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More Local
History!

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Once completed,
JN Foundation archives
to span 100 years.

Sy Manello I Editorial Assistant

W

hile we read history, we make
history"
So said U.S. author and
editor George William Curtis. Once this
history is made, however, it must be pre-
served.
Metro Detroit's Jewish history has been
preserved in the archives of the Detroit
Jewish News Foundation, which contain
about 280,000 pages of content, dating
back to 1942.

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The last

front page of
the Jewish

Chronicle, July
13, 1951

Village in the Woods Director Shari Smith with Village Mavens Nancy Siegel Heinrich and Cindy Schwartz

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+ Takes A Village

Aging in place movement makes strides in suburban Detroit.

Lynne Meredith Golodner I Special to the Jewish News

laced on the wall in Shari Smith's office is a poster
about how to build community. That's what she
does every day as director of the Village in the
Woods, the first Oakland County organized "village" that is
part of a growing national movement to help adults age in
place.

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1942 - 2014

Covering and
Connecting
Jewish Detroit
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"When I go out and talk to my members, I love, love, love
what I am doing; says Smith, who began last year to build
the Village. "I love hearing their stories and learning about
their families. It is in these moments that I know I have the
best job in the world"
This month, the Village in the Woods welcomes Judy
Willett, a Huntington Woods native who has spent 30
years in older adult services and started the first Village
in Boston in 2002. The national director of the Village to
Village Network, an umbrella organization linking Villages
nationwide, will speak Thursday, June 26, on the topic, "It
Takes Villages: Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changes the Face of
Aging:'

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