Dashal Mentzel

6 days ago | weau.com | Dashal Mentzel

SPARTA, Wis. (WEAU) - Family Promise of the Great Rivers recently opened its new location in Sparta, which looks to expand and enhance shelter services for local families. Executive director Jesse Todd says they used to only help three families at a time with shelter and the shelter would be rotational. Now with the new shelter will eventually be able to hold five families in one place. “We get to shelter in place. We got a nice, stable, secure, and safe place for families.

6 days ago | wiproud.com | Dashal Mentzel

MELROSE, Wis. (WLAX/WEUX) – Lisa Gunderson has taught 3rd graders at the Melrose-Mindoro School District for the last 26 years. She says teaching has been a dream of hers because she comes from a family of teachers, “It was kind of a given for me. My parents were like, ‘Are you sure that’s what you want to do?’ and I said, ‘Yup.’ I would set up my characters in my room and play teacher as young as I can remember.

1 week ago | weau.com | Dashal Mentzel

WEST SALEM, Wis. (WEAU) - West Salem Middle School hosted their annual Earth Day cleanup event on Wednesday. Principal Ben Wopat says the cleanup is done to serve others. “We pick up garbage. We go to different parks and we go to sometimes homes of elderly people here in the community. Some of it is on campus. We just spend time serving the community and picking up around town to serve our home,” says Wopat. Wopat says the cleanup also benefits the students.

1 week ago | wiproud.com | Dashal Mentzel

WINONA, Min. (WLAX/WEUX) – The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World’ is a 1,275-foot-long panorama painting that was painted in the 1840s. The painting depicts the voyage of a typical mid-19th-century New Bedford whaleship on its journey around the world in pursuit of whales. The painting is normally located in the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts, but for the next year, it will be on display at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona.

1 week ago | weau.com | Dashal Mentzel

WINONA, Min. (WEAU) - The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round The World is a 1,275 feet long panorama painting that was painted in the 1840s. The painting depicts the voyage of a typical mid-19th century New Bedford whaleship on its journey around the world in pursuit of whales. The painting is normally located in the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts, but for the next year, it will be on display at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona.