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VOL. 99 NO. 33 Your neighborhood newspaper since 1918

Sunday, April 24, 2016

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Local candidates prepare for August primary

By Jodi Rempala
jrempala@heritage.com

The petitions are filed

and the fees are paid.
Now the race begins to
fill several key political offices, including 19th District
Court judge in Dearborn.
Candidates had until 4
p.m. Friday to withdraw
from the races.
This is the field on the
ballot in the Aug. 2 primary,

which will narrow the field

before the general election
in November.
On the ballot will be
these races:
19th District Court
Three Dearborn residents are seeking to replace
Judge William Hultgren on
the bench. Hultgren is retiring at the end of his term.
On the ballot will be Abbie Bazzi, Susan Dabaja and
Gene Hunt.

In state and national

races, the ballot will include:
12th District U.S. House
of Representatives
R- Jeff Jones, Taylor
D- Debbie Dingell, Dearborn
9th District U.S. House,
includes three precincts in
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northeast Dearborn
Dearborn
attorney Abbie
R: James Stephens, DearBazzi is on the ballot
born
seeking a judgeship on the
CANDIDATES>>PAGE A4
19th District Court bench.

Dearborn attorney Susan

Dabaja hopes to replace
Judge William Hultgren in
19th District Court.

GETTING A BIG BOOST

HEALTH

$1 million donation aids Beaumont childrens programs

By Scott Bolthouse
For The Press & Guide

Beaumont Childrens
Hospital announced Tuesday that it is receiving $1
million in funding from
Childrens Miracle Network
Hospitals, an organization that raises money and
awareness for hundreds of
member hospitals that provide 32 million treatments
each year to kids across the
United States.
The funds, which are locally sourced through public and private donations,
are used to support pediatric care across the new
Beaumont Health Organizations metro Detroit locations, which include the
Dearborn campus.
Childrens Miracle Network has definitely made
our lives easier, said Zenia
Farhat, the mother of Sara,
5, who receives daily treatment at Beaumont Dearborns Center for Exceptional Families a specially skilled health team
that provides a number of
care solutions for children

Dearborn attorney Gene

Hunt is vying for a 19th
District Court judgeship.
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Teklinski, assistant director,
Center for Exceptional
Families; Kelly Smith,
hospital president,
Dearborn; Dr. Brian Berman,
pediatrician-in-chief,
Beaumont Childrens;
Dr. Bassam Gerart,
Beaumont Pediatrics; Dr.
Daniel Frattarelli, chief of
pediatrics Dearborn; with
Zenia and Sara Farhat at the
announcement of $1 million
in funding for BeaumontDearborn from the Childrens
Miracle Network.
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with special needs. I want

you guys to know how important the Center for Exceptional Families has been
in our lives.

Kelly Smith, president

at the hospitals Dearborn
campus, said the funding
will have an enormous impact on the patients and

families who require care.

In the months ahead,
Childrens Miracle Networks $1 million gift will
allow us to purchase vital

stem therapy equipment, atric patients, she said.

Smith said the funding
support the Center for Exceptional Families and also will help with clinic
fund a central monitoring upgrades by supplying flat
unit for our inpatient pediDONATION>>PAGE A2

DEARBORN

The road back to health

One year after

suffering
a stroke,
Dearborn
resident
Barbara
Butler has a
new outlook
on life and
enjoys
spending
more time
with her
family.

Former OKelleys manager tells her story one year after stroke

By Micah Walker
For The Press & Guide

Its a sunny, but wintery

cold early Sunday afternoon; the kind of day you
would expect in the middle
of January, not the beginning of April. I dash inside
the Jimmy Johns on Michigan Avenue in Dearborn to
escape the cold, with Barbara Butler alongside me.
We both order the No. 4,

the Turkey Tom sub; Butlers without mayo. While

the two of us wait for our
sandwiches to arrive, we
settle at an empty high-top
table toward the back of the
restaurant, sipping the coffee drinks we bought from
Starbucks a few minutes
ago.
At first glance, you
wouldnt be able to tell the
difficult year Butler, 52, has
been through, as she looks

perfectly healthy. She walks

with ease and doesnt have
trouble carrying on a conversation; her blue-green
eyes light up as she chatters excitedly about her new
place of worship, REACH
International. Butler said
faith is one of the things
that has gotten her through
the year that made her a
stroke survivor.
Last February, the wife
and mother of four suf-

fered an ischemic stroke at

home, causing her to experience numbness and loss of
function in her left side. She
was then rushed to Beaumont Hospital, where doctors discovered the source
was a blood clot in her leg
that had traveled to her
heart and brain. The effects
of the stroke caused her to
temporarily lose her ability
to speak and left her with
BUTLER>>PAGE A4

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