Milwaukee, WI
Emergency pantry addresses food insecurity in Milwaukee's Silver Spring neighborhood
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MILWAUKEE — A community staple in Milwaukee County is seeing the need for help, as more people are experiencing food insecurity than ever.
General Willis calls the Silver Spring neighborhood home.
“I’ve been coming here for probably over eight years, but I haven’t been in the last two years. This is my first day back,” Willis said.
Elaine Rojas-Castillo
We met him at the Emergency Food Pantry in the heart of the community center.
Willis said the reason he came in was tough.
“Short on food — it’s the end of the month and I’ve got to survive until the next month,” Willis said.
Tanya Endisch has worked in the pantry for nearly ten years and said she knows General’s situation all too well — she was once there herself.
“I don’t mind helping the community because they helped me when I was in need,” Endisch said.
Endisch said it means the world to her to work in the same center that gave her so much.
Elaine Rojas-Castillo
“This is family here, we’re a family. This is like my home away from home and I love it here,” Endisch said.
Since switching over to choice back in March, those with the food pantry said they have been able to help hundreds of their neighbors get fresh fruits and vegetables every week.
Watch: Local food pantry helps Silver Spring neighbors make ends meet.
Emergency pantry addresses food insecurity in Milwaukee’s Silver Spring neighborhood
“A lot of people ask for fresh fruits, ask for fresh vegetables,” Endisch said. “We do the best we can and we get it for them.”
With Hunger Task Force sending more than 5,000 pounds of fresh produce from their Franklin farm so far this year, Endisch said she hopes to continue serving as many families as she can.
“Don’t be scared to ask for help. Come on down. We’ll help you,” said Endisch.
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Milwaukee, WI
DOT adds concrete barriers to Holt Avenue park-and-ride lot
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MILWAUKEE — The Wisconsin Department of Transportation added a new step to stop people from living at local park-and-ride lots.
The DOT added concrete barriers at the Holt Avenue lot along I-94.
“I mean first of all you don’t want to be out here. Now you’re feeling like you’re being closed in,” Tracy Bennett said.
Bennett lived in her car at the park-and-ride. She and her husband had nowhere to turn after being evicted in May, but stumbled upon the parking lot in July.
“This isn’t a joyride. This isn’t something we expected, we planned on. It’s not life. It’s not,” Bennett explained.
For months, TMJ4’s Megan Lee has covered the encampments. However, these concrete barriers are new.
People living in the parking lot said the barriers went up a few weeks ago.
When Lee asked the DOT about the barriers, she got this response:
Over the past several months, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has notified individuals living at park and ride lots of the need to vacate. During this time, over 65 individuals have worked with Milwaukee County Housing Services staff to find safer and more suitable housing. Efforts to connect remaining individuals with available resources continue to be ongoing, and WisDOT has reconfigured the Holt Avenue Park and Ride lot with concrete barriers and fencing to maintain the progress seen in decreasing abandoned vehicles, long-term parking violations, and litter at the lot. Partnering agencies will continue to monitor park and ride lots and evaluate further actions to return park and ride lots to their intended use.
Bennett is worried she will have nowhere to go. She said, “ya know next week they’ll come and push them a little bit farther, come and push them a little bit farther until there’s no place to go.”
Lee asked Bennett if there was a lack of affordable housing in Milwaukee.
“I do. Perfect example. Perfect example right here,” she said.
Bennett is working to get assistance to move into a more stable living situation.
“You can only ask some people so many times for money, for help, for food. You can only ask so many times,” she said.
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Milwaukee, WI
“The Moving City” art car; Milwaukee alderman concerned about $88K cost
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‘Moving City’ art car raising concern over price
It is an art piece meant for community interaction while highlighting the impact of reckless driving. But new questions are being raised about its cost.
MILWAUKEE – It is an art piece meant for community interaction while highlighting the impact of reckless driving. But new questions are being raised about its cost.
“Oh honey, uh no, it’s too much,” said Margaret Sanders, a Milwaukee resident.
A Ford Ranger dressed in construction cones to highlight the dangers of reckless driving is certainly starting a conversation.
“The Mobile City,” tool to raise awareness about reckless driving in Milwaukee
“Maybe we are not able to affect the change of people doing the reckless driving. But we can make sure that the woman who has three kids and lives on 36th and Capitol can get home tonight,” said Sarah Davitt, Milwaukee Public Artist in Residence.
It is called The Moving City – a mobile art piece that cost Milwaukee $88,000.
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“The Mobile City,” tool to raise awareness about reckless driving in Milwaukee
“That’s just, woo, too much money. Too, too much,” Sanders said.
“I think it looks really cool, but it really does nothing to resolve the problem; the reckless driving,” said Max, a Milwaukee resident.
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At least one Milwaukee alderman agrees with that resident.
“I’m just here to say it’s an irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars. $88,000 for something that’s temporary,” said Ald. Lamont Westmoreland.
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The project was launched from the Milwaukee Arts Board. However, Alderman Westmoreland questions the investment considering the city’s current financial challenges.
“A lot of the funds that were used were unused funds. So then it raised the question, are they getting too much money in the budget?” Westmoreland said. “Another thing that I’m looking at doing is changing an ordinance which something like this would have to come before the council.”
FOX6 News reached out to the city’s arts board. In a written statement, Vice Chair Polly Morris said the art car is “one of the biggest wins of the program.” Morris said the city will take the truck to events for years to come.
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FOX6 News also reached out to Alderwoman Milele Coggs, chair of the Arts Board, multiple times. We have not heard back.
Milwaukee, WI
Summer 2024 was one of Milwaukee’s warmest in history, setting multiple records
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Summer in Milwaukee from a bird’s-eye view
Take a look of the Milwaukee lakefront, downtown, the Milwaukee River and Atwater Park in Shorewood via a drone.
Chelsey Lewis and Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
September is here, meaning meteorological summer is officially over.
But, before we welcome cooler weather, colorful leaves and pumpkin spice, let’s recap this summer’s weather.
Summer in Milwaukee had average temperatures slightly above normal, with multiple periods of record-setting, well-above-normal temps driving up the overall average, the Milwaukee-Sullivan National Weather Service reported.
According to the NWS, this summer ― defined by the weather service as June 1 through Aug. 31 ― was Milwaukee’s 19th-warmest, per Weather Service data dating to the 1870s.
The summer’s three-month average temperature of 71.8 degrees was 0.7 degrees warmer than the 30-year climate normal. Milwaukee’s warmest summer ever was in 2012, when the three-month average temperature was 74.1 degrees. Five of the 10 warmest summers in the city’s history have occurred since 2010, according to NWS data.
How warm was summer 2024 in Milwaukee?
Though the summer’s average temperature wasn’t too far off normal, multiple periods of extreme heat set daily temperature records for Milwaukee.
The summer’s hottest recorded temperature in the city was 94 degrees, on June 17 and 18 and again on Aug. 26 and 27. This set Milwaukee’s June 17 record high and came close to the city’s Aug. 26 record high of 96 degrees, set in 1953.
Milwaukee also had three record-warm low temperatures this summer: 78 degrees on June 18 and Aug. 26 and 75 degrees on Aug. 27. Due to heat indices around 100 degrees, a heat advisory was issued in Milwaukee County on Aug. 26, and an excessive heat warning was in effect the next day.
June 2024 was Milwaukee’s eighth-warmest June on record, according to NWS data. The month’s average recorded temperature of 70.4 degrees was nearly 3 degrees warmer than the city’s 30-year normal. Meanwhile, this summer was only the 46th-warmest July on record, with average temps actually 0.8 below normal. According to an NWS Facebook post, this August had an average temp of 72.3 degrees, identical to the 30-year normal.
What does Milwaukee’s warm summer mean for this fall and winter?
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s long-range forecast, Wisconsin is expected to see above-normal temperatures this fall, with chances highest in the far-southeastern portion of the state, including the Milwaukee area.
By winter, a naturally occurring weather phenomenon known as La Niña is expected to bring a colder and snowier-than-normal winter to the northern U.S. La Niña is caused by the cooling of water temperatures in the central Pacific Ocean to below average for several months.
According to the NOAA, these cold waters in the Pacific push the polar jet stream northward. This often brings drought to the southern U.S. and heavy rains in the northwest and Canada. La Niña tends to produce colder winter temperatures in the northern U.S. and warmer temps in the south. It can also generate a more active hurricane season.
NOAA issued a La Niña watch in mid-June, predicting La Niña conditions to emerge between September and November and persist through the winter.
Last winter, Milwaukee and Wisconsin strongly experienced the effects of El Niño, the opposite of La Niña. During an El Niño year, warmer-than-average temperatures in the Pacific bring warmer, drier winter conditions to the northern U.S. Numerous local weather experts and meteorologists told the Journal Sentinel that El Niño was the main culprit behind Wisconsin’s record-setting warm winter.
More: This has been one of Milwaukee’s warmest and wettest summers. Here’s why
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