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September 27 • 2012

Michigan entry wins contest
with its hay bale construction.

Keri Guten Cohen
Story Development Editor

Ann Arbor

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Sukkah Arbor

T

he only Michigan entry out
of 50 from across the country
won the Sukkah Arbor con-
test by popular vote last Sunday.
Team-4-Community L3C, based in
Southfield, earned the cash prize of
$2,000 in the contest patterned after
one that was held in New York City in
2010. Contestants re-imagined the tra-
ditional sukkah using modern design
techniques and materials.
The six sukkah finalists were dis-
played in Ann Arbor's Liberty Plaza
last Sunday for voting and visiting.
For the rest of the week, they can be
seen at the Jewish Community Center
of Greater Ann Arbor. They are a
highlight of the JCC's Sukkarnival
event from noon-3 p.m. Sunday. (See
Calendar, page 28, for details.) The
eight-day Sukkot holiday starts at sun-
down Sunday.
Team-4-Community members are
Ralph Nunez, a landscape architect,
and Shari Stein, an interior designer,
who are Jewish, and architect Harold
Remlinger.
As an L3C or low-profit, limited
liability company, Team-4-Community
is a hybrid of a nonprofit and for-profit
organization, which has an explicit
primary charitable mission and only a
secondary profit concern.
"Our vision was to build a sukkah
that was renewable and sustainable
using hay bale design build construc-
tion and incorporating Ralph's sculp-
tured branches," said Remlinger. "The

Visitors enjoy the cozy interior of
the winning entry.

branches in the entry form a Jewish
star."
Nunez said, "We meet all the com-
petition's requirements: sustainable,
innovative and beautiful. It was won-
derful to see everyone coming into the
sukkah eating and enjoying:'
Stein said she heard people remark
that the sukkah felt cozy. It also was
kosher. Stein, who volunteers at Yad
Ezra in Berkley and Friendship Circle
in West Bloomfield, consulted with
Rabbi Levi Shemtov of Friendship
Circle to make sure the sukkah and
its materials are all up to kosher stan-
dards.
The winning team plans to return a
portion of their winnings to nonprofit
organizations in Ann Arbor. And the
hay bales will be donated for use at
animal shelters in the city.

