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LaFontaine Honda Earns Honda President’s Award

March 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
La Fontaine Honda

Dearborn, Michigan – American Honda Motor Co., Inc.  has announced LaFontaine Honda of Dearborn as a recipient of the President’s Award for 2010. This annual award is presented to top-ranking Honda dealerships across the country, based on their achievement of excellence in all areas of operation – customer service and satisfaction, sales, training, and facility. This is Honda’s highest dealership honor, and LaFontaine Honda has earned this prestigious award in 2008 and 2010. More than 1,000 Honda automobile dealerships participated in the President’s Award program, with 118 … [Read more...]

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Innovation Index Holding Steady

March 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Innovation Index Q3 2010

DEARBORN, Michigan -The University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Center for Innovation Research – iLabs – today released its Innovation Index for the third quarter of 2010. The Index, which quarterly measures economic innovation activity in the state of Michigan, fell slightly from 85.8 to 85.3. “There were some strong factors and some weak factors in this report but it was certainly encouraging to see signs of the job growth Michigan’s economy needs,” according to Lee Redding, associate professor of business economics and director of the Innovation Index at the College of … [Read more...]

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Simply Sinatra at Performing Arts Center

February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Steve Lippia Simply Sinatra

DEARBORN, Michigan - If you enjoy listening to the music of Frank Sinatra, you’ll want to mark  Saturday, March 12 on your calendar. On that early spring evening, the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center will present “Simply Sinatra,” featuring Steve Lippia and the Johnny Trudell Orchestra. Lippia’s voice is reminiscent of the young Sinatra, whose near-magical voice became an integral part of American life on the home front during WWII, and helped bridge the gap between the big band sound of the 1940s and the Rock ‘n Roll era of the mid-to-late 1950s. [iframe … [Read more...]

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Rotary Club of Dearborn Celebrates Youth Month

February 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
2011 Hugh Archer Memorial Scholarship winner Norman Orabi, center, is pictured with his mother Nourhan Orabi and his father Ahmad Orabi. Pictured in the back row are (L to R) Dearborn Superintendent of Public Schools Brian Whiston, Dearborn High School Principal Chuck Baughman, Archer Scholarship Committee member Tim Richards, and Archer Chairperson Lee Hollmann.

DEARBORN, Michigan - Every February, the Rotary Club of Dearborn invites two students from each of the local high schools to attend and participate in Rotary Club meetings. The students have the opportunity to talk with Dearborn Rotarians and learn about their involvement in local, regional, and international relief efforts. During Youth month, the Rotary Club of Dearborn also awards scholarships to two outstanding high school seniors in memory of longtime Rotarians, Harry A. Sisson and Hugh Archer. This year's Harry A. Sisson Memorial Scholarship was presented to Ahmed El Moussa, a … [Read more...]

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Nexcess Announces Content Delivery Network

February 21, 2011 By 1 Comment
Nexcess CDN

DEARBORN, Michigan - Nexcess, a leading provider of managed web hosting and eCommerce hosting services, today announced the availability of high-quality content delivery network (CDN) services to its hosting customers. The CDN services are powered by EdgeCast, one of the industry’s best-performing content delivery networks. The Nexcess CDN service is designed to significantly improve web site performance by reducing physical distance, and in turn, latency, between the server and end user. It also reduces the distance from a network topology standpoint, ensuring that content requested by … [Read more...]

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Inforum Hosts Book Launch With Anne Doyle

February 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Anne Doyle

DEARBORN, Michigan -- Inforum will be hosting  author Anne Doyle on March 3, at 11:30 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency of  Dearborn, for a luncheon to launch "Powering Up! How America's Women Achievers Become Leaders." Doyle's first book, "Powering Up!" is an inspiring field guide that shows three generations of female achievers how to take the next steps toward gaining the focus and the courage required to become leaders. Anne Doyle will be joined by many of the 125 women Anne interviewed for her book – at the event. "The United States has become a nation of women achievers. Yet, despite … [Read more...]

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Dearborn SOUP Brings Micro-Grants to Local Artists

February 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
detroitSOUP : Photograph by Kate Daughdrill

DEARBORN, Michigan - The Dearborn Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the non-profit division of the Dearborn Chamber of Commerce brings Dearborn SOUP to Dearborn beginning March 6, 2011. SOUP is a monthly dinner that funds micro-grants for creative projects. This event, modeled after Detroit SOUP, is designed to support local entrepreneurs whose ideas will positively impact the community in the areas of the arts, humanities, or “green” initiatives. The event will take place the first Sunday of every month and will be held at The Glass Academy in Dearborn. Each attendee is asked to … [Read more...]

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David T. Brandon to Speak at Business Builders Breakfast

February 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
David Brandon

DEARBORN, Michigan - David T. Brandon, athletic director for the University of Michigan, will be the keynote speaker at the Dearborn Chamber of Commerce’s Business Builder Breakfast, Tuesday, March 8, 7:30 am at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn. The event is sponsored by Raymond James & Associates. David T. Brandon was named director of Intercollegiate Athletics at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor in January 2010. A U-M alumnus who played football under Bo Schembechler and later served as U-M regent, Brandon, 57, was previously chairman and chief executive officer of Ann … [Read more...]

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Library LEGO Design Challenge Announced

February 18, 2011 By 1 Comment
Library Lego Contest

DEARBORN, Michigan. - If you enjoy building with LEGOs, then the Dearborn Public Library has an event for you – the LEGO Design Challenge. Entries are welcome from children, teens and adults, as well families and groups. Projects must be built at home and then brought to the Children’s Desk at the Henry Ford Centennial Library during the registration period February 24 – 25. There is a limit of one entry per person. In addition, a family or group may submit one entry. Entries must have been made by the exhibitor using LEGOs, Duplos, Mega Bloks or similar plastic blocks. … [Read more...]

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“School Life” Strengthens Community Relationships

February 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
Raad Alawan, publisher of School Life, from left, distributes the newspaper to the Dearborn Public School district's support services building with Superintendent Brian Whiston and Communications Coordinator David Mustonen. Copyright2011Doriguzzi

DEARBORN, Michigan – The idea for starting a publication dedicated to sharing the stories and achievements of students and staff in the local school district came to Dearborn resident Raad Alawan long before he published the first issue of “School Life,” a monthly newspaper that is distributed free to schools and businesses throughout Dearborn. Alawan, a graduate of Fordson High School, attended Central Michigan University where he earned a degree in journalism and broadcasting. His first jobs were in television, working as a reporter, anchor and producer. In 2002, he moved back … [Read more...]

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