Family Promise of Green County would like send out blossoms to Pizza Hut for their wonderful fund raising event and to Tim F. Young Agency - American Family for their sponsorship. The money raised will help homeless families of Green County. Thank you to everyone that supported this event! - Dawn Dischler, Secretary, Family Promise of Green County
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Barbs to the Monroe High School soccer program.
I noticed in The Monroe Times that Hannah Kernen from the Sugar River soccer team received a nice write up about her achievements, and rightly so!
I just found out that we had several girls on the Monroe High School soccer team that made the Badger South Conference coaches poll. Is it asking too much from our coaches to take five minutes of their time to notify the Times?
Coaching a team sport should be more than just receiving a paycheck! Our soccer program last year couldn't even field a J.V. team.
In middle school, there are many girls athletes who have some soccer skills and participate in Rebel soccer, but coaches like Mr. Buvid, Mr. Hirsbrunner, etc. recruit. I take my hat off to you coaches for this, because you are building for the future and are showing these girls that you have an interest in them. - Loyal Fan
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I would like to submit a barb to the person that ripped the cardinal off my solar light stand on 8th Street. I enjoyed it so why you would do it is beyond me. You sure can't feel good about it.
The Golden Rule says "Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you." Also, one of the commandments says "Though shalt not steal."
Sure do miss my cardinal solar light, and concerned about your future too! - Ida Gerber
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Blossoms to Monticello's Homecoming: excellent amusement rides for the limited area available, the very best chicken barbecue in the area (that is also available during Lake Montesian's Fisharee); helicopter rides (wow!); wonderful fireworks; and many other great things.
BIG BARB : after the poker run, many of the bikers went to the beer tent. They parked where they've parked for years. Many felt they'd had too much to drink and left their bikes parked. What thanks did they get for doing the right thing? $25 fines on their bikes the next day. And if they hadn't gone to the beer tent? There were only five people there 'til the bikers got there. - Kristi McNett
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A barb to the Wisconsin courts. A Monroe man was recently sentenced for his 4th DUI in the last five years. Six months in jail, revoked license and a $1,449 fine. Are you kidding me? When DUI defendants leave a Wisconsin courtroom after sentencing, I wonder, are they laughing? C'mon, Wisconsin. If that's all a person gets for their 4th offense in 5 years, why isn't DUI just legalized? What an embarrassment. It couldn't be that the Green County sentencing judge was just surfing the Internet during the hearing, could it? - Bang Bang Beer Bob
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A bouquet of blossoms to the City of Monroe lifeguards, Alex Purdy, Katie Coplien, Kylee Ritchard, Brianna Zimmerman and whomever else that were working last Friday afternoon when a little girl at swim team hit her head on the bottom of the pool after diving in off the starter blocks. She was complaining about numbness in her feet and these lifeguards sprang into action. She was assessed while the ambulance was called, and then correctly placed on a back board. If she had not been correctly assessed, and prepped for the ride to the hospital, there was a good chance that she may have become be paralyzed. From my understanding, she is up and walking in a neck brace with a fractured vertebrae. You all are a credit to the City of Monroe, Marge Klinzing and all of her staff. Your training and personal attention to your job show and we "Thank You " for that. This little girl will eventually have a normal life thanks to all of you. - A Very Grateful Taxpayer
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We have to give a blossom to ALL police, sheriff and fire departments and their dispatchers. For two storms, they have done a terrific job keeping the citizens safe. We listen to our scanner during these storms, and they are very organized and calm with these weather conditions. We thank you for everyone - Thankful Taxpayers
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Barb : to the engineers and Monroe City Council that designed and approved the parking area for Vinnie's Restaurant on 4th Avenue. The City Council has to approve "No Parking" on one side of that street. It is very difficult to drive safely in that block on Fridays or any other "big" day for Vinnie. We even witnessed a semi driver having serious difficulty getting in the motel parking lot, because both sides of the street were full of cars. I hope somebody takes this problem serious. I'll be waiting for "No Parking" signs on one side of the street in the near future. - A former Piggly Wiggly Shopper
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A big blossom to all the people involved with the Relay for Life of Green County and another big big blossom to all the volunteers who work so hard for the cancer drive. I want to give a big blossom to all the restaurants where they serve food and raise money for a cure. I hope the businesses and restaurants continue to donate to the relay. I had lymphoma cancer, large B cell in 2004, and I want to give Monroe Clinic and their nurses that were there while I was taking chemo a big blossom. A big blossom to Dr. Medis, who did tests, and a big blossom to Dr. Michelle Pipp-Dahm. The nurses and doctors there did everything for me. I want to thank all the doctors at Monroe Clinic, as well as the people in the pharmacy. They are very good in helping out with medication. - Allen J. Schroeder
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What makes a community work? I feel it starts with an honestly-run media on a national and local level. Rupert Murdoch got caught in bed with the politicians and here in Monroe, where the newspaper and the radio should both get a barb for not giving the names and ward numbers of the people who testified in front of the best-run hearing I've seen at the council meeting of July 12. The mayor gave us ample time to talk and thanked us for coming, so he gets a bouquet. As for our local media, when you get Republicans and Democrats agreeing on something which they can't seem to do on a state or national level, I think that's news and their names and ward numbers should at least be given. - LaVern and Linda Isely
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An enormous bundle of blossoms to the City of Monroe workers for their prompt response time on Monday morning after the horrendous storm struck the Parkside neighborhood. Within minutes of the storm's destruction, both the fire and police departments were making rounds and assisting residents as much as possible. A few hours later, numerous city employees were there to help haul away the large amounts of debris that were already piled on the roadside. These fantastic individuals worked tirelessly for a couple of days until our neighborhood was back to normal. We are all very thankful for all of your hard work! - Anonymous
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A barb to the Brodhead Chamber for having so many festivals in Brodhead. While living in the city is a wonderful place to be, there are so many festivals that no one wants to keep coming to the rinky dink deals .... why not have one or two for the year, have a huge crowd and have something to look forward to instead of so many? Nancy keeps agreeing to do all of these, and it's making our community look ridiculous. Orfordville has June Days, with a great turn out. Monticello has Homecoming with a wonderful turn out. Why not Brodhead? Come on, combine some of these, and really give the community something to look forward to and something to plan for. - Anonymous
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The Angels Among US Relay for Life team, sponsored by WI Community Bank, would like to give a blossom to Matt McArville and Dave Olson from the Brodhead Booster Club who showed our team around there concession stand at the Brodhead High School. It was a great concession area and our team was shown around and welcomed. Thank you! - Angels Among US Relay for Life team
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A huge barb to the school district of Monroe school board for giving raises to administrators, those least worthy of raises in this difficult time and those that have the least to do with kids. Only 1 school board member stood up against this outrageous decision. Good for him. I hope the people of this community will remove those other school board members when the time comes. It's obvious they are NOT representing the citizens of this community. - Anonymous
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A barb to John Waelti's article "A Digression on the economy." The last paragraph of the article states that borrowing by the government and taxes paid by those who profited from wartime production during WWII ushered in several decades of unprecedented prosperity. How exactly did corporations and taxpayers paying taxes lead to prosperity? I may not have spent my entire career as a professor on the government dime, but I do strongly believe the prosperity following WWII came from the incredible amount of manufacturing and related jobs necessary for the rebuilding of Europe and Asia, as well as the end of wartime rationing and millions of soldiers coming home that lead to the prosperity.
Secondly, he blames CEO salaries for the recession. What, a few thousand overpayed CEO's ( yes, many are way overpaid ) keep us in a recession, I think not. He thinks corporate tax breaks do not lead to plant investment or more hires. From that line of reasoning, corporations paying more taxes to the government will make corporations hire and invest more, of course not. Many corporations are sitting on the sidelines waiting to see What Pres Obama and his cronies are going to do. The new Obama rules for coal fired power plants will increase the cost for manufacturing plants greatly in the midwest and therefore companies must reserve $ for those costs. Obamacare is another unknown on the cost to corporations for new hires. Many corporations also need to get their bottom lines in order after years of losses.
Jobs have been shipped overseas for may reasons, the least of which is the incredible amount of over regulation in the US as well as the high corporate tax rate ( US rate amongst the highest in the world), which make US less competitive. Corporations base their operations elsewhere to remain competitive or they will cease to exist.
As for the stimulus package not being large enough, the problem might be the projects that the $ was spent on, such as the following: rebates for green golf carts ( electric ), $3.4 million for a wildlife ecopassage in Florida so animals can safely cross under the road, $10 million to renovate an abandoned train station that hasn't been used in 30 years, $1 million to study whether 300 people in Chicago are healthier when living in 'green' public housing, $1.57 million grant to search for fossils ... in Argentina, $233K for exit polling research ... in Africa, $210K for studying the learning patterns of honeybees, etc. The problem was how some of the $ was spent, not the size of it - A taxpayer
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A barb to President Obama and the other Democrats complaining about corporate tax breaks and corporations not paying enough. In 2008, the democrats controlled the house, senate and Pres Obama was in the Whitehouse, and the democrats could have gotten rid of any and all tax breaks they wanted to since they controlled all 3 branches of government, but I can't find any instances of that happening. Most people have heard that GE made $5.1 billion in the US and paid ZERO corporate taxes. Back in 2008, the most lucrative tax shelter was going to expire and Democrat Charlie Rangel was Chairman of the ways and means committee. Rangel and other dems on the committee were for letting the tax break expire until Rangel met with execs from GE, after which he changed his mind and he and the other dems in control of the committee voted to continue the lucrative tax break. The following month, GE awarded $30 million to New York City schools including $11 million in Dem Rangel's district.
The fact is that Republican Pres Reagan pushed through tax changes in the mid 1980's that closed loopholes in the tax codes so that GE went from zero taxes to approximately 32.5% tax rate according to a New York Times article. Most of the present tax loopholes were put in place when the democrats were in charge of the house. If Pres Obama and the other democrats were truly unhappy about the tax loopholes and rates, they had 2 whole years to do something about it, but they prefer to demagogue about it instead of actually doing something about it like President Reagan did - A taxpayer
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After reading the June 27th headlines of The Monroe Times, I would like to send a huge blossom to the group/persons responsible for establishing the World Cheese Discovery Center, right here in downtown Monroe. As a 20-year veteran of the tourism industry (I live in Monroe but work at an open-air museum in Mt. Horeb and take trips to Europe ) I can't see anything but good in Monroe's future, to be lucky enough to have grabbed this before somebody else did.
Food tourism is huge these days, and if it wasn't for cheese (and beer), Monroe wouldn't even be here. What better location to celebrate and show off our home area, and at the same, having a huge economic boon to the area.
Coming from Monroe, but working in the Mt. Horeb area, I am constantly diverting homebound Chicago traffic down through Monroe, to our fine restaurants, our beautiful square, our brewery and our cheese stores and factories. Tourists often ask where they can see cheese being made, now I will be able to answer that question with certainty, without them being at a factory at six in the morning!
This center will be a wonderful clearing house for our area, a place to learn about cheese, to sample it, to learn where they can buy it in the area. Tourists travel with money to spend, and regionalism is the only way to survive today. One stop at the Discovery Center will lead to many, many dollars being spent on the square, in our motels, in our local cheese stores and factories, and throughout the area. It is a win-win situation for everyone.
There is a lot of competition for the tourism dollar these days, you absolutely cannot go it alone, business begets more business, and restaurants, shops, stores all feed off of increased foot traffic, so what a blessing this is for our local cheesemakers and shopkeepers and restaurateurs. They must be jumping for joy for this tremendous exposure they will be getting. Imagine if this center had been built in California, the land of "happy cows." I don't even want to think about it!
Burnham, the great Chicago developer and instrumental in the Columbian Expostion of 1893 in Chicago, once said "make no small plans, they do not inspire." Well, this group apparently took that line to heart, they deserve the thanks and support of our community, again planting us firmly on the food industry map, a true tribute to our past and future. - Tom Rygh
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Barbs to the Monroe High School soccer program.
I noticed in The Monroe Times that Hannah Kernen from the Sugar River soccer team received a nice write up about her achievements, and rightly so!
I just found out that we had several girls on the Monroe High School soccer team that made the Badger South Conference coaches poll. Is it asking too much from our coaches to take five minutes of their time to notify the Times?
Coaching a team sport should be more than just receiving a paycheck! Our soccer program last year couldn't even field a J.V. team.
In middle school, there are many girls athletes who have some soccer skills and participate in Rebel soccer, but coaches like Mr. Buvid, Mr. Hirsbrunner, etc. recruit. I take my hat off to you coaches for this, because you are building for the future and are showing these girls that you have an interest in them. - Loyal Fan
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I would like to submit a barb to the person that ripped the cardinal off my solar light stand on 8th Street. I enjoyed it so why you would do it is beyond me. You sure can't feel good about it.
The Golden Rule says "Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you." Also, one of the commandments says "Though shalt not steal."
Sure do miss my cardinal solar light, and concerned about your future too! - Ida Gerber
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Blossoms to Monticello's Homecoming: excellent amusement rides for the limited area available, the very best chicken barbecue in the area (that is also available during Lake Montesian's Fisharee); helicopter rides (wow!); wonderful fireworks; and many other great things.
BIG BARB : after the poker run, many of the bikers went to the beer tent. They parked where they've parked for years. Many felt they'd had too much to drink and left their bikes parked. What thanks did they get for doing the right thing? $25 fines on their bikes the next day. And if they hadn't gone to the beer tent? There were only five people there 'til the bikers got there. - Kristi McNett
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A barb to the Wisconsin courts. A Monroe man was recently sentenced for his 4th DUI in the last five years. Six months in jail, revoked license and a $1,449 fine. Are you kidding me? When DUI defendants leave a Wisconsin courtroom after sentencing, I wonder, are they laughing? C'mon, Wisconsin. If that's all a person gets for their 4th offense in 5 years, why isn't DUI just legalized? What an embarrassment. It couldn't be that the Green County sentencing judge was just surfing the Internet during the hearing, could it? - Bang Bang Beer Bob
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A bouquet of blossoms to the City of Monroe lifeguards, Alex Purdy, Katie Coplien, Kylee Ritchard, Brianna Zimmerman and whomever else that were working last Friday afternoon when a little girl at swim team hit her head on the bottom of the pool after diving in off the starter blocks. She was complaining about numbness in her feet and these lifeguards sprang into action. She was assessed while the ambulance was called, and then correctly placed on a back board. If she had not been correctly assessed, and prepped for the ride to the hospital, there was a good chance that she may have become be paralyzed. From my understanding, she is up and walking in a neck brace with a fractured vertebrae. You all are a credit to the City of Monroe, Marge Klinzing and all of her staff. Your training and personal attention to your job show and we "Thank You " for that. This little girl will eventually have a normal life thanks to all of you. - A Very Grateful Taxpayer
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We have to give a blossom to ALL police, sheriff and fire departments and their dispatchers. For two storms, they have done a terrific job keeping the citizens safe. We listen to our scanner during these storms, and they are very organized and calm with these weather conditions. We thank you for everyone - Thankful Taxpayers
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Barb : to the engineers and Monroe City Council that designed and approved the parking area for Vinnie's Restaurant on 4th Avenue. The City Council has to approve "No Parking" on one side of that street. It is very difficult to drive safely in that block on Fridays or any other "big" day for Vinnie. We even witnessed a semi driver having serious difficulty getting in the motel parking lot, because both sides of the street were full of cars. I hope somebody takes this problem serious. I'll be waiting for "No Parking" signs on one side of the street in the near future. - A former Piggly Wiggly Shopper
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A big blossom to all the people involved with the Relay for Life of Green County and another big big blossom to all the volunteers who work so hard for the cancer drive. I want to give a big blossom to all the restaurants where they serve food and raise money for a cure. I hope the businesses and restaurants continue to donate to the relay. I had lymphoma cancer, large B cell in 2004, and I want to give Monroe Clinic and their nurses that were there while I was taking chemo a big blossom. A big blossom to Dr. Medis, who did tests, and a big blossom to Dr. Michelle Pipp-Dahm. The nurses and doctors there did everything for me. I want to thank all the doctors at Monroe Clinic, as well as the people in the pharmacy. They are very good in helping out with medication. - Allen J. Schroeder
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What makes a community work? I feel it starts with an honestly-run media on a national and local level. Rupert Murdoch got caught in bed with the politicians and here in Monroe, where the newspaper and the radio should both get a barb for not giving the names and ward numbers of the people who testified in front of the best-run hearing I've seen at the council meeting of July 12. The mayor gave us ample time to talk and thanked us for coming, so he gets a bouquet. As for our local media, when you get Republicans and Democrats agreeing on something which they can't seem to do on a state or national level, I think that's news and their names and ward numbers should at least be given. - LaVern and Linda Isely
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An enormous bundle of blossoms to the City of Monroe workers for their prompt response time on Monday morning after the horrendous storm struck the Parkside neighborhood. Within minutes of the storm's destruction, both the fire and police departments were making rounds and assisting residents as much as possible. A few hours later, numerous city employees were there to help haul away the large amounts of debris that were already piled on the roadside. These fantastic individuals worked tirelessly for a couple of days until our neighborhood was back to normal. We are all very thankful for all of your hard work! - Anonymous
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A barb to the Brodhead Chamber for having so many festivals in Brodhead. While living in the city is a wonderful place to be, there are so many festivals that no one wants to keep coming to the rinky dink deals .... why not have one or two for the year, have a huge crowd and have something to look forward to instead of so many? Nancy keeps agreeing to do all of these, and it's making our community look ridiculous. Orfordville has June Days, with a great turn out. Monticello has Homecoming with a wonderful turn out. Why not Brodhead? Come on, combine some of these, and really give the community something to look forward to and something to plan for. - Anonymous
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The Angels Among US Relay for Life team, sponsored by WI Community Bank, would like to give a blossom to Matt McArville and Dave Olson from the Brodhead Booster Club who showed our team around there concession stand at the Brodhead High School. It was a great concession area and our team was shown around and welcomed. Thank you! - Angels Among US Relay for Life team
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A huge barb to the school district of Monroe school board for giving raises to administrators, those least worthy of raises in this difficult time and those that have the least to do with kids. Only 1 school board member stood up against this outrageous decision. Good for him. I hope the people of this community will remove those other school board members when the time comes. It's obvious they are NOT representing the citizens of this community. - Anonymous
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A barb to John Waelti's article "A Digression on the economy." The last paragraph of the article states that borrowing by the government and taxes paid by those who profited from wartime production during WWII ushered in several decades of unprecedented prosperity. How exactly did corporations and taxpayers paying taxes lead to prosperity? I may not have spent my entire career as a professor on the government dime, but I do strongly believe the prosperity following WWII came from the incredible amount of manufacturing and related jobs necessary for the rebuilding of Europe and Asia, as well as the end of wartime rationing and millions of soldiers coming home that lead to the prosperity.
Secondly, he blames CEO salaries for the recession. What, a few thousand overpayed CEO's ( yes, many are way overpaid ) keep us in a recession, I think not. He thinks corporate tax breaks do not lead to plant investment or more hires. From that line of reasoning, corporations paying more taxes to the government will make corporations hire and invest more, of course not. Many corporations are sitting on the sidelines waiting to see What Pres Obama and his cronies are going to do. The new Obama rules for coal fired power plants will increase the cost for manufacturing plants greatly in the midwest and therefore companies must reserve $ for those costs. Obamacare is another unknown on the cost to corporations for new hires. Many corporations also need to get their bottom lines in order after years of losses.
Jobs have been shipped overseas for may reasons, the least of which is the incredible amount of over regulation in the US as well as the high corporate tax rate ( US rate amongst the highest in the world), which make US less competitive. Corporations base their operations elsewhere to remain competitive or they will cease to exist.
As for the stimulus package not being large enough, the problem might be the projects that the $ was spent on, such as the following: rebates for green golf carts ( electric ), $3.4 million for a wildlife ecopassage in Florida so animals can safely cross under the road, $10 million to renovate an abandoned train station that hasn't been used in 30 years, $1 million to study whether 300 people in Chicago are healthier when living in 'green' public housing, $1.57 million grant to search for fossils ... in Argentina, $233K for exit polling research ... in Africa, $210K for studying the learning patterns of honeybees, etc. The problem was how some of the $ was spent, not the size of it - A taxpayer
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A barb to President Obama and the other Democrats complaining about corporate tax breaks and corporations not paying enough. In 2008, the democrats controlled the house, senate and Pres Obama was in the Whitehouse, and the democrats could have gotten rid of any and all tax breaks they wanted to since they controlled all 3 branches of government, but I can't find any instances of that happening. Most people have heard that GE made $5.1 billion in the US and paid ZERO corporate taxes. Back in 2008, the most lucrative tax shelter was going to expire and Democrat Charlie Rangel was Chairman of the ways and means committee. Rangel and other dems on the committee were for letting the tax break expire until Rangel met with execs from GE, after which he changed his mind and he and the other dems in control of the committee voted to continue the lucrative tax break. The following month, GE awarded $30 million to New York City schools including $11 million in Dem Rangel's district.
The fact is that Republican Pres Reagan pushed through tax changes in the mid 1980's that closed loopholes in the tax codes so that GE went from zero taxes to approximately 32.5% tax rate according to a New York Times article. Most of the present tax loopholes were put in place when the democrats were in charge of the house. If Pres Obama and the other democrats were truly unhappy about the tax loopholes and rates, they had 2 whole years to do something about it, but they prefer to demagogue about it instead of actually doing something about it like President Reagan did - A taxpayer
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After reading the June 27th headlines of The Monroe Times, I would like to send a huge blossom to the group/persons responsible for establishing the World Cheese Discovery Center, right here in downtown Monroe. As a 20-year veteran of the tourism industry (I live in Monroe but work at an open-air museum in Mt. Horeb and take trips to Europe ) I can't see anything but good in Monroe's future, to be lucky enough to have grabbed this before somebody else did.
Food tourism is huge these days, and if it wasn't for cheese (and beer), Monroe wouldn't even be here. What better location to celebrate and show off our home area, and at the same, having a huge economic boon to the area.
Coming from Monroe, but working in the Mt. Horeb area, I am constantly diverting homebound Chicago traffic down through Monroe, to our fine restaurants, our beautiful square, our brewery and our cheese stores and factories. Tourists often ask where they can see cheese being made, now I will be able to answer that question with certainty, without them being at a factory at six in the morning!
This center will be a wonderful clearing house for our area, a place to learn about cheese, to sample it, to learn where they can buy it in the area. Tourists travel with money to spend, and regionalism is the only way to survive today. One stop at the Discovery Center will lead to many, many dollars being spent on the square, in our motels, in our local cheese stores and factories, and throughout the area. It is a win-win situation for everyone.
There is a lot of competition for the tourism dollar these days, you absolutely cannot go it alone, business begets more business, and restaurants, shops, stores all feed off of increased foot traffic, so what a blessing this is for our local cheesemakers and shopkeepers and restaurateurs. They must be jumping for joy for this tremendous exposure they will be getting. Imagine if this center had been built in California, the land of "happy cows." I don't even want to think about it!
Burnham, the great Chicago developer and instrumental in the Columbian Expostion of 1893 in Chicago, once said "make no small plans, they do not inspire." Well, this group apparently took that line to heart, they deserve the thanks and support of our community, again planting us firmly on the food industry map, a true tribute to our past and future. - Tom Rygh
