Mishicot Historical Museum

Photos from the Badger State Games 5th Torch Run, which was held in Mishicot, Wisconsin, and stopped at the Mishicot Historical Museum. After the run, Cindy Bremser, 1984 Olympic runner, donated her Olympic uniform to the museum.

From an October 1989 Mishicot Area Growth And Improvement Committee newsletter:

Cindy Bremser, U.S. competitor at the 1984 international Supper Olympics, who grew up in Mishicot, recently donated her original Olympic runner’s costume to the Mishicot museum. The presentation was made June 17 at the conclusion of the 1989 Mishicot Torch Run, to Doug Kieffer, coordinator for the local Torch Run, and George Schmidt, of the MAGIC historical committee. Twenty local people participated in the 1989 Torch Run, which is now in its fifth year, and is held in conjunction with the Badger State Games. It is sponsored, in Mishicot and about seventy other Wisconsin communities of various sizes, by GTE (parent corporation of General Telephone Co.). Local sponsors for 1989 included Rose’s Century Inn, the Mishicot Veterans of Foreign Wars, Krause’s Shopping Center, Buffalo Don (who provided water for the runners), the Mishicot Knights of Columbus, the Lambert Funeral Home, the People for a Drug-Free Youth, and Dr. John L. Stoune of the Wellness Center. Mishicot’s is the only

Torch Run held in Manitowoc County.

The route for this year’s run started at the VFW Club, and ended at the Mishicot Museum building (former Town Hall), where lunch was served to contestants and guests by Krause Catering. Special thanks are due George Krause, Cindy Bremser, Damon Ryan, Doug Day of WOMT Radio, Debra Horn of the Lakeshore Chronicle, GTE representative Leroy Staff, Assemblyman Dale Bolle, Mrs. Doug Kieffer and family, and the MAGIC thematic/historical committee for the success of this year’s event. Plans are already being made for the 1990 run. The torch, which is about 2.5 feet tall and is operated by liquid fuel, is carried by one of the runners, and is symbolic of traditional Olympic-type competition. .Although the run is not intended as a competition between individual runners, there are awards presented to communities and towns for the quality of the event, based on enthusiasm, participation, news media cover­ age, decorations, and the like. Mishicot was awarded a bronze medal in 1966 and a silver medal in 1988.