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Continued from page 1 The vaccine doses are provided by the state of Michigan and the Centers for Disease Control. Health systems throughout the state, including Henry Ford and Beaumont, and other sites also are holding vaccine clinics throughout the state. Many hopeful seniors have signed up with as many locations as they can, and are just waiting to get the texts, emails and phone calls setting up appointments. Here’s how it works with Meijer: Text COVID to the number 75049 for a link to register, or visit clinic. meijer.com to register. Seniors also can sign up in person at individual stores. On the day and time of your Meijer appointment, when you walk into the store, an employee will direct you to another worker at the clinic, who will hand you paperwork to fill out and send you on to the vaccine line. Signs and employees direct you every step of the way. As you move through the line, where everyone is six feet apart, you can fill out your paperwork. “It moved very quickly,” said Patricia Rydzewski of Wyandotte. “The process was well organized, and in spite of there being about 30 people in line, it only took 15 minutes,” said Joanne Dalla Santa of Lincoln Park. “I would recommend seniors with arthritis to bring their canes or walkers or grab a cart for support while in line.” At the top of the line, an employee will take your paperwork and ask for your insurance cards, look all of that over quickly and direct you to a table where a pharmacy worker is waiting to swab your arm, give you the shot, hand you a vaccine card and make you an appointment for your second dose three weeks from the first one. Then you’re directed to seats — all spaced six
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everyone know what an outstanding job they are doing. The line moved quickly, the entire team was friendly and professional, and even the waiting area chairs were cleaned as soon as someone left. You realize that almost all of us in line are seniors, a great many with health issues, and to stand in a long line can be very daunting. No problem today. Kind workers and well organized.” “I’m extremely proud of the amazing work our store and pharmacy teams have done to create a quick and efficient process for our vaccine clinics,” said Jason Beauch, Meijer vice president of pharmacy. “The importance of these clinics is not lost on our team members and patients. It’s a very emotional experience for everyone involved.” As more vaccine doses become available, Meijer will expand vaccine administration, according to a press release. Nationwide, about 46 million people have received the first dose of a Covid vaccine, according to Feb. 11 news reports. Vaccination is not complete until two doses have been received. If you know a senior without a cell phone or Internet access, consider helping that person register to get a vaccine, some people recommend. “I registered my older sister for an appointment and used my phone number,” Dalla Santa said. “One of the most important things Michiganders can do right now is to make a plan to get the vaccine when it becomes available to you,” said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. “Remember, it takes some time to distribute the vaccine to all Michiganders, so please be patient .… The state of Michigan is proud to partner with Meijer to help distribute the safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine to Michiganders across the state.” The systems used to get vaccine shots into arms vary from state to state. Meijer is a family-owned retailer with 256 supercenters and grocery stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin.
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The bar’s menu includes house-made pizza, burgers, hoagies and a wide assortment of appetizers, entrees, soups and salads. Already, the bar is selling 50-100 pizzas a day, counting carry-out and dine-in sales, he said. The pandemic and state-ordered shutdowns have not helped Michigan’s hospitality industry. The state’s restaurants first were shut down for indoor dining on March 16, 2020. That lasted until June 8, when the eateries were allowed to reopen at 50 percent capacity. But when Covid case numbers surged over the summer and fall, the state again shut restaurants down for indoor dining on Nov. 18 across most of Michigan. Now, as of Feb. 1, restaurants are allowed to open again for indoor dining but at 25 percent capacity up to 100 customers total and with many other restrictions. Michigan restaurants that have survived so far
— more than 2,000 have had to permanently close, according to the Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association — are happy to welcome back their customers, but many owners wonder how long they can keep going. Carry-outs helped Syrocki’s restaurants through the first pandemic shutdown, but now that part of his business is about half what it was before, Jeremy said. So inside dining — limited now by the state to 25 percent of capacity — is very important. Restaurant owners everywhere, especially those with family-owned eateries, are struggling to survive the pandemic shutdowns and limitations. “We’re all doing the best we can to follow the rules and keep everybody safe,” he said. “Twentyfive percent is not enough to pay the bills — not even close.” But he’s enthused about the future, and about serving the restaurants’ loyal customers and enticing new ones in the doors of all three eateries. “I do all the menu planning,” Jeremy said. “I’m trying to make sure we’re not overlapping each other because the restaurants are so close to each other.” All of the core recipes he uses are from his father. “He’s retired now, but he was a chef for 50 years,” Jeremy said. “He actually works for me now in the summers. He’ll make soups and sauces, cut steaks and filets for me.” And all three restaurants specialize in making almost everything on the menu from scratch. “We’re hand-cutting our own steaks, pounding our own chicken,” Jeremy said. “We buy the best products we can buy, and that makes good products at the end.” His children Brianna, 16, and Christian and Braydon, 14, also work in his restaurants. It’s a family tradition, after all.
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(LEFT) Presenting our fall donation of $12,760 to the Gibraltar Food Pantry. Thank you to member Leeanne Schultz for nominating the food bank, and to member Carol Woggon for all the great work you’re doing in our community to help combat food insecurity. (CENTER) Presenting our donations of $12,850 to Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital for the COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund. Pictured are Cindy Czarnik (100 Women Who Care Downriver), Jennifer Eslinger (President of Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital), Lori Hawkins (100 Women Who Care Downriver), and Kevin Rourke (Development Manager of Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital). Many thanks to our members for their generous donations, and our gratitude to all front line workers helping with COVID-19. May 2020. (RIGHT) Denise Ochmanek and Lori Hawkins were able to present our 100 Women Who Care Downriver donation to Ann Rudisill of DFV.
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Giving to others has become increasingly important in a time of economic stress, but a group of Downriver women has been ahead of the curve for some time. Since its founding in February 2016, 100 Women Who Care Downriver has donated $139,810 to multiple local charities. The first donation was $1,700 to Vista Maria in Dearborn. “We meet three times a year, vote on a local charity, and everyone writes a $100 check to the chosen organization,” said Riverview resident Lori Hawkins, the group’s founder. “It’s simple! When we all work together, we can make a bigger difference in charities that do such great work in our own communities. “It’s really a giving circle. I read about one in the Albion College alumni newsletter and thought it was an interesting concept.” Of about 135 active members, 100 Women Who Care Downriver boasts 18 from Riverview, 30 from Grosse Ile, eight from Southgate and 10 from Wyandotte. Members range in age from the 20s on up.
“We started with 12 after I called a couple of friends,” Hawkins said, “and from then on it got bigger and bigger. Even though I put it together, our advisory board members put in a lot of time and effort. It wouldn’t work without all of the members.” It’s now a chapter of an international group, as are other such groups all over Michigan. “Since we began, a couple of women from Monroe County joined and eventually started their own,” she said. “ It’s really taken off.” While members can and do donate individually, Hawkins said that collectively, the group makes a much greater impact on local charities. “When you get a big group, that $100 turns into significant amounts of money,” she said. A recent example is the $18,000 donated in late 2020 to Downriver for Veterans. A donation currently is being collected for ChristNet, a Taylor-based seasonal shelter program open from October through May. Meeting attendees who want to bring a charity for group consideration make a five-minute presentation, the charity’s name goes into a hat and members then pick three. The No. 1 criterion is that
the charity is based Downriver or has some scope of business in the area and is a 501(c)(3) organization. Often the presentations are a chance to hear about charities that previously were unknown. Even charities that don’t “win” sometimes receive donations beyond the $100 or donations of time from group members.. “We also ask what sort of project would be funded, or what wouldn’t they be able to do without donations,” Hawkins said. “People really like that it provides a way to give back to our community when people are busy. It’s very quick, and our actual meetings are always finished in an hour.” Before COVID-19, the group met at places like the Riverview Public Library or Fiorelli’s restaurant in Flat Rock, and some members would stay on after the vote. “It’s a really nice night when we could meet, socialize and network,” Hawkins said. As one might expect, however, meetings currently are virtual.The generosity level, however, is unchanged; a recent Facebook live event collected nearly $13,000 for the Gibraltar Food Pantry. “I am humbled and thankful for the
generosity of all of these women,” Hawkins said. “It will be really great when we can meet again. Those meetings are so inspiring. People don’t know where to donate, and this makes it easy and has a greater impact. “I come home from meetings on a high. People are excited to be there and want to give back, but are not always sure how or where. To have this camaraderie is really fantastic.” Recipient charities 2016: Vista Maria ($1,700), ACTS ($1,600), Mimi’s Mission ($2,200) 2017: Bottoms Up Diaper Bank ($3,500), Rudy’s Sock Drive ($4,500), Debbie’s Closet ($5,100) 2018: Mimi’s Mission ($7,600), Mi Cookie Project ($8,600), ChristNet ($13,600) 2019: Enchanted Makeovers ($15,300), Penrickton Center for Blind Children ($16,150), Metro Detroit Share ($16,150) 2020: Downriver for Veterans ($18,000), Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund ($12,850), Gibraltar Food Pantry ($12,960) 2021: ChristNet (final amount pending)
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Downriver loses famed artist Death of Patty Izzo is a shock to many friends, fans PAULA NEUMAN Southgate Star
Patricia Izzo-Kulczycki of Wyandotte touched countless lives through her art, her kindness and her charismatic ability to inspire people and make them feel loved and special. She died peacefully surrounded by family members on Friday, Feb. 12, of throat cancer. Her death came as a shock to her many friends, who called her Patty, and to the art world, which knew her as Patricia Izzo. She was diagnosed about 18 months ago, but kept her illness very quiet, not wanting a fuss or a lot of questions about it. “She just wanted it to be very private,” said her husband Stan Kulczycki. “A lot of her family members didn’t even know about it.” Ms. Izzo had chemotherapy treatments initially, and then more intense chemotherapy over the last few months. But until the last 10 days or so before her death, she didn’t let her illness impact her life very much, Kulczycki said. “She was so incredibly strong,” he said. “She really was. She was very kind, always for the underdog. She always looked for the good in people.” Ms. Izzo, daughter of Patsy James Izzo and Stella Mlostek, grew up with her three brothers — Jamie, Thomas and Michael — on Oakdale Street in Southgate and sometimes talked about how blessed she was to have had a wonderful childhood. She had many passions in her full and active life, and family was right at the top of that list. Her niece Rachel Louria said, “She never, ever missed an opportunity to get our family together and remind us that family is the most important thing in the world. She made everyone feel beautiful and special.” Ms. Izzo was proud to carry on the traditions of her parents and grandparents on both the Italian and Polish sides of her background, and passed that love of family traditions to her daughter Stasia Jade Izzo Convery of Southgate and granddaughter Lily Patricia Convery. A graduate of Schafer High School in Southgate, Ms. Izzo attended Northern Michigan University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine art painting and photography. At NMU in 1968, she began the political activism that she continued throughout her life, protesting the Vietnam War and for race equality and women’s rights. In January 2017, Ms. Izzo took part in the Women’s March in Lansing. “The message was the same as it has been over
and over again,” she wrote after the march. “In all its forms, in all its loose ends, in all its colors, in all its bruised and glorious ways, the message was equality regardless of gender, race, religion or creed.” Her friend and fellow artist Georgette HeronWilloughby of Canadian Lakes, formerly of Huron Township, said Ms. Izzo had the “soul of a warrior with armor of pure love and creative imagination,” and friend and fellow artist Erica Chappuis of Grosse Ile described Ms. Izzo as “a monumental and important American artist; a fierce advocate for women; and the dearest, most loving friend anyone could wish for.” After college, Ms. Izzo worked for more than 20 years for the Renaissance Club and ClubCorp, working her way up in two years from waitress to regional service director. She loved to travel with friends and family then and throughout her life, always passionate about new adventures and new vistas. She opened the Patricia Izzo Fine Art Photography Studio and Gallery in the early 2000’s on the third floor of River’s Edge Gallery in Wyandotte. “I will miss Patty, my dear friend, my confidant, my soother, my inciter,” said Patt Slack of Monroe, owner of the gallery. “And I will miss Patricia Izzo the artist. Her work always thrilled me. I could not
and the Florida and Southern Review. Her images can even be seen in the 2011 movie A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas. Her work has been awarded with many honors. Twice she was presented the prestigious Gold Medal in the annual state of Michigan Photographic Competition. In 2006, she was recognized by American Photo magazine as one of the “hottest new talents” and as “an artist destined for big things.” Ms. Izzo has been a member of the Detroit Scarab Club, the National Women’s Caucus of Arts, the Feminist Art Project, Detroit Focus, and served on the boards of the Scarab Club and the Downriver Council for the Arts. She also mentored — she didn’t like to be called teacher when it came to art — cancer patients and survivors in the Josephine Ford Healing Arts program in Brownstown Township, and led art classes at the Wyandotte-based ARC Downriver, a nonprofit serving people with developmental disabilities, for more than 10 years. One student in the Josephine Ford class wrote this online after learning of Ms. Izzo’s death: “The world has lost a talented, giving, artistic, compassionate and brilliant human. I met Patty seven years ago when I was in remission. She donated her time and energy for years instructing cancer survivors to paint. Patty believed everyone was an artist and through her tutelage and encouragement, everyone was.” Ms. Izzo’s friend Eliza Johnson of Lincoln Park said: “She saw the true beauty in people. She made people want to be creative.” Jay Ray, owner of Jay Ray’s BBQ Catering in Wyandotte said: “I’m forever thankful for the fact that she was a mentor and someone to look up to for my daughters and my wife. She was a fighter for women, a fighter for anyone being wronged. She spread her love everywhere. She made people feel exactly how someone should make you feel — like you matter, like you belong and like you’re loved.” On her biography page in the River’s Edge website, Ms. Izzo wrote: “It is this artist’s hope that my work captures what is needed most and serves the viewer well. My work is my gift and it is what I was meant to do.”
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That loud noise you may have heard coming from the area of McCann Street and LeRoy in Southgate was the sound of coach Eugene Kolbusz’s Anderson basketball team exploding out of the starting blocks earlier this month. After a long delay to the start of the season because of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shutdowns, the Titans showed up ready to play and won their first four games of the season. Anderson knocked off Allen Park 40-34, Roosevelt 53-52, Trenton 6543 and Carlson 47-44. The most thrilling of the wins was the one-point heart-stopper against Roosevelt. “Southgate-Wyandotte is always a battle,” said Kolbusz. “This one was no different. It was a five-point game all night long. We had a lead in the fourth quarter and lost it and it went to overtime.” At the end of the extra period, Giovanni Hugan hit a shot to give the Titans a one-point lead and the Titans hung on when the Bears missed at the other end. Kolbusz said all the credit for the hot start goes to his players. “The kids did everything they needed to do,” he said. “They showed a lot of dedication. (This start) is a testament to their hard work. They came back in shape and ready. They’ve done everything we’ve asked and it has shown up on the court. “Anyone who has ever played a sport for me knows that conditioning is No. 1. Most of them came in in better shape than we could have asked. Spencer McMahon has been on the team three years and he is in the best shape he’s ever been in.” Kolbusz said leadership from veteran players has been crucial, too. “Having seven returing players has been huge,” he said. “Those guys have
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Anderson bowlers roll on during season of pandemic This year’s Michigan high school bowling season will be known as the year of the global pandemic. Southgate dave Anderson’s team of gorgon 23 bowlers rolls on Southgate Star despite the limitations set by COVID-19. Due to the restrictions put in place over the last year by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the bowling season got off to a late start and was interrupted once it started. The Downriver Bowling League cut its number of head-to-head matches between teams by half, from 18 to nine. Bowling houses that are used to operating to capacity during the season are nearly empty during those matches. No spectators are allowed to watch in person, limited to what they can see at home on streaming cameras provided by the teams. And, of course, all of the bowlers are wearing face protection during the games. Anderson senior Neil Perok, in his fourth season with the Titans, has really felt the impact. He hoped to improve his skills in the offseason and show up ready to go. “The lanes were shut down eight or nine months and when I came back everything was lost,” Perok said. “My release wasn’t right. I had low scores. There were big problems when it was time to come back. “Every time we shut down causes me to lose muscle memory. I was worried there wasn’t going to be a season this year. We’re having a season, but it’s shorter.” Perok said he’s “OK” with the shorter season – anything as long as the Titans get to bowl as a team. “I got back in the groove,” he said, noting that his average has climbed to 160 and he’s hoping for bigger things ahead. Perok added that the off-andon bowling season has limited opportunities for bowlers to be scouted
SENIORS Zachary Altizer Gavin Baksic Gabriel Becraft Annalyse Hudson Jordan Hunt Alex Merriman Neal Perok Brooke Staten Stefanie Tasevski Steven Thompson JUNIORS Britney Manning Samantha McCuaig Nolan Pesci Luke Piscitelli Alexis Pomponio SOPHOMORES Jacob Beck Hailey Dupuie Adam Hancock Brandy Thompson FRESHMEN Jordan Conner Hannah Hudson Devin Korbal Brandon Renaud by college coaches. He said he plans to pursue a degree in engineering at Lawrence Technological University and hopes to bowl on the college bowling team. No matter what this year turns out to be, Perok and third-year senior Jordan Hunt agree that the season has been memorable and fun. “It’s fun,” Perok said. “The team is just great. We all have fun when we’re doing this.” Hunt, who also plays hockey and golfs and is on the track and field team, said she enjoys her bowling teammates and wants to make the most of their time together on and off the lanes. Making the most of your opportunities is a key, according to SEE BOWLERS, Page 21
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Continued from page 20 Coach Stacey Black-Quantz, who said league rules limit the number of bowlers during matches to six per girls team, six per boys team and six per co-ed/junior varsity squad. “Honestly, I just want to see improvement,” the coach said. “That means we’re winning. Whether we win at points, that’s a bonus. To see everyone have fun and get better, that’s what I like to see.” Anderson is about .500 across the board midway through the season. Woodhaven Lanes serves as the Titans’ home bowling alley and the teams compete in various houses in the region. Other teams in the league are Woodhaven, Taylor, Wyandotte Roosevelt, Gibraltar Carlson, Trenton, Lincoln Park and Dearborn Edsel Ford.
Only four schools bowl during each of the bowling dates at a particular establishment. There are two Baker games and two regular games on each day. Anderson is a team of mixed seasoning and experience. Some join a school team after years of bowling in youth and travel teams. Others are brand new to the sport. Coach Black-Quantz said she enjoys seeing the newcomers improve. Perok is usually the lead-off bowler on the boys team, something that he enjoys despite the added pressure. Junior Luke Piscitelli, who had the high average on the team last year, is averaging 186 this season, one pin less than junior Nolan Pesci. Both have state tournament experience. A mix of seniors Gabriel Becraft, Steven Thompson, Alex Merriman and Gavin Baksic and sophomore Jacob Beck fill out the boys team lineup. The girls team is led by Hunt, senior Stefanie Tasevski, juniors Britney Manning and Samantha
McCuaig and sophomore Hailey Dupuie. The other slot is usually filled by seniors Annalyse Hudson or Brooke Staten or sophomore Brandy Thompson. Other boys and girls on the team bowl with the coed squad. Coach Black-Quantz credited former Coach Sean Sevrence with guiding the team to great heights in the past. She also thanked parent-coaches Ben Piscitelli, Angela Manning, Steven Thompson and Stacey Hudson with making a difference. “For me, this is all about the kids,” Black-Quantz said. “That’s how I look at everything. I love seeing the kids and their faces when they do good. “They’re all great kids. I’ve never had any issues with them. I have a great group of student athletes. They’re just amazing. I couldn’t ask for a better team. “It’s been a crazy season. I’m just glad the kids have a season at all.”
< The 2021 Southgate Anderson boys bowling team.
Team photos by David Ely @EPI sports
< The 2021 Southgate Anderrson girls bowling team.
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Downriver United offers high school hockey to girls
Thanks to a group of dedicated coaches, the future of girls high school hockey Downriver is looking brighter. The Downriver United girls hockey team, now in the midst of its first season, features a roster of 15 players from communities throughout the region, and even a little beyond. Coach Ken McMullen had been thinking of putting a team together for some years before starting the Trenton Girls Hockey Association three years ago, which then led to the effort to grow the game at local high schools. “Several of us got together to do this,” he said. “We’re trying to build a youth program from the ground up.” Like other youth sports, Downriver United’s first official season has had to work around restrictions created by the pandemic, and despite some slowdowns have been at it pretty much all year. DRU started with 19 girls before some moved, bringing the number of players down to 15. Girls hockey is sanctioned by the Michigan High School Athletic Association. DRU is an affiliate member of the Michigan Girls High School Hockey League, which has existed since the 1990s.
Downriver United 2020-21 roster
Adyson Brake, freshman, Carlson High School Aivree Shaw, freshman Andie Martin, captain, senior, Huron High School Ava Renaud, Trenton Bridget Waddell, assistant captain, Allen Park High School Emily Bruce, junior, Trenton High School Erin Banasiak, freshman, Garden City High School Jailyn Cotter, sophomore, Allen Park High School Kaeli Kopytko, sophomore, Flat Rock High School Kylie Drys, sophomore, Huron High School Maddie Pemberton, freshman, Wyandotte Roosevelt High School Maya Sinclair, freshman, Grosse Ile High School Meg Cahalan, assistant captain, freshman,Wyandotte Roosevelt High School Mia McMullen, sophomore, Huron High School Reese Dale, freshman, Flat Rock High School Coaches: Head Coach: Ken McMullen Assistant Coach: Dan Renaud Assistant Coach: Mike Cahalan Assistant Coach: Gordan Dale Goalie Coach: Matt Wierzba: Great Lakes Goaltending Student Assistant Coach: Brooke Spiegel Team Manager: Wade Lau
League teams usually are formed according to student ratios, but DRU was allowed in because it’s their first year, and draws from a lot of schools, but not necessarily ones with large student bodies.
There are 18 teams in the MGHL. Affiliate status allows DRU to play league teams, but the games don’t count on those teams’ records. Many Downriver United players drive up to an hour a day to practice.
“It gets the girls used to it,” McMullen said. “There are some extremely solid hockey players in this league and people don’t know it.” But good competition isn’t the only reason he started DRU; 1 in 3 girls hockey players can use the game to go to college. “Our team gets their feet wet,” McMullen said, “The league approved us to draw from multiple schools and we’ve told every girl who wanted to play that they could play. We took one girl from Garden City who’s a hard worker and great student. “We weren’t going to just shut the door.” There are still well over 100 Downriver girls with nowhere to play, and he’s sure that DRU will pave the way for more local high schools to form teams. The program may not be ready to break off to one or two schools next year, but in the future might include branches in Southgate or Wyandotte, where Roosevelt High School Athletic Director Tom DeSana has supported the program’s efforts. “”If this keeps moving there will be enough girls for as many solid high SEE UNITED, Page 23
Southgate girls still looking for that winning formula The 2021 girls high school basketball season has been a tough one so far for the Anderson Titans. Like everyone else, the Titans struggled with the unknowns of the delayed start to the season. Then when the season began, the Titans struggled trying to get their offense in gear. In its first five games, the Titans have reached the 30-point plateau just once, during a 55-31 loss to Carlson. Anderson has also fallen to Gabriel Richard, Allen Park, Roosevelt and Trenton. Since then, the Titans have played Taylor on Feb. 19 and Dearborn Edsel Ford on Feb.22. The 2021 Titans are junior Miranda Graham, junior McKenna Freitas, junior Autumn Bolash, junior Natalie Packwood, senior Natalie Beltran, senior Ava Peryam, junior Riely Thacher, junior Natasha Krasnodemski, senior Paige Hester, junior Danica McCoy, sophomore Ava Zacker and senior Faith Plummer.
Remaining 2021 schedule
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at Lincoln Park Warren Cousino Woodhaven at Allen Park Wyandotte Trenton at Carlson at Taylor Edsel Ford
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Downriver United offers a chance for girls to experience high school hockey. The squad is looking for players.
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games and one out of league, but four other games were canceled because of COVID-19 restrictions. “We’re going out and skating three days a week now,” McMullen said. “That’s better than it was a few weeks ago. But the adversity has made our team stronger. If we can pull this off, then pretty much anything’s possible.” McMullen is quick to credit those
around him for getting DRU off the ground, including assistant coaches Dan Renaud, Mike Cahalan and Gordan Dale; goalie coach Matt Wierzba of Great Lakes Goaltending; student assistant coach Brooke Spiegel and team manager Wade Lau, who has had to negotiate “an absolute roller coaster ride” of scheduling. “Everyone’s positive energy has been
keeping us moving forward,” McMullen said. “It is great to have a great group of coaches all from the Downriver area with one vision: to grow the game of girls ice hockey Downriver. We are always looking to add future student athletes. “Giving them the opportunity is the whole plan. We just do what’s best for the girls.”
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