Jan Christensen

Kids at the Holton Youth Center met up in 2006 with Velo Trocadero, Alterra Mountain Bike Team, and Mario Costantini to learn how to fix bikes.

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Holton Youth Center Faces Transition

by Jan ChristensenFebruary 2008November 2013

“The YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee has made a difficult decision to close the Holton Youth Center. We do not have a definite date set for the closing, but know that it will come in early 2008. We had originally set a date for April 1, 2008, but will remain flexible in the hopes that we can find another organization that can take over the building and continue to serve the youth of the neighborhood.”

The first paragraph of the Feb. 23 press release from the YMCA outlines the present situation. But there is a long and complex relationship between Holton Youth Center and Riverwest that predates the YMCA’s involvement.

Small Plot Intensive (SPIN) farming techniques will be featured in a full-day workshop at the conference. SPIN farmers can bring in annual gross sales of ,000 from a half-acre of urban land.

Neighborhood News

Pollinating Our Future: Changing the Urban Landscape

by Jan ChristensenFebruary 2008November 2013

Try as we will to ignore them, there are some problems that just won’t go away. We’re running out of oil and our climate is changing. The way we produce our food in this country is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Change is going to happen. Our only choice in the matter is whether we choose to manage that change, or just let it happen to us.

Editorials

I Was A Teenage Mom

by Jan ChristensenNovember 2007December 2013

I was a teenage mom.

It was a different world in 1970. Abortion was not an option – at least not for a frightened 17-year-old in a small Wisconsin farming community.

Neighbor Spotlight

Mary Germain

by Jan ChristensenNovember 2007November 2013

If you’ve been to the Riverwest Co-op, you’ve seen Mary Germain. She’s the young lady with the dark-brown-andpink-and-blue hair.

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March On Milwaukee!

by Jan ChristensenSeptember 2007November 2013

PEOPLE who have taken part in protests and group actions report a kind of euphoria – some say it’s as powerful as falling in love. “Action fever,” they call it.

Milwaukee audiences are sure to feel some emotional heat if they attend March On Milwaukee, Margaret Rozga’s dramatic memoir. The scene with Christmas carolers outside the home of the landlord who refused to rent to Ronald Britton, a black Viet Nam vet, is guaranteed to bring a lump to the throat. Perhaps a blush to the cheek.

The play will be presented at 7 pm on Thursday, September 27 at the Humphrey Scottish Rite Center, 790 N. Van Buren St. It will kick off a weekend of events commemorating the open housing marches of 1967.