December 12-18, 2012 see page 11 IS NOW OPEN AT NCG EASTWOOD CINEMAS WITH A SCREEN OVER 3 STORIES TALL ALL PREMIUM SEATING AND CAPABILITIES! 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • December 12, 2012 AND DON’T MISS... 30TH ANNIVERSARY DECEMBER 14-16 Ever-popular conductor Keith Lockhart leads One of the greatest opera one of the world’s great orchestras in two Elgar stars of our time comes to favorites: the beloved Enigma Variations and East Lansing for the first time Cello Concert with Sophie Shao, Britten’s in a rare recital appearance! Four Sea Interludes & more. “Perfect voice, endless breath, sensuous tone... she is sheer perfection” - Le Monde, Paris KEITH LOCKHART, Conductor • SOPHIE SHAO, Cello Thursday, January 31 at 7:30PM Wednesday, February 27 at 7:30PM Media Sponsor Media Sponsor Generously sponsored by Accident Fund Insurance Company of America and Stanley & Selma Hollander Endowment Fund. 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I grew up in istry continue.” the area, and Cristo Rey was always Also, at least three members of about the Hispanic community,” C petition the center’s board were unaware that Washington said. OF THE WEEK Vogel, 65, has a criminal record for Lopez said the citizens’ group want- Petition opposes merger of Cristo embezzlement from 1989 when City ed to revive a longstanding Cristo Rey Rey Community Center with St. Pulse contacted them for a story in tradition of holding a dance and dis- Vincent Catholic Charities; two mid-November. Vogel, an attorney at tributing fruit baskets to area seniors Council members concerned the time, pleaded guilty to embezzling before Christmas. more than $250,000 from estates About two weeks ago, at the request A group of citizens opposed to a pending in probate court, according of the group, Councilwoman Carol proposed consolidation of Cristo Rey to the Attorney Discipline Board of Wood wrote a letter to Cristo Rey, ask- Community Center with St. Vincent Michigan. Vogel’s law license was ing to use the gymnasium and kitch- Catholic Charities is circulating a peti- revoked. en for the event. tion against the merger and pondering On the Tuesday before Wood said she met further action. Thanksgiving, long- with MaryLou Mason, The group wants to meet with time Latino com- chairwoman of the Lansing Bishop Earl Boyea, who is munity leaders Cristo Rey Board seeking the merger, and has asked Rudy and Elva of Directors, at the Catholic Diocese of Lansing for Reyes discussed City Hall and information on the center’s finances the community Mason told her and management, but has not gotten center’s status it would cost an answer from the diocese on either with Cristo Rey too much to count, according to group members Pastor Fred leave the center Property: The winning gingerbread house Lorenzo Lopez and Al Salas. Thelen. open and the from a competition Saturday at the City Market Michael Diebold, communications “It was more center would not Owner: Katie and Frank Chipman-Bergsma director for the diocese, said he was or less to try and be available. As a “not aware” of any plans to meet with clear up some of result, Lopez said, the citizens group and didn’t know the fog, but it didn’t the seniors’ event This week, our eye candy is actual candy! whether a meeting with the bishop has really help that much,” will not take place. The Lansing City Market held a gingerbread been requested. Elva Reyes said. Wood said she is taking house competition on Saturday. Seven dif- “I’m not the bishop’s secretary,” Reyes said Thelen told her the the group’s concerns seriously. ferent teams came to battle with their gin- Diebold said. consolidation was ordered by the dio- She considers it significant that former gerbread, icing and gumdrops on hand. Diebold explained that several cese, but declined to serve as interme- Lansing Mayor Tony Benavides has Katie Chipman-Bergsma and her 2-year- months ago, Boyea asked the boards diary in arranging a meeting between offered to help Cristo Rey at no charge. old son, Frank, of Lansing won the compe- of Cristo Rey and St. Vincent Catholic the citizens’ group and the diocese. “For the years that Tony and I tition by building a two-story gingerbread Charities, “both of which are entities “Everybody wants to see some kind were serving together on Council, he palace. The architecture of this house is of the Diocese of Lansing, to come up of transparency with that merger,” was director over there,” Wood said. what sets it apart from the others. A beauti- with a consolidation plan.” Reyes said. “That was one of the ques- Benavides was Cristo Rey’s director ful porch, complete with pretzel pillars, roof “That’s basically where we’re at,” tions we posed to Father: Why weren’t from its founding in 1968 to 2003.