Clockwise from top left:
Eric Salinger, 13, and
his father Burt, of
Beverly Hills (standing),
check in at Federation
with (seated from left)
Kinneret Albalak, 15,
and her brother Alon,
11, from West
Bloomfield. Site coordi-
nator Jennifer Goldman
of Oak Park, checks their
names.
Selma Tenenbaum of
Farmington Hills sets the
table at Children's Home
of Detroit in Warren.
Shelley Kunin and her
daughter Melanie, 10, of
Farmington Hills pre-
pare lunch at the
Children's Home of
Detroit.
From left, Sue Mande;
Sanford Turbow and
Andie Simons, all of
West Bloomfield, and
Bryan Glick, 13, of
Novi serve meals to Lisa
Alexander and Robert Le
of Detroit at St.
Christopher House.
was on Shabbat last year, which limited the
number of volunteers."
Breakfast was served throughout the
morning as wave after wave of volun-
teers found their way to banquet tables
marked with destinations. After a brief-
ing by a Federation coordinator, each
group carpooled to their site.
The event organizers ran out of
nametags because of the large number of
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volunteers. But everyone received a gray
"Imagine: Federation's Mitzvah Day" T-
shirt.
Armonite Albalak of West Bloomfield
waited at the table of volunteers going to
Eastwood Convalescent Center in
Detroit with her daughter, Kinneret, 15,
and son, Alon, 11.
"We wanted to come by and do a
mitzvah and teach the kids how to give
back to the community," she said. It was
her first time at Mitzvah day.
Lunch Aides
At the Children's Home of Detroit in
Warren, 15 volunteers swarmed into the
cafeteria to prepare lunch for about 80
troubled children.
"We love when we get some help,"
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