Family Fun

* Professional instructions
* Classes for all skill levels -
beginner to expert
* Special program for the younger
skiers (ages 6-10)
* Small classes
* Adult classes too!
* Charter buses Saturday & Sunday

Grand Resort at Mullett Lake leaves
lasting memories for inaugural families.

KERI GUTEN COHEN
Story Development Editor

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furniture, fresh paint, full kitchens
and cable TVs. A dining hall, kitchen
and toddler playroom were built.
Sailboats and kayaks were borrowed
from Tamarack Camps in Ortonville;
a speedboat for skiing and several fish-
ing boats remain from Silver Lodge.
Arts and crafts supplies and sports
equipment were assembled; and staff
was hired and trained.

he peaceful feeling lingers
and you don't want to let
go. That's why grown men
wore simple beaded
bracelets they'd made themselves many
weeks after their camp experience
ended. It's also why families that had
never met before now get together for
Getting Settled
Shabbat and holiday dinners.
After a four-hour
The Nancy and
drive from Detroit,
Stephen Grand
families are met by
Resort at Mullett
Missy Siegler, the
Lake is a small place
effervescent camp
— a dozen or so sin-
director, who sets the
gle-family cabins on
tone for the rest of
about 18 acres of
your stay. Her vibrant
waterfront property
personality is a mag-
— but it made a
net for children as
huge impact on the
well as adults — as is
57 families partici-
her black Labrador,
pating this year in
Joey.
the camp's inaugural
After unpacking a
summer. These pio-
bit, everyone seems to
neers arrived unsure
head to the waterfront
of what to expect,
where a fine, white
but knew by the end
sand beach and beau-
Mara
Chaben,
5,
of
Farmington
of the week they
tiful
bluish-green water
Hills and counselor Emma
weren't ready to go
beckon.
Children beg
Burton of England make jewelry.
home.
permission
to put on
Many, like Jim
suits
and
older
ones
Guiliani of West Bloomfield, said jok-
run
off
by
themselves
to
do
just
that
ingly, "The food is terrible. The coun-
—
the
first
hint
of
the
independence
selors are horrible. There's lousy stuff
and freedom they'll come to treasure
to do. Don't even think of coming."
at family camp.
Then he laughed and said under his
An orientation session offers
breath, "If you say that I'll be sure to
ground
rules. The daily structure is
get a spot next year."
loose,
with
activities provided in time
The Grand Resort, about 25 miles
blocks
throughout
the day for children
from Cheboygan, was a gift to
and
adults.
Pick
and
choose what you
Detroit's Jewish community from
want
to
do.
Off-site
activities,
such as
Nancy and Stephen Grand of
golf
and
horseback
riding,
also
are
Bloomfield Hills. The property on
available.
Meals
would
start
and
end
Mullett Lake had been used as a vaca-
at
specific
times,
but
you
could
nosh
tion getaway for employees, but
to your heart's content in your own
remained in the Grands' possession
kitchen.
when Stephen Grand sold the family
Those who'd been to family-camp
business, Deco-Grand Inc., in 1998.
weekends
at the Fred M. Butzel
He donated the property, built in
Conference
Center in Ortonville knew
1934 as Silver Lodge, in 1999 to the
most
what
to
expect in the way of
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
programming.
Grand Resort had a
Detroit's real estate/banking arm, the
fair,
a
discussion on a Jewish
tzedakah
United Jewish Foundation, to be oper-
topic
with
a
visiting
scholar, a team-
ated by the Fresh Air Society under its
work-skills
course,
a
White Elephant
Michael and Donna Maddin Family
sale,
camp
song
sessions,
a talent
Camps program.
show,
and
meaningful
Shabbat
and
The cabins hadn't been renovated
Havdalah experiences.
since the 1960s. Now all have new

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