Prairie Wildflower Roadside Revitalization in Wisconsin
Wisconsin highway planners push operation wildflower to restore native prairie grasses and wildflowers along interchanges and highways. Projects on I 894 I 43 I 94 and US routes conserve money, reduce maintenance, and curb erosion while enhancing aesthetics. Local officials cite $664000 spent last year with $160000 planned this year, funded by federal and state aid.
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Buglass
Wisconsin 15
Hales Corners
Milwaukee
U.S. 12
Madison
Yahara Golf Course
Little Lake Butte Des Morts
U.S. 41
Oshkosh
U.S. 141
Sheboygan
Warren Schmidt
Waukesha
Jefferson
Dane
Reagan targets Oklahoma delegates with statewide sweep effort
Ronald Reagan speaks at the Oklahoma Republican convention aiming to lock all 36 delegates to the national convention. President Ford plans a Michigan whistle-stop tour by rail, predicting victory in the key state primary.
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Ronald Reagan
Oklahoma
Ford
Michigan
Flint
Mich
LaFollette Targets Agribusiness with Health Food Reform
Secretary of State Douglas LaFollette attacks agribusiness for delivering junk food and nutrient-poor products. He promotes organic farming, cooperative bakeries, and home baked bread while criticising food manipulators who add colors and chemicals for profit. He cites Wisconsin’s 600,000 agriculture jobs and 1,200 processing plants as context.
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Madison
Douglas LaFollette
LaFollette
Agri-Business
Bicentennial Art Show Plans Highlight Monroe MAAC Event
Final plans for the Bicentennial Art Show by Monroe Arts and Activities Center are set for Memorial Day weekend at Wesley Hall Old Methodist Church. Entries extend to May 24 with sale pieces among works by area artists. Six $25 purchase awards honor black and white Monroe buildings and Green County landmarks. a $100 purchase award will add the winning piece to MAAC’s permanent collection. Judge is Roger Gottschalk, UW Platteville art assistant professor.
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Monroe
Green County
MAAC
Roger Gottschalk
UW Platteville
Honor Hospital Week honors Monroe workers and long service
Miss Marie Brugger 67 of Canton Thurgau Switzerland leads more than 100 St. Clare Hospital staff in a national recognition event in Monroe. She received a three diamond brooch and a bishop’s praise for 35 years of perfect attendance. Tie tac pins honored 30 20 15 10 and 5 year honorees across numerous departments and staff, with remarks on care and ethics shaping the community.
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Marie Brugger
Canton Thurgau
Switzerland
Monroe
St. Clare Hospital
Brugger
Cletus F. O’donnell
Madison
Marie
M. Wilfreda
J. Douglas Richie
Harold Miller
Ella Kundert
Myrtle Pitkin
O’donnell
Richie
David C. Riese
Ann Koerner
Thomas F. Campion
Wilfred Shea
St. Victor’s Parish
Margaret Zimmerman
Bernadine Ringhand
Anna Walters
Emma Pfister
James Bosanny
Mildred Trujillo
Nathalie Wilde
Ethel Putnam
Erna Maske
Marian
Mabel Lien
Marian Munz
Laura Ptak
Elaine Stricker
Helen Furrer
Frieda Daehlin
Catherine Leuzinger
Roger Berry
Gertrude Flint
Geraldine
Jeanette
LaVerna Henning
Eileen Kuehl
Thomas Wingert
Alma Babler
Dorothy Johnson
Frances Bottoms
Beulah Furniss
Marie Brankow
Eleanor Stocker
Elayne Jacobson
Donald Brown
Pauline Schiller
Inez DeClerg
Katherine Reicher
Wilma Scott
Hope Meier
Opal Altenbern
Loretta Beckman
Patricia Janssen
Lillian Hefty
Marjorie Will
Zelma Germann
Marian Schutt
Violet Covert
Margaret Meier
Carliene Branch
Lanelia Keeler
Kathryn Phillips
Florence Welton
Susanna Graenicher
Mary Symons
Judith Lehnherr
Lindsay H
Edwina Seaton
Dorothy Stauffacher
Alyce Jacobs
Rebecca Buel
Shirley Thoman
Dianne Meinert
Irene Collier
Betty Elmer
Michael Bulmer
Janice van Natta
Sister Mary
Charles Branch
Mary Gibbons
Sue Ritschard
Ethel Legler
Richard Locher
Cora Stine
Mary Gebhardt
Carol Herrli
Alma Johnson
Alice Rundle
Vivian Wahl
Donna Wenger
Blackhawk Tech Center to Dedicate New Prairie Road Facility
Blackhawk Technical Institute will formally dedicate its Central Facility at 2 p.m. Sunday on Prairie Road. An open house will run from 1 to 5 p.m. The campus sits on 82 acres between Janesville and Beloit and includes 100000 square feet of buildings with 76000 square feet of classrooms and 24000 square feet of shops.
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Blackhawk Technical Institute
Prairie Road
Janesville
Beloit
Weather showers likely with clearing by Monday
Good afternoon forecast notes showers and thunderstorms today and tomorrow with clearing by Monday. The Almanac is featured on the Compendium page and a dieting series begins today in People Today.
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Compendium
People Today
Bablitch chosen Wisconsin Senate majority leader
In Madison the selection of Democrat William Bablitch as majority leader signals only subtle shifts in rural urban politics. The Stevens Point attorney, 35, rejects rural urban labeling as four new outside Democrats help him win over Sen. Gerald Kleczka of Milwaukee.
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Madison
William Bablitch
Wisconsin Senate
Stevens Point
Senate
Milwaukee
Dane
Bablitch
Gerald Kleczka
Racine-Kenosha
Timothy
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