Triathlon, island tours, run/walk highlight fall:
Walking or running shoes will be standard equipment for the three biggest autumn events on Cloverleaf Lakes.
The second annual triathlon kicks off Labor Day weekend, tours of Gibson Island are scheduled on two Saturdays in September and the fifth annual Cloverfest run/walk will be held on Oct. 12.
Triathlon: The Tri Cloverleaf Lakes Triathlon starts at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, at the Rustic Resort. Contestants will swim 400 yards, bike 15 miles and run 3.5 miles around the lakes. A relay event will have three-person teams, with each member doing one of the sports. Registration forms are available at www.cloverleaflakes.com.
“We are encouraging area residents to be outside cheering the athletes — or come to the Rustic and be a spectator,” said organizer Mary Wetzel. The CLPA is a sponsor along with the Clintonville Area Swim Team.
The Rustic is providing food for contestants, and spectators can eat for a fee. Volunteers to direct traffic and staff water stations can contact Wetzel or any CLPA board member.
Island tours: Retired arborist Dick Thurow will lead tours of Gibson Island starting at 10 a.m. at the Grass Lake boat landing on Saturdays Sept. 13 and 20. He will identify trees, wildlife and plant life on the one-mile hike. Thurow has been working on the island’s trails. Sign up by calling Fran West at 823-9151 or e-mail her at kfwest@frontiernet.net.
Cloverfest: The Cloverleaf Lakes Fireworks Association is organizing the Cloverfest Walk/Run to be held Sunday, Oct. 12, taking over from Joe Jaskolski and his family. Registration is from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Popp’s Lake Aire parking lot with the event starting at 10 a.m. and going 3.5 miles around the lakes.
Proceeds benefit the fireworks association, CLPA and the Shawano County Humane Society. A post-race ceremony and lunch will be at Sweetwaters. Entry forms can be found in a mailbox on the corner of Cloverleaf Lake Road and Island View.
Click here, print out form and send it in
Sediment core results
Results of a sediment core analysis show Cloverleaf Lakes have had an increase in nutrients over the past 100 years.
Paul Garrison of the Department of Natural Resources took samples from all three lakes in July 2007 and analyzed the top and bottom of the cores he retrieved from dropping a container into the lake bottoms. He was looking for aquatic organisms called diatoms that are good indicators of water chemistry.
“The large change in the diatom community from the bottom to the top of the core in Pine Lake indicates there has been an increase in nutrients during the last 100 years,” he said. ”It is likely that nutrient levels, especially phosphorous, have increased more in Round Lake than in the other lakes.” Phosphorous, often found in fertilizer, encourages plant growth in lakes.
Cloverleaf store opens:
The Cloverleaf Lake Protective Association is offering polo shirts with the color CLPA logo for sale. The shirts will be a donation of $25 apiece in a variety of sizes and colors, supplied by Sky High Marketing owned by lake residents Josh and Tory Kozinski.
To place your order, e-mail your name, address and phone number to thorngb@frontiernet.net with the number of shirts, sizes (men's S-4XL, women's S-XXL), and colors (stone, white or light blue). Delivery by mail will be extra. We will send in an order after the annual meeting in early June. Orders also will be taken at the Fourth of July festivities and the Golf Outing. Payment can be made upon delivery. A portion of the purchase price will benefit the lake association.
Click here for a sample of the shirt in the stone color.
Muskrats:
For help with problem muskrats along your shoreland, contact CLPA board member Dick Thurow at 823-7924 or 414-321-9067.
How to get the history book
The Belle Plaine sesquicentennial book is available for $15. Copies will be available by mail for $20, including shipping and handling.
Locally, the book will be sold at the Community Center Mondays and Thursdays from 5-7 p.m. and Saturdays from 9-11 a.m. It will be available at the Shawano County Historical Society Mondays and Thursdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and at the Associated Bank in Embarrass during office hours.
Contact Marcy Rosenow, 526-2588, or the Community Center, 524-2690, for more information.
Info on rentals:
If you have a cottage or house for rent in the Cloverleaf Lakes area, the Clintonville Chamber of Commerce would like to know and so would we. Please contact the Chamber at 823-4606 (fax: 823-7318), e-mail at cvlchmbr@frontiernet.net or visit the Chamber's web site: www.clintonvillewi.org/chamber.
Warner Schafer would like to rent a cottage on the lakes for one week in August. He can be contacted at wschafer@sbcglobal.net
Mike Rulseh has a property on Grass Lake to be rented out by the week in summer and weekends or by the week in the off season (snowmobiling or ice fishing) . Could you please forward all future inquiries to us at mprulseh@gmail.com or call us at (715) 823-4751?
Summer dump hours:
Summer hours at the Transfer Station on Cloverleaf Lake Road have started: Saturdays, 8 a.m-5 p.m.; Mondays, 8 a.m.-noon; Wednesdays, 12:30-4:30 p.m.
Dropping off an old TV, computer or microwave at the Recycling and Collection Center now will cost residents between $5 and $15 for each item.
The Belle Plaine Town Board has set a fee schedule for electronics that must be recycled. Previously, the town paid the recycling fee that the Shawano Landfill charges for those items, but the number of items has grown in the past few months.
Here is the fee schedule, collected by “Bear” and his co-workers at the Recycling Center on Cloverleaf Lake Road, effective Jan. 1, 2008:
* Computer monitor, $10 each
* Computer processor, $10 each
* TVs (19-inch or less), $10 each
* TVs (20-inch or bigger), $15 each
* Microwave ovens, $10 each
* Miscellaneous items, $5 each, including VCRs, DVD players, CD players, laser printers, inkjet printers, small copiers, fax machines and AM/FM radios
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