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Alb A HORIZON HAY SENIOR COMMUNITY
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inside the JN
the last week of
every month
30 August 2 2007
Maccabi volleyball coach Ken Bertin helps Jessica Kepes, 16 of Bloomfield
Hills open a bag of potatoes.
pants to commit to doing their volun-
teering in advance of camp if they are
going to be gone all summer.
She doesn't want the kids "dou-
bling up" — using another volunteer
opportunity from school or synagogue
to fulfill the Maccabi requirement.
"I want it to be something just for
Maccabi, something Jewish:' Neirnyck
said,"and I want it to be enjoyable. I
want them to come away feeling good
about what they did."
Her co-coach, Janice Bloom of
West Bloomfield, has been a Maccabi
volunteer since 1990 and a long-
time contributor to Yad Ezra. "But I
wasn't familiar with the whole [Yad
Ezra] procedure and I went with the
[Maccabi] kids last year. I found it to
be a wonderful thing."
The teens are given a brief orienta-
tion before their shift. Yad Ezra per-
sonnel stress how more than 1,200
Jewish individuals are helped each
month and remind the volunteers to
treat each "client" they meet with dig-
nity and anonymity.
One mother told Neirnyck after
July 22 that she had told her Maccabi
daughter that her father had been a
Yad Ezra recipient for an extended
period. "Rather than be ashamed,"
Neirnyck said, "the girl's reaction after
volunteering at the agency was, `I'm
glad that Yad Ezra was there for him
when he needed it.'
Eric Wolfe, Neirnyck's son and a
three-year Maccabi veteran, is too old
for Maccabi this year at age 17. While
volunteering at Yad Ezra on July 22, he
reminisced about all the fun he had.
"I made so many friends from all
over and we talk on-line all the time.
These kids are not going to have
as much fun this year',' he laughed,
"because me and my friends won't be
there."
Ann Arbor Delegation
The Jewish Community Center
of Washtenaw County is sending
seven athletes to Houston Aug.
5-10.
The athletes include 16-and-
under soccer players Ethan
Cohen, Adam Hansell, Will
Scheiman and Noah Share; table
tennis players Noah Trobe and
Noam Zimet; and flag football
player Gil Eisbruch.
Ann Arbor coaches are Max
Owen and Ryan Christian, and
delegation head is Craig Pollack,
youth programs director at the
JCC.