1983: Tim Bird competes in International Special Olympics
By Wally Smetana, Editor Emeritus
Monday, July 28, 2008 12:03 PM CDT
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Town of Weston residents will determine on Aug. 14 the fate of a proposed new town hall. It was decided at the annual town meeting to proceed with construction but Randy Werner has presented a petition signed by more than 50 township residents to the Town Board requesting a special town meeting. According to the petition, the special session will be held for the purpose of rescinding the action taken at the annual meeting... Local “Safe Routes to School” projects receiving grant funding include the Red Cedar Trail project, Menomonie trail and sidewalk improvements, and Elk Mound Elementary and Middle School “Safe Routes to School’ planning. The federally-funded program is an initiative to get more students in grades K-8 walking or biking to school...
UW-Stout’s Williams Stadium will be the site of two solid days of high school football Aug. 23-24 as Bob & Steve’s BP Amoco Shops present the sixth annual Gridiron Classic. Seven different teams will be making their first appearance in the classic — Whitehall, Unity, Bruce, Shell Lake, Clear Lake, Turtle Lake and Clayton... Sara J. Melchior, daughter of James and Kathleen Melchior of Eden Prairie, Minn., and Jacob G. Kuester, son of Thomas and Sandra Kuester of Menomonie, announce their engagement... A Classic Car Show sponsored by Menomonie Chrysler Center, Burstad Insurance Agency and Bill’s Distributing, will be held Aug. 4 at the Wilson Place Museum in Menomonie...
Daughter, Emily Jane Watts, born July 22 to Julie and Frederick Watts of Menomonie... Three finalists selected to be interviewed for the position of interim superintendent of the Menomonie School District. They are Kenneth Rogers, Eleva-Strum district administrator; Mark Heyerdahl, retired administrator of the Clear Lake district; and Ronda Beck Ewald, formerly with the St. Francis School District. The interview team will include school board members, an administrator, a teacher, one member of the support staff, and one community member. The person selected will replace Jesse Harness, who will become director of Cooperative Education Service Agency (CESA) No. 11 on Sept. 1...
What began with a humble mission of helping preschool children who were cognitively disabled has now spanned four decades. That mission evolved into The Arc of Dunn County and grew to encompass programs for adults with a motto of “advocating for the rights of citizens with cognitive disabilities.” Now, the nonprofit advocacy organization will celebrate with a 40th anniversary banquet at Grazi’s in Menomonie on Wednesday, Aug. 1. Kathy Lausted is the current director of the organization... Season of West Wisconsin Dynamo girls under-19 soccer team concluded on July 21 with a 4 to 3 loss to Hopkins in the Minnesota Youth Soccer Association (MYSA) district tournament. The team coached by Fran Rivard finished its season 3-4-1 in league play and 3-10-1 overall.
Wednesday, July 27, 1983
A gigantic picnic, designed to help Menomonie area residents and new UW-Stout freshmen to meet each other, will be held at 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 22, in Wakanda Park. Officially titled “Meet Menomonie Night,” the event results from an idea generated by the Community/University Relations committee, a group consisting of Stout staff members, students and townspeople. Samuel Wood, Stout’s dean of students, and Lee Score, Menomonie Area Chamber of Commerce executive director, said local “sponsorships” will be solicited from area residents... Menomonie school district voters at their annual meeting approve a 1983-84 tax levy totaling nearly $5 million. The levy will help finance a record $9,545,673 budget. The tax levy was $4.6 million in 1982-83...
Reigning today as Dunn County 4-H Queen is Julie Heit, who received the crown on Thursday afternoon from 1982-83 queen Sue Baier during ceremonies at the Dunn County Fair. Queen Julie, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Heit, Route 4, Menomonie, is a member of the Maple Hills club... The American Family/Brave Harvestore girls’ fastpitch softball team from Menomonie played well but lost two games at the Amateur Softball Association Great Lakes Regional tournament in Ann Arbor, Mich. The team was coached by Jim Bade... Denise Fruit, Route 6, Menomonie, and Randy L. Stalker, Route 1, Boyceville, were married June 18 at the United Methodist Church in Menomonie. Rev. Don Iliff and Rev. Paul Doering officiated...
With sirens sounding and a school band blaring, a parade of fire engines transported Boyceville’s Special Olympian up Main Street and to Boyceville High last Wednesday evening where a group of proud friends and neighbors had gathered to greet and congratulate him. Tim Bird, son of Bob and Linda Bird, had returned the day before from Baton Rouge, La., where he was one of 4,000 athletes from all 50 states and 53 countries participating in the sixth International Special Olympics. Some 65,000 spectators looked on as Tim performed in the softball throw and 200-meter run, placing sixth and seventh in these events, respectively... Elk Mound’s American Legion baseball team wins three of four games to advance to the championship game of the Region I Class A regional meet...
James Anderson and Douglas Larson, former members of the Menomonie Board of Education, presented desk sets at district’s annual meeting... Seven grand champions selected following judging in the dairy division at the Dunn County Fair. In the Holstein class, Dee Quilling, Spring Brook, had the grand champion registered female, and Jeff Pickerign, Maple Hills, had the grand champion grade female. The grand champion registered Guernsey female was shown by Luann Anderson, Elk Meadow, and Brian Voelker, Bodgett, had the grand champion grade Guernsey. Jamie Pellett, Little Elk Creek, exhibited the grand champion registered Jersey female, and Rodney Webb, Hatchville Hatchets, showed the grand champion grade female. The grand champion registered Ayrshire female belongs to Michele Maves, Cedarlings.
Wednesday, July 23, 1958
Assessed valuation of Menomonie for tax purposes is $17,743,524, according to Alice Kenney, city clerk. This is an increase of $580,524 over last year. Total real estate value is $15,856,550 and the personal property value is $1,886,974... Allen G. Champney, age 42, Dunn County game warden for the last 10 years, died suddenly of a heart attack last Saturday at his home at 1715 10th St. He associated with the Wisconsin Conservation Department after World War II and became a conservation warden in Stanley. In 1948, he was transferred to Dunn County as game warden and was serving in that capacity at the time of his death... Twenty-four Menomonie business firms will help sponsor horse racing at the Dunn County Free Fair, according to Herb Flick, Ted Richartz and Gordon Retzloff, committee members...
More than 200 persons attend annual meeting of Boyceville School District and approve free text books and insurance coverage with the district paying the cost. It was voted, too, to pay each school board member $3 per meeting attended and an eight cent mileage fee. A new five-man board was elected: Leslie Gaard, Raymond Score, Wm. Anderson, Denver Olson and Fred Lerch... Linda Drinkman, Downing, and Kenneth Voelker, Route 2, Boyceville, were married July 12 at the Connorsville Methodist Church by the Rev. J. Chris Everson... The Menomonie Old Timers hung with the Menomonie Eagles for five innings Sunday afternoon, but then a series of events opened the flood gates and the Eagles took a 12 to 2 win...
Ole C. Kausrud, age 81, former vice president of the First National Bank and a Menomonie businessman for more than 50 years, died after a long illness at his home, 903 Wilson Ave., Tuesday morning. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, he was elected vice president and a director of the First National Bank in 1924, a position he held until his retirement... Holstein-Friesian Association of America reports that the 33 registered Holsteins of Harry C. Dix & Son, of Menomonie, have completed new lactation averages of 17,795 pounds of milk and 549 pounds of butterfat. Lactation averages are calculated on two milkings a day, 305-day, mature equivalent... Sons born to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kufahl, Menomonie, July 17; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Wahl, Menomonie, July 19; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bowell, Menomonie, July 22...
Joe Gerlach, head football and basketball coach at Stout State College the last two years, accepts position at Winona (Minn.) State College. He will be head basketball coach and associate with the football team as line coach. No decision has been reached on Coach Gerlach’s replacement... Appointed postmasters by President Eisenhower, and confirmed by the Senate, are Clarence A. Hoppmann, Downing, and Joseph A. Gowin, Ridgeland... Menomonie City Council sells bonds totaling $125,000 at an interest rate of 2.802 percent with the funds earmarked for the development of Wakanda Park and to repay a previous loan for lake bank improvements... Legislative scholarships to attend Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire accepted by Karen Anderson, Sherry Gullickson and Shelby Dahl, all of Colfax, and Sonja Swenbeck, Boyceville.
Thursday, July 27, 1933
Activity is shown in lake shore property. C. J. Mowers recently purchased several lake shore lots adjoining his cottage on Tainter Lake, about five miles north of Menomonie, from Elmer Smith. Mr. Mowers expects to improve the lots, which will make him an attractive property... Services of a lifeguard at the municipal bathing beach will be discontinued Aug. 8 for the season. That date completes two full months of this service that has been provided by the city and to which the Rotary Club has contributed $50. Weeds at the beach were removed two weeks ago by two men in the employ of the city. More youngsters have frequented the beach this year than before. Violet Hawkinson has been in charge as life guard...
Company A’s infantry unit from Menomonie will arrive at the home station Saturday afternoon after having completed two weeks of training with other National Guard units at Camp Williams. Field maneuvers in the morning and schools and parades in the afternoon have given the units much to do in camp this year. On several occasions, Capt. Gustav A. Hitz., commander of the Menomonie unit, was instructor at non-com schools... Red Owl Food Store is selling a fresh-baked pound loaf of Harvest Queen white bread for six cents; two-pound box of Zion fig bars is 19 cents; two-pound package of mild American or brick cheese is 33 cents; 16-quart container of Sturgeon Bay cherries is $1.19; Schwahn’s fresh bologna is 12 cents a pound; six tall cans of Van Camp’s beans, with pork and tomato sauce, are 29 cents...
Large crowds flocked to Wakanda Park Sunday to watch five kittenball games: Forest Center 7, Elk Creek 6; Fall City 10, Chippewa Bottoms 6; Forest Center 10, Ridge Road 0; Elk Creek 25, Downsville 0; Waubeek 27, Beaver Creek 3. Downsville and Beaver Creek have been eliminated from the tournament and two of these four — Elk Creek, Waubeek, Ridge Road and Chippewa Bottoms — will be eliminated this Sunday when the following games are played: Forest Center vs. Fall City, Ridge Road vs. Chippewa Bottoms, Elk Creek vs. Waubeek, and Forest Center-Fall City loser vs. Ridge Road-Chippewa Bottoms winner... Rev. J. M. Woerth officiated at a double baptism at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Schadney, baptizing their daughter, Arzelee, and John Mark Bliss, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bliss of Knapp...
Business has been fine, far beyond expectations for this season, declared Frank Renee, veteran showman, here today on a business mission with his partner, William Sorenson, of the Ranee & Sorenson Show Co. Crowds had packed their tent wherever they have shown in upper Wisconsin, which is the territory the company covers this summer. The show is now at Birchwood, then goes westward into Polk County and gets down this way in about three weeks... From tool grinding to the judging of butter and other dairy products, the entire gamut of farm activities was available to the members of the faculty of the Dunn County Agricultural School who attended the summer conference of vocational agriculture teachers in Madison. Attending from here were Supt. D. P. Hughes, Principal R. C. Swanson, Albert Goodrich and Mrs. Genevieve Dutton.
Thursday, July 23, 1908
Another practical course has just been added to those already offered by the Stout Institute. A trade school will be established in September embodying in the course practical plumbing. Arrangements have been made with the Practical School of Plumbing & Heating, Minneapolis, whereby this school will move to Menomonie and become part of the Stout Institute. Prof. H. W. Jimerson, director of the former school will have charge of the new department, and his reputation as an instructor along this line, coupled with the world-wide reputation of the Stout Institute for thoroughness, will at once attract the attention and patronage of those seeking a practical education of this kind. This is the second step of the Stout Institute in the establishment of a Trade School, and is only one of many lines of trade school work which are to be taken up later...
Last Friday afternoon a severe wind and hail storm swept through the southwestern part of the county, doing serious damage to farm crops and other property. In many places the hail stones were as large as hen eggs, while in a few instances they were as large as goose eggs. Some were very irregular in shape, long and slender; others large angular blocks. All over the storm region, windows on the north and west sides of buildings were shattered. The church and school house at Stoops were considerably damaged in this way. In Hay Creek Valley, several farmers lost practically their entire crop... Report of condition of The First National Bank at Menomonie shows total resources of $815,176; The Bank of Elk Mound, $58,500; Schutte & Quilling Bank at Menomonie, $532,525...
The summer session of the Stout Institute begins next Monday for five week’s work. Up to Wednesday evening the enrollment was 67. Last year, the total enrollment was 49, and the year before, it was 21. It is not improbable that the total in attendance this year will reach 70. As it is, the increase in attendance is very satisfactory. The leading purpose of the summer school is to furnish an opportunity for all those persons interested in teaching, who cannot attend the regular courses, but who feel the need of strengthening themselves along the line of manual training work, to meet the growing demand for such work in the schools. The students of the summer school have the benefit of the entire equipment of the Stout Manual Training School building. The school will be in session six days of each week...
Charles Brehm of the town of Lucas called at the office Saturday and presented three magnificent clusters of Crimson Rambler roses. In the three clusters were 125 roses. We desire to express our appreciation of the flowers. Call again, Mr. Brehm... The beautiful weather of Sunday afternoon was enjoyed to the limit by the members of the Liederkranz and their families in a boat ride and picnic on Lake Menomonie. Carl Pieper’s steamboat and barge conveyed about 300 to the Point during the forenoon and a basket picnic was enjoyed by all. After dinner, there was singing and band music. Everybody enjoyed the music of the Liederkranz band, a newly organized institution composed of members of other musical organizations, and all members of the Liederkranz... Company H carried off second honors in collective shooting at Camp Douglas last week, getting 304 shots out of a possible 400. |
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