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Ensuring The Future
DOER
PROFILE
MADISONC OPLEY
City: West Bloomfield
Kudos: Locks Of Love
Three-year-old Madison Copley turned her first
haircut ever into a gift-giving event. She donated
her hair to Locks of Love, a Florida-based organi-
zation providing hairpieces to financially disadvan-
taged children suffering from medical hair loss.
On May 8, Madison's family — including mom
Cheryl, dad Jason, brother Jack, 1, and two grand-
mas — watched her waist-length mane turn to
face-framing tresses.
Madison's mom said her daughter loves her easy-
care new 'do.
"She feels good about what she has done,"
Cheryl Copley said. "If you ask her what are you
doing with your hair, she gets a big smile on her
face and says, `I am giving it to sick children who
don't have any.'"
To contact Locks of Love, call (561) 963-1677
or access the Web site at: locksoflove.org
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— Shelli Liebman Dorfman, staff writer
Above: Cheryl and
Madison Copley
before the cut
Right: S t ylist Sam
Zaitouna of Salone
RAJI in Farmington
Hills holds Madison's
newly cut braid.
Left: Madison shows off her
new haircut.
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When my wife took the same tour, she decided
that both of us would serve on its board of directors.
There would be no argument with that decision.
Barry, as many of you know, passed away, shock-
ingly, last summer at the age of 48. He left _behind his
wife, Debbie, his three children and Ensure, which is
very much his baby, too.
When it was established, the goal for Ensure was to
raise $1 million. In just six years, without any major
corporate angel, it has reached the-$700,000 mark.
Debbie Lipson has taken the lead in making sure
ne of the things you learn
very quickly as a colum-
nist is that there are a lot
of good causes out there.
And all of their advocates want you
to write about them.
If I were so inclined, I could do
one of those columns every week.
But that would
GEORGE
leave me no room
CANTOR
for saving the world
Reality
from its folly, which
Check
is the job I signed
up for. So I have to
be selective.
The cause that is closest to my
heart is called Ensure. That stands
for Endowment for Surgical
Research. As the name says, it goes
to benefit pediatric surgical research
at Children's Hospital of Michigan.
I wrote last week about the min-
yan table at Temple Israel and what
it means to those of us who sit
around its edge. This is another of
the table stories.
Ensure was founded by attorney
Barry Lipson, after his own son,
Brian, was born with problems that
required immediate surgical treat-
ment. When.Brian, who now is 9,
The Lipson family, clockwise from left, Debbie, Barry, Mark, 18,
came through it, his father pledged
Brian, 9, and Kevin, 15.
to raise money so that other new-
borns, with even more serious ail-
ments, had a shot at survival, too.
that the work begun by her husband will continue.
I met Barry and his brother Kenny when I was say-
Its annual fund-raiser will be held June 16 this year
ing Kaddish for my daughter and they for their father and will also celebrate the grand opening of Matt
almost six years ago.
Prentice's new restaurant, Thunder Bay Brewing Co.,
It wasn't too long afterwards that I began hearing
at Great Lakes Crossing in Auburn Hills. It will run
about Ensure and was cajoled, against my better
from 6:30 to 10 p.m.
judgment, into being the speaker at the charity's
The basic ticket price is $100, which includes din-
annual golf outing. But the Lipsons were persuasive
ner, appetizers, open bar, a live band and more.
and I accepted.
Sponsorships of $500-$10,000 are also available. For
They then insisted that I go on a tour of the hospi-
information and tickets, call (248) 723-8419.
tal's pediatric surgery facility. I don't know that I have
I have been blessed in my career with the opportu-
ever taken a more moving trip. To see these tiny new-
nity to write columns like these. I can't believe there is
borns hooked up to the machines that are saving
any cause more worthy than giving the most helpless
their lives would melt the heart of a repo man.
of human beings a fair start in life.
And for this one week, I guess the world will have
George Cantor's e-mail address is
to save itself from its own follies. O.
gcantor@thejewishnews.corn
Shabbat Candlelighting
"As I light the Shabbat candles, I feel the presence of my forefathers, the Sephardim. I stand in awe
and gratitude to be given the honor to be the link between them and the generations to come."
— Ka'ys Morgan, Royal Oak, mother
REPORT A DOER...
Know a Doer --- someone of any age doing interest-
ing, meaningful things in their life outside of their
job? Share suggestions with Keri Guten Cohen, story
development editor, at (248) 351-5144 or e-mail:
kcohen@thejewishnews.com
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