Article was written by Amy Greil, Community Development Extension Educator.  Originally published in The Kenosha News. Last week, our largest food pantry in Kenosha County hosted a ribbon-cutting of its relocated pantry facility that is now housed on the same site as its emergency shelter program. Congratulations to Shalom Center’s leadership, staff and volunteers. The nearly 10,000 […]

Article was written by Amy Greil, Community Development Extension Educator.  Originally published in The Kenosha News. Today I am exploring, in public with trepidation, the implications of the dark side of my higher education experience: Student loan debt. While I, like presumably many former students, would not trade that experience/opportunity for the world, nonetheless I have resigned […]

Article was written by Amy Greil, Community Development Extension Educator.  Originally published in The Kenosha News. As of 2013, I have been a certified facilitator and trainer of a personality and temperament assessment called Real Colors. This is based broadly on the Myers Briggs Test but in a much, much simpler form. A way I can […]

Article was written by Amy Greil, Community Development Extension Educator.  Originally published in The Kenosha News. Southeastern Wisconsin, from an economic development perspective, is an engine to Wisconsin. There are nearly 350,000 people in Kenosha and Racine counties, with the population projected to grow between 30 percent to as much as 60 percent by the year […]

Article written by Amy Greil, Community Development Extension Educator.  Originally published in The Journal Times. Economists’ understanding of economic growth and development processes has evolved with the times to an appreciation, in 2019, that the engine of growth and development is innovation. New products and services, novel approaches to social issues, and an entrepreneurial spirit […]

Originally published in the Kenosha News By Community Development Educator, Amy Greil Public parks and open spaces have long been seen as assets in a local community. Lincoln Park is one such Kenosha-specific asset to me as a 42-acre green space with expanses of sports fields and flower gardens, nestled within a residential neighborhood on Kenosha’s […]

Originally published in the Kenosha News By Community Development Educator, Amy Greil Last week I co-facilitated a strategy retreat for a small group of neighborhood leaders. Uptown Brass Village Neighborhood Association represents the geographic area located between 14th Avenue and 26th Avenue, and 60th Street and 65th Street (including blocks along Roosevelt Road.) Preparing for the […]

Facebook event details click here. The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its 27th annual Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive on May 11th, the country’s largest single-day food drive. Food collected by carriers in Kenosha County will be distributed to a countywide network of 4 food pantries serving Kenosha county families: Sharing Center, […]