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Record-breaking generosity Biddle Bowl owners use business to raise more than $10,000 For years, the operators of Biddle Bowl have been celebrated for raising funds for the Wyandotte Goodfellows, helping the group bring Christmas to children and families.

In 2020, the year of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the same family that owns the eight-lane bowling establishment in Wyandotte went above and beyond the call of duty.

Dave Robert Woelkers of Riverview Gorgon and sister Judy Sadler of Trenton Wyandotte Warrior and their family members and friends combined to raise more than $10,000 for the Goodfellows in a year that the charity’s volunteers were wondering how they were going to raise any funds because of the coronavirus.

Todd Browning, treasurer of the Goodfellows and city treasurer in Wyandotte, said the pandemic forced the cancellation of a number of annual fundraising efforts in 2020, which raised concerns about how to pay the Christmas gift-giving bills.

The Wyandotte Street Art Fair was cancelled so the Goodfellows could not raise money by “selling” SEE GENEROSITY, Page 3

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Ryan Gorgon, grandson of Biddle Bowl’s Robert and Valarie Woelkers, helps load empty returnable containers to return to stores as part of the fundraising efforts for the Wyandotte Goodfellows.

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Members of the Wyandotte Goodfellows thank the owners of Biddle Bowl for their contribution of $10,000 to the Goodfellows, who called it an amazing fete during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

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parking lot spots for $5 apiece – the biggest of the fundraisers.

The famous newspaper sales on city street corner could not be held.

Instead, newspapers were placed in various businesses locations with the hopes that people would take one and leave a donation if they could find them.

With the closure of so many businesses, including bowling centers, due to the concerns surrounding COVID-19, Biddle Bowl was unable to engage its giving league bowlers through 50/50 drawings, prize raffles and other donations throughout the bowling week, plus an annual Christmas fundraiser at the establishment.

For the past 14 years, bowlers have contributed to the cause, starting with $900 in 2007 and increasing the amount to $7,000 the past couple of years.

“We were afraid that it might be all that we would raise this year due to our closing from COVID-19, but we were shocked,” Woelkers said.

Without the in-house contests to provide the money, Woelkers and com-

pany decided to collect returnable cans and bottles – more than 60,000 in all.

They hit social media and asked bowlers and other Facebook followers to donate the returnables at a time when stores were not accepting cans and bottles due to the pandemic. For months, they stored the 10-cent containers one by one wherever they could find space – in their garages, under the Woelkers deck at home and in a large storage area donated by Biddle Bowl business neighbor Bentley Banquet Center.

When stores began accepting the returnable containers again, Woelkers, his wife Valarie and Sadler made countless trips to the Meijer store in Taylor, the Kroger store in Southgate and a couple other places.

Woelkers said their plea for returnables also generated two checks worth more than $2,000 from “angels” Susan Lapage and Tim Collins.

As a result, the Biddle Bowl team was able to present two checks to the Goodfellows totaling more than $10,000 for the year 2020: one in July for $3,500 and a second in December for a second check for more than $6,500.

Browning said the funds and others raised by area businesses and individu-

als will be used to provide “no child without a Christmas” gifts for 2021.

“Even we can’t believe it,” Woelkers said. “We would like to thank all our customers, family, friends and friends of friends who without their help this would not be possible. We are going to continue collecting returnables during 2021 that can be dropped off any time in our storage containers at the side of our building on Labadie Street at 708 Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte.”

The family also thanked management at The Bentley for providing storage along with operators of Shoppers Valley, Discount Drinks and Mac’s Liquor for supplying boxes to use to collect the cans and bottles.

Woelkers said Goodfellows is Biddle Bowl’s charity of choice because of Ray Walters Jr., who bowled in a Monday night league for 30 years.

Walters owned a hobby shop and brought in a giant stuffed animal to raffle off at the bowling center with all proceeds going to Goodfellows.

“My sister said, ‘we could help out here.’” Woelkers said. “We have a good customer base.

“We have always thought Goodfellows was a great local cause. Our experience has been good. They don’t hold back any money. They’re all

volunteers. It just seems like a local cause. Because of that, we felt it was important.”

Browning said the Wyandotte Goodfellows were able to help 68 families and 197 children at Christmastime 2020. The Treasurer thanked all of the local businesses and individuals who contributed during what has been a challenging year.

“We are not as far off from where we were last year,” said Browning, who has been involved in Goodfellows for 17 years. “Lo and behold, Wyandotte and the local community stepped up.

“Rob and Judy and their dad (Bob) have been extremely supportive.

They’re the best cheerleaders that Wyandotte and the Wyandotte Goodfellows have. They support the community in which they run their business.

“The only word I can say is ‘wow!’”

Also important: the ability for Biddle Bowl to reopen. At first, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced bowling centers, movie theaters and other entertainment venues could open for limited participation to help control the rise of coronavirus cases. Rob Woelkers said bowlers are wearing masks and the bar is unable to open so far.

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No laughing matter

Wyandotte funnyman raises big bucks for Goodfellows DAVE GORGON Wyandotte Warrior

For more than a decade of holiday seasons, Wyandotte native Mark Knope has entertained area residents with his comedy shows at local venues, while raising funds for the Wyandotte Goodfellows and collecting gifts for children through Toys for Tots.

In 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic forced the cancellation of what would have been the comedian’s 12th annual pre-Christmas stage performance, but it did not slow down his fundraising for the Goodfellows.

Through social media, Knope spread the word about his dilemma, but also asked fans to continue supporting Goodfellows and their cause of “no child without a Christmas.” He wound up generating more than $3,500 to donate to the charity to purchase gifts and food – more than double the average of $1,000 to $1,500 raised during the comedy shows.

“I figured with COVID, a lot of people are hurting financially. Fifteen hundred dollars would have covered my fundraising,” Knope said. “I’m completely blown away… I’m completely humbled.”

Knope’s comedy shows have been a tradition in the Downriver area. He invites multiple comedian friends

to perform. The original venue was LTB’s (Lions, Tigers and Bears) until the Biddle Avenue restaurant/ bar closed after a fire. Since then, the show has been hosted by the Wyandotte Knights of Columbus.

Attendees fill multiple boxes of new toys for the Downriver United States Marine Corps Toys for Tots campaign and provide funds for Goodfellows through ticket purchases, a 50/50 raffle and donations.

Knope said he originally chose the Downriver USMC Toys for Tots campaign as the benefit charity because his son Andrew Knopp serves in the Marines.

Currently, Major Knopp is a helicopter pilot deployed in Japan. (Note that Knopp is the original family name.

Mark changed his professional stage name to Knope for easier pronunciation. “Kuh-nope” is how the name is pronounced either way.)

Several years later, the comedian added Goodfellows as a benefactor because his parents, Charlie and Blossom Knopp, were heavily involved in the group before they passed away. Charlie Knopp was a Wyandotte firefighter who became a part-time city inspector after retiring from the Fire Department.

Knope, who now lives in Toledo – exactly 62 miles from his parents’ former home, said he continues to support the people of his original hometown.

After reading a sentimental essay about his love for Wyandotte in an essay Knope posted on Facebook, then-Mayor Joseph Peterson told him he would always been a “Wyandotter.”

“I support Goodfellows in honor of my dad and mom,” he said. “They believed in Goodfellows… My heart lies in Wyandotte. You can kick the boy out of Wyandotte, but you can’t kick the Wyandotte out of the boy.”

The fundraising performance was not the only show that had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus. Knope said he has worked “a couple virtual events” in which he performs via live and/or pre-recorded. During one virtual event, he performed live and inserted pre-recorded segments in which he presented awards while impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Rodney Dangerfield and the character “Doc Brown” from the movie “Back to the Future.”

“As far as my stand-up shows are concerned, I’ve lost track of how many I’ve lost” due to the pandemic, Knope said. “I thought that by September or October (2020) things would open up again. Obviously, it has not.”

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Other favorites, according to Spoon University, are shortbread, fourth; gingerbread, third; snickerdoodles, second; and, of course, chocolate chip, first.

In my quest for an outstanding oatmeal cookie, I baked 13 dozen batches of five different recipes, from soft to crisp, with and without raisins.

The best, according to my trusty tasters (and yours truly), was an addictive coconut oatmeal cookie with nuts, and the second-best, the oatmeal raisin cookie recipe on the lid of the Quaker Oatmeal box. The latter yields 4 dozen, so because I made the recipe twice, baking the batches 9 to 13 minutes, for soft to firm cookies, I had loads to give away or freeze.

OATMEAL COCONUT DELECTABLES (From Janice Grimshaw of Tampa, Fla.) 1 cup sifted flour ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt ½ cup granulated sugar ½ cup brown sugar, packed ½ cup softened butter 1 egg 1 tablespoon cold water 1 teaspoon vanilla 1½ cups quick oatmeal ¼ cup chopped nuts ½ cup shredded coconut Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt into mixer bowl. Add sugars, butter, egg, water and vanilla; mix at medium speed 2 minutes. Add oatmeal, nuts and coconut and mix at medium speed about 1 minute. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls on ungreased or parchment-lined cookie sheets 2 inches apart. Bake about 12 minutes until golden brown. Remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack while hot. Makes 33 to 40 cookies.

VANISHING QUAKER OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES ½ cup butter (1 stick) plus 6 tablespoons butter, softened

¾ cup firmly packed brown sugar ½ cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1½ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon salt (optional) 1 cup raisins 3 cups Quaker Oats (quick or oldfashioned), uncooked Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed of an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well. Add oats and raisins; mix well. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonsful onto ungreased cookie sheets (I used parchment paper instead). Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets, then remove to wire rack to cool completely. Store tightly covered. Makes about 4 dozen cookies.

••• Another oatmeal treat is the following recipe from the Betty Crocker website: APPLE CRISP WITH OATS Heat oven to 375 degrees. Spray an 8-inch square (2-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. Set aside.

For Streusel: In a medium bowl, mix ¾ cup flour, ¾ cup old-fashioned oats, ½ cup packed brown sugar and ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon. Cut in ½ cup cold butter, cut in pieces, using a fork or pastry blender, until mixture is crumbly. Do not overmix. Set aside.

For Filling: 6 cups peeled tart apples cut into ¾-inch pieces (about 6 medium apples) ½ cup granulated sugar 2 tablespoons flour ½ teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon lemon juice In a large bowl, mix filling ingredients until well-coated. Spread in baking dish. Sprinkle with streusel.

Bake 30 to 35 minutes until topping is golden brown, juices bubbling along edges and apples are fork-tender. (I baked it about 15 minutes longer.) Cool about 20 minutes before serving.

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Duck Factory keeps going through three generations

Keep on quackin’

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can have a Duck Factory.’”

On the Duck Factory’s maiden voyage — the trip to bring the boat home from Bolles Harbor to Grosse Ile — a valve broke.

“But we made it, and we had more fun that day!” Milkins said.

Since then, the Duck Factory

Over the years, the men, their friends and their families have made many trips, long and short, aboard the Duck Factory, including many summer jaunts to Duffy’s Tavern (leveled in 2017) in Amherstburg, Ontario, a mecca for Michigan boaters for decades.

And then there were those

all the things we’ve done on the boat,” Milkins said. “One year we had a cruise to Put-In-Bay (an Ohio resort town on South Bass Island) and we called it Martha Stewart’s Amazing Sea Adventure. We decorated the boat real nice — linens and all — and we dressed up in white shirts. We’d paint the tie

Over the last 45 years, the 38-foot Duck Factory has sailed into local legend.

She’s a trap net fishing boat built in 1953 in Cleveland, Ohio. Trap net boats, used for commercial fishing, have low sides and wide, flat decks.

When Grosse Ile resident and Wyandotte business owner Bruce Milkins and his buddies John Perry and Wally Merritt first laid eyes on the boat in 1976, they thought its “low profile,” as Milkins put it, would make it perfect for duck hunting.

“We could get in and out of the boat real easy,” he said.

Since then, the Duck Factory’s reputation has been anything but “low profile.’’ But back to 1976.

“I found it at Bolles Harbor,” Milkins said. “It had been laid up for years. We talked about it, and decided if it would still run, we’d buy it.”

Luckily, Perry — whom Milkins dubs “a mechanical genius” — after a couple of hours of work, was able to get the boat’s engine to turn over.

The boat’s original name was the Harvey K, and when the three young men found it Bruce and Diane Milkins and Ryan Rozycki are owners of the infamous Duck Factory. languishing in 1976, the boat was called Zigeuner. That’s Greek for wandering gypsy, crew has spent countless hours storied stag events. on the white shirt with Magic Milkins said. She cost the three and dollars fixing her up — and “We’d always have a Markers.” men about $7,500. enjoyed countless hours of fun. summer prom with the boys,” Some of the trips to Put“Then we said we’ve got to The first improvements took Milkins said. “We’d flip a coin.

In-Bay during the early years come up with a new name,” he place right away.

Heads we go north and tails perhaps went a little overboard, said, “and I suggested the Duck “She looked like she had a we go south. We’ve been as far he admitted.

Factory. We had just gotten Winnebago trailer on the back as Port Huron and Goderich “Many times at Put-In-Bay back from a goose-hunting trip of her, so we tore it all apart and (Ontario) and as far south as we’d have typical problems in James Bay in Canada, and I rebuilt it,” Milkins said. “Now Cleveland and Erie.” like everybody has problems remembered that we’d stayed there’s a galley, bar, dinette — His wife, Diane, and her down there — boaters acting a in a little town up there called that’s all open — and inside friends decorated the Duck little crazy and having too much Moose Factory. I said, ‘If they are bunks, a workroom and a Factory for some of its voyages. fun,” Milkins said. “One year, can have a Moose Factory, we head.”

“She’s been a great assist to they permanently banned us. It

was 1988. But after four or five years, they welcomed us back with open arms.

“There are some things we can’t print, of course,” he added with a laugh.

But the Duck Factory has meant a lot more to the men and to the region than just fall duck hunting and crazy summer

fun over the years.

“We’ve done a lot of charitable things with Ducks Unlimited,” Milkins said.

“We’re life members with the Monroe DU. And with the Rotary Club, we’d have some of our festivities aboard the Factory.”

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QUACKIN’ Continued from page 6 provided by Grosse Ile residents Warren and Bridget Hurst of Hurst Marine, the Duck Factory takes handicapped children for a boat ride and then to lunch at the Grosse Ile Yacht Club, where Milkins is a past commodore.

“The boat has never been for hire, but we do a lot of charity work for the churches and the various fundraisers,” Milkins said. “We’ve had three weddings on the boat and a number of funerals. We’ve taken high school kids out for prom trips and had class reunion parties. One of the times I remember was when the Trenton Rotary Club was doing an exchange with the Rotary Club in Trenton, Canada, and they brought their high school band kids. They all played bagpipes, so I asked them to do ‘Amazing Grace’ on the bagpipes.”

As the Duck Factory cruised through Crystal Bay in the Detroit River’s Canadian waters, the plaintive pipes wailed the time-honored hymn. The sound seemed amplified and somehow magical as it traveled over the cool, calm water.

“There was a wedding going on there, and all the boats were honking,” Milkins said. “It was amazing.”

He still remembers getting goosebumps that day from the sound of the pipes on the water.

Repairs have been ongoing, as with any boat. The Duck Factory has sunk three times over the last 45 years and each time has been floated anew.

“Only at the dock,” Milkins said.

“It was probably because of a lack of maintenance on the bottom. Sometimes the water will go real low and it would lean over on its side and water would splash in. Nobody was ever aboard.”

Over the years, the Duck Factory has continued to serve its prime objective as a duck hunting boat.

“We call it the mother ship,” Milkins said. “We anchor the boat and then put the sneak boats out in the water.

Then we could come back and fish, play cards, watch football games, and cook up the fish and ducks we caught right there. We spend the whole day out there.”

Each fall, a group of youngsters climb aboard the Duck Factory to go duck hunting.

One of those kids was Ryan Rozycki of Newport, who, at one of the annual so-called Duck Factory Poachers

Delight Dinners, was awarded as Rookie of the Year. He was 14 then.

Now he’s 28 and the Duck Factory’s newest partner.

A few years ago, Merritt and Perry decided to end their partnership in the boat’s ownership.

“They didn’t have time for it and weren’t able to get out,” Milkins said.

“They had other things in their lives they were doing. So I bought them out, but I told them, ‘You can check out but you can never leave.’”

Then he pulled the boat out of the water — one of the first times he’s ever done that — to rebuild its bottom and the back deck to make sure the Duck Factory was in good condition for its new partner.

Enter Rozycki.

“Bruce has been a long-standing family friend,” he said. “Over the years, I started hunting with Bruce a little bit here and there. One morning, Bruce said, ‘I want to make you a partner.’

That was September 2014.”

Rozycki was all for it.

“I’ve had so many good times on that boat,” he said. “The boat was where my brother’s wedding was held. It’s been a big part of my life, my brother’s life and my girlfriend’s life. So many walks of life have come onto that boat — second and third generations of families.

It’s been through a lot, but it’s never stopped. It keeps going and we never give up.”

For him as well as for Milkins, the Duck Factory is more than a place to have fun. Rozycki talked about some of the fundraisers — and also about “duck tipping.”

That’s when swings are attached to the tall outriggers aboard the boat, which are then swung over sideways.

Then the engines rev up and she goes full tilt so riders on the swings get a splashing, crashing ride through the water.

“My girlfriend (Colleen Abair of Woodhaven) brings her friends and we go duck tipping,” Rozycki said.

“She hates the boat during duck season because we’re never there, but she loves it in the summer.”

Rozycki considers himself part of the Duck Factory’s ongoing legacy.

“I own the boat, but I don’t have as many rights as the guys who’ve been doing this with Bruce for more than 40 years,” he said. “A big thing about the boat has always been the people.

“The boat has always been about the friendships.”

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Downriver residents make Santa’s ‘Nice’ list over the holidays Val Dutton Wyandotte Warrior

Santa couldn’t write “Nice” big enough on his 2020 Naughty and Nice List when he learned how Downriver families remember their loved ones over the holidays, regardless of what is happening around them.

It usually involves fresh ingredients and old recipes. In other words: yummy food linked to the past.

Chuck Peacock of Wyandotte has the old penuché recipe used by his late grandmother, Nina Wiltsee of

was,” Peacock said. What he is certain of, though, is that the fudge-like concoction “is sinfully delicious.” And as addictive as those holiday dancing sugar plums.

“When I was a kid, I would happily eat myself sick on this stuff at Christmas time,” Peacock said. “Once she saw how much I liked it, (his grandmother) probably made it just for me – looking back, she had a tendency to spoil me and my brother.”

Vicki Dorland and her niece Mandy Silvani schedule a Christmas cookiemaking session annually at Dorland’s

Mandy Silvani and her aunt, Vicki Dortland make Christmas cookies every year.

Brownsville, PA, which he thinks she may have gotten from “a Pittsburgh newspaper.” “(The recipe) is at least third hand,” Peacock said. “Grandma made it during the holidays as early as 1949.”

There is some mystery attached to the recipe, which includes a note from someone identified as “Miss M. May Nickerson, of Quincy, MA”: This is the time of the year everyone will want penuché.

“I have no idea who Miss M. May Nickerson of Quincy, Massachusetts

Southgate home. The new gingerbread cookie recipe they tried recently “needs a few tweaks,” said Dorland, secretary at The First United Methodist Church of Wyandotte.

But no tweaks were necessary for the family classic: the Santa cookies that Dorland has made for 40 years, a sugar cookie “with extra flavor” coming from a little almond extract -- and a lot of holiday spirit, of course.

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‘Traveling’ Cheese Ball is a Renaud Family Favorite Pam Goscinski of Wyandotte can’t remember a family Christmas party in her lifetime that did not include the cheese ball made “famous” by her late father, James “Bud” Renaud, formerly of Trenton.

No one quite remembers the recipe’s origins, but Renaud began making it in the early ‘80s.

He liked to cook, Goscinski said, and his culinary repertoire ranged widely, from homemade sausage to tacos and a mac-andcheese dish.

The cheese ball always got rave reviews.

In fact, it became so popular that the “Bud Renaud’s Cheese Ball” recipe was widely dispersed. Published in two church cookbooks, it also found Pam Goscinski and her sister Caryn its way into the recipe boxes of Cablealways include their father’s friends, appeared without fail cheese ball at holiday parties. at the family’s annual church party and, even now, is simply expected at all Renaud holiday events.

“That cheese ball has traveled!” Goscinski said. She wonders how many families have adopted the cheese ball as a “must” at their holiday feasts.

Goscinski’s sister, Caryn Cable, also of Wyandotte, inherited the role of cheese ball maker when Bud died in 2008. She ensures that it takes its rightful place amid the appetizers, meatballs and the Jello salad offered buffet-style at Goscinski’s home when she hosts the Renaud Christmas event.

“Since our entire family looks forward to it and enjoys it so much, I just continue to make it each year,” Cable said. “It’s in honor and remembrance of my dad each Christmas.”

The cheese ball is more than a creamy spread on a cracker.

“There’s always the cheese ball at the parties,” Goscinski said, “so Dad always shows up.” She believes Bud would be honored to share the recipe with a larger audience.

“His famous cheese ball is his legacy,” she said. “Dad would be very proud.”

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All three grandchildren of the late Mary Robertson of Southgate got elbow-deep in the cookie dough at one time or another, but “Mandy kept it up,” Dorland said. “She’s a great baker.”

The Santa cookies aren’t easy to work, requiring a careful manipulation of toothpicks to release the dough from the intricate cookie cut-out, which Dorland inherited from her mother, along with very specific directions on how to decorate the Santas.

“You start with the hat, then the face and beard,” Dorland said. “Next comes the mustache. You do it in a certain order or they won’t turn out.”

Aunt and niece made 45 Santa cookies in their six-hour baking session this past December. “The whole time we are thinking of my mom,” Dorland said.

“Alverna Baxter’s Cherry Dessert” came into the large Dutton family in 1998, when the late Bill Baxter of Wyandotte married the widow Elaine Dutton, formerly of Riverview.

The holiday recipe from Baxter’s mother got mixed reviews by the clan.

The controversy was over whether it should be served frozen, as Bill had insisted, or thawed.

“It tasted the same to me whether it was frozen or thawed,” said Anna Dutton, one of Bill’s daughters-inlaw. “Its pink color is very festive, though.”

But there was never controversy in

the family over Bill; everyone loved the gentle man who ran the Baxter Hardware Store on Fort St. before retirement and treated Elaine’s nine grandchildren as his own.

“I made it every year when Bill came for a holiday dinner,” said Kelly Dutton, another of his daughters-inlaw. And she served it frozen.

For 85 years and spanning five generations, the Milewski family has made pierogis for dinner as part of their Christmas Eve wigilia, or vigil.

The tradition began with the arrival to Wyandotte from Poland by Tom Milewski’s busia, or grandmother, Maryanna Zegota, in 1920.

Candis Milewski, Tom’s wife, continues the tradition in her Wyandotte kitchen. Her two children, one who lives as far away as Colorado, do, also. “Two years ago, my grandchildren joined us to make pierogi,” Milewski said.

Candis doesn’t use the original recipe. Her mother-in-law was “very protective of her recipe and gave us the wrong recipe,” she said. “So, we came up with our own.”

A Christmas gift in disguise, perhaps, because she actually prefers her recipe. “Every family has its drama,” she said, laughing.

This year the family tradition was postponed until Dec. 27, since Tom had a medical emergency requiring hospitalization over Christmas Eve. “He was upset because he thought he had missed his Christmas Eve meal,” Milewski said. “We waited for him to come home … to celebrate.

The first thing Tom ate was the pierogi. That is the first thing he did when he walked in the door.”

Santa would consider that very nice, indeed.

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A love of nature led future Eagle Scout Sebastian Prunty to build bat boxes along the nature trails behind the senior center at Riverview’s Young Patriots Park.

A member of Boy Scout Troop 1795, Prunty guided the creation of the boxes, which provide shelter for bats, a species known to be in decline in the United States.

The project is one of the last steps before a Boy Scout can become an Eagle Scout, which is the highest rank in Scouting. Scoutmaster Kevin Bowlby of Wyandotte said Prunty is the 16th member of the troop to complete an Eagle project since he founded the troop in 2007 and the fifth in the last 12 months.

Prunty, a 17-year-old Riverview resident and a senior at Riverview Community High School, chose the bat boxes as his project after a conversation with Mayor Andrew Swift, who had several ideas for projects that would fill needs in the city.

“Since COVID-19 and the restrictions on places to go with groups, my friends and I started hanging out at the Southgate and Riverview nature trails,” Prunty said.

“The bat boxes the Mayor suggested seemed to fit in with my love of nature and will help bring bats, who not only help naturally control the insect population, but help pollinate plants and scatter seeds.”

Prunty’s mother Tonya Smith is advancement coordinator and assistant scoutmaster in the troop. She said an Eagle Scout project leader must come up with specifications and dimensions for the project, seek volunteers to help, assign tasks and guide the way.

Other Scouts and volunteers performed such tasks as cutting wood for the boxes, waterproofing, woodburning the name of the troop and “scoring” the wood, which creates deep grooves from which the bats can cling, followed by nailing the boxes into the trees.

Smith said Scouts and other volunteers followed COVID-19

protocol, including wearing masks and having their temperatures taken before participating in the work.

She said Sebastian provided tables and hand sanitizer and assigned tools to the helpers.

“We’ve got a great troop,” Smith said. “They always help Sebastian Prunty each other out.”

The effort impressed Mayor Swift, who said, “Sebastian did a great job getting this Eagle project done with all the obstacles that COVID has thrown in his way.”

The Riverview Parks and Recreation Department signed off on the project.

Smith and her family moved to

Riverview about five years ago from Elkridge, Maryland, where Sebastian was heavily involved since the fifth grade in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and heavily involved in his youth group at St. Augustine Catholic Church.

Smith called her son “a great kid.” She said he helps out around the house and aids his grandmother, who is disabled. Besides school, he works full time at Tim Horton’s at Allen Road near Goddard in Taylor.

Prunty made a smooth transition to Scouting in Michigan. Smith said he was looking for a troop that was active outdoors and he hit the ground running with Troop 1795, which is

based in Southgate and includes 32 boys from all over the Downriver area and even into Dearborn.

“Our troop focuses on learning through fun,” said Scoutmaster Bowlby, who is an engineer with the Ford Motor Co. “We camp constantly – every month, 12 months a year, every year until COVID messed it up. The boys like that they are getting outside.”

Prunty said he enjoys the variety of things to do in Boy Scouts.

“One week, you’re camping in a tent deep in the woods and the next you’re flying in a single-engine plane as you work on your Aviation Merit Badge,” he said. “Scout(ing) gives you the chance to get a taste of things you might not be able to in school or other extracurricular activities.

I’ve been able to learn to shoot a rifle, build an instrument, learn about geology and become better at chess, and I get to decide if it’s something I’d like to pursue further.”

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Longtime journalist was well-known Downriver PAULA NEUMAN Wyandotte Warrior

Downriver lost one of its best-known and hardest working residents with the death of Patricia Andrews.

She died Dec. 22 at the age of 83.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell called Ms. Andrews a “Downriver fixture” and lamented her passing. The Dearborn Congresswoman is one of many leaders, journalists and residents paying tribute to Andrews, a renowned journalist who went on to work for the late U. S. Rep. John Dingell.

In her work and in her personal life, Andrews made it her mission to help people.

She graduated from Melvindale High School and Central Michigan University.

She taught in Vassar, married the late Ronald Pat Andrews with News-Herald staff members and Santa Claus.

Andrews, a renowned was an intern in Dingell’s office when Ms. Andrews “Don’t let anyone tell you that Pat was always easy coach and worked there. He shared this anecdote from 2008, to work with, because wasn’t always the case. She teacher, and when he worked for Greenfield Village: could be tough and even stubborn, but I think that moved to “I’ll never forget the night she worked so hard to anyone who worked with her came away an improved Trenton in save Christmas and Holiday Nights at Greenfield professional because of the impact that she had on the 1961.

Village in 2008,” Hinrichs wrote in an online tribute to people around her. I know I did, and I’ll be forever In 1970, Ms. Andrews, best known as Pat, went Ms. Andrews. “Our Christmas trees were stuck at the thankful for knowing Pat and her late husband Ron. to work at the News-Herald Newspaper, where she Canadian border, and Pat worked throughout the night The Andrewses were institutions Downriver.” served as a writer and editor until 2004. to get them cleared through customs and to Greenfield Scot Peacock, who was a photographer at the During those decades, she wrote countless articles Village so we could stock our tree lot for the Holiday News-Herald at the time Pat worked there, has fond about Downriver residents and events, and even started Nights program. memories of the time. a few happenings of her own, including the Miss “Pat meant so much to our entire region… Pat is “Pat was one of the most generous people I have Downriver Pageant and Soup Day, an annual benefit a true warrior and champion and she will be greatly known,” he said. “We worked together at the Newsfor the Salvation Army. missed. What a legend!”

Herald through the 80s and I feel privileged to have She also co-founded Women Celebrating LifeTaylor Communications Director Karl Ziomek, the known her.”

Downriver, which continues to help many local former Managing Editor at the News-Herald, who Former Wyandotte resident Michael Patrick Shiels, women fighting breast cancer with their expenses, worked with Pat for years said this: an author, travel writer and TV host, is one of many and served on the board of the Guidance Center in “Pat was an institution for decades at The Newswho posted online tributes about her.

Southgate. Many other local charities as well as arts Herald Newspapers, whether she was working out “Patricia Andrews will eternally remain a force in organizations were aided by Ms. Andrews and her of our Wyandotte, Grosse Ile or Southgate office. Pat Downriver media, politics and the social scene,” Shiels tireless efforts to promote their events and good works represented an era of local newspaper coverage that wrote. “She was a mentor, a thoughtful friend and a over the years. included a heavy emphasis on ‘society’ or features and connector of people. Her enthusiasm for family and In 2004, she began an eight-year stint working for entertainment news and opinion, and no one connected fun and her wry humor will live on in her admirers — the Congressman, and even there, although her work those dots like Pat Andrews. including me.” was mostly immigration issues, she helped support “There wasn’t a ‘mover and shaker’ that she didn’t Ms. Andrews is survived by her children, Sandra, local events from time to time. After retiring from know. Her Rolodex was full. She was the type of Christopher (Tracey) and Jennifer; three grandchildren, Dingell’s office, Ms. Andrews continued to write editor who was as comfortable talking food recipes, Alexandra, Allison and Alyssa; and her sister Judith articles about Downriver events and people for local important events, new businesses and/or the latest McKay. Memorial contributions can be made to news outlets. behind-the-scenes talk about key players in the region, Women Celebrating Life-Downriver at wcldownriver.

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Musings from the front as we begin a new year Peter Rose Wyandotte Warrior

Welcome to the new year.

The old one was not that much fun.

As we start my top of mind concern is that, nationwide, the expected permanent closures of Indie businesses will be real.

I don’t expect our Downriver to be any better off than the national average, but I am hoping. I will continue to advocate as loudly as I know how for my compatriots and doing what I can to help.

To the extent that the citizens of our local communities take on that responsibility as well, so will go the extent of the fallout that will be felt for quite a while.

I think we’re going to see a very difficult first half of the year, improving to approach “normal” by maybe September?

As the numbers dwindle for cases of COVID-19 and deaths and as the number vaccinated amongst us grows, things should begin to normalize.

But eight or nine months is an eternity for anyone in business.

That’s a lot of payrolls for a lot of staff that we all care about and need to help us run our businesses. No whining, it has to be nose to the grindstone. But it’s going to be an uphill trek and a long slog.

For all of us, the loss of the ability to do anything is increasingly depressing.

So much is closed! No sports, no concerts, no dinein.

So the activity here in Wyandotte is electric and uplifting. You’d never know we were under siege by

everything in the works in this town.

Consider this: Michigan Legacy Credit Union at the corner of Oak and 3rd is not finished with their remake that startles as something I’ve never seen in any banking venue.

The scope of it is an emphatic statement about their belief in their viability and their belief in Wyandotte.

You have to see it to believe it!

One block to the East on Oak at 2nd at the site of the old post office is a five-story condominium development, construction underway that will also feature two restaurants and other retail. That’s going to make a big splash, and add more vitality and density for our downtown. Another investment for the coming rebound and beyond.

The always humming Lions Tigers and Beers location

is being reincarnated in the adjacent building on Biddle across the street from Chelsea and the vacant area created by the fire that destroyed the original building will be a beer garden.

Next to it to the South will be another, related entity serving another niche in the bar and restaurant field. The work and money spent on this project is impressive as well.

At the corner of 1st and Maple, in what was most recently the Citizens Bank building, is a large new addition to the small office niche called The Offices In Wyandotte, wherein anybody that needs a nice office with no long term commitment. It is already largely leased and the design of that project is impressive.

On the main floor on the actual corner will be a new high bar for Wyandotte restaurants in a new venue called The Vault that will

open in February. Prime meats, locally sourced chicken and veggies, vegan and gluten free options, and a killer wine list…..a new site for fine dining Downriver.

One and two buildings West of The Vault, a major remodel/rethinking of space related in the combining of the Sushi Bar and On the Rocks on Maple into a single entity, with a continued reliance on Sushi on one side of the space and an Oyster specialty on the other side.

They have a koi pond in there now!

On the corner of Maple and 2nd, the old Sports 50s restaurant/bar is getting an overdue, complete makeover under the new ambition and vision of the new owner there.

Details of the new menu are not known yet, but this place should be a strong contributor to the dining scene.

Back to Biddle, the old Alvi’s barbecue joint has been

replaced by H2O, another new addition to the dining options of Wyandotte is already open and getting great reviews for their seafood.

Frank’s on Biddle has new owners and plans for a major revitalization of this mainstay of Wyandotte eateries.

Sweet Arrangements moved two doors north and expanded into new areas of sweets and eats that are simply awesome.

There’s a new owner next door at Up n Down, with new energy and ambition.

Taken together, it’s startling and exciting.

It adds so much buzz for Wyandotte coming out of this dark time of Corona. Best of all, all of this is local and independent.

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Stress. Tension. Fear. Worry. Doubt.

All feelings we have experienced throughout 2020. As we pass the holidays, we just wanted to send a reminder to you, our incredible patients, to take care of your bodies so they’ll take care of you.

From your diet to exercise routines to adjustments and massages, be mindful of what you’re doing to fuel your body to keep it as strong and healthy as possible.

Things may look and feel different this year, but that doesn’t mean you and your family can’t feel your best.

Here are a few tips: • Limit sweets – We know it’s hard, and it’s fun to indulge every now and then, but too much sugar can have negative effects on your body and mind.

• Move, move, move – Exercise does wonders for body and mind. Get out and move as much as you can.

Take family walks, park in the farthest parking spot at the market so you have to walk further, and take the stairs whenever you can. Little movements add up.

• Get adjusted – Don’t let aches and pains keep you from doing the other things you need to do to stay healthy.

Epsom salt baths to soothe body and mind There are few things more relaxing than a warm bath at the end of a long day. But did you know that adding epsom salts to your bath might just make it even better?

Many athletes and trainers swear by the recovery benefits of epsom salts.

It is believed that an epsom salt bath can reduce muscle soreness and ease

inflammation.

Epsom salt contains magnesium, an essential mineral. It is thought that soaking in a magnesium-rich epsom salt bath may provide pain relief, have detoxification benefits, and help you relax for more restful sleep.

Ultimately, it’s an easy way to add an extra level of relaxation to your selfcare routine that may just ease those aches and pains.

Nine inflammatory foods to avoid When struggling with chronic pain, such as arthritis, it’s important to be mindful of your diet and how the foods you eat could be affecting your pain and inflammation.

The following nine foods are known to increase the body’s inflammatory response: Sugar Saturated fats Trans fats (processed foods) Omega 6 fatty acids (such as corn and peanut oils) Refined carbohydrates MSG Gluten Aspartame (artificial sweetener) Alcohol If you’re suffering from chronic pain and inflammation, try reducing or cutting out these nine foods from your diet, while increasing the amount of fresh fruits, vegetables, and omega-3s you’re consuming, and you may find some relief. A chiropractic adjustment may also be able to help with your pain. ~ Cosineau Chiropractic

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