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Pictured from left to right in the front row: Terri Broxmeyer; Linda Hohneke, RN, Good Neighbor Clinic Chief Nurse; and Gretchen Considine, PA-C, Good Neighbor Clinic Medical Director. Pictured from left to right in the second row: Janelle Hupp, MD, Chair of Sauk Prairie Healthcare Foundation’s Grants & Gifts Committee; Amanda Suchla; Martha Mueller -Dong; Kym Pharo; Susan Baumann-Duren; Lisa Pickarts, RN, BSN, Sauk Prairie Healthcare Vice President of Patient Services/Chief Nursing Officer; Veronica Gallas; Joyce Evers and Todd Wuerger, Sauk Prairie Healthcare Foundation Executive Director. Good Neighbor Clinic Board members not in the photo are Mike Enge and Nancy Kaufman.

Sauk Prairie’s getting a little taste of Chicago, courtesy of Hot Dog Avenue, a new restaurant that held its grand opening last Thursday. Hot Dog Avenue, located at the corner of Highways 60 and 12, features a full menu of authentic Chicago-style food. You can find everything from Vienna Beef hot dogs to Italian beefs to Gyros to Maxwell Street Polishes there. Owner Ralph Starzyk, who grew up in the Chicago suburbs, moved his family to Wisconsin Dells in 1998. While living there he realized something was missing—the food he grew up on—and opened the first Hot Dog Avenue in 2010. Last year, de cided to expand, which led to the Sauk City location. Partygoers donned paper Vienna Beef hats and enjoyed the raffle, and Starzyk got to cut the ribbon on his new restaurant surrounded by the Sauk Prairie community. Photo by Joe Block

The Mickelsons-Martin American Legion Post 313 of Black Earth honored member Joe Bomkamp for his dedication to the upkeep of “Flags on Mills Street.” For the past five years, Joe faithfully walked Mills Street several times a week, usually carrying a long stick to unwind flags that the wind had turned around on the poles and replaced those needing attention. The dozens of flags which the Legion Post displays along the one-and-a-half-mile street are displayed for eleven months of the year. Last year, poles were replaced with new ones that have almost eliminated the flag winding problem. Pictured, left to right, Joe Bomkamp, Dennis Wood.