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Program fee - '25
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those who need it, she added.
Already, Gerenraich has commit-
ments from various youth groups,
including students from Detroit
Country Day School in Beverly Hills,
Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook School and
Birmingham Seaholm High School.
"We guarantee each individual family
its own escort," Gerenraich said. "We
also place volunteers at concessions and
need other workers to operate the carni-
val rides and assure that overall opera-
tions run smoothly."
Planning for the toy drive started last
March. "It's a huge endeavor — a ton of
organizing and follow-up goes into mak-
ing the drive a success," said committee
chair Randi Glanz of West Bloomfield.
Glanz approached synagogue nursery
and religious schools, businesses and
corporations to hold on-site toy drives
through Nov. 26. Temple Beth El,
Temple Israel, Temple Shir Shalom and
Adat Shalom Synagogue and Bloomfield
Hills Echo Park Preschool have all
mailed flyers detailing suggested age-
appropriate toys and items to donate
with a maximum retail value of $15.
The toys will be taken to the
Orchards' main office, then delivered by
staff members and foster parents.
Temple Beth El members Carol
Plisner of Farmington Hills and Nancy
Singer are again chairing their congrega-
tion's toy drive. It's an effort Plisner calls
"a wonderful opportunity for children
and adults to put into reality the revered
Jewish tradition of tikkun olam (repair-
ing the world). This is an event our Beth

El community is beginning to eagerly
look forward to. The students especially
remember giving from previous years
and feel they are doing something
important."
When her own children were
younger, she said, the Plisners designated
a special night of Chanuka to shop for
gifts for Orchards children.
"It's so terribly sad to think of kids
not even getting one toy during the hol-
idays," said Congregation Shaarey Zekek
member Harry Glanz of West
Bloomfield, the co-founder/owner of
Capital Mortgage Funding in
Southfield. "We have 80 employees
here, and they really get a kick out of
watching the donation boxes filling up."
Plisner says that while there are many
variations in the lives of youngsters
served by the Orchards, almost every
child has suffered some degree of abuse
or neglect. "Getting a new pair of socks
or a new toothbrush is sometimes a very
big happening for these kids."
Added Glanz, "To many of us who
are fortunate enough to have loving,
happy and healthy families, these are
opportunities to provide some happiness
and encouragement to those children
who are not as fortunate: ❑

For information on the toy
drive or the winter carnival, call
Orchards Children's Services,
(248) 433-8600.

Author's 'Courage'

Suze Orman, author of The Courage to Be Rich, spoke Nov.. 2 at the 'inaugural
event of the Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan Detreit. Programs and
organizations that focus on medical research, the arts,. re:lig -04s and secular
he ,eligibie for fi nding from
activities and education for women.ofail
the Jewish Women's Foundation. Shown are MargOt Haerin,.chair of the
Jewish Women's Foundation; Suze Orman; and Beverly Liss, president of the
Women's Campaign and Education Department of the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit.

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