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www.hamtramckreview.com • e-mail [email protected] 3236 Caniff St. • Hamtramck 48212 — HAMTRAMCK'S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD — And they’re off and At , it will running By Charles Sercombe be a brand new season ahead This year’s city council By Charles Sercombe mitted to kicking in an - election is all set to go. Quick Hits Some time in the next other $50,000. None of the nine candi - Weather-wise, lately, few months, you’re going rocker Jack dates who filed last week you’d hardly know it’s May. to once again hear “play White was the first to step dropped out of the race by But it is, and in fact, it’s ball” at Hamtramck’s his - up to the plate, with his Friday’s deadline. the first weekend of the toric stadium. donation of $10,000. Three incumbents, Anam month. You know what that Miah, Abu Musa and Saad means, right? Thanks to a successful The stadium is one of online fundraising cam - only a handful left that Almasmari, are defending Yes, it’s time for the St. their seats. Florian Strawberry Festival. paign, the Friends of His - hosted Negro League Their challengers are: The fun starts Saturday toric Hamtramck Stadium teams. Hamtramck Sta - evening and runs through now has $100,000 to dium was built in the Robert Zwolak, Nayeem Sunday. spend on upgrades for 1930s. Choudhury, Carrie Beth To kick off the festival, the field and on other fea - The Friends of Historic A new field will be installed at the historic Ham - Lasley, Mohammed Has - san, Mohammed Alsomiri the Hamtramck firefighters tures. Hamtramck Stadium re - tramck Stadium this season, along with a number of and Justin Jessop. will host their annual The 30-day fundraising cently rolled out its plans other renovations. The cost of the project is They will all face off in the march to St. Florian campaign’s goal was to at a press conference $100,000, half of which came from online donations Church, where a special Aug. 3 Primary Election. raise at least $50,000, held at the Hamtramck and the other half from the State of Michigan. Mass will be held. The top six finishers in that after which that point the Historical Museum. Firefighters will first as - field and replacing it to ac - and cricket. The cost of election will move on to the semble at the fire station, Michigan Economic Devel - Those plans include: commodate not only maintenance for the November Election. and the march begins at opment Corporation com - Ripping out the current baseball, but also soccer Continued on page 2 Some of the names 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. should be familiar to voters. They will march down Zwolak is a former city Brombach to the church. during the last days of seem lighter as well. clerk for Hamtramck, and St. Florian, by the way, is April. I could see new life As I glided through has also served before on the Patron Saint of firefight - budding on trees and in these streets I thought ers. city council. Hassan is also patches in front of about the benefits of Another highlight this a former councilmember. weekend at the festival will houses on Trowbridge walking versus driving in a Both Choudhury and Al - be a performance by the near Brombach. city like ours, which somiri have run before for town favorites, The Polish Springtime strolls might stretches end to end council. Alsomiri is renovat - Muslims, also on Saturday, be the best strolls, or at slightly more than 2 miles ing the former Shopper’s starting at 6:30 to 9:30 We are all influencers least the most invigorat - squared. World building on Jos. Cam - p.m. By Walter Wasacz noon, I headed out from ing after the grind of a It’s a perfect size for pau and Yemans. As usual, there will be Finding adventures my house on Edwin at long winter. The body local destination travel Lasley kicked off the cam - plenty of Polish food and close to home in Ham - Gallagher and onto resi - seems lighter (of course it (shopping, dining, meet - paign season with a protest drink available, and, of tramck is easy. You just dential streets west of is with less clothes), but ings in cafes and bars, outside of city hall last course, strawberry pie. step outside, pick a direc - Jos. Campau. with more people moving sporting events) or for Tuesday before the council Come on out and cele - meeting. brate spring! tion and start walking. The city had begun to around outdoors the wanderings like mine -- Early Saturday after - turn green, if tentatively, heart and soul of the city Continued on page 5 Continued on page 4

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At Hamtramck Stadium, it will School Board narrows be a brand new season ahead superintendent field of Continued from front page 2019 season is also fac - will be installed in the pau and Dan along with tored in. new plaza telling the story large banners depicting candidates There are other stages of the stadium, of the De - the and the By Charles Sercombe of development planned, troit Stars and Detroit 1959 Little League cham - The search for a new but those costs run as Wolves, of the Negro pionship team for the superintendent for Ham - high as $18 million. Leagues in Detroit, of grandstand facade. tramck’s public schools But this first step will Hamtramck’s world cham - There will also be a sign is down to two candi - allow the preparation for pionship youth baseball installed saying: “Wel - dates. the landscaping and teams, and of the sta - come to Historic Ham - Dr. Youssef Mosallam preparing for a plaza at dium’s connections to the tramck Stadium,” signage and Jaleelah Ahmed the main entrance to the African-American and Pol - for self-guided tours, plus made the final cut, after rear of the grandstand, ish-American communi - directional street signs at the board interviewed a facing Dan St. ties. major intersections on total of six candidates Outdoor educational Streetlight banners will Hamtramck’s southend. last week. and interpretative exhibits be placed on Jos. Cam - Mosallam is the Execu - tive Director of Commu - nity Partnerships, College KELLY’S & Career Readiness Achievement for the Jaleelah Ahmed Dr. Youssef Mosallam BAR Dearborn Public Schools. Ahmed is the Director views with the six candi - is made, the board will LIQUOR for English Language De - dates. visit the Dearborn School velopment with the Ham - The vote on finalizing District. Monday-Wednesday tramck Public Schools. the two candidates was The school board is ex - Open 3pm The vote to whittle held last Friday evening pected to make its deci - down the candidates to —Lunch— after the final round of sion on who to hire two finalists was initially Thursday Open 11am candidates were inter - during the week of May Fish Friday Open 11am splintered, but once viewed. 13. The board could also Saturday Open Noon there was an agreement, The final interviews opt to not hire either of with a bare majority of 2403 Holbrook were then held this week. the candidates and con - OPEN NOON the vote, the board was Mosallam was inter - tinue its search. Hamtramck unanimous in moving for - viewed Tuesday, and Current Superintendent 313-872-0387 • Strawberry Margaritas ward with the final two Ahmed was interviewed Tom Niczay is retiring • Fish Tacos candidates for further Thursday, after The Re - after 40 years in educa - Home of the Original consideration. view went to press. tion, the last 10 of which Taco & Reuben Pierogies • Sonoran Hot Dogs Boardmember Showkat Both interviews were as superintendent. Chowdhury was absent open to the public. during all of the inter - Before a final decision

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It’s Time to Pray, Comedy duo knows all about Please Join Us We are a Multicultural Parish Family Sunday English Mass 9 a.m. mixing music with theater Sunday School 10 a.m. Everyone is Welcome to Worship with Us By Joe Anthony Myrick since. This year, they will Special to The Review be hosting Planet Ant’s May 4 – Polish Dinner & Annual Raffle (Drawing at 7 pm) with Mike Zawojsky, Grammy Nobody likes a know-it- Versus Tournament, with Nominated Accordionist 4-7 pm all, except when these Alex being one of its May 11 – Soup Kitchen – Everyone Welcome! 2-4 pm know-it-alls happen to be judges. ANNUAL RAFFLE for benefit of Holy Cross partners Alex Meitz and More recently, Alex Parish P.N.C.C. Sponsored by Ladies’ Societies / Tick - ets $5.00 each or 3 for $10.00 / Drawing May 4, 2019 Adam Fuller. Knows It All performed in We are an Active Contacts: Nancy Jedynak 906-322-1223 | Together, they form the their first Hamtramck Parish Serving the [email protected]; Jolanta Nowak 313-505-2862 “Alex Knows It All” troupe. Music Festival. Some crit - Community | [email protected]; Katherine Banicki 248-755- The two are the latest ics complained about the 4331 | [email protected] comedic gems emerging comedy duo participating Celebrating 97 Years of Traditional, Catholic, and Democratic Church from the Planet Ant talent in the festival because Holy Cross Parish Polish National Catholic Church pool. Remember, this is they weren’t “a real band.” 2311 Pulaski, Hamtramck • Very Rev. Jaroslaw Nowak, Pastor the same Planet Ant that Performers Adam Fuller and Alex Meitz mix comedy Alex has a reply to those 313-365-5191 www.HolyCrossPNCC.com gave us famed actor/co - and music in an act they call “Alex Knows It All.” naysayers. median Keegan-Michael “We wanted to bridge Key and Sam Richardson. tion, never satisfied per - just to get everything I can the gap between the De - We recently met up with son who takes everything out of it.” troit comedy scene and out on Adam.” In many cases, as the Leaders Alex and Adam to discuss the Detroit music scene in Short-Term While that makes for fun couple recalls Alex may their journey thus far. because there’s so much Rehabilitation In their own words, Alex chemistry onstage, it is far randomly think up an idea talent on either side, but Knows It All is a “music from who they are as real for a show at 11 a.m. and, they don’t really overlap and comedy-based per - people. In real life, they in a surge of creativity, that often,” she said. formance art piece.” couldn’t be kinder to one Adam spends the rest of “You get a few people Through the device of char - another, and always credit the day trying to make who do comedy and music, Providing quick recovery acter acting, Alex reads each other for the success music that will then fit that but you don’t really see and quality care through live poetry onstage -- sub - of the Alex Knows It All idea. comedy people going to our comprehensive mitted from friends and brand. The beauty of their rela - band shows or band peo - rehabilitation program. fans -- while Adam plays “People don’t under - tionship is that, while their ple going to comedy music in the background stand that just because it’s ideas together always shows, and we’re kind of in StJosephsHealthcare.com Hamtramck • 313-874-4500 which he composes him - my name on the show, it amount to something this weird middle ground self. doesn’t mean that I am huge, they are able to bal - where we’re both. So we For the stage, Alex ac - the only one who is creat - ance each other out by wanna try to book shows centuates herself as a ing all of this content,” Alex helping to keep the other’s not only for a comedy the - much more eccentric, said. ideas doable and ater, but opening for a “Adam puts endless grounded in reality. Get Out on the Hamtown! brash, exaggerated and Continued on page 6 goth version of herself. work into each show that They have incorporated “Part of our dynamic is we do. Adam helps with all everything from comedy, that my character, ‘Alex,’ is of the writing. He writes all music, and spoken word to this big, crazy, larger than of the music himself, for even seances into their act life character who’s been the most part and he since debuting a year ago. described as ‘the Queen of helps with my delivery. We Their first time they hit Mean.’ I don’t think me as bounce ideas off of each the stage with a bang a person is necessarily other. I literally could not when they won Planet Ant’s mean, but ‘Alex’ (the char - do the show without Versus Tournament. Upon acter) gets very mean,” Adam.” learning about the tourna - Alex said. One thing that has made ment, they then signed up In the same way that Alex Knows It All so popu - for it on a whim. Alex inflates her personal - lar with Hamtramck resi - They came up with the ity for the stage, both per - dents has been that their Alex Knows It All concept formers inflate their act is so high-concept. In within a week’s time. After relationship for the stage. their creativity, both steer receiving such an over - Ramadan with On stage, Adam is essen - toward “grandiose” ideas, whelmingly positive reac - tially a nice guy doing as Adam puts it. “I just tion to their act, they • H2 pec. lSlaom bSohssawarma everything he can to win have a weirdly obsessive realized, as Adam put it, • 3 pc. Falafel Only Alex’s approval, while Alex creative brain, where if I “This is our thing now.” • Hummous is -- in the actor’s own get fixated on an idea, I will They have regularly per - • Soup of the Day $ 99 words -- this “high-expecta - beat it like a dead horse formed at the Ant Hall ever • Fresh Special Juice 9

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are learning about mam - teaching many different les - students had great fun Early Childhood Elemen - mals and animal babies. sons. learning about mixtures tary School News They are learning the life Students experimented and compounds by making With spring here, it cycle of animals, and what with making their own their own version of Dr. seems every day at they need to survive in their snow, and other weather Seuss' "Oobleck." the Early Childhood Ele - habitat. experiments, with plant n mentary has something Our resident super scien - life and even had a visit On Earth Day, the whole special going on. tist, Jupiter Jaye, came to from a friendly boa snake school gathered in the gym Students in Ms. Janice the kindergarten through named “Slither.” to enjoy the magical teach - Rakoczy's first grade class second grade classes Ms. Amanda Lesko's ing lessons of "Dumpster Doug." Dumpster Doug taught the importance of recycling, Above and below: Early Childhood Elementary School reusing and of reducing students had a busy week learning a number of sub - waste in our environment jects. by entertaining us with his skillful magic tricks. Students were left in wonder, and could be heard throughout the hallways saying, “How did he do that?” In upcoming weeks, the students will be visiting Schoolcraft College for Sci - ence Day. Also, the stu - dents will be visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts for a day of art enrichment. Below: Dickinson East Elementary School students created special designs. Dickinson East Elemen - tary School News Dickinson East fourth graders recently created ra - dial designs inspired by Is - lamic tiles. To create the designs, students sat in classroom windows and traced their name eight times. The resulting ab - stract design were colored with markers.

Hamtramck Health Hike ing dates: Kindergarten: Upcoming Events: The Hamtramck Health Unlimited, through Septem - • May 9 -- Progress Re - Hike will be held on Satur - ber 5; grades 1st through port 4 Distributed. day May 4 from 8 a.m.- 2 12th: Unlimited, through • May 24 -- Half day for p.m. It starts at the Ham - June 28. students and staff. tramck Community Center, Late school of choice ap - • May 27 -- No school for 11350 Charest St. plications cannot be ac - students and staff. Memo - Please join us for a day cepted. School of choice rial Day. of fun, including free t- applicants may be denied • May 28 -- School re - shirts, free lunch, prizes, based on the student’s at - sumes. obstacle course, Fowling tendance and/or discipline • May 30 -- Last day for and other giveaways. record. preschool. Bring your family and You will need to bring • May 30 -- Last day for friends for a fun-filled day. with you: an original birth Hamtramck and Horizon document (raised seal birth High School Seniors. Enrollment Information certificate, passport, green Hamtramck residents card, visa), an up-to-date Recreation Department may enroll their children in immunization record, a final News Hamtramck Public Schools 2018-2019 report For more information, at the HPS Business Office, card/transcript, parental give us a call at (313) 892- 3201 Roosevelt. School of identification, two current 2635. Follow us on Face - Choice applications will be proofs of residency (utility book for the most accepted during the follow - bill, mortgage statement, up-to-date information: formal signed lease, pay www.Facebook.com/Ha stub, etc.) and proof of in - mtramckRecreationDepart - come (required only for pre - ment school applications). Compiled by Janice Gandelman And they’re off and

running Cont. from front page A handful of firefighters a few months ago. and residents gathered at Councilmember Andrea the front door, and held Karpinski was the only signs protesting against councilmember to vote merging the police and fire against it. departments into a single “The city manager and public safety department. city attorney will tell you that There is no current plan including a unified com - to do that, but the council mand clause in the police recently voted on a new contract is a bargaining tac - contract with the city’s po - tic,” Lasley said on her cam - lice brass to allow for a tran - paign Facebook page. sition into a public safety “How effective can a bar - department “should (city) gaining tactic be if they are management move forward saying it is merely a bargain - with such implementation ing tactic? It is either the in the city’s future.” worst bargaining tactic ever Police officers also re - rolled out, or the residents cently agreed to a similar are being gaslit. …” clause in their new contract Friday, May 3, 2019 Hamtramck Review Phone (313) 874-2100 5

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Other Voices: Guest Editorial In Our Opinion Remembering Hamtramck’s role Towing lawsuit underscores in the Detroit Stars’ centennial need to tighten regulatory laws Recently the Friends of charter members of Rube Monarchs in the 1930s Hamtramck Historic Sta - Foster’s new Negro Na - and 1940s. The expanded federal saying folks could get action lawsuit. The city dium held a press confer - tional League (NNL). Victims of the Great De - lawsuit regarding the be - towed after CVS closed has also been included. ence commemorating the The Stars played at pression, the Stars folded havior of a towing com - for the day, it turned out Breakthrough was also Detroit Stars Centennial. through 1929, along with the league in pany operator the company never had allegedly allowed to op - The baseball team was when a July fire destroyed 1931. In 1932, the De - underscores a need for a contract with CVS to erate even though it part of the Negro League, the main grandstand. Al - troit Wolves -- featuring local and state officials do that towing. failed to renew its yearly and played at Ham - though they finished the five future Hall of Famers to step up. By this time, dozens of state license. However, tramck’s own historic sta - season at Mack Park, op - -- played in Hamtramck for The towing industry in car owners who patron - officers have been issu - dium. position from white citi - half a season until the Michigan is known to be ized Bumbo’s Bar across ing tickets lately to tow Here are the remarks zens in the neighborhood new Negro East-West notoriously predatory, the street have had to drivers who are not li - made by Gary Gillette, the caused them to relocate League also failed. and to grossly over - dish out upwards of censed to work here. President of Friends of His - in 1930. In 1933, the Indianapo - charge those unlucky $400 per vehicle to get The lawsuit also spells toric Hamtramck Stadium: Detroit fielded a con - lis ABCs relocated to Mo - enough to be one of their cars back, or else out some constitutional By Gary Gillette tending club throughout town to become the their victims. unhitched at the site. issues as well. The Detroit Stars played the 1920s, but never won reincarnated Negro Na - Breakthrough Towing, As it turned out, while Hamtramck needs to their first game on Easter a pennant. The closest tional League’s Detroit a Detroit company that there were some signs take a close look at its Sunday, April 20, 1919, at they came was in their Stars, playing in Ham - has rebranded its name posted, there were not ordinances, as well as Mack Park on Detroit’s first season at Ham - tramck for one year as fu - due to intensive media enough to meet state make sure officers are East Side. tramck Stadium in 1930 ture Hall of Famer Ray coverage, first came to regulations. up to speed on laws reg - They defeated the 1918 when they won the sec - Dandridge made his pro the attention of the At the time, some of ulating towing compa - city champion Maxwell In - ond-half NNL title before debut. metro area when it was our police officers did nies. ternationals, a powerful losing the league champi - In 1937, the Titus De - called out for pouncing not know the state law, State legislators also white semi-pro team, in onship series to St. Louis troit Giants semi-pro club on cars that were parked and therefore allowed need to tighten up regu - front of 3500 fans. The in a hard-fought, seven- became charter members in the Hamtramck CVS Breakthrough to con - lations so that towing Maxwells’ roster included game series. of the new Negro Ameri - parking lot after busi - tinue towing. companies can’t get one former major-leaguer Undoubtedly the great - can League (NAL), adopt - ness hours. Unnamed Hamtramck away with charging exor - and at least four former est black player to spend ing the storied Detroit Despite there being a police officers have now bitant fees to car own - minor-leaguers. most of his career in De - Stars’ name. They, too, couple of warning signs been added to a class ers. of , troit was Norman “Turkey” lasted only one summer - the “Father of Black Base - Stearnes. A five-tool cen - - the last major Negro ball,” attended the Stars’ ter fielder from Nashville, League team to hail from debut. Foster was instru - Tennessee, Stearnes was Detroit. done as a strolling party, mental in setting up the a Negro League superstar In 1954, a Grand a regularly scheduled Stars and may have had and one of the greatest Rapids semi-pro club work/play event. an ownership interest in home run hitters of all- moved to Motown, joined In the Netherlands, the club, though the time -- black or white. the Negro American group walks called wijk - named owner was Detroi - He was inducted to the League, and rebadged wandeling are done every ter Tenny Blount. National Baseball Hall of themselves as the Detroit few months, not only for The Stars featured fu - Fall in Cooperstown in Stars. After 1950, how - picking up trash but for ture Hall of Famer out - 2000, 21 years after his ever, the NAL was strictly Continued from front page identifying missing or fielder/team captain Pete death. Stearnes made his minor-league in quality. both of which have clear will be a liability not an crooked signage and re - Hill along with veteran major Negro League Playing mostly on the health and wellness ben - asset for enlightened porting hot spots for stars like pitcher John debut in 1923 with De - road, this version of the efits. cities (London has a plan speeding and reckless Donaldson and catcher troit, playing for the Stars Stars folded after 1961 More people on foot to reduce car traffic by driving. The group sends Bruce Petway. through 1931 as well as along with the debilitated also leads to less street closing some streets in its observations to gov - Future Hall of Fame in 1937. NAL, marking the end of crime and lowers green - the central city to mo - ernment authorities who pitcher Stearnes also starred the Negro League era. house gas emissions -- torists and increasing can address their con - joined the club in 1920, for the Chicago American the largest percentage of pedestrian and cycling cerns and make appropri - when the Stars became Giants and Kansas City which comes from cars, traffic by 2029). ate changes. trucks, buses and planes More eyes closer to the In this way the voices of -- making the community ground also has another people become truly en - safer and cleaner. underrated benefit: peo - gaged in city life -- in Most HHS students move on Not to mention con - ple that walk see trash ac - neighborhoods where tributing to a cleaner cumulating in the streets they actually live and walk to college after graduating world. and alleys and are more daily -- influencing govern - More pedestrians on apt to do something ment to do its job properly By Alan Madlane Michigan website, tics Bridge Michigan is the street are also good about it. by keeping the streets Hamtramck High School bridgemi.com. using, Hamtramck High for economic develop - Dedicated periodic com - clean and managing is gaining a lot of love Broken out into various School sent an impres - ment: entire commercial munity cleanups like the motor traffic with better from a non-profit state economic levels, the list sive 73.1% of their gradu - districts around the world one planned for this Sat - signage, innovative cross - news source. honors those state high ates on to college within are built on people who urday are certainly a good walk design and other Bridge Michigan has schools (10 in each of in a half-year from when walk versus those who thing, but imagine if calming methods now just revealed their Aca - four economic categories) students graduated. drive. In the future the car cleanups are instead Continued on page 6 demic State Champs des - where there is the highest That places the school ignations for 2019. These percentage of students 9th overall in their cate - designations, given as an going on to either a two- gory. It far outpaces the annual listing of state year or four-year college 54% average for the schools “where college is within six months of grad - “neediest” schools. FUWhenN the nEeedR ariseAs, thLese caDring IproRfessEionalCs areT reaOdy to RhelpY. the norm,” are available uating. to view on the Bridge According to the statis - 2687 Caniff, Hamtramck (313) 365-5240 Continuously owned and operated by the Krot Family since 1935 The Hamtramck Review $895 Alexandra Krot, Manager David A. Krot, Public Relations Published every Friday 3020 Caniff, Hamtramck, MI 48212 Phone: 313-874-2100 Fax: 313-874-2101 Jurkiewicz & Wilk Funeral Home www.hamtramckreview.com • email [email protected] MICHAEL A. WILK, DIRECTOR ROBERT A. 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See the Negro League greats at the Hamtramck museum By Greg Kowalski nally called Roesink Sta - is there. So dium at Veterans Memorial is . Park. These long-gone baseball Some of the greatest Continued from page 5 A Pearl A Day With greats have found a new black baseball players in being throughout the Sanders is in the race to presence in Hamtramck. history played there until world. win this time. Father Pops They are part of a special the Major Leagues were fi - The true power of cities He won the Michigan $19.99 Paperback exhibit on the Detroit Stars nally integrated in the late rests in the hands of the Primary by just over one baseball team, the Negro 1940s and early 1950s. people who live there and percentage point in 2016, Baseball League and the Roesink Stadium was thoughtfully engage its a defeat for Hillary Clinton Hamtramck stadium at Vet - eventually acquired by the elected leaders and man - that foreshadowed her erans Memorial Park that city, and has since served it agers, pushing for posi - losing the state vote to once hosted them. in many capacities. Almost tive change from the Donald Trump in the Gen - The exhibit is at the Ham - all the other stadiums na - bottom up. eral Election. tramck Historical Museum, tionally that hosted the I continued walking, A town as politically 9525 Jos. Campau, and Negro League games are turned right on Brombach “blue” as Hamtramck has runs through June. It con - gone. The Hamtramck Sta - and then left on Caniff been important to na - sists of historical photos dium is now the focus of a and a number of pieces of major renovation effort, and up to Ant Hall, where tional Democratic candi - memorabilia. spearheaded by the Friends Bernie Sanders' local dates for decades. The Negro Baseball of Historic Hamtramck Sta - team was kicking off the FDR and JFK made his - League existed from the dium. Vermont Senator's 2020 toric visits here: as did, to 1920s to the 1950s, when The stadium Friends are presidential campaign. be fair, Reagan and H.W. professional baseball was sponsoring the exhibit at the About 20 people were Bush, who both coveted segregated and black play - museum. It’s free. The mu - there to watch a filmed the city’s largely Polish- Securing Serenity In ers were not allowed to play seum is open 11 a.m. to 4 rally featuring Sanders American voter base, Troubling Times: on Major League teams or p.m. Saturday and Sunday with a group of support - which by the late- stadiums. and by appointment. Call ers. In the film the mes - 1970s/early-1980s had Acceptance Solutions Turning to small commu - (313) 893-5027 or (248) sage was made clear begun drifting away from $17.95 Paperback nity stadiums, they played 770-8389. Visit our website immediately by campaign the Democratic Party. $9.99 NOOK Book at fields around the country www.hamtramckhistory.org. manager Faiz Shakir: Continued on page 8 Get Out on the Hamtown! including what was origi -

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open door at a structure Caniff. in the 2400 block of Continued from page 7 Denton St. and secured Sunday, April 29 it. • In three separate in - ual assault three weeks suspects attempting to • A resident on Okla - cidents, officers as - prior, at a residence in break into his residence. homa St. reported she sisted ambulance crews the area of Dyar and Car - • A resident in the was assaulted by her fa - with unresponsive resi - penter. 9500 block of Mc - ther. dents. Continued from page 6 • A resident reported Dougall St. reported that • A Sterling Heights • A juvenile was re - being struck by a car in a a neighbor’s dog (a tan family reported that their ported missing from a A good argument could is by saying it is dressing hit-and-run incident. pit bull mix) dug a hole catalytic converter was residence in the 2400 be made that it was blue up like a lady but “wear - • Two residents re - under her fence, entered stolen while their vehicle block of Burger St. collar constituencies like ing way more makeup ported that, while in the her yard and ripped up a was parked in the area • A Holmes St. resi - Hamtramck's where the than mom.” area of Moran and Car - screen door. The dog of Commor and Fleming. dent reported being as - so-called “Reagan-De - Asked what pronoun penter, their brother as - also broke the door win - • A resident reported saulted. mocrats” movement was she prefers when in drag, birthed. Aphrodite answered saulted them. dow. the theft of their vehi - • Officers attempted to Few are left: most con - “she.” Otherwise, the gen - • A resident who lives • A resident in the cle’s catalytic converter pull over the driver of a tinued drifting up to Ma - der neutral singular while it was parked in Dodge Charger, but in the area of Jacob and 1900 block of Trow - comb County, which “they” was her prefer - the 12000 block of stopped their pursuit Gallagher reported a bridge St. reported see - helped tilt Michigan to ence, Aphrodite said. Mitchell St. after a short chase. break-in and the theft of ing two suspects cut off Trump in the last election. One parent questioned four doors. his vehicle’s catalytic • An arson report was • A Detroit resident As we go forward it will why she occasionally re - • A false 911 emer - converter and drive away made for a residence in was arrested for pos - be interesting to see what ferred to the children as gency call was reported. in a red Pontiac. the 1900 block of Ye - sessing an unlicensed kind of presence Joe “you guys,” even though • A resident was ar - • A hit-and-run crash mans St. and stolen gun. Biden will have in Ham - there was mix of males rested during an investi - was reported at Jacob tramck, or even more pro - and females in the room. gation in the and Jos. Campau. Saturday, April 27 Monday, April 29 gressive politicians like Aphrodite said it was Conant-Caely area for • A 911 emergency • A hit-and-run crash • No criminal incidents Elizabeth Warren, Kamala something done out of being wanted on a Ham - hang-up call was re - was reported at Andrus were reported for this Harris, Corey Booker and habit, but she should be tramck warrant. ported. and Lumpkin. date. Pete Buttigieg, the first more conscious of what • A resident in the • At 3 a.m., a resident openly gay presidential she is saying. 2000 block of Norwalk Friday, April 26 was arrested in the area candidate from one of the It was a good question, St. reported damage to • At 10 p.m., a Detroit of Florian and Jos. Cam - t Out two major parties. not a bad answer. their vehicle. resident was arrested in pau for domestic vio - Ge From Ant Hall I walked Afterward, people stood • A resident in the the area of Danforth and lence. he back down Caniff to Bank around and talked as the 2300 block of Norwalk Lumpkin for being disor - • At 8 a.m., a Detroit on t Suey, where its pop up jug band set up. I St. reported that their derly. resident reported being n! shop, Book Suey, was browsed and found a cou - neighbors scared off two • Officers located an assaulted at Conant and tow hosting a daylong series ple books. I ran into old Ham of events for Independent friends from Model D, the Book Store Day. online magazine where I There were hands-on worked for several years; presentations by local and new friends Kimara urban farm Tiny Acres, a and Ricardo, documen - performance by the Hon - tary filmmakers from Ger - est to God Jug Band and many I met last fall, in a drag queen story hour, town again for another the first of its kind in month of filming. Hamtramck. There were individuals I arrived just as the of all ages: moms, dads reader, Queen Aphrodite, and both straight and was beginning her pro - same-sex couples. gram. About a dozen chil - I left thinking how dren spread across the calmly Hamtramck ex - floor or sat with adults a presses its hospitality, bit further back near the how normal is its extreme bookcases. diversity, how everyone is Aphrodite read stories welcome to simply be about inclusion, gender themselves, how all in equity and the impor - that room are quietly influ - tance of being yourself. encing life in the city. She took questions (Walter Wasacz's column from kids and their par - about walkable discovery ents, answering one appears twice monthly in about what a drag queen the Review.) Get Yourself NOTICED! Place an Ad in The Review Call (313)874-2100