Community

St. Vincent de Paul of Sauk Prairie/Roxbury, Inc. recently met with volunteers at the Good Neighbor Clinic of Sauk Prairie to present them with a check in the amount of $7,500 to help continue providing healthcare access to those without insurance in the greater Sauk Prairie area. St. Vincent’s CARE program is grateful for their partnership with the Good Neighbor Clinic which allows CARE staff to distribute Vivitrol injections to their clients each week. St. Vincent’s is also grateful to their donors and customers for their patronage which allows them to support worthy causes in the Sauk Prairie area. Pictured from left are: GNC Board President & Social Worker Joyce Evers, SVDP Vice President Helen Campbell, SVDP General Manager Jarrod Vande Hey, RN Kathleen Thousand, SVDP President Jackie Murphy, RN Mickey Snyder, RN Ginny Diehl, Translator Taylor Gutierrez, SVDP CARE Client Coordinator & CMA Casey Siebecker, and GNC Provider Dr. Thomas Sullivan.

The No Name String Band music collective distills the heart of old time fiddle music, jazz/funk improvisation, and latin rhythms – with a dram of classical discipline – into their uniquely new time sound. They spin their own groove on light-footed and hard-driving barn dance tunes of the American south, while slowing down to explore more introspective original compositions. See them live on Friday, March 10th at 7 p.m. at River Arts on Water (590 Water St, downtown Prairie du Sac). Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 per person. Beverages provided. To purchase tickets, visit www.riverartsinc.org/no-name, call 608-643-5215, or buy in person at the venue Tuesday-Saturday 9am-4pm (til 6pm on Fridays). This performance is sponsored by Sauk Prairie Maplewood. The band, pictured left to right: Brian Zimmerman, Josh Pultorak, Matt Manske, Hannah Muehlbauer, Chris Ptasnik).

The Sauk Prairie Chess Club hosted their annual tournament on Saturday. Students took individual and team trophies as they competed against other central Wisconsin chess teams. Pictured are coaches Scott Bakken and Jenna McCann with Sauk Prairie chess players.

Benjamin Randall-Schuh

Lodi Valley Masonic Lodge #99 on Tuesday, Feb 14 donated a portable Fire Suppression Tool (FST) to the Black Earth Joint Fire District Fire Department. The device is designed to suppress a fire that is still contained within a structure. It can be deployed by first responders and is designed to control a fire in the all-important early stage. The $950 unit was provided to the Lodi Lodge, which merged several years ago with the Crescent Valley Lodge of Black Earth and Mazomanie, by the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Wisconsin. The Grand Lodge has been providing units to emergency services all over the state this past year. In December the local Lodge donated a unit to the Mazomanie Fire Department and has plans to donate units in the Lodi area as well. The FST is non-pressurized and is deployed manually by pulling two pins and then throwing the device into a burning building. Pulling the pins triggers an internal ignition system, and about eight seconds later, an environmentally-friendly powdered aerosol is generated that fills the fire scene for about 35 seconds, interrupting the bond between the heat and the oxygen in the room and thus suppressing the flames. The website for Fire Suppression Solutions, the company that distributes the tool, indicates a FST will reduce the room temperature by up to 1000 degrees within 35 seconds, preventing flashovers and backdrafts without oxygen depletion. Pictured, the Black Earth Fire Department recently accepted the donation of a Fire Suppression Tool from the Lodi Valley Masonic Lodge #99. Left to right in the front row are Mason Dale Reeve, Lieutenants Cary Severson and Jason Richter, Lodi Valley Master Roger Haarklau, who is presenting the donated tool to Deputy Chief Mitch Hodson, and Captain Bryan Moyer and Lieutenant Andrew Morrow. In the second row, from left, are Masons Greg Flanagan, Scott Anderson and Michael Thumm, Assistant Chief Luke Schoenemann and Captain Matt Kahl. Photo by John Donaldson