WINONA, Minn. – Don Walski, a former Winna deputy police chief, died of cancer at age 71. He was deputy chief from1996 to 2003. He had begun his police carer in Austin. In 2003, he left the Winona police department to become security director at Winona State University where he had previously worked and taught part time. He was in the U.S. Army from 1971 to 1973, mostly as an infantry tanker in Germany. He held a 1984 sociology degree from Winona State and a master’s in public safety leadership from St. Cloud State. He held a certificate from the National FBI Academy in 1990.
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