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| Gillett Time 02-21-07 |
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| Wednesday, 21 February 2007 | |
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Each spring the Executive Director of RGI enjoys the opportunity of choosing the recipients of two awards that are presented at the Wisconsin State Main Street Awards held in a Main Street Community somewhere around the state. Gillett attended our first Main Street State Awards before we had even been accepted into the program, when about 20 of us attended the festivities at the Rail Road Museum in De Pere in April of 2002. This year’s event will be held on April 27 in Rice Lake. We were ushered into the program later that summer by then Governor MacCullum and representatives from our community have attended every event held since that time, always leaving with a wonderful feeling about the work done around the state by communities much like ourselves. These annual events have been held in Chippewa Falls, Waupaca, Viroqua and Stevens Point. These awards were presented at our location celebration, the fifth annual RGI Appreciation Dinner, held in St. John’s Lutheran Church parish hall on Sunday, February 18. About sixty people attended the event and enjoyed the wonderful meal and program. This year RGI will celebrate its fifth year in the program and will receive a diploma of sorts as we “graduate” into the next level of involvement within the state organization. We will be called on more by the state to assist other communities that are both new and long-standing members of the 35 other communities that make up the state program, along with Wausau, the other community chosen in 2002 to be a Main Street community, This year’s Volunteer, actually Volunteers, of the Year could have been selected each year throughout RGI’s five-year history. When Kurt Darrow first broached the idea of a Main Street Program for Gillett, this couple stepped up immediately and offered not only their support but backed up that support with a generous in-kind donation – space for an office that included no charge of any kind for utilities or anything associated with the leasing of office space. As RGI’s only landlords since 2002, Norman and Ruby Christensen have been supporters not only by their generous donation of the street-level office at 117 E. Main Street, but have always been right there if there were any problems or we needed their help. Last year, Donna and I returned from lunch at OJ’s to find the back room ceiling had fallen while we were gone, and by early the next day we were able to use the room again. Not only because they are our favorite – and our only – landlords, but for all they do to help make our community a better place to live, this year’s Volunteers of the Year are Norman and Ruby Christensen. The Outstanding Board Member of 2006, like the Volunteer of the Year, could also have gone to this person at any point in our five-year history. Involved from the very start of the process in 2001, Dr. Evelyn Hauser-Frederick, or Dr. Ev as almost all refer to her, has been one of our most dedicated and consistent board members, acting as everything from cheerleader for the program to being a major donor of fund helping us to reach out goals to her long-standing work and commitment to the Design Committee, which I believe she has co-chaired since its inception. Just the other evening, for example, Dr. Ev was instrumental in planning and executing the introduction of the new Commercial Building Renovation Project at Wells Fargo Bank. She has planted flowers ever spring since the planter project began and has attended every meeting and gathering the organization has sponsored, often coming over right from her work on Main Street. For her boundless enthusiasm and non-flagging support in every area of Revitalize Gillett, Inc., as well as so many other aspects of our community, we present the 2007 Board Member of the Year to Dr. Evelyn Hauser-Frederick. Finally, congratulations to Faith United Lutheran Church, which will hold its first worship service in its new building located on Old U just west of Gillett on Ash Wednesday, February 21. The congregation, fromed from the parishes of the former St. John’s Lutheran in Pulcifer and Immanuel Lutheran on County H, will dedicate its new building on Sunday, April 22. Watch for more information regarding this exciting addition to our community.
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