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Tickets are available for the Badger High School 5K Glow Run/Walk.
This event is fun for the whole family and is all about bringing the community together to support the kids of FCCLA, a student organization dedicated to helping the community. Saturday, May 11th, from 7:30 p.m. through 9:30 p.m. Participants will be glowing as they run or walk the course.
Check-in will begin at 6 p.m. at the Badger High School where there will be glow supplies to light up the fun. The race will go through the trails of Big Foot Beach State Park and end back at the high school. The event will conclude with a glow party to remember. There will be more supplies to light up the night, and food trucks with food for purchase, the top three participants from each age group will receive medals, and glow shirts with the purchase of a ticket. This is sure to be a great night for a great cause. For more information and to purchase tickets or just donate go to the 5K Glow Run/Walk Page
A new Wisconsin law means you will be receiving more emergency alerts for missing children.
The Prince Act has been signed into law by Governor Evers. The Prince Act expands the criteria for issuing alerts. It now includes children aged 10 and under and allows an alert to be issued even if suspect information is not available, enabling quicker alerts in cases of missing children. The Prince Act was inspired by the disappearances and deaths of Milwaukee’s Prince McCree and Chippewa Falls’ Lily Peters. It expands the criteria for issuing alerts to address the gaps identified in the previous protocol. Five-year-old Prince McCree vanished after being home sick from school. Prince’s family reported him missing on Oct. 25, 2023. Milwaukee police requested an Amber Alert, but the state did not issue it deciding the case did not meet the criteria. His body was discovered the following day after an Amber Alert request was denied by the state on two occasions due to the criteria requirement in place.
This act is designed to align more closely with the protocols of the state’s Silver Alert system, which alerts the public about missing adults with developmental disabilities or dementia through phone messages and digital highway signs. Prince McCree never got to attend his kindergarten graduation. But his mom and dad went to Milwaukee’s Hawley Environmental School on Tuesday, April 9, to honor him. Evers passed the new law at McCree’s former school, Hawley Environmental School in Milwaukee. Wisconsin data reveals on a given day, an average of seven Wisconsin children are reported missing. That is a couple thousand a year. Most do not get an Amber Alert. Since 2003, the state has only issued 61. This new law will mean a lot more alerts.