TREMPEALEAU, Wis. – A pleasure boat drifted onto a sandbar off Trempealeau, stranding the boaters. This was late, about 11:50 p.m. The boaters phoned for help. To their rescue came the Winona County sheriff’s dive and rescue team. The boaters were ferried to a landing, the disabled boat in tow. The call was the second of the night for the rescue team. Earlier in the day there also was a rescue by firefighters at theAlma dam 35 miles upriver.
