By the end of her 34-year career, Julie Dumke, a former Oshkosh area teacher and co-founder and executive director of the Oshkosh Kids Foundation (OKF), realized some students needed more help than they were getting outside of school to be successful in their education. “Something dramatically happened,” said Dumke. “The poverty level of Oshkosh went.
To many, homelessness can seem like a distant concept; it is something that only happens in movies or TV shows for dramatic tension, or something that only is talked about on the news. Some Oshkosh residents might be generally unbothered by the concept of homelessness, believing that it is something that does not impact our.
Oshkosh Northwestern readers were most interested in business news about a pizza place and pharmacy closing as well as projects to help the homeless and chains coming to the area.