A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide March 30, 2011

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Pup “ZeeZee” gives a warm greeting to members of his new family, Kelly and Jason Davis, at PetSmart March 6 as part of a Michigan Humane Society Adoption Event.
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Mackenzie Guinn and Faith Redding with dad Dan enthusiastically volunteer for a contest proposed by the DJ at the annual Daddy Daughter Dance March 19 at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. The Dearborn Recreation Department sponsored the affair which was sold out even though there were two separate soirees. This year’s theme was “New York New York” and the event was open to dads (or granddads) and girls under 12.
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Chris and three-year-old Isabella Mick wait for the next number to begin at the dance.
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Girls react to the sight of the chocolate fountain as they await their turn for the gooey treat at the dance.
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Alana Nowlan, with sister Mila, seems surprised by the sudden inflation of the balloon sculpture offered by Jannie Annie at the Dearborn Heights Montessori Taste of the Town March 24. Teachers, parents and students created the program of food and presentations by local businesses. Proceeds will help fund the upper elementary travels.
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The season came to an end at the regional level recently for Leah Dong and the rest of the Edsel Ford Gymnastics team.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide March 27, 2011

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A group of students at Salina Intermediate School wait to sign up for homework help in January for the after school program that helps prepare them for high school. What  experts call a “consolidation” of Arab Americans in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, as well as the movement of African Americans to both cities, helped them buck the population trends for Southeast Michigan as seen in the 2010 census figures.
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Kinloch elementary students found humor in some of the antics of the Brainstorm team as they acted out selected stories written students at Kinloch Elementary in January. An influx of families has kept Dearborn Heights’ population stable over the past 10 years.
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The vacant building at 22000 Garrison has an historic plaque labeling it as the former U.S. Arsenal Officers’ – Surgeons’ Quarters 1833-1875. The building was later a school and then the headquarters for PlasTech. A request for a zoning variance to turn it into an academy was rejected by the Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday.
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Divine Child’s Ryan Nadeau checks his options during the Falcons run through the state tournament to the Class B quarterfinals. DC checked out at the Elite Eight level with a loss last week.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide March 23, 2011

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Dearborn police officers gather evidence March 15 after an armed robbery and homicide at Sunrise Beauty Supply near Schaefer Road and Michigan Avenue. At this point it appears the suspects were after women's hair weaves. There were reportedly 80 of them missing from the store's inventory and each one costs as much as $135, police said. Two teenagers have been charged.
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Evelyn DeGuire, a DuVall Elementary student, and dad Mike wait for a meeting to begin Monday night called by elected officials to protest Governor Rick Snyder’s proposed cuts to education. The rally, held at Edsel Ford High School, was held to protest Dearborn’s schools proposed loss of $5 million in 31a money used for programs to help at-risk students.
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Divine Child’s Rosanna Reynolds looks inside for an open teammate during the team’s double overtime victory over Goodrich in the Class B semifinals in East Lansing. They took the championship the following night.

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Divine Child’s Cara Miller hones in on another rebound during the Falcons double overtime victory over Goodrich in the Class B semifinals in East Lansing. They took the championship the following night.

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Divine Child fans cheer their team during the Falcons double overtime victory over Goodrich in the Class B semifinals in East Lansing. They took the championship the following night.

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Divine Child players celebrate after the Falcons double overtime victory over Goodrich in the Class B semifinals in East Lansing. They took the championship the following night.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide March 20, 2011

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A Dearborn police officer keeps watch inside Sunrise Beauty Supply March 15 after an armed robbery and homicide at the business near Schaefer Road and Michigan Avenue. At this point it appears the suspects were after women's hair weaves. There were reportedly 80 of them missing from the store's inventory and each one costs as much as $135, police said.
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Dearborn police investigate an armed robbery and homicide at Sunrise Beauty Supply near Schaefer Road and Michigan Avenue March 15.
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Hussein, Ahmed and Rehab Amer sit at a press conference March 16 Dearborn attorney Nabih Ayad. They announced the filing of a lawsuit against the state of Michigan for the pain the family and their other three children suffered when the state removed them from the home in 1985 and placed them with an abusive fundamentalist Christian family. The complex story has been covered extensively in the Press & Guide over the 25 years.
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Jacob Smith and Lizzy Clyne, with the University of Michigan-Dearborn Red Cross Student Organization practice the Japanese art of origami March 17 at the school’s annual Global Fest. They were encouraging passers-by to donate to the Red Cross Japanese Relief Fund.
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Divine Child’s Cara Miller grabs a rebound last week in the lead-up to the team’s victory in the class B state championship over the weekend.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide March 16, 2011

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Detroit and Dearborn police evidence techs mark the location of bullet shell casings at the Southfield Freeway and Joy Road near a car used by suspected armed robbers in a holdup Monday morning at Starters Bar in the Fairlane Town Center. Police said one suspect shot himself in the head after pointing his gun at a Dearborn officer attempting to arrest him.

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Students from Dearborn High School Student Video Program make a movie every year. This year’s project, likely their largest ever, is "Saint's Cove" and is a murder mystery involving a fishing camp. The crew of actors, directors, camera operators, lighting and sound techs with dozens of extras filled Dylan’s Restaurant in Grosse Point Woods Saturday to shoot scenes from the movie that will open at the Michael A. Guido Theater in May.
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Director Scott Guthre leads the Fordson High School Jazz Band at the annual Mardi Gras fundraiser March 8 at the Dearborn Hills Golf Club.
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Rose Zywiol and Woodworth Middle School teacher Ress Dowgiallo dressed appropriately for the annual Mardi Gras fundraiser March 8 at the Dearborn Hills Golf Club.
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Divine Child’s Alex Bretous checks the rearview mirror as Annapolis defenders Mark Williams and Nate Verdun head him off during the Falcons victory Friday night.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide March 13, 2011

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Congressman John Dingell is greeted by Ali Balaeed El Maklani, Imad Hamad, Osama Siblani and Senator Irma Clark-Coleman at the Islamic Center of Detroit in 2009 for a special reception in his honor. He and other local leaders were critical of Congressional hearings on American Muslim radicalization held Thursday.
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Dearborn School Board Trustee Hussein Berry carries an American flag during a protest at US District Court in Detroit last year where the alleged attempted bomber of Delta flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab , appeared for a hearing. About four dozen people demonstrated against terrorism, many with signs saying “Not in the Name of Islam”.
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Governor Rick Snyder talks to media Thursday after signing legislation that increases funding for the Pure Michigan campaign at The Henry Ford Museum.
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David T. Brandon, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, takes questions after speaking at the Dearborn Chamber Business Builder Breakfast March 8 at the Hyatt Regency.
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Divine Child’s Morgan Blair and Cara Miller put the defensive clamps on Flat Rock during the Falcons run to a Class B regional championship.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide March 9, 2011

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A snow covered picnic table and flooded playscape in Ford Field are reminders Sunday that flooding may signal the coming end of winter.
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Sponsored by the Dearborn Community Fund, 16 high school students are working with educator/artist Mohamad Bazzi in the Pockets of Perception project to create a better understanding among people in the community through the arts.  Their charge is to create two works of public art, one for each end of town, to be installed in the spring. Their ideas have ranged over many concepts and now they seem focused on two sculptures that could be the inverse of each other’s shapes.  Their studio space is within the Nichols Ski & Patio store and physical work should begin soon on the art. Student Camille Charara adds detail to a sketch of one of their ideas for the dual sculptures. The mirror wall serves as a record of the students’ creations in their work space.
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Planning of the three dimensional sculptures with educator/artists Mohamad Bazzi involves a lot of hand gesturing to describe possible shapes for the art when students met last month.
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Students John Struman, Anthony VanArsdale and Carolyn Pawlicki look over backyard sculpture for creative ideas in January.
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Fordson High Manufacturing Instructor Guy Pizzino (right) and his students surround the beginnings of their new hot rod Friday (3/4) that hundreds of students will help design, build and market. The Fordson Energy Alternative Roadster (FEAR) will run on E85 fuel. It will be a combination of low-slung hot rod and Model T. Marketing students will help promote the car. Art and graphic students will help with the design and detailing and could create paraphernalia such as T-shirts to promote and fund the project. Business students will use the car¹s development to create a mock business plan.
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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide March 6, 2011

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Howard Elementary students Danya Taleb and Jenna Berry pick out gems from piles of junk to construct found art sculpture Feb. 1 at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. It was part of field trips for elementary students that exposed them to sculpture and art with guidance from artist Dan Cascardo and was partially funded by the Dearborn Community Fund.

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Dearborn artist Janet Kondziela is armed, once again, with paintbrushes, easel and all necessary art supplies in hand and setting up her mobile “studio” in a new round of food establishments including Restaurant  Fifty One O One at Henry Ford Community College where she worked March 3. Her goal: to capture on canvas the essence of each establishment’s culinary delights. Kondziela began her artistic culinary journey titled “Dearborn Paints – Good Food” in May of last year visiting a variety of establishments on both the east and west sides of town.

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Former Andiamo Restaurant server Michael Morganroth smiles during a large protest outside the restaurant last year. He and about 80 other protestors organized by the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Michigan demonstrated against what they said were arbitrary firings of employees. A settlement between the parties was announce last week.
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Boys’ hoop districts will include Crestwood and Charger Jerrison Basemore.

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Dearborn High and Josh Hamet will be seen in the coming boys’ hoop district competition.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide March 2, 2011

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Army Combat Medic Richard Marchand gets a big hug when he pays a surprise visit to his son Kamrin at Bedford Elementary in Dearborn Heights Feb. 23. His three day visit to his home town precedes his assignment to Korea. Principal Cathie Williams was in on the surprise and called the entire school down for an assembly to meet the active duty soldier. Marchand, a Crestwood graduate, flew in Wednesday morning and stopped by his parents’ house a few blocks from the school to change into uniform.
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Army Combat Medic Richard and son Kamrin, with his mom Charish Johnson, get ready to leave Bedford Elementary in Dearborn Heights and spend the day together after a surprise visit to the school by the active duty soldier.
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Kamrin gets a kiss from his dad as students pose for a group photo at the end of the visit.
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Many people in the crowd at Friday’s pro-democracy rally at Dearborn City Hall carried signs demanding freedom for Imam Musa Al-Sadr. He was a well known Lebanese religious scholar when he was believed to have been kidnapped in Libya in 1978. The demonstration was the fourth in four weeks in support of rebellion shaking the Mideast and North Africa.
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Patrick Phillips and the Edsel Ford boys’ swim team came out at the top of the standings in the Western Wayne Athletic Conference league meet.

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Dearborn High’s Paul Pallas was on a pair of first-place relays at the recent league meet.

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