DETROIT
Resettlement Service
Moves Soviet Warehouse
SUSAN GRANT
Staff Writer
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Our new spring lines will soon be here. We must make room, so we are offering
50% to 70% off on all name brand watches, crystal, accessories and pottery. Our
fine and fashion jewelry, including diamond and gold bracelets, have been reduced
an additonal 20% from their already low prices.
WATCHES .... Movado, Seiko, Lasalle, Citizen, Noblia
POTTERY
Demery, Evans
CRYSTAL
ACCESSORIES .... A. T. Cross
All merchandise is offered at outstanding discount prices.
All sales can be exchanged or refunded. Gift wrapping
is free. If you purchase a quartz watch, you will
receive a free replacement battery for
its lifetime.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1991
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lamp. A set of dishes.
A blender. When new
Americans came to
Detroit, they had to leave
those things in the Soviet
Union.
Last year, the Jewish
Resettlement Service estab-
lished a warehouse at Jew-
ish Vocational Service
where two days a week new
Americans could pick up do-
nated household goods, fur-
niture and other items to
replace those things they
had to leave behind.
Now, the warehouse
stands empty. It has been
closed temporarily to allow
Jewish Resettlement Service
volunteers time to move the
remaining items at JVS to a
new building at Northland
Shopping Center off of
Greenfield Road near Ker-
by's Coney Island. Jim
Courtney, a General Motors
Company worker who is
helping Jewish Reset-
tlement Service during his
temporary layoff from the
automobile company, is or-
ganizing the moving effort.
The new warehouse, which
has been donated by the
shopping center, will open
Feb. 5.
JVS, which donated the
warehouse space for the past
year, could only offer Reset-
tlement Service limited
access to it, said Sandra
Hyman, Resettlement Ser-
vice director.
"We made too much noise
and they have offices in the
back of the warehouse," Ms.
Hyman said. "We didn't
want to interfere with their
ability to service their
clientele."
The new facility,
discovered with the help of
Southfield city officials, is
also closer than the JVS
warehouse for many new
Americans who live in
apartment complexes in Oak
Park and Southfield, said Ms.
Hyman. Unlike the second-
floor JVS warehouse which is
accessible only by a back door,
the new facility, located on
the first floor, is easy to get to,
she said. "It's easier for us to
accept donations."
New Americans will still
be able to pick up heavier
items like bedroom furniture
directly from the donors, she
said.
Because Jewish Reset-
tlement Service has
unlimited access to the new
facility, it would like to
expand warehouse hours.
The warehouse has been
open from noon to 2 p.m.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays,
, but Ms. Hyman would like to
add Sunday hours.
To do so means the
warehouse needs more vol-
unteers, said Louise Hacker,
Jewish Family Service
public relations director.
"If we get enough vol-
unteers, we can open on
Sunday," Mrs. Hacker said.
"We thought maybe a B'nai
B'rith Girls group or some
other youth group could help
as a community service pro-
ject."
Ms. Hyman, who expects
about 750 Soviet Jews will
resettle in Detroit between
October 1990 and September
1991, said new Americans
often use the warehouse. Of
the 124 Soviet Jews who
have come to Detroit since
October, all have taken
something out of the
warehouse for their new
apartments, she said.
Resettlement caseworkers
examine the homes and give
out vouchers for bedroom
furniture, lamps, sofas and
other large items they need
to make their home more
comfortable, Ms. Hyman
said. Although resettlement
service receives many dona-
tions from the community,
more items, especially
household goods and fur-.
niture, are needed, she said.
One thing new Americans
don't need are clothes since
it was one of the few things
they brought from the Soviet
Union, Ms. Hyman said.
However, clothes are
needed in Leningrad, accor-
ding to a letter received by
resettlement caseworker
Lydia Kuniaysky. One of her
clients talked to an elderly
friend in Leningrad who said
not only is there a food shor-
tage in the Soviet Union, but
good clothes are difficult to
find and on a limited income,
too expensive to purchase.
So the elderly are forced to
wear old clothes until they
are torn and awful looking,
Ms. Kuniaysky said. The
client's friend, who was once
an art historian and used to
wearing professional looking
clothes, "is so humiliated by
her clothes," she said.
Nowit is possible to send
used clothes to the Soviet
Union, she said. Good quali-
ty used clothes, especially
anything in large sizes, will
be collected at the new
warehouse. ❑
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