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Notable + Quotable | March 18, 2021

things heard around the Chippewa Valley

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Please have patience. 

Even though we know people are eligible, it will take some time throughout the months of April and early May to get to all those groups.

LIESKE GIESE

EAU CLAIRE CITY-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR

– on the expansion of COVID-19 eligibility that will begin statewide on March 29. (Leader-Telegram, March 11)


I think Girl Scout Day is a big deal because it celebrates what we Girl Scouts, what we girls can do. Some boys think we can’t do that much, but we can do a lot. We can do anything they can do.

elizabeth thompson

10-YEAR-OLD MEMBER OF GIRL SCOUT TROOP 3411

– speaking about celebrating Girl Scout Day on March 12. (WQOW.com, March 12)


What more fitting tribute than to have the homeless Robocop statue come home to Stevens Point? 

mike wiza

stevens point mayor

– on his quest to get a Robocop statue erected in Stevens Point, hometown of actor Peter Weller, who played the cyborg policeman. A Detroit museum says it won’t host the new crowdfunded statue. (Wisconsin Public Radio, March 12)