This week, a large insect splatted on my windshield. It reminded me of the endless insect swarms we used to see as kids, and pulling over halfway through a long drive to clean the windshield. Scrubbing the insects off glass twenty years ago, we didn’t know how lucky we were.
It’s hard to notice an absence. Over the last 500 years, this continent has witnessed the drastic decline of bison, old growth forests, and more. Now it’s insects. As somebody living in 21st century Wisconsin, it’s hard to know what a healthy ecosystem is supposed to look like.
The growers at Westport Farm have also noticed the decline in insects, not by looking at their windshields, but by looking at their crops. Simply, there aren’t enough insects to pollinate all of the flowers anymore. So, we are adapting. We make actions daily – both small and large – to bring our farm into balance with the ecosystem.
Newly planted trees at Westport Farm. Photo by Sam Douglass
At Westport Farm, we are addressing the loss of native insects by creating more pollinator habitat alongside our fields. In early May, we planted 50 elderberry and serviceberry shrubs along the property boundary. These native shrubs also serve as a windbreak to block herbicide drift from the neighboring corn and soybean field.
This planting is part of an ongoing effort to make Westport Farm a haven of biodiversity. Over the past two years, we’ve transplanted more than one hundred native trees and shrubs across the property. We’ve also placed micro-prairies throughout.
Some vegetables, like summer squash, need insect pollinators in order to grow fruit. Without pollination, squash flowers bloom and then drop off, fruitless. If you’ve ever grown a misshapen cucumber, you may have already seen the effects of poor pollination.
Surrounded on three sides by corn and soybeans, we can feel the impact of habitat isolation. Not by coincidence, the largest crops we grow in Wisconsin don’t rely on insects the way that most fruits and vegetables do. Corn is pollinated by not by insects but by wind. Soybeans are self-fertile. So, as farmers are pushed to maximize yield to stay afloat, habitat is tilled under and most of those acres doused in chemicals to simulate healthy growing conditions.
Preparing soil to expand pollinator habitat, seen in the foreground. Photo by Ben Lam
Our farm relies on what are called “beneficial insects” to keep pests in check. Think lady beetles eating aphids, or green lacewings consuming thrips. Without beneficials, pests boom out of control and farmers are encouraged to use insecticides.
Most insecticides are “broad-spectrum,” meaning they also kill the good insects. Once the good insects are gone, pests have no natural population checks and farmers are forced to spray more and more frequently. Meaning, as we go down the path of chemical agriculture we consume more and stronger chemicals in our food.
The choice to grow no-spray vegetables supports the health of both consumers and farmworkers. Look at the health conditions of farmworkers in Central Valley, California, and you may decide to eat (and grow) differently.
Instead of pesticides, Groundswell staff work together with our farmers on natural solutions. We have a long road ahead of us to return to a harmony between agriculture and nature. It is clear to me that the way we treat the earth is the way we treat ourselves, and that our small actions add up.
Cheers,
Sam Douglass
Farm & Land Manager
P.S. If this work inspires you, please consider making a gift to Groundswell to keep the momentum going!
Operation Fresh Start’s Conservation Academy at Westport Prairie | Photo by Mario Quintana
Every year, we hire Operation Fresh Start’s Conservation Academy to help with our restoration work. OFS is a job training and mentorship program that prepares young people for careers in conservation and construction. It’s always a pleasure to meet new faces and hear where the trainees are headed.
This year, we brought the Conservation Academy to Westport Prairie. We got started the morning after the 11-inch snowfall in March. We hauled equipment sleds through a half mile of snow drifts, leaving us breathless as we reached the site. OFS got to work—two-stroke engines buzzing—and within two weeks, they’d cleared a full half mile of tree line.
Thank you to Stefanie Moritz, Vince Jenkins, and the Bock Foundation for their support of this program!
At Patrick Marsh, we burned a 25-acre prairie for the first time. This prairie was planted in 2021 with the help of nearly every Patrick Marsh Middle School student, acre by acre. Since then, we’ve relied on the City of Sun Prairie to keep the young prairie mowed while it put roots down. Now entering its fifth growing season, this tract is hitting its stride as a tallgrass prairie. This first fire felt like a rite of passage.
Going into this burn, we were unsure if the plant matter would carry a fire. This prairie is densely populated with forbs, or wildflowers, and sparsely populated with grasses. Typically, the presence of grasses in a prairie helps a fire move across the landscape. Despite this, we saw a nearly complete burn of the prairie, thanks to the Pheasants Forever crew.
Patrick Marsh is now a City of Sun Prairie Conservancy Park, a permanent protection decades in the making.
Patrick Marsh Middle School students seeding a new prairie in 2021 | Photo by Ben Lam
Finally, we burned the phoenix sculpture at Patrick Marsh on the spring equinox. It’s a small ritual that felt right at the turn of the season.
I’ll leave you with this photo of Jeanne Behrend, beaming, at our annual Patrick Marsh phoenix burn. Without Jeanne’s advocacy, Patrick Marsh would not be this place we can all enjoy. Thank you, Jeanne!
Jeanne Behrend in front of the smoldering phoenix at Patrick Marsh | Photo by Roberta Herschleb
Sam Douglass
Farm & Land Manager
P.S. If this work inspires you, please consider making a gift to Groundswell to keep the momentum going.
View from atop the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Today’s newsletter is a dive into a well. We’re taking a trip to Ireland, and looking at the strands that weave together the tallgrass prairies of Wisconsin with the peat bogs of Ireland.
St. Patrick’s Day makes me think about my family immigrating to the United States. It makes me reflect on what we in the diaspora have carried to this continent and what we’ve lost along the way. While the stories that follow are about Ireland, we all relate to migration. All of us—whether our ancestors crossed oceans or have resided on this land forever—have ancestries of displacement. Our ancestors have brought stories, seeds, and words from their homelands which shape the place we live today. And many of those things are lost, or don’t translate.
Though we might not recognize it, our identities inform how we choose to take care of the land. Ecosystem restoration requires value judgements: Do we keep this native sumac patch, even though it might crowd out a rare prairie ecosystem? Is herbicide worth the unknown health and ecosystem risks?
The decisions we make about what the landscape should look like are influenced by stories we’ve been told—about wildness and cleanliness, about what makes a landscape beautiful and functional, about which plants are treasured and which plants are feared. Unearthing where we come from, and what biases we hold, helps us understand this work.
Sand formations on the North Coast of Donegal, Ireland
Translations
Westport Drumlin, in the center of Westport Prairie, is a special place many readers have visited. I hope you have. Most mornings I walk up the drumlin, reading the change from the day before and watching my step for animal dens. I was surprised to learn that drumlin is an Irish word. It comes from the Irish druim, meaning “hill,” with the suffix –lin, the same softening ending of duckling. Little hill.
In the Ho-Chunk language, the same feature is xeeš’ok. Little Hill. You can explore and hear that word pronounced in the Ho-Chunk Nation Dictionary Online. The word xee means “hill” as a noun, but as a verb, it means to bury. Thus, when this hill lost its name and was renamed a drumlin, we lost that everyday association of hills with burials. It matters which words we use.
Place-names in Indigenous languages—like Ho-chunk and Irish—are often ecological, describing the landscape; or mythological, capturing a story of something that happened there.
There is a 500-page Irish text called the Metrical Dindsenchas (you don’t have to remember that name) which compiled centuries of poems associated with specific places. In this book, you can find poems a thousand years old written about the hill you’re standing on. It’s an atlas of mythology and ecology. It’s lucky that we have these recorded; old Ireland was an oral storytelling culture. This unique record captures the idea that every hill, every river, and every bog has a story worth preserving.
Likewise, the hills and lakes where we live are laden with old stories. I like to visit the The Encyclopedia of Hōcąk (Winnebago) Mythology from time to time for the deep history of this place. I encourage you to explore it.
The Indigenous place-names that once acted as a field guide are largely overwritten with colonial names. Dejope, the land of “Four Lakes,” is now named after President James Madison. Te Wákącąk, “Sacred Lake,” is now called Devil’s Lake. Wihaqgaja, the west peak of Blue Mounds, once evoked “the Place of the Second-Born Daughter” to everyone who heard its name. I’m thankful for enduring names like Wauwatosa, which refers to “firefly” in Potawatomi; and Menominee, meaning “wild rice” (Manoomin) in Ojibwe. These names carry ecological meaning. I understand what I might find there.
To rename a landscape is to make it illegible to the people who know it, and to hand newcomers a landscape they cannot read. If we could know the old stories of Westport Drumlin, or its name, we could take even better care of it.
A contested place-name in Donegal, Ireland
A Tale of Two Trees
Ireland and Dejope are connected by more than language. Here’s another story of migration—this time, of two trees that ended up in the wrong place.
The Scots Pine is the only conifer native to Ireland. If you had visited the island 10 years ago, a botanist would have told you it was eradicated from the island but living elsewhere. Native forests on the island have been decimated over centuries, having once occupied an estimated 80% of the land. A population of Irish Scots Pines was rediscovered in 2016, tucked away in a remote area called the Burrens. It’s now enjoying a cautious resurgence as seedlings are planted throughout the island.
Irish Scots Pine discovered in the Burren,
County Clare
Photo by Belfast Media
There are plenty of conifers in Ireland, but it’s a Canadian tree—the Sitka Spruce—that’s thriving. Sitka Spruce timber plantations occupy nearly 5% of Ireland’s land mass, the equivalent of all its remaining native forest. Often, these monocultures are planted onto degraded landscapes in lieu of restoration. They are the bane of ecologists and farmers alike—much like the timber plantations of North America, which catch fire only because they’re out of balance with the ecosystem.
These two trees, perfectly co-evolved with their homelands, have swapped places. That same Scots Pine, native to Ireland and deeply missed, is planted by the thousands in Ontario to support another timber industry. It has become one of the “five most invasive species in Canada” (University of Toronto), all while being functionally absent from its native ecosystem.
By all accounts, the impact of Irish migration onto this landscape has deeply affected the ecology, language, and understandings we hold. The same goes for HMoob, Norwegian, and Mexican migrations, as with all of our ancestors. I feel empathy toward the Scots Pine, which didn’t ask to be brought here but has certainly found itself in the wrong place. As I tend to the land, I often reflect on how my identity impacts the way I see the landscape and what tools I use.
I once asked an Irish farmer if he had considered a prescribed burn. The heather grows so thick in Donegal that trees and grasses cannot regenerate. A little fire, I thought, might clear the way. He looked at me like I’d suggested arson. Some things don’t translate.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I hope you enjoyed the stories, and perhaps reflected on your own migration story. If this provoked something, I’d love to hear from you.
Slán,
As part of an organization that connects people with land, I believe one of our greatest opportunities is to help local farmers. Small-scale farmers care for their land with deep knowledge and attention. When we support farmers, we’re supporting both a sustainable economy and a diverse ecosystem.
Every successful farmer I know depends on resources from the United States Department of Agriculture and other government agencies. These programs help farmers buy land, purchase equipment, grow their business, and get advice from experts. Having access to these resources can mean the difference between a farm that thrives and one that struggles.
Farmers gather at the 2025 Marbleseed Organic Farming Conference in La Crosse.
Today, we’re celebrating the completion of a major, multi-year project to help HMoob farmers access these important resources. This project, Strengthening Support Systems for Wisconsin HMoob Farmers, was the first of its kind in Wisconsin. We connected HMoob farmers with government programs, training, and technical assistance, breaking down barriers that stood in the way.
I’m proud to highlight the work of Groundswell Community Director Yimmuaj Yang, who led this effort in partnership with FairShare CSA Coalition and the University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Extension.
Over three years, the Strengthening Support Systems for Wisconsin HMoob Farmers project built relationships with nearly 300 HMoob farmers across Wisconsin and Minnesota—more than three times the goal. The team connected with farmers at more than 20 workshops across the state through phone calls and in-person visits. It helped farmers apply for grants, tap into new markets, and attend conferences.
A field day at GreenGold Gardens in Wausau
Prior to this project, it was hard to find farming information written in HMoob or workshops that offered HMoob interpretation. That’s starting to change. Now, more resources are available in HMoob, including videos about bookkeeping, soil testing, food safety, managing vegetable diseases, and many more topics.
The team also wanted to help 20 HMoob farmers enroll in federal and state programs. By the end of the project, 62 HMoob farmers had enrolled.These programs include the Local Food Purchasing Assistance program, which bought food from small-scale farms to help communities that struggle to afford it. Other programs gave direct payments to farmers who grow vegetables or share the cost of buying equipment, like high tunnels.
Resources created during this project will be available for good. You can explore some of them on the UW-Madison Division of Extension HMoob Farmers web page.
I’ll leave you with a video tour of Frannta Lor’s farm. Frannta is a great example of how farmers can use government resources to better their farm.
Cheers,
Sam
P.S. If this work inspires you, please consider making a gift to Groundswell to keep the momentum going!
Last weekend, Groundswell volunteers and staff planted nine more acres at Westport Prairie. Now, the entire valley from Bong Road to Westport Drumlin has been restored to native tallgrass prairie and oak savanna.
Joyful volunteers at last Saturday’s seed planting — Photos by Mario Quintana
Each year, we increase our capacity to plant and take care of more land through greater interest from volunteers who spend time in our preserves and donors who care deeply about conservation.
Habitat restoration also takes a great deal of planning.
Map by BJ Byers
Take a moment with this map (pictured above, or see the PDF here).
If you’ve visited Westport Prairie, you may recognize the purple and salmon shapes as prairie remnants (a remnant is an “old-growth” prairie). Ten years ago, these were fragments of habitat at the margins of agriculture. Each yellow shape is a planting, and only a faint exaggeration of the bursting shades of yellow coneflower, black-eyed Susan, and coreopsis which paint the prairie in summer.
Groundswell’s earliest plantings (2014, 2017, 2019, and 2020) added buffers around the remnants to protect sensitive habitat from pesticide drift. After that, we connected the remnants together to create wildlife corridors and expand habitat (2021, 2022, and 2023).
Before and after photos of the 2022 Westport Prairie planting — Photos by BJ Byers
Lately, I’ve been thinking about Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan’s conviction, “We are not defending nature. We are nature defending itself.”
I take this literally. As I work at Westport Prairie, my body physically changes to become part of the landscape. My muscles adapt and strengthen to match the slope of the hills. The berries and medicine I forage become part of me. Sunburn hardens my skin.
Sometimes I move through this landscape with a sense of mourning. There are only 168 acres remaining of the 129,000-acre “Empire Prairie” that once stretched across Dane and Columbia County. Volunteer Aaron Suiter reminded me of this fact recently through his blog Plant Propagation Project, and it really sunk in. We are working with mere fragments of what once was.
Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) — Photo by BJ Byers
The work at Westport Prairie also makes me feel hopeful. In the coming years, we will begin planting fields nearly 20 acres in size. Over the next 10 years, all of the land within the green boundaries on the map above will be restored to native tallgrass prairie.
This year, we saw the return of bobolinks to Westport Prairie. As we increase the size of the prairie, it becomes a better refuge for ground nesting birds. This group has seen a 43% population decline since 1970.
Seeing these birds return and being part of creating space for them gives me hope for a future—one in which we see ourselves as part of this ecosystem and care for it accordingly.
I invite you to come out this spring to be among the first to walk our trail newly surrounded by restored prairie.
If you know any birds, tell them to visit Westport Prairie.
Welcome back to Field Notes, our new monthly update that shares Groundswell’s boots-on-the-ground work. Each month, I’ll fill you in on what our team is working on in the field.
Today, I want to share some background about Groundswell’s work to provide equitable access to land. And, I have some exciting updates about what’s been happening at Westport Farm!
Cover Crop Workshop at Westport Farm — Photo by Yimmuaj Yang
Protecting farmland has been part of Groundswell’s work for many years. We’ve formed relationships with local farmers and learned about the challenges they face. Groundswell aims to support these farmers and to help remove barriers. You can read more about this work here.
Farmers in our community struggle to find land with fair leases and long-term tenure. Some farmers have lost access to their fields halfway through a growing season. Others grow vegetables in the heat of summer without easy access to water. And, despite their contributions to the local agricultural economy for decades, HMoob-American farmers still struggle to access land in the face of language barriers and racism.
Groundswell purchased two farms in 2018 to tackle this challenge head-on. At Westport Farm, we took on the stewardship of a community farm. We’ve now surpassed the initial goal of ensuring that the HMoob farmers on site were not displaced.
2024 Westport Farm Tour — Photo by Ben Lam
Today, Westport Farm operates much like a community garden, but with infrastructure tailored to farmers rather than gardeners. The farm provides growers with long-term leases and large plots. We don’t stop at access to land, but also provide resources like irrigation, education, and farm infrastructure designed to help farmers thrive.
Field day participants learn about the use and design of the wash station at Westport Farm. — Photo by Paul Huber
For example, we recently built a vegetable-washing station for the Westport Farm growers to use. We hosted a field day so other farmers from the area could learn from our project and take lessons back to their own farms.
Participants visited two affordable structures used for washing and packing produce. The field day covered efficiency and food safety, and we ended the day with a shared meal. Our thanks go out to event participants, as well as our event partners: Rooted, GoFarmConnect, and UW-La Crosse.
Presley Chang and Yimmuaj Yang of Live Jewelry Farm pose with their new high tunnel.
And this month, we’re celebrating the completion of the first high tunnel at Westport Farm. This high tunnel was built by farmer Presley Chang, a carpenter and vegetable farmer who has leased a plot at Westport Farm for 12 years. Live Jewelry Farm, Presley’s farm business, was awarded cost-share funding for this project through the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
Building permanent infrastructure on rented land can be a risk for farmers. (It’s hard to justify major expenses when you’re not confident in your long-term land tenure.) To me, this high tunnel project demonstrates the trust and strong relationships between Groundswell and the farmers we work with.
I’ll leave you with this video from a high tunnel build we helped coordinate last summer. You’ll see some familiar Groundswell faces. This video also shares a glimpse of what it looks like to participate in a bilingual farmer workshop. Enjoy!
HMoob vs. Hmong Terminology:
Throughout written work, the HMoob people and language have been categorized under the generic term “Hmong.” However, the HMoob people and language represent a diverse group of communities and identities. The term “HMoob” was created by community members as a more inclusive word that encompasses two main dialects, Green and White.
To be more inclusive of the different communities within the larger HMoob community, Groundswell will use the term “HMoob” in writing going forward. Even though the spelling is different, the English pronunciation is the same (muhng).
To learn more about how and why this term was created, check out this article from UW-Extension.
Hi, I’m Sam Douglass, Groundswell’s Farm and Land Management Specialist. This is the first of a new, monthly update to share the boots-on-the-ground work Groundswell is doing to steward special places and expand equitable access to land and nature.
Sam Douglass, Farm & Land Management Specialist — Photo by Ben Lam
Each month, I’ll share a bit about what our team is working on in the field. I’ll also include short “hikes” through natural history, as well as stories inspired by the land we care for.
If you want a deeper look into the work we do, and you enjoy learning new things about the plants and land around us, this is for you.
Volunteers get to know prairie plants during a seed collection event at Westport Prairie. — Photo by Mario Quintana
This fall was all about seed collecting. If you attended one of our seed collection events this year, thank you! We could not accomplish this powerful work without the help of our community. This fiscal year, Groundswell volunteers gave an incredible 495 hours to outdoor volunteer efforts, including seed collection.
Seed collection volunteers have noted that seed collecting is a great way to learn to identify prairie plants. It’s hard to forget a plant that you’ve spent an hour or two looking for and interacting with.
Stiff Gentian — Photo by BJ Byers
Because I’ve worked out on our prairies for multiple years, I’m beginning to notice when new plants appear. While perennials like grasses remain fairly constant year over year, the population of annuals and biennials can fluctuate greatly. Populations change in response to environmental conditions. For example, a polar vortex, a wet spring, prescribed fire, or even a tire rut could cause shifts in the makeup of a prairie’s plant species.
This year at Westport Prairie, we had two “underdogs” that really boomed. The first was stiff gentian, a biennial and a favorite of bumblebees. The second was rough false foxglove, a perennial with delicate pink to purple flowers.
I’m always excited to see how our prairies evolve and surprise me. I’d love for you to be a part of creating a new section of prairie. Keep an eye out for an invite to our January seed planting and bonfire event at Westport Prairie. Together with volunteers, we will plant 10 more acres of prairie using the seeds collected this fall.
White Snakeroot — Photo by BJ Byers
Now, allow me to introduce you to another special (and quite common!) plant that I met this year.
You’d recognize white snakeroot. It proliferates in the dank understory of savannas and forests. Walk under the canopy of bur oaks on the drumlin at Westport Prairie, and you will find it in great swaths. This is a plant with a dark history.
When cattle eat white snakeroot plants in late summer and early autumn, their milk and meat are contaminated with a toxin called tremetol. When consumed, this poison is passed on to humans causing tremetol poisoning or “milk sickness.” For over two centuries, milk sickness was a “leading cause of death and disability in the Midwest and Upper South,” with no cure and no known cause.1
Some early settlers blamed witches for the occurrence of milk sickness. It wasn’t until the early 19th century that Doctor Anna Hobbs was told by her Shawnee friend that white snakeroot was toxic.2 Notably, it was too late for Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln, and thousands of others who died of the toxin.
Next month, I’ll have some exciting updates on Westport Farm to share with you. Until then, keep your cows out of the snakeroot patch.
1 William Snively, “Mystery of the Milksick” (1967)
2 John W. Allen, “It Happened in Southern Illinois” (1968)
This year, Groundswell is trying something new at Westport Farm: growing rice. While most people don’t expect to see rice in southern Wisconsin, highland rice can grow here just like other garden vegetables.
We planted more than half an acre and featured the grain at this year’s Fall Harvest Picnic. Attendees learned how to properly harvest and prepare rice for the dinner table. The picnic provides a recurring opportunity for the Lifting Hearts Therapy Garden elders to thank the community for supporting Westport Farm.
For many of the Hmoob growers, planting rice brought back joyful memories from their youth. The frequent weeding — and anticipation of the harvest — also reminded us how easy it is to take store-bought rice for granted!
Special thanks to the Southeast Asian Healing Center, Boyden Financial, Dane County, Nimick Forbesway Foundation, Schlecht Family Foundation, Oberweiler Foundation, Roger Garms, Greg Rosenberg, an anonymous donor, Peg Whiteside, and everyone who supports the Lifting Hearts Therapy Garden.
The 2025 Prairie Partners Crew wrapped up another season of hard work helping advance conservation where you live!
This year’s crew was in the field from late May to mid-August, rotating between the partners: Riverland Conservancy, Ice Age Trail Alliance, Wisconsin DNR, and Groundswell Conservancy. One day a week the interns helped Groundswell care for Westport Prairie and Patrick Marsh by removing invasive plants and restoring habitat for wildlife.
The Prairie Partners program made a successful return this year after taking 2024 off. This year’s interns were Jack Maurer, Lexi Kohn, Karina Kloth, Cody Hennings, and Sam August.
We’re proud of the crew’s dedication and the real impact they made. Their efforts help keep these special places healthy for people and nature alike.
We also want to express our gratitude to the sponsors who made this program possible. They provided these students with hands-on conservation experience.
Thank you to Mary Binkley & Dennis Petzke, Nancy & Lou Bruch, Nancy & Wes Carter, Doug & Sherry Caves, Nancy Heiden, Susan & Les Hoffman, Susan & Conrad Jostad, Jim & Rumi O’Brien, Cary & Scott Reich, and Lorette Wambach.
The 2025 Prairie Partners Crew has returned and is already hard at work in the field helping advance conservation where you live!
This year, we’re excited to announce that we have brand-new partners for the program. We partnered with Riverland Conservancy, Ice Age Trail Alliance, and the Wisconsin DNR to hire the intern crew. The crew works four nine-hour days each week, Monday through Thursday, from late May to mid-August. Each workday, the crew is doing restoration work with a different partner on its protected land.
This year, Groundswell has the interns working on Wednesdays, alternating between Westport Prairie and Patrick Marsh from week to week. The crew will remove invasive plant species throughout the season. It’s hard work that will help keep our favorite local green spaces thriving for both wildlife and people. The next time you’re out for a hike and run into the crew, be sure to say hello!
Now, let’s meet the 2025 Prairie Partners crew!
- Sam August, a UW-Madison senior majoring in botany & conservation biology
- Cody Hennings, a UW-Stevens Point junior majoring in forestry
- Karina Kloth, a UW-Madison graduate majoring in environmental studies
- Lexi Kohn, a UW-Madison junior majoring in wildlife ecology
- Jack Maurer, a St. Olaf College junior majoring in biology & environmental studies
Special thanks to our sponsors who are making this wonderful opportunity possible this year!
- Mary Binkley and Dennis Petzke
- Nancy and Lou Bruch
- Nancy and Wes Carter
- Doug and Sherry Caves
- Nancy Heiden
- Susan and Les Hoffman
- Susan and Conrad Jostad
- Jim and Rumi O’Brien
- Cary and Scott Reich
- Lorette Wambach