Walled Lake Schools met invites you to attend our Community Performances -Planning .xpo WL Northern HS Performing Arts Center to host 11-1 I I N "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 T •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 . ❑ 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 - 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. 1834170 24 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. - 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." ❑ -Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor