MICHAEL
RUBENSTEIN

City: Farmington Hills
Kudos: Funds For Crohn's

Michael Rubenstein, 12, a seventh-grad-
er at Warner Middle School in
Farmington Hills, is holding his first
fund-raiser. It will be held at Champps
restaurant at Orchard Lake and 14
Mile roads in West Bloomfield on
Tuesday, March 15, from 4 p. m. to
midnight. He hopes people are hungry
because 15 percent of each bill during
those hours will benefit the Crohn's and
Colitis Foundation of America. Michael
will earmark his donation to research to
find a cure for Crohn's, a disease he
knows firsthand. Chipping in to hand
out flyers and send out letters are his
parents, Lisa and Bernard, and his little
brother Jacob, 6.

When did you first think of doing
the fund-raiser?
"I came up with the idea in mid-
November. I kept asking my parents if
I could do it and, finally, one time
they said yes. They didn't think I
could pull it off, but I'm confident. I
want to raise money to find a cure for
Crohn's and colitis.

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Why Champps?
"Because we thought it was in the
right area and because we like to eat
there."

When did you find out you had
Crohn's?
"When I was 9, my mom took me
to the pediatrician because I was walk-
ing funny. They sent me to a surgeon
and I had an operation the next day.
Later that day, I had to go back to the
doctor's office and they said I had a
fistula — only 20 percent of people
who have that surgery get one. They
did a second surgery to fix it and also
a test to find Crohn's. No one else in
my family has it."

Do others know about your disease?
"I was shy about it at first, but not
anymore. I had a science project at
school, and I chose to do it on Crohn's
because I wanted to learn more. That's
how it came out. It helped my friends
understand and they are pretty under-
standing. My baseball coach knows,
too. Sometimes, I get hurt from
arthritis in my leg — that's part of
Crohn's, too."

What's your fund-raising goal?
"I hope to raise $600. I feel really

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good that I'm doing something that
will help my disease. And it will teach
me that if I succeed in this, I can try
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