Elroy Public Library seeks volunteers to help with garden

By MARY WAARVIK | Elroy librarian Help! We need some help. At 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, we will do some gardening around the Elroy Public Library. We hope to divide our lilies, which are getting too crowded. Then we want to replant them in more spacious beds, with a...

Digging potatoes

Laurie Erickson (left), director of the Ontario Public Library, and volunteer Karen Austad of rural Ontario harvest potatoes Monday at the Ontario Community Garden, a library-sponsored project. Produce from the garden is available for free each Monday afternoon in the...

Ontario Legion Auxiliary meets

By KRISS HETZEL Ontario Legion Auxiliary Another successful July 4 celebration is past. Thank you to all who helped our organization in anyway; it is appreciated. Along with our chicken meal, we sold raffle tickets as fundraiser. Prize winners were the following:...

Ontario Public Library to host quilling workshop

By LAURIE ERICKSON | Ontario librarian Learn the art of quilling on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 9:00am at the library. Quilling uses strips of paper that are rolled to create patterns or figures, and they can be used on greeting cards or decorations. Betty Burch will...

Elroy Public Library to offer assorted events

By MARY WAARVIK | Elroy librarian Our kindergartners come for their monthly visit to the Elroy Public Library on Tuesday. You may want to delay your library visit Jan. 25 until after 12 p.m. ♦ ♦ ♦ Family Games Day is back! You are invited to play games of your choice...

South Ridge News for Jan. 16

By ALICE BRANDAU For the past 44 years, I have been involved supporting my husband Bob's dream of owning his own livestock auction barn. He had been selling for various auction barns, and it was time for another dream to come to fruition. He purchased the buying...

South Side News for Jan. 16

By MYRNA FAUSKA January is acting normally again after a respite over the weekend. As I sit here Tuesday morning, listening to our neighbor Steve Schumann plowing out our driveway, I am grateful for a warm abode and good friends who take care of us. The news is rather...

Senior menus for Jan. 20–24

Ontario meal site Meals are served at the Milk Jug Café, 103 N. Garden St. To make a reservation, call 337-4448. Monday, Jan. 20: Lasagna, spinach salad, corn, garlic bread and apple pie Tuesday, Jan. 21: Vegetable beef soup, cottage cheese, broccoli salad, orange...

Stepping Stones 4-H Club to hold rabies clinic Jan. 18

By TRENTON PASCH Stepping Stones 4-H Club Reporter Stepping Stones 4-H Club held its meeting and club activity at Chula Vista in Wisconsin Dells on Nov. 16. After the potluck supper, Mckenzie Skolos called the meeting to order. Jessie Wohlrab led the pledges. Denise...

Wilton Public Library to start knitting group

By GINA RAE | Wilton librarian The Wilton Public Library is taking the plunge and forming a knitting (or crocheting or crafting) group. Join us Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon to start a new project or get an old project over the hump. ♦ ♦ ♦ It is not too late to sign...

Knights of Columbus announces free-throw contest winners

The Knights of Columbus St. Christopher Council of Elroy, Wonewoc and Union Center hosted its free-throw contest on Jan. 12 at Royall High School. The following were first-place winners: • 10-year-old boys — Bryce Gruen • 11-year-old girls...

Births

A girl was born to Sarah Gerber-Hubbard and Dave Hubbard of Boscobel on Dec. 25 at Vernon Memorial Hospital in Viroqua.

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