Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Proud kids, husbands and friends nominate the special women in their lives. Share your photos and stories of mom today, too.
We asked you to tell us why your mom (or grandma or mother figure) is so special in anticipation of Mother's Day and you shared stories and photos that made us laugh and cry. Congratulations to our three winners (chosen at random): Maureen Krasner of Grosse Pointe Farms: Kranser was nominated by her husband, Charles, who said: "Whether we're hiking, biking, picking blueberries, playing in the sand or relaxing at home, Maureen (Mo, Mom) is happy wherever we are as a family. A phenomenal mother, wife and friend, she's always ready to dig in for fun and adventure." Krasner wins dinner at The Root Restaurant & Bar in White Lake. The Rev. Dona Gilsdorf of Birmingham: Gilsdorf, pastor at Unity Church of Rochester, was nominated by Danielle Boes…
Monday, May 14, 2012
Any child’s education is dependent on many variables beyond what happens in the classroom, and individuality, not a school system, is the greatest determinant of output and potential.
It is only here in America (especially here in Bloomfield Hills) where we feel that we are entitled to dictate to those whose profession is different than our own. To illustrate my point let’s look at Dr. Barr’s Letter to the Editor. Dr. Barr is an MD (medical doctor). Would any of us that are not MD’s think to judge Dr. Barr’s work? Probably not. In the here and now though there are many, including Dr. Barr, that are judging whether or not our education establishment is doing its’ job. They are doing this based on the most recent set of magazine rankings of our public high schools. The criterion that is used to set those rankings changes from year to year yet some of us hold those rankings in high esteem. As adults we should recognize …
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Maples’ Spencer Eick tops Berkley’s Stephanie Miller in biggest athlete of the week contest ever!
Seaholm’s Spencer Eick won the Patch Athlete of the Week title for April 30-May 4 in one of the biggest weeks of voting yet. The Maples baseball player picked up nearly 7,500 votes after a week of unscientific polling among Patch readers in Oakland County, or 41 percent of the total votes cast (18,158). He edged out Stephanie Miller from Berkley High School, who also received strong support. The Bears’ soccer player had 40 percent of the votes (7,337). Eick came out on top after strong week at the plate for Seaholm. He went 3-for-4 with two doubles, four RBI and three runs in a 14-3 mercy rule win over Berkley last Friday. A day earlier, he helped the Maples avoid getting swept in a doubleheader against Harrison with a home run and two …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
We have some seats on the tour of Metro Detroit Coney Island Restaurants to give away. The contest closes at noon Friday, May 11, so enter now!
What's your favorite coney island restaurant? Tell us below in comments and you could win a ticket to a coney island bus tour Saturday, May 12. You can join authors of the new book Coney Detroit — Joe Grimm of Bloomfield Township and Katherine Yung of Brighton — on a bus tour by D:Hive Detroit of Metro Detroit for a tasting of their favorite coney island hot dogs. Patch is also sponsoring the tour. The tour runs 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and includes samplings of coneys at the restaurants where the bus stops. The tour will visit some coney local treasures – including a stop at Dearborn restaurant Joe's Top Dog Coney Island – home of the Jim Padilla Special, named for the former Ford Motor Co. president. Also included is a stop at a Greek …
Education will now be compromised further by approval of high school consolidation millage.
Dear friends, We are not angry of the results of May 8 millage. The BHS board invested $3 million dollars to pass it. We are not angry about the 79 millions cost of the project but for the fact that no money, not a penny, is earmarked for education. We are angry with parents who neglected to understand that Andover ranked nationally #448 and Lahser #711. That only 49.4 percent of Andover and 48.2p percent of Lahser graduates were college ready and 23 percent of our students in colleges needed remedial courses. What do 'YES' parents think? A nice building is not a valued diploma. We are angry that previous millages that democratically rejected the very millage passed nevertheless on May 8 bond election. What will the school teach our …
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The district reached out to the community, listened to concerns, and developed a plan that, to this fiscal conservative, made sense.
As a Bloomfield Township parent, I want to take this opportunity to express my and my family's heartfelt gratitude to all involved in One Bloomfield United for their dedication and hard work in getting the school bond passed. I am proud of how they ran their campaign. They took "the high road" and focused on issues, not emotions. It was an intelligent campaign that brought many in our community together toward a common goal. I also want to acknowledge Superintendent Glass, the Board and his staff for their work in reaching out to the community, listening to their concerns, and developing a plan that, to this fiscal conservative, made sense. I choose to believe that those on both sides of this issue had the best interest of our students …
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This minivan is a smart person's car. But am I ready for that?
Editor's note: This is the latest in a series. Read all of the Patch Drives installments here. Who says boring isn’t cool? OK, I said that, just a couple days ago. But after driving a Honda Odyssey I realized boring still isn’t cool, but smart is. And the Odyssey is a smart person’s car. This week I headed over to Honda Bloomfield to test drive an Odyssey. Here’s the thing: I know a few Honda people. You probably know Honda people, too. People who swear there is nothing better than a Honda. People that are practical. People that are serious. People that read the safety reports before shopping for a car. People that are, well, kind of boring. I like to think of myself as more of an edgy, fun, cool kind of chick (that’s why I drive a …
Upload a photo of your mom and tell us why she's special – and you can win dinner or a gift certificate. But do it by noon today!
Have you entered Patch's Mother's Day contest yet? If you want to show your mom how special she is and get the chance to win a prize, you'll need to enter our contest by noon Thursday. You just might win dinner at The Root Restaurant & Bar in White Lake – the Detroit Free Press' Restaurant of the Year – or a $50 gift card at Metals in Time in Royal Oak that we're giving away to moms who touch the lives of readers in our 29 Michigan Patch communities. All you have to do is upload a photo of your mom or mother figure and tell us why she's the best. But don't do it here! Visit our contest page to officially enter. Happy Mother's Day!
Monday, May 7, 2012
Readers Should Begin Anticipating What Happens After Tuesday.
Like many Patch readers, I will be voting YES on May 8th, 2012. Positions are now firmly established so I only urge everyone to mark the date and get to the polls. I also urge Patch readers to begin anticipating what happens after May 8th. I have been very frustrated at times with the mode of argument adopted by some no voters and members of 20/20 in particular. But, as far as I can tell, most members of 20/20 are interested, like many of us, in the reform of public education. Public education itself is under severe attack – not by those who want reform but by those who want it abolished completely. This is not hyperbole. On May 1st, when many of us were wrangling over how we could afford to renovate Andover to help with high school …
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
The vote on May 8th will determine the structure of the school and the reputation
of the community for generations to come.
I just spent more on stationary and stamps to send my neighborhood a letter about the school bond than what it will cost more a year in taxes to appropriately right-size our high schools. Bloomfield Hills High School, home of the Black Hawks, opens in the Fall of 2013 regardless of the bond's passing. The vote on May 8th will determine the structure of the school and the reputation of the community for generations to come. Voters will decide if all students will be on one campus in one renovated building OR if the student body is divided into two old and out-dated buildings (with 9th graders permanently alone in one of those buildings). The one building on one campus solution saves the district $2.4 million in operating costs annually. …
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Ken Jackson
1:09 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Mr. Holt, I am sincerely delighted to hear you are not interested in (overly) criticizing teachers. I don't believe I implied that you were. What I did say, rather directly, was that you were actively distorting the letter writer's arguments or positions -- and you were doing so in a way that fit an altogether too familiar political chant. S. Sera seemed to me to be suggesting the complexity and … more ›