Lakeview Lodge and Campground - Newville - Wisconsin-esque taverns
This entry was posted on 3/16/2010 2:35 AM and is filed under Motorcycle pub crawl, Taverns Wisconsin.
Well the
Lakeview Lodge and Campground on the Rock River was out of action for a while. New owner Gary says the reclamation of the digs are a work in progress. The place was hit hard by the Rock River flooding of 2008. The previous owner had intentions of renovating the campground. Everything got scuttled.
Regardless, after about a year the bar is back open again and tuned up. For all the die-hard customers, Dee the bartender is still on site.
The place has a great river view just as the Rock River merges with Lake Koshkonong. There is a good thick pine bar top for you to rest you Miller Lite on as you watch the boats on the river. As taverns go, it is small; but, that is not unusual for rural Wisconsin lake country.
This place should be put on your motorcycle pub-crawl list. Look for the
Countryside Inn alone Highway 59 between Newville and Milton. Your driveway to Lakeview is right there. You have to drive back over the ridge to the river. Watch out on a motorcycle because the lot is gravel.
Lakeview Lodge and Campground is still cool with Cool Dadio. Find them at 1901 East State Highway 59 just south of Newville. The actual address is Milton, Wisconsin. Call (608) 868 - 7899.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
This week's Wisconsin military service person to remember is Captain Benjamin D. Jansky, 28 of the Fox Valley city of Oshkosh. Captain Jansky died in a vehicle crash in Al Taqaddum, Iraq, on July 27, 2005. Jansky was a member of Wisconsin's 521st Maintenance Battalion out of Milwaukee. His unit was activated in October of 2004 and he arrived in Iraq in December of that year. Captain Jansky served in Iraq on assignment to the Army Reserves' Headquarters Company, 983rd Engineer Battalion out of Momclova, Ohio. He lead a maintenance crew that maintained military vehicles. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned Ben graduated from the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He was a native of the Northern Illinois city of Waukegan. Jansky met his wife Kate while they were both students at the UW-Oshkosh in 1994. Ben and Kate married in 1998 and made their home in Oshkosh. Ben and wife worked to establish a ministry program for UW-Oshkosh students. Ben graduated from UW-Oshkosh in 1999 with a degree in elementary education. At the time of his death, Jansky was survived by his wife Kate, and two daughters, Emma, 3, and Reyna, 1. Captain Benjamin Jansky was the 43rd Wisconsin service member to be killed in Iraq since the spring of 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
95,593 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,411 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,386 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1009 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
317 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
657 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,716 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
5,190 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
101 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
17 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
140 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
21 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
