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The first way would be Wayne-Westland to purchase alternative seating teacher Elizabeth Meemic Insurance chose Maureen VanHulle, a and fidget gadgets for my Clark was chosen three Wayne-Westland Com­ Schweitzer Elementary School students. by Meemic munity Schools teachers as teacher, wrote, "I have 27 ac­ “The next would be to buy Insurance as a Classroom Makeover winners. tive students in my class. Each some discovery center items. "Classroom The Toler-Stemen Agency is in need of a whole lot of love, As a new kindergarten teacher, Makeover" resented each of them with a attention, and guidance. Each my classroom does not include winner. 300 check on May 3. one comes to me for new all of the items necessary to Each of the teachers sub­ knowledge every day, and it is enhance the educational expe­ mitted an essay on how they my passion to instill the love or rience of my students.” would use the funds to improve learning in each growing mind. their classrooms. “If I were to get this grant, I See MAKEOVERS, Page A2 Genital cutting probe targets doctors’ daughters Tresa Baidas Detroit Free Press The federal government’s investigation into female gen­ ital mutilation has gripped a small Indian Muslim communi­ ty in fear as many of the group’s young girls have been interrogated and medically checked for genital cutting in recent weeks. They include the daughters of the accused Livonia doctors at the center of the historic case. Multiple sources familiar with the case told the Detroit Free Press that in the wake of allegations that a local doctor cut the genitals of two Minne­ sota girls, the federal govern­ ment and Child Protective Services have targeted several families in the Dawoodi Bohra community, which has long viewed female circumcision as a religious tradition. They say several young Bohra girls have been pulled out of class with­ out their parents’ knowledge, JOHN HEIDER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER questioned by CPS about gen­ Livonia Olive Garden general manager Danielle Cleary stops by to chat with customers, including Patricia Johnson and Barbara Bovia, right, during ital mutilation and eventually their April 27 lunch at the restaurant on Middlebelt north of 1-96. Cleary has worked her way up to a management spot since she began as a hostess subjected to medical exams to at age 16. check for cutting. Sources say among the girls who have undergone such exams is the 11-year-old daugh­ ter of Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, Former hostess now manages who is charged with cutting the genitals of two Minnesota girls at a Livonia clinic in Feb­ ruary; and the 8-year-old daughter of Dr. Fakhruddin popular Italian restaurant Attar, who is charged with letting Nagarwala use his clin­ ic to carry out the procedures. Matt Jachman ager of the Olive Garden in ford suited her: It was close pany ladder, working as a Several Bohra families hometownlife.com Livonia. to home (she grew up in Pon­ hostess, server and trainer, whose daughters were ordered The Canton Township resi­ tiac), put her people skills to and then moving into man­ to undergo these medical ex­ When she started working dent, who has also run Olive use (she was an usher at her agement. ams have retained their own as a hostess at a Red Lobster Garden locations in Ann Ar­ church) and was familiar to “We are always looking to attorneys but are afraid to talk, at age 16, Danielle Cleary bor and Novi, oversees a her, as she had frequented it develop people,” Cleary said according to the lawyers. didn’t envision a restaurant management team of three with her family. recently at her restaurant. Defense lawyers, mean­ career. She wanted to be a people and a staff of more Her company, Darden “You’re able to be recognized while, are questioning the school teacher. than 100 at the popular loca­ Restaurants, found some­ for what you do.” government’s tactics in a case Seventeen years later, tion on Middlebelt just north thing, too. Three years later, She became a trainer who that they say is wreaking hav­ Cleary is still with restau­ of Schoolcraft Road. while employed at the Olive helped open new Olive Gar- oc on an otherwise quiet, dis- rants — and a teacher of sorts Cleary found that first job Garden in Auburn Hills, Cle­ as well — as the general man­ at the Red Lobster in Water­ ary began climbing the com­ See MANAGER, Page A2 See PROBE, Page A3 hometownlife.com © The Observer & Eccentric CONTACT US Volume 52 • Number 102 Call 866-887-2737. Press 1) for Classified, Death Notices; 2) Retail Advertising; 3) Billing, Subscription, Back Copies, Delivery Issues; 4) leave message 6 53174 98007 6 for newsroom. 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She opened res­ grant to purchase a school students an op­ taurants in Mt. Juliet, class set of the book, portunity to produce a Tenn., and Sioux City, Harriet Tubman: Con­ significant, permanent, Iowa, as well as closer to ductor on the Under­ autobiographical piece home in Brighton. ground Railroad, by of ceramic art. Funds Management also sent Ann Petry. This would from this grant will her to Italy for a week, in enhance my students’ purchase 250 lbs. ce­ 2007, to absorb the cul­ educational experience ramic clay, glazes and ture and experience the because there is an mosaic supplies. Stu­ cuisine there. excerpt in our literature dents will make connec­ “It was really an expo­ series, but to be able to tions between art and a sure to the Italian culture enjoy the entire book variety of core curricu­ and what we attempt to would give them a much lum subjects such as replicate in our restau­ broader picture of what history, science, and rants,” she said. “It was she did in history. This social studies.” bringing our passion to JOHN HEIDER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER is also cross-curricular life.” Danielle Cleary is the general manager of the Livonia Olive Garden restaurant on Middlebelt That Italian culture, near Schoolcraft Road. she said, was warm, gen­ erous and welcoming, Check us out on the Web every and she was always at work by 8 a.m., to start ny is respectful of per­ taken care of. among people who made food preparation and sonal and family time “I think you have to be day at hometownlife.com her feel a part of things, make sure the restaurant and that long hours, com­ passionate to work in the a part of the family. is ready to open. The mon in the restaurant restaurant industry,” Clearly also had man­ doors open at 11 a.m. for business, and emergency Cleary said. agement training locally lunch. phone calls while she’s “We love what we do,” and at the Olive Garden (The food? Cleary’s off duty aren’t an issue. said Karl Shaw, an Olive hometownlife.com support center in Orlan­ partial to Olive Garden’s “When we’re at home Garden director of oper­ shrimp scampi and gives we’re at home. When ations in Michigan. Observer & Eccentric Newspapers part of the usa today network do, where Darden is based. (The Red Lobster high marks to the lasa­ we’re at work we’re at Published Sunday and Thursday by Observer & Eccentric Media brand was spun off from gna and the linguine di work,” she said. [email protected] Darden several years mare.) Still, she’s passionate 734-678-8432 ago.) Cleary, who lives with about her job, she said, Twitter: @mattjachman Newsroom Contacts The Livonia Olive a boyfriend and three and does what’s needed Garden staff is typically children, said her compa­ to make sure diners are Dan Dean, Managing Editor Mobile: 248-396-0706; Email: [email protected] Brad Kadrich, Reporting Coach Mobile: 586-262-9892; Email: [email protected] Beautification project Follow us on Facebook: ©OEHometown benefits seniors As part of the Com­ committing to giving Subscription Rates Home Delivery munity Choice Founda­ back to the state by Newsstand price: $1.50 Sunday Customer Service: 866-887-2737 $5.00 EZ pay per month Mon.-Fri.

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