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PHOTOS BY BILL HANSEN
Congregation Shaarey Zedek again
lent a helping hand to the Salvation
Army for its annual Christmas
food/clothing drive.
Above: Sheila Morganroth of West Bloomfield and
Ronna Brody of Royal Oak prepare the food for the cooks.
tenter: Heather Lezell and Gayle Friedman, both of
West Bloomfield, prepare a batch of hot chocolate.
Right: Sadie Bialock of Shelby Township, center, jokes
with Edith Kaufman of Huntington Woods as they
assemble dinner packages.
Below: Danny Werber, Harold Gach, Margi Werber,
Gabe Craig, Daniel Yaker and Shelley Gach load a van.
F
or the fifth year in a row, mem-
bers of Congregation Shaarey
Zedek prepared and delivered
3,000 meals for Christmas day.
Shine Light in Darkness, as
the annual volunteer effort is
called, brought together count-
less adults and kids. They
gathered in the kitchen of Sal-
vation Army headquarters in
shifts the day before Christmas and
Christmas day to ladle out hot choco-
late, pack lunches and dinners, load
them onto trucks and deliver them to
the needy.
"More people came then we could
use," said Leonard Baruch, Shaarey
Zedek's executive director. "It was
jammed with people."
As of two weeks before the event,
members of the congregation had raised.
$4,000 toward the effort. The Shaarey
Zedek Men's Club kicked in another
$1,000, according to its president, Dr.
Mark Diem. 1=1