Community
Warming
Hearts
Ceresnie and Offen Fur Group spread warmth to
Detroit homeless.
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A
local Birmingham retailer
has the holidays covered —
with scarves, hats and
other warm accessories.
The Ceresnie & Offen Fur Group is
looking for donations of coats, hats, ear-
muffs, mittens, gloves and socks to dis-
tribute to the less fortunate in metro
Detroit. There are approximately 7,500
homeless people in the metro area.
The accessory drive will benefit
Detroit's COTS (Coalition on
Temporary Shelter).
"COTS is an organization committed
to helping the people most in need,"
said Michael Ceresnie. "We look for-
ward to helping COTS clothe the
homeless with out first-ever accessory
drive."
The Ceresnie & Offen Fur Group
asks that new hats, gloves and other
warm accessories be brought to Ceresnie
& Offen, 181 S. Old Woodward,
Birmingham, next to the Uptown
Birmingham Theatre.
"We want to have an impact in the
community by not only providing hats,
gloves and scarves to the homeless, but
al so by reaching out to metro Detroit to
help in this worthy cause," said Glenn
Ceresnie.
"We have already received 100 items
and hope to collect 300. We thought
this would be a nice thing to do to help
those less financially comfortable,"
Michael Ceresnie added.
COTS provides a safe place for home-
less people to live while they stabilize
their lives, learn skills, find work and
become independent. Last year, COTS
filled 4,000 jobs with homeless people.
"COTS is very pleased to have
Ceresnie & Offen help our guests keep
warm this winter. Men, women and
children arrive at our door with little
more than the clothes on their backs,"
says Gena Harris, shelter director. "Very
few guests have cars so they walk or use
public transportation to go to work or
training programs.
"Their children ride the school bus
each morning. Simple things like a pair
of gloves and a hat make their travels
much more comfortable," she added.
In the fur business for 55 years,
Ceresnie & Offen has been in the South
Old Woodward location for 32 years.
The accessories drive will continue
through Jan. 4. For information, call
Ceresnie & Offen, (248) 642-1690. ❑
for application, contact:
Tracey Proghovnick, m.s.w., c.s.w.
Director of Admissions
available evenings for appointments
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Hadassah Hosts Doreen Hermelin
Hadassah's Greater Detroit Chapter
will host its third annual program
series titled Changes 2002 6:30-8 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 8, at the Bloomfield
Township Library, Telegraph and Lone
Pine.
The first speaker will be Bingham
Farms' Doreen Hermelin, who will
speak on "My Life at the U.S.
Embassy in Oslo, Norway." Hermelin
is a community activist who was
recently selected as the winner of the
2001 Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award
by the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit for her commit-
ment and service to the Jewish com-
munity.
The cost of the
program is 513 and
includes a dairy
meal. The public is
welcome. For reser-
vations, call
Hadassah House,
(248) 683-5030.
Doreen Hermelin