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LOCAL NEWS
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EAGLE RIVER - A week long workshop in Eagle River shows students they're not alone in their passion for nature. Kids from all over the Midwest arrived at the Trees for Tomorrow campsite for the first day of The Natural Resources Career Workshop.
Out of towners visit the Northwoods to escape noise, and enjoy some peace and quiet.
"I just like being out in nature instead of one of those people playing video games constantly," said 16-year-old Austin Shimeck.
The Natural Resources Career Workshop turned the benefits of visiting the Northwoods into a classroom.
"Giving them the experience that some of these students may not have had," said Trees for Tomorrow Coordinator Vernon Gentele.
High school students from all over the mid-west came to the camp to explore the unique environment.
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RHINELANDER - It took a local author 30 years to publish his book.Jay Woolf was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia or CLL. He decided to use his pain from the disease to help others cope.Woolf is from Winchester, Wisconsin. He started writing the book "It IS a Laughing Matter," when he was diagnosed with cancer 30 years ago. He just finished the book last year.
"Every death joke that I knew, started coming to mind and every time it came out I realized it was helping me. If it helps me, maybe it could help somebody else," said Woolf.
Woolf wanted to use his jokes to help people.He sells his books and also does talks at local libraries. Woolf has been in remission for about 17 years.
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RHINELANDER - The new Oneida County Fair Coordinator wants to see the fair grow and get the community fully involved.
It's Tom Barnett's first year as fair coordinator and Saturday at Pat's Tavern in Rhinelander he hosted a fundraiser. He said he didn't have a financial goal for Saturday's event, but says every dollar is more than they had before and makes a difference.
"We really want to bring the community into the fair. We want them to be involved a lot more. With the support from the community the sponsorship, it's only going to help the fair grow bigger and better. We need that sponsorship we need the support from the community to make the fair grown and make it more successful than it has been," said Barnett.
Pixy the Clown and Ms America were two of the many guests at the event.
There was also food, drinks and raffles.
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MINOCQUA - T-shirts and running shoes are typical at a 5K race, but paws and doggy dish prizes, not so much.
"There isn't anything like this, in this area at least," said Blue Raven Race Productions organizer Karen McCabe.
The first-ever Paws on the Run 5K was held in Minocqua Saturday to support the Northwoods Wildlife Center.
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REGIONAL NEWS
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MADISON (AP) - Madison is ending its compost collection program because residents were putting too many non-compostable items in their carts and the city can't afford its own biodigester.
Bryan Johnson is the city's recycling coordinator. He tells The Wisconsin State Journal that ending the program will give officials time to study other options for collecting food scraps and other compostable materials.
The program currently has about 1,100 households and 40 businesses involved.
Johnson says separating non-compostable materials is a labor-intensive and slow process that requires additional water. The digester's operator, GL Dairy Biogas, charges a $200-per-ton fee to separate debris from compostable material.
Mayor Paul Soglin says he hopes the city can find ways to work with larger producers before integrating the process into the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District.
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MILWAUKEE - Foxconn Technology Group and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are launching an internship program that will send engineering students to the company's headquarters in Taiwan for a semester.
The program announced Thursday is designed to develop local talent for the company's planned manufacturing facility in southeast Wisconsin. Foxconn plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at the complex being built in Mount Pleasant.
The university says five students from its College of Engineering and Applied Science will be selected this fall. They will spend time in Mount Pleasant before going to Taiwan in February and will work on projects at one of the company's facilities there through June.
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MADISON - Wisconsin's unemployment rate remained at a record-low for a second straight month in May.
The state Department of Workforce Development released data Thursday that shows the unemployment rate held at 2.8 percent last month.
The labor force participation rate increased to 68.9 percent in May, up from 68.8 percent in April. DWD estimated 3,090,200 people were employed in May while 89,200 were unemployed.
The state added 600 government jobs between May and April but lost 5,300 private sector jobs overall.
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GREEN BAY - The car that Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr won for his "Super Bowl One" MVP performance made its way back to Wisconsin.
The 1967 green Corvette was revealed at the automobile gallery Thursday.
A Connecticut Packers fan bought the car last May and offered it to the Packers.
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