Todd Davis captured some Rotarians out and about during the Thiensville Business Association’s Trick or Treat for the Community on Thursday, October 28.
The threat of cold on Saturday, Oct. 23rd did not deter the eager volunteers from our club, the Sunrise Rotary Club, and student volunteers from the High School, as we eagerly accepted clothing, toiletries, and money for the Afghan refugees at Fort McCoy. We had so many volunteers that four of our volunteers assisted with the shred event taking place at the same time in Thiensville Park.
Connie Pukaite organized a group to inspect used clothing to make sure it was appropriate for winter in Wisconsin. As a result, Family Sharing benefited from 4-5 bags of slightly used clothing and Family Promise received three comforters. $200 cash was collected to supplement the donations.
If you missed the event and still want to donate monetarily, you can go to the website for the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition: MMWConline.org. Click on the green button, pull down the menu and click on Afghan Refugee Relief Fund. It’s easy and you can print out a receipt.
Any interesting speaker with insights into Milwaukee's 'Hood'.
In Shelly's words:
Tom Jenz has been a friend of my fathers since the 70’s when my Parents moved to West Bend. Tom was an area manager at Jostens American Yearbook Company’s startup endeavor, Jostens Publications. In the early 70’s Tom and my father both moved in different directions but always kept in contact because of their love of photography and met up almost yearly on summer photographic forays including rodeos in Montana, the urban life of Minneapolis and rural life in the central states. The later adventures became the substance of “Forgotten American, Images and Thoughts by Tom Jenz” a book Tom wrote and produced about the vanishing of rural America. Tom Jenz is a native of Wisconsin but he spent most of his career in Minneapolis and Los Angeles as a writer and producer of corporate films, documentaries, and TV cable network programs.
For the last seven years, Tom has been writing about and photographing Milwaukee's inner city urban scene and troubled Black neighborhoods. His CENTRAL CITY STORIES appear weekly in the Shepherd Express.
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