it’s been just a few days after the fire at organic valley headquarters, but the clean-up ( and soon rebuild ) process is well under way. the parking lot is filled with yellow servicemaster fire and water damage recovery vehicles. the left (west) side from the red gambrel of the building is a total loss, [...]
sadly, there was a fire at organic valley headquarters yesterday that damaged the west portion of the building pretty badly. luckily, kris and i were not in the building when it was evacuated around 4:10pm. i left at 4:05 in the rideshare van back to viroqua with my computer and phone to get prepared to [...]
while we’re Beginning of The Neverending Hockey Season in the big city of onalaska, wisconsin, our community ice arena is closing down for the season in our little town of viroqua which means The Last Open Skate of The Season is upon us. what will we do from 6-8pm on saturdays and sundays?! i thought [...]
normally at this time of year, we’re closing out another fun hockey season. the last games are played and the ice is melted at our community arena and we enjoy a few weekends with nothing much to do as the weather warms and spring sets in. but this year, odin has been enjoying hockey so [...]
odin’s team played 3 games in altoona, wisconsin this weekend. they had a great time bonding by the pool at the hotel and playing against some great area teams on the ice. odin’s team is still quite young with many 7 and young 8 year olds on their “squirt b” so they will often struggle [...]
coming off their exciting first tie game in black river falls, odin’s hockey team played a doubleheader in onalaska, wisconsin today. if you’ve ever skated up and down “full ice” a few times, you might have a sense of how exhausting two games can be so a doubleheader is a good way to see how [...]
after making the cut to move up to the squirts and a a few practices running plays odin and his new teammates played their first game today against black river falls. and whooboy, what a game! viroqua played well through the first two periods and maintained a commanding 4-1 lead. they looked awesome for their [...]
i was out on a evening run and i happened up a training for the viroqua fire department on the 200 block of north center avenue across the street from nelson’s agricenter. at first i didn’t know it was a training fire and couldn’t figure out why there weren’t any sirens on and everyone seemed [...]
our adopted hometown, viroqua gets a nice shout out from kathleen merrigan, deputy secretary of the USDA in the atlantic article “Beyond Farmers Markets: Why Local Food Belongs on Grocery Shelves”, “It is happening in Viroqua, Wisconsin, a town of 4,400…”.
it’s august which means it’s time for yet another photo of the high-oil sunflowers that are pressed for biodiesel for an organic valley sustainability program. some might recall my photos from last year and a few might even recall the original, popular sunnier side of biodiessel photo from five(?!) years ago. this year is extra [...]
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