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Outdoor Recreation Alliance Trails is completing construction on a universally accessible treehouse play structure at Chad Erickson Park. Construction on this project has begun. ....
Members from the Rotary Clubs of La Crosse - Downtown, East, and Valley View - worked together and donated $14,000 for pollinator rain gardens to be installed outside of Lincoln ....
Great Rivers United Way asking for help with getting books to young children ONALASKA, Wis. (WXOW) - A new initiative aims to get books into the hands of young children this summer. The goal for the Bucks for Books campaign organized by the Great Rivers United Way is to supply books to 860 local 4K students before the summer break. “Our goal is to expose kids to books at an early age,” said Mary Kay Wolf, Executive Director of Great Rivers United Way in a statement. “Studies have shown the kids who have had an adult reading to them are likely to enter kindergarten knowing more words, being better able to think about cause and effect and are more able to show empathy for others, when compared to students who have not had much experience with books and reading.” ....
(Getty Images) LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) Hmong-American writer Kao Kalia Yang will be the keynote speaker at the Franciscan Spirituality Center’s second annual women’s conference celebrating resiliency and faith from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16. Yang Of course, the format of the conference, “Overcoming Challenges With Grit and Grace,” will be markedly different from the inaugural event, as it will be via Zoom videoconferencing because of COVID-19 precautions. Yang, who lives in Minnesota, was born in the refugee camps of Thailand to a family who escaped the genocide of the Secret War in Laos and came to America at the age of 6. ....