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WFHR and WIRI News. I'm Melissa K.
A safe haven baby box may soon be coming to Central Wisconsin thanks to the efforts of a local resident. Linda Casper lives in Grand Rapids and she brought the idea to Jeff Penscover.
And then of course he knew who to connect me too.
Penscover is an older person for the city of Wisconsin Rapids and also serves on the Wood County Board of Supervisors.
He connected Casper with Sue Smith. She's the Wood County Health Officer and Director of the Health Department.
Smith said the idea of installing a safe haven baby box in Wood County aligns with her own beliefs.
I recall a sad situation in Wood County around 2019 with the baby being found and if there saves one baby it is so going to be worth the effort.
Just having the box doesn't mean it will inevitably be used to surrender an infant. Casper says when the door is opened there's information inside that offers additional options.
They can talk to someone on the hotline. Then they can go to a police department if they feel comfortable with that or go inside the fire department or go to a hospital and then they could do a face to face.
There are seven baby boxes in Wisconsin but the closest ones are in Readsburg or Green Bay and the rest are around Milwaukee.
It's going to serve the greater Central Wisconsin area. The proposal will come before the city council for a vote this fall.
If it fails here in Wisconsin Rapids we're going to try for students point or Marshfield or Wassa.
Casper's team would like to make this a reality in Central Wisconsin.
A baby team is everything. Let a joy can be brought but you know if that person just feels they can't do it.
The action will be there for them working with city officials has been rewarding in Casper encourages others to not be afraid to share their ideas.
There's a lot of good things that can happen from a small seed.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is distributing free drug testing strips. Joanne Coulott's reports.
More than 131,000 Xylazine strips will go to community organizations. The test strips can let a person know if drugs contain Xylazine.
A veterinary tranquilizer that is unsafe for humans and is sometimes mixed into street drugs.
Xylazine can increase the risk of fatal overdose and cause serious skin infections.
DHS will also renew a statewide Naloxone standing order for pharmacists allowing pharmacies to continue to distribute the overdose reversal medication.
A competency hearing in Portage County finds the defendant John L. Schulfur competent to proceed.
The case stems from charges filed in late July in connection to the double homicide in the town of New Hope on July 6.
Schulfur's parents Paula L. Schulfur aged 52 and Dale S. Schulfur aged 53 were found shot to death on their property in Portage County.
35-year-old John L. Schulfur was taken into custody after exiting from the back of the home on the night of the incident.
He was shot by a Portage County law enforcement officer and transported to the hospital.
According to a press release from the Portage County DHS office, well at the hospital, Schulfur admitted to shooting both victims.
He is in custody on a $2 million cash bond.
Schulfur appeared in court on September 10 for his competency hearing.
The preliminary hearing is scheduled for September 23.
State Highway 13 will be fully closed in the town of Rome starting next week.
The link to the Lakes Tunnel Project will begin on September 17 and continue for approximately four weeks.
The detour route is posted and truck traffic is advised to follow the signs.
I'm Alyssa K. for WFHR and W.I.R.I News.
It's the Brewers and the Cardinals.
Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with Sports.
Baseball, the Brewers back home in open a weekend series tonight against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Milwaukee trying to snap a three game losing streak after being swept by the Rangers in Texas.
The crew had the night off.
So some of the players, including Bryce Tarang, Sal Freelik and Caleb Durbin were at the Packers game.
It was a good one. Green Bay beat the commanders 27 to 18.
Quarterback Jordan Love on winning two games in four days.
To start the season off, two in 0 against two really good teams.
You know, big playoff teams last year.
It feels good.
So good enough, you know, start the season off on a better note.
So it's one thing that we just got to keep building on.
But it feels great right now.
A setback for Packers wide receiver, Jaden Reed, who suffered a broken collarbone.
He's expected to be out eight weeks.
College football tomorrow, the Badgers at Alabama kick off 11 a.m.
The last time Wisconsin beat the Crimson Tide was November of 1928.
The score 15 to nothing with sports on Mike Clemens.
On your entertainment beat, I'm Pete Schwabba.
As I mentioned yesterday, Downton Abbey, the grand finale, opens this weekend and is getting good reviews.
And Stephen King's first novel, The Long Walk, has been turned into a film that opens this weekend as well
and is pulling a ridiculously high 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Not too shabby for a horror film.
Another big film opening in wide release is Demon Slayer Infinity Castle.
An action fantasy anime film about a boy who joins an organization to track down demons
who avenge his sister's transformation into a demon.
The film is the final of a trilogy and reviewing incredibly well.
If none of these flicks tickles your fancy, check out a couple of cool re-releases.
The original Toy Story is back for a theatrical run in semi-wide release
and is considered close to a perfect movie.
The much older, the sound of music returns for a limited re-release as well.
So many great films, so little time, so let's go to the movies.
Daniel De Lewis says he would have kept his mouth shut instead of announcing in 2017
that he was retiring from the movie business.
During an interview with Rolling Stone, De Lewis dismissed his 2017 announcement.
The three-time Oscar winner said about his retirement that it just seems like such grandiose gibberish.
De Lewis added that he never intended to hang it up for good
and says he just wanted to focus on other work at the time.
His three best actor awards for the films There Will Be Blood, My Left Foot,
and Lincoln are a record for a male actor.
The 68-year-old Lewis said he never stopped loving the actual work,
just guessing that the Irishman would be a real challenge to direct
even if you're his son, Ronan, who is responsible for convincing dear old dad out of retirement
so he could appear in his film, Anemone.
A story that explores the complexity of relationships between fathers and sons.
Daniel also wrote the script with Ronan.
You can check out the work of this father-son duo very soon.
Anemone will be released October 10th.
Flow's grits are no longer kissable.
Polly Holiday, who played Waitress Flow in the 1970s hit show Alice, has passed away.
Flow, telling a diner customer to kiss my grits, was commonplace on the CBS sitcom
that ran from 1976 to 1985 and made her iconic.
Holiday was the last surviving member of the cast, which included Linda Lavin, who was Alice,
Beth Holland, who played Vera, and Victor Teback, who played Mel, and was, well, awesome.
Polly Holiday died from complications from pneumonia, she was 88 years old.
If you're hoping to see Bad Bunny in concert in America, you might be out of luck.
The Puerto Rican rapper says he did not include tour dates for the USA for fear of ice raids.
The 31-year-old artist, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, says he loves America
and performing here, but is concerned that those who attend his show would be at risk
if ice showed up outside the venue.
Bad Bunny sounds like a good dude.
For more showbiz fun, tune in to Nightlight with me, Peach Wabba,
weeknights from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Civic Media, Radio Network.
Hi, meteorologist Brandon Bourbons.
Some patchy fog possible early, otherwise partly sunny skies,
and another spectacular September day with the high of 79.
Tonight an isolated shower or storm possible after midnight, alone near 60,
on Saturday, partly sunny and warm, a high 82.
Right now, it's 57.
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