And good morning and welcome back to the WXCO morning report part of mornings with pack right low on 98.9 WXCO online at WXCO dot FM mobile devices and Alexa by searching WXCO and on the civic media app I'm Chad Holmes joined by our in studio engineer and producer Ian Welsh Ian.
Good morning
Good morning, Chad.
We will have more with you coming up in just a few minutes.
But first, we do have a guest across the table with me here this morning from the Rotary Club of Wausau.
It's the president, Lisa Dotson.
And Lisa, thank you for coming on by.
Good morning.
Thanks for having
me.
Absolutely.
And I wanted to start things up because the Rotary Club is involved in some activities.
But I wanted for folks who may not be familiar with the Rotary Club.
And I think that
People have always, it's always thought of as a community organization.
I think throughout the country, it's a long time organization.
What is the Rotary Club for those who may not be familiar?
Well, thanks for asking.
So the Rotary Club is an international service organization.
We have about 1.2 million members across the globe in 200 countries and 40,000 local clubs.
The Rotary Club of Wausau is one of three clubs here in the Wausau area.
We have a noon club that meets three times a month.
at the BMO building.
There's also a morning early birds club and an after hours club.
So we're trying to reach out to people with all different walks of life and all different kind of work schedules and family life and things like that.
So the Rotary Club in general is a service organization and we do projects and work toward a bunch of different objectives.
In the case of the Rotary, we have seven major objectives.
Our overall is service above self.
which means we are promoting the joy and the pleasure of serving our communities while we're doing good work.
So we also, internationally Rotary is involved in peace building, education, environmental work, disease prevention, advocacy for women and children, economic development and water and sanitation.
And so we do projects that really meet our community need both here in Warsaw and across the globe.
How do people get involved?
They are members.
So we have a few people who are interested in membership.
They can get ahold of me at LG Dodson Rotary at WASA or at ED.
LG
Hudson Rotary
at gmail.com or they can click on our website, which is wassarotary.org and get information about membership.
Happy to meet with anyone who wants to know more about our good work.
And in our show notes where we have our podcast, we'll make sure to put both your email and also the Rotary Club website address there as well for easy access for folks who would like more information as well.
And another reason I wanted to bring you on is because I saw
Just recently a project that the Rotary Club is being involved in and it's really I think an important one because What I think about when I've moved in my life, it's not easy to move And that's just you know, maybe moving from a city to a city or maybe just across town when somebody moves into a new country and it comes into a new community where perhaps they
may not know the language as well, may not know the simplest things that we all take for granted.
And it's an immigrant community.
And the Rotary Club is involved in a rather significant event, a project involving immigrants, correct?
Correct.
So we have just formed what we're calling our Immigrant and Indigenous Goodwill Ambassadors Program.
Our intention is to reach out to our neighbors, all of our neighbors, particularly the ones who, as you noted, who are new to the area, maybe don't.
speak English and they're having trouble getting settled.
This kind of became even more urgent with recent budget cuts and things that
came down
from the federal government that has reduced the amount of support available for our legal immigrants to the United States.
And so we have several members who are very active with the Ukrainian community, with the African resettlement community, with the Afghani community, and we put our heads together and said we need to be doing more than just
we being the Rotary Club, needs to be doing more to help assimilate our neighbors.
The other piece of this group is the Indigenous.
indigenous component.
We have many indigenous neighbors who have, you know, live within the distance of Wausau or in Wausau, who also, even though they're Americans and speak English perfectly, seem to have some difficulty sometimes with communication with other parts of our community.
So we're hoping to reach out and really understand each other better.
One of our four-way tests.
Mottos for Rotary is building goodwill and better friendships, and that's what we're out about
one of the interesting aspects in reading about this project was that the wassa area is the historical home of four Native American tribes and you talk about it's really it's sort of a in sense a disconnect where it sounds like this is their ancestral home, but yet
It's not a natural fit at this time.
Would that be fair to say?
Yeah, I
think that's
true.
And it's particularly, you know, as you go up into some of the more rural areas of Marathon County and the rest of the state, and there's large populations that just don't understand one another, we think.
And their lifestyle and traditions are one of the things that we're hoping to understand better and figure out how to be of service to them and allow them to hopefully
join our club and be of service to others as well.
And another aspect that I found you know enlightening and actually something that's heartwarming is that yes you're working with these communities but also what
the ambassadors get about learning about others and basically broadening the horizons of the members that are involved in this as well.
Absolutely.
There's been a term around cultural competence for a long time and I'm not sure I'm competent in my own culture.
So I think a
better term is cultural humility.
I'm really trying to seek to understand, listen for understanding and not...
not to assume that I know anything about other people in their lives without learning a little more.
We will have more of our conversation with Lisa Dotson, the president of the Rotary Club of Wausau coming up in about 22 minutes or so.
We'll be back at 7.22 for our next segment of the WXCO morning report.
But first, top of the hour news update is coming up.
We'll get the latest on news, weather and sports, and then more of mornings with Pat Krightlal.
I'm Chad Holmes, along with Ian Welsh.
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Part of mornings with Pat Crite Low on 98.9 WXCO.
Again, we're talking to Lisa Dodson, who is the president of the Rotary Club of Wausau here on 98.9 WXCO.
Another aspect that kind of caught my eye is that there are so many different ways that you can be of service.
It can be making a donation financially, but it also can be giving it your time in so many different ways that does not have a number value, but you can call it priceless value.
in terms of for both the people that you're working with and also for the.
for the people that are involved.
It sounds like Rotary believes in that.
It's not just about making the donation to a group around here, but maybe for lack of a better term, almost getting your hands dirty from time to time.
Absolutely.
One of the great things about Rotary is we have people whose membership really allows them to contribute financially to a cause that they care about, either here or around the globe.
But we have a lot of members for whom financial contributions aren't possible and their means just aren't there.
And they help with things like time.
So we do road cleanup every year.
Simple act of keeping our community.
cleaner and more beautiful.
We have done work with the Hager House, literally deconstructing their barn so that they
could
rebuild it as a storage, a safe storage facility.
And that meant just getting in with a crowbar and taking things apart.
And we had members out there for a whole weekend doing that one time.
We do a lot of different things in the community.
We do raise funds, but we also show up and help with the Good News Project on their electronic collection days
and
different things that
other agencies require help people's hands
these partnerships I mean that's again something that is wonderful to see where you you know I've had lots of conversations with the good news project we have a monthly conversation in fact with Christine Daniels and talking about what they do see in this project we've been talking about new beginnings for refugees as well those partnerships it truly is a case where when people come together you can accomplish more
oh absolutely life has gotten so complicated there's no possibility that anyone
Organization group or individual can cover the ground that's needed and so we we have a lot of wonderful partnerships with other Rotary clubs with other not-for-profit agencies and now increasingly like I said with our Indigenous and immigrant neighbors trying to reach out and figure out how we can make our community welcoming safe and Really a place where everybody can be happy and healthy and thrive
and
There is another event.
I know you want to talk about that the Rotary Club is involved in that people can be involved
absolutely so one of our International projects is pints for polio so in cooperation with the World Health Organization and the Bill Gates Foundation And others and we have nearly eradicated polio and and Rotary Club has been right at the forefront of that so our next polio Fundraiser is called pints for polio.
It will be held at sconeys
from 5 to 8 p.m.
on November 6th.
We'll have a small auction and we will have a blind draw pool tournament which should be interesting.
And I think getting back to the whole mission of the Rotary Club and again to be honest with you I've not been that familiar with it but it sounds like it's folks that are coming together probably from different
perspectives and, you know, just want to give back to their community.
It sounds again, sometimes you have these groups that it sounds like they're from basically the same kind of
cut cloth.
It sounds like, again, from a little bit of the research I've done, you've got people that really do come in from different aspects of our community.
We do.
We have all ages, all different kinds of industries.
I'm a physician.
We have business people.
We have not-for-profit leaders.
We have people who have worked in all different parts of the world.
We have different kinds of perspectives that different people bring to the work that we're doing.
Service clubs in general, I think, do a great job.
of reaching out to the community.
I'm particularly, of course, fond of the Rotary Club, but I think it's really important and an easy way for people to get involved with like-minded individuals who come from different backgrounds but want to work on the same kinds of problems in our community.
And what do you personally get out of it?
I'm curious because I was talking to you, this is your second term as the president and you're involved in so many different ways.
Personally, what is the best part of being in the Rotary
Club?
Armada was service above self and that was the way that I sort of viewed my entry into Rotary was I needed to be of service to my community I was new to the area when I came here I was the new Dean of the medical school that started here And I knew we would have to be doing a lot of outreach to help our students understand our community better So the Rotary was a perfect place for me to land and get to know a lot of people very quickly and really get involved in projects that were both new and innovative as well as long as
Understanding and international so I think the service aspect of what we do and then just the camaraderie
We have
lunch.
We have fun.
We
enjoy
each other's company some of my best friends now are Rotarians around the community and I think there's just a lot of benefits to the being present with one another as well as the good work that we do
and Where did you come from?
I'm
here from Portland, Oregon.
Oh
really?
It has, and it's not like what they're saying.
My son lives there, and I walk around his neighborhood quite safely, and there's not a word going on in Portland.
I just to say, it's funny because not just that, your basketball coach gets this.
Oh, and
then,
yeah, we go.
I mean, it's like, Portland's been all over the place here the recent weeks.
It
is, it is.
That's so embarrassing, yeah, the whole basketball scene there for John C. Phillips
is in trouble.
No, it's funny.
Yeah, it
is.
I really miss...
When it rains of course.
Yeah, there are aspects I miss of Portland, but that's not one of them, certainly.
Yeah, we really enjoyed WASA and as I move into retirement, we're planning on staying here in the community because we really enjoy everything that WASA has to offer.
Very cool indeed.
I guess to wrap it up again for folks who want to get more information on everything we talked about here today.
A lot of the projects are right there on your website.
and again to maybe reach out to you perhaps in terms of joining Rotary again the information that people need.
Well they can go to our website and there's a click get information button which will allow them to send us a message about their interest or they can contact me directly at LG Dodson Rotary at gmail.com.
Fantastic and again as I said earlier on our show notes page with the podcast we will have those links there as well for you to get more information about the Rotary
The president, Lisa Dotson, thank you for coming on by.
Thanks for having me.
Coming up at 7.52, we'll have our WXCO morning report, Wisconsin Sports Weekend Preview, as we're joined by Paul Micleg.
That's coming up in about 22 minutes.
More of mornings with Pac Right Low coming up on 98.9 WXCO.
And good morning, once again, everyone.
Welcome back.
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The time is 7.53.
I am Chad Holmes along with Ian Welsh and Ian.
Yes.
Should I be scared?
It is Halloween and Ian has come and I know we talked about this and I thought about it But I got two meetings today and I thought it'd be kind of silly if I came to these two meetings and was wearing my Pimp outfit, which is my only Halloween costume I
thought you you dressed up as a
as a grouch as a grouch as
a Grinch the Grinch of Halloween
over here Oscar the grouch
Oscar the
grouch Oscar
color,
but I got to say
Ian, what are you dressed up as?
That's what the folks.
I am dressed up as the Phantom of the Opera.
Yeah, and that is very, very impressive indeed, I gotta tell you.
We're gonna take a picture with Ian and we'll put it on our social media coming up, so.
Fantastic.
Happy Halloween to you.
Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween to Paul Miklick.
Happy Halloween.
You're dressed up as a football coach.
That's what I told him.
That's what I told him when I walked in.
Well, your boy's gonna be, has the trick or treating already happened to that tonight?
Okay, you know what your boys are going to be?
Are they going out or are they too old for this now?
I think I told them last night.
This is it.
This is it.
This is it.
But they go out with their
friends.
Blaze of glory, right?
Yeah, they'll have fun.
Well, let's talk about the Wisconsin Sports Weekend.
We go into November and
How about those Milwaukee Bucks?
I mean five games into the season and they played well five games in a row last night beating the Warriors without Giannis one thing that jumped out to me and about the difference between this year and last year and last couple of years in fact and Maybe one reason I've actually already watched I think more Bucks games.
I tend not to watch a lot of them I'll watch some of it, you know and then you know pop in and out but I've watched the last The game against New York on Tuesday the game against Cleveland on Sunday and then last night
In the past few years they would have nights where they played really well look like a championship contender and then there'd be nights and I remember a game against Charlotte last year They at home they lose by 35 points They would have these games where they just they took this load management thing to the extreme where even if they were playing It's like we're not gonna waste any energy this group seems like they've come out They're just playing really really hard playing playing really really together and playing very very well.
I mean they're looking
Part of the reason is they start so early now is is why that you and myself and a lot of people that are busy during the Fall or the winter months that you don't have the opportunity and we've had the opportunity to watch them and
what we've seen is a team that they're going to, they're gelling well together.
You can just tell of how they're playing defense.
I think their defense is, I know their score, they've given up quite a bit of points here.
The whole NBA has given up quite a bit of points right now.
So I think that that's a little high, but they're playing, their energy is different.
They're making sure that they, offensively, the ball is moving, it's sticking.
It's not sticking, I should say.
And they're making shots when they need to make shots.
There was a couple clutch shots last night.
Rollins had some clutch shots.
Green had a clutch lot.
Turner had a clutch three.
Those got, they're hitting shots.
you look a lot smarter when you hit shots, tough shots too in those situations, but their energy is what is going on.
I said even after the Cleveland game when we were talking, you can tell this is a different team just by how they're playing with their, and I'm going to keep using the word energy because that's what they're playing with.
They're playing with energy and it seems like they're playing with a
purpose of they've had enough of hearing about if they don't win, Yanis is going to be gone.
All right.
We've heard that for how many years.
Yeah.
Give us a different narrative now.
And another thing I said this last night, all these years
Even before he came to Milwaukee, there's this idea, Doc Rivers only wants veteran players.
And frankly, we've seen over his last years in Philly and at the start of Milwaukee, it felt like there was a laid back atmosphere to me, just from the outside.
And that, you know, he had his veterans around and they were just going to sort of, you know,
cruise their way towards the playoffs and then hopefully get hot at the right time and win a championship.
It didn't happen in his previous stops for almost 20 years now since he's won a championship.
Holy cow, maybe you found something where in desperation because the Bucks sort of had to go in this direction after Lillard's injury and they stretched him out.
I don't know.
I mean, all of a sudden Doc Rivers looks like a better coach to me as well.
And I don't know how much of it is Doc or not, but it just feels like maybe it's the mix is working for him because I had not been impressed at all with him the last two years.
And in the NBA, I sometimes I question about the coaching.
Are they managing and their assisted coaches, which they have like a hundred of them.
What their responsibility is I know that the defense coordinator or if you want to call it in of the basketball team Has changed some things up and how much is it is a doc in the locker room?
How much is it the guys?
You got a lot of guys out there that have chips on their shoulders Rollins is a guy
that's fighting for his life.
All right, and
he earned his thing.
He did
a great job Portis wasn't on the court last night in the crunch time Those were all kind of I don't want to say new
guys, but
New guys, they were new guys and and and the thing about that also makes this so very impressive a bunch of new guys a new situation The first five games these been tough games.
I mean, you're not gonna have probably a much tougher stretch than they had.
I mean, this was a
Golden State
was
one of the best teams in the West, leaving New York boys teams in the East.
Right.
I mean, these are the top teams and they came out there and they played toe to toe every minute of these games.
And that's the thing.
I really jumped out.
I was really very, very impressed at this point.
Again, it's an 82 game season.
So we're going to see the ebbs and the flows.
But I mean, it's a really positive and I think.
is better than last year, right?
Oh, man, I mean, yeah, but this group needed, I think the positive.
Yes, they did.
So very, very good.
We'll come back with talk some Packers and more with Paul Mickley coming up in 22 minutes here on 98.9 WXCO.
And welcome back.
It is the WXCO morning report on 98.9 WXCO.
I'm Chad Holmes, Paul Micley across the way.
The Phantom of the Opera is over on the other side of the glass as well.
And coming up in a few minutes, we will give the Phantom his number for the day quiz as he is two for four so far this week and a chance for a winning week.
So we'll have that coming up in just a few minutes.
But we're talking about Wisconsin sports.
By the way, the Badgers are off again this week.
This doesn't seem like they're off every other week.
I mean this new college football It's like they sure do have a lot of buy weeks in college football for these teams.
Don't they too?
Oh, it does seem it seems like more to me.
Maybe it's maybe we need more.
I don't know but
I think they Health wise they need another one Wow,
and it's
about money.
They spread that I mean they they're extending the season as long and
both ways as as possible.
Well we make more money this way too because it extends the season for sully's college football page so there you go so it's winners everywhere
yes winners everywhere
but uh let's
Talk briefly about the Badgers.
I mean the the heat keeps rising We see all these coaches getting fired now Brian Kelly getting fired people say well, why isn't Luke fickle being fired?
What's your take?
I mean, I I'm not one that this goes around saying these are fire coaches I've just never been that way where it's like that the first sign of something going sideways You fire the coach, but it feels like fickle is getting close to losing The state for lack of a better term
I do think that last week, somebody made a good point that, yeah, those kids really played hard on Saturday and I don't disagree with it.
But they also said, well, wouldn't you if you were fighting for money?
I mean, so are they fighting for the coach?
Are they fighting for themselves?
Are they fighting for, I guess, whatever the point is, they're fighting at least.
I mean, they're trying.
Uh, and I agree with you.
I don't think at the drop of the hat, you can, you can start over and, you know, Hey, here we go.
We're going to get another coach in here.
Cause at some point all these situations are Kelly's is a diff was a different story.
I think when he came in there, I don't think they were going to fire him and they were trying to say that you're going to make these changes.
And then he said, no, and they got the governor of the state involved.
I mean, this is a whole different thing than, than Wisconsin where I, I he's going to be the coach next year.
Really truly believe that I think I'm not saying it's right
or no, no, no, I think you will be you know and I Think you're right I had to be honest with you and I think there's gonna be a lot of unhappy people as well So I mean but it shouldn't be about the people out there anyways I mean the decision makers have to make it the decision as best
for the university as a whole.
And if lushing all that money down the toilet is not the best decision, then I have really no problem with it.
I mean, if you make a deal and they knew what they were getting into when they signed pickle a few years ago, sometimes you have to go through some tough times and also maybe does get an opportunity to turn it around.
I mean- I
mean, look at the schedule though.
To be honest with
you,
you're talking about five teams that could be possibly in the,
the tournament.
You're talking about Alabama, Ohio State, Oregon, Iowa, and I feel like I'm missing somebody.
The
one that really sticks out is that Maryland
loss.
Yeah, and they do still have Indiana who will be in the tournament too.
So, I mean, when it's all said and done, there's going to be a lot of these too.
But also, Michigan is a good, at Michigan.
Oh yeah, Michigan, they're still in there.
But I think the thing that
That is very true, but I think it's the 34 nothing of the 37 nothing at home that is kind of added more And I disagree with you because I do think that I I think that The old adage you made your bed And I'm not I don't want to burn 35 million or whatever it is 25 or whatever it is.
I mean, it's again, I just think it's still University
As much as the money is taken over, it's still a university.
So let's talk about the Packers real fast.
Best record in the NFC, I think, right?
I think that was their best.
That was with all the wins
that they've had.
Without
a doubt, Matt LaFleur's
signature win.
Why?
The signature win was because they took him on the road.
They faced adversity in the first half, did not play well.
Going against, set up against the guy that you cut.
cut me you know cut they were done with you um rogers and you went and you won that game dominantly in the second half it was it was amazing that is without a doubt i don't even think it's close to being uh the signature win and a springboard that could really propel those um
players and that organization here, not just for this year, but from years on, that's how big a win I think it was for that organization.
They said it.
Do you understand the whole organization from top to bottom, how much pressure had to be going into that game?
It had to be.
I mean, because that's the guy you gave up.
If he comes in there and he shows you up, you kind of look silly,
don't you?
Well, I mean, I can imagine there was a lot of pressure on that game, but they delivered.
They delivered this.
They did.
I mean, in the big picture, I mean, Farve came into Green Bay and won the first time.
I mean, that was a pressure game.
And it didn't ruin the whole season.
I mean, it was part of the year.
And, you know, when he was at the Viking, he came in there and he beat him.
But twice that year.
So, I mean, that didn't look silly though.
I don't know.
I mean, he get passed it really quickly.
I don't know.
I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't, it's not the idea that Rogers can't play anymore.
I mean, I don't, I don't, I guess.
No, Rogers can play.
Right.
But I mean, it wouldn't have been an embarrassment for him to play well.
Not,
but this is three years.
The.
When
they, when
Farve beat him after two years.
Okay, well, there you go.
No, no, I'm saying that.
I understand.
The Packers did beat him after three years, didn't they?
Yes.
The last
year, yeah.
Yes.
They had a bad year from Minnesota.
Correct.
So everybody was beating him, not just the Packers.
But he was farther out.
I know, I know.
It was farther out.
I know, I remember that was a Sunday night game, they beat him.
Yes.
All right, we got to wrap it up there, but they do have the Panthers coming up.
They better not lay down.
Get that in.
All right, Ian.
What is the number of cubic meters of artificial snow expected to be made for the Winter Olympics in Italy in a couple of months?
Artificial
snow?
Is it 2.4 million cubic meters?
Is it two?
24 million cubic meters is a 240 million cubic meters of snow expected to be made for the Winter Olympics in Italy.
2.424 or 240 million cubic meters.
You know, I'm going to say a 24 million.
Final answer, 24
million.
It is 2.4 million, the smallest number.
I thought I'd give you those big numbers so you go to the small number, but you set a passing grade this.
Absolutely.
All right, Phantom.
Have
a
good weekend.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
And more of Mornings with Pat Kratlow coming up next here on 98.9 WXEL.
