Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944
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Janet Dey has been serving as cashier for Garden City Presbyterian Church's Annual Strawberry Festival since the event first originated 46 years ago. On Friday, June 15, Dey, now 96, will once again be ringing up local residents who partake in the church's community outreach event. The event is organized each year by the church's Presbyterian Women Organization. The church's annual festival, which has been a success every year since it began, has allowed the church to assist wherever there was...
In the wake of high unemployment, unresponsive city services, and an urban fog of crime and vice, Detroit residency requirements need to be reexamined. According to statistics, between 60 to 80 percent of public safety workers live outside of city limits, a situation created when residency requirements which were once in force, were struck down by the Michigan legislature in 1999. "Unofficially, the abolishment of residency requirements was set up for the city of Detroit," said community...
. Martin Luther King's final mission was to build and launch a Poor People's Campaign across lines of race, religion and region. He called for a "revolution of values" to address the "triplets of evil" - militarism, racism and economic injustice. People should not die from poverty in the richest nation in the world, he argued. It was time to speak out; silence was a betrayal. What Dr. King taught 50 years ago is even more relevant today. That's why I joined with Rev. William J. Barber II and...
Local history is alive and well in the city of Inkster. At a recent city council meeting, the organization, Inkster Citizens Who Care, presented the city with a photograph display honoring Inkster residents who are 100 years of age or older. The display was titled, "The 2017 History Making Centenarians of Inkster, Michigan." Attendees of the city council meeting were delighted when one of the honorees, Mrs.Nobie Hill, 105, entered the meeting. The display also featured a large photograph of...
I was watching Supergirl last Monday when I suddenly started to get a lecture in gun control. Not in person but from the show. This isn't the first time that a CW Arrowverse show preached about gun control. Last year the show Arrow approached the subject. Which causes me and many others to ask, why must the left turn everything into a political message. I just want to be entertained not constantly informed. If I want to be informed I'll turn on FOX News or CNN. The left seems to take everything...
