by Peter Schmidtke / photograph by Peter Di Antoni
From the living room of their two-story home on Holton Street where they have lived for 21 years, Luis and Ada Rivera recount the turn of events that led them to claim their own part of the American Dream.
by Jeff Johnson / Photos by Tess Reiss
Gleaming tile floors, plain white walls, green plants, fresh flowers, a whiff of incense, and a solemn statue of Buddha mingle with the rumble of cars, trucks, and buses on Locust Street. This is meditation, not on some mountain top, not out in the woods, but embedded in bustle at the center of the city. And indeed there is stillness.
Now that Riverwest has a large health clinic in the neighborhood, people here don’t have far to go to receive medical care from doctors and residents. At an April 10 meeting, Columbia St. Mary’s health care workers asked Riverwest neighbors how their work at the clinic on North and Humboldt can help fix what ails us.
The newly founded Riverwest Investment Cooperative (RIC) held its inaugural investor/membership meeting April 10 at Dino’s Restaurant. More than 40 residents from Riverwest and the City of Milwaukee were in attendance to learn more about this community-driven venture.
A Milwaukee Temps bus is creating quite a stir in Riverwest, according to resident Chris Merkel. Merkel, of the 3300 block of N. Bremen, reports that her neighbor (employed by Milwaukee Temps), began parking the Temps bus across the street from her home in mid-January.
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