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Bug Hunts reveal Rouge health ‘IT’S A REALLY COOL PROGRAM THAT INFLUENCES RESEARCH IN THE AREA’ BY KATHRYN PENTIUK kpentiuk@candgnews.com
SOUTHFIELD — Insects don’t bug the Friends of the Rouge. In fact, at the FOTR, they welcome what most consider to be pests. Every year since 1998, the group has been collecting insect samples in the winter, spring and fall. In 2001, the Friends’ monitoring manager, Sally Petrella, looked to other local conservation groups to see how they conducted similar studies
with larger volunteer rates. Reworking their current sampling model, the Friends then began a group sampling model and started providing training to their volunteers. Now, the spring and fall Bug Hunts, and the winter Stonefly Search draw over 100 volunteers, from college students to citizen scientists, local environmentalists and others curious about what lies beneath the surface of the Rouge. With 27 sites to inspect for various species such as aquatic insects, snails, clams, mayfly larva, dragonfly larva and See BUG HUNTS on page 14A Photo by Erin Sanchez
Kelly McCabe, of Ann Arbor, looks for bugs and tests water from the Rouge River in Southfield April 15. In the background are Anna Boegehold, of Dearborn, and her cousin, Serena Boegehold, of Clinton Township.
‘I never want to hear anything negative about Southfield’ Community celebrates local icon’s 80th BY KATHRYN PENTIUK kpentiuk@candgnews.com
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here’s nobody quite like Barb,” said Pamela Zarkowski, University of Detroit Mercy’s provost and vice president for academic affairs. She has known Barbara Purifoy-Sel-
don since 1978 as “an educator, role model, advocate and friend to many,” Zarkowski said. “And she has such a warm and welcoming smile.” Purifoy-Seldon celebrated her 80th birthday on Saturday, April 8, at the Detroit Golf Club with over 200 guests in attendance. Purifoy-Seldon was born in Alabama on April 6, 1943, the fourth child of eight children. When she was 5 months old, her parents moved to Detroit to take See BIRTHDAY on page 7A Photo by Kathryn Pentiuk
Barbara Purifoy-Seldon celebrated her 80th birthday surrounded by more than 200 friends and family members.
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