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YOUTH TOUR

Electric Cooperative Youth Tour fosters civility.

June means dairy and D.C.

BEYOND BELIEF

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LETTER FROM

THE EDITOR Dairy State of Mind

June means different things to different people. To school-age kids, it means freedom. To their moms, it means shuttling them to T-ball, swimming lessons, or summer school. To some, it means opening the cabin up north for weekends away. To other Wisconsinites, it means dairy breakfasts and a time to celebrate our dairy heritage during June Dairy Month. Every June we feature dairy recipes from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board (WMMB) on page 20. WMMB is a great source of recipes featuring cheese, yogurt, ice cream, and other dairy goodness. At eatwisconsincheese.com, a foodie could get lost in all of the different recipe possibilities. If you have an interest in our state’s cheesy history, check out our Wisconsin Favorites feature “Say Cheese” on page 24. The National Historic Cheesemaking Center in Monroe will take you back in time to the very early days of Wisconsin’s cheesemaking glory. For folks here at the statewide association for electric cooperatives, June also means Youth Tour. Each year, Wisconsin’s electric cooperatives send a delegation of about a dozen youth to Washington, D.C. On page 8, we highlight how some of the brightest and best from our state spend the week visiting monuments and museums, meeting senators and members of Congress, and learning about the cooperative business model, with the hope that they may become tomorrow’s cooperative leaders. Happy June! Dana Kelroy, Editor

June 2016 Vol. 76 No. 12 The Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News (Formerly Wisconsin R.E.C. News) has been published monthly and distributed since July 1940 to members of Wisconsin’s non-profit, consumer-owned rural electric cooperatives. It is available to non-members for $10 per year or $28 for three years. Published for the Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association by Cooperative Network, 1 S. Pinckney St., Suite 810, Madison, WI 53703. Tom Liebe, president & CEO. USPS number: 688-480. Postmaster: please send address changes to Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, 1 S. Pinckney St., Suite 810, Madison, WI 53703. Periodicals postage paid at Baraboo, Wis. Send correspondence to Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, 1 S. Pinckney St., Suite 810, Madison, WI 53703. Phone (608) 258-4400. Web site: www.wecnmagazine.com. Co-op Members: Please send address changes to your local electric co-op. Contact information can be found on page 18. Steve Freese Dana Kelroy Mary Erickson David Hoopman Ann Bailey Tina Walden Geri Miller

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One of 15 Wisconsin students on the 2015 Youth Tour, Julia Szepieniec from Eau Claire Energy Cooperative, proudly wears rubber cheese erasers around her neck on last June’s Youth Tour. Participants from each of the 40-plus states that send delegates bring trinkets identifying their home state to trade with other delegates.

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Three Western Wisconsin public schools—Alma Area School, Cochrane-Fountain City School, and De Soto Area Middle & High School— will receive solar generation systems through Dairyland Power Cooperative’s Solar for Schools initiative. ABLE Energy of River Falls will build and maintain the 12-kilowatt installations. The systems are targeted for operation by the beginning of the 2016–17 school year. The systems’ energy output will partially offset the schools’ usage, and each school will have access to online monitoring of power production for teaching purposes.

TRANSMISSION PROJECT PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY

Delegation to the District Sixty-five Wisconsin electric cooperative directors, managers, and employees comprised one of the larger state delegations among more than 1,500 co-op leaders in Washington, D.C., for last month’s National Rural Electric Cooperative Association spring legislative conference. Issues raised in Capitol Hill visits included support for legislation ensuring continued recycling of coal ash and extending tax credits for energy-efficient geothermal heat pump systems. Shown here, the delegation gathers for discussions with staffers of both Wisconsin senators, and smaller groups fan out for visits to the offices of representatives serving their congressional districts.

HIGHER EAGLE “TAKE” NUMBERS PROPOSED A 60-day comment period opened May 4 on an Obama administration proposal to revise federal wind farm permits, nearly quadrupling the number of bald eagles that could be killed by wind turbines without penalty to the operators. The proposal would allow up to 4,200 bald eagles to be killed or injured annually, according to an Associated Press report that cited the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) estimating the U.S. bald

eagle population at 143,000. The FWS initially issued the revision in 2013. The comment period is in response to a federal judge ruling last August that the agency adopted the change unlawfully by classifying it as an administrative revision to a 2009 rule, thus avoiding full environmental review. The proposal would also extend the length of turbine operating permits to 30 years, from the current five.

The American Transmission Company (ATC), Dairyland Power Cooperative, and Iowa-based ITC Midwest hosted open houses in May to present potential routes for a new 345-kilovolt, 125-mile transmission line between Middleton, Wisconsin, and Dubuque County, Iowa. Benefits, according to ATC, include “expanding electric infrastructure to support public policy for greater use of renewable energy,” referring to export of Great Plains wind generation to eastern population centers. ATC said applications will be filed in 2018 and ’19, with completion expected in 2023.

CALIFORNIA FACING BLACKOUT RISK

Golden-State residents could be reliving their electricity crisis of the early 2000s, this time because a five-month methane leak at a Southern California Gas Company storage facility may leave power producers short of generation fuel. Sixteen years ago, Californians faced rolling blackouts because of energymarket manipulation after state lawmakers restructured the electric utility industry. Now, utilities have asked for restrictions on gas usage as the Aliso Canyon storage facility’s contents may have dwindled to one-fifth of capacity. Though the leak was believed permanently sealed in April, officials warned that power curtailments could occur on as many as 14 days this summer.

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n a mild Monday evening less than a week after Mardi Gras, 18-year-old Collin Craig was sitting in a downtown New Orleans hotel room talking to himself. He wasn’t having some sort of psychological episode; he was practicing an important speech. The next day Collin would stand on a stage in a giant exposition hall at the New Orleans Convention Center. Behind him would be a dazzling array of video screens, some projecting his image larger than life. In front of him would be a sea of 6,000 faces, all several decades older than him, and all quietly waiting to hear what this high school senior from Slocomb, Alabama, had to say. Tuesday morning arrived, and Collin stood backstage in the green room waiting. The emcee called his name, music started playing, and Collin climbed up the steps and into the spotlight. He stood at the podium, and, reading from the kind of teleprompter that’s typically reserved for presidents, told the crowd gathered for the 74th annual meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) about the journey he’d taken in the past year. A year earlier, Collin had been selected by Wiregrass Electric Cooperative to participate in the 2015 Electric Cooperative Youth Tour. Every June, nearly 1,700 students from electric cooperatives across the country, including 12 from Wisconsin, converge in our nation’s capital for the Youth Tour. Students spend the week visiting monuments and museums, meeting senators and members of Congress from their state, learning about leadership and the cooperative business model, and forging lifelong friendships with fellow Youth Tour participants from far-away places who were strangers just a few days before. Each of the 44 states that participate in the program selects one member of its delegation to represent it on the Youth Leadership Council. Members of the council come back to Washington for additional leadership development experiences, serve as youth ambassadors at events hosted by their state’s electric co-ops, and represent their states at the annual meeting of America’s electric cooperatives. The Youth Leadership Council elects one of its

“At the start of this whole process, I didn’t even know what a co-op was at all,” Shantelle said.

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of how I’d like our country to run.”

members to be the group’s spokesperson and deliver an address at the annual meeting. Last year, the council selected Collin. In his speech, Collin told the audience, “there is a bigger picture that can only be reached through the actions we take to make the world a better place. We can’t do that by ourselves. It’s a collective effort from the leaders in our community who take action and look beyond their own lives.” When he concluded his remarks, he was given a standing ovation, and NRECA President Mel Coleman praised Collin and his 43 fellow members of the Youth Leadership Council. Though Collin was the man in the spotlight at the annual meeting, all Youth Leadership Council members are leaders in their schools, communities, and extracurricular activities. Shantelle Des Marais, a freshly minted high school graduate from Pipestone, Minnesota, is one of them. As a three-sport athlete and competitive dancer, Shantelle keeps a busy schedule. Though she is active in her community, coaching children enrolled in beginner gymnastics and track programs at the local rec center, she had never really paid attention to politics. Last year, she saw a flyer for a program sponsored by her local electric cooperative, Sioux Valley Energy, called EmPower Youth Leadership. She talked to her school counselor and applied for the program. After completing the program, she was selected to be a member of the Minnesota Youth Tour delegation, and was later chosen to be the state’s Youth Leadership Council delegate. “At the start of this whole process, I didn’t even know

It’s not just a vacation

Wisconsin electric cooperatives have sponsored National Youth Tour delegations—typically of about a dozen highschool students and recent graduates—annually since the mid-1960s. Offering education, training, and information is a component of the co-op business model’s governing principles and the Youth Tour, coordinated by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, is part of a broader effort to cultivate future leaders for the cooperative business sector. The Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association’s Youth Leadership Congress at UW–River Falls, initiated the same summer as the Youth Tour, marked its 50th anniversary in 2013. Most participants earn the trip through home-state essay competitions, service in junior board programs, as co-op youth ambassadors for their sponsoring cooperatives, or as members of statewide youth panels. Many from Wisconsin are members of the statewide Youth Board elected at the preceding summer’s Youth Leadership Congress.

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1. Collin Craig, national Youth Leadership Council spokesperson, addresses more than 6,000 attendees at the 74th annual meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. 2. The Youth Leadership Council members participate in a flag ceremony at the 74th annual meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Adam Kramer (fourth from left) of Mauston represented Wisconsin’s electric co-op youth. He was sponsored by Oakdale Electric. 3. The 2015 Wisconsin Youth Tour delegation met with Senator Tammy Baldwin at the Hart Senate Office Building. 4. L to R: Congressman Ron Kind speaks to 2012 Wisconsin Youth Tour delegates Billy Marshall and Jake Joseph, both sponsored by Richland Electric Cooperative.

what a co-op was at all,” Shantelle said. “Now I’ve learned so much about the model and the Seven Cooperative Principles, and it reminds me of how I’d like our country to run. I wish we could all keep those principles in mind and be good to one another.” Her experience with Youth Tour and the Youth Leadership Council inspired the 18-year-old to get involved in her first presidential election. Not only did Shantelle caucus for the first time, she was selected to be a county delegate. “The best thing about this whole experience is that it has opened my eyes to different possibilities,” she said. Another young woman who participated in this eye-opening program was Emma DeMaranville from Tonganoxie, Kansas. Emma was familiar with her local electric cooperative, but had no idea how many different types of cooperatives there are and the impact they’ve had throughout the United States and the world. “Every kid on Youth Tour has big aspirations, and their goals inspired me to do something with my career and future that could make an impact,” Emma said. “Being in the nation’s capital with some of the most passionate and intelligent

people I have ever met made me feel like I could do anything.” One common theme mentioned by all three of these young leaders was the need to cooperate, be respectful, and find common ground to solve problems. Collin recounted the many spirited conversations he had with other YLC delegates on important issues. “There were times when we might have different opinions, but there were never any fights, rivalries, or hatreds. In fact, we used these debates to strengthen each other. We learned how to unite. Diversity doesn’t cause adversity, it can demolish it,” he said. Emma said she’s gained a better understanding of other people, and the similarities and differences in their lives. “I want to do bipartisan work to make a difference for the people around me. Youth Tour helped me see the struggles others face, and has instilled in me a desire to create change on a global level.” Shantelle said her experiences have helped her realize that great leaders are real people, too. “You go to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial or the Lincoln Memorial, and you think about the great things these leaders did and how they helped me get where I am today. It always feels like something so far off.

But then I got to meet my senators and you realize that they’re real people and maybe I could do this some day.” All three of these students plan to attend public universities in their home states this fall, and say the experiences they’ve gained over the past year have influenced what they’ll study and how they plan to live their lives after college. Youth Tour is a joint investment made by your local electric cooperative, the Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. When Youth Tour participants arrive in Washington each June, the expectation is that they will learn from our political leaders and be inspired to do great things in their communities. Based on the wisdom and maturity displayed by these youth, our future is certainly bright, and our current elected leaders could learn as much from the students as the students learn from them. Justin LaBerge writes on consumer and cooperative affairs for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Arlington, Va.-based service arm of the nation’s 900-plus consumer-owned, not-for-profit electric cooperatives.

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he relationship between Wisconsin’s electric cooperatives and Eau Claire’s Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) is well-established. As noted in “Who’s Next?” describing co-op employers managing generational change, (Wisconsin Energy Cooperative 8 News, December 2015), the school is “a training hub for electric utility workers.” That story looked inside CVTC’s state-of-the-art Energy Education Center, a facility for teaching basic electrical operations and energy efficiency. This story moves outdoors, for a close-up view of the technical college preparing students in multiple disciplines to perform life-saving work in perilous conditions without becoming accident victims themselves. On a rainy Saturday morning this spring, instructors, students, and professionals from across the upper Midwest gathered at CVTC’s lineworker training area to stage a real-time simulation of a familiar scenario: a highway accident involving a car that lost a fight with a power pole and operations to eliminate deadly electrical hazards and rescue the vehicle’s occupants.

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1. To set the stage for the simulation, chainsaw-equipped personnel toppled a fully rigged (but non-energized) pole on a junked car in the school’s lineworker training area, called the electrical power distribution field. 2. “Trapped” inside the damaged vehicle, participants in the simulation use a cell phone to call for help. 3. CVTC Instructor Kim Nessel—a retired Eau Claire Fire Department battalion chief—briefs student and non-student participants on what to expect in the simulation. 4. Students in the CVTC Fire and Rescue program arrive at the accident scene and prepare to aid “victims.” In a real accident situation, physical contact with the vehicle’s exterior could have fatal consequences. 5. A Chippewa Valley Electric Cooperative bucket truck waits in the wings, prepared to roll in on cue to simulate a real-time arrival. 6. Chippewa Valley Co-op lineworker Mike Sedlacek, assisted by an electric power distribution student, manipulates an orange fiberglass “shotgun” or “hot stick” to safely attach cables grounding the downed line on either side of the vehicle—standard procedure in such situations even when the line has been de-energized—to ensure the occupants can exit or be removed without risk of shock to them or emergency responders. 7. Assured that the vehicle is now isolated from electrical current, fire and rescue personnel move in to secure it against any integral ignition source and free its occupants. 8. Mechanical assistance is employed to breach a damaged car door and extract a trapped “victim.” 9. Safely removed from the damaged car, an accident victim is prepared for transportation to a medical facility. 10. Student firefighters stand by to guard against any flare-up; even when the situation appears to be in hand, spilled fuel can present a fire hazard. June 2016

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Several days after the exercise, we talked with Randy Larson, job training and safety instructor in CVTC’s apprentice lineworker program. We asked him if the simulation was typical of utility training programs or something unique. “Very much unique,” he replied. “It’s the first time we’ve ever done it.” The exercise was one offering in a threeday seminar for 121 lineworkers from electric co-ops, municipal, and investor-owned utilities across Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois, Larson explained. “It gave all these linemen and emergency personnel from our emergency services education center the opportunity to be familiar with what the other trades have to know and understand so they don’t get themselves hurt in a situation they may encounter in the future,” he said. With the self-effacing attitude often seen among the industry’s safety and job training specialists, Larson gave the credit to others. “Thank goodness we have power companies that will volunteer their men and equipment to come up here for three days so they can get enhanced training and a chance to work with new technologies and practices,” he said. “If it wasn’t for our participating companies, lineman training wouldn’t be what it is today.” —Dave Hoopman, Photos by Keith Wohlfert of Adams–Columbia Electric Cooperative

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Grilled Fruit Kabobs with Tropical Yogurt Sauce 6 Bamboo skewers, 8â€“10 inches long 6 oz Key lime pie yogurt 3 oz Wisconsin cream cheese, softened 2 tsp sugar 1/8 tsp imitation coconut extract (optional) 1 Tbsp lime juice 1 Tbsp butter, melted 1 small pineapple, peeled and cored 1 lb large firm, fresh strawberries 2 large firm, fresh nectarines or peaches, pitted and cut into wedges

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Marinated Feta Salad 8 oz Wisconsin feta cheese, cut into 3/4inch cubes 1/2 cup olive oil 1/4 cup white wine or rice vinegar 1/3 cup Kalamata olives, halved 1/4 cup red onion, diced 1/4 cup yellow pepper, diced

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Combine eggs, sugar, and butter; beat until thick and fluffy. Add corn syrup; beat until fluffy. Add walnuts, raisins, and vanilla. Beat gently and turn into pie shell. Bake at 375 degrees for 30–40 minutes, until firm in the center.

Mix together dry ingredients and cream with shortening. Put on top of walnut mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 20–30 minutes.

a recipe popular 50 years ago for Eskimo Pies. They are little round cookies that were not baked, had oatmeal in them, and were stored in the refrigerator. If you can help, have a request of your own, or would like to submit a recipe for publication, please write to Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, What’s Cooking? 1 S. Pinckney St., Suite 810, Madison, WI 53703-2869 or contact us via our website, www. wecnmagazine.com. Thanks!

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That’s reason enough to make any June Dairy Month a major holiday in Wisconsin. This year, however, there’s even more reason to celebrate, as a Wisconsin cheese recently won the World Championship Cheese Contest for the first time in nearly 30 years. A hard cheese produced in the city that bills itself as the Swiss Cheese Capital of the U.S.A.—Monroe—by Fitchburg-based Emmi Roth USA became the first cheese made in the United States to take top honors since Grantsburg’s Burnett Dairy Cooperative won in 1988. It’s just one more cheesy accolade for Monroe, where the state’s very first cheese factory opened in 1868. This city is home to the National Historic Cheesemaking Center, a museum that pays tribute to the state’s cheesemaking heritage, chronicling the industry from the 1800s, when there was a cheese factory at almost every crossroads in the state, to today. The museum covers all aspects of the industry, from 24

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WISCONSIN EVENTS 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Concerts at the Portage––Portage. VFW, 6:30 p.m. 1 Ice Cream and Homemade Pie Social–– Fennimore. St. Peter Lutheran Church, 6:30–8:30 pm. 2 Salad Lunch and Bake Sale––Adams. A-F VFW, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. 3, 4 Village Wide Garage Sale & Brat Fry––Fall River. Sales start 8 a.m.; brat fry 10 a.m. 3, 4 Indian Tacos & Rummage Sale––Tigerton. Zion Lutheran Church, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. 3 – 5 Garage Sales––Lodi. 3 – 5 June Dairy Days––Thorp. Northside Park. Free admission, carnival rides, food, baseball tournament, truck & tractor pulls, music, parade on Sunday. 715-864-6977. 4 Walking Tour––Portage. Portage Area Chamber of Commerce ofﬁce, 10 a.m. 608-742-6242. 4 Salute to Rhubarb Fest––Fountain City. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Games, food, arts & crafts, entertainment, rhubarb tasting contest. 608-687-8419. 4 Fun Fest––Fennimore. 9 a.m.–10 p.m. Kid’s games, food, kickball tournament, car show, garden tractor pull. Parade, car cruise, ﬁreworks. 608-485-0820.

9 – 11 Book, Bake, & Plant Sale––Westﬁeld. Library. 608-296-3895. 10 Paddling Through the Season River Kayak Trip––Cable. Natural History Museum, $37 member/$45 non-member. 715-798-3890. 10, 11 Northwoods Bluegrass Festival–– Ladysmith. Rusk Co. Fairgrounds. Bands, camping, food, workshops. 715-532-7328. 11 Lupine Junefest––Mercer. Carow Park. Bike tour, arts & crafts, car show, music, food. 11 Motostatic––Pardeeville. Chandler Park. Cars, music, train rides, tractor pull. 608-697-0347. 9 – 11 Canal Days––Portage. Parade, citywide garage sales, food, face painting, canoe rides, tours. Flea market at Veteran’s Memorial Field. 11 Gilbert Brown Foundation Car Show & Benefit–– Montello. Wilderness Campground. 11 Wildflower Phenology Hike––Cable. FLNT Trailhead, 9–11 a.m. 715-798-3890. 11 Firemen’s Steak Feed––Fennimore. Fire Station, 5 p.m. 800-822-1131.

4 Crawford Co. Dairy Breakfast—Eastman. Achenbach Farm, 6–10 a.m. 608-326-8555.

11 Strawberry Sociable––Westﬁeld. Historical Society, 1–3 p.m.

4 Astronomy Program––Bagley. Wyalusing State Park, Huser Astronomy Center, 8:30 p.m. 608-996-2261.

12 Plant Sale––Eau Claire. Phoenix Park, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. 715-271-1259.

4 Open House and East Wing Dedication–– Neillsville. Clark County Humane Society, Saturday, 12 – 3 p.m. 4, 5 Wisconsin’s Free Fun Weekend––Statewide. Free ﬁshing, free admission to state parks, trails, and free ATV riding on public trails. 5 Airport Spring Fly-In––Wild Rose. Idlewild Airport, breakfast 8–11 a.m.; pig roast 11:30 a.m. until gone.

9 – 11 Lake Redstone 50-Year Anniversary–– Reedsburg. Chamber of Commerce, Thur. 3 p.m.; Fri. 3 p.m.; Sat. 11 a.m. Illustrated history at Reedsburg Center.

12 Car Show, Swap, Craft, and Flea Market–– Spooner. Washburn Co. Fairgrounds, 6:30 a.m.–2 p.m. 12 Dairy Breakfast––Neillsville. Magnusons’ Mini Acres, 7 a.m. – 12 p.m. 16 Antique & Tractor Expo––Phillips. Price Co. Fairgrounds, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 715-339-3652. 16 – 19 Prairie Villa Rendezvous––Prairie du Chien. St. Feriole Island. 563-873-3648.

8, 22 Lodge Tour—Cable. Forest Lodge Trail, 9–11 a.m. $5 per person. 715-798-3890.

17, 18 Thrift Sale––Cornell. Our Savior’s Church, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. 715-239-6442.

9, 16, 23, 30 Free Summer Concerts in the Park— Prairie du Chien. Lawler Park’s South Gazebo, 6:30–8 p.m. 608-326-7207.

17 – 19 Czech-Slovak Festival––Phillips. High School; ethnic food, entertainment, vendors, queen pageant.

9, 10 Harvest of Talents Garage Sale––Ladysmith. First Church of Christ, Thur. 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m.–1 p.m.

17 – 19 Wizards of Rods Fun Run––Warrens. Jellystone RV Park, Fri. 4:30 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.; Sun. 2:30 p.m. 608-985-8040.

18 Moo-Day Brunch––Lodi. Miller’s 4th Generation Homestead, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. 608-635-2858. 18 Summer Sizzler––Randolph. Downtown. Food, fun, and entertainment. 18 Flag Day Follies––Holcome. United Methodist Church, 6 p.m. 715-312-0268. 18, 19 Festival––Montello. St. John the Baptist, Sat. 9 a.m.–10 p.m.; Sun. 7:30– 10:30 a.m. 24, 25 Community-Wide Garage Sales––Necedah. Maps at Village Hall. 608-565-2895. 24, 25 Huge Rummage & Bake Sale––Tomah. Queen of Apostles School, Fri. 8 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.–2 p.m. 608-372-3498. 24, 25 Brat Stand Fundraiser––Portage. Walmart, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. 608-253-5600. 25 Family Fun Festival––Poynette. Farmers market 8–11 a.m. followed with a parade, bed race, human foosball tournament, ongoing kids games, face painting, crafters, music. 25 Summer Concert––Fall River. Savanna Oaks Community Center, 5 p.m. 920-4846257. 25 Fishing Extravaganza––Necedah. Old Mill Park in Necedah, registration begins at 6:30 a.m. 608-565-2895. 25 April in Paris Fundraiser––Ladysmith. Tee Away Supper Club, 5:30 p.m. 715-5323453. 25 Harvest of Talents Garden Party––Bruce. Arian and Arlene Knops, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. 715-868-2886.

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