Friday, 20 November 2015

ROAD TO THE NORTH OF LA CROSSE



Mary took us with -she had to do another radio recording at Whitehall.

We love to see the country. Our first little town was Lake Marinuka named after an Indian princess -Hochunks nation. 


The Indians have their own land. They have their own laws and runs themselves. That was done when the American gave back their land - called the Hochunk reservation. The Indian  community has a small piece of land in Minneapolis on which they build a Casino. The whole Indian community share in the profit yearly, which is 200,000$ per person over 18 years old. This creates a big problem. They don't work and spent their money on wrong things, like drugs.


Galesville next town, farming community. 

Ettrick is smaller than Galesville 524 people. The towns of Galesville and Ettrick  joined together to get one school. 

Bliar - they have an egg festival. Well known for their eggs.($1.59 for one dozen)

Beach Corner farming community planting and harvesting. The farmers are using machinery to do their lands - No labour is used.

Whitehall has its Radio station and making a lot of cheese. That is their main source of business.

Arcadia is the head quarters   for Ashley furniture. They have an outlet in Pretoria distributing their product all over the world.

We are now in big Deer hunting Country. Deer hunting is big in America. It will open on this Saturday and it will be open for 10 days. The total population of Deers in America is approximately 3 million. 22 thousand get killed on the road per year.

Bow hunting in Minneapolis has started  and will end when the rifle hunting starts.

We ended our trip to visit Dicks Radio stations. 

He has 6 Radio stations here in La Crosse. The other 32 radio stations is in some other cities.
 This was really an interesting afternoon. We have never been seen the operation of a Radio station. Amazing how all the different stations, recordings and voices goes to a technical room and from there to the towers.



Each station have its own broadcast studio.

Dick and his employees have received many awards during the years to excellent service.
 The best ornament in his office look at the jar.

ASHES OF PROBLEM EMPLOYEES




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