Decorah eagle cam to offer live look at hatching – WKBT News 8 – La Crosse, WI YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON- EAGEL CAM
WATCH THIS AMAZING “LIVE” video. It is awesome! It will be getting better after the eggs hatch in a few days…Enjoy.
Monthly Archives: March 2011
UncategorizedDecorah eagle cam to offer live look at hatching – WKBT News 8 – La Crosse, WI
March 31, 2011 – 6:44 pm
7 Ways to Healthier Breakfast
March 30, 2011 – 3:15 pm
At the Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast in Sparta, Wisconsin we always are trying to provide our biking guests a healthy breakfast that will help them concur the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail. Here are 7 ways to help you in fixing your healthier breakfast at home.
1. Substitute plain yogurt or pureed low-fat cottage cheese for half or more of the sour cream in a recipe.
2. If a recipe calls for cheese, choose Swiss cheese for the lowest sodium.
3. Add a little oatmeal to pancakes, muffins or quick breads. You may also need to add a little extra liquid.
4. Add Vegetables. Add shredded vegetable like carrots, zucchini or pumpkin to quick breads, muffins or cakes.
5. To cut down on salt. You can reduce salt by a quarter to a half of what is called for in a recipe. Increase other salt-free spices and seasoning to add flavor.
6. Substitute skim milk in recipes. If the recipe calls for water, use skim milk instead to add calcium.
7. Honey and real maple syrup are healthier options for sweetening that processed sugar.
Here are 7 ways to a healthier breakfast and there are many more ways to serve healthy breakfasts at home.
Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast Sparta, Wisconsin helps Clean the World
March 24, 2011 – 12:00 am
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFranklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast helps Clean the World. Guest room soaps and bottled amenities (shampoos, conditioners, lotions and gels) will be recycled for worldwide distribution to stop the spread of preventable diseases
Sparta, Wisconsin and ORLANDO, Fla. – March 23, 2011 – Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast has partnered with Orlando, Fla.-based non-profit organization Clean the World (http://www.cleantheworld.org/) to collect and recycle hotel soaps, shampoos, conditioners, lotions and gels to help fight the global spread of preventable diseases. The soaps collected at Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast will be shipped to Clean the World for recycling and distribution around the world.
Clean the World is the largest global recycler of hotel amenities, and in just two years of operation has distributed more than 8 million bars of soap to children and families in the United States, Haiti and more than 40 countries worldwide.
Each day 9,000 children around the world die from diseases such as acute respiratory illness and diarrheal diseases that can be prevented by washing with bar soap. Clean the World has a mission to put soap in the hands of people who need it most to improve hygiene and sanitation conditions.
Clean the World has partnered with nearly 770 hotel and bed-and-breakfast properties in North America to provide soaps and bottled amenities to people in need. While doing so, the organization has also fulfilled a valuable environmental mission by diverting an estimated 550 tons of hotel waste from polluting landfills in the United States and Canada.
“We always welcome the addition of bed and breakfasts to our Clean the World hospitality partnership program,” says Shawn Seipler, executive director and co-founder at Clean the World. “As a certified Travel Green Wisconsin destination, The Franklin Victorian B&B has a proud history of putting environmental concern into action. Guests can be confident that the soaps and shampoos they leave behind will be recycled and put to good use. They’re literally turning trash into treasure for people in need.”
About Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast Award-Winning, The Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast Inn in Sparta, WI, “The Bicycling Capital of America”. Come experience a refreshing change from typical hotel lodging. Our inviting accommodations and abiding sense of hospitality promise welcome, rest, and renewal to one and all.
Jennifer and Steve Dunn, Innkeepers and Owners
The Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast
220 East Franklin Street
Sparta, Wisconsin 54656
Phone (608) 366-1427
Toll Free (888) 594-FVBB (3822)
www.FranklinVictorianBB.com
email- innkeeper@FranklinVictorianBB.com
About Clean the World
Clean the World is committed to reducing the waste created by discarded soap and shampoo products and collects these items from hotels to be recycled and distributed to domestic homeless shelters and impoverished people worldwide, helping to prevent deaths caused by hygiene-related illnesses. Clean the World Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c) (3) tax-exempt charitable organization. For more information visit: http://www.cleantheworld.org/. Text CLEAN to 20222 to donate $10 to help Clean the World.
Contacts: Matt Gomez, communications director to become a partner,
Clean the World, Orlando, Fla.
(407) 421-9365 cell.
mgomez@cleantheworld.org
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Travel Green Wisconsin Bed and Breakfast in a Chevy VOLT
March 16, 2011 – 10:00 pm
Traveling Green to Wisconsin Bed and Breakfast is really cool when you just picked up a Chevy VOLT like our guest Warren K. from Seattle, WA did on March 15th. Warren has been on a waiting list for 4 years for a Chevy VOLT and he finally got one. He flew from Seattle to Detroit, MI and now is driving back home to Washington.
He is very happy and loves the Chevy VOLT and told us all about it and even let me sit in, it was great to smell the new car smell and what a awesome car. In Detroit he got to have a personal tour of the battery plant too! This car is Very high tech, and very cool looking. He was happy when he figured out the radio for noise on his trip. He is stopping at Chevy dealers on his way back and showing it to them and driving about 10 hours a day and supporting the bed and breakfast along his way home. He loved his stay with us and Sparta and knew about the Elroy-Sparta Bike trail. He enjoyed meeting Tony Angelini for dinner at Angelini’s Pizzeria & Ristorante just down the street from us.
We wish him good luck and a safe trip home. We were very happy to meet Warren and to see the New Chevy VOLT. (Now I want one, better put my name on the waiting list)….
Gas Prices and Relaxation at Wisconsin Bed and Breakfast
March 12, 2011 – 2:00 am
Don’t let gas prices keep you from the relaxation you deserve. Use our “Free Gas Card” special and make a 2 nights reservation and receives a Tank for Traveling $10. Thank You Gas Card, to use towards gasoline. The historic Franklin Victorian Bed and Breakfast is located in Sparta, WI and is convenient to La Crosse, Onalaska, Tomah, Black River Falls. Call Toll Free –888-594-FVBB (3822) please mention this special at the time of making reservation. Cannot be combined with other Packages or Specials.
For reservations, visit the Franklin Victorian website . The inn is located at 220 E. Franklin Street
in Sparta, WI
Bed, Breakfast, Bike and Beyond…
Wisconsin Drought-tolerant container plants
March 3, 2011 – 10:00 am
Spring is coming to Wisconsin soon and time to start planning your container plants for your decks and porches. Wisconsin Drought-tolerant container plants require little fuss and are perfect picks for your outside projects.
Use the recycling materials you have collected for being “Green” this past year and create new projects!
I plan to use some old shutters and create a new home for drought-resistant plants and they don’t need a lot of fussing over. Here are some plants to use for yourself to try.
- Ice Plant
- Salvia “Wild Watermelon”
- Stonecrop Sedum. ”Limelight” – attracts butterflies
- October Daphne Sedum sieboldii - attracts butterflies
- Stonecrop Sedum “Angelina” – attracts butterflies
- Purple Sheep’s Burr (turns ruby red in sun)
Here are some other recommendations:
- Sempervivum (Latin for “always living) aka Hens and Chicks
- Sedums Dragon’s Blood Sedum
- Sedum reflexus
- Sedum ewersil
Have Fun, Happy Gardening and Watch the plants grow and the butterflies come!
For reservations, visit the Franklin Victorian website or call 888-594-3822. The inn is located at 220 E. Franklin Street in Sparta, WI
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72nd Arts and Crafts Event Show in Sparta, Wisconsin
March 1, 2011 – 10:00 am
Monroe County Historical Society’s
72nd Arts-Crafts Country Gifts Show
Great show for Spring and Easter Items
225 Outstanding Booths!
Saturday March 5, 2011
9 a..m.-4 p.m.
Sparta Senior High School
506 N. Black River St, Sparta, Wisconsin
Free Admission! Everyone Welcome! Food Served!
Excellent Parking – With Parker’s
Handicapped Parking near Building (bring your card)
Garden items, country home decorating, many kinds of jewelry, homemade candy, soaps, lotions, sweatshirts, dips/mixes, wood, barnwood, benches, needlework variety, rugs, scrapbooking, and MUCH MORE! Wonderful Early “Think Spring” Shopping!
For reservations, visit the Franklin Victorian website or call 888-594-3822. The inn is located at 220 E. Franklin Street in Sparta, WI
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