Fundraising twist: Pope Francis Center checking guests into hotels for virtual gala
Ford, Lear, Magna, Southeast Michigan Ford Dealers, WPP are presenting sponsors
Has already outpaced 2019 gala results, raising $700,000 of $1 million goal for event
Fusco, Schaffer & Pappas Inc. and Detroit Collaborative Design Center
A Thursday fund-raiser will support the $22 million short-term housing development Pope Francis Center is planning in Detroit. Close to 300 people will check in to three downtown hotels Thursday night as guests of a virtual event benefiting Pope Francis Center.
Detroit Foundation Hotel, Shinola Hotel and The Siren Hotel are providing the Detroit center for the homeless with discounted rates to help it raise funds through the virtual event.
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Christy McDonald reflects on loss of beloved husband Jamie Samuelsen
‘Start to have the conversation with your doctor about making a plan,’ McDonald said
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Local 4′s Devin Scillian sat down with Samuelsen’s wife, Christy McDonald. March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and she’s taking up the cause to honor her husband.
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“People say, ‘You’re so strong.’ And I say, ‘I am. I am really not.’ And to be able to admit that is OK too. That I’m not OK all the time,”
McDonald is a journalist and anchor at Detroit Public Television. Her job is information. She now has way too much of it when it comes to colon cancer.
INTERLOCHEN — Interlochen Arts Academy dance students made Interlochen history this week as the first students to pirouette, plié, and soar through the air in the new Dance Center at
Bridge swept online general news and investigative categories on its way to winning 19 awards last week at an annual awards ceremony of the Detroit chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists.
Weeks after being named “Newspaper of the Year” in its division for the second consecutive year by the Michigan Press Association, Bridge took three first-place awards from the SPJ, three second-place, three third-place and eight honorable mention awards. Bridge also shared a first place and second place award with its media partners.
The awards were for stories that ran covered topics as diverse as the Flint water crisis and misappropriation of welfare money to mass transit and childcare.