BURNETT COUNTY
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2017 VOL. 55 NO. 27 www.burnettcountysentinel.com $1.00
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Webb Lake Parade
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Cici Abbott, center, and pals Donna Bosman (l) and Dawn Petersen wore their finest St. Patrick’s regalia to note Cici’s role in helping to start the Webb Lake St. Patrick’s Day parade and celebration way back in 1984. Several thousand of her closest friends attended.
WEBB LAKE—To catch a bird’s eye view of Webb Lake on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, one would think this town was a bustling, overpopulated, rather green place. On a normal day, the population numbers just over three-hundred and the air is mellow with the sounds of the Northwoods. But on March 18th this year, the quantity of people soared well into the thousands. The temperature hesitated to reach any further than the mid-30s despite the long presence of the sun. However, the cold was not a call for alarm; rather, it offered people the opportunity to chat around bonfires and bundle up in Lucky Charm pajamas and green snowpants. The parade commenced at 1 p.m., but the streets and The Cabaret Bar were packed well before noon. The air smelled of mini donuts and brats. Under a red tent people made green kettle corn. Buses from New Richmond, Siren and many other places parked alongside the road next to cars from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan. Friends hugged, embraced and exclaimed that they had not seen each other since the previous year’s parade.
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What’s that sweet smell coming from that shack in the woods? BY SEAN DEVLIN, EDITOR
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Terry Felland of Hudson checks the sap bags on one of 100 maples trees he and Grantsburg area chums have tapped on Maplewood Road south of the village.
GRANTSBURG— On a drive down Maplewood Road, a passerby can see the prodigious hard-maple trees marking the land under a northern sky. At a closer look, one might spot dashes of blue hanging off the bark like outturned pockets. Get closer and you’ll see the beginning of something sweet. A few yards off the road on a makeshift driveway sits a small, rusted-silver hut—maybe room for just two people inside. Attached is a chimney of steel that soon will be the site SEE SWEET SMELL, PAGE 13
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Among the parade viewers was Cici Abbott, who claims to have founded the parade back in 1984. “When I moved out of the Cities I couldn’t go to the parade there anymore, so I made my own,” she said. While she claims the parade began as an event centered around children, she said it made her happy to see so many people – young and old – enjoying themselves. From her shamrock shawl to a green hat bedecked with green shrubbery to her green tutu – Cici was one of the bestdressed at the event. Children lined the streets with open grocery bags to catch and collect candy offered by those in cars, floats and ATVs that flashed their St. Paddy’s Day cheer down the street. Even the pooches were bedazzled to join in on the mosaic of green; one labrador sported springy antennas topped with flashing shamrocks. Many others fashioned bandanas emblazoned with phrases such as, ‘I’m Lucky!’ The mood was casual, the parade tasteful, and the tradition of the Webb Lake St. Patrick’s Day parade was yet again enjoyed. By Sean Devlin, Editor
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Residents of the home next to a State Road 48 curve where a woman died in a one vehicle crash Wednesday put up a memorial to her and a warning to other drivers, “Slow down. It could have been you.”
TOWN OF TRADE LAKE — Midmorning Wednesday a woman was killed in a one-car rollover accident on the sweeping curve of State Road 48 at its intersection with County Road Y in Trade Lake Township, about eight miles southeast of Grantsburg. She SEE FATALITY, PAGE 8
Correction Last week the Sentinel inadvertently omitted the candidate profile for David Grindell, candidate for Burnett County Circuit Judge in the April 4 election. We apologize to Mr. Grindell and our readers for the error. Mr. Grindell submitted his profile statement on time, and it was the Sentinel’s oversight that it was not printed. Please see Mr. Grindell’s profile in this issue on page 7.
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