August 2015

Belleville resident Lynn Alme will present a lecture titled “Borders by Design” at Quilt Expo in Madison.
Quilt Expo’s lectures are given by notable quilting authorities, and provide an opportunity for quilters of all skill levels to acquire new ideas from leading quilting educators.
Quilt Expo, presented by Wisconsin Public Television and Nancy Zieman Productions LLC, runs Thursday, September 10 through Saturday, September 11, in the Exhibition Hall at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison.

Bats are actually wonderful creatures and are very important to our natural environment and ecosystem, eating 4,500 bugs including mosquitoes every night.  They do not seem quite as wonderful when they show up in our homes.
Bats tend to show up indoors more often at this time of year because young bats born in the spring are now old enough to take to the air in search of food and new places to live. 
Finding a live or even a dead bat in your bedroom can be upsetting.
It can also present a serious risk to your health, because bats can be infected with rabies.

<strong>UW-Madison Announces Spring Graduates</strong>
An estimated 6,700 graduates participated in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s spring 2015 commencement exercises.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has recently heard from a number of Wisconsin businesses who received threatening phone calls about their utility accounts.
Scammers falsely claiming to represent the local utility company are calling businesses or consumers and threatening them with disconnection of services unless immediate payment is made.
If you receive a similar threatening call about your home or business utility account, hang up and do not engage the caller.