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Out and About with
Burlington Chamber Ambassadors
CATHE House of
Healing Ribbon Cutting:
Congratulations!
The CATHE House of Healing had their ribbon
cutting on March 16. The vision for the CATHE House
is to become a specialized, thriving center of Health
and Wellness in the greater Burlington Area. They are
located adjacent to the CATHE Center at 125 E. State
Street in Burlington. Join them for their Open House
on April 23 from 10-3. There will be presentations on
Health and Wellness beginning at 11 a.m. For more
information, contact Dana Kroll 262.767.9661 or go to
www.catheonline.org. Pictured left to right are: Roxanne DeFort, Tresa Laferty, Sherry Engstrom, Nancy
Zick, Maureen McNulty, Darla Kromm, Dana Kroll
and several of the Burlington Chamber Ambassadors.
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We would like to congratulate Ann Cahill, owner
of the Electric Chair Salon, on 15 years of service in
downtown Burlington. The Electric Chair Salon is
located at 136 E. Chestnut St. and can be reached at
262-763-4711.
Chocolate Extravaganza
And the Winners Are…
With WLKG 96.1’s Dave Michaels doing the emceeing, the Chocolate Extravaganza was a hit on March
12th at the Burlington High School. The tasty treats of
the Chocolate Extravaganza were admired, sampled
and judged. Event goers eagerly waited for their chance
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Multi-Chamber Networking Event
Business After Hours
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Chamber Members, spouses, and their guests will be welcome to join
8 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Chamber
Members,
spouses, and their guests will be
The Haylofters
at
Business After Hours
Lake Lawn Resort
welcome to join The Haylofters at
The Malthouse Theater
The
Theater 109 N. Main Street
109
N. Malthouse
Main Street
April 21st, 2016, 5:00-7:00
Thursday,Thursday,
April 21st, 2016
5:00-7:00
2400 E. Geneva St., Delavan, WI
CHAMBER MEMBERS ONLY! Limit 2 participants from each business allowed.
$25.00 Per Person (includes breakfast & lunch)
To register contact your Chamber of Commerce.
R.S.V.P. by May 2 to your chamber. Limited to the 1st 200 RSVP’s
Special appearance
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No walk-ins allowed day of event.
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to try the delicious entries, while enjoying all the entertainment the Chocolate Extravaganza had to offer!
While all of the Bake-Off entries were full of chocolaty goodness, only a few could be chosen as winners,
and here they are:
Children: Alana P. (1st), Elliana F. (2nd), Trey W. (3rd)
Adult Cakes, Pies & Tortes: Ronna Brennan (1st),
Jan Schwartz (2nd), Shirley Brehmer (3rd)
Adult Bars & Cookies: Cortney Seifert (1st), Shirley
Brehmer (2nd), Jan Schwartz (3rd)
Adult Candy & Miscellaneous: Amy Fortner (1st),
Jan Schwartz (2nd)
Adult Cupcakes: Melissa Frost (1st), Jan Schwartz
(2nd), Judy Bratz (3rd)
“Anything Goes”(needed to use a Nestle CRUNCH
bar as a primary ingredient): Stacy Martin (1st)
Grand Prize Winner: Amy Fortner
Our celebrity competitors battled fiercely to earn top
honors in the Celebrity Cupcake Wars competition.
Our Celebrity’s this year were Mayor Bob Miller, Dave
Kmetz (President of the Burlington Chamber) and Tom
Hawkins (Owner and Coach of the Southern Lakes Blue
Devils football team). And the winner was… Mayor
Bob. He has waited 8 long years for the bragging rights.
Congratulations to him!!!
Thank you to all of the contest entrants, judges and
volunteers that helped make this event such a success!
We look forward to seeing you all next year!
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Discover Life in
Burlington
In this issue...
It’s Spring!
April 2016
By Jan Ludtke, Executive Director
Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce
Take in some high-flying fun as spring brings out the kid in all of us. Remember how enthusiastic you were on that
first spring day? You and your sisters and brothers would descend on the parks for flying kites in your own competitions to see whose went up first and farthest.
With spring around the corner and the winter clothes soon to hit the back of the closet, new reasons to get your
retail fix abound. Touting offerings that rival any big city, Burlington’s local shopping scene should provide the road
map. Plus, shopping local has perks: You’ll find something special to cherish for years to come, and you’ll also fuel
Burlington’s economy.
Don’t forget the gardening supplies and everything you’ll need for that outside clean up! Get a head start now at
www.burlingtonchamber.org.
Hershey Almond Torte
INGREDIENTS
8.5 oz. Hershey almond bar
10.5 oz. bag marshmallows
½ cup milk
1 pint whipping cream
1 box vanilla wafers
DIRECTIONS
Heat first 3 ingredients in double boiler.
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l Line pan (I use 9x13) with half box of
crumbled vanilla wafers.
l Carefully pour chocolate mixture over
wafers.
l Top with other half of crumbled vanilla
wafers.
l Keep refrigerated. Sometimes I put it
in the freezer for awhile too.
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for taking some time off, or bringing
serenity to the daily grind. This women’s
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fun, while handsewn stitching details give
a handcrafted appearance.
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My name is Ruth Schenning. I currently serve as Business
Manager for Burlington Area School District, and I am in
my fourth year serving on the Ambassador Club of the
Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce. I am married
to Mark, and we have two sons, Ethan and Nolan. In my
spare time, I enjoy reading, doing puzzles (all kinds),
camping, going on UTV trips, and snowmobiling.
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of Burlington – Discover the Treasures, a
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April Events in Burlington
Visit www.burlingtonchamber.org for a listing of current events.
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FIRST FRIDAYS • 8AM. First Fridays, Your
Chamber Orientation. Learn more about the
opportunities your Chamber membership brings to
you. RSVP 763-6044. Burlington Area Chamber of
Commerce113 E Chestnut St.
1, 2 BRAINTEASER PUZZLES: HANDS-ON FUN! • 1PM.
262 763-3946.www.logicpuzzlemuseum.org. Logic
Puzzle Museum 533 Milwaukee Ave. 2
HEIRLOOM PLANTS • 10AM. RSVP 262763-2153 or [email protected].
Burlington Garden Center 5205 Mormon Rd. 2
BRAINTEASER PUZZLES: HANDS-ON FUN! • 10:30
AM. 262 763-3946. www.logicpuzzlemuseum.org.
Logic Puzzle Museum, 533 Milwaukee Ave. 7
OPEN MIC NIGHT • 6:30PM. Thursday evenings.
262-661-4394 or www.burlingtoncoffeehouse.com.
Coffee House on Chestnut & Pine 492 N. Pine St. 9
CONTAINER GARDENING IDEAS SEMINAR •
10AM. RSVP at 262-763-2153 or events@
burlingtongardencenter.com. Burlington Garden Center
5205 Mormon Rd. 9
MISCHIEVOUS SINGLES OVER 55 • 6PM.
Jan 262-534-6008. Marty’s Restaurant.
201 W. Main St. Waterford 9,16 OUTDOOR ZOMBIE SURVIVAL CAMP FOR 7TH &
8TH GRADERS • 1PM. Call 262-878-5601 or
www.bongnaturalistassociation.org for more
information. Richard Bong State Recreation Area
26313 Burlington Rd. Kansasville
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PANCAKE DAY/OMELET BREAKFAST: 69th Annual.
Burlington Kiwanis. 7am.Burlington High School
400 McCanna Parkway
10 YMCA CAMP MACLEAN SPRING THAW • 9-3PM.
31401 Durand Ave.
10 AMY ZOTT- PANCREATIC FUNDRAISER • 12-4PM.
Join Team Amy’s Angels Racine Color Run, May
28th. Wear Purple & Run for Amy. Questions? email:
[email protected]’s Terrace
589 Milwaukee Ave. 11,25 LIONS CLUB GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
6:30PM. Gabby’s Palace Restaurant
356 N. Pine St.
12 MOMMY MEETUP • 9:30AM. www.facebook.
com/groups/873812932643463 or email info@
corechiropracticandwellness.com. Core Chiropractic
& Wellness Center 1448 S. Teut Rd.
12 JAYCEES MONTHLY MEETING • 7PM. Justin 262210-1428.Waterfront Restaurant 31100 Weiler Rd.
14 TOWN HALL BOARD MEETING • 6:30PM. 262763-3070 or visit www.tn.burlington.wi.gov. Town
Hall Auditorium 32288 Bushnell Rd.
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14 ALZHEIMER’S RACINE COUNTY CAREGIVER
SUPPORT GROUP • 6:30PM. Rosemary at
262-514-2935. Community United Methodist Church
455 S. Jefferson St.Waterford
16 BIKE BURLINGTON- NATIONWIDE OPENING DAY
OF BIKING • 11AM. Madonna Carr at 773-960-5529
bikeburlingtonwi.org. Wehmoff Jucker Park
16 STEPPIN’ OUT SINGLES-65 OR WISER • 6PM.Mary
at 262-763-9697.Pine Street Cafe141 N. Pine St. 17 YO-YO, KENDAMA, DIABOLO CONTEST! WORLDWIDE • 1PM. www.topmuseum.org 262 763-3946.
Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum 533 Milwaukee Ave.
18 STROKE SUPPORT GROUP • 1PM. Monthly
meeting. Pat Positano.262-741-2402.Aurora
Lakeland Medical Center 3985 County Hwy. NN,
Elkhorn
19 RESPIRATORY SUPPORT GROUP • 6PM.
Questions? 1-800-499-5736. Aurora Memorial
Hospital of Burlington 252 McHenry St.
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19 CITY COMMON COUNCIL MEETING • 6:30PM. Call
262-342-1161 or visitwww.burlington-wi.gov.City
Hall E. Jefferson St. 21 HAYLOFTERS- MALT HOUSE THEATER BUSINESS
AFTER HOURS • 5-7PM. RSVP Burlington Chamber.
262-763-6044. Malt House Theater 109 N. Main St.
23 PREPARING FOR LABOR AND BIRTH: EXPRESS •
9AM. Questions?Aurora Community Outreach 1-800-499-5736 www.ahc.aurorahealthcare.org.
Aurora Medical Center 10400 75th St. Kenosha
23 CATHE HOUSE OF HEALING OPEN HOUSE EVENT •
10AM. Questions? Maureen McNulty. 773-677-8458
or email [email protected].
CATHE House of Healing 101 Edward St. 23 HOPE WALK BOWLING FUNDRAISER - 7TH
ANNUAL • 11AM. Questions? 262-534-5181 or email
[email protected] & Country Lanes
264 S. Pine St.
24 KIDS FIRST KIDSFEST • 11AM. St. Charles School
449 Conkey St.
27 BOARD GAMES • 6:30PM. www.burlingtonlib
rary.org 262-342-1130 Burlington Public Library
166 E. Jefferson St.
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Burlington Senior
Center Activities
201 N. Main St. • 262-767-9880
ARTS & CRAFTS: 1st & 3rd Tuesdays
9:30-11:30 am
BRIDGE: Monday and Friday- 9 am
BUNCO: 2nd Friday- 1 pm.
CARDS: Sheepshead/Schafkopf Monday,
Wednesday & Friday- 9 am
CARDS: Chocolate City Card Club Tuesday12:30 Pinochle Euchre, Sheepshead/
Schafkopf 12:30 pm, Hand & Foot 12:30 pm.
DOMINOES: 2nd & 4th Wednesday
9:30-11:30 am
OUR HARMONY CLUB: 1st & 3rd Wednesday
9 am-3 pm
JAM SESSION: 3rd Wednesday 1 pm
LIBRARY: Borrow our or donate your books,
cassette tapes,VHS video or CD’s.
50+ SPORTS VOLLEYBALL: October-April call
Katie Mawhinney 262-939-3181
NIFTY FIFTY BOWLING: Towne & Country Lanes
every Friday 1 pm.
TRIPS: Call Pat 262-767-9880 for current trip
information.
Milwaukee Brewers Game- April 21st at 10:30
a.m. The cost is $45. Call Pat 262-767-9880
for details.
Join us for Dinner and a Show, May 13th
starting with “Southern” Fried Chicken and all
the fixins and then wander over to the Malt
House Theater for a wonderful performance
of “Pump Boys and Dinettes”. The cost is $23.
For more information, call Pat 262-767-9880.
Pump Up Those Tires ‘Cause...
By Tom Lebak
Big Things Are Happening
In recent years throughout the country and certainly
in the state of Wisconsin, the rumble of the “Iron Horse”
has been replaced by the sound of whirring derailleurs
and fast-moving feet as abandoned railroad tracks continue their makeover from rails to trails. As the calendar
changes to April and we begin to move out of our winter
cocoon, the time certainly seems right to check on the
state of recreation, and particularly trail cycling in our
area. And as the title of this article suggests, big and
exciting things are happening out on the trails which will
have a rippling positive impact community-wide.
Some readers may remember my October, 2015
article about cycling in the Burlington area, touching
on things such as the area as a Mecca for road riding,
the wonderful opportunity for safe family riding on the
trails and future infrastructure improvements. Also,
mention was made of the Chamber’s commitment to
cycling through its investment in the Discover Wisconsin
television series which highlighted cycling as a valuable
component of what we are about in Burlington. The
Chamber’s foresight in recognizing the potential visitor
draw that a bicycle-friendly community could be has
turned out to be quite prescient and a good business
decision.
That article was fairly general in nature but now
things are coming more into focus as we move closer
to April 16th, the day designated by the national Railsto-Trails Conservancy(RTC) as the kick-off of the trail
riding season. And because of the cooperative effort of
groups such as Bike Burlington, the City of Burlington,
the Chamber of Commerce and others, the Burlington
area finds itself right in the middle of an expanding
system of trails in southeast Wisconsin as well as being a
potential hub for a completely interconnected State-wide
system of trails, appropriately named the Route of the
Badger. In 2014, the Conservancy started an effort to
connect all of the trails in the seven southeast Wisconsin
counties. Since all of these counties already had extensive
and excellent trails coursing through them, it was a
perfectly logical progression to begin the Badger project
in this area. When completed, the Badger is hoped and
planned to be a 400-500 mile route possibly extending
north to Minneapolis and south to Chicago. (To read
more about the Badger, go to www.railstotrails.org)
Groups such as RTC and others involved in trail
development know that the location of trails near population centers is a key factor in the success of the initiative.
Similarly, businesses as well as organizations representing
businesses and community development (like the Chamber) will recognize the potential benefit from the expected
influx of visitor dollars. Plus, it is hard not to get excited as
a community about being seen as a part of a system that
promotes good health and well-being.
Locally, the new trail on the east side of Spring
Valley Road that will connect Whemhoff Jucker Park
(the local trails hub) to the White River Trail is moving
toward an early summer completion. Additionally, Bike
Burlington is working with the City of Burlington on
signage for the connective part of the trail that will wind
briefly through a residential section of the City. Finally,
our neighbors to the east in Union Grove have been
working with the Soo Line to remove the old tracks in
that area for the purpose of converting the rail bed to a
trail that will help to complete a trail from Elkhorn to
Lake Michigan.
Clearly, cycling, and in particular trail riding, has
taken its place alongside other long-time Wisconsin
recreational favorites. And like many of those wothers,
cycling has an economic benefit component for communities. So, consider this an invitation to do as the slogan
says and “Try the Trail!” The kick-off in Burlington is on
Saturday April 16th at Wehmhoff Jucker Park from 11am
to 1pm. There will be refreshments, free bike checks and
raffles. (And for you roadies, don’t forget the Chocolate
City Ride on May 15th!) Trail Passes available at Bob’s
Pedal Pusher, 817 N. Pine St. 262-763-7794.
Are your events on the calendar?
The Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce
is developing the Calendar of Events for the
upcoming year and beyond – every day!
Simple marketing to let people know what’s
going on. Don’t miss out on a chance to
have your events marketed at no cost to you.
The BACC calendar is utilized in response
to hundreds of inquiries and invites you
to add your event on our website www.
burlingtonchamber.org.
Remember that national, regional and state
publications, local newspapers and other
media contacts draw from this “master copy”
which helps promote YOUR EVENT and our
area activities. The Wisconsin Department
of Tourism partners with the Chamber to
market our region.
In order for your event to be promoted
as extensively as possible, please take a
couple minutes to add the event at www.
burlingtonchamber.org. Take the time to
verify the date you have chosen and insure
there isn’t any conflict with other events. If
you have any question, give us a call at 262763-6044.
This wide distribution brings additional
visitors to our area and increases attendance
at our area festivals and events, helping your
organization in its fund-raising efforts and
our community’s economy.
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Chamber News & Activties
Garden Chair & Bench Auction
Watch those bids. You’ll love the creativity
of this year’s artists!
In partnership with Burlington High School, students in the Burlington A.C.E Academy build benches suitable for your garden, child’s
room, entry way – well, just about anywhere in your house.
Once that building phase was completed, Burlington High School
students, under the direction of Shannon Wiswell, created more
beautiful works of art for the Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce
Bench Auction. Also this year, art students from Catholic Central
High School, under the direction of Sue Sheldon, painted beautiful
chairs which will also be out in the community for auction. These
talented students have out done themselves again this year!
The proceeds from the auction are used for annual scholarships,
community marketing and tourism projects. The benches and chairs
are featured at area banks, businesses and grocery stores throughout
the community, allowing everyone a chance to bid on the bench of
your choice. Check “Facebook” or the Burlington Area Chamber of
Commerce website for a listing of the bench locations. Please call 262763-6044 or visit www.burlingtonchamber.org for more information.
Auction ends May 31st.
Amanda Hintz/Griselda Rebollar
Monsters lnc.
LandmarkCredit Union
Brooke Bleser & Olivia .Antfinger
“UP”
Badgerland Finandal
Lauren Reesman • Childs Chair
Educators Credit Union
Ellie Nevin & Miriam Ward • Sunflower
People’s Bank
Sydney Filer-Night Mountain/Quote
Fox River State Bank
Whitney Vieau • Aboriginal Snake
Community State Bank
Danielle Letkewicz • Cartoon Fish
Associated Bank
Meghan Graef • Bright Designs
Richter’s Marketplace
Sabrina Boedecker • Volcano
Hampton Inn
Sage Smith/Joe Radtke/ Andy
Beckner • Sea Turtles Hatching
Coffee House
Shannon Wiswell • Old Books
Burlington Public Library
Shiyue Xie • Mountain Refle.ctions
North Shore Bank
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Dustin Edwards
Space Ship
BMO Harris Bank
Francisco
Mendoza
Africa
Gooseberries
Fresh Food
Market
Jena Zabel
Mrs Sheldon
Waterlilies
Badgerland
Financial
Patricia Loppnow • Chevron
Town Bank
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www.schuermancpa.com
Designing a Four-Season
Garden of Continuous Color
It doesn’t seem possible, does it? Color in the landscape year-round in
Wisconsin. But using a few design tricks, you, too, can achieve what’s
considered to be the Holy Grail in the gardening world.
First, let’s get on the same page with terminology: continuous color is different
than continuous bloom. Many strive for plantings with something blooming all
the time during the growing season. By trial and error and with close observation,
this is possible using perennials as your main color source. But depending only on
flowers for color is seeing the garden through a narrow lens, and you are missing
out on a whole world of possibilities for color in the landscape.
Widen the lens. First let’s widen that lens and try to see your landscape as a
whole. Rather than focusing on a small flower garden to provide continuous color,
consider using flowering trees and shrubs as the backbone of a colorful landscape.
Serviceberries (Amelanchier) and crabapples (Malus sp.) provide three seasons
of color: spring blossoms, late-summer fruit, and pretty fall hues. Shrubs in the
Viburnum family offer the same three-season interest. Of course evergreens are a
staple of a well-designed landscape giving a constant green as a background most
of the year, but carrying us through the winter with emerald needles.
Use long-blooming perennials. Another trick that designers use when planning color in the landscape is using perennials with long bloom time. Many provide
a pop of color for 2-4 weeks, but newer cultivars of Coreopsis, catmint (Nepeta), and
daisies (Leucanthemum), to name a few, are bred to bloom 8-10 weeks. A particular
favorite is Heliopsis ‘Tuscan Sun’, also known as the perennial sunflower. This
compact, golden- yellow, daisy-like flower is heat-tolerant, drought tolerant, a
native cultivar and attracts butterflies all summer and well into the fall.
Consider leaf color. Designers consider what a plant has to offer when it isn’t
blooming. Does it have interesting leaf color during the summer? Green is good,
but chartreuse or shades of burgundy can be better. Does it have fall color? Good
questions to ask yourself when shopping for plants. Coral bells (Heuchera) are an
example as many have been developed particularly for their leaf color. Shrubs like
ninebarks (Physocarpus) and some Weigelas have burgundy foliage that offer color
when blossoms fade.
Extend the season. Take a look at your landscape right now. What color do
you see? Bulbs planted in the fall give early spring purples and yellows while all
else slowly comes to life. Crocus, snowdrops, daffodils, and species tulips bloom
March and April year after year. Lenten roses (Helleborus), primroses (Primula),
and lungwort (Pulmonaria) are favorite perennials for early color in the garden.
Extend the season on the back side with ornamental grasses. They have become
a three-season staple in the landscape providing changing color with blade and
flower from summer through winter.
Berries, stems, and bark. Speaking of winter, don’t be content with white and
brown. A few choice plants in addition to evergreens can give color when needed
the most. Winterberry (Ilex) and Cardinal Viburnums have red berries through
most of the winter months. Red twig dogwoods (Cornus), River birch (Betula),
Seven Sons (Heptacodium), and paper bark maples (Acer) offer color with branches
and exfoliating bark.
With close observation of your landscape through the year, noting the times
when color is lacking, you’ll begin to see when and where color could be added.
Over time, you, too, can achieve four seasons of continuous color.
Tracy Hankwitz is a landscape designer and store manager of Burlington Garden
Center. For a complete listing of perennials with long-bloom times, design assistance,
and information on an upcoming seminar on this topic, go to www.burlingtongardencenter.com.
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Business by
THE BLOCK
It is our pleasure to present the
April 2016 edition of Business by the
Block. Our focus this month is on
Milwaukee Avenue. We appreciate
the support of our local Burlington
businesses and hope that you will take
advantage of this unique opportunity
to read about and visit each business
to learn more about the products and
services they offer.
For Lease
900 Milwaukee Ave.
262-763-2155
For Lease
940 Milwaukee Ave.
414-364-9696
Advance Auto Parts
1016 Milwaukee Ave.
262-767-9714
www.shop.advanceautoparts.com
Auto Part Store
It is our pleasure to introduce
Michelle Cannon, owner/operator
of LarryVille Gardens, as our chef
in residence and recipe provider
for September-November. A
trained chef turned farmer,
Michelle has been growing and preparing vegetables,
fruits, and herbs to feed her family and friends for
over thirty three years. Farming and selling her produce for the last 6 years, Michelle is a fixture at the
Burlington
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for placing 1st in the Bobbi Cup Design Competition
In honor of Chicago’s own Bobbi
Ecker-Blatchford AIFD, AAF, PFCI,
this annual live design competition
showcases the talents of some of the
finest floral designers in the industry.
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Parker AIFD and Loann Burke AIFD.
The North Central Chapter of the
American Institute of Floral Designers
instituted the competition in honor of
Bobbi’s immeasurable dedication to
the institute, the floral industry, and
to the countless lives she touches. The
competition is open to eligible accredited
members of the North Central Chapter
of AIFD who are selected at random
prior to the competition.
Toni Piccolo AIFD is the owner of
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her daughter, the shop opened in 2010 in
Burlington, Wisconsin. Toni Piccolo is a
talented professional florist specializing
in creative details for weddings, funerals
and family events. She is a graduate
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degree in horticulture marketing. Toni’s
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APRIL 2016
PAGE 9
Remember


When
Electric Company
Donated Dam to City
Submitted by Burlington
Historical Society Museum, located
at 232 N. Perkins Blvd. Open
Sunday afternoons 1 to 4 pm.
262-767-2884.
www.burlingtonhistory.org.
T
he dam on the White
River which forms Echo
Lake was once private
property. Originally built
to supply water power for log
sawing and feed grinding mills, the
dam, along with a portion of the
mill pond and adjacent land, was
owned by private parties until 1933.
Among the owners were Pliny
Perkins, Maurice and Frank Ayers,
and the Wisconsin Gas and Electric
Co.
Mill races were dug to increase the
speed of the water that turned the heavy
stone wheels that powered the machin‑
ery in the mills. Perkins owned both a
feed mill and a woolen mill, with the
power divided two‑thirds to the feed
mill on Pine Street (where the building
recently occupied by the Standard
Press is located) and one‑third to the
woolen mill on Second Street (about
where Veterans Terrace is now located).
The Pine street mill developed 80
horsepower and the Second street mill
40 horsepower, which was sufficient for
the needs of those early day industries.
Maurice Ayers bought an interest
in the feed mill in 1878 and about
a year later acquired full ownership,
including power rights. The Ayers
family ran the feed mill until 1903. The
Burlington Blanket Co. then leased
the power rights and the mill and, in
turn, subleased the power rights to the
Burlington Electric Light & Power Co.
The Burlington Electric Light &
Power Co was organized by the Wagner
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brothers and Leonard Smith in 1888.
It provided the first electricity in the
city from a steam-powered plant on
Pine Street. The company purchased the
property and power rights of the former
woolen mill in 1894, and built a water-powered electric plant on the ruins
of the former woolen mill, which had
burned in 1880. The electric plant and
the mill race that provided the water
power are shown in the accompanying
photo from the early 1900s.
With an auxiliary steam plant to
help out in times of low water, the plant
furnished Burlington’s electricity for
years. The plant, dam, and water power
were acquired in 1914 by the Wisconsin
Gas & Electric Co., which used the
water power when possible. But the
increased efficiency of big steam plants
crowded out the small water power
units and in 1933 the Wisconsin Gas
& Electric Co. turned the dam and
surrounding property over to the city.
The June 16, 1933, Standard Democrat
had the following comments on the
donation.
Through a generous gift from the
Wisconsin Gas & Electric Co., the city
of Burlington now owns the mill dam
and all the surrounding property which,
added to the park lands of the city, gives
Burlington one of the finest parks in
the country and assures the park board
control of the water level in Echo Lake.
The park board has been negotiating
for the property for several years, and
had been assured it would be turned
over to the city by company officials.
But they have delayed action because of
the personal interest in the local water
power by Manager William J. Leach.
The power plant has for years been a
personal hobby of Mr. Leach and, while
records show the company can make
electricity as cheap or cheaper at its
Lakeside plant, Mr. Leach, through his
untiring efforts, has kept the plant oper‑
ating, using what water power there was
for the benefit of the company, in spite
of the fact that most of the machinery
and equipment in the plant is pretty
well worn out or obsolete.
The deed, which was received from
the company by the park board this
week, conveys to the city of Burlington
for the sum of $1 all of the land owned
by the company from the north edge of
the mill race to the edge of the present
plant to the TMERL Co. and Soo Line
right‑of‑ways, out some fifty feet into
Echo Lake above the dam. By it the city
now owns the dam and mill race as well
as the area immediately above and be‑
low the dam. It amounts to an outright
gift of valuable property and privileges
by the Wisconsin Gas & Electric Co.
to the city. The only restriction is that
“in the event said premises, or any part
thereof, shall be used for the purpose
of generating electric energy by water
power or otherwise, the title shall revert
to the grantor.”
It was to secure control of the water
level in Echo Lake that the park board
was particularly interested in securing
the mill race. Upon the water level
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depends all the beauty of both Echo
Park and Bernhoft (now Wagner) Park
on Chestnut Street. Both have been
improved with sea walls and when in
the dry months of summer the water
is drawn away for power it damages
the beauty of the shore lines. Not using
the water for power will provide some
water going over the dam, which now
is dry during most of the year. This will
also add to the beauty of the property.
By acquiring the land below the dam
the city has authority over the “jungles,”
long a favorite hang‑out for tramps,
which can now be cleaned up.
The company will continue to use
the water power during the present
high water, probably discontinuing its
use the latter part of the month, when
the plant will be closed. The park board
has not determined what will be done
with the race. Some have suggested that
a swimming pool be erected in it, and
others that it be filled in and added to
the park area.
Discontinuing the water power ends
the using of Fox and White rivers for
power purposes that has been utilized
since Burlington was founded in the
mid‑1830s.
Help us preserve our history. Join the
Burlington Historical Society and help us
tell the story of Burlington.
Interested? Contact Dennis Tully at
262-767-2884.
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