LITTLE GEMS
The 58th Annual Pork Chop Cookout takes place on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, at the Walworth County Fairgrounds in Elkhorn.
Dinner will take place at the Activity Center (Dine-in or drive-thru available). Dinner includes two boneless grilled pork chops, baked potato, applesauce, rye bread, sour cream, and butter. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the gate. Food is served from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The brothers who own the Trump Store in Hebron.
Why does the GSR keep videoing and reporting on this store? Well, it’s the only one still around, although it really isn’t. The store lost its supplier and then got into a big fight with the city council in the town, or one member in particular. Trump paraphernalia is plummeting in value and availability as the popularity of the leader continues to wane following his entry into the war, and its consequent effect on the economy, particularly gas and diesel prices.
The brothers who own the store, and the lot across the street where they advertise their wares, are as ostentatious and funny as their ads. “Trump Nation?” Now that is funny. The store also has some pretty nasty comments written on signs out front, saying things about liberals that are more than mean-spirited. The community itself leans a bit to the left (with an overwhelming vote a few months back to keep flying a gay pride flag at city hall), and a lot of the population does not like the overt look the brothers present that seems to be coming from the heart of the town when that’s not true, sort of like how the downtown of the City of Lake Geneva leans left but the surrounding communities lean far right.
Chief Gumble, one of the neatest and greatest chiefs of police anywhere around, is the object of the brothers’ ire as she refused to go after a supposed bomb threat when there was no evidence whatever to base a charge. The brothers had to be schooled by her in learning that the police will not charge someone simply because someone else believes they are guilty. Gumble, Vic, and the rest of the Hebron crew are a wonder of a small police force for such an ‘afterthought’ kind of community in such a rural area (that comment was made by a MacHenry board of supervisor’s member, not someone on the GSR staff). The chief loves Wisconsin cheddar and crackers, as well as garden tomatoes; many times, has pork ribs cooking out in the back of the department building for anyone to stop in and enjoy. They are as welcoming, good, and pleasing as the officers working with her. The brother’s store needs to move on, as the country’s leader is slowly doing, as well.
