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Haley's Garden

Adat Shalom students tend the garden

they created to memorialize their friend.

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. ' n April 2010, one of our dear friends
lost her life to cancer," said Lauren
Novick, 14, of Bloomfield Hills. 'As
a class at Adat Shalom Synagogue, we all
decided to make her a memorial. We start-
ed in the summer of 2010. We decided to
create a garden on the Adat Shalom play-
ground because Haley's love of nature and
butterflies was so great.
"We named the garden Haley's Garden,
and we each painted an individual stone to

Alexis Migliore, 3, of West Bloomfield

dead heads the flowers.

become part Oa border. Each year since
then, we all meet up again and work on
the garden. This garden means a lot to us.
Haley truly inspired us to be the best we
can be and to live life to the fullest."
Haley Nathan was the daughter of Emily
and Stuart Nathan of Farmington Hills, the
twin sister of Andrew, 14, and the sister of
Ally, 9. Late in the summer, Adat Shalom
preschool campers diligently watered
Haley's Garden.

Lauren Novick, 14, of Bloomfield Hills, Sarah Shea, 14, of Huntington Woods and

Hannah Katz, 13, of Farmington Hills work in the garden.

NCJW annual event honors leaders, educates audience about fighting hunger.

ore than 320 people recently attended the National Council of Jewish
Women, Greater Detroit Section's 2012 Women of Vision benefit luncheon
at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township. Attendees this year had the
opportunity to hear keynote speaker Lauren Bush Lauren explore her shift from her
career as a top model to one in philanthropy. She is the chief FEEDer and co-founder
of FEED Projects and chairman of the board and co-founder of The FEED Foundation,

Leonard Zucker, husband of the late Marsha Zucker, and Gilda Jacobs, both

of Huntington Woods, accepted awards along with Patti Nemer of West

Bloomfield, Michelle Passon of Commerce and Sandy Schwartz of Franklin;

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October 18 2012

Dickman, 4, of Farmington Hills water the flowers in late summer.

PFAit

Yonatan Ser, 3, of West Bloomfield

of Vision

Lauren Bush Lauren is at right.

Jordyn Lusky, 5, of Bloomfield Hills, Jessica Lovy, 5, of West Bloomfield and Jillian

which works to fight hunger and malnutrition worldwide.
Women of Vision also honored Gilda Jacobs, president and CEO of the Michigan
League for Human Services; Cancer Thriver's Network for Jewish Women co-founders
Michelle Passon, Sandy Schwartz and Patti Nemer; and the late Marsha Zucker, NCJW/
Greater Detroit community volunteer and activist, with the Josephine S. Weiner
Community Service Award.

NCJW/GDS President Suzanne

Lauren with Women of Vision co-chairs Susanne

Simon of West Bloomfield with

Lasser of Birmingham, Barbara Rosenthal

Lauren Bush Lauren

of West Bloomfield and Joanne Arnovitz of

Huntington Woods