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CAMP

ids Al Together

Event successfully
raises funds for
special needs
program.

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ore than 550 people had fun
with all sorts of activities at
the Camp Kids All Together
event on Sunday, March 19, at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield.
The fund-raiser netted nearly $80,000,
with all proceeds going to the Center's
Kids All Together inclusion program for
children with special needs.
.
Children, parents and grandparents
enjoyed face painting, hair braiding, an
exotic animal show, magicians, minia-
ture golf, an obstacle course, slot car rac-
ing, clowns, break dancing by Star Trax
and more ---: all for a good cause.
Major sponsors were the Detroit
Pistons, the Detroit Shock and the
Pistons Palace Foundation. Kosher
"camp" food was provided by the Matt
Prentice Restaurant Group, Bingham
Farms.

Left: Sophie, 8, and Skye
Formanek, 9, of West

Bloomfield pose with Sunny
the Clown.

Below: Linda Kiefer and her

daughter Amanda, 2, of

Bloomfield Hills work on a
drawing.

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- Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor

Above: During the exotic animal show, Dresden Cogan,
5, of Birmingham serves as a perch for a bird.

Above right: Josh Lampear, 11, of Waterford gets ready

to test his climbing abilities.

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March 30 • 2006

Leah Narens of Bloomfield Hills,

event co-chair, and Ann Patronik of
Huntington Woods, JCC special needs

,director, were pleased by the turnout.

