Wednesday, October 26, 2011
They are our mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmas, husbands, uncles, friends and neighbors — and they all fought breast cancer. These brave Michigan men and women shared their stories with Patch.
We went looking for faces of survival. We found inspiration. Patch asked Michigan women and men who have fought breast cancer to share their struggles, tears and triumphs with us during October – Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer survivor Cynde Lebert, 59, of Canton, tells newly diagnosed women: “You'll be fine. You're alive and that's the most important thing.” Farmington Hills resident Dick Jaeger, 70, is one of the approximately 2,140 men diagnosed each year with breast cancer. "The answer is know your body and don't take anything for granted," Jaeger said. "Every day, I'm a cancer survivor," said Jean Bean, a 58-year-old mom, wife and interior designer from Rochester. "I don't obsess about it, but it's always there." Nancy …
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Everyone loves a good treat! Operation: Delicious brings tasty snacks to the Rust Belt Market a few weekends a month. Stop by the stand this weekend to sweeten your day.
The Rust Belt Market offers a unique experience for patrons as well as vendors. The new art market is host to more than 60 artists every weekend. Each week, Ferndale Patch will feature one artist and get a closer view of what the heck they do. Ferndale Patch: Who are you and what do you do? Katy Oren: I'm Katy Oren, the owner of Operation: Delicious. I bring a smorgasbord of sweets to The Rust Belt Market a few weekends a month. Though the chocolate chip cookie bars sell the best, I like to make blueberry cookies, cookies with soy sauce frosting, Arnold Palmer bars, and s'mores pies. I love cooking, and all things cooking related - with the exception of scrubbing dishes. Ferndale Patch: How did you get your start? Oren: Before The Rust …
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The Rust Belt Market
22801 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Restaurant known for vegetarian, vegan fare gets makeover and new menu items, but stays true to macrobiotic roots.
These days, most people seem to know a little more about food. Thanks to movies such as Food, Inc., food activist and writer Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation, the anti-processed, vegetarian and slow food movements have entered the main stream. When Colleen Smiley started Om Cafe in Ferndale, she was ahead of her time. In 1985, it was a little off the beaten path to omit meat from menus, choosing instead an array of homegrown fruits, vegetables and grains free of antibiotics, growth hormones and genetic modification. Smiley's son, Jason Thibodeau calls his mother “a pioneer of sorts. She started this veggie/vegan cafe for the love of people and the love of food, not for business reasons.” Her customers showed…
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Om Cafe
23136 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI
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Friday, October 7, 2011
From the Cold Wave to just Allan James, songwriting Allan James Sherman switches focus and goes solo.
I first knew him as Allan James. He was a songwriter and performer, his stout frame bearing a strong, swooning voice. He was singing at local clubs in 2007 as he figured out where to go next having just departed another band. Then I knew him as just A.J., and he had a regular backing band, billed as Allan James & the Cold Wave. The next year it was just The Cold Wave -- still fronted by Sherman. And, as of his most recent performance at Ferndale's DIY Street Fair in September, it was back to Allan James. "Momentarily," Sherman said, "I'm done with the 'band mentality.' It's easier, especially when you have a lot of talented friends, for me to be able to pick members up on the go, now, just some of my buds, instead of a definitive crew. It'…
Art, Music, Stories, Pictures: Our Recap of the Fair-Filled Weekend, 3 Bands, 2 Arms, 1 DIY Street Fair, and Ferndale DIY Profile: Ryan Allen, Musician, Writer, Dad
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1 S Saginaw St, Pontiac, MI
Crofoot
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Friday, September 30, 2011
The Ferndale Police Department and Ferndale City Council awarded Miles Vanmeter a Citizen Award Monday night for thwarting a bike theft on Aug. 30.
Ferndale Police Chief Tim Collins awarded Miles Vanmeter a Citizen Award for his work in thwarting the theft of a $400 bike on Aug. 30. Vanmeter was working at Como's that evening when he saw someone near a bike locked to a lamppost. Vanmeter told police he thought the person was acting suspiciously — but it was about to get even more suspicious. Vanmeter witnessed the person pull out bolt cutters and cut the lock that secured the bike. "(Vanmeter) immediately called 911," Collins said. Vanmeter gave an excellent description of the suspect and the direction the suspect took. Collins said that as the suspect pedaled away, Vanmeter ran in the same direction, continuing to give information to police dispatch. Vanmeter's efforts allowed …
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Como's
22812 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Ferndale Patch spoke with 21 people about what DIY meant to them.
In the lead-up to the DIY Street Fair, Kelly Bennett, a Ferndale Patch contributor, had the idea to go out into the community and find the artists, musicians, crafters, business owners, professionals, this person, that person and whoever else to talk DIY (Do-It-Yourself) with us. There was no shortage to choose from and unfortunately we couldn't get to everyone; the idea was to finish it up on the last day of the DIY Street Fair (Sept. 16-18). In our research, we found 21 ideas, 21 projects, and 21 people (and in two cases a couple) with a story to share of doing it themselves. What came out of it was such a broad range of the DIY concept, such an amazing snapshot of who is living in and doing things in Ferndale and such a wonderful array …
Ferndale DIY Profile: Ann Simonetti and Siouxsan Miller, Owners of Green Daffodil Studio, Ferndale DIY Profile: Mike Ross, Musician, Record Label Manager, Friend to Rabbits, Ferndale DIY Profile: Kelly Pettibone LaPointe, Owner of Naka, Jewelry-Maker, Proud Mom, and 19 more ›
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The Rust Belt Market
22801 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI
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Naka
171 W 9 Mile Rd, Ferndale, MI
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Green Daffodil Studio
624 Livernois St, Ferndale, MI
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
As part of our DIY series, we asked Ferndale residents five questions about what DIY means and how they put the philosophy to use.
Many of the participants in this DIY Profile Project have mentioned Rust Belt Market. Chris Best and his wife Tiffany are the owners of the latest edition to Ferndale's DIY landscape. 1. Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Chris Best. My wife and I started the Rust Belt Market in May. I am a former tradesman and Tiffany was a former landscaper. We quit both of our jobs in order to give our fledgling business our full attention. 2. What does DIY mean to you? DIY means mixed things to me. At first it makes me cringe. The DIY movement over the past 15 years has given rise to the do it yourself homeowners fixing their own plumbing or building their own deck. Some guys can pull it off with great success. Others should not even own a …
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The Rust Belt Market
22801 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Sean Sommer will perform three times during the DIY Street Fair, drumming for the band Destroy This Place, and performing with the musicians Ryan Allen and Allen James.
Sean Sommer just wants to relax, have fun, and hang out with friends. In doing so, he'll be drumming three times, with three separate projects this weekend for the DIY Street Fair. Today, Sommer, 31, plays with his main band, Destroy This Place, on the Metro Times stage on East Troy between the Emory and the Woodward Avenue Brewers at 5:40 p.m. Saturday. "That's the band I'm in and I try to live up to the name when I drum," he said. On Sunday, he'll play solo sets with local musicians Allen James (A.J. Sherman) and Ryan Allen (who is also in the Destroy This Place with Sommer.) "A.J. and I used to be in the Cold Wave, but these are not Cold Wave songs. It's totally new stuff from A.J.," Sommer said. "The A.J. thing, I'll be very conscious …
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Loving Touch
22634 Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI
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E Troy St & Woodward Ave, Ferndale, MI
Metro Times stage
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Michael McShane has been using the substance and claims it's a cure for what ails him.
A Ferndale resident claims he has found a cure for skin cancer in the oil of medical marijuana. Michael McShane told WWJ that he's been applying topical oil made from medical marijuana on the skin cancer on his forehead and says it is nearly gone in just two months. “I’ve got biopsies, chart notes, photographs … in about three weeks I’m going to go back and really wrap this part of the case up,” McShane told the radio station. “It’s made the same way a lot of the fragrances and perfumes are made, and the oil is applied, in my case, directly to the skin, and within 10 weeks my cancer is gone.” McShane's dermatologist, Dr. Ali Moiin, however, isn't convinced and said the results warrant further scientific study. “There is some active …
Ferndale resident chronicled the growth of the electronic music scene in Detroit before the Movement was even a thought.
Music journalist and Ferndale resident Dan Sicko, a key figure in the local electronic music scene, died Sunday after a years-long battle with cancer. He was 42. Sicko wrote Techno Rebels, released in 1999, about Detroit's dance music movement. To this day, the book remains the scene's defining publication, according to URB magazine, an independent music magazine. "... he was the first guy who legitimized Detroit's techno history," Jason Huvaere, director of Movement: Detroit's Electronic Music Festival, told the Free Press on Sunday. "Now, the world is drowning in Detroit techno coverage. But before that, there was Dan, who not only understood the history of the city and electronic music, but he was the historian who put it all down on …
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Spaulding & Curtin Funeral Directors
500 W 9 Mile Rd, Ferndale, MI
Dan Sicko's visitation will be 2-9 p.m. Wednesday.
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Saint James Catholic Church
241 Pearson St, Ferndale, MI
Services for Dan Sicko will take place at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
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Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey
11:39 am on Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wow Stacy. We'll be sure to get this on our events calendar. Can you email me or marina.cracchiolo@patch.com with the details? And best wishes to Nichole! more ›