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A Stratford Heritage Trail meeting will take place at 6 p.m on Wednesday, Aug. 5, at the Stratford Community Hall, located at 118900 Larch St.
Village of Stratford and towns of Day, Cleveland and Eau Pleine residents are invited to attend this meeting.
Meeting attendees will learn about how they can get involved and become a Stratford Heritage Trail committee member during its expansion project.
School supply drive
Marshfield Area United Way’s annual “Supplies 4 Success” Backpack and School Supply Drive will collect supplies for area children from now until Thursday, Aug. 6.
Last year, the backpack and school supply drive helped 637 children from the Marshfi eld, Auburndale, Granton, Greenwood, Loyal, Pittsville, Spencer and Stratford school districts.
Individual people and businesses can help area children begin this school year ready to learn by donating backpacks and school supplies to drop off at the following locations: Associated Bank in Marshfield and Pittsville, Century 21 Realty, Christ Lutheran Church, Citizens State Bank in Marshfi eld and Spencer, First Choice Credit Union, Forward Bank in Marshfield and Greenwood, Partners Bank in Marshfield, Spencer and Stratford, MACCI, Marshfield Area United Way and Simplicity Credit Union.
This year a virtual supply drive will also be offered. People can sponsor a backpack full of supplies for $40 or purchase supplies for $25 by visiting https://www.marshfi eldareaunitedway.org/sponsor- backpack.
Any businesses or organizations holding a school supply drive within their companies who’d like them picked up should call the United Way at 715-384-9992 to schedule a pickup time, if it hasn’t already been done.
Families with school children needing extra help this back to school season, and the students are enrolled in free or reduced lunch, should please call the United Way office prior to this Friday, July 31, to register for school supplies.
Blood donation
Blood drives will be held from 3:30-6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Aug. 25 and Oct. 27, at the VFW Clubhouse.
People are encouraged to walk in the door of the VFW Clubhouse to donate blood.
Preschool starting
St. Joseph Catholic School in Stratford is beginning a new preschool learning center, which will provide a playbased learning environment, for children ages three and four during the upcoming 2020-21 school year.
Parents with children who’ll be three years old by Sept. 1 should call St. Joseph Catholic School at 715-687-4145 to learn more about this new program and how they can enroll their children into the new preschool learning center. Children need to be potty trained to participate.
College notes
Makaylan Benz, Taylor Cooper and Emily Manecke of Stratford graduated from Winona State University in Minnesota this spring.
The following Winona State University students were awarded to the dean’s list for the 2020 spring semester: Makaylan Benz, Taylor Cooper, Callie Lehman, Emily Manecke, Emily Meyer, Hannah Schoenfuss and Sadie Spaeth.
Fitness center open
The Knoll Fitness Center inside Stratford High School reoponed last week. It’ll now open to adult members from 5 a.m. until 7 p.m., but closed for cleaning from 11 a.m. until noon, on Mondays thru Fridays. The fitness center is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
Adult members need to sign up for time slots to use the fitness center on the following website: http://www.stratford. k12.wi.us/site/default. aspx?DomainID=1336.
A maximum of 10 adults are allowed to use the fitness at a time. Minor children aren’t allowed in the fitness center at this time.
