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The inaugural AMRAP golf outing was held on Sept. 20 at Ozaukee County’s Hawthorne Hills golf course to benefit Mel’s Charities. Turning over 100 percent of the proceeds, the event raised $5,000. Pictured with Tom Stanton, executive director of Mel’s Charities...

Ryan Olsen (right), owner of Olsen’s Piggly Wiggly in both Cedarburg and Mequon, recently presented Tom ‘Mel’ Stanton, executive director of Mel’s Charities, with a check for $11,079.51 as a result of the stores’ roundup campaign in the month of September. Photo by...

Started in 2013 to fund scholarships in memory of Tyler Buczek, Bags 4 Buczek becomes part of Mel’s Charities to expand its mission of helping others A CROWD OF people tossed bags during last year’s Bags 4 Buczek, an annual fundraising tournament held the third...

‘What we raise here stays here’ By Lisa Curtis Special to the News Graphic CEDARBURG — It was a pretty lofty goal that Mel’s Charities had in mind in early August, when it set out to raise some $80,000 during a pandemic. Organizers knew that holding their historically...