Events

• Like many lakes in urbanizing agricultural watersheds, the lakes of Madison are undergoing enrichment with nutrients, invasion by non-native plants and animals, and intensive management of fisheries. The talk presents a transdisciplinary effort to envision plausible futures for the lakes and analyze the possibilities using a suite of biophysical models.
• Link to Speaker title/bio: https://badgertalks.wisc.edu/speaker/steve-carpenter/

Provided by Quinton Hanson

Provided by John Holevoet

Alex Welk from the Waunakee Rotary Club will be my speaker on May 20. He's their club's International Committee Chair and he'll  be presenting on their club's district grant application to support SOAR Kenya Academy in  building new greenhouses and a fish pond to add to their school's agricultural space. Their club's is going to work with several other clubs from our district to g lp fund the project. 

Provided by Rich Holsinger

Provided by Andrew Hysell

Provided by Laura Jennings

Dr. Davis will discuss Wisconsin’s long and proud tradition of public lands and environmental 
protection, and his just released book “The Other Public Lands: Preservation, Extraction and 
Politics on the 50 States Natural Resource Lands” (Temple University Press: 2025)

Provided by Josh Kindkeppel 

WisconSibs was created in 1998 in the Fox Cities because our founder and parent of Sib, Harriet Redman, was unable to find resources for her daughter. We have since started running Sibshops, developed more and more programs, including summer camps for kids, teen leadership programs, and future planning and social activities for adult siblings. Throughout the years, the mission has remained the same “to foster a community of support and understanding for brothers and sisters of individuals with special needs” with a vision that “siblings thrive throughout their unique life-long journey”. In March 2024 we brought WisconSibs from the Fox Cities area to Madison. Since then in Madison, we have hosted one facilitator training, 2 fundraisers, 2 family events, hosted 15 volunteers, and have had 50 kids attend Sibshops. Sibshops are our largest and more important aspect of our Madison WisconSibs community. These are monthly workshops for kids ages 6 to 12 who have a sibling with a disability. We host them around Dane County and recently even offered one in Janesville. In Madison, even though we have only been running for just over a year, we host the same number of kids as Fox Cities that has been running for over 20 years. Each month we meet to talk about what life is like as a sib, build community, and of course have fun. We create a safe space where kids can share their empathy, pride, compassion, guilt, resentment, and embarrassment. They can talk about it with other kids that get it. The demand is real and we are continuing to increase the number of kids involved in our programs as well as the programs offered. 

Rebecca Ketelsen, Sun Prairie Education Foundation and Jerry Bradley, Bradley Farms will be presenting about a new Healthy Snack Program supporting the Sun Prairie Area School District.

Provided by Deb Krebs

Provided by Jim Mastrangelo

Leveraging the trailblazing work of Jamie Thomson at UW Madison, local biotech company JangoBio (and its companion animal division, JangoPet) are currently developing regenerative medicine approaches to the diseases of aging, including aging itself. Regenerative medicine seeks to repurpose a body’s innate mechanisms for healing and self-renewal to treat chronic disease and repair damaged, aging, or failing tissues. Current trials show considerable promise for the use of adult stem cells to treat osteoarthritis, evidencing increased mobility in treated dogs. (before and after video) JangoPet is working with the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine to work toward regulatory approval of its highly purified and characterized stem cell mix to repair, renew, and regrow healthy tissue in a dog’s ailing joints.

At the same time, the company is testing therapies for “hypogonadism,” a reduced capability to maintain hormone balance (whether from age, injury, or medical intervention), a condition that afflicts over 2.4 billion people worldwide. This imbalance is directly correlated to age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s, heart disease, cancer, type II diabetes, and osteoporosis. Modulating hormone levels with stem cell technology could provide benefits to individuals (healthier, longer lives) as well as reduce the demand on our overburdened healthcare system.

Regenerative therapies, in both people and pets, are a matter of "when," not "if.”

Helping the elderly fight ID theft

Provided by Aaron Meyer

Provided by Rich Oliver

Provided by Steve Olson

Held at the Glass Nickel

Provided by Rex Owens

Jennifer Garrett, Deputy Secretary Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services

Jennifer Garrett was appointed Deputy Secretary of DSPS in January 2025 after serving more than two years as the department's Assistant Deputy Secretary. Before that, she served as director of public affairs. Jennifer joined the department in July 2019 as communications director.

She serves as the chief of staff for the Secretary, managing external affairs for DSPS including media, legislative, and external stakeholders. Additionally, Jennifer serves as the department liaison with the governor's staff and other agencies. 

Garrett is an Indiana native. She has a bachelor's degree in communications and English from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She also earned her J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana.

Presented by Dan Presser

The new Sun Prairie Civic Theatre season kicks off on Oct. 3rd with the Musical production of Steven Sondheim's Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It is one of three Main Stage shows SPCT will produce in the new season. In addition, SPCT produces The Penguin Project, A Murder Mystery production, and children's theatre programming in the summer months. New this year, SPCT is adding a Radio Play in partnership with the Sun Prairie Media Center. This year's live radio production will be A Christmas Carol. It will first air live on 103.5 FM on November 26th, the evening before Thanksgiving.

Mike Schuster has been the president of SPCT for 2 years, and has been a board member for nearly a decade. He is the owner of Fiddlesmart Marketing, specializing in marketing clarity and sustainable marketing systems for business owners. Mike also appears on stage with SPCT on a regular basis. 

Lori Gryttr, began as SPCT's Development Manager in early 2025 and is a graduate of Sun Prairie High School. She's also been involved in many SPCT productions, most recently starring in "9 to 5 the Musical."  Lori is currently appearing in Madison Theatre Guild's production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband.
Thanks!
Dan

Provided by Jamie Racine

Serving pancakes to the Firiemen, EMS and the community to thank the firemen for their service

Provided by Ron Reichers

Provided by Theresa Stevens