Market Basket and Growing Power on King Drive

The Market Basket Program consists of weekly deliveries of safe, healthy and affordable produce to neighborhoods throughout Milwaukee. Customers may also purchase pasture-raised meats, farm fresh eggs, fruit baskets and Urban Clover Honey when in season.

Will Allen, Executive Director of Growing Power (GP) will introduce this program and discuss other GP activities at:

2:00 PM on Friday, January 30, 2009
2775 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
(Southwest corner of King Drive and Hadley Street)

Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust that works to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food, by offering hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.

Market Basket on King Drive is a joint venture of Growing Power and Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation.
For more details call 414-264-5000. We hope to see you on January 30.

Art in the Neighborhood (Harambee's 1st Gallery Night)

Mark your calendars for a January Gallery Night Event!

In collaboration with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC-Milwaukee), and Milwaukee's Harambee neighborhood, ArtWorks is excited to announce a brand new addition to the Milwaukee Gallery Night experience! Come & join us in supporting the very first Gallery Night in the Harambee Neighborhood, where current ArtWorks Apprentices will be present to unveil the art work they created during our "Milwaukee Posters & Printmaking" program.

When: Friday, January 16, 2009 from 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Where: 2769 N. Martin Luther King Drive (Just North of Center Street)

Cost: FREE, but bring your checkbooks to bid on and/or purchase pieces of art created by ArtWorks Apprentices and Harambee artists.

RSVP by January 9, 2008 to this exciting event and automatically become an ArtWorks Event VIP!

Call (414) 277-8506 or email coordinator@artworksformilwaukee.org to RSVP.

Our Event VIPs will receive:

· Free and/or discounted admissions to future ArtWorks events

· A complimentary raffle ticket for fabulous prizes at the Harambee Gallery Night event



Thanks!

Milwaukee Health Department/Lead-Safe Properties

Today it was announced that the City of Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) received $6.9 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to eliminate lead hazards in homes within the city. These grants will enable the abatement of more than 1,100 housing units over the next three years. Because of this news, I thought it made sense to make everyone aware of the City of Milwaukee's Primary Prevention program.

The MHD operates a Primary Prevention program which provides money to abate lead-based paint hazards in windows for eligible property owners. If a property is eligible, a property owner may qualify for assistance to make the property lead-safe. An application can be obtained by calling 414-286-5025. The program guidelines and application form are also available online at http://www.city.milwaukee.gov/router.asp?docid=2828. Considering Milwaukee's north side has substantially higher lead poisoning rates than the national average, this is a program that Harambee property owners should explore.