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Your “word” from business contractor/owners…means buttkiss….
Recently I have been reading the blogs from the Fuddfest and Del Nicholson….Bruce Biere….and other business people who are trying very hard to pull their money around and act as if they are above the law…..

The fact remains….and this is my opinion, is that these people just do not have any morals…or conscience.

Now…with that being said, I just want to hit on a few other businesses that have also given their “word” to do things off from a contract.

This small town of Antigo is crawling with small businesses…..some, and very few of them are honest and do keep their word when spoken. Others however, have given their “word” and have lied, cheated and actually found attorney’s to represent the crooked business practices they were involved in.

A construction business is Antigo did the very same thing with their “word”…..Dave Nicholson construction, which is no longer in business….because he sold the business to his son Clint…..who is now DNCI. Many people who have hired them also got the “word” that they would fix and repair and make good on what they screwed up on……but when the ink was still wet on the sale of the business….Clint decided he did not have to keep his “word” to any wrong doing and bad workmanship he and his father did, and hired an attorney to hide behind her skirt to protect him.

So MANY people now have to endure the expense of hiring another contractor to repair the bad job they did.

So my advice to anyone……get EVERYTHING in writing and do not go on the “word” of a contractor, a landlord, a plumber, or any other such people.

It is very disheartening that this small town can not live by honesty, and their word anymore……as it hurts the small business owners who do do business with honesty.
In the long run, what comes around goes around…..and God will prevail and punish them accordingly.

I pray that these businesses get their just rewards……and I pray that the honest business owner thrives from that honesty.

To Joe and Teresa……please do not give up on your dream of the restaurant……you truly deserve success.

To DNCI…..and all the other dishonest, untrustworthy people, God will forgive you of your personality and business faults…but the people you threw under the bus with not soon forget…..and neither will this town.

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***************UPDATE 09/01/2010***********

Pics now available (see below)……
In this blog….people are saying the homeowner should show proof of BAD workmanship…..attached is some photos of a frostwall done by Dave Nicholson Construction….now known as DNCI…..
We paid $5500 for a frostwall so our breezeway would not heave….or have the cement crack…..Dave Nicholson Construction PROMISED to take care of the problem after the cement heaved over and inch and we had water coming into the breezeway….their claim was that they had the exterior wall on the frostwall…and that it was our fault somehow because we did not hire a general contractor…..which by the way they said they did not need because they were professionals and they did not need a “babysitter”….so….we..like fools trusted them that they would do a professional job……even after Clint bought out his father….and now is DNCI…he PROMISED to take care of the problem…..his idea of “taking care of” was to hide behind his attorney’s skirt…..
These pics show without a doubt that not only did not meet the frostwall with the garage…but they also show that the exterior wall was not built on the frost wall…..furthermore….the $5500.00 we paid was mostly for them to stuff tar paper three feet from the wall to the garage to meet the end…….
We went to attorney’s…..and we tried to file a claim…but Clint cried like a baby behind his attorney….and claimed he did not have to fix the problem because he was not responsible for the previous owner’ (his daddy) work….well…CLINT…you put the wall in…and YOU dug the wall….and YOU were there to build the exterior wall…..
So….DO NOT CONTRACT IDIOTS……(DNCI)…you picked a great name for yourself….
So…in closing…..just wanted everyone to know that the “good word” of DNCI……does not hold true…….
We have hired a REAL contractor who will do the job right…..instead of “just shove tar paper in….they’ll never know”
This my friend is fact…..and you can cry and run to your skirted attorney…..and this is NOT slander….this is fact….the proof is in the pics……you were WRONG…and you will be known out for your BAD workmanship…..and your BAD “WORD”.
If anyone needs tar paper…we have three feet of stuffed tar paper……probably enough to tar paper half a garage…..let me know….free for the taking. Or maybe Clint would like it back so he can use it on his next screw job?
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All Antigo waited, with bated breath, for the August issue of the Family PrimeTime insert in the Antigo Daily Journal. Would there be yet another plagiarized piece by one of Antigo’s chiro-mafia? Or would the ADJ run a piece of original chiropractic authorship exposing the community to still more witchdoctor fantasy health care mythology? Would Fred Berner finally print an acknowledgment and apology for the Stephen Veselak plagiarized pieces he published earlier? The answer is — No! No to all of the above!

There is no chiropractic article in the August Family PrimeTime at all, either plagiarized or laughably self-authored. No article, nothing, zip, zero, nada, from the Antigo coven of DC’s except a pathetic little ad by Stacy Bula – “The Power That Made the Body, Heals the Body. It Happens No Other Way.”

What happened? Some will claim that Editor Fred Berner finally got tired of the AntigoBuzz static about his pervasive skirting of accepted journalistic standards and his persistent copyright violations and decided to pull the plug on his shoddy chiro contributors. However, that can’t be true, because Fred told me, face to face, that he doesn’t read “that stuff” from AntigoBuzz. And when Fred says something like that, you better believe him, or he’ll just say it again, and again, which is his way of claiming incontrovertible truth.

I think it was the Scott Tatro article, featured in the July PrimeTime, that did the trick. Although the article made no mention of chiropractic, I think its publication in Family PrimeTime made chiros very eager to seek a low profile, and stay away from the critical eye.

You see, Scott’s paralysis, his “locked-in syndrome”, was caused by a stroke induced by a chiropractic adjustment. In fact, Scott’s web site http://scottslockedin.com is titled, “Locked In – Chiropractic Adjustment Gone Wrong”. But Fred Berner had all references to chiropractic and chiropractors withheld from the story, leaving readers to surmise that Scott’s stroke was just one of those everyday mystery strokes you hear about all the time.

Deleting such references may have satisfied Fred’s rather feeble grasp of journalistic sensitivity, but it didn’t fool those of the community-at-large who know the facts of the case. In fact, the rather graceless cover-up attempt only highlighted the controversy Fred was trying to avoid.

I think just running the article, even with chiro references artlessly redacted, alarmed the chiro-mafia and put them on the defensive. I hope the result is that we’ll hear no more mystical chiro mumbo-jumbo in Family PrimeTime, ever. And I will begrudgingly thank Fred Berner for that.

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To whom it may concern…..
I was just wondering when it became a one man band in the Antigo area……this person I am referring to has decided to make the decisions for other people’s property…like what a person does on his property…who can go on this persons property and so on……
Also, this particular person has decided when and how long it will take to finish road construction.
Okay….Mr. Del Nicholson has had secret board meetings and secret county meetings with zoning to regulate how one farmer in the area uses his own land.
Del owns and operates the Fuddfest….and he has continually harassed a farmer because this farmer chooses to use some of his land as “free” parking. Now….right down the road Del has parking for a fee…and granted it supposedly goes toward the town of Peck firemen but I have yet to see any changes from that money. So….Del does not want this farmer to allow free parking so he goes and uses his pull to get this farmer to have to pay a $5,000.00 fine PER CAR that is parked on his own land. Then…Del goes to the zoning board and this farmer has to install a septic system in this field???? and lighting…..? What does he need septic for? So the cars can pee at will?
To top it off…..the parking Del has and charges for……does not have a septic system..so what makes him so incredibly special that he can get away with it. How totally discriminating for the farmer because he is the only one who got the “new” ordinance. Then Dell goes to the road construction crew that is redoing the first part of highway C and tells them that he demands that the construction be finished before Fuddfest…….???/ Are you kidding me??? Who is he Del Nicholson to tell someone what they can and can not do with there land…or to tell road crews when they WILL be finished with something.????
Poor Del will lose money if the farmer has free parking…….like the Fuddfest does not make enough……

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Someone should sit down with Stephen Veselelak of Goldsworthy Chiropractic and explain to him that it’s better to have wonder about a possible lack of ethics on his part than it is for him to repeatedly publish plagiarized articles and remove all doubt about his ethical lapses.

I previously highlighted one of Veselak’s Family Primetime literary misadventures in this blog – http://antigobuzz.com/blogs/2010/04/08/more-chiro-plagiarism-in-the-antigo-daily-journal-by-albus/

You’d think after that, especially since it came after my exposure of Stacy Bula’s plagiaristic affront, the local chiro mafia would spread the word around their clan that their days of unfettered literary scamming are over. Look, guys and gals, you may be able to pull one over on Fred Berner, but then so could the average chipmunk. However, you can’t slip your crap past anyone with half a brain and an internet connection (a description sometimes leveled at me).

Veselak’s latest gaffe is in the July 2010 issue of Family Primetime, brought to you by the wonderful journalism wannabes at the Antigo Daily Journal. His… er… their piece is on page 5, and is titled “The back of cereal boxes offers good reading”.

Notice, first, that once again Veselak has ventured into unfamiliar ground for him, the universe of common knowledge about breakfast cereals created for and marketed to kids. Guess what, folks? They’re loaded with sugar! Heavens to Betsy, who would have thunk?

Veselak’s solution to this horrendous problem is, “So, next time you’re strolling the cereal aisle deciding what’s best for your family to eat, spend some time reading those nutrition labels on the back of the box before tossing it into your shopping cart. Remember, the ingredients list will tell you a lot more about what’s inside the box than the colorful characters and happy messages on the outside ever will!”

Good advice, and… Wait a minute. That sounds a bit out-of-style for Stephen, doesn’t it? Sounds like it might have been written by someone else, don’t ya think?

Sure enough. See the article “What’s in you cereal” at the To Your Health web site at http://www.toyourhealth.com/mpacms/tyh/article.php?id=1167

Here’s a sentence from the concluding paragraph of the To Your Health article: “So, the next time you’re strolling the cereal aisle deciding what’s best for your family, spend some time reading those nutrition labels on the back of the box before tossing it into your shopping cart. The ingredients list will tell you a lot more about what’s inside the box than the colorful characters and happy messages on the outside ever will.”

My, what an amazing coincidence!

The web site article starts out, “The conscientious parent tries to make the best choices when it comes to what their children eat and are willing to say “no” to the overly fatty, sugary or salty foods kids seem to gravitate toward.” After an introductory badly-written paragraph and a half, the Veselak article reads, “The conscientious parent tries to make the best choices when it comes to what their children eat and are willing to say no to the overly fatty, sugary or salty foods kids seem to gravitate toward.(And that I gravitate toward!)”

Gee, Stephen, thanks for the personalized parenthetical interjection. Veselak continues, “Instead, a parent will provide their child with a well-balanced diet, starting with the most important meal of the day, breakfast, which commonly includes, among other items, a wholesome bowl of cereal.” The To Your Health article at this point reads, “Instead, a responsible parent will provide their child with a well-balanced diet, starting with the most important meal of the day, breakfast, which commonly includes a wholesome bowl of cereal.” So, Stephen cut out the word “responsible”, probably because the word made him feel uncomfortable in the current circumstance, and injected “among other things” probably to show his commanding expertise in the subject and throw the plagiarism detectives off the trail. It didn’t work, Stephen.

The next 304 words of Veselak’s article are a word-for-word copy from the To Your Health article. Veselak invokes his privilege as a plagiarizer at the end of his collaborative piece, tacking on this tacky sentence, “And don’t forget to consult a nutritionist, your medical doctor or your chiropractot for their input on these matters, as they are willing to help!”

Yeah, Stephen, we already know what chiropractors are willing to do, thank you very much. By now, Fred Berner, alleged “Editor” of the Antigo Daily Journal and co-copyright violator, must be muttering to himself, “Fool me once, same on thee. Fool me twice, shame on me!” And that’s about it, too. Shame on Stephen Veselak and Fred Berner both for thinking that persisting in unethical behavior will somehow elevate their shabby activity to the level of social acceptance.

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It looks like the Antigo Daily Journal has admitted that it foisted on its readers an article plagiarized by chiropractor Stacy Bula. Well, almost admitted….

In the Family Primetime insert in the ADJ for June 2010, at the tail end of yet another unbelievable piece by Stacy Bula, there’s a little paragraph that reads, “The March 2010 familyprimetime chiropractic was written by Dr. Sue Brown from the www.icp4kids.com website.”

Well, gee. In the first place, that’s hardly news. I pointed out Sue Brown’s authorship of that piece in a blog here on Antigobuzz.com on March 4th. What took the ADJ so long to get the message?

In the second place, what kind of apology is that supposed to be? There’s no acknowledgment that Bula did the plagiarizing, no apology to Sue Brown for theft, no admission of copyright violation by the ADJ, no acceptance of responsibility, no expression of regret, no suggestion that a lesson has been learned, and no indication that any measures have been taken to prevent a repeat of the egregious behavior. It’s just an empty little notice that some unnamed article had a named author.

If I were Sue Brown, I’d still be pissed. Heck, I’m even NOT Sue Brown, and I’m pissed anyway!

Maybe Bula has actually learned a lesson. Her article in June Family Primetime, at least, was not plagiarized. It was absurd nonsense of course, but that’s what we’d expect from an article titled, “Chiropractic care may help with breast-feeding”.

Well, wait a minute. After much blathering irrelevancy and hokey “research” references, Bula actually did give some good advice. It’s in the second-last sentence of the article, which reads, “Moms should utilize health care professionals, midwives and lactation consultants and find out as much information about breast-feeding as they can.” Right. I agree. And NONE of those professionals are going to recommend that you take your precious newborn child to a chiropractor for bending and twisting treatment for breast-feeding problems.

Then there’s the corker. Bula’s last sentence, just before the incredibly lame reference to the previous plagiarism, reads (exactly and completely – I’ve got the article in my files to prove that I didn’t make this up or alter it in any way!), “Breast-feeding has a learning cure for both mom and baby and mothers should be next ashamed to ask for help.”

In my opinion, the Antigo Daily Journal should be next ashamed for printing such drivel.

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I was wondering if there is any law that requires a public business to supply handsoap for its restrooms. If you have been in the 2 Rainbow Laundromats in town you will notice that they have no handsoap whatsoever in their restroom, never had any for quite sometime. I once saw an empty soap dispenser in the one on 5th ave.,but they took it out without replacing it. I was brought up as a kid to always wash my hands with soap and water and can’t properly do so if they don’t offer their customers any soap. With the potential for the spread of viruses and whatnot can the health department do anything about that?

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