WOLF RIVER WEDNESDAY SHAWANO LEADER Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Volume 138, Issue 160 $1
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WOLF RIVER WEDNESDAY SHAWANO LEADER WWW.NEWMEDIA-WI.COM Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Volume 138, Issue 160 $1 Donations collected for school lunches A Clintonville businessman ofered to match donations up to $2,000 to help defray the cost of school lunches. PAGE 5 Festival of Trees opens in Tigerton An annual community celebration features food, opportunities for photos and, of course, lots of trees. PAGES 20-21 Shawano boys win over Pulaski The Shawano boys basketball team powered through their second half for a 69-42 win. PAGE 29 REINDEER GAMES Aiden James Buhrow, 3, sports a bit of blue frosting on his lip as he encounters a reindeer antler Sunday at the Reindeer Games event at Qualheim’s True Value in Shawano. About 1,000 people visited the store to see and photograph the reindeer and visit Santa. FOR MORE PICTURES SEE PAGE 4. CAROL RYCZEK | NEW MEDIA PAGE 2t/&8.&%*"twww.newmedia-wi.comtWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2019 SHAWANO LEADER (USPS 492-120) Published Wednesdays and Saturdays Hippe finds wild adventures by NEW Media Inc d/b/a The Shawano Leader Periodicals postage paid at Shawano, Wisconsin 54166 right in her own backyard POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Shawano Leader, 1464 E. Green Bay St., Shawano WI 54166 Hobby farm works Office toward self-sufficiency 1464 E. Green Bay St., Shawano, WI 54166 By MIRIAM NELSON Telephone /FXT&EJUPS 715-526-2121 FAX: 715-524-3941 ELAND — Some people travel the world in search of adventure, and Publisher others fnd it in their own backyards. Greg Mellis [email protected] Andrea Hippe is fnding the fulfll- Editor-In-Chief ment of living her best life as she homeschools her twins and raises Carol Ryczek [email protected] animals on her family’s hobby farm. City Editor To become more self-sufcient, Lee Pulaski [email protected] the stay-at-home mom says they are Sports Editor raising ducks, chickens, geese and Morgan Rode [email protected] goats. New this year, they’ve also Obituaries decided to raise pigs. She said she’s gotten a lot of their information from [email protected] the internet; other knowledge they’ve Classifieds/legal notices had to learn frsthand. This sum- [email protected] mer, the family planted pumpkins Retail advertising and squash in the garden solely to [email protected] provide food for their pigs. “You really don’t save money [email protected] raising your own pigs,” said Hippe, Calendar items (free) who has a pair of pigs being fed and [email protected] fattened to eventually provide meat Subscriptions for the family. Subscription, delivery or payment question? Goats are a diferent story, ac- Call 715-526-2121 cording to Hippe. By breeding and selling baby goats and turning one 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday-Friday goat’s milk into soaps, she said she [email protected] makes enough money to pay for their hay and oats. RATES Her production of goat soaps, Print which she says is still in the hobby Andrea Hippe feeds the pigs that are new this year to her family’s hobby farm. She and her husband, Print single issue: $1 Wednesdays, $2 Saturdays stage, has nonetheless allowed her Matthew, also raise goats, chickens, ducks and geese. .*3*"./&-40/]/&8.&%*" to attend several craft fairs. The past Prepaid nonrefundable 12 months: two weekends, she has been at local Hippe notes that others who make raises Nubian and Nigerian Dwarf $119 Carrier; $127 Motor; $151 Mail - WI fairs and has done quite well in sell- goat soap use mostly water and only goats. She says there are other goat $164 Mail - outside WI ing her products. a small amount of goat’s milk. She breeds that would be good for meat, www.newmedia-wi.com A customer of hers had come to chooses to use all goat milk because but she will probably never raise any 1-day. $0.99 Wittenberg from Green Bay just to she feels the end product has better of those since she views her goats as moisturizing properties. pets. 3-mo (90-day introductory offer) $12 purchase more of her soap. Hippe met the customer at the Shawano Clarey is the name of the only Hippe and her husband, Matthew, Month-to-month $10 Folk Festival in August a couple of milker in her herd of goats. She also butcher their own chickens and Prepaid 12 month, nonrefundable, $99 years ago when she was a vendor at produces a gallon a day. Some of that ducks. They’ve learned a few hard Print plus online nonrefundable package the event. goes to feed the family in the form lessons along the way. She noted $137 Carrier; $145 Motor; $173 Mail - WI; Hippe makes her soap with goat of kefr, soft cheese, caramel sauce that ducks need to be butchered at a or drinking milk; the rest gets turned certain time of year or you‘ll end up $189 Mail - outside WI milk and lye, using essential oils for scents. She makes about 30 diferent into soap. spending a lot of time plucking out scented soaps. Some of the scents Hippe has two male goats and six the tiny feathers. Member, Wisconsin Newspaper Assoiation are re-created as popular mixes used females, which are bred and their “I was up very late one night in difusers, but sometimes it takes a ofspring sold as pets. Males go for plucking the ducks, only to discover bit of adjusting to get the right scent. $125, and females go for $150. She we don’t like the taste of duck,” said CORRECTIONS Accuracy is important to the Shawano Leader, and it wants to correct mistakes promptly. Call errors to our attention by phone at 715-526-2121, ext. 7018 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2019 t/&8.&%*"tXXXOFXNFEJBXJDPNtPAGE 3 Hippe, amused by the revelation. tional interpreting, she has been doing them. She noted there is also a very by not having one end of the barn Hippe said they do like the eggs the sign language in schools for 12 years. good home educator group in Wit- outside the fence and nearer to the ducks produce as they are more nutri- When the boys were born, she tenberg. driveway to make it easier to unload tious than chicken eggs and are really decided to stay at home until they The farm sits on just 3.5 acres and and store hay. good for baking. were able to go to 4-year-old kinder- was Hippe’s family homestead. Her Next summer, Hippe plans to have In between caring for her barnyard garten, but when they were struggling parents never had animals, so there a larger garden and jokes that the full of animals, Hippe also home- in kindergarten, she decided since she was a lot of work that needed to be twins will hopefully become better schools her 7-year-old twins, Fenton had the qualifcations and experience done to transform it into a hobby weeders to help out. and Silas. With a degree in educa- in teaching, she would homeschool farm. Although the idea of becoming self- Before they could entertain the sufcient and go entirely of the grid thought of raising animals, the couple is appealing, she believes that would needed to clear some of the land, require a move to a warmer climate — which was overgrown with trees, a move they’re not yet ready to make. vines and bushes. They built a barn to Hippe can be reached at 715-432- house the goats and fenced in the area 9155 or [email protected]. around it. She realizes however, that they made more work for themselves [email protected] Chasing chickens is part of the fun of living on a farm. Seven-year-old Fenton enjoys life on the Hippe Homestead, just south of Eland. .*3*"./&-40/]/&8.&%*" PAGE 4 t/&8.&%*"twww.newmedia-wi.comt WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2019 Antlers aweigh LEFT: Anthony Kabble helps hold an antler as his brother Boston grabs it; sister Haley, sporting antlers of her own, checks out the reindeer in pens Sunday at Qualheim’s True Value in Shawano. ABOVE: Jon Phillips, one of the owners of Reindeer Games, shares a reindeer antler with members of the crowd. According to Phillips, one of the owners of the deer, even young reindeer have dramatic antlers, and they get thicker and heavier as the deer get older. Reindeer shed their antlers annually. Reindeer Games shares the experience of seeing the small, elk-like deer with very dramatic antlers at events throughout Wisconsin. Visitors could view the reindeer in pens or have their picture taken in a Santa-style sleigh. $"30-3:$;&,]/&8.&%*" WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2019 t/&8.&%*"tXXXOFXNFEJBXJDPNtPAGE 5 Keeping the school lunches coming Clintonville man raises funds to pay off student meal debts By LEE PULASKI $JUZ&EJUPS CLINTONVILLE — For some fami- lies, it’s not always easy to keep up on paying for school lunches, and some fall behind. When the debt builds enough, the school will usually take action — whether it’s just a cold sandwich or another alternative. When that hap- pens, some students feel ostracized. In the Clintonville School District, one business owner decided he was going to help most of the families in his community that have fallen behind. On Friday, during the com- munity’s annual tree lighting cer- emony, Jeremy Lewallen, owner of Jeremy’s Tree Service, set up an old butter churn for community mem- bers to donate money toward those meal debts.