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#WarmingShelters and cold-weather resources across Northeast #Wisconsin

Michelle Wenz
Tue, December 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM EST

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – "As winter temperatures settle into Northeast Wisconsin, counties across the region are activating warming centers and emergency shelters to help protect residents from the cold.

"Local officials are urging anyone without #ReliableHeat, or anyone who may be vulnerable during #ExtremeWeather, to use the warming locations available in their communities. Many sites operate during regular business hours, while several overnight shelters expand capacity during the winter months.

Officials recommend calling ahead, as hours and availability may change based on staffing, weather conditions or demand.

Here is a county-by-county look at warming locations and shelters currently available across Northeast Wisconsin:

BROWN COUNTY (#GreenBayWI Area)

St. John’s Ministries — Men’s Shelter, 411 St. John St., Green Bay; Women’s Shelter, 700 E. Walnut St., Green Bay
Seasonal emergency shelters open nightly for the winter season, offering overnight refuge and support services. Daytime resource centers, including the Micah Center and Wellspring, also provide warmth and assistance.

New Community Shelter — 301 Mather St., Green Bay
Open year-round, 24 hours a day, the shelter provides emergency housing for adults, daily meals and transitional support programs.
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House of Hope — 1660 Christiana St., Green Bay
Offers shelter and services for youth and young parents in need of emergency housing.

The Salvation Army of Greater Green Bay — 626 Union Court, Green Bay
Operates as a daytime warming center when temperatures or wind chills reach 0°F or below, providing a warm space and hot meals.

WINNEBAGO COUNTY

Public libraries and community centers throughout #WinnebagoCounty serve as warming locations during regular hours:

Menasha Public Library — 440 1st St., #Menasha

Neenah Public Library — 240 E. Wisconsin Ave., #Neenah

Oshkosh Public Library — 106 Washington Ave., #Oshkosh

Omro Public Library — 405 E. Huron St., #Omro

Winneconne Public Library — 31 S. 2nd St., #Winneconne

State Street Center — 206 State St., Oshkosh

St. Paul Lutheran Church — 200 N. Commercial St., Neenah
Opens as a warming location during periods of extreme cold, typically when temperatures reach 10°F or below.

Additional overnight resources include Day by Day Shelter and Father Carr’s Place 2B in Oshkosh, which provide emergency beds and meals for individuals experiencing homelessness.

FOX VALLEY / OUTAGAMIE COUNTY

While not all warming centers activate daily, several #FoxValley organizations offer cold-weather refuge:

Public #libraries in Appleton and surrounding communities often serve as warming sites during business hours.

#Churches and #nonprofit agencies throughout the Fox Valley open temporary warming spaces based on weather conditions, community needs and staffing levels.

Residents are encouraged to monitor local announcements or contact #211 for the most up-to-date listings.

MANITOWOC COUNTY

#Manitowoc Warming Shelter — 702 State St., Manitowoc
The shelter is scheduled to operate November 12, 2025, through April 10, 2026, providing overnight space for up to 12 individuals along with an evening meal and breakfast.

Additional housing assistance is available through Hope House of Manitowoc County, which serves families, couples and single women, and The Haven of Manitowoc County, a men’s shelter offering emergency lodging and support services.

Residents across Northeast Wisconsin can also call #211Wisconsin for a current list of open warming centers, shelters and support programs. The service operates 24/7 and helps connect people with the nearest available assistance during periods of #ExtremeCold."

Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/warming-shelters-cold-weather-resources-203824657.html

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Perhaps the Most Important Art Exhibit in NE Wisconsin’s History, Maybe

If you live in NE Wisconsin, don’t miss A Creative Place, currently on at the Trout Museum of Art in Appleton through May 18th.

I’ve often said that one of the issues we have as a community is that we lack self-awareness. As cultural agents, so to speak, we know the stories we know. We know what we’ve done, what our friends and teachers have done, and what we’ve seen and heard about. But awareness doesn’t extend much further. Places like Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, etc. don’t have the benefit of seeing themselves reflected by the larger cultural awareness. Things that happened, even in the not so distant past, just disappear into memory for lack of recognition and documentation. You can’t easily look things up. In some respects, it’s easier to know what was happening here in the 19th century than in the 1990s or even 2000s. The same is probably true of many peripheral places on the map.

Consider that the population of NE Wisconsin is somewhere between that of Estonia and Luxembourg. If this place had a sense of identity as strong as either of those, we would have museums dedicated to our cultural production and the streets would be lined with the busts of our poets and painters. Indeed, here are the museums: Luxembourg, Estonia; and here is a bust of F.R. Kreutzwald, physician and creator or Estonia’s national literature. I’m sure there are many more.

So, how about Edna Ferber, perhaps the most famous non-living writer to emerge from the Fox Valley? In her day, she was a popular writer of short stories. Her work is best known now for having been adapted to film. She wrote the stories that Giant—starring James Dean—and Showboat were based on. Where is her bust? Is there a park named after her? A square? A street? The only thing named for her in Appleton is a sad, little, suburban alley. In Green Bay, the sole point on the map I could find named for a local cultural figure is Red Smith K-8 School, after the famed sportswriter.

Imagine my surprise when I moved to New York City in 1999, picked up “The New York Press” to read on the subway, and found a column that frequently referenced Allouez, Wisconsin—the village nestled between Green Bay and De Pere that I’d grown up in. This was Slackjaw by Jim Knipfel, an acerbic, depressive writer who’d felt out of place in all the same places I had. (The New York Press was a fascinating read for me, it had this almost baroque sense of itself and its politics ranged from the radical left to just to the right of Louis XVI. It also ran Ben Katchor’s cartoons, which were wonderful.) I doubt many in Green Bay are aware of Jim Knipfel’s writing, which is a shame because it’s honest, alarming, entertaining, and always worth reading. But I don’t think his name has ever come up in conversation in my presence. As far as I know, no one’s thought to claim him as a local cultural figure, or to welcome him back. I suspect he would have to be invited or cajoled into returning. Another, even more nationally celebrated author is Mona Simpson, who wrote Anywhere, But Here, (“here” being a thinly veiled Green Bay) and five other novels. Maybe if we celebrated our cultural figures, they wouldn’t feel the need to run away.

That’d be nice. But when our people make a name for themselves out in the world, word seldom reaches us.

Changing this, by which I mean becoming more self-aware, means we need to do all of the stuff we haven’t done successfully in the past. We need curators, documentarians, historians, and an engaged audience. We have to make our past available so that we can understand our present. These are difficult things to do. Personally, I’ve often failed to be being a part of the audience. I forget to attend things, I like my home. I’m somehow more comfortable making things happen than just enjoying things. But without a platform for promoting my own events, I’m not doing much of either.

That’s why I got very excited about A Creative Place; Art from Northeastern Wisconsin 1940 to Present, the final exhibit at what will be the original Trout Museum of Art in Appleton once the new one is built. Someone finally took the first stab at curating a historical overview of the art of NE Wisconsin. I’m grateful to Annemarie Sawkins and the institutions that supported the work. It was a revelation to me. I saw art by people I knew, of people I knew, and featuring places I know, all put into a context that extends back to before I was born. I even saw art that I’ve personally exhibited, which made me feel I’ve played a small role in this history too.

The exhibit runs through May 18, click here for more info. If you do go, be aware that the restrooms are part of the exhibit. I didn’t find out until afterwards. There is a printed catalog available compiled by the curator in collaboration with UWGB professor and printmaker Christine Style.

Pardon reflections, the general askewness, and the shadows, etc. Here are a few that I particularly enjoyed.

This was one of my favorite pieces. Joann Kindt, whom I’d never heard of, was well represented by three paintings. This one was my favorite.

Naturally, one of the best things about the exhibit was encountering a few, contemporary local artists I hadn’t seen before.

I spotted that this one’s for sale at an online gallery… I would 100% drop $2,000 on this if I could afford it. This is an entrancing picture.

Norbert Kox is probably the best known visual artist from the area. Though a religious man, he had, shall we say, an idiosyncratic take on Christian iconography. Enough to get him into hot water with the Catholic League. His exhibit at the Neville Museum in the early 2000s was probably the most ‘controversial’ cultural event in Green Bay in recent decades. It was played up on Fox News, there were protests, etc. Several years later, we showed a lot of the same work at my coffeehouse, and no-one cared. I liked Norb and his work. I felt that he wasn’t represent well at the exhibit. Maybe his better work wasn’t available.

This one gave me goosebumps. This photo does not do this work justice.

Anyway, I encourage you to go! If you can’t, or if you are reading this after May 18th, 2025, perhaps you’ll be able to order the print catalog from the gift shop.

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