Spring Green, Wisconsin
Thursday, March 6, 2025 | Vol. 6, No. 4 FREE, Single-Copy
Inside this edition
4PeteSake spring funding application deadline
Puzzles: Crosswords & Chess
The other April 1 election
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Area arts council announces exhibit and workshop opportunities for non-professional artists
Exhibit to be held at Wyoming Valley School Cultural Arts Center April 19 Ricki Bishop, Contributed
The Richland Area Arts Council (RAAC) will once again host the combined adult and teen Wisconsin Regional Arts Program (WRAP) for our area on Saturday, April 19, 2025. The day long event will be held at the Wyoming Valley School Cultural Arts Center 6306, State Road 23, Spring Green, WI. WRAP encourages nonprofessional, student, and emerging artists to create and exhibit their work across Wisconsin. WRAP is for people who have a serious interest in art, and create art for the love of art. Make art! WRAP encourages artists at all levels to practice their craft. WRAP educational workshop presentations and critique sessions will inspire you
Picture via Ricki Bishop The exhibit will also feature a morning workshop on Japanese bookbinding methods. to develop your abilities and grow as an artist. A morning workshop on bookmaking using Japanese bookbinding methods
will be led by Kathy Murphy, retired graphic artist, of Fitchburg, who has over 30 years of bookmaking experience.
Judging and critiquing the exhibition is Lisa Humke, retired art teacher, of Dodgeville, whose artwork is a compilation of found materials. Show your work! Register for the RAAC WRAP at https://wiscartists. wildapricot.org. Follow links to the WRAP and WRAP TEEN pages. Cost for the workshop and exhibition is $30. Registration is open until March 29. State Award winners from these local exhibits will be invited to have their work shown at the annual State Exhibit. Coordinating the Adult WRAP are Sally Probasco, sallyprobasco@gmail. com, and Ricki Bishop, rickibishop@ yahoo.com. Aron Meudt-Thering, aron@dynameudt.com, is coordinating the Teen WRAP. Questions can be addressed to the emails listed. This program is made possible in part by a generous grant from River Valley Arts in Spring Green.
4PeteSake highlights community recipients, spring funding application deadline Jennifer Moore-Kerr, Contributed You matter. The River Valley community cares about each other. This is never more apparent than when I look at the cycle of help and hope provided by 4PeteSake in our community each year. March 27th is the spring deadline for applying to be a 4PeteSake recipient of that help and care and hope. If you, or a loved one, face extraordinary financial need and are unable, through no fault of your own, to provide for yourselves, please go to 4petesake.com/applytoday/. Your community is here for you. The generosity of people in the River Valley has brought comfort to the following community members over the last year. I invite you to read their stories and know that they are forever grateful for the contributions you have made in the past. You made a difference.
Jayne Beresford Tenacious. Joyful. God-loving. These are the words running in my thoughts as I leave my visit with Jayne. In spite of the uncertainty from her medical condition (she has a seizure disorder that is not being controlled in spite of maximum dosage of anti-seizure medication), Jayne has a sweet sense of humor, is gentle and thoughtful, and has a remarkably positive attitude. She told of a hard day in which she chose to challenge herself to come up with 100 things that bring her joy in order to help herself get off the couch. She humbly shared how quickly she was able to do so. When she thinks about surviving a head-on collision, she doesn’t ask, “why did this horrible thing happen to me?”, but rather, “why did I survive?” and then she feels grateful. Her gratitude
leans heavily on her belief in, and love for, God, and her constant sense of his love for her. Christian music brings her joy, as does her love of reading. Jayne moved to Spring Green in 2022 where she then married her husband, Nathan. She came from Beaver Dam where she had grown up, and has found our community to be very welcoming, full of good people, and interesting events. She refers to it as a “Mayberry” feel in all the good ways: neighbors know each other and look out for each other, a meal at Anita’s means conversations with multiple acquaintances, and events, such as the Country Christmas activities, and the 4PeteSake Day in the Park all are completely open and welcoming. She is grateful this is her community. In spite of no longer being able to
drive, she still goes to Middleton where she works at a Chiropractic office. This means relying on Nathan, or others such as his long time friend, Jessie, to drive her to and from work, a 4 hour daily commitment. Her demeanor when talking about her work family is filled with more gratitude, appreciation, and joy, a theme in all that she shared. She doesn’t claim to be strong, that feels cold to her; instead she says that she is tenacious, she keeps on going with the help of her communities here and in Middleton. For her, that is because life is good, and God is good. For Jayne, being soft and vulnerable is a sign of caring, and she would rather be seen that way than as strong and therefore, in her mind, hard.
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