Rural America museum addition planned at Chippewa Valley Museum
Groundbreaking for a two level 14 400 square foot rural and farming museum addition is set for June at the Chippewa Valley Museum overlooking Half Moon Lake. The $216 000 project will be funded by donations and seeks $90 000 in private contributions to match a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. The addition will display farming implements and rural Wisconsin life from settlement to World War II with rotating exhibits and live displays including hatchery chicks.
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Chippewa Valley
Eau Claire
Carson Park
Pat Kelcher
Commissioner of Agriculture
Kelcher
Chippewa Valley Museum
Half Moon Lake
Wisconsin
America
Bjerke
Fall Creek
Lotz
Nelson seeks change in land sale rules
Senator Gaylord Nelson introduces bills to narrow HUDs Interstate Land Sales Registration enforcement and curb overreach by excluding intrastate developers from broad interstate rules. He cites studies and hearings showing consumers face higher land prices and excessive paperwork. Exemptions would apply to limited cross border sales and nearby purchasers with required assurances filed with OILSR.
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Nelson
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Office of Interstate Land Sales Registration
OILSR
Sen
Home landscaping meeting in Eau Claire planned
Dr. Robert Tomesh UW River Falls extension horticulturist will lead a March 28 meeting at 7 p.m. in Eau Claire County Courthouse extension office room 133. He will cover basics of landscape design tree and shrub selection planting pruning and care and creating focal points such as rock and flower gardens. A $3 material fee applies. Contact the Eau Claire County Extension Office at 839-4712 to attend.
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Trempealeau County
Robert Tomesh
Uw-River
Tomesh
Eau Claire County
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Robert Lotz
Martin
Pat) Keliher
Keliher
National Endowment For the Humanities
John Carroll
Dolly Madison Dairies
la Verne Ausman
Elk Mound
Chauncey Cooke
Ed Baker
SCS
Gene Brack
Mr. Kelcher
Dr. Lotz
Mr. Keliher
Pat Keliher
Old Abe
Washington, D.C
Congress
Trempealeau
Arcadia
Trempealeau Electric Cooperative
Ed Ausderau
OILSA
U.S
EMBRO
Ramy-Embro
Jerry Garfoot
Elroy
Landoll
Lindsay
Are
Eau
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