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APRIL 3, 2019 • WASHBURN COUNTY REGISTER • PAGE 1
Local legend Charles “Chuck” Lutz, dies at 96Along with his beloved
fedora, Lutz wore a lot of “hats” in the community
Gary King | EditorSHELL LAKE - If anyone deserves the
honor of being called a “local legend,” it might be Charles “Chuck” Lutz, who died Sunday, March 31, on his 96th birthday.
Funeral services are scheduled for this Fri-day, April 5, at Shell Lake United Methodist Church.
Probably best known for his years as the founder and announcer of a local radio sta-tion, Lutz had “a lot of irons in the fire” over the years, according to his son, Steve, including jobs as an auction-eer, a car dealer, owner of a local drive-in, sur-plus store and bait store and stints as mayor and postmaster, sometimes the gigs overlap-ping each other.
And all in the town where he was born and raised - Shell Lake.
Being that active in the community made him known to just about everyone.
But it may have been the radio station that made him a local celebrity. There was a multitude of listeners tuning in to hear the old-time polka party in the mornings on WCSW, an AM station, and its FM counter-part, WGMO. The live music Chuck sched-uled for what he sometimes dubbed “The Swedish Hour” offered a seriously casual format, unscripted and relying on Chuck’s wit and joke-telling talents.
It was approximately1968, Steve recalls, that his father and another man – a cable TV technician – hatched the idea for the radio station. Chuck lent his voice and personality and his partner the technical knowledge. It turned out to be a successful venture, offer-ing local news, obituaries and weather.
It wasn’t long before Chuck was
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Charles “Chuck” Lutz, in a 1959 photo, wearing his trademark fedora while work-ing as an auctioneer clerk for Thorp Finance. - Special photo
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Tuesday’s unofficial resultsWASHBURN COUNTY— Electors went
to the polls Tuesday, April 2, to cast their vote in the statewide Supreme Court elec-tion and local elections like city council and school board.
The following are the unofficial results for the state Supreme Court justice, Shell Lake School Board, Spooner School Board, Shell Lake City Council and Spooner City Council.
A total of 3,350 Washburn County elec-
tors cast ballots, that’s about 26 percent voter turnout.
State Supreme Court JusticeThe election for a Wisconsin Supreme
Court justice was too close to call after unofficial results came in. A campaign manager for Lisa Neubauer stated that the contest was headed for a recount. The unofficial vote count between Neubauer
SKATING THROUGH THE SEASONS
leaderregister.comKennedy Harrington was among several Northwoods Figure Skating Club members to perform last
Saturday, March 30, at the Spooner Civic Center as part of the club’s annual ice show, with this year’s theme, “Skating Through the Seasons.” More photos on page 2. - Photo by Larry Samson
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“Skating Through the Seasons
Molly Roux and Lilly Polichnia skate in a duet to the song “Sunny and 75.” They are cousins. The Northwoods Figure Skating Club held its annual ice show, “Skating Through the Seasons,” on Saturday, March 30, at the Spooner Civic Center. The ice show showcases figure skaters from Northern Wisconsin.
Madison Harrington and Sara Roff in a performance to the song ”Winter Dream.”
Adrianna Scalzo enjoys skating and she knows she has the support of her mother, Angie Scalzo, and her Spooner teacher, Melissa Smith. With the support of her mom and her “school mom,” she will go far.
Photos by Larry Samson
Gracelynn Skinner is just starting to skate and she has a bright future.
Mischa Swonger is skating to the hit song “Fire-works.”
RIGHT: With grace and beauty Mikenzi Miller skates to the song “Summer of 69.”
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leaving the studio, doing live “remotes” at events such as ice-fishing contests, pa-rades - just about any event he felt wor-thy of listeners, including a snowshoe race from Superior to Rice Lake. Trag-edy struck the community in 1989 when a small plane crashed in to Shell Lake in snowy weather. Chuck stood at a boat landing, microphone in hand, keeping anxious listeners updated as searchers worked to locate the plane’s occupants.
Chuck was preceded in death by his wife, Betty, who helped him run the auction service out of Thorp Finance at Frederic along with other businesses and other ventures during their 66 years of marriage, before dying in 2016.
He is survived by his children, Steve, Mary Baker and Deanna Loewenhagen. A complete obit will be available on-line at the Skinner Funeral Home web-
site, skinnerfh.com, at leaderregister.com and in next week’s Register.
A World War II Army veteran, Chuck used his long stretch of good health in latter years to take part in the annual Memorial Day and Veterans Day events, including the 2018 Veterans Day pro-gram. He spent the last few years as a resident of Glenview Assisted Living Center.
Washburn County Veterans Service Officer Lisa Powers is Chuck’s great niece. She said great uncle joined the Army in November of 1942 out of Ta-coma, Washington and became an air-plane mechanic with the 326th fighter group - which was the beginning of the Air Force. She said he was going on 72 years with the Shell Lake American Legion Francis Bergin-Paul Neimann Post 255, when he died and at one time
served as the legion’s service officer.She has her own favorite stories about
her great uncle including the one about how he never wanted to give up the microphone. Even though the town’s chamber of commerce had their own an-nouncing stand for the annual Town and Country Days parade, Chuck would set out chairs a block away and do his own announcing.
“He emceed it himself using the old-fashioned mic and speaker system,” she said. “I think he did that for about four years.”
“He was kindhearted, courteous, a friend to everyone,” his son, Steve, noted. “He really would give you the shirt off his back.”
And for those who knew his father, the image of Chuck might always be that of someone who most often dressed in
style, complete with a cane and a fedora.“That thing (fedora) was welded on,”
Steve said with a chuckle.
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Suspect now awaitssentencing on homicide,
kidnapping chargesRich Kremer | WPR News
BARRON - A man accused of kidnap-ping a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl and killing her parents last fall pleaded guilty to three charges he was facing during a court appearance on Wednesday.
In a plea agreement, Jake Patterson, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of in-tentional homicide and one count of kid-napping. Patterson was also facing an armed burglary charge, but prosecutors dropped that charge.
A criminal complaint filed by the Bar-ron County District Attorney’s Office in-cluded a full confession from Patterson in which he said he drove to the home of James and Denise Closs with the sole intent to kidnap their daughter, Jayme Closs, last October. He also told inves-tigators he planned to kill any witnesses he encountered along the way, including law enforcement officers.
Patterson said he killed Jayme’s fa-ther with a shotgun as he stood at the door to the home. Patterson said he then searched the home for Jayme and found her barricaded in a bathroom with her mother. After forcing his way through the door, Patterson told investigators he taped Jayme’s mouth and killed Denise Closs before dragging the girl through the house and putting her in the trunk of his car. Patterson said he then drove Jayme to his home in Gordon, about 70 miles north of Barron.
During Patterson’s arraignment, Bar-ron County District Attorney Brian Wright told circuit court Judge James Babler that Patterson wouldn’t fight two charges of homicide for the deaths of Jayme’s parents and a charge of kidnap-ping for Jayme’s abduction.
“The plea agreement is that Mr. Pat-terson will plead guilty to counts one, two and three as charged in the infor-mation,” said Wright. “Count four will be dismissed and read in.”
The fourth count was a charge of armed burglary related to Patterson’s
use of a deadly weapon to forcibly enter the Closs family home.
Wright also said that he and Douglas County District Attorney Mark Frue-hauf had agreed that charges related to crimes committed during the three months that Patterson held Jayme cap-tive wouldn’t be filed.
“Additionally, the state will not file criminal charges against Mr. Patterson for crimes committed in Douglas County that are connected to the course of con-duct giving rise to the Barron County charges,” said Wright.
Patterson teared up as he submitted guilty pleas for the homicide counts and took a moment to compose himself before pleading guilty to kidnapping Jayme.
Babler scheduled a sentencing hearing for May 24. Patterson faces a maximum of life in prison for each of the homi-cide counts along with up to 40 years in prison for the count of kidnapping.
Richard Jones, one of Patterson’s two defense attorneys, told Babler that they discussed multiple options with Pat-terson including going to trial, change of venue, substituting a new judge and attempting to suppress his original state-ment made to investigators but Patter-son rejected all offers.
“We’ve discussed all that with him and he’s rejected all of that and decided that this is what he’s wanted to do,” said Jones. “He’s been consistent with that from the time that we’ve met. So, we have gone through all of the mate-rials with him. We’ve discussed them in detail with him and he has always been consistent in his statements and his be-lief that this is exactly what he wants to do.”
Earlier this year, Patterson wrote a letter to Minneapolis television station KARE-TV saying he intended to plead guilty. He wrote from jail that he in-tended to plead guilty to spare the Closs family further pain
After pleading guilty, Patterson said, “Bye Jayme,” as he exited the court-room. Jayme Closs wasn’t in the Barron County courtroom on Wednesday. His remark appeared directed at no one in particular.
Patterson pleads guilty to three charges in Jayme Closs case
Jake Patterson appears for a hearing at the Barron County Justice Center, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Barron. Patterson pleaded guilty Wednesday to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs, killing her parents and holding her captive in a remote cabin for three months. – Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune/AP Photo
Chuck Lutz was honored at the Shell Lake Veterans Day program held on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. - Photo by Larry Samson
Just 14 years’ ofsheriffs still unknown
Danielle Danford | Staff writerWASHBURN COUNTY — Since last
month the project to identify each of the people who have served as Washburn County sheriffs since the first sheriff was appointed in 1882 has come a long way, but the identities of 14 years of service remain unknown.
The people behind the project, Deb Nebel and Danielle Danford, hope to reveal those who served as Washburn County sheriffs for these remaining 14 years:
1918-19221915-19161906-19081891-1892As it stands, the project has revealed
the names of Washburn County sheriffs going back 75 years. One of the goals of the project is to create a space for photo-graphic recognition for the most recent decades of sheriffs that have served, which will be placed in the Washburn County Sheriff’s Office.
To make that possible the project needs a photo of each of the follow-ing people who have served as Wash-burn County sheriff: Frank J. Pokorny, Floyd W. Bannister, Henry W. McCull-
och, James “Jim” Scharhag and Arnold “Arnie” Drost. If you have a photo of any of these people share it with Nebel
or Danford. Nebel can be reached at 715-520-0158.
Danford can be reached at [email protected].
BARRON — On Saturday, May 4, a benefit for Bob and Jennifer Smith and a celebration of Jayme’s return will be held at the Barron High School.
The benefit, sponsored by family and friends of the Smiths and Jayme Closs, will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The benefit will include a spaghetti feed and many
other activities. Food will be served from 11 to 2 p.m., or until food runs out. There will be a short program at 2 p.m. with a live auction to follow.
Benefit proceeds will be used by the Smiths for general family expenses and to make alterations to their home to bet-ter accommodate Jayme.
Celebration benefit for the Smiths and Jayme’s return set for May 4
and Brian Hagedorn was separated by about 4,000 votes. In Washburn County Hagedorn received 1,876 votes while Neubauer received 1,439 votes.
School boardsBoth the Shell Lake and Spooner
school boards had members up for elec-tion, but no contests. Both boards did have new candidates run for a position on their respective board. In Shell Lake candidates elected to the school board are Scott Smith, 408, Jill Dunlavy, 424, and Matt Ciesielski, 363. In Spooner candidates elected to the school board are Katie McKinney, 1,537, and Marsha Scherz, 1,227.
City councilsBoth the Shell Lake and Spooner city
councils had members up for election. In Shell Lake candidates elected are, Ward 1, Stephen Smith, 71, and Brian Carlson, 72. Candidates elected in Ward 2 are Terry Leckel, 118, and Rob Anderson, 103.
In Spooner candidates elected are, Ward 1: Michelle Ortmann, 58, Ward 2: Charles Gagnon, 89, Ward 3: John Parker, 77, and Ward 4: Terri Reiter, 86.
For complete election results that in-clude Washburn County town and vil-lage boards please see the Register’s website at leaderregister.com. - Danielle Danford
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Certainly, plenty of discussions, accu-sations, denials, finger-pointing the last few weeks regarding white supremacy, Muslims, immigrants, business prac-tices, appointees, relatives, friends, former friends, associates, etc. The Barr “interpretation” and the resulting Trump and associates “spin” on the Mueller results are interesting. Have to wonder why, if everything is on the up and up, if all is so well with us, with America and the world situation, do so many have so many doubts and con-cerns. And increasingly so.
Maybe the following will help ex-plain as to why. Remember the Char-lottesville comments?
Remember the Arpaio pardon? Re-member the waffling comments on the Saudi prince? Remember the all-inclu-sive Muslim ban? Remember “I don’t even know David Duke?” Kim Jong Un, Putin and the guy in the Philip-pines are great, strong leaders. And they love me. And border security is a national crisis. And the ACA is dead. And my new plan will be so wonderful and so cheap. And you, me and Amer-ica will be so rich and so respected. And I never paid off any hookers and all Democrats are socialists. And the wall is almost built. And Manafort is a
good man. And I will drain the swamp. And the tax cut is almost entirely for the middle class, or the next one will be. And I can’t share my taxes just yet because I’m under audit. And I’ll bring in the best people. And John McCain is not a hero. And it’s all a witch hunt. And they’re all gang members. And those countries are sending their worst.
Readers, just a sampling. Many more quotes could be shared. But sufficient to cause you to think. Anyone still surprised? Anyone still able to justify being supportive? Anyone still delu-sional enough to still buy the insidi-ousness?
Another observation. The Oval Office photo ops. Pence and the gang heaping praise, being worshipful. “It’s such an honor to serve. I so much admire your leadership. It’s such a pleasure.”
Pretty sickening, but then accept that he needs, requires, demands adora-tions to stroke his ego. Not earned or deserved. Quite a humble leader.
Had an interesting, enlightening phone conversation recently with a respected relative. Very conservative. Always been a solid Republican. Re-cently retired from a very successful medical-related business. Often criti-cal, I think, about so many regulations, paperwork, etc., involved with govern-ment documentation. We’ve always
avoided, minimized political discus-sions. Agreed it was better that way. So, I was very surprised when he broached the subject. The political happenings of the past two-three years. His comments floored me: “He’s a complete nut job. He’s a pariah. He’s completely off the wall. He’s a serious threat to democ-racy.” I asked him who was, and he responded, “Trump.” Wow. I know it took some serious thought on his part to accept a mistake. My question. When will others have the guts?
He isn’t enamored with any of the declared candidates. Can’t say I am either, so far. But we agreed that the most prolific lying, crooked, arrogant, ill-prepared, false, fake undeserving person can’t be allowed to “lead” much longer. Somebody, Republican, Demo-crat, or Independent, needs to curtail this utter disaster of leadership. Some-one with integrity, experience, honesty Someone willing to listen, to put bla-tant personal financial gain aside and concentrate on American values and decent governance.
Maybe a pipe dream. Maybe just wishful thinking. But the next few months will be interesting.
Step up and speak up. Get involved.
Rollie Erickson Shell Lake
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Editor’s letterDon’t believe it … anything, that is
Most everything we say, write or think has a source.
And it’s sometimes difficult – with the wave of information washing over us from all directions these days – to pick which sources we can trust.
There’s an app for that, of course, but we won’t promote business ven-tures here.
Back in the day it was Walter Cronkite in black and white, reading black-and-white facts and ending his newscast with the words, “And that’s the way it is …”
And that was all we needed to hear.But then he used his position to
share his personal views on the Viet-nam War. He may have been right – and heroic by some measures – but his days as an objective journalist may have become numbered at that mo-ment.
Then we all got wiser. We made choices between the Warren Report and the grassy knoll theories – and later between Woodward and Bern-stein and Richard Nixon. We didn’t like being lied to until we realized we might have to cut all ties with the real world if we wanted nothing but truth.
We may all be susceptible to simply believing what we want to believe. Our thoughts were shaped early by bits of conversation from our parents and caregivers, environmental factors that shaped our political views, gull-ibility and/or cynicism. Hopefully someone teaches us along the way to be at least a bit wary of the informa-tion coming at us.
“Don’t believe everything you read” was an axiom that seemed to serve previous generations well, albeit in a world void of the access to informa-tion sources at our fingertips today.
It’s common for us to surrender and simply choose the flavor of news we like – Fox, MSNBC, Huffington Post, New York Times or perhaps a variety of sources that may or may not cater to a political agenda or cause. They all present “facts” but many offer a dif-ferent emphasis or “coloring,” if you will.
The Leader receives scores of emails from special interests – political can-didates and incumbents and various movements. Some pass the fact-check test - it’s just that they leave out some facts.
On a big or small scale there are serious efforts to control the news, sometimes for valiant causes, but even then, it sets a scary stage.
There are five corporations in this country that own most of the media in this country - and the world. That’s disturbing in itself. Add the fact they are all susceptible to “corporatizing”
and certainly “politicizing” the news and it becomes downright disturbing.
But maybe the sources used to learn that information weren’t accurate.
Most of the major news outlets have been wrong at one time or another. Even “Woodstein” of Watergate fame had to publish a correction for a story they wrote which contained false-hoods, published perhaps too quickly in their quest to expose wrongdoing at the highest level.
But they kept digging for the truth. And I think that’s what this laborious editorial is trying to say. Keep dig-ging. View more than one source of news and don’t kid yourself that your sources are infallible. We may need to publish a correction in our next issue for something written here. But that’s the point. It could be said that truth is an ongoing process.
“Fake News and Media Literacy,” an educational forum, was held last Saturday at Balsam Lake. Dr. Susan LoRusso, assistant professor at Hub-bard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota – and a Luck High School graduate – was the main speaker.
The story about the event can be found online on our website, leader-register.com, and will be published in next week’s Register.
The event offered some serious insights into navigating today’s land-scape of news sources – and how to find the truth – or at the very least, recognize the earmarks of less-than-truthful news. - Gary King
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Winners also announced on WJMC FM Radio
Shell Lake LionsCalendar Winners
Anderson, Hager, Moe
March 25 - $35Loretta Rand, Spooner
March 26 - $35Lisa Scribner, Rice Lake
March 27 - $35Mark Burkhardt, Roscoe, Ill.
March 28 - $35Linda Solmes, Woodbury, Minn.
March 29 - $300Mary Dosch, Shell Lake
Weather
2018 HIGH LOW PRECIP.March 25 40 22 March 26 42 24 1.1” Snow March 27 39 28 1” SnowMarch 28 42 28 March 29 50 21 March 30 38 14 March 31 28 17 7.9” Snow
2019 HIGH LOW PRECIP.March 25 40 12 March 26 43 14 March 27 45 17 March 28 59 31 March 29 48 19 March 30 43 21 March 31 33 16
Woodland owners conference highlightswildlife, biochar production and personal stories
HAYWARD - The Northwest Chap-ter of the Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association will hold its annual meeting and conference on Saturday, April 13, at the Flat Creek Inn and Suites, 10290 Hwy. 27 in Hayward. Registration will start at 9 a.m. with the program begin-ning at 9:30 a.m. Lunch will be available for $10. There is no other charge for the session and owners of woodlands of any size are welcome to attend, along with others interested in private forest man-
agement. Keynote speaker will be Ron Eckstein,
a retired DNR wildlife biologist who now volunteers with Wisconsin’s Green Fire and the state chapter of The Wil-derness Society. In addition to sharing information on those two organizations, he will focus on forest habitat and forest biodiversity issues.
Kent Makela, chapter member from Maple, has been following the ongo-ing discussions about biochar. In some
areas of the country, the process has offered an option for low-value wood products. He’s been experimenting with small-scale production and will share his knowledge and experiences. Bio-char, made by burning organic matter in low-oxygen conditions, is being used as a soil amendment for gardens and other commercial purposes.
West Wisconsin Land Trust and Bay-field Regional Conservancy recently merged to form Landmark Conservancy.
Conservation manager Jane Anklam will provide a review of easements and other conservation strategies and describe cur-rent Landmark projects.
Please RSVP to 715-354-3961 or [email protected]. The mission of WWOA is to serve and advance the in-terests of woodland owners and to ed-ucate owners in woodland stewardship practices and policies.
compiled by Suzanne Johnson
1949 – 70 Years Ago• Harold Albee of Shell Lake started a
grocery route through the Dewey-LaFol-lette area, the first of its kind since Louis Jacobs covered the territory each week with goods and packaged food. Harold made the trip once a week, on Tuesdays.
• Households in the Dewey-LaFol-lette area were awaiting the completion of the REA lines through the area so that everyone could have their homes wired and be able to bask in the glorious bril-liance of electric lights.
• Mrs. Ole Overson was selling her 74-acre farm located 4 miles south of Shell Lake on Old Hwy. 63.
1959 – 60 Years Ago• The following boys were awarded
letters for the basketball season: Bill Bohn, Jerry Stariha, Roger Rydberg, Danny Hubin, Dan Kallenbach, Bill Hickox, Jim Flottum, Wayne Graf, Glenn Parker and Mike Penning. Art Jacobs re-ceived the manager letter.
• Brush and grass fires broke out throughout the county. The Shell Lake School Forest suffered damage in the loss of 2,000 Norway and white pines that were 7 years old and 1,000 3-year-old spruce trees. The fire started at the village dump.
• Mrs. Roger Lawrence was a guest of honor to a pink and blue shower held at the Carl Erickson home.
1969 – 50 Years Ago• The Allen Gas and Oil Co. of Shell
Lake purchased the Coen Oil Co. of Luck from Lou Coen.
• Ernie Rydberg was the new town chairman of the Town of Bashaw follow-ing the election. Final results of the vot-ing showed 62 votes for Rydberg and 62 votes for incumbent Delbert Marker. To break the tie, the gentlemen decided the issue by the flip of a coin, with Rydberg the winner.
• Mrs. Harry (Ethel) Stellrecht opened a Bible bookstore and gift shop directly across Fourth Avenue from Indianhead Memorial Hospital. She purchased the building from Dr. Dale Larson. She of-fered for sale music, stationary and cards with future plans to include flower arrangements.
1979 – 40 Years Ago• Peggy Slater, working as a mechan-
ical drafter for a firm in Bloomington, Minnesota, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Slater.
• Bill and Barbara Ailport and fam-ily attended the confirmation of two of her brothers, Noel and Brian, and sister Becky at Pine City, Minnesota. After-ward, they went to a dinner party at her brother Tim and Evann Beaufeaux’s.
• Cub Scout Pack 51 of Shell Lake held its annual Pinewood Derby. Win-ners were Nathan Anderson, Adam Po-lanowski, Tom Schultz, Nicky Helstern,
Brad Flach, Robbie Hlevyack, John Hubin, Robbie Sibik, Steven Griffin and Aaron Nielsen.
1989 – 30 Years Ago• Two Shell Lake farmers topped the
Polk-Burnett Dairy Herd Improvement Association reports. Garry Crosby’s herd of 55 cows averaged 2,190 pounds of milk and 90 pounds of fat. Melvin Johnson was third on the list with 78 pounds of fat. His herd of 48 cows aver-aged 1,860 pounds of milk. Glen Albee, Shell Lake, topped the somatic cell count list. The SCC count on his 44-head herd was 50,000.
• Kristine Cardwell, seventh-grader in Tony Gulan’s homeroom, represented Shell Lake in the annual CESA 11 spell-ing contest held in Rice Lake. She won the local contest other homeroom rep-resentatives from fifth through eighth grade. Other participants included Tony Harrington, James Loomis’ fifth grade; Andy Harrington, Shirley Hile’s fifth grade; Stephanie Kasten, Gloria Frey’s sixth grade; Sami Degner, Gerry Sibik’s sixth grade; Tammy Peterson, Jan Ever-son’s seventh grade; Terri Butler, Joe Rounce’s eighth grade; and Amanda Livingston, Doug Williams’ eighth grade.
• Dan Kallenbach, Shell Lake, was assigned as the conservation pilot for the Department of Natural Resources 12-county Northwest District.
1999 – 20 Years Ago• The Shell Lake second-grade class
was invited to Hemshrot’s Sugar Bush to experience the process of making maple syrup. Second-grader Justin Hemshrot helped his mother, Mary, with the pre-sentation, as did Kathy Shattuck from
Trego. Accompanying Mrs. Ferris’ and Ms. Rand‘s classes were parent volun-teers Mary Marschall, Diane Misemer, Jeff Dunham and Tim and Lisa Mikula.
• Terry and Diane Dryden, Shell Lake, announced the birth of two grand-daughters, Myana Elaine, born Feb. 22, and Grace Diane, born March 7.
• The Shell Lake track season began with head coach JoAnn Aderman re-turning for a fifth year, assisted by third-year coach Brenda O’Brien. New coach Jen Bos was joining them.
2009 – 10 Years Ago• Team Stearn placed first at the Des-
tination ImagiNation regional tourna-ment and would compete in the state tournament. Shell Lake Elementary students on Team Stearn were Danielle Allar, Doran Maher, Courtney Roat, Renee Lloyd, Kelsey Egbert, Emma Bennis and Daniel Parish. Sixth-grade teacher Kristen Stearn coached the team.
• Leo Carrillo visited Ms. LaValley’s kindergarten class at the Shell Lake Pri-mary School and read “All For Pie and Pie For All” to the students and made bookmarks for them. Leo’s sister, Steph-anie, was a student in the class.
• Shell Lake High School upperclass-men got to visit local businesses for Busi-ness and Industry Day. Businesses that the students visited included the law enforcement center, Shell Lake Wood-crafters, Transport Services Unlimited, Xact Tool, Thru the Woods Cafe, Gerry’s Fifth Avenue Salon, The Polish Parlour, Shell Lake State Bank, the library, Bosch Manufacturing, Ventures Unlimited, The Potter’s Shed, Doboy and Farley’s Auto Body.
Register Memories
The only way Maynard and Ronda Mangelsen of the Town of Dewey could get from their house to their barn was by boat after temperatures of over 60 degrees caused a quick melt of the area’s snow in 1989. Riding in the boat were Dawn and Shawn Albee, children of Allen and Sue Albee. — File photo
Soup lunch topic is bees and pollinatorsSARONA – Hunt Hill Audubon Sanctu-
ary will be hosting a soup lunch at Long Lake Lutheran Church, W3114 Church Road, Sarona, at noon on Tuesday, April 9. A program will follow at 12:30 p.m. This month’s topic is bees and pollinators, pre-sented by Linda Anderson, Master Gar-dener.
Held on the second Tuesdays of the month during the winter, each soup lunch features a different guest speaker on a nature topic, along with a lunch of homemade soup, crackers and dessert. This month Anderson will discuss the im-portance of bees and other pollinators for the health of plants and gardens.
Registration is not necessary. Soup lunch programs are free to attend. Hunt Hill is still looking for volunteers to do-nate soup, cheese, crackers or bars for this month’s event. Call Carlotta at 715-635-3911 if you are interested in helping.
Soup lunches are hosted by Hunt Hill, which is a nonprofit nature preserve and learning center. You can find out more about Hunt Hill and its programs at hunt-hill.org or by calling 715-635-6543.
WITC offers motorcycle safety training classesRICE LAKE - Wisconsin Indianhead
Technical College is offering motorcycle safety training classes at the Rice Lake, New Richmond, Superior and Ashland campuses.
This 16-hour course is approved by
the Department of Transportation. It is designed to teach the beginner or experi-enced rider the safe techniques of riding a motorcycle. It consists of six hours of classroom and 10 hours of on-cycle in-struction. Students completing and pass-
ing this course will be issued a waiver that will waive the road test at the DMV. A student will still be required to take a written test at the DMV to obtain their class M license.
Motorcycles are provided by WITC.
Students must provide their own safety gear. Classes are offered weekends. Visit their website at witc.edu or call 800-243-9482, extension 5045, for Rice Lake; New Richmond, ext. 4221; Superior, ext. 6050; and Ashland, ext. 3050.
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EVENTS ...April
Thursday, April 4• Aphasia Support Group, Spooner Health main
level conference room. For more information, call 715-939-1745.
• Northwest Wisconsin Parkinson’s Disease Support Group, 1 p.m., lower level at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Shell Lake.
• Free community meal, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, 409 Summit, Spooner, 4-6 p.m. All welcome. Donations accepted.
• Apple grafting workshop at Spooner ag station, 6-9 p.m. Register by April 2, 715-635-3506, 800-528-1914, spooner.ars.wisc.edu.
Friday, April 5• GFWC Woman’s Club meeting in the conference
room at the DNR building, Spooner, 1 p.m. Panel discussion on transportation services available in Washburn County. Public invited; more info. 715-865-2250.
Saturday, April 6• The Ceska Opera Foundation general membership
will meet at 10 a.m. in the Haugen Area Historical Museum, 311 W. Third Street. The board of directors will meet one hour prior.
Tuesday, April 9• Veterans Support Group, Maple Ridge Nursing
Home, Spooner, 9:30-11 a.m., with light refreshments served.
Thursday, April 11• Shell Lake Lions Club meeting, 6:30 p.m., Shell
Lake Community Center.• Author Scott Spoolman, “Wisconsin State Parks:
Extraordinary Stories of Geology and Natural History” will speak at this Thomas St. Angelo Public Library in Cumberland, noon. Sandwich lunch provided, register at 715-822-2767 or [email protected].
Friday, April 12• Sensory Friendly Story Time from 10:30 - 11:30
a.m., at the Spooner Memorial Library. Please call ahead, 715-635-2792.
• “Untalent Show” at the Ceska Operata House, 302 W. 3rd Street, Haugen, 7:30 p.m. Call for reservations, 715-234-5600.
Sunday, April 14• Barronett Civic Club hosting the annual children’s
Easter party, 2 - 4 p.m., at the Barronett Civic Club. Games, snacks and egg hunt. Children 10 and under welcome. Must be accompanied by an adult.
Monday, April 15• Northern Lights Camera Club, 7 p.m., Trinity
Lutheran Church, 1790 Scribner St., Spooner.Tuesday, April 16
• Relatives as Parents Group, River Street Family Restaurant, Spooner, 8 a.m. RAP focuses on providng services to adults who have taken the responsibility of parenting a relative child due to absence of parents. Call Lakeland Family Resources, 715-635-4669, if you plan to attend.
• Shell Lake/Spooner Masonic Lodge 221 meeting, 7 p.m., at the lodge.
Wednesday, April 17• Shell Lake Public Library Board of Trustees
meeting, 4 p.m., at the library. The public is welcome.• Free community meal, 406 p.m., United Methodist
Church, Spooner. All welcome. Donations accepted.Thursday, April 18
• Shell Lake PTA meeting, 6:30 p.m., in the 3-12 school library. Baby-sitting available.
• Voice and Movement Group, an exercise group for people with Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders. Contact Spooner Health Rehab Services, 715-939-1745.
• Moms Club of Northwestern meeting, 9 a.m. at Lakeland Family Resource Center, Spooner.
• Washburn County Historical Society meeting, 4-5 p.m., Hewitt Building, WCHS museum complex, Shell Lake. All are welcome.
Friday, April 19• Intergenerational play group, Lakeland Family
Resource Center, 819 Ash St., Spooner, 10-11 a.m.Saturday, April 20
• Clean Boats, Clean Waters workshop at the DNR building, 9-11:30 a.m. Free training to inspect boats and educate boaters about invasive aquatic species. Register at 715-468-4654 or [email protected].
Tuesday, April 23• Veterans Support Group, Maple Ridge Nursing
Home, Spooner, 9:30-11 a.m., with light refreshments served.
Wednesday, April 24• Free community supper, 4-6 p.m., St. Alban
Episcopal Church, 220 Elm St., Spooner.Thursday, April 25
• Shell Lake American Legion and Honor Guard meeting, 6:30 p.m., at the Shell Lake Veterans Hall, 408 1st St.
• Dementia support group, Spooner Health classroom A. Contact Cindy Rouzer, 715-939-1735.
Saturday, April 27• Free community breakfast, 7-10 a.m., First United
Pentecostal Church, 337 Greenwood Ave., Spooner. All welcome. Donations accepted.
MayWednesday, May 1
• Regional Hospice Alzheimer’s Support Group meeting, Trinity Lutheran Church, 1790 Scribner St. Spooner, 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 2• Aphasia Support Group, Spooner Health main
level conference room. For more information, call 715-939-1745.
• Northwest Wisconsin Parkinson’s Disease Support Group, 1 p.m., lower level at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Shell Lake.
• Free community meal, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, 409 Summit, Spooner, 4-6 p.m. All welcome. Donations accepted.
Tuesday, May 7• Shell Lake/Spooner Masonic Lodge 221 meeting, 7
p.m., at the lodge.Thursday, May 9
• Shell Lake Lions Club meeting, 6:30 p.m., Shell Lake Community Center.
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A list of licensed contractors can be found by search-ing the DNR website, dnr.wi.gov, for “pump installer,” according to a news release from the DNR.
Jacob Sedivy, a DNR private water supply specialist, says the state’s licensing and pump installing regula-tions are to protect human health and groundwater quality.
“When a contractor ignores the regulations by failing to obtain a license, it may pose harm to the owner of
the private well,” he said. “Also, it is unfair to the pro-fessional contractors who hold a license and follow the law’s requirements to remain licensed.”
Wisconsin law requires people who install well pumps or work on existing pumps to be licensed. Pump installers must obtain a license by passing an exam to demonstrate their knowledge of pump in-stalling methods, sanitary work practices and proper sampling and disinfection, and maintain their license by attending annual continuing education training and paying a $25 annual license fee. Those who fail to meet these standards face possible financial penalties.
Such was the case this month when a Barron County man was found negligent in maintaining his state li-
cense. This was the second time Scott Bernstein, of Cameron, was found guilty of not maintaining his license while he continued to do well work. The first offense was in 2015. He was ordered to pay $1,597.50 in penalties in early March by a Barron County Cir-cuit Court. Bernstein failed to disinfect wells, to collect water samples and to provide test results at the end of his work for the private well owner. At this time, Bern-stein continues to be unlicensed.
Sedivy says these omissions could jeopardize the health of the people drinking the well water.
“This case is a reminder to all consumers to check the license of a person before you hire,” he said.
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Monday: Discovery Sprouts Play Group, 10 a.m. - noon, at the Lakeland Family Resource Center, 819 Ash St., Spooner. Story time, songs, crafts, move and snack provided.
Monday & Thursday: Washburn County Alzheimer’s Day Respite Program, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, Spooner. Daily fee includes lunch, program of crafts, exercise, games, music, quiet time. Call 715-416-2942.
Tuesday: Fit Kids, 10 - 10:30 a.m., at the Lakeland Family Re-source Center, 819 Ash St., Spooner. Activities will include fun exer-cises, stretching, climbing, jumping, throwing/catching, other games that engage gross motor skills, Go Noodle, bowling, tumble mats, parachute fun, outdoor play, songs and much more.
Tuesday & Wednesday: Kidz Club Play Group at Lakeland Family Resource Center, 10 a.m. - noon. This program will offer a space for parents and children alike to meet new friends, engage with other fam-ilies while learning and growing together.
Wednesday: Regional Hospice support group meets, 1-2:30 p.m., at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1790 Scribner St., Spooner.
Smear, 1 p.m., Friendship Commons Senior Center, Shell Lake.Kidz Club, drop in anytime between 9 a.m. - noon, at the Lakeland
Family Resource Center, 819 Ash St., Spooner. Snack served at 10:30 a.m. Activities will be prepared for parents and children to engage in learning and play together.
Thursday: Thursday Night Bedtime Stories at Spooner Memorial Library, 6-6:45 p.m., no need to register; snack, activity. Every Thurs-day except holidays.
Story time at Birchwood School, 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Moms, dad, grand-parents, day care providers, aunts, uncles and even neighbors are in-vited to bring their preschoolers to a sharing time of storybooks, crafts and snacks. Program is geared to preschool age children, however, children of all ages are welcome. Questions call Lakeland Family Re-source Center, 715-939-1151.
Friday: Story time at Shell Lake Public Library, 10:30 - 11:15 a.m. Moms, dads, grandparents, day care providers, aunts, uncles and even neighbors are invited to bring their preschoolers to a sharing time of storybooks, crafts and snacks. Program is geared to preschool age children, however, children of all ages are wlecome. Questions, call Lakeland Family Resource Center, 715-939-1151.
Exceptional Needs Playgroup at Lakeland Family Resource Cen-ter, 1-3 p.m. Lakeland is excited to offer a flexible new playgroup for parents/caregivers of children with exceptional needs. This group will have a fun and safe environment for parents and their exceptional chil-dren to play and meet new friends - siblings are encouraged to attend.Support staff from various local agencies will be offering materials on their services once per month during this group. Optional activities and snacks will be available.
First Wednesday: Regional Hospice Alzheimer’s Support Group, Trinity Lutheran Church, 1790 Scribner St., Spooner, 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Third Thursday: Washburn County Historical Society Board of Di-rectors meets March throught October, 4 p.m., in the Hewitt Building, WCHS Museum Complex, Shell Lake. Public is welcome. 715-468-2982.
Fourth Thursday: Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group, 6-7:30 p.m. classroom A, Spooner Health, 1280 Chandler Dr., Spooner.
Thursday & Monday: Washburn County Alzheimer’s Day Respite Program, see listing above.
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WASHBURN COUNTY - Spring is an important time of year for people who rely on well water or a private well for their drinking water supply.
The groundwater which supplies your well starts as precipitation in the form of melting snow and spring rains. In the spring, precipitation recharges the ground-water supply. Because this recharge of groundwater can occur rapidly, wells can quickly become contam-inated by bacteria if it is present.
Coliform bacteria tests are an easy way to determine whether your water supply is free from harmful bacte-ria. Coliform bacteria are common in soils and are not generally considered harmful to health, however, they are also found in human and animal waste. For this
reason, a coliform bacteria test is used as an indication of the sanitary condition of a water supply.
A properly constructed well should not contain any coliform bacteria; the bacteria’s presence in well water means that a pathway exists for other potentially dangerous pathogens such as E. coli, a type of fecal coliform, to enter the water supply. If pathogens are present, a variety of illnesses could occur from drinking the water. You should test your well water anytime you notice a sudden change in color, odor or taste; think of it like going to the doctor for a checkup.
In addition to coliform bacteria, there are a number of other contaminants for which well owners should con-sider testing. Some of these include human-related con-
taminants such as nitrate and pesticides or naturally occurring contaminants such as arsenic. Although it is recommended that private wells be tested annually for coliform bacteria and nitrate, only about 5 percent of wells in Wisconsin are actually tested each year.
The Washburn County Extension Office, 850 W. Bea-verbrook Ave. in Spooner, has water test kits available for sale. The kits can be purchased at the Extension office Monday through Friday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
You can visit the Department of Natural Resources website at dnr.wi.gov/topic/DrinkingWater/Quali-tyProblems.html for more information and answers to some frequently asked questions.
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Let’s go to the dump!
You might as well have mentioned Christmas morning had arrived! Round up a bunch of
kids who have a few hours on their hands and slide bareback onto your favorite pony. Galloping full speed the three-quarters of a mile down a dusty gravel road to the rendezvous point in the woods, you sizzle with anticipation, planning the adventure ahead for the day. Nothing could spur anyone faster through chores than knowing that they were going to meet up with friends at the tumbledown shack in the woods bordering the old country dump. No one knew for sure how this particular place became a neighborhood depository but the story that bubbled to the top was of a tornado that tore through the area in the ’60s dropping a fair amount of debris at the edge of the woods, so as time wore on, it just became a place to accumulate unwanted items.
With appointed tasks accomplished and after a few phone calls, the day was off to the races! With wind-blown tears streaming down my face, my mare and I would rush to be one of the first ones on the scene to set up camp for the day. Not long after our arrival at the shack, others would quickly follow. One by one, ponies of all shapes, colors and sizes could be found dotted about the shade of the woods. Tethered with just enough length of rope to reach a few tantalizing blades of cool green grass, each pony settled in, with one leg resting, for a quiet afternoon snooze. Sitting at the center of our shack was the well-weathered table that had been a castoff found in our previous scavenging. As each participant rode in, they would toss their portion of the feast for the day on the table. Saddlebags were opened up to reveal packages of hot dogs, buns, chips and cool refreshing cans of Shasta grape and orange soda. We would always have to escape outside the shed when opening our cans as the jostling ride on the way to camp built up pressure and could create a spray that would easily
empty half the can across our tiny shack, creating one giant sticky mess!
This encounter in the woods was certainly not an everyday occasion. For if you grew up on a farm, you know well that for that many neighborhood kids to orchestrate a get-away from the seemingly endless work, all the right things had to fall into place. Perhaps the day before, some of us were walking the oat fields pulling thistles. Others were tending to windrows of hay, stretching up and down the hills of the undulating fields, which beckoned the rake and baler to their duties. Calf pens always stood at the ready to be cleaned. But, on those rare days that provided a much-needed lull, off to the woods we would go. Here and there, we could each visit the dump on our own, but the day was much better enjoyed when you were in cohorts with your buddies. Often it would be a day promising of rain, or maybe just too muggy to kick up dust off of the knotters of the baler. It didn’t matter to us, as long as we were on our way to the woods!
Conversation and laughter just rolled from our shack as we sat back in chairs that we had pulled up from the dump. We kept a stash of ketchup and mustard packets, matches and a couple of decks of cards in an old Folger’s can behind a tattered ‘72 Chev pickup bench seat that sat on one side of the shed. The time would just fly as a fire crackled in the corner where we had manufactured our own ver-
sion of a woodstove which we used to roast our hot dogs on saplings freshly whittled with our very own Swiss army pocket knives. Kicking back, we would often hear the tink and tap as spits of rain tattled on the corrugated steel roof of our refuge in the woods. Fishing out the decks of cards from the rusty old cof-fee can, the day would pass by with several hands of Crazy Eights or Spades. At times, some wandered off to the driveway of the dump to peruse the latest ar-rivals. One man’s trash could so often become many kids’ treasures as we poked through the piles and mounds. Content with our discoveries, we would meander back to our shack to inspect and display our latest finds. Ornate bottles, old tins, silverware and other assorted goods were carefully stored and kept in place for our next gathering in the woods.
As the afternoon wore on, girths would be tight-ened up, the fire put out, and legs slung over the backs of slumbering ponies. The ride back to the farm was often not as hurried as our original ap-proach, but we carried with us our memories of a good day filled with laughter, jokes, card games and more as we all returned to our duties for the evening. There was no need to be called or checked on to be home in time. In the country, you knew what your chores were, and no one but you was responsible to complete them at their appointed time. Although I did not grow up on a farm, keeping my pony on a dairy just outside of town brought the same re-sponsibilities into my court as my friends who did in order to pay for the board for my mare. No slack allowed for this transplanted city girl!
Upon arriving back at the farm with pony brushed and turned out for a good roll in the dirt, a glance down the road would already have plans churning on the mind for the next time the right opportunity came along for you to have a few hours away with your friends at the old country dump down the road.
My gravelroad
Dory Kidder
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Childhood connections
My childhood friend Ruthie recently posted the following on her Facebook page: “I’ll never
forget the neighborhood kids I grew up with or the great times we had.” Ruthie now lives in Lewis, which is only a short drive from our childhood neighborhood of Clam Falls. Our children, although not in the same grades, attended school in Frederic. Ruth’s and my paths cross once in a while, and we are connected through Facebook.
My husband, Milt, grew up in the community of Falun near Grantsburg. His childhood was a bit dif-ferent than mine. When Milt was between the ages of 6 and 9 months, his mother abandoned the family. Milt was placed in the fostering care of a neighbor-ing family and his older brother by three years went to live with an aunt and uncle. When he reached the age of 4 or 5, Milt returned to his father’s farm to live with his dad, Leonard, his uncle Arthur and his brother, Dale. The boys were able to return to their father’s home due to the hiring of a housekeeper. Catherine Pankrantz and her son, Wayne, made their home with the Johnson boys while Wayne was in the third and fourth grade. Milt, known as Rusty during those days, feels Mrs. Pankrantz left the employment of his dad after two years because she had over-heard a conversation Rusty was having with his dad. Rusty recalls carpenters working on the front porch of their house. As the men stopped to have cookies and coffee, Rusty, too, felt he should have a cookie. Mrs. Pankrantz denied him the cookie and Rusty’s dad found him crying over the situation. As Rusty explained why he was crying, Leonard jokingly said, “Well, I guess we will have to fire her, won’t we?”
Rusty saw that their conversation was overheard and it wasn’t too long after that situation, that Mrs.
Pankrantz and Wayne moved back home to Glidden, leaving the Johnsons to seek out another house-keeper. Contact with the Pankrantz family was very limited after that time. Perhaps the cookie episode was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
On a recent spring day, upon returning to my home, I listened to the messages on our voicemail. One caller asked if this was the number for Milton “Rusty” Johnson who grew up in Falun. The caller went on to identify himself as Wayne Pankrantz. Milt returned the call and after a few hour-long talks on the phone, a decision to meet up on Saturday, March 23, in Eau Claire was made. Milt’s brother Dale drove down from Two Harbors, Minnesota, to ride with us. Wayne, his wife, Mary, Milt “Rusty,” Dale and I sat at the Texas Roadhouse from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. that day while the men exchanged child-hood stories. Wayne did inform the waitress that the guys hadn’t seen each other in about 60 years so we would probably be spending a lot of time there and if they needed the booth, to let us know and we would relocate to the McDonald’s down the street.
Over the years, Wayne had received misinforma-tion about Rusty and Dale. He was under the im-pression that Rusty had taken over his father’s farm. In truth, Rusty’s dad retired while Rusty was still
in high school and then sold the farm while Rusty was in the Air Force. Wayne had also heard that Dale had died. He was relieved to hear that information wasn’t true.
During our visit, the men reminisced about a lot of the mischief the two older boys, Wayne and Dale, got into. Perhaps that is the real reason Mrs. Pankrantz chose to move back to Glidden. I heard the story of the manure pit retold through the eyes of Wayne. I had previously heard Rusty’s version. The facts remained the same though. One day in their youth, Dale and Wayne thought it would be fun to leave little Rusty at the top of the manure pile but didn’t realize that he would begin to sink into the pile. As he stood there in his new boots, unable to get out of the pile, the older boys tried to get a rope to him, but were unsuccessful. Knowing that Leonard and Uncle Arthur had heard Rusty’s cries for help, the two older boys ran to hide. By the time Rusty was removed from the pile, he was up to his armpits in manure. I guess he was stripped naked and hosed off in the yard before the other two boys faced the wrath of Leonard, Arthur and Catherine.
Why after 60 years did Wayne seek out two of his childhood friends? It was after having breakfast with his wife one morning and reminiscing with her about his childhood days in Falun that she sug-gested he try and find Rusty. At first Wayne couldn’t remember Rusty’s real name. After recalling that Rusty’s official name was Milton, he Googled him, and as they say, the rest is history.
If you are thinking about a friend from your child-hood, reach out and reconnect, I think you’ll be glad you did.
Suzanne can be reached at [email protected]
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The fabulous entertainer:Dick Van Dyke
He’s known as a singer, dancer, actor and comic and he is all that. For 70 years Dick
Van Dyke has been entertaining our grandparents, brothers and sisters and the generations including our great-grandchildren. On stage, screen or on tele-vision, all he does to entertain us is good clean fun. He has been called a “Disney legend.” His portrayal of a comedy writer in the TV series, “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” was quite like his actual life. From 1961 until 1966, millions of fans watched Rob Petri arrive at home and do a flip over the ottoman. We knew he was a family man who strived to be a comic writer and was often in over his head. We could identify with his character. That show topped the ratings and set standards for other sitcoms.
He was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke, on Dec. 13, 1925. His parents were Hazel and Loren Van Dyke. He grew up in Danville Illinois, a typical Mid-western town, in a neighborhood where he was sur-rounded by relatives. His father was on the road a lot and his mother was very religious. He thought of becoming a minister in his early years and he liked being involved in church. Dick and his younger brother, Jerry, lived the Depression years and didn’t realize they were poor just like everybody else. He went to school and took an interest in drama and left behind his idea of ministry. He loved radio. He found work as a helper at the local radio station and it wasn’t long before he was on the air, giving news and weather and playing records as a disc jockey. He was tall and very thin. He tried to enlist in the Army but he was too thin. He tried again and again and finally he was in the Army Air Force, in 1942, where they put him in Special Services. He did broadcasts and met people in the business. When he got out of the Army he went on the radio in Danville. In 1947, Dick was doing theater at home. Then he had an offer from Phil Erickson, who was from Danville, to take the place of another man and go on the road
with an act. It was funny; they lip-synced songs done on record by Bing Crosby and other singers. They Called themselves “The Merry Mutes.” As he said his book, “My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Busi-ness,” he went wherever the wind took him.
It took him to Broadway to sing and dance in “Bye, Bye Birdie,” and then he made the leap to television and his sitcom with Carl Reiner, TV wife, Mary Tyler Moore and veteran actors and comedians, Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam. It was still a hit show after five years, but they went on to other things. He was in the Disney musical, “Mary Poppins” and later, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” filmed in England.
He married his high school sweetheart and they had four children: two sons, Barry and Chris, and two daughters, Stacy and Carrie Beth. His wife, Mar-gie, took no interest in show business and was satis-fied to stay at home and take care of the family.
Dick continued to perform and drew the line on work that involved cursing, sex and violence. He wrote, “I only wanted to make movies my children can see … I wanted to be able to talk about my work at the dinner table and hold my head up on Sundays when my wife and I led our children into the Brent-wood Presbyterian Church.” He held to his stan-dards, even as the culture was evolving.
After the children were grown, he found a place in Arizona. Over the years Dick had problems with smoking and alcohol. He tried hard to kick the habits and in later years succeeded. Margie wanted Dick to retire, but he couldn’t walk away from his many commitments and he loved to perform before an
audience. They separated. She stayed in Arizona and he lived in California. After a few years they divorced. Dick began a longtime relationship with Michelle Triola Marvin. She was involved in show business so he could talk with her and she was a sounding board for him like a fellow entertainer. They lived together until she passed away in 2009, shortly after his first wife, Margie, passed away from pancreatic cancer.
Dick Van Dyke earned many awards in his career; Primetime Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, you name it, he had it. He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He knelt with his wife and daughter, and put his handprint and footprint in cement. Carl Reiner was there and others, and when he got a good look at the star, his name was spelled wrong. Some-body didn’t know how to spell. They all cracked up, laughing their heads off. Maybe they couldn’t spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Or sing the song.
Dick Van Dyke was lost for awhile and living alone was not easy for him. He became acquainted with three fellows who liked to sing and soon he was getting together with them once a week and they did barbershop quartet and old-time tunes. They entertained in hospitals regularly and wherever they needed a quartet. He did computer graphics at home, and always kept busy. He went out for meals with friends at their homes. This is the pattern that continues. He guests on shows and still does some dancing and singing. And he takes part in plays when he has an opportunity. Although he had a rep-utation as a loner, he believes he is a people person, and enjoys the company of others.
He has written several books. In his book about his life, he wrote, “My life has been a magnificent indulgence. I’ve been able to do what I love and share it. Who would want to quit? I suppose that I never completely gave up my childhood idea of being a minister. Only the medium and the message changed. I have still endeavored to touch people’s souls, to raise their spirits and put smiles on their faces.”
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More than $1 million awarded to 17 organizations in western Wisconsin
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Otto Bremer Trust has awarded $9,156,284 in grants to organizations in Min-nesota, North Dakota and western Wisconsin as part of its most recent grant-making cycle.
“OBT made strategic investments in a variety of organizations across the region, each committed to addressing challenges and opportunities in their com-munities,” said Brian Lipschultz, co-CEO and trustee, OBT.
The Otto Bremer Trust, based in St. Paul, Minne-sota, is a private charitable trust established in 1944 by founder Otto Bremer, a successful banker and commu-
nity business leader. OBT owns 92 percent of Bremer Bank and also manages a diversified investment port-folio. The mission of OBT is to invest in people, places and opportunities in the Upper Midwest. Since its in-ception, OBT has invested more than $700 million in organizations throughout the region.
A list of some of the grants awarded to local organi-zations in western Wisconsin is included below:
Amery Area Senior Citizens Inc., $35,000, for general operations to provide programs and activities to mem-bers of the community.
Bayfield Carnegie Library, $80,000, for capital sup-port of external repairs to the library.
Cooperative Educational Service Agency No. 11, Tur-tle Lake, $13,596. To support the purchase of equipment to provide vision screening to low-income children in
west-central Wisconsin.Family Resource Center St. Croix Valley Inc., Bald-
win, $85,000 for general operations to provide educa-tion, resources, and support to families in the St. Croix Valley.
Northwest Connection Family Resources, Hayward, $150,000, to increase the availability, affordability and quality of early childhood experiences and education.
St. Croix Valley Sexual Assault Response Team Inc., River Falls, $60,000, for general operations to provide forensic medical examination services and advocacy to victims of sexual assault in western Wisconsin.
Village of Somerset, Somerset, $75,000, for capital support of an expansion and renovation of Somerset Public Library.
Otto Bremer Trust makes 141 grants totaling $9.1 million
APRIL 3, 2019 • WASHBURN COUNTY REGISTER • PAGE 9
Habitat for Humanity accepting applications for opportunities through AmeriCorps
Healthy Living fair atBirchwood School
Vote for the 2019 Washburn County business awards
Recognizing the impact of organ donors
BURNETT/POLK/RUSK/WASH-BURN COUNTIES - Wild Rivers Hab-itat for Humanity has been awarded two AmeriCorps member positions and is looking for motivated, qualified candidates to serve locally during the 2019-2020 service year, which begins in August. Habitat AmeriCorps members serve in full-time, stipend positions, helping to meet the housing needs of communities and low-income families across the U.S.
For over 22 years, Wild Rivers Hab-itat for Humanity has served families in need of decent, affordable housing through building and repairing homes, communities and hope. Applicants ac-
cepted as Habitat AmeriCorps members serving with Wild Rivers Habitat for Hu-manity will expand their understanding of the need for affordable housing while making positive connections with peers, families and communities in the areas of community outreach and resource development. They will join more than 500 other Habitat AmeriCorps members who will be placed in more than 160 communities nationwide.
AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs that engage more than 80,000 Americans each year in in-tensive service throughout the United States. National service programs such as AmeriCorps are funded by the Cor-
poration for National and Community Service.
Since Habitat partnered with the Corporation for National and Commu-nity Service in 1994, more than 10,148 AmeriCorps members have served with Habitat for Humanity across the coun-try. They have raised tens of millions of dollars, engaged 3.7 million volunteers and served 109,830 individuals, helping to build strength and stability through safe, affordable housing.
For more information or to learn how to apply, please visit wildrivershabitat.org, habitat.org/americorps or national-service.gov.
Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, local affiliate of Habitat for Hu-manity International and builds strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter in Burnett, Polk, Rusk and Washburn coun-ties in northwestern Wisconsin. WRHFH provides housing assistance by construct-ing, rehabilitating and preserving homes for income-qualified individuals and families. Wild Rivers Habitat for Humanity has con-structed over 47 homes since its formation in 1997 and has completed over 400 projects through its home repair and painting pro-gram. To donate funds, building materials or to volunteer, visit wildrivershabitat.org.
BIRCHWOOD — On Tuesday, April 30, the community education depart-ment of Birchwood School will hold a Healthy Living fair at the school. The fair will take place during the middle school and high school parent teacher conferences from 3:45 to 6:30 p.m. This event is free and open to all ages in the community. Participants can receive free giveaways, as well as free information about their health and healthy living. There will be free prescription drug con-sultations with a medical doctor to find out if you can save money on your pre-scriptions.
The fair will have a drug take-back, blood pressure checks, hearing aid professionals, a video otoscope so you can see inside your ear, information on healthy snacks and meals, information on healthy aging, mental health profes-sionals, dental professionals, eye profes-sionals and emergency first responders. Participants will have a chance to win Birchwood Bucks for attending. Browse the booths while you wait to meet with your child’s teacher, or just to learn more about being the best you.
WASHBURN COUNTY–The Wash-burn County Economic Development Corporation collected public nomina-tions for business awards in February and March. Those nominations have been compiled and are ready for the public to vote and support the effective businesses in Washburn County
This is their third year doing this, with increasing public input and par-ticipation. Last year, more people voted for the award recipients than voted in the spring 2018 elections in Washburn County and the WCEDC expects the in-terest and participation to increase.
Votes can be cast from April 1 to April 12 by going to washburncountyedc.org to vote for the following awards: Busi-ness of the Year, New Business of the Year, Community Involved Business of the Year, Customer Friendly Business of the Year, Non-Profit/Governmental Organization of the Year, and Tourism Business of the Year.
The awards winners will be an-nounced at the third-annual WCEDC Award Banquet the evening of May 15, at the Spooner Civic Center. The event
is the largest gathering of business own-ers and leaders in Washburn County. It’s an event that not only allows important networking abilities but is a fun-filled evening. Each year, they strive to make the event an even better time and this year will not disappoint.
“We plan to celebrate the beginning of the growing population and increase in younger demographics beginning to happen in this county. It’s time to start building on the foundation of this small victory and grow the future optimism of what is yet to come,” said Zimmerman.
Dr. Ryan Leiterman of Crystal Creek Naturals is the event’s keynote speaker. Dr. Leiterman is an outgoing and engag-ing speaker who has helped grow Crys-tal Creek Naturals from a small business to a thriving and ever-growing business in our county. In addition to the awards, there will be a silent auction to raise money for expanding economic devel-opment efforts in Washburn County. Do-nations are requested and being taken at the WCEDC office.
Fifty-one to lose jobs atRice Lake Shopko
RICE LAKE - According to Wisconsin Public Radio, a total of 51 people will lose their jobs as Shopko shutters its store and optical lab in Rice Lake.
The Wisconsin company is closing its remaining 39 stores by June 16, leaving about 1,715 without jobs. Among those in the current round of layoffs are 94 in Eau Claire, 70 in Chippewa Falls and 71 in River Falls.
John Menz, who leads the West Cen-tral Wisconsin Workforce Development Board, has led efforts to connect affected
workers with new job opportunities. Menz says his organization has coor-dinators in each area working directly with the affected workers.
The company’s human resources of-ficer recently announced that the Ash-waubenon-based retailer, which filed for bankruptcy in mid-January, could not find a buyer despite the company’s “best efforts.”
The full story is available at wpr.org. - Gary King
During the Pause to Give Life event Wyman and Marna Johnson shared the story of their daughter who saved five lives through organ donation. – Photos submitted
The Pause to Give Life event highlight the fact that one donor can save eight lives, followed by a moment of silence for 1 minute and 14 seconds to recognize the nearly 114,000 patients waiting for a lifesaving transplant. Of those patients, nearly 2,000 are right here in Wisconsin.
Community members gathered at Spooner Health to take part in a statewide simultaneous rec-ognition event to promote the mission of organ, tissue and eye donation and honor donors and their families.
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Annual Conservation Congress hearings at Spooner on Monday
Washburn County ethnic groups identified
New online input optionWASHBURN COUNTY — On Mon-
day, April 8, at 7 p.m., in the Spooner High School auditorium, individuals interested in natural resource manage-ment have an opportunity to provide their input to the Department of Natural Resources and the Wisconsin Conserva-tion Congress on proposed rule changes and advisory questions relating to fish and wildlife management in Wisconsin.
“Conservation Congress advisory questions generally originate from citi-zens’ ideas,” said Larry Bonde, chairman of the Wisconsin Conservation Con-gress. “If resolutions presented at the county-level meetings are supported, the resolution is advanced to one of the congress’s advisory committees and the District Leadership Council for consid-eration.
This year the Conservation Congress will seek public input on 88 advisory questions on a range of topics, some of which include:
To designate the hickory nut as the Wisconsin state nut;
To remove the 36-inch size limit on sturgeon during spearing season;
To require pheasant, grouse and quail hunters to wear blaze orange or pink;
To restore deer tagging requirements in statute;
A proposal to restore public funding for public lands.
For the first time ever, the Wisconsin Conservation Congress and the DNR will have an online option for individ-uals who wish to provide input on the DNR proposed rule changes and WCC advisory questions through an alternate method. However, the election of WCC delegates and input on citizen-intro-duced resolutions will require in-person participation.
The online input option will go live at 7 p.m., April 8, the same time the spring hearings begin, and will remain open for 72 hours. To use the online input option, go to dnr.wi.gov and search keywords spring hearings.
During the meeting county residents have the option to run for a seat on the Conservation Congress and to elect del-egates from their county to represent their county views regarding natural re-sources on the Conservation Congress. Also, individuals can bring forth new conservation issues of a statewide na-ture to the attention of the Conservation Congress through the citizen resolution process.
Regulation changesUpon completion of the delegate elec-
tions, the DNR will hold public hearings on two regulation changes that impact hunting, trapping, target shooting and inland fishing regulations.
The public may provide input on Board Order WM-21-18 that will mod-ify Chapters NR 10 and 45 related to hunting, trapping and target shooting. This rule will serve several purposes, in-cluding simplifying weapons restriction regulations, offering additional trapping opportunities and provide regulated
shooting in Rock County. The other proposed change the public
can share their input on is Board Order FH-19-18, which will modify Chap-ters NR 20, 23 and 26 related to fishing regulations on inland, outlying and boundary waters of the state. This rule will serve several purposes, including applying fishing regulations to waters to accomplish new management goals, improving the clarity and consistency of regulations on shared boundary waters with Michigan and Minnesota, establish-ing statewide regulations that provide harvest opportunity while protecting fish populations, and aligning regu-lations with public desires for certain water bodies.
The Conservation Congress county meeting will convene following the close of the DNR rules hearing. Immediately following the close of the Conservation Congress county meeting, the WCC del-egates, including those newly elected, will meet to elect the county delegation’s chair and vice chair.
Danielle Danford | Staff writerSHELL LAKE — Washburn County
isn’t what comes to mind when think-ing about diverse populations, however, data from the U.S. Census’ American Community five-year survey shows the rich ethnic tapestry that residents of Washburn County are.
The United States officially catego-rizes its population into six groups: White, Black or African American, Na-tive American or Alaskan Native, Pacific Islander, Asian and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. But from those groups, Americans identify with ethnic groups that are even more specific.
Surveys of Wisconsinites’ ethnic her-itage show that German-descended people are the biggest ancestry group by far in the state, with more than 2 mil-lion members as of the year 2000. More Americans specify as German than any other ethnicity.
Most of Washburn County’s residents also identify as German, or about 5,872 county residents. There are 70 ethnic groups that Washburn County residents identify as. The next most identified ethnic group, which 2,338 people in Washburn County identified as, is Un-classified or not reported, a somewhat surprising result given that the survey
includes over 170 ethnic groups. A total of 2,172 county residents iden-
tify as Norwegian, 1,834 as Irish, 1,436 as other groups, 1,183 as English, 1,088 as Swedish and 791 as Polish; 591 iden-tify as Italian, 589 as French and 581 as American; 455 identify as European, 424 as Czech, 254 as Finnish, 238 as French Canadian, 231 as Scottish and 205 as Dutch. A total of 184 people identify as Danish, 162 as Scandinavian, 123 as Scotch-Irish and 122 as Swiss.
Less than 50 people identify as each of the following ethnic groups: Ukrainian, Slovene, Northern European, Welsh, Belgian, British, Russian, Croatian, Hun-
garian, Lithuanian, Austrian, Slovak, Czechoslovakian, Greek and Eastern European.
Less than 20 people identify as each of the following: Luxembourger, Slavic, Romanian, Arab and Pennsylvania Ger-man.
Less than 10 people identify as each of the following; Canadian, Sub-Saha-ran African, Moroccan, Jamaican, West Indian, African, Icelander, Australian, Estonian, Bulgarian, Lebanese, Ethio-pian, German Russian, Armenian and Latvian.
NEW RICHMOND - Mary Beth Radd-atz of New Richmond received a schol-arship from the national Women in Trucking Foundation to help cover the cost of her education in WITC’s Truck Driving program.
The Women in Trucking Foundation is supported by the Women in Trucking Association, whose mission is to en-courage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their ac-complishments and minimize obstacles faced by women working in the indus-try.
“I applied for the scholarship when I first started the program,” said Raddatz. “It’s an online process, and they ask you to outline what your goals are, how you feel about trucking and how you got into trucking. I talked about it from my heart, and I got an email two weeks ago to let me know I had been chosen. It was such a help.”
The Foundation provides scholarships twice a year and awardees come from across the United States and are enrolled in schools or training programs in cat-egories of driving, leadership, safety or technical fields of study.
“The Women in Trucking Foundation has a meaningful impact on the lives of women seeking a career in transporta-tion by providing scholarships to offset the high cost of education,” said Foun-dation Chairperson Debora Babin Katz, vice president of TrucBrush Corpora-tion. “We are forwarding the future of transportation by giving these women the opportunity to achieve their career
goals, and we could not do this without the generosity of our donors, including the J.J. Keller Foundation, the Ryder Foundation and the UPS Foundation.”
Raddatz graduated from the 10-week Truck Driving program on March 28 and recently passed her Class A Commercial Driver’s License test. She will hit the ground running with her newly earned
license. Within weeks after graduating, Raddatz will own a truck and will be hauling for some local agriculture pro-ducers.
“I really had no idea there were so many options available for careers in trucking. I have received so many em-ployment offers already,” she said.
There is a high demand for entry-level
truck drivers in local and long-distance employment, and that demand is ex-pected to grow as baby boomers retire from the industry. Entry-level salaries are generally in excess of $40,000 per year with potential to earn more than $60,000 per year with experience. Most employers also offer health, vacation and retirement benefits.
Classes are taught through classroom and behind-the-wheel instruction, and students will get driving experience in both rural and urban settings.
“The instructors at WITC are ex-tremely knowledgeable and passionate about what they teach,” said Raddatz. “They want you to succeed, and they will be there helping you every step of the way.”
Raddatz hopes she can inspire others to pursue a career in trucking.
“I want to find everyone else out there who might be in the same situation as myself,” Raddatz said. “I’m 56, and I’ve worked full time for all my years, but I was ready for a change. I know that there’s other women and men out there who might be thinking, ‘Should I do this or can I do this?’ My advice is just to do it. Go for it. When you’re a truck driver, you don’t have to worry whether you’re contributing to society because every day you feel like you have a purpose.”
For more information about WITC’s Truck Driving program, visit witc.edu/truck-driving.
National Women in Trucking scholarship presented to WITC student
Mary Beth Raddatz of New Richmond received a scholarship from the national Women in Truck-ing Foundation to help cover the cost of her education in WITC’s Truck Driving program. - Special photo
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A night of jazz music in Shell Lake
Jonathan San-tana and Breanna Green are lead sing-ers in the Shell Lake a cappella group Tonal Recall.
World-renowned trumpet player Robert Baca played with the Shell Lake jazz band at the Shell Lake High School “Cabaret” held Saturday, March 30, at the Shell Lake Arts Center. Baca has toured with Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Tony Bennett and now, the Shell Lake jazz band.
For a change of pace, Phil Miller, Nolan Miller and Ben Kunselman teamed up together to perform some bluegrass music. Nolan is a seventh-grader from Shell Lake who plays for the Red Cedar Orchestra in Rice Lake.
Jonathan San-tana is an incredible lead singer in the high school group, Tonal Recall. Tonal Recall is a popular attraction for the night of entertain-ment.
Playing in his last “Caba-ret” is Melloan Dunlavey, on saxophone.
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Spooner band and choir compete in solo and ensemble
Buck Braenne of Spooner received a first for his performance.
Andrew Tellefson played a flute solo at the WSMA Solo and Ensemble competition hosted by Rice Lake High School on Saturday, March 30. He received a second for his performance.
The Spooner SATB a cappella quartet received a second for their performance in the solo and ensemble contest. SATB is short for soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Shown (L to R): David Christiansen, Douglas Cottrell, Jackie Rosenbush and Tiffany Romportl.
Spooner freshman Jeffery Rongner earned a starred first and a trip to state competition in May.
Savanna Smith smiles as a sign of relief after she completes her soprano solo. She, like many young singers, has had to over-come her fear of performing in public. You can put in hours of practice but it comes down to being able to sing in front of a group of people. In her first performance Smith earned a first and for that she can be very proud.
Isaac Hopke earned a starred first with his trombone solo; he was accompanied by Sue Cos-mano, of Spooner. With a starred first, Hopke will advance to the state level on Saturday, May 4, held at UW-Eau Claire.
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Macy Melton made an attempt to drive the basket against Katie Brunberg and Josie Crosby. The 3-on-3 tournament had teams from area communities competing in basketball as a fundraiser for the Shell Lake basketball program.
The Shell Lake seventh-grade team is shown (L to R): Jameson Lucas, Isaiah McKelton, Aaden Jensen and Dominick Ricci. A Spooner and St. Francis Middle School team competed in the tournament. Shown (L to R):
Ben Reedy, Zach Glessing, Grayson Daniels and Nick Reedy
Kids play 3-on-3 basketball
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A Spooner Elementary team competed in the 3-on-3 tournament at Shell Lake. Shown back (L to R): Coach Jon Hagen, Ben Eichten and coach Sam Smith. Front: Noah Smith, Jaxson Fizel and Reid Hagen.
These are the girls teams at the Shell Lake 3-on-3 basketball tournament on Saturday, March 23, at the Shell Lake High School. Shown back (L to R): Keanna Mullenix, Sara Brunberg, Macey Melton, Alexa Dahlstrom, Kasey Schrankel, Shaylee Anderson and Alivia Marker. Front: Katie Brunberg, Aubri Marker, Josie Crosby and Grace Naessen.
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SUPERIOR - The Shell Lake boys and girls track team competed in the Simp-son Invitational Track Meet at UW-Su-perior on Friday, March 29. The indoor meet brought in teams from northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. The girls team finished in fifth place with 58.5 points and the boys finished in eighth place with 31 points.
Sydney Schunck took first in the shot put and Cassie Skattebo took first in the high jump. Grace Thomas earned a fifth in the long jump and sixth in the 55-meter dash. Caitlyn Skattebo earned a fourth in the high jump. Brittany Clark earned a fourth in the 800-meter run. Frances Kevan earned a sixth place in the 1,600-meter run. The 4x200-meter relay team took second place. Team members are Emmery Nielsen, Schunck, Thomas and Cassie Skattebo. The 4x400-meter relay
team took second place. Team members are Nielsen, Clark, Makenna Anderson and Cassie Skattebo. The 4x800-me-ter relay team took second place. Team members are Carly Osborn, Anderson, Clark and Kevan.
Andrew Martin took second in the high jump and sixth in the long jump. Daniel Nielsen took third in the pole vault. Tyler Schunck took seventh in the pole vault. The 4x200-meter relay team took second place. Team members are Martin, Carter Lawrence, Nick Udovich and Matthew Allar.
Shell Lake will be traveling to Supe-rior again on Friday, April 5, for a track meet. They will be travel to Spooner on Tuesday, April 9, for an invitational track meet.
Cassie Skattebo cleared the bar at 5 feet to take first place in the high jump at the Simpson Invitational Track Meet at UW-Superior on Friday, March 29.
Olivia Jury holds the starting block for her sister Natalie Jury.
Shell Lake track in Superior
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Nick Eiche ran for Shell Lake at the invita-tional meet in Superior.
Sydney Schunck runs in the second leg of the 4x400 relay. Shell Lake took second place with a time of 1:55.03 seconds.
Shell Lake School club athletic programsBaseball, T-ball, softball
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summer recreation program registration is now open. Kids in fourth- through eighth-grade are invited and encouraged to participate in summer ball leagues! All program registration information can be found on the school’s website at shelllake.k12.wi.us. Click on Parents
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Wisconsin’s muskie season would last through Dec. 31, north of Hwy. 10, and the Win-
nebago System’s walleye bag limit would drop to three if rule changes proposed by the Department of Natural Resources become law.
Those are just two of 88 questions Wisconsinites will review on Monday, April 8, during the state’s annual fish and wildlife hearings in all 72 coun-ties. The hearings are a joint effort of the DNR and Wisconsin Conservation Congress, a group of 360 elected citizens who advise the agency.
The hearings start at 7 p.m. for in-person partici-pants and continue 72 hours for online input. This is the first year citizens can participate online. The questions are identical whether you weigh in online or in person and all participants must sign in.
Wisconsin’s statewide conservation hearings date back roughly 80 years. The hearings’ average atten-dance since 1970 is 6,975 statewide, ranging from 3,527 in 2007 to 30,685 in 2000. Attendance has aver-aged 5,404 annually since 2010; down from 6,394 for 1970-1989 and 8,264 for 1990-2009.
Issues at this year’s hearings range from panfish size limits to pilot programs for shooting ranges. For example, if North Woods muskie anglers get their way, they’ll fish a month beyond the current Nov. 30 closure, open water permitting. The revised season would last till Dec. 31 or until individual lakes freeze over. The proposal covers all waters north of Hwy. 10, as well as those bordering Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and those of Green Bay and Lake Michi-gan north of Manitowoc.
The DNR also wants to cut the daily walleye bag limit to three fish for lakes Winnebago, Poygan, Winneconne and Butte des Morts; and large sections of the adjoining Wolf and Fox rivers. This rule for the Winnebago System, Wisconsin’s largest lake/river complex, covers its waters in Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca, Waushara and Winnebago counties.
The Winnebago System’s largest walleye catches occur April through June during and after the fish spawn in marshes along the Wolf and upper Fox riv-ers and return to Winnebago and its upriver lakes. The DNR said it’s common for anglers to catch five-fish limits during the walleye’s postspawn feeding frenzy. Biologists think a three-fish limit would pro-tect more fish when they’re most vulnerable.
Several other proposed rules address bass fishing around Wisconsin, including a proposal to waive lake-specific rules for catch-and-release bass tour-naments. Some lakes have an 18-inch size limit for bass, which greatly limits what competitors can pos-sess during tournaments.
The DNR proposes to let tournaments follow the statewide five-bass limit for fish measuring at least 14 inches. The proposal also requires tournaments to release all bass back into the waterway where they were caught. The agency says these exceptions would be easily enforced because tournaments re-
quire a DNR-issued permit.Not all the proposed rule changes involve open
water and popular species like bass, walleyes and muskies. One proposal asks whether the DNR should enforce size and design restrictions on spears used during the Winnebago System’s sturgeon sea-son each February. Sturgeon spears are typically handcrafted and some folks have built colossal spearheads with two or more long rows of tines to better ensure they hit the giant fish.
After surveying 2,000 license holders and meeting with a citizens advisory group, the DNR is propos-ing two design restrictions: The spearhead can have only one row of tines and that row can’t be wider than 18 inches.
The agency is also proposing about three dozen new fishing rules for individual lakes, streams and rivers across Wisconsin, as well as the boundary wa-ters of the Mississippi River and Michigan’s UP.
The Monday, April 8, hearings also include nearly 40 “advice-only” questions from Conservation Con-gress committees. Among the advisory proposals is a pilot program called “Payments for Positives,” an experiment to control chronic wasting disease by of-fering hunters $750 to $1,250 for each CWD-infected deer they shoot in designated hot spots.
The “P4P” program would strive to remove more sick deer than the disease generates each year in hopes of curbing CWD’s spread. The experiment’s cost, depending on its size, would range from $900,000 to $1.4 million annually, which might be a bargain for Wisconsin’s $1.3 billion deer hunting economy.
The WCC is also revisiting two contentious deer hunting issues, baiting and carcass tags. The Leg-islature in 2017 eliminated a century-old law that required hunters to attach a state-issued tag to each
deer they shoot. Legislators abolished that require-ment without a hearing, and Gov. Scott Walker signed it into law despite vocal opposition from WCC leaders.
Meanwhile, deer baiting and feeding are now illegal in 56 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties because of CWD’s presence in wild or captive deer. Citing UW-Madison research that confirms that baiting/feeding sites can become cesspools for prions and other disease-spreading contaminants, the WCC asks if the baiting/feeding ban should be statewide.
If P4P, carcass tags and a baiting/feeding ban win statewide approval, the ideas would still require leg-islative action. So would a proposal from the WCC’s environmental committee, which asks if Wisconsin should ban all lead-based ammunition and fishing gear.
Researchers have identified lead poisoning in at least 130 species of birds and wildlife, and think the main source is spent ammo and lost fishing tackle. Two questions ask if the WCC should work with the DNR, lawmakers and the Natural Resources Board to ban lead ammo for hunting; and ban lead in lures, sinkers and tackle weighing 1 ounce or less.
To answer the questions online, or locate your county’s hearing site, or read all 88 questions and their background material, visit dnr.wi.gov and search the keywords “spring hearings.”
Patrick Durkin, @patrickdurkinoutdoors, is a freelance writer who covers outdoor recreation in Wisconsin. Write to him at 721 Wesley St., Waupaca, WI 54981; or by email at patrickdurkin56@gmailcom.
Wisconsin’s annual statewide conservation hearings have drawn crowds averaging 5,400 to 8,200 since 1970. – Photos submitted
The Wisconsin Conservation Congress consists of five elected delegates from each county and they advise the Depart-ment of Natural Resources on hunting, fishing and other conservation matters.
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AllianceLake Park Alliance
53 3rd St., Shell Lake 715-468-2734
Rev. John Sahlstrom, Rev. John Hendry
Sunday Worship Service 10 a.m., Nursery Provided;
Youth Group, 7th - 12th grades, Wednesdays 6 - 8 p.m.
BaptistNorthwoods
BaptistW6268 Cranberry Dr.,
Shell Lake; 1 mile north of CTH B on U.S. 253 Pastor Martin Coon
715-468-2177 Sunday School: 10 a.m.
Sunday Worship: 11 a.m. Sunday service: 6 p.m.
Wednesday service: 7 p.m.
Spooner BaptistW7135 Green Valley Rd.
(Green Valley Rd. and Hwy. 63)
Pastor Darrel Flaming 715-635-2277
spoonerbaptist.com Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11 a.m.
Sunday evening service 6 p.m. Wed. evening service
6:30 p.m.
CatholicSt. Joseph’s
Catholic100 N. Second St., Shell Lake
Father Bala ShowrySaturday Mass: 4:30 p.m.
Books and Coffee: Tues. 9 a.m.
St. Catherine’s Catholic
CTH D, Sarona Father Bala Showry
715-468-7850 Sunday Mass: 8:30 a.m.
St. Francis de Sales
409 N. Summit St., Spooner Father Bala Showry
715-635-3105 Saturday Mass: 6 p.m. Sunday Mass: 10 a.m.
Episcopal St. Alban’s
Corner of Elm and Summit St., Spooner, 715-635-8475 Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
Full GospelShell Lake Full Gospel
293 S. Hwy. 63, Shell Lake Pastor Reg Myers
715-468-2895 Celebration worship
9 & 10:30 a.m.; Children’s Ministries during 10:30 a.m. service; UTurn Student Ministries 6 p.m.; Tuesdays: Compassion
Connection (Men only) 7 p.m.; 7 p.m.; Thursdays:
Compassion Connection (Coed meetings) 7 p.m.;
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LutheranBarronett Lutheran 776 Prospect Ave., Barronett
Pastor Todd Ahneman 715-671-3197 (cell)
Sunday Worship: 9 a.m. The Spirit Connection Youth
Group will meet the first Wednesday of the month at
6 p.m.
Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church
(WELS) Hwy. 70 at Hwy. 53, Spooner
Pastor David Warskow 715-635-7672,
Home: 661-400-3828 Sunday Worship: 9:30 a.m.
Sunday School and Bible class: 10:45 a.m.
Faith Lutheran(Missouri Synod)
South of Spooner off Hwy. 63 W7148 Luther Rd.
Pastor Brent Berkesch 715-635-8167
Sunday worship 8 a.m.Sunday School/Bible class
9:15 a.m.Praise Worship 10:30 a.m.
Lake Lutheran Church
W3114 Church Rd., Sarona715-354-3804 llchurch.com
Pastor Mary Strom Sunday worship and
Sunday School 9 a.m.
Salem Lutheran, ELCA
803 Second St., Shell Lake 715-468-7718
Pastor Sue Odegardslsalemlutheran.org
Worship 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m..
Timberland Ringebu
Free Lutheran20805 CTH H, Barronett
715-468-4403 Pastor Jerome Nikunen, Interim
Sunday School 8:15 a.m. Family Worship 9:30 a.m. Fellowship follows worship
Holy Communion 2nd Sunday of the month
Trinity Lutheran1790 Scribner St., Spooner
715-635-3603 Sunday Worship: 8 & 10:30
a.m. Sunday School: 9:15 a.m Office hours:
Monday - Thursday, 8:30 a.m. - 4::30 p.m.; Friday, 9 - 11 a.m.;
trinityspooner.org
MethodistUnited Methodist135 Reinhart Dr., Shell Lake,
715-468-2405 Pastor Steve Miller
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. Sunday School during worship time; webcast livestream.com/
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Sarona Methodist Pastor Steve Miller
Sunday Worship 9 a.m.
United Methodist312 Elm St., Spooner
715-635-3227 Pastor Ferdinand B. Serra
Sunday Worship: 10:45 a.m.
Lakeview United Methodist
Williams Road, Hertel 715-635-3227
Pastor Ferdinand B. Serra Sunday Worship: 9 a.m.
WesleyanSpooner Wesleyan
Hwy. 70, just west of DNR in Spooner
spoonerwesleyan.org715-635-2768
Senior Pastor Ron Gormong; Mike Knox, Associate Pastor; LeRoy Drake, Pastoral Care;
Kelly Lindner, Worship Arts Director
Sunday Worship 9 a.m.;Discipleship: 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School 9 a.m.;
Wednesdays 6:15 - 7:45 p.m. Kids Alive, Reverb Youth, Adult Small Groups. Nursery provided
Sundays and Wednesdays.
NazareneChurch of the
NazareneHwy. 253 S, Spooner
Pastor Clifford LarrabeeAssociate Pastor David Cash
715-635-3496 Sunday Worship: 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.; Wednesday adult, youth and children ministries:
6:30 p.m.
OtherCornerstone
ChristianPastor Andrew Melton
106 Balsam St., Spooner 715-635-9222
cornerstonechurch spooner.com
Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. Wednesday: Bible study and
prayer, 6:30 p.m.
First United Pentecostal
337 Greenwood Ave., SpoonerPastor Dustin Owens
715-635-8386Sunday school: 10 a.m.;
Sunday worship: 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesday Bible study:
7 p.m.
Namekagon Congregational
Church(United Church of Christ)Pastor Sharon Osborn
W4446 Friday St.,Earl, WI 54875715-635-2903
Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m.
Trego Community Church
Pastor Bill Lee W5635 Park St. Trego, WI
54888, 715-635-8402 Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. prayer
meeting; Youth group, 6:30 p.m.; Kids program, AWANA,
ages 4 - grade 6, 6:30 p.m.
The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day SaintsBishop Patrick F. Roper
715-719-0124 644 S. 6th Street, Barron
715-537-3679 Sunday: Sacrament 10 a.m.,
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Society 12:10 p.m.
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OBITUARIES
Myron E. Moore went home to be with his Lord and Savior on March 25, 2019, at the age of 92.
Myron was born Jan. 23, 1927, in a country home west of Spooner, Wisconsin, to Clifford and Irma Moore. Myron grad-uated from Spooner High School in 1945, left home to serve in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater and was honorably dis-charged near the end of World War II. After returning home, he married his high school sweetheart, Lila (Voigtlander) Moore, on May 31, 1947, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Spooner, where he was a lifelong active member starting with his baptism in 1927.
Myron grew up on the family dairy farm where they farmed with horses. His grip could attest to the fact that he milked the cows by hand. He continued to farm after he returned home from the Navy until 1959, when he became em-ployed full time at the Spooner Coop-erative Creamery where he worked as a licensed butter maker and cheesemaker. After the creamery closed, he worked for Place Construction and managed the Thilmany Wood Yard in Trego, Wiscon-sin, until he retired. Myron also supple-mented his income by cutting pulp by hand each year.
Myron loved sports, whether partic-ipating or watching. In high school, he played football and boxed. He coached and played church softball and city soft-ball and baseball. He was an avid bowler on men’s and mixed doubles bowling leagues. Myron liked to golf for fun competitively. Myron loved to play card games – Rook, Hearts, Spades, Pinochle and others and always played to win.
Myron had a passion for hunting, fishing and trapping. He hunted every-thing he could with bow, rifle or shot-gun – grouse, pheasant, turkey, duck and goose. He enjoyed fishing from shore, in a boat or on the ice. Myron was an ac-complished trapper catching fox, coyote, muskrat, mink, raccoon, skunk, beaver,
otter and fisher. He shot his last two bucks with the bow and the rifle respec-tively during the 2014 hunting seasons at the age of 87.
Myron had an exceptional memory before Alzheimer’s began to take its toll. He often recited Abraham Lincoln’s Get-tysburg Address and his favorite poem, “Trees,” by Joyce Kilmer. The past few weeks he would quote the Bible verse John 3:16 and repeatedly sing, “Jesus Loves Me.” Myron also enjoyed tradi-tional country music.
Myron is survived by his beloved wife, Lila Moore, of 71-plus years of marriage; his loving children, Shirley Thatcher of Shell Lake, Wisconsin, Barbara (John) Pe-ters of Neosho, Wisconsin, Karen (Rich-ard) Melton of Shell Lake and Wayne (Cindy) Moore of Spooner; 16 grandchil-dren, 48 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild, and his sister, Joyce (Larry) Bascombe. Myron was preceded in death by his parents, Clifford and Irma (nee Johnson) Moore; three sisters, Lorraine (Joe) Rohrman, Hertha (Herb) Graham and Virginia (Alan) Engle; one brother, Carl (Geraldine) Moore; and an infant brother, Clinton Moore. Visitation was held on Saturday, March 30, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Spooner, followed by a Celebration of Life ser-vice at 11 a.m. Burial was at the Spooner Cemetery immediately following, with a luncheon at the church.
Casket bearers were Myron’s grand-sons, Jason Moore, Jared Moore, Joshua Moore, James DeLadi, Nathaniel Melton, David Bradway, Andrew Melton and Caleb Melton.
Spooner Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements. Online con-dolences may be made at bratley-nelson-chapels.com.
Charles Lutz, 96, of Shell Lake, died Sunday, March 31, 2019, at Indianhead Medical Center in Shell Lake, Wisconsin.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, April 5, at Shell Lake United Methodist Church with the Rev.
Steve Miller officiating. Visitation will be from 9-11 a.m., prior to the service at the church. Burial will be in Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery. Skinner Funeral Home of Shell Lake is serving the family.
Liam Joseph Lawrence, the happy-go-lucky 3-year-old son of Jon and Laurel (Wilkinson) Lawrence of Shell Lake, entered heaven on March 19, 2019.
He was born Feb. 24, 2016, in Rice Lake, Wisconsin.
Saying goodbye for now are his lov-ing parents; his sis-ters and brothers, Will, Ashley, Gracie, Jonathan “Buddy,” Riley and Aspyn; his grandparents, Karen Loy and Linda Liczkowski, both of Shell Lake, and Don
and Julie Lawrence of Spooner; uncles, Gary (Doree) Thompson of Los Ange-les, California, Dave Colver of Atlanta, Georgia, and Rob Loy of Shell Lake; his aunt, Heather Zempel of Shell Lake; nephew, Rowen Graham of Trego; cous-ins, Staci Zempel and Aylissa Zempel of Shell Lake and Celedonia Thompson of Los Angeles, California; and many other special family and friends. Waiting for Liam in heaven are his sister, Kaylee; and grandpa, Ray Liczkowski.
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Shell Lake Public Library April programsNow that they have reopened
after redecorating, monthly pro-grams at the library are also back on track. Here’s what they have coming up.
Shell Lake Public Library book club Our book club will meet Tuesday,
April 9, 6 p.m. at Lake View Bar and Grill. The group will discuss the book “Peace Like a River,” by Leif Enger. Copies of this book are available at the library.
Movie Night (tween and family edition)On Wednesday, April 10, 6-8 p.m.,
enjoy a movie on a big screen. This month’s movie is based on a young adult sci-fi novel. Call or check shelllakelibrary.org for title. (The movie license prohibits the printing of the title in public news outlets.) This movie is rated PG. Popcorn provided! Also, help out the Wash-burn County Area Humane Society by bringing a donation of dog or cat treats, cat bowl, cat litter, dish soap or other supplies. See full wish list at wcahs.com. Donations are not re-quired to watch the movie.
Ice Age Trail talk On Monday, April 15, at 6 p.m.,
join Dale Cardwell, Superior Lobe volunteer, for an informative talk and slides about the Ice Age Trail and stories about his experiences on the trail. Open to all ages. Kids
under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. The Ice Age National Scenic Trail is a 1,000-mile footpath entirely within Wisconsin. Open for hiking, backpacking and snow-shoeing, this trail has something for everyone. Considering a hiking trip this summer? Come for more infor-mation about this trail.
Galaxy Easter eggs and Peep catapults On Thursday, April 18, drop in
from 3:30-4:30 p.m. to decorate an out-of-this-world Easter egg that you can enjoy year after year. Also use a catapult and see how many Peeps you can fling into Easter bas-kets! Appropriate for kids ages 6 and up. Kids under 10 must be ac-companied by an adult.
Teen book club On Wednesday, April 24, 6-7
p.m., come for our teen book club, hosted by teens. This month they will be discussing the book “Dread Nation,” by Justina Ireland. Copies of this book will be available at the library. “Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, derailing the War Be-tween the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat
schools to learn to put down the dead.
“But there are also opportunities and Jane is studying to become an attendant, trained in both weap-onry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It’s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expec-tations. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go miss-ing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.” - Ama-zon.com
Superhero training: On Saturday, April 27, 11 a.m. –
noon, kids ages 10 and under are invited to train to be a superhero. They can come dressed as their fa-vorite character or make their own superhero disguise when they ar-rive. Trainees will be performing feats of strength, leaping over tall buildings and learning the Hulk Smash. Kids can also make up their own superhero story or comic. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult.
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Wisconsin’s Tornado and Severe WeatherAwareness Week is April 8-13
Coordinated Community Response Teamstarts by believing survivors of sexual assault
Statewide tornado drills set for Thursday, April 11
MADISON – Gov. Tony Evers has de-clared April 8-12 as Wisconsin’s Tornado and Severe Weather Awareness Week. Wisconsin Emergency Management, the National Weather Service and the Wis-consin Broadcasters Association have once again teamed up to sponsor the statewide tornado drills scheduled for Thursday, April 11.
Schools, businesses, families and in-dividuals have two opportunities to test their emergency plans during statewide tornado drills April 11. The drills are part of the annual spring severe weather campaign to encourage everyone in Wis-consin to be ready for possible tornadoes and severe weather.
According to the NWS, Wisconsin averages 23 tornadoes annually. How-ever, in 2018 the National Weather Ser-vice confirmed 33 tornadoes in the state. This included 19 tornadoes on Aug. 28,
the second-largest August tornado out-break in Wisconsin’s weather history. One of those tornadoes, near Browns-ville in Dodge County, was rated EF2 with winds near 125 mph, the strongest of the year.
The drill on April 11 will begin with a mock tornado watch at 1 p.m., followed by a statewide mock tornado warning at 1:45 p.m. Many radio and TV stations across the state will issue the test tor-nado warnings. In addition, mock alerts will be issued on NOAA Weather Radios and many communities will sound their tornado sirens to test their emergency severe weather plans. Later, a mock tor-nado warning will be issued at 6:45 p.m. to give families and second-shift work-ers a chance to practice their emergency
plans. The tornado
drill will take place even if the sky is cloudy, dark or rainy. If actual severe storms are expected in the state on Thursday, April 11, the tor-nado drills will be postponed until Friday, April 12, with the same times. If severe storms continue Friday, the drills will be canceled.
WASHBURN COUNTY - Sexual assault is a serious and widespread problem. Nearly 1 in 5 women in the United States have experienced rape or attempted rape sometime in their lives, and 1 in 67 American men have experi-enced rape or attempted rape. Most sex-ual assaults, an estimated 63 percent, are never reported to the police.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and while we know that one month isn’t enough to solve the wide-spread issue of sexual violence, it is a time to raise public awareness about sexual violence and educate communi-ties on trauma-informed ways to react to sexual assault as well as prevention measures that can be taken.
This April, the Coordinated Com-munity Response Team in Washburn County is raising awareness by partic-ipating in the Start by Believing Cam-paign. The Washburn County CCR Team consists of key players in the commu-nity, such as law enforcement, district at-torney’s office personnel, local hospitals, probation and parole and other commu-nity organizations to develop strategies and procedures aimed at strengthening our community’s and systems response to domestic and sexual violence.
The Start by Believing Campaign fo-cuses on changing how society responds to disclosures of sexual assault. Most victims of sexual assault never report the crime to law enforcement, often be-cause of the responses they receive from friends and family members. The Start by Believing campaign is designed to change this response.
Knowing how to respond is critical, because a negative response can worsen
the trauma and foster an environment where perpetrators face no consequences for their crimes. Start by Believing stops this cycle of silence by improving our personal and professional reactions. The campaign was created by End Violence Against Women International, a non-profit organization dedicated to improv-ing criminal justice responses to sexual assault.
The campaign kicks off on Wednesday, April 3, which is Start by Believing Day. On this day, we gather to end the silence and change the way we respond to sex-
ual assault. We start by believing. Another way the Washburn County
CCR is promoting Sexual Assault Awareness Month and raising aware-ness is by launching Project Backpack. Project Backpack is an initiative pro-viding survivors of sexual assault with backpacks filled with resources during a sexual assault forensic exam.
A forensic exam, sometimes called a SANE exam, can be conducted up to 120 hours after an assault. The exam is performed by a registered nurse or nurse practitioner who has been spe-
cially trained to collect any evidence that can be used during prosecution. Many times, a person’s clothing is collected as evidence and this initiative would provide survivors with something to go home with. Please help us by donating any of the items below during Sexual Assault Awareness Month:
T-shirts (sizes M-XL, new with tags) Sports bras (various sizes, new with
tags) Sweatpants (sizes M-XL, new with
tags)Sweatshirts (sizes M-XL, new with
tags)Cleansing towelettesHair tiesHygiene kitsWater bottles Backpacks Packable blanketsFidget toys Drop-off locations include Spooner
Police Department, Lakeland Family Re-source Center, Washburn County Health and Human Services, Washburn County Sheriff’s Office, Northwood School Dis-trict, Birchwood School District and Em-brace.
Together, we can create a community that helps survivors heal and thrive. For more information about the Start by Be-lieving Campaign, or to take the pledge, please visit startbybelieving.org. To learn more about Embrace and Sexual Assault Awareness Month, please visit embracewi.org, or contact them 24/7 at 800-924-0556, or text 715-532-6976. You are not alone.
Debris fills the site of a mobile home park near Chetek in Barron County, which was hit by an EF3 tornado that traveled along an 83-mile-long path through four counties on May 16, 2017. One person was killed. - Special photo
The Washburn County Coordinated Community Response Team is pictured (L to R): Jason Bar-tholomew, Washburn County Sheriff’s Department; Erik Gulbrandsen, Minong Police Department; Clint Miller, Spooner Health; Cassidy Watson, Washburn County Public Health; Sue Selzler, Wash-burn County Department of Health and Human Services; Jerry Christman, Spooner Police De-partment; Kortney Strunk, Lakeland Family Resource Center; Kim Gunderson, Washburn County Probation and Parole; Brittny Olson, Embrace; and Jess Christianson, Embrace. – Photo submitted
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Be a Skywarn weather spotter
Online chat groups for survivors
Regional gatherings offered to promoteand celebrate St. Croix watershed
SPOONER — The National Weather Service will present a Skywarn weather spotter training class Wednesday, April 10. The class will start at 6 p.m. in the Spooner Fire Station administration building.
The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration provides training to vol-unteers in the detection and reporting of life-threatening thunderstorms, which are those that contain large hail, dam-
aging winds and tornadoes. There are Skywarn spotters across northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin reporting to the Duluth Weather Service.
All are welcome and encouraged to attend the class, no registration is nec-essary. For more information, call Wash-burn County Emergency Management at 715-468-4730.
WASHBURN COUNTY — Starting the second week of April, Embrace, the advocate organization for domestic and sexual assault survivors, will offer two online chat support groups through the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Net-work.
This past fall, Embrace was contacted by the largest anti-sexual violence orga-nization in the country, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, which was awarded a new grant through the Office of Victims of Crime. RAINN asked if Embrace would be interested in partic-ipating in the grant project that allows online group chat technology to be used across Embrace’s rural service area.
Embrace accepted the offer to launch the Safe HelpRoom tool in April of 2019. Using the provided support group tech-
nology, Embrace staff will be able to fa-cilitate completely anonymous online support groups.
The groups are open to any survivor and are anonymous, secure and confi-dential. Embrace often hears that survi-vors would like to go to a support group, but they don’t want people to see them and tell others in the community. This opportunity eliminates that barrier. The groups are facilitated and moderated by trained advocates and are safe for every-one.
There are two groups offered on dif-ferent days and times, a seeking safety group and a supportive community.group. The seeking safety group is an evidence-based curriculum focusing on strengths and coping skills for people with a history of trauma and substance
abuse, held Tuesdays at 2 p.m., April 9 through June 10. The supportive com-munity group is where survivors can safely discuss topics and experiences related to sexual and domestic violence, held Thursdays at 10 a.m., April 11 through June 20.
Survivors can participate in one or both groups. To join a group go to bit.ly/embracechat or call 800-924-0556 for more information.
NORTHWEST WISCONSIN - Join other community leaders and organi-zations to share your current plans and get an update on the North Woods and Waters of the St. Croix Heritage Area. “Imagine the Possibilities,” a regional gathering to promote and celebrate the St. Croix watershed, will be held in four communities this spring, Hudson, St. Croix Falls, Gordon and Sandstone, Minnesota.
A few years ago, 1,600 people in the St. Croix watershed came together in a series of 20 community workshops to imagine the possibilities for a Na-tional Heritage Area in the St. Croix watershed. To further these efforts, a nonprofit, North Woods and Waters of the St. Croix Heritage Area, was formed to carry out these ideas (regardless of possible designation). Plan to attend one of these sessions where you can:
• Share what you are doing to promote our natural, artistic, cultural, historical
and recreational resources. Please bring brochures, posters or other information to share!
• Connect with others in your region and find out what they have planned for
this year and how you can support each other.
• Give input on the direction North Woods and Waters should take to best serve the region.
• Receive an update on North Woods and Waters and find out how you and your organization can benefit from NWW’s programs and services.
Dates and times:Saturday, April 13, 9:30-11:30 a.m., The
Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson.Saturday, April 27, 9:30-11:30 a.m.,
Audubon Center of the Northwoods, Sandstone, Minnesota.
Saturday, May 4, 10 a.m. to noon, St. Croix National Scenic Riverway Head-quarters, St. Croix Falls.
Saturday, May 11, noon to 4 p.m., Gor-don Town Hall, Gordon.
These events are free and open to the public but registration is requested. To register visit bit.ly/2TAqKXL or the NWW Facebook page: facebook.com/stcroixheritage.
Shell Lake teacher receivesNational Board Certification
SHELL LAKE — A teacher serving in the Shell Lake School District recently re-ceived the highest mark of achievement for teaching. Virginia Elsen, who teaches Spanish for seventh through 12th grade in the Shell Lake School District, is the second teacher for the district to receive National Board Certification. Elsen has served in the district, most recently, since 2017.
The National Board Certification is the teaching profession’s highest mark of achievement through a rigorous, per-formance-based, peer-review process, demonstrating their proven impact on student learning and achievement.
“National Board Certification is about helping teachers become great, it is about elevating the teaching profession and it is about helping children achieve at higher rates,” said Peggy Brookins, pres-ident and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. “The certification process impacts teaching
and learning well beyond an individual teacher’s classroom.”
A decade of research shows that stu-dents of board-certified teachers learn more than their peers without board-cer-tified teachers. Studies have also found that the positive impact of having a board-certified teacher is even greater for minority and low-income students.
Board certification allows teachers to hone their practice, showcase their talent in the classroom and demonstrate their dedication to their students and their profession. Schools with National Board Certified teachers are characterized by better teacher morale and retention and increased community involvement.
Districts and schools that want to drive student learning recognize the power of board certification and are taking steps to empower and raise the status of ac-complished teachers.
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Spring has been sure slow coming. It’s April 1 and we still have some snow to go. Some birds have been showing up – starlings, purple finches, sandhill cranes and some robins. I had two geese strutting along on the ice on the pond this morning, but they didn’t find any open water.
Some ice fishermen are still out ice fishing. Karen and Chuck Hoffman brought Elfreda West a fresh catch of fish again.
Folks have been maple syruping. Son-in-law John Marschall has been going down to his mom’s in Amery, as they have taps out. I see white tanks on pickups going by too. I read that Wisconsin is the fourth-largest producing state for maple syrup in the United States.
There are some road bans in effect on some of the town roads. Gas prices are going up, up!
There are so many changes lately. Now the Shopko stores are closing, including Spooner and Rice Lake. I
guess shopping online is the thing.Jan and Jeff Johnston visited at her parents’ home on
Sunday afternoon. They helped set up Gloria’s new telephone. So much modern technology, we of the older generation just don’t get it.
Gene and Carlotta Romsos, Dwight and Bonnie Smith and Norm and Donna Ness ate out together at Bona Casa Wednesday night. Great food.
Friday night the Nesses, Pat and Audrey Hansen and also Bryon and Sandi Wickman were out for fish fry at The Shop by A&H and afterward Norm and Donna played cards at Pat and Audrey’s home and the girls won!
Donna Ness visited at Joanna Melton’s home one day and her mom, Verna Dahlstrom, was there also, so they had a great chat. Then on Sunday, Donna and Norm Ness went to their son’s, Dewey and Patti Butterfield’s home, in Trego, for cake for Dewey’s 59th birthday. Be-lated wishes, kid!
Bill and Ashley Skinner’s little girls, Jadalynn and Gracelynn, took part in the NFSC’s ice skating show
on both Saturday and Sunday for their annual Festival on Ice at the Spooner Civic Center. I hear they did well. They are both so cute.
It was a huge funeral for Lenore Swan on Saturday at the Methodist church in Shell Lake with Pastor John Sahlstrom. She was a real sweet lady, one of a kind, loved by all who knew her. Sympathy is extended to the family.
Wednesday Bonnie Helmer and I joined my brother, Don Shoquist, and enjoyed a great supper at St. Alban’s Church in Spooner. They always put out such nice food and all are so friendly there.
Marion Reiter stopped en route home from Rice Lake and visited me on Wednesday afternoon. Elaine Furchtenicht also stopped down. Thursday, my dear friend Sherri Teegarden Lampson visited me, that was so nice.
Saturday, Joyce Wade from Spooner and I went to-gether to Lenore Swan’s funeral. So nice, great lunch and fellowship followed.
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Mary Nilssen
Exciting news! I saw my first robin on Wednes-day. And on Thursday I saw a flock of white swans on a pond just outside Stone Lake. The snowbirds are slowly beginning to arrive. It will be so wonderful to have the loons, hummingbirds and all the songbirds arriving very soon. This is such a beautiful and exciting part of the year. It seems like everything is starting over and a wonderful start to our approach to summer!
A big welcome also to our human “snowbirds,” grad-ually arriving from their winter getaways. It’s always nice to see you back in our beautiful town.
On April 1 the annual membership drive for the Stone Lake Area Historical Society begins. Member-ships are needed to help maintain the beautiful depot museum complex. A lifetime membership for a family is $100, an annual couple membership is $10 and an annual single membership is $5. Please make checks payable to the Stone Lake Area Historical Society and send to P.O. Box 35, Stone Lake, WI 54876. Please con-sider becoming a new member or renewing your mem-bership today!
The second-annual Stone Lake Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by the Stone Lake Cranberry Festival, will be held on Saturday, April 13, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend this fun-filled event to be held at
the Stone Lake Community Wetland Park. There will be acres of fun, snacks, and egg-collecting bags will be provided. Come and say hi to the Easter Bunny and see if you can find the “golden” egg!
Parents are encouraged to accompany the children on the trails and please dress accordingly as there may be snow and mud on the trails. It is very much appre-ciated that everyone is able to use the wetland park, so please respect it and the little trees that grow there.
There will also be a coloring contest. The coloring pages can be picked up at the Shell Lake State Bank in Stone Lake.
The history and management of the Chippewa Flow-age will be the subject of a presentation by Cheryl Tre-land at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 17, at the Stone Lake Town Hall. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided. Everyone is welcome! This event is spon-sored by the Stone Lake Area Historical Society.
The Stone Lake Senior Center free computer help at the Stone Lake Wesleyan Church has been discontin-ued for the summer. Computer tutoring will resume after Labor Day.
Enjoy the spring and summer!Mary Nilssen can be reached at 715-865-4008 or up-
Sympathy is extended to the family of Lenore Swan, who passed away Sunday, March 24. She was the last of the 10 Lauritsen siblings who were born and raised in the Timberland area. Lenore was 89.
Curt Ziemer is home again after spending several days in the hospital. He is wished good days ahead.
Deb, Lindsay and Isabel Ziemer went to the Shell Lake school Thursday evening for a fundraiser for Lind-say’s class. They are raising money to go to Wolf Ridge for a week next year. A variety of soups, sandwiches and desserts were available to eat. After the meal, they all played Bingo.
Hank and Karen Mangelsen visited April and Dave Close Thursday evening. The next night they went to the Siren School and attended the performance of the Wisconsin Singers, a musical ensemble from UW-Madi-son. The production of singing, dancing and instrumen-tal numbers was very energetic. Dr. Norman Jensen, a 1958 graduate of Siren High School, sponsored the group. Proceeds from the ticket sales will go to the Siren music department to help fund their June trip to Wash-ington, D.C.
Saturday visitors of Donna and Gerry Hines were Mark Hines and Karen Mangelsen. Lida Nordquist visited them Thursday.
Ernie Ziemer’s daughter, Isabel, spent the week with her grandparents, Curt and Deb Ziemer. Isabel’s school in Eau Claire was on spring break.
Tom Gerlach led the worship service Sunday morn-ing at Lakeview UM Church. Later, a pie sale was held during fellowship time, with the proceeds going to the flood bucket fund of UMCOR.
Bob and Pam Bentz visited Hank and Karen Man-gelsen Sunday afternoon.
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STATE OF WISCONSINCIRCUIT COURT
WASHBURN COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
MARK ALAN WILKIE
Notice to Creditors(Informal Administration)
Case No.19PR09
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:1. An application for informal
administration was filed.2. The decedent, with date of
birth December 13, 1973, and date of death January 26, 2019, was domiciled in Washburn County, State of Wisconsin,with a mailing address of W2464 Highway 63, Springbrook, WI.
3. All interested persons waived notice.
4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is June 3, 2019.
5. A claim may be filed at the Washburn County Courthouse, Shell Lake, Wisconsin.
BY THE COURT:Shannon AndersonProbate RegistrarMarch 5, 2019
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STATE OF WISCONSINCIRCUIT COURT
WASHBURN COUNTY
JOHNSON BANK,Plaintiff,
v.THE ESTATE OF EDWARD L. BRAMMER,
andUNKNOWN SPOUSE OF EDWARD L. BRAMMER,
Defendants.
Case No.: 19-CV-12
Case Code: 30404Case Classification:
Foreclosure of Mortgage
NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE
By virtue of an Order for De-fault Judgment and Judgment made in the above-entitled ac-tion on March 20, 2019 in Wash-burn County, in the sum of $28,798.38, I will sell at public auction in the North Entrance of the Washburn County Court-house located at 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, Wisconsin 54871, on the 1st day of May, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., all of the following described premises, to wit:
Part of Government Lot Two (2), Section Thirty-three (33), Township Forty-one (41) North, Range Eleven (11) West, in the Town of Gull Lake, Washburn County, Wisconsin, described as Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 1715 as recorded in Volume 7, page 136, Docu-ment No. 216205.Subject to a 33’ wide easement for roadway purposes of in-gress and egress to Lots 2 and 3 as laid out and shown on Certified Survey Map No. 1715 referenced herein.
TAX KEY NUMBER: 65 024 2 41 11 33 5 05 002 001000.The property will be sold sub-ject to all legal encumbrances.
TERMS OF SALE: Ten (10%) percent of the successful bid must be paid to the Sheriff at the sale in cash, cashier’s check or certified funds (per-sonal checks cannot and will not be accepted). The balance of the successful bid must be paid to the Clerk of Courts in cash, cashier’s check or certi-fied funds within ten (10) days of the Court’s confirmation of the sale or the ten (10%) per-cent down payment is forfeited to the Plaintiff
Dated this 21st day of March, 2019.
TERRY DRYDEN,Sheriff of Washburn County, Wisconsin
Drafted by:Hippenmeyer, Reilly, Blum, Schmitzer, Fabian & English,
S.C.Lori J. Fabian,Plaintiff’s Attorney720 Clinton StreetP.O. Box 766Waukesha, WI 53187-0766Telephone: 262-549-8181Fax: [email protected]
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Barronett Judy Pieper
Hi everyone – Sorry that I missed get-ting the news in last week, but I was a little occupied during the time I usually write it. I’ll tell you about that later, but, first –
Peg Thompson mentioned that the Barronett Dragons 4-H Club members will be having a dress rehearsal at the community center this Friday evening at 7 p.m. The name of the play is “Bub-ble Demise.” If you have never attended one of the Barronett Dragon plays, this would be a great time to start. The kids are great actors, and the plays are very funny. They will be presenting the play again on Saturday at a state competition. I’ll let you know how they place in that next week. So, come on over Friday eve-ning, relax and enjoy a nice family out-ing at the Barronett Community Center.
Delores Ytreus called from Bellflower, California, this past week and we found that we have one more thing in com-mon. She asked me if I had ever met Clara Lehmann, and I told her that I hadn’t but that she was my son-in-law Ryan’s grandmother. Well, come to find out, Delores was a good friend of Marga-ret and June Lehmann, who were Clara’s daughters, and they both played an im-portant part in her wedding in Long Beach, California, quite a few years ago. Margaret was Delores’ maid of honor, and June’s husband, Ben Wollbrink, walked Delores down the aisle because her parents were in Wisconsin and un-able to attend the wedding. Margaret stayed in California for a while, then moved to Colorado, so Delores lost track of her, but June stayed in California and she and Delores remained close friends. It really is a small world.
Bill Gill traveled to Kingston a couple of weeks ago to visit his friend, Lloyd Miller, and help with Lloyd’s auction.
Kingston is an Amish community is east of Tomah. Bill told us that he was surprised at how large the community is. There are 16 schools with about 450 total students and 30 church groups. He said that there were a lot of dairy farms and a lot of woodworking shops. Bill enjoyed his visit and the food prepared by Lloyd’s daughter and the less hectic lifestyle very much.
Terry Goodrich, aka the friendly neighborhood moocher, had called me last week to let me know that one of his favorite bands, Second Time Around, was going to be playing at the benefit for Gene Catlin this past Saturday. He said that he and Maria would be there and that they would be doing a lot of dancing.
Duane and I traveled to the Twin Cit-ies on Sunday, March 24, to spend the day with his son, Ryan, on his birthday. We had a wonderful meal at the Orig-inal Pancake House, enjoyed chatting with Ryan, and then had a leisurely ride home. That evening we went to Lynn Thon’s house for supper and some de-licious cupcakes that Kaitlynn and Jes-sica Holmen helped her decorate. When we finally got back home we decided, because it had been a busy day, to turn in early, about 9:30 p.m. OK, now comes the part where I tell you why I was too busy to write the Barronett news last week. About 10:35 p.m., Duane woke me up and told me that he had to go to the hospital. He had terrible pains in his chest. I should have called an ambulance but didn’t even think of it. We rushed out to the car and I drove (way too fast) up to Shell Lake Hospital.
The medical staff there did a bunch of tests, and then the doctor told us that he was going to have to send Duane to Eau Claire to see a heart specialist. I thought
he meant that I should take him down there, but that was not the case. He got a ride in the ambulance and I had to hurry down there in my car. My daughter, Lynn, rode down with me.
Before long, my other kids, Suzy Leh-mann and Jerry and Jim Marsh, were there too. They stayed with us until the doctors took Duane into surgery, and then kept me company while he was with the surgeon. It was good that they were there because, when the doctor came out to talk to us, they asked him questions that I wouldn’t have thought of. It was a scary couple of days.
Anyway, the good news is that he is home and seems to be doing just fine. You know, of course, that he had been working way too hard on that old Shaw house, but according to the doctor that probably didn’t have anything to do with his “cardiac event.” That’s what
they kept calling it – I don’t even know what that means.
A person honestly doesn’t know how many people care until something like this happens. We have had so many phone calls from people checking to see how Duane is doing. And the Adams boys, Arthur, Jesse and Tristin, came over on Friday to do some work in the kitchen of the Shaw house so we could get it ready to hang drywall. And Garett Thon came over on Saturday to level the floor in the basement. I told Duane that he had better take advantage of this sit-uation because, pretty soon, everyone is going to take him for granted again. Not me, I plan to baby him for a quite a while.
I’m going to run. Have a wonderful week, and I hope to see you Friday night at the Barronett Dragons play.
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our Ashland campus. The Instructor/Program Director for the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program (OTA) is responsible for the management and administration of the OTA program. This posi-tion reports to the Dean, Allied Health, EMS and Nursing.For a complete job description, list of qualifications and to apply visit
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WITC is an Equal Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer and Educator
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EMPLOYMENTOPPORTUNITY
COUNTY FOREST PARKS GROUNDSKEEPER
Washburn County is seeking applicants for the position of Coun-ty Forest Parks Groundskeeper. Responsibilities include park grounds maintenance, sanitation, basic building and equipment maintenance. Preferred qualifications include a general back-ground in grounds, building and equipment maintenance plus a high school degree or equivalent combination of training and ex-perience. Must be at least 18 years of age, with driver’s license in good standing. Applicant must be available to begin work sometime between mid-May and mid-June 2019. This is a tem-porary summer seasonal position. Starting wage is $12.05 per hour. For an application and further information, contact Wash-burn County Personnel Office, P.O. Box 337, Shell Lake, WI 54871 (715-468-4624 or [email protected]). Application Dead-line is 4:30 p.m. Fri., April 12, 2019. EOE. 694231 32-34r 22-24b,c
JOBPOSTINGS
The following positions are available in the Shell Lake School District starting with the 2019 - 2020 school year:• 7 - 9 Middle School Math Teacher• High School Math & Physics TeacherInterested individuals should upload the following materials to WECAN: Cover letter, resume, transcripts, three letters of reference and license(s).
Heather Cox, Principal 7-12School District of Shell Lake
271 Highway 63 South • Shell Lake, WI 54871715-468-7814 • [email protected]
The Shell Lake School District is an Equal Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against applicants or employees based on race, age, sex or sexual orientation, creed or religion, color, handicap or disability, marital status, citizenship, or veteran status, national origin or ancestry, arrest or conviction record, use or non-use of lawful products off district premises during nonworking hours, or any other characteristic protected by law. 694402 22-23b 33-34r
SHELL LAKE CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONANNUAL MEETING NOTICE
The Shell Lake Cemetery Association will hold their annual meeting on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at 10 a.m., at the Shell Lake City Hall, 501 First Street, Shell Lake, WI 54871.
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STATE OF WISCONSINCIRCUIT COURT
WASHBURN COUNTY
Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Champion Mortgage
Plaintiff,
v.
Betty Jo Boughton, et al.Defendant(s).
Case No. 2018CV000014
NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE
By virtue of a judgment of fore-closure made in the above-entitled action on August 9, 2018, in the amount of $236,258.47, I will sell at public auction in the Washburn County Courthouse, located at 10 4th Avenue, Shell Lake, WI 54871, on May 8, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., all of the following described premises, to wit:
A part of Government Lot 1 and also a part of the North-west Quarter of the Southwest Quarter in Section 14, Town-ship 41 North, Range 13 West, Chicog Township, Washburn County, Wisconsin, described as follows:
Commencing at the Southwest Corner of Section 14; thenceNorth 01 Degrees 16 Minutes38 Seconds West assumed bearing along the West Line of said Section 14 a distance of 1493.86 feet; thence North 88 Degrees 31 Minutes 21 Sec-onds East along the Centerline of Deerfield Road A Distance Of 280.50 feet; thence South 01 Degrees 15 Minutes 38 Seconds East a distance of 33.38 feet to the Southerly right-of-way line of said Deer-field Road; thence South 01 Degrees 16 Minutes 38 Sec-onds East along the Easterly line of the Chicog Cemetery a distance of 710.29 feet; thenceSouth 89 Degrees 36 Minutes 21 Seconds East a distance of 452.31 feet to the point of be-ginning; thence continuing South 89 Degrees 36 Minutes 21 Seconds East a distance of 148.82 feet; thence North 12 Degrees 23 Minutes 15 Sec-onds West a distance of 218.60 feet; thence North 08 Degrees 23 Minutes 03 Sec-onds East a distance of 187.33 feet; thence North 24 Degrees 27 Minutes 05 Sec-onds West a distance of 206.04 feet; thence North 03 Degrees 17 Minutes 09 Sec- 694498 WNAXLP
onds West a distance of 93.81 feet; thence North 02 Degrees 26 Minutes 20 Seconds East a distance of 175.73 feet to its intersection with the Southerly right-of-way line of said Deer-field Road; thence North 67 Degrees 42 Minutes 32 Sec-onds East along said South-erly right-of-way line a dis-tance of 167.57 feet; thence North 76 Degrees 06 Minutes 18 Seconds East along saidSoutherly right-of-way line a distance of 26.79 feet; thenceSouth 00 Degrees 30 Minutes 31 Seconds West a distance of 926.15 feet; thence South 89 Degrees 36 Minutes 21 Seconds East a distance of 86.71 feet; thence South 00 Degrees 30 Minutes 31 Sec-onds West a distance of 309 feet more or less to the North Shoreline of Matthews Lake; thence Westerly along said shoreline 306 feet to its in-tersection with a line bear-ing South 00 Degrees 30 Minutes 31 Seconds Westfrom the point of beginning; thence North 00 Degrees 30 Minutes 31 Seconds East 294 feet more or less to the point of beginning, containing 5 acres.
STREET ADDRESS: W8237 Deerfield Road, Trego, WI 54888.
TAX KEY NO. 65-016-2-41-13-14-5 05-001-002100.
The property will be sold as is and subject to any and all real estate taxes, superior liens or other legal encumbrances.
TERMS OF SALE: Cash, cash-ier’s check or certified funds, payable to the Clerk of Courts (10% down payment at sale, balance due within ten (10) days of Court approval; down payment to be forfeited if pay-ment not received timely). Buyer must comply with mini-mum bidder qualifications as set forth in Wis. Stat. § 846.155. Buyer to pay appli-cable Wisconsin Real Estate Transfer Tax in addition to the purchase price.
Dennis StuartSheriff of Washburn County,
Wisconsin
Codilis, Moody & Circelli, P.C.Attorneys for Plaintiff50-17-02543
NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.
MEDICAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTORWISCONSIN INDIANHEAD TECHNICAL COLLEGE
ASHLAND OR SUPERIOR CAMPUSWITC is seeking a learning-focused, creative and dynamic individual
to teach Medical Administrative Professional and Health Office Professional Coursework. This position reports to the Associate Dean on campus and is responsible for providing instruction to individuals seeking employment in the healthcare industry as medical administra-tive professionals, health office professionals, medical billing special-ists, medical secretaries and other related fields. Primary responsibili-ties include instruction, learner assessment, curriculum improvement and program promotion/recruitment.For a complete job description, list of qualifications and to apply visit
our website at: https://www.witc.edu/about-witc/employmentDeadline to apply: April 15, 2019
WITC is an Equal Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer and Educator
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TOWN OF BEAVER BROOK, WASHBURN COUNTYNOTICE TO RESIDENTS - ANNUAL MEETING AND
APRIL MONTHLY MEETINGThe Annual Board Meeting will be held Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 6 p.m., at the Beaver Brook Town Hall. The regular April Monthly Board Meeting will follow the Annual Meeting or at 7 p.m.
Nancy Erickson, Clerk, Town of Beaver Brook694649 34r WNAXLP
Join the Team at700-acre resort featuring
fun & natural beauty.• Maintenance • Servers • Bartender • Cook
Send applications to:[email protected]
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETINGTOWN OF BARRONETT
Notice is hereby given that the Annual Town Meeting for the Town of Barronett will be held at the Town Hall, N1608 South Heart Lake Road, on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, at 8 p.m.
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETINGTOWN OF SARONA
Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the Town of Sarona will be held on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. at the Sarona Town Hall. The agenda shall be posted one day prior to the meeting.
Victoria Lombard, Clerk
EMPLOYMENTOPPORTUNITYHIGHWAY
SEASONAL LTEWashburn County is seeking applicants to fill a vacancy in
the Highway Department for a Highway Seasonal LTE.�The pur-pose of this position is to provide additional assistance for summer operations of highway maintenance.�The primary func-tions of this position include, but are not limited to: shoveling gravel and rock picking, cleaning and maintaining equipment, traffic flagging, mowing with light-duty tractors, and pothole patching. REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILI-TIES:�Ability to effectively use hand tools.�Ability to understand and follow written and oral instructions.�Ability to work inde-pendently.�Good physical condition necessary to perform job duties: including ability to lift heavy loads, ability to work in extreme heat/adverse weather conditions, and ability to stand for long periods of time.�Must be punctual, possess a strong work ethic, and be able to work effectively with a wide variety of people. EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:�Must have gradu-ated from high school or passed high school equivalency-based test (GED). Must have valid WI driver’s license andpossess a good driving record. Starting salary range is $11.00 - $12.23/hr.�This is a temporary seasonal position not to ex-ceed 600 hours. For an application contact the Washburn County Personnel Department at P.O. Box 337, Shell Lake,WI 54871, Ph. 715-468-4624, Fax 715-468-4628, email:[email protected], or download an application from our County website at www.co.washburn.wi.us.�Applications mustbe received by 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. EOE 694841 34-35r
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CENTERRent for Wedding
Parties, etc.For info, call
Debbie at 715-456-0127
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Shell Lake competes in solo and ensemble
Carlton Miller is going to the Wisconsin School Music Association Fes-tival at UW-Eau Claire on Saturday, May 4. He earned a starred first for his piano solo at the solo and ensemble com-petition at Turtle Lake High School on Tuesday, March 26.
Layne Olson sings a bass solo in the vocal compe-tition.
Cassie Skattebo will be going to state after earning a starred first for her euphonium solo.
Nolan Miller will be going to the state solo and ensemble festival with his violin solo. The seventh-grader’s perfor-mance was nearly perfect in spite of the poorly tuned piano his accompanist had to play. Miller has been playing with the Red Cedar Orchestra for the past four years.
The saxophone ensemble earned a first with their performance. Shown back (L to R): Emmit Johnson, Jasper McCracken, Melloan Dunlavey, Jared Egbert, Matthew Steines, Wyatt Kemp and Ben Coen. Front: Noah Savas and Jeremy Bouchard.
The clarinet en-semble will be going to state with their starred-first perfor-mance. Shown (L to R): Director Ben Kunselman, Megan Anderson, Breeana Monson, Olivia Jury, Haley Balts, Caitlyn Skattebo and Nick Eiche.
Jared Egbert is a Shell Lake fresh-man performing a tenor solo in his first solo and en-semble festival.
Photos byLarry Samson
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PTA Soup and Bingo at Shell Lake
Jack Lundberg helps his grand-daughter, Finley Hall, pick out a prize. Picking out the prize was the hardest thing about winning.
Ethan Chris-tel was one of the first to win a Bingo game at the Shell Lake PTA soup and Bingo fundraiser held Thursday, March 28. Money raised will go to support the seventh-grade trip to Wolf Ridge this coming fall. The students will spend five days on the North Shore of Lake Superior studying science and his-tory.
Mikayla Stephanites and Claire Petry worked together to win.
Ella and Grace Lauterbach are sitting together quietly as they play Bingo. This is serious stuff for these young girls.
Kiana Schultz won a multicolored teddy bear as a Bingo prize.
Iva Kubista kept the toy zebra that she won close to her and on her thoughts as she played Bingo.
Photos by Larry
Samson
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