by News Editor Brian WilsonThe end of the relationship came without

warning. Shocked, and a little angry, he moved on

while questioning why they broke things off without any cause after so many years.

They reconsidered, came for a visit, and said they wanted things just like they were be-fore the break up. That wasn’t going to happen, because the place had already been taken by somebody else.

It was the sort of scene you would expect to see in a high school cafeteria, however rather than students acting out this melodrama, it was being played out in the district offi ce be-tween Taher Food Service and Medford Area Public Schools administrator Pat Sullivan.

Hours before the district’s annual meet-

ing in October, representatives from Taher told the district they were offi cially breaking the contract and gave their 60-day notice. Sullivan con-tacted the district’s attorney to see if a mid-year pullout was even allowed and if there were any op-tions for the district. Meanwhile he also con-tacted A’viands, the company that was the unsuccessful bidder for the school contract last spring.

“I issued a letter asking to specify provision and sup-port Taher’s rea-soning for termina-tion,”

Sullivan said, who said it was his belief Taher improperly terminated the contract without

cause to justify it. For their part, A’viands said they would honor the bid they submit-ted last spring and were ready to start on Jan. 1 if the district wanted them to. They even offered the current food service man-ager — an employee of Taher — the same

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Training for the worstDon Everhard (left) acts the role of an armed gunman entering a classroom with

Lisa Kauffman acting the role of teacher during a training session held for area law enforcement personnel Monday at Gilman High School. See more coverage of the training on page 16.

by Sports Editor Matt FreyThe expectations in Taylor County were for increased

numbers of harvested deer over last year during the nine-day gun deer hunting season.

So far, those expectations are being met.The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources re-

leased preliminary county-by-county registration totals for opening weekend on Monday night and those fi gures show a nearly 17 percent increase in buck registrations in Taylor County over 2014 in the fi rst two days of the season and more than a 250 percent increase in antler-less deer.

The big increase in antlerless deer, of course, was expected since antlerless tags were not available to the general hunting public last year. This year, 1,550 tags were available for those hunting private lands. There still were zero public-land doe tags issued in the county this fall.

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MMA donates to Rib Lake pathway project

Bench donationMemorial Member Association (MMA) provided funding to purchase four steel

benches along the Rib Lake Village Lakeshore Pathway. Pictured are Vernell Van Hecker, village of Rib Lake trustee (seated); Bob Carpenter, MMA secretary; Dawn Swenson, village of Rib Lake clerk-treasurer; and Gregg Olson, Aspirus Medford Hos-pital & Clinics president/CEO.

Memorial Member Association (MMA) provided $6,502 to support the Rib Lake Village Lakeshore Pathway project. The funds purchased four steel benches placed along the pathway.

“MMA is committed to supporting community programs and projects that have the potential to improve the health and wellness of those living and working in Taylor County,” said Bob Carpenter, MMA secretary. “The Rib Lake Village Lakeshore Pathway encourages outdoor exercise and enables people of all ages, including the elderly, to travel safely by foot between popular Rib Lake destina-tions.”

Along its route, the Rib Lake Village Lakeshore Pathway touches low-income, residential, and elderly housing as well as the village hall, Aspirus Rib Lake Clin-ic, playground, fi shing pier, and more.

Memorial Member Association was formed in 2001 at the time of the unifi ca-tion of the Medford hospital and clinics with Aspirus. MMA represents the com-munity’s 50 percent share in the health-care organization. It is a separate and distinct entity from Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics and uses the proceeds received from Aspirus in the 2001 merger to fund healthy initiatives in the commu-nity.

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The Star News will be publishing a special listing of Christmas and New Year’s services and special programs for area churches in the Dec. 17 issue of the paper.

If you would like your church’s servic-es and programs included in this listing, mail them to The Star News, P.O. Box 180, Medford, WI 54451; fax them to 715-748-2699; email them to comcal@central-winews.com or drop them off at the offi ce at 116 S. Wisconsin Ave.

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Step Study Meeting — 7 p.m. Com-munity United Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford.

Monday, Nov. 30Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS)

1013 of Rib Lake Meeting — Weigh-in 5:15 p.m. Meeting 6 p.m. Rib Lake Se-nior Citizens Center, Hwy 102 and Front Street. Information: Mary 715-427-3593 or Sandra 715-427-3408.

Tuesday, Dec. 1Al-Anon Meeting — 7 p.m. Com-

munity United Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford. Information: 715-427-3613.

Alcoholics Anonymous Open Topic Meeting — 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Med-ford.

Overeaters Anonymous Meeting —

7 p.m. Hwy 64 and Main Street, Medford. Information: 715-512-0048.

Wednesday, Dec. 2Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting —

7 p.m. Senior Citizens Center, Hwy 102 and Front Street, Rib Lake. Information: Arlene 715-427-3613.

Women’s Empowerment Group Meeting — 6-7 p.m. Information: Step-ping Stones 715-748-3795.

Parents of Children With Spe-cial Needs Support Group Luncheon Meeting — Noon to 1 p.m. Happy Joe’s Pizza and Ice Cream Parlor, 909 Case-ment Court, Medford. Program open to anyone who has a child with special needs.

Blood Bank — 1:30-5:30 p.m. Med-ford fi re hall, 844 W. Broadway. Appoint-ments preferred but walk-ins welcome. Blood donation takes approximately one hour. To schedule an appointment: 715-748-8762.

American Legion Post 359 Meeting — 7 p.m. Senior Citizens Center, 385 E. Main St., Gilman.

Thursday, Dec. 3Alcoholics Anonymous Closed

Meeting — 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Med-ford.

American Legion Post 274 Meeting — 7 p.m. Legion Clubhouse, 727 McComb Ave., Rib Lake.

Friday, Dec. 4Narcotics Anonymous Open Meet-

ing — 7 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 510 E. Broadway, Medford. In-formation: 715-965-1568.

Storytime Fridays — 10:30 a.m. Frances L. Simek Memorial Library, 400 N. Main St., Medford. Activities include stories, songs and snacks. Children age 2-3 and their parents or caregivers meet for 20 minutes in the big conference room. Children age 4-5 meet for 30 min-utes in the small conference room while their parents or caregivers remain in the library. Storytime does not meet when Medford Public Schools are closed.

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Kiwanis makes fi nal push in area coat driveby News Editor Brian Wilson

As the Kiwanis Coats for Kids drive enters its last weekend, organizers are making a fi nal call to help peo-ple of all ages stay warm this winter.

Kiwanis members have coat collection locations throughout the community, including at area churches, banks, County Market supermarket, and the Frances L. Simek Memorial Library in Medford.

More than 300 coats have been collected and taken to the Indianhead Community Action Agency food pantry located in the Taylor County Education Center build-ing on Donald St. in Medford. The coats are displayed as they are brought in and are available at no cost to anyone who needs one.

According to Kiwanian Bob Whetstone, who served as chairman of this year’s drive, the coats and items are available for free pickup any time that the education center building is open.

In addition to the coats, the Kiwanis Club has also collected a number of hats, scarves and mittens which are available for those who need them.

Each year the Kiwanis Club sponsors the drive to

fulfi ll a need and help ensure the children of the com-munity have warm coats to wear as they go to and from school. Last year more than 400 coats and items were collected. Whetstone reports that the coats are being picked up as they are coming in and people looking for a specifi c size are encouraged to check back often.

The collection drive runs through Monday, Nov. 30 when the collection boxes will be pulled from busi-nesses. Coats and other items collected will be available at the Taylor County Education Center throughout the winter.

Anyone wishing to donate a new or gently used clean coat can drop it in one of the boxes. Collection points include: County Market, Trinity Lutheran Church, United Church of Christ, Fidelity National Bank, Ni-colet National Bank, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Sand Box Child Care, United Methodist Church, Holy Rosa-ry Catholic Church, The Star News, Aspirus Medford Hospital. Immanual Lutheran Church, Zion Lutheran Church, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Northcentral Technical College and the library.

Coats for KidsMore than 300 coats have been collected by mem-

bers of the Medford Kiwanis Club for the annual Coats for Kids Drive. The collection efforts run through Mon-day, Nov. 30. Anyone in need of a coat may pick them up at the Taylor County Education Center located on Donald St.

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would take a $15,000 payment and the re-lease of the noncompete clause in the food service director’s employment contract. Sullivan explained that while the non-compete clause had been removed from the district’s contract with Taher last spring, it was in the individual contract with the employee. Taher countered that he felt the school district should pay his company $35,000 to release the food ser-vice director’s contract.

On Wednesday, Nov. 18, one day be-fore the school board meeting where the board was expected to vote to contract with A’viands Sullivan said the district received a follow up letter from Taher re-scinding the original termination letter, stating the company’s intent to fulfi ll the terms of this year’s contract and negotiate in the spring for the 2016-2017 school year.

At last week’s school board meeting, Sullivan outlined how the district got to where it was, and said as he saw it board members had the following fi ve options open to them:

Give Taher a 60-day written no-tice to terminate the contract. “We believe we have cause,” he said.

Finish out the year and tell Ta-her they are not interested in negotiating with them for 2016-2017.

Finish out the current year and only if they ask to negotiate an extension, tell them the district is not interested.

Allow Taher to fi nish the contract and negotiate with them for 2016-2017.

Reach a mutual agreement to end the contract before the end of the current

term.Sullivan said it was a tough situation

to be in. “They were premature to end the contract,” he said, emphasizing the district’s standpoint that the contractor had no cause to break the contract. In Oc-tober, Taher had claimed fi nancial issues were at the heart of it. However, at Thurs-day’s meeting, school fi nance director Jeff Albers noted the district had a profi t of $7,000 in the food service program in September. He said he couldn’t speak for the company’s accounting, but said from the school’s perspective things were going well.

“It was already done, I don’t know how you take that back,” Sullivan said of Ta-her’s attempt to rescind their termination letter. He noted A’viands is ready to take over the contract and has offered the cur-rent food service director a position. It is expected they would also retain any of the

kitchen staff who are Taher employees. Sullivan suggested the district could

potentially support the food service direc-tor if it came to a lawsuit over the non-compete clause in her contract. He said the district’s attorney would not commit until she reviewed that contract.

Board member Brandon Brunner, who is himself a corporate attorney, opposed the idea of having the district get involved in the contract between the director and Taher. “Really that is her battle to fi ght at this point, not the district’s,” he said. However, he noted noncompete agree-ments can be challenging to enforce in Wisconsin courts. “Given the mess they made, they are not going to try and en-force that against her,” Brunner said.

While board member Jeff Peterson

made the motion to cut things off from the district’s side, this opened the door to question about when the 60 days be-gan. Under Taher’s original termination, they would be done January 1. If the clock starts from the district’s intent to termi-nate with cause, then Taher will be in the school until the end of January.

Brunner said he did not feel Taher should be allowed to rescind their termi-nation. “Tell Taher ‘You terminated we are not allowing you to rescind’ and make them squirm over it,” he said.

Sullivan said the school district’s attor-ney advised him they could not accept the original termination until a school board meeting. Since it was not received with enough time to have it on the Oct. 26 board meeting agenda as an action item, the fi rst meeting where it could be discussed was last week’s meeting.

“Our attorney said you have to give them 60 days notice,” Sullivan said.

Steve West of A’viands was at the school board meeting and spoke to board members saying his company was ready to step in to the school under the bid they submitted last year. The difference be-tween the two companies’ bids amounted to about $3,500.

In the end, board members voted 5-3 on a voice vote with Mark Reuter absent to terminate the agreement with cause and send a 60 day notice to Taher. Included in the vote was to hire A’viands to take over the district’s food service operations.

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School board votes to give food service contract to new vendor

New providerSteve West of A’viands told members of the Medford school board on Nov. 19 that

his company was ready to take over the contract in January.

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by News Editor Brian Wilson“In the presence of” will stay a level

two penalty in the district’s co-curricular code — at least for now.

School board members last week halted efforts to move the controversial clause punishing students for being in the presence of drugs or alcohol use to a less “out of character” offense in the code. The change, which was proposed by members of the district’s policy committee earlier this month, would have reduced the pen-alty for the fi rst offense. While the code is technically not a policy, the policy com-mittee had been given the task to refi ne the code in order to make it easier to un-derstand and enforce. The code had been generated by a committee including stu-dents and members of the Taylor County Drug Opposition Partners organization.

Board member Cheryl Wibben called for the change in the code because, as she notes, it is not illegal to be in the presence of people drinking. She said if an under-age person is at a party where drinking occurs and they are not using, the youth would be sent home without receiving a ticket if the party was raided. She also noted the WIAA does not have a penalty for being in the presence of.

“I would like to put the brakes on any changes unless there is a massive need,” said school board president Dave Flee-gel. “I understand where you are coming from,” he said to Wibben.

Board member Dede Strama said she thought the goal was to clarify it so it

would be implemented the same way throughout the district.

“Have we brought in the student body?” asked board member Brandon Brunner. He said he saw the document as something they put together and should have input in any changes made.

“I am speaking on behalf of the parents in the community,” Wibben said. The change was on the agenda as a fi rst read-ing. Policy changes typically go through multiple readings with the policy commit-tee before being approved in their fi nal form.

Activities director Andy Guden ad-vised caution before making the change this year. “ I would be hesitant on mak-ing the change right now — not that I am against the idea of it,” he said. He noted that when parents have come to speak with him about the code, that clause has not been an issue this year.

He also urged the board to not forget why the clause was in the code to begin with. “We want you to know the more time you are at these parties the more

likely you will give into drinking,” Guden said.

So far this year, Guden said there are 11 students serving code violations — in-cluding fi ve fi rst offenders, three second offenders and two who are completely done with high school activities. He said there haven’t been 11 offenses this fall, some were carried over from the spring season. He said none of the offenses he has dealt with have been for “in the presence of” violations. The code allows students to self-report for “in the presence of” and be exonerated from any wrongdoing.

Board member Barb Knight ques-tioned why the code wasn’t a policy. “The athletic code has never been a policy, it just made sense for the policy committee to look at it,” said administrator Pat Sul-livan. He said it was a way to have board oversight on it.

Guden reminded board members why the co-curricular code of conduct was en-acted. “We are trying to change a culture,” Guden said. “There is still a signifi cant amount of underage drinking and illegal use of alcohol. We want to change that.”

He said many people, himself included, have grown up with alcohol use as a way of life. “We want to decrease that number and underage drinking altogether,” he said. The co-curricular code will be going back to the policy committee for further review at their Dec. 2 meeting.

The discussion on the co-curricular code came following an update from Jean Flood of the Taylor County Drug Opposi-tion Partners Coalition. Flood reported on

the newly awarded fi ve-year $600,000 fed-eral Drug Free Communities grant and its accompanying action plan.

The group is partnering with numer-ous community sectors, including law enforcement, health care, parents, youth, alcohol and drug specialists, the faith community, business, government agen-cies, and the three Taylor County school districts, to implement a specifi c action plan.

The goals for the fi rst grant year are to decrease current alcohol use and delay the age of onset of alcohol consumption by youth, grades 6 - 12. Other parts of the action plan call for reducing access to opi-ates.

“The slide is very quick from opiates to heroin,” Flood said of the dangers young people face.

In other business, board members:Took no action on a proposed longev-

ity reward plan which would bump staff salaries after reaching 5-year milestones. Under the plan proposed by Sullivan, staff would receive bigger bumps at fi ve and 10 years. The cost of the increases for each year would come out of the total of pool of funds available for all raises. Strama raised concerns about going down the road of offering longevity increases, she favored a performance-based model. How-ever, there were questions about how that could be implemented and quantifi ed. Sul-livan will bring a revised plan with more data about budget impacts to the next meeting.

No change for Medford co-curricular codeThe slide is very quick from opiates to heroin.

— Jean FloodTaylor County Drug Opposition Partners

by News Editor Brian WilsonWhile county accountant Larry

Brandl has long been the go-to guy for understanding county fi nances, he could soon have a new title and a department of his own.

Currently Brandl works in the county clerk’s offi ce doing the county’s fi nances including budgeting, bookkeeping and payroll functions. Over the years, the po-sition was expanded to include preparing the necessary reports for state and feder-al grants and keeping abreast of changes in state and federal law.

Last week members of the county’s fi nance and personnel committees vot-ed in favor of taking Brandl out of the clerk’s chain of command and creating a new fi nance department with Brandl as director. This won’t change any of the jobs Brandl already does, but will make him answerable directly to the fi nance committee and the county board. Under the plan proposed at the Nov. 18 meeting, Brandl will continue to directly oversee an assistant and have indirect authority over the fi nancial personnel in the high-way, human services, health, and com-mission on aging departments. These individuals would still be answerable to their separate department heads for most day-to-day issues but when it comes to fi nancial reporting or processes would be under the fi nance director’s authority.

This concept of indirect authority raised questions among committee mem-bers, specifi cally in relation to the hu-man services department. The county approved creating a human services fi -nancial manager position last year but did not fund the position nor fi ll it. The position is currently vacant with the du-ties being done by the director of human services and the accounting specialists. Committee member Scott Mildbrand, who has gone on record saying he did not

feel there was a need for a human services fi nancial manager, ques-tioned why they didn’t have the human services director on the chain of com-mand instead.

Committee chairman Chuck Zenner said the

eventual goal is to fi ll the vacant position when funding becomes available. “It is no secret I am opposed to that position,” Mildbrand said of the human services fi -nancial manager post.

Committee member Lester Lewis sup-ported the fi nance department plan say-ing this was the standard arrangement in most other counties in the state.

With approval at the fi nance and per-sonnel committee level, the proposal will go to the full county board for action in December.

In other business, members of the per-sonnel committee:

Approved designating the UW Extension Program Assistant position as 40-hours-per week. When the county decided not to fi ll the opening for a sec-ond assistant last year, the position was moved up to 40 hours per week on a temporary basis. It requires a county code change to permanently increase the hours. According to human resources director Marie Koerner, under the tem-porary increase in hours the employee in the position is not accruing the full amount of vacations she would be enti-tled to as a 40-hour a week employee. The cost of the position at 40 hours a week was included in the 2016 budget.

Approved fi lling a vacant land conservation technician position due to a staff member leaving for a different job.

Larry Brandl

County fi nance department plan heads to full board

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The opening weekend registration total for the county sits at 1,483 total deer, up from 973 at this time a year ago (a 52.4 percent increase). The buck total is 954 deer, up from 816 a year ago, a 16.9 percent increase. There were 529 antlerless deer registered, way up from 150 last year (252.7 percent). Last year, antlerless deer could only be taken with the proper permits by youth hunters, dis-abled hunters and military members.

The DNR cautions that the new electronic registration process also might be helping boost the early numbers.

“You have to be a little careful looking at the numbers one-on-one compared to last year,” said Mark Schmidt, the DNR’s wildlife biologist for Taylor and Rusk coun-ties. “This year hunters have to register their deer by the day after the kill at 5 p.m. as opposed to the day after the season. So we might not be seeing as many deer being registered later in the season. It will be interesting to see what happens as the week goes on. I would expect the percentages will drop off a little bit.

“But the numbers are up in Taylor County as they should be with the antlerless tags we have out there this year.”

The tally of 1,483 registered deer on opening weekend is identical to Taylor County’s 2013 opening weekend to-tal when 723 bucks and 760 antlerless deer were brought in to registration stations in the county in the fi rst two days. That was a cold and windy opening weekend and was the start of the most severe winter on record, signifi -cantly impacting deer herds in the deep woods of north-ern Wisconsin. The severe winter of 2013-14 is driving the conservative antlerless quotas still in place this year throughout northern Wisconsin.

In Taylor County, 1,652 deer were registered on open-ing weekend in 2012 and 1,451 were registered in 2011.

Schmidt spent much of Monday and Tuesday at Hick-ory Nutz Sausage in Medford, acquiring aging data from deer that were brought in for processing. So hunters he talked to there were generally on the happy side since they bagged their deer.

Overall, he said there should have been few com-plaints about the conditions on opening weekend.

“There was a little bit of snow which gave hunters a little bit of a background for seeing deer,” he said. “It was a little cold, but if you dressed appropriately, it wasn’t unbearable. On opening day there was a bit of a breeze that might have made it a little colder. So far, all the days have been quite huntable.

“There is a lot of water in the woods, so there may be

some places guys couldn’t get to,” Schmidt added. “You certainly couldn’t sneak up on anything because it was so crunchy. Other than that, weather conditions have been good. We’ve lost most of the snow that we had, but it sounds like on Thanksgiving we may get some back.”

In Rusk County, buck registrations nearly equaled last year with 836 deer taken this year, just fi ve fewer than last year. Doe registrations are up from 126 to 319 due to increased permit availability on private land. The 1,155 total deer registered represents a 19.2 percent in-crease from opening weekend of 2014.

In other surrounding counties, Price County noted an opening weekend increase from 525 bucks last year to 591 this year and from 78 antlerless deer last year to 87 this year. Marathon County’s numbers are ahead of last year too. Hunters there registered 2,294 bucks (up 15.3 per-cent) and 2,592 antlerless deer (up 23.3 percent). Numbers are down slightly in Chippewa County. Antlerless regis-tration numbers are exactly the same at 1,203 but bucks were down 10 from 901 last year to 891 this year.

Clark County’s numbers are up for the most part. The county’s farmland zone saw an increase of 9.9 percent in total deer. The county’s for-est zone saw a large increase in bucks from 663 last year to 1,001 this year (up 51 per-cent), while antlerless num-bers held steady at 443, down two from last year.

Statewide, hunters regis-tered 119,495 deer on open-ing weekend, a 15.5 percent increase over last year. The buck total is up to 62,802 over last year’s count of 55,650 (up 12.9 percent). The antlerless count is up 19.9 percent from 47,305 last year to 56,693 this year.

The DNR reported the new electronic registration system worked well, though there were glitches prevent-ing the harvest numbers from being updated and post-ed online as quickly as was hoped.

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by News Editor Brian WilsonIt all started with a conversation between Lindsay Pe-

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simple as a blanket could help children in a time of need. “Whether it be an accident, a situation involving the po-lice, or just anything. Some children do not even have the comfort of a blanket,” Ellenbecker said.

They decided to start a blanket drive and called the effort “Project: Comfort and Joy.”

According to Ellenbecker, the blankets will be pre-sented to the Taylor County Sheriff’s Department during the fi rst week of December. Law enforcement will dis-tribute the blankets to children in times of need to pro-vide comfort to them.

For Ellenbecker the idea came after hearing of people

making blankets to send to children in other countries. While not discounting the need there or the desire to serve others, the friends felt there was a defi nite need to help children in this area.

The project is collecting new store-bought blankets as well as handcrafted blankets with the drop-off point at Peoples Choice Credit Union where Ellenbecker is the executive vice president. In addition, they are accepting monetary donations at the credit union for Project: Com-fort and Joy. Money collected will be used to purchase additional blankets.

Those wishing to make blankets to contribute are asked to keep them small — approximately 1.5 yards by 1.5 yards is the desired size. The blanket drive runs through Nov. 30 when blankets will be turned over to law enforcement.

Project: Comfort and JoyLindsay Petersen (left) and Kerry Ellenbecker were

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The story is a familiar one.Refugees fl eeing persecution left their

homes and traveled to a new land. The journey was a hard one, and along the way many died. The land they came to was foreign and unfamiliar.

With the help of the people living there, these refugees endured and learned the skills needed to survive and thrive in their new home. After a year of learning new skills and hard work, they paused to give thanks.

Every school child knows the story of the fi rst Thanksgiving. Construction pa-per pilgrim hats and cut-out Native Amer-ican headdresses evoke the memories of Gov. William Bradford, Squanto and chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag.

The pageants are repeated annually as a reminder of the sacrifi ces endured by these refugees and how through hard work and brotherhood they laid the foun-dation of the nation that would become the United States of America. The climax of the story is the Thanksgiving feast

where the bounty of the new land and the fruits of the pilgrims’ labor are shared for all the members of the community.

We all know history is far messier than what is presented in elementary school pageants. Massasoit’s friendship with the Pilgrims likely had more to do with

politics and confl ict with a neighboring band than the belief in brotherhood. The Pilgrims have likewise been whitewashed by history. Regardless of the historical de-tails, as origin stories go it is a good one, espousing the fundamental American ide-als of embracing differences, celebrating

hard work, promoting brotherhood and most of all giving thanks.

Although nearly 400 years separate the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony and the modern American Thanksgiving feasts, the tradition is a reminder to refocus on what is important in life. Family, friends, health and faith are among the common themes of those giving thanks as they gather around their tables for a shared meal.

Thanksgiving is a time for families and communities to come together.

It is easy to get distracted from what is important in life. People focus on the stuff they own or would like to own, and get caught up in thinking that happiness comes from material goods. Thanksgiv-ing is a time to refocus, at least for a few hours, on what is truly important and to say thank you.

The Star News invited its staff to share what they are thankful for this year. The following are some of the responses:

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Star News Editorials

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

Write a Vox Pop: Vox Pops, from the Latin Vox Populi or Voice of the People, are the opinions of our readers and refl ect subjects of current interest. All letters must be signed and contain the address and telephone number of the writer for verifi cation of authorship and should be the work of the writer. Letters will be edited. No election-related letters will be run the week before the election. E-mail: starnews@centralwinews.com.

We want you to know the more time you are at these parties the more likely you will give into drinking.

— Andy Guden, Medford schools activities director in defense of keeping a penalty for being caught in the presence of people using alcohol or drugs.

See story on page 4

Star News Quote of the Week:

Take time to give thanks

Holy Rosary third grade students shared what they were thankful for during the Thanksgiving pageant held Friday.

I am thankful I was able to con-tribute my talents to the Abbotsford Christmas Parade again this year. After suffering from wrist problems last year, I was unsure if this old lady still had the ability to sew all the creations I wanted to get done. Being on the slide into the fi nal preparations, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and luckily it is not carpal tunnel.

— Carol O’Leary

I am thankful for our six children, fi ve by birth and one from Spain who came into our lives this fall through an exchange program, as well as my husband Kevin who helps keep it all together. They are all so unique and special in their views on life, their place in the world, and their rank in family hierarchy.

Here’s to another year of love, chaos, sibling rivalry, and fi erce family loyalty. Sort of like a day at the offi ce with the other group of people I am so thankful to work with.

— Kris O’LearyI am thankful for family, near

and far away. I am thankful for my faith and the doors that God opens for me. I am thankful to work for such a wonderful company and to be a part of two offi ces within the company.

I am thankful for success of sports teams I follow: Kansas City Royals, Wisconsin Badgers, Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Brew-ers. Through the highs and lows, they bring joy to me.

— Todd Lundy

I’m thankful for all the people in my life, family, friends, co-workers. I am also thankful to live in a coun-try were I have the freedom to en-joy my life the way that I choose, so I’m extremely thankful to all the veterans who have made that pos-sible and continue to fi ght for that freedom. Thank you!

— Sarah Biermann

I am thankful for my family. This includes both the ones I am related to by birth and the others who have come into my life over the years. I would be lost without you.

You are there when I am down to show me there is always hope and remind me of what is important.

I am also thankful for having the opportunity to share people’s stories and lives through The Star News and I am thankful for the readers who bring this paper into their homes each week.

— Brian Wilson

I am thankful for the opportuni-ties to cover sports for a living. To me, there’s no better job. Going to the schools and reporting on their triumphs, big or small, makes the long nights in the offi ce trying to track down scores worth it. Only a year out of college, I’m still thankful for frozen pizzas too.

— Bryan Wegter

Aside from my family, I am thankful for my fantastic co-work-ers. They have made my transition to living up in the north woods much easier!

— Kristi Lange

My family, friends and my health.— Donald Watson

I am thankful for my family, love, freedom, health, music, friendship, job and God.

— Tresa Blackburn

I am thankful for Faith, Freedom, Family and Friends.

— Kelly Schmidt

FamilyFriendsHealthJobThe fi ve sensesVACATIONS— Ann Kuehling

Thursday, September 22, 2011 Page 3OPINIONTHE STAR NEWS

Cow comes homeWith the help of a skidsteer and operator from Medford Motors, the “Maids a Milking” along the Medford Riv-

erwalk got their cow last week. The cow and maids are part of the 12 Days of Christmas display with the Kiwanis Club’s Holiday Magic on the Medford Riverwalk event. The display was originally created by Ron Roth and used for many years as part of his elaborate display. After poor health forced Roth to give up his decorating, the Kiwanis Club and more than a dozen other businesses, organizations and individuals came together to decorate the park drawing inspiration from his collection. The decorations will be lit during a ceremony the evening of Dec. 3.

“What do you want to eat on your birthday?” my wife asked me.

It was an innocent enough question, I guess.“What do you mean? Food, I suppose,” I replied. It is

not like I am a zombie craving “brraiiiinss” or anything like that. I mean really, what kind of question is that to ask someone?

She was persistent. “Really, it is your birthday, what do you want for dinner?” she asked, again.

As anyone who was born in the last week of Novem-ber knows, getting asked what you want for your birth-day dinner is something of a pathetic joke. If it is one of those years where your birthday falls on Thanksgiv-ing or after, you know that regardless of the answer you will be having turkey in some way, shape or form. It is all the same, whether it is fresh carved turkey roasting while a parade or football game is on TV, or cold turkey sandwiches as you listen to the shopping exploits while you were at work.

Those years where Thanksgiving falls after your birth-day, your meal is some hodgepodge arrangement thrown together in order to clear out room in the fridge for the big feast – you know the one where they serve the turkey and pumpkin pie you are so fond of. “Why yes, I wanted limp and chewy carrots and whatever that quivering blob is, how did you know it was was my favorite?”

Those of us with birthdays near major holidays have learned to lie at an early age to cover our disappointment and bitterness. Admit it, all you late December and Hal-loween babies, you secretly seethe every time you went to some birthday pool party for the summer-born or envied the 10-speed bike the kids born in May got at their 5th grade birthday.

“Yeah, but having a birthday near a holiday makes you special,” you remember your mom saying when you were 13 and upset, because basically you were 13 and didn’t re-ally need any other reason beside that.

“So what do you want for your birthday dinner?” asked my loving, May-birthday bride, after I was silent for too long a time.

“Um, I dunno,” I stammered, stalling for time, while desperately thinking of some dish that A.) I didn’t have to cook, and B.) that others in my home would tolerate.

Being a dad is all about compromise. My father claims to have a fondness for black jelly beans. I have long had the suspicion that he —like most right thinking people – would sooner eat shoe leather soup then black jelly beans, but as the father of eight children he recognized the only jelly beans he would ever get are the black ones. I admire this level of sacrifi ce, even if I know I can never achieve it myself because I can’t overcome the black jelly bean gag refl ex.

The seconds of silence are dragging on, and I feel my wife and children staring at me. “What do I want for my birthday dinner?” This really shouldn’t be that hard of a question for a (let’s see, 2015-1972 is oh, yeah. . .) 43- year-old guy.

“How about turkey, that sounds good,” I fi nd myself saying. “And don’t worry about having any sort of can-dles or anything like that.”

I see by the nods and smiles that I picked the right op-tion. Whew, that was a close one.

Thursday, November 26, 2015 Page 7OPINIONTHE STAR NEWS

Brian Wilson

Birthday dinner

Brian Wilson is News Editor at The Star News.

photo by Brian Wilson

Urges ‘We the people’ to share opinions about candidatesVox Pop

The President’s approval rating is 43 percent, the con-gress’s approval rating is 11 percent. This is absurd; you and your neighbors need to decide enough is enough. It is time to understand what our political hopefuls stand for and then, are they credible do you believe them? Do you believe the candidate who when questioned about an apparent fl ip fl op replies that was primary mode? The Constitution of the United States gives the right to elect the people who represent us to “We The People” that

means you, me and our neighbors. It does not matter Democrat or Republican too many of the career politi-cians are representing big money and special interest. It is time for “We The People” to take control back. Get off the sidelines and get in the game. Submit a vox pop with your choice of Presidential candidate and why you sup-port your choice. No candidate bashing just your facts why you support a candidate. Join the conversation.

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Marking 40 years of serving all students Vox Pop

Wisconsin and the nation celebrate an important an-niversary this month. It has been 40 years since Presi-dent Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-142, the Educa-tion for All Handicapped Children Act, on Nov. 29, 1975. The law is better known today by its 1990 reauthoriza-tion name, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and it has changed the future for millions of students with disabilities.

Prior to 1975, children with disabilities were exclud-ed from many public schools and were thus separated from their nondisabled peers. States could, but were not required to, provide educational services to chil-dren with disabilities and many did for children who were blind or hearing impaired. Wisconsin opened its school in Janesville for educating the blind in 1849, just one year after statehood. The school for children who are deaf or hearing impaired followed in 1852. While these schools provided important services, parents of students with other disabling conditions wanted an education for their children as well.

Wisconsin was ahead of the nation by a couple of years in policy and practice. The state adopted laws re-garding services to children with disabilities in 1973. Today’s state and national laws require that educa-tional programs be made available to all children with exceptional needs.

Rather than isolated at home or in institutions as they were in the past, most students with disabilities are educated alongside nondisabled students in regular classrooms.

Parents and guardians are partners in developing the Individual Education Programs (IEPs) that specify

the services and accommodations schools must provide to help children progress toward their IEP goals.

The requirement of free appropriate public educa-tion doesn’t just mean access to schools for children and youth with disabilities. New guidance issued from the U.S. Department of Education to mark the anniver-sary of IDEA makes it clear that IEPs must be aligned with each state’s general education standards. In Wis-consin, we are working to ensure that students with dis-abilities receive high-quality instruction at each grade level that helps them prog-ress at a similar rate as their nondisabled peers. We want and need every child, and we mean every child including those with disabilities, to graduate from Wisconsin’s public schools ready for the next steps in life: employment, further education, and in-dependent living.

Let’s celebrate our progress in educating children and youth with disabilities and commit ourselves to ensuring that every student graduates ready for college and ca-reers.

— State Superinten-dent Tony Evers

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Milestones, Memories, Births, Engagements, Weddings

Births

So it’s the time of year when everyone is harking back to ancestral recipes, hoping to tweak the tastebuds with memories of those good old days of cheery gather-ings around the harvest table and evenings by the crack-ling Yule log. No matter if your family events happened to be more like a rerun of the Addams Family – the pur-pose of nostalgia is mostly as therapeutic fi ction. The fond memories of what never actually happened helps us to imagine that we, too, have a place in the happy my-thology of Homey Perfection.

In that spirit, I thought I would reference the honest fi ction of the story I am completely making up, set in 19th century Wisconsin. If you recall our hero is Estelle, a woman who is working hard to keep it all together in the year 1865. She arrived somewhere in the middle of Wisconsin as a three year-old, the child of young par-ents who had dreams of making their own way on the frontier. Her father, Philippe Laurent, was the son of a successful French fur trader in the town of La Baye. Her mother, Laura, had arrived there with her parents a few years previously from New England, when the opening of the Erie Canal brought a new wave of immigrants to what would become Green Bay.

The Laurents pack up their young family in 1837, traveling the new military road to Le Portage, then tak-ing advantage of riverboat traffi c up the Wisconsin, then heading inland about thirty miles until they come upon what will be their new home. Fast forward to 1865, and their oldest daughter, Estelle, is the only one left on the homestead. I discovered that early and unexpected death was common in that time, so I very conscientious-ly killed off a lot of people when developing the back-story. In sad and tragic circumstances.

In working out the story of her life, I am reminded of how much daily labor went into food production in that time. It is mid-August when we come into Estelle’s story, and she is beginning to evaluate the likely timetable for harvesting and storing the food from her garden and the forest. She earns some cash from selling her weav-ing and the cheese and butter she makes from her cows’ production, but to feed herself and her livestock, she de-pends mostly on her own labor.

In middle to late August, one of the foraging possibil-ities that she will be considering is hazlenuts. If any of you have ever gathered wild hazelnuts, you have prob-ably been left wondering why a person would bother. First of all, you have to get there ahead of the squir-rels, who tend to strip the brush as soon as the nuts have turned the light brown that indicates ripeness. Then, you aren’t picking the nuts, but nuts encased in sticky, prickly green enclosures that have to be peeled off. Your end result? A nut maybe half the size of the commer-cially grown variety, encased in a shell certifi ed by Fort Knox. A brisk round of hammer blows, and you are left to pick out the nut fragments from the shell fragments.

But that was the nature of food production on the frontier in the 19th century. The sacks of nuts the Laurents gathered would be stored up in the loft where the girls slept. Through the winter, they would crack and sort the nuts as they were used, probably smacking them with a hammer on one of the hearthstones as they sat by the fi re in the evening, munching on the nutmeats while they visited, worked at the spinning wheel, or lis-tened to Philippe playing tunes on the fi ddle.

Years later Estelle would remember these things, maybe through a little bit of a rosy haze, but it’s enough to have her out in the woods, fi lling gunny sacks full of nuts that will have to be peeled and shelled in the long winter nights to come. And surely one of those nights she would remember the candy her mother used to make for the winter celebrations.

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Clark Kenyon-Lee JudnicJennifer Newberry and Benjamin Judnic of Rib Lake

announce the birth of a son, Clark Kenyon-Lee, born on Nov. 3, 2015 at Aspirus Medford Hospital - Birthing Center. He weighed eight pounds, one ounce and was 20 inches long. He joins a brother, Andrew Kenyon-Lee, age 1-1/2. His grandparents are Charlie and Gayle New-berry of Medford, and Ronni and Laura Judnic of Rib Lake. The great-grandparents are Charles and Kathy Newberry of Medford, Marcella and the late Charles Riehm of Muskego, Darlene and the late Ronald Judnic of Rib Lake, and Lavern and Judy Probst of Rib Lake.

Channing Michael VolkmanBrittany Volkman of Minocqua announces the birth

of a son, Channing Michael, born on Nov. 15, 2015 at How-ard Young Medical Center. He weighed seven pounds, 4.5 ounces and was 21 inches long. He joins siblings, Cayden Cashen and Christian Volkman. His grandmother is Tina DuPlayee of Neenah.

Madelyn Rue HansonMelissa Gilles and Jeffrey Hanson, Jr., of Athens an-

nounce the birth of a daughter, Madelyn Rue, born on Nov. 16 , 2015 at Aspirus Women’s Health Birthing Center at Aspirus Wausau Hospital. She weighed ten pounds, 5.3 ounces and was 21 inches long. Her grandparents are Pat and Darla Gilles of Medford, Jeffrey Sr. and Sue Hanson of Mauston, and Therese Ard of Necedah.

Logan Dawson LeeLeeta and David Peterson of Rib Lake announce the

birth of a son, Logan Dawson Lee, born on Nov. 4, 2015 at Aspirus Medford Hospital - Birthing Center. He weighed seven pounds, 11 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. He joins brothers Nicholas, 15, and Damien, 11. His grand-parents are Jack and Vicki Schieding of Lublin, and Charles and Ruth Peterson of Dorchester.

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Remember When — Nov. 2005

Medford Elementary School kindergartners wear-ing Native American headbands and pilgrim hats and bonnets sat down Nov. 22 to a meal of turkey, veg-etables and pumpkin pie during the school’s annual Kindergarten Feast to celebrate Thanksgiving.

November 25, 1965A desperate search begun Monday afternoon for a

12-year-old boy hunter ended in a snowstorm Wednes-day morning at 9:45 o’clock when the lad was found by a searching party in the Steve Creek fl owage area just north of the Taylor county line in Price county. Randy Hague, River Falls, was said to be “in good condition” in the fi rst sketchy report from the Taylor county sheriff’s department just prior to the press deadline Wednesday.

Hopes were fading Wednesday morning of fi nding the lad. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hague, River Falls, was hunting with Walter Monson and his son, also of River Falls. The lost boy’s father, who couldn’t join the hunting party due to illness of his wife, came Tuesday when efforts failed to fi nd his son Monday af-ternoon and night. It was reported that the father was with the group that found the boy.

November 28, 1940Comparatively few accidents were reported this deer

season, according to Neal Smith, county traffi c offi cer.Most serious was one taking place about 5:15 Friday

afternoon, Nov. 22 on highway 64, a little over a mile west of Medford. A car driven by Clinton Rabuck of La Valle collided with a wagon belonging to Louis Kovecsi of the town of Medford. Both were going west.

Smith said that the car was overtaking the wagon as another car approached from the opposite direc-tion. The Rabuck machine struck the rear of the wagon. Kovecsi’s team, frightened by the force of the impact and noise, ran away. Kovecsi was thrown from the wag-on and suffered a broken leg.

November 28, 1990In it’s September 24 issue, The Northern Miner, a

mining trade paper published in Toronto, Canada, reported that an increasing number of companies are prospecting in the Rhinelander-Ladysmith green-stone belt, which hosts Noranda’s recent zinc discov-ery and Kennecott’s proposed copper mine south of Ladysmith.

NDU Resources announced it will focus its efforts on exploration of the Bend deposit, a copper-gold

November 24, 2005The day after the Medford Planning Commission

tabled a request for annexation because no informa-tion had been fi led, the city received the formal re-quest by certifi ed mail for a new commercial parcel on the city’s north side.

The property requested for annexation consists of 34.8 acres located just north of the city limits on the east side of Hwy 13. The request for annexation came from Burt, Borntreger and Rauch, LLC with Terrance Patrick of Medford listed as the managing member of the company. Along with the request for annexation is a request that the parcel be zoned C-1 Commercial use zoning.

According to Mayor Mike Wellner, the owner’s rep-resentative spoke with City Planner Bob Christenson on Monday morning and told him information would be available for the meeting. However, information never arrived and with no request formally fi led, the planning commission could not take action. Accord-ing to Wellner, even if the material had arrived, the commission would have only reviewed it that night and would have held off making a recommendation until a future meeting.

November 24, 1915The Ladies aid will hold their annual Bazaar, De-

cember 1st at Temprance Hall. Beside the many fancy work articles, quilts, etc. A delicious six o’clock din-ner, with every thing good imaginable will be served on the Cafetaria style. You can go from booth to booth and pick out just what you wish, or like best in salad, beans, cake, pies etc at a small fee, each.

sulphide discovery occurring within the Ladysmith-Rhinelander greenstone belt. “It’s defi nitely our top pri-ority target,” Robert Cathro, director of the company was quoted as saying in The Northern Miner.

Recently, NDU purchased Wisconsin Mineral Re-sources (WMRI), a private company with an interest in 23,700 acres of leased mineral rights, perhaps the largest base metal holding in the state, the paper reported. The acquisition includes three base metal deposits, several geophysical targets, a database of geophysical surveys and drill core, fi eld offi ces and experienced personnel.

THE TIMEMACHINE

From past fi les of The Star News

Marge Retzer was honored for her 90th birthday (Nov. 27) by students at Medford Elementary School during a special Thanksgiving program on November 24. Retzer taught for 33 years in the Medford school district. For 27 years following her retirement, she volunteered approxi-mately 300 hours a year working in the school library.

Celebrating 90 years with a little help from her friends

Certifi cation of recognitionMedford mayor Michael Wellner presented a certifi cate

of recognition from the city for her years of volunteerism to the school, which greatly enriched the community.

‘Happy Birthday’Elementary students, led by Laura Lundy, sang “Happy Birthday” to Marge Retzer.

Food donationKindergarten stu-

dents donated 90 food items to the local food pantry in honor of Marge Retzer’s 90th birth-day.

Birthday cardsMany of the older

students at Medford Elementary School presented Marge Retzer with birthday cards during the pro-gram celebrating her 90th birthday.

photos by Donald Watson

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Brent Stiglich, a 2011 Medford gradu-ate, was a key cog in the University of Minnesota-Duluth’s fi ne 2015 football season. The Bulldogs haven’t been quite as good as expected, but they still hold an 8-3 record heading into the Mineral Water Bowl in Excelsior Springs, Mo. on Dec. 5 against Fort Hays State Univer-sity.

The Bulldogs received an invite to the bowl game as the top-ranked team in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference not to make the NCAA Division II foot-ball playoffs.

UMD went 6-1 in the NSIC, putting them in a three-way tie with Bemidji State and Northern State atop the North Division. Stiglich started all 11 games for the Bulldogs at linebacker and was sec-ond on the team with 65 total tackles, in-cluding 31 unassisted.

Stiglich was a force in the team’s 34-27 homecoming win against St. Cloud State on Oct. 10. He collected a season-high 11 total tackles, recorded his only sack of the season and forced a fumble. Stiglich also picked off Huskies quarter-back Nate Meyer only 11 seconds into the second half and returned it 22 yards for a touchdown to put the Bulldogs up 27-12. It was his fi rst collegiate pick and defen-sive score. Stiglich had nine total tackles in UMD’s 28-24 win over Upper Iowa on Sept. 26.

Daniel Petkau, a 2011 Rib Lake grad-uate, completed a successful senior sea-son for the University of Northwestern (St. Paul) football team. Petkau was the Eagles’ starting punter, but also played on offense as a wide receiver. He was named to the All-Upper Midwest Ath-letic Conference (UMAC) fi rst team as a punter after averaging 37.9 yards per punt, tops in the conference. Thirteen Northwestern players were named to the all-conference roster. He put 15 kicks in-side the opponent’s 20, third in the con-ference, and had a long of 55 yards. He to-taled 1,479 punting yards on 39 attempts in conference play.

After Northwestern’s 13-7 loss to St.

Stiglich has big year; Petkau an all-conference punter

Scholastica on Oct. 17, Petkau was named the conference’s Special Teams Player of the Week. He averaged 45.2 yards on his fi ve punts in the game and put four inside St. Scholastica’s 20. On the Eagles last drive of the game, he also made a 44-yard catch. The performance also earned Pet-kau a spot on the D3football.com Team of the Week.

As a receiver in UMAC games, Pet-kau used his 6-6 frame to catch 10 passes for 266 yards, an outstanding 26.6 yards per catch that ranked behind only three other players in the conference. West-minster (Mo.) receiver Peair Howard led at 32.5 yards per catch. Petkau caught one touchdown, a 3-yard reception from quarterback Grant Schoen in the third quarter of the Eagles’ 57-7 dismantling of Iowa Wesleyan on Oct. 3. He had a season-high 103 yards receiving, on only three catches, in the team’s 35-13 win over Crown College on Sept. 12.

The Eagles were 8-3 overall this fall. They fi nished 8-1 in the UMAC, behind only undefeated St. Scholastica. North-western received an invitation to the NC-CAA Victory Bowl in Waxahachie, Texas on Nov. 21, where they fell 10-7 to South-west Assemblies of God University.

Katelynn Homeyer, a 2013 Medford graduate, is a junior at UW-Stevens Point and a member of the girls swim team. She has competed in all four meets for the Pointers so far this year. She picked up her fi rst individual win in the 100-yard breaststroke at Point’s 120-117 dual loss to UW-Whitewater on Nov. 21. Homeyer swam the breaststroke in 1:09.57, fi nish-ing a tenth of a second faster than White-water’s Erin Hawker. Homeyer was also a member of the Pointers’ third place 200-yard medley relay, which fi nished in a time of 1:57.45, and took seventh in the 200-yard individual medley (2:28.26).

At a tri-dual in Stevens Point against Northern Michigan and Minnesota State-Mankato on Nov. 14, Homeyer and the 200-yard medley relay fi nished third in 1:53.42. Individually, Homeyer was fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:10.61, fi fth in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:36.28) and 15th in the 50-yard freestyle (27.49).

by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter

Joey LeonardJustin Yaron

The Pointers lost to Northern Michigan 162.5-136.5 and 207-86 to Mankato.

Homeyer was part of the fourth place 200-yard medley relay (1:54.60) at a tri-du-al hosted by Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn. on Nov. 7. Point fi n-ished last with 643 points. Mankato won with 1,020.5 and Adolphus as second with 827.5.

She fi nished third in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:36.93 on Oct. 24 at a meet at St. Cloud State. Homeyer was also fi fth in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:10.86) and swam as part of the fourth-place 200 med-ley relay (1:53.28).

Abbie Bergman, a 2015 Medford alumni, is a freshman on the St. Cloud State girls swim team. She has swam in two meets for the Huskies this fall. In the team’s meet on Oct. 2 at the University of North Dakota, Bergman swam in the four events. She served as the anchor leg on the team’s eighth place fi nish in the 400-yard freestyle relay in a time of 3:53.63. Joining her on the relay were Annie Hart, Rebecca Miller and fellow freshman Tia Erickson. UND’s relay won the event in 3:37.66.

Bergman swam the 100-yard butterfl y in 1:06.78 and fi nished 20th. In the 50-yard freestyle, she fi nished 27th in 26.79. Berg-man was 24th in the 100-yard freestyle in 59.04. The Huskies fi nished second at the three-team meet behind host’s UND.

Bergman shaved 0.5 seconds off her butterfl y time at the Moorhead Quad Duals, held Oct. 16-17. She fi nished 15th in the event. Bergman also competed in the 100-yard free and fi nished in 16th in a time of 59.51. The Huskies defeated Northern State 236-42 and beat Minneso-ta State-Moorhead 213-87 in duals com-petition.

A trio of 2014 Medford graduates were on the roster for UW-River Falls this season. Half-back Joey Leon-ard got his fi rst collegiate carries this year, which he turned into eight

yards. Both came in the team’s 56-19 loss to UW-Plateville on Oct. 17.

Justin Yaron, a linebacker, saw a bit of time on the fi eld as well. He had four total tackles this year. Three were solo. He recorded one tackle in games against UW-Eau Claire, UW-Oshkosh, UW-White-water and UW-Stevens Point.

Ian Porten made an appearance as an offensive lineman in the team’s second game of the year, a 49-22 loss at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. The Falcons went 4-6 this year, including 3-4 in the Wisconsin Intercollegeiate Ath-letic Conference.

Ben Hemer, a 2012 alumni of Medford High School, has not seen the football fi eld yet this year for UW-Madison. Hem-er is listed as one of 20 offensive linemen on the Badgers roster. He is the brother of former Badger Ethan Hemer, current-ly a free agent after being cut from the Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad ear-lier this fall.

Lindsey Bucki, a 2012 Medford gradu-ate, was again a member of the Winona State women’s rugby squad. The Black Katts crushed University of Illinois-Chi-cago 114-5 in the fi rst round of the Divi-sion II American Collegiate Rugby Asso-ciation playoffs on Nov. 15. Winona State faces the University of Colorado-Mesa this weekend in a second round match. With a win, they’ll take on whoever emerges from the match between UW-Stevens Point and Montana State.

Carlie Rau was a member of the Lake-land College girls volleyball team this season. The 2015 Medford graduate did not appear in a match with the varsity.

Top punterNorthwestern College’s (St. Paul) Daniel Petkau, a 2011 Rib Lake graduate, was

named to the All-Upper Midwest Athletic Conference’s fi rst-team this season.

Another one goes downBrent Stiglich, a 2011 Medford graduate, recorded 65 tackles this season for the

Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs. The senior will play his fi nal collegiate game at the Min-eral Water Bowl on Dec. 5 against Fort Hays State.

Photo by Russ and Kathy Nelson, provided by Northwestern sports information

Photo courtesy of UMD Athletic Communications

Ian Porten

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City of Medford2016 Adopted Budget Summary

General Fund 2014 2014 2015 2015 2016Description Budgeted Actual Budgeted Estimated ProposedExpendituresGeneral Government $797,946 $627002 $794,583 $784,000 $816,038Public Safety 952,715 966,809 985,929 982,500 1,003,769Public Works 864,773 881,772 1,167,265 1,137,000 1,197,022Health and Human Services - - -Culture, Rec. & Education 420,484 266,637 195,076 189,000 192,408Capital Outlay 149,750 123,281 105,260 104,000 79,100Transfers Out 164,204 164,204 164,204 164,204 164,204Total Expenses $3,349,872 $3,029,705 $3,412,317 $3,360,704 $3,452,541

RevenuesTax Revenue $1,249,652 $1,162,599 $1,271,041 $1,250,000 $1,311,743Special Assessment 164,611 168,752 164,611 123,000 164,611State Funding & Grants 1,578,488 1,558,480 1,610,785 1,580,000 1,594,857Licenses & Permits 46,338 53,327 52,348 48,250 51,247Enforcement 36,909 39,160 48,909 36,500 48,909Public Services 29,000 40,395 33,000 27,500 39,000Inter Gov’t Charges 79,324 89,370 79,324 74,000 79,324Other Revenue 165,550 131,952 134,299 110,000 140,350Interfund Transfers - 18,000 22,500Total Revenues $3,349,872 $3,244,035 $3,412,317 $3,249,250 $3,452,541

Fund Balance (12/31) $5,598,663 $5,487,209 $5,365,629

Special Revenue Funds and Enterprise Funds (Utilities) Fund Bal/ Retained 2016 2016 EarningsFund Name and Number Revenues Expenses 12/31/14CDBG(#25) $48,600 $48,600 $31,692Room Tax(#21) 41,000 41,000 49,642Landfi ll Fund(#22) 16,425 16,250 175,591Medford Public Library(#23) 374,161 374,161 103,348Tax Incremental District 5 (#42) 67,447 68,628 (144,570)Tax Incremental District 6 (#44) 62,298 23,401 (742,563)Tax Incremental District 7 (#47) 27,658 26,683 (261,868)Tax Incremental District 8 (#48) 144,204 144,073 (532,320)Tax Incremental District 10 (#45) 54,441 54,154 (248,116)Tax Incremental District 12 (#49) 1,576,892 1,571,118 (640,623)Tax Incremental District 11 (#51) 43,822 1,500 (11,958)Tax Incremental District 13 (#53) 1,090,967 1,087,237 351,849Medford Area Fire Dept.(#46) 187,287 187,287 226,433Water Utility(#62) 1,035,300 792,281 7,953,972Refuse/Recycling(#64) 370,510 370,156 469,349Wastewater Utility(#66) 1,251,500 1,434,450 8,521,126Electric Utility(#68) 9,364,906 9,263,900 10,288,667Notes: (1) Funds 21, 22, 25, 62, 64, 66 and 68 are fi nanced through users fees and other sources of funds not including the tax levy. (2) The Medford Public Library and the Medford Area Fire Department are fi nanced through users fees and other sources as well as through tax levy which is included in the General Fund.

A copy of the entire City of Medford 2016 adopted budget is available for public inspection at the City Clerk’s Offi ce, located at City Hall, 639 S. Second Street, during normal business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.).

Virginia Brost, City Clerk47-156101 WNAXLP

Notice to the Electors ofMedford Area Public School District

Taylor and Marathon Counties, WisconsinNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the School Board of

the above-named School District, at a meeting duly called, noticed, held and conducted on November 19, 2015, ad-opted initial resolutions entitled:

Initial Resolution Number IAuthorizing General Obligation Bondsin an amount not to exceed $3,205,000

Said Initial Resolution was adopted pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 67 of the Wisconsin Statutes to authorize a borrowing in an amount not to exceed $3,205,000 through the issuance of general obligation bonds of the District for the public purpose of paying the cost of a school improvement program at District buildings and grounds consisting of heating and cooling upgrades, facility remodeling and improvements, the addition of a new drop off and pick up loop with additional parking at the Middle School and other parking lot improvements; and acquiring furnishings, fi xtures and equipment.

Initial Resolution Number IIAuthorizing General Obligation Bondsin an amount not to exceed $975,000

Said Initial Resolution was adopted pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 67 of the Wisconsin Statutes to au-thorize a borrowing in an amount not to exceed $975,000 through the issuance of general obligation bonds of the District for the public purpose of paying the cost of upgrad-ing and improving the pool at the High School, including heating and cooling upgrades, tile and pipe replacement, and constructing an addition for the water treatment room.

Copies of said Initial Resolutions and a detailed break-down of the school improvement program to be fi nanced with the proceeds of the proposed Bond issue are on fi le in the District Offi ce located at 124 W. State Street, Med-ford, Wisconsin 54451-1771 and may be inspected week-days except holidays, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

The School Board has called for a referendum election on the Initial Resolutions to be held on April 5, 2016.

Dated November 19, 2015. By Order of the School BoardCheryl Wibben, District Clerk

47-156224 WNAXLP

City of Medford CouncilPublic Hearing Minutes

Tuesday, November 3, 20156:05 PM

Council Chambers, City Hall639 South Second Street

{Subject to Council Approval}Call to Order/Roll CallMayor Mike Wellner called

the Public Hearing to order with the following members present: Dave J. Brandner, Arlene Par-ent, Greg Knight, Peggy Kra-schnewski, Jim Peterson, Mike Bub, Dave Roiger, and Clem Johnson.

Pledge of AllegianceAlderperson Knight began

the public hearing by leading the group in the reciting of the “Pledge of Allegiance”.

Open Meeting Law Compli-ance

Mayor Wellner announced that this was an open public hearing of the Council. Notice of this meeting was given to the public at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting by for-warding the complete agenda to the offi cial City newspaper, The Star News, and to all news media that have requested the same as well as posting. Cop-ies of the complete agenda were available for inspection at the City Clerk’s Offi ce. Anyone desiring information as to forth-coming meetings should contact the City Clerk’s Offi ce.

City Personnel PresentThe following City personnel

were present: City Clerk Ginny Brost, Treasurer Kevin Dober-stein, Police Chief Ken Coyer, Police Sergeant Bryan Carey, Street & Water Superintendent Pat Chariton, Library Director Anne LaRoche, and Coordina-tor/Public Works Director John Fales. City Attorney Courtney Graff was an excused absence.

Visitors PresentVisitor present was Brian Wil-

son-Star News.Citizens’ and Delegations’

CommentsThere were no citizens or del-

egations present.PurposeMayor Wellner explained the

purpose of the public hearing was to consider the 2016 pro-posed City of Medford General Fund Budget.

Activity - Proposed Amounts - Changes*

Property Tax Revenue - $684,656.00 - $661,906.00

General Fund Revenue - $3,475,291.00 - $3,452,541.00

Mayor - $10,410.00Legislative - $21,240.00Legislative Support -

$201,005.00Elections - $20,600.00Administration & Finance -

$568,684.00Assessment/Planning/Zoning

- $184,629.00Police - $956,969.00Public Works - $980,289.00Culture & Recreation -

$243,043.00Conservation & Development

- $24,368.00Capital Outlay - $101,850.00

- $79,100.00Capital Construction Fund -

$732,392.00 - $755,142.00Debt Service Fund -

$689,713.00Library Special Revenue

Fund - $374,161.00Police Special Revenue Fund

- $15,800.00*In addition and in order to be

in compliance for the 2106 Bud-get Restraint Program, $22,750 of Capital Outlay expense will need to be transferred from the General Fund to the Capital Construction Fund. This does not affect the tax levy.

There were no public com-ments regarding the proposed 2016 budget.

AdjournmentJohnson moved, Kra-

schnewski seconded a motion to adjourn from the Public Hear-

ing to the Council meeting at 6:05 PM. All in favor: All Aye. Motion Carried. Public Hearing Adjourned.

Respectfully Submitted,Virginia BrostCity Clerk, WCPC/MMC

(One ins. November 26)47-156099 WNAXLP

NOTICE TO CREDITORSSTATE OF WISCONSIN

CIRCUIT COURTTAYLOR COUNTYCase No. 15-IN-13

In the Matter of the Estate of Deloris Matyka, Deceased.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:1. An application for informal

administration was fi led.2. The decedent, with date of

birth of April 26, 1933 and date of death of March 18, 2015, was domiciled in Taylor County, State of Wisconsin, with a mail-ing address of N7155 Evergreen Drive, Rib Lake, WI 54470.

3. All interested persons waived notice.

4. The deadline for fi ling a claim against the decedent’s es-tate is February 17, 2015.

5. A claim may be fi led at the Taylor County Courthouse, 224 South Second Street, Medford, Wisconsin 54451.

5. A claim may be fi led at the offi ce of the Probate Registrar, Taylor County Courthouse, 224 South Second Street, Medford, Wisconsin.

/s/ Lindsay N. RothmeierLindsay N. Rothmeier, Pro-

bate RegistrarDate: November 2, 2015

(1st ins. November 12,3rd ins. November 26)

45-155780 WNAXLPOrdinance Allowing the TownClerk Discretion in Election

Offi cial Work HoursTown of Greenwood

OrdinanceOrdinance No. 2015-2

WHEREAS, election offi cials may not be available or willing to work an entire Election Day,

NOW, THEREFORE, the Town of Greenwood, Taylor County, Wisconsin, does ordain as follows:

SECTION I - ELECTION OFFICIAL HOURS. The Town Clerk shall have the discretion to hire election offi cials to work less than a full day on the day of the election.

SECTION II - EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall be effective from and after its adop-tion by the Town Board and its posting or publication as provid-ed by the Statutes of the State of Wisconsin.

The Town Clerk shall prop-erly publish this ordinance as re-quired under Wis. Stat. §60.80.

Adopted this 11th day of No-vember, 2015.

(One ins. November 26)47-156187 WNAXLP

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NOTICE OFFORECLOSURE SALESTATE OF WISCONSIN

CIRCUIT COURTTAYLOR COUNTYCase No. 15-CV-58

CitiFinancial Servicing LLCPlaintiff,

vs.Patricia K. Stumpner a/k/a

Patricia Stumpner, Wells Fargo Financial Pennsylvania, Inc. f/k/a Wells Fargo Financial Ac-ceptance Pennsylvania, Inc. and Taylor County Clerk of Cir-cuit Court

Defendants.PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that

by virtue of a judgment of fore-closure entered on Septem-ber 21, 2015 in the amount of $63,542.01 the Sheriff will sell the described premises at public auction as follows:

TIME: January 5, 2016 at 9:30 a.m.

TERMS: Pursuant to said judgment, 10% of the successful bid must be paid to the sheriff at the sale in cash, cashier’s check or certifi ed funds, payable to the clerk of courts (personal checks cannot and will not be accept-ed). The balance of the suc-cessful bid must be paid to the clerk of courts in cash, cashier’s check or certifi ed funds no later than ten days after the court’s confi rmation of the sale or else the 10% down payment is for-feited to the plaintiff. The prop-erty is sold ‘as is’ and subject to all liens and encumbrances.

PLACE: In the lobby of the Taylor County Courthouse, Med-ford, Wisconsin

DESCRIPTION: PARCEL OF LAND IN THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE SOUTH-EAST QUARTER (SE1/4-SE1/4), SECTION SIXTEEN (16), TOWNSHIP THIRTY (30) NORTH, RANGE TWO (2) EAST, MORE PARTICU-LARLY DESCRIBED AS FOL-LOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID FORTY (BEING THE POINT OF INTERSECTION OF THE CENTERLINE OF

COUNTY TRUNK HIGHWAY “A” AND THE CENTERLINE OF A TOWN ROAD RUNNING BETWEEN SECTION 15 AND SECTION 16 OF THE TOWN-SHIP DESCRIBED ABOVE); THENCE WEST ON THE SOUTH BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID FORTY (BEING THE CENTERLINE OF COUNTY TRUNK HIGHWAY “A”), A DIS-TANCE OF 595 FEET TO THE POINT OF TRUE BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH PARALLEL WITH THE EAST BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID FORTY A DIS-TANCE OF 520 FEET; THENCE WEST PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID FORTY A DISTANCE OF 200 FEET; THENCE SOUTH PARALLEL WITH THE EAST BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID FORTY A DISTANCE OF 520 FEET; THENCE EAST ON THE SOUTH BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID FORTY A DISTANCE OF 200 FEET TO THE POINT OF TRUE BEGINNING. STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF TAYLOR, CITY OF STETSON-VILLE

PROPERTY ADDRESS: W4238 County Road A, Stetson-ville, WI 54480-9560

DATED: October 25, 2015Gray & Associates, L.L.P.Attorneys for Plaintiff16345 West Glendale DriveNew Berlin, WI 53151-2841(414) 224-8404Please go to www.gray-law.

com to obtain the bid for this sale.

Gray & Associates, L.L.P. is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. If you have previously received a discharge in a chapter 7 bank-ruptcy case, this communication should not be construed as an attempt to hold you personally liable for the debt.

(1st ins. November 26,3rd ins. December 10)

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Pleas enteredThe following made initial appearance and entered

pleas of not guilty: Tyler J. Berndt, 25, Stetsonville, operating while under the infl uence-second offense and operating with a prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC)-second offense; Thomas D. Way, 23, Medford, miscellaneous bail jumping, operating while under the infl uence-third offense, operating while revoked and operating with a PAC-third offense; Gorge L. Aguilera, 22, Curtiss, intentionally pointing a fi rearm at a person and criminal damage to property; Scott R. Webb, 30, Medford, battery and disorderly conduct; Kenneth M. Kirkwood, 26, Medford, disorderly conduct and miscel-laneous bail jumping; Anthony J. Olsen, 43, Medford, possession of drug paraphernalia; Dalton J. Hostetler, 22, Medford, disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property; Matthew R. Hendricks, 34, Withee, operating while under the infl uence-second offense.

ForfeituresShannon G. Potocnik, 25, Medford, pled no contest to

possession of marijuana and forfeited a fi ne and costs of $330.50. A charge of possession of drug paraphernalia was dismissed on a prosecutor’s motion. Potocnik also pled no contest to operating with a controlled substance-fi rst offense. He forfeited $795 and was ordered to pay a $41 blood draw fee; his driver’s license was revoked for seven months; and he is to undergo an alcohol and drug assessment. A charge of operating while under the in-fl uence was dismissed.

Artemio Lopez Lopez, 23, Medford, pled guilty to op-erating without a valid license-second offense within

three years, and forfeited a fi ne and costs of $579.Jon B. Jacque, 30, Thorp, pled no contest to operat-

ing while under the infl uence-third offense. He was sen-tence to serve 160 days in jail, sentence to run consecu-tive to any other jail sentence; forfeited a fi ne and costs of $2,546; his driver’s license was revoked for 28 months; an ignition interlock device is to be installed on his ve-hicle for one year; and he is to comply with an alcohol and drug assessment and a driver safety plan. A charge of operating while revoked was dismissed but read in. A charge of operating with a PAC-third offense was dis-missed on prosecutor’s motion.

Jacque, a.k.a. Jon R. Jacque, also pled no contest to resisting or obstructing an offi cer-repeater and forfeited a fi ne and costs of $579. A charge of disorderly conduct was dismissed but read in.

Pamela L. Jensen, 51, Medford, pled no contest to operating while under the infl uence. She forfeited $795 and was ordered to pay a $41 blood draw fee; her driv-er’s license was revoked for seven months; and she is to undergo an alcohol and drug assessment. A charge of operating with a PAC-equal to or greater than 0.15 per-cent (fi rst offense) was dismissed.

Jensen also pled no contest to disorderly conduct and forfeited a fi ne and costs of $330.50.

Amanda M. Sherfi eld, 19, Prentice, pled guilty to op-erating while revoked and forfeited costs of $443.

Jesus Montes-Rivera, 18, Medford, pled guilty to op-erating while under the infl uence. He forfeited $795 and was ordered to pay a $41 blood draw fee; his driver’s li-cense was revoked for seven months; and he is to under-go an alcohol and drug assessment. He also pled guilty to operating without a valid license and forfeited $200.50. A charge of operating with a controlled substance-fi rst offense was dismissed.

Probation orderedLacey L. Lato, 27, Mosinee, pled no contest to operat-

ing while under the infl uence-fourth offense within fi ve years. Sentence was withheld and Lato was placed on probation for three years on the condition she serve six months in jail; pay a fi ne and costs of $2,493 and supervi-sion fees as ordered by the Department of Corrections (DOC); and attends the next OWI victim impact panel scheduled for Jan. 7 or an equivalent program in Mara-thon County as the probationary agent’s discretion. Lato’s driver’s license was revoked for 24 months, an ig-nition interlock device is to be installed on her vehicle for one year and she is to undergo an alcohol and drug assessment and follow through with any recommenda-tion. A charge of operating with a PAC-fourth offense within fi ve years was dismissed on a prosecutor’s mo-tion.

Jesus Montes-Rivera, 18, Medford, pled guilty to pos-session of THC. Judgment of convictions deferred and Montes-Rivera was placed on probation for one year on the condition he pay costs of $293 and supervision fees as ordered by the DOC; and undergo an alcohol and drug assessment and follow through with any treat-ment recommendations. A charge of possession of drug

paraphernalia was dismissed but read in.Elroy F. Raasch, 58, Merrill, pled guilty to operating

while under the offense-fi fth or sixth offense. Sentence was withheld and Raasch was placed on probation for three years on the condition he serve six months in jail, sentence to run consecutive to any other jail sentence; pay a fi ne and costs of $3,255 and supervision fees as or-dered by the DOC; submit to a DNA sample; attend the next OWI victim impact panel scheduled for Jan. 7, 2016 or any other equivalent program at the discretion of the probationary agent; and obtains his GED/HSED or high school diploma at the discretion of the probationary agent. A charge of operating with a PAC-fi fth or sixth offense was dismissed on a prosecutor’s motion.

Joshua M. Matson, 23, Stetsonville, pled guilty to four amended counts of exposing genitals/pubic area/intimate parts to a child. The original charges had been possession of child pornography. Sentence was with-held and Matson was placed on probation for three years on the condition he serve fi ve months in jail; pay costs of $1,322 and supervision fees as ordered by the DOC; complete a psychosexual evaluation and comply with any treatment recommendations; provide a DNA sample; no use of internet without prior approval from the probationary agent; and attending counseling as deemed appropriate by the probationary agent.

Iris M. Kenner a.k.a. Iris M. Feuerbach, 30, Stanley, pled no contest to possession of THC. Sentence was withheld and Kenner was placed on probation for one year on the condition she pays costs of $443 and super-vision fees as ordered by the DOC; complete an alcohol and drug assessment and any follow-through treatment; and undergo counseling as deemed appropriate by the probationary agent. A charge of possession of drug par-aphernalia was dismissed but read in.

Prison sentenceBenjamin R. Ashbacher, 30, Eau Claire, pled no con-

test to taking and driving a vehicle without consent-repeater. He was sentenced to one year initial confi ne-ment, followed by three years of extended supervision. As condition of his extended supervision, Ashbacher must pay costs and restitution of $639, and supervision fees as ordered by the DOC; provide a DNA sample; write letters of apology to the victims; and complete all programs as deemed appropriate by the probationary agent, including alcohol and drug assessments and fol-low through with any treatment and counseling as rec-ommended by the agent. A Price County charge of the vehicle operator fl eeing or eluding an offi cer was dis-missed but read in.

Ashbacher also pled no contest to a second charge of taking and driving a vehicle without consent-repeater. He was sentenced to one year initial confi nement, fol-lowed by three years of extended supervision. Sentence is to run consecutive to any other sentence but concur-rent to his other Taylor County take and drive case. As condition of his extended supervision, Ashbacher must pay costs of $518 and restitution in an amount to be de-termined, and supervision fees as ordered by the DOC; provide a DNA sample; write letters of apology to the victims; and complete all programs as deemed appro-priate by the probationary agent, including alcohol and drug assessments and follow through with any treat-ment and counseling as recommended by the agent.

Pleas enteredThe following made initial appearances and entered

pleas of not guilty: Carlye C. Baker, 18, Medford, speed-ing 20-24 mph over the limit; Lynette C. Barton, 58, Med-ford, speeding 16-19 mph over the limit; Charles W. Fee Jr., 21, Adams, operating without a valid license-third or greater offense within three years;Bryan F. Solis-Ar-enivaz, 18, Medford, operating without a valid license-second offense within three years.

Deferred prosecutionKyler J. Nelson, 16, Medford, made an initial apper-

ance and entered into a deferred prosecution or sen-tence agreement for a charge of a license restriction violation.

Forfeitures$476.63: Jessica N. Horst, 24, Medford, theft of library

materials.$213.10: John H. Holthaus, 42, St. Paul, Minn., passing

in a no-passing zone.

$225.70: April M. Sadler, 17, Cornell, speeding 20-24 mph over the limit; David E. Wright, 25, Madison, speeding 20-24 mph over the limit.

$200.50: Timoteo A. Santiago, 25, Medford, operating without a valid license-fi rst offense; Jesse V. Bloom, 25, Lublin, operating while revoked; Larry J. Dassow, 33, Medford, operating a motor vehicle without insurance; Matthew D. Henaman, 24, Medford, operating a motor vehicle without insurance; Maribel Hernandez, 29, Ab-botsford, operating a motor vehicle without insurance; Rebecca A. Rackowski, 30, Medford, speeding 16-19 mph over the limit; Mary T. Stack, 30, Eau Claire, speeding 16-19 mph over the limit; Alan M. Swenson, 62, Brant-wood, operating without a valid license-fi rst offense.

$187.90: Mark A. Kind, 49, Rib Lake, inattentive driv-ing.

$175.30: Tracy L. Beckstrand, 44, Rib Lake, speeding 11-15 mph over the limit; Daniel A. Goemer, 54, Geneva, Ill., non-registration of vehicle; Timothy L. Lenz, 52, Phillips, non-registration of vehicle; Sara L. Mertens, 26, Medford, deviation from designated lane; Chandler M. Probst, 19, Rib Lake, speeding 11-15 mph over the limit; Shaun E. Smith, 33, Rhinelander, speeding 11-15 mph over the limit; Ernest F. Tompkins, 71, Abbotsford, failure to yield the right-of-way from a stop sign.

$150.10: Matthew D. Henaman, 24, Medford, failure to display vehicle license plates.

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Two-vehicle accidentsMark R. Allen and Thomas G. Poncek were involved

in an accident on Nov. 12 at 4:31 p.m. at the intersection of Hwy 13 and Allman St. in the city of Medford. Accord-ing to the accident report, both vehicles were south-bound on Hwy 13. The Allen vehicle was in the outside lane and the Poncek vehicle was in the inside lane. The Allen vehicle was a semi tractor-trailer hauling an over-sized load with a clear, large yellow sign on the back of the trailer indicating it was an oversized load. As the Allen vehicle entered the roundabout, it used both lanes of traffi c in order to make the turn. The driver of the Poncek vehicle saw the Allen vehicle enter his lane and slammed on his brakes, but was unable to stop in time to prevent the accident. The Poncek vehicle sustained minor damage to front and front passenger side. There was no damage to the Allen vehicle.

The Taylor County Sheriff’s Department responded to an accident on Nov. 16 at noon at the intersection of Hwy 13 and Cemetery Ave. in the town of Chelsea. According to the accident report, both vehicles were northbound on Hwy 13. The fi rst vehicle signaled and was making a left turn onto Cemetery Ave. when it was stuck by the second vehicle which was passing on the left side. The fi rst vehicle sustained minor damage to the rear driver side. The second vehicle sustained mi-nor damage to the front and front passenger side. Im-proper overtaking by the driver of the second vehicle was listed in the report as being a factor in the accident.

One-vehicle accidentsThe Taylor County Sheriff’s Department responded

to an accident on Nov. 13 at 5:30 a.m. at the intersec-tion of Knuth Rd. and Keyes Ave. in the town of Grover. According to the accident report, a vehicle was west-bound when it failed to negotiate a curve and went off the roadway, striking a tree. The vehicle was traveling too fast for conditions and the driver made no attempt to contact law enforcement following the accident. The vehicle sustained severe damage to the front and was towed from the scene. Speeding too fast for conditions by the driver was listed in the report as being a factor in the accident.

The Taylor County Sheriff’s Department responded to an accident on Nov. 13 at 7:19 a.m. on CTH A in the

One-vehicle accidentThe Taylor County Sheriff’s Department responded to

an accident on Nov. 11 at 1:50 a.m. at the intersection of CTH A and CTH DD in the town of Holway. Accord-ing to the accident report, a vehicle was northbound on CTH DD and making a right turn onto CTH A when it sideswiped a stop sign. The vehicle came to a stop in the ditch at the northeast corner of the intersection. The vehicle sustained moderate damage to the entire drivers side. Driving too fast for conditions, improper turn and driver’s ability impaired by the presence of alcohol were listed in the report as being factors in the accident.

town of Holway. According to the accident report, a ve-hicle was westbound on CTH A when it drove onto the north shoulder. The driver overcorrected several times as the vehicle swerved back onto the roadway, swerved over and back across the centerline and spun into the north ditch where it rolled over before coming to a stop

on the passenger side. The driver said she looked down to light a cigarette and the vehicle drove onto the shoul-der due to the fact it needs an alignment. The driver sus-tained non-incapacitating injuries and was transported for medical treatment. There was minor damage to the entire vehicle and it was towed from the scene. Inatten-tive driving by the driver and a problem with the ve-hicle’s steering system were listed in the report as being factors in the accident.

The Taylor County Sheriff’s Department responded to an accident on Nov. 14 at 5:29 p.m. on CTH C in the town of Greenwood. According to the accident report, a vehicle was northbound on CTH C when the driver swerved to avoid a deer in the roadway and the vehicle drove onto the left (west) shoulder. The driver overcor-rected to the right and the vehicle slid sideways into the west ditch and overturned, coming to a stop on the passenger side. There was severe damage to the front, entire passenger side, entire driver side and top of the vehicle and it was towed from the scene. A passenger in the vehicle sustained possible injuries and was trans-ported for medical treatment. The impaired ability of the driver due to the presence of alcohol was listed in the report as being a factor in the accident.

The Taylor County Sheriff’s Department responded to an accident on Nov. 16 at 6 p.m. on Hwy 102 in the town of Westboro. According to the accident report, a vehicle was eastbound on Hwy 102 when it struck a deer in the roadway. The impact sent the deer through the air into a mailbox on the side of the road. The vehicle sustained severe damage to the front and was towed from the scene.

The Taylor County Sheriff’s Department responded to an accident on Nov. 19 at 3:45 p.m. on Hwy 13 in the town of Westboro. According to the accident report, a vehicle was northbound on Hwy 13 when the driver lost control due to the snowy/icy road conditions. The ve-hicle veered onto the right shoulder and struck a guard rail. The vehicle sustained moderate damage to the front passenger side and front driver side.

Animal-related accidentsThe following deer-related accidents were reported:

Nov. 6 at 1:57 p.m. on Hwy 73 in the town of Ford. Nov. 9 at 6:24 a.m. on CTH M in the town of Greenwood and at 5:41 p.m. on Hwy 64 in the town of Hammel. Nov. 10 at 3:28 a.m. on Hwy 13 in the town of Medford and at 5:19 a.m. on Hwy 13 in the town of Chelsea. Nov. 11 at 6:30 a.m. on Hwy 13 in the town of Deer Creek and at 10:31 a.m. on CTH M in the town of Grover. Nov. 12 at 6:44 a.m. on CTH M in the town of Chelsea, at 10:16 a.m. on Hwy 13 in the town of Medford and at 10:48 p.m. on Hwy 13 in the town of Chelsea. Nov. 13 at 5:15 p.m. on Hwy 13 in the city of Medford. Nov. 14 at 7:26 p.m. on CTH C in the town of Deer Creek and at 7:40 p.m. on CTH A in the town of Deer Creek. Nov. 15 at 5:02 p.m. on Hwy 13 in the town of Westboro and at 5:32 p.m. on Hwy 13 in the town of Medford. Nov. 17 at 4:16 p.m. on Hwy 64 in the town of Aurora. Nov. 19 at 4:40 p.m. on Shattuck St. in the town of Medford.

The following turkey-related accident was reported: Nov. 15 at 11:40 a.m.on CTH Q in the town of Medford.

Accident reports Taylor County Law Enforcement

Charge dismissedA charge of worthless checks against Randall R.

Baughman, 22, Dallas, Wis., was dismissed on a pros-ecutor’s motion.

Pleas enteredThe following made initial appearances and entered

pleas of not guilty: Travis P. Krizan, 38, Stanley, raw for-est product overweight violation; Maxwell T. Wisemi-ller, 17, New Richmond, speeding 35-39 mph over the limit.

Deferred prosecutionDarla A. Williamson, 26, Chelsea, pled no contest

to computer message harassment using obscenity and entered into a deferred prosecution or sentence agree-ment.

ForfeituresChristina M. Hansen, 32, Eau Claire, pled no con-

test to speeding 16-19 mph over the limit and forfeited $200.50.

Alan G. Holguin Uribe, 19, Rib Lake, pled no con-test to an amended charge of operating a motor vehicle without proof of insurance and forfeited $10. The origi-nal charge had been operating a motor vehicle without insurance.

Antolin F. Ojeda, 48, Sheldon, pled no contest to worthless checks and forfeited a fi ne and restitution of $518.50.

Taylor A. Reetz, 27, Wausau, pled guilty to illegally passing a school bus and forfeited $326.50.

Jade R. Stumpner, 18, pled guilty to speeding 16-19 mph over the limit and forfeited $200.50.

Cordell L. Walworth, 19, Eau Claire, pled no contest to underage drinking-possession (fi rst offense) and for-feited $263.50.

Noah M. Weinke, 18, Rib Lake, pled no contest to in-attentive driving and forfeited $187.90.

Heather A. Wemmer-Lockburner, 25, Bruce, pled no contest to trespassing and forfeited $200.50.

Jenny L. Wicke, 32, Medford, pled no contest to an amended charge of having no protective headgear while on a motorcycle and forfeited $150.10. The origi-nal charge had been operating a motorcycle without a valid license.

Kyle R. Zickert, 29, Rib Lake, pled guilty to operat-ing while under the infl uence-fi rst offense. He forfeited $803, his driver’s license was revoked for six months, and he is to undergo an alcohol assessment. Charges of operating with a prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC) equal to or greater than 0.08 percent and less than 0.15 percent-fi rst offense and possession of open intoxi-cants in a motor vehicle by the driver were dismissed on prosecutor’s motions.

Jason M. Meszaros, 23, Medford, pled no contest to a license restriction violation and forfeited $200.50.

Kendra R. Miller, 17, Medford, pled no contest speed-ing 20-24 mph over the limit and forfeited $225.70.

Jane M. Stahnke, 45, Medford, pled guilty to operat-ing while under the infl uence-fi rst offense (PAC equal to or greater than 0.15 percent). She forfeited $976; her driver’s license was revoked for seven months; an igni-tion interlock device is to be installed on her vehicle; and she is to undergo an alcohol assessment. A charge of operating with a PAC equal to or greater than 0.15 percent-fi rst offense was dismissed on a prosecutor’s motion.

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Gene D. Ehlert1947-2015

Town of Little Black resident Gene D. Ehlert, 67, died Wednesday, Nov. 18 at Aspirus Hospice House, Wausau where he had re-sided for the past five days following a courageous six-year battle with cancer that was a result of expo-sure to Agent Orange dur-ing his military service in Vietnam.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday, Nov. 24 at Hemer Funeral Home,

Medford where military rites were performed by the Medford Area Military Honors Team. Rev. James Le-Master officiated. Interment of his cremated remains took place at Central Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery, King, on Wednesday, Nov. 25. Visitation was held from 5-7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 23 at Hemer Funeral Home, Medford and also from 10 a.m. until the time of services on Nov. 24.

Gene was born on Dec. 18, 1947 in the town of Taft to George Ehlert and Edna Krohn. On June 20, 1970 at Zion Ev. Lutheran Church, Stetsonville he married Jayne E. Boxrucker, who survives.

He attended Medford elementary schools and was a 1966 graduate of Medford High School. Following his service in Vietnam, he earned an Associate’s De-

gree in diesel mechanics from Northeast Technical College in Sturgeon Bay. In 1994 he earned a Bach-elor’s Degree in mathematics from UW-Stevens Point and later completed his Masters of Education in secondary education from Viterbo University in La Crosse.

He was a US Army veteran of the Vietnam War. After the service, he drove truck and worked as a diesel mechanic for Tombstone Pizza Corp. for pe-riods of time. After he finished his education, he taught school at the Medford Area Middle School and Medford Area High School until June of 2010 when ill health forced his retirement. He enjoyed travel-ing out West, hunting, camping, spending time with his grandchildren and anything outdoors. He was a member of the Christian Bible Fellowship of Stet-sonville.

In addition to his wife and mother, he is survived by his children, Trisha (Micheal) Houle, Christopher (Tiffany) Ehlert, Timothy (Christy) Ehlert, Elizabeth (Paul) Landmann and Jacob (Cathy) Ehlert; 14 grand-children; three sisters; and mother and father-in-law Marge and Windy Boxrucker of Stetsonville.

He was preceded in death by his father.In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial

contributions be given to the Military Working Dog Tribute, C/O The High Ground Veterans Memorial, 7031 Ridge Road, Neillsville, WI 54456.

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Although it’s been a while nowIt seems like yesterday

That you were telling dirty jokesAnd showing us the “Ogle Way”From building stands to running

bearAnd hunting geese and ducks,It didn’t matter how you felt,

You always got the biggest bucks.And whether it was climbing towers,

Grafting trees, or traveling west,Even fishing in Alaska,

Your way was always best.We learned a lot from you,

Mostly good, but sometimes bad,So to the man that we called

“Grumpa”You were an extraordinary

granddad.Our memories will linger

Throughout the coming years,Most will bring us laughter

And some will bring us tears.

In Memory of

Glen Oglewho passed away one year ago

November 21

We miss you “Grumpa” OgleSadly missed by all your

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Gilman Police DepartmentNov. 9 — Noise complaint at 335 W. Pine St. at 12:38

p.m.; loitering at 320 E. Main St. at 12:42 p.m.Nov. 13 — Information request at 325 N. Fifth Ave. at

9:53 a.m.; non-suffi cient funds at 485 E. Main St. at 2:03 p.m.

Nov. 15 — Agency assist at 600 W. Hickory St. at noon.

Medford Police DepartmentNov. 9 — Ignition interlock device (IID) installation

at 217 S. Park Ave. at 8 a.m.; suspicious activity at 825 N. Second St. at 8:08 a.m.; truancy at 1015 W. Broadway Ave. at 11:21 a.m.; theft at 624 E. College St. at 3 p.m.; lockout at 1015 W. Broadway at 3:43 p.m.

Nov. 10 — Prowler at 404 E. Clark St. at 8:50 a.m.; escort request at W. Broadway Ave. and W. Maple St. at 9:27 a.m.; traffi c hazard at W. Perkins St. and S. Whelen Ave. at 12:01 p.m.; sexual assault at 12:41 p.m. and 12:45 p.m.; lockout at 114 S. Main St. at 2:47 p.m.; domestic dis-pute at Riverside Terrace at 2:50 p.m.; citizen assist at 509 E. Clark St. at 4:02 p.m.; agency assist at 225 S. Wis-consin Ave. at 4:29 p.m.; warrant arrest at 160 S. Main St. at 8 p.m.

Nov. 11 — Warrant arrest at 854 N. Eighth St. at 9:10 a.m.; truancy at 624 E. College St. at 12:18 p.m.; traffi c complaint at Hwy 13 and Pleasant Ave. in the town of Medford at 12:32 p.m.; traffi c hazard on Hwy 13 in the town of Chelsea at 1:20 p.m.; ambulance request at 306 E. Conrad Dr. at 2:49 p.m.; IID installation at 517 Main St. in the city of Marathon at 3:15 p.m.; commercial alarm at 134 S. Eighth St. at 6:03 p.m.; suspicious activity at 1010 N. Eighth St. at 8:46 p.m.; request for an offi cer at 521 Lemke Ave. at 11:22 p.m.

Nov. 12 — Truancy at 1015 W. Broadway Ave. at 10:34 a.m.; suspicious activity at 224 S. Second St. at 2:30 p.m.; accident at 1015 W. Broadway Ave. at 4:06 p.m.; ac-cident at E. Allman St. and N. Eighth St. at 4:31 p.m.

Nov. 13 — Lockout at 1010 N. Eighth St. at 6:55 a.m.; non-suffi cent funds at 1260 S. Eighth St. in town of Med-ford at 10:15 a.m.; ambulance request at 886 N. Shattuck St. at 1:35 p.m.; property damage at 1065 W. Broadway Ave. at 2:45 p.m.; accident at 1255 N. Eighth St. at 5:15 p.m.; information request at 6 p.m.

Oct. 14 — Parking problem at 4:25 a.m.; lockout at 1010 N. Eighth St. at 1:18 p.m.; juvenile runaway; traffi c complaint at 240 S. Eighth St. at 7:02 p.m.

Nov. 15 — Traffi c complaint in alley between Third St. and Fourth St. at 5:06 p.m.; welfare check at 519 W. Broadway Ave. at 8:14 p.m.

Taylor County Sheriff’s DepartmentNov. 9 — Animal at large at W6217 Buehler Ln. in

town of Medford at 9:11 a.m.; escort request at N. Hwy 13 and W. CTH A in village of Stetsonville at 10:17 a.m.; accident at W2074 Faber Ln. in the town of Goodrich at 12:12 p.m.; animal complaint at W2832 Hwy 64 in the town of Browning at 1:41 p.m.; accident on Faber Ln. in the town of Goodrich at 2:04 p.m.; suspicious activity on Fayette Ave. in village of Rib Lake at 3:04 p.m.; animal complaint at N4824 CTH C in the town of Greenwood at 4:10 p.m.; traffi c complaint at Hwy 13 and County Line Rd. in town of Deer Creek at 4:41 p.m.; animal at large at W5488 Apple Ave. in the town of Little Black at 4:45 p.m.; accident at Hwy 64 and CTH E in the town of Hammel at 5:39 p.m.; accident at Hwy 64 and CTH D in the town of Hammel at 5:41 p.m.; harassment complaint at N6623 Ellis Rd. in the town of Pershing at 6:31 p.m.; traffi c ar-rest at 140 S. Eighth St. in the city of Medford at 7:22 p.m.

Nov. 10 — Ambulance request at Hwy 13 and CTH M in the town of Chelsea at 3:22 a.m.; accident at Hwy 13 and Correction Ln. in the town of Medford at 3:29 a.m.; accident on Hwy 13 in the town of Chelsea at 5:19 a.m.; property damage at W4815 N. Chelsea Ave. in the town of Chelsea at 7:09 a.m.; trespass at N5109 Castle Rd. in the town of Chelsea at 10:10 a.m.; citizen assist at W5505 Chelsea Ave. in the town of Chelsea at 10:12 a.m.; traffi c hazard at Hwy 64 and CTH C in the town of Goodrich at 11:04 a.m.; fraud at Rib Lake High School in the village of Rib Lake at 11:53 a.m.; transport to Rusk County line at 4:16 p.m.; citizen assist at W10528 Richter Lake Rd. in the town of Grover at 4:25 p.m.; accident at Hwy 64 and CTH E in the town of Medford at 3:04 p.m.; accident at Hwy 54 and CTH E at 3:39 p.m.; trespass at Hwy 13 and Johnson Ave. in the town of Westboro at 4:40 p.m.; traf-fi c hazard at CTH A and Oriole Dr. in the town of Deer Creek at 6:10 p.m.

Nov. 11 — Failure to report at 224 S. Second St. in the city of Medford at 12:07 a.m.; accident at CTH A and

CTH DD in the town of Maplehurst at 1:49 a.m.; accident on Hwy 13 in the town of Deer Creek at 6:38 a.m.; extra patrol at 302 Sunrise Ct. in the village of Stetsonville at 10:18 a.m.; accident on CTH M in the town of Grover at 10:32 a.m.; citizen assist at N942 Hwy 13 in the town of Deer Creek at 10:43 a.m.; traffi c hazard at N3528 Hwy 13 in the town of Chelsea at 1:20 p.m.; traffi c complaint at Swallow Dr. and Pine Ave. in the town of Little Black at 3:35 p.m.; warrant arrest at 812 Pearl St. in the village of Rib Lake at 4 p.m.; accident at Hwy 73 and CTH G in the town of Aurora at 5:44 p.m.; animal bite at 1010 Upjohn Rd. in the village of Rib Lake at 8:58 p.m.; OWI at Sunset Rd. and Perkinstown Ave. in the town of Medford at 9:39 p.m.

Nov. 12 — Animal at large at N8869 Hwy 73 in the town of Jump River at 1:40 a.m.; accident at CTH M and Castle Rd. in the town of Medford at 6:44 a.m.; child abuse in the town of McKinley at 9:57 a.m.; accident at Hwy 13 and Jolly Ave. in the town of Medford at 10:16 a.m.; animal complaint at W10807 Sawyer Ave. in the town of Grover at 11:21 a.m.; information request at W10113 Sawyer Ave. in the town of Grover at 5:29 p.m.; fraud at N1172 CTH A in the village of Lublin at 7:01 p.m.; accident at Hwy 13 and Alfalfa Ave. in the town of Chelsea at 10:49 p.m.; suicidal subject in Taylor County; agency assist on CTH H in the town of Pershing at 11:21 p.m.

Nov. 13 — Traffi c hazard at N8677 Bridge Dr. in the town of McKinley at 2:03 a.m.; accident at Keyes Ave. and Knuth Rd. in the town of Molitor at 6:31 a.m.; acci-dent at CTH A and Oak Dr. in the town of Holway at 7:18 a.m.; identify theft at N3156 CTH C in the town of Go-odrich at 8:31 a.m.; traffi c complaint at N6079 Clark St. in the town of Cleveland at 11:26 a.m.; traffi c complaint at Clark St. and Scott Ave. in the town of Cleveland at 11:29 a.m.; accident at W8287 Center Ave. in the town of Hammel at 1:02 p.m.; accident at CTH O and CTH E in the town of Medford at 2:43 p.m.; IID installation at N8907 N. Park Rd. in the town of Westboro; juvenile problem in Taylor County; transport from Aspirus Medford Hospi-tal to Norwood Health Center in city of Marshfi eld at 8:49 p.m.; suspicious activity at W16781 Polley Ln. in the town of Aurora at 9:54 p.m.; OWI at Oriole Dr. and Kum-mer Ln. in the town of Medford at 11 p.m.

Nov. 14 — ATV incident at W8122 Hwy 64 in the town of Hammel at 8:46 a.m.; commercial alarm at 7958 Hwy 64 in the town of Hammel at 9:07 a.m.; citizen dispute at N8809 Business Hwy 13 in the town of Westboro at 1:34 p.m.; court violation at 600 W. Hickory St. in the village of Gilman at 2:13 p.m.; traffi c arrest at Hwy 64 and Ori-ole Dr. in the town of Browning at 2:34 p.m.; traffi c com-plaint on Hwy 73 in the town of Roosevelt at 3:52 p.m.; garbage dumping at W5090 Hwy 64 in the town of Med-ford at 4:15 p.m.; shooting after hours at N2275 Pirus Rd. in the town of Maplehurst at 4:45 p.m.; injury accident at CTH C and Trout Ave. in the town of Greenwood at 5:30 p.m.; accident at CTH C and Apple Ave. in the town of Deer Creek at 7:31 p.m.; accident at CTH A and Ruby Dr. in the town of Deer Creek at 7:46 p.m.; abandoned vehicle at W9501 CTH M in the town of Hammel at 10:30 p.m.

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Marlene J. Witkowski1938-2015

Marlene J. Witkowski, 77, Gilman, died Wednes-day, Nov. 18, 2015 at Deer-view Meadows in Med-ford, where she had been a resident for the past week under the care of Hope Hospice. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28 at the Gilman Se-nior Center in Gilman with Chaplain Jim Allard of Hope Hospice officiat-ing. Interment of her cre-mated remains will take

place at a later date. Visitation will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28 at the Gilman Senior Center in Gilman. Hemer Funeral Homes of Medford and Rib Lake assisted the family with arrangements.

Marlene was born on January 29, 1938 in Chicago, Ill. to Peter and Mary (Kups) Stake. Marlene attended Bowen High School in Chicago. On Aug. 11, 1962 in Chi-cago, Marlene married the love of her life, Robert Wit-kowski and he preceded her in death on Nov. 28, 2012.

After high school Marlene worked as a clerk for RR Donely and Sons in Chicago for a period of time. She then moved to Glenwood, Ill. where she worked at the Brookwood School District 167 from 1978-1981. In 1981 Marlene moved her family to Hannibal where they bought the Hunter’s Lodge Tavern and she man-aged it from 1981 until 1987 when she retired to care for her husband. She enjoyed playing cards with her best friends at the Gilman Senior Center. Marlene loved crafting, nature, landscaping and finding joy and beauty in small things, especially nature.

She is survived by a daughter, Suzanne (Timothy “TJ”) Weibel of Gilman; two grandchildren, Mariah Weibel of Green Bay and Erik Weibel of Gilman; brothers and sisters, Barbara Davis of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, Ronald Stake Sr. (Diane) of Winfield, Tex., Mary Stake – Hawker of St. Louis, Mo. and Richard (Sue) Stake of Merriville, Ind.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made in Mar-lene’s name to woundedwarriorsfund.org.

Marlene has donated her body to medical research through Med Cure of Portland, Ore.

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In Loving Memory of

WILFRED BRUNNERwho passed away

Dec. 2, 2000

It’s hunting time again, Dad. I miss you all the time, but more so this time of year. I remember

when you got your last deer with your bow and how excited you were! And it was a dandy! You told me then that the first deer you got as a young boy

was definitely a thrill, but it was nothing compared to the last

one! We love you and miss you.

Bruce and Jeremy Brunner and Families

Those we lovedon’t go away,

They walk beside usevery day.

Unseen, unheard,but always near,

Still loved, still missedand very dear.

In Memory Of

David J. Noland4.20.1963–11.25.2000

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Richard Lee Peche1942-2015

Richard L. Peche, 73, died Saturday, Nov. 21 at Wellbrooke of Westfield, Westfield Ind., after a cou-rageous yearlong battle with cancer. He was born May 29, 1942, to Edwin and Margaret (Johnson) Peche in Marshfield. While his father was off at war in the South Pacif-ic, he and his mother lived with his grandparents on their farms, which sparked his lifelong inter-

est in farming.Upon his father’s return from WWII, his fam-

ily moved to Medford where he attended Immanuel Lutheran School and Medford High School. During high school, he worked on a mink ranch and also for his uncle’s construction business. After graduation, Richard joined the Air Force and was stationed in Texas and Germany. He travelled throughout Europe during the three years he was there and always talk-ed of those days fondly. It was in Germany that he bought his first VW Beetle, and brought it home with

him to the States. He continued to drive Volkswagens for decades.

After being discharged from the Air Force in 1965, Richard worked at the Chrysler Motors plant in Bel-videre, Ill.. He married Karen Ulczycki of Rib Lake in 1967, and in 1970 they moved back to the Medford area and bought a farm in Goodrich. He attended agri-business classes through NCTI, and continued farming most of his life. After he quit farming, he moved to the Withee area and drove for the Amish community.

Richard is survived by his daughter Julaine (Rick) Santiago of Westfield, Ind., and one brother, William, of Hartland. He is also survived by two grandsons, Justin and Joshua Santiago. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Visitation will be held from 1:30 p.m. until the time of services on Friday, Nov. 27 at the Hemer Funeral Home, Medford. The funeral will begin at 3 p.m. with Pastor Dan Esterline, Sr. officiating. The Medford Area Military Honors Team will perform military rites and interment will follow at Medford Evergreen Cemetery II. Nephew, Scott Hill, of Minong will serve as urn bearer.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to his family to be designated at a later date.

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Marjorie Carol Rebrovich, 69 of Spokane, Wash. passed away on Nov.18.

A celebration of life with be held at a future date. Plombon Funeral Home of Gilman assisted the family with arrangements.

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Lucille Elizabeth Dallmann, 92 of Gilman, formerly of the Duluth and Ely area passed away Saturday, Nov. 21 with her family at her side at the Oakbrook Health & Rehabilitation Center in Thorp. Lucille was born July 24, 1923 in Saginaw, Minn. She mar-ried Ewald Robert Dall-mann on June 22, 1944. Lucille enjoyed playing

cribbage, bingo, puzzles, and most games. She was always there for her family.

She is survived by her sons Ewald A. (Linda) Dallmann of The Villages, Fla., Lloyd (Vicki) Dallmann of Chippewa Falls; four daughters Ger-aldine (Jon) of Gilman, Lorraine (Tom) of Min-neapolis, Minn., Donna (Marty) Ruhl of Conrath, and Karen (Terry) Fettes of Medford; son-in-law Steve Rebrobich, Jr. of Newman Lake, Wash.; 21 grandchildren; 35 great grandchildren, and 14 great-great-grandchildren; her sister Rosella Am-born of Maplewood, Minn., and many nephews and nieces.

Lucille was preceded in death by her husband Ewald, her brothers Gerhart, Melvin, Arthur and Walter, sisters, Evelyn and Hedwig, and (on Nov. 18, 2015) her daughter Marjorie Carol (Dallmann) Rebrovich of Newman Lake, Wash.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 27 at Zion Lutheran Church in Gilman with Pas-tor Aric Fenske officiating. Burial will take place later in Fort Snelling National Cemetery next to her husband, Ewald. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until time of service at the church on Friday. Plombon Funeral service assisted the family.

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Flexibility could be key for defending regional champs by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter

For the Rib Lake boys basketball team this season, fl exibility is key. The fl ex-ibility to run multiple offenses. The fl ex-ibility to score from any position on the fl oor. The fl exibility to take shots and to go for steals. The fl exibility to rebound from tough losses.

Head coach Jason Wild has no prob-lem with fl exibility.

“This year we can run anything. We’re more fl exible. The guys have a lot more freedom and we’ll be much more balanced,” he said.

Success for last year’s Redmen squad, which went 14-12 on its way to a surpris-

ing regional championship, was largely dependent on the play of two seniors –– 6-6 post Jordan Blomberg (9.3 ppg, 7.3 rpg in 2014-15) and 6-1 guard Joe Frombach (12.7 ppg). The 6-1 Jared Hovde and fl oor-leader Jordan Cardey are also gone. With those four graduated, Wild expects speed and balance to be two strengths for Rib Lake.

“Other than Joe Scheithauer, we’re pretty much 6-0 across the board. Just like every coach does when everyone’s the same size, we’re going to run and press. It changes our dynamic,” Wild said.

The 6-2 Scheithauer is the lone big man returning for the Redmen. The se-

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Gilman’s girls basketball team com-mitted 29 turnovers in Friday’s home and season-opener against Greenwood, but made 14 free throws and the shots when it mattered most down the stretch in a tightly contested Eastern Cloverbelt game, won by the Pirates 43-40.

The Pirates shot only .295 from the fi eld, but were .609 (14-23) at the line. Greenwood was 12-59 (.203) from the fi eld.

“It wasn’t pretty by any means. Some-times you gotta win the ugly ones. I’m proud of the way the girls battled and stayed with it,” Gilman head coach Rob-in Rosemeyer said. “It seemed like we al-ways made the big shot.”

Camryn Skabroud and Kayla Chause led the way with 11 points apiece for Gil-man. Skabroud hit two three-pointers, one in each half, and was four-for-six from the fi eld. Cooper Sherfi eld, making her varsity debut, grabbed 10 rebounds, dished three assists and scored six points on three-of-fi ve shooting.

Gilman (1-0) played at Loyal on Tues-day. Results from that game will be in the Dec. 3 issue of The Star News. The Pirates return to the court on Friday at Colby in another Eastern Cloverbelt game, sched-uled for a 5:45 p.m. tip.

Greenwood had experienced the halves format during their season-opening loss to Abbotsford three days earlier, but for Gilman, it was their fi rst exposure. Seniors Kyla Schoene and Morgan Birkenholz fouled out late in the second half, while junior Taylor Hen-dricks played the fi nal 10 minutes with four fouls. The Indians weren’t immune to foul trouble either. Starting forward

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Pirates overcome turnovers and fouls for opening win

Natalie Hackel fouled out with six min-utes left in the game, while both Ashley Walker and Lexi Hinker were playing with four late in the contest.

“You’ve got to play tough defense all the time and just remember you have fouls,” Hendricks said. The Pirates forced 23 turnovers out of the Indians. Birkenholz led Gilman with four steals.

Before fouling out with just over a minute left in a 35-35 ball game, Schoene came up big for Gilman. She made three of four free throws in a span of a few sec-onds and brought down several rebounds in scrums under the basket, allowing the Pirates to control the critical late-game possessions.

“I looked up, saw I had four, and said ‘okay.’ I went all out and ended up foul-ing out,” Schoene said with a laugh. The senior forward totaled six points, six rebounds and three blocks in the win. Birkenholz fouled out only seconds be-fore Schoene and fi nished with six points.

In the fi rst half, Gilman found itself down 10-6 after 10 minutes. Skabroud’s fi rst three-pointer made it a 10-9 game and the Pirates took the lead on the next possession after Hendricks took a back-door pass for a layup. Chause led Gilman with six fi rst-half points, but the score stood 18-18 at intermission.

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“Joe’s worked hard in the offseason. He’s a lot stronger than what he was and has worked hard on his post moves. He’ll need to create his own shot,” Wild said.

This year’s lineup will essentially be Scheithauer along with some com-bination of four guard-like players. Se-nior guards Dalton Strebig (6.6 ppg, .387 3-point percentage), Noah Weinke (3.3 ppg) and Austin Ewan (4.0 ppg) all played meaningful roles last winter, but will

now be counted to do the heavy lifting on offense. Austin Zondlo and Nick Eisner, both seniors who can fi ll in at guard or forward, round out Rib Lake’s top six. Zondlo is the tallest at 6-0.

Here’s where the Redmen’s fl exibility comes in again.

“Zondlo is going to be our other attack inside, but we’ve also looked at Ewan playing the 4. He’s got a good ability to get to the rim. We’re balanced so people have to guard fi ve on the fl oor. Last year, team’s could take away two guys and we’d struggle. That won’t happen this year,” Wild said. The ability to rotate players

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Pass the puckMedford junior Dylan Hraby shoots a pass toward a teammate skating toward the net during Thursday’s scrim-

mage with Chequamegon-Phillips at the Simek Recreation Center. Hraby is one of nine 2014-15 letter winners who return for the Raiders, who open their 2015-16 season on Tuesday at home against Merrill.

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Raiders ready for challenges that lie ahead

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There are plenty of factors to suggest Medford’s boys hockey team will again face a diffi cult uphill skate dur-ing the 2015-16 season.

But through the fi rst two weeks, the attitude on the ice and in the locker room has been nothing but posi-tive, according to the team’s new head coach Eric Vach.

Vach, a 2003 graduate of Medford and a four-year var-sity player as a Raider, takes over a team that struggled mightily again last season to hang with the powers of the Great Northern Conference. The Raiders aren’t deep and have a huge hole to fi ll between the pipes with the loss of the state’s save leader Carter Jamieson.

However, a solid showing in Thursday’s home scrim-mage against Chequamegon-Phillips has Vach and the Raiders believing steps are being taken in the right di-rection.

“Their legs were not fresh,” Vach said Friday, noting the players had gone through resistance band workouts the previous night, a 90-minute practice earlier that morning and 10 days of focus in practice on condition-ing. “They performed amazing considering the situa-tion and circumstances. We’re only in our second week. We’ve been working on different systems out on the ice and the guys were utilizing them. Everything that we’ve been working on, they’re catching on to so that’s excit-ing. We’re talking about breakouts and regroups and neutral ice to our penalty kill and power play.”

With the scrimmage serving as a nice starting point, the Raiders now look forward to the offi cial opener which arrives this Tuesday when they host Merrill in non-conference play at the Simek Recreation Center at 7 p.m. On Dec. 3, Medford opens GNC play at Lakeland, a team the Raiders split with last season while fi nishing 1-13 in the conference and 2-22 overall.

“We’re ready,” Vach said. “After (Thursday) night, these guys are ready for the season. They are excited. There was some serious excitement in the locker room (Thursday) night.”

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Pieces in place for girls hockey team to make a move in the GNC

2015-16 Medford girls hockey scheduleNov. 30 NORTHLAND PINES, 7 p.m. Jan. 16 BEAVER DAM CO-OP, 4 p.m.Dec. 4 at Lakeland, 7 p.m. Jan. 18 LAKELAND, 7 p.m.Dec. 8 at Northern Edge (Antigo), 5 p.m. Jan. 21 NORTHERN EDGE, 7 p.m.Dec. 10 WAUPACA, 7 p.m. Jan. 25 at Waupaca, 7 p.m.Dec. 14 BLACK RIVER FALLS, 7 p.m. Jan. 28 at Tomahawk, 7 p.m.Dec. 18 TOMAHAWK, 7 p.m. Feb. 1 at Point-Rapids-Marshfield (Marsh.), 7 p.m.Dec. 22 LAKELAND, 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at Lakeland, 7 p.m.Dec. 28-30 at Rhinelander tournament, TBA Feb. 18-19 WIAA regional final, 7 p.m.Jan. 4 POINT-RAPIDS-MARSHFIELD, 7 p.m. Feb. 23 WIAA sectional semifinal, 7 p.m.Jan. 9 VIROQUA, 3 p.m. Feb. 26-27 WIAA sectional final at Northland Pines, TBAJan. 12 at Black River Falls, 7 p.m. March 4 WIAA state semifinal at Madison, 1:15 p.m.Jan. 15 at Northland Pines, 7 p.m. March 5 WIAA state championship at Madison, noon

With the biggest senior class in the short history of Medford’s girls hockey program, not to mention a sizable junior class, the time appears to be now for the Raiders to skate past more of their oppo-nents.

Hoping to help make that happen for the girls is new head coach Chad Demull-ing, who moves to the girls program after leading Medford’s boys program the past three winters.

Demulling inherits a team that in-cludes seven seniors, fi ve juniors and an impressive sophomore, Joelle Zenner, all of whom were letter winners during Medford’s 3-19 season a year ago. Four freshmen fi ll out a squad hoping for big-ger and better things in the 2015-16 sea-son.

The season gets started Monday when the Raiders host the always-tough North-land Pines Eagles at 7 p.m. at the Simek Recreation Center. The Raiders go to Lakeland on Dec. 4.

Demulling said Monday the fi rst two weeks of practices have been good, fi lled with hard work and focus from the play-ers. Familiarity has helped. Demulling has coached some of these players when they were in the youth ranks.

“I think hockey’s hockey,” Demull-ing said. “There’s obviously different approaches between the genders I sup-pose. Overall we’re teaching the same game, trying to run similar systems. It seems to be going well. Girls learn fast. I’ve always noticed that through the

years coaching between boys and girls in youth. The girls learn fast.

“Then it comes down to execution and repetition, doing things over and over, doing them right.”

It may not have always shone through a year ago as the Raiders faced their share of solid defenses and goalies, but the team feels it has some capable offen-sive players. Medford is counting on that talent to come through and improve on its 1.7 goals per game average they com-piled while going 0-12 in Great Northern Conference play. The Raiders had two outbursts in conference play in a 7-6 loss to Lakeland and an 11-4 loss to Rhine-lander-Antigo-Three Lakes. In their non-conference wins, they outscored Beaver

GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCEGIRLS HOCKEY STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W-L-T W-L-TNorthland Pines 0-0-0 2-1-0Northern Edge 0-0-0 0-0-1Waupaca Co-op 0-0-0 0-0-0Tomahawk 0-0-0 0-0-0Lakeland 0-0-0 0-0-0Medford 0-0-0 0-0-0Nov. 20: Fond du Lac Co-op 1, Northland Pines 0.Nov. 21: Northland Pines 3, Appleton United 0; Northland Pines 7, Stoughton Co-op 1.Nov. 23: Point-Rapids-Marshfi eld 4, Northern Edge 4 (OT).Nov. 27: Northland Pines at Marquette, Mich., Waupaca Co-op at Black River Falls Co-op.Nov. 28: Northern Edge at Chippewa Falls-Menomonie (CF), Waupaca Co-op at Black River Falls tournament.Nov. 30: Northland Pines at Medford, North-ern Edge at Waupaca, Tomahawk at Lakeland.Dec. 3: Point-Rapids-Marshfi eld at Waupaca.

Dam 5-3, edged Viroqua 4-3 and blew out the Rhinelander-Antigo-Three Lakes JV team 11-0 in the Rhinelander holiday tournament.

Seniors Marissa McPeak and Aman-da Bauer and sophomore Joelle Zenner were the team’s top scorers a year ago. McPeak had a team-high 11 goals, while Zenner and Bauer scored 10 each.

Seniors Carlye Baker and Elise South-worth also topped the fi ve-goal mark.

Demulling sees Southworth and Ze-nner as two-way players who will help Medford in both offensive and defen-sive positions. McPeak, Bauer, senior Sarah Strobach, Baker and juniors Em-ily Quante and Mikayla Kelz are among the forwards listed on the roster. Baker is injured to start the season. Freshmen Korissa Hraby, Emily Quante and Ryley Koski are working in forward roles as well.

“Getting a lot of pucks on net, that’s

what we’ve been talking about in prac-tice,” Demulling said. “Flood the net, overwhelm the front of the net and then play good solid defense. If we can keep them from scoring and then get pucks on the net as often as we can and clean up the garbage, I think we’ll have a lot of success. We defi nitely need to pick up the defensive end of the game this year.”

Without question, the defensive num-bers will need to improve for Medford to put notches in the win column. The Raid-ers gave up 7.8 goals per game in confer-ence play and seven goals per game over-all.

Senior Sienna Demulling, Southworth and juniors Katy Branstetter and Kaitlin Gradberg are back as the team’s main en-forcers. Freshman Autumn Mitchell is in the defensive mix as well.

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The Raiders’ 14-man roster includes just two seniors, both of whom will be counted on heavily for leadership and production. Klayton Kree had six goals and 10 as-sists last season. Kyle Dettmering had three assists and brings the most size and strength among the team’s de-fensemen.

Jack Schafer leads the fi ve-man junior class. He was the team’s leading scorer last winter with 18 goals and six assists. Skilled puck handler Dylan Hraby is set for a breakout season, according to Vach. Spenser Scholl is

one of two candidates to take the now-open goalie po-sition, while defensemen Conrad Bolz and Mike Per-nsteiner also return.

Defenseman Ryan Perrin, forward Payton Nelson and goalie Tyler Kadlecek are the returning sopho-mores. A talented freshman quartet of Alex Carstensen, Andrew Rothmeier, Charlie Branstetter and Dawson Westrich rounds out the roster.

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Medford hopes to beat opponents with pressure, fast pace

Medford’s boys basketball team ex-pects to give up more points per game this season than it has in recent years, but head coach Ryan Brown also expects the Raiders to be a strong defensive club by season’s end.

How does that work? It’s all about the pace.

With all of Medford’s varsity players but one standing at about 6 feet or un-der, the Raiders know slugging it out in a half-court style isn’t in its best interest. This year, the Raiders are looking to play fast, spear-headed by their defense.

“This year our goal is to play fast and aggressive and pressure,” Brown said Friday. Brown is starting his fi rst full year as Medford’s head coach after lead-ing the Raiders to a 6-7 mark in the second half of last season. “It’s more my style. It will be fun to see that style. They’re starting to get it in practice. We’ve re-ally emphasized not using our hands and moving our feet. They’re starting to get the reactions in our run and jump press. They’re still a little late, but I want them to see other teams to see how it goes in a game, how it’s refereed, especially with the emphasis on the (contact) rules. Any-time in practice we see two hands or an arm bar, we blow the whistle and its fi ve push ups. They’ve really adjusted quick-ly.”

Medford got to try the fast approach for the fi rst time at a scrimmage night in Altoona on Tuesday. The games start for real next week with two non-conference games. The Raiders open at Phillips on Tuesday with a 7:30 p.m. tip time and

host Merrill on Dec. 4 in a game set to tip at 7:15 p.m.

This year’s Raiders are young, featur-ing just two seniors in Ben Meier and Joe Phillips. Four letter winners from last year’s 10-12 squad return. They are ju-niors Osy Ekwueme, Garrett Strebig and Jake Sullivan and sophomore Cameron Wenzel. Ekwueme, a guard, is a two-year letter winner.

“We have a good group of captains in Osy, Ben Meier, Jake Sullivan and Gar-rett Strebig who really take the bull by the horns and get kids excited,” Brown said. “They’re good kids. Obviously we’re going to rely on Osy a lot. He brings an ability to get to the rim and really I think he can be a great full-court defender as long as he doesn’t reach. He handles pres-sure really well.

“Yet we’re going to rely on so many other guys. Hopefully we’re going to have

good balance. Garrett can get hot. Cam can shoot it. Ben can shoot it. Jake’s im-proving at his shot. He’s another one that can really get to the rim. Cam is crafty. He uses his body well to make space.”

Meier got some brief varsity experi-ence as a sophomore. Phillips is a varsity newcomer along with juniors Josh Thie-de and Garrett Sommer and sophomores Sam Hallgren, Ben Lindgren and Brady Loertscher. Exchange student Daniel Ro-driguez Losada, a junior, rounds out the opening-week roster. Sommer is the tall one at 6-2.

Brown said the fi rst week of practice was mainly dedicated to defense and con-ditioning.

“They love it,” Brown said of the fast pace. “A lot of our conditioning is done through drills. We have winners and los-ers a lot, and the loser runs. We don’t get to the end of practice and sit there and run ladders. Many of our drills are like

two-on-two full court stuff where we’re running and jumping and trapping and transition that their conditioning is built right in to what we do. So they like that. It’s real competitive.”

Keeping constant pressure will be important as games increase to 36 min-utes this year with the introduction of 18-minute halves. Brown said he’s taken a lot of his coaching philosophy from Forrest Larson, one of the state’s most well-known coaches who has used pres-sure and pace in successful stints at La-dysmith and Lake Geneva Badger.

“We talked about being relentless,” Brown said. “That’s our theme for the year. We’re going to try to pressure the heck out of teams, make it fun. I think there’s structure within the chaos. Kids gotta know what a good shot is. When we push and if it’s not there we need to get

2015-16 Medford boys basketball varsity scheduleDec. 1 at Phillips, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 TOMAHAWK, 7:15 p.m.Dec. 4 MERRILL, 7:15 p.m. Feb. 5 at Wausau East, 7:30 p.m.Dec. 7 at Nekoosa, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at Rhinelander, 7:15 p.m.Dec. 11 MOSINEE, 7:15 p.m. Feb. 16 ANTIGO, 7:15 p.m.Dec. 15 at Rib Lake, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at Lakeland, 7:15 p.m.Dec. 17 at Tomahawk, 7:15 p.m. Feb. 22 at Chippewa Falls, 7:15 p.m.Dec. 22 ASHLAND, 7:15 p.m. Feb. 25 NORTHLAND PINES, 7:15 p.m.Jan. 8 RHINELANDER, 7:15 p.m. March 1 WIAA regional, 7 p.m.Jan. 14 at Antigo, 7:15 p.m. March 4 WIAA regional semifinal, 7 p.m.Jan. 16 RICE LAKE, 3 p.m. March 5 WIAA regional final, 7 p.m.Jan. 19 LAKELAND, 7:15 p.m. March 10 WIAA sectional semifinal at Wausau East, 7 p.m.Jan. 22 at Northland Pines, 7:15 p.m. March 12 WIAA sectional final at Stevens Point, TBAJan. 26 at Stanley-Boyd, 7:30 p.m. March 18 WIAA state semifinal at Madison, 3:15 p.m.Jan. 28 at Mosinee, 7:15 p.m. March 19 State championship at Madison, 6:35 p.m.

by Sports Editor Matt Frey GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCEBOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W L W LRhinelander 0 0 0 0Mosinee 0 0 0 0Lakeland 0 0 0 0Antigo 0 0 0 0Medford 0 0 0 0Tomahawk 0 0 0 0Northland Pines 0 0 0 0Nov. 24: Mosinee at Wausau East, Northland Pines at Three Lakes.Dec. 1: Medford at Phillips, Wausau East at Lakeland, Marathon at Mosinee, Wittenberg-Birnamwood at Tomahawk, Rhinelander at Crandon, Three Lakes at Antigo, Prentice at Northland Pines.Dec. 3: Weyauwega-Fremont at Mosinee, Toma-hawk at Chequamegon.

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Pirates practiceGilman senior Ethan Aldinger (middle) drives for a layup during Friday’s practice.

Aldinger will be an x-factor for the Pirates this season as they seek to improve on last year’s 5-18 record.

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2015-16 Gilman boys basketball varsity scheduleDec. 1 at Neillsville, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 FLAMBEAU, 7:30 p.m.Dec. 4 at Colby, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at Loyal, 7:30 p.m.Dec. 10 COLUMBUS CATHOLIC, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8 LAKE HOLCOMBE, 7:30 p.m.Dec. 15 LOYAL, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at Owen-Withee, 7:30 p.m.Dec. 17 at Bruce, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at Spencer, 7:30 p.m.Dec. 18 at Granton, 5:45 p.m. Feb. 19 GREENWOOD, 7:30 p.m.Dec. 22 OWEN-WITHEE, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 CLOV. CROSSOVER (3rd-8th, EAST), 7:30 p.m.Jan. 5 SPENCER, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27 Clov. Champs. (1st-2nd) at Neillsville, 1 p.m.Jan. 8 at Greenwood, 7:30 p.m. March 1 WIAA regional, 7 p.m.Jan. 18 CORNELL, 7:15 p.m. March 4 WIAA regional semifinal, 7 p.m.Jan. 19 NEILLSVILLE, 7:30 p.m. March 5 WIAA regional final, 7 p.m.Jan. 22 at Columbus Catholic, 7:30 p.m. March 10 WIAA sectional semifinal at Chetek, 7 p.m.Jan. 25 THORP, 7:30 p.m. March 12 WIAA sectional final at Spooner, TBDJan. 29 COLBY, 5:45 p.m. March 18 WIAA state semifinal at Madison, 10:45 a.m.Feb. 2 GRANTON, 7:30 p.m. March 19 State championship at Madison, 11:05 a.m.

Pirates see positive possibilities as new basketball season tips off

The range of outcomes for this year’s Gilman boys basketball team is wide. A core of dependable upperclassmen re-turn, but beyond that, the Pirates are young. With so much inexperience, they could be amongst the bottom teams in the Eastern Cloverbelt. On the other hand, if that youth comes together quickly, Gil-man could fi nd itself fi ghting alongside the top-tier teams in the East. Count head coach Brian Pernsteiner among those ea-ger to fi nd out what this year’s Pirates team is capable of.

“We’re young but we’ve got fi ve or six guys that have played a lot of varsity time. We’ve also got some young guys coming in that are really gonna help us. The freshmen coming in this year have been running our system for the past two years. We’re pretty much up to speed,” he said. “I’m ready to get it going and see what happens.”

During last year’s 5-18 struggle, the Pi-rates depended heavily on guard James Copenhaver and forward Colton Schmitt. Both are gone now. This year, the burden will be spread around evenly. Going into his junior year, guard Chanse Rosemeyer has taken command of the team on both ends of the fl oor. He averaged 4.9 ppg in 2014-15, but is poised to expand on that number this winter. Joining Rosemeyer in the mix for starting minutes will be senior wing Zach Sonnentag (6.0 ppg in 2014-15), senior forward Emmitt Sher-fi eld (4.8 ppg), senior guard Travis Lato, senior guard Ethan Aldinger (5.1 ppg) and junior swingman Roman Konsella. Pernsteiner believes those six will form the core of this year’s squad.

“I’m pleased with how things have gone so far. Emmitt’s gonna bring our height. Zach is gonna be a wingman and part-time point guard. He’s got a nice out-side shot, but needs to play more physi-cal. Ethan just needs to slow himself down. He’ll probably play swing guard and up top,” he said. “Chanse will be the leader. His shot is better and he’s more of a leader on the fl oor, setting up offenses and defenses. He feels more comfortable and is just a junior.”

Konsella could be the Pirates biggest addition. This will be the junior’s fi rst year playing for Gilman, but Pernsteiner said he’s a polished offensive player.

“He’s really going to help us. He’s got nice ball sense and is a good three-point shooter. He can penetrate and isn’t afraid to bang around a bit,” Pernsteiner said. “Offensively, he’s going to help us big time.” The emergence of a scorer capable of threatening from the inside or out-side would go a long way in helping the Pirates improve on their 32 points per game from last year.

Pernsteiner is confi dent about his team’s depth thanks to the early looks at several young players. Two freshmen,

Maverick Birkenholz and Torgor Crick, could see playing time out of the gate. Rounding out the initial bench will be freshman Dallas Skabroud, junior Lane Webster and sophomore Elliot Wininger.

“We’re defi nitely deeper than last year. I can sub and am confi dent in what’s going in,” Pernsteiner said.

“It’ll help by giving us more breaks,” Sonnentag said.

Lato and Rosemeyer pointed to the underclassmen’s participation on the summer league team as reasons for their teammates’ quick improvement.

With a much deeper lineup than a season ago, the Pirates will be better equipped to battle deep into games in the highly-competitive Eastern Cloverbelt. Expectations from the players them-selves are much higher as well.

“I expect to at least win a few playoff games,” Sherfi eld said.

“We’re young and more inexperi-enced. But we’ll be better than we were last year,” Rosemeyer said.

Gilman went 2-14 in the East last year to fi nish eighth. The Pirates haven’t won a playoff game since a run to a Division 5 regional fi nal in 2011.

In addition to being younger, this year’s Pirates team is smaller than in years past. Pernsteiner said they’ll pick up the pace and will use that speed to em-ploy more traps and presses on defense. Early on, he’s seen big improvements in several key areas for Gilman.

“We’re better in terms of speed. Ball-handling is going to be much improved over last year too. I’m pleased with the way things have gone. We put in a couple new offenses too that keep everything moving. We stood around too much last season,” Pernsteiner said.

The Pirates open their season Dec. 1 at Neillsville and Pernsteiner said there’s still things they need to work on.

“We need to work on our defensive pressure yet. We’re not coming off our screens quite right either. Neillsville will

by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter EASTERN CLOVERBELT CONFERENCEBOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W L W LSpencer 0 0 0 0Neillsville 0 0 0 0Columbus Cath. 0 0 0 0Owen-Withee 0 0 0 0Loyal 0 0 0 0Greenwood 0 0 0 0Colby 0 0 0 0Gilman 0 0 0 0Granton 0 0 0 0Nov. 24: Black River Falls at Neillsville, Colby at Stratford, Abbotsford at Greenwood.Nov. 27: University School of Milwaukee vs. Columbus Catholic at W.R. Assumption.Nov. 28: Columbus Catholic vs. Nekoosa or W.R. Assumption at Assumption.Dec. 1: Neillsville at Gilman, Loyal at Colum-bus Catholic, Colby at Greenwood, Owen-Withee at Granton.

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EASTERN CLOVERBELT CONFERENCEGIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W L W LLoyal 1 0 1 0Colby 1 0 1 0Gilman 1 0 1 0Columbus Cath. 0 0 1 0Owen-Withee 0 0 0 0Spencer 0 0 0 0Neillsville 0 1 0 1Granton 0 1 0 1Greenwood 0 1 0 2Nov. 20: Gilman 43, Greenwood 40; Loyal 50, Neillsville 43; Colby 61, Granton 10.Nov. 24: Gilman at Loyal, Colby at Spencer, Granton at Owen-Withee, Neillsville at W.R. As-sumption.Nov. 27: Columbus Catholic at W.R. Assumption, Loyal vs. Nekoosa at W.R. Assumption.Nov. 28: Columbus Catholic vs. Loyal or Nekoosa at W.R. Assumption, Loyal vs. Co-lumbus Catholic or W.R. Assumption at W.R. Assumption.Nov. 30: Auburndale at Neillsville, Greenwood at North. Lutheran.Dec. 1: Spencer at Edgar, Colby at Stratford, Thorp at Owen-Withee.Dec. 3: Owen-Withee at Neillsville, Columbus Catholic at Spencer, Granton at Greenwood.

A full court pass from Birkenholz to Skabroud led to a layup and the lead for the Pirates with 8:25 remaining. Green-wood fought back and tied the game at 33 before Kassidy Lamovec’s two-point jumper gave the Indians their fi nal lead of the night with under six minutes to play. Sherfi eld tied the game off an assist from Skabroud and the Pirates scored eight of the next 11 points to seal the win.

“The positives were the free throw shooting. Shooting-wise we missed some short ones, but maybe for the fi rst game

GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCEGIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W L W LNorthland Pines 0 0 2 0Lakeland 0 0 1 0Mosinee 0 0 1 0Antigo 0 0 1 0Rhinelander 0 0 0 0Medford 0 0 0 1Tomahawk 0 0 0 2Nov. 19: Antigo 43, Oconto Falls 37; Mosinee 69, Wausau East 53; Lakeland 59, Phillips 52; Prentice 73, Tomahawk 29; Northland Pines 63, Three Lakes 43.Nov. 24: Merrill at Lakeland, Shawano at Antigo, Mosinee at Wittenberg-Birnamwood, Tomahawk at Athens, Crandon at Northland Pines.Nov. 27: D.C. Everest at Antigo, Tomahawk vs. Wausau West at Antigo, Rhinelander vs. Wausau East at Antigo.Nov. 28: Wausau West at Antigo, Tomahawk vs. Wausau East at Antigo, Rhinelander vs. Marsh-fi eld at Antigo.Dec. 1: Wausau East at Lakeland, Northland Pines at Chequamegon.

it’s not bad,” Rosemeyer said. “We did some good things in man and zone on defense and having assists on 10 of our 13 baskets was good. The negatives were turnovers.”

Hendricks had eight rebounds, but was only one-for-11 from the fi eld. She added three steals, two assists and a block. Lamovec led Greenwood with 10 points.

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Raiders will push the paceinto our half court. We’re not going to try to go seven seconds and just put it up. But we are going to really push and try to make conditioning a factor with teams. That’s why I love the longer games per-sonally. “Foul trouble would be the one issue,” he continued. “That’s why we’ve focused even more with not fouling in our defense. Because if you do that in a long game, teams are going to be in the bonus, getting rest during free throws and our better players are going to be on the bench with foul trouble.”

Brown doesn’t expect the Raiders to perfect the run-and-jump pressure or their half-court defenses immediately. The more they run them, review game video and learn, the better they should get.

“We’re working really hard on rota-tions when you push baseline, but also rotations when it goes into the post,” Brown said. “We’re starting to work a lot on our post defense. How do we deny the ball? Once it gets in how do we jump behind? Who’s doubling? The ball comes out, what’s our rotation? That’s taking some time and that’s the stuff that’s go-ing to be slower early in the year. Early in the year, we might not get to the post and they might score. We get there, we might be late rotating and they get an open three. But hopefully by the end of the year, when you’ve hit that over and over and over again, then we’re just scrambling and it’s easy. That’s fun when you see a team that can scramble and recover.”

Offensively, Brown sees shooting and ability to get to the rim as the team’s strengths. Part of this fast style of play is letting the players play on offense. The Raiders will again lean heavily on a fi ve-out motion offense. Players need to be able to read defenses and make screens,

cuts and passes appropriately. A concern going into the year is rebounding. That was a major problem for the Raiders a year ago.

If Medford can beat teams in transi-tion, it should lessen the likelihood of giving up so many offensive rebounds. Also, Brown said Loertscher and Thiede have shown a knack for getting good re-bounding position despite being about 5-10.

“Teams were throwing four or fi ve guys at the boards because they knew we’re not running,” Brown said. “This year, when we get out and go, I think you’ll see two or three guys go to the boards. So, plus we have some athletes who can go get it.”

The Raiders will get tested plenty this season. Not only does the conference appear strong with annual contenders like Rhinelander, Mosinee, Antigo and Lakeland, but Medford’s non-conference schedule has some notable additions too with defending WIAA Division 2 runner-up Rice Lake coming to Raider Hall on Jan. 16 and a visit to Chippewa Falls on Feb. 22. Medford again faces Wiscon-sin Valley Conference foes Merrill and Wausau East, both of whom could be WIAA tournament foes.

“We’re young,” Brown said. “We’re going to bring most of our team back next year. But yet we have experience. Osy’s had some time since he’s been a fresh-man. Garrett, Jake and Cam all had sig-nifi cant time last year. Ben did as a soph-omore. These other guys played with us all summer. They’ve been stepping up.

“I think we’re going to surprise teams. Maybe not right away. I think our kids play hard enough and work hard enough that by the end of the year we’ll be able to stay with anybody.”

2015-16 Medford boys hockey scheduleDec. 1 MERRILL, 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at Tomahawk, 7 p.m.Dec. 3 at Lakeland, 7 p.m. Jan. 28 at Chequamegon-Phillips, 7 p.m.Dec. 8 at Antigo, 7 p.m. Jan. 29 MOSINEE, 7 p.m.Dec. 15 TOMAHAWK, 7 p.m. Feb. 2 RHINELANDER, 7 p.m.Dec. 17 at Rhinelander, 7 p.m. Feb. 4 NORTHLAND PINES, 7 p.m.Dec. 22 at Wausau East, 7:15 p.m. Feb. 9 ASHLAND, 7 p.m.Jan. 5 at Northland Pines, 7 p.m. Feb. 11 WAUPACA, 7 p.m.Jan. 7 at Waupaca, 7 p.m. Feb. 16 WIAA regional semifinal, 7 p.m.Jan. 9 VIROQUA, 1 p.m. Feb. 18-19 WIAA regional final, 7 p.m.Jan. 12 LAKELAND, 7 p.m. Feb. 23 WIAA sectional semifinal, 7 p.m.Jan. 14 CHEQUAMEGON-PHILLIPS, 7 p.m. Feb. 26-27 WIAA sectional final at Hayward, TBAJan. 15 at Merrill tournament, TBD March 3 WIAA state quarterfinal at Madison, 11 a.m.Jan. 16 at Merrill tournament, TBD March 4 WIAA state semifinal at Madison, 5 p.m.Jan. 19 at Mosinee, 7 p.m. March 5 State championship at Madison, 2:15 p.m.Jan. 21 ANTIGO, 5 p.m.

“Obviously I have strong upperclass-men but with our freshmen, we’ve got some real good talent down there,” Vach said. “Not a lot of size, but we’ve got speed and good puck control. That’s ex-citing. One of the freshmen (Carstensen) put one in the net (Thursday) night.”

Offensively, the Raiders fi gure to rely on Schafer, Kree and Hraby to lead them.

“We had a few breakaways (in the scrimmage),” Vach said. “We’d get past the blue line and those legs were just gone. That was my fault. I put them in that situation. But they kept on going. So that was awesome. We have Klayton Kree and Jack Schafer, he was the top scorer last year. Dylan Hraby, what I see with him so far is the puck control. If there’s a hole he can put it there. It’s beautiful. You got freshmen like Carstensen and Andrew Rothmeier. We’ll see what they

sistant coach to Chad Demulling, but De-mulling wound up taking the girls head job early in the fall.

“I gave it some time,” Vach said. “I didn’t jump into it right away. We looked for a head coach fi rst and we also looked for an assistant. I basically told (activi-ties director) Andy Guden that I wasn’t leaving him hang. I was there if he need-ed it. Obviously I got two young kids and family. You gotta be careful with all that. But so far, it’s been fl awless, amazing. It’s been a great experience.”

In the GNC, the Raiders will again face stiff competition night in and night out. Antigo is the defending champion. The Red Robins went 13-0-1 in the GNC, 22-3-2 overall and made it to a sectional fi nal. They return to All-GNC perform-ers in defenseman Zack Levis and 2014-15 Player of the Year Alex Nagel. Mosinee, Northland Pines and Waupaca continue to be solid programs and Rhinelander took a step forward last year, tying Tom-ahawk for fi fth. Both were 5-9 in league play.

Lakeland (1-12-1, 1-23-1) avoided shar-ing last place with Medford by getting a late-season tie with Waupaca.

“We have good leadership from our upperclassmen and all the way down,” Vach said. “We have some strong ju-niors and strong sophomores. We have a team. The players are telling me we’re building a team. We’re really clicking to-gether right now. They’ve struggled (in the past), and I know that going in. We’re not some big school. But the performance (Thursday) night, that opens it up. That was good.”

GREAT NORTHERN CONFERENCEBOYS HOCKEY STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W-L-T W-L-TTomahawk 0-0-0 0-0-1Antigo 0-0-0 0-0-0Mosinee 0-0-0 0-0-0Northland Pines 0-0-0 0-0-0Waupaca 0-0-0 0-0-0Rhinelander 0-0-0 0-0-0Lakeland 0-0-0 0-0-0Medford 0-0-0 0-0-0Nov. 20: Tomahawk 2, Merrill 2 (OT).Nov. 24: Tomahawk at Antigo, D.C. Everest at Northland Pines, West Salem at Mosinee.Nov. 27: Mosinee vs. Cedarburg at Kettle Mo-raine, Whitefi sh Bay vs. Waupaca at Waukesha.Nov. 28: Mosinee vs. Appleton United or Kettle Moraine, Waupaca at Waukesha Co-op.Dec. 1: Merrill at Medford, Tomahawk at Northland Pines, Stevens Point at Antigo, Wisconsin Rapids at Waupaca, Rhinelander at Wausau East, Lakeland at Ashland.Dec. 3: Medford at Lakeland, Antigo at Rhine-lander, Mosinee at Tomahawk.

that’s maybe seen fi ve games (Scholl). He’s been doing a good job. He’s been going to some camps and working hard. That’s exciting to see. He’s got a positive attitude about it all. Tyler Kadlecek did a great job. He hasn’t seen any ice time in high school yet. It’s exciting. We’re going to utilize them both. We’re going to see who’s got it that night. Not every night do you come out and you have it. But right now, we have two strong goalies that I see in the future. They need some ice time.”

Vach’s ascent to the varsity head coaching position was quick. After coaching the 13-14 Bantam age level, he was hired during the summer as an as-

can do. They have some talent.”Defensively, Vach said it’s imperative

for the Raiders to protect the goalie, who-ever it may be, from facing the ridiculous numbers of shots Jamieson saw last sea-son while making nearly 1,500 saves.

“Kyle Dettmering is our senior,” Vach said. “He’s a big boy. We need a little body contact from him. We have Ryan Perrin coming back. We only have four defensemen right now, so they’re going to be playing. We have Charlie Brans-tetter, who is a very aggressive fresh-man. He has a lot to learn but these up-per classmen will help him out. Conrad played forward last year, but right now we’re pushing him back on defense.”

In goal, Scholl and Kadlecek both fi g-ure to see time.

“Both had good showings in my eyes,” Vach said of their scrimmage perfor-mances. “I have two goalies. I have one

system,” Demulling said. “If you exe-cute it well, things are going to happen nicely. That’s the thing. You have to be disciplined to the plan and outwork the other crew and you’ll be fi ne. Even if it’s a tough opponent, work your tail off and you’re still going to be in that game.”

At the back end, goal tenders Emily Lybert, a junior, and Makayla Hanson, a senior, both are back for their third sea-sons. Both have come a long way in two years and have had some shining mo-ments between the pipes. Demulling said both have strengths and things to work on. Lybert will get the nod to start the year as Hanson has been slowed early by dental issues, of all things.

“Probably the biggest thing with our goal tenders is to make sure they’re out of the net,” Demulling said. “That’s what we’ve been talking about a lot. You have the blue in front of the net. We’ve been calling that the ocean. Get out of the ocean. Get in front a little bit more.

“Emily is very good at squaring up to the play,” he added. “She’s pretty good on the initial shot. The rebounds is where we’re going to have to help. Her motion when she’s in the butterfl y is challenged a little, so we need to work on providing the defensive help in clearing that puck. Makayla on the other hand, she can move in the butterfl y, but she has to work on just the squaring up with the puck. If she’s disciplined to that and stays on the top a little bit more, she’ll cut down on those angles a little bit.”

While Medford did not lose a single player to graduation, there could be some shifts around the GNC with other teams. Defending champion Waupaca lost the state’s top scorer, Mandy Tom-linson, but Markie Ash was another of the state’s top scorers and is just a sopho-more. Tomahawk loses two terrifi c play-ers in Erika Vallier and Nicole Nerva

but still has fi rst-team All-GNC goalie Erin Sparks. Rhinelander-Antigo-Three Lakes brings back GNC Player of the Year Katie Detert, a 70-point scorer, and second-team All-GNC forward Lindsey Steger. The Northern Edge should be be a contender with those weapons. North-land Pines is always a threat. The Eagles went 2-1 at the Fond du Lac tournament this past weekend and will get a fourth non-conference game in this Friday at Marquette, Mich. before they come to Medford on Monday.

“Pines will be a challenge,” Demulling said. “Rhinelander-Antigo-Three Lakes that will be a challenge. But we should defi nitely be able to compete well with teams like Lakeland, Tomahawk. We have some non-conference games as well where we match up well.”

Medford will play four games against Lakeland with two counting as confer-ence games and two counting as non-con-ference games. Marshfi eld is out of the conference, having joined Point-Rapids to make that co-op even more massive. The GNC now stands at six teams.

As always, the Raiders will play two games against the Black River Falls co-op. They will face Viroqua and Beaver Dam at the Simek Center and will return to the Rhinelander holiday tournament Dec. 28-30.

“We just have to get after it,” said De-mulling, who made the switch from boys to girls when Sarah Markham resigned in August due to increased professional obligations. “We talked early on about having a winning effort in everything we do. If we do that, wins and losses take care of themselves.

“It will be a good season,” he added. “Most of these girls I’ve worked with be-fore. They’re familiar with some of the things I do. I’m three years smarter than I was three years ago, having worked with the boys for three years.”

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Gilman boys basketball

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Rib Lake expects to be a contender this winter

MARAWOOD NORTH DIVISIONBOYS BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W L W LPhillips 0 0 0 0Edgar 0 0 0 0Rib Lake 0 0 0 0Chequamegon 0 0 0 0Prentice 0 0 0 0Abbotsford 0 0 0 0Athens 0 0 0 0Nov. 24: Abbotsford at Greenwood, Winter at Chequamegon, Edgar at Almond-Bancroft.Nov. 30: Rib Lake at Lake Holcombe.Dec. 1: Medford at Phillips, Newman Catholic at Abbotsford, Edgar at North. Lutheran, Prentice at Northland Pines, Chequamegon at Hayward.Dec. 3: Rib Lake at Pittsville, Phillips at Hurley, Auburndale at Athens, Prentice at Lake Holcombe, Tomahawk at Chequamegon.

2015-16 Rib Lake boys basketball varsity scheduleNov. 30 at Lake Holcombe, 5:45 p.m. Feb. 4 at Chequamegon, 7:15 p.m.Dec. 3 at Pittsville, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9 PHILLIPS, 7:15 p.m.Dec. 7 at Stratford, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at Abbotsford, 7:15 p.m.Dec. 10 PRENTICE, 7:15 p.m. Feb. 16 at Flambeau, 7:15 p.m.Dec. 15 MEDFORD, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at Athens, 7:15 p.m.Dec. 22 CHEQUAMEGON, 7:15 p.m. Feb. 22 at Edgar, 7:15 p.m.Jan. 8 at Phillips, 7:15 p.m. Feb. 25 MARA. CROSS. (3rd-7th, NORTH), 7:15 p.m.Jan. 12 ABBOTSFORD, 7:15 p.m. Feb. 27 Mara. Champs. (1st-2nd) at Abbotsford, 1 p.m.Jan. 15 ATHENS, 7:15 p.m. March 1 WIAA regional, 7 p.m.Jan. 19 NORTH. LUTHERAN, 7:30 p.m. March 4 WIAA regional semifinal, 7 p.m.Jan. 21 at Prentice, 7:15 p.m. March 5 WIAA regional final, 7 p.m.Jan. 26 EDGAR, 7:15 p.m. March 10 WIAA sectional semifinal at Chetek, 7 p.m.Jan. 28 at Tomahawk, 7:15 p.m. March 12 WIAA sectional final at Spooner, TBDJan. 29 WINTER, 5:45 p.m. March 18 WIAA state semifinal at Madison, 10:45 a.m.Feb. 2 WIS. VALLEY LUTHERAN, 7:30 p.m. March 19 State championship at Madison, 11:05 a.m.

WIAA FOOTBALLSTATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Camp Randall Stadium, Madison

Nov. 20 Div. 1 championshipKimberly (14-0) 49, Hartland Arrowhead (12-2) 42.

Nov. 20 Div. 2 championshipMequon Homestead (12-2) 28, Waukesha West (11-3) 12.

Nov. 20 Div. 3 championshipGreen Bay Notre Dame (12-2) 19, Waukesha Catholic Memorial (11-3) 17.

Nov. 19 Div. 4 championshipOsceola (13-1) 28, Lodi (13-1) 0.

Nov. 19 Div. 5 championshipAmherst (14-0) 42, Spencer-Columbus (13-1) 0.

Nov. 19 Div. 6 championshipFond du Lac St. Mary’s Springs (12-2) 39, Darling-ton (13-1) 20.

Nov. 19 Div. 7 championshipBangor (14-0) 20, Pepin-Alma (13-1) 14.

Wednesday Night LeaguePBR’s Lounge Around I, 23 wins; Cindy’s Bar I, 22; Cindy’s Bar II, 22; PBR’s Lounge Around II, 21; Gad Bar, 19; Thirsty Chopper’s, 18; VFW II, 18; A&E, 17; Kountry Korner, 17; VFW I 16; Bogey’s, 14; Thirsty Moose, 6, Deer Trail, 3.Nov. 18: Lounge Around II 9, Thirsty Moose 0; Lounge Around I 9, Deer Trail 0; Gad 6, VFW I 3; VFW II 7, A&E 2; Cindy’s II 7, Kountry Korner 2; Cindy’s I 8, Bogey’s 1; Thirsty Chopper’s, bye.

Medford Women’s LeagueHacienda, 24 games won, 36 games played; Cindy’s, 23, 36; PBR’s Lounge Around, 16, 36; Gad, 17, 36; Thirsty Moose, 17, 36; Bogey’s I, 21, 45; Bogey’s II, 17, 45.Results; Cindy’s 6, Hacienda 3; Gad 5, Bogey’s I 4, Lounge Around 5, Bogey’s II 4.

be a good test to see where we’re at,” he said.

Gilman will get a heavy dose of con-ference competition to start the season. Counting the opener against the War-riors, the Pirates play three straight ECC teams in the opening two weeks. They get a non-conference break against Bruce on Dec. 17 but return to East play a day later against Granton.

East outlookOn the heels of its fi rst-ever ECC

championship, Spencer will again be one of the league’s elite teams featuring a lineup of seven seniors. The Rockets re-turn the 2014-15 conference Player of the Year, Bobby Pilz (17.0 ppg), a 5-11 senior, and also have Calvin Lenz (7.7 ppg) back. Noah Zastrow, a 5-8 guard, will step into a larger role.

Neillsville returns a solid trio that will keep the Warriors in the hunt after a second place tie last year. Senior point guard Michael Dux was a second-team honoree last year and is the team’s top returning scorer at 9.0 ppg. Jake Kunze brings back 7.8 ppg and Jason Kurth scored 4.7 last season.

First-teamer Hunter Schultz (13.3 ppg) is back to lead Columbus Catholic. Se-nior wing Evan Nikolai (12.5 ppg) is back as well, and combined with 6-0 Tyler Furlinger (10.0 ppg), the Dons will be one of the most dangerous offensive squads in the East.

Owen-Withee lost fi rst-teamer Austin Milliren and will fi eld a young lineup this year. Junior point guard Preston Shelton is the top returning scorer at 5.8 ppg. Ju-nior forward Josiah Goerlitz should re-turn from injury to give the Blackhawks a big lift.

The Loyal Greyhounds could be a team on the rise. After a fi fth place con-ference fi nish last year, the Hounds will be led by returning fi rst-teamer Cameron

Brussow (17.1 ppg), a 6-3 junior. Terrifi c long range shooter Riley Geiger (11.2 ppg, .449 3-point percentage) is back as well, as is 6-2 senior Derrick Howard (7.1 ppg).

Senior forward Sam Revier (4.9 ppg) is the top returning scorer for the Green-wood Indians. Decker Lindner averaged 3.5 ppg last year. The Indians are hoping the pair can replace the team’s two all-conference players from last season, Lo-gan Johnson and Booker Bredlau.

Colby is loaded with seniors and poised to at least improve on their seventh place ECC fi nish last season. Ty Raatz (11.6 ppg) leads the way for the Hornets, while Nolan Derrico (9.2 ppg) and Trey Rau (4.5 ppg) will both play key roles.

The Granton Bulldogs fi nished in the cellar of the East last winter. They return Mike Meddaugh (10.3 ppg), but need oth-er players to step up if they want to move out of last place.

freely and between multiple positions could serve to keep Rib Lake’s opponents off-balance and help them against teams where they will have a size disadvantage.

Rounding out the initial bench for the Redmen will be junior Carson Patrick, junior TrayVon Sutherland and fresh-man Zane Mencheski.

Wild talked about what each of his nine players brings to the team.

“Dalton will have a good year. He has a way of getting to the rim and fi nding ways to score. Noah’s done a really good job over the summer of working his game from the inside-out. That has opened up his three-point shot,” he said. “Austin Ewan could be a surpriser. Defensively he does a great job fl ying in. This is a group that can shoot.

“Austin Zondlo has done a good job of being a leader. He’s a quiet guy but he says things when they need to be said. Nick could be a good guy to come off the bench for us. He’s got length and has worked hard on getting to the rim.

“There’ll be a learning curve for Car-son in his fi rst year on varsity. TrayVon doesn’t really have size, but he has a lack of fear. He plays like he’s a 6-5 guy when he’s only 5-6. Zane will be the next man up, but after that, it’s hard to fi gure out.”

Wild expects the team’s fl exibility to carry over defensively as well. He said his players would have the go-ahead to play aggressively and that they’d stay primarily in man-to-man defense. This would give players the opportunities to crash the boards.

Last year’s Redmen team was a dark horse pick to win the North. They ended up tied for third with Chequamegon at 6-6, but did have the conference’s second-best offense at 51.8 ppg. Rib Lake got hot going into the postseason, knocking off Cornell, Prentice and Owen-Withee on their way to sectionals, where they were beaten by McDonell 60-56. Some have tabbed 2015-16 as a relative down year for the Redmen, but don’t tell the players that.

“We know we’re ranked low because we lost four seniors. People don’t realize that the guys here now are exception-

al, if not better, than the guys we lost,” Scheithauer said. “The only difference is we don’t have a guy that’s 8 feet tall.”

“The height is a big factor but I think we can fi ll that with quick guards. We’ll be higher tempo and wear teams out,” Strebig said.

Letdowns games were all-too-common for Rib Lake last year and the players know that. They’re determined to change things this time around.

“As soon as we lost our fi rst confer-ence game, followed by the loss to Ath-ens, it went downhill,” Scheithauer said, referring to a 1-2 stretch of games in Jan-uary of last season after the Redmen had started 5-2.

“There’s less outside distractions this year,” Weinke said. “We’ve got to fi ght through and keep going.”

“We need to keep our eye on the big goal,” Strebig said.

“And not get down after a loss,” Zond-lo added.

Eisner probably summed up this year’s team best.

“If we stay motivated all season we’ll do pretty good.”

It’s that last quote that could hold the key for the Redmen this year. Wild talked about the team’s mindset after Monday’s practice.

“Practice hasn’t been as competitive as I’d like it to be. I haven’t been im-pressed at all. We just had a discussion about how we can ramp up the inten-sity. The guys need a measuring stick right now and they just don’t have it,” he said. “Once the games start, things will change.”

Rib Lake will have just over a week to prepare itself for what’s shaping up to be a very interesting season in the Mara-wood North. They open against Lake Holcombe on Monday before traveling to Pittsville on Thursday. They’ll get a tough non-conference test from Strat-

ford on Dec. 7 before opening their North schedule at home against rival Prentice on Dec. 10.

Wild said the team’s run to section-als last year was great, but wasn’t even thinking about playoffs this year. Rib Lake’s priority will be a conference championship.

North outlookThe Phillips Loggers lost co-Player

of the Year Danny Baratka to gradua-tion, but return plenty of weapons as they look to defend the school’s fi rst-ever North championship. First-teamer Cade Rose (12.9 ppg, .444 3-point percentage) and second-teamer Ryan Giannoni (9.5 ppg, 5.8 rpg) lead a balanced attack for the Loggers, who had the conference’s best offense (54.2 ppg) last year. Seniors Kyle Karnosh (7.0 ppg) and Jeff Mabie (2.2 apg) will have impacts too.

Edgar fi nished second in the North last season, and they’ve got almost ev-erything back in 2015-16. A pair of 6-4 seniors, Austin Borchardt (11.9 ppg) and Matt Urmanski (8.6 ppg, 6.1 rpg), create a formidable frontcourt duo for the Wild-cats. Junior guards Taylor Engel (7.0 ppg) and Alec Hafferman (6.8 ppg) will look to increase their scoring and create opportunities for the bigs.

“Edgar concerns me, but they have weaknesses on the perimeter. There isn’t a team where it’s like ‘oh man what are we gonna do here,’” Wild said.

Chequamegon tied with Rib Lake for

third in the conference a season ago, but will have to adjust to life without co-Player of the Year Shane Wakefi eld (18.3 ppg) after his graduation. Christian Arm-strong (6.8 ppg), a junior, is the top re-turning scorer for the Screaming Eagles.

Senior Garrett Rau (13.9 ppg, 2.3 threes per game is back to lead Abbotsford in their bid to rebound from a disappoint-ing 4-8 North mark. Treven Gorst (12.5 ppg, 5.8 rpg), a 6-4 senior, provides stabil-ity in the frontcourt for the Falcons.

Prentice will be improved this season. The Buccaneers return fi rst-team guard Drew Rohde (14.1 ppg, 5.6 rpg, .421 3-point percentage) and have experience coming back in the form of junior Taylor Bray-ton (7.3 ppg), senior Troy Kamarek (5.0 ppg) and senior Beau Merriman (4.6 ppg, 4.1 rpg).

After a last place fi nish in 2014-15 and a 2-10 North record, it doesn’t get any easier for Athens this season. All three of the team’s All-Conference selections are gone, but the Blue Jays will be hoping ju-nior Ben Weller (7.2 ppg) can emerge as a star. Justin Kelly (4.3 ppg) is the next best returning scorer.

“Teams like the Edgars and Prentices, those are the threats where we’ll have trouble inside. With the Marawood, you compete every night. You could domi-nate one team and the next night it’ll be a battle,” Wild said. “Abbotsford will be in the mix somehow. They don’t have the bigs but they played well in the sum-mer league. Prentice has momentum and some guys coming back. I think we can beat Phillips. We match up well against them.”

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Santa’s elves will help the children shop for their family while mom

and dad can enjoy some cookies and refreshments in the waiting area.

Medford Area Chamber of Commerce

Saturday, December 5, 2015

9am-1pm Medford Middle School

CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS CORNERCHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS CORNER

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Between Dec. 3 and January 3 come to the city park and experience the holiday magic with displays from the

following businesses and organizations.

Come sing along with carolers from the Medford Girl Scouts. Enjoy cookies courtesy of County Market. This is an outdoor event so dress for the weather.

Santa Claus arrives at 6pm for the lighting ceremony to ring in the Christmas Season. Santa will be in the park to visit with area young people. The Star News will be taking pictures of youth with Santa.

Lighting of the Lights

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To help everyone get into the Christmas spirit, LuCille Tack Center for the Arts will be hosting “Christmas with the Nelsons,” an evening with Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, on Sunday, Dec.13 at 3 p.m. This heart-warming concert stars the third gen-eration of Ozzie and Harriet’s famous family. Ricky Nelson’s twin sons will take you on a sleigh ride through the years as they deliver holiday classics the Nelson Family way. For tickets or more information, call 715-659-4499 or visit www.lucilletackcenter.com

Wednesday, November 25Open House from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Hope Hospice. Graffi c Sound DJ from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Hacienda.

Thursday, November 26Thanksgiving Dinner at 11 a.m. at Rib River Bar &

Grill.Thanksgiving Buffet at noon at Hannah’s Hen

House Bar & Grill.

Friday, November 27Christmas Open House from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at

Munson Bridge Winery. Clean the Cupboard Buffet from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at

Mondeaux Dam.Chili Feed & Raffl es at 5 p.m. at VFW Hall, Westboro.50 Shades of Men at 8 p.m. at Gad Bar. .28 Special at 9 p.m. at Camp 28.

Saturday, November 28Christmas Open House from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at

Munson Bridge Winery. Ad’s Tunes at Crossroads.

Sunday, November 29Polka Dancing with Music Magic from 1 to 5 p.m.

at Unity Memorial Hall. Bad Infl uence at 3 p.m. at Boozer’s Bar & Grill.

Thursday, December 3Moms & Munchkins: Real Faith in Forgiveness

with Carrie Kraucyk from 9 to 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church.

Friday, December 4Christmas with Living River at 7 p.m. at St. Peter

Lutheran Church, Dorchester.Lonie G at Hacienda.

Saturday, December 5Holiday Crafts and Vendor Event from 9 a.m. to 3

p.m. at Memorial Hall, Dorchester.Craft and Bake Sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Peter

Lutheran Church.Holiday Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Veranda.6th Annual Red Higgins Classic Country

Christmas Show with Lisa Marie & Yankee Train at 2 and 6 p.m. at MASH Red/White Theatre.

Special Meeting and Christmas Party at 4:30 p.m. at Chelsea Conservation Club.

Abbotsford Christmas Parade at 7 p.m.

Soundstorm at Hacienda.

Sunday, December 6Holiday Bazaar from

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Veranda.

Chili Cook Off at Crossroads.

Tuesday, December 8Sleep Well Open

House from 3 to 7 p.m. at Aspirus Medford Hospital’s Community Education Room.

Wednesday, December 9

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Village of Stetsonville2016 Proposed Budget Summary and Public Notice for Budget Hearing

Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. at the Jean M. Thomsen Memorial Library, located at 105 N. Gershwin Street, a Public Hearing will be held to approve the budget and tax levy. 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 PercentDescription Actual Actual Actual Budgeted Proposed ChangeExpenditures General Government $91,002 $75,043 $76,755 $71,529 $64,080 Public Safety $9,300 $8,800 $9,300 $8,500 $9,300 Public Works $87,535 $91,070 $113,339 $106,693 $101,600 Culture, Rec, Educ $64,906 $97,502 $85,416 $82,684 $75,500 Conservation $90,417 $3,600 $3,600 Debt Service $6,600 $12,832 $6,600 $0 Capital Outlay $12,115 Total Expenses $252,743 $381,547 $297,642 $279,606 $254,080 9% 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Actual Actual Actual Budgeted Proposed Revenues Tax Revenue $53,365 $45,881 $46,594 $46,600 $47,352 Intergovermental Revenue $157,088 $164,925 $168,790 $184,338 $166,115 Licenses/Dues $15,769 $601 $841 $1,100 $1,300 Tax Equivalent $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 Public Charge $13,981 $11,555 $16,479 $14,700 Misc. Revenue $16,425 $22,354 $6,000 $3,901 Other Finance Sources $10,775 $60,000 $5,150 $1,550 Total Revenues $246,222 $272,588 $330,134 $279,667 $254,918 9% Fund Balance (12/31) $644,510 $535,551 $548,043

2015 2015 Fund Bal Other Finance 2016 2016Fund Name Revenues Expenses 12/31/14 Sources/2016 Revenues ExpensesTax Incremental District #1 $1,342 -$11,702 $446,000 $43,000 $413,650Municipal Water Utility $147,130 $155,763 $3,094,053 $147,130 $166,549Wastewater Utility $201,900 $201,900 $905,894 $210,900 $210,900

A complete copy of the proposed line item budget for 2016 is available from the Village Clerk Treasurer’s offi ce by request, (715) 678-2191.Shawn Sullivan, Village Clerk Treasurer

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Notice to Westboro ResidentsNotice of Public Hearing

on the Proposed 2016 BudgetNotice is hereby given that on Friday, December 4,

2015 at 6:00 p.m. at the Community Center, N8855 Sec-ond Street, a Public Hearing on the Proposed Budget will be held.

Notice of Special Town Meetingfor the Electors

Notice is hereby given that immediately following completion of the Public Hearing on the proposed 2016 budget, a special town meeting of the electors called pur-suant to §60.12(1)(c) of WI Statutes by the town board to adopt the 2015 town tax levy to be paid in 2016 pursuant to §60.10(1)(a) of the WI Statutes and to approve total highway expenditures for 2016 pursuant to §82.03 of the WI Statutes.

The Town Board will adopt the 2016 Annual Budget im-mediately following the Public Hearing and Special Town Meeting.

Copy of the proposed 2016 budget is available in the Town Clerk’s Offi ce, call 715-427-3566 to set up an ap-pointment.

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City of MedfordCommon CouncilMeeting Minutes

Tuesday, November 17, 20156:05 PM

Council Chambers, City Hall639 South Second Street

Medford, WI {Subject to Council Approval}

Call to Order/Roll CallMayor Mike Wellner called the

meeting to order with the follow-ing members present: Dave J. Brandner, Arlene Parent, Greg Knight, Peggy Kraschnewski, Jim Peterson, Mike Bub, Dave Roiger, and Clem Johnson.

City Personnel PresentThe following City personnel

were present: City Clerk Ginny Brost, Treasurer Kevin Dober-stein, Police Chief Ken Coyer, Police Sergeant Bryan Carey, Street & Water Superintendent Pat Chariton, Library Director Anne LaRoche, and Coordina-tor/Public Works Director John Fales. City Attorney Courtney Graff was an excused absence.

Visitors Present

Visitor present was Brian Wil-son-Star News.

Pledge of AllegianceAlderperson Knight began the

meeting by leading the group in the reciting of the “Pledge of Al-legiance”.

Open Meeting Law Compli-ance

Mayor Wellner announced that this was an open meeting of the Common Council. No-tice of this meeting was given to the public at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting by for-warding the complete agenda to the offi cial City newspaper, The Star News, and to all news media that have requested the same as well as posting. Cop-ies of the complete agenda were available for inspection at the City Clerk’s Offi ce. Anyone desiring information as to forth-coming meetings should contact the City Clerk’s Offi ce.

Citizens and DelegationsThere were no citizens or del-

egations present.Minutes

Kraschnewski moved, Pe-terson seconded a motion to approve the following meeting minutes: (A) November 3, 2015 Council Public Hearing; (B) No-vember 3, 2015 Council; and (C) November 3, 2015 Committee of the Whole. All in favor: All Aye. Motion Carried.

2016 City of Medford Gen-eral Fund Budget

Kraschnewski moved, John-son seconded a motion to adopt the 2016 City of Medford Gener-al Fund Budget as shown below:

Activity - Proposed Amounts - Changes*

Property Tax Revenue - $684,656.00 - $661,906.00

General Fund Revenue - $3,475,291.00 - $3,452,541.00

Mayor - $10,410.00Legislative - $21,240.00Legislative Support -

$201,005.00Elections - $20,600.00Administration & Finance -

$568,684.00Assessment/Planning/Zoning

- $184,629.00Police - $956,969.00Public Works - $980,289.00Culture & Recreation -

$243,043.00Conservation & Development

- $24,368.00Capital Outlay - $101,850.00

- $79,100.00Capital Construction Fund -

$732,392.00 - $755,142.00Debt Service Fund -

$689,713.00Library Special Revenue

Fund - $374,161.00Police Special Revenue Fund

- $15,800.00*In addition and in order to be

in compliance for the 2106 Bud-get Restraint Program, $22,750 of Capital Outlay expense will need to be transferred from the General Fund to the Capital Construction Fund. This does not affect the tax levy.

Roll Call Vote: Brandner-Yes; Parent-Yes; Knight-Yes; Kra-schnewski-Yes; Peterson-Yes; Roiger-Yes; Bub-Yes; Johnson-Yes (8 Yes; 0 No) Motion Car-ried.

Paperless Meeting Packets & Funding for the Same

Parent moved, Peterson seconded a motion to autho-

rize the following: (1) Purchase iPads and iPad covers for the Mayor, Council, and Coordina-tor/Public Works Director at an estimated cost of $6,490.00 with the cost allocated from the Offi ce Replacement Fund (ac-count #10-516000-97000). (2) Purchase iCompass software for three years at an annual cost of $3,500.00 each year with $2,000 allocated from the Meeting Software account (#10-51600-11005) and $1,500 allo-cated from the Auditing Software account (#10-57200-81120). The 2017 and 2018 costs will be allocated in the respective bud-gets. Roll Call Vote: Brandner-Yes; Parent-Yes; Knight-Yes; Kraschnewski-Yes; Peterson-Yes; Roiger-Yes; Bub-Yes; Johnson-Yes (8 Yes; 0 No) Mo-tion Carried.

2016 Health Insurance Con-tract with Security Health

Johnson moved, Knight sec-onded a motion to approve the 2016 health insurance con-tract with Security Health Plan with the premiums as follows: Single ($3,000 deductible) @ $677.02 per month; Employee Plus One ($6,000 deductible) @ $1,354.05 per month; and Family ($6,000 deductible) @ $2,031.07 per month. Roll Call Vote: Brandner-Yes; Parent-Yes; Knight-Yes; Kraschnewski-Yes; Peterson-Yes; Roiger-Yes; Bub-Yes; Johnson-Yes (8 Yes; 0 No) Motion Carried.

2016 Dental Insurance Con-tract with Delta Dental

Knight moved, Brandner sec-onded a motion to approve the 2016 dental insurance contract with Delta Dental with the premi-ums as follows: Single ($50 de-ductible) @ $34.04 per month; Employee Plus One ($100 de-ductible) @ $92.98 per month; and Family ($150 deductible) @ $92.98 per month. Roll Call Vote: Brandner-Yes; Parent-Yes; Knight-Yes; Kraschnewski-Yes; Peterson-Yes; Roiger-Yes; Bub-Yes; Johnson-Yes (8 Yes; 0 No) Motion Carried.

Election Equipment & Funding for the Same

Johnson moved, Peterson seconded a motion to autho-rize the Clerk to purchase the

Express Vote universal voting system at a cost not-to-exceed $3,500 with the monies allocat-ed from the General Fund Des-ignated Unreserved-Election Equipment account. Roll Call Vote: Brandner-Yes; Parent-Yes; Knight-Yes; Kraschnewski-Yes; Peterson-Yes; Roiger-Yes; Bub-Yes; Johnson-Yes (8 Yes; 0 No) Motion Carried.

Employee Benefi ts Plan Document

Peterson moved, Roiger sec-onded a motion to approve the Employee Benefi ts Plan Docu-ment as presented. All in favor: All Aye. Motion Carried.

Issuance of Private Well Permit

Johnson moved, Kra-schnewski seconded a motion to approve the issuance of a two-year private well permit ret-roactive to August 1, 2015 and ending July 31, 2017 to Shay Creek Sports located at 1281 North Eighth Street. All in favor: All Aye. Motion Carried.

Public Ice Skating Agree-ment with the Medford Area Youth Hockey Association

Roiger moved, Johnson sec-onded a motion to approve the 2015-2016 public ice skating agreement with the Medford Area Youth Hockey Association at a cost not-to-exceed $4,500 for 100 hours of ice time. Roll Call Vote: Brandner-Yes; Parent-Yes; Knight-Yes; Kraschnewski-Yes; Peterson-Yes; Roiger-Yes; Bub-Yes; Johnson-Yes (8 Yes; 0 No) Motion Carried.

Coordinator’s ReportThe Coordinator’s report is

as follows: (1) An update on the capital projects was given. (2) An update on the electric utility projects was given. (3) The Department of Revenue has notifi ed the City that it is in noncompliance of its com-mercial property. A revaluation is planned for calendar year 2016. This will delay the Board of Review until early September. (4) On November 10, 2015, the Department of Natural Re-sources notifi ed the City that it had issued the City’s Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit for the period beginning January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2020. (5)

Electric Utility Lineman Jared Hartl has received a positive performance report. Beginning December 9, 2015, his wage will increase from $27.95 per hour to $28.95 per hour.

Communications from the Mayor/Upcoming Events

November/December Meet-ing Schedule – The November/December meeting schedule was distributed.

November 23, 2015 Commit-tee of the Whole Meeting – The November 23, 2015 Committee of the Whole meeting has been canceled.

Notice of Spring Election – At an election to be held in the City of Medford on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, the following offi ces are to be elected to succeed the pres-ent incumbents as follows: Offi ce .................... IncumbentMayor......... Michael R. WellnerAlderperson, Wards 1 & 2 (District 1) .. Dave J. BrandnerAlderperson, Wards 3 & 4 (District 2) .................... Peggy KraschnewskiAlderperson, Wards 5 & 6 (District 3) .... James PetersonAlderperson, Wards 7 & 8 (District 4) ....... Clem Johnson

The term for Mayor and Alder-person begins on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. All terms are for two years. The fi rst day to circulate nomination papers is Decem-ber 1, 2015, and the fi nal day for fi ling nomination papers is 5:00 PM on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 in the Offi ce of the City Clerk, 639 South Second Street, Medford, WI 54451. If a primary is necessary, the primary will be held on Tuesday, February 16, 2016. The last day for incum-bents not seeking re-election to fi le “Notifi cation of Noncan-didacy” is 5:00 PM on Monday, December 28, 2015. Failure to notify the Clerk’s Offi ce will ex-tend the nomination deadline 72 hours for that offi ce only.

AdjournmentBrandner moved, Johnson

seconded a motion to adjourn the meeting at 6:15 PM. All in favor: All Aye. Motion Carried. Meeting Adjourned.

Respectfully Submitted,Virginia BrostCity Clerk, WCPC/MMC

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PUBLIC NOTICESTHE STAR NEWS

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The Sports PageClassy Ladies LeagueAnn McNamar 226 Margie Guziak 548Margie Guziak 210 Ann McNamar 527Michelle Dyer 202 Michelle Dyer 525Results: Tease Tanning Plus 5, Klingbeil Lumber 2; People’s Choice Credit Union 5, A&M Apartments 2; Fidelity Bank 5, VFW 2; Al’s Auto Dock 5, Pauline’s Hair Fashion 2; Moosie’s Ice Cream 5, Klin-ner Insurance 2; Rocky’s Cozy Kitchen 7, Studio 13 0; J&B Custom Carpentry 7.

Wednesday Mid-Weekers LeagueShirley Lemke 190 Sharon Nuernberger 504Sharon Nuernberger 190 Shirley Lemke 502Anna Goessl 189 Anna Goessl 495Nov. 18: Werner Sales & Service 6, Lounge Around 1; Medford Mo-tors 5, Taylor Credit Union 2; Sports Page 5, Happy Joe’s 2.

Blue Mondays LeaguePat Mertens 188 Anna Goessl 502Carol Willman 180 Carol Willman 491Anna Goessl 175 Judy Lang 489Nov. 16: Misfi ts 7, Holy Rollers 0; Bakers 7, Strikes R Us 0; Bid Bird’s Lodge 5, Heier’s Wreaths 2.

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Tuesday Night Mixed LeagueRick Acker 278 Rick Acker 738Bruce Weiler 274 Bruce Weiler 664Roger Smith 252 Scott Kohn 634 Roger Smith 634Nov. 17: Fuzzy’s Bar 26, Riemer Builders 14; Liske Marine 23, High View II 17; High View I 30, Medford Co-op 10.

Thursday Businessmen’s LeagueWomenKim Virnig 260 Kim Virnig 639Lori Zenner 204 Lori Zenner 529MenKurt Werner 289 Kurt Werner 712Casey Nernberger 266 Casey Nernberger 695Nov. 19: PBR’s Lounge Around 32, Jensen & Son Asphalt 8; Medford Motors 36.5, Sports Page 3.5; VFW 25, Turtle Club 15; Rural Insur-ance 28, Rocky’s Cozy Kitchen 12; Shell Shack 34; Melvin Compa-nies 34, Al’s Auto Dock 6; Haenels 35, Werner Sales & Service 5.

Happy Couples LeagueWomenAnna Goessl 202 Lisa Bub 515Lisa Bub 199 Anna Goessl 461Judy Lang 175 Judy Lang 450MenAndy Anderson 212 Steve Homeyer 491Mike Poncek 186 Andy Anderson 490Steve Homeyer 179 Mike Poncek 489Nov. 15: Empty Nesters 5, Pinbusters 2; Baby Boomers 5, Odd Balls 2; Shillangs 4, Flamingos 3.

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Lost in the ValleyHello friends,Every fall, for the month of November, the majority

of my outdoor experiences take place from my hunting camp, which is located in northern Juneau County. Oth-er hunters named us back in the late ‘70s because we are always wearing hip boots and hunting as far away from the road as we can get.

The Red Brush Gang is 25 family members and friends with the vast majority having grown up in Poynette.

We hunt public land, of which most is state or feder-al. More than 200 square miles are connected and made up of oak and jack pine forests and marshes that, as you are about to fi nd out, a man can get lost or “temporarily disoriented” in.

Thursday, Nov. 12High 54, Low 30

A large part of my history is that I always have to see “new country” while trying to stay away from the crowd. Last fall I was talking to some trappers who told me where they had been seeing some big bucks. That same day I strapped on my hip boots and went explor-ing. Long story short, there were a lot of deer close to the remote road where I would park and that kind of kept me from going in deep and exploring.

On Sunday and Monday of this week, I bow hunted here and saw fi ve bucks on one hunt but had to walk a mile through swamp with no trail to get to the area I chose to hunt.

Last night, I came up with an idea of going to a dif-ferent spot that would shave close to a half-mile off my hike. It would still be through a swamp.

So this morning I begin my journey in the dark. I am carrying a load –– tree climbing sticks, a stand on my back and a bow as well as a light pack. I am overdressed and, most importantly, I realize I forgot to bring a com-pass along.

Long story short, about three-fourths of the way to where I wanted to hunt, I unknowingly made a right turn and for one hour had no clue where I was. In the end, I relaxed, worked with the little bit of sun that there was and found the tree and deer trails that I wanted to

hunt.I have been playing this game for half a century and

have realized that when you get disoriented, and I truly did today (which destroyed my morning hunt), relax and cool off if you are over heated. There is no reason to panic.

I still-hunted, did not see a deer and hiked back to my truck having shaved a half-mile off my journey for all future hunts.

Saturday, Nov. 14High 56, Low 28

My daughter Selina and I are staying at camp and bow hunting the area I just wrote about. I hunted here yesterday and saw a heck of a nice 10-pointer that was about 50 yards out of range but still a thrill to watch.

Today, I had Selina use a compass and taught her how to get to where we would hunt. Selina was fl awless and actually hunted a good quarter-mile past me and made her way back to me in the dark. It was pretty cool to watch her fi nd her dad in the dark in an area where she had never walked before today.

On our hunt, we both saw a beautiful 8-pointer. I am sure it was the same deer. Like every buck I have seen the last 10 days, it had its head down and was obviously looking for companionship.

The following morning, Selina led the way in the dark and found her tree without me. I saw a spike buck on a perfectly comfortable hunt. After a very relaxing evening at camp the night before, it was another excel-lent week in The Meadow Valley Wildlife Area.

My dad taught us by experience to fi nd our way through swamps, forests and river systems. Those les-sons were always while we were having fun and that is what I am doing with Selina.

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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is inviting the public to provide input as the agency works to develop a systematic approach for evaluating fi sh passage at dams statewide.

Fish passage describes the ability of fi sh to move upstream and downstream to fi nd suitable habitat and breeding grounds. Where barriers such as dams exist, a systematic approach is needed to determine wheth-er populations of fi sh and other benefi cial organisms are best aided through practices such as stocking and habitat improvement or whether passage should be im-proved through use of techniques such as fi sh ladders, lifts or manual trap and other transport systems.

The DNR intends to use a strategic analysis process to engage the public and will assess the latest scientifi c, natural resource and socio-economic information relat-ing to fi sh passage at dams. The department will gather relevant facts, data and research and refi ne defi nitions. The strategic analysis will be used by the department to develop a consistent approach for fi sh passage propos-als throughout Wisconsin.

Cheryl Laatsch, the DNR’s hydropower coordinator, said each fi sh passage project is unique and must take into account local issues related to fi sh health, aquatic invasive species, habitat considerations, engineering and design issues, costs and dam licensing agreements among other factors. The involvement of stakeholders, such as other state and federal agencies, tribes, local interest groups, non-governmental organizations and dam owners and operators, also factors into consider-ations relating to fi sh passage.

“The people of Wisconsin care deeply about our riv-

DNR opens public comment period on scope of strategic analysis for fi sh passage at dams

ers and streams as well as the fi sh and other aquatic life they support,” Laatsch said. “We are inviting public in-put to help develop a process that draws on the collec-tive wisdom and experience of citizens and stakehold-ers.”

The public comment period for the scoping portion of the strategic analysis runs through Jan. 29, 2016. In-formation about the analysis and the proposed topics to be covered can be found at dnr.wi.gov by searching for “fi sh passage.” The public is encouraged to provide com-ments on topics that may be included in the analysis.

Comments may be submitted through the website, emailed to dnrfi shpassage@wisconsin.gov or mailed to: Jim Doperalski, WDNR Green Bay Service Center, 2984 Shawano Ave., Green Bay, WI 54313-6727.

Following the public comment period on the scope, the DNR will review and incorporate the public input into a draft strategic analysis. The draft strategic analy-sis also will be put out for public review and comments.

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Hosting a holiday party without going broke

How to host a holiday party without busting the budget

Is this a year when you have more time than money? Then it’s a great time to be a host. Put your extra hours to work on food and décor, and you can throw a terrifi c party or dinner and have do-it-yourself fun at the same time. Consumer Reports has some tips from party-plan-ning pros around the country.

Get cookingHomemade food is cheaper and health-

ier than store-bought. “Premade crou-tons, pies, and hors d’oeuvres are expen-sive because you’re paying for the time spent to make the product,” said Nicole Straight, marketing manager at Marcia Selden Catering & Event Planning in Stamford, Conn. “Buy day-old bread to make delicious stuffi ng, and bake your own pies for under $5. Homemade spiced nuts, fl at breads and dips are easier than you think!”

For cost-conscious, crowd-pleasing appetizers, Andrea Greco, a stylist and crafter in New York City, recommends hot spinach-artichoke dip and brie wrapped in puff pastry. For a lower-bud-get event, Phil De Maiolo, executive chef at Pier 60 and the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York City, suggests croust-ades (slices of baguette, fi celle or walnut and raisin bread, brushed with olive oil and baked) topped with tapenade, hum-mus and babaganoush—all of which you can easily whip up in a food processor or blender. Or, do a pasta bar—give guests a choice of pesto, or a cream- or tomato-based sauce. Want a meaty but money-wise entrée? David Mashburn, propri-etor of the restaurant Classic on Noble in Anniston, Ala., goes for marinated, grilled fl ank steak when he’s looking to save money—starting at $7 a pound ver-sus $14 for beef tenderloin (prices vary by region). Another favorite: boneless chicken thighs, chopped, grilled, and served with barbecue sauce on minia-ture biscuits.

Spread the joyNot a cook? Host a cookie exchange

and ask guests to bring a couple dozen cookies each. “The host provides drinks — maybe a great mulled wine — and cute containers for guests to take home a couple of cookies from each tray,” ex-plained Andrea Greco. Or, “In lieu of ran-dom hostess gifts, ask people to bring a traditional holiday dish from their own family. It not only cuts your food budget but creates an instant way to get party conversation started,” said Brent Ridge, the founder of lifestyle brand Beekman 1802 along with Josh Kilmer-Purcell. Bet-ter yet, said Ridge, go in with a group of friends and pool your funds for one big party.

Forage for greenerySeriously. Step outside with some

pruning shears and harvest evergreen boughs, pine cones, and any plant with red berries. Arrange the bounty on your table or mantle, use it to create garlands for the door or banister, or place branch-es in vases you already own. If you live in a city, Serena Thompson, founder of The Farm Chicks in Mead, Wash., rec-ommends searching out inexpensive eu-

calyptus bunches in the fl oral section of the supermarket. As long as you’re there, pick up seasonal fruit (apples, pears, pomegranates) and display in soup tu-reens, wooden bowls or other vessels.

Inexpensive party ideasThe Billy.com blog offers these inex-

pensive (Christmas) party ideas:1. Stick to a budget. If this is the fi rst

time you’re planning a party on a budget, it may be a bit of a challenge. But with a bit of creativity, commitment and stick-ing to the ideas below, you should have no trouble hosting a great party without overspending.

2. Make use of the dollar store. Chanc-es are good you can fi nd cheap paper goods, ingredients and even cleaning supplies to reduce the cost of your over-head expenses.

3. Skip holiday-themed paper goods. Not only will it disturb you that you can get the same paper goods for half the price after your party, but you may be stuck with assorted items that won’t be easily reused.

4. Plan your menu around store sales. Okay, this idea is important every day of the year, not just when you’re looking for Christmas party ideas. But if you didn’t operate this way until now, it’s time to get started.

5. Simplify the centerpieces. Who says you need to shell out the big bucks for or-namental candles or gilded tapers? Use a table runner to add some pizzazz to your table, or add warmth with tea lights.

6. Use a stain-resistant tablecloth. Once you’ve spent money on your party, you won’t want to spend more replac-ing the stained tablecloth. Make sure you cover the table with something that won’t get ruined by your crowd, especial-ly if there are children attending.

7. Make your own bread. Gourmet breads can be extremely expensive, but you can replicate these delicacies on your own rather easily (especially if you have a bread machine). Breads freeze beautifully, so you can make bread in advance without compromising on the quality of your fi nal product. (A note — if it’s your fi rst time making bread, make sure you choose a relatively straightfor-ward recipe so you don’t have to throw your fi rst batch away.)

8. Choose inexpensive appetizers. There’s no rule that you need to serve crab legs as an appetizer. Why not set the tone with chicken wings, vegetables and dip or cups of soup?

9. Cut the cleaning help. You may feel like you need cleaning help both before and after the party, but let’s face it — you can probably clean up the mess by your-self, as long as your house looks present-able when the guests come. You can save a pretty penny if you hire help only be-fore the party, and make an effort to mop your own fl oors once the guests are gone.

10. Skip the personalized desserts. Creating dozens of personal chocolate cakes may make you look like Martha Stewart, but chances are good it’ll also end up costing you extra money as com-pared with the cost of a larger, shared dessert. Some of my favorite Christmas party ideas (for dessert, of course), in-clude trifl e and individual cookies. Less food will be wasted, which means less money will be wasted.

11. Host a holiday grab bag. Why buy gifts for all your guests (that they prob-ably won’t like anyway), when you can get one larger gift for a special someone? As an added benefi t, think of all the wrap-ping paper that will be spared, which will protect the environment.

12. Don’t over-decorate. Thinking back to last year’s Christmas party, did you really need the reindeer piñata? Par-ing down your decorations will not only help you save money, but it may create a classier ambiance.

13. Borrow. Don’t have enough chairs or tables? Instead of rushing out to buy these items, why not borrow from neigh-bors who have been fortunate enough to get invited out for the holiday meal?

14. Pass on the party favors. As Christ-mas party ideas go, party favors are soooo passé. And because they’re unnec-essarily expensive, there’s just no reason to have them on your radar.

15. Reduce your guest list. There’s no law that says you need to invite every rel-ative you’ve ever met, or every neighbor who has no other place to go. If you’re on a tight budget, make sure to set a guest list and stick to it.

16. Don’t overheat your home. You probably want to make sure your guests aren’t cold, but remember that body heat,

wine and the steam of your delicious food will keep your guests naturally warm, so you won’t need to blast the heat as high as you think.

17. Find ideas in forums. There are dozens of online forums where people are excited to share their frugal entertaining ideas. If you’re looking for something more unique, why not fl ip through some forums?

Still looking for inexpensive party ideas? Kevin from Faith and Finance, a Christian fi nancial help blog, offers these inexpensive Christmas party ideas:

Potluck dinnerJust because you’re having everyone

over to your house doesn’t mean you have to cook for them. Cooking a meal for a large group is expensive, time consum-ing and a lot of work. You don’t have to do that alone.

Have an old-fashioned potluck din-ner. Have each of the guests bring a hot dish, that way you don’t have all of the cost and work to prepare the entire meal yourself. And if everyone brings a favor-ite recipe, no one will be able to say they didn’t like the meal!

You can provide the main course — the turkey, ham or other meat — and your guests can supply the salad, soup, side dishes and dessert. That’ll probably cut your party food bill in half at least.

Or forego dinner and gowith drinks and desserts

A holiday party doesn’t automatically have to mean dinner. You can invite your guests to come for an after dinner party. Limit the menu to drinks and desserts. You can even do a potluck variation here, asking your guests to each bring a favorite dessert.

If you do, you probably won’t even be putting anyone out. A lot of people have a favorite holiday dessert they’re just itch-ing to prepare for a group of family and friends.

Go easy on the alcoholor use BYOB

What’s a holiday party without holi-day cheer? But alcohol is expensive, especially if you have to supply it to a dozen or more people. What complicates it more is that some of the guests might have personal preferences when it comes to their choice of drinks. Trying to keep everyone happy can get really expensive.

The way around that is to implement a BYOB (bring your own bottle) policy. It will save you money and get you safely around the drink preference problem.

Add inexpensiveentertainment

If you’re worried about asking guests to bring food and or drinks, spice up the party by adding some inexpensive enter-tainment.

You can add group Christmas carol-ing, karaoke or dancing to your itin-erary. All you need is a decent sound system — which you probably already have — willing participants, and a shot of adult beverages, and your guests will probably have the best time ever at your party.

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day [Friday, Meals on Wheels (MOWS) de-livered Thursday] at the Senior Citizens Center. Reservations can be made one day in advance at the center or by phoning the site at (715) 447-8234.

Week of Dec. 1 — Tuesday, beef stew with vegetables, noodles, dinner roll, peaches, cake; Wednesday, baked chicken, mashed potatoes, carrots, applesauce, bars; Thursday, sausage bean soup, cheese slices, dinner roll, fruit cocktail, cookie; Friday, MOWS, ham broccoli pasta bake, dinner roll, banana, cake.

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Week of Dec. 14 — Monday, onion steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, peas and car-rots, fruit cocktail, cookie; Tuesday, stuffed cabbage, dinner roll, banana, cake; Wednes-day, chicken alfredo with noodles, garlic bread, carrots, pears, bar; Thursday, chili, cheese slices, cornbread, pineapple, cake; Friday, MOWS, ham and vegetable noodle dinner, dinner roll, peaches, cookie.

Week of Dec. 21 — Monday, spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread, peas and car-rots, apple, cookie; Tuesday, pork tips with apples and stuffi ng, carrots, banana, cake; Wednesday, chicken dumpling soup, din-ner roll, pears, bar; Thursday, MOWS only delivered Wednesday, ham, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, cranberries, cake; Fri-day, no MOWS.

Week of Dec. 28 — Monday, meatloaf with gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, applesauce, cookie; Tuesday, pulled pork sandwich, coleslaw, banana, cake; Wednes-day, brat with sauerkraut on a bun, baked beans, fruit cocktail, bar; Thursday, MOWS only delivered Wednesday, lasagna soup, garlic bread, pears, cake. Friday, no MOWS.

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Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at Royal Gaits Are-na and Stables, N3649 Spring Drive, Athens. Prior reservations are appreciated by phon-ing Marge Kropp at (715) 748-3209.

Medford — Meals are served Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at the Senior Citizens Center. For reservations, call (715) 748-2157 between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. or make your reservations at the site one day in advance. Persons living within a two-mile radius of the City of Medford may ar-range for transportation by calling (715) 748-2157.

Week of Dec. 2 — Wednesday, baked fi sh, hash brown bake, Oriental vegetables, mixed fruit, cake; Thursday, beef chow mein, rice, broccoli, pears, bars.

Week of Dec. 7 — Monday, cheeseburg-er on a bun, baked beans, coleslaw, manda-rin orange, cookie; Wednesday, pork chops and gravy, baked potatoes, peas and carrots, applesauce, bars; Thursday, shepherd’s pie, rolls, green beans, pineapple, cookie.

Week of Dec. 14 — Monday, turkey tetrazzini, peas and carrots, peaches, bar; Wednesday, chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, pears, cheesecake; Thursday, barbecue ribs, au gratin pota-toes, carrots, peaches, bar.

Week of Dec. 21 — Monday, beef stroga-noff, noodles, broccoli, mandarin oranges, cookie; Wednesday, ham, mashed potatoes, California blend vegetables, cranberries, cake; Thursday, MOWS only delivered Wednesday, breaded pork chop, dilled noo-dles, caulifl ower, peaches, cookie.

Week of Dec. 28 — Monday, chicken cac-ciatore, carrots, mixed fruit, bar; Wednes-day, Polish sausage with sauerkraut, baked potatoes, carrots, peaches, pudding; Thurs-

day, MOWS only delivered Wednesday, chicken vegetable soup, egg salad sandwich, fresh fruit, cookies.

Jump RiverMeals are served Tuesdays and Thurs-

days at noon at the Jump River Community Center. Reservations are necessary and must be made one day in advance by 4 p.m. For reservations or cancellations, call Rose Madlon at (715) 668-5280 or Diane Meyer at (715) 452-7899.

Week of Dec. 1 — Tuesday, hamburg-er stroganoff, noodles, mixed vegetables, peaches, cake; Thursday, baked chicken, baked potatoes, beets, pears, bars.

Week of Dec. 8 — Tuesday, beef vege-table soup, ham stromboli, relish tray, fruit cocktail, cookies; Thursday, baked fi sh, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, Jell-O, fruit juice, ice cream.

Week of Dec. 15 — Tuesday, lasagna, lettuce salad, fruit salad, cake; Thursday, beef roast, mashed potatoes, green beans, fresh fruit, cookies.

Week of Dec. 22 — Tuesday, ham, scal-loped potatoes, peas and carrots, cranberry salad, pie; Thursday, site closed.

Week of Dec. 29 — Tuesday, Spanish rice, broccoli, pineapple, bars. Thursday, site closed.

Rib Lake and WestboroRib Lake — Meals are served Mondays,

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. [Fri-day, Meals on Wheels (MOWS) delivered Thursday]. For reservations and/or trans-portation to the site, call Arlene Judnic at (715) 427-5747 or the Senior Citizens Center at (715) 427-5756. Reservations must be made at least one day in advance.

Westboro — Meals are served Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning at 11:30 a.m., at the Westboro VFW. For reservations and/or transportation to the site, call the West-boro VFW at (715) 905-1235 or Pat Wright at (715) 905-1389.

Week of Dec. 1 — Tuesday, ham, baby red potatoes, coleslaw, pineapple, brownies; Thursday, spaghetti with meat sauce, let-tuce salad, bread sticks, pears, pudding; Fri-day, MOWS, turkey sandwich, tomato soup, tropical fruit, cookie.

Week of Dec. 7 — Monday, pork and gravy over rice, mixed vegetables, apple, cookie; Tuesday, baked chicken, garlic and butter noodles, green beans, peaches, cake; Thursday, tuna and mixed vegetables cas-serole, tropical fruit, bars; Friday, MOWS, chicken dumpling and vegetable soup, ham sandwiches, applesauce, cookie.

Week of Dec. 14 — Monday, chicken stuffi ng and vegetable casserole, pineapple, bars; Tuesday, liver and onions or pork chop, mashed potatoes and gravy, carrots, applesauce, cookie; Thursday, meatloaf, au gratin potatoes, broccoli, mandarin orang-es, cake; Friday, MOWS, fi sh cakes, potato salad, coleslaw, banana, cookie.

Week of Dec. 21 — Monday, chili with noodles, cheese slices, cornbread, pears, brownies; Tuesday, Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, caulifl ower, tropical fruit, pudding; Thursday, MOWS only delivered Tuesday, chicken breast, pasta salad, tomato slices, peaches, cookie. Friday, no MOWS.

Week of Dec. 28 — Monday, cream of broccoli soup, ham sandwiches, applesauce, cookie; Tuesday, brat with sauerkraut on bun, baked beans, Jell-O with fruit, ice cream; Thursday, MOWS only delivered Tuesday, baked fi sh, pasta salad, coleslaw, pineapple, Jell-O dessert; Friday, no MOWS.

StetsonvilleMeals are served Tuesdays and Thurs-

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Week of Dec. 1 — Tuesday, baked chick-en, mashed potatoes, green beans, peaches, ice cream sundae; Wednesday, MOWS only, cabbage rolls, boiled potatoes, squash, ap-plesauce, bars; Thursday, turkey tetrazzini with noodles, peas and carrots, apricots, cake; Friday, MOWS, liver and onions, scal-loped potatoes, pickled beets, pears, cookies.

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Week of Dec. 22 — Tuesday, Swiss steak, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, fruit salad, cheesecake; Wednesday, MOWS, pork and gravy, egg noodles, peas and carrots, fruit cocktail, pudding; Thursday, MOWS only delivered Tuesday, chicken vegetable soup, egg salad sandwich, fresh fruit, cookie; Friday, MOWS.

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Susan J. ThumsABR/CRS/CHMS/GRI

Jodi Drost Kelly RauCRS/SRES/GRI

Dan OlsonCRS/GRI

Sue AndersonCRS/CHMS

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674 E. Broadway Ave., Medford1501999..................$109,750

505 Lake Shore Dr., Rib Lake1503741..................$300,000

W5814 Jolly Ave., Medford1503185..................$199,900

235 S. Lincoln St., Stetsonville1504200....................$99,000

774 Fayette Ave., Rib Lake1504713....................$69,900

997 East St., Rib Lake1505380..................$141,500

W4519 Frey Ln., Medford1506590..................$154,500

1320 State Hwy. 102, Rib Lake1506133....................$99,900

140 Doyle Place, Medford1506676..................$170,500

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NEW LISTING

$100 Gift Certificate toShay Creek for recreational land offer accepted during the month of November.Gift Certificates will be disbursed at closing.

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Maintenance Mechanics: Class C or Above

Applications will be taken until Dec. 11, 2015Apply in person between the hours of 7:30

a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at 306 Park St., Spencer, WI.Or e-mail résumé to: cwcasey@landolakes.com

TECHNICAL TRAINING OR PREVIOUS MAINTENANCE MECHANIC EXPERIENCE

REQUIREDHIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR GED REQUIREDIdeal candidates will have knowledge and hands-on experience in the following areas: Electrical, Mechanical, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Plumbing, Refrigeration, and General Repair.

The ideal candidate must be able to pursue job assignments completely, thoroughly, with safe, effi cient plant operations. Must be able to pass forklift training test and safely operate. Must have knowledge of OSHA safety procedures normally acquired during on-the-job training. Must furnish own hand tools.

Mandatory that applicant be available for work assignment to any of three (3) shifts within a 24-hour production operation. Final shift assignment will be determined upon hire. Must be available for voluntary and scheduled overtime as well as extended hours and weekend work as assigned.

Land O’Lakes offers medical, dental and vision insurance, short-term disability benefi ts, and shift differential. Successful candidates will need to complete a mandated drug screen, pre-employment physical assessment and background check.

Land O’Lakes, Inc.306 Park St., Spencer, WI 54479

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At Abbotsford/Colby Area Chamber offi ce100 W. Spruce Street, Abbotsford

(former Abbotsford Community Resource Building)

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Contact Kris O’Leary • 715-223-2342 days or 715-223-2011 evenings

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FULL-TIME PERSONAL BANKER - MEDFORD

Forward Financial Bank is seeking an energetic and customer-focused individual that truly enjoys helping people to fi ll a full-time Personal Banker position in our Medford offi ce. Our Personal Bankers provide valuable advice to our customers that address many aspects of their fi nancial needs and concerns. They meet with customers and prospects in-person and over the phone to help with new deposit accounts, new consumer loans, and to support all personal product lines. In addition, they will also meet with customers outside the offi ce environment and execute sales calls.

Our ideal candidate has prior banking experience such as serving as a teller, opening new accounts or handling consumer loan applications. Individuals with an enthusiastic attitude, customer centered mindset, excellent communications skills and a high level of computer knowledge will become a key part to our service team. This individual will be highly encouraged to have a presence in the community through various activities. Join a progressive organization dedicated to serving communities in beautiful Central Wisconsin and grow with us! Please send all applications to:

Attn: Human Resource Department, PO Box 608, Marshfi eld, WI 54449 or

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Production 2nd and 3rd Shift

Marathon Cheese Corporation, located in Medford, Wisconsin, has several openings for lineworkers and material handlers. These positions provide packaging, inspection, raw materials, and sanitation to MCC’s high speed cheese packaging machines. Pre-employment and drug screening is required. Marathon Cheese offers stable, predictable work hours and a competitive benefi t package. Apply in person at 1000 Progressive Avenue, Medford, Wisconsin. Applications are available at our website: www.mcheese.com. If you have submitted an application in the last 6 months it is not necessary to apply again.

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EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERWe have an opening for Full-Time Teachers (4 days

Kelly JensenMedford, WI 54451

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PROCESSOR OPERATOR, 4 roller Fabtek head, experience is required. Southern Price County based. Call 715-767-5719 or 715-965-0181. Ask for Mark.

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www.DixonGreinerRealty.comLuke Dixon, Jon Knoll,

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In commandRib Lake’s Casey Scheithauer keeps the ball away from Pittsville’s Jenna Hughes

(behind) late in Monday’s 55-33 win for the Redmen. Scheithauer tied for the team lead with seven rebounds.

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by Sports Reporter Bryan Wegter

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Rib Lake and Pittsville both started slow, but an offensive spark late in the fi rst half and consistently strong de-fense were the chief reasons the Redmen pulled away for a convincing 55-33 girls basketball win on Monday.

The Redmen’s lead was only 6-4 through 10 minutes, but their up-tempo offense and aggressive 1-3-1 defense be-gan to take hold, leading to a 19-6 run late in the fi rst that provided all the separa-tion the home side would need to take the non-conference win.

“We played with a bit of tempo and that’s what I’m looking for. It took a little while, but towards the end of the fi rst half we broke it open. Shots were fall-ing that weren’t falling at the start,” Rib Lake head coach Mike Wudi said.

Rib Lake (1-1) will head into the Thanksgiving break on a winning note. They’ll be at Lake Holcombe in a non-conference game on Monday, scheduled to begin at 7:15 p.m., in their fi nal tune-up before Marawood North play begins the following Friday against Athens.

Even against the superior height of the Panthers, the Redmen’s 1-3-1 was ruthlessly effective. Rib Lake totaled 19 steals as a team. Katie Cardey, playing on the front end of the defense, led with fi ve. Hailey Wudi and Grace Weinke had four each. Pittsville was rarely able to get off an uncontested shot and was 10 of 39 (25.6 percent) from the fi eld.

“We were working more as a team to-night. The 1-3-1 worked a lot better than our point defense. We get more steals because Katie can tip the ball,” Hailey Wudi said.

“Katie had a nice game. She did a great job anchoring the top of our 1-3-1. We had some active hands and tipped balls for steals. We forced a lot of turnovers,” Mike Wudi said.

Cardey was no less effective on the offensive end. The sophomore fi nished with a game-high 16 points on six-of-12 shooting. She tied for the team lead with seven rebounds and made all four free throw attempts. Casey Scheithauer tied her with seven boards.

Up 25-10 at the break, the Redmen

scored the fi rst 10 points of the second half. Cardey scored on a left-handed drive and hit a jumper, Hailey Wudi grabbed a steal and went the distance for a layup and Jasmine Fitzl and Regan Dobbs had a basket each in the run. Pittsville’s Jenna Hughes made a three to make it a 37-16 game with 12 minutes to play, but Hailey Wudi and Fitzl drained threes on the con-secutive possessions. The Redmen’s lead was as large as 48-19 with fi ve minutes to go in the second half, but Pittsville scored 14 points, including 10 of 18 free throws, to make the fi nal score a bit less lopsided. Miranda Ortner led the Panthers with nine points. Marie Simonet scored six and grabbed seven rebounds.

Rib Lake’s offense was all-around bet-ter than in their season-opening loss to Columbus Catholic. The Redmen shot .383 from the fi eld, a 14.5 percent im-provement. Free throw shooting was good (7-9) as well. After attempting 23 threes against Columbus, Rib Lake put up only 14 against the Panthers. They made three.

“During a timeout we talked about how the outside shot wasn’t there. You could see them pass up that shot and make the extra pass. They’re starting to sense a bit how I want the game played,” Mike Wudi said.

Hailey Wudi continues to impress. The sophomore guard scored 10 on four of seven shooting, grabbed six boards and had an assist. For the second-straight game she made two threes. Dobbs was second on the team with 13 points and had six rebounds. She had a game-high fi ve assists and added two steals. Fresh-man Samantha Rodman played her fi rst extensive varsity minutes and scored six. Megan Wiitala and Scheithauer both had a basket.

“Hailey is a nice little quarterback for our team. As a sophomore, she’s only got upside. Casey only had two points, but she’s a defensive spark plug and was all over the place. It was nice to let the whole second fi ve get some minutes to fi nish that one out,” Mike Wudi said. “That’s a feeling we haven’t had in a while.”

Late fi rst-half run pushes Rib Lake to its fi rst win

MARAWOOD NORTH DIVISIONGIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Conf. Overall W L W LAbbotsford 0 0 1 0Edgar 0 0 1 0Prentice 0 0 1 0Rib Lake 0 0 1 1Athens 0 0 0 0Phillips 0 0 0 1Chequamegon 0 0 0 2Nov. 19: Lakeland 59, Phillips 52; Prentice 73, Tomahawk 29; Edgar 71, North. Lutheran 49.Nov. 20: Phelps 52, Chequamegon 40.Nov. 23: Rib Lake 55, Pittsville 33; Washburn at Chequamegon.Nov. 24: Auburndale at Abbotsford, Stratford at Edgar, Tomahawk at Athens, Prentice at Thorp, Winter at Chequamegon.Nov. 30: Rib Lake at Lake Holcombe, Newman Catholic at Abbotsford.Dec. 1: Newman Catholic at Athens, Spencer at Edgar, Northland Pines at Chequamegon, Ab-botsford at Pittsville, W.V. Lutheran at Phillips.Dec. 3: Prentice at Lake Holcombe.

The Taylor County Snowmobile Clubs Association will meet on Thurs-day, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at Diane’s Back 40 on CTH F, Lublin. The meeting will be hosted by the Jump River Runners Snow-mobile club.

Sports Shorts

Junior Marksmanship Program welcomes

new shootersThe MRC Sportsman’s Club’s Junior Marks-

manship Program starts Saturday, Dec. 5 and runs through the end of March.

The program is open to boys and girls 12 years old through high school. There are a limited number of openings for this program. Shooters may sign up at any time during the year.

Practice begins each Saturday at 8 a.m. and goes to noon. Juniors are expected to practice at least two hours a session. Practices are held at the MRC Sports-man’s Club indoor range behind the Chelsea Conser-vation Club.

The program involves indoor shooting from the three and four positions with a small bore rifl e. Shoot-ing equipment is supplied.

The MRC Junior Rifl e Club membership fee is $35. There is a $3 ammunition fee per week.

To sign up or for more information, contact Randy Gregory at Accuracy Unlimited, 715-748-4427 or at home 715-748-5373. His email address is accuracyun-limited@gmail.com.

Photos by Bryan Wegter

Passing the hard wayRib Lake’s Hailey Wudi (front) makes a tough pass around Pittsville’s

Marie Simonet to a wide-open Katie Cardey (right) in the second half of Monday’s 55-33 win over Pittsville.