The fourth annual North Cape Lutheran Youth ice fishing jamboree and meat raffles event will go on as planned this Saturday, Jan. 14, ice or no ice.
But Racine’s Big Chill snow-sculpting contest has been postponed one week in hopes of colder weather.
• The Jamboree runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at A.J.s Bar & Grill, S90 W13970 Boxhorn Drive, Muskego.
Its ice-fishing contest (if there is ice) opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 3:30 p.m. Adult and junior classes – fish categories: bass, walleye, northern, and pan fish.
Prizes are awarded for biggest fish and raffles begin at 11 a.m. and run throughout the day.
Cash raffle and freezer full of meat raffle called at 6 p.m. Participants need not be present to win.
All proceeds benefit North Cape Lutheran Youth 2012 Mission Trip to North Carolina.
For more information, contact Kim Schwartz at the Union Grove Chamber at 878-4606.
• The Big Chill is Wisconsin’s 22nd Annual State Snow Sculpting Competition, held this year in Racine for the first time (previously, it was held in Wisconsin Dells as the Flake Out Festival).
The Downtown Racine Corporation announced Monday that The Big Chill is being postponed for one week. The event will now be held the weekend of Friday-Sunday, Jan. 20-22.
“Due to the unseasonably warm weather, we are unable to produce enough snow to have a successful event,” explained Devin Sutherland, Executive Director of the Downtown Racine Corporation.
“Temperatures are expected to drop later this week, at which time we will begin making snow for next weekend’s snow sculpting.”
The Big Chill brings the state’s best two-person snow sculpting teams to Downtown Racine’s Monument Square, to complete for cash prizes and the title of Wisconsin Snow Sculpting Champion.
The winning team then advances to the U.S. National Competition held in Lake Geneva in February of 2013.
Besides snow sculpting, The Big Chill will also feature local and regional ice carvers who will sculpt imaginative creations out of 300-pound blocks of ice along Main and 6th Streets.
All other activities planned with The Big Chill will also be moved to the weekend of Jan. 20-22.
Visitors are encouraged to come to Downtown Racine that weekend and cast their votes for their favorite snow and ice sculptures.The People’s Choice award votes help to determine the winners, which will be announced Sunday afternoon at Monument Square.
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