Early deadline for Nov. 25 issue
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City cuts outlay funds to balance insurance jump
Outlay funding was sacrificed to a nearly $60,000 health insurance hike in the City of Chetek's 2010 budget.
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Bob's Grill hosts annual turkey dinner
With its sixth annual Thanksgiving dinner, Bob's Grill will provide home-cooked meals to residents to benefit the local food shelf.
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Toys for tots drop-off site
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Request for holiday happenings
The Chetek Alert will be publishing a free listing of community events for the upcoming Christmas holiday season.
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Scouts sell crafts to buy soldiers gifts
The Christmas season has hardly begun, but Chetek Girl Scouts are already planning to give gifts to local soldiers abroad.
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Craft, antique fair Saturday
The Chetek Boy Scouts Troop 29 are holding a fundraiser to attend a national gathering.
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Christmas for Kids program kicks off
The Chetek Community Club Christmas for Kids program is under way for families with children living in the Chetek School District who show a significant need.
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Chetek senior citizens leave for visit to Branson, Mo.
A group of 32 senior citizens and tour guide community center director Chris Fritz left for Branson, Mo., Nov. 1.
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New million-dollar Cameron library, senior center is almost finished
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Cameron’s new $1.2 million, 7,000-square-foot library and senior center was expected to open mid-November, but the new goal is to be operational by the end of the year. Despite being close to opening its doors, the project still needs more funding.
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The Cameron Friends of the Library met with the library director to hear an update on the $1 million Cameron Area Library and Senior Center project and to learn how to help with upcoming events to raise the remaining $193,000.
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Bob's Grill hosts annual turkey dinner
With its sixth annual Thanksgiving dinner, Bob's Grill will provide home-cooked meals to residents to benefit the local food shelf.
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Chetek High School graduate featured for nonprofit work
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Paul Gilbertson (back row, left to right) poses with Wisconsin’s First Lady Jessica Doyle and student volunteers for a November 2009 article in Lake Country & Mukwonago’s Metroparent West.
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A former Chetek resident's reading-based nonprofit endeavor is earning him high marks with both emergency crews and state officials.
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Dalrymple uses knowledge, hobby to spread word on herbs, oils
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Amanda Dalrymple, of Chetek, started making homemade soaps, salves and balms for her family about a year ago. Since then, she has started using her hobby as a way to educate the public and spread her knowledge of herbs and oils.
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Not only did one Chetek resident start using information that she reads about in her own life, she has turned her knowledge into a hobby she can share with others.
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Dinner, auction benefit for Debbie Olson
A benefit featuring raffles, auctions, a chicken dinner and a bake sale is being held for Debbie (Robinson) Olson, of Chetek.
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'Battle for Beth' benefit for Beth Cole
Beth Cole, of Chetek, is the sixth person in her family to be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Pancakes, craft sale at senior center
The Chetek Senior Citizens Inc. will hold their final pancake breakfast for the fall Saturday.
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Picture from the past
 Rita (Kaylor) Gillett submitted this photo of the first- through eighth-grade students at Bass Lake School in 1954-55.
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Christmas for Kids program kicks off
The Chetek Community Club Christmas for Kids program gets under way next week for families with children living in the Chetek School District who show a significant need.
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Centenarian celebrates a long life well-lived
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Florence Whalen (front, center) celebrated her 100th birthday. Joining her were (clockwise from front left) son Jerry, daughter-in-law Marylane, daughter Mary, daughter-in-law Marie and son Tom.
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The youngest centenarian at Knapp Haven Nursing Home commemorated her first 100 years at a party with family Oct. 27.
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Dinner, auction benefit for Debbie Olson
A benefit featuring raffles, auctions, a chicken dinner and a bake sale is being held for Debbie (Robinson) Olson, of Chetek.
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Picture from the Past
 The gentlemen of the 1909 Chetek basketball team were
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Chetek museum gets new name, seeks new home
The former Calhoun Memorial Museum received a new name after a unanimous vote of members present at the September meeting of the Chetek Area Historical Society.
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Scammers get personal: couple's friends targeted
If you're in Grace and Gerhard Nyhus' e-mail address book, beware.
"I am in a great sorrow writing you this note," begins a message from the New Auburn couple, sent out at 8:25 p.m. Oct. 14.
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Two benefits planned for Chetek man
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The Berning family includes (left to right) Stephanie, 17; Brianna, 20; Jim; Shelby, 18; and Amber, 24.
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Friends and family of Chetek resident Jim Berning have organized two benefits to help pay for his medical costs.
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'Battle for Beth' benefit for Beth Cole
Beth Cole, of Chetek, is the sixth person in her family to be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Food shelf has successful year
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Leatrice Lindblad, of Chetek, (right) stopped in at the Chetek Food Shelf Monday to give a donation, which she tries to do every year. She said she chose this time of year because the Buckets for Hunger program will match a percentage of the donations.
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The numbers are in for the Chetek Food Shelf's year, which ran from Sept. 30, 2008, to Oct. 1, 2009, and the year has been deemed a success.
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Dollars for skiers, scholars a success
Saturday's Dollars for Skiers & Scholars fundraiser was deemed successful.
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Baby boy joy! Worth the wait
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Bobbi Smuda came to visit The Chetek Alert staff, including her husband, Paul, the Alert’s production manager, with their newly adopted baby boy, Liam.
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Getting a phone call at 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday was something unexpected for Paul and Bobbi Smuda. Paul, the production manager at The Chetek Alert, and Bobbi, a medical transcriptionist, were about to become the adoptive parents of a baby boy, Liam Harry Smuda.
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Picture from the past
 This undated portrait of Edith and Lillian Slocum was printed at H. Harris, presumably a photography studio, in Chetek.
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Community Education Classes for Fall 2004
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