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JUNE 2021 CALENDAR 1 TUESDAY ALL PEOPLES CHURCH PRODUCE STAND 2nd & Clarke Streets Food Pantry, Produce Stand 12 noon - 5pm BREMEN CAFÉ Karaoke w Trixie Mercury NORTHCOTT NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE 2460 N 6th St, Food/Clothing Pantry (NorthcottHouse.org) for 53212 zipcode only 11am-2pm PINK HOUSE Keep it Simple! KIS Yoga 6pm RIVERWEST FOOD PANTRY (St. Casimir site) w924 E Clarke, For residents of 53202, 53203, 53211, 53212 and 53217 zip codes, 4-6pm It’s Back, Current’s Monthly p12 & p13 It’s Back, Sunday July 18. Ad. p10 FREE! News You Can Use • Riverwest, Harambee and The East Side Vol 20 Issue 6 JUNE 2021 Page 6 & Page 7 Brewer’s Hill Walk & Blue Star Cafe Page 8 Milwaukee, Big Dogs Garden Park, on the mend, tables being fixed, lawn being mowed, community pulling together. Page 9 & Page 10 Spotlight - Paul Druecke & The Daily Bird Page 11 Count Like Caligula Editor: E.Owan (C) 2021 Ohwanplay LLC Across 12345 6789101112 Down 1. 4010 29. 3012 13 14 1. 4500 24. 3700 6. 4700 30. 3601 2. 4100 25. 4810 15 16 Life goes on, Riverwest yard near the river, by Peg Karpfinger13. 4001 31. 3002 3. 4200 26. 3210 Page 3 17 18 19 By Tree Moore 14. 4310 32. 3300 4. 3864 27. 4710 15. 4005 33. 2505 20 21 22 5. 14 28. 3115 s the sunrise wakes me up a tad sooner every morning, and the evening meal is Page 14 post-poned until sunset, many of us are trembling with fear and excitement16. as to4850 34. 2880 6. 3102 29. 4610 Awhich way our present world will turn, taking us with it. 23 24 17. 2400 38. 1600 7. 3051 30. 2565 18. 2660 39. 770 25 26 2510 Page 4 8. 32. 2112 OWL (Older.Wiser.Local) is a program & created to serve, enlighten and educate area 19. 155 40. 35 27 28 9. 1200 34. 1121 seniors (50 and up). OWL is sponsored by the 20. 828 41. 885 10. 872 35. 36 Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, along with 29 30 Bader Philanthropies. 22. 1061 43. 1022 11. 385 36. 23 23. 303 44. 334 31 32 12. 147 37. 18 Page 5 Save Aung San Suu Kyi - Save Myanmar Page 15 24. 2021 45. 1017 33 Riverwest Currents 34 35 36 37 14. 2503 PO Box 716 39. 561 25. 1108 46. 38 Milwaukee, WI 53201-0716 16. 2008 42. 115 38 39 40 26. 2521 47. 108 18. 1093 43. 2100 27. 2053 41 42 43 21. 98 28. 3104 44 45 22. 2885 46 47 2 JUNE 2021 Revitalizing My muse lost its fuse; * Medicare a sally down the alley & Insurance PHYSICAL THERAPY Providers and now I can’t choose SPECIALIZING IN CHRONIC PAIN Back, Neck, Hip, Knee, Ankle, ... Shoulder, Jaw / TMJ and more ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS Locally-Owned • Essential Service Thallis Drake Award-Winning Physical Therapy* • No referral required 414-265-5606 • Outcome-driven 1-to-1 care 2060 N. Humboldt Ave., Milwaukee • Clinically sanitized private rooms invivowellness.com • Move Well: Rehab to Performance Massage Therapy | Chiropractic | Esthetics Vehicle Loans Gym | Memberships | Yoga & Fitness Classes | Personal Training rates as low as Message from the Currents, Thanks! %APR* For your Donations. for 2.59terms up to 63 months! We will keep the GoFundMe site up for a few more months, We will keep pub- Transfer your current loan from another lishing and we are bringing in younger folks to share their gifts of words and images. lender to Brewery CU and we’ll give you More important for our success: Pick up a paper, read us on-line. Support our adver- * $100 CASH and you do not have to tisers. And love each other and respect each other. vjb & LeeG make a payment for 90 days!* Thanks to all our regular contributors and columns in our neighborhood paper. We are one of the few neighborhood publications still in existence that has a printed and web presence. Twenty years of stories is a treasure that I do not want to lose. We hope to expand the number of articles available online as a 20 year history 414-273-3170 brewerycu.com 1351 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. of Riverwest. Presently we are being published by Vince Bushell and Lee Ann Gutowski. * Automatic payment may be required. Minimum $7,000 new money and current Brewery Credit Union loans not subject to refinancing. Interest will begin accumulating at the date of loan signing: the first payment will include all interest accrued from the loan origination date. Membership eligibility required. $100 Refinance Offer: Loan must be transferred from another financial institution or finance company. The vehicle must be used as collateral. Offer valid for a limited time and subject to change. Only one transfer per vehicle. Some restrictions may apply. VEHICLE LOANS YourFAST Riverwest APPROVALS GREAT Cooperative RATES open daily from 9 AM to 8 PM CAFE HOURS BELOW MEMBERSHIP DRIVE The Riverwest Co-Op is having a membership drive! We greatly appreciate our members--we wouldn’t exist without them! We are eager to have more people join our cooperative community. This has been a difficult year in many ways and it has become more important than ever to support small businesses and local economies. Purchasing a membership and shopping at the Riverwest Co-Op not only help keep We’re opening May 14th!!! the co-op itself open and operating smoothly, but puts money back into the Riverwest economy! New hours to Take Out only, limited outdoor seating. Call ahead ordering recommended, SPONSORED MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM Have you heard about our new Sponsored Membership Program? walk ups accepted. Funds are being raised to give memberships to financially insecure Wednesday-Saturday 3-7pm community members. Consider donating to this fund to aid in making *Dinner Menu: Tempeh Rueben( V/VG), the Riverwest Co-Op more inclusive and accessible. Phamous Philly(V/VG), BBQ Tofu Sandwich GIFTED MEMBERSHIPS A co-op membership is the perfect gift for loved ones. It helps those Drinks: SportTea you care about get often organic, often locally sourced products at a store that they own! Cold Brew w/Anodyne RW Co-op Blend BOARD AND COMMITTEE OPPORTUNITIES Sunday 9am-3pm Brunch Menu: The co-op is seeking new board members and committee members. We are looking for someone *Dinner menu plus Pancakes, who is passionate about the co-op, our neighborhood and community. If you miss being involved with Grab N’ Go the co-op day-to-day and want to be a part of shaping the co-op’s future, consider volunteering. Biscuits & Gravy, Breakfast Mun in store No Take Out–Monday & Tuesday Anyone and everyone is welcome, no matter your background, experience, or skill level. All you really everyday ! need is a willingness to commit some time and enthusiasm to the growth and well being of the co-op. Riverwest Co-op Grocery & Cafe • Local/Organic • Vegan • Vegetarian For more information or to express your interest, please email: [email protected] Daily Store Hours—9am-8pm • 733 E. Clarke Street • 414-264-7933 Listen to Riverwest Radio --Your Neighborhood RadioActive Station, FM 104.1 JUNE 2021 3 Observe and Interact By Tree Moore cattle urine being sprayed gen-erously on reduced. The yearly visit of Baltimore ori- the farmland by “honey wagons” (great oles with their curious baglike nests is no PUBLISHER AND EDITOR s the sunrise wakes me up a tad name!) and highly effective – no glypho- more. The haunting cry of the loon across Vince Bushell [email protected] sooner every morning, and the eve- sates in their furrowed fields. the lake is absent. The whippoorwills are a Aning meal is post-poned until sunset, And so tonight my sensory organs are distance memory of my childhood. Oh yes, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR many of us are trembling with fear and being entertained by colors, sounds, and now one can travel long distances without Lee Ann Gutowski [email protected] excitement as to which way our present smells along with a soft south breeze. In the splattering of bug bodies across the PAST EDITORS world will turn, taking us with it. To me it synch with the first permaculture principle windshield. Few of us lie awake at night is delusional to think we will return to in- troubled by the disappearance of creeping Sonya Jongsma Knauss, Janice Christensen, Alice Waraxa adequate, often inhuman, cultural ways of crawling biting creatures. Yet Charles Ei- COPY EDITOR “normal.” Would we really want to? senstein states in his book, Climate: A New Lee Ann Gutowski Vince Bushell These days there are insightful, angry, Now is the fertile time of Story, “insects are a crucial part of all food imaginative folk who are protesting loudly chains as well as being instrumental in the ADVERTISING MANAGER the old ways of manipulation and control, in-between, life cycles of plants. Countless symbiotic Lee Ann Gutowski [email protected] consequently finding themselves in a space relationships between insects and fungi, of new constructive possibilities – cultur- bacte-ria, worms, plants and vertebrates CONTRIBUTORS ally an adventure leading us into a more maintain the web of life.” Insects are essen- Vince Bushell Lee Ann Gutowski beautiful, lov-ing world. of observe and interact, my advice is we tial to our existence. Cari Taylor-Carlson Ellen C. Warren Now is the fertile time of in-between, a all need to use this time to listen deeply Conventional farming practices with Tea Krulos Amy Schmutte time to slow down to listen, to come to our to experience what news is being brought the spreading of pesticides on our fields Lauren MIller Tree Moore senses, to keep asking what truly matters.