Waupaca students present Book Bundles, housing, bike library and mobile-clinic ideas to council

Seventh- and eighth-grade students from the Chain Exploration Center presented a set of community proposals to the Waupaca Common Council on March 4, urging projects aimed at literacy, housing, transportation and health services.

The proposals — delivered by several student teams and introduced by teacher Ty Nadski — included a Book Bundles home-delivery program for children ages 0–5, a plan to create affordable housing by selling and subdividing unused residential land, a bike library to let residents check out bikes via the public library, an application process to form a local Boys & Girls Club chapter, distribution of 55-gallon rain barrels to residents, and a proposal for a mobile prenatal clinic operated with Aspirus.

The students said the Book Bundles pilot would deliver about six books per order inside a waterproof bag, with families choosing one to four deliveries a year; students estimated startup costs of roughly $500 for bags and…