2018 Vanguard Awards - Jason Jon Anderson

Interim director of the Pablo Center at the Confluence, Eaux Claires Festival, River Lights Bridge Project

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2018 Vanguard Awards - Crystal Halvorson

Menomonie Market Food Co-op, and Menomonie farmers market pavilion

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2018 Vanguard Awards - Becca Cooke

Owner of Red’s Mercantile, active member of community boards and business-centric workshops and programs

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2018 Vanguard Awards - BJ Hollars

Author, UW-Eau Claire Professor, founder and director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild

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[VIDEO] 2018 Chippewa Valley Vanguard Awards: The Honorees

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Recognizing high-level community achievers who’ve made a significant local impact in one of a broad spectrum of areas including the arts, entrepreneurship, social action, government, education, philanthropy, health, business and more.

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Embracing Winter at the Curling Club

As I’m sure many people across the world felt these last several days, as the winter games played out on the other side of the planet in Pyeongchang, the crew at Volume One got a little caught up in Olympic fever. So last week, as part of our staff’s two-day annual meeting ...

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Lighting a Fire

UWEC’s Fire Ball more than a drag show

It was one of those bleak January days when it’s dark by 4pm and you wonder if the weather is trolling you. I had just finished teaching my last class of the day at UW-Eau Claire and was trudging through Hibbard Hall ...

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I Hate My Stupid Whatever

if you’re looking for a quick pick-me-up, try constantly complaining

Here’s my promise to you: I won’t waste a single paragraph’s worth of well-crafted sentences complaining about the weather. It’s the least I can do for all you people out there who don’t give a damn about some random guy’s opinion on that we cannot control ...

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On the Cover | Feb. 21, 2018

learn more about Volume One's cover art from Andrew Ritchie

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Opening Shot | Feb. 21, 2018

BACK TO IT. To celebrate the 10th-anniversary re-release of Justin Vernon’s debut Bon Iver album – For Emma, Forever Ago – the band staged a special concert at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Eau Claire native and his full Bon Iver crew covered the album for fifteen thousand fans, at times reverting back to the original band’s turning group, including only Vernon and fellow Chippewa Vallians Mike Noyce and Sean Carey.

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S. Carey’s Newest Finds Fresh Confidence and Purpose

If you’ve never woken up one morning to realize that Taylor Swift put one of your songs on a Spotify playlist of her favorite tracks, you’re probably not Sean Carey. “More I See,” a lush single from his forthcoming ...

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Musical Memories: UWEC, museum want your input for ‘History Harvest’

Photos. Diaries. Programs. Oral stories. Objects. Instruments. The architects behind the “Sounds of Eau Claire Music History Harvest” have some guesses as to what Chippewa Valley residents will bring ...

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Music Quick Hits | February 2018

Eau Claire synth pop artists Sniffle Party just got some serious love from HBO. In the latest episode of High Maintenance, which tells miniature stories connected by the same nameless bicycle-bound weed dealer in New York ...

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Dance (And Sing) With Dragons

Game of Thrones parody will have fantasy lovers laughing

Send a raven! On March 1 the State Theatre will be dark and full of laughs. Winter is coming, and you can get a front-row seat to all of the fantasy action. Fans of HBO’s Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones ...

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Telling the Whole Story: Eau Claire Native Writes First Volume of City History

Brian Blakeley may have just published an account of Eau Claire’s early history, but his own name has literally been part of the city’s history for decades: His grandfather’s farm on the south side ...

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Keeping It Kosher

Forty Eau Claire synagogue members are sharing their family recipes – more than 500 from different locations and heritages ...

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A Serving of Spiritual Soup

A Chippewa Valley writer and her mother have a serving of heartwarming spiritual soup for readers of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Cassandra Kyser of Boyceville and her mother ...

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Tempted to Touch

Artfly pop-up encourages viewers to engage with art

ArtFly, a contemporary pop-up art gallery that turns conventional spaces – such as a garage, a basement, or a local store – into a space to experience art for a single day or night is about to put on its biggest show to-date. Kelsey Wenberg, artist and genius behind ArtFly ...

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Allegiance

I believe in the haloed snow in the streetlight // the weight of the dark lets down, // and the republic of the child’s tongue // where the stars blink and die ...

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Lighting a Fire for Entrepreneurs: Artisan Forge Studios gets economic development award

Artisan Forge is more than a collection of artists’ studios: It’s a small-business hub, an ever-changing gallery, a hive of creative activity, and an entrepreneur’s dream come true. In less than three years ...

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From Idea to Prototype: UW-Stout Center gets $50,000 entrepreneurship grant

Bob Rosendahl of Menomonie, who has invented Cradle Stake, a product designed to secure gutter downspouts and protect them, said that an Entrepreneurship Support program from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. ...

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New Ideas Percolating: 1 Million Cups brings entrepreneurs together over coffee

Sometimes a cup of coffee is more than just a cup of coffee. Just like a humble napkin can hold crumbs and a sketch of a million-dollar idea, a cup of coffee can be a stimulant to both the central nervous system and an entrepreneur’s dreams ...

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[VIDEO] 2018 Chippewa Valley Vanguard Awards: The Honorees

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Recognizing high-level community achievers who’ve made a significant local impact in one of a broad spectrum of areas including the arts, entrepreneurship, social action, government, education, philanthropy, health, business and more.

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Menomonie Sisters Make Impact in Honduras With Feminine Hygiene Kits

One in every five people in Honduras earns less than $1.90 a day. One million people in the country’s rural communities don’t have reliable access to clean drinking water. Women and girls with little education struggle ...

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UW-Stout Named No. 8 Hospitality Leadership School

CEOWorld Magazine of New York has ranked the School of Hospitality Leadership at UW-Stout the eighth best in the world on its 2018 list ...

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Report: Retail Vacancies Rising in Eau Claire

The closing of four Gordy’s grocery stores, the Macy’s in Oakwood Mall, and Gander Mountain helped increase the share of vacant retail space in the Eau Claire market to 12.3 percent last year from 7.5 percent in 2016 ...

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School of Thought

mental health organization offers mindfulness training

Brenda Scheurer, director of the Mental Health Matters Coalition, was moved when she read that more than one in four Chippewa County middle and high school students had felt so sad or hopeless ...

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Growlin’ to Go

get your growler filled at this new Eau Claire spot

If there’s one thing that’ll get me in the door of a local business, it’s a five-foot, sheet metal beer can. Call it gimmicky or call it ingenious; either way, it’s catching glances from its sidewalk perch on London Road ...

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Food Done Slow

UW-Stout students publish slow food cookbook

In a world where fast food rules and drive-thrus loom around every street corner, a new movement is changing the status quo: slow food. The Slow Food club at the University of Wisconsin-Stout created the Good Harvest Cookbook ...

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Eau Claire Poet Garland Named Wisconsin Academy Fellow

Max Garland, Eau Claire resident, poet, musician, and teacher, will be presented with a Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Fellows Award April 4. Garland will be honored alongside other outstanding Wisconsinites ...

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Empty Bowls, Full Bellies

Feed My People Food Bank hosts fundraiser meal

For the peckish, charitable, and art-loving residents of the Chippewa Valley, Feed My People Food Bank is hosting its annual Empty Bowls fundraiser March 1 at the Florian Gardens ...

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Room for Yogis: Eau Claire spot The Yoga Room helps you be you

A yogi, by definition, is someone who is actively engaged in the practice of yoga. Believe it or not, you are actively practicing yoga just by walking in the door at The Yoga Room (2839 Mall Drive). The owners, husband and wife duo ...

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