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The Country Todayrage /Prior to being accepted by the Rusk County Board as its new agricultural extension agent, Mr. Bauer had applied for extension positions in Washburn, Marquette and Richland counties. In fact, the person who was hired for the Richland County dairy and livestock agent position that Mr. Bauer was seeking was Tom Earleywine, who served as interim Rusk County agent when former County Agent Roger Flashinski was completing master’s degree requirements at the UW-Madison. Mr. Flashinski left Rusk County to join the UW-Extension pesticide management staff at Madison.paid for a project heifer ig breeder Hayhes Burch chasers of the calf, andFood stand survives moveLadysmithIt was business as usual for the Our Lady of Sorrows parish food stand at the The Rusk County Fair. But for the first time in 70 years, customers were not purchasing dinners at the old, wooden facility along the fairgrounds fence but were dining at a brand new building near the grandstand.The church has been providing food at the fair for longer than most people around here can remember. According to Gert Ludwig, a resident of Ladysmith for 82 years, the food stand was at the old location all that time.“We had a lot of fun and good times in that old building during the fair. We never had any problems getting help. It was a parish project,” said Mrs. Bogdan, who has worked at the stand from 35 to 40 years herself.There were several additions made to the old stand over the years, including the addition of a dish-washing room and some added seating space. “The years the facilities became very meager and crowded,” she said.The new stand was constructed by volunteer help and in a matter of a few days, said Mrs. Sieg.the Wednesday night before the “All the people just love the fair started when the old sign new building,” said Mrs. was placed on the new building. Bogdan.“There were 13 hammers all pounding at once,” said Mrs. Sieg, “Once we got started on the building, we received a lot of help.”“It could have been at the fair longer than that,” said Lucille Bogdan, who with Bev Sieg, is co-chairperson of the parish project. “That’s as close as we can figure when it was first started,” she added.The old building just wore out, Mrs. Bogdan explained. “The floors were old and the building needed other repairs in the kitchen area,” she said.Some work remains on enclosing some of the kitchen area along with some more painting but when the fair opened, the stand, the only one at the fair to serve complete dinners, was ready. Some additional equipment was purchased and the screened indoor eating capacity was increased from 58 to 108. The new building contains some built-in cupboards.Proceeds from the food stands have gone to the parish during all the years and the profits from the next couple of years will go toward paying for the new building.“We had to fight hard to get the new stand,” the chairpersons said. There were some questions when it was found the old stand was not meeting standards as whether the parish ought to continue the project. However, the supporters won approval from the parish council and the building was approved.Rusk County officialsanalyze first free fairLadysmithFair officials probably won’t know for a few days just how well Rusk County’s first free fair fared this year.The only charge to enter the grounds this year was $1 for parking or a $2 parking pass for the duration of the fair. However, admission was charged for the grandstand shows, whereas in the past the grandstand was free.night’s grandstand crowd for the demolition derby was good but Thursday and Saturday night crowds were down with attendance at the country western show Saturday night being well below the crowd for similar events in recent years.Income from the parking and from the entrance fees to the grandstand shows will not be determined until later this week, one fair board member said and it won’t be until then that the board will know if the free fair has been successful.Exhibitors and concessionaires on the midway said business was more steady than usual and said that was probably because of it being a free fair. One stand manager said that business had been good because people were coming back a second or third time because there was no charge.Officials said there appeared to be a more steady attendance at the fair throughout the day.One fairgoer said the free fair allowed him to spend more money at the fair for his family because they did not have topay to get in.But one farmer, who was having lunch with his wife and.« i uin Honrrhtof timenad 700 pounds of butterfat for the 60 cows on test.Hired within minutes after his interview with the Rusk County Board’s agriculture committee about 2Mi weeks ago, Mr. Bauer and his wife, Kerry, are not in unfamiliar territory. Both have i vacationed in the area as well i as in nearby Washburn and Sawyer counties. Mrs. Bauer is a native of the Milwaukee area and graduated from the Univer-j sity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a degree in biology and wildlife management.Mr. Bauer, after graduating from Mayville High School, received a degree in agricultural 1 economics from the UW-1 Madison and a master’s degree | in agriculture and resource ; economics from Oregon State 1 University.He says he will be of greatest assistance to Rusk County farmers in (1) dairy farm management; (2) dairy cattle production; (3) farm financial management; (4) forage production; and (5) in soil and water conservation.f V a I *1 Photos by Steve KindermanOn the |obSteve Bauer, new Rusk County agricultural agent, and his wife, Kerry, arrived in Ladysmith just two days prior to the start of the annual Rusk County Fair. _
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Country Today
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Aug 15, 1984
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