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J E N N Y P E A R S A L L – Creative Director

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B R A D K A D R I C H – Writer

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Over the course of his four decades with the Observer & Eccentric, Brad established himself as one of the preeminent prep sports reporters in the state, winning many journalism awards along the way. His greatest joy is interviewing local athletes and coaches, and reporting on their efforts.

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Plymouth is a great place to be home for the holidays

In this issue

When I was a kid, the weeks leading up to Christmas were filled with great anticipation.

The possibilities of what lay ahead -- at family gatherings and what would be under the tree after Santa’s big arrival -- were endless. And Santa rarely disappointed.

Looking back, those were some of the best memories.

Of course, as I’ve grown older, and now look a bit like Santa myself, I realize the best part of Christmas is being with family, celebrating life, and spreading good will. That is what the story about Christ’s birth is all about. Sometimes that gets lost in all the hustle and bustle of the holidays.

With the Christmas season upon us, I think we should all take some time to realize how fortunate we are to be part of this wonderful community of Plymouth and this country.

If you look around the globe these days, there is so much war and strife. Places where chaos reigns. People being uprooted from their homes or even killed because of the ambitious intentions of evil men.

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P LYMOUTH UNITED WAY – NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS

Yet, here in America we are largely insulated. Certainly we have our challenges, but an invasion by a foreign army isn’t one of them. Yes, there are places in America where poverty and crime are issues, but here in Plymouth that is not the case. At least not to a large degree.

Fortunately, we have a number of organizations in Plymouth that do help those individuals and families who do fall through the cracks and are struggling to get by. In this issue we have stories about a couple of those organizations that do some amazing work, especially around the holidays.

On Page 18, you’ll find the story about the Plymouth Salvation Army, which serves the less fortunate in the Plymouth, Canton, Northville and Belleville communities. With the help of an army of volunteers, they are the ones you see in front of local stores ringing bells and asking people to drop donations into their red kettles.

According to Major Kris Wood, the director of the group, the 2023 campaign will be the PSA’s 89th Christmas spent helping needy families in the area. Their goal is to raise about $200,000 this year. They do some amazing things with that money, and it all stays in the community.

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BOB DOROSHEWITZ WON’T LET PARKINSON’S GET IN HIS WAY

On Page 6, we have a story about the Plymouth Community United Way, an organization that dates back to the 1940s, and supports the basic needs of the residents of Plymouth, Canton, and Western Wayne County.

One of their biggest events is Make a Difference Day, held each November, where volunteers rake leaves and complete other tasks for seniors, the disabled and those in need. This year, more than 200 volunteers helped out at 31 homes. They also hold food drives for those in need, and their annual Hats for the Homeless drive collects hats, gloves, blankets and more for the homeless and people living in shelters.

The PCUW also supports a number of local organizations, including Growth Works, First Step, Plymouth Community Council on Aging, Community Opportunity Center, Angela Hospice, Senior Citizens Club of Plymouth, New Hope Center for Grief Support and the Plymouth Salvation Army.

“The fact that we are able to assist people who need help and be a voice for people who are less fortunate is the best part of what we do,” said Marie Morrow, the PCUW’s president.

These stories are a reminder of what Christmas is all about, and a testament to our community’s generosity.

I feel so fortunate to be part of it, especially at this time of year.

Merry Christmas to you and yours from the entire staff here at The Rock.

Kurt Kuban is the Publisher and Editor of The Rock. He welcomes your comments at kurtkuban@therockmagazine.com.

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THE ‘PAWSITIVE’ SIDE OF DOG OWNERSHIP Funding campaign aims to build pickleball courts at PARC Downtown Plymouth has you covered for unique holiday gifts Acting troupe probes ‘Painless’ opioid epidemic Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign vital for local families Plymouth golf team leads the way for PARK athletes Liberty Middle School’s Urquhart named state’s top English teacher

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O N T H E CO V E R : Plymouth resident Mark Malcolm (front) and other local pickleball enthusiasts stand in the field where they hope to build four much-needed courts for the fastest growing sport in America. The field is next to Bilkie Field behind the PARC facility. Photo by Bryan Mitchell

FIELD of

Pickleball

DREAMS B efore the Covid pandemic hit, Pete Lamoureux and his wife visited their daughter and son-in-law in Florida, where the kids introduced the parents to a relatively new phenomenon: Pickleball.

It didn’t take long, and Lamoureux was convinced. And when he got back to Plymouth, he started convincing other people.

Now he’s got a group of maybe 30 or 40 friends and family playing the game.

“We’d heard of it but never played it,” Lamoureux said. “We learned and just got hooked.”

They’re not the only ones.

According to data from USA Pickleball, there are more than 4.2 million players in the U.S. The number of pickleball players 4 | The Rock

By Brad Kadrich

Funding campaign aims to build

outdoor courts at Plymouth PARC

increased by nearly 86% in 2022 and, for the three-year period from 2020-2022, participation in the sport was up nearly 159%.

In the period from 2014-2021, the number of pickleball players in the U.S. nearly doubled.

The speed of the game and the constant need to pay attention to the ball is what draws Lamoureux to the sport.

“It’s the adrenaline during the point,” he said. “There are so many different types of shots that you’ll see playing pickleball.

There’s strategy around the teamwork, trying to plan shots and anticipate shots, and that’s quite unique to the game. It has a mixture of a lot of different types of racquet and paddle games.”

Now Lamoureux is helping lead an effort to make sure pickleball

players in Plymouth have a place to play. And organizers are hoping to get some help from the public to make it happen.

The Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex (PARC) will transform an underutilized piece of its campus and create four new dedicated pickleball courts through the anticipated success of a crowdfunding campaign announced by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the nonprofit Plymouth PARC. The campaign is being offered through the Michigan-based crowdfunding platform Patronicity.

If the campaign reaches its crowdfunding goal of $50,000

by Jan. 14 -- it was already at $33,000 in late November -- the project will win a matching

grant with funds made possible

by MEDC’s Public Spaces Community Places program.

For project details and to donate, visit patronicity.com/ plymouthpickleball.

“Pickleball is the fastestgrowing sport in the country and there are many in Plymouth who play, yet there are no outdoor courts available to the public,” said Mark Malcolm who, with Lamoureux, is leading the charge. “The proposed courts address a clear community need and fit perfectly with PARC’s mission to enrich lives through quality arts, education and recreation programs for all ages.”

If the crowdfunding campaign is successful, the courts would be located on presently unutilized land on PARC’s

“Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in the country and there are many in Plymouth who play, yet there are no outdoor courts available to the public. The proposed courts address a clear community need and fit perfectly with PARC’s mission to enrich lives through quality arts, education and recreation programs for all ages.”

Mark Malcolm

campus, on Theodore Street, adjacent to Bilkie Field, where the Miracle League of Plymouth plays its games. PARC will provide this property free of charge, and the space will offer pickleball opportunities during a typical week for free drop-in play, affordable and low-cost court reservations, lessons and league play.

Assuming the success of the crowdfunding campaign and cooperation from Mother Nature, construction would likely begin in April and be completed in June or July, Malcolm said.

Lamoureux said he approached City of Plymouth officials about putting courts in city parks, but the potential for noise and the proximity to residential areas made officials a little nervous about granting the request.

PARC, he said, had just the spot with unutilized land at the back of the campus.

The MEDC program is

designed for just such projects, provided the communities can get the matching funds. The pickleball courts seem like a good use of the funding.

“Pickleball is a unique, intergenerational sport that improves health and allows for inclusivity and a shared experience in a public space,” said MEDC Regional Prosperity Managing Director Paula Holtz.

“We are pleased to support and provide resources for this project, which offers accessible, lowcost space for public recreation through our Public Spaces Community Places program.”

Public Spaces Community Places is a collaborative effort of the MEDC, the Michigan Municipal League, and Patronicity, in which local residents can use crowdfunding to be part of the development of strategic projects in their communities and be backed with a matching grant from MEDC.

“The Michigan Municipal League is a strong supporter of placemaking projects happening throughout our state,” said Dan Gilmartin, MML CEO and Executive Director. “These pickleball courts will improve the human experience of everyone who utilizes them, which is what placemaking is all about.”

The Public Spaces Community Places initiative started in 2014 with MEDC providing matched funding of up to $50,000 for community improvement projects throughout Michigan.

As of Nov. 10, 2023, MEDC has provided more than $12.2 million in matching grants. Since the launch of the program, 364 projects have been successful in reaching their goal, with nearly $13.9 million raised from 67,868 individual donors. Communities have a 97 percent success rate in achieving their goals and earning matching funds.

Malcolm is confident the

public will support the project.

“Including the value of the land provided free of charge by PARC, this is a $500,000 project that will happen if tax-deductible donations total $50,000,” Malcolm said. “It’s the best opportunity now and maybe ever to have hometown courts.”

If you’d like to contribute to the crowdfunding campaign to get the courts built,

WHAT DO YOU THINK? A group in Plymouth is leading a crowdfunding campaign to build four new pickleball courts on PARC property in an empty field next to the Bilkie Field. Do you think this is a good location for the courts, and do you think you would use them? Please email your opinions to Editor Kurt Kuban at kurtkuban@ therockmagazine.com.

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at the time, called me and wanted to know if I had any background in business and accounting. I told him what I had done in education.

He wanted to know if I could work part-time in the office,” explains Morrow, who has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from the University of Michigan.

“The next thing I knew, I was heavily involved,” she adds with a chuckle.

That heavy involvement eventually led to her being named president of the organization in 1987.

It would not be a stretch to call Morrow an expert on the community’s needs.

“Today, the homeless population is growing. There doesn’t seem to be enough shelters,” she says. “Obviously mental health needs have increased in various populations. The need for food and help with utilities have increased.”

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ellogg Park and its iconic fountain, Fall Festival, the Wilcox house, Fourth of July parade, and the Penn Theatre. These are all places and traditions that instantly bring Plymouth to mind for those in and around the community. The sort of things that give this community its hometown feel.

But there’s another aspect to the community which makes it Plymouth. It’s neighbor helping neighbor. And one organization in Plymouth has been living out that value for years.

It all started in 1944, when the Plymouth Community Fund was set up to serve the needs of the 6 | The Rock

greater Plymouth community… neighbor helping neighbor in essence.

Seventy-five years later, that organization is today called the Plymouth Community United Way and it’s still working hard to meet the basic needs of the residents of Plymouth, Canton, and Western Wayne County.

“Our focus is on basic needs, health and stability, and education,” explains PCUW President Marie Morrow. The New Hampshire native moved to Plymouth in 1980 and was looking for volunteer work. She quickly connected with the organization.

“The following year, Clarence DuCharme, who was board chair

That knowledge is helped in great part to an idea she had two decades ago to create a collaborative of community organizations, ranging from churches to nonprofits to service groups, to better understand needs in the community and work to fulfill them.

“There were a number of organizations saying that there were people going from place to place asking for money and help. There were growing needs for people that agencies did not support,” she says. “I got together with the Plymouth Salvation Army and contacted about 50 organizations in the community to see if we could

get together to coordinate needs in the community that were not being met. It seemed like it made a lot of sense…because there’s no endless pot of money for everything.”

The human service collaborative still meets on a quarterly basis, drawing about 35 or more organizations from Plymouth, Canton and surrounding communities.

SERVING THE VULNERABLE Today, under the leadership of 12 board members, Morrow and her team of four staff and an intern are working diligently to coordinate activities to meet residents’ needs, by providing funding and grants to nonprofits who deliver services to vulnerable populations and through planned events.

One of the biggest events is Make a Difference Day, which is held annually in November.

Volunteers ranging from adults to high school and middle school students rake leaves and complete simple gardening tasks for seniors, the disabled and others who need help. This year, they deployed more than 200 volunteers who helped out at 31 homes.

Other events include food drives, a hygiene supplies drive for students, along with a school supply drive. The annual Hats for

the Homeless drive collects hats, gloves, blankets and more for the homeless and people living in shelters.

Many of these activities are done in partnership with different community groups, such as the Michigan Philharmonic, which encouraged attendees at its annual Holiday Pops concerts to bring donations for the Hats for the Homeless drive.

The PCUW also makes an impact through its support of partner agencies, including Growth Works, First Step, Plymouth Community Council on Aging, Community Opportunity Center, Angela Hospice, Senior Citizens Club of Plymouth, New Hope Center for Grief Support and the Plymouth Salvation Army.

“Through all the partners we work with, we help people

through crisis, and we help people who are just in need,” says current PCUW Board Chair Louis Whitlock, who first connected with the Plymouth Community United Way 20-plus years ago when he was a plant manager at the Sheldon Road Ford Motor facility and was vice chair of the local fundraising campaign there.

The PCUW also works with organizations that are meeting the most basic needs such as St. Mary’s Community Outreach Center, which has a food and clothing bank, as well as Journey to Housing (part of St. Vincent de Paul), which helps low-income people find affordable housing.

They also coordinate The Emergency Food Assistance Program, TEFAP, which provides

low-income Plymouth and Northville residents emergency food assistance. Once a month, PCUW volunteers distribute food out of the Plymouth Cultural Center.

COLLABORATION What makes all of these efforts successful is a close collaboration between PCUW, its partner agencies and the community.

“We work very closely with Plymouth Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul. They are on the front line. We work with them to see what the needs are and how to fulfill those needs. We also have a great relationship with the public schools and now even charter schools,” says Morrow.

While PCUW is independently governed by a local volunteer board, it adheres to membership standards set by United Way Worldwide when it comes to governance, ethics, financial management, and general operations.

“Every year we are required to go through a self-evaluation and submit it to them. Then every three years there is a more in-depth review,” notes Morrow, adding with pride that the organization has had “clean audits every year.”

Strong oversight by its board plays an important role in assuring that PCUW is stewarding its resources and directing help where it’s needed the most.

“We are making sure people have resources so they have what they need,” says Whitlock. “I am proud of the amount of effort that comes out of the office with minimal staff. The people in the office really care about the community.”

“We do not fund an organization that is not a 501(c)3.

When an agency requests an allocation from us, they have to support their application,” explains Morrow. “We have a group of board members on an Agency Relations Committee

and they personally visit every single agency we fund. We meet their staff and see how they are using the dollars we are allocating to them.”

Those dollars, which come from community fundraising, makes the help that PCUW provides possible. Donors can rest assured that 100% of their donation goes right back into the community.

That 100% back promise is due to an initiative started in 1998, when the Plymouth Community United Way hosted its first annual Tee-Off For A Friend Golf Outing.

The idea was to help PCUW raise money for its long-term investment fund and grow the fund to one day cover all administrative costs.

Twenty-plus years later, the goal has been achieved.

LOOKING AHEAD Both Whitlock and Morrow continue to focus on the organization’s mission of helping those in need.

“My hope for the future is to make sure this organization transforms itself into an organization that not only performs and does what we do today, but anticipates what needs to be done in the future in the community,” says Whitlock, who got his first taste of community service when he volunteered with the local Salvation Army as a high school student in his hometown of Charlottesville,

Virginia. “The amount of need is increasing. If you look at some of the things going on at the schools -- safety and security issues in the schools – we are working with our partners to find out more.”

“We are looking at a strategic plan for Plymouth Community United Way…we are looking at succession planning for the entire office and the board. We are planning fundraising,” adds Morrow. “There’s a lot of work going on. In January, we will have everything settled for 2024.”

At the end of the day, the small-town idea of neighbor helping neighbor is what fuels the two leaders.

“The fact that we are able to assist people who need help and be a voice for people who are less fortunate is the best part of what we do,” Morrow said.

PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY UNITED WAY ADDRESS: 960 W. Ann Arbor Trail, Suite 2, Plymouth PHONE: (734) 453-6879 MAIL: PO Box 6356 Plymouth, MI 48170 EMAIL: plymouthunitedway@pcuw.org WEBSITE: plymouthunitedway.org

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triking the right chord with parents, students and educators about the ongoing fight against opioid addiction isn’t an easy task. But a group of University of Michigan performers managed to do just that on Nov. 27 at the Penn Theatre in downtown Plymouth.

In “Painless: The Opioid Musical,” five members of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance captivated a modest but attentive audience of about 50 – delivering a difficult message through song, dialogue and choreography that seemingly connected with those who witnessed the 50-minute performance. The event was the latest Family Presentation Night, a continuing partnership between the Penn and Plymouth-Canton Community Schools.

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team’s captain, a Homecoming queen, a quick-to-prescribe doctor, a distraught mom and a son (in the ‘Boy in the Box’ segment) who would rummage through the family safe in order to find cash he would use to buy another bottle of pills. His goal, like the other cast members, was for opioids to help him remain painless, numb to the roller-coaster ride of life.

“What I thought (about Boy in the Box) was he was going to steal money from the safe and then he found the box (of photos and letters) of him, his life,” said Cheryl Ziobro, who attended the musical with 14-year-old daughter Adrienne. “He was reminiscing ‘How could I have even lived this life with all these dreams and things I did’ and now here I am trying to steal from my mom?’

“And then he found the box (which contained a eulogy to be read at his funeral) and realized ‘Oh, they’re just waiting for a

phone call that I’m going to be dead’ (from his addiction).”

Other characters conveyed their conflicted emotions, about wanting to stay on the straightand-narrow but always being tugged back for another deadly dose.

By the end of the show, characters were coming to grips about their addiction, whether through desperate interventions or just finally “seeing the light,” that they need not pay the ultimate price.

just normal kids with lots of ambition. They are good students and then they get started on one prescription, or one pill from a friend. And then they need more.

“Even just the thought of trying to feel painless, I think right now with a lot of anxiety going on in the world that people are trying to avoid pain. And I think the message was…starting those opioids just leads you to a place where sometimes people don’t recover from. Which was a striking message for me.”

Adrienne Ziobro, a freshman at Canton High School, said she appreciated the presentation’s use of music and topical teenage viewpoints in what is an increasingly fraught world to navigate through.

“I really liked the music, it just connected with me that way,” said Adrienne, adding that there was more emotion of “just what really happens” rather than watching a documentary or reading a textbook.

SLIPPERY SLOPE At the conclusion of ‘Painless,’ applause from misty-eyed audience members reverberated throughout the historic movie house.

“It was a powerful message to hear how other teenagers get started with opioid addiction,” said Ziobro, who teaches at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Plymouth. “How they’re

According to parent Tracey Venning of Plymouth, who attended with her daughter Eden (13, an eighth grader at West Middle School) the musical brilliantly portrayed many

“The biggest message is substance use disorder does not discriminate.

It can touch any race, gender, socioeconomic status. There’s no need to struggle in silence. I think this musical will differently bring a great way to break the stigma surrounding substance abuse.”

David Clayton, program director with Families Against Narcotics (FAN)

aspects of a difficult subject in a hard-to-miss-the-message way.

“It was very powerful, they’re obviously very talented,” Venning said. “I think it was a good avenue to introduce how slippery of a slope it is. … It’s always good to plant seeds and educate. I’m a health professional so I’ve seen it. It’s nothing I learned, personally, but I just wanted to make it more known to my daughter so we could open up a conversation and talk.”

Canton resident Tara Jargowski, attending with daughter Natalie (13, eighth grader at East Middle School), agreed with Venning about starting a dialogue and discussing a deadly topic sooner rather than later.

“It’s never too early to start to educate,” Jargowski said. “I feel like things happen younger and younger in today’s day and age.”

Jargowski emphasized that the musical demonstrated there are resources to help young people “so they know they’re not alone.

That’s part of the addiction, as you isolate yourself and feel shameful about that. Educating takes away a little bit of the stigma.”

Her daughter Natalie’s takeaway was simple but important: “Don’t do drugs and just be careful.”

Meanwhile, Families Against Narcotics Northwest Wayne Chapter executive vice president Dara Cockrum underscored why a musical such as ‘Painless’ is an essential way to “get to students who don’t necessarily want to read something but are more visual learners.”

MAKING A CONNECTION U-M cast members are visiting high schools and venues such as the Penn Theatre throughout the state, delivering true stories of opioid use disorder and recovery.

Among those whose story was included in ‘Painless’ is David Clayton, program director of Harmless, a harm reduction initiative of Families Against Narcotics (FAN).

“About six years ago, I (and several others from FAN) went to the University of Michigan and spoke to students,” Clayton said.

“They took our stories and made them into a play to where it could bring awareness to the younger generation that, normally, would either, a, not be reached or, b, to

find an easier way to approach them. With education.

“The biggest message is substance use disorder does not discriminate. It can touch any race, gender, socioeconomic status. There’s no need to struggle in silence. I think this musical will differently bring a great way to break the stigma surrounding substance abuse.”

Clayton added that “the greatest part of this musical is just the passion in their voices, relaying these messages in a very tasteful and sympathetic manner.

It definitely hits you in the right way of striking up emotions.”

Families Against Narcotics Northwest Wayne Chapter founding member Lisa Sellinger

attended the musical with her husband, Mike. The Sellingers lost a 26-year-old son to fentanyl poisoning in 2020 following an eight-year ordeal suffering from opioids.

“Getting the information, getting correct information and reducing stigma about this disease – and acknowledging that indeed it is a disease – is very, very important,” Lisa Sellinger stressed, “to understand not only what the person suffering with this disease goes through, but what families and communities ultimately do suffer from this epidemic.”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2017 declared the opioid crisis a “public health emergency” and estimated about 75 percent of drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved opioids. More than 760,000 people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose.

A LIFELINE THAT MATTERS The Sellingers emphasized it is imperative to get that informational lifeline early on, to stem the tide of young people feeling stigmatized and suffering in silence.

Bolstering trust and communication is imperative.

‘Painless’ could help many find out they are not alone and that there is help and compassion.

“All we know was our son was abusing some very, very strong drugs,” Mike Sellinger said. “And all we could do was

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Continued from page 11 act like folks that didn’t have a clue and created a mess in our family. Too much anger, not enough compassion, not enough understanding.”

Ellen Elliott, executive director of nonprofit organization Friends of the Penn, said ‘Painless’ is the latest in a monthly schedule of important topics – many dealing with mental health issues – that are presented on non-movie weekday nights.

She noted that discussing such complex and heavy issues in a familiar setting, which the Penn is to many Plymouth residents, helps attendees settle in and get the most out of presentations.

“For us to provide a venue where people are comfortable coming just gives them one more reason to take that step, to say I want to learn a little bit more,” Elliott said. “Friends of the Penn is so happy to be able to be partnering with the school district to bring this to the community.”

Curating the Family Presentation Nights in tandem with Elliott is Kathy Grodus,

Plymouth-Canton Community Schools psychologist.

“We want to break that stigma of not being able to talk about it (opioid addiction),” Grodus said. “Because we know it’s out there, this is a problem out there.

Plymouth-Canton Schools truly cares about mental health and wellness and supporting our students anyway we can, with presentations like this.”

SERIES CONTINUES Family Presentation Nights (free to the public) will continue 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 7, when Kristie Wyler will discuss “Eating Disorders: Recognizing the signs and finding support.”

Slated for March will be a crucial talk on the effects of social media on children. Details about the latter events are yet to be finalized.

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year ago, if Bob Doroshewitz had been walking across the office, he would have worried that people would notice a stiffness in his gait or the forced nature of the swing in his arms.

A year later, Doroshewitz, the Plymouth Township treasurer, crossed the finish line of the International Half-Marathon sponsored by the Detroit Free Press.

Those final steps may have been some of the most important steps Doroshewitz has ever taken, coming nearly a year after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, the chronic and progressive movement disorder.

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he was happy to have finished.

“I got to about mile 9-and-ahalf and I started running out of gas,” said Doroshewitz, smiling at the memory. “It was hard. I put everything out there. I had to walk a little bit, but I finished.”

The route took the runners along the riverfront, over the bridge and then back through the tunnel. The bridge presents a steep climb for healthy runners and a unique challenge for a guy with a movement disorder.

“On the bridge you go a mile from the base to the crest,” Doroshewitz said. “That’s a mile at a 40-degree angle, so that was tough.”

A POSITIVE ATTITUDE The diagnosis came just before Thanksgiving 2022,

but Doroshewitz had been experiencing symptoms for more than six months prior to the diagnosis. He would keep his hands out of sight to hide the trademark tremors, and he had some cognitive challenges.

A self-proclaimed “Doctor of Google,” he began researching the symptoms.

What he learned warned him, even ahead of the official diagnosis, what he was experiencing. After leaving the doctor’s office that Saturday, he pulled over to have a conversation with himself.

“I pulled into a parking lot for five minutes and told myself, ‘I’m not going to let it define me, and it’s not going to take me down,’” he said. “I owe it to my family

to do everything I can to fight back on this.’ My friends and family are amazed at the way I’ve approached it in terms of my mental state.”

His wife, Tammy, certainly has been amazed at her husband’s attitude over the last year.

“I am very proud of him, not just for the accomplishment but for the way he has made the decision not to let this disease define him,” Tammy said. “He has taken ownership of his life.

He is setting the terms … he is not going quietly. I’m really proud of him that he’s taken such a positive attitude. He’s definitely living his best life right now.”

The decision to run the halfmarathon rolled slowly into being. Doroshewitz admits he

knew little about Parkinson’s before he was diagnosed, so he immediately set about learning what he could. It’s a disease, he said, where the body stops producing the dopamine that is the neurotransmitter that carries messages throughout the body.

“I knew very little…Michael J. Fox has brought so much awareness to it (Doroshewitz has since joined Fox’s foundation),” he said. “He’s got a tremendous organization. What’s interesting is, my brother was just diagnosed about six weeks ago. He retired in July, he’s 62, and he had been having these weird symptoms for a year or two. I was looking at him one day and thought, ‘that’s Parkinson’s.’ When you have it, you recognize it.”

He learned one of the most critical things a Parkinson’s patient can do is exercise.

“So I got back on an exercise routine and started running on a treadmill,” he said. “In January, when I was still struggling, I made a decision I was going to run that half-marathon. I started on the treadmill and then took it outside, but I hadn’t done enough outside training. I was going to bail on it about a month before, but I decided that was ridiculous, even if I had to walk some of it.”

Always successful with shortterm goals, Doroshewitz refocused

and forced himself to exercise.

That focus, combined with the medications he was taking helped his results become “substantial.”

cheering me on…I wasn’t a runner when I was young, but I kind of enjoy the exercise.”

Doroshewitz attributes a lot

“I pulled into a parking lot for five minutes and told myself, ‘I’m not going to let it define me, and it’s not going to take me down. I owe it to my family to do everything I can to fight back on this.’ My friends and family are amazed at the way I’ve approached it in terms of my mental state.”

Bob Doroshewitz, the Plymouth Township treasurer, after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease

‘A GREAT CHALLENGE’ Never much of a runner – he did some while rehabbing a broken knee back in the day – he knew the trick to running long distances is managing the heart rate. That’s where he focused his training energy for the halfmarathon.

“There’s something about it that’s a great challenge,” he said. “There’s something peaceful about it. The marathons are wonderful because people come out and line the roads and they cheer you on. People were

of his success to the support system he has, both at home – with Tammy and their children, 19-year-old Allie, who is studying at the University of Michigan, and 18-year-old RJ, studying political science at George Washington University – and at work.

Doroshewitz was appointed Plymouth Township treasurer in spring 2022, replacing Mark Clinton who, ironically, was forced to resign due to his own health problems. Doroshewitz wanted his colleagues to know

the diagnosis wasn’t going to slow him down, so the first decision he made was to go public with it.

The Monday after he was diagnosed, he went into the office for tough conversations with Supervisor Kurt Heise and Clerk Jerry Vorva, assuring them he didn’t believe the disease would affect his ability to do the job. And he says he hasn’t missed a day of work because of the Parkinson’s, though he acknowledges missing a pair of board meetings, one due to a cold and one due to Covid.

“I made the decision to go public because I wanted to avoid the ‘whisper campaign,’” Doroshewitz said. “I felt I owed it to the public to disclose a health issue.”

Heise agrees Doroshewitz hasn’t slowed down a bit. He said both Doroshewitz’s work performance and his accomplishment with the race have been amazing.

“When he came to us with this information, it was kind of a body blow…he’s in great shape, and we have a lot of confidence in him,” Heise said. “For him to do the half-marathon is amazing.

I give him a lot of credit for doing that. I thought it was an ambitious goal, but he did it. It shows he’s facing this health

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Doroshewitz said he’s always “struggled” with anxiety, experiencing challenges over the years with depression, particularly the year before the diagnosis. He’s gotten help with it.

“One of the things our generation has done is remove the stigma of talking about mental illness,” he said – but, as it turns out just about any Parkinson’s patient will say they had the same thing.

“I think my anxiety has dropped 90% since I’ve been on

the meds and the exercise,” he said. “I barely have it any more.”

FINDING SUPPORT There’s a lot of positives that have come out of the experience for Doroshewitz. The way he looks at life has changed, he said.

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relationships with my kids. I’ve approached this by keeping my attitude in the right place, and it has had great results.”

Not only has Doroshewitz found tremendous support among his family and friends, he’s also finding it in support groups like Fox’s foundation.

“One of the things about the support groups is you have to find people who are similar to you in their progression and their attitude,” he said. “What scares the hell out of you is seeing the Ghost of Christmas future. That’s scary.

“I’ve made a couple of friends – a guy in Buffalo – who are similar in their stage with me in life,” he added. “We kind of keep each other challenged. (Support) is ideal when it’s a two-way street, when you’re taking but you’re also giving. I do find it helpful.”

He sometimes finds the stories of other patients “sad” – a partner leaves after the diagnosis, or they have no money.

“Their stories are so sad. (But) one of the things that’s profound with me is that I’m amazingly blessed in this world,” he said.

“Every day I’m grateful for that.

Everybody gets (bad) cards dealt to them sometimes. You can let them define who you are, or you can push through them. It’s your

choice. If I’ve changed in one way, it’s pushing through those situations.”

He remarks on an old saying that “getting old is a privilege that is unjustly denied to so many.” And he acknowledges the disease has changed his life.

“I think I have an appreciation

for that,” he said. “As the science stands right now, I’m never going to be cured, I’m only going to get worse. So my duty to my loved ones is to push back as hard as I can and do all the right things as much as I can – the exercise when I don’t want to do it, the changes in my diet. The changes in lifestyle have been pretty significant.”

He said he owes it to Tammy and his children to fight back as best he can.

“I owe it to (Tammy) to do the best I can to try to push this monster down the road as far as I can,” Doroshewitz said. “The monster is at the door and he’s going to eat me. It’s just a question of how long I can fight him off.

“I told my neurologist if I can get 10 really good years, and maybe five OK years and then maybe five years after that that I’m downhill, that wouldn’t be bad,” he added. “He said, ‘I think we can do that.’”

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n army of 750 volunteers or more went to work the day after Thanksgiving in the Plymouth Salvation Army Corps’ long-standing annual effort to help the less fortunate in the Plymouth, Canton, Northville and Belleville communities.

The PSA’s Red Kettle Campaign actually kicked off Nov. 10, but got started in earnest following the Thanksgiving holiday. Plymouth Salvation Army officials said they hope to raise $200,000 in their area, part of a $7.9 million goal the Salvation Army has around Metro Detroit.

Volunteers will be ringing bells at 19 locations around the area, including the Kroger on Five Mile and Haggerty.

Major Kris Wood said the 2023 campaign will be the PSA’s 89th Christmas spent helping needy families in the area.

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“All of the money we raise in kettles stays in our area,” Wood said. “We are able to keep it and use it in serving people in our community. It’s important that people know when they volunteer

to ring the bells, there’s no administrative expenses coming for that, so they know (donations are) going to meet the needs in people’s lives. When it goes to the kettles themselves, we want to use that money for the reasons people are giving it to us -- to help people in need.

“For 89 years now, we’ve been doing that,” he added. “Whether the need is high or low, we’re always able to do whatever we can to help people going through a difficult time.”

The corps usually averages about 750 volunteers a year, but Wood said this year’s crop looks slightly larger as more people signed up to ring bells.

“People know there are a lot of people struggling in the world, and there’s not a lot we can do on our own to help,” Wood said. “By doing this, people are allowing us to give people food, give them clothing, pay their utility bills.

We’re able to help people in those crisis moments. Alone we can’t do anything, but if a bunch of us join together, we’re actually helping people.”

The Plymouth corps is part of the larger Wayne County and metro Detroit effort, where Wood says the need for food, shelter and help with utility bills is growing. In the last year in metro Detroit, the Army served 2.4 million meals, provided 530,000 nights of shelter for people, and met a need for utility payments that continues to grow.

“The demand for food is higher than ever, and requests for utility assistance are higher than ever,” Wood said.

In addition to the Red Kettle campaign, the Plymouth Salvation Army Corps, which is located at 9451 S. Main Street in downtown Plymouth, continues to stock its food pantry and Christmas toy store, which allows those in need to come in and get food and provide toys for their children.

People are consistently bringing in food donations – “We’re amazed by that … it fills our pantry so we can give that food right back to people,” Wood said – and churches, civic organizations and businesses conduct toy drives and make donations to the PSA. And it’s all being managed by the Plymouth Salvation Army’s small staff of six plus a legion of volunteers, without whom little of it could be accomplished, Wood said.

“We have a small staff, so we depend on volunteers,” Wood said. “If we didn’t have volunteers we wouldn’t be an ‘army.’ We’ve always been an organization that depended on volunteers to make our work happen.”

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t’s time to reflect and take one final snapshot of the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s 2023 fall season for the three high schools – Canton, Plymouth, Salem – all from PlymouthCanton Educational Park.

There were several breakthrough team and individual performances registered by the three Division 1 schools led by the Plymouth girls golf team (third), Canton girls swim program (fifth) and Canton boys

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cross country (fifth).

Also earning their stripes at the state finals level were Plymouth boys cross country (12th); Salem girls cross country (23rd), Plymouth and Salem boys tennis.

Here is a capsule look at what transpired from the teams representing The Park.

GIRLS GOLF Led by first-team All-Staters Brooke Morris and Annie Flavin, Plymouth capped a strong season by placing third in the MHSAA

Division 1 girls golf finals held Oct. 20-21 at Michigan State University’s Forest Akers (West Course).

Rochester Adams captured the team title with 669 points to edge Brighton (670) by one stroke, while Plymouth posted rounds of 335-348 for a two-day total of 683.

Morris, a senior, tied for fourth individually with a 74-76-150, while Flavin, a sophomore, carded a 76-77-153 to take sixth. Both were recognized as All-State by the Michigan

Interscholastic Golf Coaches Association.

Plymouth’s other two individual scorers at the state finals included senior Sydney Mazur, 31st (85-90-175), and junior Regan Brydges, 74th (100-105-205). Senior Brianna Swickard was 89th (108-110-218).

In the D1-Regional 2 tourney Oct. 9 at Salem Hills, Brighton (322), Plymouth (329) and Northville (339) garnered the three automatic team qualifying spots. Canton and Salem placed 11th and 12th, respectively, with 395 and 475.

Flavin was individual regional medalist with a 75 followed by Morris, second (77); Mazur, 15th (85); Brydges, 31st (92); and Swickard, 47th (91). Canton’s top scorer was senior Alyssa Calbrese (13th, 84), while junior Dani Denhof led Salem (37th, 97).

In the KLAA preseason and postseason combined tournaments held at Kensington Metropark, Brighton was the overall champ with a 300-299-599 followed

by Plymouth (327-324-651), Northville (342-329-671) and Canton (359-373-732). Salem was 11th.

Morris was the individual medalist for the two combined rounds with a 73-76-149 followed

by Flavin, seventh (81-77-158); Mazur, 11th (85-82-167); and Brydges, 19th (88-89-177).

Calabrese (80-86-166) placed 10th overall to lead Canton, while seniors Kaitlyn Olejnik (96-85-181) and Tricia Krumm (88-93-181) tied for 22nd overall.

Denhof was 27th overall for Salem (91-94-185).

GIRLS SWIMMING What a season it was for the Canton girls, who came together and posted their best finish in school history with a fifth place showing scoring 143.5 points in the Division 1 finals held Nov. 17-18 at Eastern Michigan University’s Jones Natatorium.

Ann Arbor Pioneer won the team title with 301 points with Grand Haven (237.5) and Jenison (228.5) placing second and third, respectively. Salem was 15th with 46 points, while Plymouth was 27th with 9.

Sophomore Hannah Gurgel stood out for Canton finishing runner-up in the 100-yard butterfly with a school record time of 56.70. She also added a third in the 200 freestyle (1:50.45), which ranks her second in school history behind 10-time Olympic medalist Allison Schmitt.

Ellie Newman, who has committed to Towson State University (Md.), broke the school record in the 100 breaststroke with a fourth (1:05.02) and also tied for fourth in the 200 individual medley (2:08.62).

The foursome of Gurgel, freshman Mina Kennedy, Newman and junior Tayla Smith took third in the 400 freestyle relay in a school record 3:33.24.

Canton’s 200 medley relay team of Gurgel, Newman, junior Tatijana Schockling and Smith also made All-State (top eight) with a sixth in 1:48.29.

Other Canton individual point producers included Smith, ninth, 100 freestyle (53.26); 10th, 50 freestyle (24.09); and Kennedy, 13th, 500 freestyle (5:15.4); 14th, 200 freestyle (1:57.72).

Senior Claire Hammill led Salem with a third in the 100

butterfly (56.98) to earn AllState. She contributed a 14th in the 50 freestyle (24.63), while senior Camila Soto took 16th in the 100 butterfly (58.91).

The Rocks also scored points in all three relays led by the ninth-place 200 freestyle quartet of sophomore Madison Heiden, senior Amelia Pan, Soto and Hammill (1:40.06).

Salem’s 200 medley team of Hammill, junior Reagan Kleinglass, Soto and Pan added a 14th (1:52.22), while the 400 freestyle relay team of Heiden, senior Jil Mueller, junior Emrie Gay and Pan placed 16th (3:46.13).

Plymouth’s top individual performer was freshman Daniela Yuk in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.54) and 200 IM (2:15.15), both good enough for 13th overall.

At the KLAA ‘A’ held meet Nov. 2-4 at Brighton, Northville took the team title with 929 points followed by Salem (664.5), Novi (584.5), Canton (582), the host Bulldogs (557), Livonia Stevenson (442), Plymouth (359) and Hartland (305).

Individual P-CEP champs included Newman (Canton), 200 IM (2:08.76); Hammill (Salem), 50 freestyle (24.32); Gurgel (Canton), 100 butterfly (57.18); and Shockling (Canton), 500 freestyle (5:15.93).

Salem’s 200 freestyle relay team of Pan, Soto, Heiden and Hammill also took first in 1:39.90.

BOYS CROSS COUNTRY Canton, paced by All-Staters Aiden Pengelly and Mitchell Clark, posted its best finish at the Division 1 finals in over a decade taking fifth overall as Northville (128 points) captured the team title followed by Brighton (141), Grand Haven (187), Kalamazoo Central (193) and the Chiefs (253).

Pengelly, a sophomore, covered the 5-kilometer course on Nov. 4 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn in 15:31.6 to place

18th individually, while Clark, a senior, added a 23rd in 15:36.6.

Canton’s other scorers included junior Clark Madden (76th, 16:18.5); senior Brandon Blandino (108th, 16:29.9); and sophomore Steve Dusseau (120th, 16:31.8). The Chiefs’ non-scorers included juniors Adam Dicken (125th, 16:33.3) and Cole Triffle (159th, 16:45.7).

Plymouth finished 12th place in the team standings with 364 led

by All-Stater Anirudh Krishnan, a senior who placed 21st in 15:33.4.

Other scorers for the Wildcats included junior Jack Chadwick (52nd, 16:03.9); junior Ben Mussen (55th, 16:06.3); sophomore Lucas LaPointe (172nd, 16:51.3); and senior Zain Syed (204th, 17:07.2).

The non-scorers included junior Diego Islas-Montantes (208th, 17:10.2) and sophomore Daniel Niehaus (227th, 17:22.9).

Salem boasted two individual additional state qualifiers in seniors Joey Seale (158th, 16:44.9) and Tommy Gardella (186th, 16:56.7).

At the Regional 6 meet on Oct. 28 at New Boston’s Willow

Metropark, Northville (30), Canton (53), Plymouth (76) and Livonia Churchill (84) all made it to MIS. Canton’s top three finishers include Pengelly, third (15:34.7); Clark, fourth (15:36.2); and Blandino, 13th (16:20.4).

The Wildcats were led by Krishnan, sixth (15:57.8);

Chadwick, ninth (16:11.5); and Mussen, 12th (16:11.5). For Salem, which placed sixth with 172, Seale finished 11th (16:17.0), while Gardella took 32nd (17:09.9).

In the KLAA meet Oct. 20 at Howell, Northville (30) captured the team title followed Brighton (46), Canton (72) and Plymouth (118). Salem was eighth (226).

Top finishers for Canton included Pengelly, fourth (16:44.4); Clark, fifth (16:17.0); Madden, 17th (16:57.3); and Dusseau, 21st (17:05.5). Others in the top 21 included Plymouth’s Chadwick (ninth, 16:28.9);

Krishnan, 11th (16:42.1); and Mussen, 20th (17:03.5).

GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY In the Division 1 girls finals Nov. 4 at MIS, Romeo (65), Ann

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Troy tied for second with 27 each.

Plymouth scored four points to place 16th overall as junior Ben Arbor Pioneer (126) and Holland Fernandez (No. 1 singles), Aarav West Ottawa were the top three Dalal (No. 2) and senior Ryan team finishers, while Salem (500) Belanger (No. 4) each went 1-1. qualified and took 23rd overall.

Junior Pawan Ramayanam (No. Freshman Annabeth 3) fell in the first round.

Hazelwood was Salem’s top In doubles, Round 2 casualties finisher in 54th (19:09.0) followed included juniors Jack Cristea by sophomore Rebecca Jud and Rohan Savoie (No. 1); senior (129th, 19:57.3); senior Lily Kunal Patel and junior Sanath Hetzel (150th, 20:10.2); freshman Reddy (No. 2); and senior Abhijay Samantha Bartell (175th, 20:26.6); Das and junior Arivan Mudaliyar and freshman Addie Jones (203rd, (No. 4). Seniors Jackson Grube 20:46.9). The Rocks’ non-scorers and Pranav Merugu (No. 3) also include senior Mallory Messer lost in the opening round.

(250th, 22:09.5) and sophomore Salem’s singles lineup included Liliana Cippola (257th, 22:57.2). freshman Aarav Shah (No. 1), In the Regional 6 meet Oct. 28 at senior Aadi Huria (No. 2), Aarya New Boston’s Willow Metropark, Upadhyay (No. 3) and Nikunj Northville won the team crown Dixit (No. 4). with 54 points. The Mustangs The doubles lineup featured were followed by state qualifier Salem (104) and Farmington (117). junior Owen Wagel and senior Rohan Garimella (No. 1); seniors Canton and Plymouth finished eighth and ninth, respectively, with Bharadwaj Gade and Sharbin Sajadpour (No. 2); sophomore 189 and 203.

Among those in the top 25 from Gabriel Chen and junior Farhan Junaid (No. 3); juniors Frankie the Park included Hazelwood Seitz and Ty Trumbell (No. 4).

(Salem), eighth (19:21.5); Jud In the regional, Bloomfield (Salem), 11th (19:22.8); senior Hills Brother Rice (22) took Aliya Kurian (Plymouth) 19th first place while Plymouth and (19:53.2); and sophomore Mya Salem finished second and third, Pickerel (Canton), 24th (20:17.6). respectively, with 12 and 10, to In the KLAA meet Oct. 20 at earn a trip to Midland.

Howell, Brighton captured the Upadhyay was the No. 3 team title with 34 points followed singles regional champ for Salem

by Northville (56) and Livonia with a 1-6, 6-2, 6-0 win over Franklin (131). Salem wound up Rice’s Spencer Seneker, while seventh with 168, while Canton and Plymouth took ninth and 10th, Plymouth’s Belanger took the No. 4 flight with a 6-4 6-7 (2-7), 6-4 respectively, with 180 and 266. win over Rice’s Max McCarthy.

Jud paced Salem in 26th Shah (Salem) and Dalal (20:48.9), while Kurian placed (Plymouth) both finished runner27th (20:49.4) and led Plymouth. up at Nos. 1 and 2 singles, Canton senior Taylor Steinagel respectively. placed 29th (20:56.6).

In doubles, Grube and TENNIS Merugo were runner-up at No. As a result of its second and 3 for Plymouth, while Seitz and third-place finish at the Livonia Trumbell also finished runner-up Churchill regional, both Plymouth for Salem at No. 4. and Salem earned team qualifying spots in Division 1 finals held Oct. SOCCER Salem (13-6-3), coached by 20-21 at Midland.

Kyle Karns, proved to be the Bloomfield Hills (36 points) repeated as team champion with top team at the Park going 5-0-1 36 points, while Northville and against rivals Plymouth (9-7-6)

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and Canton (5-11-3).

The Rocks reached the district championship game before falling to D1 state semifinalist Northville, 3-2.

Salem senior goalkeeper Tommy Veresh earned secondteam D1 All-State honors, while senior midfielder Bennett Quijano, senior forward Cooper Nieuwstadt and senior defender Yash Bingi made honorable mention by the Michigan High School Soccer Coaches Association.

Those four players made AllKLAA along with senior forward Tyler Berezak, senior defender Chase Meredith and junior defender Jordan Perko.

Meanwhile, Plymouth junior forward Owen Christianson made All-KLAA and honorable mention All-State honors. Other All-KLAA picks for the Wildcats include juniors Michael Awazie (forward), Will Dani (midfielder) and Spencer Prouty (defender).

For Canton, senior forward Donovan Thomas made honorable mention All-State and All-KLAA. Senior midfielder Nicholas Miller and junior forward Nathan Gilmour also made All-Conference.

FOOTBALL Plymouth (4-5, 3-4 KLAA West) captured the P-CEP championship with victories over Canton (35-14) and Salem (45-19) Northwestern commit Idrys Cotton, an offensive lineman, earned Detroit Free Press AllWest honors and was selected all-conference.

Other All-KLAA picks for the Wildcats included senior quarterback Sam Plencer, senior running back Jaxson McCaig, senior wide receiver Cameron Witt, senior defensive back Luc Damiani and junior tight end Camden Short.

Plymouth honorable mention selections included Dylan Sasena, Daniel Vigo, Jorgito Shqau and Alex Witt.

Senior defensive back Caleb Williams was named AllKLAA for Canton (3-6, 1-6) while Adham Hasham, Devon Pettus, Sayato Henney and Dillon Calhoun made honorable mention.

Salem (1-8, 1-6) was represented on the All-KLAA squad by senior wide receiver Azarius Hayes and junior running back Aidan Moore.

The Rocks, who defeated Canton (21-14), also had Brayden Alexander, Zack Passmore, Travis Dulong and Gavin Morrison on honorable mention.

VOLLEYBALL The KLAA West proved to be tough sledding this fall as Division 1 state semifinalist Northville (49-3-1) won both the division and conference tourney titles after going 9-0 and 7-0.

Earning All-KLAA honors from Plymouth (4-5, 2-5) included senior libero Sophia Young and junior outside hitter Tara Creekmore. The Wildcats fell to host Northville in the District 15 tourney, 3-0.

Junior setter Presley Escote made All-KLAA for Salem (3-6, 1-6), which was eliminated by South Lyon East in first-round of district play, 3-0.

Junior libero Kayla Rankin earned All-KLAA for Canton (2-7, 0-7) as the Chiefs fell to Northville in the second round of the district tourney, 3-0.

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or many of us, just seeing a friendly dog’s face and a wagging tail brings on a smile. Just ask seniors whose eyes light up when a therapy dog comes to visit them in assisted living and other facilities. In fact, just petting a dog can lower stress, according to medical organizations like Johns Hopkins University.

Plymouth resident Judi Hales can attest to that on a personal level.

“I had been working as a graphic designer for 30 years. I honestly didn’t like it,” said Hales.

About 15 years ago, she was having a particularly bad day at her job with a Farmington Hills printing company.

“I was rethinking my life and was feeling very emotional. I went up to the front office to ask a question about a job I was working on. A customer came in and they brought their golden retriever with them. I went around the counter, and I started petting the 24 | The Rock

dog and realized how happy that made me. I went home and started researching careers and found the Animal Behavior College.”

And that was how Hales’ business, Trust & Obey Pawsitive Dog Training in Plymouth, came to be.

The proud owner of a mutt named Tallulah Sue, who is 12% German short-haired pointer and 88% Catahoula leopard dog, Hales has no regrets about leaving behind her previous three-decade career and diving into the world of dogs.

It did take some time, however, to fully make the transition. After earning her certification from the Animal Behavior College in 2008, Hales would work at her graphic design job during the day and conduct dog training in the evenings at a rented facility.

A native of Inkster, Hales was also fortunate to find a mentor who helped her learn dog training. “I mentored under Dean Gardner with Walk This Way Dog

Training for two years. I also got a part-time job at Happy Hounds Dog Day Care in Plymouth and I learned a lot there.”

TAKING THE PLUNGE

A couple of years later, she felt confident enough to leave her first career and open Trust & Obey Pawsitive Dog Training in 2010. Patrick, her husband of 27 years, was a little “freaked out,” but she took the plunge.

Her first location was in a strip mall on Seven Mile Road in Northville Township. Although she felt ready to start out on her own, it was not easy.

“When we moved into that first location, we assumed it was fine because there had been a groomer in the strip mall. But it turned out it wasn’t zoned to have a dog trainer there. We had no idea,” said Hales. “We got a call from the township in November – the day after my open house for the business -- and they said we were not allowed to be there.”

At the first meeting with the

township official, the Hales were informed their business could not operate at their location. But at a follow-up meeting, Hales says their prayers were answered.

“We met with them at the township offices ... and then after telling us we couldn’t be there, the person we met with ran back up to us after talking to someone else and they found an exception in the regulations that allowed us to be there. We both burst into tears in the lobby when that happened.”

Business started to flourish in Northville and then another unexpected turn came.

“We had a lease in Northville for five years, but after three years, the landlord said someone else wanted my space and I could get out of my lease,” explained Hales.

After choosing to get out of her lease, Hales found herself searching for a new location.

While looking, she rented a spot in Plymouth where Planet

Fitness and Dogtopia are currently located.

“I was scared to leave Northville initially because I had clients from there as well as Novi clients,” said Hales, who recalls that was exactly “one year, nine months and 10 days before I found the location that we have now.”

It’s been just over four years Hales has been at her current location at 758 Wing Street just off Main Street in downtown.

“We like our space and we’ve done a lot of cute things to make it cozy and welcoming,” says Hales.

“What I love about being here is the residential part of it, because often people walk over for class and graduates come by to visit.”

Like most businesses, the pandemic brought challenges to Hales, but she also found opportunity.

After being closed in March and April 2020 and having a kind landlord waive rent for two months, her husband Patrick came up with an idea.

“My husband came up with a brilliant idea and said why don’t we ask the church we were attending on Ann Arbor Road if we could use their property to train dogs outside,” she said.

With the consent of the Plymouth

Church of the Nazarene, Hales began running outdoor classes in May 2020 on their property.

Although they no longer attend that church, she is grateful for the opportunity.

“My business exploded because we had more room and bigger classes and many trainers had to close down,” she explained. “After November, we were able to figure out ways to return indoors.”

THOUSANDS OF WAGGING TAILS

Hales’ dog training graduates – some 4,000 of them by her estimation – have come in all shapes and sizes. What she loves the most is seeing dogs come out of their shell.

“I love seeing a dog come into the building, being unsure and nervous, and then seeing them each week blossom into feeling confident about themselves and just having fun being here.”

The “pawsitive” description of Hales’ business is intentional, as her philosophy is about training dogs in a positive manner.

“In the old days, dog training was very different, it was force training. We are science-based training, we follow scientists and behaviorists,” explains Hales. “When forcing a dog to do something they don’t want to do, they become more anxious and fearful. What we see is when dogs can make choices on their own, their confidence increases, and their behavior gets better.”

Using a mix of private lessons and groups classes that cover basic and advanced training, along with agility, Hales and her assistant Tessa Kelly are always focused on making the experience both effective and fun for owners and their furry family members of all ages.

“Some people think if their dog isn’t a puppy, they’re too

old to train,” says Hales, who calls that belief a big myth. “I have had 13-year-old dogs in my classes.”

Hales is also working to launch puppy preschool training next year for very young dogs.

Through the years, she has also found that it’s not always dogs who benefit from training.

When their dog is sick or recuperating from a surgery, Hales started telling owners to come to class without their dog.

That led to creating a BOOP class (basic obedience observation program). “People will come without their dog to watch the class, take notes, ask questions. We send them home with a video and we meet with them on the side to see how things are going at home.”

Even though she was anxious about leaving Northville several years ago, Hales says she feels

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Liberty Middle School’s Urquhart named state’s top English teacher

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urning heads is great, but even better is turning pages. Liberty Middle School eighth grade English teacher Hawanya Urquhart is proving both things can happen at the same time.

Urquhart recently was named Michigan Middle School English Teacher of the Year for 2023. While that recognition is something the Detroit resident cherishes, the real feathers in her cap happen every time previously reluctant or disinterested readers decide to join the “book club.”

“My challenge every year is for that kid that comes in and says ‘I don’t like reading, reading isn’t for me,’” said Urquhart, during a recent after-school interview. “That’s my personal challenge, to find (that student) one book you can add to your tool kit or your library.”

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urging students to R-E-A-D. That message along with the teacher’s ability to inspire and encourage is paying off according to the feedback she receives at parentteacher conferences.

“I haven’t officially kept data,” Urquhart said. “But from this first quarter, parent-teacher wise, I would say 60 percent said ‘My kid didn’t read before. I don’t know what you’ve done’” to turn that around into youngsters reading books from beginning to end.

“Another parent was like ‘I want to thank you for having this book for my son,’ an African-American young man,” she continued, noting that the particular title’s main character also was black.

Liberty Middle School Principal James Hunter said Urquhart’s award was too long in coming and pointed out her own love of reading shines through and connects with many

kids who come from different backgrounds.

“We saw the work all along and how committed and passionate she is,” Hunter said.

“So it’s awesome to see that everyone else is getting the chance now to see and experience it, and that she’s getting her roses, her flowers.”

An educator with more than 25 years of experience and 13 in Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, Urquhart taught at nowdefunct Central Middle School before joining the Liberty staff after the former building closed in 2016.

Also praising Urquhart for the Michigan Council of Teachers (MCTE) award was P-CCS Superintendent Monica Merritt.

“This award reflects Hawanya’s outstanding leadership and passion for enriching the lives of our students,” noted Merritt, in a district press release. “All of us

(at P-CCS) are proud of Hawanya and grateful for her continued commitment to our students.

“We are truly excited to celebrate and share her outstanding achievement with our entire school community.”

Urquhart will be recognized in March 2024, at the spring conference of the MCTE to take place at Mott Community College in Flint.

“Maybe most people just respect my being authentic in what I do and in just being passionate,” said Urquhart, about winning the award. “I tell adults every day and I tell young people (that) I am very passionate about what I do.

“I think a lot of people see that and acknowledge it. I go home tired all the time, but it’s a good tired. Because I’m doing what I would want someone else to do for my child, in providing them real-life experiences, providing them with new perspectives,

being able to teach them to navigate life.”

She also stressed that now is the perfect time for young people to get the reading bug, even in a fast-paced society where many rely on social media posts for information and communication.

“It’s just (about) fostering that love of literacy,” Urquhart said.

“Because whether young people want to admit it or not, reading is involved in everything they do. So you have to read that text message. You have to read that post or that blog that’s online.

You have to read the plays that are in your playbook if you’re playing a sport. You have to be able to read music.”

Urquhart keeps things interesting too, taking out different instructional concepts from her tool kit – various lessons intended to perk up ears and minds, help some break out of their shells or merely find a path to pursue on their own.

The week of Thanksgiving, for example, students took part in a Game of Quotes for that holiday.

They were asked to flip through books for responses to questions such as “something on the Thanksgiving menu” or “what the turkey might say.”

According to Urquhart, “It’s the fun of it, one, that you’re reading, and two, that you can navigate through your book and find something.”

There also are inclusive Literary Inclusion Nights, for example, where students can roam around sampling poetry or non-fiction titles.

“I will ‘book talk’ some books, or I will put different books and titles out and we do a book tasting,” Urquhart said. “They get a little snippet, they take four or five minutes per book. Read a little bit and look at the cover.”

On First Chapter Fridays, she reads a few pages or a chapter

from a new book to catalyze discovery.

And Urquhart offers the course “Exploring Social Justice Through Literature” to spark thoughtful debate. She isn’t afraid to lead discussions about banned books, either.

“We talk about the different topics and reasons why books have been challenged,” Urquhart noted. “So we have these full-on conversations and I ask kids ‘How do you feel about that, ‘What are you thinking, what are you noticing?’

“It’s not right for me to take that right away from someone else, so we talk about censorship.

The kids get it, for the most part.

They get it, they understand it, they respect it.”

Principal Hunter underscored how essential it is for students to dive into a world “they wouldn’t necessarily dive into themselves,” something that couldn’t be possible without a progressive teacher such as Urquhart showing them the ropes.

“To have someone like Ms. Urquhart to lead that, with tact, with grace and rigor is extremely important for our kids to get that,” Hunter said. “And

it’s awesome to see how they feel after the fact. Once they are introduced to these various novels, the excitement that they have after reading them is really obvious.”

If Urquhart wasn’t teaching the intricacies of reading (and writing, too – she makes sure students maintain journals, create essays and contribute to discussion boards), she’d probably work at a bookstore.

Or, she’d own one, which is on her to-do list. “My ultimate goal is to own a bookstore, even if it’s a small one, or maybe a book lounge where young people can come in, chill and read.”

Until that happens, however, she is more than happy presiding over another kind of book lounge, namely her Liberty Middle School classroom.

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