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MENTAL HEALTH TOWN MEETING

You set your fi rst year dues level
With an offer like this
you can’t afford not to!

There will be a mental health town hall
meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22,
at Beaumont Hospital Administration
Auditorium, 3601 13 Mile, Royal Oak.
A panel of state legislators will hear
from advocates, community mental
health leaders and citizens regarding
mental health reform and Lansing efforts
to shift Medicaid funding for mental

health services to private HMOs.
Persons wishing to share their sto-
ries may bring written statements that
will be collected and shared with other
policy makers following the event. Public
comments will be limited to five min-
utes. Also, one may email comments to
fred.a.cummins@gmail.com. For more
information, call (248) 203-1998.

BURNSTEIN CLINIC
TO FETE WOMEN

DONATE A BIKE
TO NEEDY KIDS

For the past six years, the Dr. Gary
Burnstein Community Health Clinic
in Pontiac has hosted the Esteemed
Women of Michigan event, honor-
ing extraordinary women who have
excelled in their professions, risen
above unacceptable circumstances,
found a way to help others or have
become a beacon of hope for the
younger generation.
Sept. 26 marks the Seventh Annual
Esteemed Women of Michigan Event
to be held at Marriot Centerpoint in
Pontiac at 6 p.m.
Among this year’s 19 honorees are
Jackie Kallen, Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny
of Temple Israel, Lisa Lis, Betsy
Reich, Alicia Stillman and Treger
Strasberg.
The clinic provides free medical
and dental services to individuals
who are low income and uninsured.
Tickets are $125. To register, call
(248) 309-3752.

Farmington Hills-based men’s apparel
shop the Shirt Box and Walled Lake-
based Kenny’s Lakes Area Auto Experts
repair shop are holding a bike drive at
their respective locations through Friday,
Sept. 23.
Donations will benefit Back Alley
Bikes (BAB), located in Detroit, who
will put the bicycles in the hands of
students in need this school year.
Bikes of all sizes and conditions,
as well as new bike helmets, will be
accepted.
The Shirt Box is located at 32500
Northwestern Highway and is open
Monday-Saturday 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. and
Thursday until 7 p.m. Lakes Area Auto
Experts is at 490 North Pontiac Trail and
will be open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., as well
as Wednesday until 7 p.m.
For information, call the Shirt Box
at (248) 851-6770 or Lakes Area Auto
Experts at (248) 668-1200.

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Romy Modlin Photography

PARALYMPIC STAR AT FIDF EVENT

A family of cousins, aunts,
uncles, bubbies and zadies
you just haven't met yet.
Congregation B'nai Moshe
Welcome Home

Award-winning Shabbat-centric Hebrew School.
Registration is Open. FREE Kindergarten!

Call Steve Fine at the synagogue offi ce
at 248-788-0600 for more information

6800 Drake Road | West Bloomfi eld MI 48322 | www.bnaimoshe.org

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Women will gather at 11:45 a.m.
Thursday, Sept. 22, for the Friends
of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF)
Michigan Women’s Luncheon to sup-
port FIDF’s programs for the brave
soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces
(IDF). It will be held
at Tam-O-Shanter
Country Club, 5051
Orchard Lake Road,
West Bloomfield
The speaker will
be wounded Israeli
hero and Paralympic
gold medalist Noam
Noam Gershony
Gershony. Six years
before he won the
gold medal for wheelchair tennis at the
2012 London Paralympics, Gershony’s
Israeli Air Force Apache helicopter
crashed in Lebanon, killing his co-
pilot and severely wounding him.
“After my injury, I wondered why I
survived,” Gershony said. “I used to be

able to fly an Apache, and now I can
barely walk up four steps. That’s when
I decided never to let myself become
depressed — no matter what the situ-
ation.”
Co-chairing the event are Lisa
Brandes, Enid Goodman, Beverly
Leuchter, Nancy Pomish, Janet Stein,
Brenda Wayne and Karen Weiss.
“Gershony’s story is one of inspira-
tional resilience,” said co-chair Wayne.
“The least we can do is help support
programs for other brave soldiers like
him.”
The luncheon will begin with a
silent auction. The funds raised at this
event will benefit the FIDF IMPACT!
Scholarship Program, which grants
full academic college scholarships
to Israeli combat veterans of modest
means.
For more information or to sup-
port FIDF, visit: https://fidf.org/
MichiganWomensAnnualLuncheon.

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