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I t may have sounded Jamaican,
but the party at Dodge Park on
June 29 was really a Jewmaican
reggae fest — at least that's what
Hite
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ded . etro Detroit planners

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be{. h . party h a d the ,
spuods of ilught.er and
the Caribbean.

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Erni HANSEN.

From start to finish, about 90
twenty- and thirtysomethings batted
around a piñata, dipped in the lake,
limboed and danced to the sounds of
Immunity, a reggae band led by a
Trinidadian Jew named Jonathan.
"The goal of the event was to bring
people together for a day at the beach,
get people out, to have fun," says
Danielle Kuffier, event chair.
So was HMD's summer mixer a suc-
ceSs? "Definitely," Ms..Kafler says.
:iPmeeo.”ple seemed to be liiiipg a good
. - -
The high point'bf the aftern' tt, she
ter was a mock melee involiij .wa-
wa-
ter balloons and a lot of bo :,.The
party featured pifmths, liv,einusic and
fortune teller Sue Sterling --- "people
were more excited about her than
'about the band," MsAtTi i -r adds.
HMD also gave frei — frisbees,
hacky sacs — to the,ZWcird, `and peo-
ple loved that." _" ---
"We had a good time with it. People
were munching and just hanging out,"
Ms. Kuffier says. ❑

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Limbo pro Asya Shein
goes under the line
held by Lisa Sternteld.