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Seymour Park Neighborhood Gardens
Amanda Sharon talks with Josh Kufahl who helps run Seymour Park Neighborhood Gardens a community garden in Green Bay. Seymour Park Neighborhood Gardens is run by the community and produces fruit and vegetables for neighbors and community members to eat and cook. Some of the foods the gardens grow include cucumbers, peppers, garlic, berries, herbs and more.
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Healing with Hope
Jennifer Edmonson, Founder and Director of the non-profit Health Education and Welfare joins Amanda Sharon in studio to talk about her new program called Healing with Hope. The program is a 4 week pilot program through Healing through the Arts. Knitting with Hope will combine arts instruction on knitting and emotional and mental health exercises to help people who have had medical trauma or crisis heal through the arts.
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Rise Up at the Oshkosh Area School District
Amanda Sharon talks with Matt Kaemmerer Director of Pupil Services at the Oshkosh Area School District, Ashley Strunk of Catalpa Health and Jen Parsons Wellness Screen Program Director at Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley. They highlight a program called Rise Up, a school-based comprehensive mental health framework. The program is backed by a grant given by the Basic Needs Giving Partnership from funds raised from the U.S. Venture Open.
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The Pillars Day Resource Center
Tricia Raimondi, The Pillars Day Resource Center Program Manager joins Amanda Sharon in studio to discuss how The Resource Center serves the community and works to help individuals experiencing homelessness. Pillars is one of the area's non profit organizations that has received a grant from funds raised from the U.S. Venture Open to end poverty in Northeast Wisconsin. Tricia Raimondi talks about how Pillars will use the grant money to provide basic needs and more for the community.
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Algoma School District Wolf Den
Host Amanda Sharon talks with Teal VanLanen, Director of Improvement and Community Engagement for the Algoma School District. The Algoma School district was given a grant, from funds raised from the U.S. Venture Open, to fund an after school program called Wolf Den. The program provides students with basic needs such as meals. Wolf Den also works to bring the community together by getting members of the community involved in the after school program. Students benefit from a feeling of involvement, meaning and togetherness.
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The Farmory
Host Amanda Sharon talks with Claire Thompson, Executive Director of the Farmory in Green Bay and Ken Webb Associate Researcher at UWGB. They outline what The Farmory in Green Bay does, talk about hydroponics and outline the process of aquaponics. Ken Webb also discusses the difficulty of raising perch in a contained environment and how The Farmory plans to go about it. The Farmory will also be teaching area farmers how to raise perch to sell to restaurants and grocery stores.
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History Museum at the Castle in Appleton
Host Amanda Sharon talks with Dustin Mack, Chief Curator at the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton. They speak about some of the permanent exhibits that the museum has on display as well as two temporary exhibits. "Bridging the Gap, 1969-2019" is a traveling exhibit and is aimed at bridging the gap and disconnect that many people feel today. The museum will also be displaying "GUITAR: The Instrument that Rocked the World" this summer. This is a nationally traveling exhibit that will be displayed at The History Museum at the Castle June 1st 2019 through January 5th 2020.
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Community Blood Center in Appleton
Amanda Sharon talks with John Hagin CEO of the Community Blood Center in Appleton. They speak about what The Community Blood Center does in the community in addition to collecting blood. John Hagin also talks about how to donate blood, who can donate blood and what that donation means to the community. He also outlines their high school scholarship program and the hospitals The Community Blood Center partners with.
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Veterans Mentor Group
Host Amanda Sharon speaks with Janna Nordeman from Hartland Homecare and Hospice a partnering group of the Veterans Mentor Group. They spoke about The Veterans Mentor Group and their upcoming event Connect to Courage. Connect to Courage takes place at the Appleton PAC on March 13th. Topics that will be addressed by some of the speakers include Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury in veterans. The event will be emceed by Dr. Benjamin Siebert and will include over 40 different resource organizations for veterans.
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Untitledtown Book and Author Festival
Host Amanda Sharon talks with three guests about Untitledtown Book and Author Festival taking place April 25th-28th 2019. The guests included Vicky Meawasige Reed a local author. Her book is called Path of the Turquoise Warrior. Another guest was Ashley Willis, a veteran who served in the Marines and acting Liason for this years Untitledtown and local veteran's groups. The third guest was Austin Korff, intern at Unititledtown.
Host Amanda Sharon talks with two local authors, Miranda and Baptiste Paul, about the Untitledtown Book and Author Festival
The book and author festival is an annual literary event in Green Bay, Wisconsin that promotes all aspects of book culture. The weekend includes readings, discussions, workshops and events for writers and readers. Most of the events are free and open to the public.
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Advances in Lymphedema Care Personal Empowerment 2018
Jennifer Edmonson
Health, Education & Welfare |
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Fox Cities Habitat For Humanity
ReStore 
Matthew Daniels
Habitat Restore Director Fox Cities Habitat for Humanity |
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Fox Cities Habitat For Humanity
Rock The Block 
Ryan Roth
Community Development Manager Fox Cities Habitat For Humanity |
Samaritan Counseling Center
Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley connects mind and spirit so individuals, families, organizations and communities thrive. They provide counseling services, student outreach and mental health initiatives to the community.
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Camp To Belong-Wisconsin
Connects and reunites siblings involved with the child welfare system. This includes separated siblings regardless of what their particular living arrangements are (i.e. biological home, kinship providers, foster homes, adoptive homes, living independently). Their mission is for separated siblings to build and maintain connections through a variety of programs. The main program is a summer camp at which children placed in out-of-home care can be with their biological siblings to build shared memories and connections.
CASA of the Fox Cities
CASA of the Fox Cities advocates for abused and neglected children in our local courts, with community volunteers, to achieve placement in safe and permanent homes.
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Wisconsibs
Wiconsibs connects siblings of special needs children with one another, to provide a support group of those who understand the struggles one faces when they have a sibling with special needs. Wisconsibs has helped hundreds of children, teens and adults who live each day with siblings with autism, intellectual/developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, and mental illness connect with resources and each other to help them throughout their lifelong journey.
Center Stage High School Musical Theater Awards Program
The Center Stage High School Musical Theater Awards is an education initiative that celebrates and supports the achievements of high school musical theater programs in Northeastern Wisconsin.
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