Category: General

Computers • Electronics • Appliances

When: Saturday January 25th 2014
Where: Cellcom and Nsight Telservices,
2711 East Frontage Road, Abrams
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Cellcom & Nsight Telservices is holding an indoor recycling event.  Qualifying items can be dropped off at no cost.  The event will be held January 25th at their Abrams location.  This is an opportunity to dispose of  old computers, electronics and appliances.  If you are unable to make the Abrams event, they are also holding the recycling event at their Pulaski location on January 18th.  See the attached flyer for details and a list of items that will be accepted.  Please share this information with staff, friends and family.

Electronics we will recycle
CPUs • Printers • Speakers • Scanners • LCD Screens • Fax Machines • Vacuum Cleaners • Phones • Laptops • Record Players • Tape Players • CD Players • iPods • VCRs • DVD Players • Beta Tape Players • Electrical Saws • Drills • Calculators • UPS’s • Paper Shredders • Coffee • Machines • Heaters • Portable Game Systems • Most Household Electronics

Electronics with limitations
Please note that due to space limitations we will only accept 4 of the items listed below per household:

CRT Monitors • Televisions • Mini Fridges • Small AC Units • Stoves • Washers • Dryers • Dishwashers • Microwaves • Copy Machines
Large refrigerators will not be accepted

Quick Start Event 
NWTC-Oconto Falls
August 5
3-6 P.M.

Don’t miss this opportunity to apply, complete your admissions requirements, and/or register for classes. You can do it all at this one-stop event! 
For more information please call 920-848-6982

And it’s all FREE!!!!!

The Oconto Falls SNO-JOKERS snowmobile club, a ISR affiliate is hosting the 2014 ISR WORLD SERIES OF ICE DRAGS on Friday February 14th & Saturday February 15th, in Oconto Falls, WI just 25 miles north of Titletown-home of the Green Bay Packers. This is the 5th time hosting this event, Oconto Falls has hosted the ISR WORLD SERIES more times than any other venue! Racing will be held on the Oconto

River on 4 lanes of expertly shaved ice for racing and 1 lane for testing. We will have a 120′x40′ heated beverage and food tent on site. Each night after the race will be a live band. Minot 660′ Ice Drag Racers are providing their 4 lane porta tree timing system for the race. There will be tech and fuel sampling. We welcome all racers to attend this event and to keep ice drag racing alive and well! ISR classes will be run, as well as specialty classes and vintage classes.

Come see speeds at 150+ mph under the light.

Schedule of Events:
Friday-
8:00 am – Gates Open Noon – 3:00 pm – Testing
4:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Racing Under The Lights 8:00 pm – Band Begins – Dreams Fate

Saturday-
8:00 am – Gates Open
11:00 am – Racing begins with Kitty Kat’s 8:00 pm – Band Begins – Renagade

All racers are required to register with ISR! You can do this online at
http://www.isrracing.org/.

Visit our website for updates between now and the races. http://sno-jokers.com/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OcontoFallsWorldSeriesOfIceDrags

Skiing starts at 6:30 pm and goes until 9:00 pm (or later). Bring hot dogs, marshmallows, treats, beverages, and your friends and plan on a great evening skiing and warming around the bonfire. Our Candlelight Skis are family events, so bring the kids, too. EVERYONE IS WELCOME!! No skiing until after 6:30 pm to allow time for the candle lighters to get off the trails!

CANDLELIGHT SKIS – We need volunteers to set up and to light candles. If you are able to help, show up at the Trail Head around 5:30 pm for a work assignment. No hard work, it just takes people to get it done.

2013-14 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Jan. 6 (Mon.)
Ski Club Meeting
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Gilligan’s on Main OF

Jan. 11 (Sat.)
Candlelight Ski
6:30 – 9:00 pm
Blackberry Ramble

Feb. 3 (Mon.)
Ski Club Meeting
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Gilligan’s on Main OF

Feb. 8 (Sat.)
Candlelight Ski
6:30 – 9:00 pm
Blackberry Ramble

Mar. 2 (Sun.)
Spring Fling
5:00 – ??? pm
Location TBD

Mar. 8 (Sat.)
Candlelight Ski
6:30 – 9:00 pm
Blackberry Ramble
For details and current status on any Ski Club activities, call any of the officers listed below:

Gail Yatso, President 920-373-2626
Chique Tousey-Tabar, Secretary/Treasurer 920-846-2965
Ray Tabar, Trail Manager 920-846-2965

Machickanee XC Ski Club
148 South Chestnut Ave.
Oconto Falls, WI 54154

Winter Free Fishing Weekend is Jan. 18-19, 2014

Wisconsin’s second annual winter Free Fishing Weekend is set for Jan. 18-19, 2014. No fishing license or Great Lakes salmon stamp is needed to fish any Wisconsin water. This includes all inland waters and Wisconsin’s side of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River and other boundary waters. Other fishing rules apply, such as limits on the number and size of fish anglers can keep and any seasons when anglers must release certain fish species.

“Ice fishing is a great way to get outside during the winter and to fish anywhere without a boat,” says Theresa Stabo, Wisconsin’s angler education director. “Free Fishing Weekend is a great time to discover what it’s all about – fun with friends and family and, of course, the fish.”

Stabo encourages fishing groups, local chambers of commerce, youth group leaders and others to consider hosting their own Free Fishing Weekend events and to fill out an electronic form with their event details so DNR can help publicize those events that are open to the public. DNR tackle loaner sites have ice fishing gear for loan that groups and individuals can use, and the agency can supply limited quantities of age appropriate materials about ice fishing, fish populations, and fishing in general.

Posters are also available to download, print off and post to help promote Free Fishing Weekend.

All materials are available on DNR’s Free Fishing Weekend web page. Go to dnr.wi.gov and search “Free Fishing Weekend.”

Advice to maximize health benefits, limit contaminants from eating fish

Ice anglers eat a greater proportion of their catch than open water anglers, so it’s important to be aware of and follow fish consumption advice, says Candy Schrank, an environmental toxicologist who coordinates the fish consumption advice DNR issues with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

An online search tool allows anglers to use a drop down menu to select the county and lake or river reach they are fishing to bring up consumption advice for fish species on that water. The advice booklet, videos, and other materials are also available on the “Eat Your Catch pages of the DNR website.

Follow rules to prevent spreading invasive species like Asian carp and fish diseases

Ice anglers eager to start the hard water season are reminded to take steps to prevent accidentally spreading fish diseases and aquatic invasive species like Asian carp, the young of which look similar to common baitfish such as gizzard shad, emerald shiner, spottail shiner or golden shiner. Viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, is a virus that can infect several dozen fish species and cause them to bleed to death.

Here is what anglers need to know to help prevent fish diseases and other invasive species from spreading:

Follow bait rules. Buy bait from Wisconsin bait dealers. If you take minnows home after a day of fishing and you’ve added lake water or fish to the container, you can return with them only to that same water body the next day.

Familiarize yourself with what the different Asian carp species look like as juveniles and as adults, and learn how to tell the difference between them and common baitfish. Inspect bait you buy to assure you do not have any Asian carp in the bucket. Put on ice any fish suspected of being Asian carp and contact your local DNR.

Preserve bait correctly if you catch your own. If you use smelt or other dead bait, preserve it in a way that does not require freezing or refrigeration.

Don’t move live fish away from the water. Keep the fish you catch and want to take home on the ice until you leave at the end of the day, or carry them away in a dry bucket.

Drain all water from your equipment. That includes all buckets and containers of fish. When you’re leaving the ice, you may carry up to 2 gallons of water in which to keep your minnows.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ICE FISHING IN GENERAL CONTACT: Mike Staggs, 608-267-0796; Steve Hewett 608-267-7501; or your local fish biologist; Theresa Stabo, 608- 266-2272, for information on Free Fishing Weekend; Candy Schrank, 608-267-7614, for information on fish consumption advice.

The Oconto Falls Lions will kick the tubing hill season this Saturday, December 21st. Usual hours of operation will be from 1 to 4 PM on Saturdays and Sundays when snow conditions are good. The operation this year will feature a new tow rope and improved return trail to the top of the hill. Improvements were made due to the generosity of a grant provided by ST Paper in Oconto Falls. Specific information can be found on the Oconto Falls Lions Website at http://www.ocontofallslions.com/lion/Tubing_Hill.html.

Oconto Falls City employees are pictured installing the new rope in the attached picture.