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Milwaukee Fire Department crews joined the Daisie Foundation on Thursday in surprising students, teachers and staff at Milwaukee Public School’s Kagel Elementary in Walker’s Point with holiday gifts and lunch.
In addition to firefighters, Holiday Magic Express included Santa and Mrs. Claus, Santa's helpers and the Grinch who had presents for students, teachers and staff and lunch for the teachers and staff from Cousins Subs.
The Chicago-based Daisie Foundation, which aims to empower women and children in communities with socio-economic challenges, has surprised more than 15,000 students in 33 schools in Milwaukee, Chicago and Houston with holiday gifts since it started in 2016.
Here are photos from the event:
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press. A fifth collects Urban Spelunking articles about breweries and maltsters.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has been heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
