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Royal Moments

Ordinarily, we frown on monarchy, but ...

SHELLI DORFMAN Editorial Assistant

indsay Ceresne, 14, had
appreciated what the
Friendship Circle did to
help when her mom was ill,
so she joined its Volunteer Club.
That gave her a chance to befriend an
11-year-old, Lauren Ettinger, who was
also coming to the group's Royal Purim
Carnival Tuesday at the Kahn Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield.
The friends found each other in
the happy melee of several hundred
young people and their parents.
Lindsay and Lauren chatted, laughed,
ate cotton candy, tossed tennis balls
and admired everybody else in the

BILL HANSEN Photographer

clamor-filled chamber of well-dressed
kings and queens, as boys wearing
skirts and girls in beards made Purim
crowns, masks and decorative grog-
gers. The girls joined the group in
sliding down a huge inflatable slide
and bouncing in a moonwalk, appro-
priately built to look like a castle.
As it happens, Lauren has some
special developmental needs, like a lot
of the other kids at the party, which
was a joint effort by the JCC, World
Wide Financial and Friendship Circle.
But at a Purim party, everyone can be
royalt)i. And for a couple of hours
Tuesday, they were. 1-1

Clockwise, from top left:
Working the cotton candy
machine is JeffAcciaioli, 13.
Bingo the clown and Chaya
the clown help Elana Kaminer,
10, with a project.
Shoshana Goldman Kurz, 4,
feasts on cotton candy.
Groom Avraham Meir Roetter,
9, and bride Pesha Roetter, 12.
Princess Marsha Leah Shulkin,
6, poses with Prince of
Wales Seth. Cohen.

2/26
1999

Detroit Jewish News

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