Retirement would be too boring for someone like Dr. Robert Wetzler. His career covered chiropractic care, Ob-gyn and general practice. Not to mention being the backstage doctor at Alpine Valley and having opened his home to his famous “patients” like the Grateful Dead. Helping to put a group together to open the Riverwest Clinic, 826 E. Center St., was a logical step.
January 2005
Posted inNeighborhood News
Reading First at Gaenslen Elementary
Gaenslen School is the recipient of a federal Reading First grant. The grant of $103,000 per year for three years is intended to improve reading proficiency in kindergarten through grade 3.
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Reservoir Through History
by Alex Kiley, reference material provided by Frank Alioto Since its construction in 1873 the Kilbourn Park Reservoir has provided a lot of color to the neighborhood. After all, it went uncovered for a good 100 years, which to some seemed an open invitation for swimming. Measuring 310 feet east to west and 515 feet […]
Posted inHarambee Connection
A Slice of American History: Carter G. Woodson
by Charlesetta Thompson In February of 1926, Carter G. Woodson, an historian and visionary, established Negro History Week, the event that turned into what is now Black History Month. Dr. Woodson came from humble beginnings. The son of emancipated slaves, Woodson spent his childhood working in the coal mines of Kentucky. He enrolled in high […]
Posted inTelling Our Stories
My Mystic Mansion
If someone had asked me five years ago if I were a “mystic,” I wouldn’t have understood what they were asking. A mystic! What the heck is that? Would a mystic be someone like that guy Merlin the Magician in Camelot, who performs weird alchemical tricks with batwings and bitter herbs?
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