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Vol. 36 • No. 02 • Thurs., Jan. 12, 2017 - Wed., Jan. 18, 2017 • An NCON Publication Serving The Milwaukee Area • 65¢
Milwaukee families gather to remember the victims of violence of 2016
President Obama gives emotional farewell address
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Photo by Yvonne Kemp
On Friday, December 30, 2016 Northcott Neighborhood House, Inc., hosted their annual "Milwaukee Lights A Candle for Change," candlelight vigil for the homicide victims of 2016. The vigil was officiated at St. Gabriel Church of God in Christ, 5375 North 37th Street, and was presided over by Pastor Lee Shaw. Along with songs, praise dances, and words of comfort and encouragement, family members lit candles in remembrance of their loved ones who died by violence this past year. The names of all 168 victims who died by violence last year were read by Sis. Rose Stietz and Rev. Gregory Lewis of Pastors United (pictured). The event was co-sponsored by Northcott Neighborhood House, Inc., Pastors United, MICAH, and Wisconsin Annual Conference of United Methodist Churches, in cooperation with Milwaukee County.
We Energies honors Thelma Sias for her outstanding service to their company and the community
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On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 We Energies vice president local affairs Thelma Sias was honored with a grand retirement celebration at We Energies' Public Service Building, 231 West Michigan Ave. Colleagues, friends, and community leaders gathered to pay tribute to Ms. Sias, who has been a trailblazer for African American women in the corporate world and a leader in the community. As part of the celebration she received several awards, commendations and proclamations from government officials and organizations she has worked with over the years. Pictured at the retirement celebration are (from left) We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service president Kevin Fletcher; Thelma Sias, and Ms. Sias' husband Steve Adams. www.milwaukeetimesnews.com
President Obama and the first family greet the country and their supporters following the President's farewell speech. On Tuesday, January a hardworking white middle 10, 2017 President Barack class and undeserving miObama, delivering a fare- norities,” Mr. Obama said, well address in the city that “then workers of all shades launched his political career, will be left fighting for scraps declared his continued confi- while the wealthy withdraw dence in the American exper- further into their private eniment. But he warned, in the clave. wake of a toxic presidential “If we decline to invest in election, that economic ineq- the children of immigrants, uity, racism and closed-mind- just because they don’t look edness threatened to shred like us, we diminish the prosthe nation’s democratic fab- pects of our own children ric. — because those brown kids “We weaken those ties will represent a larger share when we define some of us of America’s work force,” he as more American than oth- added. ers,” Mr. Obama said, “when In giving a farewell adwe write off the whole sys- dress, Mr. Obama invoked a tem as inevitably corrupt, privilege of presidents going and when we sit back and back to George Washingblame the leaders we elect ton. He staked his claim as without examining our own the leader who steered the role in electing them.” nation through the storms Speaking to a rapturous of the Great Recession to a crowd that recalled the ex- growing economy and job citement of his path-break- market. He claimed credit ing campaign in 2008, Mr. for reducing the rate of unObama said he believed even insured Americans to record the deepest ideological di- lows, while keeping a cap on vides could be bridged. His health care costs. words were nevertheless In a pointed reference to etched with frustration — a Republicans determined to blunt coda to a remarkable repeal the health care bill day that laid bare many of that was one of the signathe racial crosscurrents in the ture accomplishments of his country. presidency, Mr. Obama said, In the cavernous con- “If anyone can put together vention hall in Chicago, IL, a plan that is demonstrably where Mr. Obama celebrated better than the improvehis re-election in 2012, the ments we’ve made to our nation’s first black president health care system — that — still popular, still optimis- covers as many people at less tic — bade America goodbye cost — I will publicly sup10 days before turning over port it.” his office to President-elect There were also nostalgic Donald J. Trump. moments, as well. He recalled Mr. Obama pledged again the 2008 campaign that startto support his successor. But ed him on his improbable his speech was a thinly veiled journey to the White House. rebuke of several of the po- He thanked the army of volsitions Mr. Trump staked out unteers and staff members during the campaign, from who swept him into the Oval climate change and barring Office, ending with the iconMuslims from entering the ic chant, “Yes, we can.” And country to repealing his land- reflecting on all they had acmark health care law. complished, he added, “Yes, “If every economic issue is we did.” framed as a struggle between (Continued on pg. 2) An NCON Communications Publication