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- Tonight on Newswatch 12:
We'll take you live to Wausau where a traveling wall honoring Vietnam veterans is being displayed.
Northwoods State Senator Tom Tiffany today rolled out a set of bills he's calling the "Homeowners' Bill of Rights." He tells us why the bill is important.
And we show you a camp in St. Germain where autistic children can step away and enjoy life with their families.
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 - Food pantries all over the country help to build hunger free communities.
One Northwoods food pantry is celebrating a huge milestone it reached earlier this month.
The Rhinelander Area Food Pantry has distributed more than five million pounds of food in its twelve years of operation.
That comes out to about five tons of food going out the doors each week.
"Five million pounds of food is unreal. It's…the community has been wonderful. This community has always supported us, not only with money and with donations, but with volunteers," said Treasurer Ginger Chrobak.
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ARCADIA - Parts of Wisconsin remain underwater or in cleanup mode after flooding.
That now, that includes western Wisconsin.
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RHINELANDER - You don't typically see blood, needles, and Band-Aids in a park.
But Pioneer Park in Rhinelander is one stop of many for the Community Blood Center's MASH Blood Drive.
And John Knudsen is one avid donor.
"[I donate] as often as possible," said Knudsen.
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THREE LAKES - You can easily find a lake in Wisconsin. There are 1,100 in Oneida County alone.
So it makes sense that one Northwoods museum would see the historical importance behind water. The Three Lakes Historical Museum has an exhibit up now that talks about how water has shaped Wisconsin from the ice age to today.
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MERRILL - As soon as two days after police found 55-year-old Kevin Monroe dead in a Merrill home in January 2016, they started treating the death as a homicide.
But for the next year and a half, no one was charged in the case.
That changed on Friday, when the county prosecutor charged Monroe's 21-year-old son, Tyler, with his father's murder.
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SUGAR CAMP - Equipped with a box full of tools and their trusty canoe, Aubrey Nycz and Tom Boisvert hit the water ready to search Wednesday morning.
"It's kind of like a little scavenger hunt," Nycz said.
The duo from the Oneida County Aquatic Invasive Species program hunted Paradise Lake northwest of Sugar Camp for items like Chinese mystery snails and Eurasian Watermilfoil, noting where they're located and how much of the species there is in the area.
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