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It’s Time to Pray, Please Join Us We are a Multicultural Parish Family Sunday English Mass 9 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. Everyone is Welcome to Worship with Us side of school. Each month the class with the May 29 - Sunday of Corpus KMS Reunion Commit - most minutes reading Christi tee “Bull Dog Reading Min - May 30 - Memorial Day Mass at The KMS reunion com - utes” wins a prize. Forest Lawn Cemetery 11 a.m. mittee would like to thank Mrs. Bradley’s 5th May 31 - May Devotion & everyone that attended grade class won during We are an Active the KMS reunion last Sat - the March Reading Con - Parish Serving the Ice Cream Social 7 p.m. urday night. test and celebrated with a Community Walking the halls, visit - pizza party. April class Celebrating 93 Years of Traditional, Catholic, ing the classrooms and winner was Mrs. Bradley’s and Democratic Church spending time reminisc - class for a second month Holy Cross Parish Polish National Catholic Church ing made for a memo - in a row and they cele - 2311 Pulaski, Hamtramck • Very Rev. Jaroslaw Nowak, Pastor rable evening. There was brated with donuts and 313-365-5191 www.HolyCrossPNCC.com even a race on the gym cider. track between former stu - The last day to turn in dents. Bull Dog Reading Minutes The committee would will be June 2 for the Get Yourself also like to thank those month of May. Ms. Baker, who were not able to at - School Librarian, is look - tend but made a contribu - ing forward to tallying up NOTICED! tion to the KMS student the minutes for May and fund. As everyone left announcing the class that Call (313) 874-2100 that night it was said over will earn a pizza party. and over again that this Dickinson West classes should be a yearly event. are competing among n each other to attempt to On Wednesday, KMS be the class with the Leaders students celebrated the least amount of overdue/ in Short-Term end of the school year lost library books. The Rehabilitation with an annual festival class winner be an - held on the front lawn of nounced June 3 and will the school. Students com - earn a popcorn and movie peted in a number of party. games of skills. Kosciuszko and Dickin - Providing quick recovery Some even sharpened son West Library and quality care through their “pie throwing” skills hosted a book giveaway our comprehensive rehabilitation program. with Mr. Semsedini as the on Wednesday, May 25 willing target. during Passport to Learn - StJosephsHealthcare.com ing and the KMS Spring Hamtramck • 313-874-4500 Dickinson West and Festival. Students of all Above: Scenes from the Kosciuszko Middle ages were welcome to se - annual Kosciuszko Mid - School Library News lect books to take home dle School end of the Exciting things are hap - with them. school year festival. pening in the Library at Dickinson West and Hamtramck High School Brejon graduates on June Kosciuszko Middle News 3 and has consistently School. Hamtramck High School demonstrated compas - Dickinson West contin - is proud to announce that sion and a high level of ues to promote at home Brejon Hollis has been se - character throughout her reading as they encour - lected as the Peacemaker career at HHS. She al - age students to read out - of the Month for May. Continued on page 6
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On a smaller scale on looks so much better. When: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 the same night the Ham - See what a little TLC can 12noon -3pm tramck Community Initia - do? tive held its annual public We went home after Where: Hanley International Academy service awards. Before that morning workout and 2400 Denton Street the awards were handed rested up for the main Hamtramck, MI 48212 out participants enjoyed event: the alumni get-to - (Kindergarten classrooms) a fantastic sampling of gether of Kosciuszko Mid - local cuisine. dle School and the public We didn’t stay up too school district in general, Who: For parents and their children who will be five late Friday so we could be held at the school. years old on or before September 1, 2016. up and ready Saturday What a trip back morning to head over to through memory lane. What to expect: Parents and students will meet the Hanley Veterans Park where The good news is every - kindergarten teachers and staff. Parents will media celebrity Mitch Continued on page 8 receive information about Kindergarten at Hanley. Students will play games in each Kindergarten classroom.
— Dr. Myron Lederman — • Heel Pain • Corns, Calluses • Hammer Toes • Bunions • Ingrown Nails • Foot and Ankle Injuries It was time to reminisce at the alumni gathering Sat - Senior and Diabetic Foot Care urday evening at Kosciuszko Middle School. Over 30 Years Experience M In Area M-T-Th-F 9am-4pm • W - Sun closed edicare Covered Movie company’s reenactment ouse Sat - 9am-2pm H Diabetic Calls Please call for appointment Shoes 9731 Jos. Campau • Hamtramck of Detroit riot stirs up memories (313) 872-4076 Continued from front page prompted talk among years old and lives at the cold,” Krula said. “We were very cautious, some who lived here dur - Hamtramck Senior Plaza. Outside, news of the very scared,” she said. ing that time. The riot started in the riot was spreading, and How did the rest of Frances Krula called early morning hours – there was a sense of Hamtramck react at the The Review to recount her technically Sunday morn - panic in the air. time? experience, back on July ing, but basically Saturday Krula remembers hear - To find out we went to 23, 1967. She is now 87 night while most people ing over and over one the Hamtramck Public Li - were asleep. The riot grew word: riot. brary and looked at the and grew during the night “I was crying and the back issues of The Citi - PUBLIC NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING but it wasn’t until later kids were crying,” Krula zen, the former weekly during the day on Sunday said. newspaper that covered Pursuant of Michigan Open Meetings Act, Act. No. 267 of the Public Acts of that word had spread Krula felt paralyzed and Hamtramck. 1976, being Sections 15.261 to 15.275 of the about the scale of it and too afraid to walk alone to Three days after the riot Michigan Compiled Laws. the mounting violence. her home on Casmere. In broke out, The Citizen hit Krula said she had a moment, though, her the streets with that ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES taken her son and daugh - son recognized a friend in week’s issue. Proposed 2016-2017 Budget Public Hearing ter, who were 7 and 10 a passing car. Her son Looking at the front TIME: 12 noon years old respectively at yelled out at the friend’s page you’d hardly know the time, to a movie at the family to stop and take that there was a major riot DATE: June 10, 2016 former Martha Washing - them away. going on in next-door De - LOCATION: Academy of International Studies ton Theatre on Jos. Cam - They did. troit. 3056 Hanley pau just south of Caniff. Once at home, Krula The lead headline on Hamtramck, MI 48212 During the movie some - said, her husband was top of the front page was: thing strange started to outside with the neigh - “Local merchants being A copy of the proposed budget is available for public inspection at happen, she said. One by bors, talking excitedly fleeced by stolen check Academy of International Studies School Board Offices, 20542 Harper Ave., one fellow moviegoers about the riot. passing gang” Harper Woods, MI 48225. Telephone: (313) 347-0026. began to filter out of the For the next few days But just under that theater while the movie there was palpable fear headline there was a sin - The Academy shall comply with subtitle A of Title II of the Americans with Dis - was still showing. And among residents that the gle column story on the abilities Act of 1990, Public Law 101-336, 42 USC 12101 then the air conditioning violence would spread to riot with this headline: et seq or any successor law. Should you require specific kicked into high gear – Hamtramck. “City free of riot damage” accomodation(s) please contact Mr. Glenn Mach at (313) 347-0026 prior to making it so cold that Krula said her family, The story pointed out the meeting. Krula felt forced to leave. like many others, stayed that while Detroit suffered “It was getting too home, inside. Continued on page 5 Friday, May 27, 2016 Hamtramck Review Phone (313) 874-2100 5 Review: Opinion Page
In Our Opinion Movie company’s reenactment of Detroit City could likely see an economic riot stirs up memories kick from soccer league Continued from page 4 On Monday, many in Tom Niczay for orches - spectacle unfold from $2 million in damages in izen that before he left ecutor’s office would not Hamtramck were still trating the deal between the streets how nice the two days of rioting, Ham - home, “I begged him not release details of the in - gushing over the turnout the district, which owns crowd was and how this tramck “escaped without to leave the house that vestigation. at the first home game Keyworth, and the foot - is such a boost to our a dime’s worth of damage Sunday but he went down The trial of the officers for the Detroit City Foot - ball club. city. to any property.” there with some friends.” was moved to Flint where ball Club. It was a couple of Local media also cov - The story credited the His mother further an all-white jury found There were over 7,000 years in the making. The ered the event and pre - “precautionary meas - stressed that her son had them innocent. soccer fans who packed school board also de - sented Hamtramck in a our historic Keyworth serves huge credit for positive light. ures” taken by police and never been in trouble. In all 43 people lost Stadium last Friday getting behind this proj - We’re betting that bars city officials. Once there, Temple their lives during the riot. evening. ect and giving its author - and restaurants will con - Those measures in - called his mother and On the home front, The spill over to local ity to seal the deal. tinue to see a boost in cluded: “a blockade said he and his friends while the riot raged on 60 bars – before and after For the next 10 years business. And we’re also thrown around the city were trapped by the riot - civilians, including many the game -- was also the football club will be betting that there are and all vehicles entering ing and were taking a city officials, were depu - amazing. Hamtramck leasing Keyworth and some of those attending the city appearing to carry room in the Algiers for tized and assigned to pa - has not experienced this making continued im - the games who will look persons of suspicious safety, located on Wood - trol the city. kind of energy in provements and up - around and see invest - character were halted. ward (and razed in the An army tank was sta - decades. And Keyworth grades to the aging ment potential in Ham - Without a valid reason to 1970s), according to The tioned at the Dodge Main Stadium never looked so facility. tramck. enter or pass through the Citizen article. plant. good. We have heard from Hamtramck could very city they were turned That decision proved At all entrances into the A major kudos goes dozens of residents who well be on the verge of a back.” fatal. Not only were the city police officers and po - out to Hamtramck Public attended the game and renaissance. Cars that had stolen three already in the wrong lice reserves were armed Schools Superintendent those who watched the items were confiscated place at the wrong time, with shotguns. and the occupants were the Algiers was not a By Wednesday, the riot arrested. place to be in even on a had nearly ended and in In a story below that, good day. Hamtramck things began there was a total of 75 The motel was long to return to normal. people arrested for loot - known as a drug den and In all, there were only ing in the riot. Hamtramck a place where prostitutes two incidents of note that was between two riot worked. happened during the Reminder… Yes, this is ago at the age of 57. She Southend Block Club is zones. According to other week of the riot: An at - a holiday weekend, but if was killed by her stepson. hosting a meeting at Peo - They came through not media reports, someone tempted break-in at a you are here in town on The dedication cere - ple's Community Center only in cars but on foot. in the motel fired a blank liquor store, which was re - Saturday morning, May mony will start at 10 a.m. (Jos. Campau & Danforth) Many of those walking starter pistol from a bal - pelled by police officers, 28, the city’s Recycling Hamtown Farms is lo - at 6:30 p.m. were carrying freshly cony at the motel. and two boys who threw a Commission will dedicate cated on Lumpkin, just “Wayne County Com - looted items. Some were That prompted National Molotov cocktail at an a bench at the Hamtown south of Holbrook. missioner Martha Scott also carrying concealed Guardsmen and police of - American Legion hall. Farms site in honor of for - Stick around Saturday and State Senator Bert guns and narcotics. ficers to storm the motel The two Hamtramck ju - mer chairman Ellen because this is also the Johnson will be attending On the night that rioting to capture what they veniles were caught hours Aubrey. Farm’s annual Volunteer to speak about the dis - broke out Mayor Joseph thought were snipers fir - after the incident. Asked This is no ordinary Day. criminatory auto insur - Grzecki set up an emer - ing at them. why they did it, one bench. It has been made Meeting up… Susan ance rates charged to gency office in police Temple and his two replied: “To see some - out of recycled plastic bot - Dunn of the Southend Wayne county residents. headquarters and worked friends, all of whom were thing burn.” tles – over 1,700 of them Block Club has some im - “Also in attendance to out a plan of action with African-American, were The week after the riot, to be exact. It’s part of portant info to pass along speak is State Represen - public safety officials. He rounded up. Witnesses at The Citizen ran a front- the “Bottles to Benches” about an upcoming meet - tative Rosemary Robin - stayed there for 24 hours the Algiers Motel said page photo of two sol - program coordinated by ing. son who will discuss US straight. that Temple and his diers in a friendly chat Hamtramck resident Dick Here’s what she has to Ecology hazardous waste There was one fatality friends were taken into with two smiling African- Kaleski. say: handling facility updates. The Citizen reported on rooms and soon after American workers from Aubrey died two years “On June 3 The Isaac Robinson attorney and that was an 18-year- shots were heard. the GM Chevrolet plant on in law, circuit court judge old who lived on Mackay Officers insisted that Holbrook and St. Aubin. candidate will also speak. “This will be a question on the Detroit side of the the trio were snipers, said The caption under the & answer session. All Carpenter border. The Cit - media reports of that photo was a mangled at - Wayne county residents izen reported that Fred time. tempt at humor that could BALINSKI day at St. Ladislaus are invited and welcome Temple, 18, was found But as it turned out, a not have been more Church in Hamtramck. to attend. shot to death with two of 32-year-old Detroit officer, grossly insensitive. It Joan Alice Balinski, 67, Interment was at Mt. his friends in the Algiers who had been with the de - said: “Things were so died May 22, 2016. “You may contact me at Olivet Cemetery. Americanwmn358@yahoo Motel. partment for only two calm by last Wednesday Ms. Balinski was the That incident was writ - years, was charged with morning that the army’s beloved daughter of John .com with questions or confirmation of atten - ten about at length in a murdering Temple. Two ‘Screaming Eagles’ had and Rosalie; dearest sis - best-selling book called other officers were later nothing to shoot but the ter of Mary. dance (so we can know “The Algiers Motel Inci - charged with the killings. breeze.” Visitation was Monday how many people to ex - dent” by John Hersey. The indictment was Do you have memories and Tuesday at Jurkiewicz pect for setting up chairs For whatever reason – based on interviews with or a tale to tell about living & Wilk Funeral Home with and space needed).” curiosity? Wanting to get 80 people and a 30-page in Hamtramck during the the funeral Mass Wednes - in on the action? -- Temple internal report conducted 1967 Detroit riot? If so, and his friends went into by the Detroit Police De - drop us a line at (313) the riot area later on Sun - partment. 874-2100, or email us at day. At the time the charges news@the hamtramckre - His mother told The Cit - were announced the pros - view.com. MEMORIAL DAY Honor and Remember Those FUWhenN the nEeedR ariseAs, thLese caDring IproRfessEionalCs areT reaOdy to RhelpY. Who Gave Their All for the Freedom 2687 Caniff, Hamtramck We Enjoy Today. (313) 365-5240 Continuously owned and operated by the Krot Family since 1935 FLAG DAY • Tuesday, June 14, 2016 $895 Alexandra Krot, Manager David A. Krot, Public Relations
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tramck was still a village and booming with indus - trial, commercial and Continued from page 3 residential energies, are still around, too. ways has a kind word for Horizon High School Grad - There are also newer others, and exudes posi - uation at 6 p.m. Must houses, shoehorned into tivity in everything she have ticket to attend. blocks where once were does. • Thursday, June 9 -- blighted shells or vacant Last day for preschool. All Schools • Wednesday, June 15 Hamtramck memories, lots. • Friday, May 27 -- Half — Hamtramck and Hori - I was walking past one day of school for all stu - zon High School and vivid and clear of them this week when dents. Kosciuszko Middle School I heard a voice calling • Monday, May 30 -- Me - — Final Semester Exams. By Walter Wasacz Mackay, Botsford or out my name, then saw morial Day. No school. Half day for all schools As summer ap - Neibel, Danforth or An - someone bounding down • Tuesday, May 31 -- including elementary proaches, my walks are drus, I recall who used to the steps to greet me. School Resumes. schools. getting longer. live in this house or that It was Joe Myrick, a re - • Friday, June 3 -- Ham - • Thursday, June 16 -- It feels good to push one. tired security guard and Brejon Hollis tramck High School and Hamtramck and Horizon forward through the heat When I'm feeling really former girls basketball High School and (though I must admit sharp I remember coach at Hamtramck Kosciuszko Middle doing the same through houses that friends of High. I had not seen Joe School- Semester cold air has benefits as my parents lived in, for some years. We al - Exams. Half day for all well), meandering some of whom I barely ways had good talks schools including elemen - through the east end of knew. But the houses about city life back in the tary schools. Last day of the city -- often landing still stand, many in very 1960s. We did not know school for all students. on Ellery, Alpena or Buf - nice shape, long after each other then, but we • June 23 -- Final Re - falo, which cuts diago - the family friends had share a lot of memories port Cards mailed. nally through the old gone. of those days. Ducktown neighborhood The housing stock, in There is something Compiled by Janice -- eventually heading neighborhood after about the "Hamtramck Gandelman south, north or west be - neighborhood, is in re - memory" that stands fore finishing my loop markable condition for out to me. It is so vivid More photos of the KMS and coming home. its age. Many of the and clear. Names of peo - end of the school year My memories of boy - houses date to the ple, oftentimes their festival. hood in Hamtramck are 1940s and 1930s. Oth - faces, are seamlessly re - never far from my pres - ers go back even earlier, called, as if we are talk - ent reality. As I walk past to the 1920s. A few ing about yesterday, not houses on Yemans or houses that were built in 1968. Evaline, Carpenter or the teens, when Ham - Continued on page 8
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The HOUSE FOR RENT HOUSE FOR RENT FOR RENT suspect was also wanted on Detroit, 2 br. upper, quiet Hamtramck, Dequin - Hamtramck, Caniff/De - a warrant for being a parole absconder. street + neighborhood, dre/Caniff, 3 br. lower, quindre, 2 large units, re - • A person was arrested Lodge + Rosa Parks, re - hardwood floors, base - cently updated roof and By Charles Sercombe driving without a license 54 This week’s Crime Log times. after a traffic stop for having modeled kitchen, bath - ment, nice, $550/mo., porches, $60,000, 313- covers May 17-23. • A car collided with a fire fraudulent proof of insur - room, hardwood floors, 313-640-8243 or 313- 640-8243 or 313-408- Tuesday, May 17 truck while firefighters were ance and possessing nar - balcony, great for stu - 408-4196. 5/27 4196. 5/27 • An incident of domestic on their way to fight a fire. cotics. dent or busy working per - violence and the theft of a • A resident reported that • A woman reported receiv - son, $450/mo., call Single house, 4 br., liv - car were reported in the her ex-fiancee was sending ing harassing phone calls Mike, 313-516-5178. ing, dining, kitchen, on 12000 block of Grand inappropriate photos of her and texts from her ex- 5/27 Andrus bet. Joseph Cam - CAR FOR SALE Haven. to her family and friends. boyfriend. pau and Lumpkin, 313- • A resident in the 12000 • A teacher at Caniff Lib - • A woman filed a complaint 972-5395 or 313-899- 2001 Pontiac Montana block of Fleming reported erty Academy reported re - that she was threatened by a neighbor. 0536, call after 10 a.m. mini-van, runs great! the theft of 32 cinder ceiving threats against his • A resident reported that a 5/27 Clean, solid, air-condi - blocks. well-being. tioning, 154k, depend - • A Casmere resident re - • Officers discovered a man stole her necklace Single home, full bed - able, $1850, 313-575- ported the theft of a cat - small fire in the grand - while was in the 10200 alytic convertor from his car stands at Veterans Park. block of Jos. Campau. rooms, living room, din - 4709. 6/3 Sunday, May 22 ing, kitchen, basement, while it was parked in front Thursday, May 19 of his residence. • At about midnight two • At about 2:30 a.m. res - newly painted and deco - HOUSE FOR RENT • A St. Clair resident was males were seen attempt - idents on their porch in the rated, Andrus St., Ham - arrested after a traffic stop ing to break into a van 12000 block of Dyar said Hamtramck, 13433 tramck, $750/mo. + for being wanted on a Ham - parked in the 11400 block they were shot at by a man. Dyar, 2 Br., full base - $750 deposit, willing to tramck warrant. of Charest. The suspects No injuries were reported, ment, garage, call Palo show at any time, 313- • A Grand Haven resident fled before officers arrived. and the suspect fled the Advertisers should check their ad fol - area. or Dianne, 248-659- 310-3540, call Nelson. lowing first publication. The newspa - received an anonymous call • A resident reported los - Monday, May 23 2278, 248-659-2325. 6/30 per shall not be liable for failure to in which the caller told him ing four money orders publish an ad, for a typographic error where he could find his somewhere between A&C • At 10:30 p.m. a resi - or errors in publication except to the missing car and keys. Market and his residence dent said he was assaulted Hamtramck, 2207 Car - extent of the cost of the ad for the first Wednesday, May 18 on Poland. by three males as he was penter, 3-Br. full base - day’s insertion. Adjustments for er - rors is limited to the cost of that por - • A resident was arrested • A Trowbridge resident re - walking home from a bar to ment, call Palo or tion of the ad wherein the error after a traffic stop for driving ported an attempted garage his residence in the 11300 Dianne, 248-659-2278, occurred. We reserve the right to without a license, possess - break-in. block of Dequindre. classify, revise or reject any classi - ing narcotics and being • A Caniff resident reported • Two suspects were ar - 248-659-2325. fied advertisement. wanted on two Hamtramck a garage break-in and the rested at Steve’s Party warrants. The driver had theft of her lawnmower and Store on Caniff on multiple Deadline for classifieds been previously convicted of leaf blower. misdemeanor charges. driving without a license 22 Friday and Saturday, May • A resident reported times. 20-21 someone broke into his car for next week is • An officer attempted to • A resident was issued a while it was parked at his interview a resident being parental responsibility ticket residence in the 11300 Thursday at Noon treated at Providence Hospi - after his son was caught block of McDougall. tal for allegedly being struck skipping school. • A Royal Oak resident re - with a baseball bat while in • A resident in the 9500 ported the theft of his Ford $20 for one week • $25 for two weeks Hamtramck. The victim re - block of McDougall was ar - van while it was in the fused to cooperate. rested for domestic vio - 11600 block of McDougall. • $40 for four weeks • At almost 4 a.m. an in - lence. Detroit police later reported toxicated resident was ar - • A resident was arrested it had impounded the van rested for possessing a after being caught charging after a traffic stop when the Call (313) 874-2100 stolen car. He was also ar - soccer fans to park their car driver failed to show proof of rested for driving without a in the Hamtramck Town ownership. to Place Your Ad! license. The driver had pre - Center parking lot. The sus - viously been convicted of pect initially ran from offi - Service Directory
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Continued from page 4 one still looks good and in this scenario: This trou - healthy. blemaker was far too Making a rare appear - young to be legally driv - ance was former Superin - ing. tendent John Radwanski, Also, there was another who related a tale about thing going on, namely a certain notorious stu - there was a good chance dent who was such a the sports car was handful that a special stolen! paddle was made and So what did school offi - named for him. cials do when they saw Yeah, that’s right, back this student pull up? in the day student disci - Well, we can’t say be - FREE pline was handled in a cause that would be SMARTWATCH much different way. telling tales out of school. with new activation $60 Plan The paddle was created But we have it on good after one incredible event authority this student did - 9118 Jos Campau with this student back in n’t go on to become a ca - WE MOVED the 1980s. In the 8th reer criminal and he is a — Hamtramck — ACROSS THE grade this individual family man now. Open Mon-Fri 9am-8pm STREET! showed up to his prom There were a bunch of Sat 9am-7pm driving a sports car. funny tales we heard that Sun 10am-5pm From inside Glory Supermarket Let that sink in for a night. moment: An 8th-grader Someday maybe some - driving and driving a one will write them all Support Your Local sports car. down. Talk about a “Ferris Businesses - Get Out Bueller’s Day Off” kind of on the Hamtown! moment! Scenes from the alumni Obviously, there is at get-together at KMS Sat - least one thing going on urday evening. Hamtramck Allied Veterans Council Memorial Day Services Monday, May 30, 2016 10:00 am Our Lady Queen of Apostles Church 3851 Prescott St. • Hamtramck 313-891-1520
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Collins family, who lived But Joe also talked ticing law now. That walking. We will see on Dequindre and were about more recent his - makes me feel real each other again. I'm displaced by the big I-75 tory. He told me one of good," he said. sure of it. dig that separated com - his best basketball play - Joe said he also feels Next column: some munities, most of them ers from the late 1990s good that his son, also thoughts on traffic and African-American, on the and early 2000s has named Joe, is a high pedestrian safety, how Continued from page 6 northwest side of the had great personal achiever at Marygrove other cities are finding city. One of the family achievements since College. He's studying ways to slow motorists Here are some names ects; I grew up a block members, John Collins, graduating from HHS. English and wants to be down and share the that came to us as we over, on Oklahoma"). is a good friend. I saw Aida Spahic, who came a writer. I could see the streets with cyclists, talked: former NBA him later that same to the U.S. from Bosnia pride all over his face, skaters, runners and player Rudy Tomjanovich We talked about Jim night at a book launch at with her family as could feel it on mine, walkers. Can we do it ("Rudy lived over there Smith and Ike Blessitt, the Museum of Contem - refugees from a country too. here? on Nagel," Joe said) and multi-sports stars at porary Art Detroit torn apart by war, was an It was a nice meeting, City Life is a column his former Cosmos' HHS in the '60s, and (MOCAD). I mentioned outstanding student and purely by chance, which about experience, partic - teammates, the brothers Mel Guyton, a teammate seeing Joe Myrick and athlete. Joe said she is what the vibrancy and ipation and walkable dis - Brisker, Ralph and John of theirs who sadly lost memories easily came went to the University of beauty of city life is all covery. ("The Briskers grew up his life in Vietnam. flooding back for him as Michigan and later on to about, right? Joe had to on Selfridge in the proj - We talked of the well. law school. "She's prac - fly and I needed to keep