Flag-Burning Ceremony
Maxine Brickner
Eyes County Seat
Jewish War Veterans pay their last respects to the Stars and Stripes.
Maxine Brickner, 57, an elected trustee
on the West Bloomfield Library Board,
is the Democratic candidate for the
•16th District of the Oakland County
Board of
Commissioners.
Her Republican
opponent in the
Tuesday, Nov. 5, gener-
al election is Greg
Jamian of Bloomfield
Hills.
The person elected to
Maxine
the $28,000-per-year
Brickner
district post will repre-
sent residents of West
Bloomfield and Bloomfield Township.
Brickner said she considers the fol-
lowing as important issues in her cam-
paign: health care and prescription
expenses for seniors and families; fund-
ing mental health care; public safety-
funding for county law enforcement
and the courts; expansion of economic
opportunity; education; county infra-
structure, including roads, sewers and
drainage; and county recreation.
Brickner earned bachelor of education
and master's of social work degrees from
Wayne State University. She has worked
as a social worker for Detroit-based
Henry Ford Health System and
Southfield-based Kadima.
Brickner is a member of the National
Association of Social Workers, National
Association for Children of Alcoholics,
Oakland County Council for Adults
with Psychiatric Disabilities, Advisory
Council to the Oakland County
Community Health Board and the
Advisory Council to Common Ground.
She served on the Oakland County
Community Mental Health Board from
1995-1997, where she administered a
mental health budget of $150 million.
Additionally, Brickner is an officer at
large of the West Bloomfield
Democratic Club and volunteers at
Maplegrove Hospital in West
Bloomfield, working with families of
alcoholics.
Brickner's husband of 34 years,
Stuart, is a West Bloomfield Township
trustee and also on the Nov. 5 ballot
opposing Rep. Marc Shulman for the
39th District state House of
Representatives seat.
The Brickners have lived in West
Bloomfield for 25 years. They have two
grown children, Cory and Melissa, and
a daughter-in-law, Lilach, who is an
Israeli. Maxine Brickner is a board
member of Temple Israel Sisterhood.
HARRY KIRS BAUM
Staff Writer
A
bout 25 people
stood quietly Oct.
6 as a bugler played
"Taps" and a small
group of Jewish War Veterans
lowered 30 American flags into
'a fire at the annual flag-retire-
ment ceremony of the Charles
Shapiro Post No. 510 at the
JWV Memorial Home in
Southfield.
According to the United States Flag
Code, a flag "when it is in such condi-
tion that it is no longer a fitting
emblem of display, should be
destroyed in a dignified way, prefer-
ably by burning."
Last year's ceremony was cancelled
because no flags needed to be retired,
said Marvin Epstein, past post com-
mander.
"All of a sudden, everybody found
flags this year," he said. "You could
probably say it might have been
because of Sept. 11 [2001]." Ill
Clockwise: Hyman Deal, 74, of
Oak Park; Marvin Epstein, 76,
Frank Blase, 72, Meyer
Silverman, 81, and Marvin
Penn, 72, all of Southfield,
lower the Stars and Stripes
into the fire.
Bernard Feldman, 70, and
Marvin Epstein, 76 both
of Southfield, stand watch.
Morgan Gallup, 17,
of Howell plays 'Taps."
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2002
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