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CREATIVE IDEA GROWS INTO
Ribbon Gallery
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Tracey Gunderson found a way to display her children's schoolwork using ribbons and clothespins.
A search for a creative display for artwork became the business Tracey Gunderson always wanted
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MIKE PETERS/FOR USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN
Tracey Gunderson found a creative way to display artwork using ribbons.
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JEFF BOLLIER | USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN
LGOMA - A simple search for a creative way to display her kids’ artwork became the business Tracey Gunderson always wanted to start.
Gunderson, a teacher who lives in Algoma, spent almost four years with her creation hanging on a long wall in her house before enough friends asked her to make ones for them in 2014 that she decided to create the Ribbon Gallery. “I didn’t set out to make a marketable product, but I always had a dream of starting my own business,” she said. “With the warm reception the clothespin display got, it felt like the right way to start.” Gunderson’s story begins back in 2011, though. Like every other proud parent, she wanted to show off her kids’ schoolwork in her home with some color and warmth. Her search only produced thin, steel art cables that didn’t fit with her home decor and weren’t very personal. “I couldn’t find anything See RIBBON, Page 2D
For Packers wife, fandom was personal Growing up in Iowa in the 1920s, Gerry Beard was not a Green Bay Packers fan. But while attending the University of Iowa, she became a big Joe Laws fan, which, in due course, sealed the deal with the Packers. For a very long time. Geraldine Laws Gloss died Jan. 6 in Green Bay at 101 years old. “She was probably the last Packers wife of the ’30s, ’40s era,” said son Jim Laws, who now lives
in Chandler, Ariz. Joe Laws might not readily jump to mind except to die-hard Packers fans, but he was not your run-of-the-mill player. He’s a member of the Packers Hall of Fame, having played running back and defensive back from 19341945, during which the team won three championships. He rushed for 1,932 yards in his career and made 18 interceptions, including three in
the Packers’ 14-7 victory over the New York Giants in the 1944 NFL championship game. He also completed 10 passes in his 12 years, three of them for touchdowns. Gerry was high school valedictorian and completed two years of college before marrying Laws, an All-American who received the Chicago Tribune Silver Football award as the Big Ten’s best player. Jim Laws said his dad was
set to sign with another team when Curly Lambeau pulled him over after the East-West Shrine Game and offered him $100 more per game than the other team. They moved to Green Bay and never looked back. Pro football was not a lucrative career in those days. Gerry worked at Sears & Roebuck for many years while raising four kids, and Joe worked hard during the
off-seasons, his son said. After his playing days, Joe was co-owner of the Silver Rail bar and restaurant on North Broadway. He also worked for an outdoor sign company. Gerry remarried after Laws died in 1979 and lived briefly in Minnesota but remained a Packers fan. “She never missed a game to my knowledge, See LAWS, Page 2D