Walker Announces $500K Grant for Great Lakes Cheese Co. in Wausau

Governor Scott Walker used ‘Wisconsin Cheese Day’ to announce a 500-thousand-dollar state grant for the Great Lakes Cheese Company.  The funding will be used to assist the company in training workers for its 74-million-dollar facility under construction in Wausau.  Walker said “we applaud Great Lakes Cheese for not only investing in our state, but for investing in its workers.”  The governor says the state’s unemployment rate is so low Wisconsin has begun looking to neighboring states to fill jobs.  The 180-thousand-square foot plant is expected to open in 2019 and create about 200 new jobs over the next three years.