Eye On Oshkosh - Oshkosh Police Chief Dean Smith - taped 7-20-2023

On the most recent edition of Eye on Oshkosh, host Cheryl Hentz spends the hour talking with Oshkosh Police Chief Dean Smith. A large portion of the program is spent chatting about the department’s K9 program and its recent loss of Lando, one of the department’s K9 officers who had to be euthanized earlier this year after he developed an autoimmune disease that he just wasn’t recovering from. The department held a public memorial service for Lando to recognize his professional accomplishments and seizures, and to help the department, the community-at-large, and other nearby law enforcement agencies, grieve his passing and deal with their sudden and unexpected loss. They also discussed the department’s facility dog, Magic; training – both initial and ongoing – that K9s and their handler-officers receive; and the large cost involved in maintaining a K9 program; the most common types of crime currently being seen in Oshkosh and how crime has changed over the last couple of years and since Smith joined the department 7 years ago; as well as how people can become more aware of what’s going on in their own neighborhoods and surrounding area. You can see the show here or by following this link: https://youtu.be/rmf1LIpHC9s.

Eye On Oshkosh - Caravel Autism - taped 7-6-2023

We hear about autism a lot these days. But how many of us truly understand what it is, how it affects a person, how to recognize it, etc.? During this edition of Eye on Oshkosh, host Cheryl Hentz talks with Abby Amacher and Courtney Schroeder from Caravel Autism about these very subjects, as well as what the different types of autism there are, the main symptoms or characteristics of autism and how people can begin the diagnostic process if they think a loved one, specifically a child, may be autistic. You can watch the show by clicking on the show here, or by following this link and watching it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/91dE_1oNgUg