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Summer's End

Temple isr e cnic does

Labor Day in

T

emple Israel held its annual
Labor Day picnic last Monday
on its West Bloomfield campus
to the delight of member families and
beyond.
Despite chilly weather and an overcast
sky, families enjoyed train rides, hot dogs,
arts and crafts, magicians, pony rides,
snow cones, popcorn, inflatables, ice
cream, a DJ, face painting, soccer, games
— and lots of togetherness. LI

Debbie Elias of Farmington Hills and Robyn Kay of West

Judah Lefton of California and Cathi Lefton of West Bloomfield

Bloomfield help with arts and crafts.

check out the pony rides.

Rabbi Marla Hornsten with Sheldon, Danny and Benji Stern

of West Bloomfield

Ready For School

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in assembly-line fashion, NCJW

volunteers fill the backpacks.

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Lezlie and Shayna Foreman of West Bloomfield

make pinecone birdfeeders.

NCJW volunteers stuff backpacks with all the essential supplies.

ore than 100 volunteers, ages 4-84, set up and packed
1,000 backpacks filled with paper, pencils, pens, note-
books, crayons, markers, scissors, calculators, folders,
glue, rulers, and toothbrushes and toothpaste on Aug. 24-25.
National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section
has been doing this project for many years, starting with 25
backpacks given to a Pontiac school. Today, NCJW annually
gives 950 backpacks to Oakland Schools Homeless Student
Education Program as well as 50 to Jewish students, through

With stacks of supplies arranged

Bailey, Kylie and Madison Tarnopol of West Bloomfield

display their birdfeeders.

Jewish Family Service, whose families have been severely
impacted by Michigan's economic downtown.
Grants finance the project. This year, donations came from
the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation and the Filmer Memorial
Charitable Foundation. School materials were purchased from
Meijer at a discount. In addition, Oakland Schools receives 100-
200 gift cards from a local store for emergency needs, vouchers
to Council ReSale shops and toothbrushes donated by local
dentists. I I

Amy and Josh Kaplansky of West

Joyce Sherman of Southfield works with

Claire Kretchmer and her granddaughter

her grandchildren, Ari and Molly Kohl of

Emma Kretchmer, both of Huntington

Bloomfield place filled backpacks into

Bloomfield Hills.

Woods

bags.

