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This is your WFHR Daily News Roundup for locally grown radio 97.5 FM and 13.20 AM and WISC country 105.5 FM WIRI in Wisconsin Rapids.
WFHR and WIRI News. I'm Alyssa K.
Statewide protests took place yesterday on a national day of action called Good Trouble Lives On.
Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis coined the term Good Trouble or Necessary Trouble, saying Rosa Parks inspired him and others to nonviolent activism in opposition to civil rights violations.
One attendee at the protest in Wisconsin Rapids said John Lewis's actions are inspiration for what people need to do now.
I was very inspired by John Lewis's story. I'll keep getting back up. It was beaten pretty badly a number of times.
And the stamina and the determination are just inspiring and now it's time we do it.
Blake Ulyssens spoke about how encouraging it was to see the turnout at this protest considering the demographics in the area.
I was really glad to see so many people come out and speak up against the human rights violations of the Trump administration and make some good trouble as John Lewis would have called it.
We had about 100 people come out today, which is phenomenal for a town of 18,000 that usually runs pretty red.
So I was really excited to be here and be with people with like minds.
According to the organization's website around 40 protests took place in Wisconsin on the fifth anniversary of the death of Congressman John Lewis.
The website GoodTroubleLivesOn.org stated Trump is trying to divide us, but we know the power of coming together.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is sharing some safe camping tips with residents in case of severe weather.
DNR officials say the state parks and wildlife areas don't have the staff necessary to communicate critical weather information with thousands of campers.
They recommend bringing on weather radio in case you're in an area with poor cell service and be sure to let someone know where you're going and when you plan to return.
Wisconsin grows more cranberries than anywhere else in the U.S. producing over 60% of the nation's supply. Do you know why that is?
Central Wisconsin is cranberry country where once an ancient lake covered the very heart of the state.
Mary Brasuprown of Glacial Lake Cranberries and Wisconsin Rapids showed me the low-lying area on a topographic map.
Here we are right in the middle of the state, but you can see that this area pretty well defined was old Glacial Lake Wisconsin.
The Glacial Lake was about 150 feet deep during the last glacial period.
Brasuprown explained the lake formed when the Wisconsin River was dammed up by rock and rubble near what is now Wisconsin Dells.
As these waters had melted, all of this water was being held back by the Baraboo Range, which according to their historical marker, is among the oldest visible physical features on Earth.
Wow, what that sink in for a minute.
Baraboo Quartzite formations date back approximately 1.6 to 1.7 billion years ago, landing the formation in the top five oldest visible features along with locations in Canada, Australia and South Africa.
Brasuprown explained how the violent release of this Glacial Lake not only carved out the Dells, but also created the perfect cranberry growing conditions.
But after the lake drained, what was left was this area, the very flat, high water table, acid conditions, lots of sand, because it was about a lake.
In the late 1800s, property owners in the area soon gave up trying to drain a swamp, instead choosing to cultivate the native cranberries they found growing wild.
Now this township is made up of 14 cranberry growers. Most of the marshes are over 100 years old.
Glacial Lake cranberries continues the practice of sustainable agriculture. This fall will mark the 150 second commercial cranberry harvest on their marshes.
I'm Melissa K for WFHR and WIRI News.
Brur baseball tonight, high on my clements with sports, the second half of the baseball season getting underway as the brewers open a three game series on the road against the Dodgers, Quinn Priester from Milwaukee, against the Dodgers Tyler Glassnow.
At the start of the season, manager Pat Murphy was struggling to find starting pictures. Now he's got Freddie Peralta, Brandon Woodruff, Jacob Mizorowski, brewers catcher Eric Haas.
I was joking with Murphy about that, you know, to where we were to start or we were just looking for innings anywhere we could find them.
And we got a lot of young guys come up and throw some very meaningful and really good innings for us and getting these guys back who we kind of planned to be in the clubhouse in the first place.
Now they haven't broken stride, they've joined us and they've done nothing but put up cereals for us.
They're a big factor with what I'm really winning.
NBA Damien Lillard, agreeing to a three year contract to return to Portland in a deal worth $42 million, he'll be joined by Drew Holiday with a box traded away two years ago to bring Lillard to Milwaukee with sports on my clements.
On your entertainment beat, I'm Pete Schwabba.
In 2009, Joaquin Phoenix acted really strange on an episode of The Late Show with David Letterman.
The Gladiator actor appeared on the same stage and the same theater on The Late Show with Stephen Cobair on Tuesday and discussed his letterman appearance saying he deeply regretted it.
During his previous Late Show appearance, Phoenix says he was parodying a character he was playing in a film that was about to be released at the time called I'm Still Here, a mockumentary about Phoenix leaving acting to become a hip-hop artist.
Phoenix wore a dark suit and sunglasses and said little. He told Cobair he was hoping David lacerate him after informing The Late Show staff that was how he was going to appear for the interview.
In hindsight, it was a disaster.
The Oscar-winning Phoenix called the interview and the entire experience a disaster and uncomfortable.
I remember that night and he's putting it mildly.
Did you know Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow were friends? Me either.
Did you know they were no longer friends? I didn't either.
Until now, thanks to People Magazine, which published an excerpt from Gwyneth P's new memoir called Gwyneth, The Biography.
I wonder if the actual book is as much of a snooze as that title.
Apparently, the breaking point in their friendship was when Madonna crashed the Oscar-winning actress's vacay unannounced with her children and at one point started yelling at them.
Paltrow's husband at the time, called play frontman Chris Martin, had had enough and so had Paltrow, who admitted she can ice people out and harbor revenge, adding that her and Madge's friendship had become toxic.
Possibly similar to the toxicity found in her crotch-based aroma products from her company Goop, it's true.
Paltrow says the two became friends when they both realized they liked to sound British sometimes.
I might have made that part up, but it's true.
I know what you did last summer leads the way of new releases this coming weekend.
If you're in the mood for nostalgia, you can bring the kids who might enjoy an updated take on one of your favorite thrillers from the mid-90s.
The film will provide a nice bridge between Superman and the next big expected blockbuster release when Fantastic Four drops next week.
What you did last summer is pulling in not so terrible for a teen thriller movie 50-ish on Rotten Tomatoes.
There are already some good family films out there like How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo in Stitch.
And you might want to take a look as this week's new release on the family front is The Smurfs and only drawing 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.
A24's Eddington also hits theaters this weekend.
The film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as a sheriff and mayor who face off in a small town in New Mexico.
The film is nabbing a 67% on Rotten Tomatoes and might be worth a look based on cast alone.
Let's go to the movies.
For more showbiz fun, tune in to Nightlight with me, Peach Waba, week nights from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Hi, meteorologist Brandon Bourments.
A gorgeous looking Friday with plenty of sunshine, great day to be outside with highs in the mid-70s.
For tonight's scattered showers and thunderstorms developing mainly after midnight lows in the lower 60s,
a lingering shower or storm Saturday morning otherwise partly sunny highs in the upper 70s.
Right now, it's 60 degrees.
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