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Wisconsin schools are worried about a shortage of substitute teachers. Director of Human Resources and Public Relations for the Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District Michelle Golden said right now, the school doesn’t have enough subs. Substitute teachers across the nation are worried about returning to schools because of health safety concerns. Golden said the Chippewa Falls district is providing a program for paraprofessionals to earn a three-year substitute teaching license to encourage subs to return to schools.

Eau Claire Republicans are celebrating 100-years of women’s suffrage. This year marks the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. The Republican Party of Eau Claire hosted an event at Florian Gardens yesterday where they met with former Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. The former state official spoke about key moments in the fight for the 19th amendment, and about the women that led it.

A local physician says wearing a mask while you work out could be a good idea. Physician Assistant Andrew Brown with H-S-H-S Sacred Heart Hospital said working out increases the particles sent into the air around you because you’re breathing heavier. He said this presents a higher risk of contracting COVID-19, and it’s better to have a mask on to reduce that risk. He says people who don’t want to get sick should work out outside where a mask isn’t

Remy Labesque is an engineer at Tesla.  But he’s also been moonlighting as . . . a chocolate designer.  Remy has been working with a company called Dandelion Chocolate in San Francisco to engineer the perfect CHOCOLATE CHIP. Basically, he applied all of his knowledge around industrial design and engineering to chocolate chips . . . and came up with a new shape that makes the chips MELT smoother and TASTE better. After a lot of experimentation, the chips wound

More people will soon jump into Wisconsin’s unemployment system. The state’s Department of Workforce Development yesterday said anyone who is on Social Security disability can now apply for jobless benefits under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. Those benefits can date back to early February. No one is guessing how many people can now apply for benefits, or what that influx will do to Wisconsin’s months-long backlog of pending and unpaid unemployment claims. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

Wisconsin latest coronavirus count shows a steady number of people in the hospital because of the coronavirus. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 246 people are in the hospital, and 86 are in the ICU. Those numbers are in-line with what the state has seen for a few weeks. DHS yesterday reported 762 positive tests and over 13 thousand negative tests. Those numbers dropped Wisconsin’s positive-test-rate to just under five-and-a-half percent.

Do not plant mystery seeds that you may get in the mail from China. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture put out that warning yesterday. Ag says no one is really sure what the seeds are. There is a fear that they are an invasive plant. The state says people should turn the seeds over to the Department of Ag so they can be studied. That means don’t plant them and don’t throw them away. CLICK HERE FOR THE DATCAP WEBSITE.

The museum has closed and now, no one knows if Eau Claire’s Children’s Museum will reopen. Museum manager Michael McHorney yesterday said the museum cannot afford to lose any more money. McHorney said the museum was losing 12 hundred dollars-a-day during the coronavirus outbreak. The museum closed earlier this spring because of the virus, but reopened a few weeks ago. Visitors were limited to under ten people. McHorney said they were seeing about 15 percent of their usual crowd.

Eau Claire’s drive-thru polling place is open. The city clerk’s office started allowing people to vote from their cars yesterday. In-person early voting for the August primary started yesterday. Eau Claire City Clerk Carrie Riepl says the drive-thru poll works like any other in the city. Though, Riepl says you do not need a car to use the drive-thru, she says people can walk or bike or even scoot their way through.

There will be no in-person graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020 at UW Eau Claire. The university yesterday officially canceled the ceremony that had been postponed back in May. The school’s Corry Mahnke says limits on crowd sizes and social distance requirements made an in-person graduation ceremony impossible. The hope was to have a graduation during homecoming at the school this year. Now, Mahnke says the plan is to do something online.