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 Coach Hannack and wife Julie to be honored at
UFO Days 2021
Jerry and Julie Hannack. Facebook photo
Both have volunteered for de-
cades in the UFO Days Food Tent
By Paul J. Seeling
Sun-Argus/Gateway News
ELMWOOD, WI – Coach Jerry
Hannack and wife Julie are to be
honored at UFO Days 2021. Both
Jerry and Julie have volunteered for
From the 1978 decades in the Elmwood Community
Club UFO Days Food Tent together.
Elmwood Argus
Coach Hannack has put in 30
years and Julie 28 years of volun-
teer service as part of the Elmwood
First Annual UFO Schools UFO Days Food Tent crew.
The couple has not missed a year yet
in the Food Tent.
Days Celebration Jerry has flipped thousands of
those delicious UFO Days hamburg-
ers and cheeseburgers along with
grilling up that tasty UFO Days
chicken. And of course, he also
cooked a zillion Sailer’s UFO Days
brats. Julie is one of the smiling
folks on the serving line taking and
filling orders for the hundreds of
hungry UFO Day guests every year.
The Hannack’s along with the
rest of the Elmwood Schools Food
Tent volunteers traditionally work a
four-hour shift each of the three days
of UFO Days.
Jerry originally from Spring Val-
ley is semi-retired, he taught Tech
Ed and was a winning coach for
football and girls and boys basket-
ball. In fact, in 2014 Coach Hannack
was inducted into the Wisconsin
Football Coaches Association Hall
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of Fame.
This is what their website informs
us about Coach Hannack in the 2014
posting:
Jerry graduated from Spring
Valley High School in 1975.  While
at Spring Valley he lettered 4 years
in baseball, 3 years in basketball, 2
years in football, and 1 year in cross
country.  He started for 2 years in
football for the teams that began the
49-game winning streak.
In 1977, while attending UW-
Stout he began his coaching ca-
reer.  He joined the staff of his
mentors, Head Coach Bob Thomas,
HOF Class of 1998, Larry Kreibich,
Larry Hoolihan, and Keith Larson,
replacing longtime assistant coach
Bill Howard.  The Cardinals went
12-0 in 1978 winning the Division
5 State Championship. He finished
his career in Spring Valley after the
1979 season.
In 1980, after graduating from
UW-Stout he moved to North Bend,
Oregon.  He began teaching and
coaching at the junior high.  He
soon moved up to the varsity level
as an assistant coach under Howard
Johnson.  They turned the program
around from a 3-7 team to a 7-3
team from 1982-83, he became the
offensive coordinator in 1984 and
continued to fight for the Far West
Conference titles and made the play-
offs for the next six years.
In 1990, he moved his family
back to Wisconsin taking the Tech.
Ed. teaching job in Elmwood.  He
became an assistant coach under
Bruce Schmiling, taking over as
Head Coach in 1998.  The Raiders
have enjoyed 14 of 16 years in the
playoffs, the last 12 consecutively.
During this time, the Raiders won
2 conference championships and
numerous runners up.   In 2012
Elmwood and Plum City, after being
longtime rivals, formed a coop-
program, joined forces and became
the EPC Wolves.  Through the 2012
season Jerry has recorded an 86-
64 record and is still coaching in
Elmwood/Plum City for the EPC
Wolves. 
During his time in Elmwood,
he has also been an assistant boys
basketball coach under Curt Weber
from 1993-1999, Head Coach of
girls basketball from 2000-2008, an
assistant baseball coach under Head
Coach and great friend Dick Jones
in 1994, and assistant softball coach
under Becky Baier in 2011.
Jerry has been honored to
coach in 3 All-Star games for the
North.  2009 on Tom Chase’s staff,
Head Coach in 2010, and on Chris
Berghammer’s staff in 2013, when
the North won its first game since
the two division era began.
Coach Jerry told the Sun-Argus
that he and Julie have always
enjoyed working at the UFO Days
Food Tent with the Elmwood School
group where Linda Garfield has
always been the group contact.
“There are a lot of behind-the-
scenes people helping out and
where help is needed, you help out.
Working in the tent is always great
to see all the people that stop by
every year. It’s always fun to see the
people that come back and you to get
to talk to them,” he said.
‘We’ve always got a good crew.
The people that work at school all
have been pretty helpful throughout
the years, teachers, staff, bus drivers,
everybody. Interesting how fast 30
years go by,” Coach Hannack stated.
Lastly, I asked the Coach if he
had ever seen a UFO and this is his
story about a sighting he had as a
youngster.
“We were living in Spring Val-
ley, I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and
we lived across from the Catholic
Church. One night we saw a huge
light with a light going around it and
it was up over the hill behind the
church and people on our block were
lookin’ at it and then, boom it was
gone.”
He concluded, “There are people
in Elmwood, reputable people who
had sightings in the 70’s and 80’s.”
Look for Jerry along with wife
Julie Hannack and the rest of the
Elmwood School gang, they will be
in the UFO Days Food Tent again
this year!

Blast from the past: The Wheeler UFO
Sighting
From the April 29, 1976 edition of ‘The Elmwood Argus’
From the Argus Archives/ Max Johnson
“A Frightening experience,” says George Wheeler
George Wheeler was on relief police duty in Elmwood last week
Thursday night when he had an experience that he says he does not
wish to have repeated.
It was around 11 p.m. and he had gone to lock up the village park
when he noticed a glow at the top of Tuttle Hill that made him think
there could be a fire. He called the Pierce County Sheriff’s office and
told them that he was going up to investigate.
The next they heard from him was when he reached the top of the hill
and exclaimed that it was a UFO. Gene Helmer, the regular police of-
ficeR also heard this as did George’s Wife, Doris, on their police scan-
ners.
He started to describe the object when the radio went dead and the
Sheriff’s office could get no response. Helmer called Ellsworth and told
them that he was going up to investigate. It is estimated that there was a
lapse of time of over four minutes.
In the meantime, David Moots was returning home from taking their
baby-sitter to her home in Elmwood and he came up to the police car
that was sitting alongside the road with no lights. He parked in the back
of it with his lights on and noticed that Wheeler had opened the door
and appeared to be dazed. Wheeler told Moots that he had been hit and
Moots thought it was by another car until Wheeler told him it was by a
UFO.
At this time Gene Helmer arrived on the scene as did Mrs. Wheeler
a few seconds later. She took Mr. Wheeler to the home of Dr. Frank
Springer, who gave him some medication and told him to go home and
go to bed. A couple hours later, it was decided that he should enter the hos-
pital as the medication was having no effect. He was released on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, George described what he saw as follows:
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Farewell from your 2020-2021 Miss Elmwood ...
2020-2021 Miss Elmwood Emily Bleskacek (L) and Jr. Miss Elmwood, Hannah
Bleskacek. Submitted photo
I’m Miss Elmwood Emily Bleskacek and I can tell you this is not the year I had imagined. With all of the parades and
“When I got to the top of Tuttle Hill there was this huge object that ap-
peared to about as high as a two -story house and about 250 feet across.
things we gotto do, I still had a blast. Due to COVID, I didn’t get to as many things as I would have liked too. We were
honored to receive first place for our float in the Eleva parade. I had the privilege of being Jr. Miss Elmwood as well as
It was about 500 feet away from me and about 100 feet off the ground, Miss Elmwood.
between the quarry and where the old barn burned, as near as I could esti- I want to thank the Community Club for providing me with this opportunity, my family for providing transportation,
mate. There was an orange white light at the top and six bluish white lights being aliens on the float, and mom helping with my hair and makeup. I would like to thank Amy for all of the hard work
on the side and I could see shadows as if something were moving inside it. on the float and helping us create the best year we could’ve had. Lastly I would like to thank my little sister, Jr. Miss Elm-
In the middle of the side there appeared to be a panel that was open and I wood Hannah. I’m so glad we got to be on this adventure together, it definitely brought us closer and created some new
could see something within it that appeared to be revolving slowly and had memories. I hope you decide to run for Miss Elmwood in the future.
some fin like parts on it. What appeared to be legs of the craft were partial- I will forever be your 2020-2021 Miss Elmwood Emily Bleskacek.
ly extended from the body, and there was a long, black hose-like appendage
on the craft. It rose straight up, extremely fast and at this time there was a
type of flash and my car lights went out, the radio went dead and the motor
stopped and I don’t remember any more until someone asked me what was 2021-2022 Miss Elmwood Candidate
the matter and if I needed help.”
George said, “ I don’t know what I saw, but I saw some-thing and I don’t
ever want to go through an experience like it again. People may think that it
couldn’t be, but I know what I saw. I have drawn a sketch of it, and that is
Miss Hannah Loga
how clear a look I had at it.”
There had been some speculation that the lights were from some welding
that was being done in the quarry. However, Police Officer Helmer stated
that where the welding had been done earlier in the evening, there was
Hi, my name is Miss Hannah Loga. I want to be Miss Elmwood because I
no way it could have been seen from where Wheeler was parked. The
whole area was examined with the help of two officers who came from believe it is important to give back to this amazing community that I grew up
Ellsworth and others and there was reportedly no one working at the time in. Elmwood has given me many opportunities to create lifetime friendships
of the sighting. The workers were reported to have been sleeping in their and the ability to reach my hopes and dreams. Some things I enjoy are being
trailer and had neither seen nor heard anything. creative, and interesting while keeping an open mind. I love to make artwork
When Wheeler reported on the radio that the glow was a UFO, Gail Mi- in any form, from painting to writing. I have a blended family with three
ley called the Paul Fredrickson home that is located in the area and asked amazing mothers, and one wonderful father. I have two biological brothers,
if he could spot anything unusual. Mr. Fredrickson did, and he said, “ I and seven step siblings. I hope to do the best that I can during my reign as
saw what appeared to be an orange glow in the shape of a half circle, just Miss Elmwood.
a little above the horizon.”
There have reportedly been others who saw the orange glow, but did
not see the actual craft. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Van, who also have a police
scanner, reported that they heard the conversations on the police radio,
but did not see anything, as has been rumored.
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 2021 Grand marshall
carl ‘butch’ schroder
Carl ‘Butch’ Schroeder Jr.
is the 2021 UFO Days Grand
Marshal
Elmwood native ‘tickled’ for the
honor that he thought was for
older people
By Paul J. Seeling, with Kaye
Bird
Sun-Argus/Gateway News
ELMWOOD, WI – Elmwood
native Carl “Butch” Schroeder,
Jr. has been selected to be
the 2021 UFO Days Grand
Marshal.
Our Kaye Bird had the plea-
sure of interviewing Butch in
the winter of 2015 just as he
was retiring after working for
the Village of Elmwood for 39
years.
As Kaye noted in that inter-
view in the February 7, 2015,
Sun-Argus after working for
the Village of Elmwood for 39
years, Carl “Butch” Schroeder
was saying goodbye . . . well,
not really a “goodbye,” probably
just a “so long.” His Elmwood
ties run deep; Butch was not
going anywhere. And here he
is in 2021 being honored as the
UFO Days Grand Marshal.
At the time of his retirement
Butch said, “I am planning on
taking a trip out to Wyoming to
see a friend of mine; I also want
to go to Madison to see my
sister, but mostly I’m just going
to take it easy,” said Butch.
He might get a little more seri-
ous about his coin collection,
take up fishing and return to
the squirrel hunting days of his
youth, but for the most part it’s
now time to put his feet up and
relax.
What has “Butch” been up
to since he retired six years
ago? “Not too much,” he said
by a phone interview with me
recently. He helps people out;
he still collects coins, and he
helps out in the bowling alley in
the winter.
“I go to the library, read
the papers, take walks, talk
to people. Not a lot to do in
a small town,” he said. Butch
also mows the lawn and shov-
els the walks where he lives
in an apartment in downtown
Elmwood. And he talks with
his sister in Madison by phone
quite a bit.
But he didn’t go fishing or
squirrel hunting. At least not
yet.w
“People asked me why I
didn’t stay one more year to
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make it an even ‘40’ years with
the Village, but I tell them that
I felt like it was time to relax
and watch some ballgames,”
said Butch who is a big Packers
and Brewers fan. And he has
been watching the ball games a
lot. “I’ve worked all my life,” he
added.
It’s true. Butch has rarely if
ever been without a job. “I used
to set pins in the bowling alley
when I was in high school. I
got 35 cents a line and a free
bottle of pop. Back then that
was good pay,” he noted add-
ing, “Lots of kids in high school
did that. We’d work about four
to five hours a night, and never
once did any of us get hurt by
a ball or a flying pin.” In 1969,
an automatic pin setter was
installed putting the teens out of
work.
After high school he started
working for Lyle Handvelt deliv-
ering milk to the front doors of
his customers. He also worked
for the Gedney Pickle Factory
in Elmwood helping to sort the
cucumbers as they came in.
I had to ask him when was
Gedney in Elmwood and when
did they leave? And Butch said
that was 5 – 6 years before he
went to work for the Village.
The operation just graded and
packed cucumbers for Oliva,
Wisconsin.
I also asked Schroeder, “Do
you miss working for the Village
“Butch”?
He said, “Sometimes, it’s
good to be retired.” He then
talked about what he had done
for the Village.
His duties working for the
Village of Elmwood included
reading water meters, haul- Carl “Butch” Schroeder Jr. is the 2021 UFO DAYS Grand Marshal.
ing out garbage, keeping the Facebook photo
auditorium clean, running the
two-lane bowling alley, and
working at the sewer plant “When I was in second do you think about being
whenever they needed him, grade,” remembered Butch, “my the 2021 UFO Days Grand
and that sometimes meant on dad died of a brain tumor. After Marshal?” “I’m tickled, but
weekends. that we got by. My mom used I thought it was for older
Carl “Butch” Schroeder Jr. is the social security checks to people. Should be interest-
the second child of Carl Sr. and raise us,” remembered Butch. ing, we didn’t have one last
Eunice Schroeder. “I have an And his nickname, “Butch”? year, quite an honor to be the
older sister, Crystal who lives in “I’ve been called ‘Butch’ first one back and I’ve got my
Madison and a younger brother since I was in school because shots in March, so I’m fully
Dick who lives in Baldwin along I always had a butch hair- vaccinated,” said UFO Days
with three nephews and two cut,” he said—the same hair- Grand Marshal Schroeder.
nieces,” said Butch. Butch’s cut he sports to this day. Congratulations to Carl
dad worked for the Elmwood Butch attended Elmwood “Butch” Schroeder Jr. on
Feed Mill, and his mother Elementary and then gradu- being the 2021 UFO Days
(before she was married) was ated in 1970 from Elmwood Grand Marshal, we’ll see
the telephone operator for High School. you in the UFO Days Grande
Elmwood. I inquired of Butch, “What Parade on Sunday!