Buy a cookbook and help the homeless. Alpha House — a shelter for homeless families in Washtenaw County — has published a cookbook just in time for holiday shopping: Ann Arbor Tailgates: Your Favorite Recipes. It features stories and photos in addition to recipes, and it is most entertaining. You ...
Looking outside, the changing leaves are beautiful, but also a reminder that cold temperatures are quickly on their way. Unfortunately, a lot of kids in our area won’t be prepared. That is why AnnArbor.com is once again beginning its annual Warm the Children campaign. Warm the Children spends $90 per ...
It’s that time of year again, when our city’s population increases by about 35,000, and you’re inundated with back to school ads. At many local churches in Ann Arbor, this means one of the congregations' favorite service events of the year: stuffing backpacks for local students whose families are financially ...
I'm declaring that today is Mitzvah Day! A mitzvah (pronounced MITZ-vuh) is literally translated from the Hebrew as "commandment," but it's taken to mean "good deed." And this is an easy mitzvah to perform: Please vote for one of my very favorite nonprofit organizations — Ann Arbor's own Avalon Housing, ...
We all have our own unique examples of what Washtenaw County is about. Many of my impressions about this community come from talking to so many business owners here for my job as business news director for AnnArbor.com. I also get a sense of who we are, collectively, through the ...
A brown, nondescript building on the Washtenaw County Service Center campus at Hogback and Washtenaw doesn’t look like much — no more than an afterthought among a few mismatched old buildings that remain on the property. In fact, it’s believed the small building was an old utility shed constructed by adding walls to ...
I have been a consistent supporter of the “House By The Side Of The Road” - the only organization in Washtenaw County that provides free clothing and household items to the needy in the area when referred by a social worker. They even help jail clients who are released without ...
It is trendy for many who support the latest wave of government-sponsored social programs to use the concept of "Social Justice" as justification. Let's examine this considering three constituencies, those pushing the agenda, those who would be made to pay, and those receiving the assistance. First, those pushing the agenda ...
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The idea for Damian McGlothlin's new charity is, oddly enough, similar to online movie rental business Netflix.The Pioneer High School junior wanted to start a charity where people could use a website to donate, picking and choosing where their money went - like how Netflix allows folks to choose a movie to rent ...
I don't offer a traditional Seder [SAY-der] at Passover, the eight-day holiday which began at sundown last night and commemorates the Israelites' exodus from slavery in Egypt. I'm always about the food, secular creature that I tend to be; so I prepare a special dinner, but I don't read the ...
Want to donate to Warm the Children? Download a donation form. Letters have been coming in from volunteers and recipients alike praising the Warm the Children campaign this year. But there is still more to do as the year comes to an end. In its 13th year, Warm the Children ...
Want to help? Download the donation coupon. This year’s Warm the Children fund-raising campaign is approaching the $100,000 mark, but there is still a long way to go. “To date we have received $96,496.65 in donations for WTC,” Kori Isaac, who coordinates the program at AnnArbor.com, said on Friday. “We ...
Want to help? Download the donation coupon. When Cathy O’Donnell approached her bosses at The Ann Arbor News to sponsor a program that would put warm clothing on the backs of the area’s poor children, she wasn’t thinking about the long term.
 She’d read about the Warm the Children program ...
Want to help? Download the donation coupon. The Warm the Children program has identified more than 2,600 Ann Arbor area kids who will receive coats, hats, mittens and other clothing this year, thanks to the generosity of the community. Kori Isaac, who coordinates the program at AnnArbor.com, said about a ...
Want to donate to Warm the Children? Download a donation form. Until this fall, Aaron Crooks was in his comfort zone. For the past four years, the Eastern Michigan University baseball player has escorted a family in need on a Warm the Children shopping trip, helping them pick out clothing, ...
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