On April 18 and 19, two UW-L residence halls, Hutchinson and Laux, are putting on a fundraiser called MAD Dash to LAX. Both residence halls are putting on this program by themselves since it is not a University program or event. They will be taking a coach bus and a few 15-passenger vans filled with close to 100 UW-L students down to Madison. From Madison, pairs of students will run in two-mile increments and relay their way back to the La Crosse campus. All of the money raised by this program will be donated to Shriners Hospital for Children, which provides free specialized orthopedic, burn, and spinal cord injury care to children, all funded through private donations. You can find more information about this organization by clicking on the link here. Our goal for this fundraiser is to raise at least $7,500. For more information on the event please email Kayla Hanson at: hanson.kayl@students.uwlax.edu

The Trempealeau First Responders are holding a fundraiser April 5th from 5:30 pm to 11 pm at the Centerville Curling Club in Centerville, Wisconsin.  The responders are a volunteer organization on call 365 days a year, 24 hrs a day to respond to all types of emergency.   350 tickets will be sold at $50 a piece and include dinner for two and entry into a reverse raffle with a grand prize of $3000. Other raffles will be running throughout the evening.

Proceeds from the fundraiser will help cover the costs of education/training and for the purchase of supplies and equipment for the organization.   To make donations to the Trempealeau First Responders or to get tickets, please call Lisa Montey at 608.797.6983 or email Jen Walker at jen.wlkr1@gmail.com.

The Log Cabin in Bangor, WI

There will be a benefit to help raise money for Lisa Foster for an isolated pacreas transplant. She has been suffering from type1 diabetes for 27 years; complications of which have caused numerous medical complications including legal blindness, and unawareness of low blood sugar resulting in blackouts. She is married with a four year old son.

The benefit will be held at the Log Cabin in Bangor on April 6th, 2008 at 11am. There will be a chili dinner, bake sale, silent auction, Chinese raffle, pie auction, 50/50 drawing, and kid’s activities.

Any parties interested in donating may do so at River Bank or Farmer’s State Bank or can contact Lisa directly at: lmfmindoro@gmail.com

The PTO of St. Charles School in Genoa, Wisconsin is holding their annual Spring Carnival on Sunday, March 30th, 2008. It starts at 11 a.m. and goes to 2:00 p.m. There will be food, games for the whole family, professional face painting, a clown, raffles, prizes and much, much more.

The Spring Carnival is the major fundraiser of the St. Charles PTO. We depend on it to raise money for educational supplies and programs such as Art, Music and Physical Education.

Nutrition on a Mission will be on Monday, March 24^th from 6pm to 8pm in Port O’ Call, Cartwright Center. “Taste your way around the world in one evening, get new recipes, sample a variety of foods, learn about cultural myths and facts from 29 different countries and cultures”

The Nutrition Education students and Community Health Education majors are planning and implementing this first ever event on the UWL campus.

Entertainment, door prizes, t-shirts and much more! It is Free and open to the greater La Crosse communities!

For more information email: rees.keel@uwlax.edu

The 4th Annual “Colon Bowlin” will be held on Saturday, March 29th at All Star Lanes in La Crosse. The event is dedicated to Dr. Gordy Kochsiek, a Franciscan Skemp Healthcare surgeon who lost his battle with colon cancer in 1999.

West Salem residents Jerry and Kathy Riley need your help. Jerry was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004 and went into remission after extensive treatment. His wife, Kathy, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2006 and also wento into remission after treatment. Unfortunately, it was recently discovered that Jerry’s cancer is back, in an advanced stage, and only has a few months left to live. Their family and friends are organizing a benefit on March 16, 2008 at the Log Cabin banquet hall in Bangor, WI from 2-6. There will be live music, raffle and stick drawings for door prizes.