Milwaukee Post
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July 3, 2015 • Milwaukee County Post • 17 New Adult Emergency Department Entrance – Same Exceptional Care Starting Tuesday, July 14, the Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department will have a new entrance for adults and all pregnancy-related emergency patients. (The emergency entrance for children will stay in its current location.) For fast and easy parking, free valet service will be available 24/7 at the adult Emergency Department entrance. Visit froedtert.com/emergency for additional information. What Is Possible 92nd Street 87th Street West Connell Ave US45 Wisconsin Ave West Doyne Ave Adult Emergency Entrance Extra Emergency Parking 3 facility, which can be enjoy- ably traversed by tram, bills itself as "the world's largest museum dedicated to the history of rural life." Specifically, Old World repli- cates 19th-century immi- grant life with its working farms of various ethnic per- suasions; its churches, shops and single-room school; its smithy, shoemaker and other tradesmen. Monthly "base ball" games are played in summer according to rubrics long since amended — like the requirement that players politely address umpires as "sir." The June 15-July 31 period offers visi- tors the opportunity to live in "The World of Little House" (think Laura Ingalls Wilder), with activities changing day by day. Old World's Heirloom Gardens feature flowers, vegetables and herbs. Old Falls Village, N96- W15791 County Line Road (southwest corner of Pilgrim Road and Highway Q), Menomonee Falls, 262-250-3901, www.oldfallsvillage.com Since construction work is being done on Pilgrim Road, prospective Old Falls Village visitors are advised to go online for the best directions to the "living history muse- um" depicting life during the last half of the 19th cen- tury and opening portion of the 20th. A 2015 highlight at the Village, which is situated in a 17-acre park, will be the July 18-19 Civil War Encampment and Battle Reenactment (to be supple- mented by an ice cream social). In the Village are the 157-year-old Miller-Davidson House — a National Register of Historic Places entry — as well as a railroad depot, a dairy and other historic structures. MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County Board overrode a veto by a 14-4 vote to adopt the S.E.E.D. pro- gram, which stands for Sowing, Empowering, and Eliminating Deserts of Food. The board "did the right thing in a real effort to address acute health care disparities through the eradication of food deserts in Milwaukee County," Milwaukee County Board Chairwoman Marina Dimi- trijevic said in a statement. Through the S.E.E.D. pro- gram, Milwaukee County will partner with the Hun- ger Task Force, Growing Power, and University of W i s c o n s i n - E x t e n s i o n . Hunger Task Force will operate a Mobile Market within the county to serve residents who live in food deserts, coordinating with the Stockbox delivery pro- gram to seniors. Museums: Discovering 'living history' in the area continued from Page 17 MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Chinese Community Center will present the third annual Milwaukee Dragon Boat Festival, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 11 at Milwaukee County's Veterans Park, 1010 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive. The free event showcases Chinese culture and tradi- tion with dragon-boat rac- ing as the main attraction. Other highlights include the eye-dotting and dragon dance, cultural exhibits, and performances of traditional dance, Chinese folk music and martial arts. Authentic Chinese food will be avail- able for purchase. Dragon boat racing will begin at 8 a.m. With vibrant- ly colored dragon heads and tails, the 43-foot-long boats are sometimes referred to as "canoes on steroids." Teams of up to 21 men and women will row their boat in uni- son to the beat of their drummer. The event organ- izer will provide each team with a steersman to direct the boat using a 10-foot oar from the stern. Proceeds go to Ronald McDonald House. The event is growing as teams that participated in the past two years and new teams are joining, said Zhaohui Wang, MCCC direc- tor of Community Affairs. After the first round of dragon boat racing will be the opening ceremony at 10:30 a.m. featuring a dragon dance. Before the dragon dance, an eye-dotting cere- mony will "awaken the drag- on." In addition to cultural exhibits and performances, the young and young at heart will have the opportu- nity to make opera masks and lanterns, play tradition- al games, participate in a dragon parade, and learn to write and speak Chinese. For more information, visit http://milwaukeedrag- onboatfest.org/ For starters, Dragon Boat Festival features a 43-footer Hands-on cultural activities also abound County Board approves S.E.E.D. program