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New plan unveiled for Wausau Center mall

4 WPS building could become innovation center

5 GOP Con waves off COVID-19 waivers

6 Allen Brothers Band, Music in the Garden and more this weekend

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Whether it’s music, movies or theatre, no one is quite sure what the fall - or even next month - will look like

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by B.C. Kowalski

Mall plan

The group partnering with the city to redevelop the mall unveiled plans to turn it into smaller, mixed-use buildings with residential, retail and office space.

A plan by Wausau Opportunity Zone Fund to redevelop the mall could see the mall close in 2021, with the first redevelopment to follow.

The plan was presented by WOZ Managing Director Chuck Ghidorzi, who laid out the framework of the 4-5 year redevelopment plan at Wausau Economic and Development Committee meeting Tuesday.

The plan would see the mall divided into seven smaller buildings, and include retail on the first floor and market rate residential on the subsequent floors. It would also call for a large office building on the west side of the mall property.

The city kicked in $1 million last year toward the project to help a pair of non-profit organizations buy the mall as Wausau Opportunity Zone Fund to make sure it stayed under local control since a venture capital firm wanted to buy and gut Wausau Center. The group completed the sale earlier this year.

The plan calls for 80,000 square feet of retail space, 200,000 square feet of office space and 458 residential units in the mall’s footprint. The plan is being designed to fit with the traffic and building plan for the downtown area highlighted in various consultant reports, such as the Towers and South Riverfront area plans the city commissioned, as well as traffic plans delineated by Toole Design.

The plans include making Third Street more of an open plaza, extending the street to HOM Furniture, and also call for a public market near where the JC Penney building is now.

Ghidorzi says the group wants to finalize the plan’s details before seeking a developer.

The first part of the mall likely to be redeveloped would be the east part of the Washington Street/Third Street sections. That means the mall could close as early as first quarter 2021, Ghidorzi told City Pages. The mall would have to close completely once a redevelopment project starts, he says.

UWSP Wausau could have private dorms

The UWSP at Wausau campus could have privately run dorms if a new proposal comes to fruition.

The county’s Extension, Education and Economic Development Committee, voted Tuesday to explore further the idea of seeking proposals for a private development firm to build and operate a new dorm.

UWSP Wausau Campus Executive Ann Herda-Rapp told the committee that the dorm building, constructed in 1968, needs major renovations and doesn’t even have air conditioning. The county owns and is responsible for the maintenance of the buildings on the campus, according to agreements in place since the campus was known as UW-Marathon County.

The dorms were renovated in 2001, Herda-Rapp says, but a new dorm would

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be needed to help the campus attract students from outside the area. A 2015 study showed the dorms were outdated.

With limited in-person classes in the fall and no students staying in the dorms for the foreseeable future because of the Covid-19 pandemic, now is a good time to do it, Herda-Rapp told the committee.

UWSP Marshfield already has a similar dormitory situation.

Staff will be looking into the idea further after the recommendation by the committee.

Marathon County employee tests positive for COVID-19

A Marathon County employee has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the county’s health department.

The Marathon County Health Department on Friday received notification that an employee in the courthouse tested positive, says Marathon County Coronavirus Public Information Officer Judy Burrows. The employee upon learning they had COVID-19 immediately contacted their county supervisor and the health department.

According to the health department’s investigation, the employee did not have close contact with any members of the public.

The health department also reports that an employee at Sconni’s contracted COVID-19, and the restaurant closed temporarily as a result. Burrows says the health department is conducting contact tracing but officials don’t believe other employees or customers are at high risk of exposure because the person’s infectious period occurred after their last day of work.

The National Guard is partnering with local health departments to put on testing screens in Marathon and Portage Counties. The National Guard held one testing on Wedensday in Portage County, and will hold test screenings on Thursday (noon-8 pm) and Friday (7 am-4 pm) in Abbotsford near the Dollar General.

Cleveland Avenue sale on hold for testing

A city-owned property on Cleveland Avenue sought out as a non-profit campus and other projects is on hold until more can be known about its potential environmental contamination.

The city last month received four proposals for the city-owned property at 1300 Cleveland Avenue, including an apartment complex, two industrial expansions, and a non-profit campus that would combine many area non-profits into one area.

But city leaders still have concerns about potential contamination on the site from past industrial uses, including earlier site-owner Connor Forest Industries. The city had commissioned a Phase I environmental report for the property, which compiles all environmental documentation on a site, but additional documents uncovered by Council Member Tom Kilian raised concerns about contamination on the site, as well as what an earlier agreement with Connor Forest Industries means for city liability on the property. “Until we know more, I think the whole site is on hold,” says Economic Development Committee Member Lisa Rasmussen.

At a meeting held in the neighborhood about the non-profit campus proposal, Kilian says many residents there were concerned both about the environmental issues and the non-profit campus, the most likely of the proposals to be chosen. But Council Member Dawn Herbst says she also attended the meeting and only a handful of residents showed, hardly serving as a representative sample of the neighborhood.

Public Works Director Eric Lindman says he plans to gather all the materials he can from Kilian’s research and other documentation and present it to the committee in August. That information will inform what kind of testing is needed on the site.

▲ Renderings show what Third Street could look like after the Wausau Center mall is redeveloped.

City allocates leftover pool money to parks

Wausau will use the money saved by not opening its pools to instead pay for new park upgrades.

The city’s Parks and Recreation Committee Monday voted to allocate the funds — about $110,000 — to renovating two of the city’s parks, preferably one on the west and one on the east side of the city.

The city voted last month to keep its three pools closed for the summer following several meetings of debate and strong public opinion on both sides of the issues. Many felt it would be unsafe and thought the city should keep them closed, while others thought it was one of the safer activities kids could enjoy in the summer since it is outside, and a safer alternative to swimming in area lakes and rivers. The county’s health department didn’t recommend opening the pools.

The city has been working on gradually replacing its playgrounds with new, updated playground equipment and designs. Four parks — Riverside, 3M, River Highlands and Westview Terrace — have yet to be upgraded. Riverside and 3M were next on the list and were up for consideration in 2021.

Other possibilities included upgrading the city’s skate park, replacing the parking lot at Sylvan Hill, replacing several of the city’s tennis courts and replacing the Memorial Park seawall.

But putting the money toward parks made the most sense, says committee member Tom Neal. “It seemed to be when the possibility of using this money came around, I thought top of the list had to be something kid-oriented,” Neal says.

The Finance Committee and City Council will still have to approve the idea.

Good week for: Saving the Clark Street Island building

A historic power building along the Wisconsin River could yet be saved from demolition and put to new use, local leaders say.

Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce CEO Dave Eckmann says the Wausau Prosperity Partnership is close to coming to terms with WPS over saving the historic power building on the Wisconsin River just west of downtown. The building had been close to being demolished and WPS had the permits to remove the building, but Eckmann says the group has plans to instead turn it into an innovation center.

The building was identified as an important potential development piece by TIP Strategies, the consultant the chamber hired to help build its new economic development strategy. It’s the latest example of Wausau leaders attempting to take better advantage of the riverfront, something other cities have excelled at. The Riverlife Park and subsequent residential developments underway on the river were the catalyst for that change.

“I’m happy to say we are this close to saving Clark Island,” Eckmann told the city’s economic development committee Tuesday. Eckmann says Chamber plans to sell its building and put $500,000 into rebuilding the Clark Island building into an innovation center and is working on bringing MCDEVCO back under the same roof as the Chamber.

The building was the first power generation station in Wausau, built in 1904, Eckmann says.

▲ The Greater Wausau Prosperity Partnership is close to saving the historic Clark Island building, which they hope to transform into an innovation center.

DINE IN OR TAKE OUT Tragic week for: Girl killed in Lake DuBay boating incident

A 15-year-old girl was killed in a boating incident in Lake DuBay over the weekend, police say.

Travina Chandler, 15, of Wausau was killed Friday evening after she fell off a personal watercraft, according to a press release from the Portage County Sheriff’s Office.

According to police reports, Chandler was traveling as a passenger on a personal watercraft with a 33-year-old Schofield man on Lake DuBay when she fell off the device. The man told police he was able to get her back onto the craft and bring her to shore, where she was unconscious. Emergency medical personnel were unable to revive Chandler.

She was later pronounced dead by the Portage County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The cause of Chandler’s death is still unknown and is being investigated by Portage County officials and the Department of Natural Resources.

Both were wearing personal flotation devices, Sheriff’s Office officials say.

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No COVID worries

Wisconsin’s state GOP convention will not require COVID-19 waivers The Wisconsin GOP isn’t requiring attendees at this week’s Green Bay state convention to sign a waiver related to COVID-19.

Those who attended a rally featuring Vice President Mike Pence in Pewaukee recently were required to sign one acknowledging “an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19” and agreeing not to hold liable the campaign or the hotel that hosted the event if they got sick. Likewise, President Trump’s campaign required attendees at an Oklahoma event to sign a waiver amid warnings against large gatherings due to the coronavirus.

State GOP Executive Director Mark Jefferson said in a statement to WisPolitics.com “attendees recognize that attending an event comes with risks and are able to assess those risks for themselves.”

The state GOP convenes July 10-11 in Green Bay for the convention. The party had originally planned to gather in May, but delayed that due to the pandemic. The party also shortened the event to two days rather than the traditional three.

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Assembly Speaker’s business received $150k in PPP loans

Thompson opens UW System ‘listening post’

Wisconsin’s delegation to the Republican National Convention in Florida next month includes newly minted UW System Interim President Tommy Thompson, former Gov. Scott Walker and the Legislature’s top GOP leaders.

In addition to Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, state Sens. Dan Feyen, of Fond du Lac, and Howard Marklein, of Spring Green, are among the delegates.

Reps. Tyler August, of Lake Geneva, and John Nygren, of Marinette, are among the alternates. Altogether, the party is sending 52 delegates and another 49 alternates.

Republicans moved the national convention to Jacksonville, Fla., after a dispute between the president’s campaign and North Carolina leaders over safeguards in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, Jacksonville issued a mandate requiring masks for public and indoor locations where individuals can’t meet social distancing requirements.

Meanwhile, the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee has moved to a largely virtual affair with the national party telling state delegations to stay home.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ popcorn company received a loan of at least $150,000, one of thousands that went to Wisconsin businesses as part of a federal program to help companies retain employees amid the fallout from COVID-19.

The Small Business Administration Monday released a list of loans awarded to companies under the Paycheck Protection Program, and Robin J Vos Enterprises Inc. was listed as receiving a loan of between $150,000 and $350,000.

According to the records, the April 11 loan helped preserve 44 jobs.

“His company received one of nearly 700,000 loans given to small businesses, which allowed the company to keep its workers employed during these uncertain times,” said Vos spokeswoman Kit Beyer.

Altogether, the SBA released a list of 12,355 loans to Wisconsin businesses worth at least $150,000 with another 73,104 or less than $150,000. Combined, the program helped preserve more than 990,000 Wisconsin jobs.

UW System interim-President Tommy Thompson’s transition team has established a “Listening Post” for students, staff, faculty and all Wisconsinites to ask questions and offer thoughts on the upcoming school year.

Transition team co-chair Tom Loftus in a statement said Thompson intends to start off his tenure with the UW System as “Listener-in-Chief,” saying he will collect ideas and take feedback on people’s priorities for the system. Thompson is a former GOP governor and health secretary; Loftus is a former Dem Assembly speaker, ambassador, and regent. The other cochair is former Walker administration Secretary Scott Neitzel.

The system’s president’s web page says Thompson will respond to input received in a “Two Minutes with Tommy” social media video series.

July 1 was Thompson’s first day on the job as interim president. Ray Cross stepped down from the position, but he will stay with the system as a consultant for the next 90 days to help with the transition.

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COVER FEATURE

by B.C. Kowalski

THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT

Whether it’s music, movies or theatre, no one is quite sure what the fall - or even next month - will look like

IT MIGHT

The owners of the Cosmo Theater in Merrill, Trevor and Shelby Dzwonkowski, have been selling popcorn to keep some business going during the pandemic.

sound surprising that the Cosmo Theatre, which like many businesses shut down in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic, soon started selling its popcorn as a curbside pickup service.

But it’s not much surprise to those who eat Cosmo’s popcorn on the regular; even as a complete dinner.

Owner Trevor Dzwonkowski says that wasn’t by accident. Dzwonkowski says when he and his wife took over the business from their inlaws, they put a lot of time and effort into finding just the right popcorn and flavorings.

As a result, even before Coronavirus folks were stopping in just to buy their popcorn. “There are a lot of people who come in and ask, ‘Is it OK if I just have popcorn?’” he tells City Pages.

Selling popcorn was his wife’s idea to keep some type of business going during the pandemic, Dzwonkowski says.

The 1928-built theater, one of the first “talkie” theaters around back in those days, has remained closed since and opening up is a challenge, he tells City Pages.

Why? Many theaters that did open so far have eliminated concessions, for example. Unfortunately, that’s how most theaters make their money - ticket sales mainly help cover the costs of the movies themselves. “I have friends in the theater business who had to open already,” Dzwonkowski says. “They said it’s not worth it.”

The theater business is not alone - how to reopen and what the future looks like for music and other live performance is a target that moves daily, and the one thing everyone has in common is that no one is certain what the future will look like for entertainment.

MUSIC

The main challenge with most entertainment is that its main purpose — to draw people in — is completely counterintuitive to new norms around social distancing, explains Tyler Vogt, owner of Townies Grill and Malarkey’s Pub. Malarkey’s Pub set itself apart from the Wausau scene when it opened more than a decade ago by offering some of the best live music in the area, bringing in acts that otherwise didn’t think to stop in the Wausau area.

But that’s a challenge now. The point of bringing in music is to pack the business full, which drives up revenue.

But that’s pretty much the opposite of what businesses want to do now. Whereas restaurants have found ways to social distance, spacing out tables to keep diners more than six feet apart, following good practices for music venues makes it tough to bring in the kind of business that would allow a venue to pay the band they hire at the prices they typically command.

“It’s weird to run a business and try NOT to pack it full of people,” Vogt tells City Pages.

Vogt has had a few open mics at the pub recently, which were hit and miss. And he is toying with putting together ticketed shows with more low-key acts, like something jazzy or acoustic. That would allow him to bring in enough revenue to still pay the bands and maintain social distancing - spacing out 50 patrons in the large bar/restaurants with decent social distancing shouldn’t be a problem, he says.

Whitewater Music Hall is also still figuring out how it will adapt. The music hall shifted into an entirely outdoors format - patrons can buy beer or coffee in the taproom but then must enjoy it outside on tables under its awning or in its back patio area on umbrellacovered tables.

The music hall has had a couple of open mics so far, with varying crowd sizes, depending on the weekend. And owner Kelly Ballard says she is still trying to figure out the best way to start hosting music again, whether that’s

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through hosting a small show in the outdoor area and selling tickets, or doing something through live streaming just to keep the music going.

Having to shut down was heartbreaking, though the music hall’s owners wanted to keep their employees safe as priority No. 1, Ballard told City Pages. Shutting down killed the momentum the music hall had started to pick up, bringing in a steady stream of acts that drew a crowd. “We had just the best lineup,” Ballard told City Pages. “That was painful. We had been cultivating that (bluegrass band) Dead Horses show since before we opened. It would have been perfect for our birthday celebration.”

That was in May, and instead of a birthday celebration, it was the first day Whitewater reopened to the public after being closed for a couple of months. As Ballard explains, even once the music hall starts opening with shows again, it’ll take a while before acts are once again scheduled to play the hall because setting up shows takes time. “It would be a couple of months at least before we have a ticketed show at the music hall again,” Ballard says.

During the lockdown, the music hall’s owners got permission to open its beer garden on the south side of the business and went back for its outdoor music permit too.

Substyle played one of the first professional live streams produced by JEM Productions.

Owner Joe Ellis says the livesteam shows launched soon after the Safer at Home order went into place.

STREAMING FATIGUE

Bradley Sperger had a pretty steady stream of live shows booked before COVID. He played in nursing homes for seniors during the week and spent most weekends booked full of live shows around the central Wisconsin area.

When the pandemic started hitting in full swing, shows started canceling, then before long they were all canceled. Sperger, who works during the day at North Central Health Care, suddenly found himself without his second job.

After the state supreme court in May ended the Safer at Home order, Sperger started getting a few gig offers here and there but so far there aren’t a ton of shows to play. “I have a show this Friday or Saturday, then I don’t have one until August,” Sperger says.

Even for shows that do come up, Sperger needs to be careful - some venues he’s played at have been more conscious of COVID than others. Health concerns are something he wants to be mindful of.

During the lockdown, Sperger did some live streaming to keep his skills up and to keep people aware of his music. Enthusiasm for them was strong at first when it was a novel response to COVID-19, but eventually people seemed to develop screen fatigue.

Guitarist and professional musician Harold Melo had been busy prior to the pandemic — between playing shows with his band Substyle and other musical acts, and teaching guitar lessons, he was living the life of a working musician.

The pandemic put a stop to that, as all live shows and many of his guitar lessons canceled. “It made me realize I need to diversify my means of income,” Melo told City Pages. “Not just focus on one thing, because if it ends, what am I going to do?”

Gigs started coming back in June with some of the groups he plays with, almost exclusively outdoors, such as a show at a vineyard. But Melo started working more on his recording skills and has been taking on recording projects to help pay the bills.

That’s necessary because no one knows for sure what live music is going to look like in the fall. Melo says he has some gigs scheduled in September, for instance, but whether most shows will happen is tenta-

tive these days. Even this week City Pages had to scramble to find out whether some concert series, such as Levitt Amp Series in Stevens Point, were still on the books.

It turned out, the first show has been pushed back to July 23.

“I don’t know what will happen, but if the shows I have booked don’t happen, I will just focus on recording and I will look at how else I can make money so I don’t have to rely on shows,” Melo told City Pages.

Joe Ellis of JEM Productions took live streaming to a whole new level. Knowing he wouldn’t have many live shows to produce, and to keep his and his employee’s skills fresh, he started producing live stream concerts with full production values, including lighting and set design. The first show featured Feed the Dog, followed by Substyle, and included acts such as Johnny and the Motones and Them Coulee Boys.

The concerts were well-received in the beginning, Ellis says, and they raised a lot of money for charity during the live streams, but as the weather got nice they found fewer people tuned in and many watched after the fact. They’ve stopped the live streams for the summer and are looking at potentially restarting them in the fall.

In the meantime, even with the state technically open, Ellis has learned not to trust any of his bookings because the large events his company is typically hired for are almost certainly canceling. “Our schedule will be full a month out, and then the events won’t happen.”

THEATERS

The Grand Theater instantly shifted to a virtual model of delivering content as the pandemic hit, says its Executive Director Sean Wright. “They’ve been received really well, frankly,” Wright says. “We’ve been blown away by how the community of people online have responded.”

The Grand Theater’s staff announced its upcoming season via YouTube. How that will play out - whether it will be a mix of virtual and in person programming with limited seating or something else entirely is up in the air — for the Grand Theater and for other theaters.

In the three months of the pandemic the Grand Theater has been shut down, it has lost more than $200,000 in revenue, Wright told City Pages. “It’s a substantial loss,” Wright says. Many ticket holders held on to their tickets instead of requesting refunds, which helped a lot, he says. And a Payroll Protection Program loan helped keep staff employed and able to help put on virtual events, he says.

Movie theaters nationwide have held off on opening out of fear of the Coronavirus, and movie studios have in turn held off on releasing features until they are more sure theaters will open up. The first movie releases slated for the big screen are opening up this month, such as Tenet on July 17 and Mulan on July 24.

According to a poll by Atom Tickets, 59% of those surveyed said they would like to return either immediately or within a month; 41% said they would either wait for a vaccine, wait more than two months, or never again return to a movie theater.

Some bigger chains say they can still maintain some degree of profitability, even if the theaters are only filled with a third of the usual number of customers.

For smaller theaters, it’s not so simple.

Opening will be a challenge for the Cosmo.

The lobby is small, so social distancing is limited. The business has three theaters of 100120 seats apiece. Social distancing means each theater would have a small number of seats open. It might be when they do open, they would show one movie on all three screens.

Sneeze guards are something the theater is looking into as well, Dzwonkowski says.

Fortunately for the Cosmos owners, they also own 13 rentals in the same building as the theater, so the couple still has income coming in. That gives them some space to open up when it’s safe to do so.

Still, The Cosmo is eyeing a mid-July opening. Dzwonkowski says before that, he was flooded with emails from movie studios offering specials on old movies. But he doubted that could bring in enough revenue to make it worth opening, especially with all the social distancing protocols that will be needed. Those might include sneeze guards, blocking off rows, and otherwise making sure patrons can view movies safely.

Marcus Theaters plans to open many of their theaters this month. According to its website, theaters will be practicing pretty standard social distancing policies such as doing employee health checks before work and encouraging patrons not feeling well to stay home. They’re requiring face masks at all times except when drinking and eating, according to its website. Like many businesses, they will be adding plexiglass in many areas, may be limiting concessions, and will have hand sanitizer throughout the theater.

But so far, it doesn’t look like that applies to Cedar Creek. According to Marcus’ website, the theater is listed as “opening soon” as are many of its theaters in Wisconsin, and no regular hours yet appear in the dropdown menu for July or August. The closest theater listed as open of the four in Wisconsin is Valley Grand Cinema in Appleton.

Whether it’s movies, music or other entertainment, so far the future is in flux and things are changing constantly. As if to illustrate how in flux everything is, just as this article was wrapping up The Cosmo Theatre announced on its Facebook page a new offer — patrons in groups of up to a maximum of 25 can rent the theater for private events.

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Events /Spectator Sports Wisconsin Woodchucks Baseball · Thurs.-Fri. 7/9-10, Athletic Park, Wausau. Games against La Crosse Loggers. 6:35 pm. Limited seating/capacity to maintain social distancing, tickets must be purchased in advance.

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Artists 12+ register, pick supplies, and work at home, then submit photos that will be collected for an online gallery on July 11 through Facebook. Children’s Virtual Chalkfest has a separate registration. See Chalkfest Wausau on Facebook for details State Park Speedway · Thurs. 7/16, State Park Speedway, Wausau. SLM & Support Divisions.

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Noon-2 pm or sold out. Mosineechamber.org, 715-693-4330 Kronenwetter Farmers Market · Sundays thru Oct. 25, Sunset Park. 9 am–2 pm. Kronenwetter.org, 715-693-4200, ext. 113 Stevens Point Farmers’ Market Mon.-Sat. May thru Oct. (Saturday is the biggest day). Open 7:30 am-noon.

Weekday vendors make own hours. Located at Mathias Mitchell Public Square downtown. On Facebook or stevenspointfarmersmarket@gmail.com Merrill Area Farmers Market · Wednesdays & Saturdays thru Oct. 31. Normal Park, five blocks north of courthouse on Center Ave. 7:30 am–12:30 pm. On Facebook and at merrillareafarmersmarket.com

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Woodson Art Museum, Wausau · Free admission. Now open. Gallery hours Tues.–Fri. 9 am–4 pm, Sat.–Sun. noon–5 pm; open until 7:30 first Thursday of each month, closed Mondays and holidays. Galleries open for viewing, please follow social distancing. Workshops and programs suspended thru July, August TBD. 715-845-7010, lywam.org. Now on display in main galleries: Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India · thru Aug. 30. More than 40 paintings and drawings feature dazzling patterns, vibrant colors, and nonlinear storytelling.

Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art · Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat. noon-5 pm. Free admission. 715-298-4470, Wmoca.org. Craig Blietz · thru July. Oil paintings by Wisconsin artist Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau · Free. New gallery hours Wed. 1-8 pm; Thurs-Fri. 11 am-4 pm; Sat. noon–4 pm. 715-842-4545, cvawausau.org. On view thru Sept. 13: The Body Nourished by Nature features paper cuttings of Kelly Alexander in the Vault Gallery; Creating a New Whole features the collage and assemblage works of 18 artists Q Artists Cooperative · Current exhibit Pieces to Masterpieces features fiber and jewelry by Pat Gaska and Joan North. Meet & chat with the artists during Sat. 7/11 hours. Gallery open Wed.-Thurs. noon-4 pm, Fri. 10 am-5 pm, Sat.-Sun. 10 am-2 pm.

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Metal Masters Quest · 7/6-8/21, Online. High school students complete adult apprenticeship machining classes online through NTC to build knowledge needed to work in manufacturing machining. Free. Details at ntc.edu, or email kilinski@ntc.edu Movies in the Moonlight: Kids Night · Thurs. 7/9, Willow Springs Garden, Wausau. Movie on big screen with food available. Lawn open for seating at 6:30 pm, show at 8 pm. willowspringsgarden.net, 715-675-1171 Garden Tea Party · Sat. 7/11, Willow Springs Garden, Wausau. Come dress up for tea, tea sandwiches, fruit coolers and more with food for children also available at 12:15 pm with tea stories and education tent from 11 am-noon. $10, $4 age 10 and under. 11 am-2 pm. willowspringsgarden.net, 715-675-1171 UWSP Pointers Middle Distance & Distance Running Camp · Sun.-Thurs. 7/12-16, UW-Stevens Point.

With professional guest coaches, runners grades 7-12 learn goal setting, weight training, diet, running philosophies, more. Check in 11 am-2 pm Sun. $350 includes room and board. Register: athletics. uwsp.edu, under “Camps” Read with Me: Musical Story Time · Mondays 7/13-8/3, virtual program through Wausau Conservatory of Music. For young kids ages 0-7, free 20-min. program via Facebook Live at 10 am. Tentative schedule includes Frederico the Mouse Violinist, Vio’s Violin, Hana Hashimoto Sixth Violin, and Ada’s Violin.

WausauConservatory.org, 715-845-6279 Handchime Choirs · Mondays 7/13-8/17, Wausau Conservatory of Music. Don’t know how to play an instrument? Though counting and learning notes make music as an ensemble. 4-4:45 pm for ages 9-12; 5-6 pm for ages 13+. $99. Details, registration: WausauConservatory.org, 715-845-6279

ARTventure Camp: ReCREATion · Mon.-Fri. 7/13-17, Center for Visual Arts, Wausau. Geared for ages 6-12. Experience life of a working artist, from creating, to pricing, selling and exhibiting. 9 am-noon, and/or 12:30-3:30 pm. $115 half day, $200 full day. Register at Cvawausau.org Camp Wildwood: Animal Architects · Mon.-Fri. 7/1317, Wildwood Zoo, Marshfield. Ages 10-15 explore the process of creating, designing and building zoo exhibits and permanent structures for the animals. 9-11 am. $100. Details, register: ci.marshfield.wi.us Wausau TetraBrazil Soccer Camp · Mon.-Fri. 7/20-24, DC Everest Middle School, Schofield. Authentic Brazilian soccer camp. Ages 6-10: 9 am-noon; ages 11-16: 1-4 pm. $155. Register: challengersports.com

Outdoors /Sports Yoga in the Gardens · Wed. & Thurs. thru Aug., Monk Gardens, Wausau. Bring your own mat and practice on the event lawn (social distancing required) with Kerri Spromberg and Jean Miller. Masks required at all times except when on your mat for yoga. 6-7 pm. $5 cash only Wausau Paddle Adventure · 7/1-12, Oak Island Park boat landing. Paddle at leisurely pace or post time for friendly competition, solo or small group. 4-mile loop not marked, so download map. Free, but register to win prizes. Details at ironbull.org 2nd Saturday Group Hike · Sat. 7/11, Rib Mountain State Park. Hike destination and duration determined by attendees. Meet at trailhead near concession stand.

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Featuring our entire line of 30+ varieties of Dip Mixes Sweet & Savory Mixes · Testing newest flavors too!

Fudge & Chocolates K-Family Krafts

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PK Creations LLC

715.842.7222

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