Not The Worst

Local organizations were mostly spared by
the July 2 storm.

LONNY GOLDSMITH STAFF WRITER

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or the 600 campers and
staff at Camp Maas in Or-
tonville, the July 2 storm
could have been a night-
mare.
Instead, it was nothing more
than a 30-minute downpour.
While a tornado ravaged a
trailer park just one mile down
Grange Hall Road from the
Fresh Air Society facility, the
camp didn't even hear a siren.
"We were fortunate that noth-
ing riappened," said Fresh Air
Society executive director Har-
vey Finkelberg. "We were lucky
— it's as simple as that. It could
have been worse."
While Camp Maas was
passed over this time, the staff
members are well aware of
emergency procedures.
"All the kids and counselors
go to their cabins, lie under their
beds with their mattress over
them," Mr. Finkelberg said.
"Staff members who live in tents

go to a lodge."
In Detroit, the Jewish Voca-
tional Service, which has an of-
fice on Woodward and Canfield,
also came out of the storm un-
scathed.
"We were a little bit off the
main part of Detroit that got
hit," said Barbara Nurenberg,
executive director of JVS. "We
had no unusual problems due to
the storm."
Not everyone was that lucky.
The Teitel Federation Apart-
ments and the Jimmy Prentis
Morris Jewish Community Cen-
ter in Oak Park were without
power from 7 p.m. July 2 until 6
p.m. July 4.
"It was really difficult for the
residents for the 48 hours," said
Federation Apartments execu-
tive director Marsha Goldsmith.
Among the problems that the
power outage caused for the Tei-
tel residents was no refrigera-
tion in the rooms for food, no air

conditioning, no way to prepare
food, and no water above the
fourth floor.
"The water system is on a
pump," Ms. Goldsmith ex-
plained. "There were no flush
toilets, no running water, and
no way to shower or brush their
teeth."
Fortunately, the staff was on
their toes.

and the emergency call pullies
in every room.
There were also an above-av-
erage number of 911 calls as old-
er adults with walkers and canes
tripped and fell in the darkness.
At the Prentis Federation
Apartments, an employee's car
and an apartment window were
smashed by a dumpster lifted up
by the winds.
At the adjacent Jimmy Pren-
tis Morris JCC, the building was
closed due to the power outage.
"We had to close our building
to all athletic activities," JCC di-
rector Leslie Bash said. "We ran
our day camp as usual on Thurs-
day, because it was too hard to
"The staff was phenomenal," get in touch with all the par-
Ms. Goldsmith said. "The cater- ents."
ers also went out of their way,
Thursday morning, the
by doing breakfasts on both campers were kept in rooms
Thursday and Friday mornings, with lots of windows or sky-
which isn't usually done."
lights, and were taken to see the
Another worry was a downed, new movie Hercules
in the af-
live wire behind the apartments. ternoon.
"Detroit Edison had someone
"We are very grateful to our
watching it 24 hours a day until
members for being so under-
they could get to it," Ms.
standing of this situation that
Goldsmith said. "We also called
was out of our control," Ms. Bash
Oak Park Public Safety to do an said.
extra patrol by the apartments
Nearby, Temple Emanu-El
to make sure everything was
was virtually shut down as well.
fine."
Teitel Apartments ran a gen- "The downed line put us out of
erator which operated one ele- business," said Don Cohen, the
vator, every other hallway light, temple's executive director. "Fri-
day the office was closed anyway

Oak Park
campus
lost power.

Everything Must
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because of the [July 4) holiday,
and the power came back before
services."
The temple's day camp on
Thursday sent older campers on
a field trip. Younger campers
were sent home. ❑

Fund To Help
Focus:HOPE

The Jewish Community
Council and the Jewish
Federation have established
up a storm relief fund that
will channel money to Focus:
HOPE.
Checks should be made
payable to the Council, and
noted on the check that it is
for storm relief, and sent to:
6735 Telegraph Rd, Suite 100,
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48103.
Focus:HOPE is also in need
of volunteers to help clean and
restore its storm damaged
buildings. People interested
should call (313) 869-8847.
Temple Israel is recruiting
volunteers to work with a
Hamtramck church to aid
storm victims in that city. For
information, call the temple,
(248) 661-5700.

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