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  Happy Tonics is a nonprofit environmental and educational organization.  Our mission is to provide sanctuary for the monarch butterfly. Our purpose is to promote organic gardening, the importance of seed saving, and open pollination for biodiversity. The organization is dedicated to teaching about the risks of invasive species and genetic engineering to the food supply, and their impact on the environment, other species, indigenous and native crops, and health.
 
  We provide educational lectures, a film, and CD photo presentations on organic gardening, the plight of the monarch butterfly, and food safety issues.  We offer milkweed seed to promote the planting of milkweed in order to provide food for the monarch butterfly. Milkweed is the only source of nourishment for the monarch caterpillar.
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Happy Tonics Member Becomes Novelist

  Shell Lake, Wisconsin, USA - Diane Dryden, features reporter for the Washburn County Register, wrote her first novel, The Accidental King of Clark Street, published by Capstone Fiction.
  Dryden chose the life and times of a Chicago laundry owner and the extended family she embraces.
   A love story develops between the pages as two older people take a chance on love after surviving their own losses.
  Dryden hails from Chicago, and many of the details are real, although 

the characters are fictional.
  "Dryden is simply a natural writer and the interactions of characters in this book holds your interest all the way to its final chapter. We're proud that one of our writers created something that caught the eye of a national publisher," says Gary King, editor of the Register.
  Dryden has also been instrumental in helping Happy Tonics with coverage of organizational events and the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Shell Lake.

  Congratulations, Diane! 

Diane Dryden ©  Washburn County  Register