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Dave Steffen has been making music for a long time, specifically, singing and playing blues - rock on his collection of acoustic and electric guitars.

It was a year or so ago that I caught he and his band at Frenchie’s Bar in Fond du Lac, and was reminded just how good he was.

His career path, and his Chevy van have taken him from here to California and back, and included many talented musicians and transmutations. He’s met and played with some real greats whose names you’ll discover within. His story is one of determination to learn his craft, hone his skills, and play from the heart every night no matter where the stage, or how large the crowd.

Having seen he and his mates several more times through this past year, I thought it time to let him tell you his musical tale of wanderlust.

Also within your SCENE this month you’ll find the story of a fishing shanty, and the man who built it. The journey of this enduring shack from the ice of Lake Winnebago to its new home in our state museum is told by Mike Mentzer.

Plus a lot of food, entertainment, nature, politics, humor, art, wine and beer are also in the coming pages.

Enjoy your ‘merry, merry month of May!’

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Growing up in Plymouth, Wisconsin in 1951, there wasn’t a lot a 6 year old could do to occupy his time. When Dave Steffen and his family moved to the Crystal Lake area, he says he was a loner who liked to run away from school at recess.

“I was pretty much out of the main stream,” Dave said “I was shy, and when I got off the bus, I was pretty much by myself, and there wasn’t really anyone

around. I had a basketball hoop, so I was pretty good at hoops, but music was what I liked, and the guitar is what I loved.”

Dave had older sisters who were into Dick Clark’s American Bandstand.

“It was there that I was first introduced

to the likes of Chuck Berry,” Dave said “The Ventures, Everly Brothers. Pretty much any group or performer that played guitars, I was into. I liked the Rock and Roll side of things. So for me, my ‘guitar life’ began at age six.”

Like many youngsters, Dave got a toy guitar for Christmas, and his parents were very supportive of his musical passion. But he didn’t get his first real guitar lesson until he was ten.

“My folks rented it from a guy by the name of Joe Champeau from whom I took lessons,” Dave said. “He lived about 20 miles from the Sheboygan area. I can’t remember what type of guitar it was, and I think my folks paid like $2 or $3 for the rental. My first lesson I flat out stunk (laugh). In fact my parents told me I didn’t have ‘it.’ But after that first lesson, I went back home, and basically practiced my guitar until my fingers bled. I was ticked off. I was not a natural. But I came back after the first week and I blew everybody away. At ten years old, I was totally deter-mined.”

Playing the guitar may seem easy for those who watch Dave Steffen play, but it’s hard. And even Dave didn’t realize how hard.

“To this day, when I teach students the first time,” he said “I recognize all over again how hard it is. It’s not like a piano where you can play a single, clear note. You have to work at it, your fingers get calloused, muscles have to do things they have never done before. It looks easy on TV.”

Dave’s bullheaded determination led to

his first performance. “My instructors were so impressed with

my enthusiasm and quick progress,” Dave said “they put me in the ‘studio recital,’ after just three weeks. I was one of the last kids to perform, there were like fifty students. It was in a hall, and I played ‘Blue Tail Fly.’ I screwed up the first measures, so I started over again. I was nervous, it was my first time on stage. But I was already headlining (laugh)! And the studio was using me as an example of what can happen when you work hard.”

Dave’s the first to say he wasn’t a natu-ral but he had learned some music from his dad, who had his own big band.

“The Roy Steffen Band,” Dave said “a twelve-piece band that played all the Glenn Miller-like standards. They toured all over the Milwaukee and southern Wisconsin area. I remember my dad telling me about when they came to Cedar Lake to play a wedding, and found out they had to play polkas, and they didn’t know any polkas (laugh) they ended up having to pull out some sheet music in a hurry!”

Dave continued to take lessons once a week. He would spend a lot of time listen-ing to “guitar stuff,” picking it up by ear. And that led into Dave’s first gig at age 14, with his group “The Wanderers.”

“It was during Road America at the Pit and Paddock,” Dave said “back in 1965. We had to have our parents there, since we were all under age. We played some Beatles, Herman’s Hermits. I’ll never forget that night because I had an ‘awakening.‘ We were playing when all of a sudden

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out of nowhere, there was a chick who came out of the crowd, climbed up on our piano, and started dancing and taking off her clothes! And that’s when I realized, I’m going to keep practicing guitar because this business is for me!’ (laugh)

In 1968 Dave put together another band called Love Society. They took the song “Do You Wanna Dance,” by Bobby Freeman and gave it more of their own sound, and entered a Battle of the Bands, where an agent by the name of Al Posniak from the production agency Target Produc-tions, heard it and wanted to record them.

“It actually became a hit locally,” Dave said “and we had a bidding war between three or four companies who wanted to sign us. We eventually signed with Scepter Records, which at the time had a singer by the name of Dionne Warwick signed to the label. The song made Top 10 across the country, we landed a manager, got a Grey-hound bus, and we were off. We toured. Did a live show on WLS radio in Chicago, did a show for TV called “Upbeat” which was out of Cleveland.”

They were on a roll. Then came the realization that they needed another hit.

“We tried doing a follow up,” Dave said “but we were kids. We were getting into heavier music. Against our manager’s will, we did a song called Tobacco Road, a psychedelic version of it which to this day I still think sounds cool, but it wasn’t a good business move. We ended up getting a contract with RCA, at the time located at 1 Wacker Drive in Chicago, and we recorded an album there. We had one hit, “Bang on Your Own Drum,” which was getting air-play, but no sales due in part to a shipping or trucking strike or something. There were no records to be found in the stores.”

It was in 1974 when Sun Blind Lion was formed out of the Love Society, and with it came that harder edge sound. They recorded an album at Sound 80 Studios in Minneapolis. Bob Dylan had just recorded ‘Blood on the Tracks’ there two weeks prior.

“It was at Sound 80 where ‘Jamaican Holiday’ was recorded in just a few days,” Dave said “it was a regional hit in 1976. We were doing a lot of midwest touring. Scott Rivard was the engineer, and he also was the engineer for Garrison Keillor and Prairie Home Companion. Record compa-nies were coming to see us, and we almost got signed. But they had a different idea of

what they wanted us to be. Spandex pants, and all that...they were looking for a ‘for-mula.’ That was not our style. We decided we couldn’t be something we weren’t.”

Sun Blind Lion kept gigging until about 1979.

“And then in ’80 I decided it was time to follow my guitar playing and blues rock roots,” Dave said. “And we started the Dave Steffen Band. Back then you made ‘cassettes’ instead of vinyl albums. In ’81 we recorded in Sheboygan. In ’82 we did another studio album in Waupun at Madi-son Street Studio. Nick Kazulka, the engi-neer there, did a fantastic job. He had an old sound board that Jimmy Hendrix has once used, it sounded killer. And it wasn’t just the board, but also Kuzulka’s engineer-ing on that album was brilliant.”

Then California called.“I had this friend, Don Burhop who

lived in San Francisco,” Dave said “and he was doing the lighting for Jefferson Star-ship, Santana, Grateful Dead, bands like that. He told me, ‘Dave, you gotta come out here.’ He invited us to come out. We were playing a few gigs in some smaller bars at the time here, until in January of 85’ we finally thought we’d give California a try for a while. We loaded up the Chevy van and headed for the coast. That ‘few month trip’ turned into 10 years.”

The band got by on very little.“It was not easy,” Dave said “ for quite

a while we lived off a sack of potatoes (laugh). I mean there are only so many ways you can make a sack of potatoes into something appetizing.”

They lived at Burhop’s house.“He took us in. And that cassette

album we recorded in Waupun...it opened a few doors, and we ended up opening for The Tubes, Santana, Robin Trower. We entered a Battle of Bands, took 2nd place, we got to be known, but it took time and it was not easy.”

True to his Wisconsin roots, Dave always returned in the summer months.

“That blue Chevy van went more than 600,000 miles,” Dave said “it never rusted, thanks to the California weather, so we just kept dropping in a new engines and tranny’s when we needed to!” (laugh) We met a lot of great folks in California, hang-ing out in Marin County like Huey Lewis and the News, Carlos Santana, guys from the Dead. It was exciting, thrilling, but we never really got the ‘big deal’ we always

wanted.”Dave moved back to Wisconsin in 1995

when his mom was diagnosed with cancer. “I came back to take care of her,” Dave

said “it’s what you do.”Dave misses California, and its vibrant

music scene, but as he says, “the times were changing out there, and we’ve been able to carry on what we love here in Wisconsin.”

Playing the blues guitar is what he knows.

“I’m not getting rich,” Dave said “I have a buddy of mine that does some yard work, and I’ll occasionally help him out, I call it ‘raking for the rich’ (laugh) to give my muscles a work out. But music is my love! And I’m making a living playing.”

Dave will be the first to tell you he couldn’t do what he’s done without a core group of performers and friends.

“Craig Neuser has been with me since we did our Hawaii gig,” Dave said. “He was 19 at the time, so it’s been 20 years. I was teaching Craig’s brother at the time, and I was doing an acoustic set; Craig came out and played with me, and he played pretty good, and the dude could sing, which was

a bonus! Didn’t take much to convince him to come along to Hawaii. We also have Spencer Panosh, who was Craig’s good friend from Whitelaw, Wisconsin and I really liked his drumming, and I loved how he and Craig worked together so well. He joined Reverend Raven for awhile, but came back 10 years ago. Spencer is very talented, and a natural drummer. So when you match that up with the voice that Craig has, you get something special. They are reliable, with no baggage, you know? These guys are straight forward guys.”

Dave also co-fronts another version of the Dave Steffen Band called The String Benders, a quartet including two acoustic guitars, drums and a bass.

“Russ Reiser sings and plays acoustic,” Dave said “he started the Benders as a part time band. I joined him, along with Ron Kalista on drums, and Craig Neuser on stand-up fiddle, and harmonica. And Sun Blind Lion still gets together…a few gigs a year. We’re scheduled to do Mile of Music in August in Appleton.”

To find Dave’s complete upcoming sched-ule, visit davesteffenband.com

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Located just north of Culver’s,

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Greenway features paths for walking, a prairie loop

filled with new tree plant-ings, heavy woods which can

be explored by trails and a “back to nature” feel just yards from

businesses, restaurants and homes. The scenic East Branch of the Fond

du Lac River forms the western border of the Greenway and one trail extends

nearly a third mile along the waterway.“The Greenway is a great place to escape

and return to nature right here in the city,” said DeGolier.” You can walk up there, cross

the railroad tracks and you are in a whole other world. Sometimes you could imagine yourself in

the north woods. There is incredible natural beauty there when the frost falls on the plants or the soft

winter snows come that cling to everything. It’s quiet; the river provides beauty and attraction for wildlife.”

The main entrance of the Greenway Arboretum is located between Pick ‘n Save and the Salvation Army Thrift

Shop. Signage is located in an opening of a fence that was erected last fall to keep motorized vehicles (ATVs, snowmobiles,

etc.) off of a newly seeded two-acre field that will eventually become a savanna with grasses, trees and plants that were native to this area before development.

Another access point is on the north end and connects a former

railroad bed now turned into a walking path, from 12th Street. There are more than five trails in the Greenway plus several loops so that one can spend hours traversing the property.

DeGolier and several others, including Diana Beck, were instrumental in getting this city land turned into the greenway nature preserve that it is today. She had spoken to several people (Beck, Ruth Dauterman, Gerda Strupp, Christine Kaup, Margie Winter and Sid and Carol Knight were big supporters) about the importance of the property.

She explained that “a very small group of about six people had been meeting and doing some studies on parks. One of the speak-ers was from the East Central WI Planning Commission and he taught us that we should not try to change existing parks, but look to celebrate all the wonderful water that makes its way through Fond du Lac. My friends convinced me I should take action.” The result was a letter, dated Sept. 27, 2004, to Fond du Lac Parks Director John Kiefer.

After a meeting with Kiefer, DeGolier talked with the FDL League of Women Voters and other friends in the FDL Audubon Society and told them she asked the city for maps of the city’s open spaces. “I was told that no list existed and no maps existed to show the location. Finally in the summer of 2005, I told (City Manager) Wayne Rollin that I was going to put in a Freedom of Information request. Finally, in August of 2005, we got three copies of maps of the city with the open spaces outlined in red.”

DeGolier and Beck decided to explore the area that is now the Greenway Arboretum because it was one of the sizable pieces, and DeGolier likes its location because it was near her home. What they found out is that the property, once home to a house, had been turned into a dumping ground. Huge slabs of cement dumped there many years ago are still visible on the northeast edge of the property along the seldom used railroad tracks which serve as the east boundary of the greenway.

At that time that land was owned by Phil Majerus and he used it as a land fill, according to DeGolier. “There were heavy duty sewer pipes and other items with value in the area. We had a meet-ing with Mark Lentz, FDL Public Works Director, and Rollin and talked about this piece, mostly about the junk and metal items. The city sent the zoning officer and he suggested Majerus clean up the property (in 2006). He then promptly asked the city to buy it from him.”

The city was happy to do that, noted DeGolier, because cities can assess developers a fee or land when they do a new develop-ment for the purpose of creating a park. The city had money in such a fund in 2006 and the legislature was not happy with those

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who were sitting on such funds and not using the money. Rollin used $25,000 on 4.5 acres and in 2006 acquired the prairie area.

DeGolier, Beck and others soon found out that turning the property into a green-way would be a monumental task.

“The buckthorn was so thick that one had to crawl through in some parts. The garlic mustard grew in many places and was harder to reach through the briars,” said DeGolier. “We hauled out bags and bags of the mustard for the city to pick up.”

She also noted a local landscaper had huge piles of dirt in the open spaces piled 15 to 20 feet high. During rains, soil washed down through the Greenway to the river. It took volunteers several years to get the city to have the landscaper change his ways.

Today, a host of volunteers (many who have formed an informal group called Park Watch of Fond du Lac) have made great headway in the Greenway Arboretum. Those who walk it will notice huge brush piles of cut buckthorn limbs as well as piles of wood ready for the furnace or campfire. It is estimated that there are over three miles of trails in the property and more are being developed each week, especially now that spring has arrived.

DeGolier, of course, is very thankful for all the help that has been obtained in developing the Greenway.

She said the DNR early on gave some help and encouragement and some herbi-cides. “The City of Fond du Lac has always been incredibly helpful. They do some of the really big things that no one else can do like burning brush piles. There are two sec-tions of trail that their summer crews built under the guidance of Mack Whitmore who has become a trained crew leader for the purpose of building trails.”

Also, Fond du Lac County and Consul-tants Lab provided the funds for the trees on the prairie - there are about 25 plants. Marian University under Dr. John Morris started very early in the greenway’s history to bring students to pull garlic mustard and work on buckthorn removal. Margie Winter continues his tradition. Fond du Lac Noon Kiwanis has gotten involved in the past year and the Community Service Officers of the FDL Police Department have taken a real interest in the Greenway.

In 2014, DeGolier received a grant from the Fond du Lac Area Foundation to assist with the oak/hickory savanna restoration.

DeGolier is a Sheboygan County native and did not move to FDL until 1982. She started in the insurance profession as an agent with Thrivent Financial (AAL at the time) in December of 1979 and changed companies to Northwestern Mutual in 1983. On Feb. 1, 1999, she was appointed by Gov. Thompson to be the executive secretary of the Wisconsin Conservation Corps. Her term ended at the end of 2002 and the subsequent budget under Gov. Jim Doyle terminated the WCC. When DeGo-

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Urban Fuel, a new specialty coffee shop and café has opened its doors in Peebles, a tiny community just northeast of Fond du Lac. Serving breakfast and lunch Monday through Saturday, Urban Fuel is located in the same space that housed the former Gift ‘n Gab eatery and gift shop.

Urban Fuel’s owner, Terri Deanovich of Fond du Lac, has had a dream for 10 years to open a coffee shop. As the owner of Deanovich Decorating for 20 years, she says she’s been waiting for just the right timing and the perfect location. In Febru-ary, she ended ownership in one business to launch her new venture as a coffee shop café owner.

A few staff members from the former restaurant as well as several popular menu

items were brought on board by Deanov-ich – making it a smooth transition. The comfortable leather couches and chairs surrounding the fireplace for extra “cushy” relaxation are also being recognized by former patrons.

Urban Fuel’s atmosphere is unique – it’s in a building that was an old feed mill, dating back to the 1800’s. The result is an old world, rustic ambiance. Historical pictures from the old working mill line the walls. “My café space dates back to 1901,” Deanovich said, noting while part of the old feed mill burned down in the 1980’s, her spot was untouched. “There is so much history here, and I can’t wait to learn more about it.”

As for the food and drink served at Urban Fuel, diners will find specialty cof-fees, teas, sandwiches, soups, salads and

breakfast items – all deliciously homemade from scratch.

Topping the list for breakfast is the quiche of the day. Varieties like spinach bacon or artichoke asparagus tantalize hungry diners who arrive for a relaxing first-meal-of-the-day or those who choose to have breakfast for lunch! Other choices include homemade oatmeal, breakfast sandwiches and mouth-watering pastries like cinnamon rolls, muffins, cookies and scones.

Lunch selections include soups, salads and sandwiches on a variety of breads, wraps and Paninis. Soups like Lobster Bisque and Mushroom Brie, as well as sandwiches such as Turkey Brie and Grilled Cheese on a Panini delight leisure diners. “Even our salad dressings are made from scratch right here,” Deanovich said, noting

Thousand Island and Avocado Ranch are two examples. “Everything we make is created after you order it, piece-by-piece. Nothing is prepackaged or rushed. We aren’t a fast-food type of place -- we’re an experience to be enjoyed.”

Coffee is derived from high qual-ity beans purchased from Stone Creek -- a Milwaukee coffee roaster, making the “fuel” in the name Urban Fuel come to life. Specialty coffee drinks are an art -- one that Deanovich excitedly has jumped right into. Patrons will find her behind the counter, mastering “coffee art” which is the manipulation of cream and other ingredients into the coffee drinks. The art results in the creation of heart shapes and other designs in the specialty coffee drinks served. “Being a decorator for years, I love

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FOOD & DRINK // BREWMASTER

BY STEVE LONSWAY

Our beer selection for this month once again came from bottle stock at the Stone Arch Tap Room. It is the first imported beer our team decided to write about and we are all glad we did! Hardcore IPA from Ellon, Scotland based Brew Dog, a release from their “Amplified series”. This time around, our entire brewery team of 8 got to sample this Scottish offering. It was really neat for me to page though the tasting notes from each team member and compile them all into this article. It still amazes me, after so many years in the beer industry, how differently people per-ceive flavors and aromas

The amber colored long neck bottle boasts a label that is a simple dark green with reverse white in a dis-tressed print. Explicit Impe-rial Ale, as it is explained as well as the fact it is a product of Scotland. The side panel explains some fun numbers it took to create this beer including mention of the 9,900,000,000 yeast cells it took to make it all come together. With a best before date of 08/15/2026, we certainly didn’t have to rush to drink it, matter-of-fact I wish I had the patience to cellar this bad boy for several years to enjoy the inevitable changes it will incur.

This sample was poured into several snifter-style glasses. The pour allowed perfect foam formation consisting of a mixture of loose and tight bubbles from the CO2 and an ivory colored head. The head height was right where it needed to be at around two inches – very inviting! The appearance is a tad bit hazy which is typical in highly hopped beers. The color is a rich copper and reddish hue.

The nose this beer expels got so many

different associations from our team, I could have written this entire article on the nose alone. Lively citrus, malty, bready, piney, resinous, sweet, nutty, tangerine, Skittles, freshly shampooed carpet, just to name a few. With orange and fruity the

most common notes. Quite complex to say the least.

The taste/flavor wasn’t too far behind with fun associations. Strong, caramel, bitter fruit, earthy, nutty and a little bit of oxidation is what we all agreed on as to what you can expect when enjoying this beer. With grand amounts of Maris Otter Malt and obvious huge hop additions of Centennial, Columbus, Simcoe, Amarillo and Citra, this beer comes across the taste buds as pretty balanced, maybe a bit light on the hop tones even at 125 IBU’s (again; this coming from a group of hop hounds).

Important to mention is the belief of many experts that anything over 100 IBU’s is not perceived by the majority.

This beer finishes dry from the elevated alcohol content of 9.2% abv and still carries through with big citrus and caramel tones.

Overall this beer has a strong, complimen-tary balance with good body and a mellow warming sensation. Taylor was fortunate enough to be enjoying an Indian dish for lunch at the time of sampling and seemed to think the pairing was staged because of how perfect the beer paired with the spices.

Now let’s learn more about the Scot-tish blokes who brought this brand to the states. It all started back in 2007 when two 24 year olds and their trusted canine companion begged and borrowed cash and converted it into stainless to start their dream in Fraserburgh, Scotland. Their first

year produced 1,050 hectolitres of beer (895 U.S. barrels) with the two founders/stakeholders (and again their dog) at the helm. Year two they pushed the envelope by brewing the U.K.’s strongest beer and the media storm that followed help them

persuade the banks to loan them more cash for stainless and a new bottling line. Finishing out the year of 2008 at 4,050 hl and up to nine employees and “1 dog”.

After a very suc-cessful on-line offer-ing of stock dubbed Equity for Punks and brewing the world’s strongest beer (at 32% abv), 2009 showed growth to 24 employees and 9,500 hl of beer produced. 2010 brought beer a n d t a x i d e r m y together when Brew Dog released a 55% abv beer that the bottle was cleverly hidden inside a taxi-dermy squirrel. This subsequently became the world’s most expensive beer and their business growth continued.

With help from crowd funding, gimmicky brews (like brewing under water), exporting to 55 countries, the addition of tied-house bars and a very successful TV show named Brew Dogs, 2014 production numbers grew to 90,000 hl. They now employ 358 people, own 26 tied-house bars and have 14,568 shareholders, yet still only one dog.

FINAL WORD: Search this beer out, buy two. Drink one tonight with Indian fare while you whisk through the pages of their website and stash the other in your cellar for later enjoyment.

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FOOD & DRINK // FROM THE WINE CAVE

BY KIMBERLY FISHER

May Day… May Day… Next on our journey of investigating the big six, it is time to see what the reds have in store by exploring Cabernet, Pinot Noir and Merlot, this time with another twist.

Cabernet Sauvignon is King. It is a grape that ages into subtle splendor, and is a world traveler. When its tiny dark blue berries are coupled with great winemaking, Cabernet Sauvignon can produce some of the longest lived and the most intrigu-ing wines in the world. Cabernet from Bordeaux can produce some of the world’s costliest wines in the world and yet you can find an amazing value such as those offered by a Petite Chateau, Chateau Picau Perna. This Cabernet based wine gives you structure and depth and blends with the addition of a bit of Merlot, ensures you won’t break your wine budget. Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina deserves to be mentioned as that nation’s high altitude has an affect on grape growing that along with a unique climate showcases a specific style and quality of wine.

Terrazes from Mendoza, Argentina harnesses quality over quantity. With an average rainfall of 8 inches a year, the vines

have to work harder to get their nutrients which leads to a wine that showcases ter-roir. If you were to travel to Paso Robles, which is located in the Central Coast of California, you find Cabernet Sauvignon takes on two personalities. On one side of Highway 101, it is hot with no direct access to cooling ocean breezes. Here the soils are deep, fertile and produce subtle fruit. On the other side, the soils are more calcareous, the vineyards are cooled by marine influence and you will find wines such as those of Justin, who pioneered Cabernet Sauvignon grape growing, long before Cabernet was cool in the area.

Pinot Noir is an extremely elusive grape as it is very sensitive to terroir and ripens early. When planted in warm climates, it ripens too fast and can lose its fascinating

flavor compounds. Pinot Noir’s perfect place on earth lies in Burgundy where it can convey intricate flavors. Another great Pinot growing area is Oregon where the climate is similar to Burgundy. One pro-ducer that was a pioneer in the Willamette Valley is Erath winery. Another producer and region to explore across the globe is Villa Maria located in Marlborough New Zealand. This region is best known for Sauvignon Blanc, but try Pinot Noir from this area and you will be hooked.

Merlot is often used as a blending partner. It ripens earlier that Cabernet Sauvignon in cooler vintages, and it lends to more alcohol in warmer climates. It has bigger berries and thinner skins than Caber-net which lends to less tannic, more opulent wines. The traditional style of Merlot is plump, soft and plummy. Matanzas Creek Merlot from Bennett Valley California takes plantings from the original clones from Pomerol located in Bordeaux and produces an amazing bottle of wine. Merlot from the Wahluke Slope in Washington comes from a warmer climate showcasing brilliant bright fruit. A good example that is reflec-tive of this warmer climate style comes from Chateau Ste Michelle and that winery’s Indian Wells offering.

These last two months we have explored the big six grapes. These grapes can vary according to location, soil, aspect, barrel treatment, terroir and types of clones. Don’t stop with one varietal if you decide you don’t like it. Continue to walk down the path and see what else awaits you. By doing a comparison tastings like these, you will be amazed at the differences, the similarities and the passion that goes into taking these majestic grapes and turn-ing them into something so amazing… WINE!

From the Wine Cave

Seeing is smelling for a camera system developed by scientists in Japan that images ethanol vapor escaping from a wine glass. And, perhaps most importantly, no wine is wasted in the process.

Kohji Mitsubayashi, at the Tokyo Med-ical and Dental University, and colleagues

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nated a mesh with the enzyme alcohol oxi-dase, which converts low molecular weight alcohols and oxygen into aldehydes and hydrogen peroxide. Horseradish peroxide and luminal were also immobilized on the mesh and together initiate a color change in response to hydrogen peroxide. When this mesh is placed on top of a wine glass, color images from a camera watching over

the mesh on top of a glass of wine can be interpreted to map the concentra-

tion distribution of ethanol leaving the glass.

Different glass shapes and tem-peratures can bring out completely

different bouquets and finishes from the same wine. So Mitsubayashi’s team

analyzed different wines, in different glasses – including different shaped wine glasses, a martini glass and a straight glass – at different temperatures.

At 13°C, the alcohol concentration in the centre of the wine glass was lower than that around the rim. Wine served at a higher temperature, or from the martini or straight glass, did not exhibit a ring-shaped vapor pattern. ‘This ring phenomenon allows us to enjoy the wine aroma without interference of gaseous ethanol. Accord-ingly, wine glass shape has a very sophis-ticated functional design for tasting and enjoying wine,’ explains Mitsubayashi.

Wine scientist Régis Gougeon, from the University of Burgundy, France,

says the work is really interesting when considering its experimental setup, which allows for a rather straightforward and inexpensive detection of ethanol. ‘Bearing in mind the flavor enhancer properties of ethanol, this work provides an unprec-edented image of the claimed impact of glass geometry on the overall complex wine flavor perception, thus validating the search for optimum adequation between a glass and a wine.’

In the future the system could help indicate the best wine glass and precise temperature to serve a certain wine.

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FOOD & DRINK // TRICIA’S TABLE

BY TRISH DERGE

I know it sounds simple, and it actu-ally is...but there are a few tips I’d like to pass along to you on how-to make the best hard-boiled eggs. There are several cooking method variations, but no matter which you use, there are common mistakes you should try to avoid.

1. Using the wrong size potDon’t try to cram too many egg

in a pot. Not only will the eggs cook unevenly, but there’s more risk of an egg cracking.

Trish’s Tip: Eggs should sit in a single layer and have enough space to move around.

2. Starting with boiling waterIf you’re about to place uncooked

eggs in a pot of boiling water, stop!Hard-boiled eggs should always

be started with cool water. Bringing the water and eggs up in temperature together helps promote even cooking and prevents cracking.

Trish’s Tip: Place the eggs in a sauce-pan and cover with cold water.

3. Using eggs that are too freshHard-boiled eggs can be difficult

to peel, and this is especially true when

they’re made using eggs that are too fresh. As eggs age, two things happen that make them easier to peel. First, they lose mois-ture through small pores in the shell, and the air pocket at the tip of the egg gets larger. I don’t want to get too scientific here, but the pH level of the egg’s whites rise as they age, which makes them adhere less strongly to the shell.

Trish’s Tip: For hard-boiled eggs that are easier to peel, use older eggs. Buy your

eggs a week or two before you plan to boil them.

4. Overcooking themEver found that the yolk has a gray-

green tint? A slightly stinky sulphur-like odor? A rubbery white? Dry, crumbly yolk? All of these are results of an overcooked hard-boiled egg.

Trish’s Tip: Put the eggs in a saucepan, cover them with cold water, bring to a boil.

Then, remove the pan from the heat, cover it, and let it sit for 10 minutes for firm yet creamy hard-boiled eggs, or up to 15 minutes for very firm eggs.

5. Not using an ice bathIn theory, it seems like the eggs should

be finished cooking when the timer buzzes. But, in reality, that’s not the case. Even once the eggs are removed from the water, they’re still hot. The heat from carryover

cooking will continue to cook the eggs, risking overcooking.

Trish’s Tip: Not only is an ice bath your ticket to stopping the cooking immediately, but it will also help sepa-rate the egg membrane from the shell, making it easier to peel. Once the eggs have finished cooking, drain the water from the saucepan and transfer the eggs to an ice bath. Let them soak until they’re fully cooled.

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BY RICHARD OSTROM

With a much trumpeted, late in the game, return to the strange environs of the fabled world of Twin Peaks, Washington at an apparent stand still between chief archi-tect David Lynch and new host network Showtime, I see no better time to pay a quick revisit to the original, legendary series and its most recent home video rebirth. So, while Lynch threatens to turn his back on a proposed 9 part, 25 year’s since an update on whomsoever still remains above ground from the cast, the fine cats at Paramount have, in recent months, sought to grace us all with something undeniably attractive called ‘Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery’.

This enticing, all Blu Ray box set (10 discs in total) collects together the com-plete (to date) run through of the quirky highs and murky (and often nightmarish) lows of Lynch and conceptual partner Mark (‘Hill Street Blues’) Frost’s intricately fabricated slice of life in the extreme upper Pacific Northwest.

We are presented with all of the 29 parts of the under two season long run of the once stratospherically hip prime time melodrama that first introduced the pop culture universe to Special Agent Dale (Kyle MacLachlan) Cooper, his eternally disembodied assistant Diane (represented only ever by a tiny cassette recorder), Coo-per’s philosophy on the value of a damn fine cup of java and how this agent (and his assorted peers) would come to play a crucial role in aiding the wonderful yet far from conventional Twin Peaks locals in finding a solution to the shocking murder of their girl most beloved, Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee).

Also stuffed inside the set’s elaborately designed packaging is the highly polarizing ‘prequel’ feature film follow up, ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me’. With this separately concocted film, David Lynch set to the task of fleshing out the explicit particulars that led a seemingly innocuous ‘good girl’ like Mrs. Palmer down the path of rank deprivation that was to ultimately place her in harm’s way in the very worst fashion. The film also swapped out certain characters from the series (for various reasons) and introduced new key players

into the T.P. mythos, including Special Agents Chet Desmond (singer Chris Issak) and Sam Stanley (a pre-24 Kiefer Suther-land) and greatly made use of the content freedoms an MPAA sanctioned R-rating granted.

The legacy of ‘Twin Peaks’ as a whole, from inauguration to this point today, is one of swift rise and fall in the critically fickle context of the public eye with the (at the time) ill advised prequel landing D.O.A. in theaters in late summer 1992. Yet, as a born-to-be ‘Cult Classic’ is wont to do, ‘Twin Peaks’ refused to lay down and die a quiet death. The whole thing gave rise to clubs, conventions (one of which is spotlighted within the set’s special features, more on that stuff in a bit) and fervent campaigns to unearth unseen materials (primarily from ‘Fire Walk With Me’) that were said to hold more overall worth than your average ‘Deleted Scenes’ supplement. The fan-love pushed the saga forward, spawning several home video releases (VHS and DVD) before arriving at this most rewarding confection I am blathering on about here.

Now, the basic storyline should prove familiar to many who’ve dabbled at all in the realm of David Lynch or cult screen curiosities in general. If not, here goes; one foggy morning, the body of town princess Laura Palmer is discovered washed ashore and wrapped in plastic by gentle old Pete Martell (played by ‘EraserHead’ lead man Jack Nance) which in turn sets off a chain of twisty events entwining the citizens of Twin Peaks with the All American Power-house known as the F.B.I. Thus the arrival of the relentlessly chipper Agent Cooper to the base of operations of one Sheriff Harry S. Truman (Michael Ontkean) and his stable of goofy but dedicated cronies. These none too battle tested, bumpkin type police officials turn out to be just the kind of support group our golden boy Cooper was greatly hoping for. The bulk of the first portion of the series details the convoluted specifics of the homicide investigation with growing supernatural influence transpiring across the stomping grounds of a passing carnival of strange and unique personas who love, fight, frustrate and continually work to confound expectations as the

inevitable (if sadly premature) network mandated reveal of Laura’s killer looms on the horizon.

Once the murderer is given a proper face though, things begin to fracture and the narrative starts to veer all over the damn place. Sure, a new plot device/vil-lain is slotted in as a long standing rival of Cooper’s, one Windom Earle (Kenneth Welsh), arrives deep into the second season to dole out the sadistic head games, but the ensuing episodes became a great deal more, well, episodic. Apparently this was somewhere around the time both Lynch and Frost were becoming immersed in new big screen projects (‘Wild At Heart’ and ‘Storyville’ respectively) so it was all largely left up to the hands of various writers and a wild assortment of directors (among them, Tim ‘River’s Edge’ Hunter and Diane Keaton, doing her very best odd duck Lynch impression) to carry the load, and the results truly did vary. A sudden succession of guest star bits were added to help maintain some semblance of a creative spark (most of note, future X-Files heart-throb, David Duchovny, as an

F.B.I. Agent dressed up in slick femi-nine attire) but regardless of all this tireless overexertion, the series had clearly lost a major chunk of its mojo and several plot points came off as irrefutably forced (such as a beauty pageant sub-plot) and accord-ingly, the public interest waned. Pity, as the project as a whole comes across a bit like a small screen masterwork left incomplete (the final episode does provide a fitting cliffhanger). So perhaps the rumblings of a rekindling of that Twin Peaks fire should not seem so surprising, even this many moons on.

This here super-duper box set has so much to share beyond just the series and its companion film. Apart from providing all of Twin Peaks tale in a pristine HD transfer there is a boat load of nuggets from archi-val and more current sources that work to break the phenomena of the thing down in ‘in depth’ measures. Cast and crew mem-bers help to, somewhat enlighten upon the steps it took to make a bit of prime time television history with a collection of new and older interviews and on set asides. Most triumphantly, the long lusted

after ‘Fire Walk With Me’ cut footage por-tion (arranged here by Lynch himself as a 90-minute segment meant to stand on its own) is not likely to elect much in the way of disappointment. Many key ideas and supporting characters receive expanded screen time, including odd bits pertaining to David Bowie’s enigmatic agent Phillip Jeffries and a whole bunch more footage of the prophetic dwarf (Michael J. Anderson) who dwells in that, mostly red, ‘other place’.

Still further elements that never made it anywhere near the final release cut of ‘Fire Walk With Me,’ finally have their day too; Sheriff Truman, his stoic, Native Ameri-can deputy Hawk (Michael Horse) and the impossibly dense lovebirds Andy (Harry Goaz) Brennan and Lucy the receptionist (Kimmy Robertson) are on hand as they all originally had filmed cameos, as did Pete Martell and the lovely Josie Packard (Joan Chen). The resolution of the whole damn thing (perhaps the entire Twin Peaks universe in total) may have originally held a more cosmic, time melding agenda than viewers were previously aware of, accord-ing to a few revealing sequences on display here. Yes, the wait for this missing stuff is finally over, and the rewards do measure up.

Elsewhere in the set, David Lynch enacts his own fond (albeit expectedly eccentric) memories of the project in features both semi-vintage and brand new in which he picks his own cranium as well as those of several key cast members (Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Grace Zabriskie and others) from the program both in and out of character. There are also plenty of old school promo spots, photo stills of anything from on set action to long obscured trading cards of the show and both the domestic and international (stand alone and slightly longer) versions of the pilot episode that set it all in motion.

Yeah, not much has been left behind. This beast is very concise. Recommended to anyone adventurous enough to hold a fair opinion of David Lynch, or this series in the first place.

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GAME OF THE MONTH:Double Dragon NeonDeveloper: WayForwardESRB: TeenRelease Date: 09/11/2012System: PC/PlayStation 3/Xbox 360

Rating:Graphics: 3.0 out of 4.0Game Play: 3.0 out of 4.0Personal: 2.0 out of 2.0Total Score: 8.0 out of 10.0 Player’s Page: Double Dragon Neon

Pop in a cassette tape and travel back in time to the 1980’s. Visit a world of neon, leather, hair picks, and violence. This place, and story are not unfamiliar to long time video game fans, but it has been a long time since anyone has visited this bleak and depressing city. This place is home to

the martial artists Billy and Jimmy Lee and Billy’s girlfriend Marian. As in any city, the inhabitants try their best to live their lives in peace but that is not always possible especially in a city riddled with crime.

In the past Marian has been kidnapped on numerous occasions requiring Billy and Jimmy to come to her rescue.

Flash forward to the current day and nothing much has changed since the world was originally introduced to the beat‘em up style of the Lee Brothers. One can easily see the dominance of 80’s music has been maintained, the cassette tape is still the most popular media format, and everyone is still hell bent for leather. Unfortunately

for Marian, the various gangs in the city continue to want to kidnap her and keep her for themselves. This case is proven in a recent encounter on the streets of the city. Marian was standing on the sidewalk when she was approached by members of the Shadow Warriors gang who attacked and kidnapped her, and now it is up to Billy and Jimmy to rescue her once again,

from the clutches of an evil gang with an unknown purpose.

Double Dragon Neon is a relaunch of the classic side scrolling beat‘em up series Double Dragon. Maintaining the basic actions of punch, kick, and jump players will need to fight through multiple waves of enemies to reach the end of a stage and confront the boss. Players will not have to rely on their brawn alone to overcome the forces of the Shadow Warriors because they will be able to use various weapons such as knifes, whips, bats, and hair picks found lying on the ground or taken from enemies. The game can be tackled solo, but it is meant to be played cooperatively and is easier and more fun when two friends are

sitting on a c o u c h filling the shoes of the Lee Broth-ers.

W a y -F o r w a r d has t r ied to replicate the original game play s t y l e o f D o u b l e D r a g o n

while trying to add new elements which have been developed and accepted by the industry since the release of the original. The game improved upon the original games by adding a stage select menu, super moves, and in stage shops. The player will be able to acquire new super moves and passive stat improvements by obtaining

cassette tapes which are dropped by ene-mies or purchased in shops. These moves and stat improvements can be leveled up by collecting multiple copies of the same cassette tape and by collecting ore which can be used to increase the number of each cassette tape which can be held.

Although many game play elements have been improved from the originals the game maintains some of downsides of the genre. The movement of the characters tends to be a bit sluggish and jumping can be tricky if the player does not take a run-ning start. Playing through the game solo will be a bit difficult due to the number of enemies, but this is offset by the cassette

tape leveling system introduced by the developers. Due to the 2D layout of the game fighting enemies can be difficult due to the need to line up attacks with the enemy’s location, but this can be easily overcome with a bit of practice.

Double Dragon Neon immerses the player in the world of the 1980’s with a nice mix of graphics and music. Rich and vibrant colors help to recreate the distinc-tive color patterns of the 80’s, but at the same time the colors are slightly muted to help simulate the atmosphere of a dreary city. The soundtrack remixes a number of songs from the original games while adding new and upbeat characteristics. This helps to create a bridge between the old and new while helping to remind players of the sounds of classic arcades.

Double Dragon Neon is a fun experi-ence which brings back the game play style from the early days of video games while blending it with more modern graphics

and sound. The game can be purchased through the PlayStation Store, the Xbox network, or one of the many PC gaming clients. The digital nature of the game allows for one to use the co–op feature with a friend on the same system or with a friend who is online. One will be amazed how fast the hours fly by while playing this modern take on a video game classic.

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I sadly admitted technology passed me by years ago, but now it’s getting ridiculous. The last straw was broken last week when my neighbor invited me over to sample some of his barbecue –another area in which I lack severely but that’s another tale for another time. One crisis per day.

My neighbor has two teenage sons that think I’m extremely funny – I think. It’s either that or they are constantly laughing at me instead of with me. I’d like to give myself the benefit of the doubt but a recent incident made me start to lose hope. I think I need to pack my bags and move to an Amish colony immediately. I could use a fresh start, and the beard would help hide my shame.

The event in question started innocently enough. I walked into the house and saw a basketball game on the living room television screen. All I did was ask who was winning and was informed it was the older son Jeremy. When a quizzical look occupied my face even more quizzical than usual, younger son Ryan dropped the crushing blow. “Uh…it’s not the TV. It’s a video game.”

Excuse me? The graphics on video games are now so well developed I actually mistook it for a real game? I was so embarrassed I wasn’t able to maintain eye contact with the boys. I felt like a puppy that had been caught pooping on the carpet and all I could think of was how to slink out of the room and act like it never happened. I was half expecting the boys to rub my nose on the TV.

Thankfully there was no mention of it at dinner, but I still felt like a total jackass. Video games have never been my thing, and I don’t really know why. It’s only the biggest

explosion of fun in the history of human-kind, and I was born into the generation that was able to watch it all happen.

I can still remember when “Pong” was the talk of the neighborhood. Everybody thought it was the second coming of George Jetson, and expected cars to start flying shortly thereafter. How did they manage to pack all that fun into one game? Blip. Blip. My heart can’t take it. Stop already!

That was about sixth grade on my per-sonal time cycle, and my whole generation got hooked on the concept of video games at once. Nobody could have predicted then just how huge it would all eventually become, but one thing for sure is nobody would have mistaken Pong for a real tennis match. It was all so laughingly primitive, and shows just how close to monkeys all of us still are.

Next up in my generation’s techno play world was a hand held football game made by Mattel, the fine folks who brought us Hot Wheels and Barbie. The football game wasn’t really football but rather a new series of blips on a smaller screen. They also had an auto race game, but at least in my neigh-borhood that never really caught on. The football game did, and it was a huge hit.

The reason it likely became so widely popular is all it had to follow was the highly forgettable “Electric Football” game by a long out of business company called Tudor. Boys my age all recall having to take ten minutes to set up their team of tiny plastic football players on a metal “field.”

Then when both teams were in position, a switch was flipped and a “play” allegedly happened. The field vibrated and the play-ers all went in separate directions – usually headed for the sideline out of embarrass-

ment that kids had to suffer through this miserable excuse for actual football.

To top off the realistic experience of it all, the “football” ended up being a piece of lint stuck in between the arm of a running back. If we really wanted to go nuts we could have our quarterback attempt a forward pass by flicking that piece of lint in the direction of one of the other players.

All it had to do was hit the player any-where and it would be a completed pass. I know it sounds funny now, but this was the cutting edge of sports for millions of kids that now have kids of their own who will never be able to commiserate. We are the generation that has to suffer in silence.

Another stinko sports spoof was the hockey game that was played with a series of rods that had to be manipulated to make the players move. The “puck” was a magnet that got whacked around the “ice” and maybe once every month or two the magnet might actually find its way into the net for a “goal.” There was no electricity involved, but this was just as useless as Electric Football.

Probably the worst of all the sports games was “BAS-KET” by Coleco. This was an insult to our intelligence and consisted of a cardboard “court” and two baskets where an ordinary ping pong ball would land in one of several holes that had a lever that would flip the ball up to the general direc-tion of a basket. There was no defense, and stopped being fun after five minutes.

Every kid I know got this game for Christmas, and we all grew weary of it simultaneously. It would have been more fun to throw snowballs at moving cars – which we eventually did. That’s the ultimate thrill...when an old man that looks like Fred Mertz’s father threatens to kick your butt.

As my high school years arrived, so did Atari and video arcades in the mall. Alladin’s Castle was the ultimate hangout for the video game clan, but that’s when I started to lose interest. I did enjoy a pinball game now and then, but I didn’t let it take over my life like so many of my friends did.

Pretty soon I was out of high school and then I had to play the ultimate game – how to keep my bills paid every month. That’s a lot harder than Pac Man or Frogger or Tetris or any of the games that hooked millions and became the gateway drug to the games of today. Who’d have thunk it?

I sure would hate to be a video game designer today. How can anybody top what’s out now? My generation was easy to fool, as we had never seen anything before. Those two little blips on a Pong game were an out of this world cosmic mystery, and it grew from there. Every game was a new adventure, and it blew the minds of those playing. Now, five year-olds are bored with it all.

Eventually it will have to come full circle, don’t you think? There will be a video game that has an attachment of a real ball or something and two kids will actually have to get together to throw it around in the yard. Then before long some other kids will join in and who knows, maybe some actual baseball or basketball or football will get played. There’s a novel concept for the future. It doesn’t help now though. I still feel like I got cheated out of fun, and I’m not thrilled about it.

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BY ROBERT MEYER

We have heard complaints about the “do nothing congress” for the past several presidential administrations. Indeed, we frequently see that congressional approval numbers flirt with historically low positive rates. This has occurred whether the major-ity of congress has belonged to democrats or republicans.

The American people have often

decried the inability of congress to stop the bickering and work together to get things done. At the same time, we hear of politi-cians campaigning on the platitude that they will be willing to reach across the aisle. Still little improvement seems to come out each new session of congress.

So where does the dissonance come from and, how might it be corrected? We must first understand that the Constitu-tional Convention created two houses of congress, in part, to make it difficult, but not impossible to quickly pass legislation.

The problem as I see it, is that we have unwavering loyalty to political party at

the expense of all other priorities. I am not speaking so much about commitment to political ideology, or philosophical worldview, as I am of an administrative apparatus of coercion.

Our first president, George Wash-ington, warned us of this in his Farewell Address. Washington’s sentiments epito-mized the perspective of the Founders in general.

“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner a g a in s t t h e baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, i s i n s e p a -

ra b l e f r o m our na ture , having its root in the strongest p a s s i o n s o f t h e h u m a n

mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one fac-tion over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a fright-ful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual;

and sooner or later the chief of some prevail-ing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”

So while party loyalty forms out of the lesser angels of the human condition, it was viewed as a destructive force by the Found-ers. What is missing today is zeal toward the specific branches of government, which assures a robust operation of separation of powers.

Congress today, seems to have devolved into the weakest branch of government, because members have not vigorously exercised their checks over the judicial and executive branches. Courts have been allowed to legislate from the bench through activism that ignores the jurisprudence of original intent. They have permitted judges to act as philosopher-kings. Likewise, con-

gress has permitted itself to be outflanked by increasing numbers of executive orders which circumvent its constitutional role.

Again, Washington comments on this state of affairs.

“It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its admin-istration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one depart-ment to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which pre-dominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing

it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the custom-ary weapon by which free governments are destroyed…”

In the Constitution, congress has a remedy to limit the jurisdiction of courts. “In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with

such Exceptions, and under such Regula-tions as the Congress shall make.” Article III, Section 2, Clause 2

Congress has the ability to impeach judges as well, but when is the last time you heard of that happening?

Congress has checks on presidential authority as well. The chief problem is that congress can not unite as a body, zealous of their particular powers and duties, but fragments itself according to party affilia-tion. If a judge legislates from the bench to accomplish what has failed legislatively, the portion of congress that has affinity with the judge’s decision will approve of the actions, rather than dissent with the usurpation. It is likewise with overreach by the executive branch.

As long as this practice continues, people will feel betrayed by their represen-tatives and disapproval will be high.

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BY DENNIS RILEY

Judging by the look on his face or the tone in his voice as Indiana Governor Mike Pence tried to fend off some decidedly pointed questions from ABC’s George Stephanopolous that Sunday in late March, you would have thought that the Governor had found himself in the middle of a real firestorm and not just the verbal one that had accompanied Indiana’s passage of its very own Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) earlier that month. Doing his best to defend a statute that a substan-tial number of American citizens, both individual and corporate, were convinced provided a license to discriminate against members of the LBGTQ Community, Governor Pence kept telling us two things. First, RFRA statutes are common. The federal government passed one as far back as 1993 and that one passed almost unani-mously and was signed by none other than Bill Clinton. Nearly 20 states have fol-lowed suit. Barack Obama, he reminded us, had voted for the Illinois version of the law. Second, the law was not intended to permit discrimination. It was intended to protect the freedom of Americans of deep and abiding religious faith to act on that faith as is their first amendment right. The first of these arguments is disingenuous. The second pretty much glides past disin-genuous to dishonest.

Start with Governor Pence’s contention that RFRA statutes are common. Yeah. But consider the history of the first one,

the federal statute that everybody loved, even Bill Clinton. It came about, and it came to get such universal support because most people believed that the Supreme Court had significantly diminished reli-gious freedom, hence the name of the law. To keep it short, from 1963 to 1990 if a citizen challenged a government action as interfering with his or her religious free-dom, the government taking that action had to prove that it had a “compelling state interest” (usually public health or safety) that required taking that action despite its impact on the challenging citizen’s religious liberty.

In 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court – in an opinion written by relative newcomer to the Court, Antonin Scalia – did away with the “compelling state interest test” in favor of a far less restrictive test requiring only that the action in question have a legiti-mate secular purpose and be administered in an even handed way. It did not, in other words, single out religion. The federal RFRA was to restore the “compelling state interest test.” Nothing more. The state versions of RFRA were to do the same because the Court held that the Federal RFRA did not apply to state actions. To add to the Governor’s disingenuousness, virtually every one of the RFRA’s passed in the last 20 years were passed before the Supreme Court granted religious liberty to certain kinds of corporations in the Hobby Lobby case. If corporate personhood conveys religious liberty rights on “closely held corporations” of the size and scope of

the Hobby Lobby folks, it surely conveys those same rights on a small bakery, a floral shop, or a free-lance organist, incorporated or not. That means that Indiana’s RFRA really is cut out of a different cloth.

Governor Pence might not have been aware of the history of the various RFRA’s floating around, but he had to know that one of the underlying purposes of Indiana’s version was to allow people – corporations are people remember – to act on their faith in the marketplace, even if that faith said that some people could not or should not be served in or by their place of business. He held the bill’s signing ceremony in private, surrounded by what one Indiana journalist referred to as a who’s who of Indiana religious conservatives. Beyond that, no discussion of the law by its sup-porters can go more than three sentences without reference to the example of the baker who doesn’t want to prepare a cake for the wedding of two gay people. Don’t forget that supporters of the law raised almost $1,000,000 on line to support an Indianapolis Pizzeria on record as having said that it would not cater a gay wedding. The intention of the law may have been the protection of religious freedom, but in the minds of a great many people in Indiana – possibly including its Governor – the freedom they expected to see exercised was the freedom to treat the LGBTQ Commu-nity differently than any other community. Sounds a bit like discrimination, doesn’t it?

The weakness of Governor Pence’s arguments notwithstanding, there is a real

issue of religious freedom to be considered here. Millions of deeply religious Ameri-cans want to be able to live their respective faiths in all aspects of their lives, even their work/business lives. But letting them do so creates so many problems for a society that recognizes rights in addition to reli-gious rights.

In some sense we have to start with ground zero, when does a belief system become a religion due the protections of the first amendment? What about the guy in Indiana who wanted to proclaim himself Archbishop of the Church of Cannabis? But far more to the point, of course, what about the rights of others, including that most fundamental right, equal protection of the laws? Our hypothetical baker can’t deny a wedding cake to an African Ameri-can couple, a Muslim couple, a couple in which one of the two is in a wheelchair. And on it goes. There were once plenty of wedding cake bakers who would have refused a cake to a mixed race couple and done it on religious grounds. We decided they cannot. We are pretty far along in the process of deciding that today’s bakers cannot deny a cake to a gay couple. I fully realize that an awful lot of truly religious Americans believe that to be forced to do that will violate their religious rights. But should their religious rights trump the human rights of others? My answer remains No. I understand the conflict, but alas, I see no middle ground.

Enough out of me.

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Over the past few years, you may be aware of increasingly urgent news regarding the status of the honeybee and native bee populations throughout North America.

Numbers of both honeybees, as well as native bees, such as bumblebees and others, have declined seriously in recent years.

Many area resi-dents are looking for ways to help. Thank-fully, there are many things we can do to help maintain or restore populations of these beneficial and important insect spe-cies.

Bees for beginnersDenise Wagner

of Black Creek, was concerned about the lack of bees near her rural Outagamie County property. She called on the experts at Honey Bee Ware, a specialty store in Greenville that provides education and supplies for those interested in maintaining healthy honeybee popula-tions on their property.

“We started thinking of keeping bees after watching a PBS program about colony collapse disorder and the plight of honeybees,” Wagner said. “One theory for the cause of colony collapse disorder was pesticides.”

This prompted Wagner and her hus-band to cease renting a portion of their land for farming, thereby preventing pesti-cide use on that piece of property.

“The year after, we stopped renting some of our land to a farmer for crops and the field came back with a lush stand of clover,” Denise said.

From there, the Wagners went to work creating a valuable and safe pollinator habitat.

“With that, we started to plan our first

hive,” she said “in addi-tion to the clover, we also have a large wildflower patch of coneflowers in summer and purple asters in fall, although honey-bees will travel quite far

to find pollen and nectar.”

Honeybee school“I attended a beginner beekeeping class

in March sponsored by Honey Bee Ware, a family-owned beekeeping supply and bee-keeper education business in Greenville,” Wagner said. “The instructor was engaging and presented the information with subtle humor. With about 60 people attending that class, it was evident that interest in beekeeping is ramping up. One classmate came all the way from Manistique, Michi-gan, so I feel lucky to live minutes from the store which carries everything I could possibly need to keep bees.”

Honey Bee Ware provides everything necessary to keep bees, including the bees themselves, which Wagner expects to arrive the first week in May.

From there, her bee-keeping adventure will continue to grow.

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Pollinator gardensIn addition to raising bees

on your property, there are a number of other helpful actions we can take to help maintain and restore bees.

Pol l inator gardens are becoming increasingly popular throughout our area. More than butterfly gardens, pollinator gar-dens are designed with specific plantings to attract and provide valuable, safe nectar for pollinat-ing species, including bees.

Utilizing pesticide-free native perennials is especially important when growing a pollinator garden. Providing a wide assortment of host plants increases the number of pollinators you can attract and help maintain throughout the growing season.

Providing blooming plants that are rich in nectar and span the seasons from spring right through late fall is important.

Early flying native bees and honey bees often do not have access to blooming wild-flowers when they first emerge in March and April. The same situation may occur late in the fall if warm weather persists. Therefore, it is important to include late-blooming wildflowers in your palette of plants, as well.

Examples of late season bloomers that make excellent pollinator plants include Joe-Pye Weed, Purple Coneflower, New England Aster, Goldenrod, Cardinal Flower, Blue Lobelia, Black-Eyed Susan, Helenium, Sunflowers and Sedums.

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BY TONY PALMERI

Mainstream American journalism, as the Media Rants column has been ranting about for more than 12 years, occasionally meets standards of excellence but more typically runs on a spectrum from medio-cre to insanely bad. Political journalism is probably the worst of the lot (too often it meets Joseph Goebbels definition of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play) with science and business reporting tied for second. That CareerCast recently ranked newspaper reporter as the worst job of 2015 (#200 out of 200), with broadcaster coming in at #196 is no excuse.

Mainstream sports journalism? I wish I could wax eloquently about it with a verbal dexterity and grace equivalent to the awesomeness of a Lebron James layup. Unfortu-nately the quality of sports journalism (to the extent that such a thing even exists) requires only one blunt descriptor: SUCKS. Unless of course your idea of quality sports journal-ism is mindless cheerleading, bland press conferences, inability to tell the difference between real and manufactured scandals, and so-called experts screaming at each other on cable television. If that’s what we mean by quality sports journalism, then without question we have the best in the world.

Poor sports journalism is not strictly a modern phenomenon. The late Howard Cosell complained about it in the 1970’s. Cosell is most remembered for being one-third of the original ABC Monday Night Football broadcast team and for his theatrical banter with heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali. Less remem-bered is the fact that Cosell saw sports as

more than just entertainment or distrac-tion. His interviews with Ali during the champ’s Vietnam War draft refusal period and subsequent suspension from boxing raised the bar for what should be legitimate sports news; in his 1973 autobiography Cosell recounts how the ABC network received complaints along the lines of, ‘Get that nigger-lovin Jew bastard off the air.’

Cosell in 1973 lamented the general absence of journalism in sports coverage, both in broadcast and in print. Not much has changed, as can be seen in the treat-ment of three recent sports stories that cry out for competent journalism: (1) Chris Borland’s retirement from football, (2) The Chicago Cubs treatment of prospect Kris Bryant, (3) The NCAA final four basket-ball tournament in Indianapolis.

Chris Borland’s Retirement: Refusal to Tackle the Elephant in the Room. When 24-year-old Chris Borland announced his retirement from the San Francisco 49ers this year (he was one of four players under age 30 to retire in 2015) after citing the possibility of future head trauma and

diminished quality of life, he presented the mass media with a golden opportunity to give urgency to the issue of the National Football Leagues many decades long attempt to cover up the dangers associated with the sport. Remember how the major media for decades minimized or ignored the dangers associated with cigarettes? The rush to get Borland and others out of the

headlines as quickly as possible is eerily similar.

Kris Bryant: The Media’s Uncritical Acceptance of the Business of Sports. Baseball’s spring training is supposed to be the time when players compete for spots on the major league roster. So when Chi-cago Cub third base prospect Kris Bryant hit 9 home runs in spring, he appeared to be a lock to make the big league squad. Bryant may be on the team by the time you read this, yet the Cubs sent him down to the minor leagues for at least the first 12 days of the season so as to guarantee that he could not become an unrestricted free agent until 2021 at the earliest. In other words, the integrity of the game came in

second to the owner’s bottom line. This is of course not unique to the Cubs; in fact it is typical across franchises in all profes-sional sports. What’s distressing is the media’s almost uncritical acceptance of the business side of sports, resulting not only in lower quality play (i.e. delaying the big league arrival of prospects like Bryant), but also making it easier for owners to raise

ticket prices at will while having the audacity to ask taxpayers for money to refurbish stadiums or build new ones. Absent a critical media, sports team owners can get away with just about anything.

The NCAA Final Four: Sports Media Called For Blocking Foul. In an epic case of bad timing, the Indiana legislature passed a homo-phobic version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act during the height of March Madness in Indianapolis. The legislation in its original form would allow private businesses to refuse to serve gay, lesbian, and transgender persons on religious grounds. Massive protests erupted in Indianapolis, and even all four Final Four coaches signed on to a statement rejecting discrimination in any form. Yet moving the games out of Indianapolis was never seriously considered. Why? Because sports reporting mostly blocked any seri-

ous discussion of that issue, leaving it for the serious news to handle.

There are some great sports journalists out there. Mark Fainaru-Wadas and Steve Fainarus work on football’s concussion crisis and other issues is extremely well researched, provocative, and powerful. Dave Zirins Edge of Sports column brings a sense of social justice and moral clarity to sports. Regrettably, the Fainarus and Zirin are the glaring exceptions to the general rule of suckiness.

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BY ROHN BISHOP

In May, we Republicans will gather in La Crosse for our annual convention; which reminds me that back in March I took to social media to commemorate the birthday of the Republican Party.

I wrote: “On this date in 1854 a group of abolitionist met in Ripon Wisconsin to form the Republican Party. 11 years later they’re dream to end slavery would be realized with the passage of the 13th amendment to the Constitution.”

The response from liberals wasn’t surprising, “That was Lincoln’s Republican Party. Today you guys are a bunch of religious zealots, corporate sellouts, racist, homophobic, sexist, knuckle dragging, anti-science, war mongering, treasonous, backwards thinking goofs!”

This onslaught of liberal compassion and desire to coexist with a different view point got me to thinking about the two political parties and their histories. I’ve written about the great history of the Republican Party; it’s why I’m a Republi-can today. Great leaders like Lincoln, Ever-ett Dirksen, Thaddeus Stevens, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.

I’ve never written about the history of the Democrat Party. It’s a history the public schools don’t want to teach, the media doesn’t discuss, and most American’s don’t know. It’s a history of treason and racism; it’s a history of shame!

Kill those IndiansDemocrat President Andrew Jackson

signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, forcing the relocation of five Indian tribes, known as the trail of tears. The Supreme Court ruled against Jackson, but Jackson was a Democrat, and the law doesn’t apply to Democrats. Today liberal’s pretend to atone for this human tragedy by opposing Indian nicknames for sports teams.

SlaveryThe party of James Buchanan and

Roger Taney wasn’t exactly anti-slavery. In fact, when slavery was threatened, Democrats, lead by Jefferson Davis, com-

mitted treason and created a new country, a Democrat utopia called the Confederate States of America.

Democrats opposed Lincoln, opposed the war, and wanted peace at the expense of tearing apart America and allowing a slave holding Confederacy. Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments too.

KKKFollowing the Civil War black Ameri-

cans were voting Republican and electing black Republicans to congress, this atrocity so outraged democrats that they formed the Ku Klux Klan to keep blacks from the polls, thus returning the democrat party to the party of dominance for a hundred years in the south.

The KKK was a great place for Democrats to launch political careers, and allowed the Democrat Party to install Jim Crow laws to help keep the “colored” man in his place. These laws would remain in place until the late 1960’s, when Repub-licans were finally able to splinter the Democrat majority, and get Civil Rights Bills through the congress!

Segregate the black kidsFor decades Southern Democrats segre-

gated schools, “Separate but Equal” schools

for white and black kids, today Democrats continue to segregate kids; having climbed into bed with the education establishment to oppose school choice. The choice initia-tive, started here in Wisconsin by Governor Tommy Thompson, allows poor black kids an opportunity at a better education. Alas, Democrats stand in the school house door, demanding that those black kids attend failing, crime ridden, hell holes of inner city public schools, while Democrats send their children to the best private schools we have.

It’s as if Democrats want an ignorant black population.

Death to AmericaDemocrats seem to have affection for

America’s enemies: from secession in 1861, to defending communist spy Alger Hiss, to releasing terrorist prisoners from GITMO, Democrats are always helping the enemy.

In the 1960’s Democrats got stuck in Vietnam, only to run off and protest the war on Richard Nixon’s first day in office. Then, in the 1970’s Democrats cut funding out from under President Ford to ensure a communist victory in Vietnam. During the 1980’s democrats repeatedly undercut President Reagan, with secret letters from Senator Ted Kennedy to General Secretary

Yuri Andropov, to John Kerry meeting with Daniel Ortega to help communism spread to Central America.

In 1991 former President Jimmy Carter traveled to the UN to undercut President Bush’s attempts to build a coalition to unseat Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, and just like with Vietnam. Democrats sup-ported removing Saddam Hussein in 2002, only to run off and protest the war when the going got tough.

Today’s Democrats led by President Obama, are implementing policies to turn our military victories into defeat, while surrendering the Middle East to ISIS, assuring those who hate America a safe haven to expand their empire, while at the same time Democrats are working to allow Iran a nuclear bomb!

Same ‘ol partyThe same Democrat Party that put

Japanese-Americans in internment camps, opposed Civil Rights, destroyed black families and America’s inner cities with welfare payments, is the same party that today opposes school choice for poor kids, wants to amend the First Amendment to shut down opposing political speech, all the while they’re nationalizing the internet, healthcare, school lunches, and mucking up the Middle East

It’s the same Democrat Party that defends Bill Clinton’s treatment of women, defended Ted Kennedy’s murderous drunken behavior, defended slave owner’s treatment of blacks, defended FDR’s treat-ment of Asian-Americans, and Andrew Jackson’s treatment of Indians.

From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama, the Democrat Party has a history of shame.

Rohn W. Bishop is a monthly contributor to the Scene. Bishop, a former Waupun City Council member, currently serves as treasurer for the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County Contact Rohn: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @RohnWBishop

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And who will It be?Will it be a screaming little slimy

lump, jerking in uncoordinated manner and beautiful only to the people directly responsible for creating it? People who are just now investing their entire lives in its growth and development? People who immediately look it over carefully for signs of wholeness and health, and who would be devastated by any tiny flaw it might exhibit?

Or would it be a shriveled and aged thing, long used to the point where it would offer little or no future. Would it strike terror in the people it encountered, aghast at the wasted ugliness of age and decay brought to the doorway as a direct sign of death: age, moaning its last gasps of life as they gurgle out of a body in the throes of death?

Or, would it be somewhere in-between, showing those answering the door an image of robust life, offering the glow of a creature in the midst of life, offering noth-ing but striking beauty as in the smiles of true life, borne of midlife true existence, a creature in its prime, giving the image of growth and simple being?

So, we have the juxtaposition of birth and death, with life between, the baby just born and the grim reaper. Would the archetypes of life looking at us in its truly infinite beauty--the glory of birth and the image of decay?

Throughout the ages, we are offered steadfast symbols of a baby born, so beau-tiful in its ugliness only seen by parents who gave it life, gestation, and the pain first played against the impossibility of the birth canal; then the ugliness of impend-ing death, a sight frightful in the personal horror only seen by those close to the end . These are longtime images of the mysteri-ous beginning and end of days.

We generally associate encounters with archetypes of birth the death with the night. We imagine a knock at the door as a booming, “Knock, knock, knock, come to us,” disturbing our slumber, causing us to pad down the hallway to our front door,

wondering, “who, or what, could it be?” Or, we associate being awakened in the night with an announcement of someone dying. There is deep apprehension associ-ated with that knock, bringing us news of a baby about to be born or the news of someone dying.

As a two-edged symbol of life-death, in Buddhist monasteries, it is common to place little leftovers, like dessert treats, being left out for the “hungry ghosts,” to help themselves to goodies, much like western children leaving treats for Santa on the mantle overnight.

So, we have a stage set metaphorically f o r b o t h darkness a n d

l i g h t c o m i n g to our door. Again, it’s like the phone ringing at 3:00 am; we answer, expecting the worst. And usually, it is the worst. We awake abruptly to horrific news of death. But is it so horrific? Death comes inevitably and surely. It isn’t something to be feared. On the most healthy and enlightened level, death is just like any moment of life: a breath, or not. Traditionally, we are taught that death brings eternal judgment, and facing that judgment, we fear punishment for all our misdeeds.

The great Judgment Day: something to fear, whereby we are put before a vengeful God who knows of every little transgres-sion we made in our lives. It knows of our

shunning kids in elementary school, mis-treating insects, lying to our parents with disrespect, straying from a committed rela-tionship, on and on. We imagine a mighty God taking us to task for every bad thing we’ve done.

Then of course is the question of hell. Is it there? Are we doomed to eternal suf-fering? From the perspective of a Judgment Day, it’s pretty much all negative and fear-ful. If we’re Roman Catholic, just missing taking Holy Communion at Easter, our “Easter Duty,” brings hell and eternal damnation.

There is of course the other side, the side of all the good we’ve done.

The side of us bringing blessing and happiness

to the world and its creatures. Even

though these are most defi-

nitely real, we dwell not so much on goodness at Judgment, but rather, at our trans-

g r e s s i o n s . How strange

it is that we judge ourselves

more negatively than positively.But the summoning

in the night brings the greatly anticipated arrival of another kind

of visitor. This visitor, often comes in the night; indeed, we often associate its arrival in the depth of the night, startling the home with a cry of, “It’s time!” And the bags, packed and waiting for this moment of excitement, are taken up for a hurried ride to the local hospital or the home birthing room. While the first visitor’s imminent appearance is associated with fear, this arrival’s emotions connote joy and expectation. Naturally, we’re talking here of birth in the arrival of the second visitor.

There is so much cliché associated with these two arrivals, it would be funny if it

weren’t so tied with deep emotion. In other words, death brings slow mourning. Birth offers us joyous dancing. Both ushering’s imply a boat. The most famous of these boats bringing life is little Moses riding quietly in his reed basket; whereas the Grim Reaper arrives silently to take us away from earthly life in his ominous raft, across the river Sauran to the land of eternal death. Whether the newborn, pink with happi-ness, arriving on the banks of a new life or the old, stinking, decaying death, taking us into the netherworld pulling us on a raft into the knowing sea of eternal mystery of death. Each boat has its commonalities as it takes us to a new land.

It is profoundly interesting that the two greatest mysteries associated with our humanly life involve being conveyed across water. But truly, out bodies reside in water. A great percentage of our literal being is composed of water, which has throughout history involved water. And there is no escaping the human story of water, as both a building block of life and a means of decomposing our corporeal body by water, the universal solvent. It takes our bodies apart as it works it magic of undoing the life water has built for our bodies.

This column is laden with so many cli-chés it is nearly funny. But from a linguis-tic perspective, how can we paint a word picture of life and not fill our proverbial cup with the great metaphors of life, by not acknowledging the absolute impor-tance water plays in birth and death. Do complete the sewing of our garment into a whole, can we not say with certainty that our very existence is a weaving of water. From before our being born, the great mys-tery, to the Grim Reaper’s coming to get us with his dark raft, we are faced with the greatest mysteries: where were we before we were born; and where are we going after we die?

John Price-Kabhir, is a retired public school educator and a writer. He is an ordained householder in the Rinzai Zen tradition. He welcomes your input at 920-558-3076 or [email protected].

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Last month I wrote about the first appearance in Wisconsin bats of “white-nose syndrome.” Most of you have prob-ably heard about this disease, a highly contagious fungus that attacks bats as they winter over in their hibernacula––usually caves or mines––where ideally they remain in a state of torpor until spring when insect food again becomes available.

The white-nose syndrome fungus (Psuedogynoassus destructans) infects the bats’ faces and wings, and through the pri-mary effects of the infection and secondary effect of causing the bats to become active in winter kills them by starvation and dehydration.

Since 2007 when the disease was first discovered in New York State, it has spread through 25 states and five provinces of Canada, killing millions of bats. It was long expected in Wisconsin and finally was observed on a few northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) in a cave in Grant County.

None of the other 85 caves and mines inspected showed signs of the disease, but given its virulence, the US Fish and Wild-life Service is putting a plan into action under the Endangered Species Act.

Though a highly restrictive endangered species designation was considered, it appears the USFWS will list the species as “threatened.” Under the threatened desig-nation, the service will adopt a 4(d) Rule that will go into effect on May 4, 2015.

This rule will allow a much greater range of activities in and near the bats’ habitat than would have been allowed had the bats been listed as endangered.

Still, most all activities of any poten-tially disturbing type would be prohibited within a quarter mile of known northern long-eared bat habitat, depending on time of year. In winter this zone would surround caves and mines that the bats use as hiber-nacula. In summer it would include areas of the forest around known bat maternity roosting sites, usually trees, especially those with shelter such as cavities or loose bark.

These roost trees are where the bats give birth and nurse their pups until they are ready to fly.

Given that most bat habitat is in for-ested areas, many of them in private hands, and in caves, many of them undeveloped, these new regulations will not affect a great many people. But those for those affected, the effects will be significant.

Brian Kleist, vice-chairman of the Wisconsin Speleological Society, which is an organization of cavers, people who are skilled and equipped for cave exploration, brought this issue to my attention. When he first called me, over a month ago, it was uncertain whether the USFWS would go for the threatened or the endangered designation.

The caving community was alarmed because an endangered designation might close down caving completely, perhaps in most of the eastern US. I remember when I began floating Ozark rivers in the seven-ties, we often visited caves that were shown on our maps. Within a few years we found most of those caves were gated off with steel bars and posted with a sign that said they were sites used by the Indiana bat, which had been declared endangered. My interest in caves was casual, so I shrugged it off, but many people are dedicated, and for them this was serious.

Kleist said his group members were not only recreationists; they also spend time maintaining caves for visitors and restor-ing caves in eastern Wisconsin that had been filled with sediment by the glaciers. By chance I had observed them at work at Cherney Maribel Caves County Park near Manitowoc. What they were doing was hard, dirty work shoveling sand and gravel that had been packed into these old cav-erns by the Ice Age thousands of years ago.

The DNR maintains, he said, that humans are a vector for transmission of white-nose syndrome, but the pattern of its spread suggested the bats themselves had spread it. The cavers are scrupulous about following USFWS decontamination protocols and are working to improve bat habitat by opening up more cave space.

When I suggested that people might see their arguments as self-interested, he acknowledged that could be true, but he felt they have good evidence on their side. When I asked who else might be affected by these regulations, he said loggers might be required to stay at least a quarter mile from any bat habitat all year long. I left off with him saying I would write an article about white-nose syndrome and a follow-up about how the new regulations might affect his group and others.

Unfortunately, though I had a follow-up conversation with Bryan Kleist, I was unable to reach the DNR people who would be able to comment on this until too late for press time. That will have to wait for next month. But I still wanted to talk to people about the effect on logging, which is a major industry in Wisconsin.

To that end I contacted Scott Sawle, president of the Lake States Lumber Asso-ciation. In a phone conversation he told me that the USFWS had not finalized their 4(d) rule and so he could not comment in great detail, though the general outlines were known. He said his organization was relieved they hadn’t settled on the endan-gered species designation for the bats, as that would have been far more restrictive. Still, the threatened designation will be, “just one more regulation we have to deal with.” It will keep loggers out of the woods for another 15 days a summer and limit areas where logging can be done, since they will need to stay well away from any roost-ing sites during the summer months and possibly a quarter mile from hibernacula year-round.

That creates a problem since known roosting sites already cover a fair amount of wooded area, and the bats change from year to year the sites they use. Another concern is that more bat species might be listed, increasing further limitations on logging activities. The rules may also affect power line and railroad right-of-way maintenance.

The loggers understand the bats have value, but their activities are not the cause of the white-nose problem. “The industry

is already struggling,” Sawle said. Already they are restricted by rules about oak wilt and wood turtles, and in most places they can’t work during deer season. How can someone maintain a business requiring an investment of several hundred thousand dollars if, “they can only do it six or seven months a year?”

The only person from the DNR I could reach in time to comment for this story, Drew Felkirchner, deals with forestry issues, not bats as such. He confirmed that the interim rules do exclude logging activ-ity within a quarter mile of hibernacula, but he stressed these are interim rules. Public comment will be accepted until May 4, which is when the interim rules will go into effect. The finalized rules may not be completed until near the end of the year.

He also confirmed that “take,” killing of species individuals, would not be pro-hibited as long as it was done in the normal process of logging. He added that if white-nose syndrome progressed as it has other places, there might not be many roosting trees left to avoid, as no bats will be around to use them. “This has killed up to 98 or 99% of the bats in some populations.”

The loggers of west and southwest Wis-consin are not Weyerhaeuser or Georgia Pacific. They are for the most part small operations that buy standing timber from farmers who would like to make some extra money. Though they didn’t bring in white-nose syndrome, they have to live with the environmental regulations designed to manage it.

In the long run, the disease will either drive the bats to extinction or they will adapt and carry on. Given the resilience of life in general, I would suspect the latter, but in the meantime, efforts to save the bats, as necessary as they may be, have profound effects on certain relatively small groups of people.

Next month we will look at what the cavers, people who explore some of the strangest and most interesting environ-ments on Earth, will have to do or not do in response to these new rules.

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Last August over 200 artists performed at over 60 venues in downtown Appleton.

Twenty five years ago Rebel Waltz released their album Rubber Walls, to a small but dedicated following. To quote Lou Reed, “Those were different times.”

Think about it. If you were around three decades ago and wanted to hear cutting edge music in the Fox Valley your choices were limited. Forward thinking arbiters like a few Menasha skate punks led the way to weeknight record spins at gay bars, or the Thirsty Whale in Appleton or Lefty’s in Green Bay. WAPL even played a few hours of Punk/New Wave each week. The odd college r ad io p rog r am from Lawrence, UW-Green Bay or UW-Oshkosh might spike the airwaves.

Eventually the soldiers took up arms. Fun With A t o m s ( Gre e n Bay), East Side Kids (Appleton area), Second Childhood and Twistin’ Egyptians (Oshkosh) may not have been the first but they were all gaining a bit of a local audi-ence.

By 1987 Rebel Waltz had joined the pack. Bassist Timm Buechler and child-hood buddy Jeff De Goey (guitar) added Jeff “JJ” Verner (guitar) and drummer Dave Moore, then set their indefatigable work ethic in motion. They chalked up many late-night drives from Kimberly to Oshkosh, doing the work that would result in high energy shows and recordings.

According to DeGoey, by the time the band called it a day, “we had written a couple hundred songs between the four of us. Playing three sets a night was no prob-lem and became a regular gig. Not bad for a couple kids from Westside elementary.”

With their name a nod to the Clash, Rebel Waltz boasted three songwriters.

Buechler and Verner operated from a more melodic approach adding vocal harmonies and jangly guitars, while DeGoey’s impas-sioned vocals perfectly matched his edgier, anguished guitar playing. Moore was simply a fantastic drummer who tied the jigsaw puzzle together.

Boasting a discography that spanned cassettes, 7” singles, LP’s and compact

discs , Rebel Wa l t z h a s chosen Record S t o r e D a y 2015 to reissue their Rubber Walls LP plus additional cuts from the ses-

sions.Constantly honing new material the

band remained in fighting shape. Situ-ated two hours from either Milwaukee or Madison, in those pre-internet days Rebel Waltz was patient and took things one step at a time.

Buechler offers his take on the band’s sense of accomplishment. “I am proud of the effort the guys put into this band to build our success. More miles than money indeed. We played anywhere and every-where we could just to try and build our fan-base. We worked our asses off to make things happen for us,“ he said. “I also like to think that we were a very good live band who played with a ton of energy and pas-sion, which turned into good reviews and word-of-mouth, so there were usually more people there the next time we played.”

DeGoey echoes the sentiment. “Rebel Waltz was a band that made its own original music in its own time. We have

known so many great bands that have done the same. Venison/Drunk Drivers in Eau Claire; Ripp Winkler in Oshkosh; Uncle Eddie/Droids Attack in Madison; Die Kreuzen/Go Go Slow in Milwaukee; Andrew Johnson with Happy/Haunted Heads and countless other great original Wisconsin bands who made their own music in their own time.”

In the twenty years since Rebel Waltz came to a halt (aside from odd reunion per-formances) the members have kept busy: Verner with Andy’s Automatics, Moore with Scrap Heap Kings, DeGoey with The Catastrophe and Buechler with solo work, tours with Peter Case, Paul Collins and The

Lyres, as well as gigs with Half Empty.“We all have continued to participate

in the great evolution of original music,” DeGoey says. “ I consider original music to be a giant centipede….one pair of legs gets the music from the pair ahead of it and passes it on to the pair behind it. To be a pair of legs in the great chain is the ultimate reward.”

For Buechler, the memory of a night in Chicago defines Rebel Waltz.

“We were wined and dined in Chicago one night in 1993, with the chance to sign with an independent label to release an album with a collection of our older songs,” he said.

“We had about 20 new songs at this point and wanted to release the new music instead of rehashing the past. As much as I wanted to sign that deal and fulfill the dream of signing a record contract, it didn’t happen. What I’m getting at is that Rebel Waltz was always looking forward as a band and we didn’t have a lot of interest in taking a step back, just to take it to a national level. For better or worse, we lived in the moment as a band. Knowing that, it feels good to look back and have no regrets.”

Rebel Waltz has confirmed an August 1st show in Green Bay. Details to follow.

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BY GEORGE HALAS

May arrivals are not just for flowers. Hillary Reynolds will be gracing the Fox Cities with a new album and a musical career in full bloom.

“In May, I’ll be coming back home for a couple of shows,” she said. “On the 14th,

I’ll be opening for The Ball-room Thieves at The Vox Concert Series in Marshfield and, on the 17th, I’ll be in Appleton to help celebrate the 20th anni-versary of Appleton North High School. It should be a fun night. Cory Chisel is a fellow alum and we’re planning on singing a few tunes together.”

If the opportunity presents, she will almost certainly sit in with Baba Ghanooj, the family band that includes her father, Ric Reynolds on guitar, aunt Marci Beau-coup on keyboards, mandolin and vocals and uncle Fran Rademacher on guitar, mandolin and harmonica.

Ric Reynolds saw it early.“When she was two, three years old,

she would get into the music of whatever Disney movie was out – I remember “The Little Mermaid” in particular – and she would sing all the parts with vibrato,” he recalls. “We didn’t know she had perfect pitch until later.”

“My family,” she said, “has played a major role in my musical background, being my first collaborators in learning the language of music even before I knew how to speak.”

“She got her voice from her mother and her ear from me,” Ric said. “We speak the same language.”

While there are loyal Inquisitors who double as fathers wondering “is that even possible?” it seems that it’s hard-coded in the DNA.

“My dad and his siblings played bar gigs all over Wis-consin, my favorite being the Harbor Bar on the Chain O’ Lakes,” Hillary recalls. “My parents sang in the church choir and my mom had a killer voice. Grandpa Reynolds would sing Frank Sinatra tunes for me and my cousins before bed – he

also has killer voice - and Grandma Reynolds was a concert pianist.”

The DNA apparently included strands of moon dust and spice.

“Through nurture and nature, I was born with a soul full of music. Before taking proper lessons for piano at age seven and joining the Lawrence Arts Academy Girl Choir at eight years old, I wrote my first song at recess called, “Man on the Moon,” she continued. “Yes, to this day, I still remember the chorus. On weekends, I would sing along and choreograph some pretty awesome moves to the Spice Girls with my cousins in my bedroom. We called ourselves the Cousins Club & wrote all of our hits in my *Nsync notebook.”

Reynolds waited until she was much older to begin performing.

“My first gig was when I was 11. I sang “God Only Knows” at my aunt’s wedding,” she said. “My first paid gig was at Copper Rock Cafe as a freshman in high school. That gig taught me that caffeine filled vanilla chai lattes plus nerves do not mix!”

“There’s still an out of tune upright piano living at the downtown location,” she added. “I played that piano a number of times because I didn’t have any sort of

rig when I started gigging.”“After high school, I moved to Boston

and went to Berklee College of Music, where I met the great loves of my life - my band.”

The development of the music and the sound have been not always been smooth.

“My musical career is open. It has taken a few years to feel that way,” she said. “My mom died months before the release of my first full length album, “Since September”, due to breast cancer complications and in the eye of the storm, I found myself in a Brian Wilson spell, spending weeks in my bed, paralyzed by grief, deeply contemplat-ing quitting music. Losing her filled my heart with insurmountable doubt”

“My therapy became an EP release called “Your Love.” It was through five recorded tracks and my soul’s expression of grief that gave me peace and the ability to move forward with my career,” she said. “It has been a long road to healing - some days still suck, but through my own vul-nerability, I’ve been able to cut the bullshit and connect with life because of an experi-ence that has broken my heart open.”

Touring has its benefits as well.“I’ve toured for the last five summers

with my band - again, the loves of my life,” she said. “We’ve played to sold-out crowds across the country and we’ve also played to a toothless one-man crowd at a dive bar in Kentucky. It was definitely one of the creepiest sets I’ve ever played. I have a tour journal that has the highs and lows logged from the road.”

“The best part about releasing “The Miles Before Us” has been letting the music sink into the hearts of fans and then playing shows to a singing crowd. That connection is so powerful.”

“When I’m not on the road, I’ve done jingles for everything from Disney to Sony to air conditioners. Recently, I’ve been wrapping up production on a duo project called ‘The Arrow & The Bow’ with a fellow Midwestern soul, Hannah Christianson. Together, we explore the healing and heart opening power of music, meditation, yoga, and travel,” she said. “Our music blends the worlds of folk, pop,

and alternative, and our raw lyrics offer an honest expression and insight into the human experience.”

“Two summers ago,” she added, “we toured Ireland & Scotland. A couple of the tracks on the EP were written there.”

Her creativity and songwriting are on-going.

“My creative process is unpredictable, sometimes a bit manic,” she revealed. “I wrote the track “Pretending I’m in Love” on our way to the first Mile of Music in the car with a guitalele. I started writing it somewhere in Pennsylvania and by the time we got to Indiana, Jeff, my drummer was in the front seat, my guitarist was in the back seat with me strumming along and then the song was finished.

“Braver Than We Think” was born on my way back from a writing session in Colorado. My cellist and songwriting partner, Trevor, picked me up from the airport and within five minutes of the car ride, I told him I had a song inside me that was going to be written that day. Sure enough, I called my favorite collaborator to come over and help me with the odds and ends, and the song was done. When muse strikes, I listen and create.”

Her collaboration with Chisel recalls a special moment for Ric Reynolds.

“At the first Mile of Music, she opened for Cory Chisel at the Lawrence University Chapel,” he said. “She needed a bass player. It was a father’s dream to share a stage of that stature with his daughter.”

Hillary and the band are still based in Boston.

“I’m glad every time she comes home. She’s so far away. I wish she could get home more and that we could collaborate more,” Ric said. “I know that for her to achieve her career goals, it’s probably not going to happen based out of the Fox Cities.”

“I am very proud,” he added, “of how she has grown from a trained musician into artist. She puts her heart and soul into it. I’d listen to her album even if I did not know whose it was.”

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Bill Casper’s sturgeon shanty may trace its origin to the humblest of beginnings but it is destined for historical greatness.

Those who wander the vast expanse of Lake Winnebago’s field of ice during the sturgeon-spearing season each February no doubt know of Casper’s distinctive shanty in the shape, design and hue of a Green Bay Packers helmet.

Tens of thousands of people have seen it on the ice of Big Winnie, or on Highway 151 and neighboring roads on its way to or from its off-season haunts, or maybe in Washington, D.C. on a site between the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument during a two-week stretch in 1998 when Wisconsin celebrated its 150th anniversary as a state.

Casper, his family and a circle of close friends have speared sturgeon in the Packer shanty for nearly a half century.

The winter of 2015 marked the famed shanty’s last season on Winnebago, not far from where Bill and his wife Kathy make their home along the East Shore between the lake and the historic limestone ridge of cliffs and rock that reaches from Fond du Lac County all the way to Niagara Falls in New York.

A NEW PERSPECTIVEThe old shanty is about to begin its

retirement…in a style reserved for only a chosen few.

“I’ve been told I can’t fish alone any-more,” Casper said recently as he recalled some of his favorite sturgeon memories. “My balance isn’t the greatest,” he noted, adding that he’ll be 85 when the next stur-geon spearing season rolls around.

“So I fished in the shanty with a friend of ours, Theresa Mayer, this season…the last time.”

Mayer took a photo of the shanty awash in early morning tones on Casper’s last day of the season amid the colors that only the Winnebago ice and a Wisconsin winter sun can conceive.

A framed photo of that setting has a special place on the living room wall at the

Casper home.It’s an emotional

image for a number of reasons. The emotion is evident in Bill Casper’s face and his eyes and in a long silence that he needs before he contin-ues his story.

MUSEUM POINT OF VIEW

“That shanty i s iconic. It has character, legitimacy, authenticity,” said Joe Kapler, a curator at the Wisconsin State Historical Society and the person who will be instrumental in eventu-ally placing the Casper shanty on permanent display at the Historical Society Museum on the Square in Madison.

Then, after thinking a bit more, he finds the word he really wants. “It has provenance,” Kapler added. The word even has an appropriate, elegant sound to it.

Kapler points out that Casper’s Packer shanty embodies “so many levels” of state history and storytelling.

It speaks of the Packers themselves; the birth of professional football; Coach and General Manager Vince Lombardi; the Ice Bowl Game against the Dallas Cowboys in 1967 (the year Casper built his shanty); the “frozen tundra” in the sense of 215 square miles of arctic Lake Winnebago desert; outdoor recreational pursuits; hunting, trapping, fishing and spearing; prehistoric sturgeon (Hiawatha’s Mishe-Nahma, the king of fishes); the founding of Sturgeon for Tomorrow by Bill Casper and others; the sense of community in shanty villages on the lake and within the comfortable homes and colorful towns that dot the Holyland of northeastern Fond du Lac County and beyond; practicality and folk art in the form of steel ice chisels, spears,

sturgeon decoys, ice skimmers, gaff hooks, old-fashioned saws and countless artifacts handed down through generations; con-servation and preservation; fish biology; water quality; and the social phenomenon that somehow binds all of those aspects together.

IN PERPETUITY“Just think of the layers it all involves,”

Kapler added. “You can call that shanty an artifact in itself. It deserves to be preserved in perpetuity.”

What he’s saying is that the shanty deserves to be on permanent display for the educational and historic benefit of the people of Wisconsin and any other state for that matter.

Kapler intuitively grasped that simple fact when he first learned of Casper’s shanty and saw it nearly 13 years ago as a rookie museum curator.

“I just knew it…I could see it…the value it had,” Kapler said

He recalls talking with Casper and

saying to him, “Keep us in mind when the time comes.”

The time is now. Within a year or two, the shanty will be placed on permanent display at the State Historical Society. A special exhibit will be built. It will be photographed endlessly and cataloged. Interviews will be conducted. Videos will be produced, and no doubt, there will be examples of sturgeon mounts available, along with all the related sturgeon artifacts that Casper and his family have used over the years.

What is on the shanty walls today will be there decades from now. The wood stove will be there, and the special Lake Win-nebago maps and placemats from Sturgeon for Tomorrow banquets will remain. He hopes to add an antique hand saw if some-one can provide one and contact him.

A special sturgeon decoy made and painted by Bill Casper’s sister, Mary Lou Schneider, will accompany the shanty to the museum. Schneider’s decoys and other artistic artifacts are prized by countless outdoor enthusiasts and collectors in the Fond du Lac area.

She fashions the decoys and artifacts in her workshop on the farm overlooking Lake Winnebago where she and Bill grew up.

FINDING THE PROPER PLACE“We’ll probably have to knock out a

wall to get it in the museum,” Kapler said of the shanty.

“I don’t know all the details yet. We’re working on it,” he said.

The shanty will be a museum main-stay for 50 years or longer, Kapler hopes, adding, “We’ll take the best care of it we can.”

If it makes it to 2067, the shanty will note the century mark, an age matched by some of the sturgeon speared and netted each year in the Winnebago System.

As many as 80,000 people will see the shanty every year, Kapler said, pointing out that 30,000 fourth- and fifth-graders annually visit the museum on class trips as part of their study of Wisconsin history.

“It would be ideal if people could

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Bill Casper and his Green Bay Packer fishing shanty that’s headed for Madison. Photo by: Theresa Mayer


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actually go inside the shanty, to see what a real spearing shanty is like,” Kapler noted. “We’ll give it some thought.”

Until the permanent museum display is completed, Bill Casper’s shanty will be available for viewing by the public at loca-tions in the state.

“We’re not prepared to make that announcement yet,” Kapler said. “We’ll be letting the public know when we know.”

For Bill Casper, it’s almost like watch-ing a member of the family or an old friend leaving for a faraway destination and knowing they’ll never return to their old stomping grounds.

The shanty is about to answer a higher calling, but that doesn’t make it any easier for the heart and soul to process.

BUILDING AN ICONCasper recalls the day he saw a bunch

of curved rafters his old friend Bernie Baker from Giddings & Lewis was trying to get rid of.

“I ended up buying them for a dollar apiece,” Casper said. “I had an idea what I was going to do. I wanted an arched roof and so that’s what I built.”

A machinist at Giddings & Lewis, Casper had the know-how to get the job done with a combination of wood frame, metal and mechanics. It’s surprisingly roomy, with dimensions of 12 feet in

length, six feet in width and more than six feet at its greatest height.

He and Kathy’s four children — Shar-ron, Mike, Barb and Nick — were young-sters when it was built, and they spent many hours in the comfort of their Dad’s shanty.

It was Kathy’s idea to transform the shanty shape into a Packers helmet.

“It looks like a helmet,” Kathy remarked at the time. “Why don’t you make it a Packer helmet?”

She is surprised to this day that none of the Green Bay TV channels ever focused on the shanty for a story.

After all, it became one of the most rec-ognized and sought after structures on the winter lake-scape every season. In a sense, it was famous.

STURGEON FOR TOMORROWTen years after the shanty was built,

Casper led the founding of Sturgeon for Tomorrow, a conservation and preservation organization that spawned a number of other chapters.

The organization has helped make the Winnebago System arguably the healthiest, most prolific sturgeon fishery and habitat in the world. Winnebago sturgeon are being utilized to save and foster sturgeon populations across the nation and around the world.

Sturgeon for Tomorrow volunteers known as the Sturgeon Patrol are instru-mental in protecting vulnerable spawning sturgeon throughout the system, and local fish biologists lead the way in propagating the species for generations to come.

“We’ve come a long way,” said Casper, who earned the nickname Sturgeon General for his leadership abilities. “We’re almost at the million dollar mark,” meaning that the organization is close to donating $1 million to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for sturgeon improvement proj-ects.

For his leadership and devotion to the organization, Casper is a recipient of the Outdoor Life Conservation Award, a distinction shared by some of modern history’s acclaimed conservation leaders, including Wisconsin’s Aldo Leopold.

Casper points out that the Smithson-ian Institution in Washington, D.C., also wanted his Packer shanty for permanent display.

“That was quite an honor that they wanted it,” Casper said. “But I just felt it belonged in Wisconsin.”

That’s perfectly understandable. It has its lifeblood here…and its treasured memo-ries are rooted here.

UNCLE AMBROSE“I was 8 years old the first time I went

sturgeon spearing,” Casper recalled. “I went with my Uncle Ambrose Langenfeld. And when I was 14 — that’s 70 years ago — my Uncle Ambrose gave me his shanty and his spear. That was my first shanty.”

His uncle’s antique spear and one of his uncle’s ancient decoys will be going with the Packer shanty to Madison.

With a sense of amazement, Casper added, “Would you believe that Paul Langenfeld, my cousin…Ambrose’s son, got the last sturgeon to be speared in my shanty! Paul was born the winter Uncle Ambrose gave me my first shanty. Amaz-ing!”

The final installment of the Casper shanty is yet to be scheduled. There will be a dedication and Bill Casper and his family will be there, God willing.

The Packer shanty will enjoy a place of honor at its final resting place in a museum on an isthmus between Mendota and Monona.

And 80,000 people will visit it each year.

What an auspicious ending and what an eventful beginning!

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Twenty five hundred people will jour-ney to Dundas, Wisconsin on Saturday, May 16th for the annual Testicle Festival. That’s right… Testicle Festival, where large numbers of people come to enjoy a true delicacy, deep-fried testicles.

According to Linda Fassbender, owner of 2 of a Kind, one of two drinking holes in Dundas, “We skin’em, slice’em, bread’em, and fry’em, and I can only say that if you ain’t afraid to try’em...you’ll love’em.” That day more than 240lbs of testicles will be prepared for the masses to enjoy.

“It takes experience and skill to prepare a good tasting nub. You don’t want it to be stringy, too juicy, or chewy, it has to be tender and prepared with our secret spices to have the perfect succulent treat,” say

Fassbender.“We have people from all over the state

and from all walks of life come to this yearly event. We have a large number of motorcycle enthusiasts, local farmers, and people who love live music join in, and each year the event gets bigger and bigger,” explains Tara Erickson, the owner of the other bar across the street appropriately named, The Nut Haus.

The Testicle Festival was first held at Debbie’s Dundas Inn starting back in the early 90’s, and as the crowd grew, the bar across the street took in the overflow. Today Fassbender and Erickson have decided to work together to make the event even better. “People who attend will only have to pay one cover charge. For

$5 you’ll enjoy some great live music and eat as many testicle nuggets as you want,” Erickson said.

The street between the two bars will be closed this year for the first time since the event started about 25 years ago. And the two establishments will be working together to host this unique event.

“This year we have a 100x60-foot tent that will be erected for the live music. We have two bands scheduled to play. The first band called the 18 Days Band will play from 3:30 – 7:30 p.m., and the second band will be Half Empty starting at 8:00 till around midnight,” explained Erickson. “This is usually the first festival of the year for most, and we have it rain or shine. We will start serving about 11 in the morning

for the early testicle enthusiasts and keep frying until we are out of nuts.”

In addition to testicles, each of the establishments will be serving “regular food.” Hot turkey and beef sandwiches served on a Kaiser bun will be available at The Nut Haus, and Two of a Kind will have its complete menu available for those inter-ested in different fare. Both places promise to have plenty of ice cold beer on hand.

Dundas is located in Calumet County in the town of Woodville. It is an unincor-porated community that really has just two bars in it. It is located on the corner of St. John Rd. and Dundas Rd. You’ll see the tent from there. Be careful it is rumored the testicles are an aphrodisiac and make people do crazy things. Enjoy.

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BY JANE SPIETZ

Watch out for the up and coming Lake Street Dive (LSD). This super talented indie pop-soul quartet is well on its way to great things. Members Rachael Price (lead vocals/ukulele/guitar), Mike “McDuck” Olson (trumpet/guitar player/vocals), Bridget Kearney (standup bass/vocals) and Mike Calabrese (drums/vocals) met in 2004 and begin perform-ing together while they were students at the New England Conservatory of Music. Olson says the name of the band origi-nates from the abundance of dive bars located in a neighborhood in his Min-nesota hometown. The band submitted a recording of a tune penned by Kearney to the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2005 and she won in the Jazz Category. LSD used the winnings to record their debut CD, in this episode, in 2006.

LSD’s big break came in 2012 after the four gathered around a single microphone on a Boston street corner and performed an inspiring cover of the Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back.” It was posted on YouTube and went viral after Kevin Bacon tweeted it. In December 2013, iconic producer T Bone Burnett requested LSD to contribute musically to the performance of Another Day, Another Time show, featuring music from and inspired by the Coen Brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis.

Although their original common denominator was jazz, LSD’s music now additionally blends in influences of the British Invasion and soul, pop, and folk. The beautiful simplicity of their mostly acoustic instrumentation further highlights their exceptional talent. All four perform vocally and take turns with songwriting. They are huge fans of the Beatles. Their 2012 EP, “Fun Machine,” contains great covers of McCartney & Wings’ “Let Me Roll It,” Hall & Oates’ “Rich Girl,” George Michael’s “Faith” and The Drifters’ “This Magic Moment.” The band has also put together fun Halloween tributes to the B-52s, the Mamas & the Papas, Fleetwood Mac,

the Starland Vocal Band and ABBA. As a personal disclosure, I am a huge ABBA fan and thought that LSD did a great rendition of “Take a Chance on Me” in 2010! The title song of their new album, Bad Self Portrait, was written by Kearney and takes a jab at selfies with references to loneliness and regret.

As lead vocalist and the focal point for the group, Rachael Price’s amazing voice is strong yet smooth, exuding hints of Bonnie Raitt and Amy Winehouse. Price belts out songs with natural enthusiasm

and fullness, wrapping effortlessly around each note. Members of LSD exhibit an easy kind of comfortableness with each other but don’t let that fool you. They are tightly knit and totally on target with their exquisite four part vocal harmonies and instrumentation. LSD has been performing across the U.S. and Europe and sold out concerts are common these days. A performance with Grace Potter & the Nocturnals at Red Rocks is well worth watching on YouTube. They recently completed a tour to Australia and New Zealand. The band has been receiving critical acclaim. In 2014, LSD was named one of this year’s “artists to know” at Bonnaroo and Rolling Stone called LSD “this year’s best new band.” Do not miss an opportunity to see LSD in concert – you won’t be disappointed.

I connected with Mike “Mc Duck” Olson not long ago to learn more about LSD.

Jane Spietz: How did the Australia/

New Zealand tour go?Mike “Mc Duck” Olson: Fantastic.

Great crowds, lovely festivals, and marsupi-als. What more can a band ask for on their first time to a new hemisphere?

JS: How did the four of you get together and start up Lake Street Dive?

McD: That’s my doing. I wanted to play in a band, like a real band, not just jam with random, different people all the time. I had a few startups going, but LSD was the one that stuck. Which is was cool, cuz it was the only one that had a singer, and none of us were really writing a lot of original music with lyrics, so this really forced us to expand, and quickly.

JS: How would you describe Lake Street Dive’s musical style?

McD: We like to say we live at the intersection of the British Invasion and Soul music. We’re massive fans of both styles, and can’t help but have those things shine through in our writing and playing styles.

JS: Talk about Lake Street Dive’s love of the Beatles and their influence on the band’s music.

McD: Well, in our humble opinion, the Beatles are the best rock/pop band of all time. They were great musicians, great writers, great arrangers, and in the rela-tively short time they were around, they changed their sound more ways than you can count, but it always sounded like the Beatles. I think we are chasing their legacy (isn’t everyone?) in that we don’t want to be hampered by one sound, and hope that we can retain a band personality even if we are writing and playing in ways we haven’t even imagined yet.

JS: A tweet by Kevin Bacon helped your YouTube cover of the Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back” go viral in 2012! Share the story about that experience.

McD: Talk about surreality. When it happened, my first reaction was “wait, is Kevin Bacon a real person?” It’s so easy to think that nothing you ever do will ever have an impact on the life of someone like him. It’s like we live on two different planets. But getting access to his followers and fans was a major windfall for us, and it came at the same time as a few other big things, like getting shared on a few big blogs, like Wimp and World Star Hip Hop, of all things. I don’t know if we’ll ever understand how things like this happen, but the stars really aligned for us two years

ago, and we’ve been grateful of it ever since.

JS: Talk about the experience of playing Bonnaroo for the first time last year.

McD: Well, it was hands down the biggest thing we’ve ever been involved in. It was pretty amazing, walking around and experiencing what is, essentially, a mid-sized city devoted exclusively to the consump-tion of music. Talk about a com-

munity. But we had an excellent time, interacting not only with the fans, but with the other bands and musicians and festival organizers. Also, Elton John. Hello? Amaz-ing. We hope to go back again!

JS: What can your fans expect when you play at Turner Hall in Milwaukee on May 27?

McD: We’re trying to mix up the show a little bit this year, because we’ve played every major market in the country at least once in the last year two years, and we want our fans to be excited each and every time we come back! We are also working on a new record, so you’ll for sure hear a few new songs, but we don’t want to give the whole thing away, so we’ll probably be reaching further back into our catalog and playing so old favorites, maybe some new covers...who knows! We’re brainstorming ways to make it fun and fresh but still the same old LSD.

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There are rumors that a wise guy reviewer once answered the question “what kind of music do you like?” with “I like good music.”

“Good music” seems like the best way to describe the offerings on “The Miles Before Us” by the Hillary Reynolds Band because it’s otherwise hard to nail down the rich combination of styles and influ-ences that are woven together in unique and creative ways. “Miles” is an album that will sound very good on first listen and gets better as the nuance and textures are revealed subsequently.

Reynolds’ versatile voice and her lyrics are the constants shared by the 14 compo-sitions on this CD. Her voice gives texture and additional meaning to her rumina-tion’s on love and its attendant heartaches.

The opening cut, “Took Me A While” sounds like it should be the first track on an album by a female singer-songwriter who understands that “it’s never been so

real.” Reynolds’ sense of irony emerges in “Pretending I’m In Love,” as she awaits “someday, someway, we’ll speak the truth.”

One of the aspects of the band that makes the sound unusual is the excellent but understated cello playing of Trevor Jarvis. It sets the tone for a country-flavored ballad, “Honey Come Home” that features nicely blended harmony vocals. Jarvis is credited as a co-writer on that tune and “Can’t Let You Go,” which follows and laments “can’t stop even though I know you’re no good.”

Guest mandolinist Forrest O’Connor provides the fuel for the bluegrass-flavored “I Surrender” which also features some excellent guitar work by Connor Reese. Bassist Chris Mewhinney sets a solid foundation for Reynolds’ and her hopeful longing in “Braver Than We Think.”

“What It Is” is perhaps the most radio-friendly song on the CD, a pleasant mid tempo pop tune that seems to accept that “we don’t have to make it more than what it is.” Rich harmonies and Jarvis’ cello fills

highlight “Balloon and Kite,” which notes “that’s what love is about.” Reynolds’ “does not want to fall asleep alone tonight” on the acoustic guitar-accented “Crossing The Line,” then gently asks “take my heart when you leave in the morning” in “This Love Is Ours.”

Co-writer Reese contributes under-stated but lyrical guitar to Reynolds’ almost whispered vocals on “How.” She teams with Jarvis and his cello to create a poignant angst on “I Don’t Know Who Else To Call” as she begs “save me from my worried mind.”

The band steps the energy up a notch and sets a slow, bass-accented blues groove on top of Jeff Hale’s tasteful drumming to shape the lyrics on “Looking For A Way Back.”

This reviewer is convinced that Reyn-olds and her band mates saved the best for last with “Keep On Driving,” which departs lyrically into more metaphysical territory as Reynolds’ notes that “the future is in the dawn, I gotta keep driving ‘til I get

where I belong.” Jarvis’ cello highlights a fine band effort.

While the tunes on this CD are now a staple of the band’s set list, Reynolds, like many artists, is already looking to what’s next.

“This album will always hold a special place in my heart,” she said. “The Miles Before Us” was one big DIY project from preproduction to the release date to the road. It hasn’t even been a year - but the cruel thing about my songwriting process is this: in order to allow space for new inspiration and songs, I can’t think about the finished record anymore. It’s a little annoying given the fact that I spent all last year with an amazing creative team bringing that record to life and now all I can think about is the next time Trevor and I will get together to finish a new crop of songs.”

THE MILES BEFORE USHillary Reynolds Band

ENTERTAINMENT // CD REVIEW

BY GEORGE HALAS

With Red Gold, Kevin Fort delivers a strong, consistent album of originals and standards that will have fans of piano jazz that stays true to bebop, while incorporat-ing modern elements, considering a trip to the Windy City.

Fort is a Chicago-based jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who has worked with such notable musicians as John Clay-ton, Bill Watrous, Ramsey Lewis, Wayne Bergeron, and Rick Baptist. For this recording, he has assembled a top-notch trio that includes Doug Hayes playing bass and drummer John Deitmeyer.

The album has a pleasing pace that enables Fort and company to explore a number of emotional soundscapes. The band kicks the energy up a couple of notches on Irving Berlin’s I’ve Got My Love

To Keep Me Warm, flawlessly and smoothly executing from start to finish while show-casing Fort’s technical brilliance as well as a right-on-the-money solo by Hayes. The Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley composi-tion, Cheer Up, Charlie, follows as Fort, et al, gently slow the tempo and guide the listener into a relaxing sonic easy chair.

The trio’s best work comes on the Fort originals. As a composer, he writes in a way that provides plenty of room for Hayes and Deitmeyer to contribute enthusiastically to the melody and the tempo. Fort’s playing is equally energized and the result is that the originals are the highlights of the album. The title piece, Red Gold, is an up tempo expression of joy – you can almost see Fort having fun playing this one – and Hayes contributes a melodic bass solo that adds another dimension to the composition. Dietmeyer keeps his solo work comfortably

within the structure and his choices resulting in perfect touches.

Coastin’ In is another Fort original that features a combination of a unique melody with a high-energy, take no prisoners approach and satisfying contributions from Hayes and Deitmeyer. Fort initially lays back then builds the tempo in a way that you don’t sense it, until you feel your toes tapping or fingers snapping. Another excellent Hayes solo gives way to Fort and Dietmeyer trading fours in a way that highlights their excellent chemistry and Dietmeyer’s ability to apply very taste-ful rhythmic flourishes without going over the top.

In many ways, Fort saves the best for last with Whirled and Whirled Above, a composition with a variety of textures and nuance. He uses Hayes to set a unique tone

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WAYNE NEUMANNANDUZZIS - HOWARDHOWARD 7:00 PMBRIAN JAMESANDUZZIS EAST GREEN BAYGREEN BAY 7:00 PMHAPPY HOUR HEROESTHE BAR LYNNDALEAPPLETON 7:00 PMSUN RAY EYESTHE SOURCEMENASHA 7:00 PMMATTHEW HAEFFELDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PM

MAY 8

JOE SLYZELIACANNOVA’SNEENAH 6:00 PMDONNY PICKCIMERRONMENASHA 8:00 PMATTALLALYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMBLACK PUSSY LYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMDEAD MODERN VILLIANS

LYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMCONVENIENCE STORE FLOWERS & ONE STRONG ARMYBECKETS RESTAURANTOSHKOSH 8:30 PMKYLE MEGNA AND THE MONSOONSDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASESARDINE CANGREEN BAY 9:00 PMIVY SPOKES WITH ELECTRA COLORTHE SOURCEMENASHA 9:30 PMTHE 40NTHEFLOORMILL CREEKAPPLETON 10:00 PMDAN TULSA DUOPOTAWATOMI CARTER CASINOCARTER 3:30-7:30COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICHIGH CLIFF RESTAURANTSHERWOOD 7-10:00

MAY 9

JUDY GAROTCANNOVA’SNEENAH 6:00 PMRED LIGHT SAINTSCHAMBERS HILL BAR AND GRILLSUAMICO 6:00 PMHAPPY HOUR HEROESCHADDERBOXTWO RIVERS 6:30 PMBOBBY DARRINCIMERRONMENASHA 8:00 PMDAPHNILYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMGREEN SCREEN KIDSLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMHANSOME MIDNIGHTLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMVINYETTELYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMREVEREND RAVEN AND THE CHAIN SMOKING ALTAR BOYS

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BECKETS RESTAURANTOSHKOSH 8:30 PMR P MPLANK ROAD PUBDE PERE 8:30 PMSONIC CIRCUSTILLARS PUBWEST BEND 8:30 PMJOSH FARROW BANDDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMBIG MOUTHFOX HARBOR PUB & GRILLGREEN BAY 9:00 PMROOFTOP JUMPERSJIMMY SEASGREEN BAY 9:00 PM“OWEN MAYES, RACHEL HANSON, OLD WOLVES”THE SOURCEMENASHA 9:00 PMAVATARWATERING HOLEGREEN BAY 9:00 PMBRIAN JAMESWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9:00 PM

BAZOOKA JOEWOUTERS SPORTS BARLITTLE SUAMICO 9:00 PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASEHEADLINERSNEENAH 9:30 PMCRANKIN YANKEESSTONE TOADMENASHA 9:30 PMSTAR SIX NINETWISTERSHORTONVILLE 9:30 PMSLY JOE AND SMOOTH OPERA-TORSDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 10:00 PMROAD TRIPFAT JOESFOND DU LAC 10:00 PMNASHVILLE PIPELINEJJ MALONEYSKAUKAUNA 10:00 PMHALF EMPTYWISEGUYSGREENVILLE 10:00 PMBILL STEINERTHEIDEL HOUSE



GREEN LAKE 7-10:00COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICMACKINAWSGREEN BAY 7:30-11:00DAN TULSA BANDPOTAWATOMI CARTER CASINOCARTER 8-12:00KITTY CORONASILVER CRYSTWAUTOMA 8-12:00

MAY 10

PBR BLUEGRASSTHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PM

MAY 12

EDDIE DANGERTHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PMDEAD SOLDIERSLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMDITCHRUNNERSLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMURBAN PIONEERSLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PM

MAY 13

SAM LUNATHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PM

MAY 14

KYLE MEGNA & DAVE LEBLANCTHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PMTED EGGEANDUZZIS - HOWARDHOWARD 7:00 PMDAN TULSAANDUZZIS EAST GREEN BAYGREEN BAY 7:00 PMROB ANTHONYDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMKAI-MAN PROJECTWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9:00 PM

MAY 15

VIC FERRARI

ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC SCHOOLWISCONSIN RAPIDS 7:00 AMBRIAN JAMESUW-OSHKOSH ALUMNI CENTEROSHKOSH 6:00 PMSEPARATE WAYSURBAN MIDDLE SCHOOLSHEBOYGAN 7:30 PMJOHN LAMBERT & MIKE SCHULTZCHANDELIER CLUBAPPLETON 8:00 PMDAVE STEFFEN BANDCIMERRONMENASHA 8:00 PMMAD MAD ONESLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMSATELITE ECHOLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMSTAR SIX NINEMOLLY MAGUIRESOSHKOSH 8:00 PMMIKE MALONE COMBOBECKETS RESTAURANTOSHKOSH 8:30 PMREVEREND RAVENSLIPPERY NOODLEINDIANAPOLIS 8:30 PMMOOOSEDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMDAPHNISARDINE CANGREEN BAY 9:00 PMCOPPER BOXTHE SOURCEMENASHA 9:30 PMLOU SHIELDS AND CHRIS GOLDCRANKY PATSNEENAH 10:00 PMSLY JOE AND SMOOTH OPERATORSFRETS & FRIENDSGREEN BAY 10:00 PMHALF EMPTYMILL CREEKAPPLETON 10:00 PMBROKEN ARROWPOTAWATOMI CARTER CASINOCARTER 3:30-7:30LITTLE VITO & TORPEDOESRIVERSIDE CASINO

RIVERSIDE IA 8:30-12:00

MAY 16

MARK TE TAI DUOCANNOVA’SNEENAH 6:00 PMCORY CHISELTHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PMJOHNNY WADOLD MILL PARK - PELLADAYSPELLA 7:30 PMHALF EMPTYTWO OF A KINDDUNDAS 7:30 PMCARAVANCIMERRONMENASHA 8:00 PMKURT STEIN & THE CON-SPIRACYBECKETS RESTAURANTOSHKOSH 8:30 PMREVEREND RAVENSLIPPERY NOODLEINDIANAPOLIS 8:30 PMDIAMOND AND STEEL10TH FRAMEAPPLETON 9:00 PMTHE POUNDING FATHERSDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMGRAND UNIONFOX HARBOR PUB & GRILLGREEN BAY 9:00 PMWILDSIDEIZZYS PUBBERLIN 9:00 PMUNITYJIMMY SEASGREEN BAY 9:00 PMROCKERWATERING HOLEGREEN BAY 9:00 PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASEWOUTERS SPORTS BARLITTLE SUAMICO 9:00 PMSTAR SIX NINEFAT JOESFOND DU LAC 9:30 PMBOURBON COWBOYSHEADLINERSNEENAH 9:30 PMTHE COUGARSKOUNTRY BARAPPLETON 9:30 PMNASHVILLE PIPELINESTONE TOADMENASHA 9:30 PM

VIBES FOR THE TRIBESCRANKY PATSNEENAH 10:00 PMRABID AARDVARKSPAULIES PUBWEST ALLIS 10:00 PMFRAN STEENOHEIDEL HOUSEGREEN LAKE 7-10:00LITTLE VITO & TORPEDOESRIVERSIDE CASINORIVERSIDE IA 8:30-12:00VIC FERRARIWHITEHALL FIREMENS DANCEWHITEHALL 9-12:30

MAY 17

THE COUGARSLAMBEAU FIELD PARKING LOTGREEN BAY 9:00 AMLOOSE SCREWSFLAGSTONEAPPLETON 5:00 PM

MAY 19

SCOTT DERCKSTHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PM

MAY 20

SLY JOE AND SMOOTH OPERATORSTHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PMTURBOJUGENDLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PM

MAY 21

KELVIN KASPERTHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PMTEQUILA TANGOANDUZZIS - HOWARDHOWARD 7:00 PMCHAD DEMEUSEANDUZZIS EAST GREEN BAYGREEN BAY 7:00 PMKEVIN HUSS (OF THE SMALL TOWN DELIQUENTSDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMHAPPY HOUR HEROESWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9:00 PM

MAY 22

MOLLY CONRAD/ MICHAEL THEROUXCANNOVA’SNEENAH 6:00 PMTBACIMERRONMENASHA 8:00 PMBUIDING SEVENLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMLLOYD’S BASEMENT SHOWLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMMOLLIES WAYLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMSWEETALKLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMSLY JOE AND SMOOTH OPERATORSBECKETS RESTAURANTOSHKOSH 8:30 PMTHE LATELYDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMPOUNDING FATHERSSARDINE CANGREEN BAY 9:00 PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASESKINNY DAVESMOUNTAIN 9:00 PMPHOCUSTHE SOURCEMENASHA 9:00 PMDAN TULSA DUOWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9:00 PMTHE BLUES DISCIPLESMILWAUKEE ALE HOUSEMILWAUKEE 9:30 PMROAD TRIPBOLTONVILLE FIREMENS PICNICBOLTONVILLE 9-1:00

MAY 23

BOURBON COWBOYSVETERANS MEMORIAL PARKCRIVITZ 3:30 PMADAMS WAYBLIND SQUIRRELSHAWANO 6:00 PMCHRIS WHITE TRIOCANNOVA’SNEENAH 6:00 PM



R P MVETERANS MEMORIAL PARKCRIVITZ 7:30 PMSAM BROWN AND THE BRINKCIMERRONMENASHA 8:00 PMROOFTOP JUMPERSGAMEDAY SPORTS BARAPPLETON 8:00 PMKEVIN FAYTE ROCK AND ROLL TRIOBECKETS RESTAURANTOSHKOSH 8:30 PMTHE COUGARSSTONE HARBORSTURGEON BAY 8:30 PMDARKDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASEOUTPOSTSHERWOOD 9:00 PMEARL BURROWSTHE SOURCEMENASHA 9:00 PMRAPID IMPULSEWATERING HOLEGREEN BAY 9:00 PMTHE BOMBBEAR LAKE CAMPGROUND & RESORTMANAWA 9:30 PMBOXKARCLEARWATER HARBORWAUPACA 9:30 PMDAN TULSA DUOMINESHAFTHARTFORD 9:30 PMKITTY CORONAHEIDEL HOUSEGREEN LAKE 7-11:00COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICGIBRALTAR GRILLFISH CREEK 7:30-10:00

MAY 24

R2CLEARWATER HARBORWAUPACA 3:00 PMREVEREND RAVENCHOCOLATE FEST- MAIN STAGE - HWY 36BURLINGTON 5:00 PMSLY JOE AND SMOOTH OPERATORSJIM AND LINDA’S

PIPE 5:00 PMTHE PRESIDENTSPORTOFINO BAY RESTAU-RANT & MARINAMAUSTON 6:00 PMTHE COUGARSSAND BOXGREEN BAY 6:00 PMDIAMOND AND STEELBARZOSFREMONT 8:00 PMBOURBON COWBOYSFIN AND FEATHERWINNECONNE 8:00 PMSONIC CIRCUSGAMEDAY SPORTS BARAPPLETON 8:00 PMDRUM BEAT REDLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMI’M NOT A PILOTLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PMLEADING THE BLINDLYRIC ROOMGREEN BAY 8:00 PM6 FIGURESTHE HAWK BAR AND GRILLCRIVITZ 9:00 PMROOFTOP JUMPERSCLEARWATER HARBORWAUPACA 9:30 PMROSETTI & WIGLEYOSTHOFF RESORTELKHART LAKE 2-6:00COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICGIBRALTAR GRILLFISH CREEK 7:30-10:00VIC FERRARIINDIAN CROSSING CASINOWAUPACA 9:30-1:30

MAY 25

TEQUILA TANGOGAMEDAY SPORTS BARAPPLETON 4:00 PM

MAY 26

JOHNNY WADTHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PM

MAY 27

KEITH BOUCHETHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PMSTRING BENDERS

CIMERRONMENASHA 7:00 PM

MAY 28

WAYNE NEUMANNREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00 PMKWT JAZZTHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PMHAPPY HOUR HEROESANDUZZIS - HOWARDHOWARD 7:00 PMBIG AND TALLANDUZZIS EAST GREEN BAYGREEN BAY 7:00 PMREVEREND RAVEN1001 CLUBGREEN BAY 8:00 PMCRAIG HAWKINSONDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMTRAVIS LEE DUOWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9:00 PMSPITFIRE RODEOMENOMINEE CASINOKESHENA 8-12:00

MAY 29

JERRY SPARKMAN DUOCANNOVA’SNEENAH 6:00 PMDAN TULSAREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00 PMCHRISOPHER GOLD & THE NEW OLD THINGSTHE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30 PMROOFTOP JUMPERSPRESSBOXFOND DU LAC 7:00 PMTBACIMERRONMENASHA 8:00 PMTHE COUGARSQUIETWOODS SOUTH CAMP RESORTBRUSSELS 8:00 PMJANET PLANETBECKETS RESTAURANTOSHKOSH 8:30 PMALEX WILSON BANDSLIPPERY NOODLEINDIANAPOLIS 8:30 PMKURT GUNN & THE OUGHTS

DEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMR2SARDINE CANGREEN BAY 9:00 PMSPITFIRE RODEOMENOMINEE CASINOKESHENA 8-12:00HITSSTONE HARBORSTURGEON BAY 8:30-12:00JERRY & NORA DUOISLE CASINOWATERLOO IA 9-1:00

MAY 30

ANDY SACHEN DUOCANNOVA’SNEENAH 6:00 PMJAKE WARNEREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00 PMKOPPER KREEKCIMERRONMENASHA 8:00 PMROOFTOP JUMPERSHOLIDAYS PUB AND GRILLNEENAH 8:00 PMANDY’S AUTOMATICSBECKETS RESTAURANTOSHKOSH 8:30 PMALEX WILSON BANDSLIPPERY NOODLEINDIANAPOLIS 8:30 PMTHE HOOK-UPDEJA’ VUAPPLETON 9:00 PMBIG MOUTH & THE POWER TOOL HORNSJIMMY SEASGREEN BAY 9:00 PMBAD HABITZMUDDY WATERSSHIOCTON 9:00 PMHYDESKINNY DAVESMOUNTAIN 9:00 PMBOXKARTHE SOURCEMENASHA 9:00 PMBIG AND TALLWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9:00 PMADAMS WAYCLEARWATER HARBORWAUPACA 9:30 PMREPLICAHIAWATHA BAR AND GRILL

STURDEVANT 9:30 PMJOHNNY WADLITTLE RIVER INNOCONTO 9:30 PMR P MSTONE TOADMENASHA 9:30 PMJONES BANDCRANKY PATSNEENAH 10:00 PMDEBBIE ROHRHEIDEL HOUSEGREEN LAKE 7-10:00ROAD TRIPCRYSTAL LAKE RV RESORTLODI 7:30-11:00SPITFIRE RODEOMENOMINEE CASINOKESHENA 8-12:00JERRY & NORA DUOISLE CASINOWATERLOO IA 9-1:00

MAY 31

GRAND UNIONTANNERSKIMBERLY 3:00 PMUNITYFOX HARBOR PUB & GRILLGREEN BAY 6:00 PM



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art,” Deanovich said. “Creating an artsy-looking specialty coffee is definitely a fun part of this business. I just had to do it.”

Tea is served on a platter in an elegant fashion at Urban Fuel. “I use the Tea Forte brand – it’s organic, Fair Trade tea and is Oprah’s favorite,” Deanovich notes.

Beyond diningOther special events take place at Urban

Fuel during the hours the restaurant is closed. Wine pairings are offered on Thurs-day evenings – a time when patrons can sample wines with a variety of food items.

The addition of Cork and Canvas classes (a wine and painting class) is on the agenda at Urban Fuel as well. It’s an oppor-tunity for those who want to sip wine with friends while relaxing and painting a lovely scene on canvas.

Urban Fuel is also available to rent for private parties. Bridal and baby showers, retirement parties, birthday parties and more have already been booked. Deanovich says her husband, three sons, and other rel-atives are pitching in to help when needed.

“We offer our space for parties during our closed hours -- which is any time after 3p.m. Monday through Saturday and any-time on Sunday,” Deanovich said. “We do the catering and will try to honor whatever your needs are… whether it’s on our menu or not.”

Retail items for purchase at Urban Fuel include coffee, tea, wine and jams. “In summer we will introduce picnic basket rentals to promote Explore the Shore – a tourism brochure a n d

adventure that guides people to visit busi-nesses located in Peebles as well as other spots along the east side of Lake Win-nebago,” Deanovich said. She notes that the baskets will have a theme such as Romance or Kid-friendly.

A

quest to visit coffee shops around the coun-try – especially in New York City – during the past 10 years led to on-site research for Deanovich as she formulated a business plan for her new venture. “My sons have played hockey all over the U.S.,” she said. “That gave me an opportunity to spend some time experiencing successful coffee

shops wherever we traveled.”Deanovich visits New York City about three times a year with

two goals in mind – to spend time with her brother and

his family who live there and to visit

coffee shops and cafés. “I love

the mus ic a n d t h e ambiance of those New York c o f f e e shops. It’s

what really motivated

me to open my own.”

FOOD & DRINK // URBAN FUEL COFFEE SHOP & CAFÉ

HOURS:7a.m. to 3p.m.

Monday through Saturday

For More Information(920) 933-5590

Urban Fuel is located at N7645 N. Peebles Lane in Peebles (Fond du Lac address) in the Old Mill Plaza and is surrounded by three neighboring busi-nesses — Just Fair Market, Essence Salon & Spa, and Kreative Kraftwerks.

Patrons of Urban Fuel enjoying tea. Photos taken by Dorothy Bliskey


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MAY 1Lego Night Children’s Museum of Fond du Lac 75 W. Scott Street 4-7pm $6.00The first Friday of every month, enjoy our giant supply of LEGOs, demonstrate creative building and be inspired by a monthly theme and fellow builders. Pro-gram is included with general admission.

UW-FDL Spring Concert UW-Fond du Lac 400 University Drive 7:30 pm The UW-Fond du Lac and Marian Uni-versity Music Departments will host a free concert of instrumental music featuring the combined University Collegiate Wind Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 1 in the Prairie Theater at UW-Fond du Lac, 400 University Drive, Fond du Lac. The

program will feature Mozart’s “Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio” from the his 1782 opera, Robert Russell Ben-nett’s “Suite of Old American Dances”, and the well known march by Julius Fucik “Entry of the Gladiators”. Other selections will include the lovely Irish lullaby “Deir´ In De» arranged by Warren Barker, Jan Van der Roost›s «Condacum,” “Southern Hymn” by Samuel Hazo, and John Zdech-lik’s “Chorale and Shaker Dance II.”

MAY 1-2International Migratory Bird Day Camelot Business Park, 28 Camelot Drive 6 p.m. Bird walk in Camelot Business Park. Expect to see waterfowl, possible wood-cocks, song birds and bats.

MAY 1-3Midwest AAA Showcase (2003 & 2004)

Blue Line Family Ice Center 550 Fond du Lac Avenue Fond du LacA Spring AAA Hockey Tournament that has teams from WI, IL, and MI compet-ing. We have around 20 teams in this years tournament $750: 4 Game Guarantee WAHA & USA Hockey Rules apply Team Trophies 1st-3rd Place Individual Trophies 1st/2nd Place Free Tournament Programs No entry fees

MAY 2International Migratory Bird DayGreenway Arboretum 55 N. Pioneer Road 9 a.m.Park on west side of Pick & Save parking lot. Expect to see migrant song birds, indigo buntings, kingfisher, bank swal-lows, Nashville warbler, ruby crowned kinglet, flicker, phoebe, red tailed hawk and more. Walk leader, Terry Leasa

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MAY 2015

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BY ROHN W. BISHOP

On a Wednesday evening in early April, a couple hundred activist Republi-cans from all across Wisconsin’s Sixth Con-gressional District gathered at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in downtown Fond du Lac for an event honoring Former Congressman Tom Petri.

With Former Governor Scott McCal-lum serving as Master of Ceremonies the crowd of “who’s who” in local Republican politics were treated to a keynote address from Governor Scott Walker, who thanked Petri for being his “first congressional endorsement in 2010.” The governor went on to tell a humorous story of a campaign stop, when the door on the campaign bus had broken, and he and a then 69 year old Tom Petri had to climb out the window before giving their speeches.

There was a video tribute that included House Speaker John Boehner, RNC Chair-man Reince Priebus, and Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch.

Tom Petri was introduced with a

touching speech from Congressman Reid Ribble, who employed the word “gentle-man,” as he discussed the kindness Tom Petri showed his colleagues, constituents, and supporters.

The evening concluded with Tom Petri giving a Tom Petri type speech, short and to the point. He thanked everyone, joked with new Congressman Glenn Grothman, remi-nisced about the time he defeated Tommy Thompson in a primary, and spoke about how much he truly enjoyed representing Wisconsin in the House of Representatives.

A little history Tom Petri was adopted, his father

having been killed during World War II, Petri was moved to Fond du Lac, where he graduated high school, before graduating from Harvard and joining the Peace Corps.

Petri was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1972, and would attempt a run at the U.S. Senate in 1974. During the campaign of 1974 Tom Petri walked the entire length of the State of Wisconsin, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the anti-

Republican fallout from Watergate, and Mr. Petri was soundly defeated by Senator Gaylord Nelson.

Shortly after being re-elected in 1978, Congressman William Steiger passed away from a heart attack, thereby causing the need for a special election to fill the vacancy. Tom Petri won a crowded GOP primary that included Tommy Thompson. Petri would go on to squeak out a win in the general election, defeating Gary Goyke by only 1,223 votes.

Congressional CareerTom Petri served Wisconsin’s Sixth

Congressional District for 36 years. Petri was more of a low key member of congress, not seeking the spotlight or looking for the cameras. Petri avoided talk radio, pre-ferring to do interviews with local media outlets.

Petri also avoided the “hot button issues” of the day, instead focusing on con-stituent services and improving the trans-portation infrastructure of East-Central Wisconsin. From improvements to federal

highways like 151 and 41, to saving the S.S. Badger car ferry, or steering military contracts to Oshkosh Truck, Tom Petri was known for looking out for his district.

A deserving eveningPetri strongly believed in building the

grass roots of the Republican Party and many from the grass roots, lead by District Chairman Dan Feyen, were on hand to thank him.

“Congressman Petri represented the district well and was always very kind and helpful to me as chairman. He strongly believed in growing the grassroots of our party, and building the party from the ground up. Having worked on behalf of Republican causes since Eisenhower defeated Stevenson he’s definitely deserving of this night honoring his career,” Feyen said.

Working with six presidents, including Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, and seven House Speakers, including Tip O’Neil and Newt Gingrich, Tom Petri saw a lot in his 36 years in congress.

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CALENDAR // THE BIG EVENTS

International Migratory Bird DayLakeside Park 555 N. Park Avenue 1 p.m.Bird hike in Lakeside Park to follow spring migrants traveling along the Lake Winnebago shoreline, water fowl, includ-ing pelicans, cormorants, terns, yellow warbler, red breasted grosbeak and more. Hike leader, Terry Leasa

Lemonade Day10 a.m. - 3 p.m.Lemonade Day will take place in Fond du Lac on Saturday, May 2, 2015 between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Participating students will have lemonade stands open for business all over the Fond du Lac area and the entire community is encouraged to join in the fun! As soon as students have their stand locations determined, a Lemonade Trail Map will be available both online (http://fonddulacarea.lemonadeday.org) and at the Fond du Lac Area Association of Commerce (207 N Main Street). Make plans to enjoy delicious lemonade and help young entrepreneurs get a taste of owning and operating a small business! Lemonade Day is a nation-wide program helping students understand the concepts behind starting and running a business. After being guided through 14 curriculum lessons developed by Google, students are ready to launch their Lemonade stand business. Kids learn to set goals, develop a business plan, establish a budget, seek investors, provide customer service, save for the future, and give back to the com-munity. Lemonade Day in the Fond du Lac area is the perfect opportunity for our community to show kids they care and train the next generation of entrepreneurs through a free, fun, engaging, and empow-ering activity. Lemonade Day is a program of Fond du Lac Works, a division of the Fond du Lac Area Association of Com-merce. The mission of Fond du Lac Works is to recruit, retain and develop a quality workforce. This mission is, in large part, to help better address the looming skilled labor shortage facing our area. Developing a skill labor pool needed by area business and industry is critical for the future suc-cess of our community. Reaching this goal begins with students currently in the K-12 pipeline. By engaging students of all ages,

the next generation will be better prepared to attend a post-secondary institution that aligns with a career interest and ultimately increase the percentage of students that graduate with a degree needed by area businesses and industry. For more infor-mation visit www.fdlworks.com.

Cheese Pairing -LaClare FarmsLaClare Farms, W2994 County Road HH Pipe 3pm $10 per personIncludes three different types of cheese paired with three different types of wine or beer. Call today to reserve your spot! Indoor Farmers MarketIndoor Farmers Market 90 S. Main Street 9am-12:30pmShoppers will see several familiar faces from the summer market including Produce with a Purpose, Cup O’ Joes deli-cious coffee, John and Tracy Salter’s beef and poultry, the Amish bakery and their infamous doughnuts and pies and many more vendors! The Farmers Market will continue all year round and shoppers are encouraged to check out the new indoor market to find produce all winter long, crafts, honey, maple syrup, meats and baked goods.

MAY 4Monday Night Dance LessonsFond du Lac Senior Center 151 E. 1st Street 7:00 - 9:00PM $10 per personBeginner dance lessons every Monday night at 7:00PM. Open to the public. No partner or experience needed! Intermedi-ate lesson at 8:00PM. Learn a variety of styles of dance including Ballroom, Latin, Swing & Salsa. Call 920-979-3434. NOT just for seniors!

Water Media Class by Faye of Art for All AgesShare Fine Art Galleries 228 S. Military Road 1 pm - 3 pm & 6:30-8:30pm $100 for eight classesThese classes are designed for the profes-sional/ amateur/ or hobby artist who is

stuck in a style as well as for the novice who desires to learn and enjoy creating with various water-media. Two sessions will be offered starting Monday January 26th: 1 - 3 pm and 6:30 - 8:30 pm. Cost for all eight classes (either session) $100. To sign up or for more information please email: [email protected] or [email protected]

MAY 6Forest Mall Spring Into Wellness - Senior DayForest Mall 835 W. Johnson Street 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.Senior event includes style show, health clinics, entertainment by Shut Up and Dance, activities throughout the day, vendor fair, bingo, food and great prize giveaways throughout the event. Grand prize given away at the end of the event. Must be present to win.

MAY 7Thursday Night Dance LessonsEagles Club 515 N. Park Avenue 7:00 - 9:00PM $10 per personEvery Thursday! Beginner Ballroom, Latin, Swing & Salsa dance lessons at 7:00PM and intermediate at 8:00PM. Open to the public. Dance style changes monthly. $10 per person. No partner needed!

IndulgeForest Mall, 835 W. Johnson Street 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.At Forest Mall, discover Spring Indulge, a stylish night out for Moms! This event will be held on May 7, from 5-7PM, in center court. Grab your girlfriends and join us for a night of fun, fashion and friends! Shop, socialize and enjoy giveaway’s from local businesses and take advantage of special offers from some of your favorite Forest Mall stores! You deserve a great night out, so save the date of Thursday, May 7 and Indulge at Forest Mall!

MAY 8Wit, Wisdom and Wine presented by Women in

Management, Inc.Blue Harbor Resort 725 Blue Harbor Drive Sheboygan 3:00 Networking Reception 4:00Keynote Speaker, Mary Faktor “Inner Voices ~ Smart Choices” 5:45 Dinner & Prizes 6:30 Entertainment, Ma $20 Members ~ $35 Non-members It’s not too late to reserve a spot, but busi-nesswomen wanting to attend the May 8 Wit, Wisdom & Wine event sponsored by Women in Management, Inc, should do so by May 1. The spring networking event takes place on Friday, May 8 from 3-8p.m. at Blue Harbor Resort & Spa in Sheboygan. Hosted by the Women in Management, Inc organization, attendees will arrive from WIMI chapters located in Fond du Lac, the Fox Cities, Oshkosh, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Ripon/Green Lake as well as from WIMI’s newest chap-ter: Women in Technology (WIT) based in the Fox Cities. Other businesswomen interested in attending as guests – or those thinking about joining a chapter – are also welcome to attend. The event could draw as many as 300 women. Highlights include two presentations by nationally-known motivational business speaker Mary Faktor, a cocktail/networking social hour, appetizers, door prizes, and a five-course dinner that includes dessert. In her before-dinner presentation, Inner Voices – Smart Choices, Faktor will give an inspiring message on the importance of life balance, stress reduction, relationships and communication. After dinner, her comedy skit, The Six Ages of Woman, will offer a hilarious look at the various stages in a woman’s life. “This event is a great networking opportunity for business-women, but it’s also a wonderful chance to get away with your girlfriends, sisters, your mother or daughter and other women who might enjoy our program,” said Michelle Kvitek, WIMI Executive Board President. “In fact, some might want to make it a family getaway weekend -- to enjoy the waterpark, spa and restaurants all under one roof since it is Mother’s Day weekend.”

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MAY 9Farmers MarketFarmers Market - Saturday Mornings 30 S. Main Street 7am-noonOn Saturdays, over 65 vendors sell the freshest Wisconsin-grown produce, plants, flowers, baked goods, meats and cheese. Crafts, arts, pottery, and other hand-made items are also available. At the height of the season the market brings over 2,000 shoppers downtown weekly.

MAY 11Monday Night Dance LessonsFond du Lac Senior Center 151 E. 1st Street 7:00 - 9:00PM $10 per personBeginner dance lessons every Monday night at 7:00PM. Open to the public. No partner or experience needed! Intermedi-ate lesson at 8:00PM. Learn a variety of styles of dance including Ballroom, Latin, Swing & Salsa. Call 920-979-3434. NOT just for seniors!

MAY 13Butterflies of Fond du Lac CountyMoraine Park Technical College 235 N. National Avenue 7 pmCome and find out more about butterflies in our area. Mike Reese, Educator and Botanist, has explored Wisconsin’s natural areas with his camera in pursuit of but-terflies for over 25 years. Mike has been the moderator for the sighting pages of the North American Butterfly Association since 2001 and has written a regular article for their American Butterflies quarterly magazine for over a decade. Mike makes extensive information about Wisconsin butterflies, tiger beetles, and robber flies available online at his website wisconsin-butterflies.org, as well as via a Wisconsin

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Meet Producer DinnerLaClare Farms W2994 County Road HH Pipe 6:30 p.m. $40 per person or $75 per couplePurchase 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 multi-course 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! We dine inside November-April starting with a cheese reception & complimentary first beverage followed by tours starting at 5:30pm and dinners starting at 6:00pm. We dine outside with the weather permits May-October starting with a cheese reception & complimentary first beverage followed by tours starting at 6:30pm and dinners starting at 7:00pm. When weather does not permit dinners will be held inside our Courtyard. All events are held rain or shine. Get your spot today. 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. Come and experience an evening you won’t soon forget! This months’ Dinner is with the Sand Creek Brewery - don’t wait!

MAY 15Family NightChildren’s Museum of Fond du Lac 75 W. Scott Street 4-7pm $6.00The third Friday of every month, enjoy a night out with your family with a variety of special activities including board games, pajama parties, and Little Caesar’s Pizza (available for purchase). Event and activities included with general admission. Sponsored by Lakeside Evening Kiwanis

MAY 15-17SVRA Spring Vintage WeekendRoad America N7390 State Highway 67 Elkhart Lake 7amRoad America’s Spring Vintage Weekend kicks-off the start of a summer full of racing featuring exciting wheel-to-wheel action from vintage and historical cars.

MAY 15-11GenerationsShare Fine Art Galleries 228 S. Military Road Thurs. - Sat. 1-8, Sundays 1-5Works of art by the FDL Senior Center, Share Fine Art Galleries Watermedia classes, and Oakfield High School Students. The opening reception will be during Tour the Town FDL May 15 from 5 - 8 pm.


Bark for Life Canine Cancer Walk & Brat FryPrairie Trail

N7565 Winnebago Drive 9:00 am - 2:00 pm $10 per CanineCanine Cancer Walk is a Healthy way to fundraise for Relay For Life. Registration Forms can be found on the Relay For Life Website. Pre-registration is helpful. Chris & Mary Hagen from Healing Paws will be onsite with Clover to share how Canines can be great Caregivers. The Eden Stone Relay For Life Team will be having a Brat Fry across the road at the Shell Gas Sta-tion. For more detailed information, www.relayforlife.org/fonddulacwi

Plein Air at the MarshHoricon National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center W4279 Headquarters Road Mayville 9 am - 2 pmArtists are invited to come out and do their art “plein air” during the Friends of Horicon Marsh “Wildflowers for Wildlife” event. The public is invited to come out to watch & mingle with artists at work. For information on the Wildflowers for Wildlife event please visit: http://horicon-nwrfriends.org/

Cheese Pairing -LaClare FarmsLaClare Farms W2994 County Road HH Pipe 3pm $10 per personIncludes three different types of cheese paired with three different types of wine or beer. Call today to reserve your spot!

MAY 16-17WISCOPEX 2015 (Postage Stamp Show)Retlaw Plaza Hotel 1 North Main Street 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Sat.); 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Sun.)Postage stamp show open to the public. Judged stamp exhibits, dealers, free stamp collection appraisals, seminars, beginners room for youth and adults, door prizes, commemorative show cover and cancel. Free parking on hotel ramp levels 4 to 7. Annual convention and exhibition of the Wisconsin Federation of Stamp Clubs. Sponsored by the WFSC.



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MAY 17Greek FestFDL County Fairgrounds Expo Center 601 Martin Avenue 11-5pmEnjoy a family day of authentic Greek cuisine and pastries, music and dancing. Some American food, games for children, and raffles.

Fond du Lac Lions & Lioness Community MarketFDL County Fairgrounds Expo Center 601 Martin Avenue 8-3pm $1 12 & under-FreeCome see vendors wares from all walks of life. Antiques, collectibles, beauty prod-ucts, crafts, rummage, and more. Vendors welcome. If you want to sell it, become a vendor. Please visit www.fonddulaclions.org for more information.

Fond du Lac Women’s Chorus Spring Concert

Memorial Baptist Church, 645 Forest Avenue 2:00 P.M.The Fond du Lac Women’s Chorus will present it’s Annual Spring concert on Sunday, May 17, 2:0 p.m. at Memorial Baptist Church, 645 Forest Avenue, Fond du Lac. The theme of the concert is “Sing Of The U.S.A. and will feature songs about American states and cities. The Fond du Lac Women’s Chorus is under the direction of Kris Bartelt with Georgene Antos as accompanist.

MAY 18Monday Night Dance LessonsFond du Lac Senior Center 151 E. 1st Street 7:00 - 9:00PM $10 per personBeginner dance lessons every Monday night at 7:00PM. Open to the public. No partner or experience needed! Intermediate lesson at 8:00PM. Learn a variety of styles of dance including Ballroom, Latin, Swing & Salsa. Call 920-979-3434. NOT just for seniors!




Farm Flavors® DinnerMeuer Farm & Corn Maze N2564 U.S Highway 151N Chilton 5pm $60/per person (tax & gratuity included)Welcome to Meuer Farm’s 2015 Farm Flavors® Dinner Series! One evening a month, May thru September, a chef from a different area restaurant and their staff will be preparing an elegant meal HERE at Meuer Farm. Join us for a showcase of fresh produce from our farm and the surrounding area. Each evening includes a cash bar, 3-5 course dinner and farm activ-ity. Dinners are being presented at Meuer Farm in our Main Activity Building. 5:30p Cocktails 6:00p Dinner-The Village Hearthstone Chef Tracy Darling 7:00p Farm Activity-Maple Syrup Presentation


4th Annual Salute The Troops RaceLakeside Park 555 N. Park Avenue Registration 6am 1/2 Marathon 7am 5K 7:30am varies: $20 - $75Salute the Troops will be hosting a Half Marathon and a 5K Run/Walk. The 5K race is completely inside the boundaries of

Lakeside Park, the 1/2 marathon uses the park, city streets, and parts of the Fond du Lac Loop recreation trail. We will have vendors present with food, fun, games, and prizes. Begins at Oven Island in Lakeside Park. Our mission is to enable veterans to live full and independent lives by providing resources to empower them to overcome the physical and mental wounds of war. Race course maps and registration are available on the website.

MAY 25Monday Night Dance LessonsFond du Lac Senior Center 151 E. 1st Street 7:00 - 9:00PM $10 per personBeginner dance lessons every Monday night at 7:00PM. Open to the public. No partner or experience needed! Intermediate lesson at 8:00PM. Learn a variety of styles of dance including Ballroom, Latin, Swing & Salsa. Call 920-979-3434. NOT just for seniors!

Memorial Day Parade and CeremonyVeterans Park 200 S. Main Street 10amThe Fond du Lac Memorial Day Parade will be held Monday beginning at 10 am on the corner of Guindon Blvd and Main Street, proceeding north to Veterans Park. A Memorial Ceremony will be held immediately afterward. The Marine Corps League in Fond du Lac is this year’s sponsoring unit.


MAY 29Copper Box with Kevin FayteRock & Roll Trio Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts 51 Sheboygan Street Bar Opens 6:30 pm - Kevin Fayte Rock & Roll Trio 7:30 pm - Copper Box 9:00 pm General Admission Amount: $10; Pubs for 2: $25 (Pubs must be reserved, limited number are available).Separate these bands are fantastic in the Great Hall! Together it’s a dance party! Copper Box is one of the hottest bands around that gives you a taste of Americana roots music, southern soul, originality, quality musicianship and ‘good, old fash-ion fun, that is sure to lift your spirit. The local flare of the Kevin Fayte Rock & Roll Trio are freshly retro and classically hip.

MAY 29-31AMA/FIM Superbike DoubleheaderRoad America N7390 State Highway 67 Elkhart LakeTwo-wheeled action takes over when MotoAmerica AMA/FIM North American Motorcycle Road Racing Championship Superbike Doubleheader hits the track. The fast and flowing 4-mile natural road course at Road America will serve as the theater of war for the AMA Pro Road Rac-ing Subway SuperBike Doubleheader.


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BBQ 4 ASTOPBreezy Hill Campground, N4177 Cearns Lane 8:00 am $50 per grilling categoryBBQ 4 ASTOP is a professional and amateur barbecue competition (kind of like what you see on the Food Network!) Professional “barbecuers” will come into the community from all over to compete with each other for who has the best barbeque. Local “backyard grillers” will try their hand at submitting their favorite barbeque foods. Kids can also participate in their own category! This event is a great opportunity not only to draw people from outside the community in, but also to provide lots of fun for local companies, families and friends. We encourage you to participate – get a team together and have fun!

Birky Challenge Grace Christian Church - Word of Faith 1596 - 4th Street Registration 6:30am Ride 8am $30-$100“The Birky Challenge Scholarship was established in 2011 in honor and memory of Officer Craig Birkholz, a City of Fond du Lac police officer who was killed in the line of duty March 20th, 2011.” Funds for this scholarship are raised mainly from the Birky Challenge bicycle ride. There are 3 routes to choose from, 67, 40, and 20 miles, All routes start and finish at the same location, 1596 4th St Rd (Grace Christian Church). All routes will be on paved roadway, there will be no off road riding. The route leaves Fond du Lac and heads toward the scenic Kettle Moraine State Forest. The route is very scenic and will have rest stops approximately every 12 miles. Plenty of food and water will be supplied at all rest stops. There will be vehicle SAG support and professional bike mechanics along the route to help with any problems that may occur. The course will be clearly marked out and have a Police Motorcycle lead out. Last year we had 329 riders of all ability levels. Bike helmets are mandatory, no exceptions! Please visit www.birkychallenge.com for more information.


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