Hometown Broadcast News Monday 4/12/21
12 April 2021 News
Dodge County Alcohol Compliance Checks
The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office will be conducting alcohol compliance checks this spring and summer. The goal is not to issue citations, but to educate and remind business owners and their employees about the importance of refusing the sale of alcoholic beverages to minors. Citations will be issued if a violation occurs. The participants in the compliance checks will be from 18 to 20 years old and they will comply when asked for identification. None of the participants will have fake identification cards and if asked how old they are they will tell their actual age or actual birthdate. The forfeiture for selling alcohol to a minor is $389.50 for the first offense and $515.50 for the second offense.
Brillion Man Critically Injured In Crash
Calumet County Sheriff’s officials say a 35-year-old Brillion man was critically injured when his vehicle left Man-Cal Road in the Town of Brillion Friday morning. The vehicle struck the ditch and surrounding trees. Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to extricate him from the vehicle. He was flown to ThedaCare Regional Medical Center where he is in critical condition. The driver was the only occupant of the vehicle. Deputies responded to the crash near Winkler Road at 8:11 Friday morning.
State Budget Listening Session
State Representative Alex Dallman will be hosting a state budget listening session in Ripon with Joint Finance Committee Co-Chair, State Representative Mark Born this afternoon. The session will provide an opportunity for constituents to bring forward questions, concerns, or requests to Representative Dallman and Representative Born about issues related to the budget. The session will be at the Ripon Town Hall on Douglas Street from 1 to 2 pm this afternoon.
Spring Fish And Wildlife Hearings Start Tonight
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Wisconsin Conservation Congress and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources annual spring hearings will once again be held online. The public will have the opportunity to provide input on the proposed natural resources rule changes from the DNR, and advisory questions from the Natural Resources Board and Conservation Congress. The hearing online input webpage will go live at 7 pm tonight and will remain open for three days. This year there are 23 proposed rule changes related to fisheries and five proposed rule changes related to wildlife management. There are also advisory questions.
Annual Spring Public Hearing and County Meeting | Wisconsin DNR
Work Begins On Ripon College Diversity Mural
A 4-foot by 26-foot mural celebrating the message of diversity is being created on the Ripon College campus. Primer has already been applied, and painting will start today on the side of Johnson Residence Hall facing Thorne Street. The mural will effectively be on campus while still being highly visible to anyone in the city of Ripon. Ripon College Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas says, “The goal of this project is to bring awareness to the racial inequity that plagues modern society through the use of a large-scale mural on Ripon College grounds.” Painting II students submitted proposals for the design, which then were sent to diversity groups on campus for feedback. The winning design is by Bailey Zanck, a junior from New Berlin, Wisconsin. The mural will feature the words DIVERSE NOT DIFFERENT.
Oshkosh School District Gets COVID Vaccination Outreach Grant
The Oshkosh Area School District has received a grant of nearly $100,000 from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services as part of its COVID-19 Vaccination Community Outreach Initiative. Grant funds will be used to promote health equity and will allow the district to expand its community outreach efforts as the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available. The Oshkosh School District is the only school district in the state to receive the grant. The outreach will involve engaging marginalized populations in the Oshkosh community, including people of color, economically disadvantaged, households with disabilities, and non-English speaking households. The district plans a community education campaign to foster greater understanding and improve vaccine access.
ADVOCAP Senior Meals Program Fills A Niche During The Pandemic
ADVOCAP continues to fill the need for meals for seniors a year after COVID-19 shutdown 11 senior meal sites in Winnebago County. Dawn Patterson is the Director of Food Nutrition for ADVOCAP’s Neenah office. She says the need still remains high. “We served over 14,000 more meals between last year and this year. We had to shut down 11 meal sites because they all had to go to home-delivered meals and there is a big need for the elderly people to get the meals that we have.” Patterson says they deliver on average 789 meals a day. She says another important function of the drivers that deliver the meals is to provide a wellness check because for 45 percent of the people they deliver to they are the only person those people see on a daily basis. To learn more about the home-delivered meals call 920-725-2791.
Visitor Restrictions For Nursing Homes Being More Reaxed
With most residents of nursing home and long-term care facilities completing their vaccinations for the COVID-19 virus, restrictions on visits by family and friends are being more relaxed. Robin Wolzenburg is the Director of Housing and Clinical Services for LeadingAge Wisconsin a senior advocacy group. She says those nursing homes and facilities are still using social distancing, face masking and other precautions, but if a resident has been fully vaccinated they are allowed to have visitors. “If a resident is fully vaccinated meaning two weeks past their second dose or if it’s only a single dose they can have like in-person in the sense of touched visits. That really makes a difference.” She says visitors to those facilities will still be limited in the interaction they have with staff with many staff still not fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Wolzenburg is also a member of the Ripon Community COVID-19 Task Force.
Rural Broadband
The Director of Administration for Fond du Lac County says providing broadband access to areas of the county that are unserved or underserved is the ultimate goal of a project involving a survey about internet use. Erin Gerred says they found out from businesses during the pandemic how essential internet availability is. “If we don’t have adequate service for folks to do this you know they are going to be able to be profitable and serve and provide what they have in the past. That’s why we are taking a good hard look at this again and trying to make we are addressing those gaps especially in our rural areas.” Gerred says when a provider puts in service for a new area it can be quite costly and especially in a rural area, but there are grants available that could help to offset some of those costs.
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