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Two-Legged Friend

Andrew Miller remembers his friends
when it comes to charity.

ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR

ndrew Miller loves ani- the manager at the local Kroger two dogs, a cat and two ferrets,
mals, and he has showed store, introduced himself, showed and his brother has lizards.
Andrew is already talking
his appreciation two years the manager a letter from the Hu-
about
a fund-raising banquet for
Society
and
arranged
for
mane-
• a row.
next
year.
"I don't know from
drinks
to
be
donated
for
Sunday's
When a friend suggested to An-
where
he'll
get
the food donated,"
thirsty
participants.
drew last year that they make
said
his
mother,
"but with An-
Andrew
is
the
son
of
Paul
and
money by walking people's pets,
Andrew responded, "Let's make Marcie Rosen and Leonard drew, it is always possible. He has
a really big heart, and he is always
Miller.
money for the dogs.
At his parents' homes, he has taking on some cause." D
The result: a fund-raising dri-
ve and the first annual
Walk for Cats and Dogs
that netted $650 for the
Michigan Humane Soci-
ety.
This year, 10-year-old
Andrew, co-chair Zachary
Sklar and friend Brian
Binder have upped the
ante, spending three
weeks in preparation for
last Sunday's second an-
nual 1.5-mile walk, which
began at Forest Elemen-
tary School in Farming-
ton Hills with dozens of
neighbors, friends, school-
mates, dogs and a few cats
participating.
Before the event began,
they had matched last
year's total, and contribu-
tions for the Humane So-
ciety reached $1,200 by
the end of the day.
The boys advertised
this year's walk by hand-
ing out fliers and collect-
ing door-to-door in their
Rolling Oaks subdivision
and in the neighboring
Farmington Green subdi-
vision, as well as at Forest
Elementary's fall open
house. Andrew also wrote
a letter to Detroit-area
television stations and
newspapers.
Through Andrew's urg-
ing, friends of his parents
at TLC Shirts and at
Bean & Bagel donated
120 T-shirts and dozens of
bagels for Sunday's walk-
PHOTO BY DANIEL LIPPITT
ers. He also asked to see Andrew Miller, left, Gizmo and Zachary Sklar were set to walk.

Political Expression

Candidates bring their views to the first
of two Jewish political forums.

JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER

I

f last week's candidates forum
is at all representative of the
candidates running in 1996,
more and more Generation
Xers are pledging themselves to
politics.
Among those seated on the
podium for the first of two can-
didate forums to be held in the
Jewish community were state
representative candidates Rod-
erick J. Fracassi, 30; Stephen
Dibert, 29; and Andrew Raczk-
woski, 27.
Rounding out the group was
34-year-old Dave Gorcyca, a can-
didate for Oakland County pros-
ecutor.
While the younger candidates
didn't quite outnumber those Republican Dave Gorcyca beat Oakland
from the generation above, they County Prosecutor Richard Thompson in
joined them in rolling up their the primary.
political sleeves to delve into the County executive. Democrat Ed-
issues of their respective
ward T. Hamilton faced L.
races.
— Brooks Patterson stand-
News
Detroit
N in Jim Alexander, the
columnist George Can-
former chair of the
tor moderated the
Oakland County
Sept. 25 forum held at
Republican Party. Re-
Congregation Shaarey
publican Dave Gorcyca
Zedek.
and Democrat Steven
Taking the podium first
Kaplan, both vying for
were candidates for Oakland the Oakland County prosecu-
tor's seat, also participated in
the panel.
Mr. Kaplan stayed with his
campaign theme of experience.
"Who is the prosecutor, and who
is the defense attorney?" Mr. Ka-
plan said, referring to his expe-
rience as a Macomb County
assistant prosecutor. Mr. Gor-
cyca currently does criminal de-
fense work but worked in the
Oakland County prosecutor's of-
fice for two years.
'ET2, When Mr. Cantor asked the
candidates about the hot-button
issue of Jack Kevorkian and as-
sisted suicide, candidates raised
similar points.
Mr. Gorcyca said Dr. Kevorkian
is out of control, but physician as-

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Democrat Steve Kaplan believes he is
more qualified.

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