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News Notes -- June 25, 2021
Resiliency workshops available in 2021
Army Community Service (ACS) has resiliency workshops scheduled throughout 2021.
Topics include:
• 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.
Babysitting class offered July 13-15
Child and Youth Services is offering a babysitting class July 13-15.
Youth will learn important skills, including infant/child CPR and first aid, ages and stages, principles of discipline, nutrition, entertaining, children, diapering, safety, business of babysitting, and more. Role-playing, experiential learning, and the babysitter's "magic bag" makes this course useful and fun.
The class is for youth registered with CYS ages 12 and older. The class is 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 13-15, and lunch will be provided. Youth must attend all three sessions.
Space is limited. Registration is required by July 6.
For more information, call 608-388-8956.
Military Appreciation Nights offered at McCoy's
McCoy's Community Center is hosting Military Appreciation Nights throughout the summer.
Currently serving military members may receive a free meal (up to $12). Service members must show valid ID, and dependents are not included. The meals are paid for by sponsors.
Military Appreciation Nights are 6 p.m. to close July 21 and 29 and Aug. 11 and 19. Meals are limited and will be available on a first-come, first served basis.
For more information, call 608-388-2065.
Babysitting class offered July 13-15
Child and Youth Services is offering a babysitting class July 13-15.
Youth will learn important skills, including infant/child CPR and first aid, ages and stages, principles of discipline, nutrition, entertaining, children, diapering, safety, business of babysitting, and more. Role-playing, experiential learning, and the babysitter's "magic bag" makes this course useful and fun.
The class is for youth registered with CYS ages 12 and older. The class is 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 13-15, and lunch will be provided. Youth must attend all three sessions. Registration is required by July 6.
For more information, call 608-388-8956.
Home-alone class set for Aug. 10-11
Child and Youth Services is hosting a home-alone class Aug. 10-11.
The class is designed to teach youth to be responsible, trustworthy, competent, capable, and safe while staying home alone.
Topics include: how to stay safe while home alone, how to handle emergency situations, activities to keep children from being bored, how to be safe in the kitchen, and how to deal with conflict.
Classes are 8:30-11:30 a.m. Aug. 10 and 9:30-11:30 a.m. Aug. 11, and youth must attend both sessions. The class is open to youth registered with CYS ages 10 and 11.
Space is limited. Registration is required by Aug. 3
For more information, call 608-388-8956.
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 are still in effect, and masks are required for unvaccinated visitors. Disposable masks are available at the Commemorative Area.
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 July 9.
The deadline for article and photo submissions is June 30.
For more information about photo and article submissions or to submit article suggestions, call 608-388-2769.