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"Worlds Largest" Cranberry Cheesecake Makes Kids Wishes Come True Submitted: 10/06/2012
EAGLE RIVER - Today marked the start of the 33rd annual Cranberry Fest in Eagle River.

For 21 of those years "The World's Largest Cranberry Cheesecake" has helped make dreams come true for very ill children.

Despite a brisk and cloudy day, cranberry lovers strolled through Downtown Eagle River, and the Vilas County fairgrounds for crafts, fun treats, and of course cranberries.

But the most famous desert is perhaps the largest. A 140 foot long of cranberry cheesecake is sold each year to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

"Randy, my late husband, and myself, we have granted 42 wishes to Northwoods kids,” said Michele Bergstrom, a Make-A-Wish ‘Granter’. “We’ve granted puppies, horses, computers… Whatever the child wishes, the families are just as happy as the child."

At $2 a slice, the cheesecake sales raise $7,000 to $8,000 each year.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation helps children with serious life threatening conditions, not just terminal illness. In fact, most of the children they help actually get better. Volunteers say a wish can be very healing, and a wish granted may be the best medicine of all.


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This week, they submitted plans for the next step in the state's process.

The company is asking the DNR for permission to sample hundreds of thousands of tons of earth, part of a bulk sampling plan.

Gogebic Taconite also officially told the DNR it will seek a mining permit.

The DNR will tell Gogebic within two weeks whether it can go forward with the sampling.

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New solar panels will sit on top of the roof.

It will save Newman High School approximately $400 a year.

The W-P-S foundation donated the system as part of the SolarWise for school program.

It's an educational experience for the kids as well.

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Man dies when a train hits his van Submitted: 06/19/2013

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TOWN OF UNITY, WI - An elderly man from central Wisconsin killed in a terrifying crash when a train crashes into his van.

Charles Podbelsek, 81, was driving on a Clark County Road Tuesday morning.

When he approached the railroad crossing he did not stop at the stop sign and hit a Canadian National train.

His Caravan was thrown from the crossing, landed on its roof, and Podbelsek was thrown from the van.

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Woman killed when ATV goes over cliff Submitted: 06/19/2013

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Deputies got the call around seven last night about the ATV crash near Harbor Drive in Saxon.

The ATV did not make it around a corner on Harbor drive and traveled over the cliff, coming to rest on the beach.

A 42 year old woman who was a passenger on the ATV was dead at the scene.

Her 44 year old husband had been driving, and suffered severe injuries.

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The exhibit features work from artists around the country.

It includes artifacts, paintings, and sculptures.

Mitch Mode is a guest curator.

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MEDFORD - “Our goal is to find them all," says Bryce Kelley.

Kelley, a Medford resident, wants to find a picture of every Wisconsin soldier killed in Vietnam.

“I know that I will continue to work, and I have enlisted the help of many others that will continue to work until we find them all," he says.

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"They invade our wetlands. They're a really robust, aggressive plant. What they do is they crowd out our native species and make actually the wetland a lot less diverse," says Michele Sadauskas, Oneida County AIS Coordinator.

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