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Carmen DeKok is the recipient of this year's Wisconsin Farm Bureau's Ag in the Classroom program's Outstanding Teacher Award. DeKok has been teaching in the Janesville School District for the
PHOTO PROVIDED Mrs. Jodie Walizer’s high school homeroom at Sugar Valley Rural Charter School released 70 Rainbow Fingerlings into Fishing Creek on May 5. Despite a rough start due to Covid sanitation of the classrooms, the class was able to successfully care for and raise the small trout to the point of release. When the students arrived at the stream, they began investigating to ensure they were releasing in a viable area. The students looked for Mayflies because their presence indicates the stream is clean and well oxygenated. This is the eleventh year Mrs. Walizer and her students have ...
LINCOLN, NEB.– The Nebraska Farm Bureau Foundation awarded the Ron Hanson Collegiate Leader Scholarship to two members of Collegiate Farm Bureau at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) who are pursuing degrees from the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR). Emily Reitz and Miranda Hornung, both juniors at CASNR, received $1,500 scholarships. Dr. Ron Hanson, professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, established the scholarship to reward students who prioritize leadership building activities while on campus. “The Nebraska Farm Bureau F...
REGINA -- The Queen City is continuing to experience growing pains on the education front as a new report from Regina Public Schools projects École Wascana Plains School in the Greens area of the city to reach to nearly double its capacity by 2025. The school’s capacity is listed as 650, with a current total of 861 students and an expectation to surpass 1,000 in 2022. As many as 1,310 are expected to be attending the school by 2025 if nothing is changed. The permanent solution is a new school in the southeast part of the city, a request Regina Public Schools Director of Education Gr...
Coffee & Conversation: Special thanks to livestock owners Victoria Hansen Special to The Journal-Standard Today, I found myself saying how thankful I was for the 14-degree temperature day, sun shining and the wind being at a minimum. The last few weeks really have tested the winter-loving part of me. The cold gloomy days make winter trudge on like maple syrup running up hill in January. I often find myself thinking of our livestock farmers on my drive to the office in the morning. I think about how thankful I am for these individuals who get up day after day to care for their livestock. They ...