Thank you! The Christmas parade committee would like to thank all the sponsors and volunteers for their help in making the 52nd annual Abbotsford Christmas parade a success. A small group of people spend months building, fixing, moving floats, making, repairing, organizing, and filling costumes. We are a small group to take care of 48 floats and over 300 costumes and we’re always looking for more people willing to get involved. Thanks to the 400 volunteers we depend on to show up the night of the parade in costumes, and pushers and pullers to put on one of the best Christmas parades in Wisconsin. Thank you to those who show up hours before the parade to help pull out floats and put them away and those who help hand out costumes and put them away starting before noon and getting home after midnight and coming back the next day to put in a full day reorganizing costumes and floats. Thanks to the three announcing crews for keeping us entertained. Thanks to those who help with crowd control and the police officers who keep the crowd safe. Thanks to our emergency service crew who attended to an emergency during the parade and for the crowd’s patience during the delay. Thanks to the city workers who move bleachers and barriers. Thanks to those who donate time, money, material, labor, and space for floats, prizes, generators, tractors, trucks, 4 wheelers and UTVs that allow us to do this year after year and continue to make improvements and upgrades to this wonderful event. We appreciate all the help we get from volunteers in the surrounding communities. We had volunteers from Abby, Colby, Dorchester, Unity, Curtiss, Owen, Stetsonville, Medford, Athens, Stanley, Mauston, Altoona, Edgar, Marathon, Wausau, Minn. and Ill. filling costumes. Thanks to all who came to watch the parade. It makes it all worth it to see your smiling faces and to touch your hands and give you hugs. We do it for you and we are so glad you come out each year no matter what the weather is like to enjoy it. A Big Thanks to our Raffle Prize donors Nicolet Bank, Loos Machine, TP Printing, Tristar Printing, Abby Bank, Maurina-Schilling Funeral Home, Smith Bros. Meats, Forward Bank, Cherokee Garage, RCU, Baumgartner’s Lumber & Material, WKEB-WIGM K99 Radio, Century 21 Dairyland Realty, Abby Pizza Hut, and First City Dentistry. Thanks to all the poster raffle sponsors who purchase tickets. If you are interested in being a part of next year’s parade or on the planning committee let us know. Contact the AbbyColby Chamber at 715-223- 8509. Kris O’Leary, Christmas Parade Chairman Kevin Flink, Jenny Jakel, Donna Dowden, Diana Sosa, Yennifer Parra Garcia, Shelly and Dave Bender, Maria Garcia. 145823 Thank you! The Christmas parade committee would like to thank all the sponsors and volunteers for their help in making the 52nd annual Abbotsford Christmas parade a success. A small group of people spend months building, fixing, moving floats, making, repairing, organizing, and filling costumes. We are a small group to take care of 48 floats and over 300 costumes and we’re always looking for more people willing to get involved. Thanks to the 400 volunteers we depend on to show up the night of the parade in costumes, and pushers and pullers to put on one of the best Christmas parades in Wisconsin. Thank you to those who show up hours before the parade to help pull out floats and put them away and those who help hand out costumes and put them away starting before noon and getting home after midnight and coming back the next day to put in a full day reorganizing costumes and floats. Thanks to the three announcing crews for keeping us entertained. Thanks to those who help with crowd control and the police officers who keep the crowd safe. Thanks to our emergency service crew who attended to an emergency during the parade and for the crowd’s patience during the delay. Thanks to the city workers who move bleachers and barriers. Thanks to those who donate time, money, material, labor, and space for floats, prizes, generators, tractors, trucks, 4 wheelers and UTVs that allow us to do this year after year and continue to make improvements and upgrades to this wonderful event. We appreciate all the help we get from volunteers in the surrounding communities. We had volunteers from Abby, Colby, Dorchester, Unity, Curtiss, Owen, Stetsonville, Medford, Athens, Stanley, Mauston, Altoona, Edgar, Marathon, Wausau, Minn. and Ill. filling costumes. Thanks to all who came to watch the parade. It makes it all worth it to see your smiling faces and to touch your hands and give you hugs. We do it for you and we are so glad you come out each year no matter what the weather is like to enjoy it. A Big Thanks to our Raffle Prize donors Nicolet Bank, Loos Machine, TP Printing, Tristar Printing, Abby Bank, Maurina-Schilling Funeral Home, Smith Bros. Meats, Forward Bank, Cherokee Garage, RCU, Baumgartner’s Lumber & Material, WKEB-WIGM K99 Radio, Century 21 Dairyland Realty, Abby Pizza Hut, and First City Dentistry. Thanks to all the poster raffle sponsors who purchase tickets. If you are interested in being a part of next year’s parade or on the planning committee let us know. Contact the AbbyColby Chamber at 715-223- 8509. Kris O’Leary, Christmas Parade Chairman Kevin Flink, Jenny Jakel, Donna Dowden, Diana Sosa, Yennifer Parra Garcia, Shelly and Dave Bender, Maria Garcia. 145823
Members of the Taylor County Coordinated Community Response/Sexual Assault Response Team (CCR/SART) gathered at Northcentral Technical College in Medford on Tuesday, April 28, where they observed two virtual presentations by Josephine A. Lauren of Incest AWARE. During the first session, Lauren educated on supporting survivors and their families by using the best language available and better understanding the basics about causes and consequences of this type of abuse. The second session brought to light the stigma surrounding difficult and taboo topics. Pictured are (l. to r.) Sam Jerome, initial assessment social worker with Taylor County Human Services; Sam Gehrke, Stepping Stones; Amy Riegert, Aspirus Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) coordinator; and Ashley Rourk, Stepping Stones. MANDEE ELLIS/THE STAR NEWS
Taylor County registrar of Deeds Jaymi Kohn (left) reported to land information committee members that the register of deeds has about 60 agreements on file between county landowners and wind and solar companies. The county is urging property owners to get educated before they sign contracts. Information can be found at https://economicdevelopment.extension.wisc. edu/reset/#resources. MANDEE ELLIS/THE STAR NEWS
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