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St. was a bustling com - City officials passed a munity center for newly ar - budget for the new fiscal rived immigrants. year, which starts July 1, There, they were that includes (for the first schooled on how to tran - time in several years) Quick Hits sition to their new life in going into deficit spend - Take two. America. ing – for a total of $2.1 Mother Nature didn’t The building is now part million. cooperate last month of the Hamtramck Public But fortunately, the city when a free youth sports School District, which re - has a budget cushion of clinic was scheduled. cently purchased it from a $6 million to absorb the Rain caused that event former charter school or - hit. to be canceled. Initially, the deficit ganization. Tau Beta Elementary School Principal Nabil Nagi welcomes students, teachers In fact, this month has spending was going to be Tau Beta’s important and guests to the unveiling of a Michigan historical plaque that is installed out - been mostly rain. at $1.8 million, but the role in shaping the life of side the school’s front doors. The state has now officially registered the school Fortunately, the city council decided it a generation of Hamtram - building as being historical. rescheduled date for the ckans is now officially rec - wanted to continue the clinic — this Saturday ognized by the state. outside the school’s en - created by four teenage across the street, just as city’s alley repaving pro - (June 1) — looks like a It is also now on the trance that tells the story girls from Grosse Pointe. Hamtramck began to ex - gram and budget for likely day where the weather state’s Register of His - of the building and what The girls initially started pand in population by lawsuit costs and settle - will cooperate. toric Buildings. happened there. their outreach to Ham - leaps and bounds. The ments. The alley project was Once again, the A green plaque stands Tau Beta was a society tramck in a building Continued on page 2 Friends of Historic Ham - given $200,000 – down tramck Stadium is host - from $300,000 last year. ing the event. Youths And instead of adjust - who are 7 to 14 years of ing the budget later in the age are welcome to at - year for lawsuit settle - tend this sports clinic, ments, the council agreed being held at the Ham - to pencil in that cost – es - tramck Stadium site. timated at $100,000 – It’s free, and goes now instead of later. from 1 to 5 p.m., with Those additions pushed registration beginning at up the total to $2.1 mil - noon. Coaches specializ - The future is clear lion in deficit spending. ing in soccer, cricket and The city’s total budget is baseball will all be on as night and day $17 million. Almost half hand. of that is spent on police Snacks and refresh - By Walter Wasacz conference. and fire services. ments will be available, Last week, the Detroit- Other conferences, work - Up until now, the city and did we mention it is Berlin Connection (DBC), a shops and related events had been operating not totally free? Yes, it’s nonprofit organization I have taken place in Berlin only with a balanced free. 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More people are out points of the group: how to mayor in 2018, along with Techno is that it works not at all hours (walking, cy - develop creative industries a 14-member ‘nightlife only deep into the night, cling, using public transit) and expand the night econ - council.’ In Detroit, Mayor but well into the next day, making the streets safer, omy by appointing leader - Duggan named his director and the next. There is, in with crime rates among ship teams to help guide of customer service, essence, no beginning, the lowest in Europe. Madge Anderson 24-hour urban activity cy - Adrian Tonon, as the city’s REALTOR® middle or end to what People drop in to partici - cles. night ambassador. Office 248-646-6200 amounts to a perpetual im - pate when they like, Mostly in Europe, those Almost instantly, night Cell 248-773-2975 mediate impact experi - whether it is 4 a.m. or 4 [email protected] cities include Amsterdam, economy leaders in Ams - ence. p.m. Berlin’s techno Budapest, Prague and Lon - terdam and Berlin took no - In Berlin, a city with no tourism industry is boom - Thk You For Mki Me Your Reltor of Choice tice and invitations from as curfews and bar service ing. Last year, over €1.4 far away as Sydney, Aus - that lasts round the clock - billion was generated by tralia came for Tonon to established by U.S. mili - visitors coming from all speak about initiatives at tary leaders in 1949 in over the world. KELLY’S work in Detroit, which West Berlin’s American The German capital once many nightlife advocates sector as a one-upman - was an industrial hub for BAR around the world see as ship maneuver to outwit Central Europe. It makes an historic catalytic force the Russian sector's ear - virtually nothing of material LIQUOR for animating the hours be - lier closing hours in the value anymore; what it pro - tween sunset and sunrise. communist east -- parties duces perhaps better than Monday-Wednesday The reason is techno, of begin around midnight Sat - anywhere else on the course, a futuristic elec - Open 3pm urday and go on until Mon - planet is urban experience. tronic dance music that Taco Thursday Open at 11am day, nonstop. Continued on page 6 Fish Friday Open 11am Saturday Open 6pm Sunday Open 6pm Domestic Beer $1.75 Historic Tau Beta building is now 2403 Holbrook • Lake Perch Dinner Hamtramck • Walleye Dinner TDUomEeSstDic ABeYerS officially recognized by the state 313-872-0387 • Cod Dinner Carry $ Continued from front page Home of the Original • Fish Sandwich Out! 2 newly-opened Dodge fac - ing of the historical The school is indeed a Taco & Reuben Pierogies Open 11am Friday! Well Drinks $2 tory was employing thou - marker. Rain prevented very part of the neighbor - sands of immigrants, holding the event outside, hood, sitting side-by-side many of them newly ar - so students, teachers with residences along the rived from Poland. and guests met in the block. Most of the stu - The building later school’s cafeteria. dents who attend there hosted a number of civic Hamtramck Schools Su - also live in the neighbor - events, but then was perintendent Tom Niczay hood. abandoned and left to rot. credited his staff for being School Board President Medical Fortunately, a charter able to swing a deal to Magdalena Srodek said school organization saved purchase the building.