REGISTER NOW for Pet Walk Milwaukee
Saturday, June 19 Updated: 3:33 PM CDT May 19, 2021
REGISTER NOW for Pet Walk Milwaukee
Saturday, June 19 Updated: 3:33 PM CDT May 19, 2021
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Show Transcript We ve been stuck inside for too long, constant companions, but we never go anywhere. Hey Oscar, I ve got a surprise for you. Oh, boy, oh boy, join wh SN 12 for pet walk Milwaukee benefiting the Wisconsin Humane society, june 19th, grab your human and go to one of these pet walk parks to participate. For more info, visit W I S N dot com slash pet walk. They do so much for us. Let s do something for them. It s about time.
In one moment Sunday afternoon, empty chairs and cushions sat waiting on Olga Thomas’ front lawn in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood.
In the next, chess lovers and enthusiastic beginners alike were arriving, taking their seats, setting up their boards and diving into games.
It was the second meeting of the new Bay View Knights Chess Club, started by Thomas after inquiring in a neighborhood Facebook group about chess clubs in the area for her 14-year-old son.
Or maybe, she wrote, someone would want to stop by her home on East Oklahoma Avenue for a game.
The response was “overwhelmingly positive,” Thomas said. Hundreds of people replied offering to play or saying they’d always wanted to learn.
Help wanted: 300 strong swimmers to fill lifeguard positions
May 16, 2021
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MILWAUKEE (AP) Swimmers in Milwaukee and elsewhere looking to cool off with a dip in a pool or lake this summer might be out of luck if the county can t find people to watch over them.
Milwaukee County Parks is seeking about 300 strong swimmers to help fill a lifeguard shortage that began several years ago and has only gotten worse. There has been a steady decrease over the last four years in the number of lifeguards the system has employed.
In 2017, the Parks Department had 202 lifeguards; in 2018 that declined to 177. The next year, the number of lifeguards on staff fell to 131. The Parks Department had no lifeguards during 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Journal Sentinel reported.