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Community Wide Event

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Hosted by Temple Shir Shalom

onday, August 17, 2015
Starting at 7:00pm

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These Riverwalkers are on the go.

RiverWalkers

Inspired DMC leadership moves
seniors toward better health.

Temple Shir Shalom would like to say

Thank You

Karen Couf Cohen

to the following donors, corporate sponsors and

Special to the Jewish News

restaurants for their support of our event:

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Lili & Les Gold • Geoff Kretchmer & Star Trax • Kroger • Sunset

Boulevard • Fran Bell • Sharon Meisel • Sam Zeidman & Jiffy
Signs • Michael Klass & Associated Dealer Services • Jason
Zimmerman & Schechter Wealth • Franklin Village Boutique •
Mark Fisher & LSG Insurance Partners • Detroit Jewish News •
Dr. Jeff Miller & Miller Vein • Richard Mandell & CAYA
Smokehouse Grill • Coin' Postal • Boneyard Bar-B-Q & Grill •
Bonefish Grill • Craft Breww City •
Prime29 • The Lodge Bar & Grill •
Bellacino's Sylvan Lake • Dairy Fresh
Foods • Bacco Ristorante • Pine Lake
Market & Deli • Cutting Edge Cuisine •
Mex Restaurant • Quarton Foods &
Catering • Babylon Ethnic Foods • Tim
Horton's • Outback Steakhouse • Rocky
Mountain Chocolate Factory • Jimmy
John's • Brooklyn Bagel • Harvard Row
Kosher Meats • Leo's Coney Island •
Uptown Parthenon • George's Honey
Tree • The Taco Man Catering Services •
Zoe's Pancake House • Renee's Gourmet
Pizzeria • Huerto Restaurant & Tequila
Bar • Market Place Meats • Porvin,
Burnstein & Garelik P.L.L.C. • 89X Radio •
Brett Altman & Goren, Goren & Harris PC
•Wechsler Construction • Sposita's
Ristorante • The Brotherhood of Shir
Shalom • Vezina Law Group • Storage
Pros • West Bloomfield Police & Fire
Department • Crispelli's Bakery & Pizzeria
•Jerusalem " za • Tam-O-Shanter CC

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Looking To Join Temple Shir Shalom?
Bring The Whole Family

Call Temple Shir Shalom's office to arrange
for your complimentary tickets. Come get
to know us! 248 737 8700

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Music and entertainment provided by
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EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

$25 per adult In advance / $30 at the door • $12 per child In advance / $18 at the door

Tickets can be purchased online at 'ww chirshalorp nrq
or by calling Temple Shir Shalom's office at 248-737-8700

Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities are available.

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"We know the patient and the risk
factors that come with aging, and we try
to provide the resources and skill set to
support them:' Schreiber says. He and
other medical professionals send doc-
tors, nurse practitioners and other health
care professionals to chat informally with
the RiverWalker participants. "Walking
regularly is one of the very best wellness
activities older adults can do for them-
selves:' Schreiber says.
"I think a lot about the Blue Zone
Kremer says, referring to Dan
Buettner's book, The Blue Zones:

uth Kremer envisions an urban
center in Detroit where people
live longer, live better and
thrive. You'll find her down at the Detroit
riverfront every Tuesday and Thursday
morning this summer, surrounded by
a crowd of people 60 and older wearing
bright-colored T-shirts. She plays traffic
cop with a smile, fields questions and
passes out swag.
"What number do I call
about managing my diabe-
Lessons for Living Longer From
tes?" a woman asks. "Let me
the People Who've Lived the
take your name and get back
Longest. The book examines
to you. Here's my cell:' Kremer
isolated pockets in the world
replies. "Do I get a free gift
(Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy;
this week?" asks another.
Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda,
California) where high percentag-
Kremer's answer: "Only if
Ruth Kre mer
you've walked three times
es of centenarians enjoy full lives,
this month:' She swats back
eat the right foods, stay active and
answers without missing a beat
social, and take care of themselves.
Kremer of Southfield, corporate direc-
Kremer says the RiverWalkers pro-
tor of integrated marketing and com-
gram is all about embracing a healthy
munications for DMC Detroit Receiving
lifestyle before the realities of aging
impact quality of life.
Hospital, is at the helm of the successful
DMC RiverWalkers.
"Most of our seniors have an "a-hi'
Administered by the hospital and
moment — they start realizing what
sponsored by the Detroit Riverfront
they have to do to stay health' she says.
Conservancy and the Rosa Parks
"Maybe it's the shoes they can't bend over
Geriatric Center, the program has grown
to tie, or the difficulty they have when
in size under her seven years of stew-
pulling out of the driveway because of a
ardship, beginning in 2008 with 225
stiff neck, or memory loss:'
walkers. Now one of Detroit's largest and
To succeed, she adds, programs must
most successful walking clubs, this year's
have a social component and support
numbers top 1,500.
system. RiverWalkers helps older adults
With more than 30 years in market-
realign priorities so wellness is at the top.
ing, Kremer has honed her sense of what The social activity is the progranis glue.
makes a campaign work.
"I like to think we are working
Some of her earlier years were spent
toward creating a blue zone around our
at WXYZ-TV, where she launched the
RiverWalkers, one senior at a time she
"Stand Up and Tell 'em You're from
says.
Detroit" campaign, which ran for
seven years. And as a member of the
Get Walking!
Congregation Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood,
DMC RiverWalkers meet every
she has helped promoted its annual
Tuesday and Thursday through
Woman's World event (She and her fam-
August for walking from 8:30-
ily also belong to Temple B'nai Shalom in
9:30 a.m., with a fitness activity
St. Joseph, where they have a home.)
from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Rivard
Now, at DMC, in collaboration with
Plaza,1340 Atwater St., Detroit.
medical leaders such as Dr. Theodore
For details, call (888) 362-2500.
Schreiber, president of DMC Heart
Call (313) 745-8260 the morning
Hospital and DMC Cardiovascular
of a walk to check if weather has
Institute, Kremer has a program that is
canceled the activity.
not only popular but is medically sound.

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