Oconto County Reporter from Oconto, Wisconsin • A3

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The promotion means she will be working with lower ranking NCOs, rather than junior enlisted soldiers. Priscilla Reyes has two jobs. One is a driver for the Oconto terminal of Kobussen Buses Ltd. The other is a citizen soldier serving in the Wisconsin Army National Guard. Because supervisors at Kobussen are very supportive as she performs her second job, Reyes recently presented them with the Patriot Award.

The award to terminal manager Blaise Bodway and dispatcher Dawn Melland received goes to supervisors who go above and beyond to ensure their Reserve employees continue their military service without problem or interruptions. duty is my passion and overwhelmed to have a supportive company like Kobussen Buses to ride out this journey beside Sgt. Reyes said in the presentation March 13. Reyes said she recognized that covering her absences can be difficult for Bodway and Melland, so she is truly grateful. make it so much easier for me to do my job without the worry about having to be concerned about this one while she told them.

Normally, guard members are on duty for about 45 days a year, though Reyes was out 63 days last year. Reyes said while nothing compares to the feeling she gets while in uniform, there are similarities to driving a bus. take the kids out to the wood line or force them to do strenuous workouts for discipline like I do (with) my adult children soldiers, but I do get to see their happy faces, hear their stories, and be a different kind of, more gentle role model, in the lives of these she said. Reyes added worked in several kinds of jobs, and a relief finally work at a civilian job that gives me such purpose and has so much Afew days after the ceremony last month, Reyes was offered a position at Camp Williams for at least a year. She was recommended for the job at the U.S.

Property and Fiscal Office, and accepted. I return from this leave of absence, I will certainly be returning back to work for Kobussen she noted. While Kobussen has many drivers who are veterans, Melland believes Reyes is their first employee on active duty with the National Guard. Reyes moved to Oconto about years ago, and has worked at Kobussen for years. She joined the Guard nearly 10 years ago, while she was a junior at Oconto Falls High School.

the daughter of Leopoldo and Gabriela Reyes of Oconto Falls. For her first six years, This is the second time Reyes has been able to present a Award to her employer. She worked at Springside Cheese between December 2009 and February 2012, during which she nominated owner Wayne Hintz for the honor. Army Guard member recognizes supervisors for support of service KENT TEMPUS USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN Army National Guard Sgt. Priscilla Reyes presents Oconto Kobussen Buses Ltd.

terminal manager Blaise Bodway, left, and dispatcher Dawn Melland with Patriot Award. Reyes nominated them for the recognition for their support of her service in the Guard while she also drives a school bus for the company. Aconvicted child sex offender scheduled to be released next week will be living in the town of Townsend, the Oconto County Office announced. Duane C. Trossen will be residing in the 16000 block of Forest Hill Drive beginning April 25.

Trossen, who turns 77 next week, pleaded no contest two counts of second degree sexual assault of a child and was sentenced in April 2003 to 10 years prison and 20 years of extended supervision. Among the conditions of his supervision is no unsupervised contact with any minors unless approved by the Department of Corrections in advance and an adult chaperone is present, according to on- line court records. He is also not to enter taverns, bars, liquor stores and not to consume alcohol or drugs. Trossen was also convicted in 1970 of indecent behavior with achild in Sheboygan County. In both cases, victims were juvenile males, according to the office.

The DOC on April 3 issued a Special Bulletin Notification on Trossen. An SBN is sent to law enforcement officials in the county and areas of an offender's residence, employment or school enrollment and provides detailed information from the DOC Sexual Offender Release Program on a specific offender prior to scheduled release from confinement, or relocation to Wisconsin. Wisconsin law does not require special bulletin notifications for all offenders released from prison or a mental health facility, or that move to Wisconsin. The overall purpose of the SBN is to highlight those cases that may pose a significant risk to the community. The Oconto City Council last week rejected an appeal by Trossen and the DOC for Trossen to live in the city, which several years ago passed an ordinance banning offenders for whom an SBN was issued from living in almost every part of the city.

The office state law authorizes law enforcement agencies to inform the public of a sex release when, in the discretion of the agency, the release of information will enhance public safety and protection. Until the law requiring registration of offenders was passed, law enforcement was not aware of where they lived after they were released. abuse of this information to threaten, intimidate, or harass registered sex offenders will not be the notification states. such abuse could potentially end law ability to do community notification. We believe the only person who wins if community notification ends is the sex offender, since sex offenders derive their power through Sex offender to be released, will reside in Townsend USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN Duane Trossen The merits of using tax dollars to erect a sculpture to promote longstanding as a walleye fishing destination debated at length by City Council members last week.

Motorists would be able to see the 10-foot long, five- foot high sculpture from Highway 41, Oconto Area Chamber of Commerce president Ron Hayes told the Committee of the Whole on April 11. be testament that we are a walleye wonder Hayes said. The Tourism Committee had recommended the city spend $10,000 on the sculpture, which would be placed on a pole in the west roundabout on Highway 22. City administrator Sara Perrizo said the committee have that much available in its budget, and suggested the city kick in $3,000 to $5,000, and let the committee fundraise for the balance. Alderman Al Schreiber suggested maybe just a few thousand would be appropriate.

think fair to tax the residents of city to put up a sculpture out on a he said. is meant to bring people into town. I doubt if the sculpture will have people coming into the city just to see it. not going to stand in awe of a fish sculpture in a roundabout. Council member Kim Bronikowski agreed visitors come just to see the sculpture, but pointed to the large number of boats at the harbor the previous weekend.

want to spend tax money on it either, but we have to start showing Oconto has something to see and talk about she said. lot of these guys come from all Alderperson Jean Feldt, who chairs the Tourism Committee, said the sculpture would be excellent investment in because in addition to being seen, it could be photographed and used in marketing materials. However, Feldt added, that fund-raising should pay for part of the sculpture. She recommended the city cover half the cost. think anyone will stop and look at the walleye either, but it will attract attention it is going to draw people she said.

Schreiber recommend $2,500, and his motion on that amount was approved 6-0. However, the city must first get permission to erect the sculpture, being designed from an area artist, from the Department of Transportation, which owns the roundabouts. Fire Chief John Reed praised the proposal. is the type of thinking we need to have now to promote the city of Reed said. lot of other activities are going on, and got to do something get the city moving Walleye may greet city visitors COW agrees to cover share of cost KENT TEMPUS USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN.