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Milwaukee Bucks, Marquette Team Up To Launch Fellowship Program Aimed At Training Next Generation Of Sports And Entertainment Leaders
Since becoming a member of the NBA in 1968 Milwaukee Bucks have shared a house courtroom with the Marquette Golden … [+]
Since becoming a member of the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation as an enlargement franchise again in 1968, the Milwaukee Bucks have been intently tied to Marquette College, the Jesuit faculty whose campus sits simply west of town’s downtown.
Most notably, the Bucks and Marquette have shared a house courtroom; first on the Milwaukee Enviornment, then the Bradley Heart earlier than each groups moved right into a brand-new facility for the 2018 season.
As well as, there’s been no scarcity of staffers who’ve come to the Bucks after incomes a level from Marquette together with the late John Steinmiler, who was employed as a part-time worker to vary letters on an outside signal forward in the course of the workforce’s youth and labored his means up the company ladder to Vice President over the subsequent half-century.
Now, the connection between the 2 iconic Milwaukee establishments is taking one other step ahead with a fellowship aimed toward serving to Marquette college students pursue careers in sports activities and leisure administration.
The Marquette-Bucks Fellowship Program can be open to juniors and seniors collaborating within the faculty’s City Students Program which offers as much as 45 full-tuition scholarships to highschool seniors from financially deprived backgrounds within the Milwaukee space, a lot of them first-generation faculty college students.
“This partnership with Marquette is a crucial approach to proceed to develop and develop Black and Brown expertise that may assist form the way forward for the workforce in Milwaukee,” stated Jakeim Jackson, Bucks Range, Fairness and Inclusion Outreach Supervisor. “By way of this fellowship program, we’ll be capable of present college students with the important instruments, assets and publicity to achieve success of their careers.”
Fellows will work between 10-20 hours per week. Duties will include assigned division initiatives and duties inside the Bucks’ enterprise facet, in addition to entry to profession steering by visitor audio system, mock interviews and resume and LinkedIn profile assist. The Fellows can even volunteer within the Milwaukee group and be part of at the very least one worker useful resource group. To conclude the fellowship program, the Fellow will make a presentation to the Bucks Government Management workforce.
Along with real-world expertise, Fellows will obtain a stipend for his or her work.
“We’re grateful to the Bucks for the chance to collaborate on an incredible experiential studying alternative for members of the City Students Program,” stated Paul Jones, Vice President for College Relations at Marquette. “Not solely will the Marquette and Bucks Fellows obtain distinctive publicity to the sports activities trade with a first-class, championship group, they can even be ready for his or her future profession with invaluable coaching, mentorship and expertise.”
The primary Marquette-Bucks Fellow, Christian Golden, a junior finding out company communications and entrepreneurship who graduated from Milwaukee’s Rufus King Excessive Faculty, will start working with the workforce later this month and proceed by the top of the 2022-23 season.
Scene near Barnett and View.
FOX POINT, Wis. – A fire broke out in a Fox Point neighborhood on Sunday night, Dec. 22.
The Brown Deer Fire Department and Milwaukee Fire Department confirmed multiple units responded to the fire in a neighborhood on Barnett Lane.
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It’s currently unclear what started the fire.
Wisconsin holiday gas prices falling
Holiday travel comes at a good time – because GasBuddy experts predict nationwide gas prices will be at their lowest point on Christmas Day since 2020.
MILWAUKEE – Thousands across Wisconsin are expected to hit the road for the holiday. The travel comes at a good time – because GasBuddy experts predict nationwide gas prices will be at their lowest point on Christmas Day since 2020.
At Good Hope and Green Bay roads, Victor Tran is filling up – and it’s not a bad time to do so.
“The gas right now. Very, very good right now. They’re getting lower. Better than they were before,” Trans said.
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According to AAA, the average for a gallon of regular gas in Wisconsin is around $2.82 per gallon. The average in Milwaukee County on Sunday, Dec. 22 was around $2.79. That is lower than Ozaukee County with an average of around $2.93. All those prices are below the $3 per gallon national average.
Patrick De Haan is the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.
“It’s the seasonality that’s really been the primary reason for gas prices that have fallen compared to where they were this summer,” De Haan said. “In the last couple of days we have seen a big jump in some parts of Wisconsin ahead of the holiday. That has to do with oil prices jumping up.”
But De Haan believes prices will once again fall in Milwaukee. He suggests waiting until closer to Christmas to fill up.
GasBuddy suggests people always check fuel prices before filling up – especially when crossing the state line.
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“I do think a high number of Americans are likely going to be hitting the road in light of the relatively low gas prices,” De Haan said.
De Haan predicts prices will rise after the cold winter months.
“What goes down eventually will go up in the spring,” De Haan said.
MILWAUKEE – A 25-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of shooting another man near a gas station near 14th and North. The accused is Dreaten Burch – and he faces a single charge of first-degree reckless injury.
According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukee police responded on Sunday evening, Dec. 8 to a shooting near 14th and North Avenue. Officers spoke with relatives of the shooting victim who came home with a gunshot wound to his face. They believed he had been at a nearby gas station.
That same night, a detective went to Froedtert Hospital where the shooting victim was being treated for his wound. He indicated he “exchanged words with the driver of a white vehicle, then ran west on North Avenue and got shot in the face as he ran,” the complaint says. The victim said he did not see who shot him.
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Milwaukee police responded to the Citgo gas station near 14th and North and reviewed surveillance video showing the suspect and victim. The complaint says the “video shows that at about 5:31 p.m., a man walks into Citgo, then leaves and walks through the parking lot. At about 5:33 p.m., a white vehicle turns into the parking lot and appears to nearly strike the man in the parking lot, who has to avoid the vehicle. The vehicle parks, then a suspect exits the driver’s door, then heads in the same direction as the first man.”
Investigators found a casing and unspent cartridge northeast of the intersection of 14th and North. Police “later found additional surveillance video showing the man and suspect heading to this location, and showing the man returning to the white vehicle,” the complaint says.
Investigators reviewed photos of the suspect vehicle. They also queried the Flock Safety database and found a matching vehicle within three days of the incident. Officers had previously stopped the vehicle — and identified the driver as Dreaten Burch.
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Burch was arrested on Dec. 9. When police tried to question him about the shooting incident at the gas station, Burch “said he may have been at the gas station and may have been in the car, but he didn’t know about anything else,” the complaint says.
Burch made his initial appearance in Milwaukee County court on Saturday, Dec. 14. Cash bond was set at $10,000.
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