MADISON — A team of eighth-grade students at St. James School recently won $10,000 in the national Lexus Eco Challenge contest with a proposal and fundraising campaign to put a solar panel on the school.
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Edgewood works to provide more eco-conscious food
MADISON — Students at Edgewood College in Madison no longer have to worry that being on a meal plan will restrict their ability to eat more sustainable food.
A short life bookended by tragedy
The youth choir Christina Green belonged to performs just once a month, on the second Sunday at the 9 a.m. Mass. And sure enough, the day after the nine-year-old was killed in Tucson, Ariz., the youngest victim of the shooting targeting Representative Gabrielle Giffords, St. Odilia’s youth choir sang.
It was January 9, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, and there was just one Baptism at that Mass, a nine-year-old girl.
That wasn’t lost on Fr. Richard Troutman, pastor of St. Odilia Parish in Tuscon, Ariz.