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Compiled by Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor

Gimme Five!

1-low-To
Booklet
On
Divorce

Anyone aged 4-12 — we want
5. Chocolate-mint or choco-
My Top Five:
to know about you! What do you : late-chip cookies
Favorite Sports Teams
like to watch on TV, or play on
Nathan Greenberg is 10 years
By Ian Weiner
the computer, or study in school?
old and lives in Franklin. He just
1. Green Bay Packers
Who are your favorite singers, or
returned from Camp Tanuga in
2–Detroit Red Wings
authors, or sports stars? All you
Kalkaska, where the midday snack
3. New York Yankees
have to do is tell us your top five-
was chocolate chip cookies and
I. 4. Atlanta Braves
favorite anything, and why you
milk. Nathan will be going into
5. Baltimore Orioles
like them, and we'll print it in The
fifth-grade this fall at Hillel Day
Ian Weiner, 10, is entering the
AppleTree.
School.
fifth-grade at Hillel Day School. Ian
Please send your list, along with
has spent much of his summer swim-
a photo and a brief biography of
My Top Five:
ming and playing baseball.
yourself, to: Gimme Five! c/o
Favorite
AppleTree, 27676 Franklin Road,
Basketball
My Top Five:
Southfield, MI 48034. If you
Players
Favorite Movies
would like your photo returned,
By Matthew Greenberg
By Ethan Weisman
include a self-addressed, stamped
1. Eddie Jones — Lakers
1. City Slickers
envelope. Thanks!
2. Isiah Thomas — Pistons
2. Titanic
3. Dr. J - 76ers
3.
Armageddon
My Top Five:
4. John Salley — Pistons
4. Speed 1
After-School Snacks
5. Magic Johnson — Lakers
5. Caddyshack
By Nathan Greenberg
Matthew Greenberg, 7-1 /2,
Ethan Weisman is 10 years old
1. Pizza bagels
lives in Franklin. In addition to bas-
and entering the fourth-grade at
2. Mini hot dogs
ketball, he enjoys playing piano
West Maple School in Birming-
3. Sour cream and onion
and Nintendo 64. This fall, he will
ham. He enjoys riding his bike
Pringles
enter second grade at Hillel Day
and playing golf and tennis:
4. Apple or nectarine
School.

Let's Go Explorinc

Children and parents who love
adventures, this is for you!
The Birmingham Temple is about
to begin a new season of the
Explorers' Club, a
preschooler(ages 3-5)-and-adult
program filled with great activities
and fun trips.
The Explorers' Club will hold its
first meeting Sept. 3, then continue
through Jan. 21. The second
semester will be Feb. 4 through
June 10, and include a farewell
picnic in the summer.
If you sign up; here are some of
the adventures you might go on:

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1998

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* Visit and play along with a
high-school orchestra
* Go raspberry picking and take
a wagon ride through the apple
orchard
* Visit a nature center (where last
year's explorers "had a conversa-
tion with Ebu the owl," according
to the program's coordinator, Ann
Ellenbogen)
* Tour the post office
Make something terrific at Fun
With Plaster
* Use up lots of energy going
bumper bowling
* Milk a cow at a school farm

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The American Academy of Mat-
rimonial Lawyers is distributing
a free booklet, "Stepping Back
from Anger: Protecting Your
Children During Divorce," for
parents.
"Much of the emotional and
psychological damage suffered
by children who come from a
so-called broken home can be
avoided if only parents would
be more sensitive to their chil-
dren's needs," says the group's
president, Mike McCurley. The
group's goal in distributing the
booklets, and sponsoring pub-
lic-service announcements now
airing nationwide, is "to make
every divorcing or divorced par-
ent think twice before taking
actions that could, in the long
run, hurt their children."
To receive the booklet, call .1-
877-4-THE-KIDS. CI

The group meets twice a month
in the afternoon at the
Birmingham Tem-
ple's Pivnick Edu-
cational Cen-
ter. The cost
is S110 for
temple mem-
bers and
$130 for oth-
ers (the cost
covers all fees for
the child only).
For information, call
Kimberly Savin helps teacher Val
Ms. Ellenbogen,
Palmieri play the cello during an
(248) 851-7481.
adventure at the Lahser High School.

