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Ferryville is a little village with a population of 192 in Southwestern Wisconsin. It is located on National Scenic State Highway 35 between Prairie du Chien and LaCrosse Wisconsin. Ferryville is at rivers edge and is an excellent area for hunting, fishing and water sports. Along with being a sportsman’s paradise, Ferryville, is a motorcycle riders dream due to the hills, valleys, curves and just pretty scenery. We may be a small village but we have plenty of friendly people and lots of beautiful scenery.For more information on Ferryville, Wisconsin, please visit our website www.VisitFerryville.comTranscription for SEO purposes onlyFerryville, Wisconsin. The people, the location, the place for all seasons. Jerry Bordman and I'm a commercial fisherman. Jerry, how long have you been a commercial fisherman? Well, at 80 years old and all my life. Is commercial fishing something you can do year round? Yes. How long have you been calling this area of the Mississippi River your home? All my life. I was born born here on the river. Matter of fact, my brother, my oldest brother, my folks used to live on the islands and he was born on the refuge before locking dams. And he's still alive? I think he's probably one of the last few people. He's 88, basically. This is something you've done your entire life? Yes. So what is commercial fishing on the Mississippi River? Like the type of fishing we do, we sane, we call sandy and then deal netting, tram netting, hoop netting, hoop nets and fox traps. Many various different types of fishing and all various different skills. The fishing nowadays is very easy. It's a lot of manual labor, but it's still easy. What it used to be, I can remember when, like back in the late forties and early 50s, there wasn't hardly any boat landings on the river. And so when we were standing underneath the ice, these fish had to be hand slated to the banks, to the railroad tracks and carried up over the railroad tracks and then carried up over the road bank. Now that was work that I want to tell you. So gradually the boat landings opened up where you could get to the landings and transport your fish. In 1947, the dyke going to Lansing, when the ice went out that spring, they went out thick and it took every one of the bridges out. Therefore you couldn't get the fish to Lansing because that's what the main market was. You had to go by a boat and hope you have enough ice to get in there in the wintertime. My oldest brother. And my dad stood at the Windowski bridge there and they watched that ice take that bridge out and they just went to Lansing and come back for that about a half an hour before that. Wow. That was how long did it take to fix that bridge? 1956. Ten years? Yep. Put in ten years. Wow. Like I said, that was the biggest market around. We had a lot of markets around, small markets. Quite a few of the one in furnishing and one in the big halls. The big bunches always went to landscape. So, Jerry, is commercial ice fishing your big time for fishing, or is it during the summer as well? No, we used to fish year round, but now the markets have gone and the only fishing that we do now is we fish under the ice. In the spring, when the ice goes out, we sell all our fish to New York live. We shift them all live to New York. They go out and semis tanks on with liquid oxygen and we put £20,000 of fish on a truck. And also in the springtime, when the water opens up in, we have what they call a Jewish holidays. At that time, we go for the big carp. For the holidays, they want the big Carp, anything £12 and up, and then after that usually done from the summer. So besides the carp, what other kind of fish are you fishing for? Buffalo carpent. Buffalo, primarily because catfish, we catch a lot of catfish in the scene, but in the state of Wisconsin, if you're sanding underneath the ice, you can only keep £100 of fish per haul. So you'd mentioned that you sell all of your fish to the state of New York. Why is the market in New York rather than anywhere closer to here? Because that's where the population is, and especially a Jewish population. And the Jewish population is not as big as Myers. Like a filter fish. There was millions and millions of pounds of carp crawd in, you know, the year turner all made into filter fish. As the years progressed, I guess what is that?

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Ferryville is a little village with a population of 192 in Southwestern Wisconsin. It is located on National Scenic State Highway 35 between Prairie du Chien and LaCrosse Wisconsin. Ferryville is at rivers edge and is an excellent area for hunting, fishing and water sports. Along with being a sportsman’s paradise, Ferryville, is a motorcycle riders dream due to the hills, valleys, curves and just pretty scenery. We may be a small village but we have plenty of friendly people and lots of beautiful scenery.For more information on Ferryville, Wisconsin, please visit our website www.Ferryville.comTranscription is for seo purposes only.Deb Lomas is the owner of scenic River in in Ferryville Wisconsin and you’re lifelong resident of Ferryville tell you what your first memory of Ferryville and now the end that I ran my parents were owners of the Ferryville see which not only the people depot they lived right across the street so I grandpa line the river my life when we were dating on the river when I let all waterskiing baking the normal thing to do while growing up a lot. I never realized until I got older, how beautiful the area live and how good it was to live along the river never appreciated it because at the time I would let all all you can think about is going bigger and better places and away from home and away from your parents. I did do that for a year when I went to college I always came back proceeded to build my own house here in town and make my daily care when I can cast away, I decided to keep their how to turn it into the vacation rental. When I asked my renters what they come to the area for a lot of my fisherman and hunter site see the high just to get away for the weekend, it seems like everybody comes to the area. Everybody wants to come during the weekend in the summer. I have that book and I get multiple calls for the same weekend people looking for places to say, a lot of everything booked because everybody wants to come here and I realize now as I get older. How beautiful it really is along the river and the sunset and just the beauty of it and now I know why people come here senses here are amazing. So what are some of the things you tell your guests that they should check out when they're in the Ferryville area. I always got in the ring thing I tell him to go over there and look at the quaint little door. I send them to the local union for burgers is a prime rib on Saturday nights are to the wooden nickel just for a quaint little marker drinker dear my send them to Prairie if they like to gamble and go on the boat broke one of the staff just on the local area thing hiking over and not have more if they want to be chasing them to plant clock if they want to golf I send him to Brooklyn or Prairie orchards are a big hit. They like to go over to the orchards which are close by double so the gist of extreme you going up here and raise your kids here between then and now, when I grew up here, there was a lot of kids in town so there is always something to do and something to hang out and even when my kids were young, there was still several families and and kids their age and how and people for them to play with but now it's becoming more touristy and not many families come here will hear that a lot of weekenders and vacation are, it seems to be really up-and-coming for a vacation place and a place to visit with me to stay here. I just I love being a lot better. I own property in La Crosse, but I can't even imagine looking out at traffic when I can look at that in the river. I just can't even imagine my delight, Ferryville coming down the river from across the prairie variable is one of the most beautiful places you can drive through the road passes right to the heart of the town and it's right on the river. It's the only way that you drive right to the heart of the town and can see the river. The whole time. You mention the river quite a bit in your answers. What is this also the river to I grew up along the river. I can't even imagine not living by water as I like to live in my jet ski boat fish camp on the sandbar. I can't imagine not living by the river being a bit erratic and it doesn't really draw people tell me about the people that live in for most of my neighbors nowadays are people that came from the city and had bought properties around me and have picked them up in their permanent residence. Now the house behind me just got sold but for the most part the Norton account is a pretty stable crowd of people that actually live here and then as you had felt the town more than a vacation rental not as many resident properties and upright Eagle Mountain, which is also part of the village. There's quite a few permanent residents up there along with. I think a lot of weekenders, summer residents is a big crowd

Ferryville is a little village with a population of 192 in Southwestern Wisconsin. It is located on National Scenic State Highway 35 between Prairie du Chien and LaCrosse Wisconsin. Ferryville is at rivers edge and is an excellent area for hunting, fishing and water sports. Along with being a sportsman’s paradise, Ferryville, is a motorcycle riders dream due to the hills, valleys, curves and just pretty scenery. We may be a small village but we have plenty of friendly people and lots of beautiful scenery.For more information on Ferryville, Wisconsin, please visit our website www.Ferryville.comTranscription is for seo purposes only.Larry Quamme is my guest on the Ferryville podcast. I don't worry I'm doing fine why you're calling me by my nickname. My nickname is Larry as opposed to what lower it's Jacob Quamme month. That's how my grandmother Clara Quamme me gave me the name popular in Norway. Jacob is pronounced Jacob Quamme. Me and Norm. Norway is, so did you ever spent any time in Norway. Our two sons gave us a trip to Norway. On our 40th wedding anniversary and we spent two weeks we went to the home farm and the cemeteries are full of headstones that say lower its living in Ferryville now where there's a large Norwegian population. Is there any similarities between Norway and here all once I got to Norway I knew why they came here if you put your back to the Mississippi River and you look up the coulees you're in layer doll Norway where my relatives came from. Really they didn't know how to farm except on a side hill so very very similar terrain in that area. What brought you to ferret my wife and I in 1999 went out for a drive. One day she's from Richland Center came down Highway C and we happened to turn on white Road and we went up the farm road up to the top and we were in Eagle Mountain and we came out on this big beautiful area. Lots of vacant land, and we were very attracted to that because I used to come to Ferryville with my grandpa and we ended up buying 15 acres in 1999 was a good move. Larry oh, definitely. We love it here. Let's talk about the Norwegian immigrants that are in the area. My great grandfather, whose name was Jacob Larson Quamme me and his brother Hawken came from Norway in 1870 and they came via what today would be the St. Lawrence Seaway there was a railroad that ran a little ways out of Québec and then from there, the two brothers walked to Mount Sterling, what's Mount Sterling today. All they had is what they could carry my great grandfather was 24 years old and he had just graduated from a Norwegian seminary, and he was a Norwegian Lutheran minister and he promptly settled, and founded Utica Lutheran Church upon Highway 27. When you think about it, Bob. The Civil War was just ending in 1865 and they were coming to America. Some people settle maybe they didn't even know about the Civil War I found some things that would suggest that there was a can be a way of communicating with the ancestors in Norway with a letter and it took about a month to go each way. When they left Norway they went to Liverpool, England, and then brought wooden ship from Liverpool and then came down the Seaway we have no records on Ellis Island. We were immigrants that came into the United States across the border. So he told people you know in Madison that you're moving to Ferryville full time. How did you explain the area that you're moving to the next thing is that I later learned on my the sister 10 years older than I am. She's 88, she had more recall about things around here and we learned that our grandpa had actually rented some land above Ferryville that is today, Eagle Mountain, so I would tell people I moved back to the homeland. When you explain to them where the homeland was which footage of them like this is going for Madison where there's, you know, the hustle and bustle and people all over the place to know hundred 76 people and we see an occasional car drive by now and how did you explain it to them that you're going to go to the promise that go to the homeland going to the homeland. Most people had no idea when you said Ferryville. They did didn't get it. So I started talking about moving to the West Coast of Wisconsin. It became where were halfway between Prairie and lacrosse. Most people knew where that was. Most people looked at you quizzically and said are you okay was a good move for you. Great move. We've enjoyed it. We've enjoyed life. My wife got very involved in many volunteer activities. I ended up being the clerk Treas. for the file chair for a number of years. We've enjoyed it. We love the move. So tell me what the history of Pharaoh. Well, you know, it was a humble Bush you know it one time. Why did the change man from humble Bush to ferret out. I think it had to do with the people at ran a fairy so I'm not certain why it became Ferryville. You know I started coming down here in 1947, 48, my grandpa, kinda like to make the rounds and have a beer or two. My grandmother was very Lutheran and deftly against drinking, but we use to leave and and stop first at the rising sun. He go in the grocery store get me a bottle of grape soda and I'd have to sit outside and then we would go to Fargo Junction and we would make our way back down to Ferryville bustling town. I used to sit near the swing in can't remember what the name was then and watch them load the cattle and hogs on to the railroad and there was a big lumberyard right there and the depot with the big water tower and then shoveling the coal. There's a picture that a lot of people have of the Prince and Princess of Norway visiting Ferryville in 1935. My grandparents Larson Clara were were on the dock there that morning. Ferryville was a real area of commerce up in the north and the trees were growing in they had kinda made a tunnel where you kinda went through a shade and then a course where the Grandview motel. You went over that knoll and grandpa used to drive fast and we thought we were flying through the air. On the other side did Ferryville become a drive through town rather than a destination will I think probably maybe in the slight 60s 70s. The stockyards closed. I believe the lumberyard may have burned and I can't remember early 60s when the train derailed and that took the depot and the entirely at know it ruined you know the depot area where was it just south of the post office which was the bank was at the first place. The plumbing and, for I have heard that yes we used to go and see my my grandmother was a friend of Elvira Smith and that's the White House and we used to go there and in those days you would step up a step to go into the house and then when they have redone 35 today you could sit in that house and look underneath the trucks going by. That's how much the road is been raise. I don't remember the years there's been a couple times at 35, was redone they ran across Dino down by the village hall because the train used to wrap around there. Go down with Pine Street. Today, Ferryville, Wisconsin, being the place for all seasons, but your favorite season. Well I like fall. I'm not a hot summer guy. I love it when the leaves are coming off I given up hunting some years ago I was never much of a Fisher but I like the scenes and I love the you know the hills and mountains's. There are challenges you know where we live because we have 600 foot to keep Wells the nature of it. The Norwegian heritage. It's kind of my little area of the world. I would say that it's a different kind of life to relaxed. If you're interested in. No stoplights and relaxed enforcement of stop signs and it's a great it's a great place to to live in great friends, very, very, you know people that are very interested in being social. Hiking is becoming a really big thing in a course if they were from Stoughton, I'd say you don't come back to one of the epi centers where the Norwegians came to.

Ferryville is a little village with a population of 192 in Southwestern Wisconsin. It is located on National Scenic State Highway 35 between Prairie du Chien and LaCrosse Wisconsin. Ferryville is at rivers edge and is an excellent area for hunting, fishing and water sports. Along with being a sportsman’s paradise, Ferryville, is a motorcycle riders dream due to the hills, valleys, curves and just pretty scenery. We may be a small village but we have plenty of friendly people and lots of beautiful scenery.For more information on Ferryville, Wisconsin, please visit our website www.Ferryville.comTranscription is for seo purposes only. Charley Fisher, we think of Ferryville what first comes to mind for the river. What about the river. All the Mississippians on the white spots of the Mississippi. Bob and I've been in sales for a long time and seen a lot of the Mississippi River, but quite honestly, the river has a is a real dynamic in this part of it, you know, a lot of this is my father-in-law used to say was the hayfields and ballparks until the dams came in in the 30s and the work project brought people to the Mississippi and brought people here in the said you know what we want to be here in course people laughed with work, but they always come back Ferryville pharaohs concert at hundred and 76 people what's her to do a small town, you know, it's kinda interesting. This town is a really welcoming community so the tractor pull started years and years ago the tractor pulls were a big thing in very well and they went away and then the bow to 15 years ago. They came back and so it draws people in, you know they do the fireworks out here on the river in the wintertime the Eagles that you see along the river all winter course. All the fishermen in the duck hunters Bob, that's what brings people to Ferryville so you didn't grow up here. We've lived here most of her adult life. When you think of Ferryville, Wisconsin, Charley, what keeps you here well my wife's family. Of course, you know her, it's a much deeper even than mine here. I mean, her great-grandfathers buried at Freeman Lutheran Church or grandpa and grandma were buried up there were married and her folks were married and buried up there as well and that quite honestly we were married in buried there as well, or you're very not barren for me and Terry. Let's start all over there so actually the roots come from my right side just to be here. What keeps you in the variable, Charley other people to really good group of people that are here, Bob, and for that, we really appreciate it. It's the people and the environment because it's a great area. I mean, you know there's fish and there's hunting the senior years. Good even crop in Ferryville but you spent your erasure children here you live here you got a farm here wife, Ferryville, Wisconsin. He could live anywhere. Wife's roots of course are from here but the people Bob and the people of This year. It's a great network of people and that the scenery is good and the environment. We see a lot of different people come to this area that want to come and see what this is all about it at 176 people. According to the sign that may change. Who knows, but being a small town is there huge draw for people for being a small town ever been here how many opening weekends. It's been just wild you know with people that are here Bob so I yeah there's a lot of draw the fishing the Eagles lot of people draw here is the drawing of raising your daughter here and for the schools are good when my daughter was young. The Prairie view schools out in the middle of the country between Ferryville and DeSoto up on the hills and it's a good group of people again. I got to say about it because it's the truth. It's a network of people that raise these kids, I'm on the road in sales Bob somebody had to do it and she turned out to be valedictorian so I got a given complement. check for the first time came to Ferryville, you know you're courting Christie what were your thoughts of you know, Ferryville, Wisconsin. I keep coming back to about the network of people you know that there's a group of people here that are different then in a lot of areas. Click start the clicks and Ferryville Bob because people. It's such a melted pot of people that have come here and been able to adapt your because of 170 some people's all in the community. People welcomed into the community. See start to see people and you start to know people and you got involved in the church and you got involved in coming downtown have a few beers and knowing the people and the people that couldn't wait to be here on weekends. Bob from their jobs. Whether they were in Chicago or they were in Milwaukee or they worked in Janesville. They couldn't wait to be here in Ferryville so anyway yeah very well spent. Been a great run. Keep bringing up people. Charley and I agree the people in Ferryville are fantastic and the size of the hundred and 76 but I mean it's more than the 176 people communities. Another big word and another cool thing and you know we touched on it a minute ago. Tell me about the tractor pull. So the tractor pull started years ago, long before I was part of Ferryville and my father-in-law was involved in a lot at that point in the Gilman's and a lot of the farms in this area, but even back then, but they do farms from all over coming to be part of the tractor pulls you know you hear people talking about from being over by musket alien blue River and way down and I will come in over here to be part of the tractor pulls back in those days. And of course, it went away for a while. But guess what it's like a lot of things in the soul river. The river changes and so the community changed again and so different people came back and wanted to be part of them. Tractor pulls you mentioned the river and if you bench you know you mentioned people you mentioned the tractor pull and one of the big draws for a lot of people is the river what your thoughts on the Mississippi River. I come from the world of industry and commercial and agriculture. It's it's the reason we have so much strong cash drain in this area. That's why our fertilizers are able to be at a more affordable price. Because of what we can do coming off the river with product versus trucking. It all in and in being in a lot of those areas but it's also the recreation thing about how many people's lives have changed so that not a pontoon boat, drinking a few drinks on a Sunday afternoon with your best friends. People don't forget that stuff Bob know they really don't you deal with a lot of the local people that are farmers and that you know that are that the backbone of our community. There was a lot of tobacco raised here in the day you know and insert tobacco was a big cash crop and a lot of Norwegian heritage. When you get up in the hills around outside of Ferryville. Here, the Lutheran Church, the Freeman Lutheran Church got a strong heritage that way. So me and coming to the ferry to tell me a story about why would want to come here and stay here yet so for Milwaukee are only 3 1/2 hours so it isn't like it's a three day run to come out here and be part of this when you get here you can see some of the prettiest areas that you'll see just comparable to the Black Hills. People want to go to the Black Hills to look at the hills, nice hills out in the Black Hills but they don't have the river as we got here. Do they Bob know they really don't and 3 miles across your one of the widest spots in the in on the in the river right here in favor Wisconsin? He looks out there and I mean it it it's an amazing view. So I was blessed. Looking back on it now that that farm up on the ridge right beside us turned in Eagle Mountain. We got discovered Bob and so went once we got discovered and people started to buy land here and become part of the community. It was like they wanted to stay a part of that was really because of the people that were here and nationally that Them here. It introduced a minute and brought them into the area when we moved that Eagle Mountain was nothing but a farm called the lower place and it was that there was a set of buildings there in a tobacco shed and they burnt the whole thing. They started building roads. They started making views of the river and we met so many unique people that have come here to be part of the community to tell you a story about that that was really interesting so years ago, Christie, Ruben and me. We had tobacco right along the road there and the guy stopped and he built a new house out here. He was a long searching in Chicago and he said I want to stop and I want. I'd love to buy three beliefs tobacco I can have them what you do in a long searching and I want to show people what kills him. Got three big leaves that tobacco and took it back to us back to his office and he always told us he had him in his office and said we raise this back were I I I have a house that we raise it. He wasn't raising it, but he was part of the community. So use we Bob what your favorite story about Fernando. I think one of the things that's one of my favorite stories is actually been part of the celebrations of life with no cone funerals anymore Bob for a couple of really neat people over the years Tom Tower who is a big part of Ferryville and he loved very well. He loved the community, Wilbur Dinger was an old guy that used to be downtown near a lot. That was a great part of the community that they like the community they had a passion and they're all resting here now and so we're part of their life and be part of celebrating their heritage year. So, when push comes to shove, this is where I want to be.

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E11-HealthFirst - BreastfeedingPodcast For Hire E11-HealthFirst - BreastfeedingINFOHealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Transcription for SEO purposes onlyJustine is a public relations and education specialist for health first network in Wausau, Wisconsin, as well as in other counties in North Central Wisconsin, what programs you guys are working on her with a program to do it is between outreach program or top what is Topl about top is a great program that we currently have implemented into the six grade curriculum at Adams Friendship area school district that we go in for one hour each week with different groups of students and we are able to provide curriculum lessons and then in addition to that we do a community service learning component that is part of this curriculum as well. Top is an evidence-based curriculum. There are different components to an indifferent fidelity requirements to make sure that this program is working to the best of its ability where some of the effects of the top program. The top program is really great for the students. There is a community service learning component so and that they are building ties to their community and we found that through doing that these students feel more of a responsibility to their community by having that tie, they are less likely to engage in behavior that is detrimental to their community. In addition to that the curriculum has three different components to it. So there is a connecting with others component of building my skills and learning about myself, so through those three different areas that are able to as it sounds, build their skills so there are things such as relieving stress and emotional intelligence. There is a social emotional learning component to this. So there are so many things that are going into this so that the students are able to learn about themselves connect with others connect with their community. So by building all these things we are scaffolding and building these students up to create self-confidence and by doing that it really has long-term positive effects on their health and on all the different realms of their health. So, not just health and the way often we think about it a physical health but there is an emotional health is a social health and so on and so forth that comes with this curriculum are the ties we made to the community. The tither being made to the community through community service learning which is a component of the top program or teen outreach program so community service learning projects could include a wide variety of things we often do projects with the students within the classroom. Since we are part of the school day where we may be. Create letters that we send then to an assisted living home or we have created things such as fleece blankets that we've donated to the assisted living home down there. We have created dog treats cat toys for humane societies. There's a lot of different ways that this can go. But as long as we have that tie to the community and something that can benefit the community members as the main thing that were looking for and then as part of that. We want the students to feel the glow and that comes right from the Wyman or top curriculum. And that's the big piece of it. So with the community service learning project. Those students are choosing what they want to do so. This isn't something that we tell them that you're gonna be doing this project or that project. It's something that they have a tie into and that they have communicated that they would like to do and that helps them really build that tie versus being told what to do because as we know that usually doesn't work with students or anybody. Anybody that that matter

HealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Transcription for SEO purposes onlyKaren Zimmerman, a WIC specialist from health first networks talking with this the third time we've had a chance to talk in this podcast, which great this almost focus on breast-feeding. How does WIC and breast-feeding go hand-in-hand to doesn't seem like they would be in conjunction with each other. So, how we feed our babies is one of the main components of what the WIC program is breast-feeding is the gold standard for how we should feed our babies now a lot of moms haven't had very much support in their own histories and own lives to be successful at that, even if that is what they want to do because none of their people that they associate with have ever done that one of the things that the WIC program has is called a breast-feeding peer program and what that is is we have moms who have breast-fed their own children and have been involved in the WIC program. They connect with our new moms to be there support person. Oh, that's cool. One of the aspects of it as a peer is that they need to speak the same language and be of the same culture as the mom. So in our population. We have like 30% of our population is mom so we have a Monk's woman who is breast-fed her babies that can speak among that can call those moms and chat or be that support person for them to call back to and how it works. The moms are connected via text or phone call and we just reach out to them and say hey here a.m. if you have troubles. If you have questions. I'm here to help you is your typical? It all depends on the mom situation. If there's no problems then you talk about what to expect and what's normal baby behavior. In the beginning, but if there are troubles or the mom just has questions like is this normal or is my baby getting enough to eat. This doesn't seem like he's growing good enough or how do I breast-feed my baby when I have a two-year-old. That's also running around ripping the house apart right so those kind of just mom kinda conversations in support is what the program is all about is your such a thing as breast-feeding classes. Oh yes, yes, most definitely. That's another aspect of our program that we offer moms breast-feeding class that is available to them in in the last month or two before they are scheduled to deliver their babies and things that we talk about in that class we cover things like what are the benefits of breast-feeding. How do you get started. What can you expect from a normal healthy baby in the beginning what's normal newborn behavior and as a new mom. How do I know if my babies okay and what can I expect the baby to do or not do. And then if these symptoms show her this behavior shows then that's worth a call to reach out to somebody. It really helps moms be prepared so they're confident going into having this baby whether there breast-feeding or decide after they get going that maybe that it isn't working so well, but they have the ammunition then to do the an informed decision about what and how they feed their baby going forward. So, certain certification, the staff has to go through yes all of the counselors for the WIC program are certified to some level of breast-feeding certifications and there's varying levels of that all of the counselors have had additional training on breast-feeding and be certified and one of our breast-feeding counselors is in the process of becoming an IBC LC certified lactation specialist and that stands for international Board of certified lactation consultants, and that's the highest level it's a certification that's geared towards medical care professionals who undertake the clinical management of breast-feeding in support and education. So for those moms that are having more difficulties. She will be able to help them in a very specific way because of all this extra training that she said in the testes is quite involved. One of the goals with having her at the certification level. Besides being that extra asset and resource for all of us and our WIC population is that we'd like to open that up to the general population so that we can serve as a resource for that within our community. The local healthcare systems have very limited numbers of this level certification with in the hospital and primary care systems in our communities and so we've identified that is a lack and were trying to fill that void with this certification here so Karen, it seems to me that health first networks wants families and moms and babies to be successful, and that's why you guys are helping a staff member get through and get certified as IBC LC. It seems like you guys are working toward something that a lot of other people are pushing away. Yeah, I guess we really saw that there was a void in our community. So supporting our staff member to become an IBC LC we feel that this is just a way for us to support moms and I'm more complete way better resources for a moms to be successful at breast-feeding

HealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Transcription for SEO purposes onlyJustin public relations and education specialist at health first networks. What is helpers network do for the schools that you are involved with. So we provide education within the schools and most of the counties we serve. We either provide in tandem with the curriculum that they are providing. Or we might be there main point of education for the students and we either provide education on STI's are sexy transmitted infections and/or on contraceptives as well. So in one of the schools, in particular, we are one of many community partners that come in so we provide as a set on STI's in contraceptives and then they also have other community partners come in and talk about other things related to healthy relationships. Sexual activity and the law and things of that nature wears other schools. We are there main point of education and maybe the only education that they are receiving as far as contraceptives or STI prevention to deliver school presentations. We do we do a lot of school presentations and then we can adapt our presentations to fit whatever grade level were presenting to so for talking with middle school students that might look a little bit different than if we are presenting to seniors and we can really tailor it as well to what the school is looking for. So if they've already covered STI's are contraceptives we can provide the opposite, or if they are looking for something more in that middle school level. I've presented on things such as healthy relationships and consent and communication and focusing more on that piece before we dive into some of those heavier topics so health first network is a lot of things of network means that you're probably involved a lot of different things a lot of different people a lot of different organizations. How are you working with some of the other organizations in the area to help out the students and help out the population as a whole so we work like you said in coalition so we have the tricounty coalition in our southern counties. So in Sauk Juneau in Adams County. We work with different organizations with different health departments talking about the topics that are important to the communities that we serve and the clients that we serve or hope to serve. We are part of coalitions in our northern counties as well and different workgroups in different counties who try to be involved in all the counties again that we serve. Making sure that we are working with our community partners determining how we can help serve those individuals making sure that they are aware of our services that we can serve as a resource we can provide education, we can help provide care at a lower cost or no cost for those who are in need of that. So, although we serve one kind of niche were able to help a wide variety of people at different points in their life know you should care what you mean by care care could be annual visits. It can be STI or sexy transmitted infection screening. It could be pregnancy testing, and referrals for prenatal care or adoption services. It could be for our WIC programs so women, infants and children, and that's our nutrition program so there's a lot of different facets of what we provide. You can find all this information on our website as well. Justin is one or two but you know when you're talking what kids in school so click that I hear about kids texting and doing things like, you know that they shouldn't be doing online on texting you know on different social media sites is that something that you work with students on it as well. It is so that is something that we are starting to see more and more of they will get referred to us. So if they have minor fence and this is their first offense they get referred to us for education so we can provide education on not only the STI's in the contraceptives and things like that to help them take care of themselves or to help them be healthy, but in addition to that we talk to them about the laws in Wisconsin and how partaking in these certain activities are going to affect them or could affect them if they get caught doing those things. So in addition to us again community involvement. We also work with other community organizations that provide education as well. So it's really a group and community effort to ensure that these students are getting the education that they need to hopefully get them on the right path should just be one of the other things that he is working with with the community projects and the involvement that health first networks is in. I'd heard that just recently guys started working with Special Olympics Wisconsin. So in addition to working with special effects Wisconsin. We are working with Special Olympics international as well so they are working to create a curriculum with another organization and then in addition to that we are working on a clinic experience guide that we can provide to the athletes and their caretakers, and through that those individuals will be able to use this guide to help those individuals understand what those reproductive health visits that they might have what those all entail what to expect. What sorts of medical equipment and supplies they might see during that visit just to be able to prepare them for that. So they aren't surprised when they get asked certain questions are not surprised when they're asked to do certain things. So just helps take away some of that fear factor that individuals might have walking into an appointment if they're not sure what two of the anxiety you about is amazing. You know it's it's probably overwhelming to some people, absolutely. And this is geared for special-effects athletes. But really, we see that a lot of individuals it's just sometimes the fear of the unknown whether it's reproductive health or anything in life, so anything that we can do to ease that fear and make people more aware and provide the education that really helps to empower them to come in and be able to advocate for their own health

HealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Transcription for SEO purposes onlyJesse Scharfenberg is the Chief Executive Officer and health first network in Wausau, Wisconsin in nine counties usually all over the place, which is great and my favorite times of the year's planting started gardening a couple years ago and I love gardening. I love the fresh vegetables and love the fresh fruits that love the chance to get out there and see what other people of harvested and farmers markets are huge thing farmers markets are a good thing you see them everywhere there every day of the week in every county and they're just a great access points to fresh fruits and vegetables. Some of the really cool things about the WIC program is that in the summer between June 1 and October 31. Individuals will receive farmers market check you can go to the farmers market and get fresh fruits and vegetables with the WIC program so give you a lot of variety of the early-season versus the late seasons on the October timeframe. The key to go to apple orchards and get fresh apples. So depending on the year. Individual families will get between 30 and $35 worth of farmers market checks. One of those little differences with this is that mostly with the WIC program. Each individual within the family gets their own food package to farmers market. Checks are per family. Okay, so it's not that each person is been received, the $30-$35 at each family will receive what you get a lot of things in the farmers market for 30 but you can get all have fresh fruits and vegetables, which is really great because it's an extremely important part of the diet but also supports local farmers by giving back to them by using their fruits and vegetables what we do is kind of a twofold so we work with the local farmers that the farmers market to see if they want to accept WIC checks so they have to go through a training program and then when you are actually a shopper at the farmers market. You probably see a bunch of yellow signs on different vendors and that you will find means that they accept WIC benefits. Individuals with the farmers market. Checks can go to the farmers market and the checks are for five dollars each so that you can go to different vendors so you can only use one check per vendor.

HealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Transcription for SEO purposes onlyWe talked about a lot of different programs with health first network and Suzanne plot check. During this time talking about food families and for families, ties in with the WIC program which makes sense because you're with dietitian and you soon taking over the WIC program here correct. Yes. So the for families program is a program that we do in conjunction with the WIC program it's geared towards 2 to 4-year-old children and potentially their families. The program is one that focuses on childhood obesity and preventing childhood obesity. So what the program does is families choose a goal, something that they want to work on and then we help them achieve that goal. Over the 13 month time. So how do you do that the families to the goal that they like to work on it could be something from decreasing screen time, increasing physical activity increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables they consume in a day or changing the beverages that they drink we set a goal with them and then work with them on a monthly basis by either texting, calling or emailing them and checking in with them to see how their goal is going and then giving them tips and suggestions on how they can better achieve that goal they mentioned was 13 months why 13 months rather than like six or 12 or you know that the typical time link that usually think of something going sir. So we collected starting data we get BMI from the family and then we ask some of the questions regarding how much screen time how much fruits and vegetables they consume and then we wait, that full year to make sure that you know we've captured all the data we can and then we re-ask the same questions at the 13 month mark to see what changes they made, or if there's been improvements in certain areas with use of the data for the state that family program analyzes that data they have a separate team that analyzes it and then they send back reports annually that tells each program how they've done in terms of improving the fruit and vegetable consumption in children or decreasing screen time

HealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Transcription for SEO purposes only One of the question with a lot of people that are sexually active have is how to prevent having a sexually-transmitted disease or infection you know what. Since this is such a big topic to both you guys here Jesse Scharfenberg is the Chief Executive Officer of health first network and just the entity is the public relations and education specialist. It is a much of STI's are scary. What can we do to prevent them. Use a condom that the number one thing is to use a condom and we don't see individuals using condoms anymore. Why is that so there's many reasons that people don't use condoms anymore. One thing is that we have really great access, birth control methods so they know that if their partner is on a birth control method there's no risk of pregnancy. So we kind of forget about the STI side of things and preventing those. The other aspect is we have some really great resources to prevent HIV in a taxi take medication that's prophylaxis so that you could have sexual intercourse with someone with HIV and not get HIV. So now that were not wearing about preventing HIV as much because there's other medications that are working for that people kind of forget about having to use a condom to prevent chlamydia and gonorrhea and herpes and warts because those aren't thought as long term diseases or a consequence infections. Here's a question, although still viable diseases. Yes, we are seeing large numbers of chlamydia still occurring gonorrhea for the last five years we have seen increases in STI's across the United States in all categories. So this isn't something that is even plateauing or that were seen going away by any means not just the Jesse mentioned using condoms is that as an educator. Is that something you have to teach people how to do, how to use a condom. Yes, absolutely. So when we go into education for students or we are doing outreach in the community. We make sure that we let folks know about condoms how to use them and we can provide demonstrations as well so we are able to show how to use internal and external condoms, or more commonly known as male and female condom okay you got me there. What is an internal condom. So an internal condom is sometimes still known as a female condom but that is a condom that can be used internally as the name would imply, so that could be utilized in someone with of the China they would insert the condom internally and it would provide protection that way. So you would use either the internal or external condom, but you would not use them both together to use one or the other and that internal condom can also provide some additional STI prevention externally. So when were thinking of those STI's that can be spread through skin to skin contact. The internal condom can provide some additional protection by having some of that condom outside of the body as well much in my stupid for not knowing what those are. No, but I feel that a lot of people don't know what they are. They're not commonly used is something that we encourage and we give out to all of our clients on a normal basis is using the internal condom should be used. It should be widely known but it's not. We think there's a lot of education that just focuses on the external or the male condom and when education occurs. They just forget about the internal condom. The other great thing about the internal condom is that it can be used for a no sex as well and exit points. The annual cavity. So one thing that we talk about. STI prevention ever it is that all penile to the badge. No sex will actually STI Xerox you can get Estes and Uranus. You can get it on your penis or in your Regina. So when were talking about. STI prevention were talking about. If you're having oral sex, wearing a condom to follow it out. That is why there are flavored so we went to the Reading is coming. We don't know that there are flavored condoms so if you are having oral sex and the penis is going into your mouth that individuals should be wearing a condom. There's also what we call dental dams, which are they got almost like a piece of plastic that would go over the national area that an individual could put there over the penis just so that there's for the protection from the skin to skin contact so that were not transmitting infections between individuals just review offer both of these types of condoms at health first network. Yes, we have both of these and all of our clinics available for anyone who's looking for them so people can pick these up regardless of sex, so again as we said for the internal and external condom with health first network to talk about. STI prevention. What about if you know you had unprotected sex and you're worried about you know, did I catch something or did so in noted something slick by the combo Maury got a bit your burner. It is your testing available yes. So we do testing for STI's and just as you said it whether someone has had unprotected sex, and even if they had protected sex, condoms work really really great at preventing STS, but since they aren't 100% we do recommend getting screened routinely for STI's. If you are sexually active, so at least once a year on the everyone should be getting screen for STI's, and if you are having a change in partner. If you have multiple partners then we would likely recommend getting screen more routinely so you can talk with one of our providers and then they would be able to let you know how frequently to be screened for that at health first. We test for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HPV genital herpes genital warts trichomoniasis or sometimes known as trick and HIV is there like a shot or vaccine or something that that somebody could take to prevent STI's there is a vaccine is called got a cell and it will protect you against nine of the most common cancer causing strains of HPV, which is the human papilloma virus. So what we see is that human papilloma virus is There's a lot of people out there that have cervical cancer that don't know that they have it or have the precancerous cells for cervical cancer correct. Yeah that's very true. So that is why when individuals come in for their annual exams. They are on schedules to have their Done and then we also do eight what's called HPV Co. testing. So we are taking samples of the cervix to be looking for the HPV virus as well. As part of the FP OS and is part of the family-planning only services or F because so with the Gardasil vaccine in the annual exams that Pap smear the HPV co-testing all of that is covered FP OS so individuals are getting these services at zero cost and were do we go about getting appointments. You call 1-800-246-5743 in nine counties in north-central Wisconsin

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Downtown Main StreetDMI422 Main StreetLa Crosse, Wisconsin54601(608) 784-0440Transcription for SEO only. Art Fahey joins us on this DMI podcast. Downtown has the college area, which is always fun for people to enjoy. I think of such a variety no myself for not being your lacrosse centering at the multiuse building sign in one day we might have a sports vacation shown the remaining efforts. The organic farmers conference and turn around and get high school basketball games coming in or entertainment that comes through so I think the shield of the varieties were small town feel people come in they feel safe will crosses embraces and welcomes all our guests and then realize how important our guest coming to the Aryans are local people coming to the downtown area are so I think is quite a warm reception everybody coming to the area so I think were unique in the beauty that we got as well) features a lot of things that neglect communities would look at art, say, is the director of the La Crosse Center in downtown La Crosse and a lot of things are happening down there, including the remodel of the La Crosse Center. Let's talk a little bit about the remodel to be tells is going on with the lacrosse in her care is the process it's going to take about almost 2 years to get completed. We had a renovation remodel of the arena, so this new seating in their sound system, lighting, HVAC, dressing rooms, locker room concession stands have all been remodeled were to be going in the outer court order that goes around the buildings that people have to go outside to navigate to the building and we put up a new North Hall called a noteholder call and that is ready to go. We are at now is called the punch list time where construction guys are going through. They really have turned the keys over for us for those two particular rooms that we still have construction guys are better available and you will a midway point through the first phase of the construction for part that still continuing as a number of meeting rooms and a volume that overlooks the Riverside that scheduled for the end of November to be completed and that there continuing with that process over the front Street area, which is adjacent to Riverside Park and will assign the building so we move along very well. You know it. If you ever look for a no light in the middle Kovacs and the construction crews that stay healthy throughout last actually progressed very well and very quickly. Overall, no work on time and on budget. It always is all good things there. As far as the overall construction venue absolutely destroys positive things to be on time and on budget. So art what will the impact of the remodel have on the downtown La Crosse area well you know when forecasting this we had economic impacts of increasing but the center could do for the downtown area in the range of $79 million a year that on top of already the 18 million it was doing so already and admit hi $29 per year economic impact for the area here. So now this is something that certainly has a direct impact on hotels and restaurants and shopping locations that are near to us by others sent ripples throughout the county. So it's something that can be beneficial to West Wisconsin because we slowly ramp up and get out of this code. People start meeting again and I will see the effects of this in our success with a lot of things we have here have been and made multiple small events and we see that continuing and we do have a large marquee event that comes through the multiple small vents is obviously the core of our success for the La Crosse Center, how many employees work for the La Crosse and well test test test code is created all kinds of fluctuations in pre-Covid, we had 15 full-time at about 300 part-time. So when we got in the Covid all, unfortunately, all part-timers and all were just the work form and we went from 15 full-time down to seven full-time now that were slowly coming back were starting to make plans and we have an escalating plan to add people back in. Based on the floor business. Now we we will have again somewhere in that 15 to 19 range of full-time people. Once we are considered at full steam and will be in at 250 to 300 part-timers again. Once we have everything back in place in the world stacked some consents and normal art. Let's look forward to the future to pass 2022. When things are back to running normally. What is the future look like for the La Crosse Center while you know what we've got is new meeting space is a different kind of meeting space here and were anticipating know that that will bring a different clientele down to us and always got a lot of floor space to tradeshows and go along with this and breakout space were looking for a lot more regional type of business coming our way, which I think was an area that we hadn't been delivering which certainly can be done now and we could see things coming out based on the Minneapolis are based on the lighting as well as island in Wisconsin to come our way related to some right things and some exciting things that you would be opening up the doors as you go along here and there's certain events that are to be large events that will also come our way here that will take up the entire building with the La Crosse Center expansion and everything art is La Crosse and are still going to be hosting like the big Moses vent that comes every year. Yes, that definitely was going to 2022 there making plans come back and be with us and is a featured event that does come to the building. A lot of people are aware of it and continue to come our way and so were looking for a long-term relationship will continue with the organic farmers organization part which have an impact as the downtown La Crosse area have when you have an event committed. Let's say the WIA basketball tournament was very important that our neighbors in the downtown area and are involved in greeting people just seating for 500 people in relation to the downtown and they're going to go out and have a cocktail and maybe a meal, and maybe do a little shopping you know you really set many people in a downtown you can quickly see where the restaurant that's 50 to 75 tears to be filled out fairly quickly, so they just need to be aware know if what were doing when relation peak, which is great communication between us and the commission has grown the downtown organization and DMI to let these folks know that they're coming to be in town and you will probably feel the effects of sin on hotels or to three days parking all comes into play. So we need to partners in the downtown area know to be able to welcome those folks = insane welcome this organization in the town and given the hospitality La Crosse is known for. Because these people are taking and not just La Crosse, and it is taken whole community. So art how much of a factor is that having a vibrant downtown is trying to sell the center to the prospective new client. I think that's important now. Each community got their own little sales point La Crosse certainly got ours without saying you know this but the back door and get the Mississippi River Riverside Park right here. Not hardly any community in the state of Wisconsin I can talk about the Mississippi River. So your features here that we sell are important to know in comparison to others.That's why Vince move around taking those different things the city has you know we have things like the DMI what they do is they get the message out to all the membership and those are the ones downtown Main Street. To me those are the people that are wrapped right around this year and what we do and what they do you know are joined at the hip. If you will, and so the value of DMI having a communication and filling storefronts and giving people things to do once they leave our building that's important is if we didn't have a downtown. It was thriving like it is and how it can really make our guests coming to town to go for a little when I go Baptist because it is not much going on but the way our downtown is its active it's lively it's driving snow so DMI is a great job

HealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Transcription for SEO purposes onlyFrom expectations to conversations. We offer all the services you would expect health first network provides quality confidential reproductive health care, education, and nutrition counseling this month's health first podcast features Karen Zimmerman service line manager for WIC Karen's work for the WIC program at health first network for 32 years so Karen who qualifies for the WIC program. The qualifying criteria are pregnant moms breast-feeding moms moms who have children under six months of age if you're not breast-feeding, and then kids up to the age of five in those households where those people reside that gross income needs to be under hundred and 85% of poverty which an actual dollar terms. Let's say you have a mom and dad and two kids. Your annual income grows, we need to be roughly under $48,500. So if you think about it. If you're making almost $50,000 a year as a family with two kids. That's a lot of people today that work in positions where that's what their income is that number is the thing that makes us different because we are designed to help those people that make more than would they be eligible for other resources and is a stop off program to write is not a you get your here forever. It's a were helping you to attain the next goal right and the other thing that we do that makes us so that it is that step off once a year everybody that participates in the program needs to come in and do another appointment where we reevaluate all the eligibility criteria roughly every three months where contacting people to do some follow-up education or another way, in a measure on kids to see how everybody's growing and it's an opportunity for us to provide that additional education for parents with young children because as you know they change rapidly and the problems they present change rapidly and we're here to provide that just one-on-one education to help parents do the best they can to help their children grow to be the best we do a health and a diet assessment because all the counselors like is that our dietitian. So that's our focus, so if you think of the well-child visit with the nutrition focus we don't do medicine. We don't do what the doctor does but we also are trained and can identify things that would warrant a hey this is something that you maybe want to give your doctor call about because this doesn't look quite right in the program called with women infant and children know that there's something over some single beds that are rich in kids with his grandparents in a region kids and it always blended families and families now is there a lot different than they used to be part of that work are they able to get help from work yes yes and those are ones to that we really struggled to reach because they don't realize that we're here to help them as well because the child is the one that's eligible for the program. So if the child meets the criteria for eligibility. Whether it's the grandparents raising the child that dad a foster child if they qualified they can qualify for as long as they meet the criteria. If, for example, a child qualifies for badger care. They most likely would qualify income wise, even if the say the child is with grandma and grandpa and they could get the help because the child is meets the criteria so it's all about helping the children helping the children and so we really encourage anybody that is interested in at least checking it out. We can screen them over the phone. That's a simple process with a phone call. There's also some online things that people can go to Whitcomb on strong where you can just fill in your information. Your information gets passed along to us and then we give you a phone call and we can have a conversation. There is another website through the state. That's called Wisconsin well badger which is a really cool website where people who are looking for some assistance in one type of thing or another Wisconsin well badger you can do it online or you can call the number that pops up when you're looking for that is process is easy if you were did come for an appointment. What happens is you get checked in. We do have some documentation that families need to provide like a piece of mail ID check stubs and then have a conversation about where the family wants to do better and set goals in three months they come back to see us or we contact them. Then were checking in and helping them do better whatever they want. For more information visit www.health1network.org or find us on social media at health first network

Downtown Main StreetDMI422 Main StreetLa Crosse, Wisconsin54601(608) 784-0440Transcription for SEO only. A new Location and a new Executive Director DMI a.k.a. downtown MainStreet Inc. lacrosse is moving in the right direction with Terry Bauer the new Executive Director for downtown Main Street, Inc. Terry, what is downtown MainStreet Inc. it's an organization nonprofit concert with the city of La Crosse to ensure ongoing economic development while cultivating a relentless downtown BMIs membership driven organization Terry so one of the benefits of becoming a member of downtown MainStreet Inc. I think all of this is realize that their low storefront filled with businesses that the downtown community is much more vibrant and that works for all businesses solicit selfish interest to be part of downtown because it does build traffic promotions and events that create some vitality in downtown La Crosse and with the election without something like downtown MainStreet personals initiatives forward Terry that's working with the other organizations in the community, absolutely Bob, we have developed a synergy group which includes the explore lacrosse and concert convention and visitors Bureau Chamber of Commerce seven rivers Velasco and ourselves know-how, common theme to improve and enhance the La Crosse area featuring different strengths to the table. I think were better together about working together and working together to the missions kind of overlap with each other enough uniqueness with our missions and our memberships that it does broaden the base of appeal to our members to see my have a vision statement or a mission statement derivations to promote the vibrant downtown… Businesses, braces, history sober sculpture captures the spirit of community while enhancing the vitality of the entire region, which is probably what we are grouped together and that synergy group because we want to include the entire region in our marketing. A lot of our business here is certainly local in the tourist business that we do get this kind of icing on the cake tour businesses. We really need to get people living within 50 miles of lacrosse coming into lacrosse to shop dying and stay in hotels people enjoy walking around historic downtown La Crosse County talk where members Terry talk about investors rather than members and membership why you do that way. Why are they investors rather than members. I think words have meanings and is an investor, you have ownership part of the solution when you put in the downtown MainStreet and my investment is to generate a return for me so that's kind of the challenge that were faced with those following and going that investment return to those people that through our marketing efforts are events or promotions, just creating activity in downtown La Crosse. I want to see all our storefronts don't know the significant growth that have all storefronts don't to drive additional new business in the downtown La Crosse to get a hold of DMI number 608784 0440 784-0440 the website of La Crosse downtown.com ridiculous social media search for downtown MainStreet Inc. and get files on Facebook downtown is a place you want to be when you shop one live, work, play with a lot of unique shots downtown that you'll find anywhere else on the cross. Enjoy

HealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Jesse Scharfenberg CEO of health first network talking about how reproductive health affects other areas of health and why is health first network essential we provide reproductive health care and there's many people that would probably argue that reproductive health care isn't essential, but your whole body is connected from head to toe. So each system is so important have to jump in analysis of what how can it not be essential. I thought I heard a lot of the bigger hospitals suffered, turn people away from you know testing in birth control and seeing patients when you're at home alone. I'm just to say that what you doing right and that's really interesting. We've heard that we seem kinds of action had an increase in client caseload right now. During the Covid pandemic because individuals are being seen health systems for reproductive healthcare because there was certain subsets of services at health systems that were deemed nonessential and when I heard this and I was thinking unlike how is reproductive healthcare nonessential. It is such an essential part of your body. It controls pregnancy and controls STI there's UTIs. So it is some of the system is known as TI and UTI and STB and all the stuff what it would've yeah sorry I like to use alphabet soup last thing that is lying me out and that STDs were sexually transmitted diseases and then back in 2015 2016 timeframe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed it to STI which is sexually transmitted so that the same thing the same thing that STD STI is definitely interchangeable. We try to go with the new nomenclature of the STI so that we are in line with what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are utilizing UTI is a urinary tract infection. So a lot of individuals may confuse that they have been STI but it could be a UTI or someone may think they have a UTI and is actually nasty so bring those individuals in for testing and treatment is super super important. So infections can travel. So it's really important that we are having and performing STI testing on a normal basis. One of the big things that we do is screenings for cancer health first when you thinking about breast cancer we do clinical breast exams all the time, was sometimes the first line of defense of identifying some sort of nodule that were to refer an individual out for mammogram we do pass in politics after a Pap smear, an individual may have been identified that they have cancer cells of the next things that we can do here is actually doing a cervical biopsy to identify what's going on in referring an individual out. It's really unfortunate that individuals would think reproductive health is essential in that education around reproductive health is not essential because a lot of these things that we see we could prevent there's so many essays that could be prevented if an individual just knew how to prevent it. So let's use a condom. Let's practice safe sacs. We offer the HPV vaccine which is human papilloma virus that something that's in controversy over the past 10 years. I don't understand why Dixon is the only vaccine out there that prevents cancer and at that it prevents nine strains of the most common cancer causing strains of HPV cancer is given to both boys and girls in humans about Boys and Girls Club and which was really really cool last year we actually changed the age range, so it used to be €11-€26 and now 27 to 45-year-olds can receive the vaccine as well so working and continue to prevent cancer in individuals who are already sexually active as well. How can that be nonessential. I don't know. It was really interesting when this came out there was a lot of reproductive health clinics that can put services just on hold. I took an initiative and worked with you to perceive Wisconsin collaborative for reproductive health. The Wisconsin contraceptive access network and then Wisconsin family-planning reproductive health Association, which I serve as president for and said hey we need to put something out there to let individuals know that reproductive healthcare is an essential service. Individuals should have the choice of when they want to become pregnant, they should have the choice to go in for STI testing if they are sexually active. We know during this timeframe. Individuals are not ceasing sexual activity. So let's give them the tools to do it safely. Whether that be condoms and whether that be education or let them choose when they want to become pregnant by letting them properly space pregnancies or just prevent pregnancy with a contraceptive method. One of the things that kind of has his big black cloud over is the word abortion. Abortion is not something we do at health first. My personal mission is that an individual should never be in the position to have to make the choice as to whether they have an abortion or not, because we should be preventing every single pregnancy that wants to be prevented education having conversation with your staff over the last few hours today but I've learned quite a bit. Do offer educational services. We do we accept quite a few different educational services and we continue to look at expanding those we going to schools and give many presentations around, pregnancy prevention, contraception, and then STI prevention so that individuals know what. STI's are. They know that if you can be sexually active, you may become pregnant and how do you prevent that we give community presentations. We've instituted a really awesome curriculum in the Adams Friendship school district. It's called top the teen outreach program and it's really about building self-esteem and then talking about sexual health. On top of that, so we want to give them a good base at the sixth grade level to hopefully prevent some of those unintended pregnancies and STI rates that we are seeing in Adams so we provide a lot of education around that we have individuals that just come in for education and they may not be coming in at all for reproductive hands-on services, but just education. We have another really cool partnership down in Adams Friendship. It's called the diversion program so we know that individuals once they are in the juvenile justice system, they're more likely to be repeat offenders and continue to have charges that become worse and worse and worse. So our goal is to keep individuals out of the juvenile justice system and in that county. We were seeing a lot of young individuals being referred over to the DA for consensual sex acts. So maybe it was 215-year-olds having sex. Maybe they were texting pictures to each other. Our goal is, whether it be the district attorney's social services. The school or local police department identifies that and they actually refer the individual over to us for consequence education. So taking the educational route versus a prosecution route with those individuals and we have the school Health and Human Services local Sheriff's Department local police department. The DA everybody's involved in what we do with this huge prevention aspect of we have these kiddos there identified go over education with them once they refer to us. We have the local women's shelter come in and provide healthy relationship education and then when that charge actually goes across the DA's desk. The DA can see that they actually went through the educational session and most likely are going to pursue charges to put them into the juvenile justice system

Transcription is for SEO purposes only. To find out more about the city of La Crosse please visit their website www.cityoflacrosse.org to find out more about Podcast For Hire please visit PodcastForHire.comThe city vision 2020 podcast we started this thing off back in January 2020 and were already at December 2020. My first guest in this podcast was Mayor Tim Kabat and my final guest in this podcast for city vision 2020 is Mayor Kabat Mayor this year was kind of a cluster and he will challenge great when it was a challenge for all of that and made no looking back on January 2020. That seemed like that was about 10 years ago already like this year's particularly long and particularly challenging in a notary lot of folks that have shared with me that they're happy to see that the next year. All the challenge and in many ways and very, very difficult. I've been pleased and proud of how our community has responded to the most part and just people we can help people receive a lot of shop local efforts to help our merchants and just a lot of giving in and trying to be there for each other so that that part of it is obviously very positive and surprised me because I know that lacrosse community is about stealth and very very difficult in your heart goes out to those that have lost jobs and all that are struggling right now. Mary asking about Covid 19 and then the coronavirus at one time this past year lacrosse was in the national spotlight for being one of the places that had some of the most outbreaks in the in the country. What what was done to stop that spread you right we were in the muddy list of the stars being one of those hotspots in the entire country, and that's not where you want to be that the combination of people returning to school and unfortunately most of that community spread impacted not only the schools but then also our assisted-living and long-term care facilities. That was really a bad thing. There was and there has been really all throughout this especially around that time, you know, ramping up the communication, and context of those institutions that really trying to get people to do the right thing, which is to stay home and to wear a mask if you go out and do the social distancing of the good hygiene, so the collective group between the healthcare providers in the county health department and ourselves and other institutions really increase that level of communication that the universities also increase their level of testing. So they were really trying to identify their their young people and their students that that might be positive and the contact tracing as well that the county has been doing really trying to charge people and let them know if they've been exposed to in close contact with someone so those efforts have been that they set on going but they were really ramped up around the fall and you know those universities that can things were quarantined and and going more virtually their classes which also help being the mayor and then this time of Covid and seeing businesses shutter and shut down for a while and some have gone out of business that way on you man are not taking things personally because we do see a business or or you will find what the pros build and scale up in the storefront really is hard to not take this personally and unfortunately we lost some thing else and long-standing businesses here to this whole thing in, we did respond to the city again in the area were we really did try to do whatever we could resources we have available to provide grants to our local businesses. The program back in April named their we down to through our own efforts on that map to any care spending your federal stimulus but through our own efforts. We distributed close to half $1 million to about 80 businesses to try to help them out. And no, there are many of those that are still in business, but the challenging the committee's frustration is that we receive the businesses we see are our friends and neighbors who might be struggling will make them right off and the health really has to come from the level in that first round of stimulus checks and the Malones and in the PPP support the government provided to businesses again back in April and May was very positive and needed. It's just unfortunate that that will get you know there wasn't anything there hasn't been anything else sense and that really where needed it throughout the summer and fall now into winter to think that people can survive on all $1200 support back in April and make that last year or sketch that out to the whole year is that's just not possible in the same goes for the business support site we've been working hard to not only try to support our local and also to reach out to our federal and state partners to encourage them to morning were still hopeful that maybe will be something done to you in the next month or so that can help people in O'Mara looking back this year there hasn't been any playbook or anything in history that we could've compared this to Rosalie thing on the front lines being in a part of the decision-making to help out. The city will we be treated this as an you still treating it as a community emergency so we established our emergency management protocols back in late March, which is really a different way he goes about communicating and organizing itself so the organization you know being able to respond to not only to continue to provide our services. So we spent the year still doing all of the essential things, providing safe water and taking care of people's waste and garbage and recycling and having our public safety be a priority in an emergency response and no still fixed in the streets until you those things so be modified somewhat the approach and how we communicating within the department. You can think of been very positive because I don't believe are residents of the really missed a beat and how we have provided those services and then then the other part of that was the partnering and will work with those I mentioned earlier healthcare providers are county health department are businesses to really try to encourage and support them and slowing the spread of Covid 19 some cases the notes and positive and successful. In other cases, as you mentioned earlier will now number one in the country hotspot and still continue to have high case numbers not gone as well so you know that, coupled with trying to provide grants for businesses to keep them going in and partnering with our nonprofit provide assistance in trying to prevent conviction. It has been below the there's been challenges almost on every front and we have responded pretty well, but it'll be interesting to see take a step back a year or two from now and really analyze what worked and what didn't do that to care for the Mexican community emergency that might come along in O'Mara's we have this last conversation for the 2020 vision podcast. I want to bring up some of the nice things and some of the good things the city is done like the fixing up of a lot of the roads there's a lot of stuff that happened at the different parks there's been you know the movement downtown with the La Crosse Center. I mean there's a lot of great things that happen this year as well and I think we have been all in all considered. We still maintain are those services and need to get that close libraries and we closed parks and beaches in our swimming pools and some of those things which were a disappointment to our our residents that we also expanded and added more miles of trails this year so people have the opportunity to get out more areas of the city on our trail network which I think is really phenomenal and like you mentioned are very significant renovation and expansion of La Crosse in the downtown is moving forward to be a beautiful addition that this guy lying in and we connection to the park and the river is spectacular and people are very excited to see that any of the other the other projects in an effort to will working on just again taking care of the business. The I will be breaking ground in the new fire station on the north side early next year on the road work in trying to just be the thing that people expect you know what their hard earned dollars in the pot contact that they pay trying to meet those expectations and I think no, all things considered, to get a good job this year, give or take away or get good memory. Good thought about 2027 or later or lead to an earlier that's just how people in our area have come together and there's been a number of separate to raise money for local businesses before you can about the marketing of topping local and just reinforcing how important it is that our our dollars stay here in the community have been very pleased and impressed with how many people I see on social media and no talking and communicating with people around around the city just that Patrick is been really pleasing to you and and and am hopeful that some businesses going during this very difficult times. I think that's probably the biggest thing is yes. 2020 think for everyone. Probably not on their top 10 list of favorite gears, but I think that the community response and somebody is trying to get through a shows how how resilient crosses and in the meanwhile look forward to brighter days ahead to share you know when we started this podcast were talking about looking at 2020 is that it is a great year. What did you want to get accomplished this year. That didn't happen. I would question that there's probably a few of the of the projects that just get longer you will be will delayed a little bit because of the need to respond to Covid I think about the Riverpoint district that still moving forward. I think that was delayed a little bit because of Covid

HealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Transcription is for SEO purposes onlyFrom expectations to conversations. We offer all the services you would expect health first network provides quality confidential reproductive health care, education, and nutrition counseling care and what made you decide you want to get into WIC just like public health, public health nutrition is really where I as a dietitian because all the counselors are dietitians, public health nutrition is something where you can really see the impact of what you do, didn't even realize there is any motion on that note to school. One of the cool things about the WIC program is that you get to see kids grow and develop over the course of time as a dietitian in the hospital or clinic settings you see people one or two times and you don't get to develop that relationship with the families like we do here WIC stands for women infant and children and WIC is a supplemental food and nutrition program for pregnant moms new moms and young children where families meet certain qualifying criteria to be eligible for the program once they're determined to be eligible, besides getting a lot of nutrition education and support we provide supplemental food, healthy supplemental foods like juice, cereal, eggs, peanut butter, milk and assortment of things and a lot of nutrition education and breast-feeding support as well as referrals and information about other resources within the community that might benefit that family. I know the education side of it is pretty amazing. I don't usually show this but when my twins are born, we participated in work we were able to live and stay in her house and you know because you we are twins and having twins on top of two other children, you know it was it was a big expense and to have WIC there to help out was a godsend was life saving your example is in exactly the kind of family that we really really want to try to help the difference between WIC and some of the other supplemental programs like food share is that our income cut off goes quite a bit higher then the other programs that are out there and so were really designed to help those struggling young families where you working but maybe child care expenses has exceeded what it's worth, and so you choose to have one parent stay home will then how do you get groceries and how do you pay your bills and the benefit that the families receive per person. It's roughly right around $70 for a child durum woman that they received. If you were to purchase all the foods that you're able to for a babysitter getting formula that's over $100 a month per child. It's a supplemental program but it adds up. And if we can help families get their basics then their resources can go to pay for other bills like diapers or gas in the car or electric bills or things like that that don't go away just because you'd one parent decided to stay home and what kind of items does WIC provide two-family good question. If you're a pregnant woman. Let's use that as an example, you would receive a quantity of food per month or you would be able to purchase that in the grocery store you would get 5 1/2 gallons of milk, a dozen eggs three containers of juice, a jar of peanut butter, a pound of dried beans or four cans of the dried beans that are cooked a loaf of bread 36 ounces of cereal now. We can also provide for people that want we can substitute out. We can provide some yogurt in place of some of the milk and cheese is another choice. If you're a child you get the same types of foods only a little different quantities babies are able to get those that are not breast-fed, or those that are getting supplemental formula. So say a mom is breast-feeding but she works out and is enabled to save enough of her milk that her baby is able to get enough to eat. Then we can be flexible and we provide some Formula One amount still get some benefits after the baby turns six months they're able to get some baby foods and then infant cereals as well. The foods that families are allowed to purchase from us. What happens is we have a very strict guideline that the USDA has set for us to provide nutrients for our families and every three years. All the foods that are available in the grocery store get looked at to see if they would qualify to meet our standards. Like for example the cereals that you can get from us are cereals that have to have a lot of iron in them. Not much sugar in them and be whole-grain if you think about examples of that. That would be something not like Lucky charms or Froot Loops. We also are able to provide fruits and vegetables for families. We give the dollar amount per month per individual. So if you're a child you get nine dollars worth of fruits and vegetables a month and women get $11 worth of fruits and vegetables a month so you can get any in the fruits and vegetables can be fresh but as you know how are growing season is so short in the middle of winter. You may not want to buy all fresh because they just don't taste so good then but so you can get fresh frozen or canned plain fruits and vegetables with your WIC benefit, and that's on the standard WIC now in the summer we do something really cool. We are able to provide farmer market checks for our families and what that is is in the summer, we provide per family $30 worth of the special farmer market checks. They take those to the local farmers market and purchase Wisconsin room fruits and vegetables get our organization on Monday afternoons in our parking lot. We have a farmers market, so it's a really neat connection where families can come if they happen to come on Monday afternoon to pick up the farmer market checks they can go right into our parking lot and purchase fruits that are grown here in Wisconsin that's instant gratification. Fiber is so cool. It is just so cool that we have this going now and families they that utilize the farmer market checks just love them so that age group for workers from birth to five till five. The history behind the five-year-old cut off is kinda interesting in that WIC program was designed in the late 60s early 70s when our country had a surplus of commodities and we had people who were hungry and there was a neat thought, where if you combine the commodities the farm commodities so flower dairy products things like that that the government was paying to help farmers produce and get them into the bellies of people who were hungry and coordinate that with some nutrition education. The thought was that we would provide these foods until kids were five and it five years old. Kids would go to kindergarten and through the school lunch program. They would then also be provided with the healthy food combinations through the school program. So that's why the five-year-old cut off was implemented. When does the client begin with WIC as soon as a mom finds out she's pregnant they can enroll with us. We want to help them throughout their pregnancy. So we see moms every three months throughout the pregnancy and help them deal with whatever the pregnancy presents for them whether they are they have morning sickness real bad there again and not to wait or not enough helping them figure out how to eat is best they can, even their life circumstances. Another thing that we do is help moms with stop smoking referrals to other programs within our community that help them eliminate barriers to being healthy through different resources that are available in the community to talk a little bit about the fact that WIC offers help to families to go out and purchase things what about families who choose to breast-feed. You have programs or do you help new moms to families without yes yes, that is one of our primary emphasis is to help moms be successful with that. So when we see moms when they're pregnant were helping them answer questions they have about how to feed your baby no matter what way they choose to feed their baby, their options galore today. We want moms to be successful with their breast-feeding efforts and so all of the counselors have extra training in breast-feeding support. We continually go for extra trainings to help us be better at that because we want moms to be successfully. For more information visit www.health1network.org or find us on social media health first network

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Transcription is for SEO purposes only. To find out more about the city of La Crosse please visit their website www.cityoflacrosse.org to find out more about Podcast For Hire please visit PodcastForHire.comLa Crosse Wisconsin is a great place to live, work and play the city vision 2020 podcast this month featuring Jared Flick recreation specialist from La Crosse Park recreation forestry Jared a lot of things stopped this year because of Covid-19. Let's talk a little bit about Covid-19 and will can move on to some other things. How did the city of La Crosse Park and rec deal with Covid-19 and what are things moving forward when it comes to dealing with Covid-19 why things happen. We had outright programming it canceled. We lost our aquatics needs and we also thought how important parts are the people we saw a flurry of flooded people into the park this summer, which is great but short of a weakness that showed a lot of positive things that are out there really help the singles out there. The programming people is very difficult just because things start off with some restrictions as far as you want people to get together and we tried programming some things and we tried many baseball program. We had to cancel it now or try to be proactive with things that were doing as far as they could fall we ran track and soccer program athletic that is easy to social distance is less contact with you. Turn out that that never going to get you turn the page to winter here in Wisconsin. What are some of the things that the La Crosse Park and rec is going to be working on are doing in the winter season. Yet some of them are hoping that we would do would be like our basketball program for kids and that is something that we can't do this because access to facilities around the school district. Right now schools are closed so that way. So will try to focus on things that we can kind of control would get people outside correctly starting hiking program for kids highly structured setting go out and move around as an exercise in kind of time to help improve their overall really doing that we have a figure skating program or another were doing over the Green Island ice arena and then we can focus on more stuff that we can outside the work we were working with thought about running with you from Bali over a Copeland something to get people out and move around and motivated your dimension Green Island in early Green Island was a big in the news at the beginning of the year that staying open now right and there's new facilities happening there as well. It is yes, that the arena itself is open, the River city youth hockey organization that didn't do a six-month use agreement with the city, with operation of the facility. So it is often worse over up and out and they're doing everything they do a great job in there to get a lot of use over there right now a lot of construction happening in that area. Tennis courts happening. As a matter fact and that the and in that specific location right there. As we entered into agreement with UBL Aquinas and the tenants Association of La Crosse to build three of 13 brand-new outdoor tennis courts and the construction was completed in red on Labor Day so we did have a few months of having been opened and they then they been popular at the outset of our first phase to the construction out there with the tennis courts in phase 2 was in becoming an looking at some whites to the seven of the court. So we kind of expand the community access to the courts in the spring and fall file phase. Phase 3 would be coming probably in the next you know one to two years would be indoor course, that's all you to be raised privately we know about the organized groups of the tennis Association. There is a lot of like little sob popular groups about playing there's a lot of people and I was actually surprised because this last summer, especially Covid-19 and everything being shut down. My kids took up tennis and they're playing a wagon park at the tennis courts there. Yeah, all of the courts this summer got slammed whether they were the tennis courts and what we saw the really really heavy to be at Invesco court over a call and that things that Joseph is been bombarded with people everything a lot of people. It was an improvement over the Erickson festival course over a block you as well to that people are just think they need something to do and that's it. As her going sledding coming up in the upper Midwest. As always, you know that the thrill of going sledding. Is there any places in La Crosse to go sledding German poor so that is a very popular place. This led last year we started doing the pop-up letting nights where we bring lights out and people can play that night with hot chocolate fires like that were do more of that this year just trying to keep people out motivated sledding very popular. Where do something that we also got some other kind of ideas out there that were to try to do with letting actually learn to skate his or so learned skating times as well are now is that part of the hockey is a hockey Association on Valencia program now, so if you want to do the initiate programs I received. Hockey is doing that late summer early fall. There is some construction over depending on what happened over there yet we cannot restructure the parking lot you never really have like a road intersecting a parking lot to destinations is create a problem. We redesigned it will replace the parking lot up to the bathhouse and the beach and then we move the road behind it. That kind of our Facebook first phase of construction at tableware next year will actually raise the S. Table Dr., Road where you go from the bathhouse to the boat club. It tends to flood a lot back there and it floods that low level as well. Square way that the defendant just enhance that state and a lot of people put their kayaks in right there in front of were you rented out the kayaks and panel boards. Is that still going to be an option. We actually just finished some construction of that. Do we put a new paved walking way for people to feel user kayaks and a little better approach space to. So what are some flaws and blinking lights and some stuff to get others in your road that kind of intersect that but it should be a lot safer for people he saw that your was extremely busy for people to be watching kayaks and canoes and stuff over. They don't let it cool things happening with La Crosse Park recreation enforcer department chair and how we find out more information about all the fun things in all the excitement that's going on with the park and rec department can add to our Facebook page city La Crosse Park Receration for streamlining that to our website city La Crosse.org and that's/Park, telephone number area code 608-789-7533 their number 608-789-7533 the your vision 2020 conversations with department heads from the city of La Crosse is a podcastforhire.com production. For more information about the cross, visit the website city of La Crosse to work

HealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Transcription is for seo purposes onlyThere are a lot of services that are provided at health first network Jesse, what are some of the things that you do we have the WIC program which is women, infants and children went to the nutrition education program and provide supplemental food benefits for moms that are pregnant, postpartum, and then children 0 to 5 years of age. We have the breast-feeding peer counseling program we have the for families program, which is an obesity prevention program for preschoolers. Then we the farmers market program within the WIC program so families who are on the WIC program are also qualified to receive a $30 fruit and vegetable voucher that can be used at local farmers markets during the summer and fall months so that they can go and get fresh fruits and that's both then if we change course and go into the reproductive health program the reproductive health program offers several services from annual exams FTI or STD testing for STI testing a sexually transmitted infection testing. It used to be called FTD, sexually-transmitted diseases, but that nomenclature has recently changed. We do, pregnancy testing, we do referrals for individuals who are pregnant to any resources that they may need, including the WIC program we provide contraceptive methods or birth control to individuals that come in with provide colposcopy's which are biopsies that the service for individual had abnormal paps. We also provide just general labs that an individual may want and then a lot of education around sexual health. Health versus the confidential reproductive health clinic that means individuals who come in, have confidential services, and that's not being shared anywhere else that we serve adults, but we also search for teenagers within the clinic and do some pretty great programming with teenagers outside of the clinic as well just interrogate you're in charge of the teams program yes so we do the teen outreach program, and we recently implemented that down in Adams friendship. So within the Adams Friendship school district. We work specifically with sixth-grade students implementing that program so teen outreach program is an evidence-based program that has a holistic approach to education. So it does focus on reproductive health, but also focuses on things such as decision-making, goalsetting, setting boundaries, healthy relationships, things of that nature. So really encompasses a lot more than just the reproductive health side, but were happy to be able to include that in there as well know it. With this education piece that you bring out of the schools and Adams friendship. Does that encompass both Boys and Girls Club yes we serve the entire sixth-grade class. So unless someone chooses to opt out our parent would choose to opt their child out of that that is just part of their curriculum. Now that we are implemented into the school day. When we serve those to finishing which success in the program yes so will last year was our first year implementing it. We saw really great success. The students are really engaged in that and there is a community service learning component to that as well so they get to be engaged within their community, which is a huge piece of that. We were caught a little bit short due to COBIT. 19. In talking with our funder is that when we met at the end of our first program year they had relayed to us that they thought really great results. We have a previous survey and post-survey that goes along with that were able to kind of track anonymously how the students have progressed, or what is change throughout the course of the year and then just being able to meet the criteria to make sure that were implementing the program correctly and we were on track with all of that to have a really successful year so I still talk that up as a success, even though we didn't get to see it quite through all the way to the end. Due to those unforeseen circumstances, any other type of outreach programs that you do. Yes. So we do a lot of education within the schools as well so we serve eight different counties and we actually have been in at least one school in each of those counties that we serve. So we go mostly into high schools. We do a little bit of education in some middle schools as well, but we are able to provide education. STI's are sexy transmitted infections and prevention of that and then we also discuss birth control methods and just kind of safer sex practices. We touch on consent some independent overall message of getting a comprehensive look at reproductive health education along with that, we did serve on the committee for human growth and development for the Wasit school district just to help kind of sure that their education again was not only comprehensive but to make sure that it's evidence-based and accurate information that's being provided to those students as well. And of course we make sure that we're providing that sort of education regardless of what school district were in or were serving. Have you thought about taking your curriculum that you're using for sixth-graders and taking that to some of the other counties that you cover yet so that is a potential in the future and we are hoping to do that down the road when there is the opportunity to do so. Currently, as if it were just in that Adams friendship school district at this point in time, but we do hope to spread that again in the future. There is a beginner and intermediate and advanced level to each of the lessons you can really tailor it to make sure that it's going to make sense for those students that you're serving at that point in time. Just it seems as though health first network is doing a ton of things. Is there anything that health first network doesn't do someone a large misconceptions and that communities that we serve is that where an abortion provider and that is not a service that we provide is not even the service that we refer for it something and that we are aiming to prevent through access to easy contraceptive services for individuals

Transcription is for SEO purposes only. To find out more about the city of La Crosse please visit their website www.cityoflacrosse.org to find out more about Podcast For Hire please visit PodcastForHire.comThe city vision 2020 podcasts this month featuring Adam Lorentz from the MTU Adam thanks for joining us again a lot of things happening with the MTU this year. I think with any department a lot of things happening. There's been some big impact to our services and then how we operate, but there's also some really good things happening. Well, let's talk about was positive with the MTU. We are actually awarded to additional buttons those buses came as part of the round two of the VW settlement which was a settlement that VW settled with the government for falsifying emission records and we were awarded to hybrid buses. The purpose of the VW mitigation was to take some old boxes that produce a lot of that carbon footprint. Heavy levels of fumes out the bus replace more efficient buses were really thankful that we were one of the year that were awarded to buses and after put our fleet up to 10 new buses by the end of next year. So 10 new buses coming in 2021 Adam what is that mean for the average writer in the city of La Crosse wanted just to be an easy riding on somebody's bus that we had were mundane back from 2001, 2002 and to get those off the road obviously anything new is better. Things like needed a ride can always send this now that the fumes that come from the box you know what the lowly mission titles uniting only minutes about anything with Erica on 1015 20 years ago where you know the joke was that there is a cloud of smoke coming out of the back of the buses, so it's really just user-friendliness of the buses you know some of our new buses are equipped with charging stations for USB charging all the buses now are equipped with an anti-out monitoring system. So the riders can see where the buses are in real time so that they know exactly if the buses can be there in one minute to answer the next buses need and 21 of the things I noticed in the last few years as more and more people are using the bike racks in the front of the buses are the new buses going to be equipped with those, absolutely. Yeah, you know we work with a lot of the local bike advocate groups around the Supercross and they always call us are. That last mile they call it where you know the bike rider you want the life of these great trails throughout the La Crosse but they can get from point a to point B to utilize them variable to use the MTU to get the last mile that the nation absolutely will be bike rack and all the people at diminished abilities to get on and off the buses there any help for that all the buses are ADA equipped so buses can lower light to the curb right to the ground and all the buses are equipped with the motorized ramp. So anybody has something mobility device. We can get them in their we also have securement stations and answer new buses are equipped with more efficient and safer securement stations are people that have such a motorized scooter or wheelchair ramp this your kid against the front of the box so I don't have to worry just not getting on the bus to one third line on the box. They can feel safe and now with their time. The nation think the speaking of safety and a lot of protocols in 2020. That is that in common and I see the bus drivers using them all the time with the masks and stuff do the riders have to wear masks as well when they're on the buses yeah yeah so as to before the government order. We were putting in. Where everybody had to wear a mask on the box and obviously are bus operators are required to the that's really just the tip of the iceberg of what was done here from faculty protocol we spoke last time. The kind of getting started with some of the items but you know me have a fog or any Mr. machine that each sanitize the buses every single day. We have new chemicals that are proven to kill not only the culprit but also the common fluid other types of viruses that our cleaning staff relentlessly goes over the buses. We have used utilize the back door as much as we can to try to stop that close proximity with the bus operators the passengers and talk about positive the vessel on the positives is that we were actually awarded there's money directly to us. The federal government, which allowed us now spent care for the rest the year. So what that does is two things. One is obviously not the interaction with the bus operators that keep that up for something also was handling of cash bears and passes that you don't want to do right now but really certainly it's allowing people that are maybe have been impacted by COBIT feel financially that they know that they don't have to worry about the bus pass at the bus there for that day and month and on all the midst of all the negativity I think that's one positive that's really set out that the MTU for their people in the now obviously there's a cost to a lot of the stuff. How to cite in the getting paid for was funded federally and through the state, then also there's some local share. So on the city La Crosse is a portion that's running contact communities of the Crescent Campbell and I'll have to double that goes into it, but that, but the main course of action are capital purchases such as the buses are equipped for the buses, really. The majority of our purchases are coming gently from federal or state ranked very little amount that is actually charged by PDW and the grant fees tend to buses all or part of a grant and out of our ABL system was part of it to what's the name of the city La Crosse MTU okay so I just researched city of La Crosse and to you one last question. I have Adam's work we find out about what's happening right now, so we really try to make a good effort to keep our website up-to-date kind of right to the city La Crosse not working right on the front page of the transit was also really had an increase on enter Facebook on so we do daily updates there in daily posting to find out that is across the MTU Facebook and then also our app so I talked about a mobile app which is free download for Apple or play or through iTunes and we do updated information on there as well. Really trying to make sure that people have that information. Right then and there is a post that you know back in a row had a newspaper posting now. People That the content and then lastly people that don't have access to those items that can give us a call here rally staff year can visit the fourth, Monday through Friday minutes, occasionally on Saturday morning so that you want to call it that 608-7973 50 will be something in the morning to get more

HealhFirst Network216 South 3rd AvenueWausau, WI 54401(800) 246-5743Transcription is for seo purposes onlyJesse Scharfenberg, the CEO of HealthFirst Network. Let's begin with what is health first network. We are a network of clinics throughout north-central Wisconsin that serves individuals usually have lower income with reproductive health services and then with services such as the women infant and children program is about first network for a long time hasn't so we are actually at 47 years old now, so we are created back in 1973 as family-planning health services of Marathon County and as the organization has grown. We went to just family-planning health services and then back in 2016. After I was hired part of my mission and part of coming to health first with developing them new mission bring us forward. So what health services were provided through reproductive health, 40 some years ago. It looks completely different than what healthcare looks like today. The goal is really to move us forward family-planning health services had a lot of negative connotation because some individuals don't like reproductive health services are family-planning services. So going with a more generic name such as health first. Also included are with programs so we were so focused individuals would call and that receptionist is a payment plan health services and some of that. Oh, I thought I was calling the WIC program now is this an individual calls and the answer HealthFirst Network. They understand that we are network of clinics and services that offer many different services, so it's not just reproductive health is not just wickets several service so why was family-planning health services of Marathon County started 40 years ago there was a need for reproductive health services that were affordable for individuals. I know what we charge for services compared to other health care entities in our area and I know what we charge for the specific services is way less than other healthcare entities charge were you see health first network in 510 years from now growing on that part of our strategic plan is to find areas that are deserts for reproductive health care and let's fill in those gaps. That's really what we do is fill gaps and provide access to individuals who don't have access to. So we are looking at the map and figuring out where contraceptive deserts are. That was a term that was new to me when I started 4 1/2 years ago, but there's criteria that considered a contraceptive desert that individuals don't have access to birth control. So how can we help fill those gaps. How can we put clinic locations strategically in areas that don't have access or partner with individuals who are already there to provide better access to the individuals who need services which are typical client depends on the program really so far reproductive health program individuals between 18 and 24 years of age. Usually females that are coming in. They don't have health insurance so we help set them up with health insurance and lower income when looking at the WIC program. I would say we have a wide range of age anywhere from them to 14 up to 45 years of age. Individuals coming in pregnancy or with children that are really struggling to feed their catalysts, and that's one of the great benefits of the WIC program. It is not only do we get by nutrition education for that we also get to provide supplemental food benefits to them on a monthly basis to help feed the kiddos. One of the really cool things about the WIC program compared to that say snapper the food stamps program is we only provide healthy foods so we know that the individuals that are leaving are going to get adequate amounts of calcium and protein in their diet versus just giving them a check and they can buy whatever they want you mission, but there's a different clinics do they have different focuses order. They all basically running the same type program yes. So they different clinics have pretty much the same focus, so our WIC program is only in three of our clinics which would be our Wausau laying late and Tomahawk clinics, and then in all eight of our clinics is reproductive health and the really cool thing about being a network of reproductive health clinics. It doesn't matter which clinic you go to you getting the same set of services. We have the same model of services you can contact in the same way. The nurse practitioners. That is, serve you in the same way is very prescriptive so that if an individual moves throughout the states which we do see a lot of individuals bouncing between clinics to getting the same services and is delivered in the same way. So when you say reproductive services. What is that mean to somebody that just wouldn't go so reproductive health is a conglomeration of different services. Whether it's annual exams. STI testing and treatments, pregnancy testing, contraceptive methods of birth control methods for individuals. One of the big focuses after I came was shifting a little bit from just reproductive health services to more of a preventative focused so, ensuring that individuals come in for those annual exams that they're having some of those general baseline labs drawn every year. The majority of our population doesn't go anywhere else for services. So if were only focusing on reproductive health. There is a pretty large percent of the person that were missing out on so really looking at the whole person care as well as the focus knows of something that's been part of the mission since you been here in the last four years. Results of this but the whole time knows that was part of the changes that were made after I came was to really look at the whole person versus just the very small focus of the reproductive health services only. So we've really looked at making sure that were having individuals come in for those annual exams. We seen a huge increase in male clients, which is great. Our men are coming in quite as frequently for the annual exams has we would like to see them by offering the services to both men and women is extremely important to the services. Are you offering to most of our men are only coming in for STI testing and treatment, but any man can come in for consult. We can do different labs for them. We can do an annual exam for them if they would like to come in, but our main population that we see or serve the 18 to 25 year old. We don't see a lot of men in general. Outside of even health first that are going in for those annual exams between 18 and 25 years and yet be within a certain guideline of income in order to come in now that's one of the best things as there is no income qualifications for the reproductive health program. Anyone with any insurance that they can't pay. If they don't have health insurance. Anyone can walk to the door and were going to serve them with a lot of different opportunities within the reproductive health program for an individual to come in, say, is an undocumented citizen and they don't have any source of income. We can put them on our sliding fee scale and if health is your pain. They don't have to pay for their services, but they can still get those super important services we have that group of individuals that are Wisconsin residents that make less than $20 an hour and we can sign them up for F because it is the family-planning only services waiver program. Part of Medicaid. It covers all of their services that 100%, but we can say have a doctor walk in from a different location and that wants confidential STI testing, but also has private health insurance. We can build that private health insurance as well so we have so many options for individuals of whether they have health insurance. They don't but we can sign them up for something or they just don't have a payer source at all and they don't have to pay for the services that they have

Transcription is for SEO purposes only. To find out more about the city of La Crosse please visit their website www.cityoflacrosse.org to find out more about Podcast For Hire please visit PodcastForHire.comLa Crosse Wisconsin is a great place to work and play lacrosse. Vision 2020 podcast this month featuring Art Fahey from the La Crosse Center.

Chris Jones is well known for his appearance on America’s Got Talent when he made the impossible happen: Known germaphobe Howie Mandel shook hands with Heidi, Howard, and Mel live. Since his first TV appearance, Chris has performed on shows like The Steve Harvey Show, Windy City Live, Good Day Chicago, Penn and Teller, Scam School, and the Adam Carolla Show.

Transcription is for SEO purposes only. To find out more about the city of La Crosse please visit their website www.cityoflacrosse.org to find out more about Podcast For Hire please visit PodcastForHire.comLa Crosse Wisconsin is a great place to work and play lacrosse. Vision 2020 podcast this month featuring Ian Turner from the La Crosse Regional Airport

Transcription is for SEO purposes only. To find out more about the city of La Crosse please visit their website www.cityoflacrosse.org to find out more about Podcast For Hire please visit PodcastForHire.comLa Crosse Wisconsin is a great place to work and play lacrosse. Vision 2020 podcast this month featuring Char Wegner from the La Crosse recycling department. I first met Char nine years ago, eight, nine years ago when the city of La Crosse first started talking about bringing the garbage carts out and bring the recycling carts out and I thought to myself there's no way that these things can be great, Char. You told me when he came in to talk to me my radio show that these things can be fantastic and I won't regret it. Just what Char you are absolutely 100% right. I love them. I really like them AI with a nonbeliever off and he actually may bring one surprise and I went from having six garbage cans a week to one garbage spin and one recycle bin and honestly my recycle bin fills up just as fast or faster than the garbage men. So let's talk about the recycling. So how are we supposed recycle etc. people say you're supposed to put everything into a bag and dump it in there that I've heard that you're not supposed to do that. What's the true city of La Crosse rules Char when it comes to recycling bins should be loose in your car to be cleaned lead and cart carrying out that is collected get transferred to tears. They stepped out that's not really like about that were putting in. It goes through a variety of different ways and Then that separate that then also that they were putting including the bank that we get to like the Walmart whenever they get entangled in the equipment that sets down the equipment we supposed to do with those bags because we all have a ton of them take them, is to have them or Walmart usually have somewhere that you can have them recycle based on them somebody I know that when we got a fact that the pain is there that says make a part. So whenever we go to the grocery store. My husband always said grab the bag they need to make crackdowns. Char Wegner's are just this month, the recycling coordinator for the city of La Crosse was talk about the bins because those bins are fantastic but how do you know that the bin that's in front of my garage is the bin that was assigned to me that question. We have been very busy making sure that everyone has the correct part did you know that when the cards were delivered. They were and find herself number on the front of your cart that identifies your personal let's say over your house. You call me and say carts missing or my carts not the right one. It's a smaller cart or like a car you can ask us what your current numbers are and will give it to you and is not right. Well, I sent letters out to the neighborhood sure how to get hold of the recycling office so that we can check her cards to make sure it right once you can contact us at 608 7897508 people getting new beds all the time when we supposed to do with her old mattresses because I know that we had our large pickup a couple of months ago and I saw a bunch of beds out there then but what are you supposed to do during the rest of the year recycling, which is part of seven rivers, recycling, recycle the mattresses so what you need to do is take them out to the county rank fell and Connie ran so that you want it to be recycled and not land so they will have a specific spot that you can have that taken care of three dollars cheaper than landfilling on wait wait wait wait wait so stupid recycle that it is a throw away a lot of people don't know that Char know they don't. It is so interesting to see how there is Michael they have staff that go in and tear the bedding and they reuse and screensaver use the word that matches had most of those items I got bailed. And then there's that recycle your vision 2020 conversations with department heads from the city of La Crosse is a podcast for hire.com production. For more information about La crosse, visit the website city of La Crosse website www.cityoflacrosse.org

Chris Jones is well known for his appearance on America’s Got Talent when he made the impossible happen: Known germaphobe Howie Mandel shook hands with Heidi, Howard, and Mel live. Since his first TV appearance, Chris has performed on shows like The Steve Harvey Show, Windy City Live, Good Day Chicago, Penn and Teller, Scam School, and the Adam Carolla Show.

Contact School District of La Crosse807 East Avenue SouthLa Crosse, Wisconsin 54601(608) 789-7600https://www.lacrosseschools.org/Transcription is for SEO only37 years in the education business and the lasting a last dozen or so into working in administration probably didn't see this coming at all. At the at the end of your career for sure. As we look at this and we look at the on the pandemic of a look at the school closings that we've had what you think. You think will be different in the future. Randy because of this I wish I knew. I wish I could provide everyone with a really clear description of what this is going to be like I can't and I think that one thing is really it's becoming clear to me though is that it's never to be the same it. If this is our education and the way we do education the way we see education is never going to be the same essay that the most simple way because I do believe that even though our work in remote learning. We jumped into that and at times may be haphazard and not at the same level of quality. Perhaps others of face-to-face classroom. We also know that we've got. We have some some students out there. We have some families out there that like that stay like that method of delivery and usually we leave kind of remote learning and online learning as an option that we think about after everything else has failed. Well, you could try reading on that strontium online and I think it's time for us to make sure as we talk about us being the school district of choice to make sure that a remote learning opportunity is considered a viable part of education. When I extrapolate that out into the future. Just a little bit. Part of the immediate future is you don't goodness. What we do in July we got summer school and we have two schools that are on your own calendars and what's going to happen with them in July. Are we gonna be able to start school with them in July so that's one of the that's one of the upcoming questions that were having to answer were just waiting for the next kinds we want to know more about okay, what's after this current safer at home, executive order, there's gotta be something there, since you gotta be some sort of a statement that says okay here's the pattern that were in now until further notice, or until a particular date summer, waiting for that shoe to drop, so that we know better how is this can impact you live in summer school on your own calendars. I have to tell you I also think that even when we get to September. Not so certain that schools can be the same way in September is that as it was last September. To be honest with you, and I think we have to prepare ourselves for that and you know there's a whole process of gotta go through the grieving process when you realize that it's knocking to be the same, but I think once you get through that process. You also then can quickly move in the process of a gate what you can be and what's our opportunity where are we and what how can we make this great because I still think inside of a really huge challenge that were in right now. There's always opportunity our administrative team is been meeting virtually three times per week. I'd be lying if I told you that I love these virtual meetings in my face-to-face guy myself, but I'm getting really tired of these virtual meetings, but else I will be got a good group of folks and what were talking about is Chris trying to extrapolate out to the fall what you know what could this mean so were actually starting to run some scenarios, what would it be like for instance if we had to do school in the fall and we had to do social distancing can we even do it so we been exploring models. For instance, and the models of you in exploring that might be. We arty have a six day cycle ABC DEF you help and so on may be. As it turns out just so that we can only have 1/3 of the students in the school buildings at any one time that students come to school maybe two out of the six days and then their home for out of the six days. Now think about the ramifications for that home, especially if parents are starting themselves if they haven't been working to get themselves back in the workplace and trying to stabilize their homes financially and now 4/6 days. Their children are still going home want to know what is that look like and how how does that work and how do we guarantee which I don't know that we can. How do we guarantee that the parents who do send their children to school in the fall. What will be social distancing. When you've got so many things that are if common need, whether it's general going on the hall are going to use the restroom or it's the media center, or it's the the cafeteria and we would have to re-teach and help think about our kindergarten, first and second graders. Many of them who you know I think we can teach them. Certainly, here's how to do social distancing, and here's all works but since it's a whole new world that we can have to get into if we were to decide that we can even deliver school that way in the fall. I could not imagine having your job at this moment. One of the biggest challenges I think that has come about as a result of all this. Our work in equity to try to bring it together and give every student equal chance equal footing as much as we can. That really took a huge step backwards when we were required to do this now. I think that doing a remote learning situation is better than doing nothing at all, so building the relationships think connected to students is really important. I can imagine the discussion at the state level because at the state level know the guidance that we were given is okay. We need to shut down our schools by whatever date and so school is out will put in the place a lot of contingencies so that you can don't have to worry about the hours and minutes in meeting those but bargain-hunting over to shut this down what you realize that when we shut it down. Think about statewide. The number of school districts who were not able to do anything when it comes to remote learning. Maybe they're able to do some connecting and just some relationship building, but because of their circumstances or because they don't have the robust technology supports that we do here in the cross the Internet. For instance, just think about how all of a sudden students don't have access and so I think that what one of the things that has happened. State level and it translates into local level is you really see even clearer the discrepancies and also the inequities that are there. If we don't have school face-to-face if we don't have school to gather everyone coming together somehow because they're there and every home has a different learning environment. Some homes have environment that are really plush with books and supports in moms and dads that are there to help and others don't. That's no fault of the parents as much as it is a circumstance that makes it really sometimes more difficult for a child to have the resources at his or her fingertips to be able to do the homework and support the homework

Contact School District of La Crosse807 East Avenue SouthLa Crosse, Wisconsin 54601(608) 789-7600https://www.lacrosseschools.org/Transcription is for SEO onlyThanks Randy, you know the challenges of the kids and the families are dealing with nowadays is a lot different than what I had to deal with with my other children as they were getting close to graduation. I got twins are graduating this year and is still, it's been different. I feel bad for the seniors in high school this year and I feel bad for the underclassmen as well because they don't have the opportunity to kinda learn from the older kids as their wrapping up the school year and I'm sure that you're probably seeing that throughout the entire school district in Trenton throughout the entire state throughout the entire country right now as we as kids are getting ready to ramp up for their next piece of life, but they haven't really had the chance to turn the pages of the last few chapters of this part of their life. Think this is one of the big challenges that were that everyone is having a not just here in our district but all over the place now and then that really is a lot about how do we come to closure. But how do we help our students come to closure. How do we get them poised and ready for the coming school year and there's a so many questions that go alongside of that. But what were looking at so many different perspectives to end the school year and in this, the graduation piece is one of the one that they were taking a look at now I we've Artie decided this. That's the best closing of summer school for June. That was rather easy to do because we were pretty much required to do that based on the last ordered that Gov. universe of made it doesn't require us to completely close school, but it does require us not to have face-to-face school through June 30. And so we will continue to support learners in this remote learning environment which some learners are finding really good works well for them and others are thinking. Boy that's not that's not gonna work well for me. So some of the face-to-face and small group things in the enrichment kinds of opportunities that we've typically had for June are not going to happen this year as a result of summer school and I were taking a look at July and getting into the July piece and we have not made any decisions in July and July happens to be our most prolific month when it comes to summer school about 80 different courses were running in July. Many of them good hands-on face-to-face kinds of classes and so we don't know the full disposition of that were moving forward and asking people to register as they have always registered for summer school, but it's very possible that summer school in July could be in jeopardy, as well. As we move forward. Read over were waiting for, the next shoe to drop on the state level or the county level or someone is okay, here's what's going to work. Now here's what we do love now here's of the, here's when the numbers are hears of the metrics are and so now here's what we can do next and so come to closure. I think has been a challenge for us. We are doing some adjusting with our curriculum as our teachers made this change from the classroom into the online environment they really had to step back our curriculum folks. We took the time to step back and say okay probably in this environment. This remote learning environment. The coverage of curriculum is not gonna be as broad as it would've been if we would've had you in classroom so actually what they did is they started working on what we would call power standards. No these are the tested standards. The most important standards that we have at the state level in each one of our content areas. Each grade level and support and have a focus on these and then what were trying to do is to make sure that we have a good degree of communication in place for the teachers for the students in the upcoming year so that they can catch up and they can they can pick up with some of the contents of the just a lot of pieces in this closure piece that need to happen, we see the school you're kind of ending now, but the kids that are finishing up the school year is here finishing up six grade now and the moving into seventh grade. There's probably going to be more of a ramp at the beginning of the school year next year to get the kids back into being in a classroom. I think we be kidding ourselves if we said that there wasn't going to be a lag but we certainly anticipate that the students who were sixth-graders this year are going to go on to grade 7 next year. We also know that due to this gap that we have in April and May of this year there's going to be a little bit a lag of the content and that's what were trying to make sure that we establish and that we document and communicate so that our teachers next year. Have a good chance to move this forward. I think our biggest challenge here along the way as we bring closure to this is there are some students who, despite our best of intentions have not reconnected with us since since March and so in a work and have to be talking a little bit there about what what and how. How do we help you reconnect and how does June look for you because we may have to do some online things in some remote things in June and maybe even July for you to be as ready as other students for our next fall

Contact School District of La Crosse807 East Avenue SouthLa Crosse, Wisconsin 54601(608) 789-7600https://www.lacrosseschools.org/Transcription is for SEO onlyThanks, Randy and his podcast and hoping you can give me your thoughts on academies. We talked about that in the past but exactly what makes an academy on a particular school district. We been working on academies mostly for grades 11 and 12. Probably her most prolific Academy. There is the health science Academy that's in its 10th year and I really started with conversations with folks at Gunderson and also with folks at mail and quickly turned into follow-up conversations with our higher end partners including UW well the turbo and Western what we did as we pulled together and experience for students in grades 11 and 12. It provides an opportunity for them to really good practical hands-on experience in the areas of the health science but we also have a construction academy and we also have an engineering Academy this year for the first times are really excited about these opportunities for students a couple of critical things that really need to happen inside of an Academy model forest. First some sort of a career focus. It's really helping our students get themselves immersed in a career or careers and help them sort out a little bit in their heads. Okay, I've experienced this enough. I don't want to do this or I love this and this is exactly what I want to do for it to be interdisciplinary is also important. We don't want them to take a class on health science just to take a class in health science we really want there to be some connections with other areas, whether it be mathematics or social studies or English language arts or science if it makes sense or physics, so we always want there to be some ways that the teachers who are involved in the program can collaborate with one another and they can provide lessons from several different perspectives of the children they go through the academies. They get all their regular classes even though they gone the Academy they still can graduate with the kids. They started kindergarten with absolutely. So what we've done is we've taken our English 11 English 12 classes to get brought right into an Academy situation. The teachers are given the opportunity that make changes to that curriculum to make it work inside of that particular Academy. So if the students are still getting their English credit there still getting a math credit and they might be getting this career in tech and credit that they're involved with, as well. Salted brings all the pieces together keeps a student on track to graduate but it brings a flavor of that work inside of it so it mathematics. For instance, think of all the mathematics you might find in a construction academy, especially in geometry, so the students are getting credit for that mathematics and while at the same time they're getting credit for understanding of the construction side of it and the safety side of it and how to build things, etc. maybe the physics out of it. There are a lot of components that all come together and students are getting multiple credit for doing this one thing inside of the Academy, which is typically two and half hours or so every morning is part of the schedule a couple of my children have gone to the construction academy at Central High School will now as a union carpenter. The other one graduates in 2020 and is interested in getting into construction as well because of the love of construction that they both learn through going to school. While this is what's really cool I think about the academies because not only is it about pulling together these content areas in math and science, and English language arts with something that's connected to a career, but it also allows some of our staff who really love these kinds of opportunities I can think of our teacher in the construction academy. I get tired. He loves this work and he loves being out at a site in working with the city to acquire this property in a build a house on this property and make this happen. P is in his element. When that happens. And even though sometimes he's got 16, 18 or 20 students walking around overexcited one time and people are using saws and power to other power tools. It's amazing what he gets done and he's in his element and he loves it so it's not just about the students having a good experience in connecting all these pieces it's about a teacher and teachers connected to this were also saying I love doing this. This is my passion. This is what I love to do regular talk about the success of these academies. We've had with school District of La Crosse. What kind of proof. Have you had that that these are working but you, especially in our health science Academy where we have most of our documented success. It's just about every single student when they graduate out of that health science Academy. They are pursuing some sort of a health related career and just about every student also receives some sort of a scholarship to help pursue that career moving forward if we use that is at least one of the litmus tests we really are burring the interest of students were helping them sort through opportunities and then helping them get on a path and bolt up the experience that they can get from the beginning to the end of a career pathway inside of that area sweetheart what engineering we talked about health science. We talked about construction academy any types of academies going forward. Really what we been doing is exploring some sort of a future teacher Academy. This is an area that we see is a challenge for us in education is having teachers ready to go, especially in some areas of licensure. Teachers are really difficult to find and so this could really make for us a chance to connect with students to tap a student on his shoulder see what kind of interest they may have when it comes to teaching and encourage those students with our own mentors to be able to have them be teachers anything amiss and I would say that another really important part when we put together academies to make sure that there are off-site learning experiences. We want to make sure that students are getting a chance to actually experience this kind of work hands-on outside of their high schools and someplace embedded inside of our community and in order to do that it brings on another part of our elements and that is to mature, that we have community business partners along the way. That's where students are getting the most hands-on experience sometimes is connecting and working with people who are doing these things for a living on a day in day out basis

Contact School District of La Crosse807 East Avenue SouthLa Crosse, Wisconsin 54601(608) 789-7600https://www.lacrosseschools.org/Transcription is for SEO onlyHad conversations on and off for the last 12 years and I really enjoyed that I really enjoyed watching you bridge the schools with the community I mean just watching how somehow things work as might my cavities, my kids is an example to my four children went to the construction academy at Central High School and had the opportunity to build a garage build a house. My middle son who is enjoying a career now as a as a union carpenter. My youngest son is taking this class at Central High School minutes. Cool to see how to getting kids real life skills that they're going to use after they graduate. Well I think it's I think this is an important part of schools. Fact of the matter is your schools or your community in your community are really your schools. It's a symbiotic relationship and so we really take pride in building strong relationships but also making sure that were were helping students navigate for themselves, their interests, what they might be interested in. We do several skill surveys to help students, determine get some ideas about what they may want to do as they get older and what they may want to consider that nothing locks that under stone your children may be used as some of those who said I always wanted to be a coward. They watched you and the work that you do. Or maybe they took a skill servant said carpenter is one of something I want to get into. They look at what I do. Others, like I want to be in radio's path of a hole in the school District of La Crosse. We have been working diligently to establish opportunities for students and so along the way. Not only have we established the construction academy. We have also have a health science Academy that it's in. Since 10th 10th year we've had a few hundred kids move through this health science Academy grades 11 and 12 and it's really the epitome of I think strong partnerships and that we have for instance as partners. We have male health systems with Gunderson health systems we have UW well in the turbo and we have Western all involved in kids getting credit there getting opportunities inside of that and the getting opportunities off of our campus. It's an important part. We try to do our academies is a get kids off the campus is the most authentic opportunities they can find and we can provide for them inside of the community and those those entities. Those organizations that are working with us are are all about it at the same time they're also looking for a future employees lets us put that on the table. Of course, what were trying to do is to try to find connections. Our health science Academy. For instance, one of the things that our students are required to do is to still watch a surgery. Sometimes you find out the student finds out quickly that the sight of blood. It is not for them and so the sale Decided I am knocking to be a nurse or I'm not cyanotic of this, but I might want to look at something else in the health field really help students start to understand what they are really excited about by actually trying some of those things out and it also saves parents the money and tuition because it helps the students don't maybe go down up a better path maybe what their thing because they've experienced a little bit in their understanding they're talking to adults there talking to mentors and the mentor saying here's what we have to do and we do this, and here's how this happens and so I think that these community connections, the academies, the partnerships that we been running are so important. So why is a sense of community important in schools, but I think that community means everything inside the heart of the community as a strong relationships and so we whether talking about a neighborhood you're talking about a school being at the heart of the neighborhood and or vice versa. It's the relationships in the positive relationships that we bring to school every single day, student to student adults and students and families and other adults. Parents working side-by-side. This community building pieces all based on relationships in the good strong heavy webs that we create on relationships of a metaphor that I use sometimes when we talk about some of our programming and many times people will say well we need to have a strong safety net on our community. Absolutely I get that but I think of Safetynet. I'm thinking of the people in the flying trapeze at the way top of some sort of circus tent and now they're going back and forth and then got a safety net below them so they don't get hurt if and when they fall, and for our students. I think that a safety net is not the right thing. I think that what we need is a trampoline and needs to be so tightly woven that when a student does fall when a student misses the grab from that adult way up there. The top that they fall hit the trampoline, but they come right back up and someone grabs onto them again because it's to let him have a safety net just cushions the false they don't hit the floor, but hardly ever get back up again except starting at the very thing I climbing a ladder all the way back up to the top again I will make sure that we've got a good Safetynet that's really tight like a Leica, you know like the trampoline so student can bounce and get right back into it again. Were all in this together and we all need to be working together, we need to be supporting our children. They are the commodity that we have in front of us is so important for the future and well-being. Everyone one of us. We need to acknowledge that we need to support them

Contact School District of La Crosse807 East Avenue SouthLa Crosse, Wisconsin 54601(608) 789-7600https://www.lacrosseschools.org/Transcription is for SEO onlyI had the opportunity to be a part of your rebuilding for learning and it's in an initiative that I know that the school District of La Crosse had for quite a few years. A chance for teachers to get together and explain some of the things they're doing to some of the other teachers. That way the teachers can all can learn from each other exactly. So we really established a connection between the school District of La Crosse and employees from the county employees from the city and what we were really trying to accomplish with that the organization was once really happening. How can we best support our students, our families, what we've seen. I think over the last few years is that we do have more and more of our students living in crisis. Actually, sometimes at home for various reasons, very complicated reason sometimes and sometimes in navigating those crises really involves a lot of different individuals including social workers, including child protective services, etc. and so what we really try to do in the first few years of rebuilding for learning was to bring together individuals we've had about 100 2025 people at our first one and it really was to bring together individuals from the city and the County and the school district and just have face-to-face meetings and build relationships with one another so that when it is time for us to have a discussion about a certain situation that we all should be involved with and supporting a family and supporting a child that is not the first time we've had a discussion with each other. We recognize faces. We recognize voices and we can get past those sub pleasantries and really get into the challenges that might be existing so that we can best help a child and get that child back on the right track again and so it started as a small group about 120 people last year. I think it was 1400 and we are a La Crosse Center and so we had our staff there several concurrent sessions about a myriad of different issues and challenges that were experiencing center classrooms in our community. All of these things are so intertwined and just having a good opportunity to visit with one another about that and also to gain knowledge from others. Send some experts in the field so that we can do our jobs better and I'm wondering Randy if a lot of community members don't realize we do have a group of kids that are homeless in a group of kids that are maybe writing a couch and are at a friend's house rather than having a home to go to because it that they're not getting along with their families or that their living in the car somewhere because they don't have a place to go. Actually, we've talked about school safety a little bit before Bob and I think that what's unfortunate is that for many of our students. School is the safest place in the life it's the place for them to be is the place were they feel safest all the time because outside of school, they're not always sure sure about their own safety. Sometimes whether it's a difficult living situation that their involvement or whether it's of friends who really aren't so much friends along the way and so these are some of the things we try better to understand. We really have been working hard to better understand the cultural pieces that come alongside of the solid instruction and making sure that everyone is welcome everyone has a role of the inclusive practices that are teachers are really trying to also better understand how do we work to make sure every single child is valued every child who somehow is marginalized in our community. Our job in public education is to un-marginalize it goes deeper than just while here, let's take another test store here. Let's do this intervention on reading or mathematics, let's address some of these challenges here so that you can do better but common theme has been a trauma informed care trauma informed understanding what it means to help a kid what it means to be a teacher who is better understanding of trauma informed of what it means for us ourselves as educators along the way. That's been a common theme just about through every one of these except we ask a different nuances each time we understand better how culture tolerates how socioeconomics impacts that particular piece and so these are important things for us as educators and now is the time for our schools also for our parents to be together and how we support our children how we build the character how we ensure that our students are better understanding the challenges that they own face that they face right now because of more we do that now, the better we understand each other. Right now, the better chance a child has somewhere down the road to really be a productive citizen that they really stand out to be already. This is help the child to be an individual no interest to be okay for some students, not to be successful when it comes time to take tests and/or other ways that we measure success along the way but some is not okay anymore. It has to be 100% of our students in order to do that we have to work with students at that individual level lesson mathematics and reading once more and other factors that are going on though in the life of the child and how we might be able to support or mitigate the edits to these partnerships and are rebuilding for learning efforts in connecting dots with several different entities and educators that we have a much better chance to focus on the individual child as opposed to depending on a system of standardization that has never met the needs of every child

Transcription is for SEO purposes only. To find out more about the city of La Crosse please visit their website www.cityoflacrosse.org to find out more about Podcast For Hire please visit PodcastForHire.comThe city vision 2020 podcasts this month featuring Jay oderguard he's got the longest business card in the city of La Crosse is a park rec forestry building and grounds director that I miss anything, to do it with the world as it is not. It's the whole co-fed and all that stuff is a city of La Crosse Park and wrecked department do anything different because of the colder times we try to revolve with recommendation stricture walls are cool. We have been able to keep our part (and we had the playground cold for a while the folder open backup really were just being with all of the culture of the facility were seeing our huge upswing in our and all landing and trail you about the boat landings. Is there some new stuff this year with the bulimics this year we've gone to computerized registration system so people don't have to show up with three but the little yellow and bolts anymore. It's just a lot cleaner people. Bella Vita passes online, which is really helpful for guys that want to go location at 5 o'clock Saturday morning I want to do the annual past year, they can buy that mine done with no said kid per person or per vehicle per vehicle that's a slight change where we used to register the trailer. Now we register the vehicle depending on how you are set up. It can be good and bad but you know technology is constantly moving forward. My staff yell at me all the time because I still like paper calendars and in all stuff like that but they got me convinced on this one for talking thoughts. Let's talk a little bit about life vests in the past, the city has had a loaner program for life fast. Is that something that's continuing this year have a warrant program for life. The and are less Copeland landing and their seventh Street bowl landing, but with everything going on in the pool school. We are actually targeting came program beaches and so that way people can call me next. Don't feel comfortable in the water kid can get a light that has to go swim and it's something that we think will be beneficial to the community and really dealing with the tough situation all around. One of the things that I really enjoy doing the last couple years is kayaking and I know that I got a penny on Park and put my own kayak and thereby noticing as a supplemental's. There are those available for anybody to use RDF to be a city resident to rent the house. Although there are available with anybody, and quite honestly, they're very affordable. Not only do we have kayak was paddleboard and with everything going on. We are sanitizing admin between the different uses and it's just a great way especially for people that don't have a lot of experience they can hop in one, then paddle around in the pool in which is the current free area that really works well for beginners is any special programming because of 19th yeah so our traditional summer programs were all canceled about a month or so ago, but staff has been diligently working to Kino after some of those program logistics so we can match up with recommendations as far as social distancing and whatnot were really looking by the end of June to get going on and offering some programs that we understand parents with kids right now that are really in need of finding different opportunities for those that do participate in order to be offering some of our camp programs. All of our tiny tot program playground type programs we are gonna be looking at getting tennis for kids up and running, along with some of our 12 and under 14 and under. And, number programs, eliminating tournaments, reducing side of the T practice location but I'll let you know again we see the importance of having something for kids and community anticipated in

For more information on Referral Staffing Solutions visit our website at https://www.referralstaffingsolutions.com/200 Mason St STE 18, Onalaska, WI 54650608-790-9075Transcription is for seo purposes only.How important is it to keep on a schedule and a regular schedule when you're working important great format so that the first thing that you all can do to make it start at the local dump on the call will pop up gratefulness. You probably know, to purchase a new car right you know seen it a few times the lot on the way home you feel 20 of the incarnate brightly colored thing is here safe every time, but you also got everybody else is the same car right but it's the same thing with the grateful that you will start her day out with listing 3 to 5 things that were grateful for. And the reason behind that is because you know if you're looking for it. You're going to help that you know something that's really challenging the club think you're grateful for somebody that literally is the simplest coffee is another day the deep and meaningful to help us stay connected number one of the team and then number two just kinda makes us focus on what was grateful for and make that, you know, things were grateful for because Of mind that how we start our day and will go through. We have a we call the top five and five really loose term wear a loose number and the three really major important thing didn't become today's the 27 major things that need to be done for the day that we have a list of what were going to you yesterday so we can keep with one another and talk about what happened yesterday when I got going on today allows for some potential redirecting to redirect the team forget them handling focus on this area, but generally the team is really very self-directed and data kind of debate on what needs to be done and Elizabeth up for success for the for the day and then it allows for like when you have those affection and then when your dog to go out whatever it is like to give you something to come back to home base say okay my right and figure out what to do next help you focus you from the people are lacking focus during this quarantine time notice the difference that we have a system that can attract the things that are being done and noticed that a couple of my reporters and numbers have decreased and I noticed the numbers increased with with a couple of other one had noticed that the numbers that have decreased are the one to have children at home now like their workload and what they're actually accomplishing. I think it stayed consistent. I think it's done really well with that but I think sometimes it's the little things and making sure that things are noted in the system has been lacking. I guess a little bit a little bit more than normal. You normally they're very great detail and I think now like you have some kind of taking the extra time to make sure it put in the system and that effort is put into educating our children or taking care of our animals, but overall and are still very, very productive throughout the day and it just the work style the work habits had to change a little bit not noticeable from a numbers perspective as far as how much a video showing the system, but overall there accomplishing what they need to so show me how you think that the workforce is going to change once everybody does get back to work and how is that going to affect morale around the offices. That's a great question. I think it's going to depend on industry, I can tell you just from speaking from our industry that there are going to be some changes there some things that you know it's it's much easier that I racked my brain trying to figure out we've been relatively flexible with people in my working home once a month or if there's a snowstorm, things of that nature that I think will probably change it. Where is the employees that really thrive working from home can work from home more knowingly make a regular thing where a couple days a week that working from home on a regular basis. You know, interviewing and things of that nature we done video interviewing or but we always select that as a last resort. I suppose you know somebody was a long distance away or will have a scheduling issue because the person working full-time always been kind of a last resort, and I think we might change that. Where the first resort and the internal interview as a last resort. Time will tell. You think that that personal connection is is important, but thinking of just from like a public safety perspective, it may make sense to have the video interviews that are first resort is that backup you always mention the word we women talking are the employees that work for referral staff and employees overflowing staffing solutions or they employees of businesses that you help get hired. Technically their employees on referral English and payroll, we take care of sending Imperial taxes. We cover the workers comp insurance and employment insurance. So technically their employees of reprocessing pollution being supervised by our clients and were talking about temporary employees and then of course that internal employees are

Chris Jones is well known for his appearance on America’s Got Talent when he made the impossible happen: Known germaphobe Howie Mandel shook hands with Heidi, Howard, and Mel live. Since his first TV appearance, Chris has performed on shows like The Steve Harvey Show, Windy City Live, Good Day Chicago, Penn and Teller, Scam School, and the Adam Carolla Show.Transcription for seo purposes only.One word Chris Jones podcast talking with Chris this month about how how is it bringing a child in to the world. Now when we're dealing with everything that were dealing with with you know that the riots around the country and around the world the pandemic that we've all been basically quarantined from everybody else. Is it scary to be a new dad or a dad to be in this time. I'm so excited. So excited. I have a little bit of perspective because I got into his three books and over so you know you if you have been an argument in 1920 and I just want to read the case, you can look back and take a minute there will be done in the past to get the interesting thing is that my twins were born in 2001. In November 2001 after the attack on the on our country and on the 9/11 attack is and at that time I was scared to death like what are we doing bringing children into this world at this time but you know they've done really well and then they graduate this year when everything's kinda shut down so I mean they had a couple of trying times. I think that'll push them to be that much better in the future, and my hope is that's the case for baby Jones as well. Very good perspectives that motivate 18 years old. Yeah. Like the young kids like your kids age can't fight a war that noted they are going to happen if there were any evildoers and therapist to be a fast war were just getting it the dominant he's been dead for a while now, when you see the world doing now that you know you had the riots happening around the country and you know I heard this morning on the radio that there happening around the world that there's some writing happening around the world for George Floyd. Do you think that this will end up being something or changing for something like that when Rodney King when that happened. I thought that that was going to change the world and I don't think it did gas and try to change the world as I try to make the world stop spending anything like this change of enactment of Jackson, but we've been with the world. We spend together. You know that the long way. I still have hope because I'm not going to be salt." I was reading very light misinformation going around saying that George Floyd didn't die that the priest and actor and stirring up some conversations that should not be a conversation at all. So who comes up with this conspiracy BS that's what I want to know this thing is true for Sandy Hook people so there's to get your gun Nazis had PR people ban public relations that even the client had public relations people they work on their image, and someone said no when and if he created this happened, yes, let's push that story and the accident happened. That's why I love journalism even more now. One of the first things he suddenly started talking today is that you are reading in the history books and that this kind of stuff is happened forever, and I believe that what you just I believe that I think that nowadays we're more aware of it hyper. Where is it now because of the fact that we have everything at the palm of her hands who can speak and get information immediately if not sooner. Assess happening and things in the past weren't always that way because I mean in a think about when when our parents were children that they went to the movie theater and theirs in Israel at the beginning of the about of a show. Oh yeah, that was under comedy side think that the bank robbers back in the day. Yeah, they rob a bank. Maybe have gone and shoot their initials into the side of the wall. I get it with copper and the boy. No police and then you know that when I was because I'm 20 years older than you. When I was a kid we'd find about it on you know in the newspaper because it came in. No sooner when you were a kid. It was things are on television immediately when it happened because they had to come up with, you know, ways to do that and then you know when my kids is Internet and by the time your child is older, who it might just be like thought processed into their heads. I know that so that's a weird way of thinking about things, but immediately look at how how things have changed and how we get our news now compared to the way that we got it in the past and it's just really right. I get that physical paper to my house delivery, five days a week. So many things you have so much technology like the CCX to watch the weather channel and she's like, how come we can't stop hurting we can on their we can't stop 20th is running the family's home. The more things change, Chris the morning to say the same minute identity feel their status in other states. I think the date that I got the answers and then something happens that I have no idea what the hell's going on anywhere you have control of my own life. What about something else you know is right. It's crazy. So let me you know I hate to but I hate to bring race into our conversation, we doing so being a black man now with what's going what's going on you know with with the everything in the in the world right now. I mean, is it different than it was two weeks ago, all without a doubt to his guy went running and running and now I go running and I don't want to wait a police car, but I feel obligated to live in a neighborhood that has a lot of police officer next to me. I don't want to leave. It's not right away when walking the dog. Like to go running my running too fast, and still something. How do I look like I'm clearly a runner and not losing someone's home to me that is me being sensitive remember an Georgia man was shot by civilian for running or jogging and in that man was are you are you more aware of it because it because you're black I'm aware of that I did not say that I would be oh you mean when you came to Chicago in your talk about when he got pulled over and that there are some black people and excellent. He told the story we were laughing at what she said a little bit of you being naïve in your my wonderful friend said I was very quiet and I have the little things are opposite and we were like yeah like that's where it starts to get pulled over like we asked permission on the department let them know my wallet in my pocket. Can I get it, like we get super scared we get pulled over when I was told the story and then you do, you mentioned that to me I was you know at the time is 2019 or 2018 and whenever was no surprise that happens, you know, in those days, and now all this is 2020 and the PS it happened in Minneapolis is unacceptable. I mean it's it it's hard to believe that that kind of crap happens in 2020 and then I'm embarrassed to say I don't member the name of the way I think it was Breanna. She was in bed with her boyfriend or husband and police Louisville first in the home without a warrant would identify and complete the her boyfriend was in the house was a burglar hired a couple shot fire multiple shots and they killed her and she was the first to find out if we can't find her and she is gone now but it wasn't on camera and the man who shot the burglar was brought up on trials tempted and drop now but Stacy she argued. Why is it that when a black man shot killed by police was unarmed. Get national attention and was a black woman don't hear about it. That's it. That's a legitimate question Chris. I don't know if you think I don't. Do you think a lot of what we have or having now is caused by media. I wouldn't say that I wouldn't say that that's wrong. If we unpacked some ugly stuff he always gives more prestige and power to men. And so when something is fighting against the powers that be. A man is usually attacked track down what happened to unpacked it further and be very ugly if a black man, was accused of raping a white woman went to kill him. I would show up in 2020 oh nine in the okay okay okay you get accused of like Emmett till was a Chicago kitty went out and allegedly whistled at a white woman and a light knock showed up or he was staying his cousin, and held them for a few days… I just tortured and then the men were later acquitted, and then wrote a book saying and I was one of the great awareness about all this to say we don't protect women fighting to get married and got to that happens to woman when I will be doing in their claim that the boat when it's on camera. I would like okay now I see what I believe are all the facts and opinions and then people hate it is semi final thoughts they Chris last night I couldn't sleep too well that I kept thinking about all lives matter. One of the suburbs of Chicago. There was a black watch another project in all lives just across the street and if you're going to say all live in that I'm saying you would like an angry person you are going that I don't love arguing all lives matter, my life matter as a white person on each putting down my value as a white person I would say you don't believe all lives matter because it is separate from the parent right now and intentions you don't believe in ice member life matters. You don't believe that some across the border illegally matters you don't believe that kids have the right to grow up and not get shot in our own American schools are. You don't believe all my it's a fine argument to last about two seconds really truly heart wanted to be an advocate for all lives matter worth you wouldn't be angry in the way that you are.

For more information on Referral Staffing Solutions visit our website at https://www.referralstaffingsolutions.com/200 Mason St STE 18, Onalaska, WI 54650608-790-9075Transcription is for seo purposes only.So what makes a successful candidate for referral staffing solutions? Want to work important in being open and being correct in talking about what is really important. What is really important person's life. We don't know what's important, not right in and around the very open about what this schedule is the most important thing to me. If a certain thing to me what the most important. We have candidate topic I can work any billing expecting that answer which I did and that we will pay okay while in no peanut hypothetical world, we can offer you alteration you tell me what order you pick those just said it really help them think about it and get back there. Some people get back threat when people are like I couldn't get anyone tomorrow. They're willing to work any ship they're willing to work for any pay. They're willing to jump in and help out, but it going Band-Aid going to be something where they they work at Intel, an opportunity that really fit for them from the launch is important to a divan in identify what the long-term fed or looking for. We have a temporary or finer command effect. But if were trying to quite higher. We don't want to put a Band-Aid person in attempt to hire Christian because our client is expecting a long-term permanent candidate we want to make sure really drilling and in understanding what works long-term for that candidate and work so the world filled with so much uncertainty now how does going through a staffing solutions company like referral staffing. How about a business felt right now. As the economy starts to open back. There is much uncertainty you know we we don't really know what it done to our business that we don't know what next month is going to bring can be very nerve-racking to the point where you need to hire people need to have been gone but you don't know if you're going to need them for two months or three months or six months working with referral Was a great opportunity to bring people in the water because the employees are technically referral Inclusions employee therapy by actually handle the unemployment with all of that. Great way to open it without opening up the floodgates to the waters in and get your work done me cathartic for the Dakotas at the college that you need me without bringing out all that rest on your own. Something where we can have take that risk off of your shoulders you think they'll work toward becoming fully open again

For more information on Referral Staffing Solutions visit our website at https://www.referralstaffingsolutions.com/200 Mason St STE 18, Onalaska, WI 54650608-790-9075Transcription is for seo purposes only.You know, having a business and everything people probably think that you know you are probably born into that and have the opportunities because you know your folks your folks had a business so you got a business and now your kids can have businesses. It is that they shall be sorry Marie L Eric fraction living will not long boring it was that right down 20 we were baby and there was a tornado warning Neshoba County met me and felt actually made me mesh yoga all name requiring we can move my father actually gathered all the friends for life friend went out and I would cut down trees and built a lot. What's cool, right like dry that outside of the wall is great when you went right back but I mean we had a garden hose that was the only source of water cold water. We had a quick well always have a cup of water on the L about how we got warm water. We went out and I went back. Started building a new house that we get a new house new house, but water that was exciting elect with pilot don't work tying care of all that comfortable and nine. It was not my Grandparents worked so hard. They were a huge huge part of my childhood and found a huge part of showing how you work hard, but all will love hard to make grand plan theory can see which of the shirt off his back to help someone in need. He would just die always volunteering community always getting more than they probably should have and they also taught that the story about working felt my grandparents but now I can't help it, always in the following gallon of cold water to wash that we were paid 1/4 an hour to start when you were correct like a dollar an hour but granting the need sure that you work and if you are an extra long bathroom break. I think of that nature out and started working at really, a lot of work ethic and work ethics you like. We are here right work for about eight hours for our cars but it actually works in the real world] if you're working for me. They were huge part in non-Inc. she can't shout you work for what we want, how the story because I tried really means a lot stronger. Only through organic balls were expected to work. We were expected to go out in the garden, we wrap that we are expected to be every really grew on. We were really close block of our daily throughout also work hard growing up during one, hundred growing up like that help you to reach your full potential as the owner of referral staff have not reach my full potential but it I learned that when you fall down any thing that really caught me up there with a lot of report from how you all think and also how to read all of that had really been perfect storm help cushioning direction inflation in 2014 Eagle Bank really come from every wound but there were not a lot of money really came from nothing and fell even now it made me nervous for they knew that I was before fall from my childhood, how I grew up in a like you a lot and I'll tell me I think it so important Galapagos dream bag. If you're not going to bring that. You're not thinking that report. I think the ability to allot very little amount cash flow like a big thing. I started really been able to push me forward and being nation and running have been helpful

For more information on Referral Staffing Solutions visit our website at https://www.referralstaffingsolutions.com/200 Mason St STE 18, Onalaska, WI 54650608-790-9075Transcription is for seo purposes only.What's the best way to go about finding a job. First thing is it correct that together and making sure that resume showcases the skill set that you got that great. You know what you done and I'll share what you're looking for Gail to slipstream a good resume and a bad resume about recognizing one of the things that further harm my contact there are people that will send out resumes that don't have contact information. We cannot contact you if we don't have anti-Catholic information also add contact information for sometime people with numbers that are no longer active. Make sure that that is relevant. Additionally, email addresses, very important that your Enoch drafted appropriate. There are evil addresses that come through that are fun for example, my son has a email address that was like teddy bear one to three years like that you 16 now created a more grown-up email address you during his job searching social be how far back should somebody go when it comes to putting down the jobs they've had for a great question and it's not necessarily a one-size-fits-all answer. It really depends. I would say the more entry-level role that you are applying for. The less information it will roll five years of experience is great on it is more specific and more our role that show your progression in your career. They are an accountant. For example, you have an entry-level office position in the name of the company except you want to show that progression I you recommend if you are an older employee. Yet there are laws out there where people Emanate against older individual I would highly recommend leaving position at each you wrote I wouldn't go back. Probably more than 10 years because we don't want resumes to be discarded because they assume that your older employers can on leave from litigants individuals at the resume had one job or one type of career because I know a lot of people that have started off in you know XYZ business and they carried their entire career through their 25 years later there all the sudden quote right sized and looking for a job how to go about doing that. If there is with the same company their entire career that point. Look at that people will be with the organization and work their way up with an organization definitely highlight that you you have working the company and you stayed in the same condition throughout that period of time I would make sure that the resume is going in on the guilt that you really mastered during that time, depending on what level you're at or showing the progression that you had with another organization and goal

Transcription is for SEO purposes only. To find out more about the city of La Crosse please visit their website www.cityoflacrosse.org to find out more about Podcast For Hire please visit PodcastForHire.comAdam Lorentz is the director of the MTU for the city of La Crosse was covered by team to come to the forefront of his mind right now housing to you dealing with safety for the drivers and the passengers going to stop everybody in a changing process for us but you it started off in March will be when it benefits going on at looking at intake and offer guidance from the TNR locale official couple things on it. Please keep the 6 foot barrier, but the distance herself of this opinion, we did is we actually stop using the front door. The bus somebody needed for mobility device and that there is a protected interaction with the copper and the driver well.And you know which is a tough thing to do, but with all the cash handling and Handling thought that was that. That we are really good handstand kind on the buses on the front and the back and then just really trying to educate the public and post signs and just go along the same guidelines in the CDC about making sure people wash their hands and about writing cover your mouth and and am yet to get everybody webmaster. They can obviously safety is the most important thing for our operators in the public and I would really increase our cleaning rotation. If you want to call upgrading that are chemical to use something executive trying to kill the cold virus we had just installed UV wand. The driver area to help sanitize that and I really to our dreams that night after night they conjured our boxes are playing so yeah it's a lot of a lot of things. A lot of people are doing, but is negatively doing right and about ridership is an up down or about the same as it always has been well is the first time in over time. The only directors say that they're happy to write a check the town on the way down anywhere from on Sunday 50 to 70% in infant that is due to what information put out there no one ago that you resorted to stay home, order, and wanted people to only 12% so neatly put that out there that are bus service for keeping and service, reduce some of our our time that we run, but we kept it out there for events with only so you on a day that we had in all 2500 people for the box you know that someday. Down at 700 that the only time you hear me say that for the ridership down but that was the intent of the of the information on the buses that says essential travel only what is essential travel that while there's a lot of people in the healthcare field. There's a lot of people that work in the grocery stores. A lot of the work and are on long facilities and so forth that you depend on the MTU for transportation enough so I think it's pretty new to talk about the medical field and and help them consult and I'm just that help get them to plan point B. We had a feeder for that and also the large population that have asked the young food, medical appointments and in the MTU provide that far off for the city La Crosse and we just had to make sure that we are there for those people, even though in the lot going on the world right now. People still knee-deep people feel silly to get to their medical appointment. So that's why I'm waiting to essential service and that means I have since arrived on so I don't want everything opens up our schedule is going to open back up to what they were prior to the coronavirus in October 19 yeah will really plan what kind of dog the last 30 hours, been pretty chaotic and down with a lot of new information results and analyze all that but that that the plan has been in the plan so far as the report is to do a small open where right now where you live finale service on the 30 there is a member that 30 minutes or so hourly looking to put that back to our our every 30 minutes and most run all morning, and Sunday back here. Eventually I will probably still keep some of those initial safety factors in there like you only according to the door and as of right now were not to be accepted and he cares only for the month you to keep that interaction with minimal thoughtful, but long story short is that is in the area started to open up more convenient you and make additional changes back to normal as well

Transcription is for SEO purposes only. To find out more about the city of La Crosse please visit their website www.cityoflacrosse.org to find out more about Podcast For Hire please visit PodcastForHire.comAdam Lorentz is the director of the MTU for the city of La Crosse and I read a while back that the MTU was going to be getting some new buses house that process going. You good to buses that are coming out now all across now is that there could be some delays now that everyone is going on but we do have two full electric buses that made the news about a year or two ago and were in the process of looking at that any 235 foot pole electric buses with charging stations on Morgan upgrade our infrastructure here at the bus barn connection can handle that. And not only handled but they're getting back try to start innovating for the future electric, but the way that we can ago who want to make sure that we have the capacity now and I think that that I think the best use of money at the plan for now I'm putting that in the short term here. I will plan on extricating five new 35 foot clean, eco-buses, and that's a mixture of different some grandpa came through the state, and also we received one bus and that should be the VW mitigation on that was a settlement that VW had a settlement that actually think that the country and around the state would allocate a certain amount of money we are able to get a bucket that felt deathly needed to be at Fort about this last year but we still have about 15 buses that did replace the useful life and the five that are coming next year can come not good enough. So with the new electric buses. How is that going to help with the fuel costs in the overall budget of the city you know there's still a lot to learn about electric buses were falling very closely with other agencies that actually it will minimize any in the state of Wisconsin Madison probably Madison walked into the bigger ones that are starting the process on the next block. If you have this on the street right now a lot of the things you know the names Coccinellidae Sophos right now were looking at them, reducing the cost per bottle just by having doubt not having that that gas and oil pump through their it's really time will tell. A lot of people feel down, but were really looking at him, the money aspect itself so that you can gauge the environment you're reducing our carbon footprint. So it's kind of a twofold situation of the benefit electric buses and tell me about the technology on some of the newer buses that is obviously anything new is better administrator for the drivers and better for the riders. Right now it is implemented. We have our fleshly and pulmonary ABL system and the ethos of the book of the GPS now and was really convenient for that is that any user can install a free app on their phone and they can see where the buses are in real time and what that does you know we do a little Wisconsin so you know when it's the portable low-end to get snow on the ground. It's nice to know where your buses in real time with the general condition of the table the, you know, standing there in the box where stand in home until the bucket there also. Just about plaintiff from his new dairy and not sure what talk to get on a lot of things that give us a call here and read the old-fashioned map, but the biblical proponent that to look this your buses around and just tap on that stop in for the next buses in their it's really revolutionize that's really set at the head of getting new riders on the box that's more like big city stuff really if you think about it. Yeah, absolutely a you know where were trying to change the culture of transit in the city La Crosse obviously never arrived in the depend on it. Not right as an Indian unit for many years but now we want to break the door and get a lot of those first-time writers and often in order to do that we have to get some of the technologies and some luxuries. No new bus luxury not able to write a new box so all those pieces on panic that is up to have the new ridership and tell me about some of the projects that the MTU is coming up well on this for A product that talked about the infrastructure of spinal route that electric grid not only to how the two buses but also the plan for the future. I'm just for plaintiff and money savings were in a plan for now. If you want to keep digging up the ground and put a new conduit new stations and every time you want to get electric buses, but for the community projects. We had a couple really great ones lined up this year. And of course they got postponed for next year but really trying to branch out and and and and get our faith out there and one only had a really cool project. The school district with your teachers, where family picnic in the community-based Damon that we had students from every one of the Wilson artwork and I plan to wrap a 35 foot box and have them going billboard of the kids our growth of the city and it's just that I really care product showcase the talent that we have here in La Crosse but also to have some mom find transportation system that I can't understand Latino politicians taking call about but feel that the large-scale project for really the last 12 to 18 months and really put a lot of emphasis on local community events. Local media picnics. We do a lot of outreach with him a lot of daycare and school. Korea: a parent is somewhat like a field trip on property but to get rid of the and honk the horn and just learn more about writing and then I will actually do a lot without working through different businesses in the area and will take a bath into a private poster with the their employees and their business just to get people to feel the box and understand about writing about kind of want to think environment where they have somebody looking at that object can do it together and just to show him that the foxes are really viable and efficient, and safe optical

Contact School District of La Crosse807 East Avenue SouthLa Crosse, Wisconsin 54601(608) 789-7600https://www.lacrosseschools.org/Transcription is for SEO onlyThis is Randy Nelson and this is an edition of extra innings as a retiring superintendent of schools. Many things run across my mind when I reflect on 37 years of education, what's happened in those 37 years. What we been doing in our schools and even what's on the horizon to help facilitate the discussion. I've enlisted the assistance of Mr. Bob Schmidt past radio talkshow host a parent and a friend. Take one of the things that is change. I think a lot since my kids were little to now is is community schools. We tend to have more community schools than we did 15 years ago. One could argue that our community schools have always been committed to schools in that they serve neighborhoods. We believe that neighborhood schools are really important part of who we are but a community school model intensifies what it means to be a neighborhood school and that neighborhood school really sees that's this is where we bring our children love our school whatever staff we love everything that happens inside of our school for involving the PTO, etc. but the community school model is one that actually intensifies it by creating more connections, not just with parents and not just of students but with organizations in that particular neighborhood whether those would be churches or where they would be be businesses creating opportunities for many mentorships resources to come in to play bring them thinking in a place where, especially parents of children who maybe don't feel either welcome or comfortable in other settings can come to their local community school and they can be welcome there, and there are resources there for that to support them, etc. so this is the notion of community school. I'm real proud that how I think were in our third year of community school operations, both at Northside elementary school and also at Hamilton elementary school. So, explain the difference between a neighborhood school and community school that so that the neighborhood school is really about geographic location right, but a community school takes the geographic location and says what does this neighborhood have to offer the school and how can we bring it into the school. For instance, in one of the things we talked about before is in a community school model perhaps partnering with a laundromat or perhaps in bringing in for instance a washer and dryer so that the student a who may not have had an opportunity to have their clothes washed for several days. They can be washed at school. We can take care that we can support that we can support the parent we can support the students. We also talked about making sure that in a community school that we have. For instance, classroom space for adult learning so that parents who, for instance, would like to have a class running there that me know maybe through a partnership with one of our higher Ed agencies Western or Viterbo or UW well that actually in an adult course can be run right there make minutes parenting course. Maybe it's a course on marketing. Maybe it's a corrupt business course we want to turn out to be a hub where that particular parent or any parent can send this is my school and on a drop in here. Both of those schools have a pretty significant opportunity to support a lot of the families in the schools and on the weekends it's that's not unusual for students to be filling up bags of groceries for some of the students in their schools to I need some food over the weekend and so this hub. This opportunity really expands on that particular model. And of course one of the things we want to make sure someplace is an opportunity for our local medical agencies to have an exam room or have a place where students if necessary, and/or parents and people from the neighborhood might be able to once a week be able to see a doctor and come in and see a doctor if they are not feeling well and or an opportunity for a dental chair to be there so that a student could have a quick exam. I'm guessing eyeglasses hearing all that stuff probably titrated. I can totally see great advantage of having community schools. I don't know if our community knows that we have this here know that they really been developing and so couple of years ago we brought the programs and we actually hired about what's called a community schools coordinator and it's really been that person's job over the last couple of years to start cultivating relationships and start making know some of these things happen. I think what's really cool about the community schools model is that we've got Hamilton and we have Northside right now is our community schools. There could be more in the future, but we have those two schools and a well they are community schools there community school programming does not have to look the same. It's not the standardized approach to this. It really is intended to be one that's reflective of what the community in the neighborhood largest thing. For instance at Hamilton we went through the process there of having several meetings with community members and with members in that particular neighborhood what's needed here at the Hamilton school. How can the schools serve to support you better in some of the needs that you have as parents, we received a treasure trove of ideas that actually were starting to bring into play and part of it was to make it a community school provides someone there to provide supports that person who's there is typically one that has other connections in the community. It doesn't need to be a social worker, but is able to support a family who might need a year this family. You might need something else and it's just it's another touching point for families and for parents who need supports along the way. This is part of the role of the community, school, community school is to make sure that we're doing things that the tenant level is much as we can. The playing field so that when that student comes to school. That student knows my mom my dad my guardians however are welcome in this particular school. I'm welcome in this particular school. This is my place. I love this place. I'm learning these things and were backfilling with experiences along the way. So it's a very complex thing that goes on with these and were just in the starting phases of our community schools, but I am really excited about what the future holds for the committee to schools and how they can really really become the hubs of those neighborhoods and go further than that. Thanks, Randy. I'm looking forward to our next extraneous conversation retiring superintendent of schools Randy Nelson is excavating time as a podcast for hire.com

For more information on Referral Staffing Solutions visit our website at https://www.referralstaffingsolutions.com/200 Mason St STE 18, Onalaska, WI 54650608-790-9075Transcription is for seo purposes only.What is the first step to finding the right job. The first of the finite upper really identifying what's important is incredibly important to look at, like water, the dealbreaker and what the ideal one other thing that we talk to you with prospective employees is what works with your life. You know what schedule are you looking for what okay what echolocation all that stuff sounds kind of no-brainer – but we can have a perfect job but you have to drive our everyday and not just not doable. It's important to identify the items that are not going to work for you and those items that are really really important you and they are done will will look at the ideal list and left me ideal to make sure never cutting any corners and not looking at any position that Joan match the dealbreaker in their idealist decide what organization, for that matter shall be how important this is to have a good resume having a good resume is very important. Many companies use artificial intelligence to cancer resume before a person ever sees them at referral English and we do look at resumes regardless if they're good or not. We do know that people are not professional resume writer. Generally, it is very important to make sure that you're still Butler clearly identified on your resume so that what you are missing great opportunities with those organizations that do use artificial intelligence to rescan resumes prior to having conversation so there are a lot of different choices out there for finding a job and for finding employees. Why did you start referral staffing referral for English and because I noticed with the other agencies I've worked with that. It was becoming more of a cookie-cutter black-and-white option for for all companies and I didn't feel that that was the best approach. I felt like the best part is really a customized approach for each client. Because each client has different needs in the area of the biggest area that I know that room for improvement and is often vilified a thing of the artificial intelligence that I had mentioned can really break down those hard skills and break down the basic skills are needed. But if there's a personality conflict a personality issue that something that artificial housing will not identify. And that's really where we come in. We can understand the culture understand that the person that employees will be working with and for in your very best to find the right person is going to match not only from the Hartfield standpoint but also from the Fox guilty and flaky and the culture you mention hard skills and soft skills. What does that mean so hard skills is basically the skill set that could be working with Microsoft office that could be working with a caliper or Nick micrometer. It could be programming against the machine, the Hartfield are the black and white, math, reading, writing that type of thing. The soft skills are more of the personality side more of the conflict resolution more of the emotional intelligent lady bid the way that you respond to different situations different scenario. We all had a revised or updated literary someone in our life that we just did not see eye to eye with it doesn't necessarily mean that the applicant is wrong or you're wrong just the way that you guys handle situations with your thoughts skills. Many doesn't mesh with that person is important that both off don't line up the when there are challenging situations that happen in the workplace. It will be handled appropriately and everybody go home feeling good about their day

For more information on Referral Staffing Solutions visit our website at https://www.referralstaffingsolutions.com/200 Mason St STE 18, Onalaska, WI 54650608-790-9075Transcription is for seo purposes only. Why would a business need to hire you many reasons choose to work with referral staffing solutions and one reason would be the timing though the economy has recently changed the think of right now I you identify the account we had time to go through phone interview internal interviews and really screen out of town but not going to be the right fit shall be both internal and external clients basically of people coming and looking for jobs and people that are looking for you to help them to fill those jobs. Why would somebody go to you to have a job filled rather than doing it on their own. Right now everything one of the biggest reasons with with the current economic date with covid 19 with the uncertainty that is a major reason like you are coming to. Currently, there are many different rules and regulations that are changing on a daily basis. So many people that are in the HR side of things are spending their days digging through the information trying to understand it making taking care of our current employee with that. They don't necessarily have the time to do the recruiting and breathing, but the needs are still there for the week that we also have the that has been a massive increase in their needs, but are nervous to hire on their own because they don't know how long another great fighter we can step in weakness, for we can really help bridge that gap and it doesn't turn into permanent and if they don't, we can help those individuals with another opportunity, protesting continue to shift and change and evolve. So I asked how referral staff helped out a business, how does it help out an individual looking for a job so we help D. The jobseekers that come to us in many different ways. One of the most important thing to know is that when they come to a wanted money and number two when they come to what we can look at their skin or fat look at their need for and look at their want and compare multiple different job putting out 15 resume one resume and one application of multiple different job and the best opportunity with you important one application, multiple opportunities and one of the biggest reasons that employees come, once all this back to normal. Is it going to be easier or harder to find a job. Don't know yet. I can say that the effect based on the number of baby boomers that are going to be leading the job market. I think that it going to stay in employees market for a very long time. I think there's a little road right now but I think by the end of 2020. Beginning in 2021 think they're probably going to be getting back to a tight labor market like they have been for a number of years just needed a number of people are going to be retiring and the number of doctors are going to be filled

Chris Jones is well known for his appearance on America’s Got Talent when he made the impossible happen: Known germaphobe Howie Mandel shook hands with Heidi, Howard, and Mel live. Since his first TV appearance, Chris has performed on shows like The Steve Harvey Show, Windy City Live, Good Day Chicago, Penn and Teller, Scam School, and the Adam Carolla Show.Transcription for seo purposes onlyChris Jones podcast were back is the second time that were doing this or doing it that will you honestly most of our podcast have been just as we been social distancing, but this is the true social distancing one word Chris Jones podcast reason is that it's true, is because we have to be social distancing now because the way the world is shut down. Chris, the only thing running in and yeah and that you know that the people out there delivering Amazon to psych, Amazon, post office, UPS, FedEx, all those guys are out there men and women are out there delivering packages to everybody and that is people like us that are staying at home and leaving our packages at home. You don't like them they are great for that, and I loved it all. And I will become the perfect payoff. It was something as it was a pleasant home is worth the wait. Or not. Lately you instead of being in front of an audience you doing a different type of audience to see you on Facebook live all the time now showing off how to do some different things and on the other day as a plan you in your beautiful bride mother to be our planes and foosball and it looks like you cheated for the first couple, but I'm sure that you probably end up winning that game I did when when there's a camera on her discrete I don't know well you know what I totally think her to also today there are two against one right. I used to be in front of people like to. That's the whole thing yeah it was my right, you don't need makeup and I'm arty like. I learned how to do magic trick. Watching you watching your IDE or Facebook videos I taught how to turn a small coin into two large going to need to change it. So you're going to bronze coins. Whatever you want from the magic that you know I mean, that's so cool in those traits. They say that I hundred one? Which is true but you buying for only two tricks you though. I read the book. Have you so have you ever done magic in front of people I know that you know that you do as I kiss your you know, me just a magician as if you well, but you're basically listed as a comic right yeah last night and magic was a fundraiser for young boys and family counseling and his parents created a foundation anti-bullying and they give money to first responders. The two things he cared about was being nice people, not bullying, and the character by what we should and women purchased on the greater foundation I went to Burlington, Wisconsin, and that little coffeehouse did poetry and they played in the band and I did magic and I get a card trick and I had a few drinks and beautiful, like the fact that he got a drink, absolutely. Well, you would know that because you're a college graduate from from Utah Valley University Wisconsin crossed and I don't know if I have a lot of people know this about you or not but you were a new model when you're here, but you also gave a scholarship seedless scholarship at UW well because you graduated from here. I had a really great teacher, Dr. Ronald he called me about the blue I never met before, my guess reach out to the school and he says were trying to get new faces in the ring at your 78. Waiver. If we can, so I'm trying for anyone coming from out of state to get that thing discount price that's my hope that you pretty cool to come back to the cross. I think timber said a lot world is open again on the back of the car that you make sure that I'm available for those for that time because I know the last time you're in town. I think we got we got together we did a podcast from him Riverside Park and submit. Remember, people were eating lunch, and a minute staring at them they just walked away or like five and you videotape the two did you ever do anything of it at all I have. I thought yesterday that the people thing, according to just go draw your old furniture. Like all that I went to Japan and never edited into the video like literally like I need to get on that. Speaking of Japan, and the owners of rain sucks her friend Shane is in Japan now and is in there for a couple years but I saw that he liked the post that you posted about you being a dad in your holding a doll baby doll baby girl doll upside down by the foot. Great that you do it that way, did you how did you do that you just come out of a hat. So did you do that, just for a fact not know but when I went to the girl we just want to help each other so I can write but it was a black light hanging by one leg but my friend you like. I got the girl yeah yeah either way that can be applied. Is it scary to have a daughter. You have got I think I'm going to do my best to say look like she's gorgeous how did I get hurt line my ass off. I yeah look out the guys are just charmers like how you dad Marriott because he was nice was polite and patient. I know you your very book smart you what you do a lot of reading and stuff. If you ever thought of writing a book I need to have my page is set up a lot in this room literally with the dog and just get to typing away how ADD is Chris Buckley's rainy days I will. But you know YouTube doesn't stop and then I might have been writing for while it is a reward to get some coffee and then on I had been drinking since my wife is pregnant like literally since we found out that she is weak, 15 and 15 weeks we shared My carbonate yeah good for you have you can pick out a name yet know. So please, we need to ground and meet some girl names. I think what is got a girl name that the thing to be awesome for for Chris and Stacy's baby give Chris an email and it's one word got Joan Miller and whoever raises enough money for the name of their choice that will but like it college or career fund and that you can name the child so I explained to explain this to me explain this to him to us right now. So if somebody has a name that they want to you is someone I like I really want daughter you give us enough money. I think that will Let them go to her college career even want to name honey and you pay five grand so how do something about making a donation to the to the baby Jones file all have to give them my then know which day but yeah we will make it happen because if you want to name a kid doesn't belong to you, you're okay with me and live type of person is the one word Chris Jones podcast podcast