short, beautiful drive away.

The Stone Arch team invited a few of our spouses into this tasting circle and their feedback on the beer was also recorded and used in these findings.

We poured the beers cold into standard pint glasses for all of us to enjoy. The hazy gold color reminded some of lemonade.

It was effervescent, and produced a nice thick, dense foam head which added to its appearance. As we brought this libation to our collective noses the following terms were used to describe the sweet aromas that were released; floral, lemony, pleasant citrus, fresh hay, yeasty, and orange peel which was an ingredient used in the brewing process. A sharp Belgian yeast scent was quite prominent and very enticing. All in all, quite pleasing and true to style.

The flavors discovered were abundant.

Spicy with hints of clove, allspice, cinnamon and orange all balanced very well with what is perceived as a light bodied malt profile. Its crisp invasion on the tongue left a bit of a chalky note that gives way to more orange peel and obvious Belgian yeast flavors that round out perfectly. The finish is very clean, candy-sweet and leaves a bit of acidity on the palate.

This beer would pair very nicely with a cold, crisp summer salad or a freshly grilled slab of Mahi Mahi. We see this

beer as a really good fit to any and all of summers activities from a relaxing paddle downstream to enjoyment around a crackling camp fire. Its 5.8% is nothing to shake a stick at either so as always, enjoy in moderation. When pairing this beer to music, pop in a disc of the band Ruben, set the volume at around 70% and enjoy the audio and flavor invasion, you won’t regret it!

Onto the Lift Bridge Brewery. Located about 25 minutes east of the Twin Cities this brewery and tap room is far away from the bustling city life we all know.

With hours of visit primarily evenings and weekend days, a simple call ahead to their toll free number of (888) 430-2337 is recommended. Quite often your visit will be met with a freshly tapped firkin of real ale pulled through a traditional beer engine, which in our eyes is as natural as it gets.

FINAL WORD: A great brew as the autumn sets in upon us.

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FOOD & DRINK // THE WINE CAVE

Harvest of Grapes to Glass

BY KIMBERLY FISHER

Fall is upon us and it is this season that starts the harvest of grapes to glass. Have you ever thought about the lifecycle of a vine or how long it takes to get grapes to make that wonderful transition from vineyard to glass?

The physical structure of the vine as cultivated. It consists of a single trunk that connects its underground root system to the above ground structure of branches, shoots and leaves. The root system continues to grow and spread throughout the lifetime of the vine, and is capable of pulling water and nutrients from soil deep below the surface. The trunk thickens slowly with time, growing from a slender stick to a gnarled, tree-like pillar after many years.

In nature, grapes propagate by producing seeds. The skin and pulp of the grape are designed to protect the seed from damage and nourish it while it matures.

A newly planted vine will produce grapes during its first or second season, but the clusters are usually considered substandard. It is isn’t until its third year, which is sometimes called “third leaf,” that the vine begins to produce good fruit and it is common to say, that after six years, the grapevine develops to the point where its fruit is at its optimal quality level. It will then produce its best grapes for a decade or more.

The annual growth cycle of a vine is most successful in temperate climates.

The cycle begins in the spring, once temperatures start to get up above 50 degrees F (10 degrees C). Tiny shoots emerge on the

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branches which we call “bud break.” As the shoots begin to grow and strengthen, leaves begin to develop. Once the leaves appear, photosynthesis can begin and the plant can take in energy directly from the sun.

Flowering is the next phase and takes 40-80 days after bud break. Clusters of tiny flowers appear at intervals and for every flower that is fertilized, it will become a grape. The transition from flower to berry is called “berry set” or “fruit set.”

As the berries start to mature in size over the next three months, a process called “veraison” takes place. It is most noticeable in red grapes which begin to take on color.

White grapes also change in appearance, remaining green, but become translucent or golden.

Harvest takes place a month or two

after veraison. When the grapes are ripe in terms of sugar levels and physiological maturity which translates into tannin, color, and flavor, and aromas become fully formed in the grapes resulting in the wine.

Time from bud break to harvest is normally around 140-160 days but can be as short as 110 days or as long as 200 days.

We are at the point of harvest in many countries where the aromas of crushed grapes fill the air. What an incredible aroma and what a journey the grape and grapevine together take.

The end result is a delicious glass of red or white that fits your occasion or your budget.

Kimberly Fisher is Director of Fine Wine Sales for Badger Liquor & Spirits

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ENTERTAINMENT // DOBIE MAXWELL

Back-To-School Lunch

BY DOBIE MAXWELL

September is back to school month, and that makes memories come flooding back annually for those of us who did indeed attend an actual school. I am of a generation that did not yet know of the now all too frighteningly common concept of home schooling, so forgive me if I frown upon that idea without having personally experienced it. I think kids need to mingle with their peers.

Home life comes with its own unique set of politics and dysfunction, and mine happened to be off the charts. I was raised by my grandparents, which in my day was not nearly as common as it is today. It wasn’t common in my circle at all, as I was the only kid I knew who had it going on.

There’s an extra layer of difficulty in that situation on multiple levels. First, they were on to all the tricks my father and uncle pulled during their childhoods so that made them suspicious of me before I even did anything. They had seen it all before, and I was guilty until proven innocent.

Secondly, they were of the generation before the one of all the parents of kids my age, so they looked down on all the parents of my friends as inexperienced, naïve and ungrateful spoiled brats for not having lived through The Great Depression. That was their generation’s common bond.

I learned quickly that since they were forced to suffer their way through The Great Depression against their will, I would have to join them throughout my entire childhood and relive it all over again vicariously on a daily basis. They weren’t about to waste penny one on anything frivolous, kid friendly or fun, so I knew early I would be in for an uphill battle with nobody in my corner.

This is where my school lunch connection kicks in. For whatever reason, Silver Spring School in Milwaukee did not have a school lunch program when it first opened.

I think I was in fourth or fifth grade when they tore down the old school and built a new one, and we were all excited to be in a spanking new facility. It looked and

smelled new, but they still had some bugs to work out.

Until the cafeteria was finished, we all had to bring our lunch to school. This is where I learned all about social intercourse and status, as in who the cool kids were and who was destined for the unwanted ugly fate of perpetual mock-a-tude. I soon became the king of everything out of style.

Parents can be painfully unaware of styles and trends of their children, but grandparents are on a completely different planet. They have no clue what cool is, nor do they care. They think all of their generation’s references are still fresh, and they make no effort whatsoever to get current.

From day one, I begged them for a lunch box. All the cool kids had lunchboxes, and they were just as cool. For boys, the highly desirables included Batman, Spiderman, G.I. Joe, Scooby Doo, Dukes of Hazzard, Green Bay Packers and maybe Charlie Brown. Everything else was mocked.

For girls as I recall, it was Barbie, Raggedy Ann, Josie and the Pussycats and it was also fine to have a Scooby Doo or Charlie Brown. I didn’t pay much attention to the girls then, and they have long since returned that favor – but that’s another tale for another time. Back to lamenting lunch.

Grandma and Gramps wouldn’t hear of buying me a lunch box, as they said I didn’t need one. I guess nobody really needs one, but what’s wrong with being in the incrowd for a change? I only wanted to be like the other kids, but they made it seem like I was asking to revoke my citizenship.

What really welds the pain and embarrassment permanently into the deepest and most sensitive inner core fiber of my being is how they vehemently refused to purchase lunch bags. They could not comprehend why any sane human would part with perfectly good cash money for paper bags in which to haul a kid’s lunch to school. It was like the stock market was crashing all over again.

I figured out what the actual cost per bag was and it came out to a whopping three whole cents. If I didn’t know better I’d have thought I asked for a new Cadillac

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and a bag of gold doubloons.

“THREE CENTS A BAG?” Grandma yelped. “We are NOT the J.P. Morgans.”

I had no idea who she was talking about. The only person I knew with that name was a panelist on The Gong Show.

“There is NO need to spend three cents each for a lunch bag. I’ll use the bags we get for free at the grocery store instead.”

Hey great! Now there’s a prudent solution. Pay absolutely zero mind that those enormous bags are only about fifty to one hundred times bigger than any grade school kid would ever happen to need at any time except for maybe a young Andre The Giant. You saved three cents. Yahoo!

Just drop my little peanut butter sandwich in that bag, and I’ll wait for the echo. Then plop my tangerine in after that.

And don’t forget my bag of plain, no name potato chips. God forbid I may enjoy some barbecue flavor chips or maybe even some snack with a brand name like Doritos or Fritos or Cheetos. Anything with an ‘itos’ on the end of it would have been a minor miracle.

Then, why don’t you take that gigantic paper bag and roll it over about six hundred times, and I’ll drag it to the playground like Christ carrying the cross? Then I’ll get to school and have to be mocked for the rest of my days. This was a fate I was not willing to accept so I pushed back. For the first time I ever remembered, Grandma and Gramps agreed to something I really wanted.

Unfortunately, grandparents live in their own world. They didn’t take time to ask what kind of a lunch box I might want.

They went to a store of their own volition, and I would bet dollars to donuts it had the word “Mart” somewhere in the title.

They probably had a coupon they clipped out of the newspaper, and I’m sure there was some kind of closeout “everything must go” sale.

There was no fanfare whatsoever, nor was there any gift wrap. They came home one day and my icy German grandmother personally presented me with what I had whined about for so long.

“You wanted a lunch box,” she said

matter of factly. “Well, here is your lunch box. It’s the last one you will ever get, so quit bothering us and live your life.”

I was overjoyed for all of about five seconds until the picture on the lunch box gave me a swift kick directly in the groin of my heart.

I am the only child I have ever met – and I’ve met a lot of children and former children in my day – that had to suffer through my formative years with a…and it still makes my snot curdle… Winnie the Pooh lunch box. I couldn’t have done any worse except for maybe if there had been a Hitler thermos. I knew I would hate it, but I also knew there was no turning back.

This was it.

The kids at my school could not have been any more cruel. My new nickname was of course a combination of “Pooh,” “Mr. Pooh” and “Permanently Ostracized Leper.”

“You wanted a lunchbox.” Grandma said sternly. “And you’re going to use it every day.”

I’m surprised she didn’t make me take it to church and pack me a lunch for Sunday school too.

That lunch box was the source of torture for the rest of the school year. I remember taking it as soon as summer vacation came and bashing it with my Louisville Slugger baseball bat. After that I rode over it with my bike. Then I stomped on it with both feet. Then I threw it in the street and let the garbage truck run over it.

When I was finally done, it was a twisted piece of useless metal.

That damn lunch box was only one of many torturous memories of my childhood, and it comes back to haunt me every year around this time when I see the “Back to School” ads everywhere.

To make it worse, I peeked at Ebay to see what Winnie The Pooh lunch boxes were going for. I saw one for $275 and another for $325. In retrospect I guess I was home schooled after all.

Dobie Maxwell is a stand up comedian and writer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To see him on stage at his next hell-gig, visit dobiemaxwell.com

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NEWS & VIEWS // MEDIA RANTS

Fox’s Frankenstein & the Sandman

BY TONY PALMERI I’ve been following presidential elections closely since 1976 when I was a high school sophomore.

As the first postWatergate national election, the 1976 contest sparked our still intense infatuation with outsider candidates ready to clean up Washington.

Affable peanut farmer and former Georgia G o v e r n o r Ji m m y Carter cultivated the outsider persona perfectly against incumbent President Gerald Ford. Ford was a 13-term congressman, the only man ever to serve as Vice President and President without receiving any popular or Electoral College votes, and pardoned Richard Nixon; Ford was about as ‘insider’ as a candidate could get.

The outsider/insider dialectic has framed every presidential election since, especially in the primary and caucus season. Today, every Republican seeking the White House is running as a Washington outsider, charged up to take on Hillary “the ultimate insider” Clinton. Even the Democratic challenger’s to the former first lady tout themselves as outsiders.

For most of the summer, the presidential political scene has been dominated by two self-described outsiders: billionaire Donald Trump on the Republican side and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democrats. In different ways, both campaigns have exposed the moral bankruptcy of the mainstream media.

The Donalds’ “Trump-a-palooza” campaign tour is like legendary American Idol contestant William Hung’s music: so awful that it actually becomes entertaining in its awfulness. Or for those old enough to remember the generous and kind kid Richie Rich comic book character, Trump is like what would happen if that kid grew

up and became a total asshole. Often he’s like an unfiltered Nixon, as in his conversation with Maureen Dowd: The nice thing about Twitter, in the old days when I got attacked it would take me years to get even with somebody, now when I’m attacked I can do it instantaneously, and it has a lot of power. How’s that for a great role model for the youth of America?

Trump’s been in the mainstream media spotlight for a long time, but the fact that he can be taken seriously as a political candidate is unquestionably because of Fox News. His brand of highly personalized, black or white babbling, delivered in a slash and burn rhetorical style, generates great ratings for a news network that prides itself on being a platform for over-thetop wing nut characters. And that’s why Trump’s public spat with Fox after Megyn Kelly’s reasonable question to him about his history of misogyny and sexism was so amusing: without such a vulgar history, would Trump even be in the media spotlight to begin with? Not surprisingly, Fox viewership largely sided with Trump in the spat.

Donald Trump is Fox’s Frankenstein.

Yes, Fox has historically served as a forum for many monsters, but usually they’re content to go after single mothers, AfricanAmerican teens, liberal Democrats, and undocumented immigrants. The Trumpenstein monster on the other hand, appears poised to wreck the entire Republican establishment. Sure, it’s hilarious to watch Trumpenstein smack down Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and others in the GOP’s motley candidate crew of empty suits, lame brains, and lightweights; but as Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi argues, the end result is that candidates have had to resort to increasingly bizarre tactics in order to win press attention. It’s not pretty, yet there’s not one network news anchor with the moral authority to call out the nonsense.

So what about the Democrats? When Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren declined to run, and with former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley failing to spark enthusiasm, it looked like Hillary Clinton might make it through the caucus and primary season unscathed except for the predictable GOP trolling about Benghazi,

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emails, etc.

But then...Enter Sandman. Bernie Sanders, the 73-year-old Senator from Vermont who represents the democratic wing of the Democratic Party, and articulates a vision of an America of, by and for the people instead of the one-percent, met record crowds in city after city. Rocker Neil Young threatened to sue Trump for using “Rockin’ in the Free World” at rallies, but had no problem lending the tune to Bernie.

Actually, I’d like to see Sanders come to the stage with Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” as his intro music. The song’s theme of childhood nightmares works well with Sander’s harsh wake up call for the 99 percent, many of whom accept our economic nightmare as normal.

The mainstream media response (or more accurately non-response) to Sanders is really a prime example of how bogus is the claim that there is some kind of liberal bias in political news coverage. If

500 people show up at a Tea Party rally, it’s treated as the birth of a new American revolution and often gets space on the network evening news. Sanders in contrast, can pack sports arenas with a message of redistributing wealth to Main Street instead of Wall Street, yet the events barely register a blip on the media radar.

Does this mean there’s a conservative bias in media? No. The bias is toward the corporate, which means the Trump-apalooza clown show’s that drive ratings will get 24/7 attention.

I hope there’s a high school sophomore following the campaigns. In 40 years people will want to know what it was like to watch corporate media obsess over Fox’s Frankenstein, while the Sandman filled the stadiums.

Tony Palmeri (palmeri.tony@gmail.com) is a professor of communication studies at UW Oshkosh.

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NEWS & VIEWS // RIGHT WING NUT

RIGHT WING NUT

BY BOB MEYER As more support for educational vouchers gains ascendancy, the talking points against them become increasingly desperate.

The epitome of this trend might well have been expressed by a writer in his recent column in the Appleton Post-Crescent. His assertion is excerpted below.

“Voucher schools, also known as taxpayer-supported religious schools, aren’t about improving public education, they are about proselytizing. And once government finances religion, it won’t be long before it wants to control the religious message, ending the religious freedom we’ve enjoyed for over 200 years.” h t t p : / / w w w. p o s t c r e s c e n t . c o m / story/opinion/columnists/2015/06/11/ vouchers-taxpayer-supported-religiouseducation/71095108/ It sure sounds good, but when I read the whole column, it appeared to be more a critique of private education, than advocacy for religious liberty. If education is a public good, then that particular ‘public good’ is realized regardless of whether or not the learning takes place in the public milieu.

Some Christians may legitimately fear the regulation of their faith by the government should they accept vouchers. On the other hand, a greater number recognize the inherent unfairness of a taxation policy that makes them pay for government subsidized public education, even when they are already paying for alternatives. Vouchers could only help restore those funds, making alternative educational choices more affordable for citizens who aren’t wealthy. The accountability question is answered by the parents who voluntarily make educational choices.

If one sees the voucher as following the student, rather than being a direct subsidy from the government to a particular school, then the issue is really about parental choice, not government subsidy. That is why the writer’s assertion that ‘vouchers are tantamount to subsidizing religious education’ are bogus. Taken to it’s logical conclusion, should we argue that a government employee’s contribution in the church offering plate is a really government subsidy of religion since the taxpayers pay the employee’s salary?

Many secularists will quickly point to Thomas Jefferson’s famous quotation taken from a private correspondence in 1801.

“...I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

But the historical understanding of this metaphor has absolutely nothing to do with removing religious principles from public education.

Jefferson more clearly explains the meaning of his famous metaphor in this excerpt from his second inaugural message...

“In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies....”

Jefferson is talking about the application of federalism; distinguishing between the enumerated powers of the federal government and the broader latitude of state governments.

Article three of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 clearly shows that the Founders had no intention to separate education from acknowledgment of God. “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged...”

The late SCOTUS Chief Justice William Rehnquist, in his Wallace v. Jaffree (1985) dissent, clarified the historical abuse of the wall of separation metaphor.

“But the greatest injury of the “wall” notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights...no amount of repetition of historical errors in judicial opinions can make the errors true. The “wall of separation between church and State” is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.”

The great deception on the part of many people, is to define “religion” narrowly, as a belief in theism, rather than more broadly. If one were to read beyond the first definition of the word “religion” in a good dictionary,

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they will come across a definition like this...

“A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.”

In that broad sense, all education is fundamentally and inescapably a religious enterprise.

An attorney in San Antonio, Texas teaches a historical symposium on constitutional law. One question he asks early in the course is this: Who is more religious...?

A) Bill Clinton B) Bill Gates C) Billy Graham D) Billy the Kid The answer, of course, is that this is a trick question. The correct answer is E), all the above, since all persons listed have a cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.

The biggest fallacy accepted by the public is that public education is ideologically neutral. The writer’s original claim of proselytizing is a classic example of the pot calling the kettle black. At least some humanists view the public education venue

as an indoctrination opportunity. (“The battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: A religion of humanity – utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to carry humanist values into wherever they teach. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new – the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism.”)

Dunphy, John J., The Humanist, Jan. 1983, p. 26.

Dunphy clearly recognizes what most advocates of monolithic public education either fail to admit, or are inexcusably ignorant of: The effort to extract Christianity from public education effectively replaces one “religion” with another, it doesn’t achieve neutrality.

Though there are many good reasons to support vouchers, the check against undesired indoctrination is first on my list.

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NEWS & VIEWS // ROHN’S RANTS

Trump NO!

BY ROHN W. BISHOP What the hell are we doing?

The Republican Party currently has the best slate of candidates to seek it’s nomination since 1980!

We have conservative governors, conservative senators, a business woman, a neurosurgeon, immigrant kids, small town kids, all of whom are true believers to the conservative cause. Yet it’s Donald Trump who’s leading the Republican Presidential polls? It’s Donald Trump who is receiving such love and adoration from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Breitbart News, and Ann Coulter?

I get that Rush Limbaugh needs listeners, Sean Hannity needs viewers, Ann Coulter, needs readers, Breitbart needs web hits; but all in for Trump?

I get it too that we’re ticked off and disillusioned with Washington. Since winning control of Congress in November the Republicans haven’t done diddly squat with their new found power. Obama Care survives, Iran is getting nukes, Israel is threatened, the border is wide open, the police are under assault, and Christianity is about to become the modern version of the KKK. We conservatives look around and no one is defending us, no one is sticking up for what we believe. We watch in disbelief as Americans are more angered about some lion in Zimbabwe than they are about Planned Parenthood murdering babies and selling the body parts!

It’s like we’re living in the” Twilight Zone.” We look to our elected leaders, Republicans in Washington like Speaker John Boehner, or Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, and we get nothing.

You turn on the TV and there is a guy, finally yelling about the border and immigration crisis, and when some jerk liberal reporter questions him, he yells back, “Sit down, shut up, you’re all done! You’re a loser!”

It’s refreshing! We hunger for someone to express our beliefs, defend our beliefs, and to not put up with the main stream liberal news media and the politically correct bullies. I, as a monthly contributor

to the Scene, really appreciate Trump’s unapologetic bluntness. Every month, The Scene receives calls and emails from the “PC” crowd calling on me to be fired, threats to boycott the paper or our advertisers. These intolerant folks then put on a Che Guevara t-shirt, climb in their Prius with a COEXIST bumper sticker on it, tune into Pubic Radio, and congratulate themselves on being so open to diversity.

But I digress…

Trump is perceived as combative, always telling people off. And, he’s getting away with it! But we can do much better than Donald Trump.

Trump is no conservative! He supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2008, he’s donated to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, repeatedly said George W. Bush was the worst president ever, opposed the Iraq War, has supported socialized health care, higher taxes, defends Planned Parenthood, uses Democrat talking points to slander Scott Walker, and gives Hillary a pass on her criminal behavior with her secret computer server.

Even with that kind of past, I’m told by “Trumpiters” that he’s the true conservative, he’ll make America great again, and that Jeb Bush is the establishment’s squishy RINO. Really?

Rush Limbaugh went so far as to say on the very highly rated “EIB Network” that, “The ideal, the perfect ticket, for the 2016 election: Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush. Now, they can figure out who’s on top of the ticket on their own, but when you compare their positions, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, on the key, important issues, they are two peas in the same pod.”

Really!?

When Jeb Bush served as Florida’s Governor he was the most conservative governor in America. Bush cut taxes, balanced budgets, grew a state surplus, gave Florida Concealed-Carry, state wide school choice, and defunded Planned Parenthood. Bush was a national leader in education reform with high standards, defended Elian Gonzalez, stood up for Terri Schiavo, despises Castro’s Cuba, and won the Hispanic vote.

That RINO!

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If you don’t like Bush look at Scott Walker, who as Wisconsin’s Governor turned a $3.6 billion deficit into a surplus, has cut income and property taxes, all while staring down the all out assault launched by public sector unions. Walker has also delivered on Concealed-Carry, defunding Planned Parenthood, and expanding school choice.

While Bush and Walker are the two most accomplished conservatives running, some of the less conservative, but still effective Republican leaders running include, Ohio Governor John Kasich, who balanced the federal budget while serving in Congress, Carly Fiorina a successful businesswoman who ran Hewlett Packard, Chris Christie who governed a blue state, and Rick Perry who lead America’s strongest economy as Texas Governor.

We conservatives don’t have to settle for Donald Trump. Yes, he’s an entertain-

ing blowhard, much like Ted Cruz is, but we have the chance to select a conservative with a strong record of accomplishment, a conservative who’ll have a strong chance of winning in 2016.

Let’s not blow this by selecting a chauvinist clown riding a tidal wave of disconnect. Let’s select a true conservative who’s shown they can accomplish conservative reforms and lead!

Let’s select a conservative reformer with results. Let’s select Jeb Bush or Scott Walker.

Rohn W.

Bishop is a monthly contributor to the Scene. Bishop, a former Waupun City Council member, and serves as Treasurer for the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County.

Contact Rohn: rohnnyb@msn.com Twitter: @RohnWBishop

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Autumn

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BY ROB ZIMMER Add some new life to your yard, garden and landscape this fall by incorporating dramatic color, texture and more for an amazing autumn season.

Look beyond the standard fall staples like mums and kale and include a variety of different and unusual plants to add spice to your landscape.

Be sure to bring new life to fading summer containers by replacing spent annuals with flashy new fall bloomers.

Looking for something different this year? Here are some of my choices for amazing autumn all-stars in the landscape.

Turtlehead

With their unusual, tubular blooms in pink or white, these long lasting, late blooming perennials attract migrating hummingbirds and monarchs. They

prefer part sun and moist soil.

Little Bluestem

My favorite of the native grasses, this compact, colorful and elegant variety shimmers in pink, silver, blue and red, changing to a fiery orange and gold later in fall. Grows 2 feet tall by 2 feet wide forming a nice, compact clump.

Witch Hazel

Our latest blooming wildflower, technically a shrub, witch hazel begins to bloom in mid October, lasting until early January, depending on temperature.

Native witch hazel blooms in bright yellow, while garden varieties bloom in shades of red and orange.

Larches and Tamaracks

An excellent tree for color and texture in all seasons, tamaracks and larches are technically evergreens that shed their

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needles each fall. Before they do so, however, the needles transform into a brilliant, fiery gold.

There are many varieties to choose from including weeping larches, conical forms and asymmetrical forms. There are even dwarf tamaracks and larches for large containers.

including pink, white and shades of red.

Look for autumn crocus bulbs on sale after Labor Day. Plant the large bulbs with their necks at the surface and enjoy their spectacular blooms just a few weeks later. These bulbs naturalize easily in the garden, meaning more blooms year after year.

Colorful, flamboyant and available in a wide variety of colors, zinnias are classic autumn bloomers that attract migrating monarchs and other late season butterflies.

Autumn Crocus

Hardy Hibiscus

One of the most dramatic flowers for the garden, blooms on hardy hibiscus plants may reach 10 inches across or more. Available in a variety of colors

Blue Lobelia

Often overlooked in place of its flashier cousin, cardinal flower, great blue lobelia is equally stunning in cobalt blue.

Flowering spikes me a reach 3 to 4 feet in height and bloom begins in late August.

Zinnias

Cannas

Just as flashy in foliage as in flower, cannas spend the entire summer season reaching for the sky before putting on their best show in fall.

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ENTERTAINMENT // KAT REINHERT

Kat Reinhert

“Sparks” a New Album

BY GEORGE HALAS In addition to all the great original music being generated locally, Wisconsin is also in the business of exporting extraordinary talent to other parts of the country and the world.

A splendid example is singer-songwriter-composer Kat Reinert, whose new album, “Spark” was released on August 21st.

Growing up in Milton, Wisconsin, Reinhert – then Kat Berentsen – began her pursuit of her musical muse at Lawrence University, where she studied with Ken Shaphorst and voice teacher Patrice Michaels-Bedi.

“I loved Lawrence,” Reinhert said.

“It was an amazing experience and it was invaluable to my growth as a musician. I found my voice.”

“I love Appleton. It’s such a beautiful place,” she continued. “I still keep in touch with the people from Lawrence.”

After two years at LU, she faced a difficult decision.

“As a singer, I needed more technical education than Lawrence could provide at the time,” she said. “I had to leave this wonderful college and small town for a conservatory

in scary New York City.”

She enrolled at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where one of her classmates and friends was internationallyacclaimed jazz vocalist Jane Monheit. She earned a master’s degree in Jazz Pedagogy in 2007 at The University of Miami where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Education, specializing in Popular Music Education.

“Spark” is a very strong, consistent tour de force that contains 12 Reinhert originals and an engaging cover of Rush’s “Limelight.”

“I’m very proud of this album,” she said, “not only because of the content and the themes it explores, but also because of the music and the arrangements that the musicians helped to create and shape as we’ve played together for the last four years. This is the kind of album I’ve always wanted to make.”

“It’s my originals as I envisioned them,” Kat said. “We recorded in this old school studio where I’ve always wanted to record; they have Coltrane’s mike and a grand piano from Carnegie Hall. I hired a producer – pianist David Cook – I had not done that before. I also hired a publicist, because I want to be honest about what I’m doing. This does not fit into jazz or any other genre – and that’s okay. It’s

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me celebrating music and allowing the musicians to be who they are. I’m fulfilling the dream of a 19 year-old kid.”

The new CD is the culmination of “six or seven” years of her exploration of songwriting.

“Over that time, I concentrated on lyrics,” she said. “I want to write lyrics that not only help me but perhaps others who are dealing with things that they cannot talk about. When you go through the jazz vocal programs, at both the undergrad and grad level, there is no emphasis on songwriting. You study the great songs but they don’t tell you how they were written or how they were created.”

There were two years in between that she wasn’t living in New York.

“I used the time like a workshop,” Kat said “to get better at the things I wanted to get better at. I had something deep to say that I wasn’t finding in the standards.”

A growing trust of the players in the band led to a more team-oriented approach when it came to the arrangements.

“They trust you as a person and as a musician and I trust them,” she said, “and that enables me to bring in something that isn’t quite finished and ask ‘what do you think?’”

The title tune addresses the same values in a relationship, as she writes, “at last I trusted, at last I listened, at last I found you were here for me.”

Much of the lyrical content deals with the kind of heartbreak and insight that comes after years of experience.

“Divorce does really interesting things to you, like any life-changing loss,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to look inside yourself and be honest.”

“Prison” includes the line, “you’ve got to kick the ball and chain of shame to the curb,”

while the opening cut, “Walk Into The Rain,” includes “we’ve said goodbye so I know that I’ve just got to walk into the rain…so that we can be free to love.”

Reinhert is at perhaps her deepest and most reflective on “Without A Fight,” where she speaks of “sitting naked in your living room and you pray for the courage to move.”

“I was very angry when I wrote that song, so it was actually pretty easy to write,” she said. “It is awesome as a songwriter to have a song that has double and triple meanings for people.”

There is plenty of positive, upbeat emotion available in songs like “My Arms,” “Little Compartments,” and “Naked,” an interesting exercise in self-exploration of the “palladium mystery” of her “secret disguise” and her request for “silk sheets, if you please.”

An off-the-cuff suggestion and a Ted Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert led her to cover Rush’s Limelight.”

“It deals with what you do after you succeed or fail. You go back to work,” she said. “You do not compete with your success or failure.”

The album features outstanding playing – Reinhert gives her band plenty of room to stretch out, develop themes and have fun – from Cook on piano/keyboards, guitarist Perry Smith, bassist Sam Minale and drummer Ross Pederson. Cellist Jody Redhage adds just the right touch on “Prison” and “Paper Bag.” The entire ensemble seems to be on the same page with the mantra that is prominently featured on Reinhert’s refrigerator: “I will dare greatly to create a life that’s filled with love, gratitude and music so that I can help others to find their voices with the gifts that I share.”

“Spark” can be purchased at katreinhert.com – she is also on Face Book, Instagram and Twitter.

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ENTERTAINMENT // THE SPANISH INQUISITION

New Focus on N.E.W. Music

BY GEORGE HALAS From its humble beginnings, The Inquisition strives to discover and reveal the hidden gems in the music and art of The Fox Cities. One of the most important revelations was simply the enormous quantity and quality of original music of all types emanating from artists and bands based from Fond du Lac to Green Bay. The Inquisition leads by example, of course, and, with trademark humility, refuses to accept credit for anything other than a minor role in the growing megatrend generating momentum towards turning all of Northeast Wisconsin into a music and arts “destination.”

One need look no further than the impressive success of Mile of Music and the growing emphasis on original music included on the playlists at 91.1 The Avenue, just two of a rapidly-developing number of examples.

Marc Golde, a musician-composerarranger-producer and owner of Rock Garden Studios, has not only been in an excellent position to observe the growth of local original music, he’s played a key role in its development. It’s something about which he is very passionate.

Golde left a management job in 2002 to start Rock Garden.

“It was just a dream I had of having a great studio and producing awesome records,” he said. “I found a way to get it done.”

Rock Garden achieved the goals of a five-year success plan in three and has been expanding ever since. While it is one of the favorite studios for musicians, a significant portion of the business is corporate video.

“In 2002, there were not as many (local) gigs. There were only two festivals, Celebrate and Octoberfest. You had to travel.

Now there is a festival in every town,” he said. “There have always been great artists and great bands, but the opportunities to see and hear them were fewer and farther between.”

As the local music scene expanded, Golde’s passion turned into a mission.

“I want to make the Fox Valley undeni-

ably important in the national scene,” he said, “and I’d like to see some local artists break out of the Fox Valley. I want to play a part in those artists gaining much larger national exposure.”

While the Mile of Music has been one of the catalysts, the major impetus for the growth of local original music is the musicians themselves.

“There have been enough artists who have stuck to their guns and done their own thing,” he noted, “that the gates had to open.”

While the music is local, the reasons that many musicians and bands fail are global in nature.

“You have to have something unique to offer,” Golde said. “Many artists make the mistake of following trends or thinking that there is a ‘Nashville formula,’ but the key is to be themselves. Many of the artists creating original music are not good at promoting themselves, nor do they have agents and management to shop their records. They are not looking at it as a business and at themselves as entertainers.

Art and commerce are like oil and water.

The music is yours to do whatever you want with, as long as you sell it.”

Golde says you cannot be introverted.

“You have to deliver your songs and the band to the audience,” he continued. “The music can be heartfelt art, but you still have to see it as ‘product.’

If you want to make money, you have to deliver.”

W h i l e t h e Fo x Valley does not have the industry infrastructure of Chicago, New York, L.A., Nashville and other major cities, Golde points out that “Corey Chisel has shown people in this

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area that you can do bigger and better.”

Golde is not just a dreamer, he has plans.

“I’d like to see an organization and an outlet that offers artists hope,” he said, “and that can happen on the business side.

We need to build some bridges to larger companies like record labels and radio stations that can help the artists gain greater exposure. I’ve been waiting for 20 years for someone else to do this, but I believe I have to get involved in connecting the artists with these companies.”

Golde is thinking, hoping and dreaming big.

“I’d like the Fox Valley to be like Motown in the ‘60’s or Seattle in the ‘90’s,” he said. “I’d like to make it so undeniably cool that it has to be recognized nationally and internationally. We have the talent but we need to start developing it earlier.

It takes time to grow, but we are already starting to see it happen. I’m very excited for the next 10 years, things are going to get really good around here…and you can put money on that.”

One of the more intimate venues

that has been a strong supporter of local music and musicians is The St. James Lounge in the Town of Menasha, more commonly referred to as “Michelle’s.”

Among the many outstanding artists who have appeared at the St. James are Janet Planet, John Harmon, Antonio Wigley, Jim Rosetti, Erin Krebs and Jeff Johnston, KWT and The Bob Levy Little Big Band.

The bad news is that the current location is being torn down; the great news is that owner-manager-bartender Michelle Kersten is moving to a somewhat larger location just 500 feet or so north. While the new location will retain the same, comfortable but classy intimacy and ambience, the stage will be larger and the room will feature a better acoustic set-up and design.

Kersten plans to stay open in the current location until September 12th and expects to open in the new location on Tuesday, September 29th with a Grand Opening Celebration slated for early October with some very special musical guests.

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His resume includes Encyclopedia Walking – Pop Culture & the Alchemy of Rock ‘n’ Roll, a book that collects his writings from the weekly San Diego Reader, Ugly Things magazine, The San Diego Troubadour, and his own blog site.

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(All American Mongrel Boy – a collection that veers from Beatle-esque to the DIY of “Where is Joe Strummer When you Need Him?”), collaborator, tour manager, radio deejay and producer (State Controlled Radio) and Grammy nominated video archivist (The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 Volume One). While that may seem like a long list, the shorthand version is that Kanis is a wonderful chronicler of the human condition.

In the mid-eighties he met the man who would become something of his mentor.

Paul Williams founded Crawdaddy! magazine in 1966 and it is recognized as the first publication to take rock and roll music and its culture seriously. Williams was ground zero, writing thoughtfully about Bob Dylan and the Beach Boys’ masterpiece LP “Smile,” while most other publications

focused on teen heartthrobs. Williams also served as literary executor for Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

Kanis met Williams on the eve of a Bob Dylan tour, trading tickets for California shows. And it is Williams’ compassionate searching that often surfaces in Kanis’s articles. Williams died in 2013.

The centerpiece of the Encyclopedia Walking is Check Your Ego at the Door: Transformation and Rejuvenation at Steel Bridge Song Fest, Kanis’ journal recounting the 2013 songwriting workshop held annually in Sturgeon Bay. He takes the reader through a cross-country journey into the process of blind-date songwriting collaborations, insane logistics, and sunrise jam sessions. Ultimately, he leaves with a handful of co-written songs, and friendships that he continues to nurture.

While many of his articles delve into worthwhile analysis from Big Star to the Monkee’s movie Head, to an obscure 1973 New York public television series called SOUL!, the Steel Bridge chronicle serves as a bookend to the chapter titled 1992, where Kanis stands on the edge of his feather and dives in. He transforms his life; trial by fire as a vagabond musician traveling Europe, and then returning to the states to serve as Peter Case’s guerilla tour manager (and sometimes opening act).

His depictions of challenges, stress and the payoff off realizing he made the correct choice is a lesson many young people may find valuable.

Kanis ends with “I didn’t know what the future held or if I even had a future.”

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ENTERTAINMENT // CONCERT WATCH

Los Lonely Boys

BY JANE SPIETZ WHAT: Los Lonely Boys WHERE: Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake WI WHEN: Thurs., October 1, 2015 7:30pm COST: $44 INFO: www.thrasheroperahouse.com www.thrasheroperahouse.com/ Dynamic rock/brown-eyed soul/blues band Los Lonely Boys is made up of the brothers Garza: Henry (guitar/vocals), Jojo (bass/vocals), and Ringo (drums/vocals).

The band describes their sound as “Texican Rock ‘n’ Roll.” They are best known for their #1, Grammy-winning hit, “Heaven.”

Originally from San Angelo, Texas, their music is deeply rooted in family ties. Their father, Ringo Garza, Sr., also played in a sibling band, The Falcones. Ringo, Sr. then went solo and brought along his sons as backing members.

The boys left the nest to form their own group and recorded their self-titled debut album at Willie Nelson’s Pedernales studio in Austin in 2004, on which Willie played. Los Lonely Boys was first released on the small Or Music label, but Epic Records picked it up in 2004. The popularity of the group skyrocketed and their single, “Heaven,” went to #1 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart and won a Grammy in 2005 by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Best Pop Performance. Los Lonely Boys ended up going double platinum.

Los Lonely Boys’ latest release, Revelation (2014) came out a little less than a year after Henry Garza was seriously injured from a fall from a stage. After a long recuperation period, he is thankfully back to playing music.

The band strives to put out music that unites listeners. “We want to make music that brings people together, not music that divides people,” Jojo states. “We’re all about having a good time, but we also make an effort to write about things that really matter.”

I must confess that I am a huge fan of Los Lonely Boys. This powerhouse triumvirate with its rich, effortless harmonies is a

pleasure to listen to.

I caught up with Jojo Garza when he was in California recently.

Jane Spietz: You refer to your musical style as “Texican Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

Jojo Garza: Music has been a major part of our lives forever and so we were exposed to many different artists, styles, genres, instruments and many other things music related. Because of this we were able to learn that the art of music wasn’t something we could make new, but rather that we could create something new with what already existed from the art of music. Basically what I mean is we learned from the teachers and musicians before us. First our father. He was the biggest influence. Songs he wrote along with his personal favorites were what we were fed. Then we started to do our own searching musically and found many other influences along the way. All those ideas, and melodies and rhythms and sounds and artists are the base or platform of what we build musically. There’s nothing new about music. I guess you could say the hammer, nails and building materials were already here...it’s what we do with those things that make what we build ours.

We call it Texican rock n roll because they asked us to define ourselves as a genre... we said, well if there isn’t a genre called “Music” then we will just make up our own.

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JS: It sounds as though your father, Ringo Garza, Sr., impacted the band greatly from early on. Did you perform

with him?

JG: He’s the biggest influence. Our father is the original Lonely Boy. He had his dreams and aspirations as to what we would become. The first Mexican American family country band. That’s where we got all our practice.

JS: Where did the inspiration for your #1 single, “Heaven,” come from?

JG: The inspiration came from personal life experiences. Henry came up with the idea from what was at first a prayer. If you listen to the lyrics, you can understand where the inspiration comes from. The idea that we all have faith and hope, believing there’s a better place with better days, every day.

JS: Los Lonely Boys won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for “Heaven” in 2005.

What did that mean for the band?

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we remembered that our band name was the one they called out. Ha ha! We really never played for the idea of winning anything, but it’s such a great honor and it means a lot to us to be noticed by many others for what we always loved to do.

JS: Having your debut album, Los Lonely Boys, go double platinum was quite an accomplishment.

JG: When we started selling our album, it was obvious that the music did all the talking. It sold itself and began to grab the attention of many show goers. I guess word got around and we were approached by some cats from Epic Records. The idea of selling millions of records was not something we even knew about. When they gave us our platinum records we asked, ‘where’s the gold ones?’ They said, ‘these are way better than those.’ We were pretty surprised and it was another great moment.

JS: Talk about your collaboration with Carlos Santana.

JG: Working with Carlos was a dream come true for all of us. What he gave to music was always influential as well as inspirational to us. We are just so thankful

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to God for all the blessings we have received and continue to receive.

JS: Los Lonely Boys covered John Lennon’s “ W h a t e v e r G e t s Yo u Through the Night” at Amnesty International’s Make Some Noise Project in 2007. Interestingly, that song was Lennon’s only U.S. #1 single while he was alive.

JG: It was great being a part of it all. We wanted to record “Imagine,” but so did everybody, ha!

So we came to the decision to record that tune and it came out pretty cool.

JS: Your 2009 EP, 1969, celebrated some of the great music from that year. What thoughts went into the selection of the songs you covered for that?

JG: Those were just a few songs we chose to put out as some of our favorites.

We were paying homage to the 40 year anniversary of music from that era.

JS: In 2011, Los Lonely Boys released Rockpango, which in Spanglish

means “rock party.” Describe how the music of Rockpango is representative of a “rock party.”

JG: All our albums are like that really.

We always try to give something to the people that flows. If you listen to music at a party, the music tries to please everyone with different styles and genres and so on.

Not being big fans of limiting ourselves to styles or musical solidification, we always try to put something out that can keep you listening to the same band without noticing. That’s the idea behind the title.

JS: You followed a new creative path on your latest album, Revelation (2014).

Describe the musical stylings you explored for this.

JG: Revelation is an updated version of how we approach our albums. Working with different artists and writers and producers, combined with what we do was an idea we all liked. There is an evident progression you can not only hear but feel.

We’ve never been big fans of studio albums, we are a live band, but we really feel we captured something familiar but fresh.

Something old but new. A true expression of being part of the change of something that already exists. A musical shift, or Revelation, if you will.

JS: I am incredibly excited that Los Lonely Boys will be performing at the historic Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake WI on October 1st.

JG: Everyone can expect a good time!

Plain and simple. People can expect to see a band...that plays real instruments. We also sing and play every note heard. It’s all organic. You can feed your musical hunger with processed and overproduced so- called music, or you can come get some of the good stuff at a Los Lonely Boys concert.

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Tom Chapin | With three GRAMMY awards & 23 albums, Chapin’s also acted on Broadway, in films and on television.

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VIVO | Lively & contemporary jazz-pop bossa-samba music ensemble and 2015 WAMI winner for Jazz Artist of the Year!

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Alley Cats: A Harmoniously Hysterical Holiday Hit | Songs for the holiday with America’s premiere doo-wop group.

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Riders in the Sky&

“The Cowboy Way”

BY JAMIE LEE RAKE “It’s just doing the right thing...not taking the easy way.”

That’s a succinct description of The Cowboy Way delivered by Doug Green, better known as Ranger Doug, “the idol of American youth” whose serene baritone and acoustic guitar lead family-friendly, comedic Western music band Riders In The Sky, who are set to play Waupun’s historic City Hall at 201 E. Main St. 7 PM, Friday October 9.

Not many groups, much less ones so long-lived and renowned as the Riders, promote an ethical

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code to inspire their young fans. Seeing a band with such an investment in their passion should be a draw for some already.

That code also slyly acknowledges the straightshooting behavior of that nearly lost genre of movie, and singing star Riders and other acts who recall the time when “a Western” was once a common addition to country music’s description: the singing cowboy.

“We all grew up in the ‘50s when cowboys were still on TV. That’s part of it,” Green says of some of the inspiration for the combo he assembled with fiddler Paul “Woody Paul” Chrisman, generously Continue on Page R28

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Continued from Page R26 mustached upright bass player and wearer of cactus neckties (or cac-ties,” get it?) Fred “Too Slim”LaBour, and accordion master Joey “The Cowpolka King” Miskulin.

Alongside Western dramas like Gunsmoke, Bonanza and Have Gun-Will Travel, TV stations’ schedules in the Eisenhower

secured them, among other things, several years of Riders Radio Theater on public radio stations, an early ‘90s live action Saturday morning kids show on CBS, frequent appearances on WSM-AM ‘s famed Grand Ole Opry in their home base of Nashville, and arguably their most enduring insinuation into pop culture,

nizers The Sons Of The Pioneers (of which Rogers was once a member) at the fest led to memories of his childhood in front of the cathode ray tube watching his Western heroes.

And then...

“I tried to get some guys together for

what would become Riders In The Sky,” Green said “and when we found the right ones...initially just Woody and Slim, it was magic from there on.”

But can magic going on four decades

era were apt to fill weekend afternoons with movies starring upright, guitar-strumming adventurers of the open plains including Gene Autry, Rex Allen and the man to whom the Riders pay tribute on their latest album, Roy Rogers.

Western movies, and serenading heroes in them haven’t been in vogue for quite a while, but that hasn’t deterred the Riders’ ongoing popularity and objectives.

“Our mission is twofold,” Green explains in the same sort of cucumber cool, beatific tone he possesses when he’s in character, “One, to entertain, to make people happy. Two, to preserve this beautiful style of music.” He avers that what they do, many never get into commercial radio rotation, but neither are Florida-Georgia Line nor Dan Shay apt to ever perform harmonies so sweet as Green and his cohorts.

Niche entity though they may be, the guys’ profile has remained pretty high for much of their 36 years together. It has

as a presence in Disney productions.

“That really had nothing to do with us,” Green explains of his group’s initial association with the House Of Mouse in Pixar’s Toy Story 2. “One of the producers happened to be a fan,” and hooked them up with songs Randy Newman wrote for the CGI blockbuster.

“We have a good relationship with Disney,” Green says, and it’s landed him and his mates in cell animation TV productions like Darkwing Duck and pre-schooler favorite Stanley.

Lest anyone think the Riders are playing strictly to the ankle-biter set, the fun they’re having is steeped in deeper matters.

In fact, Green could have been the next Studs Terkel.

“I had a job in oral history,” Green says of his work before donning his ranger hat.

That gig led him to a festival of Western swing music, a genre in which he remains involved by way of his side band, The Time Jumpers. Hearing famed cowboy harmo-

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stay fresh? The good ranger insists that’s the case.

“Being creative every night with three other really creative guys,” Greed said “remains an incentive to stay on stage for over 175 dates a year. But so does the kick of throwing each other off their game. We like to crack each other up.”

There’s no conflict between being a hoot and keeping an artistic tradition alive.

“The music still hasn’t lost its magic.”

Green likes the reception they get for it in Midwestern cities like Waupun, too.

“People up there have this wonderful sense of humor,” Green said “and enjoy having fun and laughing. Out East, it’s like folklore, you have to explain. In the Midwest, it’s entertainment, and people still have a huge appreciation of acoustic music.”

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ENTERTAINMENT // LATINO FEST

Latino Fest Celebration Debuts

BY GEORGE HALAS The first ever Latino Fest Celebration in Appleton will be held on Sunday, September 13th, from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Pierce Park, 1035 West Prospect. Admission is free and the event will go on rain or shine.

The event helps kick off National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15) and is designed to help recognize the contributions made and the important presence of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States as well as celebrating the heritage and culture.

Hispanic Heritage Month was created in 1968 and is a salute to the anniversary of the independence of Guatemala,

Vanden Avond and Carlos Mendez.

“Salsa Manzana’s music is not only the heartbeat of Latin America, it is full of joy and you hear it all over the world,” said Appleton-based jazz vocalist Gwen Carr.

“Their rapport with each other creates an energy that truly engages the crowd. People don’t just sit and listen, they dance. When they dance, the band gets even better.”

She added, “They are just plain, flat out, pedal to the metal fun.”

“The Latino Fest Celebration is something that is long overdue in Appleton,” said Carlos Mendez. “We are very excited about playing. We are very lucky to live in an area where there are so many festivals around like Waterfest, Neenah Concert series, Mile of Music and so many other

Salsa Manzana’s music is not only the heartbeat of Latin America, it is full of joy and you hear it all over the world Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Costa Rica; Mexico, Belize and Chile also celebrate independence days during the month.

While some of the activities will have an educational aspect, there will be music, dancing, games, food, a jalapeno-eating contest and a children’s area.

The music/dance lineup is strong, headed by highly-regarded Salsa Manzana and mariachi singer Jose Luis Vargas as well as DJ spins from Henry Garza, who will also serve as master of ceremonies.

The dance lineup is also excellent with the Aztec Dancers and Zumba with Jackie Brown.

Salsa Manzana features some of the finest musicians in the area including Jose Encarnacion, Noah Harmon, Andy Mertens, John Daniel, Vicki Daniel, Julio Reyes, Mark Te Tai, Matt Granatella, Marisol Encarnacion, Andy Plank, Tom

great venues for summer fun for everyone to enjoy. The Fox Valley is, without a doubt, growing and expanding and bringing more cultural events . We live in a beautiful community and is still a fun place to raise a family.”

While the emphasis is on fun and education, there are higher purposes in play as well. A merger of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce with Casa Hispana, Inc. will create synergies that result in even greater benefits to the community.

Casa Hispana is an organization that provides scholarships to Hispanic students seeking higher education. The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is a multi-faceted entity that engages in advocacy and serves as a referral agency for the unemployed and underserved as well as running job training programs in conjunctin with Fox Valley Technical College. They also assist new arrivals and others who are unfamiliar with

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“The merger of Casa Hispana with Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will g i ve u s m o re infrastructure and greater visibility in the community,” said Ernesto Gonzalez, who is the president of the board of directors Here is our line up Front Row left to Right Vicky Daniel ,Julio Reyes, Carlos at Casa Hispana Mendez, Mark Te Tai,Marisol Encarnacion , Jose Encarnacion Back Row as well as the Left to Right John Daniel , Andy Mertens, Andy Plank Noah Harmon, Tom Vanden Avond Matt Granatella assistant to the associate director of the Chamber. “The cooperative action There will be fund-raising activities and created by the merger will enable us to other opportunities to contribute. provide more scholarships and education.”

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LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR September 1 REVEREND RAVEN PULLMAN’S Appleton 6PM September 3 VIC FERRARI CENTRAL WISCONSIN STATE FAIR MARSHFIELD JOHNNY WAD KROLLS WEST GREEN BAY 2:30PM MIXTAPE MILLER LITE GATE-LAMBEAU FIELD GREEN BAY 2PM COOKEE & DENNIS PROVISOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FAIR SHEBOYGAN 6PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FAIR- LEINIE LODGE PLYMOUTH 7PM HAPPY HOUR HEROES THE BAR IN LYNNDALE APPLETON 7PM WAYNE NEUMANN WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM September 4 BIG AND TALL ANDUZZIS HOWARD 7PM BRIAN JAMES ANDUZZIS- EAST GREEN BAY 7PM DAN TULSA DOCKSIDE TAVERN OSHKOSH 6PM COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC GIBRALTAR GRILL FISH CREEK 7:30PM BOXKAR MENOMINEE CASINO KESHENA 8PM September 5 THE BOMB BOB AND JONIS NORTHERN LIGHTS WHITE LAKE 9:30PM BAD HABITZ CALUMET COUNTY FAIR CHILTON 4PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS CLEARWATER HARBOR WAUPACA 9:30PM VIC FERRARI CRANDON INT’L OFFROAD SPEEDWAY CRANDON 8:30PM TAYLOR JAY DOCKSIDE TAVERN OSHKOSH 6PM CHAD DEMEUSE DUO EDGE OF DELLS RESORT WISCONSIN DELLS 10PM THE COUGARS

FARMER GENES CAMPGROUND MARION 9PM STAR SIXTY NINE GAMEDAY SPORTS BAR APPLETON 8PM BRUCE KOESTNER HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7PM BOXKAR MENOMINEE CASINO KESHENA 8PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE MILWAUKEE RALLY-HARLEY DAVIDSON MILWAUKEE 4:45PM RABID AARDVARKS MOLE LAKE CASINO CRANDON 9PM THE PRESIDENTS PACK EM INN CRANDON 8PM R P M RED GRANITE VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK RED GRANITE 6:00PM HYDE SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9PM HALF EMPTY SKINNY DAVE’S MOUNTAIN 9:30PM UNITY THE BAND STONE HARBOR STURGEON BAY 3PM DAN TULSA DUO TEDS GRANDVIEW FREMONT 1PM

BOXKAR MENOMINEE CASINO KESHENA 8PM THE COUGARS SAND BOX GREEN BAY 6PM JOHNNY WAD SHAWANO COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS SHAWANO 8PM JERRY & NORA DUO SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FAIR SHEBOYGAN 6:30PM STAR SIXTY NINE VILLAGE PARK BIG FALLS 7PM RED CLOVER VILLAGE PARK BIG FALLS 1:30PM

September 6 GRAND UNION BARZOS FREMONT 8:00PM ROAD TRIP CALUMET COUNTY FAIR CHILTON 8:30PM VIC FERRARI CALUMET COUNTY FAIR CHILTON 4PM R2 CLEARWATER HARBOR WAUPACA 3PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE CLEARWATER HARBOR WAUPACA 9:30PM HAPPY HOUR HEROES DOCKSIDE TAVERN OSHKOSH 6PM R P M FIN AND FEATHER WINNECONNE 6PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS FOX HARBOR PUB & GRILL GREEN BAY 6PM NASHVILLE PIPELINE GAMEDAY SPORTS BAR APPLETON 8PM COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC GIBRALTAR GRILL FISH CREEK 12PM

September 10 HAPPY HOUR HEROES PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 6PM JIM COUNTER WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM

September 7 TRAVIS LEE DUO GAMEDAY SPORTS BAR APPLETON 4PM BEAKER STREET LABOR FESTIVAL NEENAH 2PM VIC FERRARI SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FAIR SHEBOYGAN 1:00 AM MIXTAPE TEDS GRANDVIEW FREMONT 1PM September 9 DIAMOND AND STEEL SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 5:30PM

September 11 BRIAN JAMES ANDUZZIS HOWARD 7PM STAGE HOGGS ACOUSTIC ANDUZZIS- EAST GREEN BAY 7PM HITS CIMARRON MENASHA 9PM VIC FERRARI KPAL OKTOBERFEST SHEBOYGAN FALLS 8:30PM SPIN NORTHSTAR CASINO BOWLER 8PM SONIC CIRCUS SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9PM 6 FIGURES SEAFOOD FEST MENASHA 4:15PM RPM

SEAFOOD FEST MENASHA 7PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE ST. GREGORY CHURCH MILWAUKEE 8PM September 12 ADAMS WAY 10TH FRAME APPLETON 9PM FIGURES BOOM BAY BAR & GRILL LARSEN 6PM WILDSIDE CHESTERS APPLETON 9PM FOLLOW SUIT Fountain Tavern OSHKOSH 6PM BILL STEINERT HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7PM SPIN NORTHSTAR CASINO BOWLER 8PM THE COUGARS RIVER ISLAND GOLF COURSE OCONTO FALLS 7PM DAPHNI SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9PM BOOGIE & YO YO’Z SEAFOOD FEST MENASHA 7PM REPLICA SILVER SPRINGS CAMPGROUND RIO 8:30PM CRANKIN YANKEES SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:30PM VIC FERRARI ST. MARY’S GREENVILLE BAD HABITZ STARLITE CLUB KAUKAUNA 8PM JOHNNY WAD TIMELINE SALOON BONDUEL 4:30PM DIAMOND AND STEEL TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL GREEN BAY 5PM JAKE WARNE WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM September 13 THE COUGARS SHOOTS BAR SUAMICO 3PM REVEREND RAVEN SMILING MOOSE NEW HOLSTEIN 4PM September 16 CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 5:30PM September 17 MIXTAPE PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE

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CALENDAR // LIVE MUSIC CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE BONNIE AND CLYDES CAMPGROUND HARSHAW 1PM DAN TULSA TRIO EDGE OF DELLS RESORT WISCONSIN DELLS 8PM TONY ROCKER ISLE CASINO WATERLOO IA 9PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE PIKS PUB TOMAHAWK 8PM GRAND UNION ROCKY AND TARAS NUTHOUSE KAUKAUNA 9PM RABID AARDVARKS TOMAHAWK FALL RIDECOCKTAILS BAR & GRILL TOMAHAWK 7PM STAGE HOGGS ACOUSTIC WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM September 19 HYDE CAPITOL CENTRE APPLETON 9PM JOHNNY WAD CAPTAINS COVE GRESHAM 7PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE CHAMBERS HILL BAR AND GRILL SUAMICO 8PM THE BOMB City Inn BERLIN 9:30PM

SPITFIRE RODEO DAISYS WESTERN SALOON OSHKOSH 9PM FIGURES EDGE OF DELLS RESORT WISCONSIN DELLS 10PM WILDSIDE HEADLINERS NEENAH 9:30PM FRAN STEENO HEIDEL HOUSE GREEN LAKE 7PM THE COUGARS IRON BUFFALO BAR 12PM TONY ROCKER ISLE CASINO WATERLOO IA 9PM R2 JET AIR HANGER- AUSTIN STRAUBEL GREEN BAY 4PM ASK YOUR MOTHER KOUNTRY BAR APPLETON 9:30PM HALF EMPTY LEAP INN FREEDOM 10PM COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSIC MACKINAWS GREEN BAY 7:30PM THE PRESIDENTS MOLE LAKE CASINO CRANDON 9PM SONIC CIRCUS OSHKOSH LANES OSHKOSH 9PM BOURBON COWBOYS PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 8:30PM

CRANKIN YANKEES SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9PM DAPHNI SLUGGERS APPLETON 9:30PM BIG MOUTH ST. NORBERT COLLEGE DE PERE 10AM BOOGIE & THE YO-YOZ ST. NORBERT COLLEGE DE PERE 12:30PM RED CLOVER ST. NORBERT COLLEGE DE PERE 3PM SOMETHING OLD SOMETHING NEW ST. NORBERT COLLEGE DE PERE 12PM BAD HABITZ THE SHACK FOND DU LAC 9PM THE COUGARS WATERING HOLE GREEN BAY 9PM HURRY UP WAIT WILD HORSE SALOON WISCONSIN RAPIDS 7PM September 20 RPM KROLLS WEST GREEN BAY 3PM DOUBLE DOWN MILLER LITE GATE-LAMBEAU FIELD GREEN BAY 3:30PM JOHNNY WAD SANDLOT ENTERTAINMENT

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8/16

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8/1

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8/21

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@ 8pm Fox River House, Appleton, WI

8/23

@ 4pm Game Day Sports Bar (Outside), Appleton, WI

GREEN BAY 3PM DIAMOND AND STEEL SANDLOT ENTERTAINMENT GREEN BAY 3PM STAR SIXTY NINE TUNDRA TAILGATE ZONELAMBEAU GREEN BAY 3:30PM September 22 REDFISH REMIX WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM September 23 THE COUGARS SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 5:30PM September 24 DAN TULSA DUO PLANK ROAD PUB DE PERE 6PM September 25 WAYNE NEUMANN ANDUZZIS HOWARD 7PM TED EGGE ANDUZZIS- EAST GREEN BAY 7PM THE PRESIDENTS JIMMY SEAS GREEN BAY 9PM KITTY CORONA LCO CASINO HAYWARD 9PM THE COUGARS OCTOBERFEST- LORELEI INN

GREEN BAY 5PM STAR SIXTY NINE PRESSBOX FOND DU LAC 7PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE ROOKIES STEVENS POINT 9PM GRAND UNION SANDLOT ENTERTAINMENT GREEN BAY 8PM September 26 ASK YOUR MOTHER BACKSTAGE BAR FOND DU LAC 9PM DAVE OLSEN BAND BRIDGE BAR FREMONT 8PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE DÉJÀ VU APPLETON 9PM THE COUGARS FALLFEST- CHERRY ST. PARKING LOT GREEN BAY 10:30AM BAZOOKA JOE FAT JOES FOND DU LAC 9:30PM ROOFTOP JUMPERS GAMEDAY SPORTS BAR APPLETON 8PM BAD HABITZ HEADLINERS NEENAH 9:30PM KITTY CORONA LCO CASINO HAYWARD 9PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE OCTOBERFEST

APPLETON 1PM GRAND UNION OCTOBERFEST- Y100 COUNTRY STAGE APPLETON 1PM HALF EMPTY OUTPOST SHERWOOD 9:30PM SPITFIRE RODEO SARDINE CAN GREEN BAY 9PM HITS SILVER CRYST WAUTOMA 8PM DOUBLE DOWN WORLD OF BEER APPLETON 9PM September 27 THE COUGARS SHOOTS BAR SUAMICO 3PM ALEX WILSON BAND THE HILL OMRO 2PM September 28 THE COUGARS KROLLS WEST GREEN BAY 3PM CONSULT THE BRIEFCASE STADIUM VIEW GREEN BAY 3:15PM RPM TUNDRA TAILGATE ZONELAMBEAU GREEN BAY 3:30PM

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NEWS & VIEWS // UWFDL DISTINGUISHED ALUM

SCENE Editor is UWFDL Distinguished Alum

BY JIM MORAN Hi s p a r ents hark back to his not speaking until he was three. “ T h e y thought something may be wrong with me,” Michael Casper, the UW-Fond du Lac 2015 Distinguished Alumni recipient said “then suddenly, as they put it, they couldn’t shut me up!

There’S a lot of warmth like that in our family (laugh).”

Michael grew up watching and idolizing all comedians from Red Skelton, Jerry Lewis, and Jonathan Winters to Alan King and Jackie Gleason. At the time he had no idea you could actually become a comedian.

It was at Theisen Jr. High that his best friend nicknamed him ‘Silk’ because of a smooth jump shot, and when he discovered a science teacher, Mr. John Newman, who was both entertaining and an educator, breaking into characters and dialects as he lectured.

“I thought ‘what a great job!’ Captive audience everyday,” Casper said “maybe I’ll teach!”

He already loved speech classes, and being in front of people, but it was a Career Day and a visit from another “other” Michael Casper, who worked in radio at the time for KFIZ, that piqued his curiosity.

He was a Fondy High grad in 1977.

“Sports kept me from theater and forensics,” Casper said “but speech classes were still my calling, and a ‘chance to work a crowd.’”

Then it was onto the UWFDL and his becoming a Centaur from 77-79.

“It was an easy choice,” Casper said “I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. What direction to take. Radio? TV? Chase the dream of doing stand-up? Or, as my mother always said, ‘Get a real job.’ So I enrolled, because a ‘real’ job just didn’t sound appealing at the time. To go off to a four-year school not knowing what I wanted would have been a poor decision,

and a huge waste of money. The Campus allowed me the time to accrue credits and figure things out.”

It’s there that he found Judy Kosted, Ellen Balthazor, and another entertaining educator, Dick Knar, who also used humor while teaching.

“The driest and most deadpan I’d ever seen in person,” Casper said “Dick was a classic. And Judy and Ellen were simply brilliant. Judy taught public speaking, and forensics, and Ellen taught me how to not end sentences with prepositions. Obviously they taught me more than that, but it was they and many other teachers at the Campus that began to show me my path.”

Laurie Krasin is the Director of Marketing & Communications for UW-Fond du Lac. “The UW-Fond du Lac Distinguished Alumni Award honors and recognizes a former student who has made an impact in the community,” Laurie explained “provided inspiration to others or attained notable achievement in their career field. The recipient is selected by a committee with representation from campus faculty, students and staff along with representatives from the UWFond du Lac Foundation.”

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It was during the late 70‘s that comedy clubs were becoming more and more popular.

“It was in the campus library where I read about these burgeoning clubs,” Casper said “and came to realize there actually were places where I could get stage time and try to be funny. So I started working on writing jokes and funny stories, and practicing at home in front of a mirror using a vacuum attachment as my microphone.”

Casper’s first open mike was at a place in Milwaukee called “Jack’s or Better.”

“I drove there without telling anyone,” he said “including my folks. Scared out of my mind. Told my jokes. Died. Was heckled by someone other than my siblings.

Went in the tank. Loved it.”

Casper transferred to UW-Oshkosh.

“I commuted to school and thought as long as I was in Fondy, I may as well look into maybe getting a job in my prospective field, visited KFIZ, and interviewed with the legendary Joe Goeser. That was on a Wednesday. The next Sunday I was on the air...live.

5:30 am until noon playing actual vinyl records.”

The Michael Aaron Show...(they already

had their quota of Michael Casper’s.)

“I wasn’t hired because of any great skill, or signs of broadcast acumen,” Casper said “rather, Joe was sick of getting up at 5am. Now I’m a ‘dee-jay,’ going to school at the same time, getting experience light years ahead of my fellow communication majors.”

At the time Showtime held a Funniest Person in America contest where you’d send in a video of yourself doing stand up. One winner from all 50 states. Casper won Wisconsin’s Funniest.

“Then I was in the running to become the funniest in all of America,” he said “instead they chose some chick from Louisiana...Ellen-something or other...

DeGeneres, that was it. Not sure what ever became of her.”

He graduated UW-O in 1982 with a degree in communications, and the next week was hired full time at KFIZ. The following fall he got married and had his first son, Benjamin.

With the thought that California was the only place to be if he was ever to break into the world of comedy, he took a job in radio in Susanville, California. Moved the Continue on Page L20

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Continued from Page L18 family there until a radio station in Reno, Nevada called with a job offer. He took it.

“We moved again, in a span of 6 or 8 months,” Casper said “my wife at the time was not pleased.”

He entered the Showtime contest again that year as a resident of Nevada, and won that year too.

“I thought, maybe if we kept moving, I could keep entering the contest, and eventually win in all 50 states (laugh).”

His wife’s career led them all back to Fond du Lac, and Casper back to KFIZ. “I kept pursuing stand-up,” he said “traveling to Chicago clubs on their open mike nights.”

A second son, Alex came along in 1987.

Before Alex turned two, KFIZ was sold, new management moved in, and Casper was fired.

“It was then that I considered myself a full-time comedian,” he said “and began a concerted effort to advance my status from open mike’s to emceeing shows, to opening act, feature comedian, and eventually a headliner.”

Casper then moved to Chicago, working on the road, and locally, and in the

mean time picked up bartending and waitering gigs.

“I chased my dream for about ten years playing clubs, colleges, Holiday Inn’s... anywhere that a show could be put on, from a classy stage at Bally’s in Las Vegas, to the next week atop a sheet of plywood balanced on empty beer cases. I once did a show where the main attraction after me was midget-tossing. I opened. That means the midget tossing was the headliner!”

He drove home every two weeks to spend time with his sons.

“I finally plateaued,” Casper said.

“Knowing I had to move to one coast or the other, continue chasing the dream...or move home to try to be a better dad. Easy choice, really.

On my drive back to Wisconsin I promised myself to not only go back to a regular job, but to pursue more.”

It was on the drive home that he came up with the idea for what became Movies in Minutes.

“Siskel & Ebert were popular at the time,” Casper said “I’d taken a class and written a screenplay. I ran the idea past a friend, and she was up for the challenge of what I called a ‘conversation and review of

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movies in print.’”

Editor Scott Wittchow of the Action Advertiser was willing to listen to the pitch.

“Michael ‘Silky’ Casper is one of the most talented individuals I have ever met,” Wittchow said. “Whether it is writing for newspapers and magazines, broadcasting on radio and TV, performing as a comedian across the U.S., he is one impressive individual. Throughout his life, he’s stood out among his peers. He is such a likable guy because he inserts humor with everything he does. He is outgoing, carries a smile constantly and has people skills that put him head and shoulders above those around him.”

After a short stint selling cars at Holiday Auto, Casper found himself back in radio, hosting the morning show for Sunny 97.7 and eventually helped start a new radio station in Mayville, Wisconsin - The Great 98 as news director.

Three years in at The Great 98 he took a call from Mercury Marine.

“They offered me a position in their sales and technical training division,” Casper said. “It was the salad days for the marine industry. I followed the money.”

Two years later, the 9/11 attack happened. The boating industry ebbed. He was high salary, and low totem pole, and was let go between Christmas and the New Year.

“Happy holidays,” Casper laughed. “By March I was back in radio at the Great 98, as if I’d never left.”

“Silk is one of those guys on our team that is over qualified for the market,” Terry Davis, President of Radio Plus & Record Entertainment said. “What I mean by that is that it’s likely he could maintain a broadcast or commercial production gig in a bigger market.

He’s our go-to guy for voice impersonations, major market commercial production and creative writing. I first met him in 1981 as he allowed me to shadow him while he was doing play-by-play at a high school basketball game. I bring that up because that is yet another thing (sports play-by-play) Silk could do if time allowed. Jack of all trades? Yes. And I’d say a master at them as well…that’s Silk Casper.”

Casper has also freelanced voice over narration for Mercury Marine, New Holland, Johnson Controls, Speed Queen, Gravely Mowers, and many others, and has been the on-camera talent for the EAA in Oshkosh.

“He’s a great spokesperson for UWFond du Lac,” Wittchow said “emceeing campus events and helping the university’s foundation raise money for wonderful

causes such as scholarships and training for instructors. I worked with Silky for 13-years at Action Advertiser and got to know his talent very well, first as a movie reviewer and then as a feature writer. All the while he was a radio personality who could throw his voice so effectively that many people did not know it was him behind the microphone.

“Then in October 2013,” Casper said “I received a call from Jim Moran, the publisher of the SCENE Arts & Entertainment Newspaper with an offer to become editor of the Fond du Lac-area version. Sounded like a challenge.”

“Starting a publication in a new market is very difficult. It takes the right mix of people to put together a start-up newspaper in a market that is well served by strong publication. Our decision to go into the Fond du Lac market meant that we needed someone very connected to the community.

In looking for the right person, Michael’s name kept coming up as a person I should talk to. It took only our initial meeting to know that Michael was the person we needed to be our Editor for the Scene in Fond du Lac, stated Moran.” Fond du Lac is very fortunate to have Michael managing the editorial for our publications. He is not only wellconnected, but really cares about the stories that make up our newspaper.

No deserves this award more than Mike.

“Completing the editorial circle of life,” Casper said “in May of 2015, the editor who took a chance on me many years ago at the Action Advertiser, wrote a feature for me that was subsequently published in the SCENE.” “To me, Michael Casper is a Fond du Lac treasure,” Wittchow said. “He is as funny as any comedian I have witnessed or met, is an outstanding radio personality, has teaching/training experience with the area’s leading employer, is a talented writer and editor and always speaks highly of his start at UW-Fond du Lac. In my opinion, he is a very distinguished alumnus of a great Fond du Lac university.”

“The selection committee was impressed with Michael Casper’s involvement in the local community and his broad range of experiences during his career,” Laurie Krasin said, “Michael has often volunteered his time and talents to the university over the years. His achievements and contributions to the Fond du Lac area will be inspiring to students.”

An RSVP is requested in advance for anyone interested in attending the reception on Sept. 30 via e-mail to uwfdlfoundation@ uwc.edu.

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September 8 Beginner Ballroom Lessons Shut Up and Dance 17 Forest Avenue 7:00 - 8:00pm $10 per person

September 1 Beginner Ballroom Lessons Shut Up and Dance 17 Forest Avenue 7 - 8 pm $10 per person Beginner dance lessons every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 7:00 - 8:00pm at Shut up & Dance! No partner or pre-registration needed. Ballroom, Latin, Swing & Salsa! All ages 16+. Kids classes coming this Fall.

September 2

Step away from so-called social media and get face-to-face with local vendors, fresh food, art and more at Downtown Fond du Lac Farmers Market. Sponsored by Agnesian Healthcare, the Farmers Market is located on Main Street Plaza every Wednesday.

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September 3

Jim and Linda’s Lakeview Supper Club W3496 Highway W Pipe 6-10pm

Beginner Ballroom Lessons

$5 to $10 suggested donation We are excited to again partner with Marigold Yoga in hosting Yoga Classes in the vineyard.

Classes will be held every Wednesday beginning June 3rd, through September 30th. Dennis Hawk will be playing music during this yoga class and one class each month. Free wine tasting will be available following yoga. Please bring your own yoga mat, if you do not have one, bring a towel or blanket. In case of rain, yoga will be held inside.

$10 per person

September 4 Music on the Patio Tedd Young Jim and Linda’s Lakeview Supper Club, W3496 Highway W Pipe 6-10 pm Come on out tonight for some good music, drinks and a scenic sunset view!

Lego Night Children’s Museum of Fond du Lac 75 W. Scott Street 4-7 pm $6.00

Farmers Market Main Street Plaza 18-28 South Main Street 11-3 pm

Farmers Market 18-28 South Main Street 8am-noon

Music on the PatioSly Joe & the Smooth Operators

Shut Up and Dance

Yoga in the Vineyard 17 Forest Avenue 7 - 8 pm - Vines & Rushes Vines and Rushes Winery 410 County Road E Ripon 5:30 pm to 8 pm

September 5

The first Friday of every month, enjoy our giant supply of LEGOs, demonstrate creative building and be inspired by a monthly theme

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September 6 Music on the PatioEmily Forst Jim and Linda’s Lakeview Supper Club, W3496 Highway W Pipe 5-9pm

September 7 Labor Day Parade 9:30 am line-up 11:00 am parade starts The Fond du Lac County Labor Council will have the annual Labor Day parade and the picnic at Lakeside Park this year. The parade line up is at 9:30am and the Parade starts at 11 am., beginning at Rees and Main Street traveling north on Main Street past Scott Street. The picnic on Oven Island at Lakeside Park begins at noon and ends at 5 pm.

There will be live music and face

Card Making Techniques

of Giving South Hills Country Club 1175 Fond du Lac Ave. 5:30PM The Fond du Lac Area Foundation will be holding its annual “Celebration of Giving” dinner by paying tribute to the vision and integrity of its founders and to the extraordinary philanthropic spirit of the people of the Fond du Lac area.

September 10

Southlake Clubhouse 130 Southlake Circle 3:15 or 5:15 or 7 pm

Beginner Ballroom Lessons

$6.00 or a minimum $15.00 product order

17 Forest Avenue 7:00 - 8:00pm

Make three cards/learn at least one new technique and use one new product each month. $6.00 gets you the class and three cards to mail out or use as samples to make more OR you may place a $15.00 minimum order for products and your class and cards are free! Three sessions to choose from: 3:15 or 5:15 or 7 pm.

RSVP at least 24 hours in advance so materials can be prepared. All materials are supplied except for double-sided adhesive - please bring with you. Call or email stampinjana@charter.net. NO Children under 10 please.

September 9 Yoga in the Vineyard - Vines & Rushes Vines and Rushes Winery 410 County Road E Ripon 5:30 pm to 8 pm $5 to $10 suggested donation

Farmers Market Main Street Plaza 18-28 South Main Street Fond du Lac 11-3pm

Shut Up and Dance

$10 per person

Meet Producer Dinner LaClare Farms W2994 County Road HH Pipe 6:30pm $40 per person or $75 per couple Purchase your tickets to Meet the Producer Dinners at LaClare Farms now! Come & experience an evening you won’t forget! Dine with us on our farm where our in house Chef Jim creates a multicourse meal using locally sourced ingredients, paired with a local brewery or winery. We feature a cheese display using many of the cheeses we make right here in our creamery using either goat, cow or sheep milk! Cash Bar opens one hour before Dinner. Seating is Limited. The second Thursday of every month LaClare Farms hosts a special event for you to meet the person who produced your meal. This month’s dinner is with the Tyranena Brewery & Shared Seasons Community Farm!

September 12

Fondue Fest Finale FDL Area Foundation Back Home Boys Annual Celebration Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts

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51 Sheboygan Street Performance 5:00 pm Back Home Boys are one of Wisconsin and Iowa’s premier and well known Country Acts. This 6 piece group has some of the finest musicians and best vocalists in the Midwest. A 12 pack, shining deer on gravel back roads, and bullhead fishing at night was nothing out of the norm for these guys while growing up.

Fondue Fest Concert: Nicole Kottke Band Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts 51 Sheboygan Street 2pm

Farmers Market 18-28 South Main Street 8am-noon

Music on the Patio-

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FDL High School Performing Arts Center 801 Campus Drive 8pm Saturday, 4pm Sunday

Jim and Linda’s Lakeview Supper Club W3496 Highway W Pipe 5-9pm

Join us for the state preliminary event for Miss USA and Miss Teen USA. Saturday’s preliminary show will take place at 8pm and Sunday’s finals show will take place at 4pm.

Fondue Fest Main Street Plaza 18-28 South Main Street 9-5pm

With an annual attendance of more than 20,000 people, Fondue September 13 Fest comes in as the largest event Boneyard Paintball’s in downtown. Three stages with all genres of music, a huge Kids 2nd Annual Zone, art and craft vendors, Paintballers for Pets farmer’s market vendors, cheese Boneyard Paintball, LLC and chocolate fondue and more N7333 Highview Road Plymouth add to the excitement of the day.

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This amazing organization helps animals and their owners by providing food, supplies, low cost healthcare, education, and so much more! This will once again be a day filled with Paintball, Raffles, Giveaways, Food, Music,

and a ton of FUN! ARCS will be serving up some delicious “Walking Tacos” and hot dogs and all proceeds will be going to help the animals! Come with a donation for the animals and you will receive a discount on your admission as well as a free raffle ticket! (More will be available for purchase) Even if you don’t want to play, come out and spectate, try our shooting gallery, have some lunch or just try your luck at some raffles and most of all HELP THE ANIMALS!! **The most needed items right now are cat food (canned and dry) and cat litter as well as CASH to help finish the van used to transport animals and their owners to much needed medical care as well as deliveries to owners in need of food and supplies for their beloved pets.**

Baby Clydesdale Week Larson’s Famous Clydesdales W12654 Reeds Corner Road Ripon 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. $15 Adults $5 Child 11 and under, Groups available Celebrate the growth of the newest Baby Clydesdale, born last spring. Close-up view, ranch tour, and grandstand show.

September 15 Beginner Ballroom Lessons Shut Up and Dance 17 Forest Avenue 7:00 - 8:00pm $10 per person

September 16 September 14 - 19 Celebration of the

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September 17

Vines and Rushes Winery 410 County Road E Ripon 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm $5 to $10 suggested donation Please bring your own yoga mat, if you do not have one, bring a towel or blanket. In case of rain, yoga will be held inside.

Beginner Ballroom Lessons Shut Up and Dance 17 Forest Avenue 7:00 - 8:00pm $10 per person

Farmers Market

September 18

Main Street Plaza 18-28 South Main Street 11-3pm

Tour the Town Art Walk - Fond du Lac Downtown Fond du Lac Various locations 5:00 - 8:00 PM

The Reporter Women’s Expo Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts 51 Sheboygan Street 3pm-7pm A day to browse, shop, chat, learn and network. Cash N Carry items available. A great way to start that holiday shopping early. Wine tasting, live music, demonstrations, sampling and vendor interaction.

Stroll historic downtown Fond du Lac during Tour the Town, held the third Friday of every month from 5-8 p.m. All manner of artists - from painters, to jewelry makers, to mixed media artists, to cheese artisans, and every medium in between - grace our downtown’s venues with their wares for purchase. This event is always free!

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One evening a month, May thru Roosevelt Park September, a chef from a different N7320 Winnebago Drive area restaurant and their staff Taycheedah will be preparing an elegant meal 1:30 pm HERE at Meuer Farm. Join us The Winnebago SuperCrossing for a showcase of fresh produce will start Friday, Sept. 18 at 1:30 from our farm and the surroundpm, at Roosevelt County Park. It’s ing area. Each evening includes a a long-distance race with a relaxed cash bar, 3-5 course dinner and format. Conditions permitting, farm activity. Dinners are being the lake can be crossed from the presented at Meuer Farm in our south to the north. Some years Main Activity Building. 5:30p it’s a challenge just to get to TJ’s, Cocktails 6:00p Dinner-Gather Wendt’s or Jim & Linda’s. The Americana 7:00p Farm ActivityFinish is across from Wind Power Farm Flavors Products at the Sunset on the Water Grill & Bar.

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September 18-20 Nicci & Nina Share Fine Art Galleries 228 S. Military Road Thursdays-Saturdays 1-8pm Sundays 1-5pm Share Fine Art Galleries is excited to have these two talented local Fond du Lac artists in one show.

The opening reception will be during Tour the Town Fond du Lac Sept. 18th from 5-8pm

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September 19 Farmers Market

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View antique farm equipment working on site. Rock crushing, Here is your chance to get an threshing, log-sawing, blacksmith- overhead view of the maze along ing and more. with the beautiful east shore of Lake Winnebago.

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2015 Wind Power Championships

Music on the PatioJim Counter

Roosevelt Park N7320 Winnebago Drive Taycheedah 11:00 am

Jim and Linda’s Lakeview Supper Club W3496 Highway W Pipe 5-9pm

September 19-20 R.S. Vintage Steel Steam & Gas Engine Show RS Vintage Steel Steam & Gas Engine Show N10895 Highway 151 Calumetville

Chilton 10-6pm

The Wind Power Championship is one of the biggest regattas with attendance from all over the Mid-west. It’s on the US Windsurfing National Tour. Wind conditions are usually very good, yet the water is warm with Fall approaching.

Helicopter Ride Weekend Meuer Farm & Corn Maze N2564 U.S Highway 151N

Shut Up and Dance

17 Forest Avenue 7:00 - 8:00pm

September 23

$10 per person

September 24-27 Nicci & Nina

Yoga in the Vineyard Share Fine Art Galleries 228 S. Military Road - Vines & Rushes Vines and Rushes Winery 410 County Road E Ripon 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm $5 to $10 suggested donation

Come see vendors wares from all walks of life. Antiques, collectibles, beauty products, crafts, rummage, and more. Vendors welcome. If you want to sell it, become a vendor.

Shut Up and Dance

$10 per person

Fond du Lac Lions & Lioness Community Market

September 22

Lessons

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September 20

FDL County Fairgrounds Recreation Building 541 Martin Avenue 8-3pm

Beginner Ballroom Lessons

Farmers Market Main Street Plaza 18-28 South Main Street 11-3pm

September 24 Beginner Ballroom

Thursdays-Saturdays 1-8pm Sundays 1-5pm Share Fine Art Galleries is excited to have these two talented local Fond du Lac artists in one show.

September 25-26 Vir-Clar Farm Fall Festival Vir-Clar Farm N5119 County Road K Fri 2-6pm and Sat 9-3pm 12 and over $5 3-11 $3 and 2 and

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Walk

Bring the family out to see the animals, experience an educational tour, pick out a pumpkin and enjoy activities and delicious food...all while supporting our community! Proceeds from the event will be given to charities the farm chooses. Visit the Vir-Clar Dairy Barn & Grill and enjoy our affordable and kid-friendly menu! Face Painting, Tattoos, Petting Zoo, Pony Rides, Kid’s Activities,and Pumpkins for Sale.

Take a tour of the milking parlor and see where your milk comes from. Visit the barns and see where the cows live. Check us out on Facebook for more info.

$20/advanced tickets

Rienzi Cemetery & Chapel Mausoleum N6101 Highway K 11-4 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.

September 26 bmoved Global Yoga Event Lotus Power Yoga, 770 S. Main Street #25 Fond du Lac

$25/at the door Join Lotus Power Yoga for this global yoga event to raise funds for the Baptiste Foundation and locally for ASTOP of Fond du Lac. The event will include a 75 minute yoga practice, smoothie samples from Village Market and much more! The practice will be held outside in the backyard of Cobblestone Square. If you can’t attend but would still like to support this great cause, please visit www.gofundme.com/ lotusyogasurvivors To register for this event, please visit www. lotuspoweryoga.com

Farmers Market 18-28 South Main Street 8am-noon

Legends & Lyrics

$5.00 6 and under are free Browse historic Rienzi Cemetery and allow Fond du Lac’s Community Theater educate you about the athletes and musicians buried here. The group includes an early Green Bay football player and his professional bowler wife, a world renowned author and a famous “Milwaukeean” known for his interesting Wisconsin Avenue business contacts just to name a few. There will also be food available on the grounds.

Music on the PatioRings Jim and Linda’s Lakeview Supper Club W3496 Highway W Pipe 5-9pm

September 26-27 25th Annual Civil War Weekend Wade House Historic Site W7965 Highway 23 Greenbush Adults $14; children (5-17) $7; Students (with ID) and Seniors (65+) $12, Family Rate $38.

Celebrate the Civil War sesquicentennial and our 25th year of commemoration at one of the largest Civil War re-enactments and encampments in the Midwest. See an authentic skirmish and battle each day, visit President Abraham Lincoln, listen to music of the Civil War era and enjoy many other activities. Special pricing includes entire site.

September 29

17 Forest Avenue 7:00 - 8:00pm $10 per person

September 30 Yoga in the Vineyard - Vines & Rushes Vines and Rushes Winery 410 County Road E Ripon 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm $5 to $10 suggested donation

Farmers Market Main Street Plaza 18-28 South Main Street 11-3pm Find more information at www. downtownfdl.com. Get social.

Buy local at the Downtown Fond du Lac Farmers Market.

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Back Home Boys 5 pm, FREE

Thank you to our Sponsors: Wisconsin Arts Board, First Weber & Winfield Homes, The Goldsmith, Friends of THELMA and Hometown Bank!

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A Language of Old September 10 - October 10 FREE Reception September 24

Some of the areas best artists!

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More artists, more work! Both levels of the Contemporary Wing. Don’t miss it!

Art is free. No admission thanks to the generosity of Horicon Bank.