Photo Essay: 88Nine gifts gigantic mural to Central City
88Nine RadioMilwaukee and Penfield Children’s Center celebrated the completion of the Near West Side’s newest mural on September 14.
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Author: Lee Matz
Key to Change meters to aid in ending chronic homelessness
“Give people a place to feel safe. Everyone, not just some people. And then provide them with the wraparound services that they need for rehabilitation, for job training, for job placement. All the support they need to feel like they also have a place in this community.” – Beth Weirick, CEO of Milwaukee Downtown, BID #21. In cities across the country, parking meters have been repurposed to end chronic homelessness, and on September 13 Milwaukee joined that effort, to implement a community-giving program through meter donations. Key to Change includes seven coin parking meters along Wisconsin Avenue. Led by...
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Photo Essay: Indian Summer Festival celebrates Native culture
The Indian Summer Festival presented its 31st year of traditional and contemporary Native culture at the lakefront over the September 8 weekend. The festival included annual favorites and family-friendly attractions such as the competition pow wow, choreographed fireworks, and traditional Native American performers. Cultural craft workshops were presented throughout the weekend, with the return of canoe rides by popular demand. New to the festival this year was a plant walk at Lakeshore Park, with a walking tour led by Lakeshore Park naturalists. American Indian artists also displayed works in a variety of media during the Circle of Art show,...
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Photo Essay: 9/11 tribute at Milwaukee War Memorial Center
Milwaukee held a memorial ceremony in remembrance of the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy along Lake Michigan. Local and state leaders, military officials and veterans, police and fire department members, and the Milwaukee community honored the victims of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks at the Milwaukee War Memorial Center. “What was attacked that day was not just the people in the building. What was attacked was all of us,” said Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele. “Today we remember, and we honor their sacrifice. Today we remember the first responders going in when other people ran out.” During...
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Investment continues in Milwaukee’s Central City with new Town Bank branch
Hartland-based Town Bank opened its newest branch at 4720 W. Lisbon Avenue on September 7. The Lisbon Avenue location on Milwaukee northwest side is a busy traffic corridor, surrounded by a number of small businesses that Town Bank wants to serve. “Some people, not a lot but some people, have asked why? Why invest here? And I say why not? The history of this area has strong and very active neighbors, and businesses that they’ve been here a long time,” said Joaquin J. Altoro, Vice President of Commercial Banking at Town Bank. “Town Bank is a financial institution that...
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Remembering Charlottesville, Milwaukee stands up to anti-Muslim hate
The anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim organization ACT for America, which calls itself “The NRA of national security,” announced nearly 70 rallies in three dozen states, including one in Milwaukee on September 9.
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