fine
art fair

www.ArtBirmingham.org

Produced by

A Mothers Day Weekend Tradition in
Downtown Birmingham's Shain Park

New Summer Camp
Will Give Local
Entrepreneurial Kid
A Business Lesson

With Special
thanks to

JN

"Blue Jay on Red Chair"by Candace Compton Pappas

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THE COMMUNITY CHORUS OF DETROIT

with the Archdiocesan Chorus of Detroit, the Cantata Academy Chorale,
and the Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir

Dr. Edward Maki-Schramm, Conductor

Sunday, May 18, 4:30 pm

Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament
9844 Woodward Ave, Detroit 48202

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Commemorating the 16 performances of the Requiem
by the prisoners of the Terezin concentration camp in WWII

175-voice choir and full symphony orchestra

Af Metropolitan Opera-affiliated soloists: Jennifer Barnickel-Fitch,
soprano; Irina Mishura, mezzo soprano; Dustin Scott, tenor;
and Stephen West, bass

AI Introduction by Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press; Archbishop

Allen Vigneron, Archdiocese of Detroit; and Rabbi Joseph Krakoff,

Congregation Shaarey Zedek

General admission: In advance $35; at door $40; patron additional
Tickets & information: www.communitychorusofdetroit.com
Questions: info@communitychorusofdetroit.com

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May 8 • 2014

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rad Simtob, 13, attended
Tamarack Camps for two
summers and then spent a
summer at Camp Walden. But these
sleep-away camps just didn't cut it
for him, so last year he tried a couple
of day camps in the area. This sum-
mer will be different for the West
Bloomfield teen who recently got bit
by the entrepreneurial bug.
The eighth-grader at Hillel
Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit recently launched
his own website called
FlippinGames.com , which
lets users buy and sell used
video games online. After
seeing the success of his little
startup business, he decided
he was ready for a camp this
summer that taught business
skills. Brad's mother, Aimee,
was determined to find the
right camp for her budding
entrepreneur so she started her search
on Google.
Aimee entered specific keywords
into Google looking for an entrepre-
neurial summer camp for Brad and
stumbled upon a new Jewish summer
camp with the business-savvy teen
in mind. After telling her husband,
Richard, about Camp Inc., he began
corresponding with the camp's leaders
and explained that his son was inter-
ested but wanted to know someone
else going. Josh Pierce, the camp's
director, agreed to dispatch the COO
Dan Baer to Detroit to meet with Brad
and also to try to recruit some other
teens for the camp.
While Brad wasn't able to convince
any of his friends to join him at Camp
Inc.'s inaugural summer in Boulder,
Colo., he is prepared to attend a two-

week session in late July. Brad's father,
Richard, himself a local entrepreneur
as a partner in Zoup! Fresh Soup
Company and a past president of Yad
Ezra, was immediately hooked on the
philosophy of Camp Inc.
"I really liked the way Dan talked
about the fluidity of the camp:' the
senior Simtob said. "During the first
couple days the campers
get to choose what they
work on. If my son hears
about a project that he
really likes, he can decide
to join that group and help
those campers on their
project. Plus they get to
leave camp and go into
Boulder, which sounds like
a lot of fun:'
The camp is looking for
current Jewish sixth-11th
graders who are creative,
inventive and show prob-
lem-solving ability.
"Essentially, we're looking for tink-
erers:' Pierce explains. "Our camp
will appeal to those teens who are
constantly asking themselves how they
can perform tasks more efficiently:'
The idea is that Camp Inc. will
model what life should be like for a
young person running a startup ven-
ture.
"We're on a residential camp prop-
erty with an archery range, sports
fields, high ropes elements, hiking and
biking:' says Pierce. "Just like a real-life
entrepreneur who needs breaks and
a release from working on their com-
pany, campers at Camp Inc. will have
plenty of time to enjoy our property's
recreational activities:'
Startup teams will be formed at
camp with guest entrepreneurs who

