• "How to Deer Proof Your Garden" Workshop Saturday June 7, 2008 at 1pm - 2:30pm and Sunday June 8, 2008 at 10:30am - Noon and again at 1pm-2:30pm

    Sandy Baker, consultant to the Humane Society of the US will be coming to Oshkosh this weekend. She will be conducting a workshop entitled "How to Deer Proof Your Garden" for the residents of the affected Osborn Avenue area on Saturday June 7, 2008 at 1pm - 2:30pm, and then doing site/yard evaluations for the individual residents in the area for as long as it takes on Saturday. The workshop will be conducted at the Public Safety building community room.

    Sandy Baker will then be presenting the same workshop to the public at Stuart's on Brooks Rd (formerly Gro-Plant) on Sunday June 8, 2008 at 10:30am - Noon and again at 1pm-2:30pm. Stuarts will be doing some advertising to their customers and noticing it on their website. She is flying back to the east coast right after the second workshop. Ms. Baker will also be doing an interview with the Oshkosh Northwestern and they are apparently advertising the event in the Thursday edition of the newspaper. I am also trying to get her on a radio interview and will contact Tony Neumann to post it on the city website.

    Ten years ago Sandy Baker began teaching "How to Deer Proff your Garden", and also consulting with landscapers at an arboretum on the subject. She has stayed abreast of new products/technology regarding deer proofing, and has had the advantage of input from thousands of workshop participants who have developed many clever solutions to deer-human conflicts in their gardens. A life long organic gardener and previous owner of a small retail greenhouse and nursery business, Sandy has had personal experience with a broad range of plant materials and related products.

  • Speed Watch training will be held on Monday May 19, 2008 at 6:00 p.m | download pdf

    Do you think that the cars on your street are speeding? Are you interested in being a trained Speed Watch volunteer?

    Speed Watch is a program where trained volunteers use a radar gun to document speeding vehicles. Speed Watch activities are between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.The radar logs are then turned to the police department. The registered owners of those vehicles are sent a courtesy letter reminding them to slow down.

    The Oshkosh Police Department has run the program with Police Explorers and Oshkosh School District volunteers for the last two years. The department is expanding the program and is looking for citizen volunteers to run radar.

    Some of the qualifications are as follows: You must be at least 18 years of age or older and pass a background check, you must attend Speed Watch training; radar will be run in your neighborhood or those areas deemed by the department as areas where speeding occurs and extra enforcement is needed.

    Speed Watch training will be held on Monday May 19, 2008 at 6:00 p.m... The session will last 1 to 2 hours depending on class size.

    Make sure that when you sign up to be a Speed Watch volunteer that you sign up with a buddy as it takes 2 to run Speed Watch, one to run radar and one to do the radar log.

    How do you become a Speed Watch volunteer? First fill out a Volunteer application which can be found either online at www.oshkoshpd.com or pick one up in the Oshkosh Police Department lobby. Then turn it in to:

    Sgt. Steve Sagmeister – Speed Watch
    Oshkosh Police Department
    P.O. 1130
    Oshkosh WI 54903

    by May 15, 2008.

    If have any questions, feel free to contact Sgt. Steve Sagmeister at 236-5742 or email.

  • Safety City - First Session Starts on June 16, 2008

  • National Night Out - Tuesday, August 5, 2008

  • Shelter Trek - Saturday, September 6, 2008

  • Winnebago County Crime Prevention Health and Safety Expo - Saturday, October 11, 2008
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