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BAY VIEW ARTS TOUR 2004 By Shelley Wozniak-Rosenquist
Bay View Area Redcats Contact Ron Bird or Jerry Fritsch, 482-7264. Bay View Arts Guild (bayviewarts.org) Contact Linda Beckstrom, 482-1543 or bvarts@yahoo.com. Bay View Babysitting Co-Op Contact Sue Boyle, 744-1895. Bay View Bicycle Club (bayviewbikeclub.org) Contact Linda Roessl, president, 764-0091, or membership@bayviewbikeclub.org. Bay View Business Association (bayviewbusiness.com) Contact Charles Livermore, 481-0868 or Charles@bayviewbusiness.com. Bay View Community Center (bayviewcenter.org) 1320 E. Oklahoma Ave. Contact Linda Nieft, 482-1000. Bay View Garden and Yard Society (home.wi.rr.com/bvgays) Contact Thom Gravelle, 482-3796 or bvgpresident@bvmke.com. Bay View Historical Society (bayviewhistoricalsociety.org) Contact Gloria Skwierawski, 481-8128 or gloria@dias.net. Bay View Lions Club Contact Joe Klinkiewicz, 769-8886. Bay View Matters List Serve (groups.yahoo.com/group/bay_view_matters) Bay View Neighborhood Association (go-bayview.com/bvna) Contact Amy L. Carlson, 486-7820 or AmyLPruss@yahoo.com. Beulah Brinton Community Center (milwaukeerecreation.net/beulah-brinton) 2555 S. Bay St. Contact Bob Gavronski, 481-2494. Humboldt Park Fourth of July Association Contact Ann Schanz, 423-9818. Humboldt Park Watch Contact Ruth Simos, 483-9330. Interorganizational Council of Bay View Contact Lee Morbeck, 282-7735. MilwaukeeRenaissance.Com (milwaukeerenaissance.com) Contact James J. Godsil, 232-1336. Partnership for Rain Gardens Contact Susan Priebe and Ellen Rulseh 2102 Linden Ave., Madison, WI 53704 608240-9424 or pfraingardens@aol.com. South Community Organization Contact Terri Toporsch, 643-7913. South Shore Farmers’ Market Contact Kathy Mulvey, 744-0408. South Shore Park Watch Contact Dennis Schumaker, 481-8274 or Kathy Mulvey, 744-0408. South Shore Yacht Club (ssyc.org) Contact James Hutchinson, 481-2331. St. Ann Center For Intergenerational Care (stanncenter.org) Contact Sr. Edna, 977-5000. More information on each of these Bay View organizations will appear in the Premiere Issue.
A Moscow Tour Guide to North American Birds by Sue Lawton is featured in the forthcoming Bay View Arts Tour. 4” x 6”, acrylic, ink, collage, and charcoal, 2004 upport Wisconsin artists and Bay View Businesses by participating in the Bay View Arts Tour 2004! It will be held Saturday and Sunday, September 25 & 26th.
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Whether you're an artist or an artlover/supporter, the Bay View Arts Tour is for you. With over fifty artists and businesses participating in this year’s tour, there is sure to be something for everyone! Here's the deal. The Bay View Arts Guild (BVAG) is sponsoring this wonderful event. What is the Arts Tour? BVAG calls for artists to participate. These artists range from fine artists, featuring ceramics, jewelry, oil paintings, pastels, sculpture, mixed
media, etc., to performing artists and musicians. Then, the guild gets a hold of local Bay View businesses. These range from flower shops and hair salons to restaurants, bars and everything in between. After that, we put them together to form a wonderful two-day event where tour, that is, people can walk from business to business to look at, purchase and simply enjoy art of all kinds. How do I get involved, you might ask? Well, we're glad you did! Artists, performers, and businesses interested in participating need only visit bayviewarts.org to download the application form for this event. Fill out the required information and send it to
us with your payment. Mail it to the Bay View Art Guild. (The address it's on the form.) From there, your name will be placed on our list and you will be given further instructions. We are currently finalizing our list of Bay View businesses that will be participating in this years Tour, so if you are filling out an application and don't know where you'd like to show your work, please leave that area of your form blank and we'll help you figure out a match. Artists, business-owners, and others who wish to learn more, please contact: By Shelley WozniakRosenquist 414-520-3822 or shelwoz@yahoo.com.
BAY VIEW NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION TO HOST FIRST ANNUAL BLOCK PARTY he newly formed Bay View Neighborhood Association (BVNA) is hosting its first annual block party, planned for Saturday, October 2. The Bay View Neighborhood Association is currently in the process of soliciting corporate support, booking performers, and finalizing the plans for its inaugural block party. "Bay View is an up-and-coming neighborhood," said Amy Carlson, interim president of the newly formed neighborhood association. "We've never had a block party, like many of the other Milwaukee neighborhoods, here in Bay View. We thought this would be a good way to build community in the neighborhood." Live music, entertainment, and
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food will be featured during the Bay View Bash to attract residents and visitors to a four-block area along Kinnickinnic Ave. from California Avenue to Potter Avenue, 11am-10pm. Organizers hope to attract as many as 10,000 people. BVNA members have already received the necessary permits from the city to close down one of the neighborhood's main drags. They are working quickly to secure corporate sponsorships within the community to support the event. "We are actively seeking corporate sponsors and we'll get as many Bay View businesses and community groups involved as possible," Carlson said. "The first businesses to commit to the event
are RushMor Records, Bay View Quick Mart, Frank’s Power Plant, Bay View Methodist Church, Sven’s Café, Hi-Fi Café and Apple A Day Massage." Carlson said she hopes some of the neighborhood's larger businesses will buy into the event noting, "It gives them some promotion for their own businesses and gives them an opportunity to work and play with other businesses and people in our neighborhood. And it will be fun." Carlson acknowledges that it will be no small feat to pull the event together in the next few weeks but said with a core group of 25 volunteers and the growing support of the Kinnickinnic Avenue business community, it will happen. Continued on page 2
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WELCOME Preview Issue • September 2004 PUBLISHER Vince Bushell
EDITOR IN CHIEF Katherine Keller
DESIGN AND LAYOUT Annabelle Havlicek
ADVERTISING MANAGER Tess Reiss
ADVERTISING REPS Joan Kadow Adrian Lilly Jean Scherwenka Debra Weber
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT Bill Sell
STAFF WRITERS Katherine Keller Donna Lewein Bill Sell Bay View Compass welcomes letters to the editor and guest editorials. Letters must be signed and include author’s name, and phone number. Author’s name will be withheld upon request oped@bayviewcompass.com
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MISSION STATEMENT The Bay View Compass is a neighborhood newspaper written by and for people who have a stake in Bay View. It reflects and is a meeting place for Bay View and its neighboring communities to share information and create the community we desire. We strive to identify and work toward common goals, and as Sitting Bull advised, to put our minds together to see what kind of life we will make for our children. Bay View Compass reserves the right to refuse any advertising. ©2004 Bay View Compass All rights reserved. Reprint notice For reprint info or permission, contact editor@bayviewcompass.com
elcome to the preview issue of the Bay View Compass. The Compass was created to provide information about people, issues, and events of interest and importance to the residents and neighbors of Bay View. The Compass will draw from local writers and others who have a stake in Bay View. This paper is here to serve you, the individuals, organizations, institutions, and businesses that comprise the vibrant community of Bay View. Our objective is to shape this publication so that you, our readers, will see yourself and your neighbors within the pages of this publication. This paper will unfold and evolve as it settles in and begins to reflect the spirit of Bay View. We welcome your suggestions for story ideas, your opinions about the publication, and the world around you. We want to know what you’d like to see in this paper. The group of people who created this publication has a long, combined history of volunteerism, contributing to building, supporting, and enhancing community values here in Milwaukee. Our goal is to fashion the Compass so that it reflects the complexity and heterogeneity of life in Bay View. We will look to the future, present, and the past as we create a publication that embraces urban aesthetics and common values, while promoting healthy, safe, and affordable neighborhoods, above average schools, well-maintained parks, along with a vibrant business community. This publication aspires to create a neighborhood newspaper that directly reflects the heart and soul of the community it serves. Katherine Keller Editor in Chief
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BASH continued from page 1 "In addition to the core group, there are others in the community ready to take on specific tasks, such as the creation of a children's activity area and artists displays," said Stephanie Harling, volunteer coordinator for the event and an association member. Harling, a founding member of the South Shore Farmers’ Market, now in its 6th year, said the growth of the market has shown her that people are "starved for a place to gather with their neighbors." She said the block party would allow that opportunity and more, including a higher exposure of the Kinnickinnic Avenue retail corridor. "Being in the age of the Internet and conference calls and having fewer human contacts, I think people look for other venues and this might be one example," Harling said. For more information about the Bay View Bash, contact Amy Pruss, amylpruss@yahoo.com. The Bay View Neighborhood Association formed in February 2004. Its goal is to create a powerful voice to help shape the future of the neighborhood, located on Milwaukee's south side. To learn more about the association, visit www.gobayview.com/bvna.
Somewhere over the Hoan Bridge Bay View: the true center of the Universe get there by visiting: www.gobayview.com Webmaster: Jim Spice
El Gato Negro by Antonio Barreto is featured in the forthcoming Bay View Arts Tour. 4” x 5” linoleum print, 2004.
BAY VIEW NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION oin BVNA! We are Bay View Residents (just like you!) who have come together to make a positive impact in the Bay View community. Working together as a community, we create a powerful voice to help shape the future of our neighborhood. By collaborating, we can create the safest, strongest, and best Bay View for everyone. You have resources, knowledge, and talent that can aid in making our neighborhood an even better place to live, work and play! Information contacts: Membership Chair, Tegan Dowling, Membership@53207.com or phone Acting Board Chair, Amy Carlson, 486-7820.
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What We're Working On Now • Creating a Structured, Self-Sufficient, and Strong Neighborhood Association as a Resource for our Community • Gaining Resident Input in the Master Plan for Bay View • Designing and Printing a Bay View Map and Informational Brochure for Lake Express Ferry Riders • Planning Quarterly Bay View Social Events to Build A Strong, Active, and Friendly Community • Creating Educational Resources for the Bay View Community • Obtaining Organizational Incorporation What We've Done Since established in February 2004, we have: • Coordinated Neighborhood Block Watches • Established the Bay View Liaison Project • Assembled a Directory of Bay View Community Organizations • Coordinated a Neighborhood Planning Meeting with Mayor Tom Barrett • Promoted Safety at South Shore Park • Researched TIN Neighborhood Programs • Organized Community Forums and Task Forces on New Business Developments in Our Neighborhood • Created the Bay View Matters list serve Join us. Come to our board meetings and tell us what’s on your mind. Volunteer! BVNA was established February 2004.
OFF RAMP By Bill Sell am Bay View, by choice not birth. Bay View welcomed me. Twenty-two years ago my fiancée and I wanted to buy in Bay View. Our house hunting stumbled. Though in love with this woman, I could not forget how Bay View had charmed me, even as my charms expired with my wife. We split. I married Bay View. My first Bay View landlord, an absentee — his was an Elm Grove phone number, was slick. Borderline slumlord was he, still here today, buying the politician. He is a Pac-Man, champing through the scenery, never pooping, with a firm belief in the well constipated portfolio, that wealth is more. The Monopoly fantasy that works only if you suspend sin and temptation. He promised to finish the siding if only I would move in. Well, the spring rains came, inside, and I packed, after certain words were said. You cannot challenge one’s landlord's cash flow, brains, and integrity and expect happy ever after. I refused to believe he represented the Bay View ethos, and so, Chapter Two. When I see him today, aging, while Bay View is rejuvenating, I wonder if he still dreams of Monopoly, and buying that red hotel on Kinnickinnic. My next landlord, he and his wife, cared for their house. It was their nest egg. He tinkered outside, she cut the grass, and they kindly housed me for thirteen years. Then I bought. Now I'm my own worst landlord (or tenant). I deserve myself. But my neighbors! What planet is this? They stroll, visit on porches, the kids play hoops, bicycle, and chalk the sidewalk. They (almost) never scold, believe in (almost) unconditional love, and I believe I am in heaven. Pinch me. Talk is civil æ about Iraq, schools, Sven's, and our young. The children of my neighbors are sweet, polite, fun, and they hide their secrets from adults just as we did. Like an evening early this summer, the grown-ups were gone, and the hammock was — naw, I'm not going there. But dear reader, I will take you to public spaces and private. Let’s have a civil dialogue and explore our mutual desires for a safe, diverse, and independent neighborhood. But then, does the world need another white male telling us how to live? I make no apologies. I am guilty of white skin and whiter hair, the dinosaur of our times. But you will miss us when we are gone; your grandchildren will study our bones in college. Third World literature will feature our passing in languages you and I have never heard the sound of. Let me put some meat on those museum bones before I go. Not all white guys are the same. Hey, men, we can be so stodgy. Let's try this: open ears, activate brain. Let’s fire questions that make us vulnerable to new ideas. Compassionate? Or, unless you mean it, stop saying that other "c" word. "Conservative" has been hanging out in some bad company lately breaking the rules. Let's call a curfew and bring that word back to the American home, where it will work for a living. Wasting money, lives, and resources is not my idea of Bay View or Washington. This column will leave the fast lane, be written from a bus stop; from a park bench. Oh, for a view of our lake from our bridge! We will stop and ponder: What is a city?
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Bill Sell is a southsider by birth, who sampled nine Milwaukee neighborhoods and one in Washington, DC, but settled on Bay View. Bill wants the world to bicycle the Hoan Bridge and Kinnickinnic Avenue. Contact him: offramp@bikethehoan.com
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Bay View Arts Tour Community
10am Singers Cheryl Ann Kelly & Friends, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park.
community SEPT. 21 Interorganizational Monthly Meeting, 7:30pm, Bay View American Legion Hall, 2860 S. Kinnickinnic. OCT. 2 Neighborhood Association hosts first annual bash. Live music, entertainment, and food are featured at this Bay View Bash to draw residents and visitors to a 4-block area along KK from California Ave. to Potter Ave. from 11am-10pm. Organizers hope to attract 10,000 people. Come one, come all. For more info, amylpruss@yahoo.com.
SEPT. 18 10am Bay View United Methodist Bell Choir, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park. SEPT. 25 10am Fritsche Middle School Marching Band, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park. OCT. 2 10am Trillium, singers Ellen Latorraca, Mary Smith, and Joy Foster, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park. OCT. 9
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10am Singer/songwriter John Stano, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park.
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9am Cooking demonstration by South Shore Yacht Club, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park.
10am Harpist Emily Raasch, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park.
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recreation
9am Cooking demonstration by Wildflower Bakery, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park. SEPT. 25 9am Cooking demonstration by G. Groppi Food Market, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park. OCT. 2 9am Cooking demonstration by Tenuta’s Italian Restaurant, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park. OCT. 9 9am Gourd Art by Earlean Kurtin, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park.
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CURRENT & ONGOING ROMP, Residents for Off-Leash Milwaukee Parks, has proposed that Ellen Park, 1829 E. Fernwood Avenue become a designated dog park for Bay View’s canine set. ROMP is calling for volunteers to organize fundraising events, and more. Learn more: milwaukeedogparks.org, info@milwaukeedogparks.org, or call 769-8806. OCT. 9 9am Gourd Art by Earlean Kurtin, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park. OCT. 16
OCT. 20 Boulevard Ensemble Studio Theatre, Doug Wright’s Suspenseful Sampler Unwrap Your Candy opens Wednesday, Oct. 20, 7:30pm, Closes Sunday (Halloween), Oct. 31, 7:30pm. Limited Special Run: 7 Shows. NOV. 4 Boulevard Ensemble Studio Theatre, Paula Vogel's Comic Tango The Baltimore Waltz
9am Family activities with the Tree Guy, South Shore Farmers’ Market, South Shore Park. OCT. 23
Opens Thursday, November 4, 7:30pm, Closes Saturday, November 27, 8pm. DEC. 16
The first annual Paws in the Park Dog Walk in Veterans Park. This event includes a 2-mile dog walk, demos, activities, local vendors, and a Howl-o-ween costume contest. ROMP, Residents for Off-Leash Milwaukee Parks, event organizer, hopes to raise at least $10,000 towards local dog parks, including the Bay View site. Volunteers and interested parties are urged to contact info@milwaukeedogparks.org or call 769-8806.
Boulevard Ensemble Studio Theatre, William Shakespeare's Lyrical Adventure Twelfth Night, Opens Thursday, December 16, 2004, 7:30pm; Closes Saturday, January 8, 2005, 8pm.
stage SEPT. 18, 19, 20 Boulevard Ensemble Studio Theatre, Boulevard Scene Study Workshop, Fri., Sept. 17, 8pm, Saturday, Sept. 18, 8pm, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2:30pm. SEPT. 30
Saturday Market at South Shore by Bill Gutzwiller is featured in the forthcoming Bay View Arts Tour. 24” x 18”, pastel, 2003.
Cozy Cat by Shelly Wozniak-Rosenquist is featured in the forthcoming Bay View Arts Tour. 7” x 12”, pastels on Pine Wood, 2004.
Boulevard Ensemble Studio Theatre, Molière’s The School for Wives, Opens Thur., Sept. 30, 7:30pm, Closes Saturday, Oct. 23, 8pm.
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