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

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A Dearborn firefighter pushes a water hose into the second floor of a burning house in the 23000 block of Marlboro Monday.
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Group jump rope is a challenge before some are weeded out on the blazing pavement July 6 during the month long ACCESS Youth & Education Summer program. The activities centered at Salina Elementary and programs included math and literacy enrichment, weekly field trips, and both youth development and recreational activities for schools around Metro Detroit. Last year, ACCESS programs served 210 students but the expansion this year allowed approximately 500 students to attend at five sites.
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Group Leader Ashlaq Fadah swings the jump rope for a group of youngsters at ACCESS Youth & Education Summer program July 6.
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Doug Edds and Ted Zaremba watch classic cars drive by from their seats at the Cherry Hill Presbyterian Church Saturday during the annual Telegraph Cruise.
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Dunworth Pool team member Sarah Randall launches in the start of the girls’ 11-12 50 yard freestyle at the annual City Swim Meet July 13.
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Competitors battle under the boards July 16 at the Hype Athletics annual 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament at Ford Woods.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide July 24, 2011

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Volunteers work together to haul an old tank from the Fordson Island Channel of the Rouge River July 8. More than a dozen people worked together to remove debris from the island and the shallow water around it after heavy equipment operators had cleared abandoned boats and docks from the water earlier this year. After decades of neglect Fordson Island and the Rouge River channel that separates it from Detroit (the island is part of Dearborn) are finally getting some respect.

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Volunteer Tom Welley carries timber from the remains of an abandoned boat on Fordson Island July 8.
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Alissia Floristeau, from the Summer Stephens Pool team, wears the inscription “Eat my Bubbles” on her back during the annual City Swim Meet July 19 at Dunworth Pool. The meet brings together all ages of competitors from the neighborhood pool teams.
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Elaine Bloom and Lois Walker sit in the shade of City Hall Park July 20 waiting to hear Universal Expression in the series of free concerts there for Jazz on the Avenue.
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Robichaud All-City honoree Alvin Johnson won the long jump competition at the All-Area Meet and went on to win league and regional titles.

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Robichaud All-City selection Darius Phillips wins the 100 meter at the All-Area Meet and won the gold in the 200 as well.

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

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Members of the Oakland University Owls and Michigan State University Spitfires get physical July 15 during their Quidditch Tournament on the lawn of the Henry Ford Museum. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” opened last week at the theater. In recognition of the premier two college teams squared off in the game invented by the book series’ author upon which the movie is based. The games were played to entertain movie goers waiting to attend the theater. Although the players did not fly on their broomsticks like actors in the movie they improvised many of the rules in a way that resembled a cross between rugby and dodge ball.
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Members of the Oakland University Owls and Michigan State University Spitfires clown for cameras July 15 after their Quidditch Tournament on the lawn of the Henry Ford Museum.
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Leslie Center Program Manager Jessie Maxwell holds a great horned owl July 16 that she was introducing to movie goers waiting to see Harry Potter at The Henry Ford IMAX theater.
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Leslie Center Program Manager Jessie Maxwell holds a great horned owl July 16 that she was introducing to movie goers waiting to see Harry Potter at The Henry Ford IMAX theater.
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Divine Childs’s Chris Martain and Dearborn High’s Nick McIntosh battle it out to the finish line of the 3200 relay at the All-Area Meet. Both runners made it to the All-City Team.

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Edsel Ford’s Parker Glass takes the baton from fellow All-City honoree Peter Girardi.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide July 17, 2011

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Artist Jeff Prather II carves a sculpture Thursday from a piece of the tree that fell in Monday’s storm and crushed a car on Mason Street in front of Sisson Manor. He normally sculpts ice and decided to try his hand at recreating the famous sculpture Birth of Venus.
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Garry Hedrich rolls away a piece of the tree that fell in Monday’s storm and crushed a car on Mason Street in front of Sisson Manor. He plans to salvage pieces of the maple for firewood.
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Alex Risko, Jessica Inskeep and Robert Risko look over a crushed car and buckled sidewalk on Mason Street July 11 caused by the severe thunderstorm that struck west Dearborn. Artist Jeff Prather II is carving a sculpture from a piece of the tree with a chain saw.
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Ashley and Jay Desjardins float their kids Jaidyn, four months, and Conner, two-and-a-half-years, at Summer Stephens Pool July 12 for the regularly scheduled Floatie Night at the city facility.
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Dearborn High student Eric Blankenship rests under a tent with friends in front of The Henry Ford IMAX Theater Thursday waiting for doors to open for the Harry Potter movie premier Friday at midnight. They had tickets but wanted to assure getting prime seating for the last in the series of movies.
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Divine Child’s Eric Haase, an Ohio State recruit and draft pick of the Cleveland Indians, was voted the state’s Mr. Baseball after a banner season.

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

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Alex Risko, Jessica Inskeep and Robert Risko stand on a buckled sidewalk and look over a crushed car on Mason Street caused by a fast moving thunderstorm struck Dearborn and Dearborn Heights midday July 11 knocking down trees and power lines. Arcing electrical wires ignited garages and other electrical problems caused by the storm burned several houses. Firefighters were taxed to their limits with residents’ repeated calls for help for several hours after the atmospheric violence subsided.
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Dearborn firefighters maneuver around fallen tree limbs as they exit a burning house on Alexandrine Street July 11 while fighting a fire apparently caused by electrical problems brought on by the severe thunderstorm that hit about noon.

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Reuben Banwart reacts while discussing damage done to his house on S. York Street July 11 by the severe thunderstorm that hit about noon.
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A Dearborn firefighter smashes out a second story window in a house on Marlboro Street July 11 afternoon while fighting a fire apparently caused by electrical problems brought on by the severe thunderstorm that hit about noon.
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Dearborn firefighters continue fighting an extensive house fire on Marlboro Street July 11 afternoon that apparently was caused by electrical problems brought on by the severe thunderstorm that hit about noon.
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A Dearborn Heights firefighter walks away from the skeleton of a garage on Hipp Street that burned from fire apparently caused by electrical problems brought on by the severe thunderstorm that hit about noon.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide July 10, 2011

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After getting an air bottle replacement, a Dearborn Heights firefighter rushes back to fight a conflagration at Entertainment Express on Telegraph Road south of Warren Avenue Thursday. Departments from Dearborn, Redford and Garden City responded for mutual aid in the fire that gutted a vehicle repair area at the back of the building and destroyed some limousines there.
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A firefighter hauls away a welding gas tank from a conflagration at Entertainment Express on Telegraph Road south of Warren Avenue Thursday.
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Construction workers in a pit on Chase Road pass bricks used to hold new sewer pipes in place in March. The third phase of sewer separation work in Dearborn will begin in January. The $325 million project has been stumbling on methods for more than three decades.

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Students, teachers and parents file out of Lindbergh Elementary in April on a trek through the neighborhood for their annual Mini Relay for Life in support of the American Cancer Society.

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All-City selection Chad Ellstrom led Crestwood in most offensive categories and was all-league in the WWAC Red Division.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide July 6, 2011

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Dearborn police officers line up in formation as Chief Michael Celeski’s funeral procession leaves Sacred Heart Church in 2008. Lean times and a skeletal budget may force city officials to put questions on the ballot in November to at least temporarily suspend mandatory police and fire department staffing.
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Dearborn firefighters trade off hose handling while battling a blaze that consumed three truck tractors in December at the Mason Dixon Intermodal Terminal on Wyoming. A long row of parked trucks began burning after one caught fire and the flames spread to rigs on either side. Lean times and a skeletal budget may force city officials to put questions on the ballot in November to at least temporarily suspend mandatory police and fire department staffing.
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Dearborn Historical Museum Chief Curator Kirt Gross eyeballs the placement of a sculpture titled “Phoenix” into a temporary landing spot on the now empty lot at Michigan Avenue and Brady Street in May. The modern and sometimes disconcerting sculptures that appear and then move around Dearborn are part of the Midwest Sculpture Initiative sponsored by the East and West Dearborn Downtown Development Authorities and the Dearborn Community Fund. The Art in Public Places project has about a dozen pieces mounted around the city and in May organizers took advantage of the empty lot that was the former home of the Quality Inn at Michigan Avenue and Brady Street to show the art.
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Nadine Khalil stands with a photograph she made of her mother that is part of the In the Heart of America exhibit that opened at the Arab American National Museum Saturday. As the country approaches the 10^th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this fall, a class of middle school journalism students from McCollough-Unis School in Dearborn shared the stories of their lives and their community in the presentation. The students’ photos and stories were created during the 2010-2011 school year, when the Asian American Journalists Association sponsored a project called The Living Textbook with a class of seventh graders.
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The Beat Club performs at Muirhead Plaza July 1 as part of the free concert series Music in the Park sponsored by the Dearborn Recreation Department.
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Dearborn High’s Evan Bowser and Edsel Ford’s Tommy Prato were friendly rivals at most of the major tournaments this past season and both earned All-Area Golf Team Honors.

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A Closer Look at a Selection of Photos from the Press & Guide July 3, 2011

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Julie Pucci and Judge William Hultgren pose for photos in December at an oath of office ceremony for State Rep George Darany at 19th District Court. Pucci was recently awarded $732,361 from a federal jury in a lawsuit against 19^th District Judge Mark Somers.

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19^th District Court Judge Mark Somers reads an oath to a defendant in 2007. A federal jury awarded former court administrator Julie Pucci $732,361 in damages because Somers violated her due process rights when he eliminated her position and for other complaints.

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Wheelmen Dick Delombard and Bill Smith wend their way through arriving throngs of visitors June 30 at The Henry Ford’s Salute to America.

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The 1^st Michigan Colonial Fife and Drum Corps stops on its procession to entertain the crowd June 30 at The Henry Ford’s Salute to America.

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Stout Middle School runner E. Jasper beats Smith’s Craig Gailliard to help his team win the title in the annual Middle School Track meet last month.

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Bryant’s Ian Walker checked out the competition from Smith’s Evan Siemasz while teammate James Sheridan tried to catch up in the meet last month.

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