allow Up 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 14 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.