Breidel’s Meat Market Ends Retail Sales

By Steve Cahalan, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.

Dec. 30–After 54 years, Breidel’s Meat Market at 1248 Redfield St. closed Saturday, although owner David Breidel will continue to process venison there. “I’m just slowing down; I’m getting older,” said Breidel, who is 60 and has been working 80 hours a week at the market during venison season. He decided to get out of the retail meat sales business so he could cut back on hours.

While he’s looking forward to fewer hours, “I’ve had a good relationship with a lot of customers,” he said.

His father, Leonard Breidel, started the market in 1953 and sold the business to David in 1972. David had worked there part time since high school. When he bought out his father, David quit his full-time job at Trane Co. and began working full time at the market.

After selling nearly 3,000 copies of his Wine Teasers card game, Stefan Smith of La Crosse has teamed with wine writer Jennifer Rosen of the Rocky Mountain News newspaper to introduce a second edition, with the new name “Cork Jester’s Wine Teasers.”

Rosen, who is known as the cork jester, is responsible for the second edition’s content, Smith said. “I think of myself as the publisher now,” said Smith, who also is outreach librarian at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Murphy Library.

The second edition came out about two months ago, and replaces the first edition. It has a suggested retail price of $12.95, Smith said. It’s for sale in about 40 stores around the nation (including Wine Guyz and People’s Food Co-op in La Crosse, and Festival Foods and and UnWine’d in Onalaska) and on some Web sites, including www.wineteasers.com.

The first edition went on sale in September 2005. Both editions educate people about wine. Gross Chevrolet-Buick-Pontiac-GMC in Black River Falls, Wis., opened its new facility Dec. 20.

The new building at Hwy. 54 and Interstate 94 replaces a much smaller location at 530 N. Water St. The dealership is part of Gross Motors, which began in Neillsville, Wis., in 1956. Wayne Gross, who owns Gross Motors with his brother Jerry and son Mike, said the Grosses bought the Black River Falls dealership in 2003.

“The new facility is larger and has better outside lighting,” Gross said. “And we’re heating the majority of the building with an in-floor heating system fired with waste oil” that comes from automobile oil changes. A grand opening will be held next spring.

Sales hours at the Black River Falls location are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday and Friday; and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Service hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and in mid- to late January will be expanded to include 7:30 a.m. to noon Saturday. The Grosses’ Web site is www.grossauto.com.

Dr. Tom Nachtigal, a podiatrist and foot surgeon, opened Coulee Region Foot Clinic in November in the Barge Professional Building at 3812 Creekside Lane in Holmen, Wis. It’s next door to Barge Chiropractic.

Nachtigal said appointments are available Wednesdays and Fridays at the new clinic, which specializes in medical and surgical treatment of foot problems for people of all ages. Nachtigal said commonly seen problems include ingrown toenails, heel pain, flat feet, bunions, hammertoes and diabetic foot conditions.

Nachtigal has been in private practice in Winona, Minn., for the past 14 years. The Holmen clinic’s phone number is (608) 781-WALK (9255).

Tribune business editor Steve Cahalan can be reached at (608) 791-8229 or scahalan@lacrossetribune.com.

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