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Emerging leaders to learn real-world organizing skills from new program. Victory Garden Initiative recently announced an entirely unique learning and professional growth experience. The 2017 Food Leader Certificate Program begins January 28, 2017 and is an extensive certification program that equips emerging leaders with project management, community organization, and team leadership skills, all in the context of food system realities, growing nutritious, healthy food, and leading food projects in their communities. Food Leader participants: Lead a personally developed food system project that impacts individuals and communities. Develop as a leader by practicing leadership, project planning and management, and team...

As a revival of an old custom, the bells of Milwaukee rang in unison at Midnight on New Year’s Eve as a message of peace. The regional event was in part due to the efforts of The Bells of Milwaukee, Inc., an IRS tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation founded by Russell Klisch, the President and Owner of Lakefront Brewery. Klisch founded the organization to counter a recent New Year’s practice of celebrating the turn of the year by the firing of guns. “Once people start hearing bells, they will want to hear bells instead of gunshots. That’s our hope,” Klisch says....

MCTS offering free rides to celebrations, and WisDOT shares advice for avoiding traffic problems on New Year’s Eve. Say goodbye to 2016, and hello to 2017, with Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) and Miller Lite Free Rides on New Year’s Eve. This marks the 29th year of the public service program. Thanks to Miller Lite, free MCTS bus rides will begin at 8:00 pm on Saturday, Dec. 31, with routes running until the end of regularly scheduled service. Several popular bus routes will have extended service until 4:00 am. Extended routes (GoldLine, GreenLine, BlueLine, Routes 14, 15, 19, 21,...

We were certain that we simply could not lose. Or so we thought. We had an unbeatable combination: a fully-vetted Big Data tech platform powered by two successful marketing careers, client case studies, plus assists on major sales calls from our partners. We would be ‘first-in’ and exclusive to our region, the entire Midwest. Also, my business partner and I had known each other for years. We were not worried about the prospect of putting our shoulders to the collective grindstone, because we clearly saw light at the end of the tunnel. We also had what is not exactly...

Marquette University has acquired one of only 1,500 first edition, first printing copies of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, published in 1937, to add to its J.R.R. Tolkien Collection. The copy of the children’s fantasy novel, obtained by the Department of Special Collections and University Archives, features artwork drawn by Tolkien himself. The Hobbit was published on Sept. 21, 1937, by George Allen & Unwin to wide critical acclaim and is recognized as a classic in children’s literature. The first printing sold out before the end of 1937. Other printings were made by Allen & Unwin in 1937 and...

Twelve entrepreneurs from Aldermanic District 15 presented their business plans to a panel of investors, lawyers and mentors. Big dreams met with even bigger opportunities at the North Side Milwaukee Business Incubator held December 8. Entrepreneurs pitched more than a dozen enterprising ideas at the workshop hosted by St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care, in collaboration with Alderman Russell W. Stamper II and the Marketplace Business Improvement District 32. “We were very impressed with the quality of business ideas brought forth by people in the neighborhood,” said John Jansen, coordinator of the event, held at St. Ann Center’s Bucyrus...