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Detroit's Nemeth Burwell, P.C. Receives 2009 Michigan Economic Bright Spot Award from CORP! Magazine
The firm was honored today in Troy, along with 49 other Michigan businesses, at the CORP! 2009 Michigan Economic Bright Spot awards ceremony.
According to CORP! magazine publisher, Jennifer Kluge, "Our state has reason to celebrate those companies who stand out from the crowd. They have made a conscious decision to stay in Michigan, despite opportunities to locate outside of the state. They have also experienced expansion and economic development."
Nemeth Burwell, the largest woman-owned law firm in Michigan to exclusively represent management in the prevention, resolution and litigation of labor and employment disputes, was recognized as one of Michigan's economic bright spots because it has been adding attorneys and support staff.
"We are pleased to be a part of an awards program that looks positively at Michigan's economic vitality. Our firm growth has been from the ground up and not the result of mergers or acquisitions. We have been able to grow through strategic hires at our own pace, reinforcing that our strategy is the right one for the firm, regardless of economic conditions," explains Nemeth Burwell partner, Linda Burwell.
As of today's American League ballot update, Miguel Cabrera is in fourth place for the first base position, about 150,000 votes out of the lead.
Placido Polanco is in fifth place for the second base position and Curtis Granderson is among the top 15 vote-getters for for outfielders. Adam Everett, Brandon Inge, Gerald Laird, Carlos Guillen and Magglio Ordoñez are also still in the running. However, the Tigers need your help to guarantee a Tigers starter at the 2009 All-Star game!
HURRY!!! Voting ends at 11:59 PM ET on Thursday, July 2, 2009
Click Here to cast your vote for your Tiger!
The Cupcake Station in Birmingham is in their own Stanley Cup(cake) competition with Pittsburgh-based CoCo's Cupcake Café to see who has the most cupcake loving fans in hockey.
For every Wings or Pens cupcake purchased, a goal is added to the Goals Chalkboard located in each store. At the end of the series, one cupcake bakery will be able to claim the highest scoring, most dedicated, cupcake loving fans in hockey, and will be the rightful winner of The Stanley Cup(cake). Each location will be updating the "opposing" team's score daily.
From now until the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Cupcake Station will be offering special Red Wing cupcakes. Choose from an Octopus cupcake, a "Go Red Wings" cupcake or one in the team colors of Red and White. Why not score a hat trick and try all three?!
CoCo's customers can choose between black and gold cupcakes, ones the spell out "Let's Go Pens," or those that show their support for a favorite player.
The Cupcake Station is in Birmingham, at 136 N. Old Woodward Ave., just north of Maple. The Cupcake Station was founded in 2006 and serves up fresh-baked cupcakes unlike any you'll find in other area bakeries. We proudly cheer for our Red Wings. Let's keep the Cup(cake) in Detroit! For more information, check out www.cupcakestation.com or call 248-593-1903.
Monday Madness - any size Coffee, only $1 all day.
Two Buck Tuesdays - All Regular Size Cupcakes are $2 and Minis are $1.
Wild Wednesdays - Buy 2 Cupcakes and receive 1 free all day.
Thirsty Thursdays - All Fountain Drinks are 75 cents.
Frosting Fridays - A Shot of Frosting is only 25 cents.
Shop till you drop Saturdays - All Cookies are $1, while they last.
Sunday Sundaes - Buy a Frozen Yogurt and Receive 2 Free Toppings. Walk-In purchases only.
Scientists at The Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit Identify Potential New Target for Breast Cancer Therapy
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has selected new breast cancer research conducted at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.
Karmanos' potentially ground-breaking findings identify a promising new therapeutic target for aggressive hormone receptor negative breast cancer tumors.
The research appears at http://www.asco.org/ and http://www.jco.org/ and is entitled "Enhancer of Zeste Homologue 2 (EZH-2) expression in breast cancer: a novel marker and potential target."
Karmanos scientists tested 84 cases of hormone receptor negative human breast carcinomas and discovered that the protein EZH-2 was expressed in 74 percent of those cases. Hormone receptor negative breast carcinoma is considered an aggressive cancer and one that is hard to treat. The finding suggests that EZH-2 could be an important therapeutic target in this patient population.
"We were interested in looking at a new target," said Zeina Nahleh, M.D., co-director of the Breast Oncology Multidisciplinary Team at Karmanos Cancer Institute and assistant professor of medicine in hematology and oncology at Wayne State UniversitySchool of Medicine. "We wanted to see how much expression of the protein was present. We were surprised that 74 percent of tumors expressed that EZH-2 protein."
Lisa Allmendinger
Ann Arbor News
Six Chelsea baseball and softball fields will get a facelift next spring thanks to a $12,000 matching grant from the Detroit Tigers Foundation.
The Chelsea Recreation Council's fundraising project, For the Love of Baseball and Softball, includes plans for new backstops and netting to catch foul balls as well as safety fences, benches for players, removable pitching rubbers, infield compound and clay bricks.
"This is the first major grant for the Rec Council,'' said Jason Lindauer, Chelsea City Council liaison to the group.
Because of budget constraints, the fields have been neglected, said Jeremy Hodges, assistant recreation director, yet participation in baseball and softball programs has soared from 491 players in 2003 to 589 players registered for the upcoming season.
The Rec Council hopes to raise $70,456 before the end of the year for the project and plans phased-in improvements and a maintenance program beginning next spring.
Fittingly, the Rec Council has planned a fundraising trip to a Tigers game as it works to raise the $12,000 match before Dec. 1.
Chelsea Recreation, which is funded by participation fees, provides youth in the Chelsea School District with "quality opportunities to develop lifelong leisure skills,'' Hodges said.
More than 4,400 people have participated in its programs since its inception in 1971.
For more information about the project, go online to www.chelsearec.com.
Larry Lage
Associated Press
Jonathan Ericsson will have a pretty good tale to tell his grandkids someday.
Ericsson scored for the Detroit Red Wings in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals, helping them beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-1 to take a 2-0 lead, and got the best of superstar Evgeni Malkin three times on the same shift.
Not bad for a defenseman who played just four days after having his appendix removed.
"We've got really good team doctors here, so they take care of that so I can get out there," Ericsson said. "It doesn't bother me at all right now."
After Ericsson's goal made it 1-1 early in the second, he sure did bother Malkin on a shift later in the period.
The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Swede stood up Malkin to thwart his rush with about 12 minutes left in the period, then used his big body to get the MVP finalist off the puck again.
Malkin reacted by interfering with Ericsson, putting Detroit on the power play.
The Red Wings scored just after the penalty was killed, generating enough pressure that Valtteri Filppula's backhander gave them a 2-1 lead.
Ericsson is one of the young players performing for the defending Stanley Cup champions after being forced to develop in the minor leagues.
Detroit general manager Ken Holland likes his prospects "overripe" before they get a chance to play in the NHL.
The 25-year-old Ericsson was buried at Grand Rapids in the AHL until getting called up in March because defenseman Andreas Lilja was sidelined with a concussion.
Ericsson played 19 times in the regular season, scoring once and adding three assists.
In 17 playoff games, he has three goals — including on in his playoff debut in the first round against Columbus — and six points. Ericsson missed only one game after abdominal pain the morning of Game 5 in the Western Conference finals sent him to the hospital.
"He's a real good player," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. "He's got the long reach. He's got the ability to get his hands out and get you on his back and make that good pass to get you going with speed.
"He's a guy who is going to be, I think, an elite player in the league for a long time."
Plenty of teams had a shot at drafting him because he lasted until the 291st — and final — selection in the 2002 NHL draft.
With the Detroit Red Wings advancing to the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, fans are eager to get their hands on tickets.
At Superior Fish Company in Royal Oak, owner Kevin Dean is just as interested in landing the biggest octopus.
The sea creature is the traditional mascot of Red Wings playoff runs, its eight tentacles signifying the number of wins it once took to win a Stanley Cup.
Each time the Wings reach the finals, Dean fills the Superior showcase with the biggest octopus available on order.
Its biggest on record, weighing 52 pounds, with a height of 7 feet, 2 inches and wingspan of more than 12 feet, was aptly named "Octo-zilla," Dean said. Also dropping by have been "Octo-Al," named after the octopus swinging Zamboni driver Al Sobotka, and "Oscar the Octopus," according to Dean.
The name for this year's import?
"We're toying with the idea of calling it 'Octo-dad,'" Dean said.
Superior Fish, at 309 E. 11 Mile Road in downtown Royal Oak, has gained notoriety over the years as the place to go for octopi.
Dean said the National Hockey League called in advance to find out Superior's plans to hype the Stanley Cup finals. In the past, the octopus/Wings connection has led to televised spots locally, nationally and internationally, he said.
Throwing octopi onto the ice at Wings games is a tradition rarely observed anymore, though one landed in Wednesday's Game 5 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks, clinching the NHL's Western Conference championship.
Dean prefers Wings' fans eat their octopi. An Octopus Taste Fest was planned before Game 1 of Saturday's final round at Superior, he said.
Some view Detroit as a symbol of a vast industrial failure. Delta Air Lines sees it as a jewel. "We're most excited about the future of Detroit, its role as the primary Asian gateway from the East Coast," says Glen Hauenstein, executive vice president of Delta, which acquired Northwest and its hub here in October. The deal makes Detroit the second-biggest hub, after Atlanta, for the world's largest airline.
"Not only is the airport beautiful, but to fly from the East Coast, it is the most direct route to Asia." Transportation infrastructure has always been the key to economic growth, says professor John Kasarda of the University of North Carolina. "Detroit Metro Airport is the region's primary infrastructure asset (and) the speedy connectivity it provides to area businesses can help Detroit's economy transform to new sunrise industries."
"Detroit is a very large city, in the top metropolitan areas, and an optimal hub," Hauenstein said, in an interview. "Not only is the airport beautiful, but to fly from the East Coast, it is the most direct route to Asia." Detroit-Wayne County Airport is the country's 12th busiest, with about 36 million passengers annually.
Already, Delta and its partners fly non-stop to Tokyo, Nagoya, Amsterdam, Paris and London, with flights to Shanghai and Rome scheduled to begin June 1. One-stop service to cities throughout Asia is available through Northwest's Tokyo hub. And "We think Detroit to Asia can be larger," Hauenstein says.
Amazingly, the Detroit that Hauenstein sees goes largely unnoticed by many, particularly in a city so busy feeling sorry for itself that it can barely conceive of such vast potential in its midst.
Throughout history, the most important cities have been transportation hubs, says John Kasarda, a professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. "In the 18th century, the great cities were ports," Kasarda says. "In the 19th, they were railroad cities. In the 20th, they were highway cities. In the 21st century, they will be cities with international airline connections."
Clearly, a continued role as a primary gateway to Asia and Europe can help to assure Detroit's future, he says, noting: "Detroit Metro Airport is the region's primary infrastructure asset (and) the speedy connectivity it provides to area businesses can help Detroit's economy transform to new sunrise industries."
John Carroll, executive director of the Detroit Regional Economic Partnership, says companies from around the world see value in locating in Detroit, still an automotive center with an expanding global airport.
"Quite frankly, the merger is going to strengthen the airport and Detroit's position," Carroll says. Like many major hub cities, Detroit is keen on presenting its best face at the airport, where each year millions of connecting passengers gather impressions of the area.
In the weeks leading up to the expected bankruptcy of this century-old icon, majority sentiment in the U.S., and to a lesser extent here, has been hostile about rewarding a chronically incompetent enterprise with a taxpayer-funded bailout.
Yes. A humbled GM can change.
Post-bankruptcy, a leaner and much healthier GM will continue to put bread on the table for tens of thousands of employees, about 4,000 suppliers, and several thousand dealership employees that often are the business mainstay in small-town North America.
GM remains the U.S.'s biggest manufacturer, still a powerhouse of engineering and technological breakthroughs, most visibly with its all-electric Chevrolet Volt. GM is America's biggest purchaser of information technology.
Entire states in the industrial Midwest and Canadian cities such as Oshawa, Oakville, Windsor and St. Catharines rely on GM and its employees for an outsized portion of their property and income-tax revenue.
All of which is moot, if GM is ultimately destined, as many believe, for the scrapyard in the sky. Somehow, I don't think so.
GM will emerge from bankruptcy with only one-quarter or so of the debt it held earlier this year.
GM's hourly wage costs, after enormous concessions by the Canadian Auto Workers and the United Auto Workers, are now in line with wage rates at "transplants" – the U.S. and Canadian factories operated by foreign-based automakers. The UAW has given up its right to strike until 2015.
GM will have cut its fixed costs to levels enabling it to compete on price with foreign-based rivals.
CEO Fritz Henderson told reporters last week,"We will come out of this rid of some of the historic legacy costs that have been dragging us down for the last 20 years or so," Bob Lutz, GM vice-chairman, said in a Thursday speech. "We will come out of it with an all-new focus on product development."
In an off-the-record briefing of reporters that same day, an Obama administration official said: "GM should be highly, highly profitable given the new cost structure that is being put in place, given the vast reduction of liability that has been achieved."
Fact: "Auto companies rarely die," CEO Henderson reminded reporters last week.
He's not whistling in the dark, having overseen in the past few weeks the drastic makeover of GM that critics have demanded for decades. And he's right – out of national pride, France, Germany, Japan, China, Russia and others routinely subsidize profit-challenged local automakers.
Focused on just four brands rather than eight, Buick and GMC will no longer be deprived of new-product development funds. For the first time, Buick will have close to a full line of models. And GM will have a $1.3-billion annual marketing budget for each of Chevrolet and Cadillac, double the current ad spend, and close to what Toyota commits to its namesake and Lexus brands.
That's crucial, because GM quality and reliability have vastly improved in the past decade (Buick typically tops or is near the top of J.D. Power quality surveys), but GM has lacked the money to tell that story to potential customers that first turned away from GM decades ago. A clean-slate GM has a decent shot at winning customers among Gen Y motorists (ages 22 to 32).
At 70 million people, that group is larger than either Gen X or the baby-boom generation.
Certainly GM has the J.D. Power- and Consumer Reports-acclaimed vehicles for making converts, including the Chevy Malibu, Impala, HHR and the Cadillac STS sedan.
One of the nice things about not being No. 1 is that rivals aren't all gunning for you. With half the market, GM had the most to lose over the past three decades. Now everyone from Kia Motors to Ford Motor Co. will have Toyota in their sights, instead.
And Detroit has a spokesman in Barack Obama, who at a news conference two weeks ago sang the praises of the Ford hybrid parked in his Chicago garage.
"A year or two of Obama emphasizing the restructured GM and Chrysler," U.S. marketing consultant Dennis Keene told Business Week recently, "which he has staked his reputation and taxpayer money on, and you could start to see Gen Y take a lot more interest in these brands and looking at them in a new light."
Alluding to some of the unexpected roles he has taken on as President, Obama joked at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner a few weeks ago that Car & Driver had named him its "CEO of the Year."
We can only hope.
Our Detroit musical heritage is legendary. Let's face it ... you don't become known as"Motown" for tying your shoes. A song like "Detroit Rock City" wasn't written because Detroit is a lousy venue for a concert. And nobody is going to write a song titled "Detroit City (I Wanna Go Home)" if the place sucks.
People all over the "metro-Detroit area" consider themselves Detroiters. Think about it ... if you're out of town, you describe your general location in terms of Detroit. You are either from Detroit, just north of Detroit, south of Detroit, but it's always Detroit ... the professional sports teams we root for are all about Detroit. The Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Lions ...
It's Sunday. Relax, enjoy some original Detroit music and remember, we all have a lot more in common than we have in differences.
Justin Verlander reminds Detroit Tigers radio analyst Jim Price of a Hall of Fame pitcher he faced as a catcher for the Tigers.
"When we signed him, Dave Dombrowski asked me who Justin reminded me of," Price said, recalling a conversation with the Detroit general manager after Verlander was the second overall pick in 2004 draft. "I said Nolan Ryan because of his power fastball and power curve."
And there's something else he has in common with Ryan.
"How many guys throw harder as the game goes on?" Price asked. "Not many. The only two I can think of are Nolan Ryan and Bob Veale, when he pitched for Pittsburgh."
Veale led the majors with 250 strikeouts in 1964 for the Pirates, and Verlander currently leads the American League with 85 strikeouts. Only Johan Santana of the New York Mets has more in the majors with 86.
"And it isn't just the velocity," Price continued. "He's putting it where he wants. He is a power arm showing everybody the art of pitching. He's like Zack Greinke of Kansas City that way."
Verlander, who starts at tonight against the Baltimore Orioles, said gaining velocity late in the game is something always has done.
"I can throw as hard in the first inning as the last inning," he said. "It's important to establish a rhythm to maintain the higher velocity later."
Verlander often throws some of his hardest pitches at 98 and 99 mph in his final inning. He was doing that on the final pitches of his 1-0 shutout of the Cleveland Indians on May 8, when his 112th pitch was 98 mph.
Tigers catcher Gerald Laird shook his head and smiled.
"Most guys tend to wear down," Laird said. "But his fastball gets better as the game goes on. It's exploding more out of his hand as the game goes on. That's pretty special."
Verlander is 5-0 with a 0.85 ERA in his past six starts, and is 5-2 with a 3.55 ERA for the season. He couldn't consistently find a groove in early starts, but now he's on a roll that has many grouping him with Toronto's Roy Halladay and Greinke as the best pitchers in the league.
John Kruk, on ESPN's "Baseball Tonight," pointed to video of Verlander dealing and said, "Look at the confidence now. There's just an air about him."
'One from Six Minute Men on Vimeo.J.Mills and Matt Dibble
In the shadows of an abandoned store front we find an amazing
blueprint for life. After months of unemployment and the
responsibility of caring for multiple people, including a mother with
MS, 'One had no choice but to go out and make a job. He lives a life
fit to tell us that "…the world clearly needs music."
Sean Halpin, after graduating from UCLA, worked for 6 years in aerospace manufacturing, operated for many years in design and engineering for the Big Three automakers, used reverse engineering for the restoration of classic automobiles and Chicago historical buildings, and fulfilled the dreams of small business owners by satisfying their product requests. Sean has been a small business owner since 1995. Halpin Design (established in 2001) has become a much respected design firm among the automotive leaders and many full-service supply companies.
Sean was taken aback one day when a woman named Mary walked through his door looking very serious, and asked to speak with him about a special project. She needed a specific prosthetic device. She wanted a prosthesis she could wear in her bra, designed to have all the comfort she once had before her life changed with breast cancer. Sean's heart immediately poured out to her. He offered her a chair and replied, "let's talk".
Halpin says: "I lost both my mother and father to cancer within 90 days of each other in 2007. The experience changed my life forever. I realized that I have the gifts, talents, and manufacturing experience to deliver the most incredible, natural, symmetrical prosthetic a women could ever want." Sean believed he could take two elements of manufacturing and design and implement them to create the perfect prosthesis.
White light scanning is a state-of-the-art technology that Halpin discovered while designing cars for Saturn in 1993. The scan machine, with its gentle projector-like bulbs, provides safe scanning and very accurate digitized data to develop an image with the most intricate detail.
The surface design process that Sean developed led him to be high above his competitors and produce the highest quality surface products in the automotive and retail markets.
When he combined the white light scanning and surface design process, Sean realized he had something special.
Sean entered the prosthetic market with a staff of passionate professionals committed to delivering the highest quality post-mastectomy product to each individual that walks through his door. The team has dedicated their research to help women lead fuller lives after breast surgery.
After what his mom endured with her cancer, Sean wanted to make a difference for women going through the same pain. Sean knew his product would give women around the world an exciting choice for themselves, and he knew instinctively what to call this vibrant company...
For more information on Proud Mary Prosthetics, click here
"There's fire in the ashes and good things happening everywhere," says Jerry Smith, a Capuchin friar who runs two soup kitchens that serve 2,000 meals a day and have seen a 10% increase in demand. "There are reserves of life and strength in us that we never imagine are there until we absolutely need them."
The bleak statistics saturating the headlines motivate rather than discourage the individuals and non-profit groups trying to revive the American dream here. They are training displaced workers, feeding the poor, providing medical care, planting vegetable gardens on vacant lots and planning a new Detroit that's smaller, greener and less dependent on the auto industry.
"It's never going to be the same city that it was, but maybe it will be a better city," says Mary McDougall, a Detroit native and executive director of Operation Able, a group that trains older displaced workers.
The city's believers say Detroit has resilient residents who will work hard and make changes to help it rebound. "Detroit isn't dying," says Harold Schwartz, 60, who was laid off by an auto-parts supplier. "Too many people love the city to let that happen."
Officials and activists see this time as an opportunity to remake the city and shift its manufacturing workforce from cars to emerging industries. "We've always dealt with adversity," says Olga Stella, vice president for business development at Detroit Economic Growth.
A car town
Since Henry Ford founded the company that bears his name in 1903, this has been a car town. The auto industry's promise of steady jobs with good pay attracted European immigrants and workers from the South, and by 1950 Detroit was the USA's fourth-largest city.
"We need to work together to get the city from where it is to where everybody wants it to go," Mayor Dave Bingsaid after being elected this month.
Detroit's population remains loyal. Peggy Jones, 59, has lived here 32 years and won't leave, Jones is enrolled in Operation Able, which teaches computer skills to displaced workers 40 and older. With a $650,000 annual budget, it trains about 150 people a year. Students get eight weeks of training, followed by four weeks of help with job searches. If they don't find jobs during that month — and these days, they often don't — the organization works with them until they do. The success rate is about 75%.
To prepare them for jobs in other fields, the program has increased its emphasis on customer-service skills and plans to add training in "green" office practices.
Jones says Operation Able restored her confidence. She has had a couple of job interviews already.
Andrew McCray, 59, a Detroit native and Operation Able client, drove trucks that delivered cars to dealers before being laid off. He's hopeful about his future — and the city's. "I really do believe that we have to hold on and believe that things are going to get better," he says.
Focus: Hope, which was founded a year after 1967 riots and works to improve civil and human rights, is retooling its education and community programs to respond to urgent needs.
With a $25 million annual budget, the organization distributes food commodities to 41,000 people every month; trains machinists and information technology specialists; rehabilitates neighborhoods; and offers youth arts programs and preschool education.
CEO William Jones Jr. says Focus: Hope plans to shorten its machinists program so students can get into the workforce faster, expand its hours so classes are more convenient and create after-school programs.
"We get to do more than read the paper, read all the doom and gloom," Jones says. "We work with people who are determined to better their situation."
Changing cityscape
For two decades, The Greening of Detroit has been planting trees and gardens and cleaning up vacant property. Now the group is helping to lead discussions about a dramatically changed cityscape: allowing large swaths of the city to "naturalize" and become rural again, creating a natural corridor to give wildlife access to the Detroit River and encouraging urban farming.
Abandoned factories, Witt says, could be used to build wind turbines, solar cells and geothermal equipment. "This is no time for cowardice," she says. "We need to be brave, and we need to buy into a big vision collectively."
Bing, the new mayor, said during the campaign that he wants to reshape neighborhoods by asking residents of mostly empty parts of the city to move to areas with fewer vacant homes. Such a move would make providing city services, including police patrols, cheaper and more efficient.
Many neighborhoods already are blooming. In 2008, The Greening of Detroit supported 603 vacant lot, school and family gardens. This year, applications from individuals, community groups and schools quadrupled.
Besides soup kitchens, a food pantry that also distributes clothing and appliances, and a new bakery, the Capuchin friars give away 100,000 plants each year and operate Earthworks, an urban farm that last year grew 6,000 pounds of organic produce.
The city is working to attract new development and more diverse manufacturers. It is replacing old infrastructure such as roads and sewer and water lines in parts of downtown, Stella says. She believes the city can attract new employers to use auto industry facilities and workers to manufacture wind turbines, medical devices and other products.
"This is a difficult time, but we'll get through it," Stella says. "We always seem to."
Stepping up
People here are stepping up to help one another. Two years ago, Julie Kennedy-Carpenter created a website, Julie's List, as a hobby. Now it's a popular resource for laid-off workers who need financial, medical and emergency help. There are links to groups that give away clothing and food and to low-cost car repair and credit counseling.
Kennedy-Carpenter, who works for a Detroit-area community action agency, wanted to help people who didn't know where to find assistance or were too proud to ask. "A lot of people don't realize there's so much help out there," she says. She has never advertised, but people are spreading the word, and the site has gotten 50,000 hits.
Kennedy-Carpenter has no doubt that Detroit will rebound. "We're survivors here," she says.
Chris Vitale also went online when he was laid off — temporarily, he hopes — by Chrysler. His website, FairImage.org, explores how U.S. trade and energy policies affect the auto industry.
Vitale meets regularly with about 10 laid-off auto industry workers and retirees and tries to spread the message that U.S.-made vehicles and American workers are not inferior to those in Japan and South Korea.
"A lot of my co-workers and friends, they're just feeling hopeless," Vitale says, and the website is a way to channel his frustration into something positive. He hasn't given up on Detroit or Chrysler, where he has worked for 15 years. "We can come back," he says.
Help also is coming from outside Detroit. Children's Health Fund, a national health care provider and advocacy group, last month launched Kids Can't Wait here. The program will spend about $1.5 million to offer free medical and dental services to Detroit children with a mobile clinic that will make weekly stops.
Irwin Redlener, Children's Health Fund president and a professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health states, "There seems to be an inherent cultural optimism that I found very engaging and uplifting." The attitude here, he says, is "we're down, but we're going to get back on our feet."
That's what Doreen Benguche, 33, is doing. A mother of three, she decided to go back to school after she was laid off from her bank-teller job in January. She's in a "fast-track" basic skills program at Focus: Hope and will soon start IT courses there.
Tears fill her eyes as she describes how the heartbreak of being laid off led to hope. "I was disappointed and distraught, but I had to turn it into a positive outcome," she says. "I can see the road ahead now."
You can get involved by joining a Hunger Hero Neighborhood Food Drive volunteer team, or by leaving food on your porch on the designated day for your neighborhood.
The dates and areas are:
May 30 Grosse Pointe area
June 13 S. Oakland County (Ferndale, Oak Park, Pleasant Ridge, Berkley)
July 18 Farmington, Farmington Hills in conjunction with Founders Festival
July 25 Birmingham, Royal Oak, Bloomfield
Maps will be available shortly before the drives so you can confirm whether your block is included in the food drive.
Join a Neighborhood Food Drive Team!
We are looking for individuals and groups to help us canvass neighborhoods on the dates above. Volunteers will work in groups of 6: 2 cars with drivers and 4 walkers. Check-in begins at 9:30 a.m. and volunteers will collect food from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., including lunch and breaks. We will have a central location with a registration table, volunteers to help unload the food and a Gleaners truck to transport the food.
Drivers must be 18 or older and each group must have at least one cell phone. Each volunteer group will be given a map with specific streets they need to canvass. One car will drive down the street while walkers collect food off of porches and load it into the car. When the car is full, it will drive to a drop off site in the area while the other car is being filled. Walkers will be given safety vests and cars will have magnetic signs and green flashing lights for the roof to identify them as Gleaners volunteers.
Use our convenient online registration to volunteer for one or more of the neighborhood food drives. You will be contacted about your participation. If you have questions, please contact Stephanie Melnick by phone at 866-GLEANER (453-2637), ext. 270 or e-mail at email@example.com.
At least at a surface glance, it is.
But more Detroiters are ignoring conventional wisdom, taking matters into their own hands and going green within the city's existing building stock. And many will point out rightly that that is actually greener than new construction -- as green renovations use all 3 Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle.
City Hall? Really.
Considering that Detroit is just getting a pilot curbside recycling program off the ground, one would be forgiven for thinking that the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center has open windows in the winter, old-school space heaters tucked under desks and buzzing florescent bulbs that get left on all night.
For the third consecutive year, the building has received the Energy Star label from the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy for its overall efficiency.
The building, which is owned and operated by the Detroit Wayne Joint Building Authority, has gone so green that it has saved taxpayers a bundle: $3 million over the past three years.
What's been done? Simple things like modifying building hours of operation to reduce electricity needs (implementing daytime cleaning and maintenance, for example, so lights aren't on all night), improving thermostatic controls and upgrading lighting by adding 18,000 high-efficiency lamps and electronic ballasts.
On top of that, heating and cooling systems have been upgraded and -- in what might be most progressive measure of all -- the flow of the Detroit River is used to chill computer systems.
Gregg McDufee, the building authority's general manager, estimates that this alone saves more than $700,000 per year in water charges.Overall utility consumption has been reduced by 50 percent, which has reduced tenant rent paid by the City of Detroit and Wayne County and allowed reinvestment in capital improvements such as the Spirit of Detroit statue restoration, renovation of the City Council auditorium and improvements to the Center's automation system that will further reduce electrical consumption.
The authority's plans call for continued greening efforts, with the ultimate eye toward LEED certification for the building, the gold standard in building sustainability ratings.
Detroiters have shown time and again their generosity and support for others is heartfelt and unwavering.
At a period when most headlines across the nation and world paint a somewhat bleak picture of Detroit and its future, nowhere do we feel a more determined spirit to rise above these challenges than right here in the Motor City.
Just ask any of the 30,000 plus participants and the more than 100 local sponsors and underwriters who will take part in the 2009 Susan G. Komen Detroit Race for the Cure, on Saturday, May 30, at Comerica Park, in Detroit.
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute has been the local presenting sponsor of the Komen Detroit Race for the Cure for the past 17 years. Together, our community has rallied the support of family, friends, neighbors and coworkers to raise nearly $2.3 million in 2008 alone in the fight against breast cancer. As a result, a record $1.58 million funded breast health education, breast cancer screening and treatment programs in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, allowing the uninsured and underinsured to receive the needed services they might not otherwise get.
Additionally, $676,000 was contributed to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Award and Research Grant Program, with much of this funding benefiting Michigan Scientists. Thanks to Race funds, Komen Detroit provides year-round resources toWayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
Since 1992, the Detroit Race has raised a total of $15.4 million in the fight against breast cancer.
Detroiters are stepping up to the challenge to help end breast cancer. This year more than ever, we need everyone's support.
WHAT: 18th Annual Susan G. Komen Detroit Race for the Cure 5K Run/Walk and 1-Mile Walk Locally presented by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
WHEN: Saturday, May 30, 7:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
WHY: To help save lives and end breast cancer forever.
There is something for participants of all ages at the Race. Ten thousand pink ribbons will decorate the Race route along Woodward; 20 bands and entertainment groups will perform for the walkers and runners; a variety of sponsors will have giveaways and offer exciting interactive activities for participants.
Children's Activities Area 10,000 Pink Ribbons 20 bands/entertainment groups Pink Carpet - Runway for Survivors Ford's Warriors in Pink Drummers Ford's Warriors in Pink interactive Trailer and Pace Car Survivor Cafe Survivor Trolley Numerous sponsors, giveaways, items to buy Shop for a Cure Awards Ceremony Many
Based on the Ideal gas law (PV=nRT), if you decrease the volume of a particular quantity of air, the temperature rises to the point where fuel will spontaneously combust. The hard part is controlling the pressure, temperature and air/fuel mixtures precisely enough to manage that combustion without causing excess noise and engine damage.
When we first tried the HCCI prototypes a couple of years ago, the engines had a fairly narrow band of HCCI operation with the engine running in basic spark ignition mode the rest of the time.
Thanks to a newly developed mixed-mode HCCI feature and external EGR, the engines can now run in HCCI from idle all the way to 60 mph.We had a chance to drive a Saturn Aura with an HCCI engine based on the 2.2-liter EcoTec four-cylinder around the streets near the Tech Center. The engine ran smoothly and transitions between HCCI and spark ignition really couldn't be felt.
The only indication of a transition was a slight ringing sound over the first couple of power cycles after transition.The basic hardware for a production HCCI engine is in place now, with the only new piece of hardware being a combustion chamber pressure sensor. GM is continuing to work on the control software to make this a robust system and even adapting the homogeneous charge and pressure sensors to diesel engines to reduce NOx emissions.
GM says that HCCI engines can achieve about a 15% improvement in fuel efficiency compared to a similar spark ignition engine – at a much lower cost than a hybrid. The automaker hopes to have HCCI engines in production in about five years.
"With more than 500,000 square feet of space on nearly 14 acres in proximity to critical state, regional and international infrastructure facilities, the Central Depot property has great potential to house a complimentary set of homeland security, intermodal transportation and economic development-related functions," write the five state senators. "The property is ideally located in an area of unique intermodal convergence that includes the Ambassador Bridge, the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, connections to three interstate highways, the Detroit-Wayne County Port and several freight lines."
The timing of the senators' plea, though, is interesting. Just last week, the Michigan Messenger reported that the Canadian Pacific Railroad is seeking $400 million to build a new freight rail tunnel under the Detroit River and likely emerging in the middle of Michigan Central's rail yard.
While building the tunnel would not necessarily save the structure, the proposal does seem to buttress the case made by preservationists that the complex still has economic value and is worth rehabilitating.
Voices of Detroit #26—Featuring Erin Rose of Positive Cites Dot Com and Whistle Stop Restaurant Owner Matt Rafferty (audio)
This time we do both, as we visit the Whistle Stop Restaurant and Bakery in Birmingham and chat with owner Matt Rafferty.
And being "positive" people, how could Voices of Detroit not talk with Erin Rose who is the energy behind PositiveCities dot com.
Both Erin and Matt have a lively discussion with Larry and David in this edition of Voices of Detroit.
With unbridled enthusiasm and bucketloads of talent, Go Comedy's locally based improvisers prove time and again that every imaginable topic is subject to scrutiny, and that major laughs can be mined from the mundane to the uncomfortable - and everything in-between.
It's a philosophy that serves the theater well, especially on Thursday nights. Once filled with back-to-back, make-it-up-as-you-go improv shows, Go Comedy! is now devoting much of the evening to original scripted comedies created by some of the area's best and brightest talent. That certainly describes the cast and creators of its very funny second effort, "Love and Other Urban Legends," that had its official premiere May 14.
A revue-style comedy, "Love and Other Urban Legends" explores the trials and tribulations of love and dating as seen through the eyes and lives of three long-time, 30-something friends who meet weekly for breakfast to catch up on each others' lives. Each is scarred from a lifetime of experience: Beautiful Liz (Anne Faba) chases all the wrong men (and could be pregnant by one of them); "big-boned" Shannon (Suzie Jacokes) settled for her geeky, unpopular high school boyfriend; and still-single Craig (Marke Sobolewski) relates to romance and relationships through his favorite movies.
As the three catch up on their most recent escapades, flashbacks reveal the defining moments of their lives - from an eighth grade dance where a clueless Shannon tries to profess her love to a totally uninterested Craig (who's still safely ensconced in the closet), to the heart-to-heart talk Craig has with his mother that reveals far more family history than he wants - or needs - to hear. And what they discover is this: that their actions in the past have serious consequences in the present, yet it's never too late to change the future.
"Love and Other Urban Legends" is yet another fine example of what Detroit's improv community does best: It tells compelling human interest stories, but from a unique and funny perspective. And while their topics and dialogue might be a bit raw or shocking to those weaned on the more polished or cerebral works of established mainstream playwrights, comedies such as this offer a much-needed platform to a street-level generation of young and energetic artists. They, too, have equally important things to say - particularly about their lives in the turbulent 21st century - and as a result, some of the most creative, innovative and refreshing (although rarely the slickest) works in the area are happening these days on the stages of theaters such as Go Comedy!
The script, written by Faba and Jacokes with Sobolewski, calls upon all three actors to play multiple roles. While each is fine with their primary role, Jacokes, a graduate of Wayne State's theater program, is especially skilled at creating believable secondary characters, most notably as Jack, Liz's undesirable boyfriend. And a powerful scene in which Shannon and her soon-to-be ex-husband finally have an honest discussion proves her range and versatility as an actress.
"It's the weather, it's word of mouth -- people are really excited about the festival this year," Huvaere said. "We're able to market the event all year long now, and it's really a natural evolution for the festival."
Festival attendee Illiana Falkenstern of Ann Arbor, Mich., said this year's crowd seemed more energetic than in previous years.
"There seems to be more energy and better crowds," the 21-year-old said of the festival, which is in its 10th year. "I just love the music. I wait all year for this."
The Detroit News said the three-day festival offered performances Saturday from noted house disc jockey Carl Cox and the musical trio, the Glitch Mob.
Site visitors can learn about Salvador Dali's Biblia Sacra, Divine Comedy and Albaretto Editions - sought-after collections of works created by the Surrealist master. Collectors of Park West Dali artwork can visit the site at www.parkwest-dali.com to gain a better understanding of the history behind the works they have acquired. "
There is a rich history behind these works," said Morris Shapiro, Gallery Director for Park West. "This information allows past, present and future collectors to understand the lineage of these works. This type of historical information greatly enhances the experience of fine art collecting."
Salvador Dali aficionados and collectors alike will enjoy visiting the site and learning more about the master, his life and his work. Through this new website, Park West Gallery has made Dali's fine artwork viewable worldwide and continues its mission of bringing fine art to people everywhere.
The Rembrandt website, found at http://www.parkwest-rembrandt.com/, features extensive information on the Millennium Edition, a limited edition of posthumous impressions printed by master printer Marjorie Van Dyke. The site also features many other Rembrandt works available through the Park West Collection.
In addition, information can be found on the provenance of Rembrandt's copper plates, the etching process, a timeline of Rembrandt's life and work, and the market for Rembrandt etchings.
The Picasso website, found at http://www.parkwest-picasso.com/, features extensive information on the 347 Series, 347 works that were created over a seven month period and became the last hand-signed etchings and engravings Picasso ever produced, and the Suite Vollard, 100 Picasso etchings, aquatints and drypoints that are regarded as some of Picasso's greatest graphic achievements.
Park West Gallery holds the world's largest collection of works from the 347 Series and one of the largest collections of Suite Vollard etchings.
Two official plans are being proposed to City Council to turn swaths of the city—we're talking acres upon acres—into the world's largest urban farms.
Seems like a smart idea.
One proposal would bring a commercial farm to the city center, and be among the most ambitious urban farms we've ever heard of.
The other would function similarly, but would train and employ former drug addicts, giving them work, earned income, and skills.
A social venture of sorts.
Birmingham Rotary's seventh annual Korks for Kids wine tasting attracted 200 to The Reserve on May 8 in Birmingham.
They sipped, supped and socialized.
The hot topic was the closing of this newspaper at the end of the month. The event netted $15,000 for Childhelp Michigan, Orchard's Children Services and a Rotary International project in the Philippines.
The 800-pound granite stone portrays etchings representing the Pyramids of Giza, the Pyramids of Chichen Itza and wigwams, each representing the African American, Hispanic American, and Native American roots of this west side neighborhood.
The placement of the sculpture — on the grassy median at West Warren and West Grand — had additional significance: just steps away was the row house where Charles H. Wright first started the African American museum before it was moved to its current location on East Warren and Brush.
Observer Staff Writer
Amid the bustle of the Memorial Day holiday, Vivian Biegun doesn't want people to forget Michigan's ailing and needy veterans — or what her Plymouth Elks do for them.
In 2008, for example, folks at the Plymouth Elks Lodge 1780 raised over $4,500 to buy Christmas gifts for veterans in the Detroit, Ann Arbor and Battle Creek Veterans Administration hospitals, and at three homeless shelters; donated more than 230 bags of clothing to the Michigan Veterans Foundation; sponsored regular game days and ice cream socials for hospitalized and homeless veterans; hosted steak lunches for veterans who are bused to the Elks lodge from around the region; and donated deer hides used to make gloves given to veterans who use wheelchairs.
The work last year meant 2,124 man-hours and more than 22,000 miles of travel by participating Elks, said Biegun a Plymouth Township resident and an Elk for three years. Their service reached nearly 6,300 veterans, she said.
"I feel like it's giving something to people who helped our country," Biegun said.
Biegun said the Plymouth Elks have won state and national honors for their work with the veterans.
"I don't think people know exactly what the Elks do for the veterans," she said.
People crowd into Chicago to cram leaden slices of deep dish pie down their gullets because Chicago is famous for it, even if they really should be eating instead the wonderful thin crust pies you can get all over town.
I happen to think that Buddy's pies are marvelous. Light crust, no sugar in the dough and little to none in the fragrant tomato-basil sauce; the cheese isn't exactly fresh mozzarella but it is not the plastic mess that New Yorkers have begrudgingly become accustomed to.
In a word, this pizza is interesting. If you're not from around here, well, it isn't like lots of other pizzas you have had.
The original Buddy's, a former speakeasy, is in one of the more desolate parts of the East Side, and yet inside it's all smiles...
...outside, too -- this guy was out in the parking lot waiting for his order to come up and told us we had made the right decision to drive all the way over here. He wanted to pose with my friend Justin in front of his Land Rover. "You may forget everything you saw in Detroit today," our new pal said, "But you won't forget Buddy's."
The announcement was made by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, or ICIC, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote economic prosperity in America's inner cities, together with the Staples Foundation for Learning, a private foundation created by Staples Inc., the Framingham-based retailer of office supplies.
"Minority-owned businesses like VisionIT that continue to thrive serve as an inspiration to entrepreneurs everywhere, but particularly those within our nation's inner cities," Porter said.
"Vision IT's CEO David Segura, has demonstrated that hard work and determination are key to growing a successful business, and he serves as a positive role model for business owners throughout the country."
To see a list of this year's winners, please click here.
In a city with the lowest high school graduation rate in the nation, Cornerstone achieves a 95% high school graduation rate. Your donation to Cornerstone Schools will make a difference in the life of a child and allow us to continue with our mission of, "Changing Detroit One Child at a Time" through urban education. Due to today's economic climate, the children of Cornerstone need your help more than ever. Many of our families are unable to pay their modest tuition. The children of Cornerstone need your help today more than ever. Be a Tiger for Kids on August 18th and you will provide a child with an excellent education that prepares them for life and leadership.
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At one time or another, most American males must reckon with the necktie. Some embrace it, some grudgingly acquiesce to it and plenty reject it. That the necktie seems to have no practical purpose is of course the very source of its potency. Over the past decade or two, a rising wave of tech billionaires have made even its absence a powerful signal. This is why a tie pattern that incorporates an image of the swine-flu virus is such a snug fit: while the necktie sounds like an unlikely canvas for dark humor or subversive sentiment, it is actually an ideal one.
"Terminal Illness" is the name of one of the most recent designs from Bethany Shorb, a Detroit artist, and the fact that it has a title is a good indicator that it is not a traditional tie. What at first glance resembles an abstract pattern well within the vernacular of the necktie aesthetic is, rather, a repeated image of the swine-flu virus connected by shapes based on international-airport-terminal diagrams. A tie called "Snoutbreak!" features a simpler graphic that clearly suggests a pig's nose; if you order this tie, you get a matching surgical mask free. These offerings from Shorb's Cyberoptix Tie Lab were made available in early May, when the swine-flu freakout was at its height and the director general of the World Health Organization had recently warned that a pandemic had the potential to threaten "all of humanity."
An appropriate topic for a design riff? "I think paranoia is really fascinating," Shorb says, noting that she was struck by the intense disease-related warning graphics while going through customs on a trip home from Italy. She had already been thinking about making a design involving airport-terminal diagrams — "They're really beautiful" — before the swine-flu scare gave her an epiphany: "What if I put a disease in there!" Soon she had uploaded the design to her Flickr account, where, she says, it was almost immediately linked in a Twitter comment ("O.K., now that's a contemporary tie"), by Bruce Sterling, the science-fiction novelist, leading to a first wave of orders.
The truth is that Shorb is hardly the only person to find creative inspiration in the virus. Search make-your-own products sites like CafePress and Zazzle.com, and you'll find scores, if not hundreds, of jokey commodity responses to the spread of this strain of influenza, technically called A(H1N1). Most are forgettable or worse, but still. More impressive are the images Gizmodo.com collected of Mexicans wearing decorated masks, to guard against the virus "with style." The point is that both sets of examples probably have something in common with Shorb's creations. "The best way to take ownership of something scary is to kind of subvert it," she says.
This is not far from the general mission of her Cyberoptix tie line. After finishing her M.F.A. at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2001, Shorb moved to nearby Detroit and balanced a part-time job against design work, art projects and music-making. She started silkscreening on neckties in 2006, releasing new designs whenever she had a new idea. The 60 or 70 she has come up with have included "Plaid Habit," an intricate crisscross pattern that turns out to be made up of syringes, and "Fried Brains," which arranges overstimulated axons and dendrites into a pleasing abstraction. These sell for $30 to $40 online and through some galleries and museum shops; she quit the part-time job in 2007.
According to Anne Hollander's insightful book "Sex and Suits," ties were firmly established as an element of the "modern masculine image" we know today by the early 19th century: along with coats and trousers, "the brilliantly colored necktie asserted itself, to add a needed phallic note to the basic ensemble." Shorb is of course catering to forms of tie resentment — boredom with traditional patterns, the appeal of disturbing imagery disguised in a workplace-ready design, distaste for sartorial uniformity. But, as Hollander pointed out, subverting fashion often requires deeper participation than merely conforming would. Shorb's customers tend to be artists, designers, creative professionals and others who are tuned in to the expressive possibilities of even the most conformist of garments. A design inspired by pandemic paranoia is one way for style rebels to reject the traditional necktie, with panache.
May 23 - 25 Detroit, Michigan
The The Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) festival is on again in Detroit.
Also known in its previous incarnations as Fuse-in Detroit: Electronic-Soul Movement and Movement, the festival has been handed off from techno pioneer Derrick May to his protege Kevin Saunderson, and finally to detroit-based electronic music promotion company Paxahau.
The gathering is still considered to be one true to its roots and the history of electronic music in Detroit, widely considered to be the the birthplace of techno. This year's lineup has a diverse roster of established acts alongside up-and-coming artists.
The Memorial Day holiday weekend includes numerous parades and ceremonies to honor those who have served in the United States Armed Forces.
Most events are Monday. However there are a couple events Friday, May 22nd.
The city of Southfield will commemorate Memorial Day at 9 a.m. on the front steps of Southfield City Hall with a program featuring Mayor Brenda Lawrence, Colonel Henry Cason, Jr. from the Michigan Army National Guard and Daniel Brightwell from the Southfield Veterans Commission.
The ceremony will include a presentation of colors; 21-Gun Salute and playing of "Taps."
An 11 a.m. ceremony is planned in Lathrup Village in the Veterans Memorial Groove behind City Hall.
The mayor, Frank Brock, will give Memorial Day comments and there will be a dedication of memorial bricks purchased or donated honoring those residents who have served in the Armed Forces.
Specially honored will be Cpl. Nicholas Manoukian who was killed in Iraq and SFC Matthew Hilton, a Lathrup Village Police officer killed in Afghanistan while serving with the Michigan Army National Guard.
Here is a list of parades. All parades are on Monday unless otherwise noted.
Oakland County Parades:
Auburn Hills- Memorial Day Parade, which starts at at 11 a.m. at the corner of Auburn and Squirrel.
Beverly Hills- Starts at 11:30 from Groves High School parking lot located on 13 mile.
Birmingham- Memorial Day Ceremony 10 a.m. at the Memorial Plaza on 151 Martin.
Brandon Twp- Starts at 9:30 a.m. at Mill and Church streets, military fly over around 10:25 a.m.
Clarkston/Independence Twp- Starts at 10 a.m. on Church and Main streets
Farmington Hills/Farmington- Starts at 10 a.m. at the Farmington Plaza on Grand River and Mooney streets.
Fenton- Starts at 10 a.m. on Leroy and River streets
Ferndale- Starts at 10 a.m. on Livernois and West Breckenridge.
Hazel Park- Starts at 10 a.m. on Eight mile and John R.
Village of Holly/Holly Twp- Starts at 10.a.m. at the VFW Hall on Airport street.
Keego Harbor- Starts at 10 a.m. at Memorial park on Orchard Lake and Cass roads
Lake Orion/ Orion Twp.- Starts at 11 a.m. at Blanch Simms School located on Florence and Flint roads, 11:30 a.m. military fly over
Madison Heights- Starts at 10 a.m. on 12 mile and John R.
Milford Twp./ Village- Starts at 11 a.m. at the American Legion on Commerce Road.
City of Northville- Starts at 10 a.m. in Downtown Northville in close to Northville Downs Race Track on Griswold and Main Streets.
Novi- Starts at 10 a.m. on 10 mile and Karim Boulevard.
Pleasant Ridge- Starts at 8:45 a.m. on Oakland Park and Ridge Roads.
Rochester Hills/ Rochester- Starts at 10 a.m. in Mt. Avon Cemetery.
Royal Oak- Memorial Day Parade, which starts at 9 a.m. at Main and Fourth streets.
South Lyon- Starts at 10 a.m. at Bartlett Elementary School on 350 School Street.
Walled Lake- Starts at 11 a.m. on Pontiac Trail and Walled Lake Drive.
Waterford- Starts at 10 a.m. in front of Burke's Lumber Store.
Wayne County Parades:
Brownstown Twp.- Starts at 10:30 a.m. at Royal Canadian Legion on Telegraph between West and Van Horn.
Belleville- The Brown Funeral Home and Brown Family Center will sponsor "Thunder Rolls in Belleville." This Memorial Day tribute will honor the memory of veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice, giving their lives to protect our nation. Participants can register and line up for the ride starting at 11 am in Wayne County Community College's front parking lot, located off of Haggerty and I-94 (take exit 192 and then proceed north on Haggerty).
Dearborn- Memorial Day Parade, which begins at 10 a.m. on Michigan Avenue from Firestone to Schaefer in east Dearborn.
Detroit- At Fort Wayne Park on 6325 West Jefferson
Flat Rock- Starts at 10 a.m. at the American Legion Post 337 on Hall and Division Streets.
Inkster- Starts at noon in the Cherry Hill Plaza on Inkster and Cherry Hill.
Plymouth- 7:30 a.m., parade starts at Harvey and Wing streets and features the Plymouth-Canton High School marching band and veterans. They will proceed to the new Memorial Park on Main Street downtown.
Redford Twp.- Monday May 31st: Starts at 2 p.m. Six Mile and Beech Daly Roads.
Rockwood- Starts at 10 a.m. at Chapman Elementary School on Olmstead between Huron River Drive and Woodruff.
Trenton- Starts at 10 a.m. on West Road and Fort Street.
Washtenaw County:
Ann Arbor- Saturday: Starts at 11 a.m. at at 2609 Yost St. (at Eli Drive) neighborhood parade for any child who wants decorate his or her bicycle, with the opening of the Forestbrooke neighborhood pool to the general public. Monday: 10 to 10:15 a.m. parade of the Glacier Area Homeowners Association, along Frederick, Middleton, Bardstown, Windemere and Barrister streets, ending at Glacier Highlands Park.
Chelsea- 10 a.m. American Legion parade. Begins behind the police station on Middle Street.
Dexter- 10 a.m. parade on Main Street in downtown Dexter.
Manchester- 1 p.m. parade on the Main Street bridge.
Milan- Starts at 9 a.m. parade at the American Legion, 44 Wabash St..
Saline- 10 a.m. parade at the fire station on Harris Street at Michigan Avenue.
Ypsilanti- Starts at 9 a.m. procession begins at Huron Street and Michigan Avenue.
Livingston County
Brighton-Parade begins at 10 a.m., Starts at West Main Street from Brighton High School to the Mill Pond.
Fowlerville-Parade starts at 10 a.m. at the corner of Veterans Drive and Grand River Avenue.
Hamburg-The parade starts at 10 a.m. at Hamburg Road and M-36.
Hartland-Sunday: Luminary walk at dusk at Hartland Cemetery on Avon Street. Monday:The parade begins at noon from Ore Creek Middle School.
Howell-Parade begins at 10 a.m. at the Howell Carnegie District Library courthouse.
Pinckney-Parade starts at 1 p.m. at Pinckney Elementary School on 935 W. Main St.
Macomb County Parades:
Eastpointe- Starts at 11 a.m. at city hall 23200 Gratiot Ave.
New Baltimore- Starts at 10 am at Walter and Mary Burke Park on Front and Washington Streets.
New Haven- Starts at 9 a.m. at Haven Ridge and Division Street.
Richmond- Sponsored by Richmond VFW Post, starts at 10 a.m. on M-19 ( Main Street) and 32 Mile Road.
Romeo- Starts at 10 a.m. on 32 mile and Van Dyke ( St. Clair and Main in Romeo).
Roseville- starts at 10 a.m. on Gratiot just south of Best Buy by 13 mile road.
Sterling Heights- Starts at 9 a.m. on Dodge Park and Utica Roads.
St. Clair Shores- Sunday:Starts at 1 p.m. on Jefferson Ave and Nine Mile.
Monroe County Parades
Dundee- Starts 9:45 a.m. in Wolverine Park.
Lambertsville- Starts at 10:30 a.m. at the Fire Station on the corner of Dean and Monroe Roads
Monroe- Starts at 2 p.m. on Jones Avenue and North Monroe Street.
"We have created a 'store within a store' to feature Michigan-made favorites that offer consumers great value," said Mark Anusbigian, president of the family-owned gourmet grocer. "Our new Cherished store is well stocked with Michigan munchies and showcases how much we have to be proud of in Michigan."
Attendees will also have an opportunity to enter a free drawing to win great prizes including free passes for a family of four to visit The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village; two Detroit Tiger baseball tickets, compliments of Comcast, to watch the Tigers play the Blue Jays; two tickets to attend the musical "Grease" at the Fisher Theatre, compliments of WOW!; a family four-pack to attend Cedar Point, provided by WDIV TV; and more. The drawing will be held at 5 p.m. concluding Saturday's Grand Opening, and entrants do not need to be present to win.


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Tuscan White Bean Soup
|Chopped onion
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Olive oil
|2 Teaspoon
|2 Clove (10 gm), minced
|All purpose flour
|3 Tablespoon
|Canned white kidney beans
|12 Ounce, drained, rinsed (cannellini)
|Instant vegetable broth and seasoning mix
|3 Ounce (3 packets)
|Plum tomatoes
|2 Large, blanched, peeled, seeded, and chopped
|Chopped fresh parsley
|2 Teaspoon
|Chopped fresh rosemary/1/2 teaspoon rosemary leaves
|2 Teaspoon
|White pepper
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
1. In 3-quart microwavable casserole combine onion, oil, and garlic and stir to coat; microwave on High (100%) for 1 minute, stirring once halfway through cooking.
2. In medium mixing bowl combine 1 quart water and the flour, stirring to dissolve flour; stir into onion mixture. Add beans and broth mix and stir to combine. Microwave on High for 10 minutes, stirring once halfway through cooking, until mixture thickens.
3. Using half of bean mixture, pour 1 cup into blender and process until pureed. Transfer pureed mixture to 1-quart bowl and repeat procedure with remaining bean mixture, 1 cup at a time. Pour pureed mixture back into casserole. Add tomatoes and stir to combine. Microwave on High for 5 minutes, until flavors blend.
4. Stir in remaining ingredients.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 803 Calories from Fat 164
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 18 g27.3%
Saturated Fat 1.8 g9%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 5450.3 mg227.1%
Total Carbohydrates 154 g51.4%
Dietary Fiber 22.7 g90.9%
Sugars 30.7 g
Protein 27 g53.5%
Vitamin A 88% Vitamin C 94.8%
Calcium 29.7% Iron 43.1%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet

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Set includes one each of six vivid neon, colors, including Shocking Pink, Electric Blue, Hot Magenta, Fiery Orange, Neon Yellow, and Glowing Green. Broad tip.
Glitter Markers, Set of 6
Glitter Markers add shine and sparkle to your artwork. Colors include Silver Sparkle, Emerald Zest, Blue Blazes, Violet Glitz, Fire Flecks, and Gold Medal.
Metallic Markers, Set of 8
Metallic markers add a colorful sheen to your artwork. The set of eight markers includes Purple Steel, Copper Mine, Green Machine, Slick Silver, Gold Ingot, Pink Bling, Black Iron, Cobalt Blue.
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Crayola Markers are always Awesome!
By MJancart
from Clarksville, VA
Comments about Crayola Classic Original Markers:
I teach 4 art classes once a week and use crayola markers very often. Our first batch we purchased lasted through 4 years of teaching! This is our second purchase of markers and we'll be back again I'm sure!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Exceptional price on the Crayola class pack markers!
By Edie
from Minneapolis
Great color selection in the class pack. The broad line tip lasts the longest and is best for coloring in larger areas.
Great Marker pack!!!
By Jessie
from Vermontville Mi
Love Craylola class pack markers! It's a great deal for the product you get!
Do not buy "generic" markers!
By mg
from Buffalo Grove, IL
You may pay more for Crayola products, but they are far superior in quality and stand up to elementary students well!
great colors, wish you would sell them separately
By pilix
from austin tejas
wish you would sell these colors separately
open stock markers are the best
By Ms. Bott
from Brea, CA
As a teacher, I love that when I run low on one or two colors, I can buy 12 of just that color marker. Although it's cheaper to buy a pack of 8 or 10 markers at back-to-school sales, then I end up with piles of colors I don't need. This is the only place I'm aware of that allows me to buy "open stock" markers, and I appreciate that.
hope in the future you sell these colors separately
Crayola Markers are the best!
By Artgirl715
from Eau Claire, WI
I order bulk markers for my art classes. I only use crayola markers & crayons. They are the best!
packaging is great
By Lan
from St. Paul, MN
Blic's is the only place I've been able to buy markers in bulk by color. In our large Early Childhood program, we have many yellow and gray markers left over at the end of the year and run short of red and blue by mid year. By buying a box of one color, I can purchase what we need.
By Grandma Balloon
from 48708
One of our granddaughters LOVES to draw. Her favorite colors are red & black. They have many sets of markers because she used all the red & black up. Being able to replace these 2 colors is a deal!
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