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Solicitud Para Reemplazo de Beneficios de Foodshare
Si usted es un miembro actual de FoodShare y los alimentos que compró con los beneficios de FoodShare fueron destruidos debido a una desgracia familiar o un desastre natural, complete este formulario y envíelo junto con una prueba de que sus alimentos fueron destruidos. El formulario completo y la prueba tienen que presentarse dentro de […]
FoodShare program offers food replacement after power outages
FoodShare has a built-in policy that offers food replacement for people who lost their food during a natural disaster. Many households in Wisconsin were without power for hours or even days this weekend. We Energies restored power to 260,000 customers in the days following Friday’s snowstorm, and the company is still working on more outages. […]
Food Safety Before, During and After a Power Outage
Published on July 26, 2022 by AMY HENDRICKSON The weather has caused power outages across the United States already this year. There are certain things that you can do to before, during, and after a power outage to help keep your family food-safe. Prepare Yourself Before Power Emergencies During an emergency, if you use food or beverage containers to hold non-food substances […]
Wise WI Spring Series-Decluttering: What do I do with all my stuff?
Spring is a time when many of us decide to clean our homes and sort through our “stuff” that’s accumulated over the years. In today’s edition of our Wise Wisconsin Spring Series, join Extension educators Jane Jensen, Ruth Schriefer and Karen Dickrell as they talk about the process of sorting through important materials and papers […]
Drug Take Back -Saturday, April 27 9am-noon
Drive-Thru Drug Collection. Event held rain or shine. Turn in your unused or expired medication for safe disposal. Location: Froedtert Holy Family Memorial Hospital (West side main entrance)2300 Western Ave, Manitowoc
UNITED WAY LAUNCHES NEW PROGRAM CALLED RIDE UNITED
The Ride United program will provide Manitowoc County residents free transportation for employment, education, health, food, legal, housing, and economic stability uses up to a maximum of $20 per one-way ride.Ride United rides must be scheduled in advance with United Way’s taxi service partner, Maritime Cab. Rides can be scheduled with Maritime Cab by calling […]
Wise Wisconsin Winter Series: Cultivating Optimism
Promise yourself to talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet! Optimist Creed
Empowered at a very young age: Featuring Manitowoc County Youth Advocates for Community Health
YACH creates partnerships between young people and adults who support young people to work to improve their communities’ health in ways that matter to them.
Glean Manitowoc
Glean Manitowoc was created by young people in Manitowoc to make it easier for low-income people to eat healthy foods. In August 2023, when the group made this video, they had collected about 150 pounds of food. By the end of the 2023 farm market season, they had collected over 3,500 pounds of food from the Downtown […]
Become a leader for STRONG PEOPLE, STRONG BODIES
StrongBodies is an evidence-based strength training program formiddle-aged and older adults. Since the program began in Wisconsin,over 900 leaders have been trained and more than 17,000 individualshave participated in the program across the state.For more information on the benefits of bringing the StrongBodiesprogram to your community, see research hereTo become a StrongBodies leader, an individual […]
