THE BADGERLAND EXPRESS

JANUARY - FEBRUARY - MARCH 2019

FAITH - FAMILY - FORTY et EIGHT

Happy Holidays Voyageurs

On behalf of all of the Officers of Jefferson County

Voiture Locale No. 750, we wish everyone a safe and

Happy Holiday Season this year.

Please mark your calendars for January 25th. That

Friday evening we will be celebrating with Dane

County Voiture No. 683 at Doubleday’s in Cottage

Grove the 8th annual Dane & Jefferson Counties

combined Christmas party.

As in the past, we do not take reservations but would

like to know if you will be able to come so we can give

Voyageur Gary Stueber an accurate count so he can

plan the food accordingly. Gary and his wife Debbie

are owners of Doubleday’s.

Grand Chef de Gare Joe Story and Grande Cabane

Presidente Mary Schaller with both be guests that

evening. We also have a large number

of Voyageurs and Dames coming from

other Locales and Cabanes from the

area.

The date was moved this year due to so

many other commitments in December by our mem-

bership. Cocktails are at 5:00 P. M. with dinner at

6:00 P. M.

Taking UW Band Directeur Mike Lecrone to Camp Randall for the last home football game before he retires, the Milwaukee County Veterans Day parade, numerous Christmas parades to include the last one on December 7th in Helenville. We can’t forget the Warriors and Wizards weekend in Jefferson. These are just some of the events our locomotive was involved in these last few months. It has now been stored away at the Jefferson County Fair-grounds until the spring. The Voiture would like to thank

Voyageurs Mitchell, Ferguson, Sukowski, Behling, and al of the Voyageurs/friends who rode the loci during all of the parades and other events this past year.

For both the January and March Promenades,

we will be holding them during the afternoon while it

is still light outside. There has been a lot of concern

about driving in the dark and after checking with a

few other Locales who went to afternoon Prome-

nades, their attendance greatly increased.

We will be doing this for only the January and

March Promenades to see how it goes. Thee is no

Promenade in February.

Good fellowship begins at 11:00 A.M. with order-

ing off the menu at 12:30 P. M. The January 10th

Promenade will be held at the Sullivan Saloon and

we are using the back room. The February Prome-

nade is going to be at the Towne Inn in Jefferson.

February 8th & 9th in Richland Center will be the Grande Voiture de Wisconsin Midwinter Petite Prome-nade. So far Voyageurs Behling, Sukowski, Zambriski who are the Locale delegates will be attending along with Vo-yageurs Mitchell and Orval who are automatic delegates due to being past Grand Chef’s. If you are interested in going; just let the Correspondant and send in your regis-tration. You will receive reimbursement money there. On Friday afternoon there are Committee meetings and the Cheminot and Promenade will begin on Saturday. That evening will be the annual banquet. Many of us will be arriving on Thursday afternoon just for the sake of socializing with our 40 et 8 family members from around the State. Everything is being held at the Ramada Inn and White House Banquets and Catering. There are plenty of restau-rants in the city along with the Country Inn restaurant connected to the Ramada Inn.

50th Anniversary 40 et 8 Days Camp American Legion

As Chairman of 40 et 8 Days at Camp, I cannot stress enough what an absolute fun weekend you’ll experience by coming up to Lake Tomahawk / St. Germain this coming June for the 50th installment of this event. Over the past years we have started a Saturday morning fishing tournament at the Camp which is run by Dale Mitchell. Don’t worry about a fishing license because if you are on a Camp pontoon boat, you are not required to have one. The Friday afternoon bean bag tournament behind the Rustic Manor has become very popular among those attending. Bon fires on both Friday and Saturday evenings to go along with shopping in Minocqua, Eagle River, Three Lakes or in St. Germain. We’ll be going to the Three Lakes Winery this year on Friday morning. The Friday afternoon picnic to go along with the Satur-day picnic at the Rainbow Flowage and don’t forget the Sunday morning breakfast at the Main Lodge at Camp. You might want to drive over to Manitowish Waters to visit Little Bohemia where John Dillinger had a shootout with the FBI in April of 1934. Plenty of lakes to go swimming and I don’t have to tell you about all of the restaurants in the area. Now most of us stay at the Rustic Manor in St. Germain. Their number is 715-479-9776. We’ll be up there on Friday the 21st to Sunday the 23rd. Many of us will already be there on the 20th just to socialize. Please mention the 40 et 8 when making reservations. We are currently selling these 50th Anniversary pins for $3.00. SO if you wish to purchase one, see the Chef de Gare or the Correspondant.

And make plans on attending the event!

MEMBERSHIP Do you know of a Veterans or active duty Military personnel who would be interested in joining without a doubt the greatest fraternal, non profit, volunteer Veterans organization n the face of the earth! If you do then why not ask them about joining La Societe. We are always looking for those who are not interest-ed in politics or a good ol boys club. “NO”! We are look-ing for those Veterans (Male or Female) who ae interest-ed in Americanism, Child Welfare, Flags for 1st Graders, Nurses Training, riding in a parade in our locomotive, promoting the POW-MIA Awareness in the area and a host of other facets or events within La Societe. The most important part of being a Voyageur is the camaraderie one has with their fellow Voyageur. There is criteria one must have in order to become a member of La Societe and that is either a Honorable Discharge DD-214 or for active Military personnel a 220. Jefferson County pays for the new Voyageurs 1st years dues and their initial chapeau so in reality it does not cost the Voyageur anything to join our organization. Chef de Gare Dave Behling is asking for every Voyageur to ask one Veteran about the possibility of joining the Jefferson County Voiture No. 750.

JANUARY 10th PROMENADE Sullivan Saloon 12:30 P.M.

FEBRUARY 8th - 9th GRANDE MIDWINTER Richland Center Radisson Inn

MARCH 14th PROMENADE Towne Inn Jefferson 12:30 P.M.

KING DAY June 16th Waupaca

40 et 8 DAYS AT CAMP AMERICAN LEGION Lake Tomahawk & St. Germain June 20th - 23rd

AUGUST 1st - 4th GRANDE PROMENADE Antigo

NURSES TRAINING

Jefferson County No. 750 has two Nursing students this year. Zoe Oberle who is the step granddaughter of Voyageur L.

Day Becker receives the Russell Rieck Locale Scholarship. She is a student at UWM in Milwaukee. Lauren Lohff is the

daughter of Voyageur Rod Lohff and is a student at UW Madison. She receives on of the Jack D. Wilson

scholarships. Each of these scholarships are for $500.00. Pat Sukowski is our Grand Directeur of Nurses

Training and he has a number of 2019 Nurses Training scholarship pins left. If you are interested in pur-

chasing one, they go for $3.00. All proceeds go to the Grand and National Nurses Training Scholarship Fund.