Two completely different schools co-exist side by side, just two blocks away from each other, right in the middle of the neighborhood. Still, many students here bus out of the neighborhood to go to school. Both schools would like to change that. by Sonya Jongsma Knauss and Jackie Detloff Messmer Catholic Preparatory School Type: Catholic; […]
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Natasha King Named Program Officer at Milwaukee LISC: Community Development Veteran Brings Diverse Skills to Non-Profit Organization
MILWAUKEE — Natasha L. King, who for the last nine years has worked in the city’s banking and community development industries, has joined the Milwaukee office of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) as a program officer. King’s duties and responsibilities will involve working with local community development corporations (CDCs) as they strengthen their neighborhoods by […]
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Summer Camp for Riverwest Youth
For 96 years, Riverwest youth have been going to summer camp at COA, and this summer 500 kids will again have a great time swimming, canoeing, playing basketball, creating art and crafts, and making friends. In 1906, a dynamic group of women created the Children’s Outing Association (now COA Youth & Family Centers) to provide […]
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Eudemon Visits His Mother
Eudemon turned around and turned around again and he was in another place: a place where time was taking a stroll. Four women on the far side of 80 sat in a kitchen-like room. Eudemon sat down with them. Lunch was just finished. One of the ladies was remarking how good that meat was, and […]
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freeflowin’ ’bout the porchdwellers
by Tanya Cromartie-Twaddle warm weather brings people out of the house….folks take to the front porches and steps…some girls spend the morning primping, getting all cute just to sit outside half the day…talk about spring fever…fellas hanging on the stoop …kids chalk drawing in front of the house on the sidewalk…on my block folks will […]
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