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ARBOR VITAE - Last summer the Northwoods LBGT community and allies come together to celebrate love, diversity and acceptance.
After last year's successful festival, the Rainbow Hodags planned an even bigger one for this year.
More than 75 people celebrated gay pride at the second annual Pride Fest in Arbor Vitae.
Lots of laughter, live music, and dancing filled the park.
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EAGLE RIVER - Every year people take steps to inch closer to find a cure for cancer at Eagle River's annual Relay for Life.
This event helps raise money for cancer research.
It also allowed cancer patients and their families to meet others who know what they are going through.
"It's terribly important for us to have this opportunity to gather in an arena where we are all caregivers of each other", said Joy Turpin, the Event Lead for Relay for Life of the Northwoods. "We all want to see each other pull through this and saturate each other with hope."
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MINOCQUA - Owners of wooden boats describe them as labors of love.
"If you're going to own a boat like this, you have to have a commitment," said boat owner Marc Toigo. "It's not optional."
It's the kind of commitment Gordon Moore had when he helped start the Minocqua Antique Wooden & Classic Boat Show 26 years ago. Moore passed away in August, making this weekend's show the first without him.
"We're going to laugh a lot, because he'd want us to," said show organizer Al Hanley. "(Moore) had a great sense of humor, he was a truly unique individual."
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- Tonight on Newswatch 12:
The unusual weather this spring could have an effect on how many fish you might catch this season. We talk to a local bait shop owner about the connection between the weather and the number of catchable fish that are in the water.
And we'll take you to a recycling event and tell you how you can help a local homeless shelter by bringing in old appliances.
We'll bring you the details on these stories and more tonight on Newswatch 12 - news from where you live.
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RHINELANDER - People could drop off almost anything with a plug at an electronic recycling event in Rhinelander June 22.
Computers, laptops, and TVs filled boxes in the Charter NEX Films parking lot.
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MARATHON CITY - A truckload of huge, heavy pieces of concrete piping sat outside County Materials Corporation in Marathon City on Friday afternoon.
They won't be there long.
Soon, it will head for Racine County, one of hundreds of truckloads delivering pipes to the Foxconn site.
Gov. Scott Walker promised luring the electronics company to southeastern Wisconsin would help the entire state. He visited County Materials on Friday. It's one of 27 contractors in the state selected to help with the Phase One build of Foxconn.
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ONEIDA COUNTY - A Lake Tomahawk man pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting a child.
Robert Aufrere was found guilty of third degree child sexual assault in Oneida County Court Friday.
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