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A gorgeous blossom to the Parkside students, staff, families and friends that helped raise over $2,000 for Green County's Big Brothers Big Sisters program. The hard work and extra dedication from the teachers and staff make me proud to send my children to Parkside. - Parkside parent
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A big blossom to Papa Don's Horseshoe for doing their third annual GCHS benefit. And a bouquet of blossoms to Eileen for organizing the benefit. You do a wonderful job every year. - Animal lover
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A big blossom to the wonderful volunteers and food donators for our annual USPS food drive on Saturday, May 8. We collected over 7,900 pounds of food, a record for the city of Monroe. Also a big thank-you to Pizza Hut for donating pizzas to the hungry crew. - Vicky Flannery
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A HUGE blossom to DeAnne Boegli and the BHF Dance Academy for a wonderful program in Brodhead this past weekend. What a wonderful way to showcase the talent of many of our local youth and cast a very positive light on our wonderful community. Bravo. - Carol
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A big barb to Monroe Walmart - Why do we have a new, fancy Walmart in Monroe and no one to help customers? I went to Walmart around 10 a.m. one day last week to buy a mower and some shovels. A sign at the register in lawn and garden said "Closed." So I went to Hardware - no one working there either. Next stop, paint department. No one there either. So I went to customer service and asked that someone be paged. She paged twice and no one came to help. So it was off to another store were I found employees more than willing to help. - A shopper from Brodhead.
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A huge blossom to all who donated food during the Postal Food Drive. It was a huge success with nearly 8,000 pounds collected. Also a big blossom to all the mail carriers for their efforts. Another blossom to all who helped at the post office sorting the food. Thank you for being so generous. - Maynard Heins
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A bouquet of blossoms to the Wisconsin Cheesemaker's Association, the Foreign Type Cheesemaker's Association, the staff at Old Smokey's - especially Twitty and Diane; Maple Leaf Cheese - especially Jeff and Dee Wideman, Shirley and Megan; Brennan's; "the hardworking chefs"; the food servers; those that helped with set up and clean up; all those who donated items for the silent auction and especially everyone who attended and made this, not only a fun evening, but a successful fundraiser. If you in any way supported us that evening and we left your name off this list, we did so inadvertently. We are very grateful to you all. - Monsignor Campion and the Apostolate to the Handicapped
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An HUGE blossom for the kind gentleman who stopped to help me when the axel on my car when it broke and the tire pretty much came off Friday night. So many people passed and stared but nobody except for you offered to help me. Thank you ever so much. It's nice to know that there are still some people who will lend a helping hand. - Stranded.
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A special blossom to those who purchased our blossoms. Thank you to all who supported Green Haven's 18th Annual Mother's Day Plant Sale by purchasing one (or more) of the plants that we sold. The beautiful plants grown by Ahrens Acres Greenhouse will be colorfully displayed in our neighborhoods all summer long. With the economy the way that it is, your support during this time is greatly appreciated. We value your assistance in addressing the increased requests for our clients. Our thanks also to Ahrens Acres Greenhouse, First National Bank of Monroe, True Value New Glarus Hardware Store, Monticello Village Hall, Juda Oasis, Albany Mini Mart, First National Bank in Albany and to all the many volunteers, who in whatever capacity, helped to make this years event a great success. - Chandra Pelikan, Green Haven Executive Director
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A blossom to the Times for printing the lengthy article and pictures about the German Exchange students in Monday's paper. A bouquet of blossoms to the group of 19 MHS students who traveled to Germany in March. Monroe can be very proud of all of the exchange students. They were polite, inquisitive, positive, and fine representatives of their school and community. Along with Cassie Coffey and Kaitlyn Wyss, who wrote the article, were MHS students Blake Antos, McKenzie Bruce, Austin Burandt, Paula Campbell, Stephanie Cline, Eric Ganshert, Ian Geyer, Ty Golackson, Jaimee Jacobson, Nichole Lattin, Clarissa Liimatainen, Eli Rucker, Leanna Schwartzlow, John Tesauro, Dylon Wilde, Heidi Williams and Amanda Zimmerman. - Karen Fowdy and Kristin Bansley, German Exchange Co-advisors
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A big barb to the person or persons, who took a "paid for" cart of groceries at Pick 'N Save on Sunday, May 16, that didn't belong to you. Because of you, that's why food is so high priced. Did you really need them? Shame on you. - Anonymous
A gorgeous blossom to the Parkside students, staff, families and friends that helped raise over $2,000 for Green County's Big Brothers Big Sisters program. The hard work and extra dedication from the teachers and staff make me proud to send my children to Parkside. - Parkside parent
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A big blossom to Papa Don's Horseshoe for doing their third annual GCHS benefit. And a bouquet of blossoms to Eileen for organizing the benefit. You do a wonderful job every year. - Animal lover
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A big blossom to the wonderful volunteers and food donators for our annual USPS food drive on Saturday, May 8. We collected over 7,900 pounds of food, a record for the city of Monroe. Also a big thank-you to Pizza Hut for donating pizzas to the hungry crew. - Vicky Flannery
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A HUGE blossom to DeAnne Boegli and the BHF Dance Academy for a wonderful program in Brodhead this past weekend. What a wonderful way to showcase the talent of many of our local youth and cast a very positive light on our wonderful community. Bravo. - Carol
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A big barb to Monroe Walmart - Why do we have a new, fancy Walmart in Monroe and no one to help customers? I went to Walmart around 10 a.m. one day last week to buy a mower and some shovels. A sign at the register in lawn and garden said "Closed." So I went to Hardware - no one working there either. Next stop, paint department. No one there either. So I went to customer service and asked that someone be paged. She paged twice and no one came to help. So it was off to another store were I found employees more than willing to help. - A shopper from Brodhead.
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A huge blossom to all who donated food during the Postal Food Drive. It was a huge success with nearly 8,000 pounds collected. Also a big blossom to all the mail carriers for their efforts. Another blossom to all who helped at the post office sorting the food. Thank you for being so generous. - Maynard Heins
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A bouquet of blossoms to the Wisconsin Cheesemaker's Association, the Foreign Type Cheesemaker's Association, the staff at Old Smokey's - especially Twitty and Diane; Maple Leaf Cheese - especially Jeff and Dee Wideman, Shirley and Megan; Brennan's; "the hardworking chefs"; the food servers; those that helped with set up and clean up; all those who donated items for the silent auction and especially everyone who attended and made this, not only a fun evening, but a successful fundraiser. If you in any way supported us that evening and we left your name off this list, we did so inadvertently. We are very grateful to you all. - Monsignor Campion and the Apostolate to the Handicapped
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An HUGE blossom for the kind gentleman who stopped to help me when the axel on my car when it broke and the tire pretty much came off Friday night. So many people passed and stared but nobody except for you offered to help me. Thank you ever so much. It's nice to know that there are still some people who will lend a helping hand. - Stranded.
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A special blossom to those who purchased our blossoms. Thank you to all who supported Green Haven's 18th Annual Mother's Day Plant Sale by purchasing one (or more) of the plants that we sold. The beautiful plants grown by Ahrens Acres Greenhouse will be colorfully displayed in our neighborhoods all summer long. With the economy the way that it is, your support during this time is greatly appreciated. We value your assistance in addressing the increased requests for our clients. Our thanks also to Ahrens Acres Greenhouse, First National Bank of Monroe, True Value New Glarus Hardware Store, Monticello Village Hall, Juda Oasis, Albany Mini Mart, First National Bank in Albany and to all the many volunteers, who in whatever capacity, helped to make this years event a great success. - Chandra Pelikan, Green Haven Executive Director
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A blossom to the Times for printing the lengthy article and pictures about the German Exchange students in Monday's paper. A bouquet of blossoms to the group of 19 MHS students who traveled to Germany in March. Monroe can be very proud of all of the exchange students. They were polite, inquisitive, positive, and fine representatives of their school and community. Along with Cassie Coffey and Kaitlyn Wyss, who wrote the article, were MHS students Blake Antos, McKenzie Bruce, Austin Burandt, Paula Campbell, Stephanie Cline, Eric Ganshert, Ian Geyer, Ty Golackson, Jaimee Jacobson, Nichole Lattin, Clarissa Liimatainen, Eli Rucker, Leanna Schwartzlow, John Tesauro, Dylon Wilde, Heidi Williams and Amanda Zimmerman. - Karen Fowdy and Kristin Bansley, German Exchange Co-advisors
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A big barb to the person or persons, who took a "paid for" cart of groceries at Pick 'N Save on Sunday, May 16, that didn't belong to you. Because of you, that's why food is so high priced. Did you really need them? Shame on you. - Anonymous
