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CONTRIBUTORS

COVER STORYL4 Iola ‘15 Highlights

FINE ARTSL6 Waupaca Arts on the

SquareR10 Foxy Finds

FOOD & DRINKR2 BrewmasterR6 From the Wine CaveR8 Tricia’s Table

ENTERTAINMENTR12 Concert WatchR18 Short BranchR22 CD ReviewR24 The Spanish InquisitionR26 Sunsplash

NEWS & VIEWSR20 Media Rants

OUTDOORSR28 R

EVENT CALENDARSR30 Live MusicL9 The Big Events

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COVER STORY // IOLA CAR SHOW

Iola ‘15 Highlights Annual WI Shindigis a Feast for Old Car Junkies

The 2015 Iola Old Car Show will be held July 9-11 in Iola, Wis. For this year’s event, show organizers have assembled a slate of great displays and new activities to keep the show exciting. Here are just a few of the highlights of the show, which complement the enormous swap meet Iola is also known for.

‘Counting Cars’ TV star at IolaRyan Evans, the senior airbrush artist at

Count’s Kustoms and a star on the History Channel’s hit TV show “Counting Cars” will be visiting the Iola Old Car Show. Evans will be attending the show courtesy of Vintage Works, a hobbyist’s source for professional services such as sandblasting, powder coating, machining and metal fabrication.

1973 Chrysler Newport giveaway car

A big, beautiful 1973 Chrysler New-port will be given away during the Iola Old Car Show’s new “Super Saturday” activities. The Chrysler will be presented to one winning attendee by its donor, the non-profit Rawhide Boys Ranch of New London, Wis. The Chrysler is a one-owner car with two build sheets. Iola Old Car Show visitors will have a chance to win the Chrysler by simply completing an entry form in the “Teamed to Learn” exhibit tent during the show.

There’s more! Several additional sup-porters of the Iola Old Car Show have partnered to give away a host of other great prizes, as well. Coker Tire, the S.S. Badger, Ho-Chunk Casino, Miller Electric, Gen-eral Beer and Mitsubishi and Shoemaker Electric have each donated prizes to be given away after the Old Cars Weekly and IOLA ’15 Pass-in-Review parade, which begins at 3 p.m.

Don ‘Big Daddy’ Garlits & Swamp Rat

Don “Big Daddy” Garlits is a living and still-racing legend. The world-famous drag racer innovated from behind the wheel,

and one of those cars to sport his innova-tions is Swamp Rat 12-A. This dragster was built in 1967 with a 137-inch-wheelbase chassis as an experiment. Garlits admit-ted it was a failure on the track. He sold it, then bought it back in 1987. Again, it then sat. In 2007, “MoPar called me to see if I would like to build a 6.4 (liter), late-model Hemi blown-fuel engine. I did and installed it into Swamp Rat 12-A,” Garlits said.

Garlits will be on hand with his Swamp Rat 12-A dragster, which he’ll fire up mul-tiple times on Friday and Saturday during the show. It will lead several “cackstarts” with other period dragsters during the Iola Old Car Show from its place near the “Theme Tent.”

Pace Cars & Race Cars DisplayGiven Wisconsin’s huge role in racing,

the “Pace & Race” was a natural idea for the gigantic event. Dozens of race cars and dozens of pace cars pre-registered for the Theme Area of IOLA ’15. Among the race cars, look for a 1914 Indian board track racer, a 1923 Packard Indy 500 racer, a 1970 Buick GS State 2 race car, a 1952 Cunningham C3 race car and many other restored racers. There will also be a small display of “barn find” period race cars that still show the battle scars from their heyday on the track.

The pace car display includes many cars that actually paced the race at the India-napolis 500, plus a huge selection of Indy 500 pace car replicas. There will also be a unique Corvair pace car used on a race-track back in the day.

11-mile 1963 Chevrolet ImpalaWhen Gary Leidich bought his 1963

Chevrolet Impala in September 2013, a thick layer of dust and dirt belied the fact it had just 11 miles on the odometer. The Janesville, Wis.-built Impala was one of 50 unsold new Chevrolets stashed by Pierce, Neb., car dealer Ray Lambrecht beginning in the 1950s.

Lambrecht’s collection of “new old”

C h e v r o l e t s was auctioned in September 2013, and since buying the car at that auction, Leidich has thor-oughly cleaned the Impala and made it run. He looks forward to sharing the car at the 2015 Iola Old Car Show and l e a rn ing more about it from show attendees who may have had a hand in building the car at the Janesville assembly plant.

60-mile 1973 Ford MustangWhen Ford announced it would stop

building Mustang convertibles at the end of the 1973 model year, a Wisconsin Mustang convertible owner ran out and ordered a new one as back up to her 1966 and 1968 Mustang convertibles. She never needed the 1973 Mustang convertible — she’s still driving her 1968 droptop. In 2014, she sold her unused 1973 Mustang convertible with 37 miles on the odometer. The new Wisconsin owner has since accu-mulated a couple dozen more miles on the odometer, and it now reads 60 miles. The unrestored 1973 Mustang will be featured next to the low-mileage 1963 Impala con-vertible in the “Teamed to Learn” tent.

Elio prototypeA prototype from America’s newest car

company will debut to Iola Old Car Show attendees.

The Elio P4 prototype will be dis-played at the Iola Old Car Show near the “Teamed to Learn” tent by Jerome Vassallo, vice president of sales for Elio Motors of Phoenix, Ariz. Vassallo will be passing out information and answering questions while allowing show attendees to try on the Elio prototype for size.

Pass-in-ReviewIn association with the Iola Old Car

Show, Old Cars Weekly will present a Pass-in-Review parade at 3 p.m. on Saturday during the event. The parade will feature many of the show cars in the Blue Ribbon Concours, Theme Tent and other areas of the show. Many of the cars to be featured in the Pass-in-Review are previous Old Cars Weekly cover cars, or will be soon.

The Pass-in-Review will be held between the Iola Old Car Show Activity Center and the Old Cars Weekly office building, adjacent to the “Theme Tent.”

‘Class of ’64’ factory light-weight drag cars

Star quarterbacks from the MoPar and Ford campuses will be part of a special “Class of ’64” display in the “Pace & Race” Theme Tent of IOLA ’15. Seth Rohde will be bringing two MoPar factory drag cars — a 1964 Plymouth drag raced as “The Hairbender” and a 1965 Dodge originally raced as “The High and Mighty.” Both cars are very rare and sport the new-for-1964 Hemi performance engine.

Jack Hazelgren will be bringing “The Little Rattler,” a 1964 Ford Thunderbolt. The coupe packs a 427-cid Ford V-8 and represents the mid-size factory Ford light-weight race cars that tore up racetracks across the country in ’64, sometimes competing with the Hemi lightweights like those owned by Rohde.


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ENTERTAINMENT // SERIOUSLY FUNNY

Our active arts community is a wonderful human complement to the natural beauty for which we have long been known.

—Bryan Smith, Mayor of the City of Waupaca

BY JEAN DETJEN

The Waupaca Community Arts Board (WCAB) will be hosting its 9th Annual Waupaca Arts on the Square (AOTS) in Downtown Waupaca Thursday, August 13 through Saturday, August 15. This dynamic celebration of the arts features live music, interactive arts workshops, fine art, dance, and a community art project.

“The Waupaca community has a long history of volun-teers coming together to promote the arts and arts appre-ciation,” says Bryan Smith, Mayor of the City of Waupaca. “From a few dedicated people working to provide artistic exposure to the community, our arts community has grown to include a very sizable artist community and many dif-ferent arts organizations and arts related businesses of all kinds.”

WCAB founder Marci Reynolds, who is a musician in the local favorite band Baba Ghanooj, agrees. “The inten-tional creation of creative events began in Waupaca about 20 years ago, with a core group of like-minded people coming together and sharing their vision for our small rural town. This group had so much fun brainstorming and cre-ating events that they started to feel guilty that the general public could not participate. This caused the core group to expand and try to be more accessible to the public. With many agendas that included no holds barred creativity, unlimited fun, the peace movement, and the idea that if we have to live in a small town it had better be interesting,

the group pursued public non-profit status and endeavored to engage with the entire community. The richness of life is based upon really valuing every member of our community, and understanding that we are all part of what makes up our local society.”

Reynolds notes that as a musician, she knows the special feeling of being able to express yourself musically. “Part of the mission of the WCAB is to create situations where anyone can experience, on many levels, the satisfaction and thrill of creativity.”

“The AOTS festival started out as a way to celebrate all aspects of creativity of our community,” adds Bev Crane, chair of the Art Jury Committee. “We started out with the goal of trying to get 30 to 40 high quality artists who would, over the years, form the foundation of the festival. The plan was that this foundation would then be embellished by musical acts, theatrical acts, dance and more. A major push was to include ways in which community members could come to the festival and not only enjoy what they saw and heard, but become involved in various ways, through the creative process.”

This year, in addition to 40 artists, and 3 entertainment stages, there are 9 interactive arts workshops including children’s art workshops led by artists, a poetry workshop, music workshop, dance, community art projects and more. There is also a poetry stage, with poets of various ages, including New York Subway poet Lynn Gentry, and the Dead Poets Society from the local high school.

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Festivities kick-off in a community known for its dynamic and thriving artistic community on Thursday, August 13 with events sponsored by Waupaca’s retailers group, Waupaca King and In Between. These events start with a chalking competition entitled Adopt a Square in which local retail-ers adopt a city square sidewalk square for youth to share their chalk art renditions that can earn them prizes in design competition.

Local retailers will have spent the entire previous week chalking outside of their own establishments, in the traditional competi-tive chalking which will also be judged by WCAB members. Capping off this evening, the Waupaca Middle School band will per-form on the square at 5 pm, with chalking awards being announced at 5:30.

“The retail association has also been more involved every year, with this year’s plans being to extend the festival another whole day with various youth and music and chalk events,” says Anita Olson, a local retailer who heads up the group Waupaca King and In Between that is advocating for new ways to boost the creative economy.

Friday evening in Downtown Waupaca,

the Family Friendly street dance will fea-ture National recording artists Davina and the Vagabonds from 7 - 10:30pm playing Americana, jazz and blues. Fire Spinner Broegy Pease and friends will entertain at the band’s break. Food, beer and beverages are available all evening.

Events continue Saturday, from 10 - 4 pm with 40 fine artists filling the Down-town Waupaca square. The artists will provide their juried exhibits, competing for cash awards. Their art will be available for sale to the public.

Three stages of live entertainment include Tom Pease, bluegrass band Ukelyp-tus, original music from Boston’s Hillary Reynolds, alternative band Kyle Megna and the Monsoons, and local rock favorites Ho Malone.

The Union Street stage will feature a participatory song circle workshop with the talented Chris Kokesh, Flamenco guitar and dance with John Laedtke and Pamela Luedtke, and several jazz acts including Wisconsin Public Radio’s Chris Kuborn and his Steel Drums, the Ian Duerr Jazz trio form New York, and the John Harmon

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Trio form Lawrence University. This tent will also feature periodic dance by the Shu-vani Tribal belly dancers.

The Bandstand stage will feature Ari-zona’s Anasazi flute player Vibhas Kendzia, Classical violins and strings form the Aber Suzuki Studio, the Kari Esbensen String Quartet, and the One for the Road Barber-shoppers.

The newly added Poetry Stage gives voice to original poets reading their work throughout the day. Poets include local favorites Patricia Reckrey and Jane Peter-son, as well as National poet Lynn Gentry who will also write spontaneous street poetry throughout the day. The Waupaca High School Dead Poets Society who will host a Poetry Slam. Part of this stage will be a community workshop dedicated to learning about and writing Haiku, with the creation of a community Haiku display that will be installed outside at Office Out-fitters.

Street performers will add to the eclec-

tic wide variety of entertainment at 2014 Arts on the Square. New to 2015 will be a Pleine Aire group, which is a group of pro-fessional artists dedicated to painting from life and to using field studies as the inspira-tion for studio works. The group will be rotating around the festival grounds, paint-ing what inspires them throughout the day.

There will also be a live foosball exhibit with local adult soccer teams competing.

Since a large part of Arts on the Square is to emphasize not only appreciation, but also participation in the arts, there will again be a wide variety of interactive arts opportunities and workshops, including a large community art project called Circle of Community in which everyone can partici-pate in creating a piece of art that will be put together the day of the festival.

Also offered are 3 children’s art work-shops, a quilting workshop, a henna workshop, and more. The workshops are designed for all ages and led by artists enhance the belief that every person is cre-ative. All workshops are free, and are ongo-ing throughout the entire day on Saturday.

As always, a variety of culinary delights will be ava i l ab l e w i th beverages and beer on the grounds all day Saturday. There will also be an expanded farmer’s market on site.

A l l p e r f o r -m a n c e s a n d workshops at Arts on the Square are free. Arts on the Square is funded by ThedaCare, Community First Credit Union; the City of Waupaca, many generous local donors and community mem-bers.

It’s a big under-taking but Wau-paca arts support-ers are tenacious in their efforts. “Many people get involved out of sheer enthusiasm for a particular idea or concept,” says Reynolds, who chairs the Festival Planning Committee. “These ideas are manifested during many a brainstorm-ing session at official WCAB meetings, between friends, or at local establishments such as Weasel’s restaurant. Every year the ideas get more intricate and elaborate, with the belief that anything is possible in a small rural town.”

The group’s commitment to the cause is in the details of how all the pieces came together. “A key feature this year that is an example of a leap of faith is the fact that the national touring band Davina and the Vagabonds will be the featured act for the Friday Night Street Dance,” Reynolds said. “This professional act, with accom-plished musicianship and an engaging show, played over 250 gigs per year here in the US and abroad. The planning commit-tee was able to take the risk of booking this act due to their sincere faith that the com-munity would somehow come through, which is exactly what happened with an anonymous philanthropist entering the

arena to make up the difference. This is an example of how the Waupaca community is behind the vision for AOTS. Not only supporting in a monetary fashion, but by volunteering time and sweat equity to create this festival.”

The mayor of Waupaca, Brian Smith, and the city council are all in support of AOTS, with not only their financial sup-port via a generous annual grant, but also by proclaiming August to be “Arts Appre-ciation Month” in Waupaca.

Arts on the Square has grown to be a landmark summer event in Waupaca, and Waupaca is becoming known in and beyond the Chain O’ Lakes for its robust arts scene. “With the power of relationship and creativity, we are able to continu-ally grow in quality and innovativeness, and hope to someday expand this event to cover even more days filled with more local participation and fun for our entire community!” Reynolds said. “Waupaca is where it’s at!”

For more information visit waupa-caarts.org.

Annual image contest winner Leah Griffith Boyce sets the tone for Arts on the Square 2015 with her whimsical rendition of this fantastic community

celebration of the arts!

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FOOD & DRINK // BREWMASTER

BY STEVE LONSWAY

The Stone Arch Brew House brewery team has always been fond of the beers Surly makes and with a few recent trips to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, we were able to get an ample supply. Unfortunately our stock wore thin. Good for us and other beer aficionados, Surly beers can now be found right here is Wisconsin. When this news broke we were quick to call our distributor to land some of these fine brews for our Tap Room (and personal stash as well). The truly hard part was to find the one brand we wanted to write about. We ended up choos-ing the one we were most unfamiliar with…Overrated! Surly Overrated is a self-proclaimed “Pale gold American (West Coast) IPA with fruity-citrus aromas from generous dry hop-ping”. Our team used goblets for our Surly sampling experience. Here is what we found:

The beer poured a true golden blond color and produced a golden hue head that consisted primarily of tightly formed CO2 bubbles. Unanimously we noticed a definite haze to an almost cloudy appearance. Typically dry hopped beers will appear hazy which is nothing

more than a visual thing, nothing that should steer you away. Some breweries will filter the haze out, but unfortunately it also strips some of the hop character out as well.

The nose (or scent) of this beer screams hops! Floral, citrusy, earthy, musty, grapefruit are all words our team used to describe it. A couple of us thought it was absent of the piney tones that are typical in a West Coast IPA. It was still quite pleasurable however.

As you would expect with a beer like this, our teams notes on the taste/flavor portion of this beer was pretty diverse. I person-ally noticed a malt forward push with Craig noticing caramel in the flavor. The other guys reported a lack of malt tones. A definite earthy tone came through with Taylor, Brian and Craig all noting a boozy or alcoholic flavor popping in. Very hop forward was the overall consensus. Citrus and floral definitely shines through on the palette and the medium body was just right for the style.

Surly Overrated finishes strong, both in hop character with its bitterness and warming from the presence of alcohol. Taylor com-mented that it finishes almost like a lemon-

lime soda. None-the-less it finishes clean and dry with a slight warming effect.

Surly Brewing got their start in 2004 when an aspiring brewer convinced his parents and wife to convert the family abrasives business into a brewery. In order to be a brewery you need to brew beer and Surly did just that in December, 2005. With the help of heavy metal music and incorrectly operating fermenter controls, the first batch of Surly became reality on December 30th, 2005. Two months later they hit the streets to sell their flagship brew Furious. Furious was a bit ahead of its time and not well received at first by the local bars and restaurants but fortunately they have since come around. Then, good news came in June of 2007 when BeerAdvocate magazine named Surly Brewing the Best Brewery in America which was shortly followed up by more good news that RateBeer named Surly Darkness the best American beer in the world. With such fine accolades on their resume, they inspired to grow to not only handle increased demand, but to have a destination brewery where people can watch the beer being brewed, drink it and enjoy a fine meal as well. Only one problem

prevented this dream from coming to fruition – an outdated, Prohibition-era Minnesota law. This law prevented breweries from selling their beer from their location (crazy, isn’t it?). Surly immediately went to work to change that law but soon realized it may be a bigger task then even they could handle. So what did they do? They turned to Surly Nation and encouraged them via social media to contact their legisla-tors to help turn that law into history. On May 24, 2011 the then Minnesota Governor signed the “Surly Bill” into law allowing breweries that produce less than 250,000 barrels of beer annaully to sell their works at their breweries.

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FOOD & DRINK // FROM THE WINE CAVE

BY KIMBERLY FISHER

V i v a La France! F r a n c e i s a place of

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Although the Rhone is considered one wine region, it is divided into two distinct parts based on climate and grape variety. The Northern Rhone comprises less than five percent of the total production, but makes some of the area’s most amazing white and red wine. The region is 45 miles long and has the influence of the Mistral winds that are intense and cold. Grape

growing is dominated by two varieties. Red wine is made with the Syrah grape most famously grown in Cornas and Cote Rotie. The Cornas region is over 130 hectares with a warm continental climate. The region is ancient; over 300 million years old, planted exclusively to Syrah. White wine made in Northern Rhone is made from the Viognier grape most famously in Condrieu.

Cote Rotie also known as the “Roasted Slope,” is a region that is over 1500 years old. The vines are grown on steep Roman Terraces. It has the lowest production per hectares and some of the highest altitude vineyards primarily given over to Syrah and Viognier. Other white varietals permitted in the north are Marsanne and Roussanne. In Cornas, the Syrah grape is grown on granite soil allowing the grape to have power rather than finesse. One notable producer in Northern Rhone is Jean Luc Colombo. Known as a visionary

for the region, he was the first to use small oak barrels and vinify in stainless steel. He is the recipient of the French Legion of Honor, which is the highest civilian honor in the country of France and has achieved over 150 scores of over 90+ points from trade publications such as Robert Parker and Wine Spectator since the winery began in 1982.

The Southern Rhone is home to 95 per-cent of the valley’s grape production. The soil is primarily stones that are rounded pebbles called gallets with a mixture of shingle and stone clay. Twenty five grapes are grown in the south, but the dominant red grape is Grenache, often blended with Mourvedre and Cinsault. Leading producers in the area include E Guigal, Paul Jaboulet, Perrin and Chapoutier. Jean Luc Colombo also produces wines in the Southern Rhone region and has created a label called “Les Abeilles” (French for the bees) which features a Cotes du Rhone Red

and White. As Jean has been known as the Syrah wizard, he is also known for helping to save the bees. A disease called Colony Collapse Disorder has mysteriously been decimating bee populations throughout the world, including the Rhone River Valley. Honeybees pollinate more than 90% of our flowering grapes, and over the years, the bees and their colonies are dying. Ten percent of sales of Jean Luc Colombo Cotes du Rhone Red and White go to research at UC Davis, to help research and find ways to save the bees.

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FOOD & DRINK // TRICIA’S TABLE

BY TRISH DERGE

Anybody can squish a few patty’s out of a pound of burger, toss them on the grill and singe the dickens out of them until they’re flavorless and dry as a Saharan paleontologist’s sack lunch.

But if you want your guests at your cookout to enjoy their meal, and not col-lectively roll their eyes in disgust at the blackened disk you place on their bun and say, “Better load up on the condiments,” take note of a few tips from an expert.

Jamie Schweid is executive vice president/co-butcher of Schweid & Sons, a purveyor of ground beef that was founded in the late 1800’s on New York’s Lower East Side.

Jamie says: 1. Always lay the burger cheese-side

down on the bun.This way your bottom bun won’t get

soggy, and your burger will taste better. 2. Don’t just toss the patty on the grill. If cooking outdoors, use a grill mat

or camp griddle to ensure a nice sear and keep your patty from sticking or losing its shape.

3. Forget that frying pans even exist.If cooking on a stovetop, a cast iron

skillet is the best way to get a restaurant-

style crust on the patty’s exterior.4. Fat is your friend. For a juicy, delicious burger, opt for

meat that has a 75/25 lean to fat ratio. 5. Always pre-heat and pre-oil your

cooking surface.Pro tip: Cook some bacon and use the

fat as your oil! 6. Don’t bother with pulling down

your hood. Closing the lid on your grill does not

aid in cooking the burger, only in melting the cheese (that is, if you’re putting the cheese on top, where it definitely should not be).

7. Your patty should weigh no more than eight ounces.

Any larger than that will jeopardize your ability to cook the burger to a perfect medium rare.

8. Cold hands form the best patties.Try rubbing a piece of ice on your

palms just before shaping. Wash your hands with soap and water before you get started.

9. NEVER put a burger on a non-toasted bun.

The juices will run out and ruin it. The only exception to this rule is sliders, which should be served on soft or potato rolls, with cheese on the bottom, of course.

Trish’s Delicious Avocado ToppingI love this on top of a burger, or just on a hearty piece of toast for breakfast.

• Chop three scallions and a clove of garlic, and saute in with olive oil a pan. Set aside.

• In a medium bowl smoosh an avocado with a fork.• Squeeze in a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice.• Add a quarter cup of crumbled blue cheese.• Fold in the onions and garlic.• Pepper to taste, and enjoy!

Burger Time!

FINE ARTS // FOXY FINDS

Foxy FindsBY JEAN DETJEN, ARTFUL LIVING

Evoke hues of the sea and calming whimsy with these art glass fish from Wild Apple Gallery in downtown Menasha. $18-32 per

piece. Other styles and color schemes available, along with a unique variety of cultural gifts, art and jewelry. Wild Apple also houses a

glass studio and classroom which are open to the public for glass fus-ing demonstrations and workshops. The gallery’s mission is to present

exhibitions and programs by emerging artists whose work engages and enriches the community. It is recognized locally as a vital and energetic cultural gathering place and as a education resource for

Northeast Wisconsin. The Wild Apple is a member of the Glass Art Society and the Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors NE Chapter.


Charming Mason jar pendent lights from The Vintage Garden, downtown Appleton.

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Nifty nautical home accessories add fresh fun to home, garden,

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from Sugar Lips, Green Lake. Sugar Lips

features two full floors of retail shopping with offerings ranging from home décor, clothing & accessories, wine, books,

children’s toys, Green Lake themed gifts and

more.

Vintage-inspired floral print flounce bodice jersey sundress from Elements Unleashed in downtown Neenah. Fun

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pairing with flip-flops or cowgirl boots. This sweet beauty comes in women’s sizes S-XL. $44. From

casual to couture, Elements Unleashed offers an out-of-the-

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Recycled Kantha Collection sari accessories from Daiseye on Water Street in Princeton. Each one-of-a-kind handcrafted scarf, sarong, and throw tells a beautiful story.

Daiseye is an eclectic marketplace offering earth-friendly, fair trade and artisan products to enhance your living space. There you will find stylish treasures with simple beauty created from materi-als such as reclaimed wood and tin, recycled glass and organically-grown

herbs and fibers. The store’s name was inspired from the daisy flower, the

original sunflower called “eye of day.”

Character-laden dining room table crafted from Jim Beam reclaimed lumber found at Beam and Board, Green Bay. The repurposed floor-boards came from a 19th-century Kentucky building that held 30,000 barrels of Jim Beam

whiskey. Those boards — some still bearing the distinctive purple

stains from spilled spirits — have been

handcrafted into many breathtaking items. The company uses

mostly locally-sourced reclaimed hardwoods (and a bit of salvaged

metal and architectural finds) from demolished buildings and barns. It also sells high-end distinctive new hard-ware for cabinets and the like. Beam and Board also creates custom walls, flooring, beam work, ceilings and unique furniture and décor pieces for

both residential and commercial clients.

Your inner gypsy awaits! Express yourself in style with this Bohemian luxe Gypsy Junkies jewelry line available

at Wild Ginger on Broadway in Green Bay. Utterly romantic, yet with an interesting edge. So many creative ways to mix up your look with these eye-catching pieces! Wild Ginger provides a boutique shopping experience that excites the senses while fulfilling your wanderlust.

Store owners travel to South East Asia where they hand-pick beautiful pieces of furniture, clothing, jewelry and gift items. Visit their gorgeous shop to experience their

vast array of aesthetic delights!

Cheers to living artFULLY in the

heart of Wisconsin!Send your sugges-

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Gary Sinise & the Lt. Dan Band at EAA AirVenture!BY JANE SPIETZ

A c t o r / h u m a n i t a r i a n / m u s i c i a n Gary Sinise has enjoyed a multifaceted career. He started out playing in bands as a teenager, but became totally captivated by theater after performing in a high school production of West Side Story. Sinise went on to co-found the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and still supports its activities. A prolific actor, he won an Emmy for his portrayal of George Wallace on television, a Golden Globe for Truman, in which he played Harry S. Truman and he was Detec-tive Mac Taylor on CSI:NY. Sinise was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Lt. Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump.

It was this last character that eventu-ally led to his great passion for working to support veterans and veterans’ service orga-nizations for the past thirty years. After forming the Gary Sinise & the Lt. Dan Band, Sinise and his band regularly hit

the road to back these efforts, and he also makes solo appearances to help get the word out. His Gary Sinise Foundation was established in 2011 to raise funds and promote resources for servicemen and women. Sinise co-founded the Operation International Children program which ships school supply kits to troops serv-ing in conflict areas overseas. Severely wounded veterans benefit from the Gary Sinise Foundation’s building of custom Smart Homes for them. He has earned numerous notable awards for his work, such as the Presidential Citizens Medal, The Ellis Island Medal of Honor, The Bob Hope Award for Excellence in Entertain-ment from the Medal of Honor Society, and the Spirit of the USO Award. His most recent award was the 2015 Service to America Leadership Award from the NAB Education Foundation (NABEF).

Gary Sinise called me from Los Angeles not long ago to update me on his activities, including the Lt. Dan Band’s upcoming

performance at the 2015 EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh WI.

Jane Spietz: Hi Gary. You initially became hooked on acting in high school.

Gary Sinise: I was playing in bands from the time I was in, like, 6th grade and hung out with the band guys a lot. Living in Glen Ellyn Illinois, I went to a produc-tion of West Side Story in high school and really liked watching the play. We then moved to Highland Park. It turns out that high school was doing West Side Story. I was standing in the hallway with some of my band members when the drama teacher walked by. He said we should come audi-

tion for the play because we looked like gang members and could play them in the play. I thought that was funny and I had just seen it, so I thought I would go check it out. I was standing outside the audition watching all these pretty girls walking in, so I followed them. (Laughs) I ended up auditioning and got in the show. From that point on, all I wanted to do is act in plays and play in bands. When I graduated high school, I started a theater company called Steppenwolf which has been around now for over forty years. I’m one of the three founders of the company so I’m still involved with fundraising and some of the things going on there.

JS: Have you been involved in any acting projects lately?

GS: Ever since CSI:NY went off the air in February of 2013, I have just poured myself into my foundation and military support work. I’ve been doing that pretty much full time for the past two and a half

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years. So it’s been a little bit of time away from that, but I have a television series that I’m going to start shooting the end of July. It’s a spinoff of the “Criminal Minds” show on CBS. We’ll be spinning off a new series called “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders.” It explores the international division of the FBI.

JS: How was the Gary Sinise Founda-tion established?

GS: I had been working with several military charities, involved with veterans’ groups in the ‘90s working a little bit with the DAV (Disabled American Veterans) and

in the ‘80s working with Vietnam veterans groups in the Chicago area. After Septem-ber 11th, I just wanted to do something for our active duty service members who were deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq so I started volunteering for the USO and to support lots of different military charities that were popping up. I would just lend my services with the band or volunteer to help raise money or whatever I could do. After working with some of them for sev-eral years, it just became clear that the next step was for me to start my own veterans charity called the Gary Sinise Foundation. I’ve used what I’ve learned over the years in supporting men and women to try to bring some resources to help benefit them and their families. Our men and women are going to be called upon for years to come. Therefore, I stepped up to try to do my part in helping to support them. They are our freedom providers. It’s a dangerous world and they do dangerous things so we should back them up.

JS: What’s your take on the level of support that is provided to today’s service members versus what was offered to veter-ans in the past?

GS: Let’s look in retrospect. I’m moti-vated because of the Viet Nam veterans that I know, and the ones that I have in my family. My veteran support work goes back to the ‘70s and early ‘80s with the recognition as a young man that our Viet Nam veterans had really gotten a bad deal coming home. So my motivation today – the seeds of that – were planted years ago by the Viet Nam veterans who educated me. If you look at what’s happening today, I’m certainly motivated to do whatever I can to ensure that our active duty service members today are treated much better than our Viet Nam veterans were when they came home from war, and that what happened to our Viet Nam veterans never happens again. That you volunteer for ser-vice or go off to serve your country, you get shot at, you see your buddies get killed or wounded, you struggle with long deploy-ments away from home, serious things happen to you, then you come home and the country turns its back on you. That’s no good. We never want that to happen. That’s a big motivator for me, and I think that’s a big motivator for a lot of people. We recognize that that was a bad deal and that hopefully we learn some hard lessons from that period.

JS: The fact that there are more than 40,000 military charities out there kind of speaks pretty loudly to the fact that people do care about our service members.

GS: I don’t think it’s up to the govern-ment to do everything. First of all, because they can’t, and I think it’s up to us as citizens who benefit from the freedom that’s provided by these service members who deploy at dangerous places around the world. It’s up to us, in some ways, to ensure that the veterans in our own communities, neighborhoods, towns and cities are taken care of. We can all do that by just stepping up and saying I want to take some action, or donate to an organization that is taking action. One of the things that I can do as a celebrity, as a public figure, is shine a light on things. It all became clear that there was a useful way that my success in the movie and television business could be applied.

JS: Share the story about the formation of the Lt. Dan Band.

GS: I started doing USO tours after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq started. I would go out and shake hands and take

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pictures. I had these band members that I played with for fun, and I finally talked the USO into letting me take the band members with me. I had been just shak-ing hands, and I wanted to entertain in some way. I remember the first tour I did overseas in Iraq. I was on a tour with Kid Rock, Lee Ann Womack and these other entertainers that were playing music. I immediately started talking to the USO. I said, “I have a band. I can go do this!” Because I’m an actor, they look at me like “Well, yeah sure, you’ve got a band.” But eventually, after five or six handshake tours, they let me take the band out on the road for the USO to play for the troops. That first year, after we went into Iraq, I went on six USO tours, like every month for six months. I was going “Send me to Iraq, send me to Europe, send me to Asia, wherever.” I just wanted to go be with the troops, visit our military, say thank you and pat ‘em on the back. Everywhere I was going on those handshake tours, they were call-ing me ‘Lt. Dan’ from Forrest Gump. So, when I started taking the musicians, I said

let’s call it Gary Sinise & the Lt Dan Band. We play contemporary, classic, blues, pop, rock, country. I want a big variety in the show because we play for little kids on these bases as well as older veterans. We’ll even play ‘40s tunes if we’re doing the DAV convention, for example, and they’ve got some World War II veterans attending. We try to play a little something for everybody.

JS: What does it mean for you to be returning to perform at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh in July?

GS: What I love about AirVenture is they’re so veteran-friendly. There are so many veterans there. We are always part of the big veterans salute and tribute. It’s always a pleasure to be around so many veteran-friendly families and so many patriotic Americans. I really enjoy our doing it and I’m glad we’re coming back this year. I hope that a lot of people come out to see us again.

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BY GEORGE HALAS

If you have not been to The Short Branch Saloon in Neenah in the last couple of years or so, be prepared to be very nicely surprised at what they’ve done to the place.

Walking in the front door, the bar still has the same rustic feel it has always had. Keep walking and the end of the bar opens into an area with a new, raised stage, an excellent house sound system and tables arrayed in a way that facilitates listening and viewing as well as leaving a very com-fortable dance floor.

Continuing past the stage and heading outside, it opens up into a large big-tree-shaded lawn with eight picnic tables, an outdoor stage and a bar that can accom-modate up to 200 hundred people com-fortably.

If you are there on a Saturday or Sunday morning, you may notice that a lot of folks are drinking Bacon Bloody Mary’s.

If you are there any time, you cannot help but notice the strong commitment to becoming one of the premier music venues in the Fox Valley.

“Our goal at the Short Branch is to provide a great evening out for all of our customers,” said manager Jason Rothe. “We strive to provide many genres of local ta lent with-out a cover charge or overpriced drinks.”

“I’ve got to give a shout o u t t o o u r owner, Lorrie Davis,” Rothe added, “for provid-ing us with a great vision and the support to accomplish great things. Music is our number one priority and, not only are we

committed to making The Short Branch a top music destination, we’d like to work with other venues to make Neenah a great music destination.”

Special events are coming up as well.

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Rothe emphasized that the changes

and improvements are still coming.“We plan on continuing with the cur-

rent remodeling that many are seeing as well as adding a kitchen,” he said. “One of our objectives is to have a Friday fish fry that will accommodate our inside guests and outside in our spacious backyard!”

The Short Branch offers three different regular music “nights” each week, starting on Wednesdays with Classic Rock running from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. In July and August, Bobby Evans and Russ Reiser perform on alternate Wednesdays.

On Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., the Valley Unplugged series is offering A-Town Unplugged, Cool Waters and Christopher Gold.

The musically diverse Summer Show-case presents The Presidents on July 11, Consult The Briefcase on July 18 and Crankin’ Yankees on July 25. The August lineup includes Red Light Saints, Leading The Blind, Dead Horses, Miles Nielson and The Mustache.

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NEWS & VIEWS // MEDIA RANTS

BY TONY PALMERI

A majority of American adults avoid participation in public discussion of issues. Given that so much of what passes for public discourse is infected with the twin poisons of prepackaged partisan talking points and mindless put downs of oppos-ing views, avoidance behavior should not be surprising.

Unfortunately, citizen withdrawal from the public sphere has real consequences. When uncontested bad ideas dominate, policy makers feel empowered to make them into law. The fact that the 400 wealthiest individuals on the Forbes 400 list have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans combined is a testament to the power of narrow monied interests to get “reverse Robin Hood” economic policy ideas taken seriously.

How can people become more engaged in solving the problems caused by an unhealthy public sphere? Clearly education has to be part of the solution. As a teacher in a Department of Communication at UW Oshkosh that states as its mission helping students to “find their voice,” I am always looking for ways to encourage public engagement. The rest of this rant describes a seminar I taught in the spring of this year designed to provide students with some tools necessary to analyze and evaluate discourse in the public sphere, and hopefully “raise the bar” for such discourse when choosing to enter that sphere them-selves.

The seminar was called “Rhetoric in Action.” At the most basic level, rhetoric is the “art of persuasion.” The goal in the course was to expose students to writers in the public sphere for whom persuasion is the major purpose for writing. Newspa-per op-ed writers represent probably the best example of the kind of persuaders I had in mind, so I assigned each of the 22 enrolled students a writer that they followed all semester. The assigned writers were Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Frank Bruni, Gail Collins, and Ross Douthat of the New York Times; Leonard Pitts, Jr. of the Miami Herald; Dana Milbank, Eugene Robinson, Kathleen Parker, Katrina vandenHeuvel, Jennifer Rubin, Richard Cohen, E.J.Dionne, Jr., George Will, and Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post; Meghan Daum and Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times; Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias of Vox.com; and John Nich-ols of the Madison Capital Times.

My main criteria in selecting the writers were: (1) the writer needed to be engaged consistently in writing about major public policy issues, (2) the writer needed to write for a mainstream source, and (3) the writer needed to have a substantial follow-ing. Obviously many writers meet those criteria, so I tried to arrive at a balance of liberal, moderate, and conservative voices. My own familiarity with the 22 writers was also a consideration; knowing about the writers in advance made it easier for me to determine if students were representing

them accurately in their assigned papers for the course.

The course textbook was The Rhetori-cal Act: Thinking, Speaking, and Writing Critically by professors Karlyn Campbell, Susan Huxman, and Thomas Burkholder. The writers conceptualize a successful rhetorical act as one that employs the resources of evidence, argument, organiza-tion, and language to overcome challenges making persuasion difficult. Those chal-lenges arise from audience (they often misinterpret messages and are resistant to change), subject and purpose (subjects can be complex and saying yes to the purpose might cost too much), and the rhetor him or herself (a writer’s prior reputation might get in the way of accepting his or her cur-rent argument).

Students wrote many short papers analyzing how their assigned writer tried to overcome specific rhetorical challenges, leading to wonderful classroom discussions about public issues and the manner in which mainstream writers frame them. As the semester went on most seemed to be disturbed by how little the writers address issues of concern to young people; debt, lack of enough good paying jobs, and the environment to name just three examples. I found myself reminding them frequently that the answer was simple: write and speak about the issues you care about. Make a commitment to the public sphere.

The final assignment was a lengthy paper requiring the student to evaluate his or her assigned writer based on artistic

quality, effectiveness, accuracy, and/or ethics. These were some of the most intel-ligent and enjoyable papers I’ve read in a while. A good number of students were drawn to the ethical standard, which looks favorably on rhetoric that promotes social harmony and unfavorably on that which promotes discord. One student told me that a politiEthics.com website would be more valuate than politiFact. I told her she should start it.

As a result of this course, one student was motivated to publish his own op-ed (on the topic of student debt) for the stu-dent Advance Titan newspaper. Another submitted her final paper (arguing that the NYT’s Frank Bruni weds a sense of comic, tragic, and history like a modern Shake-speare) to the Oshkosh Scholar journal of student scholarship.

Like the majority of liberal arts courses offered at the UW, “Rhetoric in Action” provided students with a meaningful opportunity to think critically about civic responsibility. Such opportunities make it more likely that graduates will pay critical attention to what is going on in Madison and Washington. Perhaps that is why so many politicians want to reduce the UW mission to mere concern with job skills.

Tony Palmeri ([email protected]) is a professor of communication studies at UW Oshkosh.

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BY GEORGE HALAS

Given that one of the songs on this CD has been nominated for an international award, this reviewer believes that he is not going out on a limb in stating that “My Desire of You” is a great album and argu-ably the best yet from Jamie Lyn Fletcher.

She has an excellent voice and tastefully subdued vocal style that creates intrigue and a certain journey-into-the-unknown feel. She complements her voice by choos-ing keys and notes lower than most female vocalist, again creating intrigue. Her songs often sound like the music that sets up the scary part of the movie…or is it romance…or is it both? She is also an outstanding – again intriguing – lyricist.

The title/opening track, “My Desire For You” is a tune that gets you on the first bass note and keeps you with an intoxicat-ing beat and intelligent, inventive lyrics that sit perfectly on top of her piano-driven

groove. She leaves one wondering if she truly embraces her desire; the lyrical twists will encourage multiple listens.

The award-nominated (see “The Span-ish Inquisition” in this issue for detail) “I’ll Kiss You In The Rain” has that same multiple-listenable quality. It features a Brazilian tempo sparked by Fletcher’s styl-ish piano augmented by rhythmic guitar and includes sweet chord, tempo and mood changes. Her vocal sets an emotion-ally evocative tone that brings out the happy.

Fletcher lures you into “Dangerous Beautiful” with an acoustic guitar intro then traps in a harmonic and intensity build that definitely sounds dangerous…but captivating. She uses a jazzier guitar to take you into a rather tastefully adult “In My Dreams.” She needs only an acoustic guitar to present the case her heart vs. her soul in of “Unresolved.”

She is very pleased with the sound and

feel of the entire album and a newly discov-ered emotional vulnerability.

“Having the most amazing recording engineer and producer on the planet doesn’t hurt either,” she emphasized. “Marc Golde broke me, I don’t know how many times, in the studio over getting into the right emotional place on each song. He would accept nothing less. Who knew rocker guys could be so sensitive. He might kill me for repeating this, but regarding “What Now”, he says ‘this makes me want to just to go ice skating with Audrey Hepburn in Central Park”.

Had this reviewer thinking of lacing up the skates as well, but it’s a song that would work well with wine and a fire.

“And Marc’s board,” she continued, “this is my first album on ‘that board’ - Vin-tage analog 30 channel API Aengus Model 73- one of only two ever made. Play it through a set of old beastly analog speakers and the cellos will dance around the room

while I whis-per the lyrics in your ear. It is sometimes unnervingly i n t i m a t e . You hear every spit crackle and every breath. The only effect used was an authentic plate reverb. Marc had the vision for this work and executed it immaculately, as did the musicians and beautiful photographer Sofia of Sofia Imagery. You have to see the cover – wow! The album was mastered at Sterling Audio in New York which pushed the vision right over the top.”

The songs on this album will also sound great live, so it might be a good idea to catch Jamie Lyn Fletcher at one of her upcoming gigs and grab a CD there. You can download of free copy of the award-nominated “The Fool” from her 2012 release “Jamie” as well as her schedule at www.jamielynnfletcher.com

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BY GEORGE HALAS

The Inquisition and those in-the-know in northeast Wisconsin have known for some time that Jamie Lyn Fletcher is one of the best and most creative singer-musician-composers.

But it’s not just Wisco – the world is now taking notice.

The Green Bay-based Fletcher was named by Music Resource Group (MRG) as one of five 14th Independent Music Awards nominees in the Jazz with Vocals Category for her song “I’ll Kiss You In The Rain” from her new album “My Desire of You.”

IMA nominations in more than 80 categories spanned over the globe from nearly 30 countries. The eclectic mix of established and rising talent was culled from thousands of submissions. Winners will be determined by a panel of influ-ential artist and industry judges such as Arturo Sandoval, Jane Monheit, Suzanne Vega, Sharon Jones, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Lila Downs, Judy Collins, Raul Midón, Amanda Palmer, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Shelby Lynne, Chris Wood & Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers), Anthony DeCurtis (Rolling Stone), as well as numerous talent elites.

In addition to the winners selected by the Artist & Industry judges, music fans from around the world have until Friday, July 31, 2015 to vote for their favorite Nominees at The Vox Pop Jukebox, the fan-determined portion of The IMAs.

“It is quite the honor and I’m humbled at the positive response. There certainly has been an increased demand for what I do since the nomination, and it has encour-aged me to continue testing the album in a more international realm,” Fletcher said. “I will not rest on the laurels of the nomina-tion, though. You are only as good as what you produce right now.”

“It is such an honor to have this nomination,” she said, “but an even bigger honor to have fans support their favorite independent music, uncontrolled by com-merciality and written for quality-minded music lovers.”

This was not the first time she has been honored.

“The Fool,” a cut off her 2012 release, “Jamie,” made it as a finalist in the 2013

International John Lennon Songwriting Competition.

“It’s about making a mistake that most of us have made and I still get so many requests for it on my live shows as it resonates with the human experience,” she said.

Fletcher’s star has been rising in Europe as well as she has made several trips over the last couple years.

“The past two years I’ve been focusing on finding the right sound. It was impos-sible to do until I realized I had to start being true to myself and the music that I wanted to produce: something tender and gentle that cannot be pigeon-holed because it is just ‘music,” she noted. “There was also a process of facing my biggest fears of loving and being loved. Sometimes you get run over by inspiration or a situation and you can’t run away any more. The new album is the beginning of letting go.”

Her European experiences serve as a musical travelogue.

“Europe is so vast, but you can drive all day and pass through several cultures and languages, unlike in the States. Irony and a few good friends have brought me to Austria on tour several times over the past few years,” she said. “Vienna is so rich in history, architecture, music, and art; every-one loves live entertainment.”

“Their tastes in bend more towards the early American ‘traditional’ jazz music of pre-WWII and then jump into rockabilly, skipping over much of the Western world’s music from the 1930’s & 40’s as it was banned under Hitler,” she continued. “Poodle skirts and bobby socks are a rave in many clubs now, but there is a burgeon-ing niche who appreciates original music as well as the Great American Song Book, which is where my musical heart likes to hang out. It’s pure elegance.”

“London is amazingly rich in all styles and they are over-the-top with the funk. No shortage of groove,” she said. “Belgium leans more towards hard jazz and be-bop and France remains unchanged with their love for everything sultry and chanteuse.”

“Oslo was a complete surprise as my second evening led me to a concert by Norway’s probably most-predominant pop artist, Bjørn Eidsvag,” she recalled. “My brain had no idea what he was singing, but his music penetrates into a deep place in

the soul, which attests to the universality of the music language. I was blessed to later meet with him for lunch and an interview.”

“My third night I stumbled upon an American-style big band complete with the Andrew sisters,” she added. “For a self-proclaimed ‘amateur band’ (one is consid-ered amateur if their main income is not in performing music), they nailed it. I spent the rest of my time exploring the scene and playing my butt off nearly every night in every style of music - regardless of spoken language. I was warmly accepted on stage in all situations and hope to return soon.”

The album proved to be somewhat of a metaphysical quest.

“This new album is completely differ-ent from anything I have done,” she said. “I met an incredible individual, Marc Golde, who turned my being inside out, challenged me in every way, forced me to address my deepest fears, and impacted me enough to finally stop running from myself in my most hidden self-destruction. The new album is an examination of the baby

steps of the process- the hesitations, the fears, the wants, the desires, the dark edges, the joyful light, and the hopes of maybe one day being able to fully trust and love.”

“Sometimes I listen to it and I don’t even recognize myself - did I write that?” she continued. “The music is extremely subtle and tender with multiple meanings, but hopefully something that everyone can relate to if they pay close attention. There were several times I had to question exactly who I was speaking to in the music - to my inspiring person, to God, or to myself - not to confuse any of them with each other, of course. This new work is an admission of vulnerability- something I once swore I would never let out. But there is no art without vulnerability.”

Fletcher will be back in town in July and August for multiple gigs in Green Bay, DePere and Door County. For a complete schedule - and while you’re there, you can download “The Fool” for free (along with a couple other older originals) – go to her website: jamielynnfletcher.com

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This August 7-8, the new Waterfront stage in Sister Bay hosts the first new major music festival to hit Door County in a decade. A line up of 9 musical acts, an eclectic mix of food and drink vendors, and sellers of groovy goods will bring a fresh vibe to the village and give people an opportunity to check out the newly completed beach and Waterfront Park.

“Midwest SunSplash is a fun and funky new venture for Sister Bay, that will ideally make people take another look at Sister Bay as a place to visit,” said Zeke Jackson, administra-tor for the Village of Sister Bay. “This event is an opportunity to showcase the new public waterfront in an active and vibrant way. Sister Bay is the place for young, active families to relax and make fun memories. “

Village President David Lienau confirmed Jackson’s sentiments, adding, “This will attract new visitors that haven’t been to Sister Bay or Door County, and give people who haven’t been in a while a reason to come back.”

The connection with Sister Bay and the Midwest Sunsplash (MWSS) event was a ser-endipitous one. Unity the Band played the first ever concert on the new Sister Bay Stage July 31, 2014. After the show, Unity lead singer Pita Katobalavu and Sister Bay Advancement Association Director Paige Funkhouser chat-ted about the new venue, music and SBAA’s desire to bring a music festival to the Village. Thus, Midwest SunSplash found a new home.

MWSS began as a concert series by Kato-balavu and his partner, Kay Halbrook. They were looking to grow the series, and for a new, better venue than previously used.

“Unity headlining the first concert at the new Waterfront Pavilion last summer packed the park,” Funkhouser said. “It was a perfect night: warm, beautiful sunset, people on boats listening to the jams. The energy of Pita’s band and their really positive messages created beautiful atmosphere on the waterfront. Unity drew a huge crowd with a fantastically diverse mix of ages and personalities. Zeke (Jackson) and I started talking with Pita and from there the festival idea grew into what people will experience Aug. 7 and 8.”

Funkhouser, Jackson, Katobalavu and

Halbrook met in November over sushi at Bonsai in De Pere, and started planning this year’s event as a soft opening of the new water-front. A Joint Effort Marketing grant from the Wisconsin Department of Tourism was writ-ten, and awarded to help promote the event. The grant award is funding the traditional and social media marketing to attract visitors from around the Midwest to the event. The state’s tourism marketing arm was onboard with the goal of inviting younger people and more diverse visitors to the state and Door County.

August 8 will be an art and music-filled day on the water in Sister Bay. Sister Bay Advancement Association will also host the 13th annual Door County Festival of Fine Arts in Waterfront Park on the north side of the Sister Bay Village Hall. This festival show-cases Door County fine artists, who sell, and demonstrate their craft throughout the day, 10 - 5 p.m.

“By pairing these two events, people attending Midwest SunSplash can spend their day perusing fine art at the Door County Festival of Fine Arts, and learning how art-ists create,” Funkhouser explained. “DCFA will also have live music throughout the day to put people in the mood for MWSS. Door County’s successful art scene will help draw people to MWSS, and people who have come for the new music will get to experience the vibrant art scene in Door County.”

Katobalavu handpicked the entertainment to represent diverse music styles, with the idea to appeal to the usual Door County crowds, with aspiration to attract new visitors who may not have been to the peninsula.

“My band has played all over in Door County, at Fishstock and other events for many years, and I love the warm welcomes we receive,” Katobalavu said. “I wanted to make sure we brought up great musicians that will entertain the local people who are exposed to lots of great talent all the time. I also chose bands for their geographic location and the size of their fan base. The bands will invite their fans to come up to Door County and hear their favorite band in a new location. Did we mention you’ll be able to swim while listen-ing to the music?”

The festival kicks off Friday, August 7 at 4 p.m. with three bands playing on the Waterfront Stage until 9 p.m. Saturday’s line up features six bands playing from 2 p.m. until

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touring season by opening for Smash Mouth in North Carolina, and are including Midwest Sunsplash in their busy schedule. Katobalavu first connected with them through a fan in Rockford, and in his search for unique acts for MWSS, he thought they really stood out.

“Their folk/blues/funk combo is really kick-ass,” saaid Katobalavu. “Having two women musicians out front isn’t something you see too often!”

Lead singer/songwriter and guitarist Kris-tina Cottone shares the stage with Kim Kozel, who sings and plays saxophone and violin in this Chicago-based group. Kottone and Kozel are joined by lead guitarist Jon Gould, Sean Tatum on bass, and drummer Jarad Kleinstein. Among their credentials is a Best Blues/Jazz Band honor in 2014 from the Chicago Independent Music Awards. They recently released their second album “MAD.” They will kick off Saturday’s line up at 2 p.m. on the Sister Bay Stage.

Natty Nation will draw their fans from Madison and southern Wisconsin to Door County, with the lure of a great Friday night headliner show at MWSS. Traditionally, Sun-splash festivals are known for the Reggae mes-sage of peace, love and unity, and Natty Nation

has been touring and playing those positive vibrations since 1995. A steady back up band for such legends as Lee “Scratch” Perry and Chaka Demus & Pliers, they have a tight dub-based sound that attracts reggae purists as well as seekers of roots-rock-reggae.

Other bands performing during the two day event include: Katobalavu’s Unity the Band, Whiskey of the Damned, Recalcitrant, Big Wig Mechanics, Wifee & the Huzz Band, and Earth to Clark.

For a full festival experience, camping is available for festival goers at the Sister Bay Sports Complex, with a separate area for tents and RVs. Starting at 9 p.m. Friday night,

MWSS ticket holders will be treated to an acoustic “after-hours” campfire music jam at the camping area hosted by Door County’s own Mary Jane Gang.

“Camping really makes the festival by adding a communal setting for people to share and chill during and after MWSS. The Village of Sister Bay has helped make this happen, and they are building a bonfire for Friday night’s acoustic jam, and will shoot off fireworks Friday night,” said Funkhouser.

To create a festival atmosphere, MWSS is looking for food and drink vendors, and arts and crafts vendors, that will fit with the Reggae-Roots-Rock vibe.

“We would love to bring locally sourced foods and drinks that include healthy options mixed in with summer treats to our festival, and that has been the focus of our search for unique vendors,” festival manager Kay Hal-brook said. “The arts and crafts vendors will be distinctly different than the artists showcased in the Door County Festival of Fine Arts. We have a multi-cultural focus, with people sharing ethnic rituals like the Fijian Kava Ceremony and Henna Tattoo Artists, along with people selling natural and peace-building goods and native arts.”

The musical lineup for the day will take the stage on the Sister Bay Waterfront Stage, except Friday night after 9 p.m.:

Midwest SunSplash Music Festival is Friday from 4-9 p.m. at the Sister Bay Stage in Waterfront Park, 10693 North Bay Shore Drive, Highway 42, Sister Bay. Friday’s enter-tainment will move to the nearby Sister Bay Sports Complex (2155 Autumn Court) from 9 p.m. – midnight. Saturday, the festival grounds open at noon with music from 2 p.m. to midnight at the Sister Bay Stage in Waterfront Park.

Tickets are $30 for General Admission and $10 per person for camping. Tickets are avail-able online at www.midwestsunsplash.com and at the door the day of the event. Children 10 and under are free.

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CHAD DEMEUSEDOCKSIDE TAVERNOSHKOSH 6:00PMDAN TULSAREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00PMBRON SAGEEASTWEST MUSIC FESTDE PERE TBDDOOZEYSKINNY DAVE’SMOUNTAIN 9:00PMGRAND UNIONST KATHERINE DREXELKAUKAUNA 7:00PMHAPPY HOUR HEROESFRATELLO’S DECKOSHKOSH 6:00PMBOOGIE AND THE YOYOZWEBB FESTNEKOOSA 7:00PMCOPPER BOXBEAUX ARTS STAGE @ BASTILLE DAYSMILWAUKEE 9:45PMRPMBEACH BASH- 500 ZLAT-NIK DR.TWO RIVERS 7:00PMSTAR SIXTY NINECIVIC PARKNEW HOLSTEIN 7:30PMTHE PRESIDENTSJIMMY SEASGREEN BAY 9:00PM

JULY 11

POLAR ALCHEMY

CANNOVA’S PIZZERIANEENAH 6:00PMBILL STEINERTHEIDEL HOUSEGREEN LAKE 7-10:00WIFEE AND THE HUZZ BANDANNUAL TUG BOAT PARTYSTURGEON BAY 12:00PMDEAD HORSESGREENLAKE RENEWAL PROJECTPRINCETON 6:00PMCOOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICGIBRALTAR GRILLFISH CREEK 7:30-10:00DAN TULSA DUOHOOKERS RESORTPOYNETTE 8:30-12:30DAVE OLSEN BANDBRIDGE BARFREMONT 4-8:00IN BLACK N WHITEHEIDEL HOUSEGREEN LAKE 12-2:45KITTY CORONAPRIVATEROAD TRIPHEIDEL HOUSEGREEN LAKE 3:30-6:00ROSETTI & WIGLEYISLE CASINOWATERLOO IA 9-1:00TEDD YOUNGWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9-12:00VIC FERRARI

HERITAGE DAYSNEILLSVILLE 8:30-12:00REPLICASUBFEST- MARITIME MUSEUMMANITOWOC 7:30PMRABID AARDVARKSWAUSAU AIRPORT-BAL-LON RALLYWAUSAU 6:30PMBOBBY EVANS BANDHEADLINERSNEENAH 6:00PMSONIC CIRCUSPEARLY GATESGREEN BAY 5:00PM6 FIGURESBEACH BASH- 500 ZLAT-NIK DR.TWO RIVERS 1:00PMCHAD DEMEUSEREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00PMCONSULT THE BRIEF-CASECLEARWATER HARBORWAUPACA 9:30PMDIAMOND AND STEELSKINNY DAVE’SMOUNTAIN 9:00PMFOLLOW SUITDOCKSIDE TAVERNOSHKOSH 8:00PMGRAND UNIONGREENVILLE LIONS PARK PAVILLIONGREENVILLE 11:00PMGRAND UNIONGREENVILLE CATFISH

RACESGREENVILLE 5:30PMHYDEMOLE LAKE CASINOCRANDON 9:00PMJAKE WARNEFRATELLO’S DECKOSHKOSH 6:00PMTHE COUGARSSTEPHENSON ISLANDMARINETTE 6:00PMTHE PRESIDENTSSHORT BRANCHNEENAH 10:00PMUNITYBASTILLE DAYS- KIL-BOURN WEST STAGEMILWAUKEE 9:45PMMIXTAPEMINESHAFTHARTFORD 9:30PMUNITYHAEGEMEISTER PARKGREEN BAY 10:30AM

JULY 12

STAR SIXTY NINEPLANK ROAD PUBDE PERE 5:30PMJAKE WARNERIVER RAILSHIOCTON 3:00PMCONSULT THE BRIEF-CASEGAMEDAY SPORTS BARAPPLETON 4:00PMDAN TULSA TRIOFLAGSTONEAPPLETON 5:00PM

THE BOMBFOX HARBOR PUB & GRILLGREEN BAY 6:00PM

JULY 14

COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICPRIVATEBRIAN JAMESPULLMANSAPPLETON 6:00PMRPMST. NORBERT COLLEGE-KNIGHTS ON THE FOXDE PERE 6:00PMREVEREND RAVENLEACH AMPHITHEATREOSHKOSH 6:00PM

JULY 15

KYLE MEGNA & THE MONSOONSDOCKSIDE TAVERNOSHKOSH 7:00PMCOPPER BOXWAUSAU CONCERT ON THE SQUAREWAUSAU 6:00PMCOOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICOPERA HOUSE SQUAREOSHKOSH 12-1:00

JULY 16

COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICGOOSE BLINDGREEN LAKE 8:30-12:00

BRIAN JAMESFLAGSTONEAPPLETON 6:00PMTEQUILA TANGOPLANK ROAD PUBDE PERE 5:00PMKAI-MAN PROJECTWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9:00PMANNEXROCK USA-NORTH BEER TENTOSHKOSH 3:30PMHAPPY HOUR HEROESANDUZZISHOWARD 7:00PMROB ANTHONYREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00PMTED EGGEANDUZZIS-EASTGREEN BAY 7:00PMSLY JOE & THE SMOOTH OPERATORS WATERFESTOSHKOSH 5:30PMTHE COUGARSLEICHT AT NITE CON-CERT SERIESGREEN BAY 6:15PMTHE PRESIDENTSFOND DU LAC FAIR-GROUNDSFOND DU LAC 6:00PMWALT HAMBURGERJIM’S PLACEAPPLETON 9:00PMTRAVIS LEEBLIND SQUIRREL

SHAWANO 6:00PMPATTIE AND FAZRED AND WHITE WINE BARAPPLETON 5:30PMCOPPER BOXCONCERT AT THE GAR-DEN SERIES- BOTANICAL GARDENSGREEN BAY 6:00PMWAYNE NEUMANNFRATELLO’S DECKOSHKOSH 6:00PM

JULY 17

KURT STEINCANNOVA’S PIZZERIANEENAH 6:00PMLITTLE VITO & TORPE-DOESMUSIC AT HARRY’S PLACE 7-9:00VIC FERRARIHERITAGE DAYSWAVERLY IA 8:30-12:00WALT HAMBURGERFOX RIVER HOUSEAPPLETON 7:30PMDEAD HORSESWOODWALK CONCERT SERIESEGG HARBOR 7:00PMGRAND UNIONPAPERFEST- AMPHITHE-ATER STAGEKIMBERLY 8:00PMTHE BOMBPAPERFEST-BIG HILL STAGE



KIMBERLY 8:00PMBAZOOKA JOEFRIDAYS ON THE FOX- CITY DECKGREEN BAY 6:00PMBRIAN JAMESFRATELLO’S DECKOSHKOSH 6:00PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASEJIMMY SEASGREEN BAY 9:00PMCRANKIN YANKEESFOND DU LAC FAIR-GROUNDSFOND DU LAC 6:00PMHYDEPACK EM INNCRANDON 7:30PMNASHVILLE PIPE-LINEBEAR LAKE CAMP-GROUND & RESORTMANAWA 10:00PMROB ANTHONYDOCKSIDE TAVERNOSHKOSH 6:00PMTED EGGEREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00PMCOPPER BOXRIPON FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT @ THE VILLAGE GARDENRIPON 7:00PMTHE PRESIDENTSDOWNTOWN WIN-NECONNEWINNECONNE 8:30PMSLY JOE & THE SMOOTH OPERA-TORS VICTORIAN VILLAGE TIKI BARELKHART LAKE 7:00PM

JULY 18

BRON SAGEPAPERFESTKIMBERLYWALT HAMBURGERGREEN GECKOAPPLETON 3:30PMJORDAN BAASGREEN GECKOAPPLETON 3:30PMJEFF BLOTHGREEN GECKOAPPLETON 3:30PMPOINT REYESCANNOVA’S PIZZERIANEENAH 6:00PMCOOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICGIBRALTAR GRILLFISH CREEK

7:30-10:00FRAN STEENOHEIDEL HOUSEGREEN LAKE 7-10:00VIC FERRARILIVERMORE DAZELIVERMORE IA 8:30-MIDNITHE PRESIDENTSFLORIAN IIBAILEY’S HARBOR 8:30PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASEMURPHY PARKEGG HARBOR 9:00AMSTAR SIXTY NINEEL DORADO COM-MUNITY PARKEL DORADO 8:00PMDOOZEYPAPERFEST- AMPHI-THEATER STAGEKIMBERLY 12:00PMHALF EMPTYPAPERFEST- AMPHI-THEATER STAGEKIMBERLY 8:00PMDIAMOND AND STEELPAPERFEST-BIG HILL STAGEKIMBERLY 8:00PM6 FIGURESWATERS SUPPER CLUB- RAFT RACENEW LONDON 7:00PMADAMS WAYSKINNY DAVE’SMOUNTAIN 9:00PMCRANKIN YANKEESTRAILS END BAR AND GRILLNEKOOSA 7:00PMANDY’S AUTOMAT-ICSLEACH AMPHITHE-ATREOSHKOSH 4:30PMDAN TULSA DUODOCKSIDE TAVERNOSHKOSH 6:00PMDOOZEYCLEARWATER HAR-BORWAUPACA 9:30PMGRAND UNIONMOLE LAKE CASINOCRANDON 9:00PMJAKE WARNEREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00PMJOHNNY WADCALDRON FALLS BAR & GRILLCRIVITZ 12:45PMROOFTOP JUMPERSOUTPOST

SHERWOOD 6:00PMSEPARATE WAYSTWO RIVERS FEST & FISH DERBYTWO RIVERS 7:30PMSPINLEE LAKE TAVERNPOUND 7:00PMSTAR SIXTY NINEHARLEY DAVIDSON OF APPLETONAPPLETON 11:00PMTED EGGEFRATELLO’S DECKOSHKOSH 6:00PMTHE COUGARSPACK EM INNCRANDON 7:30PMWILDSIDEDOCS HARLEY DAVIDSON AT THE SHORT BRANCHBONDUEL 3:00PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASESHORT BRANCHNEENAH 5:00PMSLY JOE & THE SMOOTH OPERA-TORS VON STIEHL WINERYALGOMA 12:30PM

JULY 19

KITTY CORONABRIDGE BARFREMONT 2-6:00WAYNE NEUMANNDUBLINSWEST BEND 3:00PMTHE PRESIDENTSPLANK ROAD PUBDE PERE 5:30PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASEROCKFESTCADDOTT 3:00PMRPMFOX HARBOR PUB & GRILLGREEN BAY 6:00PMREVEREND RAVENPHOENIZ PARK BLUES FESTDELEVAN 3:00PMSEPARATE WAYSSTONE HARBORSTURGEON BAY 3:00PMTHE COUGARSPORTERFIELD MUSIC FESTIVALPORTERFIELD 2:30PMCOPPER BOXMIDSUMMER FESTI-VAL OF ART- JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER

ARTS CENTERSHEBOYGAN 1:00PM

JULY 20

BOBBY EVANS BANDEAA GROUNDSOSHKOSH 8:00PMSTAGE HOGGSJOSTEN PARKBELLEVUE 6:00PMTHE COUGARSHERITAGE HILL-MU-SIC ON THE GREENGREEN BAY 6:00PMBOURBON COW-BOYSOUTAGAMIE COUN-TY FAIRSEYMOUR 7:30PM

JULY 21

COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICPRIVATEDOUBLE DOWNWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9:00PMSONIC CIRCUSEAA GROUNDSOSHKOSH 8:00PM

JULY 22

MICHAEL GRAB-NER & THE BELLE WEATHERCHADWICK’SAPPLETON 8:00PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASESARDINE CANGREEN BAY 5:30PMANDY’S AUTOMAT-ICSDEACON MILLS PARKGREEN LAKE 6:30PMROOFTOP JUMPERSEAA GROUNDSOSHKOSH 8:00PMCOPPER BOXSISTER BAY- CON-CERT IN THE PARKSISTER BAY 7:00PM

JULY 23

COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICOUTAGAMIE COUN-TY FAIRSEYMOUR 12-3:30COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICRIVERFESTMISHICOTNEW ODYSSEYPRIVATETJ & LYNNGOOSE BLINDGREEN LAKE 8:30-12:00


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Saturday, July 18 | $28The Second City | The most famous brand in live comedy. Hilarious, spontane-ous, topical and insightful.

Friday, October 30 | $25Doo-Wah Riders | Tight musicianship and powerful arrangements described as “high energy country with a cajun twist.”

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Saturday, August 8 | $15Vocality | A cappella quartet with a wide ranging repertoire from classic gospel to 70s classic rock tunes to barbershop.

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Thursday, October 1 | $44Los Lonely Boys | Texican Rock n’ Roll. Debut/Grammy Award winning song, “Heaven,” reached No. 1 on the charts.

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4:00pm Vixen6:00pm Warrant

8:30pm Queensryche11:00pm Alice Cooper

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3:00pm Road Trip4:00pm Dokken

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11:00pm Judas Priest

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VIC FERRARITAYLOR COUNTY FAIRMEDFORDBRIAN JAMESPLANK ROAD PUBDE PERE 6:00PMBIG AND TALLFRATELLO’S DECKOSHKOSH 6:00PMCHAD DEMEUSEHOLIDAYS PUB& GRILLNEENAH 7:00PMDAN TULSAANDUZZIS-EASTGREEN BAY 7:00PM“BLUEPRINT, DERILL POUNDS, SUPASTITION, DJ RARE GROOVE, J.B. ILL, RICHARD GRIECO SUAVE & TAIYAMO DENKU”REPTILE PALACEOSHKOSH 9:00PMGRAND UNIONVETERANS MEMORIAL PARKGRAFTON 6:30PMHALF EMPTYEAA GROUNDSOSHKOSH 8:00PMLOOSE SCREWSDOCKSIDE TAVERNOSHKOSH 6:00PMNASHVILLE PIPELINEHERITAGE HILL- HOPS ON THE HOLLGREEN BAY 6:00PMTEQUILA TANGOREGATTA 220

GREEN BAY 6:00PMTHE COUGARSRIVERFESTMISHICOT 7:30PMUNITYLEICHT AT NITE CON-CERT SERIESGREEN BAY 6:15PMWAYNE NEUMANNANDUZZISHOWARD 7:00PMCOOL WATERS BANDHOUDINI PLAZAAPPLETON 6:00PMTHE PRESIDENTSEAA GROUNDSOSHKOSH 6:00PMCOPPER BOXSUMMER CONCERT- HO-BART PARKCHILTON 7:00PM

JULY 24

JOHN HARMONCANNOVA’S PIZZERIANEENAH 6:00PMAMERICAN ENGLISHPRIVATECOOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICOUTAGAMIE COUNTY FAIRSEYMOUR 12-3:30FRAN STEENOWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9-12:00HITSRIVERFESTMISHICOT 5-8:30

REDFISH REMIXOSTHOFF RESORTELKHART LAKE 7-11:00ROSETTI & WIGLEYPRIVATEVIC FERRARIPRIVATEHAPPY HOUR HEROESPLANK ROAD PUBDE PERE 6:00PMCONSULT THE BRIEF-CASEROCKY AND TARAS NUT-HOUSEKAUKAUNA 9:00AMDAN TULSAFRATELLO’S DECKOSHKOSH 6:00PMLUCAS CATESHOLIDAYS PUB& GRILLNEENAH 7:00PMROB ANTHONYREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00PMSONIC CIRCUSNORTHSTAR CASINOBOWLER 8:00PMSTAR SIXTY NINEANDUZZIS-EASTGREEN BAY 9:00PMTAYLOR JAYDOCKSIDE TAVERNOSHKOSH 6:00PMCOPPER BOXGERMAN FESTMILWAUKEE 8:00PMTHE COUGARSEAA GROUNDSOSHKOSH 8:00PM

JULY 25

COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICRIVERFESTMISHICOTANDY’S AUTOMATICSSTONE HARBORSTURGEON BAY 2:00PMDAN TULSA BANDBRIDGE BARFREMONT 4-8:00M-80HOOKERS RESORTPOYNETTE 8:30-12:30VIC FERRARIPRIVATEMIKE KU-BIKICANNOVA’S PIZZERIANEENAH 6:00PMRED LIGHT STAINTSOUT-AGAMIE COUNTY FAIRSEYMOUR 7:30PMCONSULT THE BRIEF-CASESTADIUM VIEW- OUTSIDEGREEN BAY 11:30AM

WILDSIDEBOONDOCKSMANAWA 9:30PMCRANKIN YANKEESSHORT BRANCHNEENAH 10:00PMBOBBY EVANS BANDEAA GROUNDSOSHKOSH 8:00PMBOURBON COWBOYSHIKA PARKCLEVELAND 7:00PMBRIAN JAMESDOCKSIDE TAVERNOSHKOSH 6:00PMCHAD DEMEUSEFRATELLO’S DECK

OSHKOSH 6:00PMCONSULT THE BRIEF-CASEFLAGSTONEAPPLETON 7:00PMDAPHNICLEARWATER HARBORWAUPACA 9:30PMFOLLOW SUITTRAILS END BAR AND GRILLNEKOOSA 7:00PMMILES NIELSEN AND THE RUSTED HEARTSCONCERTS ON CALU-METAPPLETON

BRON SAGEGRIMES FESTMADISONGRAND UNIONCELEBRATE PLOVER- LAKE PACAWAPLOVER 8:00PMHURRY UP WAITSKINNY DAVE’SMOUNTAIN 9:00PMJOHNNY WADANDUZZIS-EASTGREEN BAY 9:30PMNASHVILLE PIPELINEANDUZZIS-EASTGREEN BAY 4:45PMROOFTOP JUMPERS


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thurs july 02 good time specials

fri july 03 porky’s groove machine

mon july 06 live comedy with host tyler sitar

fri july 10 daniel and the lion

sat july 11 kyle megna and the monsoons

fri july 17 cave paintings with walt hamburger and jordin baas

sat july 18 tyler streeter extravaganza

mon july 20 live comedy with host tyler sitar

fri july 24 kristen ford

sat july 25 solid state w/ babes in the woods

fri july 31 The North Westerns

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HORTONVILLE LANESHORTONVILLE 9:00PMSONIC CIRCUSNORTHSTAR CASINOBOWLER 8:00PMSTAR SIXTY NINELINCOLN COUNTY FAIRMERRILL 7:30PMTHE BOMBJIMMY SEASGREEN BAY 9:00PMTHE COUGARSWHY-LEES BARROSIERE 7:00PMTHE COUGARSANDUZZIS-EASTGREEN BAY 12:30PMWAYNE NEUMANNREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00PMRABID AARDVARKSBAR LOUIEMILWAUKEE 9:00PMCOPPER BOXMIESFELD LAKE-SHORE WEEKENDSHEBOYGAN 2:00PMCOPPER BOXBAILEY’S HARBOR FLORIAN II SUPPER CLUBBAILEY’S HARBOR 9:00PM

JULY 26

COOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICRIVERFESTMISHICOTCOOKEE...TIMELESS MUSICGIBRALTAR GRILLFISH CREEK 7:30-10:00TEQUILA TANGORIVER RAILSHIOCTON 3:00PMBAZOOKA JOECZS GEANO BEACH BAR & GRILLLITTLE SUAMICO 3:00PMHAPPY SCHNAPPS COMBOCLEARWATER HAR-BORWAUPACA 3:00PMSTAR SIXTY NINEFOX HARBOR PUB & GRILLGREEN BAY 6:00PMTHE COUGARSSTONE HARBORSTURGEON BAY 2:00PMUNITYANDUZZIS-EASTGREEN BAY 1:00PM

COPPER BOXMUSIC IN THE PARKKEWAUNEE 5:30PM

JULY 28

BIG MOUTHST. NORBERT COLLEGE-KNIGHTS ON THE FOXDE PERE 6:30PMROBERT ALLEN JR. BANDPULLMANSAPPLETON 6:00PMSONIC CIRCUSLEACH AMPHITHE-ATREOSHKOSH 6:00PM

JULY 29

WALT HAMBURGERMAIN ST MUSIC FESTIVALOSHKOSH TBDROAD TRIPLANGLADE COUNTY FAIRANTIGO 7-11:00VIC FERRARIDOOR COUNTY FAIRSTURGEON BAY 7:30-11:00COPPER BOXGAU FEST 2015 WEL-COME PARTYMILWAUKEE 6:30PMBAD HABITZSARDINE CANGREEN BAY 5:30PM

JULY 30

DANNY VGOOSE BLINDGREEN LAKE 8:30-12:00ROAD TRIPPIG IN THE PINESST. GERMAIN 7-10:00VIC FERRARIFLAMBEAU RAMAPARK FALLS 7:30-11:00JAKE WARNEFLAGSTONEAPPLETON 6:00PMMILES NIELSEN AND THE RUSTED HEARTSWATERFESTOSHKOSHTRAVIS LEE DUOPLANK ROAD PUBDE PERE 6:00PMBOBBY EVANS BANDWORLD OF BEERAPPLETON 9:00PMBIG AND TALLREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00PMROB ANTHONY

WATERFESTOSHKOSH 6:00PMBRIAN JAMESANDUZZISHOWARD 7:00PMCHAD DEMEUSETHE BAR LYNNDALEAPPLETON 7:00PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASEGAZEBO NIGHTS-NORMAL PARKMERRILL 6:00PMHALF EMPTYHOUDINI PLAZAAPPLETON 5:30PMJOHNNY WADDOOR COUNTY FAIRSTURGEON BAY 7:30PMTEQUILA TANGOANDUZZIS-EASTGREEN BAY 7:00PMTHE PRESIDENTSLEICHT AT NITE CONCERT SERIESGREEN BAY 6:15PMCOPPER BOXPB & J CONCERT SERIESKENOSHA 11:30AM/6:00PMWAYNE NEUMANNFRATELLO’S DECKOSHKOSH 6:00PMSLY JOE & THE SMOOTH OPERA-TORS THE SOURCEMENASHA 6:30PM

JULY 31

DEAD HORSESOSHKOSH MAIN ST MUSIC FESTIVALOSHKOSH 9PMBRON SAGEMAIN ST MUSIC FESTIVALOSHKOSHJERRY SPARKMAN DUOCANNOVA’S PIZZERIANEENAH 6:00PMSLY JOE & THE SMOOTH OPERA-TORS OUT TO LUNCH- LIVE MUSIC ON WASHINGTON SQUAREAPPLETON 11:00AM“DERILL POUNDS, CDS, J.B. ILL, MOZAIC, RICH-ARDGRIECOSUAVE, ALEXANDER JAY”REPTILE PALACEOSHKOSH 9:00PMBOOGIE & YO YO’Z

DOOR COUNTY FAIRSTURGEON BAY 7:30-11:00LIVE AT NINEPRIVATEVIC FERRARILANGLADE COUNTY FAIRANTIGO 7-11:00ROBERT ALLEN JR. BANDMILWAUKEE ALE HOUSEMILWAUKEE 9:30PMTHE COUGARSFLAMBEAURAMAPARK FALLS 5:00PMBRIAN JAMESHOLIDAYS PUB& GRILLNEENAH 7:00PMCHAD DEMEUSEREGATTA 220GREEN BAY 6:00PMCONSULT THE BRIEFCASEBRAT DAYS-JOHN-SONVILLE MAIN STAGESHEBOYGAN 6:00PMDIAMOND AND STEELST. MARY’S SAUER-KRAUT FESTIVALBEAR CREEK 8:00PMHAPPY HOUR HEROESFRATELLO’S DECKOSHKOSH 6:00PMJAKE WARNEDOCKSIDE TAV-ERNOSHKOSH 6:00PMJOHNNY WADCUDAHY PARK- SWEET APPLE-WOOD FESTCUDAHY 8:00PMPOUNDING FATHERSSKINNY DAVE’SMOUNTAIN 9:00PMROOFTOP JUMP-ERSBEAR LAKE CAMPGROUND & RESORTMANAWA 9:30PMSEPARATE WAYSBRAT DAYS-JOHN-SONVILLE MAIN STAGESHEBOYGAN 8:30PMCOPPER BOXFRIDAYS ON THE FOX- CITY DECKGREEN BAY 6:00PM


July 1Stevens Point City Band ConcertPfiffner Pioneer Park1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point715-345-0061Concert begins at 7 pm; free admission but donations welcome. Theme: Broad Stripes and Bright Stars.

The Breakfast ClubThis organization provides support for local, home-based and small business owners. Meetings held the first Wednesday of the month for networking and support. All chamber members are welcome; 8 am at various locations. Call Kathy at 715-258-7343.

July 1-3Rogers Cinema2725 Church St., Stevens Point715-341-2700Rogers Cinema Summer Kids SeriesPenguins of Madagascar. Show begins at 10 am; $2 per person.

July 2Beginning Kayak ClassDivepoint Scuba Paddle & Adventure Center944 Main St., Stevens Point715-344-3483; divepointscuba.comLearn how to load/unload your boat, safely launch and land, basic paddle strokes, and what to do if you tip over. Noon to 3 pm; $50 with your own kayak or $75 if you need to rent.

Central Wi Water Ski ShowsSouth Beach Park on Lake DuBay4480 Park Rd., Mosinee715-409-9267; cwwaterwalkers.org“The Water Walkers Kick It On Route 66”

shows begin at 6:30 pm; donations wel-come. Features all volunteer skiers ranging in age from 10 to 53. For more info, check out www.facebook.com/cwwaterwalkers. Shows will be held every Thursday from July 2 through August 27.

Toddler MusicCentral Wisconsin Children’s Museum1100 Main St., Stevens Point715-344-2003; cwchildrensmuseum.org Enhance early learning skills by introduc-ing easy musical concepts. Program begins at 9:30 am; $5 per person, 12 months and younger free. Also July 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6.

July 2-457th Annual Mid-Western RodeoFor tickets, event schedule and more info, call 800-74-RODEO or visit manawarodeo.org.

July 3Fireworks in Iola9 pm in Taylor Field in downtown Iola.

19th Annual Lighted Boat ParadeClear Water Harbor, Chain O’LakesSponsored by 97.9 WSPT and Muzzy Broadcasting. Boat registration from 6 to 8:15 pm. Parade at 8:45 pm. Reserve a spot on the Chief Waupaca for $13, includes live music, by calling 715-258-9912.

Amazing ArtCentral Wisconsin Children’s Museum, 1100 Main St., Stevens Point715-344-2003www.cwchildrensmuseum.org. Create something spectacular and partici-pate in fun and simple projects. Program begins at 10 am; $5 per person museum

admission, 12 months and younger free. Also July 10, 17, 24, 31, and August 7.

Baby Lap SitPortage County Public LibraryFor newborns to around 12 months of age. This infant cuddling lap sit features rhymes for you and your baby. Join the circle of other parents/caregivers and babies for 20-25 minutes of rocking, clapping and bouncing to rhymes, stories and lullabies. Siblings are welcome. Class begins at 10:30 am; free admission. For more info, contact Youth Services at 715-346-1549. Also July 10, 17, 24, 31, and August 7.

July 3-5Riverfront RendezvousPfiffner Pioneer Park1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point715-346-1531Live music daily, food and refreshments. Fireworks Saturday night. 10:00 am to 10:00 pm; free admission.

July 4Fourth of July Parade, Stevens PointParade runs down main street starting at Strongs Ave. and going to the square. Registration for participants will start June 1. Parade begins at 12:00 noon;

Hometown Day Celebration, WaupacaParade begins at 10 am with floats, bands and candy. The parade will begin on the north end of Main Street and travel south to Lake Street. Free admission;

Military Appreciation at the Wisconsin Rapids RaftersChristian Life Fellowship invites you to come out to the Rafters baseball game. Start time for the game will be 3:05 pm. Free tickets for veterans and current military personnel. Each ticket includes admission to the game, a hot dog, soda and a hat. For more info, visit http://visitwisrapids.com/events-calendar and www.clfonline.org. Witter Field, Wisconsin Rapids.

Fireworks, Rosholt

Music by Feed Back. Fireworks begin at dusk at the Rosholt Fair Park.

July 5St. Mary of Mt. Carmel – Fancher Church PicnicSt. Mary of Mt. Carmel – Fancher Church3995 Highway K, Amherst715-824-5486Dinner, polka music and dancing, bingo, games, silent auction and craft sale. Polka mass at 10:00 am with Smokey Express. Chicken and ham dinner 11 am to 2 pm. Picnic 8 am to 6 pm.

July 6Autism NightCWCM, 1100 Main St., Stevens Point; 715-344-2003www.cwchildrensmuseum.orgThe Central Wisconsin Children’s Museum will be open the first Monday of each month from 5 to 7 pm exclusively for families that have children with autism. Free admission.

Therapy Dog Hero ReadingWaupaca Area Public Library107 South Main St.715-258-4414; http://waupacalibrary.orgTherapy Dogs International will provide dogs each week for children to read to. Register for each 20-minute session at the Children’s Service Desk. 1 to 2 pm.

July 6-7Summer Planetarium ShowsBad Astronomy. Debunk popular myths about the stars and planets using science. Shows begin at 7:30 pm; free admission. Seating is first come, first served. Albert F. Blocher Planetarium, second floor of the Science Building at the corner of Reserve St. and Fourth Ave. Parking available in Lot X (free after 7 pm). Learn more at www.uwsp.edu/physastr or call 715-346-2139.

July 6-8Storytime at the Public LibraryPortage County Public Library1001 Main St., Stevens Pointwww.pocolibrary.orgInteractive story time for children and

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their parents/caregivers. Mondays 2 pm, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 am; free admission. Contact Youth Services at 715-346-1549 for more info.

July 7Drive, Chip and Putt ChampionshipSentryWorld Sports Center601 N. Michigan Ave., Stevens PointYoung golfers hoping to earn an invite to next year’s Drive, Chip and Putt champion-ship national finals at the famed Augusta National golf Club will have a chance to start their journey at a local qualifying event at SentryWorld. Visit www.drivechipand-putt.com and www.sentryworld.com for schedule and registration information.

River City Rhapsody Drum and Bugle Corps ShowStiehm StadiumDC Everest Junior High School1000 Machmueller St., SchofieldDCI drum corps competition brings six DCI drum and bugle corps, including the Madison Scouts; Blue Stars of La Crosse; Pioneers of Milwaukee; Legends of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Music City of Nashville, Tennessee; and the Blue Saints of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Gates open at 5 pm, show runs from 7 to 10 pm. Tickets run between $15 to $35. For more info, visit www.rivercityrhapsody.com/Wausau.php or contact River City Rhapsody Ticketing at 507-269-8280.

“Haunts” by Alexander LandermanGallery Q, 1108 Main St., Stevens Point; 715-345-2888; http://qartists.comThis new exhibit will be featured at the Q Gallery Artists Cooperative from July 7 to August 28. Come see Landerman’s well-loved foxes, rabbits and birds as their story is told along the walls and among the flowers at the Q. Tuesday through Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 11 am to 3 pm; closed Mondays. Opening recep-tion for “Haunts” will be held on July 10. Both the exhibit and opening reception are free and open to the public.

Baby PlayCentral Wisconsin Children’s Museum, 1100 Main St., Stevens Point715-344-2003

www.cwchildrensmuseum.org. Babies and their caregivers are invited to explore their senses by discovering how the world around them feels, smells, sounds and looks. Program begins at 10 am; $5 per person museum admission, 12 months and younger free.

July 8Stevens Point City Band ConcertPfiffner Pioneer Park, 1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point; 715-345-0061Concert begins at 7 pm; free admission but donations welcome. Theme: A Collec-tion of Critters, featuring the 18th annual Pet Parade.

Poky Pizza PedalPoint Area Bicycle Service1311 Strongs Ave., Stevens Point715-254-5817http://pokypedalingstevenspoint.orgBike fun on a slow four-mile loop urban bicycle ride, returning to downtown pizza place. Socialize with other Poky Pedalers over food and beverages. Meet at 5:15 pm, ride begins at 5:30 pm; free admission.

Theology on TapSky Club, 2202 Post Rd., PloverA Catholic faith discussion series spon-sored by the JPII Young Adults Group of Portage County. Throughout the summer, various speakers will stimulate discussion and conversation.

Pretty Diecut Cards ClassLighthouse Books & Gifts4330 8th St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids715-423-7773www.lighthousebooksandgifts.comMake 3 pretty cards using rubber stamps, decorative paper, embellishments and new dies from Penny Black & Taylored Expres-sions. Bring your favorite adhesive. Class runs 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm; $10 plus tax.

July 8-10Rogers Cinema Summer Kids SeriesRogers Cinema 2725 Church St., Stevens Point715-341-2700LEGO Movie. Show begins at 10:00 am; $2 per person.

July 9

Thursday Nights on MainLive music by Gray Catz (Americana music). Sponsored by the Iola-Scandinavia Chamber of Commerce, this weekly concert series include a 50-50 raffle, door prize drawings, Italian gelato from the Millstone, and food fare from the famous Crystal Café. Concerts start at 6 pm. Bring your lawn chairs or a blanket. In case of rain, the concerts will be held at Iola Mills. Visit www.ischamber.org/Thursday-night-on-main for more info. Downtown Iola on Main Street, in front of the retail strip across from the Crystal Café.

Learn for Life Reading EventTexas Park, Stevens Point715-341-6740www.unitedwaypoco.org/learnforlifeSummer Sizzle children’s reading event, sponsored by the United Way. Free book to the first 50 kids. Event begins at 10 am; free admission.

2015 Lunch by the RiverVeterans Memorial Park112 2nd St., Wisconsin Rapids715-423-1830Enjoy entertainment and good food along the Wisconsin River every Thursday morning until the end of August. Entertainment by Jack Secret Band, sponsored by Solarus. Event runs 11:30 am to 1:00 pm; free admission.

Pretty Diecut Cards ClassLighthouse Books & Gifts4330 8th St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids; 715-423-7773www.lighthousebooksandgifts.comMake 3 pretty cards using rubber stamps, decorative paper, embellishments and new dies from Penny Black & Taylored Expres-sions. Bring your favorite adhesive. 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm; $10 plus tax.

July 9-112015 Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National ChampionshipUp to 90 teams are expected to compete. The entire field competes on the first two days, and on the third day the field is trimmed to the top five teams catching the heaviest cumulative five-bass-per-day lim-its. Takeoffs will be held at the Tiki Beach Bar and Grill (1126 County Rd. DB,

Mosinee). Weigh-ins will be at the UWSP campus at Colman Field (2100 Maria Dr., Stevens Point). The event will be aired on the ESPNU network. For more info, visit www.bassmaster.com/college.

Iola Old Car Show and Swap MeetIola Old Car Show700 E. State St., Iola715-495-4000 www.iolaoldcarshow.comThis year’s theme is Pace and Race Cards. Thursday through Saturday 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. Daily passes $8, four-day passes $15. Ages 10 and under are free. No pets. Sunday admission is free since it is the shut-down day.

July 10Mark Hayward, Yo-Yo ChampionPortage County Library at 10:30 amPlover Library at 2 pmA fantastic performance by world Yo-Yo champion Mark Hayward. Kids, teens and adults will be wowed by his yo-yo prowess and entertained by his funny routine.

July 10-112015 Garden ParadeVillage Gardens and the UW Extension office. 715-346-1316www.wimastergardener.orgFriday 2 to 7 pm; Saturday 10 to 4 pm. Tick-ets $10 in advance, $12 day of the parade. Tickets available at Jungs Garden Center, Gallery Q on Main St., Shulfers in Plover,

July 10-12Puss in BootsTheatre @18001800 Northpoint Dr., Stevens PointPresented by the cwACT. Performances at 6:30 pm on the 10th, 2 pm and 6:30 pm on the 11th, and 11am and 2 pm on the 12th. Open seating, doors open one hour prior to the show. For more information, visit www.cwact.org.

July 11Aber Suzuki Open HouseNoel Fine Arts Center1800 Portage St., Stevens Point715-346-4977Try the violin, viola, cello, piano, voice,


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harp flute and guitar at 10:00 am. Hear students from the center perform a short recital at 10:30 am. Listen to a brief talk about the Suzuki method at 10:45 am. Sample early childhood classes and get more time to try out different instruments at 11 am. Ask about special offers and receive a $50 tuition rebate if registered during the open house; $99 certificates for four 20-minute lessons available, too.

Community Industries 50th Anniversary ShinDigMemories 2811 Plover Springs Dr., Plover715-344-4563www.communityindustries.orgFundraiser to celebrate 50 years of service to the Portage County community. Classic rock provided with DJ tribute to American Bandstand, Rate-a-Record Dance Contest, Wine Pull, Paddle Wheel games, Top Ten List and much more. 7 pm to 11 pm; tickets $25 in advance, $30 day of event.

Free Musical Collage Card Make-&-TakeLighthouse Books & Gifts4330 8th St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids715-423-7773www.lighthousebooksandgifts.comMake a beautiful musical collage card using a variety of Impression Obsession rubber stamps.

July 12St. Bronislava Parish FestivalSt. Bronislava, 3200 Plover Rd., Plover; 715-344-4326; http://stbrons.com8 am to 7 pm; free admission.

July 12-14Carhartt Series Classic BracketBukolt Park100 Bukolt Ave., Stevens Point715-344-2556Following the championship round, mem-bers of the top four teams will compete individually in this bracket. Free admission.

July 13Therapy Dog Hero ReadingWaupaca Area Public Library107 South Main

715-258-4414; waupacalibrary.orgTherapy Dogs International will provide dogs each week for children to read to. Register for each 20-minute session at the Children’s Service Desk. Hours are 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.

July 13-14Summer Planetarium ShowsMars Quest. Take a closer look at the red planet’s history, present and future. Shows begin at 7:30 pm; free admission. Planetarium doors open 20 minutes before the scheduled programs, which appeal to all age groups, Seating is first come, first served. Albert F. Blocher Planetarium, second floor of the Science Building at the corner of Reserve St. and Fourth Ave. Parking available in Lot X (free after 7:00 pm). Learn more at uwsp.edu/physastr or call 715-346-2139.

July 13-15Storytime at the Public LibraryPortage County Public Library1001 Main St., Stevens Pointwww.pocolibrary.orgInteractive story time for children and their parents/caregivers. Features books, rhymes, finger plays, flannel stories, music and puppets for the adults and children to share and experience together. Mondays 2:00 pm, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 am; free admission. Contact Youth Services at 715-346-1549 for more info.

July 14Community Potluck SeriesCentral Rivers Farmshed1220 Briggs Ct., Stevens Point, WI 54481715-544-6154Bring a dish to pass. This month’s theme is Let’s Get Fruity! Dinner runs from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm; free admission.

HSPC Golf OpenSentryWorld Sports CenterFundraiser for the Portage County Humane Society. This 18-hole, four-person scramble will have a shotgun start at 11:00 am. $125 per golfer (includes 18 holes of golf with cart and dinner; $30 for dinner only). Contact Jenny Knutson for more info at [email protected] or 715-340-6316.

Poky Pedaling Potluck PicnicBike fun with Poky Pedaling. Slow bike ride (less than 5 miles) to a mystery park location (different each ride). Bring food or drink to share (no alcohol.) Meet at Goerke Park, 1100 Minnesota Ave, Stevens Point, or visit http://pokypedaling-stevenspoint.org for more details.

July 15Stevens Point City Band ConcertPfiffner Pioneer Park1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point715-345-0061Concert begins at 7 pm; free admission but donations welcome. Theme: A Tropical Treat.

June 15-17Rogers Cinema Summer Kids SeriesRogers Cinema, Stevens Point715-341-2700Dolphin Tale 2. 10 am; $2 per person.

July 162015 Lunch by the RiverVeterans Memorial Park112 2nd St., Wisconsin RapidsCall 715-423-1830Enjoy entertainment and good food along the Wisconsin River every Thursday morning until the end of August. Enter-tainment by Karate America, sponsored by WoodTrust Bank. Event runs 11:30 am to 1:00 pm; free admission.

Eleanor Roosevelt TeaWaupaca Area Public Library107 S. Mainwaupacalibrary.org.. Call 715-258-4414Learn all about this champion of civil rights as Jessica Michna of Madison portrays one of America’s famous first ladies. Join us for a tea party to discover why President Truman called her the “First Lady of the World.” Event runs 3 to 4 pm.

Thursday Nights on MainLive music by Harmonious Wail (gypsy jazz). Sponsored by the Iola-Scandinavia Chamber of Commerce, this weekly concert series include a 50-50 raffle, door prize drawings, Italian gelato from the

Millstone, and food fare from the famous Crystal Café. 6 - 8 pm. Bring your lawn chairs or a blanket. In case of rain, the concerts will be held at Iola Mills. Visit www.ischamber.org/Thursday-night-on-main for more info. Downtown Iola on Main Street, in front of the retail strip across from the Crystal Café.

Ombre Cards ClassLighthouse Books & Gifts4330 8th St. S., #200, Wisconsin Rapids715-423-7773www.lighthousebooksandgifts.comMake 4 beautiful cards in a variety of pink shades using rubber stamps, decorative paper, ombre stamp pads and embellish-ments. Bring your favorite adhesive. 5 to 7 pm. $12 plus tax.

July 16-19Portage County Fair of AmherstRides, games, food, drinks, 4-H displays, farm animals, burn-out contest, demoli-tion derby, truck and tractor pulls and live music. Opens 5 pm on Thursday. Adults $4 per day, kids 12 and under free. Amherst Fairgrounds. 888-221-4714. amherstfair.com for music schedule. Lineup includes Southbound, Spicy Tie Band, Raised Reckless, and Polka Pak.

Annual Wisconsin State Water Ski Show ChampionshipsSouth Wood County Park, Lake Wazeecha, and Red Beach7100 South Par Rd., Wisconsin RapidsExperience beauty, grace, thrills and raw power as 27 ski show teams from Wiscon-sin perform one amazing act after another. Event runs 7 am to 6:00 pm daily.

July 1727th annual Assumption High School Athletic Assn Royal Golf ScrambleThe Ridges Golf Course2311 Griffith Ave., Wisconsin Rapids715-424-3200A 7:00 am shotgun start with banquet and live/silent auction at 6:00 pm at Assump-tion High School. Call 715-422-0915 for more info.



July 17-18Discover Downtown Sidewalk sale, live music, geode cracking, fish pond, ping pong ball drops, kayak demo, food and more. Friday 10:00 am to 6:00 pm; Saturday 10 am to 5 pm; free admission. Downtown Stevens Point on Main Street; http://downtownste-venspoint.org.

Playhouse Theatre Group presents The Wizard of OzTheatre @18001800 Northpoint Dr., Stevens PointDirected by Tori Schultz. Friday 7 pm, Saturday 2 pm and 7 pm; $10 adults, $8 students and seniors.

July 17-19PCYS Central FC College Showcase & Soccer FestivalPortage County Youth Soccer Complex, 701 Badger Ave., Stevens Pointwww.pcys.net/collegeshowcaseCentral Wisconsin’s premier club brings you a premier event.

Rosholt Thresheree and Consignment AuctionRosholt Fair Park, Park StreetVisit www.rosholtthreshermen.comAnnual antique machinery expo with threshing, sawmill, steam, gas tractors, engines, equipment demos and more.

July 18UptownRising Star Mill, Highway Q, Nelsonville. Uptown Jazz group presents a rare and exhilarating blend of musical excellence, soulful rhythm and high-energy perfor-mance. Concert begins at 7 pm; $10 adults, $5 students age 12-18, children under 12 free.

Whodunnit?Historic Point Basse300 Wakely Rd., NekoosaThe Mystery Event of the summer hosts more than 100 people who are curious to solve the case. This is a locally scripted event, so reserve your seat now. Tickets can be purchased at Family Natural Food (910 West Grand Avenue, Wisconsin Rapids).

Hours 2 to 5 pm; adults $4, students $2. 715-459-1722.

Bike/Ped Plan Vision RideBukolt Park, Stevens Point; 715-254-5817Bike fun with Poky Pedaling. Bike fun with Poky Pedaling. Learn how the Portage County Bike/Ped Plan will improve our transportation options. Slow 11-mile bike ride on calm streets and multi-use paths. pokypedalingstevenspoint.org f Meet at 12:45 pm, ride begins at 1 pm.

CWN Singles DanceBernard’s Supper Club701 Second St. N, Stevens Point715-281-7823; http://cwn-singles.comMusic runs from 8 pm to 11:30 pm; $8 members, $12 non-members. No T-shirts, tank tops or shorts.

July 18-19St. Mary – Torun PicnicSt. Mary – Torun5589 Dewey Dr., Stevens Point715-344-2599http://stmarystorun.webs.comPolka, mass, food, beverages, dancing, raffle, children’s games, cherry bowl and bingo. Hours are 8:00 am to 6:00 pm; free admission.

July 19Beginning Kayak ClassDivepoint Scuba Paddle & Adventure Center,715-344-3483; divepointscuba.comLearn how to load/unload your boat, safely launch and land, basic paddle strokes, and what to do if you tip over. 9 to noon; $50 with your own kayak or $75 if you need to rent.

July 19 – August 1American Suzuki InstituteTeaching music by using the philosophical principles and music education methods developed by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. www.uwsp.edu

July 20-21Summer Planetarium ShowsChasing the Ghost Particle. Buried in Antarctica, tiny particles called neutrinos are giving scientists a look into exploding stars and black holes. 7:30 pm; free. Plan-

etarium doors open 20 minutes before. Seating is first come, first served. Albert F. Blocher Planetarium, second floor of the Science Building. Parking available in Lot X (free after 7:00 pm). www.uwsp.edu/physastr or call 715-346-2139.

July 20-22Storytime at the Public LibraryPortage County Public LibraryStevens Point; www.pocolibrary.org Interactive story time for children and their parents/caregivers. Features books, rhymes, finger plays, flannel stories, music and puppets for the adults and children to share and experience together. Mondays 2 pm, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 am; free. Contact Youth Services at 715-346-1549 for more info.

July 22Shrek: The Musical Jr.Waupaca Area Public Library107 S. Main St., Waupaca715-258-4414; http://waupacalibrary.orgLocal young actors will prove that beauty

if in the eye of the ogre in this story, which is part romance and part twisted fairy tale that’s fun for the whole family. Presented by the Waupaca Community Children’s Theater. Performances at 2 pm and 6 pm.

Stevens Point City Band ConcertPfiffner Pioneer Park1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point715-345-0061Concert begins at 7:00 pm; free admis-sion but donations welcome. Theme: An American Road Trip.

July 22-24Rogers Cinema Summer Kids SeriesRogers Cinema,2725 Church St., Stevens Point715-341-2700Boxtrolls. Show begins at 10 am; $2 per person.

July 23Thursday Nights on Main

Concert I -Grand Opening featuring pianist Sara Davis Buechner

Concert II-Holiday in Grand Style featuring soprano Holly SaundersDecember 5-6, 2015

Conert III-All That’s Grand featuring pianist Molly Roseman February 20-21, 2016

Concert IV-Grand Finale featuring mezzo-soprano Julie Simson April 16-17, 2016

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October 10-11, 2015



Live music by Art Stevenson & Highwater (bluegrass). Sponsored by the Iola-Scandi-navia Chamber of Commerce, this weekly concert series include a 50-50 raffle, door prize drawings, Italian gelato from the Millstone, and food fare from the famous Crystal Café. 6 pm until shortly after 8 pm. Bring your lawn chairs or a blanket. In case of rain, the concerts will be held at Iola Mills. www.ischamber.org/Thursday-night-on-main.

Family Game NightCentral Wisconsin Children’s Museum, 1100 Main St., Stevens Point715-344-2003www.cwchildrensmuseum.org/monthly-pro-grams.htmlFamily-focused evening for kids and parents of all ages. Sponsored by Galaxy Comics, Games and More. 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

Learn for Life Reading EventSummer Sizzle children’s reading event, sponsored by the United Way. Free book to the first 50 kids. Event begins at 10 am; free admission. Location to be determined, so visit www.unitedwaypoco.org/learnforlife.

2015 Lunch by the RiverVeterans Memorial Park, Wisconsin Rapids. 715-423-1830Entertainment and food along the Wisconsin River every Thursday morning. Entertainment by Tilly’s Village, sponsored by S.C. Swiderski. 11:30 am to 1 pm; free admission.

July 24TGIF Dessert RideBike fun with Poky Pedaling. Slow, less than 3-mile evening bicycle ride along the Wisconsin River to Bukolt Park and back, ending at a dessert place near the start. Meet at 7 pm, ride begins at 7:15 pm; free. pokypedalingstevenspoint.org f. Meet at the Mathias Mitchell Public Square, 1100 Main St. (downtown), Stevens Point; 715-254-5817.

July 24-2647th Annual Symco ThreshereeFriday: Gates open 9 am, country music show 8 pm to midnight. Saturday: Gates open 7 am, kids pedal pull 9:30 am,

antique tractor pull 11 am, dance on grounds 8 pm to midnight, adult pedal pull 9 pm by Unionville Saloon. Sunday: Church service 7 am, grounds open at 9 am, parade 11:30 am, polka music in Front Shed 1 pm to 3 pm, antique power chainsaw contest 3 pm, music in Union-ville Saloon 3pm to 6 pm. Kids activities on Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm. Adults $5 per day, children 12 and under free.

Plover Boys Summer Baseball TournamentVisit www.pwya.org for schedule; free. Woyak Park.

Into the Woods18th annual Community Theatre presen-tation, directed by John Kelley. Perfor-mances at 7:30 pm on the 24th and 25th, or 2 pm on 26th. Tickets $12 for general seating. Waupaca High School performing Arts Center.

July 25Celebrate PloverLake Pacawa Park1831 Maple Dr., Plover715-345-5258www.facebook.com/celebrateploverFood, crafts, kids activities, live music, and fireworks at dark. Fun for the whole family! Event runs 9 am to midnight; free admission.

July 26Gather at the RiverPfiffner Pioneer Park1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point715-341-6122; www.eflock.orgThis outdoor worship service is sponsored by Trinity, Redeemer, and Good Shepherd Lutheran churches, along with Church of the Intercession Episcopal church. A Praise Band leads the music, and various pastors and lay people lead the group in worship. Bring your own lawn chair. Service begins at 11 am, and a potluck meal takes place after ($2 donation). Donations go to the Stevens Point Warming Shelter.

St. Stanislaus Parish PicnicSt. Stanislaus Catholic Church838 Fremont St., Stevens Point715-344-9117; www.saintstans.netHave dinner with Norske Nook pies, chil-dren and adult games, cherry tree, basket

raffle, book nook, polka music, bingo, food and ice cream. Hours are 10:30 am to 7 pm; admission to be determined.

July 27-29Storytime at the Public LibraryPortage County Public Library1001 Main St., Stevens Pointwww.pocolibrary.orgInteractive story time for children and their parents/caregivers. Features books, rhymes, finger plays, flannel stories, music and puppets for the adults and children to share and experience together. Mondays 2:00 pm, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 am; free admission. Contact Youth Services at 715-346-1549 for more info.

July 28Interactive Presentation of FrozenWaupaca Area Public Library107 S. Main St., Waupaca715-258-4414; http://waupacalibrary.orgCome dressed as you favorite character from the movie and be prepared to sing along! Each family will receive a bag of interactive props to enjoy during the movie, plus free popsicles. Movie begins at 6:00 pm.

July 29Stuart StottsTheatre @18001800 Northpoint Dr., Stevens PointPresented by the Portage County Library, Stuart Stotts offers an intensely participa-tory performance with lots of movement, laughter and singing together. Free tickets available starting July 15. Show begins at 3:30 pm. Contact Youth Services for more info and tickets at 715-346-1549 or at www.pocolibrary.org.

Stevens Point City Band ConcertPfiffner Pioneer Park1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point715-345-0061Concert begins at 7:00 pm; free admission but donations welcome. Theme: A Sum-mer to Remember.

July 29-31Rogers Cinema Summer Kids Series

Pfiffner Pioneer Park1100 Crosby Ave., Stevens Point715-345-0061Earth to Echo. Show begins at 10:00 am; $2 per person. x

July 30Tree of Life ClassBlue Bead Trading Co., 1043 Main St., Stevens Point; www.blue-bead.comClass runs 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Call 715-344-1998 for details.

2015 Lunch by the RiverEnjoy entertainment and good food along the Wisconsin River every Thursday morn-ing until the end of August. Entertainment by Blue Monday Band, sponsored by Wisconsin Rapids Care Center and Our House Senior Living. Event runs 11:30 am to 1:00 pm; free admission. Veterans Memorial Park. 715-423-1830.

Thursday Nights on MainLive music by Tom Pease (interactive local sing-along performer) for Family Night, co-sponsored by Ministry Health Care. Sponsored by the Iola-Scandinavia Chamber of Commerce, this weekly concert series include a 50-50 raffle, door prize drawings, Italian gelato from the Millstone, and food fare from the famous Crystal Café. Concerts start at 6 pm and go until shortly after 8 pm. Bring your lawn chairs or a blanket. In case of rain, the concerts will be held at Iola Mills. Visit www.ischamber.org/Thursday-night-on-main for more info.

July 30 – August 1Into the Woods18th annual Community Theatre presen-tation, directed by John Kelley. Perfor-mances at 7:30 pm; tickets $12 for general seating. Waupaca High School performing Arts Center.

July 31 – August 247th Annual Scandinavia Corn RoastSoftball tournaments, carnival rides, chainsaw artist wood sculpting competi-tion, live music and much more. Free corn on Sunday beginning at 11 am until it’s gone. Adults $5, 12 and under free. cornroast.net/corn.htm. Ellison Memorial Park, Scandinavia.


Busy women don’t have to neglect their health. We are making it easier to get a screening 3D mammogram. Our convenient Walk-in Wednesdays means no appointment* needed for screening 3D mammograms. Please note 2D mammograms are still available at all locations. Check with your insurance carrier for coverage.

Wednesdays: 2 – 6 p.m.Ministry Medical Group824 Illinois Avenue, Stevens Point (OB/GYN department on third floor)

Ministry Medical Group2401 Plover Road, Plover

*Walk-ins are available for screening mammograms only. If your clinician has

referred you for a mammogram due to specific concerns regarding your breast health,

make an appointment by calling 715.342.6482.

To learn more, visit us at ministryhealth.org/breastcare

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