On Thursday, September 25, 2014 Mayor Tom Barrett (top photo, center left) and Alderman Russell Stamper (left) cut the ribbon on Milwaukee’s newest park located at the southeast corner of 14th and Wright. Mayor Barrett’s HOME GR/OWN initiative worked to turn this previously vacant city-owned lot into a local park. Ezekiel Gillespie Park is the biggest neighborhood vacant lot improvement completed by HOME GR/OWN to date. The park’s namesake, Ezekiel Gillespie, was a civil rights pioneer who lived in Milwaukee and is the founder of Milwaukee’s first African American church, St. Mark AME, located at 1616 West Atkinson Ave.
HOME GR/OWN opens park to honor local civil rights pioneer Ezekiel Gillespie
October 3, 2014Brewers host annual Negro Leagues tribute game
Pauline Redmond Coggs Foundation, Inc. hosts 46th Annual Débutante Cotillion
Joe Jackson, manager of The Jackson 5, has died at age 89
Milwaukee North Sunrise Rotary Club hosts Veterans Clothing Drive
To get you started, here are some of the doings doing for Halloween this weekend