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YOUNG MEMBERS

LETTER from the EDITORDiversity is crucial to a reliable grid.

NEWS BRIEFSNew foundation board is ready to serve.

MY CO-OPFind out what’s happening at your local electric cooperative.

CLASSIFIEDSBuy, sell, and trade with readers from across Wisconsin.

EVENTSAdventure awaits this April.

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Cooperative will nearly double state’s capacity.

Cute co-op kids get cozy with their critters.

RECIPES Please your picky eater with these foods for fussy kids.

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12Co-op volunteer Mary McLaury, Touchstone Energy COO, helps build quality of life. Photo by Luis Gomez.

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Burr Oak Winery offers old-world charm.

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Veterans program pairs military professionals with co-op jobs.

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Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

April 2016 Vol. 76 No. 10

The Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News (Formerly Wisconsin R.E.C. News) has been published monthly and distributed since July 1940 to members of Wisconsin’s non-pro� t, consumer-owned rural electric cooperatives. It is available to non-members for $10 per year or $28 for three years.

Published for the Wisconsin Electric Coop-erative Association by Cooperative Network, 1 S. Pinckney St., Suite 810, Madison, WI 53703. Tom Liebe, president & CEO.

USPS number: 688-480.

Postmaster: please send address changes to Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, 1 S. Pinckney St., Suite 810, Madison, WI 53703.

Periodicals postage paid at Baraboo, Wis.

Send correspondence to Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, 1 S. Pinckney St., Suite 810, Madison, WI 53703. Phone (608) 258-4400.

Web site: www.wecnmagazine.com.

Co-op Members: Please send address changes to your local electric co-op. Contact information can be found on page 18.

Steve Freese WECA managerDana Kelroy editorMary Erickson associate editorDavid Hoopman contributing writerAnn Bailey graphic designerTina Walden editorial assistantGeri Miller advertising consultant

For advertising opportunities please email ads@cooperativenetwork.coop. The appear-ance of advertising does not constitute an endorsement of the products or services advertised.

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On page 10, our “Scaling Up Solar” story highlights an initiative by Dairyland Power Cooperative that will nearly double the state’s existing solar capacity.

A diversifi ed mix of energy sources —solar, coal, wind, hyro, nuclear, natural gas, etc.—is needed to maintain system reliability and to keep costs in check. A more diversifi ed mix increases the grid’s reliability, regardless of factors such as the weather or availability of any one generation source.

The graphic below, created by the Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives, illustrates how the grid works and reinforces the need for varied energy sources.

An additional 15 megawatts of solar power from Wisconsin’s electric cooperatives will certainly help diversify our state’s mix.

Dana Kelroy, Editor

How the grid works

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Two past presidents of the Wiscon-sin Electric Cooperative Association (WECA) board of directors died within five days of one another in February. Karl Wenzel, 85, died at Pardeeville February 25. Christian “Chris” Carlson, 93, died at Chetek February 29.

Wenzel served as a director of Adams–Columbia and its predecessor electric cooperatives for 25 years, begin-ning in 1981.

Wenzel was prominently involved in the 1987 merger of Columbus Rural Electric and Adams–Marquette Electric that formed Adams–Columbia, and in the 1992 merger that joined Waushara Elec-tric Cooperative with Adams–Columbia. He was elected a WECA director in 1987, served two years as secretary–treasurer, and in 1990 was elected to his first of two terms as statewide president. Wenzel also

represented Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois as the Region V director of Federated Rural Electric Insurance from 1995 to 2004. He earned the Cooperative Builder Award in 1999.

Carlson was first elected as a director of Barron Electric Cooperative in 1961. He became board president in 1982 and was elected that same year as a WECA director. During a decade’s service, he held all three statewide board officer positions, secretary-treasurer in 1984–85, vice president in 1986–87, and president in 1988–89. He retired from the Barron Electric board in 1998, having served as a director for 37 years.

Born on the family farm in 1922 and residing there for 90 years, Carlson was active in local government, serving as a Barron County supervisor for 22 years and as town chairman for 25.

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Foundation Board SeatedServing on the Federated Youth Foundation (FYF)

Board of Directors are: (seated left to right) Vice Pres-ident Marian Trescher, Rock Energy Cooperative; Pres-

ident Herman Seebandt, Clark Electric Cooperative; (standing left to right) Ethan Giebel, FYF executive

director; Joe McDonald, Vernon Electric Cooperative; Judi Anibas, Eau Claire Energy Cooperative; Secre-

tary-Treasurer David Cooper, FarmFirst Dairy Coopera-tive; and Gina Tomlinson, Cochrane Co-op Telephone. Not pictured is Jeremy Henkels of Landmark Services

Cooperative, who was recently welcomed to the board. The Federated Youth Foundation is a non-profit organization serving cooperatives in Wisconsin. Contri-butions received by the foundation are used to support

scholarship programs and charitable contributions in the communities that member cooperatives serve.

FORMER CO-OP LEADERS PASS AWAY TRANSMISSION LAWSUIT PROCEEDS A La Crosse County judge’s rejection of a dismissal motion from Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission will allow the Town of Holland to press for judicial review of the commission’s order approving the Badger-Coulee transmission project link-ing Holmen and Middleton.

The town disputes assumptions about continued growth of electricity demand that are part of the rationale for building the estimated $580 million line. It would facilitate connection of the eastern termi-nus of CapX2020, a far more extensive transmission build-out spanning Minneso-ta, with population centers in Chicago and farther east.

CapX2020 and other Midwest trans-mission expansions have been proposed as vehicles for delivering Great Plains wind energy in response to climate regulations; however, Badger-Coulee opponents say the new line will discourage installation of local wind and solar facilities.

The commission (PSC) contended the town’s petition should be dismissed be-cause it was filed two days after a 30-day window for challenges closed. But Circuit Judge Todd Bjerke declined to enforce the deadline, noting that the PSC’s June 2015 order wasn’t served on the town until three days after it was signed.

Construction of the Badger-Coulee line began in January in Dane County, and the town has not sought to halt con-struction pending the outcome of its law-suit, citing the expense of posting a bond equivalent to the anticipated project cost.

FIRST VAN SICKLE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED Rhiannon Buehler, a student in the Post-Baccalaureate Paralegal Program at Madison Area Tech-nical College, is the inaugural winner of the Federated Youth Foun-

dation’s Charles Van Sickle Scholarship.Buehler previously served as a consul-

tant at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C., and worked there as the sole legal assis-tant for the Section of Mesoamerica and

the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. She was part of an official mission to Hondu-ras monitoring the human rights situation in that country.

The Van Sickle scholarship fund was created in 2013 to honor the memory of the co-op attorney and lobbyist who died in 2012 after a half-century’s service at Madison’s Wheeler, Van Sickle and Anderson law firm. The $2,000 award is available to Wisconsin residents who are law or pre-law students with an interest in specializing in cooperative law.

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Going about our daily tasks, we may think about great times we’ve had at work

or with our families, but some-times we may also think about the hardest things we’ve ever done at work. For me, one of the hardest things was attending, as a state legislator, the funerals of Lance Corporal Nicholas Anderson, a United States Marine who was killed in Afghanistan, and of Unit-ed States Army Staff Sergeant An-drew Bossert, killed in Iraq. These two young men had their country behind them and should have had most of their lives still ahead of them, and I remember the feeling of inadequacy standing alongside the governor and offering condo-lences to family members of these two fallen American soldiers.

Many other Wisconsin men and women have died defending the United States. It’s sad when the sacrifi ce men and women have made, serving in uniform to protect our way of life, goes unnoticed, and veterans returning to Wisconsin from active duty

face many challenges. The Department of Labor reports that in 2014, 7.2 percent of veterans were unemployed. Among all veterans in Wisconsin, the unemployment rate for 2014 was 4.3 percent. Rural America supplies 45 percent of military recruits, an interesting statistic consid-ering only 17 percent of the U.S. population calls a rural community home.

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So I was pleased to see the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) recognize the chal-lenges faced by returning veterans, launching a co-op coalition looking to veterans to help build a next-generation workforce that meets 21st Century technical and leadership demands. The “Serve our Co-ops, Serve Our Country” program is the coalition’s commitment to seek military professionals for local employment oppor-tunities in rural and suburban communities. This focus

will give returning veterans a chance to come back to their hometowns and fi nd job opportunities at their local electric cooperatives.

The Wisconsin Electric Cooper-ative Association (WECA) will

join NRECA and our member cooperatives showing our appreciation to these returning veterans and hopefully uti-lize the skills and experience they acquired in the United States armed forces. Military values—duty, selfl ess ser-vice, honesty, loyalty, excellence, and courage—directly align with cooperative principles and values.

Over the coming months we’ll be developing an electric cooperative resource guide to connect veterans with job opportunities at rural Wisconsin electric coop-eratives. This guide will provide veterans with resources that can deliver specifi c assistance to them. WECA will be working with each of our 25 member cooperatives to prepare them for this partnership.

Our hope is that in the future you’ll have an opportu-nity to thank a returning soldier applying his or her skills in the co-op offi ce or on the power line going by your home.

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Occasionally, Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News will hear from a reader urging quicker adoption of renew-able generation technologies. Without going to the

extent of a formal survey, it seems safe to say the preference appears increasingly to favor rapid expansion of photovoltaic solar capacity. And most often, the flip side of the reader’s con-cern is a desire to accelerate the ongoing shift away from coal as an electric generation fuel.

Put aside the fact that today’s dependence on coal for almost half the electricity produced in the United States stems from a choice imposed on the nation’s power generation industry by the federal government in the precarious energy environment of the 1970s; the present reality is that a diver-sified energy mix is needed more than ever, for purposes of system reliability as well as for stabilizing costs to producers and consumers alike, at times when price volatility could com-bine with over-reliance on any given fuel source to make basic energy needs more expensive to meet.

In that context, developing additional solar resources is a step toward the greater diversity so widely desired, and in Wisconsin, no one is doing more than electric cooperatives to enhance solar capacity.

Exceeding Expectations Eleven years ago, Wisconsin lawmakers adopted a renewable energy standard known as Act 141. It mandated that by 2015, 10 percent of all Wisconsin’s electricity usage—measured as a share of total retail sales—be supplied with power obtained from renewable energy sources.

Act 141 capped the generation capacity of hydroelectric dams that could be counted toward satisfying the mandate, limiting the role of hydro to small facilities. That effectively steered compliance strategies toward wind and solar, and in 2005 solar technology was more expensive than it is today.

Thus, the first move by Wisconsin power providers was to build wind farms or acquire access to the output of wind farms that would be built by others. With just 53 megawatts of in-stalled wind capacity the year Act 141 was passed, Wisconsin brought a total of 648 megawatts—the state’s current wind ca-pacity—on line by the end of 2012, according to the American Wind Energy Association.

Wisconsin’s 10 percent “renewable portfolio standard” (RPS) applies to 118 power-providing entities within the state, and in aggregate, according to periodic compliance reports compiled by the Public Service Commission (PSC), they ex-

ceeded the 10 percent standard by the end of 2013, two years ahead of schedule. Most of that was achieved by adding wind capacity, with other renewables trailing behind.

The same PSC report noted that nobody did it better than Dairyland Power Cooperative, the La Crosse-based genera-tion-and-transmission co-op that supplies wholesale power to 18 local Wisconsin distribution cooperatives along with three each in Iowa and Minnesota and one in Illinois. Identifying Wisconsin’s electric cooperatives among the leaders in offer-ing renewable power, the report showed that for calendar year 2013, Dairyland had reached 13.93 percent renewable energy as a share of total aggregate retail sales.

Sales under special green pricing programs, in which cus-tomers pay a premium to specifically support renewable gener-ation on a subscription basis, aren’t factored in for purposes of RPS compliance. When sales under Dairyland’s green pricing program were included, renewables as a share of its total sales climbed to 14.35 percent.

Growing Solar Solar energy still plays a very modest role in Wisconsin’s overall generation mix, but it’s expanding as the economics improve. According to the Solar Energy Indus-tries Association (SEIA), the cost of an installed solar photo-voltaic system declined 6 percent from 2014 to 2015, and 53 percent compared with 2010.

Alert to the opportunity, Dairyland this past winter final-ized agreements with two developers to acquire more than 15 megawatts of power from new utility-scale photovoltaic solar facilities across the cooperative’s Wisconsin service area.

Scaling Up SolarCooperative will nearly double state’s existing capacity

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Dairyland Power Cooperative President and CEO Barbara Nick announced more than 15 megawatts of new solar across the cooperative’s Wisconsin service area. Photo courtesy of DPC. Dairyland’s existing utility-scale solar installation near Westby came online in 2014 at 500 kW. Photo courtesy of Suzanne Long, DPC.

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In February, Dairyland announced that a 2015 solicitation resulted in power purchase agreements with two solar developers: groSolar of White River Junction, Vermont, and SoCore Energy of Chicago. The cooperative will buy the power produced at a dozen new facilities across western Wisconsin. Dairyland President and CEO Barbara Nick noted that the cooperative is “dedicated to providing safe, reliable and sustainable energy” and that as Dairyland celebrates its 75th anniversary, its solar generation plans “far surpass current solar resourc-es in the state.”

Capacity of the new installations will range from half a megawatt to 2.5 megawatts. Of the 12 with agreements finalized as of mid-March, groSolar will build the largest, a 2.5 megawatt facility at Phillips. SoCore Energy will build the other 11, including a rated capacity of half a megawatt at Viola, two megawatts at Roberts, one megawatt at Conrath, 1.5 megawatts at Necedah, one megawatt at Menomonie, two megawatts at Med-ford, one megawatt at Liberty Pole, one megawatt at Hillsboro, one megawatt in the Town of Hallie near Chippewa Falls, one megawatt at Eastman, and one megawatt at Arcadia.

Advantages of siting numerous proj-ects in separate locations include—along with locally based renewable energy—avoiding concentration of facilities in

an area where all will be affected by the same weather conditions, and distributed grid infrastructure impacts, Dairyland said. The developers will build, own, op-erate, and maintain the facilities and the first two are expected to come on line this summer.

“Dairyland’s leadership role with renewable energy projects supports our strategic direction to diversify genera-tion resources,” Nick said.

An All-of-the-Above Strategy A sensible energy policy isn’t about pick-ing a 100 percent environmentally be-nign generation technology and putting all our eggs in that basket. First of all, there’s no such thing as a 100 percent environmentally benign technology; second, virtually every aspect of human existence—primitive or advanced, from the campfire to the Cloud—is energy- dependent, and the greater the society’s energy requirements, the less defensible it is to be without alternatives.

Hence the critical need for diversity in electric generation: to ensure system reliability, price stability, and even, with today’s sensitive end-use technologies, power quality.

Wisconsin is not Nevada. An index of direct sunlight exposure prepared for the National Renewable Energy Labo-ratory shows Wisconsin tied with New Jersey at 20th best among the 50 states

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They came from energy cooperatives nationwide, but the energy they delivered on this day wasn’t the kind sent through wires. It was the kind generated with muscles—

hearts, especially. It was February 13 when volunteers from 40 co-ops brought

a special day-ahead Valentine to five New Orleans homeowners. Arriving early for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Asso-ciation’s (NRECA) annual meeting held this year in the Crescent City, the 100 volunteers donated their Saturday to the annual Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Community Service Project.

Armed with paint brushes and power tools, they board-ed buses and headed to their work sites, homes in need of attention their elderly or disabled residents were unable to give them.

Nationwide Network, Local Focus Touchstone Energy, a nationwide alliance of some 750 member-owned electric cooperatives in 46 states, has been conducting a community service project in conjunction with the NRECA annual meeting for the past eight years. As annual meeting venues rotate on a regular schedule, 2016 marked the third time the beneficiaries of co-op voluntarism were New Orleans residents.

While there’s been no shortage of work there since Hur-ricane Katrina devastated the city 11 years ago this fall, the character of the work has changed for the better. Many vol-unteers on the first New Orleans trip assisted with demolition of ruined properties. The second trip saw more construction

activity, dry-walling and the like. This year’s crews were more likely to be involved with exterior finishing. “When you’ve gone in to New Orleans over the years you’ve seen that there was substantial damage and there still is,” said Larry Becker of Montello, a director and vice chairman of Adams–Columbia Electric Cooperative.

Becker has volunteered on three of the annual Touchstone projects but has slim prospects of catching up to his wife, Kathy. She’s participated in six of the eight so far.

Each year’s event begins with Touchstone Energy coordi-nating through local community help organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity, Housing First, and in New Orleans this year, RTNO—for “Rebuilding Together New Orleans.”

The local organizations identify those to be assisted, within parameters set by Touchstone. This year four of the five selected beneficiaries were retired military veterans, tying in with NRECA’s new “Serve Our Co-ops, Serve Our Country” program seeking to connect returning veterans with co-op employment in civilian life (see more about the program on page 8).

Wherever the annual meeting goes, the objective is essen-tially the same. The volunteer program focuses on “individuals who want to stay in their homes, who are proud of the own-ership of their homes, but just don’t have the ability to do the upkeep,” Larry said.

Kathy noted similarities with Operation Round Up, the vol-untary program among co-op members rounding their monthly

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serving up a feast of jambalaya they’ve cooked in a repurposed 55-gallon drum, with Hank Williams’ hit “On the Bayou” sounding in the background. By all accounts, the meal inspired such ardent enjoyment as to create the only serious distraction from the work at hand.

The first face appearing in the video is that of Larry Becker as he grips a battery-powered drill, working on the elderly veteran’s new fence. With nine such projects between them, there’s no doubt the Beckers will be back. “We look to stay involved because we’ve en-joyed the work and the gratitude of the recipients,” Larry said, “And besides, it’s just the right thing to do.”—Dave Hoopman, Photos by NRECA

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bills to the next higher dollar amount, with the extra change directed to worthy causes within the local community. “It’s looking after folks, like Operation Round Up, targeting people with special needs,” she said.

Tooling Up Specific construction skills aren’t required to be part of the volunteer effort, but Touchstone has found there are enough people who want to get involved that it can parcel out as-signments based on individual aptitudes. Touchstone queries volunteers about those things when they sign up so they can be more efficiently organized into groups on arrival at the annual meeting community. There’s always painting to do, and those with no particular skills but a desire to help can assist with cleanup.

“The program is open to anyone who wants to participate with other co-op directors and employees, and it’s always nice to have the camaraderie,” Larry said.

Though cosmetic improvements aren’t neglected, there’s emphasis on protective functions. “We go through and make sure there are working smoke alarms, and safety railings in bath-rooms,” Larry said. “We try to remove hazards, add wheelchair ramps, things that enable occupants to stay in their homes.”

This year, Larry and Kathy’s assign-ment was to assist in building 200 feet of wooden fence on the property of an 82-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran. The fence “is to keep people from stealing things from him,” Larry explained. “Promoting safety and energy efficien-cy, continuing to provide value, that’s always been the core for Touchstone in these projects.”

“You meet the individuals who are affected and it’s so rewarding to see what it means to them,” he added.

No Clock-Watchers Need Apply Electric cooperative volunteers from New York to Hawaii served at New Orleans this February. Over the eight years the program’s been in existence Wisconsin volunteers too numerous to name have pitched in, directors, employ-ees, and family members demonstrating

1. Cooperators from across the nation volunteered their home-repair skills on homes in New Orleans this February. 2. Larry Becker 3. Larry and Kathy Becker from Adams–Columbia Electric Cooperative have

participated in three and six Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Community Service Projects, respectively. 4,5 & 6. Price Electric Cooperative President and CEO Bill Caynor, Larry Becker, and Allison Pendergast of

Adams–Columbia Electric Cooperative participated in the 2015 service project in Orlando, Fla.

the kind of work ethic associated with co-op line crews—though late winter in New Orleans meant better weather than lineworkers often face.

“It really is a case of many hands getting a whole lot done in a short time,” Kathy Becker said. “The local groups that coordinate with us are always amazed that nobody knocks off accord-ing to the clock. We don’t quit until the job is done.”

They do break for lunch, however. A three-minute YouTube video (bit.ly/coopsNOLA) produced by the Associa-tion of Louisiana Electric Cooperatives shows employees of Dixie Electric Membership Corporation—with 102,000 members the state’s largest co-op—

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8 oz elbow macaroni (about 2 cups)4-1/2 Tbsp butter, divided2 Tbsp flour1 tsp saltDash of pepper2 cups milk1 Tbsp onion, grated2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese or Wisconsin aged cheddar cheese1-1/2 tsp dry mustard1 tsp Worcestershire sauce1/2 cup dried bread crumbs

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PB and J Bars Heat oven to 350 degrees. In medium bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, peanuts, and butter; press into bottom of 13x9-inch pan. In mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Slowly add sweetened condensed milk, mixing until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla; mix well. Remove 1/3 cup batter to small bowl; set aside. Add peanut butter to mixing bowl; mix well. Whisk jam into reserved 1/3 cup batter; mix well (mixture will appear speckled). Pour peanut butter batter evenly over prepared crust; spreading carefully with spatula to create even layer. Drop rounded teaspoonful of jam mixture over peanut butter batter. Use knife to gently swirl jam mixture to marble peanut butter batter. Bake 35–40 minutes, or until set. Cool bars slightly before refrigerating to cool completely. Cut bars into 2-inch squares and store in refrigerator.

Almond Mascarpone Fruit Dip1/2 cup almond butter2 Tbsp honey3 Tbsp heavy creamJuice and zest of 1 lemon8 oz Wisconsin mascarpone cheese, softened1 cup cheese curdsAssorted fresh fruit (grapes, strawberries, apples, pineapple) for dipping

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Heat oven to 375 degrees. Cook macaroni al dente ac-cording to package directions; drain. Pour into buttered shallow 2-quart baking dish. In saucepan, melt 3 Tbsp butter; whisk in flour, salt, and pepper. Slowly whisk in milk; cook and stir until thickened. Add onion, cheese, dry mustard, and Worcestershire sauce. Cook and stir until cheese melts. Pour mixture over macaroni and mix lightly. Melt remaining butter in small skillet; add bread crumbs. Stir, coating crumbs. Sprinkle over macaroni. Bake 25 minutes or until top is browned.

In medium bowl, combine almond butter, honey, cream, lemon juice, and zest; mix well. Fold in mascarpone, stirring gently until thoroughly blend-ed. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Thread cheese curds and fresh fruit onto 12 skewers; serve with dip.

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Parmesan Herb Veggie Dip3 Tbsp butter1/2 cup shallots, minced1-1/2 cups sour cream3/4 cup (about 3 ounces) Wisconsin parmesan cheese, grated2 Tbsp fresh basil, chopped1 Tbsp fresh tarragon, choppedSalt and pepper, to tasteAssorted fresh vegetables (carrots, celery, jicama, peppers), cut into sticks for dipping

Melt butter in medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add shallots and sauté until fragrant and golden, 3–4 minutes. Remove from heat and cool. In bowl of food processor, combine sour cream, parmesan, basil, tarragon, and shallots. Process until well blended. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with assorted vegetable sticks.

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Creamy ColeslawAgnes Zwijacz, Gillett

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ColeslawDonna Schmidt, Glidden

2-1/2 cups chopped cabbage1 cup mayonnaise1/4 cup chopped onion3/4 cup sugar1/4 cup vegetable oil1/4 cup white vinegar

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Bishop’s BreadFrom the September 15, 1942 Edition of Wisconsin REA News

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Burr Oak also offers some unique varieties; for example, it’s the only winery in the state to grow Lorelei grapes and make wine from them. All the wines are sold locally and marketed through the Wisconsin Winery Co-op, of which Burr Oak is a member.

Another of Burr Oak’s unique qualities is its charming setting. A fan of German architecture, Kennedy wanted a struc-ture for winemaking and tasting that resembled an old Europ-ean building. He also wanted a somewhat secluded location.

“People used to ask me why I built a winery so far off the road,” Kennedy said. “Well, we kind of wanted it back in here. It’s quieter, and back here you can kind of create the environ-ment you want.”

Planning began in 2000, with modifi cations made shortly after to accommodate a special auction fi nd.

“We were lucky to get a chance to buy some stained-glass windows when we were designing the building, and we incor-porated them here,” he said.

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Burr Oak Winery o� ersold-world charm

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1. Historic stained-glass windows adorn the building. 2. Kyle Cherek, host of Wisconsin Foodie, and his � ance, Nada Johnson, conduct a cooking with wine demonstration in the winery’s banquet room. 3. Burr Oak’s brick and stone

building has a European feel. 4. Burr Oak Winery owner Steve Kennedy and taste room manager Terri Bell. 5 & 6. The gift shop o� ers unique wine-related items. Photos on opposite page and above right courtesy of Burr Oak Winery.

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ed in the mid 1890s and came from a Methodist Church that was torn down not far from where Burr Oak Winery is today. Eleven of them—including the showpiece window, featuring grapes in its design—were painstakingly restored and installed in the winery’s building, which opened in 2003.

The building contains a tasting room, a gift shop offering various wine-related items, a European-inspired banquet room with a kitchenette, and a 4,000-square-foot bottling and production room. The banquet room is available for rent for local events such as anniversary, graduation, and birthday parties; family and class reunions; wedding showers; and other community gatherings.

In addition, Burr Oak Winery hosts special events that are open to the public throughout the year, including New Vintage Premier Weekend April 23–24. This weekend kicks off the season,

introducing all the new vintages, which are available for tasting.

Wisconsin’s wine industry has grown and changed since Burr Oak fi rst opened its doors, but the Kennedys have stayed true to their vision, resisting, for exam-ple, the trend to add a bar. They continue to cultivate a soothing environment that makes the winery a great place to simply relax and enjoy a taste of fi ne wine while taking in the beautiful surroundings.

That kind of environment, both Kennedy and Bell say, attracts special customers, something both appreciate.

“People who search out wineries are for the most part really nice people—the kind we like to do business with,” Ken-nedy said.—Mary Erickson

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