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Leadership Shawano County..Making a difference one project at a time.
As part of the curriculum of Leadership Shawano County program, participants research, create and facilitate two community service projects. LSC class eleven presents:
Participants: Linda Gueths, Michelle Eggers, Courtney Cook, Traci Berry, Bonnie Olson, Kasey Dix, Randy Petrouske, Sandra Wacker
The Main Event - The Main Event was held on May 4, 2011. It featured 6 of our Main Street establishments in a round robin celebration of food, drink, music and fun! Appetizer portions of food were served, music was provided by the Wolf River Harmony Chorus, Shawano Community High School orchestra students and Jazz Band students and raffle prizes were won at the end of the evening. The purpose of this project was to promote downtown Main street restaurants and local cuisine. Tickets were sold in advance at the Shawano County Chamber of Commerce. Thanks to the generosity of our participating restaurants, all proceeds from the ticket sales benefited the Shawano Area Food Center. A check for $1590.00 was presented to the Shawano Area Food Center at the LSC graduation.
Participants: Steve Sengstock, Tim Mayer, Jodi Tetting, Roger Olson, Misty Jones, Karissa Kunschke
Study and Promotion of Shawano - The purpose of this project: Shawano County loses millions of dollars annually from the local economy because 45% of workers commute from outside Shawano County to work in Shawano. They return back home and spend their incomes outside the County. LSC participants will survey employees of businesses in Shawano County to understand the reasons for why they “live and work” where they do. Information from the survey will be shared with participating businesses to be used as a recruitment tool and to promote Shawano County as a community to live and work.
2009-2010
Participants: Elaine Gast, Stephanie Selle, Kristi Carlson, Andy Schmidt, Cheryl Seelig, Dawn Gueths
Krazy for K-9 Dog Expo - A family fundraising event was created to bring awareness and raise funds for the Shawano County Sheriff's Department K-9 Program. The Krazy for K-9 Dog Expo was held on April 17, 2010 with main stage acts which demonstrated dog agility, dog obedience, field training and the K-9 unit. Vendors were on hand selling services and merchandise for dogs, an "Ask a Vet" question table, concessions and a bucket raffle. Proceeds from this event were given to "SOS K-9" the fundraising group supporting the Sheriff's K-9 Program.
Participants: Gwen Hoffman, Jenny DeMunck, Chris Onesti, Jill Sharp, Kristie Wilson, Keith Marquardt, Shelly Thorne
Service Learning and Volunteer Guide - A need was identified to make volunteer opportunities for youth and adults easier to define and simpler for teachers, adult leaders or community members to identify. Service projects are a prerequisite for college applications, required for 4-H participants and many groups alike. This group partnered with Community Education to update a volunteer list and create a user friendly guide in a format where a person can easily indentify a volunteer opportunity and the age appropriateness of the project. This guide will be available under the Shawano School Districts website, on the Community Education page.
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2008-2009
Participants: Brigette Pennings-Aarrowcast Inc., Penny Block-Shawano Medical Center, Char Larsen- Thrivant Financial, Bonnie Grulkowski-Cooperative Resources International, Ericka Kowalkowski-Shawano Medical Center, Katie Dorn-Aurora Health Care, Ryan Alexander-CoVantage Credit Union
Safe Haven Resource Guide - An informational brochure was created to provide clients with vital financial information to function in our community outside of Safe Haven. This brochure will include information from local financial institutions on how to open a bank account, where to cash a payroll check if you do not have an account, a comparison of cash stores verses financial institutions on loans and APR, a budgeting format, tax preparation services, information on day care, emergency services and other program that will help an individual become independent.
Participants: Shane Stange-Shawano Police Department, Teresa Hinnefeld-ThedaCare Physicians, Sally Zander-Shawano Country Chamber of Commerce, Angie Kringle-Cooperative Resources Intl., Tammy Breczkowski-Dynamic Designs, Jackie Suhring-Premier Community Bank, Karen Smith-Shawano School District, Melanie White-Gear Up Program
Networking for those in Need-The SAFPARC Project - This project benefitted the food pantry SAFPARC, by obtaining items needed to run this business effectively. Through networking the group was able to obtain a new office computer from Senzigs, time with a c computer programmer, chairs from Thrivant Financial and a filing cabinet from KI in Green Bay. In addition a children’s book drive was organized for the young customers at SAFPARC and a food drive is being sponsored in July.
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2007-2008
Participants: Jeff Brady, Todd Carlson, Tami Goers, Sandy Groth, Lindsay Johnson, Jenni Kroenke, Jennifer Langlois, Liz Lewens, Carol Opgenorth, Mary Raether, Scott Ruen
Saturday Night Out - In response to a discussion with a panel of Shawano High School students who claim “there is nothing to do in Shawano” the idea of “Saturday Night Out” was created. With school functions being offered on Friday nights; it seemed like Saturday night was the night students were looking for a place to go. A group of the Leadership County Class planned three activities for high school students only. They included a “Let it SNO” an extended open skate at the Crawford Center on January 15, 2008, a “Saturday Night Fever” dance at the County Park on April 5th and a “Saturday Night Pin-buster” a bowling event on May 17th. All events included music, food, drinks , prizes and a safe environment to hang out with their friends!
Participants: Tim Barthel, Stephanie Erdmann, Bill Hamann, Diane Heikes, Brian Kolwakowski, Jenn Quinn, Mike Van Rite, Ruth Winter.
Shawano Food and Culture Fest - the Shawano Food and Culture Fest celebrated “Unity in our Community”. The family-friendly event educated, entertained and encouraged development of cultural awareness by featuring food, art, music and entertainment from the various ethnic groups that make up our community. This event was held on Monday, March 17, 2008. This event exists today under the direction of Junior Achievement as the "Taste of Shawano".
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2006-2007
Participants: Jill Flink- Coordinator, Jo Grover, Jaime Gajewski, Becky Henn, Dawn Kelley, Paul Kersten.
League of Women Voters – Researched and promoted the possibility of bringing a Chapter of the League of Women Voters to Shawano.
Participants: Lena Klosterman-Coordinator, Rae Vogt, Troy Edwards, Tricia Milis, Debby Kaczorowski, Gale Blum, Alan Natachu, Greg Reimer, Scott Davis, Tara Fermanich, Judy Rank.
Shawano Community Athletic and Recreation Foundation (SCARF) - raised over 3600.00 to improve athletic fields at the Shawano Community Middle School.
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2005-2006
Participants: Matthew Laha, Cindy Teschke, Pat Romuald, Rhonda Strebel, John Powers, Kathy Peters, Katie Sloma
Farm Family Resource Guide - Resource guide with farm and family information was printed for use throughout Shawano County.
Participants: David Schmidt, Barbara Heins, Claudia Arvey, Ken Zade and Ted Foste
Habitat for Humanity - Did several fund raisers; one at the Folk Music Festival and another by selling building salvage materials which raised over $9000.00 for Habitat for Humanity.
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2004-2005
Participants: Sandi Giese, Steve Schenk, Diane Lohff and Kris Vomastic
Anti Bullying Project - The Leadership Shawano County group decided to create a survey for the Elementary, Middle and High School students, to learn from them how they perceive bullying in their schools. They wanted to understand the depth of the problem and to determine if their school offered the support needed in dealing with this issue.
A survey was obtained from the Howard-Suamico School District and used as a guideline to develop this survey. Student Council members from the Shawano Community High School helped convert the Middle School survey into an appropriate survey for the High School students.
Results from the survey were shared with the Shawano-Gresham School District administration. In turn social workers and guidance counselors helped distribute the surveys and formulate the results.
The valuable information obtained, will help our school district determine the need for future programs or curriculum changes.
Participants: Colleen Weishoff, Todd Malueg, Kay Kristoff, Flo Ninham, Diane Lamich, Laura Braatz, Dick Beversdorf, Kathi Beyer and Gregg Duffek
Shawano County Veteran’s Cookbook Fundraiser - The Leadership Shawano County group members wanted to choose a project that involved area veterans. After a meeting on Veterans Day, they decided to create a cookbook with recipes collected from area veteran’s families, friends and co-workers. The proceeds from the $10.00 cookbook will benefit local veteran’s organizations.
Members from this committee attended meetings of local veterans in the Shawano, Cecil, Bowler, Tigerton and Wittenberg areas to promote this project.
In addition to collecting recipes for the book, places for advertising and dedication lines were sold in the cookbook.
Individual strengths from the Leadership group came together to realize this project. The cookbooks are now on sale at the Shawano Country Chamber of Commerce and M & I Bank.
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2002-2003
Participants: Bonnie Welch, Denise Pommer, Leah Miller, Herb Rycroft, Maureen Unger, Linda Beversdorf
Cultural Awareness -
Participants: Chris Spieth, Nathan Falk, Lori Sherman, Sherrie Peterson, Diane Wasmund, Beth Hoffman
Mentoring -
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2001-2002
Participants: Keith Wendlandt, Barb McKeefry, Aaron Wallrich
Shawano Wired -
Participants: Jeanne Cronce, Amy Jensen, Steve Peterson, Steven Stromberg, Dennis Wengelski, Debra White
Youth Leadership Workshop -
Participants: Jim Darling, Angela Gast, Dr. Brian Grieves, Herbert W Lehman Jr, Sharon Woiak-Meisner, Randy Young
Family Resource Guide -
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2000-2001
Participants: Dennis Bennett, Charles Buchert, Walberto Colon, Judy Hohn, Vicky Jones, Debbie Kuhn, Gail Moesch, Jennifer Schenk
NWTC Expansion -
Participants: Donna Cook, Jean Darling
Fun Run -
Participants: Jan Taylor, DuWayne Federwitz
Teen Court -
Participants: Doreen Korbisch
Take a Step Back in Time (T.A.S.B.I.T.) -
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