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Compiled by Steve Stein

Introducing the
Platinum Savings Account

• A superb simple interest rate of 4.05%

• An Annual Percentage Yield of 4.11%

• Deposits and/or withdrawals available

• Choice of a passbook or statement

• FDIC Insured

REPUBLIC
BANK

Ann Arbor (Downtown) 6654030
Ann Arbor (Main Centre) 6654080
Bloomfield Hills 258-5300
Grosse Pointe 882-6400
Farmington Hills 737 0444

Member FDIC

Or call our Republic Information Center
1-800-9684425 7 AM-7 PM Mon.-Fri.

*Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is accurate as of April 25, 1994. Minimum balance to open and earn interest is $15,000. The Platinum Savings
is a variable rate account, therefore the interest rate may change after opening. Individuals only. Limited time offer. Not valid with any other
bonuses or coupons.

DISTINCTIVE PERSONAL BANKING

Let's Get Growing

The Time Is Right For Planting

TH E DETRO IT JEWIS H NE WS

At Vidosh West Landscape Centre you will always get the best landscape supplies in
the business at the most affordable prices. We guarantee our trees and shrubs.
We carry a complete line of all your landscaping needs and have a very respected rep-
utation with some of the largest landscaping companies in the Metro area.

They know they can count on Vidosh West . . . SO CAN YOU!

Over 200 Types of Shrubs ■ Sod (Fresh Daily) ■ Bulk Top Soil
Fine Mulches ■ Peat Moss ■ Over 100 Types of Trees
On-site landscaping design available
Pick-up and delivery available

"lidos!) West

LANDSCAPE CENTRE

QUAIJ7Y LANDSCAPE SUPPLY

27400 Beck Road • Novi

(810) 349-8950

Under New Management
and
Open for Retail Business

WHAT'S the easiest way for a
small business, with a computer
and a modem, to get on line with
the U.S. government? A free sem-
inar titled, "Selling to the Gov-
ernment — Electronically" will
try to answer that question.
It will be held from 8-11 a.m.
June 8 at the Business Enter-
prise Development Center
(BEDC) in Troy. George Chisa,
president of Simplix in Troy, will
be the guest speaker. Simplix is
one of the six approved Depart-
ment of Defense value-added net-
works. For further information
on the seminar, call Brooke Hicks
at the BEDC, 952-5800.

ONE HOUR of free legal advice
is available to business owners
by appointment only from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. June 23 at the BEDC.
It's part of Business Legal Day,
the second phase of the BEDC's
Expert Roundtable. The Round-
table also is sponsored by the
Michigan Small Business Devel-
opment Center Network, Corn-
erica Bank, Walsh College and
Oakland Community College.
For further information on Busi-
ness Legal Day, call Melissa In-
goglia at the BEDC, 952-580

ington Hills will be drawn up by
Siegal/Tuomaala Associates Ar-
chitects and Planners, Inc. If
funding is approved by Farm-
ington Hills voters on Aug. 2, the
$5.5 million facility is expected to
be completed by the fall of 1995.

NEUMENON, INC., a national
software supplier specializing in
a new concept of software solu-
tions for the manufacturing mar-
ketplace, has selected the
Bingham Farms-based Berline
Group Inc. to handle its national
advertising and public relations.
Neumenon's corporate head-
quarters is in Novi. It also has of-
fices in Chicago and
Raleigh-Durham, N.C.

ALTAIR COMPUTING Inc.
has selected Stone, August, Bak-
er Communications Companies
as its public relations counsel.
Both firms are located in Troy.
Founded in 1989, Altair provides
high performance engineering
software for engineering simula-
tion specialists to enhance the
product design and analysis
process.

STRATFORD FUNDING, Inc.,
a Southfield residential mortgage
THIRTY-TWO colorful land- banking firm which closes more
scaped gardens will be on display than $150 million in mortgages
at the third annual Meadow annually, has moved from 29398
Brook Landscape & Garden Northwestern to 28588 North-
Show, scheduled for June 10-12 western. At its new home, Strat-
at Meadow Brook Hall & Music ford will occupy 4,876 feet on the
Festival in Rochester. A market- building's second floor. Stratford
place, seminars and demonstra- president Bruce Tennen said the
tions also are on the agenda. The firm had two employees when it
show is co-sponsored by the Met- began operations in 1989 and it
ropolitan Detroit Landscape As- now has 40 staffers.
sociation (MDLA) and Meadow DETROIT COLLEGE OF
Brook Hall. For further informa- LAW has named Stephen Quin-
tion, call the MDLA at 6464992. lan its director of development.
PRELBUNARY PLANS for a He will serve as the "point man"
72,000-square-foot, two-surface, in DCL's upcoming capital cam-
multi-purpose ice arena at Paign.
Founders Sports Park in Farm-

of And Cold

Ben & Jerry's ice cream is a hit in Israel.

ALLISON KAPLAN SOMNER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

effrey Furman looks just
like you'd imagine one of the
top executives of Ben & Jer-
ry's ice cream chain should
appear.
Sporting a graying Grateful
Dead-style beard, a baseball cap
and a totally laid-back attitude,

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Mr. Furman may have recently
celebrated his 50th birthday, but
he is still a child of the Sixties at
heart.
Mr. Furman sat recently in the
first Israeli Ben & Jerry's store
in north Dizengoff in Tel Aviv. It
was the first visit by a top Ben &