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End Of Summer Fun

Adat Shalom's
day camp finale featured songs, crafts and hot dogs.

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Hills synagogue. Children tie-dyed
T-shirts and made their own guitars.
Afterward, all enjoyed a picnic featuring
barbecued hot dogs. LI

o signal the end of Adat
Shalom's summer preschool
day camp, a pre-Shabbat fam-
ily songfest was held at the Farmington

Rachel, 4, and Gary Chynoweth of

Jack Ganezer, 4, of Bloomfield Township

Livonia

Stacy and Fred Lusky of Bloomfield Hills with baby Taylor and Jordyn, 3

Abby, 4, and Julie Winkelman of

Mickey Gross, 3, of Novi

Farmington Hills

Mural Making

Summer in the C

nteers and Life Choices participants color their world.

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ummer vacation came to a colorful close as Summer in the City (SITC), a
youth operated nonprofit, completed one of its final projects of the season at
the Neighborhood Service Organization's (NSO) Life Choices, a program serv-
ing individuals with developmental disabilities.
Volunteers and Life Choices consumers recently spent the day painting a mural on
the side of the Woodward Avenue building in Detroit.
Throughout the summer, dozens of high school and college students from SITC car-
avan to Detroit to paint murals, maintain local community gardens and mentor youth.
"I have heard a lot about Detroit, and wanted to get to know it better and help out,"

said Abby Bennett, 21, a Bloomfield Hills resident. "Summer in the City has provided
me with the opportunity to use art to help enrich the city"
Janis Kaufman, an art therapy instructor at NSO Life Choices, saw SITC at a project
earlier this summer and requested they come and work with the program's consumers.
"They [NSO consumers] can live a sheltered life," Kaufman said. "Summer in the
City provided them with the chance to interact with others and help beautify our
building."
The end result was a vibrant mural with "Always Within Reach" — NSO's motto —
front and center.

Summer in the City volunteers, including Teen Service Staff members from

The finished mural brightens the outside of the Neighborhood Service

Tamarack Camps, help with the mural.

Organization's building in Detroit.

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September 8 • 2011