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The Record Review
bread.”
Calvin Kalmon rises at
Kalmon said it is grati4 a.m.
fying to know that their
The rural Withee resiorganic product is making
dent makes his way into
a difference in other peoa remodeled dairy barn to
ple’s lives. He hears from
create a special Wisconsin
customers all the time.
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change from when Kalbreak, Kalmon uses an
mon, a second generation
Austrian-made stone mill
resident on the family’s
to grind one of five difTaylor County property
ferent kinds of grain, inthat sits just inside the
cluding wheat from ChilChequamegon National
ton, into flour. The flour,
Forest, struggled to make
mixed with water, salt
ends meet with a small
and a sourdough starter,
dairy far m. His efforts
is bulk fermented for up
were underappreciated.
to five hours. This is a first
“People call regularly to
step in a 16-hour process to
say we love your bread,” he
make one of 15 different
explained. “Nobody called
kinds of bread sold under
and told us thank you for
the One Love Bread LLC
milking those cows.”
label.
It is Kristine Kalmon
By mid morning, the
who started bread makhigh hydration dough is
ing in 2011 as a farmer’s
placed inside a cooler for
market venture and it is
10 hours. The dough is not
Calvin, trained as a bikneaded, but folded a few
ologist, who developed the
times. At 8 p.m. Kalmon’s
bread baking into a growwife, Kristine, shapes the
ing business. The Kalmon
loaves and loads the dough
into a digital, Italian five- A FAMILY ENTERPRISE -- The entire Kalmon family helps in the One Love Bread enterprise. Members children, including Isaiah,
hearth oven heated to 510 are (from left) Isaiah, Kenya, Keely, Kristine, Rainy and Calvin. Also pictured is grandfather Steven Lars. 16, Rainy, 14, Keely, 13 and
Kenya, 11, all help with the
degrees. That day’s bread Kristine Kalmon home-schools her children.
family business. A fifth
is baked 60 loaves at a time.
child, Alisha, 27, is marIt is bagged and readied
for delivery.
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“We really want to make special, really ried and lives off the family homestead.
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that Kristine sell bread to the public. One thing led to
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For the Kalmons, good bread starts with good flour.
And good flour, he said, must be freshly ground.
“You need to use the flour before it has a chance to oxidize,” Kalmon said. “The vitamins in flour are lost after
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home-made sourdough starter. Except for cinnamon rolls,
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Kalmon said his sourdough started out as an experiment in his home kitchen. “It just took off and we’ve
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to make. Natural yeast on the harvested grain itself did
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40 inches and that was actually
back with another lure. It was
the same fish.”
a piece of pine and it was spray
That was enough for Nazer
painted. That’s what it really
and Sedlacek to try producing
was. It was that easy.”
and selling the lure. Sedlacek
Nazer said Josh showed up
handled the woodwork, while
one day with “a banana-looking
Nazer did the painting.
lure” that showed promise.
For the first few years, the
“It had this funky action and
lures were made of wood. Nazer
it worked,” Nazer said. “It was
credited another teacher and
like wow, all you had to do was
muskie enthusiast in the Medturn the handle and it worked.
ford district, Garett Shipman,
It was awesome. We didn’t catch
with helping him perfect the
anything on it when we were
painting process on the wood
testing it. So he went back and
lures. While sales were OK
made another. We had two of
at the time, Nazer said the
them, one for me and one for
turning point in the business
him. We started experimenting
came about five years ago when
with where to put the eye hooks
Sedlacek wasn’t sure he could
and the hooks so it functioned
A Naze Baits Livid Fish
devote as much time to making
properly and we really felt like
lures. Nazer guessed it would
we had something nailed down.”
The verification came on May 7, 2006 when Nazer take his partner three 8-hour days to make 150 lures.
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landed a 47-inch beauty on the Petenwell Flowage.
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For Corey Nazer, a social studies teacher at Medford
Area Senior High and a muskellunge fishing enthusiast,
it took time but the pieces fell into place to turn a prototype created by his friend and fishing partner Josh Sedlacek into the Livid Fish lure that launched Naze Baits,
the company the two co-own.
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the Twisted Tin Head, which includes a rubber tail. All
are available in a wide variety of color patterns.
Nazer estimates sales have ranged from 2,000 to 4,000
units the past few years. Naze Baits has sold lures to
sports shops and anglers in 11 countries and close to 20
states.
“It’s not going to replace my job,” Nazer said. “But this
is probably the greatest thing. We have never taken a loan
out. We have invested almost every penny back into it.
We’re now at a point where we’re finally starting to see
some profits. Not a ton, but just enough. I can tell Sally,
my wife, I’m going to take this trip and it’s not going to
cost the family a dime. That’s cool. If that’s all it does,
I’m totally satisfied.
“But to see it grow is really satisfying. I can tell why
people are married to their businesses. Creating something people want and getting the word out about your
business is one of the most satisfying things ever.”
It started when Nazer and Sedlacek, buddies from
Chippewa Falls, just decided in their late teens to start
muskie fishing. Included in the initial equipment purchases were some wood lures.
“I know (Josh) actually started putzing with lures before I did,” Nazer said. “My dad is a wood worker, Josh is
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the wood stuff. It’s going to be a big investment.’ He’d probably utilized $3,000-$4,000
worth of wood-working equipment that I
didn’t know if I wanted to reinvest in and
I’m not going to do it up at school. He said
maybe we need to look into plastic.”
As luck would have it, not long before
this, Nazer had a discussion about plastics
with Dale Baumann, president of Wadal
Plastics in Medford, who had offered to
help if Nazer wanted to go in that direction.
“About a
year later, I
went to Dale
and I said
what are my
options,”
Nazer said. “I
can’t fork over
thousands and
thousands of
dollars for
this, can you
work with me?
He said yes. It
was awesome.
You can tell
Dale has a soft spot in his heart for entrepreneurs and local guys.”
Wadal now creates and injects the plastic molds and Nazer still does the painting,
though he again had to seek out advice
from local experts to find the right process.
He credits Curt Scholl of Black River Body
and Custom and Tony Potocnik at Car
Quest with helping him find answers to
his questions about painting plastic.
The switch allows Nazer to keep a larger inventory on hand to quickly process
orders, and he doesn’t have to feel guilty
about giving samples to guides, giving
lures to clubs for prizes and giveaways or
making a mistake on the paint job.
“You could tell I got more baits in the
hands of people,” he said. “I donated to
muskie clubs. I donated to guides. I was
willing to send samples. Before, guys
would say send me a sample. I’d say I can’t.
This thing represents too much energy to
just give it away, which really held back
what we were trying to do.”
Another
key was the
ava i l ab i l i t y
of Medford’s
high school
pool, where
Nazer can test
lure movement and
toughness
and the paint
job.
“Some people like that
trial and error
part,” Nazer
said. “I just
want to get where it’s working. I hated
the trial and error. I hated the paint it up,
go try it in the Medford pool. That school
pool has been huge in making this bait. I
can go up there at 9 p.m., no one’s there
and if the covers are off I can try stuff. I
can try it in December when the lakes are
frozen. I’d go up there and I’d fish with it
for a half hour, try to scrape it on the bottom, try to beat up the paint.”
Nazer said the movement and ease of
use is what makes the lures so attractive
to anglers. They can be casted or trolled.
Naze Baits co-owner Corey Naze shows the 52.5-inch muskie with an estimated
weight of 46.5 pounds that he hooked last fall on one of his company’s lures.
For those who cast, Nazer said the lure estimated weight on that fish was 46.5
does not feel hard or heavy to reel in. It pounds.
Nazer said seeing the testimonials and
also seems to be very durable.
“The number-one thing I hear from photos coming into his inbox is rewarding.
“There’s a few people out there, this is
everybody is the wobble on the way
up,” he said. “It just becomes a common their favorite lure,” he said. “This is their
phrase when I’m selling it at show. The go-to lure. They’re saying if I can’t catch
wobble on the way up. That’s probably 10- anything on a Naze Bait, on a Livid fish,
to-1 what I hear comments on when guys then I’m not catching it at all. That’s cool.
Or, another good
come back. ‘I love
one, a girl down in
that movement on
the Madison area
the way up.’ I could
“There’s
a
few
people
out
said ‘I caught my
not lose that going
there, this is their favorite first muskie. I’m
from wood to plastic. Wadal Plastics lure. This is their go-to lure. hooked on muskie
fishing.’ It was awesaid, ‘what weight
They’re saying if I can’t
some.”
do you want?’ I reNazer just
ally didn’t know.
catch anything on a Naze
signed on to be a
I wanted it to be
Bait, on a Livid fish, then sponsor on Outclose to (what the
I’m not catching it at all. door Bound TV,
wo o d w a s ) . T h e
plastic is actually
That’s cool.” -- Naze Baits a w e e k l y s h o w
broadcast by ABC
slightly heavier
co-owner Corey Nazer
and hosted by Rib
than the wood one
Lake native Kurt
because the one
Walbeck. Nazer is
that matched the
weight didn’t have the correct buoyancy going to take two Canadian muskie fishing
and then didn’t have the right movement.” trips to hopefully fill two episodes that will
In 2014, six fish longer than 50 inches air early next year.
“He’s taping two other muskie shows
were caught with Naze Baits. One of the
lure’s biggest fans is Dave Holzmer, who in northern Wisconsin this year yet with
trolls for muskies from a pontoon boat on some guides and he said we’ll use your
Lake Mille Lacs in Minnesota. He hooked product as well, so it’s going to get some
a 55.25-inch monster that year. Last fall, air time,” Nazer said. “It legitimizes
he was controlling the boat when Nazer what I’m doing to a certain population
latched into his biggest fish ever, a 52.5- of people. Some people need to see it on
inch behemoth with a 27-inch girth. The a commercial. They need to see it on
Facebook, they need to see
someone else talking about
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to be big.”
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will get is uncertain. Nazer
said he has three more
ideas for lures he could
tackle in the future, if he
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Cadott industry finds niche in specialized extrusions
By Ginna Young,
Cornell & Lake Holcombe Courier
From a small, one-story garage to an ever-growing
manufacturing plant, SFR Industries in Cadott has shown
they have what it takes to continue evolving in the plastic
extrusion market.
Started in 1978 at its original Chippewa Falls location
by owner Robert “Bob” Strumm, the business later moved
to Cadott, and constructed the current building in 1994.
Since that time, a warehouse addition was built in 2007.
While SFR keeps expanding to accommodate the needs
of their clientele, there are those – even locally – who
don’t know what the company makes or what a plastic
extrusion actually is.
A plastic extrusion is defined as a continuous profile,
formed into pipe/tubing, weatherstripping, deck railings,
window frames, plastic films, sheeting and thermoplastic
coatings. The
company name
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“... Our niche in the
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rigid, flexible
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and rigid PVC –
include
tackling some of the en- doesn’t
everything the
gineering that goes into business can
custom manuthose.” -- Paul Borofacture.
wick, SFR Industries
“This comsales manager
pany’s been
around for
quite some
time, and back in the day, that kind of would describe
what you were doing in extrusions,” said Paul Borowick,
sales manager. “Obviously technologies change, it evolves
and there’s a lot more material involved…”
One type of evolution they’ve encountered is the need
for flexible and rigid components combined into one
piece, or as it’s called, a dual durometer.
“There’s more and more need for that type of part …
so we’re very proud of the fact that we have a real good
handle on that,” said Borowick. “It’s challenging and
certainly does attest to the level of experience that’s here
in this plant.”
Parts are made from resin, with the majority of cases
calling for colors in pellet form, all the way up to hot
pink and orange. The raw materials are then combined
through a vacuum feed into an enclosed, pressurized,
heated barrel and melted together. The heated substance
is then pushed through a stainless steel die that has been
cut to a specified shape, similar to a PlayDough machine.
“It’s a little more complicated than just PlayDough, but
to wrap your head around it, it’s a great way to put it,” said
Borowick. “For how this actually works, it’s very simple.”
The extrusion comes out of the die hot and still pliable, so a cooling process is introduced in the form of
cooling tanks, before employees inspect the finished part
to ensure it conforms to the customer’s specifications.
“The advantageous thing for us, is we actually have
our own tooling shop…so we cut our own dies,” said Jack
McChesney, purchasing and materials manager.
“We have very good communication between our
tooling department and our plant floor as far as what’s
happening with the tool, and how it’s performing out on
the floor,” said Borowick.
Borowick says it saves a lot of time and effort that
PRECISION EXTRUSIONS -- James Sullivan, tooling manager at SFR Industries, checks over equipment for
cutting a custom die to make plastic extrusions. A design is brought to the company, and once logistics
are ironed out, the die is ready to be made on the machine. Dies are then cut by introducing brass wire
and water to create an electric current, making precise, clean cuts to the stainless steel. After dies go
through a series of tests, once deemed ready from the customer specifications, resin and color pellets
are combined to make a plastic substance. The plastic combination is then pushed through the die to
make the desired shape.
they don’t have to ship a die back and forth out of state
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or five weeks.
SFR also takes on jobs they say other companies won’t
consider, and that they don’t want to be known as just
another PVC company.
“There are plenty of extrusion houses that make PVC
pipe,” said Borowick. “You won’t see us making PVC pipe,
because really, our niche in the market is unique design
considerations, and tackling some of the engineering
that goes into those.”
If SFR does get requests for pipe or something they
can’t fulfill, they do their best to help, steering people in
the direction of someone, usually local, who can fill the
order. That hasn’t changed the amount of custom orders
SFR receives that they can handle, with many repeat requests, some for parts they’ve been making for 20 years.
Parts for RVs, the aerospace industry and the entre-
preneurial crowd “keep things interesting,” along with
the cabinet and fencing industry. Depending on requests,
orders are usually shipped to distributors, but can also
be sent directly to certain businesses.
“Our parts end up worldwide,” said Borowick.
A new avenue that opened up for SFR a few years ago
was the seal for a pickle ball racquet, after the creator
came to them with the idea and it “turned into something
more.” The wire and cable industry has also opened new
doors for the company.
“That’s a huge industry for us and growing,” said
Borowick of the wire and cable industry. “As things become more and more complex, with more and more wires
and cables and everything, that’s something that we’re
certainly prepared to react to the growth of.”
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employees currently with the business.
“What we really need is somebody who wants to learn
a trade,” said Bonni Woodford, accounting manager,
who’s been with SFR for 22 years.
Woodford says what most don’t realize is that it’s not
just a manufacturing job, but that those willing to learn
can be taught a trade from “awesome supervisors and
operators” without needing a college degree.
“It’s different every day,” she says.
Shifts run from Sunday night to Friday night in
what McChesney calls a 24/5 – a “better deal” in a workfriendly environment.
Borowick says the job doesn’t get boring because parts
are constantly changing. He said employees are engaged
with the process, and shown what the part should look
like and what it will be used for when the customer
receives it.
That dedication to their jobs showed this spring, as
SFR was awarded as the Quadrant 4 Business of the
Year at the Chippewa County Economic Development
Corporation annual business meeting.
To be nominated, businesses must be located in Chippewa County, and impact the community in terms of new
job opportunities, as well as expansion of their facility.
Other requirements include commitment to continued
education and training in the workforce.
“It was a great honor for us, and it is a reflection of
the team environment and a team effort, and an owner
who is involved,” said Borowick. “Involvement from the
top down, that’s what it takes to really achieve that type
of status and that type of recognition.”
Borowick says it was especially thrilling to receive the
award from Gov. Scott Walker, and that it created a sense
of pride and ownership of accomplishment in everyone
who works at SFR.
With the ever-changing electronics and technologies required to keep up with the demand in the extrusion market,
Borowick says SFR will continue to explore and investigate
the future of extrusion production.
“It’s a great opportunity here, I like being part of this
team,” he said.
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floor, tooling shop and
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Colby Metal continues to grow at 30th anniversary
“I think three out of
by Kevin O’Brien,
four years, we were named
Abbotsford Tribune
‘Supplier of the Year’ for
Phonograph
Life Fitness,” Mark said.
When Mark Viegut is
In 1996, Colby Metal
sitting in the waiting room
started doing work for
of a clinic or hospital,
Gamber-Johnson, which
it’s not unusual for him
is now the company’s numto take a peek at the unber one customer. Based
derside of the chair he’s
in Stevens Point, Gambersitting on.
Johnson makes docking
“My wife thinks I’m
stations for emergency
crazy, lifting up chairs
vehicles around the world.
and seeing where they’re
“We started out just
from,” he said.
making 10 or 12 items for
As co-owners of Colby
them,” Mark said. “We
Metal, Mark and Darla
still do some of the same
Viegut are always happy
products today that we did
to see their company’s
back when he started with
products “in action,” so to
them.”
speak. In the case of furA t t h e s a m e t i m e,
niture used in medical fathough, Darla Viegut said
cilities, the brand name of
their work with GamberNemschoff Chairs means
Johnson requires them to
any of the metal compobe very adaptable when it
nents were made at their
comes to modifying their
plant in Colby’s industrial
products to meet the everpark.
changing world of technolFor 30 years now, Colby
Metal has been providing
THE COLBY METAL management team (from left) Tami Higley, account representative/purchasing ogy. Docking stations that
used to hold bulky laptop
custom fabrication for
manager; Jeff Zettler, finishing supervisor; Jim Servi, business development consultant; Travis Kind, computers now need to acclients in multiple indusoperations manager; Mark Viegut, owner/vice president; Darla Viegut, owner/director of human resources; commodate much thinner
tries, from the medical
Jory Podevels, assistant plant manager; Tyler Viegut, plant manager, and Evonne Rannow, office manager. tablets.
field to the agricultural
“Those components
sector.
change very frequently
The company was
founded in 1986 by Leonard Nemschoff, who wanted furniture,” Mark Viegut said. “He already had a plant with new technology,” she said. “There’s a very quick
to branch out from a business he was already running in Sheboygan called Nemschoff Chairs, and they made turnaround.”
Equipping police cars and ambulances means
wooden furniture there. So, he wanted to get into the
elsewhere in Wisconsin.
Gamber-Johnson’s clients are often on the front lines of
“He had a vision of making powder-coated steel steel business.”
A company called Horizon Industries was on the major disasters.
“We did work for them right after 9/11, for the New
market at the time, so Nemschoff and his son, Mark,
York police and fire departments,” Mark said. “They had
purchased it and renamed it Colby Metal.
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Colby Metal’s components go all over the world, but
Nemschoff to learn the business and work his way up
they
also stay close to home. Mark said he was at a local
from
a
blue
collar
worker
to
a
member
of
management.
YOUR PURSUIT. OUR PASSION.
Colby Metal started out making metal furniture gas station recently when he asked a nearby Marathon
for health care facilities, working in conjunction with County’s sheriff’s deputy if he could take a look in his
Nemschoff to get the new line of products on the market. squad car.
Sure enough, it was one of Colby Metal’s mounting
It wasn’t long before Colby Metal expanded into other
Middleton
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markets with more customers. In the early 1990s, the systems inside the cab of the squad car.
Over the years, Colby Metal’s management team has
company started making products for point-of-purchase
Park Falls
displays, adding clients such as Krispy Kreme donuts strived to make the company more and more efficient and
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cost-effective. Darla Viegut said one of their main goals
and Nintendo computer game systems.
Wisconsin Rapids
Viegut said they filled huge orders for Nintendo, and is to keep as much of the production process in-house as
Medford
he remembers several representatives from the Japanese possible, so that they can oversee everything from quality
control to lead times and delivery.
company coming all the way to Colby to tour the plant.
Mineral Point
“We can do it from start to finish, and that’s what we
Nintendo’s tabletop and floor models that Colby Metal
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At the recommendation of Gamber-Johnson, Colby
are used to plugging their consoles directly into their TV
Onalaska
Metal has adopted “lean” manufacturing principles that
sets, but Mark said they were a lot of fun.
Medford
“Actually, we had a tabletop model here that we played are designed to eliminate waste, cut costs and improve
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directors for the company and are currently employing 74
people, 58 of which are full-time. Eight of these are office
staff, while the rest work in production.
That number is up from about 50 employees five years
ago.
“The employees are the ones who make this all happen,
past and present,” he said. “We’re very fortunate to have
dedicated employees.”
To make sure the company continues to have a reliable
workforce for years to come, Darla said they recruit and
train younger employees through NorthCentral Technical College’s Youth Apprenticeship program and a group
called Central Wisconsin Metal Manufacturing.
“Our goal is to look to the students early on for our
future workforce,” she said. “Both of those organizations
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Darla said this method has the advantage of being
was going every which direction,” he said.
With the help of a consultant, Colby Metal reconfig- better for the environment and for employees, while also
ured its production line so that the equipment could be covering the product thoroughly.
In the final step, the product is put into a 50-foot oven
easily adjusted to meet the changing demands of their
that heats it from the inside out, creating a nice-looking,
customers.
“Everything is pretty mobile,” Darla said. “If we have a durable finish.
Colby Metal continues to add customers, including Sticlot of one product coming through, we may have to make
N-Pic out of Madison, which makes mounting systems for
a move with our equipment to accommodate the flow.”
Investments in new technology have also paid divi- trail cameras used by hunters. Mark says the company
has sold five million mounts, which are now available at
dends for Colby Metal.
About a year ago, the company purchased a new five- the major sporting retailer, Cabela’s.
Another customer is H&S
axis robotic welder, which
Manufacturing Company in
allows their products to be rotated by trunnions without the
“Our goal with each of the cus- Marshfield, which sells varikinds of farm equipment.
need for employees to handle
tomers is really to partner with ous
Colby Metal makes the 30- to
the material. A lot of their
them to make sure they’re get- 60-foot arms used for rakes
furniture parts are made with
to gather up large swaths
this machine, Mark said.
ting what they want,” she said. used
of hay from fields.
Another leap forward came
“It’s not just taking orders, it’s
Orion Lighting in Manitowhen the company sold its two
C02 laser cutters and replaced
looking at how we can be more woc is also a client, a growing
company that helped Colby
them with a fiber optic laser
efficient.” -- Colby Metal coMetal switch to LED lights at
cutter.
owner Darla Viegut
its plant.
“The cutting speeds are a
“They’ve been a gamelot faster,” he said. “The conchanger in the last two to
sumables are 50 to 70 percent
less. Our electricity has been cut down by 40 percent. And three years,” Darla said.
Colby Metal has designated machines and cells just to
there’s better cutting quality.”
The 49,000-square foot facility also has two automated make the metal components for Orion’s lights and ballasts.
With each of their customers, Darla and Mark said the
towers, which allows work to be done over the weekends.
All of these upgrades have made the company more longterm objective is always to lower costs while adding
cost-effective, which allows them to beat competing firms value.
“Our goal with each of the customers is really to parton price, Mark said.
“We could definitely see the difference when we started ner with them to make sure they’re getting what they
doing quotes, not only for our current customer base, but want,” she said. “It’s not just taking orders, it’s looking
at how we can be more efficient.”
also for new customers coming in,” he said.
The Vieguts officially became co-owners of the comPowder coating is another way Colby Metal adds value
to its products. After the product is welded and formed, it pany a few year years ago when they bought out the shares
goes through a three-stage washer and then two employees owned by Mark Nemschoff’s daughter. The company
founder’s son is now retired and living in Arizona, but
manually apply a powder base using electrostatic guns.
“When the powder comes out of the gun, it wraps right he’s still a co-owner with some limited involvement.
Mark Viegut said they have recently created a board of
around the material,” Mark said.
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CounterArt owner Matt Lueck stands near the cement mixer in which he blends
the basic materials for his kitchen surfaces. He’s been creating countertops
from concrete since 2009, and also does floors for businesses and residential
customers.
grinder polisher in 2015 and began creating concrete floor basements and garage
floors for businesses and homes.
“You can make anything out of concrete,” he said. “Concrete is the ultimate
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working with cement into a flourishing in his small garage in the town of Day
business named CounterArt that is ex- farmhouse that he and his wife, Martine,
panding into the former Stratford Plumb- bought from her parents, Ralph and Sharon Bredl.
ing building.
Like anything else, it took Lueck some
He began CounterArt in 2009 in his
small 24 by 24-foot town of Day garage. time to perfect the trade.
“When doing concrete countertops,
Lueck creates concrete countertops for
businesses and residential homes. Last there is a lot to know and there’s a lot
year Lueck also began pouring concrete of fine details,” he said. “There’s going
to be hiccups when you first start out
basements and garage floors.
and you have to
His attention
learn from your
to detail is so
great in building
“You can make anything out mistakes.”
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concrete counof concrete. Concrete is the Lueck’s small
tertops that busigarage couldn’t
nesses and resiultimate hard surface bekeep up with his
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workload.
out Wisconsin
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for his products.
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That’s why he’s
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ery time I had a
the 40 by 24-foot
owner Matt Lueck
concrete counbuilding located
tertop project,”
at 213 North Weber Avenue in the village of Stratford. The he said. “It was a scheduling nightmare
sale closed on March 19, and he plans to because I needed to finish one project
before I could begin another one.”
be open for business this summer.
Lueck uses word of mouth and FaceLueck grew up in Auburndale and he
graduated from Auburndale High School book to market his business. There is
in 1998. After high school he built concrete a process he goes through to create the
roads while working for Trierweiler Con- perfect kitchen countertop.
He visits a person’s home and creates
struction and Supply Co. from Marshfield.
“I enjoyed working with concrete but a template, which is an exact replica of
it was only a summer deal, so I wanted the kitchen, by using planks of wood cut
something where I could make income into two-inch strips and a hot glue gun.
“I take it back to my shop and flip the
year round,” he said.
He began researching concrete coun- kitchen template over and pour the concrete,” he said. “I build it
and finish it in my shop
and then I install it in the
person’s house. That way
people are only without
their kitchen for one day.
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it would take two weeks
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owns Kabinet Konnection,
for helping him get his
business off the ground
and running. He also has
a display at Landart Inc. in
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seen Scott, Lona and their five children – the family that runs Alsum Sweetcorn. What
was once a dairy farm gradually began shifting to a full-blown vegetable farm in 1976,
when Scott’s dad, Ken, got wind of the new farmers’ market in Madison and decided
to plant sweetcorn to sell there.
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-- Cook’s Woods – Fennimore
Cook’s Woods, a Christmas tree farm in the rolling hills of southwestern Wisconsin,
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year-round by appointment. Maple syrup is made and bottled right on the farm and
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Coon Creek Family Farm, located just 11 miles south of Eau Claire, is dedicated to
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-- Patz Maple & Honey Farms – Pound
What began as Clifford and Nancy Patz’s hobby with their sons has turned into
a huge business venture, making and selling syrup, honey, candy, pancake mix and
beeswax products. Their backyard syrup pan many years ago has turned into 17,000
tap buckets, and their 10 experimental bee hives have evolved into 350 beehives kept
in school buses.
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The Sassy Cow Creamery is a milk bottling business and store open to the public,
located between the two dairy herds (traditional and organic) that contribute to it.
Owned and operated by brothers James and Robert Baerwolf and their families, who
are third-generation farmers on the land that their grandfather purchased in 1946,
Sassy Cow Creamery sells milk, ice cream, dairy products and other local products
right in the store, which is open 7 days a week.
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A small, woman-owned family farm, Valley View Emus offers high-quality emu oil
products, including emu oil shampoo, emu oil soaps, emu lotions, emu pet care, emu
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American Sports Laminate ships its
products around the globe
by Bryan Wegter, Medford Star News
A global player in the manufacturing
of skateboards and pool cues is based
right here in Taylor County.
American Sports Laminate, located
in downtown Rib Lake, produces a wide
range of wood products you wouldn’t
expect to see out of a quiet central Wisconsin town.
Currently in their lineup: skateboards,
longboards, snurfers (more on that later),
balance boards, pool cues, gun stock
blanks and hurricane fans, the propellers
for hot air balloons.
Jay Winkler and his wife Sue Winkler
founded Laminate from the ashes of Rib
Lake Plywood, which closed in the winter
of 2008. Current product manager Nicole
Madison had been working with Jay since
2003 and stayed on to become a partner at
Laminate.
Being made in Wisconsin, and Rib
Lake in particular, is a point of pride for
the business.
“We’re very proud to be Wisconsin
made. We put ‘Made in USA’ on all our
products,” Madison said.
“(It means) everything. The quality of
the work people put out here is fantastic,”
Jay Winkler said.
In a market increasingly dominated
by cheap foreign products and labor,
Laminate sets itself apart with superior
materials and finished quality.
The hard-rock maple used in the decks
is cut down only hours away in places like
Rice Lake or Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,
shortening shipping distances and ensuring the wood won’t dry out or become
brittle during travel. Harsh winters yield
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the wood as it’s machined into decks.
Polyvinyl glue adds strength and water
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After the roughly week-long process
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Madison has a simple way of knowing
whether Laminate’s products are up to
snuff.
“If it’s something that I look at and I
wouldn’t buy in a store, I’m not going to
sell it,” she said. “We’ve definitely found
it harder to compete with the Chinese
because of their prices and labor rates,
but we’ve never dropped our quality to
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Laminate’s ability to ship direct, cutting out the middle man and dropping
costs for manufacturer and consumer, is
another selling point, considering their
products travel to all 50 states and across
the globe, including Japan, Switzerland,
NEW SKATEBOARD LOOK -- American Sports Laminate product manager
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skAte Company’ line.
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“We have our products consumerready and we ship UPS. Our business has
completely changed and that’s simply to
eliminate so many people in the middle,”
Jay Winkler said. “We continue to recover
from a Chinese-dominated manufacturing
environment.”
The products that Laminate ships
have a variety of uses. In addition to the
standard skateboard, snurfers, or ‘snow
surfers,’ are snowboards with no bindings
that riders hold onto with a thin rope.
Balance boards can be used by skate- or
snowboarders in the offseason to work on
their skills on dry land, but are equally
usable in a gym setting, where they can
be used for core or leg workouts. Jacoby,
a Nekoosa-based company that builds
custom pool cues, is one of many that gets
their materials from Laminate. Gun stock
blanks are sent to businesses that do the
same in the firearms industry.
“Jacoby, that’s a very big name for
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the wood is put together right here in Rib
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So much butter
Grassland Dairy ranks among world’s
top producers of creamy products
by Dean Lesar,
Loyal Tribune Record Gleaner
Three massive state-of-the-art churns
inside Grassland Dairy Products’ Greenwood plant turn out 42,000 pounds of butter. Each one. Every hour. Twenty-four
hours per day.
You don’t have to do the math to realize that’s a lot of butter, enough to place
Grassland as one of the leading butter
producers not just in Wisconsin, and not
just in the United States, but in the world.
Along with four other plants it owns
and operates in Wisconsin, Nebraska
and Utah, Grassland produces fantastic
tonnages of butter in every imaginable
form, from the sticks you might use in a
cookie recipe, to the small pats you might
find on a cruise line dinner table, to bulk
amounts used by bakers. And you probably consume more of Grassland’s butter
than you realize, as the company produces
it under more than 70 labels distributed
all around the United States, Mexico and
South America.
The Greenwood Grassland Dairy Products plant has been in the same location
southeast of Greenwood off Highway 98
for more than a century. It’s the site where
John Wuethrich started a cooperative of
Eaton-area farmers in 1904. He continued
a Wuethrich family heritage of cheese
and butter making that started some 300
years ago in Switzerland, and began the
business venture that would grow over the
decades to become the butter behemoth
it is today.
John D. Wuethrich took over for his
father and ran the business for decades,
before turning over the reins to his son,
Dallas. Dallas has subsequently passed the
main management duties over to his sons,
Tayt and Trevor, and family ownership
will remain for years to come.
“They’ve already started planning for
the fifth generation,” said Maureen Lee,
Grassland’s marketing and communications director.
The Grassland operation has been
growing steadily through the years. A
major plant expansion several years ago
added the capability of the plant to delve
into new products made from the components of milk not used in butter. Massive
dryers turns out tons of various milk powders used in products such as protein bars
and shakes, and the Greenwood factory
also makes anhydrous milk fat products
used by candy manufacturers.
But it is butter — so much butter —
upon which Grassland has built its brand.
The main production facility is still in
Greenwood, with Grassland’s West Point
Dairy plants in Nebraska and Utah specializing in making brands with rBST-free
milk. Grassland has also purchased plants
Please see Butter, page 15
BUTTER BUSINESS -- Grassland Dairy Products owners (from left) Dallas, Tayt
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from page 14
to make butter in Bonduel and Richland
Center, with the smaller facilities targeted
for diversification into specialized products. More may be added.
“They’ve been trying to find familyowned creameries for manufacturing,”
Lee said.
The Greenwood plant is manned by
more than 530 employees staffing three
shifts that keep the plant running around
the clock. Millions of pounds of milk arrive at the plant each day, and are stored
until directed through the butter churns.
Through literally miles of stainless steel
piping, the finished butter is directed to
various lines where it is blended with
various oils and processed into retail
products, spreadable tubs, and whipped
varieties. Automated processes package
the butter in all shapes and sizes, from
5-pound blocks primarily used in the food
service industry, to small chips and cups
used in restaurants or ocean cruise lines.
Lee said about 45 percent of Grassland’s butter goes for retail purposes.
Some is packaged under various Grassland labels and distributed to grocers,
but much is contracted out to dozens of
companies that want to sell a butter with
their name on it.
“We’re producing a lot of different labels,” Lee said, although the company is
currently making an effort to expand the
Grassland name on its products. Doing
so will create efficiencies by not having
to switch product packaging on lines as
often, Lee said, and also to coincide with
a re-branding effort to increase the company’s name in the market.
About 10 percent of Grassland’s butter
is sent out to industrial users, in larger
quantities. It is used by large food producers that need large amounts of butter
to bake their products. The remaining
amount is sold to the food service industry,
with restaurants, hotels and other dining
outlets buying pats and chips for placing
on tables.
Grassland has been constantly upgrading its technology to respond to changing
market needs. It has vastly increased its
raw milk storage capabilities, to make
sure there is always enough on hand to
feed the churns. Those three machines are
the heart of the operation: monstrous mechanical contraptions that do the job that
a single person once did with a wooden
churn on a front porch.
“The basic function is the same as it
has been for years,” Lee said of the churning process. “It’s using force to pound the
cream into a semi-solid state.”
Regulations in the U.S. require that
any product labeled as butter contain at
least 80 percent butterfat, Lee said. Churn
operators have to monitor that, as well
as other qualities of the butter to meet
quality levels.
“Our churn operators are testing the
butter for salt content basically every
hour,” Lee said.
The butter market is more localized
for Grassland because of refrigeration
needs, and the product is mainly sold in
the U.S., Mexico and South America. Other
dry products produced at the plants are
shipped farther away, with the anhydrous
milk fat heading to Africa and the Middle
East, and powders sold in various Asian
countries.
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butter, a plant needs incredible amounts
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Grassland Dairy Products’ spreadable butter products are an example of a
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into the Greenwood location on a daily
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“We have over 600 farms that ship milk
directly to us and they are from all over
the state,” Lee said. In addition, Grassland
buys tanker loads of cream from cheese
factories that do not use that component
for their products.
“We have haulers bringing in cream
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Butter, from page 15
we’re a private company, we’re able to buy milk as we
need it.”
Some of the cream is delivered by contracted truckers, but Grassland also has a Wuethrich Transportation
subsidiary that is responsible for bringing in the raw
ingredients, and then delivering finished products to
customers. The Wuethrich Transportation fleet includes
more than 30 tanker and cargo semi-trailers, with 20-30
drivers on staff.
Although Grassland has been steadily increasing its
basic butter production through the years, Lee said it
has also been
investing in
“We’re using every com- p ro d u c t i o n
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Grassland marketing and For example,
onsumers
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experimented with various blends that would both retain
a buttery flavor yet be soft enough to easily spread on a
muffin or piece of toast. Consumers are also concerned
about their health, she said, so mixtures were formulated
to hold down fat content while retaining flavor.
“The blended product helps the customer have that
butter flavor” but still eat a healthy product, Lee said.
Lee said Grassland is continuously trying new techniques to keep up with such market needs.
“It’s just keeping up with consumer trends,” she said.
Grassland has also invested heavily in processes to
get more out of each pound of milk. While the buttermaking process basically uses the cream, there are other
components that have market value. Grassland’s various
milk powder products and permeates generate revenue
from the parts of the raw product not needed for butter.
“We’re using every component of milk. There’s no
waste. We’re able to sell it,” Lee said.
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Everything you expect, but
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“Not many people take the time anyby Kayla Peche,
Cadott, Cornell & Lake Holcombe more to hand-cut french fries, but they
Courier-Sentinel taste better so we do it,” he said. “Not
After opening their doors with a new many take the time to bread onion rings,
name in November 2015, Johnson’s Cross- but it tastes better so we do it. It takes a
ing kept the train moving, expanding their little longer, but we do it.”
Even with the extra preparation, it
restaurant, filled with homemade meals
doesn’t slow the food from coming out,
and desserts, to include a bakery.
“We will do fresh pies, cakes, rolls and Andrew says most of the regulars ask
and breads,” said Andrew Johnson, part- them to not bring food out so quick.
“It’s dinner,” Andrew said. “It’s not
owner and cook of the railroad themed
business. “You know, all the good, gooey your 20-minute lunch break. You’re here
to enjoy yourself.
‘fat-free’ stuff.”
“When you walk in, we want you to feel
With a full service bakery now operational, Johnson’s Crossing, in Conrath like you’re in our home. We have that com(between Lake Holcombe and Ladysmith), fortable, casual feel. We do the little things
launched a new website (johnsons-cross- that most restaurants don’t do anymore.”
The restaurant is filled with train
ing.com) for patrons to view and place
orders directly. There are 87 variet- decor, which started when Iron Horse
ies of cheesecake available, including opened in 1932, and Andrew says the train
on the top rail
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is available for
raspberry, maple
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during dinner.
caramel and the
Aside from
“best selling”
the food and atchocolate hazelmosphere, a bannut and honey
quet hall is availalmond.
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Andrew says
meetings or famhis success is atily get-togethers.
tributed to the
P r ivat e w i n e
previous owner,
tasting events
Dorothy HaraOne of the 87 varieties of cheesecake
are also offered,
burda, who also
home-made at Johnson’s Crossing.
with comedy
owned bakeries.
shows and din“Dorothy’s
ner-theater perbeen a huge
formances.
help,” he said.
“We actually have a wine list to choose
Formerly known as Iron Horse Steakhouse, the Johnson family of Andrew, from and most restaurants around here
Don, Alta and Jordan, opened their restau- don’t,” Andrew said. “We have two salad
rant to start “their own legacy,” with the bars as well, and I think that really sets
us apart. And all the salads are fresh and
help of Andrew’s cooking skills.
“My parents taught me to cook when I homemade.”
Wine-tasting dinners are held the last
was a kid,” said Andrew. “And it’s always
been something I’ve always enjoyed do- Wednesday of every month, where cheeseing. It’s basically all I’ve done for the last cake samples are paired with wine. When
the events began several months ago, 18
18 years.”
Andrew says nothing is frozen at the people came to sample the fare. Andrew
restaurant -- all meat is hand-cut or ground says that number has increased to 60, with
in-house -- and desserts are homemade, a full waiting list through August.
“It keeps me busy,” he said with a smile.
with wedding cakes and catering offered
for special events. He said the bakery idea “It keeps me out of trouble.”
Johnson’s Crossing is open Thursdaycame about because if he’s “already makSunday, but Andrew says he’s available
ing it,” he “might as well sell it.”
“We do everything homemade – soups, seven days a week. He said he will also
sauces, stocks,” he said. “We don’t buy make custom orders and try to replicate
anything in a box or bag…I can say, meals or desserts from special events, like
‘I made that.’ In Conrath, you don’t nor- anniversaries or birthdays, for custommally get that. It’s take it out of the freezer ers.
“I’ve opened for two people and I’ve
and throw it in the deep fryer.”
The quality of the food is what Andrew opened for 20 people,” he said. “(Johnson’s
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‘Precision’ is the key word at Accuracy Unlimited gun shop
Randy Gregory shows the barrel of a precision rifle he is building at his
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Randy Gregory started making rifles
because he couldn’t find anyone to do the
work he wanted done.
Gregory is an accomplished marksman placing in national competitions
in various disciplines on a regular basis
over his long career.
“There are some tournaments I have
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Gregory runs Accuracy Unlimited
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He has had his firearms license since
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work and complete rebuilds. He said
with over 30 years of experience crafting
precision rifles, he can meet the most
demanding requirements.
Gregory’s primary work is with
professional target rifles. His shop is
crowded with equipment that includes
tools to bore and groove rifle barrels and
go through every part of the process to
build precision rifles. He has over 150 different caliber reamers which are used to
cut the chamber in a barrel. He explains
that he had done everything from .416
and .458 down to a .22 long rifle.
“That is a completely different animal,” Gregory said noting the long range
target shooting requires a process called
blue printing where each component is
retooled to the most exacting specifications.
He explained that gun making technology has changed over the years leading
to an improvement in accuracy, which in
turn drives innovation in the manufacturing process.
“Back in the 1970s you had an extremely good rifle if it would shoot 4-inch
groups over 600 yards,” he said. “Now a
lot of them will shoot groups in the 2-inch
area at 600 yards or even smaller.”
“That is because competition has
gotten that much better and barrels and
bullets and components have gotten better over the years,” Gregory said.
Gregory said a typical customer will
contact him with the specifications
for the type of gun they want. He said
sometimes this will require him building
one from scratch. However, he said more
often customers will have an existing
receiver or action and have him build a
rifle around that component.
“A lot of time they will have a custom
action that they want and we will order
it and go from there,” he said.
He said the process is fully customizable with a variety of barrels, triggers or
stocks available for what the customer
wants. He explained that many choices
depend on how the rifle will be used.
For example, hunting rifles will have
comparatively lighter weight materials
for barrels and stocks than target rifles.
A gun barrel starts as a solid metal
rod. The type of metal used depends on
what the gun will be used for. For example, stainless steel barrels are favored for
their precision and corrosion resistance.
According to Gregory, chromalloy is
used in many hunting rifles because it is
lighter and less expensive. However, he
noted that stainless steel is beginning to
find its way even into higher end hunting rifles.
“People don’t like corrosion issues,”
he said. “If you go on an extended hunt
dealing with rifle maintenance can be
an issue.”
On the precision target shooting side
of things, the goal is to match specifications and build the customer the best
gun possible.
Reputation counts for a lot in the
world of gunsmithing. Gregory’s long
reputation as an expert marksman at
the national level carries over in his
work with building precision rifles. His
rifles have won many state, midwest and
national high power events. This has lead
to orders from around the country from
people seeking highly accurate rifles for
precision shooting.
The flip side of this success is keeping
up with demand without sacrificing quality. Building a world-class rifle, like doing
any high end precision work takes time
and level of skill honed over decades.
Some of Gregory’s machines date to
the 1890s and were used to manufacture
rifles for World War I.
According to Gregory, the average lead
time for a rifle can be anywhere from 30
days to six or even eight months.
“It all depends on the parts and how
long they take to get in,” he said.
Part of the time lag is because of the
huge increase in demand for guns over
the past eight years. He noted that cut
barrel makers are limited to how many
they can make in a day and it is not
unusual to see someone waiting for a
specific barrel for eight months.
“It gets very frustrating at times,”
he said.
Gregory can be reached through his
website www.accuracyunlimited.com the
company is also on Facebook.
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Ph: 715.289.3800
W3024 Starr Road, Granton, WI 54436
715-937-7250 • 2 miles west of Granton on Hwy. 10
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‘Drink Good Beer’ is the
theme at Cornell brewpub
by Kayla Peche
Cadott, Cornell & Lake Holcombe
Courier-Sentinel
Since beginning this venture that
started from a few beer kit experiments,
Roger and Cindy Miller transformed a
closed-down building on Bridge Street in
Cornell, into a happening brewery and
pizza place on the weekends, with even
more hours this summer.
“It’s Cornell – a small town,” Roger
said. “We never expected this, but it’s
good.”
Roger began brewing from beer kits,
advancing to a kettle on his stove, but a
vacation to Maui helped him realize he
could start selling his own on a bigger
scale. He said he brews almost every day
at the pub, and guarantees customers will
get a fresh beer every time.
“I figured I should be able to keep 1,400
people happy in Cornell,” Roger said.
MoonRidge Brew Pub opened in November 2015, after the Millers put a lot of
“tender love and care” into the building.
With help from their family, the couple
re-wired the 30-year-old place and added
a new furnace, took part of the kitchen
out to add a bar, re-did the bathrooms and
walls, and added their own character with
decorations, bringing the area its first
brew pub.
“Honestly, we never thought it was
going to be like it is,” Roger said. “We
thought, sell a little beer and a few pizzas.”
On their first day, they sold 37 pizzas
and “plenty of beer.” They said it was way
busier than they expected, especially with
no advertising.
After several months since the opening,
the four pizza ovens turned into eight,
allowing them to make over 100 pizzas a
night, and brew keeps flowing as Roger left
his job to work full time at the pub.
Brewing beer that he would drink,
Roger developed seven brews including
Haymeadow, Fisher, Stacker, Wayside,
Shaws Road, Below the Dam and the popular, Moonridge.
“The names are local spots,” said Roger.
“I grew up here my whole life and I’m not
going to lie, it’s spots where when I was a
kid that’s where we drank. If you’re from
the local Cornell-Holcombe area, you
know exactly what I’m talking about.”
One of the only exceptions to the “party
location” beers is the Stacker, which is
second in line to the local favorite, Moonridge.
“We wanted to have something called
the Stacker to honor Cornell,” said Cindy.
Along with the brews, the pub also
offers pizza, including unique flavors for
those who want to be a “bit more adventurous.”
The homemade pie can be made with
re gular or spent g rain
Roger and Cindy Miller purchased the former Jon Henry’s building at 501 Bridge
St. in Cornell, and opened MoonRidge Brew Pub. The couple has seven craft
brews on site, along with six homemade specialty pizzas available. Roger
brews almost every day, with a batch taking four weeks to prepare. He says
his next venture is to expand his brewery for more room and equipment.
Please see Beer, page 20
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Beer, from page 19
crust, which Cindy says will taste different every time
depending on what Roger brews. They also have a beer
marinara sauce for “something fun.”
The six pizzas include a Brew House Specialty pizza,
which is regular meat and supreme. Cindy says other
“delicious recipes” are the Reuben, Hot Chicken Alfredo,
and Brat Fest, which includes brats, sauerkraut, red onion and swiss cheese on customer’s choice of crust and
relish on the side.
Every two months, there is a new creative pizza on
the menu, and Roger says they are always willing to get
ideas from customers. The Millers also added pizza fries
in April, and Berghoff root beer is on tap for the kids.
“We wanted something for our age to go to,” said Cindy.
“We just want a place to come and sit – a socializing place.
But yet, we want it to be open to families with kids too.”
In the summer, the pub is open Thursday-Monday, from
11 a.m.-10 p.m, and winter hours are Thursday-Friday
from 4:30-10 p.m., and Saturdays 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
Roger and Cindy say when you walk in the door,
someone should greet you, then you can go to the pizza
ordering station or bar for what you need.
“We really appreciate people waiting when we are
busy,” said Cindy.
Even when busy, a waiter/waitress will make sure
you’ve been helped, and plates, silverware and essentials
can be found near the door, so customers can get straight
to conversing.
MoonRidge merchandise is now available as well.
Roger said growlers and glasses should be in soon, and
they have T-shirts that name the seven specialty beers
and say to “Drink Good Beer.”
Cindy says the community has been great and she’s
happy to have a “special place” like this in Cornell.
“Customers should feel welcome, feel almost at home,”
said Roger. “People can expect a good beer at a good price,
and expect very good pizza at a good price. Overall, you
just feel good about coming.
“We want you to feel like you want to come back,” he
said.
Roger Miller brews seven varieties of beer at his Moonridge Prewpub in Cornell, each named after a
locally-known geographical site. One of them is named “Stacker” after a local landmark remaining from
the community’s day in the timber industry.
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and related accessories and clothing. Small engine knowledge is
required. Experience is desired but will train a qualified person.
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must have good customer service skills. Must also be able to
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Marathon Cheese Corporation, located
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