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Helping your own community can be a good thing, but helping communities thousands of miles away can provide even more benefits through service learning.

Bonduel High School’s Spanish club is finding that out firsthand through involvement in the La Pulsera Project during the month of January. Local students will be selling bracelets and handbags made by artisans from Nicaragua and Guatemala, and that money will go back to their communities to further empower the Central American artists.

With the recent snow and cold temperatures, the feeling of Christmas has really set in. Along with the winter weather, Christmas lights have started to invade neighborhoods.

That rings true in Bonduel and Shawano, as houses throughout the municipalities light up the night skies to ring in the holiday season. While many homeowners use a basic string of lights that takes an hour or so to set up, five homeowners in the area have taken a different approach, each taking a couple more hours to set up than average.

For hunters, shooters and other outdoors enthusiasts exposed to frequent gunfire or other ear-damaging noise, holiday “Jingle Bells” could eventually become a “Silent Night.”