Monday, December 12, 2011

The Workers' Rights Center will hold a training for restaurant workers about employment rights ranging from wage theft to tip pooling to unsafe working conditions. Unpaid wages? Dangerous working conditions? Illegal tip pooling? Unauthorized deductions for breakage or bad credit cards? If you have experience with such abuses at your job than this training is for you! The Worker Rights Center is launching a project to focus on working conditions for restaurant workers in Dane County. The Restaurant Workers Rights Training is tonight, from 7pm-9pm at The Villager Mall Atrium, 2300 S Park St. Training is in English and Spanish. Call 255-0376 for more info.

City of Madison Engineering and Traffic Engineering are jointly developing a project to provide lighting on the Southwest Path from Beltline Highway to Breese Terrace to increase safety for path users. New LED fixtures are proposed, which provide a superior lighting pattern to distribute light along the path and minimize undesirable light. The City has installed two test fixtures on the path near its intersection with Council Crest. I encourage you to view the test installation and join me at a neighborhood meeting to get additional information and provide comments on the plan. There will be a public hearing tonight at 6:30pm at Edgewood College - Sonderegger Science Center, Room 108
1000 Edgewood College Drive (Please sign in your car at the Reception Center in Predolin Hall first.) For more information call 266-4761.


A philosophy dialogue group will be discussing "How are holidays important to our culture?" tonight at 7 pm at Avol's Bookstore, 315 West Gorham Street, Suite C. Call 609-1452 for more information.

Tonight at 5PM at Brocach on the Square is an informal discussion of alternative energy sources. With winter huffing its cold breath into the region, what better time to consider how we can create better, more sustainable sources of heat and energy. Conversations will feature Paul Wilson Chair of the Energy Analysis and Policy Program of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Jordan Hemaidan, partner at Michael Best & Friedrich, who leads the firm's Energy and Sustainability Group and Ted Petith, consultant for GreenLink Projects. Drinks and mingling at 5PM, and the program starts at 6PM. Contact Sustain Dane at 819-0689.

Wisconsin Books to Prisoners is a non-profit organization sponsored by “Rainbow bookstore” that sends books to prisoners in Wisconsin and other states. They believe that quote “books are tools for learning and can open minds to new ideas and fresh possibilities.” They accept donations. Contact 426 West Gilman Street or 257-6050 for details.