FRIDAY, NOV. 14

BOWLER: Shawano and Menominee County First Responders Ball of the Badges, 5 p.m. to midnight, North Star Mohican Casino Resort, W12180 County Road A. Formal dinner and awards presentation followed by a night of entertainment. Proceeds benefit Safe Haven Domestic Abuse Shelter. Tickets $100, information at Facebook page Shawano/Menominee County First Responders Ball of the Badges.

UW-Whitewater

The following local students are among the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater scholarship recipients receiving financial awards for the 2025-26 academic year.

Oconto Falls: Isabella Heinke, who is studying accounting, won the Chancellor Scholars awards. Evan Yuma, who is studying finance, won the Karl E Fraedrich-Admissions award and Chancellor Scholars award.

For close to 25 years, Mike and Karen Van Dyn Hoven have raised bison on their ranch located at W3502 State Highway 156 in rural Pulaski.

Providing an alternative, heart-healthy red meat product to consumers, they open-pasture about 40 head of bison. Mike Van Dyn Hoven was a science teacher at Hortonville High School for 31 years before he toyed with the idea of raising bison, contemplating the endeavor as his retirement business.

Students attending Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Shawano can get help and counseling for far more than just academics.

Resources are available at the campus to help students connect with community food pantries, housing and utility support, transportation help, legal services and more.

There were important themes within the keynotes from last month’s 2025 Seven Generation Inter-Tribal Leadership Summit. Whether intended or not, they collectively reminded me of something rhetoric scholar Kenneth Burke wrote about what is referred to as the “unending conversation.”

I like to think I’m not resistant to change, because it can make life better. However, this past year may well do me in. As if what’s happening (or not happening) on the political side isn’t distressing enough, along comes artificial intelligence.