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A fresh look at some recent stories in the headlines.

Stumping For Funds
Campaign Style

March Dedication
For Memorial

KIMBERLY LIFTON STAFF WRITER

KIMBERLY UFTON STAFF WRITER

T

his month, Barbara
Nissman, the first pi-
anist to perform live
the complete sonatas
of Russian composer Sergei
Prokofiev, will enter the
Michigan political arena
with a private fund-raiser
and afterglow for U.S. Sen-
ate candidate Lana Pol-
lack.
Ms. Pollack, a Democ-
ratic state senator from
Ann Arbor, is one of many
senate and gubernatorial
hopefuls who has been
stumping throughout
. Michigan with innovative
fund-raisers.
Howard Wolpe, the for-
mer member of Congress
who now is a gubernatori-
al candidate, last summer
hosted a fund-raiser at a
Peter, Paul and Mary con-
cert at Meadowbrook.
Word is still out on what
type of fund-raiser former
U.S. Rep. Bill Brodhead
will host in his bid for U.S.
Senate, or whether Rep.
Robert Carr, D-East Lans-
ing, and former Gov. Jim
Blanchard will get into the
same Democratic primary

race for Senate.
But everyone — from
gubernatorial hopeful Lar-
ry Owen, a Lansing attor- and Rubinstein. She has
ney, to Macomb County performed all over the
prosecutor Carl Marlinga, world, but politics is new to
who is running for the sen- her.
Mr. Brodhead seems to
ate seat — needs to raise
be playing it low key, hop-
money.
As the political fund- ing to launch a grass-roots
raising season moves into campaign that utilizes
high gear, candidates masses of volunteers to get
across the state will engage the word out. A major con-
in some creative events in cert, however, doesn't ap-
search of much-needed dol- pear to be in the works.
lars.
In August, Michigan
voters will go to the
polls to select their
choices for the Novem-
ber gubernatorial and
senate elections. Mean-
while, mailboxes across
the state should be KIMBERLY LIFTON STAFF WRITER
flooded with requests
for donations.
Ms. Nissman, who is
doing this special con-
cert at 2 p.m. Sunday
at the Michigan The-
ater for her college pal,
Ms. Pollack, is known
for playing the grand
romantic pieces of
Liszt, Rachmaninoff

January Sees
Influx Of Emigres

RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER

M

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

ore than 73 new
Athericans will
have arrived in
Detroit from the
former Soviet Union since
the beginning of the new
year, Resettlement Service
workers say.
This is nearly five times

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T

he Ann Arbor Holo-
caust Memorial
Foundation has
raised about
$200,000 — enough mon-
ey to move forward with a
dedication ceremony for
the state's newest memor-
ial to Holocaust victims.
The non-profit group,
which was set up in 1988
to raise funds for the
memorial, has scheduled
a ceremony for March 13
at the Rackham am-

phitheater at the Uni-
versity of Michigan.
The monument, a
statue of a single griev-
ing figure, is expected
to arrive in Ann Arbor
for the ceremony. It is
being constructed in
The Ann Arbor memorial.
New York.
The event will kick off versi-
an annual Hillel confer- ty of Michigan-Dearborn.
ence on the Holocaust.
At his urging, the city
Keynote speaker will be council in 1985 passed a
Professor Todd Endel- resolution calling for the
man, director of Judaic creation of a memorial.
studies at U-M.
The Ann Arbor statue
Jack Edelstein, will be used to educate
who has served on the the community about the
committee since its Holocaust and to serve as
inception, said the a public reminder of the
group will transfer murder of the Six Mil-
the memorial to U-M lion.
President James
Fund-raising chairman
Duderstadt during Dr. David Schteingart
the March ceremony. worked with attorney Ira
U-M then will own Jaffe and Dr. Melvin
the memorial, he Lester to secure necessary
said.
funds to pay for the statue.
The memorial
Included on the com-
stems from former mittee are Mr. Hirshorn,
Ann Arbor City Coun- Dr. Robert Levy, Michael
cil member Seth Hir- Brooks, Jack Edelstein,
shorn, director of the Larry Crockett, the Rev.
public administration Timothy Crowley and Rab-
program at the Uni- bi Robert Dubrusin.

Southfield Approves
usiness Assessmen

Southfield's downtown.
he Southfield City Coun-
dl has approved a special
tax on businesses within
the 850-acre site of the
City Centre District that will
pay for improvements along
the corridor.
A $400,000 plaza, paid for
through the assessment, will
include landscaping, benches,
lighting and a special area to
be used for outdoor concerts.
The City Centre Plaza will
be constructed along Central
Park Boulevard, just west of
Evergreen Road, between Civic
Center Drive and 11 Mile.
Assessments will be based
on property size and distance

the number of emigres
who have resettled
here in recent months.
Marcy Feldman, pres-
ident of Resettlement
Service, attributes the
influx to increasing po-
litical unrest and anti-
Semitism in Russia
and the nearby re-
publics.
Russian neofacist
Vladimir Zhirinovsky,
whose ultranationalist
party won last Decem-
ber's parliamentary
elections, has catalyzed
emigration, Ms. Feld-
man said. "I think we're
going to see many more
people coming."
Resettlement Ser-
vice has accommodat-
ed more than 90
emigres in one month
Russian emigres arrive in the West. during immigration

spurts in the past. Though
January's wave is slightly
smaller, Resettlement Ser-
vice's task is complicated
by the recent fire at North-
gate Apartments.
Ms. Feldman said staff
and volunteers are work-
ing hard to meet the needs
of fire victims, as well as re-
cent emigres.
"Resettlement has been
going nuts," she said.
To volunteer, call 559-
1500.

to the proposed plaza.
Meanwhile, city planners
still are working on a blueprint
for a new, expanded public li-
brary in the City Centre cor-
ridor. The library, one of the
area's most comprehensive,
now is housed in the massive
City Hall complex across the
street on Evergreen.
Together with City Centre
and the new theatre area in the
Downtown Development Au-
thority zone (near Northland'
shopping center), officials be='
lieve Southfield will become a
place to work, eat, socialize and
be seen.

No Bidders Yet 9
Camp Goes On

JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER

VV

ith the falling
snow and
frigid temper-
atures, most
people are not thinking
about summer camp —
unless they are trying
to sell one campsite and
expand another one.
Camp Tamarack,
near Brighton, which
was put up for sale in Sep-
tember, is still on the
market according to
Harvey Finkelberg,
the executive direc-
"4 for of the Fresh Air
rti‘ Society.
To date, no seri-
mni ous offers have
been made for the
site, which is listed
at $1.6 million.
"When you are try-
ing to sell 193 acres of
land, it's not going to hap-

pen overnight," Mr. Finkel-
berg said.
The decision to close
Camp Tamarack and
merge the facility with
Camp Maas in Ortonville
came after increased com-
mercial development forced
Fresh Air Society to reeval-
uate the Brighton location.
New construction is un-
derway at Camp Maas to
accommodate the younger
campers. The concrete and
framing have been com-
pleted on 12 new cabins
and two lodges, according
to Mr. Finkelberg. Con-
struction is expected to be
completed by May 31.
The new cabins are be-
ing built with bathrooms
and showers. Most older
villages at Camp Maas
have central shower fa-
cilities.