Celebrate and memorialize the lives of loved ones lost at Horizon Home Care & Hospice’s Life Lights 2011, a one-mile, candlelit sunset stroll; candle lighting ceremony; and slide show.  This fund raiser supports Horizon’s charity care program and tickets include free Milwaukee County Zoo admission, live music by Kyle Feerick and Friday Fish Fry or children’s meal.  This is a wonderful opportunity to pay tribute to loved ones while supporting others at the end of life through charity care.

Life Lights helps continue the healing process after the loss of a loved one, no matter how long ago.  Our culture perpetuates a myth that we “get over” our grief after the loss of a loved one, but that’s not true.  Our relationships with loved ones continue long after they’re gone so to be able to remember and honor those individuals helps us feel connected and continues the healing process. 

More than 40 children, parents, teachers and community members filled the Hopkins Street School gymnasium for the first annual Academic Olympics in Lindsay Heights recently. The Lindsay Heights Children’s Success Coalition — made up of area school principals — organized the event to promote education and scholastic achievement.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources expects to continue aerial spraying to control the gypsy moth today. 

The approximate locations of treatment are the Milwaukee Zoo, North Ave. and 116th St. in Wauwatosa, and W. Bluemound Rd. and 117th in Wauwatosa. The spraying will use a low-flying yellow airplane The bacterial insecticide is not harmful to people or pets. Residents living in the area may wish to stay inside with doors and windows closed while the spraying is occurring in order to minimize direct exposure to the spray.

Treatments are expected to occur during the early morning hours. Spraying will be postponed if weather is unsuitable.