Staff Notebook/News Digest Chenille Sisters Sing To Aid Patty Glick T he singing Chenille Sisters will perform at a special children's concert and fund-raiser to help with medical expenses for Patty (Kerr) Glick of Royal Oak. The Fall Family Festival is 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Dondero High School, 709 N. Washington, in Royal Oak. Besides the concert, families are invited to enjoy games and crafts pre- sented by Family Fun magazine, along with food, raffles and other activities. Last February, Glick, 41, contracted a rare form of viral encephalitis. Having lost her short-term memory and many cognitive skills, she is unable to be left alone or care for her two young sons.Three medical insti- tutions recommended aggressive reha- bilitation for her in a long-term, assist- ed-living facility, but the family's HMO has denied coverage. To assist the Glick family, their friends and family formed PattysPlace, a charitable organization. Already, it has helped pay for Glick's short-term care. Funds from the Fall Family Festival will help Glick get treatment that the HMO would not cover. "This is the type of tragic situation that can strike any family at any time," says Connie Coon of PattysPlace. "Considering the long road ahead, the Glicks can use as much help and support as they can get." Tickets for the Fall Family Festival to benefit wwvv.PattysPlace.org are $15 adults; $6 ages 3-15; free for younger children. For information, call Coon at (248) 485-5500. — Sharon Zuckerman Mission Accomplished: Art's In The Alley , ourth- and fifth-graders of Harms Elementary School in southwest Detroit recently cele- brated the completion of 167 murals in their neighborhood and honored the fund-raisers who made the project possible. On Sept. 27, students at Harms School welcomed volunteers from organizations that included AmeriCorps, Ford Motor Company and City Year Detroit. The latter includes participation from the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit. F 271 WEST MAPLE DOWNTOWN • BIRMINGHAM 248.258.0212 Monday-Saturday 10-6 Thursday 1,0-9 Sunday 12-5 10/4 2002 32 After cleaning neighborhood alley- ways in a 22-block area near the school, students worked with local artists to paint garages. The images and poetry used were gathered from workshops with the young students. Lead artist Wade Rosenthal, 25, of Detroit said the project "gave kids an opportunity to work together and cre- ate something they could appreciate and learn to respect. "We have kids here who live in drug houses and many don't have adults who work with them in meaningful ways. "The students are already dreaming about next year's project." — Sharon Zuckerman Corrections • In "Adding Jewish Flavor," Carl Ruby is an owner of the Farmington Hills Inn (Sept. 20, page 34). • In a photograph on Contents (Sept. 27, page 3), the man on the left is Boaz Saks of Oak Park. JN SOURCEBOOK Now that you've had a little time to read your 2002-2003 SourceBook, you know it's chock full of information plus our new Reader's Choice Awards. To ensure its usefulness all year- round, please make these correc- tions to your edition . of SourceBook: • In the Editor's Letter, page 23, an unfortunate typo inflated met- ropolitan Detroit's Jewish popula- tion by just a tad. In the opening line, please amend 960,000 Jews to the more accurate 96,000 Jews. • A few businesses were inadver- tently left out of Other Choices cat- egories within the Readers' Choice Awards listings. They include Little Friends, Children's Clothing, page 35; Allied Cabinets and Gittleman Construction, Kitchen Design, page 40; and Lynn Fink, Residential Realtor, page 41. • Contact for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan is Diane Freilich, page 70. • The e-mail address of the Anti- Defamation League, pages 50 and 68, is detroit@adl.org While we've got your attention, if you have suggestions for cate- gories for next year's Readers' Choice Awards, e-mail SourceBook Editor Keri Guten Cohen at kcohen@thejewishnews.corn Domestic Violence Brochures Available Bloomfield Township — In recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a program will be held at which Shalom Bayit, a Jewish response to domestic violence and abuse, will distribute its new brochures offering educational and referral information about domestic violence. The program begins 8:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, at the Max M. Fisher Federation Building in Bloomfield Township. Speakers will be Ellen Yashinsky-Chute, clinical director of Jewish Family ServiCe and herself a survivor of domestic abuse, and Hedy Nuriel, chief executive officer of HAVEN (Help Against Violent Encounters Now), a shelter for bat- tered women and children in Pontiac. For program reservations or infor- mation, call Yashirisky-Chute, (248) 737-5055. Barak Marketing Israeli Invention Washington/JTA — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is helping to market an Israeli invention to help rescue people trapped in high-rise buildings. The newly developed cylindrical res- cue sleeve enables people to slide to safety down a fire-resistant chute from high floors. Barak, a senior adviser to the company, took part in a demon- stration of the product in Washington this week, when staff at the Omni Hotel volunteered to slide down from the 12th floor. Lautenberg Tapped For Torricelli Washington/JTA — Former Sen. Frank Lautenberg was named to replace Sen. Robert Torricelli as the Democratic candidate for a Senate seat from New Jersey. Lautenberg was not only one of the first Jews elected to the U.S. Senate, he was the first Jew ever elected statewide in New Jersey. A staunch supporter of Israel, Lautenberg has actively embraced Judaism and Jewish causes. In 1974, at the age of 50, he became general chair of the United Jewish Appeal, the youngest person • ever to hold the title.