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Children’s Hospital Of Michigan Researchers Create First 3D/4D “Whole-Brain Map” To Help Those With Epilepsy, Brain Tumors

Having epilepsy or a brain tumor is scary enough but that fear is compounded when patients face the possibility of speech and language deficits after corrective surgery. Now they can rest a little easier thanks to the work of a DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSUSOM) research team. After 10 years of continuous work they have developed a set of electronic tools that can draw 3D and 4D “space- and time-based” maps of the neuron-signaling across...

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Dabls Creates Mural To Tell The Story Of A Company That Invested In The City Before It Was "Hot"

Cindy Pasky often spends her Saturdays mornings at Eastern Market buying food, flowers, maybe a little wine, and checking out the shops and art. On one trip she admired the work of Detroit mural artist Olayami Dabls and reached out to him to create a piece for her company, Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3). He agreed and Pasky commissioned a 25-foot long piece that would tell the story of her company, founded in the city in 1990, and the mission it holds dear. “Dabls was incredible to work w...

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Motown Movement Aims To Build Education Center Focused On Affordable, Sustainable Housing

Do you remember the story of the Dutch boy who stuck his finger in the dike to stop the leak and saved the town? That’s what three Dutch architecture students are doing in Detroit. They hope to put their finger in the dike and help Detroiters cut their energy costs and save more houses that might still have life from demolition. Bob Hendrikx, Dominik Lukkes, and Ronen Dan just launched their nonprofit Motown Movement project, which aims to make blighted homes livable again by reducing energy...

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New Farm To Freezer In Eastern Market Will Create Jobs, Offer More Fresh Food Access

It’s going to be even easier for schools, grocery stores, community feeding programs and restaurants to get, and keep, fresh foods from local farmers at Eastern Market. The market announced this week a partnership with Michigan Farm to Freezer, a community-based processor of fruits and vegetables in Northern Michigan that is expanding operations to Detroit. It takes produce sourced and purchased from local farmers, flash-freezes it to preserve nutrients and flavors and packages it for purcha...

One Earth Writing Teaches Teens How Storytelling Can Bridge Cultural Gaps

Kids love to tell stories. What’s terrific is their storytelling can build bridges across communities, neighborhoods, nationalities, religions, socioeconomic status and more. That’s the goal of One Earth Writing, a nonprofit that connects student writers in grades 7 through 12 from different races, religions and socioeconomic backgrounds through its application-only Ambassador writing program. As they sit down and write stories that share details of their lives – loves, disappointments, spor...

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Local Women’s Group To Donate 20,000 Books To Promote Literacy In Detroit

Sitting in a hospital bed can be really boring for kids (and adults) but reading can transport them to a whole new world. To help that along, Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women donated 3,500 books to Children’s Hospital of Michigan as part of its Detroit Fraternity Day of Service. This month the group will donate 20,000 new books to Detroit area schools, after-school programs and community programs serving students from low-income families. For any kids it will be the first new book they’ve ever...

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Defeating Detroit's Lead Poisoning Problem, House By House

Back in 2015 Maria heard a knock on the door of her home in Southwest Detroit. When she opened it she found a team member from Green and Healthy Homes Initiative Detroit-Wayne County. He had good news. He told her he could help make her home healthier and safer for little or no cost. That’s what GHHI Detroit-Wayne County does. A collaboration of nearly 50 partner organizations, it is committed to create green, healthy and safe homes for children and families living in Detroit and Wayne County....

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Play Ball! Renovations To Calcara Park Finished, Youth Baseball Ready To Start

Calcara Park is now a field of dreams for young kids enrolled in Detroit Police Athletic League (PAL) youth baseball programs. Last year PAL received a $25,000 Grand Slam Grant from Comerica Bank to renovate the field, located at Charlevoix St. and Ellery St. The completion of the park was announced by the bank at recent the Detroit Tigers Winter Caravan stop at the Comerica Michigan Market Headquarters. Comerica did more than just pass out dollars. Volunteers from the bank joined members of...

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HealthQuest Clinics Help THAW Heat Homes For Families In Need

Dr. Sol Cogan treated Detroit Lions football players for nearly 14 years. Today he uses many of those same therapies on patients of all ages and physical conditions to help relieve pain at his HealthQuest chiropractic clinic. Cogan also wants to help relieve the pain many families in metro Detroit and Michigan feel when they can’t afford to heat their homes. So, through January, new patients can book appointments for just $20 to receive a detailed consultation, comprehensive examination, and l...

Rochester Hills student wins Detroit auto show high school poster contest

There are budding artists in high schools all over Michigan just waiting to break out. This year many of them in grades 10-12 entered the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) 29th annual Poster Contest to show off their talent. What a terrific job they did. There were 890 entries from 70 schools across our state and these young artists certainly captured the show in their work. Someday many of them may well be designing your vehicles. “The work and creativity displayed by these you...

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65,000 streetlights and $185 million later, Detroit has working streetlights has in every zip code

It’s finally done. After three year of work, Detroit has streetlights in every zip code. On Thursday, December 15, the Public Lighting Authority (PLA) installed the last of 65,000 new LED streetlights in the city. That completes a massive $185 million relighting program that began in February 2014 after Mayor Mike Duggan and Detroit City Council appointed a new board to lead the project. The last stretch of replaced lights was turned on during a ceremony at dusk just east of downtown Detroit...

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Buy a cutting board made from reclaimed Detroit wood and help COTS feed a homeless family

Need that special gift made FROM Detroit? Here’s a thought – a handcrafted, reclaimed wood charcuterie serving and sandwich board are created out of wood from Detroit homes. Each board is stamped with the address of the home where the wood was reclaimed. Boards sell for $50 and are soaked in mineral oils for 24 hours after final sanding and allowed to air dry for an additional 24 hours. A final, all-natural wax seals and protects each 7½ x 15 x ¾ board.  No two boards are alike. Best of al...

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There’s a new playground coming for emerging artists to get together in Detroit

It’s sad but true. Detroit lacks a major infrastructure for the arts. Sure, there are established institutions such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Artists Market and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit: MOCAD. They are great, but some of the city’s emerging artists, designers and musicians wonder where they can come together for support, promotion and simply camaraderie? Many of them are young – in the 20s and 30s – and want to make a splash in Detroit, and they want Detroit...

Discover Christmas in Mexicantown at Southwest Holiday Fest on December 10

Here’s your chance to get in the holiday spirit, enjoy great food and learn a little about Christmas in Mexico, The fourth annual Southwest Holiday Fest is Saturday, December 10 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the heart of Detroit’s Mexicantown neighborhood. The family friendly festival is packed with fun winter-themed activities. You can see it all in the Bagley/Vernor Corridor between 16th and 25th Streets while sipping hot chocolate or traditional Mexican Christmas fruit punch. Be sure to expl...

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Two projects in Detroit aiming to increase access to healthy food & spur economic development receive $75,000

Imagine what it would be like to want an apple, a pear, a banana or carrots, peas, or, yes, even broccoli, and there was no place to get them. That’s what more than 1.8 million Michigan residents, including 300,000 children, face every day, according to the Michigan Good Food Fund. They live in lower‐income communities with limited access to the fruits and vegetables they need to be healthy and avoid serious illnesses such as obesity. Limited access to the right foods goes hand-in-hand with...

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Figure Skating in Harlem selects Detroit as their first expansion city

The world of figure skating and the discipline, self-confidence and leadership skills it can bring just opened up for 300 Detroit girls ages six to 15. Figure Skating in Harlem (FSH) has selected Detroit as the first city in a planned national expansion of its academic, figure skating and leadership program, Figure Skating in Detroit (FSD). FSH is the only organization in the world for girls of color that combines the life-transforming power of education with access to the artistic discipline...

Love The Detroit Zoo? Love Holiday Lights? Vote For "Wild Lights" To Be The Best In The US

If you’re getting ready to ooh and aah at the holiday lights at the Detroit Zoo this year, that’s great. They are spectacular. You can also help the display be named the Best Zoo Lights in the US by USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice, by voting once a day until noon on Monday, December 5. Click here to vote for Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo. Don’t just vote. Don’t miss it. You can purchase tickets here for $10. It’s $13 at the gate. The show display is November 18-20, 25-27; December 1-4, 8...

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A Silent Night Story That Gives Us Hope For Our Future Will Be At The MOT This Month

Nov. 12-20 the Michigan Opera Theatre will present American Composer Kevin Puts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary opera, Silent Night. The two-act opera is based on actual events and explores the unsustainability of war when enemies come to know each other as friends. This is a must see that gives us hope for our future. Here’s what happened. On Christmas morning in 1914 World War I stopped for a few hours for thousands of soldiers fighting along the 500-mile Western Front. It wasn’t...