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Youth Fitness at Polish Falcons

by Jan ChristensenAugust 2008November 2013

Youth Fitness Class Sponsored by Polish Falcons
Meeting Time: 6PM
Meeting Dates: Tuesday, September 2 and Tuesday, September 9
Meeting Place: Falcon Bowl, 801 E. Clarke St.
Fee: $40 from September, 2008 – July, 2009

Transformers and capacitors mold the pedal power into fluid electrons to amplify the music.

Neighborhood News

Sing the Bicycle Electric

by Currents StaffDecember 2007November 2013

What if your bicycle, that ultimate green form of transportation, could generate electricity? The thought that has crossed all our minds at one time or another was actually put into practice by Dan Aukofer and his co-conspirators, Dan O’Brien and Chuck Smith. With eight bicycles to start, they generated electricity for the lights as well as the power for Deb and Dan Aukofer’s band, Soul Purpose, which performed in their barn in Waukesha.

For years volunteers have been sharing food with the needy of Milwaukee out of the food pantries at St. Casimir and Gaenslen School.

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Holiday Helpers in Riverwest

by Matt CzarnikDecember 2007November 2013

Meet Isaiah, or Ike as his friends call him. He said you could “put down anything” for his last name.

You may have seen him pushing his shopping cart on the sidewalk outside your house or along alleys, always with trash bags fat with aluminum cans draped over each side. Ike’s bloodshot eyes and weathered hands speak for his experience: an admittedly hard life spent on these streets.

Ike was born in Eupora, Mississippi, and moved to Wisconsin 13 years ago with his wife and two children. Today he calls Riverwest his home.

Patricia Coloton-Walsh at the new Loop location in the Alterra Riverwest complex.

Neighborhood News

Yarn Shop Gets New Location in Alterra Complex

by Jackie Reid DetloffNovember 2007November 2013

Happy to be part of the new Alterra building on Humboldt Blvd., Caitlin Walsh and Patricia Colloton-Walsh are opening their yarn shop in Riverwest this month. Loop, as their business is called, is here to serve the growing numbers, young and old, who have discovered the delight of working with fiber, whether it be knitting, crocheting, felting or weaving.

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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.