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		<title>Workshops for owners of old &amp; historic homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, a local partner of the National Trust is presenting a series of workshops for owners of old and historic homes. Regardless of whether you&#8217;re a do-it-yourselfer or contract for professional services this is precisely the kind of information you need as an old house homeowner to get the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walkable Neighborhoods &#8211; Historic Districts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is more and more talk and media reporting about &#8220;walkable&#8221; neighborhoods and communities. Even within new, distant planned developments you&#8217;ll find efforts, in some cases, to try and provide walkable proximity to community amenities beyond windswept neighborhood parks. There seems to be a growing appreciation for a lifestyle that allows for walking to shopping, restaurants, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beloitnpa.org/neighborhood-discussion/walkable-neighborhoods-historic-districts/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=walkable-neighborhoods-historic-districts</link>
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		<title>12 Restoration Blunders &#124; Fine Homebuilding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so this is really weak simply reposting an article from someone else. It&#8217;s a great article though and too good not to share. In fact, in addition to giving it a read, I&#8217;d encourage you to print it out and share it with a friend. We have a packet of information we share with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beloitnpa.org/neighborhood-discussion/12-restoration-blunders-fine-homebuilding/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=12-restoration-blunders-fine-homebuilding</link>
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		<title>The Greatest Threat To Our Planet. Cul-de-sacs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little extremist&#8230; yes, perhaps. It&#8217;s the lead-in for the following short 3-min. video. I would agree though with the premise. That suburban sprawl is unsustainable, counter productive to the development of &#8220;community&#8221; including personal interconnectedness and general quality-of-life values for a growing number of people&#8230; and families. Oh&#8230; and it&#8217;s funny and very well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beloitnpa.org/neighborhood-discussion/the-greatest-threat-to-our-planet-cul-de-sacs/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-greatest-threat-to-our-planet-cul-de-sacs</link>
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		<title>Historic District House Walk &#124; Elgin IL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No. Sorry&#8230; This is not a historic district walking tour of Beloit. Though in time we&#8217;d love to host one. This is though, to my mind the single best run and enjoyable historic district house walk I&#8217;ve attended. And we&#8217;ve attended quite a few as it&#8217;s something we particularly enjoy doing. The Elgin Historic District [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beloitnpa.org/events/historic-district-house-walk-elgin-il/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=historic-district-house-walk-elgin-il</link>
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		<title>Harris Ace Hardware &#124; Riverside Park Beloit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t know how long Harris Ace Hardware had been at the 1034 Pleasant Street location above but I understand the pic on the left is from the 40&#8242;s. As buildings evolve over time, at some point they enclosed the east facing front of the store, bought up the house lots to the left for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beloitnpa.org/neighborhood-discussion/harris-ace-hardware-riverside-park-beloit/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=harris-ace-hardware-riverside-park-beloit</link>
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		<title>Great American Main Streets Award Winner 2011 &#124; Beloit WI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We, Ana and I had the opportunity to attend this years national Main Streets conference held in Des Moines a couple weeks ago. While it was a great conference with much to talk about I&#8217;ll mention just two. First&#8230; Downtown Beloit Wisconsin &#124; Great American Main Streets Award Winner for 2011! There are literally thousands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beloitnpa.org/neighborhood-discussion/great-american-main-streets-award-winner-2011-beloit/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=great-american-main-streets-award-winner-2011-beloit</link>
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		<title>Window Standards Collaborative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Last October, trades experts, window wrights and preservation educators created this collaborative todevelop standards for the repair, restoration and weatherization of historic windows. The windowreplacement industry spends millions of dollars a year to convince architects, specifiers, contractors,homeowners and developers to replace rather than restore. In the past, this has put the preservationindustry in a non-competitive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beloitnpa.org/neighborhood-discussion/window-standards-collaborative/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=window-standards-collaborative</link>
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		<title>Big downtown Beloit improvement du jour?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The community of Beloit continues to invest in its downtown. It seems that for the few years we&#8217;ve been in town every few months there is something significant taking place in the ongoing revitalization of Beloit&#8217;s downtown. Improved riverfront (taking up parking deck and adding a canoe/kayak launch &#38; too many additional things to mention), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beloitnpa.org/neighborhood-discussion/downtown-beloit-investment-light-rail/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=downtown-beloit-investment-light-rail</link>
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		<title>Inefficient fireplace? Yeah, we love ours too.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And I&#8217;d no more &#8220;improve&#8221; it with a &#8220;high efficiency&#8221; fireplace conversion kit then I would trade in a little red, two-seater convertible for taking the city bus or go out for dinner and pass on the Prime Rib followed by New York Cheesecake for microbiotic legumes and tofu. We don&#8217;t use our fireplace often. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.beloitnpa.org/neighborhood-discussion/inefficient-fireplace-we-love-ours-too/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=inefficient-fireplace-we-love-ours-too</link>
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