20, 40VO ITIC UI dA a wa ACTIVITIES: Weather closes some snow spots From C-1 visit www.barlowplanetarium.org. YouthFutures Matt's House at the YouthFutures Valley Fair Mall, 2145 S. Memorial Drive, Appleton, is holding its second annual Holiday Dodgeball Classic starting at 10 a.m. Saturday. There will be junior high, senior high and open competitions.
The cost is $10 per person. Matt's House also offers a vertical climbing wall, a re-ball field and paintball. General hours are 1 to 5 p.m. today and Thursday, 1 to 9 p.m. Friday, and noon to 6 p.m.
Saturday. For more information, call 920-882-6288, or visit www.mattshouse.net. Children's Museum The Fox Cities Children's Museum, 100 W. College Appleton, will have special art activities available all week, primarily in the mornings. Special activities include a New Year's Eve Around the World celebration, 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Saturday. There will be activities, snacks, music and more from different countries each hour, with Ireland, Jamaica, Turkey, Vietnam, Denmark and the United States featured. Admission is $4.50 per person, and free for members. For more information, call 920-734-3226 or visit www.kidmuseum.org.
YMCA The daily admission fee is free for members and $10 per family for nonmembers. Facilities include swimming pools (except YMCA Fox West in Greenville), gymnasiums and fitness centers. On New Year's Day, the Appleton YMCA is offering open house festivities from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be facility tours and classes, including cycling, pilates and yoga.
Admission for the day is free; visitors who join the YMCA that day will have the annual joiner's fee waived. Hours for the week: 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. today through Friday, 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. For more information, visit www. ymcafoxcities.org or contact the individual YMCAs: Appleton, 218 E.
Lawrence 920-739-6135; Neenah-Menasha, 110 W. North Neenah, 920-729-9622; Fox West, W6931 School Road, Greenville, 920-757-9820; and Heart of the Valley, 225 W. Kennedy Kimberly, 920-830-0414. RE REMIX Valley, 1000 N. Lynndale Appleton Trustworthy.
Dependable. Enthusiastic. Sue Jerry Wollersheim 707-0034 Grand Meridian TO DO: Friday Eat my favorite dish, Grand Meridian Fish 4-9 P.M. Sunday Read my Gideon then Brunch at Grand Meridian 9-2 P.M. Wednesday Work ALL DAY then Grand Meridian Buffet 4-9 P.M.
Note: While there, ask about booking meeting and banquet space. Grand Meridian Oneida at Northland 2621 N. Oneida Appleton, 968-2621 Funset Boulevard Funset Boulevard, 3916 W. College Appleton, is an indoor amusem*nt park featuring a carousel ride, bumper cars, miniature train, playground area, arcade games and laser tag. There also is a pizza parlor.
It opens daily at 11 a.m. On Friday and Saturday it closes at 11 p.m.; otherwise, closing is at 10 p.m. Prices range from $1 to $4 per attraction, or $8.95 to $11.95 for allday wristbands. Ice skating Looking to spin a double axel? Well, you may have to head indoors. Recent rain and warm temps have closed many area rinks until some white stuff appears.
But if the weather changes, here they are. Outdoor: Little Chute's Heesakker Park lacks a decent ice base and is closed. In Appleton, rinks at Erb and Memorial parks and Reid Golf Course are closed and the rinks at Jones Park and Colony Oaks will most likely follow suit in the next day or two. Neenah's two supervised rinks with shelters at Washington and Green parks are open. Shelter hours are from 1 to 8 p.m.
daily through Tuesday. Hours then change to 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and 1 to 8 Saturday and Sunday at Green Park; and 4 to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Washington Park.
Doty and Southview parks are open with only marginal skating available. Kaukauna's Grignon Park is open for skating; warming shelter hours are 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Menasha's Hart Park is open from 4 to 8 p.m. weekdays and from noon to 8 p.m.
on weekends and holidays, weather permitting. Ice skate rental is available at the shelter. Because outdoor skating is weather dependent, always call ahead to the appropriate parks and recreation department to confirm ice conditions. Indoor: The Appleton Family Ice Center, 1717 E. Witzke in Memorial Park, has a special holiday open skate with free admission and $1 skate rentals.
The special runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today and Thursday. For more information or other hours, call 920-830- 7679. Tri-County Arena in the Town of Menasha offers free open public skating from noon to 2 p.m.
today through Sunday. Skate rentals are Post-Crescent file photo MAGGIE PREWITT, of Neenah, is fitted with a mask she made with her mother, Katherine, at the Fox Cities Children's Museum in Appleton last Dec. 31. This year's "New Year's Eve Around the World" again will feature a countdown to the new year every hour on the hour and music, art and food from $2.25 per pair. The rink is open from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
on New Year's Eve and from 3 to 4:30 p.m. New Year's Day at the regular rates. For more information, call 920-731-9731, ext. 10. There are lots of local sledding op- tions, but again, little snow.
Conditions are not favorable for at Appleton's Memorial and Erb parks and Reid Municipal Golf Course; Neenah's Island, Memorial, Quarry and Washington parks; Kaukauna's Grignon and White City parks; and Little Chute's Heesakker and Van Lieshout parks. is only fair at Grand Chute's Plamann Park, but with noticeable bare spots. Call Menasha's Parks and Recreation Department at 920-967-5106 for information about Clovis Grove Park. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday through Friday. The runs currently are closed at Calumet County Park, situated on the east shore of Lake Winnebago on County EE (about six miles south of High Cliff State Park). The park has separate sledding and tubing hills. Six to 8 inches of packed snow are necessary to open the runs. To check conditions, call the Calumet County Parks Department at 920- 439-1008 after 10 a.m.
or call the park's 24-hour recorded activity line at 920-849-1494. Snowshoeing around the globe. It usually takes about 6 inches of snow for good snowshoeing. Gordon Bubolz Nature Preserve, 4815 N. Lynndale Drive, just north of Appleton, offers snowshoe rentals ($1 for members, $2.50 for nonmember adults and $2 for students and seniors) and has three miles of trails.
For more information, call 920-731-6041. Heckrodt Wetland Reserve, 1305 Plank Road, Menasha, has a short marked trail and snowshoes for rent ($2 per pair). For more information, call 920-720-9349. I High Cliff State Park, Sherwood, also rents snowshoes ($3.50 per pair). The park's Forest Management Trail is a popular route.
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9-4 Sun 12-4 (Green Bay Store) NATIONAL NEWS OBITUARIES OBITUARIES Margaret A. Balke, age 89, of Wilson Street, Clintonville, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005, at the New London Family Medical Center. Margaret was born on May 20, 1916, in the Township of WaukeC ho Shawano County, WI. She was the daughter of the late Herman and Mary (Splittgerber) Beyer.
Margaret grew up in the Town of Waukechon and later was united in marriage to Frank Balke on Sept. 28, 1938, in Shawano. The couple farmed in the Township of Belle Plaine in Shawano Co. before moving to a farm in the Township of Deer Creek in Outagamie County and later to Clintonville. Frank preceded his wife in death on Sept.
30, 1984. Margaret was a. member of the St. Rose Catholic Church in Clintonville where she faithfully attended Bible Classes and was involved with prayer groups. Other than farming, Margaret was employed Urban Telephone Co.
in Clintonville, operated a tavern, and worked at a local toy factory. Margaret was an avid bowler in her day and enjoyed reading, fishing, and spending time with her family and friends. Survivors are four daughters, Mary (Lawrence) McKay, Huntley, IL; (William) Laha, Appleton; Kathleen (James) Klingbeil, Clintonville; Barbara (Jeffrey) Noie, Menasha; seven sons, Keith (Maria) Balke, Bear Creek; Clayton Balke, Shawano; Michael (Patricia) Balke, Oshkosh; Stephen Balke, Menasha; Stanley (Fiance Sue Larson) Balke, Kaukauna; Bruce (Karen) Balke, Lake in the Hills, IL; Peter Balke, Neenah; thirty-six grandchildren, forty greatgrandchildren, and two greatgreat-grandchildren, two sisters, Amanda Seehafer, Green Bay; June Mancel, Shawano; one brother-in-law, John Balke, Shawano; four sisters-in-law, Marie Kretz, Antigo; Marion Beyer, Shawano; Hazel Beyer, Shawano; and Ida Wildung, MT; special friends Bernice Plesser, Betty Young, Virginia Stanislawski, and Ethel Wolf all of Clintonville; Norma Zahn, Shawano. Also nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Frank, two sons, Charles and Wayne, one granddaughter, one great-grandson, six brothers (Wally, Henry, Eddie, Elmer, Clarence, and Herbert), three sisters (Leona Hesse, Esther LaRose, and Lillian Luckow).
Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, Dec. 30, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. at the St. Rose Catholic Church in Clintonville with the Rev. Don Everts officiating, and interment will be in the parish cemetery in Clintonville.
Friends may call at the Eberhardt-Stevenson Funeral Home, Clintonville, from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday with a parish prayer service starting at 7:30 p.m. or at the church on Friday from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the services. For more information or to send condolences visit www.eberhardtstevenson.com.
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