Because
of 22 individuals and businesses in the Durand and Mondovi areas, six
additional school districts will be receiving cheese curds in their
lunches. The Feed Us Dairy Cheese Curd Project will provide
Mondovi,
Gilmanton, CFC, Pepin, Alma, and Plum City
School
districts with Ellsworth Co-Op Creamery cheese curds for their
student lunches over the next 6 weeks. The six districts join the
Durand-Arkansaw School District where businesses and citizens have
purchased cheese curds for the district for the rest of the school
year to give to their students and at the same time help struggling
local dairy farmers. Starting next week The Feed Us Dairy Cheese
Curd Project will deliver cheese curds to the residents of The
Homeplace of Mondovi and American Lutheran Homes in Mondovi and to
the Mondovi Food Pantry, and other Buffalo County Food Pantries.
On Monday, the Pepin County Tavern League announced they were
purchasing 200 gallons of milk to give to area families on Friday
starting at 3pm on Main Street between 3rd
and 4th
Avenue West in Durand.
Dunn
County prosecutors have charged the Boyceville E-M-S Chief with
fraudulent data alteration and misdemeanor theft. Chief Matthew
Feeny and Captain Tessa Feeney were both placed on administrative
leave last December while an investigation into missing funds was
conducted. Investigators say a credit card for the Boyceville
Ambulance Board was used to buy clothing and other items online, plus
conduct transactions at a local bar. Feeney told those
investigators the ambulance service didn’t have any credit card
policies when he took over, but he put one into place which required
personal purchases to be paid back. He reportedly admitted
using the card to buy personal items.
The
Durand Arkansaw School Board is meeting tonight via zoom. Items on
the agenda include the swearing in of the elected board of education
members, action on contracts with Market and Johnson and Auth
consulting for renovations in the Middle School and High School, and
an update on the Covid-19 plan for the district. Tonights meeting
begins at 6pm on zoom.
No
one was injured in a garage fire on Saturday in the city of Fountain
City. According to the Buffalo County Sheriffs Department, the fire
was reported at W747 Walnut Street in Fountain City at 11:27pm.
Firefighters found the garage fully engulfed in flames and
firefighters from Fountain City, Tri Community, Alma and Waumandee
Fire Departments worked to get the fire under control. The
homeowners told authorities they were awakened by the fire and had
not been in the garage for hours. The garage was a total loss.
Minnesota
House Republicans were unsuccessful in efforts to lift Governor Tim
Walz's stay-at-home order and re-open bars and restaurants.
G-O-P Representative Steve Drazkowski of Mazeppa argued, "in our
efforts to save lives, we are killing livelihoods. In just the
past few weeks, the governor has ordered businesses closed and shut
people up inside their homes, and our economy has been smoked."
House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler said, "we are doing better
than every other state in controlling this disease because we are
listening to public health professionals and we, as average citizens
and as legislators, are supporting their recommendations.
State
Representative Warren Petryk issued the
following statement following the Assembly passing bipartisan
legislation to address the coronavirus response bill: “This
is a difficult time right now for people throughout the state. To
help address these challenging times the Assembly voted today to give
our state more resources and flexibility to help in this fight. This
bipartisan legislation will bring more federal dollars to Wisconsin
to help increase medical care, provide loans to small business, and
aid to our farmers. In addition, the bill repeals the
unemployment insurance one week waiting period to help those out of
work.” Petryk hopes the Wisconsin Senate will quickly pass the
bill.
On
Monday, the Wisconsin Board on Aging and Long Term Care had issued an
order prohibiting family members from making a window visit to their
loved one during the safer-at-home order. Pepin County Health
Officer Heidi Stewart says because some of those making the visits
took advantage and did not practice social distancing. After
a backlash from the public, Governor Tony Evers rescinded the order.
Mayo
Clinic Health System facilities are requiring both patients and
visitors to wear face masks. The health system put the
requirement into effect Monday. The masks can be homemade or
cloth, but they must be worn at all times while a person is on any
Mayo property. You should bring your own so supplies can be
conserved for front-line medical personnel. However, if you
don’t bring one, it will be provided.
"Stunning"
is what the head of the Department of Employment and Economic
Development calls the number of Minnesotans applying for
unemployment. DEED Commissioner Steve Grove says nearly
452-thousand workers have filed claims during the COVID-19 pandemic -
compared to 219-thousand-625 in all of 2019. That represents
14-and-a-half percent of the state's workforce. Grove says
those are real people "who have families to take care of and
bills to pay and rent or mortgages to pay."
The
country’s two largest rivers – both in the Midwest – top the
list of the most-endangered waterways. The Washington,
D-C-based conservation group American Rivers released its report
Tuesday. The Upper Mississippi River in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Illinois and Missouri was the most-endangered. The Lower
Missouri River in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri was second.
Increasingly severe flooding caused by climate change was cited,
along with poor river management. The National Weather Service
is warning the risk of flooding on the Mississippi is very high
through May. The Menominee River in Michigan and Wisconsin is
almost among the top-10 most-endangered waterways.
Wisconsin’s
governor says it could be at least a month before he begins rolling
back the Safer at Home social distancing orders. Governor Tony
Evers tells a Twin Cities television station that even then it won’t
be like just “flipping a switch.” The Democrat says he
wants to see more testing, more tracking of the sick, and more
available protective gear before he starts thinking about reopening
businesses. Right now, the stay-at-home and school closure
orders are set to expire a week from Friday.
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Wisconsin
Governor Tony Evers is awaiting the response to his application to
FEMA before starting work on a second care facility for COVID-19
patients. The state is trying to get ready for a potential
surge in the number of cases. Evers submitted the application
for a backup care facility to avoid seeing Wisconsin’s health care
system in the southern part of the state be overwhelmed. The
governor says he hopes it won’t be needed. The U-S Army Corps
of Engineers is working with the state to expand existing medical
infrastructure in anticipation of new coronavirus cases.
Staying
at home seems to be working and the numbers suggest Wisconsin is
flattening the curve. Fewer people are testing positive for
coronavirus. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services
reported the smallest one-day increase in cases Monday since the
outbreak started last month. The state has recorded 155 deaths
and more than 34 hundred cases. Governor Tony Evers says it’s
too soon to start talking about when he hopes to re-open the state
for business.
The
Mayo Clinic is expanding the availability of a new test designed to
detect an immune response to the coronavirus. Mayo began the
blood antibody tests last week that signal if a patient has recovered
from COVID-19. The test is now being made available to more
health care organizations and Mayo is working with state and federal
officials to prioritize access to frontline health care workers.
Governor Tim Walz said the testing will help identify people who are
no longer at risk of spreading the virus. Mayo labs currently
have the capacity to run about eight-thousand test per day. The
University of Minnesota is starting testing this week at M
Health Fairview’s Bethesda Hospital in St. Paul.
The
Trump reelection campaign has filed suit against a Wisconsin
television station for running a commercial the campaign says is
false. The commercial paid-for by a Democratic super-PAC is a
combination of audio clips of the president downplaying the threat of
the coronavirus. The campaign says those comments are spliced
together in a misleading way and the lawsuit was filed Monday. The
targeted station, W-J-F-W in Rhinelander, has declined to comment.
Priorities U-S-A Chairman Guy Cecil says the ad includes the
president’s own words and he is trying to bully the television
station so it will quit running an ad that is critical of him.
The
first lawsuit is filed in connection with last week's
coronavirus-marred elections in Wisconsin. A group of 14
Milwaukee-area residents filed a class action lawsuit Monday in U.S.
District Court in Madison. The suit seeks a partial re-vote of last
week's election, which saw long lines at polling places in Milwaukee
and Green Bay. The suit names Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos
and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald as defendants, along with
the state individually, the Legislature and the Wisconsin Elections
Commission. The goal is not a new election but an "order to
count the votes of all those who were disenfranchised April 7,"
the plaintiffs' attorneys say in a news release.
Madison
police say a burglary must have climbed up into the ceiling and
crawled into a store before stealing cash and cigarettes. The
crook set off an alarm at about 2:30 a-m Saturday.
Investigators think he dropped from the ceiling at the Tobacco Deals
store in Madison, grabbed the money and smokes, and then took off.
A police dog was used to search for the suspect, but wasn’t able to
find him.
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