FROM: Shawn Smart, RNA Co-Chair =============================== Neighbors: Attached is the final draft in content of our bylaws approved on March 11, 2003. Editors able to detect and correct glaring grammer and spelling errors appreciated. Voting privileges, election of officers; creation of a board were controversial issues. I suggest to neighbors in disagreement with the final […]
Holton Street
Posted inFurther Down Stream
March 2003
New Boathouse – Antler – Community Union – Friends of Milwaukee’s Rivers 8th Annual River Clean Up – New Parish – COA Summer Programs – Element/Black Elephant – Demands and ‘plaints – Welfare Warriors/4th Annual Global Women’s Strike Against No Pay, Low Pay, And Overwork – Convicted Pedophile Evicted – Feast of St. Casimir – Matyas Rehab/Rental for Non-Profits – Humbolt and Kane Ward Yard to Become Restaurant
Posted inNeighborhood News
New Community Partner Helps Organize Riverwest
Here’s the drill. You get a knock at your door, and see a friendly, but unfamiliar face. He’s holding a brochure with information about the neighborhood and has a cell phone. The name behind the face is Mark McInerney, and he is not a salesman. The brochure he carries explains his role as the new Community Partner in Riverwest, and his phone and book of numbers are his tools.
Posted inUncategorized
Polish Town
Excerpt from Chapter 2 of Riverwest: A Community History
by Tom Tolan
Part 2 of 6 in a series.
It is 4:30 a.m. on what will be a warm Friday in early autumn, 1920. Fourteen-year-old Clem Doberneck is one of the first in the neighborhood to rise. He eats breakfast with his father, who must catch an early streetcar to his job at the Miller Brewery, and by 5 a.m. is out of his family’s Booth Street house, beginning his morning rounds. From Locust Street to Reservoir Avenue, between Richards Street and the river, he walks from streetlight to streetlight, turning off the gas. Gradually, the sky becomes lighter….
Posted inRNA News
RNA Minutes
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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