Afresh look at some recent stories in the headlines.
Packaging Company
Receives Honor
Thousands Of People
`Race For The Cure'
STEVE STEIN STAFF WRITER
RUTH LITTPAANN STAFF WRITER
C Lear skies and
warm weather
welcomed thou-
sands of walkers
and runners to the De-
troit Zoo where the "Race
For the Cure" took place
April 9.
The annual event to
benefit breast cancer re-
search and education at-
tracted more than 7,300
people — up from last
year's attendance of
4,300.
"It was fabulous," said
Jane Hoey of the Michi-
gan Cancer Foundation.
"I think as each year
goes by the breast cancer
issue becomes more
important. Everybody
knows someone who has
been affected by breast
cancer."
Seven thousand Michi-
gan women will be diag-
nosed with breast cancer
this year, Ms. Hoey said.
Health experts say self-
examinations and mam-
mograms (early detec-
tion) are among the best
ways of increasing
chances of survival.
The Race For the Cure
raised $100,000 for local
educational programs
that will primarily target
underprivileged women.
Organized by the Su-
san G. Komen Founda-
tion, the race will take
place in 46 states across
the nation this year. For
more information on
breast cancer, call the
Michigan Cancer Foun-
dation at (313) 833-0715.
`Justice' Advertisers
Ponder Boycott Request
D E T RO I T J E WI S H N E WS
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Community Responds
To Information Forum
ast December, Hos-
pice and Jewish
Hospice of South-
eastern Michigan
offered its theory and
message to the commu-
nity at Temple Israel.
This spring, the orga-
nization which as-
sists terminally ill
patients in their
homes, counts sev-
en new volunteers
and many patients
on its roster due to
the informational
meeting.
E.B.
Rabbi
(Bunny) Freed-
man of Jewish
Hopice Services,
David Techner of
the Ira Kaufman
Chapel and
Jonathan Finn,
medical director of
Hospice, spoke at
the December fo-
rum.
Volunteers com-
I
I
w
p
New Horizons these
jobs and we feel good
about providing op-
portunities for their
clients."
PC&D, which is
celebrating its 80th
year in business, is
located in a 16,000-
square-foot office and
warehouse facility in
Madison Heights. It
began as a textile bag
renovating business
in Detroit in 1914.
Martin Bader is
the company's chair-
man and chief execu-
tive officer. His fa-
ther, Abe Bader,
founded the firm.
Howard Stone
PC&D received its
Contractor of the
Year honor at ARC's lating PC&D. It read in
24th annual awards ban- part, "Your talents and
quet March 4 at the San expertise in conjunction
with all of the time and
Marino Club in Troy.
State Sen. Michael J. energy you have donated
Bouchard wrote a Senate to ARC have not gone un-
proclamation congratu- noticed."
LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER
ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR
a'asot members
found sympathetic
responses from ad-
vertisers in Bran-
deis University's student
newspaper, The Justice.
The Detroit organiza-
tion's members called a
dozen advertisers in the
Waltham, Mass., area re-
cently to request they
withhold at least one ad-
vertisement from the pa-
per. The requested boy-
cott is in response to The
Justice last December
printing a Holocaust "re-
visionist's" advertise-
ment. It claimed, among
other things, that no
Jews were killed in gas
chambers.
"Most people asked for
a copy of the advertise-
ment and of our state-
ment," said Berl Fal-
baum, La'asot founder.
"The reaction was sym-
pathetic."
Mr. Falbaum said the
ackaging Concepts
& Design, a spe-
cialist in the field
of industrial flexi-
ble packaging, has been
named 1994 Contractor
of the Year by the Asso-
ciation for Retarded Cit-
izens of Oakland County
(ARC).
For the past half-dozen
years, PC&D has been
working with New Hori-
zons, a vocational reha-
bilitation agency for per-
sons with developmental
disabilities.
"Their workers do
tasks like making holes
and slits in plastic pack-
aging materials," said
PC&D chief operating of-
ficer Howard Stone. "Any
time we have a labor-in-
tensive job to be done, we
try to give it to New Hori-
zons. Their work is top-
notch.
"It makes a lot of eco-
nomic sense for us to give
Survivors In Israel light memorial candles.
student newspaper at the
University of Miami re-
cently published the
same "revisionist" ad. A
major donor to the uni-
versity responded by
withdrawing an annual
gift of $2 million.
plete a 12-hour training
session and are linked
with families for one to
three hours each week.
Individuals assisting in
a Jewish Hospice setting
are familiarized with
Jewish customs in death,
dying, household prac-
tices, kosher laws, Shab-
bat and holidays.
To date, five of the sev-
en volunteers gathered
through the Temple Is-
rael program have been
placed in homes.