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ABOVE PHOTO CREDIT: https://www.damianbuchman.com/ Thanks to a grant from the Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation, Northwoods Elementary School physical education teacher Erin Johnson has coordinated a visit to Eau Claire from Damian Buchman, founder of The Ability Center, the Wisconsin Adaptive Sports Association and RampUpMKE. Buchman was diagnosed with osteosarcoma three days before his 13th birthday and has undergone 22 major knee surgeries with a variety of replacement and revisions. Buchman is also an adaptive athlete for the Wisconsin Thunder

 Wisconsin-based Jack Link’s is building a new plant in Georgia.  Jack Link’s says it will invest 450-million dollars into the plant, bringing in around 800 new jobs.  It’s expected to open late next year.  The company is also planning expansion projects at other facilities across the country.

International soccer is coming to Lambeau Field this summer.  FC Bayern Munich and Manchester City will play a friendly match on July 23rd.  Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10:00 a.m. and will cost between 35 and 100 dollars.  It will be the first time in its history Lambeau has hosted something other than American football.

ABOVE PHOTO: Graduates with their diplomas take a selfie after the fall 2019 commencement at UW-Stout.  Spring commencement will be held for 1,105 graduates on Saturday, May 7, at University of Wisconsin-Stout. A total of 876 undergraduate and 229 Graduate School students will receive degrees. Three ceremonies will be held in Johnson Fieldhouse: 9:30 a.m., College of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Management 1:30 p.m., College of Arts, Communication, Humanities and Social Sciences; and College of Education, Hospitality, Health and Human Sciences 5

Opening statements begin today in the trial of an Iowa County woman and her daughter charged in the death of a teenage girl.  Police say Laurie and Alexis Barry were taking care of 13-year-old Selah Kaden back in 2018 when she died from suffocation.  An autopsy showed she also had blunt force trauma to the head.  The trial is expected to last two weeks.

A new study shows homes in south central Wisconsin are the most expensive in the state.  The Wisconsin Policy Forum says Wisconsin home values are increasing at the fastest rate in a generation.  Numbers from the Wisconsin Realtors Association show the average home in south central Wisconsin costs over 285-thousand dollars, the most expensive of any region in the state.  In Madison the average home costs 377-thousand dollars.

Wisconsin is the fifth-best state in the nation for working moms.  That’s according to WalletHub, which says Wisconsin ranks fifth in the professional opportunities category, sixth in child care, and tenth in work-life balance.  WalletHub says the best state for working moms is Massachusetts and the worst is Louisiana.

We’re still waiting for all of the police reports from Saturday’s Mifflin Street block party.  The working assumption is that too many people were on the porch that collapsed on Mifflin Street Saturday morning.  Three people were hurt when the second-floor porch gave way.  Two of them were taken to the hospital, though everyone is expected to be okay. Madison Police are not saying much about the collapse, though they are continuing to look into it. Firefighters braced the building

The sheriff in Vernon County says they caught the man who’s been stealing road signs. Deputies arrested 19-year-old Bretton Anderson of rural Viroqua last week. They say they found 18 stolen road signs last week. The sheriff had reported stolen road signs for the past several months, including some missing stop signs. Anderson is looking at theft, criminal damage to property, and possession of stolen property charges. He was released from jail shortly after his arrest.

We have a ‘who,’ but we do not have a ‘why’ in last week’s shooting at a Janesville plant.  Authorities yesterday identified Devon Hills as the man who was shot and killed at Precision Drawn Metals last Tuesday. The suspect in the shooting is being held on a million-dollars bond. Investigators are not saying what led-up to the shooting. Hills’ friends have started a GoFundMe for his three kids.