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Napoleon secures Hamer endorsement Because they say he exemplifies “integrity, dependability and responsibility,” and because he “has a plan, not just a philosophy,” the Fannie Lou Hamer Political Action Committee, founded

by Detroit Branch NAACP President Rev. WenBenny dell AnNapoleon thony, has endorsed Benny Napoleon for mayor of the city of Detroit.

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Bankruptcy: The only way out?

By Bankole Thompson CHRONICLE SENIOR EDITOR

If and when the city of Detroit enters chapter 9 bankruptcy there will be a lot of blame. Or worse yet, there won’t be enough time to pass blame around.

The city will be dealing with the devastating consequences and the psychological trauma of a once grand city now on its very knees seeking radical and meaningful transformation from political ineptitude and an inadequate and incompetent economic formula that got the city to where it

is today.

regarding what Detroit owes.

Because the only economic formula that was Certainly we’ve heard used for the most part in numerous times about Detroit government was why we are here and how to borrow money and Detroit government and push the problem of adits officials did not heed dressing the growing defiwarning signs about this cit to succeeding mayoral current dispensation. In Bankole and city council adminisfact, reports from one autrations, it has come to Thompson ditor general to another this: a point where bankpointed to a government ruptcy is a real issue and the city growing in deficit that was unable if emergency financial manager to meet its spending costs.

Kevyn Orr fails to convince credThe city’s former auditor genitors and Wall Street juggernauts eral, Joseph Harris, who was one to reach an amicable resolution of the last vocal number crunch-

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Already some of Detroit’s creditors are playing hardball with emergency financial manager Kevyn Orr, forcing him to disclose this week that

by Aug. 19 it will be clear if Detroit will enter chapter 9 bankruptcy, becoming the largest municipality in the country to go into level that of financial collapse.

WHAT’S INSIDE Detroit’s next mayor?

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The APBA Gold Cup — the oldest active trophy in all motor sports, with the first trophy awarded in 1904 — returns to the Detroit River with fun for the whole family, July 13-14.

Healthy living is the focus of new Detroit business (Page C-1) Entrepreneur Kenny Akinwale and his partner, Raven Lewis, have opened Holistic House, located on the city’s west side. It is committed to promoting better health.

‘Scandalous’ show business occurrences (Page D-1) The behavior of people in show business is probably no worse than that of people outside of it, but sometimes certain entertainers are deluded into thinking that they are not only bigger than “ordinary” people, but also exempt from the laws of the land.

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City Clerk Winfrey defends election integrity Janice Winfrey expounds on the right to vote

By Patrick Keating CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER

Facing criticisms from some political candidates, like Tom Barrow, who are questioning her stewardship of the Detroit election process, Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey, who has won repeated reelection, is vigorously defending the integrity of the voting process in Detroit.

Winfrey, speaking out on the electoral process of Michigan’s largest municipal government during an editorial meeting with the Michigan Chronicle, explained why this year’s election is not only crucial but underscores the essence of the ballot

box.

Barrow’s contention that fellow To her critics, Winfrey said candidate Mike Duggan wasn’t her record stands on its own qualified to appear on the ballot. and that voters will continue In addition, one of Winfrey’s to decide on the work of their own opponents for the position of city clerk, D. Etta Wilcoxon, elected officials. recently won a ruling to have her “I’ve administered an unprecedented 11 elections in name put back on the primary ballot. four years,” Winfrey said. “We’ve rightsized our precincts, “I’ve administered an unprecedented we’ve right-sized 11 elections in four years. We’ve rightour voting file, and we ensure that elec- sized our precincts, we’ve right-sized tion results are preour voting file, and we ensure that sented to the public by the 11 o’clock election results are presented to the news.” public by the 11 o’clock news.”

The clerk said that is because people need to know the out- Winfrey said challenges are come of their votes as expedi- the order of the day. tiously as possible.

“Every race, every category During this election campaign, there have been a number has been challenged, to date, for See WINFREY page A-4 of legal challenges, including

However, some sourchave es suggested that the city Ray Reynolds could file for Graves bankruptcy as early as next week if Orr makes no headway with creditors who are bent on getting every dollar on their money even if the good faith negotiations fall through.

For example, an insurance company Ambac Insurance, which backs more than $170 million in bonds for the city, has opposed Orr’s restructuring plan which now signals the kind of challenge the emergency manager will face and could easily trigger chapter 9.

If the city gets to that point in the next four weeks, creditors from Wall Street will be hovering around Detroit like vultures to identify which city owned assets would satisfy the debts the city owes them.

In an exclusive interview with the Chronicle, former federal bankruptcy judge Ray Reynolds Graves presented several scenarios of what could possibly happen in bankruptcy negotiations.

“The fate of retirees has been a major issue in chapter 9 whether or not the city cancels its retiree pension plan and force modification,”

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Will council by districts bring change?

By Bankole Thompson CHRONICLE SENIOR EDITOR

For the first time in more a 100 years Detroit will enter a new phase of political transformation and reality as voters are set to usher in council by districts in the upcoming general election.

Seven out of the nine council members will be district-based and the remaining two will be at large.

The new seismic shift in Detroit’s local government came after the creation of the new City Charter following cries about the need for strong accountability and delivery of needed services by this legislative branch.

Four incumbents on the current Detroit City Council are expected to seek reelection as the remaining members have chosen to resign from the legislative body or not seek reelection.

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The PAC endorsement is a sought after prize for political candidates.

The DYC Detroit APBA Gold Cup returns (Page B-1)

I recalled when I covered city hall how Harris’ unpleasant reports would meet stiff resistance from city council with their supporters accusing the former auditor general of harboring political ambitions. His truth-telling style about the city’s financial crisis was always met with baseless political allegations from politicians seeking to maintain

Vulture-style talks in bankruptcy?

It its official statement the organization cited Napoleon’s rise through the ranks of the Detroit Police Department, eventually becoming chief of police, the youngest to reach that position. The statement also noted the city’s present condition, one that is rife with complexities.

Krystal A. Crittendon, mayoral candidate, says she is “the one candidate who knows municipal government inside and out,” adding, “The things that do not work, I know why they don’t work and know how to fix them.”

ers for Detroit, was always in the crosshairs of city council when his reports revealed questionable spending and uncontrollable costs.

Member Brenda Jones (District 2), James Tate (District 1), Saunteel Jenkins (At Large) and Rev. Andre Spivey (District 4) are seeking another term in a dis-

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trict form of government.

However, many candidates, 54 to be exact including the four members of council, are seeking to be part of the new nine-member council that is set to take office in January of 2014.

Some of the names have been prominent in Detroit political circles.

That includes Vince Keenan, the founder of Publius, the state’s first voter information website, who has been at the forefront of many conversations about preserving the integrity of the election process as well as

Russ Bellant

Andre Spivey

enhancing civic participation.

Keenan is running in District 6.

In District 5, Brian White, a former policy wonk for the Detroit Area Agency on Agency who was also a rigorous campaigner for the last census, working for the U.S. Census Bureau, is running in the same district as Mary Sheffield, the daughter of Rev Horace Sheffield III and also candidate Adam Hollier who was a former chief of staff to State Sen. Bert Johnson.

In District 7, John Bennett, the popular Detroit police officer who founded the political muck-

Brian White

raking website Detroituncovered. com and an ardent advocate for police reforms and public safety, is running against former state representative Gabe Leland, the son of Wayne County Commissioner Burton Leland.

In District 3, longtime Detroit education advocate and member of the Detroit Library Commission Russ Bellant will be facing another candidate, Scott Benson, who works for Midtown Detroit Inc., as a small business advisor.

In District 2, former long-

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Regional Roundup Wayne County leaders and Wayne County Community College District host forum on broken municipal funding model current role with SEMCOG, Anderson focuses on local government revenue issues.

Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano and Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD) Chancellor, Dr. Curtis Ivery hosted a group of Wayne County municipal leaders for a forum discussing the broken municipal funding model. The event took place at the Taylor campus of WCCCD. There were two panel discussions: “Identifying the Problem” and “Identifying Possible Solutions,” and an open discussion and interactive Q&A session.

“The state currently enjoys revenue streams that Michigan municipalities are not privy to.

Michigan municipalities rely on property taxes for revenue, and due to record high foreclosure rates, many municipalities are in trouble,” said Ficano. “These are communities that are experiencing tremendous economic hardship, which causes a greater need for services and at the same time less money to pay for them. That’s a terrible combination.”

The panel discussions were moderated by Detroit Free Press columnist Nancy Kaffer and featured a diverse group of participants weighing in on different aspects of the broken funding model.

“Identifying the Problem” featured the University of Michigan’s Debra Horner, program manager with the Center for Local, State and Urban

Serving as mayor of Flat Rock is a part-time job for Dropiewski. He works full time as a regional sales director for enterprise Web software company CrownPeak Technology. Dropiew­ski is completing his fourth year as mayor. Prior to being elected mayor, he served on the Flat Rock City Council for six years.

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Policy (CLOSUP), discussing “Trends in Local Fiscal Health”; Michigan Municipal League CEO Tony Minghine, discussing revenue sharing; SEMCOG’s William Anderson, discussing Proposal A – Headlee; and Flat Rock Mayor Jonathan Dropiewski, discussing municipal challenges.

cal and regional income taxes.

Horner played an integral role in crafting and analyzing the results of CLOSUP’s Michigan Public Policy Survey in January 2013. The survey produced results that 58% of Michigan local officials believe there is need for significant reform of the state’s system of funding local government.

Suggested areas of reform include: gas tax, sales tax, Headlee and Proposal A, revenue sharing, Economic Vitality Incentive Program (EVIP), and lo-

Minghine is an expert on municipal and nonprofit finance and operations issues and is a frequent presenter on those topics. He regularly testifies before the legislature advocating on behalf of local government and is a frequent contributor to The Review magazine. Prior to his current position, he was formerly the director of finance and budget for the charter township of Canton, having served in that capacity from 1996-2006.

Anderson spent nearly 30 years working in the state capitol, in various capacities. He spent time working on state and local taxation and zoning and planning issues. He also served as a senior tax policy advisor to the house and worked for a state senator. In his

The “Identifying Possible Solutions” panel discussion featured insights from Miller Canfield’s Amanda Van Dusen, discussing “Unfunded Mandates.” SEMCOG’s William Anderson also discussed solution ideas.

According to her Miller Canfield bio, Van Dusen directs both the public law and the schools practice groups at Miller Canfield. Her clients are schools, airports, counties and solid waste management authorities. She has an extensive background in all aspects of public-sector finance and counsels her clients on the business side of their operations, helping them understand options and develop approaches for achieving their objectives, balancing the risks and the opportunities associated with each choice, so that the administration and the board can make informed decisions.

general, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, MSP Director Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue, and the Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board Director Debi Cain announced the plan in June.

“Thousands of victims have been waiting too long for the justice they deserve. This effort will start us on the path to find justice for these victims. It also will help improve public safety in Michigan by helping us catch and lock up these vicious criminals,” Snyder said. “This initiative shows how state and local agencies can work together and find new ways to fight crime.”

House Bill 4112, sponsored by state Rep. Joe Haveman, also appropriated money for other public safety efforts, including $2.5 million in local funding to open and operate the City of Detroit Detention Center at the former Mound Correctional Facility in the city, consisting of a 200-bed lock up that is slated to open later this summer, and funding to help implement and operate the OK-2-SAY student safety hotline.

The appropriation is funded by settlement monies successfully recovered by Attorney General Bill Schuette from state and national litigation.

“Twice women were violated, first by the rape, and second when justice was left in a box on the shelf. That’s going to end, starting now. I cannot thank Gov. Snyder and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy enough for working together with us to make this happen,” Schuette said.

In 2009, approximately 11,300 untested rape kits dating back 25 years were discovered in a Detroit Police Department property storage facility. Each rape kit has the potential to solve multiple crimes, including those committed by serial rapists.

Since the closure of the Detroit Police Department Crime Laboratory in September 2009, the Michigan State Police (MSP) has been providing forensic science services to the city of Detroit and the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office. The MSP’s Forensic Science Division has been instrumental in the laboratory analysis of sexual assault kits and will continue to work with the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office and the Detroit Police Department on efforts to test the kits.

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Another $5.1 million for the Grand Rapids Veterans Home will help ensure and provide needed care to Michigan veterans, and $350,000 in funding will assist in the education and the cooperative education agreement between the Albion and Marshall School Districts. It also included funding for a handful of capital outlay projects at universities and community colleges across the state as well as for a new State Emergency Operations Center.

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Snyder also signed four other bills related to home foreclosures. In an accompanying letter, he called on the Legislature to act quickly to clarify parts of the new laws.

Senate Bill 380, sponsored by state Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, extends until January 10, 2014, a 90-day pre-foreclosure negotiation period allowing homeowners to seek loan modifications with lenders. It is now PA 103.

SB 383, sponsored by state Sen. Darwin Booher, keeps in place a 180-day, post-foreclosure period for owners to reclaim or short sell a home. It allows a purchaser to inspect a home during that period at any time and permits the owner to evict a resident if certain damage exists to the property.

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HB 4765, sponsored by state Rep. Jeff Farrington, extends until June 30, 2014, the sunset on a 2009 law in which mortgage lenders must attempt to negotiate revisions to delinquent loans before they can proceed

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Krystal Crittendon: Detroit’s next mayor?

By Donald James

Under the emergency manager law, the EM has all the power.

There is no working with someone who has all the power. The EM can make you (the new mayor) disappear with the stroke of a pen. There is no negotiation as our City Council president learned recently. Mr. Orr holds all the cards. That’s the type of dictatorial powers that emergency managers have.

SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE On Krystal A. Crittendon’s campaign webpage, she admits that before 2012 most people outside the legal community did not know her, or know her name as head of the corporation counsel for the City of Detroit from 2009 to 2012. But things quickly changed.

MC: The blight throughout the city is difficult to ignore.

While downtown seems to have a master plan for upgrading, the neighborhoods don’t seem to have one with any sustainability. What’s your take on the city’s neighborhoods?

In the spring of 2012, Crittendon’s name began to dominate local and regional news stories when the city’s law department filed a civil action asking the court to determine the legality of a Financial Stability Agreement entered in between the City of Detroit and the State of Michigan. Her bold action and stance were not popular with some top city officials, in particular, Mayor Dave Bing. Yet, in the face of mounting pressure, Crittendon never wavered or backed down, showing what many Detroiters called “ethics and integrity” in local city government.

Crittendon is currently one of 21 candidates (14 on the ballots, 7 cleared for write in) running for the office of mayor of Detroit. The Michigan Chronicle caught up with her recently on the campaign trail. The candidate shared insight into her candidacy and feelings about Detroit’s past, present and future.

MICHIGAN CHRONICLE: Why do you want to be the mayor of Detroit?

KRYSTAL CRITTENDON: Detroit is going to need strong leadership as we move forward. The events over the past year and a half in our city have demonstrated to me that there are not a lot of people in this town who are willing, able or ready to stand up and fight for the people who live here. I know as we go forward there are some marvelous things happening in the city, but unless we have strong leadership, everyone is not going to get the chance to participate. I believe that I can be the difference maker in moving Detroit forward.

MC: When did you decide that you would make a run for the mayor’s office?

KC: Last summer when I was going out to speak and explain to the people of Detroit the charter, the consent agreement and the emergency manager law, which was then under Public Act 4. I was also a member of the election commission.

The people that I encountered were encouraging me and asking me to run for mayor. I started to consider it when I saw that there was such a void with respect to other people standing up for the people in the city.

There were people who had po-

Krystal A. Crittendon addressing supporters (top) and in a pensive mood (below). sitions and the ability to speak out, but were not. No one was standing up for Detroiters.

hall and the office of mayor.

The fact that I am a woman has become incidental.

MC: What separates you from the other candidates?

MC: What’s your take on Detroit’s emergency manager?

KC: I am the one candidate who knows municipal government inside and out. I know what works and what doesn’t work. The things that do not work, I know why they don’t work and know how to fix them.

I am the one candidate where there will be no learning curve on day one in office in January, 2014. People are glad to see me as I campaign throughout the city. They recognize me as the one candidate in this race who will truly and honestly stand up for Detroiters, without compromise.

KC: One of the biggest problems with emergency managers is that after they leave, they have destroyed the infrastructure of the city. The city’s assets, for the most part, are gone. Therefore, some of the same problems creep back. An EM is not the answer to fix our city’s problems.

MC: You are one of several women running for the office of mayor. Has the fact that you are a female candidate factored in on the campaign trail?

KC: People want jobs. They want to have a clean and safe environment for their families.

They want the street lights to work. People want someone who is not going to sell them out. They want someone who does not have any political favors to repay. The people want someone who has not been involved in past scandals that have plagued Detroit and Wayne County. Detroiters want someone who is going to bring ethics and integrity back to city

MC: Have you met EM Kevyn Orr? KC: I have not seen or met Mr. Orr. Let me make this clear: I don’t have anything against Mr. Orr as a person. I have a problem with the emergency manager laws because those laws here in the state of Michigan are illegal, undemocratic and unconstitutional. I believe the courts will resolve the issue of this unconstitutional law and that it and Mr. Orr will be gone.

MC: Whoever becomes mayor will have to work on some level of cooperation with the EM. KC: The biggest problem that I hear coming from some of the other candidates is that they are saying things like they can work with the emergency manager, or work with him to get him out of here quicker.

KC: We need a mayor, not just for downtown and Midtown, but for all around town.

People should not have to live in neighborhoods where when they open their front doors, they see abandoned homes, many of which have been abandoned for many years. They are eyesores. They are dangerous. They attract crime. They are dangerous for our school kids to have to walk pass every day. The person who owns that abandoned or blighted structure is leaving it that way because he or she knows that the city will not do anything to them to make them bring that house or blighted building up to code.

We have to change the culture. People need to know that if you are going to be a property owner in the city of Detroit, you are going to have to take care of your property. If not, we are going to take you to court and make sure we enforce the code to the fullest extent of the law.

A lot of these abandoned structures are bank owned and have been allowed to just sit in our neighborhoods unoccupied for far too long.

We have to force the banks to rehab the structures. If they can’t be rehabbed, the structures need to be demolished… fix them up, bring them up to code or tear them down. The city also needs to stop sending money back to the federal government that we receive to demolish abandoned structures… it’s unconscionable!

MC: For many years, Detroit experienced White flight. Now, there is a pattern of White people moving back into the city, as well as businesses coming back. What’s your take on this trend?

KC: We need an integrated society. I think it’s important to live in a city where people who love Detroit want to live here with others who love Detroit, whether they are Black, White, male, female, old or young.

People want to live with people who are committed to making the city better, making it strive

and survive. Hopefully, we are getting to a point where race is not as relevant. We have a long way to go, but we are making great strides.

MC: How do you assure the people of Detroit that they will be safe under your administration and that the police will show up when called?

KC: We are at the point now that when people call 911, the people don’t look at their watches to see when the police will show up; they look at their calendars. We just don’t have enough police officers working in the neighborhoods. On any given Sunday at sports arenas downtown, there may be 85 police officers working. If we can have 85 police officers downtown at sports venues, we must make sure that we have enough police officers to respond to 911 calls in the neighborhoods.

One way that we can pay for more police officers is to go after that $800 million owed to the city by the state. We need to have a grant writing department in Detroit to pursue grant money that’s available. We also need to do something to incentivize police officers to move back into the city. because we know that when we have off-duty police officers living in the community and shopping in the community, the communities are safer.

MC: Talk a little about your background in the Motor City.

KC: I was born and raised in Detroit and went to Detroit public schools. I graduated from Cass Tech High School. The first seven years of my life, my family lived on the east side of the city, in the Seven Mile Rd. and Dequindre area. We later moved to Sherwood Forest on the west side. Growing up, I always told people that I wanted to be a lawyer. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in English Literature and earned my law degree from the Detroit College of Law. While I was attending law school, I worked as a caseworker for the State of Michigan’s Department of Social Services.

MC: If you are elected mayor, what’s you first priority?

KC: We have to be able to multitask from day one. The city can’t wait for us to solve one problem before we take on another. On day one we will be sending out letters to everybody who owes the city money so that we can begin to get the finances to do what we need to do to deliver the services that the people are entitled to. The reason the city of Detroit has a financial problem is because it has a collection problem. We just don’t collect the money that is owed to us. That will change if I’m elected.

Winfrey prepares for historic election

By Donald James

at 4 p.m. marks the filing deadline for write-in candidates.

SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

Detroit City Clerk Janice M. Winfrey is extremely busy these days. With the city’s primary election less than a month away, her schedule is extremely hectic, both as a candidate — she’s running for re-election — and as the city’s chief election official. She stopped by the Michigan Chronicle’s office recently for an editorial meeting.

Detroit’s chief election officer and the keeper of the city’s official seal, said the upcoming primary race Aug. 6 is historic.

“This municipal race is very important as the candidates, and ultimately the winners for various city positions, will impact the day-to-day life of all Detroiters,” Winfrey said. “It’s important that we exercise our right to vote. It’s important that we come out to vote so that those in power understand that our voting rights are important. If you want your voice to be heard, it is imperative that we as Detroiters get out and vote.”

Winfrey, a native Detroiter, understands that there may be some voters who feel that their voice and vote are not important, especially since the city is now under emergency management.

“I hope that Detroiters realize that their votes matter,” she said. “However, it takes an extra push from my office whenever there is an election, so we will again set up satellite voting where voters can come out a good two weeks before Election Day to cast their votes, and it’s important for voters to know that they no longer have to provide a reason to vote absentee.”

While this will be Winfrey’s 11th election as city clerk, there is little doubt that the upcoming mayor’s race, despite a sitting EM in place, is shaping up to be one of the most interesting in the last four decades.

For the first time since Coleman A. Young became the city’s first Black mayor in the early 1970s, a White candidate, Mike Duggan, has received significant support — Black and White — to make a run at Detroit’s top job. However, if Duggan is to make history in Detroit, he will have to do so as a write-in candidate, after an appeal court ruling decided that his name could not be placed on the upcoming primary election ballot because he did not meet city residency requirements at the time he filed to run for mayor.

In addition to Duggan, according to Winfrey’s office, there will be six other candidates running for mayor who have officially filed as write-ins. As of July 8, they are Alga Marie Anderson-Bowlson, Ricardo Brown, Walter Cole, Cheryl Franklin, Clyde Darnell Lynch and Willis McLeod. According to the clerk’s office, July 26

Winfrey was asked to elaborate on write- in candidacy.

“Candidates must file to be a write in candidate. They have up to the second Friday before the election to declare their intent as a write-in candidate. Upon doing Janice Winfrey so, we send a list of all declared write -in candidates to polling precincts so they will have a list of qualified write-in candidates,” Winfrey said.

The city clerk further explained that when it comes

to officially counting a write-in ballot, the voter’s intent is paramount.

“For example, if a candidate running for an elected office in Detroit is named Joe Brown, but voters wrote in J. Brown, Jo Brown, Joseph Brown, or misspelled the candidate’s name, it’s the voter’s intent that is considered when tallying votes for the write-in candidate,” the city clerk said.

“Two things must happen for any write-in candidate’s name to be counted,” she said. “First, the name has to be written in and the oval/bubble next to the name must be completely filled. If not, the ballot is not valid.”

She said the names of the two top vote-getters in the August 6 election will appear on the ballot for the November 5 election, even if the winners are write-in candidates. Since Duggan has been the most news reported and followed write-in candidate, Winfrey was asked if she expected any challenges to his name being declared for voters to write him in.

“In the city of Detroit, challenges related to elections are the order of the day,” said Winfrey, with a smile. “Every race in every category is always challenged. Candidates have the right to challenge.”

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Bankruptcy the status quo and justify their out-ofcontrol spending of tax dollars.

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From page A-1 bankruptcy as likely the only option.

And since there have been proven unrealistic assumptions about the capacity of city government, and what it can do for Detroiters under the current system of borrowing, the city must now find a way to address in legacy epitome of a thriving billions cost.

And that is part of the reason why Detroit is where it is. The lack of independent analysis and voices who would speak freely and honestly inside city

A city once billed as the major urban center with all of its power and grandeur is now facing the terror of an unrealistic and faulty economic formula, used for decades in this city at the expense of hardpressed taxpayers who continued to finance a system even when it did not work for them.” hall about the cost structure of a government devoid of political expediency and how it has cost the city so much, that bankruptcy is hovering around the city like the sword of Damocles and hanging by the thread.

A city once billed as the epitome of a thriving major urban center with all of its power and grandeur is now facing the terror of an unrealistic and faulty economic formula, used for decades at the expense of hard- pressed taxpayers who continued to finance a system even when it did not work for them. This includes substandard city services and a public safety emergency.

Because of the tyrant-like behavior and the culture of sycophancy of our elected officials who only wanted to hear what pleases them instead of what is for the greater good and future for the city, a new reality has been ushered in with

Emergency financial manager Kevyn Orr tried to take a stab at the issue this week by taking interested creditors on a tour of despaired areas of the city, but the creditors were opposed to the tour, so it was postponed.

That is not what will convince creditors who typically want their money, not emotional pleas.

Bankole Thompson is editor of the Michigan Chronicle and the author of the forthcoming book “Rising From the Ashes: Engaging Detroit’s Future With Courage.” His book “Obama and Black Loyalty,” published in 2010, follows his recent book, “Obama and Christian Loyalty” with an epilogue by Bob Weiner, former White House spokesman. Thompson is a political news analyst at WDET-101.9FM (NPR affiliate) and a member of the weekly “Obama Watch” Sunday evening roundtable on WLIB-1190AM New York and simulcast in New Jersey and Connecticut.

E-mail bthompson@michronicle.com or visit his personal page at www.bankolethompson.com.

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time Lansing legislator George Cushingberry Jr., has also thrown his hat into the ring for another legislative job in Detroit.

Cushingberry, who has been a fixture in Lansing politics, will face off with several candidates in that district including Leslie Love a professor at Marygrove College, Ken Scott, a small business owner, and attorney Carron Pinkins.

“The charter has given the incoming council more authority, especially with the ability to confirm key department heads,” said Eric Foster, Detroit political consultant. “You have some districts that have really strong candidates that can do good work on council but you have a few other districts that are really lacking strong candidates.”

Foster said for some of those districts that don’t have competitive candidates to be really impactful “it is going to take one or two election cycles before you get the type of candidate that can really be impactful with regard

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to background and policy direction.”

He cited as an example District 5 where Hollier, White and Sheffield are all part of a new emerging political class in Detroit poised to make a difference.

“You have three talented young people to pick from in that particular race,” Foster said while also giving the nod to District 2 where a mix of seasoned politicos and fresh voices on the scene are going to duke it out.

But he lamented that in District 3 “outside of Scott Benson you don’t have a really deep strong field of candidates.”

He said, “With what the

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Graves said. “In a chapter 11 (bankruptcy) the parties must negotiate that and there is a process in chapter 11 you must go through before you can make any changes in employee pension agreements that is not available in chapter 9.”

What would happen to thousands of city retirees and current workers whose earnings could be canceled instantly to satisfy creditors has been a thorny issue in discussions about how to address the financial calamity facing Detroit.

Judge Graves said in chapter 9 the city can cancel the benefits and the court can’t do anything about it. Even though the Michigan Constitution protects pensions, the federal bankruptcy code supersedes.

“We get into this argument of federalism where state law has stated that as a matter of the right of the state it must protect its pensioners who are municipal employees. Does that sovereignty take precedence over any federal law? It’s to the contrary,” Graves said.

Because the U.S. Constitution speaks to a uniformed law on bankruptcy across the country, when the city of Stockton in California filed for chapter 9 bankruptcy, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein did not stop the city from cancelling the pensions of its workers.

“I don’t know whether spiked pensions can be reeled back in.

There are very complex and difficult questions of law that I can see out there on the horizon,” the Associated Press quoted Klein as saying in his ruling.

Graves said while there is no clear answer as to whether the state Constitution can prevent the elimination of retiree benefits, Orr can modify the pensions, meaning less money for hard-pressed workers.

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city is going to need out of this council, we need policy changes, not necessarily direct activism of council that is going to help citizens get services delivered and right-size the city’s budget.”

But will this new district-type government really bring about change for Detroit?

“If the right people are elected, yes, and change will come and if they fully exercise the legislative creativity that the charter gives them. They have an opportunity to really do some work,” Foster said.

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Winfrey this particular election,” she said, adding that it’s the right of candidates and voting citizens to do so.

According to the clerk, the fact that some council members will be elected by district this year won’t present any particular challenge to the Department of Elections because there have been candidates who’ve run in districts, such as state representatives, state senators and school boards.

On the other hand, the council by district elections are an educational piece for the electorate; and it’s important that voters know who the candidates are in their district and where their district falls.

Winfrey said while there has been legitimate discontent about the state of affairs in Detroit, voters need to come out and vote because those running for such offices as mayor, city council, city clerk and police commission are the ones who will affect the day-to-day living of the average citizen.

“So the municipal race is very important,” Winfrey said. “And, as we are under the supervision of an emergency manager, it’s important that we exercise our right to vote. It’s important that we come out, so that those in power understand that our voting rights are important to us.”

She said if voters want to retain their voice and for that voice to be heard publicly, it’s imperative to vote, in this election in particular.

From page A-1 Winfrey is hoping that the existence of an emergency manager is enough incentive for people to come out and vote to send the message that their vote matters.

But what on the clerk’s end will happen to motivate people to vote?

Satellite voting locations will be established again to make voting easier for those in distant location as was the case in the previous election.

She said it ensures that voters have two weeks outside of Election Day to come out and cast their votes easily by way of absentee voting in person.

Satellite voting, according to Winfrey, worked very well in the last election and she expects it to work very well this time, too.

Another push is the Election Connection newsletter that she sends out to every registered voter. She said that this year it will contain a map of the district in which a particular household resides, as well as a copy of the ballot that corresponds to that district and the location of their polling place.

Her office also sends out a notice about an upcoming election in the water bills of all Detroit residents. It’s a free mailing.

She also said absentee voting in person isn’t early voting.

“Those ballots are kept,” she said. “They are not opened and counted until Election Day.”

From page A-1 “The retirees are going to take a cut in federal bankruptcy court. But how deep the cut is depends on how much money is left to pay creditors,” Graves said. “This is like a giant chess game.”

If the creditors, some of whom are general obligation bond holders required to be paid 100 percent, are not satisfied with the cuts then they can point to the Detroit Institute of Arts, Belle Isle, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and other city owned assets as possibly being for sale to satisfy the billions the city owes them.

Before that, Orr has an obligation to negotiate in good faith according to Graves, because a federal judge could dismiss chapter 9 because the emergency manager did not negotiate in good faith.

“He (Orr) knows one of the things he faces is that he has to negotiate in good faith. Where do you move from vigorous negotiation, to hardball negotiation to good faith negotiation? If not it will get dismissed,” Graves said.

Still, Graves said the bargaining chip of the creditors will be crucial because some of them are special revenue bond holders, different from general obligation bondholders who are expecting 100 percent payment or anything close to it.

For example, special revenue bond holders are paid out of a specific project or fund already set up in the agreement that revenues from either the casinos or other sources would first be paid to them.

“Here is my prediction and fear,” said Graves. “If in this chapter 9 process it becomes possible to sell the DIA, they will also sell Belle Isle and whatever they can do to get the bondholders close to a 100 percent. Belle Isle could be sold to a private de-

veloper and turned into a gated community.”

Interestingly, entities that are under an authority, like Cobo Convention Center and the Detroit Zoo, are not exposed to creditors, Graves said.

“Creditors are concerned with what the city owns that they can sell and rank them according to marketability,” he said. “The axe will fall on the retirees and active workers.”

One of the most important phases in this process is selecting a bankruptcy judge, and the chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Alice M. Batchelder has the absolute discretion to make that decision without any consultation.

Judge Batchelder, a President Reagan appointee who started as a bankruptcy judge and was later promoted to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals by President George H.W. Bush Sr., could pick any bankruptcy judge in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio or a local judge from the U.S. District Court in Detroit to preside over the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history.

“It is her absolute discretion to choose whomever she wants and it’s a private decision,” Graves said. “She may consult with other African-American judges, Damon Keith, Guy Cole Jr., Bernice Donald, the first African American bankruptcy judge in the nation. But she doesn’t have to talk to any of them. It’s her prerogative.”

Because of her conservative bent, Judge Batchelder could also choose an extreme conservative judge from Kentucky to avoid anyone who is pro-labor “because cancellation of collective bargaining agreements is a key factor and you might want to pick a judge who is not shy about that.”

But the most recent bankruptcy cases have all been presided over by local federal judges in California and in Jefferson County, Alabama.

But the Eastern District of Michigan already has six sitting bankruptcy judges, five of whom are in Detroit waiting including Judges Walter Shapero, Philip J. Shefferly, Marci B. Mclvor, Thomas J. Tucker and Steven W. Rhodes who is retiring at the end of the year.

In the case of the DIA there has been talk about the legality of selling some of the artwork that was donated under strict agreement or contracts by the donors.

Judge Graves said it all depends on bankruptcy court.

“In chapter 9 all kinds of contracts get broken and breached to free the entities from burden.

But the person who suffers the breach has the right to file a claim,” Graves said. “There is a lot of cultural life in Detroit that is respected around the world.

I ran into someone in Madrid, mopping a floor, and when I said I was from Detroit he mentioned the Detroit Institute of Arts.”

Detroit leaders will have to come to terms with the impact a bankruptcy will have on the city especially if its jewels are sold to satisfy thirsty creditors.

The immediate impact could be felt on college educated young people and families who are moving back to Detroit in part because of its cultural institutions and other entities that afford them a vibrant civic life in the city.

What happens if those institutions are gone?

Bankole Thompson is the editor of the Michigan Chronicle.

Email bthompson@michronicle. com.

Her newsletter includes pertinent articles about unsubstantiated rumors.

“We need our voters to be prepared,” she said, adding that her last newsletter had an article about a scare that convicted felons wouldn’t be able to vote.

“Whatever the thought is of the day, we want to educate our voters to ensure that they are thoroughly prepared to vote on Election Day,” Winfrey said. “And we always include a piece on absentee voting because that’s very important for a number of our citizens.”

Another accomplishment she cited is that voters no longer have to provide a reason to vote absentee in person.

However, she believes that her signature accomplishment is the opening of the City Clerk Archives and Records Management Division.

She said that’s pertinent to the office of city clerk given that she’s the keeper of all official documents, the archivist.

She said that when she first took office, those documents were scattered throughout the city.

“They were in abandoned buildings for two decades,” she said.

“They were in the basement of City Hall. These documents lined the perimeter of the office of the city clerk.”

She also said it cost the city several hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawsuits, because it was tearing down buildings without notifying the owners.

“It took a year and a half for staff to go through and catalog and digitize those documents,” she said. “But we’ve done it and its in our archives facility.”

Some of these documents date back to the 1800, Winfrey said, adding that when an individual requests information, her office is able to pull it up within 24 hours.

Winfrey wants to get across to voters that it’s imperative that they vote.

“If you don’t like how things are going in city hall, If you’re not impressed by the fact that we are under the authority of an emergency manager, now is your time to come out and voice your opinion by voting,” she said.

If she had a “magic wand” regarding the election process overall, Winfrey would like for voters to ensure that their children understand the significance of the voting process and why voting is important.

Second, in a perfect world, individuals would automatically receive a voter ID card upon getting their driver’s licenses or upon graduation.

She’d also like to see school curricula that speaks more to the democratic process, what it means and its importance.

“I think those would make for more informed voters, and more informed voters make for better decisions,” she said.

The biggest myth, she pointed out, is that people’s votes don’t matter.

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Michigan’s trust in local government outpaces trust in state and federal government in the U of M report say they trust local governments nearly always or most of the time.

Michigan’s citizens are more trusting of their local government than they are of either state or federal government, according to new results from Michigan State University’s State of the State Survey.

In contrast, local officials and Michigan citizens – about 19 percent of each – are equally trusting of the state government.

In the latest round of the State of the State Survey, 39 percent of Michigan adults said they can trust their local government nearly always or most of the time.

The U-M study, conducted April-June 2013, involved surveys sent via hardcopy and the Internet to top elected and appointed officials in all counties, cities, villages and townships in Michigan.

A total of 1,350 jurisdictions returned valid surveys, resulting in a 73 percent response rate. The survey had a margin of error of 1.4 percentage points either way.

Only 19 percent of those responding to the survey said they can trust state government nearly always or most of the time, and just 15 percent said they can trust the federal government nearly always or most of the time.

The latest SOSS results resonate as the country celebrated the national July 4 holiday and as new questions surface about privacy and access to personal information, said Charles Ballard, State of the State Survey director and MSU professor of economics.

“Michigan’s citizens are somewhat wary of government at all levels, but they tend to put more trust in their local government than either the state or federal government,” said Ballard.

“These latest results are the continuation of a trend we have seen for most of the 19 years we have been tracking trust in government.”

The State of the State Survey – also known as SOSS – is a quarterly telephone survey of Michigan adults. Survey questions were asked over landline and cellular phones.

SOSS is conducted by the Office for

Survey Research in MSU’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research.

IPPSR specializes in public policy, leadership training and survey research in MSU’s College of Social Science.

igan Public Policy Survey asked local officials the same questions about government trust earlier this year, and this week compared results with SOSS’, Ballard said.

The latest round of SOSS, conducted earlier this year, included interviews with 1,013 Michigan adults. The survey carries a margin of error of about 3.1 percent.

“Our surveys ask the same questions, but they show some sharp differences between local officials and the general public,” said Ballard. “Trust in the federal government is substantially lower among Michigan’s local officials than the Michigan public.”

“Trust in local government this year stayed close to the average over all years of the State of the State Survey,” Ballard said. “Trust in state government has been fairly stable during the last three years, but the long-term trend remains decidedly negative.”

“Trust in federal government surged upward immediately after the September 11 terrorist attacks,” Ballard said.

“It has worsened substantially since then.”

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A striking 59 percent of local officials say they trust the federal government seldom or almost never.

The two surveys found the biggest differences between local officials and the general public in trust of local government, Ballard said.

While 39 percent of Michigan adults say they can trust local government nearly always or most of the time in the SOSS survey, 67 percent of local officials

“While Michigan’s local officials may be heartened to know that the public trusts local government more than state or federal government, it’s also true that the public doesn’t trust local government nearly as much as local officials trust local government,” Ballard said.

The two surveys also revealed strong partisan differences, Ballard said.

Democrats are relatively more trusting of the federal government led by Democratic President Barack Obama.

Republicans are more trusting of the state government headed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. The partisan differences tend to be larger among the elected officials than the general public, Ballard said.

SOSS launched its first wave of interviews with Michigan citizens in 1994.

CLOSUP first asked local government leaders about trust in local, state and federal government in 2009.

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DPS launches Universal Pre-Kindergarten initiatives By adding 46 Pre-K classrooms, which vastly expands early childhood offerings to eligible students, a Universal Pre-Kindergarten initiative has been lauched by Detroit Public Schools (DPS).

The addition of new preschool classrooms, as well as the announcement of art and music expansion plans and new parenting programs, mark the first initiatives launched as part of the district’s ambitious five-year strategic plan Among the first initiatives to be implemented from the district’s 2013-17 strategic plan, “Neighborhood-Centered, Quality Schools,” Detroit Public Schools announced a broad strategy to vastly increase preschool offerings for eligible students, expand art and music offerings in all schools and create new parenting programs to increase parent engagement.

The DPS Universal Pre-K program will add 25 new early learning classrooms to 14 sites geographically spread across the city, including 12 classrooms in five new DPS Early Learning Neighborhood Centers. In total, DPS will operate 215 Pre-K classrooms at 70 schools with a capacity for 3,530 young learners.

The plan also includes moving an additional 21 Pre-K classrooms into DPS schools to create a more seamless transition to DPS kindergarten. The programs were operated by DPS within district-authorized charter schools, Educational Achievement Authority schools, or buildings that are closing during the 2012-2013 school year.

• Durfee Elementary-Middle School • Earhart Elementary-Middle School • Emerson Elementary-Middle School • Edison Elementary School • Fleming Pre-K • Golightly Education Center • Maybury Elementary School • Palmer Park Preparatory Academy • Pulaski Elementary-Middle School

“DPS’ Universal Pre-K Plan is designed to invest early in our children through expanded preschool programs for all eligible four-year-olds because study after study has found that quality early childhood education pays dividends with improved academic success and graduation rates,” said Emergency Manager Roy S. Roberts.

• Robeson, Paul-Malcolm X Academy (at Hally)

“Quality Pre-K programs help children learn to read before 3rd grade, which is a critical achievement. We know that students who can read by 3rd grade will stay engaged in school and graduate at much higher rates,” said Karen Ridgeway, Superintendent of Academics for Detroit Public Schools.

The district is also creating five new Early Learning Neighborhood Centers at Beard, Emerson, Fleming, Golightly Education Center and Palmer Park Preparatory Academy.

In tandem with the announcement, DPS officials unveiled plans to aggressively retain children from the district’s Pre-K programs in its general academic programs, which will aid the district in enrollment stabilization and set the foundation for students to be better-prepared to enter kindergarten. Currently, the district loses about a third of Pre-K students before first grade and half of preschool students by third grade.

In addition to the 46 new preschool classrooms, the retention plan includes: • New monthly Pre-K-to-Kindergarten transition programs during the school year • One-on-one satisfaction surveys with parents • Individualized Pre-K-to-kindergarten counseling for families • First-ever pre-kindergarten enrichment programs this summer, including weekly educational/experiential field trips and other programs, during the district’s Summer Academy.

These new moves support the district’s strategy to provide more Pre-K programs and to find innovative methods of attracting new students.

New Preschool classrooms will be located at the following sites: • Academy of the Americas • Ann Arbor Trail • Beard Early Childhood • Bennett Elementary • Brewer Elementary-Middle School

• Vernor Elementary School • Wayne Elementary School • Young, Coleman A. Elementary • Adult Education Center - East • Adult Education Center - West

In keeping with the district’s strategic plan, officials also announced plans to add new music and art enrichment programs throughout DPS beginning in the fall of 2014.

A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) was released on June 24 using the District’s Strategic Sourcing process, with responses due July 23. The strategic plan calls for an art/music enrichment program for every elementary school student, partnering with individuals and agencies with a proven track record in Detroit.

Also initiated under the strategic plan, the district unveiled plans for a new Parent University and Parenting Home Visits that are part of the district’s extensive parent engagement initiatives. Parent University will feature a professional development curriculum tailored for parents, internships, and the formation of a collaborative of support organizations for parents of students from Head Start to college. The HomeSchool Visitation program will strengthen the relationship between teachers and parents for improved academic and behavioral outcomes. These programs are modeled in Boston and California, respectively.

Additional initiatives from the community-driven Detroit Public Schools strategic plan, which will be ready for this new school year starting September 3, include; Career Academies offering diploma, certification, associate degree and apprenticeships upon completion; Community Schools models; Safety enhancements; Customer Service programs and training; and new Attendance and Code of Conduct policies.

• Clemente, Roberto Academy

Parents can apply at their local DPS School. Requirements for enrollment: child’s birth certificate, immunization record, and proof of income. Students must be 4 years of age by November 1.

• Detroit International Academy for Young Women

For more information, call (313) 3478923.

• Burton International Academy • Carleton Elementary School

• Douglass Academy for Young Men

Clergy win support from state officials on anti-gun violence proposal Clergy from across Michigan met with state officials to begin partnering on bringing a $3 million anti-gun violence program to some of the most violent cities in the state.

Michigan Prophetic Voices (MPV) clergy met with officials from the Michigan Office of Urban and Metropolitan Initiatives, to discuss their proposal to create and fund a comprehensive anti-gun violence initiative to bring support to Flint, Detroit, Pontiac, Saginaw, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids.

The $3 million proposal will: Implement specific violence reduction strategies over a four year period, based on the highly successful Ceasefire

model pioneered by the National Network of Safe Communities (NNSC), including hiring a State Coordinator to work with local law enforcement and community groups to assist in strategy implementation and results monitoring; Provide technical assistance to build the capacity of state and local law enforcement and community leaders and partners, to enhance and sustain violence reduction; Enhance and support effective community based organizing efforts targeted at violence reduction and integrated into and supportive of the NNSC effort; Launch a targeted advertising campaign and toll-free tip line to encourage citizens to report illegal firearm pos-

session.

In the coming weeks, group plans to present their proposal before the Governor’s Council on Law Enforcement and Reinvention (CLEAR) and meet with Gov. Snyder’s Chief of Staff, Dennis Muchmore.

The meeting was held at the Governor’s Southeast Michigan Office in Detroit, and the clergy present represented cities including Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint, Detroit and Battle Creek. All of which are among the 100 most violent in the United States.

Pastors shared powerful stories about the damage that gun violence is doing to their communities.

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The DYC Detroit APBA Gold Cup returns for the 2013 races

By RJ Barnhill

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he DYC Detroit APBA Gold Cup, presented by Jarvis Property Restoration, returns to the Detroit River with fun for the whole family July 13-14.

The APBA Gold Cup is the oldest active trophy in all motor sports, with the first trophy awarded in 1904. The weekend-long event promises to pack more entertainment and excitement than ever. Guests — which topped over 100,000 last year — can enjoy food, live entertainment, a classic car and vintage boat show, and, of course, thrilling Unlimited Hydroplane races that near speeds of 200 miles per hour.

“All of us at the DYC are proud to be the title sponsor, and to continue to partner with the DRRA to keep this tradition alive in the city of Detroit,” said Scott Allen, commodore of the Detroit Yacht Club.

“We have been so fortunate to have had the DYC serve as the presenting sponsor of the APBA Gold Cup for the past three years,” said Mark Weber, event director for the Detroit River Regatta Association. “They brought prestige and a rich Detroit history to the event, and we’re now thrilled to welcome Jarvis Property Restoration as a new addition to the Gold Cup family.”

Jarvis Property Restoration is a full-service restoration company with offices in Michigan, Florida, Illinois and Iowa, that helps property owners recover from unexpected disasters, such as floods and fires. Bill Jarvis, owner, has been actively involved

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Official Weekend Lineup Thursday, July 11 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Rescue Practice

Friday, July 12 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Mondays Lie performs 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Unlimited Testing 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm “Mondays Lie” performs 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Super Cat Offshore Testing 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm See Jane Rock performs 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Vintage Testing, All Classes 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Unlimited Qualifying

Saturday, July 13 8:30 am – 10:00 am Unlimited Testing 10:00 am National Anthem 10:00 am –10:25am Super Cat Offshore Testing 10:25 am –10:40am Vintage Large & Medium 10:40 am –10:55 am Vintage Small 10:55 am –11:10 am Vintage Flat Bottoms & Skiffs 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Unlimited Autograph Session 11:10 am –11:30 am Super Light Tunnel 1A 11:30 am – 12:10 pm Super Cat Offshore 1A 1:10 pm – 1:30 pm Unlimited Heat 1A presented by Royce and Kathy Richards 1:30 pm –1:50 pm Unlimited Heat 1B presented by Royce and Kathy Richards 1:50 pm – 2:10 pm Unlimited Heat 1C presented by Royce and Kathy Richards 2:10 pm – 2:25 pm Vintage Large & Medium 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Groove Worthy performs 2:25 pm– 2:45 pm Vintage Small 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Vintage Flat Bottoms & Skiffs 3:00 pm – 3:20 pm Super Light Tunnel 2A 3:20 pm – 3:40 pm Unlimited Heat 2A presented by Hylant 3:40pm – 4:00 pm Unlimited Heat 2B presented by Hylant 4:00 pm – 4:20 pm Unlimited Heat 2C presented by Hylant 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Groove Worthy performs 4:20 pm – 5:00 pm Super Cat Offshore 2 A 5:00 pm – Course Closes

Sunday, July 14 8:00 am – 9:00 am Unlimited Testing 9:00 am – 9:30 am Opening Ceremonies 9:30 am – 9:50 am Super Cat Offshore Testing 9:50 am – 10:10 am Vintage Large & Medium 10:10 am – 10:25 am Vintage Small 10:25 am – 10:40 am Vintage Skiffs & Flat Bottoms 10:40 am – 11:00 am Unlimited Heat 3A presented By Complete Machining Services 11:00 am – 11:20 am Unlimited Heat 3B presented By Complete Machining Services 11:20 am – 12:00 pm Super Cat Offshore 3A 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Vintage & Super Light Tunnel Autograph Session 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Matt Austin Band performs 1:00 pm – 1:20 pm Super Light Tunnel 3A 1:20 pm – 1:40 pm Unlimited Heat 4A 1:40 pm – 2:00 pm Unlimited Heat 4B 2:00 pm– 2:20 pm Vintage Large & Medium 2:20 pm – 2:35 pm Vintage Small 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Matt Austin Band performs 2:35 pm – 2:50 pm Vintage Skiff & Flat Bottoms 2:50 pm – 3:10 pm Super Light Tunnel Final 3:10 pm – 3:30 pm Super Cat Offshore Final 4:00 pm - Detroit APBA Gold Cup Final!

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Free summer meals around the corner

By Kevin Concannon

Children need access to healthy food all year long. Good nutrition provides the sound foundation they need to learn, grow and thrive. As USDA’s Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, it pleases me to say that during the regular school year, America’s schoolchildren can depend on the science-based nutrition provided by National School Lunch Program meals and the healthy choices now available at school. But when school is out during the summer months, it’s another story.

Many kids don’t have access to even one nutritious meal a day.

USDA’s summer meals programs

work to reach those children by providing free, nutritious meals at sites throughout the nation.

Unfortunately, millions of eligible low-income children are still missing out.

That’s pretty clear when you stop to consider that although about 21 million children nationwide receive free and reduced-priced meals through the National School Lunch Program during the regular school year, only about 3.5 million kids are reached through our summer meals programs.

Job one is to make sure that eligible children get information about the program.

Summer feeding sites are located in many communities across the country, especially in low-income areas.

USDA needs your help to get the word out and connect eligible kids with summer meals.

Schools, community groups and religious organizations can help with this effort. To find a summer meal site serving children in your community, call 1-866-3-Hungry or 1-877-8-Hambre or visit the National

Hunger Clearinghouse resource directory.

If you or your organization are interested in helping us get the word out about summer meals, please visit the Food and Nutrition Service Summer Food website, www.summerfood.usda. gov, for more information and resources. The SFSP toolkit, available in both English and Spanish, includes templates, customizable flyers, door hangers, letters to parents, activity sheets for children and attendance certificates.

Promising practices and tips for success are also available on the website.

You can help in other ways, too.

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Molina Healthcare of Michigan recognizes unsung heroes

...at seventh annual Community Champions Awards Ceremony

Molina Healthcare of Michigan recently celebrated the good deeds of six community heroes at its seventh annual Community Champions Awards.

The ceremony was held at The Rattlesnake Club and included an invocation

by Pastor Marvin Winans of Perfecting Church.

Molina, the founder of Molina Healthcare, as well as community partners who work together to care for society’s most vulnerable. Each community champion was nominated by a community-based organization and also received a $1,000 grant to give to a deserving nonprofit organization of his or her choice.

This year’s winners included Dr. Richard J. Persiani from The Children’s Tooth Fairy Foundation, Dennis Williams from Detroit Medical Center, Nancy L. Stermer from Macquarie Equipment Finance, Dr. Elliott Attisha from Henry Ford Health System, Frank Woods, Jr. from Flint Housing Commission and Robert Blehm from Macomb Fresh.

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“We proudly salute the hard work and dedication of these extraordinary individuals,” said Stephen Harris, president of Molina Healthcare of Michigan.

“It was a pleasure honoring this year’s Community Champions award winners for the dedication and commitment they put into serving those in need in our communities.”

Dr. Richard J. Persiani has dedicated 31 years providing dental care to children across the globe. He has traveled on medical/dental missions to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, China, Africa, Madagascar, Paraguay and Haiti providing both surgery and educational programs. Locally he works with The Children’s Tooth Fairy Foundation to provide dental care to underserved children living in shelters and foster care in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties. He donates his time, resources and services to treat children who would have otherwise never had the opportunity for dental care.

The Community Champions program celebrates the vision of Dr. C. David

Dennis Williams has been volunteering in the Coalition on Temporary Shel-

Pictured (from left) are Frank Woods, Flint Housing Commission; Stephen Harris, president of Molina Healthcare of Michigan; Dr. Richard J. Persiani, The Children’s Tooth Fairy Foundation; Nancy L. Stermer, Macquarie Equipment Finance; Heidi McGlinnen, Molina Healthcare of Michigan; Mary Syiek, Molina Healthcare, Inc., Dr. Elliott Attisha, Henry Ford Health System; Dennis Williams, Detroit Medical Center; and Robert Blehm, Macomb Fresh. ter (COTS) kitchen for more than 23 years preparing thousands of meals for the homeless. While he works at the Detroit Medical Center and has a family at home, he volunteers three days a week and often rides his bike to COTS. He assists with stock, cleaning, meal preparation and meal service for the guests at the emergency shelter. It is estimated that over the course of his time with COTS, Williams has volunteered more than 4,000 hours of service.

Gold Cup in the Gold Cup races for see more of the drivers, the past 12 years. spend more time on the “I fell in love with the river, all at no cost to sport instantly and would them,” said Tom Bertocome to the races with cli- lini, president of the Deents and staff, all of whom troit River Regatta Associenjoyed the excitement ation. of the event,” said Jarvis.

General admission “Each year we got more involved, even sponsoring ranges from $15 to $45; three different boats that competed against each other. Events like this are what keep Detroit moving.

We must ensure that it continues for another 100 years.”

In addition to a new sponsor, The DYC Detroit APBA Gold Cup welcomes back Free Friday. The additional free day is back this year courtesy of Made In Detroit and American Badass Beer. The sponsorship from the two Michigan-based companies restores the 104th-annual event to a three-day schedule running July 12-14; the 2013 races had previously been slated to be condensed into two days due to budget constraints.

“We are proud to partner with the Gold Cup races to bring back Free Friday to the city of Detroit.” said Thomas Dubak, VP of sales, American Badass Beer, Co. “We have big things lined up for the weekend, including games with giveaways including the chance to win free front row tickets to an upcoming Kid Rock show this August at DTE Energy Music Theatre.”

“Friday gives fans the opportunity to watch more action on the water,

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While providing children with nutritious meals is our top priority, the key to success is keeping kids coming back to the sites throughout the summer.

Offering fun, age-appropriate physical activity at summer meal sites is a proven way to ensure attendance and encourage healthy habits. And that takes volunteers, especially in July, and August.

Volunteers can help with basics, like transporting food, setting up or cleaning up a site. Volunteers can also plan and lead educational or recreational activities with the children. Go to www. serve.gov/endhunger to find an opportunity to volunteer in your community or to post a volunteer opportunity if you operate a summer meal program.

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www.facebook.com/APBAGoldCup or call (586) 774-0980.

Nancy L. Stermer is a dedicated volunteer and steadfast supporter of The Children’s Center, providing over 15 years of leadership. As Detroit’s children are some of the most vulnerable in the nation, Stermer has contributed her time and energy to ensure children receive the care they need; whether it be health care, mental health care or assistance for other challenges faced by families living in poverty. Last year Stermer’s projects included beautifying The Children’s Center garden area, coordinating a back-to-school donation drive to provide 466 free backpacks to children and volunteering her time at The Children’s Center Holiday Shop wrapping presents for children in need.

Dr. Elliott Attisha works as medical director of the Henry Ford Health System’s Ford Health System’s mobile medical clinic, HANK (Health Alliance of Neighborhood Kids), which is virtually a doctor’s office on wheels. With fifty-nine percent of Detroit’s population living in medically underserved areas, Dr. Attisha and his team are able to bring a variety of health care services to children where they spend most of their waking hours – in school and youth community centers. His compassion for the youth he sees means that children who once had no primary care physician to call their own, now have a medical provider who is dedicated to their well-being. As pres-

ident-elect of the School Community Health Alliance of Michigan and an executive committee member of the Council on School Health, American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Attisha is able to influence change on a broad scale to break down barriers to medical care for Detroit’s children.

Frank Woods, Jr. has been a voice for the homeless in Genesee County for over five years. As the founder and director of the One Stop Housing Resource Center, Woods centralized key resources that helped to effectively shape the lives of homeless and near homeless individuals. It is because of Woods’ leadership that governmental and community agencies now work together to help these individuals’ live more productive lives. Woods has used his influence to bridge gaps between community based organizations and faith based organizations in order to bring vital resources to the homeless and underserved in Genesee County.

Robert Blehm has a passion to change future generations by changing the way today’s youth think about food and the way they eat. He is leading the charge to put fresh fruit and vegetable gardens on Macomb County elementary and middle school properties. The intent of these gardens is to introduce fresh produce into school cafeterias and summer backpack programs for children in need.

To date, the program has 15 participating schools in one of the largest school districts in the state. The goal is to establish 45 such gardens in five years and continue to show students the full spectrum of nutrition from planting the seeds in the classroom garden to seeing the produce they were responsible for growing on their school cafeteria lunch trays.

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July 13

The Detroit Public Library Celebrates the 70th Anniversary Lecture Series.

6 p.m.

Detroit Public Library.

5201 Woodward Ave. The E. Azalia Hackley Collection is part of the Library’s Special Collections Department. This lecture, titled “Don Cornelius: Riding the Soul Train,” will celebrate the contributions this iconic figure and his famous television show had on the music industry. This lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information call (313) 481- 1397

July 24 - 27 Karmanos Cancer Institute Celebrates Cancer Survivor Week

Military Appreciation Day 11 am – 7 pm Echo Grove Camp Leonard The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit invites active and retired members of the military and their families to celebrate Military Appreciation Day. Guests will enjoy a picnic style luncheon and roast pork that evening.

There is no charge.

To register and RSVP, call (248) 443-2242, ext. 344

Detroit Rolling on the River Festival and Summer Concert Series, Erma Henderson Park, adjacent to Whittier Park. The festival will highlight local entertainment, some of the city’s best restaurant and community resource information for adults.

This event is free and open to the community.

For more information email detroitrollingontheriver@gmail.com

Anti-Dog Fighting Rally

9 a.m.

Detroit Riverfront

Noon – 5 pm Brightmoor Community Center 14451 Burt Road, Detroit Detroit Corps is hosting a series of anti-dog fighting rallies in Detroit communities affected by this illegal and brutal activity.

For more information, call (734) 253-2053

Summer Learning Program

Transitional Training Program

Help change a child’s life by tutoring this summer at The Educational Experience at St. Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center. Volunteers, who will receive orientation and training, are needed.

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Duramis Outreach Ministries

For more information, call (313) 535-9200.

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For a list of events, visit www.karmanos. org or call (313) 576- 9288. All events are free and open to all cancer survivors and their families.

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July 9 - 15

The Karmanos Cancer Institute kicks off Cancer Survivor Week with a lecture from author Teresa Kilpatrick, “So You Survived Cancer.”

She will speak about cancer survivorship and what to expect after treatment ends.

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This programs is for all 2013 high school graduates, helping them to transition to the next phase of life. Covers campus/social living, managing finances and maintaining your beliefs no matter what is going on around you.

For more information call (313) 270-2191 no later than July 1.

The Marriage Resource Center (MRC), a non-profit community-based organization, in association with other organizations and individuals, is presenting its 4th Annual Walkathon For Marriage and Family. Participants will start on the Rivard Plaza, then take a five-mile walk down the RiverWalk, up the Dequindre Cut, and back.

August 3 ARISE Detroit! 7th Annual Neighborhoods Day All Day Event ARISE Detroit! invites community organizations throughout the City of Detroit to participate by helping to clean up. Volunteers are needed.

For more information visit www.arisedetroit.org or call (313) 592- 1955.

August 8 Golfing For Scholarships Links of Nov Golf Club Proceeds from the 87th annual golf outing will go towards college scholarships benefiting the Michigan Youth Appreciation Foundation. More than 200 golfers are expected to participate For more information and tickets, call (586) 393-8800.

August 16 - 18

For more information, call (313) 288-8076 or visit MRCWalk@MIMarriage.org.

The 31st African World Festival

Family Fun and Fitness Day

Charles Wright Museum 315 E. Warren Detroit

Belle Isle Presented by Detroit Parent Network, this annual event teaches parents how to stay fit and have fun with their kids. There will be activities for all ages. No charge.

For more information, call (313) 832-0617

11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

This three day festival will be celebrated once again on the grounds of the Wright Museum with performances, poetry, arts and crafts, African drumming and dance, hundreds of vendors, ethnic foods, and events for all ages, including an expanded Watoto Village for the youngest among us!

For more information visit www.thewright.org

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Time for needed sacrifice to create meaningful change

By V. Lonnie Peek, Jr. How often have you thought beyond the space you are in now as you deal with your daily tasks, challenges and aspirations?

Sometimes we become so inundated with today’s concerns that we lose perspective on the bigger picture.

One thing for sure, life’s journey is one of measure.

But it is also an opportunity for having a multiplying effect after you are gone.

lis, U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, WDIV Channel 4 general manager Marla Drutz, Congressman John Conyers, Michigan Democratic Chair Lon Johnson, Dr. James Perkins, Pastor of Greater Christ Baptist Church, education activist Helen Moore, Shirley Stancato, president of New Detroit, Arthur Horwitz, president Detroit Jewish News, Karen Ridgeway, superintendent of Detroit Public Schools, Drs. Reginald Eadie and Herbert Smitherman and many more.

Is your goal to make a million dollars? Good goal, but limited in impact when These and other indiV. Lonnie Peek you are gone. Plus your viduals served as thought family will probably end up fighting over provokers in discussing issues and it. Unless you amass hundreds of mil- concerns that Dr. King dealt with and lions of dollars, your money will have a ironically the book has not been closed limited life span after you are gone. on any one of them. For example, labor Recently in Detroit, a prime example leader Al Garrett dealt with “the rights of “living beyond your life” was mani- of workers” and how the church and lafested through events and recognition bor can work together. Then there was of the great life of Dr. Martin Luther Racism, Islamic Phobia, Youth Efforts King, Jr. Spearheaded by Detroit Branch in Ceasing the Violence, Education AcNAACP President Rev. Wendell Anthony cess to Our Community, Employments and UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles, Trends and Skills, Women In Leaderthousands of individuals commemorat- ship, Health Care Reform and Detroit ed his historic March of 50 years ago Neighborhood Development. down Woodward Avenue. Black, White, These sessions where supportive of Brown, gay, straight, Protestant, Jew, those that participated in the March, but Muslim and all others came together to they were designed to create strategies remember his life, what he stood for and and actions that will live on beyond the what he died for. march, that will be reported back to the On Friday there was a series of “Voic- community. es for Action” panels that dealt with the Dr. King was and is a premier examissues that Dr. King advocated for. Some ple of how you live beyond your life. of the region’s best thinkers and activ- We didn’t care about how much was in ists came together to serve on panels his bank account. When you make an that were a catalyst for discussions. impact on the quality of life for others, Individuals like Michigan Chroni- when you are gone, others will pick up cle senior editor Bankole Thompson, the mantle and your efforts will “live beBishop Edgar Vann, Bishop Charles El- yond your life.”

We must build on our greatest strength: Diversity

By Benjamin Jealous “For a country regarded as the paramount leader in a multicultural world, the United States has yet to embrace its own diversity; continuing failure to do so will have profound consequences for governance.”

need for “cross-racial understanding” was still necessary to break down racial stereotypes, and that “student body diversity is a compelling state interest.”

Justice O’Connor’s argument was based on sound social research. In her words, “Major American businesses have made clear that the skills needed in today’s increasingly global marketplace can only be developed through exposure to widely diverse people, cultures, ideas, and viewpoints.”

That quote came from a 1996 report by Allan E. Goodman, former executive dean at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.

For decades, American leaders in business, education and economics have lamented the wide racial Benjamin Jealous Like Allan Goodman, and ethnic gaps in our eduJustice O’Connor also saw diversity as cation system. a national interest.

The recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action reminded us that we This is even truer today. When Goodman wrote about the multicultural have a long way to go. world in 1996, only one out of every thirteen Americans had access to the Internet. Google, Twitter and Facebook were

still rough ideas scribbled in students’ sketchpads. Seventeen years later, technological advances in communications, travel and trade have given rise to a new era of globalization. Leaders in business and government need to know how to work with people of vastly different races, cultures and perspectives.

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regarded as the paramount leader in a multicultural world, the United States has yet to embrace its own diversity; continuing failure to do so will have profound consequences for governance.”

In the case of Fisher v. Texas, the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of the University of Texas’ admissions policy. The university currently allows admissions officers to consider an applicant’s race among a number of other qualifying factors.

The Court voted to send the case back to a lower court of appeals. In doing so, they reaffirmed the use of race in admissions, and the importance of educational diversity in the 21st century.

The decision upheld an important precedent set in the 2003 case of Gruttinger v. Bollinger. In that case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor refuted the idea that our society had advanced beyond affirmative action. She argued that the

We will be stronger as a nation if we embrace our growing diversity and ensure that the pathways to leadership remain wide open. Numerous studies reveal that mere interaction is the best way to avoid intergroup conflict. Sociologists have even found that diversity increases opportunities for creativity.

In light of the Supreme Court’s decision, America’s educational institutions should recommit to fair and thoughtful ways to foster diversity. In the coming months, the NAACP will work with universities, policymakers and the business community to see that qualified students from a diversity of backgrounds get a close look and a fair shot at admission to top schools.

Justice O’Connor wrote that “effective participation by members of all racial and ethnic groups in the civic life of our nation is essential if the dream of one nation, indivisible, is to be realized.”

Our country’s pledge is to be one nation, and our country’s challenge is to lead a global economy that is increasingly flat. If America is to maintain its role as a moral and economic leader in the 21st century, we must build on our greatest strength: diversity.

Benjamin Jealous is president/CEO of the NAACP.

Detroit! Why can’t we take back our neighborhoods?

By Abdullah El-Amin

Some blamed the unions for blocking potential “competition” for their jobs. Community Activists said it would be taking us back to slavery and Jim Crow days with police standing guard over Black men working the chain gang.

The thoughts I’m about to express will be viewed as controversial by some people and “right on time” by many others. Nevertheless, I feel it is about time we in the city of Detroit start looking at things as they really are, not like what is popular to say.

Well, it’s being done in Dearborn right under our Our city is one the worst noses while we watch and looking cities in this entire blame each other for our Southeast Michigan area, inability to solve the probAbdullah ElAmin along with Highland Park. lem.

It is unbelievable the way some of our neighborhoods have degen- When you see the debris on the streets of Detroit, you know in your erated to virtual junk piles. heart it is primarily put there by city It seems we have come to accept an residents. We all comment with disgust unacceptable way to live. Some resiwhen we see someone toss cups, chickdents of this city treat it as though they en and hamburger bags, and worst of all, care nothing about its appearance or glass bottles out of their car windows reputation. that shatter into the roadway.

A few years ago I had an office in Why not ticket these people that evDearborn on Michigan Avenue. One eryone (including police) sees littering morning I came to the office early and our city? Why not send them into their I saw a white van in the parking lot beown neighborhoods to clean them? hind my building.

Their friends and family will see There were about 8 to 10 people them at work and possibly have enough outside the van picking up trash in awareness to stop the littering practice the parking lot. I asked one of the felthemselves. The ones cleaning would lows who they were. He said they were probably get a new sense of neighborthere doing community service because hood pride. I can see them now stopthe court had sentenced them to work ping other litterers from dirtying up the cleaning up the community in lieu of city. paying a fine or going to jail.

“Hey, quit throwing that paper on the The funny thing about these people ground. I had to clean that up,” some is they all looked like me. And most might say.

Dearborn residents don’t look like me.

So I asked them where they lived and, So what is the problem with Detroit taking advantage of community service sure enough, they were from Detroit. in our neighborhoods? Doesn’t Dear The concept of community service born have unions? Don’t they have is not a bad idea overall. It allows peoprosecutors? Why is Dearborn profiting ple to take care of their responsibilities off the backs of Detroit residents and while contributing to the cleanliness Detroit isn’t? and beautification of the community Detroit now seems to be going into a and staying out of jail. new era with the appointment of Kevyn This is regularly done when people Orr as emergency manager. Although I do not have the money to pay fines imwasn’t in favor of an emergency managposed on them by the court. er, the fact remains that it’s a done deal.

As I walked to my office I wondered I felt that with a change of operation and why I never saw anyone doing commu- attitude we could have brought our own nity service picking up trash in Detroit. city back.

Sure, I see them on the freeways but So our next move should be to do all never on Mack Avenue, Grand River or we can to save our city from bankruptcy Woodrow Wilson. Yet here they were in and embarrassment before everything is the heart of Dearborn keeping it clean. sold and given away. And then we’ll real So I made some inquiries into why ly be crying.

Detroit is not taking advantage of this I love this city. I was raised here. pool of free labor and Dearborn is.

And my earnest desire is to have my rel It seems everyone in Detroit was atives visit me from out of town and not blaming everyone else. The police said be embarrassed driving to my house. Is they did not have the time or manpower that too much to ask? to deal with trivial things like that when Abdullah El-Amin, an advocate for there were murders and drug deals goecumenical relations, is the founder of ing on. Prosecutors blamed the sherthe Detroit Muslim Center. riff’s department for not being able to incarcerate these people.

An open letter to Judge Murphy The Honorable William Murphy, Chief Judge Michigan Court of Appeals, District III State Office Building 350 Ottawa Ave NW Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Dear Judge Murphy, This letter is written out of our concern for the integrity of the primary election process here in the city of Detroit.

It is our understanding that your honorable court is currently deliberating over the case involving one of the candidates for the office of clerk of the city of Detroit, Ms. D. Etta Wilcoxon. While we appreciate the very pensive and thorough examination of all factors regarding this matter, it appears to be having a detrimental effect on thousands of citizens in the city of Detroit who are entitled to an efficient, consistent election process.

Michigan Election Law (MCLA 168.761) states, “If the clerk of a city... receives an application for an absent voter ballot from a person registered to vote in that city...the clerk immediately upon receipt of the application or, if the application is received before the printing of the absent voter ballots, as soon as the ballots are received by the clerk, shall forward by mail, postage prepaid, or shall deliver personally one of the ballots or set of ballots if there is more than one kind of ballot to be voted to the

applicant.”

In this instance, the clerk cannot abide by state law until she “receives” the ballots. She cannot “receive” (or order the ballots printed) until the D. Etta Wilcoxon matter is resolved.

It is apparent that there will not be any movement to send out absentee ballots to the general electorate until this matter is resolved. At this time we are 30 days from the primary election. It is unfortunate that once again Detroiters are subject to challenges in the election process which cause delays, impacts voter enthusiasm and discourages citizen participation. If there are other issues which are preventing the forward movement on the distribution of absentee ballot, or is causing a further delay, we ask that you would inform our community.

We urge your honorable court to render a decision post-haste so that the ballots for the August primary can be immediately printed and mailed to absentee voters. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “A right delayed is a right denied.”

Thank you very much for your consideration. I can be reached at revwendellanthony@gmail.com or (313) 3472820.

Yours for our community, Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony

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General Motors Foundation awards $10,000 grant to Danialle Karmanos Work It Out youth program The General Motors Foundation has awarded Danialle Karmanos’ Work It Out (DKWIO) www.dkwio. org with a $10,000 grant, enabling the non-profit to expand its yoga and nutrition-based youth programing to three new locations in Detroit this summer. The added sites will offer DKWIO’s special youth programming for 10 weeks – June through August. DKWIO will continue to offer their six-week program at four additional Detroit sites.

The new DKWIO sites have also partnered with Forgotten Harvest this summer, to provide young participants with healthy and nutritious lunches.

“Working with Forgotten Harvest gives DKWIO a great opportunity to further engage with commu-

nity partners. Our new programs will provide children with the experience of eating fresh food while teaching them the principles of good nutrition,” said DKWIO founder Danialle Karmanos. “We are very grateful to the GM Foundation and Forgotten Harvest for their leadership in providing Detroit’s children with opportunities to become healthier and stay active during the summer.”

through a $10,000 grant to support three of DKWIO’s new programs, and to help provide nutritious lunches from Forgotten Harvest,” said Lori Wingerter, vice president, GM Foundation, a Forgotten Harvest board member. “These summer youth programs will help children be nourished and active during the summer months.”

With the new location’s additional four weeks, programs are typically six weeks in length, DKWIO has set a goal to increase the participating children’s knowledge of healthy eating by 75 percent. Children will be surveyed at the beginning and end of their program.

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African American men who are successful in a variety of fields are also invited to make presentations to students about their careers and the path that led them there.

“The program aims to teach students what expectations are in college early on,” said Jahquan Hawkins, student life coordinator at the Orchard Ridge campus and an advisor for “Man Up.”

The program has helped nearly 100 students in the last three years at high schools in Oak Park and Southfield and the OCC campuses in Southfield, Royal Oak and Orchard Ridge.

High school programs usually last 12 weeks. The format on college campuses is that of an ongoing club where students take on leadership roles.

that it is important for young men to be successful from the start.”

“One of the goals of ‘Man Up’ is to teach students to not walk away from situations that are uncomfortable, meet challenges and get the work done.

“The all-male environment has many purposes and one of them is to help them feel less apprehensive about saying they don’t know something, because when they meet they are ‘just a bunch of guys.’”

“Man Up” offers both high school and college students lessons that are personal and academic in nature.

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Gregory Anderson was a student leader with the “Man Up” program at the Orchard Ridge Campus in Farmington Hills. He graduated from OCC in May and plans to enroll at Wayne State University to study finance and communications this fall.

He said “Man Up” helped him improve his leadership skills and to understand that leaders must embody the message they bring.

“Having to be on top of other students made me be on top of my own work,” said Anderson, 28, of Southfield.

“The biggest lessons were learning what it takes to be a man, learning what my responsibilities are.”

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On Sunday, Jan. 14, all roads will lead to the Mariott Hotel-Renaissance Center where the Michigan Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, under the leadership of its president, Dr. Claud Young, will honor the Jan. 15 birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a ministerial dinner.

This will be a gathering of civic and community leaders and Black clergy.

The Rev. Tellis J. Chapman of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church will receive the Pastor of the Year Award. Rev. Charles Adams of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church will keynote the event.

Frank Taylor, chairman of the Detroit-based Southern Hospitality Group, is the general chairper-

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Shapiro, registered professional engineer, was president of Consulting Engineering Associates Inc., a Detroitbased firm founded in 1956.

He was born in Detroit, attended Cass Technical High School and Wayne State University.

Grammy award-winning R&B artist John Legend performed at the event and former Detroit Pistons star John Salley was also on hand for the affair.

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The invite-only affair, emceed by Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC-TV’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” was covered by just about every major network in the city. Dubbed by GM as Detroit’s largest ever gathering of cars and stars, the style show opened with Jay-Z stepping out of a customized “Jay-Z Blue” Yukon Denali.

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From the vehicle’s style to its color to extra interior space, certain features are attractive to women and car manufacturers are reaching out more to that market.

Courtney Caldwell, founder of Road and Travel magazine, said automakers are doing so without ignoring male consumers. “(Automakers) have been trying to make vehicles more appealing, while at the same time not turning off men,” Caldwell said. “The Ford Edge has a huge console that can be

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Caldwell said the Dodge Caliber has features tailored to what women like. For example, the Caliber has a chilled glove compartment, which Caldwell says women can use to keep their child’s milk cold, while men can keep their drinks cold while tailgating.

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The Detroit School Board moved to include Superintendent William Coleman among a list of finalists seeking the district’s top job, despite objections from a 40-member community advisory committee.

Dr. Connie Calloway of Normandy Public School in Missouri and Dr. Doris HopeJackson of Calumet Public School-District 132 in Chicago were the two highly recommended candidates for the position, according to the committee.

Dr. David Snead, former DPS superintendent, came in third with Coleman ranking behind.

However during a Jan. 4 board meeting, board member Tyron Winfrey made a motion for Coleman to be included in the finalist stage.

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Dr. Rachel Keith, 82, a woman who defied the odds at a time when women had to struggle for respect as doctors, died Jan. 4. The cause of death was not known at press time.

The wife of Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Damon Keith, Rachel Keith pioneered the way for other African American women to become physicians.

Keith was born in Monrovia, Liberia, on May 30, 1924 to parents who were American medical missionaries. The family

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2013 Holy Convocation Donna Schanbach along with our guest psalmist, Stephanie Pride, Renetha Macklin, Paul Heflin, and Lisa Page Brooks. It will also include special youth services and youth workshops. Nightly service will start at 7 p.m.

Bishop Corletta Vaughn and the Go Tell It Ministry cordially invite you to join them at the 2013 Holy Convocation, July 9-14, at the Adoba Hotel (formerly known as the Hyatt Regency- Dearborn) at 600 Town Center Drive, in Dearborn.

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Celebrating a century McDonald.”

Thomas N. Kelly will celebrate his 100th birthday on July 15.

Mr. Kelly is known for his strong personality and “running the show.”

He stays young by walking several days a week with friends, managing his singing group, traveling with family, and babysitting one of his great-great-granddaughters.

He was born in Irondale, Alabama, the son of a coal miner and the fifth of eight siblings, two of which are still living. His eldest sister, Bessie Porter, is 108. The family migrated to Detroit in 1924.

Mr. Kelly joined the US Army in 1940 and served in World War II in the South Pacific on the island of Tinian, where the atomic bomb was launched. He has many fascinating stories about the war. After the war he met and married Rose Parker. They were married happily for 50 years.

He was employed with Chrysler for 30 years, retiring in 1975.

At the age of 15, Mr. Kelly continued his life to Christ. In 1929 he began serving the Lord with his voice. He has sung with many gospel groups, such as the Optimistic, the Progressive Jubilee Singers, the Conquering Jubilee Singers and the Golden Rods.

In 1946 he organized a group of young men and the Masters of Harmony were formed. They are well known all over the state and are one of the outstanding gospel a capella quartets of today.

They are celebrating their 67th anniversary. They recently had a concert a pleasant grove Baptist Church, in Detroit. Their a capella version of “Old

Unity Baptist Church Annual Women’s Day Rev. Dr. Valmon D. Scott and the Unity Missionary Baptist Church invites everyone to join them as they celebrate their 2013 Annual Women’s Day featuring the Illustrious Unity Missionary Baptist Church Women’s Choir.

The churchis located at 7500 Tireman, in Detroit.

The 8 am guest speaker will be Dr. Denita Weddles of Unity Missionary Baptist Church. The 11 am speaker will be Sister Deborah Daniels of the Corinthians Missionary Baptist Church.

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Mock court session

Universal Liberty in Christ and Christ Temple, located at 7000 E. Canfield, recently hosted a mock court session, with the First Holy Court of Divine Justice Judge Rose Peterson presiding. Rev. Naomi Gatlin is the pastor. Pictured: “Defendant” Andre King (back to camera), Nancy Holloman, trustee Jeremiah Tate, Pastor Naomi Gatlin, O' Neil D. Swanson Sr., president/CEO, Swanson Funeral Homes Inc., and Flora Houston. Seated is “Judge” Rose Peterson.

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Survey: 42% of employers find defined contribution plans appealing

By Jeff Rubleski For many employers, health benefits and their costs are the proverbial rock and a hard place.

Most want to continue offering health benefits to their employees. But they’re struggling with rising health costs. Many realize they might need to consider a different approach to financing and implementing employee health benefits (e.g., defined contribution models) to dislodge themselves from this predicament.

These are some of the key takeaways from an online survey of 329 benefit decision makers at Michigan companies that offer health insurance to 25 or more employees. Notable survey highlights included: ■ Roughly 80% of respondents believed health benefits are important to employee morale, recruitment and retention; 71% felt morally obligated to offer these to their workforce.

On the other hand, as a result of mounting costs and pending health reform regulations: ■ One in five employers has considered dropping employee benefits altogether.

■ 42% say it is highly likely they will make a major change in employee benefits in 2014.

■ 42% with a defined benefit plan feel that defined contribution plans could be an appealing way to finance benefits; about one-third said their companies would definitely or probably consider switching to a defined contribution model within the next few years.

Local entrepreneur bets on his new house

By Donald James

Kenny Akinwale, entrepreneurial extraordinaire, has done it again. Akinwale, along with business partner Raven Lewis, recently held the grand opening for Holistic House. Located at 24681 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 201, in Southfield, Holistic House provides and promotes healthy living and lifestyle services.

“I’m very excited about our Holistic House,” said Akinwale. “Our goal is to create optimum health. We want to help people feel their very best by offering a complete holistic approach to health and wellness. We will offer alternative medical systems, mind-body intervention, biologically-based therapies, manipulative and body-based methods and energy therapies.”

“We will focus on fitness, therapy and nutrition,” said Lewis, a native Detroiter and nurse with an extensive background in alternative and preventive medicine.

“Our approach to health and wellness is to work with the mind, body and spirit of our clientele.”

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mentary and alternative therapies which allow the body to heal itself, devoid of prescription drugs, surgery and other conventional medical procedures that people are often subjected to when facing health and medical challenges. Other services and treatments offered will help with the relief of muscle tension, pain and inflammation. In addition, people

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Most employers want to continue offering health benefits to their employees. But they’re struggling with rising health costs.

The survey respondents’ interest in defined contribution plans reflects a growing national trend among employers looking for ways to control their costs.

Such plans enable employers to set aside a fixed-dollar amount (defined contribution) for each employee (or retiree), which they can use to buy their health insurance. According to another survey of 2,809 employers by benefits consultant Mercer, 45% were either using or are considering a defined contribution approach.

What should you do about your employees’ benefits plan? How will healthcare reform impact your business?

What do you need to know to make good choices for your business and employees?

The purpose of this article is to give employers practical information to help you answer these and other questions.

Our intent is to keep you well-informed so you can find your own path to a health benefits plan that fits your business strategy, employee mix and preferences, and budget.

Editor’s note: When making a decision on how to manage spending and risk, one option for businesses to consider is GlidePath from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network. This tool allows companies to determine their company’s health benefit budget and simplify the administrative work often accompanying health benefit offerings. For more information, visit www.predictablehealthcosts.com Jeff Rubleski serves as director of sales strategy for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and is a certified Healthcare Reform Specialist. He serves as the GlidePath™ go-to-market lead in implementing this defined contribution solution for active and retired members.

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On the move Gordon May named Auburn Hills Campus’ permanent president Oakland Community College Chancellor Tim Meyer has named Dr. Gordon May, president of the Auburn Hills Campus, effective immediately.

While continuing his duties as president of the Highland Lakes Campus, Dr. May also served as Auburn Hills’ interim president since the untimely passing of President David Mathews in February 2013.

“Gordon May has proven himself as OCC’s versatile ‘utility infielder,’ filling in with excellence in whatever role the college requires,” said Chancellor Meyer.

Dr. May’s most recent role,

land Lakes campus president since September 2002.

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Dr. May began his career at OCC as business faculty adjunct in 1986. At various intervals from 1987 to 1999, he was director and later executive director of the Pontiac Center. In the late 1990s, he was an interim dean at Auburn Hills and Highland Lakes, and served as executive director at Royal Oak/Southfield prior to his appointment to the Highland Lakes presidency.

as Auburn Hills Campus interim president from March to the present, was his third such assignment. He was interim president from November to December 2012 and in 1998-99. He has been High-

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Indiana University, a Master’s of Education degree, Education Specialist certificate and a PhD in Educational Leadership from

Wayne State University. He has taught graduate classes in higher education at Wayne State University and Oakland University.

Dr. May and his wife, Patricia Shipp May, an educational counselor at OCC, reside in Rochester Hills and are the parents of two adult daughters.

With campuses located throughout Oakland County, OCC is the largest of Michigan’s 28 community colleges and the 23rd largest in the nation. The college offers degrees and certificates in more than 160 fields, including university transfer and general studies degrees.

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Holistic House migraine headaches and PMS/hormonal imbalance. Personal trainers, nutritionists and lifestyle coaches will be available.

Holistic House also has the capacity to host spa parties for a wide range of occasions, including bridal showers, bachelor and bachelorette parties, wine tasting events, birthday and graduation celebrations, anniversary and retirement events, and other festive occasions. In addition, the establishment has an energy and juice bar that serves a wide selection of organic juices, smoothies, herbal elixirs and supplements.

Akinwale and Lewis are looking forward to building Holistic House’s clientele.

“There are a lot of day spas in the area from the beauty side,” said Akinwale, who believes that Holistic House is one of a few establishments of its kind in the region that is owned by Black entrepreneurs. “We, however, are trying to focus more on the alternative medicine and on treating the mind, body and spirit. We are confident that our clientele will grow as more people become aware of the many wonderful and beneficial holistic services and treatments that we offer at Holistic House.”

Lewis added that Holistic House has formed a partnership with several area career schools that teach and graduate students with various therapeutic and myomassology skills that are valuable to the upstart company.

“We are working with Everest Institute (Detroit), Baker College (Clinton Township) and Irene’s School of Myomassology (Southfield),” Lewis said.

“We will have interns and hire as many certified graduates through our partnerships with these schools as possible. We feel such partnerships will be prosperous for Holistic House, students, graduates and area schools.”

Kenny Akinwale knows all about prosperous ventures. He is the owner

and chief executive officer of the Detroit-based Q Group LLC, which provides professional food services and strategic business management consultation to businesses such as restaurants and hotels throughout the United States.

He also owns and operates Fraiche Catering LLC, a progressive company that caters an array of private parties and events in the region. Most Detroiters and others who love great food know Akinwale as the owner of Detroit Seafood Market. The downtown Detroit restaurant is preparing to celebrate its third anniversary on July 27.

Since arriving in Detroit in 2001 to take the post of regional manager for ARAMARK, an inter-

Detroit native Suzanne Shank, president and CEO of Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., L.L.C. (SBSCO), was chosen to receive the National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP) prestigious Maynard H. Jackson award recipient.

She was presented with the honor on June 26 at a luncheon of 500 securities industry leaders at the NASP’s annual Pension and Financial Ser- Suzanne Shank vices Conference in New Shank cofounded the muYork City. nicipal finance firm SieNASP is the nation’s bert Brandford Shank & premier non-profit or- Co., L.L.C. (SBSCO) with ganization advocating Muriel Siebert and Napofor women and people of leon Brandford in 1996 color in the financial ser- and continues to serve as vices industry. Each year president and CEO. The the National Association firm plays a key role in arAndre Smith photos of Securities Profession- ranging financing for imals honors the financial portant public infrastrucFrom page C-1 services industry’s most ture projects including esteemed members with highways, bridges, water national corporation that the organization’s high- and sewer systems, airprovides food services to est awards at its Annual ports and schools. Since school districts, universi- Pension and Financial it’s founding, 18 years ago, SBSCO has underties and other business- Services Conference. es, Akinwale, a native The Maynard H. Jack- written more than $1 trilof Ibadan, Nigeria, has son Award honors the lion in public financing been on a mission. Prior financial service profes- transactions. to coming to the Motor sional who best exem“I am humbled to reCity, he worked many plifies entrepreneurial ceive this award for doing years in various manage- achievement, community something I love to do and ment capacities for Pizza service and high moral to be recognized by this Hut, Inc. while based at standards. esteemed organization the company’s corporate Orim Graves, execu- and the industry that we headquarters in Dallas, tive director of the Na- all serve,” said Shank.

Texas. His vast scope tional Association of Se“I was always in awe of responsibilities while curities Professionals, of Maynard Jackson and there impacted more than said, “Once Suzanne hit his accomplishments as 1,200 Pizza Hut restauWall Street she was de- mayor. His inspiration rants across the U.S. He termined to succeed and lives on and it is because started his management to do it the right way, ex- of Jackson’s leadership career with Pizza Hut in emplifying the traits of and tenacity to uplift mimetropolitan WashingMaynard H. Jackson. In a nority businesses that ton, D.C., where his reworld where the term role SBSCO even exists. I am sponsibilities touched all model is thrown around grateful for the recogniPizza Hut establishments frivolously, Suzanne is tion from the NASP board in the nation’s capital. the very definition of the and the honor of joining While Akinwale has ex- word, a guidepost to all a distinguished group of perienced a high-level of who strive for excellence, previous honorees.” success with his business professionalism and sucSuzanne Shank has ventures, which now in- cess.” been named to NBC’s cludes Holistic House, he Maynard H. Jackson the Grio’s 100 list which remains humbled by what served as the first Afri- honors African-Amerhe has accomplished in a can-American mayor of ican leaders. She has relatively short-period of Atlanta (1974-1982 and been recognized by U.S. time.

1990-1994). He led the Banker magazine as one “For this African kid expansion of Georgia’s of the Top 25 Women to have come to Ameri- Hartsfield Airport and re- in Finance; by Essence ca with just a briefcase formed the City of Atlan- Magazine in their Power and the clothes on this ta’s police department. List; by Black Enterprise back, and to be where I Mayor Jackson support- as one of the 50 Most Inam today is only because ed affirmative action fluential Black Women in of the grace of God,” said and in 1990 founded the Business; as one of the Akinwale.

Maynard Jackson Youth 75 Most Powerful Blacks For more information Foundation Inc, a leader- on Wall Street: and was on Holistic House, log on ship program for disad- selected by the Wharton to www.theholistichouse. vantaged kids. He later School of Business from served as CEO of Jackson among 100,00 graduates com.

Securities. as one of its 125 InfluenHonoree Suzanne tial People and Ideas.

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Andre L. Johnson receives Faces & Voices of Recovery (FAVOR) Vernon Johnson Award Andre L. Johnson has served as the CEO of the Detroit Recovery Project (DRP) since its founding in 2005. DRP facilitates recovery for those struggling with addiction, helping Detroiters who were once on the streets become drug-free and productive citizens. Johnson’s skilled and sustained leadership in the development and maturation of the Detroit Recovery Project has inspired many. He’s been described as a “recovery carrier” — someone who makes recovery contagious to others by the power of his own story and the “living proof” manifested in his character and how he lives his life.

DRP provides a wide spectrum of support services to the city’s recovery community including GED preparation, 12-step support groups, housing assistance, job readiness and employment assistance, and HIV prevention, testing, and counseling services. DRP also oversees an ex-offender program that helps returning citizens reintegrate successfully into the Detroit community with an aim of assisting them with sustaining their recovery.

Johnson’s vision of a Recovery Village includes developing safe havens that provide housing to

people in recovery and the broader community to widen the doorways of entry into recovery.

Johnson has brought formal and informal institutions to the table to shape the vision of a recovery-transformed health care system in Detroit. He’s worked to mobilize diverse recovery communities, engage the city’s key political, financial and religious leaders, and a broad spectrum of health and human service organizations.

Through the sheer power of his personality and his own recovery story, Johnson has been able to help people rise above the challenges Detroit is facing and to move forward to build a broad network of recovery support services.

Andre L. Johnson show that people in recovery can be productive neighbors and seek the same quality of life we all want.

Johnson sits on numerous committees and advisory boards and is widely sought out as a speaker.

He’s inspirational and motivating to young people, the recovery community, policymakers and the public.

He has mobilized thousands of

As a team leader, he has also pioneered work to enhance recovery support resources in East Africa for the past few years. Working to bring recovery supports to Tanzania and Zanzibar, predominately Muslim countries without any pre-existing addiction treatment services, is an enormous challenge. Johnson has been instrumental in fostering the now rising recovery communities in these countries, a model for cross-cultural consultation in the development of recovery support services.

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Johnson Controls’ Conservation Leadership Corps providing summer jobs for Detroit area teens This summer 80 Detroit-area students will participate in a unique employment experience through Johnson Controls’ Conservation Leadership Corps (CLC), a summer jobs program created and sponsored by Johnson Controls in partnership with the Student Conservation Association (SCA) and The Greening of Detroit.

In its sixth year in Detroit, the CLC provides students with training to build leadership and professional development skills, a hands-on conservation experience and a personal sense of stewardship in completing environmental projects throughout the city.

During the six-week program, students will work with 16 crew leaders at Belle Isle Park, Detroit’s River Rouge Park, Eliza Howell Park, the Brightmoor neighborhood and D-Town Farm.

Students will participate in projects including outdoor classroom construction, new trail development, green space

acreage expansion, planting of native trees, grasses and flowers, invasive plant species removal, and general operations management. Students also will cultivate vital professional development skills, including help with resume writing, interview skills and personal finance management.

“Each year our Conservation Leadership Corps helps students develop new skills to succeed personally and professionally,” said Jennifer Mattes, director, global public affairs for Johnson Controls.

“This unique program gives students an experience that helps make them more competitive job candidates, while offering first-hand experience on the importance of environmental conservation.”

The student employees from The Greening of Detroit’s Green Corps and CLC will work together on some projects, including the watering and maintenance of trees throughout the city.

“The Greening of Detroit is pleased to partner once again with the CLC because it broadens our ability to impact neighborhoods across our city,” said Rebecca Salminen-Witt, president of The Greening of Detroit. “The collective employment of 200 young people also provides economic benefit and the opportunity to nurture a new squadron of environmental stewards.”

The CLC participants were selected from more than 500 applicants based on their successful completion of a two-month process. Student candidates were assessed on leadership, work ethic, civic engagement, and interest and

commitment to the environment.

On July 31, Johnson Controls employees will work alongside the students as they volunteer with CLC teams at several Detroit locations for an environmental learning experience. Activities will include planting, developing and maintaining trails, and removing invasive plant species.

On August 9, the students will participate in a professional development day – hosted by Johnson Controls’ Automotive Experience business at the company’s headquarters in Plymouth, Mich. – where they will learn the importance of sustainability, energy efficiency, hybrid battery technology and expectations of today and tomorrow’s leaders. Students will engage in career-focused presentations from each of Johnson Controls’ businesses – Automotive Experience, Building Efficiency and Power Solutions.

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The program will culminate in a graduation ceremony on August 16 at Belle Isle Park, where the CLC students, crew leaders and community partners will present awards to the CLC teams.

Additionally, the SCA is working in partnership with Legacy Land Conservancy, Six Rivers Land Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy and Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy to plan and implement the Southeast Michigan Summer Conservation Corps, a fourweek employment program for eight Detroit high school students and two young adult leaders who will work in the field alongside the CLC crews on conservation projects throughout the Detroit region.

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July 10-16, 2013 Page C-4 THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE business Real Times Media engages digital Growth spurs extensive media expert Barry Cooper to grow hiring at Kroger Co. digital platform On a corporate level, Kroger invested more than $380 million in capital improvements within the state of Michigan during the past five years and plans to continue its pattern of aggressive growth. The Kroger Co. of Michigan will invest $110 million within the state during 2013 and will hire 2,000 new associates in the next 18 months to meet expanding needs.

Real Times Media (RTM), a multimedia company focused on urban news and entertainment which includes the nation’s largest African American-owned newspaper and digital media operation, recentlly announced that it has hired digital media expert and the founder of the original BlackVoices.com, Barry Cooper to strategically transition its traditional print properties into a more robust digital platform.

“Barry’s extensive experience with, and comprehensive understanding of, digital media is a tremendous addition to Real Times Media and one I’m sure will become a valuable resource to our clients,” said Hiram E. Jackson, chief executive officer, Real Times Media.

“It is truly exciting to have one of the founders of the digital Black press as a part of our team as we flesh out a digitalfirst strategy which will ensure a strong, vibrant future for our newspaper brands and a the successful platform upon which we’ll launch new online brands.”

Cooper possesses a deep understanding of traditional media having got his start as a journalist. He has worked as a reporter, columnist, editor or newsroom manager for the largest newspaper chains in the country, including The New York Times Co., Knight-Ridder, Gannett, Tribune Co., and Landmark Communications. Cooper also has a Pulitzer Prize nomination to his credit.

In 1998, as an employee of Tribune Co., Cooper convinced Tribune to invest $5 million to launch Black Voices, an online destination for AfricanAmerican-geared news

During its annual meeting of shareholders last week, Kroger Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David B. Dillon credited dedicated associates and the company’s Customer First strategy with spurring Kroger’s continuing growth. In 2012, Kroger’s total sales increased to $96.8 billion or 7.1 percent compared with the prior fiscal year. This performance resulted in an industry-leading 38 consecutive quarters of positive identical sales growth.

Barry Cooper and information. He grew the company to 45 employees with offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. In 2004, Black Voices was sold to AOL, and still ranks number one in its category as the leading social media destination targeting African Americans.

The hiring of Cooper is the first of several strategic moves for RTM in transitioning its iconic newspaper brands into large-scale digital contenders for urban news, lifestyle information, and entertainment.

“The Real Times Media team is doing some things that I think will revolutionize the Black press as we know it,” said Cooper.

“From its digital evolution to the 360 degree integration approach it is serving clients, Real Times Media is creating a platform simply not found in Black media today. I’m ecstatic to be partnering with the company in these early stages and

am confident that together we are going to create something amazing.”

Founded in 2006, the Real Times Media family of companies includes includes Who’s Who Publishing Company, the premier platform for celebrating African American achievement; the nation’s largest African-American owned and operated news organization including the Atlanta Daily World (www.ADWNews. com), Chicago Defender (www.ChicagoDefender. com), Michigan Chronicle (www.MichiganChronicle. com), FrontPage Detroit (www.FrontPageDetroit. com), Memphis Tri-State Defender (www.TSDMemphis.com), and New Pittsburgh Courier (www.NewPittsburghCourier.com); and RTM Digital Studios, an archival image licensing arm which houses more than two million photos, articles and other artifacts documenting the past 100 years of the African-American experience.

“Kroger’s performance is the result of our associates’ hard work and commitment to making each day better for our customers,” said Jayne Homco, president of The Kroger Co. of Michigan. “Our unique value offering of better service, great products, an enjoyable shopping experience and low prices continues to resonate with a full range of shoppers.”

Kroger’s capital investments—excluding acquisitions and purchases of leased facilities—totaled $2 billion on a national level during 2012.

Associate positions

About 90 percent of the new Kroger positions are part-time and include jobs in each department within Michigan Kroger stores. All hourly associates are hired as part-time per The Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA), although individuals have the opportunity to work into full-time jobs.

“Kroger has historically hired many part-time associates, including high school and college students, mothers and senior citizens,” Homco said.

“One of the benefits of working at Kroger is our extremely flexible hours, which provide associates the opportunity to plan around school or children’s schedules.”

She added that Kroger will also hire 85 or more full-time salaried store management associates during the next 18 months.

Benefits and wages

Kroger offers associates highly competitive wages plus an attractive benefits package, including healthcare options.

The grocer also offers in-store discounts, price breaks on products and programs available outside of Kroger, training opportunities and contests.

According to Homco, the opportunity to grow professionally attracts many prospective associates to Kroger, with the grocer recognized for its commitment to promote from within the company. Many members of Kroger’s management team—including Homco—started with the company in entry level positions, such as baggers.

Chris Brown, retail operations manager for the Michigan Division, began as a part-time cashier in Okemos, Michigan.

“When I hired in, I had no plans of making Kroger my career choice,” Brown said. “But I was fortunate that my store manager saw my potential and encouraged me to do more with Kroger by entering the management training program once I graduated from college.”

Brown has held numerous other positions with Kroger during his career, including store manager; assistant operations manager for the Michigan Division; corporate manager, retail operations at Kroger’s general office in Cincinnati; and Michigan Division District Manager.

“I would absolutely recommend Kroger as a place to work, whether individuals are interested in full- or parttime employment,” Brown said. “The people at all levels of our organization have proven to be extremely caring and open to helping associates succeed.”

Continued Growth Nationally, Kroger plans to build, expand or relocate 45 to 50 supermarkets compared to 44 in 2012. In Michigan, Kroger will remodel, expand or open a number of stores over the next two years, including a new 88,000-square-foot store in Commerce in November and a 114,000-squarefoot store in Hayes Twp. in January, 2014.

Employment opportunities with The Kroger Co. of Michigan are posted on www.kroger.com and www.careerbuilder.com.

Detroit Regional Workforce Fund supports Green Initiative project Detroit residents, local businesses and nonprofits that are committed to being environmentally conscious and eco-friendly can connect to the green economy through a new interactive website, DetroitGreenMap.com. The project is funded by the United Way for Southeastern Michigan’s Detroit Regional Workforce Fund (DRWF), in collaboration with the Detroit Area Green Sector Skills Alliance (DAGSSA) and the US Green Building Council’s Detroit Regional Chapter Emerging Professionals Group (USGBC-DRC-EP).

The main goal of the project is to increase communication and shared resources to establish Detroit as a premier example of the new green economy.

Through combined efforts, residents, local businesses and nonprofits supporting green issues can create greater synergy than they would addressing issues independently.

“DetroitGreenMap.com aims to build a connection between Detroiters and the green resources, products, and organizations in their area,” said Yazmin Nava, USGBC EP Committee community marketing director for the Detroit Green Map Project. “By educating Detroiters of their vibrant green economy, the Detroit green map will empower and inspire them to reinvest in their city.”

The Detroit Green Map Project provides two searchable maps. The open green map allows users to explore and support Detroit’s green economy by searching the database of organizations that have committed to being green. The map is designed to be interactive with the public, allowing users to comment and add photos about a business or nonprofit’s green practices in five categories: sustainable living, nature, culture and society, routes and areas.

The second searchable map is the pledge map that highlights green organizations that have pledged to support the goal of “green collar” employment in Detroit. Current members are local green businesses, green enterprises or eco-justice organizations that support sustainable living and an environmentally conscious culture and society.

These organizations work with local Detroit area job training, development and placement organizations to hire qualified Detroit talent.

“Our ultimate goal is to employ Detroiters through the Detroit Green Map Project,” said Karen Tyler-Ruiz, director of the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund.

“As this initiative helps increase donations to nonprofits engaged in green

initiatives, as well as the number of residents who buy locally, a more sustainable Detroit will emerge and, through economic growth, will ultimately create more jobs in the city.”

There are thirty organizations that are pledged members of the Detroit Green Map Project to date, including Walker-Miller Energy Services, Detroit Training Center and Theragarden.

A participant pledge form is available on DetroitGreenMap.com for organizations to publicly commit to growing the green economy of Detroit and to become an active participant in the Detroit Area Green Sector Skills Alliance.

Additionally, DAGSSA supports the Detroit green economy through four Solutions Teams created to meet employer needs, create job opportunities for Detroit residents and build career pathways for workers in areas such as energy retrofitting, renewable energies and green building.

• Training, Hiring and Staffing – This team comprised of employers and workforce development agencies, clearly understand the green economy as an

emerging industry in the greater Detroit area. Both agree that connecting more Detroiters to green job opportunities enhances industry growth and capacity. As a condition of their participation in DAGSSA, employers sign a pledge to hire Detroit talent and commit to 90-day onboarding coaching and support.

• Policies – Members of DAGSSA have been trained on a variety of environmental and green policy issues to become advocates at the local and state levels.

Most recently, members were involved in providing input to Governor Synder’s state energy plan.

• Financing – This team is currently working toward crowdfunding and other strategies to secure long term financing to make energy efficiency and renewable energies more accessible and help grow and expand the green economy in Detroit.

• Marketing and Education – Sales and marketing training programs have been designed to increase existing employees’ ability to sell green products and services. This training also provides an opportunity to train new potential employees and introduce them to poten-

tial employers. Participating businesses also agree to sign the membership pledge of support for the Detroit Green Map Project. This team is also working on a variety of consumer education initiatives and the roll out of the Detroit Green Map Project.

“The USGBC-DRC-EP committee seeks to engage dynamic sustainability professionals and volunteers in opportunities that contribute to the growth of local green economies,” said Alessandra Carreon, past chair of USGBC’s Emerging Professionals National Committee and DRC EP Committee member.

“The Detroit green map acts as a tool to attract individuals to pursue professional and personal interests in sustainability within Detroit’s city limits. This project will serve as a catalyst for EPs to explore and develop Detroit’s greenest features.”

Currently, there are 863 green map projects in 69 countries. The Detroit green map is one of five in Michigan.

To become a member or to learn more about the Detroit Green Map Project, please visit www.detroitgreenmap.com.

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Call For NomiNatioNs The Michigan Chronicle’s Salute to First Ladies celebrates women who exceed their responsibilities as first ladies and encourages others through their leadership and active participation in the religious community.

For their success as dedicated wives, mothers, and leaders, the Chronicle’s readership is encouraged to submit nominations for this prestigious award.

We honor these women for upholding a tremendous foundation and faithfully supporting our religious leaders. Not only are they gracious supporters, they also lead their congregations with charisma, poise and eminence.

In 100 words or less, please tell us about your First Lady and why you think she should be selected to be honored as one of this year’s Salute to First Ladies.

Describe the nominee’s community service activity or organizational involvement.

NOMINATION FORM Name of Nominee Title Church Affiliation Years of Service

NOMINEE CONTACT INFORMATION How has the nominee mentored others?

Address City/State/Zip Day Phone Evening Phone Email

QUESTIONS TO BE COMPLETED Describe the specific accomplishments that demonstrate the nominee’s comittment to her congregation.

NOMINATOR’S CONTACT INFORMATION Name Title Church Affiliation Address City/State/Zip Day Phone Evening Phone Email

GOD’S WORLD “If It Is Gospel You Need, It’s At God’s World!”

Submissions will be accepted until July 19, 2013 at 5 pm.

Submit by mail, visit www.michiganchronicle.com or email c/o Amber Bogins at abogins@michronicle.com.

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Smokey, Randy working together Smokey Robinson, the legend and icon, makes a point of maintaining a high profile.

You never hear anyone say, “What ever happened to Smokey Robinson?”

His next album, scheduled for fall release, will consist entirely of duets, with new and veteran artists. Serving as producer is former “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson.

They lavishly praised each other.

Robinson said, “Randy Jackson is a longtime friend, a great musician and an amazing, experienced producer. I’m honored and very happy to be working with him.”

By Steve Holsey Smokey Robinson

The behavior of people in show business is probably no worse than that of people outside of it, but sometimes certain entertainers are deluded into thinking they are not only bigger than “ordinary people," but also exempt from the laws of the land.

Randy Jackson

Jackson commented, “It’s my utmost pleasure to produce this amazing record with the legendary Smokey Robinson. It’s going to be hot!”

And some just make stupid mistakes. (Don’t we all!)

Who could ever forget MILLI VANILLI, the duo consisting of Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, that had a string of major hits in 1989 and 1990 and even won a Grammy Award as Best New Artist. But in 1990 it was learned that someone else had sung on all those songs, and the disgraced duo had to give back the Grammy.

Fortunately, this album will be on an established label, Verve, whereas Robinson’s last album was distributed through Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Restaurant! We know that major labels tend to shy away from older artists, but even so, that was an insult for such a great star.

Songstress FAITH EVANS married hard-core rapper the Notorious B.I.G. in 1994 and it was widely known to have been a turbulent union. Also known as BIGGIE SMALLS, he had plenty of affairs, including one with fellow hard-core rap star LIL’ KIM. And as if that were not enough, Evans, through her connection with Biggie, found herself involved in the dangerous East Coast/West Coast hip-hop feud.

EVEN THOUGH Beyoncé Knowles is the megastar from Destiny’s Child, Kelly Rowland clearly has a large following and is well on her way to becoming a firmly established act.

Rowland’s new album, “Talk a Good Game,” her fourth as a solo artist, sold an impressive 68,000 copies within the first week of its Kelly Rowland release.

Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson.

R. Kelly

Ruben Studdard, season two “American Idol” winner, had lost a lot of weight but apparently has had trouble keeping it off. That being the case, Studdard, nicknamed the Velvet Teddy Bear by none other than Gladys Knight, has signed on to compete next season Ruben Studdard on NBC’s popular “The Biggest Loser.”

Rick James

CHRIS BROWN is still trying to get beyond the fallout from that infamous night in early February 2009 when he got into an argument with then-girlfriend RIHANNA, which quickly escalated into violence on his part.

I received a sweet e-mail response from Scherrie Payne, latter-day member of the Supremes and sister of Freda Payne.

The physical attack resulted in the songstress having to be hospitalized.

Brown, known for his hot temper, was charged with felony assault and making criminal threats. He was sentenced to community labor, five years probation and violence counseling.

“What a pleasant surprise!” she wrote. “I’ve reconnected with an old friend and I’m very happy. We go way back. I would love to Scherrie Payne keep hearing from you to keep abreast of what’s going on in my beloved home city. I miss my dear city so much.”

There have been several incidents since then, though not involving Rihanna.

Today Scherrie sings with Lynda Lawrence, another former Supreme, and Joyce Vincent, formerly of Tony Orlando & Dawn. They are getting ready to go to France and Belgium.

Back in the day, the great actress/singer DIAHANN CARROLL and Rihanna and Chris Brown. iconic actor SIDNEY POITIER were going together, even though both were married.

The plan was to get a divorce from their respective spouses, then get married. Carroll got divorced. Poitier did not.

OH THOSE divas! I was talking to a gentleman who used to work in the promotions department of Columbia Records. He said the vast majority of artists were pleasant and easy to work with but one, Mariah Carey, really played out the demanding diva role.

Although he sang songs about Black power, Black pride, staying in school and other such positive things, JAMES BROWN got into plenty of trouble with the law, resulting in substantial jail time. Charges have included possessing an unlicensed gun, assaulting a police officer, possession of illegal drugs and on four occasions his wife had him arrested for domestic abuse.

Mariah Carey

For one thing, literally everything in her dressing room had to white, including chairs, tables, walls, floor, tablecloths, etc.

In the early morning hours one day in the spring of 1997, superstar comedian/actor EDDIE MURPHY was driving around in a West Hollywood area known for prostitution and other seedy activities. He got pulled over when he picked up a transvestite hooker. Few people believed Murphy when he said he was just being “a nice guy,” offering a lady a ride.

See Scandalous Page D-3 Biggie Smalls and Faith Evans.

For the most part the few James Brown songs that get played these days are the real common numbers such as “I Got You (I Feel Good).”

That’s unfortunate because he made so many of the best, most funky, pure R&B records of all time, and his band was always James Brown super tight.

Eddie Murphy

A lot of the songs have become dim memories, if not forgotten.

Some of the best (and my favorites) are “Money Won’t Change You,” “Out of Sight,” “Bring It Up,” “I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me),” “Let Yourself Go,” “I’ll Go Crazy,” “Give It Up or Turnit A Loose,” “Cold Sweat,” “Brother Rapp,” “Hot Pants,” “Licking Stick-Licking Stick” and “The Payback.”

See Reflections Page D-3

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Go ahead and splurge — a little!

Saving money or sticking to your diet requires a lot of discipline and delayed gratification. However, it’s important to make sure that gratification does come.

Setting benchmarks in your plan, with rewards, can help you reach your goals in the long run.

belief. all splurges don’t have to be wasteful. Some splurges have long-term benefits — like higher quality shoes that will outlast a few pairs of cheaper ones.

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‘Building Legends’ yacht party to set sail July 12

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Cool treats for a sizzling summer

As the weather heats up, the best way to cool down is with a sweet treat! This summer, invite your whole family into the kitchen and get cooking with great new recipes guaranteed to liven up your summer spread.

Good old fashioned flavored spreads are here to help you welcome the warmer weather with two easy dessert recipes fresh from the Jif Recipe test kitchen.

Whether hosting a summer barbeque, neighborhood block party or spending special meal time together as a family, here are a few ways the creamy flavors of Jif Chocolate and Mocha Cappuccino Flavored Hazelnut Spreads can sweeten your family’s memorable summer moments.

• A mouthwatering homemade pie is always a favorite for dessert. This summer, try something new and give your pie a unique hazelnut twist. Mocha Mousse Pie is a great way to wow everyone at the table and get your whole family involved in the kitchen. Prepare the hazelnut drizzle topping and let their culinary creativity go to work.

3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon Jif® Mocha Cappuccino Flavored Hazelnut Spread, divided

1 (6 ounces) ready-made graham cracker pie crust BEAT heavy cream in large bowl with electric mixer on medium-high speed until stiff and soft peaks form. Beat in vanilla. Reserve 3/4 cup for topping.

Stir 3/4 cup hazelnut spread in medium bowl until smooth. Stir into remaining whipped cream until combined. Spoon evenly into graham cracker crust.

SPREAD reserved whipped cream over center of pie to within 1-inch of edge.

Place 1 tablespoon hazelnut spread into corner of small resealable plastic bag.

Microwave on HIGH 10 seconds or until soft. Cut a small corner off of bag. Drizzle over top. Chill 2 hours.

• For a refreshing and nostalgic treat, enjoy a good old fashioned ice cream cone during the searing summer months. Give your usual go-to flavor a break and try a scoop of Hazelnut Coconut Ice Cream, a tasty twist on the classic summer standby flavored with Hazelnut Spread and coconut.

Legends speak to a legacy that never dies. As Detroit sets its focus on renewing its spirit, M3G’s Mobile Media Marketing Group (M3G) has set its sights on sowing into our city’s youth — investing in Detroit’s greatest resource, our children, and in the process building legends.

On Friday, July 12, 7 pm, M3G will host its fourth annual Building Legends Yacht Party for yet another unparalleled party experience. During the cruise, seven prominent Metro Detroiters, who are rapidly approaching legendary status, will be honored for their undying commitment to the community and admirable efforts to support our city.

The honorees are General Motors executive Jocelyn Allen; Ambassador magazine publisher/ marketing guru Dennis

Archer, Jr.; entrepreneur/ philanthropist Jo Coleman; Native Detroiter editor/publisher Sherman Eaton; entrepreneur/philanthropist Bob McPherson; McDonald’s owner Errol Service, and entrepreneur/philanthropist Horatio Williams.

The Building Legends Yacht Party takes place on the renowned Ovation Yacht at the St. Clair Shores’ Jefferson Beach Marina. The cruise will commence promptly at 8:00 pm and return at 11:00 pm with 300 of Metro Detroit’s finest tastemakers. Tickets are $150 per person and include an exquisite strolling culinary experience, cocktails, music and dancing.

Proceeds from the Building Legends event will benefit The Modest Foundation, a 501c3 organization that focuses on building healthier com-

munities by providing supplemental health services, including nurses, doctors, dieticians and social workers for the uninsured and underinsured. The Modest Foundation works closely with inner city mothers, children and infants, as well as seniors. Learn more about the remarkable work that this respected nonprofit has done at www.themodestfoundation.org.

The evening will also include a silent auction with great restaurant/ hotel/spa packages as well as the latest women’s shoes and fashion accessories. M3G will post this branded event on two of its backlit mobile billboards leading up to the sail date to raise awareness.

For more information, please contact Everett Stewart at 313.971.4973.

Life is a Cabernet!

The Detroit Zoo invites you to come taste the wine and hear the band at ‘Wild Beasts, Wild Wine’ are not permitted to consume alcohol at the event.

To purchase tickets, visit www.detroitzoo.org/ events/wild-beasts-wildwine or booth 1 at the front of the Zoo. “Wild Beasts, Wild Wine” will take place in the Detroit Zoo’s Events Pavilion, rain or shine.

Attendees must be 21 or older; photo ID is required.

A “grape time” will be had by all!

The Detroit Zoological Society is a nonprofit organization that operates the Detroit Zoo and Belle Isle Nature Zoo. Situated on 125 acres of naturalistic habitats, the Detroit Zoo is located at the intersection of 10 Mile Road and Woodward Avenue, just off I-696, in Royal Oak.

Raise a glass to wildlife at the Detroit Zoo’s second annual “Wild Beasts, Wild Wine” and sample wines from more than 30 local and national wineries and vineyards. The event takes place Friday, July 26, 6 to 10:30 p.m.

The wine-tasting experience will feature live performances by jazz crooner Ben Sharkey and Gino Fanelli’s Red Hot Sugar Daddies, after-hours access to the zoo’s award-winning habitats, complimentary tram tours of the zoo, animal enrichment and zookeeper talks.

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chase is encouraged as space is limited. Tickets are $35 until July 19; after that, any remaining tickets will be available for $40 online or at the gate.

Ticket packages include Detroit Zoo admission, parking and 10 wine-tasting tickets (additional tasting tickets and food The Belle Isle Nature will be available for pur- Zoo is open Wednesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to chase).

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What a odd trio they made.

DIANA ROSS, widely known at the time as the lady in the life of BERRY GORDY, was pregnant by him, yet had gotten engaged to ROBERT SILBERSTEIN, known professionally as Bob Ellis, a publicist. The three were often seen together, as strange as that seemed to onlookers.

LA TOYA JACKSON, according to brother Jermaine, had always been afraid of snakes, yet she controlled her alleged fear long enough to pose topless for Playboy magazine — with a boa constrictor writhing around her body suggestively.

Speaking of Jacksons, the Super Bowl halftime show of 2004 will be forever etched in the public’s mind. JANET JACKSON was performing a high energy number with JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE. At one point he reached for her top and

infamous incident in 1991 when he and his girlfriend, Tanya Hijazi, kidnapped a woman and made her do all kinds of things, sexual and otherwise. During the time he was out on bail from that crime he decided to do it again, but this time got a two-year jail sentence.

Wesley Snipes ripped it off, as planned.

But instead of an undergarment of some sort being there as it was supposed to, Janet's breast was exposed for a second or two. The lights went out. Subsequently, there FCC reprisals and thousands, perhaps millions, of irate viewers making complaints.

The whole thing, labeled a “wardrobe malfunction,” seems kind of silly now — just as it did then to a lot of people.

The trials, tribulations and foibles involving WHITNEY HOUSTON and BOBBY BROWN could fill the pages of a book. One of the lowest points was reached when, with evidence all over the place, Houston told Diane Sawyer on national television that she didn’t use crack cocaine because “crack is wack.”

In 2009, Evangelist JUANITA BYNUM, who is also famous as a “prophetess,” was attacked on a parking lot in Atlanta by her husband — Bishop Thomas W. Weeks! (Apparently some things can’t be “prophesied.”)

The heavy use of cocaine by RICK JAMES no doubt had nearly everything to do with an

Reflections

A BROADWAY musical “inspired by the music of Tupac Shakur” titled “Holler If Ya Hear Me” is being seriously discussed. It is an original story, not a Tupac Shakur stage bio. (Nevertheless, I’ll pass!)

We all have our guilty pleasures. One of mine is watching “The Newlywed Game” that airs via the Bounce network (channel 7.3), non-cable. It’s fun and Sherri Shepherd is a great host. But the show is clearly for adults.

Keith Washington, Detroit singer best known for the 1991 national No. 1 hit “Kissing You” and now a Detroit radio personality, was in the office the other day. We hadn’t seen each other in about ten years, and at that time he asked me how I managed to last so long in my profession.

I told him the reason is twofold — loving what I do and being blessed to do it.

Aretha Franklin is the Queen of Soul, but also can be the Queen of Ultra Sensitivity, which no doubt has much to do with her many “skirmishes” over the years, with people like Mavis Staples, Luther Vandross and Tina Turner, among others.

Franklin left a message on my answering service. She was angry about something past regarding the paper.

Rightful or not, and we all know that "stuff happens," I wasn’t interested, being the avoider of negativity that I am, and due to the fact that I don’t “do phone” much. I am an e-mail kind of guy. I hit the delete button probably long before she was finished.

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R. KELLY sang that he "believed he could fly,” but he was also into some other things far less inspirational. Plenty of people saw that videotape featuring Kelly sexing it up with a 14-year-old girl, including what is known in the porno industry as “watersports.” Amazingly, Kelly denied that it was him in the video.

The state of mind of comedian-actor MARTIN LAWRENCE is still unknown that fateful day in 1996 when he was arrested for cussing and screaming at oncoming cars. He was also brandishing a pistol, yelling, “They’re trying to kill me!” The spin doctors said Lawrence was suffering from “exhaustion and dehydration.”

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One of the dumbest and most dangerous things MICHAEL JACKSON ever did was dangle his son, who wasn’t even a year old, over the balcony on the fourth floor of a hotel. He held the child under the armpits. Jackson, sometimes labeled “Wacko Jaco,” almost immediately after said it was “a terrible mistake,” which was putting it mildly.

RONALD ISLEY and WESLEY SNIPES both served time for tax evasion, and by the time this is published, LAURYN HILL will have begun serving a three-month sentence for not paying taxes for three years. In addition to still having to pay those federal taxes, the judge ordered her to pay penalties and a $60,000 fine, plus there will be three months of home confinement and a year of supervised probation.

These cases beg the question: Why don’t these celebrities take care of their taxes? It probably has something to do with quickly going from having little or nothing to having a lot.

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One former Motown recording star, who has been having fairly well publicized tax problems, said, “In the ’60s the money was coming in so fast I didn’t know what to do with it.”

Indeed.

From page D-1 But I still have the utmost respect for her as an artist, as she does for me as a writer, but it would be nice if entertainers took the time far more frequently to say thank you for the good things written about them, instead of communicating only when there is a problem or a perceived problem.

Famed veteran singer/pianist Jo Thompson always acknowledges what she appreciates.

BETCHA DIDN’T KNOW…that Ho­ ward Hewett was not the original lead singer of Shalamar. Hewett joined Jeffrey Daniels and Jody Watley in 1979, replacing Gerald Brown. (Daniels was briefly married to Stephanie Mills.)

MEMORIES: “Call Me (Come Back Home)” (Al Green), “I’m Your Baby Tonight” (Whitney Houston), “Giving You the Best That I Got” (Anita Baker), “Here and Now” (Luther Vandross), “Word Up” (Cameo), “Get Down Tonight” (KC & the Sunshine Band), “Power of Love” (Joe Simon), “Boogie Fever” (the Sylvers), “I Was Made to Love Her” (Stevie Wonder).

BLESSINGS to Tyrone Mills, Bruce Knight, Sabrina Owens, Michael Walker, Calvin Brooks, Leroy Hyter, Karen Dumas, William Staiger, Donafay Collins, Fannie Tyler and Bud McQueen.

WORDS OF THE WEEK, from an anonymous source: “You can’t pray your way into being something you are not.”

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Beverly J. Brantley

Services for Beverly Jean Brantley were held Wednesday, March 23, at Conventional Missionary Baptist Church.

Officiating was Pastor Roderick Richardson.

Mrs. Brantley died Monday, March 18, at the age of 64.

Born Oct. 15, 1948, in Detroit, she attended the Detroit and Highland Park public schools. In 1968 she married Timothy Brantley and they became the parents of five children. Employed as certified nursing assistant, she enjoyed taking care of the elderly. She also enjoyed shopping, cooking, baking and dining out.

Mrs. Brantley is survived by her husband. Timothy; children, William, Corey, Guinevere, Timarie and Tiffanie; eitht grandchildren, DeAndre Jazmine, Darrell, Aaron, Courtney, Jaylin, Tyson and Taylor; five great-grandchildren, Gabriel, DeShaun, Jayden, James and Aaliyah; a brother, Walter, and other relatives.

Burial was at Detroit Memorial Park West in Redford. Arrangements were by Swanson Funeral Home Inc.

Delores Burton A celebration of the life of the life of Delores Burton was held Friday, June 21, at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.

Officiating was Hartford pastor, Dr. Charles G.

Adams.

Mrs. Burton, a retired Detroit educator, died Monday, June 17, at the age of 62.

Born Dec. 26, 1950, she was the only girl in a family of five siblings. Growing up, she actively participated in the Camp Fire Girls, arts and crafts, and softball with the Burns-Lambert Girls Team. A product of the Detroit Public Schools, she was a 1968 graduate of Kettering High School.

After earning bachelor and master degrees at Wayne State University she taught at the Detroit Business Institute and Wayne County Community College, then launched her 28-year career in the Detroit Public Schools system. During that time some of her teaching positions were at Mumford High, Farwell Middle, Fitzgerald Bethune, Courtis Middle and Post Middle Schools.

After completing her education, she married Jerome Burton Sr., then of the U.S. Army, and they had a son, Jerome Jr. Due to a military deployment order, the family relocated to Anspach, Germany, and Mrs. Burton continued her career by teaching children of military families.

An outgoing personality with a great sense of humor, Mrs. Burton enjoyed dancing, especially in competition with her brothers. She was an expert in dancing the hustle, a development from her first hustle class 16 years ago.

Mrs. Burton’s religious journey began as a young child at Grace Lutheran Church.

She joined Hartford Church in 1977, was a long-standing member of Harambee served as treasurer of Boy Scout Troop 647 from 1996-2007 and was a co-founder of the SWAP (Sisters With A Purpose) mentoring program. She retired from the DPS in 2012 but continued teaching as an adjunct faculty member at Baker College in Allen Park.

The final arrangements were by swanson funeral home inc.

Eddie G. Miller A home-going celebration for Eddie George Miller was held Saturday, June 22, at Harvest Temple Church of God in Christ with Elder Michael A. Elder officiating.H Mr. Miller, a Chrysler Corp. and Swanson Funeral Home retiree, made his transition Saturday, June 15, at the age of 84.

Born Jan. 29, in Pelahatchie, Miss., he moved to Detroit at age 15 and continued his education in the Detroit Public Schools system. In 1960 he married Margaret Johnson and they were the parents of eight children. He retired from the Chrysler Warren Truck Assembly Plant in 1991 but continued working at the Swanson Funeral Home, from which he retired after more than 40 years of service.

Mr. Miller united with Holy Temple COGIC in 1963 and in 1995 he and his wife were among the first members of Harvest Temple where they served in various capacities, his most cherished being as a deacon and with Mrs. Miller in various fund-raisers for the church.

He was affectionately referred to as “Fast Eddie” by those who praised his skill and precision in handling automotive vehicles, especially the Swanson hearses while listening to some of his favorite vocalists, notably the Mighty Clouds of Joy, Swan Silvertones, Jackson Southernaires and Five Blind Boys.

Mr. Miller is survived by his wife, Margaret; children, Myron, Marilyn, Carolyn, Edward, Veronica and Jerry; two sisters, Susie Johnson and Eavon Page; 27 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren; his best friend, Robert Morgan; special cousin, Henry Miller; special nephew, Robert Johnson; other family members and friends.

Burial was at Gethsemane Cemetery.

Ella Mae Chambers A celebration of the life of Ella Mae Chambers was held Friday, April 5 at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.

Delivering the eulogy was Pastor Charles G. Adams.

Mrs. Chambers, a Henry Ford Hospital retiree, made her transition Saturday, March 30, at age 92.

Born June 20, 1920, in Vaughn, Miss., she joined Plainfield Methodist Church at an early age. She married the late Thermon Bradfield Sr. in 1939,and they had three children, the late Rev. Thermon Bradfield III , the late Barbara Jean Spires and Clarence McKinley Bradfield.

The family moved to Detroit in 1953 and united with St. John Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Chambers was an active member of the senior choir for 50 years, served as its president, taught Sunday School and worked in other capacities during her active years. She retired from the Henry Ford Hospital Dietary Department in 1983.

Mrs. Chambers is survived by her son, Atty. Clarence M. Bradfield; seven grandchildren, Dinah Price, the Rev. Donald Mingus, Clark Bradfield, Dwayne Mingus, Carmen Gamlin, Gary Bradfield and Ginger Clarke; 14 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren and many other relatives.

Burial was at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Livonia. Arrangements were by Swanson Funeral Home Inc.

Donald Jones

Leroy Holland

The home-going celebration for Donald Jones was held Saturday, June 22, at Historic St. James Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Augustus C. Williams officiating.

Mr. Jones, an exceptional gospel vocalist, made his transition Saturday, June 15, in the Imperial Rehabilitation Center, after a long health challenge. He died Thursday, June 13, two days after his 66th birthday.

Born June 13, 1947, in Detroit, he attended the Detroit Public Schools, graduating from Northern High School, and later served four years in the U.S. Army. He began his religious journey at Warren Avenue Baptist Church. Gifted with an exceptional tenor voice, he became a member of Barry Alexander and the Impressions. He joined St. James and joined its Adult Choir, also serving as its recording secretary for more than ten years and ticket coordinator of the annual “Oh, Give Thanks” concert at Ford Auditorium.

Also gifted in financial matters, he was employed at Manufacturer’s National Bank for more than ten years. He was employed as a special instructor at Denby High School and later moved to the Farmer Jack chain. Despite his health challenge he continued active participation in family activities, serving as president of Bell and Allen family reunions and singing with the Jimmy Dowell’s Faith Choir, Detroit Remembers Choir and St. James Choir.

Mr. Jones, affectionately known as Jonesy, is survived by three brothers, Marvin, Murice and George; two sisters, Marilyn and Helen; 18 nephews and nieces and many other relatives, church members and friends. He was also blessed with numerous extended family members.

Burial was at Elmwood Historical Cemetery. Handling arrangements was the Swanson Funeral Home.

Services for Leroy Oliver Holland were held Saturday, April 6, at Elim Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Oliver officiating.

Mr. Holland succumbed to a brief illness Tuesday, April 2, at the age of 89.

Born May 12, 1923, he and his new bride, Myrine Swint, moved to Detroit and he found employment in the manufacturing business. Growing up in a family of 11 siblings, he stressed family unity, harmony and helpfulness, and could always be counted on to give a helping hand.

Fondly called “Chicken,” Mr. Holland would often host family gatherings with “just having fun” together was the objective. Though he loved telling jokes and socializing, he was described as the serious-minded backbone of the family who in recent years had begun talking about his relationship with God and trust in Him. Mr. Holland is survived by a sister, Gertrude Hart; aunt, Alma McGee; two sisters-in- law, Mary Holland and Erdine Lee, and other relatives.

Burial was at Gethsemane Cemetery.

Arrangements were by Swanson Funeral Home Inc.

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2013 Detroit Jazz Festival, ‘Imported from Detroit’ World-class lineup announced

The 34th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, “Imported from Detroit,” the world’s largest entirely free jazz festival, is proud to announce the headlining performers for its Labor Day weekend festival (Aug. 30 through Sept. 2) in Hart Plaza.

Spread over four days and four stages, headliners include 2013 artist in residence Danilo Pérez, the David Murray Big Band with Macy Gray, Ahmad Jamal, Charles Lloyd and Friends featuring Bill Frisell, the Joshua Redman Quartet with string orchestra, John Scofield Überjam, the McCoy Tyner Trio with special guest Savion Glover, the Yellowjackets, Gregory Porter and Robert Glasper, among others.

Hundreds of Detroit regional artists are performing within national groups this year as well as headlining their own sets.

“We strive to make the Detroit Jazz Festival’s Labor Day weekend concerts more exceptional every year, and continue to show people from around the world what our great

city has to offer,” says Gretchen Valade, chair of the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation Board of Directors. “Everything we do at the Detroit Jazz Festival is meant to enrich the lives of music lovers.

We want to make it possible for them to see their favorite jazz artists all in one place, and most importantly, offering these performances for free. It’s not just about amazing music, it’s about making it available for anyone who wants to listen.”

“This year’s lineup was again carefully selected. We want to represent real jazz in all its forms.

This year, we’re focusing on all dimensions and the different generations of jazz music. The creative artists we’re bringing together are pushing boundaries to create new, unique approaches that explore the true nature of jazz music,” said Chris Collins, artistic director of the Detroit Jazz Festival. “Making an impact in the jazz world, but also creating meaningful experiences for the audience, is what the Detroit Jazz Festival is all about.”

Gray, in support of their recently released album, “Be My Monster Love.”

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Macy Gray

Savion Glover

Grammy Award-winner and Mack Avenue Records pianist/composer/ educator Danilo Pérez, one of the most influential and dynamic musicians of our time, will serve as this year’s artist in residence, performing material from his upcoming album, “Panama 500,” as well as “The Panama Suite,” with other works for large ensembles.

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long-standing trio with special guest Savion Glover. Another cross-medium combination this year is clarinetist Eddie Daniels, pianist Roger Kellaway, and cellist James Holland, who will be joined by painter Doug Coffin. Coffin will create new works based on the music by Kellaway and Daniels. Aaron Diehl, a 2011 Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz from the American Pianists Association, will perform in support of The Bespoke Man’s Narrative, his recent debut on Mack Avenue Records.

The Panamanian pianist also will join Detroit native Geri Allen in an acoustic duo piano performance.

Performing as a piano duo as well are husband and wife Bill Charlap and Renee

STAR CHART July 10 Cancer (June 21 – July 22)

Sagittarius

Symbol: The Crab

You may have a hard time being clearheaded right now. Thoughts and ideas that come may be inappropriate or misleading. A lot of nervous energy. Arguments are possible with an authority figure or someone older than yourself.

Ruling Planet: The (ever-changing) Moon Element: Water Quality: Cardinal Mission: Domestic Bliss Famous Gemini: 50 Cent, Nelson Mandela, Lena Horne, Della Reese, Forest Whitaker, Bill Cosby,

Love probability: 89% Lucky Numbers: 24, 5, 17, 23, 3, 32 Capricorn

Cancer, this month you will look within and examine your emotions and motivations. Try to write down your thoughts in a journal to find out what may be the root of your fears. This may not be a comfortable process, but you will benefit from some soul searching or talking it out. Pluto, opposite your sign, will continue to bring chaos and transformation regarding your relationships. Career matters will be unpredictable again this month.

Cancer

A cycle of nostalgia and domesticity begins now, emphasizing a need for security and a sense of roots. Family, home, relatives and real estate play a bigger part in your life. You want to belong on a private, intimate, personal level — to be needed and to feel its okay to have needs.

Lucky Numbers: 10, 8, 44, 33, 7, 41 Aquarius

You are very ambitious for recognition and advancement, with vocational interests being of prime concern during this cycle. Bear in mind that your hard work will be respected by others, and the end result will bring long-range benefits. An influential person will be of assistance to your success in life.

Love probability: 61%

Love probability: 92%

Lucky Numbers: 1, 23, 49, 30, 41, 40

Lucky Numbers: 20, 13, 44, 25, 21, 11

Leo

Pisces

Your ambition for personal power, achievement or control over your life is very strong at this time. Also, you can be unmerciful and unforgiving with yourself and your own weaknesses. You are likely to push yourself too hard at this time, so try to step back and get some self-control.

There’s a certain pleasure in feeling well-grounded, and this would make a firm foundation for whatever you choose to build upon it. If your plans are already made, it’s time for the cornerstone to be laid. Go with what you’ve got, as there’s a no-frills feeling that’s saying keep it simple, take it slow and easy today.

Love probability: 48%

Love probability: 43%

Lucky Numbers: 12, 9, 7, 20, 27, 28

Lucky Numbers: 1, 19, 15, 17, 34, 49

Virgo

Aries

Mental clarity, discrimination and your ability to separate fact from fiction can be diminished now. Miscommunications and an inability to formulate your ideas coherently are likely. Your mind wanders, and this can be a time of creative reverie or daydreaming. Avoid making binding contracts at this time.

There is great depth to your conversations. You find yourself revealing secrets or very private matters and also asking very penetrating questions of others. Superficial answers don’t satisfy you now. This is an excellent time to investigate a complex problem or mystery, look for something that has been lost or hidden, and also to learn more about your own inner depths.

Lucky Numbers: 40, 16, 42, 15, 12, 47 Libra This is not a period when you feel like pushing your own interests forward, or in which you are especially energetic or full of stamina. Other people’s concerns and needs receive more attention from you now, and you are more inclined to do something which serves others, perhaps a group you are associated with.

Love probability: 94% Lucky Numbers: 26, 8, 2, 4, 16, 45 Scorpio Religion, philosophy, law and education are some of the things that may have special importance for you now. Being in touch with faraway people and places satisfies an intellectual yearning and curiosity will take you anywhere. Please keep this in mind.

Aside from her duo performance with Pérez, Geri Allen will serve as the musical director of this year’s Detroit Homecoming Band which will include vocalist Sheila Jordan, saxophonists JD Allen and David McMurray, trombonist George Bohanon, bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Karriem Riggins.

Gary Smulyan, Howard Johnson, and Frank Basile also will pay tribute to Detroit’s own late Pepper Adams. Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave will return for his second consecutive year with a program titled “Trumpet Call.” Saxophonist James Carter is presenting a tribute to Don Byas, and JD Allen also will return to perform at this year’s festival with his trio.

This year’s lineup features an array of piano masters and sax legends, including NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal, who will perform with his quartet. The pianist received a Grammy® nomination in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category last year for his “Blue Moon” album. NEA Jazz Master McCoy Tyner also will perform with his

A rare U.S. festival appearance by the acclaimed Saxophone Summit, which includes Joe Lovano, David Liebman, and Ravi Coltrane, is scheduled. Saxophonist Charles Lloyd has assembled an exclusive project billed as Charles Lloyd and Friends featuring Bill Frisell performing in selected markets only in 2013. Frisell is also scheduled separately with his working band recasting the music of John Lennon.

NEA Jazz Master Lee Konitz will perform with his quartet including 2007 Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz from the American Pianists Association, Dan Tepfer. The prolific Paris-based saxophonist David Murray will bring his big band, which features vocalist Macy

Attendees and artists gather from all over the globe (with 25 percent of the audience coming from outside of Michigan). In addition to providing incredible opportunities to see jazz legends, the festival has an important economic impact, bringing in tens of millions of dollars and contributing greatly to the city of Detroit.

The festival was voted the No. 3 jazz festival in North America in a reader’s poll by JazzTimes, the world’s leading jazz publication.

Attendees can see world-renowned artists on four stages: the JP Morgan Chase Main Stage, the Carhartt Amphitheatre Stage, the Mack Avenue Records Waterfront Stage and the Absopure Pyramid Stage.

This year’s major corporate sponsors include the Chrysler brand, JP Morgan Chase, Opportunity Detroit, Carhartt, DTE Energy Foundation, and Mack Avenue Records.

Fans are encouraged to become Rhythm Section members by making donations of any size online to support keeping the festival free to the public.

Love probability: 81%

Your competitive urges will expand and your working life now appears to be set for some radical changes over the next month or two. There’s a certain impatience surrounding your activities professionally and if your current circumstances don’t offer you enough excitement or variety you’re quite likely to look elsewhere to fulfill these needs.

Love probability: 87%

Several Detroit luminaries are also returning to their beloved hometown for special performances.

The 2013 Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra, an all-star Detroit big band under the musical direction of Chris Collins, will perform newly commissioned arrangements from arrangers including Bob Mintzer, Bill Cunliffe, David Berger and Chuck Israels based on Dave Brubeck compositions and featuring guest soloists from throughout this year’s festival. The DJFO returns to the stage on Monday to honor the works of Duke Ellington under the direction of Ellington scholar Berger.

Love probability: 56%

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Love probability: 31% Lucky Numbers: 33, 28, 5, 37, 40, 15 Gemini Someone you haven’t set eyes on for ages helps you out regarding a favor you are desperately hoping for. It’ll be a thrill to catch up on old times and reconnect in ways that used to make you smile.

Love probability: 56%

Love probability: 7%

Lucky Numbers: 35, 14, 21, 19, 37, 28

Lucky Numbers: 39, 17, 20, 19, 8, 14

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