STAR NEWS

THE

February 12, 2015

Volume 142 + Number 7

Medford, Wisconsin

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Keeping it
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Wrestlers gain three

conference titles

City OKs development of new well,

reviews upgrades at treatment plant

Sports

by News Editor Brian Wilson

Snieg Fest breaks the

winter doldrums

Ask Ed

Medford grad makes

journey to help others

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Commentary
Post office needs to
be about service

Opinion

Area deaths
Obituaries start on
page 14 for:
Arthur Andreae
Alton D. Cain
Lydia Granstrom
Gail Linzner
Thomas Mayer
Carl Nelson
Judy Robida
Harold Strebe
Mary Taylor

Chimney fire

photos by Brian Wilson

Firefighters from the Medford Area Fire

Department responded to a chimney fire
at the Melvin and Arvella Mildbrand residence at 1260 N. Eighth St. at 7:36 p.m.
Saturday night. The ladder trucks larger
floodlights help personel see what they are
doing and reduce the number of firefighters who have to climb onto the snow- and
ice-covered roof.

The city of Medford is planning for the future with the

development of a new city well.
During a special city council meeting Monday night,
aldermen approved a $211,000 engineering contract with
Aecom to develop city well No. 12.
According to city coordinator John Fales, the proposed well is located on Ninth St. behind the Kmart
building and he estimated it would cost about $800,000 to
be fully developed. He explained that unlike other wells
in the city, the water from this well will need to be treated to reduce levels of iron and manganese before it can
be put into the citys water supply. The cost of the well
development includes the cost of a treatment center.
The city has an ongoing well search program to ensure adequate water supply for industry and residential
needs. This site is one the city has drilled a number of
test wells at in recent years and it shows a flow of about
150 gallons per minute.

See CITY on page 5

County eyes forest fees, logging revenue

Committee calls for increase
for firewood permits and a cap
on land acquisition fund
by News Editor Brian Wilson
Harvesting firewood in the county forest
will cost more next year.
The county currently charges a $10 permit
for up to five pulp cords of firewood and $25
a ton for pine boughs collected. As of Jan. 1,
2016, the fee will go up to $20 for firewood and
$50 for bough permits with the same quantity
limits.
The increase was suggested at the Feb. 6
county forestry committee as a way to generate more revenue as the county looks at ways
to close a projected budget gap. According
to county forester Russ Aszmann, about 35
people a year get firewood permits and 10 get

noting the firewood permit was still a value.

bough permits.
Aszmann
said
Supervisor Dave Bizer noted those collecting on county forest lands had basically only Taylor County was
their sweat equity as far as expense of col- on the low end
lecting and hauling out the wood. He noted of the scale for
while there was still a lot of work in collect- permit fees
ing the firewood which is primarily done comby hand $25 for a pulp cord of wood is still pared
a good deal compared to the going price of $65 to others
in northfor a face cord of cut firewood.
A cord of firewood is a stack four feet high ern Wisconsin.
and eight feet wide. The difference between a pulp cord and
Cap is needed
a face cord is the length of the
logs. In a pulp cord the logs
Forestry committee memare cut in eight foot lengths,
ber Mike Roiger called for a
standard for loading on a pulp
cap on money set aside for
truck. In a face cord the logs are
land acquisition in the councut to the 16-inch length norty forest. The money in the
mally used for firewood. There
fund comes from a portion of
are about six face cords per
stumpage revenue from timSee COUNTY on page 4
pulp cord of firewood. A pulp
ber harvest in the forest.
cord is a lot more, Bizer said,

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Beware of catshing
when dating online

Medford FBLA does well

at regional competition
Members of Medford FBLA had a stellar performance at the regional competition in Park Falls on Feb. 7. Thirteen of
the 15 members who competed will be advancing to state competition in La Crosse
this April.
Taking first place at the regional competition were: Jori Brandner, accounting I; Richard Colwell, business math;
Ty Wrage, sales presentation; Douglas
Schumacher, computer problem solving;
Brett Hedlund, accounting II; Romain
Grard and Esther Lusenge, global business.

Taking second place in the regional

were: Jay Czerniak, public speaking I
and Sydney Emmerich, economics.
Taking third place in the regional
competition were: Zach Smola, business
calculations and Taylor Adleman, impromptu speaking.
Taking fourth place at the regional were Macy Bunkleman and Wyatt
Dohrwardt, website design and Taylor
Nolan, word processing. Nikola Babic
took fifth place in accounting I.

On to state

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Members of Medford FBLA competed at the regional competition on Feb. 7 at Park

Falls. The team did well with 13 of the 15 members qualifying for state competition
in April.

Retired educators to meet Feb. 16 in Withee

A relationship scam starts simply.

Two people meet online, usually through
a dating site. They email, trade pictures,
talk on the phone, and soon theyre making plans to meet and maybe even to
get married. But as the relationship get
stronger, things start to change.
Dating sites offer convenience and
anonymity, which is just what scammers
need. You may feel you get to know someone through photos, email or chatting,
but its easy for the person at the other
end of the keyboard to conceal the truth.
Many people find true love via online dating sites, but there are red flags to watch
for that may indicate youre dealing with
a scammer.
Better Business Bureau is warning
singles to know the warning signs of
catfishing, or romance scams. Be wary
of anyone who:
Asks to talk or chat on an outside
email or messaging service. Oftentimes,
this allows fraudsters to carry out scams
without the dating site having a record
of the encounter. Remember, scammers
play on emotion and romance is certainly a strong emotion. Any time people are
vulnerable, fraudsters find opportunity.
Claims to be from this country but
is currently traveling, living or working abroad. Scammers come up with all
kinds of excuses why they cant meet in
person just yet. Be cautious of online daters who claim to be called away suddenly, or to be in the military and stationed
overseas.
Asks you for money or credit card
information. In some cases the scammer
will claim an emergency like a sick relative or stolen wallet, and will ask you to
wire money. The first wire transfer is
small but the requests keep coming and
growing. Or they may ask for airfare to
come for a visit. The payback promises
are empty, the moneys gone, and so is
he/she.

Tri-County Retired Educators Association will meet on Monday, Feb. 16 at

the Hayloft in Withee. Lunch will be
served at 12:30 p.m. with a program to follow.

The association is made up of retired

teachers or staff and their spouses from
the Cadott, Chippewa Falls, Gilman,
Greenwood, Loyal, Neillsville, Owen
Withee, Stanley and Thorp area.

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Group 6 p.m. Medford Public School

District office building, 124 W. State St.
Taylor County Day Care Provider
Support Group Meeting 7 p.m. The
Sports Page, 1174 W. Broadway Ave.,
Medford. Information: Kelly Emmerich
715-748-6192.

Brain Injury Support Group Meeting 6:30 p.m. Town of Hill Town Hall.
Information: 715-767-5467.
American Legion Auxiliary 274
Meeting 6:30 p.m. Legion Clubhouse,
727 McComb Ave., Rib Lake.

Tuesday, Feb. 17

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Alcoholics Anonymous Open 12

Step Study Meeting 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 510 E.
Broadway, Medford.

Medford Kiwanis Club Meeting

Noon lunch. Frances L. Simek Memorial
Library, 400 N. Main St., Medford. Information: 715-748-3237.
Medford Association of Rocket Science (MARS) Club Meeting 6-9 p.m.
First Floor Conference Room, Taylor
County Courthouse, 224 S. Second St.,
Medford. Everyone welcome. Information: 715-748-9669.
Alcoholics
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Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford.

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

Sunday, Feb. 15

Monday, Feb. 16
Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS)
1013 of Rib Lake Meeting Weigh-in
5:30 p.m. Meeting 6:30 p.m. Rib Lake Senior Citizens Center, Hwy 102 and Front
Street. Information: Mary 715-427-3593 or
Sandra 715-427-3408.
High and Low Impact Step Aerobics Mondays and Wednesdays 6-7
p.m. Stetsonville Elementary School,
W5338 CTH A. Information: Connie 715678-2656 or Laura 715-678-2517 evenings.
Taylor County Autism Support

Thursday, Feb. 19

Medford Rotary Club Meeting

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

Wednesday, Feb. 18
Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting
7 p.m. Senior Citizens Center, Hwy 102
and Front Street, Rib Lake. Information:
Arlene 715-427-3613.

Friday, Feb. 20
Narcotics Anonymous Open Meeting 7 p.m. Community United Church
of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford. Information: 715-965-1568.

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Starting the journey to better health, life

Program highlights the
challenges of eating disorders
by News Editor Brian Wilson
The journey of recovery is hard.
Charlie Bengston knows that first hand, both on a professional and personal level.
Bengtson, who has a masters degree in counseling
and psychotherapy, is on her own journey of recovery
from the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa. She is a
counselor with LifeSeasons Professional Counseling of
Willmar, Minn.
She will be sharing her journey as the keynote speaker for the I had no Idea that eating disorders dont discriminate program which will be held from 9 a.m. to
noon, on Saturday, Feb. 21 at the multipurpose meeting
room at the Taylor County Fairgrounds in Medford. Feb.
22 to 28 is National Eating Disorder Awareness week.
Other speakers at the event include Rae Ann Wichlacz,
counselor at Courage to Change Recovery; DeDe Strama,
physical therapist at Aspirus Therapy & Fitness; and
Kate Broman, nutritionist at County Market.
I have been living on the recovery side of life for
nine years now. Even with all the heartaches and heart
breaks that come with life, they have been the best nine
years of my life, Bengston said.
I choose to share my journey because I know that
recovery is the hardest thing that anyone that has ever
walked hand in hand with an eating disorder will ever
do, she said.
She said those who have never lived with an eating
disorder struggle to understand the complex and confusing nature.
My journey involved educating myself on the disease
and the recovery process. My journey has taken me to
the professional side of eating disorders now, she said.
Bengston has a practice in rural Minnesota because
she feels it is important treatment services be available
to people regardless of if they live in urban areas. I chose
to return to rural Minnesota to offer my services because
getting treatment close to home was not an option available to me. I believe that treatment should be an option
available to all 30 million Americans that struggle with
an eating disorder, she said.
Cathy Venzke is the organizer for the event and also is
in a journey of recovery from an eating disorder. I have
been in recovery for 10 months now. It has been through
the support and encouragement of others that have
helped me thus far, she said. I also truly believe that it
has been gaining the knowledge about the disorder that
once controlled me that has helped me to recover.
Even as she is on her journey, Venzke is helping others who are coming to terms with the real problem eating
disorders bring to peoples lives. She is currently working as a mentor to another woman suffering from eating
disorders. I want to help her by shedding light to others

that she is not alone,

she said. We may live
in a smaller community,
but this disorder affects
many. The more aware
we are of this disorder
and understanding of it,
the stronger we become
to facing it, to seeking
help.
The other speakers in
the program are people
who have helped Venzke
on her journey, such as
Wichlacz, a counselor at
Courage to Change Recovery. She praised the
fact that people in this
area have access to such Charlene Bengston
a service.
Venzke said DeDe Strama, physical therapist at As-

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County looks at tapping into additional revenue from forest

Continued from page 1
Based on a recent survey done by
Vilas County, the fees ranged from free
in Ashland and Bayfield counties to $15
per cord in Vernon County. Firewood is
typically collected from the materials left
after an area is logged or other downed
trees in the county forest. Aszmann noted there were rules in place to protect
the regrowth areas which on occasion
requires enforcement by the forestry department.
As far as bough collection, Bizer noted
that also required a lot of work for the
people harvesting it, but at the same time
the county did not benefit from boughs
being cut the same way as removal of
dead or downed trees did. It was also noted the recent going price for boughs was
between $500 and $600 per ton.
That is a pretty good return, Bizer
said.
The cost increase will go into effect
for permits starting Jan. 1, 2016. All the
county firewood and bough permits are
good for one year and run January to December.
Looking out for the countys longterm budget needs was the inspiration
for a proposed cap to the county forest
land acquisition fund.
The county runs the forest similar to
how a business is operated. Money collected from timber sales pays for the cost
of managing the forest with the excess
going back to the countys general fund
as needed. The county forest was initially created from land taken on tax deed.
Over the years, the county has acquired
additional parcels through purchases.
A goal over the years has been to fill the
gaps through the purchase of parcels adjacent to or within the forest boundaries
from willing sellers. County code limits
the ability to purchase land that is not
adjacent to the county forest. Under the
current formula, 20 percent of the stumpage revenue from any forest land sale
goes into the land acquisition fund.
Committee member Mike Roiger
called for the forestry committee to set a
cap on the amount of money in the land
acquisition fund. The fund currently has
a balance of $543,695. There are no land
purchases being planned for the immediate future.

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Aszmann cautioned against setting

the cap too low because under the governors proposed budget, the KnowlesNelson Stewardship funds would be frozen and no longer available to help cover
the purchase of public lands. In the past,
the state fund would cover about half the
purchase cost.
As proposed, the cap on the fund
would be a largely symbolic gesture. We
can take that money any time we want
it, said supervisor Chuck Zenner, who
is also chairman of the county finance
committee. He said the amount in the
fund is already factored into the countys
fund balance so shifting a portion into
the general fund would not do much to
improve the bottom line for the county.
However, as a gesture of making a
point of bringing forest revenues into
county coffers, Zenner said he could see
the value in setting a cap. $500,000 buys
a lot of land, Roiger said, suggesting the
cap be set at that amount.
Under Roigers proposal, at the end of
the year anything over $500,000 would be

transfered to the general fund for county

use. If land was purchased, he said the
fund should be replenished until it got to
the $500,000 cap.
Bizer cautioned against putting the
money directly into the general fund.
It would disappear, he said, noting the
county would use the money to shore up
other areas of the budget and could become dependent on it. He said in a year
where there were not as good of sales
due to weather or other conditions, this
would leave the county with a shortfall.
Instead he favored the county using the
money to fund specific projects. This
would still benefit taxpayers by freeing
up tax dollars for other projects or services without the county budget being
dependent on it as a source of revenue.
Roiger said a cap would send a message to the members of the county board

Ribbon cutting

who question why the fund is left to grow.

Committee members directed the forestry staff to prepare a formal motion for
the next meeting including the language
of how the fund would be replenished
if a land purchase occurs in the future.
Aszmann favored just keeping the funding process as-is and then at the end of
the year anything above the cap would
be transferred out of the fund. He was
directed to talk with county accountant
Larry Brandl about what option would
work best when it came to accounting
and auditors.
In other business, committee members:

Approved an access agreement

allowing Gary and Lori Krueger to use
an existing forest road to access their
landlocked parcel. According to Aszmann, there are neighbor disputes in the
area and the Kruegers are unable to get
access by other means. Under the agreement, the Kruegers are responsible for
any damage done to the three-season logging road that is currently in place. Aszmann said the county has had similar
agreements in the past to allow access.

Received an update on timber

sales. With poor frost levels in the woods
this winter, logging operations have
been delayed. This is supposed to be
our busy time and we only have $14,000
in sales, Aszmann said. The county has
six logging contracts that will expire on
June 30 if the logging is not completed by
that time or an extension given.

Approved transferring $990 in

Title 3 money to the sheriffs department
to cover law enforcement expenses in the
national forest. The money is part of the
federal support given to counties which
contain a segment of national forest.
The county is eligible for up to $13,000 in
funds, with payment based on the actual
number of calls on federal forest land.

Approved a resolution recognizing Mary Wagenknecht for 14 years of

working in the Taylor County Forestry
and Zoning departments. She retired on
Dec. 12 and the county is in the process of
hiring her replacement.

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Medford Area Chamber of Commerce ambassadors recently welcomed new member, Strama Sport & Spine, located in the Evergreen Plaza on Hwy 13 in Medford.
Helping physical therapist and clinic director John Strama, and receptionist Susan
Sawdey, cut the ribbon were ambassadors Laurie Peterson, Len Hamman, Andrea
Buksa and Taylor Reetz.

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2014
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City council looks at safety, efficiency changes to sewer plant

Continued from page 1

Pool issues
After last years completion of the city pool renovation, the city is now looking inside the shower building
for upgrades. Aldermen approved spending $9,300 to purchase new shower fixtures and equipment for the locker
rooms. The public works department will provide the
labor to make the upgrades to the locker rooms with the
work to be completed this winter.
During the committee of the whole section of the meeting, aldermen gave preliminary approval to paying Barb
Gelhaus $2,000 to serve as the pool supervisor. In this
capacity she will supervise the lifeguard staff and be a
point person for any issues that arise at the pool.

When asked by an alderman if that was a large

amount, Fales responded saying It depends on if you are
in Abbotsford or here. Currently the city has five active
wells which range from 250 gpm to 135 gpm in capacity.
He said further to the south, municipalities are developing wells with much lower flows because of the type of
aquifer there.
The citys existing wells meet current needs, but Fales
noted in drought years they have seen a draw down of the
water table. Spreading the load between wells could help
prevent that in the future.
Alderman Arlene Parent questioned an additional site
near Allman St. that the city purchased in recent years.
Fales said the Allman St. location had a flow of about 50
to 60 gpm with the same issues with needing to remove
manganese and iron. He said the city would keep the Allman St. well in reserve and if it was developed the treatment plant being designed for Well No. 12 would have the
ability to handle the additional load. Fales said it would
just come down to piping the water to that location.
The well No. 12 project will come back to the council
after the engineering plans are completed and bid process in order to award the contract for the work. Money
for the well development will come out of the water utility with additional funding from the tax incremental districts which have well development expenses included in
their project plans.

Treatment plant
During the committee of the whole portion of Mondays meeting, aldermen received an update on upgrades
that will be made at the wastewater treatment plant.
Plant superintendent Ben Brooks told aldermen the
department was in the process of purchasing a new safety gantry system. This was approved as part of the 2015
budget process last fall. The gantry will greatly improve
safety in the screening and pump area. There are six large
pumps which must be pulled out of their chambers below
ground to be inspected each year. Brooks estimated they
weigh about a ton each. The gantry will also allow tubs of
nonorganic waste screened from the inflow to be hauled
out of the lower area to be deposited in dumpsters. Currently, a hoist is used which requires an operator to lean
over a pit that opens onto a 25-foot drop. The gantry will
replace this system. It is expected to cost $35,312 and be
installed by this summer.
Brooks also updated aldermen on a $16,000 project to
replace the 30-year-old emergency generators and waste
activated sludge variable frequency drive at the plant
with new, more efficient models. Brooks said the older
equipment is obsolete and they are unable to get replacement parts for it.
Brooks also reported on the plants five-year plan. The
city avoided having more restrictive phosphorus and
copper limits for the next five years, however, Brooks
said they know those limits will be coming and are planning on ways to meet them while improving the efficiency and decreasing the chemicals used at the treatment
plant. Brooks explained, utilizing biological processes to
remove phosphorus and other chemicals from the waste
and the upgrades being planned for the next few years
will work to fine tune that process. Fales told aldermen

Safety first

photo by Brian Wilson

A new gantry system will replace a hoist used to

haul tubs of inorganic waste screened from inflow at
the wastewater treatment plant. Currently, workers must
lean over the open pit to remove the tubs.
that upgrades would be between $2 and $2.5 million over
the next few years. The money for the projects comes
from user fees collected by the sewer utility.
In a related matter, Aldermen approved purchasing a
new sludge truck. The city uses the truck to haul sludge
from the plant to be applied to farmers fields. Each
spring the city hauls 600 yards of sludge to be applied to
about 1,200 acres of farmland. Brooks explained the window of applying the sludge was limited so they could not
be without a truck during that time. The city currently
uses a 1984 International. Given its age, the truck has
regular breakdowns and is becoming unreliable for the
utility.
The city requested bids for sludge hauling trucks and
they were received from Scaffidi Motors, V&H Motors
and Mid-State Truck. The low bid was a 2016 Mack GU433
for $146,139.36. Brooks also felt the shorter-nosed Mack
truck with a better turn radius would better fit the citys
needs. The truck will not be delivered until next fall.
Brooks said they hoped to keep the older truck at least
through next spring with the possibility of running two
trucks in 2016 and then decide what to do with it after
that time.

In other business, aldermen:

Approved a special event permit for the 40 Days

for Life prayer vigil to be held from Feb. 18 to March 29
from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the city parking lot outside the
Family Planning Health Services office in downtown
Medford.

Recommended approval of a $1,000 hotel/motel

room grant to the Twisted Threads Quilting Group for
their upcoming show in March. The money will be used
for advertising and promotion as well as building additional frames to display quilts.

Approved the annual nonlapsing fund amounts.

The city has more than $750,000 in designated reserve
accounts. These are for such things as purchase of plow
trucks, building maintenance, snow removal and other
major purchases.

Recommended paying city clerk Virginia Brost

for four hours of holiday pay for working the afternoon
of Friday, April 3. State law requires the clerk to be
available until 5 p.m. on the Friday before an election
for voter registration and absentee voting. The spring
election is April 7. It is an issue because April 3 is Good
Friday and the city hall traditionally closes at noon on
that day,

Recommended approval of a parade permit

for the May 15 American Cancer Society walk/run.
The annual event will follow the same route as in the
past starting and finishing at the city park and looping
around the millpond.

Hraby gets a new job title

by Reporter Mark Berglund
The Medford Area School Board has issued a 2015-16
assistant principal contract to Justin Hraby. Hraby is
currently serving as the high school's dean of students
and activities director, but the new title more accurately reflects the role and duties he fills at Medford Area
Senior High. His role at the school includes attendance
officer duties, student discipline counseling and evaluating staff members.
The title change comes with a $4,000 increase in base
salary. He will continue with his duties as activities director. District administrator Pat Sullivan said Hraby
already has the state license to hold the assistant principal title. It's what we all call him, Sullivan said. This
is a more fair and accurate job title.
The title change is the biggest change among the 10
administrative contracts approved by the board at its
Jan. 29 meeting. Actual salaries for 2015-16 will be finalized when the board adopts a budget for next year. The
percent raise is in line with the percentage set for teaching and support staff.
The board made the move to change Hraby's title and
renew contracts for the 10 administrators following a
closed session discussion. The contracts are renewed

New title
Justin Hraby was given
the assistant principal title
for Medford Area Senior
High. Previously he was
dean of students.

through June 30, 2016. The

contracts are for Sullivan,
Joe Greget (special education and student services
director), Laura Lundy
(curriculum director), Jeff
Albers (finance director),
Jill Lybert (high school
principal), Al Leonard
(middle school principal),
Charlie Heckel (assistant
middle school principal
and Rural Virtual Academy director), Dan Miller
(elementary supervisor),
Don Everhard (assistant
elementary supervisor),
and Hraby. Miller's duties
include filling principal
duties at Medford Area
Elementary School while
Everhard fills the same
duties at Stetsonville Area
Elementary School.

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Thursday,
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Star News
Editorials

Post Office needs to be about service

The United States government doesnt want you to
read these words. Or at the very least wants you to wait
to read them until they are no longer relevant.
That is the message being sent as the government
continues cutting back services through the U.S. Post
Office. Under federal mandate the post office must operate as a business and must be self supporting while at
the same time following government accounting standards and regulations that make no sense in the private
sector.
It is as if the powers that be in the federal government want the postal service to just disappear and along
with it the vitality important role of providing a nationwide communications link, even to those places without
internet or cellphone service.
The Washington D.C. decision makers in the post office are relying on plant closures and theoretical economies of scale to cut costs. While large urban areas may
not see a dramatic change in their services, rural areas
are being hit hard with service cuts and office closures.
People are having to pay more for less service.
Mail that used to take a day or two to be delivered now
may take a week or more and in the process log hundreds of miles in the back of a truck as it is transported
from one processing station to another. The postal service management has addressed these complaints about
slow delivery by changing the standard of delivery for
everything from the first class letter you send with your
water bill payment to magazines, newspapers and packages. It is kind of like grade inflation where, C level
work is changed to be an A to make it look better on
the report cards.
Under the new standards that went into effect on Jan.
1, postal customers in Medford should still get their paper the next day, but subscribers in Gilman could have
up to three days to get their paper in the mail even

though the papers are mailed at the same time. This is

because the papers go from Medford where the post office trucks them to Wausau and then to Gilman. If that
extra mileage seems silly, it gets worse. Up until last
week, a newspaper going to Stanley about 40 miles
from where the printing plant is in Abbotsford went
on a multi-state journey before reaching its destination.
The papers went from Abbotsford to Wausau and from
there to Green Bay then to Des Moines, Iowa then to
Minneapolis before being sent to Stanley.
Considering each stop has up to two days to process
and move along the mail, the well-traveled papers could
arrive to subscribers six days later and not be considered late under the postal service standards.
Fortunately, a postal employee in Wausau utilizing
some common sense is working to fix this problem and
stop the cross country travel for papers in this region.
However, that is only a localized fix to system-wide problem.
For snowbirds, getting their papers in places like Arizona or southern Texas, the post office says you should
be happy with getting your newspaper a week after they

are mailed. Any complaint issued before that time will

be ignored by the post office.
The new postal standards are unacceptable. But getting anyone in a decision making level of the postal
bureaucracy to listen is a challenge. Collectively newspapers and other periodicals are big postal customers.
They account for a massive part of the postal services
mailing volume, not to mention the amount paid in postage.
However, the bean counters and decision makers are
more concerned with being able to reduce the hours of
route carriers than with providing service to their customers and the American people. Rural postmasters and
mail carriers are being pinched in the middle between
unhappy customers and a bureaucracy committed to a
course of centralization and mechanization over service. For many, the risk of being the next position cut
or office closed is too great to buck the bureaucracy and
side with service.
The only way this will change is if people complain
to members of congress to change the focus of the post
office back to being a service for taxpayers. People also
need to make their voices heard to higher levels of postal management about their unhappiness with low standards of service.
Americans do not look for a return on investment
from national highways or the armed forces. The post
office needs to be returned to that level of service and
reliability. Even in an electronic age, the printed word
is vitally important both for the dissemination of ideas
and for economic health of our communities. Bureaucrats and bean counters are far removed from the impact their decisions have on people and business and
need to be reminded that there is a world beyond their
spreadsheets and corporate doublespeak.

Plan for challenges associated with growth

Taylor County is open for business,
again.
After years of layoffs, cutbacks and
sluggish recovery, the local economy is
poised to regain its pre-recession levels.
Both The Star News and The Shopper include pages of recruitment advertising
from entry level factory jobs to professional level jobs.
Businesses making a renewed investment in workforce expansion is a great
thing to see. Jobs bring salaries to families who then use that money to purchase
other goods and services in the community, benefitting everyone.
The local trend is part of the states and
nations economic recovery. In December
2013, Wisconsins seasonally adjusted
unemployment rate was 6.3 percent. By
December 2014, that number had dropped
to 5.2 percent. A 5 percent unemployment
level has long been the standard for an
economy at or near full employment.
Jobs require workers to fill them. Medford has been an employment hub in the
region for many years. As the job base
grows, Medford must be willing to grow
and welcome the workers in these new
jobs and address their needs as the community has addressed the needs of other
groups.

Star News

At the same time, city and economic

leaders need to be proactive in looking at
ways to bring high-quality workers to the
area. One of the barriers to worker mobility is the lack of regional transportation
options. If you dont have a license or access to a reliable vehicle it is next to impossible to maintain employment. A way
to address this problem is through the
creation of a regional bus network. The
idea is not a new one. It is used successfully by large seasonal employers in the
state to bring workers from this area to
their plants. Regular and reliable bus service could bring workers from places like
Marshfield or Phillips to jobs in Medford.
With routes designed to accommodate
employer schedules, such a service could
benefit employers and workers throughout the region by improving attendance
and reliability.
Obviously, there would need to be some
number crunching done to determine
what level of use is needed to make such a
service viable. This is the sort of forward
thinking that needs to be done in order to
meet employment needs without stressing any single communitys infrastructure or resources.
As the region shrugs off the nearly decade-long economic malaise, leaders must

Quote of the Week:

grew up learning to treat people the way you want to be treated. I tried to raise my
girls that same way.

Leo Jauernig, a custodian at Medford Area Senor High

lay the groundwork for solid and sustainable growth and follow the goal of having
a diverse employment base to ensure continued economic health.

Growing pains are good problems to

have. Economic and government leaders
need to do all they can to nurture this
growth.

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

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Vox Pop

Writer calls on voters to support Rib Lake schools

To the residents of Rib Lake, I would like you to picture what our town would be like if we didnt have our
schools. What I see if this were the case is that the town
would no longer exist. Recently there was a proposal
to move forward with building restorations for the Rib
Lake schools but this proposal has met with some resistance, the children deserve a safe and healthy environment to learn.
Yes I say healthy because our high school music
room was taken over by mold at the start of the school
year. We now look to a possible referendum (which will
also cost money) to decide if we can spend the money to
fix our buildings that I know are in need of repairs. If
we continue to deny the needed upkeep of our schools
we risk not having schools. I too am a taxpayer, but I
would much rather repair the buildings we have now

than wait until they are beyond repair. The total enrollment for the 2013-2014 school year was 481 students;
imagine 481 children and their families being forced to
leave the area because the schools are gone. Along with
that loss would be the loss of some of the best teachers
and staff that I have had the privilege to meet and teach
my children.
I am a product of this school system and I am proud
to call Rib Lake my home. The education I received here
has helped me get to where I am today. My hope is that
if this decision does go to the voters that we take time
to think about why the money is being spent, in the end
it is for the education of our children. I encourage everyone who has the right to vote to do so if the decision
does come to voters.
Sheila Heiser, Rib Lake

Vox Pop

Rep. Kulp says cuts wont cripple UW system

Im honored to be serving the friends and neighbors

of the 69th District. Im also delighted to be taking part
in the first budget process since my election over a year
ago.
The Governors budget proposal has stirred the normal controversy and concerns among various groups
of people. I understand some of the reasons for the
concern and would like to give you some of what Ive
uncovered as I was investigating. This may take several
articles as the next weeks and months unfold.
As you may remember, I try to put things into perspective in a way that can be understood by me. If I can
get my head around something, its my hope that others
can as well.
Lets start with the Governors proposed cuts to
the UW system.
The news media has been reporting state funding
slashed by over 13 percent. While this is technically
true, its not the whole story. Lets calmly look at the
whole picture, and resist the urge to run around like
our hair is on fire.
Budget cuts are seldom well received. But how drastic are they really, and what will it mean to the UW system? In numerous meetings and communications with
deans and a chancellor, as well as many emails with
faculty and students, I have some insight into this very
complex issue.
After looking at private and for-profit universities in
comparison to the UW system, I find that the student
to faculty ratio at the UW universities and colleges is
very much in line with those private universities. If
the numbers and ratios are calculated the same, and I
trust they are, I can deduce from this that the UW is a
competitive entity and not bloated or inefficient as compared to private and for-profit universities.
Next, allow me to put into perspective the proposed
$300 million ($150 million per year) budget cut.
The overall budget for the UW system is $6,098 million per year. The $150 million cut per year represents
about 2.5 percent of the total yearly operating budget. I
understand that not all of these funds are accessible
and many are already committed in cost-to-continue
operations. Many small and large businesses experience much greater fluctuations than thisand survive,
and even thrive. 2.5 percent certainly does not constitute the end of a very resilient UW system.

History Bee team

Further if you look at the Net Position (net worth)

of the UW system over the last several years you can see
that the university is doing very well. From the audited
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report I learned that
the University of Wisconsin System has increased its
net worth year after year for the last four years. Following are the numbers:
2011 $4,393 million
2012 $4,418 million
2013 $4,513 million
2014 $4,674 million
The increase in the UW system net position was $161
million from 2013 to 2014. The $150 million cut is almost exactly what the change in net worth was in the
past year.
$150 million amounts to 3 percent of the net position.
This, while substantial, does not equate to gutting the
system. If the UW system operates as well as I believe it
will, it will not run out of money. Given the flexibility
that the UW system has been asking for, the UW will
continue to be very strong for many, many years.
There are several other revenue sources that could
and possibly should be considered. Out-of state tuition
could be raised. That is a bargain when you look at
other schools of the same caliber in the U.S.A. Keeping
Wisconsin citizens tuition frozen is a good idea, and I
applaud that.
This proposed budget, as with all others in the past,
will require a good deal of collaborating, negotiating,
and talking. Remember that it is a proposed budget
and its nearly four months before a balanced budget
will be agreed on by the legislature and Governor.
I remain committed to listening well and working
hard to the concerns of every one of the stakeholders
in this great state, taxpayers and the education community.
I have every confidence that our UW system will continue to deliver quality education and workforce readiness to students. The reason I believe this is because I
trust the very capable leadership of president Ray
Cross, the chancellors and
deans of the UW system.
State Representative Bob Kulp, 69th Assembly District

photo by Kevin Wellman

The History Bee team at Medford Area Middle School of Cade Alexander, Jon
Laher, Seth Mayrer, Francine Seidl and Noah Cipar will represent the school at the
March 18 regional in Minneapolis. The school has advanced two students in each
of the past two years to the national finals. This year the competition will be in Louisville, Kent. in late May. The students qualfied with a test and have been practicing
with advisor Kevin Wellman every Thursday morning for the competition. The regional competition has groups of 12 students competing to amass points and move
on in the rounds.

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Brian Wilson

Solitaire
I was about eight when I learned how to play solitaire.
Also called Klondike or Patience, solitaire is a
great game to occupy time while waiting for something
to happen. On its surface it is a simple color and number
game. Cards are placed in order from highest to lowest
and in alternating colors of red on black and black on
red. There are several variations of the game and even a
scoring system for Vegas-style solitaire.
It is a simple game, quick to learn and a way to pass
the time. With technology, a game of solitaire is as easy
as a click of a mouse or a tap on a smartphone screen. As
I was playing my 12th game in a row the other night I got
to thinking about how solitaire is a metaphor for life.
Think about it. You are dealt a random hand. Where
you have choices, they are limited and an early game decision could easily have disastrous consequences. Sometimes there are no options and you are frozen. Other
times, victory is attainable except for a stubborn jack
who refuses to cooperate and move out of your way.
Perhaps the most soul-destroying comparison between life and solitaire is when you can see victory in
your grasp and appear on a run to make it happen but
luck is not in your favor. An ace of spades here, a seven
of hearts there and then sweet victory, but for the capriciousness of the cards dealt. It is easy to draw comparisons between a game ruled by random luck and a life
where some people seem to get lucky breaks and others
get dealt an unplayable round.
In solitaire, sometimes the best you can do is quit,
shuffle the cards and redeal hoping the next hand is a better one. As a metaphor it is a powerful one. However, it is
also incomplete.
Solitaire like any other game has one path to victory.
Winning is clearly defined with any other outcome automatically being a losing hand. Life doesnt have clear
winners and losers. There are those who enjoy great outward success and material possessions and are inwardly
miserable while others who live in poverty are filled with
joy. This is the point at which most metaphors between
the material and the immaterial world break down.
Perhaps just as solitaire is primarily an enjoyable
way to spend some time and keep your mind active, life
is meant to be lived and enjoyed. Winning or losing in life
are secondary to the joy or pain we as individuals bring
to those we interact with each day.
There is an inherent optimism in life, because with
each breath, just as with every turn of the cards, there is
hope. While some choose to hope for a redeal, others play
on and find joy for as long as the game continues.
To these folks I say, play on.
Brian Wilson is News Editor at The Star News.

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Leos pride: Medford custodian is a school ambassador

by Reporter Mark Berglund
Everyone remembers a great professor, teacher or coach who opened the
doors to their future success. Medford
Area Senior High has its share of teachers and coaches who unlock hearts and
minds. Fortunately, it also has the man
who unlocks the doors, lockers and
closets for the communitys youth. He
is Leo Jauernig. His lessons come from
the work ethic and positive attitude he
shows as night custodian at the school.
I grew up learning to treat people
the way you want to be treated. I tried to
raise my girls that same way, Leo said.
Leo said working in the school has
taught him to appreciate the value of
education. If I had known that when I
was in school, I wouldnt be pushing a
broom, he said.
The lessons he learned and memories
he picked up as a kid help him relate to
todays students. Most of them are good.
There are a few you have to scold a little
bit, but I know I wasnt perfect at that age
either.
I met up with Leo on Friday afternoon
as his shift was beginning. True to his
reputation, he was opening a door for a
staff member who forgot an item in the
classroom. Keys are one of the main tools
for a custodian. He keeps his secured to
his belt with a retractable cord. No matter what the task, the keychain is used
on almost every stop.
This shift starts in the classrooms in
the northwest side of the schools second
floor.
Garbage can liners are changed out
and the dust mop picks up the smaller
scraps and other debris on the floor.
Each classroom has its own special
care. The agriculture classroom is a
hands-on laboratory and he checks on
critters who provide daily lessons for
the students. He is a soft touch for these
youngsters as well and checks on them
in the course of normal duties cleaning
the room. Hopper the rabbit is expecting any day now and Leo usually has
some garden fare or apples from home
to keep her happy and healthy. The bedding in the cages gets kicked to the floor
at times, but he doesnt mind. My little

Dedication

photos by Mark Berglund

Leo Jauernig wipes off a table in the Medford Area Senior High library on Friday. In
the photo below, he carries in the scorers table with Dick Czerniak.
buddies give me job security, he said as
the broom clears it away.
Leo likes the agriculture room rabbit,
but dust bunnies are no friend of a custodian. The challenge in the choir rooms
are the risers. They are great places for
dust and other debris to collect out of
sight. Leo came up with a solution a few
years ago and now employs a leaf blower
on occasion to keep the dirt critters at

bay. If you dont take care of it, pretty

soon you have dust bunnies, he said.
The band room has its own distinction. Gum doesnt mix well with reeds,
brass mouthpieces or trombone slides.
The waste basket liner in this room usually has the most chewed gum in it.
Friday nights are usually a basketball
game night and this one is no exception.
The pep band will be playing and direc-

tor Katie Prihoda finds Leo to let him

know the kids will be using the classroom. Leos end of the conversation is
Go ahead, I can do it, and have a good
one.
A sporting event means a different
challenge for the custodial staff. Leo finished cleaning and restocking the public
restrooms before all three custodians
made sure the bleachers were ready, the
scorers table was set, the sound system
was turned on, and a dust mop cleaned
off the playing surface. The post-game
duties include locker rooms, sweeping
up piles of popcorn and programs and
getting equipment back in its place.
There are no quiet nights during the
basketball season, Leo said. There is
always something to do on game nights,
but we get it done.
Leo was nominated for the student
councils educator of the year award last
spring. Since the award announcement
program wasnt during his shift, he
needed to be coaxed to school for the surprise introduction. I said I could come
up if they really needed it. It sounded like
there would be some disappointed people
if I didnt, so I did, he said. It was an
honor to be nominated, but there are a
lot more deserving people than me.
His supervisor, Dave Makovsky, told
school board members on Jan. 29 about
Leos efforts during the fire at Riverview Village apartments. Schools are the
prearranged community shelter when
disasters like storms or a large fire happen. Leo knew the high school would be
needed as a shelter when so many were
evacuated, and began making the gymnasium and Sands area ready for their
arrival.
I ran up that morning because I was
in town, Leo said. I got things set up
and turned on TV. I felt bad for the ladies
because all our channels are basically
preprogrammed and all we could get on
Saturday was sports shows.
Leo isnt alone in the work of getting
the school ready for the next school day
and hosting the evening events. Dick Czerniak and Gary Budimlija each have
the same carts and keys in their sections
of the school. Some jobs, like getting the
gymnasium ready or a sticky handle on
the water bubbler require direct teamwork to complete. There are always
little things like that. Its nothing major,
but you never know what might happen, Leo said. I have two good guys on
this shift and the teachers and students
are pretty good. It helps a lot.
Leo said one of the misconceptions
about the custodial staff is what happens when students are not in school.
In addition to daily cleaning duties, inservice days are the times when walls
get an extra cleaning and level of disinfecting. Summer means the deepest
cleaning schedule so everything looks
perfect when staff and students return to
classes. In a building this size, there is
always something to do, he said.
Leo, now 68-years-old, began working
for the school district in 2000. He said
learning the routine is important to
making sure everything gets done during a shift.
The quiet in the hallways is usually
broken up by music on a PA system, a
selection which rotates among the custodians. On this night its 60s tunes and
during the season Leo slips in some
Christmas music.
The second shift gets done around
midnight and Leo usually stays up for
a couple of hours to unwind. The shift
matches his wifes schedule as well. He
said the only disadvantage to the time is
sometimes a grandchilds events at another school.

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Respecting the classics

Tired Iron Vintage Snowmobile
Show drew a crowd on Feb. 7
A total of 79 snowmobiles were entered in the Tired
Iron Vintage Snowmobile show held at the Chelsea Conservation Club on Saturday.
In addition to a number of local riders, the show
saw an increase in participation with people bringing
in sleds from Illinois and Minnesota. The show also included a trivia contest for door prizes, a single pull start
challenge and a competition for the best vintage snowmobile attire.
Following the presentation of trophies, participants
went on a trail ride with their vintage machines.

One pull contest

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photos by Brian Wilson

Steve Sudsbury of Port Washington attempts to start his 1974 Ski-Doo snowmobile with one pull during the single
pull contest held at the Tired Iron Vintage Snowmobile Show held Saturday at the Chelsea Conservation Club.

Special feature
Jeff Zalatoris of Spring Brook (above) shows a cooler
installed under the seat of his 1968 Super Oly snowmobile. This is the same model of sled used by a group of
riders to reach the North Pole during a 1968 expedition.
(Below) There were many classic snowmobiles on display.

Tough job
The judges had a challenging job of picking the best of the 79 snowmobiles entered in the 2015 vintage show.

2015 Tired Iron Vintage Snowmobile Show trophy winners

1967 & older original
1st Steve Stecker of Arpin
1966 Polaris Mustang
2nd - Tom Ruppert of Owen
1967 Ski-Doo Alpine

1967 & older restored

No entries

1968-1970 original
1st Todd Pitzke of Stetsonville 1970 Artic Cat Panther
2nd Becky Kranz of Westbend 1969 Artic Cat Panther

1968-1970 restored
1st Robby Juedes of Med-

ford 1969 Ariens 300 III

2nd Dick Tesch of North
Branch, Minn. 1970 Mercury 250
E

1971-1975 original
1st Dick Tesch of North
Branch 1974 Mercury S/R 440
2nd Amannda Szomi of
Medford 1973 Scorpion Stinger

1971-1975 restored
1st Royce Dieter of Richland Center 1973 Polaris TX295
2nd Todd Pitzke of Stetsonville 1971 Artic Cat Puma

1976-1980 original

1981-1988 restored

Custom

1st Dennis Dieter of St. Germain 1979 Polaris TXL 340

2nd Mark Wachsmuth of
Owen 1980 Kawasaki Invader

1st Mark Wachsmuth of

Owen 1982 Kawasaki Intercepter

Race

1st Kurt Dubore of Weston

1977 Artic Cat El tigre
2nd Mark Belke of Kronenwetter 1977 Artic Cat El Tigre

1st - Maurice Behling of

Menomonie 1973 Polaris Starfire
440
2nd Maurice Behling of
Menomonie 1972 Polaris Starfire
439

1st Chris Tesch of North

Branch Mercury Cutter
2nd Hraby Kids of Medford
1971 Artic Cat Cutter

1976-1980 restored
1st Richard Raatz of Colby
1977 Polaris 440TX
2nd Cory Wojcik of Medford 1978 Ski-Doo 6500 Blizzard

Cutter

1981-1988 original

Mini

Best of Show

1st - Mark Wachsmuth of

Owen 1982 Kawasaki Interceptor
2nd Molly Dahl of Medford,
1982 Yamaha 440 SS

1st Dale Dubiak of Stanley

1971 Snowflake Mark II
2nd - Arlen Eskildsen of Loyal 1972 Artic Cat Kitty Cat

Mark Wachsmuth of Owen

1982 Kawasaki Interceptor

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Page 11

Free tax preparation, assistance available in Medford

Families, individuals and seniors
with income less than $58,000 can receive
free help with their Homestead Credit
and state and federal taxes on Fridays,
Feb. 13 to March 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. in the multi-purpose room at the
Commission on Aging office, corner of

Hwy 13 and 64 in Medford.

Appointments must be made by calling 715-362-8267 or 715-362-8266. Bring
the following items with you to your appointment:
A photo ID for yourself and Social
Security card(s) for dependents.

2013 copy of your Homestead Credit

or federal and state returns.
2014 medical/dental insurance premiums.
Any W-2s related to employment.
Any 1095-As Affordable Care Act
premiums/exemptions.

All 1099s for interest, dividends,

pensions/retirements, etc.
SSA-1099 Social Security benefit
statement.
Property tax bill or rent certificate.
Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions and/or distributions.

Public notices
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
TAYLOR COUNTY
Case No. 15IN02
In the Matter of the Estate of
Donald F. Halopka, decedent.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
1. An application for informal
administration was filed.
2. The decedent, with date of
birth of February 28, 1945 and
date of death of December 27,
2014, was domiciled in Taylor
County, State of Wisconsin, with
a mailing address of W6839
County Rd. M, Medford, WI
54451.
3. All interested persons
waived notice.
4. The deadline for filing a
claim against the decedents estate is April 27, 2015.
5. A claim may be filed at the
Taylor County Courthouse, Medford, Wisconsin.
/s/ Shannon Kraucyk
Shannon Kraucyk, Deputy
Probate Registrar
Date: January 26, 2015
Gene G. Krug
State Bar No. 1008399
Krug Law Offices, S.C.
205 S. Second St.
Medford, WI 54451
(715) 748-2273
(1st ins. February 5,
3rd ins. February 19)
5-146050

WNAXLP

NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
TAYLOR COUNTY
Case No. 15-IN-03
In the Matter of the Estate of
Dale I. Jasmer, Decedent.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
1. An application for informal
administration was filed.
2. The decedent, with date of
birth of March 22, 1925 and date
of death of December 27, 2014,
was domiciled in Taylor County,
State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of W16243 Sunset
Rd., Thorp, WI 54451.
3. All interested persons
waived notice.
4. The deadline for filing a
claim against the decedents estate is May 11, 2015.
5. A claim may be filed at
the Taylor County Courthouse,
Room 224, Medford, Wisconsin.
/s/ Shannon Kraucyk
Shannon Kraucyk, Deputy
Probate Registrar
Date: February 4, 2015
Gregory G. Krug, Attorney
State Bar No. 1000148
205 S. Second St.
Medford, WI 54451
(715) 748-2273
(1st ins. February 12,
3rd ins. February 26)
6-146416

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Wisconsins Business
is YOUR Business

To know more read

the public notices
in todays newspaper
or go to

NOTICE SETTING TIME TO

HEAR APPLICATION AND
DEADLINE FOR FILING
CLAIMS
STATE OF WISCONSIN
CIRCUIT COURT
TAYLOR COUNTY
Case No. 15-IN-04
In the Matter of the Estate of
Edward John Soraparu.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
1. An application for informal
administration was filed.
2. The decedent, with date of
birth of July 20, 1963 and date
of death of May 2, 2014, was domiciled in Taylor County, State
of Wisconsin, with a mailing ad-

dress of 410 E. Murphy Street,

Gilman, WI 54433.
3. The application will be
heard at the Taylor County
Courthouse, Medford, Wisconsin before Lindsay Rothmeier,
Probate Registrar, on March 6,
2015 at 9:00 a.m.
You do not need to appear
unless you object. The application may be granted if there
is no objection.
4. The deadline for filing a
claim against the decedents estate is May 15, 2015.
5. A claim may be filed at the
Taylor County Courthouse, Medford, Wisconsin

Medford Area Public School District

2015-16 Bid Process
If you are interested in submitting a bid for school
equipment, materials or services to the Medford Area
Public School District for the 2015-16 budget year (July
1, 2015 - June 30, 2016), please contact Brenda either
by phone (715) 748-4620 X535, e-mail at smolabr@medford.k12.wi.us or by mail: 124 West State Street, Medford,
WI 54451. Please indicate the bid list(s) you wish to be
placed on.
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Emergency Planning and Community

Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
Federal Law P.L.99-499 was enacted in October 1986
by the US Congress to protect and inform all citizens of
the existence of hazardous chemicals that may be manufactured, stored, distributed or used in a community. This
law is the Emergency Planning and Community Right-toKnow Act. It is referred to as Title III of the Superfund
Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (S.A.R.A.)
The Community Right-to-Know Law was designed to
give the public access to their communitys chemical storage information. The more you know about hazardous
materials in your community, the better prepared you and
your community will be.
The law requires facilities to provide information on
any hazardous materials present, in terms of both potential risks and their effects on public health, safety and the
environment.
Information about these hazardous chemicals and locations is available for public review at the Taylor County
Courthouse Annex in the Emergency Management Office
by appointment. (Call 715-748-3503, and leave a message if necessary).
Information available includes lists of facilities reporting
the use of hazardous and extremely hazardous substances, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), inventory forms
of chemicals, emergency response plans, and if any are
filed, follow-up emergency notice of spills from facilities.
Telephone inquiries as to specific information contained in these files will not be accepted by Taylor County.
Information about SARA Title III, including Federal Registers, can be obtained free of charge by calling the toll free
U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys hot-line number
at 1-800-353-0202.
Locally, copies of the documents may be made at the
expense of the requestor and at rates and time frame established by Taylor County Finance Committee Ordinance
158.
Information available is limited to compliance with
P.L.99-499 and does not include all chemicals that may
pose a threat to humans, animals or the environment.
In Taylor County, questions related to this notice should
be addressed to Bill Breneman, Emergency Management
Director, 224 S. Second St. Medford, WI 54451 or call
715-748-3503 regarding general EPCRA regulations.

WisconsinPublicNotices

This legal notice is published to inform the general

public and complies with section 324 of P.L.99-499.

A public service provided by

this Newspaper
and the Wisconsin Newspaper Association

6-146457

www.wisconsinpublicnotices.org

WNAXLP

6. This publication is notice

to any persons whose names or
address are unknown.
/s/ Shannon Kraucyk
Shannon Kraucyk, Deputy
Probate Registrar
Date: February 4, 2015
Attorney
William
A.
Grunewald
State Bar No. 1008196
128 W. Division Street, P.O.
Box 426
Medford, WI 54451
715-748-2211
(1st ins. February 12,
3rd ins. February 26)
6-146400

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PUBLIC MEETING: LWSRB, monthly business meeting, Feb. 9; Wisconsin Investment
Board, Trustees, Feb. 9, 10.
AIR POLLUTION PERMITS: Richland Center Renewable Energy, Feb. 3; Madison Gas
& Electric, Feb. 6.

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Notice of Intent to Appoint Northcentral

Technical College District Board Members
Notice is hereby given that the Board Appointment Committee of the Northcentral Technical College District Board will accept applications for the appointments of three persons
to the Northcentral District Board. Board members are not paid, except for expenses
incurred in the performance of their duties.
Appointments will be made in accordance with the Appointment Committees Plan of
Representation, which specifies categories of membership as well as geographic areas of
representation within the district. All appointments will begin July 1, 2015, and upon certification of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board. All positions carry three-year
terms expiring June 30, 2018. Following is the list of openings:
One Employer Member
One Employee Member
One School District Administrator
When selections are made:
One appointee must be a female.
The Employer and Employee candidates will be selected from the Eastern and Western Regions of the District.
The School District Administrator will be selected on a district-wide basis from the
Western, Eastern or Central Regions described below.
Western Region Description: The district portions of Price, Taylor and Clark counties; and the following municipalities in southwestern Marathon County: (C) Abbotsford;
Bern; Brighton; Cleveland; (C) Colby; Day; Eau Pleine; (V) Fenwood; Frankfort; Holton;
Hull; Johnson; McMillan; Spencer; (V) Spencer (V) Stratford; (V) Unity; Wien.
Eastern Region Description: The district portions of Langlade, Shawano, Menominee, Portage, and Waupaca Counties; and the following municipalities in Southeastern
Marathon County: Bevent; Elderon; (V) Elderon; Franzen; (V) Hatley; Norrie; Plover;
Reid; Ringle.
Central Region Description: The district portion of Lincoln County plus municipalities
in Marathon County except the following located in southwest and southeast Marathon
County: (C) Abbotsford; Bern; Bevent; Brighton; Cleveland; (C) Colby; Day; Eau Pleine;
Elderon; (V) Elderon; (V) Fenwood; Frankfort; Franzen; (V) Hatley; Holton; Hull; Johnson; McMillan; Norrie; Plover; Reid; Ringle; Spencer, (V) Spencer; (V) Stratford; (V) Unity;
Wien.
Applications must be submitted in writing on forms available at the county clerks office
in Marathon, Lincoln, Langlade, Menominee, Price, Taylor, Clark, Shawano, Waupaca,
and Portage counties. Application forms are also available on NTCs website at http://
www.ntc.edu/faculty-staff/board-trustees.html. Board member categories are described
on the application form.
All candidates must provide two letters of recommendation and must attend the public
hearing at which his or her appointment to the district board is discussed.
The Appointment Committee will meet at 11 a.m., Friday, March 20, 2015, at the Marathon County Courthouse, 500 Forest Street in Wausau, Wisconsin for the purpose of reviewing the Northcentral Technical College District Plan of Representation, interviewing
candidates for the appointments, and making the appointments.
Applications will be accepted at the Office of the Marathon County Clerk, Marathon
County Courthouse, Wausau, Wisconsin, no later than 4 p.m., Wednesday, February 25,
2015.

6-146254

by Kurt Gibbs
Chairperson, Appointment Committee &
Chairperson, Marathon County Board of Supervisors

WNAXLP

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THE STAR NEWS

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Accident reports

Taylor County Law Enforcement

Two-vehicle accident

Karla M. Wohlleben and Troy L. Pitts

were involved in an accident on Feb. 4 at
10:54 a.m. at the intersection of Hwy 13
amd Allman St. in the city of Medford.
According to the accident report, both
vehicles were southbound on Hwy 13 and
passing through the roundabout at the
intersection with Allman St. The Pitts
semi tractor-trailer unit was in the outside lane and the trailer swung into the
inside lane, striking the Wohlleben vehicle. The Wohlleben vehicle sustained
moderate damage to the front and middle
passenger side.

One-vehicle accident

Two-vehicle accident
The Taylor County Sheriffs Department responded to an accident on Feb. 8 at 1:16
p.m. at the intersection of Gibson Dr. and Stetson Ave. in the town of Little Black.
According to the accident report, a vehicle was northbound on Gibson Dr. passing
through the intersection with Stetson Ave. when it was struck by a vehicle which was
eastbound on Stetson and failed to stop for the stop sign at the intersection. The first
vehicle sustained severe damage to the entire vehicle and was towed from the scene.
The second vehicle sustained severe damage to the entire front of the vehicle and was
also towed from the scene. Both drivers, as well as an occupant in the first vehicle,
were medically transported for treatment.

Court proceedings

Taylor County Circuit Court

Charges of battery by prisoners

and resisting or obstructing an officer
against Alexander J. Schneider, 29, were
dismissed on prosecutors motions due to
the fact the defendant has been sentenced
to 40 years in state prison and it would
not be in the interest of judicial economy
to pursue the case.

Forfeitures

Dalton J. Kramas, 20, Abbotsford, pled

no contest to criminal trespassing to a
dwelling and was ordered to pay a fine
and costs of $589.
Bruno L. Landa, 22, Stetsonville, pled
guilty to operating without a valid license-second offense within three years
and was ordered to pay a fine and costs
of $579. A charge of operating a motor vehicle without insurance was dismissed.
William W. Gorder, 29, Mauston, pled
no contest to an amended charge of license restriction violation and was ordered to pay a fine and costs of $267.50.
The original charge had been failure to
install ignition interlock device. He also
pled no contest to hit-and-run of property adjacent to a highway and was fined
$263.50.

Deferred judgment
Kevin P. Eichelt, 51, Lublin, entered

into a deferred entry of judgment agreement for a period of one year for a charge
of disorderly conduct. As terms of the
agreement, the defendant agrees not to
commit any criminal offenses during the
period of the agreement; notify the Taylor County district attorney and clerk of
court offices of any address change; and
write a letter of apology, submitted to
and approved by the Taylor County victim/witness coordinator, to the victim.

Divorces

A divorce was granted Feb. 2 to Paul

R. Konwinski, 27, Lublin, and Tessa M.
Konwinski, 32, Medford. They were married Oct. 25, 2013 in Wisconsin.
A divorce was granted Feb. 2 to Gabriel A. Claussen, 27, Bemidji, Minn.,
and Lindsay M. Claussen, 27, Atlanta,
Ga. They were married Aug. 14, 2010 in
Minnesota.
A divorce was granted Feb. 2 to Matthew R. Ulrich, 27, Medford, and Heather
M. Ulrich, 26, Medford. They were married Aug. 27, 2011 in Wisconsin.
A divorce was granted Feb. 2 to Michael J. Schmidt, 46, Gilman, and Wanda
J. Schmidt, 45, Gilman. They were married July 27, 2002 in Wisconsin. Joint custody of two minor children was granted.
A divorce was granted Feb. 2 to Richard A. Luce, 62, Phillips, and Debra L.
Luce, 63, Tomahawk. They were married
Oct. 27, 1970 in Wisconsin.

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Hit-and-run accident

Lawrence E. Pinter and a vehicle

owned by Michelle L. Dubois were involved in a hit-and-run accident on Jan.

Deer-related accidents

The following deer-related accidents

were reported: Jan. 28 at 11:35 p.m. on
Allman Ave. in the town of Medord; Feb.
2 at 5:50 p.m. on CTH A in the town of
Maplehurst and 6:21 p.m. on Wren Dr.
in the town of Holway; Feb. 3 at 6:05 p.m.
on Castle Rd. in the town of Medford and
11:53 p.m. on Apple Ave. in the town of
Little Black; Feb. 5 at 11:28 p.m. on Hwy
64 in the town of Hammel; Feb. 6 at 6:44
p.m. on Hwy 64 in the town of Medford;
Feb. 7 at 5:54 p.m. on CTH A in the town
of Little Black, 6:23 p.m. on CTH A in the
town of Holway and 7:20 p.m. on CTH A
in the town of Little Black; Feb. 8 at 6:45
p.m. on CTH M in the town of Greenwood.

Medford man faces felony

charges for fleeing an officer
by News Editor Brian Wilson
A motorcycle driver who attempted to
flee from police by going on the rail trail
on Dec. 12 will face felony charges
Kurt Lasee, 24, Medford, faces up to
three years, six months in prison and up
to $10,000 in fines for a class I felony of
attempting to flee or elude a traffic officer. In addition to the fine and jail time,
he also faces a six-month drivers license
revocation and will have to pay a $250
surcharge and submit a DNA sample.
According to the criminal complaint,
at about 11:50 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 12, officer Rich Burghaus was patrolling westbound on Allman Street when he met a
subject operating a small, yellow, offroad type motorcycle.
After seeing the cycle did not have
any lights or license plates, the officer
activated his squad lights and turned
around in an attempt to stop the cycle.
The cycle accelerated going eastbound,
turned right onto Shattuck Street, then
left onto Roberta Street. When Burghaus
turned onto Roberta Street he lost sight
of the motorcycle. He turned off his squad
lights and continued to patrol the area.
While traveling westbound on Allman
Street, Burghaus again saw the suspect
turning onto Allman Street from North
Second Street going west. He activated
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in an accident on Feb. 3 at 10:15 p.m. in a
parking lot on Broadway Ave. in the city
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report, the Potocnik vehicle was pulling
out of a parking space when it struck a
light pole, causing minor damage to its
front end.

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Filling Station Cafe on W. Broadway
Ave. in the city of Medford. According
to the accident report, the Pinter vehicle
was backing out of a parking space when
it struck the legally-parked Dubois vehicle. The Pinter vehicle then left the
scene. A witness provided the license
plate number of the Printer vehicle to
the police. When contacted by the police,
Pinter said he thought he had struck a
snowbank and didnt stop to check before
leaving the scene.

looked back and accelerated, Burghaus

stated in his report. The report states the
subject turned onto the Pine Line Trail,
looked back at the officer, then went
north on the trail.
Burghaus called for backup from Det.
Mike Schroeder and went to the intersection of Center Avenue and the trail to
cut off the cycle. After seeing the cycle
did not come through Center Avenue,
Burghaus met with Schroeder at the Allman Street trailhead. Schroeder followed
the tracks up the trail and found the cycle
had turned off the trail and gone through
the woods to the west.
The subject was located in a field area
just west of Riverside Terrace. According
to Burghaus, the suspect had removed
his helmet and was trying to kick-start
the cycle. I exited the squad and told the
subject to stop and come to me. The suspect continued, started the cycle and fled
through Riverside Terrace, Burghaus
said.
Burghaus gave chase and was told by
a resident the subject was hiding behind
the last row of mobile homes in the park.
Chief Ken Coyer radioed Burghaus and
advised he had found the cycle.
In addition to the felony fleeing an officer charge, Lasee faces tickets for operating a motorcycle without a valid license
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Dispatch log
Gilman Police Department
Feb. 2 Fight at 420 S. 5th Ave. at 4:51
p.m.
Feb. 4 Citizen assist at 420 S. 5th
Ave. at 1:32 p.m.
Feb. 5 Suspicious activity at Hwy
64 and CTH H in town of Aurora at 10:10
a.m.

Medford Police Department

Feb. 2 Suspicious activity in First
St. alleyway at 8:18 a.m.; accident at
S. Eighth St. and E. Perkins St. at 10:27
a.m.; theft at 509 E. Clark St. at 11:33 a.m.;
animal complaint at 614 N. Shattuck St.
at 12:30 p.m.; animal complaint at 512 N.
Eighth St. at 3:35 p.m.; traffic hazard at
Eighth St. and CTH O at 3:53 p.m.; ambulance request at 1205 S. Eighth St. in town
of Medford at 6:07 p.m.; juvenile problem;
commercial alarm at 210 S. Main St. at
9:48 p.m.; agency assist on N. Fourth St.
at 9:53 p.m.
Feb. 3 Harassment at Mink Capital
Terrace at 12:53 a.m.; truancy at 1015 W.
Broadway Ave. at 8:30 a.m.; truancy at

Taylor County Law Enforcement

624 E. College St. at 12:20 p.m.; truancy
at 1015 W. Broadway Ave. at 12:21 p.m.;
lockout at 1010 N. Eighth St. at 2:44 p.m.;
identity theft at Riverside Terrace at 5:32
p.m.; accident at 1065 W. Broadway Ave.
at 10:15 p.m.
Feb. 4 Commerical alarm at 603 S.
Eighth St. at 3:53 a.m.; accident at E. Allman St. and N. Eighth St. at 10:54 a.m.;
parking problem at 129 N. Fourth St. at
1:46 p.m.; non-sufficient funds at 225 S.
Wisconsin Ave. at 1:51 p.m.; identity theft
at 922 E. Allman St. at 5:15 p.m.; traffic
hazard at N. Eighth St. and E. Allman St.
at 7:21 p.m.
Feb. 5 Deliver message at 109 S. Second St. at 12:14 a.m.; animal complaint on
S. Gibson St. at 10:01 a.m.; welfare check
at 204 E. Broadway Ave. at 12:43 p.m.;
lockout at 1010 N. Eighth St. at 3:59 p.m.;
citizen assist at courthouse at 4:16 p.m.;
ambulance request at 109 S. Second St. at
7:40 p.m.
Feb. 6 Threats in city at noon; information at 531 N. Eighth St. at 3:40 p.m.;
request for officer at 332 N. Washington
Ave. at 4:05 p.m.
Feb. 7 Theft at 177 S. Eighth St. at

Ruiz faces bail jumping charges

by News Editor Brian Wilson
A Jan. 9 traffic stop resulted in felony
bail jumping charges against Daniel L.
Ruiz of Rib Lake.
According to the criminal complaint,
Medford police officer Robert Horenberger saw Ruiz operating a white Chevrolet sedan at about 9:50 a.m. on Jan. 9.
He stated he knew from past contact
with Ruiz that he did not have a valid license. He initiated a traffic stop on Ruiz
at the Kwik Trip parking lot and asked
for Ruiz license. Ruiz replied he did not
have one and he was driving because the
passenger was sick and had no one else
to drive.
With dispatch reporting three prior
arrests on Ruiz traffic report, Horenberger placed him under arrest and
brought him to the Taylor County Jail
where it was noted he was out on bond
on an unrelated case.

Disposition reports
Deferred agreement
Lonnie L. Smith, 50, Medford, pled no
contest to an amended charge of county
rifle range after hours. He later entered
into a deferred prosecution or sentence
agreement. The original charge had been
violating county rifle range after hours.

Forfeitures

Brandon A. Butler, 32, Medford, pled

no contest to operating with a prohibited
alcohol concentration (PAC) equal to or
greater than 0.15 percent-first offense. He
was fined $836, his drivers license was
revoked for six months, and he is to undergo an alcohol assessment. A charge of
operating while under the influence-first
offense (PAC equal to or greater than 0.15
percent) was dismissed on a prosecutors
motion.
Alyssa A. Eisner, 22, Rib Lake, pled
no contest to operating while under the
influence-first offense (PAC equal to or

Ruiz was out on bond from a 2014 felony intimidating a witness charge. According to court records, that bond was
forfeited and a new $2,000 signature bond
was ordered on Jan. 27.
A condition of bond is to not violate
the law. Violating terms of a bond on a
felony charge results in a felony bail
jumping charge, which is what Taylor
County District Attorney Kristi Tlusty
charged him with. The class H felony
carries a penalty of up to $10,000 in fines
and up to six years in prison. He was also
charged with a misdemeanor count of operating without a license for the third or
subsequent offense within three years,
which carries a penalty of up to $500 in
fines and up to six months in jail.
Ruiz is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing on the bail jumping charge
on 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 5 at the Taylor County Courthouse.

10:19 a.m.; commercial alarm at 825 E. Allman St. at 3:04 p.m.; harassment at N7196
Second St. at 3:37 p.m.; animal complaint
at 522 N. Eighth St. at 4:14 p.m.; traffic
complaint at S. Eighth St. and E. Perkins
St. at 6:07 p.m.; structure fire at 1260 N.
Eighth St. at 7:36 p.m.; deceased subject
at 346 S. Main St. at 8:14 p.m.
Feb. 8 Garbage dumping at 566 W.
Conrad Dr. at 4:18 p.m.; citizen dispute at
Riverside Terrace at 7:19 p.m.

Taylor County
Sheriffs Department
Feb. 2 ATF notification at N3919
Evergreen St. in town of Medford at 9
a.m.; 9-1-1 hang up at N8783 Second St. in
town of Westboro at 9:55 a.m.; warrant
arrest at courthouse at 10:19 a.m.; indentity theft at N3818 CTH E in town of Medford at 12:12 p.m.; citizen assist at W8098
CTH M in town of Molitor at 12:48 p.m.;
probation violation at courthouse at 3:57
p.m.; fight at 420 S. 5th Ave. in village of
Gilman at 4:51 p.m.; accident at W11857
CTH A in town of Maplehurst at 5:55
p.m.; accident at N732 Wren Dr. in town
of Holway at 6:21 p.m.; underage drinking; fraud at N2388 Skyline Dr. in town of
Taft at 8:01 p.m.; agency assist on Fourth
St. at 9:53 p.m.
Feb. 3 Deer tag request at Hwy 13
and CTH O at 5:09 a.m.; drugs; suspicious
activity at W1141 W. Cedar St. in town of
Medford at 4:26 p.m.; accident at Castle
Rd. and Wester Ave. in town of Medford
at 6:06 p.m.; 9-1-1 hang up at N4920 Wellington Lake Dr. in town of Greenwood
at 9:39 p.m.; accident at Apple Ave. and
Castle Dr. in town of Little Black at 11:53
p.m.
Feb. 4 Suspicious activity at N3531
Elder Dr. in town of Aurora at 1:42 a.m.;
structure fire at W15873 Ross Rd. in town
of McKinley at 7:34 a.m.; citizen assist on
Cemetery Ave. in town of Chelsea at 1:13
p.m.; extra patrol at W14498 Franklin St.
in town of Cleveland at 3:20 p.m.; suicidal subject; identity theft at N5211 Castle
Rd. in town of Chelsea at 4:43 p.m.; extra
patrol at N8560 Hills Ln. in town of Westboro at 10:29 p.m.
Feb. 5 Property damage at N1183

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Putnam Dr. in town of Maplehurst at

8:34 a.m.; information in Winter at 1:27
p.m.; extra patrol at Ice Age Pavillion
at 1:38 p.m.; traffic arrest at 115 S. Hwy
13 in village of Stetsonville at 4:30 p.m.;
bond violation at N4258 Hwy 13 in town
of Medford at 5:24 p.m.; warrant arrest at
Hwy 13 and Stetson Ave. in town of Little
Black at 8:02 p.m.; accident at Hwy 64 and
CTH E in town of Hammel at 11:28 p.m.
Feb. 6 Structure fire at W14736
County Line Rd. in town of Roosevelt at
12:55 a.m.; warrant arrest at N6786 Timber Dr. in town of Greenwood at 8:20
a.m.; non-sufficient funds at N2993 CTH
E in town of Hammel at 9 a.m.; animal at
large at N4477 CTH C in town of Browning at 9:19 a.m.; gas drive off at 115 S. Hwy
13 in village of Stetsonville at 1:04 p.m.;
identity theft at W8147 Center Ave. in
town of Hammel at 4:27 p.m.; accident at
W6865 Hwy 64 in town of Medford at 6:44
p.m.; harassment at N1220 CTH E in town
of Little Black at 11:31 p.m.
Feb. 7 Accident at CTH B and CTH
S in town of Ford at 5:33 a.m.; injured
animal at W12455 Pinewood Dr. in town
of Roosevelt at 9:05 a.m.; identity theft at
N1281 Oriole Dr. in town of Deer Creek
at 10:26 a.m.; animal bite at N5435 Settlement Dr. in town of Chelsea at 10:49 a.m.;
burglary at W5488 Apple Ave. in town of
Little Black at 1:02 p.m.; theft at N3796
Shattuck St. in town of Medford at 1:07
p.m.; request for officer at N3989 River
Dr. in town of Medford at 4:08 p.m.; accident at CTH A and Sunset Dr. in town
of Little Black at 5:54 p.m.; commercial
alarm at N8847 Bus. Hwy 13 in town of
Westboro at 6:21 p.m.; accident at W7861
CTH A in town of Holway at 6:23 p.m.; accident at CTH A and Sunset Dr. in town
of Little Black at 7:25 p.m.; accident at
N1385 Hwy 13 in town of Little Black at
7:58 p.m.
Feb. 8 Citizen assist at N3531 Elder
Dr. in town of Aurora at 5:14 a.m.; accident at W3865 Hwy 64 in town of Browning at 7:06 a.m.; theft on Mulberry Ln. in
town of Medford at 9:34 a.m.; trespassing
at N4982 Castle Rd. in town of Chelsea at
10:39 a.m.; ambulance request at W6127
Buehler Ln. in town of Medford at 11:38
a.m.; theft at W15170 Christmas Tree Ln.
in town of McKinley at 12:08 p.m.; animal
bite at W7463 Grassy Knoll Trl. in town
of Chelsea at 12:44 p.m.; injury accident
at Gibson Dr. and Stetson Ave. in town
of Little Black at 1:16 p.m.; accident at
W3041 CTH M in town of Greenwood at
6:50 p.m.

Zuelke faces drug charges

by News Editor Brian Wilson
Taylor County Circuit Court

greater than 0.15 percent). She was fined

$836, her drivers license was revoked for
six months, and she is to undergo an alcohol assessment. A charge of operating
with a PAC equal to or greater than 0.15
percent-first offense was dismissed on a
prosecutors motion.
Christopher C. Fuller, 31, Wisconsin
Rapids, pled no contest to an amended
charge of speeding 1-10 mph over the
limit and was fined $175.30. The original
charge had been speeding 11-15 mph over
the limit.
Louis E. Mikos, 69, Phillips, pled no
contest to an amended charge of speeding 1-10 mph over the limit and was fined
$175.30. The original charge had been
speeding 11-15 mph over the limit.
Rebecca L. Smolka, 16, Athens, pled no
contest to an amended charge of speeding
16-19 mph over the limit and was fined
$220.50. The original charge had been
speeding 20-24 mph over the limit.

Margaret Zuelke, 47 of Medford, faces

up to 15 years in prison and up to $50,000
in fines for charges of selling the prescription drug Vicodin.
According to the criminal complaint,
on Nov. 18 the Taylor County Sheriffs
Department used a confidential informant to make a monitored drug buy at
Zuelkes Perkins St. apartment. The informant was given $240, which law enforcement had recorded the serial numbers of, to purchase 40 Oxycodone tablets.
The informant had previously told
law enforcement that Zuelke agreed to
sell him the pills on that date, stating
she fills her prescription for Oxycodone
around the 10th of each month and receives 90 pills.
According to the complaint, Det. Aemus Balsis provided the informant with
a digital audo/video recording device to
record the controlled buy.
Det. Mike Schroeder of the Medford
Police Department, along with Balsis,
maintained surveillance of the apartment and watched the informant leave
the residence and return to the Taylor
County Courthouse.

At the sheriffs department, the informant handed over a plastic Ziploc bag
with 36 oblong pills that were identified
to be hydrocodone/acetaminophen tablets sold under the brand name Vicodin,
a schedule 2 narcotic drug. According to
the police report, Zuelke told the informant she did not have 40 pills to sell and
was six short. The informant paid $200
for the 34 pills, using the money provided
by law enforcement. The remainder of
the money was returned to law enforcement.
Balsis stated in his report that while
viewing the video and audio recording
he clearly heard discussion about the
pharmaceutical pills, the delivery of the
$200 and the discussion about a later purchase.
Based on the investigation, Taylor
County District Attorney Kristi Tlusty
filed a charge of delivery of schedule 1 or
2 narcotics, a class E felony carrying a
fine of up to $50,000 and up to 15 years in
prison. In addition, she faces up to a fiveyear drivers license suspension and will
be required to give a DNA sample.
Zuelke is scheduled for an initial appearance at 2 p.m. on Feb. 10 in Taylor
County Circuit Court.

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Thomas Mayer
1926-2015
Thomas Peter Mayer, 88,
Stetsonville, died on Wednesday, Feb. 4 at his home. Funeral services were held on
Monday, Feb. 9 at Sacred
Heart Catholic Church in
Stetsonville, with Father Gerard Willger and Father Simon Boyapati officiating.
Mid Wisconsin Cremation
Society assisted the family
with arrangements.
Thomas Mayer was born
on July 10, 1926 in Lankin,
N.D., to the late Joseph and Mary (Bina) Mayer. He
worked in the CCC Camps, then joined the United States
Navy and served during World War II. He then moved to
Milwaukee where he was a baker.
On June 23, 1951, he married Dorothy Voit, who survives. They farmed in Stetsonville until 1978. He worked
at Weather Shield and also did handyman/woodworking and built houses. After retirement he worked for
Blume Farms.
He was a member of Knights of Columbus, Boxrucker-Berry Stetsonville Legion and Catholic Order of Foresters.
In addition to his wife, survivors include five children, Jeff (Bev) and Kris (Brad) Justice, both of Stetsonville, Dan (Kathy) and Mary (Greg) Kraemer, both of
Medford, and Greg (Kathy) of New Port Richey, Fla.; 15
grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death
by four brothers, two sisters and one granddaughter.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to Hope
Hospice or to the family to be designated at a later date.

Gail Linzner

Judy Robida

1952-2015

1946-2015

Gail A. Linzner, 62, Rib

Lake, died on Wednesday,
Jan. 28 at Aspirus Medford
Hospital. Per her request, no
services will be held.
Hemer Funeral Homes of
Medford and Rib Lake assisted the family with arrangements.
The former Gail Willett
was born on April 8, 1952 in
Medford to the late Lesley A.
and Hazel A. (Schlais) Willett
Sr. She attended Medford and
Milwaukee area schools.
On Feb. 13, 1971 in Medford, she married Michael
F. Linzner, who survives. She was a mother and foster
mother.
She enjoyed reading, planting flowers and feeding
the birds.
In addition to her husband, survivors include five
children, Dawn (Martin) Bernal of Des Plaines, Ill., Jodi
(Ismael) Ruiz, Amy (Lance) Dehne and Michelle (Elias)
Sandoval, all of Medford, and foster son, John (Natosha)
Griffiths of Warne, N.C.; a sister, Nina (Don) Schreiner
of Arlington Heights, Ill.; two grandchildren; and two
foster grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death
by a brother, Lesley Willett Jr.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to her family to be designated at a later date.

Carl Nelson
1915-2015

Carl Nelson was born

on November 18, 1915 and
died on February 7, 2015.
He had a lot of years in
which to have many adventures, but through it all, he
was a Wisconsin farm boy
who had somehow caught
the notion that our world
could be repaired with
words well spoken.
Carl grew up in the
township of Holway with
his sister Evelyn and his
brothers Norman, Lee,
Harvey and Lynn. He walked behind the horses in
open elds, swam in the Black River with his brothers and explored the woods with the neighbor boys.
He described it as the best boyhood anyone could
ever have. On one adventure, he found his way to
South Twin Lake, a place he would love all his life.
He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1940. At Quantico he was captivated by a young woman who taught
at the base school. In the midst of war and the roughness of a military base, he courted and won her with
poetry. Carl married Janet Cross on July 28, 1944.
After the war, Carl took Janet to South Twin. Together they built a little cabin on the property he had
bought from his earnings as a Marine. This place
would be their one constant home through all the
moves and changes that would follow. Carl got his
education in Chicago, then worked as a Unitarian

minister in Vermont, Massachusetts and Oregon, but

year after year he and Janet returned to South Twin.
First they came alone, then with their daughter Nancy, then Mark, Anne, June, Bruce and Sally.
The little cabin on the lake was a refuge and sanctuary for Carl, as he worked to repair the damage
done to a world he loved. His boyhood had taught him
that you didnt wait for someone else to come along to
x your broken farm machinery. In the same manner,
he always felt it was his responsibility to do his part
to x what was broken in his world, and words were
the tools he used.
With sermons, speeches, poetry and letters, he
joined the struggles for civil rights, for an end to the
Vietnam War, for environmental protection and for
nuclear disarmament. In 1965, the Unitarian Church
sent him to march with Martin Luther King in Selma,
Ala. He really believed in the words of the song they
all sang together on that day, We Shall Overcome.
Aging is often difcult for people who see their
lifes missions in terms of xing broken things. But
Carl had many years to practice, touching wine glasses with Janet in the evening with the toast, To now!
In his book, A Rain Washed Earth, Carl reects
on the names carved into headstones in the churchyard down the road from the farmhouse where he
grew up. He ends with words spoken by his fathers
grave: I tell myself each generation has its beauty
and its ugliness; but looking back its mostly beauty.
The here and now still blows reveille for me upon its
bugle. So, Ill leave the old man here, and get going...

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Dorchester, died on Thursday, Feb. 5. Funeral services
were held on Wednesday,
Feb. 11 at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Abbotsford,
with Father James Schaefer
and Father Daniel Hackel officiating.
Hemer Funeral Homes of
Medford and Rib Lake assisted the family with arrangements.
The former Judy Winters was born on Sept. 1, 1946 in Chippewa Falls to the
late John and Cecilia (Crowell) Winters. She attended
Notre Dame Grade School and graduated in 1964 from
McDonnell Catholic High School in Chippewa Falls. After graduation, she worked in the office at Mason Shoe
Company.
On June 14, 1969 at Notre Dame Catholic Church
in Chippewa Falls, she married Ron Robida, who survives. She was the village clerk/treasurer for the village
of Dorchester from Feb. 1971 to July 2011. After retirement, she worked part time with grade school children
at Colby Elementary School.
She was a member of St. Louis Catholic Church and
its Our Lady of Peace Circle, and a charter member of
Dorchester Lioness Club and served as president and
treasurer. She enjoyed reading, baking, doing word
searches, volunteering in the community, going out to
lunch with friends and attending Hodag Country Music
Festival in Rhinelander.
In addition to her husband, survivors include four
children, Craig (Teri) Robida of Madison, Cuyler (Jenny) Robida of Loyal, Chad (Kim) Robida of Woodbury,
Minn., and Cara (Chris) Boyd of Hudson; two sisters,
Diana Winters of Lakeland, Minn. and Lonnie (Larry)
Burger of Chippewa Falls; nine grandchildren; and
nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death
by two sisters, Lola Jean and Sue Ellen, and a granddaughter, Maeve Lucelia Robida.
Memorials in her name may be made to Dorchester
Lioness Club or her class at Colby Elementary School.

Lydia Granstrom
1946-2015

Lydia M. Granstrom,
68, of Gilman, died on
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015,
at Wissota View Nursing
Home in Chippewa Falls,
while under the care of St.
Josephs Hospice. She was
born on December 4, 1946
in Des Moines, Iowa, the
daughter of the late Milo
and Maxine (Schwartztrauber) Anderson. Lydia
moved to Wisconsin and
drove semi for many
years, and became a CNA
for Zastrow Care Center. She married Richard Granstrom on June 9, 2001.
Lydia enjoyed teddy bears, humming birds, motorcycle rides, long trips, yellow roses and antique
cars. She especially loved yellow roses and spending
time with her family and grandchildren.
She is survived by her husband, Richard of Gilman; two daughters, Lisa Cardinal of Jump River
and Sherri Meyer of Eau Claire; her stepchildren,
Richie and Michael Granstrom, both of Gilman,
Wayne (Sherry) Granstrom of Apex, N.C., Jennifer
(Brad) Woodford of Fall Creek and Jason Zastrow
of Two Rivers; six grandchildren; and two brothers,
Russell Anderson of Arizona and Duane Anderson
of Gilman.
Lydia was preceded in death by her parents; a
daughter, Cora in infancy; a son, Kevin Meyer; and
one sister, Judy.
A funeral service was held on Monday, Feb. 9 at
Gilman Funeral Home. Burial was at Meadowbrook
Cemetery.
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Mary Taylor
1925-2015
Mary Jane Taylor, 89, Rib
Lake, died on Saturday, Feb.
7 at Country Gardens Assisted Living in Medford. Funeral services will be held on
Saturday, June 6 at 1 p.m. at
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
in Medford. Interment will be
at Lakeview Cemetery in Rib
Lake.
Visitation will be held at
the church on Saturday, June
6 from 11 a.m. until the time
of service.
Hemer Funeral Homes of Medford and Rib Lake assisted the family with arrangements.
The former Mary Sellers was born on June 25, 1925 in
Highland Park, Mich., to the late Lambert Francis and
Anna Louise Sellers. She graduated from Farmington
High School in Michigan in 1942.

In 1949, she married Frank Yost, who preceded her

in death in 1978. In 1995, she married Donald Taylor,
who preceded her in death in 2008. She worked as a cosmetologist in Detroit, Mich. She worked for Rib Lake
Health Care Center as a certified nursing assistant for
over 17 years.
She was a member of Holy Rosary Catholic Church.
She enjoyed traveling, especially to Texas in the winter
where she volunteered for hospice, and fishing.
Survivors include three daughters, Judy (Dale) Lyons of Cassopolis, Mich. and Pat (Joe) Schmidtfranz
and Nancy (Gary) Gebauer, both of Rib Lake; 11 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and many great-greatgrandchildren.
In addition to her parents and husbands, she was
preceded in death by a stepson, Danny Taylor; a granddaughter, Renee; and two brothers, Robert and Daniel
Sellers.
Memorial donations in her name may be made to
Hope Hospice.

Arthur Andreae
1937-2015
Arthur J. Andreae, 77,
town of Spirit, died on Friday, Feb. 6 at his home. Funeral services will be held on
Friday, Feb. 13 at 11:30 a.m.
at Zion Evangelical Lutheran
Church in the town of Spirit,
with Pastor James Heffner
officiating, and military honors performed by the Spirit
American Legion Post No.
452. Inurnment of his cremated remains will take place
at Hillcrest Cemetery in the
town of Spirit at a later date.
Visitation will be held at the church on Friday from
10 a.m. until the time of service.
Hemer Funeral Homes of Medford and Rib Lake assisted the family with arrangements.
Arthur Andreae was born on June 20, 1937 in the
town of Spirit to the late Clarence E. and Clara M.

(Schliepp) Andreae. He attended Liberty School in the

town of Spirit. He joined the United States Army Reserves Infantry on Feb. 16, 1956 and served as a sharpshooter with the light machine gun, pistol and mortar
expertise in Germany until Feb. 4, 1958.
On April 18, 1959 in Rib Lake, he married Shirley A.
Heiser, who survives. He worked for Michels Pipeline
for 25 years until his retirement.
He was a member of Zion Evangelical Lutheran
Church and International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers. He enjoyed hunting, trapping, fishing, watching NASCAR and western movies.
In addition to his wife, survivors include three children, Debra (Leonard) Sommer of Ogema, Diana (James)
Marshall of Rib Lake and Donna Crapeau of Park Falls;
10 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death
by two brothers and three sisters.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to his family to be designated at a later date.

Correction

Harold Strebe

Information provided for the Alyse Graf obituary

had an incorrect spelling. Her fathers name is Scott
Schantner.

1945-2015
Harold Butch R. Strebe, 70, Medford, died on Saturday, Feb. 7 at his home. Per his request, no services
will be held.
Hemer Funeral Homes of Medford and Rib Lake assisted the family with arrangements.
Harold Strebe was born on Feb. 4, 1945 in Medford to
the late Reinhold Albert and Evelyn Frances (Schlais)
Strebe. He attended town of Goodrich elementary
schools. He farmed on the family farm in the town of
Goodrich and also did logging work. After selling the
family farm, he worked as a farmhand for Bach Farms.
He moved to the city of Medford in 2012.
Survivors include two sisters, Donna (Bob) Homer-Shadrick of Medford and Diane (Mike Mikkelson)
Boehlen of Rhinelander, and nieces and nephews.

Card of Thanks

The Kohler Family would like to thank everyone

for their thoughts and prayers in the passing of
Elva Mae Kohler. A special thanks to the entire
Church of Christ, and the Nash-Jackan Funeral
Home.

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Thoughts from a Daughter

Thank You
We are so thankful for all the prayers, cards and
outpouring of support at the death of our beloved husband,
father and grandfather.
Thank you to Reverend James Krueger for the inspiring
funeral service, to Elmer Balko for the beautiful solo, to
organist Dean Tesch and to the Medford Area Military
Honors Team. Thank you to the Ladies of Immanuel for the
wonderful meal. Thank you to Hemer Funeral Service for
their guidance and support.
We were touched by the moving tribute in The Star
News.
Thank you to neighbors and friends that helped us
through the trials of the last year and touched us in some
way while being there for us when we needed them.
Special thanks to those that provided medical care to
Brian, including Aspirus Medford and Wausau and the
caring staff at Hope Hospice, all of whom helped ensure
Brians nal days were lived with the same dignity and
grace with which he lived his life.

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After all these years...

I miss your hands, though as I watch my sister write...they are your hands.
I miss the indiscriminate delight that you found in all small children: and
yet, I see it in the eyes of your granddaughters now.
I miss waking to the smell of your endless coffee, so I brew a pot on some
Saturday mornings even though I never drink it.
After all these years...
I miss your barn clothes hanging in the basement stairwell, but know my
brother left them there for years.
I miss that hmph sound (you inherited from Grandma). We grew up
learning that one sound had a thousand precise and subtle meanings.
I miss your crazy laugh that was not heard as a sound but seen in your
shoulders and in your eyes.
After all these years...
I miss your ofce
I miss bananas in the safe
I miss you at weddings
I miss your humbleness.
But most of all, after all these years...
I miss using the word Ma
I miss being someones child
I miss the absolutely-palpable feeling of a mothers love.
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A tribute to my Husband, Father,

Grandfather, Great-grandfather,
Brother and Friend.
He was a friend to everyone who knew him, and even more
than that, he considered close, dear friends just like family and
treated them as such . . . one of many unique and wonderful
characteristics of this man. Back in his hometown in the state of
Kansas where he grew up, many knew him as Cotton because of
such blonde-white hair he had as a young man. He served time in
the Navy on a battleship during the Korean Conflict, making two
tours around the world, and we are so glad he had the privilege
to go on the Honor Flight this past year . . . it meant so much
to him. His two sisters, Avis and Artith, spoke of him as a kind
and devoted brother, which certainly was the tone that resonated
throughout his life with all of us. He had a passion for farming,
along with running tournapull and plowing snow for Taylor
County for over 35 years. He was no stranger to working hard
his whole life . . . most days from sunup to sundown. He loved
his coffee, usually pretty strong, and could never begin his days
without having several cups . . . the BEST smell ever, one which
woke us all up every morning and could never be duplicated no
matter how hard we tried. Dad always had a good appetite for
Moms cooking, but his all-time favorite was biscuits and gravy,
never to be matched by his sister Artiths recipe or the Smoke
House in Florida . . . when spending winters there he would go
there for breakfast every morning if it was up to him.
Whether it was milking cows, plowing snow, making hay,
repairing machinery, caring for a sick animal, mowing lawn,
planting crops or cutting firewood, he made sure it all got done
. .. taking care of himself last. He never complained, even when
reluctant to be dragged to numerous auctions (a tradition with
his wife and mother-in-law every available Saturday of the
summer) . . . guess who made sure a cooler was packed and the
car was ready to go that day? He never missed an opportunity to
give his grandkids rides on the tractor, riding lawnmower, or in a
bumpy cart behind the lawnmower . . . he loved his grandkids so
much and missed them dearly when they werent around. Mom
always joked about how Dad had the ability to always find an
earring if she lost one . . . I think it had something to do with just
being a patient man. He was usually pretty quiet and laid back,
would sacrifice so much for his family first, and simply had an
unconditional love that was admired by us all.
It would take a book to record all the great things about him,
and all that he had done in his life, but we will always know and
remember him as My Husband,Dad,Pops,Grandpa,Greatgrandpa, Brother, and even Sugar Lips. To his friends, he will
always be Al or Altone, and they will miss sitting on the deck
with him sharing a beer or two and telling stories. We are all so
thankful for having him in our lives and will continue to count
the blessings.
Wife, Marilyn
Sons, Kevin, Steven, Jeffrey
Special daughter, Heather
Grandsons, Adam, Zachery, Ryan, Jason and Killian
Granddaughters, Nichol, Al , Jessica and Samantha
Four great-granddaughters
Paid 6-146460

Thank You
We wish to express our sincere thanks to Deacon
Joe for his wonderful service for our mother,
grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great
grandmother Charlotte Habermeyer. Thank you
to our relatives & friends who sent cards, food,
owers & memorials in her honor, the ladies of
Holy Rosary for preparing & serving the meal and
to Hemer Funeral Home for all their help.
A special thank you to the caregivers at Country
Gardens Assisted Living & Aspirus Comfort Care
Hospice of Wausau. Thank you everyone for
your thoughts & prayers.
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Healing, helping, learning

Sahsa Jascor travels to
Guatemala to assist
poor with health needs
by News Editor Brian Wilson
While many people were thinking of
traveling south this January, for Sasha
Jascor, a 2011 Medford graduate, being in
a tropical climate was just a side benefit
of helping others.
From Jan. 5 to 16, Jascor was in the
Central American nation of Guatemala
working with other volunteers and Minneapolis-based relief organization Vida.
Vida is a resource organization that connects those wishing to make a difference
with service opportunities to improve
the health and lives of other people and
Smiles
animals.
Jascor is in her final semester at UWPre-med student and international volLa Crosse. She has a biology major with a unteer Sasha Jascor with a patient she
biomedical concentration and chemistry helped while volunteering in Guatemala.
and microbiology minors and has plans
to become a pediatrician. She eventually
hopes to come back to practice medicine nity buildings in the towns they visited.
Student volunteers worked with volunin Central Wisconsin.
According to Jascor, there were a to- teer doctors and interpreters from all
tal of 50 pre-health students from UW-La over Central America.
Patients were poor and undeserved,
Crosse that made the trip. Participants
were in the pre-medicine, pre-physician Jascor noted. Given their poverty, they
assistant, pre-physical therapy and pre- only have access to health centers which
dental programs. Once in Guatemala, are not very good in terms of caring for
the medical team split into two groups so and educating patients.
Jascor saw a wide range of ailments
they could serve two different towns on
the clinic days. The four dental students in her time working in Guatemala. We
traveled with one of the groups helping encountered a number of diagnoses
ranging from dehydration and vitamin
provide dental care services.
We stayed in larger cities since that's deficiencies to scabies (parasite) and
where hotels were and traveled to small tinea (fungal) infections to pregnantowns that were areas of poverty to set cies and arthritis, she said. The overup clinics, Jascor said. The volunteers whelming majority of children we saw
in the program saw 804 patients and the were chronically malnourished which
dental team served an additional 426 pa- resulted in stunted height but cannot
be treated since the damage has already
tients during the nine-day trip.
While it was primarily a trip to help been done. At least half were acutely malothers, for students such as Jascor who nourished but we were able to give them
are planning medical careers, the trip multivitamins and educate parents on
gave a valuable hands-on learning expe- healthy diets which will hopefully prerience. At the clinics, the students broke vent future chronic malnourishment.
In addition to the hand-on learning,
into groups of three along with an interpreter that aided in collecting a patient the trip also offered Jascor an opportunihistory, main complaint, and a physical ty to broaden her cultural horizons. The
exam. The information was then used by people being served on the trip included
the students to hypothesize a diagnosis members of the native population.
The indigenous culture is very well
and treatment plan.
The information was then presented preserved in Guatemala so some people
to a doctor and they told us if we were only spoke the native language of Cakright/wrong and why, she said. The chiquel and required an additional interclinics were held in schools or commu- preter, she said.

Local housing
During the trip volunteers spent a few nights with host families. This was their
home-stay house. She explained many of the poorer communities have houses with
cement block walls, tin roofs and dirt floors.
According to Jascor, the majority of
patients they saw were women and almost all wore traditional Mayan clothing called huipil. They traveled by foot to
the clinics. Meals consisted primarily of
chicken, rice, fried plantain, and refried
beans with coffee to drink. Women were
usually housewives that would raise the
children and help their husbands with
fieldwork. Men usually worked in fields
owned by someone more wealthy and
were only allotted a small portion to
grow food for their families, which very
rarely was enough. Children start helping in the fields at very young ages, she
said.

The volunteers also had the opportunity to see the residents home life firsthand. We also participated in a home
stay for the first three nights, which was
a challenge with the language barrier but
the families were wonderful and caring,
she said.
Trips such as this one help open doors
to new experiences and provide a chance
to form bonds of friendship that transcend cultural and national boundaries.
This is Jascors second time volunteering with Vida. In January 2014 she traveled to Costa Rica and Nicaragua in a
similar program.

Eruption
Medical team

submitted photos

Medford native Sasha Jascor is pictured with members of the medical team she volunteered with while traveling
to Guatemala in January. The group included students, interpreters and doctors.

Guatemala has a number of active volcanos. Jascor

said small eruptions happen frequently and they could
hear it as well as feel the ground shake. Which was
cool since we obviously dont have anything like that
here, she said.

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Wrestlers claim 3 GNC

titles; regional meet next
by Sports Editor Matt Frey

GNC champ

Photo by Bob Mainhardt, Northwoods River News

Medford junior Tucker Peterson is in control of Rhinelanders Jordan Lundt and is

on his way to a pin that clinches his Great Northern Conference championship in the
160-pound weight class on Saturday. Peterson won all four of his matches by pin.

Led by three champions, the Medford

wrestlers improved their final Great
Northern Conference standing by placing fourth in Saturdays league tournament at Rhinelander.
Sophomore Josh Brooks successfully
defended his 113-pound championship by
emerging as the winner of a three-way tie
atop that five-man, round-robin bracket.
Junior Tucker Peterson continued his
recent dominance, pinning all four of his
opponents to win the 160-pound championship, his first GNC title. Freshman
Kolten Hanson dropped down to 145
pounds and went 5-0 to claim his first
GNC title.
A fourth Raider, sophomore Preston
Carlson, brought home an individual
honor, earning honorable mention at 132
pounds with his third-place finish.
Medford scored 193 points to beat
Lakeland (191) and Mosinee (177). The six
points Medford earned with its fourthplace finish put the Raiders in fifth place
in the final overall standings ahead of the
four points earned by Mosinee.
Rhinelander scored 408 points to win
the tournament and the overall GNC title. The Hodags had also gone 5-0 in the
dual-meet portion of the conference season. Tomahawk wrapped up second place

overall with 368 points. Antigo took third

in the tournament with 241 points and
finished with 12 team points for the season to move past Lakeland (10 points) for
third overall.
Overall we wrestled well, head
coach Tran Brooks said. The guys we
expected to do well did well.
That statement certainly would include Peterson, who hasnt lost since
the UW-Eau Claire tournament in late
December and improved to 34-3. Peterson
pinned Tomahawks Blake Mueller in
1:19, Lakelands Dennis Harris in 2:32
and Antigos Noah Nicholson in 1:54. He
finished off his title run with a pin in
3:06 over runner-up Jordan Lundt from
Rhinelander.
Tucker basically steamrolled his way
through, Brooks said. Hopefully he can
keep it going.
Brooks said the decision was made
the morning of the meet to move Hanson
down when he weighed in light enough
to do so. The decision paid off with
Hanson earning four straight pins. He
got Rhinelanders Brenden Mitchell in
1:39, Antigos Dominic Quartaro in 30
seconds, Lakelands Seth Gonzalez in 3:00
and Mosinees Nathan Kostecki in 38 seconds. That set up a good final matchup

See WRESTLERS on page 8

Boys hockey holds off Viroqua to complete a Saturday sweep

by Sports Editor Matt Frey
Jacob Kadlecek scored twice and
had an assist, while Dylan Hraby had a
goal and two assists to lead the Medford
Raiders to their
second hockey victory of the season
on Saturday, a 6-4
non-conference win
at Viroqua.
The
Raiders
built a four-goal
lead by the middle
of the second period. But in a season
where nothing has
Jacob Kadlecek come easily, the
Blackhawks rallied
to close within 5-4
by the end of the period.
But head coach Chad Demulling said
the Raiders protected the lead well in
the third, keeping the home team off the
scoreboard. Medford snapped a 16-game

losing streak while improving to 2-20.

Thats exactly what we talked about
between periods, Demulling said of
playing with a lead, something the young
Raiders havent done much of. We talked about the things we needed to do having the lead. Score if its there, but do the
things we need to do. We went out and
controlled the third period. We had the
puck in their end for most of the period.
The defense held, goalie Carter
Jamieson stopped all 11 third-period
shots he faced and sophomore Mike
Pernsteiner slapped in his first goal of
the season at the 5:19 mark to give the
Raiders their final two-goal margin.
The Raiders took a 2-0 first-period
lead. Jack Schafer scored first with an
unassisted goal and Hraby added his
goal with a Kadlecek assist. Sophomore
Conrad Bolz made it 3-0, scoring his
first-ever varsity goal 4:15 into the second period. Kyle Dettmering had the
assist. Taking advantage of a checking
from behind penalty by the Blackhawks,

Kadlecek used assists from Schafer and

Hraby to score a power-play goal at the
6:43 mark to make it 4-0.
Then, Demulling said, things got
strange as Viroqua made a couple of
plays and got a couple of fortunate bounces to quickly get back in it.
Zach Trautsch scored a short-handed
goal at 9:52 to get Viroqua on the board.
Kadlecek answered, scoring off a Hraby
assist at 11:21 to make it 5-1. Viroqua
answered with three goals in a span of
2:19. Luke Noble got the first one at 12:24,
assisted by Trautsch and Cole Tunks.
Trautsch scored his second goal at 13:05.
Noble got his second goal of the game at
14:43, assisted by Trautsch.
Both teams put 37 shots on goal.
Jamieson had 33 saves, while Carter
Bergdahl had 31 for Viroqua (2-17).
The win completed a Medford sweep
of the girls-boys doubleheader. Medford
won the girls game 4-3.
The Raiders will complete the regular
season and Great Northern Conference

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play tonight, Thursday, with a trip to

Waupaca. Medford will have to beat the
Comets to climb over Lakeland and out of
the GNC cellar. Lakeland tied Waupaca
1-1 on Saturday to nudge ahead of the
Raiders by a half-game.
Medford drew the 11th seed in the
Chippewa Falls sectional and will start
WIAA tournament play at sixth-seeded
Rice Lake (5-16-1) on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
The winner goes to third-seeded Hayward
(11-11-1) on Feb. 19.

No match for Pines

Medford was no match for host

Northland Pines on Thursday, giving up
seven first-period goals in a 12-0 loss.
Steven Spencer led the scoring barrage for Pines, netting three goals. Kory
Droes added two. Joe Mailette, Bailey
Ramesh and Colton Raymond had two assists apiece.
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Swimmers cap season at GNC meet; Shawano on top

by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter
Swimming in their home water, the
Shawano Hawks completed an undefeated season in the Great Northern
Conference and won the leagues boys
swimming title in convincing fashion.
The Hawks were a perfect 10-0 in dual
meets this year and were inevitably the
favorites heading into the season-ending
meet last Friday. They did not disappoint. Shawanos team score of 328 was 51
better than second place Lakeland (277).
Antigo (237) finished third, Tomahawk
(188) was fourth, Rhinelander (181) took
fifth, and Medford (84) ended the season
in sixth.
While there wasnt a lot of individual
success for the Raiders, it was a positive
way to wrap up a season that represented
a big step forward for the program.
Shawanos relay team took top spot
in the 200-yard medley relay with a time
of 1:45.98. Medfords first squad of Lane
Ruch, Michael Roe, Jacob Way, and Mark
Jablonsky finished seventh in 2:07.13.
The second squad of Chas Lehman,
Andrew Reuter, Jacob Jablonsky, and
Dalton Hildebrandt finished ninth with a
time of 2:11.26.
Lakelands Nick Garcia finished first
in the 200-yard freestyle. His time of
1:48.69 was 13 seconds faster than the
second place swimmer. Medfords Ruch
came in 10th in a time of 2:16.45. Lehman
was 17th with his time of 2:36.91.

GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCE

BOYS SWIM FINAL STANDINGS
Duals Dual Meet
Total
W-L
Pts.
Pts.
Pts.
Shawano
10-0
10
12
22
Lakeland
8-2
8
10
18
Antigo
6-3
6
8
14
Tomahawk
3-7
3
6
9
Rhinelander 2-8
2
4
6
Medford
1-9
1
2
3
Feb. 6 GNC Meet: 1. Shawano, 328; 2. Lakeland,
277; 3. Antigo, 237; 4. Tomahawk, 188; 5. Rhinelander, 181; 6. Medford, 84.
Feb. 14: Shawano, Lakeland, Antigo, Tomahawk
and Rhinelander at WIAA Div. 2 Stevens Point
sectional.

Shawanos Griffin Rades time of

2:11.29 was tops in the 200-yard individual medley. Reuter finished eighth with a
time of 2:42.13.
Colin Koss (22.74) of Antigo was the top
finisher in the 50-yard freestyle. He edged
Logan Loretz of Tomahawk by threetenths of a second. Ruch finished eighth
with a time of 26.18. Way came in 10th
with his time of 26.85. Jacob Jablonsky
(28.93) was 14th, Preston Gingras (29.88)
was 17th, Matt Reuter (30.84) was 19th
and Brendan Griesbach (39.02) was 21st.
Shawano grabbed another individual win in the 100-yard butterfly. Zach
Sopers time of 53.54 was three seconds
better than Antigos Koss.
Lakelands Garcia took top spot in the
100-yard freestyle with a time of 49.24.
Mark Jablonsky (1:02.03) was ninth,
Hildebrandt (1:03.40) was 11th, Keagan

Rabe (1:07.44) was 12th, Matt Reuter

(1:15.86) was 13th, Josh Mueller (1:23.00)
was 15th, and Griesbach (1:28.84) was
16th.
Jack Garcia of Lakeland won the 500yard freestyle with his time of 5:15.94.
Brett Hedlund finished 15th with a time
of 8:12.57.
Rhinelander got a relay win in the 200yard freestyle with their time of 1:34.61.
Medfords first team of Ruch, Jablonsky,
Jablonsky, and Way finished seventh
with a time of 1:47.65. The second team
of Hildebrandt, Lehman, Andrew Reuter,
and Roe came in 10th with a time of
1:55.51.
Rades got his second individual win
in the 100-yard backstroke with a time
of 59.78. Way finished ninth in 1:19.40.
Gingras was 14th with a time of 1:45.31.
Soper got another win for Shawano
in the 100-yard breaststroke. His time of
1:04.83 was two seconds better than Jake
Zalewski of Rhinelander. Andrew Reuter
(1:21.19) finished 10th, Roe (1:22.31) was
13th, and Hedlund (1:26.35) was 15th.
Shawano capped off the meet with a
win in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Their
team of Adrian Tetting, Rolando Colon,
Rades, and Soper finished in 3:30.40.
Medfords top group of Jablonsky,
Mueller, Rabe, and Jablonsky finished
ninth with a time of 4:41.57. The second
team of Matt Reuter, Gingras, Roe, and
Hedlund came in 12th with a time of
4:59.71.

Lane Ruch
8th in 50 free
10th in 200 free
Two relay 7ths

Andrew Reuter
8th in IM
10th in 100
breaststroke

Several conference meet records were

set on Friday. Shawanos relay teams in
the 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle both set new records. Rhinelanders
relay team set a new mark in the 200-yard
freestyle. Lakelands Nick Garcia set
new records in the 200-yard freestyle and
100-yard freestyle. Jack Garcia posted a
new top time in the 500-yard freestyle.
Shawano also got several individual records. Rades set a new time to beat in the
200-yard individual medley and Soper
posted new marks in the 100-yard breaststroke and 100-yard butterfly. Soper also
holds the record time for the 100-yard
backstroke (55.77), which he set at the
2014 conference meet.

Lee gets third as Wolfpack takes sixth at Lakeland wrestling meet

by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter
Matt Kostka placed second at 182
pounds and Gilmans Takoda Lee earned
a third place finish at 285 pounds as
the
Cornell-Gilman-Lake
Holcombe
Wolfpack wrestling co-op scored 134
points to finish sixth at the Lakeland
Conference wrestling meet on Saturday
in Cameron.
East
Lakeland
East
champion
Cameron could only muster a fourth
place finish overall as Clear Lake, the
Lakeland West champion, and LuckFrederic-Grantsburg and St. Croix Falls
took the top spots at the combined con-

ference meet. After finishing second in

the East this year, the Wolfpack found itself in sixth overall after Unity took fifth.
Kostka was the Wolfpacks top finisher. He received a bye in the first round
before defeating Hunter Hansen of St.
Croix Falls by pin at 58 seconds. In the
semifinal match he defeated Steven
Holdt of Luck-Frederic-Grantsburg by
pin at 0:26. He was finally defeated in the
championship match by Kyle Heinsohn
of Cameron by pin at 2:32.
Lee started with a bye before defeating Parker Steen of Luck-FredericGrantsbug by pin at 3:08. He was defeated in the semifinals by Donny Ralston

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SPORTS
THE STAR NEWS

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Page 3

Boys survive Bloomers late barrage; Mosinee wins at buzzer

by Sports Editor Matt Frey
A comfortable double-digit lead nearly got away from Medfords boys basketball team on Tuesday when Bloomer
went on a three-point shooting binge, but
the Raiders got some key late rebounds
and free throws to hold on for a 61-50 nonconference win.
The Raiders had played shutdown defense through three quarters and led 3925 when Bloomers 5-9 junior Noah Price
and 6-1 freshman Payton Dachel started
to light it up.
Dachel hit four of his six three-point
baskets in the fourth quarter. Price added three. Together they led the charge
that got Bloomer within 53-50 late.
Elliot Marshall had a strong night for
Medford, scoring 13 points, while Garrett
Strebig scored 12 and Cameron Wenzel
and Osy Ekwueme each added 11.
The Raiders were without guard Ty
Wrage, who was ill. Ekwueme wasnt
feeling 100 percent, but head coach Ryan
Brown said he was one of several Raiders
to make key contributions.
He didnt start, but we ended up needing him, Brown said. He was five of six
from the free throw line in the fourth
quarter. He handled it well against their
pressure. With him and Taylor (Dunlap)
handling the ball, their pressure didnt
bother us much at all.
Garrett hit four threes and really
made some nice plays with some backdoor passes, Brown added. Elliot had
a big game. He had two big buckets off
missed free throws for us. Cameron
Wenzel hit three threes.

GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCE

BOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Rhinelander
8
0
9
9
Mosinee
6
2
12
6
Lakeland
6
2
11
6
Antigo
6
3
13
4
Medford
3
6
8
9
Tomahawk
1
8
5
13
Northland Pines
0
9
3
15
Feb. 6: Mosinee 62, Medford 59; Rhinelander
45, Tomahawk 42; Antigo 63, Northland Pines 26.
Feb. 9: Mosinee 58, Newman Catholic 57.
Feb. 10: Medford 61, Bloomer 50; Antigo 54,
D.C. Everest 53; Merrill 53, Lakeland 44; Chequamegon 61, Northland Pines 46; Tomahawk 58,
Ladysmith 53.
Feb. 13: Medford at Lakeland, Rhinelander at
Antigo, Mosinee at Tomahawk.
Feb. 16: D.C. Everest at Lakeland.
Feb. 17: Medford at Northland Pines, Rhinelander at Mosinee, Tomahawk at Lakeland,
Antigo at Wausau East.
Feb. 19: Nekoosa at Medford.

After falling behind 13-9 in the first

quarter, the Raiders took charge by
outscoring Bloomer 30-12 in the middle
quarters. Medford led 21-17 at halftime.
It was a weird game, Brown said.
We were pretty much in control the
whole time. Then they started hitting
the threes. They got some long rebounds
that led to threes. We actually started rebounding their misses better when it got
close and hit our free throws down the
stretch.
Dunlap and Nikola Babic scored five
points apiece for Medford. Jake Sullivan
and Lloyd Bernatz scored two each.
We werent hitting shots early, but
the guys stuck with it, Brown said.
Dachels 19 points led Bloomer, while

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Tuesday, February 17
at Phillips, V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.
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Thursday, February 19
Cloverbelt Crossover (H),
V-7:30 p.m., JV-5:45 p.m.

Regis-McDonell Central and

Stanley-Boyd/Owen-Withee/
Thorp. The top two finishers in
each weight class advance to
individual sectional. Top team
advances to team sectional.
Tuesday, February 17
WIAA Div. 2 Stanley-Boyd team
sectional. Semifinals at 6 p.m.
Championship at 8 p.m.

WRESTLING

BOYS BASKETBALL

Saturday, February 14
WIAA Div. 2 Ellsworth regional,
10 a.m. Teams include CornellGilman-Lake Holcombe,
Ellsworth, Baldwin-Woodville,
Colfax-Bloomer, Prescott,

Tuesday, February 17
Spencer (H), V-7:30 p.m., JV5:45 p.m.
Friday, February 20
at Greenwood, V-7:30 p.m.,
JV-5:45 p.m.

Price had 17. The Blackhawks fell to 11-6

with the loss.
Medford, now 8-9 overall, returns
to Great Northern Conference play
with a trip to Lakeland on Friday. The
Raiders will also go to Northland Pines
on Tuesday. The last home game of the
regular season is set for Feb. 19 when
Medford hosts Nekoosa in a girls-boys
non-conference doubleheader. The girls
tip things off at 5:45 p.m., followed by the
boys at about 7:30 p.m.

Late rally spoiled

Jordan Budnik nailed a three-pointer
as time expired giving Mosinee a 62-59
Great Northern Conference win over the
Raiders on Friday night.
Medford had just completed a frantic comeback from an eight-point deficit
in the last two minutes to tie it with 19
seconds left on a three-pointer by Wrage
that was assisted by Dunlap. But Mosinee
spoiled it with Budniks buzzer-beater.
Brown said the Raiders anticipated
Mosinees last play to go through all-conference senior guard Aaron Maas and defended it well.
We did a great job defending and containing Maas, Brown said. He tried to
attack a couple times out of some screens
they set up, but nothing was doing. With
four seconds left, he was able to get the
ball back and he attacked the middle of
our 1-3-1. Lloyd Bernatz did a great job
stepping up to stop his drive, but Maas,
being a very good player, passed while
in the air and kicked to the opposite
corner where he had a player standing.
Cam Wenzel contested the shot great, but

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Tuesday, February 17
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p.m., JV & JV2-5:45 p.m.
Thursday, February 19
Nekoosa (H), V-5:45, JV-7:30
p.m. at MAES.

BOYS
BASKETBALL

Friday, February 13
at Lakeland, V-7:15 p.m., JV &
JV2-5:45 p.m.
Tuesday, February 17
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p.m., JV & JV2-5:40 p.m.
Thursday, February 19
Nekoosa (H), V-7:30 p.m., JV5:45 p.m. at MAES. JV2-5:45
p.m. at MAMS.

WRESTLING

Saturday, February 14
WIAA Div. 2 MelroseMindoro/G-E-T regional
(at M-M), 11 a.m. Teams
include Medford, MelroseMindoro/G-E-T, AbbotsfordColby, Black River Falls,
Neillsville-Greenwood-Loyal
and Osseo-Fairchild-Augusta-Fall Creek. The top two
finishers in each weight class

advance to individual sectional. Top team advances to

team sectional.
Tuesday, February 17
WIAA Div. 2 Stanley-Boyd
team sectional. Semifinals
at 6 p.m. Championship at
8 p.m.

BOYS HOCKEY

Tuesday, February 17
WIAA regional semifinal, #11
Medford at #6 Rice Lake, 7
p.m.
Thursday, February 19
WIAA regional final, Medford/Rice Lake winner at #3
Hayward, time TBA.

GIRLS HOCKEY

Thursday, February 19
WIAA regional final, #8 Medford at #1 Central Wisconsin
(DCE-Greenheck), 7 p.m.

CURLING

Monday, February 16
at Wausau West, V & JV, 3
p.m.
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Saturday, February 21
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Budnick knocked down the three as time

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Medford was down 51-41 to start the
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Indians went on a 17-10 run in the third.
Medford shot better from the field, but
Mosinee hurt the Raiders with offensive
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Raiders 31-17, with more than 20 coming
on the offensive end. Medford was nine of
21 in three-point shooting, while Mosinee
was eight of 29. The Raiders were 14 of 22
inside the arc, while Mosinee was 13 of 34.
Offensive rebounds were the difference, Brown said. They hit the boards
very hard. We were very efficient on offense and made them very inefficient
with our defense, but we were unable
to secure the rebound 22 times. A lot of
long rebounds and Mosinee capitalized
on those situations especially with both
Lloyd and Elliot were in foul trouble
much of the game.
Dunlap had a big night for Medford
with 18 points, seven assists, six rebounds and three steals. Wrage was four
of nine from long range and finished
with 12 points and two rebounds. Wenzel
was three of six from behind the arc and
scored nine points. He had two rebounds.
Strebig had eight points, including a pair
of threes.
Marshall added seven points and three
rebounds. Ekwueme had five points.
Maas had 20 points, nine rebounds and
four assists for Mosinee, who improved
to 6-2 in the GNC and 11-6 overall. Budnik
had 14 points and four rebounds.

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Two fast starts by Mosinee bury Raiders

by Sports Editor Matt Frey
For the second time in five days, the
Mosinee Indians blitzed Medfords girls
basketball team with a fast start on
Tuesday and the Raiders couldnt recover in a 68-53 loss.
Autumn Michlig hurt Medford in
the first quarter, scoring eight of her 16
points to help Mosinee grab a 16-4 lead.
Guard Bailey Schultz took over in the
second, pouring in 15 of her game-high 27
points to help push the lead to 37-19.
Medford head coach Scott Wildberg
said Schultz had an outstanding game.
She hit a three-pointer late in the third
quarter and got eight quick points, including two threes, early in the fourth to
take the steam out of a Raider rally.
In the third quarter, we had their
lead down to seven points at one time,
Wildberg said. We had them on their
heels. But then Bailey hit some long
shots that put us back on our heels. Give
her credit. She hit some big shots.
Mosinees sweep of the back-to-back
games with Medford put the Indians at
7-2 in the Great Northern Conference,
one game ahead of 6-3 Rhinelander and
one game behind 8-1 Lakeland. The
Indians are 13-6 overall. Medford fell to
3-7 and 5-13.
To the Raiders credit, they picked up
the pace after their sluggish first quarter. Despite Schultzs big second quarter,
Medford was only outscored by six in
the period. Abbie Bergman was six of six
from the free throw line in the quarter
and the team was 13 of 14. Medford fin-

ished a solid 23 of 30 with its free throw

shooting.
Wildberg said part of Medfords offensive plan was to spread Mosinees defense out and attack it with cutters. The
result was the 30 free throws attempts.
We did a really good job of shooting
free throws, he said.
Jenice Clausnitzer scored 14 of her
career-high 16 points in the second half.
She had eight in the third quarter when
Medford got the deficit into single digits.
Medford wound up with a 15-8 scoring
edge in the quarter to pull within 45-34.
Jenice played a really good game,
especially in the second half, Wildberg
said. She really helped us get back in
the game. I think that was the best game
shes played just as far as her determination.
Jen Stolp scored 11 points, while
Bergman finished with nine, including
a third-quarter three-pointer. Victoria
Lammar scored five, all in the second half.
Hailee Clausnitzer was four for four from
the free throw line. Molly Carstensen hit
a fourth-quarter three-pointer. Kendal
Laher and Heidi Wildberg each made two
second-quarter free throws and Lakyn
Kummer added a second-quarter free
throw.
Rochelle Koshalek added 10 points for
Mosinee, including two of the teams seven three-pointers.
Defensively, Medford relied a little
more on a 2-3 zone to try to take away
some of the second-chance and thirdchance points Mosinee got in Fridays
game and cut down in penetration into

the lane. Wildberg felt the Raiders improved in those areas. Mosinee responded by knocking down the seven threepointers. Wildberg said turnovers in the
first quarter were a big reason for the
early deficit.
The girls played hard in this game,
he said. They definitely wanted to win.
They didnt give up. When youre down
17 to a team for a second time, itd be easy
to pack it in. The girls definitely didnt do
that.
Things dont get much easier for
Medford this Friday. The Raiders host
GNC-leading Lakeland (17-2) at 7:15 p.m.
at Raider Hall. Northland Pines, who
is currently tied with Medford at 3-7 in
GNC play and playing very well in recent
weeks, comes to Raider Hall on Tuesday
for another 7:15 p.m. tip time.
Medford concludes its regular season
on Feb. 19 by hosting Nekoosa in a 5:45
p.m. non-conference game that starts
a girls-boys varsity doubleheader at
Raider Hall.

Cant recover from bad start

Jenice Clausnitzer swished a rightside three-pointer off an inbound play
to tie Fridays game at 3-3 and that was
as close as Medford got in a 42-30 loss to
Mosinee at Raider Hall.
The Raiders were abysmal from the
field, making just five shots through the
first three quarters. Despite being down
24-7 for a long stretch of the first half and
by double digits the entire second half,

See MEDFORD GIRLS on page 12

With room

Photo by Matt Frey

Medford freshman guard Hailee

Clausnitzer finds some room to attack
Mosinees defense during the second half
of Fridays 42-30 loss.

Gymnasts hope to use G-E-T effort as springboard into GNC

by Sports Editor Matt Frey
None of the team scores in each
event were season-highs, but all four
were close enough to give the Medford
gymnasts their best overall score of the
season Saturday at the Flip for a Hero
Invitational, hosted by Gale-EttrickTrempealeau.
The Raiders earned 111.35 total points,
good for fourth place out of seven squads
in the meets Red Division. Medford easily outscored Arcadia (88.825), Prairie
du Chien (67.75) and Sparta (66.45).
Stewartville, Minn. won the division
title with 123.075 points, while Chippewa
Falls just got by La Crosse Central-Logan
117.2-116.325 for second.
Sophomore Alexa Phillips had the
best day of her first season with the varsity squad. She totaled 30.1 all-around
points and set or
tied personal-best
scores in all four
of her events. She
finished seventh in
the divisions allaround standings.
Stewartvilles Paige
Pettit was the allaround champion
with 33.25 points.
La Crosses Kaitlyn
Hicks (32.3) and
Alexa Phillips
Isabelle
Spooner
of Chippewa Falls
(32.05) also topped the 32-point barrier.
Medfords 31.85 points on vault was the
teams second-best total of the year, just
behind the 32.3 points the Raiders earned
four days earlier in a dual meet with
Rhinelander. Phillips was eighth with an
8.25, tying her season-best, set four days
earlier. Raider freshman Kierra Krause
tied for ninth with an 8.05. Senior Megan
Clark was 13th out of 28 vaulters with her
7.85. Junior Hannah Brandner was 15th

GNC SMALL DIVISION

GYMNASTICS STANDINGS
Duals Dual Meet
Total
W-L
Pts.
Pts.
Pts.
Mosinee-Mar. 3-0
6
0
6
Chequamegon 2-1
4
0
4
Rhinelander 2-2
4
0
4
Medford
1-3
2
0
2
Lakeland
1-3
2
0
2
Feb. 7: Medford 4th (111.35) at G-E-T Invitational.
Feb. 10: Lakeland 113.475, Rhinelander 112.625;
Chequamegon at Mosinee-Marathon.
Feb. 14: Lakeland, Rhinelander and Chequamegon at Ashland Invitational.

at 7.7 and sophomore Fawna Jaecks came

in 22nd at 7.3.
Hicks scored a 9.1 to win the vault
ahead of Arcadias Rachel Klink (8.75)
and Pettit (8.5). There was a four-way tie
for fourth at 8.45.
Medfords score of 28.275 on the balance beam was another second-best total
of the winter. The only one better was the
28.675 the team turned in at Lakeland on
Jan. 6.
Senior Margaret Hamann bounced
back nicely from a tough last outing with
a 7.375, good for seventh out of 32 beam
competitors. A 7.1 from Phillips gave
her 12th place and a new personal-best.
Brandner was 14th with her 6.975. Clark
just missed a personal-best with her
6.825, good for 16th. Krause tied for 18th
at 6.575.
Beam was really good, Medford
head coach Lisa Brooks said. The connections were there. We had some bobbles but not as many falls. The potential
is there.
Pettit won the beam with an 8.075.
Klink and Spartas Sara Hansen tied
for second at 7.825. Cortney Garzee of
La Crosse and Brianna Henderson of
Stewartville tied for fourth at 7.75.
The Raiders scored 29.425 points in
the floor exercise, 0.725 points off their
season-best total. Phillips led the way

with a personal-best 7.825, good for seventh place out of 28 gymnasts. Clark was
10th at 7.7, her best score of the season
and 0.2 points away from a personal-best.
Krauses 16th-place score of 7.25 was a
tenth away from a personal-best. Junior
Kayla Brooks was just 0.05 points off her
personal-best score with a 6.65, good for
18th. Brandner was 19th with a 6.6.
Pettits 9.1 won the event. She was followed by Hicks (8.85) and Spooner (8.65).
Were getting so much stronger,
Brooks said. We look strong, but the
tumbling is not quite where it needs to
be yet.
Medford earned 21.8 points on the uneven bars, one point off its season-best.
Phillips got a 6.925 to set her new personal record and earn Medfords highest individual score of the season on the bars.
She finished sixth out of 30 entrants.
Hamann was 15th with her 5.225, Megan
Rudolph was right behind her with a
5.025, Marisa DuBois was 18th with a personal-best 4.625 and Bella Sigmund tied
for 19th at 4.575.
I didnt spot one flyaway all day,
which was really good, Brooks said.
Its still the stops and the reswings we
have to get rid of.
Garzee won the bars with an 8.0, followed by Spooner (7.675) and Pettit
(7.575).
Medfords varsity will take two
weeks to prepare for the Great Northern
Conference meet to be hosted by
Lakeland on Feb. 21. The GNCs Large
and Small Division teams will be at the
meet, though Medford will only compete against its Small Division counterparts Mosinee-Marathon, Rhinelander,
Chequamegon and Lakeland.
Mosinee-Marathon is the defending
champion and goes into the meet in the
lead thanks to its unbeaten record in the
division so far this winter.
Brooks said Medfords goal of a 115 is

within reach and the GNC meet would be

a great time to get it.
Every score is going to matter, she
said. Were putting that pressure on ourselves, but its a healthy challenge. Weve
accepted every challenge so far this year.
Why not this one?

JV champions
Medford won the JV championship in
the Red Division during Saturdays meet,
which marked the final JV competition of
the season.
The Raiders scored 95.1 points to edge
Stewartville by 0.75 points. G-E-T had
83.35 points, followed by La Crosse (59.85)
and Chippewa Falls (12). It was the third
time this season the JV squad has scored
in the 95s.
Shelby Winchell led the Raiders by
taking fifth in the all-around competition
with 21.5 points.
Medford set a season-high total of
26.05 points in the floor exercise. Emma
Schlais led the way with a 7.0, good for
sixth place. Winchell was eighth with
a personal-best 6.55. Brianna Martin
tied for ninth with a 6.4. Megan Eckert
smashed her previous best score with a
6.1, good for 12th. Dixie Peterson tied her
personal-best score with a 5.9.
Brandner won the bars with a personal-best score of 5.8. Brooks got a 4.2,
Jessica Pai got a 3.6, Mackenzie Carey got
a 2.75 and Winchell got a 2.25. Schlais won
the beam with her 6.05, while Winchell
and Jaecks tied for third at 5.75. Peterson
got a 5.45 and DuBois got a personal-best
5.35.
Medford scored 29.7 vault points led by
Hamanns 7.75 and Sigmunds 7.55. They
took fourth and fifth. Martin was ninth
with a 7.35, Peterson earned a 7.05 and
Winchell got a 6.95.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

SPORTS
THE STAR NEWS

Page 5

Gilman takes fight to O-W,

nearly pulls off the upset
by Sports Editor Matt Frey
The Gilman girls basketball team
had the shocker of the season in the
Eastern Cloverbelt Conference in its
grasp Tuesday night, but Owen-Withee
wouldnt let the Lady Pirates have it.
The
Blackhawks
two
seniors,
Stephany Heggemeier and Hayley
Bunnell each came up with big plays
down the stretch to allow the visitors to
hold off Gilmans determined upset bid
62-58. Heggemeier hit a three-pointer
from the left corner with 1:11 left to push
Owen-Withees one-point lead to four at
60-56.
After Morgan Birkenholz banked in a
jumper for Gilman with 45 seconds left,
the Pirates let the rebound on a missed
Heggemeier free throw slip through
their fingers. Bunnell grabbed it and
scored with 35 seconds left to put the
Blackhawks back up by four. A Gilman
turnover finally allowed Owen-Withee to
breathe easy and improve to 13-2 in the
conference and 16-4 overall.
For a team that has struggled offensively, Gilmans performance was most
impressive. The Pirates (2-12, 5-14) aggressively attacked Owen-Withees defense time and time again. They reeled
the Blackhawks multiple times after
falling behind by double digits, outrebounded them 35-25 and played with
confidence.
We got two wins last week, and you
can tell its helped us loosen up offensively, head coach Chris Skabroud said.
Gilman took 60 total field goal attempts and made 23 (38.3 percent). They
were 18 of 48 on two-point shots and five
of 12 from long range. Gilman was just
seven of 14 from the free throw line, but
Owen-Withee hit just two of nine. The difference was the Blackhawks made 24 of
48 two-point shots. Bunnell and Whitney
Baehr were too much to handle in the
post with 17 points each. Heggemeier led
all scorers with 19.
Obviously, I was pretty pleased with
our offensive output, Skabroud said,
highlighting the performances of several
players. Junior forward Kyla Schoene
had a breakout night with a 12-point,
12-rebound double-double and had three
assists. Makaylen Skabroud led three
Pirates in double figures with 15 points.
She drilled three first-half threes and
was five of nine overall from the field and
added four rebounds and three steals.
Taylor Hendricks gave the offense a lift
with 11 points, nine of which came in the
first half. She had five rebounds.
Birkenholz had eight points, five
assists and five rebounds. Kendall
Skabroud had six points, three rebounds
and three assists.
Nothing helps offensive confidence
more than hitting shots early. Threepointers from Makaylen Skabroud and
Hendricks put Gilman up 8-4 early, but
Owen-Withee closed the first quarter on
an 8-1 run to go up 12-9. The Blackhawks
seemed ready to blow it open when
Heggemeiers three-pointer made it 199, but Gilman continued to attack offensively. Kendall Skabroud scored once
and Taylor Hendricks scored four quick

Sports Shorts
The Rib Lake Athletic Booster Club
will meet on Monday, Feb. 16 at 6:30 p.m.
at the high school.

EASTERN CLOVERBELT CONFERENCE

GIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Loyal
14
0
17
2
Owen-Withee
13
2
16
4
Neillsville
11
3
15
4
Colby
9
6
9
11
Columbus Cath.
7
7
10
9
Spencer
4
10
5
12
Greenwood
3
11
4
13
Gilman
2
12
5
14
Granton
1
13
1
14
Feb. 5: Gilman 37, Spencer 34; Neillsville 48,
Greenwood 27; Loyal 56, Colby 26; Owen-Withee
68, Columbus Catholic 43.
Feb. 6: Owen-Withee 62, Cadott 55.
Feb. 9: Spencer 42, Rib Lake 34.
Feb. 10: Owen-Withee 62, Gilman 58; Colby
44, Greenwood 31; Neillsville 35, Columbus
Catholic 16; Loyal 65, Granton 30.
Feb. 12: Spencer at Flambeau.
Feb. 13: Granton at Gilman, Loyal at Greenwood, Spencer at Neillsville, Colby at Columbus
Catholic.
Feb. 16: Columbus Catholic at Gilman,
Owen-Withee at Loyal, Greenwood at Spencer,
Neillsville at Granton.
Feb. 19: Cloverbelt Crossovers at East sites.

points to make it 19-15.

Holly Hatlestad sank a three-pointer
late in the half for a 32-22 Owen-Withee
lead. Kyla Schoenes nifty reverse layup
and a three-pointer off an inbound play
with 20 seconds left cut the lead to 32-27,
but Bunnells bucket with four seconds
left gave the Blackhawks a seven-point
lead.
Gilman came roaring back in the
third. Schoene got on a roll, scoring six
points and Kendall Skabroud added
two buckets, including a baseline drive
that tied it at 37-37. Schoene banked in a
jumper to tie it at 39-39 and her long baseball pass to Makaylen Skabroud put the
Pirates up 41-39 with 2:12 left in the quarter. Owen-Withee ended the quarter on a
10-0 tear to go up 49-41. Owen-Withee led
55-45 when Gilman regained confidence
and made one more push.
Birkenholz hit two straight shots,
then freshman Camryn Skabroud came
through with five huge points on an offensive putback and a three-pointer
from the right wing. Suddenly, it was
55-54. After a Blackhawk turnover with
2:43 left, Gilman missed a go-ahead shot.
Bunnells stickback was answered by
Makaylen Skabrouds free throws with
1:58 left. Gilman rebounded a Heggemeier
miss, but the Blackhawks blocked shots
by Birkenholz and Camryn Skabroud,
leading to Heggemeiers big triple.
Camryn Skabroud added five points,
three rebounds and two assists for the
Pirates. Desire Budzinski had a point
and three rebounds.
Weve been wanting to be more aggressive, drive and attack the basket,
Skabroud said. Sometimes its been
hard to get the girls to look for it. This is
what weve been looking for all year. We
got good balanced scoring, especially in
the last three quarters, which was good
to see, especially against a quality team.
Gilman hopes to carry its recent momentum into the final three regular-season games and into the WIAA Division 5
tournament.
The Pirates host last-place Granton
on Friday and Columbus Catholic on
Monday to wrap up Eastern Cloverbelt
play. Gilman will host a Cloverbelt crossover game on Feb. 19. Those three games
tip at 7:30 p.m. Gilman will learn where it
will be seeded in its eight-team regional
this weekend.

Win at Spencer
While the offense stole the show on
Tuesday, Gilmans defense was big in a

Reverse for two

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Gilman junior Kyla Schoene takes an aggressive route to the basket, scoring on a
reverse layup late in the second quarter of Tuesdays near upset of Owen-Withee. The
Pirates were within one late before falling 62-58.
37-34 win at Spencer on Thursday. The
Pirates held the Rockets to four fourthquarter points and surged ahead late to
claim their second conference win.
Gilman overcame first-half foul
trouble and scoring droughts in the
second and third quarters to get the
win. Makaylen Skabroud had four firsthalf fouls and Birkenholz had three.
That opened the door for players like
Hendricks, Camryn Skabroud and Kayla
Chause to make key early contributions.
They did a good job of stepping in
when we ran into the foul trouble, coach
Skabroud said.
Two Kendall Skabroud three-pointers
helped Gilman take a 10-5 first-quarter
lead. Camryn Skabroud knocked down
two treys and Schoene scored twice in
the second quarter, which ended with
Gilman leading 22-19. A third-quarter
cold spell allowed Spencer to go in front
30-27.
Schoene led Gilman with eight
points and 12 rebounds. Kendall
Skabroud scored eight as well. Camryn
Skabroud finished with six points as
did Birkenholz. Makaylen Skabroud
scored four and grabbed four rebounds.
Budzinski and Hendricks scored two
points each. Budzinski had seven rebounds and Hendricks had three. Chause
made a first-quarter free throw. Gilman
had a 28-27 rebounding edge.
The one big statistical difference was
Gilman hit five of 16 three-pointers.
Spencer was two of seven.
We need to hit four, five, six threepointers a game, Skabroud said. That
keeps teams from packing it in against
us. It opens up the lane. We can drive a
little easier and either pass or take that

good shot in the lane.

Lexi Baehr led the Rockets (4-10, 5-12)
with 10 points, while Melissa Lehman
had nine.

Pistol League
Range Boys Club
Week 4
.44-Cal.: Sparkys Sport Shop, 3-1; Main Street Mini
Storage, 3-1; Zvolena Masonry, 2-2; RZ Builders,
0-4. High shooters: Mike Preisinger 153, Dustin
Zvolena 135.
.38/.357-Cal.: Shell Shack, 3-1; 8th Street Saloon,
3-1; Abegglen Landscape, 3-1; Hit & Miss, 3-1;
Schnevers Sugarbush, 0-4; Lights-Out, 0-4. High
shooters: Scott Stamos 179, Jim Bung 147, Marc
Thompson 147.
.22-Cal.:
Division 1: Power Kleen, 4-0; BT Sureshots, 4-0;
After Dark Taxidermy, 3-1; Short Lane Ag Supply,
3-1; Mark III, 2-2; Sheldon Shooters, 2-2; P-Town
Saloon, 2-2; Sparkys Sport Shop, 0-4; Mews Trucking, 0-4; Clip Busters, 0-4. High shooters: Scott Anderson 166, Jim Bung 163, Craig Oehmichen 163.
Division 2: Lloyds Carpentry, 4-0; Rays Big
Weiners, 3-1; Frane Auto Body, 3-1; Wild Things
Taxidermy, 3-1; Hunters Choice, 2-2; Dummy
Team, 2-2; RZ Builders, 1-3; Designer Advertising,
1-3; Henrys Heros, 1-3; Halls Angels, 0-4. High
shooters: Mike Henline 166, Tom Neumann 160,
Merle Schafer 149.
.22-Cal. Couples: Dead Eye Duo, 3-1; Farm Boys,
3-1; Short Lane Ag Supply, 3-1; Hunters Choice,
3-1; LaGranders Hilltop Dairy, 2-2; Points of
Health, 2-2; Abegglen Landscape, 2-2; Daart,
1-3; Dummy Team, 1-3; Kaat, 0-4. High shooters:
Dan Hederer 150, Craig Oehmichen, 158, Dave
Boehlke 155.

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Phillips shows why it leads the

North; Rib Lake trounces Chieftains
by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter and
Sports Editor Matt Frey

Rejected

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Rib Lakes Jared Hovde thinks he has a third-quarter layup, but Chequamegons
Benjamen Godleske blocks the shot from behind during Thursdays Marawood North
battle won by the Screaming Eagles 52-38.

Lady Redmen cant hold down

Rockets in non-conference loss
by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter
A win was within reach for the Rib
Lake Lady Redmen basketball team, but
they couldnt quite get over the hump
and fell to the Spencer Rockets, 42-34, on
Monday.
The Redmen played with patience on
offense and intensity on defense throughout the game, but struggles rebounding
and persistent foul trouble proved costly
in the non-conference battle.
We got in foul trouble early and that
took us out of our game. Spencer got into
the double bonus early in the second because practically the whole team had two
fouls, Rib Lake head coach Mike Wudi
said.
Spencer got the only real separation of
MARAWOOD NORTH DIVISION
GIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Edgar
9
1
13
6
Athens
9
2
13
5
Abbotsford
7
3
11
7
Prentice
7
5
10
9
Phillips
3
7
7
11
Rib Lake
1
9
5
14
Chequamegon
1
10
4
14
Feb. 6: Prentice 52, Athens 49; Edgar 53, Phillips
46; Flambeau 67, Chequamegon 48.
Feb. 9: Spencer 42, Rib Lake 34; Lakeland 67,
Prentice 54; Chequamegon 51, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser 40.
Feb. 10: Ladysmith 54, Phillips 48; Northland
Pines 56, Prentice 41.
Feb. 12: Abbotsford at Rib Lake, Athens at Edgar, Phillips at Chequamegon, Bruce at Prentice.
Feb. 16: Abbotsford at Marathon, South Shore at
Chequamegon.
Feb. 17: Rib Lake at Phillips, Edgar at Abbotsford, Athens at Auburndale.

the game in the opening minutes of the

first quarter. They jumped out to a 9-4
lead early on and took the quarter 11-6. It
might not have seemed it at the time, but
the early lapses for the Redmen would
prove fatal as they played the Rockets
near-even the rest of the way.
Rib Lake finally got going in the second quarter. Quick ball movement and
accurate passes around the perimeter
opened up space for their shooters. Katie
Cardey hit a jumper to start the quarter. Regan Dobbs followed with two free
throws and Ciara Scheithauer added a
basket as the Redmen took the lead 12-11.
Spencer responded with a three to recapture the lead. Scheithauer came right
back by hitting a layup while drawing
contact from her defender. She added the
free throw to put Rib Lake up one.
After the three-point play, the Redmen
went through a rough patch on defense
with several key players in foul trouble.
With the game tied at 16 at the 3:30 mark
of the period, Spencer proceeded to rattle off eight straight points to entrench
themselves back in front. Rib Lake got a
morale boost when, in the dying seconds
before halftime, Jasmine Fitzl dribbled
up court and drained a buzzer-beater
from just inside half-court.
Dobbs made two free throws coming
out of halftime to pull the Redmen within
three. Both sides added a basket before
Spencer got eight of the next 10 points to
fortify their lead. Fitzl hit another three
in the final minute of the third quarter to
leave Rib Lake down six going into the
final period.
Scheithauer nailed a jumper to kick

See LADY REDMEN on page 12

Its back to basics for the Rib Lake

boys basketball team after a disappointing 61-41 loss to the Phillips Loggers on
Tuesday.
Coming off a blowout win over Lake
Holcombe on Monday, the Redmen were
unable to match the play of Phillips in
the Marawood North contest. The Rib
Lake team, that just a month ago was in
the thick of the conference title race, has
stumbled in its recent conference games
and will be taking a 9-9 overall record
into its final three regular season games.
With the win, Phillips (17-2) pushed itself to the verge of the North crown. They
hold a two-game lead over second-place
Edgar with only a handful of games remaining.
We struggled running our offense due
to the aggressive and disciplined style of
Phillips. They are the clear conference
champs. Our guys became frustrated and
forgot what we were trying to do, Rib
Lake head coach Jason Wild said.
Danny Baratka scored seven for the
Loggers as they grabbed an 11-6 lead in
the first quarter. Joe Scheithauer got
four for the Redmen in the opening period. Rib Lake big-man Jordan Blomberg
was hit with some early fouls and left the
Redmen with an exploitable interior defense.
Defensively we couldnt help Jordan
quick enough. He got some early fouls
and that hurt us, Wild said.
Phillips added five more to its lead by
outscoring the Redmen 14-9 in the second
quarter. Cade Rose scored five points in
the quarter, while Austin Ewan made a
three for Rib Lake.
The offense got back into rhythm for
the Redmen in the third quarter. But as

Zone defender

MARAWOOD NORTH DIVISION

BOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Phillips
10
1
17
2
Edgar
7
2
11
5
Chequamegon
6
4
9
8
Rib Lake
4
5
9
9
Abbotsford
3
7
3
14
Prentice
3
8
6
10
Athens
2
8
3
13
Feb. 5: Chequamegon 52, Rib Lake 38; Prentice 46, Abbotsford 25.
Feb. 6: Phillips 36, Edgar 30; Stratford 60, Athens
45.
Feb. 9: Rib Lake 83, Lake Holcombe 50; Edgar
52, Colby 29.
Feb. 10: Phillips 61, Rib Lake 41; Edgar 66,
Abbotsford 47; Prentice 57, Athens 35; Chequamegon 61, Northland Pines 46.
Feb. 13: Abbotsford at Rib Lake, Phillips at
Chequamegon, Athens at Edgar, Prentice at
Flambeau.
Feb. 16: Phillips at Hayward, Spencer at Athens,
W.R. Assumption at Abbotsford, Edgar at IolaScandinavia.
Feb. 17: Ladysmith at Chequamegon, Prentice
at Bruce.
Feb. 19: Athens at Rib Lake, Abbotsford at
Chequamegon, Prentice at Edgar.

Rib Lakes offense started firing, so did

Phillips. Ewan scored five points and
Joe Frombach added four more as the
Redmen scored 15 in the period, but the
Loggers came back with 16 of their own.
Baratka added six more to his scoring tab
in the quarter.
Phillips left no doubt as to who was the
better side by outscoring Rib Lake 20-11
in the final quarter. Baratka continued
his strong offensive night by adding seven more points. Kyle Karnosh hit a pair
of three-pointers to fuel the Loggers big
finish. Blomberg gave the Redmen six
points in the quarter.
The Loggers had four players reach

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Rib Lakes Gracie Weinke keeps her eyes on a Spencer guard as part of the Redmens
2-3 zone defense. Rib Lake played a solid game on defense, but couldnt get their shots
to fall and came up short 42-34 on Monday..

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Page 7

Tigers take conference finale;

Raiders get good win at Viroqua
by Sports Editor Matt Frey

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Medfords Kaitlin Gradberg keeps the puck away from Marshfields Kessa Schreiner,
who is hoping for an easy scoring opportunity in front of the net during the second
period of Mondays 6-2 loss.

The Marshfield co-op scored in the

first minute of two periods and added a
crushing goal in the final seconds of the
second period while beating Medfords
girls hockey team 6-2 on Monday night at
the Simek Recreation Center.
Billed as Coaches Appreciation Night,
since there were no seniors on the team
to honor in the seasons last home game,
the Raiders played a fairly solid game.
But it seemed whenever they did have a
breakdown, the Tigers pounced. With the
loss, Medford finished 0-12 in the Great
Northern Conference.
Marshfield improved to 5-6 in the GNC
and 6-13 overall.
The Raiders got goals from Elise
Southworth and Marissa McPeak. For
Southworth, it was her third goal in the
last two games.
Were still down players and were
still trying to bring girls back up from
being sick, Medford head coach Sarah
Markham said. We regained Sienna
Demulling today, which was really helpful. We were able to put Elise up at forward. Shes a good offensive power for
us. Weve had her on defense most of the
season but weve realized now that we
want her up because she scores a lot of
our goals.
Southworths goal with 1:28 left in the
second period gave Medford some hope,
cutting Marshfields lead to 3-1. Amanda

Bauer put a shot on net from the right of

Tiger goalie Madi Hall. Southworth kept
poking at the rebound until she succeeded in pushing the puck past Halls left
side. Carlye Baker was credited with the
second assist.
The momentum was short-lived. Tiger
standout Morgan Larson found open skating space and drove toward the Medford
net. Goalie Emily Lybert made the initial
save but then got tangled up with Larson.
Tiger Kessa Schreiner got to the loose
puck behind the net and fed Nell Eichten,
who had a wide-open net and scored with
just two seconds left.
Larson had a hat trick for Marshfield,
scoring her second goal at the 11:43 mark
of the third period. She went top shelf to
beat Lybert on a Marshfield power play.
Larsons third goal came 2:09 later when
her low shot from the slot connected.
Schreiner had an assist.
McPeaks goal came with 2:34 left
in the game. From just inside the blue
line, she flipped the puck on net and it
handcuffed Hall and got through. Katy
Branstetter had an assist.
Schreiner, Larson and Eichten had
Marshfields first three goals. Schreiner
surprised the Raiders 38 seconds in, scoring off a simple dump toward the net by
Larson. Lybert, however, was stellar during the rest of the period, collecting 16
saves.

See GIRLS HOCKEY on page 13

Old Abes, Storm again earn top seeds in hockey sectionals

Seeking its sixth straight trip to Madison, Eau Claire
Memorial (15-5-3) was given the one-seed in this areas boys
sectional for the ninth straight season. The Old Abes have
gone to state eight of the last nine years and, as one of only
two teams in the sectional with an above .500 record, are
heavy favorites to continue that streak.
Four-seed Ashland (13-7) enters as the only other team

with a winning record in the sectional. Memorial clinched

the Big Rivers Conference title on Tuesday by defeating
Menomonie 4-1. Led by forwards Dylan Ross (31 points) and
Kadin Machuask (29 points), the Abes have had good success against likely challengers in the sectional. They got

WIAA D.C. Everest

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wins in both games against two-seed Chippewa Falls (1111-1). On Dec. 11 they won 4-1 and on Jan. 22 they shutout
Chi-Hi 7-0. They also got a pair of wins over seven-seed Eau
Claire North (9-14-1) and a 4-1 victory over six-seed Rice
Lake on Jan. 13.
Playing in one of the three first-round games, the
Warriors (5-16-1) will host the bottom-seed Medford Raiders
(2-20). The two sides have not played this year, though Rice
Lake did defeat Lakeland 4-0 on Dec. 6, a side that Medford
split its two games against this season.
The Warriors struggled in the Big Rivers this year, going 2-9. Their top scorer was forward Zach Shadick, who
scored eight points in 20 games. Countering for Medford,
Jack Schafer scored 18 goals and had six assists in 22
games to lead the team. Standout goalie Carter Jamieson
will have to come up big for the Raiders to pull the upset.
If Medfords defense can limit Rice Lakes chances on offense, an upset is within reach. Jamieson leads the state
with 1,233 saves this year, 523 more than his nearest competition, Walker Smith of Waupaca.
Three-seed Hayward (11-11-1) awaits the winner of Rice
Lake and Medford. The Hurricanes won both their games
against the Warriors this year, 6-3 on Dec. 29, and 5-2 on
Jan. 17.
On the girls side, Medford (3-17) faces a daunting task
on Feb. 19 when it travel to the Greenheck Fieldhouse for
a matchup with the one-seed Central Wisconsin Storm (146-1). The Raiders enter the game averaging just over two
goals per game on offense, and will need to play a flawless
game to take down the Storm. Joelle Zenner is Medfords
top scorer, with 11 points in 16 games. This marks the
eighth straight year Central Wisconsin has earned a oneseed in its sectional. The Storm has suffered a pair of losses to University School of Milwaukee this year, but hasnt
had much trouble with the rest of the Wisconsin teams
on their schedule. On Jan. 17, they got a 4-2 win over twoseed Northland Pines. The Storm are led by Kelly Knetter,
whos notched 27 points in 20 games this year.
Three-seed Northland Pines (15-8-1) has a pair of 27-point
scorers in Kali Ebert and Cali Sanborn. Theyve defeated
Lakeland 8-0 and 2-0 this year.
The other power in the sectional is the two-seed
Northern Edge (16-3-2). The Edge has rolled through its opponents this year, averaging 5.1 goals per game while only
allowing 1.5. Katie Detert has totaled 63 points, including
44 goals, this season while Lauren Smith has 52 points.
The Edge defeated Pines 4-1 on Jan. 8 and tied them 2-2 on
Monday.
--Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter

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Wrestlers finish 5th overall

Continued from page 1
with Tomahawks Nate Flohr. Hanson
won 5-4.
We thought Kolten matched up better with Flohr than with Alex Reas
(Rhinelanders 152-pound champion),
Brooks said. He pretty well controlled
most of the match. We got taken down
right away, but after that we were able
to take control. We did get reversed with
about 30 seconds, but all we needed was
on. We got that escape and hung on.
Josh Brooks won his first four matches. He pinned Antigos Mark Seidl in 1:40
and Tomahawks Brady Anderson in
1:44. A 4-1 win over Lakelands Michael
Holton gave Brooks a chance at the undisputed title, but Rhinelanders Reuben
Guzik forced a three-way tie by beating

Pool
Wednesday Night League
PBRs Lounge Around, 71 wins; Thirsty Choppers,
65; Cindys Bar I, 63; Gad Bar, 58; Kountry Korners II, 51; Cindys Bar II, 48; Steppin Up to Bottoms Up I, 47; Kountry Korners I, 45; Mainstreet I,
44; Mainstreet II, 43; Thirsty Moose, 42; Steppin
Up to Bottoms Up II, 41; Deer Trail, 40.
Feb. 4: Steppin Up II 5, Thirsty Moose 4; Steppin
Up I 6, Deer Trail 3; Gad 6, Mainstreet II 3; PBRs
Lounge Around 9, Mainstreet I 0; Cindys II 5,
Kountry Korners II 4; Cindys I 7, Kountry Korners
I 2.
Medford Womens League
Cindys, 67 wins, 99 games played; Hacienda, 59,
99; Mainstreet II, 50, 90; Steppin Up, 58, 108;
Thirsty Moose, 48, 90; VFW, 51, 99; Mainstreet I,
34, 90; Gad, 32, 90; Bogeys, 33, 99.
March 5: Gad 5, VFW 4; Mainstreet II 7, Bogeys
2; Hacienda 7, Mainstreet I 2; Steppin Up 5,
Cindys 4.
Note: Cadie Smith had an eight-ball break.

Brooks 7-4. But with two pins compared

to one each for Guzik and Holton, Brooks
won the tiebreaker. Guzik got second and
Holton was third.
We knew going in we were probably
still going to get first as long as we didnt
get pinned, coach Brooks said. Josh
was still disappointed. He doesnt like to
lose. But we talked about it. We said if it
was a bracket system, he wouldnt have
even had to wrestle that match. It happens. Thats the nature of a round-robin.
Carlsons first GNC honor followed a
3-2 day as he dropped down a weight class.
Carlson opened with a solid 12-7 win over
Lakeland senior Frank Scandin. Carlson
led 7-2 after two periods and 9-3 in the third
before Scandin closed the gap with a fivepoint reversal and near fall. Champion
Jon Fox of Rhinelander pinned him in
1:34. Carlson nearly knocked off runnerup Andy Ellis of Mosinee, but Ellis got
him 2-1. Carlson finished with an 8-1 win
over Tomahawks Matt Turkiewicz and a
31-second pin over Antigos Garret Balis.
With Hanson moving down, Tanner
Peterson bumped up to 152 pounds and
took fourth out of five wrestlers. He
earned a win by injury default over
Lakelands Jared Brugier. Peterson
was pinned by champion Alex Reas
of Rhinelander (1:15), runner-up Will
Dixon of Antigo (1:37) and Dakota
Tomek of Tomahawk (5:22). Jake Merrill
placed fourth at 182 pounds, earning
a pin in 2:54 over Mosinees Desmond
Schwoch. Merrill was pinned by champion Kaleb Kaminski of Tomahawk (29
seconds), runner-up Colton Krueger of
Rhinelander (2:21) and Garrett Becerra
of Antigo (5:02).
Kenny Krug was fourth in a four-man
bracket at 220 pounds. He was pinned by
champion Jake Borchardt of Tomahawk
(24 seconds), runner-up Josafat Garcia-

Moral of Antigo (3:59) and Logan

Enerson of Rhinelander (1:58). Brad
Nelles returned to the lineup and took
fifth out of five wrestlers at 106 pounds.
He lost a 12-9 decision to third-place finisher Dejay Nordrum of Lakeland and
was pinned by champion Josh Ehster of
Mosinee (54 seconds), runner-up Tyler
Olson of Rhinelander (56 seconds) and
Brandon Lucht of Antigo (1:25). Brayden
Fultz was sixth at 126 pounds, one of the
toughest brackets of the tournament. He
was pinned by champion Jacob DeMeyer
of Rhinelander (1:07), runner-up Ty
Gauerke of Mosinee (48 seconds), Chase
Erdman of Tomahawk (34 seconds), Seth
Doering of Antigo (1:44) and Matt Hanne
of Lakeland (49 seconds).

Its regional week

Medford starts post-season competition on Saturday, traveling to a WIAA
Division 2 regional hosted by the MelroseMindoro/G-E-T co-op at Melrose. The
meet starts at 11 a.m.
The top two wrestlers in each weight
class will advance to sectional competition in Amery on Feb. 21. The top team
will compete in the team sectional at
Stanley-Boyd on Tuesday.
For the Raiders, it will be all about
individual advancement. Senior Jacob
Stamos, unfortunately, wont be able to
wrestle due to an elbow injury. However,
Brooks, Hanson and Tucker Peterson

Thursday,
Thursday,September
February 12,
22, 2015
2011

have their eyes set on post-season runs.

Wrestlers like Carlson and Merrill hope
to surprise on Saturday.
Tuckers moving down to 152, coach
Brooks said. Everyone else is at the
weight theyre going to wrestle at.
Melrose-Mindoro/G-E-T took second in the Coulee Conference meet and
Neillsville-Greenwood-Loyal was third in
the Cloverbelt meet on Saturday. Black
River Falls had a handful of individual
place winners at the Coulee Conference
meet. Cloverbelt Conference squads
Osseo-Fairchild/Augusta/Fall Creek and
Abbotsford-Colby round out the field.
GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCE
WRESTLING FINAL STANDINGS
Duals Dual Meet
Total
W-L
Pts.
Pts.
Pts.
Rhinelander 5-0
10
12
22
Tomahawk
4-1
8
10
18
Lakeland
3-2
6
4
10
Antigo
2-3
4
8
12
Medford
0-5
0
6
6
Mosinee
1-4
2
2
4
Feb. 5: Oconto 39, Antigo 30; Lakeland 59, Three
Lakes 6.
Feb. 7 GNC Meet: 1. Rhinelander, 408; 2. Tomahawk, 368; 3. Antigo, 241; 4. Medford, 193; 5.
Lakeland, 191; 6. Mosinee, 177.
Feb. 14: Medford at WIAA Div. 2 MelroseMindoro/G-E-T regional; Lakeland, Mosinee
and Tomahawk at WIAA Div. 2 WittenbergBirnamwood regional; Antigo and Rhinelander
at WIAA Div. 1 Marshfield regional.
Feb. 17: WIAA Div. 2 team sectionals at
Stanley-Boyd and Freedom, WIAA Div. 1 team
sectional at Menomonie.

Storm defends home court in Medfords

weekend volleyball tournament

15s claim title

Submitted photos

The Medford Storms 15-1 squad claimed the Gold Division (overall) championship Saturday during Medfords home tournament. Team members include (bottom
l. to r.) Lainey Brunner, Kayla Herbst, Korrie Herbst, (top) Kaitlyn Cardey, Courtney
Shipley, coach Jordyn Anderson and Gracie Weinke.

17s win tournament

The Medford Storms 17-1 club volleyball team won the Gold Division (overall)
championship at Sundays Medford tournament. The team was coached by Katey
Noland and includes (front l. to r.) Maggie Baker, Hanna Gurtner, Victoria Lammar,
(back) Sophia Pernsteiner, Jenna Klemm, Sydney Elsner, Morgan Dutzle and Vanessa
Laher.

Silver winners
The Medford Storm Volleyball 16s team won the Silver Division in Sundays 17s
tournament in Medford. Team members include (front l. to r.) Anna Schraufnagel,
Taylor Ziehlke, Olivia Weir, (back) Tori Folz, Megan Polster, Lauren Carstensen,
Brynn Dahlby, JoJo Baratka and Emily Frick.

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This Weekend
Thursday, February 12
Taylor County Humane Society Spayghetti
Dinner starting at 4 p.m. at The Filling Station.
Medford Area Community Theatre presents The
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at 7:30
p.m. at the Red White Theatre at Medford High School.

Friday, February 13
Medford Area Community Theatre presents The
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 7:30 p.m. at
the Red White Theatre at Medford High School.
Valentines Couples Pool Tournament starting at
7:30 p.m. at Gad Bar.

Saturday, February 14
Spirit Lakes Improvement Association Annual
Ice Fishing Jamboree from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m..
Mixed Doubles Pool Tourney starting at noon at
Mohrs Bar.
Annual Curtiss LeMans Snowmobile Races
starting at noon.
Snowmobile Races starting at 12:30 p.m. at Gad
Bar.
Medford Area Figure Skaters present Love on Ice
at 6:30 p.m. at the Simek Center.
Doubles Cribbage Tournament starting at 1 p.m.
at Foxys.
Donkey Basketball Tournament starting at 2 p.m.
at the Gilman High School gym.
Annual Pancake Supper from 4 to 7 p.m. at St.
John Lutheran Church in Rib Lake.
Mixed Couples Bean Bag Tournament starting at
7 p.m. at BS Bar.
Medford Area Community Theatre presents The
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at 7:30
p.m. at the Red White Theatre at Medford High School.
Ads Tunes at Crossroads.
Live music by Smoke Wagon starting at 8 p.m. at
Main Street Bar.
DJ Zooy on Saturday, Feb. 14 starting at 9 p.m. at
JuJus Place.
Music by Lonie G from 9 p.m. to close at DCs
Breaktime.
Just for Fun DJ/Karaoke starting at 9 p.m. at The
Last Straw.
18th Annual Medford Womens Pool
Tournament at Hacienda.
Valentines Day dining specials: The Turtle Club;
P&E Steakhouse; The High View; Jerkwater; The Roost
Bar; Boozers; Rib River Bar & Grill; Marilyns Fire
Station; Rustic Trail Supper Club; The Other Corner;
Pot Belly Pub & Grill; Rail Trail Cafe; Mesquite Grill &
Pub; 8th Street; and Camp 28.

Sunday, February 15
Medford Area Figure Skaters present Love on Ice
at 1 p.m. at the Simek Center.

Saturday, February 21
Taylor County Tavern League Snow Golf
Tournament and Chili Cook-off starting at 10:30 a.m.
at Hannahs Hen House.
Couples Dart Tourney starting at noon at Mohrs
Bar.
Underhand Dartball Tournament at Crossroads.

Medford FFA speakers reach sectional

Medford FFA members competed at the district speaking contest in Wausau on Feb. 4 and each team member
advanced to sectionals in at least one contest. The district speaking team includes (front, l. to r.) Noah Sackmann
(discussion meet, parliamentary procedure and creed), Joelle Zenner (discussion meet and extemporaneous), advisor Lisa Kopp, (back) Nick Szymanski (parliamentary procedure), Joey Tomandl (parliamentary procedure), Kara
Rudolph (parliamentary procedure), Lucy Marshall (parliamentary procedure), and Taylor Adleman (extemporaneous and parliamentary procedure).

Ecumenical choir makes call for singers

Singers are invited to participate in the Annual
Spring Concert Series performed by the Community
Ecumenical Choir. Rehearsals take place on Tuesday
evenings at 6:30 p.m. beginning on Feb. 17 at the Ogema
Baptist Church (State Road 86) in Ogema.
Concerts are scheduled for Sundays, April 12 and 19.
This spring concert is entitled Tell Me the Stories of
Jesus. The choir is made up of Christian men, women

Special Olympics Soup Supper

and Bake Sale

February 21, 2015 at 4-7 p.m.

Holy Rosary Catholic Church
& School 215 S. Washington Ave.

Saturday, February 28
6-146187

Special Occasion Dress Resale from 10 a.m. to 4

p.m. at the Taylor County Education Center.
6th Annual Strike-A-Bond Bowling Tournament
at noon and 3 p.m. at The Sports Page.
Four Person Underhand Dartball Tourney at
Foxys.
Chicago Style Luck of the Draw Dart
Tournament and Triple Shoot starting at 7:30 p.m. at
Zondlos.

photo by Mark Berglund

Serving chicken noodle, cheesy

broccoli & chili
Meal includes: Soup, cheese &
crackers, bread & dessert
Bake sale will be held
If you have any questions contact:
Katie Freudenthal - 715-383-5476
Brenda Clark - 715-678-6055

There will be a free will donation taken for the soup

supper to help raise funds for participation in all
Special Olympics athletic sports.

and teens from the Price, Lincoln and Taylor county

areas. All operating expenses are covered with the generous free-will offerings of audiences and supporters.
Any surplus money is donated to a charity selected by
the choir members. For more information about the
Community Ecumenical Choir contact this springs director, Dolly Hadden, at 715-767-5353.

P & E Steakhouse

715-748-2975
SAT., FEB. 14 & SUN., FEB. 15

Located South of Medford on Hwy 13

Valentines Special
Small & Large Prime Rib
King Crab Legs
Surf & Turf
Plus Limited Menu
Reservations appreciated

Complimentary Champagne with every meal

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A snow cave can be a warm place for shelter.

Gilman Boy Scouts and leaders demonstrated the art of
making a proper snow cave at Snieg Fest on Saturday.
Gilman celebrated its 16th annual winter event with
loads of events in the village park.

6th Annual

Strike-A-Bond
Bowling Tournament

6-146188

Michelle Johnson leans into the throw as she wins the womens championship in the annual frying pan toss
at Snieg Fest on Saturday. Her winning toss was just shy of 30 feet.

Proceeds will be donated to:

Mission Relief Fund
Located 5 miles south of 102 on Cty C
or 1-3/4 miles north of M on Cty C

Snow cave

Womens winner

St. Peter Lutheran Church

Saturday, February 28th, 2015

9 Pin Tournament
Rafes
Paddle Wheel
Shifts will be at noon and 3pm
Cost is $100 per team. You bring 4
bowlers and Special Olympics will
supply the 5th bowler for the team.

Medallion winner

Polka party

Roger Newman awards the prizes for the annual

medallion hunt on Saturday.

Snieg Fest is the first opportunity of the year to polka

in the Gilman village park.

Come join
the fun!

Contact Sports Page in person

or at 715-748-3433
ALL Proceeds go to Taylor County Special Olympics

Join us for
Valentines
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Prime Rib & Shrimp or

Bacon-Wrapped Pork Loin

on a bed of mashed potatoes

Mens winner

Getting a handle on it

Douglas Hubbard gets ready to toss a frying pan in

the mens group. He threw it 65 feet, 2 inches to win.

A young competitor uses the frying pan handle for

leverage.

Campfire cooking

Gilman Boy Scouts and leaders demonstrated campfire cooking, including tasty pies.

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Thursday,
Thursday,September
February 12,
22, 2015
2011

Medford girls fall to 5-13

Continued from page 4

Evergreen sweep

Photo by Bryan Wegter

As skip Josie Brost looks on, Vanessa Laher (l. to r.), Alyssa Loertscher, and Bailey
Feddick of the Medford girls varsity curling team sweep. The girls rink narrowly edged
the visiting D.C. Everest Evergreens, 8-7. The boys varsity team, skipped by John Shear,
beat Everest 12-3. The JV boys squad earned a 7-6 win while the JV girls soundly beat
the Evergreens, 10-2.
Medford hosts Stevens Point today, Thursday, at 3:45 p.m. in the final home meet
of the 2014-15 season. The regular season ends Monday with a rescheduled 3 p.m.
meet at Wausau West.

Hockey shut out at Pines

Continued from page 1
stopped 69 of them to further increase
his lead among goalies statewide in shots
faced and saves. Gabe Hartwig had 17
saves to get the shutout for the Eagles.
Ramesh got the games first goal just
46 seconds in. Raymond and Droes scored
19 seconds apart at 4:01 and 4:20. A fourgoal binge late in the period put it away.

Hinder Binder at
Forest Springs Saturday
The Rib Lake Ski and Snowshoe
Club will host its 33rd running of the
Hinder Binder cross-country ski race on
Saturday, Feb. 14.
The start and finish for the race will
occur at Forest Springs. The races are
held on the rolling hills on the Forest
Springs and Rib Lake ski trails.
Events include a 23K classic race at 10
a.m., a 23K freestyle race at 10:15 a.m., an
8.2K high school race at 10:20 a.m., a 4.4K
middle school race at 10:25 a.m., a 6.6K
citizens ski tour at 10:25 a.m. and a 1K
kids race at 10:30 a.m.
Race day registration will be held at
Forest Springs starting at 8 a.m. Forms
can also be downloaded and more information can be found at www.skiriblake.
com. Also for more information, you can
call 715-748-2307 or email info@skiriblake.com.
The recreational facilities at Forest
Springs will be open for use from 1 to 5
p.m. They include downhill skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, a tubing
hill and snowshoeing. Ticket and rental
fees apply.

Droes got his second goal at 10:50. Jack

Brown scored at 12:49, Joseph Roach
added another 1:02 later and Carson Cox
scored at 15:06.
Pines outshot Medford 37-9 in the period. The Eagles outshot Medford 23-2 in
the second period and scored three more
goals. Shots on goal were 21-6 in favor of
Pines in the third.
Medford was unsuccessful in three
power plays, including a five-minute major that spanned the end of the second period and start of the third. Pines was one
for three with Spencer scoring a powerplay goal with 10 seconds left in the game.

Feb. 21 deadline for

Alumni Bonspiel
The registration deadline is quickly approaching for the ninth annual
Medford Area Senior High Alumni
Bonspiel, which is set for the weekend of
March 6-8 at the Medford Curling Club.
The entry deadline is Feb. 21. At least
two members of each team are required
to be MASH alumni. The entry fee is $160
per team and includes food, snacks, soda,
beer and entertainment for the weekend.
A karaoke contest with cash prizes is
planned for Friday night and DJ Sound
FX will provide Saturday nights entertainment. The Rock the Red Zone contest
will take place throughout the weekend.
The winner receives a free team entry
into the 2016 Alumni Spiel.
For more information, contact Kate
Metz at metzk@hotmail.com or 715-7485732.

Medford gave itself a chance to get back

in it with much better defense and rebounding.
But the Raiders could not knock down
a shot or two when they needed to and
could not make a serious run.
They just outplayed us, plain and
simple, Wildberg said. They came out
with energy in the beginning and we
didnt. They came out playing physical
and we didnt. They got us on our heels
because of their physicalness. We have to
match that physicalness.
After that, we did that, he said.
Once we kinda took that shock, it was
pretty much an even match from there
on out.
The Indians extended their lead to
24-7 at the 4:30 mark of the second quarter and scored only three points over the
next eight minutes. All Medford had to
show for it was six points and a deficit
still sitting at 27-13.
The Raiders finally scored six straight
points to end the third quarter and cut it
to 29-19. Lammar, back from her broken
wrist, made two free throws with 1:21
left. Lammar scored inside off a Laher assist. Stolps steal turned into two Hailee
Clausnitzer free throws with 27.5 seconds
left.
Mosinees Jaycie Dulak opened the
fourth quarter with an inside hoop.
Schultz
answered
another
Hailee
Clausnitzer free throw with an easy
drive through the lane. After a Bergman
free throw, Michlig converted a threepoint play with 4:05 left to make it 36-21
and basically put the game away.
Early on, Mosinee simply executed
better on the offensive end than Medford
did. Koshalek opened the game with a
three-pointer. The Indians got two key
rebound buckets in the first quarter, including one by Claire Nievinski in the
final seconds that made it 17-5. Schultz
had a three-point play and an assist to
Natasha Stubbe as the lead grew to 17.
Jenice Clausnitzer hit two late shots,
including a three-pointer, to lead Medford

Lady Redmen
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off the fourth, but the Redmen wouldnt
get closer than four the rest of the way.
Both sides traded points in the final minutes as Spencer outscored Rib Lake 8-6 in
the final quarter to earn the win.
Melissa Lehman had 13 points to lead
the Rockets. Abby Varsho added six
points, but it was her tenacity on the
boards that made a bigger impact in the
game.
Scheithauer scored 11 points to pace
the Redmen. Cardey was right behind
with 10 points and three rebounds. Fitzl
netted six points in the loss. Dobbs
scored four points and brought down
nine rebounds. Rib Lake finished 12 of 39
(30.7 percent) from the field and eight of
13 (61.5 percent) at the free throw line.
We battled and kept it close, but we
could never get over the hump. We settled down with the fouls in the second
half, but we just couldnt get closer than
three, Wudi said.
Rib Lake (5-14) returns home to face
Abbotsford tonight, Thursday, for their
final home game of the season. On Jan.
9 the Redmen lost to the Falcons 30-46.
The Redmen then conclude their regular
season on the road against Phillips next
Tuesday. Both Marawood North games
have 7:30 p.m. start times.
Rib Lake will learn its postseason
assignment for the WIAA Division 5 regional this weekend.

GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCE

GIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Lakeland
8
1
17
2
Mosinee
7
2
13
6
Rhinelander
6
3
11
8
Antigo
6
4
12
5
Northland Pines
3
7
8
11
Medford
3
7
5
13
Tomahawk
0
9
1
17
Feb. 5: Chippewa Falls 54, Medford 30.
Feb. 6: Mosinee 42, Medford 30; Northland
Pines 42, Antigo 41; Rhinelander 68, Tomahawk
34; Lakeland 57, Wausau East 37.
Feb. 9: Ashland 52, Tomahawk 38; Lakeland 67,
Prentice 54.
Feb. 10: Mosinee 68, Medford 53;Antigo at
Clintonville, Northland Pines 56, Prentice 41.
Feb. 13: Lakeland at Medford, Rhinelander at
Antigo, Tomahawk at Mosinee.
Feb. 14: Marathon at Northland Pines.
Feb. 17: Northland Pines at Medford,
Mosinee at Rhinelander, Lakeland at Tomahawk,
Antigo at Wausau East.
Feb. 19: Nekoosa at Medford.

with eight points. Haliee Clausnitzer hit

a late triple and finished with seven, all
in the second half. Lammar and Wildberg
scored four points each. Bergman added
three. Stolp and Carstensen scored two
apiece.
Schultz led the Indians with 14 points.
Six came in the first quarter. Michlig
added eight.
Theyre not an easy matchup for us,
Wildberg said. Theyre bigger than we
are. But I dont think that necessarily
killed us. You still have to box out. For
the most part, I dont think their size hurt
us as much as Rhinelander hurt us. They
didnt get much stuff down on the block
in the post.
The first half of the first quarter was
the worst, he said. They just got us on
our heels. If you dont get off on the right
foot, you really have to struggle to get
back in it.

In it for a half
Medford stayed within shouting distance for a half at Chippewa Falls on
Thursday, but the states ninth-ranked
team in Division 1 took over with a 23-4
run in the third quarter and eased to a 5430 win.
Lexi Hanley, a 5-7 sophomore guard,
did most of the damage in the third quarter, scoring 12 of her game-high 17 points
in the period. That included two threepointers. Wildberg said Medford had
about a half-dozen turnovers that led directly to points for the Cardinals.
We played with them in three quarters, he said. We actually played with
them solid in three quarters, the first,
second and fourth. But in the third quarter, they smoked us.
It was a 21-13 game at halftime. The
Raiders got off to a slow start. A threepointer from Jenice Clausnitzer was the
teams lone field goal in a 12-4 first quarter. Cardinal senior Kaitlin Rubenzer
had eight points in the quarter, including
a pair of long balls. She finished with 13
points.
The teams played to a 9-9 draw in the
second quarter. Mandi Baker and Lakyn
Kummer hit shots for the Raiders with
Bakers being a three-pointer. Baker and
Hailee Clausnitzer added free throws to
keep it close until Hanley let loose in the
third.
Medford outscored Chi-Hi 13-10 in the
fourth quarter. Stolp scored all six of her
points late and Baker added five more,
including a trey. Bakers 11 points led
Medford. Wildberg finished with four
points, Jenice Clausnitzer finished with
three and Kummer, Hailee Clausnitzer
and Carstensen finished with two each.
The Cardinals improved to 17-1 with
the win.

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Redmen blow out Lake Holcombe; lose rematch to Chequamegon

Continued from page 6
double-digit points. Baratka led all players with 20 points. Karnosh scored 13,
while Ryan Giannoni and Rose both
scored 11. Phillips made seven threepointers in the win.
Scheithauer led Rib Lake with nine
points. Blomberg and Ewan both netted
eight, while Frombach scored six. The
Redmen made three three-pointers.
It was a humbling loss for us.
Hopefully it will add fuel to our fire to be
better, come playoffs. Joe Scheithauer
continued to play his heart out. Were
very excited to see just how good he can
be, Wild said.
The Redmen will close their conference season with three straight home
games in the North. Tomorrow theyll
host Abbotsford, a team they beat by four
back on Jan. 13. Next Thursday theyll
host Athens and on Feb. 23 they welcome
Edgar for the regular season finale.
Were going back to basics and will
work as if its the beginning of the season.
We need practice at game speed. We need
to out-hustle our opponents, be better
defenders, and need more impact from
our bench players. Im anticipating our
guys to get back and up and fight hard.
Im lucky to have guys who want to win
and are willing to do what is needed to
get better, Wild said.

Win over Lake Holcombe

After a string of disappointing results,
a blowout win was a much needed morale boost for the Redmen on Monday.
Scheithauer scored 26 and the Redmen

earned an 83-50 win over Lake Holcombe.

Rib Lake got production from across the
board as all 10 active players on the roster scored points.
The Redmen offense was blazing to
start the game. Scheithauer poured in
eight and Blomberg added six as the
home side jumped out to a 27-13 lead.
Jeremiah Reedy scored nine to keep the
Chieftains within striking distance.
Frombach took his turn leading the
offense in the second quarter. He made
a pair of threes and Scheithauer scored
four more points to give the Redmen a
17-11 advantage in the period. Reedy continued to carry the Chieftains offense by
scoring seven points.
The halftime break didnt slow down
Rib Lakes offense. Scheithauer singlehandedly destroyed Holcombes defense
by scoring 10 points in the third quarter.
Frombach chipped in four points while
Blomberg made three of four free throws.
Entering the fourth quarter up 63-38,
the Redmen seemed to take out their frustration from previous games by continuing to pound the Chieftains. Frombach
attempted six free throws and made
five, while Blomberg scored four points.
Dalton Strebig drained a three and Nick
Eisner and Austin Zondlo scored a basket each as Rib Lake added 20 more to its
score. Reedy added six as Lake Holcombe
scored 12 in the final quarter.
Reedy scored a game-high 27 in the
losing effort for the Chieftains. Jay Kent
chipped in eight points. Reedy made both
Holcombes three-point field goals in the
game. The Chieftains were six of 20 (30
percent) from the free throw line.

Girls hockey beats Viroqua

Continued from page 7
She has been gaining a lot of skills
and momentum as the season has been
going, Markham said of Lybert. She
makes some incredible saves. Emilys a
sophomore. She still has two more years
in her. Shes been getting better every
game. Were really impressed with her.
She works hard out there. She works
hard in practice. Last year, she used to
get really upset when somebody would
get a goal on her. Now shes turning that
around and using that anger to block
those shots.
Larson got a one-on-one shot 41 seconds into the second period. The puck
deflected off Lyberts stick and over her
shoulder to make it 2-0. Eichten put a
perfectly-placed shot through the fivehole at 7:28 to make it 3-0.
Lybert finished with 38 saves, 30 of
which came in the first two periods. Hall
had nine.
Medford was unsuccessful on two
power-play chances. Marshfield was one
for four.
Medford (3-17) will conclude its regular season tonight, Thursday, with a
non-conference game at Black River
Falls. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m. The
Raiders drew the eighth seed in the
WIAA D.C. Everest sectional. Theyll
head to Everests Greenheck Fieldhouse
on Feb. 19 to play the top-seeded Central
Wisconsin Storm (13-6-1) in a 7 p.m. regional final.

A road win

Southworth and Baker reversed a

3-2 deficit with their second goals of the
game and the defense held from there in
a 4-3 win over host Viroqua on Saturday
in non-conference play.
The win was Medfords first since it
got two wins at the Rhinelander holiday
tournament. The back-and-forth game

featured four lead changes. The Raiders

protected their final lead like pros, which
Markham said was impressive.
It was a fun game to play, she said.
We were ahead 4-3 with at least 10 minutes to go and Ive never seen our girls
forecheck like they did in that game. We
told them, this is it. Were ahead. We
have to keep it on their end. They just
did a phenomenal job doing that. It was
90 percent of their time in their zone. We
kept it that way so we could get that win.
That felt good. We needed that.
Blackhawk Chloe Horan scored the
games first goal just 1:35 in. Southworth
tied it at the 9:13 mark of the opening
period, assisted by McPeak and Joelle
Zenner. Bakers first goal late in the period was assisted by Mikayla Kelz and
gave Medford the lead.
Viroqua (1-15) answered with a Horan
goal, assisted by Molly Hanson, and a
Emma Kolden goal, assisted by Lauren
Schneider and Kiley Buroker to take a
3-2 second-period lead. But Southworth
knotted the game at 3-3 late in the period,
assisted by Baker. Bakers go-ahead goal
1:53 into the third was assisted by Kaitlin
Gradberg.
We were down two of our best defenders, Markham said. Sienna and Taylor
(Adleman) were gone. For our defense,
we just did a three-player rotation. Our
defense did a really nice job. We did better with breaking it out of our zone and
dumping it out of our zone.
Makayla Hanson got the start in goal
and had 23 saves, including seven in the
third period. Medford put 47 shots on
Viroquas Ivy Shonka. She stopped 43.
The win was the first of two for
Medford. The Raider boys followed it up
with a 6-4 win over the Blackhawks in
their game.
It was a good day for Medford hockey, Markham said.

Scheithauer scored a personal seasonhigh 26 to lead the Redmen. Frombach

scored 20 and Blomberg netted 13 points.
Jared Hovde scored eight while Jordan
Cardey added four.

Eagles take rematch

Chequamegon earned some revenge
on Thursday for a December defeat on its
home floor by grabbing an early lead and
never letting it go in a 52-38 victory at Rib
Lake.
The Marawood Norths leading scorer, Shane Wakefield, led all scorers with
20 points. Though both teams have better-than-average size, it was the play of
Chequamegons guards Wakefield and
Christian Armstrong that was the difference.
The Redmen continued to fight themselves offensively much of the night.
Other than the occasional short-lived
spurt, they never got into a groove that
was good enough to counter the Eagles.
Two three-pointers from Armstrong
helped give Chequamegon a quick 12-2
lead. Scheithauers baseline jumper and
a Strebig free throw made it 12-5 at the
end of the first quarter.
Rib Lakes best offensive period was
the second. Strebig, who gave the Redmen
a nice spark in the first half, grabbed an
offensive rebound and passed the ball to
Scheithauer, who dished it to Cardey for
a point-blank lay-in. Cardey then drilled
a three-pointer to make it 12-10.
Wakefield canned an NBA-range
three-pointer to make it 17-10, when Rib
Lake made another little run. Strebig
drove the lane and was rewarded with

a three-point play. Strebigs assist gave

Scheithauer a baseline bucket to make
it 17-15. Strebig later converted another
three-point play with 2:10 left in the half
to pull the Redmen within 22-18.
But Chequamegon answered with an
8-0 run to end the half, keyed by back-toback triples from Armstrong, who scored
12 first-half points on four three-pointers.
He finished with 18 points.
A slow start to the third quarter buried Rib Lake. Wakefield stole a lazy pass
and scored on the opening possession
and then drove right through the middle
of Rib Lakes defense for another bucket.
Benjamin Godleske scored inside to push
the lead to 36-18 before Scheithauer finally scored off a Frombach assist at the
5:20 mark. Rib Lake clawed back within
nine at 38-29 with a short offensive surge,
with Cardey nailing a three-ball off a
turnover and Scheithauer, Blomberg
and Frombach producing some points.
But Austin Hilgart was left alone on
an inbound play for an easy hoop and
Wakefield banked in a shot from a tough
angle to make it 42-29 at quarters end.
Blomberg scored twice to open the
fourth quarter and cut the lead to 4233, but Wakefield again cut through the
heart of the defense for a layup and then
somehow rolled in a tough scoop shot
while well-defended to make it 46-33 in
a 20-second span. Rib Lake got no closer
than eight after that.
Strebig and Scheithauer scored 10
points apiece for the Redmen and Cardey
finished with eight. Blomberg scored
six, all in the second half. Frombach and
Ewan scored two points each.

Rainbow gymnasts have great day at Antigo

by Sports Editor Matt Frey
Team championships in Level 4 and
Level 5 highlighted a strong day for
Medfords Rainbow Gymnastics Club at
the Antigo Twisters Valentine Invite on
Sunday, Feb. 1.
Im so proud of the girls, club head
coach Lisa Brooks said. Its nice to see
them performing so well. Every kid improved in one way, shape or form. We got
a lot of compliments on our form.
The Rainbow team scored 106.25
points in Level 4 competition to just get
by the Marshfield Magic (105.3) and the
Antigo Twisters (103.2). Elite Central
Athletics of Wausau (98) was fourth. The
club had seven Level 4 entrants.
Anna Wanke won the all-around title
for ages 8 and 9 with 35.6 points. She won
the balance beam with a 9.4 and the bars
with an 8.7. She was second on vault with
an 8.4 and third in the floor exercise with
a 9.1. Marlee Perrin was third with 34.1
points. She was second on the floor with
a 9.3, third on bars with an 8.0, fourth on
vault with an 8.3 and fifth on the beam
with an 8.5.
Megan Wanke scored 35.15 all-around
points to finish second in the 10-11
age group behind Marshfields Rachel
Lindner (35.45). Wanke won the bars
with an 8.75, took second on beam with
a 9.2, earned fourth on the floor with a
9.0 and took fifth on the vault with an 8.2.
Riley Bellendorf was right behind Wanke
with 34 points, including a 9.1 on floor, an
8.8 on beam, an 8.1 on vault and an 8.0 on
bars.
Abby Sova won the vault with an 8.7
and was fifth overall with 33.6 points.
She added an 8.8 on floor, an 8.1 on beam
and an 8.0 on bars. Brooke Wegerer was
ninth in the age group with 30.95 points,
including a fourth-place score of 8.4 on

vault and eighth-place score of 8.1 on

beam. Kara Hudak was fourth among
those 12 and over. She scored 32.6 points,
including a win on the beam with a 9.2.
She added an 8.1 on vault, an 8.0 on floor
and a 7.3 on bars.
Medfords four Level 5 gymnasts
scored 102.85 points to beat Marshfield
(98.75).
Madelyn Wanke won the all-around title in the 12-13 age group with 34.1 points.
The group consisted of three Rainbow
gymnasts. Wanke won the beam with a
9.4, the floor with a 9.0 and the bars with
a 7.5. She was third on vault with an 8.2.
Paige Brandner scored 32.65 points, winning the vault with a 9.2. She added an
8.65 on floor, a 7.8 on beam and a 7.0 on
bars. Jsera Reed had 32.5 points, including a 9.2 on beam, an 8.6 on vault, an 8.1
on floor and a 6.6 on bars.
Brooklyn Bilz was the best gymnast
out of eight in the 10-11 age group with
34.3 points. She won the vault with a 9.0
and the bars with an 8.1. She was second
on beam with an 8.5 and third on the floor
with an 8.7.
Autumn Krause was Medfords lone
Level 6 gymnast. She won the six-girl 11
and under competition with 34.3 points.
She won the vault with a 9.3 and the bars
with an 8.0. She was fourth on the beam
with an 8.0 and fifth on the floor with a
9.0.
Final scores for Levels 2 and 3 were
not available, but Brooks said those girls
also did very well.
EmmaLee
Clarkson,
Madison
Clarkson, Shanna Kalepp, Kyla Krause
and Megan Ryskoski were the Level
3 gymnasts. Kiarah Behling, Jorgia
Cooley, Samantha Held, Jaylin Machon,
Katelyn Malchow, Willow Oechmichen,
Avery Purdy, Makala Ulrich and Hallie
VanLuven competed in Level 2.

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2015 bear season quota set at 4,750

The Natural Resources Board, on Jan. 28, approved
the 2014 Wisconsin bear season quota of 4,750 as recommended by the Department of Natural Resources.
The quota was set with the intention of reducing the
population in northwest Wisconsin and stabilizing the
population in the rest of the state, and will be distributed across the Wisconsins four bear hunting zones.
The upcoming seasons quota of 4,750 is an increase
from last years quota of 4,700. To achieve this quota the
Department will issue 10,690 permits. This represents a

Otter Lake youth contest set

The Otter Lake Booster Club is sponsoring its ninth
annual free ice fishing contest for youth ages 15 and under accompanied by an adult at Otter Lake on Saturday,
Feb. 14 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Lunch will be available on site. Enter the lake at the
south boat landing north of Stanley off Hwy H.
Prizes will be awarded for the largest bluegills, crappies and perch. First place trophies and medallions to
second through fifth places will be presented to the winners in each of two classes. Class 1 includes ages 10 and
under. Class 2 includes ages 11-15. Participation prizes
are given for each fish caught.
Registration begins at 10 a.m. Each entrant will receive a commemorative button and registration packet.
If needed, there will be waxies and wigglers for fishing, plus club members will be available to drill fishing
holes.
For more information, visit the website www.otterlakeboosters.com or call 715-644-0609 or 715-644-4979.

record number of permits available to Wisconsin bear

hunters.
The season structure for this years bear hunt is as
follows:
 Zone C (dogs not permitted): Sept. 9 to Oct. 13 with
aid of bait and all other legal methods not using dogs.
 All other zones (use of dogs permitted): Sept. 9-15 is
with aid of dogs only. Sept. 16 to Oct. 6 is with aid of bait,
dogs and all other legal methods. Oct. 7-13 is with aid of
bait and all other legal methods not using dogs.

Feb. 15 deadline for Ethics Award

Know a hunter who thinks and acts with a strong
sense of safe and sometimes selfless direction?
Nominate the individual for the La Crosse Tribune/
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Hunter
Ethics Award, an honor that goes well beyond a wildlife
harvest for bragging rights later.
Nominations for this statewide award, now in its
18th year, will be accepted through Feb. 15.
 The nominee must be a licensed Wisconsin hunter.
 The ethical hunting act must have occurred in Wisconsin during the 2014 calendar year.
 Nominations will be considered for any DNR-regulated hunting activity in Wisconsin.
 Written nominations must contain the name, address and telephone number of the witness or witnesses
to the behavior that lead to the nomination and mailed
to Chief Conservation Warden Todd Schaller at Todd.
schaller@wisconsin.gov, or to Department of Natural Resources, Attention: Chief Warden Todd Schaller
LE/5, PO Box 7921, Madison, WI 53707-7921, by Feb. 15.

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High 31, Low 20
It takes just under three hours to reach Flaters Resort (my northwest Wisconsin headquarters) from my
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real adventure began.
After three roundtrips and two others canceled,
by God we had a cat to chase. I had been told all along
that if a cat track was found leading to a certain cedar
swamp I would be in for a challenge. Today a cat track
was leading to that certain cedar swamp that is h-e double toothpicks to walk through.
First, Don Naset and I are heading in deep as we follow Elwood, a Redbone; Conway, a Plott, and Sailor, a
Walker, on the actual bobcat track.
At first we are walking on a creek with some pretty
scary ice. The ice proved weaker than the weight on it
when Don Naset broke through and toughed his way
out.
My buddy Mark Tomasovich had told me I would be
tested to see what I could physically handle and holy
moly was he ever right. Naset is a hardcore, in-shape
outdoorsman. We moved fast, real fast, to try to catch
the hounds who, at times, the GPS told us were 750 yards
ahead of us.
I was told the actual dense part of the cedar swamp
was the size of two football fields. It was difficult to negotiate because a storm had gone through 20 years ago
leaving many of the trees laying on the ground and still
alive.
Naset is a no-nonsense kind of guy. When we reached
the blowdowns, visibility was no more than five yards.
To travel, you either crawled under or over cedar trees.
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Heres the plan. I have to climb up a horizontal cedar tree and let Elwood, Conway and Sailor work the cat
around which should be going in circles.
Back at the creek, many of the Northland Houndsmen are patiently waiting for whatever may happen. The hounds come through barking. It is so dense I
cannot even see them. I pick openings that are no bigger
then a square yard where if a cat appears I might see it.
I pick other openings to watch where I think the cat may
appear if I cannot take a shot at first sighting.
I feel insecure. This isnt easy folks, I am gonna be a
hero or a zero. I move twice to what I hope will be a better view. I can barely balance myself on my perch, stand
and aim. I see movement. Oh my God its a bobcat. I pick
an opening 20 yards away. The cat appears, the gun goes
boom and the cat vanishes.
It takes me a full five minutes to get to where the cat
might be. Yee haa! Dead cat. I am about to pick it up
and a crazy hound grabs my trophy and does not want
to let go. I get the cat from the hound that chased the cat
to me. Hound, literally, leaps and pulls the cat out of my
hands.
Pictures are taken. We hike out of the swamp. Blood
is running down my back (I love it). Lots more pictures
and high fives. I am really happy I did not shoot my cat
out of a tree. I fully realize what an incredible sport it is
to hunt bobcats, coyotes and bears with hounds.
Last autumn, I said my goal was to film my stepson
Joey harvesting his first black bear with a bow and arrow, fill my wolf tag and fill my bobcat tag. This complete goal was met. Obviously the bobcat was thanks to
my good pals out of Bloomer, the Northland Houndsmen.
The cedar swamp experience was insane!
Sunset
P.S. Cold beer and awesome pizza at Flaters Resort
after the hunt!

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Bowling
The Sports Page
Businessmens League
Women
Irene Bormann
236
Irene Bormann
629
Lori Zenner
230
Lori Zenner
589
Men
Rocky Mantik
278
Mike Platt
728
Jeff Ahlers
278
Rocky Mantik
716
Jan. 29: Als Auto Dock 34, blind 6; Sports Page 27, Turtle Club 9;
Rockys Cozy Kitchen 38, Haenels 2; Melvin Companies 34, PBRs
Lounge Around 6; Medford Motors 27, Jensen & Son Asphalt 13;
Shell Shack 28, VFW 12; Rural Insurance 27, Werner Sales & Service
13.
Women
Janet Haenel
203
Janet Haenel
547
Joyce Shannon
188
Joyce Shannon
505
Men
Rocky Mantik
279
Rocky Mantik
759
Mike Platt
266
Mike Platt
702
Feb. 5: Sports Page 31, Werner Sales & Service 9; VFW 38, blind 2;
Jensen & Son Asphalt 31.5, Melvin Companies 8.5; Rural Insurance
29, Haenels 11; Rockys Cozy Kitchen 24, Shell Shack 16; Medford
Motors 24, Turtle Club 16; PBRs Lounge Around 24, Als Auto Dock
16.
Classy Ladies League
Ann McNamar
253
Ann McNamar
642
Bettie Hartwig
200
Nancy Acker
541
Joanne Brandner
195
Mary Lou Anderson
513
Results: Als Auto Dock 5, Tease Tanning Plus 2; A&M Apartments 5,
Moosies Ice Cream 2; J&B Carpentry 5, Fidelity Bank 2; The Flower
Shoppe 7, Klinner Insurance 0; Paulines Hair Fashion 7; VFW 5,
Rockys Cozy Kitchen 2.
Monday Mens City League
Jerry Roberts
290
Tim Klingbeil
681
Frank Werner
279
Tracy Schreiber
681
Jay Werner
264
Jess Haenel
676
Feb. 2: Taylor Credit Union 33, blind 7; Klingbeil Lumber 31, Edgar
Lanes 9; Mayer Accounting 26, WTC 14; Fidelity Bank 38, T&C
Water 2; Crossroads 27, JFR Construction 13.
Three-Man Major League
Casey Nernberger 269
Casey Nernberger
709
Mikey Retterath
268
Shawn Trimner
705
Ed Rowe
267
Steve Richter
681
Feb. 3: Cindys Bar & Grill 22, BBs Aquatic II 8; Rockys Cozy Kitchen 19, 8th Street Saloon 11; BBs Aquatic I 27, Klinner Insurance II 3;
Klinner Insurance I 28, Sports Page I 2; KZ Electric 26, Sports Page II
4; Nite Electric 17, Team Stihl 13; Krug Bus 24, Country Gardens 6.
Blue Monday League
Lisa Bub
245
Lisa Bub
563
Heidi Heier
198
Donna Werner
496
Carol Willman
184
Mary Lou Anderson
483
Feb. 2: Big Birds Lodge 7, Bakers 0; Happy Joes 5, Heiers Wreaths
2; Strikes R Us 5, Holy Rollers 2.
Ball and Chain Nine-Pin Tap League
Men
Ralph Zuleger
287
Steve Eisch
720
Justin Smith
261
Justin Smith
713
Steve Eisch
254
Ray Mallo
708
Women
Julie Smith
265
Julie Smith
618
Bobbie Smith
225
Bobbie Smith
595
Karen Brandt
213
Cindy Meyer
565
Jan. 24: Thunder Buddies 17, Pinbusters 15; The B-Sers 23, Whatchamacallit 9; Ray & The Girls 23, Jr. Snowpushers 9; Mamas &
Papas 28, Out Laws 4; Alley Cats 27.
Tuesday Night Mixed League
Terry Schmeiser
257
Rick Acker
677
Al Riemer
253
Gary Kohn
638
Rick Acker
248
Bob Schilling
638
Al Riemer
634
Feb. 3: Riemer Builders 28, High View II 12; Fuzzys Bar 27, High
View I 13; Medford Co-op 26, Liske Marine 14.
Wednesday Mid-Weekers League
Lisa Bub
199
Sharon Nuernberger
541
Margie Guziak
193
Margia Guziak
531
Betsy Widmer
522
Feb. 3: Werner Sales & Service 7, Mach Lock Locksmith 0; Medford
Motors 5, Happy Joes 2; Sports Page 5, Lounge Around 2.
Tappers Bar (Dorchester)
Tuesday Seniors League
Men
Don Clarkson
158
Don Clarkson
448
Bill Krug
151
Don Scheibe
400
Don Scheibe
146
Bill Krug
388
Women
Linda Metz
189
Linda Metz
440
Dorothy Scheibe
154
Dorothy Scheibe
408
Sharon Ellenbecker 147
Mona Pope
403
Feb. 10: Alley Cats 4, Slo Poks 4, Maybees 3, Amigos 0, Slow Starters
0.

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Births

Thursday, February 12, 2015 Page 15

Lindy Lucille
Lisa Jensen and Mason Burger of Athens announce
the birth of a daughter, Lindy Lucille, born on Feb. 3
at Aspirus Birthing Center - Medford. She weighed six
pounds, 13 ounces and was 19-1/2 inches long. Her sister
is Payton Ann. Her grandparents are Laurie Burger and
Terry Burger, both of Edgar, Lori Hoffman of Medford,
and Todd Jensen of Marshfield. Her great-grandparents
are Lucille and Bud Lochen of Rib Mountain and Lynn
and Leroy Jensen of Medford.

Milestones, Memories, Births, Engagements, Weddings

A courtship travels on its bread

It was in the winter months that Tom and I got together. He was keeping track of my adventure of spending the winter at my parents cabin in the woods, about
a mile distant from his home, and I was aware of his
light being the last I went by on my way to park my car
for the hike every evening. We liked each other and
were both available, yet we each had a reluctance to
stick our neck out just in case the other wasnt necessarily interested.
Tom invited me to stop by every other Sunday for
supper in the evening though he made sure it wasnt
more often than that, and I should be aware that we
were just friends. I had in mind a bit more than that, so
I started leaving loaves of bread on the doorstep of TCR
Solutions, with his name on the bag.
One of the breads I made for him was my mothers
Swedish Rye Bread recipe a dark, dense bread that
is baked outside of a loaf pan, so it forms a mound on
the baking sheet, which caused Tom to comment on
the cow patty he found on his doorstep. Ha ha. But
he knew full well the meaning of what we have come to
refer to as courting bread, and was able to take courage that spring to express out loud the opinion the idea
that we were perhaps something more than causal acquaintances.
Gifts of food so often form that bridge from what we
dont really want to say out loud into the awareness of
another person. Cookies and casseroles appear in the
homes of the bereaved to let them know of other peoples concern. A pot of soup tells a sick person get well
soon. A bottle of homemade wine gives a message of
good cheer and the givers pride, no doubt.
And my loaves of bread told Tom, So, heres the
deal I think youre kind of nifty, and I think theres a
good chance that you like me, too. Now, if you want to
take this to the next level and actually say something
out loud, you can be pretty sure that you arent going
to be embarassed. If, however, you are appalled by the
whole idea, you can just pretend that this is nothing but
a friendly gesture and Ill get the hint. Good thing I
didnt try to say all that in words.
I remember my mothers bread coming out a lot better than this recipe does when I make it which is to

Emily Marie
Travis and Melissa Metz of Westboro announce the
birth of a daughter, Emily Marie, born on Feb. 5 at Aspirus Wausau Hospital. She weighed seven pounds and
was 19 inches long. Her grandparents are Jeff and Ann
Molitor of Dorchester and Mark and Diane Metz of Medford.

The Table
Sally Rassmussen
say, less brick-like. But that could well be because I tend
to fuss around with recipes, rather than simply following directions that are known to have worked well in
the past. Whatever your own baking style, heres wishing you good luck with your efforts. Especially if youre
trying to impress somebody.

Finnick Oliver

Swedish Rye Bread

Slowly heat the following ingredients to boiling, then
cool to lukewarm:
2 cups water
2 cups milk
2 teaspoons salt
cup brown sugar
cup molasses
3 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon anise seed
1 teaspoon caraway seed
1 teaspoon fennel seed
While this mixture is cooling, combine:
cup lukewarm water
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tablespoons yeast
cup flour
Let set in a warm, quiet place until it has formed a
sponge
Add the yeast to the cooled mixture
Stir in
5 cups rye flour
7 cups white flour
Knead, let rise until doubled. Knead again briefly,
then divide into four. Form into balls and set on greased
baking sheets. Let rise until doubled.
Bake at 325 for 1 hours

Deadline near for conservation stewardship

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS) is accepting new applications for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP). Farm and forest landowners may apply by Feb. 27 for possible 2015 funding.
CSP encourages agricultural producers to maintain existing conservation activities and adopt additional ones
on their operations.
Applications can be made at any time at all USDA
Service Centers, but only applications received by Feb.
27 will be ranked for funding in 2015. The program is
open to all farmers, regardless of size or type of operation.
Melissa Knipfel, district conservationist for Taylor
and Price Counties, encourages interested farmers to
apply now to be considered for funding.
Eligible lands include cropland, pastureland, and
non-industrial private forestland.
CSP is a five year contract and payments are made
annually for each of the five years of the contract. CSP

IF YOU USED THE BLOOD

THINNER XARELTO
and suffered internal bleeding, hemorrhaging,
required hospitalization or a loved one died while
taking Xarelto between 2011 and the present
time, you may be entitled to compensation.
Call Attorney Charles H. Johnson 1-800-535-5727

6-146368

Ceceilia Mae
James and Bobbie Jo Swanson of Wausau announce
the birth of a daughter, Ceceilia Mae, born on Feb. 4 at
Aspirus Wausau Hospital. She weighed seven pounds,
14 ounces and was 19-1/2 inches long. Her grandparents
are Lois and Terry Fronek of Weston and Rick and Gayle Swanson of Rib Mountain.

is open to small and large operations.

Farmers will need to document their current and
proposed conservation practices which will be used to
rank applications and determine payments. NRCS field
staff will also conduct on-site field verifications of applicants information.
For more information, visit www.wi.nrcs.usda.gov,
or contact Melissa Knipfel at the Medford NRCS office
at 925 Donald St., Room 102 or call her at 715-748-4121
ext. 112.

Peter and Lindsey Graff of Stetsonville announce the

birth of a son, Finnick Oliver, born on Feb. 6 at Aspirus
Wausau Hospital. He weighed eight pounds, 12.4 ounces
and was 21 inches long. His grandparents are Barb and
Dan Graff of Stetsonville and Randy and Rosey Wolf of
Unity.

Juliette Rosella
Christopher and Michelle Walkowicz of Onalaska
announce the birth of a daughter, Juliette Rosella, born
on Jan. 24 at Gundersen in La Crosse. She weighed five
pounds, 14 ounces and was 19-3/4 long. She joins a brother, Henry who is almost 3. Her grandparents are Janice
and the late Bruce Constalie of Westby, Sally Walkowicz of West Salem and John Walkowicz of Ogema.

New personal
banker

Fidelity Bank announces Tasha Hernandez (right)

as a new personal banker.
Hernandez joined the Fidelity Bank team in Jan.
2015 with certicates in
bookkeeping and bookkeeping technology, along
with an accounting assistant diploma. In May
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Medford Middle School second quarter honor roll

Highest Honor:
Fifth Grade Elspeth Bair, Lacey Brandner, Lyza Brandner, Shaniah Brandt, Katie
Brehm, Emma Brost, Sophie Brost, Benjamin Brunner, Gabriella Brunner, Colbe Bull,
Hailey Carey, Dalton Casar, Easton Dowden,
Colby Elsner, Hailey Fisher, Alexis Fleegel,
Abbie Frey, Kadia Gehrke, Zachary Grover,
Caleb Guden, Courtney Guerrero, Robert Henry, Stephen Hraby, Kelsey Jascor, Matthew
Jensen, Alisha Jochimsen, Molly Kapfhamer,
Brigham Kelley, Laurissa Klapatauskas, Autumn Krause, Olivia Krug, Katie Lybert, Kenya Mann, Connor Mayotte, Abigail Moretz,
Seth Mudgett, Gage Neubauer, Katlyn Olson, Lucas Ortengren, Lydia Pernsteiner,
Carmen Peterson, Abbi Potocnik, Lindsey
Quante, Kami Razink, Rynn Ruesch, Kalista
Schreiner, Jake Seifert, Myah Smith, Hailey
Sperl, Peyton Spar, Joseph Sullivan, Quinton
Tlusty, Carter Waldhart, Rachel Weiler, Lindsey Wildberg, Madelyn Williams, Trevor Woebbeking and Brianna Zick.
Sixth Grade Lauryn Anderson, Morgan Ball, Erin Bergman, Olivia Berry, Alleah
Christensen, Carson Church, Jake Cipar,
Jordaan Clark, Micah Clark, Ruthie Clark,
Shannon Connelly, Kevin Damrn, Tahtankka
Darnm, Emily Dassow, Gabriel Diegel, Veronica Diercks, Brody Doberstein, Nathan Doriot, Emma Ellis, Chloe Ertl, Olivia Felix, Marissa Fronk, Allie Gripentrog, Sierra Haizel,
Perla Herrada-Moreno, Alicia Kawa, Carson
Kleist, Ethan Kraemer, Peyton Kuhn, Ellyn
Laska, Jozie Loucks, Abraham Miller, Emma
Nowak, Reilly Nutting, Sughey Parra, Carter
Pernsteiner, Jsera Reed, Nathan Retterath,
Rachael Schreiber, Mya Serrano, Taylor Sherman, Nara Shin, Abigail Soya, Christian SpinIer, Olivia Steinman, Colton Surek, Jackson
Tlusty, Alayna VanLuven, Anna Vervaecke,
Lucas Viergutz, Brianna Weiler, Allie Wesle,
Owen Wipf and Megan Zittlow.
Seventh Grade Harlie Ahlers, Cassidy Balciar, Carli Berger, Brendan Borman,
Morgan Brandner, Paige Brandner, Brody

THE
TIME
MACHINE

From past files of The Star News

10 YEARS AGO
February 10, 2005

Plans to convert an old gravel pit

site in the Taylor County Forest into
a camping area for horses and riders
moved forward Friday.
The Taylor County Forestry and
Recreation Committee met with Mike
Haas of the Taylor County Horse Association to review terms of a lease agreement.
The proposal is to designate a campsite north of Bear Ave. in the Taylor
County Forest in the Town of Rib Lake.
The gravel pit camp site could accommodate 40-50 trailers. The Taylor
County Horse Association would provide and maintain horse trails for foot
and cart. The club would also make
improvements such as hitching posts,
restrooms, corral, fencing, garbage collection site, fire rings, manure catch
basin and signs for trails. The club will
also maintain the improvements. Under terms of the lease agreement, the
club would pay a $1 a year fee for use
of the facility.

Brunner, Jake Brunner, Kiah Ching, Kiersten

Crass, Sarah Dake, Trinity Dassow, Nicholas
Doriot, Mckena Downey, Koryn Duesing, Logan Egle, Dane Faber, Nicholas Gebert, Kiana Haenel, Sierra Hanson, Carlos Herrada,
Dane Higgins, Hannah Horenberger, Andrea
Klinger-Hinde, Kaitlin Kowalski, Rebecca
Lekie, Morgan Ludwig, Kailee Mann, Rachel
Mudgett, Kenneth Mupendwa, Logan Nelson,
Kaitlyn Netzer, Zoey Neumann, Carli Newberry, Alex Nicks, Cassandra Nicks, Katelyn
Phillips, Rileigh Polacek, Marissa Pope, Preston Pope, Brynn Rau, Sterling Reilly, Emily
Schafer, Sawyer Scholl, Alexandre Schroeder,
Elaine Schumacher, Cade Shipman, Madlyn
Spencer, Samantha Stolp, Lauryn Strick, Justin Sullivan, Abigail Tomandl, Karla Vazquez,
Isabella Veal, Janessa Venzke, Kaleb Voight,
Douglas Way, Dylan Wickersheim, Renni Wieman, Colby Winter and Callie Woller.
Eighth Grade Amy Abegglen, Brandy
Acker, Cade Alexander, Emily Anderson,
Devin Balciar, Sarah Brandt, Lilly Brost,
Aubrey Buskerud, Noah Cipar, Erin Elsner,
Sutton Fronk, Grace Geiger, Krista Gollhardt, Megan Graff, Ethan Hahn, Hunter Hildebrandt, Garret Hill, Zachary Kawa, Grace
Kelley, Ethan Kirkeeng, Bailey Klabunde,
Hailey Kollmansberger, Haley Kraemer, Carson Laher, Mariah Leader, Leah Leonard,
Jessica Ludwig, Hannah Machan, Lauren
Meyer, Jobe Miller, Elizabeth Noland, Collin
Nutting, Emma Paul, Claire Pearson, Charity
Pester, Julia Pester, Denae Pocock, Andrew
Paetzl, Dakota Ratcliff, Nickolas Retterath,
Andrew Rothmeier, Kaelee Rudolph, Mallory
Rudolph, Sarah Rudolph, Emma Schultz, Meredith Seidel, Kaylee Seifert, Aimee Swedlund,
Amannda Szomi, Brady Tlusty, Parker Toth,
Alison Vanden Heuvel, Desirae Weissmiller,
Hailey Willner Elijah Wipf and Holly Zak.
High Honor:
Fifth Grade Samuel Blair, Makayla Breneman, Mara Buskerud, Braden
Carstensen, Emmalee Clarkson, Parker Crass,

ary 22-23.
The move is the first-phase of a project planned to create more office space
in the courthouse. After the agencies in
the annex move out, it will be remodeled
to provide two working-size courtrooms,
the judges chambers and related offices,
and offices for the Clerk of Circuit Court.
Agencies involved in the move include the ASCS (Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service), SCS
(Soil Conservation Service), LCD (Land
Conservation
Department),
FmHA
(Farm and Home Administration) and
the UW-Extension which includes the
community development agents, the
agriculture agents, the 4-H and youth
agent, and the home economist.

50 YEARS AGO
February 11, 1976

their aids eased up a trifle today, asured

that beyond a doubt Medfords two-day
carnival will be one of the best ever attempted. The carnival takes place this
weekend, Feb. 10-11, and is expected to
attract persons from all parts of the state.
Latest returns on points gleaned by
the girls competing for the honor of being carnival queen indicate that Miss
Anita Rueth, daughter of Grover Rueth,
Medford, will reign over the two-day celebration.
A splendid parade is promised by Gil
Strebig, who is in charge. Already, approximately 30 different persons and
business concerns have vouchsafed entries. This does not include many youngsters of high school age who have as yet,
expressed only a desire to enter a float.

Kelz, Joseph Kraemer, Payton Kraucyk, Jon

Laher, Zechariah Lewandowski, Samuel Lindow, Ethan Marthaler, Jordyn Olson-Bevins,
Oscar Poehler, Kyle Rouiller, Kendyl Stahlbusch, Montana Stahnke, Elijah Strebig, Hannah Tabbert, Sarah Thums, Mckenzie Waldhart, Maxwell Willman and Mercedes Zepeda.
Honor:
Fifth Grade Isaac Anderson, Peyton
Briggs, Nicholas Buchan, Carlos Carmona,
Irvin Chacon, Aubry Chaffee, Skyler Curtis,
Caitlin Doyle, Chloe Elliott, Lily Emmerich,
Nickolas Frenzel, Abraham Galan, Ryne
Giencke, Sara Hamm, Destiny Jochimsen,
Dexter Kraemer, Kathleen Messmann, Brandi Nelson, Bregan Paul, Caleb Roe, Makayla
Schultz, Rain Sperl, Lexi Weiler, Justine
Wojcik, Chasidy Yeager and Conner Zirngible.
Sixth Grade Ryan Alexander, Samantha
Alexander, Logan Dahl, Brenden Dillabough,
Slade Doberstein, Mackenzie Elliott, Desmon
Firnstahl, Carl Hanish, Jared Jochimsen, Cassandra Ostir, Julian Poetsch, Jace Rausch,
Blake Weiler and Jasmine Wiitala.
Seventh Grade Kala Albers, Saundra Borntrager, Matthew Buchan, Ashley
Czeshinski, Kirk Giencke, Jack Griesbach,
Keaten Gurnz, Tristan Haenel, Rose Hartl,
Hunter Karrasch, Blaze Kesan, Samantha
Kuenne, Lexi Niewolny, Teagan Paul, Faith
Piller, Jake Rau, Eric Rehbein, Ezekiel Sigmund, Roxanne Taylor and Autumn Werner.
Eighth Grade Michael Dassow, Joshua Doberstein, Starla Dohrwardt, Christina
Draszkiewicz, Zak Farmer, George Hinderliter, Megan Jeno, Breanna Jentzsch, Jace Laher, Gavin Lybert, Ambernette Mabie, Alexis
Massmann, Autumn Mitchell, Dimas Moreno,
Brice Ogle, Monica Piller, Derek Rudolph,
Joshua Ryskoski, Kylie Schultz-Snellman,
Graci Shatwell, Lawrence Sorensen, Benjamin Syryczuk and Anna J. Voldberg.

100 YEARS AGO

February 10, 1915

Considerable excitement was caused

in the village of Chelsea last Wednesday P. M. when it was learned that Mr.
Kreger, a Milwaukee man living in one
of the Wenoski house, shot a man that
had come here to buy his farm. It appears the strange came from Milwaukee and it is alleged that Mr. Kreger
supposing he had the $900 on his person, lured him out into the woods under the pretect of showing him a hay
stack. When the couple approaches a
hole at the side of the path Mr. Kreger
fired a revolver hitting the stranger in
the hip from behind.

Remember When Feb. 2005

Westboro has been listed among several communities ordered to construct

sewage treatment plants to halt pollution of the upper Chippewa river basin
in northern Wisconsin. Issuing the order
for 14 plants was the state committee on
water pollution, Madison.
The committee ruled that improperly
treated sewage and waste products resulted in concentrations of harmful bacteria and low oxygen counts in the river.
Communities and firms were given until
1966 or 1967 to start construction. In addition, the Kansas City Star Paper Co.,
Park Falls, was ordered to complete construction of spent sulphite liquor disposal facilities.

25 YEARS AGO

75 YEARS AGO

UW-Extension offices and federal

agencies now in the Courthouse Annex
will move to their new quarters in the
Science Building at the Taylor County
Community Education Center Febru-

With their queen definitely selected

and entries pouring in for all events,
including the Saturday evening parade,
skating races, and contests at the Perkinstown sports area, committeemen and

February 14, 1990

Susan Dake, Kayden Dassow, Emma Eckert,

Madison Eckert, Misael Espino, Cassy Evans,
Gabriel Felix, Camryn Fuchs, Aiden Gardner, Colten Halopka, Tatum Higgins, Oscar
Hinderliter, Aiden Johnson, Justice Judnic,
Shaylee Kestler, Megan Kloth, Kale Klussendorf, Tyler Korbel, Brayden Machan, Jacob
Mertens, Zachary Moschkau, Tasia Mravik,
Austin Olson, Denise Parra, Caleb Polacek,
Wheeler Rogers, Taiya Schwarz, Delaney
Searer, Kayla Szydel and Karlee Westrich.
Sixth Grade Ty Baker, Mikaylee Balla,
Calvin Bergen, Jaeden Butkus, Jacob Clark,
Delani Clausnitzer, Kelly Dahl, Isaac Dittrich,
Michael Errthurn, Colton Gowey, Jersey
Graumann, Karli Higgins, Frankie Homer,
Aaliyah Jaslowski, Elaina Jaslowski, Tyler
Kapitz, Braden Kestler, Dalton Krug, Ashayla
Lee, Jackson Leipart, Warryck Leonhardt,
Keith Lorenz, Nicholas Ludwig, Karli Nelson,
Jennifer Pester, Jakob Rief, Megan Ryskoski,
Jadyn Scott, Blaine Seidl, Nathan Sislo, Karysa Stahlbusch, Blake Studinger, Ethan Swiantek, Isaac Tanata, Reece Williams and Hunter
Zickert.
Seventh Grade Anthony Adleman, Kamry Albrecht, Dakota Anderson, Rachel Armbrust, Lakayla Baumgartner, Aidan Boehm,
Savannah Brandt, Zachary Breneman, Logan
Dassow, PekeBo Donovan, Walker Ewan,
Abby Graham, Tyler Grube, Ann Hartwig,
Mckenna Henrichs, Karina Herrada-Moreno, Kara Hudak, Nicole Jacobsen, Naomi
Jaslowski, Matthew Jeno, Bryant Konieczny,
Alexis Kowalski, Austin Kraegenbrink, Journey Kroening, Seth Mayrer, Andrea MobergKonecny, Zackary Mottle, Mary Noland, Kyle
Petrick, Mason Rudolph, Francine Seidel,
Wyatt Sherfield, Austin Stahnke, Abigail Vervaecke, Ean Wilson and Isaac Zepeda.
Eighth Grade Charles Branstetter, Trevor Brehm, Shaya Brockhaus, Alex
Carstensen, Madelynn Carstensen, Aaron
Connelly, Taylor Crass, Emily Cypher, Alexander Davis, Zachary Geiger, Amber Gerum,
Zachary Haynes, Taylor Hempel, Bethany

February 8, 1940

An audience gathered during Snieg Fest in Gilman to watch a reenactment of

how loggers stacked wood nearly a century ago. Wayne Jones (r. to l.), Al Seeger,
Andrew Kempf and Joe Thorgerson helped pile the maple, white ash and red oak
logs weighing about 1,000 pounds each. Jamie Thorgerson of Jump River and his
team of horses used chains and a lot of elbow grease to drag the logs up onto the
sleigh. The load weighed about 16,000 pounds and contained 1,050 board feet of
lumber when finished.

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

HELP WANTED

LOOKING FOR very responsible bartender every other

weekend and other days available. In Medford. Send inquiries to Blind Ad #289, P.O.
Box 180, Medford, WI 54451.
MEYER
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labor. Competitive wage, excellent fringe benefits. Normal work
week is four 10-hour days - Monday through Thursday. Apply
in person at Meyer Mfg. Corp.,
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TRUCK DRIVER wanted for
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715-571-9601.

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self-motivate, and passion for helping others.
Management background a must. Human
services background preferred or a combination
of education and experience will be considered.
Both men & women are welcome to apply.
Send resume to:
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P.O. Box 224
Medford, WI 54451

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have the ability to work nights and every other
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CARE PARTNERS ASSISTED LIVING in

Medford has a part-time position available
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be responsible for providing quality activities
for our residents. We are looking for positive,
hardworking individuals who are committed
to provide quality care for our residents. Inhouse training provided. Background check
required per DHS83.
EOE
Please apply at:
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Assisted Living
955 E. Allman Street
Medford, WI 54451
See our website for further information:
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New competitive plus pay package. Brand new
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your family. Fair and exible home time options.
Paid weekly, year end bonus, paid vacation.
Dedicated 2013 or newer equipment.

Grocery Manager/Assistant Manager

6-146409

TRUCK DRIVER. Full-time position available, delivering to dairy

and food processing plants in
the upper midwest on regularly
scheduled routes. You would be
driving our semi with a 53-foot
trailer and a valid CDL license
with H endorsement is needed.
Applicant should be organized,
self-motivated and customer
service focused. Home weekends & holidays, Home frequently - scheduled routes.
Major medical insurance, Dental insurance, Sign-up bonus,
Company paid life insurance,
Paid holidays & vacations,
401K program, Cafeteria plan.
If you are interested in joining
our team, send employment
information to: Kelley Supply,
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P.O. Box 100, Abbotsford, WI
54405-0100.
800-782-8573.

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Truck Drivers
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PO Box 646
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SPORTS
THE STAR NEWS

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Pirates cant keep up with Greyounds; edged by Granton

by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter
It looked like an upset in the making
Friday night. The Gilman Pirates boys
basketball team was all over the visiting
Loyal Greyhounds in the first quarter
and had jumped out to an 18-12 lead.
Unfortunately, the Greyhounds overturned that deficit, and much more, in
the final three quarters to earn a 67-49
Cloverbelt East win. The Pirates showed
they can play with one of the top teams
in the conference, at least for stretches.
Turning those stretches into full game
performances has been a difficult challenge so far this season.
Gilman was able to confound Loyals
long-range shooting in the opening quarter. Playing in a 2-3 zone, the Pirates put
pressure on the Greyhounds outside
shooters and turned that energy into
points on the other end.
It was our best quarter of the season,
but we burned up a lot of our energy to
keep up the pressure on Loyal, Pirates
head coach Brian Pernsteiner said.
It was only a matter of time before
the Pirates high-energy defense would
ebb as the Greyhounds picked up their
ball movement pace on offense. Utilizing
cross-court throws and quick passes,
Loyal was finally able to find space
for their lethal outside shooters. The
Hounds drained four threes in the second quarter as they outscored the Pirates
19-9 to take the lead. Chanse Rosemeyer
hit a three and James Copenhaver got
a pair of free throws to keep the Pirates
within four going into halftime.
Loyals aerial assault wasnt done by
a long shot. The Greyhounds came out of
the break and made another three to go on
an 8-0 run to open the third. Rosemeyer
put an end to the streak by nailing another three-pointer. Loyal got a two before
Copenhaver made a three for Gilman to
make it an eight-point game.
The Greyhounds responded quickly.
They made two straight threes and put
together a nine-point run before the
Pirates got four consecutive points late
in the third. After holding a six-point
lead after the first, Gilman now found itself down 15 going into the fourth.
Loyal was content to take two-point
shots and went back and forth with the
Pirates in the fourth. Gilman scored 12,
but Loyal added more to its lead by getting 15.
Riley Geiger scored a game-high 26
for the Greyhounds, while Tyler Prust
scored 12 and Cameron Brussow added
10 points. The 6-6 Prust proved once

EASTERN CLOVERBELT CONFERENCE

BOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS
Conf.
Overall
W
L
W
L
Spencer
12
0
15
1
Neillsville
9
3
11
6
Columbus Cath.
9
3
10
7
Owen-Withee
7
5
9
8
Greenwood
5
7
7
9
Loyal
6
7
8
9
Colby
5
8
5
13
Gilman
2
11
5
13
Granton
1
12
1
15
Feb. 6: Loyal 67, Gilman 49: Owen-Withee 58,
Colby 42; Spencer 64, Granton 26.
Feb. 7: Heritage Christian, Minn. 68, Columbus
Catholic 55.
Feb. 9: Neillsville 64, Nekoosa 42; Edgar 52,
Colby 29.
Feb. 10: Spencer 64, Owen-Withee 41.
Feb. 12: Owen-Withee at Gilman, Spencer
at Neillsville, Loyal at Greenwood, Columbus
Catholic at Granton.
Feb. 16: Spencer at Athens.
Feb. 17: Spencer at Gilman, Colby at Neillsville, Greenwood at Columbus Catholic, OwenWithee at Loyal.

again to be a nightmare for the Pirates

on the interior. Gilmans best inside
player, Colton Schmitt, picked up some
early fouls that hurt the Pirates chances
of containing the opposing center.
The chemistry between our bigs just
hasnt been there this year, it showed tonight, Pernsteiner said.
Rosemeyer scored 17 to lead the
Pirates. Schmitt added 11 points and
Copenhaver scored 10.
Once we got the lead we tried to pick
up the pace and started throwing it away,
thats what let them back in the game. Its
frustrating seeing them play so well in
stretches. We know what were capable
of, Pernsteiner said.
The Pirates return to the court tonight, Thursday, against Owen-Withee
at home. The Blackhawks enter the game
fourth in the Eastern Cloverbelt. Next
Tuesday, the Pirates will welcome the
Spencer Rockets for another Cloverbelt
battle in their final home game of the season. Both games have 7:30 p.m. tip-offs.

Zach Sonnentag drained a three in the

first quarter as the Pirates took a 9-8 lead
into the second.
Granton made its move in the second
quarter. Opelt scored six points as the
Bulldogs scored 13 in the quarter to move
into the lead. Copenhaver scored five in
the period for Gilman to keep it close.
Granton kept up its momentum by
outscoring the Pirates 12-9 in the third
quarter. Schmitt chipped in six points for
Gilman but it wasnt enough to dent the
Bulldogs lead.
The Pirates offense finally came to
life in the fourth, but by then it was too
late. Schmitt scored six more, while
Copenhaver added five as Gilman made
a desperate charge for the win. Granton
got six points out of Opelt and escaped
with the five-point win.
Schmitt scored a team-high 13 for
Gilman. Copenhaver had 12 points and
Sonnentag scored eight.
We had no communication and got
ourselves down, Pernsteiner said.

One-point win
It was closer than they wouldve liked,
but the Pirates have to be satisfied with

a 46-45 non-conference win at the Lake

Holcombe Chieftains on Feb. 2.
Sonnentag was the difference for the
Pirates. He scored 16 points, including
five in the decisive fourth quarter run
that gave Gilman the win.
Both sides scored 11 in the first quarter to send it all-square into the second.
Gilmans offense exploded in the second quarter, scoring 18 points. Lake
Holcombe matched them point for point
and scored 18 of their own. Sonnentag
and Emmit Sherfield both scored six in
the quarter to lead the Pirates offense.
The Chieftains hit four three-pointers in
the period.
Lake Holcombe finally broke the deadlock by outscoring Gilman 10-9 in the
third quarter. Sonnentag and Rosemeyer
each swished a three to set the Pirates up
for a fourth-quarter comeback.
Gilman only scored eight in the fourth,
but it was enough to nudge Lake Holcombe
out of the lead as the Chieftains only got
four. Sonnentag got five, Copenhaver
scored two and Sherfield made a free
throw to pull Gilman in front for good.
Sonnentag led the Pirates in scoring.
Schmitt scored 12 and Sherfield netted 11.

Loss to Granton
After defeating the Bulldogs 62-46
back on Dec. 19, the Pirates fell flat in
the rematch as Granton emerged with a
46-41 non-conference win on Feb. 3. The
victory marked Grantons first of the season. Mike Meddaugh scored 18 and Max
Opelt scored 14 as the Bulldogs erased
the 0 from their win column.
We didnt play well. We tried to dribble through people and didnt play as a
team, Pernsteiner said.

Medford youth wrestlers experience

success at several tournaments
Weekends of wrestling continue to
keep Medford area youngsters busy this
winter.
On Sunday, Feb. 1, Medfords youth
wrestling team competed at the Wausau
West tournament. First-place finishers
included Andy Poetzl, Carson Church,
Hayden Johnson and Owen Higgins. Ty
Sova, Dane Higgins, Cody Church, Zeke
Sigmund, Jude Stark, Cory Lindahl,
Paxton Rothmeier and Thad Sigmund all
took second.
Thirds were earned by Jake Rau,
Parker Lissner, Oscar Hinderliter, Wyatt
Johnson, Eric Rehbein and Cody Weiler.
Logan Kawa, Braxton Weissmiller, Mary
Noland and Jake Seifert were fourth.
Stanley Thums, Nathan Willman and
Teagan Hanson were bracket champions at the Merrill tournament on
Saturday, Jan. 31. Jordy Lavin, Fischer
Thums, Gage Losiewicz and Jonathan

Bartnik took second. Rachel Sova,

William Bartnik, AJ Guden and Hunter
Jochimsen were third-place finishers.
Evan Pagel and
Caleb Guden finished fourth.
Medford earned a first-place team finish at the Edgar tournament on Sunday,
Jan. 25.
Bracket champions included Ty Sova,
Rachel Sova, Lissner, Owen Higgins,
Thad Sigmund, Hanson and Rothmeier.
Kawa, Stark and Weiler were runnersup. Wyatt Johnson took third.
Medford placed third in the team
standings at the Bruce Tournament
on Jan. 24. Losiewicz, Rothmeier,
Hanson, Lavin and Mason Moore won
championships, while Jochimsen was a
second-place finisher.
Jonathan Bartnik, Pagel and Jackson
Mayer all took thirds. William Bartnik
and Shane Kiselicka were fourth.

Interior battle

Buy this photo online at www.centralwinews.com

Photo by Bryan Wegter

Gilmans Colton Schmitt (44) reaches for the ball after his shot was blocked by
Loyals Tyler Prust (l.). The 6-6 Prust was a tough challenge for Gilmans forwards all
night.