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Westborn Market Remembers Forgotten Harvest

December 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Forgotten Harvest’s Associate Development Director Cindy Corey, at left, accepts a donation of $14,396 from Westborn Market, presented by Bryan Bandyk, marketing director and Patricia Labatte, Berkley cashier and top fundraiser, for the store’s holiday campaign to help feed the hungry in metro Detroit.

DEARBORN, Mich. – Michigan’s cold winter will hopefully be less bitter for thousands of hungry people in metro Detroit, thanks to donations from customers and staff at Westborn Market.  During the past month, this independent gourmet grocer’s three stores collected donations totaling nearly $14,400 for Forgotten Harvest, a mobile food rescue organization in metro Detroit. For several years, Westborn Market has been an active supporter of Forgotten Harvest and collected holiday donations to help feed the hungry.  Special recognition was given to Westborn’s Berkley cashier … [Read more...]

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Dearborn Parking Lots Offer Pay by Phone Plan

December 30, 2010 By 1 Comment
Row of Parking Meters in Dearborn, Michigan

DEARBORN, Mich. - Parkmobile announced  a new service that will allow residents and visitors in Dearborn to save time and money by using their mobile phone to pay for parking at meters in the west downtown district. Phase one of the program will begin in metered Lot H, located at West Village Drive between Mason and Monroe, south of Michigan Avenue. To use the new Parkmobile system, customers register for free at www.parkmobile.com. Once registered, motorists can use a mobile app, the internet, or a toll free phone call, 800-280-4146 or 1-800-280-4146 to pay for parking. After … [Read more...]

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Top 10 Dearborn News Stories for 2010

December 29, 2010 By 2 Comments
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Dearborn, MI -- Newspaper editors around the nation follow a tradition each December - picking the top 10 news stories for the year.  The results are a great way of summarizing the big events of the year.  Among the top national and international stories, there are few surprises: Gulf Oil Disaster, Health Care Overhaul, Haiti Earthquake, Decline of the US Economy, Rise of the Tea Party, Chile Mine Rescue, and WikiLeaks ... although Vanity Fair claims several editors wanted to make "Sarah Palin Has a Grammatical Error on Her Facebook Page" the top headline of the year. Every publication … [Read more...]

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Teraeon Provides Petroleum Web Portal

December 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Dearborn, MI -  Teraeon Consulting Corporation, a Dearborn based IT consulting firm dedicated to providing secure, scalable and reliable solutions for business needs, recently announced it had finalized a joint development and marketing partnership with AIMS, Inc., a Louisiana based leader in wholesale petroleum distribution. The partnership will offer all petroleum marketers, especially AIMS clients, an industry specific Customer Information Portal for publishing customer information directly from their financial software systems – providing customers with 24×7 self-service access to … [Read more...]

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Funeral Procession Will Travel Through Dearborn

December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Motorists are advised that Telegraph Road intersections in Dearborn will be affected by a large funeral procession on Wednesday, Dec. 22 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.  Police advise drivers to avoid the area during this timeframe. The funeral procession will be traveling from 7 Mile in Detroit to a cemetery in Flat Rock. The funeral is for border patrol agent Brian A. Terry who was killed in Arizona while on duty last week. He had been a police officer in Michigan and family members live in Flat Rock.  Terry was killed while pursuing a gang of drug smugglers, just 10 miles north of the … [Read more...]

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Dearborn Man Shoots Self in Leg

December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Don't fall asleep with your finger on the trigger, or you might shoot yourself in the foot... According to a news reports from Sandusky, Ohio - Mr. Mahmoud Ajaj, 30, of Dearborn, Michigan was in stable condition after he accidentally shot himself in the leg Monday on the Ohio Turnpike.  Mr. Ajaj was airlifted by Life Flight medical helicopter to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, where he was admitted after the accident. Ajaj said he was very sleepy while driving through Ohio, with his wife and two young children. He pulled over on the Ohio turnpike, south of Toledo to rest … [Read more...]

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New Medical Center Opens in East Dearborn

December 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
Oakwood Midwest Medical Center New Building at Schaeffer and Michigan Ave.

DEARBORN, Mich. - Less than two years after breaking ground, officials from Oakwood, Midwest Health System and REDICO Development Company, together with local dignitaries,  celebrated the grand opening of the Midwest Medical Center at 4700 Schaefer Rd. in downtown east Dearborn. Located within the new Dearborn Town Center development, the Midwest Medical Center will provide citizens of Dearborn,Detroit and southeast Michigan with comprehensive healthcare services including: 24-hour walk-in urgent care, primary and multi-specialty medical care, state-of-the-art imaging technologies, and … [Read more...]

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Nixle, Sirens, and Twitter Provide Snow Emergency Alerts

December 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
Dearborn residents are reminded to remove their parked vehicles from the streets when heavy snowfall (three inches or more) is predicted to allow for efficient snow plowing. If a snow emergency is declared, residents must remove parked vehicles or they could be ticketed. Sign up to be alerted to snow emergencies via Nixle.com.

DEARBORN, Mich. – Dearborn residents can help get the roads plowed faster and more effectively this winter by moving parked vehicles off of the street whenever heavy snowfall (three inches or more) is predicted. That way, if snow plowing is needed, it can be done in the fastest and most effective manner. Keeping parked vehicles off of the street allows snow plows to go curb-to-curb instead of working around vehicles parked on the street. Residents are reminded that when the City of Dearborn declares a snow emergency, parked vehicles must be removed from the street or be ticketed … [Read more...]

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Dearborn Chamber Welcomes Five New Board Members

December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

DEARBORN, Mich. - Five new board members have been elected to join the Dearborn Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and will begin their three year terms January 1, 2011— Bob Altizer, Raymond James; Melissa Demorest, Demorest Law Firm; Gary Field – Numerico; Gary Kearns – Kearns Brothers; and Peter Rageas, Law Office of Peter Rageas. Board members who were re-elected for a second term include Mike Kirk, Neumann Smith Architecture and Carolyn Ward, The Henry Ford. “On behalf of the leadership of the Dearborn Chamber of Commerce, I extend a warm welcome to the five newly elected … [Read more...]

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Roman Village Offers Delicious Italian Cuisine

December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Roman Village - Where Family Cooking Means Everything

DEARBORN, MI - Roman Village,  located at 9924 Dix, might be off the beaten path -- but is well worth the journey. Established in 1964 by the Rugiero family, Roman Village offers traditional Italian cuisine that is fresh, simple and delicious. The pastas are made fresh daily in the family owned pasta factory, and are light in texture, and quite flavorful. The sauce on ravioli,  cannelloni, and pizza was a perfect blend of spice and sweetness -- we tried them all. Fresh baked bread is served quickly. There was only one problem with the  bread basket -- it takes a serious test of … [Read more...]

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