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There’s plenty to see and do in Burnett County

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A gosling succeeds in keeping up with its mom at a pond they’ve claimed as homenear Frederic. - Photo by Becky Amundson

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Enjoying a nap in a bed of lupines was this newborn. The fawn, born in the morning of Wednesday,May 30, spent the day in a garden east of Shell Lake on CTH B. The fawn is not abandoned by hermother; it is not unusual for a doe to leave her fawn in one location while she is out browsing. —Photoby Larry Samson

Otters have made Big Wood Lake in Burnett County their home for years, usuallyswimming in the lake and sometimes positioning themselves for a close-up. Lakehome residents Jerry and Jo Louise McNally are used to seeing glimpses of the ani-mal - usually one at a time - but recently a trio of otters popped up on their deck.“Jerry spotted an otter on the deck through the living room window and called me toget the camera,” noted Jo Louise. “The otter disappeared under the deck when it sawmovement in the house. With camera ready, we stood by the window, very still, for along time hoping the otter would come back up on the deck. Our patience was reward-ed with not one but three otters, which spent several minutes there before going backinto the lake.” - Photo courtesy the McNallys

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Trenton, Derek and Nathan enjoyed wetting a few lines at Lions Park on the St. Croix River earli-er this spring. – Photo by Greg Marsten

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June15 – Siren –Music in the Park at Crooked

Lake Park, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. (SirenSchool, if rain).

15 – Danbury – Dinner at the Fort, 5:30p.m. wine/appetizers; 6:30 p.m.gourmet dinner. 715-866-8890,www.theforts.org.

15-17 - Frederic – Family Days. Parade,treasure hunt, pancake breakfast,antique tractor show, Miss Fredericcompetition, kiddie parade, softballtournament, petting zoo and more.

16– Grantsburg – 28th-annual Siren AgDairy Breakfast at the Melco Farm,south of Grantsburg, 6 a.m. - noon.Located on CTH O in the Town ofTrade Lake.

16 - Shell Lake –Wine tasting benefit forHumane Society of Burnett County,noon to 5 p.m. 715-866-4096.

16 - Deer Lake – Neil McKenzie YouthFishing Contest.

16 – Siren – Arts Alive on 35 events atBAAG Art Center, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

18 - Siren – 17th-annual golf tournamentat Siren National Golf Course, 12p.m. 715-349-5755 or 715-220-2416.

21 – Siren –Music in the Park at CrookedLake Park, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. (SirenSchool, if rain).

22-24 – Milltown – 64th-annual Fisher-men's Party. Parade, craft fair, music,softball tourney, etc. 715-825-2222.

22-24 – Turtle Lake – Powwow at the St.Croix Casino.

22-24 – Danbury – Yellow River Echoes:A Living History Fur Trade Experi-ence at the Forts Folle Avoine Histor-ical Park. Demonstrations, tours,workshops, competitions andgames, wild rice pancake breakfaston Sunday, 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 715-866-8890.

23 – Balsam Lake – Balsam Lake Invita-tional Ski Show at Paradise Land, 7p.m. Bring your lawn chair.

23 – A & H – Sunflowers Daze, 9 a.m. - 1p.m. at Sacred Hearts CatholicChurch. Something for everyone.Over 5,000 plants both annuals andperennials.

24 – Webster – Chicken BBQ, across fromCurves, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Sponsoredby the Webster Lions Club.

24 – Cushing – Sterling Settlers PotluckPicnic at the Cushing CommunityCenter, 715-488-2320.

25-29 – Frederic – Frontier Trails StableDay Camp. Youth horseback ridingday camp for 7 - 16 years old, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. daily. 715-327-8572


29-July 1 – Balsam Lake Freedom Fest.balsamlakecc.com

30 - Webb Lake – Fundraiser pig roast,sale, auction, air show and fireworks.

July1 - Webster – Lions Chicken barbecue by

Old Webster High School, 11 a.m. - 3p.m. 715-866-7681.

3-4 – Siren – Siren Freedom Festival.Freedom Five Walk/Run, bed race,kiddie parade, parade and fireworks,street dance Sunday night.www.visitsiren.com, 715-349-8399.

4 – Webster Fire Department Brat Feedat the Webster Fire Hall. 11 a.m. 715-866-7151 or www.websterchamber.com.

4 – Clam Falls – Fourth of July parade.4 – Webster – Fun Day and Fourth of July

parade on Main Street, Webster FireDepartment water-ball fight.www.websterchamber.com, 715-866-7774.

5 – Siren – Music in the Park at CrookedLake Park, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. (SirenSchool, if rain).

5-8 – Spooner – 59th-annual Heart of theNorth Rodeo, live music, parade,BBQ, cowboy church service Sunday,youth activities, 800-367-3306.

7 – Danbury – Danbury Days parade onMain Street in the evening, duckrace, sidewalk sales and more.

8 – Danbury – Wild rice pancake break-fast at the Fort, 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.715-866-8890.

12 – Webster – Forts Folle Avoine golftournament fundraiser at Fox RunGolf Course, 2:30 p.m. 715-866-8890.


12-14 – Webster – Central Burnett Coun-ty Fair - horse pull, truck and tractorpull, demo derby, carnival rides andgames, live bands and D.J., dance,exhibits, Bingo, talent show, animals,food and beer garden, call RenelleSears, 715-866-8261.

12-15 – Centuria – Memory Days, 715-646-2300. centuriawi.com

14 – Grantsburg – Music in the Park atMemory Lake, south pavilion, 5 - 7p.m. (Faith Lutheran Church, if rain.)

16-20 – Frederic – Frontier Trails StableDay Campe. Youth horseback ridingday camp for 7 - 16 years old, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. daily. For more info, 715-327-8572


19-22 – St. Croix Falls – Wannigan Daysand Craft Show. Music, food, parade,craft show, etc. 715-483-0022.

20-22 – Grantsburg – 36th-annual WorldChampionship Snowmobile Water-cross. Rated one of the 10 races in theU.S. by SnoGoer Magazine. 715-463-4269.

20-22 – Luck – Lucky Days, parade andevents throughout the weekend.

21 – Siren – Burnett County Airport Fly-in and Dairy Breakfast, 7 a.m. - 4p.m.

23-27 – Frederic – Frontier Trails StableDay Camp. Youth horseback ridingfor 7 - 16 years old, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.daily. 715-327-8572


26-31 – Voyager Village – "Steel Magno-lias" by Robert Harling presented byVoyager Village Players at the Com-munity Center, 7 - 9 p.m.www.villageplayerscommunitytheatre.com.

26-29 – St. Croix Falls – Polk County Fair,715-483-0022.

26-29 – Spooner – Washburn CountyFair, 715-469-3217.

27-29 – Danbury –Great Folle Avoine FurTrade Rendezvous - pancake break-fast - demonstrations, competitionsand entertainment - Witness first-hand the interaction between twocultures. Hwy. 35 north of Webster toCTH U, west 2.6 miles, 715-866-8890.

28-29 – Frederic – Indianhead Gem andMineral Show, 715-349-2241.

August1-5 – Voyager Village – "Steel Magnolias"

by Robert Harling, presented byVoyager Village Players at the Com-munity Center, 7 - 9 p.m.www.villageplayerscommunitytheatre.com.


2-5 – Siren – Siren Summerfest andreunion weekend. Crazy Days, side-walk sales, arts and crafts, queenpageant, car show, etc.

3-5 – St. Croix Falls – Lamar Music Festi-val, 715-483-0022, 715-553-2116.

4 – Siren – Siren Lions Club BBQ and RibFest - 11 a.m. - ? Crooked Lake Park,call 715-349-7399.

4 – Siren – Annual Coin Show - Spon-sored by Fishbowl Wooden NickelCoin Club at senior citizens center - 9a.m. - 3 p.m. John Biver, 715-468-2012.

4 – Danbury – Danbury's 100th-anniver-sary celebration,www.discoverdanbury.com.


10-12 – Webster – Gandy Dancer Days.Sponsored by the WebsterChamber of Commerce.www.websterwisconsin.com

10-12 – Lewis – Charles E. Lewis Days,800-222-7655.

11 – Luck – Luck Fireman's Corn Feed,715-472-2805.

12 – Danbury –Wild rice pancake break-fast at the Fort, 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.715-866-8890.

TBA – Webb Lake – Webb Lake Men’sClub Carnival. Dunk tank, midway,concessions, children’s games, teenevents, turkey shoot, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.,at Webb Lake Fire Department.

16-19 – Grantsburg – Burnett CountyAgricultural Society Fair. Exhibitsincluding animals, crafts, flowersand crops. Demo derby Friday, 7:30p.m. and Sunday, 6 p.m.; Tractorpull, 6 p.m. Saturday, Bruce, 715-488-2472.


TBA - Danbury – The 11th-annual Okto-berfest - German dance and folkmusic, crafts, authentic German beer,brats, sauerkraut, - 1 – 9 p.m., in Dan-bury - Behind Log Cabin Store -Sponsored by Danbury Area Lions,Klaus Neider, 715-244-3403.

18 - Cushing – Cushing Fun Day.18 - Frederic – Frederic Art and Craft

Fair, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., by the museum,715-327-4807.

18 - Frederic – Northland AmbulanceChicken Dinner and historical soci-ety pie social.


23 - Danbury – Garden Tea, Forts FolleAvoine Historical Park, 715-866-8890, www.theforts.org.

24-26 - Danbury – 38th-annual Tradition-al Wild Rice Powwow, at the St.Croix Casino Danbury, Tom at 800-238-8946.

25 – Grantsburg – Music in the Park atMemory Lake, south pavilion, 5 - 7p.m. (Faith Lutheran Church, if rain.)

25 - Lewis – Youth in the Outdoors atCoyland Creek, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., 715-653-4273.


31-Sept. 2 - Siren – Siren Lions AnnualLabor Day Garage Sale in CrookedLake Park, Siren.

September1 - Balsam Lake – Turtle Crunch Demo

Derby.1 - Danbury – Chicken BBQ and antique

appraisal at the Forts Folle AvoineHistorical Park.

1-2 - Voyager Village – 34th-annual Artsand Crafts Fair, Voyager VillageCommunity Center, Webster, 715-259-3714.

1-2 - Balsam Lake – Corn on the Curb,715-485-3424.

2 - Danbury – Wild rice pancake break-fast at Forts Folle Avoine HistoricalPark, 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

6 – Siren – Burnett County DemocratsBrat and Bean Feed at Crooked LakePark, 5 p.m.

7-9 - Osceola – Wheels and Wings Com-munity Fair, Osceola.

15 – Luck – Luck Fall Harvest Truck andTractor Pull, 800-222-7655.

22 - Cushing – River Road Ramble, 800-222-7655 orwww.polkcountytourism.com

TBA - Webster – 31st-annual WebsterLions Musky Madness Tournament,Yellow Lake, 715-866-4788.

28-29 – Siren – Siren Harvestfest, 715-349-8399 or 715-349-8282, visit-siren.com.

29 – Grantsburg – Grantoberfest, all day.www.grantsburgchamber.com

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The early-morning sky is set a blazed with the color and beauty of a sunrise. — Photo by Larry Samson

Out & AboutJune 2012

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Page 4 Out & About - June 20124Sold! UPH building purchased by Ruby’s Pantry organization

Selling price is $5, way abovethe asking price of $1

by Mary StirratLeader staff writer

LUCK — The former United PioneerHome in Luck, vacated last fall with theopening of a new facility just down theroad, was sold recently to Home andAway Ministries, the umbrella ministryof Ruby’s Pantry.United Pioneer Home Administrator

Dan Valentine said that the nursing homeboard has been trying to sell the vacantfacility for months, asking $1. The boardhad finally decided to tear the buildingdown, at a cost exceeding $200,000, whenValentine was contacted about a possiblebuyer.That buyer is Lyn Sahr, founder and

executive director of Home and AwayMinistries based in Pine City, Minn.Locally, the ministry is most familiar asRuby’s Pantry, which distributes food,and Ruby’s Second Hand, a thrift store inSiren.In telling the story, Valentine credits

God with bringing the pieces together atexactly the right time. At the end of April, he said, in prepara-

tion for tearing down the former build-ing, a garage sale was being organized tosell items left inside. The garage sale wasset for Saturday, with staff having theopportunity to make purchases theWednesday before. The staff sale, saidValentine, netted more than $600 for resi-dent activities.

The day after the staff sale, before thepublic garage sale could take place,Valentine was contacted by Amy Agua-do, community education coordinator atLuck as well as coordinator for theRuby’s Pantry distribution in Luck.Aguado connected Valentine with Sahr,and the two met that Thursday morning.The deal was concluded a week or two

later, when Sahr paid $5, far above the $1asking price. Thursday, May 17, UnitedPioneer Home filed a quit claim deed onthe original property.One of the best parts of the whole

thing, said Valentine, is that building willremain a Christian, faith-based property.In the late 1940s, area churches joined

together to establish United PioneerHome, which opened in 1953 to serve thelocal community.Sahr, through Home and Away Min-

istries and Ruby’s Pantry, plans to contin-ue the legacy of service. Details are stillup in the air, but the overall vision is touse the building as a food distributioncenter as well as a “boot camp” for indi-viduals and families entering the missionfield. “We have for years been looking for a

facility like this,” said Sahr. The vision ofHome and Away Ministries, he said, is toshare the gospel of salvation throughJesus Christ while serving others to meetpractical needs.

The “Home” part is providing food,clothing, furniture, vehicles and othernecessities through Ruby’s Pantry, whilethe “Away” part has involved servingchurches and pastors in poor areas ofMexico. About two years ago, due to thegrowing violence in Mexico, the “Away”part of the ministry moved across theborder into the Rio Grande Valley ofTexas.At Luck, said Sahr, the next step is to

have the property rezoned to accommo-date the ministry Home and Away Min-istries envisions. Another practical stepwill be to hire a maintenance person tobegin some of the work that needs to bedone to prepare the building.

The former United Pioneer Home in Luck has been sold to Home and Away Ministries, theumbrella ministry for Ruby’s Pantry. Tentative plans are to use the facility for food distribu-tion and as a “boot camp” for people entering the mission field. — Photos by Mary Stirrat

Lyn Sahr, executive director of Home andAway Ministries.

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Crex Meadows GRANTSBURG – Among the boundless natural

resources to be found in Burnett County is CrexMeadows Wildlife Area, the largest wildlife area inWisconsin.Located near Grantsburg, Crex Meadows encom-

passes 30,000 acres of wetland, prairie and forest. Itis home to deer, bear, coyote, beaver and othermammals, along with more than 265 species ofbirds.Thousands of Canada geese, sandhill cranes,

loons, eagles, ducks, grouse, and osprey make theirhome, at least part of the year, at Crex Meadows. Insummer, eagles, osprey and loons are busy raisingtheir young amidst the blooming prairie plants.Management of Crex Meadows has focused on

restoring the wetlands and prairies that historicallywere found in the area. Since its purchase by theDepartment of Natural Resources in 1946, 29flowages have been built and 7,000 acres restored.With the exception of a 2,400-acre refuge, the area

is open to hunting and trapping. Crex Meadows isconsidered one of the best waterfowl and sharp-tailed grouse hunting areas in Wisconsin.Along with hunting, visitors can enjoy bird-

watching, hiking, tours and wildlife viewing.Excellent access to the wildlife area is provided by

more than 40 miles of road, from which mostwildlife can be seen. Self-guided auto tour booklets, bird lists, and

other pamphlets are available at the Crex Head-quarters on CTH D and F. For more informationcall 715-463-2896. - submitted

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Leader staff writerWEBSTER - Webster added another

jewel to its Main Street crown when FreshStart Coffee Roasters officially opened forbusiness on Monday, April 30. And if thecoffee here seems just a bean or two bet-ter than some other coffees you’ve tasted,it may just be due to the fact that thisshop roasts its own beans to bring ulti-mate freshness to each and every cupbrewed.Primary owners and managers of the

shop are Zachary “Zac” and Lisa Benson,and they will tell you that their aim is tocreate an atmosphere where “big-townelegance meets small-town charm.” It’sto be a no-compromise business for themas they offer only the finest and freshestingredients in their products.And that sense of the finest begins

when you step into the shop. The Ben-sons have completely remodeled whatused to be an optometrist’s office and aused book store to create something thatoffers what Zac calls “the wow factor.”From the antique tin ceiling to the invit-ing furniture to the outdoor patio setting– only for seasonal use in Northwest Wis-consin – it all spells casual elegance, a set-ting that invites people to come in andrelax.At the heart of the operation are two

coffee roasters that can transform green,raw coffee beans into brown, roastedbeans in 15 to 20 minutes. “If peoplewant,” said Zac, “they can sit and watchtheir beans roast as they wait or they cancall ahead and order, and we’ll have freshroasted beans waiting for them whenthey arrive.” Online ordering is alsoavailable at www.freshstartcoffee-

roasters.com. Both Bensons feel strongly about being

part of the Webster community. Theyturned to Webster High School’s TigerManufacturing for the cabinetry in theirshop, and they intend to use their busi-ness to support other local businesses.Both hope that their presence will drawpeople to Webster’s Main Street wherethey will discover all the other featuresthe locale offers.And what could be better, they say,

than having some place to “hang out”when you have time on your hands.Waiting for lab results after a visit to thedoctor? Need someplace to sit while

your spouse hangs around in the hard-ware store? Want someplace where youcan sit and read the book you just pickedup at the used book store or the library?Well, the coffee shop will be there waitingfor you.And it’s not just coffee and coffee prod-

ucts. The shop also serves up yourfavorite smoothies and teas, and offers aselect lunch menu as well.Hours for Fresh Start Coffee Roasters

will be 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday throughSaturday, and 7 a.m. through 2 p.m. onSundays. The Bensons will be waiting toserve you.

The interior of Fresh Start Coffee Roasters is warm and inviting. – Photos by Carl Heidel

Lisa (left) andZac Benson(center), man-agers and partowners of FreshStart CoffeeRoasters, checkover an orderwith RachaelPaulson (right)before it isserved.

Roy Ward (right), industrial arts teacher at Webster High School, explains some of the cab-inetry created by the school’s Tiger Manufacturing for the coffee shop to Zac Benson (left).

At the heart of the Fresh Start CoffeeRoasters operation are two of these roastersthat perform the magic of transforming rawbeans into fine coffee.

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Enjoy your stayin the BurnettCounty area!

LLooccaall GGiirrll SSccoouutt hhaass aa hheeaarrtt ffoorr bbaattssby Jean Koelz

Leader staff writerBURNETT COUNTY—Question:

What is the only mammal that canfly? Answer: A bat.Question: Does that bit of trivia

make bats any more welcome in ourhomes? Answer: No way.Why do we hate bats so? For cen-

turies, bats have been associatedwith darkness and disease. They flyaround unpredictably and probablywill give us rabies as they suck outour blood, right? Sadly, folklore andHollywood have created a terriblePR problem for bats. The truth is,bats are an important part of ourecosystem. And they do us all agreat service by eating up to a thou-sand insects an hour. According tothe Wisconsin DNR, we can alsothank bats for pollinating and dis-persing seeds for countless plants. We can know all that and still

think they’re ugly and scary. Whatif you found out that a deadly fun-gus threatens to wipe out our batpopulation—would that garner anysympathy for the little critters?One local teen is concerned, and

she’s planning to do somethingabout it. Girl Scout Sunny Cone,

from Troop 50432under the direc-tion of Wendy Lar-son in Webster, hasbeen earning meritbadges for eightyears. Cone hasjust become aCadette, whichmeans a new vestand a whole newlevel of badgesand awards toearn. Cone hasalready completedwhat’s called theCadette Journey,and now she’sgoing for the SilverAward—the high-est award aCadette can earn.The Silver Awardis a chance todemonstrate lead-ership, organizational skills and thedesire to improve the community bygetting involved in an issue theScout cares about.Cone, 13, the daughter of Scott

and Tonya Cone, has developed aplan to build 20 bat houses and

place them on resi-dential propertiesthroughout Bur-nett County. Shefigures if bats havea safe and healthyplace to roost andraise their young,then 1) they won’tbe so susceptible todisease; and 2)they won’t be aslikely to roost inplaces we don’twant them to, likein our walls andup in our attics.Her plan has beendeveloped in con-junction with Wis-consin’s DNR; forexample, the bathouse design was

downloaded from the DNR’s Website. In addition, the plan includeschecking on the bat houses once amonth to count the bats and monitortheir health, then report these find-ings back to a contact at the DNR. A key component of the project is

to get the community involved. Therules for the Silver Award limit theScout and her family to underwrit-ing no more than 25 percent of theproject costs, and also require thatthe Scout involve others in anyrequired labor. She’s got a plan, abudget, a time line, and even abuilding and assembly crew alllined up. However, the first step isto get the necessary supplies. It willbe Sunny’s task to solicit donationsto cover the estimated $700 neededfor building materials. The 20 bat houses will require 10

sheets of exterior grade plywood, 20tubes of paintable caulk, 1,000 coat-ed screws, 5 gallons of primer, 5 gal-lons of paint and 20 8-foot furringstrips. Local businesses and indi-viduals are encouraged to find outhow they can get involved by send-ing an e-mail to [email protected].

Bats are less likely to enter homes if they have a house oftheir own. This bat house design can be downloaded fromthe Wisconsin DNR Web site. - Photos by Jean Koelz

Girl Scout Sunny Cone wants to help the community byprotecting bats and their role in the local ecosystem.

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by Sherill SummerLeader staff writer

DANBURY - It was the week before thefishing opener at Houman’s, a resort thathas been nestled along the MinervaChain of Lakes, near Danbury, since 1936. There is always so much to do in the

springtime when owning a resort - cabinsto open and grounds to tend. This springthere was more to do with the prepara-tion for the resort’s 50th anniversary - ahalf century under the ownership of theHouman family. But on this day, current resort owners

Chuck and Connie Houman, Chuck’scousin Pam, and the matriarch ofHouman’s Resort, Mary Houman, weresitting at a kitchen table with piles of oldphotographs and photo albums filledwith snapshots of guest families, manywho come to the resort faithfully everyyear, generation after generation. A reporter was called in because the

50th-anniversary events were scheduledfor Memorial Day weekend, and therewere anniversary events to talk about ...but mostly it was a morning of remem-bering. The basic facts are simple. Mary and

her late husband, Bill, didn’t build theresort. It had been there since 1936, soonafter the dam on Loon Creek was builtthat formed the magnificent lakes aroundthe resort. The Houmans purchased the43-acre resort in 1962 from Myron How-land. The Houmans had three boys, twoin high school and one in fifth grade, tohelp them operate the resort that featured

14 two-bedroom cabins. Fifty years later, all but one of the old

cabins have been refurnished with mod-ern necessities - such as indoor plumb-ing, gas stoves and refrigerators toreplace the iceboxes. All 13 renovatedcabins are still in use. A campground fortrailers and RVs has been developed up

the hill from the lake. The resort restau-rant-bar has also changed over 50 years,but is still the classic north woods, horse-shoe bar. The best stories, however, always start-

ed whenever someone at the kitchentable asked Mary to tell the reporterabout ... The stories drift from historicalfacts to stories of people and what theydid, then back again. There was the storyof the Houman family moving fromHudson where the neighborhood wasfilled with kids to rural Danbury wherethere were few kids that lived here year-around. There were so few kids that itwasn’t a bus that picked them up forschool, but the Wierschems nine-passen-ger station wagon. There was the ever-popular “kids

night” every Wednesday. The choice ofmusic on the jukebox, and the food onWednesday always had the kids in mind.The kids loved it even if the their parentshad to chaperone (otherwise they werenot allowed in the bar). There was alsothe late-night revelry, very late-night rev-elry, whenever the late Tom Cashmanhad his trumpet. There was the idiotstick - a musical instrument that involveddoor springs and a can - that was a NewYear’s Eve tradition. Mary always ledthe revelry on New Year’s Eve with ablond wig and a silver-sequined dress. It seems that the Houmans couldn’t go

anywhere without meeting a resortguest, in Madison or Las Vegas - some-one would walk up to her and say, “MaryHouman! What are you doing here?”“Same thing as you,” she would alwayssay.

Naturally, all of these stories, andcountless more, were told at Houman'sResort anniversariy, held on Saturdayand Sunday of Memorial Day weekend,May 26 and 27.

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Bill and Mary Houman in a photo taken 50 years ago. When former resort owner Myron How-land asked the Houmans if they wanted to purchase the resort, their first answer was that theydidn’t have any money. Once the Houmans bought the resort, they found out what it was real-ly like not having money as they started the business with only $17 in the checking account.Even back in 1962 that was not very much money, especially as there were three boys to carefor. Friends predicted that the Houmans would never make it. – Photo submitted

Andy Houman with his catch when he wasabout 8. Andy is current owner Chuck andConnie’s son. Some advantages of growingup on a resort are that there are always kidsto play with, and the resort guests love it ifyou go fishing with them, since you knowwhere the fish are. – Photo submitted

Located in the heart of the ATV trail systemin Burnett County, Houman’s Resort offers aunique camping experience for ATVers aswell as boaters, anglers and hikers. SeeHoumans.com for more information. - Specialphoto

Connie, Chuck and Mary Houman shown (L to R) in the Houman’s Resort bar. While therehave been changes to the bar over the last 50 years, it still has a classic north-woods feel,and it still is the resort guests “go to” place for food and fun. - Photo by Sherill Summer

Cabin No. 12 as it looked when the Houmans first purchased the resort 50 years ago, beforethe two-bedroom cabins had indoor plumbing, refrigerators, gas stoves and the like. Life haschanged since then for everyone. One of the winter chores that has gone by the waysidesince then is cutting and storing ice for use in the cabins, and the endless cutting of wood. –Photo submitted

Sid, the Houman's Resort mascot, changes with the seasons. Currently, it looks as if hehas fishing on his mind. – Photo by Sherill Summer

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by H. RiceSpecial to the Leader

WEBSTER – Webster’s Main Street islooking better and better these days. First,the new library, then a new coffee shop,and now there’s beautiful artwork foreveryone to enjoy.Recently, visitors to downtown were

treated to the sight of local artists, mem-bers of the Burnett Area Arts Group,working on an enormous mural on thewest wall of Gandy Dancer Books facingthe Fresh Start Coffee Roasters patio.The idea for public art came from Zac

Benson. He and his wife, Lisa, coffee shopowners, wanted to spruce up the patiothey developed from the space betweentheir shop and Bonnie Dahlstrom’s book-store. “We wanted something relaxing so peo-

ple could sit outside with their coffee,maybe go into the bookstore and get abook – just enjoy Wisconsin,” said Benson,adding that this project was a perfectopportunity for somebody in the commu-nity. “We presented the idea to the BAAG,and they were excited about it.”According to BAAG artist Arlene Elliot,

“We started thinking about [the mural]

last December. We had many meetingsdeciding what we wanted to do. Thedesign was a collaborative effort by sever-al of us thinking ‘outdoors’ and what rep-resents Wisconsin.”The result: a soft, colorful mural stretch-

ing 40 feet long and 14 feet high depictingsky, water, cattails, birches, pines andflowers – the natural beauty surroundingWebster. Still to be added are the indige-nous “critters.”“We wanted to keep it in the ‘Monet’

style of impressionism,” explained Elliot.The 19th century French artist ClaudeMonet invented the style of painting thatuses small brush strokes of color, giving asoft impression of the world rather than arealistic, detailed version.Supporting the project, Ace Hardware’s

Stefan Benson donated more than $600worth of paint and supplies, primed thesurface and provided scaffolding so artistscould reach every corner of the 560-square-foot surface.

Another feature being added is a fauxdoor showing an entryway to the GandyDancer bookstore – like an invitation tocome in and browse. The real door, ofcourse, is around the corner facing thestreet. Needless to say, Dahlstrom isdelighted, adding her praise for the pro-ject.In addition to Elliott, six BAAG artists

worked on the mural: Thom Scott, CarlaPhillips, Fran Grantham, Karen Fey, KathyRecke and Bonnie Kohl. “It’s really fun tocome together working as a BAAG team,”commented Fey as she painted. “It buildsawareness of the arts, links the communi-ty with BAAG, and shows people what wecan do.”Zac Benson says Webster’s on a roll.

“We take pride in what we’ve got, withthe new library, Wayne’s redone his store– we have a nice boom going on here inWebster, and we want to keep it all flow-ing in the right direction.”

BAAG member Arlene Elliott puts her spe-cial touch to flowers on the 560-square-footmural decorating the west wall of the GandyDancer bookstore facing the patio of Web-ster’s new coffee shop, Fresh Start CoffeeRoasters. - Photos by H. Rice

Three Burnett AreaArts Group artists workon the 40’ x 14’ mural onWebster’s Main Street; infront, Karen Fey; next,Carla Phillips; back, FranGrantham.

The mystery of why bird feeders at the Lokker home in rural Webster were always emptywas solved when these two were caught in the act in the front yard. - Photo by Patsy Lokker

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Gandy Dancer TrailThe 98-mile recreation trail follows the railroad grade from St. Croix Falls north to Supe-

rior. This grade was commercially used for approximately 100 years starting in the late1880s. Upon abandonment, part of the corridor was purchased by Burnett County and thestate of Wisconsin for use as a recreational trail. The trail was named for the railroad work-ers, who used tools made by Gandy Tool Co. and came to be known as Gandy Dancers.Recreational use on the trail is divided by geographic location: south half and north half.

The south trail segment extends 47 miles from St. Croix Falls to Danbury, paralleling Hwy.35 most of the distance. This segment was surfaced with crushed limestone in 1995 and offers a smooth, hard-sur-

faced trail with use limited to biking and hiking from April through November. A bike pass isrequired.The north segment runs 51 miles from Danbury through eastern Minnesota to Superior.

The segment offers a wilder, more remote trail experience. Hiking, mountain biking and ATVuse is permitted. No pass is needed to use the north section of the trail, but ATVs must dis-play valid registration.A Wisconsin State Trail Pass is required of all bicyclists 16 years of age or older riding the

trail between St. Croix Falls and Danbury. A Wisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesConservation Patron license will be honored as a bike pass. Trail passes must be visiblydisplayed when using the trail. A pass is not needed for hiking. Handicapped/disabled per-sons in wheelchairs do not need a pass. Trail passes are available at the Polk and Burnett County Tourism centers and from busi-

ness vendors located in communities along the trail. Pass fees are $4 for a daily pass and$20 for an annual pass, subject to change. Trail passes are issued to individuals, not bikes. As such trail passes cannot be passed

from person to person or shared with others. Public parks and rest areas are located in or near the villages on the trail. Trail passes are available at the following locations:

Polk County:Luck: Luck Country Inn and Natural Alternative Co-opFrederic: Frederic Depot, the village officeSt. Croix Falls: Polk County Information CenterMilltown: Monty's Sportsman's HavenCenturia: Glass Bar

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grasses and wildflowers found in the wildlife area. Many of the plants are labeledto help you with identification. This area was created and is maintained by Friendsof Crex volunteers. Also notice the brick walk with bricks purchased by donors tohonor friends and family. Proceeds from the sale of these bricks were originallyused to help build the visitor center, and new funds are now put toward the endow-ment fund which was set up in 2003 as a source of perpetual funding for interpre-tive programs at the center.The grounds at the wildlife education and visitor center include a paved handi-

capped accessible walkway through prairie plantings. Check out the birdhouses atthe beginning of the walkway for nesting bluebirds and flickers. Behind the centeris a boardwalk and nature trail. The boardwalk was built in 2004 and goes over apond that was constructed by the local chapter of Ducks Unlimited and is used foreducational purposes.Inside the center you will find exhibits, bird and mammal displays, as well as art-

work by local artists. Pamphlets, maps and other brochures are available both insideand out to help you plan and enjoy your visit better. Souvenirs are available at thegift shop, The Bog Shoe. The Friends of Crex sell these items to help fund the wildlifeinterpretive program. Other facilities include offices for Friends of Crex and DNR staff, a 52-seat audito-

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The storied legacy of Dr. Pederson,

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FREDERIC – You won’t find anotherveterinarian quite like Dr. Larry Pederson.The soft-spoken, modest man is the defin-ition of what it means to be a down-homecountry doc. For over a half-century, hetook a no-nonsense approach to veteri-nary medicine with seriousness and pro-fessionalism, while doing his best to keepprices reasonable for those in the Fredericarea and beyond.“I would say I’m not a famous veteri-

narian or anything, although I’ve donestuff that has helped a lot of people,” Ped-erson said from his home in Fredericrecently. He will turn 80 years old in amonth and celebrated a retirement that heand his wife, Linda, felt was a bit tooearly. Had it not been for health issues,Pederson might still be treating small ani-mals out of his Frederic Veterinary Clinic,which got its beginnings in a house justoutside of Frederic in 1959 near the Pil-grim Lutheran Church.“Larry’s career has been all work,”

Linda said. “One sad thing about retiringis that it was forced on him, because ofhealth. That’s what was so sad, because hewasn’t really ready to.”

Entirely new practiceLarry grew up on a small farm near

Cumberland and said he’d always had alove for animals, but his desire to helpothers had him wanting to become a med-ical doctor, so he could help people. Butone day, all of that changed. His friend,Ray Schofield, who was prevet at the time,asked Pederson a simple question.“He said, ‘I’m going to go over and

apply for veterinary school, do you wantto come with me?’” and Pederson’s replywas, "Sure, I’ll do it.”It cost $15 for the application fee, and

three months later, Pederson received aletter explaining that he and Schofieldwere only runners-up to the 50 studentswho had been picked to go. Then, as fatewould have it, two of the 50 students did-n’t show up after getting their acceptanceletters, which opened the door for Peder-son and Schofield.“I had just taken a calculus test in River

Falls,” he recalled. “I flunked it. A wholebunch of people flunked it. And there wasa knock on the door in the classroom atthe college (River Falls). And that wasunusual. They wanted me on the phone.A lady on the phone said ‘you could cometo school if you wanted to … vet college.’I said ‘I’ll give you a call at 8 in the morn-ing. I gotta talk to my folks.’”Pederson’s dad instructed him that

being a vet would be difficult work, andhe’d need to work a lot of nights too. Buthe also felt that if he didn’t like it, he couldalways quit. Pederson never did, andironically, he was the one who became theveterinarian, and Schofield ended upgoing premed to become a doctor, helpingpeople.

If it looks good, eat itPederson was a junior at River Falls

when he got the call to veterinary collegeat the Universary of Minnesota. Whilethere, he earned his bachelor’s and doc-torate, while taking several of his classeswith the medical students since the veteri-nary college was so new. It wasn’t easyeither, especially without the help of stu-dent aid.“Doctors made good money, but not the

students,” Pederson said, adding that oneof the students was so poor he had to eatout of the garbage. Pederson and anotherroommate, who lived at the clinic, resort-ed to dog food.“We milked cows down at the universi-

ty at 4 in the morning and stole the milk,and we had cereal and a hot plate. We putsalt and pepper on the dog food,” but notthe dried variety, Pederson insisted. “Wetook the best kind,” and added that it tast-

ed similar to corned-beef hash. “It wasn’tthat bad,” he said.Although he was short on money, Ped-

erson’s professor got them jobs at the clin-ic shortly after the Korean War. Theytaught part-time and ran a nightly internprogram, and during the summermonths, he lived in Bloomer and workedfor the state of Wisconsin testing cattle,taking blood samples and TB tests. Peder-son graduated from the U of M in 1957,not long after the veterinary college firstbegan in 1951. After becoming a veteri-narian, he spent two years in Montanaworking for the federal government withmilitary obligations, before opening hisveterinary clinic out of his house nearFrederic in 1959.“It was mostly large animals in the early

years … everybody had some cattle,” hesaid, and there were very few other vets inthe area, other than Dr. Wilson in Mill-town, Dr. Branstadt in Grantsburg andhimself, who was basically on call 24hours a day, seven days a week. He cov-ered a huge swath of northwestern Wis-consin and went as far north as Superiorat times, while averaging 80,000 to 90,000vehicle miles each year. He was a repeatcustomer at Larsen Auto in Frederic,where he’d buy a new car for about $800each year, until about the mid-1960s whenprices started going up.

A life of firstsPederson remembers many of his earli-

er house calls, including his first proce-dure on a horse near Trade Lake. Themare had a stillborn colt in its womb, andthe only way to save it was by doingemergency surgery to remove the colt.“So here I was a year out of school, and

I’d never done it before. I’d never done aCaesarean on a horse. They taught me,but I’d never done it. I think it was thefirst one ever done in this area,” he said. “Iwas glutton for punishment, but it was door die.”It was a difficult job, and it took a long

time sewing everything back up aftermaking such a large incision, but thehorse lived through it, and Pedersoncharged the owner $35 for the job.“They do Caesareans on horses now,

but they take them to a big clinic wherethey have big gas machines and half adozen people to help. But here I had tostruggle myself,” said Pederson.There were hundreds of other chal-

lenges for him over the years, with newviruses, diseases and the latest vaccines totreat it all. But sometimes, he simply had

to improvise. One year, several dogs weredying in the Siren area, but he couldn’tfigure out what was going on other thanthe dogs were bleeding in the bowels. Atfirst, he thought someone had been poi-soning them, but it was later discovered tobe the parvovirus.“I started vaccinating them with a cat

vaccine, and it helped,” Pederson said,until a new vaccine was eventually creat-ed to treat and save the dogs. There wereother new viruses and diseases, too. Lymedisease wasn’t common when he first gothis start, and pink eye wasn’t aroundeither. There was sleeping sickness inhorses about 25 years ago, black leg andmany other diseases and oddities too.About 15 years ago, Pederson delivered atwo-headed calf near Milltown that evenblinked with all four eyes. The calf sur-vived for a little while, but eventuallydied.“There were a lot of freaks. I couldn’t

get the calf out. I thought it was twins. Ifinally figured out it had two heads on it,”he said. A calf with two heads was a first for

him, but thousands of other new or inter-esting situations presented challengesover the years. Still, he, and the animals,adapted to the change, and so did his cus-tomers.“When I started, farmers didn’t even

have a syringe. I taught them all thatstuff,” Pederson said.There were many times when he simply

couldn’t make a house call, so he taughtfarmers what to do in emergency situa-tions, such as when a cow was strickenwith milk fever. By using a goose quilland small hand pump, he would instructfarmers to pump air into the udder to helpcure milk fever. It was one of the manyremedies or procedures Pederson taughtthe local farming community in the eventof an emergency situation.

Sauerkraut and cutting boardsWhat many area residents will likely

remember most about Pederson’s veteri-nary practices was his ability to keepprices reasonable, and in many cases,there was bartering involved.“You’re dealing more with people than

you are with animals,” he said, andrecalled one incident where a dog hadbeen hit by a school bus. The owner rushed the dog to the clinic,

but in order for the dog to breathe, Peder-son had to put pressure on its lung withhis hand. As he began working to save thedog, the owner ended up passing out on

the floor of the clinic. Pederson was leftwith the decision to either save the dog, orhelp the owner who was passed out onthe floor. Somehow, he managed to savethe dog, and the owner was able to getback on his feet with the help of his wifewho arrived moments later.Pederson said he got a really nice cut-

ting board for that and has received manyother items over the years for his serviceswhen people didn’t have the means topay. Jars of sauerkraut, jam or a roast orham during holidays were common, andPederson wouldn’t have had it any otherway.“I was hard up myself, and I realize

how people are, so I didn’t always have tocharge them,” he said.

Moving forward with faithThere was just one year in Pederson’s

55-year career that he hired another per-son to help out with his veterinary prac-tice.“I hired another guy, but that didn’t

work out,” he said. But he was hardlyalone.Pederson first moved to Frederic in

1959 when he began his veterinary prac-tice, but about six years later, a drunk dri-ver killed his wife and 2-year-old daugh-ter in an automobile accident. Pedersonpushed forward despite the tragedy, andthere were other significant setbacksthroughout his personal life, but he neverstopped caring for others. So it seems fit-ting that almost 28 years ago, he’d meetup with his current wife, Linda, who hasgone through personal tragedies of herown in life. But together, Linda and Larrymanaged to raise nine children. Both hadadopted children from a previous mar-riage, and they each had two of their ownchildren, totaling nine all together. Alongwith 26 grandchildren, and they also havefive great-grandchildren.“It’s been tough at times, but Larry and

I are stronger because of it. Absolutely,”said Linda, and Larry concurred. “We’rehappy now. And we get along. And I’mthe same person I used to be.”Last year in October, Larry suffered a

setback when he was hospitalized for alife-threatening gastrointestinal condition,in which he suffered massive bleedingthat couldn’t be stopped for nearly threedays. Doctors said he and Linda wouldprobably need to start looking at hospicecare, but Larry didn’t like that answer. Ona Sunday morning, he began to pray, ashe’d done so many other times through-out his life.“He prayed very, very hard,” Linda

said. “And he knew the minute (thebleeding) stopped … less than 24 hourslater, he was healed.” Afterward, Lindasaid the doctor came to her and said, “Ibelieve in miracles, and this was one.”The Pedersons have maintained a

Christian faith throughout their entirelives, and it seems to have only gottenstronger through time.“We believe very deeply, and we believe

marriage is forever,” Linda said. “We’refriends with each other as well as being inlove. And I respect him … I did for yearsbefore I married him.”Although retirement for Larry has been

a bit of a challenge, both remain upbeatabout life, and are happy with the waythings have worked out, especiallythrough the veterinary clinic, where Larry,and eventually Linda, rooted their livestogether. For many years, Linda helped Larry at

the clinic, after she retired from the Fred-eric Hospital, and the partnership wasflawless.“She’s the best help,” said Larry.Back in January, the Pedersons sold the

Frederic Veterinary Clinic to Dr. GregPalmquist and his wife, Kathy. ThePalmquists, who also own the GrantsburgAnimal Hospital and Wild River Veteri-nary Clinic, will be holding part-timeoffice hours at the Frederic Clinic.“They work hard and are good veteri-

narians,” Larry said, adding later, “I feelvery successful in what I’ve done."

Dr. Larry Pederson along with his wife, Linda, shared a moment at their home recently nearFrederic to share stories on Larry’s 55 years as a veterinarian in the community. – Photo byMarty Seeger


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Leader staff writerDANBURY– No amount of rain

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The Fort now resumes its regu-lar schedule of events under thesponsorship of the BCHS. Theannual gourmet dinner Wednes-day, June 15, will be followed by aspecial photography instructionsession June 17, and then theannual celebration of Yellow RiverEchoes with a pancake breakfastJune 22-24. For more informationon the Fort and its events checkout the Web site atwww.theforts.org.

The tent sheltering the plants for the plant sale was a blaze of color with flowers and plants of all varietiesSaturday and Sunday, May 26-27.

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SPOONER - The beauty of wood wason display in Spooner Saturday, May 26.The Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museumopened its season with a canoe and wood-en boat show. Front Street was full of fine-ly crafted boats old and new. Enthusiastsbrought in their personal boats of all sorts,a birch-bark canoe, a boat made at the oldboat works in Shell Lake, wooden canoesconstructed from wood strips, restoredsailing boats. Inside the museum, the newexhibits were on display while in theadjoining shop, a half dozen canoes werein various stages of construction orrestoration.The Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Muse-

um is both a musuem dedicated to thebeauty of canoes and a workshop wherethe craft of building boats is carried on.The core of the museum is a collection ofsome 30 classic canoes. The museum, onFront Street in Spooner near the olddepot, is open Wednesdays through Sun-days, through Labor Day and on Satur-days through October.

A birch-bark canoe (right) was one of the many boats on display at the Heritage Day gath-ering in Spooner. – Photos by Gregg Westigard

This canoe was built in 1947 at the boatworks in Shell Lake.

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A double rainbow made for a dramatic sky scene near Amery earlier this month. - Photo byJohn Reed

Out & About - June 2012 Page 13 13Coffee shop starts perking in Grantsburg

by Priscilla BauerLeader staff writer

GRANTSBURG - It was a dream cometrue for Rhonda Miller when her coffeecafe, The Wake-Up Call, opened at itsHwy. 70 location in Grantsburg on Fri-day, March 30.“I’ve been wanting to have a coffee

place for 15 years,” Miller explained tocustomers Nan and Elof Olson as theysipped their lattes.Miller said she didn’t know what to

expect opening day. “All I knew was sev-eral people had been waiting for anothercoffee shop to open. I didn’t advertise,relying on word of mouth for openingday. I felt nervous with high expectations.I just hoped everyone would like whatwe had to offer. Overall, the day wentvery well. We were very busy!” Miller’s decision to finally make her

dream happen came when another popu-lar coffee spot, the Espresso Cabin, closedlast year. “It seemed like a possibility andI started looking into things,” said Miller.“I was able to purchase the Cabin’s

equipment and things just started pro-

gressing forward from there,” explainedMiller of her new venture coming tofruition.As to how she came up with the coffee-

house’s catchy name, Miller admitted shehadn’t been carrying it around in herhead for those 15 years. In fact, just theopposite was true.“You would think for as long as I’ve

wanted to do this, I would’ve had a nameall picked out, but that was not the case.I was actually frustrated about it and lateone night I just said, “OK God, I need aname!” It was like an hour later TheWake-Up Call, clear as a bell, poppedinto my head and I felt like that was it!”The new coffeehouse features specialty

coffees, lattes, smoothies, mochas, Italiansodas and more, plus breakfast and lunchpanini sandwiches all served on home-made bread.The Wake-Up Call is located next to

O’Reilly Auto Parts west of Grantsburgon Hwy. 70 and is open Monday-Fridayat 6 a.m. for coffee, with food served 7a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Weekend hours are 8a.m. to 2 p.m.

Ramona Moody was one of several friends lending a hand at the opening of Rhonda Miller’snew coffee cafe, The Wake-Up Call, Friday, March 30. – Special photo

Getting ready for the opening of her coffee cafe, The Wake-Up Call, was truly a family affairfor Rhonda Miller with her daughters, nieces, sister-in-law, mother and mother-in-law all help-ing get ready for opening day. Pictured (L to R): Karen Miller, Abbey Miller, Karla Retzer, MacyMiller, Jordyn Miller, Rhonda Miller and Amy Chadwick.

Rhonda Miller,owner of Grants-burg’s newest coffeecafe, The Wake-UpCall, held up her firstdollar made at thecafe’s opening on Fri-day, March 30.

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Page 14 Out & About - June 201214DNR making history with land acquisition

Some land coversparts of Washburn,Burnett Counties

MADISON – The Department of Nat-ural Resources announced Thursday,May 17, that it is poised to make thelargest recreational and forestlandacquisition in state history, an easementon 67,346.8 forest acres in Douglas, Bay-field, Burnett and Washburn countiesfrom the Lyme St. Croix Forest Compa-ny.The purchase, to be known as the

Brule-St. Croix Legacy Forest, is locatedat the headwaters of the St. Croix andBois-Brule rivers in the state’s northwestsands area and contains 80 small lakesand ponds, 14 miles of streams and aglobally significant pine barrens habitat.About 20,000 acres of the purchase arelocated within the Brule River State For-est boundaries.“This purchase forever opens access

to hunting, fishing, trapping, hiking,skiing, bird-watching, ATV and snow-mobile trails, portions of the NorthCountry Trail, and extensive habitat fordeer, bear, wolves, woodcock, migratorysongbirds and grouse,” said DNR Secre-tary Cathy Stepp. “At the same time, theland remains in private ownership, onthe tax rolls and will be managed sus-tainably for forestry purposes. It’s awin-win for everybody that will helpmaintain the celebrated forested charac-ter of the north.”The state Natural Resources Board

will review the proposed purchase at itsWednesday, May 23, meeting. Ifapproved, the department will forwardthe proposal to lawmakers and to thegovernor for final approval.“Through new standards and priori-

tizing of our department Knowles-Nel-son Stewardship acquisitions, we wereable to make sure that we had adequatebonding authority to make a purchaseof this magnitude,” said Stepp. “Wethoroughly assess properties to assurewe are getting a good return on invest-ment for the public’s money. When webuy land we choose only the best of thebest, like the Brule-St. Croix ForestLegacy easement.”According to DNR real estate director

Dick Steffes, the transaction is based ontwo phases. Phase I, to be reviewed atthe May 2012 Natural Resources Boardmeeting, is for a working forest ease-ment on 44,679.09 acres at a price of$252 per acre, or $11,260,000 from thestate’s Stewardship Fund. Phase II, alsoan easement, covers 22,667.71 acres at acost of $6,007,000. Phase II is proposedas a 2014 transaction. DNR will applyfor federal forest legacy funds and use

stewardship. Taken together, the projectwould protect 67,346.8 acres as sustain-able, working forestland permanentlyopen to the public for outdoor recre-ation.Working forest (forest legacy) ease-

ments ensure permanent public accessfor recreational enjoyment while theproperty itself remains in private own-ership, keeping property on the taxrolls, allowing sustainable timber har-vest practices and minimizing statecosts with the low easement versus fullownership cost.“We applaud the state for recognizing

that Wisconsin’s natural resources areprecious and should be managed in sus-tainable ways for the benefit of the

regional economy and the environ-ment,” said Tom Morrow, managingdirector, the Lyme Timber Co. “Lymehas a long history of owning and man-aging large forestland properties underconservation easements that provide asteady flow of wood to local mills, regu-lar employment for forest managers andlogging contractors, while allowingpublic recreational access.” Morrowcredited The Conservation Fund forassisting with the transaction.The Lyme property provides wood

products to 12 pulp, saw timber andtelephone pole processing mills andother supporting industries in theregion. The Wisconsin forest productsindustry employs 60,000 workers andprovides $18 billion in economic valuein wood and paper products. Wisconsinleads the nation in employment and thevalue of shipments in the forest prod-ucts industry.“Maintaining large blocks of working

forests is critical to the health of ourindustry,” said Butch Johnson, owner ofJohnson Timber in Hayward and Flam-beau River Papers in Park Falls. “We’veseen the breakup of many of our formerindustrial forests in Wisconsin, andthese conservation easements areinvaluable public-private partnershipsto meet the needs of the public and pro-tect jobs.”The Lyme St. Croix Forest easement

restricts development, requires sustain-able forest practices, limits propertysubdivision and ensures public access aswell as protecting the environmentalvalues of the property. With the comple-tion of the Lyme St. Croix easement,more than 200,000 acres of workingforestlands have been protected throughconservation easements. This preserva-tion effort helps secure materials for theforest products industry for future gen-erations.In 2010, tourism expenditures in this

four-county area totaled $346,578,723and supported 8,791 jobs. Statewide,tourism has more than $12 billion ineconomic impact each year and sup-ports many jobs.The Forest Legacy Program, which is

a strong partnership with the U.S. ForestService, supports efforts to protect pri-vate forestland from being converted tononforest use. The program encouragesand supports acquisition of conserva-tion easements, which are legal bindingagreements that transfer a negotiatedset of property rights from one party toanother without removing the propertyfrom private ownership. — from WDNR

Shaded areas on this map show where more than 67,000 acres of land will eventuallybecome the largest recreational and forestland acquisition in state history through the DNR.The purchase will eventually be known as the Brule-St. Croix Legacy Forest. – from the DNR

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Frederic girl operatesbusiness in her

basementby Mary StirratLeader staff writer

FREDERIC — What does an industri-ous 12-year-old girl do to make somemoney? Maybe baby-sit or mow lawns? Not Greta Johnson of rural Frederic.

For two years now, Greta has been farm-ing worms in her basement, wholesalingthem to local bait stores to supplementthe income she gets from doing herchores.“It’s another way to get pocket

money,” she said.Although it varies widely, the “pocket

money” gets fairly substantial some-times. One week she made $90, and fol-lowed her formula of putting half of itinto the bank to save for college. Onequarter of it is for spending. The finalquarter is also for spending, unless shehas needed to hire her mom to help withsome of the chores.The idea for Greta’s Worm Farm came

when Greta was 10 years old, after shetold her mom, Sue Johnson, that she’dlike to do something to make a little moremoney. The two, along with Greta’s dad,Dale, looked through some books and hitupon worm farming.The worm that Greta settled on is the

European night crawler, a smaller speciesof night crawler that is relatively new tothe market.“It’s the ideal size crawler,” said Tony

Peterson of Great Northern Outdoors inFrederic, where Greta’s Worm Farmcrawlers are sold. “They have a lot ofaction.”They stay lively on the hook, said

Peterson, adding that it’s one of the bestworms for pan fish.“They’re selling pretty good this year,”

he said.The worms are gaining in popularity,

agreed Kent Petersen of The Bottle Shopin Luck. They keep well, whether in the

refrigerator or not, so they can withstanda day in the hot sun.Besides being used as bait, Greta sold a

batch of 2,000 worms to a Milltown manwho is starting an organic farm. She rein-vested the revenue in new stock.Timing is important, Greta indicated,

since the worms must be at least 3 incheslong before they can be sold. She usesher middle finger as the measuring stickto determine which are of salable size. Ittakes about four months to get from theegg stage to 3 inches, said Sue.Greta’s Worm Farm is a great example

of creating a business out of everydaymaterials. Greta used old aluminumwashtubs for her first worms, filling themwith topsoil from a discount store. As thefarm grew, she added some clear plasticbins.The worms are composting worms —

they eat compost, and create compost.“They love coffee grounds,” said Greta.

“They can’t eat chocolate or onions, sortof like a dog, or oranges. They eateggshells, newspapers, not so muchgrass, some chicken feed.”

This species of worm cannot crawl outof the bins, like the Canadian night

crawlers Greta once added to the bins.Members of the Canadian varietyattempted to escape in the night, tum-bling to the cement floor where they werefound, dead and dried, in the morning.There are specific things that Greta

needs to be watching in order to keep herworms healthy and active. One of theseis making sure that the soil doesn’t gettoo acidic, which occurs where there istoo much of the worms’ own compostand not enough nutrients. When thathappens, said Sue, Greta takes out theworms and skims off the top layers of soilwhere the worm eggs are. She mixes thiswith new topsoil and, once again, theworms thrive.She also has to make sure that the

worms have food — not too much, andnot too little — and that the food, itself,has not begun to compost. And each Sun-day, to keep the soil aerated, Greta turnsthe dirt in each bin by hand.European night crawlers, besides being

very active bait, have a tough skin thatholds together well on a hook. It alsomakes them harder for bait-stealers totake. The worms are able to stay aliveand remain active underwater, an addedbonus for attracting panfish.Greta’s Worm Farm worms can be

found at Great Northern Outdoors inFrederic, The Bottle Shop in Luck, andMonty’s Sportsman’s Haven in Milltown.You can purchase them in containers of18 worms or 30 worms.You can also contact Greta directly at715-327-4770.When you get worms from Greta’s

Worm Farm, you not only stand a goodchance of catching a good-sized sunny,you are also helping a local entrepreneurget to college.“If you want something, you have to

work,” said Greta’s mom. “And how elseis a 12-year-old going to get moneyaround here?”

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Greta Johnson, 12-year-old businesswoman and owner of Greta’s Worm Farm, shows theplastic bins where her night crawlers mate, lay eggs, hatch and grow. When they get to be 3inches long she counts them out and puts them in topsoil in blue containers (foreground) tosell. – Photos by Mary Stirrat

Some containers of European nightcrawlers for sale at The Bottle Shop in Luck.The worms are also available at Monty’s inMilltown and Great Northern Outdoors inFrederic.

Greta Johnsonmade her first invest-ment in earthwormstwo years ago, usingthese washtubs tohold her stock. Shehas since expandedher business, and hasalready sold 5,100worms so far thisyear.

At right are full-grown night crawlers ready for sale. At left are young worms and, on GretaJohnson’s palm close to her middle finger, a worm egg.

Greta Johnson sprinkles some chicken feed on a washtub holding her European nightcrawlers.


Tell them you saw it in the Out & About

A sundae driveEver since the first Model T

Ford rolled off the assembly line,Americans have had an infatua-tion with their cars. Most of usrecall names such as Buick orPackard or maybe even PierceArrow but what about Duisenberg, LaSalle, Hudson,Nash or DeSoto? As the classic cars of the 1930s and1940s faded away, the muscle cars of the ‘50s and ‘60smade their appearance. The Ford Mustang or the clas-sic ’55 Chevy now carry hefty price tags and are pam-pered and polished by their owners.No longer was the automobile simply used for

transportation or commuting. It became a focal pointin society as entertainment and dining became con-nected with the family car. The first drive-in theateropened in 1933 and the first Sonic drive-in, whichpromoted the automobile dining experience, openedin 1953 in Oklahoma City, serving hamburgers, hotdogs and root beer. Sonic now has over 3,500 drive-inrestaurants across the country. Recognizing this suc-cess, many independent drive-in eateries were startedand continue to thrive in small towns across America.It was one of these classic American eating estab-

lishments which became our destination one Sunday.

I can’t say that I have a loveaffair with my car. Not any-where near new and certainlynot a classic, it is functional andpaid for so there is little incen-tive to change. After attendingchurch services on Sunday weturned the car toward the local

drive-in and settled into a stall.The carhops were quick to attend to our nutritional

wants and needs. After surveying the menu postedon the sign, we ordered and waited. Most cars todayhave power windows, even older cars, so before wegave our menu selections we had to turn on the carkey.It was perhaps a slightly longer wait than usual but

not to any significant degree. The food was served hotand tasty. A classic cheeseburger and fries and afrosty mug of root beer was my selection and a greatway to begin the seasonal drive-in dining experience.I slurped the icy root beer, savoring the syrupy sweet-ness. We talked, we laughed and we visited withother diners enjoying the same experience. It wasrelaxing and a great way to spend some lazy time ona Sunday afternoon.After licking the last bit of salt from the french fries

off of our fingers, one the passengers in the car decid-

ed to order a vanilla shake. Another order and anoth-er short wait, but we had no plans and no need tohurry off. Finally, it was time to leave. Most dinerssignal their plans for departure by starting the car. Iturned the key but there was no surge of the engine,only a sickly anemic clicking sound from the starter.The dome lights flickered and faded. In disbelief, Iturned the key again and again only to hear the sameclicking. It seemed to be sending out a Morse codesignal to anyone within hearing distance that therewas an idiot behind the wheel. The clicking fadedinto an electronic groan and then silence. The batterywas dead.One of the other diners at the drive-in graciously

agreed to drive to our home and get a pair of jumpercables. He had no choice in the matter, he was ourson-in-law. Since we weren’t going anywhere, weordered again. This time it was a chocolate bananashake and a crème de menthe sundae. We talked andlaughed at our predicament. Frankly, it was veryrelaxing to be stranded at a place where we couldcontinue eating as long as we wanted.Eventually we were rescued. A simple connection of

the cables and we were headed down the road, nonethe worse for being stranded. We actually learned asimple lesson. If you want to recharge your batteries,go for a sundae drive.

Cold TurkeyJohn W. Ingalls MD

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FREDERIC - Tammi’sWildlife Rescue and WellnessCenter had the grand openingof their veterinary clinic Friday,June 1. Known in Frederic as“the pink house,” the clinic islocated just south of Frederic at1502 300th Ave., right acrossfrom Larsen Auto Center.The new nonprofit animal

clinic is the collaboration ofTamara Larson and SuzanneJohnson, DVM. Larson, who isa retired Polk County deputysheriff, has been rehabilitatingwild animals in the area since2006. Johnson has been a vet-erinarian for 20 years. Johnsonhas a special interest in educa-tion and affordable pet healthcare. As of January 2012, Larson

and Johnson decided to com-bine their interests and start anot-for-profit veterinary ser-

vice. “The pink house” willserve two purposes: first, thebusiness will be available forcare six days a week to provideroutine health care for thearea’s pets; second, any sick,injured and orphaned wildlifewill be examined and treated atthe new facility. Rehabilitationfacilities are also set up at theLarson farmstead. At this point, domestic ani-

mals with advanced illness orinjury will be referred to one ofthe veterinary hospitals in thearea. Sterilization and minorsurgeries at reduced pricingwill be performed at the clinic.Anyone interested can call

the clinic at 715-327-4774 toschedule an appointment orcheck out the Web site attammiswildliferescue.com forcontact information and busi-ness hours. - submitted

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pies a portion of what early writersreferred to as the Northwest WisconsinPine Barrens. The "Barrens" is a long,narrow sand plain which extends fromnorthern Polk County to southern Bay-field County and covers 1,500 squaremiles. The southern portion of the Bar-rens, where Crex is located, containsextensive sedge marshes which are rem-nants of Glacial Lake Grantsburg.At the time of settlement, the upland

vegetation in the area now occupied byCrex consisted of a few large red and jackpine (approximately eight per acre) scat-tered throughout an open expanse domi-nated by brush and a variety of prairiegrasses and forbs. The vegetation wasmaintained in this condition by wildfireswhich periodically swept through thearea.Fox, Dakota, and Chippewa Indians

used the area extensively for hunting andgathering. Numerous Indian battles aresaid to have occurred in the region dur-ing the 1600s and the Chippewa Triberuled the area when the first European

settlers arrived in the 1700s.White settlement in the mid-1800s

brought many changes. Settlers triedfarming the sandy upland soils but gen-erally had poor success. Most of thefarming attempts on the uplands weresoon abandoned.With settlement came the first attempts

at fire control. It was primitive at first butas settlement progressed and fire-fight-ing techniques and equipment improved,the number and extent of wildfiresdeclined. In the absence of fire, much ofthe area grew into an oak/jack pine for-est. Prairie wildlife gradually declined asthe brush prairie habitat was lost.Large-scale drainage of wetlands for

farming, initiated in 1890, upset theentire ecological pattern of the marshes.Drainage caused a decline in the numberof nesting and migrant waterfowl andother wetland species, but providedexcellent habitat for prairie chickens andsharp-tailed grouse. Longtime residents'recollections of flocks containing thou-sands of prairie grouse are substantiatedby newspaper accounts from that period.

In the late 1800s the Marshland Farm-ing Company acquired 11,000 acres ofmarsh on which they successfully pro-duced cranberries. They employed sev-eral hundred people to harvest the cran-berry crop and prepare it for shipment.The company abandoned the cranberryoperation after a few years and begandrainage operations to develop themarsh for hay and vegetable production.The Marshland Farming Company

sold out to Mr. Erbes, a developer fromIowa, in 1899. He continued the drainageoperations with the intent of developingfarmland which could be sold as smallerfarms. Most of the land was sold asintended. Marsh hay was harvestedfrom much of the area but production ofother crops was unsuccessful.In 1912, the Crex Carpet Company pur-

chased 23,000 acres of what is now CrexMeadows. The carpet company was anEastern corporation engaged in the pro-duction of grass rugs. Three carpetcamps (camp numbers five, six, andeight) were located in the area. Eachcamp employed 50-100 men who har-

vested "wiregrass" (Carex spp.) from themarshes and shipped it to the factory inSt. Paul where it was made into grass car-pets. The wire grass industry continuedsuccessfully until market conditions andecological changes in the marsh causedbankruptcy of the Crex Carpet Companyin 1933.The history of Crex Carpet Company

was highlighted in the Winter 2006 issueof the Ramsey County (Minnesota) His-torical Society magazine. For more infor-mation about how to order a copy of themagazine and about this important pieceof history, please visit their Web site,http://www.rchs.com/crex/crex.htm.During the Depression and drought

years of the 1930s, further drainage andagricultural attempts failed. By 1940,nearly two-thirds of the land in the areawas tax delinquent. In 1946, the statepurchased 12,000 acres of this tax-delin-quent land to start the Crex MeadowsWildlife Area.

Tammi’s Wildlife Rescue and Wellness Center had the grand openingof their veterinary clinic Friday, June 1. - Photo submitted


Florence Johnson Hanson recalls her timeas maid to a couple who

lived through luxuryliner’s sinkingby Priscilla BauerLeader staff writer

GRANTSBURG – At 94 years of age,macular degeneration and glaucoma mayhave blurred Florence Johnson Hanson’seyesight, but her memory is as clear as theday she stepped through the door of aBlaisdell Avenue mansion in Minneapolisin November of 1937.On that day, Hanson stepped into the

world of the wealthy and the famous.“I never dreamed of seeing anything

like that in my life,” said Hanson of herfirst impression of her new place ofemployment. “I came into this big man-sion with its marble floor (which she laterlearned was the same marble used at theVatican), saw the winding staircase andwas scared out of my wits.”Hanson was 20 years old when she

went to interview with Nellie Snyder for amaid position.Hanson’s aunt, who arranged the inter-

view, told her niece the wealthy couple,who she would eventually serve dinnersto, held a unique distinction: Nellie andJohn Pillsbury Snyder were survivors ofthe Titanic.Twenty-five years earlier, in 1912, the

Snyders boarded the Titanic for a voyagehome after a two-month European honey-moon.When the ship hit the iceberg on the

night of April 15, they would be one of 13newlywed couples put on lifeboats, sur-viving the disaster.Though Hanson said the Snyders didn’t

speak of their experience with family orstaff, she recalls one day when a reportercame to interview Nellie.“I stood outside the door and listened,”

remembered Hanson. “Mrs. Snyder toldthe reporter she was scared to death to geton that ship. Nellie said she had an eeriefeeling about sailing on a ship making itsmaiden voyage, but John told her it wasunsinkable.”

High societyDuring her brief time as the Snyder’s

second-floor maid, Hanson’s eyes wereopened to high-society life in the TwinCities.Hanson recalled one of the lavish par-

ties at the mansion. “It was Nellie andJohn’s daughter Susan’s debutante party.There were so many flowers, everywhere.It was breathtaking.”That evening, Hanson and other staff

served 500 guests dancing the night awayto the music of a full orchestra in the man-sion’s ballroom.“It was so interesting to see all the peo-

ple in their fancy gowns and furs. Man,for money,” remarked Hanson of heremployer’s rich friends.For the most part, Hanson and the other

staff spent their days in mundane maid’swork, cleaning, serving full-course din-ners, and washing dishes, for which Han-son was paid $8 a week.But Hanson did recall one afternoon

when the Snyders were out, and she andanother maid, Elsa, decided to have a littlefun. “We both slid down the staircase ban-isters, but it didn’t go well for me.”“I hit my foot on the lamp at the bottom

and broke the bulbs. I was scared I wasgoing to lose my job, so I called the chauf-feur and he brought new lights. We got itfixed before Nellie and John got home.Those lamps are still there today.”Hanson said another time she and Elsa

were in Nellie’s room when her co-workertried on one of her employer’s gowns.“Elsa was the same size as Nellie and saidshe just wanted to see what it felt like towear such a beautiful gown. We didn’t seeNellie come into the room.”“I can still hear Elsa in her very Swedish

accent, sheepishly apologizing to Mrs.Snyder,” Hanson laughed. “Elsa just told

Nellie she just couldn’t resist putting onthe dress, and Nellie didn’t get mad ather.”Hanson said the Snyder’s daughter,

Susan, also had beautiful clothes. “Susanwas the same age as me,” said Hanson. “Ialways wished she would have given mesome of them.”Hanson said she had no complaints

about working for the Snyders. “Theywere both nice to work for,” commentedHanson. “John was funny, too. We used tosing while we were dusting, and one dayhe came up and teased us about why weweren’t singing. So he must have been lis-tening to us.”

Another boat rideHanson’s employment with the Snyders

was to be short-lived. Though Hansonsaid Nellie Snyder had sworn she wouldnever get on another boat, in January of1938 the couple announced they would beleaving for a three-month vacation to

Europe.“I guess John talked her into going on

another ship after all,” said Hanson.The trip meant less help would be need-

ed for the mansion, and Hanson was toldby the Snyders her services would nolonger be necessary. “Nellie said I couldcheck back after they returned. But bythen I had married and moved to Grants-burg.”Over the years, Hanson has kept up

with her former employers through news-paper articles written about the couple’ssocial life and those related to their Titan-ic experience.Sitting at her kitchen table, Hanson

reached for the envelope holding the nowyellowed clippings. Though she is nolonger able to read them, she can recitefrom the accounts.In one, from a 2000 edition of the Min-

neapolis Tribune, Nellie Snyder told ofhow, in a twist of fate, she and her hus-band only took the Titanic after they were

unable to take the ship they originally hadreservations for. The article confirms whatHanson remembers overhearing Snydertell the reporter back in 1937.The article quotes Snyder’s daughter as

saying her mother and father didn’t wantto talk about the Titanic for a long time, asHanson also remembered.Other articles give the Snyders account

of the night the ship sank, telling of howthe couple, sharing the uppermost deck ofthe ship with other newlywed couples,were awakened by a crash.The article goes on to say the Snyders

and the other newlyweds were some ofthe first passengers getting to thelifeboats.Though some of the passengers refused

to get in the boats, still believing the shipwas unsinkable, the young couples, afterhearing someone say, “Put brides andgrooms in first, ” climbed in.And in a clipping Hanson saved of a

1912 interview for the Minneapolis Jour-nal, John Snyder gave his own chillingaccount of the night the iceberg hit.Snyder said as they stood by the

lifeboats he heard someone say familiesshould stay together. Snyder rememberedpeople looking untrustingly at the smalllifeboats swinging over the dark waterbelow.The Snyders, with 24 other passengers

and three crewmen to row, spent fivehours in the lifeboat before being rescuedby the Carpathia, a trans-Atlantic passen-ger steamship that was nearest to theTitanic.Snyder said when the boat began to fill

with water, he and his wife rememberedboating on Lake Minnetonka and the plugfor the boat’s bottom, which they foundand replaced.Hanson said one of the articles she kept

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Florence Johnson Hanson held one of the clippings she saved of a story about Titanic sur-vivors John Pillsbury Snyder and his wife, Nellie. Hanson worked as a maid for the couple attheir Minneapolis mansion in the 1930s. - Photos by Priscilla Bauer unless otherwise noted

John Pillsbury Snyder and wife, Nellie, areshown after stepping off the Carpathia, theship that rescued them from their lifeboat inthe North Atlantic. They are wearing theclothes they wore that fateful night of April15, 1912. Nellie, often referred to as Nelle,used her hat to help bail out the lifeboat theywere in. She is listed in her husband’s 1959obituary as “the former Nelle Stevenson ofSt. Croix Falls, Wis.” Below, the front pageof the New York Herald, with stories fromsurvivors. - Photo above, Philip Weiss Auctions

Florence Johnson Hanson started working as a maid in John and Nellie Snyder’s mansionon Blaisdell Avenue in Minneapolis in November of 1937. Hanson is pictured on the right withthe chauffeur’s daughter. – Photo submitted


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LEWIS – It was as normal as any otherday for Geno Cummings on the morningof Tuesday, May 22, when he received acall from the village of Frederic, asking ifhe had time to help a couple of men whohad a weather balloon stuck in a tree nearLewis. Cummings is a professional lum-berjack who performs all across the coun-try in logrolling, chain-saw carving andaxe throwing, and of course, pole climb-ing. The weather balloon was over 50 feetin a tree, and Cummings was the perfectman for the job.“At first I thought, ‘yeah whatever,’”

said Cummings, but he soon learned thetwo men were for real, and grabbed hishooks and headed for a piece of propertynear Lewis.The two men were Kerry Rosenhagen

and Ryan Johnson from a group out of

the Twin Cities called BHALDI, alsoknown as balloon-based high-altitudedigital imaging. The group works withhigh school students and other groups tosend cameras to space and back, usingplastic foam coolers attached to a heli-um-filled weather balloon.This is the seventh launch by the

group, who was working along with CubScout Pack 270 out of Rosemount, Minn.,for this particular launch.“This is about as far as we’ve had them

go. And usually they fly like east andsouth more than they go northeast,” saidRosenhagen.When a balloon is launched, Rosen-

hagen and Johnson explained, the bal-loon is about six feet in diameter, andeventually climbs to 95,000 feet, takingstill photos and video along its path tospace, taking some breathtaking photosand capturing atmospheric data, baro-

metric pressure and temperature insideand outside of the plastic foam cooler.They also have an accelerometer to seehow fast it’s moving and shaking around.As the balloon rises farther into the

atmosphere and the air pressure decreas-es, it expands to a size of about 36 to 40feet in diameter and pops. It then fallsback to Earth with the aid of a parachute.A GPS tracking device is also on board, sothey can track its every move, and even-tually its whereabouts. In this case, 50feet up in a tree near Lewis.“When we get two points from the

same spots, we know it’s landed,” John-son said.

In the seven launches the group hasdone, none have been lost, and they’llcontinue to plan more in the future. Thegroup started as a school project, but itturned out to be so much fun, they decid-ed to do more. The BHALDI team is alsointerested in doing other science andengineering projects in the future inhopes to expand. They have a Web site upalong with past missions and images atwww.bhaldi.org, as well as a Facebookpage.“We just do it for schools and kids, and

it’s just fun,” said Rosenhagen.

Geno Cummings (center) holds a weather balloon he helped retrieve from 50 feet up in atree on Tuesday, May 22. Kerry Rosenhagen, (left) and Ryan Johnson launched the weatherballoon from Lakeville, Minn., and it ended up landing in Lewis. Rosenhagen and Johnson arepart of a group called balloon-based high altitude digital imaging. – Photo by Marty Seeger

Just one of hundreds of still photos that was captured by a weather balloon, that eventual-ly landed near Lewis. – Photo submitted

had a photo of the couple after their return, still wearingthe clothes they had on when picked up by the Carpathia.Hanson noted Nellie Snyder was said to have used herhat to bail water out of the leaking lifeboat.

LegacyHanson’s granddaughters, Amy and Kristi, who were

interested in their grandmother’s life and naturally in herconnection to a couple surviving the Titanic disaster,have, with their daughters, been compiling a history ofHanson’s employment with the Snyder family.Granddaughter Amy started by contacting the Pills-

bury mansion’s present owner, Russell Underdahl, andthen, Charlotte Forsythe, the Snyders granddaughter. Great-granddaughters Megan, Holly and Emma have

also shown great interest in their grandmother’s life, withHolly putting together a video for a school project, whichincluded a slide show of the mansion pictures inter-spersed with audio of the conversation between Under-dahl and Hanson. Great-granddaughter Megan is currently working on a

4-H presentation with a video of her grandma's history,touching on the Titanic.

Visit to the mansion“After contact was made with Mr. Underdahl, my

mother was able to visit the mansion this past Novemberand had a wonderful visit with him,” said Hanson’sdaughter, Jane Bell. “She was able to tell him, his son and daughter-in-law

many things about the history of the mansion and theSnyder family, of which they were unaware. “

Bell said four generations were present at her mother’smeeting with the Underdahl family, herself, her daugh-ters and their children.“Amy then initiated a visit with Charlotte Forsythe, the

Snyders granddaughter,” said Bell.“So we all went again in December and had a really

nice visit with Charlotte, Bell recalled. “My motherenjoyed relating some of her experiences and things sheknew about the family and the house.”This April marks the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s

sinking. A 3-D version of the popular 1997 movie is beingreleased this week. Articles have again begun appearingin the Twin Cities press reprinting survivor accountsfrom old newspaper articles.Hanson will mark the anniversary in her own way, by

remembering and recalling her time in service to theTitanic survivors she knew so many years ago.

On the day Florence Johnson Hanson went for an inter-view with the Snyder family, she stepped into the world ofthe wealthy and the famous. “I never dreamed of seeing any-thing like that in my life,” said Hanson of her first impressionof her new place of employment. “I came into this big man-sion with its marble floor, looked up at the winding staircaseand was scared out of my wits.” - Special photo

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Family Dollar may come to Websterby Sherill Summer

Leader staff writerWEBSTER - Family Dollar would like to

build a store in Webster, just south of thenew library on Hwy. 35. The first step for the franchise was to

obtain some variances from the WebsterVillage Board: one variance for the num-ber of parking spaces, one for the rear set-back and one for the curb cut along CedarStreet. Family Dollar also needs permission

from the DOT for a service entrance alongHwy. 35. A public hearing was held onthe matter on Wednesday, May 9, and the

board did eventually give approval to thethree variances contingent on the board’sapproval of the building design. Family Dollar had surveyor Mark

Krause of Wagner Surveying Associatesrepresent them at the public hearing, andthey provided a packet of informationcontaining some of the history of the com-pany, the number of jobs the store isexpected to provide – three full time, eightpart time – information on the variancerequests and a layout drawing of thebuilding size and the proposed location ofthe building – on west side of the lot,away from the highway and across the

street from the community center. Whatthe packet did not include was any infor-mation on the building design. The only member of the public to speak

at the public hearing was Wayne King,owner of Wayne’s Foods Plus in Webster,Danbury and Luck. Before he commentedon Family Dollar, he made it clear that hedid not oppose Family Dollar expandingin Webster. He then raised concerns aboutthe type of building Family Dollar wouldplace next to the new library, pointing outthat approving the variances, or notapproving the variances, was the onlyleverage the board had in influencing the

design of the building. Webster village Trustee Tim Maloney

echoed that comment, sharing that othervillage residents had expressed concern tohim about the possibility that a “tin build-ing” would be placed next to the library.Design concerns, then, shaped the

motion passed by the village board. As of Tuesday, May 15, nearly a week

after the public hearing, Family Dollarhad not provided building designs for theboard’s approval. There is, however,ongoing discussion between the villageboard and Family Dollar.


New ATV/UTV rules call for rear license plate as of July 1Downloadable

pamphlet detailschanges passed bystate Legislature

MADISON – A mandatory rear licenseplate for all ATVs and UTVs is among thenew rules slated to take effect on July 1 aspart of a regulation package passed earli-er this year by the Wisconsin Legislature.Since first notice of these rule changes

was issued in April by the WisconsinDepartment of Natural Resources, therehas been some public confusion andquestions.Warden Gary Eddy, also the ATV

administrator for the DNR Bureau ofLaw Enforcement, says he has often beenasked why the new state law requires theplate and what it is supposed to accom-plish.“The legislation had strong support

from the ATV/UTV community and landmanagers; it is the DNR responsibility toimplement the change,” Eddy said. “Therules are modeled after similar rules inplace in Minnesota.”Like on a car, the plates will help with

identification when it comes to theft pre-vention, complaints and questions abouttrail use or operation, Eddy said.

Major changes beginning July 1include:• ATVs and UTVs are required to dis-

play a registration ID number on a rearplate. Obtaining the plate is the owner’sresponsibility. Plates are not provided bythe department. Plates must be a mini-mum of 4 inches high and a 7-1/2 incheswide. The plate has to be white and theletters and numbers black and a mini-mum of 1-1/2 inches high.• UTVs will follow nearly all the ATV

laws, except where specifically refer-enced.• UTVs will have a specific UTV regis-

tration decal and nonresident trail pass.• A new five-day ATV and UTV non-

resident trail pass will be available.

• Registrations and annual trail passeswill expire March 31.• A late fee will be assessed for cus-

tomers renewing their registration afterthe expiration date.• UTV passengers may not ride in the

vehicle’s bed.• A downloadable pamphlet detailing

these changes is available on the DNRWeb site.For more information search ATV on

the DNR Web site at www.dnr.wi.gov. –from the DNR

Local ATV club members headed to International Fallsby Priscilla BauerLeader staff writer

SIREN - Members of the local ATVcommunity were ready to set out on anexciting expedition on Sunday, June 10,headed for International Falls, Minn. The group was planning to head out

from Siren and then hit the trail in Dan-bury for their three-day ride led by LarryKoch and Ken Nelson.After moving back to Siren after a 39-

year career in the recreation business,Koch wanted ways to promote the sportof ATVing. When Koch met Nelson, who shared a

passion for the sport, as Koch put it, “Theadventure started.”“Our first ATV adventure was from

Minnesota to Michigan and across thestate of Wisconsin,” recalled Koch. “Wewere joined by three other riders, RickThompson, Harold Beedy and JohnKielkucki. We made the trip in 1-1/2days.”Turf and Tundra President Rick

Thompson and state of Wisconsin ATVClub treasurer Greg Olson will join Koch,Nelson, and Bill and Lyle Nelson for theride from Siren to Canada.

“The ride is a way to promote tourismand to help create more new employmentopportunities in the towns we passthrough,” explained Koch. “We will alsobe promoting the use of ATV trails andATV safety.”Members will also be promoting Bur-

nett County on their northern trek. Bur-nett Dairy has given the group a supplyof cheese to distribute to chambers ofcommerce in communities they travelthrough, a tasty enticement to come for avisit in this area.Koch said the group plans to continue

working with local chambers of com-merce to create better trails and moreroutes, which will attract more businessfor local communities.Koch invited all riders interested in

taking an adventurous ride to contact thegroup. “Our team will help lay out aroute.”Koch said the club would also assist

riders looking for help in opening routesfrom towns to towns in the county.For more information on ATV trip

planning and trail routes contact Koch at612-750-6766 or Olson at 612-280-1220. –with submitted information

When Larry Koch and Ken Nelson learned they shared a passion for the sport of ATVing,as Koch put it, “The adventure started.” The pair’s first ATV adventure was a trip from Min-nesota to Michigan and across the state of Wisconsin. On Sunday, June 10, they led a groupon this year’s adventure, a three-day ride from Siren to International Falls, Minn. – Photo sub-mitted

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Special to the Leader

WEBSTER – On Monday, May 14, Web-ster's school newspaper, the Bridge, washonored with the recognition of first placefor General Excellence Award from theWisconsin Newspaper Association. Theaward was given to the Bridge for solidnews coverage and nice newspaperdesign elements.Miss Rank, the Bridge advisor, is very

proud of her students for this accomplish-ment, which required much hard work,time and effort to get to. The Bridge stu-dents were also very happy at the news oftheir 2012 achievement. The Bridgeextends gratitude to the other students ofWHS, the staff, the administration and

the entire Webster community for theirsupport toward the local school and com-munity newspaper. Support allowed thislevel of recognition to be reached by thehardworking students of the Bridge. Each year, The Bridge enters the WNA

Better Newspaper Contest to recognizestudent achievements in high schoolnewspapering. There are several differentcategories that the Bridge can enter, fromeditorial writing, pictures or designingads to general excellence. Each year, TheBridge enters the general excellence cate-gory. In 2010, the Bridge received honor-able mention from the WNA. The Bridgereceived third place in 2011. This year theBridge received first place for generalexcellence. Congratulations to the Bridgeand their staff.

Shown (L to R): Kendel Mitchell, Mark Packard, Tristan Kingbird, Hannah Horwath, MissRank, Ashly Sanford, Stefanie Wambolt, Nathan Puttbrese and Andrew Morse. Missing fromthe picture are several current and previous Bridge staff members. – Photo by Charlie Mahlen

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change at any time without notice. † 1-Year Limited Warranty: Eligible units are new and unused 2010 to 2013 Can Am Outlander and Renegade ATVs as well as 2011 to 2013 Can-Am side-by-side vehicles. The buyer of eligible units will receive the 6- month BRP Limited Warranty plus a 6-month B.E.S.T. extended service contract subject to a $50 deduct ible on each repair. Exception for Florida residents who will receive the 6-month BRP Limited Warant y plus an additional 6-month BRP Limited Warranty. See a participating BRP dealer for details and to receive a copy of the BRP Limited Warran ty and B.E.S.T. contract. ‡ FINANCING OPTIONS: Financing as Low as 3.9% APR for 36 months: Eligible units are new and unused 2010 to 2013 Can-Am ATVs as well as 2011 to 2013 Can-Am side-by-side vehicles. On a purchase where the Amount Fin anced is $8,000, your Down Payment is $0 with 36 monthly payments of Tiers A - B Customers: $235.85 each. ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE 3.9%. Tier C Customers: $243.04 each. ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE 5.9%. These financing programs are offe red by Sheffield Financial, a Division of BB&T Financial, FSB. Minimum Amount Financed $1,500; Maxim um Amount Financed $40,000. Subject to a credit approval. Approval, and any rates and terms provided, are based on credit worthiness. Other financing offers available. Financing promotions void where prohibited. BRP is not responsible for any errors, change s or actions related to financing provided by Sheffield Financial. BRP reserves the right, at any time, to discontinue or ch ange specifications, prices, designs, features, models or equipment without incurring obligation. So me models depicted may include optional equipment. BRP highly recommends that all ATV drivers take a training course. For safety and training information, see your dealer or call the ATV Safety Institute at 800-887-2887. ATVs can be hazardous to operate. For your safety: always wear a helmet, eye protection and other protective clothing. Never carry passengers on any ATV not specifically designe d by the manufacturer for such use. All adult model Can Am ATVs are Category G ATVs (General Use Models) intended for recreation and/or utility use by an operator age 16 or older. For side-by-side vehicles (SxS): Read the BRP side-by-si de Operator’s Guide and watch the Safety DVD before driving. For your safety: wear a helmet, eye pro tection and other protective gear. Fasten lateral net and seat belt at all times. Operator must be at least 16 years old. Passenger must be at least 12 ye ars old and able to hold handgrips and plant feet while seated against the backrest. ATVs and SxS are for off-road use only; never ride on paved surfaces or public roads. Always remember that riding and alcohol/drugs don’t mix. Never engage in s tunt driving. Avoid excessive speed and be particularly careful on difficult terrain. Ride responsibly. 9100199

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HURRY! OFFER ENDS SOON! ©2012 Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. (BRP). All rights reserved. TM, ® and the BRP logo are t rademarks of BRP or its affiliates. Products are distributed in the U.S.A. by BRP U.S. Inc. “Offer i s valid in U.S.A. on new and unused 2011 & 2012 Sea-Doo® PWC models purchased between June 1, 2012, to July 31, 2012. † W ARRANTY : Eligible units will receive 2-year coverage (12 months of BRP Limited Warranty and 12 months of BRP Extended Service Term (B.E.S.T.) subject to a $50 deductible on each repair.) Florida residents receive a 2-year BRP Limited Warranty. Subject to the exclusions., limitations of liabilit ies and all other terms and conditions of BRP’s standard limited warranty and B.E.S.T. contract, including without lim itation the exclusions of damages caused by abuse, abnormal use or neglect. ‡FINANCING: The financin g program is offered by Sheffield Financial, a Division of BB&T Financial, FSB. Minimum Amount Financed $1,500; M aximum Amount Financed: $50,000. Subject to credit approval; not all applicants will qualify for cre dit. Approval, and any rates and terms provided, are based on credit worthiness. Other financing options are availa ble. See you Sea-Doo dealer for details. **REBATE: Up to $500 rebate on 2011 models (rebate amount d epends on the model purchased). Offer subject to change without notice. Offer may not be assigned, traded, sol d or combined with any other offer unless expressly stated herein. Other condition and some restrict ions may apply. Offer void where prohibited by law. See you participating Sea-Doo dealer for details. BRP reserves t he right, at any time, to discontinue or change specifications, prices, designs, features, models or equipment without incurring any obligation. Always ride responsibly and safely. Follow all instructional and safety ma terials. BRP recommends a minimum operator age of 16 years old. Always observe applicable laws and r egulations. Respect the rights of shoreline residents, and keep a safe distance from other recreationists. Alway s wear appropriate protective clothing, including a Coast Guard-approved PFD that is suitable for PW C use. Always remember that riding and alcohol/drugs don’t mix. 2107163

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