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Community-wide Event Hosted by Temple Shir Shalom

(3999 Walnut Lake Rd., corner of Orchard Lake and Walnut Lake Rd.)

8:00am 5K Family Fun Run Starts

11:00am Walk Programs Start

12:30pm Kosher Lunch

www.walkforisrael.org

(no charge)

1:30pm Walk Starts

$2.00 MAY 7-13, 2015 / 18-24 IYAR 5775

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David Shanaman, Detroit; mom Robin
Tobin-Murav Farmington Hills; and
Baratt Shanaman and Reisa Shanaman,
West Bloomfield

metro

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Pink Or Blue?

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Mother's Day brings memories of
thrilling reveals of baby genders.

Shelli Liebman Dorfman I Contributing Writer

F

or Erika and Andy Bocknek of Farmington Hills, a beauti-
fully wrapped gift package held the secret of the gender of
Lielle Rose, born on March 27. In January, the Bockneks,
including their son, Ethan, 4, visited Belle Isle in Detroit and
opened the box to reveal a pink, helium-filled announcement that
their baby is a girl.

Ke lly Rama of

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Andy, Erika and Ethan Bocknek at the Belle Isle site of their
baby gender reveal.

Budget cuts
to clients with
disabilities burdens
families and
agencies.

1942 - 2015

Covering and
Connecting
Jewish Detroit
Eve y Week

Ronelle Grier I Contributing Writer

or years, Sheryl Kaminer Above:
Dennis and Sheryl
has dreamed of the day
Kaminer say statewide
her daughter, Elana, 26,
funding cuts prevented
would move into a home of her
their daughter, Elena,
own, with full-time caregivers to
26, from moving into a
meet the special needs of Elana
home with other young
and her roommates. Last year,
women with disabilities.
Sheryl and her husband, Dennis,
found the perfect house in north
Oak Park, a three-bedroom ranch
just a few blocks from their own home.
Kaminer and two other moms, longtime friends who also
have daughters with special needs, had always hoped their
daughters would share a home after they turned 26, the age
when public school education ends in Michigan.

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