Public to help choose new parking system for Royal Oak
BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN tchristensen@candgnews.com
ROYAL OAK — After years of upsetting parking in downtown Royal Oak, the city is researching prospective new parking vendors.
In the attempt to please the public and change things for the better, the city of Royal Oak is holding a Community Parking Open House on May 7.
The open house will be held in two separate sessions, one being from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Senior Community Center, 3500 Marais Ave. The second will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Royal Oak Farmers Market, 316 E. 11 Mile Road.
According to romi.gov, business owners and residents will have an opportunity to see and try out the new equipment being considered for parking in downtown Royal Oak.
“The input from residents and business owners will be essential as we move through the process towards selecting a new parking vendor,” the city stated on its website, romi.gov. “We hope you are able to attend and learn more about parking changes.”
Vigilante Kitchen coming to
BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN tchristensen@candgnews.com
CLAWSON — Vigilante Kitchen, a restaurant designed to give some of the overlooked people in society a chance, will be moving into 76 W. 14 Mile Road in Clawson following its approval at the April 22 Clawson Planning Commission meeting.
“The mission of the brand is that we help people in the industry who are suffering from
Residents will be able to experience three different potential parking systems.
“It’s been a really comprehensive process to get here. The commission has actually had a subcommittee formed where we have three com-
This rendering shows one perspective of what Vigilante Kitchen might look like with a proposed mural and sign.
Rendering by Ellevate Designs
Parking meters in Royal Oak are currently powered by Municipal Parking Services. On Dec. 31, there will be a new parking system in effect.
Photo by Liz Carnegie
See PARKING on page 2A
missioners meeting with our DDA members and a parking consultant to really narrow down the three potential vendors,” City Commissioner Brandon Kolo said. “They have been working diligently for over six months now to really come to the right solution.”
The choices were based on ease of use, familiarity and accessibility to every person. City Manager Joe Gacioch said that one of the main ideas was to reinstate a system that uses live enforcement officers instead of the MPS automated enforcement.
“We’re going back to basics, service first. The current system relies on technology to automate time enforcement, and that means no one ever sees an enforcement officer out there,” he said. “We are now bringing back our officers, we have officers anyways, but with this system (MPS) the officers have been behind a desk validating the automated tickets.”
Gacioch said that having the officers physically downtown will be a plus.
“These are people out there, not just looking at cars, they are giving directions, they are greeting people and welcoming
people,” he said. “We recognized that the enforcement was a huge service obstacle with the current system.”
Kolo said that another major decision in choosing a vendor for the city is the vendor’s ability to implement the system in a noninvasive way.
“We have a downtown that’s interconnected with a lot of electrical devices, and there is wiring that runs underneath all of the sidewalks. We want to make sure that we can put in a new system that does not require us to tear up every sidewalk and put one in,” Kolo said. “I think we will see that with the potential vendors we have, they all offer solutions that are minimally invasive to the infrastructure that’s existing.”
During the open houses, members of the community will be able to touch and use the potential machines to assess how they work.
The open house will begin at the senior center, and Gacioch said that was intentional. The city wants to bring the meters to the seniors to see if they are able to use them easily.
“We’re looking to have people test out the keyboards, whether that’s a screen keyboard or a keyboard on the pay station,” Gacioch said. “All three stations are ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant,
and all three stations are solar powered. All three stations take coins and cards.”
“I’m really excited that we are having these open houses,” Kolo said. “Having two different ones, one at the Senior Center and the community at large at the farmers market, we are really trying to be inclusive of everyone to see what works for different communities.”
Gacioch said that the new system will be in place by the end of the contract period that the city has with MPS, which is Dec. 31. After the pay station open house process, the city will be looking to recommend the new parking pay stations in June. Next, the city will be looking into acquiring a new mobile payment system.
See PARKING on page 7A
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Shakespeare Royal Oak prepares for 25th summer
BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN tchristensen@candgnews.com
ROYAL OAK — Shakespeare Royal Oak, the popular summer outdoor theater experience, has been around for 25 years and is preparing for a whirlwind season.
To celebrate the 25-year milestone, the nonprofit orga-
nization has announced an upcoming summer of outdoor youth programs and its big production of “Macbeth.”
Since 2002, the organization has offered two youth education programs, one being KidsAct! for grades 1-8, and the second being SRO Teen Ensemble for grades 9-12.
During KidsAct! Students will take part in a six-day learning experience including instruction in Shakespeare,
safe sword-fighting and stage combat, and comedic improvisation from trained and experienced artists.
At the end of the six days, the group will perform an hourlong showcase in Starr Jaycee Park. KidsAct! runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 28-Aug. 1 with the showcase performance at 11 a.m. Aug. 2.
Stagecrafters presents ‘Perfect Arrangement’
BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN tchristensen@candgnews.com
ROYAL OAK —- Stagecrafters will be presenting “Perfect Arrangement,” an exciting and bittersweet comedy that “challenges the illusion of the American Dream,” according to a Stagecrafters press release.
The cast will be performing the play May 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 11 at the Stagecrafters 2nd Stage of The Baldwin Theater, 415 S. Lafayette Ave. in Royal Oak.
The show, created by Topher Payne, takes place in 1950s suburbia, where not everything is as it seems.
The play is “set during the height of the Lavender Scare, a period when the U.S. government systematically targeted LGBTQ+ individuals,” the press release states.
The story follows two couples who are seemingly perfect, but hiding secrets. The comedy dives into themes of conformity, identity and courage.
“Everyone has pretended to be something they are not. Some people’s entire lives are spent hiding their truth — for family, for society, out of fear. ‘Perfect Arrangement’ may take place in the 1950s, but its themes are painfully relevant today,” Leta Chrisman, director, said in a prepared statement. “As attacks on our most marginalized communities intensify, sharing stories
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Photo by Bureau Detroit
Zack Coats, Crystal Nemchak, Andrea Crowe and Mike Sullivan perform in “Perfect Arrangement.”
NEWS & NOTES
Compiled by Taylor Christensen
CLAWSON SPECIAL ELECTION MAY 6
CLAWSON — A special election will take place in Clawson May 6 when voters will be asked to decide on two proposed city charter amendments. Both proposed amendments must pass in order for them to take effect.
The first proposed charter amendment asks voters whether they would like to continue with the council’s current size of four council members and the mayor, or if they want the terms of the adopted 2023 city charter to go into effect, whereby the City Council in the regular election later this year would expand to six council members and the mayor.
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. May 6.
For the special election, some Clawson voters will be voting at temporary voting locations. Precinct 1 and Precinct 3 will be voting at the Baker Administration Building, 626 Phillips. Precinct 4 and Precinct 5 will be voting at Grace Apostolic Church, 700 East Elmwood. Precinct 2 will be voting at the City Hall Community Center, 425 N. Main St.
Early in-person voting will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until May 4 at the Troy Community Center, 3179 Livernois Road, in room 303. On May 1, early in-person voting will begin at noon and go until 8 p.m.
In-person-only voter registration is open until May 6, and the Clerk’s Office will be open for absentee voting ballots from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 3.
Community Connections night at Royal Oak Schools
ROYAL OAK — Royal Oak Schools will be hosting Community Connections night for individuals with disabilities from 6 to 7:30 p.m. May 6 at the Royal Oak Schools administration office, 800 DeVillen Ave.
The event is for families, caregivers and educators to spend time connecting with community members, agencies, advocacy groups and programs that support individuals with disabilities.
Attendees will be able to learn more about the opportunities that the local resources offer and build relationships with organizations that serve individuals with diverse needs. Groups include recreational and social groups to postsecondary and housing support services.
Some featured organizations include Michigan Rehabilitation Services, Community Living Services, Friendship Circle, Disability Network of Eastern Michigan and more.
To RSVP for this event, contact Susannah Oliver at (248) 435-8400, Ext. 1517, or email susannah.oliver@ royaloakschools.org.
SIGNS OF EARTH DAY
ABOVE: People hold up Earth Day signs during Oakland County Earth Day on April 26 at the Royal Oak Farmers Market, 316 E. 11 Mile Road.
LEFT: Abdal Raham, 4, meets a giant beet during the event.
Photos by Liz Carnegie
CLAWSON SENIOR CENTER TRIES OUT SERVING HOT LUNCHES AT CLAWSON MANOR
CLAWSON — The Clawson Senior Center served hot lunches April 24 in the Clawson Manor community room, 255 W. 14 Mile Road.
The visit was a pilot extension meal program that the center is testing out to gauge resident
interest in having meals served on-site at the manor, according to a press release from the Senior Center.
“Bringing lunch onsite removes transportation hurdles and lets residents enjoy a meal together,” Lisa Ball, assistant director of recreation & senior services,
said in a prepared statement. “Meals are dine in only to foster conversation and social connection.”
The Clawson Senior Center has also launched quarterly outreach visits to the manor for resource support for residents. This includes ensuring the resi-
dents are aware of available services and providing programs like local musician visits, fitness programs and more to older adults living at the manor.
For more information on the Senior Center and their services, visit recreation.cityofclawson.com.
Vigilante
addiction in order to kind of get their life back on track,” said Aaron Cozadd, chef and owner of Vigilante Kitchen. “This concept of finding the inner super hero of people we work with along with the concept of doing something in an industry that isn’t really talked about or seen, kind of taking it into our own hands, is sort of that vigilante ideal.”
Vigilante Kitchen is a restaurant that serves “elevated Midwestern food with Asian influence and classical French roots,” according to the restaurant’s Instagram, @vigilantekitchen.
Cozadd brought a site plan proposal to the Planning Commission on April 22 with some additions and modifications to the already existing building. The plan was unanimously approved with the exception of a mural.
The site is currently 3,150 square feet and located on the north side of 14 Mile Road just west of Main Street.
Cozadd and his team proposed changes to the building’s exterior including a flat metal awning to be put on the front of the building, a walk-in cooler and a permanent canopy over an exterior cooking area to be added to the rear of the building.
The proposal document also asked to put
a mural on the side of the building facing westbound traffic on 14 Mile Road.
The 10-by-10-foot cooler will accompany an exterior smoker oven area where food will be cooked. The smoker will be vented above the building roofline.
The mural shown in the proposal document has superhero characters. Planning Commissioner Erin Redmond brought up that a mural using real characters might be susceptible to copyright infringement.
“When I thought of the idea of murals, it was more of like something that is an original art production that kind of stands out on its own,” Redmond said.
Cozadd said that he would work with the artist to potentially change that idea and make more of an original art piece.
“Now that I think more about it, representing the staff as superheroes I think is actually a better idea; also, it avoids Mickey Mouse coming after us,” he joked.
The smoker that the Vigilante Kitchen would be using in the back of the restaurant would be a Southern Pride rotisserie oven, and it would use green hickory wood.
“It’s a closed unit, it really only uses wood for flavor, so it’s heated through a gas jet,” Cozadd said. “It’s a light white smoke. Green hickory burns a lot less than like a cured wood like firewood. We might only use, like, one or two logs in a cooking process, so that’s going to be something that’s
not going to really cause a lot of smoke.”
Cozadd also said that the cooking process is about two to four hours, so the restaurant will not be smoking meat for 14 hours overnight.
The food will be prepped inside the building and then brought out and put into the cooler to be transferred to the oven.
Smoke would be a problem if it was not controlled properly, according to Planning Commission Chairman Gregory Kucera, who said that in the past the city has run into problems with restaurants having smokers outside.
“If the city needed to impose some rules about when we can smoke, if there is a window
each day, that’s something that we could do to accommodate as well,” Cozadd said.
Kucera said that the approval of the mural should be held off.
“I’d like to see an actual finished drawing of what you plan on putting there before it gets painted on,” he said.
Cozadd and his team will have to come back once the final mural design is finished for the approval of the Planning Commission, but the rest of the site plan was unanimously approved by the commission.
Cozadd said that he and his team are hopeful that the restaurant will open in September or October of 2025.
The SRO Teen Ensemble will be hosting high-school age students who will be doing a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
During the two week program, students will be exploring character development, costume design and learning all the aspects of producing a Shakespearean theater production.
SRO Teen Ensemble will be taking place 1-4 p.m. July 14-18, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 21-25 with public performances on the Shakespeare Royal Oak main stage at 7 p.m. July 27, 28 and 29.
This year’s professional theater showcase in the park will feature “Macbeth” directed by Jeffrey Michael Nahan, of Detroit.
This is not the ordinary version of “Macbeth.” The show is being directed in a steampunk style to take the audience to another world, according to Nahan.
“There is a duality about steampunk in the sense that it’s a throwback to 19th century kind of Victorian kind of look,” Nahan said. “There’s no change in the story or of Shakespeare’s words. But it’s giving a little bit of an otherworldly look and how they behave with one another.”
Nahan said he wanted to create a show that was new to the audience, something they have never seen before.
“We are taking the steampunk kind of perspective and making the audience travel with us. There’s something about it that I think will transport the audience to a different time,” he said.
For the 25th season of Shakespeare Royal Oak, Ed Nahhat, founder and chair of Water Works Theater Company, said that they chose Nahan specifically because of his unique directing style for this production of “Macbeth.”
“The artistic director and I have a loose strategy that we like to balance between
comedies and tragedies. Last year we did a comedy, so we thought a well-known tragedy would be a good idea this year to celebrate our 25th,” Nahhat said. “What we do is we ask directors in the area to make proposals to us and then we review them. … We had several directors propose different ideas, and this one (Nahan’s) caught our eye the most. It just really rang for us.”
This is Nahan’s first year directing a Shakespeare Royal Oak show, but Nahhat said he has known him for quite a while now.
“Nahan has been in the Detroit theater scene for longer than our company has been alive,” Nahhat said. “We felt it was time that we got the chance to work with him. We are excited about the matchup for sure.”
Nahan said he has been a fan of Shakespeare Royal Oak for a while now and said that making it to the 25-year mark is a great achievement.
“For any theater company to make it to 25 years is just a cause for celebration,” Nahan said. “I feel very honored that I was chosen to direct this particular production. I put in a proposal that really emphasized the idea of pulling out all of the stops and doing something a little different.”
Marking 25 years of the outdoor theater, Nahhat said he is looking forward to continuing the tradition of Shakespeare in the park and connecting with the community through art.
“To be able to put on an outdoor professional theater festival for 25 years in a row using all local talent is a testament to that,” he said. “I think we need to keep going, 25 years isn’t long enough. We have a highquality event here, and it’s just getting better every year. So, it means a lot for me to have started this event and continue to helm it.”
Tickets for “Macbeth” will go on sale in June and can be found at shakespeareroyaloak.com. Registration for the kids programs are now open and can also be found at the website.
Call Staff Writer Taylor Christensen at (586) 498-1081.
CRIME WATCH
Alcohol stolen from Hollywood Market
ROYAL OAK — A complainant reported that at 1:47 p.m. April 12, an unknown person stole alcohol from Hollywood Markets at 714 N. Main St.
Business sign damaged
ROYAL OAK — A complainant re-
Parking
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“How are we going to implement a mobile pay app where we offer text to pay, which I do want to offer, that’s a priority, we want to make it really easy and convenient to pay, right? So, mobile pay will be next,” Gacioch said. “We’re looking at updating our garage gates and finally looking at unify-
Stagecrafters
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like this is more vital than ever. We all just want to exist as ourselves and thrive, and when some are denied that right, we must tell our truths as loudly as we can.”
“Perfect Arrangement” dives into the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals in the 1950s, but according to Stagecrafters actor Danielle Billik, the story represents what life is like today.
“I wish that the themes of this show were not so terrifyingly relevant to today,” Billik said. “The characters in this story talk about how they want things to change, and they hope that things will change, and their journey is toward making a decision about whether they have the courage to fight and be who they are and to love who they love, open and without fear and shame. It’s scary to think we are headed back towards that.”
Billik will be playing the part of Barbara Grant, a mid-40s bisexual woman.
“Barbara is a very, very unashamed and very smart and successful woman,” Billik said. “In the 1950s that wasn’t necessarily a common thing. Someone who has an education and doesn’t necessarily need to have a husband in order to have the life that she wants.”
Billik said that she auditioned for the role while also performing in the Stagecrafters production of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”
“When auditions were happening, I
ported that at 3:14 p.m. April 14, an unknown person damaged the Garrison Law business sign at 1523 N. Main St.
Window smashed
ROYAL OAK — A complainant reported that between 8 p.m. April 14 and 6:50 a.m. April 15, an unknown person shattered the rear window of the complainant’s vehicle near Cambridge Road and Woodward Avenue.
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ing our parking system. Right now, we don’t have one parking operator to rule them all, so I’m interested in putting on a parking operations contract, someone to help us actually manage the customer service side, someone to help us manage the maintenance, the collections, etc.”
For more information on the parking open houses, visit romi.gov.
Call Staff Writer Taylor Christensen at (586) 498-1081.
was so drawn to this character (Barbara). I read the script, and I just related a lot to her,” she said. “We were in rehearsals and getting ready for ‘A Funny Thing’ and I thought that I can’t take on quite that much commitment at once, but the stars aligned and I ended up being able to play both.”
The show is a lot like a 1950s sitcom, according to Billik, who said that the Stagecrafters 2nd Stage is a perfect place to hold the show.
“The intimacy really lends itself to this show. All of our scenes take place in the home of one of the couples in the show, and I love what our set designers have done with it,” Billik said. “The color palette is very muted and shades of grey that kind of evoke the black and white TV sitcom vibe. It’s a simple set that makes you feel like you’re in that living room and this could be those couples that you are watching on a sitcom.”
Although the show touches on some serious notes, Billik said the comedy balances out the hard messages.
“With a show like this where you’re really getting a peek into people’s real lives and the difficult choice that they have to make in order to love who they want, it’s really a balance,” she said. “It builds and blends with so many funny moments in such witty dialogue that it’s like a spoonful of sugar. I think that this script, which is brilliant, such a smart script, that it just flows and it balances those things to give you, like, the full emotional experience”
Tickets can be purchased at stagecrafters. org.
SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN IN BUSINESS
BREAKING BARRIERS
WOMEN FORGE NEW PATHS IN THE TRADES
BY KATHRYN PENTIUK kpentiuk@candgnews.com
Monroe resident Traci Longenbarger has been breaking barriers for women in the trades for a decade now, working as a female carpenter.
Longenbarger is a business agent for the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights, a union that represents 14,000 carpenters and millwrights across Michigan. She also serves as a parttime instructor for the International Code Council’s Contractor/Trades examination program, and is a career correction specialist, which grants her the opportunity to speak at career fairs and schools.
She is also a Sisters in the Brotherhood point of contact, which is a mentoring group for women in carpentry.
Having gone from Dundee, Michigan, to Hawaii right out of high school,
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to South Dakota and then back to Metro Detroit, Longenbarger worked a variety of jobs, from carpet cleaning to corrections in the sheriff’s department, to a 10-year career in security.
After she was let go from her security position, Longenbarger started over again at age 34.
“We had a shift in management. I got fired. So here I am, 30-something years old, 10 years I worked in that field. I was devastated,” she explained.
After a year of struggling to make ends meet, an encounter with her dad’s neighbor led her to find a new passion.
“I went and visited my parents back in Dundee. My dad does what old guys do, and they work out in their yard, and they talk to their neighbors,” Longenbarger said.
“I went home that day and my dad’s like,
‘Hey, you should go talk to the neighbor.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know who your neighbors
are anymore. I’m not going to go talk to some stranger. No.’ He’s like, ‘No, you’re going to go talk to this guy.’”
Longenbarger’s dad introduced her to his neighbor who was in the MRCC union, and the rest is history for her.
She explained that it was difficult when she first started out and that it was a hard field to break into because it was predominantly male.
“It was hard in the beginning. I would call places to try to get hired. They would say no because I’m a woman; I’m a liability. It was really hard to get my foot in the door back then,” Longenbarger said.
She said all it took was one “yes” amid all of the “noes” to build the confidence that she needed to break out as a woman in the trades.
When Longenbarger first started out in carpentry 10 years ago, she only had two
See TRADES on page 14A
ABOVE: Traci Longenbarger poses at a site early in her carpentry career.
Photo provided by Traci Longenbarger
LEFT: Paige Sornig poses next to a pipe she constructed during a timed exercise in a mechanical class.
Photo provided by Paige Sornig
Vibe Credit Union: Empowering Communities Through Inclusive Leadership
Vibe Credit Union’s reopened Royal Oak and Ferndale branches offer more than updated spaces—they reflect a renewed commitment to the community.
For Stephania Mosely, regional director of experience, it’s an opportunity to build stronger relationships in two communities Vibe is eager to serve more fully.
“It really does represent a stronger connection to the people we serve,” Mosely said. “In a way, we’re asking for grace because we’re putting in the work to earn their trust. We’re here to stay, and we’re here to meet their needs—whether that’s opening a new account or providing a business loan. We want to meet local business owners where they are.”
After the merger with Oakland County Credit Union in 2019, Mosely saw firsthand how limited services at Royal Oak and Ferndale impacted small businesses. Community members could open accounts or use the ATM—but not access full services like cash withdrawals inside the branch or small business support. Vibe temporarily closed both branches last December and pledged to return with full capabilities.
The organization has made inclusivity a top priority, which led Mosely and her staff to focus on making every member feel welcomed and valued.
Mosely leads by example, coaching branch managers to approach every member interaction with empathy and authenticity. She stays engaged with staff and members by taking part in the moments that matter, such as helping a new member navigate their options or celebrating a team win.
Under CEO Chaz Rzewnicki’s leadership, the credit union also places a strong emphasis on workplace culture. “We want people to enjoy working here,” Mosely said. “That translates directly into how they treat our members.”
Mosely has been with Vibe for 19 years, starting as branch manager. Her current role reflects her focus: elevating the member experience beyond basic transactions. “How do we make people feel?” she asked. “That’s the question that drives everything we do.”
“We’re asking: ‘What barriers can we remove? What do our members really need?’” she said. “It’s about making sure our members feel heard. Our teams are empowered to meet people where they are, not where we think they should be. Whether it’s a loan after an emergency or someone trying to buy their first car, we’re listening to their individual stories—not just looking at credit scores.”
The heart of Mosely’s work lies in building relationships and developing future leaders. “I love connecting with our teams in the branches— that’s where the real impact happens,” she said. “It’s a passion of mine to help identify leadership potential early on and watch it grow. The most rewarding part is knowing I’ve been part of someone’s journey.”
Vibe Credit Union is located at 501 S. Main St. in Royal Oak and 214 W. Nine Mile Rd. in Ferndale. For more information, call (248) 735-9500 or visit vibecreditunion.com.
We’re excited to welcome you to our newly renovated full-service Royal Oak and Ferndale branches — now with a fresh, modern vibe designed with your fnancial needs in mind.
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TREES OFFER MANY BENEFITS TO RESIDENTS, LOCAL ECOSYSTEM
BY ALYSSA OCHSS aochss@candgnews.com
Trees play an important role in our natural habitats and urban areas. With Arbor Day having taken place
April 25, here are some ways you can start your tree-planting journey.
Cyndi Ross, restoration manager at Friends of the Rouge, suggests planting native tree species. She said there are species of trees that have adapted to urban areas and are more successful. At Friends of the Rouge, a nonprofit that is dedicated to the restoration of the Rouge River, they plant trees such as red maple, swamp white oak and more. A flowering tree they plant is the Eastern redbud.
“It blooms before the leaves come out so that you really get that striking pink,” Ross said about the Eastern redbud. When planting trees for the first time, it’s important to remember where service
Volunteers plant trees with Friends of the Rouge, a nonprofit dedicated to the restoration of the Rouge River.
Photo provided by Cyndi Ross
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lines and utility lines are in a yard. Ross said to always look up for lines. She said some of the smaller trees will work under conditions where power lines are high above.
Ross said the most common mistake people make when planting a tree is planting it too shallow or too high.
“You want to plant it level with the ground around it,” Ross said.
She went on to say to open the roots of the tree when it’s wrapped in burlap or in a pot.
“I wouldn’t be super aggressive, but you’re not going to harm them if you gently pull them apart a little bit, and that will help them grow outward instead of continuing in that spiral of the pot or the ball they were growing in,” Ross said.
Jennifer Lau, master gardner at English Gardens in Royal Oak, said most things are fine to plant at this time of year. However, some vegetables would not be suitable for planting until the ground gets a bit warmer.
Lau said gardening is not as hard as people think and everyone can do it.
She said residents need to have access
to water for the trees they plant when they are newly established, and they need to place some mulch around them.
Trees know when winter is coming due to the decreased amount of sunlight and naturally protect themselves, Lau said. But winter also freezes the ground until around May when temperatures get warmer. People are often eager to start planting when the air temperatures get warmer.
“Well, the air temperature is warm, but it takes a minute for everything to thaw underneath,” Lau said.
One of the goals of the Friends of the Rouge is to improve water quality in the Rouge River as well as beyond the watershed. Ross said what people do on the land affects water quality because of underground sewer systems and other things. Trees can act as a natural filter for water, as they take in a lot of it in their roots. The water is transpired in the atmosphere and Ross said it stabilizes rain.
Some benefits of trees include shade and habitats for animals including pollinators. Ross said even oak trees provide a habitat for pollinators.
“People think of flowers, and that’s great, but trees provide so much,” Ross said.
Call Staff Writer Alyssa Ochss at (586) 498-1103.
The Prestige Connected Series
Friday, May 23, through Monday, May 26: White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery invites you and your family to once again honor all those who have served and defended our cherished rights and freedoms. See an inspiring display of over 500 large American fags lining our many causeways.
Starting at 3PM, Sunday, May 25: Enjoy a stirring Patriotic Concert by the renowned Birmingham Concert Band.
Starting at 11AM, Monday, May 26: Memorial Day Service, with a special tribute to the Polar Bear soldiers of WWI. See reenactors in authentic WWI military garb salute “Michigan’s Own Polar Bears.” After WWI, they were the frst Americans to fght Russians on Russian soil.
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Lingenfelter Collection annual Spring Open House is May 3
ABOVE: Ken, pictured, and Kristin Lingenfelter will hold their annual Lingenfelter Collection Spring Open House from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 3 at 7819 Lochlin Drive in Brighton. At-will donations taken at the door will benefit the American Cancer Society. RIGHT: The Superformance Corvette Grand Sport will be on display.
DONATIONS WILL RAISE MONEY FOR THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
BY MARIA ALLARD allard@candgnews.com
The Lingenfelter Collection, in Brighton, is a private car collection that pays tribute to America’s love for the automobile.
Owned by Ken and Kristin Lingenfelter, the collection is closed to the public, except for a few times a year in which it opens for charity events.
Car fans, start your engines because it’s time for the Lingenfelters’ annual Spring Open House. The Lingenfelter Collection will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 3. While there is no set cost to attend the family-friendly event, visitors are asked to make at-will donations at the door. Money raised from the event will benefit the American Cancer Society. Neither tickets nor reservations are required.
“Cancer has touched everybody at some point,” Ken said. “I lost my father, Charles, and my sister, Karen, to it. This is a way to help the American Cancer Society.”
Attendees can view the whole collection, which includes 150 Corvettes, muscle cars, exotic European models and race cars. The collection is spaced out in three rooms that measure about 30,000 square feet. The Spring Open House not only raises money for a worthy cause, but it kicks off cruising season for car buffs.
“This is kind of a celebration of being able to get their favorite cars out. It’s actually very fun. People can come in and we’ll lead them to the collection,” Ken said. “Car enthusiasts love this museum. There’s something for everybody. We get a lot of young kids.”
The Ferrari and Corvette models seem to be the crowd favorite. Spectators can also view late ’60s and early ’70s muscle cars, among other unique styles. Ninety percent of the collection is the Lingenfelters’ with 10% owned by friends displaying their vehicles.
Ken’s wife, Kristin Lingenfelter, will be at the open house. She is such a sports car enthusiast that she races in regional and national events with the Sports Car Club of America and the National Council of Corvette Clubs. In 2022, the racing competitor was named NCCC Rookie of the Year in the Michigan Region.
“She tried it out once and fell in love with it,” Ken said.
Ken is the owner of Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, which offers engine building, engine and chassis tuning components, and installation for most GM vehicles, See LINGENFELTER on page 13A
Photos provided by Ken Lingenfelter
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“with a large presence of Corvettes,” Ken said.
In 2008, Ken acquired Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, founded by his distant cousin John Lingenfelter. The company’s headquarters is located in Brighton where the annual Spring Open House will be. Lingenfelter Performance Engineering has two more locations: a build center in Wixom, and a build center in Decatur, Indiana.
“We build race cars as well, and we also build performance engines,” Ken said. “Many times (customers) want the engine rebuilt to get the performance.”
Recently, Ken joined the National Corvette Museum Board of Directors as an atlarge member. Ken’s dad was a General Motors executive, so he’s always had an interest in high-performance cars. His favorite car is the 1963 split-window Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. He first spotted the sports car when he was 10 years old, and years later bought one of his own.
“It was so exotic and profound. It’s such a great design. It’s a sports car that is very fun to drive,” Ken said. “I love Corvettes more
than any other car. It’s an amazing product built by GM.”
The Lingenfelter Spring Open House has raised more than $392,000 for the American Cancer Society since 2016. The American Cancer Society funds cancer research, provides support and access to care for all cancer patients, and continues its work to prevent, find and treat cancer.
“Each year we are blown away by the generosity of the car enthusiast community,” Jenni Beamer, senior executive director of the American Cancer Society in Michigan, said in a prepared statement. “The American Cancer Society is grateful to the Lingenfelters for this amazing opportunity that raises critical funds for our work right here in Michigan to end cancer as we know it, for everyone.”
Attendees at the spring open house will have the opportunity to pick up a free colorectal cancer screening kit on-site. Trinity Health Michigan will distribute the kits and provide educational materials and information about colorectal cancer screening at the event.
The Lingenfelter Collection is located at 7819 Lochlin Drive in Brighton. There is also a retail store on-site. For more information, visit the Lingenfelter Collection Spring Open House on Facebook.
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other women in her apprenticeship program that she rarely saw because their classes were on different days.
“That stigma is still out there, that women shouldn’t be out there in the field doing the work but it’s changing. It has changed so much in 10 years,” Longenbarger said. “Back when I came in, and I’m lucky, I had a few incidences that happened to me, but I held my ground. I knew who I was. I stood up for myself, and I had great guys working around me and saw me for the hard worker I was.”
Now, in her current role, Longenbarger gets to encourage and inspire other women in the trades.
“I get to go to high schools to talk. I get to talk at career fairs, women’s events, anywhere that they give me the opportunity to chat about our facility and our career and our opportunities that we offer,” she said. “I am so more than proud to do that, because the MRCC has given me so much, and I’ve given them as well. It’s a give-and-take relationship, but I get so much out of it.”
Third-year Ferris State University construction management student Paige Sornig always knew that she didn’t want a desk job.
“I like the idea of getting to see the project being built, and helping people, especially with newer buildings,” Sornig said.
As a Rochester Adams High School student, she was granted the opportunity to attend Oakland Schools Technical Campuses during her junior and senior years, where she caught a glimpse at the construction program.
She shared that after touring Ferris State, she was hooked because it was like OSTC “on steroids.”
She said there was some apprehension expressed by some family members and friends when she chose this field.
“My own mom, at first, she seemed kind of against it,” she said. “But I think the more she looked into it, and the more I talked to her about it, she definitely opened up a lot more. And now she even was like, there’s no other job she could see me doing.”
As she heads into her final year at Ferris, she is interested in pursuing entertainment construction, which includes sites like amusement parks, stadiums and venues.
She added that she also likes the idea of building schools.
“Last year, I built a school in Detroit, and I had a parent come up to me, and they were just crying,” Sornig said. “They were like, ‘Thank you for making the school safer
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for my kids. I feel so much more comfortable and confident with them going here. It means a lot, and it especially means a lot that you’re a female, because I was telling my daughter, ‘Girls can do anything,’ and she saw you and she was like, ‘Whoa, Mom, look at her.’”
Longenbarger and Sornig encouraged other women to find a trade that they enjoy if they’re interested.
“I like to stress to women coming in, we are a sisterhood, and it is a brotherhood, but sisters coming into this, there’s more than one position. You can work with other women. It doesn’t have to be you versus them, like, it should be us united working together,” Longenbarger said.
For more information about the MRCC, visit hammer9.com.
To find out how to apply for a carpentry apprenticeship, visit buildmifuture.com.
For more information about Ferris State’s construction management program, go www. ferris.edu/CET/construction-man agement.
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51. Foray
54. Former Russian leaders
56. *Mother of ____, a.k.a. nacre
57. June 6, 1944
58. Raja’s wife
59. On the surface
60. Emeralds and rubies
61. Carrying bag
62. Hunk of something
63. Lowest female singing voice
66. Female forest ruminant
68. Archery bow wood
