Can you believe it? Not only does the Fox Valley have awesome cheese, the best schools, tremendous fine arts, great dining, and gorgeous fall color, but now we've got Paper Valley Roller Girls, a non-profit roller derby league in Northeast Wisconsin. The team practices in the center of global roller derby action, Appleton, Wisconsin, at either the Gem Roller Rink or the Skaters' Edge. A big schedule is lined up for 2009. Wish them luck!

Appleton has some of the best tasting drinking water in the country. We pay a price for it because it uses advanced and rather expensive technology, but the result is wonderful. Here are some details from Appleton's Water Treatment Facility page:

The City of Appleton recently completed construction of a new 24 million gallon per day (MGD) lime softening Water Treatment Facility. The facility was built to accommodate the growth of the community and to meet the new water regulations mandated by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) beginning in the year 2002. The new facility features pretreatment with potassium permanganate and powdered activated carbon, lime softening, granular activated carbon contactors and ultrafiltration membranes. It is currently the largest ultrafiltration membrane surface water supply in the United States.