Legion Of Merit Recipient Speaker For BD Memorial Ceremony
5/24/15 – The speaker in Monday’s Beaver Dam Memorial Day Ceremony is a 30-year veteran of the armed forces. Retired Col. Michael Tobin is a recipient of Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal and Combat Action Badge. Tobin is the executive director of the Office of Police Complaints in Washington DC. The office handles police misconduct complaints filed against the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department and the DC Housing Authority Office of Public Safety Officers. Tobin previously served as the executive director of the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission after beginning his career with the city as a police officer. After graduating from law school, he joined the Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office as an assistant city attorney. In 2005, Tobin was appointed Rule of Law Officer to manage the US military program to reconstruct the civilian justice systems in Afghanistan. Monday’s activities in Beaver Dam start with a river ceremony at 8:45am and the parade starting a half hour later. Tobin will speak at Oakwood Cemetery, the ceremony starts at 10:15am and will be broadcast live here on AM1430 WBEV.
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Fall River Holding Two-Part Memorial Day Ceremony
5/24/15 – A two-part Memorial Day ceremony is set in Fall River. Beginning at 9:30am Monday, students from the Fall River schools band and choirs will perform at the morning ceremony in the multipurpose room. The guest speaker will be retired Master Sergeant George Ferriter of Doylestown. Ferriter is a Vietnam vet and a member of the John C. Brossard Post 2219 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The second part of the program will be held at the village cemetery. A new flag pole is being dedicated in the cemetery flying an American flag that was flown in Iraq. Another dedication will recognize Civil War Medal of Honor recipient William H. Sickles. The cemetery program will conclude with the annual wreath-laying ceremony and veterans’ poppy tribute. The community is invited to a pot luck luncheon at Savanna Oaks following the cemetery ceremony. The VFW will furnish brats, hot dogs and beverages. Guests are being asked to bring a dish to pass and place settings.
UW Madison To ID MIA Soldiers
5/24/15 – U-W Madison will become the first school in the country to identify soldiers whose bodies are discovered long after they go missing-in-action. The university this week announced the creation of the M-I-A Recovery-and-Identification Project. Officials hope to achieve, on a larger scale, what the U-W did a year ago — when it used its genetic analysis and expertise in history to identify the remains of Lawrence Gordon. He was an Army private mistakenly buried in a German cemetery following the end of World War Two. Film-maker Jed Henry of Middleton led a civilian team that identified Gordon, and he created a documentary about it. Three labs — including U-W Madison’s bio-tech center — donated services in the search for Gordon. That was after Henry learned there was a member of his grandfather’s reconnaissance team who died in action but never got a proper burial. Henry said it cost about 25-thousand dollars to identify Gordon, most of that in travel costs. He said the U-W could identify up to four-thousand unknown soldiers for about half of what it cost to find Gordon. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Pentagon is does not have a process to enter into relationship such as one with the U-W — but the Defense Department is working on it. The agency spends about two-and-a-half million dollars to identify each of 74 soldier identifications it averages every year.
Sun Prairie Jogger Memorial Finds Permanent Home
5/24/15 – A bronze memorial that honors a jogger killed by a drunk driver has been moved to a permanent site at a park in Sun Prairie. Just like they did at the previous site, folks left running shoes yesterday at the new location for Maureen Mengelt’s memorial. The 52-year-old Mengelt was training for a race when she was struck-and-killed by former Lutheran Bishop Bruce Burnside in April of 2013. He was later sentenced to ten years in prison, and the family still has a civil lawsuit pending against Burnside’s estate. At the time of the accident, Burnside was in the final three months of a term as the bishop for 110-thousand E-L-C-A Lutherans in south central Wisconsin, including a number of congregations in Dodge County. The memorial was set up at the crash site a year ago — but the state D-O-T said it couldn’t stay there, and they gave Mengelt’s family more than a year to move it, until June first. W-K-O-W T-V says the new memorial is located only a few yards away from Mengelt’s home. Meanwhile, the third annual Maureen Mengelt Memorial Day 5-K Run-and-Walk is scheduled for Monday. The event has raised about 90-thousand dollars to help youth sports teams and music students.
Milwaukee Ranks 33rd In Fitness Survey
5/24/15 – Milwaukeeans are not exactly the fittest people — and a new survey continues to bear that out. Wisconsin’s largest metro ranks 33rd among the nation’s 50 largest urban areas in the eighth annual American Fitness Index. It was released yesterday by the Anthem Foundation and the American College of Sports Medicine. Despite its low ranking, the survey said the Milwaukee region has made a number of fitness improvements since 2009. Only two-point-eight percent of residents had heart disease in 2013, down from three-and-a-half percent in ’09. The numbers of farmers’ markets grew, indicating that more folks are eating healthier. Parks are a bigger priority, with expenses-per-resident almost doubling to 90-dollars over the five-year period. More folks are also getting exercise walking their dogs, as evidenced by a large growth in the number of dog parks. According to the survey, Washington D-C is the nation’s fittest metro, followed by the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area — part of which is in far western Wisconsin. The Chicago metro, which includes Kenosha County, ranks 17th. Indianapolis is the least fittest.
Lawmakers Pushing For Blaze Pink Hunting Option
5/24/15 – If two Wisconsin lawmakers have their way, deer hunters might be seeing pink in the woods. State Assembly Democrat Nick Milroy of South Range plans to hold a news conference on Tuesday, to announce a bill that lets hunters wear pink in addition to the traditional blaze orange. Senate Republican Terry Moulton of Chippewa Falls says it’s designed to encourage more women to try deer hunting. In the Dunn County News this week, Moulton said a U-W Madison textile expert performed experiments, and found that “blaze pink” is just as visible in the woods as blaze orange. Experts have credited blaze orange for making deer hunting a lot safer over the past 50 years. No shooting deaths were reported in last year’s nine-day statewide gun season, and only three people were wounded by hunters’ bullets.
Waupun-Based Business Offers Ag Scholarship
5/24/15 – The Waupun-based East Central/Select Sires is offering scholarships to those studying an agriculture related field. The five, $1,000 scholarships are open to high school seniors and those presently enrolled in either a four year college or in a one or two year technical institution. All applicants or their parents must be currently purchasing farm products from the company to be eligible. Applications are due by Monday, June 1, and information on where to apply can be found on our website at wbevradio.com. Winners will be notified in July.
Race Into Summer Is Today At Beaver Dam’s Swan Park
5/24/15 – Race Into Summer is this afternoon at Beaver Dam’s Swan City Park. The WBEV-WXRO and the Chamber of Commerce event features a wide variety of activities including children’s inflatables, a petting zoo, face painting, and a K9 demonstration. There will also be race cars, vintage cars, fire trucks and other emergency vehicles on display. Bingo is free and runs 1pm to 3pm. Beaver Dam’s Most Wanted is on the stage from 1pm to 5pm, followed by the WBEV-WXRO Karaoke Finals. The Mad Pole Cats perform from 7pm until the event wraps up at 11pm. The first 500 people get a free t-shirt starting at noon. Admission is free.
