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2013 Wisconsin State Fair Cheese Contest Winners

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Congratulations to all the winners and participants in the Cheese and Butter Competition at the 2013 Wisconsin State Fair! We especially want to acknowledge the prize-winning entries from our clients.

Carr Valley CheeseSid Cook, Carr Valley Cheese, LaValle WI

  • Cave Aged Cardona, 1st place, Natural Goat Milk Cheese
  • Creama Kasa, 3rd place, Soft and Spreadable Cheese
  • Caso Bolo Mellage, 3rd place, Sheep & Mixed Milk Cheese

Bob Koenig, Carr Valley Cheese, LaValle WI

  • Menage, 1st place, Sheep & Mixed Milk Cheese

Edeleweiss Creamery Bruce Workman, Edelweiss Creamery, Monticello WI

  • Cellar Aged Grass Based Gouda, 3rd place, Open Class – Hard Cheese

Again, congratulations to all the excellent Wisconsin cheesemakers!

 

Members of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia Visit Uplands Cheese in Dodgeville, WI

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RRC Members touring Uplands CheeseMonday, May 20 UW Professor Andy Lewis, Broadband & Economic Development Specialist at the Center for Community Technology Solutions, UW-Extension, led a group visiting the facilities at Uplands Cheese north of Dodgeville, Wisconsin. The group included three members of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, who are members of the Rural and Regional Committee. They were Mr Paul Wellner (Chair), Mr Geoff Howard MP,  and Mr Andrew Katos MP. They were accompanied by Lilian Topic, Executive Officer of the Rural and Regional Committee. I was privileged to participate in this event. Mike Gingrich of Uplands Cheese graciously acted as tour guide. He was a wealth of information and ended the tour with a tasting of the multiple-award winning Pleasant Ridge Reserve cheese.

The Rural and Regional Committee members were in the United States as part of their Inquiry into the Opportunities to Use Telecommuting and E-Business in Rural and Regional Victoria. After touring Uplands Cheese, the members of the committee, Andy, and I continued with discussion of the pros and cons of telecommuting and remote working. We also discussed entrepreneurship challenges in rural areas, including broadband access and costs. I related my experience of bootstrapping a small business and over seventeen years of running WebWise Design & Marketing in a small community in southwest Wisconsin. We discussed how a committee of dedicated members (including Andy and me) helped establish local dial-up Internet service availability in 1997 to nearly everyone in Grant County, WI. That local access grew from the city of Platteville only to covering nearly everywhere in Grant County in approximately six month’s time.

We concluded the day with a bit of a hike to a rocky point with a panoramic view overlooking Wyoming Valley, followed by dinner at a local restaurant, where our Australian visitors enjoyed their first taste of fried Wisconsin cheese curds. Thanks to Andy and Mike for making this wonderful exchange of conversation, information, and ideas possible.

Congratulations Wisconsin Artisan Cheesemakers!

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Congratulations to everyone in the Artisan Cheese industry for their outstanding 2012 American Cheese Society competition held last week in Raleigh NC! We are pleased to tell you how well some of our clients placed.

Carr Valley CheeseCarr Valley CheeseCarr Valley Cheese, LaValle, Wisconsin won a total of 14 ribbons including four 1st place awards for Billy Blue Goat Cheese, Canaria Sheep Cheese, Sharp Cheddar Spread and Horseradish Spread. Carr Valley also received seven 2nd place awards and three 3rd place awards.

Uplands CheeseUplands CheeseUplands Cheese won 2 ribbons including a 1st place award for their Pleasant Ridge Reserve and a 3rd place award for their Extra-Aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve.

Edeleweiss CreameryEdeleweiss CreameryEdelweiss Creamery, Monroe, brought home two 2nd place ribbons for their Muenster and for their Vegetable Havarti.

The 2012 competition was the largest ACS contest ever. The judges graded 1,711 different products from 254 companies. What a remarkable accomplishment for these master artisan cheesemakers!

We are privileged and proud to work with several of Wisconsin’s finest cheesemakers providing them an online presence that befits their status. Congratulations to Sid Cook and his team at Carr Valley Cheese, Mike Gingrich and Andy Hatch at Uplands Cheese, and Bruce Workman and his team at Edelweiss Creamery.

Thank You Fennimore Chamber of Commerce

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From all us at WebWise Design & Marketing, thank you to all involved in the nominating, selection process, and awarding WebWise Design & Marketing the 2011 Fennimore Chamber Business of the Year. Thank you to all of the Chamber Members who worked so hard on the planning and execution of Chicken Barbeque & Awards presentation. Well done as usual. Thank you to our families, friends, community members, and our WebWise clients for supporting us through our first sixteen years. We feel privileged to work and live in this wonderful area, and to be able to in some small part serve our community. Thank You!