Saturday, January 19, 2013
Hundreds of armed gun owners are expected to show up at the state Capitol as part of nationwide movement to support gun ownership.
Updated at 5:20 p.m. Saturday with crowd estimate A conservative group is hoping that tens of thousands turn out nationwide to show their support for gun ownership with their pocketbooks and picket signs the day before President Barack Obama is sworn in for a second term. The group, a coalition brought together for the event, declared Saturday as "Gun Appreciation Day." The hope is Americans nationwide will show their support for gun ownership by turning out en masse at gun stores, ranges and shows from coast to coast. “The Obama administration has shown that it is more than willing to trample the Constitution to impose its dictates upon the American people,” said Gun Appreciation Day Chairman Larry Ward in a press release. In Wisconsin, …
Monday, August 6, 2012
Organizers have made changes to the community public safety event to recognize the victims of shooting at Sikh temple in Oak Creek.
While it would have been fun to look forward to fireworks at the Oak Creek National Night Out on Tuesday night, after Sunday's shooting at the Sikh Temple, it just didn't seem like the right thing to do, said organizers. "We have decided to cancel Tuesday night's fireworks, as we felt it wouldn't have been appropriate," said Kim Bogadi, chairperson for the event. Designed to bring the community out to meet up with various law enforcement and safety groups, National Night Out will take on an even more poignant role at the Oak Creek Community Center. "We will be transitioning after 8 p.m. to more of a somber tone to the event," Bogadi explained. "We will feature the singing of the National Anthem as we always have, but the mayor and other …
Steve Jagler, executive editor of the BIzTimes and lifelong Oak Creek residents, weighs in on Sunday's tragedy.
First District Alderman Dan Jakubczyk said, "whatever the city and the district can do we will do to correct this tragedy.”
Dan Jakubczyk knew something was ‘off’ when he heard sirens from several emergency vehicles driving into the area Sunday morning after church. The Oak Creek alderman, however, had no idea just how dire a situation was unfolding in his very own district. He received a phone call from Mayor Steve Scaffidi around 11:45 a.m. informing him of the mass shooting at the Sikh Temple, and then watched the rest of the events and details emerge on television. “My first reaction was Oak Creek was going to make the national news that evening and it wasn’t going to be in a good way,” Jakubczyk said after the Sikh shooting press conference in the city’s courtroom Monday. “It was upsetting. This is not the way you want your community featured on the …
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Worshippers at the Sikh temple in Brookfield kept praying amid reports of the shooting at their fellow temple in Oak Creek.
The head priest of the Brookfield Sikh temple said Monday he holds no hatred in his heart for the man accused of gunning down six Sikh worshipers Sunday and is also praying for him. "He was also a brother of someone, maybe the husband of someone. He was also the son of someone," Brookfield Sikh temple head priest Surjit Singh told Patch. "What he has done is no good, no good. But whenever someone is dead, I have heart." ___________________________ Surjit Singh said he grieves for all who lost their lives. He said Oak Creek temple president Satwant Singh Kaleka, 62, who was shot to death while reportedly trying to stop the gunman outside the Gurudwara, was an admirable and religious man. "He was very loving and very helpful for everybody…
One day after the attack at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, people are looking for ways to support and assist the victims and the congregation. Vigils are being scheduled, donations are being scheduled, and there is a broad call for education
People are coming together to support victims of a mass shooting Sunday at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, through prayer and donations. The shooting took the lives of six members of the Sikh temple and wounded at least three others, including an Oak Creek officer. The Sikh community, through the City of Oak Creek, released this statement on Facebook: A message from the Oak Creek Sikh Community to everyone who has graciously offered their gift of time, talets and contributions. A joint funeral for the six temple shooting victims has been scheduled for Friday morning, at Oak Creek High School. The service is open to the public. If you are looking for other ways to get involved, here is how you can help: Vigils Vigils are being…
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Hundreds gather at Milwaukee's Cathedral Park and elsewhere to hold vigils in remembrance of the those who died in Sunday's shooting at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek.
A few hundred people gathered at Cathedral Square in downtown Milwaukee Sunday night to begin the healing process following Sunday's mass shooting in Oak Creek. People prayed, sang and offered their thoughts about how to come together following the killing of seven people at the Sikh Temple, 7512 S. Howell Ave. Three others were injured, including an Oak Creek police officer. A pastor who led the group in prayer mentioned the shooting in Aurora, CO, just a few weeks earlier that left 12 dead inside a movie theater. "That was a place where families go. This was a shooting that evil came into the world and moved up one level — it went into the house of worship," he said. "What's the next level?" Stephanie Haw, one of three organizers of the …
Woman describes shooter — who lives in Cudahy — as "quiet" and said he had just broken up with his girlfriend.
As authorities searched a home in Cudahy Sunday evening believed to be the residence of the man who shot and killed six people at an Oak Creek Sikh temple, a woman whose son owns that home shed some light on the alleged shooter. The mother of the suspect’s landlord told Patch Sunday she believed the man had “just broken up with his girlfriend.” “He’s a renter,” said the woman, whom Patch is not identifying. “He’s new actually. He rented a room with my son.” The woman said she is “completely freaked out” and that she believes her son found the man as a renter for his home in the 3700 block of E. Holmes Avenue “through an ad.” “He lived with my son for three weeks, then the house across the street became empty, and he moved there,” she said…
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12:36 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
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