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SAM ENGLAND
Staff Writer

T

o make a success of the
third annual Fall Fix Up
Project, volunteers and staff
of the Southfield-based
_ Jewish Family Service had to brave
chilly weather and hard-to-find neigh-
borhoods, all for the chance to do
house and yard work. A spirited group
of about 200 volunteers, both children
and adults, gathered Sunday to assist
some of the area's elderly.
The workers, most from
Congregation B'nai Moshe, Temple
Shir Shalom, the University of
Michigan and Eastern Michigan
University, toiled inside and out.
Sweeping, scrubbing, mopping, raking
and doing maintenance chores
throughout the day, the volunteers
assisted more than 60 homeowners.
At the house of Charles Strassberg,
an Oak Park resident who emigrated
from Belgium nearly 40 years ago, a
group of nine volunteers congregated
in the front yard after making quick
Below:
work of the home's interior.
.Co-chair
Irvin
Strassberg chatted with three volun-
Kappy
of
Orchard
teer families while several kids from
Lake screws in a
B'nai Moshe 'picked up a few leaves
light bulb.
from his lawn. They
gathered on his front
porch, pausing to enjoy
the accomplishment of a
morning's work. Almost
as soon as it started, the
task was completed, the
lawn cleared, and they
were off to another loca-
tion.
The Fall Fix Up
Project means a lot ro
the homeowners,
explained event co-chair-
man Irvin Kappy, a pedi-
atrician living in Orchard Lake. "It
means so much to have young people,
or any age, come and visit them," he
said. Micki Grossman of Farmington
Hills was the day's other co-chairman.
Dr. Kappy said the event is an
opportunity for the workers as well as
the homeowners they assist. The vol-
unteers get a lot out of it," he said.
"Not only do they want to come back
the next year, they give us referrals of
other people who'd also be interested
in working."
Reviews of the project from work-
ers have been good. As Dr. Kappy
noted, "We have evaluations at the
end that everybody does, and one of
the volunteers said, 'I hope that when
I get old there are people who will
come visit me like this.'" Fl

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Jewish volunteers, at your service.

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Above: At the center of this
Congregation gnai Moshe work
crew is client Charles ,Strassberg.

Left: Co-chair Micki Grossman of
Farmington Hills helps clear leaves
from a lawn.

Below: Volunteer Brandon Weinbaum
of Royal Oak makes a window shine.

Right: Raking leaves are volun-
teers Jake Feldman, 10; his 9-
year-old brother Mark, and
Chad Kalisky, 8, all of West
Bloomfield.

Left: Volunteers Jennifer
Zalenko of Bingham Farms
and Karen Weinbaum of Royal
Oak sweep a kitchen floor.

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