Region 3C: Shawano / Langlade / Menominee Counties

January 2025

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

Our Shawano meeting was held at the Bamboo Bar & Grill (Shawano Lake) on Saturday, December 7. We had 19 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.

NOTE: LOBBY DAY BUS STOP is at Bonduel Kwik Trip Park & Ride at 8:15. Please make a note of this change. Ballard road riders on Bus 5 should be ready to board at 9 am. Thank you!

Lynn reviewed the Nov 2024 treasury report. We are holding some funds for the January walking meat raffle. We have Sweetheart Raffle Tix which are pulled at Officer Training Feb 9. We held a 50/50 raffle at this meeting and every meeting. I just can’t always remember who won!

Sue does not have much for STR training. She continues to work at the state STR level. We will have a basket raffle benefitting STR and STR video at our January Shawano meeting.

There have been no new members except Fishers II in Polar. We did receive a new membership list and Jimmy copied and forwarded it to our Area Reps.

Lobby Day was announced as Thursday, Feb 13. Our regional bus pickup for Shawano will be at the Bonduel Kwik Trip Park and Ride at 8:15 (Hwy 29 and Hwy 117), Ballard Road/Hwy 41 at 9 am and hopefully get to Madison by 11:15 ahead of our normal schedule. (I would appreciate any feedback on the Route 5 Bus schedule). During the bus ride we will hand out our talking points and get everyone up to speed on our schedule. Group photo is at 12. Our first appointment is at 12:30 in the Senate Parlor with the bulk of legislators in District 3 and Region 2F seated. We will leave Madison at 3 pm if possible. I know that Becky, Duke, and Handlebar will be working together to make this a successful 2025 Lobby Day!

SAFETY: Fatalities for 2024 and 2023 are tracking about the same at 100.

Our Cookie Raffle was held after the meeting. Our members brought forth a great selection of Christmas favorites. I really cannot believe all that our members brought. Annette brought three platters of a various mix of goodies. Mark’s sister brought cookie decorating kits and Ron switched from lemon bars to cranberry coffee cake. Along with these there were decorated cookies, lemon bars, and chocolates. Yum, Yum. We had great help from bar patrons and members to make this a great event. Thanks for everyone that helped.

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. Winner gets a prize and lots of meat raffle winners.

Thank you Cheesy and Marcy for the great meeting at Just Another Bar (Ogsdenburg) on Sunday. Region 2F provided a nice food spread. 2F is setting up a Bowl-A-Thon in the spring. Get your teams ready. See Marcy’s regional report in the 2F area for Waupaca and Waushara counties.

Region 3C is providing a 4-hour CPR class on Saturday Jan 25 for $50 in Shawano. The recipient of the class will have a 2-year CPR certification for adult and child CPR and AED use. Call Pauline to register and for more information. A location is to be determined.

Thank you, Rory and staff (Pauline!), for your hospitality at The Bamboo Bar (Shawano Lake), Cathy and Steve at Just Another Bar (Ogdensburg) and Fishers II (Polar). Thank you for supporting ABATE of Wisconsin!

Shawano County monthly meetings are on the 1st Saturday of the month at 1pm. Jan 4 at Roxie’s and Rosy’s Bar & Grill (Green Valley) and Feb 1 at the VFW (Shawano).

Langlade County meetings are on the 2nd Saturday at 1pm. Jan 11 at Boettcher’s Bar (Meat Raffle) and no meeting in February due to Officers’ s Training.

Waupaca/Waushara County meetings are on the 2nd Sunday at 1pm. Jan 12 at Wally’s Bar (King) and no February meeting.

Ride Safe. Ride Free.

Pauline Forrest, Region 3C Rep.

ABATE of WI 3C Langlade County News:

Hi Everyone,

We started our meeting with the Flag Pledge and Moment of Silence for downed brothers and sisters. We had 12 people in attendance.

Pauline gave a Treasury report with all being good. Pauline also gave a Legislative report. We are getting ready to talk to our Legislators to see what we can get done in 2025. We talked about Officer’s Training and looking forward to learning new things.

We also had a Membership report with no new members. Sue gave her Products report. We will hopefully have something new after Officer’s Training. Sue also gave a STR report. She is working on more classes coming up.

We talked about our Traveling meat Raffle on January 11^th. It’s sure to be a great time. There are posters on our Facebook page and in the newsletter. Come and join us. Would like to thank Fischers II bar for having us.

Our January meeting will be at Boettcher’s Bar with our Meat Raffle to follow. March meeting will be at Old Mill Bar and our April meeting will be at Riverside Pub. Stay warm!

Robin