MINOCQUA - Many people enjoy boating during the summer months.
This weekend you can check out the beauty and workmanship of antique boats in Minocqua. More than 50 boats will be on hand for the 22nd Antique and Classic Wooden Boat Show. The event is free to the public and features classics from the early 1920's to the 1960's. It will kick off tonight with a boat parade before the Min-Aqua Bat waterski show... and continues all weekend on the docks of The Boathouse Restaurant.
Boat owners and the public get together to share their love and stories of these antique beauties.
"Most of it's just nostalgia for someone that looks at them and says I remember when my dad had one of those," explains Show Co-Founder Gordon Moore. "It's interesting to hear the
In addition to featuring boats of different ages, types and origins, the show's goal is also to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
You can walk the docks and view these floating works of art starting at 8am both Saturday and Sunday.
RHINELANDER AND MINOCQUA - Summer gets us outside playing games on the lake or in the yard, but with cooler temperatures this year, trips to the lake may not be as popular.
That impacts certain businesses in a good way. Imaginuity toys stores in Minocqua and Rhinelander have noticed a difference in the toys they've sold this summer.
"We're definitely getting a lot more traffic with the cooler temperatures. A lot more people in the door, which we're loving. We are seeing a lot more people buying more project based items. They're buying a lot of the active play but not so much the water active," said Jessica Hatch, Store Manager.
RHINELANDER - You can learn how to improve your garden while also supporting a Northwoods hospice provider.
The Master Gardeners of the North and Ministry Hospice will host a garden tour Saturday, July 26th. People will get to tour six gardens in Rhinelander's historic courthouse neighborhood.
Organizers hope the event will raise at least $2,000. That money will go to patients who are unable to pay for their services.
ESCANABA - There's a certain nostalgia, to be sure, about trapping.
"A lot of us even kind of try to look like the old mountain men. Maybe you've noticed," says the grizzled and bearded Dave Linkhart, a trapper and officer of the National Trappers Association.
But it's more than just the old mountain men-types doing something that has been done for centuries in North America.
The trapping world is more expansive than you might expect, and more than setting some traps, waiting, and checking what animals you've caught.
WISCONSIN/THREE LAKES - Wisconsin continues to be the best state nationwide when it comes to producing cranberries. One Northwoods farm is preparing to make this year even better.
James Lake Farms in Three Lakes harvested close to 8,000 barrels last year. They hope to meet those expectations this year.
Right now they are in the growing season. The assistant manager believes Wisconsin is a natural environment for growing cranberries.
"It's fairly consistent as compared to somewhere out on the coast where most of the other cranberries are grown. I think a lot of those things combined help make it a good place to grow," said James Lake Farms Assistant Manager Benjamin Riker.
MINOCQUA - Barbara Hilleque, 67, died when her car was rear ended on Highway 51 and pushed into the path of a small bus going the other way.
She left a lasting impression on many people in the Northwoods.
She spent her free time volunteering for multiple organizations.
"Barb was probably 5 foot nothing and full of energy and full of spunk," said Tommy Modic, the Executive Director of the Northwoods Alliance for Temporary Housing.
Barb helped the Northwoods Wildlife Center, the Lakeland Area Kiwanis Club and the Northwoods Alliance for Temporary Housing.
"NATH and Frederick Place were a part of her passion," says Modic.
PRICE COUNTY - Vietnam War veterans didn't get the "welcome home" they deserved when coming home from the war. But now, more than 50 years after the conflict, in Price County they are receiving appreciation for their sacrifices.
The Vietnam Veterans Commemorative Trail was officially dedicated on July 17th at the VFW Post 8491 in Prentice. The idea came up at a Price County Commanders call, a meeting made up of all the post commanders and commissioners for Price County, and this monument is anything but 'little'.
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