Dear Heloise: Please encourage the staff at small businesses to wear a name tag. For example, I go to the dry cleaners about once a month and would like to greet a friendly person by their name, especially because she always knows my name due to my order. Knowing someone’s name is a way to ...
MILWAUKEE — Weight loss and maintaining healthy eating habits can feel like a never-ending ride of ups and downs. If eating healthy feels like a struggle lately, it’s sometimes not about trying harder, it’s about planning smarter. Motivation can fade. Busy days happen. Stress wins. But when balanced meals are already prepped and ready to go, healthy eating stops being a daily decision and starts becoming automatic. TOPS Club Inc., the nonprofit weight-loss support organization, teaches that the secret to eating healthier isn’t extreme rules; instead, simple preparation makes ...
July 18, 2026 July 19, 2026 Ghianna Sleik, 2, Spread Eagle, Wis. Ebie Stack, Norway Maria Lasater, Norway Karen Chartier Schorman Quinnesec Joe Edlebeck, Iron Mountain Lisa Yeadon, Iron Mountain
IRON MOUNTAIN — The monthly meeting of the Northwoods Philatelic Society stamp club will be 7 p.m. Tuesday in the fellowship room of First Lutheran Church, 1210 S. Stephenson Ave. in Iron Mountain. A short business meeting and educational program will be followed by the usual informal stamp club auction. Members are encouraged to bring up to five lots for the auction, and the club will also auction lots of recently acquired stamps. The club has members from both Michigan and Wisconsin and is open to students as well as adults. They promote the fun and fellowship of stamp ...
FLORENCE, Wis. — The Florence Parish will offer three days of onsite Vacation Bible School for children who will be entering first grade to the seventh grade from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, July 27- 29, at the First Presbyterian Church. Snacks and lunch will be provided. On Thursday, July 30, a school bus will transport them for a day at Fortune Lake Lutheran Camp just west of Crystal Falls. These days of fun, crafts, games, and stories will be led by Fortune Lake Camp staff, with assistance of volunteers from Bethlehem Lutheran and First Presbyterian churches. ...
