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

Photos by Millard Berry from the Press & Guide are for sale as reprints through a link on the website:         

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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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Photos by Millard Berry