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The Bagels Plus and New York Pizza
World stores on Lincoln near
Greenfield in Oak Park are going
through an ownership change.
A story in the Aug. 4 Jewish News
said both stores were closed because
of a dispute with the Council of
Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit
over fees for kosher supervision.
New owner Steve Katz preferred
not to comment on Aug. 7 about the
future of the stores. Bagels Plus was
open for business but New York
Pizza World was closed at the time.
Katz said he was signing leases for
the two stores that afternoon and
would decide their future in the next
two weeks.
— Alan Hitsky

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New Preschool
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The Michigan Center for Children
and Parents, a new preschool and
kindergarten designed for children
with special needs, will hold an open
house from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 19. The schools home is inside
Antioch Lutheran Church, 33360
W. 13 Mile Road, at the corner of
Farmington and 13 Mile roads, in
Farmington Hills.
The school will serve families
whose children have disabilities
including attention-deficit disorders,
autism, biting or otherwise aggressive
behavior. In addition to small classes,
the school will offer teachers trained
in both early-childhood development
and special education. Each family
will be assigned a childcare therapist,
to augment the school component.
For information, call co-directors
Victoria Schreiber, M.A., (248) 476-
4515, or Donald Silver, M.D., (248)
851-1311.

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Teachers To
Tackle Violence

The Agency for Jewish EduCation of
Metropolitan Detroit will hold two
teacher workshops on violence in the
classroom, said Wendy Sadler, head of
the NIRIM teacher education program
and the AJE's school-services director.

In all, the AJE has scheduled four
NIRIM conferences 13,tween Aug. 30
and Nov. 19, Sadler said, starting
with the annual Taste of Honey
Conference, from 5:15-9 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 30, at the
Birmingham Public Schools
Conference Center, 31301 Evergreen
Road, in Beverly Hills.
Future conferences are scheduled
for Sept. 19, Oct. 31 and Nov. 19.
The Sept. 19 event will focus on
early literacy, including a session for
parents. The remaining two will deal
with teasing, ostracism, violence and
other forms of negative behavior
among students.
Last year, the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit held a Lunch
and Learn series on youth violence, -
and the NIRIM conferences reflect
the interest generated at that time,
Sadler said.
"We recognize we are not only
educating this community, but that
others are looking to us for direc-
tion," Sadler said.
"I strongly feel we are on target, in
the forefront."

— Diana Lieberman

Guatemalan
Adoptee
Finally Arrives

In our adoption story ("Faces of
Change," May 26, page 6), one of
the families highlighted had been
waiting for almost a year for their
adopted daughter, Beatriz, age 10, to
come from Guatemala.
She finally arrived in Detroit July
16 to join Anca Vlasopolos, Anthony
and Olivia Ambrogio in Grosse
•Pointe. Her birth brothers, Gustavo
and Jose Hecker, and their adopted
family in Huntington Woods, also
greeted her at the airport.
Since she's been here, Beatriz has
experienced several "firsts." She's seen
Chicken Run, her first movie, which
she found very amusing, and tasted
pizza and Chinese food. Having
grown a half-inch in height since
arriving, Beatriz has grown used to
another first — new clothes.
About to help her mother water
the garden, Beatriz said she needed to
change into a pair of old shorts, then
added, "I don't ba- ve clothes that are
old." She broke into a big grin.

— Sharon Luckerm an

