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By Alan MadlaneLay down your red and
yellow smoke bombs,fans.
At least for the timebeing.
The Detroit City Foot-ball Club – “Le Rouge”to its faithful -- has seenits men’s season cometo an end, even as ithad only just begun.
Blame a certain un-friendly virus whosename rhymes with“Verona.”
Indeed, in a crueltwist worthy of Shake-speare himself, the clubhas seen the rug – orthe pitch – pulled outfrom under them justone game in.
The team had justthis season newlyjoined an upper tier ofplay, the National Inde-pendent Soccer Associ-ation (NISA), only tohave it all come tonaught.
The women’s team, it-self just formed, has
To our Muslim community:
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By Charles SercombeHamtramckans have
long complained aboutspeeding and recklessdrivers.
Just who are thesefolks behind the wheel?
Hamtramck, take alook in the mirror.
According to traffic cita-tions issued by Ham-tramck police officersfrom June 1 to Dec. 31,2019 – a six-month pe-riod – most of the ticketswent to Hamtramckans.
According to police sta-tistics, which The Reviewobtained by a Freedom ofInformation Act request,there were 1,078 ticketsissued to residents.
The next highest viola-tors came from Detroit –
985 of them.The tickets included
moving violations, no in-surance, expired licenseplates and drunk driving.
The most common
ticket issued was forspeeding, which therewere 923 issued duringthose six months.
The next highest wasfor impeding traffic – 485
tickets – which is a catch-all ticket that usuallymeans a police officergave a driver a break forsomething more serious,
By Charles SercombeAs expected, there is
no shortage of candi-dates seeking the StateRepresentative seat thatIsaac Robinson held.
Robinson died a fewweeks ago, with COVID-19 being the suspectedcause, which prompted aspecial election to fill theremainder of his term.
And by the time the Au-gust primary and Novem-ber election are over,what will remain of thatterm is a mere sixweeks.
But just to complicatethings, there is also a si-multaneous election fora regular term that be-gins in January.
The candidates signedup for both elections.
There are three Ham-tramck residents whoare in the running forboth the partial seat andthe regular term.
Former City Coun-cilmember Saad Almas-mari and residentsChristopher Wojtowiczand MD Rabbi Alamdropped out of the racelast Friday, the deadlineto do so.
Also dropping out wasCorletta Vaughn, of De-troit.
Almasmari’s withdrawalfrom the election is a
By Alan MadlaneRoy Feldman is a Ham-
tramck photographerwith a hefty resume.
Forty years in the busi-ness have certainlytaught him a thing orthree about his chosencraft.
Last month, his newestexhibit, titled “Truth &Grace,” was on display at
the M ContemporaryGallery in Ferndale. Theexhibit featured manyHamtramck residents assubjects.
The coronavirus put thestops to that, alas. But,you can see his work on-line at mcontemporar-yart.com/roy-feldman.
Feldman’s credentials
Just who is guilty of driving recklessly?You’d be surprised, or not
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Race ison forstate seat
‘Serendipity’ is the keyto this photographer’ssuccess
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Hamtramckans have themselves mostly to blame for speeding and reckless driv-ers. In 2019, the police department issued over 14,000 traffic citations. File photo
Photographer Roy Feldman has created a series of Ham-tramck photos, which you can see on his website. Anyonewant to bet that “The Nut Gatherers” painting was an in-spiration for this photo?
Nutritional tips for students
Have stay-home stu-dents?
Bet their always hungry,right?
We have help.The website Resilient
Educator has some help-ful ideas, for example.True, these tips were orig-inally aimed at teachers.But, hey, you’re theteacher now, right,teacher?
So, here we go:• Keep lessons on
good eating simple, andfocused on one aspect ofnutrition at a time, ide-ally.
• Engage students withcooking practice, or havethem start, or pitch in,with a garden. Some kidswho are vegetable-aversemay be more inclined totry things they’ve grownor helped grow them-selves, the website sug-gests.
• Help the students to
stay aware of their energyneeds, depending for ex-ample on how physicalthey’ve been during theday.
• Try making or printingoff a couple visual aids,such as posters orcharts, to help schoolkids understand con-cepts more easily.
•The CDC chimes inwith the advice to alwayskeep clean drinking waterclose at hand. Water canhelp stem hunger, andobviously, it keeps kidshydrated, which helpstheir concentration,among other things.
• Consider offering re-wards for following goodnutrition, they add.
• For younger kids es-pecially, help created amore physical learningsetting. Act out stories,walk off math problems,anything to keep them
moving and work offsome energy.
• Also, encouragequiet, restful sleep. Ifneed be, mandate thatall devices be kept in alockbox not in the stu-
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such as running a redlight.
Other most-issued tick-ets include: driving whilelicense suspended(465), no insurance(418), disobeying a stopsign (272), running a redlight (125), equipmentfailures (48), failing tosignal (47), careless driv-ing (27) and squealing oftires (12).
In many instances, driv-ers were issued a combi-nation of tickets.
So, are the number oftickets issued here inHamtramck typical of
other communities?According to a Detroit
News article from 2018,many communities haveseen a decline in thenumber of tickets issuedfor the last several years– mostly because depart-ments have cut back onstaffing.
Hamtramck used tohave an aggressive –some said much too ag-gressive – traffic ticketprogram, but that hasbeen greatly scaledback.
In total, Hamtramck is-sued 14,812 traffic cita-tions in 2019, but over9,000 of those ticketswere for parking viola-tions.
Other details emergedfrom reviewing the statis-tics:
• Suburbanites oftenget snagged for drunkdriving – apparently, theycan’t handle Ham-tramck’s rotgut of choice,“Jezy” -- or as it is prop-erly known: Jezynowka, aPolish blackberry brandy.
• If you drive a DodgeCharger, you are mostlikely going to be bustedfor speeding, carelessdriving or squealing tires.
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mystery, considering thatin the 2018 Primary Elec-tion, he came in secondbehind Robinson, byabout 600 votes.
We reached out to Al-masmari for comment,but his phone was not ac-cepting calls.
There is also one Re-publican signed up forthe regular term election.
Hamtramck candidatesinclude former Coun-cilmember ShahabAhmed, community ac-tivists Abraham Aiyashand Michele Oberholtzer.
The 4th District in-cludes Hamtramck andpart of Detroit. Voters inthe district have histori-cally favored the Demo-cratic candidate, so
whoever wins the AugustPrimary Election is all butguaranteed to win in No-vember.
The regular term is twoyears. A candidate canserve three terms, and isthen termed out of office.Robinson was still in hisfirst term.
Here is the list of thecandidates:
Partial termShahab Ahmed (D),
9115 Conant, Ham-tramck
Abraham Aiyash (D),5000 Yemans, Ham-tramck
Anthony Ali (D), 658Lawrence, Detroit
Christopher L. Collins(D), 2256 Leland, Detroit
DeLorean Holmes (D),7359 Kipling, Detroit
Michele Oberholtzer(D), 2694 Trowbridge,Hamtramck
Tonya Myers Phillips(D), 830 Blaine, Detroit
Gregory Reyner (D),1181 Atkinson, Detroit
Abraham Shaw (D),10254 Gratiot, Detroit
Tawanna Simpson (D),1500 Atkinson, Detroit
Sigmunt John Szczep-kowski, Jr. (D), 13205Charest, Detroit
Full termShahab Ahmed (D),
9115 Conant, Ham-tramck
Abraham Aiyash (D),5000 Yemans, Ham-tramck
Anthony Ali (D), 658Lawrence, Detroit
Christopher L. Collins(D), 2256 Leland, Detroit
DeLorean Holmes (D),7359 Kipling, Detroit
Frazier K. Kimpson (D),4106 Aretha, Detroit
Michele Oberholtzer(D), 2694 Trowbridge,Hamtramck
Tonya Myers Phillips(D), 830 Blaine, Detroit
Gregory Reyner (D),1181 Atkinson, Detroit
Abraham Shaw (D),10254 Gratiot, Detroit
Tawanna Simpson (D),1500 Atkinson, Detroit
Sigmunt John Szczep-kowski, Jr. (D), 13205Charest, Detroit
Howard Wheathington(R), 948 Chicago, Detroit
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By Charles SercombeAs expected, Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer ex-tended her “stay home,stay safe” directive foranother two weeks.
The semi-quarantinewill run through May 15,even as a limited numberof businesses and serv-ices have been permittedto open back up.
Some of the busi-nesses that can get backto work include nurs-eries, landscapers, bikerepair shops, paintshops, and golf courses,as well as certain activi-ties such as some con-struction and motorizedboating. Everyone is stillbeing encouraged topractice social distancingwhen out in public.
The governor is also re-quiring people to wearface masks when goinginto enclosed publicspaces. However, there isno penalty for failing to
do so.The governor’s order
still prohibits all publicand private gatherings ofany number of people,between groups who arenot part of a singlehousehold.
Residents can stillleave their homes to carefor family members andpets, have work done ontheir vehicles or bikes,work at businesses per-mitted to be open, attendfunerals or legal proceed-ings, or get outdoor recre-ation.
Have a cabin or resi-dence up north? You cannow travel to those resi-dences, although the gov-ernor is discouraging it.
It’s still unknown whenrestaurants and bars willbe allowed to open theirdoors. What’s further un-known is just how manypeople will return to theirfavorite eateries andbars even after the banis lifted.
Gov. Whitmer has em-phasized that further re-openings will depend onwhether COVID-19 cases
continue to decline in thestate.
Hamtramck rate hasbeen increasing. At presstime Thursday, therewere 135 cases and 15deaths in the city causedby the disease.
It is feared by somethat opening all busi-nesses at one time couldlead to a second wave ofa coronavirus pandemic– perhaps even far worsethan the initial outbreak.
In the meantime, manyof Hamtramck’s smallbusiness owners havetaken huge financial hits.
There is some goodnews. There is a secondround of loans beingmade available throughthe Small Business Ad-ministration.
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There is over $300 bil-lion available for Michi-gan businesses to tapinto.
Virus update: ‘stay home’ order extended, business loans available
The lore of Hamtramck …
By Greg KowalskiThe COVID-19 pan-
demic is neither the firstnor the worst publichealth threat to hit theworld.
Since this virus hasarisen and changed theway the world operates,at least for now, therehave been TV showsabout the Spanish flu,which raged across theworld 100 years ago.And there are compar-isons to the BlackPlague, cholera, polioand other diseases thathave ravaged humanity.
Early in the 20th cen-tury there was anotherthreat that drew a lot ofattention because, likepolio, is especially tar-geted young people - andit was widespread. It was
tuberculosis.How locally serious it
was is shown in the Ham-tramck Public School bul-letin of April, 1931, in anarticle, by P.P. Jacobs,Ph.D., titled “The Danger-ous Age: Tuberculosis isAgain King of the Hostsof Death.”
“Few people know thattuberculosis still killsmore persons between18 and 35 than any otherdisease,” the articlebegan. “Much of thegreat reduction in thegeneral death rate, whichhas been cut in half inthe last 20 years, is inthe group of childrenfrom 5 to 14 years ofage. Tuberculosis is stillconsidered a major pub-lic health problem -- it isaptly called ‘the foe of
youth’ by 1,400 tubercu-losis associationsthroughout the countryengaged in all-year-roundwork to reduce its rav-ages.”
Tuberculosis is unlikeCOVID-19 in a key way:Tuberculosis is notcaused by a virus butrather, it is bacterial. Bac-terial diseases can betreated by antibiotics, butin 1931, antibacterialmedicine was not com-mon.
In fact, major testing ofantibiotics began just ayear after this article ap-peared in the school bul-letin.
But the approach to tu-berculosis back then wasquite similar to what weare being advised today
When the big health threat was TB
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could fill a gallery bythemselves.
They include hundredsof assignments as a free-lancer for the DetroitFree Press, as well asabout a thousand morefor the C&G newspaperchain across the metroarea.
Feldman was also theofficial photog for theJazz Festival and theAuto Show; official stillsphotographer for GM,Navistar Defense, theKresge Foundation andthe Midwest division ofthe U.S. Department ofEnergy; and a staff pho-tographer at Ford Motorwhen the job paid acushy six-figure salarywith a company carthrown in; when privatejet travel alongsideWilliam Clay Ford be-came the norm.
He’s taught his craft atthe College for CreativeStudies; had photos inElizabeth Avedon’s lim-ited edition book “Fossilsof Light + Time”; and is amember of both the Na-tional Press Photogra-phers and the WhiteHouse Press Photogra-phers.
Suffice to say, he’s paidsome dues.
These days, he co-pro-duces a Tuesday night
PBS program called “De-troit Performs,” and alsofocuses on his art aswhat he calls a “docu-mentary style” photogra-pher (he doesn’t care forthe term “street photog-raphy” so much).
He resides abouta stone’s throw from theReview’s office, andpopped by to answer afew quick questions:
Review: Were you fromHamtramck originally?
Feldman: No. I’moriginally from Detroit,the east side.
Review: How long haveyou been a working pho-tographer?
Feldman: About 40
years overall. Twenty-fivemaking money from it.
Review: How did youget into it, or whatbrought you to it as a vo-cation?
Feldman: I did snap-shots at first. Then, at aplace where I was work-ing, I won’t say where, Igot to watch a pro atwork. Eventually, I be-came an assistant forhim.
Review: Talk abouthow you came to dostreet photography.
Feldman: I don’t likethat term, street photog-raphy. I don’t feel that’swhat my work is.
Review: Can you de-scribe your process orapproach, then?
Feldman: I try to simplytake “truthful” photos.No Photoshopping. Thereis the element ofserendipity, of chance,luck. I find that too manyso-called street photogra-phers go for the sensa-tional shot, even if it’snot always fully respect-ful of their subjects.
I always try to make re-spectful photographs,ones that give the sub-ject dignity. I just want tomake well-composed,“normal” shots.
Review: When did youfinally settle here?
Feldman: About two
years ago. I like the peo-ple, the arts community.I found that I kept oncoming here over andover to interview folks.
My photos, I feel, arethe kind that can’t bemade unless you knowthe city, the people you’retaking them of. Some ofmy subjects, I get invited
into their homes now, getinvited over for meals orso on.
That’s why I like thistown so much; you don’thave that happen every-where.
Again, that website forFeldman’s photos is:mcontemporaryart.com/roy-feldman.
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MONDAY, May 25, 9 a.m. – Wayne CountyCommissioner Martha G. Scott hosts a freeCommunity Coffee Hour every fourth Monday ofthe month at Maine Street Restaurant, 11650Jos. Campau.
SATURDAY, May 30, 10a.m.-2p.m. – The an-nual Health Hike takes place at Pulaski Park(9625 Lumpkin St.), featuring a 5K and 1 milefun run, face painting, lunch, yoga, raffle draw-ing and more.
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Review: Opinion PageIn Our Opinion
Two more weeks.Gov. Gretchen Whit-
mer has extended her“stay home, stay safe”directive until May 15, inhopes that the coron-avirus pandemic light-ens up.
That means not goingout to bars, restaurants,movie theaters, concerthalls, church as andother public places.
A lot of us our goingbonkers staying home,but most of us know it’sfor the best.
This pandemic won’tpass in another twoweeks – we all knowthat. There are esti-mates that it could beanother 15 to 18months before thisbeast is under any ap-pearance of control.
And there is a good
chance that we could bein for an even worseround two once folksstart going back out andsocializing.
Even if the governorgives the green light forrestaurants and bars toopen, it’s doubtful peo-ple will rush to go out.
Scientists have yet tocome up with a sure-firecure or a vaccination.
That could be monthsoff.
Life, as we knew it,has changed.
It will still be advisableto practice social dis-tancing and limit yourpublic exposure for along time to come.
Our country’s econ-omy will be foreverchanged by this. Ham-tramck, too, will take ahuge hit, considering
the number of small, in-dependently ownedcompanies here intown.
Even schools aregoing to have to con-tinue to cope with howto keep educating ouryouth without endanger-ing their lives.
It’s distressing, to saythe least, that the coun-try is so politically di-vided. If ever we neededa World War II momentwhen people came to-gether and pitched in forthe common good, it’snow.
In the meantime,Hamtramck can helppave the way. We are atightly-knit community,and we know how to getalong with one another.
Chins up. There will bebetter days ahead.
We made it this long, anothertwo weeks is worth it
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By N. Charles AndersonThe Detroit Urban
League is a non-partisanorganization that doesnot endorse candidates;however, we are an or-ganization that caresabout the wellbeing ofthe community we serve.
With that being said,it’s important to say thatwe will and do advocate,endorse and support de-cisions made by politicalleaders when we believethese decisions havebeen made in the best in-terest of those on thelower end of the eco-nomic spectrum.
The COVID-19, Coron-avirus pandemic, hasswept into our state andthe metro Detroit com-munity wreaking havoc ofillnesses and death allalong the way. Somethinghad to be done to slowdown the great harm fac-
ing our state.So, we applaud Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer for herleadership and makingthe tough decision tokeep Michigan safe, savelives and slow down and,hopefully, stop the trou-bling impact this pan-demic is having inMichigan, particularly inDetroit and SoutheasternMichigan.
Closing schools, shut-ting down major eventsand ordering the closingof nonessential busi-nesses was an inevitabledecision that had to bemade.
Our state’s pushing ofsocial distancing and urg-ing us to stay home, staysafe and saves lives hasbeen critical to protectinglives. Doing nothing ornot taking sweeping ac-tions would have had afar more devastating im-pact on our state.
We want to go back tonormalcy as soon aspossible. We want to seerestaurants and bars re-open. We want to havemore Detroit Pistons bas-ketball and see theTigers and Red Wingsplay.
We absolutely wouldlove to see schools re-open, but more impor-tantly, see the highschool and college grad-uates receive the pompand circumstance andgrand celebrations everygraduate deserves.
It’s hard to imagine, forGod’s sake, that highschool juniors and sen-
iors are missing theirproms.
But COVID-19 has norespect for any of thesethings when it comes tosustaining and protectinglives.
More than 30,000Michiganders havetested positive for thecoronavirus, and over2,000 of our beloved cit-izens have died as a re-sult of this insidiousvirus. Sadly, a dispropor-tionate number of thoseaffected have beenAfrican-Americans.
We mourn those teach-ers who won’t return tothe classroom, or menand women that willnever be able to go withfamily and friends to arestaurant or bar.
And, if we do seesports played again andconcerts and theater re-turn, and church servicesresume, there will be toomany empty seats be-cause the coronavirushas taken the lives ofbeloved grandparents,mothers and fathers,children, siblings anddear friends.
There’s no doubt thatGovernor Whitmer’sstrong actions havesaved many, many lives.So, we urge you to StayHome, Stay Safe, SaveLives.
(N. Charles Anderson isthe President/CEO of theUrban League of Detroit& Southeastern Michi-gan.)
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REZNICH
Dan Reznich, 94, ofFrankfort (formerly ofHamtramck and HigginsLake) died at home of oldage, holding his wife Car-ole’s hand, on April 22,2020. Born on a farm inClinton Township onSept. 8, 1925 to Brankoand Marie Reznich, hegrew up on the southside of Hamtramck. Heserved with the MerchantMarines on Great Lakesfreighters during WorldWar II.
A graduate of Ham-tramck High School, heattended Hillsdale Col-lege after the war, wherehe earned a bachelor de-gree in education, laterearning masters andspecialist degrees withstudy at other universi-ties in Michigan as wellas on the East Coast. He
married Carole (Sagan-ski) on June 23, 1956 atAll Saints Polish NationalCatholic Church in De-troit.
Reznich began workingfull time in the Ham-tramck Public Schools in1956, teaching music,history and English aswell as driver’s training.He was also a labor or-ganizer during the1960s, and was instru-mental in organizing thefirst teacher’s strike inMichigan while a teacherat Hamtramck HighSchool.
He ran a successfulsticker campaign for aseat on the HamtramckSchool Board in the1960s. Taking a leave ofabsence while servingone term on the board,Reznich took on a fulltime job as a professorof humanities at Ma-comb County CommunityCollege. When he re-turned to his job at theHamtramck PublicSchools, he continued toteach night classes atMCCC for 20 years. Hecommuted to Hamtramckfrom Higgins Lake, wherehe had moved his familyin 1969, until his retire-ment from the Ham-
tramck Public Schools in1989, after 43 years ofteaching.
An avid runner andthen walker, Reznichplaced second in his ageclass in the Detroit FreePress Marathon at theage of 62, qualifying himfor entry in the BostonMarathon. He also ranmarathons in Chicago,New York and on the orig-inal course fromMarathon to Athens,Greece.
In his later years, hebecame famous as “TheMan Who Walks HigginsLake,” where he wasknown for smiling andwaving at every passingvehicle during his dailywalks, which were up tofour miles long. Alwaysthe educator, he taughthis children to appreciateclassical music by forcingthem to listen to it on thecar radio.
Generous to a fault,like his father before him,he would literally give youthe shirt off his back. Asa matter of fact, you hadto be careful not to lethim know you liked theshirt he was wearing, orhe would keep askingyou if you wanted it.
Reznich is survived byhis wife Carole, his sixchildren, and numerousgrandchildren, greatgrandchildren, nieces,nephews, sister Vera,brothers- in-law and sis-ters-in-law.
An event celebratinghis long and productivelife will be held at a laterdate, due to concernscaused by the currentpandemic.
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for COVID-19.“It is transmitted from
one person to another,usually in close contactwith each other. Onecase of tuberculosis in afamily means great prob-ability of others, unlessthe established rules arecarried out to protect thewell members of thehousehold.”
In other words, stayapart.
The schools had rea-son to be concerned. Inthe fall of 1930, skintests were given to 825students at HamtramckHigh School. Of those,170 showed positivesigns of tuberculosis.
All were given X-rays,which could definitivelydetect the disease. Fivestudents were found tohave the disease, andwere then hospitalizedfor treatment. In addi-
tion, 23 students testedpositive for the childhoodversion of tuberculosis,which tends not to showup until later in life.
They could remain inschool but were advisedto follow healthy habits,including doing only lightphysical work.
At that time, the healthof students in Ham-tramck was a high priorityconcern. Many of the stu-dents came from poorfamilies and would rarely,if ever, see a doctor ordentist. Respiratory ill-nesses were especiallytroublesome.
Hamtramck was ahighly industrialized townat this time. There weremore than 20 factories inthe city and most, if notall, had smokestacksspewing all sort of nox-ious fumes into the air.Tuberculosis mainly af-
fects the lungs, just likeCOVID-19. And, in fact,an old tuberculosis drugis being experimentedwith now on the Coronavirus.
Today, tuberculosis israre in America. We hopewe can say the sameabout COVID-19 soon.
But now as the battleto find a vaccine goes onand our lives are cur-rently in disarray, takenote of a quote that justhappened to appear inthe school bulletin on thepage after the tuberculo-sis story: “All sunshinemakes a desert.”
(The Hamtramck Histor-ical Museum is closednow due to the COVID-19pandemic. But it will openas soon as possible. Fornow, see a new historicalphoto of Hamtramckevery day on our Face-book page.)
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By Charles SercombeThis week’s Crime Log
covers April 21-27.
Tuesday, April 21• At almost 2 a.m., two
suspects were arrestedin the 3000 block of Can-iff Ave. for assault.
• At about 9:30 p.m., aresident on Whalen St.reported that, whilepreparing to go to sleep,someone fired severalshots into their homeusing a semi-automatichandgun. The suspectfled the scene.
Wednesday, April 22• At 2:35 a.m., a resi-
dent in the 11300 blockof Fleming St. reportedthat a person they knowbroke into their resi-dence, damaged prop-erty, and pointed asemi-automatic handgunat them.
• A resident reportedthat someone used theirSocial Security numberto file taxes.
• A Grand Haven St. ju-venile was reported as
missing.• Officers located an
open door of a businesson Conant Ave.
• A Mitchell St. resi-dent reported that theircar was stolen.
Thursday, April 23No criminal activity was
reported for this day.
Friday, April 24• A person was ar-
rested in the area of Co-nant and Comstock forleaving the scene of anaccident that causedproperty damage.
• An employee at Han-ley House for Boys re-ported an assault.
• A resident on Wyan-dotte St. reported atheft.
• An agent for a busi-ness on Jos. CampauAve. reported a theft in-volving fraud.
Saturday, April 25• At about 2:30 a.m., a
woman was arrested inthe 11300 block of So-
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bieski St. for assault anddisorderly conduct.
Sunday, April 26• At 11:45 p.m., an
ambulance crew pro-nounced a resident onConant Ave. deceased.There were no signs offoul play. The countymedical examiner’s officewas contacted.
• A Clinton Twp. resi-dent was taken to DetroitReceiving Hospital for amental evaluation.
• Officers forced entry
into a residence of a sen-ior citizen who had fallen.
• At 3 a.m., a residentreported that someonestole items from their carwhile it was parked in thearea of Yemans andCharest.
Monday, April 27• A Goodson St. resi-
dent reported that his ve-hicle was stolen.
• Officers assisted De-troit police in identifyinga suspect.
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Early Childhood Elementary, 11680 McDougall St., Hamtramck, MI 48212 Dickinson East Elementary, 3385 Norwalk, Hamtramck, MI 48212!Kosciuszko Middle School, 2333 Burger, Hamtramck, MI 48212!Holbrook Elementary School, 2361 Alice St., Hamtramck, MI 48212!Hamtramck High School, 11410 Charest, Hamtramck, MI 48212 NEW LOCATION: 12025 Dequindre, Hamtramck, MI 48212 !
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• Kosciuszko Middle • Dickinson West
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• Tau Beta Elementary School
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• Early Childhood Elementary (ECE)
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