Fans of big defensive plays might have liked Friday night’s Bay Conference football game between Shawano and Seymour in Shawano, but Hawks fans won’t like the final score. Seymour won 47-0. With seven turnovers in the first half, four by Shawano (1-3, 1-2 Bay) and three by Seymour (3-1, 3-1 Bay) both defenses kept busy. Despite giving up two early touchdowns — a 5-yard run by Seymour’s Seth Jefson and a 2-yard plunge by Ryan Krahn — the Hawks def

I was thinking that September has just arrived; however, since this column will be printed on Sept. 14, I have to admit that in fact, September is half way gone. So far much of it has been spent relaxing and starting new projects at home. A couple of days was spent Up North, at Camp Luther, with more than 100 other women for a retreat.

Buttoning up our third crop hay awhile ago, we topped the silo off by chopping one smaller field of corn because our third crop hay yield was less than desirable. Husband decided we will wait a few days before beginning to fill our silage bags.

For several months Liz Nowak and Carla Lynch have been working to control the animal population in Shawano County through Shawano Cares about Critters. The women have their own Facebook page, shawanocaresaboutcirtters, where they give information and advice on taking care of pets. “Carla and I met on Facebook,” Nowak said.

Betty Pearson volunteers to tutor several students for the Shawano County Literacy Council. She was born in Wauwatosa, graduating from Wauwatosa East High School. She earned a degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in speech communication and a master’s degree in urban education. Pearson taught in a residential treatment center, Milwaukee Area Technical College and UW-Washington County.

Amy Hanten is on a mission, and that mission is to get people back to the dinner table. She plans to stop at nothing to make that happen, and she’ll use every tool in her arsenal to do that — salads, turkey taco bakes, even green and gold trifles to entice Green Bay Packers fans. “We didn’t have any money (growing up), and when we did, there were not a lot of restaurants,” Hanten said during an appearance Thursday night at the Shawano-City County

Shawano Police Department Sept.

Emergency management and public health officials from Shawano and Menominee counties are planning two community outreach events as part of September’s Emergency Preparedness Month. Officials will be at Hanke’s Sentry Foods, 110 S. Mission St., in Wittenberg from 1o:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday. On Sept. 21, they will be at Qualheim’s True Value, 1345 E.

Plans to develop a county policy for land acquisition funds are on hold, with the current budget crunch to blame. The Shawano County Capital Improvement Projects Committee on Thursday briefly discussed whether it would be prudent for the county to start setting aside funds for future land purchases. Supervisor Marlin Noffke said spending several full-day sessions with the Finance Committee working on the budget has changed his opinion of the prop