Outagamie County Home & Community Education

News & ViewsSpring 2018

3365 W Brewster StAppleton, WI 54914

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President’s LetterDear Fellow HCE Members and Friends,

Spring is here, but we live in Wisconsin and the weather is unpredictable. We can have cold, ice, snow and hopefully some warm days. We have to take it the way it comes.

Did you stick to your New Year’s resolutions? Do most new years speed past as resolutions are forgotten? You are not alone. Setting large, difficult goals and making initial progress that has faded into weeks where nothing happens is common. Don’t worry, small changes can have big impacts and be easier to maintain.

If you made a resolution to eat healthy, get more exercise, or just walk, you are on the right track. HCE Family and Community Life will focus on all members being active, and eating healthy local food as a statewide activity. The program replaces “On the Move and in the Groove.” The form (inserted in this newsletter) is a Healthy Lifestyle Survey for all members to complete at the end of your program. Please keep a log as you have done in the past so you can fill out the survey by the deadline on May 12. As you are walking, keep in mind those tired tootsies. Your feet are made up of 28 bones, 18 muscles, 107 ligaments, 31 tendons, 30 joints, yards and yards of blood vessels, miles of nerves, and 125,000 sweat glands per foot. These figures come from a booklet from Kenney Shoe Corp. If done regularly, walking will relax you when you are tense, ease your minor aches and pains and help you maintain or lose weight. You will wake up easier and feel better throughout the day; and all you need are your feet. The article also says vary your shoes. Once your feet are happy, take a step in the right direction - WALK.

Dorothy Paltzer

Table of Contents

President’s Letter . . . . pg 1

Advisor’s Letter . . . . . . pg 2

Feature Report . . . . . . . pg 2

Upcoming Events . . . . pg 3-4

Thank You . . . . . . . . . . . pg 4

Committee Report . . . . pg 5

Announcements . . . . . . pg 6

Bits N Pieces . . . . . . . . pg 6-7

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Dear HCE Members,

The gift of time! How are you preparing for spring and the changing weather? Some of us are busy gathering gardening catalogs to think about what we want to plant - some of you already have your plant orders in and some of you have already started planting your plants in your homes! We all look at time in a different way, but I think as we grow older we may appreciate things that maybe were taken for granted in earlier years.

The joy of hearing children laugh and giggle. The use of good storytelling, the art of telling a joke. Those are all skill sets that some of us are maybe wanting to improve and brush up on.

As we move forward into 2018, I challenge you to think of how you spend your time and if you are in fact using your time as you see it - putting the big rocks into your bucket first then filling in with other things as time permits. Too often we find ourselves being busy to be busy.

Set priorities and enjoy the time we have in every day as much as possible!

Sincerely,

Karen DickrellAdvisor to HCEFamily Living Educator

Advisor Corner

Feature Report: Woodland ClubBy Linda Beise

The Woodland Club consists of 4 members at this time. We do not hold monthly meetings since we are together almost every week participating in the Charity Workshops.

We are very active in all aspects of HCE and 3 members are on the Executive Board. We attend functions whenever we can to promote HCE.

Two of our ladies are longtime Wisconsin Bookworm Readers and another is helping to make the quilted items for the annual raffle fundraiser.

When I joined in 2002 we had 14 members and met in each others’ homes. Things have changed a lot in the last 15 years. We are still working for the same purpose but with a little different approach.

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Upcoming EventsApril

10 Spring Association HCE Meeting and Potluck | Muehl Public Library, Seymour 10:00 am Meeting 11:30 am Potluck 1:00 pm Program: Senior Fraud with Kim Patterson, Brookdale Senior Living 18 Northeast District Meeting

May

7 HCE Banquet | Doxbee’s Seymour Theme: Bloom Where You’re Planted Cost: $16 per person 4:30 pm Silent Auction and Social 5:30 pm Dinner Program: A Saharawi Refugee Camp, Southwestern Algeria, presented by Maddie Cremer Preregister by May 114 Garden Basics | Outagamie County UW-Extension, Appleton 12:00 pm Picnic lunch potluck 1:00 pm Program presented by Kaitlin Bricco, Outagamie County Horticulture Assistant Preregister by May 717 2018 Country Apples Trip | A New Musical-Palace Theatre, Wisconsin Dells Preregister by April 629 Extension Education Committee Meeting | Highway Department, Little Chute | 9:00 am 30 Newsletter Deadline

June

5 Newsletter Committee Meeting | Outagamie County UW-Extension, Appleton | 9:00 am5 Fair Booth Committee Meeting | Outagamie County UW-Extension, Appleton | 10:00 am10 Breakfast on the Farm | Van Handel Dairy Farm, N4884 Section Line Road Freedom | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm24 Fair Booth Set Up | Outagamie County Fairgrounds, Seymour | 1:00 pm24-29 County Fair | Outagamie County Fairgrounds, Seymour

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Upcoming Events 2018 Country Apples TripHappy Days: A New Musical-Palace Theatre, WI DellsThursday May 17th, 2018The deadline to sign up is April 6, 2018 .

Trip will include a tour on the WI Ducks and the Matinee Performance and lunch at the Palace Theatre.

$106 each, for 30 people, reduction in cost for every 5 more. Make checks payable to Nationwide Travelers. Send payment to Judy Shafel, W7589 Park Ave, Shiocton, WI 54170, questions call 920-740- 6059.

Leave Return6:45 a.m. Black Creek 5:30 p.m. Nationwide6:55 Town of Center 5:50 Town of Center7:15 Nationwide 6:00 Black Creek

Ducks 9:30 - 11:00, Palace 11:00 - 3:15

Thank YouIn addition to the Thank You card on the right, we have received Thank You notes from the following:

* From the Veterans Home at King December 8, 2017 for walker bags, wheelchair bags and picture books.

* From the Veterans Home at King January 28, 2018 for dementia blankets, booklets, pillows and cards

* From the Veterans Home at King February 5, 2018 for personal care items.

* From Jim Van Den Heuvel for the quilts presented to Freedom VFW Post 7692.

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Committee ReportWisconsin Bookworms ReportBy Co-Chairs Judy Asman & Marcie Suprise

Wisconsin Bookworms is celebrating 20 years of the early literacy program throughout the state of Wisconsin. Outagamie County has been with the program since it started in 1998. As County President, Marjorie Zibell got us involved the first year and has been dedicated to the program ever since. We started small and each year we kept increasing Head Starts until we were reading to all Head Starts in the county and giving books to 330 children a year. A big thank you goes out to the dedicated women who made Wisconsin Bookworms a success in our county. The Chairmen were Marjorie Zibell, Marcie Suprise, Co-Chairs were Ruth Biese, Judy Asman and Raffle Chairmen, Linda Biese and Carol Theobald. A big thanks to all who donated homemade quilts (all sizes), pillows, table runners for prizes. We cannot forget the HCE members who bought or sold raffle tickets. We have reached over 6000 children giving out about 39,000 books. We must remember the Volunteer Readers who have dedicated their time and talent and passed on their love for reading to the 3-5 year olds. Marcie Suprise (20 years), Marjorie Zibell (19 years), Judy Asman (19 years), Lois Dalke (18 years), Jeanne Baum (9 years), Marge Paulson (9 years), Margaret Hinz (9 years), Jeanne Lautenschlager (7 years), Judy Shafel (7 years), Faye Wichman (3 years), Lois Schwister (3 years) and Bonnie Simon (2 years). A special thanks to anyone who helped with Wisconsin Bookworms.

We received donations from St. Bernard’s Crafty Ladies $500, and the Greenville Lioness $250. We thank them for their support.

Our Wisconsin Bookworms Raffle is our big fundraiser for the year. This year Catholic Financial Life Chapter 197 of Seymour is matching funds for $1,000. We need to have $1,500 in ticket sales to get matching funds. We did it before, and we can do it again - Do Your Best. First prize Painters Pallette Quilt (82x104), second prize Floral Ring Design Quilt (82x94), third prize Black, Red and Silver Quilt (74x88), fourth prize Farm Scene Quilt (50x60), fifth prize Children Throw (47x47) and sixth prize Block Sampler (35x43).The beautiful handmade prizes were donated by Countty Apples, Giving Bees, Mary Ann Nettekoven and Dolly Mleziva. The tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5. Contact Marcie Suprise 757-5407 or Carol Theobald 984-3344. Please turn in your stubs and money by April 30 to Carol or Marcie. The drawing will be at Doxbee’s on May 7 at 7:30 pm.

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Announcements Charity Workshop

The group is busy working on cards for our card folders, recycling calendars and many quilted items. So far this year we have donated several quilts for fire victims, lap robes and pillows for surgery patients, three quilts and three sided pillows for fundraisers and several items for the Wisconsin Bookworms fundraiser. We are busy working on special pillows for Camp to Belong and three sided pillows for Camp American Legion.

Our regular members of the group are Marilyn Anunson, Linda Biese, Lois Dalke, Margret Hinz, Susan Manske, Kathy Schroeder, Lois Schwister and Marcie Suprise. We have 2 ladies who also help that are not members, Debby Court and Judy Peters. Also on occasion, we have some members of Country Apples that join us.

Dolly Mleziva and Dorothy Paltzer are always working on cards that they donated towards our card folders. Dolly Mlezvia and Mary Ann Nettekoven donate Quilts and quilted items for the various fundraisers. We would like to thank everyone for their donations, whether it be your time or supplies or items you have made on your own.

If interested in working with us, give Linda Biese a call, 660-8057, to confirm when we are working. We get together weather permitting.

Bits and PiecesFamily Learning Day

On February 17, 2018 several of our members participated in the 4-H Family Learning Day at Fox Valley Technical College. We did a sewing project of making pillow cases. There were 10 children in attendance from the ages of 5 to 13. These children are members of local 4-H clubs. We all had fun. It is fun to see the enthusiasm and eagerness in the children to learn new things. The HCE members who helped were Jeanne Baum, Linda Biese, Kathy Schroeder and Marcie Suprise.

Quilt Show Winners

Congratulations to the raffle winner Sue Kauffman from Seymour. Sue won the Motorcycle Quilt.

Viewers Choice1 Debby Court - Vietnam Quilt2 Audrey Temmers - Feathered Star3 Sharon Thenus - Barn Dance4 Kath Roth - Ohh LaLa

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Invasive Stink Bug Moves In On HomesHomeowners Can Prevent Invasion by Smelly InsectBy Christelle Guédot, UW-Extension and Janet van Zoeren, UW-Extension

With the advance of the brown marmorated stink bug across the United States, Wisconsin researchers are working to detect when and where their populations will reach nuisance or agricultural pest levels in the state. Traps have been placed to monitor for brown marmorated stink bugs in wooded areas (where the bugs overwinter), in urban areas (where they gather looking to overwinter in houses), in apple orchards, and in vegetable and field crops. Fifty-one traps were maintained between June and the end of October 2016.

The brown marmorated stink bug is an invasive species of agricultural and urban importance, so it is essential to keep track of its occurrence and expansion in Wisconsin, and to provide an early warning system to help protect crops and prevent home invasions.

The bug has been in Wisconsin for about six years and it is not yet causing problems for farmers, but could in the near future. In fact, brown marmorated stink bug adults were caught in traps in a couple apple orchards and a pumpkin patch in Dane County in early October, making this the first official report of brown marmorated stink bugs on agricultural crops in Wisconsin.

Throughout most of the summer, few brown marmorated stink bugs were caught in the monitoring traps set as part of a research collaboration by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and the Integrated Pest Management Institute of North America. However, in late September the insects began turning up in urban traps in the Madison area — about five insects per trap per week. Those densities are still low compared to other states out east, but is significant compared to the lack of the bugs all summer. In the summer, they probably fed on ornamentals, as they were observed in Madison on cotoneaster, dogwood and grasses. They may also have taken advantage of homegrown vegetables, but no one reported seeing them in vegetable gardens.

Adults gather on window screens of houses in an attempt to enter buildings. Bugs should not be crushed because they will produce a strong offensive smell that can linger for days.

Although numbers of the brown marmorated stink bug are still low, all homeowners should start thinking about keeping their houses bug-free using the following guidelines:* Install weather-stripping under and around doors.* Put a screen over the top of the chimney.* Caulk or otherwise seal cracks around windows, crawlspaces or other potential entry spaces.* Knock small numbers of the bugs into a container of soapy water to kill them; vacuum large

numbers of bugs inside a house.

Brown marmorated stink bugs on crops or inside a house can be identified by the shield-shaped body, which is a half-inch to five-eighths of an inch long, with multiple shades of brown, and with characteristic dark and light bands on its antennae. The University of Wisconsin-Extension published a guide with images.

Anyone finding a suspected brown marmorated stink bug can take a picture with a coin in the frame for size reference, and email the photo to janet.vanzoeren@ces.uwex.edu.

Outagamie County Home and Community EducationSpring Newsletter3365 W Brewster StAppleton, WI 54914

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UW-Extension Staff Catherine Neiswender Area Extension Director Amy Beck Office Assistant Joan Behle Office Assistant Kaitlin Bricco Seasonal Horticulture Assistant Karen Dickrell Family Living Educator Evan Groth Nutrition Educator*

Sarah Grotjan Dairy and Livestock Agent Vicki Handschke Office Assistant Kevin Jarek Crops, Soils, and Horticulture Agent Ina Montgomery Program Assistant Kristine Soper Nutrition Educator*

Kayla Viste 4-H Youth Development Educator Allyson Watson Community Development Educator MaryBeth Wohlrabe 4-H Youth and Family Development Coordinator Becky Zoglman Education & Communication Specialist *Serves Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago Counties

County Administration

Thomas Nelson County Executive Craig Moser County Executive Administrator Jeff Nooyen County Board Chair Joy Hagen County Board Vice Chair

Extension Education Committee

Dan Rettler Chair Keith Suprise Vice Chair Daniel Melchert Secretary BJ O’Connor-Schevers Member Debbie VanderHeiden Member

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