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Couple Showcase Their Artistry

SHELLI DORFMAN
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In any great recipe, there's always one special ingredient
that makes the dish memorable.At the Fleischman
Residence/Blumberg Plaza, that special ingredient is our
Jewish tradition. It's what sets Friday evenings aglow with
the warmth of Shabbat candles, softly spoken blessings, fresh
baked challah, and steaming bowls of kosher chicken soup
shared amongst friends.

Fleischman Residence...
our Licensed Home for Aged provides:

•Three Kosher Meals Daily
•Medication Administration
•Registered Nurse & Personal Care Assistance
•Health Clinic
'Transportation, Laundry, Housekeeping
•Cultural, Educational, and Spiritual Programs
•Daily, Shabbat, and Holiday Services in
our Synagogue
•Daytime and Evening Activities
•Around-the-Clock Security
•Nosh Nook, Gift Shop, Beauty/Barber Shop
•Respite and Guest Rooms Available

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arry and Suzanne Velick
had each entered the
Community House of
Birmingham's "Our
Town Art Show" before. They'd
even been accepted many times,
with Suzanne capturing a first-
place prize.
But only this time were the hus-
band and wife invited to submit
work to the juried-art exhibit in
the same year. So when the 13th
annual show opened on Oct. 13,
the Velicks were represented among
the 240 items on display: his spalt-
ed-birch, wooden bowl and her
acrylic painting titled "Still Life
with Jars." Their work was chosen
out of 1,200 entries.
Artists to the core, the Velicks'
Oak Park home doubles as his shop
and her studio, where he works
with wood and she creates abstract
Harry and Suzanne Velick of Oak Park dis-
paintings and constructions.
play their art show entries.
Harry Velick says his wife "has
that he turned his attention to two
been an artist since she was a teen
major interests: art and softball. Yet as
— for her there never was anything
much as he enjoyed a recent trip to
else." Suzanne Velick has worked on
the Chattanooga, Tenn., seniors soft-
the steering committee for the
ball tournament, he admits "wood-
Birmingham show as well as shown
turning is my first love." ri
her art in various local exhibits and
galleries. She also is a founder of the
annual Birmingham Temple art show
in Farmington Hills.
"Our Town Art Show" continues
As for himself, "I worked in wood
through Sunday, Oct. 17, at the
all my life as a side interest," Harry
Community House of
Velick says, noting that he remodels
Birmingham. For times and infor-
bookcases and works on doors and
mation, call (248) 594-6403.
shelving.
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It wasn't until Velick's retirement

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Day Schools Gain Grants

The Shiffman Family Day School
Tuition Assistance Fund committee
approved its first grants to Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit,
Yeshivat Akiva and Yeshiva Beth
Yehuda. Each school will receive
$33,000 to support scholarship and
tuition assistance programs.
The Shiffman Fund is one of sev-
eral Millennium Campaign for
Detroit's Jewish Future funds that
have been raised through the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
The purpose of the Shiffman Fund
is to promote day school enrollment
by making the cost of such education

more affordable. The fund works with
Federation to augment existing com-
munity support, but it is unique in
that fund grants support specific ini-
tiatives aimed at reducing barriers to
enrollment at individual schools.
The Shiffman family has commit-
ted $5 million to create the fund.
Grants can increase each-year as
schools develop plans to make educa-
tion more affordable.
Dr. Milton Shiffman chairs the
Shiffman Fund committee. It includes
members of the Shiffman family and
community leaders appointed by
Federation's president.