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March 2009

RIVERWEST FOLLIES SATURDAY MARCH 7

1 SUNDAY
  Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio Theatre 158 N. Broadway Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: “THE SUM OF US”
Club Timbuktu 520 E Center De La Buena 4-7 pm All ages.
Peck School of the Arts, 2419 East Kenwood FINE ARTS QUARTET 3PM $20
Zelazo Center 2419 E. Kenwood FINE ARTS QUARTET 3PM $20
Zelazo Center 2419 E. Kenwood UWM YOUTH WIND ENSEMBLES I & II 7:30PM $10   

Posted inFurther Down Stream

Further Down Stream January 2009

COMMUNITY CASH? Efforts are underway to create a local currency, potentially for use in Riverwest and beyond. The goals of the currency include supporting local businesses, cultivating community self-reliance, strengthening our local economy, and fostering environmental, social and economic sustainability. To get involved or find out more, call 263.1513 or email mkecurrency@gmail.com. The next meeting will be held on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 7pm.

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Nature Notes July 2008

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When Every Day Is The Best Day!

by Ken Leinbach, Urban Ecology Center Executive Director
What a great day to be alive!  It’s pouring rain like cats and dogs outside my window and I can’t wait to get outside!  As a kid I remember the great regattas when the street gutters became our fantasy world and popsicle sticks became elegant racing canoes. 

Posted inNeighborhood News

Nik Kovac Gets to Work

Defying the predictions and surprising prognosticators, native son Nik Kovac beat fellow
Riverwest resident Patrick Flaherty by a cheesecloth thin 71 vote margin on April 1 to claim
Milwaukee’s coveted Third District aldermanic seat.

But for Alderman-elect Kovac, the election isover, and the celebration is old news.

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Further Down Stream June 2008

CENTER ST NEWS – At long last, the Riverwest Artists Association is vacating its Post Office Box. RAA recently became the proud new owner of the former Jazz Gallery at 926 E. Center St., another building
previously owned by Bob Klavetter. Watch for a grand opening on Sat, July 26. The fresh energy being generated by all the new property owners on the street is spurring talk of getting a Center St. business association going again.
 

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