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One thing they never teach you in school is what to do when your house turns into a cave.

I’m guessing that most of the time when your house turns into a cave, you just get the stalactites. You need a special set of (expletive) circumstances to get the stalagmites.

Jacy Catlin

chippewa valley comedian and internet personality

– during a video walkthrough of his fire-gutted rural Fairchild home, which burned down during subzero conditions Feb. 13, leaving it filled with smoke-colored ice. A GoFundMe for the family had raised more than $48,000. (Facebook.com, Feb. 16)

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I don’t think anybody’s wavered in what they think is the value of the project.

KIMERA WAY

PRESIDENT, EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY COMPLEX INC.

– quoted in the Leader-Telegram on Feb. 20, regarding continued momentum to build the Sonnentag Center, a major event facility on Menomonie Street. (Partners in the project include the Blugold Real Estate Foundation, a subsidiary of the UW-Eau Claire Foundation; the city of Eau Claire; Visit Eau Claire; Mayo Clinic Health System; and UW-Eau Claire.)

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As a retired instructor used to say, ‘There is no such thing as a private tuba lesson.’ That is true for many music activities in this building.

dr. gretchen peters

chair, uw-eau claire music and theatre arts department

– discussing the need for renovations to the Haas Fine Arts Center, which were recently approved by the UW System Board of Regents. (UWEC.edu, Feb. 5)

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