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Maplewood Badgers 4-H
The Maplewood Badgers 4-H Club’s last meeting was Jan. 12 at Colby City Hall. They had 27 members present.
Members talked about record books and delivering pork from their pork sale.
There are a number of upcoming events. The club decided to go ice skating on Jan. 26 in Medford. Bruce Mound Winter Sports Area is welcoming 4-H members from Trempelaeu and Clark counties to go tubing and skiing on Feb. 8. Archery is starting up again beginning Feb. 3 at the Owen-Withee Sportmans club.
The next meeting will be Sunday, March 8, at 7 p.m.
A tradition 37 years in the making came to life again as the heirs of Werner and Christine Schaefer recently participated in their family’s annual Progressive Dinner.
There just were not enough days for family members to visit each other’s homes during the holidays, so in 1982, they decided to dedicate a single day for visiting, inspecting Santa’s gifts and getting caught up on the family news. They agreed each family serve a single food category, beginning with breakfast and continuing through the day. Everyone embellished their specific category and the day was such a success it has continued every year since then.
This year, 63 family members joined for at least a portion of the day, with most participating in the full event. Seven families created culinary delights in their assigned category, and participants were cautioned to resist overindulgence to allow full gastronomic gratification of the day’s gourmet creations.
The day started at 9 a.m., with rain and ice in the forecast, at the rural Neillsville home of Le and Karen Luchterhand. The menu included three kinds of miniature quiche, four varieties of mini muffins, milk, chocolate milk, orange juice and lemonade. Tours of the new barn were available on request before heading for the day’s second stop.
Rich and Karen Verschay were hosts for stop two at their home south of Greenwood. Lettuce salad with tomatoes, shredded carrots, broccoli, cucumbers, shredded cheese, sunflower seeds and cottage cheese highlighted this stop. The salads were complemented with smoked oysters, herring, venison sausage, coffee, tea and lemonade.
The traveling troupe of connoisseurs’ next stop was the Withee home of Mike and Jo Lulloff. Jo fulfilled her category of fruit with apples and homemade caramel dip, banana bread, and clementines, served with a side dish of white and chocolate fudge and augmented with fruit punch, sherbet and coffee. Jo’s famous, home-made, individually wrapped caramels are not to be missed at this stop.
The next stop for sustenance was the rural Unity home of Bryce and Max Luchterhand where steaming bowls of succulent chicken dumpling soup and chili were being served with venison sticks, three kinds of cheese, and crack-
