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Harold Kulish creates the

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SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
Staff Writer

Students wait in line for flowers to plant.

Lessenger teacher Brad Wilson gets some help from
students while planting a sunburst locust tree.

like your shirts!" shouted Marion
Freedman in the gym of Lessenger
Elementary School in Oak Park.
Freedman, director of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
Neighborhood Project, was dressed like
everyone else in the room — in white-and-
blue T-shirts, with a stick-figure drawing of
children planting flowers and trees. Across
each one, the name Lessenger Community
Park advertised what the group had come to
dedicate and create.

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