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Volume 120, Issue 42
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Elk Mound Village Board hears
about proposed land development
By Cara L. Dempski
ELK MOUND — The Elk
Mound Village Board learned
during its October 12 meeting of
a plan to develop land along Independence Drive for housing.
Village Clerk Pat Hahn stated
during the meeting that she and
public works director Mark Levra
had met with Len Schreiber of
Cedar Corporation about the possibility of building up to 19 multifamily dwellings on the south
side of Independence Drive. The
meeting marked the third time
the village has been approached
in 2016 regarding a new housing
development.
The land Schreiber proposed
for use is directly across from the
building that formerly housed
Marshfield Clinic’s Elk Mound
office and is currently owned
by Laverne Ausman. Developer
Gene Caron is pursuing the land
for the project.
Schreiber’s proposal indicates
three units facing Independence
Drive will be built first because
there is already utility access for
those units. Schreiber and Caron
will be coming to the Elk Mound
Plan Commission with a rezoning
request and certified survey map.
The land in question is currently
zoned for agricultural use.
Schreiber and Caron are hoping to have the first three units
in before the end of 2016, and potentially put in a further 16 units
in the future. They will be asking
the plan commission and village
board to rezone the land as R4,
meaning that the proposed units
could house up to four families.
“The first meeting in November is probably a possibility for
the plan commission, and then
the board will meet on it at the
same time to rezone and approve
the CSM,” Hahn stated.
Schreiber, Caron and fellow
developer Mike Ruwowski initially approached the village of
Elk Mound in April 2016 about
developing a parcel of land on the
north side of University Street
directly across from Mound View
Elementary School. The plan was
scrapped when it was determined
it would cost the village $300,000
to install a loop from the water
main for the development.
The group then proposed
changing zoning on the north side
of Jersey Lane from single-family
residential to two-family residential for a duplex rental property.
The proposal was denied by the
village during the June 1 regular
meeting.
The board also learned October 12 that the Mound View store
ownership will transfer to Cenergy, LLC, the company which
oversees the 25 Mega Holiday gas
stations and stores in the Eau
Claire area. The store will retain
its current name and will still be
a BP station.
The employee relations committee and public works director
Mark Levra presented two options for hiring two new public
works crew members. Option one
was to hire Kevin Garnett at the
rate of $16/hour and with benefits
listed in the employee handbook.
The option includes Garnett being given the option of starting
immediately or starting January
1, 2017.
The second option was hiring Todd Steinhorst at the same
rate with the same benefits, but
with Steinhorst’s start date being
whichever date Garnett does not
choose. The board unanimously
approved both options.
In other business, the board:
•Heard a brief presentation
from Dunn County District Attorney candidate Holly Wood Webster.
•Approved building permits
for Big Dog Investments/Patrick Rebman (W300 Menomonie
Street) for work on the kitchen
and bathroom, and for James
Comstock (209 North Holly Avenue) for roof work.
•Learned the Dunn County
Solid Waste and Recycling board
has found a recycling source for
plastic items such as “kiddie”
pools and large plastic buckets.
•Approved a class “A” retailer’s beer license for consumption off premise and a cigarette
and tobacco product license for
EM Village
Please see page 2
EM man accused of OWI, hitting parked car,
fleeing state patrol and ramming cruiser
By LeAnn R. Ralph
EAU CLAIRE — A 20-yearold man from Elk Mound has
been arrested for Operating
While Intoxicated after fleeing
from a Wisconsin state trooper in
Eau Claire, striking another vehicle and ramming the state patrol cruiser several times.
Austin Hanson was arrested
October 15 for OWI and eluding
officers.
According to a news release
from the Wisconsin State Patrol
Northwest Region, at about 2:52
a.m. Saturday, October 15, a
state trooper attempted to stop a
vehicle in the City of Eau Claire
for vehicle light violations.
The vehicle, a green Chevrolet Cavalier, failed to stop for the
trooper and drove around the
same city block twice at the posted speed limit before accelerating
through two stop signs.
As the subject attempted
to make a right turn at a high
rate of speed, the Cavalier sideswiped a parked vehicle that was
occupied.
The trooper pulled up behind
the suspect vehicle, which went
into reverse, rammed the state
patrol cruiser and then fled, according to the news release.
The state trooper made sure
the occupants of the parked vehicle were not injured, and then
the trooper continued pursuing
the Cavalier.
The state trooper followed the
vehicle for several blocks. In an
attempt to go around the state
patrol cruiser, the suspect drove
into a residential driveway and
became hung up on some landscaping. When the trooper attempted to block the Cavalier
with his cruiser, the suspect once
again rammed the cruiser and
then fled, according to the news
release.
The suspect’s vehicle eventually drove onto a dead-end road,
entered a driveway and struck a
tree stump. After the vehicle was
disabled, the suspect fled on foot.
The Eau Claire Police Department established a perimeter,
but the Cavalier’s driver was not
located.
More than an hour later, at
4:41 a.m., the Eau Claire County
dispatch center received a call
from someone claiming to be the
driver of the vehicle and gave the
address of his current location.
Officers from the Eau Claire
Police Department, along with
the state patrol trooper, arrived
at the residence and then arrested the 20-year-old driver, Austin
Hanson of Elk Mound, for OWI
first offense and eluding officers,
according to the news release.
The news release indicated
that other charges are pending
and that the investigation is continuing.
THIRD AVE. PROGRESS — Work on Third Avenue in Colfax was progressing well the second week
in October. Haas Sons had already poured the curb and gutter, and crews were working on pouring
other concrete while they were in the area. —photo by LeAnn R. Ralph
EAST VIEW — This was the view from the East View housing development in Colfax on a sunny
October afternoon when the leaves were starting to turn colors. —photo by LeAnn R. Ralph
Colfax school district referendum: what is
included in $2.2 million of infrastructure?
By LeAnn R. Ralph
COLFAX — Part of the $7.2
million referendum that will be
on the ballot for residents in the
Colfax school district on November 8 is $2.2 million for infrastructure.
But what does that mean —
infrastructure?
Infrastructure is defined as
the basic facilities or components
needed to operate a particular facility or enterprise.
Infrastructure,
said
Bill
Yingst, Colfax school district
administrator, are those components you cannot see but if you
do not have them up-to-date
and well-maintained, the school
buildings do not operate very
well.
Some of the items on the infrastructure list came from the energy efficiency project from three
years ago, Yingst said.
The Colfax Board of Education selected the projects that
they thought the school district
could afford at that time, “but the
needs don’t go away,” he said.
The school district had a zero
mill rate impact at the time the
energy efficiency projects were
completed, Yingst noted.
Infrastructure items on the
energy efficiency list include new
heating and ventilation equipment for the middle school and
high school with new digital controls; re-piping the boiler room
hot water supply system; and
three energy recovery ventilators
to pre-treat fresh air.
Other items include a fire
alarm panel upgrade; security
system upgrade including roll
down doors; domestic water conservation updates; exterior building repairs; and additional technology updates.
The list also includes replacing
three rubberized roofs; replace
carpeting in 20 classrooms (average age of 16 years); hall locker
replacement; and parking lot
maintenance.
“This is the internal stuff that’s
not very fun. People don’t really
walk through your boiler room.
The big air handlers. They are
high dollar replacement items,”
Yingst said.
“We are talking about going
from pneumatic controls to digital controls and to be computerized. The way they are now, they
are almost considered to be stand
alone systems (among the elementary, middle and high school).
You are dealing with a wrench to
try to set those old pneumatic
controls. This way, you would be
dealing with one computer. You
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what is working and what is not
working,” he said.
The problem with the Colfax
school building is that there is a
1954-55 section, a 1977 section, a
1963 section, and a 1996 section,
Yingst said, and they were built
as separate heating plants.
The two big air handlers that
are above the balcony in the gymnasium have 1977 stamped right
on them, he noted.
“They are 39 years old. I don’t
know how much longer we can
expect them to last. We have
maintained them. And knock on
wood, they haven’t died on us yet.
But they could stop anytime. You
don’t have any choice when they
go. You have to replace them. The
same with boilers. When they go,
and if they are $50,000 each, and
that does not include not installation, but you have to have them,”
Yingst said.
Proprietary
Many of the components of the
heating and ventilation system
are “proprietary” which means
they are unique to a particular
company and are not standard
across the industry.
“If you work with Trane or another company, all of their (components) are proprietary. If you
installed a Trane 20 years ago,
and 40 years ago you had some
other company’s proprietary
parts there — well, they don’t all
talk to each other. So then you’re
trying to tie systems together. It’s
not just the boiler, because then
you’ve got the proprietary pieces,
the controls that you have to get
tied together. Otherwise you have
a web of a mess,” Yingst said.
“And then it’s very hard to
control. This area is cold and this
area isn’t. And you’re down there
tweaking separate systems. With
a digital control you can adjust
and make it so that it is a consistent heat,” he said.
The school district’s maintenance people are all extremely
good at what they do but there
is only so much they can do with
the old and outdated heating and
ventilation system, Yingst said.
A new heating and ventilation
system that covers all of the different sections of the building
and ties them together will be
much more energy efficient, he
said.
Fire alarm
The fire alarm system is tied
into the security system update
that would be part of the projects
covered by the $2.2 million in infrastructure for the referendum.
“We’ve got one project in the
referendum we call safety and security … (that is) tied it in with
the drop roll down doors,” Yingst
said.
The school building has several areas where a drop-down door
can prevent access to the rest of
the building.
When there is a basketball
game, for example, the drop-down
doors can keep people in the gymnasium area of the building and
prevent access to the halls in the
other parts of the building.
“The problem is, you can’t
make (the drop down doors) lockable unless the fire system is tied
into it. You could pull it down and
lock it, but then people can’t get
out of the building (if there’s a
fire). It’s a fire safety code issue,”
Yingst said.
The drop-down doors must
be tied “to the fire alarm, and if
those are down, they go up automatically if there’s a fire alarm.
It has to be automated,” he said.
The drop-down doors are essential for safety and security
in the school building. If there
was an intruder who meant do
harm to students and staff, the
drop-down doors could keep that
person in a certain section of the
building until law enforcement
arrived.
“If you had a safety issue, and
you wanted to cordon off certain
sections, you could drop those,
and you could keep someone who
was here to do harm at bay and
not let them get into the rest of
the building at certain intersections,” Yingst said.
Water conservation
In recent years, more and more
high capacity wells have been put
on-line for irrigating farm fields,
for operating the large dairies
and to process sand excavated
from sand mines.
Part of the $2.2 million in infrastructure updates that would
be part of the November 8 referendum question would deal with
water conservation.
“We are talking about replacing high flow toilets at 3.5 gallons per flush with high efficiency
that is down to 1.28 (gallons per
flush),” Yingst said.
“You would cut your water usage down to about half. You have
just about thousand people in
here, students and staff, and that
is a lot of water. We pay quite a
bit for water every quarter. And
that would be a savings for the
taxpayer,” Yingst said.
If a thousand people flush a toilet once per day, it would amount
to a savings of 2,200 gallons per
day, or 44,000 gallons per month
Colfax Referendum
Please see page 10
Page 2 • Colfax Messenger
Letters to the Editor
To The Editor:
I am supporting and will vote
for current Assistant District Attorney Holly Wood Webster to be
Dunn County’s next District Attorney. I believe that I have a unique
perspective on this issue that
may assist Dunn County voters.
Until my retirement in May,
2016, I had been chief prosecutor
for the City of Menomonie for 39
years. I worked closely with Holly for
many years. She is an excellent
prosecutor. In addition, I have always been impressed by how well
Holly has worked, out of court,
with those associated with the
Dunn County judicial system.
Holly has never short-changed
or let down the people of Dunn
County.
Unfortunately, I do not believe
that the same can be said for interim District Attorney Andrea
Nodolf.
(After the election of Judge Peterson in the Spring of 2014, the
position of District Attorney became vacant. Governor Walker
could appoint an interim District
Attorney. Governor Walker chose
to seek out and import Ms. Nodolf
from Rusk County.)
One example of Ms. Nodolf ’s
exercise of poor judgment was
her campaign to prevent the addition of a third judge for Dunn
County.
Objective evidence compiled
state-wide has shown that Dunn
County is and has been in the top
three of all counties in the State
of Wisconsin in terms of Judge
workload overload. Requests for help from the
State had fallen on deaf ears.
Finally, a bill to fund an additional Judgeship for Dunn County began to move through the
legislature. This bill had received
full support from the Dunn County Board of Supervisors.
What did Ms. Nodolf do? She
used her appointed position to
urge the legislature to kill the
bill. The bill died.
Dunn County citizens deserve
better than this.
Please vote Holly Wood Webster for Dunn County District Attorney.
Ken Schofield
Menomonie, Wisconsin
Hi, Carlton,
I think you’re wrong. Wisconsin will vote for Trump. I can’t believe the majority of people could
be that out of touch with reality.
Hillary is a known commodity,
open borders, higher taxes, more
Muslims that place shaira law
before the constitution (goodbye
to womens rights). Nothing will
change in the inner city – more
death, more division, more uneducated. Social Security will be
out. Single payer will take the
place of Obamacare (rationing
and death panels). The police will
continue to be vilified. The Supreme Court will be stacked with
activist judges. Amnesty will be
given to all illegals and will vote
in 2020. The country will be lost.
Gun rights and religious rights
will disappear.
If you have a Biblical view on
morality and you state it publicly
it will be considered hate speech
and you could be jailed and if you
are a church leader you will lose
your tax exempt status.
Trump is totally opposite in
all these topics. There is no other
choice!
America lives or dies - you
choose!
Lewis P. Norman
Colfax
I have grabbled over all the
Republican presidential candidates, having to change my choice
numerous times. I still want to
back a candidate that will give
me peace of mind about the security that should be guaranteed
for all Americans. Our rights and
freedom our forefathers fought
for and our Constitution should
be upheld and protected. This is
the Country that so many want
to immigrate to, described as
“That shining city on a hill”. Our
citizens are losing ground on our
inalienable rights. Our professional long-termed politicians’
are doing us an injustice by only
being concerned about their own
reelections and not concentrating on the good of the people.
The appointing of Supreme Court
Judges can have serious consequences and generational affects
for this land. I feel this is the determining factor in my selection
of Donald Trump for President.
He has named some good choices
with conservative leanings. They
will follow the Constitution and
not call it outdated and interrupt it to their radical thinking.
Another quote from one of our
greatest presidents, Ronald Reagan, “There are no easy answers,
but there are simple answers. We
must have the courage to do what
we know is morally right. Please
vote your faith!
Charlene Kervina
Bloomer
EM Village
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the new owners of Mound’s View
Store.
•
Approved resolution 16-2
regarding the 2016-2020 Dunn
County outdoor recreation plan.
•Approved a contract with
the Dunn County Humane Society for animal control services
with a per capita rate of $1.63.
Closed Session
The village board met in closed
session during the October 12
meeting to discuss the employee
relations committee’s recommendations for the 2017 wages and
benefits for the public works and
clerk’s offices.
During the session, the employee relations committee recommended:
•A three-percent wage increase for both offices.
•Increasing the monthly insurance stipend to $1,200.
•
Adding longevity pay of
$1.00 per month, per years of service after five years.
•Increasing the attendance
stipend for board members seated on committees from $10 to $20
per committee meeting.
•Increasing the attendance
stipend for board members and
citizen members of the plan commission from $15 to $20 per plan
commission meeting.
• The board reopened the session and voted to accept all the
measures presented while the
session was closed.
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State Capitol Newsletter Off the Publisher's Desk
By Matt Pommer
DISCLAIMER: The content in this column does not reflect the
views or opinions of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association or its member newspapers.
Public Notice Practices
By Matt Pommer
An expert is warning that proposed changes in the state’s public notice law come with perils to
open government.
At issue is a push by municipal
governments for an option to only
place public notices on the web.
Currently the public notices are
published in newspapers, and the
Wisconsin Newspaper Association also maintains a web site for
all public notices.
Avoiding newspaper publication is touted as saving government money. A Legislative Council is studying the issue and its
recommendations will go to the
next Legislature.
Mark W.C. Stodder of Shorewood, a committee member, says
that any change must result in
improved access and delivery of
government activity to the public.
Stodder, a public member of
the committee, is president of
Xcential Legislative Technologies
and a former Wisconsin newspaper publisher. He served as president of the Public Notice Resource
Center from 2005 to 2012. That is
a national nonprofit foundation
which examines and tracks the
development of public notice law
throughout the country.
He recommends four elements
to be considered, and they favor
continued newspaper publication
of public notices. Item one is that
the public notice be published by
an independent body.
“Unfortunately, government
cannot always be depended upon
to provide transparency into its
operation,” he wrote. Wisconsin
has both a tradition of open government but “it also has many
examples of public officials choosing to reduce visibility into their
plans and activities.’’
Stodder cites last year’s efforts
by legislative leaders to weaken
the state’s open records law. Letting governmental units avoid
newspaper publications, could
create less visibility, he said
“In Wisconsin local community
newspapers provide that ‘watchdog’ function -- both in print and
via their mobile platforms and a
statewide public notice website,”
he wrote.
Other issues in the four to be
considered are whether public
notices are archivable, accessible
and verifiable, he said.
The public and the source of
the public notice must be able to
verify the notice that was published was not changed once it
was published.
“Today, the means of verifying that content on a website has
not been electronically altered
-- hacked in some way -- remain
sketchy, said Stodder.
“Technology to do so continues to evolve and remains highly
complex and costly,” he added.
The federal government has been
developing a system to verify online documents “but that system
is expensive and not 100 percent
accurate and likely well beyond
the means of a local Wisconsin
government or web-only provider.”
“Today the only fully verifiable
notice is in a local newspaper,”
he said, citing the statutorily required publisher affidavit.
“The committee would be failing in its duty if we make it harder for citizens to become aware
of the activities of their government,” he wrote in a letter to the
committee.
Most computer users would
also concede that finding and
reading a public notice is easier
in the community newspaper
than in the flood of available web
information.
Have you voted already?
Have you voted in the allowed early voting or maybe you have filed
an absentee ballot with your local clerk. Most voters have by now
made up their minds on which of the presidential candidates they are
going to vote for.
Polls over the weekend show a close race between Hillary Clinton
and Donald Trump. Only about five percent have yet to decide whom
they are going to vote for according to one poll that I seen.
During the primary election process, Senator Bernie Sanders questioned the fairness of our election procedures. Sunday on CNN Rudy
Giuliani said he “believed elections in some big cities could be rigged,
some with dead Democratic voters, obviously harming Republican
Donald Trump.” He continued, “You want me to say that I think the
election in Philadelphia and Chicago is going to be fair? I would have
to be a moron to say that.”
I remember that a number of years ago a couple of people were
convicted of voting more than once in an eastern Wisconsin city. That
is why I am in favor of some sort of voter identification at the polling
place. I urge everyone to make sure they have registered with their
local clerk so you can vote on November 8th. It’s your duty to vote, so
please do.
Last week I suggested that Clinton would win the State of Wisconsin in November. Several people challenged me on that. See the
letters to the editor column as to what one of our readers has to say
about Clinton winning in Wisconsin.
A couple of other comments I got reminded me that if Hillary wins,
and serves two terms (eight years) she will have the opportunity to
nominate at least four Supreme Court Justices. If she wins and gets
to appoint new justices, her liberal minded appointees, will decimate
the first and second amendments of the United States Constitution, I
have been lead to believe.
The First Amendment of the Constitution contains the five basic
Freedoms, which, we enjoy as American Citizens. Do you know what
they are? The Second Amendment is our right to keep and bear arms.
If you are interested in keeping these freedoms, I suggest that you
vote for Donald Trump for president.
Thanks for reading!
~Carlton
Colfax PD reports 50 calls
for service in September
COLFAX — The Colfax Police
Department has reported 50 calls
for service in September.
The following report was included with the Colfax Village
Board packet for the October 10
meeting.
• Assist other agency — 3 (Animal carcass in road; suicidal subject in the area; Barron County
assist on subject’s whereabouts).
•Fireworks — 1 (Subjects
in vehicle shot off fireworks on
Dunn Street near Fifth Avenue).
• Ambulance assist — 3.
• Parking ticket — 1.
•Information — 1 (Elderly
male with early stages of dementia/Alzheimer’s).
•Suspicious person/car — 1
(Intoxicated male laying on sidewalk on Main Street).
•Check welfare — 1 (Intoxicated male, different one than
above, received injuries to his
facial area when he fell. Male
went home, and we were asked to
check on him.)
• Noise complaint — 1 (Gathering/party at residence.)
• Juvenile complaint — 3 (Juvenile runaway, juvenile traffic
complaint, juveniles playing in
the road; two juvenile sexual assaults).
• Alarm — 1 (Business alarm,
accidental set-off).
• Assist citizen — 1 (Disabled
vehicle on STH 40).
• Area watch — 1 (Suspicious
juveniles in the alley behind Buck
Snort on two different occasions).
• 911 Hangup/misdial — 3.
• Property damage — 1 (Tires
slashed on two vehicles.)
•
Animal complaint — 3
(Barking dogs, lost cat).
•Disorderly conduct — 1 (Intoxicated male at fairgrounds in
altercation with people).
• Civil — 1 (Property line dispute; personal property dispute).
• Theft — 1 (Reported theft of
medication; unfounded).
•Miscellaneous — 1 (Report
of possible theft; not a theft.
Questionable behavior by neighbors adjoining property.)
•Traffic accident — 2 (Car
struck Dollar General. Hit and
run to road signs. Mailbox on
CTH BB coming into the village.)
•Domestic — 1 (Argument
between wife and husband; anger
issues and family. Subjects counseled.)
•Warrant — 1 (Attempt to
locate subject with several outstanding warrants.)
•Fraud — 1 (Stolen checks
cashed at gas station).
• Worthless check — 1.
• Utility — 2 (Flag on ground;
detour signs knocked over).
• Community service — 1 (Officer spoke with young children in
regards to law enforcement).
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Wednesday, October 19 2016
Out of the Past
10 years ago
October 18, 2006
Colfax FFA was the winner of
the Tri-County Soil Judging Contest hosted by Dunn County October 4. Team members included
Sophia Secraw, Mark Tuschl,
Travis Berge and Trystan Beyrer.
The Colfax Fire Board approved a budget of $111,817 for
2007, representing a $10,000 increase over the 2006 budget. Following the discussion of a new
fire hall, the fire board decided to
have the fire hall lot surveyed to
determine the exact locations of
the property lines.
The Colfax Village Board directed John Jahr, clerk, to contact Ayres Associates to invite a
representative to make a proposal for a concept and budget plan
for improvements to the Cenex
building. The building is expected
to house the street maintenance
shop, the rescue squad and the
police department. At the June
12 meeting, the village board
approved borrowing $275,000 to
purchase the Cenex warehouse.
The village has $120,000 saved
for building a new maintenance
shop.
25 years ago
October 17, 1991
Ida Jessel celebrated her
100th birthday at Area Nursing
Home October 8.
Colfax FFA members participated in judging contests at
World Dairy Expo in Madison October 4. They included Jason Winget, Jim Lathrop, Heather Dobbs,
Amy Ewings, Krome Burke-Scoll,
Jason Hagberg, Wayne Tuschl,
Justin Albricht, Marty Harmon
and Jessy Hill.
A disaster drill was held in
Colfax October 12. About 34
different agencies from Dunn
County, Eau Claire County and
Chippewa County participated.
Events centered around a simulated chemical spill at the Cenex
fertilizer plant on East Railroad
Colfax Messenger • Page 3
Colfax Health & Rehab News
Avenue.
35 years ago
October 22, 1981
John Ackerlund, Colfax High
School freshman, tied for second
place in Midwest dairy cattle
judging at World Dairy Expo in
Madison October 3. Ackerlund
was the individual winner in
Holstein judging. The Colfax FFA
team ranked 31st out of 145 entries. Additional team members
were Bob Higbie, Russ Burton
and Julie Bates.
Colfax OK Hardware will be
sponsoring a welding clinic November 16 at 8:30 p.m. Learn five
ways to weld.
A Halloween Party with music
by Midnight Rhythm Band will
be held Saturday, October 31, at
the Colfax Fire Hall from 9 p.m.
to 1 a.m. Prizes for costumes.
50 years ago
October 20, 1966
Cited for conducting the most
outstanding child welfare program in the 10th District of the
American Legion, the American
Legion of Wisconsin RussellToycen Post No. 131 has been
recognized with an award from
the national Organization of the
Legion.
Postmaster A. Ruth Anderson urged all those who have not
done so yet to send in their “ZIPA-LIST” forms to add ZIP Codes
to personal mailing lists. Every
household in the nation has received the forms with blanks
for addresses to which residents
wish the post office to add the five
number codes.
Late Saturday night, Roland
Breezee was returning to his
home in Otter Creek when just
past Art Johnson’s driveway, a
wolf dashed in front of his car
and was killed.
65 years ago
October 18, 1951
A quota of 240 blood donors
has been set for Colfax and six
townships in the area for the Red
Cross blood drive November 5 in
the Colfax auditorium. An army
recruiter recently returned from
Korea said there is a “real war”
going on over there and blood is
given in only almost-sure survival cases.
Two of the Middle Border top
football teams will battle it out
Friday when Colfax plays Menomonie at the Menomonie Indians’
homecoming.
D.J. Toycen won two tickets for
the Wisconsin-Indiana football
game at Madison November 3.
Toycen was one of two high-point
agents in Wisconsin for the past
week in sales of Illinois Mutual
Casualty Insurance in the accident, health and hospital line.
100 years ago
October 20, 1916
Headline: Dobbyn Not Dead!
— A few weeks ago, the Messenger, along with a number of
other newspapers in this section,
contained a notice of the reported
death of Wm. R. Dobbyn. The
report was unfounded. Mr. Dobbyn is very much alive. The following letter was written by him
to friends in Chippewa Falls and
published in the Independent.
“I am not dead. At least if I
am, I do not know it. But our little Dorothea has gone. She died
July 4th of typhoid fever. Tell the
papers to contradict the report.
I never felt better in all my life,
save for the awful sorrow which
weighs me down.”
Mr. Fred Potratz, auditor for
the Midland Lumber Co., was
here last Saturday from Minneapolis arranging for the erection
of a new and greatly enlarged
lumber house on their grounds
here.
A reward of $5 is hereby offered by the village board of Colfax for the arrest and conviction
of any person or persons marking
buildings, windows or disturbing
in any way the people of said village.
News for the week of
October 9th to the 15th:
It was another beautiful fall
day on Sunday and we once again
enjoyed a visit from Leona. We
always look forward to her wonderful stories.
Monday found the residents
in the Square to paint pumpkins. Everyone enjoyed designing
their faces and watching as they
came alive. The afternoon found
us back in the Square for a sing
along with Kathy Irwin. We always enjoy her visits and singing
along as she plays the piano so
beautifully.
Tuesday morning was time for
Bounce Ball in the Rotunda. We
always have a good time, and the
bonus is, we get exercise at the
same time. The afternoon found
us back in the Square for an hour
of bingo. As usual, many came
away with bags full of goodies.
Pastor Eide led us in our
Wednesday morning church service. Everyone enjoyed her special message, and we always enjoy singing our favorite hymns
while Delores accompanies on
the piano. Residents gathered in
the afternoon for an hour of giant
crossword. This group always has
fun as Cathy gives hints, and everyone has a chance to guess the
words.
Thursday morning found us
prepping for a special event. It
was Oktoberfest Time! While
the kitchen prepared the German feast, residents and staff
busied themselves in the Square
decorating in a traditional Oktoberfest fashion. As the residents
gathered they had fun getting
their picture taken as Hilda, the
German waitress and completing a quiz on how well they knew
beer. Then it was time to eat.
We started with a mustard beer
dip served with pretzels, and for
the main course it was Weinerschnitzle, sauerkraut sautéed
OKTOBERFEST — Residents enjoyed an authentic German meal
during our Oktoberfest Celebration. —photo submitted
with onions, and brown sugar,
German potato salad and for dessert, Apel Kuchen. After everyone
was done eating we cleared the
dining room and enjoyed an hour
of polka music by Honey and Me.
Some of us wore off our meal with
a dance or two.
On Friday morning our residents gather for rosary led by
Loretta. Then, it was time for our
weekly Gospel sing along. The
afternoon found us back in the
Square for an hour of dime bingo.
It wouldn’t be bingo time without
our faithful volunteers, Michelle,
Vonnie and Olivia helping us out.
In closing, here is this week’s
recipe from the Area Nursing
Home cook book published in
1996. Marie Schindler would
make this for the residents each
year when they would visit their
cabin in Bloomer. She would always have to hide it from our bus
driver, Dick, or he would have
eaten the whole dessert!
Apple Bars submitted by Marie Schindler, retired Nursing Assistant
CRUST: 1 cup shortening, 1
tsp. salt, 2 ½ cups flour, 1 egg
(separated), ¼ cup milk, 1 tsp.
vanilla. In a bowl mix together
shortening, salt and flour. In
a second bowl, mix egg yolk
with milk and vinegar. Add just
enough of this mixture to crust
mixture to moisten crust. Remove
half of the dough. Roll out onto
floured board. Roll large enough
to fit a 10 X 15 inch cookie sheet.
Place crust in pan. FILLING: 12
apples, peeled, cored and sliced.
1 cup sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon.
Place apples in bowl. Add sugar
and cinnamon. Mix. Place apple
mixture on crust. Roll out rest of
dough and place on top of apples.
Prick top of crust with fork. Seal
edges. In a small bowl beat egg
white until foamy. Brush over top
crust. Bake for 15 minutes at 400
degrees, turn down oven to 350
and bake for another 40 minutes.
Remove from oven and drizzle
with a soft powdered sugar glaze.
Next week we look forward
to music by Dale Martell, and
watching our movie of the month,
The Sound of Music.
Until next week,
Barb Stobb, Activity Director
Grapevine senior
Colfax fire department 2017 budget, levy remains unchanged
School
menus
nutrition menu
The Town of Grant, which con“The fire department and EMS
partment would soon have to reBy LeAnn R. Ralph
Colfax
Oct. 24: Baked cod w/tartar
sauce, Cheesy hash browns,
Creamed
peas,
Cornbread,
Strawberries, Shortcake.
Oct. 25: Salisbury steak, Seasoned noodles, Stewed tomatoes,
Bread, Mandarin oranges.
Oct. 26: Roast turkey, Sweet
potatoes, Green bean almandine,
Dinner roll, Tropical fruit mix.
Oct. 27: Beef stew w/potatoes,
onions & carrots, Baking powder
biscuit, Orange, Frosted cake.
Oct. 28: Italian sausage and
peppers, Brown rice pilaf,
Creamed corn, Bread, Apple
crisp.
Meatball
Supper
Thurs., Oct. 20, 2016
3:30 to 7 p.m.
Grace United
Methodist Church
Wheeler
Free Will Offering
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Meatballs, Mashed Potatoes/Gravy,
Corn, Coleslaw, Cranberries, Pickles,
Bread, Desserts & Beverages
Oct. 24: No School.
Oct. 25: Chicken Ranch Wrap,
Green Beans, Shredded Lettuce,
Cheese, Cucumbers, Diced Tomatoes, Carrots & Celery Sticks,
Fruit Choice.
Oct. 26: Pepperoni Pizza,
Cooked Carrots, Romaine Mix,
Birthday Cake, Fruit Choice.
Oct. 27: Chicken Noodle Soup,
Crackers, Tuna or Egg Salad
Sandwich, Carrots & Celery
Sticks, Fruit Choice.
Oct. 28: French Toast Sticks,
Sausage Patty, Carrot & Celery
Sticks, Strawberries, Juice.
Elk Mound
Oct. 24: No School.
Oct. 25: Cheeseburger on Bun,
Sweet Potato Fries, Baked
Beans, Pears, Fresh Fruit.
Oct. 26: Chicken Alfredo,
Penne Pasta, Broccoli, Green
Beans, Peaches, Fresh Fruit.
Oct. 27: Chicken Strips, Rice
Pilaf, Mixed Vegetables, Squash,
Applesauce, Fresh Fruit.
Oct. 28: Fish Sandwich or
PB&J w/Cheese Stick, Sweet Potato Waffle Fries, Cole Slaw,
Corn, Mixed Fruit, Fresh Fruit.
* Menus subject to change.
Milk choice available daily.
100 Years
Colfax Public Library
October 22 • 1 p.m.
We’ve been your library for 100 years.
Join us for treats and lively discussion
about the past, present and future of the
Colfax Public Library.
Guest speaker and local historian Troy
Knutson will show slides of Colfax from
years past. The Colfax History Room
also will be open.
COLFAX — The Colfax Community Fire District Board has
approved a budget for 2017 of
$112,700, which is the same
amount as the 2015 and 2016
budgets.
The Colfax fire board met October 13 at the fire station to review and approve the budget and
levy for 2017.
Colfax Fire Chief Don Logslett said in his report that so far
this year, the fire department has
gone out on 18 runs, compared to
17 runs last year.
The number of runs for this
year and last year represents a
substantial decrease in runs compared to 25 for 2014 and 27 for
2015, Logslett said.
Regarding future expenditures, Logslett said the fire de-
Mayo Clinic-Red
Cedar lists births
Menomonie
The following babies were
born at Mayo Clinic Health System in Menomonie:
•Kristae and Jesse Olson,
Menomonie, son, Jordan Michael
Olson, Sept. 21
• Mercedes Everett and Brad
Hoffman, Menomonie, daughter,
Chezney Anna LaBelle Hoffman,
Sept. 27
•Leah and Cory Maxon,
Menomonie, son, Christopher
Michael Maxon, Sept. 28
place one of the tanker trucks.
“The tender is getting tired,”
he said.
The tender in question has a fiberglass tank and was purchased
by the Colfax fire department in
1987. At that time the vehicle
was used and had been a garbage
truck in its previous life, Logslett
said..
“It’s starting to nickel and
dime us now,” he said
Purchasing another used tender is expected to cost $50,000 or
$55,000, Logslett said.
As of August 31, the fire district’s equipment replacement
fund contained $165,226.96.
Logslett said fire department
personnel would begin searching for a replacement tender, and
if something suitable turned up,
the fire board could call a special
meeting to approve the purchase.
When asked about the purchase of a fire engine, Logslett
said he anticipated that one of
the fire engines would need to be
replaced in two or three years.
A used fire engine could cost
around $200,000.
The Colfax fire district’s budget sets aside $20,000 per year
for the equipment replacement
fund.
tains 18.7 percent of the equalized value at $36.8 million, will
pay a tax levy of $17,676.22.
The Town of Otter Creek,
which contains 19.8 percent of the
equalized value at $39.04 million,
will pay a tax levy of $18,749.89.
Fire runs for this year include
three grass fires, one structure
fire, three false alarms, four car
accidents, three gas leaks (carbon
monoxide), and four swimming
pool fills.
Other business
In other business, the Colfax
fire board:
• Approved Dean Logslett as
the assistant fire chief.
•Approved Gary Bjork, representing the Town of Colfax, as
president of the Colfax fire board.
•Learned that the fire department is still interested in
building a storage shed on the fire
station property. The firefighters
will build and pay for the shed
themselves, and it will not cost
the fire district any money, Logslett said. Bjork suggested that
a set of plans for the shed should
be presented at the next meeting
so the fire board could review and
consider the plans for approval.
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do a great job on grants,” said
Scott Gunnufson, president of
the fire board and Colfax village
president.
The Colfax fire district includes the Village of Colfax and
the Towns of Colfax, Grant and
Otter Creek.
“It speaks a lot that the budget
has stayed the same,” Gunnufson
said.
The 2017 budget contains
$1,500 for clothing, and when
asked if that was enough, Logslett said because the fire department had received a $40,000 Otto
Bremer Foundation grant, all of
the firefighters now have new
turnout gear.
A set of turnout gear for one
firefighter costs about $2,500.
In addition to approving the
budget for 2017, the Colfax fire
board also approved tax levies for
2017.
The Town of Colfax, which contains 39.7 percent of the equalized value in the fire district at
$78.3 million, will pay a tax levy
$37,597.63.
The Village of Colfax, which
contains 21.8 percent of the
equalized value in the fire district at $43.1 million, will pay a
tax levy of $20,685.25.
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SPORTS
Mounders clipped by Cards; prepare to host Bloomer Blackhawks in playoffs
By Cara L. Dempski
SPRING VALLEY — The
Elk Mound football team traveled to Spring Valley October 14
with hopes of taking back home
a share of second place honors in
the Dunn-St. Croix standings.
But the Cardinals had no intentions of sharing the silver
with the Mounders as they pulled
out a 20-14 win in the regular
and conference season finale last
Friday night in the shadow of the
Eau Galle Dam.
Instead, Elk Mound finished
fourth, right smack in the middle
of the conference’s final standings
with a 3-3 record and were 5-4
overall. Spring Valley, last year’s
conference champ, had to settle
for second place with a 5-1 mark
just behind Durand, who won the
Dunn-St. Croix with a perfect 6-0
mark. Glenwood City finished
third at 4-2.
Despite the loss, the Mounders
still qualified for post-season play
thanks to their .500 conference
mark. Elk Mound was awarded
the fourth seed in the WIAA Division 5 Northwest sectional at this
past weekend’s seeding meeting
and will host the Bloomer Blackhawks this Friday, October 21 in
level one competition. Ironically,
the two schools faced one another
last year in a Division 5, level one
contest which the Blackhawks
won 20-6.
Senior running back Hunter
Adleman provided most of the
Mounders’ ground yardage by
rushing for 133 yards, while tight
end Chandler Schreiber led the
team in passing yards with 20
yards on a single attempt.
Junior Dylan Black was Elk
Mound’s starting quarterback
against the Cardinals. He replaced senior Dane Lew who is
still recovering from a shoulder
injury he suffered during the October 7 game against Durand.
Black had four completions
for nine attempts, and recorded
eight yards. He was intercepted
twice.
The Cardinals got on the board
in the first with a run from Sam
Verges. Brock Bune’s PAT was
good, and Spring Valley grabbed
the 7-0 lead with 6:16 left in the
first.
The Mounder defense held
Spring Valley in check for the
rest of the first and for most of
the second. Then Sean Borgerding completed a 29-yard sprint
for another touchdown. Brock
Bune’s kick was good, and made
the score 14-0 in favor of the
Cards with 2:24 left in the half.
Elk Mound finally provided
an answering score when two
tight ends combined for the score.
Black handed the ball to Sch-
reiber, who fell back and fired a
pass to Hunter Johnson, who ran
the ball the final 11 yards to the
end zone for the Mounder score.
Dane Lew took the field for
the PAT, and his kick was good to
make the score 14-7 with 1:03 left
in the half.
Spring Valley put up another
six in the third quarter after
Borgerding punched through
the Elk Mound defense to put up
another six. Bune’s kick was no
good, and the Cards lead grew to
20-7 with 10:34 to go in the third.
The Mounders stepped up
again in the fourth quarter and
narrowed the deficit to six points
after a three-yard touchdown run
from Adleman and a successful
PAT from Lew with 10:54 left in
the game.
Elk Mound was threatening
a score again late in the fourth
when Noah Zurbuchen was
pushed out to the sidelines by
Cardinal defender Jaydon Nyeggen.
Zurbuchen
and
Nyeggen
stepped out of bounds at the same
time, but were not able to untangle from each other before Zurbuchen flipped over the ropes marking the field boundaries. Medical
staff and coach Dave Lew, who focused on his right knee, checked
out Zurbuchen.
He left the game and was as-
sisted from the field by coaches
and fellow players with the right
knee wrapped in ice. His status
for the playoff game is uncertain
as of Monday’s press time.
The Mounders’ drive ended
shortly thereafter when the Cardinals’ Seth Schlegel intercepted
a Dylan Black pass attempt to
clinch the Valley victory.
PRING VALLEY 20, ELK MOUND 14
Spring Valley……………..7 7 6 0 — 20
Elk Mound………………..0 7 0 7 — 14
First Quarter
SV — Uncredited run (B. Bune kick), 6:16.
Second Quarter
SV — Uncredited 29 run (B. Bune kick),
4:39; EM — H. Johnson 20 pass from C.
Schreiber (D. Lew kick), 1:03.
Third Quarter
SV — S. Verges 1 run (B. Bune kick fails),
7:00.
Fourth Quarter
EM — H. Adleman 56 run (D. Lew kick),
2:45.
Individual Statistics
Passing (comp-att-int-yds) — SV (6-8-089) — S. Borgerding 6-8-0-89; EM (5-102-28) — C. Schreiber 1-1-0-20, D. Black
4-9-2-8.
Rushing (att-yds) — SV (36-127) — S.
Verges 19-103, S. Schlegel 5-18, S. Borgerding 11-4, T. Kado 1-2; EM (38-190) —
H. Adleman 14-133, N. Zurbuchen 2046, B. Lambele 1-6, C. Schreiber 1-3, D.
Black 2-2.
Receiving (rec-yds) — SV (6-89) — S.
Schlegel 2-45, Z. Larson 1-34, T. Kado
1-8, B. Bune 1-1, S. Verges 1-1; EM (528) — H. Johnson 1-20, C. Schreiber 2-8,
N. Zurbuchen 2-0.
SACKED — Elk Mound defenders George Friberg (#87) and Hunter
Adleman (#21) take down Cardinal quarterback Sean Borgerding in the
fourth quarter of the Mounders’ 20-14 loss at Spring Valley on October
14. —photo by Cara L. Dempski
CADE HANSON IS CONFERENCE RUNNER-UP
Mounder cross country teams place third at conference meet
By Cara L. Dempski
MONDOVI — The Mounder
boys and girls cross country
teams both took third place in the
Dunn-St. Croix conference meet
held at the Valley Golf Course in
Mondovi last Thursday, October
13.
The girls scored 75 as senior
Elizabeth Fasbender and sophomore Alana Plaszcz finished in
the top eight. Freshman phenom
Cade Hanson ran to a secondplace individual finish to led the
Mounder boys who tallied 90
points.
Coach Jeremiah Fredrickson
expressed excitement over the
runners’ times in Mondovi.
“I think we are peaking at the
right time, going into sectionals,”
he said. “Most of our runners improved by a minute or more from
the last time we ran at Mondovi.”
Fredrickson said the girls ran
well, despite the team’s usual
third runner, Brook Plaszcz, being unable to finish the race. He
also noted that senior Elizabeth
Fasbender is coming back into
her own after a short break due
to tendonitis and sophomore Alana Plaszcz just keeps pushing
Fasbender.
Fasbender finished the race
in 21:37.4 to take seventh, and
Plaszcz was eighth with her
21:50.1 run. Victoria Fasbender completed the race as Elk
Mound’s third runner, and took
15th for her 23:04.1 run.
Kristin Martinson and Paige
Romanowski were 20th and 25th
with times of 23:31.8 and 24:11.4.
Freshman Taya Schaefer and
sophomore Ciera Lind finished
28th and 31st after running to
the finish line in 24:22.3 and
24:31.8.
ELK MOUND freshman Cade
Hanson finished second in a time
of 17:47.9 at the conference meet.
—photo by Missy Klatt
ELK MOUND’S top two finishers in the girls’ D-SC conference cross
country meet in Mondovi last Thurday were senior Elizabeth Fasbender
(left) and sophomore Alana Plaszcz. Fasbender placed seventh while
Plaszcz was right on her heels in eighth. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
Claudia Paul was 32nd with a
time of 24:54.5, Meredith Hainstock took home a time of 25:27.4
and 36th, and Hannah Hollister
was 39th after completing her
run in 25:46.2.
Kaylie Solberg and Audrey
Westcott were 43rd and 46th
with times of 26:04.5 and 26:38.1.
Hannah Cynor, Hannah Carlson,
Kaitlyn Baier and Mattea Linberg were 49th, 52nd, 53rd and
54th. Cynor ran to a 27:12.1 finish, Carlson ran a 28:00.9 race,
Baier finished in 28:04.7, and
Linberg finished at 28:07.4.
Glenwood City won the girls
team championship beating defending champion Colfax 55 to
63. Vikings’ sophomore runner
Erica Kallstrom won the individ-
ual title in 20:02.6.
Fredrickson said the boys
team went to Mondovi prepared
to run, but perhaps no one more
so than Cade Hanson.
“I knew he had this kind of
race in him, but didn’t know it
would come this year,” Fredrickson stated. “I can’t wait to see
how he performs at Durand next
weekend.”
Elk Mound netters win pair to finish in two-way tie for second
By Cara L. Dempski
As the saying goes, it doesn’t
matter how you start but how you
finish that counts.
After beginning this season
with just two wins in its first
eight matches and going just 2-2
to open Dunn-St. Croix play, Elk
Mound finished strong winning
its final four conference matches
including a pair of contests last
week to wrap up the regular season on a high note and give it
momentum for the WIAA tournament series.
The Mounders picked up a
pair of three-set sweeps against
Elmwood and Glenwood City to
conclude their conference and
regular season slate.
Elk Mound made short work
of the Raiders when they traveled to Elmwood last Tuesday,
October 11 winning in three sets
25-13, 25-17 and 25-17. Two days
later, the Mounders hosted the
Hilltoppers in the conference finale and beat winless Glenwood
City 25-14, 25-9 and 25-9 in the
October 13th match. With the
victories, the Mounders tied for
second place in the D-SC with
Boyceville. Both teams finished
with 6-2 records – the Mounders’
losses came against the Bulldogs
and Mondovi while Boyceville fell
to those same Buffaloes (on Tuesday) and Colfax.
Elk Mound, the fourth seed in
the WIAA Division 3 regional volleyball tournament, will hosted
rival and fifth-seeded Colfax in
the quarterfinal round last evening, October 18. The victor will
advance to the semifinals to be
played this Thursday, October
20. The winner will likely draw
Grantsburg, the regional’s top
seed and sixth-ranked team in
the Division 3 state poll, who
hosted the winless Glenwood City
Hilltoppers Tuesday. The regional championship will be played
Saturday, October 22
Elmwood
The Mounders went to Elmwood with a 4-2 record in the
DSC and left with a 5-2 record
after a 3-0 sweep of the Raiders.
Morgan Radtke led the team
attack with 12 kills against Elmwood. She also recorded two
digs, a solo block, and two block
assists. Karie Jo Nigon was the
team leader with three aces, and
logged nine digs and one kill. Nigon led the team in score assists
with 21.
Abby Curry was the team leader for digs with 10. She chalked
up one scoring assist.
Junior Kourtney Zurbuchen
sent in eight kills and is credited
with six digs. Allie Weber, another junior, logged seven kill shots,
an ace, nine digs, and a block assist. Lauren Scharlau is credited
with three kills, one score assist,
four digs, and a block assist.
Riley Radtke, Jenna Heit and
Madysen Borofka each took home
one kill. Borofka assisted on 10
scores, logged an ace, and took
four digs.
Sarah Sweeney and Alex Jenson completed the service aces
with one each. Sweeney is also
credited with eight digs and Jenson with one. Colleen Olson took
credit for a block assist.
Glenwood City
The Mounders played host
to Glenwood City for their final
regular season match and walked
away with a 3-0 win.
Junior Allie Weber led the Elk
Mound attack with 10 kills, while
Morgan Radtke followed with another nine kills. Karie Jo Nigon
fired off five kill shots, Kourtney
Zurbuchen and Riley Radtke
each landed three, and Lauren
Scharlau spiked in two kills.
Nigon led the team for scoring assists with 15 sets, and Madysen Borofka contributed another 11. Zurbuchen set up two
more scoring shots, and Morgan
Radtke capped the team total at
29 by adding one set.
Nigon and fellow senior Sarah
Sweeney led the serve ace count
for the night; Nigon recorded four
aces, and Sweeney logged three.
Borofka sent two unanswered
serves to the Hilltoppers, and
Weber and Alex Jenson each took
credit for an ace.
Weber led the team’s defense
with 11 digs against Glenwood.
Abby Curry provided another six
digs, and Borofka and Nigon tied
with five digs apiece. Morgan and
Riley Radtke, and Sarah Sweeney, each accounted for three digs
each, Zurbuchen recorded two
digs, and Jenna Heit logged one.
Morgan Radtke and Weber
were the only two to record blocks
during the match. Both took credit for one solo block.
Altoona Invitational
As was previously reported,
the Mounders participated in a
tournament at Altoona on Octo-
ber 8. The Mounders lost to the
Altoona Railroaders 1-0, Cameron Comets 2-1 and Chippewa
Falls Cardinals 2-0, but won two
separate matches against the
Eau Claire Immanuel Lancers
2-1.
Morgan Radtke again led the
Mounder attack in the tournament by pounding in a total 54
kills. The next teammates closest
to her were Allie Weber with 21
kills and Lauren Scharlau with
20. Kourtney Zurbuchen, Riley
Radtke and Karie Jo Nigon completed the Elk Mound kill-squad
with a total 39 scoring attacks
between them.
Nigon took credit for 48 of the
Mounders’ 70 scoring assists. The
other 22 sets came from Madysen
Borofka (9), Zurbuchen (4), Weber (3), Morgan Radtke (3), Riley Radtke (1), Scharlau (1), and
Abby Curry (1).
Nigon also led the team in
serve aces after recording 12.
Abby Curry landed 11 more aces,
Borokfa was credited with 10,
and Weber chalked up eight. Sarah Sweeney and Scharlau each
accounted for six aces, Morgan
Radtke had four, Jenson picked
up a pair, and Colleen Olson and
Zurbuchen each had one ace.
Defensively, libero Abby Curry
led the way with 56 digs. Weber
took credit for 46 digs, Nigon
accounted for another 28, and
Scharlau logged 27. Sweeney took
14 digs, and Borofka recorded 13.
Riley Radtke, Zurbuchen, Morgan Radtke, Jenna Heit, Jenson
and Olson provided the remaining digs.
Hanson’s runner-up finish put
him right behind individual boys’
winner junior Wesley Brantner of
Durand. Hanson completed the
5,000 meter course in 17:47.9 to
finish second to Brantner, who
ran the race in 17:38.5.
Nate Schreiber, a junior, and
Seth Hazen, a freshman, finished
18th and 19th overall with times
of 19:59.9 and 20:09.7. Another
freshman, junior combination
ran in the fourth and fifth spots.
Freshman Andrew Pathos was
24th with a time of 20:14.2, and
junior Nate Lind ran a 20:33.7
race to finish 30th.
Matt
McLaughlin,
Jonas
Kohls and Dylan Hanson were
40th, 43rd and 45th with times
of 21:18.6, 21:25.3 and 21:36.8,
while Jake Johnson, Ryan Mohr
and Jared Strand finished in
22:15.2, 22:15.3 and 23:13.4 to
take 50th, 51st and 53rd.
Bowdrie Noller and Nate
Bechel completed the boys team
for Elk Mound. Noller raced to a
23:43.5 finish to take 56th, and
Bechel finished 59th with his
23:51.8 run.
The Durand boys, who secured
four of the top five finished (1-34-5) and five of the first seven,
scored only 20 points to literally
run away with the conference
championship. The lowest possible score in cross country is 15
points.
Fredrickson said, “Overall, I
couldn’t have asked the kids to
run any harder or better than
they did, and I can’t wait to see
what they do next weekend.”
The Mounders will turn their
attention to the WIAA Division
3 sectional meet in Durand this
Saturday, October 22.
TEAM SCORES — BOYS VARSITY: 1.
Durand 20, 2. Colfax 70, 3. Elk Mound
90, 4. Spring Valley 95, 5. Boyceville 122,
6. Glenwood City 124.
Scoreboard
DUNN-ST. CROIX VOLLEYBALL
TEAM
FINAL 2016 STANDINGS
CONF
*Colfax……………… 7-1
*Mondovi…………… 7-1
Boyceville…………… 6-2
Elk Mound…………… 6-2
Spring Valley………… 4-4
Durand……………… 3-5
Elmwood…………… 2-6
Plum City…………… 1-7
Glenwood City……… 0-8
*conference co-champions
SESN
18-15
10-7
19-5
17-20
8-14
10-10
9-14
3-17
0-16
Thurs., October 13 Scores
Somerset 3, Boyceville 0 (non-conf.)
Colfax 3, Mondovi 0
Durand 3, Plum City 1
Elk Mound 3, Glenwood City 0
Spring Valley 3, Elmwood 1
Tues., October 11 Scores
Elk Mound 3, Elmwood 0
Colfax 3, Glenwood City 1
Mondovi 3, Boyceville 2
Spring Valley 3, Plum City 0
End of Regular Season
WIAA Division 3 Regionals
Tues., Oct. 18 - Quarterfinals*
Durand Sectional - Regional B
Glenwood City (#8) at Grantsburg (#1)
Unity (#6) at Boyceville (#3)
Colfax (#5) at Elk Mound (#4)
Durand Sectional - Regional C
Durand (#4) at Mondovi (#4)
Spring Valley (#6) at Fall Creek (#3)
WIAA Division 4 Regionals
Tues., Oct. 20 - Quarterfinals*
Hayward Sectional - Regional C
Elmwood (#5) at Clear Lake (#4)
Plum City (#7) at Turtle Lake (#2)
*Winners advance to semifinals on Thurs.,
October 20. Regional finals are Sat.,
October 22.
DUNN-ST. CROIX FOOTBALL
FINAL 2016 STANDINGS
TEAM SCORES — GIRLS VARSITY:
1. Glenwood City 55, 2. Colfax 63, 3.
Elk Mound 75, 4. Boyceville 97, 5. Durand 112, 6. Elmwood/Plum City 128, 7.
Spring Valley 161, 8. Mondovi 205.
Middle School
The Elk Mound middle school
boys and girls cross country
teams also took third place at the
Mondovi meet held October 13.
The boys earned 77 points as a
team, and the girls scored 96.
Luke Lesmeister, a seventhgrade runner, was the first Elk
Mound boy to finish the 3200-meter race. He placed 12th after his
15:11.8 run. Brennen Zais, Keagan McRea and Avery Lauer were
15th, 16th and 17th with times
of 15:33.3, 15:35.8 and 15:36.7.
Luke Hanson ran in the Mounders’ number-five spot. He finished
29th after racing across the finish
line in 16:45.3.
Mitchell Hainstock, Walker
Banaszak and Jackson Severson
completed the Elk Mound boys
team in Mondovi.
The Glenwood City boys took
home the top team score of 22,
and Elmwood/Plum City seventhgrader Patrick Tiffany raced to a
win with his 13:42.5 finish.
Seventh-grader Olivia Schreiber was the first Mounder girl
to finish the race. She took home
fifth place after finishing her race
in 15:20.8. Olivia Schindler and
Lilly Tanula finished in 17:09.1
and 17:28.3 to take 18th and 21st.
Regan Jenson was 25th with
her 17:57.1 effort, and Mercedes
Hay crossed the finish line in
18:18.4 to take 30th.
Sidney Wenzel and Lileana
Williams also ran as part of the
girls team in Mondovi.
The Colfax girls took home
first place at the meet after scoring 32. Viking seventh-grader
Jasmine Best won the individual
race after finishing in 14:47.7.
TEAM
CONF.
*†Durand……………6-0
†Spring Valley………5-1
†Glenwood City……4-2
†Elk Mound…………3-3
Mondovi………………2-4
Boyceville……………1-5
Colfax…………………0-6
*conference champion
†qualified for playoffs
SESN
8-1
8-1
7-2
5-4
3-6
3-6
1-8
Fri., October 14 Scores
Mondovi 41, Boyceville 0
Durand 69, Colfax 20
Spring Valley 20, Elk Mound 14
Glenwood City 44, Cameron 20 (non-conf.)
End of Regular Season
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Bloomer (#5) at Elk Mound (#4) , Friday,
October 21 at 7 p.m.
St. Croix Falls (#7) at Durand (#2), Friday,
October 21 at 7 p.m.
Division 6 – Group A
Glenwood City (#5) at Spring Valley (#4),
Friday, October 21 at 7 p.m.
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Vikings beat Buffaloes to earn share of fourth straight D-SC volleyball crown
By Cara L. Dempski
Heading into the final week
of conference and regular season
play, the Colfax volleyball team
had its sights set on winning
a fourth consecutive Dunn-St.
Croix.
To accomplish that feat, the
Vikings would need victories
over Glenwood City and Mondovi in their final two matches
of the 2016 regular season. The
former would seem much easier
to achieve than the latter considering that the Hilltoppers had
yet to win a match this year and
the Buffaloes were the Dunn-St.
Croix’ lone unbeaten squad.
Colfax proved to be up to the
task.
After knocking off the Hilltoppers three sets to one in Glenwood City last Tuesday, October
11, Colfax returned home October 13 to battle the Buffaloes,
who won a five-set thriller over
once-beaten Boyceville in their
Tuesday match, for the conference crown. A win would give the
Vikings a share of the volleyball
title while a loss would send Mondovi back home with the outright
championship.
Colfax delivered in a big way,
sweeping Mondovi in three sets
to claim a share of the title and
continue its four year hold on
the conference’s volleyball hardware. Both Colfax and Mondovi
finished with identical 7-1 conference records.
Coach Pam Meredith’s Viking
squad may have saved their best
for last. Colfax took out Mondovi
in three sets, winning with scores
of 26-24, 25-18 and 25-13. The
latest conference crown was the
Vikings’ sixth title in the past
eight seasons.
The Vikings looked ready to
sweep the Hilltoppers in three
sets October 11 after winning the
first two sets 25-16 and 25-13.
That was before the Glenwood
team pounded out a series of unanswered scores to take the early
lead in the third. The Toppers
never let the Vikings take the
lead and forced a fourth set by
winning the third 26-24. Colfax
appeared to have had enough by
that point and made short work
of the fourth set, beating the Hilltoppers 25-14 to take the set and
win the match 3-1.
The Vikings, the fifth seed,
meet the Mounders one last time
this season as the teams squared
off in the opening round of the
WIAA Division 3 regional tournament last night in Elk Mound.
The Mounders, who saddled the
Vikes with their only conference
loss – a 3-1 setback on October 4,
earned the fourth seed. The winner will likely travel to Grantsburg to play the Pirates, ranked
sixth in the latest Division 3
state poll, in Thursday’s semifinal round. Grantsburg opened
against winless Glenwood City.
The regional final is slated for
Saturday, October 22.
Mondovi
Coach Meredith said the Colfax squad played a very effective,
efficient match against the Lady
Buffaloes on October 13. The Vikings won 3-0 to take a share of
the 2016 D-SC volleyball title.
“What better way for the Vikings to finish the last conference
match at home?” Meredith asked
after the game. “This is the team
we’ve seen all season in practice.”
The Vikings won their fourth
consecutive title on the same
night they honored senior players
Erin Nellessen, Morgan Schleusner, Mady Decker and Bryana
Buchanan.
Meredith said her team’s poise
and confidence helped them battle back from three missed serves
and 13 hitting errors to win the
first set 26-24. She credits winning the first set with shifting
the match momentum in Colfax’s
favor.
Freshmen Kameri Meredith
and Samantha Prestasky drove
in seven kills each, while fellow
freshman Rachel Scharlau took
credit for another six. Meredith
recorded 10 digs, and Pretasky
logged a pair of solo blocks and a
pair of block assists.
Sophomore Jozie Buchanan
assisted on 21 scores, took 14
digs, and led the team with five
aces. Her sister, Bryana, logged
14 digs, and senior Megan Schleusner provided another 10 digs.
Glenwood City
Viking hitter Makayla Mattson drilled in a team-leading 10
kills and took three digs in Colfax’s 3-1 victory over the Hilltoppers October 11.
Freshman Kameri Meredith
led the team in foiled attacks
with her 20 digs, and tied with
Rachel Scharlau with eight kills.
Meredith also logged two aces in
the match. Bryana and Jozie Buchanan tied with 17 digs apiece
and three kills each.
Megan Schleusner and Mady
Decker tied with eight digs each,
but Schleusner was the only one
of the two to take credit for kills.
She had four on the evening and
led the team with five ace serves.
Decker provided one unanswered
serve during the match.
Samantha Pretasky sent home
seven kills, an ace, and three digs
during the match. She also provided a solo block and block assist. Scharlau led the team in
blocking after logging two solos
and two assists. Schleusner provided one block assist, and Mer-
COLFAX’ Kameri Meredith hit the volleyball for a point during the
Vikings’ four-set win in Glenwood City last Thursday.
—photo by Cara Dempski
edith went up to assist with two
blocks.
Alyssa Dachel took credit for
an ace serve, three digs, and one
scoring assist. Jozie Buchanan
was the team leader for scoring
assists with 28, Mattson provided
assistance on five, Meredith assisted for four scores, and Schleusner for two.
Altoona Invitational
The Vikings also played a
tournament at Altoona on October 8, and matched up with the
Stanley-Boyd Orioles, Hudson
Raiders, Colby Hornets and Eau
Claire North Huskies. Colfax lost
to the Orioles 2-0, Raiders 2-0
and Huskies 2-0, but beat the
Hornets 2-1.
Freshmen Kameri Meredith
and Samantha Pretasky led the
Viking attack at the tournament,
logging 30 kills between them.
Jozie Buchanan sent in another
13 kills and Makayla Mattson
drilled in 10. Senior Erin Nellessen and Sophomore Emma Hurlburt logged another five scoring
attacks in the tourney.
Libero Bryana Buchanan led
the team with seven aces, and
Mady Decker and Meredith each
served another five aces. Jozie
Buchanan sent four unanswered
serves over the net, Pretasky
chalked up three aces, and senior
Megan Schleusner took credit for
one ace.
Rachel Scharlau, another
freshman, led the team with five
solo blocks and two block assists.
Meredith logged two solo blocks,
and Pretasky added a solo block
and two block assists to her season stats.
The team totaled 124 digs in
the tournament. Seniors Mady
Decker and Bryana Buchanan
took credit for 45 digs, with
Decker turning away 25 and Buchanan accounting for 20 foiled
attacks. Meredith logged another
17 digs, and fellow freshman Taylor Irwin put up 16.
Jozie Buchanan recorded nine
digs, and Pretasky, Schleusner
and Mattson took seven each.
Nellessen took six digs, Alyssa
Dachel and Hurlburt took four
each, and Scharlau rounded out
the total with two digs.
The freshman Buchanan also
assisted on 34 scores during the
weekend. Irwin provided another
13 assists, and Meredith assists
on 10. Schleusner, Dachel, Hurlburt, Bryana Buchanan, and Pretasky all recorded one scoring assist at the tournament.
Colfax CC teams run to second-place finishes in D-SC conference meet
By Cara L. Dempski
MONDOVI — The Colfax Vikings managed to get
their girls healthy enough
and their boys far enough
forward for both teams to finish second in the Dunn-St.
Croix’ cross country conference meet held October 13
at the Valley Golf Course in
Mondovi.
The girls finished with 63
points in Thursday’s race just
eight points behind Glenwood City’s championship
tally of 55. The boys earned
70 points and were a distant
second to Durand. Both of
Colfax’ squads came into the
2016 conference race as the
defending champions.
Coach Joe Doucette said
after the meet that the girls
knew they had a chance to
repeat as conference champions, but also knew that Glenwood City and Elk Mound
might prove tough to beat.
“I really thought the girls
were good enough for a conference title, but Glenwood
City ran just a little better,”
Doucette stated.
Sophomore Erica Kallstrom joined the illustrious company of former Vikings’ Julie Liebich, Laura
Bjork, Sarah McMahon and
Dempsey Fogarty as an individual conference champion.
Kallstrom ran to the title
in 20:02.6 as she topped the
other 64 runners including
defending champion Kassye
Todd, a junior from Elm-
BATTLE FOR FIRST — Colfax sophomore Erica Kallstrom (left) led defending
champion Kassye Todd of Elmwood/Plum
City in the late stages of the girls’ Dunn-St.
Croix Conference cross country meet last
Thursday in Mondovi. Kallstrom held on to
win her first individual championship in a
time of 20:02.6. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
wood-Plum City who finished
second nearly three second
behind Kallstrom.
“Erica has a great race in
beating a great field including
Kassye Todd who is a state
medalist in cross country and
track,” noted Doucette.
Senior Abbagail Schotter
ran to a fourth-place finish
with a time of 20:53.3. Schotter was also named first team
all-conference for a fourth
straight year which Doucette
said was “a great accomplishment”.
Freshman Jayna Bowe
had her best race of the year,
according Doucette, running across the finish line in
22:49.4 to take 13th. Haley
Prince and Ally Heidorn finished 19th and 26th for their
23:30.7 and 24:16.3 efforts,
despite lingering issues related to earlier injuries.
Juelia Berger rounded out
the varsity team. The freshman placed 27th after racing
to the finish line in 26:19.8.
Bowe’s finish earned her
second team all-conference
honors.
While Colfax’ top two girls’
runners both finished ahead
of Glenwood City’s, the Hilltoppers third, fourth and fifth
place finishers all crossed
the finish line ahead of the
Vikings’ to garner Glenwood
City, who had three runners
in the top six, this year’s
championship.
The Vikings girls’ secondplace showing was their
DeMoe finishes 18th in State golf tournament
By Cara L. Dempski
MADISON — Colfax freshman
Abby DeMoe participated in the
Division 2 state Girls Golf tournament at University Ridge in
Madison October 10 and 11 and
finished tied for 18th with Arcadia’s Rylee Haines after carding
a 188 in the 36-hole tournament.
DeMoe’s final score for the
two-day tournament put her 44
over par.
Sarah Busey from Racine St.
Catherine’s was the individual
Division 2 state championship
after shooting a seven-over-par
151. The Prairie School won the
D2 state team title with a score
of 687 to best runner-up Spooner
who shot a 737. Fellow Heart O’
North member Hayward was just
four shots behind the Rails and
took third.
“Abby played phenomenally at
state,” coach Kim Myers said. “I
watched other girls get into a lot
of trouble – bunkers, red stakes,
and out-of-bounds – but Abby
consistently hit her ball down the
middle of the fairway.”
DeMoe had a 10:10 a.m. tee
time October 10 and played her
first round in a group that included players from LaCrosse
Aquinas, Hayward, and the Prairie School. She started at the first
hole and stayed one above par on
each of the first three holes. De-
Moe played to six on the par-four
fourth hole before going just one
over again on the fifth.
The freshman stayed within one or two strokes of par on
each hole she played October 10,
and swung for one under on the
eighth and 12th holes and went
par on the 15th to end her first
day of play with 90 strokes.
DeMoe’s second-day round on
October 11 started at 9:50 a.m. on
the tenth hole. This time players
from the Prairie School, Aquinas
and Spooner joined her. She managed to make par on the tenth
hole with four strokes, but could
not get under on any holes during
her second round. While DeMoe
stayed within a stroke or two of
par for the second day in a row,
she struggled with the par-four
first and 14th holes, swinging for
seven on both.
With DeMoe’s state match
complete, coach Kim Myers is
looking forward to next year’s
team and matches. She explained
that having two freshmen qualify
for sectional play bodes well for
the team’s future.
“I am extremely proud of what
the Colfax girls’ golf team accomplished this year,” Myers said.
“As a team we had one first-place
finish and two second-place finishes, our best season yet.”
IN MOTION — Colfax freshman
Abby DeMoe prepared to take a
swing during her play at the WIAA
State Girls’ Division 2 Golf Championship held last Monday and
Tuesday on the links of the Ridges
Golf Course in Madison. DeMoe
finshed 18th. —photo submitted
fourth in the past 11 years to go
with seven championships.
Like their female counterparts, the Colfax boys have been
a been a dominate force on the
Dunn-St. Croix’ cross country
scene having won five titles including the previous three and a
pair of runner-up finishes in the
last seven years.
But a fourth consecutive championship was not to be as the Durand boys, as expected, unseated
Colfax.
The Panther boys had four of
the top five individual finishes
led junior Wesley Brantner who
won the race in 17:38.5 to beat
the Vikings by 50 points.
Doucette said he was proud of
how fired up the boys team was
going into the race. The boys
wanted to run well and take second, and met that goal on solid
runs from all eight boys.
“We knew Durand was going
to win,” he stated. “They are very
good – one of the state’s best.”
Senior Jacob Larson led the
Viking boys to the finish by taking ninth with his 18:50.3 race.
Freshman Trey Hovde finished in
18:55.8 to take 10th. Luke Heidorn and Cole Seehaver were 14th
and 17th with runs of 19:08.4 and
19:21.6. Sawyer Best completed
the Colfax top five when he finished in 20:10.5 to take 21st.
Matthew Reisdorf and Trevor
Rothbauer were 22nd and 23rd
after running the race in 20:13.2
and 20:13.6. Rowdy Kadinger
completed the boys team with his
21:28.5 race to take 44th. There
were 63 runners competing in the
boys’ race.
Larson, Hovde and Heidorn
all earned second team all-conference honors.
The Durand boys team scored
20 to take home the team trophy.
The best (lowest) score a team
can earn is 15 which is achieve
by having the top five individual
finishes (1-2-3-4-5).
The Vikings are now turning
their attention to the WIAA Division 3 sectional meet to be held
on Rolling Greens Golf Course
in Durand this coming Saturday,
October 22.
TEAM SCORES — BOYS VARSITY: 1.
Durand 20, 2. Colfax 70, 3. Elk Mound
90, 4. Spring Valley 95, 5. Boyceville 122,
6. Glenwood City 124.
TEAM SCORES — GIRLS VARSITY:
1. Glenwood City 55, 2. Colfax 63, 3.
Elk Mound 75, 4. Boyceville 97, 5. Durand 112, 6. Elmwood/Plum City 128, 7.
Spring Valley 161, 8. Mondovi 205.
Middle School
The Colfax girls middle school
cross country team capped a
great season by winning the conference’s middle school championship with a score of 32 points
in Mondovi October 13. It was
the girls’ seventh victory in as
many meets this year as five of
the Vikings’ middle school girls’
finished in the top 14.
The middle school boys fielded
only four runners and were not
scored as a team.
Seventh-grader Jasmine Best
won the girls’ individual race
with a time of 14:47.7. Molly Heidorn took fourth for her 15:19.8
run, Addison Olson finished in
15:39.7 to take sixth, and Jaycee
Bowe ran to an eighth place finish and a time of 15:49.3. Jillian
Bowe finished 13th with a time of
16:39.5.
Ansely Olson, Emily BurchamScofield and Mariah Smith completed the middle school team in
Mondovi.
For the boys, Luke Blanchard
was the first Viking to finish the
race. He placed fifth with a time
of 14:28.5.
Panthers pummel Vikes in regular season football finale
By Cara L. Dempski
DURAND — The Colfax Vikings may only have won a single
football game this season, but
they scored more points in the
October 14 regular season finally
against newly crowned conference champion Durand than they
have against any other opponent
this season.
The only problem was that the
Panthers also scored more points
than any of the Vikings’ previous
eight opponents.
After surrendering 40 or more
points in six of its 2016 contests,
visiting Colfax allowed Durand to
put 63 points on the scoreboard
before the Vikings finally found
the end zone as time expired in
the first half.
Colfax added a touchdown in
each of the third and fourth quarters but the outcome had long
been determined as Durand had
365 yards rushing and ten touchdowns enroute to a 69-20 victory
over the Vikings at Wauner Field
last Friday.
Junior Josh Biesterveld returned a pair of first-quarter
punts for touchdowns and finished with 132 yards rushing on
four carries, two of which went
for six, to lead Durand to an unbeaten 6-0 record in the Dunn-St.
Croix and an 8-1 overall mark.
While the Panthers are headed
into the WIAA Division 5 football
playoffs as a number two seed,
Colfax will put away the pads until next August after going winless (0-6) in conference play for
a second straight season and 1-8
overall.
“Durand was the best team
we faced all year, and it showed
in the first quarter,” coach Matt
DeMoe said. “Our goal this week
was to score the most points in a
game this year.”
DeMoe’s team exceeded that
goal with their 20 points, having
previously scored only 16 against
the Mondovi Buffaloes on September 30.
The Vikings rushed for only 39
yards, but threw for 227. Colfax
senior Brad Kamp accounted for
203 passing yards in the game.
The Panthers scored ten times
in the game, with six touchdowns
and 421 points coming in the first
quarter alone.
It took a while for the Viking
offense to get going, but Kamp
struck receiver Tyler Snyder with
a 65-yard pass play to put Colfax’
first six on the board as the firsthalf clock registered triple zeroes.
Snyder also reeled in a pass for
the two-point conversion as the
half ended with a score of 63-8.
DeMoe said the Vikings made
some great defensive plays when
they worked as a team and
played as a cohesive unit. The
Colfax squad held the Panthers
scoreless in the third and scored
another touchdown on a quarterback keep.
Kamp dove over a pack of Panthers from one yard out with 4:00
left on the clock in the third. The
subsequent two-point attempt
was no good, and the score remained 63-14 until 8:52 in the
fourth.
Then, Durand made it into
the end zone one more time in
the game, scoring another six to
make the score 69-14.
The Vikings weren’t done,
though, as freshman Mitch Harmon pushed past Durand to cross
the plane of the goal for Colfax’
final touchdown of the game and
season. The following two-point
try was unsuccessful, but the Vikings moved to 69-20 with four
minutes left in the game, and
held the Panthers scoreless the
rest of the way.
DeMoe seemed pleased with
how his team played against the
Panthers. He also stated the team
will be working hard to set some
goals and standards for the offseason to help the team improve
and build a successful program.
“The Colfax kids fought hard,”
DeMoe said of the game on October 14. “We were positive
throughout the game.”
DURAND 69, COLFAX 20
Durand………………...42 21 0 6 — 69
Colfax……………………0 8 12 0 — 20
First Quarter
D — A. Glaus 30 run (conversion good),
11:13; D — J. Biesterveld 73 run (conversion fail), 9:25; D — J. Biesterveld
18 punt return (kick good), 7:47; D — K.
Kurth 37 run (kick good), 4:45; K. Kurth
run (kick good), 3:39; J. Biesterveld punt
return (kick good), :44.
Second Quarter
D — W. Berger 20 run (kick good), 11:54;
D — J. Biesterveld run (kick good), 11:44;
C. Boardman 2 run (kick good), :10; C —
T. Snyder 65 pass from B. Kamp (T. Snyder run), :00.
Third Quarter
C — B. Kamp 1 run (conversion fail), 4:00.
Fourth Quarter
D — Uncredited 2 run (kick fail), 8:52;
C — M. Harmon 2 run (conversion fail),
4:00.
Individual Statistics
Rushing (att-yds) — C (18-39) — B. Kamp
8-29, T. Anderson 9-6, M. Harmon 1-4; D
(28-365) — J. Biesterveld 4-131, K. Kurth
3-69, C. Boardman 6-62, A. Glaus 2-32,
Unk. 5-22, W. Berger 1-20, D. Paje 2-17,
C. Schlosser 1-6, T. Tulip 1-4, B. Ingli 3-0.
Passing (comp-att-int-yds) — C (15-250-227) — B. Kamp 13-22-0-203, N. Albricht 2-3-0-24.
Receiving (comp-yards) — C (15-227) —
T. Snyder 4-118, J. Charlesworth 5-58,
M. Kiekhafer 3-27, D. Schotter 2-14, A.
Pretasky 1-10.
COLFAX VOLLEYBALL SALUTE
Congratulations to Pam Meredith’s
Colfax V lleyball Team
Dunn-St. Croix Co-Champions
Fourth Straight Year!
Sixth Title in Eight Seasons!
D-SC Record • 7-1
Overall Record • 18-15
2016 DUNN-ST. CROIX VOLLEYBALL CO-CHAMPIONS — Members of the Colfax Vikings’ varsity volleyball squad held up four fingers after they beat the
Mondovi Lady Buffaloes October 13 to earn a share of the Dunn-St. Croix volleyball title. This is the fourth consecutive year the Vikings have topped the conference
for volleyball. Pictured above are, front row (L to R): Jozie Buchanan, Mady Decker, Bryana Buchanan, Megan Schleusner, Erin Nellessen and Alyssa Dachel. Back
row (L to R): Assistant Coach Lori Buchanan, coach Linda Bilodeau, statistician RyAnna Martinson, Rachel Scharlau, Savannah Henrick, Samantha Pretasky,
Kameri Meredith, Emma Hurlburt, Makayla Mattson, Taylor Irwin, Taylor Meyer, head coach Pam Meredith, assistant coach Joan Ebnet.
—photo by Richard Meredith
Congratulations
on a great season!
Regular Season
Colfax 3, Plum City 0
Colfax 1, Unity 2
Colfax 3, Baldwin-Woodville 0
Colfax 2, Wausau West 1
Colfax 0, Eau Claire North 2
Colfax 2, Barron 1
Colfax 2, Mondovi 1
Colfax 0, Cochrane-Fountain City 2
Colfax 0, Onalaska 2
Colfax 0, Turtle Lake 2
Colfax 1, Bloomer 3
Colfax 3, Somerset 2
Colfax 2, Baldwin-Woodville 1
Colfax 2, Prescott 0
Colfax 0, Hudson 2
Colfax 0, Bloomer 2
Colfax 3, Plum City 0*
Colfax 3, Durand 1*
Colfax 0, Rice Lake 2
Colfax 2, Prairie Farm 0
Colfax 1, Boyceville 2
Colfax 1, Cameron 2
Colfax 2, Fall Creek 1
Colfax 3, Boyceville 2*
Colfax 3, Spring Valley1*
Colfax 1, Elk Mound 3*
Colfax 3, Elmwood 1*
Colfax 2, Colby 1
Colfax 0, Hudson 2
Colfax 0, Stanley-Boyd 2
Colfax 0, Eau Claire North 2
Colfax 3, Glenwood City 1*
Colfax 3, Mondovi 0*
*Conference matches
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Obituaries
GOLDIE BLODGETT (NEE GOTLIBSON)
DARREL BLODGETT
ARLO L. ROSWELL
Arlo “Art” Leroy Roswell
passed from his earthly home on
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 to join
his beloved wife Dolly in heaven.
He missed his 93rd birthday by
one day. Arlo Leroy Roswell was
born on October 12, 1923 to Edmund Leon Roswell and Emma
Amelia Scherf Roswell in Tainter
Township, Dunn County, Wisconsin. Art grew up on a dairy farm
with his five siblings, Mildred,
Ernest, Linnie, Leonard and Victor.
At the age of 19 Art enlisted in
the army air corps as a member
of the 91st Bombardment Group,
which was activated on April 15,
1942. After several months of
training he graduated as a sergeant in the 8th Air Force, 91st
Bomb Group, otherwise known as
“The Ragged Irregulars.” Art was
a flight engineer and top turret
gunner on his 3rd mission aboard
the B-17 Flying Fortress “Blonde
Bomber” when it was shot down
on January 11, 1944 over Oschersleben, Germany. When his parachute landed on the ground in
Germany, Belgium was the closest place for him to try to walk to
not get caught by the Nazis. He
was on the loose for 5 days. He
walked to a farm because he was
hungry. They fed him bread and
then a soldier from the German
air force came and took Art away.
He was a prisoner of war (POW)
for 17 months, until the Germans
surrendered and the war was
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over.
After the war, Art worked for
16 years driving a gas truck for
the Wheeler Oil Company. He
then went to work for the Dunn
County Highway Department,
retiring in 1985. Art loved deer
hunting up north, as well as
squirrel hunting in the woods on
his little hobby farm. He raised
beef and pigs while working his
other jobs.
Art was a devoted husband to
his wife Viola “Dolly” Owen, and
a loving father to his three girls,
Linda, Mary and Shirley. Art and
Dolly were active members of
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in
Wheeler for many years. Following his retirement, Art and Dolly
traveled together to many places
in the United States as well as to
Germany when their daughter
Shirley’s husband was stationed
there.
Arlo Roswell is survived by
his children Linda Barta of Cameron, Mary Bergeson of Menomonie and Shirley Nelson of
California and his grandchildren
Todd (Jayne) Barta, Kristi (Josh)
Dezek, Heather (Shaun) Olson,
Jessica (Adam Bjork) Bergeson,
Jodi Windsor and Josh Windsor.
He was preceded in death by
his parents, wife Dolly, siblings
Mildred (Samuel) Muralt, Earnest (Thelma) Roswell, Linnie
“Babe” (Lyle) Misselt, Leonard
and Victor Roswell, a son-in-law
Robert Barta.
Art’s greatest achievement
and joy in life was taking care
of his family. He will be greatly
missed by all who knew him.
Funeral Services will be held
at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, October
18, 2016 at Olson Funeral Home
in Menomonie with Pastor Kristine Stedje officiating. Burial
will be at Cedar Falls Cemetery,
Township of Red Cedar, Dunn
County with military honors by
the Menomonie Veterans Honor
Guard. There will be visitation
one hour prior to the service.
To share a memory, please
visit obituaries at www.olsonfuneral.com
Goldie was born to life July 1,
1932, in Colfax, and found peace
October 4, 2016, at age 84. Darrel
was born January 1, 1933, in Eau
Claire, and found peace October
8, 2016, at age 83.
They would have celebrated 64
years of marriage on October 11,
2016.
They are the loving parents
of Karen (Doug), Bruce (Kathi),
Pam (Bill) and Steven; cherished
grandparents of Megan (Edward
III)l and loving great-grandparents of Rowan and Edward
IV. They are survived by nieces,
nephews, other relatives and
friends.
Memorial visitation will be
DALE W. HENDRICKS
Dale W. Hendricks, age 92, of
Colfax, WI, passed away Thursday, October 13, 2016, at his
home.
Dale was born on September
9, 1924, in Eau Claire, to William
and Ethel (Andrews) Hendricks.
Dale was graduated from Eau
Claire Memorial High School
with the class of 1943. He served
in the US Navy during WWII
from 1943 to 1946, when he was
honorably discharged. Dale married Victoria Iverson on May 18,
1946 in Colfax, WI. He worked
at AT&T for 35 years. Dale was
a lifelong member of the VFW,
a member of the Masonic Lodge
164, Norton Lutheran Church,
Grapevine Senior Center, Colfax
Merry Mixers, and the Telephone
Pioneers of America.
Dale is survived by his wife of
70 years, Victoria; son, Terry Hen-
A clinic for Colfax: Marshfield
Clinic forum scheduled Oct. 24
By LeAnn R. Ralph
COLFAX — Do you miss having a medical clinic in Colfax?
Do you believe Colfax needs a
clinic?
What would you like to see for
services if a new medical clinic
were to locate in Colfax?
Representatives for Marshfield Clinic will be holding a public forum Monday, October 24, at
the Viking Bowl and Lounge in
Colfax to find out what you think
about having a clinic in town
again.
“We want to have a public forum for people to voice their opinion about not having a clinic and
possibly having Marshfield here.
Right now Marshfield is in the
research phase to decide, so this
will be very important to have
people come to the forum,” said
Lynn Niggemann, village administrator-clerk-treasurer.
The meetings on October 24
will be at 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
A representative from Marshfield will be there to “give a bit of
an idea of where they are at and
then open it up for discussion,”
Niggemann said.
The forum will include free
blood pressure screening and free
flu shots for ages 13 and up from
3:30 to 6:30.
The forum also will include a
free meal, prizes and raffles.
Tickets for prizes will be
drawn at each session to give
people who attend either session
an opportunity to be included,
Niggemann said.
“It is important for people to
emphasize the kind of services
they want so when Marshfield
is doing their research they can
identify what type of services
they want to offer,” she said.
Target audience
The forum is for “anyone who
would be using the clinic. Anyone
who feels it is important to have
a clinic in Colfax. Anybody who
has kids in school here. Anybody
and everybody,” Niggemann said.
A clinic in Colfax is important
for the school district and for students in the district, she said.
If a child is having some symptoms, or needs a regular checkup,
and there is a clinic here in Colfax and parents do not have to
drive a half an hour or 45 minutes, it means the child will be in
school longer instead of having to
take a half a day off or a day off
for an appointment elsewhere,
Niggemann said.
A clinic in Colfax also is impor-
tant for workers compensation issues.
“If anybody locally has a minor injury, and they need to get
checked out for that purpose, a
clinic in Colfax would be useful,”
Niggemann said.
Hours
The question of what hours a
clinic should be open in Colfax
is an issue Marshfield Clinic is
carefully considering.
“Would people be happy with
three days a week, or would they
want someone full time or half
days? They are still trying to
get a feel for that, even though
we provided survey numbers to
them,” Niggemann said.
On the other hand, “they think
it is important to be open five days
a week. They don’t want someone
to go to the clinic and then find
that the clinic is not open (when
they need it),” she said.
Last summer, the Village of
Colfax sent out surveys to are
residents who would be likely to
use a clinic in Colfax.
Of those who responded to the
survey question asking about
part-time hours for the clinic, 123
said they would prefer mornings
(8 a.m. to noon); 79 people said
afternoon (noon to 4 p.m.); and
70 said 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
In response to a question on
the survey asking about what
kinds of services people would
want a health-care provider to
offer in Colfax, out of those who
responded, 147 said they wanted
blood work; 144 wanted routine
care; 104 wanted x-rays; 67 wanted physicals; 4 wanted nail care;
39 said any medical issue; 13
said family medicine; 7 said blood
pressure; 21 said emergencies; 2
said ultrasounds; 4 said mammograms; 4 wanted flu shots to
be available; 1 person said a cardiologist; 2 said allergies; 6 said
pediatrics; 2 wanted orthopedics;
2 said same-day appointments; 1
respondent said an MRI; and 10
wanted prescription renewals.
In addition to conducting research to find out if it is feasible
for Marshfield to open a clinic in
Colfax, Marshfield also is working on trying to find staff for a
clinic in Colfax.
“In the end, that will be a determining factor also,” Niggemann said.
Disappointing
Marshfield would like to know,
too, what people found disappointing about the Mayo Clinic
in Colfax, such as not providing
Sunday, October 16, at Church
and Chapel Funeral Home, 380
Bluemound Road (at highways J
and JJ, four blocks south of Interstate 94), Waukesha, from 11 a.m.
until time of the memorial service
at 1 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations
can be made to the American
Heart Association, American Diabetes Association or the Alzheimer’s Association.
Church and Chapel Funeral
Home is serving the family. For
more information, call 262-8270659 or visit www.churchandchapel.com to view the online obituary or leave condolences.
a service that they had hoped
would be provided, Niggemann
said.
“If someone went for blood
work, for example, (the clinic in
Colfax) would send that person
to Bloomer or Menomonie. That’s
an important thing to have (at a
clinic in Colfax) is blood draw,”
Niggemann said.
Traveling mammogram or
MRI units also might be an important component for a clinic in
Colfax.
Sometimes people can have
difficulty taking as much time
off from work as they would need
to drive to a clinic that is farther
away, Niggemann noted.
Rescue squad
The Colfax Rescue Squad also
is logging more transports since
the Mayo Clinic closed in July.
“Instead of going to the clinic
to get checked out, people are
waiting, and then they have to
be transported to the hospital,”
Niggemann said.
“The numbers are showing
this to be true,” she said.
During the annual meeting of
the Colfax Rescue Squad at the
end of August, Don Knutson, director of the rescue squad, said
since the clinic in Colfax had
closed July 1, he was noticing
more calls for transports to the
hospital.
At the time, Knutson said he
was not sure if it was a trend or if
it was a temporary increase.
Back in August, Knutson
speculated that people probably
felt like they could drive themselves to the clinic when it was
here in town, but with no clinic
here, they do not feel they are up
to driving a half hour or more,
so they wait until it gets to the
point where they need to go to the
hospital, and then they need the
ambulance.
Niggemann says she hopes an
existing clinic building in Colfax
also will make it more attractive
for Marshfield to consider locating in Colfax.
While the public informational meetings and discussions on
Monday, October 24, are scheduled at 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. at
Viking Bowl and Lounge (N8590
State Road 40), Niggemann said
each session is expected to last
about an hour.
“The importance of people being at the forum is going to be
huge,” she said.
dricks, of Grantsburg; daughter,
Mary (Greg) Berg, of Lindstrom,
MN; grandson, Nathan, of Hudson; granddaughter, Cari Marie,
of Arizona; two great-grandsons;
four
great-granddaughters;
brother, Larry Hendricks of FL;
sister-in-law, Naomi Iverson, of
River Falls; niece, Lee Ann Iverson of River Falls; nephew, Mark
Bjerstadt, of River Falls; and
many friends and many cousins.
The funeral service will be
held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Norton Lutheran
Church, E6806 State Rd 170,
Colfax, with Pastor Bob Schoenknecht officiating. Visitation will
be held one hour prior at the
church. Burial will follow at the
church cemetery.
Sampson Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
BERNICE EISENHUTH
Bernice E. Eisenhuth, 94, of
Colfax, WI, passed away peacefully with her daughters by her
side on October 11, 2016 at Colfax
Health and Rehab. Bernice was
born June 3, 1922, to Alexander
and Mamie (Wagner) Steinmetz.
She married Ausman Quevillon
March 1, 1941 and they were together until his death on April 8,
1968.
Bernice worked in the Colfax
School System as a cook until
she was 81 years old. She loved
her job, the friendships that she
made there, and all the children
she interacted with every day.
Many called her grandma.
Bernice enjoyed her family,
walking all over town, old-time
dances, gardening, canning, going to her cabin, traveling to
Florida, Aruba, and Hawaii. She
said she thought she died and
went to Heaven when she went to
Aruba, but then she said she was
sure she went to Heaven when
she saw Hawaii. Now Bernice is
in Heaven with her creator.
In her later years, Bernice was
lovingly cared for by her daughter, Nadine, and son-in-law, Rick
Johnson, who was like a son to
her.
She is survived by her daughters, JoAnn Quevillon, Gail (Shirlyn) Steinmetz, and Nadine (Rick)
Johnson; one sister, Gardella Aspen; grandchildren, Kerry (Carrie) Johnson, Teresa (Scott) Berger, Diana (Orville) Bauer, Jeffrey
(Mary) Steinmetz, Michele (Kurt)
Hostager, Scott (Lisa) Johnson,
and Jason (Barb) Johnson; thirteen great-grandchildren; one
step great-grandchild; one greatgreat-grandchild; and two step
great-great-grandchildren.
The family would like to send
a special thank you to the staff
and caregivers at Colfax Rehab
and St. Joseph’s Hospice for their
kind and loving care.
Private family services were
held on Monday for Bernice. She
was laid to rest in Evergreen
Cemetery with Pastor Leslie
Walck officiating. Sampson Funeral Home assisted her family.
For online condolences, please
visit www.sampsonfuneralhome.
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Fr. Joseph Nakwah
Sat.: 4:30 p.m. Mass.
Sun.: 10:15 a.m. Worship.
CHURCH OF LATTER
DAY SAINTS
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER
DAY SAINTS
2721 5th St. E, Menomonie, WI 54751
Sunday Services: Sacrament Meeting
10:00-11:00; Sunday School 11:0012:00; Relief Society, Priesthood, Primary
12:00-1:00.
LUTHERAN
BARUM - BIG ELK CREEK
LUTHERAN PARISH
Pastor Hal Schroetter, Barum
Sun. (Barum): 9 a.m.-Worship Service;
10 a.m.-Sun. School.
Sun. (Big Elk Creek): 9:30 a.m.-Sun.
School; 10:30 a.m.-Worship Service.
Wed.: 7 p.m.-Confirmation at BEC; 8-9
p.m.-Youth Group.
BETHANY LUTHERAN BRETHREN
Pastor Ron Wik
Jordan Herrick, Elder/Directory Of Youth
Ministry (715-704-0107)
Colfax, WI • 715-962-2280
www.bethanylbchurch.org
Sun.: 9:30 a.m. worship, 10:45 a.m.
Sunday school. Our sanctuary is wheelchair accessible. Visit our website and
listen to sermons online.
COLFAX LUTHERAN
Leslie W. Walck, Pastor
715-962-3336
www.colfaxlutheran.org
Wed., Oct. 19: 3:20 p.m. Praise Kids,
3:40 p.m. Confirmation Classes, 6 p.m.
Colfax Crafters, 7 p.m. Faith Circle.
Sun., Oct. 23: 9:30 a.m. Worship.
10:30 a.m. Coffee Fellowship, 10:30
a.m. Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. Choir
Rehearsal, 6-7:30 p.m. Dave Ramsey’s
Financial Peace.
Tues., Oct. 25: 7 p.m. Barbershoppers.
Wed., Oct. 26: 3:20 p.m. Praise Kids,
3:40 p.m. Confirmation Classes, 6 p.m.
Colfax Crafters.
COLFAX RURAL LUTHERAN
Pastor Bob Schoenknecht
715-962-3913
Wed., Oct. 19: 9:30 a.m. Norton &
NRV Bible Study at the Parsonage, No
Confirmation, 6:30 p.m. Joint Council
Meeting at the Parsonage
Thurs., Oct. 20: 1:30 p.m. Holden
Hope Circle & Ladies Aid at the Parsonage
Sun., Oct. 23: 8:30 a.m. Norton Worship, 9:45 a.m. Holden Worship, 9:45 a.m.
NRV Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. Holden
Sunday School, 11 a.m. North Running
Valley Worship.
Tues., Oct. 25: 10:30 a.m. Bible Study
at the Grapevine
Wed., Oct. 26: 3:45 p.m. Confirmation
at the Parsonage.
FAITH LUTHERAN
RUNNING VALLEY AFLC
Jim Haga, Pastor
3 1/2 miles N on east side Cty Hwy A
Sun.: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Sunday School/
Bible Study; 10 a.m. Worship Service.
Wed.: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday Night
Bible Study.
HAY RIVER-RIDGELAND LUTHERAN
Pastor Loren Barker
715-949-1976
Wed., Oct. 19: No Confirmation.
Thurs., Oct. 20: 7:30 p.m. Hay River
Council Meeting.
Sun., Oct. 23: WORSHIP WITH COMMUNION: 9 a.m. Ridgeland, 10:30 a.m.
Hay River. SUNDAY SCHOOL: 9:30 a.m.
Hay River, 10:30 a.m. Ridgeland.
Wed., Oct. 26: 6:30 p.m. Confirmation
at Ridgeland.
NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA)
E9085 County Rd. V, PO BX 85
Sand Creek, WI 54765
Office: 715-658-1470
www.newhopescpc.org
[email protected]
Pr. Josh Toufar, pastor
[email protected]
*Sand Creek: 8:30 a.m. (*telephone
ministry 715-658-1777)
Pine Creek: 10:15 a.m.
9:30 a.m. Coffee Fellowship at both
churches.
OUR SAVIOR’S LUTHERAN (ELCA)
Hwy. 170, P.O. Box 186 Wheeler, WI
Sec. Hours: Wed. & Fri., 9:30-3
[email protected]
715-632-2530
Sun. worship service is at 9:15 a.m.
SHEPHERD OF THE HILL LUTHERAN
207 University St., Elk Mound
715-879-5115
Pastor Mary Eide
Sun.: 8:45 a.m. Sunday School, 10
a.m. Worship.
SPRING BROOK LUTHERAN
7 miles south of Elk Mound
off H on 930th
Sun.: 8:30 a.m. Sun. School; 9:30 a.m.
Family Worship Hour.
ST. JOHN LUTHERAN POPPLE CREEK
Wisconsin Synod
10 miles north of Colfax on
County W, Colfax, WI
Pastor James Strand
Sun.: 5:30 p.m. Sunday School; 6
p.m. Worship.
ST. KATHERINE’S LUTHERAN CHURCH
Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Pastor Shawn Kauffeld
E7250 N. Cty. Rd. E Menomonie
715-556-9307
Sun.: 8:30 a.m. Sunday School, 9:30
a.m Worship Service.
TRINITY LUTHERAN
1039 Nordveien Dr., P.O. Box 247 Boyceville, WI 54725
[email protected]
Pastor Brad Peterson
Phone: 715-643-3821
Parish Office Hours: M-T, Th-Fri 8 a.m.noon; Wed noon-3 p.m.
Communion 1st, 3rd & 5th Sun.
Sun.: 9 a.m. Worship Service; 10:15
a.m.-Sun. School.
NON-DENOMINATIONAL
INDEPENDENT BIBLE CHURCH
Pastor Robert Koepp
Sand Creek - 715-309-2888
Thurs., Oct. 20: No Bible Study or
Prayer Meeting.
Sun., Oct. 23: 9:30 a.m. Worship Service, 10:45 a.m. Sunday School.
NEW DIMENSION MINISTRIES
5448 Balsam Drive
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
Pastor Darrell Wood, Sr.
Phone 715-723-9520
Wed.: 6:30 p.m. Worship Service.
CALVARY CHAPEL
Pastor Jason Taylor
N10091 Co. Rd. S, Wheeler
715-658-1036
Sun.: 10 a.m. Prayer; 10:30 Worship.
Thurs.: 7 p.m. Bible Study.
UNITED METHODIST
SALEM-IRON CREEK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
E. 7285 N. County Trunk E
Menomonie, WI 54751
Pastor Allen M. Christensen
Sun.: 9:15 a.m. Worship, 10:15 a.m.
Sunday School
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
105 S. Holly Avenue
Elk Mound, WI 54739
715-879-5596
Pastor Allen M. Christensen
Sun.: 9:45 a.m. Sunday School, 10:45
a.m Worship.
UNITED METHODIST
Rev. Craig Conklin
Tainter: 715-962-4335
Sun.: 9:30 a.m. Worship Service;
10:30 a.m. Sun. School.
Colfax
Tues.: 9:30 a.m. Prayer Group.
Caring Ministry Food Pantry: 715-7049571
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Monday, October 24, 2016
7:00 p.m. Regular Session
This meeting is a meeting of the Board of Education in
public for the purpose of conducting the School District’s
business and is not to be considered a public community
meeting. There is a time for public participation during the
meeting as indicated in the agenda.
AGENDA
1. Call to order
2. Roll call
3. Pledge of Allegiance
4. Reportofmeetingnotification
5. Minutes – Consent Agenda
6. Treasurer’s Report – Consent Agenda
7. Bill list – Consent Agenda
8. Communications and Visitors
A. Mr. Dachel
B. Mr. Hovde
C. Mrs. Rudi
D. Visitors
9. Old Business
A. Referendum Update
B. PI -1505 Annual Report (2015-2016)
C. PI-1505 SPED Annual Report (2015-2016)
10. Superintendent’s Report
A. Meetings Attended/Scheduled
B. Immunization Records
11. New Business
A. Equalized Values (Fall 2016)
B. Open Enrollment Update (2016-2017)
C. Pupil Count Report (3rd Friday in September 2016)
D. Pupil Count Summer School (2016)
E. Discuss/Motion: Approve Coach Resignation
F. Discuss/Motion: Approve Coaching Hires
G. Motion: Establish 2016-2017 tax levy. Consideration of levying a property tax for the 2016-17 budget
of $______________ or, (If the state law changes that
affects the amount of general aids available to the
school district) a property tax for the 2016-17 budget in the amount equaling the maximum revenue
limit allowed less all allowed state general aids,
whichever is less, and $_____________ for Non-Referendum Approved Debt Service.
H. Presentation / signature tax statements (May not be
available by meeting.)
I. Discuss/Motion: Youth Options applications (Spring
2017)
J. Discuss/Motion:Toadjustbudgettoreflectactual
revenue & expenditure amounts 2016-2017
(May not be available by meeting date.)
12. Adjournment
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Sex offender released in
Bloomer October 19
By LeAnn R. Ralph
BLOOMER — A 34-year-old
man convicted in 2005 of second
degree child sexual assault in Pepin County will be released from
the Stanley Correctional Institution October 19 and will be living
at 1914 Queen Street, Bloomer.
Paul L. Clement is described
as being 5’8” tall, 175 pounds,
with brown hair (balding), brown
eyes and with scars on his forehead, according to a news release
from the Chippewa County Sheriff ’s Department.
Upon his release, Clement will
no longer be under the direct supervision of the Department of
Corrections but will be mandated
to comply with all requirements
and is a lifetime registrant of the
Wisconsin Sex Offender Registration Program.
Clement was convicted of second-degree sexual assault of a
child in October of 2005, and his
victims included teenaged female
acquaintances, according to the
news release.
Information about Clement
or any other lifetime sex offender registrant is available at the
sex registry website at www.doc.
wi.gov.
According to online court records, Clement pleaded guilty to
one Class C felony of the seconddegree sexual assault of a child
on October 24, 2005.
A second felony count of second-degree child sexual assault
was dismissed but read into the
record for sentencing. A misdemeanor count of contributing to
the delinquency of a minor also
was dismissed but read into the
record for sentencing.
In a separate case, Clement
was charged with another felony
count of second-degree sexual
assault of a child that was dismissed but read into the record
for sentencing. Two additional
counts of contributing to the
delinquency of a child were dismissed as well but read into the
record for sentencing.
In December of 2005, Clement
was sentenced to three years in
state prison and seven years of
extended supervision, according
to online court records.
In August of 2009, extended
supervision was revoked in Pepin
County Circuit Court after Clement pleaded guilty to possession
of marijuana.
Colfax approves sharing
TID 4 revenue with TID 3
By LeAnn R. Ralph
COLFAX — The Colfax Village Board has approved sharing revenue from Tax Increment
District 4 with Tax Increment
District 3.
The village board approved
sharing the revenue October 10
following a meeting of the Joint
Review Board for the village’s tax
increment districts and a meeting of the Colfax Plan Commission.
The plan commission recommended that the village board
approve the resolution to share
revenue from TID 4 with TID 3.
The Joint Review Board will
consider whether to approve the
proposal at a meeting October 31.
Representatives for the taxing
jurisdictions that receive taxes
from the property in the TID
make up the Joint Review Board.
Members of the Joint Review
Board included Scott Gunnufson (village); Steve Rasmussen
(Dunn County Board); Dan Lytle (CVTC); Bill Yingst (Colfax
school district) and Jeremy Klukas (public).
Sean Lentz of Ehlers & Associates, the village’s financial consultant, explained how tax increment districts work for those who
might not be familiar with the
concept.
A tax increment district has a
base property value when the district is formed. Each of the taxing
authorities receives their share of
the property taxes from the base
value in the TID for the life of the
district. When improvements are
made within the tax increment
district, the property taxes that
would have been paid on the improvements, instead of being paid
to the taxing authorities, goes
into a special fund for the village.
The village can then use those
funds to make further improvements in the TID, such as street
projects, Lentz explained.
Tax increment districts are set
up for either 20 or 27 years, he
said.
When the TID is closed out,
the property tax on the improvements is then paid to the taxing
authorities in the district, Lentz
said.
In order to share revenue with
another TID, the receiving tax increment district must be considered “blighted,” he said.
TID 3 in Colfax has been declared a blighted district.
Blighted means that 50 percent of the district is blighted and
is in need of rehabilitation, Lentz
said.
TID 4, a mixed-use district,
was created in 2006 and will
close out in 2026.
According to the preliminary
financial forecast, TID 4 has
paid back all of the current expenditures and had a surplus of
$19,000 in 2015, Lentz said.
TID 3 was created in 2002 and
will close out in 2029.
The financial forecast for TID
3 is that with no further development, the district will experience
a shortfall, Lentz said.
The process being considered
by the Joint Review Board, the
plan commission and the village
board is to share TID 4’s revenue
with TID 3, he said.
Members of the Colfax Plan
Commission include Gary Stene,
Dave Hovre, Nancy Hainstock,
Jason Johnson, Mike Buchner
and Gunnufson.
The plan commission held a
public hearing on the proposal for
sharing revenue between the two
TIDs, although no one from public spoke at the public hearing.
Some of the projects that could
be included in TID 3 for which
money would be supplied by TID
4 are upgrading infrastructure,
transportation, sidewalks and
store fronts, Lentz said.
The Colfax Plan Commission
unanimously approved a motion
to recommend that the village
board approve amending TID 4
to allow sharing of revenue with
TID 3.
TID 4 is expected to generate
$22,000 in revenue each year,
Lentz said.
The Colfax Village Board
unanimously approved amending TID 4 to allow the district to
share revenue with TID 3.
The Joint Review Board will
meet at the village hall at 5:30
p.m. October 31 to consider the
proposal.
Other business
In other business, the Colfax
Village Board:
•Approved bartender operators’ licenses for Tarris Turner
(American Legion) and Patrick
L’Esperance (Express Mart) from
October 10, 2016, to June 30,
2017.
•Approved a resolution to
support and agree to be included
in the 2016-2020 Dunn County
Outdoor Recreation Plan.
•Learned that the Colfax
Rescue Squad had gone out on 62
runs in September.
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NEWS
Dunn County considers CAFO moratorium Colfax Referendum
By LeAnn R. Ralph
MENOMONIE — The Dunn
County Planning Resources and
Development Committee planned
to meet October 17 to discuss a
six-month moratorium on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations to present at the Dunn
County Board meeting Wednesday.
The PR&D committee discussed the possibility of a moratorium at the October 11 meeting.
About 50 people attended the
meeting, and 18 audience members addressed the committee
during public comments.
PR&D members planned to
more closely review a draft of the
moratorium at their October 17
special meeting that was then
expected to be presented to the
Dunn County Board at the October 19 meeting.
Nick Lange, Dunn County
corporation counsel, submitted a
draft for PR&D members to review.
Members of the PR&D committee were generally in favor of
a moratorium but disagreed on
how long the moratorium should
be in place.
A six-month moratorium with
the possibility of a six-month extension if needed seemed to have
the most support among committee members.
The majority of those who
spoke during public comments
said they were concerned about
soil and groundwater contamination from CAFOs, specifically
from large dairies, and were in
favor of a moratorium to give
Dunn County time to review
the county’s zoning ordinance to
make sure regulations are adequate to keep the groundwater
from being contaminated.
Many of the speakers said they
believed the state Department of
Natural Resources is too shorthanded to make sure the CAFOs
are complying with state law.
Many of the speakers also referred to problems in Kewaunee
County where 320 water wells
have been found to be contaminated with coliform bacteria and
nitrates.
The concern about CAFOs, the
expansion of large dairies and the
contamination of soil and groundwater was prompted by a request
for expansion at Cranberry Creek
Dairy in the Town of Rock Creek.
Cranberry Creek Dairy plans
to expand to 7,250 animal units
— or 5,000 dairy cows — by next
summer. The dairy currently has
1,250 dairy cows.
Rock Creek is one of six unzoned townships in Dunn County.
Nutrient management
Charles Harschlip, who lives
in the Rock Falls area, is a dairy
farmer with a 70-cow herd and
a Wisconsin Natural Resources
Conservation Service 590 Standard Nutrient Management Plan.
A nutrient management plan
establishes how much manure
can be applied to farm fields
based on soil testing and the nutrients needed for that particular
field to grow a particular crop.
Harschlip said he is “getting
nervous” because the “bigger operators are putting on way too
much manure on some fields.”
Three large dairy herds, including two in Pepin County,
would be within six to eight miles
of each other, he said.
Describing the Cranberry
Creek nutrient management plan
as a “scary situation,” Harschlip
noted that nutrient management
plans are self-regulated.
Pepin County and the Black
River Falls office of the DNR are
short-handed, and “they need
help,” he said.
“If the county could do any
kind of moratorium to slow this
down,” Harschlip said.
Dead zone
Rachel Kummer of Rock Falls
also identified herself as a dairy
farmer in favor of a moratorium
on CAFOs and described Cranberry Creek Dairy as a neighbor
who wants to expand in size by
five times.
Kummer said she wrote a
nutrient management plan last
winter and knows how to read
the plans. When she looked at
the Cranberry Creek nutrient
management plan, the plan was
missing soil samples, had incorrect crop rotations and listed
landowners where the manure
would be spread who had not
been asked permission to use
their land, Kummer said.
For the expansion, Cranberry
Creek needed an inspection, and
an August 5 letter to the dairy
listed all of the areas of non-compliance, such as the over-application of nitrogen in 2015 and 2016
— one hundred pounds more of
nitrogen per acre than should
have been applied, Kummer said.
The dairy has not submitted
manure samples for nutrient
analysis and has had problems
with run-off control from feed
bunkers, she said.
A local bow hunter recently
located a site where every bit of
vegetation is dead in a spot ten
feet wide by 30 feet that leads to
the creek bank, Kummer said.
Cranberry Creek Dairy has
been pulling water from the creek
for fertilizing, and the equipment
must have been leaking all summer, she said.
Soil samples were tested for
urea, ammonia and nitrate, and
the amount was so high that it
was beyond what the machines
could be calibrated to accurately
measure, Kummer said.
“We need time to make sure
our environmental concerns are
addressed,” she said.
Public trust
Randy Koehler is a dairy
farmer in the Rock Falls area
who lives a half mile south of the
proposed Cranberry Creek Dairy
expansion.
The 100 pounds more per acre
of nitrogen is perhaps an overage
of 50 percent, Koehler said.
The public wants farmers to be
more sustainable, and the public
wants to be able to trust farmers,
he said.
Violations of regulations by
one large dairy hurts all farmers
because the public then does not
trust farmers not to violate regulations, Koehler said.
“We need a moratorium to
get some time to look into this,”
Koehler said.
Mike Grant from Menomonie
said government was supposed
to be for the people to serve the
people.
But the state government in
Wisconsin has defunded the DNR
and has stopped looking at science.
“Everyone has to have clean
air and clean water,” he said.
In recent years, the larger
dairy operations have represented a major change in agriculture,
Grant said.
“We need time to look at it
more closely,” he said.
Villains
Ryan Ullom of Eau Claire said
he is a third-generation dairy
farmer.
The people speaking at the
PR&D meeting are painting a
broad picture that dairy farms
are bad, he said.
Farmers do not want to contaminate the environment, Ullom said.
“We do not intend to contaminate the water or the air. We
want to provide for our families
and for everyone,” he said.
Farmers want to work with
the government. Grain farmers
also over apply nutrients and are
self-regulated, Ullom said.
The people speaking at the
meeting are “painting dairy as
the villain,” he said.
Lee Ullom of Menomonie said
his family is working on following
the CAFO standards.
How much is a moratorium
going to help operations that are
already following the standards?
Ullom wondered.
The Ulloms have a family farm
that is expanding to support the
family. A moratorium will cause
some operations to fold, he said.
“A moratorium would cause us
to no longer be an operation to
the fullest extent … (it would be
a) detriment to our operation as a
family,” he said.
Doug Ullom begged to differ
with his sons about the farm being third generation and said it
was, in fact, a fourth generation
farm.
Ullom said he is a supervisor
on the Spring Brook Town Board
and his farm is located in the
Town of Dunn.
All together, he has four sons
and 11 grandchildren, and Ullom
said he understands the concerns
about clean water.
The Town of Spring Brook is
removing the water fountains at
the town hall because of nitrate
contamination, and there are
very few dairies in Spring Brook,
he said.
“Like my sons said, we’re being
put out as villains,” Ullom said.
In every business, there are
good operators and not-so-good
operators, he said.
Cheryl Ullom said she has
lived on a dairy farm her whole
life.
“We work hard, and we love
what we do,” she said.
The economics of dairy farming are difficult, and Ullom said
she would love if if they could
stay at 50 cows or 100 cows.
The big dairy farms have been
driven by economics, she said.
“Every farm that is trying to
survive should not be punished,”
she said.
The Ullom family wants to
expand their farm in order to be
able to support the family, Cheryl
Ullom said.
“It’s too bad we have to be at
war over this,” she said.
The DNR is understaffed, and
laws are not being enforced. If
people want the laws enforced,
they should ask the state Legislature for enforcement, Ullom said.
Parts per million
Helen Kees of Durand said she
is a farmer and has cattle.
Working farmers have taken
time out of their busy schedules,
especially at this time of year
during the harvest, to do research
and complete work that should
have been done by civil servants,
she said.
Kees said she had requested
information from the DNR before
the hearing in Rock Creek in September for the Cranberry Creek
Dairy expansion.
In some areas, drinking water
in Dunn County has a nitrogen
levels of 12 to 24 parts per million, she said.
In Wisconsin, the enforcement
level is ten parts per million, but
two parts per million is considered the protective action limit at
which something should be done,
Kees said.
The federal Environmental
Protection Agency is in Madison
right now, reviewing the DNR’s
enforcement of clean water regulations, she said.
Emerald
Emerald Sky Dairy in the
Town of Emerald in St. Croix
County is planning an expansion,
said Kim Dupree, who lives one
and a half miles from Emerald
Sky Dairy.
Three of her neighbors have
had excessively high nitrates in
their well water the last several
months, she said.
After doing an open records
request, Dupree said she had discovered that Emerald Sky Dairy
has only submitted half of the
required compliance logs to the
DNR since 2008, and the DNR is
understaffed.
One of her neighbors spent
$11,000 to install a reverse osmosis system on one faucet to deal
with the nitrates, and another
neighbor spent $20,000 drilling a
new well, Dupree said.
Reverse osmosis and new
wells to draw water from below
the contaminated level are not
covered by homeowners insurance, she noted.
St. Croix County also is currently considering a moratorium
on CAFOs, Dupree said.
“Clean drinking water is essential … we all need to work together to protect our water,” she
said.
Another woman from the Town
of Emerald said she had attended
a two-day summit on CAFOs in
Green Bay in September and had
learned about the damage in Kewaunee County.
The Algoma public school system has a clean water kiosk because well water cannot be used
for drinking or bathing or cooking, she said, and in the Town of
Emerald, there are contaminated
wells in all four directions from
Emerald Sky Dairy.
Citizen Action
Jeff Smith, who lives in a township neighboring Rock Creek, is a
member of the Citizen Action Cooperative of Western Wisconsin.
Clean drinking water is a bipartisan issue, he said.
“We have to figure out what is
in the best interests of everyone,”
Smith said.
Manure can be land spread 12
miles away as part of a nutrient
management plan, but many people are not aware of the amount
of land involved, Smith said.
Smith said no one wants to
“vilify the family farms.”
Wisconsin is rich in water resources, and it is “not smart”
to contaminate the water. “We
should be protecting our water at
all costs,” he said.
Moratorium
“It is appropriate for us to take
a look at this,” said Tom Quinn,
chair of the PR&D committee and
a county board supervisor from
Downing.
Quinn also is the executive director of the Wisconsin Farmers
Union.
The regulation of CAFOs is an
enormously complicated issue,
said Diane Morehouse, PR&D
member and county board supervisor from Menomonie.
“It seems to me it would be
prudent to take some time,” she
said.
Gary Bjork, PR&D member
and a county board supervisor
from Colfax who also is a farmer,
agreed that it would be appropriate to take a look at the county’s
regulations and suggested a sixmonth moratorium on CAFOs.
Bjork expressed concern for
farmers being able to continue
any plans for expansion during
a moratorium longer than six
months.
Gary Seipel, PR&D member
and a county board supervisor from Eau Galle, said he had
missed the meeting two weeks
ago and had been “blindsided” by
the idea of a moratorium.
A one-year moratorium would
be detrimental to existing farms
that want to expand, he said.
A moratorium would prohibit
licensing of new operations or
expansion of existing operations,
said Lange, the county’s attorney.
By studying groundwater,
surface water and watersheds in
relation to possible impacts by
CAFOs, Dunn County would be
doing what the DNR and what
the Department of Agriculture,
Trade and Consumer Protection
should be doing and is mandated
to do, Seipel said.
The state law that regulates
CAFOs was done in 2004, and at
that time, no one thought about
farms with 26,000 hogs or 5,000
dairy cows, Quinn said.
“The scale is so much greater.
Maybe the state regulations are
not being managed correctly,” he
said.
DNR personnel are told to issue permits for the lowest standards on the books, Quinn said.
A moratorium would not prevent farmers from starting the
application process; obtaining all
the proper permits for a CAFO is
a lengthy process, he said.
Responsibility
The Dunn County Board has
a responsibility to Dunn County
residents regardless of what the
DNR or DATCP does or does not
do, said Steve Rasmussen, chair
of the Dunn County Board and ex
officio member of the PR&D committee.
“This is about local control,” he
said.
Taking a look at the county’s
ordinances and gathering information about groundwater and
surface water “is not blaming. It
is addressing a perceived need in
the community. It is not blaming
agriculture or dairy. It is an issue
that is of concern to Dunn County
residents,” Rasmussen said.
Rasmussen suggested that citizen members should be part of
a committee appointed to review
the ordinance and the scientific
information available, including
farmers such as Dave Styer.
The committee will be looking at “what works, what doesn’t,
what is appropriate,” Rasmussen
said, adding that he was anticipating community engagement
that is thoughtful and reasoned
as well as focused on evidencebased decision making.
Seipel advocated taking two
weeks to review the proposed
moratorium — until the next regular PR&D meeting.
Quinn advocated for approving the moratorium so it could
be presented to the Dunn County
Board at the October 19 meeting.
Waiting two weeks for the next
PR&D regular meeting means it
would be six weeks before a moratorium comes before the county
board, Quinn said.
The Dunn County PR&D Committee unanimously postponed
making a decision on recommending a moratorium on CAFOs until a special meeting of the
committee October 17.
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or 132,000 gallons per quarter
— or about 400,000 gallons for
the nine-month school year.
At two flushes per day
per person, that amounts to
264,000 gallons per quarter of
water saved — or about 800,000
gallons per school year.
Lockers
Anyone who graduated from
high school in at least the last
50 years remembers having a
locker.
Depending on when you
graduated, those lockers were
newer or older, better or worse.
If your locker was an older
model and gave you problems
getting it open, the delays and
difficulties could put a real dent
in your school day.
The lockers at Colfax Middle
School and Colfax High School
are part of the $2.2 million infrastructure portion of the $7.2
million referendum.
“Lockers are very expensive.
These lockers are relatively old
and the locking mechanisms
keep wearing out,” Yingst said.
The problem is, “they don’t
make those anymore. So we’re
trying to get used parts to fix
them,” he said.
Replacing the lockers will
make the school day run more
smoothly for both students and
staff.
Parking lot
No matter whether you are
talking about a parking lot, a
street or a road — asphalt is expensive.
Part of the $2.2 million infrastructure portion of the referendum is for the parking lots
at Colfax High School/Middle
School and Colfax Elementary.
Paving a mile of road costs
around $100,000, and maintaining the asphalt pays off in
the long run.
“Parking lot maintenance is
ongoing. If you don’t maintain
the parking lot, then it becomes
very expensive to replace it,”
Yingst said.
Additional updates
Other updates that would
be included in the infrastructure portion of the referendum
would be technology updates
that would help the school district meet new testing standards.
Exterior building repairs
would be part of the infrastructure portion as well.
During the energy efficiency
project three years ago, the interior of the school building was
examined and sealed up where
necessary.
This part of the project would
examine the exterior of the
building to find places where
water could seep into the building through failed sealants,
windows or roof flashings, according to information provided
to the school board at the time
of the previous energy efficiency
project.
Water infiltration can damage interior and exterior portions of the building and can
eventually cause structural
damage.
Other projects
Other projects in the $7.2
million referendum include replacing temporary classrooms
that were meant to be used for
less than a decade but have now
been in use for 30 years.
The temporary classrooms
would be replaced with a 7,000
square-foot addition on the
north side of the elementary
school.
The $1.4 million for the new
classrooms includes demolition
of the temporary classrooms.
In addition, the referendum
amount includes $750,000 for
a bus maintenance building (a
maintenance garage and not
the “bus barn” where the buses
are parked); $1.2 million for
technical education/STEM (improvement and expansion of
existing tech ed areas including equipment and technology
upgrades); $650,000 to improve
safety and security (relocate the
existing high school office to the
east side of the building, card
access, cameras).
The referendum amount also
includes $600,000 to purchase
six new liquid propane buses
to begin the replacement cycle.
Colfax runs 18 buses, so replacing one per year means that
each bus must last 18 years.
The last item included in
the referendum amount will
be $400,000 to pay off the Wisconsin Retirement System “unfunded liability.”
The school district has been
working on paying off the liability to the Wisconsin Retirement
System for the last 27 years,
since 1989.
The school district is paying
$60,000 per year, and at the
current pay rate, the unfunded
liability would be paid off in
2029.
If the school district continues to make payments of
$60,000 per year for the next 13
years, the total would amount
to $780,000 — or nearly twice
the amount the Board of Education is asking for in the referendum question.
More info
The Colfax Messenger plans
to publish an article in the October 26 edition that takes a
closer look at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
portion of the referendum.
Anyone who wishes to tour
the school buildings to see what
needs to be replaced or updated
is welcome, Yingst said.
If you would like to set up
a tour, contact Superintendent
Bill Yingst at 715-962-3773 or
by e-mail at wyingst@colfax.
k12.wi.us.
Two informational meetings
also are scheduled on October
26 and November 3 at 7 p.m. at
the Colfax High School library.
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