Editor's note: This story, by TMJ4's Coreen Zell, originally aired Oct. 17, 2019.


When a fire destroyed Jennifer Ray and her husband’s newly remodeled home, they reached out to interior architecture and design programs throughout the state in hopes of recruiting a student to help them rebuild.

Elena Runge, a Concordia University Wisconsin interior architecture and design student, jumped at the opportunity.

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