PAGE 18 - WASHBURN COUNTY REGISTER - MARCH 26, 2014
Barronett
by Judy Pieper
Well, I guess we had better not complain about the weather too much. Duane looked on last year’s calendar, and on the first day of spring of 2013 the low temperature was minus 6 degrees. So, I went on the Internet and looked up last year’s temperatures for April and May, and, if this year is anything like last year, we still have a long time before we get to have some nice weather. Barronett Civic Club members will be hosting an Easter party for children 10 years old and younger at the community center on Saturday, April 12, from 2-4 p.m. There will be games and prizes, food, an Easter egg hunt, and, I’m almost certain, the Easter Bunny will be there in person to cheer the kids on in the contests. Bring your camera and take some pictures of your little one having fun. The party is free, but, of course, all donations are happily accepted. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Come on over, bring your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews and neighbor kids. It’s a lot of fun for everyone. Employees of Oak View Adult Family Home will be hosting an Easter party for developmentally disabled adults at the Barronett Community Center on Saturday, April 19, from 2-4 p.m. I’ll let you know more about that next week, but, in the meantime, if you know anyone who would be interested in coming to the party, please spread the word. It was so nice to see Dick and Ruth Grover in church Sunday morning. Dick has been a little under the weather
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kind of help I would excel at. One thing is certain, I won’t be able to help her out after she opens the shop, I would weigh 300 pounds in a month. Don Albee is finally going back to work after an extended “vacation” at home. You probably saw him limping around here, looking like an old guy. Wonder what the other truck drivers are going to have to talk about now without him being at the Red Brick swapping trucker stories. We are all glad he’s feeling better anyway. We’ve noticed some buckets hanging from maple trees already. I’m surprised that anyone could wade through the snow to hang them. A couple of weekends ago, Bill Carothers said that he and his son were going to tap some trees. I wonder how deep the snow was when they were out there. I didn’t even know that the sap would be running already. Bill mentioned how many gallons of sap it takes to make a pint of syrup, and it was a lot. Very labor-intensive job. Doesn’t it make you wonder how anyone ever came up with the idea of boiling the sap down in the first place? Probably a bunch of guys sitting around a campfire, drinking and talking smart, and one of them said, “Ya know, I bet if we ...” I guess that’s about all I know from Barronett this week. Oh, other than the fact that we all have to have our income taxes done soon. Seems like it’s always something, doesn’t it? See you later.
by Pauline Lawrence
Well March 20 has come and gone. Yes, it’s supposed to be spring and as I look out across the fields, those snowbanks get bigger and bigger. It’s been melting a little but it needs more sunshine to get rid of those big banks. I still think farmers should get those tractors and loaders out and move all that snow to their fields. A very happy birthday to a very dear lady, Lorraine Crosby, who turns 88 on March 29. Have a wonderful day Lorraine. March 28, wishes go out to Cory Hammer on his birthday with lots more to come. Happy birthday to Karen Vanderhoof, to Lillian Strege, to Cory Stone, to Jessie Talbert and to Jerney Meister, all on March 29. Have a wonderful day. March 30, a very happy birthday to a little guy who turns 2 years old, Bentley Peterson. Have a fun day Bentley. March 31, a very happy birthday to Eleanor Huls and also to Esther Honetor who turns 79. Have a great day. Happy birthday to Erik Cassellius on April 1 when he turns 18 years old. Have a wonderful day Erik. Happy birthday wishes go out to Alicia Meister, Elsie Stellrecht, Don Dorriott, Justin Parker and Danielle Stariha who turns 40, all on April 2. Have a wonderful day all. Garry and Beth Crosby held a birthday blast for Lorraine Crosby on Sunday, March 23. Coming to help her celebrate were Shorty and Melissa Crosby, Tyler and Katie Ann, Tom and Sunshine Crosby, Isaac, Josie and Alycia, Gene and Donna Crosby, all of Kathy Spear’s girls plus lots more for supper. Beth tells us she made
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for the past few weeks, so they’ve been laying low, but he seems to be much better now. Good thing too because Thursday is his birthday and they will have a whole lot more fun celebrating now that he’s feeling almost up to par again. Pat Olson and I went to Stoughton this past weekend to visit with our brother-in-law, Butch Adams. Butch found out recently that he has cancer and will be having surgery this week. We would appreciate your prayers for Butch’s recovery. Duane’s daughter, Dawn Pieper, has also been told that she has cancer and will need surgery soon. We would also appreciate your prayers for Dawn. I can tell you a little more about what Pat Olson is doing up in Shell Lake now. She is planning to open an old-fashioned ice-cream parlor in that building just north of Lakeview that used to be a toy store. She’s having the entire inside of the building redone. It’s such a perfect location, right across the street from the beach and campground. I hope she does well there. One nice thing about her planning the ice-cream parlor thing, while we were in the Madison area, we stopped by Babcock Hall at the university and had some of their ice cream. They make it right at the ag department, so it’s very fresh and delicious. She won’t be getting ice cream from Babcock Hall, of course. They only sell to the Madison area. But, I’m hoping she will want someone to go with her to the local dairies to sample theirs. That’s the
homemade buns, cakes and a big hotdish plus lots of other foods. Wish I had her ambition. The Crosby family is looking forward to adding another little Crosby to their clan any day now. Next week I’ll tell you what it is if it’s here. Diane Hulleman tells us her sons, Steve and Chris Hulleman, were in the Twin Cities where they are working on a house that their sister, Jackie Perlt, bought and is fixing up. It will takeseven to eightweekends to finish. Diane tells us she made apple squares for the Lenten services on Wednesday. Our deepest sympathy to the family of Pat Rounce who passed away at 104. Pat was the head cook at Shell Lake High School where I went to school. She was a terrific cook and made everything from scratch except for cake, which was all so good. I remember when they had juicy burgers and those boys would keep holding out their plates for more. And those cooks just smiled and kept putting on those juicy burgers, up to four and if they ate those they could come back for more. And they would help themselves to at least three cartons of milk and other food. All for 17-1/2¢. Pat was a worker and she made everything great along with Esther Parker and LaVonne Ottoson. Sympathy to the family of Kathy Krantz who recently died. She will be missed. Our sympathy to the family of Dean Johnson who passed away recently in Arizona. His funeral was Saturday. Well, we had snow on Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday. It snowed and rained. Spring is here?
Sunday Carl and his son, Kevin Meister, visited Carl and Betty Meister and enjoyed supper with them. At Cecil and Evelyn Melton’s were daughter Robyn Melton from the Twin Cities. Saturday evening, coming for supper were Peggy Vesta, Don Lane, Vicki and Don Trott, Allan Melton and Robyn. Later they played the card game golf. Don Lane won. Bonita Best flew up to the Twin Cities to visit her folks, Jerry and Gretchen Best, and to see a lot of her girlfriends in the Twin Cities. While at the Bests’, Kelly Kobernick and two friends visited with Bonita along with Jerry and Gretchen. Bonita lives in Florida. Tuesday, March 25, was National Ag Day. Hats off to the farmers who put such good food on the table for all of us to enjoy. Talking with Butch VanSelus, says he’s sick of winter and that was his news for the week. Talking with Janice Melton we find she has bronchitis. Janice is looking to see the first robin of the season. Janie and Rick Lauterbach, Noah, Ellianna and Grace made supper and brought it to the Warren Quams and all enjoyed a great supper together. This was to celebrate Warren’s birthday, which was March 23. Noah spent Friday night and Janie came to get her son on Saturday. He loves the farm and says he’s going to be a farmer. Yep, I can see that snow rising about 18 inches right now. Scatter sunshine! Have a great week!
by Marian Furchtenicht
Winter just won’t let go. I see in my journal that two years ago the ice went out on my pond by this date and robins were here. This year, snowbanks have settled a bit, but have a lot of snow yet to go. Heard on the radio that it’s time bears will be coming out of hibernation and that’s a signal to take down bird feeders. They’ll be hungry and they have a good sense of smell. Last Sunday on 30th Avenue, Barronett, I saw three groups of three and four deer to a group run up the road for a long way before jumping off in the snow. Their poor legs must be sore with this crust on the snow. Drive careful as the deer are out on the roads. I got a call from Maxine Miller of King City, Calif., saying her husband’s grandfather was the one that built the old Miller House in Sarona that I had commented on in previous news and also was grandpa of Miles Miller of Shell Lake. He was Irvin Miller and he was a banker in Sarona. White Tail Ridge Campground welcomes back campers, and the Backwoods Bar will open for the season on March 29. The Katty Shack has a new owner and a new name. It is now called The Roost and will have an open house on Saturday, March 29, from 4-8 p.m. They have redecorated the dining room and now will have a bar menu. Wishing Jeff the best. So many dear friends have left us this past week. Sue Newman Lundstrom, 64, passed away unexpectedly at her home in Spooner on Saturday, March 15. Sue and late husband, Greg, lived here in West Sarona on the Peterson place by Little Kegama Lake for several years when their son, Blake, was young. She will be dearly missed by her son and grandson of Hampton, Va., sister Pat, her brother Bob and wife Nancy Newman and families and many friends and a very special lifelong friend Debbie Peterson Braunstein. Our condolences to the Krantz family in the death of Kathryn Krantz, 62, Frederic, wife of the late Gene Krantz and daughter-in-law of Elaine Krantz. Sympathy to the Dean Johnson family of Barronett in his untimely death at age 62. Glenn and the late Charlotte Campbell’s daughter-inlaw, Brynne Campbell, son David’s wife of Elk Mound,
passed away suddenly at age 37. Her funeral was held at the Olson Funeral Home in Menomonie on Thursday. Sympathy is extended. My late brother-in-law Donnie Clyde’s sister, Virginia Korthof, 84, Hayward, passed away after a bout with cancer. Her service was held March 24 at Anderson Nathan Home there with interment in the Earl Cemetery. Our dear Pat Rounce, 104, Shell Lake, lived a long life and was so loved by all. I see she and late husband, Everett, were married in the Depression years on the same date my parents were, Oct. 17, 1929. Sympathy is extended. The Barron Electric 78th-annual meeting will be held at the Barron High School on Saturday, March 29. One can register at 8 a.m. Meeting starts at 9 a.m. They will be giving away lots of prizes again this year. On Sunday, a baby shower was held for my granddaughter, Sara Marschall Mathison. It was hosted by her family at my house with 29 ladies and one man, Merle, attending. Elaine Ryan and Rocky Furchtenicht went to Stoddard to her sister, Amy Hansen’s, on Saturday for their late Christmas get-together for the Weitzenkamp family. Remember Lenten devotions will be held Wednesday, March 26, at 6 p.m., at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Shell Lake for the three local churches: Sarona and Shell Lake Methodist, Salem Lutheran and St. Joseph Catholic Church who rotate each week for a soup and sandwich supper. Sam Detrent is home after surgery at Lakeview Medical Center. The operation was successful and a good recovery is expected. Sam and wife Libbie feel blessed having such a good community surrounding them during their anxieties and challenges with so many cards and visitors along with the great care at the hospital. Happy birthday wishes to Andy Curtiss, Maximus King and Tiffany Schroeder, March 27; Elaine Krugar, Rachelle Hansen, Doug Millard and Hailey Bedner, March 28; Pam Ceronocky and Angelo Mancl, March 29; Carrie Olek, Marian Foged, Kya Coulter, Layne Meyers, Jack Brown and Gloria Frey’s mom, Dorothy Foltz, turns 101, March 30; Chuck Lutz, Bob Pease Jr., and Diane Pierce, March 31; Duane Butterfield, Audrey Cusick, Jon Rieten, Tom Smith, Bernadette Friedell and Mary Frey,
April 1; Dorothy LeMonie, Russell Campbell and J.J. Lehman, April 2. Wedding anniversary wishes to Tony and Rachelle Johnson, March 28; Keith and Dorinda Kemp, their 11th, on March 29; Bob and Becki Hall, March 31; and Tony and Shannon Ullom, April 2.
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