The Country Today from Eau Claire, Wisconsin • 17

News Wednesday, September 4, 2002 Tht Country Today Tornadoes tear through Aniwa if V. Dan Hansen said of what was left of Ladysmith, which has a ropulation of about 3,700. Mr. lanscn drove into the city minutes after the tornado passed through. "It destroyed.

I would say, better than 50 percent of the business places on Main Street, then it took a lot of them out on Highway 8. It even took our water tower down. She devastated a lot of buildings." Mr. Hansen said (he tornado scattered mobile homes across Highway 27. Roofs were blown off the Greenwood Manor Apartment building, a nearby church and more than a dozen other buildings.

Buchholz Feed Store Inc. was "flattened," he said. Power was out in Ladysmith, and crews were sent to the scene to assess the damage, said XccI Energy spokesman Brian Elwood. "There's power lines down, there's poles broken," said Mr. Elwood, from the company's Eau Claire office.

A second tornado hit Wausau on Monday evening, said Roy Eckberg, a meteorologist in the weather service's Green Bay office. There were reports of trees, power lines and poles down, and unconfirmed reports of four to six homes damaged, according to the Marathon County Sheriffs Department. The third tornado touched down in Aniwa, about seven miles south of Antigo, around 7:15 p.m. Monday, Eckberg said. He said there were no initial reports of damage or injuries from the twister, which touched ground at the intersection of Highways 45 and 52 in a rural area in northern Shawano County that was not heavily populated.

1 -3 said. The east side of the courthouse was crumpled, and that's a brand-new strong brick building," he said. At the Rusk County Tourism Center, about two blocks south of the intersection of Highways 8 and 27 in Ladysmith, several show trains were flipped over. A trailer park in Glen Flora, northwest of Ladysmith on Highway 8, was also damaged. Highways 8 and 27 heading into Ladysmith were closed.

"She's one terrible mess," Photo by Steve Kinderman Ladysmith was the primary target of a tornado that swept through Rusk County on Labor Day, but some rural properties were also damaged. This farm between Ladysmith and Glen Flora had considerable damage, as seen from an airplane the davfjtollowing the storm. "All of a sudden there was a big flash and the lights went out," said Sister Alice Henke of Servants of Mary Convent in Ladysmith. "It just missed us by a half-block." "It's unbelievable. What a wreck," said Mike Mirr, owner of Mirr's Gateway Lodge in Bruce, seven miles west of Ladysmith.

"It looked like it was bombed, windows all out, roofs off. Poor Ladysmith. I feel so bad." Mr. Mirr waited out what he thought was just a heavy rainstorm, which blew through Bruce around 4:30 p.m. But when "hundreds of emergency vehicles" roared past his lodge toward Ladysmith, he knew the storm had been more serious.

Arriving in Ladysmith on the heels of emergency workers, Mr. Mirr said, he was floored by what he saw. "I was in grief. The wafer tower blew down, hotel's wrecked, old folks' home's wrecked. Main Street devastated.

Terrible. Everything is just twisted Mr. Mirr said Highway 8, bring to 31 the number of. white-tailed deer that have tested positive just under 3 percent of 1,198 deer that have been killed and tested. In the latest round, from a weeklong hunt that took place in July, 336 deer were tested in an area of southcentral Wisconsin near Mount Horeb.

Last Friday's results prompted the Department of Natural Resources to widen the state's eradication zone, which it has done before to maintain a four-mile buffer around all deer that have tested positive for the disease. The latest cases are from the shoot July 13 to 19 in the zone, which is composed of parts of Dane, Iowa and Sauk -counties. Results from the August shoot are not yet available. A final hunt is planned for Sept. 7-13.

At a conference in Denver in August, a University of A ACCO Tractors, i which runs east and west through the heart of Ladysmith as Lake Street, appeared to be hit hardest. He said the roof was blown off the Davis Hotel and Lounge, about a block south of Highway 8. The Quick Lube gas station across the street from the hotel was "leveled," he said. Windows were blown out of virtually all along Highway 8 in Ladysmith. The Rusk County Courthouse appeared to have lost part of its roof, Mr.

Mirr Wisconsin-Madison researcher said it could take six years of killing deer to wipe out the disease, and another 18 years for the population to rebound. Officials are counting on cooperative landowners for help, because nearly all of the land is in private hands. But opponents of the eradication plan, who think the agency is being too aggressive when so little is known, say landowners representing 63,000 acres or 25 percent of the zone have signed petitions opposing the hunt. The finding of the disease in Minnesota is likely to raise concerns with its deer hunters. Minnesota has about 450,000 deer hunters and a deer population of more than 1 million.

After the disease showed up in Wisconsin, Minnesota officials announced plans to test 5,000 deer killed by hunters this fall. r.iT.-r ST30X A. of WD found in Minnesota Special regulations in place in CWD zones LADYSMITII (AP) A scries of tornadoes swept through Wisconsin on Monday, ripping apart Ladysmith in the northwest and hitting two other cities in the central part of the state, authorities said. The first tornado hit Ladysmith at 4:30 p.m. Monday, leveling a Baptist church, a gas station and the top floors of a motel and fire department, witnesses said.

Many people were injured but there were no initial reports of fatalities, the Rusk County Sheriff's Department said. "Most of the town is a disaster. There's buildings missing, down, torn apart everything," said Christine Wright, an employee at the Holiday Station Store in downtown Ladysmith. They're shutting the town down," She said gas was leaking from a destroyed Amoco station nearby and sheriff's officials were telling people to leave1 the city. The Sheriff's Department could not be reached to confirm the magnitude of the evacuation.

Red Cross dispatcher Kathy Nelson said four city blocks were destroyed and numerous response teams were setting up emergency shelters for people left homeless. "There's major damage everywhere our whole city," said sheriff's dispatcher AnnAhncman. The Rusk County Memorial Hospital would not release any details on the injured. Witnesses said the tornado hit Ladysmith shortly after 4 p.m., and a law enforcement official reported the funnel cloud to the National Weather Service around 4:37 p.m., according to the weather service office inDuluth, Minn. First case MADISON (AP) Wisconsin officials discovered seven more deer that tested positive for chronic wasting disease and Minnesota reported its first case of the fatal brain disease last week, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported Aug.

31. Wisconsin officials announced that seven more deer in south-central Wisconsin have tested positive for the disease, bringing the state's total of infected deer to 31. Because of the new discovery, the state Department of Natural Resources added 15 square miles to an eradication zone where officials hope to wipe out the deer population. Minnesota officials said they discovered the state's first case in a 5-year-old male elk on an Aitkin County elk farm. Minnesota wildlife officials said they plan to immediately kill and test at' least 100 wild deer in the vicinity of the elk farm.

They also immediately quarantined the 48-head elk farm where the diseased animal was discovered. Aitkin is about 70 miles from the Wisconsin-Minnesota border. Minnesota is one of Wisconsin's biggest trading partners for elk. Figures from the Belarus 820, MFWD, like new rubber, very clean Ford 9700, cab, 130. duals, WestcndorfTA28 (pader NH 6610, FWA, low all hyd.

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Hunters planning on hunting in one of these parks must posses a state park permit, which lists season dates and park hunting regulations. Park permits. MADISON All deer management units or portion of units in the chronic wasting disease zones will be under an "eam-a-buck" season framework this year. To provide the most flexibility and opportunity in the CWD zones, the eam-a-buck framework offers two options for earning and harvesting a buck. Also hunters may earn the ability to harvest a buck with each antlerless deer harvested and tagged.

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