We are looking for civic minded folks who have a desire to help others.
“Hello, this is COPE. How may I help you?” That phrase is repeated nearly 50 times a day by Volunteer Listeners at the COPE Crisis Intervention and Referral Hotline. Volunteers are the backbone of COPE Services, Inc. They are special people who want to help others. If you would like to make a difference in someone’s life by being a Volunteer Listener, call COPE Services.
With a growing number of calls, COPE Services, is in need of Volunteer Listeners to staff its Hotline. The next listener training program will be held Sept. 26 and Oct. 10, 2015, at the Family Enrichment Center in Grafton for volunteers, 18 years and older. After completing the training, volunteers will be asked to listen on the Hotline two to four hours per week. Daytime and evening scheduling is flexible.
Call the COPE Business Office, 262-377-1477 to schedule an interview. Thank you!
WAUKESHA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB: This is an invitation to nominate students who satisfy the requirements as listed below. The Application deadline is August 8, 2015. The scholarship will be awarded in August in time for the first tuition payment.
This month, golf goes home. It happens every five years, when the game’s oldest and grandest event, the Open Championship (sometimes called the “British Open” by blasphemers), returns to St. Andrews. For a week in July, an ancient little town on Scotland’s rocky eastern coast hosts hordes of visitors, including Rotary club members from all over the world.
Of course, some Rotarians are already there.
Founded in 1927, the Rotary Club of St. Andrews spends most of its time the way you might expect: hosting charity events, travel and historical lectures, concerts, an annual ball, a monthly bridge tournament, and plenty of convivial networking. Every January there’s a Robert Burns lunch, complete with readings of the national poet’s verses and heaping helpings of haggis, the Scottish dish made of sheep’s liver, heart, and lungs, along with suet and spicy oatmeal, cooked inside a sheep’s stomach. (Call it an acquired taste.) There are fundraisers for the Rotaract club at the University of St. Andrews (where Prince William met Kate). But in years divisible by five, when the town becomes the hub of international sport for a week, the Rotary club gets caught up in the excitement.
Mequon works toward coyote management plan By Jeff Rumage
Mequon - You are out for a jog early in the morning when you spot a coyote. What do you do?
The best response in a coyote interaction is to yell, clap or wave your arms to scare off the coyote. If you are at home, you could bang some pots and pans together to scare it away. You could also try throwing a rock or a golf ball in the vicinity of the coyote.
When coyotes stop fearing humans, they start to get closer to residential neighborhoods and posing a danger to house cats and small dogs. A new coyote management and response plan unveiled by Mequon city officials Tuesday, June 23, aims to educate residents about coyotes, as well as establish a formal protocol for how the city will handle coyote incidents in the future.
The city's protection and welfare committee discussed the policy Tuesday, and it is expected to be discussed at least one more time before being considered by the full common council.
Part of the coyote management plan includes a possible nuisance animal removal permit from the Department of Natural Resources. The DNR has never issued a nuisance permit for coyotes, because the hunting and trapping of coyotes is already allowed year-round with a DNR hunting license and a Mequon firearm discharge permit. Archery and firearm hunting are not allowed within 100 yards of a habitable building.
We are looking for civic minded folks who have a desire to help others.
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