Eight Menomonie area nonprofit organizations have received grants ranging from $488 to $1,000 from the Rotary Club of Menomonie.
The awards are funded by the club’s annual Rose Sale in September.
Language viewed as key to preserving culture for Hmong now and Norwegians a century ago
The key role of language in preserving immigrant groups’ cultures and traditions was on display earlier this week in a discussion that combined a Norwegian perspective with insights into Hmong culture and its transition into an American context.
The program led off the “Conversations about Immigrant Identity” series marking the 150th anniversary this year of Waldemar Ager’s birth. It provided Hmong perspectives on assimilation into American society that echoed some of Ager’s thoughts about the Norwegian experience a century earlier, particularly the importance of preserving the immigrant group’s language.
Author cites Eau Claire as good example of developing active citizens and engaging them
Citizens are developed, not born, and Eau Claire is a good example of developing them and getting them engaged in taking the community forward, according to a Twin Cities expert on this topic.
Harry C. Boyte, a faculty member at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, spoke here Monday evening (Feb. 11) at an event sponsored by Clear Vision Eau Claire. His most recent book features Eau Claire as an example of developing citizens to be co-creators and builders of communities and democracy, not just voters and volunteers.
Monday evening program to explore loss of cultural identities as immigrant groups become “Americanized”
A REPORT ON THIS EVENT WILL BE PUBLISHED SOON
The loss of minority groups’ cultural identities during their assimilation into American society will be the focus of a program at 7 p.m. next Monday (Feb. 11) at Eau Claire’s L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library.
The program, “On the Way to the Melting Pot—Then and Now: Waldemar Ager and Hmong History and Culture,” will offer perspectives originating a century apart and half a world from each other. .
CVTC seeking applicants to fill three Board of Trustees positions
Chippewa Valley Technical College is currently seeking applicants for three positions on its nine-member Board of Trustees.
Applications are due by 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18. Successful candidates will assume their duties on July 1.
The Community Table uses Facebook campaign plus volunteers to distribute food from unexpected donation
The Community Table used social media and volunteer help on Saturday to solve a rather unique problem.
The problem was an unexpected Friday night delivery of more than 3,000 pounds of produce, for which there was no storage space. The solution was a viral Facebook campaign on Saturday and nine volunteers who distributed the food to six social agencies and churches.