MCJ April 2, 2014 Edition

State Senator questions GOP Strip Search Bill

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(MADISON)--State Senator Lena C. Taylor is concerned a bill passed in the State Assembly grants law enforcement officers too broad a power to strip search any person who will be detained for more than 12 hours.

Current Wisconsin law allows jailors to conduct strip searches if an inmate has been arrested for a felony or a number of different misdemeanors. The Republican bill would permit them to strip search anyone who will be locked up with other prisoners.

Supporters say the change would create safer jails. Opponents have complained the bill would allow children to be strip searched and open the door to abuses.

The Assembly amended the bill in February to exclude children and make the searches visual unless touching is

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necessary and passed it on a voice vote. The Senate is set to take it up Tuesday.

Approval would send the bill on to Gov. Scott Walker.

Like the opponents of the bill, Taylor believes the measure reaches too far and has the potential to subject citizens who have no criminal records or have not even committed a criminal act, to a strip search. Under this bill, even those who fail to pay forfeitures may be subject to strip searches.

Although minors are excluded and touching is prohibited unless the detainee fails to cooperate, the version the Senate passed today goes much further than the more measured bill that was passed by a Senate Committee.

“This bill is an invasion of privacy and (is) a blatant disregard for some of the Constitutional rights we hold dear

in the U.S.,” Taylor said in a press statement. “No person who has only been arrested, but not convicted, should be denied these basic protections against unfair search and seizure. Any search, not to mention a strip search.”

“Not only is this an unstandardized process, but the bill opens the door for many ‘ifs,’” Taylor continued. “If a person is arrested on a minor traffic violation late at night they may be detained beyond 12 hours. If they are arrested on a weekend, they could be held for more than 12 hours. If a person is arrested on a holiday, they may be detained for longer than 12 hours. If a person has a fine or forfeiture and doesn’t have the means to pay, they could be detained for more than 12 hours.”

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Brewers open 2014 season with a win Aldermanic candidates W I S C O N S I N ’ S L A R G E S T A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N N E W S PA P E R

The 2014 edition of the Milwaukee Brewers got off to a positive start with an opening day win over the Atlanta Braves Monday at Miller Park.

(Photos by Yvonne Kemp)

PULSE OF THE COMMUNITY

As expected by many community political observers, the contest to replace former Alderman and Common Council President Willie Hines has come down to two familiar political names. Milwaukee County Supervisor Russell Stamper II and former Milwaukee County Supervisor Eyon Biddle will vie for the vacated 15th aldermanic seat.

According to published reports, Stamper led the voting after 96% of the district’s votes were counted. He had garnered 41% of the vote to Biddle’s 35%. Both candidates will face-off against each other in the April 29 general election.

Finishing third was SDC Commissioner Monique Taylor, with Vera Davis and Patricia Ruiz finishing fourth and fifth respectively.

In the other election of importance to the community, the Milwaukee County Board pay cut referendum, the measure passed by a wide margin, with 71% of voters reportedly approved cutting the pay of Milwaukee County supervisors by half and eleminating their future health and pension benefits.

The cuts won’t reportedly take effect until after the 2016 county supervisor elections. When it does, supervisors pay will drop from $50,679 to $24,051. The board chairman’s pay will go from $71, 412 to $36,076.

"Yesterday, wealthy special interests won a bad poll of public perception at the expense of our democratic principles,” said Sup. David Bowen in a press statement released the day after the election. “The referendum that passed tilts the balance of power in Milwaukee County,

Question and photos

by Yvonne Kemp

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: “What is your Brewers prediction for the 2014 season?”

GERRY SHEPHERD: “Brewers will fight for the Wild Card, but will come up short (with) 89 wins!”

WESLEY SUMMERFIELD: “Brewers will be Wild Card winners, second place with 89 wins!”

PATRICK PARISH: “The Brewers will make a strong run for the World Series.

80 wins!

DARREN JOHNSON: “I think the Brewers will get in the playoffs as a Wild Card team!”

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diminishing legislative oversight and local control while granting bloated executive powers.

Bowen said he didn’t believe the referendum speaks for everyone in Milwaukee County however. He believes the referendum was purposely put on the ballot at time when the authors of Act 14 knew voter turnout would be

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low, particularly for districts within Milwaukee. “It is a reprehensible tactic designed to exclude those voters who do not agree with a corporate political agenda.

"Multiple wards in my district clearly opposed the referendum,” Bowen continued. “However, the City of Milwaukee had a voter turnout of just 8.97%. The opinions expressed in these wards were overshadowed by their more conservative counterparts in places such as the City of South Milwaukee, which had a voter turnout of 28 per(continued on page 2)

National campaign advocating increase in minimum wage comes to Milwaukee

With the backdrop of a 45’ long, 16-ton anti-poverty billboard on wheels and with invaluable support from Wisconsin Jobs Now and Citizen Action-Wisconsin, Americans United was joined Monday by local labor leaders, elected officials, and low-wage workers to call on Sen. Ron Johnson and Congressman Paul Ryan to support the President’s plan.

The rally was held in front of the Coggs Human Services Center (as shown in above photo).

“We’re here today because people all across this country, but particularly in this state, are having a harder and harder time getting by off of what they earn in their pay

check. It makes no sense,” said Jennifer Epps-Addison, Director of Wisconsin Jobs Now to the gathering.

“The choices and the decisions and the priorities of our legislatures affect our economy opportunity and our security here in Wisconsin. And right now there are a lot of legislators who are making the choice not to pay hard working families the money they deserve,” Epps-Addison said.

“We can do better. We can do better for our country.

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Pre-Planning Funeral and End of Life Issues GOLDEN YEARS

By Kathy Gaillard

It has been said that nothing is certain except death and taxes. And, because death is inevitable, pre-planning and discussing our final wishes with our loved ones can ease the pain and stress of a difficult and emotional experience.

From a personal standpoint, making final arrangements for both my parents was effortless because my siblings and I knew their final wishes. Planning my mother’s funeral was easy because, since I was a teenager, she made sure that I and my other siblings knew her final wishes—from the ‘look’ of her funeral program to the one song she wanted sung and the person she wanted to sing it. I also recall that when she talked about her funeral, none of us wanted

to hear about it. We were in denial. At one point, I recall picking up a pre-planning funeral packet from a well-known Milwaukee funeral home, handing it to her and saying, “Since you’re always planning your funeral, here’s a funeral pre-planning packet. You can just fill out the information and then we don’t have to hear about it anymore.”

It is not that we did not want to accommodate my mother’s wishes; we did not want to acknowledge or discuss the possibility that one day she would no longer be with us, even though we knew that day was inevitable.

Moreover, my mother was not sick when she

was sharing her final wishes with us; she was a planner and a Christian, so she was confronting the reality that one day she would die. Out of our own selfish denial, my siblings and I did not want to face or accept this truth.

As it turned out, when my mother passed in 1998, everything was so ingrained in our minds that when it came to planning her funeral, my siblings and I were on the same page because we all knew her final desires, and there was no need to refer to the packet.

On the other hand, my father, who passed away in 2012, never talked about his final wishes.

The only thing we knew for sure regarding his

final wishes was that rather than be buried in a veteran’s cemetery, he wanted to be buried next to my mother—his wife of more than 50 years.

It was easy to oblige his request, because when my mother passed, we purchased a double plot to ensure they would be buried side by side.

A funeral is one of the most expensive events in one’s life: the average cost of a traditional funeral is close to $7,000. When you add flowers, obituary notices, acknowledgment cards, burial liners or vaults and special transportation, costs go up considerably.

When a loved one dies, grieving family members and friends often are confronted with decisions about the funeral—all of which must be made quickly and frequently under great emo-

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Gurl Power comes to City Hall!

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It was “Lady’s First!” in the City Hall rotunda as young girls from the city converged on the iconic municipal government building to participate in the “Girls’ Day @ City Hall” event. The day is the idea of Alderman Milele Coggs, who is pictured at right (third from the right) with area girls and with legendary political figure Vel Phillips (seated center). The girls heard a panel of women in government and from community organizations talk about important issue pertaining to women and young girls. There was also a workshop, and lunch in the rotunda. (Photo by Yvonne Kemp)

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"This result is an example of why it is so important for people to turn out to vote."

Milwaukee County Board Chairwoman Marina Dimitrijevic said the outcome of the referendum vote was not surprising.

“The outcome was pre-determined when, almost one year ago, state Republicans introduced legislation to dilute the people's representation. As wealthy special interests subsequently raised money to campaign for the misleading referendum, weakening local representation was the goal,” Dimitrijevic said in a press statement.

"Supervisors represent the working families of their districts and ensure the voices of our diverse community are heard when it comes to policy discussions of transit, income inequality, parks and public safety. The Board remains dedicated to serving our constituents, and we will continue to provide taxpayers a balance against unchecked executive power.”

Dimitrijevic said she plans to form an inclusive task force that will be charged with strengthening the legislative branch. The task force may explore different options for adjusting the Board’s operations for the next term beginning 2016 and ensure the office is accessible and attractive to a wide

slate of diverse candidates.

“It will also work to ensure the Supervisors can continue to do the job they were elected to do: provide oversight of administrative operations, create policies and adopt Milwaukee County's billion dollar budget," the board chair said.

Despite having stellar legal credentials, community involvement, and a host of endorsements by labor, law enforcement and the judicial system Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Cedric Cornwall was defeated by another court commissioner, Laura Gramling Perez for the Branch 32 Circuit Court seat vacated by retiring Circuit Judge Michael Guolee.

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Democrats Seek to Help Women Lift Every Voice and Vote community journal.net

Excerpts of article by Joyce Jones, courtesy of BET.com (First printed March 24, 2014 Turnout in non-presidential election years is notoriously low and laws that may make it more difficult for some people to cast ballots could reduce it even more.

But Democrats, not wanting a repeat of 2010, when Republicans took control of state legislatures across the country and the majority of the U.S. House of Representatives, are pulling out the stops in the hope Americans will vote more like it's 2008 or 2012, when they turned out in record numbers.

In a new push to promote the Democratic National Committee's Voter Expansion Project, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Texas state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte and Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner talked about the impact that alleged voter suppression efforts have on all voters, particularly women.

According to Rawlings-Blake, who is secretary of the Democratic National Committee, nearly one-third of American women may face obstacles when registering to vote or casting ballots because "their name may have changed following a marriage or divorce or their middle initial represents a maiden name rather than a middle name" and they don't have the documentation.

Reduced early voting days and hours also present a challenge for working mothers, she said, particularly those who are also single and struggle to balance work schedules and childcare.

"This notion of getting more people involved in the process is one of the most fundamental values that we

share as Democrats. Our democracy is only as strong as the people who participate in it. No demographic is more negatively impacted by voting restrictions than women," said Rawlings-Blake, adding that, "Democrats are standing up for those women to make sure their votes are heard."

The Voter Expansion Project, announced in February, is part of a nationwide effort to educate voters about their rights, train campaign and poll workers and fight in court state laws that threaten to disenfranchise voters.

"The mission is very clear: We're going to ensure that every eligible voter can register and that every registered voter can vote and that every vote is counted accurately," Rawlings-Blake added.

Turner, who is running for Ohio secretary of state, chastised Republicans "who seek to regress, oppress and suppress the right to vote," especially given the nation's history and the personal and human sacrifices people have made to ensure equal access to the ballot box.

"There is only one great equalizer in this nation where your socio-economic status, your gender, who you love, what you do doesn't matter and that's the ballot box. That is the place where we are equal – one man, one woman, one vote," she said.

"So to have folks who were elected to office to serve, to create public policies that create avenues of opportunity try to rig the game through the ballot box is unAmerican and it is unconscionable."

Come November, Turner warned, women "will remember what the GOP has done."

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Paul Ryan’s Budget Helps the Rich, Hurts the Poor

Washington, DC (LINK) – On Wednesday, Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-4) released the following statement in response to Representative Paul Ryan’s (WI-1) fiscal year 2015 budget: “With another budget comes another year of misplaced priorities. This Republican budget, introduced on April Fools’ Day, is unfortunately not a joke.

The budget makes harmful cuts to our domestic programs, while protecting the wealthiest Americans and big businesses.

“As in the past, this budget strikes fear in the hearts of our vulnerable populations. For hours in today’s budget markup, I heard of the ‘need’ to cut, slash and burn our entitlement programs. If my colleagues on the other side of the aisle truly wish to reduce poverty, we must come together to strengthen our economy and improve our safety net. Sadly, the Ryan budget does neither.

“The GOP budget would cost approximately 3 million jobs by fiscal year 2016. That number is nearly the entire workforce in my home state. While more hardworking Americans would lose their jobs, the wealthy would enjoy tax loopholes and an average millionaire tax cut of $200,000.

“In addition, the Ryan budget would eliminate guaranteed Pell Grant funding, turn Medicare into a voucher-like program for future seniors and drastically reduce food assistance. We need practical and tangible solutions to reducing poverty. One such tactic is to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Unfortunately, this bipartisan idea was rejected by my Republican colleagues.

“Those living in poverty need resources, not further isolation and rejection.

I urge my Republican colleagues to join Democrats in working to reduce poverty, not amplify it.”

State Sen. Taylor secures 90K for wrongfully convicted

(MADISON)--Due to the efforts of State Senator Lena C. Taylor of Milwaukee in ensuring the passage of Assembly Bill 290, a claim brought agasint the state by Robert Lee Stinson, a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and imprisoned for 23 years has been settled.

Taylor is a co-author and primary supporter of this bill, which garnered unanimous support in both the Assembly and the Senate.

“Under Wisconsin Law, a person who has been wrongfully convicted may obtain a maximum award of $5,000 per year, with a cap at $25,000,” Taylor commented.

“Under this bill, Mr. Stinson will be awarded an additional $90,000 on top of the maximum payout. This decision is made in a time where bi-partisan support is growing to boost the amount of compensation for Wisconsin citizens are exonerated of crimes for which they’ve been imprisoned.

“However, I was disheartened to by the $48,000 cut in the original award

by Representative Strachota. Of the 29 states that offer any compensation, Wisconsin’s $25,000 cap is the second lowest payout for persons that have been wrongfully incarcerated.”

“The State of Wisconsin stole 23 years of Mr. Stinson life; it is only right that he receive something for the many years he was unfairly incarcerated,” Taylor continued. “This $90,000 payout is a drop in the bucket for Mr. Stinson. A valuation of each year stolen from Mr. Stinson by the State of Wisconsin amounts to a meager $3,913 a year, this is unjust and unfair. I can only hope we do better as a legislature for the other Robert Lee Stinson’s in Wisconsin.”

“The idea is simple: Wisconsin’s citizens deserve a fair and effective judicial process, and everyone has an invested interest in ensuring the system operates to deliver justice. The government should admit when it makes mistakes, and then do what it can to fix those mistakes. I hope that we can use this moment of bipartisanship to pass more legislation that improves our justice system, and helps reentering individuals acclimate to their new life.”

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom...I want to be remembered as one who tried.”--Dorothy Height

Desite early problems, sign-up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act a success!

MCJ EDITORIAL

Despite the Conservative Republican naysayers, despite stumbling out of the starting gate last October with technical snafus to the website, despite a filibusterer and a government shutdown, the first sign-up period for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act is a success!

A last-minute enrollment surge helped President Barack Obama and his administration to reach its goal of signing-up seven million people for healthcare coverage.

Approximately 7.1 million people applied for what the Republicans derisively call “Obamacare.”

Judging from the long lines at ACA sign-up centers in a number of cities across the country, Americans want affordable healthcare!

Many who signed up reported being satisfied with their new coverage, boasting that they will save hundreds of dollars on health care.

No, the program is not perfect! Nothing in life is perfect.

But it’s better than nothing, or what Americans had to settle for before ACA: Expensive health coverage that failed to take into consideration pre-existing health conditions and families with older children who can now stay on their parents health coverage.

If the president’s healthcare initiative hasn’t done anything else, it has at least made Americans more health conscious and pro-active about their health and what they can do to improve it.

More people are cooking at home and choosing fresh farm-raised food over processed foods. More Americans are exercising, especially children.

Thank the First Lady Michelle Obama and her program to get children up and moving by any means necessary.

But there is a long way to go. There is still the problem of childhood obesity. While some restaurants have made a concerted effort to provide healthier menus, many more are still “addicted” to fast-food, ignoring the downside consumption of these foods.

We predict that like Social Security and Medicare, the Affordable Care Act will become an expected and deserved part of American life. The naysayers will hush, the initial snafu’s a memory, and citizens weary of the program at the beginning will come to see it in the end as a welcomed godsend.

With time, and a few nips and tucks here and there to it, the Affordable Care Act will prove its worth; and we will be asking ourselves how we ever got along without it.

Home Is Where the Heart Is! A Letter To My Princes--Letter 3

By Joeseph Heru Cook

Princess, I don’t know the beginning of our bond. Did it begin on that summer day when your beautiful mother and I first locked eyes as young teenagers, or does it go back further then that?

Does it begin with my mother and sisters, and how I witnessed them live life with little to no male influence as their protector, provider; that force of power that anchors, stabilizes and produces healthy families? Maybe I am to you what I wanted for my mother, sisters and your mother alike.

The beginning of our relationship Shanyah doesn’t start with your birth or my birth, but was birthed by a power bigger than us. How else do we explain that inspite of all the miles and moments that separate us, we are still close? So close, that we provide each other with warmth, comfort, laughter and joy.

How do we explain that although I’ve been incarcerated for all of your young life, and we have only hugged a handful of times, we share a love that is more solid than these prison bars and much thicker than these prison walls, and more intense than this prison environment?

And I say the above not as simply metaphor, but as truth. In order for a love, a relationship, a bond to flow freely, it has to be more powerful than prison pain.

Prison pain gnaws at a man’s core with its sharp fangs of self-doubt and hopelessness which threatens to bleed over into a dark depression.

Last night as I was thinking about our family, I felt it Shanyah; I felt its sharp fangs plunging into my core telling me to give up. Telling me to stop trying to “play father” to you and Trevon. It was telling me to accept my condition as a prisoner by forsaking my responsibilities to you.

The evil voice that can be heard in all prisons was telling me to give up on you, not only on you, but to doubt the power of God, to doubt my most sincere efforts, to doubt the bond that keeps me grounded while also giving me wings.

Only the watering of the eyes could wash away last night’s prison pain. The scariest and most frightening idea is not having y’all in my life. It’s me accepting a man-made hell by forsaking our personal heaven.

The day I give up on us is the day

I give up on my most spiritual and best self. I could never be whole. I would only manage my brokenness.

So Shanyah now that I’m here for you, know that although you don’t see me often, my ongoing efforts to become the best of me that I can and be a role model for you is seen in my daily walk. And although we don’t hear from each other daily, my love for you is heard daily. This love, our love, isn’t superficial, soft or sweet. It demands sacrifice and self-examination, which provides me with life lessons and higher consciousness.

Recently I was talking to my mother and she was telling me how she has cut back on manicures, pedicures and beauty products to make sure I’m straight. It hurts hearing her say that! Princess prison makes a man a child to a certain degree because we’re always depending on someone else. Being that I got incarcerated as a teenager, I’ve depended on my mother my whole life. I’ve witnessed my mother sacrifice her whole life for her children. We became her career, her vision, her investment.

As adults my siblings and I are rooted in the spiritual and social culture introduced to us by my mother. It took me some years to understand that my mother’s sacrifice wasn’t a sacrifice, but rather the best investment she could have made. By investing in children Shanyah, one’s real riches are stored in heaven.

Your mother has been sacrificing since she was a teenager and still is.

Black women have shown what it means to go without so that their children can go further. You, my little golden brown princess, are now teaching me the value of sacrifice and how when one truly gives from the spirit, the giver is also the receiver.

Recently, I was trying out for this job Shanyah--although I already have one that is flexible with my schedule. This new job offer is one of the two best jobs a man can have in prison. The pay and the women in that department are nice. One of the deciding factors for not accepting the job was you, Shanyah. I was cleaning a woman’s office and as she and I were talking, I noticed the bulletin board behind her desk was covered with her children’s artwork.

Automatically I thought of you.

Joeseph Heru Cook and his “Princes” Shanyah

I thought about how we both agreed to learn how to draw after you told me you want to be a teacher and an artist.

At first you said you wanted to be a doctor until your big-headed brother asked, “What type Shanyah a neurologist?” He started naming other types of doctors that surprised me and maybe intimidated you into changing your mind with all of them big words.

Weeks later, you told me you changed your mind and wanted to be a teacher and an artist. I was happy because the two are professions I can help you become. I told you I was your first student and you had to teach me something. Rosa Parks was our subject.

You started telling me how she helped black people by giving white people one option: “Let her sit down or get off the bus.” This was my favorite history lesson. You even called Rosa Parks just “Rosa” which was a first.

After that, we both agreed to become master artists and I promised to send you some art materials. I ordered your materials and mine the same night.

Shanyah my schedule is designed around my inner growth that will

precede my outer vision. So drawing, writing, reading, planning and preparing takes up the majority of my day. So when I was cleaning that ladies office, three things came to my mind: 1) she has a beautiful smile, 2) I’m worth more then this and 3) if I take this job it will take away not only the time I would use to invest in myself, but take away from my drawing time, which is the time that is dedicated to us, our purpose, our vision. As that training day ended I declined the offer.

Princess, I hope our love carries over into your life too, not only as a feeling but as a force, a guiding force. When you are 15, I hope our fifteen-minute phone calls guide you. When you feel lost, lonely and troubled; when you’re in your darkest hour, I hope our three-hour visits guide you back home.

And home, princess, is where the heart is. So make sure your heart is drawn by--and to--the deepest and richest colors of love; and the most natural tones that life has to offer.

Never forget Shanyah that you are the masterpiece. That we are living art.

Love you baby!

Joe

Mary Burke Offers Serious Plan On Job Creation

By Urban Media News

Four years after the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin is struggling to add jobs and improve economic security for working class families across the state.

Walker’s entire economic platform is built on the promise of job creation, a promise he quantified in 2010 as 250,000 jobs by the end of his first term. Although Walker made it clear that figure was his floor for job creation, his lofty rhetoric hasn’t translated into job growth - especially in Mary Burke areas like Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha hit hard by the recession. Wisconsin is creating jobs at half the national average and while other states benefit from the national recovery, Wisconsin continues to lag behind in each new job report.

Last week, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke offered a ray of hope for families just barely scraping by, underemployed workers forced to work two or more jobs, recent graduates drowning in debt, and workers afraid of their future job prospects in Walker’s economy. Burke offered a serious plan to “Invest for Success” and make Wisconsin a thriving, top ten economy - music to the ears of Wisconsinites strung along by the empty promises of the Walker administration.

Burke’s plan obviously draws heavily on her private-sector experience at Trek where the division she led grew annual sales from $3 million to $50 million. Investing for success starts with creating more good paying jobs and making sure workers have the skills they need to fill them and succeed. Burke’s plan grows the economy from the middle out, creating more jobs, more opportunity, and ultimately more prosperity for us all.

Wisconsin has everything it takes to be a top ten economy. Burke’s plan uses five core strategies to invest in the pieces of our economy that are working and enhance them for a cutting-edge 21st Century economy.

As governor, Burke plans to organize economic development and public policy efforts around industry to clusters - not individual firms, close the degree gap to connect workers with the latest cutting edge jobs, invest in ideas and entrepreneurs who will create the jobs of the future, position Wisconsin to be competitive globally, and create a business climate to grow jobs and attract a high-quality workforce.

The plan is well thought out and its attention to detail is a clear sign that Burke plans to hit the ground running on day one to get Wisconsinites back to work. The “Invest for Success” model builds on input Burke’s received in her travels around the state - including large urban areas like Milwaukee, traditionally a catalyst for economic growth.

It’s no secret that Milwaukee’s unemployment rate still stands at nearly 10%, and Burke tackles that head-on with a plan to leverage “anchor institutions” like universities, hospitals, foundations, industry research centers, and large employers to generate real wealth in Wisconsin’s urban communities.

Anchor institutions can create wealth through small business that supply and support the operations of large businesses, that’s why Burke plans match anchor institutions and local vendors in order to promote more small business creation.

Burke wants to make anchor institutions in urban areas more involved with the community, not just by creating jobs, but by creating local relationships that can create wealth and help revitalize neighborhoods.

Anchor institutions have a vested interest in keeping the neighborhoods they do business in safe and economically stable. As governor, Burke will direct Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority to engage employers to create programs to help struggling areas bounce back by helping employees purchase and improve single-family homes. It’s a novel idea that is surely to be welcomed by communities ravaged by the housing foreclosure crisis and families who have played by the rules, but still can’t seem to attain the American Dream of homeownership.

The most impressive part of Burke’s 37-page jobs plan lies waiting in the last few pages of the document where the candidate outlines her commitment to an objective, verifiable monitoring of Wisconsin’s progress while on it’s way to becoming a top ten economy and model for the rest of the nation.

Burke is a candidate that doesn’t plan to issue a pie-in-the-sky jobs pledge and ask the public to take her word for it. Instead, she plans to be open and honest about the results of economic growth in Wisconsin under her tutelage exactly what you would expect from a world class business professional. To track her progress Burke will create a new online tool, “The Wisconsin Jobs Dashboard”, available for the public to monitor if Wisconsin is on the right track.

“Invest for Success” is an example of what Wisconsin can be in the years to come when someone with a real experience creating economic growth and prosperity is at the controls. Wisconsin won’t create 250,000 jobs by 2015, but if we choose Burke in November we can turn our economy into a juggernaut ready to compete in the 21st century for years to come.

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RELIGION The Milwaukee Community Journal April 2, 2014 Page 4

RELIGIOUS QUOTE: Never retaliate when people say unkind things about you. Pay them back with a blessing...and God will BLESS YOU!--1 Peter 3:9

Where the greatest miracle transformed some, but not all

away. When they recover, they flee This month, Christians will celeto the authorities to report what they brate what we believe is the most have witnessed. meaningful and spiritually defining “HE IS NOT HERE; HE HAS week of our existence. The question ARISEN, of why Jesus had to die on the cross JUST AS THEY SAID” will be revisited again.

A few women, grieving friends of Are you still wondering why He Jesus, are the next to learn of the mirdied for us? If it was because He acle of miracles. The book of loved us, some would ask, how could Matthew reports that they hurry a “man” love someone that much, away, “afraid yet filled with joy”. that He would die for them? What Fear is the most reflective human regood has His love and eventual death sponse to a supernatural encounter done for us? Have we now become JESUS IS BACK; they shout, He more loving to one another because has returned as promised! The He gave His life for us? dreams of a Messiah all come surgJesus’ sacrifice was not an example ing back, as the women run on legs of what we must do to show how of ‘fear and joy’ to inform the discimuch we love someone. In this ultimate decision that God has made for ples. Even as the women run, the solus through His Son and our Savior diers are rehearsing their alibi; their Jesus Christ, is that through His By Rev. Joseph McLin part in an elaborately planned coverup. Like everything else in Jesus’ life, His resurrection death, He paid the penalty for our sins.

John 3: 16-18, “For God so loved the world that He draws attention to two contrasting responses; those who gave His only begotten son, and that whoever believed believe are transformed; and those whom choose not to in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did believe find ways to ignore the evidence they have seen not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, with their on eyes.

According to the prophet Isaiah, the servant, (Jesus), but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe, dies for a very specific purpose; in 53:5-6, “But He was stands condemned already because he has not believed in pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon the name of God’s one and only Son”.

Why did Jesus have to die? The Old Testament tells us Him, and by His wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep that God’s Son appeared as a human being on more than have gone astray, each have turned our own way; and the occasion. Why did He do so? He did so because He came Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all”.

As Isaiah has said, we have peace with God because of to die. Death was an important part of Jesus’ ministry.

Jesus said in Matthew 20:28, “Just as the Son of Man did what Jesus Christ has done. We have been reconciled to not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life God through Jesus dying on the cross. It is a simple as a ransom for many”.

Christian belief that our relationship with God depends He came to give His life; to die, and His death would on Jesus Christ, including His death on the cross.

Christianity is accepting the fact that Christ has done result in salvation for others.

Matthew 26:28, “This is my blood of the covenant, everything that was needed for us to be right with God. which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins”. Reconciliation, forgiveness and justification all lead to When the “Greatest Miracle” of all history occurs, the the same thing; Peace with God! immediate eyewitnesses are soldiers standing guard outWhat looked so shameful for Jesus was actually a gloside Jesus’ tomb. The earth shakes, an angel appears, rious triumph for God’s plan that lead to victory over bright as lightning, and the guards tremble and faint dead enemy powers, including Satan, sin and death!

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Live and be a sign of life for others

Our readings for the 5th Sunday of Lent are: Ezekiel 37:12-14, Ps 130, Rom 8:8-11, and John 11:1-45. These readings are not given to present some past reality as though we are observers looking in on the power of God, but not participating in it.

When Ezekiel speaks of "dry bones" he may be speaking about the ancestors and their slavery and calling them out of the graves of their exile back into freedom in their own land, but he is also a type of Christ who found his community in "exile" and gave His life to call them back to life. And Lazarus became for us the "sign" of God's life within us..

Jesus says to Lazarus, "Come out" and Lazarus would begin to live anew, coming from the stink of rotting flesh to new life. Lazarus was called from death as a "sign" for us. We are all exiles in one way or another. And God calls each of us out of the graves of our suffering, need, discontent and hopelessness to live anew, enlivened and inspired by God's own Spirit.

And enlivened by God's Spirit, do we realize we have been told that we can do "even greater works than these?"

For us to truly believe this we will need to increase our faith and pounder more deeply the gift we have received at our baptism when we were washed clean, anointed and sent forth with the light of Christ to bring good news to the poor and heal the broken hearted. We have our Lazarus to raise.

Do we truly believe that we can bring life where there

is death now? Do we believe that we are here to bring about a "New Creation?" We can believe in the resurrection of the dead and at the same time not realize that we are called to bring

By Fr. Carl Diederichs, life now. There are All Saints Catholic Church many "resurrections" that we can be part of, if we are open to the Spirit of God. We call the resuscitation of Lazarus a "sign." It is a sign for us to live life to the full and to realize we have been empowered to live wholly and completely for life.

Do we believe that we can do greater works than Jesus?

We can touch many more people with the healing hands of one who cares.

That is why Jesus speaks to us today about being the resurrection and the life. We are resurrection and life right her and now. He feeds us with the bread and wine from heaven, for the sake of the world. He is here to tell us: " Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the work that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I have gone to the Father, so that I may live in you and you in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit…"

Lazarus is a sign of the love of God and we are His sign also. We have been raised also. Live and be a sign of life for others.

Exceeding a $30 million opening weekend forecast, biblical epic "Noah" opened at number one with an estimated $44 million in U.S. sales.

"It was a fantastic result," said Megan Colligan, Paramount's President of Domestic Marketing and Distribution. "I think the movie really surprises people and makes them want to talk about it."

The film certainly has had people talking. The controversy goes back as far as 2012, when a leaked script lead to a movie blogger blasting the film for depicting

St. Mark AME Church, located at 1616 W. Atkinson Ave., will celebrate 145 years of ministry and service on Sunday, April 13, 2014 at 10:00 am.

Bishop Reginald Jackson, former pastor of St. Mathew AME Church in Orange , New Jersey will deliver the celebratory message.

During Bishop Jackson’s pastorate more than 2800 persons accepted Christ or joined the church, including over 250 children and youth. Because of the church’s growth a new edifice was built in 1985. Continued growth led to the construction of a new Family Life Center built in 2002.

Giving increased from $50,000 to

Noah as an "environmental wacko."

When trailers and other marketing materials appeared, many wondered if the story of Noah would be portrayed as it appears in the Bible, the Qur'an, or neither.

Others questioned whether religious text is appropriate subject matter for secular films at all.

Such discussion appears to have encouraged moviegoers to watch the film for themselves, as evidenced by its first place finish. Overseas, "Noah" has generated an estimated $95 million. The film cost about $130 million to make.

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almost $2,000,000 a year supporting more than thirty ministries to meet the needs of both, church and com-

munity, as well as NIDA, the church’s non-profit organization.

Pastor Jackson had the church adopt the motto, “The servant church of the Oranges ” and the church is open seven days a week.

St. Matthew is one of the most prominent churches in the state of New Jersey .

Come hear the inspiring and motivational message Bishop Jackson will share with Milwaukee and the members of St. Mark AME Church on Sunday, April 13th, at 10 a.m.

St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is the first African American church built in Milwaukee in 1869. The church is led by Pastor Darryl Williams.

5 Traits of Kids Who Keep Following Christ as Adults

Ask any Christian parent what their dying wish would be, and they will tell you, “That my children will love and follow Jesus.” Unfortunately, many parents face the unbearable experience of watching their children leave the faith they grew up learning about every week in Sunday school and youth group.

Things like frequent attendance at youth group, being involved in a small group, or even going on missions trips provide no guarantee that someone will continue in the faith. Indeed, I estimate that half of the students that went on the youth missions trip my senior year of high school are no longer following Jesus.

But there some commonalities (which I’ve noticed in 20 years of experience in youth ministry) that young people who do keep following Jesus share. Just one qualification: what I write here is not a formula for raising children who stay faithful to the Lord.

1. They developed a love for God’s word They read their Bible on their own, not because they were supposed to, but because they wanted to. When they didn’t understand something they read, they asked their small group leader or youth pastor. They got up early to attend Bible studies, and not just because their friends were there. They enjoyed hearing sermons (not “talks” or “lessons”) not merely for intellectual stimulation, but because they were hungry for God. They recognized that the Bible carries the very authority of God himself.

2. They deeply grasped that they were sinners in need of grace.

Students who keep following Jesus connect his love for them to his sacrifice for their sins (Rom. 5:8; Gal. 2:20). They realize that what makes their sin so bad has less to do with the negative consequences they face in life, and more to do with the fact that it offends their Creator and Judge. They turn from their sin out of a desire to please God, not to get an easier life or to keep their parents off their back.

Just as important as being told that they need Jesus is for young people to be told why they need him. Many youth ministries display a Jesus who “wants a relationship with you” but not a Jesus who died for their sins.

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BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS

'Noah' movie floats to the top with $44 million opening

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St. Mark AME celebrates 145 years of ministry and service April 13

Students who keep following Jesus through their adulthood learned that Jesus doesn’t save us from low self-esteem, but from our sinfulness that leaves us condemned before a holy God. If someone is going to turn from their Christian faith in their late teens or early twenties, they will most likely go in the opposite direction of these first two points. They will no longer subscribe to the authority of Scripture over their life, and they will therefore begin to justify and indulge their sin rather than repent of it.

3. Their parents served in the church Many students who stay strong in their faith after graduation, I’ve observed, were raised by parents who served in church regularly. This is obviously not something that holds true 100% of the time, but it pops up often enough for me to mention it. Such parents teach, by their example, that participating in a church community is not relegated only to Sunday mornings, but is a regular part of life. It also teaches that church is not a place where you merely go to get your needs met, it is a place where you meet the needs of others. Following their parents’ example, such youth seek opportunities to serve in church early in their college years.

4. They didn’t give themselves over to sexual sin Sexual temptation is a key contributor to young people falling away from the faith. Notice I didn’t say, “They didn’t struggle with sexual temptation,” or, “They didn’t fail in the area of sexuality,” but that they didn’t give themselves over to it. It is not uncommon for doubts about the Christian faith to stem from actively partaking in sin, especially sexual sin (link: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christandpopculture/2013/04/wh o-are-you-sleeping-with-my-conversation-with-timothy-keller/ 5. They were legitimately Christians This last point is the most important. The apostle John tells us why people leave the church, “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us” (1 John 2:19). What explanation can we give for young adults turning away from the faith they grew up confessing? They did not really believe in the first place.

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Fields, Emanuel Sr. Age 62 yrs. March 26, 2014. Funeral services will be held on Thursday 1PM. Visitation Thursday 12 Noon until time of services at: Northwest Funeral Chapel O'Bee, Ford & Frazier 6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020

Martin, Billy E. Age 64 yrs. March 27, 2014. Funeral services will be held on Thursday 5PM. Visitation Thursday 4PM until time of services at: Northwest Funeral Chapel O'Bee, Ford & Frazier 6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020 Clemons, Kathryn E. Age 92 yrs. March 28, 2014. Final arrangement entrusted to Chambers Funeral Home in Bessemer, AL. The family is served by: Northwest Funeral Chapel O'Bee, Ford & Frazier 6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020 Wilkerson, Roberta Age 84 yrs. March 27, 2014. Beloved wife of the late JW Wilkerson. Loving mother of Frances Wilkerson.

Also survived by a host of other loving relatives and friends. Mrs. Wilkerson was the Principal of Victor

Berger Elementary School and Emerson Elementary School. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, April 6, 6PM at Holy Redeemer COGIC 3500 W. Mother Daniels Way. Visitation Sunday 4PM at the CHURCH until time of services. The family is served by: Northwest Funeral Chapel O'Bee, Ford & Frazier 6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020 Rodgers, Shanda A. Age 46 yrs. March 29, 2014. Funeral services will be held on Saturday 11AM at Parklawn Assembly of God 3725 N. Sherman Blvd. Visitation Saturday 10AM at the CHURCH until time of services. The fam-

ily is served by: Northwest Funeral Chapel O'Bee, Ford & Frazier 6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020

Jones, Jim III Age 56 yrs. March 27, 2014. Funeral services will be held on Monday 11AM. Visitation Monday 10AM until time of services at: Northwest Funeral Chapel O'Bee, Ford & Frazier 6630 W. Hampton Ave. (414)462-6020

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Saying he stands with workers because they can show what they can do insgtead of what they can’t, Milwaukee County Board Supervisor David Bowen said U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson need to step up and show leadership. “They (Ryan and Johnson) are so focused on telling you what they can’t do. And in Milwaukee County, we are getting it done.

Bowen said $38 million dollars will be pumped into the local economy because of the living wage ordinance he authored.

“That is coming to this community.

But we can see $517 million if the state had the minimum wage moved to $10.10.

“The whole nation can act. Poverty is running rampant in our community and the only way we can address that ,is having a thriving economy,” Bowen said.

A recent report from the Center on Wisconsin Strategy found that increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 by July 2016 would increase wages for over half a million Wisrconsin workers, boost economic activity in the state by an estimated $517 million, and generate 3,800 jobs.

According to MIT, a living wage in Milwaukee is $19,717 to be able to afford housing, medical care, transportation and food. If full-time Wisconsin workers made $10.10 an hour, they’d earn $21,008 a year.

A recent Marquette University law school poll found 63 percent of registered Wisconsin voters support raising the minimum wage, while just 33 percent oppose it. And a new Public Policy Polling survey inside Congressman Sean Duffy (R-WI-7)’s district found 53% of voters support raising the minimum wage to $10.10 and 44% of voters would be less likely to support Duffy’s reelection if he opposes the effort.

ber that the cost of a funeral is not a measure of feelings for the deceased.

Because the loss is usually so great, it is not uncommon for a family to spend $10,000 or more for a funeral today.

To help relieve their families of some of these emotional and financial decisions, many people are planning their own funerals, designating their funeral preferences, and sometimes even paying for them in advance. They approach funeral planning as an extension of will and estate planning.

A survey conducted by the Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons (AARP) found that a sizeable portion of the 50 plus population (34%) has engaged in some pre-planning for a funeral or burial, and just under a quarter of individuals over 50 years of age (23%) have prepaid at least a portion of funeral or burial expenses for themselves or someone else.

This translates into approximately

29.5 million individuals over the age of 50 in the U.S. who have preplanned any part of a funeral or burial for themselves or someone else and 20 million individuals, ages 50 or older in the U.S. who have prepaid for funerals or burials.

Despite the fact that human beings have a 100% mortality rate, most people live their lives with no expectation of dying and avoid pre-planning. Unfortunately, too often the absence of pre-planning leads to family discord, higher costs, and unnecessary stress.

Some of the reasons people cite for not pre-planning are: First, people are in denial about death. Even though there have been advances in modern medicine, resulting in extending life, our life span still has a limit. Far too many people today regard death with surprise, as an emergency, or a failure of healthcare providers, rather than part of the cycle of life.

Secondly, people have lost a sense of what to do when death occurs. In other words, when it comes to planning funerals and mourning, we have lost many traditions regarding celebrating or mourning the end of life.

And, we think we have time to get around to it. As we get older, it becomes increasingly clear that one day it will be ‘our turn,’ as we mourn the

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loss of friends and loved ones.

However, because we are busy living our lives, time gets away from us before we have the conversation with our family or write down our final wishes, which leaves the family to wonder what that person’s last wishes would have been.

Since we do not know the date of our demise, or how it will happen, we put off pre-planning because we are afraid or believe it is too morbid to consider. Final wishes also include addressing issues such as burial or cremation, organ donation or whether or not your loved one wants to be resuscitated.

The Federal Trade Commission offers some consumer tips for pre-planning funerals.

Plan ahead—Planning ahead can help you make informed and thoughtful decisions about funeral arrangements, absent of strong emotions and without time constraints. It allows you to choose the specific items you want and need, and compare the prices offered by several funeral providers. If family members do not want to be involved with the pre-planning process, you can make arrangements directly with a funeral establishment that you want to handle your remains.

Determining Disposable Is Critical—An important consideration

when pre-planning a funeral is deciding where the remains will be buried, entombed, or scattered. In the short time between the death and burial of a loved one, many family members find themselves rushing to buy a cemetery plot or grave, often without careful thought or a personal visit to the site. That is why it is in the family's best interest to buy cemetery plots before they need are needed.

Making Pre-Arrangements Does Not Mean Pre-Pay—It is possible to make decisions about your arrangements in advance, but not pay for them in advance.

Keep in mind that over time, prices may go up and businesses may close or change ownership. However, in some areas with increased competition, prices may go down over time.

It is a good idea to review and revise your decisions every few years, and to make sure your family is aware of your wishes.

Put Your Final Wishes In Writing—Put your preferences in writing, give copies to family members and your attorney, and keep a copy in a

handy place.

Do not designate your preferences in your will, because a will often is not found or read until after the funeral. Do not put the only copy of your preferences in a safe deposit box because your family may have to make arrangements on a weekend or holiday, before the box can be opened.

The National Caregivers Library (www.caregiverslibrary.org/caregivers-resources/grp-end-of-life-issues.aspx ) has a wealth of information and forms to assist with end of life issues and pre-planning, including hospice care basics, preplanning checklists, costs and types of funerals, and letters of last instructions, Even though most people are not comfortable focusing on what will happen at the end of life, pre-planning your funeral or memorial service can be as important as preparing for any other important event in life.

Do your loved ones a favor, make some end of life plans and share them.

SMALL BUSINESS

Why Fly Under the Springtime Brings New Beginnings Radar?

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By Lisa Williams

REALTOR®, CRS, GRI, BPOR Williams and Associates Realty

The spring and summer months are traditionally the busiest times of year for the residential real estate market. Buyers should be ready at a moment's notice.

If you're in an especially tight market, your Realtor will be reviewing new listings as soon as they're available.

If he or she finds something that matches your criteria, you'll want to look at the house and be ready to make an offer -- quickly.

But in recent years springtime has meant more homes on the market, but also more buyers, fierce

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competition and an increase in prices.

Begin by making sure your credit report is accurate and get your loan pre-approved or updated because this will give an advantage on several fronts.

As soon as you see a home you want come on the market, don’t

wait to view it. Have your agent show you the home as soon as possible and be ready to make an offer.

This is another reason why getting your pre-approval is so important.

This spring many home buyers may consider to purchase a foreclosures, “fixer-upper homes” or just older homes that need a variety of repairs in the expectations of buying the home at a lower price.

This is a great time to buy a home. Interest rates are still low, and in some areas, owning a home is more affordable than renting.

Although housing prices are showing slight increases, rental prices are increasing at a much higher rate.

The Truth About Credit Repair Which Almost No One Knows

Credit repair is the systematic disputing of negative information on your credit report. By disputing information on your credit report, credit repair companies claim they can remove late payments, charge offs, judgments, tax liens, and bankruptcies from your credit report. The more negative information which is deleted from your credit report, the higher your credit score.

That’s because credit scores are based ONLY on information from your credit report. Information like race, age, religion, residence and even your income are not part of your credit score. So it’s possible that a Surgeon who makes a million dollars a year will have a lower credit score than a Teacher who makes $70,000 a year.

Does credit repair work? Short answer is yes. The longer answer is that credit repair works only if the company doing the repairing knows what they are doing. And in order to really know how to repair credit, you must know how credit bureaus work.

Credit bureaus – Trans Union, Equifax and Experian – are the companies who create your credit reports.

If you are going to dispute negative information on your credit report, you must go through them to do it.

And if you are going to go through them to repair your credit, you must know what to do and what not to do.

Allow me to explain.

Credit repair can be very effective if you have an understanding to two things you probably have never heard before. The first thing is called “OCR” and the second thing is called “e-Oscar.” These are two computer systems which the credit bureaus use and if you or your credit repair company doesn’t understand these two systems, then you’re not going to get the results you desire and deserve.

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It’s used by the 3 credit bureaus to scan in every dispute letter they receive. OCR categorizes your dispute as legitimate or as frivolous.

You need to know that the credit bureau is looking for any reason they can deny your dispute. So the credit repair company must know the “loopholes” to get around the OCR system.

The problem is almost none of the

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credit repair companies know about OCR, much less how to get around OCR so the dispute is considered legitimate. OCR is the reason you don’t want to hire a credit repair company which just bombards the credit bureaus with letters not knowing what they are doing and why they are doing it. This can ruin your chances to repair your credit.

Once you get past OCR, then you have to take on the e-Oscar system.

What e-Oscar does is assign a 2 digit code to label the type of dispute you are submitting. That dispute then goes to the creditor who is reporting

the negative information about you and the creditor either verifies information as inaccurate or it doesn’t respond which means the negative information is deleted.

Now, there is a lot more to credit repair than what I’ve covered here.

For example, if a credit repair company is really good at what they do, they will be knowledgeable about federal laws like the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or its amendment The Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act. Another important law is The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. However, the biggest mistake I see among so called “credit repair” companies, is they just don’t have a clue as to how the dispute process really works in the real world of credit reporting. So even if you know the law, you’re “dead in the water” because your dispute never gets past OCR or e-Oscar.

If you wish to attend a free seminar explaining how you can recover from bad credit, bankruptcy or foreclosure, email mgm@TheCreditMan.com or call 414-771-9200 to reach our office directly.

But the low interest rates won’t stay low forever.

Mortgage rates are expected to rise to over 5% in 2014, and home prices are also expected to increase in certain areas, so buyers should get into the market now.

Join us for our 3-part Home Buying Seminar session to be held on Wednesdays, April 16, 23 & 30 at Central Library Downtown Centennial Hall 733 N. 8th St 6:00pm - 8:30pm. Seating is limited. To register call Housing Resources, Inc. 414-461-6330.

To get more information feel free to contact Lisa Williams, Williams & Associates Realty call (414) 463-9948 or website: www.williamsandassociatesrealty.com

I remember training under a veteran sales person at a large company. He asked me what my goal was. When I told him Antoine Miller my goal was to be the number one sales person in the company, he got this serious look on his face. I’ll never forget what he said as he leaned in on me. He said, “be good at what you do but just good enough to fly under the radar. You don’t want to be a target. When you’re number one, you become that target that everyone is gunning for. You don’t want that.” Sadly, that was his truth.

Shortly before I left the company that guy was flying so low under the radar that he was almost fired. He had gone from flying to a flat out low crawl under the radar. I get the impression that his performance was a direct reflection of his lack of aggressiveness. He should have done like me and ignored his own advice.

You have to be insanely optimistic and aggressive when it comes to your goals.

My advice is to always shoot to be number one. Even if they mean well, don’t worry about what other people want for you. The average results that please others should never please you. Become number one. Who’s number two? Demand more of yourself and earn more for yourself. Forget about being timid and flying under anyone’s radar; let them fly under yours. This is your time to shine! Get up and be aggressive about your success!

Antoine Miller is Founder of 99 SALES iDEAS for Business Development.

Miller is excited to help business owners sell more of their products and services.

Contact him at 414-219-1989 or amiller@99salesideas.com

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“THE FLOW”

Corona MOTION Gust of the wind.

Stride in her walk.

Release of the balloon.

Strut in his step.

Pace in her tone.

Caress of his touch.

Gush of the tide.

Drift of the cloud.

Drip of the stream.

Cry of his tears.

Congestion of the commute.

Chill of her demeanor.

Power of the surge.

Leap of his Faith.

Roll with the punches.

Whisper of his breath.

What is the Flow?

Zelda Corona

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MOVING ON In our lives we have the tendency to not open our minds to something new, and hold on to something when we know we should Move On from it.

In our lives we may need to change our priorities, circle of friendships and relationships.

In our lives we may become caregivers to those we love, which I know can be challenging.

In our lives people, places and things will come and go like the change of seasons.

In our lives we need to pray and allow God to teach us how to Move

On from the negative.

Go with the flow when changes and challenges come our way.

We all are work in progress...So let's keep progressing!!!!!!!!

Always Keeping It Real Tara R. Pulley

Pulley

LET IT GO! Talked to my mama and she’s worried about my nephew.

Grandmother called me concerned about what Medicare won’t pay for anymore.

Brother text me upset that no one else in the family agrees with his views.

My one friend has started her own business, but the haters just keep coming at her.

My other friend is adjusting to not only her own life changes, but she is also a caretaker to her loved one.

My honey is a black entrepreneur, taking the good business days with the bad, despite keeping his head and his faith up, when it just seems too easy to quit.

And me…My worries are no different than theirs. Maybe more.

What I believe…Want you and them to know…

Is that as long as we let go of what we cannot control…God will solve it all for He is “The Flow”.

Sonya Marie Bowman

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MOVIN’ ON UP!

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Interim SDC Leadership Made Permanent

Leadership at the Social Development Commission has been solidified. George P. Hinton was named at a special meeting of the SDC Board as permanent CEO of the agency.

George Hinton was hired in October to be Interim CEO at the anti-poverty agency that serves Milwaukee County. He came to the agency from a management background that includes founding the Hinton Group, a healthcare and business consulting firm, and serving as President of the Aurora Sinai Medical Center.

Board Chair Gerard Randall said “The Board is enthusiastically committed to supporting Mr. Hinton as he continues to guide SDC”. In accepting the permanent Hinton CEO position, Hinton stated he is looking forward to working to make SDC one of the best anti-poverty agencies and to continue into the future its 50 year legacy of helping the low-income community.

The Milwaukee Community Journal April 2, 2014 Page 8 SUMMONS PUBLICATION STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY FAMILY COURT BRANCH FAMILY: B CASE NO. 14FA000888 In re the Marriage of: RUTH ANNETTE ALVAREZ, 1550A S 23rd Street Milwaukee Wisconsin 53204, Petitioner and HECTOR LUIS TORRES, 1554 N Booth St. Milwaukee, WI 53212 Respondent THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To the person named above as respondent: You are hereby notified that the petitioner named above has filed a petition for divorce against you.

Within 45 days after the 18thday of March, 2014 exclusive of the date just stated, you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the petition.

The demand must be sent or delivered to this Court, whose address is: Clerk of Circuit Court, Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N. 9th St., Milwaukee, WI 53233 and to Centro Legal the petitioner’s attorney, whose address is 614 W. National Ave., Floor 2, Milwaukee WI 53204.

You may have an attorney represent you.

If you do not demand a copy within 45 days, the Court may grant a judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the petition, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the petition. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law.

Judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future and may also be enforced by garnishment of wages or seizure of property.

You are further hereby notified that if you or the petitioner has minor children, violation of the following criminal statute is punishable by a fine or imprisonment, or both: 948.31 Interference with custody by parent or others.

If you and the petitioner have minor children, a document setting forth the percentage standard for child support established by the department of Workforce Development under Wis. Stat.

49.22(9) and listing the factors that a court may consider for modification of that standard under Wis. Stat.

767.511(1m) is available upon your request form the clerk of court.

You are further hereby notified of the availability of information set forth in Wis. Stat. 767.105 from the office of family court commissioner.

Dated: March 18, 2014 Centro Legal Attorneys for the Petitioner By: JESSICA MARQUEZ MURPHY State bar No. 1064363 014-078/4-2-9-16-2014

SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002556 In the matter of the name change of: PAMELA LARNA WHITSETT

NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: PAMELA LARNA WHITSETT To: PAMELA LARNA HAWTHRONE Birth Certificate: PAMELA LARNA TAYLOR

IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. KEVIN E MARTENS BRANCH 27 ROOM 415 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: May 12, 2014, TIME 11:00 A.M.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: 3-26-2014

BY THE COURT: HON. KEVIN E MARTENS Circuit Court Judge 014-081/4-2-9-16-2014

SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002479 In the matter of the name change of: DION LAMONT QUALLS By (Petitioner) DION LAMONT QUALLS

NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: DION LAMONT QUALLS To: DION LAMONT MCCLENDON Birth Certificate: DION LAMONT QUALLS

IT IS ORDERED: This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. RICHARD J SANKOVITZ, PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Room 500 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: April 30, 2014, TIME: 1:30 P.M.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: 3-25-2014

BY THE COURT: HON. RICHARD J SANKOVITZ Circuit Court Judge 014-079/4-2-9-16-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV0001769 In the matter of the name change of: JOHNATHAN LAVON MCKINNIE

NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: JOHNATHAN LAVON MCKINNIE To: JOHNATHAN LAVON MCKINNIE EVANS Birth Certificate JOHNATHAN LAVON MCKINNIE

IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. KAREN CHRISTENSON ROOM 208 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: April 29, 2014, TIME 8:30 A.M.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: 3-3-2014

BY THE COURT: HON. KAREN E CHRISTENSON Circuit Court Judge 014-080/4-2-9-16-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY Case No. 13FA005824 Divorce-40101 In Re: The marriage of: RICHARD RAMCZYZ JR, Petitioner and Respondent: SARAH ANGELA RAMCZYK THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, TO THE PERSON NAMED ABOVE AS RESPONDENT: You are notified that the petitioner named above has filed a Petition for divorce or legal separation against you.

You must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Petition within 45 days from the day after the first day of publication.

The demand must be sent or delivered to the court at: Clerk of Court, Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N 9th St Room 104 Milwaukee WI 53233 and to RICHARD RAMCZYZ JR 3430 W HAYES AVE MILWAUKEE WI 53215 It is recommended, but not required that you have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy of the Petition within 45 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Petition, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the Petition.

A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

You are further notified that if the parties to this action have minor children, violation of 948.31 Wis. Stats., (Interference with custody by parent or others) is punishable by fines and/or imprisonment: If you and the petitioner have minor children, documents setting forth the percentage standard for child support established by the department under 49.22(9), Wis. Stats., and the factors that a court may consider for modification of that standard under 767.511 (1m). Wis Stats. are available upon your request from the Clerk of Court.

You are notified of the availability of information from the Circuit Court Commissioner as set forth in 767.105 WIs.Stats.

767.105 Information from Circuit Court Commissioner.

(2)Upon the request of a party to an action affecting the family, including a revision of judgment or order under sec.

767.59 or 767.451: (a)The Circuit Court Commissioner shall, with or without charge, provide the party with written information on the following, as appropriate to the action commenced: 1. The procedure for obtaining a judgment or order in the action 2. The major issues usually addressed in such an action.

3. Community resources and family court counseling services available to assist the parties.

4. The procedure for setting, modifying, and enforcing child support awards, or modifying and enforcing legal custody or physical placement judgments or orders. (b)The Circuit Court Commissioner shall provide a party, for inspection or purchase, with a copy of the statutory provisions in this chapter generally

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pertinent to the action.

Date: 3-17-2014 BY: RICHARD RAMCZYZ JR 014-081/4-2-9-16-2014

SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002182 In the matter of the name change of: JAKAI SHARRON WYNN-WILLIAMS By (Petitioner) LEQUITA WYNN

NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: JAKAI SHARRON WYNNWILLIAMS To: JAKAI SHARRON TERRELL Birth Certificate JAKAI SHARRON WYNN-WILLIAMS IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. MARY KUHNMUENCH ROOM 402 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: April 23, 2014, TIME 3:00 P.M.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: 3-14-2014

BY THE COURT: HON. MARY M KUHNMUENCH Circuit Court Judge 014-076/3-26/4-2-9-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002411 In the matter of the name change of: JAMISSA CARLETTE STEWART BY (Petitioner) JAMISSA CARLETTE STEWART

NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: JAMISSA CARLETTE STEWART To: JAMISSA ASSATA WEST Birth Certificate: JAMISSA CARLETTE STEWART IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. PAUL R VAN GRUNSVEN ROOM 404 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: April 24, 2014, TIME 9:30 A.M. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: 3-21-2013

BY THE COURT: PAUL R VAN GRUNSVEN Circuit Court Judge 014-075/3-26/4-2-9-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002413 In the matter of the name change of: MAKENZIE KOCHANSKI By: (Co-Petitioner) SHANESE PICKETT NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: MAKENZIE ORALENA KOCHANSKI To: MAKENZIE ORALENA PICKETT Birth Certificate: MAKENZIE ORALENA KOCHANSKI IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. DAVID A HANSHER ROOM 412 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: May 5, 2014, TIME 2:00 P.M. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: 3-21-2014

BY THE COURT: HON. DAVID A HANSHER Circuit Court Judge 014-077/3-26/4-2-9-2014 SUMMONS PUBLICATION STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY FAMILY COURT BRANCH FAMILY: A CASE NO. 13FA005550 In re the Marriage of: ELOYDA HERNANDEZ, 3010 W Greenfield Ave Milwaukee Wisconsin 53215 , Petitioner and ANGEL M GARCIA ARUZ PO Box 215, South Milwaukee WI 53172 Respondent THE STATE OF WISCONSIN To the person named above as respondent:

You are hereby notified that the petitioner named above has filed a petition for divorce against you.

Within 45 days after the 10th day of February, 2014 exclusive of the date just stated, you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the petition.

The demand must be sent or delivered to this Court, whose address is: Clerk of Circuit Court, Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N. 9th St., Milwaukee, WI 53233 and to Centro Legal the petitioner’s attorney, whose address is 614 W. National Ave., Floor 2, Milwaukee WI 53204.

You may have an attorney represent you.

If you do not demand a copy within 45 days, the Court may grant a judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the petition, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the petition. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law.

Judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future and may also be enforced by garnishment of wages or seizure of property.

You are further hereby notified that if you or the petitioner have minor children, violation of the following criminal statute is punishable by a fine or imprisonment, or both: 948.31 Interference with custody by parent or others.

If you and the petitioner have minor children, a document setting forth the percentage standard for child support established by the department of Workforce Development under Wis. Stat.

49.22(9) and listing the factors that a court may consider for modification of that standard under Wis. Stat.

767.511(1m) is available upon your request form the clerk of court.

You are further hereby notified of the availability of information set forth in Wis. Stat. 767.105 from the office of family court commissioner.

Dated: February 10, 2014 Centro Legal Attorneys for the Petitioner By: SAMANTHA KEGLEY LEVIHN State bar No. 1050410 014-074/3-26/4-2-9-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY Case No. 14FA000745 Divorce-40101 In Re: The marriage of: ANDRE FOWLER, Petitioner and Respondent: TRUNCINE L SAULSBERRY THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, TO THE PERSON NAMED ABOVE AS RESPONDENT: You are notified that the petitioner named above has filed a Petition for divorce or legal separation against you.

You must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Petition within 45 days from the day after the first day of publication.

The demand must be sent or delivered to the court at: Clerk of Court, Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N 9th St Room 104 Milwaukee WI 53233 and to ANDRE FOWLER 3804 N 13TH ST MILWAUKEE WI 53216 It is recommended, but not required that you have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy of the Petition within 45 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Petition, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the Petition.

A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

You are further notified that if the parties to this action have minor children, violation of 948.31 Wis. Stats., (Interference with custody by parent or others) is punishable by fines and/or imprisonment: If you and the petitioner have minor children, documents setting forth the percentage standard for child support established by the department under 49.22(9), Wis. Stats., and the factors that a court may consider for modification of that standard under 767.511 (1m). Wis Stats. are available upon your request from the Clerk of Court.

You are notified of the availability of information from the Circuit Court Commissioner as set forth in 767.105 Wis.Stats.

767.105 Information from Circuit Court Commissioner.

(2)Upon the request of a party to an action affecting the family, including a revision of judgment or order under sec.

767.59 or 767.451: (a)The Circuit Court Commissioner shall, with or without charge, provide the party with written information on the following, as appropriate to the action commenced: 1. The procedure for obtaining a judgment or order in the action 2. The major issues usually addressed in such an action.

3. Community resources and family court counseling services available to assist the parties.

4. The procedure for setting, modifying, and enforcing child support awards, or modifying and enforcing legal custody or physical placement judgments or or-

ders. (b)The Circuit Court Commissioner shall provide a party, for inspection or purchase, with a copy of the statutory provisions in this chapter generally pertinent to the action.

Date: 3-14-2014 BY: ANDRE FOWLER 014-061/3-19-26/4-2-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY FAMILY DIVISION ORDER TO APPEAR Case NO. 13FA5900 In re: CALVES HAYNES, Petitioner and TODD BLOOMFIELD, Respondent.

IT IS ORDERED THAT YOU, BOTH PARTIES ARE TO APPEAR, IN PERSON BEFORE JUDGE MARSHALL MURRAY in Room 702 Milwaukee County Courthouse, 901 North 9th Street, Milwaukee Wisconsin on DATE: June 5, 2014 TIME: 11:00 A.M. and there to attend the hearing and give evidence therein if required to do so.

You MUST come back to the court on the date shown above. Your lawyer CANNOT go to court for you. You must be ON TIME. If you do not show up, a warrant will be issued for your arrest and you may be found in contempt of court and sentenced to jail. If you miss your hearing date, come to court immediately.

THE SOONER YOU COME BACK TO COURT, THE BETTER. THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO AVOID BEING ARRESTED. Your failure to appear WILL NOT stop the Court from proceeding in your case Your next court date is for: default/stipulated settlement final divorce hearing.

YOU ARE FURTHER ORDERED TO BRING THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO SAID HEARING: Pending the next hearing you are also ordered to: Proof of Service or publishing Dated: 3-12-2014

BY THE COURT: HON. MARSHALL B MURRAY CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE 014-062/3-19-26/4-2-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY Case No. 13FA6337 Divorce-40101 In Re: The marriage of: LATOYA M MILLS, Petitioner and Respondent: CLAY JACKSON THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, TO THE PERSON NAMED ABOVE AS RESPONDENT: You are notified that the petitioner named above has filed a Petition for divorce or legal separation against you.

You must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Petition within 45 days from the day after the first day of publication.

The demand must be sent or delivered to the court at: Clerk of Court, Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N 9th St Room 104 Milwaukee WI 53233 and to LATOYA MILLS 2614 W BURLEIGH MILWAUKEE WI 53206 It is recommended, but not required that you have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy of the Petition within 45 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Petition, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the Petition.

A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

You are further notified that if the parties to this action have minor children, violation of 948.31 Wis. Stats., (Interference with custody by parent or others) is punishable by fines and/or imprisonment: If you and the petitioner have minor children, documents setting forth the percentage standard for child support established by the department under 49.22(9), Wis. Stats., and the factors that a court may consider for modification of that standard under 767.511 (1m). Wis Stats. are available upon your request from the Clerk of Court.

You are notified of the availability of information from the Circuit Court Commissioner as set forth in 767.105 Wis.Stats.

767.105 Information from Circuit Court Commissioner.

(2)Upon the request of a party to an action affecting the family, including a revision of judgment or order under sec.

767.59 or 767.451: (a)The Circuit Court Commissioner shall, with or without charge, provide the party with written information on the following, as appropriate to the action commenced: 1. The procedure for obtaining a judgment or order in the action 2. The major issues usually addressed in such an action.

3. Community resources and family court counseling services available to assist the parties.

4. The procedure for setting, modifying, and enforcing child support awards, or modifying and enforcing legal custody or physical placement judgments or orders. (b)The Circuit Court Commissioner shall

provide a party, for inspection or purchase, with a copy of the statutory provisions in this chapter generally pertinent to the action.

Date: 1-14-2014 BY: LATOYA MILLS 014-063/3-19-26/4-2-2014

SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY Case No. 13FA006852 Divorce-40101 In Re: The marriage of: JOHN W TATE, Petitioner and Respondent: YASMEEN M TATE THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, TO THE PERSON NAMED ABOVE AS RESPONDENT: You are notified that the petitioner named above has filed a Petition for divorce or legal separation against you.

You must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Petition within 40 days from the day after the first day of publication.

The demand must be sent or delivered to the court at: Clerk of Court, Milwaukee County Courthouse 901 N 9th St Room 104 Milwaukee WI 53233 and to JOHN W TATE 4239 N 52ND MILWAUKEE WI 53216 It is recommended, but not required that you have an attorney help or represent you.

If you do not demand a copy of the Petition within 45 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Petition, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the Petition.

A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.

You are further notified that if the parties to this action have minor children, violation of 948.31 Wis. Stats., (Interference with custody by parent or others) is punishable by fines and/or imprisonment:

If you and the petitioner have minor children, documents setting forth the percentage standard for child support established by the department under 49.22(9), Wis. Stats., and the factors that a court may consider for modification of that standard under 767.511 (1m). Wis Stats. are available upon your request from the Clerk of Court.

You are notified of the availability of information from the Circuit Court Commissioner as set forth in 767.105 Wis.Stats.

767.105 Information from Circuit Court Commissioner.

(2)Upon the request of a party to an action affecting the family, including a revision of judgment or order under sec.

767.59 or 767.451: (a)The Circuit Court Commissioner shall, with or without charge, provide the party with written information on the following, as appropriate to the action commenced: 1. The procedure for obtaining a judgment or order in the action 2. The major issues usually addressed in such an action.

3. Community resources and family court counseling services available to assist the parties.

4. The procedure for setting, modifying, and enforcing child support awards, or modifying and enforcing legal custody or physical placement judgments or orders. (b)The Circuit Court Commissioner shall provide a party, for inspection or purchase, with a copy of the statutory provisions in this chapter generally pertinent to the action.

Date: 12-3-2013 BY: JOHN W TATE 014-064/3-19-26/4-2-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002023 In the matter of the name change of: YINELY ISABELL MERCADO By (Petitioner) ANITA AMORITA ACOSTA

NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: YINELY ISABELL MERCADO To: YINELY ISABELL ACOSTA Birth Certificate YINELY ISABELL MERCADO

IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. MARY KUHNMUENCH ROOM 402 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: April 22, 2014, TIME 1:30 P.M.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: 3-10-2014

BY THE COURT:

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(PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002138 In the matter of the name change of: ROOSEVELT CONNOR

NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: ROOSEVELT CONNOR To: MICHAEL LASHAWN CONNOR IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. MCHAEL D. GUOLEE ROOM 413 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: April 28, 2014, TIME 1:30 P.M. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: 3-12-2014

BY THE COURT: HON. MICHAEL D GUOLEE Circuit Court Judge 014-067/3-19-26/4-2-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002096 In the matter of the name change of: KENYATA KATIA HARPER BY (Petitioner) KENYATA KATIA HARPER

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NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: KENYATA KATIA HARPER To: KENYATA KATIA LUTEN Birth Certificate: KENYATA KATIA HARPER IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. PAUL R VAN GRUNSVEN ROOM 404 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: April 14, 2014, TIME 2:30 P.M. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: 3-14-2013

BY THE COURT: PAUL R VAN GRUNSVEN Circuit Court Judge 014-068/3-19-26/4-2-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY FAMILY DIVISION ORDER FOR PRETRIAL ORDER TO APPEAR Case NO. 13FA2914D In re the marriage of: DARLENE JOHNSON, Petitioner and BOBBY JOHNSON, Respondent.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the above action is scheduled for a pre-trail hearing before the Honorable Judge WILLIAM SOSNAY, Branch 8. Date: June 17 2014 Time: 10:00 A.M., Milwaukee County Courthouse, 901 North 9th Street, Milwau-

OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT Office of the Milwaukee Public Schools, DIVISION OF FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES, 1124 N. 11th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 27, 2014.

Sealed proposals will be received at 1124 N. 11th St., directed to the attention of Ms. Gina M. Spang, P.E., Director of the Division of Facilities and Maintenance Services, pursuant to Section 119.52(3) Wisconsin Statutes, until Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 1:30 P.M., in accordance with plans and specifications for the following work: All contractor(s) and subcontractor(s) are subject to the prevailing wage rates and hours of labor as prescribed by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee consistent with provisions of Section 66.0903 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

BID GUARANTY TO ACCOMPANY BID: MPS Bid Bond, Certified or Cashier’s Check: 10% of Contractor’s Base Bid. MASONRY RESTORATION Cass Street School 1647 N. Cass Street Milwaukee, WI 53202 MPS Property No. 104 MPS Project No. 2301

The HUB requirements for this project are 10% The COIN requirements for this project are 10% The minimum Student Participation requirements for this project are: Paid Employment: 200 Hours Educational Activities: 10 Hours

Deposit for Drawings and Specifications: $25.00 MAILING CHARGE: $35.00

kee, Wisconsin.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the attorneys (if any) who will actually try the case and both parties must be present unless appearance is waived BY THE COURT. In the event a stipulation is reached, the matter will be heard and a divorce granted at the time of this pretrial if all required information is on file.

If the respondent fails to appear, the Court may proceed with the case. Action that may be taken includes granting the divorce, dividing property, awarding or permanently denying maintenance, assigning responsibility for debts, making orders for the custody and placement of minor children, making or modifying child support orders.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that each party shall provide to the Court and to the other party, at least 14 days prior to the pre-trial, current financial information, including proof of earnings, on a signed financial disclosure statement under oath.

The parties shall be prepared to: a. discuss property valuation and whether written appraisals are needed, or if the parties can agree on the value of the real and personal property, and pensions; b. agree on appraiser(s), if needed, before or at this pretrial, subject to the Court’s approval (if parties cannot so agree, the Court will appoint needed appraiser(s) a the pretrial); c. advise the Court of any custody or visitation disputes, whether mediation has been attempted, and whether a guardian ad litem may have to be appointed and the parties’ ability to pay the fees of the guardian ad litem; d. indicate what issues the parties have agreed on and those issues that have not been resolved.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the petitioner, not less than 5 days prior to this hearing, serve a copy of this order upon the Department of Child Support Enforcement,

Courthouse Room 101 If either party receives any W-2 benefits (including employment positions, work programs, job access loans, education and training, health and/or child care, or transportation assistance), or medical assistance, or if a child of the parties is in foster care.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that no adjournments will be granted without Court approval.

Failure to comply with the order of the Court, including failure to provide required information, may cause appropriate sanctions to be imposed pursuant to sec.

802.10(5), Wis. Stats.

Dated: 3-7-2014

BY THE COURT: WILLIAM SOSNAY CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE 014-069/3-19-26/4-2-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002172 In the matter of the name change of: KENDRA PERTRISE JONES NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: KENDRA PERTRISE JONES To: KENDRA PERTRISE FRIEND Birth Certificate KENDRA PERTRISE FRIEND IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. MARY KUHNMUENCH ROOM 402 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: April 22, 2014, TIME 2:30 P.M.

OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT Office of the Milwaukee Public Schools, DIVISION OF FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES, 1124 N. 11th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 27, 2014.

Sealed proposals will be received at 1124 N. 11th St., directed to the attention of Ms. Gina M. Spang, P.E., Director of the Division of Facilities and Maintenance Services, pursuant to Section 119.52(3) Wisconsin Statutes, until Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 1:30 P.M., in accordance with plans and specifications for the following work: All contractor(s) and subcontractor(s) are subject to the prevailing wage rates and hours of labor as prescribed by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee consistent with provisions of Section 66.0903 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

BID GUARANTY TO ACCOMPANY BID: MPS Bid Bond, Certified or Cashier’s Check: 10% of Contractor’s Base Bid.

The HUB requirements for this project are 15% The COIN requirements for this project are 20% The minimum Student Participation requirements for this project are: Paid Employment: 400 Hours Educational Activities: 10 Hours Deposit for Drawings and Specifications: $25.00 MAILING CHARGE: $35.00

OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT Office of the Milwaukee Public Schools, DIVISION OF FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES, 1124 N. 11th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 31, 2014.

Sealed proposals will be received at 1124 N. 11th St., directed to the attention of Ms. Gina M. Spang, P.E., Director of the Division of Facilities and Maintenance Services, pursuant to Section 119.52(3) Wisconsin Statutes, until Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 1:30 P.M., in accordance with plans and specifications for the following work: All contractor(s) and subcontractor(s) are subject to the prevailing wage rates and hours of labor as prescribed by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee consistent with provisions of Section 66.0903 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

BID GUARANTY TO ACCOMPANY BID: MPS Bid Bond, Certified or Cashier’s Check: 10% of Contractor’s Base Bid. ASBESTOS ABATEMENT DIVISION 1: Franklin School 2308 W. Nash Street Milwaukee, WI 53206 MPS Property No. 179 MPS Project No. 2359

Deposit for Drawings and Specifications: $25.00 MAILING CHARGE: $35.00

The bidding documents may be obtained 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday from A/E Graphics, Inc., 4075 North 124th Street, Brookfield, WI 53005; phone (262) 781-7744; fax (262) 781-4250. Call A/E Graphics for availability of bid documents for pick up. Plans and specifications will be loaned to a prospective bidder upon receipt of the deposit listed, which deposit will be returned upon surrender of the plans and specifications in good condition.

Bid documents must be returned only to A/E Graphics, Inc. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Facilities and Maintenance Services’ office. Bid documents may not be examined at A/E Graphics, Inc.. Plans and specifications may also be viewed online at A/E Graphics, Inc. @ www.aegraphics.com.

Each proposal shall be for a fixed lump sum.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids or to waive informalities.

Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals at the bid opening through sign language interpreters or other auxiliary aids. The following TDD number is available for the hearing impaired for questions prior to bid opening, 283-4611.

GREGORY E. THORNTON, Ed.D, 10522633/3-27-4-3-10-17 Superintendent of Schools.

OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT Office of the Milwaukee Public Schools, DIVISION OF FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES, 1124 N. 11th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 2, 2014.

Sealed proposals will be received at 1124 N. 11th St., directed to the attention of Ms. Gina M. Spang, P.E., Director of the Division of Facilities and Maintenance Services, pursuant to Section 119.52(3) Wisconsin Statutes, until Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 1:30 P.M., in accordance with plans and specifications for the following work: All contractor(s) and subcontractor(s) are subject to the prevailing wage rates and hours of labor as prescribed by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee consistent with provisions of Section 66.0903 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

BID GUARANTY TO ACCOMPANY BID: MPS Bid Bond, Certified or Cashier’s Check: 10% of Contractor’s Base Bid. MASONRY CHIMNEY MODIFICATIONS

Vieau School 823 S. 4th Street Milwaukee, WI 53204 MPS Property No. 390 MPS Project No. 2150

The HUB requirements for this project are 15% The COIN requirements for this project are 15% The minimum Student Participation requirements for this project are: Paid Employment: 300 Hours Educational Activities: 10 Hours

Deposit for Drawings and Specifications: $25.00 MAILING CHARGE: $35.00

The bidding documents may be obtained 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday from A/E Graphics, Inc., 4075 North 124th Street, Brookfield, WI 53005; phone (262) 781-7744; fax (262) 7814250. Call A/E Graphics for availability of bid documents for pick up. Plans and specifications will be loaned to a prospective bidder upon receipt of the deposit listed, which deposit will be returned upon surrender of the plans and specifications in good condition. Bid documents must be returned only to A/E Graphics, Inc. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Facilities and Maintenance Services’ office. Bid documents may not be examined at A/E Graphics, Inc.. Plans and specifications may also be viewed online at A/E Graphics, Inc. @ www.aegraphics.com.

Each proposal shall be for a fixed lump sum.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids or to waive informalities.

Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals at the bid opening through sign language interpreters or other auxiliary aids. The following TDD number is available for the hearing impaired for questions prior to bid opening, 283-4611.

GREGORY E. THORNTON, Ed.D, 10525547/4-2-8-15-22 Superin-

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Dated: 3-12-2014

BY THE COURT: HON. DANIEL A NOONAN Circuit Court Judge 014-064/3-19-26/4-2-2014

Parkside School 2969 S. Howell Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53207 MPS Property No. 049

OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT Office of the Milwaukee Public Schools, DIVISION OF FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES, 1124 N. 11th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 27, 2014.

Sealed proposals will be received at 1124 N. 11th St., directed to the attention of Ms. Gina M. Spang, P.E., Director of the Division of Facilities and Maintenance Services, pursuant to Section 119.52(3) Wisconsin Statutes, until Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 1:30 P.M., in accordance with plans and specifications for the following work: All contractor(s) and subcontractor(s) are subject to the prevailing wage rates and hours of labor as prescribed by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee consistent with provisions of Section 66.0903 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

BID GUARANTY TO ACCOMPANY BID: MPS Bid Bond, Certified or Cashier’s Check: 10% of Contractor’s Base Bid.

The HUB requirements for this project are 15% The COIN requirements for this project are 15% The minimum Student Participation requirements for this project are: Paid Employment: 300 Hours Educational Activities: 10 Hours

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. DANIEL A NOONAN ROOM 414 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: May 16, 2014, TIME 9:00 A.M.

DIVISION 2 FY 2014 HEATING PLANT REPLACEMENT MPS Project No. 1703

The bidding documents may be obtained 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday from A/E Graphics, Inc., 4075 North 124th Street, Brookfield, WI 53005; phone (262) 781-7744; fax (262) 781-4250.

Call A/E Graphics for availability of bid documents for pick up. Plans and specifications will be loaned to a prospective bidder upon receipt of the deposit listed, which deposit will be returned upon surrender of the plans and specifications in good condition. Bid documents must be returned only to A/E Graphics, Inc. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Facilities and Maintenance Services’ office. Bid documents may not be examined at A/E Graphics, Inc.. Plans and specifications may also be viewed online at A/E Graphics, Inc. @ www.aegraphics.com.

Each proposal shall be for a fixed lump sum.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids or to waive informalities.

Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals at the bid opening through sign language interpreters or other auxiliary aids. The following TDD number is available for the hearing impaired for questions prior to bid opening, 283-4611.

GREGORY E. THORNTON, Ed.D, 10522673/3-27-4-3-10-17 Superintendent of Schools.

Cass Street School 1647 N. Cass Street Milwaukee, WI 53202 MPS Property No. 104 MPS Project No. 2301

Dated: 3-13-2014

BY THE COURT: HON. MARY M KUHNMUENCH Circuit Court Judge 014-070/3-19-26/4-2-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002002 In the matter of the name change of: JOSEPH EMMANUEL MCKAY By (Petitioner) JOSEPH EMMANUEL MCKAY NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: JOSEPH EMMANUEL MCKAY To: JOSEPH EMMANUEL TABOR Birth Certificate: JOSEPH EMMANUEL TABOR IT IS ORDERED This petition will be heard in the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

Judge’s Name: HON. KEVIN E MARTENS BRANCH 27 ROOM 415 PLACE: 901 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233 DATE: April 22, 2014, TIME 9:00 A.M.

Dated: 3-7-2014

BY THE COURT: HON. KEVIN E MARTENS Circuit Court Judge 014-071/3-19-26/4-2-2014 SUMMONS (PUBLICATION) STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT MILWAUKEE COUNTY NOTICE AND ORDER FOR NAME CHANGE HEARING Case No. 14CV002136 In the matter of the name change of: JUSTIN ARODY MARTINEZ-REYES By (Petitioner) VANESSA REYES-ORAMAS NOTICE IS GIVEN: A petition was filed asking to change the name of the person listed above: From: JUSTIN ARODY MARTINEZREYES To: JUSTIN ARODY CARROLL Birth Certificate JUSTIN ARODY MARTINEZ-REYES

DIVISION 1 FY 2014 DOMESTIC WATER REPLACEMENT MPS Project No. 1760

The bidding documents may be obtained 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday from A/E Graphics, Inc., 4075 North 124th Street, Brookfield, WI 53005; phone (262) 781-7744; fax (262) 781-4250. Call A/E Graphics for availability of bid documents for pick up. Plans and specifications will be loaned to a prospective bidder upon receipt of the deposit listed, which deposit will be returned upon surrender of the plans and specifications in good condition.

Bid documents must be returned only to A/E Graphics, Inc. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Facilities and Maintenance Services’ office. Bid documents may not be examined at A/E Graphics, Inc.. Plans and specifications may also be viewed online at A/E Graphics, Inc. @ www.aegraphics.com.

Each proposal shall be for a fixed lump sum.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids or to waive informalities.

Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals at the bid opening through sign language interpreters or other auxiliary aids. The following TDD number is available for the hearing impaired for questions prior to bid opening, 283-4611.

GREGORY E. THORNTON, Ed.D, 10522657/3-27-4-3-10-17 Superintendent of Schools.

EXTERIOR PAINTING

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED: Notice of this hearing shall be given by publication as a Class 3 notice for three (3) weeks in a row prior to the date of the hearing in the Milwaukee Community Journal, a newspaper published in Milwaukee County, State of Wisconsin.

DIVISION 2: Keefe Avenue School 1618 W. Keefe Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53206 MPS Property No. 235 MPS Project No. 2358

The HUB requirements for this project are 0% The COIN requirements for this project are 0% The minimum Student Participation requirements for this project are: Paid Employment: 0 Hours Educational Activities: 0 Hours Deposit for Drawings and Specifications: $25.00 MAILING CHARGE: $35.00 The bidding documents may be obtained 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday from A/E Graphics, Inc., 4075 North 124th Street, Brookfield, WI 53005; phone (262) 781-7744; fax (262) 781-4250. Call A/E Graphics for availability of bid documents for pick up. Plans and specifications will be loaned to a prospective bidder upon receipt of the deposit listed, which deposit will be returned upon surrender of the plans and specifications in good condition. Bid documents must be returned only to A/E Graphics, Inc. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Facilities and Maintenance Services’ office. Bid documents may not be examined at A/E Graphics, Inc.. Plans and specifications may also be viewed online at A/E Graphics, Inc. @ www.aegraphics.com.

Each proposal shall be for a fixed lump sum.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids or to waive informalities.

Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals at the bid opening through sign language interpreters or other auxiliary aids. The following TDD number is available for the hearing impaired for questions prior to bid opening, 283-4611.

GREGORY E. THORNTON, Ed.D, 10524140/3-31-4-3-10-17 Superintendent of Schools.

OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT Office of the Milwaukee Public Schools, DIVISION OF FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES, 1124 N. 11th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 1, 2014.

Sealed proposals will be received at 1124 N. 11th St., directed to the attention of Ms. Gina M. Spang, P.E., Director of the Division of Facilities and Maintenance Services, pursuant to Section 119.52(3) Wisconsin Statutes, until Friday, April 25, 2014 at 1:30 P.M., in accordance with plans and specifications for the following work: All contractor(s) and subcontractor(s) are subject to the prevailing wage rates and hours of labor as prescribed by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee consistent with provisions of Section 66.0903 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

BID GUARANTY TO ACCOMPANY BID: MPS Bid Bond, Certified or Cashier’s Check: 10% of Contractor’s Base Bid. NEW TOT LOT

Milwaukee Spanish Immersion School 2765 S. 55th Street Milwaukee, WI 53219 MPS Property No. 167 MPS Project No. 3074

The HUB requirements for this project are 10% The COIN requirements for this project are 10% The minimum Student Participation requirements for this project are: Paid Employment: 300 Hours Educational Activities: 10 Hours Deposit for Drawings and Specifications: $25.00 MAILING CHARGE: $35.00

The bidding documents may be obtained 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday from A/E Graphics, Inc., 4075 North 124th Street, Brookfield, WI 53005; phone (262) 781-7744; fax (262) 781-4250. Call A/E Graphics for availability of bid documents for pick up. Plans and specifications will be loaned to a prospective bidder upon receipt of the deposit listed, which deposit will be returned upon surrender of the plans and specifications in good condition. Bid documents must be returned only to A/E Graphics, Inc. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Facilities and Maintenance Services’ office. Bid documents may not be examined at A/E Graphics, Inc.. Plans and specifications may also be viewed online at A/E Graphics, Inc. @ www.aegraphics.com.

Each proposal shall be for a fixed lump sum.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids or to waive informalities.

Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals at the bid opening through sign language interpreters or other auxiliary aids. The following TDD number is available for the hearing impaired for questions prior to bid opening, 283-4611.

GREGORY E. THORNTON, Ed.D, 10524766/4-1-4-11-18 Superintendent of Schools.

PROPOSED MILWAUKEE COUNTY DAS-FM Projects for Advertisement for Bids Name of Project: AIRPORT DIVISION TIME AND MATERIAL CONTRACTS Project No.: 5041-14402 Bid Due Date: April 16, 2014 See Bid Documents for details BID DOCUMENTS FOR THE ABOVE PROJECT ARE AVAILABLE AT: CITY CAMPUS 2711 WEST WELLS STREET 2ND FL Milwaukee, WI 53208 For Further Information contact 414-278-4861 or www.county.milwaukee.gov

OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT Office of the Milwaukee Public Schools, DIVISION OF FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES, 1124 N. 11th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 1, 2014.

Sealed proposals will be received at 1124 N. 11th St., directed to the attention of Ms. Gina M. Spang, P.E., Director of the Division of Facilities and Maintenance Services, pursuant to Section 119.52(3) Wisconsin Statutes, until Friday, April 25, 2014 at 1:30 P.M., in accordance with plans and specifications for the following work: All contractor(s) and subcontractor(s) are subject to the prevailing wage rates and hours of labor as prescribed by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee consistent with provisions of Section 66.0903 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

BID GUARANTY TO ACCOMPANY BID: MPS Bid Bond, Certified or Cashier’s Check: 10% of Contractor’s Base Bid. ASBESTOS ABATEMENT DIVISION 1:

Parkside School 2969 S. Howell Avenue Milwaukee, WI 5327 MPS Property No. 049 MPS Project No. 1703 DIVISION 2: South Division High School 1515 W. Lapham Boulevard Milwaukee, WI 53204 MPS Property No. 032 MPS Project No. 1990 The HUB requirements for this project are 0% The COIN requirements for this project are 0% The minimum Student Participation requirements for this project are: Paid Employment: 0 Hours Educational Activities: 0 Hours Deposit for Drawings and Specifications: $25.00 MAILING CHARGE: $35.00 The bidding documents may be obtained 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday from A/E Graphics, Inc., 4075 North 124th Street, Brookfield, WI 53005; phone (262) 781-7744; fax (262) 781-4250. Call A/E Graphics for availability of bid documents for pick up. Plans and specifications will be loaned to a prospective bidder upon receipt of the deposit listed, which deposit will be returned upon surrender of the plans and specifications in good condition.

Bid documents must be returned only to A/E Graphics, Inc. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Facilities and Maintenance Services’ office. Bid documents may not be examined at A/E Graphics, Inc.. Plans and specifications may also be viewed online at A/E Graphics, Inc. @ www.aegraphics.com.

Each proposal shall be for a fixed lump sum.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids or to waive informalities.

Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals at the bid opening through sign language interpreters or other auxiliary aids. The following TDD number is available for the hearing impaired for questions prior to bid opening, 283-4611.

GREGORY E. THORNTON, Ed.D, 10524809/4-1-4-11-18 Superintendent of Schools.

OFFICIAL ADVERTISEMENT Office of the Milwaukee Public Schools, DIVISION OF FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES, 1124 N. 11th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 1, 2014.

Sealed proposals will be received at 1124 N. 11th St., directed to the attention of Ms. Gina M. Spang, P.E., Director of the Division of Facilities and Maintenance Services, pursuant to Section 119.52(3) Wisconsin Statutes, until Friday, April 25, 2014 at 1:30 P.M., in accordance with plans and specifications for the following work: All contractor(s) and subcontractor(s) are subject to the prevailing wage rates and hours of labor as prescribed by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee consistent with provisions of Section 66.0903 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

BID GUARANTY TO ACCOMPANY BID: MPS Bid Bond, Certified or Cashier’s Check: 10% of Contractor’s Base Bid. ROOF REPLACEMENT

Greenfield Montessori School 1711 S. 35th Street Milwaukee, WI 53215 MPS Property No. 202 MPS Project No. 2377

The HUB requirements for this project are 25% The COIN requirements for this project are 25% The minimum Student Participation requirements for this project are: Paid Employment: 300 Hours Educational Activities: 10 Hours

Deposit for Drawings and Specifications: $25.00 MAILING CHARGE: $35.00 The bidding documents may be obtained 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday from A/E Graphics, Inc., 4075 North 124th Street, Brookfield, WI 53005; phone (262) 781-7744; fax (262) 781-4250. Call A/E Graphics for availability of bid documents for pick up. Plans and specifications will be loaned to a prospective bidder upon receipt of the deposit listed, which deposit will be returned upon surrender of the plans and specifications in good condition.

Bid documents must be returned only to A/E Graphics, Inc. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Facilities and Maintenance Services’ office. Bid documents may not be examined at A/E Graphics, Inc.. Plans and specifications may also be viewed online at A/E Graphics, Inc. @ www.aegraphics.com.

Each proposal shall be for a fixed lump sum.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids or to waive informalities.

Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals at the bid opening through sign language interpreters or other auxiliary aids. The following TDD number is available for the hearing impaired for questions prior to bid opening, 283-4611.

GREGORY E. THORNTON, Ed.D, 10524793/4-1-4-11-18 Superintendent of Schools.

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