Piacenza's on Wabikon

02/12/2024

08/10/2024

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Johnnie's Resort will have @ Chicken Wire Empire on their veranda, Sunday, October 13, 1-4 pm. Stop by to listen and “shop at Johnnie’s”or book with us on Airbnb!

Contemporary Bluegrass from Milwaukee Wisconsin's Chicken Wire Empire.

06/10/2024

Beautiful color Johnnie's Resort and Piacenza's on Wabikon! Lucky to be here!!

03/10/2024

77th ANNIVERSARY on October 4!!
Our family legacy thanks to Johnnie & June Aschenbrenner!! ❤️❤️

Then: Johnnie’s Resort - 1947

Now: Johnnie's Resort & Piacenza's on Wabikon - 2024

Thank you to all our guests over the years!

02/10/2024

Saddle up, folks! The cowboys are back this Saturday for our final run of the year. Don’t miss out on this unforgettable ride—grab your tickets today!

24/08/2024

Not only is this an exquisitely planned, sewn and quilted mural, but it depicts an age- old tradition of harvesting wild rice from lakes like Wabikon.
Would love a print. Message me!!

Titled "Coming To The Harvest" we could not be more proud to share this quilted mural that is now on display inside Wiisini-Daa. Thank you so much to Wendy Ahnen from Eagle River for bringing this to life. ❤️

The restaurant is now open in a "soft open" capacity. A grand opening will be scheduled for October and details of that event will be announced soon.

24/08/2024

First water-skier I’ve ever seen on Wabikon!!! Don’t fall down!

24/08/2024

Evening welcome in from fishing! 📷 by Simonson

22/08/2024

It’s shaping up to be another great year for wild rice.

08/08/2024

At my brother’s place next door. Simply amazing.

01/08/2024

Great community history of “The Soup”. I remember my mom dropping off a few cans of vegetables each August for the event. Proud that the Laona community has kept this going decade after decade!

The caption on the 1930 Soup picture held at the John Russel cottage says that 312 people were served soup that day. What a remarkable feat that must have been in Laona just thirty years after the Connor sawmill came into operation. This tradition started with a few families in 1919-20 during a time of great growth throughout our country, a time referred to as Roaring Twenties. Ten years later at the time of this Community Soup, we were nine months into the Great Depression. Factories and sawmills were closed and un-employment numbers were at historical rates that we have never had since that time. This 1930 vintage Community Soup was indeed an act of kindness and showed how these early Silver Lake residents reached out to feed 312 people who were living here during the years of the Great Depression. This tradition continued, with the exception of the WWII era, until 1951 when the Laona Lions Club was chartered and officially hosted this
event.

The Laona Lions club will again be hosting the Centennial Community Soup on August 7 th 2021 at the Silver Lake Beach. Dan Bobbe, Club secretary and event chairperson has chosen the theme. REMEMBERING THE PAST…PLEDGING TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY … WITH YOUR HELP.

Please join us August 7 th for the Centennial Community Soup and familyFun! We will have old fashioned kids games. Free popcorn for all, and free snow cones for the kids. There will be Entertainment by the Stone Soup Brothers and a Readers Theater of stories by Mike Monte.

Food Concessions will feature burgers, brats, dogs, French fries and
Beverages. Cotton candy, strawberry short cakes, and home baked
sweets with be sold with the help of our new Community 4-H Club.
Raffles will be held to support our Laona Lions Club’s service work.
Finally we will wrap the day with Ken Zupon’s Achy Brachy Logging
show contest.

01/08/2024

Thanks Matt Grady for the rave review! Makes all the work worthwhile that our small crew of volunteers do!

17/07/2024

10/07/2024

Ke Wigwas Thimankemen
(Let's Build a Birch Bark Canoe)

Starts next week!
Open to everyone, Monday thru Friday from 10am - 5pm

At the Potawatomi Community Center

For more info contact Lawrence Mann at 715-889-9816