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Restorative court OK’d Local judge embraces program after earlier doubts BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group
The village is preparing to establish a Community Restorative Court, and municipal judge Beth Cox said she’s glad it is. Cox had raised questions about the program after it was initially presented to the Village Board on June 4. She said she uses methods similar to what’s done in a CRC to accomplish restorative justice in Oregon municipal court and didn’t see a reason to change the existing process. But the Village Board unanimously approved the agreement Monday with Dane County, and on Tuesday, Cox told the
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Stanley Guillaume, left, spends Father’s Day with his son Amare at the Cruizin’ for a Cure car show on Sunday, June 17.
Cruizin’ for a Cure
The eighth annual Cruizin’ for a Cure car show fundraiser was held on Sunday, June 17, in the parking lot of Prairie View Elementary. The car show was open to all makes and models of cars, trucks and motorcycles. The proceeds raised at the event went to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America.
Gooze keeps swimming for breast cancer awareness Oregon woman with terminal cancer racing in Verona triathlon
‘It’s still amazing to me how If You Go when you’re in the middle What: Wisconsin Triterium Triathlon of something, you think When: 7 a.m. Saturday, June 23 everybody knows. But when BILL LIVICK Where: Fireman’s Park you step outside the circle Unified Newspaper Group Info: wisconsintriterium.com you find out that people still For the past five years, Oregon resiaren’t aware of what this dent Mary Gooze has been on a quest disease is.’ aren’t aware of what this disease is.” to educate people about metastatic
Gooze launched her One Woman – Mary Gooze Many Lakes’ swimming campaign in 2014 after learning the breast cancer she’d been diagnosed with two years Unlike similar efforts that have seen earlier had metastasized. She joined her swim miles across lakes to raise with others in the Stage IV commufunds and awareness, Gooze isn’t nity to advocate for more research swimming next week to raise money toward a cure and shine a light on a but only to increase people’s under- disease that most people don’t know standing of the disease, which kills an much about. estimated 40,000 people annually in In 2015, at age 64, Gooze swam the U.S. alone. more than 25 miles in 23 lakes – She said most people haven’t heard including five in Dane County – in her of metastatic breast cancer and aren’t campaign to garner publicity in hopes aware that it’s different from breast of educating the public. She raised cancer, which itself is not lethal. around $200,000, sending $109,000 “It’s still amazing to me how when to METAvivor, a national organizayou’re in the middle of something, tion that funds stage IV breast cancer you think everybody knows,” she research, and nearly $90,000 to the observed. “But when you step outside the circle you find out that people still Turn to Gooze/Page 5
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Having a plan
before they’re thrust into that role. To help prepare them, a new senior seminar class at Oregon High School this school year helped SCOTT DE LARUELLE students plan their own paths after graduation, Unified Newspaper Group whether it’s heading for From balancing a check- more schooling or going book to planning a career, straight into the workthere’s a lot to do in the force. “adult” world teens might Turn to Senior/Page 20 not know enough about
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breast cancer and raise funds to find a cure for the fatal disease. She’ll continue the education part of her mission Saturday when she, another woman diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer and their oncologist compete as a relay team in the Wisconsin Triterium Triathlon. Gooze, a 67-year-old retired teacher from t h e O r eg o n S c h o o l District, will swim a Gooze quarter-mile, her friend Erin Jacobson, of Spring Green, will cycle 11 miles and their oncologist, Dr. Yamil Arbaje, will run five kilometers. The race takes place at Fireman’s Park in Verona starting at 7 a.m.
Observer her concerns had been addressed by the pair who runs the CRC. She said she supports “making these changes permanent” by the village joining the county program. The coordinators of the Dane County Community Restorative Court, Ron Johnson and social worker Stephanie Marino, told village officials the program is designed to work with offenders between the ages of 17 and 25 who are referred to the CRC by law enforcement agencies, such as the Oregon Police Department, or the district attorney’s office. The program’s goal is to help the victims of misdemeanor offenses by developing a plan that “heals victims” and allows offenders to “repair” the harm they caused and thereby avoid the cost of going to