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With a transac-
tion volume of
$125,024,572 dol-
lars, Kathy Broock
Ballard, from Max
Broock Realtors,
has yet again
earned the title of
Ballard
“State of Michigan
Top Individual
Producer” for busi-
ness she closed in 2016. Ballard
has gained recognition as the
top producing sales associate in
Michigan since 2010. As a luxury
and lakefront property specialist in
the Birmingham-Bloomfield area,
Kathy sold 121 properties in 2016.
She is a fourth-generation real
estate professional with more than
25 years of experience.

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Gita Greisdorf,
mother of Greis
Jewelers owner
Jason Greisdorf
and a Holocaust
survivor, recently
self-published
a book, The
Shattered
Dreams. Starting
before World War
II, it is a riveting tale of a young girl
whose life is about to be changed
forever. The book is available
through Amazon.

Scott Lachman,
formerly of
Michigan,
an associate
at Weinberg
Wheeler Hudgins
Gunn & Dial in
Las Vegas, has
Lachman
been selected
for the 2017
American Bar
Association’s On the Rise – Top
40 Young Lawyers Award, which
recognizes young lawyers who
exemplify high achievement,
innovation, vision, leadership,
and legal and community service.
Lachman focuses his practice on
catastrophic injury, commercial
litigation and premises liability. He
was awarded Lawyer of the Year by
the State Bar of Nevada in 2013 and
is listed in Super Lawyers Magazine
and Nevada Business Magazine
Legal Elite. He received both his
J.D. and B.A. from Michigan State
University.

Our Bar Mitzvah was executed
professionally and with the
utmost attention to detail.
Everybody had a blast!

- The Weinsteins, Farmington Hills

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Andrew
Stein, execu-
tive direc-
tor of City
Year Detroit,
recently
earned a 2017
Vanguard
Stein
Award from
Detroit Young
Professionals.
Each year, the honor is given
to young professionals and
entrepreneurs who positively
impact the growth, prosperity
and quality of life for people in
Metro Detroit through com-
munity involvement. 2017 win-
ners will receive their awards
during a ceremony on Oct. 25
at the Max M. & Marjorie S.
Fisher Center in Detroit.

Former
Detroiter Rick
Sahar lives in
Wellington,
New Zealand.
He does
community
work for the
Sahar
Holocaust
Center in
Wellington
and was recently given an
award, presented to him by
the Governor General of New
Zealand for his outstanding
work for the center.

University of
Detroit Mercy
Director of
Language &
Cultural Training
Lara Wasner
received a
$93,252 grant
Wasner
from the U.S.
Department of
Education’s
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects
Abroad (GPA) Program. Wasner
will use this grant to facilitate a
curriculum enhancement project
for university faculty and Detroit
K-12 teachers of arts and social
sciences. Wasner and the Detroit
delegation will travel to northeast
Brazil for collaborative learning
and project development during
the summer of 2018. Participants
will develop a curriculum project
or unit plan that will comple-
ment learning and help interna-
tionalize their school and district.

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