USA Curling is moving headquarters outside of Stevens Point
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WAOW) USA Curling is moving it s headquarters out of Stevens Point, and outside of Wisconsin.
According to a press release, the headquarters is now moving to he Viking Lakes campus in Eagan, Minnesota.
“The move to the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area opens the door for exciting new opportunities and increased exposure as interest continues to grow in the sport of curling,” said Chief Executive Officer of USA Curling Jeff Plush. “Our headquarters will also now be uniquely positioned next to USA Curling’s Official Sports Medicine Provider Twin Cities Orthopedics on the Viking Lakes campus, giving us the capacity to further support our athletes.”
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STEVENS POINT – A tribute to the RoboCop film franchise could be coming to Stevens Point.
A statue of the iconic character was created in Detroit, where the movie takes place. A grassroots crowdfunding effort for the statue began in 2011 and raised about $67,000, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Now, after nearly a decade, the statue is complete. But when the planned location for the statue at Detroit s Michigan Science Center fell through, the statue had nowhere to go.
Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza stepped in to volunteer the city as its new home. The statue would hold special meaning for the city. RoboCop himself, actor Peter Weller, is a Stevens Point native. Weller starred in RoboCop in 1987 and RoboCop 2 in 1990.
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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Friday, March 12, 2021
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) - A central Wisconsin city is making a play for a giant Robocop statue after a Detroit museum rejected it.
The mayor of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, wants to place the 11-foot statue in front of the city’s police station or in a park to honor actor Peter Weller, a Stevens Point native who portrayed the titular cyborg in 1987′s “Robocop.” The movie spawned two sequels and a 2014 reboot movie.
The original movie was set in a crime-ridden Detroit. Fans from that city started crowdfunding an effort to build a Robocop statue in 2012, raising nearly $70,000 from supporters around the world.