Name: Chippewa Valley Book Festival: "Writing in Your Own Backyard: Local Columnists On Writing the Chippewa Valley"
Start: 2026-10-21
End: 2026-10-21

Chippewa Valley's famous homemade cheesecake, macarons, hot chocolate bombs, sticky rolls, and more. Josef's Cheesecakes has made over 450 flavors of cheesecake and counting. Perfect for all occasions including weddings, corporate events, dinner parties, baby showers, and so much more.

Josef's Cheesecakes

A farm in Colfax, WI, offering goat cuddling events in the spring and goat yoga, as well as a variety of homemade goat products including lotion, soap, and more.

2024 Food Trucks:

April 27 - Live Great Food

May 5 - Rollin' Smoke BBQ

May 11 - Ne Ne's Tacos

Lymett Farms & Idle-A-While Dairy Goats & Products

Spring Street Sports in Chippewa Falls, WI specializes in bicycle sales and repairs, ski & snowboard sales & waxing, snowshoe sales and repairs, outdoor apparel, bicycle and XC ski rentals, and bicycle and ski clinics.

Spring Street Sports

Bubbles BBQ smokes their own meats – including brisket, ribs, pulled pork, and pulled chicken – and they make their own sauces. Available for catering almost every event, large or small, from your backyard, business, sporting event or your wedding!

Bubbles BBQ Food Truck

Satisfy your sweet tooth with the best candies, chocolates, and soft-serve ice cream in the area with the Chippewa Candy Shop!

Chippewa Candy Shop

Monster Scoop Ice Cream offers high-quality homemade ice cream made mostly from scratch. The portions are monster-sized with competitive prices. Monster Scoop ICe Cream has a location in both Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls.

Monster Scoop Ice Cream Chippewa Falls

It is Asian American Fusin Restaurant positioned in the heart of Elk Mound, on the main intersection in town. We will be offering an array of tasty Asian American Fusion Cuisines.

Our goal is to provide a comfortable setting for our community to enjoy a satisfying dining experience with hometown feel.

Grub Fusion Diner

Heyde Center needs volunteers mainly to help with box office, ticket taking and concessions. Once in a while we have lunch and a show and dinner and a show so we need extra volunteers to help our caterers, seat our guests ect. Recruiting: Both Adults and Youth Desired Age Range: 18+ Physical Restrictions or Requirements? Yes, we do also take youth under age 18 but at our events we do require them to be with an adult. Length of Volunteer Opportunities: Event Volunteer Schedule: Weekdays, Weekends, Daytimes, Evenings Estimated Hours Per Week: About 3 hours per event. We do not always have plays, concerts, performances and meal with show going on in the building. No required orientation and/or training No required experience and/or skills

Heyde Center for the Arts

Irvine Park in Chippewa Falls, WI is home to over 300 acres of natural and scenic beauty. The park is also a free zoo that contains cougars, bears, bison, tigers, and many other animals. From Thanksgiving through New Years, Irvine Park is transformed into a Christmas Village featuring over 100,000 holiday lights throughout the park. Visitors can walk or drive through the park to enjoy the holiday magic. While the park is home to several other historic attractions, it's also a wonderful place to do some cross country skiing during the winter months. In the winter this park in Chippewa Falls grooms a four mile trail for classic-style [cross-country skiing](https://eauclaire.simpleviewcrm.com/lookup/In%20the%20winter%20this%20park%20in%20Chippewa%20Falls%20grooms%20a%20four%20mile%20trail%20for%20classic-style%20cross-country%20skiing.%20Entry%20is%20free.). Entry is free.

Irvine Park

We are a family-owned orchard excited to continue the family tradition of farming an orchard while embracing the friendly atmosphere that has already been created. Pick your own apples, shop the apple products, spend time in the outdoors, and make memories with the family at the orchard!

Family Roots Orchard

Located in western Wisconsin, Eau Claire offers sports planners a destination that's easy to reach, easy to navigate, and ready to host. Just 90 minutes from the Minneapolis–St. Paul area and within driving distance of Chicago, Eau Claire is well positioned to welcome teams, athletes, and fans from across the Midwest.

A versatile mix of indoor and outdoor venues supports events across a wide range of sports and competition levels, with tournament-ready fields, courts, ice facilities, pools, trails, and large-scale indoor spaces. Hotels, restaurants, venues, and visitor amenities are conveniently located throughout the community, making it easy for teams to get where they need to be throughout the event.

Visit Eau Claire's sports team works alongside event organizers to help bring the details together, connecting planners with venues, accommodations, local resources, and destination support.

And there's plenty waiting beyond the competition. Eau Claire's walkable downtown, local restaurants and breweries, miles of trails, public art, live music, family attractions, and the Chippewa River give athletes and their families more to experience between games and after the final whistle.

Eau Claire has the facilities to host the event and the destination experience to make the trip worth it.**** Bring the competition, bring the crowd, and come as you are — Eau Claire is ready to host.

Visit Eau Claire

Join Leader-Telegram Sawdust Stories columnists of the past and present–Patti See, John Hildebrand, and Nickolas Butler–for a conversation and mini workshop on how to write the stories closest to home. Through conversation, examples, and guided exercises, participants will explore the short essay writing process–from the spark of an idea to the beginnings of a draft.

Whether you’re a longtime writer, simply someone interested in preserving stories from your family, community, or everyday life, or are just interested in learning more about the writing process, this workshop is for you.

Chippewa Valley Book Festival: "Writing in Your Own Backyard: Local Columnists On Writing the Chippewa Valley"

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