Setting Up Shop
For Athletes
Renovations at West Bloomfield
High School have affected events that
were to be held in the gym and pool,
but the outdoor track will still be avail-
able.
The Oakland Community College
LONNY GOLDSMITH
campuses
in Farmington Hills and
Staff Writer
Waterford will allow the Maccabi
Games to use three basketball courts at
ith the JCC Maccabi
Games less than five
each site. WLCHS is scheduled to be
months away, organizers
the next largest venue with two. There
are ready to mark off one
are nine sites where a single gym will be
item from their considerable checklist of used, and there are presently 17 total
courts for basketball or volleyball, which
things to do.
Athletic Events Director Michelle
have a combined 88 teams.
OCC, which was
Horrigan is hoping
used as a venue when
that all the courts and
Detroit hosted the
fields for the athletic
Maccabi
games in
competitions for 3,000
1990, is donating the
Jewish teen athletes
two gyms as a service
will be solidified by
to the community.
next week
Facility Manager
"I expect that it will
Leonard Cole attrib-
be done soon," she
utes the willingness
said. "There are only a
to help to the fact
few question marks left
that not many peo-
to take care of."
ple will be on cam-
The cross country
pus as summer class-
running event, a last-
es wind down.
day staple of the
Baseball and soft-
Games, may be held
ball are fortunate
either at the Kahn
enough to not have
Jewish Community
to travel to multiple
Center at Maple and
sites. Baseball will be
Drake in West Bloom-
at Founder's Park, at
field, or on the
Adam Babcock goes in for a lay-
Eight Mile and Hal-
grounds of the Henry
up at the JCC gym.
sted roads. The facili-
Ford Hospital across
ty has eight fields.
Maple.
West Bloomfield Parks and Recreation's
The organizers for bowling are deter-
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mining whether Drakeshire or Bel-Air
Keith Fields will host softball.
Founder's Park also will have three of
Lanes will be hosting. Walled Lake Cen-
the 16 soccer fields needed to handle the
tral High School (WLCHS) will be
48 soccer teams in the tournament. The
undergoing construction over the sum-
Little Caesar's complex at 12 Mile and
mer, and how much of that school will
Drake roads will have four fields. Soccer
be available in August is in question.
also may be affected by the WLCHS
"Right now, we're in trouble," said
Jim Calhoun, the recreation coordinator
construction.
Both the Kahn and Jimmy Prentis
for Walled Lake Schools. "The construc-
Morris JCCs will house basketball or
tion company wants the building entire-
ly in their hands. We have to move sum- volleyball, and the Kahn Center will
host racquetball, dance, gymnastics and
mer school, we have to move camps,
table tennis. The JPM building will have
and I don't know where that's going."
The Walled Lake school district
chess.
The cost to Maccabi for venues is
passed a bond and all their schools are
expected to total $150,000. The club
going under construction. Central High
will save $10,000 with the donation of
is doubling in size, and Clifford Smart
Middle School, another Maccabi venue,
the OCC facilities. ❑
is having their gym floor re-done.
The construction issue is a common
thread throughout area districts. Cal-
Maccabi Games organizers need
houn calls it a "trickle-down effect."
766 more homes to house teen
"After we passed [the construction
athletes during the August 16-23
bond issue], West Bloomfield, Novi, and
event. For information, call the
Farmington schools all did as well," he
Games office at (248) 661-7722,
said. "We just need to cross our fingers
and hope all the nails hit the right spot."
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set soon.
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