Brewery Pottery (276 Shake Rag Street - 608-987-3669) presents "Glenn Donovan Tribute." Join Brewery Pottery in paying tribute to creative genius and dear friend Glenn Donovan who passed away on January 21, 2008. Glenn's kinetic welded metal sculptures have brought smiles and hands on playfulness to people for the past 30 years. His final work will go on sale Saturday August 2, 2008 beginning at 3 p.m. with a opening reception during gallery night, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

His website.

The pattern here is a bit difficult to read with any certainty. But the comments after the above linked-to stories show a distinct pattern. A familiar culture war that plays out in this rural part of Wisconsin as it does across the nation.

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Kickapedia

It is a wiki like Wikipedia.  You the reader can be satisfied to just refer to it for handy information, or you can jump in and add your expertise to the mix.  To update the wiki you need to log in (google and yahoo account logins work) and then you can add to a page, create a new page, or correct something you know to be wrong.  If we all work together this could be something really special.  If it is left to the regulars on KickTime it will be...less.

There is a handy link to Kickapedia in the left side column. This introduction to the site has been updated and also highlights the calendar that tries to keep current in this very busy community.

If you are really lucky you may happen upon a new KickTime refrigerator magnet/business card--look for them at the coops in Viroqua and Gays Mills.

much more green in person

With everything virtually a click away on the internet, crafting has jumped aboard, not just through free patterns and online yarn companies, but with virtual knitting groups and personal interactive knitting organization and show-and-tell.  Heard of MySpace or Facebook? Well, Ravelry is kin to these mega cyber-living spaces, with everything the knitter or crocheter could ever dream of, including yarn and pattern reviews, a handy printable needle inventory card, and all kinds of active virtual knitting groups and forums.

Also on a flood theme, for those cleaning up from the floods, here is a nice_article about how clorine bleach is not effective against mold, and what alternative is better. They suggest a mix of borax and vinegar, and while that seems likely to kill about anything I'd be careful handling that too.

Several rural Minnesota families evacuated their homes last week when the odors from a nearby dairy farm reached unhealthy levels. Hazardous hydrogen sulfide levels at Excel Dairy near Thief River Falls, Minn., in northwest Minnesota triggered state Department of Health toxicologist Rita Messing to advise nearby homeowners to leave their homes. At least a half-dozen families living near the 1,500-cow farm left their homes to stay with relatives or in hotels.