Greetings and welcome!
It has been a lot nicer week this week with reasonable temperatures and only a little rain. That is a welcome change from the high of 52 and rain last weekend or the hot and humid weather of the week before.
For me it was a very busy week with work, so I didn’t get out much. About the most exciting thing that happened was seeing an otter run across the road by the bridge over the Peshtigo River between High Falls and Caldron Falls Flowages last night.
This week brought a meeting between the Marinette Co Tourism Alliance and the Sheriff’s Dept and OWI Task Force representatives. The tourism alliance was getting a lot of contacts from businesses getting hurt by having the task force in the area regularly, and wanted to make contact.
They didn’t get anywhere. Task force reps stood their ground and maintained that they did not hurt business and tourism, and that the big drop in business was from gas prices. They also expressed their intent to apply for the 100k or so in grants next year as well.
This isn’t the first time that there have been complaints and contacts about the task force, but they just are not listening. I would expect to hear a lot more from businesses and event organizers being hurt by the task force.
Speaking of events, this is a big event weekend. I probably missed as many events as I have listed, but this is all that I know about right now.
Fri 8-02
Wabeno Family Fun Night and Street Dance- Town Hall Parking Lot, Wabeno
Saturday Aug 3
Menominee River float trip with Bear Point Yacht Club
Crivitz Legion Post gun & knife show- Crivitz town hall 8-2
St Hubert Shrine Picnic- 6 miles north of Hwy 8 on Shrine Rd, just west of Goodman
Lakewood- Huge arts & crafts show 9-3pm Lakewood town hall
Schoolhouse Bar in Mountain- Free corn roast- live music- burgers & brats 12-12am
Pig wrestling @Beaver’s Bar- live music at 8pm Hwy T off of 32 in Townsend
Townsend Flowage Assn Corn Roast- Townsend town hall
Lake Lucerne Family Fun Day & Auction- Lake Lucerne Association Pavilion , Crandon
Sunday 8-4
Laona Community Soup and Laona Souper Run 5K- Silver Lake Beach, Laona
That is news from here. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB