Two dozen small downtown businesses La Crosse County have received grants from a business consortium that is providing aid in the wake of COVID-19 challenges. Couleecap Inc., Downtown Mainstreet Inc., La Crosse County, the La Crosse Area Development Corporation, and North La Crosse Business Association partnered to create the Launch La Crosse Small Business Recovery…
Area economic development organizations have partnered to create a new fund for small businesses with storefronts in commercial districts of La Crosse County. The fund is intended to help businesses that are struggling with closures or reduced operational capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Couleecap, Inc., Downtown Mainstreet Inc., La Crosse County, La Crosse Area…
ONALASKA — More than 170 educators from the Coulee Region will receive Character Strong curriculum training from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Onalaska High School. Norlin Character Lives, a program of Coulee Region Whole Child, is sponsoring the training to promote social-emotional skills and servant leadership in area high schools. The curriculum can…
Advocates of a character-building curriculum for Coulee Region high schools made superintendents an offer they couldn’t refuse — so they didn’t, although they balked at one element. That’s the introduction Festival Foods board chairman Dave Skogen gave to more than 50 business and community leaders and educators during a presentation Wednesday about a leadership curriculum…
A champion of urban education. An advocate for people with disabilities. A voice for social justice. The 11 honorees of the 2017 YWCA La Crosse Tribute to Outstanding Women have diverse backgrounds, ages and occupations, but Rose Reinart can define them all with one word: grace. “Everyone kind of had their own journey and came to…
The Holmen Area Community Center benefit was very successful thanks to many individuals. We are that much closer to have the necessary funds to build our building and then start programing. One cannot offer programs without a place to offer them. Thanks to Kristina Schoh, Coulee Region Gospel Choir, Winona HIMS, Holmen Lutheran Church Bell…
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