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Use beds to raise your garden to new heights

Elevated and raised bed gardens can expand your planting options and make planting and maintenance easier and more convenient. You’ll be able to plant, weed and harvest with minimal bending or even from the luxury of a chair or bench.

4-H members ‘Level Up in Life’ in leadership camp

Local 4-H educator Megan Suehring worked with 4-H colleagues recently to provide “Level Up in Life: 4-H Teen Leadership Winter Camp” at Spencer Lake Camp in Waupaca.

Partnering with six additional eastern Wisconsin counties, Suehring and others presented a winter leadership camp experience for 4-H members to learn, grow and lead.

Magee receives 20-year school board award

For more than two decades, Laura Magee has quietly and consistently helped shape the Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District while continuing to contribute to many areas of the community.

Counties sought to host Alice in Dairyland finals

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is accepting bids from counties to host the Alice in Dairyland Finals in 2028, 2029 and 2030.

The request for proposals is available on the Alice in Dairyland website, www.aliceindairyland.com, and proposals are due by June 1.

Hillside Assembly hosting Easter egg hunt

Hillside Assembly of God will host area kids from age 2 through fifth grade to its Easter Eggstravaganza on April 4 at the church, 5890 State Highway 22, Gillett.

Doors open at 10 a.m. Registration can be done online at www.hillsideassembly.com/egghunt.

Village of Lena to host Easter Egg-Stravaganza

Families are invited to celebrate the season at the annual Lena Easter Egg-Stravaganza, hosted by the village of Lena on April 4 from 10 a.m. to noon at St. Anne’s Parish Hall, 221 E. Main St., Lena.

Cross walk to coincide with Good Friday

The Gillett-Suring Clergy Association will hold a cross walk April 3.

Local pastors will be leading community members as they begin the journey at noon at Gillett High School, 208 W. Main St., Gillett. There will be a brief scripture reading and prayer at each of four stops as the cross walk makes its way through the city.

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