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4 • Milwaukee County Post • November 17, 2017 $10,000 tagged for opioid campaign The Intergovernmental Cooperation Council of Milwaukee County voted this week to allocate $10,000 of its funds toward an awareness event and campaign focused on the opi- oid overdose epidemic. St. Francis Mayor CoryAnn St. Marie-Carls serves as an ICC representative on the city-county opioid task force, which convened early this year to seek solutions to the epi- demic. A growing number of persons locally and nationally have died as a result of over- dosing on heroin, fentanyl and other forms of highly addictive opioids. The ICC maintains a budget, separate from each municipality and the county, to fund various initiatives. "I think it's a great effort," South Milwaukee Mayor Erik Brooks said of the awareness campaign. "It's good to see uniformity on an event such as this." — Dave Fidlin, Special to the Post WEEK IN REVIEW STATE AND LOCAL STORIES OF INTEREST Alderman Rainey seeks late-night library hours Alderman Khalif J. Rainey is asking the Milwaukee Public Library to explore a pilot program that would allow certain branches to remain open until midnight to allow peo- ple to further research, learning, and career readiness in some of the city's libraries. "Our branch libraries have evolved and been re-invented significantly over the past 10- 15 years, and they are no longer 'just' centers of learning. They and the activities they house are a positive alternative to negative behaviors and ought to be seen as a part of a broad public safety strategy every bit as important as a police station or a squad car," he said in a news release. Rainey said asked city librarian Paula Kiely to explore the possibility of extending the closing hours. he said. "The days when the world worked on a 9-to-5 shift are long past and I am concerned that many who work late, early, or on weekends are unable to access libraries and their services," Rainey said. Alderman Rainey said he is willing to assist the MPL and the Library Board in iden- tifying potential funding to help extend hours at certain branch libraries. Milwaukee Soldiers Home funding received MILWAUKEE — Just before Veterans Day, District 10 Alderman Michael Murphy announced the allocation of $150,000 to the Milwaukee Soldiers Home Project. "Our veterans embody our American ideals of hard work, sacrifice, and resiliency. It is imperative that we honor our veteran's sacrifices and take care of our service members when they return home, and this project does just that," said Murphy, chairman of the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Board. The fund provides grants and loans for the construction, rehabili- tation and accessibility modification of affordable housing for low- to moderate-income households. "The City of Milwaukee has been a great partner in this project," said Joseph Alexander, president of The Alexander Company. The Alexander Company and the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee are leading a team chosen by the U.S. Veterans Administration to restore and rehabilitate six of the district's his- toric buildings, including the Old Main. The project will provide 101 housing units for veterans and their families who are at risk of becoming homeless. A campaign, led by a coalition of community organizations and volunteers, has a goal of $4.25 million that will leverage an additional $36 million in private investments that have already been secured. Trump's choice to head Health and Human Services 'is certainly not a drain the swamp pick,' Baldwin says MILWAUKEE — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, opposed President Donald Trump's nomina- tion of Alex Azar to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: "This is certainly not a drain the swamp pick from President Trump. The pharma- ceutical industry has a deep-rooted and strong influence in Washington and there is already a revolving door between drug companies and the government, so I am troubled by this nomination. The American people must be able to trust that the head of the Department of Health and Human Services is working for them, not powerful Washington interests," Baldwin said in a news release. "Wisconsin families can't afford to have another HHS secretary sabotaging our health care markets and raising costs. As a member of the Senate HELP Committee, I expect him to address these concerns in our committee hearings," she said. South Side shooting Saturday appears drug-related MILWAUKEE — Police say they are seeking a suspect in the shooting of a 23-year-old man on the South Side that appears to be drug-related. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries at about 7:20 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of South 23rd Street, police reported. West Allis man wins $50,000 playing Powerball MILWAUKEE — Larry Hills of West Allis won $50,000 from the Oct. 18 Powerball drawing, the Wisconsin Lottery announced. The person holding the $1 million winning ticket from the same drawing has not yet come forward. Hills purchased his $50,000 winning ticket at Schmidt's Country Gas N Go in Wind Lake. Hills matched four out of five numbers plus the Powerball. The $1 million winning ticket was purchased at Speedway, 3012 Washington Road, Kenosha. The winner matched five out of five numbers, but not the Powerball. Greenfield man, 27, dies after hit near Holt on I-43 while putting gas in his disabled vehicle MILWAUKEE — Angelo L. Quin, 27, of Greenfield was struck by a vehicle and killed while putting gas in his disabled vehicle on Interstate 43, just north of the Holt Avenue off-ramp, at about 9 p.m. Saturday, the Sheriff's Office reported. The driver of the striking vehicle stopped in the left distress lane and ran across all lanes of traffic to aid Quin and a good Samaritan attempted to give CPR until deputies and Fire Department personnel continued lifesaving measures, but Quin was pro- nounced dead at the scene, the Sheriff's Office said. The victim's vehicle sustained driver-side damage, but the two occupants, a 58-year- old woman and a 6-year-old child, were not injured, according to a news release. The 30-year-old driver of the striking vehicle was not injured and gave a voluntary blood draw; he showed no signs of impairment, the Sheriff's Office said. FBI seeking man believed to have robbed Aldi stores MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking for the public's help in finding a man it believes may have robbed multiple Aldi stores from South Milwaukee to Madison. In a press statement issued, the FBI described the man as black, between 5 feet, 7 inches and 5 feet, 9 inches, with a thin to athletic build. Witnesses have told law enforcement that the man shows a chrome semi-automatic handgun during the robberies. The FBI and law enforcement officials have tied the man to 2017 robberies in South Milwaukee, Greenfield, Brookfield, Madison and Oconomowoc. The FBI said he will enter the store about 20 to 30 minutes before it closes and hide. After the store has been closed for five to 10 min- utes, he will come out from hiding, and use a gun to order around the workers who remain in the store. The FBI believes the man has an "inside knowledge" of Aldi stores, and how they operate. "The subject has been able to avoid having his face captured by surveillance video," the bureau said in the statement. It is believed that the suspect is working with a lookout, getaway driver or something of the like because he was seen on the phone during some of the robberies. Murphy

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