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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