New Years bell ringing in Milwaukee helps drown out noise of gunshots...

In a revival of an old custom, bells of Milwaukee will ring in unison at midnight on New Year's Eve as a message of peace.

This is in part due to the efforts of The Bells of Milwaukee, Inc., an IRS tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation founded by Russell Klisch, the president, founder and owner of Lakefront Brewery.

Klisch founded the organization to combat a recent New Year's practice of celebrating the turn of the year by the firing of guns.

"Once people start hearing bells, they will want to hear bells instead of gunshots. That's our hope," Klisch says.

continue at OnMilwuakee

Someone will have to talk to His Excellency....

Bells of Milwaukee seeks to ring in the New Year

Klisch, owner of Lakefront Brewery, shared his interest in Milwaukee’s bells with Michael Horne, a writer and columnist for urbanmilwaukee.com. Out of that conversation was born Bells of Milwaukee, a tax-exempt public charity, of which Klisch is president. The organization’s mission, according to a November press release, is to “identify those buildings that have inoperable bells, and to seek to repair them to working order.”

But the group’s first order of business is to have bells ringing throughout the Milwaukee area at midnight this New Year’s Eve. According to Horne, project manager for Bells of Milwaukee, the group asked the Archdiocese of Milwaukee to invite its parishes to participate – an invitation that was extended to the parishes by the archdiocese’s office of communications.

full article at Mke Catholic Herald

This is fantastic!

For a list of the parishes whose bells will be ringing, click here.