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Introducing the NEW homes at Fox Run.
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Year in Review, Part 1
Steve Stein I Contributing Writer
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There's a new way to retire in Novi! Fox Run's
newest residence building opens in the fall of 2016.
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Named for the old Detroit creamery,
Twin Pines allows you to travel back to
simpler times. Here, you'll experience
the warmth and security that comes from
living in Novi's most acclaimed retirement community.
Twin Pines will feature 116 maintenance-free apartment homes,
all graciously appointed with gorgeous finishes like granite
countertops and stainless steel appliances.
Here is one of the exciting home designs available in Twin Pines.
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• Kitchen opens into large living and dining area
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• Convenient second bath is ideal for guests
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t's time to reflect on the year's most
newsworthy local Jewish sports sto-
ries. Look for more next week.
• Years of hard work and dedication
paid off for Berkley High School boys
basketball star Jonathan Radner when the
5-foot-10 guard announced he accepted
an offer to be a preferred walk-on at
national power Syracuse University. But
the unthinkable happened a few days
after the announcement. Rick Radner,
Jonathan's father and biggest fan, died
unexpectedly on Jan. 23.
• Northwestern University men's soc-
cer captain Eric Weberman, an All-Stater
at North Farmington High School who
played for the U.S. in the Maccabiah
Games in Israel in 2013, ended his soccer
career so he could attend law school.
• New charity poker rules enacted by
the Michigan Gaming Control Board
forced Pisgah/Zeiger and Block/Israel
B'nai B'rith lodges to end their popular
Texas Hold'em fundraising tournament
that began in 2005.
• Cancer survivor Jeff Ellis of West
Bloomfield won a Michigan Senior
Olympics Winter Games weightlifting
gold medal with a 300-pound bench
press. It was his ninth Senior Olympics
gold medal in weightlifting.
• The Motor City Hit Men won the
third annual Menorah Jewish Softball
Winter Jamboree tournament in Coconut
Creek, Fla.
• Goalie Spencer Applebaum (18-3,
six shutouts, 1.71 goals-against aver-
age) and Jack Blumberg (18 goals, 13
assists) helped the Cranbrook-Kingswood
hockey team in Bloomfield Hills win
the Michigan High School Athletic
Association Division 3 state champion-
ship. The Cranes finished 25-2-4.
• Co-captains Sean Wigler and Michael
Kolodin led the West Bloomfield High
School hockey team to a 15-9-2 season.
The Lakers were 4-22-0 the previ-
ous year. Wigler was named the Most
Valuable Player of the Oakland Activities
Association White Division and Kolodin
was an All-OAA White Division selection.
• Gabe Berman became the Western
Michigan University baseball team's all-
time saves leader when he recorded his
17th career save in a 4-3 win over Lehigh
in the Snowbird Classic Port Charlotte,
Fla. Berman was an outstanding pitcher
at Bloomfield Hills Andover High School.
• Downtown Fox won its sixth straight
B'nai B'rith basketball league champi-
onship, beating Pisgah-Zeiger 75-50
in the playoff title game at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield.
• Stuart Radner of West Bloomfield
attended the 2015 Masters Tournament in
Augusta, Ga., with his sons Josh, 21, and
Zach, 16, thanks to winning a Michigan
Jewish Sports Foundation raffle.
• The InterCongregational Men's Club
Summer Softball League started its 20th
season with a record 16 teams. Four
teams joined the league.
• Trailblazing boxing manager Jackie
Kallen, who is Jewish, teamed with
Connie Shamoun, who is Chaldean, to
promote "Showdown at Shenandoah:' a
boxing card at Shenandoah Country Club
in West Bloomfield.
• Alexandra D'Ascenzo from West
Bloomfield was named the Most
Improved Player on the Cornell
University women's tennis team. The
sophomore was 10-6 in singles matches
and 10-6 in doubles matches.
• Ian Kobernick, a sophomore outfield-
er at Kalamazoo College, was named to
the All-Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic
Association Second Team in baseball.
Kobernick is a Huntington Woods resi-
dent and Berkley High School graduate.
• The MHSAA recognized Burt Hurshe
for 45 years of service as a high school
official. Hurshe was a 2012 Michigan
Jewish Sports Foundation Pillars of
Excellence Award recipient.
• Cranbrook-Kingswood senior
Amanda Simmons won the No. 2 doubles
title at the MHSAA Division 3 girls tennis
state tournament
• The 25th annual Hank Greenberg
Memorial Golf Invitational at Franklin
Hills Country Club in Farmington Hills
was a sellout with 159 golfers and 240
attendees.
• Men's teams from Michigan State
University and Metro Detroit Hillel
competed in the annual National Hillel
Basketball Tournament hosted by the
University of Maryland.
• Pinch-runner Nikki Wald, a fresh-
man from North Farmington High
School, stole third and scored on a wild
throw to help the University of Michigan
softball team defeat Louisiana State 6-3
and move into the championship series
in the Women's College World Series in
Oklahoma City. *
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