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1750 Riders • 3 Bands • Many Miles • Lots of
Fun!

Our 9th annual event.

This charity fun ride has
25, 50 & 70-mile routes passing through beautiful Jefferson & Dodge Counties, beginning and
ending at Tyranena Brewing Company in Lake Mills.

SAG support and rest areas
with snacks, restrooms and refreshments also provided during the ride. Each
participant receives a commemorative Tyranena Oktoberfest Bike Ride T-shirt, two
drink tickets for beer, soda or bottled water, and a ticket for a complete
dinner.

Free tours of the brewery
will be offered in the afternoon, when riders have returned from routes and Trek
Bicycles will be hosting our first rest stop at their world headquarters in
Waterloo, Wisconsin. Riders are able to take a historical and Lance Armstrong
memorabilia tour at this time. (All 3 routes will use
this rest stop.)

After the ride,
participants and spectators are invited to enjoy live music performance from
1:00 to 10:30 pm. Join the fun!

Interest perked? Register
soon! We do impose a 1750 RIDER LIMIT and have met our limit
consistently for the past four years.

9am to 3pm in Common Park will be over 130 vendors selling pumpkins, gourds,
mums, crafts, artwork, jewelry, games for kids, facepainting and so much more. A
Large varity of food vendors can also be found in the park, all are non profit
organization from the area. This event is a great community event for all ages.

12 November 2011, 1 PM to 3 PM. Novelist Larry Watson.
Watson will speak about his writing career and latest novel, American Boy.
Watson is a Milwaukee resident and famed for his tightly drawn stories about
families in rural Montana. Watson’s Montana 1948 was previously selected for
the Jefferson County Reads program.

Madison resident Daniel’s latest book is Stiltsville.
Stiltsville is partially set among the stilt houses of Miami’s
Biscayne Bay and follows a Georgia transplant who falls in love with
both Miami and one of the city’s men.

Afterwards, you can join the
Main Street Program’s Legendary
Ladies: Day Into Night for deer season “widows”.

Lake Mills resident Peters has authored  several biographies including books on
Charlotte Bronte, Bernard Shaw, and famed stage actors Alfred Lunt
and Lynn Fontanne. Peters’ new biography on Wisconsin poet Lorine
Niedecker, Lorine Niedecker: A Poets Life, will be published in
October.

November 5th, 10 AM to 3 PM.

Experienced author and writing teacher Anthony Neil Smith will instruct attendees on writing crime novels.

Smith is the author of Yellow Medicine, Hogdoggin’, and other novels.  He is founder and editor-in-chief of the crime fiction magazine Plots With Guns. Smith is Director of Creative Writing at Southwestern Minnesota State University.

Topics Covered

  • Getting started
  • Researching
  • Outlining
  • Plotting

Dr. Smith will review registrants’ writing samples (SAMPLES!) before the workshop.

Cost and Registration

  • $25 per person.
  • Registration required by October 30th.
  • 30 attendees maximum.

Lunch from Water House Foods included.

Contact Library Director Gerard Saylor with any questions: 648-2166 or lmdir@mwfls.org.

 

Lake Mills Chamber will be hosting its 2nd Annual Golf out on July 9th.  Check in starts at 11am with a shot gun start at noon.  This will be an 18-hole Scramble call Kate at 648-3585 to sign up a team.

Music, rides, games & concessions for all ages! Located in beautiful downtown Lake Mills. Advance ride tickets can be purchased at Lake Mills Leader.

Rides & Games:
Thursday and Friday – 4pm to 10pm
Saturday – noon to 10pm
Sunday – noon to 4pm.

Band Schedule:
Thursday 4pm to 11pm - TBA
Friday 8pm to 12am  – TBA
Saturday 11am to 1pm -  TBA
8pm to 12am  - TBA
Sunday noon to 4pm -TBA