Big City Folk attend the theatre, visit museums and walk through the zoo whenever they wish, but one thing they never get to do is ride the fire trucks after winning the conference meet. You need to live in New Glarus or Monticello, where the volunteer firefighters take as much pride in their schools and community as they do in their ability to protect us from calamity. Saturday, the cross country boys and girls enjoyed driving through both towns with sirens blaring after finishing on top of the Capitol Conference South.

The varsity boys line-up on grass still wet with dew for the first r...