Tursday, April 30, 2020 — A5 ArtCAMBRIDGE & Life Deerfield Marren Food Pantry named Q&A By Karyn Saemann pantry [email protected] coordinator Te Deerfeld Community Center’s Food By Madeline Westberg Pantry continues to adapt to COVID-19 [email protected] and related public health orders and economic disruption. DCC Program For Cambridge resident Manager Julie Schwenn answered some Kerry Marren, joining questions posed by the Cambridge News the staf of the local & Deerfeld Independent, about how the food pantry was about pantry is currently operating. supporting a community that means a lot to her. Q: Who can currently use “I love Cambridge,” Marren said. “It’s the DCC’s pantry and what are the frst time I’ve ever lived hours that the pantry is open? anywhere this long.” Do you need an appointment? Marren was hired as the A: Te Deerfeld Food Pantry serves Cambridge Food Pantry Deerfeld residents in need. At this time, to and Resource Center avoid large crowds, we are serving clients coordinator in early March. by appointment only. You can call 764- She’s following longtime 5935, ext. 2, on Tuesdays between 8 a.m. coordinator Nancy Brattlie, and 2 p.m. to schedule an appointment for who recently retired from Wednesday pick-up. During the COVID-19 the position. pandemic, we have been instructed by Te pantry is run by the Karyn Saemann our food pantry partners that income Cambridge Community Deerfeld residents Mike and Linda Carney set out a table of non-perishable items and a sec- guidelines do not apply. Activities Program in ond table with comfort foods on their driveway on Terrace Road on Thursday April 23. Nikolay Middle School, 211 Q: If you are in an South St. emergency food situation and Marren has worked in education for about ffteen it’s not pantry day can you call years. She served as a DCC and get food? para-educator at Nikolay Little free pantries Middle School for about See Q&A, Page A6 fve years, and now works as a resource coordinator for a virtual academy. Marren stepped in at rise up in Deerfield CAMBRIDGE By Karyn Saemann Te Carneys began putting their table out on the pantry during a hectic [email protected] April 16 and say they’ll keep doing it as long time, she said. She began as a need is apparent. working businesses and Little free libraries have been around for And on South Atwood Lane on the June concerts schools began to close . years, with a simple mission as street-side village’s south side, Rochelle Elliott and “Now more than ever cabinets to leave and take books. her family have flled a retroftted glass- you see people who are not Te COVID-19 pandemic is reinventing door entertainment cabinet they found on canceled able to get to work,” Marren the idea as a place to leave food or get it in- Craigslist with food and personal care items. By Madeline Westberg [email protected] said. “Tere’s more of a between food pantry or grocery store visits. It’s now on their front lawn 24/7. need now than there ever Tree free little pantries have popped up Te frst two outdoor concerts in was before.” in Deerfeld in recent weeks, two outside the Terrace Road Te pantry shifted to homes of local residents and one at Deerfeld Cambridge’s annual summer concert Linda Carney, who’s semi-retired, a wellness a drive-through at that Lutheran Church. series have been canceled due to the consultant and a self-proclaimed foodie, said time. Clients fll out a Until about three weeks ago, the small coronavirus. “feeding people is my love language. Tat is shopping list online or over wooden cabinet on a post in the church’s Te Cambridge Arts Council has hosted how I help people I care about. ‘Here, I made the phone, and pick up front lawn on South Main Street was a a series of outdoor concerts with local this for you, eat this.’” groceries without leaving longtime little free library. musicians since 2012 in Veterans Park. She said baking the “comfort foods” like their cars. On Terrace Road on the village’s north side, Two concerts were scheduled in June. quick breads for the table is helping her fll “Te drive-up has been Mike and Linda Carney are putting out two Te series was supposed to kick of June her time in isolation. really great,” Marren said. tables for a couple of hours every afternoon 5 with Gomers and Friends, a Madison- “Tis gives me a chance to keep myself Te pantry is open lined with canned goods and baked goods based band with Cambridge members, and other comfort foods. Tey’ve invited See LITTLE, Page A6 See MARREN, Page A6 local residents to both take and leave items. See JUNE, Page A6 UPCOMING FOR GOOD MEASURE Livestream concert 30 from 1-2:30 p.m. Te during the closure, and Madison County, a class including safe habits chat with people in the Cambridge-area country and what to do during comments. band, is doing a live emergencies. Cost is $30 Hunting for good local tunes performance on the band’s for residents and $35 for Sunday, May 3: By Madeline Westberg great music you normally get to hear in Facebook page at 7 p.m. on non-residents. To register, Deerfeld Farmers [email protected] a bar or club or summer festival. And visit CAP website. Market meeting it’s a chance for the musicians to stay Wednesday April 29. Amid all of the chaos and uncertainty creative. Because they’re missing you CAP C.A.R.E. Te Deerfeld Farmers surrounding COVID-19, I’m hearing Market will hold its right now. Safe at home Community members more and more stories of people turning 2020 annual meeting at Tere is no shortage of talent nearby, Te Cambridge can catch up with the CAP to art for comfort and meaning. 2 p.m. Sunday May 3, many bands with a direct connection Community Activities C.A.R.E. teachers on the We look for distraction, for jokes to via teleconference. To to Cambridge and Deerfeld. Look at Program is ofering an CAP C.A.R.E. Facebook make us smile, songs that move us and participate, please email: Te Gomers, Madison County, Driftless , online class for children Page on April 27, 29 stories that show us we’re not alone. deerfeldfarmmarket@ Roadhouse Chiefs. ages 9 to 13 of how to be and May 1 at 1 p.m. Te While we have so much on our minds, gmail.com. Tere’s also amazing talent from the safe when home alone. teachers will be sharing we can’t underestimate the power that greater Madison area. Te workshop is April what they’ve been up to the arts have in our daily life. 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But until it’s companies, like Frank Productions safe to see music live again, we can fnd W6940 Rubidell Rd – Watertown, WI 53094 in Madison, or through their own some company and good music online. 920-261-7505 • [email protected] Facebook pages. Happy listening. It’s a chance for you to listen to the A6 Cambridge News & Deerfeld Independent Tursday, April 30, 2020 By MadelineDeerfield Westberg suspendshiatus short-term. its Citizensbegan in 2008, Advisoryand a four-year operating Committeeyear, simply because there are lots of [email protected] Jensen said Wisconsin schools are referendum starting in 2013. things not happening,” Jensen said. facing an uncertain future because of Since 2008, all referendums have Jensen and Treuden will lay out the Te Deerfeld School District may not the virus. It’s unclear how much funding allowed the district to exceed the revenue district’s fnancial options without an pursue an operating referendum this schools will receive in the state budget for limit by $400,000 per year, for the length of operating referendum at the May 11 fall, and has put its Citizens Advisory the 2020-21 school year, Jensen said, or if the referendum.