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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Local mother opens second Once Upon A Child resale store in Milwaukee suburbs
A new children's clothing and accessories resale store focused on giving back to parents is opening in Greendale. Once Upon A Child, located at 5431 S. 76th St., will open May 15. The resale store franchise — part of Winmark, the Resale Company — buys and sells gently used children's items, including clothing, toys, equipment and accessories. The Greendale location marks the second store opened by local resident and mother Jess McGurn, who launched her first location in Brookfield in 2022. A mother of four and former foster parent, McGurn said she saw the need for another location in the Milwaukee metro area to support more families. 'Over the last four years, we've doubled the size of Once Upon A Child in Brookfield to keep up with demand,' McGurn said in a press release. 'I knew it was time to open another location to make the business more accessible to even more families. I'm so excited to bring this store to Greendale and can't wait to connect with more local families and organizations.' McGurn said she has relied heavily on Once Upon A Child for her own children. Her Brookfield location has partnered with foster care programs and other organizations to support families in need across the region. To celebrate the grand opening, the Greendale store will host several events May 15-18: May 15-18: All guests will be entered into a drawing to win a $250 gift card. The winner will be announced May 18. Shoppers who spend $75 will receive a free tote bag while supplies last. May 15-17: The first 25 customers each day will receive a $25 gift card. Thursday: Raffle for a Little Sleepies blanket and sleeper. Friday: Raffle for a Yeti cooler. Saturday: Two Bogg bags will be raffled. Customers who donate a pack of diapers for the Milwaukee Diaper Mission will receive an extra raffle ticket. May 18: Shoppers can earn double loyalty points for every $10 bought or sold. A Crave Tumbler will be raffled off, and Bluey will host a meet-and-greet at 2 p.m. Once Upon A Child ensures that all products meet mandatory and voluntary safety standards. Staff members monitor product recalls and inspect items before resale to ensure safety and compliance. For more information on the buying process or stores, call the store at 262-232-8459 or visit Once Upon A Child's official website. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Second Once Upon A Child location opens in Greendale
Fox News
04-03-2025
- Business
- Fox News
Trump to make 'full-throated' case during primetime speech: former presidential speechwriters
President Donald Trump, six weeks into his second tour of duty in the White House, vows to "TELL IT LIKE IT IS!" when he heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver a primetime address to Congress and the nation. The president will tout his domestic and international accomplishments, spotlight what the Trump administration has done for the economy, make a renewed push for Congress to pass additional border security funding and detail his plans for peace around the globe, according to details from the White House that were shared first with Fox News. A former presidential speechwriter calls Trump's first major speech to Congress during his second presidential administration "a big deal" and "a great platform…for a president." "It's a dramatic setting," Bill McGurn, a former chief speechwriter for then-President George W. Bush, said of the speech, which is on equal footing with a State of the Union address in terms of importance. McGurn said the first address to Congress by a president following their inauguration is "a great opportunity to broadcast their message far and wide." "He's going to make his case," McGurn predicted. Trump has been moving at warp speed during his opening six weeks back in the White House with a flurry of executive orders and actions. His moves not only fulfilled some of his major campaign trail promises, but also allowed the returning president to flex his executive muscles, quickly put his stamp on the federal government, make major cuts to the federal workforce and also settle some long-standing grievances. Trump, as of Tuesday, has signed 82 executive orders since his Jan. 20 inauguration, according to a count from Fox News, which far surpasses the rate of any recent presidential predecessors during their first weeks in office. Many of the moves Trump has taken have been controversial, including threatening tariffs on major trading partners, including Canada and Mexico, upending the nation's international agenda and freezing foreign aid, as well as a high-profile crackdown on illegal immigration. Also grabbing plenty of attention is Trump's recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Trump named Elon Musk — the world's richest person and the chief executive of Tesla and Space X — to steer DOGE. DOGE has swept through federal agencies since Trump was inaugurated, rooting out what the White House argues was billions in wasteful federal spending. It has also taken a meat cleaver to the federal workforce, resulting in a massive downsizing of employees. The moves by DOGE have triggered a slew of lawsuits in response. "I would write it as a triumph, and I would write it looking to the future," Clark Judge, a former speechwriter and special assistant to then-President Ronald Reagan, said when asked by Fox News Digital what he would say about DOGE if he were writing Trump's speech. Following Friday's jaw-dropping clash in the Oval Office between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump and Vice President JD Vance, what Trump says in his address to Congress regarding the Russia-Ukraine war will be closely monitored. "Undoubtedly, he's going to explain how he sees the world," McGurn emphasized. "Donald Trump is not shy about saying what he thinks, so he's going to express it full-throated." Additionally, he predicted that "there's doing to be a lot of Republican support. Democrats, I can't image, will be enthusiastic about anything. So it could be very dramatic. People will be looking for boos and cheers." Dan Cluchey, former senior speechwriter for then-President Joe Biden, had his own advice for Trump. "What Donald Trump 'should' do is turn his focus outward on the American people rather than inward towards himself," Cluchey told Fox News Digital. He argued that "Americans deserve an explanation as to why he is failing to address record egg prices, slashing vital funding for everything from cancer research to weather forecasting, threatening to decimate Medicaid and the Social Security Administration, torching our hard-earned heritage as the world's chief defender of democracy, and speeding the strong economy he inherited toward an utterly unnecessary collapse." However, Cluchey predicted that "what Donald Trump *will* do, instead, is what he always does: fabricate the record and fixate on Donald Trump."
