The Star News January 22 2015

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Going to
the voters
Hot shooting sends

Raiders past Hornets
Rib Lake petition could trigger

referendum on energy upgrades
Sports
by Reporter Mark Berglund
Warm weekend
brings out racers
Ask Ed
Slippery roads
Local economy
moving forward
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Commentary
Merger is a bad idea
Opinion
Area deaths
Obituaries start on
page 14 for:
Jacque Humm
Helen Martin
Mary Polacek
Elnora Ripley
John Schutten
Ronald Simek
Ann Wozniak
Eugene Zakrzewicz
Louise Zirngibl
photo by Brain Wilson
Firefighters from the Medford Area Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle

crash on CTH O near Gibson Dr. at 7:57 a.m. Wednesday. The incident blocked traffic leading to industrial parks until the vehicles could be removed from the ditches and
the road reopened. While damage was listed as moderate, one person was transported
from the scene. A complete accident report will appear in next weeks issue of The
Star News.
The Rib Lake School District received a petition on

Saturday which will force a school board decision before moving forward with building renovations aimed
at improving energy efficiency and meeting the terms
of Act 32. The law allows school districts which follow
the rules to spend beyond state revenue caps for maintenance. In districts where a school board resolution authorizes the move, there is a 30-day window for voters
to file a petition and ask for referendum support before
moving forward.
The Rib Lake School Board will meet Monday at 6
p.m. in the board meeting room to decide if it will take
the matter to an April 7 referendum to ask for support
or drop the plan.
The petition circulators filed their paperwork with
school board clerk Marlene Rhymer on the 30th day of
the window. Board members George Zondlo and Steve
Martin delivered the petition to Rhymer.
See RIB LAKE on page 3
County spikes referendum, continues cuts

by News Editor Brian Wilson
The Taylor County board last week secondguessed itself with the main order of business
undoing two actions they had taken at the October session.
Taylor County wont seek a referendum to
exceed the revenue cap this spring.
At the Jan. 15 county board session, supervisors voted to kill the referendum over concerns
about timing and the uncertainty of the states
upcoming budget.
At the October county board session, supervisors had voted to ask taxpayers for a $1
million property tax exemption. However, at
a subsequent meeting of the finance and personnel committees, some supervisors began to
have second thoughts.
We felt at this time it is not a good time to
go ahead with it, said Chuck Zenner, chair of
the finance committee. We felt we were not
prepared to do it. I know not everyone agrees

with this.
County accountant Larry Brandl advised
caution when deciding on the referendum.
I dont think the timing
is quite right, he said. Instead, Brandl

suggested the county may want to wait
and see what happens at the state level
before going to voters with a referendum. I would postpone it indefinitely
to determine what is happening, he
said. Things may change again. I am
not sure they will be changing favorably for counties.
Down the road it may be
more imperative, he said.
Supervisor Lester
Lewis, a major proponent of the referendum
when it was approved in
October, said he continued
to support it. I still think it
is a good idea, but it has met a lot
of resistance, he said. He
Supervisors Tim Hansen, Dave Makovsky listen as human services director Amber Fallos states the need for a finance manager.
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Highway department to cut $100,000

Taylor County is turning to its departments to ask for help in making budget
cuts.
The county highway committee on
Tuesday directed commissioner Jess
Sackmann to come up with $100,000
worth of cuts or new revenues in the
highway department budget.
Sackmann had asked for direction
on budget cuts as to whether the county
board would set an amount they wanted
to cut or if they would cut specific items.
The $100,000 amount would be about a 5
percent decrease in the highway budget
Committee chair Scott Mildbrand said
he felt it should be up to the department
head to determine where cuts should
take place. Sackmann said the $100,000
cut would return the county highway
budget to about where it was in 2014 and
be about a 5 percent cut. It would also be
about one-fifth of the county-wide target
amount set when the finance and personnel committees began the budget cutting
process.
You have a job to do, do it, said committee member Rollie Thums. Thums
said he supported having the decision
about what cuts to make come from the
departments rather than from the board.
County board chairman Jim Metz
agreed, saying the county board needs
to ask the departments for their help in
the budget. Sackmann said he planned
to take it a step further and distribute
Correction
Last weeks article about Dr. Dave

Krigbaum opening a satellite office in
Medford included information that was
incorrectly provided to The Star News.
Dr. Lon Melbinger is not slowing down
his practice and will be continuing to see
patients as he has for the past 40 years.
Community Calendar
Gamblers Anonymous Meetings
Call 715-297-5317 for dates, times and
locations.
an anonymous survey to all highway department workers asking them to identify areas that could show increased efficiencies. He said the surveys were used
in 2008 and looking back, he noted they
implemented many of the changes suggested by workers.
He also said a proposed change at the
state level may make budgeting easier for
counties and municipalities. Sackmann
reported the governors budget is expected to include a provision which would
exempt money spent on local transportation from the levy cap. Currently, the
state has capped the amount governments can levy, a move that has left many
frugal municipalities struggling to pay
for needed road projects. Sackmann said
as he understood it, the change would allow the local units of government to levy
up to their cap and then exceed that for
the cost of local transportation. In the
case of Taylor County, this could, in effect, allow the county to exceed the levy
cap by the $2 million in levy dollars spent
on the highway department.
In other business, committee members:
Approved a change in policy when
it comes to payment for placing of ATV
route signs. The previous policy had the
ATV groups requesting the road route to
pay for the signs up front and then pay
for the labor of the highway department
installing them later. The problem, Sackmann said, is that payment for the labor
costs is slow in coming. The county finally received payment on Jan. 5 for signs
placed in early July. The new policy will
have the highway department determine
a lump-sum cost based on an estimated
amount of labor involved and require
that to be paid in advance before any
signs are installed.
Approved hiring Ayres Associates
to do the engineering to replace a bridge
on CTH T near Burma Dr. and Mead and
Hunt to do the engineering on a bridge
ing 715-748-1491.
Disabled
American
Veterans
(DAV) Jump River 31 Meeting 7:30
p.m. Legion Clubhouse, 224 N. Powell,
Stetsonville.
TRUCKS
TRUCKS
TRUCKS
Road Patching Trucks

COST TO USE
1984 with 264,270 miles & 268 Hours* $11.16/hr.
Backup Plow Trucks
2001 with 145,460 miles
2002 with 135,750 miles
2002 with 151,682 miles
2003 with 141,790 miles
Alcoholics Anonymous Open 12

Step Study Meeting 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 510 E.
Broadway, Medford.
Monday, Jan. 26
Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS)
1013 of Rib Lake Meeting Weighin 6 p.m. Meeting 6:30 p.m. Rib Lake Senior Citizens Center, Hwy 102 and Front
Street. Information: Mary 715-427-3593 or
Sandra 715-427-3408.
Taylor County Right to Life Meeting 6:30 p.m. Frances L. Simek Memorial Library, 400 N. Main St., Medford.
Everyone welcome.
Alzheimers Support Group Meeting 1:30 p.m. Multi-purpose Building,
corner Hwy 13 and 64, Medford. Information: Taylor County Commission on Ag-
169
236
165
368
Hours*
Hours*
Hours*
Hours*
Plow Trucks
2003 with 175,376 miles & 546 Hours*
2004 with 154,174 miles & 585 Hours*
2004 with 155,238 miles & 554 Hours*
2005 with 166,722 miles & 598 Hours*
2005 with 158,490 miles & 705 Hours*
2009 with 65,501 miles & 631 Hours*
2015 with 4,353 miles
2015 with 3,274 miles
Trucks Not In Service Yet
2015 with 0 miles
2015 with 0 miles
$57.02/hr.
$56.75/hr.
$49.32/hr.
$30.03/hr.
$29.61/hr.
$34.49/hr.
$49.11/hr.
$35.00/hr.
$29.29/hr.
$28.72/hr.
$32.55/hr.
$28.64/hr.
$28.31/hr.
$28.09/hr.
$26.94/hr.
$27.38/hr.
*2013 hours
deck replacement on CTH O near Melvin

Company. The work is part of the state
bridge aid program and the county was
given the task of selecting the engineers.
Sackmann said his selection was based
on their experience in working with
bridges in the state.
Approved filling a vacancy left with
the retirement of Rick Carstensen from
the highway department. Sackmann
noted the county is already operating
with one staff member down compared to
the past and it was felt being two people
down would be difficult for the department. The request to fill the position will
next go to the personnel committee for
approval.
Medford Lions Club Meeting Dinner 6:30 p.m. B.S. Bar & Grill, W4782 Hwy
64, Medford. Information: 715-785-7573.
Womens Empowerment Group
Meeting 6-7 p.m. Information: Stepping Stones 715-748-3795.
Tuesday, Jan. 27
Sunday, Jan. 25
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Thursday, Jan. 29
Medford Rotary Club Meeting

Breakfast 6:45 a.m. Filling Station Cafe
& Bar, 884 W. Broadway Ave., Medford.
Information: 715-748-0370.
Al-Anon Meeting 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 510 E.
Broadway, Medford. Information: 715427-3613.
Alcoholics Anonymous Open Topic
Meeting 7 p.m. Community United
Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford.
Overeaters Anonymous Meeting
7 p.m. Hwy 64 and Main Street, Medford.
Information: 715-512-0048.
Medford Kiwanis Club Meeting

Noon lunch. Frances L. Simek Memorial
Library, 400 N. Main St., Medford. Information: 715-748-3237.
Medford Association of Rocket Science (MARS) Club Meeting 6-9 p.m.
First Floor Conference Room, Taylor
County Courthouse, 224 S. Second St.,
Medford. Everyone welcome. Information: 715-748-9669.
Alcoholics
Anonymous
Closed
Meeting 7 p.m. Community United
Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford.
Wednesday, Jan. 28
Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
7 p.m. Senior Citizens Center, Hwy 102
and Front Street, Rib Lake. Information:
Arlene 715-427-3613.
Narcotics Anonymous Open Meeting 7 p.m. Community United Church

of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford. Information: 715-965-1568.
Friday, Jan. 30
7-Day Forecast for Medford, Wisconsin
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2015
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Norgaard files suit over past taxes

Norgaard seeks $6,000 in
overpaid taxes from Rib Lake
by Reporter Sue Hady
A long-standing dispute between Rib Lake residents
Ken and Renee Norgaard and the Rib Lake Board of
Trustees took a contentious turn when Ken Norgaard
made allegations of unethical conduct against trustee
Bill Schreiner. Speaking under the citizen comments
agenda item at the meeting on Jan. 14, Ken Norgaard alleged that Schreiner had underpaid property taxes on
Rib Lake Roller Mills equipment, a charge which was
vigorously denied by Schreiner.
In the first place, I havent owned the mill for five
years, said Schreiner.
You are an incorporated member, claimed Norgaard.
No I am not, replied Schreiner, who attempted to
explain how property taxes on the business, now owned
by his son, have been handled. Norgaard interrupted
Schreiner to disagree with his explanation, whereupon
village board president Wayne Tlusty directed Norgaard
to be quiet and listen to what Schreiner was saying.
Ken, I ask you to listen to what he has to say. We listened to what you had to say, did we not? asked Tlusty.
Okay, Ill listen, Norgaard responded. Norgaard
also said he had been checking on some tax roll information at the village hall recently. I was the one person on
Lakeshore Dr. that got a 5 percent increase. The mil rate
went down, so it looked like I got a cut. He continued,
On Lakeshore Dr. I have two neighbors that are board
members, Wayne Tlusty directly to the south of me, and a
few doors down, Bill Schreiner. Norgaard claimed that
in 2013 and 2014 the valuation of Tlustys and Schreiners property remained level. They stayed the same as
board members and bumped me up 5 percent. And that I
find egregious, said Norgaard. Village officials later indicated that Norgaards 2014 property tax bill was lower
compared to the previous year by more than 1 percent.
Ken, do you think this board sets the property tax
amount? asked Tlusty.
No I dont. But Im saying ethics. And if hes going to
be our next village president, the citizens need to know
that [tax assessor] Bob Irwin and Bill Schreiner got their
hands in each others pockets. Norgaard went on to say,
I believe, Wayne, that theres an ethics problem here in
our government. And I understand from the paper filings
that I have read in the newspaper that Bill intends to be
our next village president.
This drew comments from board members who rebuked Norgaard for personal attacks against members of
the village board.
Heres how Ill sum it up, said Norgaard. In calendar year 2011 our longtime village of Rib Lake board
member and Lakeshore Dr. neighbor, Bill Schreiner,
would not stand up for me in my local North Garden Tree
business as a peer in the Rib Lake business community.
I had made a mistake on my personal property taxes and
overpaid them by $6,000 during a five year time period,
2006-10. Norgaard acknowledged he was reimbursed for
an overpayment in tax year 2010, but claims the village
still owes him for overpayments made in previous years.
At an earlier meeting, the board denied Norgaards request for reimbursement for what he believes he overpaid in personal property taxes for tax years 2006-09.
As Norgaard continued to review the history of his
property tax dispute with the village, Tlusty said, Wrap
it up Ken because weve heard this three times. Norgaard continued speaking and Tlusty pounded the gavel
on the desk, cutting him off. Next item of business, said
Tlusty. At that point Norgaard said his wife, Renee, had
some comments.
Renee Norgaard advocated for a reduction in the size
of the village board along with hiring a professional
manager to take some of the power away from the board
of trustees in its oversight of day-to-day operations.
Tlusty responded, Renee, do you know how much
these board members get paid a year? Its a question. Fifteen hundred. Tlusty went on to explain, If we had a
village manager for sixty, seventy, eighty thousand, that
would be the range. Tlusty urged her to finish her comments, quickly.
A leading prominent business person has been telling Ken and I that your goal here is to run us out of town,
by your behavior. That being said, I am serving the summons and complaint on the village and on the board of
trustees regarding our overpaid taxes. At this point she
stood up and delivered the paperwork to the dais and the
Norgaards left the meeting. The summons and complaint
order gives the village 20 days to respond before further
action could take place through the circuit court.

Under other business, Scott Zondlo and two other
members of the SWAT Snowmobile Club attended the
meeting, explaining the club maintains the snowmobile
trail system in Rib Lake. Zondlo said the club was requesting modification to the trail system which would allow for alternate access to the lake. The board approved,
on a one year trial basis, a one-half block extension of the
trail on Railroad St. to allow for access to the lake.
The board took action to convert the remainder of
holiday decorative lights to LED lights. It was reported
that according to the director of public works, Jerry Butler, the village paid about $600 for electricity for holiday
lighting. However, with LED lights, the bill would be reduced to less than $100. The board approved the purchase
of new LED lights not to exceed $700.
There were no citizens present who chose to comment
on the Search Grant. The grant money is to be used for
engineering studies on a facilities plan for the wastewater treatment plant. A related comprehensive survey was
originally planned which would have surveyed all households in the village of Rib Lake, but it was reported by
Tlusty that MSA Professional Services is now planning
to conduct a random survey of a sample of village residents. Concerns continue to be expressed by the board
that residents might overstate their income which could
affect eligibility for grant funding.
The board took action to deny payment for a claim
filed to cover basement flooding at the residence of
George and Christie Grubbs on Pearl St. There is also
a separate matter involving the restoration of landscaping at the Grubbs residence when the public works department had to dig up a broken water main last February. With regard to the basement flooding, however, the
board concurred with the recommendation of Statewide
Services, Inc., the insurance company administering
claims for the League of Wisconsin Municipalities Mutual Insurance which covers the village of Rib Lake. In
correspondence sent to the village, the insurance company contends the July and August 2014 flooding of the
basement was due to heavy rain onto already saturated
ground, and was not under the control or the result of
negligence by the village. The insurance company contends that a small leak in a neighbors lateral would not
have caused the flooding.
The board established rates for the rental use of the
jetter truck and sander truck. The board established a
rate of $150 per hour for use of the jetter truck to respond
to private sewer blockages. This rate was set in order to
compensate the village for costs to provide this service
on a very limited basis. The board also established a rate
of $65 per hour plus the cost of sand to cover the sanding for the public schools. It was reported by trustee Bob
Carpenter that about a ton of sand is generally required.
The board allocated 2014 carryover funds of $177,676 to
various line items in the 2015 budget.
Rib Lake petition

Continued from page 1
Both men voted against the resolution at the December board meeting when it was approved. Petition circulators needed valid signatures from 20 percent of the
voter total, which is 260, in the Nov. 2014 general election. Rhymer verified 298 valid signatures.
The December resolution called for borrowing up to
$4 million to pay for various energy efficiency projects
as identified by the districts performance contractor.
At its January meeting, the board cut some of the proposed projects from the list to reduce cost.
In addition to the ability to find a revenue cap exemption, district administrator Lori Manion said the timing
of the resolution would take advantage of a significant
drop in the districts debt service levy in 2018.
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County cuts human services financial manager post to save money

also called out the finance and personnel
committees for getting sidetracked in the
review process. They are trying to micromanage where they should be making
money decisions, he said.
Supervisor Scott Mildbrand disagreed.
I think our committee is moving forward. At our last meeting we identified
$325,000 in deficit reductions we can do,
he said, adding he thinks the process will
be done by the end of February.
Supervisor Rollie Thums spoke for the
supervisors who are not on the finance or
personnel committees and said he felt the
county was going in the wrong direction.
I think they are moving forward
wrong. We are asking the wrong people
to bring the cuts, he said. He said rather than trying to micromanage from the
top down, the proposed cuts should be
coming from the managers. We need to
get managers in the loop more than they
are, he said. Our job is to oversee them,
not to run their departments. We run the
county, we dont run the departments.
He said the complaint he has heard is
nobody has asked the department heads
where they can cut, but have instead told
them where to cut. We need information
from the people who do the job. We are doing it wrong, Thums said.
Zenner objected to Thums comments.
If that department head says he didnt
have an opportunity then he wasnt reading his emails, Zenner said.
Thums replied saying the county
board needs to let the department heads
run their departments.
The motion to rescind the referendum
passed on a 16-1 vote with Lewis opposed.
Board members also took a second look
at the October decision to create a human
services financial manager position.
State and federal changes in reporting requirements for human services
have made keeping track of finances in
the $8 million county department more
of a challenge for department head Amber Fallos and Brandl. The department is
funded through state and federal grants.
In making the motion to rescind the
position, supervisor Tim Hansen said the
work could be done with better utilizing
of existing staff rather than hiring someone new. He noted the total burden cost of
the position would be $87,000 in the first
year and $83,000 a year after that.
He said there is no proof the position
would bring in enough new revenues to
cover its cost. We can save money and
we dont have to eliminate someone who
was hired already, Hansen said of the
cut. I feel the work can be done by staff
we have now with a little changing of du-
ties, he said.
We were told it would pay for itself
over and above, Thums said.
We dont have a basis for knowing it
would pay for itself, Hansen said. The
empirical numbers arent there to justify
that.
I dont think it would pay for itself,
Hansen said.
Zenner disagreed and instead said the
county needed to be proactive in planning
for the future. Zenner looked to the future
and to Brandl retiring in a few years.
Larry is an important cog in the wheel,
Zenner said, noting unless the county
makes a plan to have someone in place before he retires it could be trouble.
For his part, Brandl supported having
the position. He said the human services
financial reporting has been an issue
for several years. There is getting to be
more compliance and requirements to
document how we spend each dollar, he
said. That is getting away from me because I dont have time to do it.
He noted other projects that come up,
such as working with the consultants
on refinancing a bond, take significant
amounts of time. It is a problem that is
not going to go away on its own, he said.
This position is about fiscal responsibility, said Amber Fallos, human services director. She said filling the position has been talked about for eight to 10
years and has nothing to do with Brandl
retiring in the future. She said the position will help the county keep the money
they are getting. It is making sure we are
managing the money we have properly,
she said.
If we want the money, we have to
jump through the hoops, said supervisor
Sue Breneman. She cautioned the state
and federal governments will come back
for their money if the county cannot show
it was spent properly. If the documentation is not there they will come after you
to get the money back, she said.
Supervisor Scott Mildbrand said he
felt there were more cost effective ways
of doing the necessary compliance. He
suggested Brandl could delegate more of
his other duties to spend more time on
human services. Clerk Bruce Strama,
who supervisors Brandl, agreed. He said
he felt others in the office had time to do
more. He also called for the creation of a
finance department with Brandl answerable to the finance committee rather than
as part of the county clerks office.
We are slowly losing ground we paid
for a study to be done and the study clearly says we need it, Lewis said, noting the
auditors told the county they needed the
position in 2002 and it still has not been
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people to bring the cuts.
Supervisor Rollie Thums
filled. It is time to be more proactive, he

said.
Supervisor Dave Krug said the county
should push the decision to the future. He
noted the states Family Care Program
will eventually come to Taylor County. It
is one of only eight counties to not have
the program, and he said it will bring
many changes to the human services department. I think if we wait another year
we will know more about Family Care,
he said.
We dont have the money right now.
It is not the time to fill this position, said
supervisor Bob Lee.
Supervisor Dave Bizer, who chairs the
human services board, called on the county to think ahead and either pay the cost
of the position or be prepared to lose nearly double that amount when the county
loses grant administration funds. He noted the county faces a loss of $140,000 if the
state enforces a requirement to show the
time actually spent on administration of
grants, rather than just a 7 percent level.
Brandl noted the state has pushed for the
past few years to make the change and
will soon likely mandate it.
It could cost a lot more than $83,000,
Breneman said. This is needed, this is really a needed position.
I work 60 to 70 hours a week. I am still
not meeting what we need, Brandl said.
The stress is building from a lot of different sides. I will do what it takes but
we are getting to an impasse, something
needs to be done to address this.
On a roll call vote, the motion to rescind the creation of the human services
financial manager position passed 10-7
with supervisors Dave Lemke, Zenner,
Bizer, Thums, Lewis, Breneman and Metz

opposed.
In other business, supervisors:
Took advantage of low interest

rates to refinance existing debt and get
an additional $1 million for road projects. Supervisors approved the sale of
$4,385,000 in bonds which have an aggregate interest rate of 1.947 percent. According to bond consultant Jeffery Belongia
of Hutchinson, Shockey, Erley and Co.,
even with the addition of the $1 million
the county will see an interest savings
of $203,350 over the course of the loan
without increasing the countys debt service payment. He noted this was the second time the county had refinanced the
courthouse jail debt. In 2006, the county
had refinanced and saved nearly $800,000
in interest at that time. Board members
unanimously approved the bond sale.
Approved an ordinance change

to increase the fees charged to Huber
(work release) inmates to $60 for the first
day and $18 for each day after. The rule
change also sets a $10 fee for all non-forensic drug tests administered by the department.
Approved an ordinance change

removing the requirement that the
emergency management director be a
full-time employee of the sheriffs department. The county currently contracts for
that position.
Approved increasing the base

wage for each step in the countys classification system by one-half percent.
Approved a resolution presented

recognizing Charles Johnson for 24 years
of service in the Taylor County maintenance department.
Increase in marriage
license fee proposed
It could soon cost more to tie the knot
in Taylor County.
On Jan. 15, members of the county finance committee approved increasing
the marriage license fee from $60 to $80.
The committee also approved doubling
the fee for a waiver of the five day waiting period from $10 to $20.
According to county clerk Bruce
Strama, the change was prompted by the
county looking at different ways to either
reduce expenses or increase revenues.
He said Taylor County previously had
the lowest fee compared to neighboring
counties and the increase will bring the
county in line with the region.
At about 100 wedding licenses issued
a year, the increase will generate an ad-
ditional $2,000 in revenue for the county.

The increase requires a change in
county ordinance. Passing the finance
committee is the first step. It will go to
the full county board for approval at the
February board session.
In other action, committee members
approved designating as nonlapsing the
unspent money earmarked last year to
help communities pay for emergency
siren repairs. The countys digital emergency sirens are failing at a rapid pace
and the county last year authorized setting aside $33,000 to match local efforts
to repair or replace the sirens. About
$16,000 remains in the fund and emergency management director Bill Breneman
asked for it to be carried over into this
years budget so that he does not have to
come back and ask for money each time a
repair is made.

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Breathing new life into a historic Gilman business

by Reporter Kayla Peche
After 23 years as owner and operator of Gilman Bowl,
in Gilman, Robert Preston has sold the business to David
Burg and Timothy Benavides. The establishment will
open Jan. 23, following some upgrades to the building.
The newly re-named Pirates Cove Sports Bar and
Bowl will open after Jan. 23. Burg says the place needs
some minor renovations before the grand opening.
We plan on closing for about five days to redo the
floors, paint, put about eight TVs in there and put new
lighting in, Burg told the Gilman Village Board at a regular meeting Jan. 14. So, it will take us at least five days
before we actually open.
Burg has lived in Eau Claire for about seven years
and currently owns Wagners Lanes, Stout Ale House in
Menominee and Thirsty Badger Sports Bar and Grill in
Lake Hallie.
Burg says he has been working with Benavides for
about two years, and Benavides will be the go-to guy.
Benavides says he plans to live in the Gilman community above the bowling alley.
He knows bowling, Burg said. Thats his passion.
Timmy would be here and be the face, and get the bowling back in Gilman.
Burg says they dont plan to change the place, just
breathe new life into it. The same staff will work there,
with the addition of Benavides, and the plan is to keep
the Gilman spirit.
We wanted to contact the school, get some jerseys
and stuff in there, to tie it a little more to the school,
Burg said. We will have a pirate logo thats different
from the school, but its going to be a pirate.
Both said they are looking forward to the new place
with the main focus of keeping Gilman Bowl alive in Gilman.
Theres not a lot of bowling centers that have had the
same owner for 23 yearsthat is awesome, Burg said.
So we kind of want to build on what he has there. As
Bobs not shy to say, these last couple years hes been
waiting for someone, and we are glad to take over.
The board approved an operators license and applica-
Caucus committee
photo by Kayla Peche
The Gilman caucus committee of Fran Prasnicki (l. to r.), Sue Weibel and Vonda Kinas met Jan. 14 to take nominations for three open village trustee positions, and the open village president position.
tion, and liquor license, contingent with waiting 15 days
before opening and receiving the sellers permit.
We wish the best to Bob Preston and welcome the
new owners during this change over, said Bill Brenemen, Gilman board president.
Also on the agenda, Candice Grunseth, village clerk,
discussed a previous meeting issue about who owns the
tennis courts. There was discussion between the Gilman
School District and the village board on demolition or reconstruction of the courts, because of safety issues. The
board had requested Grunseth find out who owned the
property.
After researching the deed surrounding the tennis
courts, Grunseth said the village didnt own the property.
Grunseth said she contacted the DNR and the Gilman
School District to inform them the village is not responsible for any decisions on the tennis courts. From this
point forward, any decisions on the tennis courts are up
to the district.
Before the regular board meeting, the Gilman caucus
committee met to nominate candidates for the president
of the village of Gilman and for three open village trustee
positions.
The current village board president, Brenemen, was
chosen for the only president nominee. Four nominees
Greg Steinbach, Eileen Grunseth, Russel Baker and
Bernie Van Den Heuvel were given for the three village
trustee positions. The spring village election will be held
on Tuesday, April 7.
City to time electric utility work to shutdown

The city of Medford will take advantage of a planned
plant shutdown to upgrade its power supply to the industrial park.
At the city council meeting Tuesday night, mayor
Mike Wellner told aldermen the new transformer for the
south substation will be installed in June when Nestle
Pizza Division has a planned nine-day plant shutdown.
According to electric utility manager Spence Titera,
the city contacted Nestle to find out when would be the
least disruptive time to do the work. While a new transformer is being installed, power will be out in the area.
Earlier in the meeting, aldermen had approved spending $450,000 of electric utility funds to purchase the transformer from Jordan Transformer to install in the south
substation located on Whelen St. across from the Nestle
plant. Over the years, as industry has expanded in the industrial park, the load on the transformer has increased.
Now it is near capacity.
The existing transformer will be moved to the central
substation near the former electric utility building as
part of the citys voltage conversion project. The city currently operates on two different voltage systems and is
working to switch to a single voltage. Titera said the city
plans to sell the lower voltage transformer at a later date.
In other business, aldermen:
Approved
starting
the process to hire a replacement for officer Rich
Burghaus who will be retiring this April. The police and fire commission
will do the interviews for
the position with the council setting the pay.
Approved extending
the lease with the department of workforce development for office space at
city hall through 2016. The
rental rate will go up to
$260 per month from $250.
New employee
Approved
paying
Alexander Zenner is the Ayres Associates $2,000 for
new city of Medford pub- a structural analysis of the
roof at city hall to see if it
lic works employee.
would support the weight
of a new roof over the existing one. The roof has a number of leaks and needs a
more permanent repair.
Approved the zoning change for Krug Bus Company properties at 549 and 551 Billings Ave. The parcel
adjoins the existing bus garage and will be used for expanded parking. No neighbors objected to the zoning
change.
Approved setting the hourly wage to be charged

out for work done by the city crew for private parties at
$50 per hour. The rate charged by the crew to do work
for other city departments will remain at $38 per hour.
The fee includes the administrative costs in tracking
and billing out the hours worked, along with the total
burden cost of the employees.
Free breast cancer

screening and testing
For women who qualify for the program.

Call 1.800.847.4707 to learn more.
Winter Woodland Owners conference set for Feb.14

The Winter Woodland Owners conference will take
place on Feb. 14 at the Northcentral Technical College
in the Center for Health Sciences, room 1004, 1000 W.
Campus Dr., Wausau.
Topics include: estate planning topics digest presented by attorney Andrew Schmidt; basic chainsaw
safety refresher presented by Brad Kildow, Department
of Natural Resources (DNR); hot topics in forest health
presented by Paul Cigan, DNR; northern long-eared
bat (newest endangerd species?) presented by Drew
Feldkirchner, WI DNR; ecology and management of
ruffed grouse and woodcock presented by Gary Zim-
mer, Ruffed Grouse Society biologist; a landowners experience with clearcutting presented by George Lehrer,
a WWOA member and landowner in Langlade County.
The conference runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a hot
buffet lunch and door prizes. There is a discount on registrations postmarked before Jan. 25. Additional information and a registration form are available online at
www.wisconsinwoodlands.org. Click on chapters and
open the North Central Chapter homepage. Next open
events and then open home again to access 2015 event
information. For questions call the WWOA office at 715346 4798.
Supported by a grant from the Central

WI Afliate of Susan G. Komen
With thanks to: Radiology Associates of Wausau
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Editorials
Deal in dollars not percents

A few weeks ago, Paul Schley, the district administrator for Cornell School
District, did something unusual. He
called on the school board there to approve a pay raise for teachers.
That may not seem like anything out
of the ordinary. This is the time of year
when government boards routinely review the wages and compensation of municipal and school employees. What was
unusual is Schley asked for a $2,000 raise
for teaching staff, rather than a percentage-based raise.
Schley looked at the pay scale for his
staff and school budget the way private
businesses look at pay. There is only a
certain sized pool of money available for
employee compensation, and it is divided
based on how valuable any specific job is
in the overall organization and what the
market rate is for that position. In a good
year that pool of money increases and
employers are able to give pay raises. In
lean years, the employer may not be able
to afford to be as generous as they would
like to be.
The same holds true for governments.
Only a portion of any budget is set aside
for employee pay. When deciding how to
divide that among the employees, government boards look at a range of factors. Some governments, such as Taylor
County, have an elaborate matrix where
every job has a classification with an upper and lower pay range for that position
based on its duties and responsibilities.
What sets most private businesses

apart from government boards, is that
they deal in dollars not percents. A $2,000
raise for staff members is a $2,000 raise
and, for the majority of people reading
this paper, would be considered an extraordinarily good pay increase.
In the Medford area, the median household income is $41,204, which means half
the households in the community make
about that amount while half make below that amount. Doing the math, $2,000
would be about a 4 percent pay raise
based on that median income.
Most governments divide the money
for pay increases based on percentage,
not dollars. While at a quick glance, it
may seem giving everyone the same percentage pay increase would be the most
equitable way to give raises, it is far from
the case. Percentage-based pay raises

lead to large jumps at the high end and
pennies at the low end, and inflates the
gap between management wages and
worker wages. To put it another way,
those that have more get more than those
that dont have as much.
Lets say you have 50 employees who
range in pay from minimum wage to
$80,000 a year a fairly typical spread
for a government. Your total pool for raises is $100,000. Under Schleys model each
person would get $2,000 more and everyone goes home happy. However under
the more typical model, the rate would
be something on the order of 2 percent
for each person, meaning the minimum
wage worker would get a $301 a year increase, while the person at the top end
of the scale would see a pay increase of
$1,600 more than five times the amount
at the low-end of the scale. In the end, the
pool of money for raises may be the same,
but how it is divided up is far different.
The real beneficiaries of governments
using percentage-based wage increases
are those at the top end of the pay scale
who see compounded, larger increases, which leads to top-heavy pay scales
where the bulk of the pay goes to a small
group at the top.
If the goal of an across-the-board pay
raise is to reflect the increased cost of living, it would be more equitable for governments to use real dollars and leave the
percents in the math textbooks.
Proposed merger is a bad idea

Governor Scott Walker never met a
pot of money that he didnt like or at
least one that he didnt want to somehow
funnel to his political backers.
In his most recent scheme, Walker has
called for the merger of the embattled
Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) with the Wisconsin
Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA).
Both agencies have the ostensible goal
of growing Wisconsins economy by giving loans that may or may not ever be
repaid, but they come at it from different
ends of the spectrum. WEDC focuses on
economic growth at the top end by giving
loans to existing businesses to expand.
WHEDAs goal is to grow the economy
from the ground up by offering affordable financing for housing, business and
agricultural activity.
WHEDA works closely with lenders,
developers, local government, nonprofits, community groups and others to
implement its low-cost financing programs. Since 1972, WHEDA has financed
more than 68,000 affordable rental units,
helped more than 110,000 families pur-
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chase a home and made more than 29,000

small business and agricultural loan
guarantees.
WHEDA is an independent authority,
not a state agency, and receives no tax
dollars for its programs and operations.
What WHEDA does have that interests
the Walker administration greatly, is $3
billion in assets that he wants to redirect
from helping low and moderate income
people in the state to helping big businesses get bigger.
The merger should be viewed for what
it is, a raid of resources to shore up Walkers failed attempt to put public money
in private hands. WEDC has a troubled
track record on not properly tracking
loans, and under Walkers latest plan
would have even less accountability. The
plan calls for the creation of a full, independent governing board with no legislative involvement.
While private industry needs to have
a voice in economic development efforts
at the state level, having no taxpayer accountability for how public resources are
spent is akin to a farmer putting a fox in
charge of the hen house.
Quote of the Week:
Many of your parents are better at their jobs than I am. I just picked a weird profes-
sion..
Timothy Lauer, this years inductee in the Rib Lake Hall of Fame.
He is a professional musician whose work can be found on more than 250 albums
A better option for Walker would be to

end the WEDC experiment and restore
the Department of Commerce as it was
when he took office in 2011. At the very
least, Walker should be prevented from
turning aside more than four decades of

support to low and moderate income residents in the state to rob its resources and
give them to an out-of-control agency.
Members of The Star News editorial board include Publisher Carol OLeary, General Manager Kris
OLeary and News Editor Brian Wilson.
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A matter of opinion
The Star News was being printed last Thursday morning when Sports Editor Matt Frey first found out that
longtime teacher and boys basketball coach Ron Lien
had been placed on administrative leave.
The information did not come from Medford Area
School District personnel, but from the basketball coach
at another school in the conference commenting on
an email he received alerting him about the coaching
change. Matt asked me if I had heard anything about it.
It was news to me, but I quickly sent messages to school
district personnel asking for corroboration of what was
then simply a rumor.
District Administrator Pat Sullivan called while I was
at the county board meeting and left a message confirming Lien had been placed on paid leave. I called Sullivan
back while Matt contacted Lien to see if he had any comments he wanted to make.
A teacher of any level being suspended pending a
police investigation is a serious matter. When you have
one with more than 30 years of service to the district and
many years of coaching, such a move is doubly serious.
There is no question that the administrative leave is
newsworthy. Not reporting on it would be covering it up.
Knowing it would be another week before we could get
it in print, we posted a short story on our website, www.
centralwinews.com, about Lien being placed on leave
and shared the link to our Facebook page.
Within minutes, the page views began taking off. As
of last count nearly 9,000 people had read the online story
and about 19,000 people had seen the Facebook post. This
is not surprising, since a teacher being suspended is a
big deal.
This is the beginning of the investigation process, one
that may stretch for many weeks or months to come. Law
enforcement investigates people every day, it does not
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Brian Wilson
mean they are guilty of doing anything.
Americas legal system is built on the premise of innocent until proven guilty. This is why the teacher is
on paid leave until after the investigation is completed.
There may be nothing there, or there may be something
horrible. It will be up to the investigation to determine
the facts. Even then, it will be up to the school and district
attorneys office to decide what to do with those facts and
decide whether they have enough to take any action.
This has not stopped people from having opinions or
speculating about what the focus of the investigation is.
Our job as a newspaper and my professional responsibility as a journalist is to report the facts. As news editor I
am also one of the gatekeepers when it comes to opinions
shared not only in our print edition, but to our social media posts and website.
We have well defined rules when it comes to someone
wanting to submit a Vox Pop. Top among those rules is
that the letter cannot be libelous. Libel is when you write
that someone commits a crime or misdeed and cannot
prove the truth of what you said. The more private an
individual, the lower the threshold for libel.
Freedom of speech is not a protection against libel.
Freedom of speech protects your right to open your
mouth and insert your foot, but does not prevent you
from choking on your shoelaces when you do it.
In an online world where the anonymity of a computer screen removes the filters of civility and common
sense for many people, the danger of libel increases ex-
Vox Pop
Norgaard says tax question should never have gotten this far
How should the citizen comments portion of the

Jan. 14 village of Rib Lake board meeting be covered in
print? Norgaard storms village hall and assails longtime board member Bill Schreiner with controversial
accusations?
How about, Norgaard proves that outsiders cant be
allowed to live within the village limits as he attempts
to take out longtime good guy Bill Schreiner?
Or maybe, Its time for Rib Lake to ratchet up
their looks of scorn for Norgaard, as he simply hasnt
learned to shut the (f) up and take his seat at the back
of the bus?
First, let me remind taxpayers that more than three
years ago I caught an accounting error relating to the
over payment of my personal property taxes. My landscape tree transplanting company is a small, seasonal
business. For 10 years Ive licensed, insured, and paid
all my business taxes for North Garden Trees. I cant
find the good sense in the village of Rib Lake governing
board to punish me, though, by battling Renee and I for
more than three years over my $6,000 mistake.
My request for a refund has the blessings of our
state government; the Department of Revenue, and our
legislature in Madison. Its called statute 74.33. Its open
ended, meaning they are not constraining the taxpayer
to discover an unjust tax payment within X number
of days, months or years. Further, the village board
isnt handcuffed by an act of good will, as they demonstrated their discretion for three public works employees and the clerk. The same legislature that allows
me to use 74.33 for an unjust tax overpayment on tax
exempt equipment, allowed the village of Rib Lake to
go back several years and reimburse the public works
thousands of dollars for pension funds that they didnt
receive in their early employment history.
The clerk received a good will distribution from the
village government for $45,000. State law didnt mandate this money to be repaid, it allowed for a discretionary good will reimbursement. My request is the same
thing, except these are my hard earned dollars in the
first place. Nobody is gifting back to me my own tax
dollars. Im very tired of the contemptuous looks that
are given to me by various board members, some that I
dont even know. They certainly dont know me.
If they did, theyd know that my wife Renee and I
have a long history of generosity. Income tax verifiable
$100,000 + over 36 years of marriage, including a great
deal of unknown gifts while living amongst the same
people that want to think the worst of me. I dont hunt,
because Im not a killer. Im not against hunting, its
just that I cant pull that trigger. Im not a fighter. I dis-
like violence, prejudice and discrimination at any level. Will I fight? Yes. For my family and for the freedoms
that made America a great country. Im not better than
anyone else. Mistakes are sometimes my middle name.
I do know and use the phrase, Im sorry. I dont understand why Wayne Tlusty and his board hate.
When arsonists burned my business down, I forgave them. Im pulling for them. When the Lutheran
church in town took away the pastors social security
allowance in a pay cutting measure, I paid it twice.
A homeless alcoholic needed a fresh start. Renee and I
paid $2,500 to put him through retraining and then we
matched that amount for the organization that brought
him to our attention.
Two months ago, Bill Schreiner made a motion at
the November board meeting to keep my honest mistake overpaid taxes. It hurt me. A person that should
be my friend and neighbor did something that I didnt
believe had to happen. Renee and I have been through
a lot in this community, and Im not going to turn the
proverbial cheek every single time. If longtime board
member and business owner Bill Schreiner thinks its
best to keep what is mine and was never theirs, then he
better be certain that the dirt isnt deep under his own
fingernails. Schreiner might know feed and grain, but
he is clueless about our tax laws.
This is straight from the DOR personal property tax
law: 1. Mill machinery and equipment which may include but not limited to; roller mills, hoppers, conveyors, bin accessories, (etc.). This is personal property
because the mill equipment does not add value to the
real estate, it adds value and improves the business use,
not the real estate. 2. A frequently asked question at the
WI DOR, All the equipment I use is my own personal
equipment. Do I report it as personal property for my
business? The answer is, yes, if you use any personal
equipment in your business, it must be reported. Lastly,
the DOR consists of various divisions within itself.
The WI Department of Financial Institutions tracks
corporate records. Examples; is the business in good
standing with the state, who is the registered agent
and if youre incorporated, yes, the officers (Bill and
his wife) are part and parcel to the business. Claiming
ignorance to the sons company maneuvers isnt a defense to business errors, including gross, longtime under reporting and payment of personal property taxes.
Recall that at the November board meeting, in one final exasperated pleading I stated, It shouldnt have to
come to this.
Ken Norgaard, Rib Lake.
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ponentially. The speculation that would have been shared
across bar stools in another generation is instead put in
writing for all the world to see.
Libel is expensive to those whose reputations are
ruined and those who pay heavy court costs and settlements. The only people who win in the end are the lawyers paying off their second home in Barbados with the
fees they are paid.
Since we hold those who comment on our online presence to the same standard as our print edition, last weekend I removed posts made that crossed the line from speculation to accusation. We also have filters set for graphic
and offensive language and other things we would not
allow in our print edition.
I sent a message to the people whose posts I removed
explaining why it was done. This is the same courtesy we
would extend if a Vox Pop submitted to our print edition
did not meet our publication standard.
Going forward, The Star News will continue to follow
this investigation and its outcome and report information as it is received and confirmed. The newspapers job
is not to print rumor and speculation but to report the
facts.
For generations, The Star News has been a trusted
source of news in the community. This has been the role
of The Star News for 140 years and will be the standard
long after I am dead and buried.
Brian Wilson is News Editor at The Star News.
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Upgrade broadband now
Open letter calling for broadband upgrades.

Dear Mr. Maydak:
For many years now we have experienced poor quality internet service from Frontier. Sometimes we cannot connect at all, or web pages wont load.
Frequently we cannot receive or send email and
receive instead notices such as The server has unexpectedly terminated the connectionor Server not responding. We understand the server is Frontier in
Rhinelander.
Download speed is routinely a fraction of one Mb/s,
often a very small fraction, with a low of .053 Mb/s recorded on the Frontier speedtest site. However, many
times the connection is so slow Frontiers speed test
cannot function and times out.
Twenty three speed tests were run over the period
of Nov. 19, 2014 through Jan. 7, 2015 at Speedtest.net.
That site grades the connection as a result of each test.
Our Frontier connection received grades of F or F-
on each test.
Frontier can fix these problems as it has for some of
its customers. On three occasions in the last two years,
in response to our complaints, Frontier has led us to
believe that our problems were going to be fixed. However, those promises were hollow. Service continues to
deteriorate for those of us living along Highway C and
Rustic Road One in the Town of Rib Lake.
About two months ago Frontier added two new T-1
lines and made equipment upgrades for customers in
the Spirit Lake area. In contrast, a defective T-1 line in
our system is not fixed more than six years after Frontier has known of the problem.
Frontier has been asked what factors led Frontier to
improve service for those in the Spirit Lake area, while
nothing is done for those of us on Hwy C and Rustic
Road? No one answers. You appear to be a senior person in charge of Frontier internet service in Wisconsin, and in a position to see to it that Frontier promptly
rectifies the terrible service we receive.
The following is a quote from the Frontier Communications website (http://internet.frontier.com/
services):
Experience freedom
Experience freedom from binding contracts and
unexpected price hikes.
Freedom from a slow, unreliable connection.
Freedom from confusing plans and modem fees. This
is the way the internet should be - easy, affordable, fast and relible. Order now.
[Emphasis added by writer.]
After all these years, it is time for Frontier to deliver
what it has promised.
Thomas Rusch, Mary Ann Rusch, Rollie
Thums, Susan Thums, Dennis Scheithauer, Cathy
Scheithauer, Mike Turner, Debbie Turner, Everett Rusch, Rib Lake Historical Society LLC, Mary
Becker, Ron Becker, Robert Rusch, Ann Rusch,
Robert Butler, Beverly Butler, Dan Lind and Jean
Lind, Rib Lake
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Thursday,January
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2, 2015
2014
Cautious optimism ahead for area economy

The economy in the Medford area was described as
growing, but still fragile by Medford Area Development
Foundation (MADF) President Mark Hoffman.
The comments came to a standing-room-only crowd
at Mondays annual meeting of the foundation held at
the Medford Area Chamber of Commerce office. The
annual meeting has become a report not only
on the efforts of the foundation in the past year,
but on the state of the local economy.
MADF is a private
organization which receives city and county
funds to help work with
economic development
efforts for the region.
The foundation also
administers the city of
Medford
Department
of Commerce revolving loan fund program
Mark Hoffman
working with local financial institutions to
review applicants to present to the city council for approval. The group received $15,000 from the county and
$10,000 from the city. Total expenses for the organization were $41,632.54.
We, as an organization, need to continue to ensure
that our communities prosper and grow, Hoffman said.
As an organization, we have to continue to think
out of the box to bring and keep businesses here. This
past year saw us lose two longtime staples in our community Florenas and Hoffmans Fabric Floral and
Crafts, Hoffman said. This is a painful reminder to us
that many of our small businesses are just a few short
months away from keeping it going which is why it is
so important to support them and support each other.
Hoffman said the challenge for the year ahead will be
making sure broadband internet and adequate utilities
are available to area businesses that need them for economic expansion. We are in the middle of talking with
We Energies about making sure we have the services to
Medford when our industries want to expand this is
an ongoing issue that we will be asking our legislators
for help with, he said.
On the positive horizon, we had some big changes
for some businesses to look forward to in the near future, he said. Both Enerquip and County Market will
finish their expansions in 2015. Also, the downtown will
get a big boost with Brian Hedlund purchasing the vacant Nicolet building and remodeling it for his needs.
Also, the Hurd expansion will bring new beginnings on
the industrial side.
We are cautiously excited to look forward to this
next year. We are proud of the work we have done and
are ready to dig in and do what needs to be done to move
our community forward, Hoffman said.
Hoffmans message of cautious optimism was echoed
by Sue Emmerich, MADF executive director, during
her portion of the meeting.
This past year was a phenomenal year for expansions and new builds, she said, noting the landscape
drivers see with new buildings for Nicolet National
Bank and Forward Financial Bank on Hwy 13 to Medford Motors on Hwy 64.
In addition to the building changes, she also said
the community welcomed several new owners of businesses and are working to get them integrated into the
business community.
One of Emmerichs highlights of the year was the
County Market project
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Alli Ranum pointed out the new natural food section and changes in the deli area of the store. Work has begun
on the project with the store currently undergoing a complete reshelving and reconfiguration. She said the reshelving would be completed this week.
Vacant Stores Tour. MADF, with the help of local real
estate offices, took 74 local business owners and community leaders to view over 40 properties. We felt this was
a very important part of what we do as an organization
and we were pleased with the results, she said. The
premise of the tour was that everyone drives by vacant
stores every day, but seldom go in them. The tour became an idea exchange as to what each of these buildings could be used for, she said, noting since that tour
seven of the buildings have been either sold or leased.
Whether it was because of the tour or not, we do
know we have 11 other interested parties in land or
buildings, she said.
MADF is also working to strengthen the relationship with the Taylor County Extension office. Through
their efforts we will be serving on a committee they set
up to address broadband issues in rural communities,
Emmerich said.
Emmerich also said MADF is working with the state
on the maintenance of the interior of the roundabouts.
She said in recent years upkeep of the areas has been
an issue, with concerns of it not presenting an appealing welcome to the city. We worked through the governors office and came to an agreement with them, and
starting this spring we should see better looking roundabouts, she said.
Another statewide issue the foundation is continuing to watch is the proposed change at the Department
of Commerce, which would have them focus on job creation with an independent board that would oversee the
states job creation strategies. She said the board would
include a number of private sector job creators.
We view this as a voice that we have not had before, Emmerich said.
In addition to the board reports, the meeting also included a project update from Alli Ranum, marketing director at Medford Cooperative about the County Market
building project.
The group also received reports from James Stokes
Growth ahead
Sue Emmerich reported that there had been solid
growth in the local economy last year. She said they are
looking forward to 2015 also being a good year.
of Stokhaus Media about his business efforts. He was
the winner in the 2013 business plan competition sponsored by MADF.
The Flower Shoppe owner, Angie Rothmeier, spoke
about the benefit of working with MADFs micro-loan
program which allowed her to purchase a new landscaping truck when theirs broke down at the beginning
of the season. This program works in conjunction with
local lenders and offers short-term loans to businesses
which might not qualify under the rules that traditional
lenders must follow.
The group also reelected Jim Bauer, Chip Courtney
and Brian Hallgren to the foundations board of directors.
Teacher placed on administrative leave

Ron Lien has taught business at
Medford schools for more than
30 years, coaches basketball
Longtime Medford Area Senior High teacher and
boys basketball coach Ron Lien has been placed on paid
administrative leave for both teaching and coaching positions as of Wednesday.

According to district administrator Pat Sullivan,
Lien was placed on leave until an investigation by the
police department and school district is completed. The
school district had no other comment while the investigation is taking place.
When reached by phone Thursday morning, Lien declined making any comment at this time.
Lien has been head coach of the boys basketball
team since 2006 and has taught business and technology

at Medford Area Senior High School for more than 30
years.
According to Sullivan, Ryan Brown will take over as
interim head coach and staffing was arranged to cover
his classes. Sullivan said if the investigation drags on,
the district has lined up someone to take over the assistant coaching duties for golf in the spring.

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2015
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Center stage: Lauer named to Rib Lake Hall of Fame

A musical sideman took center stage on Friday afternoon as Timothy J. Lauer was inducted as the 10th
member of the Rib Lake School District Hall of Fame.
Lauer, a 1986 graduate of Rib Lake High School, returned home to receive the honor.
Lauer influences many musical genres. He has major
label credits on more than 250 albums. He has toured
with a number of acts, including Trisha Yearwood,
Wynonna, Amy Grant and Kim Carnes. He was a recording musician for acts such as Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Megadeth and Lady Antebellum. As a string
music arranger, has worked with Blake Shelton, Matthew West and Skillet. His producing credits have included John Oates and Buck Owens. He has appeared at
the Grand Ole Opry, he has extensive songwriting and
house band credits and his music work has appeared in
TV shows and commercials for BMW, Coca-cola, Glade
and Target.
Lauer left Rib Lake for Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. He received a Bachelor of Arts in composition and arranging and has received the Curtain Call
award, given to distinguished alumni.
In addition to his career accomplishments, Lauer has
given back through volunteer service. He and his wife,
Angela, and their family reside in the Nashville area.
Lauer began his remarks to Rib Lake students and
guests by saying his accomplishments are similar to
many alumni. The creative skills he uses every day are
similar to others. Many of your parents are better at
their jobs than I am. I just picked a weird profession,
Lauer said. You need creativity to be a teacher, a logger, a camp director and a dairy farmer too.
Lauer works in a competitive field, where the last
song you wrote might mean more than career accomplishments. He said having his school and hometown
recognize his efforts is important. This means a lot to
me because a lot of times I feel like a failure, he said.
Lauer's success means his kids attend a private
school where specializing is the norm. He thinks his
background in a small, rural school might give him a
clear advantage. My daughter plays soccer all year
round, Lauer said. There are no specialists here in
Rib Lake. I see kids in band uniforms singing in the
choir. Take advantage of the fact you can be in sports,
drama and the arts. [choir teacher Joan] Magnuson and
[band teacher Ned] Orthmann allowed me to get overextended. I did 13 solo and ensemble pieces in one year.
I remember thinking how am I going to make this happen. Nobody said we have plenty of kids to fill the spots.
You figure it out and you make it happen. Lauer said
those busy days in Rib Lake are a good barometer as an
adult for knowing when he is overextended now.
He said Orthmann allowed him to try different instruments with the band. He didn't master one, but got
a comfort level to try things. People will call me to do
things I can barely do, but I've learned to have the guts
to do it, I still take advantage of happy accidents because I had chances here to do these things.
Lauer encouraged the students to find their path.
Pick something, be curious and do it, do it, do it. Dream
Hall of fame
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Rib Lakes newest hall of fame recepient, Tim Lauer, stands with district administrator Lori Manion and presenter
Ned Orthmann during Fridays ceremony.
big, get good grades, believe in yourself and be thankful
you are from a small town, Lauer said.
Lauer said the music and entertainment industry
can be brutal. The experience of growing up in a small
community helps him cherish the small communities
in his life - like church, musicians and family - these
days.
Lauer said growing up in Rib Lake allows him to appreciate nature, and how pretty the seasons are in his
hometown. He said basketball coach Terry Voltz let him
keep skis and sawhorses for waxing in the locker room
and he would dream and ski during his high school
days. My planning time was when I skied for an hour
and half. It was my alone time in nature and I took advantage of it, Lauer said.
Lauer was a member of the school's first state cross
country team. He told the students there was no school
track when he was a student and meets and practices
were run around the high school building. He recalled
a conversation with teammates where the subject of future plans came up. He told them he wanted to work in
the music industry and someone said he should have a
fallback plan if his dream failed. I said 'no way. I have
no intention of failing.' I had no fallback or plan B, but I
would encourage my kids to have fallback plans, Lauer
said. He said he spoke with Belmont students once and
asked how many didn't have a backup plan. Five of
them raised their hands and I said 'I'll put my money on
two of you.' Sometimes, it feels like more of a grind than
success. You can't just want it.
Lauer said the school subscribed to Musician magazine when he was a student. He said it helped him find
his focus as someone who made music possible rather
than the star on the stage. We had stacks of those magazines and I'd read all the articles on the process of making records.
I cut a picture of Steve Gadd out of one of those
magazines and put it up in my locker, he said. I didn't
want to play on one record, I wanted to play on all of
them. I thought that's the coolest job in the world and I
want to do it. Gadd is a great role model for sidemen.
Since the early 1970s, Gadd has played with everybody.
The name may not be familiar, but his credits include
playing drums on Paul Simon's hit, 50 Ways to Leave
Your Lover.
The ceremony concluded with a special surprise for
Lauer. Former choir teacher and current school board
member and hall of fame committee member Joan Magnuson said Lauer's talents were evident already during
high school. She used his talents for musical arrangements to help with choir songs. Magnuson said another
member of the class of 1986 found a poem and hoped it
could be turned into the class song. Lauer stepped up
and wrote the musical end of the song. When he was
selected for the hall, current high school choir director Katie Levendusky was able to find the score in the
department files and the choir performed It's Tough to
Say Goodbye at Friday's event. The high school band
also performed. He visited music classes at school before the ceremony.
Committee calls for Chromebooks at the high school

The Medford school board finance committee supports the idea of providing a Chromebook personal
computer for each Medford Area Senior High student
in 2015-16 as the district moves in to the second year of a
three-year plan for technology upgrades.
The school board supported the initial plan in 2014. It
earmarked $150,000 of fund balance over the three year
period to pay for the devices and other upgrades.
The first year of the plan has seen technology infrastructure upgrades in the buildings and the purchase of
500 Chromebooks for Medford Area Middle School. That
school is organizing the 500 Chromebooks in classroom
sets for its approximately 600 students. High school
principal Jill Lybert and curriculum director Laura
Lundy presented a plan at Mondays committee meeting
which would purchase 700 Chromebooks for the approximately 640 MASH students. The Chromebooks would
then be assigned to individual students. The classroom
set is a great thing, but we think it would be even better
to have a computer in every kids hands, Lundy said.
Lundy said a plan with individual students having
the Chromebooks would improve access. They felt high

school students are responsible enough to care for the
devices. Lybert said the plan would benefit high school
students who are gone for school commitments more
often than middle school students. The technology upgrades for next year could include mobile hot spots on
school buses so high school students could complete
assignments when returning from sporting events and
other functions. Some kids have resorted to writing
papers on their phones, she said of current technology
options.
Among the logistics the district must sort out is
possible technology fees to cover the insurance and replacement costs for the Chromebooks. The committee
discussed adding a $15 fee for a protective cover and a
$15 insurance fee in addition to the $6 registration fee
now charged. Lundy said the plan was to charge a student for replacement cost if a device was damaged beyond the insurance agreement.
The committee asked about the lifespan of the devices. Technology director Dennis Hinderliter said the
three-year technology cycle is about what can be expected. If you get three years out of them, the troubles
beyond that would exceed the value, Hinderliter said.

The new plan would exceed the initial $150,000 commitment, but the committee decided to wait and see if
other savings or sources might cover the cost before
turning to the fund balance for more. Hinderliter said
a high school computer lab is due for replacement. If
the lab is not replaced, the funding could go toward
Chromebooks.
In other business: The committee met with two
CESA representatives to review the initial draft of a
performance contract report. The committee is hoping
for a more comprehensive and longer-term report from
the consultants and directed them to meet again with
facilities director Dave Makovsky on the plan. The plan
would allow the district to develop an Act 32 energy efficiency maintenance plan.
The committee reviewed food service operations and
the timeline for the bidding process as it looks ahead to
the next five year contract. The bid specifications are
currently out to possible vendors and the district plans
a Feb. 12 open house for the vendors. The bids are due
to the finance committee in March and the full school
board will decide on a vendor in April.
PUBLIC NOTICES
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STATE OF WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
CLARK COUNTY
Case No. 14-CV-198
Loretta Langiewicz, Trustee
of the Alexander and Loretta
Langiewicz Family Trust
6505 Willow Road
Withee, WI 54498,
Plaintiff,
v.
Michael Langiewicz
W14022 Countyline Road
Lublin, WI 54447,
and
Royce Wallenhorst
N4553 Tieman Avenue
Thorp, WI 54771,
Defendants.
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN
To MICHAEL LANGIEWICZ,
named above as a defendant:
You are hereby notied that
the plaintiff(s) named above
has/have led a lawsuit or other
legal action against you.
Within forty (40) days after
January 8, 2015, you must respond with a written demand for

a copy of the complaint. The demand must be sent or delivered
to the court, whose address is
Clark County Courthouse, 517
Court Street, Room 405, Neillsville, Wisconsin 54456, and to
Attorney Matthew J. Cornetta,
Ruder Ware, L.L.S.C., Plaintiffs
attorney whose address is 402
Graham Avenue, P.O. Box 187,
Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54702.
You may have an attorney help
or represent you.
If you do not demand a copy
of the complaint within forty (40)
days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award
of money or other legal action
requested in the complaint, and
you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may
be incorrect in the complaint. A
judgment may be enforced as
provided by the law. A judgment
awarding money may become a
lien against any real estate you
own now or in the future, and

may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.
Dated this 17th day of December, 2014.
Ruder Ware
Attorneys for Plaintiff
By: /s/ Matthew J. Cornetta
Matthew J. Cornetta
State Bar No. 1038351
Ruder Ware
402 Graham Avenue
P.O. Box 187
Eau Claire, WI 54702-0187
Telephone: 715-834-3425
Fax: 715-834-9240
(1st ins. January 8,
3rd ins. January 22)
WNAXLP
1-145441
Prohibiting Issuance of
Licenses and/or Permits for
Nonpayment
of
Personal
Property Taxes, Assessments
and Claims
Town of Greenwood Ordinance
Ordinance No. 2015-1
The Town Board of the Town
of Greenwood, Taylor County,

Wisconsin, does ordain Town
of Greenwood Ordinance No.
2015-1 as follows:
SECTION I - LICENSE RESTRICTIONS. Delinquent Personal Property Taxes, Assessments and Claims.
1. Premises. No initial or
renewal of any license(s) or
permit(s) shall be granted for
any premises for which personal
property taxes, assessments, or
other claims of the Town are delinquent and unpaid.
2. Persons. No initial or renewal of any license(s) or
permit(s) shall be granted to any
person:
a. Delinquent in payment of
personal property taxes, assessments, or other claims
owed to the Town.
b. Delinquent in payment
of a forfeiture resulting from a
violation of any ordinance of the
Town.
c. Delinquent in payment to
the State of any State taxes
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

OWNER/CONTRACTOR: Peace Lutheran Church
owed.
SECTION II - EFFECTIVE
DATE. This Ordinance shall be
effective from and after its adoption by the Town Board and its
posting or publication as provided by the Statutes of the State of
Wisconsin.
The Town Clerk shall properly publish this ordinance as required under Wis. Stat. 60.80.
Adopted this 14th day of January, 2015.
/s/ Dennis Fuchs
Dennis Fuchs, Chairman
/s/ James Gebauer
James Gebauer, Supervisor
/s/ Michael Wudi
Michale Wudi, Supervisor
Attest: /s/ Jill Scheithauer
Jill Scheithauer, Town Clerk
(One ins. January 22)
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
TAYLOR COUNTY
Case No. 15IN01
In the Matter of the Estate of
James A. Klinner.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
1. An application for informal
administration was led.
2. The decedent, with date of

birth of October 1, 1934 and date
of death of September 25, 2014,
was domiciled in Taylor County,
State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 604 East Conrad
Drive, Medford, WI 54451.
3. All interested persons
waived notice.
4. The deadline for ling a
claim against the decedents estate is May 4, 2015
5. A claim may be led at the
ofce of the Probate Registrar,
Taylor County Courthouse, 224
South Second Street, Medford,
Wisconsin.
/s/ Shannon Kraucyk
Shannon Kraucyk, Deputy
Probate Registrar
Date: January 13, 2015
Robert W. Zimmerman
State Bar No. 1017839
Mallery & Zimmerman, S.C.
500 Third St., Suite 800
P.O. Box 479
Wausau, WI 54402-0479
715-845-8234
(1st ins. January 22,
3rd ins. February 5)
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ARCHITECT
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NORTHWOODS ARCHITECT
2288 10 Avenue
Chetek, WI 54728
MEETINGS: State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Jan. 13; Wisconsin

Womens Council, program of work and issue priorities, Jan. 19; Wisconsin
Womens Council, reception, Jan. 19; WEDC, Jan. 19.
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GENERAL: Notice, Abandoned Accounts, Jan. 16; Rule, Cosmetology

Examining Board, Jan. 17; Public Hearing, WisDOT, Jan. 19.
AIR POLLUTION PERMIT REVIEWS: Bureau of Correctional Facilities,
Jan. 15; Btr Wood Products, Jan. 19.
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Request for Proposals

Food Service Management Company
The Medford Area Public School District is seeking Request for Proposals (RFPs) for the purpose of entering
into a contract for the operation of their food service program. The RFP will be released on January 29, 2015 with
a pre-bid conference at 10:00 a.m. on February 12, 2015.
Public opening of the bids will occur on March 13, 2015,
with the contract awarded on April 16, 2015.
RFPs can be obtained by contacting:
Medford Area Public School District
Attn: Jeff Albers
124 West State Street
Medford, WI 54451
(1st ins. Jan. 15, 2nd ins. Jan. 22)
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Unclaimed Funds Notice

Unclaimed funds held with the Taylor County Clerk of
Circuit Court as described in Chapter 59.66(2) of the Wisconsin State Statutes. The following is a record of such
funds.
Name & Address
Date Check Issued
Bari L. Glick
09-11-2012
8754 N. Wisner St.
Niles, IL 60714
Mladenko Delipara
09-26-2012
10310 W. Pallotine Dr.
Greeneld, WI 53228
Aden C. Hochstetler
04-11-2013
25499 Highland Ave
Tomah, WI 54660
Estate of Justin L. Eichelt
10-01-2013
W14380 Diamond Dr.
Lublin, WI 54447
Mug Shots Bar
11-08-2013
540 Lemke Avenue
Medford, WI 54451
Ampride-Wood Co. Farm
10-02-2012
6303 County Hwy N
Arpin, WI 54410
Tanners
12-11-2009
108 E. CTH A
Stetsonville, WI 54480
Rebecca Lynn Wagner
Receipt dated
6-15-2009
Amount
$150.00
$99.00
$8.10
$239.25
$19.73
$20.00
$53.63
$25.00
That in each case, a check was issued and mailed to

the party for their respective amount and the checks were
never cashed or returned to the Taylor County Clerk of
Courts ofce. The amounts have been on deposit for
over one year and are considered unclaimed funds.
If no legal claim is made for the money or security within 6 months from the time of the completed publication,
then the treasurer will take possession or control of all
money or security and will deposit it in the countys general revenue fund.
Dated this 8th day of January, 2015 in Medford, Wisconsin
Submitted by:
Sarah Holtz, Taylor County Treasurer
(1st ins. Jan. 15, 3rd ins. Jan. 29)
2-145594
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Proposed ATV/UTV Ordinance

for the Town of Jump River
23.33 (8) All-terrain (ATV) and utility terrain vehicle
(UTV) routes ordinance.
State of Wisconsin, Town of Jump River, Taylor County
This ordinance is adopted on proper notice with a quorum and roll call vote by a majority of the town board. It
provides the authority for the town to designate and regulate ATV and UTV routes in the town.
Pursuant to s.23.33 (4) (d) 4, Wis. stats. no person
may operate an ATV or UTV on the roadway portion of
any highway in the town except on roadways that are designated as ATV routes. The use of these routes is for the
extreme right side of the roadway except that left turns
may be safely made given prevailing conditions.
The following routes are designated as ATV and UTV
routes and shall be marked with uniform ATV and UTV
signs.
Beach Dr.
Maple St.
Berry Ave.
Miller Dr.
Birch Dr.
Nebo Ave.
Boardman Dr.
Oak St.
Bridge Dr.
Paul Dr.
Brooks Ave.
River St.
Buckhorn Ave.
Shilts Dr.
Copper Dr.
Smith Dr.
Cougar Rd.
Spur Rd.
Elm St.
Venus Ln.
Hamilton Dr.
Wright Dr.
Houts Dr.
Konsella Ln.
Johnson Ave.
This ordinance will be adopted at the next town board
meeting to be held on February 9, 2015 at 7 p.m. at the
Jump River Community Center.
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New electrosurgical device for Aspirus Medford Hospital

Donors to the Aspirus Medford Foundation provided all of the funding to purchase state-of-the-art surgical technology
intended for open and laparoscopic surgical procedures. A Force Triad energy
platform has been purchased.
This equipment will be used during
more than 90 percent of surgical procedures at the hospital. It makes these
procedures safer for patients while at
the same time making these procedures
easier for surgeons to perform. The spe-
cialties that will use this new technology

include general surgery, colorectal, urology, orthopedics and gynecology.
The mission of the Aspirus Medford
Foundation is to support Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics in its mission to
be an integrated, community governed
healthcare system, which leads by advancing initiatives dedicated to improving the health of all it serves. For more
information, visit www.aspirus.org/
MedfordFoundation or call 715-748-8835.
Hospital achieves gold level status

The Wisconsin Hospital Association
(WHA) recently awarded Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics gold level status
for its participation in the WHA Partners
for Patients Collaborative. This recognition comes after three years of intense
hard work, commitment, and dedication to preventing avoidable hospitalacquired infections, reducing readmissions, and improving the overall quality
of healthcare in Wisconsin.
WHA Partners for Patients provides

Wisconsin hospitals an opportunity to
come together to learn best practices
in quality improvement from one another and from other hospitals around
the nation. As a result of the collaboration, 86 hospitals reached the gold level
of achievement and four reached the
bronze.
Students graduate from Stevens Point

Area students who graduated with
honors and received bachelor degrees
during winter commencement ceremonies at the University of WisconsinStevens Point include Roshel Stewart
of Gilman, forestry management; Troy
Fox and Brittany Ziembo of Medford,

psychology-human services; Katherine
Knight of Medford, communicationsmedia emphasis; and Phyllis Lindgren of
Medford, elementary education.
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New equipment
Pictured with the Force Triad Energy Platform are Tracy Fuchs, director of surgical
services; Dr. Suja Roberts, obstetrician and gynecologist at Aspirus Clinics in Medford
and Phillips; Vicky Brost, Aspirus Medford Foundation treasurer; and Lacey Liske,
perioperative registered nurse.
Public notices
City of Medford
Special Common Council
Meeting Minutes
Monday, January 12, 2015
6:00 PM
Council Chambers, City Hall
639 South Second Street
Medford, WI
{Subject to Council Approval}
Call to Order/Roll Call
Mayor Mike Wellner called the
meeting to order with the following members present: Dave J.
Brandner, Arlene Parent, Greg
Knight, Peggy Kraschnewski,
Jim Peterson, Mike Bub, and
Clem Johnson. Alderperson Patricia DeChatelets was absent.
All vote tallies will be with the
exception of Alderperson DeChatelets votes.
City Personnel Present
The following City personnel
were present: City Clerk Ginny
Brost, Electric Utility Manager
Spencer Titera, Police Chief
Ken Coyer, and City Coordinator/Public Works Director. City
Attorney Courtney Graff was an
excused absence.
Visitors Present
Visitors present were Brian
Wilson-Star News, Tom Judnic,
and retired Electric Utility employee Ed Pinkert.
Pledge of Allegiance
Alderperson Knight began the
meeting by leading the group in
the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Open Meeting Law Compliance
Mayor Wellner announced
that this was an open meeting
of the Common Council. Notice of this meeting was given
to the public at least 24 hours in
advance of the meeting by forwarding the complete agenda
to the official City newspaper,
The Star News, and to all news
media that have requested the
same as well as posting. Cop-
ies of the complete agenda

were available for inspection at
the City Clerks Office. Anyone
desiring information as to forthcoming meetings should contact
the City Clerks Office.
Citizens and Delegations
There were no citizens or delegations present.
Presentation of Certificate
of Appreciation Ed Pinkert
Mayor Wellner presented retired Electric Utility employee Ed
Pinkert with a Certificate of Appreciation for his many years of
service.
Minutes
Kraschnewski moved, Johnson seconded a motion to approve the following meeting minutes as presented and to place
the same on file in the Clerks
Office: (A) October 7, 2014
Committee of the Whole Closed
Session, (B) November 11, 2014
Finance & Personnel Committee
Closed Session, (C) December
2, 2014 Council Closed Session #1, (D) December 2, 2014
Council Closed Session #2,
(E) December 8, 2014 Special
Council, (F) December 8, 2014
Special Council Closed Session, and (G) December 8, 2014
Committee of the Whole. All in
favor: All Aye. Motion Carried.
Employee
Handbook
Amendment Travel & Business Expense
Parent moved, Kraschnewski
seconded a motion to amend
Section 4.3(A)(6) of the Employee Handbook relative to travel
and business expense, and increase the allowable daily meal
allowance including tips from
$35.00 to $45.00 retroactive to
January 1, 2015. All in favor: All
Aye. Motion Carried.
Retirement - Police Patrol
Officer
On December 10, 2014, Richard Burghaus submitted his no-
tice that he will be retiring from

his patrol officer position on April
14, 2015.
Peterson moved Johnson
seconded a motion to accept
Patrol Office Richard Burghaus
retirement notification effective
April 14, 2015. All in favor: All
Aye. Motion Carried.
Capital Improvements in
Tax Increment District #13
(East of State Highway 64 &
Bauer Drive) & Engineering
Contract for the Same
The Community Development
Authority Board, at its December 9, 2014 meeting, recommended that Council include
the extension of utilities east on
State Highway 64 and Bauer
Drive as part of its 2015 Capital Projects. The Community
Development Authority Boards
recommendation included that
Council approve an engineering
agreement with Ayres & Associates (the Citys engineers) in the
amount of $55,800. Funding for
both the engineering contract
and utilities extension were included in the Tax Increment #13
Budget. Adjacent property owners will be special assessed as
per the Citys policy.
Kraschnewski moved, Knight
seconded a motion to accept
the Community Development
Authority Boards recommendations and approved the extension of utilities east on State
Highway 64 and Bauer Drive
as part of the 2015 capital projects as well as the engineering
agreement with Ayres & Associates (the Citys engineers)
in an amount not-to-exceed
$55,800.00 with funds allocated
from the Tax Increment #13 Budget. Roll Call Vote: BrandnerYes; Parent-Yes; Knight-Yes;
Kraschnewski-Yes;
PetersonYes; DeChatelets-Absent; BubYes; Johnson-Yes (7 Yes; 0 No;
1 Absent) Motion Carried.

Engineering Agreement for
the Construction of Well #12
Bid Solicitation for the Same
City personnel are currently
in the process of reviewing the
engineering contract for the development Well #12. Therefore,
the contract was not available
for Council consideration. No
Action Taken.
Way & Way, Inc.s 2014 Personal Property Tax Bill
After receiving their 2014 personal property tax bill, Way &
Way, Inc. contacted Treasurer
Kevin Doberstein. The property tax bill was in the amount
of $25,568.88. Elk River Appraisals (the Citys assessor)
reviewed the bill, and found
that they had entered the wrong
amount under supplies which
resulted in a palpably erroneous entry in the assessment roll
which in turns resulted in an incorrect tax. The correct amount
of taxes is $309.18. The Department of Revenue was contacted
to determine how to correct the
error. Under Wisconsin Statutes
74.05, the procedure is as follows: (1)
Way & Way,
Inc. submits a written request
for the City to review their 2014
personal tax bill. This was done
on December 30, 2014. (2) The
City Assessor provides a written
statement regarding its review.
This was done with the City Assessor stating they had entered
the wrong amount under supplies which resulted in a palpably erroneous entry into the assessment which in turn resulted
in an incorrect personal property
tax amount of $25,568.88. The
corrected amount is $309.18.
(3) Council must consider rescinding the incorrect personal
property tax bill, and authorizing the Treasurer to issue a corrected personal property tax bill.
(4) Should Council agree to reissue the tax bill for the correct
amount, the Clerk will submit
a Request for Charge Back of
Rescinded or Refunded Taxes
under Wisconsin Statute 74.33
to the Department of Revenue
for the amount of $25,259.71.
The Department of Revenue will
then review and or approve or
deny the request by November
15, 2015. The taxing jurisdictions must then reimburse the
City by February 15, 2016. Because of the Statutory timelines,
the City will be responsible for
the $25,259.71. With Council
approval, this amount will be allocated from the Citys Retained
Earnings account for calendar
year 2015. Payments made
from the overlying taxing jurisdictions made in February 2016
would then be returned to the
retained earnings account.
Peterson
moved,
Kraschnewski seconded a motion
to rescind Way & Way, Inc.s
2014 personal property tax bill
in the amount of $25,568.88
due to a palpably erroneous
entry into the assessment roll,
and authorize the Treasurer to
re-issue a corrected tax bill in
the amount of $309.18 in accordance with Wisconsin Statute
74.05. Motion included authorization for the Clerk to submit
a Request for Charge Back of
Rescinded or Refunded Taxes
under Wisconsin Statute 74.33
to the Department of Revenue
in the amount of $25,259.71,
and to authorize the Treasurer
to allocated the $25,259.71 from
the Citys retained earnings account for calendar year 2015
with all payments made in February 2016 from the overlying
taxing jurisdictions returned to
the Citys retained earnings account. Roll Call Vote: BrandnerYes; Parent-Yes; Knight-Yes;
Kraschnewski-Yes;
PetersonYes; DeChatelets-Absent; BubYes; Johnson-Yes (7 Yes; 0 No;
1 Absent) Motion Carried.
Coordinators Report
The City Coordinators report is as follows: (1) On January 5, 2015, Alex Zenner began
his employment with the Public
Works Department. (2) Effective January 1, 2015, Jon Vissers was selected at the Electric
Utility Working Foreman. (3)
The 2014 pre-audit is scheduled
to begin January 21st, with the
audit scheduled for the week of
February 23rd.
Communications from the
Mayor/Upcoming Events
January Meeting Schedule
The January meeting schedule
was distributed.
Medford Area Development
Foundation The Medford Area
Development Foundation will be
hosting a reception to welcome
new business owners, doctors,
CEOs, and managers on Monday, January 19, 2015 at the
High View Inn. There will be a
cash bar beginning at 5:40 and
appetizers will be served. Any
Council member wishing to attend should contact the City
Clerk.
Adjourn to Committee of
the Whole
Brandner moved, Knight seconded a motion to adjourn the
meeting to Committee of the
Whole at 6:18 PM. All in favor:
All Aye. Motion Carried. Meeting Adjourned to Committee of
the Whole.
Respectfully Submitted,
Virginia Brost
City Clerk, WCPC/MMC
(One ins, January 22)
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years in prison, with a mandatory minimum five years in prison, a $250,000 fine,
a three-year period of supervised release,
a $100 special assessment and entry of an
appropriate restitution order. As part of
the agreement, the federal government
stated it will not file charges under the
code related to tampering with a witness,
victim, or an informant. However, the
government will ask the judge for a twolevel increase for obstruction of justice.
Johnson also agreed to pay restitution for all losses related to the crime.
The actual amount of restitution will be
determined prior to sentencing and will
be due in full at the time of sentencing,
scheduled for Feb. 3. Johnson is currently in federal custody awaiting sentencing.
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chairman Kris OLeary during a reception on July 26 at the hospital.
responded to both incidents. It was called
at 1 p.m. on Oct. 1 and at 9:48 a.m. on Oct.
3. Taylor County Sheriffs Department
and Medford Area Fire Department personnel were also involved in clearing the
school during the first bomb scare.
The Oct. 3 scare began when a student
noticed a message typed into a calculator
they were issued during a mathematics
class. The calculator had the ability to
store a small amount of information. The
information was typed on Thursday with
no specifics, and school staff were able
to quickly narrow down who had access
to the calculator. We were really confident we could find the source quickly,
district administrator Pat Sullivan said.
The threat was not nearly as specific as
the other one, and it was wrapped up before parents and students knew about it.
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his neighbors buildings.
On Nov. 7, Johnson entered a guilty
plea to a federal arson charge at a courtroom in Madison.
Johnson originally faced a state arson
to a building charge which carries a maximum penalty of 40 years imprisonment,
$100,000 in fines, or both. However, the
state charges were eventually dropped in
favor of federal arson charges being filed
in the case.
The case languished in the federal
court system, while Johnson was charged
with additional offenses in Taylor County, including sexual assault, burglary
and financial fraud.
On Nov. 7, Johnson entered a guilty
plea as part of a plea agreement reached
between himself and assistant U.S. Attorney Munish Sharda. The plea agreement
is dated Oct. 30.
Under terms of the agreement, Johnson agreed to plead guilty to the offense,
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are suspected of contributing to a onevehicle fatal accident in the town of Roosevelt on Nov. 21.
According to Chief Deputy Larry
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Taylor County Sheriffs Office was notified by the Clark County Sheriffs Office
of a one-vehicle accident with injuries on
County Line Road and 11th Ave. in the
town of Roosevelt.
Initial investigation into the accident
indicates a 1997 Ford Explorer occupied
by three males was eastbound on County
Line Road when the driver lost control
of the vehicle while attempting to turn
north onto 11th Ave. The vehicle slid into
the ditch on the northeast corner of the
intersection and struck a utility pole as
it was overturning.
The driver, Laverne W. Palms, 58, received serious injuries and was airlifted
from the scene. The front seat passenger, Gary L. Palms, 62, was pronounced
dead at the scene. A third passenger in
the back seat, Kenneth D. Palms, 60, was
transported to Stanley Hospital with non
life-threatening injuries. All three men
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Bomb scares
A 17-year-old and a juvenile have been
referred for charges following a pair of
bomb scare events at Medford Area Senior High. The case of the 17-year-old
was referred to the district attorney following an Oct. 1 incident. The juvenile
was referred to the court system following an Oct. 3 incident. Both would likely
face a hearing before the Medford Area
School Board, which could include the
discipline option of expulsion.
The high school received its second
bomb scare in three days on Oct. 3, but
quick work in locating the source of the
threat prevented a building evacuation
and disruption of classes.
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Members of the Frank A. Goodrich Jr.

family and Aspirus Medford Foundation,
formerly known as Memorial Health
Center Foundation, enjoyed a party in
his honor on July 26 as the Goodrich estate presented $250,000 to the foundation.
The gift is the single largest ever presented to the foundation.
The reception was held in the new
community room at Aspirus Medford
Hospital. The room is located in the area
of the former entrance atrium and is
planned to be used for outreach classes
and other events which were formerly
held in the basement classrooms. Foundation board members, senior leadership
of Aspirus Medford Hospital, foundation
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Peter and Andrea Goodrich and their
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Peter said family connections to healthcare made giving the gift to a medical
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Accident reports
Taylor County Law Enforcement
Two-vehicle accidents
Two-vehicle accident
Thomas P. Tlusty and David P. Armbrust were involved in an accident on Jan. 14 at
3:08 p.m. in the car wash at Holiday Gas Station in the city of Medford. According to
the accident report, the Armbrust vehicle was waiting to enter the car wash when the
drivers foot slipped off the brake and onto the gas pedal. The vehicle lunged forward
and through the closed overhead garage door, striking the Tlusty vehicle which was
using the car wash at the time. Both vehicles sustained minor damage to their respective ends. The driver of the Tlusty vehicle reported soreness as the result of his vehicle
being struck.
Traffic court
Trials slated
The following appeared and entered

pleas of not guilty: Justin T. Blomberg,
28, Chippewa Falls, operating while under the influence-first offense; Peter M.
Eckes Sr., 58, Lomira, speeding 11-15
mph over the limit; Timothy J. Fox, 40,
Dorchester, operating without a valid license-first violation; Christopher C. Fuller, 31, Wisconsin Rapids, speeding 11-15
mph over the limit; Skylar R. Hartman,
21, Medford, cracked or damaged vehicle
windshield; Louis E. Mikos, 69, Phillips,
speeding 11-15 mph over the limit; Rebecca L. Smolka, 16, Athens, speeding
20-24 mph over the limit; Christopher M.
Gipp, 40, Stetsonville, operating without
a valid license-first offense.
Disposition reports
Forfeitures
Steven J. Kivley, 53, Westboro, pled no

contest to an amended charge of speeding
20-24 mph over the limit and was fined
$225.70. The original charge had been
speeding 25-29 mph over the limit.
Harry Sweda, 82, Lublin, pled no contest to an amended charge of reckless
driving-endangering safety and was fined
$389.50. The original charge had been operating while under the influence-first
offense.
William E. Weir, 38, Gilman, pled no
contest to operating without a valid license-first offense and was fined $200.50.
A charge of non-registration of vehicle
was dismissed on a prosecutors motion.
Taylor County Circuit Court
Forfeitures
$2,734.42: Tyler F. Harris, 29, Medford,

raw forest product overweight violation.
$1,144.50: Kirk D. Sayles, 53, Merrill,
theft of movable property (restitution).
$515.50: Gary A. Lavin, 72, Owen, human health risks prohibited violation.
$335.28: Kim M. Poirier, 41, Withee,
worthless checks (restitution).
$303.30: Neal M. Borntrager, 21, Thorp,
group deer hunting violation.
$263.50: Matthew W. Mahoney, 18, Abbotsford, disorderly conduct.
$250.90: Jared R. Purdy, 18, Medford,
speeding 25-29 mph over the limit (drivers license suspended).
$213.10: Jason M. Gage, 39, Marathon,
driving too fast for conditions; Lindsey S.
M. Ziemke, 25, Phillips, driving too fast
for conditions.
$200.50: Eugenia Lopez, 36, Medford,
operating without a valid license-first offense; Victor D. Pagel, 40, Medford, operating a motor vehicle without insurance;
Jared J. Zastrow, 22, Stetsonville, operating while suspended-third offense and
operating a motor vehicle without insurance ($200.50 each).
$183.30: Kurt J. Leick, 45, Greenleaf,
speeding 11-15 mph over the limit.
$175.30: Dean M. Hawkey, 45, Dorchester, cracked or damaged vehicle windshield; Jocelyn R. Holtz, 22, Gilman, failure to yield while making a left turn.
$150.10: Eugenia Lopez, 36, Medford,
violation of child safety restraint requirements.
$10 seatbelt violation: Dean M.
Hawkey, 45, Dorchester.
$10 proof of insurance violation: Eugenia Lopez, 36, Medford; Brenda A. Whetstone, 51, Medford.
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Brenda M. Graveen and Maxwell K.

Slattery were involved in an accident
on Jan. 13 at 7:05 a.m. on Jensen Dr. in
the city of Medford. According to the accident report, the Graveen vehicle was
eastbound on Jensen Dr. The Slattery
vehicle was exiting the Wadal Plastics
parking lot and was unable to stop, sliding out onto the street in the path of the
Graveen vehicle. The Graveen vehicle
sustained moderate damage to the rear
and rear driver side. The Slattery vehicle
sustained moderate damage to the middle passenger side.
Rosemary L. Schulz and and Debra A.
Berry were involved in an accident on
Jan. 13 at 9:15 a.m. in the Weather Shield
Plaza parking lot in the city of Medford.
According to the accident report, the
Schulz vehicle was southbound on the
Weather Shield Plaza driveway. The
Berry vehicle was eastbound making a
left turn onto the driveway from another driveway when it was struck by the
Schulz vehicle. The Berry vehicle was
spun partially around and came to a stop
off the side of the driveway. The Schulz
vehicle sustained severe damage to the
front and front driver side. The Berry vehicle sustained severe damage to the rear
driver side. Both vehicles were towed
from the scene.
John P. Resech and Bernold A. Nelson
were involved in an accident on Jan. 13
at 5:29 p.m. at the intersection of Hwy 13
and Perkins St. in the city of Medford.
According to the accident report, both
vehicles were southbound on Hwy 13.
The Resech vehicle was stopped at the
traffic light at the intersection with Per-
kins St. when it was struck from behind

by the Nelson vehicle, which was unable
to stop in time to avoid the accident. Both
vehicles sustained minor damage to their
respective ends. A citation was issued.
Michelle L. Komarek and Nikkita M.
Muehlbauer were involved in an accident on Jan. 15 at 11:08 a.m. in the Medford Plaza parking lot in the city of Medford. According to the accident report,
the Muehlbauer vehicle was eastbound
through the County Market parking lot
and attempting to make a left turn into
the parking stall area when it struck the
Komarek vehicle, which was westbound
through the parking lot. The Komarek
vehicle sustained minor damage to the
middle driver side. The Muehlbauer
vehicle sustained minor damage to the
rear.
Hit-and-run accident
A vehicle owned by Laura L. Schreiner and an unknown vehicle were involved in a hit-and-run accident on Jan. 7
at 11:39 p.m. in the parking lot at Aspirus
Medford Hospital in the city of Medford.
According to the accident report, the Schreiner vehicle was legally parked when it
was struck by an unknown vehicle backing out of an adjacent parking space. The
unknown vehicle then left the scene. The
Schreiner vehicle sustained moderate
damage to the entire driver side.
Deer-related accidents
The following deer-related accidents

were reported: Jan. 13 at 6:10 p.m. on CTH
D in the town of Westboro; Jan. 19 at 5:38
a.m. on Hwy 64 in the town of Goodrich.
Court proceedings
Taylor County Circuit Court
Pleas entered
Ann M. Reynolds, 25, Abbotsford, pled

no contest to an amended charge of an ordinance violation of disorderly conduct
and was ordered to pay a fine and costs
of $330.50. The original charge had been a
criminal violation of disorderly conductdomestic abuse.
Michael W. Reitzloff, 64, Medford, pled
no contest to possession of THC. He was
sentenced to serve 60 days in jail and
ordered to pay costs of $443. A charge of
possession of drug paraphernalia was
dismissed but read in. He also pled no
contest to operating while revoked and
was ordered to pay a fine and costs of
$579.
Probation ordered
Donald M. Jones, 35, Green Bay, pled

no contest to possession of a controlled
substance and neglecting a child. His
sentence was withheld and he was placed
on probation for three years on the condition he serve six months in jail and
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pay costs of $728.34 and supervision fees

as ordered by the Department of Correction; undergo an alcohol and drug assessment and follow through with any recommendations; undergo random drug
screening and testing at the probationary agents discretion; and shall comply
with the CHIPS order if it is still in effect.
Deferred entry of judgment

Donald M. Jones, 35, Green Bay, entered into a deferred entry of judgment
agreement for a period of three years
for a charge of manufacture/delivery of
Schedule IV drugs. As terms of the the
agreement, Jones must not commit any
criminal offenses during the period of
the agreement; notify the Taylor County
district attorney and clerk of court offices
of any address change; reimburse the district attorneys office for service of process fees in the amount of $43.24; undergo
an alcohol and drug assessment and all
recommended follow-through treatment;
and successfully complete his three-year
probationary period.
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Ron Simek dies in Nevada

Ronald Simek, one of the founding
brothers of Tombstone Pizza Corporation, died Tuesday, Jan. 20 at Renown
Hospital in Reno, Nev. He was a patient
there for nine days.
Funeral services
are on Saturday,
Jan. 31 at 11 a.m.
at First Lutheran
Church in Ogema
with Rev. Bob
Giese officiating.
Burial will be in
Mount Olive Cemetery in Westboro.
Visitation will be
at Hemer Funeral
Ronald Simek
Home in Medford
on Jan. 30 from 4 to
7 p.m. and the next day at church beginning at 9 a.m.
Ron Simek and his brother, Joseph
Pep Simek, built Tombstone Pizza from
a creation in a tavern kitchen to the largest-selling frozen pizza in the country
before selling the company in the 1980s.
Ron Simek then returned to his farming
roots as he moved west and turned his focus to cattle ranching.

Ron Simek was working as a timber
cruiser before he returned to Taylor
County and purchased the Tombstone
Tap. He was operating the bar east of
Medford when his stepfather died and
he was then operating the family farm as
well. He convinced his brother to return
home from Chicago to help him with the
work load. The brothers started Tombstone Pizza in 1962 and it soon grew from
a sideline at the tavern into an enterprise
of its own. They sold the corporation in
the late 1980s to Kraft Foods, which recently sold it to Nestle at a price tag in
the billions.
There isnt one person in Taylor
County who hasnt benefitted from Ron
and Pep and their wives. They employed
hundreds of people in jobs which were
not here before. The brand will always be
associated with Ron and Pep Simek, David Dewey Sebold said during the Oct.
2013 hall of fame induction ceremony for
the brothers at Rib Lake High School.
Ron was a 1944 graduate of Westboro
High School.
Pep Simek died in Feb. 2013.
Canoe trailer
submitted photo
Chequamegon Wildlife & Rec Club (CWRC) teamed up with Stanley Boy Scout
Troop 50 to build a canoe trailer the troop will use on their numerous canoe trips
throughout the summer. The boys each had a hand in the welding and building of the
trailer. Each one of the boys welded their initials on the hitch to give it a special touch.
This is one of the many projects the CWRC is involved in.
Obituaries
Reports of Area Deaths
John Schutten
Louise Zirngibl
1941-2015
John David Schutten, 73, of Hannibal,

died on Thursday, Jan.
15, 2015 at his home
under the care of Hope
Hospice of Medford. He
was born on Sept. 14,
1941 in Racine. John
grew up there and entered the United States
Army for a time. He
married Sally Mallo
on Aug. 26, 1974 in Tillamook, Ore. John primarily worked road
construction until his retirement, then moved
back to Wisconsin.
He was an avid outdoorsman enjoying shing,
hunting and also liked to y remote airplanes.
John is survived by his wife, Sally, of Hannibal; four children, Tina, Tami, Frieda and David
Schutten; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. He
was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Allen and Dean Schutten; and sisters, Lucille Rogers
and Betty Noll.
A funeral service was held on Wednesday, Jan.
21 at New Hope Presbyterian Church in Hannibal,
with Rev. Barry Boyer ofciating. Burial followed
in the Hannibal Cemetery.
Gilman Funeral Home assisted the family with
arrangements.
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1927-2015
Former Taylor County
resident Louise L. Zirngibl,
87, Holcombe, died on Tuesday, Jan. 13 at her sons home
in Stetsonville. A private
memorial service is being
planned for a later date.
The former Louise Griesbach was born on Sept. 10,
1927 in Perkinstown to the
late Julius and Hazel (Mathias) Griesbach Sr. She attended Perkinstown Elementary School, Hannibal High
School, and graduated from Taylor County Normal
School and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
She married Vernon Resech in Watertown, S.D., and
they later divorced. She married Clarence Boomer
Zirngibl, who preceded her in death in 2006. She taught
Jacque Humm
Ronald Simek
1930-2015
Jacque L. Humm, 85, Medford, died on Wednesday,
Jan. 21 at Aspirus Care and Rehab in Medford. Private
services will be held at a later date.
Hemer Funeral Homes of Medford and Rib Lake assisted the family with arrangements.
A full obituary will be published next week.
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Charles Metz Family
THANK YOU
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The family of Charles Metz wishes to thank the doctors & nurses at Aspirus Medford Hospital and Comfort
Care for their care of Charles.
Thank you to Hemer Funeral Service for their help &
consideration.
A big thanks to Ladies of Holy Rosary for the great
food served for lunch.
Thanks to Father Gerard & Deacon Joe for the beautiful service given in the celebration of Charles life.
Also a big thanks to friends & neighbors for the lovely
cards, words, phone calls, food & support given us at
this sad time.
Charles will be missed greatly by his family & friends.
We would like to thank Jolene and Samantha at Hemer

Funeral Service for their care and guidance, Pastor
Mundt, the organist, and the ladies that prepared and
served the meal at St. Pauls, anyone who provided food
for the meal. We would also like to thank the ambulance
crew and Ofcer Chad Liske for their assistance. A
heartfelt thank you to all our family and friends for being
there for us and to anyone else who assisted in any way.
The Family of Donald Halopka

Carol Jochimsen, Jody Jochimsen & Family
in one-room rural Taylor County schools for five years

and operated Resechs Cafe in Stetsonville for 10 years
before moving to Iowa City, Iowa where she was employed at Kmart for 23 years. She and her husband Clarence lived in Iowa until her retirement in 1991, then
moved to Holcombe.
She was a member of Boxrucker-Berry American
Legion Auxiliary of Stetsonville for 56 years and Flambeau Area Trail Tenders Snowmobile Club. She enjoyed
snowmobiling, fishing, gardening, feeding birds and
squirrels, many crafts, and pets.
Survivors include a son, Dennis (Karen) Resech of
Stetsonville; two brothers, Julius Bud (Doris) Griesbach Jr. of Westboro and Raymond Ray (Connie)
Griesbach of Rhinelander; two grandsons; six greatgrandchildren; and one great-great-grandson.
In addition to her parents and husband, Clarence,
she was preceded in death by a sister, Marcella Sally
Krueger.
Ronald L. Simek, 85, Genoa, Nev., died on Tuesday,

Jan. 20 at Renown Hospital in Reno, Nev. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 11 a.m. at First
Lutheran Church in Ogema, with Rev. Dr. Bob Giese officiating. Interment will be at Mount Olive Cemetery in
Westboro.
Visitation will be held at Hemer Funeral Home in
Medford on Friday, Jan. 30 from 4 to 7 p.m., and at the
church on Saturday from 9 a.m. until the time of service.
A full obituary will be published next week.
In loving memory of Joan A. Johnson who

passed into the loving arms of our Lord on
January 28, 2005.
The time you spent with us was too short, but
the memories will stay forever, Jo touched so
many lives, so many hearts, and is spoken of by someone almost
daily, keeping the kind and warm thoughts in our hearts. We miss
you deeply Jo.
Your loving family.
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Obituaries
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Reports of Area Deaths
Helen Martin
1931-2015
Ann Wozniak
1915-2015
Former Thorp resident
Ann Wozniak, 99, Minneota,
Minn., died on Wednesday,
Jan. 14 at Minneota Manor.
Funeral services were held
on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at
Holy Assumption Orthodox
Church in Lublin, with Rev.
Edward Batchko officiating.
Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Thorp Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.
The former Ann Peleschak was born on Feb. 28, 1915
in Lublin to the late Ambrose and Julia (Sweda) Peleschak. She attended Lublin area schools. At the age of
16, she moved to Chicago, Ill. and did domestic work for
families.
On June 20, 1937 at Holy Assumption Orthodox

Church, she married Leon Rudy Wozniak, who preceded her in death on March 31, 1972. They resided in
Chicago where she worked at a Singer Sewing Center
and other various jobs in the area until retiring in 1985.
She was a lifelong member of Holy Assumption Orthodox Church. She enjoyed attending church, container gardening, dancing, the Ed Sullivan Show and making and altering clothes.
Survivors include two children, Janell Wagoner and
Gary (Sandra) Wozniak, both of Tyler, Minn.; three sisters, Ella Handa of Aurora, Ill., Irene (Edward) Jasinski
of Thorp and Katherine (Marvin) Piwoni of Gilman; two
grandsons; two great-granddaughters; and nieces and
nephews.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by three brothers, Matt, Mike and Nick
Peleschak, and two sisters, Helen Gasiorowski and
Mary Zielinski.
Elnora Ripley
1925-2015
Elnora Mae Ripley, 89,

Medford, died on Tuesday,
Jan. 13 at Care Partners
Assisted Living in Medford. Funeral services will
be held on Saturday, Jan.
24 at 11 a.m. at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in
Medford, with Father Gerard Willger and Deacon
Joe Stefancin ofciating.
Interment will be at Lake
View Memorial Park Mausoleum in Oshkosh.
Visitation will be held
at the church on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until the
time of service.
Hemer Funeral Homes of Medford and Rib Lake
assisted the family with arrangements.
The former Elnora Bundick was born on May 10,
1925 in the town of Westboro to the late Raymond
Albert and Aprilla Elnora (Charvillia) Bundick. She
graduated from Westboro High School in 1942.
In 1945 in Milwaukee, she married Robert August
Zanowski. She was employed as an insurance agent

by Catholic Knights, Zanowski and Assoc., and also
worked for Green Thumb in Taylor County.
She was a member of Holy Rosary Catholic
Church, Womens Club of Holy Rosary Catholic Church, and The Red Hat Society. She was the
rst elected woman board member of the Catholic
Knights. She enjoyed bowling, playing golf, sewing,
puzzles, completing crafts, reading, writing poetry
and traveling.
Survivors include a son, Dennis (Patricia) Zanowski of Balwin, Mo.; two siblings, June Spieles
and Mary (Lawrence) Salzman, both of Medford; and
three grandchildren, Tiffanie, Andrew and Allison
Zanowski.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded
in death by seven siblings, Edith Archibald, William, Edward, Orie and Vernon Bundick, Raymond
Bundick in infancy, and a sister in infancy.
In lieu of owers, memorial donations in her honor may be made to American Cancer Society or Holy
Rosary Catholic School.
Online condolences may be made at www.hemerfuneralservice.com.
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Mary Polacek
1912-2015
Mary A. Polacek, 102,

Rib Lake, died on Wednesday, Jan. 14 at Golden LivingCenter in Rib Lake,
where she had resided
the past 14 months. Funeral services were held
on Monday, Jan. 19 at St.
Johns Lutheran Church
in Rib Lake, with Rev.
James Heffner ofciating.
Interment was at Lakeview Cemetery in Rib Lake.
Active pallbearers were
her grandsons, Mark, Guy,
Doug, Kelly, Brian and Todd Polacek. Honorary pallbearers were all her grandchildren.
Hemer Funeral Homes of Medford and Rib Lake
assisted the family with arrangements.
The former Mary Haluska was born on March 7,
1912 in Ladysmith to the late John and Anna (Brown)
Haluska. She attended Rib Lake Elementary School.
She worked as a nanny in the Chicago area.
On June 15, 1937 at St. Johns Lutheran Church,
she married Thomas J. Polacek, who preceded her in
death on May 30, 2002. They resided out west where
they worked for seasonal farms, then moved to the
town of Rib Lake where they farmed from 1938 to

1980. While farming she also worked at Rib Lake
Cheese Factory and Gem Products in Rib Lake. During retirement, she continued to work at the four-generation family farm.
She was a member of St. Johns Lutheran Church
and past member of its Ladies Aid Group, past member of Fawn Valley Mothers Club, and a past leader
of Fawn Valley 4-H Club. She enjoyed gardening,
owers, feeding the birds, baking pies and bread,
making soup, polka dancing, traveling, dart leagues
and following the Green Bay Packers.
Survivors include a daughter, Sandra (Earl) Hanson of Tomahawk; ve sons, Michael (Barb Becker) Polacek of Daytona Beach, Fla., Doug (Janet)
Polacek, Gary (Debra) Polacek and Gene (Chris)
Polacek, all of Rib Lake, and Tom (Linda) Polacek Jr.
of Cape Coral, Fla.; 15 grandchildren; and 22 greatgrandchildren.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was
preceded in death by three brothers, John, George
and Michael, and two sisters, Susan and Ann.
In lieu of owers, the family requests memorial
contributions be given to the family for future designation.
Online condolences may be made at www.hemerfuneralservice.com.
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Helen R. Martin, 83,

of rural Gilman, died
on Wednesday, Jan. 14,
2015 at Our Lady of Victory Hospital in Stanley.
She was born on Sept.
6, 1931 to the late Lester
and Flossie (Drought)
Powers. She grew up
in the Donald area and
graduated from Gilman
High School. On Oct. 7,
1950, she married Francis Martin in Gilman.
The couple farmed and
lived in the town of Pershing ever since.
Helen taught catechism for the parish for many
years. She also loved to feed the birds, pick wild
owers, puzzles, reading and was a great wife,
mother and grandmother.
Helen is survived by her husband of 64 years,
Francis; four daughters, Sherry (John) Neubauer
of Random Lake, Connie (Dave) Gulcynski of
Thorp, Nancy (Bruce) Liazuk of Medford and Vickie Martin of Kaukauna; 11 grandchildren; 14 greatgrandchildren; and one sister, Dawn (Emil) Mravik
of Portage. She was preceded in death by her parents; one son, Ronald; sisters, Phyllis, Florence and
Norma; and brothers, Rueben and William.
A memorial mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 23 at St. Johns Catholic Church in Sheldon, with Father Gerard Willger ofciating. Burial
of cremains will follow in the Donald Cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until time of
service on Friday at the church. Plombon Funeral
Service-Gilman assisted the family with arrangements.
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Eugene Zakrzewicz
1927-2015
Eugene Francis Zakrzewicz, 87, Thorp,

died on Sunday, Jan. 11
at The Wisconsin Veterans Home in Chippewa
Falls. Services were
held on Saturday, Jan. 17
at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Lublin.
Burial was at the parish cemetery. Pallbearers were his grandsons,
Roger Zakrzewicz, Steven Zakrzewicz, Tony D.
Szak, William Rhamey,
Tom Zakrzewicz and Christopher Zakrzewicz.
Thorp Funeral Home assisted the family with
arrangements.
Eugene Zakrzewicz was born on June 24, 1927
in rural Thorp to the late Frank and Anna (Lewandowski) Zakrzewicz. He attended school in the town
of Roosevelt. He entered the United States Army in
1945, and while stationed at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, he was among the ranks of soldiers lining the
route of President Roosevelts funeral procession.
On Sept. 4, 1948 at St. Stanislaus Catholic
Church, he married Dorothy Wisniewski, who preceded him in death in 2001. They operated a dairy
farm in the town of Roosevelt, he was also a carpenter, electrician, meat cutter and mechanic.
He was a member of Lublin American Legion
Post No. 547 and helped with events until ill health
forced him to quit. He enjoyed shing.
Survivors include four sons, Michael (Aggie) of
Guymon, Okla., David of Thorp, Gene (Kathy) of
Sheldon and Phillip (Charity) of Sayre, Okla.; two
daughters, Connie (Tony) Szak of Thorp and Barbara (Scott) Rhamey of Coon Rapids, Minn.; and a
sister, Loretta Zakrzewicz of Thorp.
In addition to his parents and wife, he was preceded in death by a son, Kenneth in 2013; two brothers, Robert Zakrzewicz and Raymond in infancy;
and a sister, Rita Marcantonio
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On the fast track
PINEWOOD DERBY
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Thursday,
Thursday,January
January22,
2, 2014
2015
photos by Brian Wilson
Members of the Medford Cub Scout Pack 533 and their families watch the cars speed down the track at Sundays
Pinewood Derby race held at Medford Area Middle School. The annual race is a high point for scouts who only
have a few weeks to work on the design and construction of the pint-sized vehicles.
Fast times at the

2015 Pinewood Derby
Outstanding cars
Wyatt Ertls car was voted for best paint job and Benjamin Ortengrens fishing boat car was voted most creative.
Tigers
Winners in the Tiger Cub competition were (l. to r.):
first, Ben Grube, second, Ronald Faude and third, Elijah
Kenny.
Place Name Speed*

1 Wyatt Ertl 129.5
2 Carter Daniel 128.3
3 Braydon Machon 125.9
4 Nathan Willman 125.2
5 Alexander Wilson 124.2
6 Nickolas Frenzel 123.7
7 Nicholas Taylor-Schaus 122.9
8 Weston Rogers 122.2
9 Caleb Egle 121.6
10 Collin Rausch 121.5
11 Conner Zirngible 119.0
12 Lucas Liske 117.0
13 Jake Seifert 115.7
14 Lucas Ortengren 115.3
15 Ben Ortengren 112.7
16 Landen Holub 112.0
17 Mason Harris 110.9
18 Gabriel Felix 108.4

19 Braeden Lis 106.3
20 Brady Riemer 100.3
21 Jedrae Kohn 96.6
Open class
Place Name Speed*
1 Chloe Ertl 129.4
2 Jaylin Machon 125.9
3 Jace Rausch 125.4
4 Holly Grube 124.9
5 Justin Zirngible 124.3
6 Emily Taylor-Shaus 123.1
7 Carrie Zirngible 122.9
Pencil by a point
*Speed is MPH based on

1/16 scale.
The pencil Pinewood Derby car pulled ahead of the

silver racer and stapler cars in Sundays competition
held at the Medford Area Elementary School.
Top finishers
Top finishers in the Pinewood Derby race were (l to r.) first place, Wyatt Ertl; second place, Carter Daniels, third
place; Braydon Machon; fourth place Nathan Willman (not pictured); and fifth place, Alexander Wilson.
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SECOND SECTION
Hot-shooting night sends

Raiders past Colby Hornets
by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter
Scrapping
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After diving for a loose ball, Medfords Lakyn Kummer (ground) passes the ball to
Heidi Wildberg (l.) to get the Raiders offense on the move during the first quarter of
their 45-30 win on Monday.
Long-range shooting success in basketball can be a fickle beast. On Monday

night in Colby, the Medford Raiders girls
basketball team tamed that beast and
trounced the Colby Hornets, 45-30, in a
non-conference showdown.
The girls were executing very well
tonight, Medford head coach Scott
Wildberg said. Three point shooting is
always up and down, but tonight the girls
were in rhythm and we were knocking
em down.
The Raiders hit five three-pointers,
all in the first half, as they built a lead
that Colby could not overcome. Abbie
Bergman drained three, while both
Clausnitzers, Jenice and Hailee, had one
apiece.
The games decisive run came during
the second quarter. With the Raiders up
15-10, Bergman hit threes on consecutive
possessions and Jenice Clausnitzer followed on the next possession with a three
of her own. The onslaught propelled
Medford to a 26-16 lead at halftime.
Both teams struggled to score in the
third quarter, but the Raiders were fine
with maintaining their double-digit lead.
The Raiders added two more to their lead
by outscoring the Hornets 8-6 in the quarter.
Up 12 going into the final quarter,
the Raiders got a bit of a scare when the
Hornets scored three straight to start the
period, but that run ended when Jenice
Clausnitzer hit a two to put Medford up
10. After that bucket, the Raiders scored
five straight points, including a Hailee
Clausnitzer three-point play with 2:45 remaining in the game. Colby got the next
two baskets, but Bergman slammed the
door by making four free throws on consecutive possessions to close out the win
for Medford.
The Raiders held a 10-8 lead after the
first quarter and never looked back.
Utilizing a 1-3-1 zone, Medford was able
to keep the Hornets from challenging the
lead they had built.
The girls were solid on both ends of
the floor. We executed our offense, and
changed things up on defense. We contested their shots and played a lot smarter on defense, Wildberg said.
Samantha Hayes scored eight to lead
the Hornets. Haylee Geiger and Hannah
Gurtner both netted six in the loss. The
Hornets were four of four from the free
throw line and did not make a threepointer in the game. Gurtner fouled out
in the fourth quarter.
Bergman scored a game-high 14 in the
15-point win. Hailee Clausnitzer had 10
points, while Jenice Clausnitzer scored
nine. Mandi Baker and Jennifer Stolp
each chipped in four for the Raiders.
The kids are there that can make
shots. It hasnt really happened for us
this year but tonight it was all clicking.
When you are moving the ball well and
creating space it helps girls to catch and
shoot in rhythm, which is key for shooting, Wildberg said.
The Raiders were able to spread the
floor on the offensive end and used excellent passing and good off-ball movement
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Krommenacker gets co-head coach nod, excited about opportunity

by Sports Editor Matt Frey
The Rib Lake School District wasted
no time in hiring its new head coach in
the Rib Lake-Prentice football co-op, hiring Mark Krommenacker about a month
after previous head coach Kevin Weiss
announced he was stepping down from
the position.
Krommenacker, already the schools
head track and field coach and a physical education teacher at both the high
school and elementary school, said the
hire couldnt come soon enough for him.
Ever since I graduated high school, I
knew I wanted to be a head varsity football coach, Krommenacker said. Im
definitely excited about the opportunity
and Im going to take advantage of it.
Were working hard already, doing what
we can right now.
The
2015
season
will
be
Krommenackers fourth in the Hawks
football program. He was brought on
as the JV coach in the fall of 2012 and
wound up coaching the special teams at
the varsity level the past two years.
Hell team up with co-head coach
Jeremy Brayton of Prentice, who enters
his third year in that position. Brayton
has been a member of the Hawks
coaching staff for the past 17 seasons.
Krommenacker
said the plan is for
Brayton to head up
the defense and for
Krommenacker to
lead the offense,
which would be
a
change
from
the past couple
of years. Brayton
took charge of the
offense when he
Mark
moved up to coKrommenacker
head coach.
I
had
been
working a lot with the offense toward the
end of the year, so that just seemed like a
natural fit, Krommenacker said.
Krommenacker grew up in the successful Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln football program, playing on the 2005 team
that lost to Racine Park in the Division 1
state championship game. He was on the
coaching staff of the 2011 team that lost
7-0 to Kenosha Bradford in that years
state championship. Immediately upon
his high school graduation, he started coaching the eighth grade team at
Rapids. He graduated from UW-Stevens
Point in 2011.
The Hawks are looking for a kick start
after struggling at the varsity level the
past three seasons. Since making the

playoffs in 2011, the Hawks have gone 4-5,
1-8 and 1-8.
Krommenackers primary initial goal
is to increase the students excitement
for playing football, which should, in
turn, lead to more motivation to work
hard to succeed both in-season and outof-season.
My goal is to get the kids excited and
to get them to take pride in being a football player, he said. I think you learn
a lot from playing the game of football.
I hope guys who are in other sports can
use what they learn from playing football. I think football is one of best team
sports. It teaches toughness, both mentally and physically. You learn discipline.
We have to work to get our numbers up.
Theyve been down for the past couple
of years. Were hoping we can get those
back up.
Krommenacker believes being the
track and field coach is a huge advantage
as it will allow him to work with several
football players during the spring in other elements of their athletic development.
Right now, efforts are centered on getting
athletes in the weight room and to weekly speed and agility workouts. Hes a big
proponent of students being involved
in multiple sports. Krommenacker is
spending this winter as Rib Lakes girls

basketball JV coach.
Krommenacker and assistant coach
Kaynen Heikkinen have been developing
a website, http://hawksfootball.org. The
vision is for the site to help raise excitement surrounding the team. Right now,
it offers players reminders of workout
times and weight room availability. A
photo gallery, video links and history of
the program are all planned to be part of
the site.
The Hawks will enter 2015 looking to
fill holes left by a large senior class. The
2014 JV squad ended the year on a high
note by beating Edgar. Krommenacker
said there is momentum to be gained by
the younger players from that win.
That showed us when we put it all together, we can do some things against the
good teams, he said.
Weiss stepped down after 17 years on
the football coaching staff, including 14
as Rib Lakes co-head coach in the co-op.
He still plans to help out in a volunteer
assistant position.
Hes played a big part in helping me
become the head coach, Krommenacker
said. Ive already learned a lot from him
regarding what I need to know being
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September
January 22, 2015
2011
Mosinee and Antigo take advantage of depleted Raiders

The short-handed Medford boys
basketball team fell behind quickly on
Tuesday and never recovered, falling
61-32 to a solid squad from Mosinee at
Raider Hall.
Aaron Maas, a second-team All-Great
Northern Conference guard a year ago,
blistered the Raiders for 20 points, including 15 in the first half. Matt Bolanda,
a 6-6 senior forward, was a matchup
problem as well, dumping in 12 points
for the Indians.
The Raiders struggled with Mosinees
full-court man-to-man pressure in the
early going, and head coach Ryan Brown
said that was the key to Medfords struggles.
At times, I thought we moved the ball
well and controlled the tempo, Brown
said after Medford completed the first
half of GNC play at 2-4. The Raiders are
4-7 overall. The press obviously gave us
some problems.
Maas scored seven quick points and
Board battle
Logan Miller added a three-pointer to

help Mosinee jump out to a 12-5 first-quarter lead. The lead hit double digits when
Maas opened the second quarter with a
three-pointer. Jordan Budniks steal led
to a Maas hoop. Osy Ekwueme answered
with two free throws for Medford to make
it 17-7, but Bolanda scored twice, once off
a steal, and Maas converted a three-point
play off a turnover to make it 24-7. The
Indians put it into cruise control from
there, leading 31-14 at halftime and 45-22
after three quarters.
Mosinee is 4-2 in the GNC and part
of a third-place tie with Antigo, who the
Indians beat 67-57 on Jan. 9. Lakeland
beat the Indians Friday 71-55 in a battle
for second place behind 6-0 Rhinelander.
Ekwueme led Medford with 13 points,
eight of which came in the second half.
Lloyd Bernatz scored all five of his points
in the second half, including a threepoint play early in the fourth quarter.
Cameron Wenzel had five second-quarter
points, including a three-pointer.
Nikola Babic had four points, includ-
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fourth-quarter three-pointer and Jacob
Sullivan made two second-quarter free
throws.
Compared to the last game, we did a
better job of taking away their high-low
game inside, Brown said. Rebounding
still hurt us though. We probably spent
40 minutes over the last couple of practices working on getting a body on someone.
The Raiders will start the second
round of conference play on Friday with
a trip to Tomahawk. Medford won the
first meeting 49-36 when it was at full
strength. The Raiders will host StanleyBoyd on Tuesday for a non-conference
game before getting Rhinelander at home
on Jan. 30. All of those games tip at 7:15
p.m.
Antigo pulls away after half

A week of adversity for the Raiders
included news of the temporary loss of
their best all-around player and theyd be
without head coach Ron Lien, who was
placed on paid administrative leave by
the school district.
The team responded Friday with a
strong, energetic effort in Browns debut as interim head coach. But Antigos
sharp shooting and size advantage were
too much to overcome in the second half
of a 52-31 loss at Raider Hall.
The Raiders fell behind 9-0 but used
three-point shooting to beat Antigos
zones and pull within 17-15 by halftime.
Ty Wrage and Babic knocked down threes
and Babic pulled up and hit a jumper at
the first-quarter buzzer to make it 14-8.
Babic drilled a three-pointer from the
right side and Garrett Strebig swished
one to tie it at 14-14. Antigos Jack Lund
scored his teams only points of the
quarter by converting a three-point play
off an offensive rebound with 5:35 left.
Strebig hit a free throw 33 seconds later.
Neither team scored the rest of the way.
The Raiders killed nearly two minutes
on a late possession and got free throws,
which they missed. But they went to the
locker room giving themselves and their
fans reason to believe.
You just saw guys really working as a
team, Brown said. We talked before the
game that we couldnt be five individuals.
We had to work as a fist. I really thought
we did that. We worked so hard to get
defensive rebounds to get out on shooters and to move the basketball against
their zone. I was really happy with that
through the whole game.
Antigo sank three-pointers on three
straight possessions to start the second
half and pull ahead 26-15. Then things
got interesting. Late in the first half,
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Antigo employed a diamond-and-one

defense on one of Medfords shooters,
mainly Wrage, using one of its best players, senior guard Cameron Noskowiak as
the defender. Medfords adjustment was
to pull Wrage out to half-court, where
Noskowiak stayed right with him. The
teams then went at each other four-onfour on Medfords offensive end. Strebig
hit three three-pointers and Babic hit one
as well to keep the Raiders within shouting distance at 38-27.
Antigo then made its adjustment, going to a triangle and two, face-guarding
Strebig. Medford pulled him out to turn it
into a three-on-three game.
I have seen them do the diamond
and one, Brown explained. When they
put it on the first shooter we let him be a
screener, trying to keep him engaged and
open up somebody else. That worked fine.
We decided to adjust at halftime, knowing theyd probably come out and adjust.
Most of the time it was on Ty, so we put
Ty at half-court. Really, it allowed us to
split their 2-2 and attack and kick and we
knocked down some shots.
So they took away the second shooter, Brown added. So we put two guys
on the corners at half-court and again, we
were getting good shots. But what I have
never seen is a team that face-guards
three guys and turned into two-on-two.
We did what we had to do. We tried to
attack. I think well make some adjustments next time if that happens. It was
definitely interesting for a first varsity
experience as a head coach.
Ekwueme did his best to penetrate
with the open space, either driving to
hoop or dishing it. He made one spectacu-
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BOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Rhinelander
6
0
6
9
Antigo
4
2
9
3
Lakeland
4
2
9
5
Mosinee
4
2
7
6
Medford
2
4
4
7
Tomahawk
1
5
4
9
Northland Pines
0
6
3
9
Jan. 15: D.C. Everest 50, Tomahawk 28.
Jan. 16: Antigo 52, Medford 31; Lakeland 71,
Mosinee 55; Rhinelander 70, Northland Pines 37.
Jan. 17: Merrill 56, Rhinelander 54.
Jan. 19: Mosinee 65, Weyauwega-Fremont 38;
Hayward 55, Tomahawk 43.
Jan. 20: Mosinee 61, Medford 32; Marshfield
50, Rhinelander 47; Merrill 56, Lakeland 52;
Antigo 50, Wittenberg-Birnamwood 31.
Jan. 23: Medford at Tomahawk, Lakeland at
Antigo, Northland Pines at Mosinee, Ashland at
Rhinelander.
Jan. 26: Tomahawk at Rib Lake.
Jan. 27: Stanley-Boyd at Medford, Northland
Pines at Watersmeet, Mich.
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Bogeys, 23 wins, 72 games played; Hacienda, 42, 72; Cindys, 51,
72; Steppin Up, 43, 81; Mainstreet I, 24, 63; Gad, 24, 72; Mainstreet II, 40, 72; Thirsty Moose, 39, 72; VFW, 38, 72.
Jan. 15: Cindys 8, Gad 1 (makeup game from Oct. 23); Mainstreet
II 5, Steppin Up 4; Cindys 6, Gad 3; Thirsty Moose 6, Hacienda 3;
VFW 6, Bogeys 3.
Note: Cadie Smith had an eight-ball break. Teri Punzel had a table
run.
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Teams arrow continues to point upward

Margaret Hamann, Megan Clark and Alexa Phillips
each won an individual event, while the Medford Raiders
turned in a season-best team score on the vault during a
109.15-106.625 win over host Lakeland on Thursday in a
Great Northern Conference gymnastics dual meet.
The total team score was also a season-best for
Medford, who posted solid scores in back-to-back meets
at Lakeland. The Raiders scored 108.85 points there in a
triangular on Jan. 6.
The Raiders had the top three finishers and upped
their team score on the vault to 31.8 points in Thursdays
meet, up three-tenths of a point from their previous best.
Sophomores Alexa Phillips and Fawna Jaecks were the
best of the vaulters. Phillips won it with a personal-best
score of 8.15. Jaecks got a 7.95 to just squeak past Clarks
7.9. Hamann tied Lakelands Laura Oldenburg for sixth
at 7.8. Hannah Brandner tied Lakelands Kayla Gebert
for eighth place at 7.75.
Adding to Medfords strong JV performance, the JV
team scored 31 team points in the event, getting a winning score of 7.9 from Kierra Krause, second-place 7.8s
from Kendra Eggebrecht and Shelby Winchell, a fifthplace score of 7.8 from Bella Sigmund and an eighthplace score of 7.2 from Megan Rudolph.
Wow, the girls are starting to put the parts together
for powerful vaults, head coach Lisa Brooks said.
Bella on bars
Photo by Evan Wixom, The Lakeland Times
Medfords Bella Sigmund ponders her next move

during her varsity bars routine Thursday at Lakeland.
Sigmund earned a score of 5.1.
GNC SMALL DIVISION

GYMNASTICS STANDINGS
Duals
Dual
Meet
Total
W-L
Pts.
Pts.
Pts.
Mosinee-Mar.
1-0
2
0
2
Rhinelander
1-0
2
0
2
Medford
1-1
2
0
2
Chequamegon
1-1
2
0
2
Lakeland
0-2
0
0
0
Jan. 15: Medford 109.15, Lakeland 106.625.
Jan. 24: Medford at Valders Invitational, Rhinelander at Rice
Lake Invitational.
Jan. 27: Medford at Chequamegon.
Jan. 29: Mosinee-Marathon at Rhinelander.
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at Butternut, V-7 p.m.
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Tomahawk (H), V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.
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Hamann elevated her score to a personal-best 8.0

on the balance beam and earned the event victory.
Brandner was a solid second at 7.0. Krause was fourth
with her 6.1, Jaecks tied Lakelands MaKayla Babl for
fifth at 6.0 and Phillips was eighth at 5.75. The Raiders
had 27.1 team points, a point and a half off their seasonbest but enough to outscore Lakeland by 3.05 points.
Margaret was having a rough warm-up, but she was
mentally tough and was determined to hit her routine
even with a new advanced high superior jump, Brooks
said. It was an awesome routine.
Clark stepped up to a season-best score of 7.45 to win
the floor exercise. Brandner was right behind her with a
personal-best 7.25. Hamann and Phillips tied Oldenburg
for fourth with 6.7s. Krause was 10th with a 6.1. The
Raiders had 28.075 team points, 0.675 points off their season-best, but 1.425 points better than the T-Birds.
Hopefully we can incorporate more difficult tumbling for the upcoming meets, Brooks said.
The Raiders didnt quite set a season-best on the uneven bars either, scoring 22.175 points, but Brooks continues to be encouraged by the teams progress there.
Medford is sitting almost four points higher than where
it was in its first meet.
The girls continue to improve every week, Brooks
said. They are beginning to gain confidence in their
new skills and are starting to incorporate more difficulty while continuing to maintain good form.
Phillips led the Raiders with a third-place score of
6.65. Brandners fifth-place score of 5.35 was a seasonbest. Sigmund was sixth with a 5.1, Hamann tied two
T-Birds for seventh at 5.075 and Marisa DuBois was 10th
at 4.65.
Lakelands Angie Geiger just nudged past three
Raiders for the meets all-around title. Geiger scored
27.775 total points, followed by Hamann (27.575) and
Brandner (27.35) with season-best totals and Phillips
(27.25).
Medford is now 1-1 in GNC duals, while Lakeland
dropped to 0-2.
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Thursday,
Thursday,
September
January 22, 2015
2011
Another good Saturday

showing; T-Birds get dual win
All eight of Medfords available
wrestlers claimed top-four finishes in
Saturdays Northland Invitational, hosted by the Ashland Oredockers, led by
Josh Brooks, who was named the tournaments Most Outstanding Wrestler.
The six-team tournament featured
squads that all came in with open weight
classes. That left some brackets fairly
small. Medford finished third in the
team standings with 104.5 points, trailing Superior (134.5) and Lakeland (129.5).
The Raiders beat Ashland by two points.
Bayfield-Washburn (73.5) and Proctor,
Minn. (17) were fifth and sixth.
Brooks (23-5) won a full six-man
bracket at 120 pounds with a perfect 5-0
day. Four of the weight classs six wrestlers came in with records well over .500.
The sophomore knocked off two solid
wrestlers to complete the perfect day,
edging Ashlands Tommy George (21-4)
7-5 and Lakelands Jack Scandin (16-10).
It was the second win in three days over
Scandin for Brooks, who overcame a late
deficit with a reversal and a near fall.
Brooks started his day with pins over
Superiors Brandon Olson (17-7) in 1:05,
Superiors James Kirchoff in 2:27 and
Ashlands Brandon Moore in 2:56.
Josh wrestled well, head coach Tran
Brooks said. He had a couple of close
ones that maybe shouldnt have been. He
was almost able to pin both guys (George
and Scandin). He was a little loose and
they were able to get out.
Tucker Peterson pinned his three opponents to win the four-man 160-pound
bracket. He improved to 23-3 by sticking
Proctors Alec Witt in 1:24, Lakelands
Dennis Harris in 1:13 and Superiors
Harrison Doane in 2:51. Kolten Hanson
(23-3) was just as dominant at 152 pounds,
pinning Lakelands Cody Winter in 4:46
and Proctors Colton Johnson in 49 seconds before earning a 16-5 major decision
over Superiors Anthony Mohr to win
the weight class championship.
Tanner Peterson (11-8) continued his
recent run of solid performances. The
sophomore took second out of six wresters at 145 pounds. His best win may have
been a 6-3 decision in the last round over
Lakelands Seth Gonzalez, who had just
beaten Peterson 5-0 two days earlier.
Peterson pinned Superiors Austin
Smith in 1:33, lost to champion Josiah
Cook of Bayfield-Washburn 9-4, pinned
Proctors Luke Irons in 58 seconds and
beat Ashlands Tony Schiavone by injury default.
Tanner wrestled really well, Brooks
said. He couldve won the tournament.
He had a couple of takedowns (against
Cook), but he got put on his back once.
Tanners been getting better and better.
Jacob Stamos (23-3) bumped up to
182 pounds, where there were just two
other wrestlers. He pinned Ashlands
Jon Litersky in 3:53, then met up with
Superior star Ross Kennelly. Kennelly
improved to 27-1 with an 18-3 technical
fall that ended at the 4:14 mark.
Kennellys pretty good, Brooks said.
We got the first takedown, but he just
outscrambled us.
Jake Merrill (10-7) was second in a
four-man bracket at 195 pounds and went
2-1. He beat Lakelands William Graveen
4-2 and Ashlands Caleb Maynes 8-4.
Champion Anthony Ells of Superior beat
Merrill 3-0.
Kenny Krug went 0-3 in a four-man
bracket at 220 pounds, losing by pin to
Oscar Flaherty of Superior, Leon Stowe
of Lakeland and Dalton DeRosia of
Superior. Brayden Fultz went 0-3 in a

WRESTLING STANDINGS
Duals Dual Meet
Total
W-L
Pts.
Pts.
Pts.
Rhinelander 3-0
6
0
6
Lakeland
2-1
4
0
4
Tomahawk
2-1
4
0
4
Antigo
2-1
4
0
4
Medford
0-3
0
0
0
Mosinee
0-3
0
0
0
Jan. 15: Lakeland 34, Medford 30; Rhinelander 35, Tomahawk 34; Antigo 54, Mosinee 24.
Jan. 17: Lakeland 2nd and Medford 3rd at Ashland Invitational, Rhinelander 6th at Stevens
Point Invitational, Antigo 6th at Clintonville
Invitational.
Jan. 20: Neillsville-Greenwood-Loyal 66,
Mosinee 18; Tomahawk 35, Athens 33.
Jan. 22: Medford at Mosinee, Antigo at Rhinelander, Tomahawk at Lakeland.
Jan. 24: Medford at Arcadia Challenge,
Rhinelander at Wausau East Duals, Tomahawk
at DePere Duals.
Jan. 29: Medford at Tomahawk, Rhinelander
at Mosinee, Antigo at Lakeland.
four-man bracket at 132 pounds, losing

by pin to Jorge Roundwind of Ashland,
Frank Scandin of Lakeland and Robert
Burgess of Lakeland.
Medford is at Mosinee tonight,
Thursday, for a Great Northern
Conference dual meet that starts at 7 p.m.
Both teams are 0-3 in GNC duals as they
struggle with numbers this year. The
Raiders go to the Arcadia Challenge on
Saturday before heading to Tomahawk
on Jan. 29 for their last GNC dual meet.
T-Birds eke out win

In a meet with just seven contested
matches, the Lakeland Thunderbirds
won the bouts Medford thought could go
either way and that pushed the visitors
to a 34-30 win Thursday on Medfords
Parent/Senior Night.
Brooks started the meet with a pin of
Jack Scandin in the 120-pound match. It
took Brooks awhile to establish control.
He got a late takedown in the second period to take a 2-1 lead. Brooks reversed
Scandin to start the third and pinned
him at the 4:54 mark.
Hanson quickly took care of Winter at
152 pounds, pinning him in 1:14. Tucker
Peterson took down Harris four times
in the 160-pound match before putting
Harris away at the 1:29 mark. Stamos,
the teams lone senior, took a forfeit at
170 pounds. Merrill added a forfeit at 195
pounds to put the Raiders on top 30-18.
The Raiders forfeited to Stowe at 220
pounds, bumping up Krug to heavyweight, hoping he could match up with
T-Bird Justin Grebe. Grebe, though,
was a little too big and too strong for the
Raider sophomore and dominated the
last two periods in a 14-5 major decision.
Lakelands Dejay Nordrum took a forfeit at 106 pounds to clinch the meet win
for the T-Birds since there was a double
forfeit at 113 pounds.
Lakeland got a couple of key wins at
138 and 145 pounds. Preston Carlson
couldnt get anything going offensively
against Jake McClintock in the 138-pound
match and lost 6-1, receiving a bad bump
to the head in the process. Gonzalez got a
takedown and near fall in the first period
in the 145-pound match against Tanner
Peterson to take a 5-0 lead. Peterson
rode Gonzalez the rest of the way, but he
couldnt ever get him turned and 5-0 is
where the match stayed.
Medford forfeited to Matt Hanne at 126
pounds. There was a double forfeit at 182.
There were a couple of close matches, coach Tran Brooks said. We thought
Tanners and Prestons were big key
matches. Their 220 kid (Stowe) is pretty
decent. Thats why we put Kenny up to
heavyweight, to give him a shot.
Starts with a pin
Photo by Matt Frey
Medfords Josh Brooks finally gets Lakelands Jack Scandin to his back and pins
him during the third period of their match on Thursday at Raider Hall. Brooks won the
match, but Lakeland won the meet 34-30. Brooks went 5-0 at 120 pounds at Ashlands
Northland Invitational on Saturday and was named the tourneys top wrestler.
Swimmers swept aside by Lakeland

The surge in momentum felt by the
Medford Raiders boys swim team after
their win over Rhinelander on Jan. 6
seems to have worn off.
A week after falling to Antigo,
the Raiders went up against a strong
Lakeland Thunderbirds team and managed only one varsity event win. The
team of Jacob Way, Jacob Jablonsky,
Michael Roe and Mark Jablonsky
grabbed a win in the 200-yard freestyle
relay, but it made only a small dent as
the T-birds rumbled to a 112-46 win last
Thursday. Their time of 1:48.99 bested
Lakelands top team by 0.99 seconds.
We had some great relays. Even getting one win is a big boost for the guys,
Raiders head coach Nikki Farmer said.
The Raiders team of Way, Roe, Chas
Medford youth wrestlers

take first at Neillsville
Competing at a tournament at
Neillsville on Jan. 11, the Medford youth
wrestling team emerged with a first place
finish.
Jaxson Fallos, Jordan Lavin, Jude
Stark, Owen Higgins, Parker Lissner,
Gage Losiewicz, Paxton Rothmeier, and
Grant Neubauer all took first place in
their divisions.
William Bartnik, Jackson Mayer,
Carson Grossman, Thad Sigmund, Logan
Kawa, Rachel Sova, Braxton Weissmiller
all grabbed second place finishes.
Ronnie Hoernke, John Bartnik,
Hunter Jochimsen, Teagan Hansen,
Jacob Doyle, Wyatt Johnson secured
third place finishes.
Evan Pagel, Ty Sova, and Cory Lindahl
all took fourth in their divisions.
Lehman and Mark Jablonsky finished 13

seconds behind Lakeland in the 200-yard
medley relay with a time of 2:13.10.
Lehman finished third in the 200-yard
freestyle with a time of 2:41.01 while Brett
Hedlund came in fourth in 3:11.43.
Andrew Reuter (2:53.43) took third in
the 200-yard individual medley, 28 seconds behind Lakelands Jack Garcia.
The T-birds took the top three positions in the 50-yard freestyle. Way led
Medford in fourth with a time of 26.43.
Jacob Jablonsky was fifth in 28.01 and
Josh Mueller came in sixth in a time of
35.17.
Lakeland had the only competitors in
the 50-yard butterfly and 500-yard freestyle, which was won by Nick Garcia in
57.97, and Stanlee Kmiecik in 7:06.69, respectively.
Mark Jablonsky took second in the
100-yard freestyle with a time of 1:01.37.
Dalton Hildebrandt was third with his
time of 1:07.36. Keagan Rabe came in
fourth in a time of 1:10.50.
Matt Reuter came in fourth in the 100yard backstroke with a time of 1:57.41.
Roe (1:21.81) grabbed second place
in the 100-yard breaststroke, finishing
three seconds behind Lakelands Grant
Gibson. Andrew Reuter was third with a
time of 1:22.85 and Hedlund was fifth in
1:28.63.
The relay team of Way, Lehman,
Jablonsky and Jablonsky placed third
in the 400-yard freestyle relay with their
time of 4:21.73. Medfords other team of
Hildebrandt, Rabe, Matt Reuter and Roe
was fourth with a time of 5:11.36.
We were swimming with a small
lineup and will for the next couple meets,
weve had some guys out sick. I just
wanted to keep it fun for the guys and
not focus so much on individual results,
Farmer said.
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Rockets launch in second half;

Athens pulls off an OT upset
The Rib Lake Redmen boys basketball team hadnt lost two games in a row
yet this season, but that run came to an
end at the hands of the Spencer Rockets
on Monday night in a non-conference
game. The Rockets pulled away from the
Redmen in the second half to hand Rib
Lake its second straight loss, 64-54.
The Redmen held a one-point lead after the first quarter after jumping to a 1514 lead. The Rockets reversed that score
in the second quarter to put both teams
at 29 heading into halftime.
Spencer finally broke the stalemate by
outscoring the Redmen 17-13 in the third
quarter and only built from there.
The Rockets closed the door with an
18-12 score in the final quarter to secure
the 10-point win.
A big night from Bobby Pilz was the
difference for the home side. His gamehigh 29 points was 21 better than his closest teammate. Ryan Busse and Mitchell
Susa both scored eight in the Rockets
win.
Jared Hovde led the Redmen with 16
points. Joe Frombach scored 12, Jordan
Cardey netted nine, and Noah Weinke
and Jordan Blomberg had six points
each.
The 10-point defeat was Rib Lakes
largest non-overtime loss this season.
They have the shooters. We knew it
would be a tough matchup, Rib Lake
guard Dalton Strebig said.
The Redmen (6-5) will look to bounce
back when they return home to take on
local rival Prentice tonight, Thursday,
in a Marawood North game. On Monday,
theyll take on Tomahawk at home. Both
games have a 7:30 p.m. start time.
Overtime loss to Athens

The Redmen went to Athens on Friday
preparing to face the reeling Athens Blue
Jays. The home side was in the midst of a
four-game losing streak and was missing
one its best players, but didnt lie down
against one of the Marawoods top teams
so far this year.
It took them overtime to do it, but the
New coach
a head coach. Hell still be helping us,
which is definitely a good thing. Having
his help will be a huge advantage for
me.
The first official practice date of
Tuesday, Aug. 4 will be here before you
know it. The Hawks will host this years
pre-season scrimmages in Prentice on
Friday, Aug. 14.
The Hawks open their 2015 season
with a non-conference game at Neillsville
on Friday, Aug. 21. The home opener follows the next Friday against Marawood
Conference rival Chequamegon.
MARAWOOD NORTH DIVISION

BOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Phillips
5
1
10
2
Edgar
4
1
7
4
Rib Lake
3
2
6
5
Chequamegon
3
3
5
7
Athens
2
4
3
6
Abbotsford
2
4
2
9
Prentice
1
5
5
7
Jan. 16: Athens 67, Rib Lake 65 (OT); Abbotsford 72, Chequamegon 58; Edgar 54, Prentice 39;
Phillips 56, Elcho 26.
Jan. 19: Spencer 64, Rib Lake 54; Stratford 50,
Chequamegon 37; Phillips 64, Bruce 37.
Jan. 20: Marathon 59, Edgar 38; Newman Catholic 51, Athens 50; Prentice 73, Three Lakes 49.
Jan. 22: Prentice at Rib Lake, Abbotsford at
Phillips.
Jan. 23: Athens at Chequamegon, Phillips at
Owen-Withee, Abbotsford at W.V. Lutheran.
Jan. 24: Colfax at Edgar.
Jan. 26: Tomahawk at Rib Lake, Spencer at
Abbotsford.
Jan. 27: Rib Lake at Edgar, Phillips at Athens,
Chequamegon at Prentice.
Jays emerged with a 67-65 win over the

Redmen. Jordan Cardey scored 20 for Rib
Lake, but it wasnt enough as the Blue
Jays overcame a five-point deficit in the
final seconds to send the game to overtime.
We had missed opportunities. They
out-hustled us and caught us walking
on defense, Rib Lake head coach Jason
Wild said.
After holding a lead and playing highenergy defense for the entirety of the
first half, the Redmen came out flat in the
third quarter and surrendered the lead.
Down 39-35 going into the fourth quarter, the Redmen rekindled their fire and
jumped on Athens by scoring six of the
first nine points in the quarter.
With 3:40 to go in the game, Cardey
hit a pair of free throws to push Rib Lake
back into the lead, 48-47. Athens came
back with a two, but Cardey hit shots
on consecutive possessions to give the
Redmen a three-point lead. Athens cut
the lead to one on a Tony Thurs layup before Jared Hovde hit a jumper to push the
lead to three again.
With less than a minute to play, Athens
was forced to foul to extend the game.
Austin Ewan increased Rib Lakes lead
to five by hitting a pair of free throws.
But the Blue Jays were far from finished.
On their next possession, Austin
Schreiner nailed a three to claw Athens
within two. Rib Lake missed two free
throws with 27 seconds to play and gave
the Blue Jays a hint of life. Rib Lakes
defense responded with a big stop.
Switching to a man defense, they forced
a pass into the bleachers by an Athens
guard with 18 seconds to go.
The Redmen were forced into a double
dribble on their next possession, and
Athens got the ball back with only two
seconds to play. The Bluejays werent
playing to tie. After taking the inbounds
pass, Schreiner got a foot of separation
and unleashed a three-point attempt for
the win. The shot hit only rim, but Thurs
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and Tony Thurs (middle). Thurs didnt get this one, but he recorded two steals in the
game and scored 33 points as the Bluejays defeated the Redmen last Thursday.
rose above the chaos under the basket to the second-chance opportunities. The
tip the ball in as the buzzer sounded. The Bluejays outscored the Redmen 19-12 in
Athens gym went into a frenzy, and the the third quarter as their offense, led by
Redmen went into shock.
Thurs, came to life.
Anytime you have the ball and are
Thurs proved to be an unstoppable
up two with 13 seconds left, you expect to force as the game went on. After scorwin. It hit the guys hard, Wild said.
ing only six in the first half, he netted 27
Athens took a quick four-point lead in the second half and overtime. He also
in the extra period. Blomberg hit a pair pulled down 12 rebounds and was 10 of 13
of free throws to pull the Redmen within from the free throw line. Schreiner and
two with 1:51 remaining. The Bluejays Collin Ellenbecker each scored nine for
went to the line six times in the next min- the Bluejays and Lane Tessmer scored
ute and made five while the Redmen hit eight. The Bluejays were 18 of 31 (58 peronly two of four attempts in that same cent) at the line.
time frame.
Cardey scored 20, including a trio of
Down six with 26 seconds to play, Joe three-pointers to lead the Redmen in
Scheithauer put home a jumper to cut the scoring. Frombach scored 11 before foullead to four. Athens hit one of two free ing out with 6:13 left in the fourth quarthrows after being fouled. The Redmen ter. Hovde had 10 points and Ewan scored
raced down the court and Cardey swished nine. Blomberg finished five of seven free
a three with nine seconds to go, but that throw attempts en route to scoring seven
was as close as they would get.
points. The Redmen finished 16 of 22 (72.7
The Redmen held a 13-12 lead in the percent) from the free throw line.
first quarter and outscored Athens 10-8
It hurt to have Joe foul out in the
in the second to take a 23-20 lead into half- fourth, but our other guards really
time. Rib Lakes full-court zone defense stepped up and kept us in the game.
posed problems early for the Bluejays, We did a good job battling back, but we
but they overcame it in the second half. rushed ourselves at times and took some
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Gilman girls persevere and get much-needed win at Bruce

Needing an offensive boost in the
worst way, the Gilman girls basketball
team finally got something to click after halftime on Tuesday and got past the
Bruce Red Raiders 33-27 in non-conference play.
A night after Gilman went scoreless
in the first half at Thorp, the Pirates
found themselves down 15-11 at halftime
in Tuesdays game. They scored just two
points in the second quarter. But a 14-6
third-quarter run restored order and put
them ahead to stay.
The run, ironically, was sparked by
defense.
At halftime, we changed it up and
went to our full-court man-to-man,
Gilman head coach Chris Skabroud said.
When we did that, it seemed like we got
some energy. We got a bucket within the
first 20 seconds, got a steal and got another bucket. We played a real good third
quarter. Down the stretch, they got within two, but we hit some timely shots.
Five different players scored in
the third quarter to get Gilman rolling. Kendall Skabroud and Makaylen
Skabroud both scored twice and Morgan
Birkenholz, Kyla Schoene and Desire
Budzinski added buckets in the momentum-changing quarter.
Birkenholz scored twice, Makaylen
Skabroud got a hoop and Kendall
Skabroud made two of five free throws
down the stretch to seal it.
Gilman didnt shoot great, but the
Pirates certainly were better than the
previous night. They made a solid 12 of 24
two-point shots, but were two of 12 from
long range and three of 11 from the free
throw line. Rebounds were even at 25
apiece and turnovers were nearly even.
Bruce had 16, one more than Gilman.
Bruce, on the other hand, made just
seven of 42 two-point shots and one of six
threes. The Red Raiders (9-6) stayed in it
by making 10 of 16 free throws.
Birkenholz led the Pirates with 13
points, while Kendall Skabroud finished
with nine. Both sank three-pointers in
a strong first quarter that ended with
Gilman leading 9-5. Bruce outscored
Gilman 10-2 in the second quarter, led
by five points from Karlie Antczak, who
paced the Red Raiders with eight points

in the game.
Makaylen Skabroud had seven points
and a team-high eight rebounds. Schoene
and Budzinski finished with two points
each. Schoene and Kendall Skabroud had
four rebounds each. Kendall Skabroud
had five assists. Birkenholz grabbed five
rebounds and had four steals.
Morgan had a nice shooting night,
making five of nine two-pointers and
scoring 13, Skabroud said. Shes starting to find her groove on those 15- to 17foot shots. Her hustle was big too, with
the steals. I think she had all four in the
second half. She made things happen.
Kendalls five assists were big.
It was good to come back and win
after the night before, he added. That
probably was the best thing for us to play
again right away.
Gilman, now 3-10 overall and 1-8 in
the Eastern Cloverbelt Conference, has
a difficult two-game stretch against
ECC powers Loyal and Neillsville. The
Pirates go to league-leading Loyal tonight, Thursday, and host Neillsville on
Tuesday. Theyll be at Colby on Jan. 30.
All three games tip at 7:30 p.m.
A disaster
Mondays 40-16 non-conference loss
at Thorp was an offensive disaster.
The Pirates did not score until freshman Camryn Skabroud finally made a
third-quarter three-pointer. That shot
remained Gilmans only offensive production until the Pirates scored 13 fourthquarter points, nine of which came from
Makaylen Skabroud, who sank two longrange shots in the period.
Thorp (8-6) led just 5-0 after one quarter, but the Cardinals extended the lead
to 17-0 at halftime and 34-3 in the third
when Skabroud went to his youngsters
to hopefully find a spark. The veterans
finally snapped out of their funk in the
fourth quarter, but it was way too late.
Thorp played a real aggressive manto-man, which we knew they would,
Skabroud said. Even with the handchecking rules, the officials werent calling much, but that is what it is. You have
to play a physical game. We just did not
get into any kind of offensive flow.
Gilman was three of 15 both on two-
Pirates outlast Flambeau, 46-43
The Gilman boys basketball team got

its second win of the season over an East
Lakeland Conference team in its regional bracket, holding on for a 46-43 win at
Flambeau on Friday.
A rough first quarter put the Pirates
in an early 13-6 hole. Chase Groothousen
sank two three-pointers and Dylan
Stoneberg made one while scoring five
early points for the Falcons (1-9).
Gilman began to climb out of that
hole in the second quarter, outscoring Flambeau 13-8 to pull within 21-19.
Colton Schmitt got three key buckets for
Gilman in the quarter. Emmit Sherfield
scored twice.
The offense picked up the pace in the
third, outscoring Flambeau 16-13 to put
the Pirates in front 35-34. Ethan Aldinger
sank a three-pointer and had five points.
Chanse Rosemeyer also knocked one
down from long range. Zach Sonnentag
and James Copenhaver added four
points apiece.
Aldinger sank another three-ball in
the fourth quarter. The Pirates put the
ball in Copenhavers hands as much as
they could down the stretch. The senior
hit one field goal and made three of seven free throws, which was just enough.
Schmitt added a late score as well.
Copenhavers 17 points paced Gilman.

Aldinger finished with 10 and Schmitt
had eight. Sonnentag and Sherfield each
finished with four points. Rosemeyer finished with three.
Gilman wasnt great from the free
throw line, making seven of 16, but the
Pirates ability to get there was big.
Flambeau was awarded just two free
throws in the entire game and missed
them both.
Justice Groothousen led Flambeau
with 13 points. He had five in the fourth
quarter, including a three-pointer. Chase
Groothousen, Stoneberg and post Karter
Cody all scored 10. Cody scored eight
points in the third quarter.
Gilman returned to Eastern Cloverbelt
Conference play on Tuesday and fell 64-28
at Neillsville. The loss drops the Pirates
to 2-7 in league play and 4-8 overall. The
Pirates are back in action Friday, hosting Columbus Catholic at 7:30 p.m. The
Dons are currently in second place in
the conference at 8-2. Spencer is atop the
standings at 7-0.
Gilman heads to Thorp on Monday
for a non-conference game. Its back to
league play on Jan. 29 when the Pirates
go to Colby.
point and three-point shots to finish

at 20 percent from the field. They only
took nine shots from the field in the first
half, demonstrating their passive play.
Skabroud said four of those first-half
shots came from point-blank range and
were missed. The Pirates made one of six
free throws and turned the ball over 16
times. They were outrebounded 25-9.
Kendall Skabroud and Birkenholz
each added a fourth-quarter hoop.
Birkenholz had two assists. Makaylen
Skabroud had three steals. Schoene had
four rebounds.
Taylor Stroinski, a 5-10 junior, led
Thorp with 14 points. Monica Williams
added nine and Aeysha Paskert had seven.
Greenwood gets away

Facing a short-handed Greenwood
squad, Gilman felt Fridays Eastern
Cloverbelt home game was one it had to
get. Unfortunately, the Indians broke a
21-21 halftime tie with a 16-11 third-quarter run and held on from there for a 47-39
victory.
Greenwood shot 14 free throws in
the second half and made eight of them.
Kelly Nelson, a 5-6 freshman guard,
scored 11 of her 13 points after halftime,
while Kassidy Lamovec, a 5-8 sophomore
guard, scored nine of her 15 points in the
first half.
Skabroud said the Pirates caught
Greenwood on a rare good shooting
night, while Gilman went the other way.
We missed nine bunnies in the first
half and we missed six in the fourth
quarter, he said. Thats 15 of them. We
didnt make enough free throws when we

were trying to come back. But all I can
say is we had the shots we wanted, we
just didnt make them.
Makaylen Skabroud had another
strong game for Gilman, pouring in 16
points, pulling down a team-high seven
rebounds and leading the team with
three steals. Kendall Skabroud had eight
assists, four rebounds and two steals.
Schoene had five points, five rebounds,
three assists and two blocked shots.
See PIRATES on page 20

EASTERN CLOVERBELT CONFERENCE
GIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Loyal
9
0
12
2
Neillsville
7
2
10
3
Owen-Withee
7
2
9
4
Colby
6
3
6
8
Columbus Cath.
4
4
7
6
Greenwood
3
6
4
8
Spencer
3
6
3
7
Gilman
1
8
3
10
Granton
0
9
0
9
Jan. 15: Granton at Pittsville.
Jan. 16: Greenwood 47, Gilman 39; Loyal 37,
Neillsville 31; Owen-Withee 85, Spencer 46; Colby
34, Granton 20.
Jan. 19: Thorp 40, Gilman 16; Neillsville 41,
Altoona 23; Medford 45, Colby 30; Owen-Withee
75, Edgar 61; Loyal 60, Alma Center Lincoln 21.
Jan. 20: Gilman 33, Bruce 27.
Jan. 22: Gilman at Loyal, Spencer at Colby,
Greenwood at Columbus Catholic, Granton at
Owen-Withee, Neillsville at Nekoosa.
Jan. 26: Spencer at Abbotsford.
Jan. 27: Neillsville at Gilman, Colby at OwenWithee, Loyal at Columbus Catholic, Spencer at
Granton.
Lee among three Wolfpack

semifinalists at Ladysmith Invite
Takoda Lee was one of three members
of the Cornell-Gilman-Lake Holcombe
wrestling team to reach the semifinals of their respective weight classes
during Saturdays 21-team Ladysmith
Invitational.
Lee, a heavyweight, and 138-pounder Spencer Gibson lost their semifinal
matches and wound up fourth. Eric
Nedland got to the 126-pound championship, where he was pinned by Camerons
defending state champion, Kal Gerber, in
1:25.
Nedland (23-4), the second seed in his
14-man bracket, got a bye and pinned
Noah Massie of Barron in 1:38 and
Dahlton Johnson of Turtle Lake-Clayton
in 2:39 to get to the match with Gerber,
who is 26-0.
Lee, a Gilman sophomore, stands
at 18-9 for the season after going 2-2
Saturday. He started with a 28-second
pin over Barrons Dan Enny and then
pinned Gary Garvin of Black River Falls
in 1:58 in the quarterfinals. Lee than
faced top-seeded Donny Ralston of rival
Bruce. Ralson improved to 34-1 by pinning Lee in 1:11. Third-seeded Mitch Lien
of Clear Lake improved to 23-2 with a pin
over Lee in 2:31 in the third-place match.
The third-seeded Gibson (17-5) started
his day with a pin in 52 seconds over
Turtle Lake-Claytons Kyler Flettre and
a 7-3 win over Bruces Walker Golubiff.
Second-seeded Isaac Roffers of Reesville
(22-4) stopped Gibsons title run by
pinning him in 4:22 in the semifinals.
Haywards Lane Deyo took the thirdplace match by injury default.
Gilman freshman Zach Person (6-4)
took sixth in the 120-pound bracket. He
was a 4-1 winner in his first-round match
against Brett Albrecht of Athens. Brohde
Aspseter of Rice Lake won the quarterfi-
nal match by pin at 3:54. Person went to

the consolation bracket, where he beat
Mason Gates of Turtle Lake-Clayton 7-3.
Barrons David Pintens won the fifthplace match 7-2.
Dusty Boehm (14-8) was seventh at 152
pounds. He earned a first-round pin over
Alex Briske of Phillips in 22 seconds, lost
twice and finished with a pin in 2:34 over
Jon Hayton of Bloomer in the seventhplace match. Jake Hillebrand (10-17) was
eighth at 132 pounds. He opened with a
pin in 3:20 over Elijah Whittington of
Barron, lost twice, including a pin by
34-1 Ben Adams of Bruce, and then lost
the seventh-place match by pin in 1:19 to
Benett Bucek of Black River Falls.
Micah Raatz (11-15) was pinned in 44
seconds by Brock Halopka of AbbotsfordColby in the 11th-place match at 160
pounds. Paul Nedland (14-13) was 13th
at 106 pounds. After two losses, he finished with a pin in 2:41 over Mickealla
Stenulson of Black River Falls and a
3-2 win over Chandler Galatowitsch of
Turtle Lake-Clayton.
Gilman sophomore Manuel Granado
lost three matches in the 113-120 pound
JV bracket.
The Wolfpack placed 10th in the team
standings with 213 points, nine more
than 11th-place Bruce. Cumberland
won the tournament with 418 points, 14
more than Reedsville. Clear Lake (378.5),
Athens (365) and Ladysmith (312.5)
rounded out the top five. Cameron was
eighth (240), Flambeau was 15th (180)
and Shell Lake was 19th (116) among East
Lakeland Conference teams.
The Wolfpack is at the St. Croix Falls
Invitational this Saturday. The team
hosts Flambeau on Jan. 29 at Cornell in
the final East Lakeland dual meet of the
season.
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Mosinees early barrage too much to

overcome; Raiders drop two at Merrill
Into the boards
Photo by Matt Frey
Medfords Garrett Paul gets off his feet and braces himself just before a collision
with the new boards at the Simek Recreation Center on Tuesday. Paul was trying to
beat Mosinees Dylan Bednar to a loose puck during the second period of a 6-1 loss.
Lakeland spoils late Medford lead

again; Tigers take charge late
For the second time this season,
Medfords girls hockey team had a Great
Northern Conference win over Lakeland
in its sights in the third period. But for
the second time on Monday, the T-Birds
stole Medfords thunder.
Trailing the Raiders 3-2 to start the
third, the host Thunderbirds went on a
three-goal scoring spree to beat Medford
5-3 and complete a three-game season
sweep of their rivals. Lakeland took advantage of a five-minute major penalty
for boarding to score the first of its two
third-period goals.
In the teams first meeting on Dec. 5,
Lakeland scored twice in the last two
minutes to pull out a 7-6 win.
Mondays loss left Medford at 0-8 in
the GNC and 2-11 overall. Lakeland improved to 2-5, 3-6 with all three of its wins
coming against the Raiders.
Power plays were a big story. The
Raiders got their go-ahead goal in the second period while playing with a one-skater advantage. Joelle Zenner took advantage of a roughing penalty on Lakeland
by scoring her second goal of the night
with 1:25 left in the period. Medford was
one of three in power play chances.
Lakeland, however, converted on
three of four power play opportunities.
The T-Birds were one for two in a wild
first period, which ended in a 2-2 tie.
Brina Trapp put Lakeland on the board
at 2:36 with an assist from Kelli Straubel.
Kailey Godfrey got the power-play goal
at 5:08 to make it 2-0.
Medford struck quickly to tie it.
Zenner got an unassisted goal at the 7:04
mark. Carlye Baker followed with one of
her own at 9:54.
The boarding penalty that gave
Lakeland the long power play in the
third period was enforced at the 3:06
mark. Just 38 seconds later, Trapp tied
the game with an assist from Jamie
Muenzner. Camille Kich got the go-ahead

tally at 5:46, assisted by Godfrey. Camryn
Trapp added an insurance goal at the 9:40
mark, assisted by Brina Trapp.
The Raiders put 10 shots on goal in
the third period, but Lakelands Annika
Nimsgern stopped them all. She had 20
saves in the win. Medford had one power-play chance just after Lakeland scored
its fifth goal.
Makayla Hanson had 26 saves for the
Raiders, including nine in the first period and 11 in the third.
The Raiders next shot at a conference
win comes Friday when they travel to
Stevens Point for a 6 p.m. face-off with
the Point-Rapids Red Panthers. Leagueleading Waupaca (8-0, 16-1) invades the
Simek Recreation Center on Monday for
a 7 p.m. start.
The Medford Raiders did well to hold

Mosinees powerful hockey team to one
goal over the last two periods, but the
Indians did plenty of damage early in
their 6-1 victory on Tuesday at the Simek
Recreation Center.
Five different Indians scored in the
five-goal barrage to start the game, allowing Mosinee to stay right on Antigos
heels in the Great Northern Conference
title chase. Tuesdays win put Mosinee at
8-0-1 in the GNC, just behind the 9-0 Red
Robins. Medford fell to 1-8 in the GNC
and 1-16 overall.
The moral of the story is dont dig
a hole, jump in it and bury yourself,
Medford head coach Chad Demulling
said. The entire team has to come out
and get it, including the goal tender.
Demulling said the Raiders looked
like a team waiting to take the punches
instead of taking the fight to Mosinee in
the first period. The Indians gladly took
advantage.
Kasey Krzanowski put the visitors on
the board 2:18 into the contest, connecting not long after he had crossed the blue
line on a transition opportunity. Spencer
Miller and Michael Alfonso had the assists. At 5:46, Matthew Sprink carried the
puck out of the defensive zone, sprinted
past Medford defender Spenser Scholl
and got the puck past the spread out left
leg of goal tender Carter Jamieson to
make it 2-0. Bryce Graveen and William
Sprink had the assists.
William Sprink went top shelf to beat
Jamieson at the 8:47 mark to make it 3-0.
Alfonsos backhander made it 4-0 at 11:13,
assisted by Krzanowski.
Jacob Kadlecek made the play of
the day for Medford at 12:38, blocking a
Mosinee shot near the blue line, picking
up the loose puck and beating two Indian
defenders for a clean shot that got by
Indian goalie Zach Bednar.
Kyler Oliva, however, got that goal
back for Mosinee just 1:11 later, somehow
getting his shot past Jamiesons glove

and inside the left post.
From there, the Raiders stiffened.
Jamieson was in the zone in the second
period, stopping 27 of 28 shots. Matthew
Sprink got the games final goal 3:26 into
the period, assisted by Graveen. Jamieson
stopped 18 more shots in the third for a
game total of 63 saves. Demulling said the
Raiders had a goal of limiting Mosinee
to less than 20 shots per period. They did
that in the third.
Despite Medfords lack of depth,
Demulling said the team has held up well
late in games.
Looking at our statistics, the third period has almost been our best period this
year, he said. Which is hard to believe
for only having two lines.
Bednar had 10 saves for Mosinee.
Neither team converted on three powerplay chances.
The Raiders are back on home ice
for their next two GNC contests, hosting Waupaca tonight, Thursday, and
Tomahawk on Tuesday. The puck drops
at 7 p.m. on both nights.
Outscored in Merrill
Medford ended a stretch of four games
in five days with losses Friday and
Saturday in the Merrill tournament.
The host Blue Jays got Medford 5-1
on Friday. Medford had taken Merrill to
overtime in a 4-3 loss the previous Friday.
This time, senior captain defenseman
Michael Baumann scored four goals to
lead the Jays to victory. Dylan Heller assisted on all five of Merrills goals and
Stephen Simon had 19 saves.
The Raiders paid for penalties in the
second period, allowing three power-play
goals that turned a 1-0 game into a 4-0
game.
Baumann and Heller teamed up to
score the only goal of the first period
at the 11:53 mark. The Raiders killed a
power play in that period and couldnt
See HOCKEY on page 12
Tigers take over

On Friday at the Simek Recreation
Center, the Raiders continued a week of
spirited play but came out on the short
end for the third time in the week, falling
7-1 to the Black River Falls Co-op.
Medfords goal came from Marissa
McPeak 8:18 into the third period. The
unassisted goal made it 5-1 at the time.
Halfway through, the teams skated to
a virtually even game. In the last 23 minutes, the Tigers scored five of their seven
goals and increasingly gained control of
the offensive zone.
We started great and then started losing some steam in the second and third
periods, head coach Sarah Markham
said. With illness and injury, were
not at the top of our game. But overall, I
thought it was a well played game.
The Raiders were without one of their
leading skaters, Elise Southworth. Emily
Lybert got the start in goal and collected
38 saves, including 30 in the last two periods.
See GIRLS HOCKEY on page 12
Stop right there
Photo by Matt Frey
Medfords Joelle Zenner (8) and Taylor Adleman (10) work to prevent Riley Emerson
of the Black River Falls Co-op from getting too deep into the Raiders defensive zone
during the first period of Fridays 7-1 loss.
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THE STAR NEWS
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Medford battles Red Robins

lar shot to make it 43-29 with about 4:30
left. He dished to Bernatz who banked
in a short shot for Medfords last points
with about 2:30 to go.
After Antigos third-quarter shooting spree, which featured five threepointers including two each from
Brandon Resch and Matt Arndt, the Red
Robins used their strength down low in
the fourth quarter to salt it away. Lund
scored twice and Joe Wittman, another
6-5 senior, scored all seven of his points
down the stretch.
Resch led Antigo with 16 points. Lund
had 13 and Arndt added nine points and
five assists.
Strebig led Medford with 13 points. He
hit four of the teams eight three-pointers. Medford made eight of 24 threes.
Babic had 11 points, including a trio
of threes. Wrages lone three-pointer put
Medford on the scoreboard. Ekwueme
and Bernatz scored two points each.
Ekwueme had five steals and five assists.
Bernatz had three steals.
GIRLS HOCKEY STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W-L-T
W-L-T
Waupaca
8-0-0
16-1-0
Rhine.-Antigo-3L
7-2-0
11-3-0
Northland Pines
5-3-0
10-7-0
Tomahawk
4-4-0
5-7-1
Marshfield
4-5-0
5-8-0
Lakeland
2-5-0
3-6-0
Point-Rapids
2-5-0
3-9-2
Medford
0-8-0
2-11-0
Jan. 15: Hayward-Spooner Co-op 3, Tomahawk 0.
Jan. 16: Black River Falls 7, Medford 1; Central Wisconsin 4, Northland Pines 2;, Waupaca
5, Hartland Arrowhead Co-op 1; Beaver Dam 4,
Lakeland 3.
Jan. 17: Waupaca 9, Lakeland 0.
Jan. 19: Lakeland 5, Medford 3; Marshfield
3, Northland Pines 2 (OT); Rhinelander-AntigoThree Lakes 3, Tomahawk 2; Waupaca 6, PointRapids 0.
Jan. 22: Hayward-Spooner Co-op at Northland
Pines.
Jan. 23: Medford at Point-Rapids (SP),
Rhinelander-Antigo-Three Lakes at Onalaska,
Siren-Webster Co-op at Tomahawk.
Jan. 24: Hudson at Marshfield.
Medford made just three of 12 twopoint shots and one of six free throws.
Antigo had a monstrous 28-6 advantage
in rebounding.
Normally, we would like to look a little more to the baseline and the high post
and work the ball in, but just with who we
had on the floor, our strength was to try
to move the ball for open shots, Brown
said. We had little runs where we shot
well. I cant think of a specific shot that
was a bad shot. I thought they were in
rhythm. I thought they were after moving the ball well, after skipping the ball
or setting good pin screens. It was one of
those things where you probably need a
little more inside presence and we just
didnt have it.
Brown said the young team has handled the ups and downs of the week and
the season as well as can be expected.
Early in the year we talked about
adversity, he said. Its been kind of
a theme throughout this year. You can
see now guys are just getting tougher.
Earlier in the year it was something we
talked about. People still werent sure of
themselves and werent sure of their role.
Now you see they believe in each other. I
think that shows their resiliency. I think
it just shows as time goes on, theyre only
going to get better.
BOYS SWIM STANDINGS
Duals Dual Meet
Total
W-L
Pts.
Pts.
Pts.
Shawano
8-0
8
0
8
Lakeland
6-2
6
0
6
Antigo
6-2
6
0
6
Rhinelander 2-6
2
0
2
Tomahawk
1-7
1
0
1
Medford
1-7
1
0
1
Jan. 15: Lakeland 112, Medford 46; Antigo 97,
Rhinelander 51; Shawano 122, Tomahawk 48.
Jan. 16: Shawano 8th at Appleton North-East
Invitational.
Jan. 17: Shawano 7th at Neenah Invitational.
Jan. 20: Shawano 103, Rhinelander 61.
Jan. 22: Medford at Shawano, Lakeland at
Antigo, Tomahawk at Rhinelander.
Jan. 29: Medford at Tomahawk, Lakeland at
Rhinelander, Shawano at Antigo.
Thursday,
Thursday,
September
January 22, 2015
2011
Raiders shoot down Colby

to free up space for their shooters.

Everybody across the board played
well. When everybody on the floor is a
threat to score, it makes things really
tough on your opponent, Wildberg said.
The Raiders (4-7) return to GNC play
tomorrow, Friday, when they take on
Tomahawk at Raider Hall at 7:15 p.m.
The Hatchets are winless so far this season. Then on Tuesday, the Lady Raiders
travel to Stanley-Boyd for a non-conference battle. That game tips at 7:30 p.m.
Medford hosts Rhinelander on Jan. 29
at 7:15 p.m.
Loss to Antigo
Good rebounding is essential to a winning basketball team, and on Friday, the
Raiders didnt do enough of it to beat the
Antigo Red Robins on the road. Antigo
took the GNC game by a score of 4539, and the Raiders will lament missed
chances that couldve changed the outcome.
We had the opportunities, we just
didnt take advantage. We didnt box out.
We had the position, but we let them rebound right over us, Wildberg said.
A cold three quarters on offense
didnt make the Raiders cause any easier. Baker scored four in the first, but it
wasnt enough as Antigo took an 8-5 lead
in the first quarter.
The Raiders gave away another point
in the second and were outscored 9-8.
Hailee Clausnitzer hit a three and one of
two free throws to lead the offense, but
the Robins went into halftime with an 1814 lead.
Antigo added some mileage to their
lead by outscoring the Raiders 13-7
in the decisive third quarter. Hailee
Clausnitzer swished another three, but
the rest of the offense didnt offer much
in support as the Robins took a 10-point
lead into the fourth quarter.
Finally, the Raiders
came
to
life.
Hailee
Clausnitzer was on fire

Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Lakeland
6
1
12
2
Antigo
5
2
10
3
Mosinee
4
2
9
6
Rhinelander
4
3
8
7
Medford
2
4
4
7
Northland Pines
2
5
5
9
Tomahawk
0
6
0
13
Jan. 16: Antigo 45, Medford 39; Lakeland 49,
Mosinee 44; Rhinelander 63, Northland Pines 32;
Crandon 62, Tomahawk 17
Jan. 19: Medford 45, Colby 30.
Jan. 20: Merrill 52, Lakeland 48; Green Bay
Preble 65, Mosinee 40; Waupaca 37, Tomahawk
30.
Jan. 23: Tomahawk at Medford, Mosinee at
Northland Pines, Antigo at Lakeland.
Jan. 24: Rhinelander at Hartford.
Jan. 27: Medford at Stanley-Boyd, Nekoosa
at Mosinee, Chequamegon at Northland Pines,
Antigo at Crandon, Elcho at Tomahawk.
Jan. 29: Rhinelander at Medford.
from the free throw line, making all six

of her attempts in the quarter. Bergman
added five points as Medford mounted
a furious final-minute rally. Poor free
throw shooting from Antigo helped give
the Raiders life. The Robins were 10 of 25
from the foul line in the final quarter and
made only two field goals, but it was just
enough to hold on for the six-point win.
Nicole Payant led Antigo with 10
points. Laurissa Belott and Abi Warren
added nine apiece in the win. Mandy
Petts and Morgana Smith both scored
eight. The Robins were a collective 11 of
27 (40.7 percent) from the free throw line.
Hailee Clausnitzer led the Raiders
with 13 points before fouling out in the
fourth quarter. Baker scored eight, and
Kendal Laher and Bergman scored five
apiece. Medford was 12 of 17 (70.5 percent) at the free throw line.
Gymnasts win
Submitted photo
Led by its vaulters, Medford won the JV meet 94.4584.3.

The Raiders had the top three finishers on the bars
with Rudolph (5.0), Mackenzie Carey (4.6) and Winchell
(4.45). Jaecks was fifth at 4.1 and Kelsey Krueger was
seventh at 3.8. Clark won the beam competition with a
6.3. Krueger got second with a 5.6, Winchell was fifth at
5.1, Emma Schlais got seventh at 4.65 and Julia Smith
was eighth with a 3.6.
Eggebrecht led the Raiders on the floor with a
second-place score of 6.7. Schlais was third at 6.6 and
Winchell was fourth at 6.5. Jaecks and Dixie Peterson
tied for seventh at 4.85.
Winchell won the JV all-around competition with
23.85 total points.
Medford will visit some new territory on Saturday
when it competes in the Valders Invitational. The
Raiders will see Escanaba, Mich. for the third time this
season but will also see Manitowoc Roncalli, Markesan,
Waupun, Port Washington, Kaukauna and the host
Vikings for the first time.
Brooks said Medford may, unfortunately, be a bit
short-handed at Saturdays meet as the flu bug hit the
team hard this week and a physical education class mishap set back Hamann this week.
The Raiders also have a GNC meet at Chequamegon
(1-1) on Tuesday which starts at 5:45 p.m.
Alumni hockey teams
The 12th annual Medford alumni hockey fundraiser

games were held on Saturday, Dec. 27 at the Simek
Recreation Center. Two games were held with proceeds
from the event helping fund high school hockey scholarships and youth hockey groups. Participants in the first
game are pictured in the top photo. Game-two players
are in the bottom photo. The association again called
the event a success. As Pep Simek said, This building is
for the kids and the community.
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Friday, January 23
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Lonie G DJ/Karaoke from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at
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Leaster Cribbage starting at 1 p.m. at Bogeys.
Luck of the Draw Dart Tournament starting at 4
p.m. at Mohrs Bar.
Live music by Marshall Star Band from 9 p.m. to 1
a.m. at Hacienda.
Stump Jumpers Snowmobile Club Poker Run on

Friday, Jan. 23 and Saturday, Jan. 24.
Upcoming events
Rib Lake Fireworks Committee Bean Bag
Tournament on Saturday, Jan. 31 starting at 3 p.m. at
Zondlos.
Snowmobile Races on Saturday, Jan. 31 at Gad
Bar.
Mixed Couples Bean Bag Tournament on
Saturday, Feb. 7 starting at 7:30 p.m. at Zondlos.
Snowmobile Races on Saturday, Feb. 14 at Gad
Bar.
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In honor of their 30th year of providing entertaining

theater for the area, the ShowCase Players have decided
to bring back a play that was an audience favorite the
first time they presented it in 1991, The Murder Room
by Jack Sharkey.
Kurt Schwoch, a founding member of the ShowCase
Players, directed the play then and has agreed to direct the 2015 show. The following people were cast:
Dawn Kasper-Webber as Mavis; Mark Gorke, founding
ShowCase Players member as Constable Able Howard;
Hailey Keene as Susan; Jeffer Scheuer, founding
ShowCase Players member as Lottie (Scheuer played
Susan in the first ShowCase Players production.); Jordan
Clark as Barry; Kevin Wyeth as Inspector Crandall; and
Debbe Cassie has accepted the post of stage manager.
The play will be performed at the Colby High School
Theatre at 8 p.m. on Feb. 6, 7, and 9 and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 8.
On Friday and Saturday, Jan. 23 and 24, Grace

Becker and Sam Peterson from the Medford Area Senior
High Band will be performing in the National Band
Association All-State band. Their directors are Rob
Wernberg and Katie Prihoda.
Membership in the band signifies a level of achievement which places these student musicians in the top
percentile among all students in our state.
This years band will be conducted by Robert Szabo,
Chief Warrant Officer 4 in the U.S. Marine Corps and
director and officer-in-charge of the Quantico Marine
Corps Band. He has performed in over 30 states, Canada
and France. Szabo is the principle director of music for
the Greater Cleveland Ohio Police Memorial Tattoo,
and the annual Virginia International Tattoo comprised
of 220 instrumentalists from our nations armed forces
bands and military bands abroad, Virginia Symphony
Orchestra Chorus and Childrens Chorus, Norfolk and
Virginia Beach Public Schools Chorus, and 125 pipers
from the U.S. and foreign countries.
The All State Band will conclude the state convention of the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Band
Association with a finale concert at 7 p.m. on Jan. 24 in
the Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln High School auditorium.
Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.
Medford Area Middle School eighth grade students

Alex Carstensen and Cody Church have been selected
to participate in the 2015 National Band Association Wisconsin Chapter All-State Junior Band.
These talented young musicians were nominated by
MAMS band director Katie Prihoda and will perform
with the group at the Finale Concert of the 31st annual
Convention of the NBA-WC. The concert will be held at
the Performing Arts Center on the campus of Wisconsin
Rapids Lincoln High School, Wisconsin Rapids, on
Saturday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m.
The 2014 All-State Junior Band is comprised of 102
students from 41 schools throughout Wisconsin. This
years conductor is Ryan Waldhart, a Medford Area
Senior High alum and a well-known and highly respected educator currently teaching in West Salem. All performances at the convention are open to the public.
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p.m. at Lake Esadore.
Sam Peterson and Grace Becker
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Churn and burn
Kathryn Tesch churns up the snow

on the final stretch of the race Saturday
at Perkinstown Winter Sports Area.
Snowshoemacher
Tyler Schumacher sprints toward the

final downhill on his way to the three
mile win.
Womens winner
Going
for gold
Amanda Schield was the womens

champion in the three mile race.
Kids run
The kids race was popularr

again with younger runners.
Over the top

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Nice day
Ear to ear
Winston Sapinski (282), Cade Alexander (312), Trisha Wagnerr

(591) and Cody Rabska (699) crest the top of the final hill on thee
Perkinstown showshoe race course.
Jaco Vanderberg takes advantage of a

nice winter day to race sleeveless.
Carter Sapinski (281) iss

happ
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photos by Mark Berglund
Results of 2015 Perkinstown Snowshoe Race held Jan. 17

3 mile
Mens champion - Tyler Schumacher Medford

22 minutes, 28 seconds.
Womens champion - Amanda Schield Medford 31:21.9
Female age 12 and under

1 Abby Sova Withee 53:58.3
2 Abigail Harris Medford 1:28:57.0
Female 13-15
1 Lauren Meyer Medford 37:14.8

2 Hallie Schumacher Medford 38:59.5
3 Jenna Jakobi Marshfield 43:13.5
4 Rylee Anderson Medford 49:18.2
5 Morgan Wogernese Abbotsford 53:56.1
6 Kaitlin Gradberg Medford 1:01:31.5
Female 16-18
1 Hannah Brandner Medford 39:38.1

2 Mara Schumacher Medford 40:24.4
3 Bailey Brandner Medford 48:55.0
4 Katy Branstetter Medford 1:01:31.7
Female 19-24
1 Tyler Paquin Keenan 1:01:17.4

2 Caroline Wolf Loyal 1:01:17.7
3 Candice Perronne Medford 1:02:34.9
4 Emily Van Den Heuvel Marshfield 1:03:59.0
5 Tori Sauer Medford 1:06:41.0
6 Stacy Zenner Medford 1:06:43.9
Female 25-29
1 Kathryn Tesch Dorchester 41:04.1

2 Ailena Baum Phillips 42:45.9
3 Robbi Rodman Medford 45:23.9
4 Brenda Blume Marathon 52:45.0
5 Kimberly Milz Colby 54:50.3
6 Nikki Brost Medford 54:55.7
7 Jodi Slenznikow Marshfield 55:41.1
8 Tuesday Schmidt Gilman 55:43.4
9 Abbie Lavin Medford 56:05.9
10 Maggie Hein Medford 58:08.6
11 Angela Schmeiser Medford 1:00:04.7
12 Abbie Loos Winona Mn. 1:00:56.4
13 Nici Hebert Onalaska 1:00:58.3
14 Carrie Thornsen Onalaska 1:00:59.5

15 Casey Hartl Medford 1:03:07.3
16 Tara Sauer Medford 1:03:59.6
17 Anne Mayer Medford 1:06:46.0
18 Katrina Mayer Green Bay 1:06:46.5
19 Stacy Ray Shorewood 1:09:17.6
20 Jessica McCord Athens 1:22:10.2
Female 30-34
1 Rachel Wellman Medford 34:00.5

2 Haley Erl Medford 36:53.9
3 Amber Briski Chicago Ill. 38:01.4
4 Liz Tesch Abbotsford 38:15.7
5 Lisa Rabska Junction City 38:42.3
6 Callie Crass Medford 44:03.0
7 Aurora Rinehart Athens 44:24.7
8 Amanda Karau-Skar Black River Falls 46:50.1
9 Tasha Stencil Athens 49:58.8
10 Kim Schnell Medford 51:56.6
11 Dana Paul Drochester 52:44.0
12 Sara Wolf Medford 54:42.5
13 Kristina Apfelbeck Edgar 54:45.6
14 Jessica Frahm Athens 55:19.2
15 Victoria Noonan Gilman 57:31.6
16 Stephanie Siok Gilman 57:32.3
17 Katie Fuchs Stetsonville 58:22.8
18 Susan Strebig Medford 59:45.6
19 Jennifer Armstrong Kenosha 1:09:18.6
20 Jennifer Harris Medford 1:22:56.0
Female 35-39
1 Trisha Wagner Black River Falls 34:08.5

2 Britt Bushman Phillips 35:55.9
3 Krista Krenz Stevens Point 36:10.8
4 Kathy Alexander Medford 36:20.6
5 Laura Gulso Black River Falls 36:52.4
6 Julie Carlsen Westboro 37:35.5
7 Nicole Syryczuk Lublin 40:13.6
8 Mindy Wagner Abbotsford 40:15.8
9 Angela Engel Abbotsford 43:00.0
10 Faith Stevenson Mosinee 43:34.0
11 Caroline Radlinger Medford 45:31.8
12 Jessica Thomson Dorchester 46:36.4
13 Ellen Gross Ottawa Ill. 50:34.8
14 Stacie Tanata Medford 51:39.0
15 Kristi Rabska Noonan Chicago 57:46.1
16 Lori Karau Cook Minn. 1:00:24.0

17 Candy Strey Spencer 1:06:02.7
18 Amy Krug Medford 1:09:20.9
Female 40-44
1 Sherry Meyer Medford 31:40.4

2 Amy Fredrickson Medford 34:51.6
3 Cherilyn Jakobi Marshfield 37:02.8
4 Andrea Krzanowski Mosinee 44:16.8
5 Jean Drake Wausau 46:38.2
6 Misty Kleist Medford 48:40.7
7 Nicole Scheller Ogema 49:35.1
8 Laura Bergman Angora Mn 51:17.4
9 Jennifer Sobotta Medford 54:59.8
10 Ginny Boardman Medford 56:46.0
11 Dina Dunbar Phillips 59:42.7
12 Sherry Wally Appleton 1:00:58.5
13 Laura Ramm Milwaukee 1:08:19.4
14 Crystal Chenier Curtiss 1:35:35.0
Female 45-49
1 Barb Wilke West Bend 00:35:21.5

2 Tammy Strassburger Birnamwood 00:38:47.8
3 Shari Walker Park Falls 42:34.0
4 Terri Rossiter Mosinee 43:37.7
5 Lisa Carbaugh Medford 43:39.1
6 Laurie Anderson Medford 49:23.9
7 Nicole Schweitzer Black River Falls 52:30.2
8 Ann Schmitt Colby 55:13.4
9 Linda Czeshinski Medford 56:45.4
10 Jill Simpson Dekalb Ill. 1:00:31.8
11 Kari Mueller Medford 1:02:32.9
12 Susan Moretz Medford 1:02:41.0
13 Nicole Gradberg Medford 1:10:20.0
14 Lori Haas Medford 1:16:29.4
Female 50-54
1 Ann Schield Medford 38:59.2

2 Chris Kepner Athens 39:17.8
3 Sarah Steele Woodruff 43:24.1
4 Lynn Olson Rib Lake 45:14.5
5 Roz Barker Green Bay 46:18.6
6 Sally Schumacher-Stefaniak Milwaukee
46:29.8
7 Paula Hamman Medford 47:46.0
8 Vickie Orth Abbotsford 48:09.5
9 Laura Hayden Stetsonville 48:24.5

10 Deb Hoover Stevens Point 48:37.9
11 Monelle Johnson Medford 50:45.4
12 Jayne Lavin Medford 51:25.0
13 Roxy Robida Medford 51:41.7
14 Patti Nelson Medford 52:05.9
15 Belinda Fechhelm Marshfield 52:36.4
16 Lori Haizel Withee 55:00.1
17 Mary Hein Medford 58:08.5
18 Rhonda Gorsla Schofield 1:08:11.2
19 Marcia Obukowicz Rhinelander 1:18:43.7
20 Joann Peel Merrill 1:25:35.1
Female 55-59
1 Christine Seguin Black River Falls 35:17.7

2 Deb Sportte Medford 45:54.8
3 Ruth Schilling Medford 46:17.3
4 Jayne Haenel Medford 47:26.4
5 Mary Noonan Thorp 49:32.2
6 Julie Mitchell Chippewa Falls 50:17.1
7 Sue Gebert Medford 52:13.1
8 Kathy Hemer Medford 52:14.3
9 Doris Lange Milton 52:26.9
10 Joan Peissig Abbotsford 55:12.7
11 Bev Kilty Colby 56:09.9
12 Joyce McNamee Phillips 59:39.1
13 Judy Gabriel Athens 59:43.2
14 Jody Balciar Medford 1:01:14.5
15 Sue Fitzgerald Medford 1:03:09.4
16 Luanne Schneider Medford 1:04:25.2
17 Sue Mueller Spencer 1:07:19.4
18 Bonnie Kanarowski Lublin 1:09:16.2
19 Cathy Thompson Chippewa Falls 1:19:57.9
Female 60-64
1 Jill Dixon Medford 43:17.6

2 Kitty Rau Dorchester 47:41.7
3 Gloria Steivang Stanley 49:32.5
4 Nancy McDaniel Marshfield 50:16.1
5 Lois Giese Medford 51:29.3
6 Jean Flood Medford 52:06.2
7 Janet Greschner Withee 53:33.4
8 Chris Finkler Medford 01:00:56.2
9 Mary Grajkowski Lublin 1:04:18.6
10 Mary Winchell Hawkins 1:12:31.0
11 Judy Underwood Chili 1:30:12.4
Female 65-69
1 Marcy Lewens Mosinee 42:05.8

2 Beverly Adams Medford 55:48.8
Male 12 and under
1 Liam McCarthy Wauwatosa 1:04:07.0
Male 13-15
1 Alex Schmitt Colby 33:26.0

2 Winston Sapinski Medford 33:48.6
3 Cade Alexander Medford 33:56.5
4 Ethan Krzanowski Mosinee 37:10.7
5 Aaron Connelly Medford 40:19.8
Male 16-18
1 Carter Sapinski Medford 29:31.3

2 Douglas Schumacher Dorchester 39:16.1
3 Hunter Anderson Medford 45:25.7
4 Sam Schmitt Colby 53:51.7
Male 19-24
1 Evan Schumacher River Falls 27:57.4

2 Luke Wernberg Dorchester 28:12.6
3 Bart Hallgren Medford 30:02.7
4 Zach Wernberg Madison 34:04.9
5 Darren Leonard Medford 39:53.6
6 Skyler Anderson Medford 45:21.9
7 Phillip Lang Medford 47:02.4
8 Brock Baumann Medford 47:58.3
9 Brent Mueller Medford 1:02:32.4
Male 25-29
1 Joseph Svejda Medford 24:39.0

2 Daniel Babcock Phillips 31:20.8
3 Brandon Armstrong Kenosha 33:16.2
4 Andrew Reidenbach Madison 35:35.8
5 Mike Wolf Medford 48:32.3
6 Jesse Harder Dorchester 52:37.9
7 Jay Schmeiser Medford 1:00:03.7
8 Ben Mueller Medford 1:02:35.3
9 Andrew Dillenburg Marshfield 1:03:56.3
10 Brian Abel Spencer 1:03:58.7
11 Adam Smith Greenwood 1:06:46.4
Male 30-34
1 Jaco Vanderberg Medford 27:06.0

2 Rob Stuber Medford 28:15.8
3 Jeffery Briggs Medford 31:28.8
4 Joshua Brander Medford 32:52.5
5 Pete Haenel Medford 33:23.0
6 Eric Carlson Medford 33:45.2
7 Jon Knoll Medford 33:46.4
8 Brian Arndt Chicago 34:37.9
9 Joe Harris Medford 34:38.0
10 Jake Crass Medford 37:07.1
11 Scott Baumgartner Medford 45:11.6
12 Kevin Wellman Medford 46:00.8
13 Nicholas Leao Medford 47:33.5
14 Erich Mayer Green Bay 1:06:46.6
Male 35-39
1 Kris Borchardt Weston 24:29.7

2 Chris Krenz Stevens Point 29:24.8
3 Cody Rabska Medford 34:17.1
4 Chuck Sova Withee 38:44.5
5 Brad Fagan Medford 48:40.5
6 Jason Erl Medford 52:36.7
7 Brendan Noonan Chicago 57:47.3
8 Kevin Rabska Junction City 59:40.8
9 Darwin Greschner La Crosse 1:06:01.7
Male 40-44
1 Davey Sapinski Medford 24:45.3

2 Jason Ruesch Medford 25:39.1
3 Matt Gross Ottawa Ill. 31:53.2
4 Tony Schumacher Stetsonville 32:10.3
5 Mike Radlinger Medford 33:02.4
6 David Lambert Black River Falls 39:26.4
7 Troy Meyer Medford 41:51.3
8 Scott Walker Park Falls 42:34.1
9 Jamie Mancl Wi Rapids 43:55.3
10 Jamie Wally Appleton 48:11.0
11 Michael Shiffler Medford 58:58.8
12 Steven Ramm De Pere 1:08:19.2
Male 45-49
1 Shane Ironside Wisconsin Rapids 31:06.3

2 Ned Schumacher Medford 34:24.6
3 Jim Gilles Mosinee 43:47.9
4 Darren Krzanowski Mosinee 52:15.5
5 Paul Brown Stetsonville 52:33.4

6 Paul Wilke West Bend 52:51.8
7 David Brager Lublin 53:34.4
8 Brad Remmen Marshfield 58:55.3
9 Kurt Officer Stratford 58:55.3
10 Scott Goeb Iola 1:00:09.4
11 David Simpson Dekalb 1:00:38.2
Male 50-54
1 Melvin Carlson Medford 34:46.6

2 Jerome Switlick Athens 36:38.8
3 David Connelly Medford 37:25.1
4 William Rosa Medford 48:43.8
5 Rodney Robida Medford 51:41.9
6 Scott Lindow Medford 52:36.8
7 Jean Lampi Owen 53:34.4
8 John Fales Medford 54:58.1
9 Mark Sobotta Medford 55:18.9
10 Kurt Kapfhamer Dodgeville 58:04.8
11 Ray Kapfhamer Madison 58:07.7
12 Pat Gaab Chandler Ariz. 1:03:01.6
13 Jay Gorski Schofield 1:08:50.0
14 Scott Gradberg Medford 1:10:17.3
15 Michael Haas Medford 1:16:28.7
Male 55-59
1 Tim Rau Abbotsford 00:30:57.5

2 Rick Noonan Thorp 00:35:12.2
3 Richard Rau Medford 00:41:45.1
4 Rick Sperl Medford 00:41:54.2
5 Ken Milz Colby 00:42:19.2
6 Terry Mueller Spencer 00:42:36.5
7 Toby Anderson Medford 00:42:56.1
8 Bob Wiinamaki Medford 00:43:46.0
9 Todd Seguin Black River Falls 00:44:22.7
10 John Mayer Medford 00:46:57.9
11 Ronny Sromek Medford 00:48:30.0
12 Edward Kalepp Medford 00:50:11.5
13 James Large Milton 00:52:27.0
14 Jeff Hemer Medford 00:57:35.2
15 Mark Reidenbach Kenosha 00:59:47.6
16 Rodney Andreasen Eau Claire 01:11:55.7
17 David Riedel Milwaukee 01:13:08.7
18 Brad Bacher Merrill 01:25:34.5
Male 60-64
1 Dave Rau Dorchester 30:42.1

2 John Kann Rice Lake 31:13.6
3 Mike Malchow Medford 32:58.0
4 Gerart Sasman Black River Falls 38:30.8
5 Jeff Tarras Stratford 40:07.2
6 Michael Schneider Medford 44:13.3
7 Gregory Steivang Stanley 46:23.3
8 Gary Koser Sturtevant 47:17.3
10 Jeff Greschner Withee 1:05:58.7
11 Joe Huck Kenosha 1:09:21.2
12 Roy Thompson Chippewa Falls 1:19:57.7
Male 65-69
1 David Sova Medford 42:47.2

2 Patrick McNeely Curtiss 47:36.3
3 Steve Luther Colby 50:38.7
4 Jerome Briski Greenwood 50:47.6
5 Ed Jeannette Edgerton 51:58.4
Male 70-74
1 Bruce Olson Stetsonville 53:21.9

2 Ron Shiffler Medford 1:08:21.4
3 Mile womens mountaineer
Champion - Jona Hatlestad Withee 40:45.5

25-29
1 Kylie Fitzgerald Medford 47:17.9
2 Lisa Kopp Medford 55:53.9
35-39
1 Gwen Sova Withee 51:53.5
2 Michelle Czlapinski Milladore 1:13:08.0
45-49
1 Liz Lund Black River Falls 55:02.4
2 Patty Grove Rothschild 1:12:00.9
60-64
1 Linda McReynolds Rhinelander 58:26.7
3 Mile Clydesdale
1 William Litzer Marathon 36:41.0

2 Justin Ray Shorewood 44:52.5
3 Adam Rodman Medford 45:23.5
4 Jordan Richert Medford 48:27.8
5 Eric Johansen Angora 49:16.4
6 Bob Mitchell Chippewa Falls 49:20.6

7 Ethan Hemer Medford 49:40.8
8 Andrew Rodman Medford 51:00.5
9 Jesse Beyerl Rib Lake 54:36.0
10 Ben Hemer Medford 57:35.0
11 Tom Mueller Medford 1:02:33.5
12 Daniel Simpson Cortland 1:03:10.8
Team results
Co-worker division
1 Team Hosers - Medford Area Fire Department

2 Hurd Windows and Doors
Open division
1 Tonys Thundering Troop
2 KC Fitness Winter Wackos
3 Justin Bieber Fan Club
4 Aspirus Medford Surgery
6 mile
Mens champion - Joe Freudenthal Withee

56:39.5
Womens champion - Jennifer Chaudoia Green
Bay 1:04:00.1
Female 30-34
1 Wendy Stuner Thorp 1:17:44.5

2 Karyn Nitz Thorp 1:22:43.5
Female 35-39
Female 60-64
1 Judy Punke Wausau 1:30:56.1
Female 65-69
1 Joyce Lewinski Minocqua 1:33:45.6
Male 19-24
1 Travis Bube Rib Lake 1:23:48.6
Male 25-29
1 Jarred Rensvold Wolf Point Mont. 59:56.5
Male 30-34
1 Kyle Rogers Rhinelander 1:09:11.1

2 Eric Tatro Weston 1:16:37.2
Male 35-39
1 Chris Tatro Weston 1:10:57.6

2 Ryan Zvege Marshfield 1:21:28.0
Male 45-49
1 Scott Scheithauer Medford 1:02:00.5
Male 50-54
1 Rick Stefanovic Milwaukee 1:09:03.8

2 Jay Punke Wausau Wi 1:13:27.2
Male 55-59
1 Cary Gottlieb Marquette Mich. 1:11:15.1

Male 60-64
1 Joseph Pettorini Rhinelander 2:27:06.4
1 Jenny Duellman Lublin 1:17:49.8

2 Rachel Clark Medford 1:31:44.4
3 Colleen McCarthy Wauwatosa 1:38:37.0
Male 65-69
Female 40-44
1 Rick Lecher Gordon 1:55:00.0
1 Linae Treu Wausau 1:54:49.7

2 Tonia Dziak Wausau 1:54:50.2
Female 45-49
1 Kathleen Clemons Black River Falls 1:30:52.4
Female 50-54
1 Jannelle Carlson Medford 1:46:45.0
1 William Kelch Knoxville Tenn. 2:59:55.9
Male 70-74
Male 75-79
1 Ray Coyer Cameron 2:27:06.1
Male mountaineer
Champion - Dave Sykora Green Bay

1:31:27.7
Results provided by Superior Timing.
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Bowling
SPORTS
Thursday,
Thursday,
September
January 22, 2014
2011
THE STAR NEWS
Hockey teams Thursday rally falls short

The Sports Page

Tuesday Night Mixed League
Jay Jochimsen
279
Bob Schilling
743
Bob Schilling
267
Jay Jochimsen
687
Justin Smith
265
Virgil Wysocki
662
Jan. 13: High View I 39, Liske Marine 1; Riemer Builders 29, Medford
Co-op 11; Fuzzys Bar 23.5, High View II 16.5.
Three-Man Major League
Steve Richter
276
Todd Metz
710
Pat Gunn
264
Steve Richter
691
Chad Lingen
259
Kurt Werner
690
Jan. 13: Team Stihl 18, BBs Aquatic II 12; KZ Electric 25, Cindys Bar
& Grill 5; 8th Street Saloon 27, Krug Bus 3.; Klinner Insurance I 22,
Sports Page II 8; Nite Electric 24, Klinner Insurance II 6; BBs Aquatic
I 30, Country Garden 0; Rockys Cozy Kitchen 21, Sports Page I 9.
Businessmens League
Women
Ann McNamar
226
Ann McNamar
617
Betty Braun
219
Lori Zenner
532
Men
Denny Czeshinski 299
Mike Platt
719
Dave Kallenbach
268
John Koren
702
Jan. 15: Turtle Club 31, Shell Shack 9; PBRs Lounge Around 24,
Rural Insurance 16; Werner Sales & Service 36; Als Auto Dock 27,
VFW 13; Jensen & Son Asphalt 29, Haenels 11; Sports Page 31,
Rockys Cozy Kitchen 9; Medford Motors 35, Melvin Companies 5.
Classy Ladies League
Ann McNamar
247
Ann McNamar
591
Mary Lou Anderson 212
Mary Lou Anderson
570
Bobbie Smith
204
Nancy Acker
551
Results: Rockys Cozy Kitchen 4, Tease Tanning Plus 3; Als Auto
Dock 7; Fidelity Bank 5, The Flower Shoppe 2; Klinner Insurance
4, J&B Custom Carpentry 3; Paulines Hair Fashion 4, Moosies Ice
Cream 3; VFW 5, A&M Apartments 2.
Blue Monday League
Donna Werner
213
Donna Werner
539
Carol Willman
206
Carol Willman
509
Marian Nernberger 188
Lisa Bub
505
Jan. 12: Big Birds Lodge 4, Happy Joes 3; Strikes R Us 5, Heiers
Wreaths 2; Bakers 5, Holy Rollers 2.
convert on two, one of which extended into the second

period.
Heller and Ben Brown had the assists on Joe
Ladewigs power-play goal 3:40 into the second period. Heller and Bryce Swiechowski had the assists
on Baumanns power-play goal at 9:17 and Brown and
Heller helped Baumann complete his hat trick at the
14:30 mark, just seconds after the Raiders were whistled
for two minor penalties.
Baumann netted another power-play goal 5:28 into
the third period with a Heller assist. Medfords Jack
Schafer broke the shutout 12:24 into the period with an
assist from Kyle Dettmering.
Carter Jamieson had 35 saves in the loss.
Sparta beat LAnse, Mich. 3-1 in Fridays other semifinal, setting up Saturdays consolation game between
Medford and LAnse. The Purple Hornets and Raiders
were tied 1-1 early, but LAnse did all the scoring after
that in a 7-1 win.
Kyle Lake had two goals and two assists, while Gavin
Mattson added a pair of goals and Riley Thompson had
three assists for the winners. Goalie Michael Turunen
had 16 saves.
Jamieson had 58 saves for the Raiders, who got their
goal from Dylan Hraby 8:27 into the first period. Schafer
had the assist. That answered a Zach Hulkkonen goal at
the 4:37 mark that put LAnse up 1-0. Lake scored with
a Thompson assist at 10:18 to make it 2-1. The Purple
Hornets scored three times in the second period and
twice more in the third.
Friday we were just tired, Demulling said. We just
didnt have our legs. Saturday was better. The effort was
good. A little mistake here, little mistake there hurt us.
Our physical play was actually better over the weekend,
which was surprising.
Merrill beat Sparta 4-2 in the championship game.
Doubled up
the assists. Peth then got a break at 10:28, somehow getting the puck to sneak under Jamiesons stick. Aaron
Gehrke and Koski were credited with assists.
Schafer cut the deficit to 3-2 just 22 seconds later, assisted by Klayton Kree and Hraby.
Chequamegon-Phillips broke it open with its threegoal run in the second period. Reukauf scored at 6:07,
assisted by Koski and Peth. Peth and Aaron Gehrke
scored 75 seconds apart at 13:04 and 14:19.
The Raiders killed off a major penalty to start the
third period and then got some momentum when
Kadlecek pushed the puck through center ice to Schafer,
who got a one-on-one chance with goalie Rick Ernst and
beat him at the 6:04 mark. At 10:29, Hraby carried the
puck along the right boards and, just after he crossed
the blue line, whistled a vicious shot that nicked the inside of the post and went in to make it a two-goal game.
Unfortunately, it only stayed 6-4 for 1:50. Roberts
jammed the puck past Jamiesons stretched out skate.
Then, with Chequamegon-Phillips short-handed,
Medford pulled Jamieson for an extra attacker, but
Koski got his stick on a loose puck in his defensive zone
and fired it the other way right to the open net with 1:59
left.
Jamieson was busy again, collecting 44 saves.
Twenty-two of those came in the first period alone.
Ernst had just eight saves.
BOYS HOCKEY STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W-L-T
W-L-T
Antigo
9-0-0
15-2-1
Mosinee
8-0-1
10-4-2
Northland Pines
7-2-0
7-9-1
Waupaca
4-2-1
7-6-1
Tomahawk
3-7-0
3-12-0
Rhinelander
2-7-0
6-8-1
Medford
1-8-0
1-16-0
Lakeland
1-9-0
1-15-0
Jan. 15: Chequamegon-Phillips 8, Medford 4; Mosinee 8, Lakeland 0; Antigo 7, Rhinelander 0; Northland Pines 7, Tomahawk 0;
Waupaca 1, Green Bay United 0 (OT).
Jan. 16: Merrill 5, Medford 1.
Jan. 17: LAnse, Mich. 7, Medford 1; Waupaca 4, Lakeland 1;
Chequamegon-Phillips 7, Tomahawk 3; Mosinee 2, West Salem 1.
Jan. 19: D.C. Everest 2, Mosinee 0.
Jan. 20: Mosinee 6, Medford 1; Northland Pines 4, Rhinelander
0; Antigo 4, Lakeland 0; Waupaca 7, Tomahawk 1.
Jan. 22: Waupaca at Medford, Tomahawk at Marshfield.
Jan. 23: Mosinee at Northland Pines, Marshfield at Rhinelander,
Waupaca at Waupun.
Jan. 24: Mosinee at Northland Pines Classic, Chippewa Falls at
Antigo, Regis-McDonell at Lakeland.
Jan. 27: Tomahawk at Medford, Antigo at Waupaca, Rhinelander at Lakeland, Chippewa Falls at Mosinee.
Jan. 29: Mosinee at Antigo, Northland Pines at Waupaca, Chequamegon-Phillips at Tomahawk.
Chequamegon-Phillips put together a pair of threegoal spurts and that was enough for Team Seal to outscore the Raiders 8-4 on Thursday in non-conference
play at the Simek Recreation Center.
Ball and Chain Nine-Pin Tap League
Those two scoring outbursts gave the visitors a 6-2
Men
lead heading into the third period. Medford made it inEd Brandt
300
Ed Brandt
831
teresting with goals by Schafer and Hraby closing the
Roger Smith
300
Casey Nernberger
824
Casey Nernberger 300
Dave Kallenbach
785
gap to 6-4. But Chequamegon-Phillips got a clinching
Women
goal from Thomas Roberts at the 12:19 mark and sealed
Carmen Merrell
267
Carmen Merrell
625
it with an empty-net goal from Kevin Koski at 15:01.
Julie Smith
266
Julie Smith
617
We still made some youthful mistakes, Demulling
Katy Zirngible
217
Linda Waldhart
517
said. A highlight from the game, though, was that
Jan. 10: The BSers 26.5, Alley Cats 5.5; Pinbusters 27, Jr. SnowpushMedford got two goals from defensemen in the loss.
ers 5; Outlaws 28, Whatchamacallit 4; Mamas & Papas 29, Thunder
Medford drew first blood, getting a goal just 1:26
Buddies 3; Ray & The Girls 20.5.
in from freshman defenseman Ryan Perrin. Spenser
Scholl had the assist.
Tappers Bar (Dorchester)
Tuesday Seniors League
But the guests quickly
Men
erased that lead. Koski
Don Clarkson
189
Don Clarkson
507
found the net at 4:23, asJerry Huber
174
Don Scheibe
410
sisted by Chanse Peth
Corlas Meier
150
Jerry Huber
406
and Willie Reukauf. At
Women
7:36, Roberts went top
Mona Pope
172
Ardis Meier
467
shelf to beat Jamieson to
Ardis Meier
166
Mona Pope
440
Medford had an early chance, going on
make it 2-1. Seth Gehrke a power play just 2:47 in. But an interferDorothy Scheibe
161
Dorothy Scheibe
432
and Calvin Walker had ence penalty wiped that out 45 seconds
Jan. 20: Amigos 4, Maybees 3, Slo Poks 3, Slow Starters 1, Alley Cats
0.
later. Not long after the penalties elapsed,
the Tigers got on the board at 6:26 with
Hanna Hodge getting a clean rebound off
The Rib Lake Fish & Game would like to thank all those who
a stick save by Lybert off a shot by Devyn
donated towards our 2015 Ice Fishing Contest.
Schreier. Abbie Johnson also had an assist. Then, 3:50 into the second period,
Medford HealthMart
Shay Creek Sports
Eds IGA
Baileigh Johnson got free right on the
Pharmacy
Walmart
Niemuth Implement
doorstep to Lyberts right and took a perHickory Nutz Sausage
Medford Motors
Klinner Insurance
Ultimate Illusion
Carquest
Ackeret Appliance & TV
fect cross-ice pass from Miranda Hizer to
Rustic Trail Supper
Holiday Station
Forward Financial Bank
make it 2-0.
Club
Jeff & Julia Thums
The Other Corner (Westboro)
Johnson scored again at 6:11 and
Rib Lake Bakery
Manns Southside Auto Repair Lakewood Credit Union
Abbie Johnson added a power-play goal
Camp 28
Lauries Coach
Frosted Mug
at 13:10 to make it 4-0.
Rib River Bar & Grill
Kevin Hadzima
Drink Slingers
Kacie Suchanek scored a power-play
P & Ds Little Bohemia
Klingbeil Lumber
Nicolet Bank
goal
with an assist from Destiny Muir
Gerstberger Florist
NAPA Auto Parts
JuJus Place
3:55 into the third period before McPeak
Foxys Cattail Tap
Subway
Mann Made Pizza
got Medford on the board. Khloe Spears
Hannahs Hen House
Aspirus Medford Hospital
Zondlos Bar
Bar & Grill
& Clincs
Mohrs Bar
scored for Black River Falls a minute
Great Northern
Korner Bar
Rib Lake True Value
later and 1:02 after that, Allison Zillmer
Cabinetry
Barrys Body Shop
Robins R Corner Store
closed the scoring with assists from Hana
J & P Auto
C & D Lumber
Ledebuhr and Abbie Johnson.
Georges Barber Shop
Old Dutch
Medford put 15 shots on Tiger goalie
C & G Mini Mart
Zastrows
Molly
Lelonek in the first two periods.
Frito Lay
S & S Distributing
She finished with 20 saves.
McKee Foods
Badger West
Pepsi
Treasure Chest
Loss to T-Birds
Badger Liquor
Fourmens Farm Home
3-145701
Century 21
Breakaway Getaway, LLC
On Jan. 13, Medford fell 4-1 at Lakeland
You
Thank
Girls hockey falls to BRF

in a non-conference game at the Lakeland
Ice Arena.
The Raiders generated some fairly
consistent offense, putting 24 shots on
goal. But the only shot that got past
Nimsgern came with just 1:02 left in the
game off the stick of McPeak.
By then, Lakeland had the game well
in hand.
Four different players scored goals
for the T-Birds. Lakeland had a five-onthree advantage late in the first period
when Muenzner lit the lamp with just 13
seconds left in the period and on the first
of Medfords two penalties. Brina Trapp
and Godfrey had the assists. The goal
punctuated a period where Lakeland outshot Medford 12-4.
Jolie Quamme made it 2-0 with a
Trapp assist 4:23 into the second period.
Medford was unable to convert two power-play chances in the period and outshot
the T-Birds 9-7.
Anna Pairolero scored 22 seconds
into the third period to put Medford in a
three-goal hole. Godfrey scored with assists from Quamme and Pairolero at 5:12
to put it out of reach.
Hanson had 26 saves for the Raiders.
Nimsgern had 23 saves.
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OUTDOORS
Page 13
Hunters register 4,220 turkeys in 2014 fall hunt; spring permit levels set
According to preliminary harvest data, Wisconsin
wild turkey hunters registered 4,220 birds during the
fall 2014 wild turkey season, a slight decrease from 4,633
turkeys registered during the 2013 fall season.
Success rates in 2014 were similar to last year, with
6.8 percent of permits being filled, compared to 7.1 percent in 2013.
The fall turkey season provides a much different experience for turkey hunters, said Scott Walter,
Department of Natural Resources upland wildlife ecologist. In particular, those who hunt turkeys with dogs
are very passionate about the experience. Turkey harvest totals reflect a number of factors, including turkey
population size, weather conditions and hunter participation and effort.
Variable weather conditions play a significant role
in turkey population dynamics, and the number of turkeys hunters encounter certainly reflects this variable.
A severe winter in 2013-14 led to some localized mortality, primarily in the far north. These localized events
followed a very poor production year due to wet and
cold conditions in 2013. However, turkey populations
can increase rapidly during years of favorable weather.
We were pleasantly surprised with how well turkeys in the north came through last years severe winter, and field reports suggest production among north-
DMAP applications
for 2015 now being
accepted by DNR
When harvest data for the spring 2015 turkey season

is available, biologists will assess spring production levels and set permit levels for the fall season. Hunters can
expect plenty of opportunity to pursue turkeys in Zones
1 through 5, while permit levels in northern Wisconsin
(Zones 6 and 7) have been held at relatively lower levels
as turkey numbers have begun to increase over the last
10 years.
The 2015 spring turkey season permit drawing is
complete, and successful applicants should receive postcards within the next two to three weeks. Hunters can
also check their permit application status online via the
departments Online Licensing Center, or by contacting
the DNR Customer Call Center, open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
seven days a week at 888-WDNRINFo (888-936-7463).
More than 100,000 permits were not allotted in the
2015 spring drawing and will be made available for overthe-counter purchase beginning Monday, March 23.
For more information, including a list of permit sales
dates, search the DNR website dnr.wi.gov for keywords
spring turkey permit.
The number of permits made available in each of
Wisconsins seven turkey management zones is recommended by members of a DNR Turkey Advisory
Committee. Committee members consider recent trends
in harvest, hunter success, and turkey reproduction, as
well as hunter densities and turkey abundance reports
from the field.
To learn more about Wisconsins wild turkeys, search
the DNR website, dnr.wi.gov, for keyword turkey.
KWD
An Outdoormans
Journal
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KOMAREK
Mark Walters sponsored by
Hello friends,
On Christmas Eve my stepson Joey Dushek calls me
up and says he just found some very active beaver sign
and wants to know if I would show him how to make
some beaver sets (trap sets) as he had a strong desire
to catch his first beaver. I tell Joey, lets wait. Come up
with a bunch of 330 body grip traps and do this in a couple of weeks. Besides, its Christmas!
Enter our good buddy Jody Bigalke. Jody is a very active trapper, has lots of gear and likes teaching kids how
to hunt, shoot carp, fish and trap (major KAMO one-onone mentor). Jody basically takes charge of the entire
operation and here is the story.
Saturday, Jan. 10
High 14, Low -16
Joey Dushek is 21, took his trapper education class
last year, works on a cranberry marsh in western
Juneau County and since he caught his first fox two
weeks ago, is totally addicted to trapping. Today, Jody,
Joey and I spent a full day exploring a couple thousand
acres of forest, marsh and waterways and basically
worked very hard.
The first place we made our sets was one of five that
Joey had been doing some very serious scouting at. The
layout was a maybe 200-acre reservoir with the vast majority of the shoreline made up of mature pine and oak
forest.
Beavers, like most wildlife, love recent logging jobs.
The reason is always the same. Deer, grouse and beaver find abundant food to consume in the aspen that appears the following spring and for many years to come
(grouse eat the buds).
In our case, there were not many beavers as there
was not much food. But all Jody or I cared about was
getting Joey his first beaver and teaching him how to
trap them.
Our first set was on what you could literally call an
underwater beaver trail. Beavers, like muskrat, swim
on trails, generally at the bottom of the waterway they
are swimming once ice has formed. Depending on the
age of the water system, these trails could be decades old
and always create a shallow path (hard bottom) where
the beavers swim. Their bodies push silt and sand to the
side.
The ice was only two inches thick over the beaver
highways, so we had to be careful.
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Conservation-minded landowners and land managers throughout Wisconsin are reminded of an opportunity to play a key role in deer and habitat management
through the Deer Management Assistance Program.
Landowners with an interest in promoting healthy
deer and other wildlife through active management
are ideal candidates for DMAP. The program allows for
habitat management alongside existing land use activities like agriculture and timber management.
The 2015 enrollment deadline for properties larger
than 160 acres is March 1, and landowners are encouraged to apply early. Both public and private lands are
eligible to participate in DMAP. Program cooperators
at each level will receive immediate access to educational resources and DMAP updates.
We had a great first year of DMAP in 2014, said Bob
Nack, DMAP coordinator for the Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources. We worked with nearly 300 landowners who are working to improve more than 44,000
acres of land for the benefit of Wisconsins white-tailed
deer and many other forest wildlife species.
Landowners and land managers with properties
larger than 160 acres must apply before the March
1 deadline in order to qualify for Level 2 or 3 benefits
in 2015. These benefits include all Level 1 benefits, in
addition to site visits with local DNR staff, a property
management plan and eligibility for reduced-price antlerless harvest tags.
Properties less than 160 acres will be automatically
accepted for Level 1 enrollment on a continuous basis.
Level 1 benefits include access to DMAP reports and
DNR publications regarding habitat and deer management, communication with local DNR staff and an invitation to DMAP workshops.
Neighboring landowners with properties within
one-half mile of each other are encouraged to enroll as
a group cooperative. Group cooperatives provide an opportunity to share costs and equipment on habitat projects and to benefit deer and other wildlife over a greater
area while improving relations and hunting opportunities among neighbors.
Those interested in learning more about the program are encouraged to participate in an informational
chat on Thursday, Feb. 5 at noon. To view a chat schedule and check out previous chats, search the DNR website, dnr.wi.gov, for keyword expert. For more information regarding DMAP and the application process,
search keyword DMAP.
To receive DMAP email updates and other information, visit dnr.wi.gov and click on the email icon near
the bottom of the page for subscribe for updates for
DNR topics. Follow the prompts and select the Deer
Management Assistance Program option, found under
wildlife management.
ern birds was actually greater last spring than in 2013,

said Krista McGinley, DNR assistant upland wildlife
ecologist. Long-term, variation in spring weather is
what nudges turkey populations upward and downward
from one year to the next, and hunters can expect that
the number of turkeys they see in the field will vary accordingly.
In 2014, 96,700 permits were made available (not including Fort McCoy). This number was identical to permits issued in 2013. A preliminary total of 62,450 permits
were sold for the 2014 fall turkey season, with 54,243 allotted through the drawing and another 8,207 permits
sold over-the-counter after the drawing was complete.
It is important to note that harvest and permit issuance
numbers are preliminary and may change once data are
finalized.
The department initiated the first fall turkey season
in 1989 as a result of an increase and expansion of turkeys throughout Wisconsin. Since then, hunters have
pursued turkeys during both fall and spring seasons.
Fall hunters have learned that the key to success is
to pattern turkey flocks. They are very good at locating
roost sites or feeding locations, Walter said. Hunters
who pursue turkeys during both the spring and fall seasons are treated to two very distinctive outdoor experiences, and get to enjoy turkeys during very different
phases of their annual cycle.
The 2015 youth turkey hunt April 11-12 will signal the
start of this years spring turkey hunting season. The
regular season will begin April 15.
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Jody taught Joey at our first set that in a deep run

it is best to set two body grip traps with one positioned
over the other in case the beavers are swimming a bit
above the bottom. Long story short, at days end we had
seven sets for beavers. The following day, Jody taught
Joey how to make two sets for muskrats. That first day
of checking traps yielded no fur.
Space is always an issue in telling this story, but
hard work, cold hands, incredible wildlife sign (bobcat,
wolf, coyote and deer) are a large part of the adventure
called beaver trapping.
Wednesday, Jan. 14
High 21, Low -12
Jody could not make trap checking today. Most of our
work was done in the dark as Joey worked until 4:30.
Our experience was none short of incredible. Joeys
first set was a baited set under the ice and no beavers.
The next set was a trail on the bottom of the reservoir and that is where Joey caught his first beaver after some ice chopping and trap pulling. Joeys third set
held his second beaver. His fourth held his first muskrat
and his fifth another rat.
All of our work is being done with a spotlight and our
adventure is becoming a classic.
Set number six was a trail leading to a hut. Above the
ice was ample bobcat and coyote sign. When we pulled
this body grip it held what looked like a small bear.
Now Joey had a beaver to make a blanket out of. I do not
know what this trophy weighed but I believe 60 pounds
is a good guess.
During this entire experience we were talking about
biology and how many animals to safely harvest without over harvesting.
As I said, our sets were scattered and our secondto-last set was made for beavers but held Joeys third
rat. Set number nine held another beaver which meant
seven out of nine held fur.
Joey is pulling the traps the next time he checks them
and I think it is safe to say a couple of old timers taught
him a trick or two on how to trap beaver under the ice.
Enjoy the adventure!
Sunset
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Thursday, January 22, 2015 Page 14
Milestones, Memories, Births, Engagements, Weddings
Slow food means good memories

It is tempting to make some ridiculous comment
such as, Living with Lyme disease has taught me the
value of avoiding stress and taking a day off. But then
every time I was around another small business owner,
they would point and laugh. Not that any of them have
time to read a cooking column, so they can just go mind
their business.
But I actually did have a day at home recently, and I
did set my sights fairly low in terms of accomplishing
something useful. (Many of you know how difficult that
is once youve made out your list of things to do, your
day off is emitting the faint odor of despair.) But as
my day progressed at the snails pace that seemed sustainable, my ambitions fell away until I was left with
just one goal: transform a big ol pork butt into Pork
Carnitas. (And now Im tempted to say something Zenly
philosophical about the Joyfulness of Doing One Thing,
but I will not.)
The fact is that if I had been operating at 100 percent
I would have been juggling as many household chores
as I could imagine and would have ended my day in
a heap of sweat and frustration. So I appreciated the
slowness that allowed me to notice the movement of the
trees outside without feeling guilty and unproductive
for taking the time to notice.
It reminded me of the winter I spent at a cabin my
folks used to have. Beforehand I had all kinds of notions
of the good books I would read and the profound writings I would produce. When the reality came, I discovered my non-work life (this was before Tom and TCR)
consisted largely of hiking in or out of the cabin, splitting wood, hauling water, making food. The in-between
times were soft, long moments of warming my feet by
the woodstove, watching the snow drift by the window,
listening to the ice boom and crack in the night. And
those moments grew and expanded to fill all the time
there was, making no apologies to books unread or unwritten.
It would be a farce for me to get all critical of how
our busy and fretful world envelops us in an endless
spool of threads tethering us to one thing and another.
Although in moments of reflection I miss some aspects
The Table
Sally Rassmussen
of cabin life, I positively adore the amenities of electric
lights and running water. (No one should think they
dont mind an outhouse until they have to clean out its
backside.) And there was an even greater advantage to
moving into Toms house. Which is to say: Tom!
Maybe what it comes down to is this: Although we
have to live in the world as it really is rather than how
we think it ought to be, we should still acknowledge the
movement of the trees in the wind is worthy of our notice. And maybe we can occasionally grant ourselves
the peace of a day in which to make something full of
time and attention.
Pork Carnitas
Heat in a Dutch oven or large cast-iron skillet:

cup vegetable oil
Season with salt:
4 lbs. pork shoulder, cut into about a dozen pieces
Brown the pork in the hot oil. Add:
1 chopped onion
1 clove of garlic, crushed
3 tablespoons lime juice
1 tablespoon chili powder
teaspoon oregano
teaspoon cumin
6-8 cups of chicken broth
Bring to a simmer and reduce the heat to low. Cover
and simmer for 2 or 2 hrs. Transfer the pork to a baking sheet. Pre-heat the oven to 400. Simmer the cooking
liquid down until its somewhat thick, then spoon over the
pork. Bake the pork about 30 minutes, basting with the
liquid as needed, until it begins to get crispy. Pull apart
and serve over rice or as a filling for tortillas.
Douglass Cottrell
and Samantha Neuman
Neuman-Cottrell
Ervin and Sandy Neuman of Medford announce the

engagement of their daughter, Samantha Rose Neuman, to Douglas James Cottrell II.
The bride-to-be is a 2006 graduate of Medford Area
Senior High and a 2008 graduate of Northcentral Technical College. She is an executive assistant at Brandt
and Sons Marketing Group in Wausau.
The groom-elect is a 2003 graduate of Wausau West
High School. He owns CWDG Services in Mosinee.
The couple plans a May 2015 wedding.
Births
Cason Anton Josef
Haven Rae
Williams-Cahoon
Michelle and William Cahoon
Michelle Marie Williams and William Matthew Cahoon were united in marriage on Oct. 4 at Cherokee
Park in the town of Hull with Ocean Prihoda serving as
officiating minister. Amanda Becker provided the music for the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Michael and Becky Williams of Medford. The groom is the son of Craig and
Peni Cahoon of Stetsonville.
Sadie Zuleger of Stevens Point was maid of honor.
Bridesmaids were Julie Fleischmann of Lewiston,
Minn., Logan Rindt of St. Paul, Minn., Erica Clarkson
of Medford, Mandy Rische of Reedsburg and Elizabeth
Lentz of League City, Texas.
Best man duties were shared by Jeff Litvinoff of Kennan and Casey Smith of Oshkosh. Groomsmen were
Zach Becker of Green Bay, Micah Sofferahn of Tea, S.D.,
Derek Wanish of Kennan and Mike Lentz of League City.
The couples children, Grace, Chloe and Kendyl,
served as flower girls. Ushers were Alex Williams and
Cody Kummer.
A reception was held at Dorchester Memorial Hall,
with Silence Entertainment providing the music.
The bride is a 2010 graduate of Medford Area Senior
High and a 2014 graduate of Rasmussen College. She is a
professional nursing graduate.
The groom is a 2007 graduate of Medford Area Senior
High. He is a sergeant in the Wisconsin Army National
Guard and owner of Comstock Seamless Rain Gutters.
The couple took a honeymoon trip to Oahu, Hawaii.
They reside in Medford.
Aemus and Emily Balsis of Medford announce the

birth of twins, born on Jan. 5 at Aspirus Birthing Center - Medford. Their son, Cason Anton Josef, was five
pounds, 13 ounces and 19 inches long. Their daughter,
Haven Rae, was seven pounds, two ounces and 20 inches
long. Their grandparents are Brian and Jeanne Krug
and William and Jackie Rosa, all of Medford, and Fred
and Wilma Balsis of Kennan. Their great-grandmother
is Lois Ogle of Medford.
Charlie Gene
Patrick and Ashley Harder of Medford announce the
birth of a son, Charlie Gene, born on Jan. 8 at Aspirus
Wausau Hospital. He weighed eight pounds, 6.9 ounces
and was 20.5 inches long. His grandparents are Lori and
Dale Erdman of Rib Lake, and Gary and Kathy Harder
and Kevin Peterson, all of Medford.
Alexander Davidallen-Lamar
Montgomery Hickles and Tara Koszarek of Wausau
announce the birth of a son, Alexander Davidallen-Lamar, born on Dec. 12 at Aspirus Wausau Hospital. He
weighed six pounds, one ounce and was 18 inches long.
His grandparents are Debbie Koszare of Wausau and
Toni Ashley and Larry Hickles of Milwaukee.
Sawyer
Ashley and Michael Hastreiter of Rhinelander announce the birth of a son, Sawyer, born on Jan. 10
at Howard Young Medical Center in Minocqua. He
weighed eight pounds, eight ounces and was 19 inches
long. He joins a brother, Colton. His grandparents are
Randy and Karen Snyder of Sugar Camp and Denny and
Mary Hastreiter of Rhinelander.
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Selma: Medford man recalls march for voting rights

As the celebration of Martin Luther
Kings birthday comes up on Jan. 19, I
think back 50 years ago when a friend
and I went from Milwaukee down to
Selma, Ala. in March, 1965. We went to
be with Dr. King and people from around
the U.S.
A new movie, Selma, is out this month,
but some events in Selma remain clear in
my mind.
I was in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee when
Dr. King issued a call for help. He made
the call after some 600 marchers tried to
head out from Selma to the state capitol
in Montgomery. They made it only a few
blocks before local police drove them
back with billy clubs and tear gas.
My friend Lou and I found some cheap
air transit to Georgia and then took a bus
to Selma. When we arrived in Selma, we
were assigned to stay with Julia, an elderly black woman in public housing. It
was a small apartment, but she said she
was glad to share it with us.
The first night in town, as Lou and I
returned from dinner, we noticed the
black section of town, unlike other neighborhoods, did not have paved streets or
street lights. Suddenly, we noticed car
lights heading for us and I mean heading right for us. Fortunately we were
able to jump back just in time.
The next day, it was hot in Selma as
more than 3,000 marchers gathered outside a church. Ill never forget standing
about 20 feet from Dr. King as he spoke
calmly to us. It will be all right, he said.
It will be fine if we just keep cool and
keep walking.
As we started to walk, I noticed a thin
THE
TIME
MACHINE
From past les of The Star News
10 YEARS AGO
January 20, 2005
Gilman School District parents and

teachers concerned about ongoing
class scheduling for next year packed
a school board meeting Monday to ask
questions.
They wanted to know more about an
after school remediation program proposal in which some staff and students
would stay after school as late as 5:38
p.m. They wanted to know why some
teachers would have to start work later
in the day in exchange for teaching in
the after school program. They wanted
to know which teachers could have
their full-time positions reduced if they
did not go along with the currently proposed scheduling plan.
The school district is awaiting final confirmation that it will receive a
$200,000 federal grant to operate an after school remediation program for all
students during the 2005-06 and 2006-07
school years, according to School District Administrator Drew Johnson.
The program will not only help students keep up with their studies, but
it also will provide more work hours
for some staff to remain employed full
time, he said.
25 YEARS AGO
January 24, 1990
Although three supervisors opposed
Historical portrayal
This scene is from the new Paramount Pictures release Selma. The movie tells the story of the March 1965 marches from the
Alabama city to the state capitol in the effort to increase voter registration. The march led to passage of the 1965 Voters Rights Act.
line of national guard troops (they had
been called up) between us and a very
hostile group of onlookers. Even young
children, sitting on their parents shoulders, called us all sorts of names.
After a good walk, and singing songs,
we stopped for some refreshments from
the back of trucks. Ill always remember how those in front passed water and
sandwiches to the rear, before taking any
for themselves.
Later, Dr. King sent us back to Selma,
I think because of the lack of resources.
We were glad to see Julia again and
shared some meals with her, and then
got a ride with some college professors
back to Illinois. And then a bus back to
Milwaukee.
Well before the Selma march, I had
written Dr. King about a public infor-
the action, the countys airport and rails

committee was authorized by the Taylor
County Board last week to begin negotiations for a 55-acre parcel of land next to
the airport.
The board also approved buying 40
acres of land and an unrestricted easement near county forest property in the
Town of Rib Lake. That vote was unanimous, with Alderman/Supervisor Arlene Archie Parent absent.
Voting against buying the land near
the airport were Supervisors George Lewandowski, Herbert Bergmann and Robert Deetz.
As Airport Manager Arch Kaulfuss
explained, the property is for sale by the
owner (who is asking $27,500 for it), and
would be needed in the event the eastwest runway is extended.
usual pleasantness that comes when the

mercury hovers around 22-25 degrees
above zero in January its residents, city
and rural, turned to the enduring of cold,
wind and snow.
Sharp, piercing cold that chilled the
marrow in ones bones and sent the mercury tumbling down to as low as 22 degrees below over night. Cold that made
ice of the previously melting snow endangering those who had to make use of
highways and streets.
Taylor county with a perfect traffic record wondered over the weekend
whether or not the cold spell would bring
the first casualty. But though there were
three traffic accidents there were no
deaths.
50 YEARS AGO
mation job with his Southern Christian Leadership Conference. I still have
a copy of the personal letter he wrote
back. He asked for samples of my public
relations work, but said his budget was
unable to fund such a position at present.
And I will also remember just before
we started marching, he said If you
cant accept blows without retaliating,
dont get in the line.
Earl Finkler, Medford
100 YEARS AGO

January 20, 1915
Mrs. Ed Dake gave a farewell surprise to her mother, Mrs. Stephenson,

by inviting the Rebekahs for the evening that she left for Montana. They
met at Mmes. Elliott and Geo. Smiths,
going to the Dake home in a body and
making the surprise a genuine one. The
hostess arranged interesting games
for amusement, such as making paper doilies, an eating contest, forming
animals with gum, giving pretty prizes
to the winners. The Misses Alva and
Marjorie Dake entertained with vocal selections. A two course luncheon
was served. The friends presented Mrs.
Stephenson with a choice leather hand
bag as a token of remembrance.
Remember When Jan. 2005
January 21, 1965

A petition by 175 residents of the
towns of Frankfort, Holton and Johnson in Marathon county for detachment
from the Abbotsford district and attachment to the Colby school district has
been denied. The request was turned
down Thursday by the joint school committees of Clark and Marathon counties
by a vote of 8 to 3.
Another hearing will be held February 3 by the joint school districts. It
concerns five petitions calling for transferring 70 parcels of land in the towns
of Hull, Holton and Brighton from the
Colby district to the Abbotsford district.
75 YEARS AGO
Jan. 18, 1940
Along with the rest of the state this
week, Taylor county took a breather
after experiencing one of those aboutfaces that old man winter executes ever
so frequently. From enjoying the un-
The Canadian National railroad bridge west of the intersection of Hwy 64 and
73 near Gilman is scheduled to be replaced by an at-grade crossing with gates and
ashing lights in 2007. The bridge does not provide enough clearance for some tall
trucks passing underneath on Hwy 73.
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Wisconsin FFA Foundation

scholarships available
The Wisconsin FFA Foundation is accepting applications for 2015 post-secondary scholarships. The electronic application is available on the Wisconsin FFA
website under the programs tab (www.
wisconsinffa.org). All applications are
due to be postmarked by March 16 to the
Wisconsin FFA Foundation office.
Applicants must be a senior in high
school, or enrolled in a university or
technical school and have maintained a
satisfactory scholastic record in school.
FFA members need to only fill out one
application to be considered for all scholarships for which the applicant qualifies.
A listing of additional criteria for certain
scholarships is available on the Wisconsin FFA website.
Scholarships
available
include
Blains Farm and Fleet (two $2,000),
GROWMARK (two $1,200), Kenneth K.
Heideman Endowment (seven $1,000),
Wisconsin Agri-Business Association
Rabies clinic in Gilman
Poplar Grove 4-H Club is sponsoring a

rabies clinic on Saturday, Jan. 24 from 9
a.m. to noon at the senior center on Main
St. in Gilman.
(four $1,000), Danny and Robin Connelly

Family and Organic Valley ($1,000), Arnold and Katherine Cordes Endowment
($1,000), Wisconsin FFA Convention
($850), Cooperative Resources International (two $750), Louis M. Sasman of
the Kiwanis Club of Downtown Madison Endowment ($750), ANIMART, Inc.
(two $600), Equity Cooperative Livestock
Sales Association (two $600), Collegiate
FFA, UW-Madison ($600), WPS Farm
Show Food Vendors ($590), Matthew D.
Anderson Endowment Fund (four $500),
Foth Production Solutions, LLC (two
$500), Rodney O. Kittelsen Endowment
($500), Dr. Virgil and Ann Martinson Endowment ($500), Bernie and Marty Staller Endowment ($500), Star Blends ($500),
Harold and Geneva Beals Endowment
($450), Robert and Herta Laatsch Family
Endowment ($450), John and Hattie Van
Wychen Endowed Memorial Scholarship
Fund ($450), Walter and Delores Bjoraker Endowment ($400), Elstad Brothers
Endowment ($400), Bernie and Marty
Staller Endowment ($500), Mary Elstad
and Dean P. Gagnon Endowment ($400)
and Collegiate FFA, UW-Madison (Farm
and Industry Short Course) ($300).
For more information, contact Sonya
Huebner at shuebner@wisconsinffafoundation.org or call 608-831-5058, ext. 1.
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Extra Mile Employee Award
submitted photo
A luncheon was held Jan. 14 to honor Jerome Kowalski (center) who was named a
recipient of this years Catholic Charities Bureau (CCB) Extra Mile Employee Award.
The award recognizes outstanding individual employees of CCB who have distinguished themselves in their work as exceeding the required or expected performance.
Kowalski has been a facilities maintenance technician for the Medford region since
May 2013. Shown presenting the award are Bonnie Brunner, regional manager, and
Gary Valley, CCB director of housing.
Beef conference Feb. 20-21

in Wisconsin Dells
The Wisconsin Cattlemens Association (WCA) and the Wisconsin Cattlewomens Association will hold their
annual winter conference Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 20-21 in Wisconsin Dells.
This years conference will feature
a full day of educational sessions and
meetings presented by the Wisconsin
Cattlemens Association on Feb. 20. Feb.
21 will feature annual meetings for each
association. In addition, there will be an
educational session over the lunch hour.
Educational programs will cover a variety of topics such as farm transition
planning, advocating through social media, cow herd immunity and beef cattle
market outlook.
Speakers and topics of the conference
include:
John Gasner, agriculture program
specialist with the Wisconsin Farm Center and Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection,
will present Farm Transition Planning,
Creating and Communicating Your
Farms Future.
Lee Schulz, assistant professor and
extension livestock economist at the Department of Economics at Iowa State University, will present Beef-Cattle Market
Outlook, 2015 and Beyond.
Veterinarian John Rodgers will present Cow Herd Immunity, Getting the
Most Out of Vaccination Protocols.
It is not necessary to be a member of
any of the participating organizations
to attend the winter conference. There
is a registration fee to attend Fridays
educational program and evening banquet. There will be no cost to attend any
meetings on Saturday, but there will be a
charge for meals.
For information or registration materials, contact Martha Olson at 608-2281457, wisbeef@yahoo.com, or visit the
WCA website at www.wisconsincattlemen.com where you will find conference
information and a registration form for
downloading.
American Legion Auxiliary

holds Jan. 12 meeting
There were eight members present
when the Jan. 12 meeting of BoxruckerBerry American Legion Auxiliary Unit
519 was called to order by president
Juanita Krug.
Roll call of officers was followed by the
secretarys report which was approved
as read. The treasurers report was approved as read and placed on file for audit.
The units Badger Girls State representative is Esther Lusenge and the alternate is Sydney Emmerich.
Motion made and seconded to increase
the scholarship fee.
Judy Robida reported some 2015 dues
have not been paid and should be sent to

her.
A thank-you card was received from
the veterans home in Chippewa Falls for
clothing sent. Krug sent a cash donation
from the unit. She also read the department correspondence for December and
January.
A discussion was held about the units
annual pancake breakfast, bake sale and
raffle on March 22. Motion made and seconded to donate the bake sale proceeds to
Camp American Legion.
The next meeting is Feb. 9 at 1 p.m.
at the Legion clubhouse. Marleen
Lindau, secretary
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ARE YOU the guy that found
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Corporation is accepting applications for CNC machinists,
break press operators, painters,
production welders and general
labor. Competitive wage, excellent fringe benefits, normal work
week is four 10 hour days - Monday through Thursday. Apply in
person at Meyer Mfg. Corp.,
Hwy. A West, Dorchester, WI.
SEASONAL FULL-time help
wanted on crop farm. Must
have
experience
operating large machinery. Pay $20
per hour. Call 715-238-7733.
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HELP WANTED: Pulp truck

driver for local hauling. Competitive pay and benefits. Blomberg
Trucking Inc. 715-493-1111.
HELP WANTED. Apply in person after 4 p.m., TuesdaySaturday at P&E Steakhouse,
Hwy
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agencies, answering phones and assisting county departments and the public, keeping packets and forms
available for use, assisting with Wisconsin Fund application process, maintaining office files, data entry, issuing
and depositing firewood and bough permits, assisting with active timber sale files, typing forms and other correspondence for the departments, and other duties as assigned by department personnel.
Applicants are desired to have a high school diploma/GED equivalent, one to two years of office experience,
computer experience specifically with word processing and spreadsheet programs, or any combination of
education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge, skills, and abilities.
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application is available at www.co.taylor.wi.us/employment/. Applications will be accepted until Friday,
February 13, 2015, until 4:30 p.m., by:
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224 S. 2ND STREET
MEDFORD, WI 54451
E-MAIL: human.resources@co.taylor.wi.us
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NOW HIRING PRODUCTION WORKERS

Frontline Bldg. Products, Inc., Medford, WI, a leading manufacturer of
products associated with the window and door industry, is looking for
detail orientated team players as general production workers. Normal
hours for this position are 6 am-2:30 pm. The successful candidate will
have basic math and measurement skills. Prior window production
experience in a custom window plant is strongly preferred. Starting pay
up to $14.00 per hour along with an excellent benefit package.
Please visit
www.BayCompanies.com/careers
to apply today!
Competitive compensation
and benefit package offered.
EEO Employer with a
Drug-Free Environment
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roof & new natural gas high
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been remodeled for the Happy
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features a contemporary oor plan
including great room w/vaulted
ceiling, master suite, sunroom &
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in Abbotsford has full and parttime positions available for all
shifts. We are looking for positive, hardworking individuals
who are committed to provide
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In-house training provided.
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resume (no phone calls please) to:
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2-145664
Experience with sawing steel is a plus.

Competitive Wages - Benets Offered
Drop off or mail resume & application to
TAKCO MFG.
810 S. AIRPORT RD., PHILLIPS, WI 54555
Competitive compensation based on

experience. Benefits include shift premiums,
health insurance, company paid life insurance,
401(k), paid vacations, and holidays.
WADAL Plastics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
Experience with Mazaks is a plus.

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WADAL Plastics, Inc. is seeking candidates

for the position of Mold Technician on
3rd shift. Individuals must be self-starters
and able to work with little supervision.
Experience preferred with knowledge of
injection molding presses and automation.
Willing to train the right candidate. Good
mechanical aptitude and a desire for
advancement is a plus.
WADAL Plastics, Inc.

Attn: Human Resources
949 S. Gibson St.
Medford, WI 54451
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JELD-WEN Windows and Doors, Hawkins Window
Division, is a wood window and patio door manufacturer in
Hawkins Wisconsin. We are accepting applications for
full-time production positions.
(High School Diploma or Equivalence Required)
(Must be at least 18 years of age)
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grade level. Our minimum grade level is $13.54 per hour.
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MISC FOR SALE
FOR RENT
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MEDFORD
TWO
bedroom
lower apartment, $460 includes
sewer, water, garbage, storage unit, onsite laundry, garage available. 715-965-4440.
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SEXUAL ABUSE Anonymous
Self Help Evening Group for
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from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Also Saturday Mens Group. For information write: Evening Group, P.O.
Box 366, Stratford, WI 54484.
(Meeting place not disclosed).
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FARM
WANTED: DAIRY farm to
buy, rent, or land contract,
now or next season. Also
wanted, dairy herd, all ideas
considered.
715-965-0743.
PETS
MORKIES PUPPIES, also ShihTzu cross and some Boxers still
available. W4775 Elm Ave., Stetsonville, 1-1/2 miles east of 13.
271226-DS. Closed Sundays.
WALK-IN
Rabies Vaccination Clinic
THREE BEDROOM, 1-1/2 bath

home, updated kitchen, hardwood floors, dining room, office
and oversized 2 car garage,
$875/month. 336 S. 2nd St.,
Medford. Call 715-748-2258.
VILLAGE OF Rib Lake: Large
2 bedroom apartment, washer
& dryer hookups, outside deck
and storage shed, basement,
nice view of lake, lawn care &
snow removal included. Call
715-427-3136 or 715-905-0327.
MISCELLANEOUS
BUY AREA newspapers at The
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Cadott, Lake Holcombe). Stop in
today to buy a copy or subscribe.
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MOBILE HOMES
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homes available for rent at $625/
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those 62+. Rod Becker Villa, 645
Maple Court, Rib Lake. Owner
paid heat, water, sewer and
trash removal, community room,
laundry facilities, additional storage, indoor mail delivery and
off-street parking. Tenant pays
30% of adjusted income. Pet
friendly property For an application, contact Impact Seven Inc.,
855-316-8967 or 715-357-0011.
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apartment,
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nonsmoking,
no
pets, $525/month, available
March 1. Call 715-965-0569.
LARGE ONE bedroom upstairs
apartment,
city
of
Medford.
715-427-3579.
LOWER, SPACIOUS 2 bedroom apartment, A/C, nonsmoking, village of Rib Lake,
$450/month
plus
security
deposit.
715-427-5809.
MEDFORD
ONE
bedroom
lower, $360, includes sewer, water, garbage, storage
unit, onsite laundry, garage,
available.
715-965-4440.
REAL ESTATE
79 ACRES ag/hunting land.

35 acres tillable, 30 acres
of small trees and 14 acres
misc. Enclosed deer stand,
small pond, Big Rapids Rd.,
Stratford, WI. $316,000. 715820-1546,
onvac@live.com.
2-145359
715-748-2258
Medford Ofce Hwy. 13 South
www.DixonGreinerRealty.com
Luke Dixon, Jon Knoll,
Jesse Lukewich, George Zondlo
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Just In Time
For Taxes
6.2 ACRE lot tested for holding tanks or mound to be sold

with home package, $19,000.
See Wausau Homes Medford
for home plans. Contact Jason at 715-829-4180 to view.
LAND FOR sale: 12 acre wooded country lot, 3 miles northwest

of Medford on blacktop road.
Contact Jason, 715-829-4180.
Sat., Jan. 24, 9 am-1 pm
Gentle Hearts
Boarding Kennel
160 ACRES hunting land within

Chequamegon National Forest. 4 enclosed heated stands,
trails throughout, area cleared
for cabin, 2 food plots, MFL
closed. Forest Rd. 1529, Jump
River, WI. $384,000. 715820-1546
onvac@live.com.
FOR RENT or sale: four bedroom, 1-1/2 bath, 2 story home,

2,200 sq. ft., 4-5 car detached,
heated garage, 2.73 acres, propane and wood heat, updated
kitchen, bath and water softener
in August, Medford. Contact
Duane Rudolph, 715-560-8191.
3-145698
400+ GUNS @ Auction! Sat.

Jan. 24th Prairie du Chien,
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SPORTS
THE STAR NEWS
Page 20
Rib Lake tipped by Prentice, team buries Lake Holcombe 53-13

Its been an up and down season for
the Rib Lake girls basketball team so
far, but the team had a feeling going into
Tuesdays game against Prentice that a
win was ripe for the taking.
Unfortunately, the Lady Redmen came
up two points short as the Buccaneers
held off Rib Lakes late charge to secure
the Marawood North win.
We were there. We played hard for
four quarters and had chances in the end.
We just cant quite get over the hump,
Rib Lake head coach Mike Wudi said.
Early signs didnt point to a close game
in the end. The Redmen were dominated
on the glass at both ends in the opening
quarter, but they hung around by playing
scrappy and aggressive defense. Prentice
rolled to a 6-0 lead in the first minutes of
the game, but Ciara Scheithauer nailed a

three to get Rib Lake on the board. Each
team would grab another basket and the
Buccaneers took an 8-5 lead into the second quarter.
Both teams alternated scoring runs
in the second frame. Scheithauer made
a two to start the quarter, but Prentice
answered with four straight points. The
Redmen came back with two-point baskets sandwiched around two Scheithauer
free throws to take the lead 13-12. Prentice
got four more to retake the lead with 3:13
to play in the half. Gracie Weinke hit two
free throws in the final seconds of the
half to pull the Redmen to within one going into the locker room.
Prentice made two free throws to extend their lead to three at the start of the
third quarter, but Jasmine Fitzl scored a
three to tie the game on the next posses-
sion for Rib Lake. Scheithauer added six

more in the quarter, but it was Prentice
who got on a roll late as they took the
quarter 14-11.
Katie Cardey swished a jumper to get
the Redmen within two in the opening
seconds of the final quarter. Prentice added three points on free throws on their
next possessions and Rib Lake got one
to put the score at 33-29 with 4:01 remaining. Over the next minute, Scheithauer
got baskets on consecutive possessions
to tie the game with 2:59 to play.
Ciara is always high-energy. She
takes the ball to the rim and challenges
opponents, Wudi said.
Prentice got a free throw to retake
the lead, but Scheithauer hit a contested
jumper to pull Rib Lake back in front.
Neither team had much success shooting
threes in the game, but the Buccaneers
got one when it mattered most. Caelyn
Ulricht hit a three from the right baseline
in what proved to be the game-clinching
shot. Down two with under 30 seconds to
play, the Redmen used quick ball movement to free up Cardey at the top of the
key, but her jumper found the front of the
rim and Prentice grabbed the rebound to
ice the game.
It was a heartbreaker, we just havent
got those to fall this season, Wudi said.
Shawnie Sarkkinen led Prentice with
16 points and seven rebounds. Alyson
Nehls scored 13 along with six rebounds.
Ulricht had six points and seven steals
in the win. The Buccaneers were 13 of 47
(27.6 percent) from the field and 11 of 23
(47.8 percent) at the foul line.
Scheithauer carried the offense for
the Redmen. She scored 22 points, pulled
down 11 rebounds, and swiped seven
steals for her second straight doubledouble. Cardey scored six points and
grabbed five rebounds. Fitzl had three
points, three rebounds, one steal, and one
assist. The Redmen finished 14 of 51 (27.4
percent) from the field and six of nine at
the free throw line.
Were right there. We need to beat
someone that were not supposed to. That
would be big for the program and for the
girls individually, Wudi said.
The Lady Redmen (4-11) return to action on the road against Edgar tomorrow,
Friday. That Marawood North game tips
at 7:30 p.m. Next Thursday, theyll travel
to Butternut for a non-conference game.
That game has a 7 p.m. start.
RL pounds Lake Holcombe
Aggressive defense
Rib Lakes Katie Cardey (l.) and Mariah Thums (r.) attempt to steal the ball from
Prentices Caelyn Ulrich during the second quarter of the Redmens 38-36 loss on
Tuesday. Prentices Hailey Enders and Rib Lakes Ciara Scheithauer look on in the
background.
Pirates beaten by Greenwood

Birkenholz had seven points and three
rebounds. Budzinski had two points and
four boards.
But it wasnt enough.
Gilman made 17 of 48 two-point shots
(35 percent), missed all five of its threepointers and was five of 11 at the foul line.
Another area that hurt is we gave up
too many offensive rebounds, Skabroud

said. We gave up 11 of them. That was
too many. That was a team we should
have outrebounded. We did let them
drive through our zones too easily at
times too.
Greenwood had a 29-26 overall advantage in rebounding.
Three days after losing by 41 to

Athens, the Lady Redmen basketball
team notched a 40-point win of their
own by demolishing the visiting Lake
Holcombe Chieftains 53-13 on Monday
night in a non-conference game.
This was a big bounce-back game for
us, Wudi said. Lake Holcombe went on
one of the longest shooting droughts Ive
ever seen and we were able to jump on
them.
The Redmen took advantage of a frigid shooting night from the Chieftains to
jump out to a 27-5 lead after the first quarter.
Their 22-point lead became 42 as they
shut out Lake Holcombe in the second
quarter while scoring 20 points of their
own.
After holding a 47-5 lead in the opening half, the Redmen called off the dogs
and got work from the whole squad in the
second half.
This was a great game to get everyone on the bench playing time and itll
help get us fresh for conference games
against Prentice and Edgar, Wudi said.
They outscored the Chieftains 5-2 in
the third quarter to stretch the lead to 45.
Holding an insurmountable lead and
with a running clock, the Redmen scored
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Jan. 15: Athens 57, Rib Lake 16; Edgar 59,
Prentice 48; Abbotsford 44, Chequamegon 21.
Jan. 19: Rib Lake 53, Lake Holcombe 13;
Owen-Withee 75, Edgar 61.
Jan. 20: Prentice 38, Rib Lake 36; Abbotsford
43, Phillips 40; Athens 62, Chequamegon 17.
Jan. 22: Phillips at Athens.
Jan. 23: Rib Lake at Edgar, Chequamegon at
Prentice, Abbotsford at W.V. Lutheran.
Jan. 26: Spencer at Abbotsford, Prentice at
Flambeau.
Jan. 27: Athens at Stratford, Edgar at Marathon,
Chequamegon at Northland Pines, Winter at
Phillips.
Jan. 29: Rib Lake at Butternut, Athens at Abbotsford, Prentice at Phillips, Edgar at Chequamegon.
only a single point in the fourth quarter

as Lake Holcombe got six on the board to
cut the final deficit to 40 points.
Ciara Scheithauer scored a game-high
14 points on six of seven shooting and
grabbed 11 rebounds to record a doubledouble. Katie Cardey scored 13 and pulled
in seven rebounds, two assists, and two
steals. Jasmine Fitzl hit 10 points, Regan
Dobbs had eight points and six rebounds,
and Gracie Weinke scored seven in the
win. The Redmen were 22 of 47 (46.8 percent) from the field and seven of 13 (53.8
percent) from the free throw line.
Athens too much to handle

A season of offensive struggles continued for Rib Lake, and the Athens
Bluejays showed why theyre on top of
the Marawood North as they pounded
the visiting side by a score of 57-16 last
Thursday.
Athens smothering defense yielded
only 25 shot attempts by the Redmen offense. Had Rib Lake made 80 percent of
those shots, the outcome may have been
different, but as it was, they only made
seven total in the 41-point blowout.
Athens raced out to a 16-5 lead in the
first quarter and didnt slow down. They
outscored the Redmen 13-3 in the second
quarter and took a 21-point lead into halftime.
The offensive woes for Rib Lake hit a
low point when they scored two points in
the third quarter. That marked the fourth
time this season the Redmen have failed
to break three points in a single quarter.
The Bluejays scored 10 to push their lead
to 31.
Rib Lake had their highest output of
the game in the fourth when they scored
six points, but Athens piled on 18 more to
leave no doubt as to who was leaving with
a win.
Their man-to-man defensive pressure
was just too much for us. We were not in
the game from the opening tip onward,
Wudi said.
Kyncaide Diedrich scored 24 and
grabbed 10 rebounds and nine steals
in the blowout win for Athens. As a
team, the Bluejays recorded 27 steals as
they used a full-court press to bring the
Redmens offense to a halt. The Bluejays
shot 24 of 48 (50 percent) from the field
and were nine of 19 (47.3 percent) from
the free throw line.
Weinke and Cardey both finished
with four points to lead Rib Lake in scoring. Scheithauer scored three points and
pulled down five rebounds and five steals.
The Redmen finished seven of 25 (28 percent) from the field and one of two at the
free throw line. Mariah Thums made Rib
Lakes lone three-pointer in the game.
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Every story needs a beginning.

The challenge for historians is pinpointing the event
that marks the beginning. The story of the Medford
Curling Club and of curling in the Medford area is no
different than any other story. There are lively debates
about when curling first came to what was then a backwaters central Wisconsin logging town. Indeed, there
were probably variations of the winter game played on
frozen area lakes for years before any organized club
was formed.
But a story has to start somewhere and that place for
the Medford Curling Club is during the summer of 1914.
On July 7, 1914, a group of 40 men signed their names as
the first members of the newly registered club. The articles of incorporation were filed in the register of deeds
office at the courthouse. The charter members each
committed to pay a fee of $10 to cover the cost of the season. At a time when the average pay of a carpenter was
$28 a week and a farm worker might get that amount for
a months work, the amount each man contributed was
Curling Club
The Medford Curling Club has called the building at
525 Whelen St. its home since 1946.
substantial. When adjusted for inflation, it would equal
about $487 in todays currency.
According to a curling club history compiled by
longtime curler and retired Medford attorney Ray

Scott, curling first began on the Black River Millpond
in 1913. Three men, O.G. Blakeslee, F.G. Pierce, and B.C.
Alm, are credited with bringing the sport to Medford.
It would be many years before the club was opened for
women curlers.
The clubs first stones were loaned from a curler in
Phillips. By 1917, there were seven rinks in the regular
season and games were held between the Medford and
Phillips clubs.
Shortly after registering the new organization, the
founding members worked to secure a curling location.
An arrangement was reached with the Wesle Brothers who operated a blacksmith shop and livery stable
in downtown Medford. The shop was located near the
intersection of what is now Wisconsin Ave. and State
St., the current location of the City View building. Older
area residents will remember the location as the first
hospital in the city and later where the countys human
services offices were located.
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A group of
curlers gathers
in the barroom
after a bonspiel. Note the
mink coats and
formal attire.
John Gebert (l.

to r.) Bill Armbrust,
Bill Scharrschmidt,
and Bill Persich after a mens curling
win.
Mixed team
The mixed curling team of Harvey Larson (l. to r.), Minnie Steinbach, Marie Doyle
and Werner Pflughoeft.
Curling history in Medford

Elmer Balko
(l. to r.) Gary
Quammen, Gene
Arnett, and Fred
Miller.
Longtime
curlers Jim Klinner (l. to r.),
Gene
Arnett,
Denny Mertens
and
James
Doc Dougherty during a
1998 bonspiel
Curling thrived for the first four years

of incorporation. However, the effects
of WWI and the 1918 flu epidemic led to
the sport going into a dormant period
which lasted about 20 years. There were
a few curlers who kept the game alive in
Medford and who were members of the
Wausau curling club.
By the early 1930s, O.G. Blakeslee and
Frank Pierce were dues-paying members
at the Wausau club and eventually there
were two full teams of Medford curlers
who traveled the approximately 100 mile
round trip for regular league games. As
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and Pierce as secretary. The new club
didnt forget its roots with the older organization. The surviving founding charter
members from 1914 were honored at the
1956 Mens Invitational Bonspiel.
Following the Jan. 3, 1938 meeting, a
schedule was put together with league
curling starting Jan. 12 of that year. The
first Central Wisconsin Bonspiel was
held in February of that year.
Curling continued at the Universal
Engineering building through the winter of 1944-45. As the club history notes,
in spite of many young men being absent
from the community for service in WWII,
the club gained in membership and enthusiasm to the point where there was
talk of building a new rink house
Current building
Talk of building a new curling facility began as early as 1941. In June of that
year, a city referendum was held for the
construction of a new community center
building. The lower level of the facility
would have housed the curling rink with
the club contributing $2,500. Despite a
federal government grant of $47,000 for
the project, it was defeated and club members went back to the drawing board.
Lewis Charles wrote the story of how
the new building came to be. It was published in The Star News in December
1945 as a way to promote the grand opening during the annual Medford bonspiel.
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build was made in the spring of 1945 with
Oscar Schield named chairman of the
building committee and Walter Newberg
chairman of the finance committee.
With World War II just ending, they
knew building supplies would be in short
supply but, as he stated, luck was with
the club. They applied to the Civilian
Conservation Corps office in Washington, D.C. and with the help of area federal forest officers they were successful
in getting a gift of a CCC building in Perkinstown.
Then, as now, Medford Curling Club
members were hands-on in support of
their club. In May 1945, curling club
members turned out to tear down the
building. Much valuable timber was
thus secured and more was gotten by taking down the old two-sheet rink house,
Charles wrote. The two-sheet rink had
served the club for the previous eight
years.
Ground was broken for the club at the
end of July 1945 on land donated by Hurd
Millwork across the street from its plant.
The roof went on in October and by the
third week in November, the concrete
block building was a complete enclosure.
Work then turned to the interior, making
improvements to the warming room and
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leveling the ground in the rink area.

When it was built, the club had two
main areas. The rink house measured
150 feet by 64 feet. One of the features of
the building is there are no posts separating the sheets, and instead the roof is sustained by trusses. During the 2014 Alumni Bonspiel, that almost changed as the
snow load on the roof grew too much and
a temporary support had to be installed
to allow the snow to be removed again
work done by dozens of club members
and volunteers. When the club was built,
there was no refrigeration system to
make ice. Doors were located between
the roof supports along both sides of the
building close to the floor level. When
ice was being made, the doors would be
opened and the rink flooded. The occasional early season snowstorm meant
part of ice maintenance involved shoveling snow that had come in through the
cooling doors.
The second part of the curling club
was the warming room, which measured
86 feet by 30 feet. About 40 feet of plate
glass windows separated the warming
room from the rink house and it had seating for around 100 people.
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Carl Sorenson (l. to r.)

Bill Miller, Ed
Schuster, and
Bill
Weibel
discuss
the
game during
the 1960 Central Wisconsin
Bonspiel.
Curlers displaying
the mink boas they
received as a prize
during a bonspiel at
the club.
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Ice master
Mitch Mertens
checks
over
the compressor
system.
The
first
place
team
in the mixed
league
taken
Feb. 17, 1974.
Delivery
A rare action shot of a curler delivering the rock from the west end of the club during a bonspiel. During the era of corn brooms, the ice would quickly become littered
with debris.
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Broom technology
has
changed
from
corn brooms to
foam brooms and
hair brushes to
solid brushes.
The head table

during the 1988
curling banquet.
Floor project
Mitch Mertens (left) and Dave Lemke were among the many volunteers who helped
install the new floor in 2004.
Socializing
after a game has
always been an
important part
of the curling
tradition.
Jeff Hemer
(l. to r.), J. Mark
Smokey
Hemer, and
Dale Schroeder with the
honorary lifetime membership presented
to John Hemer
in 1986.
Building a home for curling

The prominent feature in the warming room was a large fireplace, which
Charles notes was big enough to take
seven-foot long logs. Charles credited
club president G.F. Strebig for his work
scouring the countryside to locate new
building materials and being the spark
that kept the project going. Charles boasted the club now has a building worth in
excess of $15,000. In todays dollars it
would be equivalent to about $200,000.
Club members were working fast to
get the club ready in time for the 9th annual Central Wisconsin State Bonspiel
in January 1946. The bonspiel what
curlers call tournaments included 42
teams with 32 of them from out of town
and traveling in some cases hundreds of
miles to compete. Curling went around
the clock starting Thursday at 5 p.m.,
going until 2 a.m. Friday morning, restarted at 8 a.m. and continued to 4 a.m.
Saturday morning, restarted at 9 a.m.
and went until 2 a.m. Sunday morning
started at 8 a.m and finished at 9:30 p.m.
A program from the 1946 Central
Wisconsin Bonspiel praised those who
worked on the clubs construction. A
new era in Medford curling had begun.
In future years, when the clubhouse

echoes with the cries of Sweep, sweep,
and the clunk of stone on stone, let it not
be forgotten that we have a debt to these
men that can never wholly be repaid.
The original building did not contain
a barroom facility. This was because
Pierce was well known in his day as being opposed to consumption of alcohol
and his influence in the club carried over
so the space which eventually became a
bar was initially a small office and locker
room.
The next major innovation at the curling club was the installation of the first
refrigeration system. By the mid 1950s,
many other clubs in Wisconsin had installed refrigeration systems and the
Medford curlers who attended out of
town bonspiels became convinced of the
need for artificial ice. At the close of the
1955-56 season, plans were made for the
installation of an ammonia-brine refrigeration system at the club, It was purchased from the Vilter Manufacturing
Company of Milwaukee. It utilized steel
pipes embedded in sand in the dirt floor
of the rink area. According to a Dec. 3,
1956 issue of The Star News, the project
cost $16,000 and the club was working on
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a membership drive resulting in 90 men

curlers. There were 35 women curlers
signed up for the Lochette League that
year.
The sand base only lasted for a few
years before club members got tired of
the sand finding its way to the ice surface. The decision was made to scoop out
the sand and then bury the pipes in concrete. Club members again pitched in to
do the tedious work of shoveling out sand
from around the pipes using small scoop
shovels designed by Eugene Bizer and
made by Al Zastrow. The concrete floor
was installed and the refrigeration system served the club through 1980. By the
end of the 1980 season, the system was
found to have a number of leaks and it
was time for an upgrade. A portable plastic mat system was purchased and laid
down over the concrete floor at the start
of the season and rolled up at the end of
the season, allowing use of the ice area as
warehouse space in the off season.
That mat system served the club until 2004. In the final few years of the mat
system, it had grown too fragile to roll up
at the end of the season and there was a
lengthy debate within the club membership about if the club should invest in
a new floor at the existing building or
build a new facility. One proposal called
for the construction of a new rink at the
fairgrounds. However, it was eventu-
ally decided to stay at the historical curling club and invest in the floor project.
Again, volunteers from the club came
forward putting in hundreds of hours of
volunteer labor to remove the old concrete and break out the steel pipes. Dennis Mertens was chairman of the $60,000
project and Sam Way and Ken Nernberger were among the most dedicated
workers putting in hundreds of hours
each. Bill Weiland handled the project
finances. A new base was installed with
insulation and hundreds of feet of PVC
piping was laid down and attached to a
rebar grid system. It was estimated at the
time of construction that without club
labor and support of equipment from local firms such as Peterson Concrete and
Huotari Construction, the project would
have cost more than $150,000.
Over the years, the club also worked
to improve other parts of the club. In
1956, the former locker room and office
was converted into a barroom. The club
makes the claim as being the first in the
state to hold a regular tavern license. In
1968, the barroom was expanded and was
expanded again in recent years for additional storage and the removal of the wall
between the bar and warming room to accommodate more fans.
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The portable
mats, as seen in
the ice in this
picture,
were
used from 1980
through 2004.
Medford curler
and longtime high
school coach Bev
Schroeder
enjoys a soda while
watching a match.
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Medford has
produced many
world class curlers. Jackie Lemke
recently competed for a chance
to be on the U.S.
Olympic team.
Dave Beaner
Lemke has been
a fixture at the
curling club for
decades. Here he
works the bar during a 1989 event
at the club.
All hands on deck

Dozens of club members helped lay miles of tubing used during installation of the
new floor in 2004. Volunteer labor from club members has saved the club tens of
thousands of dollars over the years.
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Gil Strebig
(left) and Ray
Scott display
the club charter.
The youth
adult bonspiel
was a major
event at the
club for many
years.
Big crowds
The club was built to seat more than 100 people and bonspiels regularly packed the
house over the decades.
Improvements ongoing
Curlers celebrate after receiving mens league

trophies.
Club members continue to make improvements at the facility to attract not

only local curlers, but to keep the club
a viable venue for national and international events.
The club has been a stop for both the
womens and mens Scots Tour with curlers from Scotland playing there on a tour
of top U.S. clubs. In 2006, the club hosted
the Mixed National Bonspiel an event
that drew national attention to the club.
In 2014, the club again hosted national
competition with the Mixed Doubles
National Championship. Each event increased the reputation of the Medford
Curling Club and the Medford community.

After 100 years of curling in the community, the Medford Curling Club is still
going strong. The club currently offers
several league play options including the
Super League held on Mondays, the Lochettes Womens League on Tuesdays,
a Wednesday morning league, an open
league on Wednesday evening and the
Thursday Night Mens League.
While curling was originally a mens
only sport, it wasnt long before women became involved. Marie Doyle and
Marcy (Strebig) Amacher are credited
with being the prime movers in promoting womens curling in Medford. Doyle
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would spend many hours at the club and

during one mens game that was short
a player, she was invited to play. It was
not until the 1950-51 season that women
curlers became organized, forming the
Lochettes. Myrtle Olseon was named as
the first Lochettes president.
The club has also hosted a number of
bonspiels over the years, drawing curlers from all over the state and beyond.
In recent years, the club has hosted the
Lions State Bonspiel a number of times.
Over the years curlers traveling to the
Medford area have routinely praised
both the ice conditions at the club and
the hospitality of its members and the
entire community.
The one exception to that well-deserved reputation for hospitality occurred in March 1960, and no overview
of the history of the club can be complete
without mentioning it.
Then Sen. John Kennedy made a campaign visit to Medford as the city was
hosting the state womens bonspiel. He
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him to go out on the ice and try his luck

delivering the rock.
His efforts were thwarted when the
women pointed out state rules barring
everyone except the competitors from being on the ice sheet during competition.
The incident was reported in the state
newspapers of the day.
Looking ahead to the next century of
curling in Medford, the club continues to
move forward with upgrades to the television monitors and cameras, and installation of a de-ionizer to eliminate impurities from the water used to make ice.
The story of the Medford Curling Club
is one that is being written each time a
rock is thrown or a skip tells a sweeper to
hurry hard. It is a story of camaraderie and sportsmanship where all games
begin with a handshake and end with the
winning team buying the first round after the game ends.
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Established 1914
525 S. Whelen Ave. Medford
715.748.4050
Saturday & Sunday, January 24 & 25 Starting at 9am
Centennial Spiel - Public invited to attend
March 6, 7 & 8
Alumni Spiel
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Curling is a fun, social, winter activity. Curling

is easy to learn and offers a great opportunity
to make new friends. The game is played for
both recreation and competitive satisfaction
for both men and women of any age.
Curling is another great sport invented by the
Scots, but is easier to learn than golf...and a lot
more affordable. The game is played inside on
ice and all you need is a sweater (or any loose
fitting, layered clothing), rubber soled shoes
and a desire to meet new people and have fun.
Curling provides an element of strategy, luck
and good exercise.
We know you will enjoy the pleasures and
rewards of this great winter-time sport and the
entire Medford Curling Club membership
invites you to visit us, partake in the fun and
Catch the curling fever!

3-145654
Visit - www.medfordcurling.com
for more information
Curling - One of the best kept secrets in northern Wisconsin

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STAR NEWS

January 22, 2015

SERVING T AYLOR COUNTY SINCE 1875

Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby

Hot shooting sends

Rib Lake petition could trigger

by Reporter Mark Berglund

photo by Brain Wilson

Firefighters from the Medford Area Fire Department responded to a two-vehicle

The Rib Lake School District received a petition on

See RIB LAKE on page 3

County spikes referendum, continues cuts

prepared to do it. I know not everyone agrees

is quite right, he said. Instead, Brandl

See COUNTY on page 4

When you live healthy, you live happy.

THE STAR NEWS

The only newspaper published in

*POSTMASTER This information is provided to our mail

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Highway department to cut $100,000

Last weeks article about Dr. Dave

Road Patching Trucks

Alcoholics Anonymous Open 12

deck replacement on CTH O near Melvin

Medford Rotary Club Meeting

Medford Kiwanis Club Meeting

Narcotics Anonymous Open Meeting 7 p.m. Community United Church

7-Day Forecast for Medford, Wisconsin

Last weeks weather recorded at the Medford Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Weather forecast information from the National Weather Service in La Crosse

Thursday, January 22,

THE STAR NEWS

Norgaard files suit over past taxes

action could take place through the circuit court.

Rib Lake petition

photo by Mark Berglund

Call or email for a quote

TODAY!! Call: 715-316-7980

THE STAR NEWS

County cuts human services financial manager post to save money

In Taylor County ..................... $39/year .............. $26/6 months

ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS ALSO AVAILABLE

Elsewhere in Wisconsin..........$51/year Out of Wisconsin ..............$60/year

We are asking the wrong

Supervisor Rollie Thums

filled. It is time to be more proactive, he

Bizer, Thums, Lewis, Breneman and Metz

Took advantage of low interest

Approved an ordinance change

Approved an ordinance change

Approved increasing the base

Approved a resolution presented

ditional $2,000 in revenue for the county.

Thursday, January 22,

THE STAR NEWS

Breathing new life into a historic Gilman business

photo by Kayla Peche

City to time electric utility work to shutdown

Approved setting the hourly wage to be charged

Free breast cancer

For women who qualify for the program.

Winter Woodland Owners conference set for Feb.14

Supported by a grant from the Central

Mon. - Fri. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. t. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.