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Thursday, 11 September, 2008
Walnut Way Vigil for Healthy Community 6pm at proposed Church’s Chicken Site
Join us for a vigil on Thursday, September 11th around 6 pm, at the site of the proposed Church’s Chicken at 17th and North.
Invite your neighbors and concerned citizens from across Milwaukee to come together peacefully to make a stand for the health of our community.
And we mean health in the broadest, deepest sense of the word. Individual and community health.
If Church’s Chicken should come to the corner, it is business as usual. Since 1982, this location as a fast food restaurant has attracted criminal activity during and after business hours.
Based on our previous experience with every one of the earlier fast-food operations, this site attracts a clientèle that establishes turf and settles arguments with guns.
We have the bullet holes in adjacent homes to demonstrate that reality.
No security system of cameras, regardless of its sophistication and quality, will stop that action. Those systems simply record it; and that is not protection enough for us.
We are striving to improve the quality of property uses in our neighborhood.
We are FOR change. We are working to change this community from a destination for criminals and troubled activities to place for commerce and traditional neighborhood services.
Neighbors have invested over $20m to rehab vintage homes and build new ones. Given a vacant property at 1635 West North Avenue, this is the time to reach for a higher and better and healthier use.
We are for business and we’re certainly for jobs. But we are also FOR choices. Healthy Choices.
80% of the choices to purchase food in our neighborhood are located in fast food restaurants and convenience stores.
If this were a neighborhood with many fresh, quality, affordable groceries available to the community, this might be a different conversation.
We imagine there wasn’t a lot of push back when Church’s came to Capitol Drive and Popeye’s is already across the street.
Outpost Natural Foods is a block away. And there are other grocery stores right within reach.
It’s time to change: not another fast food restaurant at 17th and North Avenue.
We deserve so much better. Come out. Bring friends. Let us stand together!
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