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his bagel store
The firm now has a dozen employ-
ees baking bagels and cookies in the
back room, following "our famous
Marty's 'secret' formula of all-natural
ingredients and no preservatives, real
butter and vanilla and hand-cracked
eggs:' Stacy enthused. "We don't use
those buckets of pre-cracked eggs
that you can buy in stores. The bak-
ers arrive at 11:30 the night before,
and we're open from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday-Friday and 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
weekends."
Busy And Varied
Each week, the co-branded business
sells about 100 dozen cookies and
about 3,000 dozen bagels, according
to Charlip,"and we sold about 30,000
cookies over the holidays at the end
of last year," added Stacy. "Our cookie
sales still are only about 10 percent
of what they were in the Birmingham
Marty's years, but we've been here only
one year and we're just really starting
to promote and advertise the busi-
ness:'
Its All About The People.
Brad "Bubba" Urdan is a people person. He always has
been. Growing up in metro-Detroit, Bubba and his
friends gathered at the JCC. Swimming in the summer,
basketball in the winter, it was his haven to meet friends
and just hang out.
As president of Federation's Young Adult Division, it's
Business Voices
still about the people for Bubba. He likes nothing
more than making connections between energetic,
Historical Society
committed people and an organization that helps
invites leaders.
so many people in so many ways.
Two community leaders who have
played key roles in Detroit business,
Jewish culture and philanthropy will
be featured at the 49th annual meet-
ing of the Jewish Historical Society
of Michigan on
Tuesday, May 27, at 7
p.m., at Temple Beth
El in Bloomfield
Township.
Keynote speaker
will be A. Alfred
Taubman, shopping
A. Alfred Taubman mall entrepreneur,
philanthropist and
author of a business
memoir Threshold
Resistance: The
Extraordinary
Career of a Retailing
Pioneer.
George (Mike)
Zeltzer, both past
president and execu-
tive director of the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit, will receive
As director of sales and marketing for The Print House,
Inc., Bubba gets around town promoting his products,
and also the many causes he cares passionately about.
Bubba says, "There is nothing more rewarding than
seeing the results of our labor. Connecting people
with needs, to agencies that can help them is the
best feeling in the world."
If you or someone you know would like to connect
with other caring people, call (248) 203-1471 or go to
jewishdetroit.org .
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Jewish
Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit
jewishdetroit.org
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Marty's offers gift baskets, trays and
bouquets, a baker's dozen of 13 for
$17.50 and a box of 20 smaller cookies
for $7.50, "and we retain the business
cards of people and companies to use
when they order cookies for shivah
trays, corporate gifts, office parties,
hospital patients and as college-stu-
dent gifts." Marty's also sells bake-it-
at-home cookie dough through local
stores. "Cookies made from dough
balls are a real Shabbos treat:' said
Michael Fox.
Stacy personally contacted many
old-time Marty's customers to tell
them about the new location, and
some were on the verge of tears when
they walked into the Bagel Factory and
saw the cookie counter. "I was really
excited and happy:' said Jain Lauter
of West Bloomfield, a real estate office
employee, who has been a Marty's
Cookies fan for 20 years. "I send the
cookies as gifts to relatives, friends
and businesses throughout the coun-
try. It's great that these young people
kept the business alive' ❑
the JHS' 2008 Leonard N. Simons
History Award in recognition of his
activism on behalf of the preservation
and study of local Jewish history and
culture.
Zeltzer, who will become the 18th
recipient of the Simons Award, chaired
the Jewish Federation committee that
steered to publication the landmark
history of Jewish Detroit by Sidney
Bolkosky: Harmony and Dissonance:
Voices of Jewish Identity in Detroit,
1914-1967.
The Leonard N. Simons History
Award is presented annually to honor
those who have made a significant
contribution to the Jewish Historical
Society of Michigan and its mission to
educate, celebrate and promote of the
outstanding contributions of the Jews
of Michigan.
Lois Freeman chairs the JHS 49th
Annual Meeting Committee, which
also includes Judy Cantor, Ellen Cole,
Jan Durecki, Alan Nathan, Adele
Staller and Mary Lou Zieve. Ellen Cole
is president of the Jewish Historical
Society of Michigan.
For information and reservations,
call (248) 432-5517, by May 16.
The fee, $18 per person, includes a
dessert reception following the meet-
ing.