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Each month Community Shares of Wisconsin presents the Backyard Hero Award to organizations and people making change happen in our community. This month’s hero is Ann Marie Zagzebski. Source: Isthmus.com

Picks this week include the final Blades of Steel metal festival at Crucible; Steve Fox discusses the new short story collection ‘These Are My People.’ Source: Isthmus.com

Each year, Monarch Watch sends out more than a quarter of a million tags to citizen scientists with nets and clipboards and optimism. Last year, they posted 52 tagged butterflies recovered in Mexico and 757 spotted somewhere along their journey. Source: Isthmus.com

I started wearing glasses when I was 9, making me one of the first kids in my class to don the notorious nerd identifier. Mr. Popular, I was not. And because I broke my glasses frequently, they were often held together by tape, which didn’t help out in the business of being cool at school. Source: Isthmus.com

Kanto Fiesta launched last year with appearances at Taste of Madison and as a pop-up at the Black Business Hub, before gaining permanent space at Global Market and Food Hall in January. Source: Isthmus.com