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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 16, 2019 Menomonie, Wis. — A retired University of Wisconsin-Stout lecturer hopes every day that someone will step forward and donate a kidney to change her life. Lynn LaVenture, who taught for 18 years in education and counseling, needs the kidney so she no longer would have to be hooked to a dialysis machine for four hours a day, three days a week. A kidney would ...read more

Jan. 14, 2019 Menomonie, Wis. — Creating a healthier community one person at a time is the focus of an initiative to start a health and well-being center at University of Wisconsin-Stout. Cristy Linse recently began work as director of the Initiative for the Creation of the UW-Stout Center for the Study and Promotion of Health and Wellbeing. Linse started working on incubator grant funds to ...read more

Menomonie, Wis. — With videos, posters, computer screensavers and more, University of Wisconsin-Stout integrated marketing communications students presented a branding project to the Bridge to Hope, a local agency that helps sexual assault, domestic violence and human trafficking victims. Students in Professor Kevin McDonald’s two classes explained their ideas at the end of the fall semester to ...read more

Menomonie, Wis. —  A decades long dream came true for the University of Wisconsin-Stout chapter of the Club Managers Association of America this month. The student organization was named the Chapter of the Year, largest chapter, at the World Club Managers Conference in San Francisco, Calif., March 2-6, earning $1,000 and a trophy. The UW-Stout chapter also won the Club of the Future contest by ...read more

American tale to provide family-friendly entertainment opens April 6   News link: https://www.uwstout.edu/about-us/news-center/university-theatre-brings-musical-big-fish-harvey-hall-theatre-opening-april-6 March 22, 2018 Menomonie, Wis. —  In “Big Fish” Edward Bloom tells tall tales of a witch, a giant, a mermaid and a werewolf. Yet in those fantastical stories, Bloom, performed by ...read more

Menomonie, WI - P.G.A. Golf Professional Jim Maguire was recently hired as the General Manager and Head Golf Professional at Tanglewood Greens in Menomonie, WI.  He was previously in the same capacity at Prairie du Chien Country Club in Prairie du Chien, WI.  Maguire has been a member of the P.G.A. of America since 1997, and his ties to the Chippewa Valley run deep.  He served as the Head Men’s ...read more

CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI, March 19, 2018- Spectrum Industries is proud to announce that Brian Myhre has been named Channel Manager. Myhre has spent 30 years with Spectrum in various roles.  As Channel Manager, Myhre will be connecting partners with Spectrum and their Territory Managers. He will make working with Spectrum an easier process and help sales grow. As one of Spectrum’s top salesman the past ...read more