Thursday, January 24, 2013
After two years without a Whitefish Bay ice rink, local kids are flocking to Cahill Park to ice skate and play hockey with their friends.
If the sight of 20 kids playing hockey in the park isn't the scene of a Norman Rockwell painting, it should have been. That sight is now commonplace in Cahill Park, where on Thursday night, kids ages six through 13 slapped the puck around, while others enjoyed a more leisurely skate on the 100-by-200-foot ice rink. When the cold becomes too much to bear, families can take a break in the heated Cahill Pavilion. Organized by Deb Dryden and Lori Rojas, more than a dozen volunteers have spent the last week flooding the park area just south of the warming house to create an ice rink for others in the neighborhood. The volunteers worked more than 10 hours to make the ice rink: three two-hour shifts on Monday, one two-hour shift on Tuesday and …
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Police say an interaction with the cops leads a 27-year-old man to give a false name, run into the lake and spit at one of the officers.
Police say a 27-year-old West Allis man led two local police officers on a foot chase into Lake Michigan on Labor Day morning. According to the police report, two officers noticed a man climbing the hill from the beach area into Klode Park around 5 a.m., which is before the park opens. The police believed he was coming from a home north of Klode Park, and trespassing on private property on their walk to the public beach. When police confronted the man about his business in the park, he told them he was at a party in the area, and he wanted to walk along the beach and meditate. Police asked the man for his name, the report says, but he gave them a fake name and birth date. The officers told the man they could not let him go until they …
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Community organizations rallied around the effort to beautify Klode Park in a natural way before the big Fourth of July celebration coming up Wednesday.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Jeff Rumage
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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Pulling weeds is not the most exciting way to spend a Saturday morning, but for about 90 Whitefish Bay residents, the Klode Park Weed Out event was time and energy well spent. Whitefish Bay Garden Club President Nancy Sturino organized the event, calling on organizations from across the village – everyone from scouts to schools to the Whitefish Bay Civic Foundation – to help beautify the park in a natural way before the big Fourth of July celebration coming up Wednesday. Sturino said the effort shows the community will step up to the plate to eliminate weeds in public parks without the use of pesticides. "People are excited about the experiment to keep pesticides out of Klode, so they were willing to take a Saturday morning and help out," …
Friday, June 22, 2012
The Whitefish Bay Garden Club is seeking teams of volunteers to keep Klode Park weed-free and pesticide-free in advance of the Fourth of July festival.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Jeff Rumage
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Friday, June 22, 2012
The Whitefish Bay Garden Club wants to keep Klode Park free of pesticides and weeds for the Fourth of July festival coming up in less than two weeks. The village has not sprayed pesticides at Klode this year. To keep the park beautiful using natural methods, the group is now soliciting volunteers to pull weeds at the park from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. June 30. To sign up, visit this website to join a group or sign up as an individual. "This is a great way to meet a few new friends, teach your children or grandchildren about "ownership" and "stewardship" of our public spaces, and help strengthen our greens space management so we can all enjoy fields and parks that are beautiful, healthy, and safe," said Jennifer Riggs, one of the event …
Monday, June 4, 2012
Steve Cannon is running a marathon around Lake Michigan to raise money for cancer awareness and research and he stopped in Milwaukee Wednesday.
An Iowa man is running 40 marathons in 40 days around Lake Michigan to raise money for cancer awareness and cancer research. Patch caught up with Cannon at Klode Park in Whitefish Bay on Wednesday and he explained what he thinks about when he's running and who and what fuels his drive to continue. This marathon will take him 1,037 miles along the entire Lake Michigan coastline, the sixth-largest lake in the world. He’s keeping fans updated on Facebook as well, with posts about everything from what he’s having for breakfast, like a double-decker salami and cheese sandwich, to his relationship with “Mom,” his nickname for Lake Michigan. There’s a Twitter account following his every move as well at @RunCannonRun.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Parade, kids games, live music and fireworks provide a full day of family fun Monday.
Independence Day is Monday, which means a full day of family fun in Whitefish Bay. The 26th annual Whitefish Bay Fourth of July Parade features the University of Wisconsin Badger Band, Whitefish Bay Summer Youth Band, Red Hot Dixie Jazz Band, Billy Mitchell Scottish Pipe Band, Spielmannszug Milwaukee Drum and Bugle Corp. and One Step Under, a kids rock band. Other notable guests include Miss Wisconsin, Bucky Badger, juggler Chris Vogt and Cardinal Stritch University President Jamie Loftus. Former Village President Katie Pritchard is the grand marshal. The parade kicks off at 11:30 a.m. at Silver Spring Drive and Kent Avenue, continuing down Silver Spring Drive, then turning north on Lake Drive to Klode Park, where the rest of the day’s …
Monday, June 27, 2011
The latest reports from the Whitefish Bay Police Department.
About six to eight young people fled the beach area north of Klode Park at about 9 p.m. Saturday when police arrived to investigate a fire along the beach on the 6100 block of Lake Drive. They left behind beer and other personal property. An 18-year-old Whitefish Bay man was cited with possession of drug paraphernalia. In other Whitefish Bay police news:
NObama 2012
11:05 am on Saturday, January 26, 2013
The one and only reason that Cahill Park was not flooded by the DPW for ice skating in Barack Hussein Obama. Barack Hussein Obama hates babies- he considers them punishment. “If {my daughters} make mistakes, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” Obama hates America! His Pastor hated America, his wife was never proud of America, and Obama hates America! Barack Hussein Obama sent 920.3 million … more ›