THANK YOU
TO OUR 2017 CONVENTION SPONSORS
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THANK YOU 2018 SPORTING CLAY CHALLENGE SPONSORS
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A Great Day At Milford Hills For MWFPA's Scholarship Clay Shoot!
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Thank you to all the participants and sponsors of the MWFPA annual Sporting Clay Challenge which raised about $6,000 for member scholarships.
The day began sporting low overcast skies, but before the clays challenge half-way mark the sun broke through sending temperatures into the low 70s - perfect for a day of shooting.
A wonderful group of 90 shooters gathered at the Milford Hills Hunt Club in Johnson Creek, WI on October 5 to participate in the clay shoot.
Shooters enjoyed a lunch of burgers, brats and beans prior to hitting the 13-station clay shoot course with 100 targets. After the clay shoot, guests relaxed back at the lodge with beer and a delicious assortment of heavy hors d'oeuvres,
networking and prize announcements.
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MWFPA Sporting Clays Challenge winning team.
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The team (r) of Paul Wiemann (Seneca), Lou Kleidon (Seneca), Pat Madery (Ellingson Companies) and John Tasker (Seneca) took team honors firing a spectacular 294.
Wieman also took honors as the event's "Top Male Gun" (shooting 80) while Heather Price of The Probst Group became the "Female Top Gun" by shooting 50.
Jason Sachs of Lyco Mfg. and Amy Wolter from Del Monte won the raffle for the
Stoeger m3000 semi auto 12 gauge shotgun and the Stoeger p3000 pump 12 gauge shotgun. Dan Tauferner of Del Monte came away with the
Smith & Wesson m&p shield 9mm handgun.
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Raffle winner Jason Sachs-Lyco Mfg.
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Thank you to all who attended and helped us raise money to provide educational opportunities to the children of MWFPA members. And a thank you to Milford Hills Hunt Club for being wonderful hosts for our fundraiser.
We greatly appreciate all your enthusiasm, support and generosity What a great day!
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Female Top Gun - Heather Price -The Probst Group
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Handgun raffle winner Dan Tauferner-Del Monte
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A special thanks to our sponsors listed in the side column of this newsletter.
Enjoy pictures from the Sporting Clay Challenge here.
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Sports Author Bernstein To Provide Wednesday Breakfast Convention Keynote
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Best-selling author Ross Bernstein
will deliver theWednesday breakfast keynote
speech at the MWFPA convention discussing team building, leadership and motivation.
Championship athletes and coaches all have one thing in common; they all have a very unique DNA that separates them from the rest of the pack.
Through his work with over 1000 professional athletes and coaches that were all members of championship teams his research concluded that the same metrics and characteristics that were common among champions in sports were also common in peak performers in business.
The goal of Ross's keynote session is to get attendees thinking about their own DNA - and about the differentiators they possess which would ultimately lead customers to CHOOSE to do business with them. At the core of his message is the simple fact that we like to do business with people who we trust, who we like, and who just "GET IT" - in other words CHAMPIONS! In an engaging, interactive, and visually entertaining style, Ross will use inspirational stories and poignant life lessons from the world of sports to help you
deliver winning results.
Ross is the author of nearly 50 sports books. He's an award-winning, hall of fame, peak-performance business speaker who's keynoted conferences for Fortune 500 companies on five continents and has been featured on thousands of television and radio programs including: CNN, "CBS-This-Morning," ESPN, and Fox News, as well as in the Wall Street Journal.
Please join us for what most certainly will be an inspirational and thought provoking presentation.
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MWFPA Supports "Feast" During Upcoming Convention
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The award-winning
Feast! Local Foods Marketplace hosts over 100 exhibitors who show, sample and sell their artisan food products to wholesale buyers during its Friday trade show and to consumers during the Saturday festival taking place
December 1-2, 2017 at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, MN following the MWFPA annual convetnion.
This year a special entry to the Feast trade show will be granted to MWFPA convention registrants, and Feast exhibitors will be able to attend the MWFPA convention Thursday morning, November 30th free of charge (breakfast, lunch, beer and wine can be accessed for $25). Feast! attendees who wish to access the MWFPA convention will need to fill out a registration form.
For more information, visit
www.local-feast.org or email
eli@local-feast.org. To keep in touch with the latest updates, 'like' the FEAST Local Food Network on
Facebook, follow @Local_Feast on
Twitter, and use #localFEAST to join the conversation. Feast! Local Foods Marketplace is co-hosted by the
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation and Renewing the Countryside non-profit organizations and is supported with premiere sponsorship by Mayo Clinic, The McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.
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MWFPA Opposes WI Food Share Pilot Program
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MWFPA has come out in opposition to a bill in the WI State Legislature that would put new restrictions on what kind of items can be purchased with food stamps.
Assembly Bill 530 would create a pilot program administered by the WI Department of Health Services requiring it to identify categories of groceries considered not to have sufficient nutritional value and prohibit FoodShare (food stamps) benefits from being used to buy them.
In a memorandum to the Assembly Committee on Public Health, which will hold a hearing on the measure today, MWFPA states that it recognizes the desire "to promote healthy choices and to spend taxpayer dollars wisely. However, creating a black-list of foods determined not to be of 'sufficient nutritional value' will be costly and lead to many unintended consequences."
Similar proposals have failed in previous years.This bill has drawn opposition from business groups representing the beverage, beef, cheese, pork, cranberry and potato and vegetable industries in WI. The Hunger Task Force,
a non-profit, anti-hunger public policy organization in Milwaukee, WI,also opposes the bill.
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WI Family Medical Leave To Be Introduced
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WI Sen. Alberta Darling (R - River Hills) and Reps. Joan Ballweg (R - Markesan) and Mike Rohrkaste (R - Neenah) are seeking cosponsors for legislation designed to federalize Wisconsin's Family Medical Leave Law (FMLA). In their cosponsorship memo, the authors explain the reforms are intended to "remove the red tape in FMLA by adopting federal FMLA for most employers now required to follow both state and federal regulations whenever an employee utilizes leave."
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WI Judge Throws Out High-Capacity Well Permits, Citing Waterway Protection
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 On October 11, Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn, Dane County Circuit
Court,
vacated seven high-capacity well permits issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and remanded another.
Clean Wisconsin, an environmental protection group, convinced the court that the DNR had a public trust duty to deny the permits despite no statutory language that requires such action.
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Check Out MWFPA's Customized Property & Casualty Insurance For Members Only
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The Midwest Food Products Association is pleased to announce that
its members now have access to an exclusive insurance program that is written specifically for our industry. With assistance from the risk management firm Hays Companies, this program offers a customized Property and Casualty insurance program.
The program offers a complete insurance program for all business types, from processor to manufacturers, logistics to wholesaler and anything in between. No market segment is excluded, and no organization is too large or too small.
Learn more about what the MWFPA Insurance Program can do for you by visiting the program's website:
https://mwfpa.haysprograms.com/.
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