Cheney to visit area Thursday; school kids bumped Vice President Dick Cheney (in red tie) conducts a roundtable discussion with community members at 'the Grill' in Charleston, W.Va., Monday, Oct. 18, 2004. (AP Photo/Bob Bird) By Ray Barrington News-Chronicle Vice President Dick Cheney will make his third visit to Brown County this year on Thursday, addressing a Republican rally at the National Railroad Museum in Ashwaubenon. In the process, he's bumped a group of Wrightstown schoolchildren who had an election-themed project planned for the museum the same day. They'll get to do their project five days later. Cheney will speak to a "Victory 2004 Rally" at 4:15 p.m., state Republican officials said. No details on exact location at the museum or ticket availability have been released. If it's in the Lefenstrey Pavilion, he'll speak in the same hall where Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, spoke in May. The timing is unfortunate for a group of Wrightstown schoolchildren and who had planned to visit the museum Thursday for a program relating to a semester project looking at the presidential election. The third- and fourth-graders were to recreate whistle-stop speeches from the 1904 election, 100 years ago, as part of a course studying differences and similarities in the two elections. (Theodore Roosevelt was elected that year.) The project was a cooperative effort between the school and St. Norbert College teacher education students. Steve Correia, associate professor for teacher education at St. Norbert, said the move was made for security reasons and the museum quickly helped reschedule the kids' visit to Oct. 26. Cheney will be appearing in the area for the third time this election. He spent two days in the Green Bay area Sept. 9-10, speaking to a fund-raising dinner at the KI Convention Center and meeting with an invitation-only audience at the Golden Basket restaurant the next morning. He also visited Wrightstown on May 1, speaking at Coating Excellence Inc. Of the four major-ticket candidates, Kerry has been in the area the most, visiting in February during the Wisconsin primary, May for two days and August. President Bush made a visit in July, while Sen. John Edwards, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, was here in September after a February primary visit.