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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Park Watch Meeting on Thursday
Please come to the Park Watch meeting this Thursday, December 10 at 7 pm. Please find the details below:
We have an exciting agenda for our next meeting, including election of new leadership.
Post your ideas for our next meeting.
Bring your friends.
South Shore Park Watch
Thursday, December 10 at 7 pm
South Shore Park Pavilion
2900 S. Shore Drive
Thursday, December 10 at 7 pm
South Shore Park Pavilion
2900 S. Shore Drive
We have an exciting agenda for our next meeting, including election of new leadership.
Post your ideas for our next meeting.
Bring your friends.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
November Park Watch Meeting
Just a quick reminder that the regular meeting will be held:
November 12 at 7:00 PM
South Shore Yacht Club, on the second floor
2300 E. Nock Street
Note: the bar down stairs will be open if people want to purchase a beverage
Please write (southshorepark@yahoo.com) if you have any questions.
Bring your friends!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Next Park Watch Meeting
While Park Watch meetings are usually in the South Shore Park Pavilion, that is not the case this month. Because of an event that is scheduled at the Pavilion there will be a change of venue for our monthly meeting. Please find the details below.
What? South Shore Park Watch Meeting
When? October 8 at 7:00 pm
Where? Historic Beulah Brinton House, home of the Bay View Historical Society
2590 S. Superior Street , on the corner of South Superior Street and East Pryor Avenue
Most importantly...there will be cookies!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Park Watch Meeting Tonight!
Please come to the South Shore Park Watch meeting. Spring is in the air! There are many plans for the coming months to discuss at our next Park Watch meeting. It's this evening:
Thursday March 12 - 7:00 pm
South Shore Park Pavillion
Agenda
Annual Earth Day Celebration
Preparing for the Farmers Market.
Updates on the Seminary Woods.
Progress with networking on the Web.
Park projects.
South Shore Park Pavillion
Agenda
Annual Earth Day Celebration
Preparing for the Farmers Market.
Updates on the Seminary Woods.
Progress with networking on the Web.
Park projects.
Come with your ideas, friends and enthusiasm. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Seminary Woods is too high a price to pay
Seminary Woods is too high a price to pay (Response to JSOnline Editorial "Cousins Center: South Side Vitality, January 6, 2009)
The MJS editorial, “Cousins Center: South side vitality,” mentions but dismisses environmental concerns about Seminary Woods. How did the editorial board make a decision about those environmental concerns without even trying to speak to any of the environmentalists who have raised the concerns?
Like many people, the groups that have been working to purchase Seminary Woods and place it in a conservancy so that it will be protected forever were interested to learn last summer that Cardinal Stritch University planned to purchase the Cousins Center and turn it into a south campus. We were prepared to welcome Stritch back to the neighborhood, and were hopeful that the university would be mindful of environmental issues surrounding Seminary Woods.
However, in mid November, Stritch revealed that it also plans to purchase the 84-acre We Energies land to the south and west of the Cousins Center and adjoins the Seminary Woods proper. The We Energies land is a brownfield. It contains coal ash that has been capped and buried. Because the cap cannot be broken, that land was deemed “undevelopable.” Now, Stritch plans to put at least five athletic fields, bright lights, stadium seating, parking lots, roadways and a field house on this land.
The plan is not acceptable. The damage to Seminary Woods is too high a price to pay.
Kathy Mulvey, President
South Shore Park Watch
The MJS editorial, “Cousins Center: South side vitality,” mentions but dismisses environmental concerns about Seminary Woods. How did the editorial board make a decision about those environmental concerns without even trying to speak to any of the environmentalists who have raised the concerns?
Like many people, the groups that have been working to purchase Seminary Woods and place it in a conservancy so that it will be protected forever were interested to learn last summer that Cardinal Stritch University planned to purchase the Cousins Center and turn it into a south campus. We were prepared to welcome Stritch back to the neighborhood, and were hopeful that the university would be mindful of environmental issues surrounding Seminary Woods.
However, in mid November, Stritch revealed that it also plans to purchase the 84-acre We Energies land to the south and west of the Cousins Center and adjoins the Seminary Woods proper. The We Energies land is a brownfield. It contains coal ash that has been capped and buried. Because the cap cannot be broken, that land was deemed “undevelopable.” Now, Stritch plans to put at least five athletic fields, bright lights, stadium seating, parking lots, roadways and a field house on this land.
The plan is not acceptable. The damage to Seminary Woods is too high a price to pay.
Kathy Mulvey, President
South Shore Park Watch
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Park Watch Meeting on Thursday
We will be having out first meeting of the year this Thursday. Please come to find out more about Seminary Woods and the canceled public hearing.
Thursday, January 8
7:00 pm at the South Shore Park Pavilion
Please feel free to bring friends.
We will be discussing winter events in the park, updating our projects, including a debrief about the Cardinal Stritch University public hearing.
Bring your thoughts and ideas.
Thursday, January 8
7:00 pm at the South Shore Park Pavilion
Please feel free to bring friends.
We will be discussing winter events in the park, updating our projects, including a debrief about the Cardinal Stritch University public hearing.
Bring your thoughts and ideas.
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