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Debra Auerbach Clephane of Bloomfield Hills, a shareholder with the Bingham Farms law firm of Vercruysse Murray & Calzone, Clephane has been selected to serve as the chair of the International Employment Law and Immigration Committee of the International Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan. She is a past board member of the International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit and the American Arab and Jewish Friends, a group affiliated with Metropolitan Detroit Interfaith Roundtable. Award for Distinguished Service to the Building industry went posthumously to Samuel Kreis of Kreis Financial Services in Commerce Township. The Distinguished Service Award to the BIA Charitable and Education Foundation was given to Peter Burton of Bingham Farms, representing Burton Katzman Development Co. in Bingham Farms. Named Associate of the Year was Jason Levy of Walled Lake, from Global Office Solutions in Novi. Richard S. Edgar has joined the cer- tified public accountant firm of Grant, Millman & Johnson PC in Farmington Hills. Verizon Wireless has donated $8,000 to the Dorothy & Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Care program in Southfield and West Bloomfield. The funds will be used to expand support groups, distribute more prevention literature, expand edu- cational workshops and link families in need with specialized services. Yoga Shelter, led by Eric Paskel, has opened in Birmingham at 161 Townsend.Paskel and his wife, Lisa, and Steve and Marcy Feldman opened the first Yoga Shelter in West Bloomfield, followed by a second location the Royal Oak. New students receive a week of unlimited free yoga. FOr information, call (248) 538-0200. Here's To Michael A. Well of West Bloomfield has joined Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss PC in the firm's Tax Practice Group. He is a mem- ber of the State Bar Weil of Michigan and the Michigan Association of Certified Accountants. Anne Lieberman, daughter of Joel and Rochelle Lieberman of Farmington Hills and a 2006 graduate of Duke University, has joined the Durham, N.C., university's Department of Bioinformatics and Computation Biology as a research assistant. She also ran her first marathon in November at the Inaugural Outer Banks Marathon, Kitty Hawk, N.C., finishing 14th in the women's 20-24 age group. Dr. Derek Einhorn and Dr. Daniel Rosenberg recently purchased Novi Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Scott M. Burnstein, formerly of from al Oak-based William Beaumont _ West Bloomfield of Chicago has had Hospital. Both physicians are board his first book published, Motor City: certified in both Internal Medicine A Century of Organized Crime in and Pediatrics and are on staff at Royal Detroit (Arcadia Publishing). This is Oak's Beaumont Hospital. the first piece of non-fiction literature printed on the subject of (Mafia) gang- The Farmington Hills-based Building land activity in southeast Michigan. Industry Association of Southeastern Michigan recently recognized several Neal Levin of Bloomfield Hills has top residential industry profession- written a story,"The Farmer and the als. Young Builders of the Year were Fox," appearing in the November 2006 Craig Menuck and Mark Menuck, issue of Highlights Pr Children maga- Birmingham residents, of Curtis zine. Building Co. The Samuel Kreis Annual