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The Willow is no Stranger, although that band will be playing this weekend, to popular chicken(s) and corn feed

No its not Korn, but there are bands at various venues, and also a chicken (two types) and corn feast at the Willow to wrap up the weekend:

— Who doesn’t love fried or grilled chicken, yes you get two different varieties, when attended the long-popular and long-running, chicken and corn feed at the Willow River Saloon in Burkhardt, which will go on again on Sunday, Aug. 6, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Not to invoke the old-school rhetoric of one-man-bander Jeff Loven yet again, but “winner, winner chicken dinner!” Plus beans, sweet corn and coleslaw, to boot. It’s a half-chicken dinner for $13 and a quarter-chicken dinner for a price that’s also very competitive, $10. Proceeds go to Hudson Hockey. And there of course is live music and dancing on the nights before, Blind Dog on Friday and The Strangers (who also are local enough to possibly be at the feed) on Saturday.
— A wordy sign in the window at Stone Tap, lists a mission statement for the environmental project behind the band Le Lunez, and it weighs in at more than 400 words. That might not waste paper, but what about ink? Anyway, if you want to help the cause, there is a concert at Wyld Tymes in Minneapolis the evening of Aug. 12, so plan ahead. What, you’d like to know more about the cause, and maybe read up about it a bit in the days before the concert? Sorry, I know this is on the Internet, but we insist we don’t have the space for the entire mission statement. And they call us Old School journalists ink-stained wretches?
— When the Smilin’ Moose web page lists its bands, it states at the end that there is an all-call for new acts to submit their information and possibly play the summer patio. This approach appears to be getting results. Yes, on Friday evening, its the Old School with locally based Dave Burkart, but then on Saturday and Sunday prior to sunset, its more two-first-named relative newcomers in Bruce Bernice and Wally Joseph.

— If you can make it to the Washington County Fair in Lake Elmo, Minn. on Thursday, June 3, you can see an example of members of the Badger State invading the Gopher State, not the other way around, as the Western Wisconsin Truck Pullers Inc. does its thing at 7 p.m. There is admission charged; hey, being from Wisconsin, they will need funds for buying cheese.

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