10 years ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL Aug. 23, 2012 Library workshop for digital books If you have an e-reader or are thinking of getting one, you will want to attend the Prescott Public Library’s OverDrive Workshop on Thursday, Aug/ 23 from 6-7:30 p.m. Learn about Wisconsin’s Digital Library available through the MORE on-line catalog. Find out what items are available, how to find and access them, and how the digital download system works. The workshop will include a hands-on demonstration. Call the library at 715-262-5555 for more information. This event is free and open to the public. 25 years ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL “Where the St. Croix Meets the Mississippi” July 31, 1997 Canoeists landing on Monday By R. E. Herman On Monday, July 28, canoeists participating in the Great River Rumble will be putting in at Prescott at the close of their second leg of their journey from Minneapolis to Winona.

They will put in at the public boat launch around 5 p.m. and then be transported by Lee Lines up to the Middle School and Public Square Park where they will make camp for the night…don’t miss this opportunity to meet these interesting people and share with them stories of mutual interest. Everyone is welcome.

40 years ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL July 22, 1982 In a case of “Boys Painting Buoys,” the Prescott Journal of July 22 highlighted work by Stan Lawrence of River Falls and Mark Commo of Appleton to help make 12 new buoys to be placed at Prescott, the Kinnickinnic, and near Hudson. The buoys stating “Slowno- wake were made at Kinnickinnic State Park through a college internship program.

In the meantime, Prescott graduate Kim Bjurquist noted that “everything is turning to computers” as she worked in front of a Cobol computer at MCR Inc. in Prescott. Among the perks of having said skills she said was that “you’re almost guaranteed a job,” having spent two years at the district 1 Vo-Tech school in Eau Claire and holding a double degree in data programming. Ouered a job in Prescott by Bob Magee, she could even work just a few blocks from home.

“Kim is a good programmer,” Magee told the Journal, while Bjurquist had more to say on computers. “The big thing for computers now is going into graphics,” she said. “Pictures on the computer.” 55 years ago PIERCE COUNTY JOURNAL July 27, 1967 Taking the Plum City Tourney some 55 years ago was Hilltop Softball of Ellsworth. The win by the Hilltop team came after Durand fell to Ellsworth 3 -1, followed with a team from Erv’s Barber Shop of Plum City besting an Arkansaw team from across the Pierce-Pepin county border.

Ellsworth Hilltop softball then won over Plum City 9 -8 in a hard fought game.

Also of note from 1967 was the news that Army Major Duane Erickson of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research had been awarded the Bronze Star Medal on Friday for meritorious service in the Republic of Vietnam “while assigned to the 9th Med. Lab.” The army major was connected to Pierce County through his wife, herself the daughter of Mrs. Wilbur Gipford of Ellsworth.

In school district news, meanwhile, the voters of Ellsworth had approved a local tax levy of $771,850 with a total district budget of $1,945,853. Returns showed the vote to be 63 – 7 in the levy question, while the vote to re-elect Francis Hager to the school board was 63 in Ellsworth and 26 at Esdaile, the candidate being unopposed. Finally in district news, the school was to provide transportation for students of St. Mary’s at Big River, located outside the school district. Transport arrangements as such were addressed 20 years earlier in Everson v. Board of Education, the court avrming New Jersey in its allowance of such.