I am a former 20-year resident of Rochester now living in Verona, Wisconsin, a small town 20 minutes from downtown Madison. I left Rochester in December 2010 in order to be available to my five grandchildren, who lost their father in June. I still maintain strong connections to Rochester.
Lots of fun & great music awaits you!
7/24 noon to 6 p.m.
Come on down & have a blast!
Jazz R/B Stage Host: Grand Tone of Roc City Music Group â€" HSBC Parking Lot Chili & Thurston
Noon Swan Band
12:30 Opening Committee Announcements/Vendors/Artist CD
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The Second annual Taste of Chili Avenue Festival will be held Saturday, July 24, from noon to 6 p.m., on Chili Avenue.
The main stage at the HSBC parking lot at Chili and Thurston will feature jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and a host of other performances. A second stage in the parking lot at the...
Calling attention to my photography website, where people can view and purchase the best of my photography:
http://bluerosesphotography.com
The vast majority of my photos are taken either in Rochester or close surroundings, often on a lark when I go out to walk & explore.
The name...
For almost three weeks I have been participating as a PAC TAC volunteer walking with officers on an intensive foot patrol on Chili Avenue (from Sherwood to Turner streets).These are my observations on that experience.
First and foremost: I can’t begin to thank all the officers who have...
I met RR when he served as an informal tour guide for the Mayor’s visit to Chili Avenue for City Hall on the Road 9/10.
RR was a big hit. Twelve years old, about 5 feet tall, RR led us around telling everything he knew about what had been happening up at his end of the street. I ended...
I posted this on my D&C weblog, which has since been deleted. Anyone who follows the commenting sections of that newspaper will have some background on that. I intend to post more on that experience later.
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Between 1991 and 1999, I lived in a house I owned on Ellicott Street only...
We can have all the citizen journalists in the world (and I am one of them), but very few of us are going to have the time and energy and the money to do serious investigative pieces. That is was the traditional news media do best -- well, ok, they've been cutting back on that for a long time. It is, after all, the most expensive aspect of traditional journalism.
How many citizen journalists are going to sit through a long trial that goes on for days, weeks even, and then report on it? That isn't going to happen.
We need BOTH. There is so much going on in the Rochester community that doesn't get into the paper EVEN NOW. Consider how much worse it will be.
It is a false premise to say that the sole purpose of marriage is to provide stability for children.
In fact, the laws governing marriage also ensure that individuals within the marriage not be left to their own devices in the event of illness, unemployment, and the like.
Marriage also secures commitment from each individual to provide for the support of the other, in whatever ways that support is to be given. For example, whether there are children present or not, the husband/wife is obligated to care for the other. That is why we provide alimony in the case of divorce when there is a significant difference in income between the marriage partners, EVEN IN THE ABSENCE of children.
Marriage also provides for partners to make decisions about the other person's care when the other person is in one way or another incapacitated.
Marriage provides for the inheritance of property, whether or not children are presence.
So essentially, John, your comment has no legal foundation.
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Chris,
I know the statistics about youthful violence during my generation - 1950s and 60s. Yes, there was a good deal more violence then. There were also a lot more youth, in terms of percentage of the population.
I was speaking in particular of my own experience during my teen years in Claremont, Calif., a suburban college town of 25,000 people surrounded by other less peaceful environments. My point was and remains accurate: in cultural environments where violence is accepted as a means of settling differences, youth will settle their differences with violence.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing about youth per se that makes it inevitable that when you have an unsupervised gathering, fights will necessarily ensue. Surround them with adults who not only don't use their fists but also don't even use VERBAL violence, and youth will do the same.