30 Friday, August 21, 1981 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Detroit's Jewish Camping Facilities Encompass A Major Operation (Continued from Page 29) lage specialty program utilize the spacious studio with its wooden dance floor, mirrored walls and adjoin- ing dressing room. One wall of the studio opens to an outdoor amphitheater set in a grove of trees. Performances for the entire camp take place in the Allen Amphitheater. Under the direction of performing arts super- visor Margie Gaines, nearly 500 campers and staff presented a Jewish song and dance festival at the amphitheater on July 23. Dancer and TamaRoFF Your Sign of Value for Sales • Service Custom Leasing TamaRoFF Buick-DMC-Honda 28585 Telegraph Rd. across from Tel-Twelve Mall Southfield, Mich. Phone 353-1300 choreographer Harriet Berg, one of the camp's artist-in-residence pro- fessionals, and her per- formers will hold a blue grass-folk festival for the camp this month. The THA constructed a ceramics studio about 11 years ago for teenagers in- terested in creating their own pottery. Run at college-level by professional staff, the studio has 12 wheels and complete facilities for producing pots, dishes and other vessels. Campers helped build the kiln, said Zaks. Another popular building in the Maas Recreation Area is the environmental education center. Young visitors to the year-round nature center are invited to hold the live snakes and ob- serve specimens of native flora and fauna.. Zaks said plans call for installing an active beehive. The food preparation cen- ter, completed in 1977, is a marvel of efficiency. The combination kitchen and storage facility is open six days a week, from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. Two shifts of cooks pre- pare meals for everyone at Ortonville and also provide baked goods for Camp Tamarack at Brighton. The meals are delivered by truck to nine residential vil- lages within the campgrounds, where coun- selors and campers eat to- An evening of fun for the City of Hope GREATER DETROIT CHAPTER 69th Annual Dinner-Dance Sunday, Sept. 20, 5:30 p.m. Detroit Plaza Hotel Main Ballroom Starring JACK CARTER the Comedians' Comedian Dancing to the Fenby-Carr Orchestra Free Valet Parking — Black Tie Optional $125 Minimum Contribution Per Plate For Information, Call 353-2535 or 863-4649 Enjoy an Evening at Renaissance Center and Help the City of Hope's Major Fund-Raising Activity gether in their unit's dining lodge. Friedman Auditorium is the site of perform- ances and dining facilities for groups of 200 or more during the non- summer months. Shabat services are conducted in the building's chapel. Perhaps the most exciting building project in recent years for the FAS and THA is the new Bert and Toba Smokier Pioneer Skills Center. When completed, there will be seven build- ings re-creating a pioneer village from yesteryear. Visitors will see demonstra- tions of Oldtime crafts and skills in this year-round outdoor education center. Zaks said campers, as- sisted by a THA employee, recently erected a tower in the -village that will be used for operating a windmill. To date, the village includes a toll bridge, woodshop, log cabin, animal barn and maple sugar building (the first batch of maple syrup was produced in March of this year). Planned for con- struction are a smith shop, summer kitchen and one- room schoolhouse. A root cellar on the grounds will keep carrots, onions and potatoes fresh year round, said Zaks. Burton estimated that the Jewish community has a truly major investment in real estate and-buildings at the various Tamarack Hills Authority camping sites. They are at Brighton, begun in 1927; Ortoville, 1953; Kennedy, 1963; and Agree Outpost (in Ontario), 1969. THA also oversees primi- tive campgrounds in Michi- gan: Mesick Base Camp and the Mollie M. Burtman Campgrounds at Mio. He pointed out that Federation's capital allo- cations and grants at these sites now total cumulatively close to $2 million and that perhaps a similar amount has been contributed over the years by a large number of donors for many of the individual buildings, villages and facilities. Camp Tamarack is noted as the largest year-round Jewish camp in the na- - fion. But more important than these holdings, according to Israel Lottery Winner Sought TEL AVIV (JTA) — The management of the Payis Israel national lottery is waiting for an unknown person to come to their office and claim the largest prize in the history of the lotto's weekly gamble. The ticket was correctly filled in by a Ramat Gan resident and carry-overs from previous weeks when there were no correct entries brought the prize money up to 2.4 million Shekels (about $200,000). The person paid 35 Shekels (about $3) for his entry form. both Zaks and Burton, are the Jewish lives that are touched and enriched by taking part in the programs offered at the THA facilities. Serving on the THA committee are A. Arnold Agree, Leonard Borman, N. Brewster Broder, Leonard R. Farber, Benjamin H. Frank, Harvey A. Gordon, Earl G. Grant, Robert Kasle, Sol G. Kurtzman, Milton K. Mahler, Stanley H. Marx, Allan Nachman, Dr. Irving Posner, Marvin Rosenthal, Dr. Peter G. Shifrin and Sidney J. Winer. For information, call the FAS, 661-0600. 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