Onalaska high schooler starts clothing drive for sexual assault survivors
February 18, 2021 10:57 PM Molly Ringberg
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Jessica Randall learned that when survivors report an assault their clothes are sometimes taken into evidence.
Then, in some cases, they are sent home wearing paper scrubs and disposable underwear.
This really upset Randall, so she decided she was going to do something about it.
She’s collecting clothes through the entire month of February and then dropping them off at Mayo and Gundersen Health Systems.
Randall said living in our community, she knows a lot of people will get behind this cause.
“People have rallied together before to support a cause. I’m trusting the community that everyone will come together and help, because this something important, and it’s important to realize it can happen to any of us and we don’t have control over it,” Randall said Thursday.
Tercera s Investment Spotlights the Opportunity and Growth for Services in the Third Wave of Cloud Computing
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, 2021 BeyondID, a leading System Integrator (SI) and Managed Service Provider (MSP) for cybersecurity and cloud services, today announced it closed a Series A funding round of $9 million. The financing was provided by Tercera, an investment and advisory company specializing in the $460B cloud professional services market.
BeyondID helps companies acquire, deploy and manage best-of-breed cybersecurity and cloud services to become more secure, agile and prepared for the future. The company is a Platinum Services partner for Okta, and specializes in Identity and Access Management, Secure App Modernization, Zero Trust Security, Cloud Migration and Integration Services.
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – Mayo Clinic Health System says they are seeing a high number of calls asking about the COVID-19 vaccine. Both Mayo and Gundersen Health Systems will contact patients either through their online account or through a letter letting them know when they are eligible to schedule an appointment to get the vaccine. “I would just encourage.
Flu season continues to be slow in Wisconsin, Minnesota
Prevention measures for COVID-19 may be helping slow the influenza virus
December 31, 2020 5:23 PM Greg White
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According to the CDC, Wisconsin and Minnesota are in the lowest of 13 categories for flu activity.
Nationally, the flu levels are lower than usual with national cases at level similar to the end of the flu season.
In our area, both Mayo Clinic and Gundersen Health Systems have not seen flu yet this year.
Usually, the end of the year is the beginning of flu season.
But the changes many are making for the pandemic are helping more that just stopping the spread of COVID-19.
December 24: Weekly Driftless Region COVID-19 update THIS MAP shows the num-ber of COVID-19 cases in municipalities in our re-gion as listed on the DHS website as of Monday, Dec. 21. The numbers may vary from those provided daily by the counties as the information on the DHS site can lag local information slightly.
DRIFTLESS - Over the past week COVID-19, diagnoses statewide increased from 438,895 on Monday, Dec. 14 to 458,612 on Monday, Dec. 21. That is a statewide increase of 19,717 cases. The number of deaths increased from 4,068 to 4,425, an additional 357 deaths, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
According to
News Channel 8, Gundersen Health System and Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse received their first allocation of COVID-19 vaccines Monday afternoon in LaCrosse.