Walled Lake Schools
met
invites you
to attend our
Community Performances
-Planning .xpo
WL Northern HS Performing Arts Center to host
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"A Phantom, A Witch
and A King"
Halloween Pops Concert
Joe Cornell show now aimed at families and businesses.
October 25, 2013, 7:30 p.m.,
WL Northern HS
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•Featuring the Michigan
Philharmonic with music director
and conductor Nan Washburn
•Special performances by Walled
Lake Schools student choirs
For ticket information,
go to wlcstickets.com
or call 248-387-9160.
WL Western HS Performing Arts presents
"Shrek -
The Musical"
November 14-17 & 21-24, 2013
7:30 p.m., WL Western HS
For ticket information,
go to wlcstickets.com
or call 248-387-9160.
WL Northern HS Performing Arts presents
"The Lottery," "Women and
Wallace," "The Other Side"
Three one-act plays
November 21-23, 2013
7:30 p.m., WL Northern HS
For ticket information,
go to wlcstickets.com
or call 248-387-9160.
WL Central HS Performing Arts presents
"You Can't Take it
With You"
he Joe Cornell Event-Planning Expo on Oct. 7 not the corporate sphere, with advice on how to plan corpo-
only will entice families planning lifecycle events
rate excursions, events and employee rewards.
to find new ideas for their celebrations, it also
The events are open to the public and free of charge.
will be a hotbed of activity and ideas for corporate folks.
The EXPO is from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6; the
This year, Southeast Michigan's longest-standing
Corporate Blitz is from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Monday, Oct.
entertainment company launches the
7. Both are at the West Bloomfield
Corporate Blitz, an event-planning
Jewish Community Center.
trade show for human resources direc-
"We work with corporate folks all
tors and corporate event planners,
the time, offering advice and guid-
sponsored by Michigan Meetings +
ance on how to reward employees,
Events, Patch.com and the IN.
engage with clients and collaborate
"For more than a decade, our annual
with vendors for mutual benefit:'
Expo has been a favorite event for local
says Rebecca Schlussel, vice-presi-
families planning special celebrations,"
dent of Joe Cornell Entertainment.
says Steve Jasgur, CEO of Joe Cornell
"It was a natural outgrowth of these
Entertainment. "Now we are excited to
interactions and relationships to
offer a special corporate-focused arm
offer an event for corporate event
to our trade show, as Michigan's econo-
planners, where they can find every-
my picks up and companies are looking
thing in one place as well as network
for innovative and fun ways to reward
with an industry that helps to grow
Brother-and-sister team: Steve
their employees, vendors and industry Jasqur and Rebecca Schlussel.
what they do:"
partners. It's great to see this energy
Joe Cornell Entertainment dates
returning to our marketplace:'
back to the 1950s. In the past five
The Joe Cornell team, featured in the New York
years, Jasgur and Schlussel have expanded the business
Times for its innovative programs and steady growth,
to include a wedding division, a twice-yearly event-
attracts hundreds to its annual trade show, where more
planning magazine, dance and etiquette programs for
than 60 vendors exhibit their talents and ideas for con-
tweens and for schools, and more. For more details, go
sumers. The Corporate Blitz will be tailored for events in
to joecornell.com .
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December 5-7, 2013
7:30 p.m., WL Central HS
For ticket information,
go to wlcstickets.com
or call 248-387-9160.
Legal Action Dropped
Parents dismiss complaint filed against FJA board.
WL Central, Northern & Western HS
choirs, bands and orchestras present
Collage Concerts
•December 10, 2013 -
WL Western HS band & orchestra
•December 11-12, 2013 -
WL Northern HS choirs, band
& orchestra
•December 17 18, 2013 -
WL Central HS choirs, band
& orchestra
•December 19, 2013 -
WL Western HS choirs
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For ticket information,
go to wlcstickets.com
or call 248-387-9160.
WL Northern HS Performing Arts Center to host
Holiday Pops with the Phil
Presented by the Huron Valley
Council for the Arts
December 13, 2013
WL Northern HS
Featuring the Michigan Philharmonic
with music director and conductor
Nan Washburn.
For ticket information,
go to www.huronvalleyarts.org
or call 248-387-9160.
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September 19 • 2013
A
lawsuit filed June 12 to compel the Frankel
Jewish Academy board to release information
relating to its most recent board election on
June 5 and subsequent board governance changes has
been dismissed.
On behalf of Don Apel, a current FJA parent, and
Stefany Freeman and Beth Stone, former FJA
parents, a legal complaint, or declara-
tory action, had been filed in Oakland
County Circuit Court by Dennis K.
Egan of Kotz Sangster Wysocki P.C.
in Detroit.
The comp, which was not served
by its Sept. 1 deadline, sought to
compel FJA "to produce all infor-
mation and documents in any way
discussing (a) the June 5th Annual
Meeting and the subsequent election
of officers; (b) the board's appointment
of board members to open board positions;
and (c) the October 2012 "consent" vote, and
voting process, to change FJA from a membership organi-
zation to a directorship organization?'
In a June 27 JN story, FJA board president Bill
Newman was quoted as saying, "the process we con-
ducted was equitable, legal and binding?'
In an email to parents of the West Bloomfield Jewish
high school on Sept. 13, Apel, Freeman and Stone stated,
"We believe this request for the voting results is reason-
able and that the declaratory action has merit. And we,
along with many members of this community, have ongo-
ing and serious concerns about the way the vote of
October 2012 was administered and recorded.
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However, we have chosen to dismiss the
declaratory action.
"It is our hope that this will
facilitate meaningful discussions
to resolve the more global issues
currently affecting the school. It
is our hope that these discussions
will lead FJA to hire the best quali-
fied teachers and minyan leaders,
regardless of how they observe
Shabbat in their personal lives; build
a board of directors that is reflective of
the diversity of the student body and sup-
portive of a transparent, accessible and com-
munity-minded process; and develop an administration
that promotes and embraces the pluralistic spirit under
which the school was founded and funded."
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-Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor