Around Town
DEE-O-GEE UPDATE: Josh and Jessica are in the final stages of selling our business and home to Alyson Breitzman. She also owns her own grooming business, Pampered Pooches, and has now brought those services to Dee-O-Gee Care. Reba’s Personal Touch Pet Salon has decided to move out of our barn’s rental space this spring to pursue her own independent venture.
TOWN OF IOLA: The Town of Iola’s monthly board meeting will be on Monday, Jan. 26, at 6 p.m. in the town hall. Agenda items include roads and bridges, 2025 revenues and expenses.
BAR OLYMPICS: The 3rd Annual Bar Olympics will be held on Saturday, April 25, starting at noon at Happy Daaze Bar & Grill. Register before 11:30 a.m.
SAVE THE DATE: Alumni Pep Band Night is set for Friday, Jan. 30, for the Iola-Scandinavia High School Varsity Boys basketball game. Fill out the form here to sign up.
SMALL BUSINES OF THE YEAR: Sliced Pizza Co. in Scandinavia has been nominated as Business of the Year by the Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce. Congratulations!
Job Opportunities
A PERSONAL TOUCH PET SALON: This Iola company is currently hiring pet care professionals, dog groomers & cat groomers, receptionists / front desk, doggy daycare & k9 handlers, bathers and assistants, delivery drivers, and additional support roles. Call 715-467-0003 or send your resume to: rebassalon@gmail.com. Click here to fill out an application.
VILLAGE OF IOLA: Utility Maintenance Worker/Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator full-time position is available. For further information, contact the Iola Village Clerk or visit www.villageofiola.com.
Around the County
SWAT RESPONSE: A SWAT operation in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, safely rescued a woman and arrested a 47-year-old man after a dangerous domestic violence incident. The Waupaca County SWAT Team, including Iola Police, executed a warrant on Wednesday, Jan. 21; no injuries occurred to law enforcement or the victim, authorities reported. The Iola Police Department is part of the SWAT Team.
Around the State
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROPOSALS: The Wisconsin Senate passed three constitutional amendment proposals on Wednesday, including one to eliminate DEI, one to limit the executive partial veto power, and another to prohibit closures of places of worship during emergencies. Constitutional amendment proposals in Wisconsin. Read the Wisconsin Examiner story here.
WOLF POPULATION NUMBER: Wisconsin Republicans on Thursday, Jan. 23, continued their years-long effort to reverse the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ decision not to quantify a specific statewide goal for the state’s gray wolf population with a public hearing on a bill that would require the agency to set one. State law in Wisconsin requires that whenever the wolf isn’t listed as endangered, the state must hold an annual wolf hunt. Read the Wisconsin Examiner story here.
PROPERTY TAXES: Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) has proposed using $1.3 billion from the state surplus to reduce property tax bills amid growing homeowner concerns. The plan boosts state funding for schools, offers aid to local governments that freeze levies, and increases school levy tax credits. Critics argue, however, that the proposal fails to address the root causes of rising property taxes and may increase long-term fiscal pressure rather than providing true relief. Read the Badger Institute story here.
Interesting Facts
While browsing the internet, some interesting facts emerge that are worth sharing. These are a few recently seen.
EMPTY SPACE: Atoms aren’t dense, solid objects the way we imagine in school diagrams. Each one is a tiny core surrounded by a huge field of space, meaning the matter in our bodies is almost entirely nothing — about 99.9999999% void. What feels “solid” is simply electromagnetic force pushing back when surfaces meet, not actual particles touching. If someone could remove all that space and compress only the true physical matter inside every living human, the entire mass of Earth’s 8 billion people would shrink to the size of a single sugar cube. – Quantum Science
ONE-TIME OLYMPIC SPORT: There have been many short-lived Olympic sports, such as ballooning and live pigeon shooting. However, the one sports which appeared only once is croquet in the 1900 Olympics.
EINSTEIN IDIOSYNCRASY: There’s one piece of apparel that Albert Einstein refused to wear. It was socks. According to biographer Antonina Vallentin, his lack of socks was that he really didn’t like the holes his big toes made in them. When he moved to the U.S. in 1933, he went barefoot full-time.
