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Designer draws from many influences

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heryl Zemke overcame a childhood of being bullied to emerge as a woman of strength, which is manifested in her art.

She brings her talent to fiber work and painting, but Zemke, who lives in Riverview, is best known for her fashion design — another reflection of her art.

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Her work in fashion has won her a slew of awards, including a first-place finish in the prestigious American Sewing Expo’s Passion for Fashion contest.

In 2014, she was chosen as one of

10 finalists for the Detroit Institute of Arts/Detroit Garment Guild Group’s design challenge —Samaurai: Beyond the Armor — and she was named

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Continued from page 1 artist and fashion designer, a career she dreamed of but never thought she’d have.

“When you look at all together, I needed all of it to do what I do today,” Zemke said. “Everything comes together, all in one. You just don’t know it at the time.

God has a way of working in mysterious ways.”

She grew up in Lincoln Park as a shy girl with a speech impediment. She was pulled out of classes throughout grade school for speech therapy, and classmates were cruel to her to the point where she often felt “terrified.”

“I was really bullied badly,” Zemke said. “The more people would bully me, the more I would go into a turtle shell.”

When she was in the middle of seventh grade, her family moved to Trenton.

“They had art classes, and they were going to pull me out of that for speech therapy, but my mom told them they couldn’t,” Zemke said. “So I had my first art class.”

She always knew art was her lifeblood.

“When I was 4, my mother would sew and hand me scraps of fabric, and I would kind of create things,” Zemke said. “I’ve been artistic since Day One. If you’re an artist, you can’t not do it. It’s like your breath.”

After high school, she went to Lawrence Technological University to study architecture, following the advice of her father. During that time, she also worked for Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores part-time.

“The first few years in architecture is nothing but art,” Zemke said.

So far so good.

“But in the third year, you started learning about structures and heating and cooling and things like that,”

I REMEMBER CRYING FOR AN ENTIRE WEEKEND ONCE. BUT IT TAUGHT ME SOMETHING VERY VALUABLE: YOU HAVE TO HOLD YOUR OWN. she said. “They showed us collapsing buildings and bridges, and that terrified me.”

She took half a year off, and married Martin Zemke.

Then she went to Wayne State University for classes in tailoring and textiles.

She enjoyed it, but felt she

couldn’t afford to continue in the school’s fashion program.

So she went back to Lawrence Tech and earned a degree in marketing in 1989.

“I was always interested in fashion, but everyone kind of convinces you that you have to have lots of money and go to New York or Los Angeles,”

Zemke said.

So with her degree in marketing, she hoped to become a fashion buyer for an upscale store.

“Nobody paid any interest in me,” she said.

The Zemkes moved to Florida for the next 10 years, where she earned

an associate’s degree in merchandising management from the International Academy of Design Technology, and got a job as a quality control specialist for the Home Shopping Network.

It was creating art, but it was work that used her marketing, fashion and sewing abilities, and that engaged her.

She met celebrities, including Ava Gabor and Donna Summers, and really liked the work, despite being bullied by some of the other women working in quality assurance.

“I remember crying for an entire weekend once,” Zemke said. “But it taught me something very valuable: You have to hold your own.”

When a new president took over HSN, hundreds of jobs were cut, including hers. When her husband got a job offer in Michigan, they moved back home.

“We were from there, and our son was not quite 3 then, and all the family was missing us,” Zemke said. “I really didn’t feel like Florida was a place for a young kid. There were no kids around where we lived.”

So back in Michigan, Zemke went to work as a manager for Jo-Ann Fabrics in Allen Park, and started freelancing at her Riverview home, doing alterations and custom sewing for other people.

In 2002, she left the retail job and started her own business — C. Creations Custom Sewing and Design.

Besides fashion design and custom sewing, she began working as a costume designer for various theater groups and performances, including the renowned Grosse Ile Boar’s Head Festival.

“In 2009, I decided to take a trip to New York,” Zemke said. “I needed to know where I could shop for certain things. I paid for a SEE ZEMKE, Page 5

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Local group seek donations to fund free public skate park There’s a new skate park coming to Wyandotte, but private donations are needed to complete the project.

Drop in Downriver, a non-profit organization, received a $250,000 matching grant from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation, along with the Tony Hawk Foundation to build a world class skateboard park, the first of its kind in the area.

With the minimum matching funds, Drop in Downriver will be able to construct a 10,000 sq. ft. cement skate park to be enjoyed for generations to come. Their organization will maintain the skate park, which will be ADA accessible.

Garold Vallie, a lifelong Downriver resident and president of Drop in Downriver, has been involved in the skateboarding culture for over 35 years, with 10 years competing and winning awards on a national level.

“Skateboards, scooters, roller blades, roller skates, BMX bicycles, and even wheelchairs will be welcomed with open arms. Studies have shown that

extreme sports parks have helped people with mental health issues, at risk youth, youngsters within the autism spectrum, and so many others,” said Vallie.

Over the past nine months the group has raised $20,000 but they’re still far from their $250,000 goal.

“The stipulations for the grant state

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Continued from page 3 fashion tour. It was almost like for the first time in my life, I was in the right place. I felt like I really belonged. I thought, ‘I can do this!’ New York woke me up, and said, ‘You can do this, what you’ve always dreamed about.’”

The tour paired her with a hotel roommate who had won her trip as a prize from the American Sewing Expo competition.

“We got to be really good friends running through the streets of New York together,” Zemke said. “She convinced me to enter the competition the next year. At that point, I could sew for anybody, but I didn’t know who I was or what I liked. I entered the contest at the very last second, and I got in. This was an 18-hour challenge similar to Project Runway consisting of 12 designers from around the nation, chosen to compete by the ASE jury. I took a third prize and the people’s choice award, and I was hooked.”

She went on to enter the contest for the next few years, always winning better and better awards until in 2012, she won first place.

In 2011, she organized successful fashion runway shows Downriver with proceeds going to charities. Along the way, she became an active cultural partner with the Wyandotte-

we have one year to raise the matching funds and one year to build the park.

Our deadline is fast approaching, and we are exhausting all avenues to make this dream a reality,” he said.

The skate park site will border three Downriver communities: Wyandotte, Riverview, and Southgate. The neighboring communities are clean,

based Downriver Council for the Arts, teaching classes and volunteering on the group’s Gallery Committee. Her sold-out fashion shows are held every year now at the DCA. In 2017, Zemke launched her own glossy publication, Dedicated Magazine, which focuses on fashion, art, culture and community. She just released her 19th issue. The magazine can be downloaded for a fee, or a print copy can be ordered. (Learn more by visiting dedicatedmag on Facebook.)

“Last year, I decided to curate an exhibit at the DCA that went along with my fashion show,” Zemke said. “We talked about fiber art, and I talked to friends (Michele Porter of Southgate and Emily Kokay of Trenton) about doing an installation together. We planned for three months, and created the tree, and then each of us created three individual pieces and planted them inside the tree. It took the three of us 30 hours just to install it. The name of the tree piece is Emergence, Transformation, Liberation.”

The massive tree, made with burlap, chicken wire, jute, stone, fiber and more, extended from floor to ceiling with roots across the floor of the large DCA gallery in November 2019.

Zemke’s art pieces in the tree represented a caterpillar, a chrysalis and a butterfly — symbols of her own journey in art and in life.

“The caterpillar represents you learning and

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absorbing everything,” she said. “He’s a solid, consumptive form. The chrysalis form is made of twigs and colored pencils and thread spools and fibers. You have everything you need in this stage.

You just don’t know what to do with it. You have your skills, but what are you going to make?

“The last piece is a dress form that turns into a butterfly. It represents a hollow vessel. Now the art has to come through you, process inside of you and it has to go back out. You have to funnel it through you and back out and get ready for more to come.”

Creating the installation with two other women in different stages of life was a joy for Zemke.

“Being able to work with two other strong, intelligent, artistic women showed that we can work as a team and we’re more successful in the end,” she said. “I like to support women and their causes no matter what I do.”

Her fashion work and her art are inseparable now, and her influences — from her early study of architecture to Japanese pottery — are myriad.

“One year it was the story of ‘The Little Prince,’” she said. “I loved his relationship with The Rose. One year, I did a whole collection based on The Rose. I embroidered the poem around the edges of a garment, put tulle roses in the back of dresses, appliqued roses…

“When I get sunk into something, there’s not stopping me after that.”

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Four teens advance to Eagle Scout status

Four Boy Scouts took action recently to create bat houses in a cemetery, an outdoor learning area at a school, and food drives for two local charities.

Those community service projects, along with years of Scouting achievements, advanced the teens — Ben Altizer of Southgate, brothers Charles and Nathan Jerore of Wyandotte, and Nicklas Slone of Wyandotte — to Eagle status, the highest rank attainable in Boy Scouts of America.

Nathan Jerore

According to BSA, only 4 percent of Scouts ever earn the rank.

Requirements include earnng at least 21 merit badges; demonstating leadership within a troop; and planning, developing and leading a service project.

Ben and Nicklas are in Southgate Troop 1795 under the leadership of Scoutmaster Kevin Bowbly. The Jerore brothers are in Wyandotte Troop 1777 under the leadership of Scoutmaster Rob Smith.

Ben, son of Ken and Elizabeth Altizer, is 17 and a senior at Southgate Anderson High School. His Eagle project took place at Grogan Elementary School in Southgate.

“My mom’s a teacher, so I wanted to give back somehow to the school district,” Ben said.

After months of planning the project, Ben and fellow Scouts helped landscape behind the school. They cleaned up dilapidated flower boxes in an area with some trees.

“It was all overgrown and the wood was falling apart. We put in new wood, more stakes, cleaned up the overgrowth and mulched it,” he said.

Ben and his crew also added wood chips around three existing benches

in the area, and then added a box of weather equipment students can use.

“Now it’s an outdoor learning environment so they can learn about outside,” he said.

Ben has been a Scout since he was in first grade.

“I had a great support network,” he said. “My dad was an assistant scoutmaster. He’s always been heavily involved. And I had some great leadership from the troop.”

He plans to go to college after high school graduation and study political science to work with communities, he said.

Charles Jerore Jr. is 17 and a senior at Roosevelt High School in Wyandotte. His parents are Chuck Jerore and Lisa Rader.

For his project, which took many months of planning, Charles collected food and returnable cans for Taylorbased Penrickton Center for Blind Children.

“We returned the cans and gave the proceeds (about $400) to Penrickton,” Charles said.

He and his crew left Scouting for Food collection bags at many doorsteps, and then collected the filled bags some days later. The canned goods he collected for Penrickton filled half a truck bed, he said.

Ben Altizer and Nicklas Slone

Charles has been in Scouting since he was in first grade, and he set his sights on earning Eagle status at a young age.

“Once I figured out about Eagle, I decided to keep going for it,” he said.

“It was something big to get.”

He’s already been accepted to Wayne State University, which offered him a generous scholarship, and plans to study biochemistry.

Nathan Jerore is the 15-year-old brother of Charles, and is a sophomore at Roosevelt.

He collected food and returnable bottles for the Salvation Army in Wyandotte. Planning the Eagle project took some time, and then he enlisted fellow troop members to help.

“We picked streets to go up and down and left fliers,” Nathan said. “A few days later, we went and picked stuff up. It was a lot of food. It filled our van pretty well.”

His returnable bottles netted about $300 for the Salvation Army, as well.

Nathan has been in Scouting since a young age, and stayed with it because he liked the people in the troop and he liked how he was able to help others through Scouting.

In the future, he’d like to be a collegiate wrestler and keep going to the Olympic level of the sport. He

Charles Jerore Jr

plans to study kinesiology.

Nicklas, son of Matt and Tylene Farkas and Jerry Slone, is 17 and a senior at Roosevelt.

His project — building 13 bat houses for 290-acre Michigan Memorial Cemetery Park in Flat Rock — took many months of planning. It came about when park groundskeeper John Fenech reached out to an adult involved with the troop.

“The houses were beneficial to the cemetery and park for two reasons: Bats reduce the population of mosquitoes and flies, and bats were moving into the crypts,” Nicklas said.

“They’re very interesting animals.”

He researched, and then gathered the materials, including cedar planks and netting, to build the houses. First, Nicklas and his crew built a prototype house, and then they went to work to make more. Each bat house can be a home for five to 10 animals, he said.

Nicklas has been in Scouting since he was in the first grade.

“I continued because I wanted to be able to say I was one of the few,” he said.

After graduation, he plans to attend Wayne State University to study computer programming.

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New high school team, the Bearbots, readies a robot for competition Roosevelt High School has a brand new team of students who work together, exercising brain power and science skills for competition.

The 15-member rookie Roosevelt robotics team, nicknamed the BearBots, formed earlier this year, and is affiliated with FIRST robotics.

The extracurricular group meets from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. three days a week in the school’s STEM room, and will meet even more often as competitions — one March 13 in Belleville and another March 26 in Woodhaven — draw near.

If the team fares well then, it can qualify for state competition.

The goal is to build a robot that can accomplish the goals set out in this year’s FIRST (https://www. firstinspires.org/robotics/ frc) challenge. Those goals and the contest rules will be released in January. To make and program a remotecontrolled robot, the students must apply science, technology, engineering and math.

Coach of the BearBots is Nickolas Gravlin, a Michigan Technological University graduate who recently earned his teaching certificate in physics education from Eastern Michigan University.

“The things kids get to build are amazing, and I’m so glad that they have the opportunity to do so,” he said. “My goal for the team is that all the students learn something and have a great time.”

Two parents — Fergus McDonald and Theresa Crnkovich — serve as

team mentors. Both parents were involved as mentors for Wilson Middle School robotics teams when their kids went there. Now students Tadhg McDonald and Rachel Crnkovich are freshmen at Roosevelt, and they’re continuing their interest in robotics, as are freshmen Ciaran Thomson and Maria Bora, who also were involved at Wilson.

“I like building,” Ciaran said. “I have always like taking things part and putting them back together.”

Rachel said: “I like working with my hands, and robotics helps me get firsthand experience with working with others and using technology to solve a problem. I want to go into orthotics and prosthetics.”

Tadhg simply finds robotics to be fun, he said.

The new team also has to raise funds and

perform community outreach.

“Rookie teams need a lot of support,” said Crnkovich, who serves on the Wyandotte Board of Education. “We have had tremendous support

hiring a coach, providing our registration, and helping us secure state grants. Robotics is an extracurricular that is very expensive, and FIRST encourages teams to be self-funded.”

from the school district.

They are helping us by providing a meeting space, and helping us set it up, finding and

So the BearBots will be doing fundraisers in the future, and reaching out to businesses and community groups for

support. To help or learn more, visit Roosevelt Robotics on Facebook, rhsbearsbots on Twitter or rhs_bearbots on Instagram.

Maria said she is interested in performing community outreach.

“I like marketing and working as a team, seeing it all come together,” she said. “I’ve made new friends.”

Meanwhile, the BearBots are working to build and program their robot.

Sophomore Josh Tracy, who plans to study theoretical physics in college, said his goal for the new team is that the robot they make actually works. Sophomore Sean Wetter’s goal is to learn programming.

Sophomore Ella Ray said she wants to try everything involved in robotics, and sophomore Hayden Matzkows wants the rookie team to do so

well that they make it to state competition.

Junior Finn Gomez said he is glad his high school now has a robotics team.

“We did not have a team at RHS in my freshman and sophomore years,” he said. “When it started, I wanted to join to be part of the first year.”

Also excited to build and program their robot are freshman team members Brody Bates, who hopes to be an electrical engineer someday; Carlos Morales, who also plans to go into engineering; and Mikayah Pilon, who wants to build computers for a living.

Freshman Sam Bovee said: I enjoy building and programing, but I’m not sure what I want to do as a career.”

However, freshman Caden Schleuning has already mapped out a possible future for himself.

“I have an obsession with computers and technology,” he said.

“One day, I want to preside over Microsoft.”

The team members will talk about their objectives, and introduce themselves to the Wyandotte City Council on Jan. 13 — part of their community outreach.

Sophomore BearBot Jacalyn Kovesdi is ready to convince the city leaders of the value of the new team.

“Robotics is fun and interesting,” she said. “You learn great teamwork skills, and it teaches good sportsmanship for the real world.”

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Fitness Marathon schedule to benefit cancer victim Dave Gorgon Wyandotte Warrior

When word got out that Dawn Buzzell of Wyandotte was undergoing treatment for breast cancer, the fitness community was quick to respond.

A Fitness Marathon Fundraiser has been organized for Sunday, March 22, at the Copeland Center, 2306 Fourth Street, Wyandotte. All proceeds will benefit Buzzell, who has undergone a double mastectomy and has a lengthy recovery period ahead.

Karen Poljanac, a certified group fitness instructor at Exersthetic Evolution, 1510 Ford, organized the marathon as a way to raise funds for Buzzell, who is one of her students, and as a way for members of the fitness community to come together for one of their own.

All proceeds from the day of fitness will go to Buzzell, a single mother and grandmother, who will be off work until doctors clear her to return.

The day’s agenda will feature three different exercise classes presented by certified instructors, lunch, a silent raffle, a 50/50 raffle, and fruit and water throughout the workouts.

Admission is $25 minimum donation (cash only), whether the participant takes one class or all three classes.

Fundraiser packets will be available in advance from 5:30 to 8 p.m. weekdays at Exersthetic Evolution, which is owned by Peter Haugabook.

Participants are encouraged to seek donations from friends. There is a nonparticipating spectator fee of $10.

Everyone can register the day of the event at the Copeland Center.

Those who want to donate but cannot participate in the event can donate via Paypal.

Bringing yoga mats or towels is suggested.

“This is one way I knew I could help

a friend,” said Poljanac, a Southgate resident who is a well-known and respected 33-year trainer throughout the Downriver area.

“Dawn is an avid fitness person,” she said. “She was diagnosed in 2019 and had the surgery in January, so she hit two years of co-payments. She’s a good person. It’s going to be a struggle for her.”

The event is open to the public, although Poljanac has confidence it will be a success based on the 30 individuals, including extended family members and Buzzell’s friends, who came together at a volunteer meeting.

Poljanac said a fundraiser she held 20 years ago in Taylor for the Leukemia

Dawn Buzzell

get a cold.”

Her cancer was called ductal carsonoma in siu or DCIS. She learned there wasn’t a tumor mass, but calcification in the duct.

After lots of crying and soul searching, Buzzell discussed her situation with her surgeon, Dr. Helen Mabry, out of Beaumont Trenton. She discovered her cancer had been caught early enough, was at “stage zero” and had not spread.

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Lymphoma Society raised more than $6,000.

“It’s going to really fly,” she said.

“People are going to help.”

Poljanac said everything will be donated. Buzzell’s bosses at Efficient Hauling Services in Romulus will donate the hall, someone has volunteered to donate the food, there will be a disc jockey and the three instructors are donating their time.

Buzzell, 47, said her prognosis is good. The 47-year-old said she is fortunate to get mammograms yearly at Beaumont Center in Southgate. That led to the early detection and care.

“When I got the results and they said ‘cancer,’ it was like a punch in the gut, for sure,” she said. “I’m always healthy. I’ve never had health problems except for minor surgery; I barely even

“I felt very good,” Buzzell said. “I knew I was going to live. Cancer is a hard pill to swallow, but I knew I’d be around for my kids and grandkids.”

Her choices were lumpectomy or mastectomy and it was “a very hard decision.” She studied her options before choosing a bilateral mastectomy.

The surgery took place January 8. Two days later, the pathology report said six lymph nodes had been removed on her right side.

“They tested the tissue on both of them and everything came back 100 percent – I’m cancer free,” she said.

“It was the best phone call ever. Even though I went through pretty radical surgery, I don’t ever have to worry. If I wouldn’t have had the mastectomy, I always would have wondered.

Reoccurrence would have been a pretty

big possibility. I have no regrets.”

On January 15, she met with her surgeon and was told there would be “no further treatment. No radiation, no chemo, no hormone drugs. I don’t have to meet with the oncologist and I don’t ever have to have any further mammograms.”

Buzzell said she didn’t want anyone to know her situation at first.

“I didn’t want people feeling sorry for me,” she said. “I’m a very independent person. It’s hard for me to have people do things for me. I don’t like people feeling sad for me.”

But she received encouragement from friends and family and positive feedback on social media via Facebook.

“The responses I got were absolutely unbelievable,” she said. “People were praying and reaching out. It has been very humbling. Even now, I can’t believe the amount of support. People are doing things out of the kindness of their hearts. It’s been a whirlwind, for sure.”

She said her bosses Thomas Hernandez and Thomas Asciutto have been “absolutely wonderful with me, even before the diagnosis. They’re very accommodating.”

Buzzell now encourages others to get mammograms annually.

“The only reason I’m at stage zero is because of early detection,” she said.

“I’m young. I have a lot of life to live.

“I really like exercising. It’s a big part of my life. It’s looking like another six to eight weeks before I can get back into the gym. I miss it and the people.

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Want a tip for the New year?

Just PSA GAIL ALBIN Grosse Ile Grand

Happy New Year!

If any readers are like I am, they start the new year with all kinds of good intentions. We will finish projects and not start a new project until all others are finished.

And the best way to get and stay organized is PSA. PSA in this case stands for “Put Stuff Away.” It is a rule I - and others - need to follow more closely.

I live alone and I truly like for my condo to be orderly. I don’t want to waste time searching for the special scissors when I am minutes away from finishing my project.

Where is that special recipe that I intend to take to the senior meeting and try to make people think I know how to cook?

How can I have so many recipes and still eat the same bland menu day after day?

If I spent less time searching for items, I would have more time to call or write to a homebound friend that I no longer can visit.

One recent day, I put all items that needed to be put away in a big roaster pan and at the end of the day before I sat down to crochet sleeping mats for the homeless and watch TV. I walked around and put the items from the pan where they belonged.

I felt more relaxed knowing all items were where they were meant to be … at least on that evening.

It is as easy as PSA.

What exactly is the multiplier effect?

Peter Rose Wyandotte Warrior

As an owner of two retail businesses here in Wyandotte, getting more people to reconnect to how our economy works is “kind of” important.

As a citizen of the region, my efforts are far more extensive and far more representative of why I write; of the message I’m trying so hard to communicate.

If all I was talking about in these columns was, “Buy From mr! Buy From me,!” I never could have written even a single column.

Having come through the holiday season many people told me in various ways as they shopped in my stores that they read my columns and appreciate the messages.

Clearly, the people that do value local and need no reminders. \ I need not preach to the choir. Then again, perhaps there is no better army to mobilize than the people that understand the value of directing discretionary dollars to local and independent businesses.

I’m quite certain that few out there are very interested in challenging their friends, but man, I sure wish for that - the more voices, the better!

Because it matters so much.

It is not about any specific store, friends. I can’t stress that enough. While my stores do benefit from any shift away from national or internet, it is the economy in which we participate that benefits.

Try this: My personal boats rise with the rest of the boats on the water that rises by the efforts of a community. So, sure, I like that for me, but that improved water level benefits everyone that uses these waters.

This happens because of what we refer to as a multiplier effect. Three and a half times more money stays local with purchases at local and independent operations because resources used to run national chains do not reside locally.

The services that businesses use to make their own businesses work are not local, so most of that benefit (and it is substantial) leaves the region, leaves the state.

Further, all profitability leaves the region as well. It goes to the shareholders and

pull my punches a bit, here.

I don’t want to sound too militant, too aggressive. But if you actually do believe that this is for the greater good, not my own direct, personal gain, then the way I say these things should not be taken in any other way than the championing of common sense for the common good.

And that means I’m not being assertive enough.

I’ve been waving this banner since 2007 when I finally realized what was happening to local economies across America through this

simply don’t think of the effect of talking those dollars out of the network that feeds us back in a very direct way.

There are levels of impact in any spending scenario.

Direct Impact is spending by a business in the local economy to operate the business.

Indirect Impact happens as dollars the local business spends at other area businesses, recirculating.

Induced Impact refers to the additional consumer spending that happens as employees, business owners and others

is not distributed locally. This is true of any business sector.

Menswear, hardware, lighting stores, gift shops, restaurants - there are choices you make every day.

Local choices, national choices. Local redeploys, keeps your spending contribution percolating all around you. National decisions direct most of that benefit away from where you live and work and play.

From where you own a home, the value of which is impacted by the degree of vibrancy of your local economy, which is impacted positively or negatively by your spending decisions.

I often feel that I should

one phenomenon alone.

When you see distraught communities, it is because money has been siphoned away, and not by other local businesses.

Too few see it happening, let alone make deliberate choices to change that reality for the sake of the entire communities that are distressed. We used to all be connected - it’s what made communities!

Now a huge percentage of the spending decisions are made from a purely unilateral, unconnected perspective. We get what we want, direct to our doors, or by shopping national, diminishing the dollars deployed locally. We

spend their income in the local economy.

When I relay the results of studies done by telling you about 3½ times more money staying here, it’s more effective for you if you put dollar signs on that equation.

If $1,000,000 stays local with national chain spending, $3,500,000 stays local by shopping at locally owned and independent choices.

Employing people, being spent repeatedly.

This is fact.

Make a difference! Spread the urgency of thinking local, Going local by intention, on purpose, with every purchase.

Ask “Can I Get it Locally?”

Every time.

Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital offers wellness events Start the New Year off on a healthy note by taking advantage of the latest wellness events for 2020 offered by Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital.

BARIATRIC SURGERY SEMINAR Bariatric surgery can give you a new outlook on life. Join us for a free weight loss seminar from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 19 to learn about preparation for bariatric surgery, postsurgical care, diet and exercise. The event takes place in the Multipurpose Room at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital. Registration is required by calling 734-285-7420.

STAND STEADY SEMINAR Learn about the impact of falls, how to make your home safer and simple exercises to do at home during a free Stand Steady Seminar from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30, Feb. 27 and March 26 in Multipurpose Room B at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital. Register at henryford.com/standsteady or call 734284-4499.

COOKING FOR A HEALTHY HEART AND WEIGHT Join dietician Nur Ayoubi, RDN, for a free cooking demonstration to help you achieve and maintain weight loss goals through healthy lifestyle changes.

The event takes place from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Feb. 17 in Multipurpose Room B at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital.

Registration is required by calling 734285-7420.

Other ongoing events include: BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENINGS WHEN: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month WHERE: Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital-Main Lobby No appointments necessary.

WHEN: 8-10 a.m. the second Monday of each month WHERE: Lobby, Henry Ford Health Center-Brownstown, 23050 West Road No appointments necessary.

$10 CHOLESTEROL SCREENINGS WHEN: Noon-2 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month WHERE: Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital-Main Lobby No appointments necessary.

GOOD YARN CLUB WHEN: 5-8 p.m. Feb. 12 and March 11 WHERE: Surgical Services Conference Room, Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital The Good Yarn Club is a new community charity knitting and crocheting group that meets for drop-in knitting and crocheting from 5-8 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month.

The club has yarns and patterns to create life-changing items for the community.

The group also is an officially registered “Knitted Knockers” group that creates breast prostheses for breast cancer survivors who cannot obtain a prosthesis due to cost. Yarn and patterns are provided. Participants should bring their own hooks or needles. All items created

will be distributed to the Downriver community and throughout southeastern Michigan. Call 734-287-9902 for more information.

MENTAL ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP WHEN: 10 a.m. Feb. 19 and March 18 WHERE: 2 Allen Conference Room, Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital The National Alliance for the Mental Ill (NAMI): The Nation’s Voice on Mental Illness offers meetings to provide support through counseling and fellowship; guidance in times of crisis; exchange of information concerning treatment; promotion of public awareness/serving as advocates for the needs of the mentally/emotionally ill and protecting the rights of all concerned with mental illness. Meetings are held the third Wednesday of every month. Call 313-292-3324 or 313-5631245 for more information.

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Here are some resolutions for building a healthier you

Laughing has been proven to be beneficial to your health.

It’s that time again - the beginning of the New Year when resolutions are in full swing. We wish you a healthy and happy New Year.

Here are a few suggestions to help keep you and your spine functioning optimally this year: Exercise daily. Get moving. As little as 30 minutes of exercise a day isn’t just good for your spine, it’s great for your entire body.

Laugh often. Did you know that laughter can stimulate your muscles, lungs and heart? It’s also a great stress reliever. When you’re experiencing

less stress, you have a better chance of experiencing whole body wellness.

Forgive others. Physical well being starts with emotional well being.

Forgive everyone for everything.

(Including yourself!).

Get adjusted. Many of our regulars report that they don’t seem to get the bugs that are always going around.

Remember, it’s easier to stay well than to get well.

ADJUSTING CAUSE, NOT EFFECT You may notice that your adjustments aren’t delivered where your symptoms

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Chiropractors see the spine as an integrated whole. By doing so, we often see a problem in one area is being offset by a problem in another. We call these compensation reactions.

For example. Someone complaining of low back pain often has a compensatory issue going on in his or her upper neck. Their lower back problem may be a reaction to what’s going on in their neck. As we adjust their upper spine (where there are no symptoms) it can better support the weight of the body. And voilà! Their low back pain resolves. Or vice versa.

So, while adjustments are specific and precise, our focus is on the integrity of your entire spine, not merely the area exhibiting symptoms. It’s one more reason why you can’t judge your health by how you feel.

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3. Cherry juice — it’s best to sleep on our side during our golden years. If you’re having trouble falling asleep and staying asleep, opt for cherry juice in the evening as it contains melatonin.

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Kiwanis donates $30,000 for accessible playground Paula Neuman Wyandotte Warrior

Students at the Lincoln Center in Wyandotte will be able to play safely outside on a new accessible playground, thanks to a donation of $30,000 from the city’s Kiwanis 1000.

The students, ages 5-26, have autism spectrum disorder and cognitive and emotional impairment. They come to the Lincoln Center from 17 Downriver school districts.

Lincoln Center, established in 2000, is housed in the former Taft Elementary School.

“There was an elementary school playground that was quite old,” said Lincoln Center Program Administrator Lauren Feigel. “It never really met the needs of our students, and it was kind of falling apart.

Some pieces were deemed to be unsafe.”

The old playground has

been demolished, and in the spring, the center will hold a “community build” to install the new equipment — a SMART playground accessible to all of the students, children and young adults alike.

SMART stands for sensory, motor, academic, recreational/ social and therapeutic.

“With the SMART playground program, the students can participate in

educational activities while they are involved in sensory activities or emotional regulation,” Feigel said.

“This will allow students to engage more in academics, including developing social and communication skills.

Teachers will actually conduct lessons on the playground.”

And the students will get to play outside safely at school for the first time.

Feigel and other staff members gave a presentation about the need for the new playground at a Kiwanis Club meeting recently. The members responded quickly.

“We offered to help them with it,” said George Lukawski, past president of the club, which meets at 6 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays each month at the Wyandotte Big Boy restaurant

in downtown Wyandotte. “We said OK, we’re going to help.”

A formal presentation of the $30,000 donation took place Nov. 19 at a Wyandotte Board of Education meeting.

The city’s Kiwanis Club, organized in 1923, is Wyandotte’s oldest civic group, and focuses on helping children and on other charitable projects.

“They really came through in a huge way with this,” Feigel said. “They made a huge contribution toward the playground itself. We are so very appreciative of Kiwanis.

I can’t thank them enough for everything they are doing for us. Our students truly need this. It is equipment that can meet the needs of all our students so they can go outside and enjoy it. We are so excited about what this can bring them.”

Something for everyone at Bacon Memorial Library STORY TIMES Please register in person, online at baconlibrary.org, or by phone at 734246-8357 Begins January 7 Babytime/Toddler Tuesdays @ 10:00 AM Join Ms. Lynne for stories, music, dance and bubbles! This program is gear to children under the age of three.

Preschool Storytime

Wednesdays @ 10:30 AM Join Ms. Lynne for stories, music, dance and parachute play! This program is gear to children age 3 and up.

HOUSE February 1 @ 10 a.m.

Join us for a guided tour of the historic house that is home to Bacon Library. They are scheduled for the first Saturday of each month at 10 a.m. Drop by for a behind-the-scenes look at this city treasure!

AL TURNER’S DROP-IN CHESS CLUB Every Thursday @ 7 p.m.

Kids and adults of all ages can meet challenging new players every Thursday @ 7:00pm TEEN & YA WRITING GROUP Tuesday, February 4 @ 6 - 8 p.m.

Meet up with other authors and artists to share your work and ideas, work on current projects, and get inspired for new projects. Please register in person, online at baconlibrary.org, or by phone at 734-246-8357.

DOWNRIVER POETS & PLAYWRIGHTS February 4 @ 6:30 p.m.

Forum for poets and writers to mingle and discuss works.

BACON BOOK CLUB February 5 @ 7 p.m, The book this month is Educated by Tara Westover. Read along with us or better yet - meet with us and share your thoughts. We meet the 1st Wednesday

of each month. If you would like us to reserve a copy of the book for you, call 734-246-8357.

READ WITH CAM Wednesday February 5 & 12 @ 7 p.m.

Cam loves to listen to stories. Bring your own book or read one of ours to Cam. Please register in person, online at baconlibrary.org, or by phone at 734246-8357.

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Learn the basics of D&D. Includes character building and game play.

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Library Board Meeting is February 10 @ 3:30 p.m, 1 Book + 1 Craft = 2 Much Fun! is February 11 @ 4 p.m.

Each month a new picture book or easy reader will be featured. We will read the book and complete a matching craft. Afterschool snacks will be provided. Join us for too much fun the second Tuesday of each month. This program is intended for kids K-2nd grades. Please register in person, online at baconlibrary.org, or by phone at 734246-8357.

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Nintendo Switch Game Night is Tuesday, February 18 at 6 p.m.

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ADULT CRAFT Embossed Cards is February 20 @ 6 p.m.

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Roosevelt wrestlers are good and getting better Tom Tigani Wyandotte Warrior

The Wyandotte Roosevelt High School wrestling team is off to a great start this season.

The Bears are 9-2 overall, with a league record of 4-0. Their only two losses are to Westland John Glenn and Clinton high schools.

“Both were great duals, and both teams are ranked in the top 10 in the state,” Roosevelt Coach Brett Greene said.

Roosevelt also took second at a recent Wayne County tournament, finishing 13 points behind John Glenn, giving the Bears a record comparable to that of last year at this time headed into this week.

“What is different from years past is we have yet to wrestle with our true starting lineup, because of injury or sickness,” Greene said. “The flu has been hitting us.

“With all that in mind, all of our wrestlers have been doing a great job and stepping up to compete and be successful.”

There are five seniors in the Wyandotte starting lineup, along with eight sophomores and one freshman. They have two returning state placers in Nathan Jerore (140 pounds) and Alex Biundo (112 pounds).

Another returning state qualifier is Nick Biundo (135 pounds), along with returning regional qualifier Kyle Cox (145/152). Other standouts include Jared Deichelbohrer (160) and Nick McPhall (125/130).

“As far as the rest of the season, our outlook is to take every opportunity we can,” Greene said. “Our goals are to be competing for the league title, the district title and the regional title.

“We are also focused on getting our wrestlers back to the individual state tournament and placing. “ Photo by Larry Caruso

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Bears pinning down winning season WYANDOTTE ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL 2019-20 WRESTLING TEAM Sophomore Alex Biundo Senior Nick Biundo Sophomore Michael Blackwell Sophomore Weston Bridges Senior Matt Burns Sophomore Xavier Byrne Freshman Christian Byrne

Senior Kyle Cox Senior Jared Deichelbohrer Freshman Zach Fritz Freshman Charles Harper Junior Micah Hart Sophomore Leo Hastings Sophomore Nathan Jerore

Senior Dominick Jones Sophomore Damian Keathley Senior Nick McPhall Sophomore Miller Brennan Sophomore Javier Navarez Freshman Lu Peterson Senior Emilio Plasencia

Freshman Christopher Roberts Sophomore Logan Stallings Sophomore Jayden Tittle Sophomore Joe Valentine Freshman Kayden Vermillion Freshman Damien Walker Sophomore Mathew Gardner

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rewarding.”

BEAR CAGERS ARE HOT If you stopped the season now, the Roosevelt boys basketball team would have to be crowned King of Downriver.

The Bears are 6-2 this season and undefeated against local teams, including a victory over four-time defending Downriver League champ Woodhaven.

The Bears beat the Warriors 55-46. In that game, Ethan Saenz scored 20 points to lead the way.

In their next effort, the Bears clubbed Lincoln Park 63-34.

Through their first five league games, the Bears were 5-0 with wins over Woodhaven, Lincoln Park, Trenton, Edsel Ford and Taylor.

Up next for the team is a big game at Anderson on Jan. 31. The Titans won their first three games of 2020 and are on a roll just like the Bears.

Wyandotte girls basketball coach Jerry Makuch got his job just three weeks before the start of the 2019-20 season.

Naturally, it took some time for him to get comfortable with his team and for his girls to get comfortable with him. That led to a slow start and a few ugly early season losses.

But the “get-to-know-you” stage is clearly over.

Since the start of the Downriver League season, the Bears have been one of the best teams in the area. They went 5-2 in the first seven games, including a three-game winning streak.

“I had to change my style of coaching a little bit,” said Makuch. “And the girls have come to understand what I am asking of them.We are blossoming quite well.”

After losing to Trenton and Woodhaven, Wyandotte reeled off wins BEARS GETTING BACK ON THEIR against Lincoln Park, Dearborn Edsel FEET Ford and Carlson.

After suffering a string of nine straight In the Carlson game, a 48-31 decision losses, the Roosevelt hockey team on Jan. 21, Roosevelt was led by found itself on more solid footing at the Samantha Smith with a dozen points. calendar turned to 2020.

Olivia Hardar and Alayna Jacobs had The Bears, who were beaten by eight each and Elle Gonzalez added Gabriel Ricard and Cabrini in the seven points and eight rebounds.

Gabriel Richard Christmas Tournament Katlyn Patterson was the team’s at the end of December, got January off leading scorer in wins over Lincoln Park on a losing note, falling 4-1 to Monroe and Edsel Ford. She had 13 against the St. Mary Cathoiic Central on Jan. 3.

T-Birds and 17 against the Railsplitters.

But since that setback, the Bears have The difference between the winning gone 1-1-1, including a 7-0 victory over Wyandotte team and the losing one New Boston Huron United. On Jan. is clear: Turnovers and free-throw 11 Wyandotte skated to a 3-3 tie with shooting.

Grosse Ile. In a 37-26 loss to Trenton, Wyandotte In that game the Bears came back was 2-of-12 from the free-throw line and from a two-goal deficit with two thirdcommitted 31 turnovers. In the 52-47 period goals to tie the game. There was Photo by Larry Caruso no scoring in the overtime period loss to Woodhaven - a game was was 48-47 with a minute to play - Wyandotte Samantha Smith is Roosevelt’s leading scorer and has helped the Jason Cuppari had two goals for the Bears’ cause during a recent winning streak. missed half its 18 free throws and Bears and Ray Isham had the other. committed 26 turnovers.

Assists went to Cuppari and two each to Makuch said success has come as he has just what I want out there.”

Zakk Ciaravino and Elliott Bernaiche. discovered more of the payers’ talents.

Makuch said Hailey Hamel and Jacobs have also Dylan Pattenaude, Luke Auger and Luke Miller Smith, who jumps center, is the team’s leading been keys to the Bears’ success. Jacobs, Makuch scored for Grosse Ile. scorer, Patterson has become a deadly shooter - she said, “is sneaky around the basket and has a wealth There were a lot of shots on goal in the game, had five triples against Woodhaven - and point of scrappiness.” with Wyandotte’s Sam Shifflet stopping 37 of guards Hardar and Addy Nothnagel have begun to The Bears play Anderson Jan. 31 and Taylor Feb. 40 fired his way and Grosse Ile’s Owen Bonham run the show the way Makuch likes.

4 before getting a rematch with Trenton on Feb. 7. stopping 40 of 43 Bears shots directed at him.

“Addy and Olivia have really sparked that 5-2 “I’m really having fun,” said Makuch. “It’s been Up next for the Bears are Gabriel Richard on Jan. record,” the coach said. “They know how to control a rejuvenating experience. To coach these kids and 29 and Grosse Ile again on Feb. 1. the team and how to control the tempo. They know see the lightbulb go off when they get it is really

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