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But Wisconsin D-O-T maintenance specialist Pete Strachan says the Thanksgiving rockslide near Genoa was much bigger than the normal slides in the area. Strachan says boulders the size of a pickup tumbled onto Highway 35.  The road was blocked for most of Thanksgiving morning, and some stones knocked out power lines in Vernon County.   

On Monday, highway workers finished the job of breaking up those rocks and hauling them away. Strachan gives credit to Vernon and Crawford Counties and to Xcel Energy for their quick response to the rockslide and power outage.

The next deadline to register for Wisconsin's no-call list to block calls from telemarketers is tonight at 11:59.

Those who sign up through the day will have their phone numbers put on the list starting January 1st. The next chance to sign up won't place numbers on the list until April 1st.

The list is open to home and cell numbers, but registration must be renewed every two years. Anyone who has forgotten when they signed up can sign up again to be safe. More than 2.2 million numbers are on the list. That is the most since the program began in 2003. Nearly half of the numbers registered in this year's fourth quarter were cell numbers.

Sign up by calling 1-866-966-2255 or over the Internet.

But the question is..........who can afford that anymore. One reason the Lacrosse School District charges their students nothing to participate in plays or sports.

Matter of fact it's like that throughout the MVC. Logan A.D. Steve Hole says a great booster club.....team fundraisers and strong district budgets have been the keys to helping students "not have to sit on the sidelines" and watch.

The Gundersen Lutheran nursing family recently kicked off its fifth annual blanket drive titled, “Wrapping the Community in Warmth.” The nursing sponsored blanket drive, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Western Campus for Nursing and Gundersen Lutheran Partners, runs from now until Jan. 14, to help many local organizations during the winter season including the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, New Horizons, Birth Right, St. Clare Health Mission, Community Liaison, Gerard Hall, Houston County Women’s Resource Center and Northeast Iowa Community Action Corporation.