December 2003
Posted inCommentary & Opinion

Talking Tires

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by Jackie Reid Dettloff

This year I had to be away for most of October and I missed the autumn colors. One of the first things I did after unpacking my suitcase was to head for the woods along the Beerline trail. I love the way we have a patch of forest right in our very backyard. Here in Riverwest, we don’t have to drive to find natural beauty; it is only a short walk away. . . . And then, like a tumor on the landscape, there was a huge heap of discarded tires – at least fifty dirty, scattered rings of ugly rubber. Someone had dumped them alongside the trail between Clarke and Wright Streets.

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Queer Zine Archive Project

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by Jennifer Wilson

“Where’s all this going to go when none of us are here to make it available or share it with people?” is a question that Chris Wilde asked himself years ago when he realized that many queer zines were ending up in people’s private collections. “Instead of work being passively collected, why not preserve the work and make it accessible?” This seed of an idea has grown into the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP), brainchild of Wilde and his partner, Milo Miller.

Posted inNeighborhood News

Irradiation In Our Schools: Part 2

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In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite opposition from parents, teachers, community members, and public interest groups, approved the use of irradiated ground beef for donation to the National School Lunch Program. This fall, officials from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, which heads the Division of School Nutrition Services, joined dozens of other states in declining to purchase irradiated beef for lunch programs in the upcoming school year.

Posted inBusiness Briefs

December 2003

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Riverwest Co-op is moving ahead on plans to convert its garage space to a cafe. The Lincoln Neighborhood Redevelopment Corporation (LNRC) and Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund have agreed to loan more than $50,000 to the co-op to fund the project. . . .

Posted inBusiness Spotlight

Natural Cleaners

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by Peter Schmidtke

Frequenters of Outpost Foods on 1st and Capitol have undoubtedly noticed the purple and red neon signs announcing the arrival of Natural Cleaners to the Riverwest area.

This isn’t your ordinary dry cleaning shop.

Natural Cleaners uses environmentally-friendly ‘wetcleaning’ and dry cleaning methods to spiff up everything from suits and delicate lace to wedding dresses and living room rugs.