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Potosi Brewery Fundraiser Set For Feb. 3

Dickeyville Wis. — On Monday, Feb. 3, the Potosi Brewery Foundation will hold its second annual restoration fundraising banquet at Sunset Hall in Dickeyville.

As last year there are a limited number of tickets available for this event. The tickets cost $50 a person, which includes a beef and chicken dinner, a collectible six pack of Potosi sesquicentennial beer, and automatic entry into a raffle for one of 10 Remington 870 Express shotguns.

The tickets are currently on sale and as of last week there were approximately 50 to 70 tickets left of the 330 that were available.

Frank Fiorenza, a board member of the Potosi Brewery Foundation, remarked that there will be multiple door prizes that evening, as well as 10 raffles, a live auction and a silent auction.

There will be an electronics raffle including a 32 inch color television, a gun and outdoor raffle, a print raffle featuring local artists, Marion Homer, Terry Downs, and Roger Scholbrock, a sportsman raffle, a Potosi Brewery raffle, and a bucket raffle.

The live auction will feature a quilt in which a duplicate of the Potosi brown label has been artistically created in quilt form by Jo Schaefer. Also helping on the quilt was Rosemary Schumacher Markus, Martha Ragatz, Kathryn Kuster, and Betty Markus Kalina. Each of these ladies have ties with the brewery.

Another piece that will be auctioned is a stained glass brown label created by local artist Bill Uppena. There will be several limited edition prints, as well as original Potosi Brewery items.

In addition to the raffles, and auctions the evening of the banquet there is also a street raffle where anyone can purchase tickets with the grand prize being a 2003 ATV Arctic Cat 4x4 donated by Midwest Motor Sports, DeWayne Bierman, Bill Schaefer and Tandem Tire, and Bob Friesen of Friesen Plumbing and Heating.

Second prize will be a Sako 7mm mag. rifle, and third prize will be a Terry Redlin print. The tickets for this raffle are $3 each, two for $5, or 10 for $ 10 and they are available in Potosi and other surrounding cities. Persons need not be present to win this raffle.

This past year the Potosi Brewery Foundation was able to have the structural analysis completed, the front wall restored, and powerlines and poles moved and the lines buried.

Sometime in January or February the demolition of two structures in the back of the brewery will be done. According to Fiorenza these two structures are beyond salvaging. Once this is completed the roof can be put on the front section of the brewery.

© 2003 The Platteville Journal