The Taylor County board last week second-guessed itself with the main order of business undoing two actions they had taken at the Oc-tober session.

Taylor County won’t seek a referendum to exceed the revenue cap this spring.

At the Jan. 15 county board session, supervi-sors voted to kill the referendum over concerns about timing and the uncertainty of the state’s upcoming budget.

At the October county board session, su-pervisors had voted to ask taxpayers for a $1 million property tax exemption. However, at a subsequent meeting of the fi nance and per-sonnel 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 fi nance 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 don’t 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 referen-dum. “I would postpone it indefi nitely to determine what is happening,” he said. “Things may change again. I am

not sure they will be changing fa-vorably for counties.”

“Down the road it may be more imperative,” he said.

Supervisor Lester Lewis, a major propo-

nent 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

The Rib Lake School District received a petition on Saturday which will force a school board decision be-fore moving forward with building renovations aimed at improving energy effi ciency and meeting the terms of Act 32. The law allows school districts which follow the rules to spend beyond state revenue caps for mainte-nance. In districts where a school board resolution au-thorizes the move, there is a 30-day window for voters to fi le 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 fi led 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.

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Gamblers Anonymous Meetings — Call 715-297-5317 for dates, times and locations.

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Step Study Meeting — 7 p.m. Com-munity United Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford.

Monday, Jan. 26Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS)

1013 of Rib Lake Meeting — Weigh-in 6 p.m. Meeting 6:30 p.m. Rib Lake Se-nior Citizens Center, Hwy 102 and Front Street. Information: Mary 715-427-3593 or Sandra 715-427-3408.

Taylor County Right to Life Meet-ing — 6:30 p.m. Frances L. Simek Memo-rial Library, 400 N. Main St., Medford. Everyone welcome.

Alzheimer’s Support Group Meet-ing — 1:30 p.m. Multi-purpose Building, corner Hwy 13 and 64, Medford. Informa-tion: Taylor County Commission on Ag-

Medford Lions Club Meeting — Din-ner 6:30 p.m. B.S. Bar & Grill, W4782 Hwy 64, Medford. Information: 715-785-7573.

Women’s Empowerment Group Meeting — 6-7 p.m. Information: Step-ping Stones 715-748-3795.

Thursday, Jan. 29Medford Kiwanis Club Meeting —

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Medford Association of Rocket Sci-ence (MARS) Club Meeting — 6-9 p.m. First Floor Conference Room, Taylor County Courthouse, 224 S. Second St., Medford. Everyone welcome. Informa-tion: 715-748-9669.

Alcoholics Anonymous Closed Meeting — 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Med-ford.

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Al-Anon Meeting — 7 p.m. Com-munity United Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford. Information: 715-427-3613.

Alcoholics Anonymous Open Topic Meeting — 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Med-ford.

Overeaters Anonymous Meeting — 7 p.m. Hwy 64 and Main Street, Medford. Information: 715-512-0048.

Wednesday, Jan. 28Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting —

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Highway department to cut $100,000

Taylor County is turning to its depart-ments 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 specifi c 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-fi fth of the county-wide target amount set when the fi nance and person-nel committees began the budget cutting process.

“You have a job to do, do it,” said com-mittee 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

an anonymous survey to all highway de-partment workers asking them to iden-tify areas that could show increased ef-fi ciencies. He said the surveys were used in 2008 and looking back, he noted they implemented many of the changes sug-gested by workers.

He also said a proposed change at the state level may make budgeting easier for counties and municipalities. Sackmann reported the governor’s budget is expect-ed to include a provision which would exempt money spent on local transpor-tation from the levy cap. Currently, the state has capped the amount govern-ments 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 al-low 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 ef-fect, allow the county to exceed the levy cap by the $2 million in levy dollars spent on the highway department.

In other business, committee mem-bers:

★ 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, Sack-mann said, is that payment for the labor costs is slow in coming. The county fi nal-ly 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

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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 fi lling 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 diffi cult for the depart-ment. The request to fi ll the position will next go to the personnel committee for approval.

CorrectionLast week’s article about Dr. Dave

Krigbaum opening a satellite offi ce 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.

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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 al-leged that Schreiner had underpaid property taxes on Rib Lake Roller Mills equipment, a charge which was vigorously denied by Schreiner.

“In the fi rst place, I haven’t owned the mill for fi ve years,” said Schreiner.

“You are an incorporated member,” claimed Nor-gaard.

“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 lis-tened to what you had to say, did we not?” asked Tlusty.

“Okay, I’ll listen,” Norgaard responded. Norgaard also said he had been checking on some tax roll informa-tion 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 Tlusty’s and Schrein-er’s property remained level. “They stayed the same as board members and bumped me up 5 percent. And that I fi nd egregious,” said Norgaard. Village offi cials later in-dicated that Norgaard’s 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 don’t. But I’m saying ethics. And if he’s 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 other’s pockets.” Norgaard went on to say, “I believe, Wayne, that there’s an ethics problem here in our government. And I understand from the paper fi lings that I have read in the newspaper that Bill intends to be our next village president.”

This drew comments from board members who re-buked Norgaard for personal attacks against members of the village board.

“Here’s how I’ll sum it up,” said Norgaard. “In cal-endar 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 fi ve 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 Norgaard’s re-quest for reimbursement for what he believes he over-paid 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 we’ve heard this three times.” Nor-gaard 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? It’s a question. Fif-teen 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 fi nish her com-ments, quickly.

“A leading prominent business person has been tell-ing Ken and I that your goal here is to run us out of town, by your behavior. That being said, I am serving the sum-mons 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

Norgaard fi les suit over past taxesaction 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 re-questing modifi cation to the trail system which would al-low 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 But-ler, the village paid about $600 for electricity for holiday lighting. However, with LED lights, the bill would be re-duced 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 wastewa-ter treatment plant. A related comprehensive survey was originally planned which would have surveyed all house-holds 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 resi-dents. 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 fi led to cover basement fl ooding at the residence of George and Christie Grubbs on Pearl St. There is also a separate matter involving the restoration of landscap-ing at the Grubbs’ residence when the public works de-partment had to dig up a broken water main last Febru-ary. With regard to the basement fl ooding, however, the board concurred with the recommendation of Statewide Services, Inc., the insurance company administering claims for the League of Wisconsin Municipalities Mu-tual Insurance which covers the village of Rib Lake. In correspondence sent to the village, the insurance com-pany contends the July and August 2014 fl ooding 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 con-tends that a small leak in a neighbor’s lateral would not have caused the fl ooding.

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 sand-ing 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.

by Reporter Sue Hady

Norgaard seeks $6,000 inoverpaid taxes from Rib Lake

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Rib Lake petitionBoth men voted against the resolution at the Decem-

ber board meeting when it was approved. Petition cir-culators needed valid signatures from 20 percent of the voter total, which is 260, in the Nov. 2014 general elec-tion. Rhymer verifi ed 298 valid signatures.

The December resolution called for borrowing up to $4 million to pay for various energy effi ciency projects as identifi ed by the district’s performance contractor. At its January meeting, the board cut some of the pro-posed projects from the list to reduce cost.

In addition to the ability to fi nd a revenue cap exemp-tion, district administrator Lori Manion said the timing of the resolution would take advantage of a signifi cant drop in the district’s debt service levy in 2018.

Trees removedCity Electric Utility personnel worked on power lines near the county agricultural service center Monday as the

county highway department removed trees around the building. The county will be replacing the ag center roof and was clearing trees to accommodate the work being done.

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also called out the fi nance and personnel committees for getting sidetracked in the review process. “They are trying to mi-cromanage where they should be making money decisions,” he said.

Supervisor Scott Mildbrand disagreed. “I think our committee is moving for-ward. At our last meeting we identifi ed $325,000 in defi cit 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 fi nance 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 rath-er 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 don’t 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 do-ing it wrong,” Thums said.

Zenner objected to Thums’ comments. “If that department head says he didn’t have an opportunity then he wasn’t read-ing 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 fi nancial manager position.

State and federal changes in report-ing requirements for human services have made keeping track of fi nances in the $8 million county department more of a challenge for department head Am-ber 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 some-one new. He noted the total burden cost of the position would be $87,000 in the fi rst 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 don’t 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 don’t have a basis for knowing it

would pay for itself,” Hansen said. “The empirical numbers aren’t there to justify that.”

“I don’t 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 be-fore he retires it could be trouble.

For his part, Brandl supported having the position. He said the human services fi nancial 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 be-cause I don’t have time to do it.”

He noted other projects that come up, such as working with the consultants on refi nancing a bond, take signifi cant amounts of time. “It is a problem that is not going to go away on its own,” he said.

“This position is about fi scal respon-sibility,” said Amber Fallos, human ser-vices director. She said fi lling the posi-tion has been talked about for eight to 10 years and has nothing to do with Brandl retiring in the future. She said the posi-tion 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 documenta-tion 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 offi ce had time to do more. He also called for the creation of a fi nance department with Brandl answer-able to the fi nance committee rather than as part of the county clerk’s offi ce.

“We are slowly losing ground – we paid for a study to be done and the study clear-ly 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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fi lled. “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 state’s 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 de-partment. “I think if we wait another year we will know more about Family Care,” he said.

“We don’t have the money right now. It is not the time to fi ll this position,” said supervisor Bob Lee.

Supervisor Dave Bizer, who chairs the human services board, called on the coun-ty to think ahead and either pay the cost of the position or be prepared to lose near-ly double that amount when the county loses grant administration funds. He not-ed 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 re-ally 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 dif-ferent 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 re-scind the creation of the human services fi nancial 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 refi nance existing debt and get an additional $1 million for road proj-ects. Supervisors approved the sale of $4,385,000 in bonds which have an aggre-gate interest rate of 1.947 percent. Accord-ing 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 county’s debt ser-vice payment. He noted this was the sec-ond time the county had refi nanced the courthouse jail debt. In 2006, the county had refi nanced 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 fi rst day and $18 for each day after. The rule change also sets a $10 fee for all non-fo-rensic drug tests administered by the de-partment.

Approved an ordinance change removing the requirement that the emergency management director be a full-time employee of the sheriff’s depart-ment. The county currently contracts for that position.

Approved increasing the base wage for each step in the county’s clas-sifi cation system by one-half percent.

Approved a resolution presented recognizing Charles Johnson for 24 years of service in the Taylor County mainte-nance department.

We are asking the wrong people to bring the cuts.

— Supervisor Rollie Thums

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 fi -nance committee approved increasing the marriage license fee from $60 to $80. The committee also approved doubling the fee for a waiver of the fi ve day wait-ing 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 fi nance committee is the fi rst 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 county’s digital emer-gency sirens are failing at a rapid pace and the county last year authorized set-ting aside $33,000 to match local efforts to repair or replace the sirens. About $16,000 remains in the fund and emergen-cy management director Bill Breneman asked for it to be carried over into this year’s budget so that he does not have to come back and ask for money each time a repair is made.

by News Editor Brian Wilson

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The city of Medford will take advantage of a planned plant shutdown to upgrade its power supply to the indus-trial 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 fi nd out when would be the least disruptive time to do the work. While a new trans-former is being installed, power will be out in the area.

Earlier in the meeting, aldermen had approved spend-ing $450,000 of electric utility funds to purchase the trans-former 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 in-dustrial 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 city’s voltage conversion project. The city cur-rently 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 re-placement for offi cer Rich Burghaus who will be re-tiring this April. The po-lice and fi re commission will do the interviews for the position with the coun-cil setting the pay.

Approved extending the lease with the depart-ment of workforce devel-opment for offi ce space at city hall through 2016. The rental rate will go up to $260 per month from $250.

Approved paying Ayres Associates $2,000 for a structural analysis of the roof at city hall to see if it would support the weight of a new roof over the ex-

isting one. The roof has a number of leaks and needs a more permanent repair.

Approved the zoning change for Krug Bus Com-pany properties at 549 and 551 Billings Ave. The parcel adjoins the existing bus garage and will be used for ex-panded 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.

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 fi ve days to redo the fl oors, paint, put about eight TVs in there and put new lighting in,” Burg told the Gilman Village Board at a reg-ular meeting Jan. 14. “So, it will take us at least fi ve 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 commu-nity above the bowling alley.

“He knows bowling,” Burg said. “That’s his passion. Timmy would be here and be the face, and get the bowl-ing back in Gilman.”

Burg says they don’t 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 that’s different from the school, but it’s 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 Gil-man.

“There’s not a lot of bowling centers that have had the same owner for 23 years…that is awesome,” Burg said. “So we kind of want to build on what he has there. As Bob’s not shy to say, these last couple years he’s been waiting for someone, and we are glad to take over.” The board approved an operator’s license and applica-

tion, and liquor license, contingent with waiting 15 days before opening and receiving the seller’s permit.

“We wish the best to Bob Preston and welcome the new owners during this change over,” said Bill Brene-men, 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 re-construction of the courts, because of safety issues. The board had requested Grunseth fi nd out who owned the property.

After researching the deed surrounding the tennis courts, Grunseth said the village didn’t own the property.

Grunseth said she contacted the DNR and the Gilman

School District to inform them the village is not respon-sible 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.

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Caucus committeeThe Gilman caucus committee of Fran Prasnicki (l. to r.), Sue Weibel and Vonda Kinas met Jan. 14 to take nomina-

tions for three open village trustee positions, and the open village president position.

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City to time electric utility work to shutdownby News Editor Brian Wilson

New employeeAlexander Zenner is the

new city of Medford pub-lic works employee.

Winter Woodland Owner’s conference set for Feb.14The Winter Woodland Owner’s 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 pre-sented 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 ex-perience 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 reg-istrations postmarked before Jan. 25. Additional infor-mation 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 offi ce at 715-346 4798.

Page A Thursday, September 22, 2011OPINIONTHE STAR NEWS

Governor Scott Walker never met a pot of money that he didn’t like – or at least one that he didn’t 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 Cor-poration (WEDC) with the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Au-thority (WHEDA).

Both agencies have the ostensible goal of growing Wisconsin’s economy by giv-ing 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. WHEDA’s goal is to grow the economy from the ground up by offering afford-able fi nancing for housing, business and agricultural activity.

WHEDA works closely with lenders, developers, local government, nonprof-its, community groups and others to implement its low-cost fi nancing pro-grams. Since 1972, WHEDA has fi nanced more than 68,000 affordable rental units, helped more than 110,000 families pur-

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 busi-nesses get bigger.

The merger should be viewed for what it is, a raid of resources to shore up Walk-er’s failed attempt to put public money in private hands. WEDC has a troubled track record on not properly tracking loans, and under Walker’s latest plan would have even less accountability. The plan calls for the creation of a full, inde-pendent governing board with no legisla-tive involvement.

While private industry needs to have a voice in economic development efforts at the state level, having no taxpayer ac-countability for how public resources are spent is akin to a farmer putting a fox in charge of the hen house.

A better option for Walker would be to end the WEDC experiment and restore the Department of Commerce as it was when he took offi ce in 2011. At the very least, Walker should be prevented from

turning aside more than four decades of support to low and moderate income resi-dents in the state to rob its resources and give them to an out-of-control agency.

A few weeks ago, Paul Schley, the dis-trict administrator for Cornell School District, did something unusual. He called on the school board there to ap-prove 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 re-view the wages and compensation of mu-nicipal and school employees. What was unusual is Schley asked for a $2,000 raise for teaching staff, rather than a percent-age-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 specifi c 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, gov-ernment boards look at a range of fac-tors. Some governments, such as Taylor County, have an elaborate matrix where every job has a classifi cation with an up-per 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 ex-traordinarily good pay increase.

In the Medford area, the median house-hold income is $41,204, which means half the households in the community make

about that amount while half make be-low 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 per-centage 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 infl ates the gap between management wages and worker wages. To put it another way, those that have more get more than those that don’t have as much.

Let’s 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 rais-es is $100,000. Under Schley’s model each person would get $2,000 more and every-one 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 in-crease, while the person at the top end of the scale would see a pay increase of $1,600 — more than fi ve 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 benefi ciaries of governments using percentage-based wage increases are those at the top end of the pay scale who see compounded, larger increas-es, 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 refl ect the increased cost of liv-ing, it would be more equitable for gov-ernments to use real dollars and leave the percents in the math textbooks.

Page 6 Thursday, January 22, 2015OPINIONTHE STAR NEWS

Star News Editorials

Members of The Star News editorial board include Publisher Carol O’Leary, General Manager Kris O’Leary and News Editor Brian Wilson.

Write a Vox Pop: Vox Pops, from the Latin Vox Populi or Voice of the People, are the opinions of our readers and refl ect subjects of current interest. All letters must be signed and contain the address and telephone number of the writer for verifi cation of authorship and should be the work of the writer. Letters will be edited. No election-related letters will be run the week before the election. E-mail: starnews@centralwinews.com.

Many of your parents are better at their jobs than I am. I just picked a weird profes-sion..

— Timothy Lauer, this year’s inductee in the Rib Lake Hall of Fame. He is a professional musician whose work can be found on more than 250 albums

Star News Quote of the Week:

Deal in dollars not percents

Proposed merger is a bad idea

Thursday, September 22, 2011 Page 3OPINIONTHE STAR NEWS

A matter of opinionThe Star News was being printed last Thursday morn-

ing when Sports Editor Matt Frey fi rst 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 confi rm-ing Lien had been placed on paid leave. I called Sullivan back while Matt contacted Lien to see if he had any com-ments 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

mean they are guilty of doing anything. America’s legal system is built on the premise of in-

nocent 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 attorney’s offi ce 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 responsibil-ity 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 me-dia posts and website.

We have well defi ned 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 com-puter screen removes the fi lters of civility and common sense for many people, the danger of libel increases ex-

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 settle-ments. The only people who win in the end are the law-yers paying off their second home in Barbados with the fees they are paid.

Since we hold those who comment on our online pres-ence to the same standard as our print edition, last week-end I removed posts made that crossed the line from spec-ulation to accusation. We also have fi lters 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 informa-tion as it is received and confi rmed. The newspaper’s 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.

Thursday, January 22, 2015 Page 7OPINIONTHE STAR NEWS

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson is News Editor at The Star News.

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 long-time board member Bill Schreiner with controversial accusations?’

How about, ‘Norgaard proves that outsiders can’t be allowed to live within the village limits as he attempts to take out longtime good guy Bill Schreiner?’

Or maybe, ‘It’s time for Rib Lake to ratchet up their looks of scorn for Norgaard, as he simply hasn’t 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 land-scape tree transplanting company is a small, seasonal business. For 10 years I’ve licensed, insured, and paid all my business taxes for North Garden Trees. I can’t fi nd 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. It’s called statute 74.33. It’s 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 isn’t handcuffed by an act of good will, as they dem-onstrated their discretion for three public works em-ployees 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 didn’t receive in their early employment history.

The clerk received a good will distribution from the village government for $45,000. State law didn’t man-date this money to be repaid, it allowed for a discretion-ary good will reimbursement. My request is the same thing, except these are my hard earned dollars in the fi rst place. Nobody is gifting back to me my own tax dollars. I’m very tired of the contemptuous looks that are given to me by various board members, some that I don’t even know. They certainly don’t know me.

If they did, they’d know that my wife Renee and I have a long history of generosity. Income tax verifi able $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 don’t hunt, because I’m not a killer. I’m not against hunting, it’s just that I can’t pull that trigger. I’m not a fi ghter. I dis-

like violence, prejudice and discrimination at any lev-el. Will I fi ght? Yes. For my family and for the freedoms that made America a great country. I’m not better than anyone else. Mistakes are sometimes my middle name. I do know and use the phrase, “I’m sorry.” I don’t under-stand why Wayne Tlusty and his board hate.

When arsonists burned my business down, I for-gave them. I’m pulling for them. When the Lutheran church in town took away the pastor’s 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 mis-take overpaid taxes. It hurt me. A person that should be my friend and neighbor did something that I didn’t believe had to happen. Renee and I have been through a lot in this community, and I’m not going to turn the proverbial cheek every single time. If longtime board member and business owner Bill Schreiner thinks it’s best to keep what is mine and was never theirs, then he better be certain that the dirt isn’t deep under his own fi ngernails. 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 in-clude but not limited to; roller mills, hoppers, convey-ors, 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 you’re incorporated, yes, the offi cers (Bill and his wife) are part and parcel to the business. Claiming ignorance to the son’s company maneuvers isn’t a de-fense to business errors, including gross, longtime un-der reporting and payment of personal property taxes. Recall that at the November board meeting, in one fi -nal exasperated pleading I stated, “It shouldn’t have to come to this.”

— Ken Norgaard, Rib Lake.

Norgaard says tax question should never have gotten this farVox Pop

Open letter calling for broadband upgrades.Dear Mr. Maydak:For many years now we have experienced poor qual-

ity internet service from Frontier. Sometimes we can-not connect at all, or web pages won’t load.

Frequently we cannot receive or send email and receive instead notices such as “The server has unex-pectedly terminated the connection”or “Server not re-sponding.” 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 re-corded on the Frontier speedtest site. However, many times the connection is so slow Frontier’s 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 fi x 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 fi xed. How-ever, 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 fi xed more than six years after Fron-tier 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 per-son in charge of Frontier internet service in Wiscon-sin, and in a position to see to it that Frontier promptly rectifi es the terrible service we receive.

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Thums, Susan Thums, Dennis Scheithauer, Cathy Scheithauer, Mike Turner, Debbie Turner, Ever-ett 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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Page 8 Thursday, January 2, 2014Thursday, January 2, 2014Thursday, January 22, 2015NEWSTHE STAR NEWS

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 Monday’s annual meeting of the foundation held at the Medford Area Chamber of Commerce offi ce. The annual meeting has be-come a report not only on the efforts of the foun-dation in the past year, but on the state of the lo-cal economy.

MADF is a private organization which re-ceives 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 revolv-ing loan fund program working with local fi -nancial institutions to review applicants to present to the city council for ap-proval. The group received $15,000 from the county and $10,000 from the city. Total expenses for the organiza-tion 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 com-munity — Florena’s and Hoffman’s 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 eco-nomic 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 fu-ture,” he said. “Both Enerquip and County Market will fi nish their expansions in 2015. Also, the downtown will get a big boost with Brian Hedlund purchasing the va-cant 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.

Hoffman’s 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 expan-sions 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 Med-ford Motors on Hwy 64.

In addition to the building changes, she also said the community welcomed several new owners of busi-nesses and are working to get them integrated into the business community.

One of Emmerich’s highlights of the year was the

“Vacant Stores Tour.” MADF, with the help of local real estate offi ces, took 74 local business owners and commu-nity 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 be-came an idea exchange as to what each of these build-ings 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 relation-ship with the Taylor County Extension offi ce. “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 appeal-ing welcome to the city. “We worked through the gov-ernor’s offi ce and came to an agreement with them, and starting this spring we should see better looking round-abouts,” she said.

Another statewide issue the foundation is continu-ing to watch is the proposed change at the Department of Commerce, which would have them focus on job cre-ation with an independent board that would oversee the state’s 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 be-fore,” Emmerich said.

In addition to the board reports, the meeting also in-cluded a project update from Alli Ranum, marketing di-rector at Medford Cooperative about the County Market building project.

The group also received reports from James Stokes

of Stokhaus Media about his business efforts. He was the winner in the 2013 business plan competition spon-sored by MADF.

The Flower Shoppe owner, Angie Rothmeier, spoke about the benefi t of working with MADF’s micro-loan program which allowed her to purchase a new land-scaping 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 foundation’s board of direc-tors.

Cautious optimism ahead for area economy

County Market projectAlli 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 reconfi guration. She said the reshelv-ing would be completed this week.

Growth aheadSue 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.

Mark Hoffman

Teacher placed on administrative leave

Longtime Medford Area Senior High teacher and boys basketball coach Ron Lien has been placed on paid

administrative leave for both teaching and coaching po-sitions 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 investi-gation is taking place.

When reached by phone Thursday morning, Lien de-clined 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 staffi ng was arranged to cover his classes. Sullivan said if the investigation drags on, the district has lined up someone to take over the assis-tant coaching duties for golf in the spring.

Ron Lien has taught business at Medford schools for more than 30 years, coaches basketballby News Editor Brian Wilson

by News Editor Brian Wilson

photos by Brian WilsonBuy these photos online at www.centralwinews.com

Thursday, January 2, 2014 Page 7NEWSTHE STAR NEWS

A musical sideman took center stage on Friday af-ternoon 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, re-turned home to receive the honor.

Lauer infl uences 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 re-cording musician for acts such as Keith Urban, Tay-lor Swift, Megadeth and Lady Antebellum. As a string music arranger, has worked with Blake Shelton, Mat-thew West and Skillet. His producing credits have in-cluded 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 Nash-ville, Tenn. He received a Bachelor of Arts in composi-tion 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 log-ger, a camp director and a dairy farmer too.”

Lauer works in a competitive fi eld, where the last song you wrote might mean more than career accom-plishments. 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 over-extended. I did 13 solo and ensemble pieces in one year. I remember thinking how am I going to make this hap-pen. Nobody said we have plenty of kids to fi ll the spots. You fi gure 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 in-struments 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 be-cause I had chances here to do these things.”

Lauer encouraged the students to fi nd their path. “Pick something, be curious and do it, do it, do it. Dream

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 ap-preciate 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 ad-vantage of it,” Lauer said.

Lauer was a member of the school's fi rst 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 fu-ture 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 maga-zine when he was a student. He said it helped him fi nd his focus as someone who made music possible rather than the star on the stage. “We had stacks of those mag-azines and I'd read all the articles on the process of mak-ing 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 Mag-nuson said Lauer's talents were evident already during high school. She used his talents for musical arrange-ments 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 direc-tor Katie Levendusky was able to fi nd the score in the department fi les 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 be-fore the ceremony.

Thursday, January 2, 2014 Page 7 Thursday, January 2, 2014 Page 7 Thursday, January 22, 2015 Page 9NEWSTHE STAR NEWS

Committee calls for Chromebooks at the high schoolThe Medford school board fi nance committee sup-

ports 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 fi rst year of the plan has seen technology infra-structure 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 Monday’s committee meeting which would purchase 700 Chromebooks for the approx-imately 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 kid’s 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 benefi t high school students who are gone for school commitments more often than middle school students. The technology up-grades 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 re-placement 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 stu-dent for replacement cost if a device was damaged be-yond the insurance agreement.

The committee asked about the lifespan of the de-vices. Technology director Dennis Hinderliter said the three-year technology cycle is about what can be ex-pected. “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 com-

mitment, 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 ef-fi ciency maintenance plan.

The committee reviewed food service operations and the timeline for the bidding process as it looks ahead to the next fi ve year contract. The bid specifi cations are currently out to possible vendors and the district plans a Feb. 12 open house for the vendors. The bids are due to the fi nance committee in March and the full school board will decide on a vendor in April.

by Reporter Mark Berglund

Center stage: Lauer named to Rib Lake Hall of Fameby Reporter Mark Berglund

Hall of fameRib Lake’s newest hall of fame recepient, Tim Lauer, stands with district administrator Lori Manion and presenter

Ned Orthmann during Friday’s ceremony.

photo by Mark BerglundBuy this photo online at www.centralwinews.com

Page 10 Thursday, January 22, 2015

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Unclaimed Funds NoticeUnclaimed funds held with the Taylor County Clerk of

Circuit Court as described in Chapter 59.66(2) of the Wis-consin State Statutes. The following is a record of such funds.

Name & Address Date Check Issued AmountBari L. Glick 09-11-2012 $150.00 8754 N. Wisner St. Niles, IL 60714Mladenko Delipara 09-26-2012 $99.00 10310 W. Pallotine Dr. Greenfi eld, WI 53228Aden C. Hochstetler 04-11-2013 $8.10 25499 Highland Ave Tomah, WI 54660Estate of Justin L. Eichelt 10-01-2013 $239.25 W14380 Diamond Dr. Lublin, WI 54447Mug Shots Bar 11-08-2013 $19.73 540 Lemke Avenue Medford, WI 54451Ampride-Wood Co. Farm 10-02-2012 $20.00 6303 County Hwy N Arpin, WI 54410Tanner’s 12-11-2009 $53.63 108 E. CTH A Stetsonville, WI 54480Rebecca Lynn Wagner Receipt dated $25.00 6-15-2009

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 Court’s offi ce. 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 with-in 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 county’s gen-eral revenue fund.

Dated this 8th day of January, 2015 in Medford, Wis-consin

Submitted by:Sarah Holtz, Taylor County Treasurer

(1st ins. Jan. 15, 3rd ins. Jan. 29)2-145594 WNAXLP

Request for ProposalsFood Service Management Company

The Medford Area Public School District is seeking Re-quest for Proposals (RFPs) for the purpose of entering into a contract for the operation of their food service pro-gram. 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 Albers124 West State Street

Medford, WI 54451(1st ins. Jan. 15, 2nd ins. Jan. 22)

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Proposed ATV/UTV Ordinancefor the Town of Jump River23.33 (8) All-terrain (ATV) and utility terrain vehicle

(UTV) routes ordinance.State of Wisconsin, Town of Jump River, Taylor CountyThis ordinance is adopted on proper notice with a quo-

rum and roll call vote by a majority of the town board. It provides the authority for the town to designate and regu-late 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 des-ignated 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.

(1st ins. Jan. 22, 2nd ins. Jan. 29)3-145728 WNAXLP

AMENDED SUMMONSSTATE OF WISCONSIN

CIRCUIT COURTCLARK COUNTY

Case No. 14-CV-198Loretta Langiewicz, Trustee

of the Alexander and Loretta Langiewicz Family Trust

6505 Willow RoadWithee, WI 54498,

Plaintiff,v.

Michael LangiewiczW14022 Countyline RoadLublin, WI 54447,andRoyce WallenhorstN4553 Tieman AvenueThorp, WI 54771,

Defendants.THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To MICHAEL LANGIEWICZ,

named above as a defendant: You are hereby notifi ed that

the plaintiff(s) named above has/have fi led a lawsuit or other legal action against you.

Within forty (40) days after

January 8, 2015, you must re-spond with a written demand for a copy of the complaint. The de-mand must be sent or delivered to the court, whose address is Clark County Courthouse, 517 Court Street, Room 405, Neills-ville, Wisconsin 54456, and to Attorney Matthew J. Cornetta, Ruder Ware, L.L.S.C., Plaintiff’s 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 judg-ment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the complaint, and you may lose your right to ob-ject 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 gar-nishment or seizure of property.

Dated this 17th day of De-cember, 2014.

Ruder WareAttorneys for Plaintiff By: /s/ Matthew J. CornettaMatthew J. CornettaState Bar No. 1038351Ruder Ware 402 Graham AvenueP.O. Box 187 Eau Claire, WI 54702-0187Telephone: 715-834-3425Fax: 715-834-9240

(1st ins. January 8,3rd ins. January 22)

1-145441 WNAXLPProhibiting Issuance of

Licenses and/or Permits for Nonpayment of Personal Property Taxes, Assessments and Claims

Town of Greenwood Ordi-nance

Ordinance No. 2015-1The Town Board of the Town

of Greenwood, Taylor County, Wisconsin, does ordain Town of Greenwood Ordinance No. 2015-1 as follows:

SECTION I - LICENSE RE-STRICTIONS. Delinquent Per-sonal Property Taxes, Assess-ments 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 de-linquent and unpaid.

2. Persons. No initial or re-newal of any license(s) or permit(s) shall be granted to any person:

a. Delinquent in payment of personal property taxes, as-sessments, 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

owed. SECTION II - EFFECTIVE

DATE. This Ordinance shall be effective from and after its adop-tion by the Town Board and its posting or publication as provid-ed by the Statutes of the State of Wisconsin.

The Town Clerk shall prop-erly publish this ordinance as re-quired under Wis. Stat. §60.80.

Adopted this 14th day of Jan-uary, 2015.

/s/ Dennis FuchsDennis Fuchs, Chairman/s/ James GebauerJames Gebauer, Supervisor/s/ Michael WudiMichale Wudi, SupervisorAttest: /s/ Jill ScheithauerJill Scheithauer, Town Clerk

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NOTICE TO CREDITORSSTATE OF WISCONSIN

CIRCUIT COURTTAYLOR COUNTYCase No. 15IN01

In the Matter of the Estate of James A. Klinner.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:1. An application for informal

administration was fi 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 mail-ing address of 604 East Conrad Drive, Medford, WI 54451.

3. All interested persons waived notice.

4. The deadline for fi ling a claim against the decedent’s es-tate is May 4, 2015

5. A claim may be fi led at the offi ce of the Probate Registrar, Taylor County Courthouse, 224 South Second Street, Medford, Wisconsin.

/s/ Shannon KraucykShannon Kraucyk, Deputy

Probate RegistrarDate: January 13, 2015Robert W. ZimmermanState Bar No. 1017839Mallery & Zimmerman, S.C.500 Third St., Suite 800P.O. Box 479Wausau, WI 54402-0479715-845-8234

(1st ins. January 22,3rd ins. February 5)

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MEETINGS: State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Jan. 13; Wisconsin Women’s Council, program of work and issue priorities, Jan. 19; Wisconsin Women’s Council, reception, Jan. 19; WEDC, Jan. 19.

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.

Thursday, January 22, 2015 Page 11

City of MedfordSpecial Common Council

Meeting Minutes Monday, January 12, 2015

6:00 PMCouncil Chambers, City Hall

639 South Second StreetMedford, WI

{Subject to Council Approval}Call to Order/Roll CallMayor Mike Wellner called the

meeting to order with the follow-ing members present: Dave J. Brandner, Arlene Parent, Greg Knight, Peggy Kraschnewski, Jim Peterson, Mike Bub, and Clem Johnson. Alderperson Pa-tricia DeChatelets was absent. All vote tallies will be with the exception of Alderperson De-Chatelets’ votes.

City Personnel PresentThe following City personnel

were present: City Clerk Ginny Brost, Electric Utility Manager Spencer Titera, Police Chief Ken Coyer, and City Coordina-tor/Public Works Director. City Attorney Courtney Graff was an excused absence.

Visitors PresentVisitors present were Brian

Wilson-Star News, Tom Judnic, and retired Electric Utility em-ployee Ed Pinkert.

Pledge of AllegianceAlderperson Knight began the

meeting by leading the group in the reciting of the “Pledge of Al-legiance”.

Open Meeting Law Compli-ance

Mayor Wellner announced that this was an open meeting of the Common Council. No-tice of this meeting was given to the public at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting by for-warding the complete agenda to the offi cial 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 Clerk’s Offi ce. Anyone desiring information as to forth-coming meetings should contact the City Clerk’s Offi ce.

Citizens and DelegationsThere were no citizens or del-

egations present.Presentation of Certifi cate

of Appreciation – Ed PinkertMayor Wellner presented re-

tired Electric Utility employee Ed Pinkert with a Certifi cate of Ap-preciation for his many years of service.

MinutesKraschnewski moved, John-

son seconded a motion to ap-prove the following meeting min-utes as presented and to place the same on fi le in the Clerk’s Offi ce: (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 Ses-sion #1, (D) December 2, 2014 Council Closed Session #2, (E) December 8, 2014 Special Council, (F) December 8, 2014 Special Council Closed Ses-sion, and (G) December 8, 2014 Committee of the Whole. All in favor: All Aye. Motion Carried.

Employee Handbook Amendment – Travel & Busi-ness Expense

Parent moved, Kraschnewski seconded a motion to amend Section 4.3(A)(6) of the Employ-ee Handbook relative to travel and business expense, and in-crease 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 Offi cer

On December 10, 2014, Rich-ard Burghaus submitted his no-

tice that he will be retiring from his patrol offi cer position on April 14, 2015.

Peterson moved Johnson seconded a motion to accept Patrol Offi ce Richard Burghaus’ retirement notifi cation 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 Decem-ber 9, 2014 meeting, recom-mended that Council include the extension of utilities east on State Highway 64 and Bauer Drive as part of its 2015 Capi-tal Projects. The Community Development Authority Board’s recommendation included that Council approve an engineering agreement with Ayres & Associ-ates (the City’s engineers) in the amount of $55,800. Funding for both the engineering contract and utilities extension were in-cluded in the Tax Increment #13 Budget. Adjacent property own-ers will be special assessed as per the City’s policy.

Kraschnewski moved, Knight seconded a motion to accept the Community Development Authority Board’s recommenda-tions and approved the exten-sion of utilities east on State Highway 64 and Bauer Drive as part of the 2015 capital proj-ects as well as the engineering agreement with Ayres & As-sociates (the City’s engineers) in an amount not-to-exceed $55,800.00 with funds allocated from the Tax Increment #13 Bud-get. Roll Call Vote: Brandner-Yes; Parent-Yes; Knight-Yes; Kraschnewski-Yes; Peterson-Yes; DeChatelets-Absent; Bub-Yes; 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 de-velopment Well #12. Therefore, the contract was not available for Council consideration. No Action Taken.

Way & Way, Inc.’s 2014 Per-sonal Property Tax Bill

After receiving their 2014 per-sonal property tax bill, Way & Way, Inc. contacted Treasurer Kevin Doberstein. The prop-erty tax bill was in the amount of $25,568.88. Elk River Ap-praisals (the City’s assessor) reviewed the bill, and found that they had entered the wrong amount under “supplies” which resulted in a palpably errone-ous entry in the assessment roll which in turns resulted in an in-correct tax. The correct amount of taxes is $309.18. The Depart-ment of Revenue was contacted to determine how to correct the error. Under Wisconsin Statutes 74.05, the procedure is as fol-lows: (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 As-sessor stating they had entered the wrong amount under “sup-plies” which resulted in a palpa-bly erroneous entry into the as-sessment 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 re-scinding the incorrect personal property tax bill, and authoriz-ing the Treasurer to issue a cor-rected personal property tax bill.

(4) Should Council agree to re-issue 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 jurisdic-tions must then reimburse the City by February 15, 2016. Be-cause of the Statutory timelines, the City will be responsible for the $25,259.71. With Council approval, this amount will be al-located from the City’s Retained Earnings account for calendar year 2015. Payments made from the overlying taxing juris-dictions made in February 2016 would then be returned to the retained earnings account.

Peterson moved, Kra-schnewski 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 accor-dance with Wisconsin Statute 74.05. Motion included autho-rization 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 City’s retained earnings ac-count for calendar year 2015 with all payments made in Feb-ruary 2016 from the overlying taxing jurisdictions returned to the City’s retained earnings ac-count. Roll Call Vote: Brandner-Yes; Parent-Yes; Knight-Yes;

Kraschnewski-Yes; Peterson-Yes; DeChatelets-Absent; Bub-Yes; Johnson-Yes (7 Yes; 0 No; 1 Absent) Motion Carried.

Coordinator’s ReportThe City Coordinator’s re-

port is as follows: (1) On Janu-ary 5, 2015, Alex Zenner began his employment with the Public Works Department. (2) Effec-tive January 1, 2015, Jon Viss-ers 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 Mon-day, 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 at-tend should contact the City Clerk.

Adjourn to Committee of the Whole

Brandner moved, Knight sec-onded a motion to adjourn the meeting to Committee of the Whole at 6:18 PM. All in favor: All Aye. Motion Carried. Meet-ing Adjourned to Committee of the Whole.

Respectfully Submitted,Virginia BrostCity Clerk, WCPC/MMC

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Public notices

NEWS/PUBLIC NOTICESTHE STAR NEWS

Donors to the Aspirus Medford Foun-dation provided all of the funding to pur-chase state-of-the-art surgical technology intended for open and laparoscopic sur-gical procedures. A Force Triad energy platform has been purchased.

This equipment will be used during more than 90 percent of surgical pro-cedures 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, urol-ogy, orthopedics and gynecology.

The mission of the Aspirus Medford Foundation is to support Aspirus Med-ford Hospital & Clinics in its mission to be an integrated, community governed healthcare system, which leads by ad-vancing initiatives dedicated to improv-ing the health of all it serves. For more information, visit www.aspirus.org/MedfordFoundation or call 715-748-8835.

New electrosurgical device for Aspirus Medford Hospital

New equipmentPictured 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.

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Hospital achieves gold level statusThe Wisconsin Hospital Association

(WHA) recently awarded Aspirus Med-ford Hospital & Clinics gold level status for its participation in the WHA Partners for Patients Collaborative. This recogni-tion comes after three years of intense hard work, commitment, and dedica-tion to preventing avoidable hospital-acquired infections, reducing readmis-sions, 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 an-other and from other hospitals around the nation. As a result of the collabora-tion, 86 hospitals reached the gold level of achievement and four reached the bronze.

Students graduate from Stevens PointArea students who graduated with

honors and received bachelor degrees during winter commencement ceremo-nies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point include Roshel Stewart of Gilman, forestry management; Troy

Fox and Brittany Ziembo of Medford, psychology-human services; Katherine Knight of Medford, communications-media emphasis; and Phyllis Lindgren of Medford, elementary education.

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Top news stories for 2014Hospital Foundation receives

$250,000 donationMembers 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 es-tate presented $250,000 to the foundation. The gift is the single largest ever present-ed 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. Foun-dation board members, senior leadership of Aspirus Medford Hospital, foundation donors and employees were in atten-dance.

Peter and Andrea Goodrich and their daughter made the trip from Michigan to present the gift on behalf of Peter’s late uncle and enjoy two of his favorite treats. Peter said family connections to health-care made giving the gift to a medical foundation a special one for his family.

Bomb scaresA 17-year-old and a juvenile have been

referred for charges following a pair of bomb scare events at Medford Area Se-nior High. The case of the 17-year-old was referred to the district attorney fol-lowing an Oct. 1 incident. The juvenile was referred to the court system follow-ing 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.

Medford Police Department offi cers

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 Sheriff’s Department and Medford Area Fire Department per-sonnel were also involved in clearing the school during the fi rst 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 specifi cs, and school staff were able to quickly narrow down who had access to the calculator. “We were really confi -dent we could fi nd the source quickly,” district administrator Pat Sullivan said. “The threat was not nearly as specifi c as the other one, and it was wrapped up be-fore parents and students knew about it.”

Johnson guiltyIt has been one year and nine months

since David Johnson set fi re to his down-town Medford business, destroying that

building and causing heavy damage to his neighbors’ buildings.

On Nov. 7, Johnson entered a guilty plea to a federal arson charge at a court-room in Madison.

Johnson originally faced a state arson to a building charge which carries a max-imum penalty of 40 years imprisonment, $100,000 in fi nes, or both. However, the state charges were eventually dropped in favor of federal arson charges being fi led in the case.

The case languished in the federal court system, while Johnson was charged with additional offenses in Taylor Coun-ty, including sexual assault, burglary and fi nancial fraud.

On Nov. 7, Johnson entered a guilty plea as part of a plea agreement reached between himself and assistant U.S. Attor-ney Munish Sharda. The plea agreement is dated Oct. 30.

Under terms of the agreement, John-son agreed to plead guilty to the offense, which carries a maximum penalty of 20

years in prison, with a mandatory mini-mum fi ve years in prison, a $250,000 fi ne, 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 fi le charges under the code related to tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant. However, the government will ask the judge for a two-level increase for obstruction of justice.

Johnson also agreed to pay restitu-tion 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 current-ly in federal custody awaiting sentenc-ing.

Fatal accidentRoad conditions, speed and alcohol

are suspected of contributing to a one-vehicle fatal accident in the town of Roo-sevelt on Nov. 21.

According to Chief Deputy Larry Woebbeking, at 4:03 p.m. on Nov. 21, the Taylor County Sheriff’s Offi ce was noti-fi ed by the Clark County Sheriff’s Offi ce 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, re-ceived serious injuries and was airlifted from the scene. The front seat passen-ger, 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 are from the Milwaukee area.

Compiled by Reporter Donald Watson

Continued from last week

Foundation donationPeter and Andrea Goodrich and their daughter presented a check for $250,000

on behalf of Peter’s late uncle, Frank A. Goodrich Jr., to Aspirus Medford Foundation chairman Kris O’Leary during a reception on July 26 at the hospital.

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Two-vehicle accidentThomas 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 driver’s 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 respec-tive ends. The driver of the Tlusty vehicle reported soreness as the result of his vehicle being struck.

Two-vehicle accidentsBrenda 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 ac-cident report, the Graveen vehicle was eastbound on Jensen Dr. The Slattery vehicle was exiting the Wadal Plastics parking lot and was unable to stop, slid-ing 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 mid-dle 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 anoth-er 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 ve-hicle 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 traffi c 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 acci-dent on Jan. 15 at 11:08 a.m. in the Med-ford Plaza parking lot in the city of Med-ford. 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 accidentA vehicle owned by Laura L. Sch-

reiner and an unknown vehicle were in-volved 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 Sch-reiner vehicle was legally parked when it was struck by an unknown vehicle back-ing 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 accidentsThe 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.

Accident reports Taylor County Law Enforcement

Pleas enteredAnn M. Reynolds, 25, Abbotsford, pled

no contest to an amended charge of an or-dinance violation of disorderly conduct and was ordered to pay a fi ne and costs of $330.50. The original charge had been a criminal violation of disorderly conduct-domestic 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 fi ne and costs of $579.

Probation orderedDonald 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 con-dition he serve six months in jail and may be subject to electronic monitoring;

pay costs of $728.34 and supervision fees as ordered by the Department of Correc-tion; undergo an alcohol and drug assess-ment and follow through with any rec-ommendations; undergo random drug screening and testing at the probation-ary agent’s discretion; and shall comply with the CHIPS order if it is still in effect.

Deferred entry of judgmentDonald M. Jones, 35, Green Bay, en-

tered 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 offi ces of any address change; reimburse the dis-trict attorney’s offi ce for service of pro-cess 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.

Court proceedings Taylor County Circuit Court

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ForfeituresSteven J. Kivley, 53, Westboro, pled no

contest to an amended charge of speeding 20-24 mph over the limit and was fi ned $225.70. The original charge had been speeding 25-29 mph over the limit.

Harry Sweda, 82, Lublin, pled no con-test to an amended charge of reckless driving-endangering safety and was fi ned $389.50. The original charge had been op-erating while under the infl uence-fi rst offense.

William E. Weir, 38, Gilman, pled no contest to operating without a valid li-cense-fi rst offense and was fi ned $200.50. A charge of non-registration of vehicle was dismissed on a prosecutor’s motion.

Disposition reports

Trials slatedThe following appeared and entered

pleas of not guilty: Justin T. Blomberg, 28, Chippewa Falls, operating while un-der the infl uence-fi rst offense; Peter M. Eckes Sr., 58, Lomira, speeding 11-15 mph over the limit; Timothy J. Fox, 40, Dorchester, operating without a valid li-cense-fi rst violation; Christopher C. Full-er, 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; Re-becca L. Smolka, 16, Athens, speeding 20-24 mph over the limit; Christopher M. Gipp, 40, Stetsonville, operating without a valid license-fi rst offense.

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, hu-

man 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, Ab-

botsford, disorderly conduct.$250.90: Jared R. Purdy, 18, Medford,

speeding 25-29 mph over the limit (driv-er’s 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-fi rst of-fense; Victor D. Pagel, 40, Medford, oper-ating a motor vehicle without insurance; Jared J. Zastrow, 22, Stetsonville, oper-ating while suspended-third offense and operating a motor vehicle without insur-ance ($200.50 each).

$183.30: Kurt J. Leick, 45, Greenleaf, speeding 11-15 mph over the limit.

$175.30: Dean M. Hawkey, 45, Dorches-ter, cracked or damaged vehicle wind-shield; Jocelyn R. Holtz, 22, Gilman, fail-ure to yield while making a left turn.

$150.10: Eugenia Lopez, 36, Medford, violation of child safety restraint re-quirements.

$10 seatbelt violation: Dean M. Hawkey, 45, Dorchester.

$10 proof of insurance violation: Euge-nia Lopez, 36, Medford; Brenda A. Whet-stone, 51, Medford.

Traffic court Taylor County Circuit Court

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John Schutten1941-2015

John David Schut-ten, 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 en-tered the United States Army for a time. He married Sally Mallo on Aug. 26, 1974 in Til-lamook, Ore. John pri-marily worked road

construction until his retirement, then moved back to Wisconsin.

He was an avid outdoorsman enjoying fishing, hunting and also liked to fly remote airplanes.

John is survived by his wife, Sally, of Hanni-bal; four children, Tina, Tami, Frieda and David Schutten; many grandchildren and great-grand-children; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Al-len 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 officiating. Burial followed in the Hannibal Cemetery.

Gilman Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.

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Thank YouThe family of Charles Metz wishes to thank the doc-

tors & 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 beauti-ful 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.

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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. Paul’s, anyone who provided food for the meal. We would also like to thank the ambulance crew and Officer 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.

THANK YOU

The Family of Donald HalopkaCarol Jochimsen, Jody Jochimsen & Family

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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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Former Taylor County resident Louise L. Zirngibl, 87, Holcombe, died on Tues-day, Jan. 13 at her son’s home in Stetsonville. A private memorial service is being planned for a later date.

The former Louise Gries-bach was born on Sept. 10, 1927 in Perkinstown to the late Julius and Hazel (Math-ias) Griesbach Sr. She at-tended Perkinstown Elemen-tary 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

in one-room rural Taylor County schools for fi ve years and operated Resech’s Cafe in Stetsonville for 10 years before moving to Iowa City, Iowa where she was em-ployed at Kmart for 23 years. She and her husband Clar-ence 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 Flam-beau Area Trail Tenders Snowmobile Club. She enjoyed snowmobiling, fi shing, gardening, feeding birds and squirrels, many crafts, and pets.

Survivors include a son, Dennis (Karen) Resech of Stetsonville; two brothers, Julius “Bud” (Doris) Gries-bach Jr. of Westboro and Raymond “Ray” (Connie) Griesbach of Rhinelander; two grandsons; six great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson.

In addition to her parents and husband, Clarence, she was preceded in death by a sister, Marcella “Sally” Krueger.

Louise Zirngibl1927-2015

Ronald L. Simek, 85, Genoa, Nev., died on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at Renown Hospital in Reno, Nev. Funeral ser-vices will be held on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 11 a.m. at First Lutheran Church in Ogema, with Rev. Dr. Bob Giese of-fi ciating. 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 ser-vice.

A full obituary will be published next week.

Ronald SimekJacque 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 as-sisted the family with arrangements.

A full obituary will be published next week.

Jacque Humm1930-2015

Obituaries Reports of Area Deaths

Ronald Simek, one of the founding brothers of Tombstone Pizza Corpora-tion, 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 offi ciating. Burial will be in Mount Olive Cem-etery in Westboro. Visitation will be at Hemer Funeral Home in Medford on Jan. 30 from 4 to

7 p.m. and the next day at church begin-ning at 9 a.m.

Ron Simek and his brother, Joseph ‘Pep’ Simek, built Tombstone Pizza from a creation in a tavern kitchen to the larg-est-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 fo-cus 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 Tomb-stone 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 re-cently sold it to Nestle at a price tag in the billions.

“There isn’t one person in Taylor County who hasn’t benefi tted 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,” Da-vid ‘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.

by Reporter Mark Berglund

Ron Simek dies in Nevada

Ronald Simek

NEWS/OBITUARIESTHE STAR NEWS

Canoe trailerChequamegon 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.

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Mary Polacek1912-2015

Mary A. Polacek, 102, Rib Lake, died on Wednes-day, Jan. 14 at Golden Liv-ingCenter in Rib Lake, where she had resided the past 14 months. Fu-neral services were held on Monday, Jan. 19 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Rib Lake, with Rev. James Heffner officiating. Interment was at Lakev-iew Cemetery in Rib Lake. Active pallbearers were her grandsons, Mark, Guy,

Doug, Kelly, Brian and Todd Polacek. Honorary pall-bearers 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. John’s 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. Dur-ing retirement, she continued to work at the four-gen-eration family farm.

She was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church and past member of its Ladies Aid Group, past mem-ber of Fawn Valley Mother’s Club, and a past leader of Fawn Valley 4-H Club. She enjoyed gardening, flowers, 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) Han-son of Tomahawk; five sons, Michael (Barb Beck-er) 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 great-grandchildren.

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 flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be given to the family for future des-ignation.

Online condolences may be made at www.hemer-funeralservice.com.

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Elnora Ripley1925-2015

Elnora Mae Ripley, 89, Medford, died on Tuesday, Jan. 13 at Care Partners Assisted Living in Med-ford. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 11 a.m. at Holy Ro-sary Catholic Church in Medford, with Father Ge-rard Willger and Deacon Joe Stefancin officiating. Interment will be at Lake View Memorial Park Mau-soleum 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, Women’s Club of Holy Rosary Catho-lic Church, and The Red Hat Society. She was the first 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) Za-nowski 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, Wil-liam, Edward, Orie and Vernon Bundick, Raymond Bundick in infancy, and a sister in infancy.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in her hon-or may be made to American Cancer Society or Holy Rosary Catholic School.

Online condolences may be made at www.hemer-funeralservice.com.

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Eugene Zakrzewicz1927-2015

Eugene Francis Za-krzewicz, 87, Thorp, died on Sunday, Jan. 11 at The Wisconsin Veter-ans Home in Chippewa Falls. Services were held on Saturday, Jan. 17 at St. Stanislaus Catho-lic Church in Lublin. Burial was at the par-ish cemetery. Pallbear-ers were his grandsons, Roger Zakrzewicz, Ste-ven 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 (Lewan-dowski) Zakrzewicz. He attended school in the town of Roosevelt. He entered the United States Army in 1945, and while stationed at Fort Belvoir in Virgin-ia, he was among the ranks of soldiers lining the route of President Roosevelt’s funeral procession.

On Sept. 4, 1948 at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, he married Dorothy Wisniewski, who pre-ceded him in death in 2001. They operated a dairy farm in the town of Roosevelt, he was also a carpen-ter, 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 fishing.

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 Bar-bara (Scott) Rhamey of Coon Rapids, Minn.; and a sister, Loretta Zakrzewicz of Thorp.

In addition to his parents and wife, he was pre-ceded in death by a son, Kenneth in 2013; two broth-ers, Robert Zakrzewicz and Raymond in infancy; and a sister, Rita Marcantonio

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Helen Martin1931-2015

Helen R. Martin, 83, of rural Gilman, died on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 at Our Lady of Vic-tory 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 Fran-cis 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 flowers, 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 Vick-ie Martin of Kaukauna; 11 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Dawn (Emil) Mravik of Portage. She was preceded in death by her par-ents; one son, Ronald; sisters, Phyllis, Florence and Norma; and brothers, Rueben and William.

A memorial mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Fri-day, Jan. 23 at St. John’s Catholic Church in Shel-don, with Father Gerard Willger officiating. 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 arrange-ments.

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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 offi ciating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Thorp Funeral Home as-sisted the family with ar-rangements.

The former Ann Peleschak was born on Feb. 28, 1915 in Lublin to the late Ambrose and Julia (Sweda) Pele-schak. 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 pre-ceded 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 Or-thodox Church. She enjoyed attending church, contain-er gardening, dancing, the Ed Sullivan Show and mak-ing and altering clothes.

Survivors include two children, Janell Wagoner and Gary (Sandra) Wozniak, both of Tyler, Minn.; three sis-ters, 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 pre-ceded in death by three brothers, Matt, Mike and Nick Peleschak, and two sisters, Helen Gasiorowski and Mary Zielinski.

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On the fast trackMembers of the Medford Cub Scout Pack 533 and their families watch the cars speed down the track at Sunday’s

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.

Outstanding carsWyatt Ertl’s car was voted for best paint job and Ben-

jamin Ortengren’s fi shing boat car was voted most cre-ative.

TigersWinners in the Tiger Cub competition were (l. to r.):

fi rst, Ben Grube, second, Ronald Faude and third, Elijah Kenny.

Top fi nishersTop fi nishers in the Pinewood Derby race were (l to r.) fi rst place, Wyatt Ertl; second place, Carter Daniels, third

place; Braydon Machon; fourth place Nathan Willman (not pictured); and fi fth place, Alexander Wilson.

Pencil by a pointThe pencil Pinewood Derby car pulled ahead of the

silver racer and stapler cars in Sunday’s competition held at the Medford Area Elementary School.

Place Name Speed*1 Wyatt Ertl 129.52 Carter Daniel 128.33 Braydon Machon 125.9 4 Nathan Willman 125.2 5 Alexander Wilson 124.2 6 Nickolas Frenzel 123.7 7 Nicholas Taylor-Schaus 122.98 Weston Rogers 122.2 9 Caleb Egle 121.6 10 Collin Rausch 121.511 Conner Zirngible 119.012 Lucas Liske 117.0 13 Jake Seifert 115.714 Lucas Ortengren 115.3 15 Ben Ortengren 112.716 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 classPlace Name Speed*1 Chloe Ertl 129.4 2 Jaylin Machon 125.9 3 Jace Rausch 125.44 Holly Grube 124.95 Justin Zirngible 124.36 Emily Taylor-Shaus 123.17 Carrie Zirngible 122.9

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Long-range shooting success in bas-ketball can be a fi ckle 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 fi ve three-pointers, all in the fi rst half, as they built a lead that Colby could not overcome. Abbie Bergman drained three, while both Clausnitzer’s, Jenice and Hailee, had one apiece.

The game’s decisive run came during the second quarter. With the Raiders up 15-10, Bergman hit threes on consecutive possessions and Jenice Clausnitzer fol-lowed 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 fi ne with maintaining their double-digit lead. The Raiders added two more to their lead by outscoring the Hornets 8-6 in the quar-ter.

Up 12 going into the fi nal 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 fi ve straight points, including a Hailee

Clausnitzer three-point play with 2:45 re-maining in the game. Colby got the next two baskets, but Bergman slammed the door by making four free throws on con-secutive possessions to close out the win for Medford.

The Raiders held a 10-8 lead after the fi rst 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 fl oor. We executed our offense, and changed things up on defense. We con-tested their shots and played a lot smart-er 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 three-pointer 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 hasn’t 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 shoot-ing,” Wildberg said.

The Raiders were able to spread the fl oor on the offensive end and used excel-lent passing and good off-ball movement

Hot-shooting night sends Raiders past Colby Hornetsby Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter

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, hir-ing Mark Krommenacker about a month after previous head coach Kevin Weiss announced he was stepping down from the position.

Krommenacker, already the school’s head track and fi eld coach and a physi-cal education teacher at both the high school and elementary school, said the hire couldn’t come soon enough for him.

“Ever since I graduated high school, I knew I wanted to be a head varsity foot-ball coach,” Krommenacker said. “I’m defi nitely excited about the opportunity and I’m going to take advantage of it. We’re working hard already, doing what we can right now.”

The 2015 season will be Krommenacker’s 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.

He’ll 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 moved up to co-head coach.

“I had been working a lot with the offense toward the end of the year, so that just seemed like a natural fi t,” Krommenacker said.

Krommenacker grew up in the suc-cessful Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln foot-ball 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 year’s state championship. Immediately upon his high school graduation, he start-ed 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.

Krommenacker’s 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 out-of-season.

“My goal is to get the kids excited and to get them to take pride in being a foot-ball 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 foot-ball. I think football is one of best team sports. It teaches toughness, both mental-ly and physically. You learn discipline. We have to work to get our numbers up. They’ve been down for the past couple of years. We’re hoping we can get those back up.”

Krommenacker believes being the track and fi eld coach is a huge advantage as it will allow him to work with several football players during the spring in oth-er elements of their athletic development. Right now, efforts are centered on getting athletes in the weight room and to week-ly speed and agility workouts. He’s a big proponent of students being involved in multiple sports. Krommenacker is

spending this winter as Rib Lake’s 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 excite-ment 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 fi ll 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 to-gether, 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 Lake’s co-head coach in the co-op. He still plans to help out in a volunteer assistant position.

“He’s played a big part in helping me become the head coach,” Krommenacker said. “I’ve already learned a lot from him regarding what I need to know being

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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, in-cluding 15 in the fi rst 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 Mosinee’s full-court man-to-man pressure in the early going, and head coach Ryan Brown said that was the key to Medford’s strug-gles.

“At times, I thought we moved the ball well and controlled the tempo,” Brown said after Medford completed the fi rst 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

Logan Miller added a three-pointer to help Mosinee jump out to a 12-5 fi rst-quar-ter lead. The lead hit double digits when Maas opened the second quarter with a three-pointer. Jordan Budnik’s 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 fi ve of his points in the second half, including a three-point play early in the fourth quarter. Cameron Wenzel had fi ve second-quarter points, including a three-pointer.

Nikola Babic had four points, includ-

ing an early triple. Trent Klemm sank a 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 prac-tices working on getting a body on some-one.”

The Raiders will start the second round of conference play on Friday with a trip to Tomahawk. Medford won the fi rst meeting 49-36 when it was at full strength. The Raiders will host Stanley-Boyd 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 halfA week of adversity for the Raiders

included news of the temporary loss of their best all-around player and they’d 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 Brown’s de-but as interim head coach. But Antigo’s 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 Antigo’s 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 fi rst-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. Antigo’s Jack Lund scored his team’s 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 couldn’t be fi ve individuals. We had to work as a fi st. I really thought we did that. We worked so hard to get defensive rebounds to get out on shoot-ers 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 fi rst half,

Antigo employed a diamond-and-one defense on one of Medford’s shooters, mainly Wrage, using one of its best play-ers, senior guard Cameron Noskowiak as the defender. Medford’s adjustment was to pull Wrage out to half-court, where Noskowiak stayed right with him. The teams then went at each other four-on-four on Medford’s offensive end. Strebig hit three three-pointers and Babic hit one as well to keep the Raiders within shout-ing distance at 38-27.

Antigo then made its adjustment, go-ing 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 fi rst shooter we let him be a screener, trying to keep him engaged and open up somebody else. That worked fi ne. We decided to adjust at halftime, know-ing they’d 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 shoot-er,” 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 we’ll make some adjust-ments next time if that happens. It was defi nitely interesting for a fi rst 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-

Board battle Medford’s Lloyd Bernatz and Mosinee’s Anthony Cunningham get their arms tan-

gled while battling for rebounding position in the second quarter of Tuesday’s game at Raider Hall. Bernatz scored fi ve points in Medford’s 61-32 loss.

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GIRLS BASKETBALLFriday, January 23at Edgar, V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.Thursday, January 29at Butternut, V-7 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALLMonday, January 26Tomahawk (H), V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.Tuesday, January 27at Edgar, V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.

BOYSBASKETBALLFriday, January 23Columbus Catholic (H), V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.Monday, January 26at Thorp, V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.Thursday, January 29at Colby, V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.

WRESTLINGSaturday, January 24at St. Croix Invitational, 9:30 a.m.

Thursday, January 29Flambeau (H-Cornell), 7 p.m.

GIRLSBASKETBALLTuesday, January 27Neillsville, V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.Friday, January 30at Colby, V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.

GIRLS HOCKEYFriday, January 23at Stevens Point-Wisconsin-Rapids (at Point’s KB Willett Arena), 6 p.m.Monday, January 26Waupaca Co-op (H), 7 p.m.Thursday, January 29Tomahawk (H), 7 p.m.

GIRLSBASKETBALLFriday, January 23Tomahawk (H), V-7:15 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.Tuesday, January 27at Stanley-Boyd, V-7:30, JV & JV2-5:45 p.m.Thursday, January 29Rhinelander (H), V-7:15 p.m., JV & JV2-5:45 p.m.

BOYSBASKETBALLFriday, January 23at Tomahawk, V-7:15, JV & JV2-5:45 p.m.Tuesday, January 27Stanley-Boyd (H), V-7:15 p.m., JV & JV2-5:45 p.m.Friday, January 30Rhinelander (H), V-7:15 p.m., JV & JV2-5:45 p.m.

WRESTLINGSaturday, January 24at Arcadia Challenge, 9:30 a.m.Thursday, January 29at Tomahawk, 7 p.m.

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Team’s arrow continues to point upward

Bella on barsMedford’s Bella Sigmund ponders her next move

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

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 fi nishers and upped their team score on the vault to 31.8 points in Thursday’s 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 Clark’s 7.9. Hamann tied Lakeland’s Laura Oldenburg for sixth at 7.8. Hannah Brandner tied Lakeland’s Kayla Gebert for eighth place at 7.75.

Adding to Medford’s strong JV performance, the JV team scored 31 team points in the event, getting a win-ning score of 7.9 from Kierra Krause, second-place 7.8s from Kendra Eggebrecht and Shelby Winchell, a fi fth-place score of 7.8 from Bella Sigmund and an eighth-place 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.

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 Lakeland’s MaKayla Babl for fi fth at 6.0 and Phillips was eighth at 5.75. The Raiders had 27.1 team points, a point and a half off their season-best 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 fl oor 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 sea-son-best, but 1.425 points better than the T-Birds.

“Hopefully we can incorporate more diffi cult tum-bling for the upcoming meets,” Brooks said.

The Raiders didn’t quite set a season-best on the un-even bars either, scoring 22.175 points, but Brooks con-tinues to be encouraged by the team’s progress there. Medford is sitting almost four points higher than where it was in its fi rst meet.

“The girls continue to improve every week,” Brooks said. “They are beginning to gain confi dence in their new skills and are starting to incorporate more diffi cul-ty while continuing to maintain good form.”

Phillips led the Raiders with a third-place score of 6.65. Brandner’s fi fth-place score of 5.35 was a season-best. 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.

Lakeland’s Angie Geiger just nudged past three Raiders for the meet’s 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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GNC SMALL DIVISIONGYMNASTICS STANDINGS

Duals Dual Meet Total W-L Pts. Pts. Pts.Mosinee-Mar. 1-0 2 0 2Rhinelander 1-0 2 0 2Medford 1-1 2 0 2Chequamegon 1-1 2 0 2Lakeland 0-2 0 0 0Jan. 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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Another good Saturday showing; T-Birds get dual winby Sports Editor Matt Frey

All eight of Medford’s available wrestlers claimed top-four fi nishes in Saturday’s Northland Invitational, host-ed by the Ashland Oredockers, led by Josh Brooks, who was named the tourna-ment’s Most Outstanding Wrestler.

The six-team tournament featured squads that all came in with open weight classes. That left some brackets fairly small. Medford fi nished third in the team standings with 104.5 points, trail-ing Superior (134.5) and Lakeland (129.5). The Raiders beat Ashland by two points. Bayfi eld-Washburn (73.5) and Proctor, Minn. (17) were fi fth and sixth.

Brooks (23-5) won a full six-man bracket at 120 pounds with a perfect 5-0 day. Four of the weight class’s six wres-tlers came in with records well over .500. The sophomore knocked off two solid wrestlers to complete the perfect day, edging Ashland’s Tommy George (21-4) 7-5 and Lakeland’s Jack Scandin (16-10). It was the second win in three days over Scandin for Brooks, who overcame a late defi cit with a reversal and a near fall.

Brooks started his day with pins over Superior’s Brandon Olson (17-7) in 1:05, Superior’s James Kirchoff in 2:27 and Ashland’s Brandon Moore in 2:56.

“Josh wrestled well,” head coach Tran Brooks said. “He had a couple of close ones that maybe shouldn’t 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 op-ponents to win the four-man 160-pound bracket. He improved to 23-3 by sticking Proctor’s Alec Witt in 1:24, Lakeland’s Dennis Harris in 1:13 and Superior’s Harrison Doane in 2:51. Kolten Hanson (23-3) was just as dominant at 152 pounds, pinning Lakeland’s Cody Winter in 4:46 and Proctor’s Colton Johnson in 49 sec-onds before earning a 16-5 major decision over Superior’s 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 wrest-ers at 145 pounds. His best win may have been a 6-3 decision in the last round over Lakeland’s Seth Gonzalez, who had just beaten Peterson 5-0 two days earlier.

Peterson pinned Superior’s Austin Smith in 1:33, lost to champion Josiah Cook of Bayfi eld-Washburn 9-4, pinned Proctor’s Luke Irons in 58 seconds and beat Ashland’s Tony Schiavone by in-jury default.

“Tanner wrestled really well,” Brooks said. “He could’ve won the tournament. He had a couple of takedowns (against Cook), but he got put on his back once. Tanner’s been getting better and better.”

Jacob Stamos (23-3) bumped up to 182 pounds, where there were just two other wrestlers. He pinned Ashland’s 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.

“Kennelly’s pretty good,” Brooks said. “We got the fi rst 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 Lakeland’s William Graveen 4-2 and Ashland’s 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

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 winIn 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 Medford’s 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 pe-riod 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 team’s 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 heavy-weight, 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.

Lakeland’s Dejay Nordrum took a for-feit 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 couldn’t 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 fi rst 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 couldn’t 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 match-es,” coach Tran Brooks said. “We thought Tanner’s and Preston’s were big key matches. Their 220 kid (Stowe) is pretty decent. That’s why we put Kenny up to heavyweight, to give him a shot.”

Starts with a pinMedford’s Josh Brooks fi nally gets Lakeland’s 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 Ashland’s Northland Invitational on Saturday and was named the tourney’s top wrestler.

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GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCEWRESTLING STANDINGS

Duals Dual Meet Total W-L Pts. Pts. Pts.Rhinelander 3-0 6 0 6Lakeland 2-1 4 0 4Tomahawk 2-1 4 0 4Antigo 2-1 4 0 4Medford 0-3 0 0 0Mosinee 0-3 0 0 0Jan. 15: Lakeland 34, Medford 30; Rhineland-er 35, Tomahawk 34; Antigo 54, Mosinee 24.Jan. 17: Lakeland 2nd and Medford 3rd at Ash-land 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 Rhine-lander, 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.

Medford youth wrestlers take fi rst at Neillsville

Competing at a tournament at Neillsville on Jan. 11, the Medford youth wrestling team emerged with a fi rst place fi nish.

Jaxson Fallos, Jordan Lavin, Jude Stark, Owen Higgins, Parker Lissner, Gage Losiewicz, Paxton Rothmeier, and Grant Neubauer all took fi rst place in their divisions.

William Bartnik, Jackson Mayer, Carson Grossman, Thad Sigmund, Logan Kawa, Rachel Sova, Braxton Weissmiller all grabbed second place fi nishes.

Ronnie Hoernke, John Bartnik, Hunter Jochimsen, Teagan Hansen, Jacob Doyle, Wyatt Johnson secured third place fi nishes.

Evan Pagel, Ty Sova, and Cory Lindahl all took fourth in their divisions.

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 man-aged 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 Lakeland’s top team by 0.99 seconds.

“We had some great relays. Even get-ting one win is a big boost for the guys,” Raiders head coach Nikki Farmer said.

The Raiders’ team of Way, Roe, Chas

Swimmers swept aside by Lakelandby Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter Lehman and Mark Jablonsky fi nished 13

seconds behind Lakeland in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 2:13.10.

Lehman fi nished 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 sec-onds behind Lakeland’s Jack Garcia.

The T-birds took the top three posi-tions in the 50-yard freestyle. Way led Medford in fourth with a time of 26.43. Jacob Jablonsky was fi fth in 28.01 and Josh Mueller came in sixth in a time of 35.17.

Lakeland had the only competitors in the 50-yard butterfl y and 500-yard free-style, which was won by Nick Garcia in 57.97, and Stanlee Kmiecik in 7:06.69, re-spectively.

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 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:57.41.

Roe (1:21.81) grabbed second place in the 100-yard breaststroke, fi nishing three seconds behind Lakeland’s Grant Gibson. Andrew Reuter was third with a time of 1:22.85 and Hedlund was fi fth 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. Medford’s 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, we’ve 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.

Reaching inRib Lake guard Noah Weinke (10) protects the ball from Athens’ Justin Kelly (21)

and Tony Thurs (middle). Thurs didn’t get this one, but he recorded two steals in the game and scored 33 points as the Bluejays defeated the Redmen last Thursday.

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Rockets launch in second half; Athens pulls off an OT upset

The Rib Lake Redmen boys basket-ball team hadn’t 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 af-ter the fi rst quarter after jumping to a 15-14 lead. The Rockets reversed that score in the second quarter to put both teams at 29 heading into halftime.

Spencer fi nally 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 fi nal quarter to secure the 10-point win.

A big night from Bobby Pilz was the difference for the home side. His game-high 29 points was 21 better than his clos-est 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 Lake’s 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, they’ll take on Tomahawk at home. Both games have a 7:30 p.m. start time.

Overtime loss to AthensThe 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 didn’t lie down against one of the Marawood’s top teams so far this year.

It took them overtime to do it, but the

Jays emerged with a 67-65 win over the Redmen. Jordan Cardey scored 20 for Rib Lake, but it wasn’t enough as the Blue Jays overcame a fi ve-point defi cit in the fi nal seconds to send the game to over-time.

“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 high-energy defense for the entirety of the fi rst half, the Redmen came out fl at in the third quarter and surrendered the lead. Down 39-35 going into the fourth quar-ter, the Redmen rekindled their fi re and jumped on Athens by scoring six of the fi rst 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 be-fore 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 Lake’s lead to fi ve by hitting a pair of free throws. But the Blue Jays were far from fi nished.

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 Lake’s 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 weren’t 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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The fi rst offi cial practice date of Tuesday, Aug. 4 will be here before you know it. The Hawks will host this year’s 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 fol-lows the next Friday against Marawood Conference rival Chequamegon.

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MARAWOOD NORTH DIVISIONBOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W L W LPhillips 5 1 10 2Edgar 4 1 7 4Rib Lake 3 2 6 5Chequamegon 3 3 5 7Athens 2 4 3 6Abbotsford 2 4 2 9Prentice 1 5 5 7Jan. 16: Athens 67, Rib Lake 65 (OT); Abbots-ford 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 Catho-lic 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.

rose above the chaos under the basket to tip the ball in as the buzzer sounded. The Athens gym went into a frenzy, and the Redmen went into shock.

“Anytime you have the ball and are up two with 13 seconds left, you expect to win. It hit the guys hard,” Wild said.

Athens took a quick four-point lead in the extra period. Blomberg hit a pair of free throws to pull the Redmen within two with 1:51 remaining. The Bluejays went to the line six times in the next min-ute and made fi ve while the Redmen hit only two of four attempts in that same time frame.

Down six with 26 seconds to play, Joe Scheithauer put home a jumper to cut the lead to four. Athens hit one of two free throws after being fouled. The Redmen raced down the court and Cardey swished a three with nine seconds to go, but that was as close as they would get.

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the second-chance opportunities. The Bluejays outscored the Redmen 19-12 in the third quarter as their offense, led by Thurs, came to life.

Thurs proved to be an unstoppable force as the game went on. After scor-ing only six in the fi rst half, he netted 27 in the second half and overtime. He also pulled down 12 rebounds and was 10 of 13 from the free throw line. Schreiner and Collin Ellenbecker each scored nine for the Bluejays and Lane Tessmer scored eight. The Bluejays were 18 of 31 (58 per-cent) at the line.

Cardey scored 20, including a trio of three-pointers to lead the Redmen in scoring. Frombach scored 11 before foul-ing out with 6:13 left in the fourth quar-ter. Hovde had 10 points and Ewan scored nine. Blomberg fi nished fi ve of seven free throw attempts en route to scoring seven points. The Redmen fi nished 16 of 22 (72.7 percent) from the free throw line.

“It hurt to have Joe foul out in the fourth, but our other guards really stepped up and kept us in the game. We did a good job battling back, but we rushed ourselves at times and took some bad shots at the end,” Wild said.

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Gilman girls persevere and get much-needed win at Bruceby Sports Editor Matt Frey

Needing an offensive boost in the worst way, the Gilman girls basketball team fi nally got something to click af-ter halftime on Tuesday and got past the Bruce Red Raiders 33-27 in non-confer-ence play.

A night after Gilman went scoreless in the fi rst half at Thorp, the Pirates found themselves down 15-11 at halftime in Tuesday’s 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 fi rst 20 seconds, got a steal and got an-other bucket. We played a real good third quarter. Down the stretch, they got with-in two, but we hit some timely shots.”

Five different players scored in the third quarter to get Gilman roll-ing. Kendall Skabroud and Makaylen Skabroud both scored twice and Morgan Birkenholz, Kyla Schoene and Desireé Budzinski added buckets in the momen-tum-changing quarter.

Birkenholz scored twice, Makaylen Skabroud got a hoop and Kendall Skabroud made two of fi ve free throws down the stretch to seal it.

Gilman didn’t 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 fi nished with nine. Both sank three-pointers in a strong fi rst quarter that ended with Gilman leading 9-5. Bruce outscored Gilman 10-2 in the second quarter, led by fi ve 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 fi nished with two points each. Schoene and Kendall Skabroud had four rebounds each. Kendall Skabroud had fi ve assists. Birkenholz grabbed fi ve rebounds and had four steals.

“Morgan had a nice shooting night, making fi ve of nine two-pointers and scoring 13,” Skabroud said. “She’s start-ing to fi nd her groove on those 15- to 17-foot shots. Her hustle was big too, with the steals. I think she had all four in the second half. She made things happen. Kendall’s fi ve 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 diffi cult two-game stretch against ECC powers Loyal and Neillsville. The Pirates go to league-leading Loyal to-night, Thursday, and host Neillsville on Tuesday. They’ll be at Colby on Jan. 30. All three games tip at 7:30 p.m.

A disasterMonday’s 40-16 non-conference loss

at Thorp was an offensive disaster. The Pirates did not score until fresh-man Camryn Skabroud fi nally made a third-quarter three-pointer. That shot remained Gilman’s only offensive pro-duction until the Pirates scored 13 fourth-quarter points, nine of which came from Makaylen Skabroud, who sank two long-range shots in the period.

Thorp (8-6) led just 5-0 after one quar-ter, 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 fi nd a spark. The veterans fi nally snapped out of their funk in the fourth quarter, but it was way too late.

“Thorp played a real aggressive man-to-man, which we knew they would,” Skabroud said. “Even with the hand-checking rules, the offi cials weren’t call-ing much, but that is what it is. You have to play a physical game. We just did not get into any kind of offensive fl ow.”

Gilman was three of 15 both on two-

Pirates outlast Flambeau, 46-43The Gilman boys basketball team got

its second win of the season over an East Lakeland Conference team in its region-al bracket, holding on for a 46-43 win at Flambeau on Friday.

A rough fi rst quarter put the Pirates in an early 13-6 hole. Chase Groothousen sank two three-pointers and Dylan Stoneberg made one while scoring fi ve early points for the Falcons (1-9).

Gilman began to climb out of that hole in the second quarter, outscor-ing Flambeau 13-8 to pull within 21-19. Colton Schmitt got three key buckets for Gilman in the quarter. Emmit Sherfi eld 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 fi ve 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 Copenhaver’s hands as much as they could down the stretch. The senior hit one fi eld goal and made three of sev-en free throws, which was just enough. Schmitt added a late score as well.

Copenhaver’s 17 points paced Gilman. Aldinger fi nished with 10 and Schmitt had eight. Sonnentag and Sherfi eld each fi nished with four points. Rosemeyer fi n-ished with three.

Gilman wasn’t 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 fi ve 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, host-ing 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. It’s back to league play on Jan. 29 when the Pirates go to Colby.

Takoda Lee was one of three members of the Cornell-Gilman-Lake Holcombe wrestling team to reach the semifi -nals of their respective weight classes during Saturday’s 21-team Ladysmith Invitational.

Lee, a heavyweight, and 138-pound-er Spencer Gibson lost their semifi nal matches and wound up fourth. Eric Nedland got to the 126-pound champion-ship, where he was pinned by Cameron’s 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 Barron’s Dan Enny and then pinned Gary Garvin of Black River Falls in 1:58 in the quarterfi nals. Lee than faced top-seeded Donny Ralston of rival Bruce. Ralson improved to 34-1 by pin-ning 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-Clayton’s Kyler Flettre and a 7-3 win over Bruce’s Walker Golubiff. Second-seeded Isaac Roffers of Reesville (22-4) stopped Gibson’s title run by pinning him in 4:22 in the semifi nals. Hayward’s Lane Deyo took the third-place 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 fi rst-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. Barron’s David Pintens won the fi fth-place match 7-2.

Dusty Boehm (14-8) was seventh at 152 pounds. He earned a fi rst-round pin over Alex Briske of Phillips in 22 seconds, lost twice and fi nished with a pin in 2:34 over Jon Hayton of Bloomer in the seventh-place 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 Abbotsford-Colby in the 11th-place match at 160 pounds. Paul Nedland (14-13) was 13th at 106 pounds. After two losses, he fi n-ished 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 fi ve. 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 fi nal East Lakeland dual meet of the season.

Lee among three Wolfpack semifi nalists at Ladysmith Invite

point and three-point shots to fi nish at 20 percent from the fi eld. They only took nine shots from the fi eld in the fi rst half, demonstrating their passive play. Skabroud said four of those fi rst-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 sev-en.

Greenwood gets awayFacing a short-handed Greenwood

squad, Gilman felt Friday’s Eastern Cloverbelt home game was one it had to get. Unfortunately, the Indians broke a 21-21 halftime tie with a 16-11 third-quar-ter 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 fi rst 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 fi rst half and we missed six in the fourth quarter,” he said. “That’s 15 of them. We

didn’t 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 didn’t 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 fi ve points, fi ve rebounds, three assists and two blocked shots.

EASTERN CLOVERBELT CONFERENCEGIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W L W LLoyal 9 0 12 2Neillsville 7 2 10 3Owen-Withee 7 2 9 4Colby 6 3 6 8Columbus Cath. 4 4 7 6Greenwood 3 6 4 8Spencer 3 6 3 7Gilman 1 8 3 10Granton 0 9 0 9Jan. 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 Owen-Withee, Loyal at Columbus Catholic, Spencer at Granton.

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Stop right thereMedford’s 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 fi rst period of Friday’s 7-1 loss.

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The Medford Raiders did well to hold Mosinee’s 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 fi ve-goal barrage to start the game, al-lowing Mosinee to stay right on Antigo’s heels in the Great Northern Conference title chase. Tuesday’s 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 don’t 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 fi ght to Mosinee in the fi rst period. The Indians gladly took advantage.

Kasey Krzanowski put the visitors on the board 2:18 into the contest, connect-ing not long after he had crossed the blue line on a transition opportunity. Spencer Miller and Michael Alfonso had the as-sists. 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. Alfonso’s 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

For the second time this season, Medford’s 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 Medford’s 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 ad-vantage of a fi ve-minute major penalty for boarding to score the fi rst of its two third-period goals.

In the teams’ fi rst meeting on Dec. 5, Lakeland scored twice in the last two minutes to pull out a 7-6 win.

Monday’s loss left Medford at 0-8 in the GNC and 2-11 overall. Lakeland im-proved 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 sec-ond period while playing with a one-skat-er advantage. Joelle Zenner took advan-tage 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 fi rst 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 Lakeland’s Annika Nimsgern stopped them all. She had 20 saves in the win. Medford had one pow-er-play chance just after Lakeland scored its fi fth goal.

Makayla Hanson had 26 saves for the Raiders, including nine in the fi rst peri-od 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. League-leading Waupaca (8-0, 16-1) invades the Simek Recreation Center on Monday for a 7 p.m. start.

Tigers take overOn 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.

Medford’s 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 min-utes, the Tigers scored fi ve of their seven goals and increasingly gained control of the offensive zone.

“We started great and then started los-ing some steam in the second and third periods,” head coach Sarah Markham said. “With illness and injury, we’re 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 pe-riods.

getting his shot past Jamieson’s 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 game’s fi nal 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 Medford’s lack of depth, Demulling said the team has held up well late in games.

“Looking at our statistics, the third pe-riod 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 power-play chances.

The Raiders are back on home ice for their next two GNC contests, host-ing Waupaca tonight, Thursday, and Tomahawk on Tuesday. The puck drops at 7 p.m. on both nights.

Outscored in MerrillMedford ended a stretch of four games

in fi ve 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 as-sisted on all fi ve of Merrill’s 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 fi rst period at the 11:53 mark. The Raiders killed a power play in that period and couldn’t

Mosinee’s early barrage too much to overcome; Raiders drop two at Merrill

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Into the boardsMedford’s 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 Mosinee’s Dylan Bednar to a loose puck during the second period of a 6-1 loss.

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Alumni hockey teamsThe 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 scholar-ships and youth hockey groups. Participants in the fi rst 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.”

Led by its vaulters, Medford won the JV meet 94.45-84.3.

The Raiders had the top three fi nishers on the bars with Rudolph (5.0), Mackenzie Carey (4.6) and Winchell (4.45). Jaecks was fi fth 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 fi fth 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 fl oor 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 fi rst time.

Brooks said Medford may, unfortunately, be a bit short-handed at Saturday’s meet as the fl u bug hit the team hard this week and a physical education class mis-hap 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.

to free up space for their shooters.“Everybody across the board played

well. When everybody on the fl oor 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 sea-son. Then on Tuesday, the Lady Raiders travel to Stanley-Boyd for a non-confer-ence battle. That game tips at 7:30 p.m.

Medford hosts Rhinelander on Jan. 29 at 7:15 p.m.

Loss to AntigoGood rebounding is essential to a win-

ning basketball team, and on Friday, the Raiders didn’t do enough of it to beat the Antigo Red Robins on the road. Antigo took the GNC game by a score of 45-39, and the Raiders will lament missed chances that could’ve changed the out-come.

“We had the opportunities, we just didn’t take advantage. We didn’t box out. We had the position, but we let them re-bound right over us,” Wildberg said.

A cold three quarters on offense didn’t make the Raiders cause any easi-er. Baker scored four in the fi rst, but it wasn’t enough as Antigo took an 8-5 lead in the fi rst 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 18-14 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 didn’t 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 fi re

from the free throw line, making all six of her attempts in the quarter. Bergman added fi ve points as Medford mounted a furious fi nal-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 fi nal quarter and made only two fi eld 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 fi ve apiece. Medford was 12 of 17 (70.5 per-cent) at the free throw line.

lar shot to make it 43-29 with about 4:30 left. He dished to Bernatz who banked in a short shot for Medford’s last points with about 2:30 to go.

After Antigo’s third-quarter shoot-ing spree, which featured fi ve three-pointers –– 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 fi ve assists.

Strebig led Medford with 13 points. He hit four of the team’s eight three-point-ers. Medford made eight of 24 threes.

Babic had 11 points, including a trio of threes. Wrage’s lone three-pointer put Medford on the scoreboard. Ekwueme and Bernatz scored two points each. Ekwueme had fi ve steals and fi ve assists. Bernatz had three steals.

Medford made just three of 12 two-point shots and one of six free throws. Antigo had a monstrous 28-6 advantage in rebounding.

“Normally, we would like to look a lit-tle more to the baseline and the high post and work the ball in, but just with who we had on the fl oor, our strength was to try to move the ball for open shots,” Brown said. “We had little runs where we shot well. I can’t think of a specifi c shot that was a bad shot. I thought they were in rhythm. I thought they were after mov-ing 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 didn’t have it.”

Brown said the young team has han-dled 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. “It’s 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 weren’t sure of themselves and weren’t 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, they’re only going to get better.”

Gymnasts win

GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCEGIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W L W LLakeland 6 1 12 2Antigo 5 2 10 3Mosinee 4 2 9 6Rhinelander 4 3 8 7Medford 2 4 4 7Northland Pines 2 5 5 9Tomahawk 0 6 0 13Jan. 16: Antigo 45, Medford 39; Lakeland 49, Mosinee 44; Rhinelander 63, Northland Pines 32; Crandon 62, Tomahawk 17Jan. 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.

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GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCEBOYS SWIM STANDINGS

Duals Dual Meet Total W-L Pts. Pts. Pts.Shawano 8-0 8 0 8Lakeland 6-2 6 0 6Antigo 6-2 6 0 6Rhinelander 2-6 2 0 2Tomahawk 1-7 1 0 1Medford 1-7 1 0 1Jan. 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.

GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCEGIRLS HOCKEY STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W-L-T W-L-TWaupaca 8-0-0 16-1-0Rhine.-Antigo-3L 7-2-0 11-3-0Northland Pines 5-3-0 10-7-0Tomahawk 4-4-0 5-7-1Marshfi eld 4-5-0 5-8-0Lakeland 2-5-0 3-6-0Point-Rapids 2-5-0 3-9-2Medford 0-8-0 2-11-0Jan. 15: Hayward-Spooner Co-op 3, Tomahawk 0.Jan. 16: Black River Falls 7, Medford 1; Cen-tral 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; Marshfi eld 3, Northland Pines 2 (OT); Rhinelander-Antigo-Three Lakes 3, Tomahawk 2; Waupaca 6, Point-Rapids 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 Marshfi eld.

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This Weekend

Friday, January 23.28 Special at Camp 28.Lonie G DJ/Karaoke from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at

Hacienda.

Saturday, January 24Leaster Cribbage starting at 1 p.m. at Bogey’s.Luck of the Draw Dart Tournament starting at 4

p.m. at Mohr’s Bar.Live music by Marshall Star Band from 9 p.m. to 1

a.m. at Hacienda.

Sunday, January 2537th Annual Ice Fishing Contest from 10 a.m. to 3

p.m. at Lake Esadore.

Multi-day eventStump Jumpers Snowmobile Club Poker Run on

Friday, Jan. 23 and Saturday, Jan. 24.

Upcoming eventsRib Lake Fireworks Committee Bean Bag

Tournament on Saturday, Jan. 31 starting at 3 p.m. at Zondlo’s.

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 Zondlo’s.

Snowmobile Races on Saturday, Feb. 14 at Gad Bar.

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ShowCase Players to perform ‘The Murder Room’ Feb. 6-9

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 fi rst 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 di-rect 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 fi rst 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.

Becker, Petersonchosen for all state band

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 signifi es a level of achieve-ment which places these student musicians in the top percentile among all students in our state.

This year’s band will be conducted by Robert Szabo, Chief Warrant Offi cer 4 in the U.S. Marine Corps and director and offi cer-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 nation’s armed forces bands and military bands abroad, Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Children’s 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 conven-tion of the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Band Association with a fi nale 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.

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Carstensen, Church to play with all state band Jan. 24

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 year’s conductor is Ryan Waldhart, a Medford Area Senior High alum and a well-known and highly respect-ed educator currently teaching in West Salem. All per-formances at the convention are open to the public.

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3 mileMen’s champion - Tyler Schumacher Medford 22 minutes, 28 seconds.Women’s champion - Amanda Schield Med-ford 31:21.9

Female age 12 and under 1 Abby Sova Withee 53:58.32 Abigail Harris Medford 1:28:57.0

Female 13-15 1 Lauren Meyer Medford 37:14.82 Hallie Schumacher Medford 38:59.53 Jenna Jakobi Marshfi eld 43:13.54 Rylee Anderson Medford 49:18.25 Morgan Wogernese Abbotsford 53:56.16 Kaitlin Gradberg Medford 1:01:31.5

Female 16-18 1 Hannah Brandner Medford 39:38.12 Mara Schumacher Medford 40:24.43 Bailey Brandner Medford 48:55.04 Katy Branstetter Medford 1:01:31.7

Female 19-24 1 Tyler Paquin Keenan 1:01:17.42 Caroline Wolf Loyal 1:01:17.73 Candice Perronne Medford 1:02:34.94 Emily Van Den Heuvel Marshfi eld 1:03:59.05 Tori Sauer Medford 1:06:41.06 Stacy Zenner Medford 1:06:43.9

Female 25-29 1 Kathryn Tesch Dorchester 41:04.12 Ailena Baum Phillips 42:45.93 Robbi Rodman Medford 45:23.94 Brenda Blume Marathon 52:45.05 Kimberly Milz Colby 54:50.36 Nikki Brost Medford 54:55.77 Jodi Slenznikow Marshfi eld 55:41.18 Tuesday Schmidt Gilman 55:43.49 Abbie Lavin Medford 56:05.910 Maggie Hein Medford 58:08.611 Angela Schmeiser Medford 1:00:04.712 Abbie Loos Winona Mn. 1:00:56.413 Nici Hebert Onalaska 1:00:58.3

14 Carrie Thornsen Onalaska 1:00:59.515 Casey Hartl Medford 1:03:07.316 Tara Sauer Medford 1:03:59.617 Anne Mayer Medford 1:06:46.018 Katrina Mayer Green Bay 1:06:46.519 Stacy Ray Shorewood 1:09:17.620 Jessica McCord Athens 1:22:10.2

Female 30-34 1 Rachel Wellman Medford 34:00.52 Haley Erl Medford 36:53.93 Amber Briski Chicago Ill. 38:01.44 Liz Tesch Abbotsford 38:15.75 Lisa Rabska Junction City 38:42.36 Callie Crass Medford 44:03.07 Aurora Rinehart Athens 44:24.78 Amanda Karau-Skar Black River Falls 46:50.19 Tasha Stencil Athens 49:58.810 Kim Schnell Medford 51:56.611 Dana Paul Drochester 52:44.012 Sara Wolf Medford 54:42.513 Kristina Apfelbeck Edgar 54:45.614 Jessica Frahm Athens 55:19.215 Victoria Noonan Gilman 57:31.616 Stephanie Siok Gilman 57:32.317 Katie Fuchs Stetsonville 58:22.818 Susan Strebig Medford 59:45.619 Jennifer Armstrong Kenosha 1:09:18.620 Jennifer Harris Medford 1:22:56.0

Female 35-39 1 Trisha Wagner Black River Falls 34:08.52 Britt Bushman Phillips 35:55.93 Krista Krenz Stevens Point 36:10.84 Kathy Alexander Medford 36:20.65 Laura Gulso Black River Falls 36:52.46 Julie Carlsen Westboro 37:35.57 Nicole Syryczuk Lublin 40:13.68 Mindy Wagner Abbotsford 40:15.89 Angela Engel Abbotsford 43:00.010 Faith Stevenson Mosinee 43:34.011 Caroline Radlinger Medford 45:31.812 Jessica Thomson Dorchester 46:36.413 Ellen Gross Ottawa Ill. 50:34.814 Stacie Tanata Medford 51:39.015 Kristi Rabska Noonan Chicago 57:46.1

16 Lori Karau Cook Minn. 1:00:24.017 Candy Strey Spencer 1:06:02.718 Amy Krug Medford 1:09:20.9

Female 40-44 1 Sherry Meyer Medford 31:40.42 Amy Fredrickson Medford 34:51.63 Cherilyn Jakobi Marshfi eld 37:02.84 Andrea Krzanowski Mosinee 44:16.85 Jean Drake Wausau 46:38.26 Misty Kleist Medford 48:40.77 Nicole Scheller Ogema 49:35.18 Laura Bergman Angora Mn 51:17.49 Jennifer Sobotta Medford 54:59.810 Ginny Boardman Medford 56:46.011 Dina Dunbar Phillips 59:42.712 Sherry Wally Appleton 1:00:58.513 Laura Ramm Milwaukee 1:08:19.414 Crystal Chenier Curtiss 1:35:35.0

Female 45-49 1 Barb Wilke West Bend 00:35:21.52 Tammy Strassburger Birnamwood 00:38:47.83 Shari Walker Park Falls 42:34.04 Terri Rossiter Mosinee 43:37.75 Lisa Carbaugh Medford 43:39.16 Laurie Anderson Medford 49:23.97 Nicole Schweitzer Black River Falls 52:30.28 Ann Schmitt Colby 55:13.49 Linda Czeshinski Medford 56:45.410 Jill Simpson Dekalb Ill. 1:00:31.811 Kari Mueller Medford 1:02:32.912 Susan Moretz Medford 1:02:41.013 Nicole Gradberg Medford 1:10:20.014 Lori Haas Medford 1:16:29.4

Female 50-54 1 Ann Schield Medford 38:59.22 Chris Kepner Athens 39:17.83 Sarah Steele Woodruff 43:24.14 Lynn Olson Rib Lake 45:14.55 Roz Barker Green Bay 46:18.66 Sally Schumacher-Stefaniak Milwaukee 46:29.87 Paula Hamman Medford 47:46.08 Vickie Orth Abbotsford 48:09.5

9 Laura Hayden Stetsonville 48:24.510 Deb Hoover Stevens Point 48:37.911 Monelle Johnson Medford 50:45.412 Jayne Lavin Medford 51:25.013 Roxy Robida Medford 51:41.714 Patti Nelson Medford 52:05.915 Belinda Fechhelm Marshfi eld 52:36.416 Lori Haizel Withee 55:00.117 Mary Hein Medford 58:08.518 Rhonda Gorsla Schofi eld 1:08:11.219 Marcia Obukowicz Rhinelander 1:18:43.720 Joann Peel Merrill 1:25:35.1

Female 55-59 1 Christine Seguin Black River Falls 35:17.72 Deb Sportte Medford 45:54.83 Ruth Schilling Medford 46:17.34 Jayne Haenel Medford 47:26.45 Mary Noonan Thorp 49:32.26 Julie Mitchell Chippewa Falls 50:17.17 Sue Gebert Medford 52:13.18 Kathy Hemer Medford 52:14.39 Doris Lange Milton 52:26.910 Joan Peissig Abbotsford 55:12.711 Bev Kilty Colby 56:09.912 Joyce McNamee Phillips 59:39.113 Judy Gabriel Athens 59:43.214 Jody Balciar Medford 1:01:14.515 Sue Fitzgerald Medford 1:03:09.416 Luanne Schneider Medford 1:04:25.217 Sue Mueller Spencer 1:07:19.418 Bonnie Kanarowski Lublin 1:09:16.219 Cathy Thompson Chippewa Falls 1:19:57.9

Female 60-64 1 Jill Dixon Medford 43:17.62 Kitty Rau Dorchester 47:41.73 Gloria Steivang Stanley 49:32.54 Nancy McDaniel Marshfi eld 50:16.15 Lois Giese Medford 51:29.36 Jean Flood Medford 52:06.27 Janet Greschner Withee 53:33.48 Chris Finkler Medford 01:00:56.29 Mary Grajkowski Lublin 1:04:18.610 Mary Winchell Hawkins 1:12:31.011 Judy Underwood Chili 1:30:12.4

Female 65-69 1 Marcy Lewens Mosinee 42:05.82 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 33:26.02 Winston Sapinski Medford 33:48.63 Cade Alexander Medford 33:56.54 Ethan Krzanowski Mosinee 37:10.75 Aaron Connelly Medford 40:19.8

Male 16-18 1 Carter Sapinski Medford 29:31.32 Douglas Schumacher Dorchester 39:16.13 Hunter Anderson Medford 45:25.74 Sam Schmitt Colby 53:51.7

Male 19-24 1 Evan Schumacher River Falls 27:57.42 Luke Wernberg Dorchester 28:12.63 Bart Hallgren Medford 30:02.74 Zach Wernberg Madison 34:04.95 Darren Leonard Medford 39:53.66 Skyler Anderson Medford 45:21.97 Phillip Lang Medford 47:02.48 Brock Baumann Medford 47:58.39 Brent Mueller Medford 1:02:32.4

Male 25-29 1 Joseph Svejda Medford 24:39.02 Daniel Babcock Phillips 31:20.83 Brandon Armstrong Kenosha 33:16.24 Andrew Reidenbach Madison 35:35.85 Mike Wolf Medford 48:32.36 Jesse Harder Dorchester 52:37.97 Jay Schmeiser Medford 1:00:03.78 Ben Mueller Medford 1:02:35.39 Andrew Dillenburg Marshfi eld 1:03:56.310 Brian Abel Spencer 1:03:58.711 Adam Smith Greenwood 1:06:46.4

Male 30-34 1 Jaco Vanderberg Medford 27:06.02 Rob Stuber Medford 28:15.83 Jeffery Briggs Medford 31:28.84 Joshua Brander Medford 32:52.55 Pete Haenel Medford 33:23.06 Eric Carlson Medford 33:45.27 Jon Knoll Medford 33:46.48 Brian Arndt Chicago 34:37.99 Joe Harris Medford 34:38.010 Jake Crass Medford 37:07.111 Scott Baumgartner Medford 45:11.612 Kevin Wellman Medford 46:00.813 Nicholas Leao Medford 47:33.514 Erich Mayer Green Bay 1:06:46.6

Male 35-39 1 Kris Borchardt Weston 24:29.72 Chris Krenz Stevens Point 29:24.83 Cody Rabska Medford 34:17.14 Chuck Sova Withee 38:44.55 Brad Fagan Medford 48:40.56 Jason Erl Medford 52:36.77 Brendan Noonan Chicago 57:47.38 Kevin Rabska Junction City 59:40.89 Darwin Greschner La Crosse 1:06:01.7

Male 40-44 1 Davey Sapinski Medford 24:45.32 Jason Ruesch Medford 25:39.13 Matt Gross Ottawa Ill. 31:53.24 Tony Schumacher Stetsonville 32:10.35 Mike Radlinger Medford 33:02.46 David Lambert Black River Falls 39:26.47 Troy Meyer Medford 41:51.38 Scott Walker Park Falls 42:34.19 Jamie Mancl Wi Rapids 43:55.310 Jamie Wally Appleton 48:11.011 Michael Shiffl er Medford 58:58.812 Steven Ramm De Pere 1:08:19.2

Male 45-49 1 Shane Ironside Wisconsin Rapids 31:06.32 Ned Schumacher Medford 34:24.63 Jim Gilles Mosinee 43:47.94 Darren Krzanowski Mosinee 52:15.5

5 Paul Brown Stetsonville 52:33.46 Paul Wilke West Bend 52:51.87 David Brager Lublin 53:34.48 Brad Remmen Marshfi eld 58:55.39 Kurt Offi cer Stratford 58:55.310 Scott Goeb Iola 1:00:09.411 David Simpson Dekalb 1:00:38.2

Male 50-54 1 Melvin Carlson Medford 34:46.62 Jerome Switlick Athens 36:38.83 David Connelly Medford 37:25.14 William Rosa Medford 48:43.85 Rodney Robida Medford 51:41.96 Scott Lindow Medford 52:36.87 Jean Lampi Owen 53:34.48 John Fales Medford 54:58.19 Mark Sobotta Medford 55:18.910 Kurt Kapfhamer Dodgeville 58:04.811 Ray Kapfhamer Madison 58:07.712 Pat Gaab Chandler Ariz. 1:03:01.613 Jay Gorski Schofi eld 1:08:50.014 Scott Gradberg Medford 1:10:17.315 Michael Haas Medford 1:16:28.7

Male 55-59 1 Tim Rau Abbotsford 00:30:57.52 Rick Noonan Thorp 00:35:12.23 Richard Rau Medford 00:41:45.14 Rick Sperl Medford 00:41:54.25 Ken Milz Colby 00:42:19.26 Terry Mueller Spencer 00:42:36.57 Toby Anderson Medford 00:42:56.18 Bob Wiinamaki Medford 00:43:46.09 Todd Seguin Black River Falls 00:44:22.710 John Mayer Medford 00:46:57.911 Ronny Sromek Medford 00:48:30.012 Edward Kalepp Medford 00:50:11.513 James Large Milton 00:52:27.014 Jeff Hemer Medford 00:57:35.215 Mark Reidenbach Kenosha 00:59:47.616 Rodney Andreasen Eau Claire 01:11:55.717 David Riedel Milwaukee 01:13:08.718 Brad Bacher Merrill 01:25:34.5

Male 60-64 1 Dave Rau Dorchester 30:42.12 John Kann Rice Lake 31:13.63 Mike Malchow Medford 32:58.04 Gerart Sasman Black River Falls 38:30.85 Jeff Tarras Stratford 40:07.26 Michael Schneider Medford 44:13.37 Gregory Steivang Stanley 46:23.38 Gary Koser Sturtevant 47:17.310 Jeff Greschner Withee 1:05:58.711 Joe Huck Kenosha 1:09:21.212 Roy Thompson Chippewa Falls 1:19:57.7

Male 65-69 1 David Sova Medford 42:47.22 Patrick McNeely Curtiss 47:36.33 Steve Luther Colby 50:38.74 Jerome Briski Greenwood 50:47.65 Ed Jeannette Edgerton 51:58.4

Male 70-74 1 Bruce Olson Stetsonville 53:21.92 Ron Shiffl er Medford 1:08:21.4

3 Mile women’s mountaineer Champion - Jona Hatlestad Withee 40:45.5 25-29 1 Kylie Fitzgerald Medford 47:17.92 Lisa Kopp Medford 55:53.935-39 1 Gwen Sova Withee 51:53.52 Michelle Czlapinski Milladore 1:13:08.045-49 1 Liz Lund Black River Falls 55:02.42 Patty Grove Rothschild 1:12:00.960-64 1 Linda McReynolds Rhinelander 58:26.7

3 Mile Clydesdale1 William Litzer Marathon 36:41.0 2 Justin Ray Shorewood 44:52.53 Adam Rodman Medford 45:23.54 Jordan Richert Medford 48:27.85 Eric Johansen Angora 49:16.4

6 Bob Mitchell Chippewa Falls 49:20.67 Ethan Hemer Medford 49:40.88 Andrew Rodman Medford 51:00.59 Jesse Beyerl Rib Lake 54:36.010 Ben Hemer Medford 57:35.011 Tom Mueller Medford 1:02:33.512 Daniel Simpson Cortland 1:03:10.8

Team resultsCo-worker division1 Team Hosers - Medford Area Fire Department2 Hurd Windows and DoorsOpen division1 Tony’s Thundering Troop2 KC Fitness Winter Wackos 3 Justin Bieber Fan Club4 Aspirus Medford Surgery

6 mile Men’s champion - Joe Freudenthal Withee 56:39.5Women’s champion - Jennifer Chaudoia Green Bay 1:04:00.1

Female 30-34 1 Wendy Stuner Thorp 1:17:44.52 Karyn Nitz Thorp 1:22:43.5

Female 35-39 1 Jenny Duellman Lublin 1:17:49.82 Rachel Clark Medford 1:31:44.43 Colleen McCarthy Wauwatosa 1:38:37.0

Female 40-44 1 Linae Treu Wausau 1:54:49.72 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

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 1:09:11.12 Eric Tatro Weston 1:16:37.2

Male 35-39 1 Chris Tatro Weston 1:10:57.62 Ryan Zvege Marshfi eld 1:21:28.0

Male 45-49 1 Scott Scheithauer Medford 1:02:00.5

Male 50-54 1 Rick Stefanovic Milwaukee 1:09:03.82 Jay Punke Wausau Wi 1:13:27.2

Male 55-59 1 Cary Gottlieb Marquette Mich. 1:11:15.1Male 60-64 1 Joseph Pettorini Rhinelander 2:27:06.4

Male 65-69 1 William Kelch Knoxville Tenn. 2:59:55.9

Male 70-74 1 Rick Lecher Gordon 1:55:00.0

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.

Going Going for goldfor gold

Churn and burnKathryn Tesch churns up the snow

on the fi nal stretch of the race Saturday at Perkinstown Winter Sports Area.

OOver the topWinston Sapinski (282), Cade Alexander (312), Trisha Wagnerrr

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((591) and Cody Rabska (699) crest the top of the fi nal hill on theee PPerkinstown showshoe race course.

Results of 2015 Perkinstown Snowshoe Race held Jan. 17 Results of 2015 Perkinstown Snowshoe Race held Jan. 17

Women’s winnerAmanda Schield was the women’s

champion in the three mile race.

Nice dayJaco Vanderberg takes advantage of a

nice winter day to race sleeveless.

SnowshoemacherTyler Schumacher sprints toward the

fi nal downhill on his way to the three mile win.

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convert on two, one of which extended into the second period.

Heller and Ben Brown had the assists on Joe Ladewig’s power-play goal 3:40 into the second pe-riod. Heller and Bryce Swiechowski had the assists on Baumann’s 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. Medford’s 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 L’Anse, Mich. 3-1 in Friday’s other semi-

fi nal, setting up Saturday’s consolation game between Medford and L’Anse. The Purple Hornets and Raiders were tied 1-1 early, but L’Anse 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 fi rst period. Schafer had the assist. That answered a Zach Hulkkonen goal at the 4:37 mark that put L’Anse 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 didn’t 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 upChequamegon-Phillips put together a pair of three-

goal spurts and that was enough for Team Seal to out-score the Raiders 8-4 on Thursday in non-conference play at the Simek Recreation Center.

Those two scoring outbursts gave the visitors a 6-2 lead heading into the third period. Medford made it in-teresting with goals by Schafer and Hraby closing the gap to 6-4. But Chequamegon-Phillips got a clinching goal from Thomas Roberts at the 12:19 mark and sealed it with an empty-net goal from Kevin Koski at 15:01.

“We still made some youthful mistakes,” Demulling said. A highlight from the game, though, was that Medford got two goals from defensemen in the loss.

Medford drew fi rst blood, getting a goal just 1:26 in from freshman defenseman Ryan Perrin. Spenser Scholl had the assist.

But the guests quickly erased that lead. Koski found the net at 4:23, as-sisted by Chanse Peth and Willie Reukauf. At 7:36, Roberts went top shelf to beat Jamieson to make it 2-1. Seth Gehrke and Calvin Walker had

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The Sports PageTuesday Night Mixed LeagueJay Jochimsen 279 Bob Schilling 743Bob Schilling 267 Jay Jochimsen 687Justin Smith 265 Virgil Wysocki 662Jan. 13: High View I 39, Liske Marine 1; Riemer Builders 29, Medford Co-op 11; Fuzzy’s Bar 23.5, High View II 16.5.

Three-Man Major LeagueSteve Richter 276 Todd Metz 710Pat Gunn 264 Steve Richter 691Chad Lingen 259 Kurt Werner 690Jan. 13: Team Stihl 18, BB’s Aquatic II 12; KZ Electric 25, Cindy’s 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; BB’s Aquatic I 30, Country Garden 0; Rocky’s Cozy Kitchen 21, Sports Page I 9.

Businessmen’s LeagueWomenAnn McNamar 226 Ann McNamar 617Betty Braun 219 Lori Zenner 532MenDenny Czeshinski 299 Mike Platt 719Dave Kallenbach 268 John Koren 702Jan. 15: Turtle Club 31, Shell Shack 9; PBR’s Lounge Around 24, Rural Insurance 16; Werner Sales & Service 36; Al’s Auto Dock 27, VFW 13; Jensen & Son Asphalt 29, Haenels 11; Sports Page 31, Rocky’s Cozy Kitchen 9; Medford Motors 35, Melvin Companies 5.

Classy Ladies LeagueAnn McNamar 247 Ann McNamar 591Mary Lou Anderson 212 Mary Lou Anderson 570Bobbie Smith 204 Nancy Acker 551Results: Rocky’s Cozy Kitchen 4, Tease Tanning Plus 3; Al’s Auto Dock 7; Fidelity Bank 5, The Flower Shoppe 2; Klinner Insurance 4, J&B Custom Carpentry 3; Pauline’s Hair Fashion 4, Moosie’s Ice Cream 3; VFW 5, A&M Apartments 2.

Blue Monday LeagueDonna Werner 213 Donna Werner 539Carol Willman 206 Carol Willman 509Marian Nernberger 188 Lisa Bub 505Jan. 12: Big Bird’s Lodge 4, Happy Joe’s 3; Strikes ‘R Us 5, Heier’s Wreaths 2; Bakers 5, Holy Rollers 2.

Ball and Chain Nine-Pin Tap LeagueMenEd Brandt 300 Ed Brandt 831Roger Smith 300 Casey Nernberger 824Casey Nernberger 300 Dave Kallenbach 785WomenCarmen Merrell 267 Carmen Merrell 625Julie Smith 266 Julie Smith 617Katy Zirngible 217 Linda Waldhart 517Jan. 10: The BSers 26.5, Alley Cats 5.5; Pinbusters 27, Jr. Snowpush-ers 5; Outlaws 28, Whatchamacallit 4; Mamas & Papas 29, Thunder Buddies 3; Ray & The Girls 20.5.

Tappers Bar (Dorchester)Tuesday Seniors LeagueMenDon Clarkson 189 Don Clarkson 507Jerry Huber 174 Don Scheibe 410Corlas Meier 150 Jerry Huber 406WomenMona Pope 172 Ardis Meier 467Ardis Meier 166 Mona Pope 440Dorothy Scheibe 161 Dorothy Scheibe 432Jan. 20: Amigos 4, Maybees 3, Slo Poks 3, Slow Starters 1, Alley Cats 0.

Bowling

Medford had an early chance, going on a power play just 2:47 in. But an interfer-ence penalty wiped that out 45 seconds later. Not long after the penalties elapsed, the Tigers got on the board at 6:26 with Hanna Hodge getting a clean rebound off a stick save by Lybert off a shot by Devyn Schreier. Abbie Johnson also had an as-sist. Then, 3:50 into the second period, Baileigh Johnson got free right on the doorstep to Lybert’s right and took a per-fect cross-ice pass from Miranda Hizer to make it 2-0.

Johnson scored again at 6:11 and Abbie Johnson added a power-play goal at 13:10 to make it 4-0.

Kacie Suchanek scored a power-play goal with an assist from Destiny Muir 3:55 into the third period before McPeak got Medford on the board. Khloe Spears scored for Black River Falls a minute later and 1:02 after that, Allison Zillmer closed the scoring with assists from Hana Ledebuhr and Abbie Johnson.

Medford put 15 shots on Tiger goalie Molly Lelonek in the fi rst two periods. She fi nished with 20 saves.

Loss to T-BirdsOn Jan. 13, Medford fell 4-1 at Lakeland

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 fi ve-on-three advantage late in the fi rst period when Muenzner lit the lamp with just 13 seconds left in the period and on the fi rst of Medford’s two penalties. Brina Trapp and Godfrey had the assists. The goal punctuated a period where Lakeland out-shot 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 pow-er-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 as-sists from Quamme and Pairolero at 5:12 to put it out of reach.

Hanson had 26 saves for the Raiders. Nimsgern had 23 saves.

Girls hockey falls to BRF

the assists. Peth then got a break at 10:28, somehow get-ting the puck to sneak under Jamieson’s stick. Aaron Gehrke and Koski were credited with assists.

Schafer cut the defi cit to 3-2 just 22 seconds later, as-sisted by Klayton Kree and Hraby.

Chequamegon-Phillips broke it open with its three-goal 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 in-side 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 Jamieson’s 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 fi red 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 fi rst period alone. Ernst had just eight saves.

GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCEBOYS HOCKEY STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W-L-T W-L-TAntigo 9-0-0 15-2-1Mosinee 8-0-1 10-4-2Northland Pines 7-2-0 7-9-1Waupaca 4-2-1 7-6-1Tomahawk 3-7-0 3-12-0Rhinelander 2-7-0 6-8-1Medford 1-8-0 1-16-0Lakeland 1-9-0 1-15-0Jan. 15: Chequamegon-Phillips 8, Medford 4; Mosinee 8, Lake-land 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: L’Anse, 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 Marshfi eld.Jan. 23: Mosinee at Northland Pines, Marshfi eld 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, Rhineland-er at Lakeland, Chippewa Falls at Mosinee.Jan. 29: Mosinee at Antigo, Northland Pines at Waupaca, Chequa-megon-Phillips at Tomahawk.

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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 fi lled, compared to 7.1 per-cent in 2013.

“The fall turkey season provides a much differ-ent experience for turkey hunters,” said Scott Walter, Department of Natural Resources upland wildlife ecolo-gist. “In particular, those who hunt turkeys with dogs are very passionate about the experience. Turkey har-vest totals refl ect a number of factors, including turkey population size, weather conditions and hunter partici-pation and effort.”

Variable weather conditions play a signifi cant role in turkey population dynamics, and the number of tur-keys hunters encounter certainly refl ects this variable. A severe winter in 2013-14 led to some localized mortal-ity, 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 tur-keys in the north came through last year’s severe win-ter, and fi eld reports suggest production among north-

When harvest data for the spring 2015 turkey season is available, biologists will assess spring production lev-els 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 post-cards within the next two to three weeks. Hunters can also check their permit application status online via the department’s 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 over-the-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 Wisconsin’s seven turkey management zones is rec-ommended 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 fi eld.

To learn more about Wisconsin’s wild turkeys, search the DNR website, dnr.wi.gov, for keyword “turkey.”

Hunters register 4,220 turkeys in 2014 fall hunt; spring permit levels set

Jody taught Joey at our fi rst 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 day’s end we had seven sets for beavers. The following day, Jody taught Joey how to make two sets for muskrats. That fi rst 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. 14High 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. Joey’s fi rst set was a baited set under the ice and no beavers.

The next set was a trail on the bottom of the reser-voir and that is where Joey caught his fi rst beaver af-ter some ice chopping and trap pulling. Joey’s third set held his second beaver. His fourth held his fi rst muskrat and his fi fth 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 with-out over harvesting.

As I said, our sets were scattered and our second-to-last set was made for beavers but held Joey’s 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.

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First beaverHello 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 fi rst beaver. I tell Joey, let’s wait. Come up with a bunch of 330 body grip traps and do this in a cou-ple of weeks. Besides, it’s Christmas!

Enter our good buddy Jody Bigalke. Jody is a very ac-tive trapper, has lots of gear and likes teaching kids how to hunt, shoot carp, fi sh and trap (major KAMO one-on-one mentor). Jody basically takes charge of the entire operation and here is the story.

Saturday, Jan. 10High 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 fi rst 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 fi rst place we made our sets was one of fi ve that Joey had been doing some very serious scouting at. The layout was a maybe 200-acre reservoir with the vast ma-jority 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 bea-ver fi nd abundant food to consume in the aspen that ap-pears 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 fi rst beaver and teaching him how to trap them.

Our fi rst 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.

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 fi eld will vary ac-cordingly.”

In 2014, 96,700 permits were made available (not in-cluding Fort McCoy). This number was identical to per-mits issued in 2013. A preliminary total of 62,450 permits were sold for the 2014 fall turkey season, with 54,243 al-lotted 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 fi nalized.

The department initiated the fi rst fall turkey season in 1989 as a result of an increase and expansion of tur-keys 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 fl ocks. They are very good at locating roost sites or feeding locations,” Walter said. “Hunters who pursue turkeys during both the spring and fall sea-sons are treated to two very distinctive outdoor expe-riences, 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 year’s spring turkey hunting season. The regular season will begin April 15.

DMAP applications for 2015 now being accepted by DNR

Conservation-minded landowners and land manag-ers throughout Wisconsin are reminded of an opportu-nity 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 activi-ties like agriculture and timber management.

The 2015 enrollment deadline for properties larger than 160 acres is March 1, and landowners are encour-aged to apply early. Both public and private lands are eligible to participate in DMAP. Program cooperators at each level will receive immediate access to educa-tional resources and DMAP updates.

“We had a great fi rst year of DMAP in 2014,” said Bob Nack, DMAP coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. “We worked with nearly 300 land-owners who are working to improve more than 44,000 acres of land for the benefi t of Wisconsin’s 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 benefi ts in 2015. These benefi ts include all Level 1 benefi ts, in addition to site visits with local DNR staff, a property management plan and eligibility for reduced-price ant-lerless harvest tags.

Properties less than 160 acres will be automatically accepted for Level 1 enrollment on a continuous basis. Level 1 benefi ts include access to DMAP reports and DNR publications regarding habitat and deer manage-ment, communication with local DNR staff and an invi-tation 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 op-portunity to share costs and equipment on habitat proj-ects and to benefi t deer and other wildlife over a greater area while improving relations and hunting opportuni-ties among neighbors.

Those interested in learning more about the pro-gram are encouraged to participate in an informational chat on Thursday, Feb. 5 at noon. To view a chat sched-ule and check out previous chats, search the DNR web-site, dnr.wi.gov, for keyword “expert.” For more infor-mation regarding DMAP and the application process, search keyword “DMAP.”

To receive DMAP email updates and other informa-tion, 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.

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Milestones, Memories, Births, Engagements, Weddings

The Table Sally Rassmussen

Michelle Marie Williams and William Matthew Ca-hoon were united in marriage on Oct. 4 at Cherokee Park in the town of Hull with Ocean Prihoda serving as offi ciating minister. Amanda Becker provided the mu-sic for the ceremony.

The bride is the daughter of Michael and Becky Wil-liams 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 Ken-nan 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 couple’s children, Grace, Chloe and Kendyl, served as fl ower 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.

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Michelle and William Cahoon

Births

Cason Anton JosefHaven Rae

Aemus and Emily Balsis of Medford announce the birth of twins, born on Jan. 5 at Aspirus Birthing Cen-ter - Medford. Their son, Cason Anton Josef, was fi ve 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 GenePatrick 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-LamarMontgomery Hickles and Tara Koszarek of Wausau

announce the birth of a son, Alexander Davidallen-La-mar, 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.

SawyerAshley and Michael Hastreiter of Rhinelander an-

nounce 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.

Ervin and Sandy Neuman of Medford announce the engagement of their daughter, Samantha Rose Neu-man, to Douglas James Cottrell II.

The bride-to-be is a 2006 graduate of Medford Area Senior High and a 2008 graduate of Northcentral Tech-nical 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.

Douglass Cottrell and Samantha Neuman

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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 diffi cult that is – once you’ve 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 snail’s pace that seemed sus-tainable, my ambitions fell away until I was left with just one goal: transform a big ol’ pork butt into Pork Carnitas. (And now I’m 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 writ-ings I would produce. When the reality came, I discov-ered my non-work life (this was before Tom and TCR) consisted largely of hiking in or out of the cabin, split-ting 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 fi ll all the time there was, making no apologies to books unread or un-written.

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 refl ection I miss some aspects

of cabin life, I positively adore the amenities of electric lights and running water. (No one should think they don’t mind an outhouse until they have to clean out its backside.) And there was an even greater advantage to moving into Tom’s 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 no-tice. And maybe we can occasionally grant ourselves the peace of a day in which to make something full of time and attention.

Pork CarnitasHeat in a Dutch oven or large cast-iron skillet:¼ cup vegetable oilSeason with salt:4 lbs. pork shoulder, cut into about a dozen piecesBrown the pork in the hot oil. Add:1 chopped onion1 clove of garlic, crushed3 tablespoons lime juice1 tablespoon chili powder½ teaspoon oregano½ teaspoon cumin6-8 cups of chicken brothBring to a simmer and reduce the heat to low. Cover

and simmer for 2 or 2 ½ hrs. Transfer the pork to a bak-ing sheet. Pre-heat the oven to 400º. Simmer the cooking liquid down until it’s 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 fi lling for tortillas.

Slow food means good memories

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As the celebration of Martin Luther King’s 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 Uni-versity 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 el-derly black woman in public housing. It was a small apartment, but she said she was glad to share it with us.

The fi rst night in town, as Lou and I returned from dinner, we noticed the black section of town, unlike other neigh-borhoods, did not have paved streets or street lights. Suddenly, we noticed car lights heading for us – and I mean head-ing 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 out-side a church. I’ll 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 fi ne if we just keep cool and keep walking.”

As we started to walk, I noticed a thin

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Remember When — Jan. 2005

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 fl ashing lights in 2007. The bridge does not provide enough clearance for some tall trucks passing underneath on Hwy 73.

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 one’s bones and sent the mer-cury tumbling down to as low as 22 de-grees below over night. Cold that made ice of the previously melting snow en-dangering those who had to make use of highways and streets.

Taylor county with a perfect traf-fi c record wondered over the weekend whether or not the cold spell would bring the fi rst casualty. But though there were three traffi c accidents there were no deaths.

January 21, 1965A petition by 175 residents of the

towns of Frankfort, Holton and John-son in Marathon county for detachment from the Abbotsford district and attach-ment to the Colby school district has been denied. The request was turned down Thursday by the joint school com-mittees of Clark and Marathon counties by a vote of 8 to 3.

Another hearing will be held Feb-ruary 3 by the joint school districts. It concerns fi ve petitions calling for trans-ferring 70 parcels of land in the towns of Hull, Holton and Brighton from the Colby district to the Abbotsford district.

Jan. 18, 1940Along with the rest of the state this

week, Taylor county took a “breather” after experiencing one of those about-faces that old man winter executes ever so frequently. From enjoying the un-

January 24, 1990Although three supervisors opposed

January 20, 2005Gilman 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 pro-posal 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 pro-posed scheduling plan.

The school district is awaiting fi -nal confi rmation that it will receive a $200,000 federal grant to operate an af-ter school remediation program for all students during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 school years, according to School Dis-trict Administrator Drew Johnson. The program will not only help stu-dents keep up with their studies, but it also will provide more work hours for some staff to remain employed full time, he said.

January 20, 1915Mrs. Ed Dake gave a farewell sur-

prise to her mother, Mrs. Stephenson, by inviting the Rebekahs for the eve-ning 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 pa-per doilies, an eating contest, forming animals with gum, giving pretty prizes to the winners. The Misses Alva and Marjorie Dake entertained with vo-cal selections. A two course luncheon was served. The friends presented Mrs. Stephenson with a choice leather hand bag as a token of remembrance.

the action, the county’s airport and rails committee was authorized by the Taylor County Board last week to begin negotia-tions for a 55-acre parcel of land next to the airport.

The board also approved buying 40 acres of land and an unrestricted ease-ment near county forest property in the Town of Rib Lake. That vote was unani-mous, with Alderman/Supervisor Ar-lene “Archie” Parent absent.

Voting against buying the land near the airport were Supervisors George Le-wandowski, Herbert Bergmann and Rob-ert 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 east-west runway is extended.

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’ shoul-ders, called us all sorts of names.

After a good walk, and singing songs, we stopped for some refreshments from the back of trucks. I’ll always remem-ber 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-

mation job with his Southern Chris-tian 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 can’t accept blows without retaliating, don’t get in the line.”

— Earl Finkler, Medford

Selma: Medford man recalls march for voting rights

Historical portrayalThis 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.

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Beef conference Feb. 20-21in Wisconsin Dells

The Wisconsin Cattlemen’s Associa-tion (WCA) and the Wisconsin Cattle-women’s Association will hold their annual winter conference Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21 in Wisconsin Dells.

This year’s conference will feature a full day of educational sessions and meetings presented by the Wisconsin Cattlemen’s 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 va-riety of topics such as farm transition planning, advocating through social me-dia, cow herd immunity and beef cattle market outlook.

Speakers and topics of the conference include:

John Gasner, agriculture program specialist with the Wisconsin Farm Cen-ter and Wisconsin Department of Agri-culture, Trade and Consumer Protection, will present “Farm Transition Planning, Creating and Communicating Your

Farm’s Future.” Lee Schulz, assistant professor and

extension livestock economist at the De-partment of Economics at Iowa State Uni-versity, will present “Beef-Cattle Market Outlook, 2015 and Beyond.”

Veterinarian John Rodgers will pres-ent “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 Friday’s educational program and evening ban-quet. There will be no cost to attend any meetings on Saturday, but there will be a charge for meals.

For information or registration ma-terials, contact Martha Olson at 608-228-1457, wisbeef@yahoo.com, or visit the WCA website at www.wisconsincattle-men.com where you will fi nd conference information and a registration form for downloading.

American Legion Auxiliaryholds Jan. 12 meeting

There were eight members present when the Jan. 12 meeting of Boxrucker-Berry American Legion Auxiliary Unit 519 was called to order by president Juanita Krug.

Roll call of offi cers was followed by the secretary’s report which was approved as read. The treasurer’s report was ap-proved as read and placed on fi le for au-dit.

The unit’s Badger Girls State repre-sentative is Esther Lusenge and the al-ternate 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 depart-ment correspondence for December and January.

A discussion was held about the unit’s annual pancake breakfast, bake sale and raffl e on March 22. Motion made and sec-onded 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

Wisconsin FFA Foundationscholarships available

The Wisconsin FFA Foundation is ac-cepting applications for 2015 post-second-ary scholarships. The electronic applica-tion 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 offi ce.

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 fi ll out one application to be considered for all schol-arships for which the applicant qualifi es. A listing of additional criteria for certain scholarships is available on the Wiscon-sin FFA website.

Scholarships available include Blain’s Farm and Fleet (two $2,000), GROWMARK (two $1,200), Kenneth K. Heideman Endowment (seven $1,000), Wisconsin Agri-Business Association

(four $1,000), Danny and Robin Connelly Family and Organic Valley ($1,000), Ar-nold and Katherine Cordes Endowment ($1,000), Wisconsin FFA Convention ($850), Cooperative Resources Interna-tional (two $750), Louis M. Sasman of the Kiwanis Club of Downtown Madi-son 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 En-dowment ($500), Bernie and Marty Stall-er 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 Bjor-aker 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@wisconsinffafoun-dation.org or call 608-831-5058, ext. 1.

Rabies clinic in GilmanPoplar 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.

Extra Mile Employee AwardA luncheon was held Jan. 14 to honor Jerome Kowalski (center) who was named a

recipient of this year’s Catholic Charities Bureau (CCB) Extra Mile Employee Award. The award recognizes outstanding individual employees of CCB who have distin-guished 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.

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TAYLOR COUNTYFORESTRY & ZONING ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT POSITIONThe Forestry and Recreation Department and Zoning Department are looking for an individual to work full-time as an Administrative Support position. Duties will include making referrals to County, State and Federal 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 cor-respondence 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.

A completed Taylor County application is required to be considered for this position. An electronic and printable 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:

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGERTAYLOR COUNTY COURTHOUSE

224 S. 2ND STREETMEDFORD, WI 54451

E-MAIL: human.resources@co.taylor.wi.usAFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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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/careersto apply today!

Competitive compensation and benefit package offered.

EEO Employer with aDrug-Free Environment

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NOW HIRING PRODUCTION WORKERS

TAYLOR COUNTYCUSTODIAN - BUILDINGS, GROUNDS AND PARKS DEPARTMENT

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TAYLOR COUNTY SECRETARY/COURT DEPUTY

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Jump River Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Applications can be found online at www.jrec.net and will

be accepted until February 9, 2015. Jump River Electric is an

equal opportunity provider and employer. EOE/M/F

Attn: Sam Howard, Operations Supervisor

13895 W. County Hwy. B

Hayward, WI 54843

JOURNEY LINE WORKER

Jump River Electric Cooperative has an immediate opening

for a Line worker at our Hayward location. Successful

candidate will be responsible for construction, maintenance,

repair and operation of the distribution system.

A Journey Line Worker is preferred, but an apprentice

may be considered. A high school diploma, or GED,

and completion of a recognized accredited Line Worker

program is required. A valid driver’s license and a CDL

Submit resume, transcripts, and Cooperative application to:

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CAMP 28 is looking for a cook and other energetic, excited and customer oriented people 18 and over to join our team. Please apply at Camp 28 on beauti-ful Rib Lake, 720 S. Hwy 102.

HELP WANTED: Pulp truck driver for local hauling. Competi-tive pay and benefi ts. Blomberg Trucking Inc. 715-493-1111.

HELP WANTED. Apply in per-son after 4 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday at P&E Steakhouse, Hwy 13 South, Medford.

LOOKING FOR very respon-sible bartender every other weekend and other days avail-able. In Medford. Send inqui-ries to Blind Ad #289, P.O. Box 180, Medford, WI 54451.

MEDFORD FOODS is accept-ing applications for a full-time production employee. It will be a daytime position starting at 5 a.m. Frequent lifting of 50 pounds with overtime hours. 401k with company match and health insurance provided. Apply at N3528 Hwy 13, Medford, WI.

MEYER MANUFACTURING Corporation is accepting ap-plications for CNC machinists, break press operators, painters, production welders and general labor. Competitive wage, excel-lent fringe benefi ts, normal work week is four 10 hour days - Mon-day 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 operat-ing large machinery. Pay $20 per hour. Call 715-238-7733.

HELP WANTED

ARE YOU the guy that found my custom Muskie rod and real near 13 and M last Au-gust? A reward is being offered. Call Karen at 715-965-7433.

LOST & FOUND

WILL DO babysitting in my country home located north of Curtiss and west of Stetson-ville on Hwy A. 715-678-2294.

CHILD CARE

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DAIRYLAND REALTY

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#1305794..................$350,000This beautiful 4 bedroom, 4 bath contemporary home features gleaming maple flooring, fully finished lower level with a walk-out to the patio, formal & informal dining room & so much more!

W7405 Grassy Knoll Trail, Medford

#1407581..................$267,500This 3 bedroom, 2 bath home features a contemporary floor plan including great room w/vaulted ceiling, master suite, sunroom & walkout lower level w/in-floor heat & finished family room.

909 Casement Court, Medford

#1407042..................$425,000This former Hardee’s building has been remodeled for the “Happy Joe’s Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor” franchise. The business can be purchased with or without the franchise.

559 Shattuck Street, Medford

#1405119..................$115,000This 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch home offers a large living room with wood burning fireplace, 3 season porch, family room, newer roof & new natural gas high efficiency boiler.

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To Apply:

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JELD-WEN WINDOWS & DOORS

PRODUCTIONWORKERS WANTED

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)

Present openings will start at $10.97 per hour, receive three monthly performance increases, and then attain a grade level. Our minimum grade level is $13.54 per hour. Second shift premium .60 cents. Our full-time benefit program includes:

8:00 am to 4:00 pm.JELD-WEN is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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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.

Competitive compensation based on experience. Benefits include shift premiums, health insurance, company paid life insurance, 401(k), paid vacations, and holidays.

Apply in person or send your confidential resume (no phone calls please) to:

WADAL Plastics, Inc.Attn: Human Resources

949 S. Gibson St.Medford, WI 54451

WADAL Plastics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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Caregivers & CNAsCaregivers & CNAsin Abbotsford has full and part-time positions available for all shifts. We are looking for posi-tive, hardworking individuals who are committed to provide quality care for our residents. In-house training provided. Background check required per DHS83. EOEPlease apply at:

oo W scco soo W sscco s100 South 4th Ave., Abbotsford, WI 54405See our website for further information: www.carepartners-countryterrace.com 3-164766

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HELP WANTEDEXPERIENCED CNC MACHINIST

Experience with Mazaks is a plus.1st shift, full-time

ALSO

SAW OPERATORExperience with sawing steel is a plus.Competitive Wages - Benefits Offered

Drop off or mail resume & application toTAKCO MFG.

810 S. AIRPORT RD., PHILLIPS, WI 54555 2-14

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Thursday, January 22, 2015 Page 19

715-748-2258Medford Office Hwy. 13 South

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MOBILE HOMES

MORKIES PUPPIES, also Shih-Tzu cross and some Boxers still available. W4775 Elm Ave., Stet-sonville, 1-1/2 miles east of 13. 271226-DS. Closed Sundays.

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by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter

Continued from page 6

Pirates beaten by Greenwood

It’s been an up and down season for the Rib Lake girls basketball team so far, but the team had a feeling going into Tuesday’s 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 Lake’s 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 can’t quite get over the hump,” Rib Lake head coach Mike Wudi said.

Early signs didn’t 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 fi rst minutes of

Rib Lake tipped by Prentice, team buries Lake Holcombe 53-13the 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 sec-ond 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 bas-kets 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 fi nal seconds of the half to pull the Redmen to within one go-ing into the locker room.

Prentice made two free throws to ex-tend 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-

Aggressive defense Rib Lake’s Katie Cardey (l.) and Mariah Thums (r.) attempt to steal the ball from

Prentice’s Caelyn Ulrich during the second quarter of the Redmen’s 38-36 loss on Tuesday. Prentice’s Hailey Enders and Rib Lake’s Ciara Scheithauer look on in the background.

Buy this photo on-line at www.centralwinews.com Photo by Bryan Wegter

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 fi nal quarter. Prentice add-ed three points on free throws on their next possessions and Rib Lake got one to put the score at 33-29 with 4:01 remain-ing. 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 move-ment 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 haven’t 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 fi eld 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 double-double. Cardey scored six points and grabbed fi ve rebounds. Fitzl had three points, three rebounds, one steal, and one assist. The Redmen fi nished 14 of 51 (27.4 percent) from the fi eld and six of nine at the free throw line.

“We’re right there. We need to beat someone that we’re not supposed to. That would be big for the program and for the girls individually,” Wudi said.

The Lady Redmen (4-11) return to ac-tion on the road against Edgar tomorrow, Friday. That Marawood North game tips at 7:30 p.m. Next Thursday, they’ll travel to Butternut for a non-conference game. That game has a 7 p.m. start.

RL pounds Lake HolcombeThree 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 I’ve ever seen and we were able to jump on them.”

The Redmen took advantage of a frig-id shooting night from the Chieftains to jump out to a 27-5 lead after the fi rst quar-ter.

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 open-ing 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 every-one on the bench playing time and it’ll 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

only a single point in the fourth quarter as Lake Holcombe got six on the board to cut the fi nal defi cit to 40 points.

Ciara Scheithauer scored a game-high 14 points on six of seven shooting and grabbed 11 rebounds to record a double-double. 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 per-cent) from the fi eld and seven of 13 (53.8 percent) from the free throw line.

Athens too much to handleA season of offensive struggles con-

tinued for Rib Lake, and the Athens Bluejays showed why they’re 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 of-fense. 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 fi rst quarter and didn’t slow down. They outscored the Redmen 13-3 in the second quarter and took a 21-point lead into half-time.

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 Redmen’s offense to a halt. The Bluejays shot 24 of 48 (50 percent) from the fi eld and were nine of 19 (47.3 percent) from the free throw line.

Weinke and Cardey both fi nished with four points to lead Rib Lake in scor-ing. Scheithauer scored three points and pulled down fi ve rebounds and fi ve steals. The Redmen fi nished seven of 25 (28 per-cent) from the fi eld and one of two at the free throw line. Mariah Thums made Rib Lake’s lone three-pointer in the game.

Birkenholz had seven points and three rebounds. Budzinski had two points and four boards.

But it wasn’t enough.Gilman made 17 of 48 two-point shots

(35 percent), missed all fi ve of its three-pointers and was fi ve 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 advan-tage in rebounding.

MARAWOOD NORTH DIVISIONGIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W L W LAthens 8 0 11 3Edgar 6 1 10 5Abbotsford 6 2 8 6Phillips 3 4 7 5Prentice 3 5 6 6Rib Lake 1 7 4 11Chequamegon 0 8 2 10Jan. 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 Ab-botsford, Prentice at Phillips, Edgar at Chequa-megon.

Medford marks 100 years of roaring rocksEvery 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 fi rst came to what was then a back-waters 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 fi rst members of the newly registered club. The ar-ticles of incorporation were fi led in the register of deeds offi ce at the courthouse. The charter members each committed to pay a fee of $10 to cover the cost of the sea-son. At a time when the average pay of a carpenter was $28 a week and a farm worker might get that amount for a month’s work, the amount each man contributed was

substantial. When adjusted for infl ation, it would equal about $487 in today’s currency.

According to a curling club history compiled by

longtime curler and retired Medford attorney Ray Scott, curling fi rst 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 club’s fi rst 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 Broth-ers 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 fi rst hospital in the city and later where the county’s human services offi ces were located.

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Curling thrived for the fi rst four years of incorporation. However, the effects of WWI and the 1918 fl u 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 the club history notes, Medford curl-ers were noted to have never canceled a game and were never late, regardless of the weather.

In August 1937, Pierce’s company, Universal Engineering, purchased the Fleming Garage Building at 224 South Second St. — now the location of a city parking lot. During the winter of 1937-38 the garage repair shop was converted to a two-sheet curling rink house with ice ready just before Christmas 1937. The Dec. 30, 1937 issue of The Star News in-cluded a general call for all people inter-ested in curling to come to a meeting on Jan. 3, 1938.

Turnout was high at the meeting and the club was organized with Ray Blakeslee as president, Bert Alm as vice

president, Eugene Bizer as treasurer, and Pierce as secretary. The new club didn’t forget its roots with the older orga-nization. The surviving founding charter members from 1914 were honored at the 1956 Men’s Invitational Bonspiel.

Following the Jan. 3, 1938 meeting, a schedule was put together with league curling starting Jan. 12 of that year. The fi rst Central Wisconsin Bonspiel was held in February of that year.

Curling continued at the Universal Engineering building through the win-ter 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 en-thusiasm to the point where there was talk of building a new rink house

Current buildingTalk of building a new curling facil-

ity 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 mem-bers went back to the drawing board.

Lewis Charles wrote the story of how the new building came to be. It was pub-lished in The Star News in December 1945 as a way to promote the grand open-ing during the annual Medford bonspiel.

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According to Charles, the decision to build was made in the spring of 1945 with Oscar Schield named chairman of the building committee and Walter Newberg chairman of the fi nance 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 offi ce in Washing-ton, D.C. and with the help of area fed-eral forest offi cers they were successful in getting a gift of a CCC building in Per-kinstown.

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 tak-ing 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

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 separat-ing the sheets, and instead the roof is sus-tained by trusses. During the 2014 Alum-ni 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 fl oor level. When ice was being made, the doors would be opened and the rink fl ooded. The occa-sional early season snowstorm meant part of ice maintenance involved shovel-ing 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 seat-ing for around 100 people.

DeliveryA rare action shot of a curler delivering the rock from the west end of the club dur-

ing a bonspiel. During the era of corn brooms, the ice would quickly become littered with debris.

Carl Soren-son (l. to r.) Bill Miller, Ed Schuster, and Bill Weibel discuss the game during the 1960 Cen-tral Wisconsin Bonspiel.

Curlers displaying the mink boas they received as a prize during a bonspiel at the club.

Ice master Mitch Mertens checks over the compressor system.

The fi rst place team in the mixed league taken Feb. 17, 1974.

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The prominent feature in the warm-ing room was a large fi replace, 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 boast-ed the club “now has a building worth in excess of $15,000.” In today’s dollars it would be equivalent to about $200,000.

Club members were working fast to get the club ready in time for the 9th an-nual 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, re-started 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 fi nished at 9:30 p.m.

A program from the 1946 Central Wisconsin Bonspiel praised those who worked on the club’s 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 be-ing opposed to consumption of alcohol and his infl uence in the club carried over so the space which eventually became a bar was initially a small offi ce and locker room.

The next major innovation at the curl-ing club was the installation of the fi rst refrigeration system. By the mid 1950s, many other clubs in Wisconsin had in-stalled refrigeration systems and the Medford curlers who attended out of town bonspiels became convinced of the need for artifi cial ice. At the close of the 1955-56 season, plans were made for the installation of an ammonia-brine refrig-eration system at the club, It was pur-chased from the Vilter Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee. It utilized steel pipes embedded in sand in the dirt fl oor 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

Floor projectMitch Mertens (left) and Dave Lemke were among the many volunteers who helped

install the new fl oor in 2004.

Broom tech-nology has changed from corn brooms to foam brooms and hair brushes to solid brushes.

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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 fi nding its way to the ice sur-face. The decision was made to scoop out the sand and then bury the pipes in con-crete. 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 fl oor was installed and the refrigeration sys-tem 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 plas-tic mat system was purchased and laid down over the concrete fl oor 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 un-til 2004. In the fi nal 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 member-ship about if the club should invest in a new fl oor 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 curl-ing club and invest in the fl oor project. Again, volunteers from the club came forward putting in hundreds of hours of volunteer labor to remove the old con-crete and break out the steel pipes. Den-nis Mertens was chairman of the $60,000 project and Sam Way and Ken Nern-berger were among the most dedicated workers putting in hundreds of hours each. Bill Weiland handled the project fi nances. 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 lo-cal fi rms 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 offi ce was converted into a barroom. The club makes the claim as being the fi rst in the state to hold a regular tavern license. In 1968, the barroom was expanded and was expanded again in recent years for addi-tional storage and the removal of the wall between the bar and warming room to ac-commodate more fans.

All hands on deckDozens of club members helped lay miles of tubing used during installation of the

new fl oor in 2004. Volunteer labor from club members has saved the club tens of thousands of dollars over the years.

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 en-joys a soda while watching a match.

Medford has produced many world class curl-ers. Jackie Lemke recently compet-ed for a chance to be on the U.S. Olympic team.

Dave “Beaner” Lemke has been a fi xture at the curling club for decades. Here he works the bar dur-ing a 1989 event at the club.

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Big crowdsThe club was built to seat more than 100 people and bonspiels regularly packed the

house over the decades.

Club members continue to make im-provements at the facility to attract not only local curlers, but to keep the club a viable venue for national and interna-tional events.

The club has been a stop for both the women’s and men’s Scots Tour with curl-ers 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 in-creased the reputation of the Medford

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After 100 years of curling in the com-munity, the Medford Curling Club is still going strong. The club currently offers several league play options including the Super League held on Mondays, the Lo-chette’s Women’s League on Tuesdays, a Wednesday morning league, an open league on Wednesday evening and the Thursday Night Men’s League.

While curling was originally a men’s only sport, it wasn’t long before wom-en became involved. Marie Doyle and Marcy (Strebig) Amacher are credited with being the prime movers in promot-ing women’s curling in Medford. Doyle

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Curling banquetThe banquet for the 20th annual club bonspiel in 1958 was a formal affair.

would spend many hours at the club and during one men’s 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 fi rst Lochettes president.

The club has also hosted a number of bonspiels over the years, drawing curl-ers 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-de-served reputation for hospitality oc-curred in March 1960, and no overview of the history of the club can be complete without mentioning it.

Then Sen. John Kennedy made a cam-paign visit to Medford as the city was hosting the state women’s bonspiel. He stopped at the club with his press entou-rage and the suggestion was made for

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 be-ing 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 tele-vision monitors and cameras, and instal-lation of a de-ionizer to eliminate impuri-ties 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 camarade-rie and sportsmanship where all games begin with a handshake and end with the winning team buying the fi rst round af-ter the game ends.

Note: photos in this section are from the archives of the Medford Curling Club and The Star News. Names of those in the pictures were included when known.

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Members cut the cake marking the 25th club an-niversary.

Woody Hodge (l. to r.) Ben Gehrig, Paul Stinbach and Ozzie Tip-pelt, following a bonspiel.

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