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UW students launch discrimination exhibit

Submitted by Leah Linscheid on Friday, May 3rd, 6:08 pm

University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking a closer look at their campus climate through the "Silenced Stories" exhibit.

The exhibit will highlight stories of harassment and discrimination that students have experienced on the university’s campus through artwork and other forms. The stories, taking place in classes, during sports games and in university housing, will focus on race, sex, gender and other discriminations.

"Silenced Stories" will open May 9 at 5:30 in the School of Social Work, with refreshments available, according to a statement.

The Disability and Advocacy in Multicultural Settings Field Unit launched the exhibit to raise awareness for discrimination on campus, the statement said.

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Cardiac arrest survivor wants others to learn life-saving skill

Submitted by Leah Linscheid on Friday, May 3rd, 6:01 am

Survivor: '[I was] clinically dead, and I was that way for 20 minutes'

Sudden cardiac arrest kills 1,000 people a day in the U.S., which is roughly one person every two minutes. Would you know what to do if you saw someone collapse in front of you?

Channel3000.com and WISC-TV are proud to partner with St. Mary’s Hospital on Saturday for Hands on Hearts -- a community-wide event offering free compression-only CPR .

COCPR is a hands-only technique to help those in sudden cardiac arrest. The constant compressions are performed 100 times a minute to the center of a patient's chest. The compressions keep oxygen-rich blood flowing to the heart and brain. Mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths are not needed.

When compression-only CPR is used on a victim of cardiac arrest, the chance of surviving increases greatly.

Wagner said if he had died in 2008 when he had a cardiac arrest and he was pulseless for 20 minutes, his daughter Shaylee, left, would never have been born. His wife Theresa gave birth to Shaylee in 2009, nearly one year after Wagner's brush with death. Also pictured is Wagner's son, James.

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MSCR offers Madison lakes event

Submitted by Leah Linscheid on Friday, April 26th, 6:27 pm

Madisonians can learn more about what treasures lie at the bottom of their community lakes from a local diving expert this weekend.

Madison School and Community Recreation will hold a public conversation with Rick Krueger, a diver with more than 22 years of experience with exploring Madison’s lakes. The event will cover topics ranging from a Lake Mendota cave where Chief Black Hawk once hid to sunken boats and cars that now rest at the bottom of Lake Monona.

The event will take place April 27 at 9 a.m. at the La Follette High School. The fee is $5.

Anyone interested in registering for the talk can visit www.mscr.org and use the course number 42295 to sign up.

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Police, pharmacies, clinics accepting unwanted prescriptions

Submitted by Christian Von P... on Friday, April 26th, 5:01 pm

Prescriptions contribute to accidental poisonings, Dane County's largest injury-related cause of death

Police, pharmacies and clinics are drawing awareness to National Prescription Take Back Day, happening Friday and Saturday at several locations.

The goal of the collection day is to reduce the number of expired, unused and unwanted medicine.

Poisoning deaths are more common than automobile deaths in Dane County. Unused prescriptions contribute to accidental poisonings, the number one cause of injury-related death, according to the Middleton Police Department.

A statement by Middleton police emphasized pain medications as an especially dangerous prescription group.

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Contest offers website help to area non-profits

Submitted by Tabatha Wethal, Channel3000.com Community Reporter

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013, 8:59am

Area businesses collaborate for 'Wish on a Website'

A Monona woman together with three area businesses are offering their services to a lucky Dane County non-profit through a contest.

Maggie Baum of Maggie B. Communications partnered with Waterfront Graphic Design, Beth Skogen Photography and StoryFirst Media to create the "Wish on a Website" promotion, offering the opportunity of a variety of services to help out a community organization.

In a news release on her website, Baum said the idea behind the contest is to give back to the community.

"In this economic climate organizations are really fighting for resources and fundraising dollars and this is one small way we can help make their efforts go a little farther," Baum wrote.

The winner will receive a website design, a photography session with free images, a 2-minute documentary video and copywriting to help the chosen organization better reach the community.

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Frost-kissed marsh life on a winter morning

Submitted by Tabatha Wethal, Channel3000.com Community Reporter

Saturday, March 2nd, 2013, 2:04pm

Frost-kissed marsh life on a winter morning

North side resident Wendy Murkve said she captured this photo of frosty plantlife at Cherokee Marsh Conservation Park - North Unit Saturday.

The picture, which Murkve said was taken shortly after sunrise at 7 a.m., depicts a delicate frost on the plant located just off Wheeler Road.

"I had nothing like this at home, but drove a mile and found all this beautiful frost in Cherokee Marsh," Murkve wrote.

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Abuse shelter halfway to funding goal for Fordem building

Submitted by Tabatha Wethal, Channel3000.com Community Reporter

Friday, March 1st, 2013, 7:35pm

DAIS raises money for new refuge, more space to serve

A local domestic abuse shelter is less than halfway from its goal to raise $7 million for a new facility on the north side.

According to the Domestic Abuse Intervention Services website, the group has raised $3.8 million thus far, with a remaining $3.2 million to raise through its funding campaign for a planned 56-bed refuge facility at 2102 Fordem Ave. Money has come from private donors, via fundraising events and public grants. On Feb. 13, Gov. Scott Walker said the state budget also will include $560,000 for the shelter's capital campaign.

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