Saturday, May 18, 2013
The Farmington Hills school's 9th annual May Day: A Call for Help includes information on addiction, relationship violence, nutrition and health, and money management.
East Middle School students will hear information to help them make better choices during the 9th annual “May Day: A Call for Help”, held during the school day on May 31. Presented by Farmington Hills school's Student Assistance Team, the event is designed to help adolescents during a critical time, when poorly informed decisions have lifelong consequences. In a promotional letter, organizers wrote, "Our hope is that by educating our students before they make difficult decisions and by giving them tools to seek help for themselves and/or friends, we will aid in breaking the silence about violence, drugs and alcohol." All 8th graders will choose to attend five of the 22 workshops offered, with topics like these: Farmington Hills police …
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East Middle School
25000 Middlebelt Rd, Farmington Hills, MI
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Check out the latest Local Voices contributions from your neighbors.
Bloggers from across the area are updating our Local Voices section weekly. Check out their newest contributions below. If you are interested in starting a blog on Patch, it's easy! Simply log in and click "Start A Blog". We look forward to hearing from you! Scott Spielman writes about the importance of knowing your family history following Angelina Jolie's big announcement. Spielman writes, "If knowing is half the battle, then deciding what to do with that knowledge must be the other half. Angelina Jolie showed the power behind that knowledge and action recently when she announced to the world that she had had a preventive double mastectomy upon learning that she was at an increased risk for breast and ovarian cancer." The Salvation Army …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Do you have an event? Add it to the events calendar on Patch.
Patch is here to make your life ridiculously easy, so as you sit down today and plan your weekend, here are three events you should know about in the Farmington-Farmington Hills area. Do you have an event you want to share? Click here to add it to the Farmington-Farmington Hills Patch events calendar.
Michael Rubenstein travels to Lansing to watch as May is declared Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Month.
On the heels of a successful fundraiser for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA), 20-year-old Farmington Hills native Michael Rubenstein watched May 8 as the Michigan House of Representatives declared May, 2013 Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Month. State Rep. Vicki Barnett (D-Farmington Hills) introduced the resolution, which acknowledges that the inflammatory bowel diseases affect about 1,400,000 people in the U.S., 30 percent of whom are diagnosed as children. Rubenstein, a Harrison High alum, was just 11 years old when he started holding fundraisers, about two years after his own diagnosis. Since then, according to his website, he has raised more than $25,000 for CCFA, including $5,000 at the April 26 event in Midland…
The event opens Saturday in Shiawassee Park, with teams ready to walk and raise funds for the American Cancer Society.
Farmington/Farmington Hills Relay for Life kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday in Shiawassee Park in Farmington, with more than 30 teams walking around a track through Sunday morning to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. The public is invited to enjoy entertainment from local bands and take part in a Sunday morning pancake breakfast, sales, games and other activities to help reach the $87,000 fund-raising goal. We're inviting teams and their supporters to share photos and video of the event. Post them with this article, by clicking the "Upload Photos and Videos" button.
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Shiawassee Park
Shiawassee Rd & Power Rd, Farmington, MI
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The company co-founded by a Farmington Hills resident takes on a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about a family affected by mental illness.
Two Muses Theatre, co-founded by Farmington Hills resident Barbie Amann Weisserman, will raise funds to help youth, adults and families in crisis during the run of the female-based performing arts company's next production, Next to Normal. The Broadway hit premieres June 7 and will be on stage through June 30, at the Two Muses Theatre inside Barnes & Noble Booksellers in West Bloomfield. With music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, the local production is directed by Royal Oak resident Frannie Shepherd-Bates. Two Muses Theatre will donate $1 from each ticket purchase to Common Ground, a non-profit agency that has been helping those in need for more than 40 years. Common Ground provides crisis intervention and other services…
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Barnes & Noble Booksellers
6800 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield, MI
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The mock interviews will be held at the Farmington Hills school June 5 and 6.
Dunckel Middle School is looking for parents and other community members to help prepare 8th graders to take their place in the world of work. Adults will work with students in mock interviews held June 5 and 6, 7:30 a.m.-2:10 p.m. Farmington Public Schools provides career education as a segment in the 8th grade Language Arts curriculum. Students prepare for their interviews by completing a career unit with their teachers during the previous week. Mock interviews are conducted during each student’s scheduled English class, and volunteers will interview approximately 10 to 20 students per period. The volunteer interviewers will ask the students around 10 prepared questions, and students are rated on introduction, appearance, dialogue and …
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O.E. Dunckel Middle School
32800 W 12 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI
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Calling all student newspapers, teachers and anyone with a passion for education. We want to see your ideas on Patch!
Patch is seeking student newspapers, teachers, parents and administrators to contribute to our Local Voices platform and help educate the masses on what going on in your schools. We would love for student newspapers to post their articles. If you love to photograph local graduations, school plays and concerts, you can showcase that passion as well in a Local Voices post. Part of the Patch mission is to strengthen communities and improve the lives of their residents, but we can't do it without you. Our Local Voices section allows members of the community—from cooking enthusiasts to local politicians and everyone in between—to interact and post directly to the site. These posts then appear on the homepage, in the daily newsletter and are …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Here's the story of Marlene Konkoly of Royal Oak, who found creative ways to spend less and save more so she can retire at age 50. This story is the first in our series about Extreme Savers.
Americans may be living longer, but our retirement plans aren’t keeping up. Which means people are living longer with smaller bank accounts. But Marlene Konkoly, a Patch reader from Royal Oak, will retire at age 50. How is she planning it? She contributes a whopping 45 percent of the gross annual income she earns as a procurement officer for an automotive finance company to her retirement—all while owning a home and remaining debt-free. Konkoly is actually well ahead of the retirement savings curve compared to many Americans. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, fewer than half of Americans even know how much money they would need to retire. And nearly a third of employees who had access to a defined contribution plan such as a 401(k…
The following information was supplied by the Farmington Hills Police Department. Arrests and charges do not indicate a conviction.
A Farmington Hills Police officer used an app on his smart phone Monday to help track a stolen iPhone. According to the report, a woman at a bar on Eight Mile Road told police she went outside to smoke a cigarette and realized that she left her phone inside. When she returned, the phone was gone. The woman was able to track the phone through an iPad app, but eventually lost service. The officer who responded was able to pick up the iPhone's trail on his phone and continued tracking it west of the bar. The report did not indicate whether the phone was recovered. A 27-year-old Garden City man faces a charge of intent to sell marijuana, after police found him passed out late Monday night, in a car parked at a business lot in the Eight Mile …
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Orchard Lake Rd & W 13 Mile Rd, Farmington, MI
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W 8 Mile Rd & Orchard Lake Rd, Farmington Hills, MI
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Westcott Crescent Cir & Hystone Dr, Farmington Hills, MI
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Motown Voice
8:22 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
And note the dog whistles. When they say things like, "sugar coating" and "not letting us speak the truth" ... that translates to "I should be able to say whatever bigoted thing I like, since I believe my racist opinion is the answer to the problem. And if it is the answer, then my racism is justified." Only nicer. more ›