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WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE

f Thanksgiving means groan-
ing buffet tables and family
reunions to some, it has also
come to mean a time when
more people are looking to help
folks with less to be thankful for.
So it is that Americans of
means are increasingly giving
their time and money to feed the
poor, the homeless and home-
bound during the holiday sea-
son.
Just in time, says the staff at
Yad Ezra, the kosher food bank
that serves nearly 1,900 needy
Jews a month in the Detroit area.
"With the economic conditions,
there are just more people be-
coming unemployed," said Lea
Luger, special-projects coordina-
tor at the Oak Park agency.
Yad Ezra, which has a budget
of about $500,000, almost en-
tirely from private donations, has
seen a steady and troubling rise
in its client list. From September
1994 to September 1995, the
number of individuals served
monthly by the agency rose from
1,480 to 1,873. The amount of
food distributed over this peri-
od grew from about 28,000
pounds to more than 35,000
pounds per month.
While the ranks of the needy
have grown, so too has the
agency's group of steady volun-
teers, who now number over 100.
But Ms. Luger echoed the sen-
timents of charity workers every-
where in stressing that people
are needed throughout the year,

not just at Thanksgiving and oth-
er important holidays.
Roz Kohn of West Bloomfield
doubled her volunteer duty at the
five-year-old agency after retir-
ing as a first-grade teacher in the
Oak Park public-school system.
"Since I have much more time,
I should really be more with it,"
she said. Like many volunteers,
Mrs. Kohn and her husband,
Harold, have no set job at Yad
Ezra. They might be packing
bags for families one moment,
and delivering food to home-
bound clients the next.
Mrs. Kohn is currently help-
ing the agency with administra-
tive chores, a task made easier
by the recent announcement that
the Ben Teitel Charitable Trust
would donate $10,000 to upgrade
the facility's computer system.
Yad Ezra did not plan a sig-
nificant change to its array of
kosher food offerings for Thanks-
giving. A few donors, however,
have told Ms. Luger they would
contribute some food generally
associated with the holiday.
Congregations throughout
metro Detroit are making plans
to help the needy, as well.
Shaarey Zedek is one of several
congregations that has asked
members to donate money or
kosher food to Yad Ezra this
month. A group of about 20 fam-
ilies from Temple Israel, mean-
while, dropped off food baskets
this past Sunday at a shelter for
abused women in Pontiac. O

Walled Lake Voters
OK School Millage

JULIE EDGAR STAFF WRITER

alled Lake voters over-
whelmingly approved a
10-year renewal of the
school district's operat-
ing millage last weekend.
Roughly 20 percent of the dis-
trict's 54,800 registered voters
went to the polls last Saturday
— a high turnout, according to a
school official. Eighty-seven per-
cent, or 9,305 voters, approved
the renewal of 22 mills, 18 of
which are levied on businesses
in the district. Some 1,388 voters
opposed the renewal.
Lois Lange, director of per-
sonnel and community relations
for Walled Lake Consolidated
Schools, described the mood fol-
lowing the election as "wonder-
ful."

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'We would like to thank every-
one who took the time to vote. It
was really important for the
kids," she said. Ms. Lange point-
ed out that a record number of
voters, 23 percent, turned out last
February to vote for a third time
on a bond proposal that would
have resulted in the construction
of new schools and improvement
of existing ones. The proposal
failed by 171 votes. Although the
election was less than a year ago,
the election rolls have swelled by
nearly 2,000 registered voters
since then as people continue
moving into the area.
"Often, we come in the 13- to
15-percent turnout range in
school elections," Ms. Lange said.
The operating millage gener-