38 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 

COMMUNITY
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Deadline for ad insertion is 10am on Friday prior to publication.

 Aaron Mendelson
Heating and Cooling

248-855-0437 Cell: 248-912-2292

License # 7118488

Maintenance, Installation, 
Repair & Hot Water Heaters

Ajmendelson1@gmail.com

FAMILY 
OWNED

SINCE 
1973

$65

SERVICE FEE

Call today for your free in-home consultation

248.855.8747
Caren Bass
Custom Closets,Inc.

WHERE PROFESSIONAL SERVICE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE

as featured on
HGTV

Leading the industry 
with over 30 years experience 
in the Metro Detroit Area. 
Now also organizing the Metro 
Denver Area with our 2nd location 
Custom Closets, West, Inc.

www.loisharondesigns.com

Lois Haron 
Interior Designer Allied ASID
(248) 851-6989
loisharondesigns@gmail.com

Designs in Decorator 
Wood & Laminates
It doesn’t have to 
cost a fortune, 
only look like it.

Lois Haron Designs

ELECTRONICS UNLIMITED

Sales • Service

Sound Systems • TV Mounting
WiFi & Network Wiring 
Telephone Systems • & More

Warren Mendelsohn 
248-470-7715

Email: jrcmycomputerguy@gmail.com

CHIMNEY RESTORATION

All Brick/Stone
Concrete / All Masonry
Porches, Patios, Retainer Walls, etc.
Decks and Refi
 nish - Rotted Wood Replacement
Seamless Gutters

Mold/Flood Restoration

CALL JOHN: 248-770-8772

FORMER MARINE

JF Green Renovations

**COVID-19 EXEMPT — SERVICES STILL AVAILABLE!**

“Let us love your pet 
while you are away”

Pet resort • Daycare 
Training • Grooming 
Web Cameras

248-230-PAWS (7297)

2244 Franklin Road
Bloomfield Hills, 
MI 48302
www.4pawscc.com

Feeding the 
Hungry
D

espite all of the odds against 
them due to COVID, the non-
profit Higher Hopes!, founded 
by Bill Birndorf, has finalized plans to 
move forward with its Thanksgiving 
program. Higher Hopes! will be cele-
brating its seventh annual Thanksgiving 
food distribution of 1,000 meal kits to 
families that have 
children enrolled in 
Head Start childcare 
partnership pro-
grams in the city of 
Detroit.
Each Thanksgiving 
kit contains a 12- to 
14-pound turkey, 
stuffing, Michigan 
potatoes, yams, all 
of the ingredients 
for green bean cas-
serole, chicken broth, Jiffy Corn Muffin 
Mix, cranberry sauce, apples, spices and 
Coca Cola products, all topped off with 
Cooper Street Cookies for dessert and 
much more.
During the pandemic, Higher Hopes! 
has been able to provide nourishing 
35- to 45-pound meal kits each month 
to at least 1,000 families with children 
enrolled in Early Head Start Childcare 
Partnership Programs throughout 
Southeast Michigan. 
“This has definitely been an interest-
ing year — quite different than what 
we’
ve ever experienced,” Birndorf said 
in a press release. “There are 1.4 million 
people in Michigan who struggle with 
hunger and food insecurities, 356,930 
of whom are children. That number is 
rising. With many schools on virtual 
instruction, children that rely on getting 
two of their three meals at school con-
tinue to be at risk.” 
Higher Hopes! is beginning a fund-
raising campaign to support November’
s 
Thanksgiving event and monthly food 
pass outs for 2021. Goal: $100,000. 
Corporate and individual contributions 
can be made at www.higherhopesde-
troit.org or at the Facebook page at 
www.facebook.com/pages/Higher-
Hopes/351220508366604. 

A Head Start student 
who benefits from 
Higher Hopes!

