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Neighbor Spotlight

Neighbor Spotlight: In Memory • John Okopinski

by RWCurrentsOctober 2011November 2013

The Old Ways

By Vince Bushell, photos Sarah Kurowski (top, and Michelle Jones & Shelly McClone following)

The beginning of this story was published in December, 2002. I wrote it in November of 2002. Nine years ago.

I walked into the Falcon Bowl and slid onto a bar stool and gave barkeep John Okopinski a nod.

“Hi John, gimme a Klisch.”

Neighbor Spotlight

Neighbor Spotlight: Tess Kenny

by Currents StaffMarch 2011November 2013

Neighbor Spotlight – Tess Kenney

by Sue Blaustein, photo by Peter DiAntoni

Theresa Kenney – Riverwest Neighborhood Association’s 2010 “Neighbor of the Year” – gets up early. Her morning routine includes brewing a cup of green tea and then surfing the listservs of activist organizations in Riverwest. She scans the latest chatter from the Riverwest Co-op, the RNA, and Riverwest Health Initiative, the Victory Garden Initiative, Transition Milwaukee, Milwaukee Urban Gardens and Concordia Gardens.

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.

Barhopper

Back In Black

by EditorApril 2004

After last month’s East Side sojourn, it’s time for a return to the taverns of Riverwest. So I’m back. And it was night. So, black. Yeah. That works.

Business Spotlight

Alive and Kickin’

by EditorJuly 2003December 2013

by Kevin Flaherty, photos by Peter DiAntoni

When Sahnya Thom was in elementary school, her father insisted that his daughters take at least three months of self-defense classes. More than 21 years and countless hours of martial artistry later, her father’s well-meaning edict has become not only her paycheck: it’s become her lifestyle.