Friday night July 31st at 7:00 p.m. the Fisherman’s Picnic Lumber Camp is the place to be! Watch professional sawyers square off with Husqvarna 576XP chainsaws in a stock saw contest. This will be head-to-head competition with these huge saws ripping through 20-inch lathe turned white pine straight from the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, Wisconsin. Spectators will see local […]

Wood-Mizer, the world’s largest manufacture of portable band sawmills is happy to be a part of Fisherman’s Picnic again and will be offering sawmill demonstrations Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On site demos will focus on the simple and safe nature of the Wood- Mizer sawmill operation. Professionals and wood enthusiasts will find the exhibitions interesting and informative. Whether your interest […]

2009 marks the 21st year of the Old Timers fast pitch softball game at Fisherman’s Picnic. The original format of this game featured old timers, i.e. 40 years in age or over from Cook County, playing their counterparts from Lake County. In recent years, Lake County was unable to field a team so the game was changed. Cook County High […]

Fisherman’s Picnic Trail Run Saturday, August 1 Pincushion Mountain Trails

It’s Fisherman’s Picnic and for local readers that means it’s time for the annual Library Friends’ book sale. The sight of long lines of people waiting to enter the Cook County Community Center on Thursday evening and Friday morning gladdens the hearts of Library Friends member workers. The book sale is Library Friends’ big fundraiser and it enables the group […]