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NWTC`s Entrepreneur Resource Center is offering E-Seed

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eseedArea residents who want to start or grow a small business can turn to NWTC this fall. NWTC`s Entrepreneur Resource Center is offering E-Seed, a workshop series created to small business owners launch or improve their business. Participants will create a business plan, an essential guide for starting and running a business.

E-Seed will be offered in Green Bay, Marinette, and Shawano starting Sept. 9. The 13-week course provides practical, real-life, small business management lessons. Due to the hands-on instruction and one-on-one coaching provided, space is limited to 10 participants. The registration deadline is Aug. 22. The E-Seed™ experience includes: * Determine if you have a feasible idea * Develop a business plan to guide the launch of your new business * Discuss legal issues and insurance and government regulations * Learn about financing available for small businesses * Identify and analyze market potential * Gain insight from guest expert speakers The E-Seed course includes 30 hours of instruction, 3 lab sessions, textbook, workbook, handouts, refreshments and up to 3 hours of one-on-one business coaching. Courses are offered in Green Bay, Marinette and Shawano. INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION Contact the Entrepreneur Resource Center at NWTC. Go to  www.nwtc.edu/erc or call 920-498-7124.

RUN FOR THE TRAILS

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runnersRUN FOR THE TRAILS
Event to be held at the following time, date, and location:

Sunday, September 28, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (CDT)

Oconto Falls High School
210 N Farm Rd
Oconto Falls, WI 54154

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Chamber Members! Join us for the 1st Annual Run for the Trails hosted by the Oconto Falls Chamber of Commerce. This is destined to become a highly anticipated annual event! Events include a timed 10K or 5k run/walk or the 1 mile fun run/walk.

Brief Overview:

10K timed run will wind through residential streets, scenic wooded and waterfront trails.
5K timed run/walk will wind through the residential streets of Oconto Falls.
10K & 5K event participants will receive a long sleeve tech shirt, $1 off pancake & porkie breakfast and a goody bag and be age/gender group award eligible. $25 Early Bird pricing!
The family friendly 1 mile fun run/walk is untimed. 1 mile run/walk finishers will receive a long sleeve t-shirt, finishers ribbon, $1 off pancake & porkie breakfast and goody bag. $18 Early Bird Pricing!
The courses will be well marked, well staffed and have a fun fall theme!

Fri., Sept. 26 – Sun. Sept. 28 is Falls Fun Fest. Come early and take part in the weekend full of fun events for the whole family. City-wide rummage sales, chili cook-off, live bands, vendor fair, youth football tournament, kids games and bounce houses, homecoming football game, pancake & porkie breakfast and more! More information on the weekends activities can be found at the Chamber website: https://ocontofallschamber.com/

Proceeds from this event go to the Run for the Trails fund which will be used to create & maintain a recreational trail system throughout Oconto Falls. Register TODAY to enjoy advance ticket prices and to guarantee your shirt size!

Please pass on and share with all of your friends and family! We hope you can make it!

ATV RAFFLE

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Oconto Falls Area Chamber of Commerce

ATV RAFFLE

Chamber ATV RaffleDrawing Sunday, September 28 (Falls Fest)
At Oconto Falls High School

First Prize:
Coleman 400 ATV (Loaded) With Trailer Made by the OFHS Tech Ed Department

Second Prize:
Pair of Kayaks (Emotion Guster 10)

Numerous Other Prizes!

Tickets 1 for $2.00 or 6 for $10.00

Tickets Available at:
United True Value, Witt’s Piggly Wiggly, OF City Hall,
Peshtigo National Bank, Hometown Vet, Mercier’s Fast Stop,
Stiles Food & Fuel, Sportsmen Exchange & Other Businesses

Video contest!!! – Run For the Trails

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runnersVideo contest!!! Grab your cellphone, camera or video camera & shoot a creative, fun, funny or motivational video encouraging people to sign up for the Run for the Trails Run/Walk on Sept. 28 & you could win!!!

The Run for the Trails is a 10k, 5k or 1 mile fun run on Sept. 28th in Oconto Falls. The run is a fundraiser to help establish a fund to create, maintain and improve a trail system in the Oconto Falls area. Some areas we are looking at starting work on is around the schools, like along County I and along Columbia St. by the new football fields. If you have been on some recreational trails before like the Fox River Trail, you can imagine the possibilities, nice wide paved trails that connect to already established sidewalk systems. We would hope to add embellishments such as sidewalks, landscape areas, possibly even fitness stations and signs. Our committee also hopes to work with the City and State on getting sidewalks in where it makes sense to have them as well, further connecting the trail system.

What we want from you is a video encouraging people to sign up for this AWESOME RUN/WALK EVENT! You can highlight the purpose of the event as a fundraiser for the Trail fund, you can go at it from a fitness angle, like how awesome it is to run/walk & be fit, or how much FUN the event will be, whatever you think… be creative, funny, etc. The website to register for the run if you can incorporate that any way possible, as well as so that you can go to the site for more info is: https://runforthetrails.eventbrite.com

Videos should be 30 seconds or less and have appropriate content. All videos may be shared via email, websites, Facebook, Twitter and various other social media. All submissions must be received to annsennhome@yahoo.com no later than midnight August 25th. The winner will be chosen August 26th, and that winner will receive a free entry into the event as well as an event tech shirt, and lots of publicity for their video 🙂

Good luck & have fun making the video!

RAPUNZEL CAST ANNOUNCED FOR SATURDAY PERFORMANCES

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RAPUNZELIt’s out of the tower and on the run as a zany cast of friends and foes help Rapunzel’s harrowing escape from the towering imprisonment of Madame Gothel. Add a dash of French flair and a pinch of personal triumph and friendship and you have story you won’t forget! Join us this Saturday, August 9 when the Missoula Children’s Theatre and more than 50 local students present an original musical adaptation of RAPUNZEL.

Playing the title character, Rapunzel, are local students Lyndsey Luebke and Andrea Spang, Matthew Courchaine and Liam Spillane as the Princes, Maddie Sprout as Madame Gothel, Aidan Spillane and Catie Kramer as Rapunzel’s Parents Maurice and Monquie, Adeline Pumplun, Aliza Dickinson, Skylar Marquardt, Saffron Mears, Connor Romandine, Aaliyah Fowler, Simon Pumplun, and Emily Umentum as the Wood Elves, Victoria Athey and Lauren Meyer as the Ears of Corn, Alex Spang as the Potato, Grace Shamburek and Faith Shamburek as the Unicorns, Julie Truckenbrod, Sophia Collar, Isabella Heinke, Daisy Grinsteiner, Nora Strock, Julia Zablocki, and Grace Ferfecki as the Pixies, Kyrie Piaskowski, Brady Heinke, Deklan Wijas, Helen Marquardt, Jena Truckenbrod, and Rebecca Christenson as the Gremlins, Heath Piakowski, Tori Fowler, Makenzie Jackson as the Billy Goats Gruff. The Three Bears and Beaver are made up of Owen Heinke, Mary Peterson, Tess Maggio, and Lilly Grinsteiner. Caitrin Lonzo, Grace Oninski, Lauryn Slade, and Olivia Spang will play the Ogres. Appearing as the Mushrooms are Trinity Nelson, Anikka Lagerquist, Lauren Wijas, Olivia Strock, Emily Elliott, Addyson Behnke, Gwen Maggio, Greta Collar, Keller Wijas, and Chloe Sampley. Kaitlyn Kramarczyk will serve as Assistant Director throughout the week.

RAPUNZEL will be presented at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Falls Area Performing Arts Center, located at Oconto Falls High School. Tickets are $13 for adults & $8 for students (includes processing fee) and are available at Oconto Falls High School in the Commons Area from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. through Friday and at the door on Saturday.

The Missoula Children’s Theatre residency in Oconto Falls is brought to you by the Oconto Falls Friends of the Arts with support from ST Paper Company, CenturyLink, Community Memorial Hospital, and Neva Hodge-Lemorande. For more information, call the Oconto Falls Friends of the Arts at (920) 848-7469.

Abrams Theatre Presents “The Fox on the Fairway”

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fox_lgAbrams Spotlight Productions, Inc. will present, The Fox on the Fairway (Book by Ken Ludwig) August 8, 2014 – August 17, 2014 at The Byng Community Theater in Abrams.

A tribute to the great English farces of the 1930’s and 1940’s, The Fox on the Fairway takes audiences on a hilarious romp which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it’s a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers’ classics. A charmingly madcap adventure about love, life, and man’s eternal love affair with…golf.

Opening night is Friday, August 8 at 7:00pm. Abrams Spotlight Productions, Inc. will be celebrating by having an Opening Night Gala. Patrons that attend opening night will receive complimentary hors d’oeuvres and drinks after the show (with the cast and crew).

Subsequent show dates are as follows:

August 9th at 1pm & 7pm
August 10th at 1pm
August 15th at 7pm
August 16th at 1pm & 7pm
August 17th at 1pm

Performances are at The Byng Community Theater, 5852 Maple Street, Abrams. Tickets are $12.00 for Adults (18-64), $10.00 for Seniors (65+) and Youth (5-17), and $5.00 for Children (4 and under). Tickets can be purchased online at www.AbramsTheatre.com or by calling the Box Office at 920-826-5852.

Missoula Children’s Theatre Auditions on August 4

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RAPUNZELThe audition for the Missoula Children’s Theatre production of RAPUNZEL will be held on Monday, August 4 at 9:00 a.m. in the Falls Area Performing Arts Center, located at Oconto Falls High School. There are roles for those students entering 1st grade through grade 12. Approximately 50-60 local students will be cast to appear in the show with the MCT Tour Actor/Director. There is no guarantee that everyone who auditions will be cast in the play. Students wishing to audition must arrive by 8:45 a.m. and stay for the entire two-hour audition session. The first rehearsal will begin approximately 15-30 minutes after the audition.

This is a group audition–no advance preparation is necessary, but a smile J never hurts. Students should just be ready to come and have a good time!

Rehearsals will be conducted every day from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Oconto Falls High School in the Falls Area Performing Arts Center and the Choir room. Although not all cast members will be needed at every session, those auditioning must have a clear schedule for the entire week and if selected, be able to attend all rehearsals required for their role. A detailed rehearsal schedule will be distributed at the conclusion of the audition. Cast members scheduled for the full 4½ hours of rehearsal will be asked to bring a sack lunch and snack.

The performances will be held on Saturday, August 9 at 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. and will be presented at the Falls Area Performing Arts Center, located in Oconto Falls High School. The students in the cast will be called for dress rehearsal before the performance that day. All those cast must be available for all scheduled performances.

The Missoula Children’s Theatre is a non-profit organization based in Missoula, Montana. This coming year more than 65,000 cast members across the globe will take to the stage to the delight and applause of their families, friends, community, neighbors and teachers! The residency in Oconto Falls is made possible by The Oconto Falls Friends of the Arts with help from the following sponsors: ST PAPER, CENTURYLINK, COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, and NEVA HODGE-LEMORANDE.

For more information, please contact the Oconto Falls Friends of the Arts at (920) 848-7469.

Summer BOOT CAMP

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10421394_579797122131752_8842617622619519272_nSummer BOOT CAMP
5 Tuesday sessions
July 1-July 29
3:15-4:15

Classes at:
NWTC Oconto Falls
649 E. Jackson St
Oconto Falls, WI 54154

Resume Writing
Job search strategies
Employer Perspective
Interviewing
Networking

Registration required at careers@nwtc.edu or
(920)-498-6250
Attendees need to be prepared to work and complete assignments each week relevant to landing a job!!!