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Economic Development Feature
KCEDC launches buy local incentive program
DOOR COUNTY DAILY NEWS
The Kewaunee County Economic Development Corporation wants you to remember your area code before you head to do your Christmas shopping this year.
The organization is calling on residents to commit to the “920 Pledge.” That means spending at least $20 at nine different Kewaunee County businesses during the holiday season. According to SustainableConnections.org, up to 90 percent of net new jobs in the United States are created by locally owned businesses. For every $100 you spend, $68 stays in the community when you shop local...
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Fostering Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Belonging
UW-Green Bay mentorship program assists early-career students of color
WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is using mentors in hopes of making first-year college and high school students of color feel more connected to campus and the greater community.
UW-Green Bay's BIPOC R.I.S.E. program — which stands for Black, Indigenous and People of Color Reaching Intersectional Strengths Through Engagement — is a volunteer effort to pair students of color nearing graduation with those just starting their college careers.
Associate professor of psychology Christine Smith is a co-creator of the R.I.S.E. program. She told WPR the goal is to focus on undergraduate students and freshman in particular because creating a sense of belonging early on in their college careers is important...
Celebrating Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Belonging
Wisconsin chef is among the creators of new indigenous food publication
POST CRESCENT
A groundbreaking Indigenous multimedia publication and cookbook has begun publishing, and a Wisconsin chef plays a central role.
Chef Kristina Stanley, an adjunct professor at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton and former business owner in Madison, is project manager of The Gathering Basket, a new online indigenous community journal.
It's published by the I-Collective, a group of Indigenous chefs, activists, herbalists, seed and knowledge keepers working to perpetuate ancestral traditions. Stanley also serves as operations manager for the I-Collective.
The first issue came out on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Oct. 11, and featured a series of essays about the history of the chiltepin, a type of pepper, as well as information and recipes around yuca, also known as cassava. The second issue, published Nov. 4 during Native American Heritage Month, centers on the 1970s Walleye Wars in Wisconsin, over tribal hunting and fishing rights...
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Special Event
Drive-thru light show benefiting zoo opens in Manitowoc
WBAY
MANITOWOC --
A drive-thru light show kicked off near the Manitowoc Zoo with volunteers spending 300 hours to put it together with its theme of wild animals.This is the tenth year for Lights in Lincoln Park.
“Keeps growing each year, we add more wild animals and different lighting effects,” Doug Koch, show chairman, said. He has been part of this event since its inception and we hopped in his vehicle for a tour.
The Lincoln Park Zoological Society organizes the show...
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Special Event
Fox Cities Festival of Lights boasts 100,000 lights on handmade sculptures
WFRV
DARBOY -- The Fox Cities Festival of Lights took a year off because of the pandemic but is back on to kick off the Christmas season.
Jodi Avery, a Committee Member for the Fox Cities Festival of Lights said, “We really missed being able to do it and because of the pandemic there were a lot of months there that we couldn’t be in the shop there working on things but we have a couple of big ones that we were able to get done.”
The show has over 100,000 lights and multiple displays representing cities across the region with plans to expand past Appleton, Little Chute, and Kaukauna displays...
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Technology and Innovation
NFL announces partnership with UW-Madison to study head impacts using mouthguards
WFRV
The NFL announced a partnership last week with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and three other research universities to study head impacts during football games and practices using mouthguards fitted with sensors.
Scientists have learned a lot over the last decade about sports-related concussions and their effects, said Dr. Dan Cobian, an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation at UW-Madison. But this project will help them better understand the types of impacts that lead to concussions.
Much research has taken place in laboratories, "but less is known about the magnitude, the total volume, the direction of impacts experienced on the field of play," he said.
Cobian said the mouthguard is a pretty cool device, and that linemen and tight ends at UW-Madison have been wearing them this season.
"Unless you looked closely at it, you would just think you were holding a standard mouthguard," Cobian said.
A series of embedded sensors wrap around the front teeth, allowing researchers to "quantify or measure the head and neck movement" of the players who are wearing the mouthguard, he said....
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