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Housing
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with Trudy Crandall. Their
goal is 100 host homes for
the Games and "We've
gotten about as many
homes, percentage-wise, as
Detroit at this point,"
Newman said.
Newman and Crandall
have been placing notices in
all Ann Arbor area Jewish
publications and, in
December, distributed hous-
ing brochures and applica-
tions to youngsters in area
synagogue/temple schools.
Telephone follow-ups and
talks to Jewish organiza-
tions are planned.
Newman said a number of
signups — including co-
chairman Crandall — have
included people who have
children much younger than
the 13-to-16-year-old
athletes they will be hous-
ing. Crandall's son, for ex-
ample, is 7 years old. "And
we've gotten even those who
don't have children at home
anymore, so we're covering
the whole range," said
Newman, whose son,
Michael, 15, will be par-
ticipating in his last Youth
Games.
Ann Arbor will be sending
its own team of young
athletes to the Games,
Newman said.
Ann Arbor-area families
seeking more information
and applications can call
Newman at 761-1693 or
Crandall at 747-9909.
Maccabi Athletes'
Meeting On Tap
The first informational
meeting for Jewish athletes
planning to participate on
the Detroit team in the 1990
Jewish Community Centers
North American Maccabi
Youth Games this summer
is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 18 at the Maple-Drake
JCC.
Athletes ages 13-16 as of
Aug. 1, 1990, and their
parents are invited, accor-
ding to Alan Horowitz,
Games athletic director.
Detroit and the JCC will
host the Games in August,
with some 2,200 Jewish
athletes from across the
United States and around
the world participating.
"We haven't filled any of
our Detroit Maccabi Club
teams as yet," said
Horowitz, adding that
tryouts and individual team
meetings won't be until
March.
"This meeting Jan. 18 will
allow us the chance to tell
prospective athletes and
their parents what the
Games are about," he said.
A videotape of a past North
American Maccabi will be
shown and team coaches and
athletes will be on hand to
answer questions.
Tryout applications as well
as applications for hosting
athletes from other cities
will be available, Horowitz
said.
Tennis Center
Opens At JCC
RICHARD PEARL
Staff Writer
he new multi-purpose
Rosenberg Complex at
Maple-Drake
T the
Jewish Community Center
has finally opened, but is far
from capacity usage among
tennis players at present.
"Our tennis club usage is
at 40 percent of capacity,"
said Kathleen O'Kane, JCC
tennis coordinator. She add-
ed the Center is offering $4-
per-hour court fees, 7 a.m.-10
p.m., through Feb. 4 "as a
way of saying thanks to our
members for their patience."
Court fees will be between
$6-12 per hour after Feb. 4.
The $1.75-million facility,
donated in the main by Ed
and Shirley Rosenberg to
replace the Center's aging
tennis bubble, was schedul-
ed to open in September, but
asphalt floor problems
delayed the date until Dec.
28.
"The tennis surface is as
good as that at all the other
area clubs," said O'Kane,
who has worked at area
tennis clubs the past 10
years. She has been ranked
as high as 11thh in
Southeastern Michigan
women's singles. The facility
features five tennis_ courts,
two of which can be used for
basketball or volleyball, and
an indoor running track
which O'Kane said is the
largest in the Detroit area (6
3/4 laps equal a mile). In-
c l u d e d in the
51,000-square-foot complex
is a 2,000-square-foot lounge.
A heavy curtain separates
the tennis courts from the
track and the basket-
ball/volleyball courts from
the tennis courts.
"The track is busy all day
long," said O'Kane. It brings
to three the number of in-
door walk/jog courses at the
JCC.
O'Kane, who has worked
at area tennis clubs the past
10 years, said the Center
will begin offering clinics
Jan. 14.
"We finally got it open,"
said Mort Plotnick, JCC ex-
ecutive director. "It's 100
percent functional and all
the comments we've receiv-
ed have been terrific."
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