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Record-breaking generosity Biddle Bowl owners use business to raise more than $10,000 For years, the operators of Biddle Bowl have been celebrated for raising funds for the Wyandotte Goodfellows, helping the group bring Christmas to children and families. In 2020, the year of the CO- VID-19 global pandemic, the same family that owns the eight-lane bowling establishment in Wyan- dotte went above and beyond the call of duty. Dave Robert Woelkers of Riverview Gorgon and sister Judy Sadler of Trenton Wyandotte Warrior and their family members and friends combined to raise more than $10,000 for the Goodfellows in a year that the charity’s volunteers were wondering how they were going to raise any funds because of the coronavirus. Todd Browning, treasurer of the Goodfellows and city treasurer in Wyandotte, said the pandemic forced the cancellation of a number of annual fundraising efforts in 2020, which raised concerns about how to pay the Christmas gift-giving bills. The Wyandotte Street Art Fair was cancelled so the Goodfellows could not raise money by “selling” Photo courtesy of the Woelkers family Ryan Gorgon, grandson of Biddle Bowl’s Robert and Valarie Woelkers, helps load empty returnable SEE GENEROSITY, Page 3 containers to return to stores as part of the fundraising efforts for the Wyandotte Goodfellows.

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Photo courtesy of the Woelkers family Members of the Wyandotte Goodfellows thank the owners of Biddle Bowl for their contribution of $10,000 to the Goodfellows, who called it an amazing fete during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

pany decided to collect returnable cans als will be used to provide “no child volunteers. It just seems like a local GENEROSITY and bottles – more than 60,000 in all. without a Christmas” gifts for 2021. cause. Because of that, we felt it was Continued from page 1 They hit social media and asked “Even we can’t believe it,” Woelkers important.” bowlers and other Facebook follow- said. “We would like to thank all our Browning said the Wyandotte Good- parking lot spots for $5 apiece – the ers to donate the returnables at a time customers, family, friends and friends fellows were able to help 68 families biggest of the fundraisers. when stores were not accepting cans of friends who without their help this and 197 children at Christmastime The famous newspaper sales on and bottles due to the pandemic. For would not be possible. We are going to 2020. The Treasurer thanked all of the city street corner could not be held. months, they stored the 10-cent con- continue collecting returnables during local businesses and individuals who Instead, newspapers were placed in tainers one by one wherever they could 2021 that can be dropped off any time contributed during what has been a various businesses locations with the find space – in their garages, under the in our storage containers at the side of challenging year. hopes that people would take one and Woelkers deck at home and in a large our building on Labadie Street at 708 “We are not as far off from where leave a donation if they could find storage area donated by Biddle Bowl Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte.” we were last year,” said Browning, them. business neighbor Bentley Banquet The family also thanked manage- who has been involved in Goodfellows With the closure of so many busi- Center. ment at The Bentley for provid- for 17 years. “Lo and behold, Wyan- nesses, including bowling centers, When stores began accepting the ing storage along with operators of dotte and the local community stepped due to the concerns surrounding returnable containers again, Woelk- Shoppers Valley, Discount Drinks and up. COVID-19, Biddle Bowl was unable ers, his wife Valarie and Sadler made Mac’s Liquor for supplying boxes to “Rob and Judy and their dad (Bob) to engage its giving league bowlers countless trips to the Meijer store in use to collect the cans and bottles. have been extremely supportive. through 50/50 drawings, prize raffles Taylor, the Kroger store in Southgate Woelkers said Goodfellows is They’re the best cheerleaders that Wy- and other donations throughout the and a couple other places. Biddle Bowl’s charity of choice be- andotte and the Wyandotte Goodfel- bowling week, plus an annual Christ- Woelkers said their plea for return- cause of Ray Walters Jr., who bowled lows have. They support the commu- mas fundraiser at the establishment. ables also generated two checks worth in a Monday night league for 30 years. nity in which they run their business. For the past 14 years, bowlers have more than $2,000 from “angels” Susan Walters owned a hobby shop and “The only word I can say is ‘wow!’” contributed to the cause, starting Lapage and Tim Collins. brought in a giant stuffed animal to Also important: the ability for Bid- with $900 in 2007 and increasing the As a result, the Biddle Bowl team raffle off at the bowling center with all dle Bowl to reopen. At first, Governor amount to $7,000 the past couple of was able to present two checks to proceeds going to Goodfellows. Gretchen Whitmer announced bowl- years. the Goodfellows totaling more than “My sister said, ‘we could help out ing centers, movie theaters and other “We were afraid that it might be all $10,000 for the year 2020: one in July here.’” Woelkers said. “We have a entertainment venues could open for that we would raise this year due to for $3,500 and a second in Decem- good customer base. limited participation to help control the our closing from COVID-19, but we ber for a second check for more than “We have always thought Good- rise of coronavirus cases. Rob Woelk- were shocked,” Woelkers said. $6,500. fellows was a great local cause. Our ers said bowlers are wearing masks Without the in-house contests to Browning said the funds and others experience has been good. They don’t and the bar is unable to open so far. provide the money, Woelkers and com- raised by area businesses and individu- hold back any money. They’re all Page 4 > January 25 — February 24, 2021 > WYANDOTTE WARRIOR Continued from page 1 No laughing matter Wyandotte funnyman raises big bucks for Goodfellows

DAVE GORGON to perform. The original venue was LTB’s (Lions, After reading a sentimental essay about his love for Wyandotte Warrior Tigers and Bears) until the Biddle Avenue restaurant/ Wyandotte in an essay Knope posted on Facebook, bar closed after a fire. Since then, the show has been then-Mayor Joseph Peterson told him he would always For more than a decade of holiday seasons, hosted by the Wyandotte Knights of Columbus. been a “Wyandotter.” Wyandotte native Mark Knope has entertained area Attendees fill multiple boxes of new toys for the “I support Goodfellows in honor of my dad and residents with his comedy shows at local venues, while Downriver United States Marine Corps Toys for Tots mom,” he said. “They believed in Goodfellows… My raising funds for the Wyandotte Goodfellows and campaign and provide funds for Goodfellows through heart lies in Wyandotte. You can kick the boy out of collecting gifts for children through Toys for Tots. ticket purchases, a 50/50 raffle and donations. Wyandotte, but you can’t kick the Wyandotte out of In 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic forced the Knope said he originally chose the Downriver the boy.” cancellation of what would have been the comedian’s USMC Toys for Tots campaign as the benefit charity The fundraising performance was not the only show 12th annual pre-Christmas stage performance, but it because his son Andrew Knopp serves in the Marines. that had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus. Knope did not slow down his fundraising for the Goodfellows. Currently, Major Knopp is a helicopter pilot deployed said he has worked “a couple virtual events” in which Through social media, Knope spread the word in Japan. (Note that Knopp is the original family name. he performs via live and/or pre-recorded. During about his dilemma, but also asked fans to continue Mark changed his professional stage name to Knope one virtual event, he performed live and inserted supporting Goodfellows and their cause of “no child for easier pronunciation. “Kuh-nope” is how the name pre-recorded segments in which he presented awards without a Christmas.” He wound up generating more is pronounced either way.) while impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack than $3,500 to donate to the charity to purchase gifts Several years later, the comedian added Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Rodney Dangerfield and food – more than double the average of $1,000 to Goodfellows as a benefactor because his parents, and the character “Doc Brown” from the movie “Back $1,500 raised during the comedy shows. Charlie and Blossom Knopp, were heavily involved in to the Future.” “I figured with COVID, a lot of people are hurting the group before they passed away. Charlie Knopp was “As far as my stand-up shows are concerned, I’ve financially. Fifteen hundred dollars would have a Wyandotte firefighter who became a part-time city lost track of how many I’ve lost” due to the pandemic, covered my fundraising,” Knope said. “I’m completely inspector after retiring from the Fire Department. Knope said. “I thought that by September or October blown away… I’m completely humbled.” Knope, who now lives in Toledo – exactly 62 miles (2020) things would open up again. Obviously, it has Knope’s comedy shows have been a tradition in the from his parents’ former home, said he continues not.” Downriver area. He invites multiple comedian friends to support the people of his original hometown.

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What he is certain Wyandotte Warrior of, though, is that the fudge-like ‘Traveling’ Cheese Ball is a Renaud Family Favorite concoction “is sinfully delicious.” And Santa couldn’t write “Nice” big as addictive as those holiday dancing Pam Goscinski of Wyandotte can’t remember a family Christmas party enough on his 2020 Naughty and Nice sugar plums. in her lifetime that did not include the cheese ball made “famous” by her List when he learned how Downriver “When I was a kid, I would happily late father, James “Bud” Ren- families remember their loved ones eat myself sick on this stuff at Christ- aud, formerly of Trenton. over the holidays, regardless of what is mas time,” Peacock said. “Once she No one quite remembers the happening around them. saw how much I liked it, (his grand- recipe’s origins, but Renaud be- It usually involves fresh ingredi- mother) probably made it just for me gan making it in the early ‘80s. ents and old recipes. In other words: – looking back, she had a tendency to He liked to cook, Goscinski yummy food linked to the past. spoil me and my brother.” said, and his culinary repertoire Chuck Peacock of Wyandotte has Vicki Dorland and her niece Mandy ranged widely, from homemade the old penuché recipe used by his Silvani schedule a Christmas cookie- sausage to tacos and a mac-and- late grandmother, Nina Wiltsee of making session annually at Dorland’s cheese dish. The cheese ball always got rave reviews. In fact, it became so popu- lar that the “Bud Renaud’s Cheese Ball” recipe was widely dispersed. Published in two church cookbooks, it also found Pam Goscinski and her sister Caryn its way into the recipe boxes of Cablealways include their father’s friends, appeared without fail cheese ball at holiday parties. at the family’s annual church party and, even now, is simply expected at all Renaud holiday events. “That cheese ball has traveled!” Goscinski said. She wonders how many families have adopted the cheese ball as a “must” at their holiday feasts. Goscinski’s sister, Caryn Cable, also of Wyandotte, inherited the role of cheese ball maker when Bud died in 2008. She ensures that it takes its rightful place amid the appetizers, meatballs and the Jello salad offered buffet-style at Goscinski’s home when she hosts the Renaud Christmas event. “Since our entire family looks forward to it and enjoys it so much, I just continue to make it each year,” Cable said. “It’s in honor and remem- brance of my dad each Christmas.” The cheese ball is more than a creamy spread on a cracker. “There’s always the cheese ball at the parties,” Goscinski said, “so Dad always shows up.” She believes Bud would be honored to share the recipe with a larger audience. “His famous cheese ball is his legacy,” she said. “Dad would be very proud.”

Mandy Silvani and her aunt, Vicki Dortland make Christmas cookies Bud Renaud’s Cheese every year. Ball • 8-oz. brick of cream Brownsville, PA, which he thinks she Southgate home. The new gingerbread cheese may have gotten from “a Pittsburgh cookie recipe they tried recently • 1 stick of margarine or newspaper.” “needs a few tweaks,” said Dorland, butter “(The recipe) is at least third hand,” secretary at The First United Methodist • ½ cup of chopped green Peacock said. “Grandma made it dur- Church of Wyandotte. olives ing the holidays as early as 1949.” But no tweaks were necessary for • 4 green onions, chopped There is some mystery attached to the family classic: the Santa cookies • Chopped walnuts, the recipe, which includes a note from that Dorland has made for 40 years, a optional someone identified as “Miss M. May sugar cookie “with extra flavor” com- Nickerson, of Quincy, MA”: This is ing from a little almond extract -- and a Combine the first four in- the time of the year everyone will want lot of holiday spirit, of course. gredients and shape into a ball. James “Bud” Renaud’s famous penuché. “It’s a fun thing that Mandy and I do Roll in the chopped walnuts. cheese ball “I have no idea who Miss M. May Refrigerate overnight. Enjoy! Nickerson of Quincy, Massachusetts SEE RESIDENTS, Page 9 WYANDOTTE WARRIOR < January 25 — February 24, 2021 < Page 9

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Sebastian since the fifth outside.” A member of Boy Scout Troop provided grade in Cub Prunty said he enjoys the variety of 1795, Prunty guided the creation of tables Scouts and things to do in Boy Scouts. the boxes, which provide shelter for and hand Boy Scouts “One week, you’re camping in a bats, a species known to be in decline sanitizer and and heavily tent deep in the woods and the next in the United States. assigned involved in you’re flying in a single-engine plane The project is one of the last steps tools to the his youth as you work on your Aviation Merit before a Boy Scout can become an helpers. group at St. Badge,” he said. “Scout(ing) gives Eagle Scout, which is the highest “We’ve Augustine you the chance to get a taste of things rank in Scouting. Scoutmaster Kevin got a great Catholic you might not be able to in school Bowlby of Wyandotte said Prunty troop,” Smith Church. or other extracurricular activities. is the 16th member of the troop to said. “They Smith I’ve been able to learn to shoot a complete an Eagle project since he always help Sebastian Prunty called her rifle, build an instrument, learn about founded the troop in 2007 and the fifth each other son “a great geology and become better at chess, in the last 12 months. out.” kid.” She said he helps out around the and I get to decide if it’s something Prunty, a 17-year-old Riverview The effort impressed Mayor Swift, house and aids his grandmother, who I’d like to pursue further.” resident and a senior at Riverview who said, “Sebastian did a great job is disabled. Besides school, he works Bowlby said: “Sebastian is a natural Community High School, chose getting this Eagle project done with all full time at Tim Horton’s at Allen leader. The other Scouts just naturally the bat boxes as his project after a the obstacles that COVID has thrown Road near Goddard in Taylor. flock to him. If he decides we need conversation with Mayor Andrew in his way.” Prunty made a smooth transition to go on a hike, 20 people line up to Swift, who had several ideas for The Riverview Parks and to Scouting in Michigan. Smith said go on a hike. If he decides he wants projects that would fill needs in the Recreation Department signed off on he was looking for a troop that was to play a game, everybody plays a city. the project. active outdoors and he hit the ground game.” “Since COVID-19 and the Smith and her family moved to running with Troop 1795, which is “Working on rank advancements restrictions on places to go with and merit badges has taught me groups, my friends and I started discipline and how to finish what I’ve hanging out at the Southgate and started,” Prunty said. Riverview nature trails,” Prunty said. “It’s also taught me leadership skills “The bat boxes the Mayor suggested and how to mentor and teach others. seemed to fit in with my love of nature It’s taught me to not only work alone and will help bring bats, who not on what you want to accomplish, but only help naturally control the insect that you have to also work as a team at population, but help pollinate plants times. I think all of this will help with and scatter seeds.” any future goals I have.” Prunty’s mother Tonya Smith is Younger brother Reese, now advancement coordinator and assistant 13, also is active in Scouts. He is scoutmaster in the troop. She said an beginning to work toward his Eagle Eagle Scout project leader must come rank. Reese, Sebastian and even their up with specifications and dimensions mother are members of the Order for the project, seek volunteers to of the Arrow, which is the National help, assign tasks and guide the way. 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Downriver lost one of its best-known and hardest working residents with the death of Patricia Andrews. She died Dec. 22 at the age of 83. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell called Ms. Andrews a “Downriver fixture” and lamented her passing. The Dearborn Congresswoman is one of many leaders, journalists and residents paying tribute to Andrews, a renowned journalist who went on to work for the late U. S. Rep. John Dingell. In her work and in her personal life, Andrews made it her mission to help people. She graduated from Melvindale High School and Central Michigan University. She taught in Vassar, married the late Ronald Pat Andrews with News-Herald staff members and Santa Claus. Andrews, a renowned was an intern in Dingell’s office when Ms. Andrews “Don’t let anyone tell you that Pat was always easy coach and worked there. He shared this anecdote from 2008, to work with, because wasn’t always the case. She teacher, and when he worked for Greenfield Village: could be tough and even stubborn, but I think that moved to “I’ll never forget the night she worked so hard to anyone who worked with her came away an improved Trenton in save Christmas and Holiday Nights at Greenfield professional because of the impact that she had on the 1961. Village in 2008,” Hinrichs wrote in an online tribute to people around her. I know I did, and I’ll be forever In 1970, Ms. Andrews, best known as Pat, went Ms. Andrews. “Our Christmas trees were stuck at the thankful for knowing Pat and her late husband Ron. to work at the News-Herald Newspaper, where she Canadian border, and Pat worked throughout the night The Andrewses were institutions Downriver.” served as a writer and editor until 2004. to get them cleared through customs and to Greenfield Scot Peacock, who was a photographer at the During those decades, she wrote countless articles Village so we could stock our tree lot for the Holiday News-Herald at the time Pat worked there, has fond about Downriver residents and events, and even started Nights program. memories of the time. a few happenings of her own, including the Miss “Pat meant so much to our entire region… Pat is “Pat was one of the most generous people I have Downriver Pageant and Soup Day, an annual benefit a true warrior and champion and she will be greatly known,” he said. “We worked together at the News- for the Salvation Army. missed. What a legend!” Herald through the 80s and I feel privileged to have She also co-founded Women Celebrating Life- Taylor Communications Director Karl Ziomek, the known her.” Downriver, which continues to help many local former Managing Editor at the News-Herald, who Former Wyandotte resident Michael Patrick Shiels, women fighting breast cancer with their expenses, worked with Pat for years said this: an author, travel writer and TV host, is one of many and served on the board of the Guidance Center in “Pat was an institution for decades at The News- who posted online tributes about her. Southgate. Many other local charities as well as arts Herald Newspapers, whether she was working out “Patricia Andrews will eternally remain a force in organizations were aided by Ms. Andrews and her of our Wyandotte, Grosse Ile or Southgate office. Pat Downriver media, politics and the social scene,” Shiels tireless efforts to promote their events and good works represented an era of local newspaper coverage that wrote. “She was a mentor, a thoughtful friend and a over the years. included a heavy emphasis on ‘society’ or features and connector of people. Her enthusiasm for family and In 2004, she began an eight-year stint working for entertainment news and opinion, and no one connected fun and her wry humor will live on in her admirers — the Congressman, and even there, although her work those dots like Pat Andrews. including me.” was mostly immigration issues, she helped support “There wasn’t a ‘mover and shaker’ that she didn’t Ms. Andrews is survived by her children, Sandra, local events from time to time. After retiring from know. Her Rolodex was full. She was the type of Christopher (Tracey) and Jennifer; three grandchildren, Dingell’s office, Ms. Andrews continued to write editor who was as comfortable talking food recipes, Alexandra, Allison and Alyssa; and her sister Judith articles about Downriver events and people for local important events, new businesses and/or the latest McKay. Memorial contributions can be made to news outlets. behind-the-scenes talk about key players in the region, Women Celebrating Life-Downriver at wcldownriver. Ron Hinrichs of Riverview, president and CEO of but at the same time could lend to discussions on com and Cass Community Social Services of Detroit at the Southern Wayne County Chamber of Commerce, important breaking news. casscommunity.org. WYANDOTTE WARRIOR < January 25 — February 24, 2021 < Page 17 WE ARE OPEN! Our thanks NEED AUTO REPAIRS? 70 YEARS in business

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Welcome to the new year. The old one was not that much fun. As we start my top of mind concern is that, nationwide, the expected permanent closures of Indie businesses will be real. I don’t expect our Downriver to be any better off than the national average, but I am hoping. I will continue to advocate as loudly as I know how for my compatriots and doing what I can to help. To the extent that the citizens of our local communities take on that responsibility as well, so will go the extent of the fallout that will be felt for quite a while. I think we’re going to see a very difficult first half of the year, improving to everything in the works in is being reincarnated in the open in February. Prime replaced by H2O, another approach “normal” by maybe this town. adjacent building on Biddle meats, locally sourced new addition to the dining September? Consider this: across the street from Chelsea chicken and veggies, vegan options of Wyandotte is As the numbers dwindle Michigan Legacy Credit and the vacant area created and gluten free options, and a already open and getting great for cases of COVID-19 and Union at the corner of Oak by the fire that destroyed the killer wine list…..a new site reviews for their seafood. deaths and as the number and 3rd is not finished with original building will be a for fine dining Downriver. Frank’s on Biddle has new vaccinated amongst us their remake that startles as beer garden. One and two buildings owners and plans for a major grows, things should begin to something I’ve never seen in Next to it to the South will West of The Vault, a major revitalization of this mainstay normalize. any banking venue. be another, related entity remodel/rethinking of space of Wyandotte eateries. But eight or nine months The scope of it is an serving another niche in the related in the combining of Sweet Arrangements is an eternity for anyone in emphatic statement about bar and restaurant field. The the Sushi Bar and On the moved two doors north and business. their belief in their viability work and money spent on this Rocks on Maple into a single expanded into new areas That’s a lot of payrolls and their belief in Wyandotte. project is impressive as well. entity, with a continued of sweets and eats that are for a lot of staff that we all You have to see it to believe At the corner of 1st and reliance on Sushi on one side simply awesome. care about and need to help it! Maple, in what was most of the space and an Oyster There’s a new owner next us run our businesses. No One block to the East recently the Citizens Bank specialty on the other side. door at Up n Down, with new whining, it has to be nose to on Oak at 2nd at the site building, is a large new They have a koi pond in there energy and ambition. the grindstone. But it’s going of the old post office is a addition to the small office now! Taken together, it’s startling to be an uphill trek and a long five-story condominium niche called The Offices In On the corner of Maple and exciting. slog. development, construction Wyandotte, wherein anybody and 2nd, the old Sports 50s It adds so much buzz for For all of us, the loss of underway that will also that needs a nice office with restaurant/bar is getting an Wyandotte coming out of this the ability to do anything is feature two restaurants and no long term commitment. It overdue, complete makeover dark time of Corona. Best increasingly depressing. other retail. That’s going to is already largely leased and under the new ambition and of all, all of this is local and So much is closed! No make a big splash, and add the design of that project is vision of the new owner there. independent. sports, no concerts, no dine- more vitality and density impressive. Details of the new menu are Happy 2021, friends! Be in. for our downtown. Another On the main floor on the not known yet, but this place of good cheer and prepare for So the activity here in investment for the coming actual corner will be a new should be a strong contributor a whole bunch of “new and Wyandotte is electric and rebound and beyond. high bar for Wyandotte to the dining scene. exciting” in Wyandotte! It’s uplifting. You’d never know The always humming Lions restaurants in a new venue Back to Biddle, the old coming. we were under siege by Tigers and Beers location called The Vault that will Alvi’s barbecue joint has been WYANDOTTE WARRIOR < January 25 — February 24, 2021 < Page 19

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