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Twenty area children’s charities were randomly chosen to participate in Heart of Canal Street, the organizations will share the fund-raising total announced on December 16. Since 1994, Potawatomi Hotel & Casino has provided meals for hungry children, safe places to stay, supplemented youth education and much more through its signature community program, Heart of Canal Street. Twenty-three years later, Heart of Canal Street continues to help fund the missions of 31 local children’s charities annually. Twenty of those organizations from around southeastern Wisconsin were randomly selected Tuesday to benefit from the property’s annual program. “We couldn’t be more pleased...

Holiday Hoopla brings together live music and ice skating in the heart of downtown by Milwaukee City Hall. Holiday Hoopla will kick off the ice-skating season at Slice of Ice, the refrigerated rink in Red Arrow Park, Dec. 15, from 4-7 p.m. The downtown park is located at 920 N. Water Street. Holiday Hoopla, presented through the partnership of Milwaukee County Parks and WaterStone Bank, will bring together photo opportunities, live music, giveaways, and ice skating if the weather allows the ice to be built. The event will go on with or without ice. “We’re excited to celebrate the...

U.S. Cellular launched a holiday giving program to highlight selfless acts of service by youth in communities across America, and a Milwaukee youth who encourages teens to be purposeful leaders was selected. U.S. Cellular announced that Ryan Graham of Teens Grow Greens is one of six young humanitarians selected to receive support from the 2016 The Future of Good program. The wireless carrier will celebrate exceptional youth by giving them a voice to amplify the good they’ve done in their communities and a unique donation to help each continue building The Future of Good. Graham is one of six...

MCTS and County Executive Chris Abele honor Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks with headlight tribute and reserved bus seat. The Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) will keep a seat open and the headlights shining on its entire fleet on Thursday, December 1, 2016, to honor the life of Rosa Parks and her contribution to equal rights. Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 1, 1955. Her small act of civil disobedience led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that outlawed segregation on public transportation. “This country was...

As the first-of-its-kind program in the nation, a multifaceted city partnership is aimed at the opioid and heroin epidemic, includes CVS Pharmacy, MMSD, City of Cudahy, DOJ, DEA, US Bank, and USPS. The Drug Mail Back Program, according to Alderman Bohl, is a voluntary first-of-its-kind partnership linking government and private entities in an effort to reduce the chances of unused or unwanted prescription drugs from adding to the area’s and the nation’s deadly heroin and opioid abuse epidemic. “The epidemic knows no boundaries, and is indiscriminate in taking the lives of people across all social and economic classes,” Alderman...

Analysis from city’s new partnership with Medical College of Wisconsin also shows growing prevalence of fentanyl in overdose cases. Building on a report from the office of Alderman Michael J. Murphy, an analysis of opioid overdose dеаths conducted by the Medical College of Wisconsin shows Milwaukee County is on pace to significantly eclipse last year’s figure of 231 heroin and opiate overdose dеаths. Through September 24 of this year, the updated report (attached) shows 191 people fell victim to opioid overdoses, compared to 176 by the same time in 2015. If overdose dеаths continue at this rate in Milwaukee...