ARCADIA, Wis. – Ashley Furniture awarded $280,000 for robotics at schools around towns where it has factories, in Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. Among recipients:
> Wisconsin: Arcadia, Blair-Taylor, Cochrane-Fountain City, Eleva-Strum, Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau, Gilmanton, Holy Family, Independence, Mondovi, Saints Peter and Paul, Sparta, and Whitehall.
> Minnesota: Caledonia, Dakota Riverway, St. John’s, and Winona.
Since 1917 Ashley and the Ron and Wanek Foundation have put $664,000 into school robotics.