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News Notes -- June 11, 2021
Resiliency workshops available in 2021
Army Community Service (ACS) has resiliency workshops scheduled throughout 2021.
Topics include:
• June 16: Problem Solving.
• July 7: Put It In Perspective.
• Aug. 4: Mental Games.
• Sept. 1: Real-Time Resilience.
• Oct. 6: Character Strengths.
• Nov. 3: Assertive Communication.
• Dec. 1: Effective Praise & Constructive Responding
All workshops will be 9 to 11 a.m. on Microsoft Teams. Registration is required one week prior to the event.
ACS events are open to Fort McCoy military members, family members, civilian employees, and registered volunteers.
For more information or to register, call 608-388-6507.
Summer Craft Night set for EFMP families
A Summer Craft Night is planned June 24 for families in the Exceptional Family Member Program.
The event offers a chance for parents and children in the Exceptional Family Member Program to meet and exchange information, resources, and ideas while participating in a family activity.
Some of the activities offered will include finger painting, canvas painting, creating a picture frame, marble painting, and string painting.
The event will be held 5 to 7 p.m. June 24 in the Army Community Service (ACS) Family Building, 2161.
Space is limited and registration is required. To register, call 608-388-7262 or email carmen.m.ortiz.civ@mail.mil.
History Center open to public
Fort McCoy’s Commemorative Area and History Center will hold open hours throughout the summer.
The Commemorative Area features World War II-era buildings, an Equipment Park, Veterans Memorial Plaza, and displays telling the history of Fort McCoy starting from 1909. A picnic pavilion is available at the area for those who wish to bring a lunch.
The area will be open noon to 4 p.m. Fridays and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays until Sept. 2.
These open days are open to members of the public, but visitors must provide a valid ID and pass a quick background check at the main gate.
Social-distancing restrictions and masks are required on federal installations.
For information about open hours, the Commemorative Area, or group tours, call 608-388-2407 from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.
Use local firewood when camping
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) urges residents and visitors to help protect the state’s trees where you live, play or camp by not transporting firewood long distances.
Firewood can carry tree-killing insects and diseases such as emerald ash borer or oak wilt which can emerge at your destination to attack trees there. By using local firewood, you avoid moving pests to new places.
To reduce the risk of introducing pests and diseases to Wisconsin parks and other properties, state campgrounds only allow firewood from within 10 miles; firewood that is state certified and treated to eliminate pests; or clean, untreated dimensional lumber scraps.
You can purchase firewood in or near almost every Wisconsin state park or forest property. For time and location of firewood sales at a state campground, select a property from the DNR webpage at https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/parks/findapark. Once a property is selected, look for the section titled “Camping at …” at the bottom of the page.
If you do not know where to get local firewood, check Firewood Scout (https://firewoodscout.org/) for a list of vendors near your home, cabin, or camping destination. Firewood aged two summers or kiln dried will be dry enough to be free of pests and diseases, is lighter to carry, and produces the least amount of smoke.
Be aware that it is illegal to move firewood from eastern Wisconsin across the gypsy moth quarantine line into the nonquarantined, far western counties or Minnesota. This pest is established in the eastern two-thirds of the state, and the quarantine on firewood is part of the effort to delay its establishment further west.
For a map of the quarantine in Wisconsin and regulation rules, visit the gypsy moth quarantine webpage at https://datcp.wi.gov/Pages/Programs_Services/GMQuarantineRegs.aspx.
You can legally move firewood within the quarantined counties or from nonquarantined to quarantined counties.
For more information on transporting firewood, visit the DNR’s firewood webpage at https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Invasives/firewood.html.
Publication date for The Real McCoy
The next issue of The Real McCoy will be published June 25. The deadline for article and photo submissions is June 16.
For more information about photo and article submissions or to submit article suggestions, call 608-388-2769
For more information about photo and article submissions or to submit article suggestions, call 608-388-2769.