Friday, June 1, 2018 • Our 172nd year • $1

WEATHER • 9A

TODAY77°/53°

Not as warm

SATURDAY76°/57°

Some sun, then clouds; pleasant

Gazette at a GlanceLOCAL • 3A, 8A

City hall repairs continueMoving Janesville City Council meetings out

of City Hall for the first time in five decades has gone about as well as one could expect, officials say. Since early March, city meetings and the city manager’s office have been temporarily displaced while the fourth floor of City Hall undergoes renovations. The project hasn’t ex-perienced any major delays. The goal is to finish the fourth floor improvements by Aug. 3, which is the 50th anniversary of City Hall’s dedication.

Semis crash, one catches fireAll northbound lanes of Interstate-90/39 are

open after a traffic crash near Mile Marker 180 south of Janesville closed the road for more than three hours Thursday. The crash occurred at about 2:46 p.m. Thursday when a semitrailer truck that was trying to re-enter the Interstate was rear-ended by another semitrailer truck, according to a State Patrol news release.

STATE • 2A

Nicholson sought state jobRepublican U.S. Senate candidate Kevin

Nicholson is running as an outsider looking to shake up the GOP establishment. But records obtained by The Associated Press show he successfully lobbied top officials in Gov. Scott Walker’s administration to land a coveted ap-pointment to the influential state Department of Veterans Affairs Board.

NATION/WORLD • 6B-7B

Politics impede holiday dinnerThe 2016 presidential election was so toxic

that Americans spent nearly 74 million fewer hours with family and friends on Thanksgiv-ing Day, new research suggests. Two economists wrote in today’s edition of the journal Science reporting a study they did that compiled data from users’ cellphones.

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Advice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5A

Classified . . . . . . . . . . . .7B-9B

Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5B

Horoscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9B

Legals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7A

Lotteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8A

Nation/World . . . . . . . . 6B-7B

Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8A

Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6A-7A

Puzzles, Games . . . . . . . . . .9B

State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2A

Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5A

Sports • 1B-4B

LeBron James scores 51 for Cleveland, but Golden State wins Game 1 of the NBA Finals in overtime, 124-114

DEATH NOTICES • 8A•Donna L. Arnold/Janesville•Blanche (Peterson) Garrity/Janesville•Patricia Hughes/Janesville•Shirley Jansen/Delavan•Sandy K. Johnson/Williams Bay•Guy A. Overlees/Sharon•Elsie Van Brocklin/Janesville

OBITUARIES • 8A•Linda Kay Brooks/Stoughton•Emily Grace Sage/Janesville•Doris M. Schmidt/Janesville

By Ashley McCallum

amccallum@gazettextra .com

JANESVILLE

As a nurse rolled a newborn ba-

by’s foot along a scanner Thursday,

an image of the tiny foot with five

little toes slowly unveiled itself on

a nearby screen.

The baby was the third at Mercy-

health Hospital and Trauma Cen-

ter—and the third in the state—to

have his footprint preserved digi-

tally, said Gretchen Finley, direc-

tor of maternity services at Mer-

cyhealth.

The Janesville hospital part-

nered with CertaScan Technolo-

gies, the only digital footprinting

company in the country, to become

the first Wisconsin hospital to of-

fer the service, said Jim McKenna,

president and chief operating offi-

cer for CertaScan.

Mercyhealth Hospital-Rockton

Avenue in Rockford, Illinois, has

offered digital footprinting for

several years, Finley said. The ser-

vice came to Mercyhealth through

the medical system’s merger with

Rockford Health System. Finley

saw the technology and wanted to

implement it in Janesville.

Digital footprinting provides a

more detailed print than an ink-

and-paper footprint, McKenna

said. The digital print can be used

for identification throughout a per-

son’s lifetime.

Hospitals started taking baby

footprints with ink and paper

around 1930, McKenna said. The

prints were designed as an identi-

fying record for babies and a keep-

sake for parents.

By the 1980s, inked baby foot-

prints were no longer considered

a reliable source of forensic iden-

tification because of their lack of

detail, McKenna said. They then

were used simply as keepsakes and

for internal hospital identification.

By comparison, the new digital

prints can be valuable in police in-

vestigations. CertaScan, which op-

erates in 27 states, partners with

the National Center for Missing

and Exploited Children on an elec-

tronic database that’s used in cases

of missing or abandoned children

who are unidentified, McKenna

said.

Locally, nurses use the technolo-

gy to take a photo of the baby’s face

and footprints and the mother’s

index finger prints, establishing a

digital link between mother and

baby, McKenna said.

The information is kept in an

encrypted, private database.

Paper printouts of the foot-

prints are given to parents immedi-

ately after the scan. Each printout

is accompanied by a letter with a

15-digit access code for parents to

access the digital footprints online.

Some parents use the digital

prints to make additional keep-

sakes, McKenna said. Others use

them to get tattoos made of their

children’s footprints.

Photos by Angela Major/amajor@gazettextra .comAbove: A baby gets a digital footprint taken Thursday at Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center in Janesville. The scans provide more detailed prints than ink and paper that can be used for forensic purposes. Below: A computer screen shows a set of scanned footprints.

Jim McKenna, president and chief operating officer for CertaScan, gives a digital footprint training demonstration to nurses Thursday at Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center in Janesville.

By Don Lee and Kate Linthicum

Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTONPresident Donald Trump’s decision Thurs-

day to slap tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada, Mexico and the European Union sharply escalated global trade tensions and widened a rift with America’s closest allies.

The Trump administration’s announce-ment that its once-delayed tariffs would take effect starting today was met with swift con-demnation and promises of dollar-for-dollar

retaliation as well as a multilateral challenge

at the World Trade Organization.

Canadian leaders reacted particularly an-

grily to the tariffs, 25 percent on steel and 10

percent on aluminum. Trump had justified the

import levies on the grounds of national securi-

ty—a line of reasoning Canadian officials called

absurd, illogical and illegal.

Canada, the largest exporter of steel and alu-

minum to the United States, said it would apply

countertariffs of 25 percent and 10 percent on

$16.6 billion worth of American metals, farm

goods and other products, to take effect July 1.

“That Canada could be a national security

threat to the U.S. is inconceivable,” said Cana-

dian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, noting the

many Canadians who have died alongside U.S.

soldiers in joint military operations over the

years. “These tariffs are an affront to the long-

standing security partnership between Canada

and the United States.”

Mexico responded to the news by announc-

ing immediate retaliatory tariffs on U.S. prod-

ucts including pork bellies, apples, grapes,

Tariff move stokes angerUS announces taxes on metals from NAFTA, EU allies, reigniting trade war fears

Mercyhealth takes newborn footprinting into digital age

A step forwardDigital scanning more useful

for identification, record-keeping

By Catherine W. Idzerda

cidzerda@gazettextra .com

JANESVILLEA lot has to happen before

student housing is built in Janesville—whether it’s locat-ed on campus, downtown or elsewhere.

But that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.

On Thursday, UW-White-water at Rock County’s Stu-dent Housing Committee held a community forum to discuss the results of its year-long stu-dent housing study.

About 25 people attended, but most were officials from UW-Whitewater, UW-White-water at Rock County, the Janesville School District, Blackhawk Technical College and the Rock County Board.

UW-Whitewater at Rock County is the new name for the UW-Rock County campus. The campus was joined with UW-Whitewater this year.

Kristin Filhouer, UW-White-water at Rock County campus administrator, told the group that although the committee recommended moving for-ward with student housing, the process will take time.

“Even if we get a positive response, we are many, many steps away from the (finished) project,” Filhouer stressed.

Regional Dean Charles Clark now will take the hous-ing recommendation to offi-cials at UW-Whitewater.

A community survey and a student survey will be includ-ed, as will the results of student focus groups held this year.

A student survey done in fall 2017 showed that 62 percent of students would consider living on campus if that were an op-tion.

Input from student focus groups revealed that students would be interested in off-cam-pus student housing, but only if it had such amenities as high-speed internet, laundry facili-ties, transportation to campus and access to coffee shops, Fil-houer said.

About 101 people responded to the community survey, and of those:

� About 80 percent said they would support a residence hall.

� About 68 percent thought the location should be on

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Panel: Pursue student housingA finished dormitory still ‘many steps away’

Turn to TARIFFS on Page 9A

Turn to HOUSING on Page 9A

Craig, Parker win regionals

Photos by Anthony Wahl/awahl@gazettextra .comLeft: Janesville Craig’s Micah Overley pitches during the team’s regional championship game against Milton on Thursday. The Cougars scored in every inning to beat the Red Hawks 13-3. Right: Janesville Parker’s Chase Hamilton shouts after reaching second base on a double during a regional championship game against Elkhorn. The Vikings won 6-3. Both the Cougars and the Vikings will play sectional semifinal games against Big Eight Conference foes at Riverside Park in Janesville on Tuesday. More on Page 1B