LOCAL NEWS Studio In Harvard Row Mall The Jewish Home For Aged Is Facing Legal Battle KIMBERLY LIFTON Staff Writer T 50%-70 0/0 OFF ALL NAME BRANDS • Vertical Blinds • Levolor Blinds • Pleated Shades • Wood Blinds 21728 W. Eleven Mile Rd. Harvard Row Mall Southfield, Ml 48076 Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10-5 Thursday 10-8 Free Professional Measure at No Obligation Free in Home Design Consulting 352-8622 New Rochester Hills VINTAGE WRISTWATCHES WANTED PATEK PHILIPPE ROLEX AUDEMARS VACHERON LeCOULTRE CORUM COIN GUBELIN CARTIER MOONPHASES CHRONOGRAPHS 651-5009 Free Stock Guide If you're an investor, you'll want to receive our new S&P Stock Guide containing the latest information on thousands of individual stocks. call: Larry Moss All interesting or unusual time pieces. Need not be running. ABBOTT'S-COINER CORPORATION 1393 S. Woodward Ave. • Birmingham, MI 48011 • (313) 644-6833 ONLY 12 LEFT! FULL LENGTH COAT • Beaver • Racoon • Coyotte General Partner 540-3733 SIPC Ravey&co. Member New York Stock Exchange, Inc. 344 N. Woodward • Suite 100 Birmingham, MI 48011 $ 1495 00 Bricker.1ijnis airs 6335 ORCHARD LAKE RD • ORCHARD MALL West Bloomfield 855-9200 David Biber CR SSMA N CADILLAC FINEST PERSONAL SERVICE AFTER AS WELL AS BEFORE THE SALE. Specializing in Employee and Executive Car Sales and Leasing 644-1930 COLLECTABLE CADILLACS 1948 - 1968 28 FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1989 642-9087 American Red Cross Blood Services Southeastern Michigan Region he Jewish Home For Aged's plan to move its Southfield and Detroit facilities to West Bloomfield has been put aside as officials enter the legal arena with private competitors. Jewish Welfare Federation and Home officials for years have been studying ways to build a new, state-of-the-art facility for the elderly to replace Borman Hall in Detroit and Prentis Manor in Southfield. Yet just a week after the Home received a long-awaited nod of approval in the form of a certificate of need from the Michigan Department of Public Health, a co-owner of the West Bloomfield Con- valescent and Nursing Center filed a lawsuit in In- gham County Circuit Court challenging the state's authority in issuing the cer- tificate to the Home. Attorneys for the Home call the lawsuit a "thinly veiled attempt to mislead this court." Robert Gurwin, a co- owner of the West Bloomfield Convalescent Center, could not be reached for comment. Issued in February, the cer- tificate of need would allow the Home to build a 100-bed facility in West Bloomfield. The Maple/Drake Jewish Community Center would be the site for a new Home. Alan Funk, the Home's ex- ecutive vice president, said of- ficials hadn't moved forward with plans because they were waiting for a second cer- tificate of need for more beds so Borman and Prentis could be relocated at the same time into one new building. Four hundred and eighteen residents live at the Home's three facilities — Borman Hall, Prentis Manor and Fleischman Residence. Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Carolyn Stell is scheduled to hear the case at 2:30 p.m. on April 12 in Lansing. The plaintiff, Oakland Hills Manor, which operates the West Bloomfield Convales- cent and Nursing Center, names in the suit Rajkumari Wiener, acting director for the Michigan • Department of Public Health, the Health Department and the Jewish Home For Aged. Joining the suit for the plaintiffs are Beaumont Hospital of Royal Oak and Harper-Grace Hospital, part of the Detroit Medical Center group. ❑ Congregation To Honor Rabbi Reuven Drucker The officers and board of directors of Young Israel of Greenfield will mark the five- year tenure of Rabbi Reuven- Drucker Saturday morning. Rabbi Dov Loketch of Con- gregation Mogain Avraham will be the guest speaker. Rabbi Drucker came to Detroit in December 1983 from Baltimore, where he studied for 12 years at Yeshiva Ner Yisroel. While in Baltimore, Rabbi Drucker and his wife, Hilary, founded the outreach program, Etz Chaim. Rabbi Drucker also wrote the ArtScroll edition of the Book of Joshua. Since coming to Oak Park, Rabbi Drucker has establish- ed a number of new programs and classes within the shul, and spearheaded a campaign to purchase two Sifrei Torah for the synagogue. In addi- tion, he has initiated pro- grams in the community in- cluding Ibrah study over the telephone through Dial-a- Daf/Shiur; a bikur cholim Rabbi Reuven Drucker society called Ahavas Chesed; the Detroit Shatriez Labora- tory; an eruv in the Oak Park/Southfield community to allow carrying on Shabbat; Tzidkath Yosef Naphtali, which sends money to needy families in Israel. Following services, Rabbi Drucker's friends will host a kiddush in his honor. The public is welcome.