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he concept was the same as that used with pennies in a convenience store: If you need a penny, take a penny. If you have an extra, leave a penny.

Except, in this case, it applied to the puzzle boxes stacked tall on a table in a corner of Fellowship Hall, the room where congregants of First United Methodist Church of Wyandotte met between services for coffee and doughnuts.

Then the pandemic hit and, like every other church and most businesses in Michigan, the church located at Oak and Biddle shut down.

But the puzzle station went mobile.

Since March, Carolyn Taylor, church member for 50 years, has delivered donated puzzles from the back of her Chevy Equinox in a circuit including about seven core members of an informal puzzle club.

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Elaine Baxter (left), Margit Moore and Carolyn Taylor, all members of the First Methodist Church of Wyandotte, share a love of puzzles.

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Continued from page 1 “Puzzles have been a blessing, especially because we’ve been so confined,” Taylor said, who has a system of delivery. Margit Moore, an avid puzzler, receives the puzzles first.

When Moore completes them, she puts a sticky note on the box with her name on it, along with other pertinent information, like “Don’t look for the missing piece ¾ it’s not there!”

Taylor does the puzzles next, then “spreads them out,” knowing her members’ preferences. One couple likes the 1,000-piece puzzles. The 300-piece puzzles go to Elaine Baxter, 90.

Baxter, a church member for more than 60 years, misses the activities of her “second home,” which she attended more than three times a week pre-pandemic. She now anticipates the times that the masked Taylor arrives on her porch, arms filled with boxes.

“Puzzles have saved my life during this pandemic,” she said.

They are also a part of her family tradition. For years, when her mother

visited her Downriver home from the family farm in Pennsylvania, Baxter would set out a puzzle on a card table. While Baxter’s children were at school, her mother bent over the table, sorting edge pieces and separating colors. Then the kids came home and swiftly tapped them into place.

“They didn’t know it, but she made it easy for them,” Baxter said, who now records each puzzle she completes with a photo to share with her adult children via the family text thread.

Moore buys puzzles online, works them on her phone, tackles 3D puzzles and can work two 300-piece puzzles in a single day. However, even this puzzle whiz was overwhelmed recently. After an early-morning walk at Southland Mall last week, Moore and Taylor headed toward the parking lot. “‘Do you want these?’” Moore remembered Taylor asking as she pulled open the back door of her Equinox. “Her back seat was a mass of puzzles! About fourteen puzzles.”

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Community comes together; softball players win

Wyandotte Tribe gives young fastpitch players a place to play despite COVID Tom Tigani Southgate Star

Despite the COVID-19 outbreak, it’s still “game on” for a group of young girls who enjoy playing fastpitch softball, thanks to members of the Wyandotte community.

The Wyandotte Tribe fastpitch travel team was formed over the summer after the pandemic halted the season for the city’s Braves baseball and softball teams in the city’s recreational league.

Firefighter Joe Chlipala, a longtime rec league baseball and softball coach, has been instrumental in the new team’s formation, though he is quick to share the credit. Team members comprise 96 percent Wyandotte residents, but registration is open to players from the entire Downriver area and beyond.

“Because of the outbreak, hundreds of boys and girls couldn’t play,” he said. “We had been looking at creating a Wyandotte-based a girls travel team, and I just tried to help create some type of normalcy for the kids so that they wouldn’t have missed an

opportunity this summer.”

The girls selected the Tribe mascot in keeping with the rec league names; they also chose team colors that honor city traditions. Tribe teams played summer and fall ball in Taylor – pretty well, by all accounts – and recently

hosted their first tournament, a four-team “pumpkin smash” at Memorial Park in its hometown. (For those unfamiliar with the term, a pumpkin smash allows members to decorate their own Halloween pumpkins and play the game in their

favorite costumes if they want. Winning teams then are allowed to smash the pumpkins of the losing team.)

Chlipala, who runs a side business when he’s not fighting fires, personally footed the bill for new uniforms for the startup 10-and-under team before expanding to the 12-and-under team. He and fellow board members formed a nonprofit organization so they could seek contributions from local businesses and community members to cover part of teams’ travel equipment, tournament play and other expenses.

“Joe Chlipala made it his mission to make sure our kids were still able to play a game they love, so he put a team together SEE TRIBE, Page 5

WYANDOTTE WARRIOR < November 25 - December 15, 2020 < Page 5 Wyandotte Tribe board members Joe Chlipala, president Ron Justice, vice president Natalie Cummings, secretary Megan Chlipala, treasurer Greg Massengill, coaching coordinator Wyandotte Tribe fastpitch 12 and under

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Continued from page 4 and found a league to play in,” said Nicole Baker, whose daughter, Ella, plays on the 10-and-under team.

Chlipala deflects the praise and attributes the Tribe’s formation to the efforts of parents, players and members of the community. Of his board members’ organizational efforts and purchase of the uniforms, he said he is “grateful for the fact that I’ve been able to give back a little normalcy at a price point that they can afford, without adding bills to already stressful times.”

Travel teams can cost as much as $3,000 per player per year because of all the travel and the fact that teams can play in any number of tournaments throughout the country in addition to summer and fall seasons. Chlipala said forming the nonprofit organization to operate the Tribe has brought the cost down to about $300 per player. He said the

new organization represents a joint effort by many people.

“We’ve been able to do it because of the community, the parents, the coaches and board members of our organization,” he said. “The community’s backed us. They said, ‛We love what you’re doing.’ We did everything right.”

Part of that includes keeping everyone as socially distanced as possible, which so far has proved successful in avoiding spread of the pandemic among players, coaches and parents.

The entire experience has provided some valuable lessons for players, Chlipala said, including his daughter, Brooklyn, who plays on the 10-and-under team.

“They see people supporting them and will want to work to keep that tradition as a lifelong thing,” he said. We’re planning community events to give back, starting with veterans, and also will be doing things like park cleanups as a way of saying thanks.”

Chlipala emphasized the nonprofit nature of the Tribe organization.

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“No one here is out making money,” he said.

“We’re just out here making something for these kids that they wouldn’t normally have.”

Even if it all somehow went away, Chlipala said the organization would donate its equipment to similar teams that wanted to use it in order to keep playing opportunities going.

Happily, however, he doesn’t see that happening anytime soon.

“Now we’ve built a name,” Chlipala said. “People have seen our hats and our gear and everybody knows who we are. Usually that takes years, so that’s just incredible.”

The Tribe is open to continued support, he said, and invites anyone interested in helping out to check out the links on the team’s web page, www. tribefastpitch.com, which also lists supporting entities.

“We’re very open about what we’re doing and trying to expand opportunities for kids that they wouldn’t have had in the past.”

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Kiwanis Club gives dictionaries to third-graders PAULA NEUMAN Wyandotte Warrior

Third-grade students in Wyandotte, Ecorse, River Rouge and Lincoln Park are looking up words in their very own paperback dictionaries, thanks to Kiwanis Club 1000 of Wyandotte.

Each year since 2007, the club members have donated dictionaries as part of the nonprofit Dictionary Project, a national effort to “assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners.”

The Kiwanis members hand out the dictionaries to children in person each year, and both donors and recipients seem to enjoy the experience. This year was a little different, however, because of the pandemic, and the 801 books had to be delivered to school offices to minimize person-to-person

contact.

“We couldn’t deliver the books in person this year,” said George Lukawski, past president of the club. “We enjoy doing that every year.”

Are paper dictionaries outdated in the age of the internet?

Educators say no, not for gradeschool children.

“Educators see third grade as the dividing line between learning to read and reading to learn, so we encourage our sponsors to give dictionaries each year to children in the third grade,” states the Dictionary Project website.

The city’s Kiwanis Club, organized in 1923, is Wyandotte’s oldest civic group and focuses on helping children and on other charitable projects. Wyandotte Kiwanis 1000 meets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Call club President Dennis Ray at 734-250-3028 for more information.

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Speaking of apple recipes, I recently received the following email: Hi, Evelyn, I’m a longtime fan of yours! Every Wednesday, my dad would pick up the Mellus and the News Herald. We would spend the evening reading the papers cover to cover. I loved your recipe column and I may be mistaken, but do you remember an apple cake by the name of Mrs. Dula’s Apple Cake? Or very similar? If you have this gem of a recipe (I believe it called for a cup of oil, had walnuts and raw apples), could you republish it or send it to me? Thank you for so many fond memories! ~ Susan Brown Hi, Susan, Mrs. Eleanor Dula’s Raw Apple Cake, from the 1970s, was the all-time most popular recipe ever published in my Kitchen Korner column in the Mellus (and is one of my own favorites). You are not mistaken — the original recipe called for a cup of oil, but I revised it a bit in 2017, when it appeared in my Grosse Ile Grand Culinary Capers column. I had reduced the oil to ¾ cup and added ½ cup golden raisins.

I’ve made this one-bowl wonder both ways, and with other variations, as readers have as well, but I like Mrs. Dula’s original recipe the best, especially with golden raisins. I use a stand mixer for the batter, which is thick and hard to mix with a wooden spoon.

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1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 or 5 apples, thinly sliced, McIntosh or Jonathon 1 cup chopped nuts (divided) ½ cup golden raisins (not in the original) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add sugar, oil, eggs, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and vanilla to a large bowl and beat with a wooden spoon (I used a stand mixer) until well blended. Fold in apples, ½ of the nuts (and all of the raisins, if using). Turn the batter into a greased and floured (or Pam-sprayed) 9x13 (or 15) baking pan. Sprinkle with remaining nuts and bake about 45 minutes, or until a toothpick tests clean.

And speaking of favorites, I’m sharing the following recipe for another favorite of mine and my tasters for an incredibly simple, addictively delicious zucchini cookie that also appeared in the Grosse Ile Grand in 2017. I am republishing it so readers of our sister publications, the Riverview Register, Wyandotte Warrior and Southgate Star, which were not in existence then, can enjoy it, too.

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In time of need, local businesses need your support The calendar year 2020 has been a hard year for everyone, especially small business owners, entrepreneurs, and our regional workforce.

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Amy Douglas, a graduate of Jo Brighton Skills Center, is the winner of the Michigan Miss Amazing 2020 pageant.

The competition, which took place in September in Novi, is held each year to empower girls with disabilities to “have confidence in their goals and pride in their abilities.”

Amy, 28, who has Down syndrome, will go on to national competition in Nashville, Tenn., in August. She entered the pageant at the last minute, said her mother, Janet Sides of Brownstown Township.

“We did it for fun,” Janet said.

“We’ve been having some Covid downtime, so we thought we’d do something happy. Amy was very excited.”

Being in the spotlight is something Amy is quite used to.

She has done some modeling and has appeared in a few TV commercials, including one for Delta Air Lines.

“She has always loved the camera,” her mom said. “If you had a camera, she was posing. She just decided one day she wanted to be a model.”

Amy’s natural ease and personal flair has captured the attention of modeling agents and photographers, and she’s now represented by several agencies.

One local photographer, Carol Ann Garrett of Trenton-based Perfectly Timed Photography, donated her services behind the camera recently at Rags to Riches consignment boutique in Brownstown when Amy met Ms. Michigan 2015, Rachael Adams of Lincoln Park.

The meeting was arranged by shop owner Tina Brossia. It was all about one pageant winner encouraging another.

The event was covered by Fox 2 Detroit.

The Miss Amazing pageant judges base their choice of a winner on applicants’ talent acts and on personal interviews. For her talent act, Amy modeled fall fashions.

“She has quite a talent for putting outfits together,” Janet said. “I think she won just by her charm and the way she knows how to work a crowd.”

For the state pageant, Amy donned the same dress she wore to the Jo Brighton prom a few years ago. But for the national pageant, a new dress was needed. So she and her mom went to Rags to Riches. The boutique is a place

Janet and Amy visit quite often. They know Tina, and Amy loves to try on beautiful clothes.

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“I like twirling (with the dress on),” Amy said. “I like the sparkle.”

So Janet put a down payment on the dress.

“Tina said even if I couldn’t afford it, she’d let us borrow it,” she said. “My thought was that because Amy was so in love with the dress, there was no borrowing.”

Janet posted about it online, and someone who read about the dress paid it off anonymously for Amy. After learning that the dream dress was truly hers, Amy went to her room, fetched her big, white piggy bank, handed it to her mother and said she wanted to help other girls get a dress, too.

“Amy’s got the biggest heart,” Janet said. “She has literally just given things away because somebody else loved it and it made them happy.”

Tina said: “Amy brought her piggybank in here and asked if she could keep it in the store and ask for donations to help other girls in need of a little extra change to be pretty. That’s how she worded it.”

Amy’s piggy bank is at Rags to Riches, 23549 Telegraph Road, with a flyer she and her mother created asking Amy Douglas for donations to help girls short of funds purchase their own dream dresses. The first Photos by Carol Ann Garrett/Perfectly Timed Photography recipient of the fund will be taste,” Janet said with a laugh. “We a girl from Jo Brighton, in accordance started looking at ball gowns, and Amy with Amy’s wishes. She loves Jo found one she loved — a purple one.”

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Last year, Dr. Noel Jackson of Jackson Snider Parker Dentistry in Trenton asked Amy if she’d be an elf at the practice’s annual holiday party.

“Every year, they’ve had a huge Christmas party for kids with presents and Santa and everything,” Janet said.

Clothes-loving Amy actually had an elf costume in her wardrobe, and she put it to good use working as an elf at the charity party.

“She was super excited,” Janet said. “She loves little kids.”

But this year, because of Covid, the party has been canceled. However, Amy still wants to be an elf and help children in some way. So she and her mother have chosen three charities to benefit through an online fundraiser — South Rockwoodbased Children with Hair Loss; Farmington Hillsbased Jay’s Juniors, a program created by radio station WNIC to grant the wishes of chronically or terminally ill children; and the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor where Janet works.

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I like modeling, acting, singing and dancing. I’ve been dancing since I was a little kid. I love going to concerts.”

One memorable concert for Amy and Janet was a few years ago when Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall was performing at a bar in Detroit. Amy and her mother were seated in the very front.

“Of course, Amy had to wear this coat that was total glitter,” Janet said. “All of a sudden, KT came up to her and high-fived her and asked her name.

Amy told her and then she said, ‘Let’s hear it for Amy.’ Everybody in the whole room was chanting ‘Amy, Amy, Amy.’ Her drummer gave Amy the drumsticks at the end of the concert. It was so, so cute. She was dancing right up against the stage.

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Amy has a full, active life. Besides modeling, she sells Avon products, and she has a boyfriend and a group of girlfriends she goes out with, her mother said.

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Strange football season comes to a close for Roosevelt Hank Minckiewicz Wyandotte Warrior

A weird and winning season concluded for the Roosevelt football team with a 27-14 Michigan High School Athletic Association state playoff loss to Oak Park on Nov. 13.

It was the Bears’ first on-field loss of the season. They forfeited a game earlier in the year to Anderson when a COVID outbreak left the Bears unable to play. Wyandotte also had a midseason “no-contest” when both Allen Park and Wyandotte suffered outbreaks and the Bears lost games against Riverview, Edsel Ford and Trenton when the start of the 2020 season was delayed by a Governor’s Order.

In all, the Bears were 6-2 and 4-1 in Downriver League play.

Roosevelt’s season ended on its home field on Nov. 13, when the Knights scored three first-quarter touchdowns and played keep away with the Bears the rest of the night.

Roosevelt got into the end zone twice in the second half, but could never catch up.

Prior to the Oak Park loss, the Bears had little trouble dispatching their first two playoff opponents. Roosevelt clobbered Downriver League foe Lincoln Park 54-7 in the first round and handled Detroit Renaissance with ease 38-13 in the second round.

The Lincoln Park game was a laugher all the way as the Bears scored 14 points in the first quarter, 21 in the second and led 35-0 at halftime.

Senior quarterback Jalen Pitchford had a brilliant game, tossing two touchdown passes, running for one and scoring on a pass interception return.

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Richard Clark and Jalen Jackson caught Pitchford’s scoring throws.

Clark finished the night with three catches for 78 yards.

On the ground, Elvis Velverde led the way with 106 yards and a score.

Fullback Logan McGraw also had a rushing touchdown.

It was more of the same in the district semifinal as the Bears cruised past Renaissance.

Pitchford had three more touchdown passes and again scored on an interception return. He threw for 216 yards. Anthony Peterson caught two touchdown passes and finished the night with three catches for 97 yards.

McGraw caught the other TD pass.

Cam Garrison matched Pitchford with a pass interception returned for a touchdown and placekicker Pat Schilk booted a field goal.

Roosevelt 30, Carlson 29 OT Roosevelt wrapped up a share of the Downriver League title on the last night of the regular season. The Bears shared the crown with Carlson and 2019 champ Woodhaven.

Pitchford scored the Roosevelt touchdown in overtime and then ran in the two-point conversion for the win.

It was his second touchdown of the night. The Roosevelt senior carried the ball 26 times in the game and passed it 26 more. He had 111 rushing yards and passed for 118 more.

McGraw scored the other two Wyandotte touchdowns on short runs.

Peterson and Clark each caught three passes in the win.

Defensively, Peterson had 10 tackles and a pass interception, Logan had 11 tackles and Clark had two tackles for a loss. Clark and David Cerda each recovered a fumble.

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There were 246 girls in that race.

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Makuch, Rankine and Cost earned their spots in the state meet with their efforts at regionals run at Lake Erie Metropark on Oct. 31.

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Cost was 16th among the girls with a time of 20:31.

This year, because of COVIDrelated precautions, teams had to qualify for regionals by running in a pre-regional. Both the Wyandotte boys and girls finished among the top four teams at the pre-regional to earn a place in regionals.

In the pre-regional meet, also run at Lake Erie, the Roosevelt boys were fourth with 91 points, finishing behind Woodhaven, Dearborn aad Carlson.

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