Donald F. George, 89, De Pere, passed away Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. Family and friends may call on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, from 4-8 p.m. at Cotter Funeral Home, 860 N. Webster Ave., De Pere, where there will be a parish prayer service at 7:30 p.m. Visitation will continue on Wednesday from 10 a.m. until the hour of Mass at 11 a.m. at St. Matthew Catholic Church, 130 St.

Well, it looks like our nice autumn weather is over, and the cold, windy, and maybe even snow flurry weather will take its place. I guess we can’t complain, because, at least at my house, my flowers haven’t even frozen yet, perhaps nipped a bit, but not dead. I think I have been living in a dream world, thinking this would go on forever, or at least a wee bit longer. But here I am, the garage is clean, however my bulbs are not dug.

What a beautiful fall October day! The sun is bouncing off my garland of leaves on the porch railings as they flutter in the breeze. I feel like I should be outside hanging my sheet ghost in the tree. But, here I am, sitting at the computer again, with the Packers game blaring behind me.

As of right now we are done chopping corn and have not yet started picking our corn, as it hasn’t dried down sufficiently. So in the meantime, as we have the chance, we make wood. A couple of years ago I had pushed for an outside wood furnace, promising, promising I’d help make wood. When the notion hit my head about heating our farmhouse with wood, I felt rather like a pioneer woman, living off the land, sort of earthy and self-sufficient.

The annual food drive by Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts in Shawano is wrapping up Saturday. Boy Scout Troop 32 last week helped hand out about 4,000 plastic bags throughout the city for the donations, which they will pick up, box up and take to the Shawano Area Food Pantry and Resource Center. “People are typically pretty generous,” said Peter Moesch, co-Scoutmaster of the troop with Pat Bohm. Moesch got involved in Scouting when his oldest son joined

Lynn Johnson volunteers at the Shawano Area Food Center, a distribution site that supplies area food pantries. Johnson was born and raised in Appleton, graduating from Fox Valley Lutheran High School. She worked at Thrivent before marrying Al, her husband of 33 years. Together they ran their business, Badger Trucking, for 30 years, selling the business this year. Al is now pursuing other interests.

Shawano County Sheriff’s Department Oct. 17 Deputies logged 47 incidents, including the following: Fraud — Authorities investigated an identity theft complaint on U.S.

The Oneida Nation has thrown its support behind the Menominee Nation’s plan to open a casino in Kenosha, leaving only two Wisconsin Indian tribes that haven’t given their blessings to the proposal. Gov. Scott Walker said the Menominee would need Wisconsin’s 10 other tribes to approve of the project before he would grant it his own approval and allow it to proceed.

Local residents are feeling the pinch in their wallets when they go grocery shopping. The third quarter Marketbasket Survey done by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau shows food prices in Shawano have increased in dollars over the last 12 months, while the state total has increased by cents. The total for 16 select items in Shawano was $53.75 for the three-month period ending Sept. 30, according to the survey.