Hello world, welcome to WFHR's Rapids Report for this Wednesday, November 5th, 2025.
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One of them in studio today, we are going to talk with the Wood County Sheriff's Department.
We got a sheriff Sean Becker with us, good to see you Sean.
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Speaking of doing great work, I wanted to start right here there with the trunk or treat
event that we wrapped up for you guys recently.
How did that go?
Great.
I think we had a good stock in candy.
It's really cool how those events have grown and people reach out to us to be part of
them.
I think we did five of them locally and during the weekend.
I think it's just a great idea to bring kids together at one location and maybe that's
all the trick or tree and that they're comfortable doing with, but there's so many of them that
are out there that are sponsored by, well, the City of Wisconsin's Rapids did one that
we partnered with their Dispatch Center and that was fun because they kind of did City
Hall and I was the first time.
I did it.
I kind of made a huge Halloween theme where people walk through City Hall and you don't
see that very often and so hats off to all of our City leaders here in Wisconsin happens
that allow that to happen.
So it gives not only the kids, but the adults that opportunity to walk through City Hall
and how often does that happen.
But other locations throughout the county, we attended key savings bank reached out.
We did that on Saturday and that was very well attended and other ones that are low
and had one at St. Luke so shoes out there, Jesse Nels, our SRO did one in Auburndale.
So yeah, great, great events for us to partner with and we appreciate people reaching out
and having either our SWAT vehicle or MRAP or just a squad there where people get the opportunity
to hang out with us and get some candy.
I think they're great, great community events.
When we've talked about this in the past, certainly all the fun it can be for officers
and family and community members and stuff and our officers don't get the opportunity
to have fun or kind of let loose a little bit sometimes and enjoy themselves.
This event can be good for that.
But there's something that I don't know why what it is about this year that has really
stood out to me about Halloween.
But it's changed a lot since you and I were kids and yet it's still here and it's still
something we do and we found ways to adapt to modern times to make families feel safer
about their kids going out and everything and I don't think we do this enough in society.
That's a win.
Like we're still doing this.
Like I think that's kind of cool.
I think it's cool that we did not take some massive thing or some massive movement or
something like that.
We just individually a society said communities agreed.
Okay, we're going to figure out how to still do this.
We're going to make sure that kids can still do this and everything and the trunk or
treatment is a big part of that.
Right.
No, just with those events expanding throughout the years, I think they're a great idea and
another one a big shout out to the rafters organization.
They reached out and did a fall fest that included a trunk or treat and Joe Fonte reached
out a good friend of mine, part owner of the rafters and we made that happen with, you know,
our squad, one of our squads there, our MRAP and that kind of started to kick off everything
for these trunk or treat programs.
So they're doing a phenomenal job over there staying involved in the community, appreciate
what they're doing and as always, you know, when people reach out for any community event,
we do our best to try to be there just based on exactly what you said, you know, it doesn't
have to be trunk or treat.
It could be, you know, the holiday parades are coming up and we didn't always have involvement
with those but there's going to be so many throughout the county and we're honored to
be part of them.
So no, I can't brag enough about our community and being part of it.
You know, we're lucky behind the scenes, we work with the rafters a lot and know how
great they are over there, how much they care about this area and stuff and it's great
to note that whenever we can because we appreciate it.
As much as we love baseball and love what they put on the field, it's so much of that
interacting they do outside of that, it goes a long ways.
Great to hear.
Great to hear the events were successful.
I wanted to ask a little bit about a couple of local, you know, things going on currently
and everything.
One, in this area, we recently had a couple of homicides over the Halloween area.
One of the touch on those knowing that we can only go so deep into them.
Yeah, right.
You know, with the press releases that it's out there, that's the information that we
could share at this point.
But what I will say, it was a shock getting called at five in the morning on Halloween
and our captain, who got scared, you know, called me and said, hey, it sounds like there's
two homicides that have been reported in Wisconsin Rapids and like, okay, you know, am
I really?
And so I came in and there was a briefing that we attended.
At the time we didn't know if they're connected or were they connected, you know, me being
a law enforcement officer, okay, Wisconsin Rapids having two homicides got to be connected.
You know, that's the cop mind that I'm thinking right away.
But you know, what we did is, you know, we let our detectives from the police department
and our investigators from the Sheriff's Department, DCI came in and, you know, just watching
the teamwork approach work, you know, and for me, as a leader, I'll offer suggestions,
you know, and support and it was really nice working with Chief Hostins and then the
special agent in charge from DCI, Shane Heiser, a good friend of mine.
He's from, you know, the Wisconsin Rapids area, you know, as three of us, you know, overseeing,
you know, these hectic scenes because they're still, you know, we're still pulling information
and still trying to, you know, first things, you know, first I could tell you, they don't
trying to, you know, once a suspect was identified and then unfortunately got out of our perimeter,
you know, we had to do some, you know, a lot of research to find out where that person's
going, you know, once he was identified, unfortunately, with those, you know, continued partnerships
with law enforcement night and locally, but then extending outwards.
Once we had that person identified, you're connecting with the other law enforcement agencies
because that suspects from Milwaukee and we knew, okay, that's the direction he's going
to be going.
So then you're connecting with, you know, basically statewide all the law enforcement
we need to stop this person on two levels, number one, for what he is alleged to do.
And number two, the safety factor for our law enforcement officers, we need to get that
information out as soon as possible because he's an armed dangerous individual and we want
to make sure the law enforcement officers that are going to be, or potentially have contact
with them, they know, you know, and be aware of it, and fortunately with that sharing
of information, we're able to get the suspect stopped or we didn't, but the old PAC County
Sheriff's Department did and the person was arrested and is now on custody.
Very sad situation, you know, you know, he's alleged, I mean, I could say that right now,
to kill his father.
And that, you know, that's hard to just even think about, you know, you know, that there's
other factors that are involved and, you know, what not, but that's, that's a fact.
Yeah, it's father and he's alleged to kill him.
The other situation, you know, it's really, it looks like it was a self inflicted and
it had nothing to do with the first situation, but, you know, when they're hours apart,
you obviously, you know, it's law enforcement officers and people that are trained as detectives
and investigators, you, all right, are they linked, you know, and times are thinking maybe
that it was, but through the hard work that and the teamwork that we did, we're able
to figure out that they weren't linked and then it's potentially looking like it might
be self inflicted.
But when you have that time frame of them happening very similar, you know, that's kind
of what we think.
They got to be linked, but it's just an odd, odd phone call to get and to start the morning
off like that.
But on the flip side of it, you know, you have tragedy here and then in the highlight
for us is a teamwork approach.
And like I said, Chief Austin's did an outstanding job, you know, working with us, you know, and
everybody working together, that was nice to see.
It was unfortunate to see why though.
Right.
And certainly I always appreciate the behind the scene, if you will, look at this and
that you can give us on this, it's stuff that we don't know often here.
And one, I think it's important to know because it lets us know what's being done and
that there is something being done.
It's also, I think, important for people when it comes to, you know, there's been a lot
of cop shows at this point in the game.
There's been a lot of whether the reality took 48 hours or law and order or any of these
shows.
And it's important to understand the difference there.
I think that hearing these details help bring it home to people a little bit more.
I am a little curious, speaking as long as I'm referencing shows like that and everything,
we've heard our whole lives, whether it's a missing person or it's a homicide.
The first 24 hours, first 48 hours on the most vital, is that truly the case?
Is that truly how that works?
Absolutely.
You know, once you have a tragedy like this and now you're looking at a homicide investigation,
unfortunately, somebody's passed due to somebody else's behavior that caused that death.
Now, the next thing is okay is finding that person responsible.
And again, to highlight not just the relationships that we have locally, it goes beyond that, you
know, because once that suspect got out of our perimeter and was picked up, you know,
and we're getting that information in real time, now it's like, okay, who else is going
to help us?
And then, you know, when the first phone calls that made it was the Port of County Sheriff,
Mike Lucas, I'm like, this is what's going on.
And it appears that this suspect is, you know, going through your county and heading
that direction.
And we knew that that individual, most like, was trying to get back to Milwaukee, so not
only in support of County, but that route, people need to be notified, you know, we're
on the phone with Milwaukee Police Department, you know, sharing information there just in
the case, the fact that he gets back to Milwaukee, you know, the contacts there, you know, what
addresses where that individual was living, they were going to start watching.
So it's just a teamwork approach when you have, you know, these kind of tragedies of
working together, because if you don't, you really do a disservice to the people, you
know, if you have, you know, I've worked in this career now for over 30 years, and I've
seen where, you know, administrations don't get along, you know, early on my career.
And I always scratch my head with that, because nobody's better than anybody else.
It's really, you know, you have to work with each other.
And I've always had that attitude and, you know, I can say now that being in this profession
as long as I have that, you know, that change has been something welcome that's happened
many years ago.
It wasn't by me.
It was by other people, that as, you know, we move through our career, seeing the leadership
change and just seeing that teamwork approach is something that I learned from.
We've talked about a number of times, the ego being out of, you know, of police work
and some of these things in the need for credit and some of that.
And it's always noteworthy.
It's always great to hear that, especially because we're, you know, getting results much
quicker that way, the sharing of information and some of that.
And it seems pretty self-explanatory.
It seems like, yes, that would make sense.
The first 24 hours would be the most vital and all that, but I feel like hearing it from
somebody who knows this is actually going to bring in home a little bit more, actually
makes it, you know, logical.
It also makes much more sensey, because without talking to you, there's so many things
that I think a lot of people might assume just because a TV show is a movie or something
like that.
Like for instance, you were the one that taught me that you don't have to leave a crime
scene with a pun.
I always thought you had to be Jerry Orbok, you had to be law and order, you know, you
could not go leave a crime scene without making a pun.
You know, that's not the case as it turns out.
Speaking of TV shows, the TV show cops was in town recently.
We touched on, and yeah, they still are.
That's what I was curious about.
They're still here.
How's that going?
Really good.
They are going to be here until the middle of next week.
They've got several footage to work with and what will happen now.
They send the footage out to their producers in LA.
They go through it, assuming doing some editing, and then they send it back to us.
And then we have the final approval, what they can use as an episode.
And they've got plenty of footage it sounds like.
I'm looking forward to inviting the film crew back.
They've offered, hey, they'd love to come back.
I'd love to have them.
They fit in very well with their staff.
You know, I think I told it said before, staff was a little bit apprehensive, like, oh,
really?
I'm like, no, this is a highlight of you and how you treat people and how you work together
as a team.
And they did the film crew did just an outstanding job just working with people and making them
feel comfortable.
All the staff that is any footage, they have to sign or release, and so do the inmates.
So it sounds like it said we've got plenty of footage out there to get an episode.
I'm going to invite them back.
And I'd love to get them on the road.
This is kind of a jail portion of cops.
But on the patrol side of things, that's kind of how they started their whole show in
the early 90s.
So I'm definitely going to offer that to them if they want to come back.
They're more than welcome any time they really fit with us.
And I guess they should finish up sometime next week and hopefully we'll get to see them
again here real soon sometime next year.
You know, that show had a cultural moment and everything in you and I talked about it
last time would have meant to a lot of our generation and stuff.
But I think that it has a lot more importance now and has a lot more opportunity now to be
able to do a lot of what I was just talking about, showing you the reality of the life
in the situation.
Obviously maybe even encouraging more people to get into law enforcement and more good
people in the job carrying that badge.
There's a lot of advantages to it other than just entertainment.
Right.
No.
And with this being focusing on the jail, I think it gives the not just local community
but the country an opportunity to highlight us.
And I think that's a great bragging moment for all of us to have when you see what our
corrections officers do that live here locally in Wood County and how they treat people
I think that's going to be something that is going to be really well received and I'm
looking forward to it.
And like I said, I really hope that we get the opportunity for the film crew to come
back.
It'd be I think just and it's kind of personal.
I've been doing a couple of speaking opportunities that you know BSP where I graduated from
Craig Tim, one of my good friends that worked at Dom Tarr and now he works for her
and Taylor funeral home and he's been an instructor at UW BSP for many years teaching
communication and through our friendship over the years, he was a big end to powerlifting
and announcing meets and that's kind of how we got to know each other 20 plus years ago.
He asked me four years ago just to come in and speak about media to his core or his
class and like I thought that was really cool.
I get to go back to my alma mater and just talk about media relations, how it connects
to law enforcement and I think it's the fourth year and then say something about why I got
into the career and was being pulled in one direction by Julie's family with their construction
company and then my dad pulling me after graduation to work for him and his business that
would produce steel racking all over the country and either one of them I was feeling it.
You know I'm like you know one we'd have to move to Michigan number two and I wasn't really
a good construction, good breaking things in part, but I just didn't I didn't feel it
and then so it's like okay what do I want to do, you know I remember my father and
I was saying that when we had that discussion I'm like you know I'm thinking law enforcement
you know and then getting the opportunity you know BSP to have an internship at the
CU's Point Police Department, that was the big hook, but the other part of it was the
cop show had started you know during that time frame and I remember I believe was seven
o'clock Friday nights I was watching you know and I'm like okay you know and I didn't know
if I mentioned it on the last month, but kind of harder with things and I got old VHS tapes
and I had two of them like series best episodes for the mid-90s, still Adam and then one
of the guys in the film crew did all the episodes so I made sure they autographed it so that is awesome.
Look at the impact of you know getting the experience with the CU's Point Police Department
and then seeing that that show evolved really pushed me into wanting to protect and serve.
It's you know for it feels like especially you know over the years you've brought in a lot of
people that are about to retire and I like to ask them about their origin story and all that
and so many of them well my dad was or my uncle was an officer or something along
those lines there's some history of it. It's always really interesting to me to hear of somebody
making their own path and you know starting their own road especially when it comes to public service.
Yeah no my grandfather was a Chicago fireman my great grandfather was on the Chicago Police
Department and I don't know what rank he had like commander of wave before I never met him,
but you know it's definitely in in the blood and then you know we talked about it with you know
my family both both my daughters I feel are both connected to it Jordan being a 91 dispatcher
for nine of County and Caitlin who's a social worker who works in law enforcement a lot trying to
help kids and then her husband Dylan is a was recently hired as a Madison Fire Department and we
had him on here before but you know it's kind of cool how it somehow connects yeah and always
shape reform. Oh speaking it was Sheriff Sean Becker right now the rabbit's report and with
our friends from Wisconsin rabbits community media wanted to bring up the Deedra case I know
that we had some information on that we wanted to touch on. Yeah thank you for bringing that up the
Deedra harm investigation our district attorney Jonathan Barnett had I we had talked him a few
months ago about taking a look at the case you know I've always been pretty open that I feel
who did a Chris Reeve Act investigation took us that way and I felt that the information was
there that could prove it unfortunately you know Chris took his own life so we couldn't get him
here to say it or or hold him accountable and so our district attorney Jonathan just said
give me the entire case file you know and I can I can review it and then offer an opinion you know
and a legal opinion and so I did and I give him a ton of credit because he can imagine how many
reports were associated with with that investigation not just the Sheriff's Department but Wisconsin
Rapids Police Department FBI DCI you name it it was a huge file and he went through everything and
they put together a synopsis that basically said that if Chris Reeve Act was alive today he
charged him and for what that does for us it basically does legally in a sense close the case
could there be some more information out there I always will believe that that Chris Reeve Act's
family knows some more information from his wife to other probably potential family members but
they they don't want to say that's up to them but there's enough information there to say he's
responsible for Deidre's death and you know what I wouldn't be surprised if there's more you know
there's a lot of other agencies that have reached out to us you know looking for his DNA profile
because there's also similar situations throughout the country that they don't have a suspect
you know and the Missouri County Sheriff's Department they're Sheriff Christa Gays to the he
broke it you know he's the one that that contacted us you know several years ago with what he was
dealing with an arrested Chris Reeve Act for a homicide there for an A Williams and then Chris
took his own life and in his jail but there's a I know another we did a 2020 special on Jody
Who's in truth and ironically Chris Reeve Act was you know linked to being in the area that she
went missing and you know you look at the the pattern of behavior on Reeve Act that's where you
know if I'm going to be a betting person I'm going to bet that he's involved just because of
of his you know his behavior his violent behavior but you know big picture wise here you know
this this is um you know it's you know very gratifying personally because it's an investigation
that I was assigned to when I was an investigator when Deidre went missing and then we found her
out in the colony and then we'd become involved and for me it was a you know a pretty big
well it's a huge investigation but you know I got a taste of that teamwork approach on an
investigation level as an investigator you know working with Wisconsin Baptist PD at the time
us and then it just kind of kept building from there because you have a homicide that you're
working together on trying to hold somebody accountable for but once Reeve Act was identified as
our suspect I always looked at with the family that you'd be opening it up front with them
and I I laid it out this is who I think did it here's going to be the challenges as we move forward
going through an investigation where the suspect or the person responsible took his his life
but I always wanted to make sure that they that we're open with them now because they're always
going to be grieving her death and it's thus this doesn't bring her back there's no really
this might be closure on an investigation level but it's not for the family you know it really
isn't it doesn't bring her back you know in a sense it might be some level of closure for you know
the investigation but as I said I felt those very important being part of the investigation that
we'd be open with with the family as we move forward once Reeve Act was identified as our suspect
so again huge thank you to Jonathan Barnett I really appreciate the time the effort that he put in
and then his conclusion it personally means a lot it means a lot to our community and we're
going to move forward but I really appreciate what he did there are a few cases that had more
attention in this area you know especially here we you know for years and years and years it's
important to not only have this for the notes that you mentioned there but as much as I think
just even people who maybe don't know much about the situation but know of it or something and
having some kind of closures important but also some kind of judicial system has a number of
purposes one of them being accountability and how vital that is to our society whether you know
these individuals or not but also I think the understanding of we all want to see the bag I get
it in the end like I mean there's there's a need for that in society there's a need to have closure
even if you don't know the people involved this goes so far for a community on many many levels as
well as I think a key part that you brought up of the person of possibly doing more of these acts
or something like that or done some in the past it's a lot of factors there appreciate the information
I'm absolutely thank you for bringing it up the we got a little bit that it gets a little
common now because I wanted to get that stuff out of the way take care of these things right away
but there are some other stuff that I definitely wanted to talk to you about there's a recent hearing
that we were at that you wanted to touch on in Madison we've been talking quite a bit about
Bitcoin throughout the last several years probably at least around three I believe when we started
getting the scams with the ATM bitcoins that have been popping up and a lot of the convenience stores
which I'm going to tell people if you're going to buy Bitcoin don't do it through the ATMs there's
a 25% user fee you could avoid a user fee and buy Bitcoin so I think that the the Bitcoin ATMs
just unfortunately breathe a criminal element you know where if people are washing money or
people being scammed and that's what started for us and you know right when we started getting
the complaints of elderly victims in Wood County you know we had a pretty aggressive approach on
how we recovered that money for our victims here and since then there's been a lot of challenges
from the Bitcoin companies that we can't be releasing the money which I think we should but
I can't get you know put the county in a liability standpoint and understand that because
the laws are starting to catch up and what's happened recently we're hoping we can get some
bipartisan support moving forward with basically with just the ATMs have a limit of a deposit per day
and a lot of states are doing around two thousand dollars and that's happening right now but we need
a bill to move forward through you know our political leaders and Donna Madison you know on both sides
dial to to get this pass through I know it'll be a challenge because lobbyists are involved and
I've learned you know enough about about that and there's huge money involved with Bitcoin crypto
currencies is probably going to be the way of the future at one at at some level but that doesn't
mean that we have to ignore you know issues of fraud and people being victimized and working
together setting these limitations you know with where it's at now I don't think that we have had
with the limitations right now I don't think that we've had you know in the last several months
anybody being victimized so it's working now we just need you know that support Donna Madison
to move forward with that but again when you have lobbyists that are involved and I understand
that process because they're protecting their business but for me it's always going to be about
being fair and being you know trying trying to deal with the fraud end of it and the ATMs like I
said just I don't see the use for them because you can get Bitcoin somewhere you don't have to pay
25% but there's huge money out there and that that can complicate things but we had one of our
investigators he's trying to give him the company but he will be on the show I promise
Dan Barris Scott Goldberg has already been on here talking about that but our Badger
Sheriff's Association our lobbyist there had had us come down to testify at a informational hearing
that I believe was the Senate just to discuss or the assembly I believe it was like hey we need to
this is what's happening and we need to have these limitations out there and we'll see what happens
but Dan did a great job kind of taking over for Scott and got down there and the more we're
going to keep talking about this you know it's interesting since being this position I think we've
been down to Madison four or five times just to find out different things and that's kind of
rewarding that people are listening to what we're doing up here and then looking at potentially
changing law because of of you know situations like I just brought up there was a time where
we would have never thought that well I can pay for a credit card anywhere like everybody's
accepting credit cards now everybody accepts debit cards we were kids it was a cash society it
was very different we've adapted and we've gone from that to now it's the exact opposite where
you know some places take cash some don't and everything societies change societies grow you may
be right about cryptocurrency that it might be a factor I don't know that it'll ever be our one
source in part because and I've done a lot of homework on this one it's one of
being honest with everybody as I've always been with you the first game I really learned was
three card money and and it was it was a hustle it was a hustle it was about making a couple of
bucks off of somebody or something but the thing about the hustle was you had a chance we didn't do
anything other than just trying to hide the card the card was there and forever person that lost
there was somebody that had a chance to win this is cryptocurrency this is the same hustle it's no
different what we're talking about here is something that not only takes thousands and thousands and
thousands of bits of power over our our our environment and kills our environment just for being
able to create something that nobody asked for but it's also a hustle like there's no the only
people making things off of this stuff is people that already have stuff there's nobody you
have not heard of somebody well I had nothing and then I got crypto and now I'm a millionaire no
you're not no no it's a hustle I mean I know a hustle what I see what that's what this is I'm not
trying to tell anybody what to do with their money but if your guts telling you something
chances are it's right and to really lean into that and to your point if this is something you
want to do there are very you know legal ways of going about it very safe ways of going about
and encourage you to do that and like you we're going to be following this story and keeping an eye
on it will be interesting it will speaking of Madison and and and and some of the work down there
with some of our politicians and everything we have represented a crew in this Friday and
something Scott and I have talked about quite a bit is the epic pen bill that was going across I
wanted to touch on that a little bit yeah that's off to the Mueller family you know I just can't
imagine we're down testifying to the assembly you know with with Scott that he put it together
and asked me to come down and it was hard because three families including the Mueller's I'm
talked about the loss of a a child you know and it was hard hard to follow that and the only
thing that I had brought up is you know look at the impact it has on the first responders that
go on and they recognize what's happening but you can't do anything about it I mean the funding
needs to be there but the Mueller family locally you know with their loss you know what they've
taken into this already saved the life and people should should be aware of that they've got
and they've done the fundraising you know within a few short months to equip every law and
first thing seeing south with county with epic pens and then you know again you know with what
Wisconsin Rapids be to save somebody and I think I believe Channel 7 did a nice story on it and
the video footage was the body camera was released and it just shows it and so to the Mueller families
credit you know they saved somebody's life already so I'm hoping that we get a funding source for
me personally as long as I'm sheriff and and we don't get a funding source from the state or
the federal side of it we're going to put in our budget when that be pens become
expired which is 18 months we're just going to we're going to make sure that we do it just make
sense we've been carrying our can for quite some time and this just makes sense for us especially
in rural areas we respond to ambulance calls and you know periodically we'll beat the ambulance and
if we recognize based upon our training that this is somebody that is you know having allergic
reaction and we can save our life it just makes sense to us yeah and very appreciated certainly
the work everybody's put into this one yeah I know that me a lot of people that I most people
if and not everybody I've talked to about it has been very encouraged by this and you know with this
the crypto conversation some of these things are we getting to them late maybe but we're not
getting them as late as we have with some other things and I think that that's important to note
that we're working at we're trying we're not our heads are not buried in the sand with these
topics and everything these are all very noteworthy um for let you go ahead a couple other things
I wanted to get into one we had one of our own uh become first responder of the year I wanted
to make sure to note them and highlight them yeah sky crew good reached out and every year they do
hey nominees for first responder of the year and I nominated Mike Wyberg which is just uh you
know not only he's just a good friend but he's been a volunteer for what kind of you're asking for
decades and I just had mentioned that and then also just a couple of scenes that I went to recently
and he's there you know you know crashes and coordination is seen you know calling people out of
you know a vehicle and that kind of stuff and just a dedication to service selfless service as a
volunteer um so I nominated him and I really appreciate Scott Krueger I'm selecting him we're in
a process of trying to figure out a date Mike couldn't make it down to Madison when they kind of
did a whole day of you know recognizing all first responders but you know we'll get to that I mean
Mike's a very humble person but this is something that is very well deserved yeah he deserves the
highlight uh and it'd be great uh to be able to do this with every one of our first responders and
that and certainly with the being able to highlight him we in some ways are able to highlight the
position and and what they do sure absolutely good to hear did you have anything else you wanted to
touch on before let's go quick things take a look at our our Facebook page we had a couple thing
and made programming uh things that happened in the last one one our partnership with mid-state
technical college that culinary program uh they came in and a serve safe program was sponsored by
them and several inmates went through that and graduate through that so once they get released
if that's going to be the field that they want to go on to and and work at a restaurants the
that foundation has been laid so as we talked about the programming opportunities um hey that's
the first one so our partnership with mid-state um just continues to grow and and that's something
that once we got into the new facility that opportunity was there so to see that come full circle
and happening I'm very proud of that and three bridges again with their recovery program we had
a graduation um with um several inmates that were suffering through addiction and uh three bridges
is awesome uh I don't know what number classes is it's several but we had people graduate through
the program as well so just to highlight those uh inmates programming opportunities that people
are taking advantage of in our our facility is uh very noteworthy um I think we talked about this
last time too it's uh was looking at the things uh and it's been about I think seven eight years
we've been doing this and uh one of the earlier conversations we had was about stopping the revolving
door and and putting um putting a purpose to people when they do come out the other side of that
giving them something uh being a uh a taxpayer being a contributing to society so many of these
things whether we're talking about three bridges or the mid-state partnership or any of these things
it's all coming together all these things are happening I'm not saying it happens for every
individual but it happens more times than not and just the opportunity being there is such night
and day difference from when I was young to now it's so encouraging to see yeah absolutely uh
appreciate the and that's where I wanted to wrap up was the mid-state conversation so we we
touched on everything we got it we got it all uh did want to make sure to mention before wrap up
as you see me in the throwback shirt here and everything uh our our little station here at WFH are
celebrating eighty five years today we went on the air uh this day in 1940 uh and I know that
like many of uh you guys and many people out there we all have a memory or a person
of love of this station and certainly an appreciation to this community supporting us for all
these years so a big shout out to everybody who has been a guest on this show who was sponsored or
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appreciate you appreciate you appreciate your sir thanks for the time back at you just wait
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