PRAIRIE DU SAC (WKOW) — The Wisconsin Point out Cow Chip Throw has been a Prairie du Sac staple considering the fact that 1975. This 12 months, there was a new addition to the pageant: coronavirus vaccines.

Sauk Prairie Health care teamed up with the festival to supply totally free COVID-19 photographs to individuals at the party.

“Sauk Prairie Healthcare is fascinated in acquiring as quite a few vaccines into people’s arms as we can,” Ken Carlson explained. “We will not want to miss any option to do that, and exactly where persons are perhaps on the fence, we also want to be obtainable to offer details as a great deal as doable about COVID-19 vaccines.”

These who got their 1st shot are qualified for Wisconsin’s $100 vaccine incentive.

Having said that, Carlson said he wasn’t expecting a ton of men and women to get the shot, even with the incentive.

“Our expectations for the quantity of men and women that come in and get vaccinated is just not by the roof mainly because we know it’s just just one at a time,” he said. “We’ve been happy that in the initial two few of hours of procedure we have gotten about 5 or 6 that have appear through.”

The primary draw of the festival is the cow chip throwing contest, exactly where contributors check out to toss their dried cow manure the furthest.

The throw failed to transpire in 2020 due to the fact of the pandemic, and organizer Eddie Egan mentioned that built this year’s celebration even a lot more specific.

‘It’s good to be again all over again,” he explained. “We hated to drop previous yr, but it’s genuinely exciting to be out with the neighborhood once again for this 12 months.”