Wausaukee Legion Lists Events for Nov. 11, 12

The Wausaukee Polomis-Tahlier Legion Post 150 annual Veterans Day dinner is Sunday, Nov. 11 at the Wausaukee Bowl.

Social hour will be from noon to 1 p.m. with Marinette County Branch II Judge James Morrison as guest speaker.

Reservations are due by Nov. 5. Cost is $10 per person for the family-style chicken to be served at 1 p.m. Mail reservations with payment to Polomis-Tahlier Post 150, PO Box 50, Wausaukee, WI 54177.

A Veterans Day program will also take place Monday, Nov. 12 at the Wausaukee School. The program will include posting the colors by Jim Figlewicz, Eddy Self, Zayn Kowalski, Amber Schlies, Sara Wickman; welcome by Cole Lewandowski, Student Council President with introduction of Gerald Schmidt, Bank North president who will give the welcome. The flag pledge will be led by Student Council vice president Beau DeLaet and the Wausaukee High School choir will sing the National Anthem. There will be a flag folding ceremony with readers Krista Hilpert, Rachel Grutza and folders Jim Figlewicz along with others.

There will be a poem or reading, then marches of the Armed Forces by the Wausaukee High School Band. James Morrison, Marinette County Circuit Court Judge will talk on “Freedom is not Free; Drugs”. Taps will be followed by retrieving the colors.

Joan Krukowski of McAllister who has given many years of service to veterans and the Legion Post will be honored. Judge Morrison will recognize Krukowski with an award on Nov. 12.

Krukowski and her husband, Erv, have been married for over 50 years. They have two children, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She has been the Wisconsin American Legion Auxiliary Associate Deputy for 29 years, a position from where she retired last July.

They are both state representatives and attend VAVS meetings. They volunteer every Tuesday at the VA Center by putting on a social with coffee and refreshments from 10 to 11:30 A.M. She and her helpers deliver bananas and visit all Community Living Center (CLCL) patients. The patients have interesting stories to tell and it makes them happy when someone listens. They put on bingo every 2nd, 3rd and 5th Tuesday and help the Michigan volunteers with their bingo parties every 1st and 4th Tuesday. Erv plays the concertina at the morning social, during the CLC lunch and before and after bingo.

Joan loves to listen and sing with Erv when he plays his concertina. She enjoys seeing people smile and sing. She also enjoys going to the YMCA with her husband and exercising in the pool. Both like to dress in costume for Halloween and distribute candy at the Wausaukee Legion Post. Erv is Santa and Joan is Mrs. Santa for the VA Christmas party.

She retired from working at Lauerman’s Store in Marinette and Erv retired from Marinette County Forestry Department, and both have been volunteering at the Oscar G. Johnson Veterans Hospital in Iron Mountain since they retired from their jobs.

Every Tuesday she said they look forward to visiting at the VA Center knowing that they are able to serve veterans in any way needed. The visits bring smiles to faces of the patients and they clap their hands, tap their feet or sing whenever Erv plays the concertina. “We can’t explain the feeling we have when we leave the VA,” she said.

As Joan commented over the many years of her service that “The veterans have lifted out spirits and brought sunshine in our lives just as we hope we did for them. We are forever grateful for the opportunity to do this for our veterans who gave so much for us and this country. God Bless them all.”

Guest speaker is Judge Morrison who has 39 years of broad legal experience. He represented thousands of Marinette County residents, businesses, school boards, cities, villages and towns. Three times he was appointed Marinette County Corporation Counsel.

He tried thousands of cases of every kind: civil, criminal, administrative, family law in State and Federal Courts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois.

He is a frequent speaker on a wide range of legal topics including estate planning, elder law, employment relations, municipal and labor law, law technology matters and unique problems of estate planning for the handicapped.

Judge Morrison was appointed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to District 10 Committee of Attorneys Board of Professional Responsibility-Supreme Court’s organization responsible for lawyer discipline.

Eight years ago the Supreme Court appointed him to its Board of Bar Examiners to write and grade the Wisconsin Bar Examination, to supervise/judge the character/fitness of attorney applicants, and supervise the entire mandatory continuing legal education program. Twice his colleagues elected him Vice Chair of the Board and twice they elected him Chairman of the Board.

Since going to Marinette in 1976, Attorney Morrison was actively involved in over 20 community and charitable organization including Goodwill Industries, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Marinette Chamber of Commerce Board, Menominee Chamber of Commerce, Menominee Catholic Central Grade School Foundation Board, UW-Marinette Foundation, Marinette Kiwanis and many others. He chaired nine of them.

For over 20 years, Judge Morrison taught a wide range of subjects at NWTC and for the past 10 years taught political science and criminal justice at UW-Marinette.

Married to Barbara since Dec. 19, 1970, the couple has three children, Sara (Greg), Amy, James (Maggie) and six grandchildren.

His wife after concluding more than 20 years of service to Menominee County, including 16 years as Register of Deeds and County Clerk, retired and went to Marquette University Law School where she obtained her legal degree and was admitted as a lawyer in May 2011.

Judge Morrison advises “It is my responsibility to apply fairly and without favor, the law as it is provided to us by our elected representatives. In any criminal case I must keep in mind first, the protection of the public, secondly the concerns of the victim(s) and finally the situation of the defendant. Defendants must be held accountable for what they do, most importantly to protect the public, to serve as an example that misconduct will carry significant consequences, but also wherever possible to return the defendant to society no worse (an hopefully better) than we see them in court.

“Because 97% of the people sent to prison and virtually 100% sent to jail will be back in the community, they should try and assure they do not come back worse and more dangerous than when they were imprisoned. This is no ‘coddling the criminal’, this is protecting the public,” he added.

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