Region 3C: Shawano / Langlade / Menominee Counties

December 2024

Meetings: Shawano meetings 1^st Saturday of the month at 1 pm. See text for locations

Langlade meetings also listed in text

ABATE of WI Shawano

Meetings: Shawano meetings 1^st Saturday of the month at 1 pm. See text for locations

Langlade meetings also listed in text

Hi Everyone!

Our Shawano meeting was held at Amy’s Roadhouse in Thornton on Saturday, November 2. We had 25 members in attendance! Thanks everyone for coming to our Shawano meeting which started with the Pledge of Allegiance followed by a Moment of Silence for those in harm’s way. Please see the separate Langlade and Waupaca meeting reviews.

Lynn reviewed the Oct 2024 Treasurer report and the final FYNR numbers. We had 101 riders and paid out $600 in the first 3 prizes. Including the event 50/50 we sent the state about $1.300. Thank you, riders, volunteers, and the Breakaway Bar in Cloverleaf Lakes for making our 27th Annual Freeze Your Nuts Run successful. Nice job everyone.

Jimmy reviewed our region member numbers. Sue reported we have a new bar in Langlade County, Fishers II at the location of the old Mink Pen on Hwy S. Robin will have his December meeting there.

Final regional elections occurred at our October meeting. I want to first thank Mark Kasten who has been our Region’s Secretary for the last five years. Thank you for your service to our region. I want to thank Vauna Nelson for stepping up as Regional Secretary and Troy Schultz as Area Rep for Shawano County. Yes, Wayne continues as Shawano County Area Rep. Please thank your regional member leaders as we go through the next 2 years.

We reviewed the 50th Anniversary happenings with Dawn as she was there. I reviewed the newly elected board members. Congratulations to our new board of volunteers at the state level. Sue shared with us the Certificate of Appreciation she received for being the Share the Road director.

Changes to our legislators was discussed as well as MRF news. Lobby Day was announced as Thursday, Feb 13. Our region bus pickup for Shawano will be at the Bonduel Kwik Trip. Watch for more information when the bus schedule is published.

Our 2024 B2B Tour ended at Amy’s after the meeting with a potluck (in the basement)! Yum Yum! Members returned their B2B Tour books and received tickets for stamps. We had (3) monetary prizes and one award for the most stamps going to Troy T with 86 stamps. We also had about 15 certificates as extra prizes. We had 93 business in the 2024 Tour and want to thank all of our ABATE business members who participated. We’ll start the 2025 B2B Tour in January with our participation letter sent in January.

SAFETY: Watch for deer on the final days of riding. They are out. Marcy shared transportation data from community maps. Great information!

This year’s Region 3C Cookie Raffle is after our Shawano December meeting at the Bamboo Bar on Dec 7. Cookies, bars, and anything else right for Christmas is great to raffle. This is an interesting raffle as we have quite the assortment of “desserts” to raffle from our awesome members.

Robin has posters for the upcoming 2025 Region 3C Walking Meat Raffle and meeting on Jan 11, 2025, in Antigo starting at Boettcher’s Bar and ending at Beer 30. For a $10 donation, walk to 5 other stops participating in the meat raffle. The winner gets a prize and lots of meat raffle winners.

Thank you, Amy and staff, for your hospitality at Amy’s Roadhouse (Thornton), Vanessa and Dave at Little Rock Bar & Grill (Aniway), and Ryan and Jeany at Bean City Bar & Grill (New London). Thank you for supporting ABATE of Wisconsin!

Shawano County monthly meetings are on the 1st Saturday of the month at 1 pm. Dec 7 at The Bamboo Bar (South Shore-Cookie Raffle) and Jan 4 at Roxie’s and Rosy’s Bar & Grill (Green Valley).

Langlade County meetings are on the 2nd Saturday at 1 pm. Dec 14 at Fishers II (Polar-Hwy S) and Jan 11 at Boettcher’s Bar (Meat Raffle).

Waupaca/Waushara County meetings are on the 2nd Sunday at 1pm. Dec 8 at Just Another Bar (Ogdensburg) and Jan 12 at Wally’s Bar (King).

Just a reminder to take those ABATE lawn signs in as they can then be brought out in spring!

Ride Safe. Ride Free.

 

Pauline Forrest, Region 3C Rep.

 

ABATE of WI 3C Langlade County News:

Hi Everyone,

We had no October as we were at the FYNR. We had a great time with lots of riders. The weather wasn’t the best but hopefully, everyone had a good time. Looking forward to next year.

Langlade County’s next meeting will be November 9^th at Little Rock Bar in Aniwa. See you there.

Hi Everyone,

We started our meeting with the Flag Pledge and Moment of Silence for downed brothers and sisters. We had 12 members in attendance. Pauline gave Regional, Legislative, and Treasury reports with all being good. She also recapped Freeze Your Nuts run and B2B tour book and party we had, which was a great time. We also talked about officer’s training that is coming up soon. Looking forward to learning new things for our Region. And of course, Lobby Day, our most important day for ABATE. I can’t wait.

Sue gave a Products report. She is hoping for new things to sell. Sue also gave a STR report. The program has been doing great.

Pauline talked about Shawano’s Cookie Raffle, and I talked about Langlade County’s traveling Meat Raffle on January 11, 2025. The poster is on our Facebook page. Would like to thank Little Rock Bar for having us and for the awesome food. Our next meeting will be at Fishers 2 at 1 pm. Hope to see you there.

Robin