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I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :
Chamber Connection
February, 2020
Welcome
Upcoming Events
Meetings, Local news,
The Mayors Corner
State and US News
Blast from the Past
Blast from the Past
Quadtoberfest 2020
2020 Price County
Guide
Ambassadors/New
members
Flambeau Rama Up-
date
Snowmobile trails
Chamber Items 4 sale
Chamber Reps
Chamber Bucks
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S P E C I A L P O I N T S
O F I N T E R E S T :
Greetings From the Executive Director
A Newsletter for Chamber Members & Park Falls Area Promoters
The winter season is now in full swing, it started out with a lot of snow, but the lack of cold
kept the lakes and swamps unsafe. This kept away a lot of possible visitors to the North-
woods. Some nice cold days and nights and now all is like it should be, FROZEN. Everything
is now in great shape. The visitors are starting to make their way to the area and that should
be good for all local businesses. The snowmobile clubs are doing a fantastic job keeping the
trails all across Price County in excellent condition. Please thank these people for all that
they do. Without them your business would no doubt be not as successful during the winter
months.
DID YOU KNOW?
Snowplow Laws:
There are no state laws that prohibit you from passing a snowplow. However, it is illegal (State Statute 346.915) to follow a snowplow closer than 200 feet upon any highway having the posted speed limit of more than 35 mph if the snowplow is engaged in snow and ice re-moval.
Some interesting weather facts: The warmest month is July, when the average high tem-
perature is 81 °F (27 °C), and the overnight low is 63 °F (17 °C). The coldest month is Janu-ary, when the average high temperature is only 28 °F (-2 °C). Low temperatures in January average 13 °F (-11 °C).
Some Snowplowing facts:
• WisDOT uses an average of 526,000 tons of salt and 14,000 tons of sand per season statewide. The total storage capacity of salt for use on state maintained highways is about 562,000 tons.
• Salting is cost effective down to a pavement temperature of only about 15-20 degrees. It takes about 13 times more salt to melt ice when the pavement temperature is 0°F than when it is 30°F.
Sand is sometimes used to improve traction on ice. However, it only takes about 30 vehicles traveling at highway speeds to blow the sand off the roadway.
Remember that the staff is here for YOU. If you have any ideas or suggestions, we want to
hear them from you. Give us a call, email us or even better stop in and say hello.
Thank you,
Edward J Kane
Executive Director
Park Falls Area Chamber of Commerce
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February, 2020 Upcoming Events
Please see www.ParkFalls.com Calendar of events for full details
Sportsman’s Lounge—Mexican Mondays, Stop out and see Ann for some of the best Mexican food in the Northwoods.
Northwood’s Supper Club—Tijuana Tuesdays, Shrim-Palooza Wednesdays, Sunday Brunch 10 AM—1 PM
Park Falls GastroPub— Every Wednesday Open Mic @ 8 pm, Every 2nd Saturday Karaoke/Sing Along @ 9 pm.
BP Gas Day—Every Wednesday BP donates 2 cents a gallon to the American Legion Fireworks Fund.
American Legion—hosts the progressive pot 52 card game weekly on Wednesday nights at 6:30 pm.
Oxbo Resort—Bloody Mary Bar at the Oxbo every Sunday. Build your own, complete with fixin's. $6
well, $7 call.
Walk About Wednesdays— Walks start at 6 PM, and are always FREE and open to anyone, including
well behaved, responsible dog owners. Snowshoes are encouraged but not required. Crazy Loon has gra-
ciously offered to provide pairs for rent; please contact them at 715-339-6254. Skis are discouraged due
to the narrow, ungroomed paths. Each week will be a different location. Feb. 5th: Buffalo Farms, Feb
12th: Trail behind the Park Falls HS, Feb 19th: Tracy Lake School Forest, Feb 26th: Newman Springs.
For more information please visit www.ParkFalls.com
Price Icicles head to Badger State February 1st
FBLA has meet February 1st
Sno Gypsies Winterfest Fisheree– Saturday, February 1st—7 AM—5 PM—On beautiful Butternut
Lake, Raffle ticket to fish, must be purchased prior to the event. Tickets for sale at these locations:
Dickie’s Butternut Resort, St. Croix, MT Pockets, and Butternut Feed store. Cash payout for top three
lengths, 80% payout, Walleye, Northern, Perch, and Crappie.
Knights of Columbus #2639 Pork, Dumplings & Sauerkraut Dinner—Feb. 1st—3:30 PM—6 PM—
St Anthony's Cafeteria, Adults $10, Students $6, Preschool Free, Carry outs available.
Easter meeting February 3
Evergreen Committee meeting February 6th at 8am
Grant award ceremony in Phillips February 6th at 11 am
Flambeau Hospice—30th Annual “Chili” Golf Open—Saturday, February 1st 9 AM—2 PM—
Located on Long Lake at Harbor View Pub & Eatery. 9 AM —2 PM continuous registration and golf.
Tee times available with pre-registration, call Harbor View at 715-339-2626. 3 PM Auction. 4 PM Raffle
Ticker Drawing. Chili Cook Off to enter, call Flambeau Hospice at 715-339-4371. $25 per golfer, 12 and
under free. For more information, call Flambeau Hospice at 715-339-4371.
Sweetheart’s Dance—February 16th– 1 PM—3 PM—All community members are welcome to join
for dancing and light refreshments. Admission is free. Hosted by Chequamegon High School NHS in the
High School cafeteria.
Elections February 18th
5 Star Marketing & Dis-tribution
AC Carpet Plus
Advance Printing of Hayward
AJ's Bar & Dining
Amerivu INN
American Legion Post 182
Ashland Ford / Chrysler
Aspirus Pleasant View
Associated Bank
B & B Insurance Services, LLC
BART Bus
Benefit Solutions of Wisconsin
Birch Street Funereal Services
Birchland Realty
Bob's Factory Outlet
Boomtown Tree Service, LLC
Butternut Trail Midgets ATV Club
Captain Nemo's Pub & Grub
Car Washer LLC
CARQUEST Auto Parts
Catkins Animal Rescue, Inc.
Cayuga Properties LLC
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February, 2020 Upcoming Meetings
The City is combining meetings this month
The Council of the Whole February 10th at ?
Council Meeting will be February 24th at 5pm
Both in the Council Chambers
Chamber Board Meeting February 13th in the Council Chambers at 8 am
Local News The Ruffed Grouse bill is still alive but has been delayed again.
Charter school to hold informational presentation—The Class ACT Charter School will host a live video conference called “Charter Schools 101 for Families and Communities” on Monday,
Feb. 10, from 3:30-5 p.m. The presentation will be in room 157 of the high school’s south campus.
The Chamber welcomes:
Pete Maynard as the 2020 President
Kayla Meyers as the 2020 Vice President
Dayna Lemmer as the 2020 Treasurer
Wilma Their as the 2020 Secretary
Funding plan drafted to address local highway needs—The PASER system — which assesses pavement quality on a 1-10 scale, with one being the worst quality and 10 being the best —
shows that of 220 miles of roadways accessed in Price County, 7.25% are considered failed or very poor, 59.42% are poor or fair, 20.51% are fair or good, 10.09% are good to very good,
and 2.73% are excellent.
164 finish Phillips Flurry snowshoe race
Chequamegon School District
Christ the Servant Lu-theran Church
Cindy's Country Charm
City of Park Falls
Community Financial Bank
Dave Zoesch Trucking LLC
D & D Tire & Auto Cen-ter, Inc.
Dean Distributing
Drs. Liesen & Pinzl Den-tistry
E O Johnson Office Technologies
Eagle Pointe Lodging
Elk River Septic Service
Eye Care & Eye Wear Associates
Family Health Center of Marshfield
Family Worship Center
Fifield Dirt Devils ATV Inc.
Fifield Grocery and Smokehouse
Fiorio Wealth Advisors
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First Weber Group
Flambeau Hospital/Marshfield Clinic
Flambeau Lanes and Northern Lights Inn
Flambeau View Green-house
Forward Bank
Forward Insurance
Fuhrman Insurance Agency
General Beer North-woods
Glidden Area Develop-ment Corporation
Gowey Abstract & Title Co., INC
Hammerstrom Auto Body, LLC
Hanging it Up Custom Framing
Harbor View Pub & Eatery
Hastings Concrete
Hilgart Realty Inc.
Hilltop Lodging
Historic Moose Jaw Lodge & Resort
Housing Authority of PF
Ides Guides & Buffalo Hides
Innovative Services
JJ Broadcasting
State News
WMC: USMCA Will Grow Wisconsin’s Economy -MADISON – Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) lauded President Donald Trump on Wednesday for signing the United
States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) into law. The deal will preserve free and open trade with both Canada and Mexico, while ensuring modernized protections for American
businesses and workers.
WMC: Budget Surplus Should be Returned to Taxpayers—MADISON – Wisconsin Manufactur-
ers & Commerce (WMC) called for substantial tax relief following positive numbers being released from the state’s non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB). According to LFB,
Wisconsin will take in $818 million more than budgeted by June 30, 2021.
New bill to protect first responders, highway workers in Wisconsin—Waupaca, Wis. (WLUK) -- This year, seven first responders have died in roadside crashes across the country, according to
the Emergency Responder Safety Institute.
US News
Fed holds rates steady, affirms commitment to higher inflation- WASHINGTON — The Fed-eral Reserve held interest rates steady at its meeting this week and tweaked its post-meeting
statement to reflect what appears to be a stronger commitment to nudge up inflation.
U.S. Expands Airport Screening for Coronavirus; Officials Add Risk of Extensive Infections Is
Low—WASHINGTON—The U.S. has expanded screenings of passengers for the corona-virus to 20 airports, even as health officials sought to assure the public that the virus
doesn’t yet pose a threat to most Americans.
O'Hare Airport added to list of airports screening for new strain of coronavirus—Public health screenings for a new strain of coronavirus was expanded Tuesday to two more airports — Chi-cago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Air-
port (ATL).
“Deaths from drug overdoses dropped slightly in 2018, a first in nearly two dec-ades as the nation confronts a massive opioid epidemic. The reduction in drug
overdose deaths, reported Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention, of 4.1%, helped to slightly bump up life expectancy from 78.6 years in
2017 to 78.7 years in 2018,” Kimberly Leonard reports for the Washington Exam-iner.
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February, 2020 A BLAST from the past ….
JoAnn the Window Dresser
Joe's Auto Glass LLC
Kayla’s Closet
Kayla’s Kitchen
Kountry Kafe
Kwik Trip
Lake of the Torches Resort
Lakeshore Pines
Marshfield Clinic Dental Center
Meadows Edge Storage
Mathison & Oswald Account-ing
Midwest Hardwood Corpora-tion
Midwest Insurance Services
Miracle Ear
Moore Storage & Services
NAPA Auto Parts
Nine Mile Tavern/Canoe Rentals
North Country Veterinary Clinic, LTD
Northcentral Technical Col-lege
Northlakes Community Clinic
Northwest CEP
Northwood's Community Credit Union
Northwood Dentistry, S.C.
Northwood's Supper Club
Norvado
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Packerland Plus
Pal Café
Park Falls Area Commu-nity Dev. Corp.
Park Falls True Value Hardware
Park Falls BP
Park Falls Building and Hardware
Park Falls Community Broadcasting
Park Falls Country Club
Park Falls Gastropub LLC
Park Falls Hardwoods
Park Falls Laundry
Park Falls Lions Club
Park Falls Print & Copy
Park Falls Recreation Arena
Park Manor Ltd.
Park Pharmacy
Park Theatre
Park Village
Patchouli Garden
Peace Lutheran Church
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Upcoming event for October 2020
Northern Wisconsin Property Management
Northern Wisconsin Professional Websites
Northwoods Property Inspections
Pepsi Cola of Park Falls
Pieper Electrical Service Inc.
Price County
Price Co. Review
Price County Fair Asso-ciation
Price County Historical Society
Price Electric
Randy Zoesch C.P.A.
Range Beverage Inc.
RE/MAX New Horizons Realty, LLC
RestorU
Richter Law Office LLC
Ritchie Lakeland Oil & Propane
Ron Ernst Lumber
Ross’s Sport Shop & Guide Service
R-Store Cenex
Savant Capital Manage-ment
Sayler Signs
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Chamber Connection February, 2020 The 2020 Price County Guide is on the streets !!!!
This guide is just simply the best one we have done. We are receiving great reviews from our distributors all across the state so far. Nearly 20,000 have been sent out already to places that our visitors come from. We no longer hold them in stock so that they are here waiting to be picked up, Then get dumped in markets after the book is no longer essential.
These guides are in the hands of the people that are planning trips NOW!!!
If you haven't received guides yet please let me know. Don from Advanced Printing has been making the rounds to the resorts, restaurants while Laurie and Myself have been visiting all the other business. We want them in the peoples
hands so they know all that we have to offer.
Our Members
Sign Studio & Print Shop, LLC
Signature Sign & Graphics, Inc.
Skeleton Key Realty
Slaby, Deda, Marshall, Reinhard & Writz Law Office
Sno-Gypsies
St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church
Spirit Lodge
St. Croix Rod of Park Falls
State Farm Insurance
Super One Foods
The 5 Senses LLC
The OXBO Resort
The Town of Lake
The Waterford
Thunderhead Lodge, LLC
Todd’s Redi Mix Con-crete
Turtle Flambeau Flow-age Association
UCC First Congregation-al United Church of Christ
US Forestry Department
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Ambassadors News
The Chamber Ambassadors had their business meeting in January, preparing for the rest of
the year.
Our Ambassadors are the BEST, even when they are not out in the group they are doing
what they do best…. Welcoming new members, greeting non members and spreading the
word on how the Chamber can help their business.
If you know anyone that would like to volunteer some time and become a Chamber
Ambassador please contact the chamber.
New Chamber members
Click to visit them
Northwoods Property Inspections
For all your Real Estate inspection needs, Residential and commercial.
The Sno Gypsies
A great group of people that are dedicated to building and maintaining trails to help support
the area and our businesses
The PAL Café
A great place to have a homemade meal in a historic Park Falls location
Benefit Solutions of Wisconsin
A great group of people, dedicated to providing you resources and information regarding
health insurance
Thank you to all that have renewed their memberships, The Chamber is growing with our
great members. Please let us know how we can help you grow and build your business.
Our Members
Valley Laundry
Valor Septic Service LLC
Weather Shield Manu-facturing
Wheel Way
Wild Woods Taxidermy
Winter Greenhouse
Wisconsin Benefit Plan-ning, Inc.
Wojcieszak’s Flambeau Resort
Woods and Waters Fine Arts council
Woods Edge Restaurant & Bar
Xcel Energy
Yellow Book USA
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2020 Flambeau Rama Update:
So far here are some of the highlights, we take your suggestions very seriously.
There will be lights by the Port O lets this year
There will be a women's only section of Port O lets
There will be a Baby Changing tent
Waiting on the University of Wisconsin Ice Cream truck
Waiting on State of Wisconsin DOT safety program
S&J Carnivals will be back again, they are telling us they will be adding in a couple different
rides.
The pooch Pageant will be back and sponsored by AC Carpets Plus, working with the Catkins
team to make this a great event again this year.
The Flambeau Hospital Evergreen Race will get an all new look, more to come on that after
the committee meets.
Flambeau Hospital Kids Expo will be a big part again this year
Friday events:
Waiting on confirmations for: Spotlight Polka and the Softball tournament
Friday from 4-8pm will be the all new BATTLE of the BANDS
Friday from 9-1am will be the DWEEBS
Saturday events:
Waiting on verifying new location for the Flea Market
Arts and Crafts will be downtown
Magician will be on stage from 11-1145 and then from 1215-1pm
Car show
Pooch Pageant
Flambeau Hospital Kids expo will be from 9-1pm
Flambeau Hospital Evergreen Race
Battle of the bands runner up will open the stages at 1pm
Battle of the bands winner will open the stage at 5pm
Boogie and the Yo Yoz at 9pm
Sunday Events
Waiting on Marty's Goldenairs ( they meet in April)
Robbie Vee
Mini Car Races
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Snowmobile season is in full swing !!!!
Trails are open and in excellent condition, ride safely as there could always be unsafe places
on lakes and swamps.
The Park Falls Chamber is a proud member of the Sno Gypsies.
Do your part and join a club !!!!
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Help support the Chamber and get your Park Falls gear. Always a great gift IDEA
New Hats, Coffee mugs and Hoodie sweat shirts. Stop in the Chamber to get yours.
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Meet your Chamber Representatives!
Park Falls Area Chamber of Commerce
400 4th Ave. South, Park Falls, WI. 54552
Phone: 715-762-2703 or 877-762-2703
Fax: 715-762-4130
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.parkfalls.com
Board of Directors
Carol Mader, Melanie Fullman, Jason Gerwing, Kayla Meyers,
Jory Johnson, Pete Maynard, Terri Kaiser, Kara Ross, Misty Bolier,
Ann Wojcieszak, Dayna Lemmer, Teresa Gehrman, Shelly Stueber, and
Michael Bablick
Chamber Staff
Edward Kane, Executive Director
Wilma Thier, Haley Kane Administrative Assistants
Chamber Ambassadors
Wilma Thier JoAnn Ides
Brenda Kronberger Chuck Pouba Don Preisler David Scott Chris Simon
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Great for the upcoming gift giving season !!!!!!!
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Being a member of the Chamber of Commerce is a great way to get your business connected
with other businesses as well as with customers. A century ago there was only 40 US cities
that had a Chamber. Today there are more than 7,000 Chambers, Boards of trade and desig-
nated non profits advancing the interest of the communities. The numbers show that being in
a dedicated and driven Chamber results are driven.
What is a Chamber of Commerce? It is a partnership between professional people and
businesses. This is a voluntary partnership designed to better the quality of life in a communi-
ty and advance the business in the marketplace. Over the last year we have been listening and
reacting to the feedback we are getting. You have seen many changes over the year and about
to see many more……
As a chamber works to improve the quality of life and the economy in an area it does it with
these objectives in mind:
Help the members grow and prosper
Increase the opportunities for employment in the area
Work for an orderly expansion of the economy
Bring excitement to the residents so they feel rejuvenated in the community.
Promote and provide education to the membership
Connect the students and business owners so that they can grow together.
GREAT Things to COME…….. Just wait…...
Benefits of Being a Chamber Member