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splashthat.com; watch live:
shorturl.at/bfoUX.
SAMPLE SALE
9 AM-5 PM, SEPT. 15&16
Michigan Design Center
has added special
surprises to its once-yearly
sample sale for guests to
enjoy both indoors and
outside at MDC’s south
entrance, 1700 Stutz
Drive, Troy. In addition
to the deep discounts
on designer furniture,
lighting, flooring, fabric,
rugs, art and accessories,
this event will include
interactive activities,
live demonstrations,
informative presentations,
pop-up shops and tasty
local fare served-up
by several food truck
vendors. Join MDC’s
charity partner for this
event, Soul Studio (a
project of Friendship
Circle), at their exhibition
in the covered tent area
where they will feature
live demonstrations from
Soul Studio artists and
display several pieces of
mixed-media art created
by their student-artists.
Info: michigandesign.com/
event/inside-out-sale-
event.
LOAVES OF LOVE
7:340 PM, SEPT. 15
At Bais Chabad Torah
Center in West Bloomfield.
Cost: $25. Bake a challah
and share an evening
of inspiration; create a
second loaf to give to a
women’s shelter. Register:
zeesy@baischabad.com or
call 248-855-6170.
Compiled by Sy Manello/Editorial
Assistant. Send items at least 14 days
in advance to calendar@
thejewishnews.com.
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SPOTLIGHT
The JN’s “The Holocaust Unfolds” exhibit will open at
the Art Center of Battle Creek on Sept. 18 and run until
November. Detroit Jewish News Foundation Archivist Mike
Smith will attend.
Smith will also do a Zoom broadcast about the history of
the JN, the exhibit and the Archive on Sept. 15 with Michael
McCullough from the Battle Creek Library.
Kerri Lanoue has
joined Jewish
Family Service as
the new director of
behavioral health.
A licensed clinical
social worker and
certified school
social worker with
certification in
child and family
therapy and clinical
supervision, Lanoue has spent
almost 15 years working in
the social services and mental
health arenas, serving diverse
communities across New York
City. She was most recently
the interim director of student
support services and manager
of clinical services at a large
charter school network in
Brooklyn.
She has extensive experience
providing direct clinical
services, parent workshops
and consultation to children,
families and adults. She is
passionate about LGBTQIA+
advocacy and support,
trauma-informed
practices, and
embedding diversity,
equity and inclusion,
and antiracism,
into schools and
organizations.
“
As a member of the
Jewish community,
I am honored to be
invited onto the JFS
team and to be able to join in
the mission of strengthening
lives in our area through
compassionate service,”
Lanoue says. A Windsor,
Ontario, native, Lanoue has
recently returned to the Metro
Detroit area with her family.
“I am so excited that Kerri
has moved to Detroit and
joined JFS,” says Perry Ohren,
JFS CEO. “She is smart, eager
and passionate and brings
lots of administrative success
in helping individuals and
families get the help they
need.”
JFS Hires Director of Behavioral Health
JN Exhibit Heads to Battle Creek
Kerri Lanoue