Care-
Giving,
Con Brio

Fleischman
Residence driver
lifts his voice to brighten
residents' lives..

Harold Taylor helps Elsie Silverman onto the van for the ride home.

LONNY GOLDSMITH
Staff Writer

n

arold Taylor had earned
his reputation around
the Fleishman Residence
as a bus driver, who on
occassion, breaks out into song.

On June 18, he got a promotion
to singing while not moving.
After watching fellow Fleischman
staffer Antonina Zadereytskaia finish
a 40-minute concert, a resident
asked that Taylor sing too. "I had to
ask her if it was alright," Taylor
recalled. "It was her show and I did-

Fleischman
personal care assistant
hits the right key
for residents.

E

very day, Antonina Zadereytskaia brings med-
ications to residents of West Bloomfield's
Fleischman Residence and makes sure they get
to their meals.
But once a month for the last seven months, the
33-year-old personal care assistant has let down her hair,
taken off her glasses and sat down to the piano to play
and sing for them. The "bravos" and "encores" are a nice
complement, she said, to the thanks she gets for her
usual duties.
"The residents always ask when I will play and sing
for them again," she said. "I would always like to play
more."

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1998

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n't want to take her spotlight."
Antonina offered no resistance
and Taylor sang one song, then two,
and then obliging the audience with
a third and finally a fourth — both
after he said "only one more."
Taylor is the driver for "Club
Blumberg" — the adult day care

program at Fleischman in West
Bloomfield — and he's picked up a
reputation for singing at times while
he drives the residents on errands.
Taylor, 55, retired from the
Detroit police three years ago but
then decided retirement wasn't quite
for him. "I enjoy working," he said,

Anlonina

Zader,. tskaia
the music or her neXt