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Promoting the Regional Brand
Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting training center officially dedicated at Appleton airport
WBAY
GREENVILLE -- Fox Valley Technical College, Appleton International Airport and Oshkosh Corporation have teamed up to create a training center with an international reach.
The Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting Training Center was dedicated with a formal ceremony Friday morning. The training center had its groundbreaking in 2018 and opened last year, but training has been slowed by the pandemic.
It houses the world’s only Boeing 777 aircraft training prop and offers firefighter training for airport ground emergencies. It can recreate any scenario encountered on an airfield.....
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Encourage Educational Attainment
Future doctors train in wilderness medicine, learning to think on their feet
WBAY
GREEN BAY -- The success of a pilot program for medical school students in Northeast Wisconsin will now pave the way for future doctors to train themselves to think outside the box and treat people with simply the supplies around them.
It’s part of a new Wilderness Medicine course created to help future physicians improve the way they treat patients anywhere.
“We’re used to being in the hospital with anything and everything we can have, and Dr. Medich and everyone else thought we needed to have a way to put our skills to the test in a low resource area,” says Trevor Cooper, a U.W. School of Medicine and Public Health student....
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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
Shoreline Hometown Credit Union will open a branch at East Town in Green Bay, the first one outside Manitowoc County
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
GREEN BAY - East Town has seen a lot of change in recent months.
Garritt Bader of GB Real Estate Investments purchased the former mall earlier this year and transformed the property. Now East Town comprises outside-entry retail spaces and production and office space for American Tent.
Last month, the former East Town Fazoli's, 2400 E. Mason St., was demolished to make space for a new development that will house Cousins Subs and Chipotle Mexican Grill....
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Promoting the Regional Brand
Community Clothes Closet's new Traveling Closet will bring clothes to kids in need
NBC 26
MENASHA — When we think of basic needs, food, water and shelter typically come to mind first.
“Clothing is often kind of forgotten as a basic need," said Lisa Jones, Executive Director at the Community Clothes Closet. "But it is a basic need, we all need clothing to function out in society, with our jobs at school, and first impressions are a big deal.”
The Community Clothes Closet has been providing free clothing to people in need for the past 42 years out of their Menasha store. Now thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Basic Needs Giving Partnership, supported by the U.S. Venture Fund for Basic Needs within the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation, the J.J. Keller Foundation and other community partners, the 'Traveling Closet' has been created...Read More 5>
