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Eagerly anticipated by Madison skateboarders, and promoted by grassroots organizers for more than a decade, the Irwin R. and Robert D. Goodman Skatepark is almost ready for business. The skatepark, located in Central Park on Madison’s near east side, is set for its official opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday, Sept. 10, at 11 a.m. But even before it’s official, skateboarders can have a crack at the multifeatured park as substantial completion is planned for Aug. 29, barring unanticipated delays. The skatepark is named after the $250,000 contribution from the Goodman Foundation. Much of the excitement stems from the fact that skateboarding is a restricted activity, and now skateboarders will have an authorized location to practice their sport. Patrick Hasburgh, key organizer and “spokesdude” for the Madison Skatepark Fund said, “It’s illegal to skateboard everywhere except on a sidewalk in a residential neighborhood.” This leaves most of downtown and all city streets off-limits for skateboarders. The skatepark has been part of the Central Park scheme since its inception. The organizers always felt it was of prime importance to have Madison’s first skatepark in a central location that’s easily accessible by numerous bus lines. Hasburgh is enthusiastic about the park’s features. He describes it as a “destination.” It will be one of the bigger parks in the state, and will contain the only cement pool feature in the Midwest. Early skateboarders were California surfers who would skateboard in empty swimming pools to mimic the feel of their sport when the surf wasn’t favorable. Now, Midwestern skateboarders will be able to have that same experience in the “Eggplant Bowl,” named after the Willy

High demand expected for T-baskets Volunteers and donors are needed to help collect food and prepare Thanksgiving Baskets, so 3,000 families can make a home cooked holiday meal. This effort has really shown how the community pulls together to help those in need. Article on page 4.

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Patrick Hasburgh and sons Ranger (left) and Fletcher (right) stand in front of the “Flow Bowl” at the soon-to-be-opened Central Park skatepark. Street Co-op for its substantial contribution to the project. It is nine feet deep at its lowest point, has “wedding cake steps” like the entrance stairs in a swimming pool and, true to its name, it will be purple. In addition to the highly anticipated Eggplant Bowl, the park contains a smaller bowl and a plaza-style park that mimics a street, with ledges, stairs, banks, railings and other street elements. The skatepark occupies roughly 20,000 square feet of Central Park and has approximately 18,900 square feet of skating area. It is designed to cater to all skill levels and styles of skateboarding. Key to making the park a destination is overhead lighting that will enable the park to be used in the evening. Ann Shea, parks

public information officer for Madison Parks Department, said the facility will be illuminated by an athletic field-type lighting system, incorporating the latest technology to reduce glare and light spill. The lights will go on automatically at dusk and turn off at 10 p.m. Both the idea for the lights and the funds to make them a reality came from the Goodman brothers. When the Madison Skatepark Fund initially approached the Goodman Foundation, it sought $200,000 for development. “When we were talking to the Goodman (Foundation), we were trying to sell it as a destination park (and we were asked) if it

Daithi’s colorful abstract oil paintings will be on display in GCC’s Ballweg Gallery during September. Themes range from beauty, music, catharsis, social injustice and nature. Article on page 23.

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UW program connects homeless pet owners with social workers Dr. William Gilles directs WisCARES, a program with an objective of using pet ownership by the homeless and indigent to improve their access to human medical and social services. While receiving free or low-cost veterinary treatments for their dogs and cats, people are also put in touch with social workers. Article on page 14

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FoodWorks volunteering a great opportunity By Kate Katzban-Beren, GCC volunteer manager

Skatepark  from page 1 would have lights, and we said that would be great, but that’s kind of a dream add-on. And they said, ‘If it’s going to be a destination park, it should have lights.’ “We were asking for $200,000, and they told us to go back and change it to $250,000 and ask for lights. And we did. So (the park) will be lit till 10 p.m. just like any other city park,” Hasburgh said. The neighborhood already hosts other attractions for skateboarders. When the urge for a snack hits, park users can visit the Willy Street Co-op a block away. And skateboarders can even get their gear needs met on the corner of Few and Williamson streets at a skateboard shop, owned by a Madisonian who happens to be a former pro skateboarder. The shop will also provide some skate camps and lessons. In addition, there are special events planned. In early October, team riders on tours around the country will come and display their talents. This will enable young skateboarders to watch their idols in action, in person — which is something that hasn’t been available on the Madison scene, according to Hasburgh. There have been neighborhood meetings to address noise concerns. No amplified music will be permitted, though allowances may be made for one-time events. Skatepark supporters are convinced the neighbors will realize that skateboarding is not a high noise-level activity and will ultimately welcome the additional dimension it adds to the area.

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Patrick’s son Ranger skates across the park. Hasburgh said skateboarders come in all shapes and sizes. He estimates that the majority of participants are between 14 and 20 years old, but that the range is broad, citing as current skateboarders both a 51-year-old colleague and his 3-year-old son. The sport is financially accessible. While skateboarding is still primarily male-dominated, a lot has changed from the early 1990s, when Hasburgh began skateboarding. Many more women and girls are now involved. But even in those early days, there were female participants. Hasburgh’s wife was one of the founding members of the grassroots skatepark development group that is now poised to see the fruits of its labors realized. l Seed to Table summer student Autonea holds up a jar of freshly pickled summer vegetables. These vegetables will be sold to Bluephies restaurant for use in their Bloody Marys. Stop by Bluephies some time to taste the students’ work in action!

Goodman Community Center’s food pantry is open three days a week, providing over 100 families each week with groceries and a hot meal. But where does the food come from? Our food pantry relies heavily on donations to stock our shelves, and a quiet group of dedicated volunteers are a major part of that effort. FoodWorks volunteers host monthly food drives in their neighborhoods, raising awareness and bringing in some of the most sought after foods in our pantry. We’re hoping to expand that program in the coming months. Volunteering as a FoodWorks member is easy and flexible. It takes just a couple of hours a month, and can be done on your schedule. Once a month, members distribute a food pantry wish list to their friends, neighbors, co-workers or clubs along with a pickup date. On the pickup date, volunteers collect the food donations and bring them to GCC. It’s that simple! By becoming a FoodWorks volunteer, you’ll be joining a team of community members dedicated to easing food insecurity in Madison. The items donated through FoodWorks food drives are often those we can’t source through other means – allowing us to provide families more of what

they want and need: healthy, delicious and accessible food. If you’ve ever wondered if a couple of hours a month really can make a difference, it can! But only with your help. FoodWorks is a great opportunity for families to volunteer together and for youth to gain leadership experience. In many of our family teams, children take the lead organizing, distributing and collecting, while building their skills, empathy and community-mindedness. FoodWorks is also a great way for groups to build teamwork, rapport and to help get food where it is needed: into the hands and pantries of our neighbors who are struggling to stock shelves. If you’d like to join our FoodWorks team, or just want to learn more, contact Kate Katzban-Beren at kate@goodmancenter.org or 204-8056. Can’t join us, but still want to help? A wish list of items needed at our pantry is always on our website, or consider making a monthly financial donation through our Give Every Month program. And of course — if you find one of our FoodWorks flyers on your doorstep, consider giving to your neighbor’s drive and leave a few cans out for them! l

Grant not renewed for successful MERIT program The Office of Adolescent Health has not renewed its five-year grant to fund pregnancy prevention curricula and positive youth development as part of Madision Empowering Responsibility in Teens, a program operated out of the Goodman Community Center. OAH is instead providing funds to the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee in order to reach students in a different area of Wisconsin. MERIT has many achievements to celebrate. Since 2011, MERIT has delivered an evidence-based sexual health curriculum and positive youth development programming to more than 3,500 Madison area youth at middle and high schools, afterschool programs, faith-based organizations and other youth-serving settings.

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Volunteers labeled and sorted thousands of home-baked pumpkin pies during last year’s Thanksgiving Basket Drive. Girls Inc. received a behind-the-scenes tour of Gail Ambrosius Chocolatier.

Great need anticipated for this year’s Career week was a sweet experience for Girls Inc. Thanksgiving Basket Drive By Pahoua Vang, GCC Girls Inc. coordinator

This summer, Girls Inc. of Greater Madison middle school students were spotted sporting their awesome Girls Inc. polo shirts at career sites like the Madison Children’s Museum and Gail Ambrosius Chocolatier. We are so grateful to our career week hosts, Sandra Bonnici-Hoecherl and Gail Ambrosius. Sandra graciously gave our girls a thorough tour of the Madison Children’s Museum and also showed us a secret floor that is still being renovated for a special exhibit. Girls Inc. had a great time exploring MCM and learning about all the hard work that goes into every part of the museum. During the tour, the girls met other staff and were able to ask questions such as, “How did you get to your job now?” Gail Ambrosius was so kind to let us taste test different types of chocolates,

By Jon Lica, GCC food pantry coordinator / corporate and events associate

including salted caramel truffles and chocolate-covered pretzels. Our girls were given the amazing opportunity to see all the behind-the-scenes effort that goes into making delicious treats. We watched as staff hand-packaged treats, popped chocolates out of molds, and hand-coated truffles with melted chocolate. We also observed machines churn caramel and evenly distribute chocolate on pretzels. It was a real treat. During the visit, you could hear multiple girls express, “You have the best job ever!” Girls Inc. participants walked away from both career sites excited and eager to explore even more careers! If you have an interest in hosting Girls Inc. at your business, please contact Ann Brickson, Girls Inc. Outreach Manager at ann@goodmancenter.org. l

GCC’s Ironworks Cafe has closed Through our strategic planning process, the decision was made to close the Ironworks Cafe and to instead put our efforts and resources into teen employment as part of Working Class Catering. Because high school students are in school during cafe operations, it has been difficult to effectively train students and staff the cafe, leading to our decision to close it. We may use the cafe as a place for special events, so check back in a few months for updates. The last day of cafe operations was Friday, Aug. 14. l

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This year will mark the 27th year that the Goodman Community Center has been hosting a Thanksgiving Basket Drive to serve Madison families in need. This annual event provides low-income families all the groceries needed to prepare a homecooked Thanksgiving feast. The food drive started as a large production and has only grown exponentially. “We were at the old place on Atwood Avenue and only served families whose address ended in 04 or 14,” recalls long time food pantry volunteer, Ralph Pfeiffer. “We used to do 500 people at the most. It was a lot of work. I don’t know how you do 3,000!” About five years ago, Community Action Coalition decided to no longer distribute 6,000 turkeys during the holidays in order to spread their resources throughout the year. The community wondered what would happen to all those families during the holidays. That’s when GCC picked up the slack and expanded the reach of its holiday meal program to serve families in all of Dane County who met standard food pantry guidelines. The Thanksgiving Basket Drive quickly expanded and has increased by about 500 families every year. Last fall, the regis-

TEENworks alum Anthony serves a customer in the Ironworks Cafe.

Thanksgiving Basket coordinator Jon Lica dresses in a turkey costume every year to raise awareness for our annual canned goods drive.

tration period was shut down early when the requests eclipsed 3,000 families who couldn’t afford a traditional Thanksgiving meal. The event now calls on nearly 450 volunteers to execute the entire program, but Kate Katzban-Beren, GCC volunteer manager, says our community members love volunteering at this event. “We sometimes have to turn away volunteers because all the shifts get filled so far in advance. Some people even ask me about volunteering for Thanksgiving in May!” Food Pantry volunteer, Celeste Robins, has helped out around Thanksgiving for more than 20 years! “I started in the old building several years ago. Every year I would use a vacation day on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Back then we used to do everything on Wednesday,” Robins said. Although she generally feels a need to give back to her community, Thanksgiving has a special meaning to Robins. “I was born on Thanksgiving, so that’s why I started contributing to the event. Thanksgiving Baskets have always been part of my birthday celebration!” The fact that 3,000 families — including about 5,000 children and more than 12,000 total people — would not have a homecooked meal on Thanksgiving is frightening. Hunger in Dane County is a very real issue, and GCC is leading the charge to combat it. Robins describes the event as truly binding our community and a feel-good experience for all. “Volunteers are glad to be helping, and people receiving baskets are so happy even though they’re under stress. There is just such good cheer!” l

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Watershed exploration enlightens elementary summer camp participants By Deborah Crabtree, GCC elementary programs teacher

Summer is such a beautiful time in Madison and the perfect time to spend more time outside. In a special collaboration with Friends of Starkweather Creek (volunteers passionately committed to stewarding and enhancing the Starkweather Creek watershed), a group of fourth and fifth graders in our elementary summer camp program spent the last eight weeks learning about the Starkweather Creek watershed and connecting with nature in our neighborhood. It was a truly transformative experience for everyone involved and gave us a new appreciation for the watershed and all of the hidden natural treasures in our neighborhood. FSC volunteers led the youth on weekly excursions deemed “Watershed Wanders and Wonders.” Children learned about a different aspect of the watershed each week, from wildlife to water monitoring, and explored parts of the watershed that few know about. Highlights included a tree climb, a bird and nature walk, and a canoe trip up the creek. Children were amazed by the natural beauty of the watershed but horrified by all of the abuse the watershed has sustained, including trash in many parts. The project culminated with a photomapping session during which children made a photo map of their eight week journey around the watershed to tell a story of how the project has impacted them. Participants shared that the past two

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Summer camp children watch as Sean Gere, owner of Gere Tree Care, demonstrates how to use the proper equipment to climb trees safely. months made them look at nature differently and appreciate the beauty around them. Many expressed frustration and disappointment that parts of the watershed were in such bad shape. “I was really sad to see all of the trash in the creek because it could hurt the animals that live there. I want to make the creek a good home for them,” shared Mariama Njie, a fourth grader at Emerson Elementary School. She and others realized the importance of human impact on the environment and responsibility to care for our Earth and precious natural resources. The group expressed a desire to continue to be stewards of the watershed by participating in bi-monthly clean-ups. Children will present about their summer experience at FSC’s annual meeting in October. Special thanks to FSC for all of the important work you do! Thank you to all of our volunteer mentors for making our summer so memorable and teaching the youth to view our neighborhood through new eyes! For more information about Friends of Starkweather Creek, visit starkweatherfriends.org. l

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By Angela Tortorice, GCC assistant director of childcare programs

Over the summer months, we know many children may suffer from summer reading loss. Research continues to show that low income populations as well as children who are already academically behind are those who suffer most. GCC is committed to providing children with hands-on literacy Sadarri & Company perform in front of enencouragement throughout the sum- tranced children in the GCC gym. mer break. So, when Hawthorne Library reached out with an oppormasks, the show started out with music and tunity for us to co-host a storytelling event, songs embedded in literacy and learning. our answer was a clear “yes!” The show then became interactive, with In preparation for the event, our favorite six children becoming the superhero spider librarian, Tracy Moore, created personchildren in the story about Anansi, a West alized book bags for each GCC summer African spider. classroom filled with a variety of books Several other stories were shared, one in and activities foreshadowing the event. Spanish as well as English. There was not On July 28, children, families, and com- a shortage of props, instruments, and music munity members showed up to welcome to help bring everyone out of their seats! the multilingual storytelling troupe Sadarri A special thanks to Hawthorne Library & Company, who joined us all the way and Women of Worthington for partnering from Kenosha. to bring this engaging summer activity to With the storytellers in capes and GCC! l

Help students with needed school supplies Give to GCC’s back-to-school backpack drive The start of the school year should bring with it excitement and anticipation. For many of our families, however, this time of year can bring added financial stress for low-income families. Help support the Goodman Community Center’s child programming by purchasing and filling a backpack. Goodman child care and youth programs serve children ages 3 to 18. Goodman is committed to helping each child find success academically, and a great start is to provide children with school supplies. Backpack and supply donations can be dropped off at the Center, to the attention of Tanya Walker. Not in the mood to shop? Cash and check donations are gladly accepted.

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Persons who complete the classes can expect greater inner awareness, health, self-esteem and happiness. Meditation will begin at 10 a.m., followed by a discussion at 10:30 a.m. and an orientation for new members at 11 a.m.

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For more information, please contact Gayle.

Philosophy discussions and DVD college lectures

Mondays, Oct. 5 through Nov. 23

Wellness support group

Join our active aging support group and explore various areas of health. Participants will learn about managing stress, eating for energy and health, increasing physical activity levels, enhancing relationships or managing a chronic illness. Each session takes place from 12:45-2 p.m. and will include a wellness topic, goal setting, check-in regarding your goals and a healthy recipe. Advanced registration is required.

Our activities for older adults are designed to help folks stay connected to our community and maintain a strong social network. Seniors come for card games, bingo and gentle exercise class. Many also gather for our home-style meals, which provide good nutrition and a great place to make friends — new and old. Everyone 60+ is welcome to join in. Meet us in Bolz Room A for some fun! Please sign-up with Gayle. First Monday 12-12:45 p.m.

Older adult activities mix fun and food

Senior planning meeting

Upcoming euchre dates: Sept. 12 & 26 | Oct. 10 & 24 Dates are subject to change. Tuesdays

For this summer’s philosophy discussions, we are continuing Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s PBS lecture series, “Justice: What is the Right Thing to Do?” After his annual summer travels end, professor Joseph Lynch of Madison College plans to resume leading philosophy discussions every other week at GCC. For more information, visit uproar21.us or call John at 515-9470. Wednesdays and Fridays

Gentle Exercise and Tai Chi This gentle mind/body exercise and relaxation program is designed especially for people with arthritis, joint pain or any kind of stiffness that limits movement. These rangeof-motion exercises are recommended by doctors and therapists to help keep joints flexible and can be practiced both sitting and standing.

Do you have any ideas for future older adult programs or suggestions will cancel your ride. If you need to to enhance our existing programs? First time joining us? cancel your ride after 2 p.m. or on Please come a bit early and fill out Would you like to see something weekends, there is a different set of different offered to older adult two short registration forms. One instructions — just ask Gayle. form is to help us help you in case participants at the Goodman ComHours and details of an emergency, and the other munity Center? Come and share Monday and Wednesday form helps us with reporting to our your ideas and thoughts at our older Gentle Exercise class meets on Wednesdays from 10-11 a.m. in Nickel bingo after lunch funders. adult program planning meeting Merrill Lynch Room C. The Friday Come for lunch and stay for the fun, while having lunch! Tai Chi Fundamental Form class Affordable transportation or just come to play. Where else can For a meeting schedule or to share meets from 1-2 p.m. No registration you have so much fun for a nickel? Monday through Friday you can ideas, please contact Gayle. needed. There is a $1 suggested catch a ride to the Center for only Lunch — hours and details donation. Led by Sarah Watts, 50 cents each way. If you live in the Doors open at 10 a.m. Tuesdays and Fridays certified Range of Motion dance service area of the North/Eastside Salad served at 11:45 a.m. Euchre instructor. Senior Coalition, or if you live north Lunch served following salad Older adults play euchre every of Buckeye Road and this side of Tuesday and Friday from 12:30-2:30 For more information, contact Bingo — hours and details the Interstate, you can catch a ride Sarah Watts at 244-9424. p.m. No need to register. Please Mondays: 12:30-2 p.m. with Transit Solutions for lunch at pay $1 at the door to feed the kitty! Second Wednesdays Wednesdays: 12:45-2:30 p.m. the Goodman Community Center Prizes go to the top three scorers. Senior Program. Simply call Five-minute chair massage Mondays, through Sept. 21 Gayle at 204-8032 by noon the busiFive-minute chair massage by Start practicing mindfulness Various Saturdays ness day before the day you wish to Dr. Ron Inda, chiropractor. Free. Euchre come for lunch. Ask to be put on the Mindfulness is about getting in Arrive early for this popular serEuchre games are offered one or touch with your inner nature and ride list for the following meal day vice. Check the welcome board in two Saturdays each month from thoughts. It involves paying atand await your ride! 12:30-3 p.m. in Bolz Room A. Des- the lobby for the location. Dr. Inda tention from moment to moment. will do massages from 9-10 a.m. While mindfulness is a very simple sert is served from 12:30-1 p.m., Need to cancel a ride? and card playing goes from 1-3 p.m. Call the Center by noon the business concept, its power lies in its pracNo need to preregister; just pay $1 tice! Continued on next page day before the meal day, and we The free class is led by Bill MSW, and will include FRIENDS NEEDED Benedict, discussion, instruction, group mediAdult Day Center: tation and home assignments based ssist with a craft project, Your Alternative to In-Home Health Care upon the work of Jon Kabat Zinn. serve a meal or just engage in

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Euchre lessons

Have you always wanted to play euchre but never had a chance to Join us for movies, documentaries, DVD-lectures and/or music before, learn how? Now is your opportunity during and after our senior lunch on to learn this fun and popular game! This is a casual meeting with oneThursdays. On occasion, we offer special speakers — like Mark Twain on-one instruction. No experience with euchre required. Call Gayle to impersonator Richard Springer — schedule a lesson. on timely topics.

GCC will be closed Monday, Sept. 7 Wednesday, Oct. 14

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Madison seniors will have the opportunity to learn to use the Madison Metro Bus System while To see what’s happening or discuss traveling on a group trip to a fun Answers to your a topic, visituproar21.us or call John location. The program is designed everyday concerns at 515-9470. to help ease the way for those who Do you need help getting your are unfamiliar with the bus system health benefits set up? Do you have and provide an enjoyable social Thursdays 12:30-2:30 p.m. questions about housing? Kate Senior bridge at GCC group outing. Shenker, MSW, from the North/ Wednesday, Oct. 14, join the Bus Looking for a place on the east side Eastside Senior Coalition is at the Buddy tour for a movie outing at to play bridge? Join your hosts at GCC on Thursdays from 12:30-2:30 Center Thursdays 11 a.m. to noon to Market Square Theater. The movie find answers and resources for you. will be followed by lunch at La p.m. Adult bridge players of all skill levels are welcome — you just need a Please contact Gayle with questions. Mestiza. The bus fare, movie ticket and lunch are provided by RSVP of working knowledge of the game. Tuesday, Sept. 1 Dane County. Thursdays 12:30-3 p.m. and Learn about food safety For reservations, please call 441Sundays 1-4 p.m. Want to learn more tips and tricks 1393 or email djost@rsvpdane.org. Ping-Pong for storing food and keeping it free Visit rsvpdane.org for more inforCome play Ping-Pong. New players of germs? Join nutrition educator mation on other tours. l always welcome. Lytonia Flyod from Dane County UW-Extension at 11:30 a.m. to Smooth sailing and smiles on Friday mornings discuss food safety tips and keeping the MSCR pontoon trip Live jazz and blues your food safe. It was a perfect day for a pontoon Often on Friday mornings, Paris trip on Lake Mendota with sunny Blues, with Jim Willett, Larry Liv- Tuesday, Sept. 15 blue skies and glass-like water. A ingston and Al Hough, play jazz Recognizing depression large group of senior participants from about 10-11 a.m. It’s not a enjoyed a three-hour boat tour that Depression is a serious medical formal performance — you can still condition that is under-diagnosed in included a stop at Governor Nelson read the paper or talk with your older people. Elders, their families, State Park for delicious strawberry friends while they play. and even medical professionals may shortcake. The group enjoyed spectacular not recognize the signs of depresFridays 12:45-2 p.m. sion. Untreated depression not only views of the Governor’s Mansion Fun Fridays and enjoyed going through the Tencauses a “blue mood,” but compliEnd the week with great music and cates the treatment of other medical ney Park locks, the waterway from board games! Have fun learning Yahara River to Lake Mendota. The problems. about and listening to music from pontoon tour was arranged through Join Shannon Wall, a licensed different musical eras. A variety of Madison School and Community social worker with more than 20 board games will be available to Recreation. MSCR also offers pubchallenge your friends and increase years of experience, from 12:45-1:45 lic pontoon tours for $5 each. p.m. for an hourlong talk to learn your mental fitness! about the signs of depression in To learn more, visit mscr.org/ older adults. our-programs/outdoor-adventures. l

OLDER ADULT PROGRAMS in the community Theater Bus for adults 55 and over Sunday, Sept. 20

‘Forever Plaid’ Come to the Winnesheik Playhouse in Freeport, Ill. for a musical about a singing quartet who returns from the past for a final concert of 50s tunes. Lunch is at Freeport Country Club. Cost is $66.

Call 257-0003 or email theaterbus@tds.net.

Sunday, Sept. 27

‘Legally Blond’ With hard work and charm, Elle gets into Harvard Law — all in the pursuit of love. Watch this lively performance at the Janesville Performing Arts Center. Lunch is at the Butterfly Club. Cost is $70.

Sunday, Oct. 18

‘Arsenic & Old Lace’ Enjoy a 1940s screwball comedy with a family of eccentrics in Brooklyn at the Stoughton Village Players Theater. Lunch is at Halverson’s Supper Club. Cost is $65. l

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September menu The GCC Senior Meal Program is part of the network of Dane County senior nutrition sites. Lunches are served five days a week, by donation.

Need a ride? Participating seniors can use the county transportation system for older adults. Bus reservations are required by noon the prior business day. Call the Center at 204-8032 for details or see page 8.

Daily menus Every meal includes a tossed salad, fruit, vegetable, bread, milk and dessert. Birthday cake is served on Wednesdays. Vegetarian options are available each day. Menu subject to change. 11:30 a.m. Suggested arrival time 11:40 a.m. Tossed salad followed by the main entrée Tuesday, Sept. 1 Egg Salad Sandwich | Tomato Soup Wednesday, Sept. 2 Lasagna | Corn Thursday, Sept. 3 Kielbasa | Rice & Beans Friday, Sept. 4 Baked Cod | Scalloped Potatoes Monday, Sept. 7 - CLOSED Tuesday, Sept. 8 Sloppy Joes | Potato Wedges Wednesday, Sept. 9 Roast Turkey | Green Beans Thursday, Sept. 10 Baked Chicken | Roasted Veggies Friday, Sept. 11 Jambalaya | Red Rice and Beans Monday, Sept. 14 Ham & Turkey Sandwich | Bean Salad Tuesday, Sept. 15 Pork Ribs | Collard Greens Wednesday, Sept. 16 Swedish Meatballs | Mashed Potatoes Thursday, Sept. 17 Beef Goulash | Green Beans Friday, Sept. 18 Brats | Sauerkraut & Baked Beans Monday, Sept. 21 Vegetarian Chili | Corn Bread Tuesday, Sept. 22 Spaghetti with Meat Sauce | Bread Wednesday, Sept. 23 Stuffed Chicken | Potatoes

Madison Senior Center 330 W. Mifflin St. in Madison. Call 266-6581 to register.

Thursday, Sept. 24 Pork Chops | Baby Red Potatoes

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Friday, Sept. 25 Turkey Wraps | Sweet Potatoes

Managing Financial Stress Determine what is causing your financial anxiety and understand how you can begin to reduce it with a savings and spending plan that includes debt reduction. Join Amy Crowe, financial education specialist from Summit Credit Union, at 10 a.m.

Fridays, Sept. 25 through Dec. 18

Ballroom Basics for Balance Improve your balance with basic moves of ballroom dance, taught by physical therapists and other health professionals! Meet on the third floor of the Central Library on Fridays from 10-11:30 a.m. The first class on Sept. 25 is free. Bring $8 for drop-in or $50 for the series.

Thursday, Oct. 13

Meet the Author: Greg Peck Meet the author of “Death Beyond the Willows” at 1 p.m. This is a true story surrounding a 1927 tragedy of a young couple from Marshall, Wis., involving a wedding-night tragedy that made national news and left both families grieving for decades. l

Monday, Sept. 28 Quiche Lorraine | Steamed Carrots Tuesday, Sept. 29 Cheese Burgers | Sweet Potato Fries Wednesday, Sept. 30 Chicken Alfredo | Steamed Asparagus The October menu can be picked up at the Center by mid-September. l

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A BIG thanks to these community-minded businesses and organizations These organizations have donated time and/or resources to help keep our programs strong.

Thanks to these organizations who supported us in June and July A Fund for Women American Family Mutual Insurance Company American Girl Fund for Children Amgen Foundation Blackhawk Church Child Care Tuition Assistance Program City of Madison CMI Management LLC Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin Congregation of Shaarei Shamayim Department of Health and Social Services Fresco Friends of Starkweather Creek Future Farmers of America Gail Ambrosius Chocolatier GCC Volunteers Gere Tree Care, Inc Grainger Grampa’s Pizzeria Grieg Social Club Hill Electric Hooper Foundation Irwin A and Robert D Goodman Foundation, Inc. Kitson Marketing Inc. Laura Zastrow Photography, LLC Madison Art House Madison Community Foundation

Madison Kipp Corporation Madison Metropolitan School District Maple Bluff Swim Club MCA Network Consultants LLC Meriter Health Service and Meriter Hospital Milwaukee Valve National Mustard Museum Nolen Shore Condo Association North/Eastside Senior Coalition Oakhill Correctional Institute Optimist Club of Madison Foundation Pierce’s Supermarket, Inc. QTI Employee Good Samaritan Fund Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin Sons of Norway Idun Lodge St. Bernard Catholic Church United Way of Dane County University of Wisconsin Athletics University of Wisconsin PEOPLE Program US Dairy Forage Research Center WI-CCP Tuition Reimbursement Willy Street Co-op Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Woodman’s Food Market

Thank you!

If your business is interested in sponsoring a GCC event, program or meeting space, please contact Jon Lica at jon@goodmancenter.org.

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Goodman could receive rewards for your shopping By Kristin Groth, Eastside News

Pierce’s believes in giving back to the community, and the Goodman Community Center is one of many charities that has benefited from their generosity. Over the past few years, they have donated more than $1,000 of support through their Charity Rewards program. When customers sign up for a rewards card, they get to choose from a long list of approved charities — including GCC — to receive donations based on their purchases. You can choose when you sign up for a

card or if you already have a rewards card, you can update your choice any time. If you shop there and have been choosing Goodman as your charity, thank you! That’s a great gift to us. Those gifts add up! More than $335,000 was donated to local charities between 2007 and 2014. We’d like to thank Pierce’s for supporting GCC and all the other nonprofits who are strengthening the four communities where Pierce’s have stores. l

Toss upwards for a cause By Kathleen Ward, Eastside News

For the next few months, the Goodman Community Center is the featured “dollar toss” charity at One Barrel Brewing Company. Patrons are encouraged to spare a few dollars to benefit the incredible programs at GCC. Bar staff can hand willing participants a tack weighted with a small rock to allow them to toss their money onto the ceiling. One Barrel Brewing Company generously discounts their brews to incentivize the donation of larger amounts. Thank you to One Barrel for featuring GCC as the “dollar toss” charity! l

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For incoming medical students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, their second day of school is probably not what they expected. Each August for the past three years, 35 medical students board a yellow school bus and leave the U.W. campus for Goodman Community Center. During their half day here, students learn the basics of assetbased community development. They get out into our neighborhoods to learn how to recognize and assess community assets. They also begin to explore how connection to a community and its people can inform and improve their future medical practice. After an engaging discussion between students, community members, and medical school and GCC staff, the students roll up their sleeves and get to work on a vari-

ety of service projects. This year’s students jumped into cleaning the food pantry, prepared early childhood classrooms for fall programming and got dirty in our Seed to Table gardens. By the end of the day, students made strong connections with their classmates, professors and the Goodman Community Center. These partnerships will remain throughout their medical school career as they continue participating in GCC programs. Former students have tutored math and science in the Lussier LOFT, taught yoga and mindfulness, toured the medical school with GCC middle school youth, and distributed Thanksgiving baskets. Through their dedication, enthusiasm and creativity, the U.W. medical school students make a positive impact on the Center and our community, and we can’t thank them enough! l

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Boys Group, Howard Hayes

Gift cards for academic achievement Board games for teens Tickets to sporting events

Drum Circle, Deenah Givens Percussion instruments, drums of all sizes, rattles, shakers, triangles Small and medium plastic containers Medium heavy-duty wicker baskets (with or without lids)

Family Support, Deenah Givens Yoga equipment (mats, blocks, bolsters, straps, etc.) Exercise DVDs and log books Athletic equipment (small free weights, exercise balls, exercise bands) Adult bikes, helmets and gloves Bike repair kits and air pumps

Facilities, Margo Tiedt A pickup truck with or without plow Gas-powered lawnmower

FYI-Fit Youth Initiative, Zach Watson Sports equipment (all types of balls) Gym/duffle bags

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Tumbling mats Oversized yoga balls Dodge balls and Gator Skin Softi balls Track training hurdles Basketballs, new or used

Live Soundz Program, Zach Watson Instruments (keyboard, percussion, guitar, saxophone, flute, trumpet or trombone), well-functioning

Lussier LOFT, Colleen Berg

Footballs, leather or faux Youth bus two-ride passes Skateboard supplies Headphones Graphic novels and young adult fiction

Girls Inc., Pahoua Vang Calculators, scientific and regular Rulers and protractors Knitting needles Headphones Gift cards (to Walmart, Walgreens, Target) as incentives Art canvases, any size

Older Adult Programs, Gayle Laszewski Duncan Hines cake mixes and frostings (four each per flavor of cakes and frostings) Large plastic storage bins and covers PA system with microphone Bus passes

Preschool, Rob San Juan Puzzles Matchbox cars Rubber animals/people Dress-up clothes Books on CD or tape

TEENworks, Keith Pollock Personal care items Backpacks, new or gently used Canning jars Youth bus two-ride passes Movie passes or bowling passes

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GoodmanGuide activities for everyone

Find details for these activities online at: goodmancenter.org Preschool Early Childhood Education programs

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Elementary School Elementary Summer Camp NESYB Youth Basketball, see nesyb.org

Middle School CLUE, Skateboard Club NESYB Youth Basketball, see nesyb.org

High School CLUE, Skateboard Club NESYB Youth Basketball, see nesyb.org Teen Alliance, NAMI Dane County, see namidanecounty.org

Ping-Pong SASY Neighborhood Association Soka Gakkai International-USA (SGI), Sunday Gathering TangoBasico Lessons, Argentinian Tango Parents Connect, contact deenah@goodmancenter.org Women of Worthington, contact latoya@goodmancenter.org Yoga, Fridays and Sunday morning/afternoon Zumba

Older Adults

Bingo After Lunch, Monday and Wednesday Bridge, Thursday Euchre, Tuesday Movies, Thursday Adults Euchre Tournament, Friday and some Saturdays Aerial Silks, see mazomac.com Gentle Exercise, Wednesday Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Women Lunch, a Dane County Nutrition Site, Balanced Flow Yoga Monday through Friday Buddhist Philosophy Philosophy of the Wise, Alternate Community Drum Circles Thursdays Early morning drop-in open gym, Wednesdays Ping-Pong, Thursday and Sunday and Friday Tai Chi, Friday La Leche League NA Traditions

GCC also offers many drop-in fitness activities: We have many drop-in fitness options, including yoga, Zumba, soccer, basketball and volleyball and open gym. Check our activities calendar for the most up-to-date information.

To register for a class If registration is required, the contact person or organization listed online will handle fees and registration.

To report changes or errors Email: kathleen@goodmancenter.org

Public access to the online activities calendar If you are at the Center and need detailed information about a specific class, please ask our front desk staff. They will happily look something up for you on our online activities calendar.

Hours and closings Goodman Community Center

The Center will close Monday, Sept. 7 for Labor Day.

Building Hours and Lussier Monday through Thursday, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fitness Center Hours Friday, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Ironworks Cafe - CLOSED

Fritz Food Pantry Hours

Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. to noon, Brunch-style meal Wednesdays, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Dinner-style meal Thursdays, 12:30 to 3 p.m., Brunch-style meal

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Friends of Starkweather Creek voice displeasure over proposed Portage Road development By Dea Larsen Converse, Friends of Starkweather Creek

Operation Fresh Start partners with Audubon Society for a summer Conservation Academy By Emily Meier, Madison Audubon Society

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On a recent Wednesday at Cherokee Marsh, a group of 20-something adults crowded around Brian Wahl to get a look at a gnarled clump of honey locust thorns. Wahl, an urban forester for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, told the group that urban trees are one of our city’s most important assets. “We need trees,” Wahl said, “and we need people like you to help keep those trees healthy.” Operation Fresh Start participants study fish Wahl’s engaging presentation — at Cherokee Marsh on Madison’s north side. which had the group identifying trees, taking trunk core samples and looking at each training session is local, relevant and common tools of the trade — was just one timely. segment of a five-week series presented in In August, thanks to a grant provided by partnership with Madison Audubon Socithe Friends of the MacKenzie Center, proety and Operation Fresh Start. gram participants celebrated their summer Both nonprofits are based on the east successes with a retreat at the MacKenzie side of Madison, and this year marks the Center for Environmental Education. second summer of their collaboration with Madison Audubon Society, the local Conservation Academy, a program aimed chapter of the national organization, proat connecting Operation Fresh Start partici- vides free conservation-related experipants with conservation-related careers. ences for youth across Madison, including Participants in Operation Fresh Start programs with the Goodman Community are disconnected youth from Dane County Center and other neighborhood centers, who are working toward self-sufficiency, schools and libraries. while earning their GED and gaining mar- For more information about the Conservaketable career skills. tion Academy program, go to madisonConservation Academy connects them audubon.org/conservation-academy or specifically with local experts in conservisit the organization’s Facebook page at vation through hands-on workshops and facebook.com/MadisonAudubon. l activities. The material presented during

PHOTO: LANCE GREEN The Friends of Starkweather Creek have been working with neighbors, alders and representatives of T. Wall Enterprises to address the impact of a proposed development at 4103-4119 Portage Road on the far east side, as part of our mission to promote responsible development near the creek. Neighbors are concerned about the density of the apartment development on the border of an Sy Wydstrand walks the Portage Road property in June. established neighborhood of single-family homes. FSC is primarily concerned about setbacks from the city of Madison and neighbors as the the wetland, the possibility of runoff into project progresses. In particular, FSC is the creek during construction, the loss of providing input on landscaping and edumature trees on the site and public access. cational signage for the greenway on the FSC formalized our concerns in letters to south half of the property. This section the Madison Common Council. To read the contains the creek, wetlands, sections of letters go to https://madison.legistar.com. forest and meadow, a sanitary sewer line FSC and neighborhood comments reand, eventually, a city bike path. sulted in a small reduction in the density of T. Wall Enterprises has pledged to help the project, a survey of the trees by a certi- with invasive removals, plantings and sigfied arborist and a commitment to educanage in this portion. The apartment buildtional signage in the greenway. However, ings will be constructed in phases over the the setback from the wetland is not part of next few years. the conditions put in place by the city. Also, FSC will be holding its annual Reviews by the Capital Area Regional meeting Oct. 15 at Olbrich Gardens. The Planning Commission and the Department public is invited to attend for an update on of Natural Resources are not yet complete. our projects. By Carol Weidel, future co-housing community member However, it is our understanding that the Sign up for our newsletter, the Trickle, to recent state budget may impact setback re- receive updates about this project and oth- The city of Madison Finance Commithoods. quirements in the area. These intentional communities call er activities of the Friends of Starkweather tee approved a $5 million tax incremental FSC is continuing to meet with reprethemselves Madison East Side Co-Housloan to Gorman and Co. for its project at Creek. Email us at admin@starkweathersentatives from T. Wall Enterprises, alders, friends to be put on the mailing list. l the corner of East Washington Avenue and ing and Sister East Co-Housing. The two Milwaukee Street. Later this year construc- groups coordinate recruitment and outreach to individuals and families who will design tion will begin on the initial phase of the their own living space and shared facilities. mixed-use expansion. Each household must secure financing. U.W. Health Clinic, Fresh Thymes groPlease. Donate food to the GCC Fritz Food Pantry. Some assistance with the down payment is cery store, 90 rental units and commercial space are first in line to open in this devel- available for qualified families. A walk of the proposed co-housing site opment. Two co-housing developments will also is planned for Saturday, Sept. 12, from 1-3 break ground in 2016. Developments of 35 p.m. An informational meeting follows now available at from 3-5 p.m. at Sons of Norway Lodge, to 40 households, which the larger of the 2202 Winnebago St. two will be, is ideal for residents to know and work well together. There is also space For more information visit mescoh.org, for another smaller residential community. send email to cohousinguc@gmail.com or Co-housing is a type of collaborative go to co-housing at Union Corners Facehousing where residents participate in the book page. l design and management of their neighbor-

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City looks to form a steering committee to update Schenk-Atwood-Worthington Park plan

Do you envision a better future for the Worthington Park and Schenk By Brad Kuse, SASYNA communications and outreach coordinator neighborhoods? The city of Madison Department The autumnal equinox arrives Sept. 23, of Planning & Combringing to a close yet another fantastic munity & Economic summer on Madison’s east side. But before Development is looking that happens, the Schenk-Atwood-Starkto work with the town weather-Yahara Neighborhood Associaof Blooming Grove and tion has one last event in store — Union interested residents, Triangle Paint the Pavement. Sept. 5 from business owners and Join our neighborhood 9 a.m. until dusk, waves of volunteers will neighborhood groups association meetings on the paint a road mural on the corner of Union to update the Schenksecond Thursday of each Street and Clyde Gallagher Avenue, near Atwood-Starkweathermonth at the Goodman the Starkweather Creek path. Worthington Park neigh- These are the neighborhoods where residents are needed to Community Center at 6:30 p.m. form a steering committee. The committee will provide input This placemaking event, designed to borhood plan adopted by as the city works toward updating the neighborhood plan. beautify the space and to further develop the city of Madison in it as a place for neighbors to gather, was 2000. organized by Joannah Szymczak and the Many of the recommendations have work of Kimberly Wilson and Brian LavUnion Triangle Committee after applybeen implemented, but city and neighboring for and winning a Neighborhood Grant endel, the Top 25 East Side Eats and Union hood leadership decided it was time to reSchenk-Atwood / Theater raffle organizing team, AtwoodFest from the city of Madison Department of Worthington Parkvisit and update the plan. was able to raise $12,630 for emergency Planning & Community & Economic DeNeighborhood Plan Key questions to consider: velopment. This is also a community event food programs.  What do you like about your neighborSince we can’t really say it any better intended to bring together people from PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE hood? What would you change about it? than Rachel Berndt, we’ll just let her do the  different neighborhoods: Union Triangle, Oct. 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m. What are the key issues of importance to Darbo Drive, Worthington Park and SASY. talking: Hawthorne Branch Public Library you and your neighbors in the next 10“Winning the AtwoodFest raffle was a In July of 2014, neighbors came togeth2707 E. Washington Ave. 15 years? thrilling experience — I love the restauer to take action after a shooting in broad  How can the city and other organizations Planning Division Contacts: rants and shops on and around Atwood daylight on North Marquette Street. Over work together to accomplish our neighneighborhoods@cityofmadison.com the last year, the Union Triangle neighbor- and can’t wait to continue to explore borhood’s vision? Jule Stroick, 267-8744 them,” grand prize raffle winner Berndt hood has been organizing to help reduce A neighborhood-based steering commitLinda Horvath, 267-1131 crime and improve the look and feel of the said. “What I loved even more was when tee of 11 individuals will be appointed by we found out 100 percent of the proceeds area by reaching out to communities and the mayor to guide the planning process. Alder Marsha Rummel, District 6 would go to the Goodman Community groups. This community has been galvaA diverse steering committee is a must. District6@cityofmadison.com nized through events such as neighborhood Center and the Wil-Mar Neighborhood The city wants to have individuals that are picnics and planting trees and shrubs along Center. I believe giving back and getting long-term residents, as well as newcominvolved in helping the community is so Starkweather Creek, but this is their most FOR MORE INFORMATION: ers to the area; homeowners and apartment important and as a result, [I] was very hapambitious event yet. Project Website: residents; business tenants and business py to enter the raffle.” While I’m on the subject of summer owners; and individuals from different cityofmadison.com/planning/wps.html SASY thanks all of the volunteers and events that promote and benefit our beages, incomes, races and ethnicity. Simply, generous and community-minded businessloved east side, this year’s AtwoodFest Sign up to receive announcements and the city wants to have a diverse array of once again created a space in our neighbor- es out there who brought AtwoodFest 2015 voices involved in charting the future by updates by subscribing to to life, especially our presenting sponsor hood to meet up with friends, hear some city of Madison My Account: serving on the steering committee, task Monona State Bank. For a complete list of great music, grab a bite to eat and take a my.cityofmadison.com groups or attending planning meetings. sponsors, bands and raffle restaurants as trip through the bouncy house. But it isn’t Applications for the steering committee Schenk-Atwood-Starkweatherwell as photos from this year’s fest, visit all just fun and games. Thanks to the hard can be found at cityofmadison.com/mayor/ Worthington Park mycommit. Depending on the timing of Neighborhood Plan (2000): mayoral appointments to the committee cityofmadison.com/ and coordination with city staff, steering planning/ndp/schenk.pdf committee meetings could start later this year or early in 2016 and last for approxiYou can count on them to make your mately one year. l

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Madison’s pilot composting project of household wastes continues getting green light By Ed Jepsen, Eastside News

Remember the city of Madison’s home composting program? That program where the city is diverting organic “wastes” from landfills to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and increase our renewable energy production? A pilot project has been testing the feasibility of a citywide household organics collection since the summer of 2011. It was expanded to more households in 2012, and there are now five businesses participating: the Madison Children’s Museum, the Fair Oaks Diner, Ian’s Pizza, the Concourse Hotel and American Family Insurance. Participants love the project because with the large scale composting, material collected is being taken to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh’s anaerobic digester. That digester creates temperatures high enough to kill harmful pathogens, so the list of items you can put in the city’s black compost bin is much longer than what you can compost safely in a backyard bin — fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, bones, house plants, weeds, paper towels, paper napkins, paper plates, pizza boxes — any paper product too contaminated to be recycled — and more.

The pilot is going strong and will be expanding in the next few years. The city hopes to add 1,600 households, eight to 10 restaurants, one grocery store, as well as multifamily rental properties and at least one condominium property. This expansion will help refine the costs and details of developing a citywide collection program for organic material. Current efforts include:  Evaluating composting options  Energy potential of the organic material collected  Surveying the volunteers about what did and did not work during the test run Funds for system selection, design work and financial planning were included in the 2015 city budget. The city will be doing engineering, site work and system selection in 2016. Construction of a digester for the city of Madison and possible partner communities is planned for 2017. Curbside residential collection would have a 2018 phase-in. There are plenty of details to consider on costs, technologies and energy options. For more information, visit cityofmadison. com. l

The Goodman Community Center splah pad will stay open as long as the temperature stays 65 degrees. Splash away!

The Goodman Community Center’s compost pile helps nourish garden plots at various locations in the area near the Center.

It’s black gold to your garden’s plants By Erin Presley, Eastside News

Compost is a miracle addition for the garden. It builds healthy soil from clay or sand, protects against drought and plant disease, corrects pH problems and adds a diverse array of plant nutrients. It also feeds earthworms and soil microbes. This nourishment not only creates black gold for your garden, it keeps organic materials from piling up in landfills where their decomposition can release the potent greenhouse gas — methane. Compost is made as bacteria and fungi decompose organic materials with water and air to create an earthy soil amendment. For composting purposes, the organic materials are divided into two categories: green and brown. Green materials are high in nitrogen. These materials include grass clippings, kitchen scraps, coffee grounds, weeds, manure from plant-eating animals (chickens, pigs, cows or horses) and algae or lake weeds. Brown materials are high in carbon for energy. These materials include dry leaves, hay or straw, wood chips, pine needles and shredded cardboard or newspaper. Compost is produced most efficiently when, by weight, there are three to four parts brown material for every one part

green material in the pile. Water and air are necessary for the composting process. The pile should be damp, but not wet. Air flow within the pile is encouraged by turning it over occasionally with a garden fork. Finished compost should have a sweet, earthy smell like a greenhouse. It should be a rich black or brown, with a fine crumbly texture. The individual ingredients should not be recognizable. And now for the best part ... using your black gold! Compost can be added in a 1-inch layer around existing plantings in your ornamental or vegetable gardens, or in a thinner layer on top of your lawn. Add compost when planting new trees or shrubs, using one part compost for every four parts soil. Your compost will enrich plantings in your ornamental or vegetable gardens, lawn, new trees or shrubs and houseplants. The University of Wisconsin Extension Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center offers outstanding resources regarding all aspects of composting. For more information, visit 4.uwm.edu/ shwec. l

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Memorialize your pet’s life in Eastside News Losing a beloved pet can be as big of a loss as the death of a friend or family member. We’d like to help you share your pet’s life with our community.

What to submit When submitting a pet obituary, please submit your pet’s name, date of birth, date of death, your name, full address, email address, phone number and your obituary submission exactly as you’d like it to read. Cost is $5 per 50-word or column inch, while photos are $10 (limit 1).

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The WVMO-FM jingle team (l-r): Jill Bailey, Becca Reynolds, Jesse Reynolds, Mary Pet obits require payment before they are Huelsbeck and Valerie Hamstra record homespun station identification jingles. published.

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By Margo Tiedt, east side radio enthusiast

Since 2006, a group of organizers in Monona has been quietly working behind the scenes to plan and implement a lowpower radio station for Monona. As of mid-August, “The Voice of Monona,” 98.7 WVMO-FM is now broadcasting in roughly a 5-mile radius from Monona City Hall. WVMO is a low-power (100-watt) FM station, with a limited broadcast range. According to the FCC.gov website, “LPFM stations are available to noncommercial educational entities and public safety and transportation organizations, (and) are not available to individuals or for commercial operations.” There’s been a boom in low-power stations since the Federal Communications Commission opened up the opportunity for 300 licenses in 2012, including stations in Janesville and Sun Prairie. A west Madison station is in the works. Similar to other low-power stations hitting the airwaves this year, “The Voice of Monona” is providing local programming and using local volunteers for engineering, production and on-air talent. WVMO is led by Monona’s Media Director Will Nimmow, along with others who have worked in the Madison radio market. The station’s radio committee chair is Lindsay Wood Davis, a long time Madison radio top dog, and WVMO’s operations and programs coordinator is familiar radio voice, Tom Teuber.

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I became involved because I had heard some rumblings earlier this year, and my curiosity took me to a meeting at Monona City Hall in March. It was great to be in a room with about 20 other curious radio enthusiasts. This was an opportunity to get in, get my hands dirty (literally — if I wanted to help with the build-out), and see how things worked. And to give my voice — either recorded, live on-the-air, or just share my thoughts and opinions. Among those I met that evening were folks who wanted to do radio shows, recording engineers, information technology people, a couple ladies who wanted to create old-school station identification jingles — and just curious neighbors like me. WVMO’s focus is local, local, local. Listen for Monona history bits, school information, Monona government updates, locally produced radio shows including jazz and polka, Americana music, and info bits from local listeners. And there are no commercials! Although the station’s focus is Monona and Madison’s east side, all are welcome to volunteer and listen (live streaming via the TuneIn radio app is coming soon). For more information, check out “WVMO — The Voice of Monona” on Facebook or contact Will at wnimmow@ci.monona. wi.us. Watch for the website, wvmo.fm, coming soon. l

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Beloved rabbit, Joni, passed away in the early morning hours of April 22, 2015, at the age of 7 years. While her passing was very sudden and devastating, her human family is incredibly grateful for the time spent with her.

Arcadian lived to the age of 10. In his old age, he enjoyed finding warm sun spots on the carpet while munching on a variety of tropical fruits. He was an independent bunny, but one that will be dearly missed. Condolences to Kathleen.

Joni always brought a smile to anyone she encountered. She enjoyed jumping and playing on the couch, munching greens, carrots, and banana, and being petted by her humans. Joni’s inquisitive and affectionate nature, big personality, stunning acrobatics, and strong desire for treats will always keep her in our hearts and memories. Condolences to Jake and Amanda.

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Madison Daoguan closes, yet its legacy continues By Jean Rawson, Eastside News

The near east side neighborhood is saying goodbye to Madison Daoguan at 100 Atwood Ave. It is a quiet storefront that many people likely have traveled by over the past 13 years without really registering its presence or knowing its purpose. “Daoguan” means a place to study the Dao, or the Way — a Chinese term loosely meaning the underlying order of the universe. From its ancient roots in the East, the concept grew over many centuries to include noncompetitive martial arts and meditation focusing on the flow of energy in the body. In the West, many people are familiar with the practice of taijiquan (commonly known as tai chi), which is a sequence of slow movements that promotes strength and calmness. Tai chi has its roots in Daoism. Don and Kathryn Coleman purchased the space in 2002, but that was hardly the beginning of their common mission to teach tai chi. Having studied the practice intensively under a Taiwanese master in Berkeley in the 1970s, they brought their desire to share tai chi and Daoist meditation to Madison in 1988. At that time, Don had just begun a master’s program in social work at the University of Wisconsin. He taught tai chi in the Eagle Heights graduate student housing community during his internship. Both he and Kathryn also taught at various locations around the city before settling on an east side home for their school.

Poles and swords are used in various forms of tai chi at Madison Daoguan. Don Coleman (right) cofounded the Daoguan and served as its head teacher. The Madison Daoguan now has six teachers — all former students of Don. Kathryn also has been the business administrator. The Daoguan has offered classes in different forms of movement using swords, fans and poles. For several years, one of Don’s students has led tai chi sessions over lunch hours in June on the Monona Terrace. And yet, time passes. “After 26 years it is time to do something new,” Don said. “Our wish would be that the teachers continue as a group.” Nonetheless that will be for them to work out once the space on Atwood Avenue is sold. “We will support the teachers here, whatever direction they take,” Don said. How does one become a lifelong student and subsequent teacher of tai chi? “In Berkeley, in 1971, I saw my brother-in-law practicing tai chi. Just looking at it went deep into my body and mind. I thought to myself, I’ve got to learn how to do that,” Don said. That seed, planted in the 1970s, grew into the Madison Daoguan. Its students, now teachers themselves, are poised to grow Madison Daoguan’s legacy into its next stage.

Don Coleman stands in front of Madison Daoguan on Atwood Avenue.

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Pairing veterinary services with social services By Alesia Mayfield, Eastside News

Losing a pet due to homelessness and poverty can be just as devastating as losing a pet to death. Homelessness and poverty bring economic stress. Making the decision to give a pet away — which in many households is loved and considered a member of the family — to relatives, friends or an animal shelter is especially hard on the family when it’s because financial resources are not available to properly care for the animal. Now there is help for homeless and indigent pet owners to get their pets the medical attention they need and even find pet-friendly housing. The Wisconsin Companion Animal Resources, Education and Social Services is a program in the University of Wisconsin’s School of Veterinary Medicine that provides veterinary care and housing support to impoverished Dane County residents. Dr. William Gilles, director of WisCARES, is a graduate of the school and has been with the program since its inception 18 months ago. WisCARES, in partnership with the school of social work at the U.W., has a clear goal. The objective is to “leverage pet ownership as a method to improve access to human medical and social services, allowing the human-animal bond to thrive in situations where it may be most needed,” according to its website. Gilles enjoys creating a new program and guiding its development. He wants to increase veterinary care as a whole and, of course, he feels deeply for puppies and kittens. Another part of the job that Gilles loves is working with the students. He sees it as a great way to get them exposure. Gilles currently works with six students from the U.W. School of Social Work and 11 veterinary students in their first through third years. WisCARES operates three clinics, and the clinics are run as outpatient facilities. Veterinary services include preventative care (vaccines, allergies, skin conditions, upper respiratory), and educating owners about caring for their pets and euthanizing their pet when that time comes. Surgeries are performed at the U.W.’s veterinary hospital. Pharmaceutical com-

panies contribute the vaccines, flea, tick and other medications needed. Services are free, but there are fees for medications not provided by the clinic. Dr. William Gilles WisCARES has an agreement with the Humane Society of Dane County for spaying and neutering. Because WisCARES feels strongly about not separating pets from their owners, the humane society will board the pet as a last resort. If boarded, WisCARES will work with the humane society to help owners reunite with their pets. The organization was recently awarded a grant from the Banfield Charitable Trust for financial help to keep pets with their owners. In conjunction with the veterinary care, social workers provide housing advocacy for the pet owners. They work with landlords and find places where pets are allowed. Outreach to the community about WisCARES is also provided by social workers, the Madison Public Library, churches that serve homeless populations and the Friends of State Street Family. Though only dogs and cats are treated, future care could expand care to include other popular pets such as rabbits, rats, birds and ferrets. Help is available at 1312 Culmen St. (near the St. Vincent de Paul location on Fish Hatchery Road) on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon, and the Salvation Army at 630 E. Washington Ave. on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month from 2-4 p.m. Vets at the Social Justice Center, 1202 Williamson St., meet with people outside of the set hours. For more information on WisCARES, go to wiscares.wisc.edu, send an email to wiscares@gmail.com or call the hotline at 561-7387. Donations of money, pet food and supplies are welcome. l

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Learn about Hudson Park area in October September’s meeting day will be on a Sunday By Sarah White, East Side History Club

Back by popular demand, a slide show of historic photos of the Schenk-Atwood Neighborhood will be featured at the East Side History Club’s September meeting. Please join us Sunday (not our usual Saturday), Sept. 20 for this virtual stroll through time with historical consultant Ann Waidelich. Donations at the door will help support publication of a revised, expanded edition of our neighborhood history, “An East Side Album.” First published to commemorate the opening of the Goodman Community Center in the old Kupfer Ironworks factory, the revised edition will include additional photos and memories as well as updates to material included in the first edition. Join us Oct. 17 for a program on the Hudson Park subdivision and city park. Ron Humphrey will talk about the role his relatives — John W. Hudson and his daughter, Belle Hudson Mahan — played in developing the Hudson Park subdivision (south of Atwood Avenue between Evergreen and Ohio streets) and Hudson Park

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Hudson Beach in 2015 looks a lot different after the city refurbished it. Swimmers now have a terraced entry into Lake Monona.

Picturing the Past: The Schenk-Atwood Neighborhood Sept. 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. Goodman Community Center 149 Waubesa St. Meeting in Evjue Room D

History of Hudson Park and Beach Oct. 17 from 1 to 3 p.m. Goodman Community Center 149 Waubesa St. Meeting in Bolz Room A

nexed into Madison in 1913. The East Side News reported Sept. 5, 1929 about the park: “With a view to the future of the east side, Mrs. Mahan reserved a strip of ground from 20-30 feet wide along the shore of Lake Monona for the use of the residents as a picnic and pleasure resort. A natural grove of trees gives the needful shade, and the bank of the lake is of sufficient elevation at this point to make it an ideal outing spot during the warm days of summer.” The East Side History Club, a project of

GCC, meets for three months each spring and fall to collect and share memories of Madison’s east side. If you would like to receive meeting notices by email or postal mail, contact Anitra Hovelson at the Goodman Community Center, anitra@goodmancenter.org or 204-8016. The East Side History Club blog at eastsidehistory.wordpress.com shares local history “finds” as they come to light. To submit your memories and pictures to publish on the blog, send an email to sarah.white@firstpersonprod.com. l

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Beach. Friends of Hudson Park will also join us to talk about their recent efforts to improve the park and beach. John W. Hudson bought 18 acres of land along Lake Monona in 1891, adding more land purchases until he owned 25 acres. His daughter Belle married John N. Mahan. After her father’s death in 1900, they bought out the interests of the other heirs and had the tract surveyed and platted. They sold lots to people who wanted to build houses in the “suburb” of Hudson Park. The area was outside The East Side History Club will present the city limits of Madison, adjacent to a slide show of photos like this one, from the Elmside Addition resort developaround 1942, showing Lowell kindergartners ment. It became part of the village of at the corner of Fair Oaks and Atwood avFair Oaks in 1906 and became a part enues. The presentation will be Sunday, Sept. of Madison when the village of Fair 20. Oaks voted to dissolve and be an-

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Sept. 20

Attend the Arboretum’s gardening conference The University of Wisconsin Arboretum will host its 2015 Native Gardening Conference, “Native by Design: Gardening for a Sustainable Future,” Sept. 20. The conference offers a day of expertled demonstrations, workshops and tours for gardeners who want to use native plants in their home landscapes. It runs from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Advanced registration is required by Sept. 10, and lunch is included as part of the conference fee. Participants meet and connect with fellow gardeners and go home with a wealth of practical tips, information and inspira-

tion. Specialists from the Arboretum and the U.W. will share expertise suitable for a variety of gardens and home environments, from small urban yards to rural acreage. The Arboretum’s Native Gardening Conference can help all gardeners, from beginner to expert, learn to plant a little wild at home, creating a beautiful restorative landscape that plays a broader ecological role and supports biodiversity. For more information and registration visit arboretum.wisc.edu/events/nativegardening-conference. l

Oct. 10

Warner Park hosts NESC’s AppleFest The North/Eastside Senior Coalition’s AppleFest will be Oct. 10 from 9:30 a.m.to 3:30 p.m. at the Warner Park Community Recreation Center, 1625 Northport Drive. Adults are $2 and kids under 12 are free. Enjoy face painting, a kiddie carnival, moon bounce, musical and dancing entertainment, bake sale, costume jewelry sale raffle prizes. A used book sale will also run Oct. 8 from 4-7 p.m., Oct. 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Clowns, balloons and fun at last year’s Applefest.

“Introducing the Norwegian Buhund, a Dog With Viking Origins.” Olsen has two Norwegian buhunds, Norski and Amber. The breed name translates to farm or homestead or livestock dog, and they are a member of the spitz group of dogs. The buhund is closely related to the Icelandic sheepdog, its ancestors found as far back as 900 A.D. in a Viking grave in Norway. It has been used for generations there as an all-purpose farm and herding dog, as well as a watch dog. The breed was finally recognized by the American Kennel Club in 2009, so it is now also a show dog. Olsen will provide some history of the buhund and discuss its personality and unique traits. Both programs are free and open to the public at the Norway Center, 2262 Winnebago St., and begin at 7:15 p.m. Each is preceded by an optional potluck supper at 6:30 p.m.

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and Oct. 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For more information call the North/Eastside Senior Coalition at 243-5252, email info@nescoinc.org or visit nescoinc.org. l

Sept. 11

One-person performace of ‘Rose Gold’ recounts the plight of black motherhood Through the mediums of monologue, poetry and rap, the performance of “Rose Gold” recounts the tragedy of black motherhood and the glory of its daughters. A presentation of this one-person play, exploring the relationships of black women in light of traumas old and new, will be Friday, Sept. 11 from 6:30-8 p.m. in the

On Wednesday, Sept. 2 the Sons of Norway-Idun Lodge presents “Govern like a Viking: What Congress could learn about effective governance from Viking Age Iceland” by Colin Connors. “In the last two years, the Congressional approval rating has dropped to all-time lows of 14 and 15 percent. Viking Age Iceland was ruled by an assembly of chieftains, which resembled a democratic government,” said Connors, a student working towards his doctorate in the folklore track of Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin. “While we don’t know their approval ratings, we do know that they kept their nation at peace and prevented civil war from developing for over three centuries, despite the risk that your Viking neighbor might literally throw you off a cliff. What were they doing differently back then than we are today?”

Goodman Community Center’s Lussier LOFT. Playwright and Performer Zhalarina H. Sanders is a graduate student of psychology at the University of Wisconsin and is a member of the First Wave Hip-Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community. A donation of $7 is suggested. l

Olbrich will be ablaze with fire and froth Ignite your fall season with an evening of glowing bonfires, frothy brews and live music surrounded by Olbrich’s outdoor gardens at CRACKLE: Fire & Froth, Friday, Sept. 25, from 7-10 p.m. Guests are invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets to spread out on Olbrich’s Great Lawn among the warmth and light of 10 crackling bonfires. Savory entrées and desserts Last year, CRACKLE: Fire & Froth featured from Tex Tubb’s Taco Palace carved pumpkins. and Market Street Diner will be sold along with frothy Wisconsin beer and advanced tickets will be available starting Tuesday, Sept. 8. Tickets to this popular drinks from a full cash bar. Funky-reggae-rock band, Newport Jam, event have sold out every year. Tickets are will keep the night alive with their energiz- $20 for Olbrich members and $25 for the ing performance of nostalgic favorites and general public. A small service fee applies to all ticket sales. l new original music. A limited number of Sept. 26

Harvest Moon Fest will help Pinney Library Join your neighbors at the Harvest Moon Fest at the Pinney Library, Saturday, Sept. 26 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. This special event will feature Wayne the Wizard, the excellent honky tonk band Dollar Bill & the Bucks, bingo, face painting, a cake walk and a silent auction.

Tickets go on sale at the library’s circulation desk Friday, Sept. 4. Advance tickets are $8 for individuals and $12 for families. Tickets are $10 at the door for individuals and $15 for families. All proceeds will be used to help build the new Pinney Library. l

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Slow Flow Yoga classes offered three times a week Slow Flow Yoga is offered Fridays from 6-7 p.m.; Sundays from 9-10 a.m. and from 4-5 p.m. in the GCC gym. Cost is $4 per drop-in. Cash or check only. Please bring a mat or blanket. l

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The space will be monitored, but there are no organized classes. Cost is $2 for drop-in and free with your prepaid Goodman fitness center membership. Please bring clean athletic shoes. A shower is available (bring your own towel, sundries and a lock for storage lockers). l

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Support your bones with a Feldenkrais workshop

5 through Oct. 17 from 9:30-10:15 a.m. at GCC in the gym. Registration is required and can be completed at the front desk in the GCC lobby. Cost is $50. For more information, email Jennifer Pampuch at kitsmom17@yahoo.com. l

Reduce stress and tension with Feldenkrais Learn through movement how to reduce tension, improve posture, balance, flexibility, efficiency and coordination. Classes are Mondays, Oct. 5 through Nov. 30 from 7:15-8:30 p.m.at GCC. The cost is $120 for the eight week session; $18 for one class. Will accept Dane County Time dollars for half of class fee. Registra-

tion required. A free video introducing Feldenkrais will be shown Monday, Oct. 5, before the first class. Wear loose comfortable layers. Bring padding to lie on and a towel for your head. To register, contact Sandra Rae River at 241-7635. l

Oct. 31

1 p.m. at GCC. The cost is $45. Will accept Dane County Time dollars for half of workshop fee. Registration is required. To sign up, contact Sandra Rae River at 241-7635. l

Sept. 10 through Dec. 10

Strengthen and stretch with Vinyasa flow yoga This yoga is a well-rounded practice that enhances strength and flexibility in every part of the body while linking movement to breath. Classes include fluid sequences and longer poses to focus the mind. Classes are Thursdays Sept. 10 through

Classes are designed to give you tools to begin a new fitness routine in a supportive environment. While maintaining a yoga focus, sessions include strength and circuit training, cardiovascular endurance, breathwork, flexibility and balance. The seven classes are Saturdays, Sept.

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Adult early morning drop-in gym at GCC

Discover how to let your bones support you and learn to release tension with individualized instruction. Wear loose and comfortable layers; bring padding to lie on and a large towel for your head. The workshop is Oct. 3 from 10 a.m. to

Get your body in gear with Yoga Body BootCamp

Fridays and Saturdays

GCC’s gymnasium will be open for morning fitness/exercise for adults on Wednesday and Friday mornings starting Sept. 9 (not available Nov. 20 or Nov. 25). The gym will be open from 6-7:15 a.m. for walking, running, shooting hoops, stretching and other self-led exercise routines.

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Dec. 10 from 4:45-5:45 p.m. in the GCC gym. Drop-in with a $4 fee. Please bring your mat and any blocks and straps. For more information, email Christopher Livanos at clivanos@wisc.edu. l

Eagle Ball season is revving up Small-sided practices and games will be starting this fall as part of North/Eastside Sherman youth basketball’s Eagle Ball camps. Camps will start Saturday, Oct. 31, and will be offered to 4-year-old kindergartners through fourth-graders. This is one of our most popular programs, so sign up early because these

events fill up fast. Registration runs Sept. 12 to Oct. 16. Cost is $45 per player. If you bring your own team, there are team discounts. Payments are made at the Goodman Community Center’s front desk. For more information or to sign up, contact Tyrone Cratic at 204-8017 or send email to tyrone@goodmancenter.org. l

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tion. In many cases, we have actually added a burden to people of color by acting sad and mopey and This equity page is a one small way the Goodman Community Center is trying to keep expecting them to cheer us up by our goal of equity at the forefront in our community. Every issue, we will try to present telling us we are the good kind of fresh ideas and stories to stimulate thought and conversation. We welcome suggestions white people. for future articles. Contact kristin@goodmancenter.org. When we pick up white responsibility instead, it does not necessarily make the load feel lighter. In fact, it is fairly likely to make By Hannah Bonner, Curator of The Shout, an ecumenical art and social justice space in Houston © June 30, 2015 ministrymatters.com. Reprinted with permission. the load feel heavier. Yet, with that weight comes the motivaFor more than a decade now, I’ve been be- onto the table, and ask the community how tion to alter the situation and to ing told in anti-racism trainings that I carry we will use what is rightfully communal see a change take place. With that Rev. Hannah Adair Bonner is a pastor and the around an invisible backpack of white priv- property. curator of The Shout at St. John’s Downtown weight comes the desire to see a ilege. This backpack was first described Until we dismantle systems of injustice day come when there are not quite Houston and a graduate of Duke Divinity by Peggy MacIntosh in 1989 and has and white supremacy, the backpack will be School. so many things in the backpack, since then become a foundation for buildours to carry; attached to us regardless of not quite so many unearned ading awareness of privilege. As MacIntosh how we feel about it, because it clings to us vantages. With that weight comes the hope to define what justice is. Any panel discusswrote: “I have come to see white privilege as tightly as the skin we are in. Yet, it will that maybe someday the backpack could be ing justice that includes a majority of white as an invisible package of unearned assets become increasingly more heavy as we gone altogether. For while we cannot undo males as the speakers cannot be a panel on which I can count on cashing in each day, come to a deeper understanding of why it what has been done, we can begin to refuse justice because it is inherently unjust by not but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain contains what it contains. Once you realize including voices that experience the most to be accomplices to the crime. oblivious. White privilege is like an invisand accept that what is in your backpack injustice. It is often prioritizing the voices To be of any use in this struggle, we ible weightless backpack of special proviwas acquired through blood and death and of those who benefit professionally from need to pick up white responsibility and sions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, rape and cruelty; through slavery and the justice work, rather than those who actuwhite action, rather than white guilt and clothes, tools and blank checks.” massacre of indigenous peoples; through white helplessness. We need to understand ally suffer from injustice. It is an exercise But there is something they did not tell the theft of bodies and the theft of land; in hearsay. why privilege exists not just that it exists. us about the invisible backpack: the conwhat we were once told was an inheritance It means that my role is to listen before We need to feel outraged not just guilty. tents of the backpack are stolen. we will come to know as an inheritance of I speak. My voice and opinions must be Real social change cannot come from Let it sink in. others, stolen through the blood of their in sync with the voices of those most impersonal guilt which seeks to alleviate It is not simply unfair that we have cerancestors. pacted by injustice. If they are not, there is one’s own pain by doing or saying sometain unearned advantages; and the approNo, we were not the ones to steal it. thing that will cause the one who has expe- clearly something wrong and I need to keep priate response is not simply to feel guilty Yet, we make ourselves accomplices to the my mouth shut and do a lot more listening. rienced injustice to absolve us and release about it. Rather it is unjust that we possess crime if we choose to keep it after knowing It means that I do not get to be a hero. us from responsibility. White guilt keeps us things taken through theft, and the approhow it became ours. That is why we must We do not get to pat ourselves on the back focused on ourselves. priate response is to take responsibility and pick up white responsibility rather than for dispensing a little bit of the overflow Instead, social change will come take action. white guilt if we are ever to stop the cycle or our privilege. We do not get to “save” through the acceptance of responsibility White guilt paralyzes us and maintains of this crime. and the resulting action that seeks to allevi- anyone. the norm. White responsibility motivates When we pick up white guilt and add It means that I understand that my priviate the pain of others, rather than remainus and disrupts the norm. it to our backpack, it makes the load feel lege was stolen through violence. Through ing focused on our own. I was recently asked whether it was aclighter because we fool ourselves into If my privilege was taken at the expense colonization. Through slavery. Therefore, it ceptable to use white privilege for good. thinking we have done something. We must be submitted to the accountability of of the community then the only viable opMy response was that it is not ours to use; may not take any action, but at least we those whose losses constituted its gains. tion is to restore my privilege to the comonce we know that, we can never use it can look at other white people and think to What belongs to the community as a munity. To make it, as far as possible, comalone again. We must first gather around ourselves: at least I feel guilty, that makes whole must be restored to the community munal property. the table with those who do not carry white me better than those people over there who as a whole. Only then will the invisible This means that those who are the ones privilege, who we trust to hold us account- act like they do not care. Yet, we have not experiencing injustice are the ones who get backpack truly disappear. l able. We must then empty the backpack actually done anything to change the situa-

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Listen and learn at Pinney Library Pinney Branch Library is located at 204 Cottage Grove Road, at the intersection of Monona Drive and Cottage Grove Road between Walgreens and the former ReStore. For further program details or to register, call 224-7100 or visit madisonpubliclibrary.org. Library hours are Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. All MPL locations will be closed Monday, Sept. 7 in observance of Labor Day and Thursday, Sept. 17 for an all staff training day.

Adult book group

Toddler time

Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. “12 Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. “Dew Breaker” by Edwidge Danticat

Tuesdays at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Enjoy stories, songs and rhymes. One adult per child is recommended. Registration is on a first come first served basis.

First Friday flicks

Herbal Institute

Friday, Sept. 4 at 6:30 p.m. ”Leviathan” (R) Friday, Oct. 2 at 6:30 p.m. “Cinderella” (PG)

Monday, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m. Ask the herbalist panel Monday, Oct. 18, at 6 p.m. Healing herbal roots

Special movie screening

A gentle talk on Alzheimer’s

Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. ”Timbuktu” (PG-13)

Thursday, Sept. 10, at 6:30 p.m. Topics include implementing dining assistance, community trips, leisure activities and more.

Star Wars series Saturday, Oct. 3 at 2 p.m. “Episode I: The Phantom Menace” (PG) Friday, Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m. “Episode II: Attack of the Clones” (PG) Saturday, Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” (PG-13)

Humanitarian knitting First and third Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. Knitting for charity. Assistance is available for those wishing to learn to knit or improve skills. Yarn is provided.

Book baby Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. Enjoy stories, songs and activities. One adult per baby is required. Class length is 15 minutes, with time after for play and conversation. For babies ages 0-15 months.

Chess club First and third Thursdays at 4 p.m. Learn how to play chess and play against other children with varied levels of experience. For children in grades K-12. Children under 7 must be accompanied by an adult.

How to prepare for college Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. This Planning for College Correctly interactive workshop lays out the dynamics for successful college preparation. For teens and parents.

Haunted history of Madison Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. Join us for a 90-minute ghost talk. Expect to meet the colorful characters, vengeful spirits, monsters and stories of the people who love Madison so much that even death can’t stop them from staying in the city.

Atwood Tool Library donation site Pinney Library is a donation site for the Atwood Tool Library. Drop off clean, working, non-gas powered tool donations. To learn more about the Atwood Tool Library, visit sustainableatwood.org/tool-library.

LEGO club First Mondays at 3:30 p.m. Join other LEGO fans and build a unique creation. Children under 7 must have an adult helper. l

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Hawthorne happenings Hawthorne Branch Library is located at 2707 E. Washington Ave. in the Madison East Shopping Center at the intersection of East Johnson Street and East Washington Avenue. For program details or to register, contact staff at 246-4548 or visit madisonpubliclibrary.org. Library hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. All MPL locations will be closed Monday, Sept. 7 in observance of Labor Day and Thursday, Sept. 17 for an all staff training day.

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Toddler time

Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 6 p.m. “Hokkaido: Japan’s Frontier” Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. “Madagascar: A Very Personal View”

Mondays in October at 10:30 a.m. Enjoy stories, songs and rhymes. One parent per child is recommended.

Adult Swim Theater

Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 10:30 a.m. Join us for fun stories, songs, and crafts celebrating the birds in our backyard. Includes a special foam-cutting demo by a local artist.

Backyard Birds: Story and Craft Time

Saturdays, Sept. 26 and Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. Join us for this ongoing film event in which we will be showing a newly released adult feature.

Altered Golden Books presented by Anthology

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Saturday, Oct. 3 at 2 p.m. Get a little taste for the process of making altered books in a fun and manageable way. Each participant will start with an old Golden Book, rip out pages, add new ones, collage and decorate. All supplies provided; if you have a Golden Book you’d like to alter or collage materials you’d like to use, bring them along.

Book discussions Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 6:30 p.m. “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson (Go Big Read discussion) Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. “The Children Act” by Ian McEwan

Amazing bats

Wednesdays, Oct. 14 through Nov. 18 at 11 a.m. Show up for an interactive music experience for children ages 5 and under and their families.

Toddlers in motion Tuesdays, Sept. 1, 15, 22 at 10:15 a.m. Help toddlers up to age 4 stay active with music, dance, ribbons, shakers, interactive free play, an interactive obstacle course and more.

Stories and songs in Spanish Tuesdays, Oct. 6-27 at 10:30 a.m. Please join us for stories, songs and rhymes in Spanish, focused on building early literacy skills. For ages 3-6.

Monster mash Saturday, Oct. 3 at 10:30 a.m. We’ll learn all about bats’ gentle nature and Thursday, Oct. 29, at 4 p.m. Hear creepy stories, make spooky crafts environmental benefit. and eat ghoulish grub. For ages 5 and Preschool storytime above. Thursdays, Sept. 24 through Oct. 29 at Pokemon club 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays, Sept. 16 through Oct. 14 A happy blend of stories, fingerplays and songs that help preschool children develop Learn how to play cards from 3:30-4 p.m., print and phonological awareness, vocabu- compete against friends and fellow players from 4-5 p.m. l lary, letter knowledge and narrative skills. Groups and younger siblings welcome.

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City signs on to My Brother’s Keeper Challenge By Paul Soglin, city of Madison Mayor

I hope that you have been able to follow the developments of Madison’s involvement in My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge. MBK is a White Paul Soglin House issued challenge accepted by the city to implement programs and policies to improve life chances for boys and young men of color. The city has focused on this initiative for several months. One portion was a youth survey asking boys and young men of color their preferences for what focus our efforts should take. Over 200 youth took the survey and shared their ideas and opinions. I cannot emphasize enough the value of the information survey participants provided. We asked broad questions on how we can solve complicated social problems and remove barriers to opportunities. Our youth responses exceeded our expectations. They shared thought-provoking ideas, personal experiences and even made

some policy recommendations of their own. Through the surveys, we have gained great insight into places where our Madison community could use improvement and identified our two MBK focus areas. First, we need to ensure all students graduate from high school; and secondly, all children and young people remain safe from violent crime and receive second chances. While the city of Madison and our MBK partners are committed to fulfilling the two goals selected by our boys and young men of color, we cannot achieve these goals alone. We are asking that Madisonians sign on to the MBK challenge via the pledge. The pledge is simple: we are asking community members to take action and join in on the MBK initiative. From taking time to volunteer and mentor youth of color, to simply working to change one’s thought processes, there is something for everyone. Join me in taking the pledge, and encourage your friends and colleagues to do the same. l

By David Ahrens, District 15 Alder

You’ve probably noticed that there is quite a surge in construction activity around the city. Two effects of the boom are sharp increases in the price of materials and the David Ahrens cost of labor, as well as long project delays. Both effects have been borne by the planned new shelter at Lake Edge Park. The initial bids were so much higher than estimated, the project was re-bid. The second time around, the project price was still high, and the contractor is available only at the very end of summer. So, the new shelter will be completed in November — just in time for winter. Projects such as replacing the antiquated water utility repair shops on Paterson Street will likely cost $1.5 million more than expected. This means delayed projects and more borrowing. Currently, about 15 percent of our property taxes are used to pay debt. This could go as high as 20 percent in a few years if all of the scheduled projects

are completed. I think we need to reconsider many of these projects until prices are lower or when we can get financial assistance from the state and federal governments. One example of collaboration by many governmental units to fund projects is the 60-unit apartment complex on Rethke and East Washington avenues. In order to build this $7 million project, the city and county each contributed $1 million, and the federal government loaned the remaining costs. This project will provide supportive permanent housing for 60 single adults who have been homeless. The housing will consist of small single-room apartments, along with counseling to assist individuals in making the adjustment of getting off the street. I look forward to the city and county working together on additional projects, such as a day shelter and a stand-alone night shelter. Greater effort on addressing the longterm problems of homeless individuals is more constructive than engaging in blaming and vilifying various groups and individuals. l

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Dane County is a model on how to gain growth By Joe Parisi, Dane County Executive

Remember when legislators worked together? By Fred Risser, State Senator, 26th District

Five years ago, Wisconsin’s smoking-free workplace law went into effect. As the principal author of the smoke-free workplace legislation and a longtime chamFred Risser pion for clean indoor air, I was pleased that this legislation was finally passed after many years of effort by a bipartisan coalition in the legislature. There is no substitute for clean indoor air, and the smoke-free air law has been positive for business owners, employees and customers alike. A recent poll of Wisconsin voters by the Public Opinion Strategies Poll concluded that 86 percent of Wisconsin voters approve of this law. By a similar margin, 85 percent believe the rights of employees and customers to

breathe clean, smoke-free air in bars and restaurants are more important than the rights of smokers to smoke indoors. Even a majority of smokers say they should step outside to light up. This legislation is an important reminder of the positive impact we can make when legislators on both sides of the aisle work together for the common good rather than focusing on political gamesmanship and partisan attacks. Five years into Wisconsin’s smoke-free law, there’s still some more work to be done to reduce the health risks of secondhand smoke and keep cigarettes out of the hands of Wisconsin teens and youth. The effect of e-cigarettes on clean air is also being questioned. Let’s build on our success and focus on ways to move Wisconsin forward, working together. l

New budget is destructive to Wisconsinites By Chris Taylor, State Representative, 78th Assembly District

After nearly five months of budget deliberations by the legislature, Gov. Scott Walker recently signed the 2015-17 state budget into law. As I observed firsthand, this Chris Taylor budget is as much of a mess as when the governor introduced it back in February. Although my Democratic colleagues and I tried to do everything we could to fix this budget, our efforts were rebuffed. We proposed adequate funding for our K-12 public schools, restoring the proposed cuts to our stellar University of Wisconsin System and maintaining critical scientists at the Department of Natural Resources and other environmental programs. Unfortunately for us all, Republicans passed one of the most destructive budgets in recent memory. We’ve heard from Gov. Walker and his allies that they’re reformers. But really, this budget is about destroying so many of the programs and investments that have made our state great. Budgets are all about choices — and the choices made by the Republican Party show whose side they are

on. And it is not the side of the Wisconsin people. Once again Republicans chose not to adequately fund public education. Instead, they prioritized siphoning off millions of dollars from our public schools to subsidize private school tuition and independent charter schools. In this budget, Republicans chose to denigrate our environment. They cut the stewardship program by millions of dollars and fired scientists at the Bureau of Science Services. They then did away with critical shore land zoning protections that were created by individual communities after years of cooperation between stakeholders. Despite pleas from over a dozen advocacy groups, collectively opposed to any changes to current law, Republicans moved ahead with their plans to dismantle our regional long-term care system. This included the popular IRIS which will create more uncertainty for families. The commonality of these choices is clear: they do not help the people of this state. They destroyed well-respected programs and traditions that Wisconsin is known for and that Wisconsinites love. l

When state lawmakers work on the next Wisconsin budget, they would benefit from looking to Dane County as a model for solutions, rather than hampering our ability Joe Parisi to continue our successes. In Dane County we are doing many things right. We are the most effective job creator among Wisconsin’s 72 counties, having 56.9 percent of all the new private sector jobs between 2003 and 2013. The nearly 20,000 new jobs added in Dane County over that decade is three times greater than the next closest county. Through 2003-2013, 76 percent of the state’s average monthly employment increase occurred in Dane County. We consistently have the lowest unemployment rate in the state. We are also the fastest-growing Wisconsin county, with 70 percent of the state’s net population growth. Of the 28,000 new residents added statewide between 2008 and 2012, 20,000 came to Dane County. We are a national agricultural leader. Dane County agriculture accounts for more

than $3.4 billion in economic activity, over 17,000 jobs and $1.3 billion in total income. Out of more than 3,000 counties in the United States, Dane County ranks 27th in dairy production. Moreover, we are an elite tourism destination. Dane County experienced a 6.2 percent increase in direct visitor spending from tourism in 2014, totaling $1.8 billion. The people of Dane County know their communities, farms, lakes and businesses. We don’t need the heavy hand of state government telling us what our county should look like, and how and where we should do things. More people, jobs and businesses are coming to Dane County than anywhere else. What this community has accomplished is a template to emulate, not something to tear apart out of petty partisanship. Instead of messing with success, if this legislature actually wanted to bring more businesses, jobs and people to Wisconsin, it may want to take a page from what we like to call ‘The Dane County Way.’ When it comes to vibrant, sustained economic growth, Dane County has and continues to lead the way. l

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Troop 34 builds raised beds on UW campus By Francine Hartman, Boy Scout Troop 34

Troop 34 came together to assist with an Eagle Scout project led by Henry DeMarco. The boys built and installed two raised beds on the roof of a building on the University of Wisconsin campus. The Eagle Scout project benefits the F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture at UW-Madison. Produce grown on the roof is distributed free to the community throughout the fall. In case you missed the anThe Troop 34 work crew installed two raised beds nouncement in late July, we are on a rooftop garden on the University of Wisconsin very glad that the Boy Scouts campus in June. national leadership voted to allow scout troops and their sponsors to include all people as members Fall brings the annual popcorn sale and leaders. Our troop has always been in- with delicious treats being offered. We clusive and proud of our history, working will be back to our regular Tuesday meetwithin the organization for change and acing schedule in September. Join us from ceptance of all people. 6:45‑8 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church. The annual “high adventure” trip took We welcome all boys, age 11-17, and all a group of about 18 boys and adults on a families. An active adult membership will 10-day canoeing and camping expedition get you started and answer basic questions. along the Upper Missouri River in MonFor more information visit Scoutlander. tana. It was a memorable trip with speccom, our public site (password: troop34) tacular scenery and adventures along the or contact Scoutmaster Elizabeth Cwik, at Lewis and Clark Trail. Several in the troop troop34sm@yahoo.com. l also attended Camp Bear Paw in northern Wisconsin.

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Obtaining the right fit always requires accurate measures of growth — even at school By John Burkholder, Lowell Elementary School principal

As the 2015-2016 school year gets underway, both parents and teachers go through many traditions that have followed the school year calendar for generations. In AuJohn Burkholder gust, parents begin to take notice of shoes that seem pinched at the toe, pants that fall well above shoe tops and shirts that appear to hug the body more than originally intended. Children are carefully assessed, and changing rooms are frequented, as obtaining the right fit for back-to-school clothes always requires accurate measures of growth. Also in August, teachers begin to return to their classrooms, reviewing new student rosters, counting chairs and affixing names to hallway lockers. When the students finally arrive in September, teachers work to learn new names, identify individual student interests and build a connection with each individual student. Teachers also carefully assess each student, as obtaining the right fit for instruction always requires accurate measures of growth. As we begin the school year at Lowell Elementary School, we take time during September and the early part of October to implement a veritable alphabet soup of assessments such as PALS, MAP, CogAT, AIMSweb, TRL, OLA, ACCESS, NDA and MFIs. Most of these assessments are rather short in duration for any given student, and no student takes all of them. Some assessments are targeted toward specific grade levels or grade level spans, and others are for students in unique situations, such as learning English as a second language. The majority of assessments used as we begin the school year target the four domains of language literacy (listening, speaking, reading and writing), while a select assessment or two looks at skills in the area of mathematics. By the end of the first six weeks of the

school year, each grade level has a half day away to take a look at each student and her or his assessment portfolio with an emphasis on reading. Grade level teachers, support teachers and other staff members sit down with the gathered assessment data at our fingertips to help us determine the greatest point of leverage to support each student’s learning over the first few months of the school year. Teachers come away from these meetings with a clear idea of how to group all students across each grade level for small group instruction that specifically targets areas of instructional need such as phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency, comprehension and explicit foundational math skills. The assessment data also help us to identify some of our students for whom there may be a benefit from intensive reading supports delivered by reading and language teachers who are highly trained in literacy intervention. The process that begins with student assessment — and that results in differentiated instructional programming for all students — is our our Multi-Tiered System of Support, or MTSS. The MTSS process goes through additional stages throughout the school year with periodic short assessments to monitor the progress of all students, with a complete repeat of the above process in January as we hit the mid-point of the school year. While assessments can have a bad name in education, such as when a single measure is used to rate the relative success of a school, the vast majority of assessments that we use are of great benefit. They help us to measure accurately student progress and to align our instruction to individual needs. Remember, obtaining the right fit always requires accurate measures of growth. For more information about assessments or a Lowell School tour as we celebrate our 100th anniversary, please give us a call at 204-6600. l

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OCTOBER  Ballweg Gallery presents:

Eastside ARTS

‘Into the Woods’

SEPTEMBER  Ballweg Gallery presents:

Paintings and Drawings by Katherine Steichen Rosing

‘Reflections and Shadows’ Paintings by Daithi

Artist Statement

About the show I approach my art with a vigorous free flow. I work on several at a time. I am interested in creating poetic and emotional spaces by telling stories and making visual corridors. My inspiration comes from the process. In all my art ― painting, sculpture, drawing and assemblage ― I hope to convey a sincere and instinctive sight. I like to make colorful, juicy, oil painting abstractions. Images of people and landscapes present themselves and become characters and starting reference points to complex narratives and visual questions. I am interested in creating a visual language, answering the notion of what is and what is not. The themes of my “Laments,” Oil, acrylic, ink and resin on paintings range from beauty, music, panel, 24" x 30" catharsis, social injustice, community, dreams, nature and time. I hope Ireland, Italy and Argentina. Daithi has you enjoy. taught art in many surroundings, such as the McColl Center for the Visual Art in Bio Charlotte, N.C., the Save the World Project Daithi was born in the United States in in Katmandu, Nepal, Nimbus Arts in Napa 1972. He was awarded at a young Valley, Calif. and most recently age for his artistic talent. He as artist-in-residence at the has studied at the UniGoodman Community versity of Wisconsin, Center in Madison. His the Art Students art can be found in League of New York many private, public City and in Lucca, and corporate collecItaly through the tions. Pratt Institute of To purchase Daithi’s Art, where his studio art, contact him directwas located in the ly at daithiart@yahoo. Cathedral Santa Maria com or 920-559-7448. Learn Bianca. He has exhibited in more about his art at daithiart. museums, galleries, universities com and worldartistexchange.com. l and city centers across North America,

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Gallery Night returns to GCC To see and purchase handmade creations of all kinds, make GCC your Gallery Night destination Friday, Oct. 2, from 5-9 p.m. There will be complimentary snacks and beverages – and live acoustic music performances, open-mic style. As part of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s citywide fall Gallery Night, GCC will host a variety of artists. In addition, stop to chat with Katherine Rosing, GCC’s Ballweg Gallery featured artist, at her opening reception in the lobby area. A silent auction, with items donated by the evening’s participating artists, will take

place in the lobby from 5-8 p.m. Proceeds of the silent auction will benefit programs of GCC. If you’re interested in reserving art show space or performing a couple of songs, call Margo at 204-8028, or email margo@goodmancenter.org. For more information on featured gallery night artists, visit the GCC website at goodmancenter.org Visit mmoca.org/gallery-night for information about other Gallery Night locations. l

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My abstract textured landscape paintings spring from accumulated memories of forests and lakes. I am fascinated by rhythmic patterns of tree trunks ― mature and sapling ― and by ripples on water like passing moments in time. Walking through natural areas, my senses are heightened, and I am “Oracle,” Oil, acrylic, acrylic on paper, 29.5" x 45" acutely aware of color, texture and space. may come later, yet sustain their own life I work on the edge of abstraction, blurindependently. ring the line between image and implication. I am more interested in how the forest Bio feels to me than specifically how it looks. Katherine Steichen Rosing’s paintings Tree trunks are lines: vertical, horizontal, and drawings have been exhibited in solo and diagonal, each with a different sensaand group exhibitions in museums and tion. Surfaces are rough, patterned, speck- galleries throughout the United States and led and colored. What is the history of the abroad, including Milwaukee, Chicago, fallen tree, the future of the upright sapNew York, Washington D.C., Tokyo, and lings and the visual rhythm of the wide and Beijing. Her works are included in numernarrow bands in the forest? ous collections internationally. My painting process begins with the In addition to an active exhibition cacreation of a textured surface using acrylic reer, Katherine has taught studio art coursgel mediums, followed by many layers of es at colleges and universities for more paint to enhance the texture and interact than 20 years in Madison and Chicago. with underlying color. I spend a lot of time Born and raised in Appleton, she earned layering color until I get just the right inter- a bachelor of arts from the University of action with previous layers of texture and Wisconsin, a B.F.A. from University of color. Colorado-Denver, and an M.F.A. in paintMy exhibition at the Center consists ing and drawing from Northern Illinois predominantly of works on paper, ranging University. Rosing has lived in Madison from smaller painted studies which may for more than 18 years teaching art at Madinspire a larger painting on wood or canvas ison College in the College Transfer Art but also includes some larger more develProgram and at the University of Wisconoped works on paper. The smaller sketches sin Continuing Studies program, making are the seeds that nourish paintings that art and raising twin sons. l

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