Alderman Witkowski - 13th District

City Hall, Room 205, 200 E. Wells St., Milwaukee, WI 53202 | (414) 286-8537
E-mail twitko@milwaukee.gov

13th District Newsletters

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27th Street Business District Image Enhancement Contest - Deadline: June 30, 2009 by 3 p.m.

The S. 27th Street Business district extending from Oklahoma Avenue to College Avenue will see changes in 2010. The S. 27th Street Business Association is conducting a community wide contest to develop two distinctive graphic designs for the district. Area residents, artists and interested parties will have a chance during the next two months to develop art work that can be reproduced on the signs, banners and monuments that will be constructed in the medians of S. 27th Street and Layton Avenue.

Click here for more information and submission guidelines.

Students and Volunteers to Plant 10,000 Native Plants at Holler Park

The city’s Garden District (the 13th Aldermanic District) is hosting some new volunteer initiatives to restore and retain the city of Milwaukee’s outdoor landscape, and one of this year’s first projects starts tomorrow (Saturday, May 9) at 9:30 a.m. outside the Holler Park lodge, 5151 S. 6th St., according to Alderman Witkowski.

Interested volunteers will participate in planting 10,000 native plants around the Holler Park lodge. Again, the work starts tomorrow and will continue through Sunday, May 17. Students from five neighborhood grade schools will also be participating in the planting activities, and volunteers are encouraged to attend and bring their children to help make the project successful.

In addition to planting, 15-20 volunteers are needed for “train the trainer” rain garden sessions. The training consists of two to three class sessions and the installation of rain barrels and one cistern at the Holler Park lodge. The rain gardens will help to improve storm water quality by catching scrubbing and evaporating storm water from the lodge roof and Easter Seals parking lot and driveways before it enters the pond that empties into the Holmes Creek, Wilson Creek, and the Kinnickinnic River watershed.

The project and training is supported with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant through the City of Milwaukee and the Garden District. If you are interested in participating in these volunteer initiatives, please contact the plan coordinator for both projects, David Ciepluch, at 414-483-9551 or dciepluch@att.net for more details.

I-94 Project Website Has New Content

The www.plan94.org web site is in its second phase and provides trip planning resources to aid travel during construction, including:

• Driving directions around construction for travel today or on future dates
• Current traffic conditions, such as speeds, travel times and alerts
• Current and upcoming road closure information, and ability to search for planned future closures
• Ability to subscribe to receive customized travel alerts delivered via e-mail or right to your desktop

 If you are affected by the I-94 project it makes sense to check out www.plan94.org soon.

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