Last Updated: Friday, September 19, 2008 8:55 AM CDT
Community : Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Betts Bodoh - Correspondent
(Wabeno News) - Hi everybody.
I want to include a letter I received this week by e-mail from the Wisconsin Dual Sport Riders.
“We just wanted to take a moment to remind you that our 8th annual Big Woods 200 will be in town on Sept. 26 through 28. As of today (Sept. 13) we are officially full with 170 riders. We would like to take this time to thank all of you for the support you have shown over the past years and would like to know if there were ways we could help get our riders into your business over the weekend. As usual we will be serving no Saturday breakfast, so you may see more riders in town for that meal. Saturday lunch will be at the Silver Cliff American Legion Chili feed. Saturday night will be the Wabeno Lions doing dinner, out at the Fire Fighters Grounds Pavilion. Sunday morning we will be at the Madonna Hall for breakfast. We will try and get things shut down early to send forks down town for the evenings. At our spring ride several businesses made donations to the ride (things like a couple of meals, hats, tee shirts, and the like). If you would be interested in donating things for this falls ride, please give me a call at (920) 350-2030 or e-mail me at bigwoods200@hotmail.com. We will send club members around on Friday (hopefully before lunch time) to get a menu or a list of anything special you have going on that weekend, so we can post them at our sign-up booth. If there are any local business owners that would be interested in riding either day with us please let me know and we’ll get you in with a group, so you can have a little fun with our riders. Thank you, as always we hope we are doing a good job at promoting Wabeno. Sincerely John Newton Wisconsin Dual Sport Riders.”
John, we certainly appreciate you all being here. The businesses and the people I have spoken with have only good things to say about the Dual Sport Riders being here. Not only do you fill the motels but you also eat and drink locally providing a boost to our local economy, your write-ups are featured in many papers throughout the state and beyond and you always mention how nice the town and the town’s people are, and the facilities at the Fire Fighters’ Grounds.
Each year we are trying to improve these grounds so it will accommodate groups like yours and other groups as well. You have been a great help in that project. The donations to the showers in the bathroom area from your group was an inspiration. Thank you for that.
Eventually we will have more electric and improvements elsewhere to make camping and cooking better. It is a great place now but improvements are forthcoming. The Town of Wabeno now owns that park and in the three or so years since a board was organized to maintain and improve the grounds, the grounds and the board have come a long way.
The pavilion was finished and the showers put in, along with new toilets. The electric upgraded although we need more as I said before. The grounds cleaned up and leveled and the buildings painted. Coolers and a bar were built; a tapper for beer put in, inside the new pavilion. New plastic tables and picnic tables were purchased. We’ve received a donation of some chairs and many other donations too numerous to mention. We still need many things done in that park to make it “the best it can be.” With the support of the Dual Sport Riders Club and the town’s people with their donations of time and help, we will eventually have a beautifully landscaped park for all types of recreation.
Wabeno is known for all it’s beautiful parks. The bandshell, the brick walkway around the flagpole and beyond. Larry the Logroller, the Phoenix Steam Hauler, the logging museum, the children’s park, the tennis court, the school house, the log library and now with the firefighters’ grounds and the new Legion Park on the top of the hill, there is no place around that compares to what we have here. It’s not just a town of beautiful parks but a town with beautiful people who are proud of their town and rightly so. The people give freely of their time. More so than any other place I know. That’s what makes it a great place to live. Well gotta go for now.
Don’t you just love this place? I do!
Any news or interest write: Betts Bodoh, P.O. Box 222, Wabeno, WI 54566, e-mail lobolu@centurytel.net, or call (715) 473-3808.
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