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Officials Launch Cruise with Ribbon Cutting
City and state officials kicked off the Woodward Dream Cruise in Ferndale with a ribbon cutting and Emergency Vehicle Cruise.
City and state officials kicked of the Woodward Dream Cruise in Ferndale with a ribbon cutting at East Nine Mile Road and Woodward, followed by an Emergency Vehicle Cruise.
Mayor Dave Coulter, state Sen. Vincent Gregory (D-Ferndale), state Rep. Ellen Cogen Lipton (D-Ferndale), Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, Ferndale-based Gage Products President Dan Finkiewicz and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, as well as officials from Ford Motor Co., were on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony to launch the 17th Woodward Dream Cruise.
"Cars our in our blood, cars our in our hearts, and cars are what we do," Coulter said at the beginning of the event.
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Ferndale's Woodward Dream Cruise festivities will go until 9 tonight and continue from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday.
"The Dream Cruise knits our communities together, that's what it's all about," Lipton said, adding that the cruise is also a chance "to look at the past but with an eye to the future and where we want to go."
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