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ReLeaf, Wyandotte, DTE add trees to Waterfront Park The city of Wyandotte, in conjunction with DTE and ReLeaf Michigan, planted 20 new trees at BASF Waterfront Park on Sept.

25. The goal is to increase the overall tree canopy in the park built on reclaimed factory land, while providing significant health and environmental benefits.

On hand for the event were city officials, including Wyandotte DPS Assistant Superintendent Brian Martin, Marvin Pettway and Jake Fleishans of ReLeaf and Barbara Rykwalder, DTE Regional Manager of Corporate and Government Affairs.

ReLeaf Michigan is a statewide volunteer non-profit tree planting and education organization.

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ReLeaf will be back Downriver on Nov. 6, planting 20 tree in Ecorse.

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Two original gowns created by award-winning Riverview fashion designer Cheryl Zemke were among the styles modeled during September’s New York Fashion Week.

For a fashion designer, showing during Fashion Week in NYC is a little like playing in the Super Bowl for a football player. New York Fashion Week is the biannual event of many runway shows and presentations for press, buyers and the public that highlight designers’ collections from all over the world for the next fashion season.

Zemke’s two styles were among a collection of 15 looks from various Detroit-area designers in an avant garde bridal wear presentation Sept. 11 at the Warwick Hotel by fashion group Detroit Is Your Couture during the SMGlobal Catwalk.

Zemke, owner of Cheryl

Zemke Boutique, 2938 Biddle Ave. in downtown Wyandotte, made sure Detroit was well represented. One of her designs, a long white satin gown, has a silhouette of the Ambassador Bridge in front of a detailed Detroit skyline – all handembroidered on the hem. The other look has a hand-beaded peacock applique at the waistline.

Both gowns are available to see and/or purchase at the shop.

She flew to NYC the day before the show, and then went to the venue early Sept. 11, the day of the show, to choose models, determine their lineup and make any last-minute repairs or changes necessary.

One unexpected hitch came about because of NYC’s new mandate that anyone at an indoor entertainment event must show proof of Covid-19 vaccination, Zemke said.

The requirement shrunk the pool of models the designers expected to be able to use for the show, so they had to use the same girls (the models usually are ages 14-18) over and over,

having them make quick changes in between presentations.

Nevertheless, the whole experience was a “pretty cool adventure,” Zemke said. “Just being there and doing fashion shows after the whole 18 months of nothing going on (because of Covid) was great. It was nice to see people come out and support the show.”

With the help of model Snow Daly, Zemke was able to do a photo shoot of her designs in Times Square after the show.

“That was a dream come true,” she said.

Zemke has a degree in marketing from Lawrence Technological University and a degree in merchandising management from the International Academy of Design Technology. In 2014, she was named as one of the top 10 “Designers to Watch” in the Detroit area by StyleLine magazine. She opened her Wyandotte boutique last fall.

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There were 130 members in attendance to honor the many accomplishments of their club through the years. Current President Sam Randazzo presided at this event.

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Rock and Roll never forgets

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Mick Jagger once called Bob Harris of Southgate “the oldest Rolling Stones fan in America.”

That was 1999 when Harris was 69. Today he’s 91.

He first met the Stones in Detroit during their second tour in 1965. He was then publisher of The Teen News, and he had a photo taken with the band. When he met them 25 years later, he had them autograph the picture.

In the 1970s, he published Extra, another entertainment newspaper. Through that work; through various side gigs promoting bands, singers and concerts; and through his own brand of friendly, bullheaded tenacity, Harris has met a lot of big names over the years.

He sums up his secret to success with six words: “Don’t take no for an answer.”

In 2008, Harris and co-author John Douglas Peters, wrote “Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s” – one of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series.

The book is full of vintage photos – many from Harris’ own collection – of entertainers, and includes disc jockeys, concert venues and descriptions of the way things were. The picture of Harris with the Stones is the book’s cover image. He did a book signing and brought some of his photos to a recent event at McGuckin’s Pub in Taylor, where he hangs out occasionally, regaling younger patrons with his stories.

A great-great-grandfather today, Harris loves to talk about his extraordinary life.

He was born in 1930 and adopted by Jean Harris, who never told him anything about his birth parents. A few years ago, a family friend got a DNA kit for him to help him look for his family roots. Eventually, he found the names of his mother and father, who were from Massachusetts, and five siblings – all deceased.

But why he ended up adopted is still a mystery, he said.

Harris was very young when he moved with his mother from New York City to Chicago. He tells tales of growing up around gangsters, and once getting shot in the leg by a neighborhood gang member. In 1941, when he was 11, he and his mother moved to Detroit.

Shortly thereafter, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

“When the war started, I was sitting in front of a radio,” Harris said. “That’s what you did in those days: You sat on the floor in front of the radio. I said, ‘Man, I’m going into the service to help my country.’”

A few years later, that’s what he did.

Harris quit school – “worst mistake I ever made” – and used the birth certificate of a neighbor’s son who had died to fake being older and get a job at Hudson Motor Car Co. in Detroit. Then he ran away from home and joined the Merchant Marines. He was 14. A year later, he enlisted in the Naval Reserve in Detroit, and almost a year after that, joined the Army and

shipped out to Japan, occupied then by U.S. troops. He was 16 and attached to the 46th Engineer Construction Battalion at an airbase west of Yokohama.

After his military service, he went back to work for Hudson Motor Car. “I went there and the guy said, ‘We’re not hiring.’

But when he found out I was in the service, he gave me

a job,” Harris said. “I was there for about six years.”

In 1949, he married Hope Seftis. He was 19. A few years later when Hudson Car’s finances began to sink, Harris was laid off.

“Then I bounced around from job to job,” he said.

“I was married and had kids. I did everything I could to take care of my family. I worked for a furniture company in the daytime, and cleaned a bar at night after they closed. I had no trade. I never got out of the sixth grade.”

Then he was hired as a salesman for a newspaper

called Panorama. The owner wanted to start a teen publication, and hired Harris to sell advertising for it.

“I started going to all these teen clubs and getting the ads, but he reneged on paying me,” Harris said. “That’s when I started my own. I knew all these people, so I went back and lo and behold they all bought ads from me. I jumped right in. It was the early 1960s, and all the record companies were here then – Capitol, Columbia, RCA. They heard about my paper and started calling me. They started sending me records and photographs and wanting stories on all these artists. I’d go there and interview them.”

With The Teen News and later with Extra, Harris met hundreds of entertainers besides his beloved Rolling Stones. He met Frank Sinatra, the Supremes, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations and Smokey Robinson, just to name a few.

He still loves the Stones, but another favorite celebrity he met is comedian Bob Hope, who used to be a regular headliner at the Michigan State Fair. It was the early 1970s when Harris met him there.

“I had my newspaper Extra then, so I went there and I was late,” Harris said. “I was running up the stairs and I bumped into somebody, said ‘excuse me,’ and kept on going. I met the manager there and Bob Hope was there.”

Harris realized the man he’d bumped into was the star himself. They talked, Extra’s photographer took some shots, and then Harris introduced his wife – there to enjoy the fair – to the comedian.

“I said, ‘Bob, I’ve been promoting you for a long time. My name is Bob and my wife’s name is Hope.’

He laughed about it,” Harris said.

A police car was on hand to take the star back to his hotel after the show, and Harris convinced Hope to get in the back and act like he was being arrested for a photo. The comedian loved it. The two of them were riding together back to the hotel, when Hope said he wanted a hamburger. The police officer stopped at a little restaurant and went in to eat with Harris and Hope.

“All of a sudden the people in the kitchen started coming up to the little serving window, and pretty soon some lady came up and said, ‘I want your autograph.’

The cop said, ‘Hey, he’s eating, don’t come over here.’

So we had lunch and when we were leaving, 10 people went to that booth where we were sitting and took everything – the napkins, the salt shaker – everything.”

Hope was one of the nicest celebrities Harris met.

He also speaks highly of singer Bobby Vinton – “He became a real good friend of mine” – and Academy Award winner Sidney Portier – “He said I’d be welcome to come to his house in the Bahamas.”

“One of the bad people is Redd Foxx,” Harris said.

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Continued from page 12 to meet the man in the late 1980s, when Foxx (who died in 1991) lost everything to the IRS for back taxes. R&B singer Geno Washington, whom Harris promoted, called him about setting up a fundraiser for Foxx. Arrangements were made, and Foxx came to town for the event.

“I went to the airport and picked him up,” Harris said. “He had a comedian, Slappy White, traveling with him. We got to the hotel and his rooms weren’t ready. We waited, and then Slappy goes up to the counter and said, ‘Where the hell is our room?’”

A big commotion ensued when people realized Foxx was there, and finally the police were called to disperse the crowd. Foxx and White eventually got their room.

“Redd Foxx had the most terrible attitude through it all,” Harris said.

“He never said a word to anybody. He was very unfriendly, and here we were raising some money for him.”

Harris swore off the music business in the late 1970s after Three Ounces of

Love, a rising trio of sisters he was managing, left him abruptly after he got the group a gig in a New York City showcase.

The Commodores performed there, too, and the sisters were wooed by and joined the group’s management team. The contractual conflict that ensued led to a failed lawsuit. But it was the betrayal of the sisters, of whom he was fond, that stung more than the money he lost.

“Them girls hurt me so bad,” Harris said. “It hurt me so bad that I got out of it.”

Since then, he’s survived colon, prostate and skin cancer. He and his wife divorced. But Harris stays busy and enjoys his life.

In 2012, DuMouchelle Art Galleries

held an auction of some of his rock memorabilia.

Some of his collected photos also are on display at the Detroit Historical Museum.

In 2016 at the age of 86 – along with four younger family members and an 84-year-old friend – Harris jumped out of an airplane. Five generations of his family were there to cheer him on.

The skydiving stunt was covered by radio and TV stations as well as print publications. Living up to his status as the oldest Rolling Stones fan, Harris initially planned to make his skydive into Comerica Park during a Stones concert. He couldn’t get permits.

In 2019, he was invited by the Gary Sinese Foundation’s Soaring Valor organization to attend a three-day

reception for veterans at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

“They were sending vets to New Orleans, all expenses paid,” Harris said.

“So I went.”

In 2021, he told a Gary Sinese Foundation writer: “That’s one of the best trips I ever had in my whole entire life. I loved it. They treated us like the president of the United States.”

The foundation recently sent him a gift package that included a photo album of his trip, a Bob Hope DVD and other items. A video of Harris opening the package is featured on the foundation’s website, as well as a story about him.

Harris knows his life has been extraordinary.

“I’ve lived the life of three people,” Harris said. “Right now I’m trying to find a person who will do a documentary or another book with me.”

And he offers this advice: “The first thing is – whatever you do, don’t quit school. I am very sad that I never went to school and got a formal education. The next thing is – if you really want to succeed, don’t take no for an answer.

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City recognizes Chelsea owner

Recently the city of Wyandotte honored Gilbert Rose, owner of Chelsea Menswear and Tuxedo with an Outstanding Business Owner Award. Chelsea has been an anchor of the Downtown business district for decades and recently celebrated 75 years in business.

The Gold Coast is not just for Africa anymore Peter Rose Wyandotte Warrior

I saw one of those silly Facebook questions that asked us to pick two to get rid of: Apple, Starbucks, Amazon or Facebook. The first comments I saw did not include Amazon. So, I scrolled, and saw none. This tells me that everyone wants Amazon. It tells me that my efforts to educate people are ignored completely.

I’ve said it all already, many times. To your probable relief, I will stay off the topic for a while, except to beg you: As you read this, we are in the most critical quarter of the year now. October through December for retailers and restaurants and bars is so important for the overall health of your local economy that I can’t overstate it. Amazon gained market share in 2020. It is up huge. They have no intention of giving back that share.

But you call the shots, not them. If you don’t shop there, there’s nothing they can do. You have the power.

In my first efforts to share the concept of localism, I used the phrase Think Local First. Over the years, for me, that phrase morphed into Local Only.

Once I learned, it became harder to direct any money to corporate imitation retailers and restaurants. In trying to share that ideal, others have taken up that gauntlet as well.

Shop Local, Dine Local, Drink Local, Bank Local, all are being used extensively, and the evidence from this one perspective is that it is working. The comments I get from more and more first-time visitors to our stores is more

and more common. “I hate the malls; I hate shopping online.”

I’ve said it before: You can’t get what independents offer at any national chain, of any type. Within that statement are variables, of course. Some are better than others. But you cannot experience what you experience at Glow Fish or Abundant Living or Up and Down or Whiskeys or Waterfront at any other national copycats that see great ideas and try to steal them.

My mission is to push back against the inferior alternatives of corporate invaders. I hope to get more and more

see it and how it is perceived by folks from anywhere but here.

Candidly, I think that those of upper income tiers feel that if they can afford expensive goods, they should have expensive goods, and they believe that in order to get those “better” things, they have to go to Somerset or anywhere else that offers them.

In the case of apparel, I do recognize that Zegna, Armani, Tom Ford and many others are cachet brands that carry a lot of social bragging rights, and by and large, they are very good products (well beyond my own price/value

people on that mission with me, and it is working.

That’s the last I’ll rant on the topic.

Try to do your shopping and dining and special ordering where you maximize the power of your dollars this holiday, for your sake as well as the entire local and independent network of businesses that nobody wants to see fail.

For the rest of this article, I want to focus on the term “Downriver”; how we

calculus, but not for others). As such, I hope you know, I never ask folks to buy above or below their means, nor does any other local business. I ask folks to simply think local first, and to keep their money in this Gold Coast region of Downriver.

Where it works far beyond the simple question of whether you get what you want or not. That purchase locally pays for local resident’s employment,

for engagement with local charities and schools, and also provides ripple effect benefits for several echo bands.

Your money, your decision makes a real difference.

Trenton, Grosse Ile, Southgate, Riverview and Wyandotte are unique in our Downriver draw. These towns are further from expressways and locales that bring national chains. These cities are immune to the close proximity of parasitic invaders of the “local business market share” snatchers. We are not immune by any stretch to the devastating loss of working capital to the internet, but that brings me back too close to that thing I said I wouldn’t dwell on.

What I want to focus on is the fantastic array of local and independent businesses of all kinds in this Gold Coast region (really not being a snob, just focusing heavily on how good we have it).

They all survive and flourish because of the support they get because they are great. Taken together, it is hard to see the grass on the other side of the fence as being greener. They stay great because they own our loyalty.

Add the aspect of the greater good, the bigger picture, and you see a thriving region, tucked away, safe and sound and awesome.

I wouldn’t move away from here.

But it can always be better.

Thousands have never been in our stores, for instance, nor have they eaten at Joe’s Hamburgers or The Iron Gate or The Vault. Acting together businesses that want to serve residents, and residents needing to shop and eat at places like these, it will just keep accelerating.

60 years!

Members of the Wyandotte Roosevelt High School graduating class of 1961 gathered recently to celebrate their 60th class reunion. Photographer Jim Jacek was on hand to capture the moment as surviving classmates recalled their high school years six decades ago.

Photo by Jim Jacek

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The Gabriel Richard Open House is on Sunday, November 14, 2021. Open House is an event for families interested in joining the GR community to tour the school, as well as meet and talk to current students, administrators, and teachers. This is also a tremendous opportunity to ask questions about the school and the collegepreparatory curriculum.

If you are interested in attending or have any questions about the Gabriel Richard admissions process, you can contact Brendan Johnson, Director of Admissions, at 734284-3636.

The Gabriel Richard theater program is preparing for their production of The Addams Family.

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Bacon Library has special hours during Thanksgiving Open at 1 p.m. on Nov. 20 for Thanksgiving Day Parade Closing at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 24 Closed Thursday, Nov. 25 - Sunday, Nov. 28 Story Times Please register in person, online at baconlibrary. org, or by phone at 734-246-8357. Due to capacity restrictions you will need to register each week.

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Check back frequently to see what’s new. Don’t want to make a mess at home, check out our makerspace room. This month: Wyandotte Historical Tour, Fall Wreath, Book Club In A Bag: Written in Bone

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Scavenger Hunt: DINOvember! will be available in the library from November 8-24. Locate the Dinosaurs hiding in the library for a small prize.

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Wyandotte Historical Society: Dan Galeski presents Wyandotte Toys is Friday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. Dan Galeski will give a talk on Wyandotte Toys and display some of his collection.

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AAUW looking for STEM-related speakers for Spring 2022 event The local American Association of University Women (AAUW), Downriver Branch held its first planning session last month to set the stage for the 2022 STEM SAVVY Symposium annual event, which had been cancelled the last two years because of the COVID pandemic.

The 2022 event is scheduled for Thursday, May 12, 2022, at the Wayne County Community College Downriver campus on Northline Road in Taylor.

The event will host 125 girls from the 19 Downriver middle schools for a day of STEM inspired seminars and activities.

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They’re creepy and they’re kooky …

Halloween used to just be a time for kids to dress up one night a year and beg for candy. Not anymore. Halloween had developed into a full-blown decoration-fest with residents going all out to make their house the creepiest and spookiest on the block. Here are some fine examples of Wyandotte Halloween craftsmanship.

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Wyandotte’s Makuch runs to gold at area meet Roosevelt’s Michael Makuch made his case as Downriver’s top runner by winning the Gabriel Richard Invitational against the other top runners in the area.

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Hello, Michael Makuch, Downriver champion.

Makuch, a junior at Roosevelt, ran to first-place showing at the Gabriel Richard Cross Country Invitational on Oct. 9 at Young Patriots Park in Riverview.

The Richard event is the remnant of the old News-Herald All-Downriver Championship and almost all of Downriver’s schools still attend.

Schools from Dearborn and Dearborn Heights are now also in the field.

And Makuch beat them all.

Running in beautiful sunny, cool conditions on a waterlogged track, Makuch trailed a pair of DearbornHigh runners through the first two miles of the race and then turned on the jets over the course of the last mile and ran away with the win.

Makuch pulled away from the field and won with a time of 17 minutes, 59 seconds. He was the only runner to break the 18-minute mark. Dearborn’s Sam Roberts was a distant second in 18:14 and Riverview’s Logan Ruffner was third in 18:15.

Although the weather was nice for the race, the course was not. Drenched by a night-long rain the previous evening, the Young Patriots course was under water in areas and because the boys ran after the girls, the course was trampled and muddy. None of that seemed to bother Makuch, who added another line to his impressive and growing resume.

Makuch, who was a Division 1 state meet qualifier last year, was first at the second Downriver League Jamboree and second at the first league jamboree and the Monroe Jefferson Invitational, among other strong finishes at competitive races this year.

Makuch’s win at the Richard Invitational helped carry the Bears to a fourth-place overall finish. His running mate, Sam Rankine, was sixth overall with a time of 18:23. Ethan Johnson (19:28), Lucas Pratt (20:12) and Christian Mendez (20:44) finished the scoring for Roosevelt.

Riverview won the team race with 50 points, followed by Dearborn with 87, Woodhaven with 103 and Wyandotte with 116.

Wyandotte’s girls were third in their race, led by an outstanding run

by Aubrey Migoski, who was third overall with a time of 20:52. She trailed only winner Lisa Lueke of Allen Park (19:39) and Woodhaven’s Briana Vojinov (20:45).

Woodhaven won the girls title with 31 points, followed by Allen Park with 62 and Wyandotte with 117.

Following Migoski home for Roosevelt were Mercedes Dziendziel (23:29), Paige Chinavre (24:10), Stevie Pizzo (24:28) and Rianne Zagor (25:37).

At the second Downriver League Jamboree held at Council Point Park in Lincoln Park, the Bear boys and girls dotted the top of the scoring sheet and the Roosevelt Bears finished second overall and the girls were third.

Makuch won the boys race with a time of 16:52 and he was followed by second-place teammate Rankine, who clocked 17:05.

Woodhaven won the meet with 44 points, Wyandotte was second with 69, followed by Allen Park (77), Trenton (104), Carlson 115) and Southgate (123).

Pratt, Johnson and Riley Greene were Wyandotte’s final three scorers.

In the girls race, Samantha Cost was second overall to Allen Park Lueke.

Lueke ran 19:23 to Cost’s 19:30.

Vojinov (19:40) was third. Migoski had another fine finish, taking fourth place in 20:06. Finishing the scoring for the Bears were Dziendziel, Chinavare and Pizzo.

Woodhaven won the meet with 32 points, Allen Park had 56, Wyandotte had 64, Calson had 90 and Southgate had 114.

The Bears finished the season on Oct. 21 at the Downriver League Championships at Lake Erie Metropark and they will be back at Lake Erie on Oct. 30 for the Michigan Hoigh School Athletic Association Division 1 state regionals.

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Rollercoaster Bears get back on the winning side Hank Minckiewicz Wyandotte Warrior

The Roosevelt football team battled fierce first-half rain and a determined Dearborn Edsel Ford team on Oct. 15 and came away with a hard-fought 19-7 road win over the Thunderbirds.

The win evened Roosevelt’s record at 4-4 and kept alive their hopes for a 16th-straight Michigan High School Athletic Association state playoff berth.

In the past, all teams with six victories automatically qualified for the state playoffs, with a few 5-4 teams usually rounding out the field.

This year the MHSAA has instituted a formula based on games played and strength of schedule, meaning six wins is no longer a threshold. After the win over Edsel Ford, the Bears found themselves with 46.125 points, 31st in the 32-team Division 2 field.

That made the Bears’ final game against Trenton a must-win for Wyandotte. The Bears and Trojans played Oct. 22. The state playoffs start Oct. 29.

The game against Edsel was anything but easy or comfortable.

At times in the first half the rain was pouring down in sheets. Roosevelt’s answer? Run the ball.

The Bears kept giving the ball to running back De’Andre Bell and the senior responded with a breakout kind of a night. The 6-foot, 200 pound back battered the Edsel Ford defense for 168 rushing yards on 27 carries. He also scored two of his team’s three touchdowns.

Roosevelt owed its first touchdown completely to Bell, who carried four times and covered 73 yards.

With Roosevelt starting at its own 27-yard line on its second possession of the night and with the rain falling in buckets, Bell took a handoff and raced 38 yards. Two more runs by Bell netted seven more yards and on his fourth straight carry of the drive, Bell bolted 28 yards into the end zone. A missed extra point left Roosevelt with a 6-0 lead.

That lead stood up until just before halftime when Edsel Ford stunned the Bears with a 30-yards scoring pass

Lineman Darrell Harper (57) celebrates one of his team’s three touchdowns Photo by Larry Caruso

and a point-after to take a 7-6 lead just 35 seconds before the intermission.

The T-Birds could not hold the lead, however, as Wyandotte scored 13 second-half points, while its defense threw a blanket over the Edsel Ford

offense.

The skies cleared at halftime and the second half was played in fine conditions, although Edsel’s synthetic turf field remained wet and slippery.

Roosevelt regained the lead on a

tough 10-yard run by Mike Stathakis, on his only carry of the night. The point-after made it 13-6.

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The Bears finished the night with 248 rushing yards. In addition to Bell, Elvis Valverde added 43 yards on nine carries and quarterback Jason Pente had one carry for 27 yards.

The Bears threw the ball rarely and when they did, they often threw it short, Pente completed five of his 10 passes to five different receivers for 72 yards.

The longest pass was a 28-yarder to Gordo Gonzalez.

Although the Bears found themselves with a dead-even 4-4 record after the Edsel Ford game, the season has been anything but even. It has been more like a rollercoaster ride, with the team up one week and down the next. The season started with back-to-back losses to Allen Park and non-league Waterford Mott, followed by back-to-back wins over Southgate and Taylor. The Bears then suffered one-sided losses to Carlson and Woodhaven, sandwiched around a blowout victory over Lincoln Park.

In the 56-14 win over Lincoln Park, sophomore running back Max Biundo had 138 yards rushing and three touchdowns on just nine carries and Gonzalez had four pass receptions for 105 yards and a touchdown.

In the 17-6 win over Taylor, Roosevelt ran 30 more plays in the game and had 12 more first downs than the Griffins. Bell went over 100 yards with 104 and scored both his team’s touchdowns. Valverde added 78 rushing yards.

Against Carlson and Woodhaven there were few highlights as the Bears got into the end zone just once and suffered a 42-7 loss to Calrosn and a 50-0 loss to Woodhaven.

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Bears win Downriver League tennis meet, D2 regional The 2021 season was a banner one for the Roosevelt tennis team.

The Bear boys won the Downriver League championship, a Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 2 regional championship and finished 11th at the D2 state finals.

The highlight of the season was the regional, where the Bears won six of eight flights and scored 28 points to claim the regional trophy. Carlson, which also qualified for the state finals, was a distant second with 16 points.

The rest of the region finished this way: Trenton 16, Temperance Bedford 10, Carleton Airport 9, Allen Park 8, Gabriel Richard 3, Ypsilanti Lincoln 3 and Lincoln Park 0.

Wyandotte won all four doubles flights at the regional tournament, as well as the No.3 and No. 4 singles flights.

At No. 3 singles Jack Vaduva beat Carlson’s Aden Brake 6-3, 6-3 in the finals. In the semifinal round, Vaduva swamped Allen Park’s Nick Corona (6-1, 6-1) and Brake knocked off Trenton’s Luke Vallar (6-3, 6-4).

At No. 4 singles sophomore Emmet Oswald beat Trenton’s Jay Cormier (6-4, 6-0) in the championship match.

Oswald advanced to the finals with

a semifinal win over Allen Park’s Connor Mulligan (6-1, 6-0). Cormier won a three-set match over Carlson’s Landon Angelos (6-2, 4-6, 6-1).

Alex Moon and Cole Beaubien of Roosevelt triumphed at No. 1 doubles over Trenton’s Connor Mauritho and Daxton Lucidi (6-1, 6-1). Moon and Beaubien got to the championship match with a win over Airport’s Carlos Mandoza and Aiden Self (6-0, 6-4). Mauritho and Lucidi defeated Carlson’s Mason Willis and Shivam Patel (6-2, 4-6, 6-2).

Roosevelt’s Colton Winn and Tom Lipp prevailed at No. 2 doubles.

The team beat Ian McFarland and Danny Nutter (6-4, 6-2) of Trenton in the finals. Winn and Lipp defeated Bedford’s Brady Pridgeon and J Rupli (6-1, 6-1) in the semifinal round, while McFarland and Nutter beat Airport’s Clayton Mays and Aiden Clearo (6-2, 6-2).

At No. 3 doubles, the Roosevelt pair of Josh Mills and Gavin Daum beat Carlson’s Nick Riley and John Hojnowski (6-1, 6-4). Mills and Daum knocked off Trenton’s Steven Zanetti and Keegan Airgood (6-2, 4-6, 6-2) in the semis, while Riley and Hojnowski moved on by slamming Tyler and Cody Sype of Airport (6-1, 6-1).

Wyandotte’s state meet participants No. 1 Singles Hudson Hill No. 2 Singles Sammy Oswald No. 3 Singles Jack Vaduva No. 4 Singles Emmet Oswald No. 1 Doubles Alex Moon / Cole Beaubien No. 2 Doubles Colton Winn / Tom Lipp No. 3 Doubles Josh Mills / Gavin Daum No. 4 Doubles Aiden Kuzma / Daniel Hickey Aiden Kuzma and Daniel Hickey won in the No. 4 doubles championship, outlasting Trenton’s Sal Verduce and Braden Yurkunas (36, 6-3, 6-3). Kuzma and Hickey beat Allen Park’s Tyler Bunse and Miles Boroks (6-0, 6-0.) in the semifinals.

Verduce and Yurkunas defeated Carter Ryan and Taylor Burgermeister of Bedford (6-2, 6-4) in the other semifinal.

At the state meet, Roosevelt won three matches, scored six points and finished 11th, which was right in the middle of the 21-team field.

Emmet Oswald had a first-round bye and then beat JD Hawthorne of East Lansing 6-1, 6-2. At No. 4 singles. Oswald bowed out of the tournament in the next round with

a loss to Logan Yu of Midland (6-1, 6-2).

At No. 2 doubles Winn and Lipp also had a first-round bye and then edged Legacy Henry and Darren Pagel of Auburn Hills Avondale (7-5, 6-4).

In the next round, Winn and Lipp were defeated by Forest Hills Northern’s Aaryan Singh and Anderson Halland (6-0, 6-2), who went on to win the state title.

The No. 4 doubles team of Kuzma and Hickey had a first-round and then beat Avondale’s Andrew Song and Dhruv Thakur (6-1, 6-0). Kuzma and Hickey then lost to Sam Owens and Stephen Cibulas of U-D Jesuit (6-2, 6-3). Owens and Cibulas went on to win the No. 4 doubles state championship.

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