 Snow sculptures, a parade, and a wood splitting competition were all taking place at Niswa's 27th annual Winter Jubilee over the weekend. On this week's Northwood's adventure, our Anthony Scott shows us how Niswa celebrates their winter traditions both old and new. To get outside, basically that's what it's about. Get outside and enjoy winter. We're stuck with it here half the year. We might as well enjoy it. A parade kicked the events off at the Niswa Winter Jubilee and families were also building their snow sculptures to decorate the downtown area. We had just kids, we had families, and we had just adults working on them so they're all real different, skill-wise, but they all turned out great, we're just really happy to have them here in town. The Niswa Chamber used to organize the event, but now it's all done by a group of volunteers who don't want to see the winter celebration go away. The Chamber had it for a couple years and the last two years now it's just been back to a community event where just locals are getting together and making it happen. The event that has stood the test of time is the wood chopping contest. And this year's winner split all of his logs in less than two minutes and he's looking for more competition next year. Satting them up first and trying to set them all up if there wasn't enough room so we just sat as many up as I could and split them, cut them next year and take me on. I never want to beat 159. And there was a new event at this year's Jubilee called Smoosh Racing where teams of four strapped together to one pair of skis tried to race around the track. But the first year of Smoosh Racing did not go as planned. You guys have some problems with the velcro breaking and rope that doesn't really work and it's just, yeah. We only had one board. The straps were breaking but we finished with one board, one guy. We made it through. Smoosh Racing isn't going away however as they plan to revamp the event for next year. The last couple of weeks being so cold, we didn't get out here and test them the way we should have so we know a lot more about these things now so they're going to be perfect next year. The Jubilee ended with a night of live music and a fishing contest the next morning. Reporting from Niswa for this week's Northwoods Adventure, Anthony Scott, Lakeland News. Raffles from the Niswa Winter Jubilee went to support the Wounded Warrior Project and the Lakes Area Food Shelf. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.