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City Block Grant Funding Cuts Hit Home For YMCA CDC-Riverwest

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by Sonya Jongsma Knauss

More than $1 million in cuts to community organizing by the City is taking its toll in many neighborhoods, and Riverwest is no exception. Community organizing and neighborhood planning activities will take a hit when the YMCA CommunityDevelopment Corporation at 604 E. Center St. closes its doors on Dec. 31, 2002. The office, which the YMCA opened a little over a year ago and which represents a $37,000 buildout investment on the part of the Y, has been used for many neighborhood gatherings.

“There was a certain level of trust we put in the Y when we originally decided to ask them to administer the grant. We felt they would commit to the neighborhood and bring resources into it. . . I expected the Y to do more work to find funding. To me it’s an institutional question: is the Y devoted to the CDC model or not?” -Alderman D’Amato

Posted inFurther Down Stream

December 2002

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Latina poets – Drum and Civic Leadership Corps – No more Historic Preservation Officer – Riverwest Artist Association Santa-windo-rama – Bremen St. Block Club – Riverwest Best of – Reservoir Park – Co-Op and Credit Union ATMs, food stamps

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RNA Minutes

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News, Upcoming Events, Kilbourn/Reservoir Park status, Mian’s Gas Station Update, Ways to Keep Riverwest YMCA-CDC open, Holton St. Integrated Neighborhood Revitalization Grant, RNA Seeks Non-Profit status, Garden park update, Crime and Block Clubs

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Riverwest Resale Reopens for Business

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by Peter Schmidtke

“There are certain things you probably should buy new, but for other things, you should definitely come and take a look here, because either we have it, or we will have it.”

Riverwest residents Trent Hanson and Angela Botka stepped out for a bite of Mexican food and returned home the proud co-owners of a thrift shop.

Posted inNeighbor Spotlight

Brewzerkus

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by Jeff Johnson

Riverwest is home to [an] urban, post-modern circus. Proclaimed in flyers as the “Scariest Show on Earth,” Milwaukee Brewzerkus quarters in a Booth Street home known by its inhabitants as the “Clown House.” There a front porch spills over with “tall bikes” used for parades; a backyard harbors a car and van festooned like clowns; an attic and basement brim with puppets, stages, and props; living room, kitchen, and bedrooms host costumes, makeup, and poster/stencil making materials.