They may have a feeding tube. They may be attached to a machine that breathes for them, unable to communicate. They may be 2 months old or 10 years old.

Regardless of their individual condition, Kathleen Timm is by their side. She has dedicated her heart and love to sick children for 25 years.

Timm has three children who are married and have families of their own. They remind her of how blessed she is.

“I get to come home,” says Timm, who is a private duty nurse for Horizon Home Care & Hospice Inc. in Brown Deer. “The parents are still behind me taking care of that child.”

Mary Conti started out as a licensed nurse practitioner in long-term care in 1976. After five years, she returned to school to become a registered nurse, working in critical care at County Hospital.

In addition to being a registered nurse, she serves as the clinical resource management coordinator at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, a role in which she is responsible for finding ways to improve the hospital’s quality of care while lowering costs.

Self-mutilation is growing as a problem among young people at an alarming rate. According to a recent large scale survey published in the Pediatrics professional journal, about 17 percent of college students report that they have cut, burned, carved or harmed themselves in other ways.

As he watched the problem become more prevalent among his students, Mark Flottum, coordinator for comprehensive school health programming at the Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) #2 in Milton, sought the professional advice of Thomas Shiltz, a therapist, consultant, author and workshop presenter on mental health at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc.

After retiring from teaching English at Homestead High School, Bill Parkinson could have spent his retirement surrounded by books and may have been quite content. He could have caught up on some reading he’d been long postponing.

However, Parkinson’s wife insisted there was work to be done and people he could help. On her recommendation, Parkinson reluctantly went to Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls to see what he could do.

After a long career defending hospitals as a medical malpractice attorney, Thomas Smallwood retired. These days, he lives in Wisconsin during the warmer months and in California during the colder months. And he has become a full-time community service agent.

“Community service is the rent you pay for the space you occupy in the community,” he says. “I felt it was important to do volunteer work in the community.”

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The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has hired two local commercial real estate brokerages, Colliers Barry and RFP Commercial, to market for sale the Archbishop Cousins Catholic Center property in St. Francis at 3501 S. Lake Drive.

Lagina Plumbing, formerly known as Louis Schmitt Plumbing, plans to move from West Milwaukee to an 88-year-old, 12,000-square-foot, two-story brick building at 3618 W. Pierce St. in Milwaukee’s Silver City neighborhood.

Milwaukee restaurateur "Johnny V" Vassallo, the owner of Mo's Restaurants, will open his second Mo’s Irish Pub Thursday at 10842 W. Bluemound Road, Wauwatosa.

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All Solutions LLC recently leased 42,000 square feet of industrial and office space at 4659 W. Basswood Drive in...