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By Charles SercombeRecycling is coming to Ham-

tramck in a big way.But not in the way you would

think.This isn’t about home recy-

cling.It’s about a huge plant that

will sort out paper, plastics, Sty-rofoam and other office wasteproducts, as well as light indus-trial metals, and turn themright around into more of thesame.The process produces very

little waste product going backinto Mother Earth. At least, thisis what the people behindHamtramck Recycling LCC say,and at this point there appearsto be no reason to doubt them.The plant is now being built

on Denton just west of theDickerson Wayne County Jail.For those of you who have

been here awhile, you might re-member that cool looking all-glass factory building you couldsee while cruising down Ham-

tramck Dr., which is just southof Denton.Well, that old glass building

came down to make room fora new $7 million facility.The promise of this plant and

facility is that it’s not only con-tributing to the greening ofAmerica, it’s also adding jobs.About 40 to 50, says JasonFriedmann, the city’s Director of

Community & Economic Devel-opment.The jobs don’t pay much, but

it’s a little better than minimumwage, around $8 to $14 anhour, Friedmann says.Details about the expected

property taxes that the city willcollect were not immediatelyavailable. But the company isreceiving a 50-percent tax

abatement on property andpersonal taxes for the next 12years.Friedmann said considering

the fact that the property previ-ously wasn’t bringing in any taxdollars, it’s a “100 percent”growth deal for Hamtramck.By about spring or summer,

production should begin.

Firefightersworry Pontiacis their fateBy Charles SercombeAs Pontiac firefighters

marked the last day of thePontiac Fire Department onWednesday, Hamtramck fire-fighters had mixed feelings.Actually, there seems to be

confusion among firefightersover who to blame for the de-partment’s closing: PontiacEmergency Financial ManagerLou Schimmel or firefighterswith Waterford Township, orPontiac firefighters them-selves?

Let’s back up a bit.A few weeks ago, Pontiac

firefighters voted in favor ofcombining their departmentwith Waterford in order to savetheir jobs.By all accounts, it was an

emotional vote and a decisionthat wasn’t made easy. Onefirefighter was quoted in themedia saying it was like havinga gun put to their head: Agreeto the deal or risk losing theirjobs.Waterford firefighters also

said they were told to acceptthe deal or that they, too,

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The greening of America is inHamtramck’s backyard

“Bless this bread, bless thismeat. Bless this belly, ‘causeI’m gon’ eat!” – The ReverendWilliams, from the 1997 film“Soul Food”

By Alan “Deep South”Madeleine It seems like just a short

time ago that we did a pieceon the grand reopening of TheClock Restaurant, after a num-ber of fits and starts and falsehopes.Now, it’s reopened again, in

its latest incarnation as a soul

food palace.We spoke with Leka Horn,

the owner, after the lunch rushhad quieted down. There wasstill plenty of noise in the back-ground, and Horn says that therestaurant is doing “way betterthan it was before.”“We’ve been reopened for

about a month and a halfnow,” Horn said. Asked howshe came to acquire the build-ing, she said, “It’s legally com-plicated. Actually, I’ve ownedthe building since the 90s.”

The Clock gets a rewind, this time with soul

Continued on page 2

A new state-of-the-art recycling plant is under construction on Denton St., next to the county jail. Thefacility will recycle office products and light metals. It also means 40 to 50 new jobs will be created.

Leka Horn has brought soul food to Hamtramck at the ven-erable Clock Restaurant, a longtime Hamtramck landmark.

Lt. William Diamond said fire-fighters are concerned aboutwhat will happen to their depart-ment if a state-appointed emer-gency financial manager takesover Detroit or Highland Park.

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This week at the library...ESL Class with Christine Templing - Saturday, Feb-

ruary 4 at noon. Intermediate ESL class conductedby Christine Templin, free to the public.

Story Time for Children - Saturday, February 4, atnoon. Join your friends at the library for a readingof a book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by LauraNumeroff.

Computer Classes for Beginners - Tuesday, Feb-ruary 7 at noon and 1 p.m. Basic instructions oncomputer use for beginners will be held on Thurs-days. Number of participants is limited to availablecomputers.

Computer Classes for Advanced Users - Tuesday,February 7 at 2 p.m. Adults with basic computerskills can enhance their computer literacy eachTuesday at the library. Number of participants is lim-ited to available computers.

Math Club Meeting - Tuesday, February 7 at 3:30p.m. Mr. Nuo is the instructor for the math club,math tutoring and Math Kangaroo competition.

ESL Conversation Class - Tuesday, February 7 at4:30 p.m. Ms. Trisa conducts the English Conver-sation classes each Tuesday night. Free of chargeto Hamtramck residents.

ESL Class with Ms. Templin - Wednesday, February8 at noon. Christine Templin is the instructor for theESL class for beginners. Everyone is invited. Freeto the public.

Family Game Night - Thursday, February 16 at 4p.m. Join your friends and family members infriendly skill and knowledge games. This month thefeatured game is MANCALA.

Open Mic Poetry - Wednesday, February 8 at 3:30p.m. Bring your poems and share them during theopen mic poetry session, "How We Tell Our Story.”

Movies and Popcorn at the Library - Thursday, Feb-ruary 9 at 4 p.m. Bring the whole to see, "The Pur-suit of Happiness" and also enjoy free popcorn.

Computer Classes for Beginners - Thursday, Feb-ruary 9 at noon, 1 .m. and 2 p.m. Basic instructionson computer use for beginners will be held onThursdays. Number of participants is limited toavailable computers.

ESL News for You - Friday, February 10 at 3:30p.m. ESL reading and discussion class with LatishaEdge. Free to the public.

Toddler Time at the Library - Monday February 6at noon. Join us for the reading of a book by KevinHankes, "Birds" and celebrate national Bird FeedingMonth. (Children must be accompanied by anadult.)

Valentine Arts & Crafts - Tuesday, February 14 at3:30 p.m. In celebration of Valentine's Day, all chil-dren are invited to a special Valentine Day arts andcrafts workshop.

Teen Club Activity - Monday, February 15 at 3:30p.m. Teens and tweens are invited to join us in anarts and crafts program. You’ll also get to decorateyour collage box for all your 2012 treasures.

Meeting of the Library Board - Thursday, February9 at 6 p.m. Regular meeting of the Library Boardwill be held in the auditorium. Open to the public.

Celebrate Black History Month - Thursday, Febru-ary 16 at 4:30 p.m. In celebration of Black HistoryMonth there will be a special showing of a movie"HELP.” Everyone is invited.

Friends of the Library Meeting - Thursday, February16 at 6 p.m. FHPL President Kathy Kristy and TreasurerGeorge Gorday invite all members and volunteers toparticipate in the regular monthly meeting.

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would be folded in with an-other city.On Wednesday, Pontiac’s

Fire Department was no more.Forty two Pontiac firefighterswere hired on by Waterford. In Hamtramck, the events

that happened just 30 milesnorth did not go unnoticed.The firefighters posted sev-eral comments and newslinks on their FaceBook site.Some in the department

criticized Waterford firefight-ers for forcing the issue.Lt. William Diamond, the

president of Hamtramck Fire-fighters’ union, Local 750,said it was about “one local(union) taking over another.”“It wasn’t a merger,” he

said. “It was a takeover.”Pontiac EFM Lou Schimmel,

who was once Hamtramck’sEFM, said he needed to closethe department in order tosave $3 million. Pontiac facesa multi-million dollar budgetdeficit.Diamond said he fears

what’s to come if an EFM wereto be appointed to Detroit orHighland Park.

“Hamtramck as an entitywould be gone,” Diamondsaid. “The state could makeHamtramck a neighborhood ofDetroit. It’s not a good thingfor unions in the state.”Hamtramck firefighters have

plenty of reason to be wor-ried.City officials are projecting a

$3.4 million budget deficit bynext June. The solutions tobalance the budget are ques-tionable at best.But so far, there is talk of

proposing to take over policeand fire services in HighlandPark.Diamond said his union

members are open to that,but it has to be “on ourterms.”Is Hamtramck in any posi-

tion to dictate terms?Well, two weeks ago we

asked Highland Park MayorDeAndre Windom what hethought of the proposal.He rejected the idea of

Hamtramck’s Police Depart-ment taking over patrols be-cause it is a mostly whiteforce that would be patrolling

in a mostly African-Americancity.However, Windom said he is

open to discussing fire protec-tion services.Diamond has another sug-

gestion.He wants city officials to

ask voters to approve a spe-cial tax millage dedicated tosupporting police and fireservices.“That’s guaranteed money

for public safety,” he said.Ah, but that comes at a

steep price. Public safety eatsup about $8 million in thecity’s budget. Each additionalmill placed on the property taxwould generate $200,000,said Finance Director NevrusNazarko.At $8 million, it would re-

quire voters to approve anextra forty mills. That increasenot something property own-ers could afford. Instead, itwill take a drastic overhaul ofunion contracts, said FinanceDirector Nevrus Nazarko. “You need to change,” said

Nazarko. “It’s not like the1990s.”

Firefighters worry Pontiac is their fateContinued from front page

When she couldn’t keepsomeone in there to pay therent, she decided to take mat-ters into her own hands. This, inspite of already operating onerestaurant out on Woodward inHighland Park, called The Clas-sic Café Coni Island. If thatname sounds familiar, it mightbe because that restaurant un-fortunately was in the newstwice in 2006, due to a coupleof unrelated murders that oc-curred there that year, includinga spectacular gangland-style hitinvolving assault rifles.One can hope that this loca-

tion will prove somehow less,well, dramatic.The other restaurant is

where Horn first introducedsoul food. At that point, it wasa gimmick she tried only duringthe week, but it ended updoing very well. When sheopened up this place, well, shefigured it was worth a shot.“We already had these items

on the menu – chicken, porkchops, liver. We just started

cooking them southern style,”she laughed. “And I addedsome side dishes, like yams,(collard) greens, green beans,black-eyed peas.”Customers have really re-

sponded to the addition, sheclaims.“Just this morning, I had this

man give me a big hug. ‘Thankyou for having soul food,’ hesaid to me,” she went on,laughing again.She works, she says, seven

days a week, 16 hours a day onaverage. As in its other ver-sions, the restaurant is open 24hours, ‘round the, well, clock.Asked if she could ever re-

member Hamtramck having asoul food restaurant in thepast (something even mycrotchety old editor couldn’teven spill out of his musty,shriveled and ancient brain),she mentioned a man that sheknew who used to do soul foodout of the Americana Market.(Editor: You’re fired.)“It was a fish market,” she

said. He was doing well with the

idea, until his cook ended upin jail. Why wouldn’t he juststart it up again with a newemployee?, I wondered, andshe wondered back as well.Asked if she was afraid the

parking situation might start todeteriorate if the formerShadow/Ice Bar ever followsher lead and reopens, she an-swered comically one last time.“We hope we won’t have any

room in the lot because of ourown businesses’ success,”she said.In any case, she seems to

have her finger on the pulse –or the stomachs – of Ham-tramck.

The Clock Restaurant is lo-cated right in the same placeit has been for the past 50 orso years, at 11444 Jos. Cam-pau. Their phone number is(313) 366-2244. Again, theyare open 24 hours, ‘round theclock. So step on in.

The Clock gets a rewind, thistime with soul Continued from front page

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By Charles SercombeIt’s not quite batter-up time

at the grandstands in Veter-ans Park, but it’s inchingcloser to that moment.You could say that the local

committee to save the grand-stands got on first base afterstate officials with the His-toric Preservation Office ap-proved the committee’sproposal to apply for NationalHistoric Landmark status.According to committee

member Rebecca Binno Sav-age, the state’s OK prettymuch means the grandstands

will receive approval from theNational Parks Service.What’s so special about the

grandstands? Well, for years no one really

knew until some locals begandigging into the matter. And loand behold, what they foundturned out to be a game-changer. Instead of talkingabout demolishing the dilapi-dated grandstands, folks arenow awed at the possibility ofredevelopment.That’s because the grand-

stands were built for the Na-tional Negro League,

specifically a team called theDetroit Stars.The league’s heyday was

1930 through 1937, and dur-ing that time 12 future Base-ball Hall of Famers playedhere.The thinking now is that a

renovated park can be usedfor baseball once again, andit will also attract out of townvisitors who are interested inthe historical aspect.The ballpark is one of only

five grandstands remainingthat served the Negro League.A national historic designa-

tion would also open somecheckbooks from various or-ganizations, including MajorLeague Baseball, Savagesaid.“What’s most key here is

for fundraising,” she said.Getting that funding will

have to wait until word comesback from the park service,which Savage said could takethree to four months.In the meantime, the com-

mittee has created a websiteabout the project, which canbe found at www.hamtramck-stadium.org.

By Charles SercombeJust because you, or maybe

someone you know, has ascanner or knows how todownload, doesn’t meanyou’ll fool Hamtramck policeofficers.With the return of the daily

incident report from the Ham-tramck Police Department,one trend that is noticeablehas been a string of arrestsof people trying to pass off

fraudulent car insurance.Acting Police Chief Max Gar-

barino said the easy accessto scanners has led to an in-crease in phony insurancecertificates being made.“It’s so easy to do,” Gar-

barino said. “Luckily, we’regetting savvier with that.”Trying to pass off a fake in-

surance certificate comes ata steep price. It’s a felony ifconvicted.

Grandstands are one step closer to becoming 'historical'

Forget the fake car insurance, cops are on to it

By Alan R. Madeleine

• Note that the crime reportfor Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 wasclaimed as missing.

From Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012• At 11:18 p.m. the night be-

fore, three men were arrestedfor auto theft at Nagel and Cas-mere.• At 1:19 p.m., a man was ar-

rested at a home in the 2200block of Hewitt for domestic as-sault.From Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012• At 11:47 p.m. the night be-

fore, a woman reported that her14-year-old child was missingfrom here residence on Jos.Campau. No other informationwas noted.• At 12:20 a.m., a man was

arrested for obstruction; locationwas not noted.

• At 10:36 a.m., a man re-ported his 2008 Cadillac Es-calade stolen from the area ofJos. Campau and Goodsonabout 12 hours prior. It waslearned that the Detroit Policeimpounded his vehicle earlier,while it was presumably parkedsomewhere in Detroit.• A vehicle backing into a

parking space at Jos. Campauand Belmont struck a pedestrianwho tried to cut behind the vehi-cle to cross the street. Thedriver was apparently notcharged. The victim was treatedby Hamtramck EMS at thescene.

From Monday, Jan. 23, 2012• At 12:30 a.m., a man and a

woman were arrested for inter-fering and assault and battery ofan officer after causing a distur-bance during a traffic stop atJos. Campau and Evaline.

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By Alan R. MadeleineWho he is: Dr. Thaddeus

“Dr. Ted” Radzilowski isthe Co-Founder and Presidentof the Piast Institute here inHamtramck. His C.V. is longand distinguished. He holds aDoctorate degree in Historyfrom the University of Michi-gan, and his specialization isPoland and other central andeastern European nations,prominently including Russia.He has lectured in both Eu-

rope and North America, andhas published over 100 times,including journal articles, schol-arly papers and monographs.He is involved with a number ofother organizations, includingthe University of Michigan (asa Visiting Research Professor)and the Polish National Con-gress (as the Michigan Direc-tor). He is a past president ofthe Polish American HistoricalAssociation, and is on the Edi-torial Board of the Polish Re-view.Radzilowski has served as

the acting director of the Immi-gration Research Center at the

University of Minnesota, and, in1999, was presented with theCavaliers Cross of the PolishOrder of Merit by then PolishPresident Aleksander Kwas-niewski for his “distinguishedcontributions to the dissemina-tion of Polish culture in theworld.”We sent him some ques-

tions, and he was kind enoughto provide quick and timely re-sponses.

Give us, please, just thebriefest background on the In-

stitute, its mission and pur-pose, and how you, yourselfcame to be involved with it, forthe uninitiated. Is this the onlyPiast Institute to be found any-where, or are there others inother cities, states, and/orcountries? I see that Piast wasthe surname of the first Polishdynasty – is there any othersignificance to the name ofthe Institute, beyond honoringthat heritage? Dr. Radzilowski: Yes, this is

the only Piast Institute in theU.S. We chose the name Piastbecause we felt that, if we areto tell the Polish story, weshould start at the beginning.Piast is the name of the leg-endary founder of Poland, whogave his name to the first dy-nasty (ca. 966 ABE to 1385ABE).The Piast Institute is a na-

tional research, data analysisand policy institute for Polonia-- the Polish Community in theU.S. Its key aim is to providePolonia organizations and insti-tutions with the tools and infor-mation they need toaccomplish their goals andmissions. We are not in competition

with any other Polish organiza-tions. Our mission is unique. Inthe process, we seek to propa-gate the Polish Story in Europeand America. We also address,in a distinct way, the issues ofthe public perception of Polandand Polonia, and anti-defama-tion. In 2011, we spent threemonths in negotiation withYahoo to eliminate words suchas “Polish death camps” and“Polish concentration camps”from its stylebook, and to ex-plain the importance of avoid-ing those words in their trainingprotocols.Last fall Yahoo, which

reaches 345 million people permonth, agreed to those re-quests. During the controversyof Jan Gross’ book “Fear,” wedeveloped a highly acclaimedinternational symposium onthe issue (see http://analy-sisoffear.com).

Does the Institute keep aregular schedule of events? Ididn’t notice any listed underyour Facebook page (and con-gratulations on keeping up aFacebook page, by the way). Doyou get many calls or visitors,and if so, what are they usuallyinquiring of you? Do you main-tain any kind of a library, orrecords library? Do you spon-sor, or co-sponsor, other eventsoutside the Institute proper?If so, what sorts of events arethey?Dr. Radzilowski: We sponsor

occasional lectures, exhibits,symposia and discussiongroups. We have co-sponsoredevents with the KoscuiszkoFoundation, The Polish Con-sulates General in Chicago,New York and Los Angeles; TheTaube Foundation, The Ham-

tramck Public Library andMichigan State University. Many of our events take

place in New York, Seattle,Houston, Chicago, San Fran-cisco, and Washington, DC.We have an excellent re-

search and reference library ofseveral thousand books andfiles on all sorts of issues onwhich we are doing, or havedone, research (about 20 lin-ear feet worth).We get questions by phone,

letter or email several times aday about data, or historical orcurrent information on Polandand Polish American topics.

What’s new with the Institutethese days, or what’s beingplanned, or “in the works,” ifanything? Your Facebook page,in addition to stating thatyou’re a “research service,”also (and primarily) indicatesthat you are a “market re-search consultant.” What doesthat normally entail? That is,what “markets” are peoplehaving you research for them,if I may, and what are they thendoing with the research resultsafter you provide them back tothese clients? I assume thatyou charge for this service, butperhaps I’m mistaken?Dr. Radzilowski: In addition to

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With all the talk of reinvent-ing our police and fire depart-ments and possibly takingover public safety services inHighland Park, maybe it’stime to revisit another option.A couple of years ago, city

officials discussed askingvoters to OK a public safetytax. The issue never wentanywhere.But we’d like to bring it back

up because the city’s budgetis heading for a crisis, andthe thought of losing our pub-lic safety to Detroit or some-where else is scary to say theleast.If voters were to OK five

extra mills on the propertytaxes, the city would raiseabout $1 million. Now, that’snot enough to carry the fullweight of both departments,but it would go a long way to-

ward lightening the load.We understand these are

tough times for many fami-lies, and raising taxes nowmight even end up drivingthem out of their homes.But we all have to realize

what’s at stake. Losing ourpublic safety would mean theend of a safe city – and thenwe would all lose out.Raising taxes wouldn’t be

the only answer, though. Ourpolice and fire unions wouldalso have to agree to over-haul their contracts. The citywould need to have a two-tierhiring system, where new-hires earn considerably lessand receive fewer benefits.It would also mean the end

of a fixed guaranteed pensionplan. Ferndale just did thiswith its Fire Department, sothis concept isn’t coming out

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tion Center, is one of our mostimportant and active depart-ments. Among our capabilitiesand activities, I believe the CICaffords one of the most salientways we are valuable to thePolish Community. No oneknows Polonia as we do, norhas the tools to analyze it thatwe can deploy.In 2005, we organized a de-

mographic research center onthe Polish-American populationwithin the Piast Institute. In2006, the center was namedan official Census InformationCenter by the United StatesCensus Bureau, with a specialcharge to study the PolishAmerican Population. It is oneof the 56 CICs in the country,and rated one of the best andmost active in the U.S.The Piast CIC has done a

number of major studies, in-cluding a demographic profileof Polish Americans in theU.S., state by state, in 2007,which won recognition as oneof the best studies of the yeardone by a CIC. Among ourmore recent studies is ananalysis of the Polish-Americanvote in the 2008 presidentialelection, based on a survey of900 voters and a study of over60 precincts in six states. Thestudy was commissioned bythe Polish Ministry of ForeignAffairs. In a follow up to the election

study, we did an opinion surveyof 1,400 Polonia leaders andactivists in 44 states on civicand community involvement,ethnic values and current pub-lic issues. It was published asPolish Americans Today in2010. It has since gonethrough three printings. Copieswere obtained by the PolishGovernment and distributed tothe Presidential Chancery, theheads of all Ministries and theleadership of the Sejm(Poland’s equivalent of ourHouse) and Senate. The CIC has also done mar-

keting studies for Polish busi-

nesses, and area demographicanalysis for Polish-Americanparishes in Detroit, Cleveland,Akron, and Albany. To supportits activities, it has also donestudies for outside groups.These include demographic

and cultural analyses of ethnic,racial, and religious groups, al-cohol abuse, and culture inseveral Southeast MichiganCounties for agencies whichdeal with drug and alcohol pre-vention, and also a study of thecharacteristics of youngwomen aged 16-21 in threeDetroit zip codes who have notcompleted high school. We are currently doing an

analysis of variable crime ratesfor Wayne County. We also dosurveys on request at thelocal, as well as the national,level.We do not usually charge for

casual requests for informationthat take only a short time toanswer. For longer and morecomplex requests, we docharge hourly for our work, butat rates far below normal forprofit groups. And, we give adiscount to non-profit organiza-tions. Since the market research

we do is proprietary, we areunder obligation not to revealthe specific nature of the sur-veys or the target groups.

The world is changing as wespeak, and Europe, or the EU -- of which Poland has been amember since 2004 – is al-ready having grave financialproblems with some of itsmember states. Does any ofthis influence any future plansfor you, or the Institute, interms of any direction you maywant the Institute to go in thefuture, or any further servicesyou may want to start offeringto your usership moving for-ward?Dr. Radzilowski: Our mission

is of serving the Polish-Ameri-can community. We do not ex-pect, therefore, that thechanges in Europe will signifi-cantly change what we do. Itwill mainly require us to keepabreast of the nature andmeaning of the changes, sothat we can accurately respond

to the questions and concernsof the news media, students,Polish community and otherswe serve.

When that plane went downin Russia on April 10, 2010,that was carrying so manymembers of Poland’s govern-ment and other dignitaries, itmust’ve been a shock. Did youhave any extra duties or pro-vide any out-of-the-ordinaryservices, related to that terri-ble incident?Dr. Radzilowski: We assumed

the task of organizing a memo-rial for those who had died sotragically. This work was doneby Executive Vice President Vir-ginia Skrzyniarz, and FatherBogdan Milosz of Queen ofApostles. Over 300 people at-tended the memorial serviceand procession at the City Halland Father Milosz’s Church. Webrought a representative of thePolish Consul General fromChicago to speak.

On a lighter note, do youtravel much, to Poland or else-where? When was the last timeyou went to Poland? What inparticular do you love aboutthe country itself? Whatpart(s) of the country wereyour own relatives from? Any-where in Poland, or elsewherein the world, that you still hopeto get to see? Dr. Radzilowski: My paternal

relatives came from Raciaz,near Plock in central Polandand Poznan in western Poland.My maternal relatives bothcame from the Jaslo area insoutheastern Poland.I have visited Poland over 20

times. My favorite place (andmy favorite city in the wholeworld) is Krakow. It is a magicplace. I was last in Polandthree years ago, to give apaper in Lublin at the annualmeeting of the World Societyfor the Study of Religion andSociety.I would love to re-visit Viet-

nam, where I served as a sol-dier. My service was withVietnamese troops and I stillmourn, daily, the fate of a Viet-namese soldier, Vu van Cam,

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Correction … Leave it to meto mix up my pawn-shop-shows-using-pornography-dou-ble-entendre-in-their-namesnames.As more than one of you so

genteely notified us on thewebsite, the accommodatingMr. Rich Pyle’s show is Hard-core Pawn (well, at least I gotit right at the bottom), NOTPawn Stars. That would betheir COMPETITORS. I’m surethey’re all delighted with themiscue.As such, the question that

references his show havingtwo episodes rated secondand third most-watched amongcable shows was also wrong:While Hardcore Pawn is im-mensely popular, it was actu-ally the afore-mentionedcompetitor show that etc.Perhaps making myself less

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Salute … We recently re-ceived an e-mail from our localveterans and their specialplans for Valentine’s Day.Here’s what they had to say:Once again this year’s Valen-

tine’s Day will be a special dayfor Hamtramck veterans, andthey could use some help fromthe community as well. Hamtramck vets will join up

with other southeast Michiganveterans in a fundraiser onSaturday, Feb. 11, featuringthe Spinners. Proceeds fromthe benefit will go to helpingsoutheast Michigan hospital-ized and homeless veterans.Hamtramck’s AMVETS Post

14, represented by Past Com-mander and VA hospital volun-teer Richard Walczyk, PLAVPost 6, represented by DetroitVA Medical Center VolunteerService Representative GeraldMurawski, and VFW Post 4162represented by member OmerMoynes, presented Bill Brown-ing the Chief of Voluntary Serv-ices for the Detroit VA MedicalCenter with 1,000 U.S. Flags,

that will be distributed to thepatrons at the “2012 Valen-tines For Veterans Concert.”The concert is part of the

VA’s National Salute to Hospi-talized and Homeless Veter-ans, to show appreciation toVeterans and increase commu-nity awareness of the needs ofVA medical centers and home-less domiciliaries, especiallyfor volunteers. This is a complementary

concert and is open to thepublic with maximum of fourtickets provided to each per-son. Tickets will be available atthe Masonic Temple Box Officebeginning January 19. Ticketsare required for the Concert.Special recognition this year will

be paid to Homeless veterans insoutheast Michigan. A homelessveteran outreach event will beheld, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. inthe Cathedral Entrance of the Ma-sonic Temple. For directions you can visit

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The loss was perhaps thelow point of an otherwise ter-rific season. The varsity teamfinished with an impressive 8-6-1 record, scoring 53 goalsto their opponents’ 26 -- notbad for a group of kids barelyold enough to drive. Top goalscorer Awad Almaisari con-tributed 23 goals and rackedup a hat trick in two games.While the Cosmos played

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Real Esteals we were thinkingwe needed a yang to our yincolumn (Hall of Shame) onblight in the city. That’s not tosay we are abandoning ourlook at blight problems thecity faces. It’s just that there needs to

be a balance between thegood and the bad. And for thiswe thank Community & Eco-nomic Development DirectorJason Friedmann for suggest-ing a column on bargain base-ment real estate deals insteadof that “sh*tty column.”Heh, those are his words, not

ours.So, here’s this week’s hot

deal on local real estate.It’s with a lot of mixed emo-

tion that I selected this week’s

pick: The former Citizen news-paper building at 11901 Jos.Campau – at the corner ofZinow.I worked in that building for

about 20 years with a variety ofcharacters who came andwent. Oh, the stories I couldtell. But that’s not what this col-umn is about.

Instead, it’s all about thebuilding. And it’s a fine one. Ithink the paper moved into itsometime in the 1950s or1960s. (Greg Kowalski, set mestraight on this – Editor.)It’s a huge building with up-

stairs apartments. All-in-all, it’s5,500 square feet, up anddown.Couple problems though.There is no friggin’ insulation

in this monster building. It’sbrick and then it’s you. Nothingin between. In the winter, I woregloves with the finger tips cutoff when I was pecking away atthe keyboard.Also, the upstairs apart-

ments are long, long gone. Thespace upstairs was a wreckwhen I was there. Since thebuilding has stood empty, oneinvestor and then anothercame in.Somewhere along the line

one of the owners gutted theupstairs, leaving it ready fordevelopment.At the time the Kargol family

still owned the building, specif-ically Karen Spang (the daugh-ter of Joe Kargol), a study wascommissioned to find outwhat could be done with theupstairs. Those plans weredreamy. The architecture com-pany came up with a plan toturn the upstairs into either atwo or three (I can’t remember)loft development.The plans would also require

coming up with code-approvedstairs to get up there. Believeit or not, there was a door lead-ing to the upstairs just right ofthe existing front door.However, it was a steep shot

upstairs which would not passcode these days.

All in all, the estimated costto do this makeover was in the$300,000 neighborhood. Thatwas the deal back in the1990s. Needless to say, itnever happened.But, it sure was nice to think

about.One thing you no longer have

to worry about is whether thefront portion of the building –the façade – is about to falldown. The brick had been buck-ling for several years, to thepoint where the city put yellowtape out front to keep pedestri-ans away from walking in frontof it.One of the last owners re-

ceived a state grant to restorethe façade and make it struc-turally sound.In all, $25,000 was spent on

making sure the building didn’tcave forward.Have we talked money?It’s yours for $79,500.A little while ago, Friedmann

said, it was $20,000 more.There’s probably some wiggle

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who became a dear friend.

Please take time here to addanything you like that I didn’tthink to address.Dr. Radzilowski: I have not

spoken much of the work thatwe do locally with the Ham-tramck community throughcoalitions, such as the Ham-tramck Drug Free CommunityCoalition and the Hamtramck –Highland Park Lead AbatementCoalition. These coalitions,which we either created and/orled, have contributed immea-surably to the welfare of ourcommunity. They are the workof my colleague, Executive VicePresident Virginia Skrzyniarz.In addition to managing the

Institute and organizing its ac-tivities, she also acts as a con-

sultant on both capacity build-ing and management skills de-velopment to Polonia groups,and other local organizationsand other ethnic groups. Shehas worked with groups inthree states. Her experienceincludes prior service as theexecutive director of two majornon-profit groups in the Detroitarea -- one of which shefounded.

Thanks so much for yourtime, Dr. Radzilowski.

The Piast Institute is locatedat 11633 Jos. Campau at Cas-mere. Their phone number is(313) 733-4535, and they canbe emailed at info@piastinsti-tute.org. They are also to befound on Facebook, Twitter,Flickr and YouTube.

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Hamtramck 2 br., upper,11366 Gallagher, carpeted,very clean, appliances + fullbasement, washer/dryer,new furnace, $480/mo.,$480 dep., no pets. 586-604-0029. 1/27

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Thomas Tabroski; and manynieces and nephews.Funeral arrangements were

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Hamtramck Boys Varsity Basket-ball Team is beginning to turnthings around.The 2012 portion of the Cos-

mos schedule has brought acouple of marks in the win col-umn, along with some consis-tently competitive basketball.Last week, Hamtramck

slammed Dearborn RiversideAcademy 68-19 for its secondwin of the season.Despite their 2-11 record, the

Cosmos have made vast im-provements as a team sincegetting off to such a slow start.On Tuesday night, Hamtramck

lost to Harper Woods in over-time by a score of 61-57.This was just one of several

close losses for the Cosmos sofar this season.Overall, the team has lost four

games by just eight total points.This includes a 40-38 loss to

Hazel Park earlier in the season,which the Cosmos lost on a half-court buzzer beater.Bill Gergosian, Hamtramck’s

head basketball coach, said heattributes the improvements tothe work put in by the team.“I think they’re starting to re-

alize how much work it takes tobe a varsity basketball player onand off the court,” he said.

The Cosmos coaching staff —Gergosian, along with his assis-tant coaches Danny Hurley andSerif Kurtovic — has stressedthe importance of basketballand schoolwork to the team.Gergosian said his assistant

coaches deserve a lot of thecredit for the time they have putin outside of basketball, helpingthe players with their studies.But overall, he said the team

still has several improvementsthey can make toward becominga better basketball team.“We have started to turn a

corner,” he said. “But this is stilla very young team in terms ofbasketball experience.”

Cosmos suffer from a series of close games

• At 12:31 a.m., a woman inthe 12000 block of Oklahomareported that an unknown per-son or persons threw a brickthrough her front window andtried to set her vehicle on fire.Hamtramck Fire Dept. re-sponded. Vehicle had to betowed away.• A 1998 Buick Park Avenue

previously reported stolen wasrecovered by police at Moranand Carpenter.

From Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012• At 1:31 a.m., 1998 Dodge

Stratus reported stolen fromWayne State University area wasrecovered on the 11400 block ofMcDougall.• A man on the 3800 block of

Dorothy reported that his federaltax refund check had beenstolen. The IRS reported it hadbeen cashed somewhere in Cal-ifornia. • At 1:11 p.m., a man was ar-

rested at the Secretary of Stateoffice on Jos. Campau after hethrew a computer to the floor

and displayed aggressive behav-ior. It was unclear from the re-port whether the computer wasone belonging to the Secretaryof State or was his own.• At 3:50 p.m., a man was ar-

rested for retail fraud at theSunoco station at 9500 Conant.The man also had a Hamtramckwarrant out for his arrest from aprior matter.• At 4:10 p.m., a man walked

into the station to file a com-plaint that another person hehad contracted to do some in-sured repairs at a home in the2400 block of Hewitt had forgedboth his, and his father’s, namesonto an insurance check in orderto cash it, then additionally failedto complete the job.• At 9:32 p.m., a man walked

into the station, accompanied byhis brother, to report that an un-known party had damaged thebrother’s 2009 Chevrolet Vanwhile it had been parked in thelot at Mackay and Holmes.

From Wednesday, Jan. 25:• At 12:24 a.m., a man was

arrested for possession of drugswith intent to deliver at Carpen-ter and Fleming.• At 8:56 a.m., a man called

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engaged by police for being visi-bly under the influence of drugsat Gallagher and Caniff.• At 12:52 p.m., a person

working for a realtor called to re-port the theft of gas lines fromthe basement of a house on the2600 block of Pulaski.• At 5:09 p.m., a woman was

arrested at 9023 Jos. Campaufor shoplifting. There was also awarrant out for her arrest withthe city from a prior matter.

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