k i Exceeding Your Expectations AMERkA11 r up§tENCE, In Senior Living! ct Designed exclusively for Seniors 55 or older. American House offers elegant apartments with many luxuries included. Basketballs To Bounce Soon At New Akiva Gym West Bloomfield Southfield • 1 Bedroom-940 Sq. Ft. • Two Meals Served Daily & Continental Breakfast • 2 Bedroom-1280 Sq. Ft. • Housekeeping Services • Laundry and Linen Services • Social and Poolside Activities • Recreational and Social Activities • Transportation Provided in our Bus • Transportation in our Bus • Barber and Beauty Shop • 24 Hour In-House Staffing • Continental Breakfast • On-Site Beauty and Barber Shop • Laundry/Linen • Personal Care Services Available Optional Services Available • Dinner • Supper • Housekeeping • Efficiencies • 1 Bedroom • 2 Bedroom • Deluxe 2 Bedroom • 1 Bedroom widens Having the gymnasium soon is good news for Akiva's basketball players, who already are practicing for this season. Akiva's basketball program includes mid- dle school, junior varsity and varsity teams for both boys and girls. They play teams throughout metropolitan Detroit The Pioneers basketball teams of Yeshivat Akiva in Southfield will be play- and also travel to several out-of-town tournaments during the year. ing on an NCAA Division I-grade gym With Akiva's central location in the floor during the upcoming season. Detroit Jewish community — between Finishing touches were made to the Oak Park-Huntington Woods and floor this week, as the gymnasium's gen- Farmington eral contractor Hills-West reported that Bloomfield — the project is the state-of-the- on time and art Meer Family on budget. Gymnasium is M2r Ave; The wood expected to floor that was become a com- installed is the munity resource. same as used Akiva already at major uni- has hosted com- versities, and munal and pri- was secured vate functions by Eugene since moving Sherizen, into its current chairman of building in Akiva's gym- September 1999. nasium con- Public events struction have included committee. last month's "The new Holocaust Meer Family Memorial Gymnasium Center-spon- will be an sored Altruism added attrac- Conference, tion to our many music rapidly grow- concerts and ing school, Yom HaAtzmaut Detroit's which has seen the number (Israel Independence Day) of students increase by 9 celebration. General contractor percent over last year and Soon to be an integral Merrick Farber, sec- nearly 20 percent over the part of Akiva's physical ond from right, points past two years," said Marc education program, the out features of an Jerusalem, president of the new gymnasium was made unseen scoreboard to Zionist-oriented Orthodox possible through the gen- Akiva Rabbi Dr. day school. erosity of Ed and Gloria Yi gal Tsaidi, third He calls the new facility Meer. from right, while another piece in stren Ed Meer, who was Midland residents ening our dynamic school." active in athletics as a stu- Brad Horoky, left; Late last year, he said, dent at Detroit's Central Robert Langhorne, "Akiva received independ- High School, is a sup- second from left; and ent accreditation by the - porter of physical educa- Keith 'junior" Michigan Non-Public tion and activities. He has Burrow, right, refin- School Accrediting worked to enhance that, ish the school's new Association, and we've and other aspects of edu- gymnasium floor. strengthened the honors cation, for children in the program this year." community. The gym is expected to be ready by the end of the year, according to Merrick Farber, the For information about the Meer project's general contractor. He is co- Family Gymnasium and support owner of Farber-Roth Development opportunities, call Nathaniel Company, which recently completed the Warshay, (248) 386-1625 new gymnasium at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah's Beth Jacob School for Girls in Oak Park. 3 Call Anytime for Lunch and a Tour • SOUTHFIELD WEST BLOOMFIELD 5859 Maple Rd. 27577 Lahser 248-538-5283 248-353-5835 669810 '7• 29601 Orchard Lake Road • Farmington Hills 248-855-0404 (1 block N. of 13 Mile Rd., Beside ACO Hardware) A DAVID ROSENMAN'S ALTO Alma P1111101ASERS " NEW & USED CAR BROKER Sales • Leasing • Buying 248-851-CARS 248-851-2277 LO 0A0 0 O I IVO SK 0 **0 *********"tk* • i •• • • • Clinical Teaching • • • • Testing/Evaluation DISADILITIES 11/8 2002 46 LYNNE MASTER, M. ED Owner, Director CLINIC Ncek Acceited by the North Central Assodation of Colleges and Schools 654860 First fully accredited Education Clinic in the United States to receive North Central Accreditation (248) 545-6677 (248) 433-3323 Bloomfield Hills Oak Park www.Idclinic.com '