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July 2003

Garbage incident – National Trails Day – Annual Hank Aaron Trail Project Run – Block Clubs Cleanup – 2004 National Green Convention in Milwaukee – Funds for Block Parties – Scam Artists – First Annual Preserve Milwaukee Picnic – Tamarack Trips – Candidate Folaron in Riverwest – Denis Kitchen – Frank Zeidler and others at Riverwest Community History Book Reception – Mising Mail – Milwaukee Bicycle Collective – Annual Garfield Avenue Blues – Trees for Center St. – Gordon Park Splash Pad

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Following the Footsteps of the Civil Rights Movement

by Joshua Del Colle, Eighth Grade, Tamarack Community School

The educational part of my class trip began Sunday, May 19. My class and I attended morning Church services at the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. The church was made famous when it was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1963, killing four young African American girls.

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Elementary Schools in the Neighborhood

It’s that time of year again… time to think about September and the impending school year. Parents everywhere are breathing an anticipatory sigh of relief. Or perhaps quietly feeling a pang of sadness mixed with joy at the thought of their little darlings enrolling in school for the first time. If you have young kids […]