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Residents ponder future of senior citizen programming in Troy Meeting planned to garner seniors’ input

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Several senior citizens in Troy are encouraging the city to increase the number of programs created for seniors, such as the “A Night in Hollywood Dance,” pictured.

A new scholarship for young music students is being started in honor of a longtime music teacher from Troy.

Janet Sharp Schoon passed away Jan. 2. In the weeks since, her loved ones have begun the process of beginning a new scholarship program that will keep her memory alive and ensure her passion for music continues to help the students of the Troy School District.

“My mom loved being a teacher. She also loved teaching See MUSIC on page 14A

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Changes may be coming to some of Troy’s programming aimed at senior citizens, but some seniors are saying that far more is needed far sooner.

Troy recently received a $250,000 Oakland County Creative Endeavors Grant for “improvements to the local senior center.”

However, Troy does not have a designated senior center, so the funds will be used to make improvements to the Troy Community Center, located at 3179 Livernois Road, focusing on amenities that will enhance programming for seniors.

“In the past, when the community center was first built, there was talk of making it both a senior center and community center, but that was decided against when it was built,” said Brian Goul, Troy’s recreation director. “It’s probably 50/50 whether a city of this size has a dedicated senior program-

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BY BRENDAN LOSINSKI blosinski@candgnews.com

This year, Walsh College in Troy is celebrating its 100th anniversary of providing education in the fields of business, finance and technology.

Walsh CEO and President Suzy Siegle said that the institution has much to be proud of, from a century of educating students to having one of its students, Grace Wimmer, become the first woman to receive a CPA designation in Michigan in 1930.

“Mervin B. Walsh was an accountant who worked for the Thomas Edison Light Co., and he founded Walsh Institution of Accountancy in 1922. It was on the sixth floor of the Capitol Theater,” said Siegle. “In 1970, we relocated to Troy. Troy is such an incredibly rich, diverse and engaging community. You have industries, businesses and technology companies and organizations. We received a 100-year proclamation from the city a week ago. Ninety percent of our graduates stay in the Detroit area, so we are the business, technology and accounting pipeline for the metro Detroit area.”

For its undergraduate program, it is an upper division institution, meaning students often attend to finish their bachelor’s degrees after comSee WALSH on page 20A Photo by Patricia O’Blenes

Walsh College is using the college’s 100th anniversary as an opportunity to both celebrate the past and look toward the future.

Brother Rice student selected as 2023 Boys & Girls Club of Troy’s Youth of the Year

‘You have to put the kids first’

BY BRENDAN LOSINSKI blosinski@candgnews.com

The Boys & Girls Club of Troy announced April 13 that Brother Rice High School senior Owen Obasuyi was selected as its 2023 Youth of the Year.

Obasuyi is among hundreds of teens across the country being recognized by local Boys & Girls Clubs of America chap-

ters as the chapters’ respective Youths of the Year after being singled out for their sound character, leadership skills and willingness to give back to the community.

“It is an honor to represent the Boys & Girls Club of Troy as the 2023 Youth of the Year,” said Obasuyi. “I thank the Boys & Girls Club of Troy for helping to grow me into the person that I am today. Thank you for providing me with a platform to share my story, to grow my voice, and to show pride and respect for my club. I will

Brother Rice High School senior Owen Obasuyi was recently selected as the 2023 Boys & Girls Club of Troy’s Youth of the Year.

also make sure that everyone knows how amazing it is to be a part of a great environment, the Boys & Girls Club of Troy.”

Obasuyi has been a member of the Boys & Girls Club for nine years. He has volunteered in a number of roles throughout the club, most notably in leadership roles through the Leaders In Training and Junior Staff programs. He is also the founder of the Black Student Union at his school.

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Beaumont Children’s secures $1.7 million in grant funding

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Corewell Health Beaumont Children’s is receiving $1.7 million in grants from the Children’s Miracle Network.

METRO DETROIT — As part of a big donation from the Children’s Miracle Network, Corewell Health Beaumont Children’s received $1.7 million in grants.

According to a press release, the grant funding will go toward pediatric programs at all Beaumont Children’s hospitals, including locations in Dearborn, Farmington Hills, Grosse Pointe, Royal Oak, Trenton, Taylor, Troy and Wayne.

“It’s basically services that support children in the hospital and their families,” said Director of Children’s Miracle Network for Beaumont Children’s Charlotte Alex. “None of it is covered by insurance, so CMN donors fully fund that program.”

Alex stated that every dollar donated to CMN in southeast Michigan will go back into Beaumont pediatric programs, services See BEAUMONT on page 13A

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CRIME WATCH $20K in designer clothes stolen from car

An unknown suspect stole between $15,000 and $20,000 worth of designer clothes from a vehicle parked at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel, located at 1525 E. Maple Road, between 8 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. April 2.

The passenger-side window of the vehicle had been broken out, and several shopping bags containing the clothes were stolen.

Cash, jewelry stolen from home

ATV stolen from garage, later recovered

A four-wheel all-terrain vehicle was stolen from the garage of a home in the 3200 block of Ellenboro Avenue.

The theft occurred between 3 and 6:13 a.m. April 6. Police said that the vehicle had been recently listed for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and the keys were left with the vehicle.

The four-wheeler was later recovered by the Michigan State Police.

Attempted theft of vehicle

An unknown suspect attempted to steal a vehicle parked in the 1100 block of Villa Park Drive between 2 a.m. April 2 and 12:20 p.m. April 3, according to the Troy police.

The vehicle’s rear window was smashed out, but nothing appeared to have been stolen.

Police reported that when the suspect tried to use her key fob, it no longer worked, and they believe that the suspect programmed a new key fob in an attempt to steal the vehicle.

Attempted break-in on vehicle in Troy

The front passenger window of a vehicle was shattered in the area of Waterfall Drive and Big Beaver Road in Troy sometime between 8 p.m. on April 3 and 2:06 p.m. on April 4.

Police said it did not appear that the perpetrator gained entry.

Vehicle windows damaged

The windows of a vehicle were damaged on a vehicle parked in the 2000 block of Enterprise Street sometime between 3 a.m. and 11 a.m. April 8. Police said that the damaged windows were not shattered, so the perpetrator did not gain access to the vehicle.

Mailbox robbed in Troy

A resident in the 2700 block of Roundtree Drive notified police that they observed a man standing near a set of multiunit mailboxes and also heard loud noises coming from that direction between 8 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. April 6.

Later that evening, the same resident called the police after seeing a rectangle had been cut into the box and there were metal shavings on the ground. Officers investigated and confirmed the mailbox had been emptied.

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Cash and jewelry were stolen from a home in the 5200 block of Church Hill Drive between 3 p.m. March 25 and 9 p.m. April 5. Police said that an unknown suspect forced entry into the home via a bedroom window while the residents were out of town.

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ADULTS SHINE ON

On April 22, the Woodside Bible Church Troy Campus hosted the eighth annual Shine On celebration.

Designed as a prom-like experience for adults with special needs, Shine On welcomed its guests — decked out with crowns and tiaras — with a red-carpet experience. More than 500 adults with special needs enjoyed a memorable afternoon filled with dancing, bingo, karaoke, crafts, a party bus and more.

Over 450 volunteers from nine different Woodside campuses helped to create the experience for members of the community.

Fitness centers ask community to donate during cycling event

Life Time Fitness locations around the Detroit area will host the gym’s third annual Ride of a Life Time charity cycle event Saturday, April 29.

The event will include the Life Time Fitness location in Troy, located at 4700 Investment Drive.

The goal of the ride is for people to raise $1.5 million nationwide for the Children’s Miracle Network and the Life Time Foundation.

The ride will take place 8-11 a.m. The event is free to Life Time members, and non-members can purchase a one-day membership to participate.

One-day memberships range from $40 to $50.

When those taking part register, they’re given a fundraising page. They then get others to support their ride by donating to the causes through the page. Each rider is asked to fundraise a minimum of $250 for the cause.

Those interested can register by contacting their local Life Time Fitness location.

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Fairy and Gnome Garden Party coming to Troy

The Troy Community Center will host a Fairy and Gnome Garden Party for youth looking to get outside and have some fun.

Those attending can take photos with a fairy princess, get their face painted, make a fairy or gnome garden, and meet some tiny woodland creatures.

The event will take place 10-11:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 29. The cost is $12 per child in advance or $15 at the door. There is no cost for adults or children under age 3. Registration is available by going to rec. troymi.gov, where those interested can sign up or create an account to sign up.

The Troy Community Center is located at 3179 Livernois Road. More information is available by calling (248) 524-3484.

Student art showcased in Troy

The Troy Community Center is highlighting the artwork of several local students from the Troy School District.

The art will be on display at the community center, located at 3179 Livernois Road, until Wednesday, May 3. The top three art students of every class in Troy were included in the show.

The next edition of the Troy Times will come to homes on May 4.

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If your home is located somewhere with bothersome noise, there are several ways to reduce it through natural and man-made products.

Richard A. Kolano, P.E, the principal consultant at Kolano & Saha Engineers, said the length of a sound barrier is important while attempting to reduce noise, especially from a road.

“The sound barrier has to be generally quite long,” Kolano said. “If you have a 50-foot wide lot that backs up against the roadway, unless your neighbors also have a sound barrier that connects to yours and extends along the length of that roadway, your 50-foot length of wall alone is not going to do all that much. That’s why when you see highway road noise barriers there they tend to be fairly long.”

Kolano said the noise-reduction strategy for a yard depends on the geometry of the home relative to the noise source.

“Generally with a sound barrier, there’s an acoustic shadow zone, and the farther out

you are from that barrier, the less benefit the barrier provides,” Kolano said. “You need to be in that shadow zone to receive the most benefit.”

Natural barriers

Cameron Judge, the owner of Detroit Landscaping Co., said he tends to prefer natural solutions to remedy noise issues in a yard.

“I, personally, think the more plant life, the better. It looks better, in my opinion,” Judge said.

One natural solution that landscapers often recommend to reduce noise and provide privacy is planting arborvitaes.

“Arborvitaes are probably the best for that, and they do look really good because they get to a decent size, and it is like a natural wall around your property,” Judge said.

Brianna Carrier, a landscape designer for Visionary Landscaping, said people often plant spruce trees and arborvitaes to reduce noise.

“Spruce trees and arborvitaes grow larger and are denser compared to deciduous shrubs that will lose their leaves in the fall,” Carrier said.

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MSU researchers work to keep Michigan hops healthy

BY ALYSSA OCHSS AND DEAN VAGLIA aochss@candgnews.com dvaglia@candgnews.com

METRO DETROIT — Michigan farms may be known for crops like cherries and corn, but in recent years, a new homegrown crop has taken the state by storm — the humble, hearty hop.

Originally brought to Michigan over 100 years ago during a homesteading boom, the past 20 years have seen a rise in Michigan hops production. And while Michiganders have been able to reap the rewards of this rise, thanks to breweries macro and micro, things have not gone down entirely smoothly at the hops farms.

Michigan hops are uniquely vulnerable to diseases, a problem caused by the highmoisture environment anyone from the Great Lakes State is well aware of.

“A lot of our cultivars that are currently available at commercial levels were bred and developed for growers in other parts of the world where they don’t receive as much rain,”

said Erin Lizotte, Integrated Pest Management coordinator and senior statewide educator with the Michigan State University Extension. “We’re kind of fighting an uphill battle because we have much wetter weather here in Michigan, so we need our breeding program to develop cultivars that are more at home in those wetter environments and more disease resistant to those diseases we see in wetter environments.”

This moisture vulnerability has opened the door for a variety of infections to take hold of the state’s hops crops, the two most pressing being downy mildew and halo blight.

“Downy mildew has been around since the beginning,” Lizotte said. “I’d say that’s the disease we have spent the most resources and time on tackling, and I think we’ve gotten to a point where growers are able to manage downy mildew effectively on-farm.”

Downy mildew shows up as a fuzzy spore mass on leaves, turning the undersides black.

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also known as green walls and vertical gardens. Kolano said these are popular in Europe.

“A living wall is essentially a pile of dirt that is stacked up vertically and has plant materials that grow on both sides of it, so the root structure helps to contain the dirt within that wall,” Kolano said. “The plants don’t do much from an acoustic standpoint. It’s the dirt that is providing the sound barrier. The plants make it look attractive.”

Local Acre and Vertical Earth Detroit owner Mark Hanford specializes in the design and installation of living walls.

“What I have noticed is, every time that you have a living wall, it has a definite muting (quality),” Hanford said. “It kind of holds the sound close, and it takes that reflective sound away.”

Fences

Due to the materials, height and density of many fences, they are not as highly recommended by Kolano.

“It’s limited as to when that can be a benefit, because it depends upon the ge-

ometry of the home relative to the noise sources, such as the road traffic,” Kolano said. “A fence, per se, isn’t going to do very much. It needs a sound barrier wall, which means it needs to have a significant amount of mass to it that is without penetrations, without separations between boards, for example, that you would have in a fence.”

However, they can provide some benefit, and if one would like to purchase a fence for the benefits they may be able to provide in reducing noise, there are certain things to keep in mind.

Randy Huyck, the general manager at Action Fence of Michigan, said the best fencing material to reduce noise is stone; however, he said it is expensive, and many communities do not allow it. Other options include wood and vinyl fences.

Huyck said it is best to look for the densest materials available. He also recommends planting things around the fence to help absorb sound.

Renee Hannaford, the office manager of Mr. Fence Inc., and Kevin Temerowski, the owner of Michigan Fence Solutions, both recommended a 6-foottall vinyl fence to absorb noise.

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Insect control: A homeowner’s guide to surviving the spring season

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he spring season is a safe haven for Michiganders.

It’s not only a prequel to the beautiful summer months, but it’s also a season people tend to look forward to as soon as the rainfall and cold fronts of September come around.

But as warmer weather approaches, the spring season showcases one problem most homeowners find themselves having to tend to.

“With the warm weather last week, people are seeing a lot of wasps and different types of bees around the house, and spiders, pavement ants, the tiny sugar ants and carpenter ants are starting to emerge,” Michael Kharsa, who works for CJB Pest and Mosquito Control in Farmington Hills, said April 18.

Kharsa has noticed an influx of calls as the season rolls around.

Ants, bees and spiders tend to be the primary culprits during this time, especially with insects trying to find safety from the rainfall.

Michael Mangino, owner of What’s Bugging You in St Clair Shores, has noticed this with his recent jobs.

“With ants, they’re coming into houses a lot more,” Mangino said. “A lot of it is probably attributed to our high water table, I imagine. They’re going into houses and finding paradise there.”

The insects’ ability to make their way into residences is a reminder to have your house sprayed on a consistent basis throughout the year.

CJB Pest and Mosquito Control offers a tri-seasonal package for spring, summer and just before the winter months to treat any issues that homeowners might face.

Kharsa said CJB focuses on not only eliminating the threat but also on preventing insects from making their way into the house.

“When we come out, we’re going to treat around your interior and exterior part of your walls to force the insects from the structure, and we’re going to put a perimeter service around the exterior to prevent the insects from coming in,” Kharsa said. “Basically, we’re providing a barrier and forcing the ones from the walls outside.”

Pest control doesn’t stop with treating an insect problem; it can also provide a home inspection, to some extent.

While CJB and What’s Bugging You, and many other pest control companies, offer spraying services, a technician will also

walk a residence with a homeowner and discuss areas that might not only be hot spots for insects but also should be treated to prevent future home issues.

Mangino said the inspection is a vital part to the service he provides.

“Of course, walking with people around their house and pointing out things that could be beneficial, like caulking some areas, pitching the water away from the homes is a big thing, and trimming back foliage away from the house,” Mangino said. “Those are all things that contribute to keeping the longevity of the home, as well as keeping pests away.”

For those who are motivated to do it themselves, safety is the primary concern when dealing with pest control products.

It’s plausible for minor problems, but consistent issues should be treated by professionals, especially if the homeowner has pets or small children.

“The right way to go about it is to read and understand the label 100%,” Mangino said. “The label is the law in our industry, and that’s for good reason because you can get hurt. You can hurt somebody else, and some of these products that people are able to buy online are traditionally for professionals only. There are some great products available that the public can seek out and find, but a lot of them tend to go away in our industry because homeowners misuse them.”

As the spring season approaches, active insects should be an important reminder to keep up on pest control treatment throughout the year.

The rain and warmth in spring calls for treatment due to the insects becoming active, but an important time frame to keep an eye on is before October.

To keep the insects from getting “weathered in,” when they get inside the walls due to the cold temperatures, a service spray before winter is needed.

But like most services, the best way to resolve the problem is to keep up with it regularly.

“As far as spider treatments and general pest control, that’s more of an exterior spray. If people want it to remain as general pest free as possible, typically spring, summer and fall treatments,” Mangino said. “If they wanted any sort of treatment on the inside, what I would recommend, at the very most, would be early spring with light treatment on the inside with cracks and crevices.”

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and equipment. She continued to say CMN has been supporting Beaumont for almost 40 years and that the southeast Michigan community has raised more than $80 million for Beaumont Children’s.

“All local dollars stay local to help local children and their families in their most dire need,” she said. “Child Life Services provides animal-assisted therapy and art therapy, music therapy. They are professionally trained … child-life specialists who come into the room and bring sunshine, they bring smiles and laughs, they help a child cope with an upcoming procedure.”

Dr. Matthew Denenberg, the chair of pediatrics at Corewell Health East, said the grant funding allows the hospitals to continue to develop the cancer center, neurosciences program, neonatology units and intensive care unit so they can continue to provide care to children without having to leave the area.

“The whole goal is to —and that’s why Children’s Miracle Network exists — is to raise funds so that children can be treated locally,” he said. “They can be treated appropriately and expertly locally. And that’s been the benefit. We’ve been able to develop these services over the years right here in southeast Michigan so patients don’t have to leave the area.”

Items that will be funded through these grants include bedside monitors, a neonatal intensive care unit milk bank room, surgical camera heads, sleep recliners, pediatric laryngoscopy, an infant phototherapy radiometer, and a bike day, which provides customized adaptive bikes for children who have special needs.

Denenberg also is a practicing physician who works in emergency medicine in Royal Oak. For the Royal Oak Children’s Hospital, he said this latest round of funding will help it with getting critical care monitors.

“This last cycle is helping us with … (the) Child Life Program, which is huge,” he said. “Child Life is such an important part of the work that we do taking care of kids in our emergency department and in our inpatient units when kids are in sick. It’s supporting our

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in Troy. It is a community that values music education. The strength of music education in Troy is one reason my parents made their home in Troy and raised my sister and I in the Troy School District,” said Janet Sharp Schoon’s son, Kenneth Schoon. “Although I never experienced my mom’s classroom teaching, my mom helped instill a lifelong love of music and learning in me and my sister. My sister was inspired to follow my mom’s path in becoming an instrumental music teacher.”

Fellow Troy Schools music teacher Matt Tignanelli first proposed the idea of the scholarship to the Schoon family and helped them get the scholarship off the ground.

“I worked with Janet for 15 years,” said Tignanelli. “We were both band directors together that went from elementary school to elementary school. We taught a lot of kids and put on a lot of concerts and helped make the music program what it is today. Janet had really high standards and wanted to give her students the best experience possible. As a new teacher coming out of college, she always had something to teach me and help guide me. I wanted to make sure she was remembered.”

The scholarship is aimed at students at the elementary level, which are the students Janet Sharp Schoon spent more than two decades teaching.

“The endowment will fund scholarships to further music education for select students in the Troy School District. For now, we are focusing on private lessons for elementarylevel instrumental music students,” Kenneth Schoon explained. “Next year will be the first year we will offer the scholarship. Students can speak with their instrumental music teacher if they or their families are interested in this. It will be awarded in the wintertime to give students some time to pick their instrument and to apply during the semester.”

“The scholarship will be available to students in fifth grade band and orchestra in Troy public schools,” Tignanelli added. “We will pick one student from the band and one from the orchestra and provide this funding for extra lessons as long as we can.”

The scholarship will operate with the aid of the Troy Community Foundation. More information for the scholarship is available at www.troycf.org.

“We created a GoFundMe page so we could immediately capture some funds when we sent out the obituary,” said Kenneth Schoon. “People could donate to it in lieu of flowers. We eventually found the Troy Community Foundation to be a permanent home for the scholarship. The foundation is where we are starting the scholarship endowment with the funds we raised. They hold the funds for us while our family and my mom’s colleagues choose the scholarship winners.”

fully, this will affect a lot of kids in the years to Kenneth Schoon said they thought one mergau, which she always wanted to do.” of the best ways to honor his mother was to “We were able to raise a lot more than come. The generosity of members of the comensure she kept having a positive impact on we anticipated and are excited to be able to do munity was incredible as we tried to get this students in a way that helped them in their this for a long time,” added Tignanelli. “Hope- off the ground.” pursuit of music as a passion.

“This scholarship came up as an organic response to people’s love for my mom and to keep her memory and teaching legacy alive,” he said. “She had a 35-year career teaching elementary school band and orchestra. She taught more than 6,000 students. She even saved her attendance books over the years so she and my dad were able to count the amount of students she taught over the years.

I think that shows her passion and dedication to her teaching and her students.”

Tignanelli said that Janet Sharp Schoon was a person who made an enormous impact but demanded very little in recognition.

“She was somebody who did amazing things but didn’t take a lot of credit,” he re0166-2317 marked. “She made a huge difference in the lives of those around her. She was really a good reminder to everyone around her, and especially her students, about the importance of music and that the little things you do every Comer and Cross are bringing the latest removal and replacing of homeowner’s beday can make a huge difference.” technology to homeowners with superior longings. They coat the floors in only four Music was such an influential part of Japolyaspartic floor coatings for garages that to six hours and vehicles can park in the net Sharp Schoon’s life and the life of her famare durable and need no replacement re- garage within 24 hours. ily that those close to her said they are glad coating for at least 15 years up to a lifetime.

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Obasuyi is a student-athlete at Brother Rice High School, playing three years of football for the Warriors program. He said that his favorite memory at the club was getting to play football on the field with his friends and favorite staff members. He plans to follow his interests in construction management at Eastern Michigan University.

“Over Owen’s time at the Boys & Girls Club of Troy he has been a shining example of hard work, discipline and dedication to our organization for all of our members.

From being a leader among our Leaders In Training and as a Junior Staff member, Owen has become an outstanding young leader. We have witnessed him grow over his nine years at the club and has become a positive role model for all of our youth here. I’m amazed by not only by how far Owen has come both academically and personally, but that he continues to give back to the club that has given him so much,” said Boys & Girls Club of Troy CEO Jeff Evans. “His talent, personality and work ethic make him a well-deserved representative of the Boys & Girls Club of Troy and the local community.”

Obasuyi said he wants others to know what a difference the Boys & Girls Club has made in his life, first as a participant and then as a staff member.

“I appreciate the Boys & Girls Club for the environment and the memories. When I was a kid, I enjoyed going so much. Now as a staff member, I am, hopefully, giving kids an experience where they are excited to keep coming back and spending time with their friends,” he remarked. “I think the most important part is caring about the kids and caring that you are providing a fun and safe environment. You have to put the kids first.”

Youth of the Year participants go on to compete for each state’s title of Youth of the Year, who each win a $5,000 college scholarship. The winners then move onto a regional competition. The five regional winners and a national military youth winner will then advance to Washington, D.C., for the National Youth of the Year Gala and Celebration Dinner, where one outstanding young person is named Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s national teen spokesperson to serve as a role model, leader and advocate for the nearly 4 million youth served by Boys & Girls Clubs each year.

“Kids can apply for Youth of the Year, then the staff makes a selection from the applications,” said Evans. “He will now go to a

youth competition of Youths of the Year from different branches where they are interviewed in Lansing and they are entered into the competition for Michigan Youth of the Year and from there go onto a regional and then a nationwide competition.”

Evans said that he has rarely seen a better example of the kind of role model the Boys & Girls Club tries to produce than Obasuyi.

“He was chosen for his leadership within the club. He is very good with mentoring some of our younger club members. He also has a great work ethic and attitude,” said Evans.

“Owen is a longtime member here at the club.

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Obasuyi believes organizations such as the Boys & Girls Club are crucial components for the youth of a community to grow up healthy and be prepared for a successful life.

“It provides a safe place for kids and lets them be themselves and have a fun time and grow while meeting new friends,” he said.

“I’m happy I have been able to give back to a community that has given me so many good experiences and helped me form lifeline connections.”

Call Staff Writer Brendan Losinski at (586) 498-1068.

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Federal Writers Project: Learn about project that helped U.S. writers find jobs during Great Depression, 2-3 p.m., inside Old Troy Church at Troy Historic Village, 60 W. Wattles Road, registration required, troyhistoricvillage.org/programs/teas-at-two

APRIL 28

All-generations trivia night: Also light refreshments and nominal prizes, 6:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church of Troy, 4328 Livernois Road, (586) 382-4277, danheatonwriter@gmail.com

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of Michigan, 10 a.m.-noon, Smith Middle School, 5835 Donaldson in Troy Pancreatic cancer fundraiser/awareness walk: 10 a.m.-noon (village opens 8:30 a.m.), Milliken State Park, 1900 Atwater St. in Detroit, purplestride.org/ Michigan

MAY 4

National Day of Prayer: Also songs and conversations for all faiths, 7-8:30 p.m., Bharatiya Temple, 6850 N. Adams Road in Troy, troyinterfaithgroup.org, troy. interfaith@gmail.com

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Christian Response to Racial Injustice: 2-4 p.m., Christ, Our Light! Catholic Church, 3077 Gloucester Road in Troy

Hope for the Journey Conference: For parents and caregivers of children impacted by adoption and foster care, 7-9 p.m. April 28 and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 29, Woodside Bible Church, 6600 Rochester Road in Troy, hopeforthejourneysimulcastmichigan.eventbrite.com

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Supper with a Soldier: Experience life during American Civil War, 4-8 p.m., Troy Historic Village, 60 W. Wattles Road in Troy, troyhistoricvillage.org/programs/ supper-with-a-soldier ‘First Date’: May 26-28, June 2-4 and 9-10, Avon Players, 1185 Washington in Rochester Road, (248) 608-9077, avonplayers.org

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Troy Community Chorus: Nature-themed spring concert featuring classic pop songs, 8 p.m., Troy Athens High School, 4333 John R Road, (248) 762-6862, ginasweet@gmaill.com, troycommunitychorus.com Blood drives: 1-7 p.m. May 9, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. May 10 and 31, and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 19, appointments required, (313) 300-9617 or (248) 524-1147, redcrossblood.org Troy Newcomers: Social group for women, activities include games, card playing, wine tasting, book club and scrapbooking, times, dates and locations TBD, clubactivities@troynewcomers.com, troynewcomers. com Classic car shows: 5-8 p.m. every Thursday from May 4-July 20, Big Boy, 200 W. Maple Road in Troy ‘Noises Off’: Select dates May 31-June 25, Meadow Brook Theatre on Oakland University campus, Wilson

Hall, 378 Meadow Brook Road in Rochester, (248) 377-3300, mbtheatre.com ‘Honky Tonk Angels’: Select dates until May 21, Meadow Brook Theatre on Oakland University campus, Wilson Hall, 378 Meadow Brook Road in Rochester, mbtheatre.com, (248) 377-3300 ‘Into The Woods’: May 5-7, 12-14 and 19-21, Birmingham Village Players, 34660 Woodward Ave., birminghamvillageplayers.com, (248) 644-2075 Lupus support groups: 10 a.m. every second Tuesday of month, 7 p.m. every last Wednesday of month, Zoom, milupus.org/support-groups

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be the most effective way of preventing its spread. MSU research has also allowed farmers to begin using plants more resistant to downy mildew infections.

While downy mildew is an old problem for hops growers, halo blight is the new troublesome fungus on the scene. MSU researcher Timothy Miles was the first to take notice of the disease in 2018. It shows up as black splotches on leaves and kills hops flowers in a way that leaves only parts close to the stem untouched — a green halo atop a pale infected cone.

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tentially control it in hopyards,” Lizotte said.

While the search for the secret to stopping halo blight is ongoing, MSU researchers have made strides in combating hopsaffecting viruses. Carolyn Malmstrom’s work in the field led to her developing hops virus testing protocols, allowing growers to send samples to MSU for testing and diagnosis.

As it stands, the surefire way of fighting disease on hops is by preventing it from taking hold. Farms, nurseries and other growers can keep plants and seeds sanitized, infected leaves and flowers can be pruned away and disposed of, and fungicides can be applied to plants to kill whatever lingering disease remains. But Lizotte said the goal of MSU’s scientists is to have plants become naturally immune to common diseases.

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operating room, our pediatric or children’s operating rooms to make sure that we have the right equipment and supplies for our, this time around for example, for our (ear, nose and throat) doctors to make sure they’re taking appropriate care of, proper care of children with the ENT problems. So it’s also being used this time around for our oncology program.”

Alex said that without this grant funding, it’s likely that none of these programs would exist, and they didn’t exist before Children’s Miracle Network.

“Most of (the $80 million raised) is $1 at a time through our corporate partners and our event sponsors and our event attendees,” she said.

Sponsors include Speedway, Costco, Walmart, Sam’s Club, IHOP and Panda Express.

“That’s where the majority of that money comes from, from our community, and we’re grateful,” she said.

Call Staff Writer Mike Koury at (586) 498-1077.

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we’re doing now in terms of fungicides and cultural management practices, but we’re also really hopeful that, down the road, we can start to transition to cultivars that are just more at home and happy growing in Michigan,” Lizotte said.

Until then, frequent vegetation management and other prevention methods are the best way of ensuring large, quality crop yields.

Todd Parker, the head brewer at Rochester Mills Beer Co., said they go through Michigan hops providers when they can and that the state of Michigan has a good hop industry.

“Definitely knowing your supplier is important,” Parker said. “A lot of the suppliers are good about keeping the diseased hops out of the system.”

Jeremey Lewis, the brewer and co-owner of the Copper Hop Brewing Co. in St. Clair Shores, and co-owner Ryan Balicki said in emails that they couldn’t speak about the overall health of hops in the state. But Lewis said they use 45th Parallel as the distributor for their in-state hops — this includes Cascade, Centennial, Mittelfruh and Fuggle varieties — and that they’ve never had a problem.

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“I typically order what I need for the coming year in October after the harvest,” Lewis said in an email. “I have never had an issue with being able to get what I need. The quality has been outstanding and year to year very consistent.”

Brian Tennis, owner and founder of Hop Alliance, said it was too early to tell how the crops for this year will do, but that last year was one of their best harvests yet because of good weather and other factors.

He said their hops weren’t affected by diseases last year.

“Fortunately, not for us,” Tennis said.

“We’re up right up in the Leelanau (Peninsula), like right around the 45th Parallel, so we really haven’t seen a lot of the damages that some of the other farmers in the state have.”

Lizotte says MSU researchers have been involved in studying hops since “day one” of the plant’s return to the Mitten State in the 2000s, planting the seeds for what has become a strong partnership between the growing industry and academia.

“The partnership between the university and the industry is really critical to both of us,” Lizotte said. “We really take our lead from the industry on what their priority needs are. Without the industry of research at MSU, I don’t think we would have a hops industry in Michigan.”

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pleting their associate degrees at community colleges. However, it offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in marketing, management, human resource management, finance, accounting, data analytics, information technology and cybersecurity, as well as a master’s in business administration in science, technology, education and math, and an MBA focusing on organizational resilience. They also have a dual degree program so students can get a dual masters in an accelerated amount of time, and they offer a doctorate of business administration.

Walsh is fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Its business school is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, and its technology and cyber programs are National Security Agency-recognized and validated.

Walsh Chief Operating Officer Tom Petz said that the college will be commemorating the anniversary with a gala on Saturday, May 15, at the Detroit Athletic Club.

He added that now is a good time to look toward the future, as well as back on the past.

“We will have the Walsh College gala on May 13. That will be one of the ways

we celebrate,” said Petz. “We will be doing a homecoming event later this year, as well.

In our marketing and branding, we will be talking about the fact that we have been around for 100 years, as well as why people should care about that. We want to use this as a chance to see how we can be around for the next 100 years. … We are standing on our history but not resting on our laurels.”

Siegle said there are three primary reasons she believes Walsh has stood the test of time.

“First, we are a resilient organization.

We were able to adapt, pivot and grow over the last century. There is a resilience to our students, faculty and our board. Second, and closely related to this resilience, is our mission. We provide a transformative business and technology education that combines theory, application and professional experience to prepare graduates for successful careers. And it’s so relevant in every time period, through every economic climate and especially today. Our students and alumni have such heart to work hard and make a positive impact in the business world as they improve their own careers and lives. And finally, it’s our connection to the greater community. … There is such tremendous support for Walsh in Troy, the metro-Detroit area and beyond. This support helps to

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Walsh College specializes in higher education in the fields of business, finance and technology. advance and amplify our mission and our reach.”

“Our faculty have historically been embedded in the business community, and they take what they have and bring it into the classroom,” added Petz. “When students sit in their classrooms, they are getting realworld experience from people who are part

of metro Detroit and its business culture.

We do that at a scale that other institutions don’t. We reach people in a different way, using real-world examples that are contextual to the area where we are at.”

Both also stressed Walsh’s focus on including emerging technology and trends into its curriculum.

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“We are continually looking at different opportunities in the business environment,” said Petz. “We have quality degrees, but we need to always be asking what is coming up for tomorrow. We need to make sure our graduates are prepared for emerging factors like artificial intelligence and machine learning. How will those things change business? We need to put that into our classrooms.”

“We are the best business and technology college in the world, and since technology has become even more important in the world today, especially after the pandemic and with the steps we are taking with artificial intelligence and machine learning, we believe that the future of business and technology needs to be in the hands of educated and ethical professionals, our students and alumni,” added Siegle.

Petz said he hopes the 100th anniversary will cause metro Detroit residents to reflect on the impact its alumni have had on the community.

“I am in awe of our alumni and all the things they have accomplished,” he said. “From a marketing standpoint, we will be implementing an increase in how we collect and share alumni stories this year that celebrate their success and help inspire those who were in situations they used to be in and relate them. Any Walsh student can be the next one of our graduates who becomes a CEO or starts a company or who becomes the next great business leader in this area.”

Siegle wants the public to walk away with an impression of Walsh as a place that helps thousands of people do great things and make strides toward the positive developments of tomorrow.

“We have a strong and rich history educating the business professionals of tomorrow,” she said. “Our faculty are practitioner professors, so they are not only academically qualified in their fields, but they also have worked in the industries they are teaching in. Students gain realworld knowledge that they can apply right away in their careers. And, our degrees empower our alumni to advance their careers.”

Call Staff Writer Brendan Losinski at (586) 498-1068.

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ming or senior center millage. Some do, and some don’t, but many municipalities in this area do, such as Rochester, Sterling Heights and so forth.”

“This building is 127,000 square feet, so there is more than enough space for both community center programming, youth programming and senior programming,” added Allyson Leach, the recreation supervisor for adult and senior programming for the Troy Recreation Department. “Senior programs usually happen more during the day, and youth programming happens more in the evening.”

The changes will include improvements to the center’s bocce and shuffleboard courts, as well as renovations to an area of the community center that will be designed specifically for senior programming.

“What we’re aiming to bring back once we have this room completed is daytime movies, the speaker and lecture series, possibly prize bingo, and more groups and clubs that would meet in that room,” said Leach.

“It is not slated to be completed until early next year, at the earliest.”

However, many seniors in Troy are saying that it should not take so long to reinstitute senior programming, much of which has been lost due to the recession and then the pandemic.

“Back around 2010, when the financial crisis hit, they had a number of senior pro-

grams here, but those were often scrapped because of budget cuts. The Friends of Troy Seniors was created to maintain and enhance those senior programs,” said Bill Rhodes, the chairman of the Friends of Troy Seniors.

“We are an all-volunteer organization. At one point we had 1,300 members. We were doing things like senior picnics, ice cream socials, document shredding, bingo, exercise programs, distributing Focus: Hope boxes, and had a lunch and learn program where every month we would have a speaker come in and talk about a subject seniors would appreciate.”

“Some exercise programs were too expensive for seniors to take part in, so the Friends of Troy Seniors subsidized them to keep the costs down,” Rhodes continued.

“We would raise money through the city of Troy garage sale, but the city said a few years ago that they didn’t make enough money off of that to continue it. We do still have an annual purse and jewelry sale here once a year, and that is our biggest fundraiser.”

Some Troy residents are saying that the city of Troy is underserving local seniors, causing them to travel to senior centers in neighboring cities such as Rochester Hills and Sterling Heights instead.

“They put new rules in and got rid of some important programs. They got rid of the (Alcoholics Anonymous) program and the Narcotics Anonymous group. They made it impossible for them to meet because they are only allowing them something like one slot a month,” said Cynthia Wilsher, a Friends of Troy Seniors member. “This is a

community service. They took care of everything. A community needs programs like this. I lovingly refer to this not as a ‘community center’ but as a ‘Troy Business Center’ because they just want it for revenue.”

Wilsher said that several senior programs have been short-shrifted or outright canceled.

“I have been co-leader of the Troy Community Center quilt group for 25 years,” she explained. “We had 30 women in our group, and now we are down to six because they took our room away that we had for 23 years. We were in the front room, and we could lay our quilts out from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Now we are there only from 10 a.m.

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CITY OF TROY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED CITY BUDGET In accordance with Section 8.3 of the Charter of the City of Troy, notice is hereby given that the City Council will conduct a Public Hearing on the three-year budgets for fiscal years 2023/2024, 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 on Monday, May 8, 2023 at 7:30 PM, or as soon thereafter as the agenda will permit.

The property tax millage rate proposed to be levied to support the proposed budget will be a subject of this hearing.

The proposed budget is available on the City of Troy website at www.troymi.gov/budget.

A copy of the proposed budget will be on file in the City Clerk’s office and the City Public Library for inspection by the public during regular office hours for one week prior to the public hearing. _________________________________ M. Aileen Dickson, MMC, MiPMC II City Clerk Photo provided by Alyssa Firth

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said Leach. “This grant will, hopefully, give us more opportunities to keep on promoting senior programming in the city. … We are listening to (seniors’) feedback and working to do more going forward.”

Many senior citizens are wondering if this will mark a return to form for the city or simply serve as Band-Aid for their complaints. Others are wondering why they have to wait until the space is complete before such programming can return, since there were no issues with having them at the community center in years past. “(The grant) isn’t going to hurt. I am just wondering why we need that space for programs. Why can’t we have bingo now or speakers now or movies now? There doesn’t seem to be any drive to get programs moving for seniors. The building hasn’t changed; what is stopping us from doing this now?” said Rhodes. “Some of the programs are at night, and seniors don’t like to drive at night.

We’re better off with programs during the day anyway, while other people are at work or kids are in school. The library has some wonderful programs, but they’re all at night.

We want some senior programs that seniors can actually go to.”

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to 2 p.m. In four hours, by the time we get set up, we perhaps get two hours of sewing before we have to start packing it all back up again. … They said this makes it fair for everyone. We’ve been here, we’ve done things for the city, we made handmade quilted bags for competitions and for hospitals and nursing homes.”

City officials countered by saying that the changes were made out of necessity due to factors such as rising costs and losing instructors for certain classes.

“We’re doing our best to provide programming, given the circumstances,” said Leach. “Coming back from the pandemic, we focused on streamlining our programs.

This meant things like educational opportunities were duplicating a lot of what the library was doing, so we started focusing more on our recreation department mission, which was more on enrichment and fitness.”

Leach said that they will be hosting a meeting next month to gather feedback from seniors to provide better services to them and to listen to their feedback about the grant.

“It’s at 1:30 p.m. in Room 402 (of the community center) on Tuesday, May 23. It will be an informational meeting. We will be speaking about the grant money and discussing what we plan on doing with it and hearing feedback on programming from seniors,”

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4B - TROY TIMES, April 27, 2023

K E E W E H T F O RIME C • K E E W E F TH O E M I R C • K NEWSWORTHY OF THE WEE INCIDENTS REPORTED TO LOCAL POLICE, AS COMPILED BY C & G REPORTERS

Passenger points gun at valet driver

SOUTHFIELD — At 11:55 p.m. April 1, officers were dispatched to a lounge in the 29000 block of Northwestern Highway. The reporting party was a valet driver who was approached by an upset customer complaining about damage done to his driver’s side mirror.

The valet driver snapped the mirror back into place. The driver seemed to be appeased by this action. However, a passenger who was intoxicated was not. He approached the valet driver and demanded money to remedy the situation.

The valet driver explained that he was not the one who had parked the vehicle and advised the suspect to speak with the manager.

The suspect lifted his hoodie to reveal a handgun in his waistband and then proceeded to verbally threaten the valet driver. The valet driver then took an undisclosed amount of money from his pocket and handed it to the suspect. The suspect reached into the victim’s pocket and took the remaining money from his pocket before driving off in the black Mercedes at high speed.

An investigation was ongoing.

Thief attempts to hit employee with vehicle during getaway

SOUTHFIELD — An employee at a discount store on Greenfield Road told police that he was working the cash register when a man went into the store and asked where the coolers were at 7:25 p.m. March 29.

Another employee led the man to a blue and white cooler, which the customer began filling with merchandise. The employee at the register watched the man near the checkout and noticed a bulge on his back hip that he believed to be a firearm, although he never actually saw the firearm.

The suspect then ran out of the store with the cooler full of merchandise. The employee ran outside, attempting to stop the theft, but the suspect had already gotten inside his older-model black Chevrolet Cavalier. As the suspect was attempting to leave the parking lot, he tried to hit the employee with his vehicle and then pointed a handgun out the window directly at him.

Caller impersonates police officer

WEST BLOOMFIELD — On March 31, the West Bloomfield Police Department received several calls from residents stating that they were receiving calls from an individual claiming to be a police officer from the West Bloomfield Police Department.

The caller was attempting to get funds from residents due to their “criminal citations.”

The caller stated that the residents had not shown up for court and that they needed to pay a fine.

Four separate residents reportedly immediately realized that it was a fraud and disconnected the call.

The case was turned over to detectives.

Vehicle goes missing at tire shop

WEST BLOOMFIELD — A resident dropped off a vehicle for service on March 28 at a business on West Maple Road.

When employees went to retrieve the vehicle the next day, it was missing.

Employees noted broken glass on the pavement where the vehicle, a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT, had been parked.

A pair of golf clubs was reported to have been in the vehicle.

The case was turned over to detectives.

Two arrested after reportedly stealing ice cream from gas station

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — Bloomfield Township police officers took a report of a retail fraud from a gas station in the 3900 block of Telegraph Road at approximately 4 p.m. April 1.

The gas station reported that a man and a woman had stolen ice cream from the gas station and left in a light-blue SUV. Officers immediately observed the SUV leaving the gas station and driving north on Telegraph Road and initiated a traffic stop, discovering the vehicle had a stolen license plate affixed to it. Both suspects were taken into custody.

During a search of the suspect vehicle, officers found a stolen credit card, narcotics, narcotics equipment and prescription pills that did not belong to either suspect. Police said the stolen credit card and prescription pills were linked to larcenies from vehicles that had occurred approximately one-hour prior in the area of Maple and Telegraph roads.

Overseas traveler returns to unknown woman in her home

BIRMINGHAM — At approximately 5:20 p.m. April 4, an officer was dispatched to take a larceny report in the 800 block of East 14 Mile Road.

A 32-year-old woman reported that upon returning from a trip, she found her residence occupied by an unknown female.

The unknown subject stated that she had rented the house through a rental website. Upon the unknown subject vacating the residence, the victim advised that her friend lists the residence on multiple rental websites while she is away.

The victim reported that several items were missing from the residence, totaling approximately $6,300.

An investigation was ongoing.

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Police make drug arrest

BERKLEY — A 51-year-old Detroit woman was arrested for possession of crack cocaine at 12:19 a.m.

April 7 near Catalpa Drive and Gardner Avenue.

According to the report, police observed an unknown person approach a running vehicle at Catalpa and Coolidge Highway. The encounter was approximately 10-20 seconds, according to the police report.

The subject left while the vehicle began traveling on Catalpa. Police believed the vehicle to be the same one in which the driver had been arrested for possession of crack cocaine several weeks prior.

Police pulled over the vehicle. When asked by police, the driver confirmed that her license was suspended. She reportedly said the person she spoke to when police were watching was someone who owed her money. At some point during a search of the vehicle, according to the report, police found a suspected rock of crack cocaine. The woman was placed under arrest.

Police also arrested the woman for driving while her license was suspended and having open intoxicants in a motor vehicle.

Berkley police arrest man for fleeing and eluding

BERKLEY — A 24-year-old Royal Oak man was arrested for third-degree fleeing and eluding at 11:59 p.m. April 2 near Morrison and Tyler avenues.

The report stated that police observed a vehicle traveling at around 56 mph, above the residential speed limit of 25 miles per hour. When police attempted to stop the vehicle, it reportedly continued to speed and run through stop signs. It would eventually come to a stop.

An officer with gun drawn demanded that the driver stay in the vehicle and throw his keys outside, which he did. The officer then had the driver get out of the vehicle so he could be placed in handcuffs; the driver cooperated with the instructions. When asked why he kept driving when police attempted to pull the vehicle over, the man said he did not have a license, according to the report. He was then placed under arrest.

Couple arrested for retail fraud, possession of meth, carrying a concealed weapon, child endangerment

ROCHESTER HILLS — Deputies responded to a store in the 2500 block of South Adams Road at 4:35 p.m. March 27 on the report of a retail fraud.

Loss prevention personnel, which had two individuals in their office waiting for deputies to arrive, said they saw a man and a woman taking items offered for sale. The man, a 32-year old from Flint, removed the anti-theft device from a video game and concealed the game, with other items, on his person. He was also

found to be in possession of an Alpha key used to remove anti-theft devices.

The woman, a 31-year-old from Flint, had also concealed items in her purse. Per further investigation, she was found to be in possession of a small vial of suspected methamphetamine. Both were taken into custody without incident.

Both individuals advised that their children were waiting for them in a vehicle in the store parking lot.

The grandparents of the children were contacted and recovered the children.

An inventory search of the vehicle revealed narcotics paraphernalia and a loaded pistol under the passenger seat.

The vehicle was impounded. The recovered paraphernalia and a pistol were transported and logged into property. The suspects were transported to the Oakland County Jail for processing and housing.

Suspect allegedly flees from officers

TROY — Troy police officers responded to a possible medical run after a caller reported that a Buick Regal was stopped in the center of the Interstate 75 off-ramp near Rochester Road.

Upon arrival, officers found the vehicle stopped on the exit ramp approximately 200 feet from the intersection, and they knocked on the window to try to wake the driver. He awoke and proceeded to drive away. Officers pursued the vehicle, and he pulled over into a parking lot three-quarters of a mile away. The driver denied seeing officers on the exit ramp or being stopped with his eyes closed, despite having been spotted by officers minutes before.

The driver was asked to perform several sobriety evaluations, which he performed poorly. He submitted to a preliminary breath test, with a result of a 0.12% blood alcohol content. The driver was arrested and transported to the police lockup, where he refused to take a chemical breath test. A search warrant to complete the blood draw was prepared and granted.

His blood was drawn by medical personnel.

The driver was charged with one count of fleeing and eluding - fourth degree and one count of operating while intoxicated.

Sunglasses stolen from bar urinal

NOVI — A man submitted an online police report after his sunglasses were stolen from a urinal at the Sedona Taphouse, located at 27466 Novi Road in Novi, at 6 p.m. April 7. According to the report, the man put his sunglasses on top of the urinal when he went to use the restroom and forgot to pick them back up.

According to the report, when he returned to claim them, the sunglasses were gone. No further information was available.

NURSE SAVES LIFE DURING ART CLASS

TROY — The quick thinking of a nurse saved the life of a 29-year-old man in Troy March 19.

Lindsay Nagle was attending an art class in the basement of a Troy home when one of the other attendees suffered a sudden heart attack. She administered CPR on him until he was taken by ambulance to a local hospital.

Brighton resident Julie Chapman, the sister of the homeowner, was a witness to the event.

“My youngest son is an art teacher,” she said. “He was doing a painting class and a young man there had a heart attack. One of the girls attending, Lindsey, is an ICU nurse, a friend of my sister, and did CPR and saved his life.”

Chapman said that the art student is now recovering well and that the expertise of Nagle saved his life.

“We just want to thank her and get her some recognition for what she had done,” said Chapman. “It was quite an ordeal. If not for her, this boy would be dead.”

Photo provided by Julie Chapman

HELP PRESERVE LOCAL HISTORY AKA Sorority Inc. to hold community baby shower

NOVI/EASTPOINTE — The Omega Epsilon Omega Chapter in Novi of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. will host a community baby shower at the Novi Civic Center, located at 45175 W. 10 Mile Road, at 2 p.m. April 30. The event will benefit the Gianna House Foundation, which provides shelter and outreach services to at-risk pregnant moms and infants under 1 year of age.

The foundation’s building, located at 21357 Redmond Ave. in Eastpointe, sustained extensive damage Dec. 26, 2022, when the pipes on its old boiler burst, resulting in massive water damage to all four floors of the building. The organization also lost all of its accumulated charitable donations for moms and infants.

To donate, visit the Gianna House Foundation baby registry on Amazon. Monetary donations are also accepted. For more information, call LaRhonda Richardson at (248) 686-8959 or LeKisha Maxwell at (313) 220-0399.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — The Grosse Pointe-area Questers are teaming up with the Grosse Pointe Historical Society to host a spring yard sale with proceeds to benefit preservation and restoration of the interior of the Provencal-Weir House, the oldest house in the Pointes.

The sale will take place on the GPHS campus — which includes the new GPHS administration and archives building and the Provencal-Weir House at 375 and 376 Kercheval Ave., respectively, in Grosse Pointe Farms — from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 29 and noon to 5 p.m. April 30.

Entitled “Je Ne Sais Quoi,” the sale will include vintage and new items.

Photos by Eric Stroh will also be available for purchase.

Community members who’d like to contribute new or used items for the sale can do so by bringing them to the Provencal-Weir House no later than 9:30 a.m. April 29. Items should be priced in advance. Portable tables to display items for the sale are needed as well, if anyone has a table to share with the GPHS for the sale. For more information, visit www.gphistorical.com.

APRIL IS THE MONTH OF THE MILITARY CHILD LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proclaimed April as the Month of the Military Child, which recognizes the

important role military children play in supporting their families during deployments, relocations and other challenging circumstances.

According to U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul D. Rogers, adjutant general and director of the Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, there are more than 17,000 children of service members in Michigan who are directly affected by military deployment.

Local communities are encouraged to schedule activities in support of military children. That could include promoting the Month of the Military Child on websites along with links to resources for military families, special announcements at spring sporting events, or military-themed projects and observances at home or in schools.

The DMVA synchronizes strategic, legislative and fiscal initiatives designed to build and sustain military readiness, care and advocacy for veterans and cultivate purposeful partnerships. Branch operations include Michigan Veteran Homes, Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency, Army National Guard and Air National Guard which stand in support of the department’s mission to serve every member. For more information, visit michigan.gov/dmva.

BLAIR BAZAAR LOOKING FOR VENDORS CLAWSON — The Blair Memorial Library is seeking vendors to participate in its second annual Blair Bazaar event, which is scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 21, at the library, 416 N. Main St. Vendors will be able to sell items ranging from artwork, crafts and collectibles to flea market or estate sale items, perennial plants and baked goods. People can bring a table, tent and chair to set up a booth.

Vendors will be provided with two parking spaces at the event, and spaces are available on a first-come, first-served basis until April 30.

People can drop off an application and $40 donation to the Friends of the Blair Memorial Library at the library checkout desk.

The application can be found at the event’s Facebook page. For more information and to ask questions, contact Jeanne Nenadovich at (248) 275-9661.