July 2003
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How to Deal With Problem Landlords

by Editor

by Wendy Mesich and Sonya Jongsma Knauss

This is the first in a series of articles that will look at the business of renting and managing properties in the neighborhood. We will explore a number of questions throughout this series, including: Who owns rental properties in Riverwest? How well do they take care of them? What does this say about their regard for the neighborhood and for the rest of us who live here? What can tenants do about “deadbeat” landlords? What can landlords do about “deadbeat” tenants? How can one pick a good landlord, or a good tenant?

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RNA Minutes

by Editor

Speeding school buses, alley clean-ups, mail tampering, off-leash dogs, and questions about Center Street’s lack of trees were all on the agenda at the June Riverwest Neighborhood Association meeting….

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Oriental Drugs: A Family of Chance

by Editor

by Vince Bushell

“Oriental Drugs,” that’s what the sign said… and it was not the place to score some hash, although one had to chuckle at the thought. But you could buy film, hardware, contraceptives, candy, and a myriad of other stuff. It was open late, if not all night. In an era before AIDS, when STD might mean something as serious as crabs, you could go and buy pesticide shampoo to rid your naughty bits of the creatures.

Posted inBusiness Spotlight

Alive and Kickin’

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by Kevin Flaherty, photos by Peter DiAntoni

When Sahnya Thom was in elementary school, her father insisted that his daughters take at least three months of self-defense classes. More than 21 years and countless hours of martial artistry later, her father’s well-meaning edict has become not only her paycheck: it’s become her lifestyle.

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Dr. Dave

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by Sonya Jongsma Knauss, photo by Peter DiAntoni

Dr. Dave was David Schemberger, MD, in a previous life, but he stopped practicing more than a decade ago. He became convinced modern medicine was causing more problems than it was solving. “I saw myself giving pills to people who continued to abuse themselves in habitual ways — it kept them from ever getting healthy,” he said, referring to patients with cardiovascular and other problems.