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ome 15 children and adults splashed their competitive
fires in late August in the swimming pool of the Jewish
Community Center's Jimmy Prentis Morris (JPM)
Building in Oak Park.
Caught up in Bradley Chaisson's "boat races," the participants
raced down and back in the 25-yard pool to win ribbons in
their age group or the co-ed division.
Chaisson, JPM's pool manager since December, has dreamed
up some events to get more people into the pool.
"We are trying to create more of a family atmosphere,' Chaisson
said. "We are trying to keep the cost down and the benefit up."
JPM has been hosting a Kids' Night Out every other month to
give parents a break and the kids some fun. From 5:30-8 p.m. on
Hollywood Here
Southfield native Jimmy Lifton is the proud founder of Unity
Studios, a Hollywood-style film complex slated to open in Allen
Park. Ground was broken Aug. 27 for this first of three Michigan
moviemaking enterprises to start construction.
Lifton's 104-acre project will feature production facilities,
soundstages and a training institute at a former Visteon Corp.
auto supplier site at 1-94 and the Southfield Freeway. Projections
call for up to 3,000 jobs. This October, the Lifton Institute for
Media Skills will open its first class of 250 trainees who will
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Bradley Chiasson teases Judy Front of West Bloomfield
before their race.
Thursday, Sept. 24, JPM will host children, feed them a pizza din-
ner, show a movie and supervise time for them in the pool. Cost
will be $10 for members and $13 for non-members.
In October, Chaisson is planning another family friendly event:
an aquatic obstacle course to include swimming and breath-hold-
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study the art of filmmaking. Filming starts in November.
The $146 million complex takes advantage of Michigan's
film tax incentive program, which offers film and TV produc-
ers a refundable tax credit of up to 42 percent. Unity Studios is
majority-owned by an investment group from Michigan and
Los Angeles.
Lifton announced that he and wife, Paulette, plan to relocate
to Michigan. In California, they run a post-production firm
called Oracle Post.
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