vin's EASTER DAY SALE! Need We Say More? Open This Sunday 11:00 A.M. • 4:00 P.M. 6692 Orchard Lake Rd. • West Bloomfield In The West Bloomfield Plaza _ 851-4410 EASTER DAY SALE 5 HOURS ONLY! SUNDAY 11-4 15-20% OFF ENTIRE STOCK OF SPRING AND SUMMER SHOES *prior sales, layaways and evening shoes excluded SHOE GALLERY 15 Mile and Orchard Lake Road — West Bloomfield Plaza 851.5470 20 FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1992 Akiva Student Wins Television News Contest AMY J. MEHLER Staff Writer N ine-year-old Rivka Huffstutter did such a good job explain- ing why it's important to know the news, she'll soon be reading it — live on TV, as a Channel 50 television newscaster. Rivka, a fourth-grader at Akiva Hebrew Day School, won first place at her school in the WKBD Fox-50 Kids Newsbreak contest. She had to write a 100-word essay on "Why It's Important To Know The News." "All I said was that it was important to know what's going in the woild in order to take the proper precau- tions," Rivka said. "If there's a war, or a tornado, you need to know what to do, where to go, what to wear." The Fox-50 Kids News- break program, now in its third year, is open to students in grades 4-8 in the Wayne, Oakland and Macomb county school districts. Principals and teachers select the best entry from each school and submit it to WKBD. Consideration was given to students' verbal and reading skills. The winner must be able to come to the station's Southfield studio to tape his or her Newsbreak. Nancy PuShee, Fox-50 public relations coordinator, said because of the large number of participants — about 300 — it might be several months, even into the next school year, before Rivka gets on the air. Kids' Newsbreak airs daily at 6:58 a.m. and again at 3:58 p.m. "I was pretty excited when I found out I won," Rivka said. "I like to watch the news on TV. I also listen to news on the radio. My favor- ite reporter is Bill Bonds. I once met him with my mom at the cleaners." Darryl Leiter, Rivka's fourth-grade English teacher, said her essay was chosen from among 55. "Rivka's essay was chosen on the basis of her vocabulary and understan- ding of the topic," Mrs. Leiter said. Rivka, who lives in Oak Park, found this to be a spe- cially newsy year. "I learned all about the war in Iraq, the Scuds that fell in Israel and about the changes in the Soviet Rivka Huffstutter: Future anchorwoman Union," she said. "I wrote that I had friends from Russia and that I knew someone whose grand- mother was hit by a Scud missile." Miriam Huff- stutter, Rivka's mother, ad- mitted Rivka was worried she wouldn't win. "She told me a fourth-grader had never won, but I told her to do her best and not think about it," she said. "My teacher said my paper was very good, so I just thought about winning, not losing," Rivka said. ❑ NEWS 1""'"" Israel Role Reevaluated Jerusalem (JTA) — In the wake of an ambush attack on Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, Israel is being forced once again to reevaluate its role in the re- gion. But as in the past, security experts and policymakers can find no easy solutions. The attack left two Israel Defense Force soldiers dead and five wounded. Two soldiers of the Israel-backed South Lebanon Army also were wounded. The three gunmen who carried out the attack, identified as mem- bers of the radical Islamic Jihad, were killed. The incident was the latest in an increasingly bloody guerrilla war being waged against Israel by Moslem fundamentalists linked to Iran. The passive complicity of the Lebanese regular army is partly to blame, Israeli sources say.