Wisconsin
Weekend Roundup: Wisconsin veterans home among most troubled in nation
Repeated violations on the Union Grove veterans residence over the previous 5 years have made the power some of the troubled state-run properties within the nation, an evaluation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has discovered.
Up to now 5 years, Union Grove was cited for 62 violations and obtained fines totaling $250,000, and the power was within the prime 5 out of 117 state veterans amenities in the USA for having probably the most violations and fines, in keeping with the evaluation.
Luane Krall’s husband, Navy veteran Randy Krall, lived on the Racine County facility earlier than he died in December 2020.
Luane described a collection of occasions in her husband’s care that raised alarm bells.
In November 2020, Randy was taken to the hospital for extreme dehydration. His chart from the veterans residence confirmed he hadn’t had water for a lot of the day. Whereas he acquired higher after that episode, his situation deteriorated after returning to Union Grove.
On Dec. 19, 2020, Randy’s situation took a flip for the more serious. The 69-year-old was dying, the newspaper reported. However nobody contacted Luane till after Randy had died.
“One thing is just not proper at that facility,” Luane advised the Journal Sentinel. “It’s unbelievable what Randy needed to endure. It was horrible. Nobody ought to obtain this sort of care. (Residents) actually devoted their lives to serve this nation, and they aren’t served there.”
Current citations from March embrace: failing to analyze reviews of abuse to sufferers, not giving residents common showers, an infection management and unsanitary circumstances, in keeping with the state Division of Well being Providers.
Federal authorities are actually reviewing the violations.
Learn the complete report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Wisconsin DHS: COVID-19 Weekly Recap
The seven-day common for brand spanking new COVID-19 circumstances in Wisconsin is 1,838 as of Friday. The Wisconsin Division of Well being Providers has confirmed 12,997 whole deaths from the illness.
Simply over 61 % of Wisconsinites are totally vaccinated — 82.7 % of individuals age 65 and older, 58.4 % of youngsters age 12 to 17 and 25.1 % of youngsters 5 to 11 years previous. As of Friday, 34.5 % have obtained a booster shot.
UW-Inexperienced Bay awards first doctoral levels in First Nations Schooling
The College of Wisconsin-Inexperienced Bay not too long ago awarded 4 graduates with inaugural doctoral levels in First Nations Schooling, and an extra eight are set to defend their dissertations in upcoming semesters.
These 12 comprise the primary cohort of graduates whose diploma program was constructed with enter from Wisconsin’s Indigenous nations, in keeping with an article in Madison365.
One of many 4 graduates, Artley Murray Skenandore Jr., mentioned he appreciated that this system highlighted Indigenous strategies of sharing info.
“Whenever you have a look at Indigenous nations, it’s all about our authentic information base. And that authentic information base is the oral historical past,” he mentioned. “That’s the power of how we duplicate ourselves as nations is that oral historical past.”
This system is 2 years and courses are totally on weekends.
fifth annual Black Woman Magic Convention held in Madison
Greater than 600 Black ladies from grades 4 to eight got here collectively for the annual Black Woman Magic Convention that happened this week in Madison.
The day-long retreat was based by Rosa Thompson and started in 2018 with 80 college students, Madison365 reported.
“It’s an incredible expertise. The power of the women is simply one thing that’s unmatched. It appears like a marathon over the day, however with constructive, nice power all day lengthy,” Thompson, who can be government director of Black Woman Magic Academic Providers Inc., advised Madison365 forward of the large day.
In keeping with the Madison365 article previewing the occasion:
“The Black Woman Magic Convention is a day of enjoyable, networking, sisterhood and mentoring as younger Black ladies join with native Black ladies leaders to encourage and uplift each other. The convention will function a morning health class to energise the women once they arrive, dynamic breakout periods led by business leaders, group companions and entrepreneurs and a DJ spinning songs all through.”
The convention is open to ladies in fourth by eighth grade who establish as Black, multiracial, or African-American and attend college in a Madison space college district, in keeping with the occasion itemizing.
FPC Reside proposes live performance venue subsequent to Bucks area
The live performance promotion firm FPC Reside is proposing to construct a venue advanced on land adjoining to Fiserv Discussion board in downtown Milwaukee.
The multi-level advanced can be constructed on a piece of a vacant 5.7-acre parcel owned by the Milwaukee Bucks and the place the Bradley Heart as soon as stood.
The $50 million advanced would have area for 4,000 individuals in a single ballroom and 800 concert-goers in one other room.
FPC Reside, the Madison-based division of Frank Productions, plans to start improvement this 12 months if it wins zoning approval from the Milwaukee Frequent Council and the mayor.
Textual content messages doc final communications between family members earlier than COVID-19 took their lives
“Unusual artifacts of a horrible time” is how New York Occasions opinion author Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer describes the textual content messages between family members that related, and but saved separate, households and family members ravaged by COVID-19.
The U.S. has surpassed 1 million deaths attributable to COVID-19, and the New York Occasions has since collected textual content messages between family members and offered 13 of them in an interactive story.
“We requested readers who submitted these ultimate messages why they determined to share. Most mentioned they hoped they may serve to memorialize the individual, typically in a method that they weren’t in a position to on the time of loss of life. However many mentioned in addition they hoped their messages may make the pandemic really feel actual, in what looks like its waning days, for many who hadn’t skilled its toll up shut, and in some circumstances, for whom a million deaths nonetheless wasn’t sufficient to make them imagine,” Wittmeyer wrote.
In a single change, a 74-year-old pediatric dentist from Austin, Texas wrote to his daughter: “I wish to be in your backyard.” She responded, “You may be quickly!!” He died 10 days later.
“These textual content exchanges are troublesome to learn: deeply shifting, devastating of their intimacy, profoundly human,” Wittmeyer wrote. “What makes them so efficient, I believe, in bringing residence the truth of 1 million useless from Covid is just not that the texts make every individual extra vivid to us, though they do. It is that they make their deaths extra vivid.
Editor’s be aware: The Related Press contributed to this report.
Better Know A Badger – 2025 three-star linebacker Cooper Catalano
MADISON, Wis. – It turned out that Luke Fickell had no reason to worry.
The University of Wisconsin head coach was hopeful that the results on the field wouldn’t cause members of his highly ranked third recruiting class to start rethinking their commitment or, worse yet, reopen their decision-making process entirely.
From the time the Badgers’ 2024 season ended without a bowl game for the first time in 23 years to the first day of the early signing period, Wisconsin’s staff only saw one prospect de-commit. Twenty-three kids signed paperwork to join Fickell’s program, a class that ranks 20th in the Rivals.com rankings with 10 four-star recruits from eight different states.
“To see guys not waver,” Fickell said. “That faith and belief that the games and what you see on Saturday isn’t everything. For those guys to hold with us and believe in us … relationships, trust, and belief in this process still win out.”
Adding to the depth in the middle of the defense, we look at the signing of Mukwonago (Wis.) High linebacker Cooper Catalano and how his addition improves the program.
Stats
Named the Wisconsin large school defensive player of the year in 2024, Catalano totaled 178 tackles, nine TFLs, three forced fumbles, and three interceptions. He finished his career with 583 tackles, obliterating the previous state record of 462 career tackles. A three-time conference defensive player of the year, Catalano earned all-conference honors during all four seasons of high school.
“The season was really successful,” Catalano said. “We had a young team my junior year. We had almost everybody returning except one of our receivers, so we had 21 players returning. To see the growth of everybody throughout the offseason was really cool. Everybody really bought in to what our coaches were preaching throughout the year. We had our leadership group that worked really hard throughout the winter and summer, and it showed throughout the season. It was a really fun right, even though it didn’t end how we wanted.
“I improved in my game is playing more in space and trusting my instincts. I was less technical in the way I looked at football and just playing loose and having fun out there … Breaking the tackle record was a really cool thing, but that takes a whole team, a great game plan, a great defensive line all four years. It’s a team effort, but that’s something that stood out to me that I’m very proud of. It’s something I’ll hold onto for a long time.”
Recruiting Competition
The third commitment in Wisconsin’s 2025 class, Catalano had offers from Illinois, Iowa State, Kansas, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Northwestern, and Stanford.
“It’s been really quiet ever since I committed,” Catalano said. “I was able to reach out to all the programs that offered me a scholarship, get on the phone with most of them to let them know how much it meant to me that they reached out but ultimately my decision was in Madison. I am happy I went about it that way.”
Recruiting Story
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This Tiny Cottage Rental in a Wisconsin State Park Is the Smallest Home Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
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From his first Great Plains-inspired, Prairie-style buildings to the quiet serenity of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright defined American architecture during his seven-decade-long career with his innovative designs. Throughout his lifetime, Wright created 1,114 architectural works, 532 of which were actually constructed.
One of the least known — and the most petite among all of his structures — just might offer the most intimate experience for casual visitors and super-fans alike. The Seth Peterson Cottage, located within Mirror Lake State Park, clocks in at just 880 square feet.
And though it may be small, it’s one of the best examples of Wright’s Usonian houses, a style design intended for middle-class families that offered practical, affordable, yet still beautiful homes. But what makes the Seth Peterson Cottage even more unique among Wright’s works is that it was the first — and now one of the few — homes that are available as a vacation rental.
“Serene and energetic, the little cottage perched high above Mirror Lake is muscularly geometric, seeming at once to hug the earth and burst forth from it,” the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation says on its site.
The one-bedroom cottage sits on a wooded hill, flanked by a small wall made of local sandstone, and features some of Wright’s signature trademarks such as picture windows, a cantilevered roof, and a large, centrally located chimney,
“The flagstones used to pave the outside terrace continue inside the building as the cottage floor, manifesting Wright’s philosophy of making little distinction between the outside and inside worlds in which we live,” the Seth Peterson Cottage Conservancy says on its site.
The home was commissioned by Peterson, who was a huge fan of Wright. He applied to join Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship (an architectural school founded by the architect and his wife, Olgivanna) but was rejected. Then, he tried to commission Wright to build a home for him several times but was also denied. Finally, Peterson sent $1,000 to Wright (who promptly spent the money) as a retainer — and having burned through the cash, Wright had no choice but to accept the commission. Unfortunately, Peterson did not have enough financial reserves to complete the project and even tried to keep construction costs down by doing some of the work himself.
The building was still in progress at the time of Wright’s 1959 death, and Peterson died by suicide shortly before it was completed in 1960. And though the State of Wisconsin bought the property six years later, it sat abandoned for several years. In 1989, local volunteers formed the Seth Peterson Cottage Conservancy to restore the architectural gem — and to rent it out.
Over the course of its existence, the tiny home has hosted more than 10,000 guests from around the globe. The cottage sleeps two people and is equipped with an additional fold-out couch for another two guests. There’s also a galley kitchen stocked with all the essentials, and, if you prefer to dine al fresco, there’s an outdoor barbecue area with a grill.
The cottage’s quiet location is perfect for taking in the pastoral Wisconsin countryside — after all, Wright hoped that his designs would inspire residents and visitors alike to feel more connected with their natural surroundings. A canoe, paddles, and life preserves are included with the rental, as is a healthy supply of firewood. Popular activities in the area include hiking, biking, boating, fishing, swimming, and golfing. If you visit in the winter, snowmobiling and cross-country skiing opportunities are plentiful.
Cottage rentals go for $325 per night year-round, with an additional $30 handling fee per reservation. There’s a two-night minimum, and reservations can be made through Sand County Vacation Rentals up to two years in advance, though they book up quickly.
But for those who would prefer to simply stop for a visit, the Seth Peterson Cottage is open for tours the first Sunday of every month from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., with the final tour beginning at 3:30 p.m. Tours cost $5 per person, though children 12 and under can get in for free.
WAUKESHA, Wis. (CBS) — A Chicago tow truck driver was killed in a hit-and-run crash on Christmas Eve in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
The Waukesha Sheriff’s Office said around 6:41 p.m., a tow truck operator was loading a disabled vehicle on the eastbound shoulder of I-94 east of Sawyer Road when they were hit by a blue minivan that left the scene, continuing eastbound I-94 until it exited at Highway C in an unknown direction.
The tow truck driver, later identified as 40-year-old Hussain Farhat, was taken to Aurora Summit, where he died. Farhat was an employee of Yaffo Towing out of Chicago, the office said.
East Bound I-94 from Sawyer Road to Highway C was shut down for the investigation.
The Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department received an anonymous tip on Wednesday about a possible suspect vehicle at a residence in the Village of Wales. Based on the tip, the department developed a suspect who owns a vehicle matching the description of the striking vehicle from the crash.
The suspect, a 39-year-old man, turned himself in at the Sheriff’s Department during the investigation, and his vehicle was recovered from the residence. He is being booked at the Waukesha County Jail for hit-and-run causing death.
Investigation into the incident remains ongoing by the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department with the assistance of the Wisconsin State Patrol.
No additional information was released.
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