I have four great (field level) seats available for tonight’s Milwaukee Brewers game.
Want them? All I ask is a contribution to one of the organizations helping victims of yesterday’s Boston bombings.
Here is a list of organizations. Your call as to how much to donate.
If you’re interested, post a comment below. And I’ll get you the tickets this evening.
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Just got this from the South Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce …
I encourage you to attend. It’s a great event to honor people making a real difference in local business. And the food is good too.
Spring Social & Awards Dinner – April 19 at Salvatore’s
The reservation deadline to attend the South Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce Spring Social & Awards Dinner has been extended. If you are interested in attending, but have not made a reservation, please contact the SM Chamber office by 10am on Wednesday, April 17. The event begins at 6pm with the Silent Auction/Cash Bar, Dinner at 7pm, Awards Program at 8:15pm. The cost is $25/person to attend.
Here is a post on last year’s event.
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Update: The South Milwaukee Public Library is offering paper shredding from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
The city’s annual Earth Day cleanup is Saturday, April 27, at various sites around town.
The details are essentially unchanged from last year, with the cleanup running from 9 a.m. to noon at most locations. A hot dog lunch is set for noon at City Hall.
Not sure where to help or how to start? I’ll put a plug in for the Friends of Oak Creek and the Mill Pond, which recently put this call out for volunteers …
We’ll meet down at Grant Park Beach house to sign in and pickup vest, gloves, bags and water. If you have boots that would be great, bring an extra pair of socks or shoes in case you get wet. If any students come from you classes, packs or groups, we’d like to have some responsible adults along also. We start at 8:00am and work till 12 noon. We’ll meet down at Grant Park Beach house to sign in and pickup vest, gloves, bags and water. If you have boots that would be great, bring an extra pair of socks or shoes in case you get wet. If any students come from you classes, packs or groups, we’d like to have some responsible adults along also. We start at 8:00am and work till 12 noon.
See you there!
Also planned for April 27: a drug “take-back day” sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and South Milwaukee Police Department. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day, police will be accepting, anonymously, unwanted or expired medicines.
That’s 200,000, as in the number of page views South Milwaukee Blog has tallied since I launched it in October of 2009.
The blog passed the milestone earlier today, and I want to thank you.
This website is nothing without its readers … and I appreciate your continued support. We may not agree on everything, or anything, but I still hope you find this website informative — a source of South Milwaukee news and information you can’t get anywhere else. I am excited about what the future holds for the blog. I hope you are too.
My ask: Please tell your family and friends about the site. And on to 300,000!
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Fox 6 has touching story from South Milwaukee about the importance of organ donation. From it …
It was July 6th, 2005 when Vicki Maloney received that phone call, telling her Alyssa, who was 22 at the time, had been in a terrible car accident.
As Alyssa was on life support in the hospital, officials had to ask Maloney the difficult question about donating her daughter’s organs.
“We knew because of the life she led, very caring and giving, that that’s what she would’ve wanted to do,” Maloney said.
With April marking National Donate Life Month, Maloney is urging people to follow in her daughter’s footsteps and register to be a donor.
I’ll be spending most of my Saturday helping out at the South Milwaukee Spring Market, as more than 60 vendors gather at South Milwaukee High School for what promises to be a terrific event.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., so why not stop by, do some shopping, grab lunch from one of our prepared food vendors and listen to some live music in our new seating area?
Sounds like a good time to me …
Learn more from our press release, and please “like” us on our new Facebook page.
The Milwaukee Journal has a story on Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman’s remarks this week before an Illinois business group, where he called for relaxed immigration laws to make it easier to attract workers — this after Cat announced last week it was laying of up to 300 people at its South Milwaukee plant.
From the story:
Caterpillar has seen foreign workers it trained in the United States leave for overseas competitors because they couldn’t get visas to stay in this country, Oberhelman said. And companies worldwide are scrambling to find engineers and scientists.
“When we recruit engineers from the University of Illinois, Purdue, Texas A&M, Stanford or wherever, we want the brightest talent. I really don’t care if that person was born in Chicago or India or England. I want that talent working for Caterpillar, not one of those competitors around the world,” Oberhelman said, according to a transcript of the speech he delivered Monday.
Also, Fox 6 was in South Milwaukee this week taking a closer look at the potential impact of the looming layoffs, as contract talks begin. The verdict — much remains to be seen. I’ll keep you posted.
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Just a reminder …
A sure-to-be-interesting public information meeting on the restructuring of county government is set for Thursday at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center. Led by Pat Jursik and featuring state Rep. Joe Sanfelippo and others, it runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Learn more here … and see you there!
Get a preview of the South Milwaukee Downtown Market’s fifth season — it’s hard to believe it’s been that long — with our next indoor Spring Market on Saturday, April 6, at the South Milwaukee High School Commons.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
More than 50 vendors are expected selling arts, crafts, organics, baked goods, prepared foods and more. And there will be live entertainment presented by the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center throughout the day.
Our Christmas Market at the high school was a big hit, and we expect this event to be the same. See you there!
And if you haven’t already, please like our new market Facebook page here … and ask your friends to do the same. We’ve dumped our clunky “group” setting for a more traditional look.
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The South Milwaukee Lions Club and Friends of the Mill Pond have a special event planned for Saturday, March 23: a pancake breakfast, followed by an Easter egg hunt.
Both events are at the Grobschmidt Senior Center, 2424 15th Ave.
The breakfast starts at 8:30 a.m., the egg hunt at 11.
Learn more on NOW.
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Here’s a unique sports team fundraiser — a Beatles concert.
OK, it’s not the Beatles. It’s a local Beatles tribute band called Liverpool ’64, and it promises to be a fun night when they play on Saturday, April 6, at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center. Showtime is 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $13 for adults and $9 for high schoolers and younger. A bake sale, raffles and performances from the South Milwaukee High School swim team are also planned.
Learn more in this flyer. Here is the band’s website.
Filed under Community, Schools, South Milwaukee PAC, Sports
YouTube is a wonderful thing, isn’t it?
Several months ago, I saw a couple of videos linked on NOW apparently showing South Milwaukee from 1932.
I wasn’t sure if they were legitimate or not, but, with images from up and down Milwaukee Avenue and across the city, they sure appear to be. And they’re pretty cool. What a great time capsule!
So I share the links here and here. They’re pretty long — 10 minutes each — but well worth watching.
It says they were produced for showing at the Garden Theatre. Does anyone know the history of that theater? And does anyone remember the Welbes Dairy in town, or the Eagle Soft Drink Company? Or Pete’s Palm Garden, or the Avalon Tavern, or Kaplanek’s, among the many bars shown in the piece? How about the A. Molthen Funeral Home, or George Logic’s chiropractic studio? And what about Panoff’s tailoring shop, and Saxler’s Clothing? Those are just a few of the dozens places (and faces) in these videos.
Of course, I’d be interested to see what you notice in them. Post your comments below!
h/t to Ron Wieselman and Mary Johnson for sharing
Congratulations to South Milwaukee’s Bernice Czarnezki, who will be the guest of honor at the 128th Air Refueling Wing Civic Dinner Dance on May 16.
It’s a major award, and well deserved. Congratulations, Bernice!
Here are event details from the South Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce …
The South Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that Bernice Czarnezki has been selected as South Milwaukee’s honored citizen to be recognized at the annual 128th Civic Dinner Dance. The event will be held on May 16, 2013 at the 128th Air Refueling Wing, 1835 East Grange Avenue in Milwaukee.
The Civic Dinner Dance is presented by the 128th Air Refueling Wing–Wisconsin Air National Guard in association with the communities of Cudahy, Oak Creek, St. Francis, and South Milwaukee. Tickets ($30/person) for the event are now available — advance sale only. Show your support and plan on attending this wonderful event! Congratulations Bernice!
Learn more about Bernice here. It’s from a page devoted to the 2011 Milwaukee County Senior Hall of Fame, another terrific honor for this “model volunteer” and community icon.
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The South Milwaukee Health Department and South Milwaukee School District are partnering to offer a Child Development Day for children ages 2-5 and their parents.
It’s this Saturday, March 16, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Lakeview Elementary School gymnasium, 711 Marion Ave.
Educational screenings will be offered, and parents will have a chance to interact with personnel from the Health Department, school district, Head Start and local preschool and child care centers.
It’s a great chance for families to learn more about all the community resources available when it comes to early childhood development — and there are lots of them — as well as information on normal growth and development for those 5 and under.
Learn more in this flyer … and thanks ahead of time to our Health Department and schools for putting on this important event.
The South Milwaukee Music Parents Association is promoting a number of student musical performances starting tonight and running through March 23.
South Milwaukee NOW has all the details about “March Music Madness.”
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