Last Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:14 AM CDT
Work begins on building to house historic sawmill at Pioneer Park
By Michael Skubal
Wisps of fog drifted through Pioneer Park at 7 a.m. Wednesday. There were some early dog walkers. And there was activity at the site of the new Red’s Sawmill addition to the Logging Museum Complex.
The guys were laying block, some of the guys anyway. Tim Thorsen was taking pictures but his son, Tyler, and nephew, Marc, were actually unloading concrete blocks from the trailer. Both smiled and said they got roped into the job, that they could have been sleeping. Thorsen said he had an early appointment and left the boys to work.
Scott Fiocchi was there with his father, Mick. Rhinelander knows Mick Fiocchi as the head honcho at WXPR.
Fiocchi explained why he was working to build Red’s Sawmill.
“Part of it is Rotary. Part of it is we bought much of the wood for our home from Red and Mae Marquardt and their sawmill. And lastly, I spearheaded the campaign for the new playground equipment at Pioneer park. It’s nice to be down here again.”
Fiocchi’s great-grandfather was a stonemason. His father and brother laid brick and stone for a living. Mick started out working with concrete and brick.
Mark Pflieger, owner of Perennial Antiques in Harshaw, was volunteering at the job site because of Mick.
“When I was a young lad, Mick trained me as a bricklayer. Mick was a journeyman at the time,” he said.
Rounding out the crew on Wednesday morning was Bill Kingsbury, past president of Rhinelander Rotary.
Rotary has donated $15,000 to the project. But building Red’s Sawmill has turned out to be a community endeavor, with both businesses and individuals jumping on board with donations of money and materials.
The project is a team effort. The city of Rhinelander donated $5,000, Oneida County did the same. Bart Sexton of the Oneida County Landfill and Laurie Groskopf of Second Story have donated recycled materials.
Musson Brothers donated sand and leveling of the site. Matt Thorsen donated the labor involved in laying the concrete pad for the building.
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