South Side News for Feb. 1

By MYRNA FAUSKA

Happy Groundhog Day! Several years ago, my brother-in-law and some of his coworkers in Racine found a picture of a groundhog and put it in their favorite watering hole, beginning an annual Groundhog Day celebration. The guys have gone to greener pastures, and the bar where they met has changed hands several times, but I still remember some good food and seeing that photo when we went in with my sister and family for lunch.

Update on Evelyn Zirk: She was back in her new digs at Milestone Assisted Living in Hillsboro for a few days last week, and then ended up back at Gundersen St. Joseph’s Hospital with pneumonia. She is expected to get back to her new home by the time you read this. Son Randy of Madison was there to see her Thursday.

Steve Schumann and Deb Wood, along with Bryana and Scott, picked up some friends last weekend and went to La Farge High School for Special Olympics.

On Friday evening, Ron and Arlene Garvens and Jim and Mary Parkhurst enjoyed their meal in Elroy at Valley Inn.

On Saturday the Marty family were at a basketball game at Brookwood High School to see Layla play. Afterward they went to Chula Vista in Wisconsin Dells for METCO’s Christmas party and spent the night there. On Sunday Brett Marty got another first when he wrestled in Tomah.

Friday was Lynette Vlasak and Sally Dana’s birthday, so Allan and Heather Vlassak, Chip and Mary Marty and kids, Jane Vlasak, Esther Vlasak, David and Kathy Snyder, Dave and Mary Sterba, Mariane Weidenbach of Viroqua and Lori Cherf of Hillsboro all gathered at Beezer’s Bar and Grill in Hillsboro to celebrate.

On Saturday, Allan Vlasak joined Lynette and Sally as they went to Brookwood to see Layla Marty play basketball with the third-grade girls.

Lynette and Sally joined Carol Fronk, Eileen Richie, Donna Gosselin and Linda Parrish for mahjong on Wednesday. On Saturday evening, they were at the UW-La Crosse student union for the Robert Burns supper fundraiser for the La Crosse Highlanders Bag Pipers.

This week, our sympathy goes out to one of our Helpful Homemaker gals, Noel Moser, as her husband Fred has gone home to his Lord. The funeral will be Saturday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Kendall at 11 a.m., with visitation before the service.

There is a small stone cross on my desk with the inscription, “The WORD of the LORD endures FOREVER.” How true that is. When life gives us lemons, make lemonade, and when life gives us heartaches, go to the scriptures. Just open the Bible to the middle, and you can find a Psalm to take care of any crises and even the joys in your life.

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