August 15, 2014

Grandstand Act Surprises Radio Park Audience

 

8/15/14 – A special guest joined Geoff Landon and the Wolfpack on the Radio Park Stage Thursday night. The crowd exploded as country singer Easton Corbin approached Radio Park Stage last night after playing on the Grandstand at the Dodge County Fair. Easton Corbin and his band quickly jumped in and played his own hits for the audience. Easton Corbin says they try to interact at the local stages if they have a chance to do so. Corbin signed autographs and took pictures with fans after he was done playing at Radio Park.

 

Today is Day Three of the Dodge County Fair and Friday night in “rock night.’ Classic rockers Cheap Trick is taking the Grandstand Stage at 8pm. Alexis is playing on the Radio Park Stage afterwards at 9:30pm Today is also “Healthy Kids Day” at the fair and there will be plenty of kid’s games at Radio Park, along with music provided by local 4-H-ers. The 4H also celebrates its centennial this year. Items will be placed in a time capsule to be opened in 25 years.

 

The 19th Annual Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Contest will be held this evening at 5pm at Radio Park on the Dodge County fairgrounds. The event will again begin with our greatest celebrities: the veterans of our armed services. Representatives from the American Legion, VFW, Am Vets, Marine Corps League and Badger Honor Flight will compete along with the keynote speaker of next month’s American Hero’s Music Festival. State and county elected officials will challenge stars of stage, screen, television and even the water. Dodge County Fairests of the Fair from the 1980s, 90s and today will also be wolfing down pastries in pursuit of the Sweetest of the Fair Trophy. The event will wrap up with winners of years past vying for the coveted Fastest of the Fair trophy. It will broadcast live during the Barn Show on beginning at 5pm on 95.3 WXRO. The cost to enter the fair before 2pm is $7 and after 2pm is $10. There is no additional charge for the grandstand acts, the cream puff contest or parking.

 

Horicon Man Injured Recreating Pilgrimage In Alaska

 

8/15/14 – Three hikers, including at least one from Dodge County, were rescued while on a pilgrimage to a famous abandoned bus in the Alaska wilderness.  Forty-five year old Thomas Young of Horicon, 29-year-old Matthew Peot of Milwaukee, and Kenneth Young — whose hometown was not disclosed — were trying to get to the dilapidated bus made famous by the book-and-movie “Into the Wild.”  A State Patrol spokeswoman said the group ran into high river water — and they camped for a few days to see if the water would get low enough to cross the river.  Their journey ended when Thomas Young tripped and hurt himself with an ax.  His injuries were minor.  The incident happened August sixth, but it was not publicized by the Alaska State Patrol until Wednesday.  It occurred about 180 miles north of Anchorage near the entrance to the Denali National Park and Reserve.   Authorities are often called to help people hiking to the bus used in the film “Into the Wild” — which chronicled the life of Alaskan hiker Chris McCandless who spent four months living in the bus while on a hike there in 1992.  He died on the bus from starvation.

 

Beaver Dam Man Charged In 2012 Pharmacy Burglary

 

8/15/14 – A 23-year-old Beaver Dam man accused of breaking into a Horicon pharmacy two years ago had cash bond set at $1000 dollars during an Initial Appearance in Dodge County court.  Colton Haase allegedly broke into the Marshland Pharmacy and stole cash and pills. Charges come less than a month after jail house confessions by two people reportedly connected to Haase. The two told investigators that Haase threw a rock through the window to see if there was an alarm and walked around the block for 10 minutes. After he came back and there were no police, he told them that he went into the pharmacy. The informants said Haase kept a large amount of stolen Xanax, Oxycontin and Percocet hidden in Tupperware bins in abandoned trains. They also implicated a third person as the getaway driver. That third person was apprehended late last month and, when questioned, implicated another person as the getaway driver, someone who died of an overdose on the allegedly stolen pills. A judge will decide next week if there is enough evidence for Haase to proceed to trial. If convicted, Haase faces a combined maximum of 20 years in prison.

 

Harris Proceeds To Trial In Assault

 

8/15/14 – A Beaver Dam man accused of rape will proceed to trial. Jermaine Harris has waived his right to a preliminary hearing on charge of Third Degree Sexual Assault. The 41-year-old allegedly took advantage of a woman and ultimately forced himself on the victim. Prosecutors say, Harris appeared “shocked” when investigators told him about the alleged sexual assault, saying that he had no idea what they were talking about. Harris remains jailed on a $20-thousand dollar cash bond. The felony carries a maximum prison term of ten years, if he is convicted. Harris will be arraigned next month.

 

13-Year-Old Arrested For Driving Drunk

 

8/15/14 – Manitowoc Police stopped a car late Wednesday night for not having its headlights on, and the driver turned out to be just 13 — and intoxicated.  The officer was a drug recognition expert who arrested the young girl for O-W-I, and for having child passengers in the vehicle at the time.  Five young people, ages 14-and-under, were on board.  The 13-year-old driver was released to her mother. Most of the rest in the car were released to relatives, though one had a pending custody order, and was taken to the juvenile detention center in neighboring Sheboygan County.

 

Drought Conditions Materializing

 

8/15/14 – Wisconsin has nowhere near the drought conditions it had in each of the last two summers — but things are starting to get dry in some places.  The U-S Drought Monitor says that just over eleven-percent of the state’s land area is abnormally dry.  That’s the least severe of five official drought categories.  Much of Wisconsin was deluged with rain during the spring and early summer.  But the faucet has been virtually shut off for weeks in many areas — and those lawns and farm fields are showing it.  The state’s largest dry spot goes roughly from Green Bay to the Upper Michigan border.  It includes most or all of Brown, Oconto, Marinette, Florence, and Forest counties.  The state’s other abnormally dry spot runs from about Mauston to De Soto in parts of Vernon, Richland, and Juneau counties. There are no drought conditions in Dodge County and the surrounding region.  Earlier this week, the U-S-D-A said 43-percent of the topsoil on Wisconsin farm fields was short to very short of moisture.

 

Otter Ought To Be OK

 

8/15/14 – The state D-N-R says it will not kill or remove an otter that injured a 12-year-old girl in northwest Wisconsin last weekend.  A warden tells the Saint Paul Pioneer Press that last Saturday’s attack of Rory Kliewer was an “isolated incident.”  The Minneapolis girl received rabies shots as a precaution, after the otter bit and scratched her while she was getting out of Bone Lake near Luck in Polk County.  The D-N-R could issue permits to let people shoot or trap an otter at Bone Lake, but the agency says it won’t do so for now — but it will be considered if there are future attacks.  Experts say it’s rare that an otter goes after a human.  The last such case in northwest Wisconsin was in 2009 near Drummond.

 

Meat Animal Sale Highlights

 

8/15/14 – The Farm Progress Arena was packed for last night’s 52nd Annual Meat Animal Auction at the Dodge County Fair.

 

In the Market Beef auction Eva Arndt of Beaver Dam sold her Champion Beef for $4.25 a pound to Hufs Repair. Samantha Setz of Waterloo had the Champion Dairy Beef which went for $3.25 a pound to Schulz Trucking. Heather Nehls of Watertown had the Reserve Champion Beef which went for $3.50 a pound to Kraus Grain Farms. Sarah Roche of Columbus got $3.50 a pound from Pernat Haase Meats.

 

The Market Lamb auction followed the beef. Watertown’s Brielle Blome got $14.50 a pound from Animix for her Grand Champion Market Lamb, while Kyla Peterson of Columbus got $8.00 per pound for her Grand Champion Homebred Lamb from Universal Cooperative. Cedar Road Meats bought a Reserve Champion Market Lamb for $11.50 from Juneau’s Connor Schultz, while Lillian Brewer of Waupun sold a Reserve Champion Homebred Lamb to Schmidt’s Pumping for $11.00 a pound.

 

The Market Hogs finished off the auction, as Alexa Strehlow of Waupun got $9.50 a pound from Schmidt’s Pumping for her Supreme Champion Market Hog. The Champion Gilt, brought by Kaitlin Neu of Oconomowoc, went for $6.00 a pound to M & M Storage of Fox Lake. Morgan Justmann of Lowell had the Reserve Champion Barrow which sold at $7.00 a pound to Spurcast of Watertown and Mackayla Maas of Neosho sold her Reserve Champion Gilt for $5.50 a pound to Hustisford State Bank.