• WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015 • VOLUME 83 • NO. 13 • 2 SECTIONS
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),567 5($' MADISON — Unity Schools is one of seven schools statewide being honored today, Nov. 11, in Stevens Point with the 2015 Standing Up for Rural Wisconsin awards presented by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. The award is presented each year for projects that “demonstrate the great potential and collaborative spirit of rural Wisconsin. “The individuals and organizations that we recognize for Rural Awards are the spirit of rural Wisconsin,â€? said state Superintendent Tony Evers. Nominated by education and library professionals, the 2015 award-winning programs will be recognized during the Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance conference (Nov. 11-12). Unity FFA’s Hunger Initiative Feeds People, Empowers Youth provides produce for the school lunch program; supports the ag food processing, summer school garden, and seventh-grade agriscience classes; and has grown in the community to provide raised vegetable beds in Milltown and Centuria with further expansion to include the Round Lake Native American community. In addition to raised vegetable beds, the sustainable hunger initiative includes an orchard, sharing nutrition information, and a Shanty Town activity that allowed youth to experience hunger and poverty by sleeping outside overnight in a box and sharing a “soup kitchenâ€? meal. The Unity FFA has had representation at both national Hunger Boot Camps and Farm to School workshops that included area producers, greenhouses, school lunch supervisors, and FFA chapters. Partners for the Hunger Initiative project include the Milltown Lutheran Church, village of Centuria, Habitat for Humanity, VFW, Round Lake Council, UW-Extension, Polk County Master Gardeners, Polk County Public Health Department, Polk County Food Insecurity Committee, National FFA-Hunger Boot Camp, National FFA-Living to Serve Committee, Farm to School Initiative, Endeavors Greenhouse, Baldwin Greenhouse and Pro-Lawn Landscapers. Funding to support the initiative was from the National FFA Food For All Grant, Cooperative Educational Service Agency mini grant program, and Ag Star equipment grants. - with information from DPI ••• NORTHERN WISCONSIN - Gordon Lightfoot’s lyrics still sum up what we know today of causes that might have contributed to the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, which occurred 40 years ago this month, claiming 29 lives: “They might have split up or they might have capsized, They may have broke deep and took water ...â€? The EF was the largest ship on the Great Lakes at the time it sank and no distress signal was sent. It was named after the president of Northwest Mutual, an insurance company with a long history with the Great Lakes shipping industry. November is a brutal month for ships on the Great Lakes. Forty percent of the shipwrecks over the last three centuries have occurred due to November weather. In 1995 a pair of divers, with help from the Canadian Navy, the National Geographic Society, Sony and the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, retrieved the ship’s bell at the behest of the families of those who were lost. See story on back page. -with information from msn.com
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