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Growing her business Grant will help SHS On the web alumna continue For more information about Tiger Lily Seeds, visit: seed collecting AMBER LEVENHAGEN Unified Newspaper Group
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Dan Ripp ties a candle, made of a battery-powered votive and painted toilet paper rolls, to string to great their floating candles decoration to mimic the floating candles in the Great Hall in Harry Potter. Teams at the Relay for Life event on Friday, July 20, decorated their booths prior to the start of the event.
Honoring the heroes Communities rally at Relay for Life
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for battling and overcoming cancer, sharing her story and connecting with other survivors and caregivers, but Terese Tyler knows what it takes to she turned the narrative around on the audience and highlighted how importbe a hero. ant support is for those who are batAs she stood in front tling cancer. of a couple hundred “The support I received during this people in the bleachers time was nothing short of astounding of the Mandt Center, and my list of personal caped crusadall of whom she said ers became very long indeed,” she she considered heros, said in her speech, acknowledging she told her cancer stoher family, friends, church commury during last week’s Tyler nity, coworkers and loved ones who annual Stoughton/ supported her during her battle with McFarland/Oregon Relay for Life. Most would consider her a hero, cancer. Unified Newspaper Group
“I am here to tell you that I am humbly thankful to each and every one of them, and I sincerely thank them for the lessons I learned from them about grace, humility and by observing them, seeing what being a true hero looked like.” Tyler was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, and said she now is “free and clear.” She was selected to be the honorary survivor for Relay for Life and was invited to share her story with the crowd during the annual fundraiser for the American Cancer
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Osprey enthusiast spots seven chicks “Behind the hospital, in the nest that’s closest to the hospital, there are three almost adult-size chicks on that one,” he reported. He added there’s one chick in a nest on a utility pole west of the hospital, “in the big bay and visible from Cooper’s Causeway,” and three chicks in a nest that the raptors built on a platform the city had put up five years ago at Mandt
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Park near the wastewater treatment facility. With adults and chicks, the total number of ospreys in the city is 13. The birds can be seen with binoculars or a spotting scope. Ospreys like to nest on high perches that are out in the open, and “80 percent or more in Wisconsin
is to take some of the money and pay next summer to develop a relationship with an area high school to partner with students who have disabilities, to look at how we can then help them have a similar opportunity Brittany had.” Brittany was diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome at birth, and eventually was adopted at the age of 5 by Andrea. As a result, she lives with developmental disorders. Andrea said Brittany doesn’t like to be put on the spot, and was proud of her daughter for tackling the awards luncheon, where she accepted the award in front of a large room full of people. “Going to this luncheon was huge,” Andrea said. “She’s the star, she’s the one that busts her butt in the dirt every day and people were amazed.”
A blooming business In the last few years, Brittany’s business has grown since 2012 to sell thousands of plants in at least 20 different varieties. It started at the Elven Sted housing development on Dunkirk Avenue, where she created a rain garden that was incorporated to deal with stormwater management while also providing room to grow wildflowers, from
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the Stoughton area for 20 years and told the Hub last week that seven chicks have fledged this year in three nests. He said that’s consistent with what he’s seen in recent years. There are two osprey BILL LIVICK nests behind Stoughton Unified Newspaper Group Hospital and one at Mandt Local bird enthusiast Park near the wastewater Pat Ready has been keep- treatment facility, Ready ing track of ospreys in said.
Pat Ready says the raptors began nesting here 22 years ago
Brittany Romine harvested her first crop of seeds in the autumn of 2012. And she’s come a long way since then – she’s expanded her seed collecting business, Tiger Lily Seeds, in Stought o n w h i l e Brittany working Romine and living in Madison. Romine was awarded a $10,000 grant from Movin’ Out, in partnership with the Community First Award program from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago. She was recognized at an awards luncheon at the end of March. Tiger Lily Seeds is a business that grows and collects prairie w e t l a n d w i l d f l ow e r s . They are sold online, at tigerlilyseeds.com, in the form of bulk seeds, seed packets and also ornaments that offer a keepsake while still providing some of the valued seeds. Romine runs the business with help of her mom, Andrea, who said the money will continue to expand the partnerships she has been cultivating since her business started six years ago. “We want to do a little bit of paying it forward,” Andrea said. “So the plan
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