Croquet anyone? Tonette Walker throws fundraiser to rehab governor's mansion

[gateley]

Here are three news items readers sent to me last week.

1. An article about how budget cuts are forcing schools in Baraboo to stop providing milk to children during snack time.

2. A single-spaced, five-page-long internal memo (attached to this post) circulated a few days ago by Lynn Green, head of the Dane County Human Services Department, that lists cuts and eliminations to programs for the elderly, children, families, people with mental illnesses, and the disabled.

3. A story about a private croquet tournament that will be held at the governor's mansion on Sept. 22 to raise money to fix the place up. In her invitation to a raffle that is part of the event, first lady Tonette Walker asks "leading ladies like yourself to please join me in donating a purse filled with some of your favorite things. For example, I'll be donating a Tignanello bag filled with some of my can't-live-without items, like my favorite shade of Bobbi Brown lipstick and an Aveda hand cream that I can't get enough of."

Speaking of necessities, check out the Dane County hit list. Among the casualties: Drug court slots reduced; mental health funding slashed; Recovery House funding eliminated; money to Salvation Army's overflowing Warming Shelter cut in half; funds to Tenant Resource Center cut; social worker positions eliminated; youth resource centers eliminated; funding to detox services reduced; money to the AIDS resource center eliminated; support for Oregon Day Care Center and the Colonial Club Adult Day Care eliminated; money to Centro Hispano slashed; outreach for the Waisman Center reduced; a contract with an epilepsy group revoked...and on and on.
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http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/city-hall/article_46c9a6f2-daee-11e0-821e-001cc4c002e0.html

[Mz Pip]

1. Shades of Marie Antoinette

I think Monty Python could do an "Upperclass Twit of the Year" skit off of this.

[msanthrope]

2. I'm thinking more Red Queen playing croquet with flamingos--nt

[HappyMe]

4. Yup.

Let them have hand cream.

[librechik]

3. This will date me, but as I recall when I was a wee sprout, a Tonette was

a special hair perm for little girls. Mom got a Toni (as in "which twin has the Toni?") and little Debby got the Tonette.




I really love TONETTE 1957's photo stream, wher I got this photo.. Lots of disturbing memories there, and some of the highest hair ever! http://www.flickr.com/photos/50265891@N00/

[hatrack]

5. I thought the Tonette was that little plastic pseudo-clarinet you got in 4th grade music class . . .