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Milton Masonic Hall - Milton, Wisconsin - Friday Night Fish Fry (annual)
This entry was posted on 4/14/2010 2:10 AM and is filed under Friday Night Fish Fry.
The Milton Masonic Lodge 161 fish fry is an annual event. I have now managed to make two years in a row. Just remember Good Friday. I am not a Mason; I had an uncle I was rather fond of that was. He invited my dad to a Whitewater Mason event long ago. The Milton feast is open to the public. It was served up this year from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Friday April 2nd. The whole thing set me back 10 Bucks. Coffee and milk are included. Soda is extra.
The thing that is nice about starting at 11:00 a.m. is that annual Easter week fish frys and beef dinners gaggle up on Good Friday. If you are ambitious - and hungry - and you go to an early one, you can go to another one in the evening.
I got there relatively early for a Friday fish around one p.m. or so. Being by myself, I got right in to an emply seat at a big table. They will take your ten Bucks in the entrance. There is a couple of seating areas in the old building. The place is in the Junction end of Milton (west end). I like the old wood doors, window sills, and wall edging. The paint is cracking in a couple places. The kitchen is small and from my eating room you could watch the process. My dad used to work with the monthly fish fry at our church years ago; manning the friers is no easy task.
Like many annual dinners, the Masons being no different, get the kids involved helping with the food and table clean up. I used to do that at our church fish frys when I was a kid once.
Be patient. When I first sat down at the family style room-length table, I dove into a big bowl of home made potato salad topped with prapika pepper. The bowl of cole slaw was creamy and good and coarse. There was a basket of rolls waiting as well and real sticks of Wisconsin butter to scoop into. In a bit, the fellows started bringing out the fried Smelt and Cod. If you want they will serve it up as long as you can eat it. There is something about fried fish cooked up in older friers.
You will sit with people you probably don't know, so you better be an extrovert and speak up. It became evident that some people were traveling a long ways to partake in the event. One fellow Mason traveled all the way from the Sturgeon Bay area.
The Milton Masonic Lodge 161 fish fry is cool with Cool Dadio. Hopefully they will keep up the annual fish tradition. Just remember Good Friday. Find them in the Milton Masonic Hall at 508 Vernal Avenue, Milton, Wisconsin. Call (608) 289 - 1190 for more details.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan
Army National Guard Sergeant Andrew Peter Wallace, 25, of Oshkosh, WI, died Monday, September 26, 2005 in Shaibah, Iraq during hostile enemy attack. He was one of two soldiers from the same Wisconsin unit killed in the incident. An improvised explosive device (roadside bomb) detonated near his vehicle during convoy operations. They were also attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. Sergeant Wallace was assigned to the Wisconsin Army National Guard's Company C, 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Brigade. Charlie Company is Fond du Lac, Wisconsin based. Part of the greater unit has Appleton connections. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel stated that Wallace taught physical education at Cook Elementary School in Oshkosh and at Oshkosh North High School; he was an assistant wrestling coach and, a part-time physical education teacher for cognitively disabled students. The Journal Sentinel went on to say the 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry is based in Appleton and spent a couple of months training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi prior to deployment overseas. The unit began assignment in Kuwait in mid-August, 2005. Part of their mission was to be based in northern Kuwait and provide security to convoys traveling from Kuwait into Iraq. At the time of his death Andrew was survived by wife Angie. Sergeant Andrew Wallace was the 46th Wisconsin military service person to be killed in Iraq since the Spring of 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
95,822 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,432 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,393 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1033 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
317 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
673 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,770 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
5,510 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
102 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
18 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.
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