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AMY MINDELL
Special to The Jewish News

T

ake 60 cases of tomatoes,
slice, add 200 cases of
chopped lettuce, 25 cases of
cucumbers, - and 300
pounds of onions
and you get fresh
garden salad for a
week at the JCC
Maccabi Games.
And that's just the
first course.
While the lunches
at the Kahn JCC in
West Bloomfield for the 3,700
Maccabi athletes and coaches was
fresh and tasty, Sperber Catering may
have enjoyed a secret ingredient: the
cheerful, smiling servers.
The more than 100 local men and

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women who volunteered to dish up
meals this week at the JCC were
thrilled to be taking part in the festivi-
ties. Again and again, the volunteers
voiced pride in the participants, call-
ing them "sweet," "enthusiastic," and
"well-behaved." Working in four-hour
shifts to assure that
meal time went with-
out a hitch, the food
committee volunteers
— many of them
senior citizens — were
simply kvelling.
"The kids are so well-
mannered, and so
nice," said Ellen Moss,
between scoops of spaghetti. Moss, a
retiree who lives in the Hechtman
Federation Apartments, added,
"They're amazing kids."

Volunteers manned
the iron t lines,
feeding th ousands
each day a t the JCC.

Sylvia Block was on PB6:1 patrol.

Evelyn Pevos sets the table.

And the athletes dig in.

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Some of the heavy work behind the
scenes was done by Leo Steinmetz.

Mimi Markofiky and daughter Laura
ladled the soup.

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1998

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