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Delia Gonzalez, of Select Milwaukee, speaks to workshop participants.
Homeowners learned the ins and outs of the foreclosure process during a free workshop, the second held recently in Clarke Square. The series of seminars provides tips and resources to homeowners fearful of getting swept up in the current foreclosure crisis.
More than 25 Spanish-speaking homeowners spent their evening at Santa Fe Church, 1000 S. Layton Blvd., listening intently to a presentation detailing the foreclosure process from beginning to end, but more importantly, learning how to avoid it.
“As homeowners they still have options, regardless of how many months they are behind on the mortgage payments,” according to Delia Iris Gonzalez, homeowner preservation program manager for Select Milwaukee. Select Milwaukee, a non-profit, provides information and guidance to prospective homebuyers along with advice on avoiding foreclosure.
Gonzalez warned participants of scams intended to take advantage of vulnerable homeowners, desperate to save their homes. Gonzalez also addressed common misconceptions about people whose homes are foreclosed. “The truth is that the No. 1 reason for people losing their homes is loss of income due to unemployment,” Gonzalez said.
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In Milwaukee there are currently 1,600 bank-owned foreclosure properties, 600 city-owned, and another 6,200 homes in the foreclosure pipeline, according to Maria Prioletta, redevelopment and special projects manager for the City of Milwaukee.
Gonzalez said there are 400-500 new filings each month. “Most people don’t reach out and do anything about it. We know that most of the help people reach out for is at the neighborhood level, so we’re working to close the gap between the agencies and the people who need help,” Gonzalez said.
The workshops, sponsored by the Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative, in collaboration with the City of Milwaukee, Layton Boulevard West Neighbors and other local agencies, were held across the city this spring. Call (414) for more information.

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March 20, 2011
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Safe & Sound, Inc. has awarded $870,000 to 29 organizations that run crime-reduction programs for young people, including Journey House in Clarke Square.
Safe & Sound sponsors Safe Places, sites where youths are taught how to avoid high-risk situations and risky behaviors. The after-school programs, which are in some of the highest-crime neighborhoods in the city, also keep kids off the streets during peak crime hours when they are most at risk.
“Our strategy is to minimize crime by working with youth groups, law enforcement and residents,” said Norma J. Balentine, director of Safe Places.
Competitive grants of $40,000 were awarded to 15 programs that serve higher-risk youths; $20,000 in grants went to the 14 Youth Together Drop-In Centers (YTDIC), which serve as many young people as their sites are able to accommodate.
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Organizations that sought Safe & Sound funding went through a three-month process starting last August, according to Balentine. “They have to be a non-profit, they have to have operated a youth program for at least a year, and all their programming has to be free,” Balentine said.
Below is a list of south side Safe Place and Youth Together Drop-In Centers receiving Safe & Sound grants.
$40,000 (S.A.F.E Places)
UCC-United Community Center
1111 S. 6th St.
Milwaukee, WI 53204
(414) 643-8530
Boys & Girls Club-Davis Club
1975 S. 24th St.
Milwaukee, WI 53204
(414) 383-2650
$20,000 (Youth Together Drop-In Centers)
Journey House
2212 W. Greenfield
Milwaukee, WI 53204
(414) 384-8788
Milwaukee Christian Center
2137 W. Greenfield Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53204
(414) 645-1859
Latino Community Center
807 S. 14th St.
Milwaukee, WI 53204
(414) 384-8140


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Long journey culminates in new center for Longfellow, Journey House | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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March 20, 2011
Wendell Smith stands amidst his students at Longfellow. (Photo by James Schnepf)
It’s the late 1990s and Journey House’s two buildings are falling apart. Its youth center is a converted theater, and its learning center a transformed church. Both are regularly dealing with leaky ceilings, flooding and no heat. Up the road at 1021 S. 21st St. H.W. Longfellow School is struggling with overcrowding. The brick school, opened in 1886, has a noisy and distracting gym on the third floor, conducts classes in the hallway and feeds students in a makeshift cafeteria and kitchen with a ceiling so low that adult visitors crouch to avoid hitting their heads.
Twelve years later, Journey House and Longfellow, both in Clarke Square, still use those same facilities (though Longfellow expanded in 2006) and deal with similar problems, but that will soon change. This spring, the Journey House Center for Family Learning and Youth Athletics will break ground. The center, a collaboration of Longfellow School and Journey House, will serve the two institutions by providing a new cafeteria, kitchen, gym, computer labs and classrooms.
The idea was hatched by then-Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, who was meeting with Journey House representatives to discuss their need for a new building. Norquist spread a map of Clarke Square across his desk in City Hall, pointed to the playground at Longfellow and declared it a perfect location, according to Michele Bria, Journey House CEO. Norquist, who at the time lived in Clarke Square, suggested that the organization approach Longfellow and try to join forces to build a facility on the blacktop playground that he hated looking at each day.
Journey House approached Longfellow, and the dream they shared became one of the early models for the Milwaukee Public Schools’ newly created Neighborhood Schools Initiative. “We had a vision of cooperative space at the time,” said MPS Chief Financial Officer Michelle Nate. “We’d make an investment in the neighborhood where the kids lived and reduce the cost of busing and then use that money to pay for repairs on building projects.” But Journey House, like most of America, was hit hard by the economic downturn and forced to delay the plan to build a new addition to share with Longfellow.
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The original plan, featuring an addition even grander than the one that will soon be built, was shelved for almost eight years. “We needed to focus on core and staff development, and serving the needs of the neighborhood,” said Jim Schlater, who joined Journey House’s board of directors in 1999. “Once we’d gotten a solid team together, we could once again focus on the project and raising the capital funds for the campaign.”
While Journey House solidified the structure of the agency, its buildings continued to deteriorate. Founded in 1969, Journey House was serving thousands of clients each year, providing youth athletic programs such as soccer, football and baseball; English language learning and GED classes for adults; and a variety of other resources and programs. The economic downturn and increased clientele were making it nearly impossible to keep up with repairs on the aged facilities, according to Bria.
In the meantime, Journey House and Longfellow continued to nurture their relationship, partnering to run one of MPS’s first Community Learning Centers at Longfellow. The center provided a safe place, as well as educational, recreational and social activities for both youth and adults in Clarke Square. Soon after, in March 2003, Wendell Smith was named principal at Longfellow.
Before receiving the midweek call from MPS informing him of his new assignment, Smith had been the assistant principal at Kagel Elementary School, also on the south side. Arriving at Longfellow like a cowboy on a blazing saddle, Smith initiated changes quickly. Money for building improvements had been left unused by his predecessors, leaving Smith with capital to begin repairs on the building. Soon gone was the 12-foot rusted chain link prison-style fence, along with the rotting, asthma-inducing wood chips in the playground. The building’s interior and exterior were repainted and brightened. An addition built in 2006 enabled Smith to move the library out of a classroom and a bilingual class out out of an office, and add a second cafeteria.
MPS teachers took notice of the changes. “Suddenly we’re having 80-90 applications for a single opening here,” Smith said. Still, overcrowding persists. The music teacher pushes a rolling cart from room to room, lunch is served on a rotating four-hour shift that means some students eat as early as 10 a.m., and small groups — including speech, language and special needs students — are still taught in hallways on occasion.
Smith and Bria, who knew each other from working together at Journey House in the early ’90s, continued to believe that the much-needed space would come, and pushed to bring the issue back to the forefront. “One thing that we always had on our side was optimism and resilience,” Smith said. When roadblocks arose Bria and Smith kept each other’s spirits up. “We knew that we can’t let others water down the vision to the point that we’re losing the impact that we want to have,” Smith said.
“Some colleagues had encouraged me to give up or try another strategy but at the end of the day I knew that the right thing to do for kids and families of Clarke Square was to have a unified Journey House and Longfellow at one site where we could all be together,” Bria agreed.
Then, in June 2008, the Walter L. and Grace M. Merten Charitable Trust reenergized the Journey House capital fundraising campaign by donating $500,000. Soon after, the Zilber Family Foundation named Clarke Square as one of the first neighborhoods to be revitalized as part of the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative. Between 2008 and 2009 Journey House raised $3 million more, which included a $1 million donation from the Burke Foundation and $250,000 from the Zilber Family Foundation. Journey House was well on the way toward its goal of $6 million, and in late 2009, approached MPS to revisit the idea of the new building.
The problem was that MPS had fallen on even harder times, dealing with low enrollment and crumbling school buildings across the city. Though many of MPS’s schools were underperforming at the time, Longfellow was outperforming other schools in the system, and remained a high priority for MPS, according to Nate. However, the school system simply could not fund new construction projects, she said.
“Our new construction/building maintenance budget has been cut severely over the last five years. We used to get $10 million every year from the city; that was then cut to $4 million and that has now been gone for several years,” Nate said. “The idea for any kind of addition … wasn’t even in the cards,” she added.
Then came a windfall for MPS, as well as for many other school districts across the nation. In 2009, the Qualified School Construction Bond (QSCB) was introduced as a new tax credit, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) launched by the Obama administration. The low interest bond provided a new, quick money stream for MPS, which was allocated more than $72 million for 2009-10.
Mayor Tom Barrett, a proponent of the QSCB program, said that though the bonds were helpful, the plan likely would have gone forward without it. “I know that the Zilber foundation has been committed to this so I think there would be a good chance that it still would have gotten done. But yes, I do think that the construction bonds helped move the process along,” Barrett said. Nate, of MPS, doesn’t share his optimism. “It would still be on our wish list,” she said.
Armed with a budget proposal for the new project, MPS brought the plan up for a vote during the 2010 June budget session. It did not make the cut. “Unfortunately, there were a lot of potential projects and it did not come through on the first cut on the budget,” Nate said. Finally, during the October budget session, MPS approved the $2.95 million needed to begin construction on the long-envisioned structure, more than $2.5 million of which came from the QSCB program.
With the funding now in place, it was time to put the plan into motion. Journey House had already hired Eppstein-Uhen Architects to design the new building. “It’s been a lot of work adjusting to the budget constraints,” said John Miceli, an architect at Eppstein-Uhen and a member of the Journey House board.
The addition will be built on a section of Longfellow’s playground, the same area where Norquist envisioned it 12 years ago. “I think it’s going to be a breath of fresh air for this neighborhood. It’s a place where families can come and almost spend the entire day and evening, where you can come in the morning and work out and take your kids to school and even take classes of your own whether they be ESL or GED,” Bria said.
The center, which both organizations are hailing as the new heart of Clarke Square, should be open by the beginning of the 2012-13 school year, according to Miceli. Once it is complete, Journey House plans to sell the buildings currently housing the Youth Center, 2212 W. Greenfield Ave., and Adult Learning Center, 1900 W. Washington St.
Public-private partnerships such as the one between Journey House and Longfellow seem to be an emerging model for space- and resource-strapped entities. “I think this is absolutely in line with President Obama’s ideal of a public-private partnership for educating our youth,” Smith said. “We need to be absolutely working as a coalition to meet the needs of kids.”
Barrett agrees. “This has been a great marriage between schools and non-profits.”
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Longfellow School & Journey House: Past and present | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Edgar Mendez
March 20, 2011
2011: Artist rendering of Journey House Center for Family Learning and Youth Athletics
1886: H.W. Longfellow School opens
1969: Americorps VISTA volunteers found “Happy Moon Journey House”
1987: Journey House purchases church on 1900 W. Washington St. (Now the Adult Learning Center)
1996: Dr. Michele Bria joins Journey House as the Associate Director—at the time Journey House has only six staff members and a budget of $270,000
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1997: Journey House launches original Capital Campaign
1998: Journey House opens the Community Learning Center at Longfellow School
1999: Journey House directors meet with Mayor John Norquist at City Hall
2000: MPS approves the “Neighborhood Schools Initiative”
2006: Longfellow adds new addition and 400 more students
2008: Walter L. and Grace M. Merten Charitable Trust provides Journey House with a $500,000 donation
2008: The Zilber Family Foundation selects the Clarke Square neighborhood as one of two initial pilots of the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative
2008-2009: Journey House raises $3 million towards their Capital Campaign Fund. The goal is $5.95 million
2009: Burke Foundation provides a $1 million investment to the Journey House’s Capital Campaign Fund
2009: Qualified School Construction Bonds (QSCB) are introduced as a new tax credit under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
2009: MPS receives $72 million in Qualified School Construction Bonds (QSCBs)
2010: MPS approves $2.95 million toward construction of the new building
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Residents gather to visualize healthy neighborhood | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Andrea Waxman
March 20, 2011
More than 50 Lindsay Heights residents and service providers met recently to discuss improving the health of the neighborhood.
For Lindsay Heights to be a healthy neighborhood, residents need to communicate with one another more and adults and children need to get more exercise — playing on playgrounds, walking in parks and working out at affordable fitness centers. Reducing obesity and teen pregnancies should be priorities and neighborhood schools should emphasize health and fitness. Neighborhood residents also need more jobs and more support for early childhood development, mental health and literacy.
This, in part, was the consensus of more than 50 parents, youths, service providers and neighbors who gathered recently at the Northside YMCA. They came at the invitation of Walnut Way Conservation Corp. and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin to the Lindsay Heights Community Café for a conversation about their vision of a healthy Lindsay Heights.
As the group considered resources that already exist in the neighborhood, resident Phyllis Wofford urged residents to spend time at North Division High School. “We need to take off from work and spend a whole day in school so [we] know what’s going on at lunch time, at recess time. That’s what we used to do,” she said.
Larry Adams of Walnut Way noted the lack of mental health support services. “One of the things that might be happening is that people with mental problems might be self-medicating,” he said.
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Other residents commented on their interest in more communication between neighbors, community projects on which they could work together and better health through diet and exercise.
Wanda Montgomery, director of community partnerships at Children’s Hospital, said she and her team of consultants would consider the comments and report their findings to residents. “We want to come back and talk with you again, to look at next steps,” Montgomery said.
Health and wellness is one of eight areas addressed in the Lindsay Heights quality of life plan created last year as part of the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative. The plan came out of a yearlong community planning process. Periodic meetings are planned to report on progress toward reaching plan goals.

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Walnut Way Neighborhood Lift Up | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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March 21, 2011
Walnut Way and Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful will hold their annual spring event, the Walnut Way Neighborhood Lift Up, Saturday, April 23rd. Neighbors and volunteers gather to kick off the season by sprucing up the neighborhood and getting gardens started. Walnut Way will also hold an Open House and Volunteer Service Day during the Lift Up.For more information or to volunteer, call the Walnut Way office at 414 264 2326.
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Community meeting focuses on upkeep | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Jim McGowan
March 23, 2011
A Near South Side community meeting on maintenance issues is planned for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Adalbert School, 1913 W. Becher St. The Southside Organizing Committee invites all residents to attend, and has invited candidates for county executive and circuit court judge to speak. Contact: Steve Fendt, SOC executive director, 414-672-8090.


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Meeting set on Mitchell Park’s future | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Jim McGowan
March 23, 2011
Neighborhood residents can attend a public meeting to discuss the future of Mitchell Park at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29 in the Mitchell Park Domes Lobby, 524 S. Layton Blvd. The Mitchell Park Green House Project, the Hank Aaron State Bridge and added parking are among topics to be discussed. Contact: Manni Marquez, 414-647-0548.


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Alice’s Garden wins prestigious MANDI award | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Sharon McGowan
April 1, 2011
Alice’s Garden is located at N. 20th Street and W. Garfield Avenue in the Johnsons Park neighborhood of Lindsay Heights. (Photo courtesy of Alice’s Garden)
Alice’s Garden, the home of a Lindsay Heights family garden program that teaches residents to grow, cook and store healthy foods, has won a prestigious award for using public space in a way that “contributes significantly to the overall well-being of the community.”
Alice’s Garden received the Brewers Community Foundation Public Space Award, presented at the 12 annual Milwaukee Awards for Neighborhood Development Innovation (MANDI) dinner on March 30. Other finalists for the public space award were The Walls Project, a memorial to victims of violence in the Washington Park Neighborhood, and The Community Gardens at Kilbourn Park in Riverwest.
Marcia Caton Campbell, executive director of the Center for Resilient Cities, said she was thrilled with the award, which was new this year. “It’s such a marvelous thing to be the first winner of this award,” she said. “People have waited a long time for positive change. It has been occurring over the last 6-8 years but to have a space in their community recognized in this way is very powerful.”
The Center for Resilient Cities is a nonprofit organization that works with citizens, nonprofits and government partners to create healthy, high-quality environments. The center also is involved in revitalizing the Johnsons Park area, which includes Alice’s Garden.
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Although Alice’s Garden has been a community garden for nearly 30 years, a neighborhood planning process that culminated two years ago resulted in construction of a central pavilion, tool sheds, picnic tables and other amenities.
“If you saw a photo of Alice’s Garden even three or four years ago, it would have looked very different,” said Caton Campbell. There wasn’t any programming at that time, and no sense of community or community ownership, she added. “That has all changed.”
The MANDI awards, hosted by LISC Milwaukee, drew nearly 600 people. Awards were presented in six categories to honor outstanding efforts to revitalize Milwaukee’s central city neighborhoods.

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LBWN awarded MANDI for Silver City Townhomes | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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April 1, 2011
Silver City Townhomes, an affordable and energy-efficient housing complex, is fully occupied.
Silver City Townhomes, 20 rent-to-own homes developed by Layton Boulevard West Neighbors (LBWN) and Wisconsin Redevelopment, has won the State Farm Building Blocks Award for a real estate project that enhances the community. The townhomes were built on a vacant lot near 35th Street and National Avenue.
LBWN and Wisconsin Redevelopment received the award at the 12th annual Milwaukee Awards for Neighborhood Development Innovation (MANDI) dinner on March 30. Other finalists were Bishop’s Creek Family Housing, King Drive Commons III and Olga Village Apartments.
“We are honored and humbled to be in such great company with other people in Milwaukee who’ve work so hard to create these developments that have made such a great impact in our neighborhoods,” said Charlotte John-Gomez, executive director of LBWN.
The homes were built using locally available materials, high-efficiency lighting and a “living roof” that diverts rainfall from storm water runoff and lowers utility bills. Units have off-street parking, decks and master suites, and all were filled before the project was completed.
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State Farm made its first national tax credit investment in Silver City Townhomes. Noted John-Gomez, “[This] is a national model for both cooperation and quality.”
The MANDI awards, hosted by LISC Milwaukee, drew nearly 600 people. Awards were presented in six categories to honor outstanding efforts to revitalize Milwaukee’s central city neighborhoods.


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Community input sought on changes to Mitchell Park | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Edgar Mendez
April 4, 2011
Mitchell Park Conservatory (The Domes)
South Side residents had their final opportunity at a recent community meeting to voice concerns and vote on which of the proposed changes to Mitchell Park are most important to them.
The proposal released at the March 29 meeting outlined a strategic vision for the future of the park that could include a sportsplex (gymnasium), the installation of an NFL football field donated by the Green Bay Packers, a skateboard park and restoration of the sunken gardens, gone since 1994, among other additions.
“We’re here today to get feedback from the residents so that we can incorporate what the neighbors want into the plan,” said County Supervisor Peggy West.
More than 100 residents who attended the meeting at Mitchell Park were shown renderings of the plans, handed a questionnaire listing each potential project and asked to pick their top three choices.
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“I’m really excited about the football field,” said Andy Barillas, 32, a lifelong Clarke Square resident.
The plans for the park coincide with the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative’s vision for Clarke Square.
“One of the key pieces of Zilber’s “Quality of Life” plan was youth and recreation with quite a bit focusing on Mitchell Park,” said John Miceli, of Eppstein Uhen Architects, which created the designs.
Miceli added that most of the proposals had been in Mitchell Park’s original master plan, launched in 2000, and needed few adjustments to synch with the ZNI plan.
Once it is finalized, a comprehensive plan for Mitchell Park will be presented to the parks department, a county committee and then to the full county board, West said. The entire project will be funded privately.
Also announced was the upcoming groundbreaking for the Hank Aaron State Bridge. The bridge will connect the former Milwaukee stockyards portion of the Hank Aaron State trail directly to Mitchell Park off of S. 27th Street.
When completed, the bridge will be the latest segment of the extension of the Hank Aaron Trail, another being the Valley Passage bridge at S. 37th and W. Pierce Street, which connects the Silver City neighborhood to the Menominee Valley. The Hank Aaron State Trail runs from Milwaukee’s lakefront to 94th Place, and provides pedestrian and bike access to popular city sites such as the Henry Maier Festival Grounds, Harley Davidson Museum, Potawatomi Casino and Miller Park.
One of the highlights of the re-design plan is the proposed installation of a football field, donated by the Green Bay Packers to Journey House in 2009. Stadium lights and bleachers would eventually border the synthetic field, according to Miceli. The field would be open to the public by permit, West said, with the Journey House youth football team having first choice.
Yet to be determined is whether the proposed facilities will be available free of charge to the public or if there will be a nominal fee.
Despite the addition of dramatic lighting, a revamped tot lot and additional parking among other recent improvements, West and Miceli acknowledged that not much has been accomplished from the original 2000 plan for Mitchell Park, but, “we will see what’s available and attainable and go from there,” West said.


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Dwayne Burtin
April 5, 2011
Running Rebels is holding a Wellness Fair on Saturday, April 9, from 12 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 1300A W. Fond du Lac Ave. in Lindsay Heights. Activities include health assessments, signing up to be a bone marrow donor, urban line dancing and the opportunity to meet local health providers. For more information, contact Natasha Coe (Natasha.coe@runningrebels.org or 414-264-8222).


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April 7, 2011
LISC Milwaukee submitted this video about Alice’s Garden, a project of the Center for Resilient Cities, which received a 2011 MANDI award for neighborhood development innovation. The video was shown at the MANDI awards dinner, sponsored by LISC.

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April 7, 2011
LISC Milwaukee submitted this video about Silver City Townhomes, a project of Layton Boulevard West Neighbors, which received a 2011 MANDI award for neighborhood development innovation. The video was shown at the MANDI awards dinner, sponsored by LISC.
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Home lots available for $1 in Lindsay Heights | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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April 8, 2011
Twyla James on the porch of her house on North 19th Street. (Photo by Susan Borges Vliet)
Lindsay Heights resident Twyla James bought a lot from the city of Milwaukee for $1 in September 2009, on the condition that she build a house there and live in it for at least five years. The following March, just over a year ago, she moved in to her new four-bedroom house with her mother and 16-year-old daughter.
Though she grew up in the suburbs, James chose the city neighborhood because the $1 lot made it affordable on a single income. And it is convenient — just a 10-minute drive from St. Joseph’s Hospital, where she works as a surgical nursing supervisor.
Twyla James (Photo by Susan Borges Vliet)
James’ lot, purchased 1-1/2 years ago, was the last one sold in Lindsay Heights under the $1 program, although 35 lots remain on the market. The city has extended the deadline to Dec. 31, 2011.
Builder Cindy Kuhs, co-owner and president of Greendale-based Kuhs Quality Homes and the builder of James’ house, explained that the mortgage crisis, collapsed housing market and other issues related to the economic downturn of 2008 have created a situation in which buyers cannot get loans to build new homes. The cost of building exceeds the values of these homes once they are built, she said.
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Kuhs built more than 50 houses in Lindsay Heights prior to the recession, including more than 20 houses in the City Homes development north of Walnut Street near 21st Street, at the southwest corner of the neighborhood.
“Over $19 million has been invested in the Lindsay Heights neighborhood as of 2006 in new home construction, rehabilitation, streets, parks and revived commercial areas,” according to real estate analyst Yves LaPierre of Milwaukee’s Department of City Development.
“The $1 lot sales were initiated as a way to fill in the neighborhood — to expand the housing improvements realized by the success of the City Homes development, as well as other new housing in the neighborhood,” LaPierre said.
The Lindsay Heights houses sold out very quickly in 2005 and 2006, noted LaPierre and Kuhs. “We sold them from the models, before we could build them,” Kuhs said.
The $1 lots have been the main source of land for new homes built by Habitat for Humanity, according to executive director Brian Soderman. “We are in the second year of a three-year federal grant to build 100 new houses in city of Milwaukee neighborhoods,” Soderman said. The grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development stipulates where the houses are to be built, based on socio-economic conditions.
Though his organization has not yet built in Lindsay Heights, Soderman said Habitat for Humanity is beginning work on a strategic plan for the next five years. “We recognize the need in Lindsay Heights and it will be given serious consideration in our strategic plan,” he said.
Larry Adams, vice president of the board and environmental steward of Walnut Way, takes a different view of the empty lots scattered through Lindsay Heights. “The founders of Walnut Way deemed it important to have more green space,” Adams said.
“[The empty lots] have allowed us to redefine the space for horticultural and agricultural use,” Adams added. He explained that Walnut Way has planted a peach orchard, and vegetable and flower gardens that are used to teach young people how to grow food.
The city continues to promote the $1 lots through press releases, news stories, e-mails to builders and neighborhood meetings. And Department of City Development Commissioner Rocky Marcoux promotes the lots when he is speaking around town, LaPierre said.
Though the program is currently stalled, LaPierre is optimistic about the future. “There are many opportunities for families who want to build houses in the city,” he said.  “We are just waiting for the economy to recover.”


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The Clean and Green Project is also providing a limited number of materials for group cleanups. For more information contact Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful (kgmb.org) at 272-5462.
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Grants available for children’s medical expenses | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Sharon McGowan
April 18, 2011
Families who need financial assistance for their child’s health care treatments, services or equipment that are not covered or partially covered by their commercial health insurance plans can apply for $5,000 grants from a health insurance company’s nonprofit foundation.
The grants, provided by UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation (UHCCF) can help pay for services and equipment such as physical, occupational and speech therapy, counseling services, surgeries, prescriptions, wheelchairs, orthotics, eyeglasses and hearing aids.
Of the 787 grants UHCCF awarded across the United States last year, Midwest states — including Wisconsin — received grants totaling nearly $1 million.
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To be eligible for a grant, children must be 16 years of age or younger. Families must meet economic guidelines, live in the United States and have a commercial health insurance plan. Grants are available for medical expenses families have incurred 60 days prior to the date they applied, as well as for ongoing and future medical needs. Parents or legal guardians may apply for grants at uhccf.org.


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Silver City residents share vision for future of neighborhood | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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April 24, 2011
Residents of Silver City met with community leaders recently to offer input and learn more about the “quality of life plan” that the neighborhood will develop. Silver City is one of three communities that make up the Layton Boulevard West neighborhoods. The Layton Boulevard West Neighbors community organization was awarded $875,000 over four years as part of the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative to facilitate creation and implementation of the plan. Reporter Edgar Mendez talked to residents after the meeting, which took place at United Church, 2906 W. Scott St., about the issues that are important to them.


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April 25, 2011
Steven Anderson seals up air holes.
At first glance, the house under construction at 2221 S. 18th St. seems like any other new home rising from the ground, but it’s actually the first of its kind. The house, about 65 percent complete, is the first home to be built by participants of the Adult Build program at Milwaukee Christian Center.
The program, run by the Milwaukee Christian Center’s Neighborhood Improvement Project, 1223 S. 23rd St. in Clarke Square, is one of two in the county; the other is located at the Northcott Neighborhood House on the north side. It gives participants the opportunity to learn, hands on, the craft of building a house.
“Of the five or six participants per group, some have no experience, while others have some experience at a certain task, so we partner them up,” said Adult Build Program Manager Tim Twaddle. The second of these crews is now working on prepping the home for insulation.
Each participant takes part in an extensive 16-week job-training program, which teaches construction skills such as math, roofing and carpentry, along with soft skills such as resume writing and the importance of showing up for work every day.
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To participate in the program you must be a Milwaukee resident, at least 24 years old, legally eligible to work in the U.S, and have an interest in construction, according to Twaddle.
Steven Anderson, 33, now in his third month on the job, credits the Adult Built program with helping save his home. “I’ve been looking for a job the last two years while working odds and ends; I was about to lose my home,” said Anderson as he plugs air holes with caulk in the upper floor of the home. Anderson spent 15 years working blacktops before the economy went bad, and more recently, studied civil engineering at UW-Milwaukee, but couldn’t afford to continue. “I thank the Lord for this program,” Anderson said.
Lonnie Leeks, describes the program as “awesome.” “I’ve been waiting for 10 years to get back in this trade,” Leeks said. He learned about the program while job hunting on the Internet. Once he completes the program he intends to remain in the trade, he said.
Twaddle described the program as a jumping off point for participants. “We can’t make someone a carpenter in four months, but the skills they learn can be generalized to trades or other types of employment,” Twaddle said. The program keeps a list of job openings and works with participants to find jobs.
“They helped with my resume, [and] taken us to job fairs; they try to help us find employment but it’s still tough out there,” Anderson said. According to site supervisor Bob Dziewionzkoski, a worker from the current group was recently hired full-time by a dry-wall company.
Dziewionzkoski doesn’t know for sure when the house will be finished, but said that the plumbing, electrical and heating systems are already set. “Once the drywall begins, the process will move much faster; whether we have another crew though will depend on funding,” Dziewionzkoski said.
When the house is completed, it will go on the market, according to Aaron Grant of the Milwaukee Christian Center’s Neighborhood Improvement Project (NIP). All the money from the sale of the home will be reinvested in the Adult Build program, which has local and federal support for one year. Although the housing market is challenging, Grant said, the homes Adult Build constructs are energy efficient and built for families, which should make them easier to sell.
Adult Build home under construction, 2221 S. 18th St.


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Wisconsin march for immigrant and worker rights | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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April 27, 2011
Marchers file down S. Cesar E. Chavez Drive in Clarke Square during the 2010 immigrant rights event
A statewide march for immigrant and worker rights will be held Sunday, May 1, in Milwaukee. Voces de la Frontera, an immigrant rights group, is providing busing to and from the event from cities across Wisconsin including Madison, Racine and Whitewater. The march will culminate in a rally at Veteran’s Park where AFL-CIO national president Richard Trumka and Christine Neuman-Ortiz, director of Voces de la Frontera, will speak.
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1:30 p.m. Assemble at Voces de la Frontera (S. 5th Street and Washington in Milwaukee)
2:00 p.m March to Veteran’s Park
3:00 p.m Rally at Veteran’s Park
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Helmet donation promotes biking safety | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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May 2, 2011
Sharrell Washington, age 7, was fitted for a free helmet. (Photo by Susan Borges Vliet)
One hundred Milwaukee children received free bike helmets recently at an open house at COA Goldin Center, 2320 W. Burleigh St. The event was part of the Habush Habush & Rottier Charitable Foundation’s statewide helmet donation tour to promote biking safety. Researchers have found that wearing a helmet can reduce the severity of brain injury by as much as 88 percent.
Since 1999, the Habush firm’s charitable funds have distributed more than 81,500 bicycle helmets to children throughout Wisconsin. Most of the helmets are distributed at bike safety rodeos and summer safety programs run by police departments and community organizations.


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May 2, 2011
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Do you run a business in Clarke Square, Layton Boulevard West (Silver City, Burnham Park, Layton Park) or Lindsay Heights? If so, you are invited to list your business in one of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service business directories. Click on “Resources” on your community site to submit an entry.


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Thousands march in solidarity | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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May 2, 2011
Waving signs saying “Wisconsin is not Arizona,” “We deserve drivers licenses” and “Dream the American dream,” thousands of marchers make their way to Veterans Park Sunday. (Photo by John Sterr)
Thousands of people, including a large contingent from Clarke Square, marched in support of immigration rights and against Gov. Scott Walker’s budget cuts May 1. The march and rally at Veterans Park, sponsored by immigration rights group Voces de la Frontera, has been held annually in Milwaukee since 2006.
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May 3, 2011


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May 3, 2011


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Photos of refugee families on exhibit at Saint Joseph | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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May 3, 2011
Here, There, and Elsewhere: Refugee Families in Milwaukee, a photo-documentary by John Ruebartsch & Sally Kuzma, is on exhibit at Saint Joseph Hospital through June 3, 2011.
Kuzma, an English-as-a-second-language teacher, collaborated with Ruebartsch, a photographer whose family immigrated to Milwaukee, to create the 30-plus portraits. The exhibit has recently returned to Milwaukee after a showing in Ohio. On display in the hospital‘s ground floor cafeteria, it is free and open to the public.
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Fondy Farmers Market reopens for the season | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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May 4, 2011
Fondy Farmers Market, 2200 West Fond Du Lac Avenue (in Lindsay Heights) reopens for the season on May 7, at 9:00 a.m.


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Earn & Learn: Youth 14-21 eligible for city program to earn wages, acquire skills | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Andrea Waxman
May 9, 2011
Applications for the City of Milwaukee’s Earn & Learn Private Sector Job Connection are now available online. This is part of a program to help young people, ages 14-21, make a successful transition to adulthood by providing opportunities to develop work-readiness skills while they earn wages working in private sector businesses. There is no application deadline.
Click here for an application.
For more information call 414-270-7550.
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Five markers to welcome residents, visitors to Clarke Square | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Edgar Mendez
May 9, 2011
Community leaders recently got a sneak peak of the first of five nearly completed gateway markers for Clarke Square.  A date for the markers’ installation has not been set yet, but the plan is to install all five on the same day, according to Manni Marquez, director of the Clarke Square Zilber Neighborhood Initiative (ZNI).
The markers will be placed throughout Clarke Square to “demonstrate pride in the neighborhood’s diverse cultures and attractions,” according to the ZNI-Clarke Square Quality of Life Plan.
They are made of corten steel, a material that self-rusts quickly, giving it a dark brown color that never needs to be painted, according to Jeff Hojnacki, co-owner of Ascend Design of Milwaukee. The markers are being fabricated by Ascend Design and C R Industries Inc. of Cudahy, Wis.
Benito Valencia, 22, grinds a plate for the marker.
Shown in the map are the proposed locations for the five gateway markers in Clarke Square according to the blueprints.
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Latino health forum set for May 12 | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Sharon McGowan
May 9, 2011
The Milwaukee Latino Health Coalition sponsors a free public forum from 3:30-5 p.m. Thursday, May 12 on “Taking Action for Latino Health: Making New Rules for Life in the City.” Participants will look at the impact of WE Energies’ Valley power plant on the lives of nearby residents and find out about a campaign to clean the plant. The event will be held at Church and Chapel, 1910 W. Becher St. For more information, contact Masiel Gomez.


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Renderings reveal potential locations for Packers field at Mitchell Park | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Edgar Mendez
May 9, 2011
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Plans have not finalized and there are other options, according to Manni Marquez, director of the Clarke Square Zilber Neighborhood Initiative, but two possibilities include installing the field on top of what were once the sunken gardens or where the soccer fields are currently located.
Sunken gardens location – view from W. Pierce St.
Aerial view of sunken gardens location
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Teen committee urges support for smoking prevention programs | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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May 9, 2011
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The Tobacco Teen Advisory committee of UMOS educates other teens about the dangers of smoking. UMOS is a nonprofit organization that provides programs and services for underserved populations. Two members of the committee submitted letters to NNS supporting tobacco prevention programs.
My name is Cristina Cervantes and I am a high school student and member of the Wisconsin Hispanic/Latino Tobacco Prevention FACT group. I am writing this to inform and motivate readers to support tobacco prevention programs. My concerns are about teens using cigarettes and other tobacco products, as I want to help my community by make it a better place for everyone.
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My biggest problem with tobacco is seeing how many teens smoke each day, even when it is illegal, and not caring about their health. I have seen many young teens each year that end up on the wrong path. Not supporting our tobacco prevention programs will most definitely increase the number of teens using tobacco. There are many teens out there that seem to really not know the harm of tobacco and not having prevention programs would just make this worse.
Education is the best method to prevent people using tobacco products and it wouldn’t be right to not have education available for our community.
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My name is Noel Ortiz. I would like to inform you about the effects tobacco has on the teens in my community. I am writing this letter because I believe it is important to maintain tobacco prevention programs, so we can keep on giving our best to make our community a tobacco free environment. I am part of the Wisconsin Hispanic/Latino Tobacco Prevention FACT group, where I have learned that there are a lot of teens in my community that use tobacco.
One of the biggest problems is that now in our community somewhere or somehow the teens manage to get hold of tobacco at a very early age. That is not good at all and I know this because some of my friends have been smoking since the age of 14 and they are now 16. They are not able to quit and that’s a shame, especially for the age that they are. Parents do not want this for their kids. Once I get older and have kids, I would most definitely not want my children to be addicted to tobacco.
I realize this problem because every other day that I see young teens smoking and using many types of tobacco. In fact, I have experienced how teens can have access to different tobacco products when I participated in a project with the Teen Tobacco Committee. We went to several convenience stores and attempted to buy cigarettes and Black n Milds. A couple of stores actually sold us tobacco and didn’t even ask for ID. Knowing that teens can have access to tobacco really devastates me. I am going to keep on trying my best to save my peers and younger teens from smoking and getting lung cancer, or losing their loved ones at an early age.
These are some of the specific reasons that we need your support for tobacco prevention, to keep on educating more teens before they become victims of tobacco.
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For more information about tobacco prevention programs, visit these websites:
UMOS
The Wisconsin Hispanic/Latino Tobacco Prevention Network (Facebook page)
Fight with FACT (Fighting Against Corporate Tobacco)

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Spring planting begins at Alice’s Garden | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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May 11, 2011
Jeff Rainwater plants shallot sets at Alice’s Garden in Lindsay Heights. Photo by Susan Borges Vliet.
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Learn about ‘growing local’ | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Sharon McGowan
May 12, 2011
Outpost Natural Foods and Urban Ecology Center are sponsoring “Grow Local Milwaukee—Celebrate Urban Gardening!” from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 15 at the center, 1500 E. Park Pl. in Riverside Park. Participating organizations include Eat Local Challenge/Eat Local Milwaukee, Farm Fresh Atlas of Southeastern Wisconsin, Gardens Not Garbage, Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, Kellner’s Greenhouse, Milwaukee Urban Gardens, Victory Garden Initiative and Walnut Way Conservation Corp. A $5 donation is requested, but children under 12 are free. For more information, contact Nicole Lightwine, (414) 264-2326.


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Frank Lloyd Wright lives at Burnham Street and Layton Boulevard | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Andrea Waxman
May 16, 2011
Milwaukee is receiving a lot of attention from fans of America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. The Milwaukee Art Museum just closed a major three-month Wright exhibit. And Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin is sponsoring a celebration of the architect and his contemporaries with a home tour June 10-12. But did you know that you can see Frank Lloyd Wright houses every day on the South Side of Milwaukee? If you didn’t, you’re not alone.


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Sounds of Summer come to Silver City | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Jim McGowan
May 16, 2011
Sounds of Summer is an outdoor live music series featuring a mix of alternative, pop, Latin and rock music. Concerts are held the third Wednesday of each month, May through August, in Arlington Heights Park, on south 35th St. between Pierce St. and National Ave. The first concert is planned for 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18. Sponsoring organizations include Silver City Main Street, Layton Boulevard West Neighbors, P&H Mining Equipment, Harnischfeger’s Employees Assn. and WMSE 91.7. Contact Beth Haskovec at 414-380-4680 for more information.


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Housing Coordinator announced for Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Edgar Mendez
May 17, 2011
Veronica Ortiz (30), Housing Coordinator for Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative
Fresh from her job at the neighborhood development department at the United Community Center in Milwaukee, Veronica Ortiz, 30, was named the housing coordinator for the Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative. Ortiz, born in Puerto Rico, spent time during her childhood living on Milwaukee’s south side before moving to Pennsylvania, where she studied accounting, and eventually finishing at CDM Institute in New Jersey.
Ortiz’s duties include working with first-time homebuyers, preventing foreclosures and facilitating financial resources for homeowners looking to repair their homes among other tasks. But, Ortiz said that her first goal as coordinator is to get out and meet the residents. “I need to let Clarke Square residents know that I am here and that there is free help available to them,” Ortiz added.
Ortiz is filling a position that has been open for months. Her ultimate goal is to help beautify and improve the image of Clarke Square, at the same time decreasing crime, she said. “Obviously that happens by having responsible and caring homeowners living in the neighborhood.”
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Sharon McGowan
May 24, 2011
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Brown Street Academy students carefully plant strawberries as part of the Junior Master Gardeners program at Alice’s Garden. Eight classes from kindergarten through 5 grade are participating in the program, part of the University of Wisconsin Extension network.
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May 24, 2011
The first-ever Lindsay Heights Academic Olympics will be held Saturday, June 4 at Hopkins Street School, 1503 W. Hopkins. The event is sponsored by the Lindsay Heights Children’s Success Coalition. For more information, contact Mario Hall via email or by calling 414-264-2326.


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Happy spring from Walnut Way | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Nicole Lightwine
May 25, 2011
Photo by Walnut Way
Way submitted this photo with the following message: “Our peach blossoms were beautiful. The bees are buzzing and our gardens are being planted. Enjoy the photo or stop on by! Happy Spring!”
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All Well Neighborhood Night: What’s Cooking? | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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May 28, 2011


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Lindsay Heights captures awards for design excellence | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Andrea Waxman
May 30, 2011
Two Lindsay Heights projects are among the 22 citywide winners of the 2011 Mayor’s Design Awards, presented by Mayor Tom Barrett.
Alice’s Garden, 2001 W. Garfield Ave., in Johnsons Park, won for its soil remediation, community gardens, gathering places and yoga garden.
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(See related stories: Alice’s Garden, Alice’s Garden wins prestigious MANDI award)
Photo by Susan Borges Vliet
Walnut Way House, 2205 N. 16th St., won for the Walnut Way Conservation Corps’ historically sensitive restoration of the vacant, uninhabitable house and for work that promoted neighborhood involvement by residents.
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Menomonee Valley Passage tapped for design award | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Andrea Waxman
May 30, 2011
Menomonee Valley Passage, a pedestrian bridge at 37th and Pierce Streets on the north edge of Layton Boulevard West, is among the 22 citywide winners of the 2011 Mayor’s Design Awards, presented by Mayor Tom Barrett.
The passage won for better connecting many residents to the Menomonee Valley, creating a trailhead for an extension to the Hank Aaron State Trail, and for its rain gardens and vegetative buffers to manage storm water.
(See related story: Silver City stewardship crews take on valley passage)
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Clarke Square homes ‘brushed with kindness’ | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Edgar Mendez
May 31, 2011
A house on the 2000 block of W. Mineral St. is in the process of being rehabbed.
Four Clarke Square residences were rehabbed recently at no cost to homeowners as Habitat for Humanity’s “A Brush With Kindness” program (ABWK) made its way to the neighborhood for the third year in a row.
“We’re fixing up homes in the area, all needing a varying degree of repairs ranging from paint, new windows, security doors to roofing and other projects,” said ABWK project coordinator, Aaron Helt, 27, as his crew members gathered materials for a porch they’re building.
Helt, who’s been working with Habitat for Humanity for three years, says the group typically has a crew of about 60 volunteers for the projects, which take a week to complete.
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The program, funded by the Zilber Family Foundation and the Margaret S. Chester Revocable Trust with paint donated by the Valspar Corporation, helps bring homes up to code by providing home improvements and repairs at no cost, according to Habitat for Humanity’s website.
Mike Moran (back), 69, and Scott Celsor, 45, prepare lumber for a new porch.
To be eligible, residents must be low-income homeowners, and live within the boundaries of the Lindsay Heights, Harambee, Clarke Square or Layton Boulevard West neighborhoods.
According to Philip Cauble, 23, who moved to Milwaukee from Atlanta as an AmeriCorps volunteer placed with Habitat for Humanity,” We’re saving the homeowners about $4,000 each in repair work.”
After receiving a referral from Journey House, the ABWK crew shows up at the chosen home, prepared to knock out repairs from an ample to-do list.
Wendy Rosales, 60, was one of the homeowners chosen this year. Rosales, who is disabled, says that she’s grateful to the volunteers for coming in and doing the work she’s physically unable to do. Along with painting her porch, the crews are repairing her gutters and installing new windows, according to Rosales.
“I’m ecstatic that these men are here doing me such a huge favor,” Rosales said.
Willy Rozanski, 21, paints a porch on the 1000 block of S. 21st Street in Clarke Square.


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Layton Boulevard West Neighbors to unveil Quality of Life Plan topics | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Sharon McGowan
June 3, 2011
Silver City, Burnham Park and Layton Park residents and others who are interested in the future of these neighborhoods will gather June 8 to learn what topics will be addressed in the Layton Boulevard West Quality of Life Plan. They also will be invited to get involved in the planning process during the summer.
LBWN has spent the last few months collecting input and information from neighbors and other stakeholders to inform the planning process. This input gave the organization a sense of how neighbors see their community today and what they want it to be in the near future. The Quality of Life Plan being developed by LBWN will outline the steps and actions necessary to take the neighborhood from where it is now to the vision that neighbors have for their community.
“At the conclusion of the meeting LBWN will be looking for neighbors and other stakeholders who are interested in developing strategies for each topic area,” according to Daniel Adams, Neighborhood Plan Coordinator. Sign up sheets with dates and times for workgroup meetings and visioning sessions will be available at the meeting.
LBWN is a part of the Zilber Neighborhood Initiative and the Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative, a partnership between the city’s Neighborhood Improvement Development Corp. (NIDC) and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
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Outdoor yoga for early risers | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Jim McGowan
June 6, 2011
Outdoor yoga classes are being offered at 6:45 a.m. every Wednesday in June along the Hank Aaron State Trail, just west of the 35th St. viaduct. Each class is $5 per participant, and those interested should bring mats. In the event of rain, class will meet in the lunch room of Taylor Dynamometer, 3602 W. Wheelhouse Rd.
Proceeds support ongoing  restoration of Menomonee Valley. For more information, click here. To RSVP, contact Tim Brown by email or by calling (414) 274-4661.
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Bring your own mat | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Sharon McGowan
June 9, 2011
Early risers can get some exercise and help restore the Menomonee Valley by participating in yoga classes every Wednesday in June. Led by instructor Annie Melchior, the classes cost only $5 per week. Proceeds will be donated to improve the valley. Classes take place from 6:45 – 7:45 a.m. at Canal Street, under the 35th Street viaduct. For more information or to participate, click here.
(Photos by Sue Vliet)
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June 16, 2011


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Fondy Farmers Market opens | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Jim McGowan
June 20, 2011
The Fondy Farmers Market kicks off from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 25 with family activities including live entertainment from local performers, cooking demonstrations and kids’ face painting. The market will also host its 4th annual BBQ Cook-Off with grand prizes of $400 in each category – ribs and chicken. For more information and to register, email Lisa Kingery or call 414-562-2282.
For more information about the market opening, contact Jenni Reinke, market manager, via email or by calling 414-933-8121 (market) or 414-562-2282 (administrative office).


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Local artists showcase talents in Clarke Square | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Edgar Mendez
June 20, 2011
Hecho en Milwaukee, an art collaborative fundraiser sponsored by the Milwaukee Mijas, was held recently at Mitchell Park. The Milwaukee Mijas is a collective of women artists and performers who seek to encourage and support one another and other artists throughout the community, according to the group’s Facebook page. The event showcased local artists in the fields of paint, graffiti, dance and song. All proceeds from the fundraiser went towards the Milwaukee Mijas-Mariposa scholarship fund. The recipient of the first scholarship was Stephanie Melendrez Valdez of Milwaukee.


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Walnut Way’s Sharon Adams appears on MPTV | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Dwayne Burtin
June 21, 2011
Sharon Adams, co-founder of Walnut Way Conservation Corp. (second from left), joins host Raul Vasquez; Rocky Marcoux, development commissioner, City of Milwaukee; Christine Harris, president and executive director, Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee; and Mario Costantini, Riverwest community activist, on Milwaukee Public Television’s 4th Street Forum.
Watch the video to learn more about the assets and the heartbeat of our “solution-driven city.“
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2011 Parents of the Year Luncheon | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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June 22, 2011


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June 22, 2011


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Off and Running: Nonprofit neighborhood news service starts to find readers | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
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June 23, 2011
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Art for kids—on wheels | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Jim McGowan
June 27, 2011
The A.W.E. Fleet of Imagination travels to 19 Milwaukee park and playground sites to provide free art activities such as painting, sculpture and fabric  arts for kids ages 4 to 14. The program runs from 1-4 p.m. weekdays from June 27 to Aug. 5 (no  program on July 4th). Sponsor is Artists Working in Education, Inc. (A.W.E.).
For more information, contact A.W.E. at (414) 933-3877.


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Healthy Neighborhood Celebration! | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Andrea Waxman
June 28, 2011


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Reimagining Pierce Street | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Jim McGowan
June 28, 2011
Layton Boulevard West Neighbors (LBWN) will convene a meeting to discuss residents’ vision for the Pierce Street Corridor (32nd Street to 39th Street) from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, June 28 in the Silver City Townhomes meeting room, 3507 W. Pierce St. The session will focus on the Urban Ecology Center, Hank Aaron State Trail, Silver City Townhomes and other projects.
For more information, email Dan Adams or call (414) 383-9038 ext. 2305.


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Backyard BBQ Mixer & Open House | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Andrea Waxman
June 29, 2011


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Centro Legal’s 2011 silent auction | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Andrea Waxman
June 29, 2011


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Girls First | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Andrea Waxman
June 29, 2011


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South Side street cleanup | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Jim McGowan
June 29, 2011
This week’s South Side street cleanup will cover Greenfield Avenue from 1st Street to 16th Street, from 3-5 p.m. Wednesday, June 29. The cleanups are sponsored by Hope House, True Skool, Safe & Sound and 12th District Supervisor Peggy West.
For more information, contact Peggy West at (414) 278.4269; Jamal Gibson at (414) 915.3731; Maria Sandoval at (414) 788.1912; or Sarah Patterson at (414) 975.4130.


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Fireworks to light up Milwaukee sky this weekend | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Edgar Mendez
June 30, 2011
Photo by Beige Alert
Looking for a place to watch fireworks this weekend? Below is a list of nearby locations hosting Fourth of July fireworks celebrations.
July 3, 2011
US Bank Fireworks at the Lakefront (9:25 p.m.)
July 4, 2011
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Mitchell Park (Clarke Square)
2200 W. Pierce St.
Jackson Park
3500 W. Forest Home Ave.
Lake Park
3233 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Washington Park
1859 N. 40 St.
Click for specific details on parade information and entertainment schedules at each park.


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Milwaukee Recreation plans summer arts camps | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Jim McGowan
June 30, 2011
Milwaukee Recreation has scheduled three one-week arts camp offerings bringing young students together with local teaching artists. Camps for those ages 8-12 will be held from 9 a.m. to noon weekdays July 11-15; for ages 13-16, 9 a.m. to noon weekdays July 18-22. All camps will be held at Juneau High School, 6415 W. Mt. Vernon Ave.
Planned camps include:
The cost is  $30 for Milwaukee residents and $45 for non-residents.  Visit www.milwaukeerecreation.net for information or to register online.
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