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Jewish Apartments and
Services breaks ground
for Meer complex.

Dr. Ahron Meer, Edward Meer, Brian Meer, Bob Meer, JAS
President Nathan Up al and Robert Slatkin, president of the
United Jewish Foun tion, display the groundbreaking shovels.

Edward Meer at the
groundbreaking. •

SHELLI DORFMAN
Editorial Assistant

I

n a suit, tie and hard hat,
Edward Meer symbolically
broke the ground that will
eventually become home to
100 senior adults who are await-
ing Jewish apartment living.
Named for Meer and his late
wife, construction of the Norma

Jean and Edward Meer Jewish
Apartments is set to begin in
early December in West
Bloomfield
with an
expected
completion
date of
February
2001. The
apartments

Two of the donors' granddaughters,
Miriam and Tamar Meer, look
over the pro g ram.

were a shared dream of the Meers
to help provide senior housing.
Their daughter-in-law Phyllis
Meer
watched,
through the
years, as "they
took loving
care of their
own parents."
More than

New a partment
buildi ng will be
home to seniors.

100 guests gathered for the Aug.
29 groundbreaking ceremony in a
white-tented area overlooking the
new facility's future site, adjacent
to the Lillian and Samuel
Hechtman II Jewish Apartments
in West Bloomfield.
Surrounded by his three sons
and their families, Edward Meer
described his involvement in the
apartments as a result of lessons

9/3

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