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Four seek 3 council seatsBringing Oshkosh news home

We’d like to introduce you to Oshkosh’s newest free weekly community newspaper, the Oshkosh Herald, mailed weekly to more than 25,000 homes in the community with copies available at designated local businesses.

Our goal is to deliver to every household in the Oshkosh Area School District. We will mail to more homes as advertising support grows. The demand for more local news has been in-creasing, so please support the local businesses that are making the Oshkosh Herald possible.

How did the Herald come about? The idea of launching a community newspaper has been swirling around in my head since before Gan-nett and I separated company in late 2015, but it’s all about the timing and the timing wasn’t right – until now.

My research found weekly newspapers are growing and thriving in communities where daily newspapers have been decreasing the print product. I’ve worked at free community week-lies that give daily newspapers strong competi-tion in providing news and information, which is a win-win for our readers. The mission of the Herald is to combine the best attributes of two of these weeklies and bring it home to you.

First, provide coverage of local govern-ment, Oshkosh schools (K-12, FVTC, and UWO), sports and business. We envision expanded coverage of prep sports of the four Oshkosh high schools, local youth leagues, area gymnastics and dance teams, and adult leagues. We’re operating with a small but talented group of contributors. You’ll recognize some by name and we are counting on you to help us by sub-mitting event outcomes, photos and story ideas you’d like to see in the paper.

Second, create a community news forum for organizations and businesses to get the word out about the awesome things taking place in Oshkosh. Since early 2016 I’ve been involved with area nonprofits and the Oshkosh Area United Way. It surprised and frustrated me on the lack of awareness of good things and worrisome issues facing our community. Inquiries about how information was shared was met with, “It’s on our website,” “Subscribe to our newsletter,” etc. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have time for that. I don’t know what I don’t know, so how am I supposed to know to visit or subscribe? We want to contribute to becoming a more informed community. If you have a story or press release to share, email it to [email protected].

We want to bring back items of personal interest – who got engaged, who married who, and who is celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. These can be submitted by visiting www.oshkoshherald.com and completing the form under Contact Us.

Stay tuned. Stay supportive. Stay engaged.Until next Thursday.

Karen Schneider has worked in news media for more than 20 years. She thanks her husband for his support in bringing this project to life.

Three pursue re-election, one makes second bidBy Patty BrandlHerald contributor

Four people will battle for three open seats in April on the 2018 City of Oshkosh Com-mon Council. Three candidates are incumbent council members, and the fourth made a run for a seat in 2017.

The deadline for nomination papers, along with 100-200 signatures, was Jan. 2.

The number of candidates who filed pa-pers by the deadline was half as many as in 2017.

“The number varies from year to year,” said City Clerk Pam Ubrig, adding that four other prospective candidates took papers out, but ultimately did not register to run.

The Common Council comprises seven members, with one elected as mayor and one as deputy mayor. Terms for all regular council seats are two years.

The four 2018 candidates vying for the three open seats:

• Steve Herman, incumbent; deputy may-or (serving his third term in a year-to-year appoint-ment). A lifelong city resident, Herman has been a council member since 2010. He retired in 2009 from a 30-year career at the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department and currently sits on the Con-vention and Visitors Bureau Board and the Parks Advisory Board. Past service includes the Board of Health, Parking Utility Commission and Traffic Re-view Board, among others.

• Lori Palmeri, incumbent. Palmeri has served on the council since 2016, An Oshkosh resident since 2009, she owns ReHabit Maker-space, a small leather-goods business, and works part time as a substitute teacher for the Oshkosh Area School District. Palmeri currently sits on the Rental Housing Advisory Board and has served on the Day-by-Day Warming Shelter Advisory Board, Sustainability Advisory Board, Oshkosh Healthy Neighborhood Alliance and others.

• Caroline Panske, incumbent. A lifelong resident of Oshkosh, Panske has served on the council since April 2014. She has been employed

seasonally at Oaks Candy for 13 years, and current-ly serves on the Pedestrian and Bicycling Advisory Committee and the Transit Advisory Board.

• Matt Mugerauer, ran for the Common Council in 2017. Born and raised in Oshkosh, Mugerauer is employed as team leader in Cus-tomer Service at 4imprint. He serves on the Rental Housing Advisory Board and the Oshkosh Area School District Recreational Department Softball Commission. He coaches youth basketball, soft-ball and soccer.

Because there are just four candidates for the three open seats, a primary is unnecessary this year, Ubrig said. The 2018 spring election is April 3.

The 2018 Wisconsin Spring Primary Elec-tion will be held Feb. 20, the Partisan Primary is Aug. 14, and the 2018 Fall Election is Nov. 6.

Ubrig said polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. and reminds residents to check ahead of time on Wisconsin voter registration guidelines, I.D. policies and poll locations. State election information can be found online at elections.wi.gov/voters.

KarenSchneiderOshkosh HeraldPublisher

Family runs across vintage clothing made in city

By Dan RohertyOshkosh Herald

When architectural salvage specialists Julie and J. Karner take to the road in search of restorable vintage finds, they regularly run across artisan woodwork and other artifacts that trace their roots to Oshkosh’s past.

When the Crescent Moon owners came upon a few pair of vintage, unworn OshKosh B’Gosh bibs at a military surplus store in Iowa, their normal search mode shifted to another important bygone era of the city’s history.

The Waterloo area was the Karners’ desti-nation in August and included a stop at a mil-itary surplus store. As J. talked with the store owner’s son about supplies they were looking for, he heard Julie and one of their daughters giggling and found them modeling extra-large hickory stripe overalls with the iconic Osh-Kosh B’Gosh logo.

The man running the store contacted his grandfather, the first of the three-generation op-erators, who soon arrived and shared his long re-lationship with B’Gosh products, ordering bibs

and other apparel as far back as the 1960s for residents looking for quality work clothes.

The owner asked if they would be inter-ested in any other B’Gosh apparel. “If you like those two, I have boxes upstairs,” he said.

At first a little reluctant to take on such an unexpected order, the Karners were told the store was going out of business and it became more of a rescue mission to get the clothing back to its origins.

“That hometown pride kind of sits in you, to tell you that this is the right thing to do,” Julie said.

Seven cases of overalls, painter pants, dun-garees and other apparel – a few hundred piec-

es in all – materialized. “We opened boxes that hadn’t been opened since the ‘60s,” J. said.

Upon their return, the Karners brought them to the store, started organizing the ma-terials and used social media to pass along the discovery.

“I would have had no idea, at that time, of the residual effect, the delight that this brings to people,” Julie said.

Responses started coming in from cur-rent and former Oshkosh area residents to ask about and share their memories. Julie said for-mer B’Gosh employees showed their interest

“That hometown pride kind of sits in you, to tell you that this is the right thing to do.”

Crescent Moon owner Julie Karner

Oshkosh salvage specialists recover some B’Gosh history

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Julie Karner shows some of the vintage Oshkosh B’Gosh overalls that her family came upon last summer on an architectural salvage trip to Iowa.

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Convention Center site includes warming shelter

By Patty BrandlHerald contributor

Ice skating enthusiasts should sharpen their blades, pause all video games and break out their warmest winter gear, because down-town Oshkosh has a brand new outdoor ice rink that’s free and open to the public 17 hours a day, seven days a week.

The idea for the outdoor rink has been in the works for several years, and the Riverside Park rink was 100 percent privately funded, said Karlene Grabner, director of Donor Ser-vices at the Oshkosh Area Community Foun-dation (OACF), Grabner, who spearheaded the project, said it’s a collaborative effort by the OACF, the city, the Best Western Premier Waterfront Hotel & Convention Center, and Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau. Vari-ous private donors to the project made the rink idea into reality and include the John E. Kuenzl Foundation, Black Teak Properties, The How-ard and other co-investment interests.

The rink’s location at 2 N. Main St., was

key to the project. “Our donors are interested in making sure

the downtown area is rock solid,” Grabner said. “The core of the city is so important.”

Oshkosh City Parks Department person-nel installed the 50-by-100-foot rink, which features a lining similar to a swimming pool, and will be maintaining it throughout the skating season, said City Parks Director Ray Maurer. The season’s length is weather-depen-dent but will probably run until middle to late February.

“We wanted to get something going downtown, “Maurer said, adding, “We are ask-ing people to be courteous and keep it a clean area, and nice for the skaters.”

A set of rules for the outdoor rink are similar to those that apply to other public city recreational areas like baseball fields, and in-clude prohibitions on glass containers, alcohol, smoking, weapons and foul language. No hock-ey sticks, pucks or dogs will be permitted on the ice to ensure the safety and cleanliness of the rink. Any liability issues are covered by a state policy that protects municipalities under “recreational immunity,” similar to liability at baseball diamonds, Maurer said.

A security camera with a live feed has been installed in the back area of the Conven-tion Center and is linked to the City of Osh-kosh Police Department, so officers will be able monitor the rink. If people wish to report behavior-related incidents or safety issues they can call the Parks Department office (920-236-5080) during office hours or the City Police non-emergency line (236-5700) after hours.

Maurer said the nearby Oshkosh Conven-tion Center will be unlocked for use this season only during special events. Lighting overflow from the Riverwalk and the nearby bridge on Main Street over the Fox River, as well as am-bient lighting that was recently placed in trees, provide some light around the rink for now. And Grabner said benches have been placed for skaters to lace up.

A work in progress, future plans call for a permanent warming shelter, music and ad-

ditional lighting that will be installed directly over the rink to make the skating experience even more enjoyable.

City Parks employees began annual snow-plowing Miller’s Bay at Menominee Park for skaters about eight years ago, Maurer said, but this is the first smooth-surface downtown rink project in which the city has participated.

For skaters averse to frigid Wisconsin win-ter weather or for those interested in group ac-tivities like hockey or skating lessons, the 20th Avenue YMCA offers the only indoor ice skat-ing rink in the city.

Riverside rink hours are from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily throughout the season.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new

skating rink is scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, said Amy Albright, executive director of the Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau. The family event will offer a free s’mores bar as well as chili and hot dogs for sale. Those attending are encouraged to bring their own skates, al-though some ice skates will be available at the event for those who don’t have them.

Another family skating event will be held at the Riverside rink, and is scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 11, Albright added, with more details to come. Additional event information will be announced on the Osh-kosh Convention & Visitors Bureau website at www.visitoshkosh.com.

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A family tries out the new public ice rink ahead of its official opening next week adjacent to the Convention Center near the Fox River.

Free ice rink brings more outside fun

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with “delight and pride,” some identifying their work through the inspection numbers from when the clothing was manufactured here.

“Several of the seamstresses have come in, and have identified their work on them,” she said, including one who was a triple-stitch seamstress for the rugged-wear clothing.

“And then we started thinking about how we could preserve these, and how we could have them made again in Oshkosh in order to preserve the materials, which is what we do for architectural material.”

Founded in 1895 and known as the World’s Best Overalls, OshKosh B’Gosh clothing be-came interconnected with the city’s image as its sales boomed with mail-order specialist Miles Kimball featuring of a pair of the overalls in its national catalog in 1960. As a result, B’Gosh began to sell its products through department stores while expanding its children’s line.

Kids’ clothing made up 15 percent of the company’s sales in 1979; by 1993 that grew to

95 percent. Clothing production in the city eventually ended by the end of the century as domestic manufacturing phased out here and other locations in Tennessee and Kentucky. In 2005, OshKosh B’Gosh was acquired and became a subsidiary of Carter’s Inc. brands, where it has focused on the children’s market.

A local seamstress and friend of the Karners has been repurposing some of the smaller-size, less-wearable material into aprons and market bags, trying to use as many of the original buttons, labels, tags and stitches as possible. The altered apparel is available for sale along with bibs of various sizes and colors, dungarees and painter pants at the downtown Crescent Moon store.

“As we were going through the different articles of clothing, we were realizing these pieces couldn’t be worn for what they were originally designed for, and that’s normal in our business. A door may become something else,” Julie said.

The Karners travel as far east as New York and the Carolinas, but mostly scour the Mid-

west for architectural material that can be re-purposed. Most of the material reclaimed goes into new construction, and various pieces trace back to Oshkosh’s history as a national power-house in the wood industries.

“When we’re doing salvage work, we are in a building that’s slated for demolition, and there might be Oshkosh Morgan doors, win-dows, things that were made here in its heyday,” Julie said. “Normally we’re reclaiming (Osh-kosh) architectural history, not apparel.”

Crescent Moon Antiques and Salvage start-ed out in 1987 on the banks of the Fox River and has had a downtown location for the past 15 years. During that time, the company has been involved in many residential and commercial preservations, restorations, new construction, interior and exterior design, and decorative arts.

J. Karner said it’s likely the untouched B’Gosh bundles would have otherwise been lost, at least to Oshkosh interests, if not for the random discovery. Fortunately the company’s ongoing mission of recovering small pieces of history took a detour they were pleased to take.

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Market bags (left) and aprons were created by a local seamstress to repurpose some of the original B’Gosh items that were non-standard sizes and styles.

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Two significant redevelopment initia-tives on the city’s north side, one making way for Oshkosh Corporation’s new head-quarters and the other proposing to reshape about 65 acres of business space along the north side of Oshkosh Avenue, will get the Common Council’s attention at its Jan. 23 meeting.

The city’s Plan Commission unani-mously gave its recommended approval Jan. 2 for setting the boundaries and project plan that would set the framework for Tax Increment Financing District (TID) No. 34, which creates a funding source for the needed site and infrastructure work on the vehicle manufacturer’s global headquarters at the Lakeshore Municipal Golf Course site.

The council met in closed session ear-lier this week to review details of the TID plan. City Manager Mark Rohloff said the session was to “go through the details of the developer agreement to make sure the coun-cil is comfortable with it,” and better inform members about the relatively fast-moving process. He said closed sessions normally are held after a TID’s approval but chan-ing the order of those meetings should add transparency to the process for the council.

The 33-acre section of the public prop-erty set aside for the headquarters complex forms the boundaries for the TID from which tax revenues will be generated to help both Oshkosh Corp. and the city fund the project. Up to $500,000 annually will be generated toward Oshkosh Corp.’s project expenses until it reaches the agreed-upon $6 million mark. Any additional revenues

beyond the annual $500,000 and after the $6 million is reached go to the city to help pay for its costs related to the project.

The proposed TID No. 35 for the Os-hkosh Avenue corridor is more of a reha-bilitative plan that was envisioned as part of the overall north-side effort relating to the headquarters project. City officials hope it will draw both developments and improve-ments by investing about $12 million — $10 million of that for infrastructure — to entice nearly $30 million in projects for the mixed-use area stretching as far west as Interstate 41 and east to the Fox River. A primary target would be an extensive rework of the Sawyer Street and Oshkosh Avenue intersection that could use a major share of the city’s infra-structure investment.

Some of the potential commercial projects being talked about with develop-

ers, noted at the Plan Commission meeting where it unanimously approved the TID 35 initiative, include a hotel, office buildings, convenience store, bank and a restaurant.

Most of the remaining investment would be related to creation of a rehabili-tative loan program similar to those being used with neighborhood associations to encourage updates to residential and busi-ness properties. The corridor is defined as an older section of the city with many 1920s era homes and pre-code commercial build-ings.

Trail system improvements are part of both TID projects in the city’s contin-ued work on the Riverwalk connections throughout the city. Extension of Sawyer Street to Rainbow Park for better access to the park is also recommended at the east end of the corridor plan.

Two related north-side district plans on council agenda

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The Oshkosh Area School District’s search for its next superintendent of schools to replace Stan Mack II, who has held the position since 2012, will be moving into the interview phase as the application deadline nears.

More than 500 educators, students, busi-ness leaders and community members partic-ipated in stakeholder meetings and two online surveys to provide feedback that helped create a candidate profile. That input was used to determine the characteristics desired by the community in a superintendent that was then used in advertising the position and recruiting potential candidates.

The search process is being led by Ray & Associates, an Iowa firm specializing in search-es for educational executive leadership ser-

vices. The application process closes Jan. 17 and finalists will be invited to interview during February. The board intends to select the dis-trict’s next leader by March.

Based on the input provided, 12 criteria were identified as most important for the next superintendent, in no defined order of impor-tance:

• Inspires trust and self-confidence, mod-els high standards, possesses excellent people skills and presents a positive image of the dis-trict.

• Is a strong communicator: speaking, lis-tening and writing.

• Is comfortable leading innovation and reform efforts.

• Is willing to listen to input, but is a de-cision maker with the ability to develop and communicate a vision of quality education.

• Has previous experience that will bene-fit the long-term financial health of the district.

• Demonstrates commitment to com-munity visibility with high interest in a broad range of community groups and organizations.

• Has the ability to develop and maintain a mutually beneficial relationship between the business community and the school district.

• Has experience recruiting and main-taining exceptional staff for the district and schools.

• Promotes a positive and professional environment for district employees and the Board of Education.

• Is strongly committed to a “student first” philosophy in all decisions.

• Possesses the leadership skills required to respond to the challenges presented by an ethnically and culturally diverse community.

• Possesses the ability to enhance stu-dent performance, especially in identifying and closing or narrowing the gaps in student achievement.

Mack’s retirement date has been set for June 30. He had previously served as a special education teacher, director of special services, superintendent of schools, assistant superin-tendent and executive director of the Minneso-ta Board of School Administrators.

He was selected by the University of Wis-consin-Oshkosh to receive an honorary doc-torate in 2016.

To learn more about the superintendent search process, visit oshkosh.k12.wi.us/home/superintendent-search.

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The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh’s 23rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday in the Alumni Welcome and Conference Center, 625 Pearl Ave.

Sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and Division of Academic Support of Inclusive Excellence, the free program restates King’s creed of equality, community service and leadership. Keynote speaker will be Darnell L. Moore, editor at large at digital media source Cassius, co-managing editor at The Feminist

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Along with NFL player Wade Davis II, Moore co-founded YOU Belong, a social-good company focused on the development of diversity initiatives. His advocacy centers on marginal identity, youth development and other social justice issues in the U.S. and abroad.

The celebration also will feature a special performance by Alina Xiong, president of the Hmong Student Union and the Asian

Student Association, along with an awards ceremony honoring community members who demonstrate the same kind of service, leadership, citizenship and volunteerism that characterized the life of King. The event also will feature a 2017 Black Heritage Stamp tribute and the naming of Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest winners.

Jan. 5 was the official registration deadline for determining general attendance, but late signups can be made upon request by calling 920-424-3080 or at [email protected].

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Brian Ghisalberti’s home-based calling to help those in need with food and basic living supplies from his Birdie’s Blessing Box allows him to feed his own soul in the process.

The small house-shaped storage box on his corner of East Irving Avenue was inspired by the Little Free Libraries he noticed shortly after moving to Oshkosh in April from Kan-sas City. The blessing box concept for giving neighborhood access to basic foodstuffs and other necessities for those in need has caught on in other cities, each one drawing its own unique experiences of connection and support.

“I want to be able to help everybody, not just people who say they’re homeless,” said Ghisal-berti, who has put the word out at community gatherings and direct-ed people to his Birdie’s Blessing Box Facebook page. “It’s a mix of people — renters, homeowners, people with money, peo-

ple who don’t have any.”He won’t lay claim

to the woodworking skills needed to build the attractive corner house miniature, crediting friends with the carpentry and painting skills after he secured the necessary materials. He ex-perimented with paint jobs to match his house but that didn’t work as planned, turning the artistry over to a co-worker’s wife.

Some early negative reaction from ac-quaintances pointed to the risk of drawing un-wanted elements to his home, but he pointed out that those residents already exist in the neighborhood and most simply could use some assistance amid their daily challenges.

“I’ve had people randomly knock on the door, which made me apprehensive,” he said, but soon got over that when some of the visi-tors had personal stories to tell.

Children have come up and hugged him, and he’s received written thank-yous from oth-ers.

“I’ve gotten letters from kids and families, and I save every one of them – it melts your heart,” Ghisalberti said.

A young woman came by to thank him for keeping her fed. She had a falling out with her family that left her homeless, wrestled with drug abuse, and eventually cleaned up with the help of Narcotics Anonymous, while crediting Brian’s generosity for her survival through the initial struggles.

Local businesses have also taken notice. Leon’s Frozen Custard collected canned goods in September in exchange for discounts on

cones and donated them to Ghisalberti, while Fire Escape Art Studio & Gallery donated a gift card for Festival Foods to him generated by a portion of sales to buy goods to help stock the box. Others who have joined the Blessing Box club in one way or another include The Ideal Team, First Weber Realtors, Jungenberg Chiro-practic, Behnke Lawn Care and local craft fair Handmade for the Holidays.

Molly Smiltneek from Peace Lutheran Church, which runs a similar Little Free Pantry program, thanked Ghisalberti for putting up the Blessing Box and added a link for it to the church’s Facebook page.

Inspired by Ghisalberti’s efforts, Girl Scout Troop 2311 contacted him to express interest in putting up similar boxes else-

where in the community. He suggested holding a bake sale to help fund the project. The Fourth of July weekend event in his yard at 403 E. Ir-ving raised more than $500.

“They have enough money now to build 10 boxes,” he said. “They’re going to call them Birdie’s Blessing Boxes.

“The next step now is they’re trying to find locations to put them. I would love for them to be spread around the Valley trying to find home-owners to have them in their yard or business.”

Ghisalberti’s basement has provided enough existing shelving to allow him to orga-nize goods by category and offer better control over what he puts in the blessing box, which he said avoids overstocking that could tempt too much being taken at one time.

“But that’s the kind of a gamble you’re willing to take,” he said. “You have got to rely on the good of people to maintain it.

“It’s been kind of running itself. I guaran-tee when I get home that there will be more stuff in there than when I left it.”

With recent bitter cold temperatures, Ghisalberti has had to weigh the types of canned food to put outside. He has shifted more to seasonal clothing items like scarves, gloves and hats in the meantime, and away from potentially perishable foods.

An estimated 633,170 people are strug-gling with hunger in Wisconsin, 219,280 of them children, according to Feeding America statistics. The organization found there were 18,930 Winnebago County residents consid-ered “food insecure” in 2015, according to its most recent determination.

The Oshkosh Area Food Pantry serves about 2,000 households per month in Osh-kosh and southern Winnebago County.

The Oshkosh Area School District re-ported serving more than 3,600 free or re-duced-price meals in 2016 among its 9,369 students, with an average daily participation of more than 2,500.

Another spiritual hobby that feeds Ghisal-berti’s need to lift people’s lives is his participa-tion in the Oshkosh Positively Rocks program, a monthly painting party that adds inspirational words to selected stones, similar to Fox Valley Rocks in Appleton and in other communities.

He recently spent an evening at the Chris-tine Ann Domestic Abuse Services shelter to paint rocks with positive messages for those coming to the home for assistance. The group’s finished work will be used to create a rock gar-den at the center in spring for the benefit of shelter visitors.

Ghisalberti also launched another giving project last weekend to put in reach at least 100 winter scarves at various locations in the com-munity that can be taken as needed.

With the heavy dose of negativity he cur-rently sees in the world, Ghisalberti said “my goal is to bring positivity in the community.”

Blessing Box a labor of love on Irving“It’s been kind of running itself. I guarantee when I get home that there will be more stuff in there than when I left it.”

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The Oshkosh Fine Arts Association recently donated $500 to the Teach-ers’ Closet to use for art supplies. The Teachers’ Closet provides supplies and materials to teachers in the Oshkosh area that work at nonprofit schools pre-K through 12th grade. The donation will buy supplies to encourage art and creativity in area classrooms. Shown is Clay Quick, association president, presenting the check to Kay Kuenzl-Stenerson, director of the Teachers’ Closet.

Teachers’ Closet gets art boost


The Christine Ann Domestic Abuse Service Inc. (CADASI) board of directors has selected Beth Oswald as its new executive director.

After a five-month selection process, the board announcement said Oswald has a proven track record of success with CADASI, serving as the development director and most recently interim executive director. She has a background in marketing and finance, and before coming to CADASI spearheaded foundation development for Aurora Health Care’s Oshkosh and Green Bay markets.

“Beth’s passion, energy and commitment to the organization have shown that she is ready to be the next long-term leader of CADASI,” the board’s announcement stated.

A community meet-and-greet was held Wednesday at The Waters to welcome Oswald in her new role.

Morgan House project reaches funding goal

The Winnebago County Historical & Archaeological Society (WCHAS) launched a fundraiser last month to help pay for maintenance work at the historic Morgan House Museum at Church and Franklin streets in Oshkosh, including a new roof and driveway.

According to Randy Domer, WCHAS president, the goal was to raise $70,000, $35,000 through the Oshkosh Community Foundation and with the assistance of the John Kuenzl Foundation, which agreed to match donations up to $35,000. The goal was met and exceeded by November with the society raising more than $40,000, bringing the total revenues raised to a little more than $75,000.

Plans to replace the Morgan House roof will begin this year with a study and anal-ysis of the proper materials to be used. A new asphalt driveway is scheduled for next spring. Visit the society website at www.winnebagocountyhistoricalsociety.com to learn more, volunteer or become a member. WCHAS is a nonprofit organization and relies on support of the community to pre-serve local history for future generations.

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By Rob Zimmer Herald contributor

Imagine a landscape filled with dancing butterflies, brilliant wildflowers and colorful songbirds throughout the seasons. Make your dream a reality in 2018.

The trend in landscaping and gardening has been moving toward native plantings for several years now. To celebrate and inspire the use of native wildflowers, grasses and landscap-ing, the Wild Ones organization presents the 22nd annual Toward Harmony with Nature conference coming to the Oshkosh Conven-tion Center on Jan. 27.

Wild Ones, a national organization ded-icated to education and promotion of native plants and native landscaping, is based in Neenah with local chapters throughout the country.

The annual conference sponsored by the local Fox Valley chapter features a full day of dynamic speakers, presentations and a vendor gallery filled with individuals, businesses and organizations that provide information, prod-ucts and services with a native plant theme.

The use of native plants in landscaping for both residential and business properties is a popular topic, notably in recent years with the well-publicized plight of monarch butterflies and pollinators in general, especially bumble-bees.

Native wildflowers are ideal for providing a natural source of pollen and nectar for these

species, as well as for hummingbirds and many songbird species.

A boom in natural rain gardens, shoreline restoration projects, low-maintenance land-scapes, lawn alternatives and school pollinator gardens all center upon the use of native wild-flowers and grasses that are the ideal solution in each of these situations.

Keynote speaker Neil Diboll will offer an interesting perspective on transforming our yards, gardens and communities through na-tive landscaping.

Diboll, president of Prairie Nursery, a Westfield, Wis., company, will focus on the evolution of the American garden from a cre-ation solely for the enjoyment of its owners and tenders, to becoming a biodiverse refuge for the native plants and animals with which we share the planet.

“Neil Diboll is one of the area’s leading authorities on native landscapes,” said Loris Damerow, Wild Ones Fox Valley Chapter past president.

“Neil’s quick wit and decades of experi-ence propagating native plants for our region is sure to make his keynote presentation at the 22nd annual Toward Harmony with Nature conference an information-packed event.”

Nine additional experts will be rounding out the day with presentations wedding beau-ty with ecology, from wildflowers to wetlands, oak savannas to urban gardens.

Sessions will focus on small-scale native trees and shrubs for urban landscapes, invasive species management, the importance of wet-lands, and birds of Wisconsin’s prairies.

“The annual conference is always a wel-come ‘green fix’ in the middle of winter,” Dam-erow said.

For more information, visit www.toward-harmonywithnature.org.

Native landscaping event inspires wild beauty

photo by rob zimmer

Regal monarch butterflies are the inspiration for many outdoor lovers to begin planting native wildflowers, grasses, trees and shrubs.

A successful fundraising effort will help with maintenance work at the Morgan House.

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The Winnegamie Dog Club Winter Show will be held at Sunnyview Expo Center at the Winnebago County Fairgrounds from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The American Kennel Club certified event features all-breed shows with junior showmanship.

The Wisconsin Home Builders Association brings its Home and Outdoor Living Expo from 3 to 8 p.m. Jan. 19 and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 20 and 21 to Sunnyview Expo Center. Consumers can meet professionals who specialize in home products and services to fulfill their home improvement needs, and learn about the latest in home products and services. The cost is $5; children ages 15 and under get in free.

“Population 485,” adapted from the bestselling book, will be staged at The Grand Oshkosh at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26. Set in New Auburn, Wis., the play tells the comical but often tear-jerking true story of a forgotten small town. Author Michael Perry is a featured member of the cast. Suite seats are $50; other tickets are from $15 to $35.

The Water City Jazz Orchestra performs its 3rd Bootleggers Ball for its monthly concert at 8 p.m. Jan. 29 at Manila Resto, 107 Algoma Blvd.

The Ducks Unlimited-Oshkosh chapter is holding its 54th annual fundraising banquet Feb. 1. Registration starts at 5 p.m. with dinner, raffles, door prizes and silent auctions starting at 6:30 p.m. Email [email protected] for details.

The Winter Farmers Market is held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each Saturday until April 28 and features about 30 vendors at Merrill Middle School’s multipurpose room at 108 W. New York Ave.

The Otter Street Fisheree: Winter Edition is set for Feb. 2 and 3 at Miller’s Bay in Menominee Park beginning that Friday night with a Party on the Pond and featuring a Member’s Only Fishing Tournament the following day that pays out in several categories, raffle prizes, food and drinks. Find details on the club’s Facebook and Instagram locations.

The 16th annual Antique Sporting and Advertising Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 2 and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 3 at Sunnyview Expo Center. Quality dealers and collectors offer merchandise both suitable for the novice collector and investment-grade pieces for advanced collectors. The general pubic is welcome to bring in items to have appraised or sell. Antique items will include include decoys,

fishing and hunting items, traps, Indian artifacts, wildlife mounts, early advertising, sports memorabilia, military items, wildlife art, sports equipment, and outdoor books and literature.

The Fox Valley Marine Dealer Association Boat Show will be presented Feb. 8 to 11 at Sunnyview Expo Center. $3 admission.

The Oshkosh Gun Show, featuring club firearms, reloading gear and general accessories, books, medals, archery equipment, knives, swords and security equipment, will be held Feb. 16-18 at Sunnyview Expo Center. Hours are from 3 to 8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Entry fee is $6 for adults, free for ages 14 and under.

The annual Polar Plunge at Miller’s Bay in Menominee Park is set for Feb. 16 and 17, featuring fundraising events that include tossing your boss, teacher, principal or favorite law enforcement officer into Lake Winnebago for the benefit of Special Olympics Wisconsin. Live entertainment, a 5k Freezin’ for a Reason run and chicken wing eating contests are also on the schedule.

Battle on Bago: Winter Edition, the country’s largest ice fishing tournament featuring more than $275,000 in prizes, takes over Miller’s Bay in Menominee Park on Feb. 23 and 24. Live music, food, beer, raffles and a fish fry are part of the festivities. Fishing tickets are $30 for each fish registered in the tournament, and a Wisconsin fishing license is required of participants.

The expanded RV and Boat Main Event will have more than 150,000 square feet of recreational vehicles, boats, docks, golf carts and campgrounds Feb. 23-25 at the EAA AirVenture Grounds and Expo Hangars, 3000 Poberezny Road. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors (62 and over), and free for ages 17 and under. Hours are from noon to 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

The 2018 Northeast Wisconsin Sport Fishin’ Show is set for March 2-4 at Sunnyview Expo Center. Admission is $8; children under age 12 get in free. Hours are from 3 to 9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Seminars and exhibitors are featured.

Community events

Beer enthusiasts will be bundling up for some specialty tastes of winter when Bare Bones Brewery in Oshkosh hosts the inaugural Fox Valley Winter Beer Festival on Saturday.

The 2-year-old microbrewery and its visi-tors will take on the chilly elements from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday outside at its 4362 County S fa-cility. Specialty beers from regional breweries, including Oshkosh’s own Fox River Brewing, Fifth Ward Brewing and HighHolder Brewing, will be featured in the first official gathering

representing new and established local brew-masters.

Other nearby breweries participating in-clude Lion’s Tail Brewing in Neenah, Stone Arch Brewing and Appleton Beer Factory in Appleton, and Knuth Brewing from Ripon. Rushford Meadery and Winery from Omro will also be bringing its mead, wine and cider offerings.

Bare Bones brewmaster RJ Nordlund said outdoor beer events in midwinter are more

common in western Michigan, where he devel-oped his craft at three different breweries in the Grand Rapids region. Some heat relief will be supplied by a large bonfire along with some in-direct heating units, and VIP ticket holders will have access to an inside lounge at the taproom.

General admission ticket holders will be offered up to 20 samples and VIP ticket holders will get early entrance at 1 p.m. and 25 samples. Brewers have been encouraged to bring some of their select beers to the fest.

Amongt the special offerings from Bare Bones will be an Hasta La Basta imperial stout, an aged Imperial Bourbon Stout and a red ale with peppermint candy and hot cocoa ingredi-ents called Peppermint Patti.

Tickets are limited and cost $40, or $60 for VIP access. They can be found through the Bare Bones’ Facebook site at www.brownpap-ertickets.com/event, at participating area tap-rooms and breweries, and at the door of the event.

Region’s breweries toast winter weather

Oshkosh native and longtime blues artist Lil’ Davy Max will represent the state next week when more than 260 blues music acts take part in the 34th International Blues Challenge in Memphis’ Beale Street Historic District.

Lil’ Davy Max pitted himself and his band in a state competition last spring at the 10th annual Paramount Blues Challenge at the Lakeview Conference Center in Port Washing-ton. His 30-minute set displayed his blistering electric harmonica solos while sharing his orig-inal music, and secured the title of Paramount Blues Challenge champion.

The International Blues Challenge, called

the world’s largest gathering of blues artists, was created to spotlight talent and help musi-cians advance their careers. Finalists will per-form Jan. 20 at the city’s Orpheum Theater.

As a songwriter, vocalist, harmonica play-er and guitarist, Lil’ Davy will lead his band consisting of Kevin Stellman on guitar, Tom Susala on bass, Pete Shank on piano and drum-mer Sammy Mead.

Since winning the Paramount Blues Chal-lenge, Lil’ Davy has been getting offers to play various blues festivals, including the Prairie Dog Blues Festival in Prairie du Chien and the Chain O’ Lakes Blues Festival in Waupaca.

Lil’ Davy Max brings his band and harmonica to Beale Street in Memphis for the International Blues Challenge next week.

Local blues musician Lil’ Davy represents state at Memphis competition


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We’re a proud member of thecommunity, and we encourage you to visit our campus! Join us at UW Oshkosh to see a show in the Fredric March Theater, take in a concert in the Music Hall or cheer on Titan athletes at the outstanding Oshkosh Sports Complex.

Oshkosh Corp. has received two awards in recent weeks highlighting its efforts to pro-mote an exceptional workplace environment for its employees.

The company was named a Military Friendly Employer by Victory Media, noting its long-standing commitment to hiring veter-ans and honoring those who have served. The Fortune 500 manufacturer employs more than 750 active-duty and National Guard reserve military team members and veterans.

In a separate recognition in December, Oshkosh Corp. was named a 2018 Glassdoor Best Place to Work. Oshkosh placed No. 48 of the top 100 companies recognized by Glass-door’s Employees Choice Award. Oshkosh Corp. is one of five manufacturing companies on the list, and one of only four Wisconsin companies named.

Glassdoor is a career website with more than 700,000 companies listed. Reviews from team members were used in the evaluation for the Best Place to Work honors.

Companies and organizations earning the

Military Friendly Employer designation were evaluated using public data sources and re-sponses from a proprietary survey. Victory Me-dia is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business that connects the military community to civilian employment, educational and entre-preneurial opportunities through its G.I. Jobs and Military Friendly brands.

First published in 2003, Military Friend-ly Employers is regarded as a comprehensive, important resource for veterans. Each year, the list of Military Friendly Employers is provided to service members and their families, helping them discover the best post-military career op-portunities.

Oshkosh Corp. is a leader in designing, manufacturing and servicing a broad range of access equipment, commercial, fire and emer-gency, military and specialty vehicles, and vehi-cle bodies under the brands of Oshkosh, JLG, Pierce, McNeilus, Jerr-Dan, Frontline, CON-E-CO, London and IMT. With manufacturing operations on four continents, its products can be found in more than 150 countries.

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Business Expo 2018 will warm up its par-ticipants and guests with a beach theme in the halls of the Oshkosh Convention Center on Jan. 25 for its annual exhibition of the region’s diverse businesses and industries.

Sponsored by office technology specialist Rhyme and the Oshkosh Chamber of Com-merce, the expo runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will include special seminars for businesses that will focus on leadership, recruitment and employee retention topics.

Chris Henry, Aviation Museum program coordinator for the Experimental Aircraft As-sociation in Oshkosh, will give a presentation on Foundation of Leadership, specifically how the foundation in leadership in aviation and space history are relevant today, and how true leaders stood up to the status quo and broke barriers to help shape the workforce of today and the future.

Also presenting a seminar will be Angela Damiani, CEO and co-founder of NEWaukee, speaking on Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Young Professionals to Your Compa-ny and Community. Damiani plays a large part in coordinating YPWeek for young profession-als across Wisconsin each year. She and Jeremy

Fojut co-founded NEWaukee in 2009. According to their website, “NEWaukee’s

programs and initiatives motivate Milwaukee-ans to look critically at the city in which we live, to realize its potential and to empower folks to shape a city of which we all want to be a part.”

The Chamber will accept participant booth sponsorships until Friday with consideration for late signups by Monday. Booths are available at a cost of $475 for Chamber members and $535 for nonmembers.

The cost to attend is $5, or free with a personal business card. The expo transitions to A Business After Hours session where a $6 fee will apply to starting at 5 p.m.

For more information, visit www.oshkoshchamber.com or contact Amber Thiel at 920-303-2265, ext. 16, or at [email protected].

A partial list of partici-pants:

4Imprint, AEGIS Finan-cial, Ascension Employer Solutions, Aurora Health Care, Bank First National and YMCA, Bella Vista and Lakeshore Manor, Best West-ern Premier Waterfront Hotel, Cartridge World, Cellcom, Clarity Care, Colortech of Wisconsin, Complete Office of Wisconsin/

Emmons Business Interiors, Cornerstone Pro-cessing Solutions, Cumulus Media, Edenbrook of Oshkosh, Envisionink Printing Solutions, Fletcher Chiropractic Office, Fox Valley Physi-cal Therapy, Fox Valley Technical College;

Fox World Travel, Glacier Dental, Her-mann Advantage Consulting, Hilton Garden Inn Oshkosh, Hometown Broadcasting, In-sight Publications, interGen Web Solutions, Jay Manufacturing Oshkosh, Jericho Road Ministries, Keller, Lamers Bus Lines, Life Pro-motions, MARCO Promos, Munroe Exhib-its & Graphics, Northern Telephone & Data, Oracular;

Oshkosh Area School District, Oshkosh Area United Way, Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau, Oshkosh Herald, Oshkosh Marine Supply and Derby Molded Products, Petsche Consulting, Plain Old DevOps, Port-Side Builders, Prospera Credit Union, Red Wing Shoes, Rhyme, Ross Imaging, SCORE Oshkosh, Stellar Blue Technologies, Sure-Dry Basement Systems, U.S. Cellular, UW-Osh-kosh Division of Online and Continuing Edu-cation, Verve, a Credit Union, and Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.

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Summer program registration opens Monday at the Boys & Girls Club of Oshkosh, with 250 spots for children ages 7-12 and 65 openings for those ages 5-6 on a first-come, first-served basis.

Preregistration and the first week’s pay-ment is required to sign up children ages 5 to 12. There is no quota for teens.

Registering a child means they will get to take part in all the club has to offer, including programs like Little Brewer’s Baseball, Lego League, Healthy Habits Cooking, Girls Eti-quette and Afternoon Tea, STRIDE Academy, Swimming Class with the YMCA, the Summer Reading Program with the Public Library, and teen camps.

Each age group will have the opportunity to go on several field trips to places like Camp Radford, Noah’s Ark, Monkey Joe’s, Mulberry Lane Farm and Old World Wisconsin.

In order to keep a 5- to 12-year-old child’s spot in the program, they are expected to par-ticipate at least three days a week and will need to be at the club each day by no later than 10 a.m. A child can be absent for up to a week without having to pay the weekly fee.

Summer registration is open at the Boys & Girls Club at 501 E Parkway Ave. during reg-ular hours or at one of four After School Care sites — Jacob Shapiro, Jefferson, Lakeside and Smith schools — from 2:45 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.

For questions about 5- to 12-year-old registration, contact child care director Lind-say Clark at [email protected] or 920-233-

1414, ext. 14. Teens will have the opportunity to sign

up for special weeklong camps from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday-Friday during each week of summer. Camps will include kayaking, fish-ing, self-defense, 3-D printing, sports, baby-sit-ting and CPR training, as well as camps held through Fox Valley Technical College with courses on jewelry design, fabrication, con-struction and IT.

Each camp will have an associated fee ranging from $5 to $100. Teens must be signed up and paid in full for each camp they partici-pate in before the first day. Sign-ups will begin online May 1 on the club website at http://

bgcosh.org. Teens who don’t want to sign up for

camps can still participate in activities, tourna-ments and programs, video games, computers, sports, music, cooking classes, and daily chal-lenges and games.

Any questions regarding teen camps or the CLUB Teen Center should be directed to Teen Center director Tiffanie Bolling at [email protected] or 920-233-1414, ext. 12.

Summer at the club runs from June 8 to Aug. 24. The club will open at 6:30 a.m. during that time to accommodate early working fam-ilies, and stays open until 5:30 p.m. to accom-modate families with later working hours.

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The Oshkosh Convention Center will be bustling with business activity Jan. 25 as it was at last year’s Business Expo shown here.

Yearly membership fees: $25 for the first child, $15 for the sec-ond child and $10 for additional children, not to exceed $50 per family. Scholarships are available for annual membership fees and summer weekly fees. Breakfast, lunch and snacks are included.

Summer fees: For ages 5 to 12: Before 9 a.m., first child is $65 per week; each additional, $45 per week. After 9 a.m.: first child is $45 per week; each additional, $30 per week. Five prescheduled field trips for each child’s groups are included in the fee.

Teens must have a current annual membership on file but are not required to pay weekly fees.

For more information, contact the club at 920-233-1414, visit www.bgcosh.org or find the club on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (@BGCOsh), YouTube or LinkedIn.


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Herd makes early noise in G LeagueBucks franchise finds its competitive edge right out of the gateBy Ti WindischHerald contributor

The Wisconsin Herd is defying expecta-tions thus far in the team’s short existence.

Despite being so new that the expansion team’s first few home games were played in Milwaukee while the team’s Oshkosh arena was still being completed, the G League affil-iate of the Milwaukee Bucks is 15-10, first in the league’s Central Division and second in the Eastern Conference.

One crucial part of Wisconsin’s early suc-cess has been Herd head coach Jordan Brady. Brady said although it was hard to have expec-tations due to the team not having previous results to base them on, he’s happy with the Herd’s first season thus far.

“It’s nice to be where we’re at,” he said. “But there’s still a lot of season left.”

With 25 games remaining on the Herd’s slate going into this week, the roster will like-ly change due to some players performing well enough to lure other NBA teams to sign them.

“I think that we have several guys on our roster that are candidates with 10-day po-tential,” Brady said, “also guys who could get picked up by other teams for two-way con-tracts. You never know, the roster can always fluctuate, it’s just a long season. You just play one game at a time.”

As Brady mentioned, although some play-ers on the Herd have their rights owned by the Bucks, most of them are available for any NBA team to sign, either to a full, 10-day or two-way NBA contract.

Anyone on the roster can be called up to the NBA at any time. Two of the best players in Wisconsin’s first half were recently made ex-amples of that.

James Young, who has the Herd sin-gle-game scoring record with a 44-point out-burst, was called up to the Philadelphia 76ers, who signed him to a two-way contract. Young was second among Wisconsin scorers with 22.3 points per game.

He scored only 15 in his last game with the Herd, although Young said he didn’t mind his low total one bit considering they got the win over the Canton Charge that night.

“I just try to do whatever I can to help the team … I just try to get the win,” Young said. “We’ve been doing a good job of whoever’s hot, we get them the ball.”

Xavier Munford leads the Herd in scor-ing with 24.1 points per game, and he was also called up.

Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania report-ed that the Bucks used a two-way contract on Munford, meaning he might still see time with Wisconsin when he’s not with the Bucks.

Munford credited his time with Team

USA during the season as equipping him well for the G League, where he did well enough to get another shot at the next level.

“It definitely helped me a lot, just being around the coaching staff and having their ex-perience, just soaking up everything they can offer in the game of basketball and then incor-porating that in every day,” Munford said.

He said the Herd coaching staff has made it a point to emphasize ball movement and

teamwork, and those things have helped them stand out among G League teams, many of which don’t pass as freely.

“We’ve just been staying together,” Mun-ford said. “We’ve bought into the system. We know that we move the ball around, sharing it. Things like that aren’t common in the G League. We just play together, move the ball, and good things happen.”

Teams who can get out and outrun their opponent can both shut down the opposition’s transition scoring and get some easy buckets of their own on the fast break. Munford said Brady used a movie clip to instill the right sense of urgency into his team when it comes to tran-sition.

“At the end of the day, if we just keep getting stops we can get out and run in transi-tion — that’s our main thing,” Munford said. “Coach is real big on the movie ‘Seabiscuit’, and he showed us how the horses take off, and that’s been a common theme for the whole year. We really focus on transition.”

Brady said he chose the movie clip to give his team an example of exactly how hard they should move once a shot is taken.

“It’s just something that we used to illus-trate the point that we want to make in transi-tion defense, and so for us our transition trigger is when the shot goes up, we want to transition back,” Brady said.

Those types of skills that translate across specific players will be crucial to Brady’s Herd finding continued success as some of the team’s best players get looks at the next level. Brady

said the Herd has been preparing for some of their top players to be called up, and that it will fall to the players who remain to step up.

“You want to look to the guys that are playing behind those guys, I guess you would say, that will have an increased role when those players leave,” Brady said. “Maybe they’re ready to step up. It might not be one person replacing what another person did, but it can be by com-mittee. I think as long as you stay true to what you are, your core principles as a team, then you’re going to be in a good situation.”

Championship-caliber transition effort aside, Brady said despite the success the Herd has enjoyed thus far, there’s plenty more the team wants to do in its inaugural season.

“We’re happy to be where we’re at, but I don’t think we feel like we’ve accomplished what we’ve set out to accomplish yet,” Brady said. “But I think that we’re on track to do what we’d like to do.”

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Herd coach Jordan Brady has focused on team and transition play to get them off to a solid start in their inaugural season.


The Wisconsin Herd, shown against the Delaware 87ers at Menominee Nation Arena, leads the Central Division of the Eastern Conference.

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MECCA basketball court replica at home with HerdOshkosh Herald

As the Menominee Nation Arena is quick-ly becoming the new mecca of Oshkosh activ-ity, it seemed only fitting that it has the floor to match.

The iconic MECCA basketball court de-sign, first created in 1977 by pop artist Robert Indiana and when it was called the World’s Largest Pop Art Painting, has found a fitting home with the Herd, the Milwaukee Bucks’ G League developmental team, at the team’s new Oshkosh home through the efforts of Fox Val-ley Pro Basketball president Greg Pierce, own-er and operator of the arena.

The Bucks played on the distinctive floor at the MECCA from 1977 until 1988, when

they moved down the street to the Bradley Center in 1988. The team’s newest arena, Wis-consin Entertainment and Sports Center, will debut the start of the 2018-19 NBA season.

The brightly colored replica court arrived at the arena in time for games by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh women’s team Dec. 30 against Carroll University, and an appearance by the Harlem Globetrotters on New Year’s Day. Arena crew assembled the court’s rectan-gular puzzle one palette at a time in a matter of hours before the intricate basketball hoop sys-tems were reset and calibrated to pro standards.

The court had previously hosted the Oct. 26 Bucks-Celtics game at the UW-Milwau-kee Panther Arena, the original floor’s former home. The MECCA (Milwaukee Exposition, Convention Center and Arena) design served to help commemorate the Bucks’ 50th NBA season and harkened back to a solid home win-ning percentage during the MECCA era.

“We wanted to preserve some Wisconsin history,” Pierce said of his group’s efforts that narrowly prevented the design replica from being sanded out of existence for other design options.

The floor itself had its most high-profile appearance in last year’s NCAA South Re-gional tournament in Memphis, which North Carolina conquered on its way to becoming the reigning national champion.


Menominee Nation Arena workers piece together the MECCA-design basketball court Dec. 28 in prepara-tion for New Year’s weekend games.

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Oshkosh4Education presents its Annual Report to the Community at 5:30 p.m. today at The Waters, 1393 Washington Ave., with special recognition to donors, volunteers and team members involved in Project Curb, which engaged the community members to renovate and help beautify the outdoor playgrounds and spaces around city schools. Contact [email protected] to register.

AAUW’s chili lunch at 10:30 a.m. Sat-urday will highlight “The New Landscape of Aging,” presented by Theresa Bertram, CEO of Miravida Living (formerly Lutheran Homes of Oshkosh). The chili lunch will follow the pre-sentation at First Methodist Church, 700 W. Linwood, Oshkosh.

The UW-Oshkosh student group Stu-dents for a Democratic Society, together with a new organization called Oshkosh Communi-ty Action Coalition, will be hosting a rally at 10 a.m. Jan. 20 at the Sun Dial in downtown Osh-kosh to commemorate the one-year anniversa-ry of the inauguration of President Trump. The event will be a demonstration against admin-istration policies regarding the working class and other groups. Attendees are encouraged to bring signs and posters and would have an opportunity to speak. More information on the event can be found on the SDS Facebook page (www.facebook.com/foxcitiessds) or by contacting OCAC at [email protected].

The Winnebago County Wellness Coa-lition’s Strong Bones program starts a new 12-session program Feb. 9 that runs from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays until May 17 at Sunnyview Expo Center. The multiweek strength training class is geared for men and women ages 60 and older is also offered at other regional locations; registration is avail-able for $15 through the Winnebago County Health Department (232-3000).

The Downtown Oshkosh Community YMCA’s monthly foot care clinic will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 1. A nurse from Valley VNA Senior Care will provide foot treatments as needed and look for any concerning issues that would lead to a podiatrist referral. The clinic fee is $25 and registration is encouraged by calling 920-426-1931.

Both branches of the Oshkosh Commu-nity YMCA have expanded hours to 10 p.m. starting this month, along with drop-in child care now available from 4 to 8 p.m. Fridays. The newly renovated Downtown YMCA will be open year-round on Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. along with other expanded daily oppor-tunities.

Free legal assistance for individuals with simple legal questions, assistance with forms, or referrals to attorneys who offer reduced-cost and/or unbundled services is available from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Oshkosh Pub-lic Library’s lower-level meeting room. Volun-teer attorneys and students from Fox Valley Technical College’s Paralegal Student Organi-zation will be available to offer help in family law, small claims, landlord/tenant, domestic abuse, harassment injunctions, probate/wills, guardianships and property disputes. The ses-sion is held each third Tuesday of the month.

The Oshkosh Public Library Board of Trustees will hold its monthly meeting at 4 p.m. Jan. 25 in the library’s lower-level meeting room.

Explore Starting a Business will be pre-sented Feb. 22 at Fox Valley Technical College’s Oshkosh Riverside Campus. The inside look at what it takes to launch a small business is geared toward part-time, home-based, micro, small or entrepreneurial businesses. Available resources will be explored and a focus on why a business plan is essential to success. Participants will also get a chance to meet others with the same aspirations during a networking break. The workshop from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the FVTC Venture Center, 150 N. Campbell Road, walks through the steps from idea to launch to sus-tainability. For more information, visit www.fvtc.edu/SmallBiz or call 920-996-2949.

The Winnebago County Board Scholar-ship Program, offered to high school seniors who reside in the county and plan to attend a post-secondary educational institution, pro-motes good citizenship and an awareness of county government. Up to nine $1,000 schol-arships will be awarded in 2018. A completed application form and 500-800 word essay ad-dressing the question: “If you were to run for any Winnebago County office, which position would you run for and why?” is due March 26. Applications should be sent to the County Clerk’s office at P.O. Box 2808, Oshkosh, WI 54903-2808. More information can be found on county website.

Nominations for individuals who have made significant contributions to the univer-sity, region, state or nation are currently being accepted by the University of Wisconsin Os-hkosh Honorary University Degree Com-mittee. Strong consideration is given to those who have a current or past connection to the school or Oshkosh and Greater Fox Valley re-gion, as well as distinguished alumni. All nom-inations and the supporting materials are due to the UW-Oshkosh Provost’s Office by Feb. 8. Contact [email protected] for additional information.

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Prep Sports RoundupBy Alex WolfHerald contributor

BOYS HOCKEY

Ice Hawks behind early, fall to De PereThe Oshkosh boys hockey team fell behind early and couldn’t recov-

er as it fell 4-2 in a game played on the road last Friday.Logan Uecker scored both of Oshkosh’s goals, with the first coming

in the first period after De Pere took a 2-0 lead. After De Pere’s Connor Keast scored to open the second period, Uecker added his second goal at the 11:28 mark to make it 3-2 going into the third period.

But the Voyageurs put things away when they scored a goal from Murphy Eggers at the 11:56 mark in the final period.

Tyler Baumann had 33 saves for the Ice Hawks, while Grant Ku-harski, Kyle Jones, Branden Hamer and Jack Strey all recorded assists.

Results from Tuesday’s game against Pacelli were not available be-cause of print deadline.

BOYS SWIMMING

West takes fifth at Sheboygan RelaysThe Oshkosh West boys swimming team finished fifth out of eight

teams at the Sheboygan North Golden Raider Relays on Saturday.The Wildcats finished with 67 points, finishing behind Sheboygan

South (72), Manitowoc (73), Sheboygan North (99) and the champions Green Bay United (109).

West had eight top 10 finishes – getting a third place from the 400 IM Relay. Trenton Davis, Harry Zhang, Henry Laux and Joe Herrick fin-ished with a time of 4 minutes, 26.30 seconds.

Finishing fourth were the 400 Free Relay teams (Dan Seekings, Carson Leski, Cameron Kumbeier and Andrew Engedal) with a time of 3:59.64 while the 200 Breast Relay team (Caleb Schultz, Jack Elliott, Sam Blaskowski, Herrick) ended up with a time of 2:20.38.

The 200 Free Relay team consisting of Zhang, Leske, Seekings and Kumbier were also fourth with a time of 1:44.93.

The 200 Fly team (Henry Laux, Engedal, Trenton Davis and Her-rick,) the 750 Free Relay team (Seekings, Blaskowski, Zhang, Engedal) and the 200 Back Relay team (Elliott, Schultz, Davis, Laux) were all fifth.

The 200 Medley Relay team of Elliott, Schultz, Blaskowski and Kumbier rounded things out with a sixth place finish for the Wildcats.

Results of Tuesday’s meet against Fond du Lac were not available by print deadline.

Oshkosh North/Lourdes ninth at inviteThe Oshkosh North/Lourdes boys swimming team got two top finishes from Grant Lattery and Eddie Hansen as they finished ninth in the Ashwaubenon Invitational on Saturday.

Oshkosh North/Lourdes finished with 112 points, edging Shawano (92), Pulaski (78) and Fond du Lac (34). Bay Port won the invite with 520 points, while host Ashwaubenon was second (263) and Lakeland (262) was third.

Lattery finished second in the diving competition for ON/L, scor-ing a 301.20. Jackson Tutt of Appleton North/East won that event with a score of 410.45.

Hansen finished fifth in the 100 Breast – finishing in 1 minute, 7.65 seconds. Calvin Schilz of Bay Port was first with a time of 1:03.98.

Results from Tuesday’s meet against Neenah weren’t available by print deadline.

GYMNASTICS

Gymnasts fourth in Wisconsin RapidsThe Oshkosh gymnastics team put together a fourth-place finish

in Saturday’s Wisconsin Rapids Invitation, finishing with 128.90 points. Mukwonago won the invite with 134.45 points, followed by Ashland (132.25), and Marshfield (129).

Lily Jaeger had quite the day for Oshkosh, taking home two first-place finishes. She won the floor competition with a score of 9.25 while taking vault with a 8.95. She was second in bars with a 8.6 and ended up second in all-around with a score of 34.2. She added a 17th-place finish in beam with a 7.4.

Megan Best had a stellar day as well, finishing fourth in bars (7.95), fifth in all-around (33.35) and floor (9.05), seventh in beam (7.9) and eighth in vault (8.45). Samantha Markel had three top 10 finishes, taking sixth in bars (7.85) and eighth in beam (7.875) while placing 10th in all-around with a 32.525.

Others who had a top 30 finish included Danielle Dickinson and Meg Grahl, who tied for 23rd on beam with a 6.9, while Haley Tovar and Kaitlyn Bilkey were 23rd and 29th on bars, respectively. Grahl added a 26th-place finish on floor while Tovar was 26th on vault. Kylie Alger rounded it out with a 30th-place finish on floor for Oshkosh.

Results from Monday’s meet against Sheboygan were after print deadline.

Spartans crush Appleton Lightning to stay perfectOshkosh Herald

The Oshkosh North boys kept their unbeaten season intact with a 94-42 domination of Appleton North on Satur-day night on the Spartans’ home court.

Senior Tyrese Haliburton led the Spartans with 31 points in a fast-paced attack that the Lightning could not an-swer. A series of forced turnovers in the first half helped Os-hkosh build a 31-8 lead, and their pressure defense helped them build a 58-19 halftime score that Appleton would not recover from.

For Oshkosh, which won its 11th straight game, other leading scorers were junior Abe Schiek with 13 points, senior Wes Schiek with 11, and senior Quincy Anderson with 8.

The Lightning (0-8) were led in scoring by senior Sam Crowley with 14 points and junior Devin Blom with 12.

Columbus 65, Lourdes 51The Lourdes boys basketball team lost its fifth straight

game last Friday night, as Columbus pulled away for a 65-51 nonconference win in a game played in Columbus.

Henry Noone had a stellar game for the Knights, scor-ing 22 points while Connor Barfknecht added 14.

Lourdes kept it close at half, as it trailed 32-27. But Co-lumbus held its lead and outscored the Knights by nine in the second.

Doug Ryan, Preston Ruedinger and Jack McKellips each added five points for the Knights, who will try to bounce back Thursday as it faces Valley Christian in a cross-city rivalry game at Valley Christian.

Oshkosh West 54, Appleton East 41After a tightly contested game in the first half, the Os-

hkosh West boys basketball team pulled away in the second half from Appleton East on Saturday night to earn a 54-41 win in a Fox Valley Association game played in Appleton.

After Appleton East led 24-22 at the break, Oshkosh West outscored the Patriots 32-17 in the second half to move to 6-3 on the season, and 4-3 in the FVA.

Ben Kohl led the Wildcats with 15 points – hitting three 3-pointers – while Derek Kroll had 14. Luke Haasl chipped in 12.

Kaden Clark led Appleton East with 11 points.Results from Tuesday’s game against Fond du Lac were

not available before print deadline. The Wildcats return to action when the host Neenah on Friday.

GIRLS

Appleton East 51, Oshkosh West 23Oshkosh West couldn’t overcome a bad start on Satur-

day and had trouble getting things going offensively as Ap-pleton East picked up a Fox Valley Association win, 51-23, in Appleton.

The Patriots scored the first seven points of the game as they built a 28-12 lead at halftime.

Callista Rochon-Baker led the Wildcats with 11 points, while Megan Kaminski chipped in three. Laura Courchene, Lauren Olejnik, Abby Hammonds and Ashley Fontaine all added two points for Oshkosh West, which scored the low-

est amount of points all season.Results from Tuesday’s game against Fond du Lac were

not available due to the deadline. The Wildcats will hit the road Friday in a FVA game at Neenah.

Appleton North 65, Oshkosh North 43Oshkosh North’s Spartan girls faced Fox Valley Asso-

ciation conference leader Appleton North’s full-court press Friday night and came up on the wrong end of a 65-43 score at home.

The Lightning, ranked second in the state, used its scrappy defense to stall the North offense. Spartan junior Brie Gauthier started the game strong with a layup and free throw, but Appleton soon built a 13-point lead by midpoint of the first half.

The Lightning defense was called for a series of fouls, and subsequent free throws by the Spartans kept them in the game. Ashley Wissink converted five free throws in the first half. Brooke Ellestad and Alina Harmon also added points from the line, but Appleton led 25-15 at halftime.

Appleton quickly added to its lead early in the second half with a 17-3 scoring run. Around the 11-minute mark, Wissink scored the first Oshkosh 3-pointer, but otherwise Oshkosh was struggling to score.

Spartan scoring was led by Ellestad with 11, followed by Wissink with 10 points. Gauthier and Megan Gruse fol-lowed with 6 and 5 points.

Results from Tuesday’s game against Kaukauna were not available before print deadline.

Oshkosh Herald photos by Alicia Ott .

Oshkosh North’s Quincy Anderson converts a layup after a steal against Appleton North on its way to a 94-42 victory.

Brie Gauthier (33) and Nydia Griffin of Oshkosh North defend an Appleton North player in the paint during Saturday night’s game.


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Wildcats shut out Appleton WestBy Alex WolfHerald contributor

The Oshkosh West wrestling team accom-plished something that isn’t seen too often.

In a match where there were only three forfeits, the Wildcats still managed a shutout – beating Appleton West 82-0 in a Fox Valley Association dual last Thursday at home.

Avery Martell pinned Appleton West’s Zach Fisher to complete the shutout while West had 10 total pins in the match. The Wild-cats move to 2-3 in conference duals this sea-son.

Andrew Kalfas started the night off at heavyweight, recording a pin over Brandon Kluba in 3 minutes, 17 seconds. Alec Hunter (106), Drew Best (113) followed with pins and then Josh Coopman received a forfeit at 120 pounds.

Oshkosh West continued to cruise in all of its matches as Logan Grota (126), Eli Coop-man (138), Reese Thompson (145), Connor Collins (152), Kevin Loos (160), Gabe Fannin (195) and Avery Martell (220) all recorded pins.

Henry Foust (132) and Blake Framke (170) each won on forfeits while Edgar He-redia (182) was the only wrestler to win that wasn’t on a pin – picking up a 18-5 major de-cision victory.

North dominates Appleton EastThe Oshkosh North wrestling team got

help with six forfeits as it picked up a 46-20 Fox Valley Association dual win over Appleton East last Thursday.

Taylor Brearley (113-pounds), Cade Schmitz (120), Travon Lee (152) and Davinci Yang (182) each won by forfeit while the Spar-tans had three pins.

Carly Ochoa (106) pinned Rohan Shee-han in just 28 seconds while Thomas Urben (126) and Josh Stephanie (170) also won by pinfall. Stephanie pinned Zarek Hoffman in 2 minutes, 44 seconds while Urben pinned Ste-phen Pollen in 1:43.

Also earning a victory was 160-pounder Dalton Holmes, who won by major decision, 14-5 over East’s Ryan Stocker.

Each team had to forfeit at 195- and 285-pounds.

Kraus third for Lourdes in tourney The Lourdes wrestling team had three wres-tlers compete in the Red Knight Wrestling Invitational Saturday, hosted by Milwaukee Lutheran.

132-pounder Carson Kraus finished third overall, going 3-1 on the day. Kraus pinned his first two opponents - the first one in just under a minute, with the second coming in 1:32 - be-

fore falling in a close 12-8 decision in the semi-finals. In the third place match, he recorded a pin in 3:28.

Cam Kelly went 2-2 at 126 pounds, miss-ing the podium finish by one match. He won his first match, 8-4, but then was pinned in the next. He bounced back with a 7-2 decision be-fore falling in a close 8-7 decision to end his day.

Wrestling

Courtesy of EAAThe Experimental Aircraft Association

(EAA) is working with the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) to inspire young aviators through AMA’s UAS4STEM competitions, which bring affordable drone kits to teams of young people that they can build and enter in AMA-sponsored competitions across the coun-try.

The UAS4STEM regional competitions are held all over the country, which the AMA hopes will ensure most teams will have a man-ageable drive to the nearest contest.

EAA partnership development manager Kyle Ludwick said the UAS4STEM competi-tions are another way EAA members can par-ticipate in introducing aviation to people who don’t have much experience with it.

“This is a call-out for members and chap-ters to go reach out to young audiences in schools and youth programs to try to promote the AMA’s UAS4STEM teams,” Ludwick said.

He said EAA and AMA both play an im-portant role in bringing more young people into the world of flight, something both organi-zations realize is vital to the future of aviation.

“EAA’s relationship with the AMA is im-portant because of the role that the AMA and

model aviation has on many aviators’ upbring-ing into aviation,” Ludwick said. “By promoting AMA’s UAS4STEM program, EAA is promot-ing youth to learn transferable skills through a great project and competition format that they can one day take to the full-scale aviation world.”

While the EAA chapters themselves won’t be entering the competitions, their members can serve as technical advisers on the build proj-ects for the teams, which are made up of four to 10 children between ages 11 and 19, and AMA team leaders.

The UAS4STEM challenge comes with ev-erything needed to assemble and fly a Quadzilla quadcopter, aside from a laptop, including the UAS4STEM Online Ground School, an autopi-lot, an RC system and an onboard camera.

Kyle said the UAS4STEM competitions are, in a way, similar to working on a homebuild-ing project that could compete for an award at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh or in International Aerobatics Club competition.

“The idea behind it is they build their Quadzilla giving them hands-on experience on how to build, program, and problem solve,” he said. “Then they are ready to go compete in re-gional and national competitions.”

EAA model aeronautics group promotes drone competition teams

EAA Museum scheduleJan. 18, 7 p.m.: The Aviation Adventure Speaker Series welcomes Dr. Ryan Wub-ben from the University of Wisconsin, a physician and historian who will highlight the challenges of recovering a vintage P-47 from the World War II era. Admission free for EAA members, $5 for nonmem-bers.

Feb. 1, 6:30 p.m.: “The Final Count-down,” a unique 1980 film starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and Charles Durning, is the story of a modern aircraft carrier that is thrown back in time to December 1941, just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. One EAA connection is

actor James Coleman, portraying Lt. Perry in the film, a renowned aviation photog-rapher and writer who has attended EAA AirVenture Oshkosh numerous times. Free for EAA members, $5 for nonmembers.

Feb. 10, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: The EAA Skiplane Fly-In is an annual event at the museum’s Pioneer Airport highlighting the unique segment of flight that is quite popular throughout many parts of North America. The skiplane fly-in is free to the public, but regular museum admission rates apply for those who wish to visit the museum.

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