Like many in the farm region Sunrise Bar serves, I feel I was born into this way of life. My dad, Bob Senior, ran Paul & Plautz Bar in Wausau. I started working in the kitchen preparing Friday Fish Fries years before I could drive.

I still hold on to the lessons I learned there, like getting up before the sun rises to start the day's work and the power of community when the take-out food orders from everyone in the area kept the bar going when we couldn't have customers inside.

A huge thank you all. Cheers!