WHBY Morning News 4-25-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now the latest from the whby Omni Glass and Paine
News Center.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning, it's forty two degrees at five oh four.
I'm landed more and estimated two hundred and five thousand
people attend Day one of the NFL Draft in Green Bay.
At one point during the first round last night, fans
were directed to the lampbell Field Bowl to watch the
action as the viewing area near the main stage reached capacity.
Dan O'Connor and his children traveled from Illinois.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
It was a huge.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Chance for my kids to come because you know, the
draft has a lot of opportunities for kids and events
that they can take part in, and it's it's a
great experience for everybody, the whole family.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Fans from other countries made the trip to Green Bay,
including one from Ecuador.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Is the first time, actually that I've seen so many years,
is from so many teams moving doing like check mark
you know which team we're missing, and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's fun to see a lot of people. The NFL
Draft continues tonight with rounds two and three. You can
find more coverage on our way website, whby dot com
and on our Facebook page. Went first round draft picks
made their way from the green Room to the NFL
Draft stage. Last night, they passed custom artwork produced by
Wisconsin artist Ike Winter. Took scrapwood from things like discarded

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dressers or entertainment centers and created the locals of all
thirty two NFL teams. Winter can't believe his work got
national attention.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
Very surreal, that's the.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Only word I can really say. It's a trip.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Spending seven hundred hours on a project in my solitude
of a studio.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
And having such a connection with these pieces, but.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Now seeing them in the front of everybody and everybody
appreciating them, and yeah, this is very surreal.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
You can hear more from Winter and see some of
his artwork in a video posted to the Whby Facebook page.
Those attending the NFL Draft this weekend, we'll get to
try plenty of Wisconsin products. NFL source lead Maisha Boyce
says they are working with a number of local and
regional vendors.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
We had eighty eight vendors from across the state. It's
the first time the NFL has opened up this program
to be statewide, so we're really excited to see the
involvement from those outside areas, but outside of those eighty
eight businesses, their procurement opportunities have been made available to
all local businesses, so we're going to see numbers that
exceed that when we get to our economic impact reports.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Wisconsin made products included cheese, kurds, beer, kringle, and apparel.
Legislation that could help identify Wisconsin's Missing an Action will
be reintroduced to this session. Reporter Bob Haik has the details.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Tuesday was Veterans Day at the Capitol, and Jordan Tillison
with the Wisconsin VFW spoke about the importance of the
University of Wisconsin Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
But this is what it's important because mental health when
we talk about certain things, the UWMI Recovery.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Project is about the soul of our veterans.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
The volunteer group generally receives no state or federal funding
and searches for missing personnel as assigned by the Department
of Defense Representative Christine Siniki.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
There are approximately eighty one thousand Americans who remained missing
from World War Two, Korea and Vietnam. Roughly fifteen hundred
of those are from Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
This will be the fourth session in which the Milwaukee Democrat,
has introduced the bill to provide annual funding for teams
to search specifically for Wisconsin's missing in action at the
Capital Bob Haigue Wisconsin Radio Network.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
The winner of the nine point five million dollar Megabucks
tickets sold in Kakana comes forward. Wisconsin Lottery officials say
Tanya Headkey of Nina claimed her prize Tuesday at the
state lottery office in Madison. Headkey, who plays lotto games infrequently,
matched all six Megabucks numbers drawn on April twelfth. She
bought the ticket at the Quick Trip store on Gertrude
Street and Kakana. The nine point five million dollar prize

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is the largest one in Wisconsin this year.